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The original author’s last story about this detective was “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place”
Sherlock Holmes
DETECTIVE FICTION
A shark named Bruce is a member of Fish-Eaters Anonymous in this favorite from 2003
Finding Nemo
ANIMATED MOVIES
From 1920 to 1946 this Swiss city served as the seat of the League of Nations
Geneva
THE 20th CENTURY
A cousin of this telegraph & code inventor set up the famous Pebble Beach golf course
Samuel Morse
SAM I AM
You win in this game by getting the rope with a sphere attached wrapped completely around the pole
tetherball
TOYS & GAMES
OGRE
(Al) Gore
SCRAMBLED VEEPS
In “The Big Sleep” he says, “I’m 33 years old, went to college once & can still speak English if there’s any demand for it”
Marlowe
DETECTIVE FICTION
This co-star of “Nash Bridges” returned in “The Lion King 1” as the voice of Bonzai the hyena
Cheech Marin
ANIMATED MOVIES
On April 18, 1983 a terrorist bomb at the U.S. embassy in this mideastern capital killed 63, including 17 Americans
Beirut
THE 20th CENTURY
Samuel Chase, Samuel Nelson, Samuel Miller & Samuel Blatchford all served on this august body
the Supreme Court
SAM I AM
Now called this, it was introduced around 1928 as Hop Ching checkers
Chinese checkers
TOYS & GAMES
WE NAG
(Spiro) Agnew
SCRAMBLED VEEPS
In the April 1841 Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine, this editor published his new detective story
Poe
DETECTIVE FICTION
(Hi, I’m Clay Aiken.) For my movie song on “American Idol” I sang “Somewhere Out There” from this animated film
An American Tail
ANIMATED MOVIES
In 1981 this labor union was outlawed in Poland; 8 years later it was legalized
Solidarity
THE 20th CENTURY
This man who had just a cameo in 1990’s “The Return of Superfly” became “Shaft” in 2000
Samuel L. Jackson
SAM I AM
Mattel has set this classic boxing toy in a video game “arena”
Rock \'Em Sock \'Em Robots
TOYS & GAMES
LEMON AD
(Walter) Mondale
SCRAMBLED VEEPS
She also created the detectives Tuppence & Tommy Beresford
Agatha Christie
DETECTIVE FICTION
Ray Romano, John Leguizamo & Denis Leary voiced the “sub-zero heroes” in this 2002 flick
Ice Age
ANIMATED MOVIES
In May 1954 President Eisenhower signed a bill authorizing the construction of this North American waterway
St. Lawrence Seaway
THE 20th CENTURY
During this 1846-48 war, the U.S. Army bought 1,000 of Samuel Colt’s revolvers
Mexican War
SAM I AM
The name of this game that uses 144 small tiles comes from a word meaning “sparrows”
Mah Jongg
TOYS & GAMES
FLOCK REELER
(Nelson) Rockefeller
SCRAMBLED VEEPS
“A Taste for Death” is one of P.D. James’ novels about this Scotland Yard detective and published poet
Adam Dalgliesh
DETECTIVE FICTION
Former “SCTV” siblings Rick Moranis & Dave Thomas voiced moose siblings in this animal adventure
Brother Bear
ANIMATED MOVIES
Unable to run for a third term as Pres. of Serbia, he made himself Pres. of Yugoslavia on July 23, 1997
Slobodan Milosevic
THE 20th CENTURY
In 1865 this man set John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg
Samuel Mudd
SAM I AM
The piece you try to capture in Stratego has one of these on it
a flag
TOYS & GAMES
CLAW ALE
(Henry A.) Wallace
SCRAMBLED VEEPS
In 1672 Giovanni Cassini determined the distance from the Earth to this, creating a new measuring unit, the Au
the sun
ASTRONOMY
This magazine’s website says it’s “more than a magazine to Black America… it’s a way of life”
Ebony
MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS
Guernsey
England
THAT'S OUR ISLAND!!!
If your birthday is on September 24, you’re on this of the sign of Libra
the cusp
4-LETTER WORDS
The $ may have originated as PS, an abbreviation for this other monetary unit
the peso
@$&!
In 1679 Danish astronomer Ole Romer was the first to figure out the speed of this
light
ASTRONOMY
2-word term for the peak listening period when rush hour commuters are in their cars
drive time
RADIO
In 2004 this magazine’s website featured a remote camera to watch the migrating sandhill cranes in Nebraska
National Geographic
MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS
Baffin Island
Canada
THAT'S OUR ISLAND!!!
