Question: 'Sir Walter Scott "read again, & for the the third time at least," her "very finely written novel of  'Pride and Prejudice'"'

Answer: Jane Austen


Question: 'In this film, Moe Green tells Michael Corleone to butt out of Las Vegas--big mistake'

Answer: The Godfather


Question: 'The first president of North Vietnam'

Answer: Ho Chi Minh


Question: 'Lasting from the 1337 Gascony Invasion to  Castillon in 1453, it gets its name by rounding down'

Answer: the Hundred Years\' War


Question: 'Stanley Miller showed possible origins of life by electrifying a gas-&-water mix to get these acids found in proteins'

Answer: amino acids


Question: 'A moor, or the first name of actor Ledger'

Answer: Heath


Question: 'This poet said "Waverley" was a great novel; Scott said his "Childe Harold" was an extraordinarily powerful poem'

Answer: Byron


Question: 'For this 1980 film Wally Schneiderman applied John Hurt's elaborate make-up'

Answer: The Elephant Man


Question: 'He composed "Semper Fidelis"'

Answer: John Philip Sousa


Question: 'Standard editions of Shakespeare contain these numbered 1-154'

Answer: sonnets


Question: '240 million years ago, the 2 main areas on the globe were Pangaea & Panthalassa, which was this'

Answer: the sea (or the ocean)


Question: 'The name of this sweet or dry wine flavored with aromatic herbs comes from the High German for "wormwood"'

Answer: vermouth


Question: 'It was no "Modest Proposal" when Sir Walter Scott edited a 19-volume edition of this "Tale of a Tub" satirist'

Answer: (Jonathan) Swift


Question: 'Oscar-nominated Amy Adams was a pregnant charmer in this 2005 film'

Answer: Junebug


Question: 'The son of this "Old Ironsides" author was on the Supreme Court'

Answer: Oliver Wendell Holmes


Question: 'In a song from "The Music Man", the trombones & these total 186'

Answer: the cornets


Question: 'In 1755 Kant proposed that the Earth formed from this "solar" gas & dust cloud; today's scientists tend to agree'

Answer: a solar nebula


Question: 'This Minnesota city is the western terminus of the St. Lawrence Seaway'

Answer: Duluth


Question: 'In 1799, Scott translated into English this German poet's "Goetz von Berlichingen"'

Answer: Goethe


Question:
'The title female is seen here in this 1948 film

"Gamble?  She's done it for a living."
"I'll bet you a dollar I've been to the place where you were born."
"Chifu."
"It's on the China coast.  Chifu!  It's the second wickedest city in the world!"
"What's the first?"'

Answer: The Lady from Shanghai


Question: 'He lost to McKinley twice & Taft once, & for helping Wilson get elected was made Secretary of State'

Answer: William Jennings Bryan


Question: 'This costumer garnered 35 Oscar nominations'

Answer: Edith Head


Question: 'Lasting from about 2,011,000 to 11,000 B.C., this epoch featured glaciation cycles & a farewell to the mammoth'

Answer: the Pleistocene


Question: 'It's the verb in the title of a classic 20th century play about the murderous Hickey'

Answer: Cometh


Question: 'Scott studied law at the University of Edinburgh under a nephew of this Scottish philosopher'

Answer: (David) Hume


Question: '"What's the rumpus?" the gangsters ask in this Coen Brothers picture'

Answer: Miller\'s Crossing


Question: 'This founder of The Liberator was president of the American Anti-Slavery Society from 1843 to 1865'

Answer: William Lloyd Garrison


Question: 'Sub-zero temperature where the Fahrenheit & Celsius scales show the same reading for a set temperature'

Answer: -40


Question: 'This formation in the Rockies' Burgess Pass yielded weird  500 million-year-old fossils like Hallucigenia'

Answer: the Burgess Shale


Question: 'This fish was thought to be extinct millions of years ago until one was found off South Africa in 1938'

Answer: coelacanth


Question: 'The last British monarch who was not the child of a monarch'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'Baines'

Answer: Lyndon Johnson


Question: 'She accepted her Oscar for Best Actress shouting, "You like me! You like me!"'

Answer: Sally Field


Question: 'With only 4 ships, this neighbor of Australia had the smallest navy'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'Most living organisms have millions, but a prisoner only has one'

Answer: a cell


Question: 'You can get a knish at a Jewish one, or mozzarella at an Italian one'

Answer: a delicatessen


Question: 'In song, Davy Crockett was said to have "Kil't him a bar when he was only" this age'

Answer: three


Question: 'Earl'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'Completes Mae West line, "It's not the men in my life that count..."'

Answer: it\'s the life in my men


Question: 'The U.S. Navy had a ship whose sole purpose was to make this dessert'

Answer: ice cream


Question: 'A 5th C. B.C. Greek philosopher was 1st to theorize that all matter is made of these'

Answer: atoms


Question: 'From Latin for "repentance", San Quentin for example'

Answer: a  penitentiary


Question: 'The original Smokey the Bear became a popular attraction at this city's zoo'

Answer: Washington, D.C.


Question: 'His actual first name was Hiram while his middle name was Ulysses'

Answer: Ulysses Grant


Question: 'Romantic idol who said, "This king stuff is pure bull... I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio"'

Answer: Clark Gable


Question: 'In 1942, approaches to the Mississippi River were mined by this type of German vessel'

Answer: a U-boat (or a submarine)


Question: 'Term for creatures like vultures or hermit crabs that eat carcasses & refuse'

Answer: a scavenger


Question: 'Before 1934, the date for this was March 4; after 1934, January 20'

Answer: inauguration


Question: 'The constellation Ursa Major, meaning the "great bear", is better known by this name'

Answer: Big Dipper


Question: 'Howard'

Answer: Taft


Question: 'This Axis leader had a complete set of dental tools taken everywhere he went'

Answer: Hitler


Question: 'Days & nights are always 12 hours long there'

Answer: the equator


Question:
'The univ. choral group whose theme song is the following:

"Yes, the magic of their singing /
Of the songs we love so well /
'Shall I Wasting' and 'Mavourneen' and the rest..."'

Answer: the Whiffenpoofs


Question: 'Bear who was featured in an exercise book with drawings by Ernest Shepard'

Answer: Winnie-the-Pooh


Question: 'Abram'

Answer: (James Abram) Garfield


Question: 'Over 5,000 of them were pilots in the Soviet air force'

Answer: women


Question: 'If you're studying mensuration, you're studying this'

Answer: measurement


Question: 'From the Latin for "bend the knees", not the cry of a ski instructor, but the act of showing reverence'

Answer: genuflection


Question: 'Few Americans got to see this mascot at the 1980 Olympics'

Answer: Misha


Question: 'Developer William J. Levitt built 3 suburban communities all named this'

Answer: Levittown


Question: 'Waving American-style is an insult in this Hellenic country'

Answer: Greece


Question: 'In Exodus 3, it burned but wouldn't burn up'

Answer: the burning bush


Question: 'Migrants leaving this state's "Dust Bowl" helped bring country music to the West'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question: 'Papillon, the French "butterfly", was netted & brought to this prison'

Answer: Devil\'s Island


Question: 'Root vegetable that was the root of Peter Rabbit's passion'

Answer: the carrot


Question: 'After posing for pictures she was asked what she had on & replied, "The radio"'

Answer: Marilyn Monroe


Question: 'In Netherlands, a hostess may serve herself 1st, from custom of tasting food to prove it wasn't this'

Answer: poisoned


Question: 'Nephew whom Abraham rescued in Gen. 14, he also needed rescuing from Sodom by Gen. 19'

Answer: Lot


Question: 'Radio program originally called the "WSM Barn Dance"'

Answer: the Grand Ole Opry


Question: 'A cloud of ash circled the Earth when most of this volcanic island was obliterated in an 1883 explosion'

Answer: Krakatoa


Question: 'Europeans once believed this purple-skinned cousin to the tomato caused insanity'

Answer: eggplant


Question: 'John & Stewart Alsop revived the word "egghead" to describe this candidate's supporters'

Answer: Adlai Stevenson


Question: 'Frenchmen kiss cheeks, but in Romania male friends often kiss this way'

Answer: on the lips


Question: 'King whose reign was so rich that silver was said to have been as common as stones in Jerusalem'

Answer: Solomon


Question: '1 of 3 original members of the Country Music Hall of Fame'

Answer: (1 of) Hank Williams, Sr., Jimmie Rodgers & Fred Rose


Question: 'Spanish for "pelican" but appropriately called "The Rock" by its inhabitants'

Answer: Alcatraz


Question: 'Syrup originally made from pomegranates processed on the Caribbean island of Grenada'

Answer: grenadine


Question: 'He wanted to put his finger into the nail marks in Jesus' palms'

Answer: Thomas (or Didymus)


Question: 'Type of music that's named after Bill Monroe's band'

Answer: bluegrass


Question: '1st to claim Calif. gold said he found it on this island named for St. Catherine'

Answer: Santa Catalina


Question: 'The "hospitality" fruit, it can keep Jell-O from jelling'

Answer: the pineapple


Question: 'It's the battlefield where good & evil will fight their final battle'

Answer: Armageddon


Question: 'The Texas Troubadour'

Answer: Ernest Tubb


Question: 'Pt. Udall, in this island group, is called the easternmost American point in the western hemisphere'

Answer: Virgin Islands


Question: 'Autumn edible which figured in the Alger Hiss case'

Answer: a pumpkin


Question: 'Over 1/2 of Fortune 500 and 42% of all N.Y. Stock Exchange companies are incorporated in this state'

Answer: Delaware


Question: 'Audrey Wood & David Shannon's new book about this great big logger introduces his wife & kids'

Answer: Paul Bunyan


Question: 'Before David cut off his head, this Philistine giant stood "six cubits and a span"'

Answer: Goliath


Question: 'Physically weak, or weak-"minded"'

Answer: Feeble


Question: 'I'm the medical term for bad breath'

Answer: Halitosis


Question: 'In the lungs, this element joins with the iron in hemoglobin'

Answer: Oxygen


Question: 'Prince Charles is the Duke of Cornwall & Prince Philip is the Duke of this'

Answer: Edinburgh


Question: 'Stan & Jan Berenstain have written a series of books about a family of these title animals'

Answer: "The Berenstain Bears"


Question: 'With his overactive imagination, Don Quixote thought these objects were giants'

Answer: Windmills


Question: '"He wears red suspenders" to hold his pants up'

Answer: Fireman


Question: 'I'm the substance that "Apocalypse Now"'s Robert Duvall loves the smell of "in the morning"'

Answer: Napalm


Question: 'Put a test tube of blood in a centrifuge, spin it, & these cells will go to the bottom'

Answer: Red Blood Cells


Question: 'From Latin for "servant", it's a gentleman's gentleman'

Answer: Valet


Question: 'Cavatica is the last name of the title character of this 1952 E.B. White novel'

Answer: "Charlotte\'s Web"


Question: 'This giant ape threatens tourist trams at Universal Studios'

Answer: King Kong


Question: 'It's the length a lens will go to work'

Answer: Focus/Focal Length


Question: 'I'm a chemical element that's odorless,  but in combination with hydrogen, smells like rotten eggs'

Answer: Sulphur


Question: 'Encarta calls it "The cue game most popular in Britain"'

Answer: Snooker


Question: 'This character in a book by Saint-Exupery leaves his tiny planet because of a prideful flower'

Answer: The Little Prince


Question: 'In 1950 the Minnesota Valley Canning Co. took a new name from this, its symbol'

Answer: The Jolly Green Giant


Question: 'Elway error'

Answer: Fumble


Question: 'We're the 2 fragrant gifts the wise men brought to the baby Jesus'

Answer: Frankincense & Myrrh


Question: 'In AIDS this virus destroys the CD4 lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell'

Answer: HIV


Question: 'Last name of the men whose firm is credited with creating the felt hat we call the derby'

Answer: Bowler


Question: 'The cut-paper illustrations of "Golem" earned David Wisniewski this medal in 1997'

Answer: Caldecott Medal


Question: 'In mythology, this hundred-eyed giant eventually ended up a peacock'

Answer: Argus


Question: 'In the song "Charlie Brown", it precedes "I smell smoke in the auditorium"'

Answer: "Fee Fee Fi Fi Fo Fo Fum"


Question: 'I am the Faberge aftershave marketed as "The Essence of Man"'

Answer: Brut


Question: '"Row" in Mayfair that's home to the finest British tailors'

Answer: Savile Row


Question: 'In 1997 Universal made a "Liar Liar" out of him'

Answer: Jim Carrey


Question: 'In 1963 a "Hot Line" emergency link went into effect between Washington, DC & this world city'

Answer: Moscow


Question: 'Uh-Oh:  When Achilles' mother dipped him in the river Styx, she held him by this, leaving it vulnerable'

Answer: His Heel


Question: 'If you're part of this group & are caught, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions'

Answer: Impossible Mission Force (IMF)


Question: 'Robert Kennedy liked to say that some men see things & ask why, but he dreamed things & asked this'

Answer: "Why Not?"


