Question: 'A 10-man, 22-ton "infantry fighting vehicle" named for this general has a 2-man turret & a 25mm cannon'

Answer: (Omar) Bradley


Question: 'According to Bud Collins' "Encyclopedia of Modern Tennis", the best of this string material comes from cows'

Answer: gut


Question: 'The line "O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn's being" starts an 1819 ode by this man'

Answer: Percy Shelley


Question: 'This daughter of Zeus & Demeter made regular trips to Hades'

Answer: Persephone


Question: 'It's the term for material that conducts at high temperatures & insulates at low temperatures'

Answer: a semiconductor


Question: 'This 1922 film seen here was subtitled "A Symphony of Horror"'

Answer: Nosferatu


Question: 'In 1864 Democrats nominated this Union general for president, though he repudiated their platform'

Answer: George McClellan


Question: 'The hope behind String Theory is that it will result in this, sometimes shortened to "T.O.E."'

Answer: the theory of everything


Question: 'This Frost poem ends with "And miles to go before I sleep, <br />And miles to go before I sleep"'

Answer: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"


Question: '11-letter word for the sac containing the heart'

Answer: pericardium


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew powers a fan by putting one terminal into a beaker of saltwater.) Current that will power the fan is carried by ions rather than free electrons in the saltwater, which is one of these conducting liquids'

Answer: an electrolyte


Question: 'The 1934 drama "The Unfinished Symphony" was director Anthony Asquith's tribute to this Austrian composer'

Answer: Shubert


Question: 'On May 15, 1768 France bought this island from Genoa for 2 million livres'

Answer: Corsica


Question: 'Of Hawaii's 8 main islands, this one receives the lion's share of the tourist dollars'

Answer: Oahu


Question: 'Cash,<br />Depp'

Answer: Johnny


Question: 'The 1719 1st edition told of him "having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all... men perished but himself"'

Answer: Robinson Crusoe


Question: 'Edwin Budding adapted a rotary shearer used to remove excess fibers from carpets into this outdoor tool'

Answer: the lawnmower


Question: 'In 1468 this teen was recognized as heiress to the throne of Castile'

Answer: Queen Isabella


Question: 'An intelligent beginning'

Answer: a smart start


Question: 'When the Russians owned Alaska, they referred to this tall peak as Bolshaya Gora'

Answer: Mt. McKinley


Question: 'Bakula,<br />Wolf'

Answer: Scott


Question: 'Even the epilogue is lengthy in this 1869 Tolstoy epic; it comes out in 2 parts &, in our copy, is 105 pages long'

Answer: War and Peace


Question: 'In 1948 scientists at Bristol-Meyers "buffered" this medicine for the first time'

Answer: aspirin


Question: 'She was a teenage farm girl when she beat the famous marksman Frank Butler in an 1870s shooting match'

Answer: Annie Oakley


Question: 'A more obese baseball slugger'

Answer: a fatter batter


Question: 'This river begins in Colorado & empties into the Gulf of Mexico near Brownsville, Texas'

Answer: Rio Grande


Question: 'Carey,<br />Bledsoe'

Answer: Drew


Question: 'This 1939 Steinbeck novel helped publicize the plight of Dust Bowl refugees'

Answer: The Grapes of Wrath


Question: 'Lawrence Sperry used the gyroscope his dad developed in this device that keeps planes on course without human aid'

Answer: autopilot


Question: 'In the 1850s this future sculptor failed the Ecole des Beaux-Arts entrance exam 3 times (think about it)'

Answer: Rodin


Question: 'A wealthy sorceress'

Answer: a rich witch


Question: 'Florida's panhandle borders these 2 states'

Answer: Alabama and Georgia


Question: 'Lillard,<br />Modine'

Answer: Matthew


Question: 'Chapter 10 of this 1960 novel begins, "Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty"'

Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird


Question: 'In 1882 Schuyler Wheeler put a propellor on the shaft of an electric motor & created this--how cool!'

Answer: a fan


Question: 'Betrothed as a teen to her creepy cousin in 1744, she later became a "Great" empress of Russia'

Answer: Catherine the Great


Question: 'Written text of a movie about an underground burial chamber'

Answer: a crypt script


Question: 'This large lake on the New York-Vermont border is Vermont's lowest point'

Answer: Lake Champlain


Question:
'Connelly,
Garner,
Holliday'

Answer: Jennifer


Question: 'Published in 1949, this futuristic tale is set in Oceania, a few years before you were born'

Answer: 1984


Question: 'James Fergason invented this type of "display" that found an early use in calculators'

Answer: LCD (or Liquid Crystal Display)


Question: 'Apprenticed to a British shipowner as a teen in the 1740s, he became one of the great explorers of the Pacific'

Answer: Captain Cook


Question: 'Voraciously eat an "all-purpose" baking ingredient'

Answer: devour flour


Question: 'Of particular interest to the NRA is the amendment that allows us "to keep & bear" these'

Answer: arms


Question: 'Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain & their 9 teammates on the field'

Answer: soccer


Question: 'Because they develop from a single ovum, this variety of twins has the same genetic makeup'

Answer: identical


Question: 'This math term comes from the Latin frangere, "to break"'

Answer: fraction


Question: 'A Vacherin dessert features this crisp concoction of beaten egg whites & sugar'

Answer: meringue


Question: 'It's the common operation to remove 2 small oval masses of tissue at the back of the mouth'

Answer: a tonsillectomy


Question: 'Under the 5th Amendment, 1 of the 3 things that no person shall be deprived of "without due process of law"'

Answer: life (or liberty or property)


Question: 'Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie & their 3 teammates on the floor'

Answer: basketball


Question: 'Genes that affect hereditary traits are called alleles & are either "dominant" or this'

Answer: recessive


Question: 'This synonym for "room" can precede music & maid'

Answer: chamber


Question: 'NYC sushi chef Masa Takayama has paid more than $120 a pound for this fish--a bit pricier than Star-Kist's'

Answer: tuna


Question: 'A rhytidectomy removes these surgically; botox takes them out another way'

Answer: wrinkles


Question: 'The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, was ratified in this year'

Answer: 1865


Question: 'Misty May & Kerri Walsh'

Answer: beach volleyball


Question: 'Since the 1980s this hormone used by diabetics has been produced by genetically engineered bacteria'

Answer: insulin


Question: 'The name of this 6-pointed star comes from the Greek for "six" & "letter"'

Answer: a hexagram


Question: 'This word for a French stew is pronounced the same as a pasta sauce brand'

Answer: ragout


Question: 'A lobectomy removes one of the 5 lobes of the lungs; a lobotomy takes out part of this organ'

Answer: the brain


Question: 'The 24th Amendment says you don't have to pay this type of tax, or any other in order to vote'

Answer: poll


Question: 'Mohini Bhardwaj, Courtney Kupets & their 4 teammates'

Answer: gymnastics


Question: 'A pair of chromosomes with this 2-letter designation makes a woman a woman'

Answer: XX


Question: 'The name of this African equine comes from the Portuguese for "wild ass"'

Answer: a zebra


Question: 'A company at Union Wharf in Portland ships all kinds of seafood, but is called "Maine" this creature "Direct"'

Answer: Lobster


Question: 'A keratotomy is an incision of this eye part; a keratectomy removes part of it'

Answer: the cornea


Question: 'Decade when the 27th & last amendment, having to do with pay raises in Congress, took effect'

Answer: the 1990s


Question: 'Lisa Fernandez, Jennie Finch & their 7 teammates on the field'

Answer: softball


Question: 'Named for a German neuropathologist, this memory loss disease may be caused by a gene on chromosome 21'

Answer: Alzheimer\'s disease


Question: 'This cutting implement has the same name as a type of dive & a kind of trailer-truck accident'

Answer: a jackknife


Question: 'En croute, as in salmon en croute, is French for "in" this, also found on toast'

Answer: crust


Question: 'The embolus removed from an artery in an embolectomy is usually one of these obstructions'

Answer: a (blood) clot


Question: 'To trek through its Khumbu Icefall, Lhotse Face & South Col, your team needs a $70,000 permit from Nepal's government'

Answer: Mount Everest


Question:
'Fife,
Rubble,
Miller'

Answer: Barney


Question: 'State of matter a substance is in after it's gone through evaporation'

Answer: gaseous


Question: 'In April of 1990 she began her worldwide "Blond Ambition" tour to promote her CD "I'm Breathless"'

Answer: Madonna


Question: 'He's got the building wired for "current" affairs'

Answer: an electrician


Question: 'A 4-legged one may be a vixen; a 2-legged one may be a vixen, too'

Answer: a fox


Question: 'I'm boiling these to mix with red cabbage; it's too darn hot to roast them on an open fire'

Answer: chestnuts


Question:
'Foehn,
Zephyr,
Simoom'

Answer: winds


Question: 'Number of sides on a honeycomb cell or on a snowflake'

Answer: 6


Question: 'His "Doggystyle" CD was the first debut album ever to enter the Billboard charts at No. 1'

Answer: Snoop Doggy Dogg


Question: 'The current affairs this person deals with are labelled H & C'

Answer: the plumber


Question: 'In a 1979 film, Dudley Moore gives her a rating of 11 on a scale of 1-10'

Answer: Bo Derek


Question: 'Don't be intimidated by the skewers; I'll use them on the marinated lamb to make this'

Answer: shish kabob


Question:
'Shirt,
kite,
donkey'

Answer: (things with) tails


Question: 'We wouldn't fib, your fibula runs parallel with this bone'

Answer: your tibia


Question: '(Hi.  I am Chris Hardwick.)  In April 1987 MTV premiered the video show "Headbanger's Ball" for devotees of this type of music'

Answer: heavy metal


Question: 'A Fats Waller is a pianist & this "waller" is an installer of plasterboard'

Answer: a drywaller


Question: 'In boxing, it's when you've fallen & you can't get up'

Answer: a knockout


Question: 'I'm making passover breakfast fun by using this unleavened bread in a version of French toast'

Answer: matzah


Question:
'Roofs,
halos,
quantum mechanics'

Answer: things that are over my head


Question: 'A poison in pure form, this element used as a germicide on cuts has a chemical symbol that's a pronoun'

Answer: iodine


Question: 'This Seattle grunge band backed Neil Young on his "Mirror Ball" CD'

Answer: Pearl Jam


Question: 'He'll get you stoned or brickworked, & maybe even teach you a secret handshake'

Answer: a mason


Question: 'Psalm 8 declares, "Out of the mouth of" these "and sucklings hast thou ordained strength"'

Answer: babes


Question: 'I'm sauteeing this organ meat in butter & lemon juice, as you'd know, if you had any'

Answer: brains


Question: 'Purpose of the structures seen here: [1] [2] [3]'

Answer: astronomy (or observatories)


Question: 'French mathematician who devised the plotting system that uses coordinates named for him'

Answer: Rene Descartes


Question: 'He recorded his 1982 hit album, "Nebraska", as a series of demos on a 4-track machine at home'

Answer: Bruce Springsteen


Question: 'A teacher could handle this, the moving of earth to form a smooth surface for a roadway'

Answer: a grader


Question: 'An explosive device, a stunning revelation, or a stunning blonde'

Answer: a bombshell


Question: 'This clear meat soup will be finished in a jiffy; actually, "finished" is what its name means'

Answer: a consommé


Question: 'Harry Angstrom's house burns to the ground in this author's 1971 novel "Rabbit Redux"'

Answer: (John) Updike


Question: 'Summer is the time for Whatever Week, a celebration of the Kennebec River in this state capital'

Answer: Augusta


Question: 'Ralph Macchio's love interest in "The Karate Kid", she took a darker turn in "Leaving Las Vegas"'

Answer: Elisabeth Shue


Question: 'Diamond deposit; it ain't yours!<br />(4)'

Answer: mine


Question: 'Menelaus not only wanted this wife back, but the treasure Paris stole along with her'

Answer: Helen


Question: 'Gwilym is the Welsh form of this name that's been popular in England for centuries'

