Question: '(I'm NBA Hall of Famer Walt Frazier.)  On May 8, 1970 I scored 36 points to tead this team to their first championship'

Answer: the New York Knicks


Question: 'Augustus' brother-in-law, he alienated the Romans by spending so much time in Egypt'

Answer: Marc Antony


Question: 'Phrases from this "Puzzle Palace" include "flexible response" & "credible deterrent"'

Answer: the Pentagon


Question: 'In "The Hollow Men", T.S. Eliot wrote, "The world ends not with a bang but" this'

Answer: a whimper


Question: 'David McCullouch earned the 1978 History Award for "Path Between the Seas", about the creation of this from 1870 to 1914'

Answer: the Panama Canal


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from outside a casino.) In this 1998 film, Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo cruise the strip, terrorizing squares'

Answer: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas


Question: 'William of Orange, like his father William II, wed an English girl named this'

Answer: Mary


Question: 'He left the White House in 1809, went home & never left Virginia for the remaining 17 years of his life'

Answer: Jefferson


Question: 'In 1976 this perfect 10 Romanian had to remind the persistent press she was only 14'

Answer: Nadia Comaneci


Question: 'Term for a person who keeps taking abuse & humiliation: it's like he has "welcome" written on him'

Answer: a doormat


Question: 'At the first National Book Awards, in 1950, Ralph Rusk won for his biography of this other Ralph, an essayist'

Answer: Emerson


Question: 'After her single mom/waitress turn in "As Good as It Gets", she played a single mom/Vegas waitress in "Pay it Forward"'

Answer: Helen Hunt


Question: 'Doing this 48 times in 1963 put Valentina Tereshkova in the headlines'

Answer: circling the Earth


Question: 'The portrait seen here is a mosaic done in these, a favorite of President Reagan's'

Answer: jelly beans


Question: 'Type of business seen here that was popular in the '40s & '50s'

Answer: an automat


Question: 'His novel "Herzog" won in the Fiction category in 1965'

Answer: Saul Bellow


Question:
'Spacy 1984 film featuring the following sequence

"Hit the giant jackpot and your troubles are over!  Half a million dollars, folks!  Who's gonna take a shot?"
"Define giant jackpot."
"A giant jackpot is a lot of money."
"Money?  Geetus?  Bread?  An arm and a leg?"'

Answer: Starman


Question: 'In 1628 the British took this founder of Quebec prisoner, holding him in England until 1633'

Answer: Champlain


Question: 'During the Vietnam War, LBJ dreamed he was this WWI president after the stroke'

Answer: Wilson


Question: 'Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary is the highest rank of this'

Answer: a diplomat


Question: 'She won in the category children's fiction (paperback) for "Ramona and her Mother"'

Answer: Beverly Cleary


Question: 'In the first of these films, Whoopi Goldberg was a Reno lounge singer; in the second she's a Vegas headliner'

Answer: Sister Act


Question: 'Depicted here during a demonstration in 1854, he's the inventor safe & sound up on the platform'

Answer: (Elisha) Otis


Question: 'A heating pad kept him warm during his second inauguration, the first one held in January'

Answer: Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Question: 'If you have a radioactive spill, who do you call?  This emergency team'

Answer: the HAZMAT team


Question: 'Jonathan Franzen didn't want Oprah's Book Club seal, but thanked her when this novel won the 2001 fiction award'

Answer: The Corrections


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reads from Las Vegas.)  In "Viva Las Vegas", Elvis and his rival, Count Elmo Mancini, tour the strip looking for her'

Answer: Ann-Margret


Question: 'By 1946, he'd catalogued over 29,000 galaxies, almost 4,000 asteroids & 1 new planet--Pluto'

Answer: Clyde Tombaugh


Question: 'Washington, D.C. locale where President Garfield was fatally shot'

Answer: the railroad station


Question: 'Women performing this event with no equipment but a mat must make the moves to match the tempo & mood of the music'

Answer: the free exercise (or floor exercise)


Question: 'This prefix is from the Greek for "blood"'

Answer: hemato- (or hemat-)


Question: 'To journey through 3 adjacent states that start with the same letter, you have to go through these 3'

Answer: Iowa, Illinois & Indiana


Question: 'The fix was in at the 1919 World Series  & this major league franchise lost'

Answer: Chicago White Sox


Question: 'She wrote that she & Fred "might have become a more serious item...both of us loved to dance!"'

Answer: Ginger Rogers


Question:
'English royalty:
George I,
Elizabeth I,
William I'

Answer: William I, Elizabeth I, George I


Question: 'Dunoon, a burgh on the coast of this country, has a famous statue of "Highland Mary"'

Answer: Scotland


Question: 'The diameter of a circle times pi'

Answer: circumference


Question: 'In 2000 Ladies Home Journal ranked this North Dakota city among the Top 10 cities for women'

Answer: Fargo


Question: 'In 1859 a sensational trial followed when a jealous husband killed Philip Barton Key, son of this man'

Answer: Francis Scott Key


Question: 'In 1957 he said farewell to his wife with "Goodbye, kid"'

Answer: Humphrey Bogart


Question:
'Novels:
"The Last of the Mohicans",
"The Sun Also Rises",
"Uncle Tom's Cabin"'

Answer: "The Last of the Mohicans", "Uncle Tom\'s Cabin", "The Sun Also Rises"


Question: 'The Furka Pass gets you between the cantons of Uri & Valais in this country'

Answer: Switzerland


Question: '"The Grey" wizard of Middle-Earth'

Answer: Gandalf


Question: 'A deep violet blue'

Answer: indigo


Question: 'In "The Affair of the Necklace", a film about a real pre-revolution scandal, Joely Richardson plays this French queen'

Answer: Marie Antoinette


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew)  According to Hollywood legend, this actress was discovered in a soda fountain in 1936'

Answer: Lana Turner


Question:
'Beatles albums:
"Help!",
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band",
"Let It Be"'

Answer: "Help!", "Sgt. Pepper\'s Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Let It Be"


Question: 'Stiklestad, a village in this country, is where King Olaf II was killed in a 1030 battle'

Answer: Norway


Question: '2 words that commonly follow "knit one"'

Answer: purl two


Question: 'In "Othello", he delivers the line, "Beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-ey'd monster"'

Answer: Iago


Question: 'In 1976 this country's Prince Bernhard quit several posts due to his unseemly relationship with the Lockheed Co.'

Answer: The Netherlands/Holland


Question: 'In "Mommie Dearest" Diana Scarwid was Christina Crawford & this actress played Christina's mom'

Answer: Faye Dunaway (who played Joan Crawford)


Question:
'Popes:
Benedict III,
John Paul I,
Pius XII'

Answer: Benedict III, Pius XII, John Paul I


Question: 'Hwange, formerly Wankie, is a town in this country, formerly Rhodesia'

Answer: Zimbabwe


Question: 'Country whose oldest university is in Lahore'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'A pain in the back, the lower back'

Answer: lumbago


Question: 'This 19th century fighter for Irish home rule was scandalously involved with a married woman named Kitty O'Shea'

Answer: Charles Parnell


Question: 'This young American superstar has an Italian first name, but a German middle one, Wilhelm'

Answer: Leonardo DiCaprio


Question:
'Inventions:
the aqua-lung,
the air conditioner,
the adding machine'

Answer: the adding machine, the air conditioner, the aqua-lung


Question: 'Put on your thinking cap & tell us this is the country in which you'll find the village of Balaklava'

Answer: Ukraine


Question: 'Ty Cobb's middle name'

Answer: (Tyrus) Raymond (Cobb)


Question: 'In mythology this ship on which Jason sailed contained magic wood from a sacred oak'

Answer: Argo


Question: 'In Wagner's "Die Walkure", she was Wotan's favorite of the Valkyrie warriors'

Answer: Brunhilde


Question: 'As the Order of the British Empire is dubbed "Most" this, Wayne & Garth might like it'

Answer: excellent


Question: '...who played Sonny Corleone in "The Godfather"'

Answer: James Caan


Question: '"The Coffee Song" from the '40s is subtitled "They've Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in" this country'

Answer: Brazil


Question: 'This title character's ship, the Antelope, went down off the coast of Lilliput'

Answer: Gulliver


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew in front of St. Paul's Cathedral in London)  St. Paul's miraculously survived the Nazi bombing called this, from German for "lightning war"'

Answer: blitzkrieg


Question: 'This Menotti opera debuted on the New York stage on April 9, 1952, 4 months after it was televised'

Answer: Amahl and the Night Visitors


Question: 'You get a silver medal, not a loofah, with the Order of this, which was revived in 1725'

Answer: Order of the Bath


Question: '...who was convicted of assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr.'

Answer: James Earl Ray


Question: 'A Ruth Etting hit from the '20s, its second line is "You're the salt in my stew"'

Answer: "You\'re the Cream in my Coffee"


Question: 'In a 1927 Hermann Hesse novel, newspaper writer Harry Haller, a loner, calls himself this'

Answer: Steppenwolf


Question: 'This term for dishes like pot stickers, shrimp balls & fried dumplings is Cantonese for "heart's delight"'

Answer: dim sum


Question: 'The first of Verdi's trilogy of romantic operas, it was followed by "Il Trovatore" & "La Traviata"'

Answer: Rigoletto


Question: 'When you least expect it, Wham!  You get "The Most Distinguished Order of" these 2 saints'

Answer: George & Michael


Question: '...who is the featured performer heard here'

Answer: James Galway


Question: 'The "One Cup of Coffee" on his "Songs of Freedom" album must have been a Jamaican brew'

Answer: Bob Marley


Question:
'Hamlet's most famous one of these speeches includes the following lines
Whether tis' nobler in the mind to suffer the slings & arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles & by opposing...'

Answer: soliloquy


Question: 'An example of this poetic form is "Three locked in battle / victory not yet for sure / outside winter blows"'

Answer: haiku


Question: '"Carmen" is set in this city around 1820'

Answer: Seville


Question: 'The fact the kings of Sweden & Spain are members of "The Most Noble Order of" this shouldn't knock your socks off'

Answer: the Garter


Question: '...who succeeded Franklin Pierce as president'

Answer: James Buchanan


Question: '"Black Coffee" is a CD anthology of this "Is That All There Is?" singer's Decca years'

Answer: Peggy Lee


Question: 'John Kennedy Toole immortalized the Lucky Dog vending carts in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel'

Answer: "A Confederacy of Dunces"


Question: 'California's motto "Eureka" is usually translated as this 4-word exclamation of discovery'

Answer: I have found it


Question: 'This Puccini title heroine's first name is Floria'

Answer: Tosca


Question: 'Since 1947 no new names have been added to the order named for this country'

Answer: India


Question: '...who wrote the novel "Noble House"'

Answer: James Clavell


Question: 'Nelson Algren won a 1950 Nat'l Book Award for this novel about card dealer & morphine addict Frankie Machine'

Answer: "The Man with the Golden Arm"


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Paris)  This is Place Charles de Gaulle, known as "L'Etoile", which means this'

Answer: the star


Question: 'In 2002 Japanese scientists discovered it contains the enzyme Lachrymatory-Factor Synthase'

Answer: onions


Question: 'Grant's, a subspecies of this, is distinctly striped with black on a white background'

Answer: a zebra


Question: 'This NBA All-Star was known as "Pip"'

Answer: Scottie Pippen


Question: 'The kids love "Pecos Goofy's Frontier Revue" at this Asian city's Disneyland'

Answer: Tokyo


Question: '"Mt. Rushmoo", a depiction of 4 imposing bovines, was sculpted by Jim Victor from this dairy product'

Answer: butter


Question: 'An elf or fairy'

Answer: a sprite


Question: 'It's a 7-letter synonym for majorette, from what she does with her baton'

Answer: twirler


Question: 'The name of this group of mammals comes from the Latin for "pouch"'

Answer: marsupials


Question: 'In 2004 the career of this ex-champ known as "Iron Mike" took a sad turn when he was KO'd in round 4 by Danny Williams'

Answer: Mike Tyson


Question: 'If the kids are tall enough, they can ride all 17 of these thrill rides at Cedar Point (it's fun to hear them scream)'

Answer: roller coasters


Question: 'A roomful of silver balloons that move with the air currents is a highlight of this pop artist's Pittsburgh museum'

Answer: Andy Warhol


Question: 'A portion, maybe of cake'

Answer: a slice


Question: 'On a list of abbreviations, this language makes the list as "Lith."'