4-letter Italian term for the boss of a crime syndicate
a capo
4-LETTER WORDS
The artist Chryssa is noted for her light art &s; done in tubes of this gas
neon
@$&!
Term for the astronomical event that heralds the beginning of summer
the solstice
ASTRONOMY
Casey Kasem created the long distance one of these & is heardherereading one:"This letter comes from a teenager in Washington, D.C. who learned that it's better to give than receive. Here's what she writes: 'Dear Casey...'"
a dedication
RADIO
The USA’s 2 top-selling magazines are Reader’s Digest & TV Guide; this “Better” magazine comes in third
Better Homes and Gardens
MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS
Corfu
Greece
THAT'S OUR ISLAND!!!
It’s in dictionaries as the sound a small object makes dropping into water, sometimes without a splash
plop
4-LETTER WORDS
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates at a chalkboard.) For the way it curls, Germans call our @ sign the Affinschwanz or this part of a monkey
the tail
@$&!
To an astronomer UMa is an abbreviation for this constellation
Ursa Major
ASTRONOMY
Iman is a model; this I-Man is this radio personality
Don Imus
RADIO
In March 2004 Arnold Schwarzenegger became executive editor of the magazine called Muscle & this
Fitness
MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS
The Canary Islands
Spain
THAT'S OUR ISLAND!!!
This problem that sounds like what a coyote does at night could threaten a golfer’s career
the yips
4-LETTER WORDS
The name of this company, whose symbol is seenhere, consists of 3-letters plus an &
AT&T;
@$&!
A large crater on Saturn’s moon Mimas is named for the British astronomer who discovered the moon in 1789
William Herschel
ASTRONOMY
The 2 words that followed “Lux” in a program beginning in 1936 that re-created plays & movies
Radio Theater
RADIO
This largest newspaper chain owns the Des Moines Register & about 100 other papers
Gannett
MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS
Bimini
Bahamas
THAT'S OUR ISLAND!!!
The dying cowboy in “Streets of Laredo” wants 6 pretty girls to bear this
his pall
4-LETTER WORDS
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew quizzes us from the chalkboard, which reads, "10 gal. of paint @ $2.50 per qt.") It’s the total price in dollars for the shipment I'velisted
$100
@$&!
'In November 2000, Pope John Paul II proclaimed this 16th century Englishman as the patron saint of politicians')
Sir Thomas More
PATRON SAINTS
Head to this state's peach festival in For Valley if you want to help make the world's largest peach cobbler
Georgia
PITS BURG
This title character of classic children's stories lived in Africa until he met the man with the yellow hat
Curious George
MONKEY BUSINESS
From the AP: a man from Natchez in this state stole $100 from a teller but left his parole I.D. on the counter
Mississippi
THAT'S SO RANDOM!
President McKinley is assassinated
the 20th century
NAME THAT CENTURY
The 3 leaves on the shamrock associated with this holiday are said to represent the Holy Trinity
St. Patrick\'s Day
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
If you want a life in the theatre, perhaps you should get a B.F.A. degree, B.F.A. standing for this
Bachelor\'s of Fine Arts
GET A DEGREE
Any pilgrimage to find the best olives will lead you through Kalamata in this country
Greece
PITS BURG
Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey is this flavor ice cream with fudge chunks & walnuts
banana
MONKEY BUSINESS
His 1978 run for congress was a bust; his first public service would have to wait until 1994, as Texas' governor
George W. Bush
THAT'S SO RANDOM!
The Pilgrims arrive in Massachusetts
the 17th century
NAME THAT CENTURY
The third Sunday in June, it didn't become official until signed into law in 1972
Father\'s Day
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
If you have an M.Ed. degree you're a master of this
education
GET A DEGREE
This country's Murcia & Valencia regions produce many of the world's apricots
Spain
PITS BURG
The Powerpuff Girls battle this megalomaniacal monkey with a rhyming name
Mojo Jojo
MONKEY BUSINESS
It's prohibited by the 5th Amendment, but you'll be facing it in the next round
double jeopardy
THAT'S SO RANDOM!