Answer: William


Question: 'In this Anne Tyler novel, a travel writer breaks his leg & moves into his siblings' home'

Answer: The Accidental Tourist


Question: 'Parson's Way, a scenic walkway in Kennebunkport, passes near this former president's home, Walker's Point'

Answer: (George Herbert Walker) Bush


Question: 'Her first name honors the playwriting partner of Russel Crouse, her father'

Answer: Lindsey Crouse


Question: 'When it's "praying", it's preying<br />(6)'

Answer: mantis


Question: 'This god zapped Salmoneus into oblivion for trying to imitate his thunder & lightning'

Answer: Zeus


Question: 'John David Joyce set a Guinness record by doing this continuously in a hammock for 240 hours'

Answer: rocking (or swinging)


Question: 'The Red Cloud, Nebraska home seen here was the model for Antonia's home in a novel by this author:'

Answer: Willa Cather


Question: 'Maine is so famous for these berries that the town of Machias honors them with a festival'

Answer: blueberries


Question: 'Tamara Dobson fought drugs as "Cleopatra Jones" in 1973, 10 years after this woman was "Cleopatra"'

Answer: Liz Taylor


Question: 'Actor Fredric's month<br />(5)'

Answer: March


Question: 'This war god wasn't too successful in battle; he was once captured & stuck in a jar for 13 months'

Answer: Ares


Question: 'Of a pogo stick injury, a dense winter fog or the bite of a comic strip possum, what a pogonip is'

Answer: a dense winter fog


Question: 'In the novel by Isabel Allende, Clara del Valle Trueba shares a house with these title entities'

Answer: the Spirits


Question: 'A national wildlife refuge near Kittery is named for this biologist who wrote "Silent Spring"'

Answer: Rachel Carson


Question: 'This star brought "Beaches" & "For the Boys" to the screen through her All Girl Productions'

Answer: Bette Midler


Question: 'Stubborn slippers<br />(5)'

Answer: mules


Question: 'This underworld kingpin had a helmet that made him invisible; after all, his name means "the unseen"'

Answer: Hades


Question: '2 of the 4 actors who earned 1974 Oscar nominations for "The Godfather Part II"; one of them won'

Answer: (2 of) Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Michael V. Gazzo, & Lee Strasberg


Question: 'In this novel by John Kennedy Toole, Ignatius J. Reilly lives with his mother in her New Orleans home'

Answer: The Confederacy of Dunces


Question: 'It's the only National Park in all of New England'

Answer: Acadia


Question:
'This star seen here in a 1953 film left movies in 1958 for her own TV "Show":

"Hi, what's your name?"
"I'm Lorlene."'

Answer: Donna Reed


Question: 'Eggplant entree, in Greece<br />(6)'

Answer: musaka


Question: 'Atalanta excelled in this blood sport of which Artemis was goddess'

Answer: hunting


Question: 'Armenia is bordered by this other "A" country on the East & on the Southwest'

Answer: Azerbaijan


Question: '19th century novelist Jose Rizal was a hero of this country's independence movement'

Answer: the Philippines


Question: 'This large African desert is home to 2 million people, about as many as Utah'

Answer: Sahara


Question: 'It loves to swim, but this bird seen here is one of the few that do not fly'

Answer: Penguin


Question: '"Gimme a Break, Gimme a Break, Break Me Off a Piece" of this candy bar'

Answer: Kit Kat


Question: 'Gesundheit, meaning "health", is what Germans say instead of "bless you" when you do this'

Answer: Sneeze


Question: 'On Saturday morning, this Disney hero attends Prometheus Academy'

Answer: Hercules


Question: 'A shortened form of Christmas is spelled this way'

Answer: Xmas


Question: 'This land that's north of England has odd place names lile Loch Lochy & Loch Oich'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'Seen here, the great horned type of this bird is found from Alaska to South America'

Answer: Owl


Question: '"The Milk Chocolate Melts in Your Mouth -- not in Your Hand"'

Answer: M&M\'s


Question: 'The food many Germans like best is wurst, which are these hot-dog-shaped meat treats'

Answer: Sausages


Question: 'The monster seen here (Godzilla) originally appeared in movies from this country'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'High-energy radiation used to take a picture of your insides'

Answer: X-rays


Question: 'The Forbidden City is at the heart of this capital of China, also called Peking'

Answer: Beijing


Question: 'The largest bird in the world, this one, seen here, is also the fastest on land'

Answer: Ostrich


Question: '"The Great American Chocolate Bar"'

Answer: Hershey\'s


Question: 'Germans decorate Christmas trees with silvery strings & call it the "hair" of these heavenly beings'

Answer: Angels


Question: 'This "Funnie" middle school student got his first movie in March 1999'

Answer: Doug


Question: 'Breastplated "Warrior Princess" played by Lucy Lawless'

Answer: Xena


Question: 'To get from Africa to Arabia, you cross (or part) this sea that has a colorful name'

Answer: Red Sea


Question: 'The colorful macaw variety of this bird is seen here'

Answer: Parrot


Question: '"4 Out of 5 Dentists Surveyed Recommend Sugarless Gum for their Patients who Chew Gum"'

Answer: Trident


Question: 'From 1949 to 1990 Germany was split into 2 countries, which were called this'

Answer: East & West Germany


Question: 'Ms. Frizzle, a science teacher, drives this title vehicle'

Answer: The Magic School Bus


Question: 'A percussion instrument played with small mallets'

Answer: Xylophone


Question: 'In 1999 all of Nunavut became a territory in this country, the second largest in area in the world'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'A national symbol, this endangered bird has been making a comeback in recent years'

Answer: Bald eagle


Question: '"Packed with Peanuts", it "Really Satisfies"'

Answer: Snickers


Question: 'A rathaus isn't as bad as it sounds: it's this "hall" where the mayor might work'

Answer: City hall


Question: 'Bubbles, Blossom & Buttercup make up this group devoted to "Saving the Day Before Bedtime"'

Answer: The Powerpuff Girls


Question: 'A trademarked name, it's often used as a synonym for a photocopy'

Answer: Xerox


Question: 'On April 12, 1861 Confederate general Beauregard attacked this fort in Charleston Harbor'

Answer: Fort Sumter


Question: 'Romanian developed from this language of the ancient Romans'

Answer: Latin


Question: 'Simple Simon met him "going to the fair"'

Answer: A pieman


Question: 'Take a trolley to tour the National Cathedral, Georgetown & the Smithsonian in this city'

Answer: Washington, D.C.


Question: 'This German composer's 5th Symphony in C Minor has a famous opening'

Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven


Question: '2 by 2 the animals were put on this "ark"'

Answer: Noah\'s Ark


Question: 'In his second inaugural address, he said about slavery, "All know that this...was, somehow, the cause of the war"'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question: 'Athenians speak the Attic dialect of this language'

Answer: Greek


Question: 'One little pig "went to market"; one little pig "stayed at home"; one little pig ate this meat'

Answer: Roast beef


Question: 'A theme park in Brainerd, Minnesota welcomes you with a 26-foot-tall statue of this lumberjack'

Answer: Paul Bunyan


Question: 'Escamillo is a toreador in "Carmen", an opera set in this European country'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'This "apple" is at the front of men's throats'

Answer: Adam\'s apple


Question: 'The greatest battle fought in the Western Hemisphere has the "address" of this small Pennsylvania town'

Answer: Gettysburg


Question: 'Most of the classes in Quebec schools are taught in this language'

Answer: French


Question: 'Did you ever see such a thing in your life?  The farmer's wife cut off their tails "with a carving knife"'

Answer: Three Blind Mice


Question: 'Start early; the 4 presidents sculpted on this mountain are best viewed in morning light'

Answer: Mount Rushmore


Question: 'The music of this Tchaikovsky "Suite" comes from his 1892 ballet, popular at Christmas'

Answer: "The Nutcracker"


Question: 'Ben Franklin used a pen name to publish this almanac from 1732 to 1757'

Answer: Poor Richard\'s Almanack


Question: 'When this general accepted Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, he was wearing a mud-splattered private's coat'

Answer: Ulysses S. Grant


Question: 'Javanese is the native language of about 60 million people on the island of Java in this country'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: '"Hey Diddle, Diddle!"  After the little dog laughed, these 2 things ran off together'

Answer: Dish & spoon


Question: 'The Congress Street Bridge is where Bostonians recreate this historic event every December'

Answer: Boston Tea Party


Question: 'Prokofiev wrote a famous orchestra piece called "Peter and" this animal'

Answer: The wolf


Question: 'The Battle of the Little Bighorn, won by the Sioux, also has this "final" name'

Answer: Custer\'s Last Stand


Question: 'In February 1861 6 Southern states founded the Confederate States of America & elected him president'

Answer: Jefferson Davis


Question: 'Most of the people of Brazil speak this official language'

Answer: Portuguese


Question: 'It's what Peter, Peter ate; later he kept his wife in the shell of one'

Answer: Pumpkin


Question: 'This oldest national park has entrances in Wyoming & Montana'

Answer: Yellowstone


Question: 'This Austrian child prodigy began composing minuets when he was only 5'

Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


Question: 'This "heel" is named for thr only place a famous Greek warrior could be wounded'

Answer: Achilles\' heel


Question: 'In the early 1800s, this man's empire included the duchy of Warsaw, the kingdom of Naples & Spain'

Answer: Napoleon


Question: 'This play opens on the battlements of the castle at Elsinore as Barnardo asks, "who's there?"'

Answer: Hamlet


Question: 'He started a book business from his home in 1873; his son William joined forces with G. Clifford Noble in 1917'

Answer: (Charles M.) Barnes


Question: 'Peter, Peter was an eater of this; he kept his wife in its shell'

Answer: pumpkin


Question: 'This largest Alaskan city lies at the head of cook inlet on the Kenai peninsula'

Answer: Anchorage


Question: 'This '60s "Nights in White Satin" band has another color in its name'

Answer: Moody Blues


Question: 'In Portuguese, domingo is this day of the week'

Answer: Sunday


Question: '"Othello" opens with Roderigo addressing this villain: "Tush, never tell me; I take it much unkindly"'

Answer: Iago


Question: 'In 1997 Tyco International moved to this U.K. territory in the Atlantic for tax purposes'

Answer: Bermuda


Question: '"I had a little hobby-horse and it was dapple gray; its head was made of pea-straw, its tail was made of" this'

Answer: hay


Question: 'Big ships must pass through Admiralty Inlet to enter or leave this Washington State sound'

Answer: Puget Sound


Question: '1974's "Mandy" was his first Top 40 hit--& it reached No.1'

Answer: Barry Manilow


Question: 'In French, l'oiseau is this; it sports les plumes'

Answer: a bird


Question: 'The chorus of "Romeo & Juliet" tells us it's in this city "where we lay our scene"'

Answer: Verona


Question: 'An Italian clothier is known as the United Colors of this'

Answer: Benetton


Question: 'In a counting nursery rhyme, they were "a-courting", "in the kitchen" & "a-waiting"'

Answer: maids


Question: 'Faxa Bay in the North Atlantic is between this country's Snaefells & Reykjanes peninsulas'

Answer: Iceland


Question: 'This singer of "Jack & Diane" had to fight to record under his own name'

Answer: John Mellencamp


Question: 'If Popeye spoke Hebrew he'd ask for tered, this'

Answer: spinach


Question: 'Completes the opening sentence "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of..."'

Answer: York


Question: 'In 1851 this company started using a logo with a man in the moon & 13 stars; now it uses its initials'

Answer: Proctor & Gamble


Question: 'While "January brings the snow", "may brings flocks of pretty" these, "skipping by their fleecy dams"'

Answer: lambs


Question: 'This Chilean city whose name means "valley of paradise" lies on a wide inlet of the Pacific'

Answer: Valparaiso


Question: 'In the '90s it was "Enter Sandman" with this group'

Answer: Metallica


Question: 'Tredici is Italian for this symbol of bad luck'

Answer: thirteen


Question: 'This play opens most dramatically with thunder & lightning. A ship is seen. Then a cry of "bos'n!"'

