Question: 'With his Mommy Dearest, this Frances Hodgson Burnett title character moves to England & inherits a title'

Answer: Little Lord Fauntleroy


Question: 'Dental tartar, or branch of math<br />(8)'

Answer: calculus


Question: 'Cyclotrons & synchrotrons are 2 types of these machines used to increase the speeds of subatomic nuclei'

Answer: particle accelerators


Question: 'He's the ambitious & visionary sculptor who designed & oversaw the massive Mount Rushmore project'

Answer: (Gutzon) Borglum


Question: 'The brother of this leader is believed to be the first known European to have died in the Americas'

Answer: Leif Ericson


Question: 'It's the inflammatory 1770 incident depicted here'

Answer: the Boston Massacre


Question: 'The male sorcerers'

Answer: the (Washington) Wizards


Question: 'Winners of the Templeton Prize for Understanding of this include Baba Amte, Rabbi Jakobovits & the Rev. Peacocke'

Answer: Religion


Question: 'When you hit the lowest possible level, you're said to "hit" this'

Answer: rock bottom


Question: 'The name of this big, hard round candy implies that it'll fracture your mandible'

Answer: a jawbreaker


Question: 'In 1999, 3 frozen mummies of Incas sacrificed centuries ago were found on Mt. Llullaillaco in these mountains'

Answer: the Andes


Question:
'They're the 2 leaders seen here meeting in
Vladivostok in November 1974'

Answer: Gerald Ford & Brezhnev


Question: 'The bright celestial bodies'

Answer: the Phoenix Suns


Question: '(Lech Walesa delivers the clue, speaking in Polish: I'm Lech Walesa,) In 1983 I was picking mushrooms near Gdansk when it was announced I had won this prize'

Answer: the Nobel Peace Prize


Question: 'It's a "canine" term for a gemstone collector'

Answer: a rock hound


Question: 'In 2005 Hershey introduced a limited-edition Key lime version of this "Sometimes you feel like a nut" bar'

Answer: Almond Joy


Question: 'Mount Whitney is named for Josiah Dwight Whitney, once the state geologist of this state'

Answer: California


Question: 'This man's inauguration is depicted here'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'The precious metal lumps'

Answer: the Denver Nuggets


Question: 'In April 2002 at the age of 88, Henry Brant won this prize, also given to journalists, for music'

Answer: the Pulitzer Prize


Question: '"Money is good if you know how to use it", said the patriarch of this famous family'

Answer: the Rockefellers


Question: 'Australians like this hole-in-the-middle candy, too, but in an unusual flavor: musk'

Answer: Life Savers


Question: 'We wonder if Jesse Ventura has ventured to the top of Eagle Mountain, the highest point in this state'

Answer: Minnesota


Question: 'In 1966, the man seen here held this day job'

Answer: vice president


Question: 'The meshwork trapping devices'

Answer: the New Jersey Nets


Question: 'The $100,000 Potamkin Prize is for research in this aging disease that afflicted Mrs. Potamkin'

Answer: Alzheimer\'s disease


Question: 'Socks the cat, once America's First Feline, was born in this city'

Answer: Little Rock


Question: 'When it debuted in our galaxy in 1923, it was touted as "a chocolate malted milk in a candy bar"'

Answer: Milky Way


Question: 'Follow the Presidential Trail in the Black Hills for a great view of this 5,725-foot mountain'

Answer: Mt. Rushmore


Question: 'Though this writer was born in England, you might have a sense of his American-ness'

Answer: Thomas Paine


Question: 'The King Charles I supporters'

Answer: the (Cleveland) Cavaliers


Question: 'This famous British gallery that has lots of J.M.W. Turner works gives the Turner Prize for Contemporary Art'

Answer: the Tate Gallery


Question: 'This disease is transmitted by the bite of a wood tick or a dog tick'

Answer: Rocky Mountain spotted fever


Question: 'This candy bar with a "chic street" name has been around since 1936'

Answer: 5th Avenue


Question: 'The Sacred Mother, a mountain sacred to Buddhists, rises maternally in this vast desert'

Answer: the Gobi Desert


Question: 'King Gustav III of this country founded a ballet company in 1773; it's still going strong today'

Answer: Sweden


Question: '"You're gonna need a bigger boat"'

Answer: Jaws


Question: 'Auguste Maquet & P.A. Fiorentino were collaborators on his classic novel "The Count of Monte Cristo"'

Answer: Dumas


Question: '1913's ch. Strathtay Prince Albert, of this breed, must have made Yale proud in taking the crown'

Answer: a bulldog


Question: 'This explorer's wife Josephine wrote the book "Snow Baby" about giving birth to their daughter in Greenland'

Answer: Robert Peary


Question: 'Eveready's dominance in U.S. battery sales was shaken after this brand was introduced in 1964'

Answer: Duracell


Question: 'In the early 1890s, before he was czar, he was in a spin over ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska'

Answer: Nicholas II


Question: '"Hammond, after careful consideration I've decided not to endorse your park"'

Answer: Jurassic Park


Question: 'Turgenev regarded this author of "The Cossacks" as the "great author of the Russian land"'

Answer: Tolstoy


Question: 'Definitely "Old English", 1975's ch. Sir Lancelot of Barvan was this breed'

Answer: an English sheepdog


Question: 'In January 1773 this British sea captain crossed the Antarctic Circle but never sighted land'

Answer: Captain Cook


Question: 'It's defined as removing oneself from a vessel such as the QE2'

Answer: debarking (or disembarking)


Question: 'In 1661 this king, no slouch as a dancer himself, founded the Academie Royale de Danse'

Answer: Louis XIV


Question: '"It's Hebrew, from the Talmud.  It says, 'Whoever saves one life saves the world entire'"'

Answer: Schindler\'s List


Question: 'He conceived the general plan for "Faust" in 1770, but it wasn't until 1808 that the complete first part was published'

Answer: Goethe


Question: 'What other breed could 1935's ch. Nunsoe Duc de la Terrace of Blakeen be but a standard this'

Answer: a poodle


Question: 'This 19th c. army officer initially named the Great Salt Lake for himself, but had to settle for some salt flats'

Answer: Bonneville


Question: 'It's the nickname of the hand of aces & eights held by Wild Bill Hickok at the time of his 1876 murder'

Answer: Dead Man\'s Hand


Question: 'This princess served as president of the Royal Ballet from 1957 until her death in 2002'

Answer: Princess Margaret


Question: '"I just want to know that it's really happening"'

Answer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind


Question: 'In "Exemplary Tales", a 1613 collection, he claimed to be the first to write short stories in Castilian'

Answer: Cervantes


Question: 'A current California senator should know it's the "sporty" breed of 1947's ch. Warlord of Mazelaine'

Answer: a boxer


Question: 'In 1820 Stephen Long called the Great Plains the "Great" this, unsuitable for agricultural deveopment'

Answer: American Desert


Question: 'On a whale shark this fin can be 4 feet high'

Answer: the dorsal fin


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew stands in front of a stage at Tivoli in Copenhagen, Denmark.)  A new production of "Thumbelina" that premiered here in Tivoli in 2005 featured sets & costumes designed by this woman, the queen of Denmark'

Answer: Queen Margrethe


Question: '"Better be worth it.  He better go home and cure some disease or invent a longer-lasting light bulb"'

Answer: Saving Private Ryan


Question: 'This acclaimed author was born March 6, 1928 in Aracataca, Colombia'

Answer: Gabriel Garcia Márquez


Question: 'Devo-tees know this breed of ch. Courtenay Fleetfoot of Pennyworth, 1964's winner, can run as fast as 35 mph'

Answer: a whippet


Question: 'In 1533 Hernando de Soto joined Francisco Pizarro in taking this Incan capital & nearly lost his life in an ambush'

Answer: Cuzco


Question: 'Woody Allen joked that he earned pin money in school hustling in this Hanukkah top game'

Answer: Dreidel


Question: 'In 1967 Dame Cicely Saunders founded St. Christopher's, the first modern one of these; in 2005 she died there'

Answer: a hospice


Question: 'A satirical fable: "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night..."'

Answer: Animal Farm


Question: 'In 1995 she won Grammys for Best New Artist, Pop Vocal, Female & Record of the Year for "All I Wanna Do"'

Answer: Sheryl Crow


Question: 'The egg-shaped plum variety of this makes a great spaghetti sauce'

Answer: the tomato


Question: 'The name of one of the buildings of the University of Paris, it's also popularly used to designate the entire university'

Answer: the Sorbonne


Question: 'Take this toy I use to "walk the dog"; I tried that "warp drive" trick, & now I'm in traction'

Answer: a yo-yo


Question: 'A red hook & ladder'

Answer: a fire truck


Question: '1813: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a ...fortune must be in want of a wife"'

Answer: Pride and Prejudice


Question: 'This writer of "Both Sides Now" taught herself to play guitar from an instruction book'

Answer: Joni Mitchell


Question: 'Many dieters eat helf of one of these, like the Star Ruby or Rio Red, before every meal'

Answer: the grapefruit


Question:
'The main tree-lined
avenue of Paris,
it runs through
Rond Point to the
Place
Charles de Gaulle'

Answer: the Champs-Élysées


Question: 'Take this crossbar with 2 u-shaped pieces; my oxen are on strike, & they refuse to wear it'

Answer: a yoke


Question: 'ENIAC'

Answer: a computer


Question: 'The absurd:<br />"Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure"'

Answer: The Stranger (L\'Étranger)


Question: 'She got her start performing with her parents in Alaskan Eskimo villages'

Answer: Jewel


Question: 'What the French call epinard we call this'

Answer: spinach


Question: '12 avenues radiate from this Paris structure completed in 1835'

Answer: Arc de Triomphe


Question: 'Take this chocolate soft drink, because now I'm buying the "Lite" version (so I can drink twice as much!)'

Answer: Yoo-hoo


Question: 'A Fokker E-III'

Answer: an airplane


Question: 'By E.M. Forster:<br />"'The signora had no business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, '...she promised us south rooms...'"'

Answer: A Room with a View


Question: 'In 2002 she teamed up with Santana, singing lead on "The Game Of Love"'

Answer: Michelle Branch


Question: 'For cooking, popular ones of these include the Gravenstein & the Greening'

Answer: apples


Question: 'Seen here, it's located in the Hôtel des Invalides and considered one of France's foremost shrines'

Answer: Napoleon\'s Tomb


Question: 'Please take my "Learn to" do this CD; if I hear "Alpine Honeymoon" one more time I'll go bananas'

Answer: yodel


Question: 'The Tappan Zee cantilever'

Answer: a bridge


Question: 'About an Irish Catholic Youth:<br />"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow..."'