Question: 'If this "North By Northwest" star had not gone another direction, he might have taken the name Cary Lockwood'

Answer: Cary Grant


Question: 'In the 1950s he did time on Isla de Pinos; since 1959, he's ruled a larger island'

Answer: Fidel Castro


Question: 'Jean Jacques Dessalines, brought to this island country as a slave, declared its independence in 1804'

Answer: Haiti


Question: 'The Trojans wouldn't heed Cassandra's warning to beware of this "steed"'

Answer: The Trojan Horse


Question: '(AUDIO Daily Double):  Impossible as it may sound, '60s sitcom star heard here:  "To dream, the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe...."'

Answer: Jim Nabors


Question: 'This query about a pontiff's religion is used in response to a silly question'

Answer: Is the Pope Catholic?


Question: 'She wrote her & her mother's speeches for the American Comedy Awards & was on the 1997 Oscar writing staff'

Answer: Carrie Fisher


Question: 'This island between Queens & the Bronx has correctional facilities for men, women & teens'

Answer: Riker\'s Island


Question: 'After a 50-year active reign, Wilhelmina stepped down as queen of this country in 1948'

Answer: Netherlands (Holland)


Question: 'She foolishly fooled around with Poseidon in Athena's temple, so Athena turned her hair into snakes'

Answer: Medusa


Question: '"You can put them in a pie-aye/any way you want to eat them/it's impossible to beat them"'

Answer: Chiquita Bananas


Question: 'In a 1988 film Bob Hoskins must enter Toontown to answer this title question'

Answer: Who Framed Roger Rabbit


Question: 'This sitcom star won a Cableace Award for his "Human Cartoon" special'

Answer: Drew Carey


Question: 'Cockatoo Island is a former prison in this country settled by prisoners'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'Soldier & statesman Louis Botha helped negotiate the terms that ended this war in 1902'

Answer: The Boer War


Question: 'This Titan made the mistake of waging war against Zeus, so he was doomed to hold the sky on his shoulders'

Answer: Atlas


Question: 'In an 1813 letter this leader wrote, "You write to me that it's impossible; the word is not French"'

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte


Question: 'Melancholy Pete Seeger song that asks, "When will they ever learn?"'

Answer: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"


Question: 'He played Josef in "The Bride" & Westley in "The Princess Bride"'

Answer: Cary Elwes


Question: 'England's Richard III was the last king of this ruling house'

Answer: York


Question: 'Linus the Music Teacher was too critical of this "labor"er, his pupil, who hit him with a lyre & killed him'

Answer: Hercules


Question: '"Whoso loves believes the impossible", wrote this love of poet Robert in her own beguiling way'

Answer: Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Question: 'The second half of Senator Howard Baker's 1973 question that began, "What did the president know?"'

Answer: "And when did he know it?"


Question: 'Its full Spanish name originally meant "The Royal City of the Holy Faith of Saint Francis of Assisi"'

Answer: Santa Fe, New Mexico


Question: 'In October 1789 a large crowd of women marched to Versailles demanding this food staple'

Answer: bread


Question: 'In 1980 fans were trying to guess & bookies were setting odds on "Who Shot J.R.?" on this program'

Answer: Dallas


Question: 'South of the border:<br />Santiago'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'If you start an MLB season with 45 days' ML experience, you're not considered one of these any more'

Answer: a rookie


Question: 'After setting numerous records, she announced her retirement at age 30 in 1999'

Answer: Steffi Graf


Question: 'The Food Lover's Companion says it's "undoubtedly the stinkiest of the strong-smelling cheeses"'

Answer: limburger


Question: 'Despite declaring, "Men are born... with equal rights" the Assembly voted to allow this to continue in the colonies'

Answer: slavery


Question: 'A fan club abbreviated R.A.L.P.H. is "The Royal Association for the Longevity & Preservation of" this sitcom'

Answer: The Honeymooners


Question: '"Knightly" & daily:<br />Valletta'

Answer: Malta


Question: 'If you're a One L, you're in your first year here & sweating out contracts & civil procedure'

Answer: law school


Question: 'Yippee!  He's the 1960s political rabble-rouser seen here'

Answer: Abbie Hoffman


Question: 'TV's Herman, Lily, Eddie or Marilyn, or this cheese: some add an "e" to its spelling, but it blows the joke'

Answer: munster


Question: 'On Feb. 28, 1791 this hero of the American Revolution stopped a riot & a plot to kidnap the royals'

Answer: Lafayette


Question: 'The Peanut Gallery was this popular show's hard-to-get-into audience'

Answer: Howdy Doody


Question: 'Near Florida:<br />Port-au-Prince'

Answer: Haiti


Question: 'It precedes "15" to describe the extra weight from a new lifestyle of late-night study & excess pizza'

Answer: freshman


Question: 'The maiden name of either of the two women seen here'

Answer: Laura Welch (or Barbara Pierce)


Question: 'It's named for a town 13 miles northeast of Amsterdam, & you could say it's very gouda (but you'd be wrong)'

Answer: edam


Question: 'In 1795 there was a debate over what to make the national anthem, "Reveil du Peuple" or this'

Answer: "La Marseillaise"


Question: 'Wuff, wuff, wuff, the Dog Pound was this talk-show host's fanatical audience section near the band'

Answer: Arsenio Hall


Question: 'In Africa:<br />Libreville'

Answer: Gabon


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Parris Island, SC.)  Parris Island arrivals stand in their first formation on the yellow footprints, and are told to refer to themselves as this word'

Answer: "recruit"


Question: 'The talented man seen here won Oscars for these 2 films'

Answer: Glory & Training Day


Question: 'Napoleon III may have named this white, downy-rind cow's-milk cheese after the Norman village where he first sampled it'

Answer: Camembert


Question: 'In March 1790 Robespierre was elected president of this powerful political "club"'

Answer: the Jacobins


Question: 'Full name of the TV show for whom the Xenites were the ultimate fans'

Answer: Xena: Warrior Princess


Question: 'In the Caribbean:<br />Roseau'

Answer: Dominica


Question: 'It can be any beginner, or a person who has entered a religious order but not taken final vows'

Answer: a novice


Question: 'He made some democratic noises in February of 2005'

Answer: Hosni Mubarak


Question: 'A favorite of Charlemagne, a true version of this cheese can be authenticated by a red sheep on the wrapper'

Answer: Roquefort


Question: 'A 1954 article by Michael Dummett is provocatively titled, "Can" one of these "precede its cause?"'

Answer: an effect


Question: 'Mick Jagger had a "Heart Of" it; Roberto Duran had "Hands of" it'

Answer: "Stone"


Question: '"Endangered" & "threatened" are the 2 classifications for animal species facing this'

Answer: extinction


Question: 'In French, this instrument is called a petite flute'

Answer: a piccolo


Question: 'The character Rumor gives a recap of this play as an introduction'

Answer: Henry IV, Part I


Question: 'A top-of-the-beanstalk-livin' guy, or a pro pigskin-totin' one'

Answer: a giant


Question: 'Gilbert Ryle tried to sort out the relation of the body & this, also the title of the venerable journal he edited'

Answer: mind


Question: 'The NHL's Mr. Lemieux got this Nintendo-based moniker'

Answer: "Super" Mario


Question: 'Materials described as photovoltaic convert sunshine directly into this type of energy'

Answer: electric energy


Question: 'The "clash" ones range in size from about 15 inches in diameter to 22 inches'

Answer: cymbals


Question: 'By the end of the play, Prince Henry, then known as Hal, has become this title character of another play'

Answer: Henry V


Question: 'In 1985 it was found in 2 sections about 400 miles SE of Newfoundland, at a depth of about 12,500 feet'

Answer: the Titanic


Question: 'When philosophers refer to the "Summa", they usually mean this work of Christian thought from around 1270'

Answer: Summa Theologica


Question: 'The NBA's 6'8", 284-pound Robert Traylor keeps on trucking with this nickname'

Answer: "Tractor" Traylor


Question: 'A unit of work or energy sometimes said to be equivalent to the energy of a mosquito taking off'

Answer: an erg


Question: 'About the size of a violin, a crwth is an ancient bowed stringed instrument of this country'

Answer: Wales


Question: 'In Act V, a character named Silence mentions this character that Kevin Costner has played on screen'

Answer: Robin Hood


Question: 'It describes the "skies" in "America The Beautiful"'

Answer: spacious


Question: 'Plotinus, who taught of eternal realities, thought himself a Platonist; we add 3 letters & call him this'

Answer: a Neo-Platonist


Question: 'Many soccer players have had great feet, but Hungary's Sandor Kocsis was nicknamed "Golden" this'

Answer: "Head"


Question: 'From the Greek for "upon the kidney", it's found in the adrenal glands'

Answer: epinephrine


Question: 'Piano is short for this word that means "soft loud"'

Answer: pianoforte


Question: 'He says, "I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men"'

Answer: Falstaff


Question: 'This word famously preceded "wasteland" in a 1961 speech about TV; we'll try not to take it personally'

Answer: vast


Question: 'Many of Kierkegaard's works were a strong reaction against this German's idealist phenomenology'

Answer: Hegel


Question: 'Nickname of Ms. Spencer-Devlin, the LPGA's first openly gay player'

Answer: "Muffin"


Question: 'A cone-shaped laboratory flask with a narrow neck & a broad, flat bottom'

Answer: an Erlenmeyer flask


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew holds up a harmonica.)  As opposed to a chromatic harmonica with sharps & flats, this one has holes for just a single scale'

Answer: a diatonic harmonica


Question: 'This title adjective describes the "room" in the title of the 1922 e.e. cummings novel of WWI'

Answer: enormous


Question: 'Name missing from this list: Webber, Begley, Marshall, Warden, Balsam, Fiedler, Klugman, Binns, Sweeney, Voskovec & Cobb'

Answer: Fonda


Question: 'Constantine the Great was the first Roman ruler to convert to this religion'

Answer: Christianity


Question: 'This New Jersey capital is also the seat of Mercer County'

Answer: Trenton


Question: 'This cold remedy is also known as Jewish penicillin'

Answer: chicken soup


Question: 'Hockey reporter Robin Herman was one of the first women allowed to interview players in this area'

Answer: the locker room (or the dressing room)


Question: 'Partially opened; a door, for example'

Answer: ajar


Question: 'In "Hamlet" Horatio's 4 words preceding "And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"'

Answer: "Good night, sweet prince"


Question: 'Justinian the Great's wife was a former one of these, like the wife of the Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan'

Answer: an actress


Question: 'Northwest city seen here during a visit by a famous TV show:'

Answer: Seattle


Question: 'This sandwich goes by its initials: PBJ'

Answer: peanut butter and jelly


Question: 'Peter Gammons wrote about covering this team in the 1986 article "Living and Dying with the Woe Sox"'

Answer: Boston Red Sox


Question: 'On a computer screen this small picture represents a specific program'

Answer: an icon


Question: 'Levels of the angelic hierarchy are called these, like groups of singers on Earth'

Answer: choirs


Question: 'He was born June 9, 1672, the son of Czar Alexis I Mikhailovich'

Answer: Peter the Great


Question: 'Thomas Jefferson formulated the bill moving the Virginia capital to this city'

Answer: Richmond


Question: 'Dubbed cackleberries, they can be boiled, coddled or poached'

Answer: eggs


Question: 'Sir Leonard Hutton, one of England's finest batsmen in this game, later covered it as a columnist'

Answer: cricket


Question: 'The Abominable Snowman'

Answer: the yeti


Question: 'Title question asked by a song from "The Heights" that hit the heights on the charts in 1992'

Answer: "How Do You Talk To An Angel?"