Gutenberg invents his printing press
the 15th century
NAME THAT CENTURY
Mexico's Cinco de Mayo celebrates its victory over this country's troops at Puebla in 1862
France
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
It's the degree you hold if your mom introduces you as "my son, the M.B.A."
a Masters of Business Administration
GET A DEGREE
76 years old, the original Hass avocado tree died in 2002 in La Habra Heights in this state
California
PITS BURG
Assume the role of aspiring pirate Guybrush Threepwood in the video game "The Curse of" this place
Monkey Island
MONKEY BUSINESS
"Han then, Freddy: look wh' y' gowin', deah" is the flower girl's first line in this Shaw play
Pygmalion
THAT'S SO RANDOM!
Cortez conquers in the Incas in Mexico
the 16th century
NAME THAT CENTURY
The name of this Jewish holy day means "beginning of the year"
Rosh Hashanah
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
You go to the DMV to get your driver's license; you go to a D.V.M. because she's a licensed doctor of this
veterinary medicine
GET A DEGREE
In 1852 cherries were planted on Old Mission Peninsula in this Midwest state; it now grows 75% of the tart type
Michigan
PITS BURG
Julius the Monkey, seen here, is the mascot of this brand
Paul Frank
MONKEY BUSINESS
(I'm Ashleigh Banfield.) "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses", said this Algonquin Round Table member
Dorothy Parker
THAT'S SO RANDOM!
The black death kills one-third of Europe
the 14th century
NAME THAT CENTURY
On July 24 several South American countries celebrate the 1783 birth of this man
Simon Bolivar
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
Check it out! B.L.S. is a bachelor of this
library science
GET A DEGREE
This classic by Stephen Crane is subtitled "An Episode of the American Civil War"
The Red Badge of Courage
AMERICAN LITERATURE
In 1993 Penn State became the 11th member of this conference, which didn't change its name
the Big Ten
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Visits to its colleges, like Christ Church & Merton, are restricted--scholars at work!
Oxford
MERRIE OLDE ENGLAND
Law school grad; Parliament, 1983; youngest Prime Minister in almost 200 years, 1997
Tony Blair
RESUMS OF WORLD LEADERS
Some bands still put music out on vinyl, but most use polycarbonate, the material of these
compact discs
BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMSITRY
Spanish for father
padre
THESE WORDS ARE INJEOPARDY!
Books by this Nobel Prize winner include "Love", "Beloved" & "Tar Baby"
Toni Morrison
AMERICAN LITERATURE
In 2001 this Utah school named its stadium for LaVell Edwards, its coach for 29 years
Brigham Young University
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
The Tudor mansion at Knole has 52 staircases (1 for each week in the year) & this many rooms
365
MERRIE OLDE ENGLAND
Law school grad; KGB operative, 1975 to 1991; President, 1999
(Valdimir) Putin
RESUMS OF WORLD LEADERS
New products from this company that used the "Better living..." slogan include fusion dye printer ink
duPont
BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMSITRY
Prepared & available for use
ready
THESE WORDS ARE INJEOPARDY!
This Willa Cather novel is divided into 5 books, the first being "The Shimerdas"
My Antonia
AMERICAN LITERATURE
This legendary Notre Dame coach (1918-1930) leads all coaches in career winning percentage with .881
Knute Rockne
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from under the boughs of a riverside willow in England.) Holy Trinity Church, where Shakespeare was baptized and buried, stands on the banks of this English this river
Avon
MERRIE OLDE ENGLAND
B.S. from Egyptian Military Academy; air base commander, 1964; V.P, 1975 to 1981; president, 1981
(Hosni) Mubarak
RESUMS OF WORLD LEADERS
In the 1960s, linear alkyl benzene became the main ingredient in detergents because it has this eco-quality
it\'s biodegradable
BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMSITRY
Quarry, like mice for owls
prey
THESE WORDS ARE INJEOPARDY!
This first novel by Bernard Malamud is considered one of the best baseball books of all time
The Natural
AMERICAN LITERATURE
This bowl game has been held in Jacksonville, Florida since January 1, 1946
the Gator Bowl
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
The ceremony of Riding the Bounds in Berwick, Northumberland began as defense against raiders from this nation
Scotland
MERRIE OLDE ENGLAND
Business degree, Universidad Iberoamericana; route supervisor for Coca-Cola; President, 2000
(Vicente) Fox
RESUMS OF WORLD LEADERS
The tingle on your tongue from drinking soda comes from the release of protons from this compound
carbon dioxide
BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMSITRY
"Lucia di Lammermoor", for example
opera
THESE WORDS ARE INJEOPARDY!