Answer: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man


Question: '(I'm Wynonna.) One of my favorite songs is "I Can't Make You Love Me" by this sassy singer-guitar player'

Answer: Bonnie Raitt


Question: 'Also called a Mexican potato, this crunchy vegetable can be baked, boiled or fried, or served raw in salads'

Answer: jicama


Question: 'The 2 islands in the heart of Paris are the Ile Saint-Louis & this one on which Notre Dame stands'

Answer: Île de la Cité


Question: 'Take this role in "Fiddler on the Roof"; I wanted to play it, but Bea Arthur's old Broadway costume doesn't fit me'

Answer: Yenta


Question: 'Creels, panniers & scuttles'

Answer: baskets


Question: 'His "1812 Overture" commemorates Napoleon's 1812 defeat in Russia'

Answer: Pyotr Tchaikovsky


Question: 'Janice Dickinson says she was the first to put this word in front of "model" to describe herself in the 1970s'

Answer: super


Question: '100 million years ago this continent was connected to Antarctica; in 50 million more years, it'll hit Asia'

Answer: Australia


Question: '(Cheryl of the Clue Crew in front of New York's Rockefeller Center)  Kevin & his mom were reunited here at Rockefeller Center in a sequel to this Macaulay Culkin film'

Answer: Home Alone


Question: 'Once called Tsaritsyn, this city resisted a bloody 6-month siege by the Germans during World War II'

Answer: Stalingrad


Question: 'Adjective for food you can "nuke"'

Answer: microwaveable


Question: 'Vivaldi's Opus 8 contains a cycle of violin concerti collectively called this'

Answer: "The Four Seasons"


Question: 'It's the term for the structure seen here; look down; 707s take off on a larger one of the same name'

Answer: runway


Question: 'Metamorphic rocks are divided into 2 main types depending on how they were formed: by heat or by this'

Answer: pressure


Question: 'Director Merian Cooper disliked the noisy EL trains, so he had this beast tear one down in 1933'

Answer: King Kong


Question: 'During an 1884-85 revolt, an entire garrison led by Charles George Gordon was massacred in this capital city'

Answer: Khartoum


Question: 'A pro athlete who's had a great year often asks to do this with his long-term contract'

Answer: renegotiate


Question: 'His "Pagliacci" was based on an incident that had taken place in a Calabrian village'

Answer: Ruggero Leoncavallo


Question: 'Linda Rose, seen in Palmolive commercials, is best known for this specific job'

Answer: hand modeling


Question: 'A bergschrund is a crevasse in one of these'

Answer: glacier


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in New York's Times Square)  Times Square looked pretty seedy when Jon Voight hung out here in this 1969 film'

Answer: Midnight Cowboy


Question: 'A stunning victory in the Oct. 1415 Battle of this village opened the way for Henry V's reconquest of Normandy'

Answer: Agincourt


Question: 'Besides "Killjoy" & "Gloomy Gus", it's a term for one who wants to outlaw alcoholic beverages'

Answer: a prohibitionist


Question: 'Frederick Beale was the first to use "recital" to mean a piano concert referring to one by this Hungarian'

Answer: Franz Liszt


Question: 'Bogie & Bergman could tell you he founded the Elite Model Agency & his name's now on modeling schools'

Answer: John Casablancas


Question: 'The noctilucent type of these form at about 50 miles up & only between dusk & dawn'

Answer: clouds (luminous)


Question: 'It begins with a voice over: "Chapter One.  He adored New York City.  He idolized it all out of proportion"'

Answer: Manhattan


Question: 'Shattering the myth of Japanese invincibility, U.S. Marines stormed this island in the Solomons on August 7, 1942'

Answer: Guadalcanal


Question: 'San Francisco's mission district has undergone this process often signaled by the opening of a Starbucks'

Answer: gentrification


Question: 'In 1897 he became the music director of the Vienna Court Opera & a Catholic (he converted from Judaism)'

Answer: Gustav Mahler


Question: 'Photographer Bruce Weber was an early fan of this Polo model seen here'

Answer: Tyson Beckford


Question: 'Convection currents in this layer of the Earth generate the Earth's magnetic field'

Answer: core


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew in New York's Central Park)  Fred Astaire & Cyd Charisse visit Central Park in this transportation-named movie musical'

Answer: The Bandwagon


Question: 'Site of a decisive Sept. 1863 battle, this Georgia river takes its name from an Indian word meaning "river of death"'

Answer: Chickamauga


Question: 'A mosquito bite can cause the St. Louis type of this brain imflammation'

Answer: encephalitis


Question: 'Heads of state Jiang Zemin & Jorge Sampaio were on hand when this territory changed hands in Dec. 1999'

Answer: Macau


Question: 'At Dyrrhachium in 48 B.C., Pompey handed this Roman one of his few defeats'

Answer: Julius Caesar


Question: '1987:<br />"Marlene"'

Answer: Marlene Dietrich


Question: 'Introduced in the 1930s, he's been known as Dippy Dawg, Dippy the Goof &, most famously, this'

Answer: Goofy


Question: 'Object around the house that may be prepared with "hospital corners"'

Answer: Bed


Question: 'It's a group of boy scouts led by a scoutmaster & made up of one or more patrols'

Answer: Troop


Question: 'Examples include Risk, backgammon & chess'

Answer: Board games


Question: 'In 1798 Admiral Brueys & the French lost big in the battle of this river near Alexandria'

Answer: Nile


Question: '1984:<br />"First Lady from Plains"'

Answer: Rosalynn Carter


Question: 'We don't know why a mouse would have a dog, but he's Mickey's faithful pet'

Answer: Pluto


Question: 'For this, patterns with a random match are easier to hang'

Answer: Wallpaper


Question: 'A trumpet or coronet may be used to earn this Boy Scout badge'

Answer: Bugling


Question: 'This type of piano is about 5 feet long'

Answer: Baby grand


Question: 'In the 1821 Battle of Carabobo, Spanish general Miguel de la Torre was no match for this South American'

Answer: Simon Bolivar


Question: '1939:<br />"The Kingdom of Swing"'

Answer: Benny Goodman


Question: 'The Internet Movie Database says someone actually counted all the black spots in this 1961 film & found 6,469,952'

Answer: 101 Dalmatians


Question: 'When using this kitchen device introduced in the late '40s, remember the standing time is as important as the cooking time'

Answer: Microwave oven


Question: 'Ferdinand Magellan might have joined this program for young adults aged 14 to 20'

Answer: Explorers


Question: 'Literally, a lover of books'

Answer: Bibliophile


Question: 'In 1815 Sir Edward Pakenham's forces attacked this city & were repulsed by Andrew Jackson's'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: '1956:<br />"Lady Sings the Blues"'

Answer: Billie Holiday


Question: 'Nana is the Darling children's nursemaid as well as their dog in this 1953 feature'

Answer: Peter Pan


Question: 'Mary Ellen says when cleaning a chandelier, it's not unlucky to open one of these & use it to catch drips'

Answer: Umbrella


Question: 'This man is the honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America'

Answer: President of the United States


Question: 'This contagious disease caused by the bacterium yersinia pestis can be spread by fleas from infected rats'

Answer: Bubonic plague


Question: 'El Alamein loser seen here'

Answer: Erwin Rommel


Question: '1954:<br />"My Left Foot"'

Answer: Christy Brown


Question: 'A genteel cocker spaniel finds romance with a mutt from the wrong side of the tracks in this 1955 classic'

Answer: Lady and the Tramp


Question: 'They're polarized for your safety with one prong wider than the other so they can be inserted one way only'

Answer: Plug


Question: 'The Boy Scouts of America publishes the magazines Scouting & this one'

Answer: Boys\' Life


Question: 'This region of Nigeria declared its independence in May 1967, civil war & starvation followed'

Answer: Biafra


Question: 'This 8th Ave. building's facade is engraved "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night..."'

Answer: New York Post Office


Question: 'Even before its 1993 premiere, this Dennis Franz series attracted controversy for graphic scenes'

Answer: NYPD Blue


Question: 'Born in 1935, left Brooklyn with the Dodgers, left a record of 382 strikeouts in a season'

Answer: Sandy Koufax


Question: 'It's a sheer, fluffy silk fabric for blouses, or a fluffy type of pie'

Answer: Chiffon


Question: 'England's "Good Queen Bess"'

Answer: Elizabeth I


Question: 'To be pilgarlic is to be this; but don't worry, it's nothing that a toupee can't fix'

Answer: Bald


Question: 'Cheers!  This tavern has been a favorite spot in Central Park for 6 decades'

Answer: Tavern on the Green


Question: 'Bea Arthur starred in this sitcom about 4 women over 50 living together in Miami'

Answer: The Golden Girls


Question: 'Born in Santa Ana in 1958, went from check-out girl to David E. Kelley girl, made some films'

Answer: Michelle Pfeiffer


Question: 'Open mesh fabric used in stockings & on trawlers'

Answer: Fishnet


Question: 'France's "The Austrian Wench"'

Answer: Marie Antoinette


Question: 'Doggone it!  They're the threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric'

Answer: Woof


Question: 'Recently renovated, it's the most famous room in the building seen here [New York Public Library]'

Answer: Rose Room


Question: 'This title pair of laboratory mice continually & unsuccessfully try to take over the world'

Answer: Pinky and the Brain


Question: 'Arrived on the dot April 27, 1791, Yale grad, painted, coded, dashed off April 2, 1872'

Answer: Samuel Morse


Question: 'This soft, slightly napped cotton fabric is popular in snuggly PJs & gray suits of the '50s'

Answer: Flannel


Question: '"The Little Mother of all the Russians"'

Answer: Catherine the Great


Question: 'This part of the hand is sometimes called the medius'

Answer: Middle finger


Question: 'This club's brief, glamorous life began in 1977 at 254 West 54th Street'

Answer: Studio 54


Question: 'On this popular variety show you might have seen characters like Bolivar Shagnasty & Clem Kadiddlehopper'

Answer: The Red Skelton Show


Question: 'A poet, don't ya know it, born in Florence in 1265, met Beatrice at 9, found life "divine"'

Answer: Dante Alighieri


Question: 'Now made of hemp or jute, when worn with ashes it's tops in mourning attire'

Answer: Sackcloth


Question: 'From the first 6 letters at the upper left, it's the arrangement of a standard computer keyboard'

Answer: QWERTY


Question: 'Manhattan's oldest church, this chapel shares its name with a famous London cathedral'

Answer: St. Paul\'s


Question: 'Newspaperman Britt Reid was the secret identity of this '60s TV crimefighter'

Answer: The Green Hornet


Question: 'Born 1903, untouchable in Chicago, cleaned up Cleveland, died 1957'

Answer: Eliot Ness


Question: 'To get actual Harris tweed from where it's made, go to this group of islands west of the Scottish mainland'

Answer: Hebrides


Question: 'Don't fear this 17-letter word, it simply means the fear of the number 13'

Answer: Triskaidekaphobia


Question: 'He coined the term "usonian" for his U.S. designs that were meant to bring beauty & humanity to ordinary people'

Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright


Question: 'The parentage of his daughter Elena is still a mystery; she was born in 1818, but not to his wife Mary'

Answer: Shelley


Question: 'Van Morrison, The Doors, U2 & Laura Branigan all sang about girls named this'

Answer: Gloria


Question: 'After one of these "feral" birds was released into a park, "Alcoholics... hunt it down & try to drink it"'

Answer: a wild turkey


Question: 'America's first lighthouse, completed in Boston in 1716, was illuminated primarily by this type of oil'

Answer: whale


Question: 'Summer temps can rise above 120 in this country that gained its independence in 1971'

Answer: Qatar


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the surgery simulation room at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA.)  Doctors get invaluable training on the Human Patient Simulator at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of this medical school founded in 1782'

Answer: Harvard


Question: 'The opium-induced sleep that inspired his "Kubla Khan" was an omen; he later became dependent on the drug'

Answer: (Samuel Taylor) Coleridge


Question: 'Elvis Costello tells this title girl, "My aim is true"'

Answer: Alison


Question: '"American youth still not convinced that criminal plans should not be posted on" this popular website'

Answer: MySpace(.com)


Question: 'From May 13 to September 30, floodlights illuminate the 60-foot heads at this site'

Answer: Mount Rushmore


Question: 'It's a horn-shaped nose, no pants & no problem for this pyramid-hopping '80s arcade favorite'

Answer: Q*bert


Question:
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew observes a procedure on a simulated patient at the Carl J. Shapiro Simulation & Skills Center in Boston, MA.)
Inserting a chest tube provides drainage to treat the buildup called empyema, sometimes the result of this lung infection'

Answer: pneumonia (tuberculosis accepted)


Question: 'At university, this poetic lord developed a "violent, though pure, love" for young chorister John Edleston'

Answer: Byron


Question: '"You fill up my senses, come fill me again" like this gal from a John Denver song'

Answer: Annie


Question: '"Noodle shop accused of aiding drunk driving.  That's because nobody left the place" this buckwheat noodle'

Answer: soba


Question: 'The first city to illuminate its streets by electricity was Wabash in this state in 1880'

Answer: Indiana


Question: 'This 3-letter term (an abbreviation, really) means "which was to be demonstrated"'

Answer: QED


Question:
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads next to a doctor inserting a large syringe into a simulated abdomen.)
This gas that's eliminated during respiration is what gets pumped into the abdomen to expand it & give surgeons room to work'

Answer: carbon dioxide


Question: 'This Russian poet's flagrant affair with a married countess got him kicked out of Odessa in 1824'

Answer: Pushkin


Question: 'No one's really sure who this title girl is in the piece heard here'

Answer: Elise


Question: 'Church of England debating female these; "Critics say move won't help women to move forward, only diagonally"'