Answer: The Tempest


Question: 'In 1927 this brand name first appeared on a Sears washing machine'

Answer: Kenmore


Question: '"Here we go round" this bush "on a cold and frosty morning"'

Answer: the mulberry bush


Question: 'North Carolina's Albemarle Sound is no deeper than 25 feet & is protected from the Atlantic by this island chain'

Answer: the Outer Banks


Question: 'In the 2000s "Makes Me Wonder" got this group noticed'

Answer: Maroon 5


Question: 'In German, berg is this topographical feature on a map'

Answer: a mountain


Question: 'In December 1974 this former New York governor was sworn in as Vice President'

Answer: Rockefeller


Question: 'If you can't stand the heat, there's always this raw dish that includes onions, capers, egg yolks & beef tenderloin'

Answer: steak tartare


Question: 'The British A22 Mark IV tank carried a 75-millimeter gun & this prime minister's name'

Answer: Churchill


Question: 'Able to lift 850 times its own weight, the strongest animal is the rhinoceros type of this insect'

Answer: beetle


Question: 'Blair Underwood as President Elias Martinez'

Answer: The Event


Question: 'Number of "beers on the wall" at the beginning of the song'

Answer: ninety-nine


Question: 'In 1951 he told a joint session of congress that he "tried to do his duty as god gave him the light to see that duty"'

Answer: (Douglas) McArthur


Question: 'A New England boiled dinner is traditionally made with this cured deli meat'

Answer: corned beef


Question: 'Ships in the U.S. Navy's Casablanca class of "escort" these were smaller than their big cousins like the Lexington'

Answer: aircraft carriers


Question: 'Dennis Haysbert & D.B. Woodside as David & Wayne Palmer, respectively'

Answer: 24


Question: '"U" know it means not deliberate; I'm sorry, that slip of the tongue was completely this'

Answer: unintentional


Question: 'This political party founded around 1789 stood for a strong central government'

Answer: the Federalists


Question: 'A New York steak is also known as this alliterative steak'

Answer: strip steak


Question: 'Today, this Japanese car company makes the galant; in WWII, it was better known for its A6M "Zero" fighter'

Answer: Mitsubishi


Question: 'Relative to the size of the bird, this flightless New Zealand denizen has the largest egg'

Answer: the kiwi


Question: 'Fred Armisen as Barack Obama'

Answer: Saturday Night Live


Question: 'It's the church festival on March 25 commemorating what Gabriel told Mary'

Answer: the annunciation


Question: 'His foes said that in 1877 he agreed to withdraw remaining federal troops from the south in return for electoral support'

Answer: (Rutherford B.) Hayes


Question: 'The second word in the French name of this boneless steak means "dainty"'

Answer: filet mignon


Question: 'It was the alphanumeric designation of the U.S. Army's Garand rifle'

Answer: the M1


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a bunch of jar-preserved specimens.)  Butterflies, centipedes, scorpions, spiders, crabs, lobsters--these & millions of other creepy crawlers belong to this phylum that makes up more than 80% of all animal species, from the Greek for "joint foot"'

Answer: arthropod


Question: 'On Fox, Patricia Wettig as Caroline Reynolds'

Answer: Prison Break


Question: 'Adjective preceding the railroad completed in 1869'

Answer: transcontinental


Question: 'In 1917 the U.S. purchased the islands of St. Croix, St. John & St. Thomas from this country for $25 million'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'To make this dish, beef is topped with pate de foie gras & a mushroom paste before it's wrapped in pastry & cooked'

Answer: beef Wellington


Question: '"Hefty" nickname of the second & last atomic bomb used during the war'

Answer: Fat Man


Question: 'The April 2009 issue of Science magazine reported that cows were the first livestock animal to have this "mapped"'

Answer: their genome


Question: 'Mary McDonnell as Laura Roslin'

Answer: Battlestar Galactica


Question: 'Inopportune or untimely, like the title "woman" in a Dominick Dunne novel'

Answer: inconvenient


Question: 'When asked for a home address in "The Blues Bros." Elwood gives 1060 W. Addison St., the home of this facility'

Answer: Wrigley Field


Question: 'In May 1999 her Warners talk show was hit with a $2.5 million judgment after one guest killed another'

Answer: Jenny Jones


Question: 'In 1791 this Treasury Secretary issued his "Report On Manufactures", a critique of American industry'

Answer: Alexander Hamilton


Question: 'In NYC June 14, 1999 it was "Dead Man Riding", as it took hours to notice a passenger on one of these wasn't just sleeping'

Answer: Subway


Question: 'Only the adelie & emperor species of this bird actually breed in Antarctica'

Answer: Penguin


Question: 'This tribe that gives the book its English name is only mentioned in one passage'

Answer: Levites


Question: 'Sir Walter's saucepans'

Answer: Scott\'s pots


Question: 'You can tour the Warner Bros. lot online, or in person in this San Fernando Valley city'

Answer: Burbank


Question: 'When West Virginia became a state in 1863, Wheeling was its capital; this city became the permanent capital in 1885'

Answer: Charleston


Question: 'Willie, the animal Wiarton, Canada used for this celebration, died Jan. 31, 1999, 2 days before his next appearance'

Answer: Groundhog Day


Question: 'This bird seen here is the provincial bird of Prince Edward Island'

Answer: Blue jay


Question: 'God bans mean pranks in 19:14, "Thou shalt not... put a stumbling block before" these people'

Answer: The blind


Question: 'Stoker's sheeplings'

Answer: Bram\'s lambs


Question: 'Former mortuary entrepreneur Steve Ross negotiated Warners' 1989 merger with this publisher'

Answer: Time


Question: 'In 1698, after an absence of 15 years, he returned to the colony named for his father'

Answer: William Penn


Question: 'When Dallas sent out this annual tax form to 13,000 city employees, it marked them dead'

Answer: W-2


Question: 'The racing homer breed of this domestic bird was developed in Belgium, the traditional home of the sport'

Answer: Pigeon


Question: 'Chapters 4, 6, 8 & 12 begin, "And the Lord spake unto" him'

Answer: Moses


Question: 'Spillane's love-bites'

Answer: Mickey\'s hickeys


Question: 'Movies found their voice in this 1927 Warner Bros. film'

Answer: The Jazz Singer


Question: 'On Aug. 2, 1826 at Boston's Faneuil Hall, this great orator delivered a eulogy on Jefferson & Adams'

Answer: Daniel Webster


Question: 'This saint's remains were in a box atop a wardrobe for 6 years before being redisplayed February 14, 1999'

Answer: Saint Valentine


Question: 'In captivitiy, these wading birds are fed carotenoid pigments to keep the plumage color they have in the wild'

Answer: Flamingo


Question: 'Anne's bad habits'

Answer: Rice\'s vices


Question: 'He outlasted his brothers Sam, Albert & Harry in the company, finally selling out in 1967'

Answer: Jack Warner


Question: 'Completed in 1856, California's first railroad ran 22 miles between Sacramento & this prison city'

Answer: Folsom


Question: 'In 1961 Hassan II was crowned in this country after his father died following a minor nose operation'

Answer: Morocco


Question: 'Also known as a duck hawk, it has been clocked at 175 miles per hour during a dive'

Answer: Peregrine falcon


Question: 'Julia Ward's female swine'

Answer: Howe\'s sows;23456


Question: 'It's worn by a novice in judo or karate'

Answer: White belt


Question: 'Uganda's Sese Islands lie in the northern part of this large lake'

Answer: Lake Victoria


Question: 'Born in Fabens, Texas in 1931, this legendary jockey won his first of 8,833 races at age 18'

Answer: Willie Shoemaker


Question: 'The Wren Building at this school named for 2 monarchs is the oldest U.S. academic building still in use'

Answer: William and Mary


Question: 'The most common isotope of hydrogen has an atomic weight of this whole number'

Answer: 1


Question: 'In 1999 her "Faith" CD reached triple platinum status'

Answer: Faith Hill


Question: 'In a 1969 film this title group included William Holden & Warren Oates'

Answer: The Wild Bunch


Question: 'Parts of this capital city lie on the islands of Gezira & Roda in the Nile River'

Answer: Cairo


Question: 'Playing center for the Boston Celtics, he led the team to 11 NBA championships in the '50s & '60s'

Answer: Bill Russell


Question: 'Discovered separately in the 1770s by British & Swedish chemists, it was found to be a gas by a Frenchman'

Answer: Oxygen


Question: '[Well hey everybody, I'm Naomi Judd]  In mid-1984 Wynonna & I made our first ever concert appearance at Ak-Sar-Ben, a large concert hall in this Nebraska city'

Answer: Omaha


Question: 'Now a part of Tanzania, this island known for its cloves was mentioned in "The Patty Duke Show" theme song'

Answer: Zanzibar


Question: 'This outlaw of the Old West also went by the name Henry McCarty'

Answer: Billy the Kid


Question: 'As a liquid, it's used as a cryogenic refrigerant; as a gas, it makes lights red'

Answer: Neon


Question: '"Strawberry Wine" was the first of 3 No. 1 hits from this debut album by Deana Carter'

Answer: "Did I Shave My Legs for This?"


Question: 'Malagasy, 1 of its 2 official languages, is of Indonesian origin'

Answer: Madagascar


Question: 'This perennial Democratic nominee also served as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State'

Answer: William Jennings Bryan


Question: 'The student newspaper of this Hanover, N.H. school calls itself "America's Oldest College Newspaper"'

Answer: Dartmouth


Question: 'Lighter than air, it's also called marsh gas & is found in natural gas'

Answer: Methane


Question: 'This performer became an Opry member in 1991, the same year his "When I Call Your Name" album went platinum'

Answer: Vince Gill


Question: 'Wine production is a chief industry of this Portuguese island off Africa's northwest coast'

Answer: Madeira


Question: 'Before hosting his TV "Journal", he was deputy director of the Peace Corps'

Answer: Bill Moyers


Question: 'Swarthmore College of Pennsylvania has a historical library devoted to this religious group that founded it'

Answer: Quakers (Society of Friends)


Question: 'This gas forms tiny bubbles in a diver's bloodstream that can be dangerous if he ascends too quickly'

Answer: Nitrogen


Question: 'In 1990 Jukebox named this Randy Travis cover of a Brook Benton hit the Country Record of the Year'

Answer: "It\'s Just A Matter of Time"


Question: 'This 1937 mystery was written at the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan'

Answer: \"Death on the Nile\"


Question: 'This ship, Columbus' flagship., was originally called the Marigalanti'

Answer: Santa Maria


Question: 'Bread is eaten so widely it's often called the "staff of" this'

Answer: life


Question: 'Shortly after birth, Arthur was given to this wizard for safekeeping'

Answer: Merlin


Question: 'Some of the fanciest of these reptiles are beaded, horned, or frilled'

Answer: lizards


Question: 'This waterfall is separated into the American Falls & Horseshoe Falls by Goat Island'

Answer: Niagara Falls


Question: 'It's Pennsylvania's nickname'

Answer: the Keystone state


Question: 'Neither this admiral nor his flagship, the Trinidad, completed the circumnavigation of the globe'

Answer: Magellan


Question: 'The "pearl" type of this is served as a vegetable or pickled & used as a condiment'

Answer: an onion


Question: 'Arthur's round table had a seat reserved for this knight who could find this'

Answer: the Holy Grail


Question: 'The AKC could tell that Afghans & Salukis belong to this dog group'

Answer: hounds


Question: 'Before applying to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, a resident alien must have reached this age'

Answer: eighteen


Question: 'Attractions in this Florida city include the homes of Ernest Hemingway & John Jacob Audubon'

Answer: Key West


Question: 'The Queen Elizabeth was a few feet lnger than this, her sister ship'

Answer: the Queen Mary


Question: 'Kentucky burgoo is a thick one of these made with meat vegetables'