Hemingway's epigraph to this novel includes a Biblical passage that begins, "One generation passeth away..."
The Sun Also Rises
AMERICAN LITERATURE
In 1999 this Virginia Tech quarterback led all Division 1-A quarterbacks in passing efficiency
Michael Vick
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
The 1644 battlefield of Marston this, a type of gloomy field, is mentioned in a Bronte novel
Moor
MERRIE OLDE ENGLAND
Political science degree; Mujahideen arms & money purveyor, 1980s; Transitional Head of State, 2001
Hamid Karzai
RESUMS OF WORLD LEADERS
A narrow tube, or the type of "action" that explains how tall trees bring moisture up from the roots
capillary
BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMSITRY
Last name of the "Saturday Night Live" announcer who was the voice of "Jeopardy!" when Art Fleming hosted
Pardo
THESE WORDS ARE INJEOPARDY!
'2-word alternate name for 0 degrees longitude')
Prime Meridian
ON THE GLOBE
In 1945 he became the oldest veep to succeed to the presidency upon the death of a president
Harry Truman
20th CENTURY POLITICIANS
Jim Hawkins
Treasure Island
LOOK WHO'S TALKING
He later went back to Mellencamp, but under this name his album "American Fool" was No. 1 in 1982
John Cougar
CAT PEOPLE
Benjamin Franklin encouraged this pamphleteer's 1774 move from England to America
Thomas Paine
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
This cylindrical kitchen tool is useful for making pie crusts, or for keeping wayward husbands in line
a rolling pin
"ROCK" & "ROLL"
One can be "tetched" in this body part
the head
YOU CAN LOOK IT UP
In November 1910 he was elected governor of New Jersey; 2 years later he was elected president
Woodrow Wilson
20th CENTURY POLITICIANS
Jake Barnes
The Sun Also Rises
LOOK WHO'S TALKING
It's the name of King John's crusading older brother
Richard the Lionhearted
CAT PEOPLE
On June 14, 1777, he was given command of the Sloop Ranger
John Paul Jones
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Their exploits included a quest for the "Kurwood Derby" & the discovery of upsadaisium, a new mineral
Rocky & Bullwinkle
"ROCK" & "ROLL"
A "bombilation" is this type of sound often heard near beehives
buzzing
YOU CAN LOOK IT UP
After a 19% showing in 1992, this presidential candidate could only muster 8 1/2% of the vote in 1996
Ross Perot
20th CENTURY POLITICIANS
Jing-Mei Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan, Waverly Jong, Lena St. Clair & their mothers
The Joy Luck Club
LOOK WHO'S TALKING
Role shared by Eartha Kitt on TV & Michelle Pfeiffer on the big screen
Catwoman
CAT PEOPLE
It's been said that about 1/3 of all British troops in the colonies were these German mercenaries
Hessians
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
For an incredible 50 years, 1926-76, he illustrated the official Boy Scout calendar
Norman Rockwell
"ROCK" & "ROLL"
An "avuncular" person behaves in a way that reminds one of this relative
an uncle
YOU CAN LOOK IT UP
This Texan served a record 17 years as Speaker of the House between 1940 & 1961
Sam Rayburn
20th CENTURY POLITICIANS
Humbert Humbert
Lolita
LOOK WHO'S TALKING
Amanda Blake played this saloon owner on "Gunsmoke" for 19 seasons
Miss Kitty
CAT PEOPLE
The Boston Port Act was one of these laws passed by England to retaliate for the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
In 1986, Austrian-born Falco topped the charts withthissong about another Austrian:
"Rock Me Amadeus"
"ROCK" & "ROLL"
A "monoglot" only knows one of these
a language
YOU CAN LOOK IT UP
Known as "Battling Bob", he represented Wisconsin in the U.S. Senate from 1906 to 1925
Bob LaFollette
20th CENTURY POLITICIANS
Sal Paradise
On the Road
LOOK WHO'S TALKING
This character describes herself as the title animal in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
Maggie the Cat
CAT PEOPLE
On Dec. 10, 1778 this New York attorney was chosen president of the Continental Congress
John Jay
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
George Carlin's feature debut & Doris Day's last starring role were in the 1968 film "With Six You Get" this
Eggroll
"ROCK" & "ROLL"
When a joke causes people to "cachinnate", they're doing this too loudly
laughing
YOU CAN LOOK IT UP
Found in Central & South American forests, the spider monkey hangs from trees by this type of tail
prehensile
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