Question: 'This king of Judea from 37-4 B.C. was a friend of Mark Anthony'

Answer: Herod (the Great)


Question: 'This Pennsylvania city's Civic Arena or "Igloo" has a retractable roof'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: 'During World War I this dish was called liberty cabbage'

Answer: sauerkraut


Question: 'Mike Lupica's strong opinions appear monthly in this Hearst Corporation "Magazine for Men"'

Answer: Esquire


Question: 'It's the only fencing sword with a rigid blade'

Answer: an epée


Question: 'In the 1650s Rembrandt painted this biblical person "Wrestling with the Angel"'

Answer: Jacob


Question: 'By 896 A.D. this West Saxon king had captured the city of London'

Answer: Alfred the Great


Question: 'Henry Flagler developed this fashionable Florida resort famous for the chic shops on Worth Avenue'

Answer: Palm Beach


Question: 'Term for food that puts you at ease & makes you nostalgic for your youth'

Answer: comfort food


Question: 'Roger Kahn mourned Ebbets Field & the Brooklyn Dodgers in this 1971 bestseller'

Answer: The Boys of Summer


Question: 'Italian for "tail", this passage brings a musical piece to a formal close'

Answer: the coda


Question: 'She played Roma Downey's angel boss on "Touched by an Angel"'

Answer: Della Reese


Question: 'On July 10, 1706 Virginia's Grace Sherwood, accused of this, was thrown into a river to see if she would float'

Answer: Being a witch/practicing witchcraft


Question: 'They clean floors, perform surgery & will go to Mars before people do'

Answer: Robots


Question: 'This Dickens title orphan was given his name by Mr. Bumble'

Answer: Oliver Twist


Question: 'Andy Garcia was born in this island country but fled to nearby Miami with his family when he was 5'

Answer: Cuba


Question: 'Not surprisingly, hotel administration is among the more popular fields of study at UNLV in this city'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: 'In 1858, as a Senate hopeful in Illinois, he said, "Nobody has ever expected me to be president"'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'In January 1777 Baltimore's Mary Katherine Goddard was hired to print the first official copies of this'

Answer: Declaration of Independence


Question: 'Used in medicine, waste disposal & agriculture, it's the technology of manipulating organisms for human benefit'

Answer: Bioengineering


Question: 'This author's "The Man Who Would Be King" has been called the perfect short story'

Answer: Rudyard Kipling


Question: 'This brother-in-law of Loretta Young was born in Mexico City, not on Fantasy Island'

Answer: Ricardo Montalban


Question: 'The Prayer Tower is a landmark of this Tulsa university named for an evangelist'

Answer: Oral Roberts University


Question: 'Of Floyd Patterson he said, "I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on"'

Answer: Muhammad Ali/Cassius Clay


Question: 'It took her a few attempts to get in to see Marat in order to kill him'

Answer: Charlotte Corday


Question: 'The "Hard-Edge" art movement of the 1960s emerged after the development of these quick-drying paints'

Answer: Acrylics


Question: 'This John Bunyan work written as a dream was published in 2 parts:  Part I in 1678 & Part II in 1684'

Answer: "The Pilgrim\'s Progress"


Question: 'This Irish star of the film "Camelot" is also a writer; his thriller novel "Honor Bound" appeared in 1982'

Answer: Richard Harris


Question: 'In 1924 Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina was renamed this, after a benefactor'

Answer: Duke University


Question: '"How can the 'consent of the governed' be given," she asked in 1873, "If the right to vote be denied?"'

Answer: Susan B. Anthony


Question: 'At the time Marie Antoinette lost her head, she was First Lady of the U.S.'

Answer: Martha Washington


Question: 'This company's C90 Supercomputer can perform 16 billion calculations per second'

Answer: Cray Research Company


Question: 'Title novella of the Philip Roth collection that won the 1960 National Book Award'

Answer: "Goodbye, Columbus"


Question: 'This Canadian comic appeared on "In Living Color" & in 2 Clint Eastwood films, "Pink Cadillac" & "The Dead Pool"'

Answer: Jim Carrey


Question: 'The Robert Frost Library is at this Massachusetts college co-founded by Emily Dickinson's grandfather'

Answer: Amherst


Question: 'This French revolutionary said, "Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible"'

Answer: Robespierre


Question:
'Kaga No Chiyo/
who wrote
this type of poem/
was born in Japan'

Answer: Haiku


Question: 'The name of these 19th C. destroyers of textile machinery is applied to any technology skeptic'

Answer: Luddites


Question: '"The 42nd Parallel" is the first novel in this John Dos Passos trilogy'

Answer: "USA"


Question: 'He must have been "Breathless" when he was elected president of the French Actors Union in 1963'

Answer: Jean-Paul Belmondo


Question: 'South Carolina's Clemson University was named for the son-in-law of this VP who resigned in 1832'

Answer: John C. Calhoun


Question: '"There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it", said this Roman orator'

Answer: Cicero


Question: 'Roosevelt's first Fireside Chat was designed to bolster the public confidence in these'

Answer: banks


Question: 'This Canadian province's largest lake is Lake Mistassini, about 350 miles north of Montreal'

Answer: Quebec


Question: '"The milk chocolate melts in your mouth--not in your hand"'

Answer: M&M\'S


Question: 'In 1932 he pointed to the stands & hit the ball there--or maybe he just gestured at the Cubs' bench'

Answer: Babe Ruth


Question: 'Jan Vermeer, who made only about 40 of these in his life, gave 2 to a baker in exchange for credit'

Answer: paintings


Question: 'The name of this enclosure where chickens are confined comes from a middle English word for "basket"'

Answer: coop


Question: 'Audio player that came between reel-to-reel & CD'

Answer: cassette


Question: 'Namibia's coastline is provided by this body of water'

Answer: Atlantic Ocean


Question: '"Quality is job one"'

Answer: Ford


Question: 'The 1989 "Bay Bridge Series" between these 2 teams sadly became the "Earthquake Series"'

Answer: Oakland A\'s & San Francisco Giants


Question: 'On Jaunuary 1, 1660 this Englishman began his diaries in shorthand; he stopped 9 years later'

Answer: (Samuel) Pepys


Question: 'New Hampshires & Rhode Island reds usually produce eggs of this color'

Answer: brown


Question: 'Don't ever play the "Russian" version of this casino game'

Answer: Russian Roulette


Question: 'An agricultural area through which this Scottish river flows is the home of a breed of horse'

Answer: Clyde


Question: '"Be all that you can be"'

Answer: The Army


Question: 'This team's Pat Borders was the series MVP in 1992 as the championship crossed the border'

Answer: Toronto Blue Jays


Question: 'Real playwright who wrote "The Imaginary Invalid"'

Answer: Molière


Question: 'Chickens are often given grit to replenish the supply of stones in this digestive organ'

Answer: gizzard


Question: '[Video] Object seen here: (Alex held an odd-shaped flat board with a hole in it that contained different colors of paint on it.)'

Answer: palette


Question: 'This river rises in the Black Forest & flows easterly about 1,770 miles, where it empties into the Black Sea'

Answer: Rhine


Question: '"Life is not a spectator sport"'

Answer: Reebok


Question: 'Career .242 hitter Ron Swoboda hit .400 & made an amazin' catch in this team's 1969 Series win'

Answer: New York Mets


Question: 'This Dutch explorer discovered & named Van Diemen's Land, an island now named for him'

Answer: Abel Tasman


Question: 'This term is used to refer to a miniature member of a standard chicken breed'

Answer: bantam


Question: 'Howdy Doody was one of these, so you had to pull the right strings to get him to do something'

Answer: marionette


Question: 'The Ucayali & Maranon rivers converge near Nauta, Peru, forming this river'

Answer: Amazon


Question: '"A mind is a terrible thing to waste"'

Answer: United Negro College Fund


Question: 'In game 2 of the 1956 series, he was gone in the second inning; in game 5, he was perfect'

Answer: Don Larsen


Question: 'Tyson Foods could tell you that this state leads the USA in broiler production'

Answer: Arkansas


Question: 'Last name of acting sisters Rosanna & Patricia, & grandpa Cliff'

Answer: Arquette


Question: 'The U.S. government gets over 100,000 requests a year for these documents that protect inventors'

Answer: patents


Question: 'Novel in which Hawthorne wrote, "On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth,...appeared the letter A"'

Answer: The Scarlet Letter


Question: 'Around 1500 he sketched not only a flying machine, but a parachute'

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci


Question: 'Havana Harbor February 15, 1898'

Answer: the blowing up of the Maine


Question: 'He co-starred in "True Lies" in 1994, the year his marriage to Roseanne ended'

Answer: Tom Arnold


Question: 'To sibilate is to do this, like a snake or a disapproving audience'

Answer: hiss


Question: 'This vice president is the title character of a 1973 novel by Gore Vidal'

Answer: Aaron Burr


Question: 'This Reagan administration plan included anti-missile lasers & particle beams'

Answer: Star Wars


Question: 'Cascade Range May 18, 1980'

Answer: Mount St. Helens


Question: 'This cross-dressing diva plays the title role in the music video "Supermodel (You Better Work)"'

Answer: RuPaul


Question: 'Though a lummox is a stupid person, this word with one more letter would confuse anyone'

Answer: flummox


Question: 'A "living" one gives family members the right to end treatment of a dying person'

Answer: will


Question: 'He won a 1951 Pulitzer for his "Complete Poems" & one in 1940 for "Abraham Lincoln: The War Years"'

Answer: (Carl) Sandburg


Question: 'A machine that achieved this type of motion would violate at least one of the laws of thermodynamics'

Answer: perpetual motion


Question: 'Trinity Site July 16, 1945'

Answer: the first nuclear blast


Question: 'Savion Glover put his "stamp" on 1996;s "Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk", a chronicle of this dance form'

Answer: tap


Question: 'To decaudate is to do this, as a farmer's wife in rhyme did'

Answer: to cut the tail off of


Question: 'In countries under civil law, they can be real estate lawyers; in the U.S., they seal documents'

Answer: notaries


Question: 'When featured on "Oprah", her 1977 novel "Song of Solomon" returned to the bestseller list in 1996'

Answer: Toni Morrison


Question: 'In 1993 Congress killed this Texas project that would have shown physicists subatomic impacts'

Answer: superconducting super collider


Question: 'Indonesia August 26, 1883'

Answer: explosion or eruption of Krakatoa


Question: 'This "Saturday Night Live" "Opera Man" has since starred on film in "Billy Madison" & "Happy Gilmore"'

Answer: Adam Sandler


Question: 'Now meaning "drivel", it used to be a trick to gain applause'

Answer: claptrap


Question: 'This synonym for "arranged" refers to documents designed as secret'

Answer: classified


Question: 'Francis Phelan an ex-baseball player, is the main character in this author's "Ironweed"'

Answer: William Kennedy


Question: 'Around 1900 he built a 12-million volt electric coil, but fell short with a worldwide radio transmitter'

Answer: Tesla


Question: 'Just north of Kiev April 26, 1986'

Answer: Chernobyl


Question: '[Audio] This single-named singer heard here, combines new age music with Irish folk:'

Answer: Enya


Question: 'In an ancient Roman house the impluvium was a basin in the atrium set up to receive this'

Answer: rain


Question: 'The Hebrew title of this 2-part Old Testament book can be translated as "the events of the days"'