Answer: a stew


Question: 'Arthur set up the diamond jousts, a series of 9 annual tournaments all won by this knight'

Answer: Lancelot


Question: 'The oxpecker, which is this type of animal, likes to ride on the backs of giraffes'

Answer: a bird


Question: 'This noble gas glows orange-red when an electric current is passed through it'

Answer: neon


Question: 'This type of private establishment admits only members & their guests'

Answer: a key club


Question: 'In 1831 Charles Darwin sailed as naturalist on this ship'

Answer: the Beagle


Question: 'Hard sauce is made by beating together sugar, this spread, & a flavoring such as brandy'

Answer: butter


Question: 'The title of this T.H. White book refers to the object that made Arthur king'

Answer: a sword in the stone


Question: 'The Dorcas type of this graceful antelope is one of the smallest; it's barely 2 feet tall'

Answer: a gazelle


Question: 'Jules Verne's book "Around the Moon" was the sequel to this 1865 best seller'

Answer: From the Earth to the Moon


Question: 'No bones about it, it opens many locks'

Answer: a skeleton key


Question: 'The Thresher & Scorpion were this type of ship; 1 was lost in 1963, 1 in 1968'

Answer: (nuclear) submarines


Question: '"Crevette" is the French word for this shellfish'

Answer: shrimp


Question: 'After Mordred mortally wounded him, Arthur's body was carried away to this island'

Answer: Avalon


Question: 'This spotted cat is also known as the hunting leopard'

Answer: the cheetah


Question: 'This N.H. school was the last U.S. institution of higher learning to be founded by royal decree'

Answer: Dartmouth


Question: 'From 1833 to 1841 he served as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia'

Answer: Francis Scott Key


Question: 'In metric measurement, 10 millimeters equal 1 of these'

Answer: a centimeter


Question: 'In one Grimm tale, 12 princesses dance these to pieces in an underground castle'

Answer: their shoes


Question: 'Wyoming shares the Black Hills National Forest with this state'

Answer: South Dakota


Question: 'In 1986 she became the 1st black woman to win the World Championship of Figure Skating'

Answer: Debbie Thomas


Question: 'Under this arrangement, labor and management agree to let a third party settle their dispute'

Answer: arbitration


Question: 'Imprisoned in Genoa, he dictated an account of his visit to the court of Kublai Khan'

Answer: Marco Polo


Question: 'Boyle's Law says normally if you double the pressure on a gas, the volume decreases by this amount'

Answer: one-half


Question: 'Anne Shirley leaves the orphanage to live on this "colorful" farm in Avonlea'

Answer: Green Gables


Question: 'A western celebration, Frontier Days, has been held each year since 1897 in this capital'

Answer: Cheyenne


Question: 'In 1986 this East German beauty was called "the warmest thing to hit the Cold War since vodka"'

Answer: Katarina Witt


Question: 'This board was created in 1935 to correct or prevent unfair labor practices by employers or unions'

Answer: the National Labor Relations Board


Question: 'This continent's Mali empire reached its apogee under Mansa Musa in the 14th century'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'In 1973 it became the first comet studied by men in space'

Answer: Kohoutek


Question: '"The Comic Adventures of" this elderly woman "and her Dog" were first published in 1805'

Answer: Old Mother Hubbard


Question: 'The source of this main tributary of the Columbia River is located in Yellowstone National Park'

Answer: the Snake River


Question: 'Native country of Barbara Ann Scott, who in 1947 became the 1st N. American to win the European title'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'In 1978 legislation raised the mandatory retirement age to this'

Answer: seventy


Question: 'In 1301 Edward II was the first English heir to be given this title'

Answer: Prince of Wales


Question: 'One mole of any substance always has the same number, 6.022 x 1023 of these'

Answer: atoms


Question: 'Dinarzade is the younger sister of this woman known for her nocturnal stories'

Answer: Shahrazad


Question: 'Settlement began in earnest when this railroad pushed across the state in the 1860s'

Answer: the Union Pacific


Question: 'An injury forced him & Tai Babilonia to withdraw from the pairs competition at Lake Placid in 1980'

Answer: Randy Gardner


Question: 'The United Steelworkers of America is headquartered in this city'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: 'Irene, who reigned from 797-802, declared herselt Emperor, not Empress, of this empire'

Answer: the Byzantine Empire


Question: 'This resin, a natural polymer used as a varnish, is produced by insects in India and Myanmar'

Answer: shellac


Question: 'Madeline is one of "twelve little girls in two straight lines" who attend a school in this city'

Answer: Paris


Question: '1 of Wyoming's 2 U.S. senators'

Answer: Alan Simpson (or Malcolm Wallop)


Question: 'Dorothy Hamill developed a spin now known as the "Hamill" one of these'

Answer: camel


Question: 'This union withdrew from the AFL-CIO in 168 under Walter Reuther, but rejoined in 1981'

Answer: the United Autoworkers Union


Question: 'In 1358 this league of North German trading towns made Lubeck its administrative headquarters'

Answer: the Hanseatic League


Question: 'He served FDR as Commerce Secretary, Agriculture Secretary, and Vice President'

Answer: Henry Wallace


Question: 'Though his last name means "pertaining to a city", this "Defying Gravity" singer is a country superstar'

Answer: Keith Urban


Question: 'The witness is testifying based on what someone else told her--that's called this'

Answer: hearsay


Question: 'This word precedes "Conservancy" in the name of a group with a million members'

Answer: Nature


Question: 'Now applied to Shakespeare, this word referred originally to Celtic minstrel poets'

Answer: bard


Question: 'A. Philip Randolph, who first proposed a march on this city in 1941, also helped organize the one in 1963'

Answer: Washington, D.C.


Question: 'In 2010 this movie soundtrack featuring Jeff Bridges was a Billboard Top 10 country album'

Answer: Crazy Heart


Question: 'In 1521, Ignatius was struck by a cannonball while defending this country against the French'

Answer: Spain


Question: 'Calls for an opinion--only allowed for this type of witness with special knowledge of a subject'

Answer: an expert witness


Question: 'The Environmental Defense Fund helped convince this fast-food co. to abandon polystyrene containers in 1990'

Answer: McDonald\'s


Question: 'For peat sake, you should know this word for wet, spongy ground'

Answer: a bog


Question: 'In 1945 Virginia Gildersleeve was the only female U.S. delegate to the conference that drafted this charter'

Answer: the United Nations


Question: 'Not to be confused with Lady Gaga is Lady this, the country music group with the CD "Need You Now"'

Answer: Lady Antebellum


Question: 'When Clement XIV abolished the Jesuits in 1773, they thrived in Russia with help from this empress'

Answer: Catherine the Great


Question: 'Counsel is putting words in the witness' mouth with this type of question; the word also means "in first place"'

Answer: a leading question


Question: 'A "Mission" to help the homeless is named for this Lower Manhattan street known as a skid row since the 1800s'

Answer: Bowery


Question: 'This type of sprite will lead you to the gold'

Answer: a leprechaun


Question: 'Named for his cousin, James Buchanan Eads built the first bridge across this river at St. Louis'

Answer: the Mississippi


Question: 'This sound, like that made by plucking a guitar, is the title of a 2009 album by George Strait'

Answer: twang


Question: 'In 1542 missionaries sent by Ignatius to Ireland were hampered by this king'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: 'Counsel is being argumentative, also known as doing this to the witness, as seen here'

Answer: badgering


Question: 'The LFA is a leading group battling this disease named for lesions that resemble a wolf's bite'

Answer: lupus


Question: 'Tiny pieces, or the New Jersey band that sang "Only a Memory"'

Answer: smithereens


Question: 'Doris Eaton Travis, who passed away in 2010 at age 106, was the last surviving showgirl from these follies'

Answer: Ziegfeld


Question: 'This frontman of Hootie & the Blowfish went country with his solo album "Learn to Live"'

Answer: (Darius) Rucker


Question: 'While in Paris, Ignatius was accused & brought before Ori, this type of truth-seeking 10-letter holy man'

Answer: an inquisitor


Question: 'We've heard the question already; I'm making this objection that could be called "triple a"'

Answer: asked and answered


Question: 'The Andre Agassi foundation for education runs Agassi Prep in this city'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: 'This word for a type of liquor applies to a 1794 American rebellion'

Answer: whiskey


Question: 'Of course there's a car chase on the freeway in 1985's "To Live and Die in __.__."'

Answer: L.A.


Question: 'Sadly, she died in Boston in 1888, just 2 days after her transcendentalist father Bronson'

Answer: Louisa May Alcott


Question: 'Goat Island splits Niagara Falls into the American Falls & this waterfall on the Canadian side'

Answer: Horseshoe Falls


Question: 'Although sources disagree over the origin of this "do-over" golf shot, many accept that it was named for a bad golfer'

Answer: a Mulligan


Question: 'It's what the "A" stands for in AIDS'

Answer: acquired


Question: '2010 brought Travolta as a spy in "From ____ with Love"'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'Entertainment mogul Barry & funny lady Phyllis'

Answer: Diller


Question: 'In 2009 she published her 76th bestseller, "Matters of the Heart", & was inducted into the Calif. Hall of Fame'

Answer: Danielle Steel


Question: 'In 1846 Neptune was discovered in this constellation, the 10th sign of the zodiac'

Answer: Capricorn


Question: 'This country is named after "the George Washington of South America" (the actual George only got cities & a state)'

Answer: Bolivia


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands behind a table)   The experiment showing that two objects weighing the same displace different amounts of water because they have different densities was developed by this mathematician'

Answer: Archimedes


Question: '2010, starring Kristen Bell: "When in ____"'

Answer: Rome


Question: 'Late radio commentator Paul & James I's physician William'

Answer: Harvey


Question: 'Esther Greenwood is an aspiring poet in this poet's novel "The Bell Jar"'

Answer: Sylvia Plath


Question: 'In "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", Pierre Gringoire rescues this gypsy girl's goat from a mob'

Answer: Esmeralda


Question: 'Meaning elegant or fancy, it's from the name of a hotel chain founded by a Swiss businessman'

Answer: ritzy


Question: 'In the 1920s Edwin Hubble determined that this galaxy was in fact a separate galaxy from the Milky Way'

Answer: Andromeda


Question: '2008's "The Mysteries of ____" was based on a novel'

Answer: Pittsburgh


Question: '"Tennessee Tailor" Andrew & poet/NAACP leader James Weldon'

Answer: Johnson


Question: '"Shiksa Goddess: (or, How I Spent My Forties)" is a collection of essays by this "Heidi Chronicles" playwright'

Answer: (Wendy) Wasserstein


Question: 'The backward-curving horns of the Siberian species of this 4-letter goat may be nearly 5 feet long'

Answer: ibex


Question: 'This submachine gun was named for an Israeli army officer whose design won a competition in the 1950s'

Answer: Uzi


Question: 'These are just small masses of lymphoid tissue in the nasopharynx'

Answer: adenoids


Question: 'The 1980 Oscar winner for Foreign Language Film was "____ does Not Believe in Tears"'

Answer: Moscow


Question: '17th century philosopher Sir Francis & 20th century painter Francis'

Answer: Bacon


Question: '"Seducing the Demon: Writing for my Life" is a 2006 memoir by this "Fear of Flying" author'

Answer: Erica Jong


Question: 'Crippled beggar Sammy Smalls, who traveled in a goat cart, inspired a title character of this opera set on Catfish Row'

Answer: Porgy and Bess


Question: 'Named for a French courtesan, Pommes Anna is a dish of layered these, not apples'

Answer: potatoes


Question: 'Made up of 1 large & many smaller islands, it's the most populous of Britain's remaining overseas territories'

Answer: Bermuda


Question: '"I never believed in anything before I believed in movies", said this "E.T." director'

Answer: Spielberg


Question: 'A small & informal restaurant, or one who eats there'

Answer: diner


Question: 'Famous ones include Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini & Roberto "Hands of Stone" Duran'