This "Pieta" artist was born in Caprese, a village in Tuscany, in 1475
Michelangelo (Buonarroti)
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
In 1962, his pop version of "I Can't Stop Loving You" was the No. 1 single of the year
Ray Charles
LOVE SONGS
Few were surprised when Julia Roberts split from this singer after 21 months of marriage
Lyle Lovett
CUPID GOOFED
Jesus was still dripping from this event when a voice from heaven called him "my beloved Son"
baptism
HE SAID
In 1997, as her daughter left for Stanford, she wondered "why I ever agreed to let her skip third grade"
Hillary Rodham Clinton
SHE SAID
These smallest apes spend most of their lives, including mating & giving birth, in trees
gibbons
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
This Dutchman's 1660s painting of "The Jewish Bride" is in the Rijksmuseum
Rembrandt
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
Hit in which Sinatra sang, "Love was just a glance away, a warm embracing dance away" ...dooby dooby do
"Strangers In The Night"
LOVE SONGS
Unhappy in his marriage, he loved his wife's sister & memorialized her in "Oliver Twist"
Charles Dickens
CUPID GOOFED
After his name was changed to Israel, God still called him this, to tell him to go down to Egypt
Jacob
HE SAID
Ironically, Marianne Moore began a poem about this literary form, "I, Too, Dislike It"
poetry
SHE SAID
This banded mammal can be seen in the Southern U.S. & in The Clash's "Rock The Casbah" video
the armadillo
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
He painted the scandalous picture seen here:
Edouard Manet
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
Henry Mancini topped the pop charts just once, with this movie theme heardhere:
"Love Theme From Romeo & Juliet"
LOVE SONGS
One of the things she asked Tom to return in their ugly divorce was her Emmy award
Roseanne Barr
CUPID GOOFED
In Eden the Lord told Adam he would return to this & told the serpent he would eat it
dirt (or dust or earth or soil)
HE SAID
In 1776 she wrote to husband John, "Remember the ladies, and be more generous....to them than your ancestors"
Abigail Adams
SHE SAID
The wild horned aoudad, or Barbary sheep, lives in the Aures & these northern African mountains
the Atlas Mountains
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
The name of his 1896 painting "No Te Aha Oe Riri" means "Why Are You Angry"?
Paul Gauguin
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
In 1986 Whitney Houston found this title lyric is "easy to achieve"
"The Greatest Love Of All"
LOVE SONGS
In 1762 after Peter III threatened divorce, this wife deposed him & became empress of Russia
Catherine the Great
CUPID GOOFED
God told Joshua, "Make thee sharp knives" & do this to the male Israelites "A second time"
circumcise them
HE SAID
"One is not born a woman, one becomes one", this Frenchwoman wrote in "The Second Sex"
Simone de Beauvoir
SHE SAID
Resembling the antelope, this animal named for its forked horns is the fastest in the Western Hemisphere
the pronghorn
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
This Belgian surrealist painted a 1957 mural called "La Fee Ignorante" -- "The Ignorant Elf"
Rene Magritte
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
They're "an institute you can't disparage. Ask the local gentry, and they will say it's element'ry"
"Love And Marriage"
LOVE SONGS
To end his marriage in 1877, this Russian composer tried to catch a lethal case of pneumonia
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
CUPID GOOFED
In 1 Kings 19 God tells him "Anoint Hazael", but he doesn't tell him to visit homes during the Seder
Elijah
HE SAID
This British novelist & essayist thought human character changed "on or about December 1910"
Virginia Woolf
SHE SAID
'City where Goethe & Nietzsche died & a republic & a breed of dog were born')
Weimar (Weimar Republic & Weimaraner dog)
EUROPEAN CITIES
Business partner Jacob Davis added the rivets to the pocket corners of this man's pants
Levi Strauss
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
In 1589 Boris Godunov got this country's Orthodox Church recognized as an independent patriarchate
Russia
HISTORY
On this series, Crystal Bernard plays Helen, an airport lunch counter operator & cellist
Wings
TV & FILM CELLISTS
The Grune Woche, one of Germany's largest agricultural fairs, takes place in this capital city.