Answer: Chronicles


Question: '1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November'

Answer: Election Day


Question: 'The Atlanta Braves are in this division of the National League'

Answer: the Western division


Question: 'Eliza Doolittle did it for a living'

Answer: sold flowers (flower girl accepted)


Question: 'Subtitled "The Search for Spock"'

Answer: Star Trek III


Question: '1 of 2 animals on its coat of arms'

Answer: (1 of) kangaroo and emu


Question: 'Malcolm McDowell & Nastassja Kinski's "purr"fect roles in 1982'

Answer: cat people


Question: 'Traditionally speaking, as this state goes, "so goes the nation"'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'Eddie Gaedel, number 1/8th, was the only one ever to play in the Major Leagues'

Answer: a midget


Question: 'In the Old West they were in charge of horses, on a movie set in charge of chickens'

Answer: wranglers


Question: 'Title describing Tom Cruise's precarious commercial enterprise'

Answer: Risky Business


Question: 'Title of this song, which actually means "to tramp the roads with a backpack"'

Answer: "Waltzing Matilda"


Question: 'Ancient weapon kept a stone's throw from its target'

Answer: a catapult


Question: '"Shrill" name for train tour electioneering'

Answer: a whistle stop


Question: 'Now a paper company sales rep, he pitched only perfect game in World Series history'

Answer: Don Larsen


Question: 'He solemnly swears you in, in court'

Answer: a bailiff


Question: 'Film where Lily Tomlin is really Steve Martin's better half'

Answer: All of Me


Question: '"Satanic" mammal found only on island S. of Australia'

Answer: Tasmanian devil


Question: 'It gets things going in a chemical reaction'

Answer: a catalyst


Question: 'The rooster was symbol of this party before Thomas Nast drew their new one in 1870'

Answer: the Democrats


Question: 'Boston's "Green Monster" is in this stadium'

Answer: Fenway Park


Question: 'Ub Iwerks, Friz Freleng & Tex Avery drew the line at this job'

Answer: cartoonists (or animators)


Question: 'Mozart's middle name becomes a movie'

Answer: Amadeus


Question: 'Elizabeth Taylor character that could have burnt her paws on a hot tin roof'

Answer: Maggie the Cat


Question: 'He called himself "the plain people's pres. against the privileged people's Congress"'

Answer: Harry S. Truman


Question: 'In '84, he became 1st manager to win over 100 games with teams in both Major Leagues'

Answer: Sparky Anderson


Question: 'During one in a hospital, your brain should think "cheese"'

Answer: a CAT scan


Question: 'According to both Burns & Steinbeck, their best laid schemes "gang aft a-gley"'

Answer: mice and men


Question: 'Body of water, currently crossed by the 1831 London Bridge'

Answer: Lake Havasu


Question: 'It's where the leg bone's connected to the foot bone'

Answer: the ankle


Question: 'Metallic element essential for strong bones & teeth'

Answer: calcium


Question: 'From Turkish meaning "lighthouse", it's a slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque'

Answer: minaret


Question: 'In 1671, Milton wrote "Paradise Regained", a sequel to this'

Answer: Paradise Lost


Question: 'Turin is the only major city on both banks of this river'

Answer: the Po River


Question: 'Moveable part of airplane wing providing lateral control'

Answer: an aileron


Question: 'Simon Rodia built these fairy-tale structures in a South L.A. ghetto'

Answer: the Watts towers


Question: 'English title of 7-part novel "A la recherche du temps perdu" by Proust'

Answer: Remembrance of Things Past


Question: 'This lake in the Banff National Park is the most visited place in the Canadian Rockies'

Answer: Lake Louise


Question: 'A result or consequence, or immediately following multiplication'

Answer: aftermath


Question: 'Flying buttresses & ribbed vaults characterize this 13 c. style'

Answer: Gothic


Question: '"All stories, if continued far enough, end in death..." he wrote in "Death in the Afternoon"'

Answer: Ernest Hemingway


Question: 'While poets pour over the Rhine & Danube this 2nd largest German river gets no press'

Answer: the Elbe


Question: 'Unyielding or inflexible'

Answer: adamant


Question: 'Marie Curie named this element for her native land'

Answer: polonium


Question: 'Prior to his '59 death, he was planning a mile-high skyscraper'

Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright


Question: 'Organic & opaque, they represent purity & virginity'

Answer: pearls


Question: 'Language in which Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese" was originally written'

Answer: English


Question: 'Containing a source of the Nile near Jinja, this country's surface is 1/6 water'

Answer: Uganda


Question: 'It means extreme fear or anxiety in German or English'

Answer: angst


Question: 'Metal with highest melting point, it's commonly used in light bulb filaments'

Answer: tungsten


Question: '2 of 3 orders of Greek column styles'

Answer: (2 of) Ionian, Doric, and Corinthian


Question: 'Stone of Laz, the Arabian goddess of love'

Answer: lapis lazuli


Question: 'Appropriate astrological sign shared by Britain's Princesses Anne & Margaret'

Answer: Leo


Question: 'This president appointed the first female attorney general'

Answer: Bill Clinton


Question: 'The title character chugs raw eggs & punches slabs of beef in this 1976 Oscar winner'

Answer: Rocky


Question: 'This man was her husband'

Answer: Joseph


Question: 'Native Americans once cut the shells of quahogs into beads & used them for this medium of exchange'

Answer: Wampum


Question: 'Though it sounds like it deals with space matter, it's the study of weather'

Answer: Meteorology


Question: 'A popular 1940s style of ankle covering, or stockings for Robert'

Answer: Bobby sox


Question: 'During his term, the voting age was lowered from 21 to 18'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question: 'Reese's Pieces are a favorite of this title character in a Spielberg blockbuster'

Answer: E.T.


Question: 'It's the crowded town Mary traveled to in order to record her name during the census'

Answer: Bethlehem


Question: 'This chambered mollusk is the only living cephalopod with an external shell'

Answer: Nautilus


Question: 'In 1929 Margaret Mead was awarded a Ph.D. in this field'

Answer: Anthropology


Question: 'A disreputable member of a family is known by this "woolly" term'

Answer: Black sheep


Question: 'In 1957 he won a Pulitzer Prize'

Answer: John F. Kennedy (for "Profiles in Courage")


Question: 'A food fight aids John Belushi's getaway in this 1978 comedy classic'

Answer: National Lampoon\'s Animal House


Question: 'The angel who "announced" Mary's pregnancy to her'

Answer: Gabriel


Question: 'Found in the south Pacific, the giant species of this largest bivalve has a shell that may reach 4 feet long'

Answer: Giant clam


Question: 'The Big Bang is something you'd learn about in this, the study of the universe'

Answer: Cosmology


Question: 'They're the raw edibles seen here'

Answer: Bean sprouts


Question: 'At Stanford University, he majored in mining engineering'

Answer: Herbert Hoover


Question: 'Paul Newman's character tries to swallow 50 hard-boiled eggs in an hour in this film'

Answer: Cool Hand Luke


Question: 'Jesus entrusted Mary to the "Beloved Disciple", traditionally this author of the gospel that tells the story'

Answer: John


Question: 'This seashell lends its name to a type of cooking & a curved edge on cloth or leather'

Answer: Scallop


Question: 'This zoology branch deals with a bunch of bird brains, & with every other aspect of a bird'

Answer: Ornithology


Question: 'It's Wisconsin's beastly nickname'

Answer: "The Badger State"


Question: 'He wrote his 4-volume history "The Winning of the West" before winning the White House'

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt


Question: 'This rotund singer was on the menu at Dr. Frank N. Furter's castle in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"'

Answer: Meat Loaf


Question: 'It's the town where Mary lived when Luke first mentions her'

Answer: Nazareth


Question: 'Also called nacre, this iridescent inner layer of certain shells is composed mainly of calcium carbonate'

Answer: Mother-of-pearl


Question: 'While otology studies the ear & its diseases, this is the science that studies hearing'

Answer: Audiology


Question: 'This legendary singer won $10,000 for the Multiple Sclerosis Society on "Celebrity Jeopardy!" in 1996'

Answer: Beverly Sills


Question: 'Begun in September 1940, the German bombing of this capital was known as the Blitz'

Answer: London


Question: 'In Canada it's this "puckish" sport'

Answer: Ice Hockey


Question: 'Bert Stein flew to Rome in 1962 to shoot her while she was shooting a movie with Richard Burton'

Answer: Elizabeth Taylor


Question: '"O Antony!  Nay, I will take thee too...what, should I stay--"'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'When visiting this Southern city, you & your friends may tour the Willie Nelson & Friends Museum'

Answer: Nashville


Question: 'In Greek mythology, they were the race of warrior women led by Hippolyta'

Answer: Amazons


Question: 'In June 1942 Japanese troops occupied Kiska & Attu in this U.S. island group'

Answer: Aleutian Islands


Question: 'In Japan it's this Western team sport with teams like the Yakult Swallows'

Answer: Baseball


Question: 'The wife of a young senator, she appeared with her sister Lee in the March 15, 1955 issue'

Answer: Jacqueline Kennedy


Question: '"Lay on Macduff, and damned be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'"'

Answer: Macbeth


Question: 'The seal of this Southern city shows the seventh U.S. president on horseback'

Answer: Jacksonville, FL (Andrew Jackson)


Question: 'It's the popular garden favorite seen here'

Answer: Azalea


Question: 'In November 1943, Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin met in Tehran, where they agreed on him as supreme Allied commander'

Answer: Dwight D. Eisenhower


Question: 'In Scotland it's this game the Scots invented'

Answer: Golf


Question: 'This show biz vet was 10 when Edward Steichen shot her for the December 1, 1938 issue'

Answer: Shirley Temple


Question: '"A horse!  A horse!  My kingdom for a horse!"'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'If your motto is "I Can't Drive 555", head for this flat part of Utah where speed records are set'

Answer: Bonneville


Question: 'Hawaiian Sumo wrestler Chad Rowan is known in Japan by this one-word name'

Answer: Akebono


Question: 'In mid-April 1942 U.S. bombers under his command left the U.S.S. Hornet to bomb Tokyo'

Answer: Col. James Doolittle


Question: 'In Norway it's this sport whose hero is Bjorn Daehlie'

Answer: Skiing


Question: 'For Vogue's millennium special issue, she grouped 13 historic supermodels to shoot the gatefold cover'

Answer: Annie Leibovitz


Question: '"Farewell, good strato.  Caesar, now be still; I killed not thee with half so good a will"'

Answer: Brutus


Question: 'This city's Casa Lonja has a vast archive on the Spanish empire in the Americas'

Answer: Seville


Question: 'From the French for "to strike down", it's another name for a slaughterhouse'

Answer: Abattoir


Question: 'The invasion of Normandy included 5 beachheads, including Utah & this one, both secured by the U.S.'

Answer: Omaha


Question: 'Franz Beckenbauer knows that in Germany it's this highly organized sport'

Answer: Soccer/Football


Question: 'A 1937 article on "Senoras of Mexico" showed her as Mrs. Diego Rivera'

Answer: Frida Kahlo


Question: '"Yea, noise?  Then I'll be brief.  O happy dagger, this is thy sheath.  There rest, and let me die"'

Answer: Juliet


Question: 'Kinshasa was formerly called this, after a Belgian king who exploited the Congo region'

Answer: Leopoldville


Question: 'Krishna is the eighth & best-known of these incarnations of Vishnu'

Answer: Avatars


Question: 'In 1988 his body was moved to Arlington & buried next to Robert Peary'

Answer: Matthew Henson


Question: 'The plot for this early talkie paralleled the story of Al Jolson's own life'

Answer: "The Jazz Singer"


Question: 'This capital city lies on the broad & shallow plain formed by the Moskva River & tributaries'

Answer: Moscow


Question: 'In December a Peruvian named Javier Perez de Cuellar was named to this post'

Answer: U.N. Secretary-General


Question: 'For a storm to be called this, it must have winds greater than 32 MPH & heavy snow'

Answer: Blizzard


Question: 'Contrary to legend, a rose of this color may not have been a symbol of the house of Lancaster'

Answer: Red


Question: 'What a magician says to the audience as he pushes up his shirt cuffs'

Answer: "Nothing up my sleeve"


Question: 'This "Jezebel" said she named the statue Oscar after her 1st husband, Harmon Oscar Nelson Jr.'