Answer: Lithuanian


Question: 'I'm a real stickler for this rodent whose name means "thorny pig"'

Answer: porcupine


Question: 'This "Yankee Clipper" played his entire 13-year career in the outfield except for one game at first base in 1950'

Answer: Joe DiMaggio


Question: 'Kids have a blast in the Nickelodeon Blast Zone at this movie-themed California park'

Answer: Universal Studios


Question: 'If you donate $135 to his sanctuary, you can own a painting like the one seen here, signed by this "Tarzan" costar'

Answer: Cheeta (the chimp)


Question: 'A short-lived infatuation between red & yellow'

Answer: orange crush


Question: 'Appropriately, the word "volcano" comes from the name of this Roman god'

Answer: Vulcan


Question: '2 genera of this mammal make up the order Proboscidea'

Answer: elephants


Question: 'In August 2005 this "Siberian Siren" became the first Russian ranked No. 1 in Women's tennis'

Answer: Maria Sharapova


Question: 'Take the kids on a magical journey through this author's fairy tales on the Flying Trunk ride at Tivoli'

Answer: (Hans Christian) Andersen


Question: 'Who else but this Iberian would paint "Giant Flying Demi-Tasse with Incomprehensible Appendage 5 Meters Long"'

Answer: Salvador Dalí


Question: 'Actor Barry, with a Ph.D.'

Answer: Dr. Pepper


Question: 'The name of this corn & lima bean side dish is derived from an American Indian word for "boiled corn"'

Answer: succotash


Question: 'These monkeys with a religious name have several types of "habit", including brown & white-throated'

Answer: capuchin


Question: 'In 1986 this Giants linebacker known as "LT" was named the NFL's MVP'

Answer: Lawrence Taylor


Question: 'Let the kids cool off by watching an ice show at Silverwood Theme Park near Coeur d'Alene in this state'

Answer: Idaho


Question: 'This "wrap" artist & his wife Jeanne-Claude used more than 1 million square feet of fabric to wrap the Reichstag'

Answer: Christo


Question: 'A Wilmington or Dover wallop'

Answer: a Delaware punch


Question: 'The name of this horse breed tells us that it originated in the Perche area of France'

Answer: Percheron


Question: 'This New Mexico artist colony town's Pueblo was chosen as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992'

Answer: Taos


Question: '"Joliet" Jake Blues'

Answer: John Belushi


Question: 'Type of creature of which Dickinson wrote, "A narrow fellow in the grass occasionally rides"'

Answer: a snake


Question: '1687:<br />This English scientist explains the basis for the Moon's tidal effect on the Earth'

Answer: Isaac Newton


Question: 'Julie Andrews sang it as the sixth tone of the diatonic scale'

Answer: La


Question: 'Most of my mail arrived addressed to this person, meaning anyone living in the house'

Answer: the occupant


Question: 'If you're feeling a little "Rocky", run up the stairs to visit this city's museum at Benjamin Franklin Parkway'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: 'Mrs. Prymaat Conehead'

Answer: Jane Curtin


Question: 'In "The Village Blacksmith", Longfellow wrote of this "Sounding" object that the Blacksmith's hammer strikes'

Answer: an anvil


Question: '1609:<br />This Italian makes the first practical use of a telescope to study the Moon'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'This TV show's opening narration contained the line "We can rebuild him.  We have the technology"'

Answer: The Six Million Dollar Man


Question: 'A food-storage closet, often adjoining a kitchen'

Answer: a pantry


Question: 'Mormons settled this city in 1855 but thought it was too much of a gamble & abandoned it in 1857'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: 'Axel Foley'

Answer: Eddie Murphy


Question: '"Eyes the shady night has shut cannot see the record cut" wrote Housman to one of these "Dying Young"'

Answer: an athlete


Question: '1588:<br />This Danish astronomer makes observations leading to new theories about the Moon's motion'

Answer: Tycho Brahe


Question: 'This conflict began June 5, 1967 & ended shortly thereafter'

Answer: the Six Days\' War


Question: 'A play in which the performers express themselves mutely by gestures'

Answer: a pantomime


Question: 'This Oklahoma city is known for its Art Deco buildings, including the Phillips Oil "Philcade"'

Answer: Tulsa


Question: 'Wayne Campbell'

Answer: Mike Myers


Question: 'Fittingly, the last section of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is entitled this type of inscription'

Answer: an epitaph


Question: '150 A.D.:<br />This Egyptian astronomer discovers irregularity in the Moon's orbital motion'

Answer: Ptolemy


Question: 'A car driven by George Robson is one of only 2 Indy 500 winners to use an engine with only 6 of these'

Answer: cylinders


Question: 'Adjective meaning frivolously disrespectful or lacking in seriousness'

Answer: flippant


Question: 'Granite works sprung up in & around this state capital using stone from Barre, a few miles away'

Answer: Montpelier


Question: 'Joe Dirt'

Answer: David Spade


Question: 'His masterpiece poem "Don Juan" is divided into cantos'

Answer: Byron


Question: '335 B.C.:<br />This Greek philosopher uses lunar eclipses to prove the Earth is ball shaped'

Answer: Aristotle


Question: 'John Guare reached out & touched us all with this play about the connectedness of all people'

Answer: Six Degrees of Separation


Question: 'In heraldry it means standing erect; in life it means running wild'

Answer: rampant


Question: 'The USA's first Labor Day parade, in 1882, went from City Hall to this square just north of 14th Street'

Answer: Union Square


Answer: the Civil War


Question: 'Elvis-a-Rama, just off the strip in this city is said to have $5 million worth of Elvis memorabilia on display'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: 'From the Greek for "to sing", Keats wrote several including one "On Melancholy"'

Answer: an ode


Question: 'In declaring the winner in tennis, it traditionally comes between "game" & "match"'

Answer: "set"


Question: 'Camphor is used to make plastics, but it's also a common repellent for these clothes-munchers'

Answer: a moth


Question: 'At this game's start, each player gets $1,500'

Answer: Monopoly


Answer: World War I


Question: 'Bertramka Villa in Prague, a museum devoted to this "Don Giovanni" composer, has his harpsichord in display'

Answer: Mozart


Question: 'The term "stream of" this first appeared in William James' 1890 textbook "The Principles of Psychology"'

Answer: consciousness


Question: '(Sofia delivers the clue...and a perfect shot!) Five-letter term that describes the perfection of the shot seen here. (I won't tell you what number take this is.)'

Answer: swish


Question: 'If you're washing greasy dishes, use cold water as you run this device'

Answer: the disposal


Question: 'This son of Bathsheba was noted for a meeting with the Queen of Sheba'

Answer: Solomon


Question: 'In North America,<br />1754-1763'

Answer: the French & Indian Wars


Question: 'The museum devoted to this pop artist is in Pittsburgh, where he went to college'

Answer: Andy Warhol


Question: 'In the Petrarchian type of these, an octave is followed by a stanza of 6 lines'

Answer: a sonnet


Question: 'In football only the defense can score one of these'

Answer: a safety


Question: 'When I sweep these "hare-y" items out from under the bed, they're not nearly as cute as Chuck Jones' Bugs'

Answer: a dust bunny


Question: 'In October 1973 this show debuted with Tom Snyder as its host'

Answer: Tomorrow


Question: '264-241 B.C.'

Answer: the First Punic War


Question: 'The Beachside branch of this Ca. museum endowed by an oil tycoon is modeled on the Villa Dei Papiri of ancient Rome'

Answer: the Getty Museum


Question: 'This adjective describes a genre of Spanish prose that depicts the adventures of roguish heroes'

Answer: picaresque


Question: 'Bobby Hull & Al MacInnis are among NHL players famous for this powerful type of shot'

Answer: slap


Question: 'Properly speaking, a piece of carpet that isn't wall-to-wall is called this, also a slang term for a toupee'

Answer: a rug


Question: 'The city of Perm in Russia used to be caled this, also the name of an infamous cocktail'

Answer: Molotov


Question: '1701-1714,<br />over a throne'

Answer: the War of the Spanish Succession


Question: 'Behind St. Augustine's church in Waikiki, there's a small museum devoted to this Belgian priest's life'

Answer: Father Damian


Question: 'A poem or ballad, like Walter Scott's "Of the Last Minstrel"'

Answer: a lay


Question: 'This term used in downhill skiing also means water skiing on a single ski'

Answer: slalom


Question: 'Use this pad of metal shavings to clean up your kids' scuffs & your great-aunt's cigarette burns'

Answer: steel wool (or SOS, or Brillo)


Question: 'This decorative style originated in France in the early 18th century'

Answer: Rococo


Question: 'Blackwell's, in this British university city since 1870, has a<br />10,000-square-foot room of books'

Answer: Oxford


Question: 'On Dec. 13, 1937 Japan took over the city of Nanking in this Asian country after heavy fighting'

Answer: China


Question: '"I Could Have Danced All Night"'

Answer: My Fair Lady


Question: 'Delacroix' tour of this continent in the 1830s resulted in painting like "Fanatics of Tangier"'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'It's the river that runs through Wuhan & Hubei'

Answer: the Yangtzee


Question: 'In a famous novel, he takes the blame when Becky Thatcher tears the schoolmaster's book'

Answer: Tom Sawyer


Question: '(Sarah stands among the stacks.) I'm at City Lights, an important publisher as well as a groovy bookstore  in this city'

Answer: San Francisco


Question: 'Asian action star Zhou Run Fa is better known by this name in the West'

Answer: Chow Yun Fat


Question: '"I Feel Pretty"'

Answer: West Side Story


Question: 'M's that apply to 20th C. painter David Siqueiros include Marxist, muralist & this nationality'

Answer: Mexican


Question: 'A 1995 Newsweek article advised this Russian to "check into the Betski Ford Clinic"'

Answer: Yeltsin


Question: 'The population decline & extinction of the Tasmanian wolf is largely blamed on this wild canine'

Answer: the dingo


Question: 'Kramerbooks, in this city's Dupont Circle, was one of the USA's first of the now common<br />bookstore/cafes'

Answer: Washington, DC


Question: 'This important Asian political & business "association" is abbreviated ASEAN'

Answer: the Association of Southeast Asian Nations


Question: '"I Whistle A Happy Tune"'

Answer: The King And I


Question: '"Spring Ice" is a work by Tom Thomson, a landscapist in this country's Algonquin Park'

Answer: Canada


Question: 'This keyboardist's album "Live At the Acropolis" hit No. 5 on the charts'

Answer: Yanni


Question: 'In a 1963 hit song, Edie Gorme wanted to "Blame It On" this Latin American Dance'

Answer: the Bossa Nova


Question: 'Books of Wonder, an independent store, was the model for Meg Ryan's shop in this 1998 movie'

Answer: You\'ve Got Mail


Question: 'Keep "tabs" on this south Asian percussion instrument heard here'

Answer: the tabla


Question: '"I Enjoy Being A Girl"'

Answer: Flower Drum Song


Question: 'In 1911 Kandinsky & Franz Marc formed Germany's Blaue Reiter group, named for their love of blue & of these animals'

Answer: horses


Question: 'The title of an Al Jolson song, it was also Al's prophetic 5-word ad lib in 1927's "The Jazz Singer"'

Answer: You Ain\'t Heard Nothing Yet


Question: 'Some blamed this President's death on an Indian curse put on him because of the Battle of Tippecanoe'

Answer: William Henry Harrison


Question: 'This Paris bookstore run by Sylvia Beach was the first publisher of Joyce's "Ulysses"'