Answer: lightweights


Question: 'The names of TV cameras & videocassette recorders are combined in this device'

Answer: a camcorder


Question: 'This hero made his comic book debut in & on the cover of Action Comics No. 1'

Answer: Superman


Question: 'Once Yemen's chief coffee port, its name now refers to a flavor of chocolate & coffee'

Answer: Mocha


Question: '"Everybody denies I am a genius--but nobody ever called me one!" noted this man who raised "Kane"'

Answer: Orson Welles


Question: 'A building for religious veneration, or the L.A. auditorium that hosted 1997's Academy Awards'

Answer: shrine


Question: 'To do this to someone's plight, you could trivialize it, or just take the P away'

Answer: make light of it


Question: 'Aptly, underwater photography may require these widest wide-angle lenses'

Answer: fisheye lenses


Question: 'In a 1965 speech this president put out a call for "affirmative action" in hiring by federal contractors'

Answer: Johnson


Question: 'The flavorful coffee beans from this country are grown at high altitudes near Nairobi'

Answer: Kenya


Question: 'When an actress in his "Lifeboat" asked him what her best side was, he said, "My dear, you're sitting on it"'

Answer: Hitchcock


Question: 'Libraries & the Christian Science Church maintain these areas; the British Museum built a big one in 1857'

Answer: reading rooms


Question: 'Ben Franklin invented this device & would have been shocked if it hadn't worked'

Answer: the lightning rod


Question: 'In 1986 Kodak left the instant camera business after a judge found it had violated this company's patents'

Answer: Polaroid


Question: 'You may not give a fig, but according to Newton, there's one of these for every action'

Answer: an equal & opposite reaction


Question: 'Java is a synonym for coffee; a high-grade bean also comes from this next most populous Indonesian island'

Answer: Sumatra


Question: '"Manhattan"ite who said, "Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable"--sounds "Bananas" to us'

Answer: Woody Allen


Question: 'A place where a river is shallow enough to cross on foot, alone or with an "escort"'

Answer: a ford


Question: 'A joking question asked about many groups is "How many does it take to" do this'

Answer: screw in a light bulb


Question: 'The action of a boy can ring a girl's bell, & the action of these can ring a buoy's bell'

Answer: a wave


Question: 'Mexico's best coffee comes from Chiapas, a state that borders this noted coffee-growing nation'

Answer: Guatemala


Question: '"The best director is the one you don't see", observed this director of "Some Like It Hot"'

Answer: Billy Wilder


Question: 'This term for a house's entrance hall also refers to the space between cars on a train'

Answer: the vestibule


Question: '"I'm gonna let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine"'

Answer: this little light of mine


Question: 'Dutch-American artist about whose work the term "action painting" was coined'

Answer: Willem de Kooning


Question: 'It's the play that inspired Reynaldo Hahn's opera "Le Marchand de Venise"'

Answer: The Merchant of Venice


Question: 'In T minus 5 seconds, you'll say this word for the inverted series used before a rocket launch'

Answer: a countdown


Question: 'Mel Blanc said he created this character's voice by combining Brooklyn & Bronx accents'

Answer: Bugs Bunny


Question: 'The discovery of this in 1896 turned Seward's Folly into Seward's Good Fortune'

Answer: gold


Question: 'Armando Munoz Garcia sculpted a 55' statue of a nude woman & lived in it in this Mexican city near San Diego'

Answer: Tijuana


Question: 'This state's name is from the Sioux for "sky-tinted waters"; maybe they meant the 10,000 lakes'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'The Bolshoi presented this ballet at the Met in 1959, with Yuri Zhdanov & Galina Ulanova as the title lovers'

Answer: Romeo & Juliet


Question: 'In psychology it's the process of reverting to an earlier, childlike form of behavior'

Answer: regression


Question: 'I say there, son, this Warner Bros. cartoon rooster is sometimes pursued by a chicken hawk'

Answer: Foghorn Leghorn


Question: 'The 1866 Civil Rights Act was passed over this president's veto'

Answer: Johnson


Question: 'The U.S. statesman seen here was born in 1923 in this country:'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'The Old Norse word "vindauga" gave us this pane-ful word for an opening in a wall'

Answer: window


Question: 'You'll need some long-winded singers to star in "Stormen", a Swedish opera based on this play'

Answer: The Tempest


Question: 'Field Marshal Barclay used this maneuver associated with defeat to lure Napoleon deep into Russia'

Answer: a retreat


Question: 'On screen, he's a "tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff"'

Answer: Winnie the Pooh


Question: 'Kansas homesteader Bewster Higley's poem "The Western Home" was retitled this when set to music'

Answer: "Home On The Range"


Question: 'This media mogul from Melbourne has been called a real-life Citizen Kane'

Answer: Rupert Murdoch


Question: 'Derived from the Latin for "salted vegetables", this cold dish might be enhanced with a little oil & vinegar'

Answer: salad


Question: 'Verdi wrote an aria called "La Luce Langue"--The Light Fails--for this bloothirsty villainess'

Answer: Lady Macbeth


Question: 'In competitive rowing, this is the only person in the boat whose back is not to the finish line'

Answer: the coxswain


Question: 'Ted Cassidy, who played Thing on "The Addams Family", was also the voice of The Thing of this superhero group'

Answer: The Fantastic 4


Question: 'To avoid Boss Tweed's graft, Alfred Beach secretly built one of these under Broadway in 1869-70'

Answer: a subway


Question: 'This number can be traced back to the Sankrit "Shunya", or empty'

Answer: zero


Question: 'Title character played by former Alvin Ailey dancer Desmond Richardson in a 1997 ballet'

Answer: Othello


Question: 'Called "Bojangles", he was renowned for tap dancing on stairs & running backwards at high speed'

Answer: (Bill) Robinson


Question: 'Sylvester believes Hippety Hopper, a baby one of these, to be a gigantic mouse'

Answer: a kangaroo


Question: 'The -sex suffix on British placenames refers to this Germanic people'

Answer: the Saxons


Question: 'Capt. Robert Fitzroy of this ship argued that its scientific discoveries supported the Bible'

Answer: the Beagle


Question: 'This title folk story guy steals a golden egg-laying hen, bags of gold & a golden harp; the "giant-cide" comes later'

Answer: Jack


Question: 'Jack Palance's character is described as "a saddlebag with eyes" in this 1991 comedy'

Answer: City Slickers


Question: 'Standard-issue weapons for stormtroopers in "Star Wars" included energy-bolt-firing pistols called these'

Answer: blasters


Question: 'This term refers to the painful inflammation of any of the fibrous structures that connect muscles to bones'

Answer: tendinitis


Question: 'What a happy ending: this title orphan of a Dickens novel is adopted by Mr. Brownlow'

Answer: Oliver Twist


Question: 'Chips' aquatic partner<br />(4)'

Answer: fish


Question: 'Playing the pass line in craps, it's the winning number on the opening roll other than 7'

Answer: 11


Question: '(Drew Barrymore delivers the clue.)  In my film "Music and Lyrics", Hugh Grant plays the "Jeopardy! Think Music" written by this creator of "Jeopardy!"'

Answer: Merv Griffin


Question: 'In the 1960s Nelson Mandela led the military group "Umkhonto we Sizwe", or this weapon "of the Nation"'

Answer: Spear


Question: 'To test for visual acuity, the Snellen chart is designed to be read from this many feet away'

Answer: 20


Question: 'This character in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper'

Answer: the Headless Horseman


Question: 'Honshu volcano<br />(4)'

Answer: Fuji


Question: 'Found in Southeast Asia, they're the smallest apes'

Answer: gibbons


Question: 'Irene Bedard, the speaking voice of this heroine in an animated Disney film, played her mother in "The New World"'

Answer: Pocahontas


Question: 'The first 2 weapons Hamlet mentions in his "To be or not to be" soliloquy'

Answer: slings & arrows


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew tends to a virtual patient at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Ctr, a Harvard teaching hospital in Boston, MA.)  A dilated pupil indicates that a head injury may have led to an acute subdural this, where blood accumulates within the skull'

Answer: a hematoma


Question: 'She is the narrator of "To Kill a Mockingbird"'

Answer: Scout


Question: 'Greek-letter group<br />(10)'

Answer: fraternity


Question: 'Pick up a GT from this car co. for a tidy $169,000, or maybe start out with a Focus for a more reasonable $13,715'

Answer: Ford


Question: '(Hi, I'm Sean Hayes.)  In the 2003 film "Pieces of April", I played an offbeat neighbor of this actress who had yet to meet & marry Tom Cruise'

Answer: Katie Holmes


Question: 'In the missile called a "SAM", it's what the "A" stands for'

Answer: air


Question: 'It begins, "I swear by Apollo physician and Asclepius..."'

Answer: the hippocratic oath


Question: '2 names that follow Gerald, who speaks in weird sounds instead of words in a Dr. Seuss story'

Answer: McBoing-Boing


Question: 'A Mrs., in Munich<br />(4)'

Answer: Frau


Question: 'The tuliptree, or "yellow" this, was planted by Washington at Mt. Vernon, & Daniel Boone used its wood in his canoe'

Answer: poplar


Question: 'Jane Russell & Marilyn Monroe sang about being "Two Little Girls from Little Rock" in this 1953 movie musical'

Answer: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes


Question: 'The weapons that are "bursting" in line 5 of "The Star-Spangled Banner"'

Answer: bombs


Question: 'Luteinizing hormone is one of the many produced by this cherry-shaped gland'

Answer: the pituitary


Question: 'In a story by Rudyard Kipling, this mongoose protects an English family from snakes'

Answer: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi


Question: 'It's spoken in Hameenlinna & Hyvinkaa<br />(7)'

Answer: Finnish


Question: 'This general, first in his class at West Point, ran for president in 2004'

Answer: Wesley Clark


Question: 'The Fairmont in this city's Nob Hill was the exterior used for Aaron Spelling's "Hotel" TV series'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'St. George's Channel separates Wales from this country'

Answer: Ireland


Question: 'I think I'll just have a nosh--a bagel, cream cheese & the Nova Scotia type of this'

Answer: lox


Question:
'Caesar,
Antony,
Cicero, et al.'