Berlin
ANNUAL EVENTS
It begins, "It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville Nine that day"
"Casey at the Bat"
POETS & POETRY
Newspaper publisher Britt Reid fights crime as this "Green" hero
the Green Hornet
BUG NAMES
It's said he added a wire comb to his cotton gin at the suggestion of Catherine Greene, a widow
Eli Whitney
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
When he went to Europe in 1971, he became the first reigning Japanese monarch to travel abroad
Hirohito
HISTORY
In Ghostbusters she played the cellist who fell for, or rather levitated for, Bill Murray
(Sigourney) Weaver
TV & FILM CELLISTS
Albany, Georgia has an annual festival devoted to this nut, a type of hickory
the pecan
ANNUAL EVENTS
His poem, "Highland Mary", was inspired by Mary Campbell, to whom he was engaged
Burns
POETS & POETRY
A googly is a deceptive delivery by the bowler in this sport
cricket
BUG NAMES
During World War I he directed the wireless service of Italy's army
Marconi
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
In 1942 he replaced Gandhi as leader of India's National Congress Party
Nehru
HISTORY
In The Living Daylights he played the Bond who formed a bond with Czech cellist Maryam d'Abo
(Timothy) Dalton
TV & FILM CELLISTS
An Urbanna, Virginia festival devoted to this bivalve serves it in every conceivable fashion.
oysters
ANNUAL EVENTS
He included an unflattering description of himself in one of "The Canterbury Tales"
Chaucer
POETS & POETRY
This producer brought together "Our Gang", those cute little rascals
(Hal) Roach
BUG NAMES
In 1959 Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce applied for patents on the first integrated ones of these
a circuit
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
In 1973 Menachem Begin helped form this Israeli political party, a merger of several smaller parties
Likud
HISTORY
Tannis Vallely played the cello-playing honors student on this Howard Hesseman series
the Head of the Class
TV & FILM CELLISTS
Gering, Nebraska's 4-day celebration of this pioneer trail features an old settler's reunion and parades
the Oregon Trail
ANNUAL EVENTS
In 1823 Shelley was buried in the same Rome cemetery where this poet had been buried 2 years earlier
Keats
POETS & POETRY
In 1982 he had a hit single, "Goody Two Shoes", & a hit album, "Friend or Foe"
Adam Ant
BUG NAMES
The sensation of the 1893 Chicago Exposition rose 250' & was named for its inventor
the Ferris Wheel
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
Great Britain gained most of Eastern Canada from France as a result of this war
the French & Indian War
HISTORY
Buddy Sorrell was the character who played the cello on this comedy series
The Dick Van Dyke Show
TV & FILM CELLISTS
This country sets aside June 15 to honor its Dannebrog, the oldest national flag in the world
Denmark
ANNUAL EVENTS
This British poet of "Gunga Din" penned the phrase "East is East, and West is West"
(Rudyard) Kipling
POETS & POETRY
Last name of the "Back to the Future" movie character seenhere
McFly
BUG NAMES
In 1784 the king considered having this torn down; in July 1789, the people did so on their own
le Bastille
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Kangaroo Paw, an unusual-looking wildflower, is native to this country
Australia
NATURE
In 1985 this performer bought ATV, owner of much of the Beatles' catalogue, for over $40 million
Michael Jackson
POP MUSIC
This state leads the U.S. in number of registered automobiles with over 17 million
California
TRANSPORTATION
Kiribati's largest island is named for this ho-ho holiday
Christmas Island
ISLANDS
When this Shakespearean theater was rebuilt after a 1613 fire, tile replaced thatch on its roof
the Globe Theatre
THEATRE
On July 11, 1789, Lafayette proposed to the Assembly a first draft of the declaration of these
the rights of man
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
This hybrid offspring of a male donkey & a mare is usually sterile
a mule
NATURE
The "Acid Queen" costume she wore in "Tommy" is now in Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Tina Turner
POP MUSIC
Air in this tunnel between NYC & Jersey City comes from giant fans in 4 10-story towers
the Holland Tunnel
TRANSPORTATION
It's separated from the "toe" of Italy by the Strait of Messina
Sicily
ISLANDS
The drama theatre, 1 of 4 auditoriums in this Sydney structure, is used for plays
the Sydney Opera House
THEATRE
Written by Rouget de Lisle as "Chant de guerre pour l'armee du Rhin", it's now known as this anthem
La Marseillaise
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
This hot, dry Saharan wind whose name comes from Arabic for "East" can bring rain to southern Europe
Sirocco
NATURE
"Great Balls of Fire!" In 1968 he played Iago in "Catch My Soul", a rock musical version of "Othello".