Answer: Shakespeare and Company


Question: 'Built in Asia in the 1930s as a military supply route, this "Road" stretches from Kunming to Lashio'

Answer: the Burma Road


Question: '"I Hope I Get It"'

Answer: A Chorus Line


Question: 'This Swiss sculptor known for lonely, elongated figures designed a set for "Waiting For Godot"'

Answer: Giacometti


Question: 'This Irish poet's epitaph reads, "Cast a cold eye on life, on death, horseman, pass by"'

Answer: (William Butler) Yeats


Question: 'Later PM, as First Lord of the Admiralty he took the blame for the disasterous Gallipoli invasion'

Answer: Winston Churchill


Question: 'On May 8, 2002 the city of Minneapolis placed a statue of this fictional character at the corner of 7th St. & Nicollet Mall'

Answer: Mary Richards (portrayed by Mary Tyler Moore on \"The Mary Tyler Moore Show\")


Question: 'In a 1996 book Sophie & Michael Coe trace the 3,000-year history of this sweet'

Answer: Chocolate


Question: 'In 1954 it became the first nationally televised beauty contest'

Answer: Miss America


Question: 'In 1992 she put on a great act in "Sister Act" & in 1996 starred in "The Associate"'

Answer: Whoopi Goldberg


Question: 'If you visit this "colorful" Wisconsin city, "pack" in a visit to the National Railroad Museum'

Answer: Green Bay


Question: 'As you might imagine, Rice Krispies Treats is a registered trademark of this cereal company'

Answer: Kellogg\'s


Question: 'A B.B., a Billie Jean or a Boleslaw I'

Answer: King


Question: 'In a 1995 work Gar Alperovitz questions "The Decision To Use" this weapon'

Answer: The Atomic Bomb


Question: 'Colonists got their first taste of popcorn at a dinner celebrating this holiday in 1621'

Answer: Thanksgiving


Question: 'Andrew's big sister, she earned an Oscar nomination for "Leaving Las Vegas"'

Answer: Elisabeth Shue


Question: 'This "Silver State"'s longest river, the Humboldt, is named for explorer Baron Von Humboldt'

Answer: Nevada


Question: 'Swanson & Healthy Request are among brand names owned by this soup company'

Answer: Campbell\'s


Question: 'One may be found around a boxer or a bathtub'

Answer: Ring


Question: '"Faith And Treason" is Antonia Fraser's 1996 book about this 1605 "plot" to blow up Parliament'

Answer: The Gunpowder Plot


Question: 'In 1908 the Superior Hotel in Montana became the first to have bibles placed there by this organization'

Answer: The Gideons


Question: 'As newsman Warren Justice, he got "Up Close & Personal" with Michelle Pfeiffer'

Answer: Robert Redford


Question: 'The Muscle Shoals area of this state includes the cities of Sheffield & Tuscumbia'

Answer: Alabama


Question: 'The mayonnaise called Best Foods in the western U.S. is sold under this brand name in the east'

Answer: Hellmann\'s


Question: 'Type of hardware nut, an extension on a building, or a part of a grackle'

Answer: Wing


Question: 'According to their subtitles, Studs Terkel's "Hard Times" & "The Good War" are this type of history'

Answer: Oral history


Question: 'Nicknamed "Little Mo", she was the first woman to win the Grand Slam of tennis'

Answer: Maureen Connolly


Question: 'He played the title roles in "Nixon" & "Surviving Picasso"'

Answer: Anthony Hopkins


Question: 'You can keep the gems you find at Crater of Diamonds State Park in this "Land of Opportunity"'

Answer: Arkansas


Question: 'This leading maker of processed turkey products was acquired by Oscar Mayer in 1979'

Answer: Louis Rich


Question: 'He's the merciless foe of Flash Gordon'

Answer: Ming


Question: 'Benzion Netanyahu, father of Israel's PM, wrote "The Origins Of" this tribunal "In 15th Century Spain"'

Answer: The Spanish Inquisition


Question: 'On November 2, 1889, these 2 states, the 39th & 40th, became the first pair admitted to the Union simultaneously'

Answer: North Dakota & South Dakota


Question: '2 of the movie roles she's played are Ethel Thayer & Rose Sayer'

Answer: Katharine Hepburn


Question: 'The Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival is an annual event in this New England state'

Answer: Massachusetts


Question: 'In 1996 this female country singer, a pitch person for Fritos, helped launch its new Texas Grill corn chips'

Answer: Reba McEntire


Question: 'Zest, or the sound of the strings of Judy Garland's heart'

Answer: Zing


Question: 'This goober accounts for about one-sixth of the world's vegetable oil production'

Answer: Peanuts


Question: 'Walt Kelly created this philosophical possum for "Animal Comics"'

Answer: Pogo


Question: 'Hokkaido is the largest & northernmost of this country's 47 prefectures'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'In 1996 the Screen Actors Guild chose this "Murder, She Wrote" star for a lifetime achievement award'

Answer: Angela Lansbury


Question: 'Amenhotep III, who ruled this country for 37 years, was nicknamed "The Magnificent"'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'This constellation is abbreviated Psc'

Answer: Pisces


Question: 'This gas is produced by plants during photosynthesis'

Answer: Oxygen


Question: 'This Dust Bowl balladeer was born July 14,1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma'

Answer: Woody Guthrie


Question: 'This small nation borders Spain's California region'

Answer: Andorra


Question: 'Recently on tour, "Tharp!" is a program of 3 dances choreographed by this woman'

Answer: Twyla Tharp


Question: 'During the Boer War, she said, "We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist"'

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: 'It's the indirect object in "John gave Mary a kiss."'

Answer: Mary


Question: 'The dry fruits of a species of this flower contain such alkaloids as morphine & codeine'

Answer: Poppies


Question: 'The Beardstown Ladies earned their business sense through running this type of club'

Answer: Investment club


Question: 'The Masai Mara & Marsabit Game Reserves in this African nation were created to protect animals from poaching'

Answer: Kenya


Question: 'She still has "The Look" & in 1996 showed it off as Barbra Streisand's mom in "The Mirror Has Two Faces"'

Answer: Lauren Bacall


Question: 'This current king of Jordan was a cousin of King Faisal of Iraq, who was assassinated in 1958'

Answer: King Hussein


Question: 'The last cabinet position in the line of presidential succession, it handles former soldiers'

Answer: Veterans Affairs


Question: 'In most flowers, it consists of the anther & the filament'

Answer: Stamen


Question: 'Mark Twain title lawyer whose adages also appear in "Following The Equator"'

Answer: Puddinhead Wilson


Question: 'Aland Island, Finland's largest island, lies at the entrance to this gulf'

Answer: Gulf of Bothnia


Question: 'In the 1920s, her home at 27 Rue de Fleurus in Paris was a gathering place for other writers & artists'

Answer: Gertrude Stein


Question: 'In the 1770s this archduchess of Austria pioneered a national system of elementary education'

Answer: Maria Theresa


Question: 'It's the number of fluid ounces in 1 liquid quart'

Answer: 32


Question: 'Books 12-19 of this "elder" ancient Roman's "Natural History" are devoted to botany'

Answer: Pliny the Elder


Question: 'This humorous Georgia columnist had a black labrador named "Catfish"'

Answer: Lewis Grizzard


Question: 'The highest point on Iwo Jima lies at the summit of this extinct volcano'

Answer: Mount Suribachi


Question: 'This playwright's "The Sisters Rosensweig" opened off-Broadway in 1992'

Answer: Wendy Wasserstein


Question: 'Gustav III was king of this country during the American Revolution'

Answer: Sweden


Question: 'Hats off to this city, Italy's second largest'

Answer: Milan


Question: 'One of the USA's greatest novelists, he lived most of his life, from 1876 to 1916, in England'

Answer: Henry James


Question: 'He published the first edition of "Leaves of Grass" at his own expense & even set some of the type for it'

Answer: (Walt) Whitman


Question: 'Mark Harmon investigates all crimes involving U.S. Navy & Marine Corps personnel on this drama'

Answer: NCIS


Question: 'Matt Armendariz has a whole book devoted to foods "on a" this! like hot dogs, fried mozzarella & chicken satay'

Answer: on a stick


Question: 'Witch hunting was more fashionable in this city 16 miles N.E. of Boston than in its West Coast counterpart'

Answer: Salem


Question: 'It just came to me out of the blue--it's a measure of cloth, usually 40 yards'

Answer: a bolt


Question: 'Thick stick'

Answer: a club


Question: 'Upon this woman's death in 1886, her sister Lavinia found nearly 1,000 poems hidden away in her bureau'

Answer: Emily Dickinson


Question: 'Hawkeye & Trapper John shared a tent called The Swamp on this sitcom'

Answer: M*A*S*H


Question: 'In a twist on the meat dish, "how to cook everything vegetarian" has a recipe for chili non this'

Answer: carne


Question: 'This city that lies about 125 miles from the mouth of the Savannah River is known for a certain golf course'

Answer: Augusta


Question: 'For my daughter's suitors' reference, my shotgun has a bore just under 3/4 of an inch wide, so it's a 12-this'

Answer: (12-)gauge


Question: 'To litter with things in a disorderly manner'

Answer: clutter


Question: 'Shortly after becoming engaged to Sarah Shelton, he fell ill in a Baltimore tavern & died 4 days later on October 7, 1849'

Answer: (Edgar Allan) Poe


Question: 'In April 2009 the doors of Chicago's county general hospital closed to TV viewers as this show ended'

Answer: ER


Question: 'In "The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook", Paula Deen has a section on these, including confederate bean'

Answer: soup


Question: 'You'll find the University of Missouri's main campus in this city -- the one in Missouri, not in South Carolina'

Answer: Columbia


Question: 'Please tell us you know that a hoppus foot measures this building material--& tell us chop chop'

Answer: lumber (timber)


Question: 'Hen call'

Answer: a cluck


Question: 'This family of poets born in & around Boston includes Amy, James Russell & Robert'

Answer: the Lowells


Question: 'Ponch & Jon were motorcycle cops on this '70s police drama'

Answer: CHiPs


Question: 'This chef whose last name is an anagram of bread published a book "On Bread" in 1973'

Answer: (James) Beard


Question: 'Home of the Cascade Falls, this city in Michigan (not Mississippi) is also called "the rose city"'

Answer: Jackson


Question: 'Used in surveying, this unit is equal to one hundredth of a chain'

Answer: a link


Question: 'Ungainly'

Answer: clumsy


Question: 'In "Concord Hymn", he wrote, "Here once the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard round the world"'

Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson


Question: 'The beer-drinking MacKenzie brothers were a staple on this comedy show whose full name once included "Network 90"'

Answer: SCTV


Question: 'This bravo star & former "New York housewife" offers up some easy & healthy recipes in "The Skinnygirl Dish"'

Answer: Bethenny Frankel


Question: 'It's the seat of Illinois' Logan County & shares its name with the capital of a different Midwest state'

Answer: Lincoln


Question: '1 of the 2 units, each 3 letters long & starting with "R", that measure radiation exposure from X-rays'

Answer: rads (or REM)


Question: 'This type of heavenly group seen here is held together by mutual attraction'

Answer: a (star) cluster


Question: 'It's the result of one or more multiplications'

Answer: a product


Question: 'A shrub'

Answer: Bush


Question: 'In 8-ball the balls are racked in this shape, with the 8 ball in the center'

Answer: a triangle


Question: 'Joan of Arc became the maid of this city when she led French troops to victory there in May 1429'

Answer: Orleans


Question: 'Used to transport small loads like lawn dirt, it's a cart with 1 tire & a shallow body, held & pushed by handles'

Answer: a wheelbarrow


Question: 'Seen here are 1960s designs by engineer James Drake, who made use of RAND's Santa Monica location to become the father of this sport'

Answer: windsurfing


Question: 'When he wasn't busy rubaiyating, this 11th century renaissance man wrote a pioneering work on algebra'

Answer: Omar Khayyám


Question: 'Carolla, Ant & Sandler'