Answer: Bette Davis


Question: 'You must remember this is the most populous city in Morocco, but Rabat is the capital'

Answer: Casablanca


Question: '52 people leaving this country January 20, 1981 made world headlines'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'Silver iodide or dry ice is used to do this to a cloud'

Answer: Seed It


Question: 'Skeletons found at this site may be those of the little princes, who vanished during the wars'

Answer: Tower of London


Question: 'Little, unimportant things that you'd whisper in your beloved's ear'

Answer: Sweet Nothings


Question: 'This 1976 film was based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel inspired by Irving Thalberg'

Answer: The Last Tycoon


Question: 'With less than 10% of the world's population, this continent creates more than 1/3 of its manufactures'

Answer: North America


Question: 'He became president of Egypt after the assassination of Anwar Sadat'

Answer: Hosni Mubarak


Question: 'More tornadoes are recorded in the basin of this river than anywhere else in the world'

Answer: Mississippi River


Question: 'Appropriate nickname of the Earl of Warwick, who was instrumental in making Edward IV ruler'

Answer: "The Kingmaker"


Question: 'Completes the line from "Macbeth", "... A tale told by an idiot, full of sound & fury..."'

Answer: "Signifying Nothing"


Question: 'Pres. of the MPPDA from 1922-45, he initiated a moral blacklist & was an author of the production code'

Answer: Will Hays


Question: 'The Red Sea is considered an arm of this ocean'

Answer: Indian Ocean


Question: 'He introduced his stainless-steel gull-winged sports car'

Answer: John DeLorean


Question: 'An old weather adage says "Red sky in the morning, sailors" do this'

Answer: "Take Warning"


Question: '(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />Surprisingly, the king seen here, who died in battle during the wars, wasn't a bad-looking chap:'

Answer: Richard III


Question: 'According to "Me & Bobby McGee", "Freedom's just another word for" this'

Answer: "Nothing left to lose"


Question: 'Creator of Andy Panda, he held the longest contract in Hollywood --  58 years with Universal'

Answer: Walter Lantz


Question: 'There used to be 2 countries with this name; now there's only 1 & its capital is Brazzaville'

Answer: Congo


Question: '2 of the 3 standard rates in effect during the year for a U.S. first-class letter'

Answer: 15c, 18c & 20c


Question: 'Also called a vapor trail, it's a cloud-like streamer that forms behind jets in clear, cold, humid air'

Answer: Contrail


Question: 'After the wars ended, Henry VII claimed the throne, founding this dynasty'

Answer: Tudor


Question: 'In 1856 Millard Fillmore was its candidate for president'

Answer: Know-Nothing Party


Question: 'He developed the V-2 for Germany & while in Alabama, the Saturn V for the U.S.'

Answer: Wernher von Braun


Question: 'In May 1787 this Virginian was chosen president of the Constitutional Convention unanimously'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'This leader, not boxer Cassius Clay, founded the modern Egyptian kingdom in the 1800s'

Answer: Muhammad Ali


Question: 'In the 1840s Victor Hugo began writing this book using the title "Les Miseres"'

Answer: "Les Miserables"


Question: 'Milwaukee native who met his British-born wife, Lynn Fontanne, in 1917 on Broadway'

Answer: Alfred Lunt


Question: 'While its name means flesh colored, it's usually a white one that men wear on tuxedos'

Answer: Carnation


Question: 'Published in 1897, "Work of the Digestive Glands" was the only book by this Russian physiologist'

Answer: Ivan Pavlov


Question: 'The convention was instructed by Congress to revise this existing document, not to write a new one'

Answer: Articles of Confederation


Question: 'In his youth, the ruthless Roman emperor Gaius Caesar was nicknamed this, meaning "little boot"'

Answer: Caligula


Question: 'Term for aesthetically elegant literature, it's French for "fine letters"'

Answer: Belle Lettres


Question: 'He was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, attended Marquette Univ. & was elected to the Senate in 1946'

Answer: Joseph McCarthy


Question: 'Spruce, fir & hemlock are part of this, the largest & best-known conifer family'

Answer: Pine


Question: 'The idea of horsepower originated with this Scottish engineer, the "Father of the Industrial Rev."'

Answer: James Watt


Question: 'Congress is authorized to "provide & maintain" this branch of the armed services'

Answer: Navy


Question: 'Pilgrim governor whose "History of Plimmoth Plantation" was 1st published 199 years after his death'

Answer: William Bradford


Question: 'His most famous short stories include "Ball-of-Fat" & "The Necklace"'

Answer: Guy deMaupassant


Question: 'He was governor of Wisconsin & author of a series of books about a "bad boy"'

Answer: George Peck


Question: 'It takes some 4,000 purple autumn crocuses to get 1 ounce of this yellow dye'

Answer: Saffron


Question: 'Dutch optician Hans Lippershey invented this scientific device in 1608'

Answer: Telescope


Question: 'To be adopted, an amendment must be ratified by this fraction of the states'

Answer: 3/4


Question: 'English king born on Xmas eve 1167; he had no power or land as a youth & was nicknamed "Lackland"'

Answer: King John


Question: 'In 1677 this dramatist's play "Phedre" was produced & he became Louis XIV's official historian'

Answer: Jean Racine


Question: 'A native of Ripon, suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt founded this org. in 1920'

Answer: League of Women Voters


Question: 'Varieties of this tree, noted for its wood, include the West Indian & Honduras'

Answer: mahogany


Question: 'For his invention of the electric battery, this Italian physicist was made a count in 1801'

Answer: Alessandro Volta


Question: 'The compromise which gave us a 2-house Congress was proposed by this state, hence its nickname'

Answer: Connecticut ("The Constitution State")


Question: 'In 1832 he said, "The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it"'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'This series by Balzac intertwines almost 100 works & over 2,000 characters'

Answer: "The Human Comedy"


Question: 'Elected governor of Wisconsin in 1900, this "Battling Bob" founded a dynasty of politicians & social reformers'

Answer: Robert LaFollette


Question: 'Originally this legendary place name referred to a ruler near Bogota who dusted his body with gold'

Answer: El Dorado


Question: 'If you’re rowin’ the Rhone from start to finish, you begin in this mountain range'

Answer: the Alps


Question: 'The Continental & the Town Car are models from this Ford division'

Answer: Lincoln


Question: 'A murder suspect named Injun Joe'

Answer: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer


Question: 'The Harlem Globetrotters were founded in this city famous for its blues & its fire'

Answer: Chicago


Question: 'November 16, 1952:<br />For the first time, she holds a football for Charlie Brown to kick'

Answer: Lucy


Question: 'The USA's tallest bridge towers are the 746-foot steel peaks of this structure'

Answer: the Golden Gate Bridge


Question: 'The Krishna starts near one coast of this country & flows almost all the way across it'

Answer: India


Question: 'In a Stephen King-based movie, this title vehicle was a red 1958 Plymouth Fury'

Answer: Christine


Question: 'Troubled Air Force Captain John Yossarian'

Answer: Catch-22


Question: 'In the 1940s if you weren't commie enough to be "red" people used this 5-letter epithet that was a shade lighter'

Answer: pinko


Question: 'July 20, 1971:<br />Marcie first calls this character "Sir"'

Answer: Peppermint Patty


Question: 'This NBA team took the 1975 championship'

Answer: the Golden State Warriors


Question: 'It doesn’t have its distinct color yet when it emerges in Qinghai Province'

Answer: the Yellow River


Question: 'In 1964, the first year of its release, this popular muscle car was the Indy 500 pace car'

Answer: a Mustang


Question: 'A small slave girl named Topsy'

Answer: Uncle Tom’s Cabin


Question: 'Object associated with the Lone Ranger & with Bob Seger's Band'

Answer: a silver bullet


Question: 'August 23, 1959:<br />She joins Charlie Brown's family as his younger sister'

Answer: Sally


Question: 'It's the second-most registered dog breed at the American Kennel Club'

Answer: a golden retriever


Question: 'It's formed by the junction of the Luvua & Lualaba in the country named for it'

Answer: the Congo


Question: 'The LS 400 and the ES 250 were the first models of this luxury car line from Toyota'

Answer: Lexus


Question: 'Professor Henry Higgins'

Answer: Pygmalion


Question: 'In alphabetical order, the 3 spokesmen for Rice Krispies'

Answer: Crackle, Pop & Snap


Question: 'September 24, 1990:<br />This hygiene-challenged boy runs for class president'

Answer: Pigpen


Question: 'Jason stole it for his Uncle Pelias'

Answer: the Golden Fleece


Question: 'This Mideastern boundary river rises on the slopes of Mount Hermon'

Answer: the Jordan


Question: 'The Rio is from Kia, which is owned by this South Korean automaker'

Answer: Hyundai


Question: 'Marooned sailor Ben Gunn'

Answer: Treasure Island


Question: 'The Winchester '73 and the Colt .45 have both been referred to as "the gun that" did this'

Answer: won the West


Question: 'September 1, 1991:<br />This young virtuoso becomes a spokesman for National Piano Month'

Answer: Schroeder


Question: 'Sir James Frazer compared mythologies & religions in this work'

Answer: The Golden Bough


Question: 'This rock from Georgia was used to sculpt the statue of Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial'

Answer: marble


Question: 'In a Billy Joel hit, she's "looking for a downtown man"'

Answer: an Uptown Girl


Question: 'Resh kallah,<br />rebbe'

Answer: Judaism


Question: 'This movie heartthrob isn't "From Hell" or from "Sleepy Hollow"; he's from Owensboro, Ky.'

Answer: Johnny Depp


Question: 'This veggie was almost uneaten in the U.S. until the D'Arrigo Bros. Produce Company started marketing it in the 1920s'

Answer: broccoli


Question: 'The branch of linguistics dealing with the sounds of speech'

Answer: phonetics


Question: 'Crude oil can be extracted from this rock, the most abundant sedimentary rock in the Earth's crust'

Answer: shale


Question: 'Critics love this 10-letter adjective to describe music resembling "Lay Lady Lay" or "Like A Rolling Stone"'

Answer: Dylanesque


Question: 'Sharif,<br />ayatollah'

Answer: Islam


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew sits at a table in the Seelback Hilton in Louisville, KY.)  This boxing legend known as the Louisville Lip loves to dine here at the Oak Room when he's visiting his hometown'

Answer: Muhammad Ali


Question: 'If your stylist puts humectant conditioner in your hair, it's most likely because your hair is this'

Answer: dry


Question: '2 words that sound alike but are spelled differently'

Answer: homophones


Question: 'The Hawaiian islands consist mostly of this hard, dark volcanic rock'

Answer: basalt


Question: '(Typewriter) keyboardist Paul Ackerman entered the R&R Hall of Fame by editing this music journal for 30 years'

Answer: Billboard


Question: 'Babu,<br />jagadguru'

Answer: Hinduism


Question: 'Her brother Nick, nephew George & friend Al Pacino all attended her 2002 funeral in Maysville, Ky., her hometown'

Answer: Rosemary Clooney


Question: 'At an estate sale, Carl Rice spent $60 on 2 of these by Martin Johnson Heade; they later sold for over $1 million'

Answer: paintings


Question: 'Daughter of Zeus & Demeter'

Answer: Persephone


Question: 'Due to its luster, German miners gave this "pleasant" rock its name, which means "spark"'

Answer: gneiss


Question: 'The riff heard here kicks off a recent album by this band'

Answer: The White Stripes


Question: 'Bhai,<br />sardar'

Answer: Sikhism


Question: 'Good morning to this newswoman, who's seen here in 1963, when she was America's Junior Miss'

Answer: Diane Sawyer


Question: 'Oaxaca is "the land of 7" of these rich sauces, including the negro & verde types'

Answer: molés


Question: 'An English language speaker'

Answer: an Anglophone


Question: 'The Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown is the tallest structure in the U.S. made entirely of this'

Answer: granite


Question: '"Stoned" is a memoir of '60s London by this then-manager of the Rolling Stones'

Answer: Andrew Oldham


Question: 'T'ien shih'

Answer: Taoism


Question: 'In the '40s & '50s this Kentucky-born hunk starred in biblical films like "The Robe" & "Samson and Delilah"'

Answer: Victor Mature


Question: 'These political "issues" get their name because they can split apart a unified movement'

Answer: wedge issues


Question: 'The smallest unit in a language capable of conveying distinction in meaning'

Answer: a phoneme


Question: 'A Spanish dictionary defines it as "circulo maximo que equidista de los polos de la tierra"'

Answer: Ecuador


Question: 'Augusta'

Answer: Georgia


Question: 'On the Mamas & the Papas' last Top 40 hit, "Dream A Little Dream Of Me", she got top billing'

Answer: Mama Cass


Question: 'Michigan claims the nation's oldest one, starting in 1849; don't miss the pig races or the midway'

Answer: a state fair


Question: 'She knew it was over; Octavian had rejected her advances.  The asp awaited; she'd be buried with her love forevermore'

Answer: Cleopatra


Question: 'Princess Cruises now offer scuba & volleyball as well as this beloved game that uses cues to push disks'

Answer: shuffleboard


Question: 'Solfatara, a gas-belching volcanic vent, is partly from the Italian for this element'

Answer: sulfur


Question: 'Portland'

Answer: Maine


Question:
'In 1968 this film star turned pop star with the song heard here

"MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark /
All the sweet, green icing flowing down..."'