Jerry Lee Lewis
POP MUSIC
This state capital has a Wiley Post Airport as well as a Will Rogers Airport
Oklahoma City
TRANSPORTATION
Yell, Mainland, and Fetlar are among these islands famous for their ponies
the Shetlands
ISLANDS
Uta Hagen was the first to play Martha in this playwright's"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Albee
THEATRE
Running from July 19 to August 17, this month was so hot... you could cook a lobster on the sidewalk
Thermidor
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
The dried leaves of the purple foxglove are used to produce this heart stimulant
digitalis
NATURE
Her 1986 No. 1 hit "That's What Friends Are For" was credited to her "and Friends"
Dionne Warwick
POP MUSIC
This series of canals allows transportations and commerce between Lakes Superior & Huron
the Sault Ste. Marie Canals
TRANSPORTATION
It lies 25 miles south of Barbuda
Antigua
ISLANDS
2 of Wilkie Collins' plays were performed at a theatre in this "Great Expectations" author's home
(Charles) Dickens
THEATRE
1790's new tricolor flag replaced one with this floral symbol
the fleur-de-lis
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Most of these birds belong to the genus cygnus
swans
NATURE
She refused a 1990 Grammy for best alternative performance for "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got"
(Sinead) O\'Connor
POP MUSIC
This city's Logan International Airport is about 180 miles closer to Europe than New York City is
Boston
TRANSPORTATION
In the West Indies, Dominica lies between Guadeloupe & this French island
Martinique
ISLANDS
Lady Gregory organized foreign tours of this Dublin theater company from 1911 to 1913
the Abbey Theatre
THEATRE
'The northernmost country in Africa, it\'s much smaller than the countries that border it')
Tunisia
AFRICAN COUNTRIES
Slang for a large amount, it's also the past tense of "slay"
Slew
WORDS
This Scottish discoverer of the Victoria Falls was "found" by Henry Stanley in November 1871
Dr. David Livingstone
AFRICAN HISTORY
Superstition says that to ensure good luck a bride must wear these 4 items
"Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue"
WEDDINGS
She's won 4 "Best Supporting Actress In A Comedy" Emmys as Carla on "Cheers"
Rhea Perlman
TV "P"EOPLE
The first bobsled races were held in this mountainous country
Switzerland
SPORTS
On Dec. 25, 1492, his ship the Santa Maria was wrecked off Hispaniola
Christopher Columbus
DECEMBER 25TH
It's a small harpsichord or piano, not a small spinning wheel
Spinet
WORDS
In 1895 this British diamond king had a colony named for himself
Sir Cecil Rhodes (Rhodesia)
AFRICAN HISTORY
A bride's principal attendant
Maid/Matron of Honor
WEDDINGS
For 25 years this director of the St. Louis Zoo hosted "Mutual Of Omaha's Wild Kingdom"
Marlon Perkins
TV "P"EOPLE
In 1910 the Intercollegiate Athletic Association changed its name to this
NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association)
SPORTS
In 1950 Scottish nationalists stole the 336 lb. Stone of Scone from this British coronation site
Westminster Abbey
DECEMBER 25TH
It can be a merry adventure, a harmless prank or a bird
Lark
WORDS
To protect against piracy in the 18th century, the U.S. made payoffs to this group of north African states
Barbary States/Coast
AFRICAN HISTORY
At Japanese weddings the bride & groom seal their union with sips of this alcoholic beverage
Sake
WEDDINGS
He was a panelist on "To Tell The Truth" for 9 years; now he's George Utley on "Newhart"
Tom Poston
TV "P"EOPLE
A 5 iron is a mashie, a 9 iron is a niblick & this is a mashie niblick
7 Iron
SPORTS
On Dec. 25, 1868 this president pardoned "All who....participated in the late rebellion"
Andrew Johnson
DECEMBER 25TH
This word for a form of Japanese dance-drama isn't negative, it means "talent"
Noh
WORDS
In 1975 this country's colony of Angola became the last European colony to gain independence
Portugal
AFRICAN HISTORY
Child attendant who carries a pillow in the procession
Ring Bearer
WEDDINGS
She was "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E."