Answer: Adams


Question: 'The bed, or top, of a billiard table is usually made of this rock & can weigh as much as 800 pounds'

Answer: slate


Question: 'On May 10,1981 France elected as president this socialist who then nationalized most of the private banks'

Answer: Francois Mitterand


Question: 'It can be a sled or toboggan, someone riding in one, or a mat you put under a drink'

Answer: a coaster


Question: 'Rand research culminated in a 1987 treaty on these 3-element compounds that break down the ozone layer'

Answer: CFCs


Question: 'The prefix "mega" denotes 10 to the 6th power; "giga", 10 to this power'

Answer: the ninth


Question: 'Shallow, crossable part of a river'

Answer: Ford


Question: 'This white object gave its name to a bald "Dick Tracy" villain'

Answer: cue ball


Question: 'In a July 6, 2003 referendum, this Mediterranean island narrowly defeated a plan for limited autonomy'

Answer: Corsica


Question: 'It's a 2-wheeled wagon used to carry artillery ammunition; in song, they "go rolling along"'

Answer: caissons


Question: 'In the first book on this, computers doing tasks associated with human intellect, 6 chapters had been Rand reports'

Answer: Artificial Intelligence


Question: 'Jean Poncelet's work on conic sections helped found the "projective" form of this branch of mathematics'

Answer: geometry


Question: 'To puncture'

Answer: to pierce


Question: 'Snooker is played with 15 balls of this color & 6 balls of other colors'

Answer: red


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)  In June 1940, France was split into German-occupied France & Vichy France; 2 1/2 years later, Germany gained control of a large part of continental France;  Italy gained most of the area east of this river'

Answer: the Rhone


Question: 'A color & a woman's name combine in this term for a police wagon'

Answer: a black maria


Question: 'Packet switching, the basic idea of the Internet, came from '60s research on communications in case of this awful event'

Answer: nuclear war


Question: 'Mathematicians disagree as to whether zero belongs in this set of numbers denoted N'

Answer: the natural numbers


Question: 'To allow'

Answer: Grant


Question: 'In 1845 this firm manufactured its first pool table for a Cincinnati meatpacker; it's sold millions of tables since then'

Answer: Brunswick


Question: 'The October 1415 battle of this fortress, lost to the English, actually took place in a nearby muddy field'

Answer: Agincourt


Question: 'This Olympic sport gets its name from the metal sled introduced in the 1890s & what some people thought it resembled'

Answer: a skeleton


Question: 'The field called this "theory", which has influenced economics & other disciplines, was expanded at RAND in the '40s'

Answer: game theory


Question: 'Previously done by the Trapp Family, this song about an instrumentalist was a Top 40 hit every December from 1958 to 1962'

Answer: \"The Little Drummer Boy\"


Question: 'In book titles, this character has dealt with a stone, a prisoner, an order & a goblet'

Answer: Harry Potter


Question: 'Billy Crystal goes on a cattle drive (& causes a stampede with his coffee grinder) in this 1991 comedy'

Answer: City Slickers


Question:
'Wenatchee,
Puyallup,
Walla Walla'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'From a German word meaning "to store", it's the lighter of the 2 basic beer types'

Answer: lager


Question: 'This synonym for conceited was used in the title of a 1973 Carly Simon hit'

Answer: vain


Question: 'For her work on the management of common property, Elinor Ostrom is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for this'

Answer: economics


Question: 'Launched into TV & book success by Oprah, this Ph.D. is the author of "The Relationship Rescue Workbook"'

Answer: Dr. Phil


Question: 'All the animals join the "Circle Of Life" to see the baby cub Simba in this animated film from 1994'

Answer: The Lion King


Question:
'Muleshoe,
Pecos,
Rio Grande City'

Answer: Texas


Question: 'Porter & bitter are examples of this 3-letter beer, the darker of the 2 basic types of beer'

Answer: ale


Question: 'The prevailing fashion, or a popular magazine devoted to fashion'

Answer: vogue


Question: 'The work of Jose Clemente Orozco brought fresco into the 20th century as a medium for these vast wall paintings'

Answer: a mural


Question: 'This slaphappy general's memoir "War As I Knew It" appeared in 1947, 2 years after his death'

Answer: Patton


Question: 'Don't worry--that was a CGI cow that was hurtled by a tornado in this Helen Hunt film'

Answer: Twister


Question:
'Medicine Lodge,
Sublette,
Leavenworth'

Answer: Kansas


Question: 'Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a strain of this stuff vital to the fermentation process'

Answer: yeast


Question: 'As a noun, it's the opening of a volcano in the earth's crust; as a verb, it means to give forceful expression'

Answer: vent


Question:
'(Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers the clue.)
Co-founding "Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families" & working on children's issues as First Lady led up to the writing of my first book, titled this'

Answer: It Takes a Village


Question: 'Title vessel the Vera sails from Veracruz in this Katherine Anne Porter novel'

Answer: Ship of Fools


Question: 'Sam Neill & 2 kids narrowly avoid being stampeded by a herd of dinosaurs in this 1993 adventure'

Answer: Jurassic Park


Question:
'Bowling Green,
Findlay,
Sandusky'

Answer: Ohio


Question: 'If you're drinking from the bottle, you'll often find the beer's percentage of ABV, or this, on the label'

Answer: alcohol by volume


Question: 'It can be a decorative design placed at the beginning or end of a book, or a short scene taken from that book'

Answer: vignette


Question: 'In 1880, this actress made a tour de force portraying 18th c. actress Adrienne Lecouvreur'

Answer: Sarah Bernhardt


Question: 'Helen Graham is "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" in a novel by this youngest Bronte sister'

Answer: Anne Brontë


Question:
'Ville Platte,
Opelousas,
Plaquemine'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'The dried blossoms of this plant, genus Humulus, add bitterness to beer'

Answer: hops


Question: 'From the Spanish for "watchman", it's one who takes the law into his own hands'

Answer: vigilante


Question: 'For authors Don & Petie Kladstrup, the book "Champagne" must be this, Latin for "great work"'

Answer: magnum opus


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew pulls a tablecloth out from under a plate.)  The silkiness of the tablecloth & the smoothness of the table & plate combine to reduce this force to a minimum--don't try this at home'

Answer: friction


Question: 'This syndicated DJ & "Solid Gold" host hit No. 1 with "Disco Duck" in 1976'

Answer: Rick Dees


Question: 'Zeta is actually the 6th letter in the Greek alphabet; the last one is this'

Answer: omega


Question: 'A 300-year anniversary'

Answer: a tricentennial


Question: 'This Treasury head is No. 5; after dealing with the economy, how hard could the top job be?'

Answer: Timothy Geithner


Question: 'It rhymes with effective but basically means ineffective'

Answer: defective


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew hits a hanging baseball bat with a mallet.)  The familiar crack of a bat comes only when it's struck at the spot where this is at a minimum; if contact comes elsewhere, you get more of a thud'

Answer: vibration


Question: 'Some longtime fans still haven't forgiven this rocker for his 1979-disco-fied smash "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"'

Answer: Rod Stewart


Question: 'It's not the 3.14th letter in the Greek alphabet--it's the 16th'

Answer: pi


Question: 'By definition, this adjective refers to the time before written records'

Answer: prehistorical


Question: '6th in line is this man who has served in the Cabinets of both George W. Bush & Barack Obama'

Answer: Robert Gates


Question: 'Something poorly put together may be called this type of operation, after a cartoon character'

Answer: Mickey Mouse


Question: '(Sarah demonstrates a happy drinking bird.)  An internal pressure imbalance forces liquid up to the duck's head, making it tip over for another drink; it's caused by this process that cools the wet head but not the dry tail'

Answer: evaporation


Question: '"That's The Way (I Like It)" was a 1975 hit for these disco titans--uh huh, uh huh'

Answer: KC & The Sunshine Band


Question: 'Go fly this 4th Greek letter shaped like a triangle'

Answer: delta


Question: 'Usually beginning July 1 or October 1, it's a 12-month period used in business & accounting'

Answer: a fiscal year


Question: 'Like her dad, she was elected to the House of Representatives; unlike her dad, she got to be No. 2 in succession'

Answer: Pelosi


Question: 'This adjective, referring to the fabric seen here, has come to mean "cheap" or "crummy"'

Answer: chintzy


Question: 'Her No. 1 version of "MacArthur Park" melted all over disco floors in 1978'

Answer: Donna Summer


Question: 'This Greek letter, number eight, is represented here'

Answer: theta


Question: 'Shine on if you see this closest full moon to the fall equinox'

Answer: a harvest moon


Question: 'A one-time U.S. Attorney for D.C., he's now 7th in line'

Answer: Eric Holder


Question: 'This plural of an ordinal number also refers to flawed goods from the factory'

Answer: seconds


Question: 'Walter Murphy's "A Fifth Of" this guy paired classical music with a disco beat'

Answer: Beethoven


Question: 'This 9th letter of the Greek alphabet also means a jot or whit'

Answer: iota


Question: 'Shakespeare coined this "culinary" term for a time of youthful exuberance'

Answer: salad days


Question: 'As Homeland Security was the last to be added as a Cabinet department, this ex-Arizona Governor is No. 18'

Answer: Napolitano


Question: 'This adjective for a job badly done literally means "having loose footwear"'

Answer: slipshod


Question: 'Original sets of this toy that was first sold in 1918 included plans for building Uncle Tom's Cabin'

Answer: Lincoln Logs


Question: 'It's the year JFK was sworn in as president'

Answer: 1961


Question: 'It's what Murray Langston wore to turn himself into the Gong Show's Unknown Comic'

Answer: a paper bag over his head


Question: 'It's what a gosling grows up to be'

Answer: goose


Question: 'This Van Damme film shares its name with an overtime period of play added to a tied hockey game'

Answer: Sudden Death


Question: 'Go against your best interest & you shoot yourself here'

Answer: in the foot


Question: 'The name of this potent potable of bourbon & mint comes from an Arabic word meaning "rose water"'

Answer: julep


Question: 'Of 1988, 1990 or 1994, the year of East & West Germany's reunification'

Answer: 1990


Question: 'The test named for this chemical paper has one decisive factor'

Answer: litmus paper


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Belize Zoo)  Whoa, baby!  The Jabiru variety of this bird stands up to 5 feet tall with a wingspan of 8 feet or more & it flies'

Answer: stork


Question: 'In 1987 Jean-Claude appeared uncredited in this jungle action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger & Jesse Ventura'

Answer: Predator


Question: 'A quick & reckless reaction has you shooting from this body part'

Answer: the hip


Question: 'This Scottish poet's love was "like a red, red rose"'

Answer: Robert Burns


Question: 'In this U.S. presidential election year, Israel gained independence'

Answer: 1948


Question: 'Instrument name of the paper fold seen here'

Answer: accordion fold


Question: 'Hunted at night by summer campers, but never found, it's actually a real bird related to the sandpiper'

Answer: snipe


Question: 'It's Jean-Claude's rhyming nickname that reflects his capital city of birth'

Answer: "The Muscles from Brussels"


Question: 'Something that has a good effect on you (like a vaccine) is a shot in this'

Answer: the arm


Question: 'He's the PBS talk show host seen here'

Answer: Charlie Rose


Question: 'National Guard troops opened fire on students at Kent State in this census year'

Answer: 1970


Question: 'This office supply dates back to 1806<br />This office supply dates back to 1806'

Answer: carbon paper


Question: 'Looking similar to a crane, this great blue bird flies with its long neck in an S shape'

Answer: heron


Question: 'Jean-Claude starred as Chance Boudreaux in "Hard Target", this acclaimed Asian director's U.S. debut'

Answer: John Woo


Question: 'When you brag or boast, you shoot off this body part'

Answer: your mouth


Question: 'This conflict's last battle in 1485 resulted in the house of Lancaster taking power in England'

Answer: Wars of the Roses


Question: 'Beginning a long dry decade, the Prohibition amendment took effect in this year'

Answer: 1920


Question: 'Manila paper was originally made from this rope substance from Manila'

Answer: hemp


Question: 'Darwin is noted for his study of this bird in the Galapagos Islands'

Answer: finch


Question: 'Jean-Claude played a police agent chasing time-traveling criminals in this 1994 sci-fi thriller'

Answer: Timecop


Question: '1775 Bunker Hill order on when you were allowed to shoot'

Answer: when you see the whites of their eyes


Question: 'In this film, Woody Allen is a manager to blind xylophonists, piano-playing birds & has-been crooners'

Answer: Broadway Danny Rose


Question: 'Though it seats 500, Gino's East regularly has lines outside for this culinary specialty, even in winter'

Answer: pizza


Question: 'Fagin & the gang stop picking people's pockets & drop money in instead; what a "Twist"!'