Answer: Richard Harris


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds up a lantern.)  Lanterns are popular in Cairo's bazaar right now, as they're a symbol of this holy month of daylight fasting'

Answer: Ramadan


Question: 'Mary had caught this lawyer's eye & wed him on Nov. 4, 1842.  But would her growing madness doom them both?'

Answer: Lincoln


Question: 'The person who handles passengers' accounts; Gopher on "The Love Boat" was an assistant one'

Answer: a purser


Question: 'Popular with kids, dactylonomy is the practice of counting this way'

Answer: with your fingers


Question: 'Huntsville'

Answer: Alabama


Question: 'According to the title of a 1967 hit, it's what The Young Rascals were doing "On A Sunday Afternoon"'

Answer: "Groovin\'"


Question: 'People who gather each New Year's Day for a swim in frigid water are called this animal's club'

Answer: a polar bear


Question: 'It was WWI. Her new name meant "eye of the dawn" & she felt reborn.  Oh, how she loved German military men!'

Answer: Mata Hari


Question: 'This Virgin Island with its city of Charlotte Amalie is among the most popular Caribbean ports of call'

Answer: St. Thomas


Question: 'A canephora is a statue of a woman bearing one of these on her head'

Answer: a basket


Question: 'Guthrie'

Answer: Oklahoma


Question:
'In a 3-year period in the 1960s, she had 15 Top 40 hits, including the one heard here

"My love is warmer than the warmest sunshine /
Softer than a sigh /
My love is deeper than the deepest ocean..."'

Answer: Petula Clark


Question: 'In 1960 this "royal" krewe became the first to throw doubloons in New Orleans' Mardi Gras parade'

Answer: the Rex Krewe


Question: 'June 20, 1791.  She and Louis fled in the night. But a man recognized Louis, whose face was literally on the money'

Answer: Marie Antoinette


Question: 'You can sail from Southampton on this Cunard liner that has covered 5.3 mil. nautical miles, a record for any ship'

Answer: the QE2


Question: 'By definition in a style of painting called grisaille, only shades of this color are used'

Answer: gray


Question: 'This Zager & Evans hit about the future is subtitled "Exordium & Terminus"'

Answer: "In The Year 2525"


Question: 'English profs rub elbow patches at the 122-year-old annual convention of the MLA, short for this'

Answer: the Modern Language Association


Question: 'Odysseus had been gone 20 years, even after she'd given him a son, Telemachus.  Yet she knew someday, Odie would return'

Answer: Penelope


Question: 'Term for a woman who christens a cruise ship, like Kim Cattral for Norwegian Dawn & Judi Dench for Carnival Legend'

Answer: the godmother


Question: 'From the French for "to go out", it can mean to sally forth, or a combat mission by a single military plane'

Answer: a sortie


Question: 'The source of the Lena River, one of Russia's longest, lies less than 10 miles from this huge Siberian lake'

Answer: Lake Baikal


Question: 'Jason Bateman is Michael Bluth, the stable family member in this Emmy-winning Fox comedy'

Answer: Arrested Development


Question: 'This Minnesotan ran for the 1968 Democratic nomination & ran in 1976 as an independent'

Answer: Eugene McCarthy


Question: 'Cremora'

Answer: cream (creamer accepted)


Question: 'The great city of Dane is near Madison in this last state carved out of the Northwest Territory'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'This "Follies" producer who helped create the showgirl tradition used the slogan "Glorifying the American girl"'

Answer: Ziegfeld


Question: 'Legend says an empress in 2640 B.C. discovered how to produce this, & put the Chinese on the "road" of trade'

Answer: silk


Question: 'Mike O'Malley & Anthony Clark play brothers-in-law on this CBS sitcom'

Answer: Yes, Dear


Question: 'My name is Inigo de Onaz y Loyola! You know me better under this name!  Prepare to pray!'

Answer: St. Ignatius Loyola


Question: 'Sizzlean'

Answer: bacon


Question: 'Fly into the Akita Airport to lap up the sights in Akita on the East Sea in this country'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'This German optician's name is on digital camera lenses, though he died in 1888'

Answer: (Carl) Zeiss


Question: 'More than 16 million Vietnamese live in this river's delta'

Answer: the Mekong


Question: 'Based on a BBC show, this sitcom takes place at the Dunder Mifflin Paper Supply Company in Scranton, Penn.'

Answer: The Office


Question: 'In 1792 this British captain finally managed to bring breadfruit to the Americas'

Answer: Bligh


Question: 'Rock group Achtung Babies'

Answer: U2


Question: 'The Casa of the "Royal Dog of the Americas" would be in this city twice occupied by American troops in the 1840s'

Answer: Chihuahua


Question: 'This "Germinal" novelist defended the Impressionists in newspaper articles'

Answer: Emile Zola


Question: 'It consists of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Ajman, Ra's Al Khaymah, Ash Shariqah, Umm Al Qaywayn & Al Fujayrah'

Answer: the United Arab Emirates


Question: 'This title character was dad to Mearth, played by Jonathan Winters'

Answer: Mork


Question: 'In his effort to unite his nation, he won battles at Calatafimi & Milazzo in 1860'

Answer: Garibaldi


Question: 'Peltex products'

Answer: fur coats


Question: 'We hope you retrieve the name of this breed, also a city in the Philippines & a region of Northeast Canada'

Answer: Labrador


Question: 'This agrarian reformer who sided with Pancho Villa is considered a Mexican national hero'

Answer: (Emiliano) Zapata


Question: 'This ancient Sumerian city's ruins were first excavated in the 1850s, when the Ziggurat of Nanna was discovered'

Answer: Ur


Question: 'This actress played the perenially perky Corky Sherwood on "Murphy Brown"'

Answer: Faith Ford


Question: 'The mineral red spinel'

Answer: rubies


Question: 'When Lassie wants to visit Collie, she takes a boat on the Indian Ocean to Bunbury on the west coast of this country'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'This N.Y. free-jazz saxophonist heard here wrote tribute songs to Ennio Morricone, Sonny Clark & Ornette Coleman'

Answer: John Zorn


Question: 'He was nominated for Best Actor 5 times in the 1950s, the most for any man in one decade'

Answer: Marlon Brando


Question: 'This first season of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" is in E major'

Answer: "Spring"


Question: 'Known as "The King of the Swashbucklers", Douglas Fairbanks is seen here in this title masked role in a 1920 film'

Answer: Zorro


Question: 'The FJ Cruiser is from Toyota; the PT Cruiser, from this automaker'

Answer: Chrysler


Question: 'It's what you get when you take the circumference of a pumpkin & divide it by its diameter'

Answer: pumpkin pi (pi accepted)


Question: 'Kokuritsu Seiyo Bijutsukan (the National Museum of Western Art) is located in this Asian capital'

Answer: Tokyo


Question: 'A painful injury to the ligaments of a joint caused by wrenching'

Answer: a sprain


Question: 'Tchaikovsky called this work of his in E flat major "loud and noisy", & he never even heard it with fireworks'

Answer: "The 1812 Overture"


Question: 'Seen here is Lon Chaney in this revealing title role from 1925'

Answer: The Phantom of the Opera


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from behind a motorcycle.)  In 2001, this then-98-year-old company didn't act its age when it introduced the new V-Rod street bike'

Answer: Harley-Davidson


Question: 'There are 10 types of people in the world, those who get this number system that uses only 1's and 0's, & those who don't'

Answer: binary


Question: 'The Tasman Sea lies between Australia & this neighboring nation'

Answer: New Zealand


Question: 'The cerebrum of a kookaburra or just a nutty guy'

Answer: birdbrain


Question: 'Opus 51 of this man portrayed in the movie "Impromptu" is an impromptu in G flat major'

Answer: Chopin


Question: 'He's the 1920s heartthrob seen here--can't you just hear the women swooning?'

Answer: Rudolph Valentino


Question: '"The relentless pursuit of perfection" is the goal of this luxury automaker'

Answer: Lexus


Question: 'Lumberjacks make good musicians because of these exponents required to produce a given number'

Answer: logarithms


Question: 'It's the constitutional monarchy of Northern Europe seen here'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'To limit someone or keep him under control'

Answer: restrain


Question: '"Scene by the brook" is the title of one movement of this Beethoven symphony in F major'

Answer: the 6th symphony


Question: 'He's the Nebraska-born silent film star seen here who excelled in outrageous stunt comedy'

Answer: Harold Lloyd


Question: 'The first logo of this sporty Italian carmaker included the Visconti serpent, a Milanese symbol'

Answer: Alfa Romeo


Question: 'Similar to a Shakespeare quote, it's the two possible square roots for the number seen here'

Answer: 2b or -2b (2b or nought 2b)


Question: 'The one nation in sub-Saharan Africa that never was under European colonial control'

Answer: Liberia


Question: 'The physical features of an area of land; you might have a vehicle that's "all" ready for it'

Answer: terrain


Question: 'Bach to Bach works, Nos. 3 & 4 in this group of 6 concertos, are in G major'

Answer: the Brandenberg Concertos


Question: 'The title character of this 1922 film had trouble with his place in the sun'

Answer: Nosferatu


Question: 'The name of this car line means "a descendant"'

Answer: the Scion


Question: '"To get to the same side" is why the chicken crossed this type of "strip" named for a German'

Answer: a Mobius strip


Question: 'This country is bordered by Colombia to the south and Costa Rica to the north'

Answer: Panama


Question: 'It's paired with "Alsace" in the name of a French region'

Answer: Lorraine


Question: 'This pamphleteer called George III the "royal brute of Britain" who had usurped the rightful place of law'

Answer: (Thomas) Paine


Question: '1997:<br />"It’s Your Love" by Tim McGraw & this beauty'

Answer: Faith Hill


Question: 'This "tasty" word follows "red" & "golden" in names of apple varieties'

Answer: delicious


Question: 'OS means "oculus sinister", which isn’t a bad thing, it just means your medicine is to go in your left this'

Answer: eye


Question: 'This diva mourned, "First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I’ve lost Onassis"'

Answer: Maria Callas


Question: 'Paul wrote one to Philemon'

Answer: an epistle


Question: 'This Virginia assembly first met in July 1619 & representative Walter Shelley died of the heat'

Answer: the House of Burgesses


Question: '1981:<br />"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" by Tom Petty & her'

Answer: Stevie Nicks


Question: 'The name of this salad ingredient probably comes from the Latin lactuca'

Answer: lettuce


Question: 'mcg is this tiny unit of measurement'

Answer: a microgram


Question: '"Nothing is more revealing than movement", said this doyenne of modern dance'

Answer: Martha Graham


Question: 'The point on the Earth’s surface above the focus of an earthquake'

Answer: the epicenter


Question: 'In 1755 John Adams graduated from this school, 14th in a class of 24, reflecting his social standing, not grades'

Answer: Harvard


Question: '1991:<br />"Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me" by Elton John & him'

Answer: George Michael


Question: 'The English type of this green-skinned gourd is eaten fresh; the Kirby is pickled'

Answer: the cucumber


Question: 'A caution on some prescriptions, ASA means this acid is present, an aka for aspirin'

Answer: acetylsalicylic acid


Question: 'This "The Waves" authoress thought "Surely it was time someone invented a new plot"'

Answer: Virginia Woolf


Question: 'Dr. King’s reads, "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I’m free at last!"'