Answer: bishops


Question: 'Henry Jones, M.A. 1624, made quite an alumni gift to Ireland's Trinity College--this illuminated manuscript'

Answer: Book of Kells


Question: 'We hear this product's website says it's "the ultimate beauty tool"'

Answer: a Q-tip


Question:
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the Carl J. Shapiro Simulation & Skills Center in Boston, MA.)
To ensure the passage of oxygen to the lungs, a tube is placed into this airway with care taken not to hit the esophagus behind it'

Answer: the trachea


Question: 'This poet whose first name was Algernon was described as the "libidinous laureate of a pack of satyrs"'

Answer: Swinburne


Question: 'The Plain White T's, not Tom Jones, scored a hit with the 2006 ballad "Hey There" this girl'

Answer: Delilah


Question: '"Bush says he'll welcome" this Palestinian president "to U.S. but only if they agree to play 'Dancing Queen'"'

Answer: Abbas


Question: 'In photometry, a unit of measure for the intensity of illumination is this one with an appendage in its name'

Answer: a foot-candle


Question: 'Dvorak is an alternative to this standard keyboard layout'

Answer: QWERTY


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a long, thin tube at the Carl J. Shapiro Simulation & Skills Center in Boston, MA.) This fiber-optic viewing scope has revolutionized diagnosis and surgery, as a tiny incision in the abdomen replaces one several inches long'

Answer: laparoscope


Question: 'It follows "Cecilia" in the name of a noted female artist & precedes "Arts" in the French phrase for fine arts'

Answer: Beaux


Question: 'The national hero of Spain, at times he fought for Christian kingdoms & at other times for Muslim ones'

Answer: El Cid


Question: 'Your largest one is the gluteus maximus'

Answer: M-U-S-C-L-E


Question: 'Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun outlived this queen & portrait subject by 49 years, dying in 1842'

Answer: Marie Antoinette


Question: 'The embodiment of the 20th c. mercenary, Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare fought wars on this continent from the '60s-'80s'

Answer: Africa


Question: 'Visit this country for the Flemish as well as French community holidays'

Answer: Belgium


Question: 'A current senator from Hawaii:<br />Ken'

Answer: Daniel K. Inouye


Question: 'It's French for butterfly'

Answer: P-A-P-I-L-L-O-N


Question: 'The stag shown here is by Rosa Bonheur, the first woman awarded the Grand Cross of this French medal'

Answer: the Legion of Honor


Question: 'Brodsky's movies tour through Japan included footage of these indigenous people seen here'

Answer: Ainu


Question: 'In 1941 this retired U.S. Air Corps captain formed the "Flying Tigers"'

Answer: Claire Chennault


Question: 'Head off to these 2 countries for Anzac Day to commemorate those who fought in WWI at the Dardanelles'

Answer: Australia & New Zealand


Question: 'A pioneering 1950s Journalist:<br />Roscoe'

Answer: Edward R. Murrow


Question: 'It's an Italian appetizer of toasted bread, garlic & olive oil, often topped with chopped tomatoes'

Answer: B-R-U-S-C-H-E-T-T-A


Question: 'In a 1988 movie, Laurent Grevill played writer Paul Claudel & Isabelle Adjani starred as this artist sister'

Answer: Camille (Claudel)


Question: 'Now home to a theme park & studio, this first "city" dedicated to making movies was built by Carl Laemmle in 1915'

Answer: Universal City


Question: 'Made famous by Conan Doyle, this "colorful" mercenary group fought for Padua, Florence & other Italian city-states'

Answer: the White Company


Question: 'Pysanky, these decorated spring holiday items, are a popular part of Ukrainian culture'

Answer: Easter eggs


Question: 'A Chief Justice:<br />Hubbs'

Answer: William H. Renquist


Question: 'The first Grand Inquisitor of Spain was the notorious Tomas de...'

Answer: T-O-R-Q-U-E-M-A-D-A


Question: 'In the mid 1500's Sofonisba Anguissola was a painter at the court of this Spanish king & did his portrait'

Answer: Philip II


Question: 'The middle initial of this cowboy star of "Truthful Tulliver" stood for Surrey'

Answer: William S. Hart


Question: 'In the "Anabasis", the historian Xenophon covered his years fighting for this "younger" Persian'

Answer: Cyrus


Question: 'This country celebrates Mother Teresa day to mark the beatification of its favorite daughter'

Answer: Albania


Question: 'A sci-fi writer:<br />Kindred'

Answer: Phillip K. Dick


Question: 'With this word, we assume they meant a shutout in gin rummy & not the super on "One Day at a Time"'

Answer: S-C-H-N-E-I-D-E-R


Question: 'In his journal of 1710 to 1713, he referred to himself as "Presto"'

Answer: Jonathan Swift


Question: 'Geneva-born Henri Dunant, a founder of this international organization, shared the first Peace Prize in 1901'

Answer: the Red Cross


Question: 'July 18, 1953:<br />"Earning $35 a week... he calls at Memphis Recording Service... paying $4 to make a private recording"'

Answer: Elvis Presley


Question: 'Dating from the 14th century, the name of this liquor comes from the Russian word for "water"'

Answer: vodka


Question: 'A Marseilles "mister"<br />(8)'

Answer: monsieur


Question: 'This brand name became synonymous with blue jeans'

Answer: Levi\'s


Question: 'Even before Columbus, people knew the Earth wasn't this, but NASA's WMAP probe says the universe is'

Answer: flat


Question: '1988 Literature winner Naguib Mahfouz is best known for tales of this African capital'

Answer: Cairo


Question: '1963:<br />"The family group is initially formed as a trio in Gary, Indiana, by Jackie... Tito... and Jermaine"'

Answer: the Jacksons


Question: 'An order for malt in Scotland in 1494 is the earliest reference to this liquor that now comes from many lands'

Answer: whiskey


Question: 'Have a great trip!<br />(3, 6)'

Answer: bon voyage


Question: '"Top grain" this is used in shoes'

Answer: leather


Question: 'In the early 1900s Willem de Sitter used relativity theory to suggest that the universe is doing this'

Answer: expanding


Question: '2 men received the 1909 Physics Prize for their work on wireless telegraphy: Karl Ferdinand Braun & this Italian'

Answer: Marconi


Question: 'May 24, 1980:<br />"'Rock Lobster' peaks at U.S. No. 56"'

Answer: The B-52s


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Holland.)  Dutch windmills often mill the grain for this juniper berry spirit invented here in Holland'

Answer: gin


Question: 'It comes after "merci", a lot<br />(8)'

Answer: beaucoup


Question: 'Bill Nye's frequent garb, size 38 tall'

Answer: a lab coat (a laboratory jacket accepted)


Question: 'The triangulum one of these, a spiral type, is a pretty close neighbor of ours at 3 million light-years'

Answer: a galaxy


Question: 'Willem Einthoven won for his galvanometer, better known as this device used to diagnose heart disease'

Answer: an electrocardiogram


Question: 'Nov. 29, 1975:<br />"Bohemian Rhapsody

Answer: Queen


Question: 'Named for a town in Jalisco, this liquor was created after the Spanish introduced distilling to the New World'

Answer: tequila


Question: 'High fashion<br />(5, 7)'

Answer: haute couture


Question: 'The "In the Wings Teddy" (va va voom!) is an item of this from Frederick's of Hollywood'

Answer: lingerie


Question: 'Launched in 2009, the Kepler mission looks for the tiny dimming of stars as these pass in front of them'

Answer: planets


Question: 'When the 1973 peace prize was awarded to 2 men, Le Duc Tho declined but this man accepted'

Answer: Henry Kissinger


Question: 'April 7, 1990:<br />"The band performs 'Welcome To The Jungle'...  at Farm Aid IV at the Hoosier Dome"'

Answer: Guns N\' Roses


Question: 'Cognac is a type of this liquor that one story says originated with wine concentrated for transport'

Answer: brandy


Question: 'Oh well!  That's life!<br />(4, 2, 3)'

Answer: C\'est la vie


Question: 'These weren't just for a lord of the jungle; in Ancient Egypt, Amenhotep's chief architect was buried with 50'

Answer: loincloths


Question: 'This type of "energy", a main constituent of the universe, is understood even less than this type of "matter"'

Answer: dark


Question: 'This Brazilian city's name means "river of January" in Portuguese; its site was discovered on New Year's Day'

Answer: Rio de Janeiro


Question: 'As a child star, she lost the Oscar for "Taxi Driver", but came back as an adult to win for "The Accused"'

Answer: Jodie Foster


Question: 'His sonnet No. 19 begins, "Devouring time, blunt thou the lion's paws"'

Answer: Shakespeare


Question: 'You didn't like that one about the nun & the penguin?  Ah, you've got no sense of this'

Answer: humor


Question: 'Loudness'

Answer: volume


Question: '(Jack Ford delivers the clue.)  A high school football coach as well as biology teacher, he volunteered to be the defendant in what became a world-famous test case on evolution'

Answer: (John) Scopes


Question: 'Seen here is the modern skyline of this city, one of the first Chinese ports to open to Western trade'

Answer: Shanghai


Question: 'Once Doogie the teen doctor, he resuscitated his career by playing himself in the "Harold & Kumar" films'

Answer: Neil Patrick Harris


Question: 'The semicircular canals & the utricle & saccule make up the ear's organs for your sense of this term'

Answer: balance


Question: 'Botanically, alfalfa is one'

Answer: a legume


Question: '(Jack Ford delivers the clue.)  "I had orders" was among his statements at his trial in Israel after being seized in Argentina in 1960; he got the only death sentence Israel has ever imposed'

Answer: (Adolf) Eichmann


Question: 'First settled by Germanic & Slavic tribes, this city served as the capital of Brandenburg from 1486 to 1701'

Answer: Berlin


Question: 'A child with "Silver Spoons", he grew up to work on "NYPD Blue" & "24"'

Answer: Rick Schroder


Question: 'You streaked the wedding reception!  Have you no sense of this 5-letter word?  This on you!'

Answer: shame


Question: 'To grumble angrily'

Answer: to fume


Question: '(Jack Ford delivers the clue.)  This rotund silent comic's 3 notorious trials brought 2 hung juries & an acquittal -- then 6 days later the movies' morality czar banned him from the screen'

Answer: "Fatty" Arbuckle


Question: 'Though expanded as a Roman city, it became a capital under the Merovingian ruler Clovis I in 508'

Answer: Paris (France)


Question: 'When you ask, "Who's the Boss?", think about this grown actress with a "Charmed" career'

Answer: Alyssa Milano


Question: 'Shelley called time an "Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years... brackish with the salt of human" these'

Answer: tears


Question: 'You seem to feel you're owed a lot; you have a real sense of this, the right to guaranteed govt. benefits'

Answer: entitlement


Question: 'Last name of the two Scots seen here, philosopher & model'

Answer: Hume


Question: '(Jack Ford delivers the clue.)  On March 29, 1971, a court-martial found this lieutenant guilty in the My Lai massacre; though he faced the death penalty, he only got life & was paroled in 3 years'

Answer: William Calley


Question: 'After the Muslims' defeat, this island capital became a Spanish colony before it was held by the U.S. & then Japan'

Answer: Manila


Question: 'After some "Growing Pains", his career has been born again in the film "Fireproof"'

Answer: Kirk Cameron


Question: 'Turn, turn, turn: Ecclesiastes 3 says there's "a time to every" one of these "under the heaven"'

Answer: purpose


Question: 'On June 9, 1954 Joseph Welch asked Joe McCarthy, "Have you no sense of" this "sir, at long last?"'