Answer: Oliver


Question: '2 of his many books are "The Foot Book" & "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins"'

Answer: Dr. Seuss


Question: 'Born in Missouri in 1884, according to his names, he was "Head of the House" & "A Faithful Man"'

Answer: Harry S. Truman


Question: 'Appropriately, you'll find an Old West museum bearing his name in Cody, Wyoming'

Answer: Buffalo Bill Cody


Question: 'A card game named for a middle-aged unmarried woman'

Answer: Old Maid


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reporting from downtown Chicago)  The building named for this Chicago company was partly inspired by a tower in Sevilla, Spain'

Answer: Wrigley Building


Question: 'Maladjusted boy & physically challenged pirate team up to sell "Magic Powder" (formerly known as fairy dust)'

Answer: Peter Pan


Question: 'Astrid Lindgren, who died in 2002 at age 94, first spun tales about this freckled girl for her daughter'

Answer: Pippi Longstocking


Question: 'The first & last names of this president born in 1809 mean "Father of Many Nations" & "Of the Lake Colony"'

Answer: Abraham Lincoln


Question:
'They're the pioneering rockers heard here
See ya' later alligator...'

Answer: Bill Haley and the Comets


Question: 'From the team's avian nickname, Bill Mlkvy was this "without a vowel" when he played basketball for Temple'

Answer: the owl


Question: 'A sculpture titled this "Energy" was unveiled at the U. of Chicago in 1967, exactly 25 years after the first chain reaction'

Answer: "Nuclear Energy"


Question: 'Ms. Oakley gives up her rifle & becomes an anti-gun activist (Charlton Heston hates the new show)'

Answer: Annie Get Your Gun


Question: 'An illustration from this children's classic is seen here'

Answer: "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"


Question: 'Born in 1833, his first name means "Son of the Right Hand"; his last, "Son of Harry"'

Answer: Benjamin Harrison


Question: 'He was president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America from 1979 to 1981'

Answer: Bill Blass


Question: 'Christian monks take vows of poverty, chastity & this'

Answer: obedience


Question: 'Chicagoans enjoy the view from this famous drive, named for its waterfront position'

Answer: Lake Shore Drive


Question: 'Miss Mona's Chicken Ranch becomes a real chicken ranch as the gals raise poultry for Col. Sanders'

Answer: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas


Question: 'In a Judy Blume title, these 3 words follow "Are You There God?"'

Answer: "It\'s Me, Margaret"


Question: 'Born in 1856, his 2 names mean "Dweller of a Place Near the Woods" & "Son of William"'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'His keynote address at the 1992 Democratic Convention was a slam dunk'

Answer: Bill Bradley


Question: 'Sleipnir was the magical steed ridden by this Norse god'

Answer: Odin


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew reporting from downtown Chicago)  In 2001, almost $300 trillion in contracts changed hands in that building known as the "Merc"'

Answer: Chicago Mercantile Exchange


Question: 'Domestic abuser Billy Bigelow reforms & builds a family therapy theme park around that merry-go-round'

Answer: Carousel


Question: 'Published in the 1890s, "David Balfour" is a sequel to this classic novel'

Answer: "Kidnapped"


Question: 'Born in 1758, his first name means "One Who Supplants" & his surname means "From the Red River"'

Answer: James Monroe


Question: 'He based "The Power of Myth" on his conversations with Joseph Campbell on PBS'

Answer: Bill Moyers


Question: 'A liquid hydrocarbon formula C8H18, found in petroleum'

Answer: octane


Question: 'In 1920 this man, great-grandson of Sauk leader Black Hawk, became the first president of what is now the NFL'

Answer: Jim Thorpe


Question: 'It begins, "When in the course of human events..."'

Answer: the Declaration of Independence


Question: 'In basketball, 2 types of these are personal & technical'

Answer: fouls


Question: 'Many thirsty folks were tempted by this company's slogan "Can't beat the real thing"'

Answer: Coca-Cola


Question: 'It's heard  here & found in a famous horror movie title'

Answer: a chainsaw


Question: 'The Brahmaputra River & the Krishna River both flow into this bay'

Answer: the Bay of Bengal


Question: 'To cook eggs on one side, then flip 'em & cook 'em again is to cook them in this style'

Answer: over easy


Question: 'His "Song of Myself" says "I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world"'

Answer: Walt Whitman


Question: '(Hi, I'm Allan Houston of the NBA.)  I helped the U.S. bring home the men's basketball gold from the 2000 Summer Olympics held in this city'

Answer: Sydney


Question: 'Many hungry folks were tempted by this fast food company's slogan "Your way, right away"'

Answer: Burger King


Question: 'One thing I'm pretty sure of, we need more of this instrument heard here'

Answer: the cowbell


Question: 'The Tagus flows into this ocean'

Answer: the Atlantic


Question: 'Proverbial avenue of affluence'

Answer: Easy Street


Question: 'He wrote, "Clothes make the man.  Naked people have little or no influence in society"'

Answer: Mark Twain


Question: 'In the 2001 playoffs, Derek Fisher set a record, making 15 of these in 4 games against San Antonio'

Answer: three-pointers


Question: 'If a hill of boulders is part of your commute, this GM vehicle really is "Like nothing else"'

Answer: the Hummer


Question: 'You might hear this Afro-Asian big cat before you "spot" it'

Answer: a leopard


Question: 'The Seine reaches its end in this, also called La Manche'

Answer: the English Channel


Question: 'In July 1961 Billboard unveiled a new chart for this style also called "beautiful music"'

Answer: easy listening


Question: 'This 1849 work says "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is... prison"'

Answer: Civil Disobedience


Question: '(Hi, I'm Michael Finley.)  As a Badger on this college basketball team, I became its all-time leading scorer with 2,147 points'

Answer: the University of Wisconsin


Question: '"That was easy" lures many in need of pens & toner into this store'

Answer: Staples


Question: 'If thismeasuring instrument developed in the 1920s reads high, run!'

Answer: a Geiger counter


Question: 'The Purus & the Putumayo both pour into this river'

Answer: the Amazon


Question: 'Popular brand of oven-cleaning aerosol'

Answer: Easy-Off


Question: 'In "The American Scholar", he wrote that "Character is higher than intellect"'

Answer: Emerson


Question: 'He coached the University of North Carolina men's college basketball team in 4 different decades'

Answer: Dean Smith


Question: 'Garlic breath sufferers can't resist this chewy mint, "The Freshmaker"'

Answer: Mentos


Question: 'It's the "happy" 3-word name for the piece heard here'

Answer: "Ode To Joy"


Question: 'The Tigris flows into this gulf'

Answer: the Persian Gulf


Question: '"You're an alien and I'm from the Valley" is a line from this 1989 sci-fi comedy'

Answer: Earth Girls Are Easy


Question: 'Finns love to retreat to a forest cabin beside a jarvi, one of these bodies of water'

Answer: a lake


Question: 'He was a writer & the title character on the 2001 sitcom "Bob Patterson"'

Answer: Jason Alexander


Question: 'When judges talk about the establishment clause, they're talking about this Constitutional Amendment'

Answer: the First Amendment


Question: 'These female vow takers got their name from nonna, the Latin word for "tutor"'

Answer: nuns


Question: 'This "Great" king of the New Testament became King of Judea with Rome's help in 37 B.C.'

Answer: Herod


Question: 'Surrealist painter who had pop & country hits with "Here You Come Again" & "9 To 5"'

Answer: Salvador Dali (Dolly) Parton


Question: 'Market Square is on a waterfront course for this Helsinki event that began in 1981--something the Finns are good at'

Answer: the marathon


Question: 'This actor seen here has an actress sister & is married to Paul Anka's daughter'

Answer: Jason Bateman


Question: 'Creative works not protected by copyright & land that has never been privately owned are in this'

Answer: the public domain


Question: 'The small beads on this are called aves; the large ones are paternosters & glorias'

Answer: a rosary


Question: 'Led by Bleda & his brother, this group attacked Rome in the 5th century A.D.'

Answer: the Huns


Question: 'Milli Vanilli No. 1 hit that was a bloody period of executions during the French Revolution'

Answer: Blame It On The Rain (Reign) of Terror


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew accepts the goods from a blonde market vendor in Helsinki, Finland.)  I'm in Helsinki buying a CD of this cultural icon who got a life pension from the Finnish Senate in 1897 & lived until 1957'

Answer: (Jean) Sibelius


Question: 'This star of "Rush" and "Speed 2" is the son of actor-playwright Jason Miller'

Answer: Jason Patric


Question: 'The oldest federal law to safeguard consumers fights this type of communications fraud'

Answer: mail fraud


Question: 'Reformation thinkers denied the existence of this place of punishment to cleanse venial sins after death'

Answer: purgatory


Question: 'From the Latin for "offspring", they were the lowest class of ancient Roman citizens'

Answer: the proletariat


Question: 'Spanish royal road connecting Leon & Madrid that's an MTV show in which 7 strangers live together'

Answer: Camino Real World


Question: 'Finnish word for the "hot spots" where women used to give birth; they're clean, as charcoal soot resists bacteria'

Answer: a sauna


Question: 'He's been seen on screen playing a "Loser" & in the title role in "Saving Silverman"'

Answer: Jason Biggs


Question: 'This federal crime of raising impediments can be assaulting a process server or destroying audit records'

Answer: obstruction of justice


Question: 'St. Augustine famously defined these as the "outward and visible signs of an inward and spiritual grace"'

Answer: the sacraments


Question: 'In Cicero's day, this December Roman festival of unrestrained merrymaking lasted for 7 days'

Answer: Saturnalia


Question: 'Thornton Wilder novel about a collapsing structure that's a stand-up comedian whom "Everybody Loves"'

Answer: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Ray) Romano


Question: 'Before becoming a stage & film star, he served in the Navy & was at Pearl Harbor, earning the Navy Cross'

Answer: Jason Robards


Question: 'They're formal claims & defenses by the parties to a civil suit; additional targeted ones may be "special"'

Answer: pleadings


Question: 'When the Pope speaks in this manner, Latin for "from the chair", he's infallible'

Answer: ex cathedra


Question: 'The most central of Rome's 7 hills; Nero & Augustus lived on it'

Answer: the Palatine


Question: 'The last British king not named George, William or Edward was named this'

Answer: James (II)


Question: 'Modernist jeweler Art Smith opened his first shop in this New York City "Village" in 1946'

Answer: Greenwich Village


Question: 'Once made of ivory, today they're made of plastic & weigh 5 1/2 to 6 ounces; rack 'em up!'

Answer: billiard balls


Question: 'I've bought us 2 tickets, my love, to this "City of Light" where we'll visit the domed Pantheon & the Bourbon Palace'

Answer: Paris


Question: 'Marine Corporal Duane Dewey, for throwing himself on one of these to protect his comrades (He survived)'

Answer: grenade


Question: 'The Thunderbird'

Answer: Ford


Question: 'He takes over for the starting pitcher'

Answer: relief pitcher


Question: 'Arthur Rackham's illustrations of fairies adorn the 1906 book titled this character "in Kensington Gardens"'

Answer: Peter Pan


Question: 'In tournament play, tennis balls must be one of these 2 colors'

Answer: white & yellow


Question: 'Would that I could have painted this picture of a sleeping Roman god for you; but Caravaggio beat me to it'

Answer: Cupid


Question: 'Civil War officer Thomas Custer, twice: once for a fight in which this was shot from under him'

Answer: his horse


Question: 'The Regal'

Answer: Buick


Question: 'A sergeant may be promoted to one'

Answer: lieutenant


Question: 'Art Kleinman's "Attitude" is done with oil paint, wax, & this type of drawing stick made from partially burned wood'

Answer: charcoal


Question: 'Leather laces along one of the seams make it easier to hold & pass this ball'

Answer: a football


Question: 'Shall we away to this oldest section of Algiers whose name means "fortress"?'