Answer: an epitaph


Question: 'He served as New Amsterdam's governor from 1647 to 1664 & then retired to his bouwerij, or farm, dying there in 1672'

Answer: (Peter) Stuyvesant


Question: '1999:<br />"Written In The Stars" by Elton John & this country girl'

Answer: LeAnn Rimes


Question: 'Haricot vert is the French term for this legume'

Answer: the green bean


Question: 'HS is Latin for "hora somni", meaning you should take your meds at this time'

Answer: bedtime


Question: 'In 1991 Nadine Gordimer said this man’s "situation is the terrible concern of every fellow writer"'

Answer: Salman Rushdie


Question: 'Sir Henry Hallett Dale found that ergot reverses the effects of this fight-or-flight hormone'

Answer: epinephrine


Question: 'In 1702 this Puritan theologian wrote "Magnalia Christi Americana", a history of religion in the Colonies, 1620-1698'

Answer: Cotton Mather


Question: '1994:<br />"Endless Love" remade by these 2'

Answer: Luther Vandross & Mariah Carey


Question: 'Plums & peaches are classified as freestone, semifreestone or this'

Answer: cling(stone)


Question: 'D.W. means that this type of liquid is needed'

Answer: distilled water


Question: 'This woman who died in 1971 said, "I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them"'

Answer: Diane Arbus


Question: 'A member of a class or group that represents that group's essential qualities'

Answer: an epitome


Question: 'Justice Peter Smith embedded a secret code into a 2006 ruling that said this author hadn’t violated a copyright'

Answer: Dan Brown (the author of The Da Vinci Code)


Question: 'The motto on the Great Seal of the U.S.:  "Out of many, one"'

Answer: "E Pluribus Unum"


Question: 'The T. Jefferson Building, John Adams Building & James Madison Memorial Bldg. house this'

Answer: Library of Congress


Question: 'Because it's closest to the sun, this planet is best seen near the horizon just before sunset or sunrise'

Answer: Mercury


Question: 'It was the middle name of John Astor the hotel builder and his great-grandfather the fur trader'

Answer: Jacob


Question: '2 Sikh bodyguards assassinated this Indian prime minister on Oct. 31, 1984'

Answer: Indira Gandhi


Question: 'The highest award to a hero of the Soviet Union, or the top award a teacher gives a young pupil'

Answer: Gold Star


Question: 'Eritrea, now the northernmost province of this country, was an Italian colony from 1890-1941'

Answer: Ethiopia


Question: 'His presidential library was opened in Hyde Park, N.Y. while he was still in office'

Answer: Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Question: 'This "colorful" 20,000 mile-wide storm on Jupiter has been raging for centuries'

Answer: The Red Spot


Question: 'This cowboy humorist had 2 middle names, Penn & Adair'

Answer: Will Rogers


Question: 'The only presidents this nation has had are Sukarno & Suharto'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: 'In U.S. decorations this adjective precedes service medal & flying cross'

Answer: distinguished


Question: '3-sided sword that's a familiar word to fencers & crossword puzzle enthusiasts'

Answer: epee


Question: 'The largest library in the Soviet Union is named for this revolutionary'

Answer: Lenin


Question: 'A thick cloud cover is one reason temperatures at its equator & poles are about the same'

Answer: Venus


Question: 'This poet's first name was James; Langston was one of his middle names'

Answer: Langston Hughes


Question: 'In 1970 Prince Norodom Sihanouk was deposed in a bloodless coup as head of state of this country'

Answer: Cambodia


Question: 'Animal depicted on the Victoria Cross'

Answer: lion


Question: 'A candidate for knighthood in medieval times, or an English country gentleman'

Answer: Esquire


Question: 'In 1889 a Braddock, PA library became the first in the U.S. constructed by this businessman'

Answer: Andrew Carnegie


Question: 'This icy planet takes 248 years to complete an orbit of the sun'

Answer: Pluto


Question: 'Aristotle Onassis' middle name; it was also the name of a Greek philosopher'

Answer: Socrates


Question: 'In 1847 Virginia-born Joseph Jenkins Roberts became the first president of this black African nation'

Answer: Liberia


Question: 'Juha Tiainen, Joaquim Cruz & Rowdy Gaines all won these in the summer of 1984'

Answer: Olympic gold medals


Question: 'This ancient Greek city in Asia Minor was the site of the temple of Artemis'

Answer: Ephesus


Question: 'The library at this Waco, Texas school houses the largest collection of works about Robert Browning'

Answer: Baylor


Question: 'Based on the calculations of a French mathematician, Johann Galle discovered this planet in 1846'

Answer: Neptune


Question: 'Of Hollywood's Warner Brothers, the one whose middle name was Leonard'

Answer: Jack Leonard Warner


Question: 'At 49, Margrethe II of this Scandinavian country is the world's youngest queen regnant'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'Bolivia awards a national order named after this bird of the Andes'

Answer: condor


Question: 'Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem claims to be the oldest of these in Britain, so bottoms up to it'

Answer: pub


Question: 'Built in the 19th century, the Flying Horse Carousel & Newport Casino are landmarks in this state'

Answer: Rhode Island


Question: 'This goddess of wisdom was said to have sprung forth fully grown from the brain of her father, Zeus'

Answer: Athena


Question: 'Her second Nobel Prize, awarded in 1911, was for her work in chemistry'

Answer: Marie Curie


Question: 'Currents & sultanas are produced by drying this fruit'

Answer: grapes


Question: 'First name shared by playwrights Fry, Durang & Marlowe'

Answer: Christopher


Question: 'The British turned this brand name into a verb meaning to vacuum'

Answer: Hoover


Question: 'NYC department store on 34th Street that's listed in the Catalog of Nat'l. Historic Landmarks'

Answer: Macy\'s


Question: 'Hera took the eyes of Argus & set them in the tail of this, her favorite bird'

Answer: peacock


Question: 'This inventor supposedly offered G.W. Carver over $100,000 a year to work for him, but he declined'

Answer: Thomas Edison


Question: 'The South American Indians called them "papas", a name that's still used today'

Answer: potatoes


Question: 'Brecht served in a German army hospital during this war, but never as a surgeon as he claimed'

Answer: World War I


Question: 'Numerical phrase referring to the P.M.'s office'

Answer: 10 Downing Street/No. 10


Question: 'It's the oldest continuously operated automobile race course anywhere'

Answer: Indianapolis Motor Speedway


Question: 'The last Greek god to be deified, the Romans called him Bacchus'

Answer: Dionysus


Question: 'In 1705 he became the first Englishman knighted for scientific achievement'

Answer: Sir Isaac Newton


Question: 'The nopal cactus, part of this national symbol of Mexico, produces this fruit'

Answer: prickly pear


Question: 'In the 1950s he was the first of the British playwrights known as "Angry Young Men"'

Answer: John Osborne ("Look Back In Anger")


Question: 'If you pinch a kipper you've stolen a fish; if you take a kip, you've done this'

Answer: taking a nap


Question: 'Florida city in which you can explore the historic fortress Castillo de San Marcos'

Answer: St. Augustine


Question: 'The Valkyries were maidens who attended this god'

Answer: Odin


Question: 'He proved being inoculated with cowpox matter would prevent people from catching smallpox'

Answer: Edward Jenner


Question: 'As its label indicates, Southern Comfort contains the juice of this fruit'

Answer: peach


Question: 'This "Endgame" author was a friend of James Joyce but, contrary to rumor, was not his secretary'

Answer: Samuel Beckett


Question: 'If you've grassed on your mates, you haven't mowed them down but did this to them'

Answer: tattle/inform on them


Question: 'The historic First & Second Banks of the U.S. are one block apart in this city'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'This god was the trumpeter of the sea, & his trumpet was a large shell'

Answer: Triton


Question: 'An Air Force base in Virginia is named for this astronomer  & aeronautical pioneer'

Answer: Samuel Pierpoint Langley


Question: 'The names of these 2 onion relatives are from the name of the Mideast city Ashkelon'

Answer: shallots & scallions


Question: 'His last play, "What The Butler Saw", was produced in 1969, 2 years after he was killed'

Answer: Joe Orton


Question: 'Civilization that produced the first known calendar with 365 days'

Answer: Ancient Egypt


Question: 'The hoary species of this mammal has a wingspan of about 16 inches & is one of the largest of its kind in North America'

Answer: bat


Question: 'Oh, Scar, you ol' backstabber, say hello to your hyena friends; they want to chew the fat with you in this film'

Answer: The Lion King


Question: 'Hen Ben Haim is accused of running more than 500 fraudulent auctions on this website'

Answer: eBay


Question: 'In Matthew chapter 3, he preached, "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand"'

Answer: John the Baptist


Question: 'Used since the 13th century, St. Gotthard pass in Switzerland is in these mountains'

Answer: the Alps


Question: 'An adjective for long, disheveled hair, or Scooby Doo's best buddy'

Answer: shaggy


Question: 'The fisher, a type of weasel, avoids this rodent's quills by attacking its face & flipping it over on its back'

Answer: a porcupine


Question: '(Hi, I'm Elizabeth Perkins.)  I was the voice of Coral the clownfish in this film; sadly, I didn't survive the barracuda attack'

Answer: Finding Nemo


Question: 'Wanted for bank robbery, brown-eyed Jonathan Davis goes by the last name of this man, "Ol' Blue Eyes"'

Answer: Sinatra


Question: 'This stormin' Norman spent more than a third of his English reign out of the country & in fact died in Rouen in 1087'

Answer: William the Conqueror


Question: 'This strategically important pass lies on the border of Pakistan & Afghanistan'

Answer: the Khyber Pass


Question: 'To wrangle with a merchant over the price of an item'

Answer: haggle


Question: 'Fish that are anadromous migrate from the sea to freshwater rivers to do this'

Answer: spawn


Question: 'After getting a glowing trident, Ursula grows big enough to get rammed by prince Eric's ship in this 1989 film'

Answer: The Little Mermaid


Question: 'His FBI listing says he's wanted for 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies & is "a suspect in other terrorist attacks"'

Answer: Osama bin Laden


Question: 'Obama told this Ohio blue-collar guy spreading the wealth was good; he became part of the McCain campaign'

Answer: Joe the Plumber


Question: 'The Uspallata Pass in these mountains is home to a giant bronze statue of Christ'

Answer: Andes


Question: 'All your suitcases, or all your repressed psychological issues'

Answer: baggage


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows two similar-looking snakes on the monitor.) The common mnemonic "Red touch black, friend of jack; red touch yellow, kill a fellow" helps distinguish a harmless scarlet king snake from this extremely poisonous snake'

Answer: a coral snake


Question: 'The FBI wants Glen Stewart Godwin for both murder & a 1987 escape from this Calif. prison where Johnny Cash had the "Blues"'

Answer: Folsom Prison


Question: 'This spokesbovine for Borden began extolling the virtues of milk back in the 1930s'

Answer: Elsie the Cow


Question: 'Daniel Boone led settlers into Kentucky through this pass that wasn't discovered by white Americans until 1750'