Answer: decency


Question: 'In French William the Conqueror is this le Conquerant'

Answer: Guillaume


Question: '(Jack Ford delivers the clue.)  A passionate defense by Clarence Darrow spared the lives of this pair of Chicagoans, both of whom graduated from college in their teens, who in 1924 killed a 14-year-old for a thrill'

Answer: Leopold & Loeb


Question: 'In the early 18th c. Sylvius Leopold Weiss wrote works for these 2 instruments whose names rhyme'

Answer: the flute & the lute


Question: 'In 1502, during his last voyage to the Americas, he sighted what is now Nicaragua'

Answer: Christopher Columbus


Question: 'Kendal & Kelly are shades of this'

Answer: Green


Question: 'For a contra dance, couples form 2 of these & face each other'

Answer: Lines


Question: 'This Buffalo team is the only team to lose the Super Bowl 4 straight years'

Answer: Buffalo Bills


Question: 'The Nat'l Museum of African Art is housed in an underground building in this Washington, D.C. museum complex'

Answer: Smithsonian


Question: 'A bibliomaniac is obsessed with collecting these items'

Answer: Books


Question: 'As this dictator's minister of education, Giovanni Gentile reformed Italy's school system'

Answer: Benito Mussolini


Question: 'It's the reddish color, as well as the name of a popular bog fruit that's "relish"ed on holidays'

Answer: Cranberry


Question: 'This "Viennese" ballroom dance was considered scandalous because couples seemed to be embracing'

Answer: Waltz


Question: 'In 1997 this team's Desmond Howard returned a kickoff 99 yards, a new Super Bowl record'

Answer: Green Bay Packers


Question: 'This French city known for its mustard houses a museum of mustard'

Answer: Dijon


Question: 'It's the female equivalent of chanteur, a term for a male cabaret singer'

Answer: Chanteuse


Question: 'In 1875 Yale graduate Daniel Coit Gilman became the first president of this Baltimore university'

Answer: Johns Hopkins


Question: 'Marisa Berenson must like the "shocking" shade of this because her grandmother Elsa Schiaparelli introduced it'

Answer: Pink


Question: 'In the film "True Lies" Arnold Schwarzenegger performed this sensual Argentine dance'

Answer: Tango


Question: 'This 49ers quarterback is the only man named Super Bowl MVP 3 times'

Answer: Joe Montana


Question: 'A bank museum in Liberty, MO. has memorabilia relating to this man & his gang who robbed it February 13, 1866'

Answer: Jesse James


Question: 'Laymen rarely use this word that means abnormally swollen unless they're referring to veins'

Answer: Varicose


Question: 'Before he became king of England, George VI served in the Royal Navy & fought in the Battle of Jutland during this war'

Answer: World War I


Question: 'This tan color shares its name with a humped quadruped ruminant'

Answer: Camel


Question: 'The Minangkabau candlelight dance of Sumatra is one of the most beautiful from this country'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: 'The last 2 Super Bowls in this city were played at Joe Robbie Stadium'

Answer: Miami


Question: 'This financier's art museum in Malibu, California was originally housed in his home'

Answer: J. Paul Getty


Question: 'The adjective anserous means as silly as one of these birds of the subfamily anserinae'

Answer: Goose


Question: 'This country's King Harold III was the half-brother of St. Olaf'

Answer: Norway


Question: 'French for "unbleached", the name of this pale color is derived from the Latin for "crude" or "raw"'

Answer: Ecru


Question: 'This Andalusian gypsy dance may be accompanied by a cante chico, a "small song", or by a cante hondo, a "deep song"'

Answer: Flamenco


Question: 'This current analyst for FOX TV's NFL telecasts coached the Oakland Raiders to victory in Super Bowl XI'

Answer: John Madden


Question: 'The Hayden Planetarium is a part of this New York City museum'

Answer: Museum of Natural History


Question: 'In the U.S. it's a synonym for pancake; in England it's a compact that might hold pan-cake makeup'

Answer: Flapjack


Question: 'The Sumerians' pottery was the first made on this device'

Answer: Potter\'s wheel


Question: 'Piled high with cold cuts & condiments, the Dagwood Sandwich is named for a character in this comic strip'

Answer: Blondie


Question: 'In 1893 she earned a physics degree from the Sorbonne, ranking first in her class'

Answer: Marie Curie


Question: 'In 1996 the Pont Charles de Gaulle, a new bridge spanning this river, opened in Paris'

Answer: Seine


Question: 'Karen Lynn Gorney, the first Tara on "All My Children", played his dance partner in "Saturday Night Fever"'

Answer: John Travolta


Question: '"The Mirror Crack'd" is one of several of her novels to feature Miss Jane Marple'

Answer: Agatha Christie


Question: 'Ezekiel prophesized for the Israelites during this "captivity"'

Answer: Babylonian Captivity


Question: 'These Southern pecan patties are named for a French diplomat'

Answer: Pralines


Question: 'Hermann Muller won a 1946 Nobel Prize for proving that these rays can cause genetic mutations'

Answer: X-rays


Question: 'In 1973 Queen Elizabeth II dedicated a new one of these bridges; the old one's in Arizona'

Answer: London Bridge


Question: 'Accompanied by this boyfriend, Gwyneth Paltrow watched her film "Emma" in the White House with Pres. Clinton'

Answer: Brad Pitt


Question: 'Living in South America, Josef Mengele clones 94 potential Hitlers in this Ira Levin novel'

Answer: "The Boys From Brazil"


Question: 'This city's different ages are given Roman numerals; it's believed the "Homeric" one was VIIa'

Answer: Troy


Question: 'There are 2 distinct varieties of this bean:  the Fordhook & baby'

Answer: Lima bean


Question: 'While a professor at Stanford in 1970 he published "Vitamin C And The Common Cold"'

Answer: Linus Pauling


Question: 'The Bosporus Bridges I & II connect the European & Asian parts of this country'

Answer: Turkey


Question: 'She played a dual role in the 1991 thriller "Dead Again", directed by her then-husband, Kenneth Branagh'

Answer: Emma Thompson


Question: 'In the title of Sue Grafton's latest murder mystery "M Is For" this'

Answer: Malice


Question: 'Persia kept switching sides in this 424-405 B.C. war depending on who was winning , Sparta or Athens'

Answer: The Peloponnesian War


Question: 'What we call a Polish sausage is also known by this Polish name'

Answer: Kielbasa


Question: 'In 1871 he issued a new version of his periodic table, leaving gaps for elements not yet known'

Answer: Dmitri Mendeleev


Question: 'Named for an explorer, it's the longest suspension bridge in the U.S.'

Answer: Verrazano Narrows Bridge


Question: 'Janine Turner of "Cliffhanger" was once engaged to this actor who's now married to Kim Basinger'

Answer: Alec Baldwin


Question: '"The Laws of our Fathers" is a 1996 legal thriller by this author of "Presumed Innocent"'

Answer: Scott Turow


Question: 'The Incas called their area Tawantinsuyu, The Land of the 4 Quarters, with this Peruvian city as its center'

Answer: Cuzco


Question: 'Cassareep, a condiment used in west Indian cookery, is made from this root, as is tapioca'

Answer: Cassava/manioc


Question: 'In 1955 this Danish physicist organized the 1st Atoms For Peace conference in Geneva'

Answer: Niels Bohr


Question: 'Venice's most famous bridge, it was built about 1600 to link the Doge's palace with the new prisons'

Answer: Bridge of Sighs


Question: 'Lauren Bacall called this ex-husband "The greatest interpreter of O'Neill in anyone's memory"'

Answer: Jason Robards


Question: 'Novels by Olivia Goldsmith include "Bestseller" & this book about 3 vengeful spouses'

Answer: "The First Wives Club"


Question: 'This world leader was the recipient of an Obie Award in 1984'

Answer: Vaclav Havel


Question: 'The leatherback variety of this reptile is one of the few animals that primarily eat jellyfish'

Answer: turtle/tortoise


Question: 'Nevada Day is celebrated on this date; how spooky!'

Answer: October 31


Question: '"Cent Street"'

Answer: "Penny Lane"


Question: 'She shoved the wicked old witch of the gingerbread house into the oven & bolted the door'

Answer: Gretel


Question: 'The Middle East's first suspension bridge, the Mubarak Peace Bridge, opened in 2001 & crosses this canal'

Answer: Suez Canal


Question: 'Question that traditionally produces the answer "Only when I laugh"'

Answer: (When) Does it hurt?


Question: 'This "prefrontal" medical procedure involves the destruction of sections of the brain's cortex'

Answer: lobotomy


Question: 'By an act of Congress, in 1954 Armistice Day was renamed this'

Answer: Veterans Day


Question: '"Rotate, Then Yell"'

Answer: "Twist and Shout"


Question: 'A character in this tale cut off her big toe so that a golden slipper would fit her foot'

Answer: "Cinderella"


Question: 'In December 2001 this country opened its first bridge over the Mekong'

Answer: Cambodia (Kampuchea)


Question: 'Question posed by Virginia O'Hanlon, age 8, in a letter to a newspaper in 1897'

Answer: Is there a Santa Claus?


Question: 'This process of making rubber harder & more elastic by heating it with sulfur bears the name of a Roman god'

Answer: vulcanization


Question: '"Harambee!" & "Habari Gani!" are phrases used by African Americans during this 7-day celebration'

Answer: Kwanzaa


Question: '"Coupon for Travel"'

Answer: "Ticket to Ride"


Question: 'It's the response to "But Grandmother, what a terrible big mouth you have!"'

Answer: "The better to eat you, my dear!"


Question: 'The Oresund Bridge links Sweden to this country to which it had been unconnected by land for 7,000 yrs.'

Answer: Denmark


Question: 'It's the meteorological question that really tall people get really tired of hearing'

Answer: How\'s the weather up there?


Question: 'His 1543 book "Concerning the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres" started an astronomical revolution'

Answer: Nicholas Copernicus


Question: 'Think "fast" -- in 2002 this Muslim holy month began on November 6'

Answer: Ramadan


Question: '"One Difficult 24-Hour Period's Evening"'

Answer: "A Hard Day\'s Night"


Question: 'Her parents gave her to a witch as a newborn; the witch shut her up in a tower at the age of 12'

Answer: Rapunzel


Question: 'The Chain & Elizabeth Bridges cross this river to connect Buda & Pest'

Answer: Danube


Question: 'The last 3 words of the song "Over the Rainbow"'

Answer: Why can\'t I?


Question: 'The process by which neutral atoms become electrically charged is called this'

Answer: ionization


Question: '(Sofia of the Clue Crew in front of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam)  The Anne Frank House here in Amsterdam is open daily except for this holiday'

Answer: Yom Kippur


Question: '"Mistress Ciccone"'

Answer: "Lady Madonna"


Question: 'To marry a princess, Hans had to pluck a feather from the tail of this beast that was part lion, part eagle'

Answer: griffin


Question: 'In 1998 the U.K. lost out to this Asian country for the longest suspension bridge in the world record'

Answer: Japan


Question: 'When Jesus said, "Every one that is of the truth hearest my voice", Pilate asked him this'

Answer: What is truth?