Answer: Romans


Question: 'I see in my crystal ball that Bill Hewitt wrote a book about how to read these'

Answer: tea leaves


Question: 'This "old soldier" was a general at age 38; in 1930 at age 50, he was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army'

Answer: MacArthur


Question: 'David Chase created this HBO series & wrote many of its episodes, like "Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood"'

Answer: The Sopranos


Question: 'Bristol Bay is an arm of this sea off Alaska'

Answer: the Bering


Question: 'I'll have one of these "city" omelets stuffed with ham, onions & green peppers'

Answer: a Denver omelette


Question: 'In a 1971 song he "was a bullfrog"'

Answer: Jeremiah


Question: 'A tea room in Cambria, California is named for this kind of teapot cover--& it sells them, too'

Answer: a cozy


Question: 'More than 540,000 men & women served under this general's command of the U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf War of 1991'

Answer: (Norman) Schwarzkopf


Question: 'He moved from "Melrose Place" to the east coast for "Central Park West" & "Sex & the City"'

Answer: Darren Star


Question: 'Rivers that flow into this sea include the Dnieper, Dniester & Danube'

Answer: the Black Sea


Question: 'Someone pass me this noodle pudding filled with raisins  & nuts'

Answer: kugel


Question: 'Hey, this, don't be "obscure"'

Answer: Jude


Question: 'This slang synonym for oil is mentioned in the theme song to "The Beverly Hillbillies"'

Answer: Texas tea


Question: 'The only place this general wouldn't "march" was to the presidency; he told the GOP "I will not accept if nominated" in 1884'

Answer: Sherman


Question: 'In 2003 this "Survivor" head honcho began conducting a search to give Donald Trump an apprentice'

Answer: Mark Burnett


Question: 'The Uruguay River forms the border between Uruguay & Argentina & most of the border between Argentina & this country'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'It's a good knight for one of these Jewish turnovers with a meat or potato filling'

Answer: a knish


Question: 'This character first hit the radio in 1928 with his partner Andy'

Answer: Amos


Question: 'When Lady Diana had doubts about marrying Prince Charles, she was told: Too late. "Your face is on" these cloth items'

Answer: tea towels


Question: 'This Army general headed American-led forces during the initial combat phase of the Iraq War as it began in 2003'

Answer: Tommy Franks


Question: 'He probably has another 6 or 7 "Law & Order" offshoots on his desk just waiting for network slots'

Answer: Dick Wolf


Question: 'This Venezuelan lake is the only one of the world's 25 largest lakes whose elevation is sea level'

Answer: Lake Maracaibo


Question: 'Something smells fishy--must be this chopped fish patty mixed with crumbs & eggs & served cold in a jellied broth'

Answer: gefilte fish


Question: 'Few were "better than" this Mr. Cornell who founded the university in 1865'

Answer: Ezra


Question: 'In 1975 the Perfumer's Workshop introduced a fragrance named for this flower'

Answer: a tea rose


Question: 'Later a U.S. senator, in 1962 he made a famous 75,000-mile trip'

Answer: John Glenn


Question: 'Between 1856 & 1860, 2,962 of this faith set out from Iowa & Nebraska to Utah in the Handcart Migration'

Answer: Mormonism


Question: 'The Dire Straits song "Money For Nothing" says, "You play the guitar on" this cable channel'

Answer: MTV


Question: 'Before he was a prophet, Smohalla gained fame as one of these alliterative Native American healers'

Answer: a medicine man


Question: 'This Nobel Peace Prize winner was born in what is now Skopje, Macedonia in 1910'

Answer: Mother Teresa


Question: 'This slang term for coffee precedes "chip" in a Starbucks ice cream flavor'

Answer: java


Question: 'This adjective refers to the original natives of any region'

Answer: indigenous


Question: 'On April 2, 1917 President Wilson told Congress, "The world must be made safe for" this'

Answer: democracy


Question: 'This channel for women produces the original drama "Army Wives"'

Answer: Lifetime


Question: 'In I Kings this fiery Biblical prophet won a contest with the prophets of Baal'

Answer: Elijah


Question: 'This British dame, Rudolf Nureyev's dance partner, was married to a Panamanian diplomat'

Answer: Margot Fonteyn


Question: 'Butter is an ingredient of this hard candy that has "butter" in its name; the rest of its name doesn't refer to whisky'

Answer: butterscotch


Question: 'The systematic teaching of beliefs to gain uncritical acceptance'

Answer: indoctrination


Question: 'On April 20, 1971 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld this transportation method as a way to achieve school integration'

Answer: busing


Question: 'This channel shows films like "The Magnificent Seven" & original series like "Mad Men" & "Breaking Bad"'

Answer: AMC


Question: 'The soothsayer Calchas told this king he had to offer up his daughter Iphigenia to Artemis to get winds to rise'

Answer: Agamemnon


Question: 'She wrote her first novel, "The House of the Spirits", in exile soon after her uncle's assassination'

Answer: Isabel Allende


Question: 'A confection called a kiss is baked this: sugar & stiffly beaten egg whites'

Answer: meringue


Question: 'Punjab means "land of 5 rivers", & all 5 of the rivers eventually flow into this one'

Answer: the Indus


Question: 'John O'Sullivan, who later became a diplomat, coined this term for the USA's right to cover the continent'

Answer: Manifest Destiny


Question: 'You'll "find" that this channel features "Cash Cab" & "Dirty Jobs"'

Answer: Discovery


Question: 'Poems known as the "Gathas" are attributed to this ancient prophet & teacher who lived in eastern Iran'

Answer: Zoroaster


Question: 'This Norwegian beauty is noted for her work with Ingmar Bergman & with UNICEF'

Answer: Liv Ullmann


Question: 'A red cake named for this smooth fabric is really a chocolate cake--food coloring gives it the distinctive color'

Answer: velvet


Question: 'Insurance term meaning to protect against damage, loss or injury'

Answer: indemnity


Question: 'In 1798 Congress passed this collection of bills to control domestic dissent & conspiracy against the federal govt.'

Answer: the Alien & Sedition Acts


Question: 'Channel that's been home to gritty shows like "Dirt" & "Rescue Me"'

Answer: FX


Question: 'On the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo included some of these ancient oracle-like prophetesses'

Answer: sibyls


Question: 'Under 5 feet tall & all of about 90 pounds, this frail French chanteuse was nicknamed the "Little Sparrow"'

Answer: (Edith) Piaf


Question: 'Some pies have a top named for this garden structure'

Answer: a lattice


Question: 'Also a term in logic, it's the process by which a magnetic field is ordered into poles'

Answer: induction


Question: 'Sergey Korolyov was instrumental in the success of this first artificial satellite of the Earth'

Answer: Sputnik


Question: 'One of the 8 teams in the CFL is the Stampeders, who play for this city in the Canadian Rockies'

Answer: Calgary


Question: 'Guyana is divided into 3 regions: a highland, an inland forest & a coastal plain along this ocean'

Answer: the Atlantic


Question: 'The poem called the "Garibnameh" contains 11,000 masnavi, which we know as these rhymed 2-line units of verse'

Answer: couplets


Question: 'This first sign is a nocturnal animal; those born under it work best in quiet hours; oo, you dirty...'

Answer: rat


Question: 'Unlike some, I like my women to be "cranio", this quality we also admire on "Jeopardy!"'

Answer: intelligence


Question: 'Rehovot in this country has an institute named for Russian-born Chaim Weizmann, who synthesized acetone'

Answer: Israel


Question: 'Unlike the NFL, a CFL team gets this many downs in a series to advance the ball 10 yards'

Answer: three


Question: 'Located at the mouth of the Demerara River, it's the capital & largest city'

Answer: Georgetown


Question: 'A religious kaside poem praised God, this man or his son-in-law, Ali Ibn Abi Talib, the fourth caliph'

Answer: Muhammad


Question: 'This wascally sign whose years include 1951 & 1999 shows bravery against high odds & is rarely be-Fudd-led'

Answer: a rabbit


Question: 'Forget about him, he met someone down at Ipanema Beach & now he's "apaixonado", this condition'

Answer: in love


Question: 'In the mid-18th c. Mikhail Lomonosov became the first scientist to record the freezing of this liquid metal'

Answer: mercury


Question: 'French for "red", it's the term used for the point that is scored if a punt goes out of the end zone untouched'

Answer: rouge


Question: 'Spectacular waterfalls in Guyana include one named for a British king of this name, who ruled 1901-10'

Answer: Edward


Question: 'Sultan Abdulhamid II's censorship hindered Ottoman writers until this "youthful" group's 1908 revolution'

Answer: the Young Turks


Question: 'This sign for 2006 shows devotion to family; aren't you a good sign? Yes you are! Good sign!'

Answer: the dog


Question: 'Cousin Fred said he was Napoleon last night; I'm afraid he might be "maluco", this'

Answer: crazy


Question: 'Lev Landau won a 1962 Nobel Prize for working in low-temperature physics, also known as this'

Answer: cryogenics


Question: 'This former Boston College & New England Patriots QB was the CFL's most outstanding player 6 times'

Answer: Doug Flutie


Question: 'One of Guyana's largest cities, it's also an old name for New York City'

Answer: New Amsterdam


Question: 'Peter Ustinov directed & starred in the film version of the Yasar Kemal novel "Memed, My" this predatory bird'

Answer: Hawk


Question: '1967 folks "flock" to this sign that represents the essence of the Yin, the feminine passive principle'

Answer: the sheep


Question: 'If you want another drink, hand over some "grana", this; I'm not covering for you anymore after last night'

Answer: money


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows the periodic table on the monitor.)  In devising the periodic table, Mendeleev laid out the elements in rows & columns to show the different relationships when read each way; he's said to have been inspired by a version of this card game'

Answer: solitaire


Question: 'The Alouettes play their home games at Molson Stadium on the campus of this Montreal university'

Answer: McGill


Question: 'Guyana has had a long-standing border dispute with this small country to its southeast'

Answer: Suriname


Question: 'Seyid Imadeddin Nesimi wrote 2 of these poetry collections, also a word from Turkish for a couch'

Answer: divan


Question: 'The only 2-letter sign, it represents solid dependability, method & routine'

Answer: the ox


Question: 'That very blond guy you met at carnival is called an "alemao", literally a man from this country'

Answer: Germany


Question: 'The parents of this 1942 film character are an unnamed mother & a father known as "the great prince of the forest"'

Answer: Bambi


Question: 'Over 80% of those in Bangladesh follow this religion'

Answer: Islam


Question: 'Mrs. Brad Pitt'

Answer: Jennifer Aniston


Question: 'The twin rotor type of this has 2 main rotors going in opposite directions, so it doesn't need a tail rotor'

Answer: a helicopter


Question: 'The mythical Sumerian hero Utnapishtim built a big vessel at God's urging & thereby survived this catastrophe'

Answer: a flood


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue in a tongue foreign to us but familiar to her.)  Spoken by about 9 million people worldwide it's the Scandinavian language I'm speaking'

Answer: Swedish


Question: 'The stars of the movie "Network" include Faye Dunaway, Beatrice Straight & Peter Finch'

Answer: a finch


Question: 'About two-thirds of all Bangladeshis work in agriculture, mostly farming this product'

Answer: rice


Question: 'Mrs. Tim McGraw'

Answer: Faith Hill


Question: 'There are no knife or spoon varieties of these vehicles used in warehouses to raise & carry merchandise'

Answer: forklifts


Question: 'Lotis, later turned into the lotus tree, was one of these female spirits of nature'

Answer: a nymph


Question: '"Namaste" is a greeting in this official language of India used by over a quarter of a billion speakers'

Answer: Hindi


Question: 'One of the cardinal rules of e-mail listed on insiderreports.com is to turn off your Caps-Lock'

Answer: a cardinal


Question: 'The green on the flag of Bangladesh represents its lush vegetation; the red circle in the middle is this'

Answer: the sun


Question: 'Mrs. James Carville'

Answer: (Mary) Matalin


Question: 'The U.S. U-2, first built in the 1950s, was an airplane; the German U-1, first built in the 1910s, was one of these'

Answer: a submarine


Question: 'In Zuni myth, a kachina named Paiyatemu attracted these colorfully winged insects when she played the flute'

Answer: butterflies


Question: 'The official language of Niger, it's a remnant of its colonial times'

Answer: French


Question: 'At NYU, Martin Scorsese taught future filmmakers Spike Lee & Oliver Stone'

Answer: a martin


Question: 'After India was partitioned in 1947, what would later become Bangladesh was the "East" part of this country'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'Mrs. Maury Povich'

Answer: Connie Chung


Question: 'In 1994 the trip across this body of water was cut from a little more than an hour to about 35 minutes'

Answer: the English Channel


Question: 'This goddess after whom a major city in Greece is named sprang from the head of Zeus'

Answer: Athena


Question: 'The official language of Andorra, it's the second-most spoken language in Spain'

Answer: Catalan


Question: 'The third rail in a subway system is the one with the juice & should be avoided like a touchy subject'

Answer: a rail


Question: 'In the 1960s, Louis Kahn designed the Parliament building seen here in this capital'

Answer: Dhaka


Question: 'Mrs. Blake Edwards'

Answer: Julie Andrews


Question: 'The Kearsarge was the only one of these not named for a U.S. state'

Answer: a battleship


Question: 'Riding this winged horse made it possible for Bellerophon to approach & kill the chimera'

Answer: Pegasus


Question: 'Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala is a well-known writer in this language of the Incas'

Answer: Quechua


Question: 'The Academy of Pro Players Power Hitting Baseball Camp can help you with bat speed, bunting & hitting the curve'

Answer: a bunting


Question: 'No relation to the Lakers' center, she's the youngest ever to win a Supporting Actress Oscar'