Answer: the Cumberland Gap (the Cumberland Pass accepted)


Question: 'The act of making something out to be more important than it really is'

Answer: exaggeration (aggrandizement accepted)


Question: 'The world's largest butterfly, Queen Alexandra's birdwing, inhabits the rainforest of this island nation, PNG'

Answer: Papua New Guinea


Question: 'The FBI wants this African country's Odowa Okuomose for bilking victims who were told they had to pay fees to claim big prizes'

Answer: Nigeria


Question: 'In "Portrait of a Killer", Patricia Cornwell contends that this killer was actor & artist Walter Sickert'

Answer: Jack the Ripper


Question: 'Accessible in winter only by snowmobiles, the Charlotte Pass is found in this country's Snowy Mountains'

Answer: Australia


Question: 'A proud, stiff, pompous gait'

Answer: swagger


Question: 'A few years after serving as a captain in the Franco-Prussian War, he painted "Dancer with a Fan"'

Answer: Degas


Question: '"The House that Ruth Built"'

Answer: Yankee Stadium


Question: 'A land of mist & cold, Niflheim was the lowest region of hell in this 5-letter mythology'

Answer: Norse


Question: 'Links at this magazine's site include "Rock the Rabbit", "The Girls Next Door" & "The Hef Pages"'

Answer: Playboy


Question: 'Between 770 & 476 B.C., a time of struggle is called the Spring & Autumn Period in this Asian country's history'

Answer: China


Question: 'An aerie is an eagle's one of these'

Answer: a nest


Question: 'Camille Pissarro called this U.S.-born painter of "Arrangements" the only artist "of whom America can be justly proud"'

Answer: Whistler


Question: '"Chavez Ravine"'

Answer: Dodger Stadium


Question: 'From the Latin for "hell", this adjective can refer to anything annoying, as in "Stop that ____ noise!"'

Answer: infernal


Question: '"Color-a-Room" & leaf through the "Plant Encyclopedia" at bhg.com, this magazine's online home'

Answer: Better Homes and Gardens


Question: 'Athens put larger Greek interests first & joined other cities to defeat this nation in the 480 B.C. battle of Salamis'

Answer: Persia


Question: 'From the Latin for "nine", it's actually the 11th in the Gregorian system'

Answer: November


Question: 'The creator of Pointillism, he preferred the term Divisionism for the technique'

Answer: Seurat


Question: '"The Eighth Wonder of the World"'

Answer: the Houston Astrodome


Question: 'It's his hellish portal from 1880 seen here'

Answer: Auguste Rodin


Question: 'This mag's .com quizzes include "Do you know how to attract a guy" & "Are you TMI all the time?"'

Answer: Cosmo (Cosmopolitan)


Question: 'In the 280s a renegade Roman officer named Carausius set himself up as ruler of part of Gaul & this island'

Answer: Great Britain


Question: 'The "Blizzard of '93" was one of these storms that move up the Atlantic Coast along the Gulf Stream'

Answer: a nor\'easter


Question: 'Finding Impressionism her cup of tea, this American first exhibited with the group in 1879 with "The Cup of Tea"'

Answer: (Mary) Cassatt


Question: '"The Friendly Confines"'

Answer: Wrigley Field


Question: 'Ulysses met up again with Agamemnon & Ajax in a place ruled by this god'

Answer: Hades


Question: 'Let's map a way to this magazine's website where you can utilize its "Atlas Explorer"'

Answer: National Geographic


Question: 'Islam's Sunni/Shi'a split goes back to the question of Ali Abi ibn Talib's right to hold this post, leader of the Muslim world'

Answer: caliph


Question: 'Mr. Magoo could tell you myopia is the medical term for this condition'

Answer: nearsightedness


Question: 'Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in this city known for its porcelain & even apprenticed as a china painter at age 13'

Answer: Limoges


Question: 'Municipal Stadium in this Ohio city was not so affectionately known as "The Mistake by the Lake"'

Answer: Cleveland


Question: 'Hellish delivery man depicted here'

Answer: Charon


Question: 'The website for this defunct mag has the "most amazing collection of professional photography on the Web"'

Answer: Life


Question: 'In the 8th century this empire based in what's now Istanbul began its policy of iconoclasm, or "idol smashing"'

Answer: the Byzantine Empire


Question: 'The hamlets of Igluligaarjuk, Qamani'tuaq & Ikaluktutiak are in this newest Canadian territory'

Answer: Nunavut


Question: 'On April 17, 1973 this company began operations with the launch of 14 small aircraft from Memphis International Airport'

Answer: Federal Express


Question: 'Rumors surfaced among Cubans in America that this premier had remarried, but they've never been confirmed'

Answer: Fidel Castro


Question: 'An ornamental suspension over a bed, it was originally an emblem of privilege & rank'

Answer: a canopy


Question: 'Chekhov uncle whose last line is "Oh, if you only knew how my heart aches!"'

Answer: Uncle Vanya


Question: 'In 1981 this company introduced the PC, its first home computer'

Answer: IBM


Question: 'With plans uncertain, he told his E Street Band that they could pursue other projects'

Answer: Bruce Springsteen


Question: 'John Ehrlichman coined the expression "It'll play in" this Illinois city'

Answer: Peoria


Question: 'It topped the pop charts in the summer of '62:'

Answer: "The Stripper" (by David Rose)


Question: 'Cast iron, which is cast in a mold, antedates this type of iron, which is formed & worked by hand'

Answer: wrought iron (or forged iron)


Question: '"Toys in the Attic" & "A Streetcar Named Desire" are both set in this city'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'This Italian city, known for its flooding, plans to build sea gates to control flow from the Adriatic'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'In October 1989 someone socked this Ohio senator in the jaw during a TV interview'

Answer: John Glenn


Question: 'Sojourner Truth died in her house on College Street in this "cereal" city'

Answer: Battle Creek, Michigan


Question: 'Pope John XXIII opened this historic meeting in St. Peter's Basilica on October 11'

Answer: the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II)


Question: 'What you would keep in a small glass-topped display case called a "bijouterie"'

Answer: jewelry


Question: 'In the 1800s side whiskers were called "Dundrearies", for a character in this play seen by Lincoln'

Answer: Our American Cousin


Question: 'The Museum of Broadcasting is transferring masters of all its shows from analog videotape to this type'

Answer: digital tape


Question: 'In 1989 this 88-year-old British novelist dictated her 500th novel, "Spirit of Love"'

Answer: Dame Barbara Cartland


Question: 'This city's Red Stockings were the first baseball team to receive salaries'

Answer: Cincinnati


Question: 'On July 3 Charles De Gaulle proclaimed the independence of this African country'

Answer: Algeria


Question: 'This Shaw play is set in the 15th century during the Hundred Years' War'

Answer: St. Joan


Question: 'The USSR lost contact with its Phobos 2 craft before it landed on Phobos, a moon of this planet'

Answer: Mars


Question: 'In "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down", this former SCLC head wrote about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'

Answer: Dr. Ralph Abernathy


Question: 'Minnesota city that's home to the world famous Mayo Clinic'

Answer: Rochester


Question: 'There were requiems for this author of "Requiem for a Nun" after he died July 6'

Answer: William Faulkner


Question: 'Nationality of the playwright who wrote "Becket" & "The Waltz of the Toreadors"'

Answer: French (Jean Anouilh)


Question: 'A semiconductor diode is the most common of these devices that convert A.C. to D.C.'

Answer: rectifiers


Question: 'He was extradited from Switzerland to the U.S. to face charges he aided the Marcoses'

Answer: Adnan Khashoggi


Question: 'You can see rock formations called Devil's Elbow & Fat Man's Misery in this state's "Dells"'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'This cemetery on the Potomac is on land originally part of Martha Washington's estate'

Answer: Arlington National Cemetery


Question: 'This short-haired Asian breed with almond-shaped eyes was introduced to the West in the 1880s'

Answer: Siamese


Question: 'Dickens' boy who was sold by the orphanage after asking for a second bowl of porridge'

Answer: Oliver Twist


Question: 'Appropriately, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice uses this droopy-eared dog as its nickname'

Answer: bloodhounds


Question: 'Perfumes from this country include Innisfree, Connemara & Eire'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'Nomadic people whose name is Arabic for "desert dweller"'

Answer: Bedouins


Question: 'In 1634 the first English settlers in this colony founded the city of St. Mary's'

Answer: Maryland


Question: 'Considered evil in the Middle Ages, many cats were killed, which may have led to this scourge'

Answer: the Black Death


Question: 'The "Elizabethan" literature of Elizabeth I's reign was followed by the "Jacobean", named for this king'

Answer: James I


Question: 'This Georgetown University nickname comes from a Latin phrase meaning "What Rocks!"'

Answer: Hoyas


Question: 'The name of this Nina Ricci perfume is French for "The Air of Time"'

Answer: L\'air du temps


Question: 'This Mideastern nation has the largest number of proven oil reserves by far'

Answer: Saudi Arabia


Question: 'Henry Flagler, a founder of Miami, was one of the original stockholders in this Ohio-based oil company'

Answer: Standard Oil


Question: 'Creature who "With eyes of flame, came whiffling thru the tulgey wood and burbled as it came!"'

Answer: the Jabberwock


Question: 'Stanford's singular nickname comes not from a bird or religious rank but from this red color'

Answer: cardinal


Question: 'A light summer fabric, or the summery Estee Lauder perfume you might wear with it'

Answer: White Linen


Question: 'Its president & vice president are the emir, or prince, of Abu Dhabi & the emir of Dubai'

Answer: United Arab Emirates


Question: 'Term used to describe white Southerners who joined with carpetbaggers during Reconstruction'

Answer: Scalawags


Question: 'The "wind" that Shelley calls "Thou breath of autumn's being"'

Answer: The West Wind


Question: 'Florida State's nickname is the Seminoles & the University of Florida's is this'

Answer: the Gators


Question: 'The perfume named for this Monegasque made its debut in October 1989'

Answer: Princess Stephanie of Monaco


Question: 'More than a million pilgrims travel to Mecca each year for this great pilgrimage'

Answer: the Hajj


Question: 'The Papago & Pima Indians were early residents of what is now this state'

Answer: Arizona


Question: 'Neoclassical twosome who published their essays in "The Tatler" & "The Spectator"'

Answer: Addison & Steele


Question: 'This university's Blue Devils nickname was derived from an elite French Alpine fighting unit of WWI'

Answer: Duke


Question: 'This perfume by Cher was mistakenly given a 1989 Fifi Award when judged in the wrong price range'

Answer: Uninhibited


Question: 'The name of this small oil-rich state at the head of the Persian Gulf means "little fort"'

Answer: Kuwait


Question: 'Word meaning "immeasurably small"; its first 8 letters are a word meaning "immeasurably great"'

Answer: infinitesimal


Question: 'She was magazine editor Miranda Priestly, who fiendishly wore Prada'

Answer: Meryl Streep


Question: 'On a snail, on ommatophore is a stalk with this at the end'

Answer: an eye


Question: 'Though frozen up to 6 months of each year, the Ob River is an important trade route in this cold, vast region'

Answer: Siberia


Question: 'JFK won the presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in this year'

Answer: 1960


Question: 'Many car salesman work on "straight" this, though you're better off buying from one who's on salary'

Answer: commission


Question: 'You can split the atom or even do barrel rolls using this toy'

Answer: a yo-yo


Question: 'He was Julian Kaye, an "American Gigolo"'

Answer: Richard Gere


Question: 'If you set some Chinese punk on fire, it's because Chinese punk is this, like sandalwood'

Answer: incense


Question: 'Russia has long coastlines on the Kara & Laptev seas, arms of this body of water'

Answer: the Arctic Ocean


Question: 'The U.S. declared war against Spain on April 25 of this year'

Answer: 1898


Question: 'Magazine writers often work this way, a term that goes back to unaffiliated pillaging soldiers'

Answer: freelance


Question: 'Anderson Cooper graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science from this university in 1989'

Answer: Yale