Question: 'The August 1883 volcanic eruption on this island blew away 2/3 of the island; the sound was heard 3,000 miles away'

Answer: Krakatoa


Question: 'It's the potent potable found in Irish Coffee'

Answer: whiskey


Question: 'It luxuriously set out in 1975 on its first-ever round-the-world cruise including a visit to New York'

Answer: QE2


Question: 'In France, this ever-popular film is known as "Blanche Neige et les Sept Nains"'

Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs


Question: 'After studying dermatology at the Vienna General Hospital, he moved on to Paris' Salpetriere Mental Clinic'

Answer: Sigmund Freud


Question: 'In other words, this common pair of adjectives could be "novel as well as ameliorated"'

Answer: new and improved


Question: 'This country occupies & claims the Kuril Islands, but Japan claims the southernmost island in the group'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Cafe Mocha is made from espresso & this flavor syrup'

Answer: chocolate


Question: 'He won hearts in 1974 when he took his first Grand Slam title at age 18'

Answer: Bjorn Borg


Question: 'A long-awaited snow begins to fall at a ski lodge at the end of this 1954 yuletide classic'

Answer: White Christmas


Question: 'This religious group started Friends Hospital as an "asylum for persons deprived of the use of their reason"'

Answer: Quakers (Society of Friends)


Question: 'Taking this adjective literally, the ads say that BMW is the last driving machine that'll be made'

Answer: "The Ultimate Driving Machine"


Question: 'This road's "fabric" once stretched about 4,000 miles, from Chang'an, China to the Mediterranean Sea'

Answer: the Silk Road


Question: 'Sidney Perkowitz' book "Universal Foam" is subtitled "From" this hip coffee "to the Cosmos"'

Answer: Cappuccino


Question: 'One of history's largest tank battles ever was fought in 1973 in the Golan Heights between these 2 countries'

Answer: Israel & Syria


Question: 'Oliver Stone dedicated this 1987 film to his late father, who had been a stockbroker'

Answer: Wall Street


Question: 'Here's an 18th century look at England's Bethlem Hospital, whose name was corrupted to this'

Answer: Bedlam


Question: 'This column may precede "tingling" in ad copy for haunted houses & mystery novels'

Answer: spine


Question: 'Now a special administrative region of China, its legal system is based on Portuguese civil law'

Answer: Macao


Question: 'A man wearing a sombrero is on the label of this coffee liqueur from Mexico'

Answer: Kahlua


Question: 'Rhyming name of either of 2 1972 Chinese immigrants, one of them is shown here'

Answer: Ling-Ling or Hsing-Hsing


Question: 'This 1995 film seen here won an Oscar for its screenplay, which was really quite "novel"'

Answer: Sense and Sensibility


Question: '6-letter synonym for "robust" that's applied in ads to Chunky Soup'

Answer: hearty


Question: 'This valley makes up about 40% of Lebanon's arable land'

Answer: Bekaa Valley


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew at a cafe in Rome)  Italian for "spotted", to espresso drinkers, it means having a drop of milk on top'

Answer: macchiato


Question: 'It's the name of the probe that sent back the 1976 images seen here'

Answer: Viking


Question: 'This 1962 classic was narrated by Kim Stanley, who provided the grown-up voice of Scout'

Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird


Question: 'Last name of Dr. Karl, founder of a Kansas clinic & the first psychiatrist to get the Medal of Freedom'

Answer: Menninger


Question: 'It's applied to juicy steaks or, botanically, to cacti & other water-retaining plants'

Answer: succulent


Question: 'This 2-word term was first used to describe advisors who spoke to the press after a 1984 Reagan-Mondale debate'

Answer: spin doctors


Question: 'BC'

Answer: British Columbia


Question: '"A" is for a capella, from the Italian for "in" this place'

Answer: in the chapel


Question: 'In 2011: country crooner Scotty McCreery'

Answer: American Idol


Question: '"Hair" fans know this current "age" is a 2,000-year period of evolution toward world peace & enlightenment'

Answer: Aquarius


Question: 'Since 1900, only 12 baseball players have won this by leading a major league in batting average, home runs & RBIs'

Answer: a triple crown


Question: 'It's the term for the person entitled to get the proceeds of a policy upon the death of the insured'

Answer: a beneficiary


Question: 'AB'

Answer: Alberta


Question: '"B" is for bis, sometimes used to ask musicians for this'

Answer: an encore


Question: 'In 2010: Bret Michaels, who wasn't fired but hired'

Answer: Celebrity Apprentice


Question: 'This term for receiving energy & info from other levels of reality sounds like redirecting water along a passage'

Answer: channeling


Question: 'A low-placed concealed cable used to signal a trespasser by triggering an alarm'

Answer: a tripwire


Question: 'Medical liability insurance is better known as this type of insurance'

Answer: malpractice insurance


Question: 'NS'

Answer: Nova Scotia


Question: '"D" is for decrescendo, which means this is happening to the music'

Answer: it\'s getting quieter (or softer)


Question: 'In 2009: chicken catcher Kevin Skinner, who wowed judges including David Hasselhoff with his singing'

Answer: America\'s Got Talent


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands by a diagram of a person in lotus position with seven colored dots along its vertical midline.) Referring to its inner vision, the sixth chakra at the center of the forehead is also known by this other ordinal name'

Answer: the third eye


Question: 'Often used for devotional purposes, it's the type of artwork seen here'

Answer: a triptych


Question: 'These "tables" that take their name from the Latin for "record keeper" are used to evaluate life expectancies'

Answer: actuarial tables


Question: 'YT'

Answer: the Yukon Territory


Question: '"L" is for lacrimoso, meaning the music should be of this mood'

Answer: tearful (or sad)


Question: 'On Aug. 16, 1987 followers of Jose Arguelles gathered in various spiritual centers for the harmonic this'

Answer: convergence


Question: 'Destroyed by the Mamelukes in the 13th century, today it's a leading city of Lebanon'

Answer: Tripoli


Question: 'A film noir classic, or a clause providing for payment of twice the face value of a policy'

Answer: Double Indemnity


Question: 'PE'

Answer: Prince Edward Island


Question: '"P" is for pizzicato, which informs the string players to do this, also a "P" word'

Answer: pluck


Question: 'Seen here is an example of one of these graphic mystical meditation aids, whose name is from the Sanskrit for circle'

Answer: mandala


Question: 'This adverb sounds like it means clumsily, but it means the opposite in phrases like "flows" this way "from the tongue"'

Answer: trippingly


Question: 'Franz Kafka's day job was as a bureaucrat administering this type of compensation, like for accidents'

Answer: workmen\'s compensation


Question: 'Megan's corpus callosum connects the right & left halves of her brain, also called these, like halves of the earth'

Answer: hemispheres


Question: 'A golf interjection, or toward the bow on a ship'

Answer: fore


Question: 'In rounders, the ancestor of baseball, a runner was put out not by tagging but by doing this with the ball--ouch!'

Answer: throwing it at/hitting the player


Question: 'The Uji were clans of Japan; the Uji that won out claimed descent from Amaterasu, goddess of this heavenly body'

Answer: the sun


Question: '"M. Butterfly" & the nomination of M. Dukakis arrived in this year'

Answer: 1988


Question: 'This star of "Bride Wars" & "The Princess Diaries" shares her name with Shakespeare's wife'

Answer: Anne Hathaway


Question: 'A 2010 paper shows Megan's amygdala maintains her "loss aversion" when faced with decisions about risking this'

Answer: money


Question: 'A band for around the waist, or a shot of liquor'

Answer: belt


Question: 'The Encyclopedia Britannica calls it "the oldest of equestrian sports", dating to ancient Persia'

Answer: polo


Question: 'Novosibirsk, one of the main cities of this Russian region, only dates from 1893: its name means "new" this Russian region'

Answer: Siberia


Question: '1973 brought Secretariat's triumph & this horsey Peter Shaffer play'

Answer: Equus


Question: 'The actress seen here goes by this royal name'

Answer: Jane Seymour


Question: 'When Megan enjoys a fine meal, she's employing the parietal these, right behind the frontal ones'

Answer: lobes


Question: 'It means to strike with a very quick blow / or to rock the mic like Eminem, yo'

Answer: rap


Question: 'The goal seen here was used in an ancient Mayan ballgame at Uxmal, on this peninsula'

Answer: Yucatán


Question: 'Soon after WWII, he wrote to Harry Truman asking for U.S. help in Vietnam's struggle against French rule'

Answer: Ho Chi Minh


Question: 'Aptly, this O'Neill play debuted in 1946, as the Cold War was heating (or chilling) up'

Answer: The Iceman Cometh


Question: 'This ex-major league pitcher can thank the country singer of the same name for his nickname "the Gambler"'

Answer: Kenny Rogers


Question: 'The thalamus, part of this botanical-sounding part of Megan's brain, receives all sensory input except smell'

Answer: brainstem


Question: 'A piece of wood, or to furnish with meals & lodging for pay'

Answer: board


Question: '"Juego de Pelota", an 18th C. Goya tapestry in the Prado, depicts an ancestor of this speedy Basque sport'

Answer: jai alai


Question: '1946's Linggarjati Agreement gave grudging Dutch recognition to the autonomy of this island country'

Answer: Indonesia


Question: 'In 1955 impatient Dodger fans got a title & the theater got the Tennessee Williams play about an impatient woman'

Answer: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof


Question: 'This creator of the "Garfield" comic strip shares his name with the actor who played Jock Ewing on "Dallas"'

Answer: Jim Davis


Question: 'Megan's higher functions use her cerebral this; when she "hears" a song in her head, she's using her brain's auditory this'

Answer: cortex


Question: 'Trash, or a Chinese ship'

Answer: a junk


Question: 'Irish manuscripts of the 1200s B.C. describe this stick-&-ball sport that's now the national pastime'

Answer: hurling


Question: 'Fire shrines found in Iran show that the ancient Parthian empire followed this religion'

Answer: Zoroastrianism


Question: '"The Misanthrope" is from this year London was burning'

Answer: 1666


Question: 'This composer with a presidential name wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning "On the Transmigration of Souls" to commemorate 9/11'

Answer: John Adams


Question: 'The Carabelli & Durazzo families are considered the Hatfields & McCoys of this island'

Answer: Corsica


Question: 'The courts have wrestled with whether this writ that "shall not be suspended" applies to Guantanamo'

Answer: habeas corpus


Question: 'Motown legend Stevie's foolish mistakes'

Answer: Wonder\'s blunders


Question: 'He, she & they are this kind of pronoun'

Answer: third person


Question: 'Photochromic glass used in eyeglasses does this when exposed to sunlight'

Answer: darken


Question: 'God's name of Yahweh was first announced to this man'

Answer: Moses


Question: 'In 1954 industrial designer Raymond Loewy redesigned the iconic shape of this soft drink's bottle'

Answer: Coke


Question: 'It's paired with conviction in Article II, Section 4, & unpopular presidents start to hear talk of it'

Answer: impeachment


Question: 'Reggae man Bob's "hogs"'

Answer: Marley\'s Harleys


Question: 'Numerical term for a burglar who specializes in breaking into buildings through upstairs windows'

Answer: second-story men


Question: 'In 1882 Edward Johnson, a partner of this inventor, put the first string of glass lights on a Christmas tree'

Answer: Edison


Question: 'It's a bike race over muddy terrain'

Answer: motocross


Question: 'One of the great jazz trios had Oscar Peterson on piano, Ed Thigpen on drums & Ray Brown plucking this'

Answer: bass


Question: 'A 2008 ruling affirmed the right "to be confronted with" these--if they're dead, too bad for the prosecution'

Answer: witnesses


Question: 'Blues-rock singer Bonnie's wooden boxes'

Answer: Raitt\'s crates


Question: 'Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park includes part of the Painted Desert & a stretch of this historic road'

Answer: Route 66


Question: 'To achieve this color of glass, cobalt oxide is added during the manufacturing process'

Answer: blue


Question: 'This word was suggested by Marcel Duchamp for art in a 1932 exhibit that included Alexander Calder'

Answer: mobiles


Question: 'He's the highly successful American businessman seen here'

Answer: Ray Kroc


Question: 'An influential 1890 article was titled "the right to" this, now seen as covered (though unnamed) by the Bill of Rights'

Answer: privacy


Question: '"U Remind Me" singer's spouting oil wells'

Answer: Usher\'s gushers


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a sumo training stable in Tokyo, Japan.)  Sumo wrestlers spend years to train and develop sumokan, intuitive awareness in the ring that's translated as this numerical term'

Answer: a sixth sense


Question: 'The largest hand-blown one of these, with 117 hand-blown figures, is in a cathedral in Kentucky'

Answer: a stained-glass window


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew performs an experiment in mechanics.)  Drop a matchbox, & it falls over, but open the box, & it stands, because the drawer sliding shut uses the stabilizing power of this, defined as mass times velocity'

Answer: momentum


Question: 'This actor played "Abe Lincoln in Illinois"; his brother Vincent was Canada's Governor-General'

Answer: Raymond Massey


Question: 'In June 2008 the Supreme Court said that this amendment grants an individual, not just a collective, right'

Answer: the Second Amendment


Question: 'Mr. Collins' vibratos'

Answer: Phil\'s trills


Question: 'Originating in France, it's a numerical term for the journalistic profession'

Answer: the fourth estate


Question: 'As a gift to the Kennedy Center, Sweden donated 18 15-foot-long crystal chandeliers made by this company'

Answer: Orrefors


Question: 'Instead of taking over his dad's upholstery business, he went on to become France's greatest comic dramatist'

Answer: Moliere


Question: 'He's the mystery writer seen here--not looking much like a private eye'

Answer: Raymond Chandler


Question: 'Enjoy a concert in the Beethovenhalle in this former German capital'

Answer: Bonn


Question: 'In an 1898 film by G.A. Smith, this character enters & leaves a room via the chimney'