Answer: Tatum O\'Neal


Question: 'Most bar recipes for the stinger call for the white version of this potent potable, not the green'

Answer: crème de menthe


Question: '"SF Sorrow" by The Pretty Things was the first of these works; "Tommy" came soon after'

Answer: a rock opera


Question: 'This S.F. Giant, Barry Bonds' godfather, got his nickname from his unique greetings to fans'

Answer: Say Hey Willie Mays


Question: 'Shortly after the death of Gen. Omar Torrijos, Manuel Noriega controlled the junta that ruled this country'

Answer: Panama


Question: 'From Old French, its [sic] what we call the person who runs the roulette table'

Answer: croupier


Question: 'Colorful actor seen here who won Best Supporting Actor in 1973'

Answer: Joel Grey


Question: 'Singer/actor Sting played Feyd-Rautha in this David Lynch film based on a Frank Herbert novel'

Answer: Dune


Question: 'National Guard troops escorted black students to class in this southern state capital in August 1959'

Answer: Little Rock


Question: 'After the death of his mother, this future poet was taken in by his godfather John Allan in 1811'

Answer: (Edgar Allan) Poe


Question: 'The "Juntas Provinciales" organized the Spanish resistance to this man's 1808 invasion'

Answer: Napoleon (Bonaparte)


Question: 'Campari & Pernod are good options for this pre-meal potent potable'

Answer: apéritif


Question: 'Of Jack Nicholson's 5 nominations in the 1970s, this was the only movie for which he won'

Answer: One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest


Question: 'The creature known as this "false" arachnid has venomous pincers & no tail'

Answer: a scorpion


Question: 'Also known as the Mosque of Omar, it was home to the Knights Templar during the Crusades'

Answer: the Dome of the Rock


Question: 'He was the royal godfather to the son of French playwright Moliere'

Answer: King Louis XIV


Question: 'This former priest was ousted in Feb. 2004, even after a U.S.-brokered deal in 1994 with the Haitian junta kept him in power'

Answer: Aristide


Question: 'For her portrayal of Greta Ohlsson in a 1974 mystery, this legendary actress scored her third Oscar'

Answer: Ingrid Bergman


Question: 'The WNBA team belonging to this southern city is known as The Sting'

Answer: Charlotte


Question: 'Also called halite, this common mineral can be formed by the drying of enclosed bodies of seawater'

Answer: rock salt


Question: 'After a mock funeral for this counterculture icon, his goddaughter, Winona Ryder, moved in with him'

Answer: Timothy Leary


Question: 'After the junta released activist Aung San Suu Kyi to house arrest, Japan restored aid to this country'

Answer: Burma (or Myanmar)


Question: 'A homophone for the French word for "wheel", you need a good one to make gumbo'

Answer: a roux


Question: 'This son of a famous French impressionist painter received an honorary Oscar in 1975'

Answer: Jean Renoir


Question: 'This famous FBI sting derived its name from one its fictitious enterprises, Abdul Enterprises'

Answer: Abscam


Question: 'This peninsula in the borough of Queens is one of the principal resort areas for New Yorkers'

Answer: Rockaway Beach (or Peninsula)


Question: 'This British philosopher who won a Nobel Prize in 1950 was the godchild of John Stuart Mill'

Answer: Bertrand Russell


Question: 'In 1998 Nigerian-led forces captured Freetown, ousting the junta that controlled this African country'

Answer: Sierra Leone


Question: 'From the French for "to sort" comes the word for this process of treating patients based on need'

Answer: triage


Question: '2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays in which ghosts appear on stage'

Answer: (2 of) Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Richard III


Question: '12 avenues radiate from Place Charles de Gaulle in this city'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'This Florida-born women's great who retired in 1989 wrote the World Book Encyclopedia article on tennis'

Answer: Chris Evert


Question: 'Probably the biggest big game the Clovis culture went after 11,200 years ago, it was woolly'

Answer: Mammoth


Question: '3M's Richard Drew invented it in 1930 to have something to seal the cellophane of food products'

Answer: Scotch tape


Question: 'Long, flat-bottomed & painted a somber black, they're the traditional taxis of Venice'

Answer: Gondolas


Question: 'In the familiar jokes, it precedes "Who's there?"'

Answer: Knock Knock


Question: 'Bridges crossing the Nile River in this capital include El Gama'a & El Giza'

Answer: Cairo


Question: 'In 1984 this quarterback became the first Boston College player to win the Heisman Trophy'

Answer: Doug Flutie


Question: 'The Folsom culture about 10,900 years ago had a fluted type of this weapon & a "thrower" for it'

Answer: Spear


Question: 'Newsweek reports Westinghouse made one in 1952 that played "How Dry I Am" at the end of each cycle'

Answer: Clothes dryer


Question: 'In 1980 the U.S. government loaned this auto company $1.5 billion; the loans were repaid within 3 years'

Answer: Chrysler


Question: 'It's a sailor's way of saying to a superior "I understand & will obey"'

Answer: Aye-Aye


Question: 'Haiphong near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as this city's main port'

Answer: Hanoi


Question: 'Babe Ruth's father once operated a saloon on what is now center field in this Baltimore ballpark'

Answer: Oriole Park at Camden Yards


Question: 'The Anasazi, a word from this Indian language for "ancient ones", lived in what's now the 4 Corners area'

Answer: Navajo


Question: 'In 1939 the Hydra-Matic system made this automatic in the Oldsmobile'

Answer: Transmission


Question: 'This U.S. city has more miles of subway than any other subway system in the Western Hemisphere'

Answer: New York City


Question: 'This full, loose women's garment with a bright print is traditional attire in Hawaii'

Answer: Muumuu


Question: 'The ancient Greeks called this Jordanian capital Philadelphia'

Answer: Amman


Question: 'In the 1997 Belmont Stakes, Touch Gold dashed this "charmed" horse's Triple Crown bid'

Answer: Silver Charm


Question: 'The Adena-Hopewell culture in the Ohio area was known for building these, both the burial & effigy types'

Answer: Mounds


Question: 'In 1983 the first U.S. commercial call on one of these was from Chicago to a descendant of Bell in Germany'

Answer: Cellular phone


Question: 'In Britain, it's a kitchen on a ship's deck; in the U.S., it's traditionally the last car on a freight train'

Answer: Caboose


Question: 'It's a hand-beaten drum used by American Indians'

Answer: Tom-tom


Question: 'In 1809 one of the first revolts for independence in Latin America broke out in this Ecuadoran capital'

Answer: Quito


Question: 'National Hockey League team whose logo is seen here:<br />(knife through a "B")'

Answer: Buffalo Sabres


Question: 'Warriors of this Yucatan civilization battle in the computer-enhanced mural seen here:'

Answer: Mayans


Question: 'They were invented in 1947 & by the 1990s millions were being placed on a single chip'

Answer: Transistors


Question: 'When it opened, it cut the distance from London to Bombay by 5,100 miles'

Answer: Suez Canal


Question: 'He's Barney & Betty Rubble's noisy son'

Answer: Bamm-Bamm


Question: 'The diary of this woman, wife of a famous aviator, describes the kidnapping of her son'

Answer: Anne Morrow Lindbergh


Question: 'Kurt Russell, who later played Elvis, was in the 1963 Elvis film "It Happened" here'

Answer: At the World\'s Fair


Question: 'The Pacific species of this has an arm span of up to 33 feet'

Answer: Octopus


Question: 'The barrel species of this spiny plant can bring a touch of the desert into your home'

Answer: Cactus


Question: '("Habanera")'

Answer: "Carmen"


Question: 'Don't lose your head trying to name this execution device named after a French doctor'

Answer: Guillotine


Question: 'Fittingly, Samuel Pepys began keeping his famous diary on this date in 1660'

Answer: January 1


Question: 'It's what you wear to protect yourself against the effects of the device seen here:'

Answer: Sunglasses


Question: '"Cool" cat seen here:'

Answer: Ocelot


Question: 'Some 18th C. chairs had footrests to accommodate the swollen feet of sufferers from this disease'

Answer: Gout


Question: '(Audio clip in Italian from opera about clowns)'

Answer: "Pagliacci"


Question: 'Up on the highwire you might wear this bodysuit named for a famous 19th century trapeze artist'

Answer: Leotard


Question: '"My Name Escapes Me" is "The Diary of A Retiring Actor" by this portrayer of Obi-Wan Kenobi'

Answer: Sir Alec Guinness


Question: 'Actor in common to the coming-to-California films "True Romance" & "Kalifornia"'

Answer: Brad Pitt


Question: 'It "coughs" out sediment by clapping its shell shut'

Answer: Oyster


Question: 'China & India provide many of the "imports" in the name of this Texas-based home furnishings retailer'

Answer: Pier 1 Imports


Question: '("La Dona e Mobile")'

Answer: "Rigoletto"


Question: 'This term for artillery fragments is named for a British officer who invented a new kind of shell'

Answer: Shrapnel


Question: 'This creator of Peter Rabbit devised a private code for the journals she kept in her youth'

Answer: Beatrix Potter


Question: '1996's "Trainspotting" was about the underground drug life in this city'

Answer: Edinburgh


Question: 'They might swing through the trees asking "What's Sumatra?  Nothing, what's Sumatra with you?"'

Answer: Orangutan


Question: 'Type of chair seen here named for its 20th C. designer:'

Answer: Eames Chair


Question: '("Triumph March")'

Answer: "Aida"


Question: 'This food poisoning bacteria is named after the scientist who identified it, not a fish'

Answer: Salmonella


Question: 'The anonymous author of this diary took her title from the Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit"'

Answer: "Go Ask Alice"


Question: 'In this 1989 film, Eddie Murphy was the adopted son of a 1930s nightclub owner played by Richard Pryor'

Answer: Harlem Nights


Question: 'When the giraffe invites all its taxonomic "family" to a party, this is the only animal that shows up'

Answer: Okapi


Question: 'In 1991 Charles Hall sued Aqua Queen & other companies for infringing his patent on this furniture item'

Answer: the waterbed


Question: 'She must have been hairy, as this hairstyle is named for the big-haired mistress of a French emperor'

Answer: Pompadour


Question: 'When "60 Minutes" premiered, this man was U.S. president'

Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson (show premiered Sept. 24, 1968)


Question: 'Appropriately, this '80s band sang, "You can't go on thinking, nothing's wrong, who's gonna drive you home tonight?"'

Answer: The Cars


Question: 'A piece that makes it to your foe's deepest row in checkers can be replaced with one of these "royal" ones'

Answer: a king


Question: 'In October 1967 in Tehran, he crowned himself Light of the Aryan Race, among other things'

Answer: the Shah (Mohammed Reza Pahlavi)


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Girls and Boys Town in Omaha, NE.) After becoming a parish priest in O'Neill, Nebraska, he founded Boys Town near Omaha'

Answer: Father (Edward) Flanagan


Question: 'This city, first mentioned in 912, is the seat of Britain's oldest university, developed in the 1100s'

Answer: Oxford


Question: 'As soon as corn is picked, its sugar begins to turn into this, so get it into the pot fast!'