Answer: the Casbah


Question: 'This future Hawaiian senator, for actions in Italy in 1945 that cost him his right arm'

Answer: (Daniel) Inouye


Question: 'The Delta 88'

Answer: Oldsmobile


Question: 'Certain rights are said to be this, meaning not transferable'

Answer: inalienable


Question: 'Architect Arch Genzler's firm designed the new Century City, California headquarters of CAA, this agency'

Answer: Creative Artists


Question: 'In the movie "Castaway" the non-speaking character Wilson is one of these'

Answer: a volleyball


Question: 'Truffle, ma chere?  This chocolatier named for a historical woman offers a 36-piece assortment for $65:  how decadent!'

Answer: Godiva


Question: 'This aviator, for his "highly destructive raid on the Japanese mainland"'

Answer: James Doolittle


Question: 'The Echo'

Answer: Toyota


Question: 'Put to use in a practical context, like a branch of physics'

Answer: applied


Question: 'Belgian Berthe Art was known for these 2-word paintings of inanimate objects such as flowers & fruits'

Answer: still life


Question: 'Basically, this sports ball is a truncated icosahedron; it's just a little rounder'

Answer: soccer


Question: 'I see the "Simply Cheerful Mixed Rose Bouquet" arrived from this 3-letter co., "The Flower Experts"; lovely, like you'

Answer: FTD


Question: 'Sgt. Francis Currey, for actions at Malmedy, Belgium, Dec. 21, 1944, during this battle'

Answer: the Battle of the Bulge


Question: 'The Aspen'

Answer: Dodge


Question: 'An isolated body or an unusual piece of data'

Answer: outlier


Question: 'Sneering at Shelley's atheism, a newspaper obituary said, "now he knows whether there is" this "or no"'

Answer: God


Question: '"Lawrence of Arabia"'

Answer: David Lean


Question: 'The locals are helpful in this South American country, 2,600 miles long but only 265 wide at its widest point'

Answer: Chile


Question: 'There are 12 pairs of these bones in the body'

Answer: ribs


Question: 'Primo can mean this, the opposite of tardi'

Answer: early


Question: 'Domestic airline of the Soviet Union'

Answer: Aeroflot


Question: 'In an ode Shelley calls this the "breath of autumn's being"'

Answer: the West Wind


Question: '"The Apartment"'

Answer: Billy Wilder


Question: 'In 1639 a Lamaist monastery was built on the site of what is now Ulaanbaatar in this country; feel the peace'

Answer: Mongolia


Question: 'The palatine bone forms the roof of the mouth & the floor of this'

Answer: the nasal cavity


Question: 'You might take due aspirina if you have un mal di capo, one of these'

Answer: a headache


Question: 'Current profession of the First Lady's brother'

Answer: a basketball coach


Question: 'Shelley's poem about this Alpine peak was written "in the Vale of Chamouni"'

Answer: Mont Blanc


Question: '"The Graduate"'

Answer: Mike Nichols


Question: 'Make new friends in this country whose Jutland peninsula shares a 42-mile border with Germany'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'Frontal, parietal & temporal bones are all found here'

Answer: the skull


Question: 'This neutral color is grigio'

Answer: gray


Question: 'Baltic capi"tal" city'

Answer: Tallinn


Question: 'A work that Shelley called "a lyrical drama" finds this mythical man "unbound"'

Answer: Prometheus


Question: '"Tom Jones"--Vanessa Redgrave's husband'

Answer: Tony Richardson


Question: 'Feel welcome but be cautious in this country that has Iran on its western border & India on its eastern one'

Answer: Pakistan


Question: 'In reference to the hands & feet, this 4-letter prefix is found before carpal & tarsal'

Answer: meta-


Question: 'Mi dispiace is this apologetic phrase'

Answer: "I\'m sorry"


Question: 'Nobel Peace Prize-winning American 5-star general'

Answer: George C. Marshall


Question: 'One summer evening the song of this bird inspired Shelley to write his ode titled "to" it'

Answer: a skylark


Question: '"West Side Story" & "The Sound of Music" (2 in one decade!)'

Answer: Robert Wise


Question: 'Come worship at Cretulescu Church, built in 1722 in this country on the Black Sea'

Answer: Romania


Question: 'The foot contains wedge-shaped bones that share a name with this ancient Middle Eastern writing system'

Answer: cuneiform


Question: 'In Italian, this holiday is Pasqua'

Answer: Easter


Question: 'Willis Tower former name'

Answer: the Sears Tower


Question: 'Debuting in a 1960 novel, this character dies following a heart attack on a basketball court in a 1990 book'

Answer: Harry \"Rabbit\" Angstrom


Question: 'It's the decade in which Baskin-Robbins introduced the flavor "Beatle Nut" & "Here Comes the Fudge"'

Answer: the 1960s


Question: 'Pulling no punches, it won awards for Best Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor & Director'

Answer: Million Dollar Baby


Question: 'Laura Scudder didn't invent this taste treat but did invent a way to bag them so they could be a snack food staple'

Answer: potato chips


Question: 'The state where Ronald Reagan was born in 1911'

Answer: Illinois


Question: 'Haggerty or Fogelberg'

Answer: Dan


Question: 'Maybe Sinatra was addressing Ava when he sang, "Call Me" this synonym for unreliable'

Answer: irresponsible


Question: 'Ben & Jerry's has made lots of dough with the ice cream named for this "Dough", its No. 2 seller in 2004'

Answer: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough


Question: 'On accepting his award for Best Actor, Jamie Foxx thanked this man "for living"'

Answer: Ray Charles


Question: 'Dona Bailey co-created this arcade game where a leggy arthropod has to be removed from a mushroom patch'

Answer: Centipede


Question: 'The year he took up residence in the White House'

Answer: 1981


Question: 'A corned beef & sauerkraut sandwich on rye'

Answer: Reuben


Question: 'Rather than "our debts", the Baltimore Catechism version if the Lord's prayer asks, "Forgive us" these'

Answer: trespasses


Question: 'The exotic-sounding name of this Bronx-born brand is meant "to convey an aura of... Old-World traditions"'

Answer: Häagen-Dazs


Question: 'Sandy Powell must have been flying high after winning the Oscar for Costume Design for this film'

Answer: The Aviator


Question: 'In 1921 Kate Gleason built 100 tract homes, inspired by a visit to an assembly line for these'

Answer: cars


Question: 'Nickname he gained from his role in "Knute Rockne--All American"'

Answer: "The Gipper"


Question: 'Goldie's "Private"'

Answer: Benjamin


Question: 'King Xerxes crossed it in 480 B.C. to get to Europe'

Answer: the Hellespont


Question: 'From the Italian for "foam", it's a molded ice cream dessert that often contains candied fruit'

Answer: spumoni


Question: 'Original Screenplay honors went to... I can't remember... ah, yes, the writers of this Jim Carrey-Kate Winslet film'

Answer: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind


Question: 'Patricia Bath has 4 patents for the laser that safely destroys this opacity of the eye's lens'

Answer: cataracts


Question: 'His term as president of this began in 1947'

Answer: the Screen Actors Guild


Question: 'It joins with "zooks!" as a mild or ironic oath'

Answer: Gad


Question: 'Someone who verbally represents another person or product'

Answer: spokesperson


Question: 'Bunny Tracks is a signature flavor from this "colorful" brand that makes folks feel "hoppy"'

Answer: Blue Bunny


Question: 'Acknowledged for making such great movies as "Equus", "The Verdict" & "12 Angry Men", he received an honorary award'

Answer: Sidney Lumet


Question: 'Teri Pall claimed the 1965 invention of this device that had a range of 2 miles; we don't know if it was a 900 MHz'

Answer: a cordless phone


Question: 'The California city that's home to his presidential library & burial site'

Answer: Simi Valley


Question: 'Sans the San, Hearst's California castle'

Answer: Simeon


Question: 'A defendant in a divorce case'

Answer: a respondent


Question: 'During his career he produced about 240 paintings & drawings of the same woman--Helga Testorf'

Answer: Andrew Wyeth


Question: 'This chatty cat belongs to the Duchess in "Alice in Wonderland"'

Answer: the Cheshire Cat


Question: '...who had a No. 1 hit with "You've Got A Friend"'

Answer: Taylor


Question: 'Eton &<br />Greenwich'

Answer: the Thames


Question: 'A horse or a person impatient at being held back is said to do this'

Answer: champing at the bit


Question: '(I'm Scott Van Pelt.)  When this ESPN "Big Show" debuted September 7, 1979, fans were told, "You've gone to sports heaven"'

Answer: SportsCenter


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a slide of a painting.)  Arcimboldo portraits, using non-human elements, anticipate by 350 years this movement, founded in the 1920s'

Answer: Surrealism


Question: 'In the poem "The Duel" there's a terrible spat between the Gingham Dog and this "Scrappy" cat'

Answer: the Calico Cat


Question: '...who was the last president to be born in a log cabin'

Answer: Garfield


Question: 'Damietta &<br />Karnak'

Answer: the Nile


Question: 'All 435 square miles of it lie between the Adirondack & Green Mountains'

Answer: Lake Champlain


Question: '(Hi, I'm Dan Patrick.)  In 2004 this Colt was en fuego & the NFL was his "place" to throw a record 49 TD passes'

Answer: Peyton Manning


Question: 'This New England painter once said, "Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy"'

Answer: (Winslow) Homer


Question: 'Claudine loves to read poems about kitties to Fanchette the cat in "Claudine and Annie" by this "Gigi" novelist'

Answer: Colette


Question: 'The 2 Jameses who co-starred in the Hallmark Hall of Fame movies "Promise" & "My Name Is Bill W"'

Answer: James Garner & James Woods


Question: 'Luang Prabang &<br />Vientiane'

Answer: the Mekong


Question: 'Sadly, he died on the opening night of his last hit musical, "42nd Street"'

Answer: Gower Champion


Question: '(Scott Van Pelt reads the clue.)  You can relive memories like 1977 NBA final games on the channel launched under this name in 1997'

Answer: ESPN Classic


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a slide of a painting.)  Géricault was just 21 in 1812 when he painted our next work, which displays the turbulence of this movement'

Answer: Romanticism


Question: 'This woman's cat Sneaky Pie gets credit as her co-author on such mystery novels as "Murder, She Meowed"'

Answer: (Rita Mae) Brown


Question: '...who conjured up Shangri-La for a 1933 novel'

Answer: Hilton


Question: 'Yaroslavl &<br />Togliatti'

Answer: the Volga


Question: 'Divided into 2 parts by the Rond-Point, it stretches 1.17 miles through Paris'

Answer: the Champs-Élysées


Question: '(Dan Patrick reads the clue.) From baseball, basketball & boxing, they were named by ESPN's "Sports Century" the 3 greatest North American Athletes of the 20th Century'

Answer: Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan & Muhammad Ali


Question: 'In 1943 Jackson Pollock had his first solo exhibit at "Art of this Century", this woman's NYC gallery'

Answer: Peggy Guggenheim


Question: 'He wrote an "Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat" (as well as that other famous "Elegy")'

Answer: (Thomas) Gray


Question: '...who was known as the "Hoosier Poet"'

Answer: (James Whitcomb) Riley


Question: 'Niamey &<br />Timbuktu'

Answer: the Niger


Question: 'The first "Farm Aid" relief concert was held in 1985 in this North-Central U.S. city'

Answer: Champaign, Illinois


Question: '(Scott Van Pelt reads the clue.)  When ESPN began here in Connecticut in 1979, most MLB highlights were of these 3 nearby teams; they could be taped off TV'

Answer: the Yankees, the Mets & the Red Sox


Question: 'This term for a sudden piece of good fortune literally refers to fruit blown to the ground'

Answer: windfall


Question: 'Bogue Falaya,<br />Bayou Lafourche'

Answer: Louisiana


Question: 'This guy seemingly kicked half of the Lone Star State in the face playing TV's Cordell Walker'

Answer: Chuck Norris


Question: 'A song:<br />"O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of bleep..."'