Answer: Santa Claus


Question: '1960:<br />Richard Nixon'

Answer: Kennedy


Question: 'This Hawaiian dress was adapted from dresses originally distributed by missionaries'

Answer: a muumuu


Question: 'Arthur Eddington helped confirm general relativity by showing that this force affects rays of light'

Answer: gravity


Question: 'Before the Euro, Germany used this official currency with a 2-word name'

Answer: the Deutsche Mark


Question: 'In "Wonderful Dancing Girls", 2 ballet dancers dance on this, years before Fred Astaire in "Royal Wedding"'

Answer: the ceiling


Question: '1952 & 1956:<br />Adlai Stevenson'

Answer: Eisenhower


Question: 'A doll that has more realistic body parts than some other dolls is said to be anatomically this'

Answer: correct


Question: 'The photos that revealed DNA's shape were taken with these rays; there's a distinct pattern when they go through a helix'

Answer: X-rays


Question: 'The German title of this 18th Century opera is "Die Zauberflote"'

Answer: The Magic Flute


Question: 'A film of this president reviewing troops was shot in Pittsburgh on August 28, 1899; he was shot in 1901'

Answer: McKinley


Question: 'Let's check the commission chart--a standard 6% of the $500,000 price & half goes to me as seller's agent so I get this sum'

Answer: $15,000


Question: '1828:<br />John Quincy Adams'

Answer: Andrew Jackson


Question: 'This word for excessive & sometimes false praise is also the name of a cape in Washington State'

Answer: flattery


Question: 'Particle physics was established with research on these rays from outer space, from the Greek for "universe"'

Answer: cosmic rays


Question: 'It's a bird!  It's a plane!  It's this German equivalent of a Superman'

Answer: an Ubermensch


Question: '1899's "Frank Melville's Trick" one of these circus animals shows the title creature stepping over 2 ponies'

Answer: an elephant


Question: 'A handy chart shows the sale prices of similar homes in the area, known by this one-syllable term'

Answer: comps


Question: '1912:<br />Theodore Roosevelt'

Answer: Woodrow Wilson


Question: 'This small colorful pet fish was named for the naturalist who introduced it to English aquariums in the 1800s'

Answer: a guppy


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.)  In geometry, it's the 2-letter last name for the ray seen here'

Answer: the Ba ray


Question: 'This city on the Main River was where the Holy Roman Emperors were crowned beginning around 1356'

Answer: Frankfurt


Question: '"Casey At The Bat" ends with Casey & his teammates piling onto & pummeling this person at the plate'

Answer: the umpire


Question: 'There are tips on how to tell when a home's owner is in this first step toward foreclosure'

Answer: default


Question: '1928:<br />Al Smith'

Answer: Herbert Hoover


Question: 'From the Latin for "flesh", it's dead or decaying flesh popular with hyenas & buzzards'

Answer: carrion


Question: 'In 2005 NASA pinpointed GRB050709, the "GRB" for this type of burst brighter than a billion suns'

Answer: a gamma-ray burst


Question: 'A recent biography of this 13th century man is subtitled "From Venice to Xanadu"'

Answer: Marco Polo


Question: 'The British museum has mysterious tubes called cong, carved of this green gemstone cherished in China'

Answer: jade


Question: 'Down and Out in ____ ____ Cop'

Answer: Beverly Hills


Question: 'This punctuation mark over the 1 is just so darned exciting'

Answer: the exclamation point


Question: 'In Joshua 6:20 "The wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into" this city'

Answer: Jericho


Question: 'Also called a frontage road, this type of access road runs parallel to a freeway or highway'

Answer: a service road


Question: 'It's equal to 4,840 square yards'

Answer: acre


Question: 'Washington's Freer & Sackler Galleries have exquisite nature paintings by Bada Shanren, a monk of this religion'

Answer: Buddhism


Question: 'Lilies of the ___ of Dreams'

Answer: Field


Question: 'Email would be a near-impossibility without this item over the 2, aka an asperand'

Answer: an at sign


Question: 'Built in 1982, the 2 walls of this memorial are 245 feet long & meet at an angle of 125º'

Answer: the Vietnam War Memorial


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) The Venn diagram represents consonants and vowels; sometimes "Y" in the middle is this mathematical set that the two larger sets have in common'

Answer: the intersection


Question: 'A female horse'

Answer: mare


Question: 'Beijing's Palace Museum has spectacular but fragile kesi, tapestries of this rich fabric'

Answer: silk


Question: 'There Will Be ___ Diamond'

Answer: Blood


Question: 'This item over the "slash" is used to enhance interrogation'

Answer: the question mark


Question: 'The John Lennon wall seen here is in this Czech capital'

Answer: Prague


Question: '"Enthusiasm" for this 4-letter street rim that helps to form the sidewalk has been minimal at best'

Answer: curb


Question: 'This fatty part of milk is also slang for "to defeat decisively"'

Answer: cream


Question: '(Alex reports from Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.)  The ROM's Asia collection includes the tomb of Zu Dashou, a general who, in the early 1600s, helped defend this dynasty against Manchu attacks'

Answer: the Ming Dynasty


Question: 'Pumping ___ Man'

Answer: Iron


Question: 'Roger Maris was all-too-familiar with this item over the 8'

Answer: the asterisk (asterik accepted)


Question: 'It was first erected on the night of Aug. 12-13, 1961, the result of a governmental decree'

Answer: the Berlin Wall


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a number sequence on the monitor.)  In the mathematical sequence here, 4 is termed this, just like the paved strip down the center of a highway'

Answer: the median


Question: 'Spicy name for a spiked weapon of war used during the Middle Ages'

Answer: mace


Question: 'Taipei's National Palace Museum's collection of this visual art form includes "poem in seven-character verse"'

Answer: calligraphy


Question: 'Five Easy ___ of April'

Answer: Pieces


Question: 'I don't mean to be diacritical, but this mark is found above tab right now, not mañana'

Answer: the tilde


Question: 'A biographer said he "was the first to build a wall, 80 miles long, to separate the Romans from the Barbarians"'

Answer: Hadrian


Question: 'In an Eagles song, "Life in" this title place will "surely make you lose your mind"'

Answer: the fast lane


Question: 'The highest point or summit'

Answer: acme


Question: 'In 1809, at the age of 21, Byron took his seat in this parliamentary body'

Answer: the House of Lords


Question: 'The Commodores' "Times A Lady" divided by Paul Simon's "Trick Pony"'

Answer: 3


Question: 'Some reports have this 16th century British king weighing in at 400 lbs., so calling him "Pork Chop", even lovingly... bad idea'

Answer: Henry VIII


Question: 'Alpha Centauri is 4.35 of these away from us'

Answer: light years


Question: 'We need 3 hufflers, who excel in their ability to quickly move these through a series of locks'

Answer: ships (or boats)


Question: 'In 1823 Byron gave 4,000 pounds of his own money to the Greek fleet to prepare it for war against this occupying empire'

Answer: the Ottoman Empire


Question: 'The Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be" this many "(Miles)" plus Paul Simon's "Ways To Leave Your Lover"'

Answer: 550


Question: 'In 490 B.C. Miltiades' runner pouts & says he's only going to run 1 mile & walk the other 24 from Marathon to here'

Answer: Athens


Question: 'The major source of this treatment for bipolar disorder is mined in North Carolina'

Answer: lithium


Question: 'If you're good at making casks or barrels, we'd certainly like to hang with you, Mr. this job'

Answer: cooper


Question: 'This church refused to accept Byron's body for burial in 1824, but a memorial to him was placed on its floor in 1969'

Answer: Westminster Abbey


Question: 'Stevie Nicks' "Edge Of" this minus The Crests' this many "Candles"'

Answer: 1


Question: 'In 1944 this "Desert Fox" was implicated in a plot to kill Hitler; actually, that's just aggressive-aggressive'

Answer: Rommel


Question: 'This 11th letter of the Greek alphabet is used to symbolize wavelengths'

Answer: lambda


Question: 'Day-O!  This job was for those who secured payments for goods on credit, like bananas maybe'

Answer: tallyman


Question: 'Byron set "Beppo" in this Italian city, writing, "At the moment when I fix my story, that sea-born city was in all her glory"'

Answer: Venice


Question: 'Murray Head's nights "In Bangkok" minus Brewer & Shipley's tokes "Over The Line"'

Answer: 0


Question: 'He could've said, "I'm sure Clement will do a good job --for an Oxford man" after Attlee beat him to become prime minister'

Answer: Churchill


Question: 'You deserve to be crowned if you know that sassafras, avocado & cinnamon are all part of this family'

Answer: the laurel family


Question: 'A mickey, used to measure movement of this computer part, equals 1/200th of an inch'

Answer: a mouse


Question: 'If you want a job as a wainwright, you better know how to fix these'

Answer: wagons


Question: 'In 1810 Byron visited the site of Troy & swam this strait, imitating Leander'

Answer: the Hellespont


Question: 'The Byrds' this many "Miles High" times Eddie Money's this many "Tickets To Paradise"'

Answer: 16


Question: 'Lee's "Eyes of the Army", this gen. must've had something better to do when his cavalry was late for Gettysburg'

Answer: Jeb Stuart


Question: 'Types of these devices include diode, solid state & gas'

Answer: lasers


Question: 'Jeremy Bentham's utilitarianism conceptualized hedons, which were measures of this feeling'

Answer: pleasure


Question: 'A warrener in days of yore was responsible for the keeping of these animals for meat'

Answer: rabbits


Question: 'A 13-page document typed on April 18, 1945 with the names of 801 men inspired a 1982 book & this 1993 film'

Answer: Schindler\'s List


Question: 'In "The Grapes of Wrath", this matriarch says, "All we got is the family unbroke"'

Answer: Ma Joad


Question: 'Ash Wednesday signals the start of this 40-day period of prayer & fasting'

Answer: Lent


Question: 'Star of 1984's "The Duck Factory", you can't "Mask" the fact he went on to a "Dumb" film career'

Answer: Jim Carrey


Question: 'Dutch Elm Disease is spread by a fungus carried by these insects, yeah, yeah, yeah'

Answer: Beetles


Question:
'The Embassy Row Hotel,
The Georgetown Inn,
The Capitol Hill Suites'

Answer: Washington, D.C.


Question: 'A rough sketch with no shading, or a short summary of a written work or speech'

Answer: Outline


Question: 'Sherlock Holmes described this foe as the "Napoleon of Crime"'

Answer: Professor Moriarty


Question: 'Among the events Epiphany celebrates is the visit of this trio to Bethlehem'

Answer: Magi/Wise Men


Question: 'Beginning in 1961 ABC's "Wide World of Sports" captured "The Thrill of Victory" & this'

Answer: "The Agony of Defeat"


Question: 'Tender perennials are so-called because they are killed by this, a sign the weather's getting chilly'

Answer: Frost


Question:
'The Hotel Maison de Ville,
The Soniat House,
Le Richelieu in the French Quarter'

Answer: New Orleans


Question: 'Guts'

Answer: Innards


Question: 'He told Brigid O'Shaughnessy, "I'm going to send you over."  The chances are you'll get off with life"'

Answer: Sam Spade (in "The Maltese Falcon")


Question: 'In Islam Laylat Al-Miraj commemorates his flight from Mecca to Jerusalem & into heaven'

Answer: Mohammed


Question: 'This former Cosby kid is the Malcolm in "Malcolm & Eddie"'

Answer: Malcolm-Jamal Warner


Question: 'If you want your tulips to bloom next year, dig these up in the fall & store them in a dry, cool place'

Answer: Bulbs


Question:
'The Golden Nugget,
The Flamingo Hilton,
The Mirage'

Answer: Las Vegas


Question: 'Nebraska center Dave Rimington is the only 2-time winner of this trophy for college football interior linemen'

Answer: Outland Trophy


Question: 'D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley plays around with a playwright as well as this gamekeeper'

Answer: Oliver Mellors


Question: '"Pause for the Pledge" is one of the ceremonies for this June 14 observance'

Answer: Flag Day


Question: 'Adrian Paul stars as Duncan MacLeod, an immortal in the series based on this movie'

Answer: Highlander


Question: 'Generic names for these include Fluazifop & 2, 4-D'

Answer: Weed killers/herbicides


Question:
'The Marriott Riverwalk,
The Hilton Palacio Del Rio,
The Holiday Inn Crockett Hotel'

Answer: San Antonio


Question: 'It follows Macbeth's line, "And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death"'

Answer: "Out, out brief candle"


Question: 'This Thackeray character is the orphaned daughter of an artist & a French opera girl'

Answer: Becky Sharp (in "Vaniity Fair")


Question: 'It begins on the 25th of Kislev & lasts 8 days'

Answer: Hanukkah


Question: 'More than 20 years before Fran Drescher, she played a nanny in "Nanny and the Professor"'

Answer: Juliet Mills


Question: 'One way to do this to your potting soil is with a formaldehyde drench'

Answer: Sterilize


Question:
'The Pierre,
The St. Regis,
The Carlyle'

Answer: New York City


Question: 'This 1869 Mark Twain travel narrative is subtitled "The New Pilgrim's Progress"'

Answer: "Innocents Abroad"


Question: 'This "Invisible Man" author's essay "On Being the Target of Discrimination" appeared in 1989'

Answer: Ralph Ellison


Question: 'He says he based his role as Garth in "Wayne's World" partly on his brother Brad'

Answer: Dana Carvey


Question: 'While the great horned type of this bird goes hoo-hoo, the barn type goes kksssch!'