Answer: starch


Question: '2 members of this '70s "Ramblin' Man" band died in bike crashes, a year apart & within 3 blocks of each other'

Answer: The Allman Brothers Band


Question: 'When companies do this to their stock, they replace outstanding shares with multiple new ones'

Answer: a split


Question: 'Headed by Chief Justice Charles T. Wells, the Supreme Court of this state was in the news in November 2000'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'Not just a noted NYC psychiatric hospital, it's Nebraska's oldest town, established around 1822 as a fur-trading center'

Answer: Belleview


Question: 'Researchers estimate its construction on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire took about 30 million man-hours'

Answer: Stonehenge


Question: 'In 1990 this company expanded its Seattle HQ & built a new roasting plant'

Answer: Starbucks


Question: '"Fun", "sleazy" & "raucous" are under "moods" at AllMusic.com for this metal band co-founded by Tommy Lee'

Answer: Mötley Crüe


Question: 'The "arthro" in "arthroplasty" refers to these body parts that are replaced with stainless steel or plastic ones'

Answer: joints


Question: 'In October 1983 the U.S. invaded this Caribbean country, officially to protect American medical students there'

Answer: Grenada


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the University of Nebraska.) Before going to Congress, he strode this field for 25 years as Nebraska's head coach, and the field is now named for him'

Answer: Tom Osborne


Question: 'In 1964 a Shakespeare center was opened on Henley Street in this city'

Answer: Stratford-upon-Avon


Question: 'This hotel & casino at 3000 Las Vegas Blvd. South cashed out in 2006'

Answer: the Stardust


Question: '"Remember when we traveled 'round the world, we met a lot of people & girls", sang this Joey McIntyre boy band'

Answer: New Kids on the Block


Question: 'George Williams founded the association familiarly known as this to replace life on the street with Bible study'

Answer: the Young Men\'s Christian Association (YMCA)


Question: 'On Nov. 8, 1519 the sight of his forces made the Tenochtitlaners feel like they'd "eaten stupefying mushrooms"'

Answer: (Hernándo) Cortés


Question: 'One of the 2 vice presidents born in Nebraska; one in 1913, the other in 1941'

Answer: Gerald Ford (or Dick Cheney)


Question: 'You'll find the Cavern Club at 10 Mathew Street in this port city; how fab'

Answer: Liverpool


Question: 'In WWI Germany introduced this chemical weapon, C4H8Cl2S'

Answer: mustard gas


Question: '"Welcome to Paradise"; tre cool drums for this punk-pop band who performed at 2005's Live 8'

Answer: Green Day


Question: 'This cell-division process in which a cell's nucleus replicates is vital for repair & replacement of worn-out cells'

Answer: mitosis


Question: 'In 1918 this date in autumn brought the signing of the armistice ending World War I'

Answer: November 11


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Omaha, NE.) I'm in a replica of the Omaha grocery a man with this last name started running in 1915; 50 years later, his grandson started running an investment business called Berkshire-Hathaway'

Answer: Buffett


Question: 'Centenary Square, in the center of this city, is its main cultural center; Alabama has a city by that name as well'

Answer: Birmingham


Question: 'It's a dessert made of eggs, sugar & milk, either baked, boiled or frozen'

Answer: custard


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Question: '(James Lipton reads the clue.) The 19th century--more than 800 oil paintings and 700 drawings--yet  you sold but one in your 37 years.  Are you bitter?'

Answer: Van Gogh


Question: '"The Ryan Express"'

Answer: Nolan Ryan


Question: 'Stravinsky enlisted the help of Cocteau for a Libretto based on Sophocles' play about this Theban king'

Answer: Oedipus


Question: 'Hanoi, where this man died in 1969, has a museum devoted to him'

Answer: Ho Chi Minh


Question: 'A nematode is a roundworm; a planarian's shape gives it this name'

Answer: a flatworm


Question: 'I know Mike _____ his expense account, but I can't believe he'd steal legal _____ from the conference room'

Answer: pads


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Question: '(James Lipton reads the clue.) In 1891, you sold 30 paintings to help finance your move to Tahiti.  How marvelous!'

Answer: Gauguin


Question: '"The Rocket"'

Answer: Clemens


Question: 'George finds out Lennie has a dead mouse in his pocket in this Carlisle Floyd opera based on a 1937 novel'

Answer: Of Mice And Men


Question: 'Totem poles & Noh masks are at the Pitt Rivers Museum, given on condition that Oxford hire a lecturer on this -ology'

Answer: anthropology


Question: 'In colenterates like jellyfish, the cavity called the coelenteron has an opening called this--don't get too complex'

Answer: a mouth


Question: 'Maybe Don needs to get more exercise; he _____ just from pulling up his _____'

Answer: pants


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Question: '(James Lipton reads the clue.) You finished "The Sick Child" in 1886.  7 years later, the world would recoil from "The Scream."  Tell us about your pain'

Answer: Munch


Question: '"The Big Hurt"'

Answer: Frank Thomas


Question: 'Verdi's work on this General's life opens in Cyprus; Shakespeare's tale begins in Venice'

Answer: Otello


Question: '"ANZACs in France, 1969" was a 2006 exhibit at a war museum in this capital city'

Answer: Canberra


Question: 'In nat. selection, a ref froggus trebekus has .5 relative fitness if it produces 1/2 as many of these as a pink one'

Answer: offspring


Question: 'I liked that girl with the cute little _____ nose, so to have her _____ me really hurts'

Answer: snub


Question: 'Yankee batting champ "Donnie Baseball"'

Answer: Mattingly


Question: 'Titania & Puck play a part in the Carl Maria Von Weber opera named for this king of the fairies'

Answer: Oberon


Question: 'A Durer collection is  highlight of this city's Kunsthistorisches Museum, built up by the Hapsburgs'

Answer: Vienna


Question: 'In a fish's 2-chambered heart, it's the chamber that receives blood from the veins'

Answer: atrium


Question: 'Chairman Mao was very resourceful when he built a seaworthy _____ out of a lot of old _____ lying around'

Answer: junk


Question: '"The Bird"--seen here--he was a national sensation in 1976'

Answer: Mark Fidrych


Question: 'Disney World crowds might go nuts for this title knight, aka Roland, made famous by both Hande & Vivaldi'

Answer: Orlando


Question: 'It's the set of museums that includes the Museo Pio-Clementino, exhibiting sculpture'

Answer: the Vatican Museums


Question: 'The 2 main types of vascular seed plants are gymnosperms & these, 80% of known green plants'

Answer: angiosperms


Question: 'I started to _____ in the hot sun, but I had to grab the _____ out of Ed's belt so he wouldn't score a TD'

Answer: flag


Question: 'This 1954 book title refers to an impaled sow's head, an offering to the "beast"'

Answer: Lord of the Flies


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew presents from a staged office.)  A replica of this man's Oval Office desk includes gifts from the Georgia Democratic Party and from Hyman Rickover, his mentor in the Navy'

Answer: Jimmy Carter


Question: 'Barry Bonds, among others, is currently trying to break this man's home run record of 755'

Answer: Hank Aaron


Question: 'Cadets attend a dance at a girls' school in "Graduation Ball", a ballet set in this capital of Austria'

Answer: Vienna


Question: 'A Black Molly or 2 would be perfect to keep this calming crib feature in your living room free from algae'

Answer: an aquarium


Question: 'The Hoosac Mountains are a range of these "colorful" mountains located in Vermont'

Answer: the Green Mountains


Question: 'Chat about this in your chat room: "chat" is merely a shortened form of this 7-letter word'

Answer: chatter


Question: 'His presidential library is about 35 miles from the Kansas City, Missouri airport'

Answer: Harry Truman


Question: 'This 7-time Tour de France champ said the 2006 NYC Marathon was the "hardest physical thing" he'd ever done'

Answer: Lance Armstrong


Question: 'The 2000 ballet "Todo Buenos Aires" features different interpretations of this sensual ballroom dance'

Answer: the tango


Question: 'Sit down in this chair with an X-shaped frame & a canvas seat, perfect for yelling, "Quiet on the set!"'

Answer: a director\'s chair


Question: 'Seen here is Tenzing Norgay, standing on the summit of this mountain "because it's there"'

Answer: Mount Everest


Question: 'This name for a work of art that you may carve in art class comes from the Latin for "to carve"'

Answer: sculpture


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew is at the wheel.)  In 1948, George H.W. Bush and this young wife of his packed their belongings into a Studebaker and drove west to Odessa, Texas'

Answer: Barbara


Question: 'From 1984 to 1992, 2 of the 3 players who won all the NBA MVP awards'

Answer: Magic Johnson & Larry Bird (& Michael Jordan)


Question: 'I may say "neigh!" if you do a pas de cheval, a ballet step that imitates this animal'

Answer: a horse


Question: 'Chandeliers look great but nowadays don't usually use these items from which their name is derived'

Answer: candles


Question: 'The Waianae Mountains in this U.S. state rise up to 4,025-foot Mt. Kaala'

Answer: Hawaii


Question: 'If you say, "I'm eating a hot dog with" this, you could mean a chopped pickle topping or just plain enjoyment'

Answer: relish


Question: 'His library has a desk that's an exact replica of the one that his son was photographed under in 1963'

Answer: John F. Kennedy


Question: 'In 1904 he became the first pitcher in the American League to throw a perfect game; now an award is named for him'

Answer: Cy Young


Question: 'He designed sets & costumes for "Where the Wlid Things Are", a ballet based on his own beloved book'

Answer: Maurice Sendak


Question: 'In the furniture sense, this synonym of "pride" is dressing table'

Answer: vanity


Question: 'The Caucusus Mountains of Eastern Europe are predominantly found in this large country'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Someone who sees a crime is an eyewitness; someone who experiences it aurally is this similar word'

Answer: an earwitness


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Austin, Texas.)  At the dedication in Austin in 1971, he said that of all the words in his presidential library, the two that best express his philosophy are "man can"'

Answer: L.B.J.


Question: 'This Czech-born woman who retired in 2006 won a record 9 Wimbledon Singles Championships'

Answer: Martina Navratilova


Question: 'The Carolina Ballet debuted a 2006 work based on this stormy Shakespearean shipwreck saga'

Answer: The Tempest


Question: 'Wanna put your feet up? How about on one of these with a "Turkish" name'

Answer: an ottoman


Question: 'Geological evidence shows that this 5,000-mile mountain chain may extend south into Antarctica'

Answer: the Andes


Question: 'The name of these small towers often seen on castles comes from Old French for "small towers"'

Answer: turrets


Question: 'William Booth founded this charitable "army" on July 5, 1865 in London'

Answer: The Salvation Army


Question: 'This "American Idol" judge told one contestant, "you sounded like Cher after she's been to the dentist"'

Answer: Simon Cowell


Question: 'The truant officer may come after you if you fail to do this'

Answer: go to school


Question: 'In chapter 52 of this novel, a boisterous crowd is gathering for Fagin's execution'

Answer: Oliver Twist


Question: 'This commerce site founded in 1995 now also owns Skype, Paypal, & Shopping.com'

Answer: eBay


Question: 'As a noun, it's a synonym for "flower", as a verb, it's to blossom or come into one's own'

Answer: bloom


Question: 'On July 20, 1861 the Congress of the Confederate States began holding sessions in this Virginia city'

Answer: Richmond


Question: 'This ABC series set at Mode magazine is based on the hit Columbian telenovela "Yo Soy Betty, La Fea"'

Answer: Ugly Betty


Question: 'It's the identification procedure that uses the kind of grid seen here'

Answer: a line-up


Question: '19th c. author known for writing about a "venerable mansion" with "seven acutely peaked gables"'

Answer: (Nathaniel) Hawthorne


Question: 'The first name of this company's search engine was Backrub, as it analyzed the back links pointing to websites'

Answer: Google


Question: 'Synonyms for "crowd" include throng, flock & this word that can also mean an infatuation'

Answer: a crush


Question: 'A July 17, 1917 royal proclamation changed the name of the British royal family to this, like a castle'

Answer: Windsor


Question: 'This Neil Patrick Harris sitcom is narrated through flashbacks from the future'

Answer: How I Met Your Mother


Question: 'This agency's criminal justice information services div. has the fingerprints of more than 47 million people'

Answer: the FBI


Question: 'People from the past appear to a brother & sister in "Rewards and Fairies" by this author of "The Jungle Book"'

Answer: Kipling


Question: 'While a student at Northeastern, Shawn Fanning started this P2P music-sharing service that now gone legit'

Answer: Napster


Question: 'In court you won't hear a lawyer say "remonstrance!" but this synonym'

Answer: objection


Question: 'John Adams' dying words on this date in 1826 were that Thomas Jefferson still lived; John Adams was wrong'

Answer: July 4