Answer: grain


Question: 'As far as political contributions go, this "comfy" cash is not regulated by federal law'

Answer: soft money


Question: 'Its name is synonymous with French luxury:<br />TOUT US VIOLIN'

Answer: Louis Vuitton


Question: 'You take these "off" to praise someone, but keep something "under" one to keep a secret'

Answer: a hat


Question: 'Clearwater River,<br />Snake River'

Answer: Idaho


Question: 'He flexed his muscles from Brussels in the 1994 film "Street Fighter": wham, bam, thank you...'

Answer: Jean-Claude Van Damme


Question: 'The Miranda warning:<br />"Anything you say can & will be used against you in a bleep bleep bleep"'

Answer: court of law


Question: 'John Kerry served on this type of vessel, which became a verb meaning to attack a candidate's credibility'

Answer: swift boat


Question: 'We've got her purses in the bag:<br />APE SKATED'

Answer: Kate Spade


Question: 'If you've surprised someone who's unprepared, you've caught him this way'

Answer: with his pants down


Question: 'Rahway River,<br />Passaic River'

Answer: New Jersey


Question: 'In 1998 we got caught in "Rush Hour" with this Hong Kong-born star'

Answer: Jackie Chan


Question: 'Churchill:<br />"We shall bleep on the beaches... we shall bleep in the fields & in the streets, we shall bleep in the hills"'

Answer: fight


Question: 'Money set aside for a campaign is said to be kept in one of these "bellicose" containers'

Answer: a war chest


Question: 'Take direction with their shoes & bags:<br />SINEW NET'

Answer: Nine West


Question: 'A clothing store mannequin probably inspired this 2-word phrase for a pompous person'

Answer: a stuffed shirt


Question: 'Manatee River,<br />Kissimmee river'

Answer: Florida


Question: 'Kareem Abdul-Jabbar exchanged sky hooks for left hooks taking on this martial arts master in "Game of Death"'

Answer: Bruce Lee


Question: 'Jefferson:<br />"When in the course of bleep events, it becomes necessary for one people..."'

Answer: human


Question: 'Usually begun by the people, a ballot this, from the Latin for "begin", is yea-or-nayed by all a state's voters'

Answer: initiative


Question: 'His company is in New York:<br />THENCE NO ELK'

Answer: Kenneth Cole


Question: 'This phrase means a situation has been reversed; in the 19th c. that switch was easier: there weren't right & left ones'

Answer: the shoe is on the other foot


Question: 'Kennebunk River,<br />Penobscot River'

Answer: Maine


Question: 'A weary Daniel Larusso hears, "Get him a body bag!" but delivers the match-winning kick in this 1984 film'

Answer: The Karate Kid


Question: 'Coleridge:<br />"From the fiends, that plague thee thus!--why look'st thou so?"--"With my bleep I shot the albatross"'

Answer: crossbow


Question: 'A family got mad at John McCain's use of this, their last name; their ancestors refused to brand cattle'

Answer: Maverick


Question: 'He designed for Perry Ellis before designing under his own name:<br />CAR JOB SCAM'

Answer: Marc Jacobs


Question: 'Napoleon has been credited with coining the phrase "an iron hand in" one of these'

Answer: a velvet glove


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a museum exhibit at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.)  After reading a 1975 Popular Electronics article about the first PC, the Altair 8800, Paul Allen & Bill Gates adapted this fundamental programming language for it'

Answer: BASIC


Question: '"Actin' funny, but I don't know why, 'scuse me while I kiss the sky"'

Answer: "Purple Haze"


Question: '"T.G.O.W."'

Answer: The Grapes of Wrath


Question: 'Abraham shows up in chapter 17 of this biblical book'

Answer: Genesis


Question: 'He was the first U.S. president born after the country won its independence'

Answer: Martin Van Buren


Question: 'This tile game takes its name from the Chinese for "sparrows"'

Answer: mah-jongg


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew uses her fingers to move some virtual documents around on a large tabletop flat screen monitor.)  Technology that allows a computer to recognize the position & motion of my hands brought Microsoft its 10,000th one of these from the government in 2009'

Answer: a patent


Question: '"Ohh, but ain't that America for you & me, ain't that America something to see"'

Answer: "Pink Houses"


Question: '"O.M.A.M."'

Answer: Of Mice and Men


Question: 'His nephew, who escaped Sodom with a salty wife'

Answer: Lot


Question: 'Of a bird, a lizard or a fish, it's what a sand martin is'

Answer: a bird


Question: 'This adventurous cartoon boy had a pal named Hadji & a dog named Bandit'

Answer: Jonny Quest


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew presses her palm to a scanner plate at a museum exhibit at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.)  Futuristic research going on here on the Microsoft campus includes unlocking doors with this method, based on your physical characteristics, from the Greek for "life" & "measure"'

Answer: biometrics


Question: '"Hey where did we go, days when the rains came Down in the hollow playin' a new game"'

Answer: "Brown Eyed Girl"


Question: '"E.O.E."'

Answer: East of Eden


Question: 'After this wife's death, Abraham married Keturah'

Answer: Sarah


Question: 'This Dickens title character tries to make his fortune in the United States'

Answer: Martin Chuzzlewit


Question: 'In the Bible he's a son of Saul & a close friend of David'

Answer: Jonathan


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a museum exhibit at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.)  Microsoft Research, the company's cutting-edge branch, is developing software using FR, short for this'

Answer: facial recognition


Question: '"Look at the stars look how they shine for you & everything you do, yeah, they were all..."'

Answer: "Yellow"


Question: '"C.R."'

Answer: Cannery Row


Question: 'His son by the handmaid Hagar, considered the father of the Arabs'

Answer: Ishmael


Question: 'This island northeast of Venezuela was taken by France in 1635'

Answer: Martinique


Question: 'Although the flower seen here is a type of Narcissus, it is popularly called this'

Answer: jonquil


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew plays with a mouse on a computer at a museum exhibit at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.)  One of the reasons windows sold a million copies a month in the '90s was the GUI, short for this, which let users communicate with the computer via symbols & icons'

Answer: graphical user interface


Question: '"Hey, hey mama said the way you move, gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove"'

Answer: "Black Dog"


Question: '"T.R.P."'

Answer: The Red Pony


Question: 'Muslims believe that Abraham helped build this building in Mecca thousands of years ago'

Answer: the Kaaba


Question: 'The patron saint of France, St. Martin of this city was famous for his charity & kindness'

Answer: Tours


Question: 'Sounding like the basement torture room, it's the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle'

Answer: the donjon


Question: 'One critic called Peter Martin's book about him "the best biography of the greatest biographer in the English language"'

Answer: James Boswell


Question: 'Name of the cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona & many other towns as well'

Answer: boot hill


Question: 'Though an insect larva, its name comes from French for “hairy cat”'

Answer: caterpillar


Question: '“Take My Wife...Please!”'

Answer: Henny Youngman


Question: 'Bill Haley hit that opens, “Get down to that kitchen & rattle those pots & pans”'

Answer: Shake, Rattle and Roll


Question: 'Narrow Biblical sea between Saudi Arabia & Africa that's an intense blue-green in color'

Answer: Red Sea


Question: 'A baby frog is called either a tadpole or this'

Answer: polliwog


Question: 'After Indian wars, Chief Rain-In-The-Face ended up selling autobiographies at this Brooklyn resort'

Answer: Coney Island


Question: 'Word “slavery” comes from these eastern Europeans who were often enslaved by conquerors'

Answer: Slavs


Question: 'Though he claims never to have said it, he called his autobiography “Nice Guys Finish Last”'

Answer: Leo Durocher


Question: 'In song, battle where Johnny Horton put cannonballs in a gator's head “& powdered his behind”'

Answer: The Battle of New Orleans


Question: 'China's Huang River carries large amounts of straw-colored earth into this sea'

Answer: Yellow Sea


Question: 'According to the Bible, thousands of frogs, perhaps millions, plagued this country'

Answer: Egypt


Question: 'He personally paid for many of the instruments & made this his soldiers' theme:'

Answer: General George Armstrong Custer


Question: 'Term for noisy dance or party which originally meant a kick in the shins'

Answer: shindig


Question: '“Sorry I Kept You Waiting, Madam” is this haridresser's story'

Answer: Vidal Sassoon


Question: 'According to the Everly Brothers, not only was Johnny a joker, he was also this'

Answer: bird dog


Question: 'Name of this sea is said to allude not to its dark water but its storms'

Answer: Black Sea


Question: 'Probably best known to TV viewers as Valene Ewing, she had female lead in 1972 “Frogs”'

Answer: Joan Van Ark


Question: 'A reporter for the Virginia City, Nev. Territorial Enterprise first used this byline Feb. 2, 1863'

Answer: Mark Twain


Question: 'From same root as “senile”, to Romans this body's name meant a council of old men'

Answer: senate


Question: '“Every Secret Thing” contains her own account of her kidnapping'

Answer: Patty Hearst


Question: 'This girl was “as skinny as a stick of macaroni”'

Answer: Boney Maronie


Question: 'Icebreakers now keep Port of Archangel, on this appropriately-named sea, open in winter'

Answer: White Sea


Question: 'Anatomical feature absorbed by its body when a tadpole becomes a frog'

Answer: tail


Question: 'Nickname of judge Isaac Parker whose court was called “The Gates of Hell”'

Answer: hanging judge


Question: 'Though John Duns Scotus was considered a great philosopher, his followers were later called this'

Answer: dunces


Question: 'Former special counsel to president Nixon who's since been “Born Again”'

Answer: Charles Colson


Question: 'Ernie K-Doe called her, “The worst person I know”'

Answer: his mother-in-law


Question: 'Dutch settlers named this longest river of South Africa not for its color but their royal family'

Answer: Orange


Question: 'The original of Islam's sacred book, the Koran, was written in rhyme in this language'

Answer: Arabic


Question: '“Monopoly” inventor Charles Darrow named properties in the game for streets in this city'

Answer: Atlantic City


Question: 'In 1964 his widow said “So now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man”'

Answer: (John F.) Kennedy


Question: 'Broadway Joe'

Answer: Joe Namath


Question: 'Roman Quintas Ennius said a man of worth follows the rule “No sooner said” than this'

Answer: done


Question: 'In 1859, with his agent on his back, Charles Blondin walked a tightrope suspended over this'

Answer: Niagara Falls


Question: 'Language of the world's oldest republic, tiny San Marino'

Answer: Italian


Question: 'In crossing midtown Manhattan it's only “avenue” you hit that's named for a president'

Answer: Madison


Question: 'Boosting the space program, this rocket expert said, “Your tax dollars will go farther”'

Answer: Werner Von Braun


Question: 'Saying he's “simply the best” Time Magazine agrees he's hockey's “Great One”'

Answer: Wayne Gretzky


Question: 'Saki advised “In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for” this'

Answer: the mouse


Question: 'In 1857, William Kelly convinced U.S. Patent Office to give him, not Bessemer, rights to make it'

Answer: steel


Question: 'Twi, Ga, Fang, & Bubi are languages spoken on this continent'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'Peace, Hope & Friendship are streets in this state capital named in honor of God'

Answer: Providence, Rhode Island


Question: 'In 1960, Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon became 1st prime minister of any country who was also this'

Answer: a woman


Question: 'Though a woman, this black tennis star of the ’50s was known as “Big Al”'