Answer: Owl


Question: 'This saint of Lourdes died a nun in 1879'

Answer: Bernadette


Question: 'Common response to the card game query, "Do you have any aces?"'

Answer: Go Fish!


Question: 'In addition to his novels, this Russian count wrote religious essays like 1884's "What I Believe"'

Answer: Leo Tolstoy


Question: 'This "L.A. Confidential" co-star worked in his sister's hair salon & was known as "Mr. Danny"'

Answer: Danny DeVito


Question: 'Animal that felled the birch tree whose stump is seen here:'

Answer: Beaver


Question: 'She's the saint, though some call her a sinner, from whom Jesus cast out 7 demons'

Answer: Mary Magdalene


Question: 'After you "Just Do It" in Nikes, you can do this to Gatorade, because life is a sport'

Answer: "Drink It Up"


Question: 'He attacked poor writing in 1946's "Politics and the English Language" before inventing Newspeak'

Answer: George Orwell (Eric Blair)


Question: 'This star of "Twister" made her TV debut in an episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"'

Answer: Helen Hunt


Question: 'Giant kelp, a type of this marine life form, can grow 200 feet long'

Answer: Seaweed


Question: 'In 452 Saint Leo the Great, then reigning as Pope, persuaded this Hun not to sack Rome'

Answer: Attila


Question: 'Term for an enticing or beckoning "look"'

Answer: Come hither


Question: 'In 1711 & 1712 this collaborator of Richard Steele wrote 274 essays for "The Spectator"'

Answer: Joseph Addison


Question: 'This "Tootsie" star received the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Golden Globes'

Answer: Dustin Hoffman


Question: 'Among human body shapes, the mesomorph is muscular, the endomorph is round & this one is lean'

Answer: Ectomorph


Question: 'Although this Polish count spoke no English when he signed up, he rose to brig. general under Washington'

Answer: Casimir Pulaski


Question: 'He's the patron of poets & of Wales'

Answer: Saint David


Question: '2-word military command to look straight ahead'

Answer: "Eyes Front!"


Question: 'Excerpts of her "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" appeared as essays in The Atlantic & Harper's'

Answer: Annie Dillard


Question: 'She was born Demetria Guynes November 11, 1962 in Roswell, New Mexico'

Answer: Demi Moore


Question: 'Also called the silk cotton tree, it's a source of fiber used to stuff life jackets & pillows'

Answer: Kapok


Question: 'The British captured this South Carolina port on May 12, 1780 & held it for 2 years'

Answer: Charleston


Question: 'For most of his life, this saint of Loyola was known by his given name, Inigo'

Answer: Ignatius


Question: 'Theda Bara thrilled audiences with this command to "My fool" in a 1915 film'

Answer: "Kiss Me, my fool!"


Question: 'New Zealand has 2 national anthems, "God Defend New Zealand" & this'

Answer: \"God Save the Queen\"


Question: '(Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a coffee can & an inclined plane.)  A ball of clay inside the can is enough to reposition the can's natural center of this, so the can rolls uphill'

Answer: gravity


Question: 'On Feb. 15, 1898 it famously sank in Havana harbor'

Answer: the U.S.S. Maine


Question: 'According to Parson Weems, this man was incapable of being mendacious'

Answer: George Washington


Question: 'The submarine U.S.S. Nautilus was the first oceangoing vessel to use this form of power'

Answer: nuclear


Question: 'For his subversive activities, Lenin was banished to this region in 1897'

Answer: Siberia


Question: 'First name of Paul McCartney's American wife'

Answer: Linda


Question: 'Every second, fusion reactions in the Sun convert about 600 million tons of this element into helium'

Answer: hydrogen


Question: 'It can mean erect, honest & just, or a type of piano'

Answer: upright


Question: 'This U.S. general who loved horses & studied at a cavalry school helped protect the Lipizzaners in WWII'

Answer: George Patton


Question: 'In 1838 the Sirius became the first steamship to cross this ocean using steam power alone'

Answer: the Atlantic


Question: 'Lenin returned to Russia from Europe following the overthrow of the czar in this year'

Answer: 1917


Question: 'The Philharmonic Orchestra of this English city marked its 150th anniversary by premiering an oratorio by Paul'

Answer: Liverpool


Question: 'Edward Doisy won a 1943 Nobel Prize for synthesizing this hemorrhage-inhibiting vitamin; isn't that "special"?'

Answer: vitamin K


Question: 'During pregnancy, this organ expands to more than 20 times its normal size'

Answer: the uterus


Question: 'His command of the 7th Cavalry ended on June 25, 1876'

Answer: General George Custer


Question: 'On a sailing ship, these can be buntlines, downhauls or sheets'

Answer: ropes


Question: 'Lenin led this "majority" revolutionary faction to power in the October Revolution'

Answer: the Bolsheviks


Question: 'The 2 singers Paul had No. 1 duets with in the 1980s'

Answer: Michael Jackson & Stevie Wonder


Question: 'Of the 3 basic rock types, the type that was once one form but has changed to another due to heat & pressure'

Answer: metamorphic


Question: 'A "raw" yellowish-brown color, or a "burnt" reddish-brown'

Answer: umber


Question: 'In 1760 he became the last British monarch to be buried in Westminster Abbey'

Answer: George II


Question: 'Apollo 15's command module was named in honor of this ship commanded by captain James Cook'

Answer: the Endeavour


Question: 'Following the establishment of a dictatorship, Lenin changed his political party's name to this'

Answer: the Communist Party


Question: '"Silly Love Songs" was a No. 1 hit for Paul & this band in 1976'

Answer: Wings


Question: '(Jon of the Clue Crew holds a white rock at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico.)  Because it's water-soluble, this form of calcium sulfate is rarely found in sand, but here in New Mexico's Tularosa Basin, there are no rivers to carry it away, so it forms the famed white sand'

Answer: gypsum


Question: 'Word used on the cover of a dictionary to indicate that it hasn't been reduced from a larger work'

Answer: unabridged


Question: 'This South American capital was once known as Stabroek'

Answer: Georgetown


Question: 'Before its name was changed, this ship of Sir Francis Drake was known as the Pelican'

Answer: the Golden Hind


Question: 'After Lenin's death in 1924, this man began purging rivals & eventually took over the top spot'

Answer: Stalin


Question: 'She's Paul's daughter & a leading fashion designer'

Answer: Stella McCartney


Question: 'Grant's Vicksburg campaign was delayed months by Gen. Forrest's destruction of these main supply lines'

Answer: the railroads


Question: 'This lead singer of Queen wrote & sang what was voted the best single ever in a U.K. Guinness poll'

Answer: Freddie Mercury


Question: 'At 1.2 million square miles, it's the largest country in the world that fits the category'

Answer: India


Question: 'The Chinese assign each year an element as well as an animal; 1972 got rat & water & 1976, dragon & this'

Answer: fire


Question: 'A phrase in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" became the title of this Capote crime book'

Answer: In Cold Blood


Question: 'Depression era Erskine Caldwell novel about sharecroppers residing in the smallest U.S. state'

Answer: Tobacco Rhode Island


Question: 'This national battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md. commemorates the bloodiest single day of the Civil War'

Answer: Antietam


Question: 'On the hit album "Last Mango in Paris", this "Indy" actor provided the bullwhip cracks'

Answer: Harrison Ford


Question: 'Construction of this Asian capital city near Rawalpindi began in 1961'

Answer: Islamabad


Question: '2 of the 4 months without a U.S. federal holiday'

Answer: (2 of) March, April, June & August


Question: 'He won an Oscar for writing the screenplay of "The Cider House Rules", based on his own novel'

Answer: (John) Irving


Question: 'This rabid Stephen King dog has been coachin' Penn State since 1966'

Answer: Cujo Paterno


Question: 'Sherman's campaign for this city took 3 months in 1864'

Answer: Atlanta


Question: 'This actor was good friends with Hemingway & starred in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" & "A Farewell to Arms"'

Answer: Gary Cooper


Question: 'This parish of Louisiana shares its name with a European peninsula'

Answer: Iberia


Question: 'March 25 was this day in Britain until adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752'

Answer: New Year\'s Day


Question: 'In 1944 the post office said his "Droll Stories", part of "La Comedie Humaine", was too obscene to mail'

Answer: Balzac


Question: '"Watery" Milli Vanilli tune that accuses Robespierre et al. of commiting crimes from 1793-1794'

Answer: "Blame It On The Reign Of Terror"


Question: 'In 1862 CSA Gen. Beauregard wanted Island No. 10 in this body of water held at all costs; didn't happen'

Answer: the Mississippi River


Question: 'Either of the 2 actresses who won Oscars for "All the King's Men" or "The Fisher King"'

Answer: Mercedes Ruehl (or Mercedes McCambridge)


Question: 'In the 1950s, CIA operative Kermit Roosevelt was in charge of toppling this country's PM Mossadegh'

Answer: Iran


Question: 'The famous Aztec calendar stone depicts Tonatiuh, the god of this, at its center'

Answer: the sun


Question: '"A Long Way Gone" is Ishmael Beah's memoir of being a boy soldier in this war-torn West African country'

Answer: Sierra Leone


Question: 'The hopeless "Mud March" in a Virginia downpour ended Burnside's command of the force called this Army'

Answer: the Army of the Potomac


Question: 'On "Saturday Night Live", he was, and you weren't'

Answer: Chevy Chase


Question: 'Appropriately, this Swiss town takes its name from its position between Lake Brienz in the East & Lake Thun in the West'

Answer: Interlaken


Question: 'In 2007 the Fourth of July was a Wednesday; in 2008, it will fall on this day'

Answer: Friday


Question: 'In a 1932 Stella Gibbons novel, a curse binds the Starkadder family to this "chilly" title farm'

Answer: Cold Comfort Farm


Question: 'The two 3-letter words applied to those for & against the 18th Amendment, & states with differing laws on the issue'

Answer: dry & wet


Question: 'When buying this fruit, the pina in a pina colada, don't judge it by its color'

Answer: Pineapple


Question: 'About this title pair, Sammy Cahn wrote, "You can't have one without the other"'

Answer: Love And Marriage


Question: 'Lemmon made his directorial debut with 1971's "Kotch", starring this man, his "Out To Sea" co-star'

Answer: Walter Matthau


Question: 'Home to the Knicks & Rangers, it's NYC's largest indoor sports arena'

Answer: Madison Square Garden


Question: 'In 1945 May 7 was called V-E Day & September 2 was called this'

Answer: V-J Day


Question: 'When you do this, the stopper ball lifts to allow water from the tank to flow into the bowl'

Answer: Flush the toilet


Question: 'Its seeds can be roasted, salted & eaten as snacks, & have been spit for a Guinness record'

Answer: Watermelon


Question: 'In "Hey! Diddle, Diddle", these 2 left the scene together'

Answer: Dish & spoon


Question: 'In 1996's "My Fellow Americans", Lemmon, James Garner & Dan Aykroyd played men who held this office'

Answer: President of the U.S.


Question: 'Both located in Queens, they're NYC's 2 major airports'

Answer: John F. Kennedy & LaGuardia


Question: 'On the French Revolutionary calendar, this 1789 date of the Bastille's fall might have been 25 Messidor'

Answer: July 14


Question: 'Doing this to a pipe, unlike doing it to a needle, involves special cutting tools'

Answer: Threading


Question: 'Ounce for ounce it has more potassium than any other fruit except the avocado'

Answer: Banana


Question: 'After this singing duo split, she won an Oscar & he was elected to Congress....& the beat goes on'

Answer: Sonny & Cher


Question: 'In "The China Syndrome", Lemmon played the executive of this type of plant'

Answer: Nuclear power plant


Question: '"(Hi, I'm Sharon Lawrence)  At 42nd Street & Fifth Avenue you'll find this great institution, guarded by 2 lions"'

Answer: NYC Public Library


Question: 'The thousand-year Byzantine Empire  ended May 29, 1453 when this city fell to the Turks'

Answer: Constantinople


Question: 'You may run your dishwasher's drain line under the sink into this other labor-saving device'

Answer: Garbage disposal


Question: 'The pink seedless & ruby red seedless types of this citrus fruit were developed from the marsh seedless'

Answer: Grapefruit


Question: 'An April 1997 auction of Clyde Barrow's belongings raised money to fund moving his grave next to hers'

Answer: Bonnie Parker


Question: 'In "Some Like It Hot", Lemmon & this actor joined an all-girl band to escape the mob'

Answer: Tony Curtis


Question: 'The answer is "Practice, Practice, Practice"'

Answer: How do you get to Carnegie Hall?


Question: 'He had a historic date with Nora Barnacle June 16, 1904, the day on which "Ulysses" is set'

Answer: James Joyce


Question: 'This rhyming device sucks up water to prevent basement flooding'

Answer: Sump pump


Question: 'This fruit's name may be from the Greek word for a "Drink of the Gods"'

Answer: Nectarine


Question: 'These Siamese twins, last name Bunker, married sisters in 1843 & fathered a total of 22 children'

Answer: Chang & Eng


Question: 'In this 1992 film based on a David Mamet play, Lemmon portrayed a loser of a real-estate salesman'

Answer: Glengarry Glen Ross


Question: 'Named for a Danish settler, it's the only borough on the mainland'

Answer: The Bronx


Question: 'The Russian Revolution began Nov. 7, 1917, or Oct. 25 on this calendar named for Caesar'

Answer: Julian calendar


Question: 'This L-shaped "hex" wrench was named for a Hartford, Connecticut manufacturer'

Answer: Allen wrench


Question: 'From the surface of this innermost planet, the sun appears 2.5 times as large as it does from Earth'

Answer: Mercury


Question: 'Cody,<br />Cassidy'

Answer: Kathie Lee Gifford


Question: 'This "Lullaby" composer was instrumental in getting Dvorak's "Moravian Duets" published'

Answer: Johannes Brahms


Question: 'This one-eyed monster had some sheep, E-I-E-I-O, but he preferred to dine on Odysseus' men'

Answer: Cyclops (Polyphemus)


Question: 'In the late 1940s, this firm began the practice of selling underwear in cellophane bags, 3 to a bag'

Answer: Fruit of the Loom


Question: 'A baby bear, or a novice reporter'

Answer: Cub


Question: 'The name of this element comes from iris, "rainbow", & refers to its multi-hued compounds'

Answer: Iridium


Question:
'Rumer,
Scout,
Tallulah Belle'

Answer: Demi Moore


Question: '3 of his most famous works, "Rigoletto", "Il Trovatore" & "La Traviata", were published between 1851-1853'

Answer: Giuseppe Verdi


Question: 'E-I-E-I-Ouch!  On a hunting trip, young Odysseus was scarred by one of these tusked terrors'

Answer: Boar


Question: 'On July 19, 1970, after 70 years of business, this chocolate company ran its first consumer ad'

Answer: Hershey\'s


Question: 'A cat might take this short sleep'

Answer: Nap


Question: 'In computers or audio amplifiers, it's the process in which part of the output returns to the input'

Answer: Feedback


Question:
'David,
Ricky
(whose real name was Eric)'

Answer: Harriet Nelson


Question: 'This "Rite Of Spring" composer was commissioned to write the "Circus Polka" to be danced by circus elephants'

Answer: Igor Stravinsky


Question: 'Old King Priam had this wooden animal, E-I-E-I-O, & it was full of trouble'

Answer: Trojan Horse


Question: 'In 1992 Playskool overhauled this toy by replacing its wooden rods & spools with plastic parts'

Answer: Tinkertoys


Question: 'Mimic, simian style'

Answer: Ape


Question: 'This basic aerodynamic force acts on a wing, putting greater pressure on its lower surface than on its upper'

Answer: Lift


Question: 'Beatrice Elizabeth Mary,<br />Eugenie Victoria Helena'

Answer: Sarah Ferguson


Question: 'When this composer's opera "La boheme" premiered in Turin, Arturo Toscanini conducted the orchestra'

Answer: Giacomo Puccini


Question: 'Soldiers couldn't see the heron this wise goddess sent for luck, but heard it squawk here & squawk there'

Answer: Athena


Question: 'In 1949 this German small appliance firm introduced the world's first electric foil shaver'

Answer: Braun


Question: 'A tarboosh resembles this tall, red brimless cap'

Answer: Fez


Question: 'The 3 basic bacterial types are the coccus, the spirillum & this type that causes TB'

Answer: Bacillus


Question:
'Christina,
Christopher,
Cynthia,
Cathy'

Answer: Joan Crawford


Question: 'From 1835 to 1863 this "Symphonie Fantastique" composer wrote music criticism for "Journal des Debats" ("Journal of Debates")'

Answer: Hector Berlioz


Question: 'On this sorceress' island, Aeaea, it was here a pig, there a pig, everywhere a pig, pig'

Answer: Circe (turned all the men into swine)


Question: 'This athletic shoe company was named for an African gazelle admired for its swiftness'

Answer: Reebok


Question: 'It's a lyric poem usually addressed to a person or thing'

Answer: Ode


Question: 'Legend says Saint Rule brought this saint's relics to the coast of Fife in 368'

Answer: St. Andrew


Question: 'In 1933 he joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.; he became a U.S. citizen in 1940'

Answer: Albert Einstein


Question: 'These big cats gave the Patriots all they could handle in Super Bowl XXXVIII'

Answer: the (Carolina) Panthers


Question: 'Alice Walker:<br />"The Color ___"'

Answer: Purple


Question: 'In Mississippi there's a town called Coldwater as well as a "Hot" this beverage'

Answer: coffee


Question: 'A noted germophobe, Trump said, "I think" this form of greeting "is barbaric... you catch the flu"'

Answer: handshaking


Question: 'An ad agency fired this eventual "Happiest Place on Earth" creator, citing a "singular lack of drawing ability"'

Answer: Walt Disney


Question: 'In 1589 he became a professor of mathematics at the U. of Pisa; in 1592 he moved on the U. of Padua'

Answer: Galileo


Question: 'All "Hale" this 58-year-old who won his fourth Senior PGA championship by a str--a shot'

Answer: Hale Irwin


Question: 'John Steinbeck:<br />"The ___ Pony"'

Answer: Red


Question: 'A piece to cover your pate'

Answer: toupée


Question: 'Trump owned the N.J. Generals, a team that featured Doug Flutie & Herschel Walker, in this league'

Answer: the USFL


Question: 'Bob Lemon, Gene Michael & Lou Piniella were each fired twice by him; we won't get into the Billy Martin saga'

Answer: George Steinbrenner


Question: 'The director of St. Petersburg's Institute of Experimental Medicine until his 1936 death; his name ring a bell?'

Answer: (Ivan) Pavlov


Question: 'He was the winning pitcher in the clinching game of all 3 series in the Red Sox' magical run'

Answer: Derek Lowe


Question: 'James Ellroy:<br />"The ___ Dahlia"'

Answer: Black


Question: 'It's the celebration of a special anniversary, perhaps the "diamond" one'

Answer: jubilee


Question: 'This Trump family minister & author of "The Power of Positive Thinking" performed the Donald's marriage to Ivana'

Answer: Norman Vincent Peale


Question: 'Old soldiers never die, They get canned, like this general famously was on April 11, 1951'

Answer: Douglas MacArthur


Question: 'This French physicist wasn't the pits with his 1851 "pendulum" that demonstrated the Earth's rotation'

Answer: Foucault


Question: 'Women from this country won tennis' Wimbledon & French & U.S. Opens'

Answer: Russia


Question: 'Scott O'Dell:<br />"Island of the ___ Dolphins"'

Answer: Blue


Question: 'Native American Indians inhabited this Georgia swamp as early as 2500 B.C.'

Answer: the Okefenokee


Question: 'Heavily in debt in '91, Trump spotted a beggar & said to this woman, wife No. 2, "He's worth $900 million more than I am"'

Answer: Marla Maples


Question: 'In 1978 Handy Dan Hardware axed Arthur Blank-- but he did okay, co-founding this chain in Atlanta'

Answer: Home Depot


Question: 'This British biologist & model maker who partnered with James Watson passed away on July 29, 2004'

Answer: (Francis) Crick


Question: 'This team's Chauncey Billups was MVP of the NBA Finals'

Answer: the Detroit Pistons


Question: 'Charlotte Perkis Gilman:<br />"The ___ Wall-Paper"'

Answer: Yellow


Question: 'In his 12-volume "A Study of History", he traced the rise & fall of 26 civilizations'

Answer: (Arnold) Toynbee


Question: 'The Donald graduated first in his class from this school of finance at U.Penn. in 1968'

Answer: Wharton


Question: 'In 1781 Hieronymus Colloredo, Archbishop of Austria, fired this musician with a literal boot in the rump'

Answer: Mozart


Question: 'In the 1940s & 1950s Galina Ulanova was the chief ballerina for this company formed almost 200 years earlier'

Answer: the Bolshoi


Question: 'That PBS Civil War documentary guy'

Answer: Ken Burns


Question: 'Britain's Edmund Burke called for peace with the colonies the day before this man demanded liberty or death'

Answer: Patrick Henry


Question: 'The "spider" in a spider roll is a soft-shell one of these'

Answer: a crab


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a block of cheese.)  I'm in this Midwest state famous for making cheddar, which actually originated in a village in England'

Answer: Wisconsin


Question: 'Goneril's dad who's a schmancy private plane'

Answer: King Lear Jet


Question: 'Appropriate 1-word title of the Balanchine Ballet in 3 parts: "Emeralds", "Rubies" & "Diamonds"'

Answer: Jewels


Question: 'That Disney stalwart who also played the commander of "F Troop"'

Answer: Ken Berry


Question: 'After Isabella died, he marred teenaged Germaine de Foix in 1505'

Answer: Ferdinand


Question: 'Tony Shalhoub might enjoy ankimo, the liver of this fish'

Answer: the monkfish


Question: '(Sarah of the Clue Crew leans over a pool filled with denizens of the not-so-deep.)  I'm at the 190,000 gallon  manatee exhibit at the zoo of this city, now Ohio's most populous'

Answer: Columbus


Question: 'Crude incendiary grenade with a Russian name that's an explosive social gathering'

Answer: Molotov Cocktail Party


Question: 'This choreographer's first ballet "Fancy Free", combined ballet & jazz dancing'

Answer: Jerome Robbins


Question: 'That guy who broke Muhammad Ali's jaw in a 1973 bout'

Answer: Ken Norton (Sr.)


Question: 'This Asian said his "greatest joy" was "to conquer his enemies... and to clasp their wives and daughters"'

Answer: Genghis Khan


Question: 'On the heels of the California roll came this city roll with salmon & the cream cheese of the same name'

Answer: Philadelphia


Question: '(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands on a hill overlooking a steaming watercourse.)  In 1872 Congress established this area of over 2 million acres after seeing photos taken by William Jackson'

Answer: Yellowstone National Park