Answer: Althea Gibson


Question: 'Poem that begins, “This is the forest primeval”'

Answer: Evangeline


Question: 'Unlike most European languages, Bulgarian doesn't use the Roman alphabet, but uses this one'

Answer: Cyrillic


Question: 'There are 10 switch-backs in 1 block of this S.F. street often called “crookedest in the world”'

Answer: Lombard Street


Question: 'Though Sinatra had the hit, it was this singer who wrote the lyrics of “My Way”'

Answer: Paul Anka


Question: 'Anatomical nickname of pitcher Mordecai Brown'

Answer: Three-Fingered Brown


Question: 'Philip Bailey said “Respect is what we owe;” this, “What we give”'

Answer: love


Question: 'In 1821, he became only person to invent, unaided, an entire alphabet & numbering system'

Answer: Sequoyah


Question: 'Skyline Drive rides the crest of the mountains in this Virginia national park'

Answer: Shenandoah


Question: 'Unlikely site of 1967 meeting between pres. Johnson & Soviet premier Kosygin was this N.J. town'

Answer: Glassboro


Question: '9-man teams nearly always lose to softball pitcher Eddie Feigner & his 3-man team nicknamed this'

Answer: The King and his Court


Question: 'According to Aristophane's famous saying “Man is by nature” this <u>type</u> of animal'

Answer: political


Question: '1952 novel that begins off the coast of Cuba, & ends on shore 3 days later'

Answer: The Old Man and the Sea


Question: 'For General John Bell Hood this war cost him an arm & a leg (literally) at Gettysburg & Chickamauga'

Answer: the Civil War


Question: 'In the beginning of Phil Collins career was a stint as the drummer of this band'

Answer: Genesis


Question: 'It indicates a playing piece in chess'

Answer: just plain B


Question: 'The English borrowed this Tongan word for "forbidden" & made it a noun referring to the prohibition itself'

Answer: taboo


Question: 'Europeans know this Louvre attraction as "La Giocanda"'

Answer: The Mona Lisa


Question: 'It met for the first time in at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774'

Answer: Continental Congress


Question: 'In early 1944, George Patton assumed command of this army & planned a French campaign'

Answer: the Third Army


Question: 'I'll be a believer when you ID this band for whom Micky Dolenz tapped the toms'

Answer: The Monkees


Question: 'In Scotland, it refers to a high hill'

Answer: Ben


Question: 'The name for this type of worker comes from the Latin for "lead worker"'

Answer: plumber


Question: 'A museum in Silves, Portugal is devoted to this natural product important to Portugal's wine industry'

Answer: cork


Question: 'Its main hub cities are Newark, Cleveland & Houston'

Answer: Continental Airlines


Question: 'This 5-star general was the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1949-1953'

Answer: Bradley


Question: 'Keith Moon bashed the skins for this band with lunatic abandon'

Answer: The Who


Question: '1982 was probably his favorite year, that was when he directed "My Favorite Year"'

Answer: (Richard) Benjamin


Question: 'This word used in Roman Catholic theology comes from the Latin for "edge" or "border" not "dance"'

Answer: limbo


Question: 'This 15th-century European staked his claim to fame by inspiring a classic horror movie character'

Answer: Vlad the Impaler


Question: 'Abbreviated CBA, it includes teams called the Yakima Sun Kings & the Gary Steelheads'

Answer: the Continental Basketball Association


Question: 'A fort & a Tennessee city are named for this general who was also our nation's first Secretary of War'

Answer: (Henry) Knox


Question: 'John Densmore rode out many a storm as this band's drummer'

Answer: The Doors


Question: 'In the names of political rivals in 1960s Algeria, it precedes "Bella" & "Khedda"'

Answer: Ben


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Naxos, Greece.)  Ostraka, broken pieces of pottery used as ballots to recommend exile gave us this word for banishment'

Answer: ostracism


Question: 'Leks, levs & lats are all types of these still used in Eastern Europe'

Answer: currency


Question: 'The theory of the slow tectonic movement of plates across the Earth'

Answer: continental drift


Question: 'Later a Hollywoord actor, he was the most decorated American soldier of World War II'

Answer: Audie Murphy


Question: 'Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac risked combusting spontaneously in 2000, appearing with this band on VH1's "The List"'

Answer: Spinal Tap


Question: 'It follows "Agnes" in the name of a boutique whose first U.S. store opened in 1981'

Answer: B


Question: 'This word for a prolonged state of sadness comes from the Greek for "black bile" (once thought to be it's cause)'

Answer: melancholy


Question: 'Chartered in 1789, the town of Hammerfest in this country is the northernmost town in Europe'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'To cartographers, it's known as CONUS'

Answer: the Continental United States


Question: 'In 1874, after more than 20 years, he finally completed his entire "Ring" cycle with "The Twilight of the Gods"'

Answer: Wagner


Question:
'1991:
Susan Sarandon &
Geena Davis'

Answer: Thelma and Louise


Question: 'In 1992 Alexander Wolszczan discovered the first ones of these outside our solar system'

Answer: planets


Question: 'A 1955 issue featured "A Walk With" this 81-year-old poet'

Answer: Robert Frost


Question: 'Louis, a mute trumpeter swan in E.B. White's "The Trumpet of the Swan", was named for this musician'

Answer: Armstrong


Question: 'A state of stiffness in tissue; it can precede "mortis"'

Answer: rigor


Question: 'Robert Schumann's high hopes for "Genoveva", his only one of these works, were dashed by a Leipzig audience'

Answer: an opera


Question:
'1994:
Jim Carry &
Jeff Daniels'

Answer: Dumb and Dumber


Question: 'From the Greek for "twig", it's a plant or animal made from a portion of another without sex'

Answer: a clone


Question: 'Yankee profiled "New England's greatest invention"--this one created in a restaurant on a Mass. toll road'

Answer: the Toll House cookie


Question: 'This craftman's wife made clothes & knitted stockings for 2 elves, but they left his shop & never came back'

Answer: the shoemaker


Question: 'Each paragraph of an essay should include this type of "sentence" that states the main thought'

Answer: topic


Question: 'When his brother Kaspar died in 1815, he became co-guardian of Kaspar's 9-year-old son Karl'

Answer: Beethoven


Question:
'1947:
Cary Grant &
Shirley Temple'

Answer: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer


Question: 'The "M" in MASER stands for this; the rest of the acronym is the same as in "LASER"'

Answer: microwave


Question: 'A frequent Yankee advertiser is this business based in Freeport, Maine since 1912'

Answer: L.L. Bean


Question: 'Appropriately, this Andersen heroine had "eyes as blue as the deepest sea"'

Answer: the Little Mermaid


Question: 'To reduce 137,618 to 68,809'

Answer: halve


Question: 'We're fortunate to have the "Fingal's Cave" overture by this composer whose first name means "fortunate"'

Answer: Felix Mendelssohn


Question:
'1974:
James Caan &
Alan Arkin'

Answer: Freebie and the Bean


Question: 'In 1932 this inventor figured out a better way than using Iceland spar to polarize light'

Answer: Edwin Land


Question: 'A cautionary 1994 story listed 115 people who had perished on this, New England's highest mountain'

Answer: Washington


Question: 'Hansel had a sister named Gretel; so did this boy in an 1865 novel'

Answer: Hans Brinker


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Park City, UT.)  This five-letter word can mean "disposed", or "liable", or "biathlon position"'

Answer: prone


Question: 'In 1940 he wrote "Japanische Festmusik" as a gesture of friendship between Germany & Japan'

Answer: Richard Strauss


Question:
'1951:
Gregory Peck &
Susan Hayward'

Answer: David and Bathsheba


Question: 'In 1921 it was found that this hormone controlled your carbohydrate metabolism'

Answer: insulin


Question: 'The May 2004 issue visited the lobstermen of Stonington on this Maine bay'

Answer: Penobscot Bay


Question: 'Beatrix Potter wrote a "tale about a tail--a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was" this'

Answer: Nutkin


Question: 'It's the watery last word of "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock"'

Answer: drown


Question: 'In computerese this word from the Hindu faith means an icon of a user in virtual reality'

Answer: an avatar


Question: 'In a Defoe novel, this companion is described as "a comely handsome fellow"'

Answer: Friday


Question: '"Rudy" featured Jason Miller as this university's coach Ara Parseghian'

Answer: Notre Dame


Question: 'This is the official religion of Libya'

Answer: Islam


Question: 'For warmth & a folksy effect, I use a 19th century hooked one of these, which were often made from old feed bags'

Answer: a rug


Question: 'These semi-aquatic rodents plaster their lodges with mud'

Answer: beavers


Question: 'This Atlantic City promenade was built in 1870 as a temporary structure'

Answer: The Boardwalk


Question: '"Jo's Boys" was the second sequel to this 19th century novel'

Answer: Little Women


Question: 'Bear Bryant puts this speedy title character of a 1994 movie on the Crimson Tide'

Answer: Forrest Gump


Question: 'The geographic center of this state is Kent, 11 miles south of Dover'

Answer: Delaware


Question: 'My parties on the theme of this traditional feast are historically authentic, with ti leaves & lauhala mats'

Answer: luau


Question: 'The army species of this insect has no permanent home; workers link legs to protect their queen'

Answer: ants


Question: 'A benevolent & protective order was named in 1868 for this animal'

Answer: the elk


Question: 'Chapter 48 of this English novel deals with "The Flight of Sikes"--Bill Sikes'

Answer: Oliver Twist


Question: 'Shot at University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Back to School" features Rodney Dangerfield competing in this aquatic sport'

Answer: high-diving


Question: 'The endangered species list includes this spotted African cat plus a fish & a frog named for it'

Answer: a leopard


Question: 'Hope you like my towels with traditional block printing from Jaipur in this country'

Answer: India


Question: 'The swiftlets of Asia are in trouble because these structures are snatched to make soup'

Answer: nests


Question: 'This president snagged Oregon for the United States'

Answer: James K. Polk


Question: 'Richard Middlemas gets crushed by an elephant in "The Surgeon's Daughter", an 1827 tale by this Edinburgher'

Answer: Sir Walter Scott


Question: 'The premiere for this 2006 film featured a green carpet, to honor the Thundering Herd'

Answer: We Are Marshall


Question: 'William Driver is said to have given this nickname to the American flag in 1824'

Answer: Old Glory


Question: 'Originally, sequins were worn to show off one's wealth; the word "sequin" comes from the Arabic for this object'

Answer: a coin


Question: 'This "solitary" crustacean sometimes defends its shell home via sea anemones that hitch a ride'

Answer: a hermit crab


Question: 'These maidens bring the souls of slain warriors to Valhalla'

Answer: Valkyries


Question: 'The NYC murder of Mary Rogers inspired Poe, who changed the setting to Paris & created "The Mystery of" her'

Answer: Marie Roget


Question: 'In "Glory Road", Jon Voight played this school's legendary coach Adolph Rupp'

Answer: University of Kentucky


Question: 'The Supreme Court rejected absolute executive privilege in the 1974 case United States v. this man'

Answer: Richard Nixon


Question:
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads the clue.)
Making ordinary furniture look like an antique is called this, a synonym for "troubling"--the fun part is the hitting'

Answer: distressing


Question: 'Insert a hyphen in this 4-letter poultry dwelling & you get a human dwelling'

Answer: a coop (or co-op)


Question: 'Seen here are the shells of this type of marine snail'

Answer: a whelk


Question: 'This "colorful" Ivy League college was founded in 1764'

Answer: Brown


Question: 'Last name of the pere who wrote "The Three Musketeers" & the fils who wrote "Francillon"'

Answer: Dumas


Question: 'In February 2008, someone edited Hillary Clinton's entry on this website, replacing her picture with one of a walrus'

Answer: Wikipedia


Question: 'Known for his streak of consecutive games played, he made baseball's Hall of Fame in 2007 with 98.5% of the vote'

Answer: Cal Ripken, Jr.


Question: 'Golda Meir began serving as this country's prime minister at age 70'

Answer: Israel