Stefanie Powers
TV "P"EOPLE
Devised by Owen Patrick Smith, this sport was legalized in Florida in 1931
Greyhound/dog racing
SPORTS
He was crowned on December 25th in the year 800
Charlemagne
DECEMBER 25TH
Type of bag carried by soldiers or sailors, or a simple song
Ditty
WORDS
This dynasty ruled Egypt from 323 B.C. until the suicide death of Cleopatra in 30 B.C.
Ptolemys
AFRICAN HISTORY
These notices of intent to marry in the Catholic Church are published to make sure each party is free
Banns
WEDDINGS
This brother & sister played a brother & sister on "The Donna Reed Show"
Paul & Patty Petersen
TV "P"EOPLE
Australian Rules, American & Association describe sports that are all named this
Football
SPORTS
In 1777 British explorer James Cook discovered this island
Christmas Island
DECEMBER 25TH
Locusts are short-horned or short-antennaed varieties of these
Grasshoppers
SCIENCE & NATURE
Canada's Ontario province shares the Thousand Islands with this U.S. state
New York
THE 50 STATES
Completes the John le Carre title "Tinker, Tailor,..."
Soldier, Spy
SPY NOVELS
Noted with a dot on the score, it's the opposite of legato
Staccato
CLASSICAL MUSIC
One proverb says, "6 hours" of this "for a man, 7 for a woman & 8 for a fool"
Sleep
PROVERBS
In ancient China & in classical antiquity, this accessory was made of polished metal, not glass
Mirror
ANTIQUES
Developed by astronomer A.E. Douglass, dendrochronology determines age in this way
Counting tree rings
SCIENCE & NATURE
The 3 states represented in the name of the city of Texarkana
Arkansas, Louisiana & Texas
THE 50 STATES
"Marco Polo If You Can" is one of this "National Review" founder's forays into spy novels
William F. Buckley
SPY NOVELS
English title of Paul Dukas' symphonic piece "L' Apprenti Sorcier"
"The Sorcerer\'s Apprentice"
CLASSICAL MUSIC
William Congreve coined the oft-misquoted proverb, "Music has charms to soothe" a "savage" one
Breast
PROVERBS
They were first called "Fashion Babies", but until the 19th C. many of them looked like adults
Dolls
ANTIQUES
Each December the Paul Bunyan Sled Dog Races are held in Bemidji in this northern state
Minnesota
THE 50 STATES
His most recent bestseller is "The Icarus Agenda", published in 1988
Robert Ludlum
SPY NOVELS
(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):Most people know its first 4 notes; these are its last notes:
Beethoven\'s "Fifth Symphony"
CLASSICAL MUSIC
"Blessed is he who expects" this, "for he shall never be disappointed"
Nothing
PROVERBS
In medieval armor, the part of the body protected by the "Pauldron" or "Epauliere"
Shoulder
ANTIQUES
Einstein's famous equation states energy equals mass times this squared
the speed of light
SCIENCE & NATURE
The Amana Colonies in this state are known for the manufacturing of refrigerators & other appliances
Iowa
THE 50 STATES
He wrote "The Odessa File" & "The Fourth Protocol" as well as "The Day of the Jackal"
Frederick Forsythe
SPY NOVELS
Stalin's death the next day pushed this "Peter & The Wolf" composer's obit off the front page
Sergei Prokofiev
CLASSICAL MUSIC
"The hand that" does this "is the hand that rules the world"
Rocks the Cradle
PROVERBS
One of the older types of cooking vessels, it figures importantly in Act IV of "Macbeth"
Cauldron
ANTIQUES
When swinging a rock on a string in a circle, this force pulls the rock inward
Centrifugal
SCIENCE & NATURE
Bordering on Kentucky, this easternmost of the 12 midwestern states also has a bluegrass region
Ohio
THE 50 STATES
Singular pseudonym of Rodney Whitaker, who authored 2 "Sanction" books, "Loo" & "Eiger"
Trevanian
SPY NOVELS
Friml gave us the "Donkey Serenade", but he gave us the whole "Carnival Of Animals"
Camille Saint-Saens
CLASSICAL MUSIC
"They that sow the wind shall reap" this
The whirlwind
PROVERBS
The name of this chair is said to have come about when George III ordered some made for his castle
Windsor Chair
ANTIQUES
'This president was the last surviving signer of the U.S. Constitution')
James Madison
U.S. PRESIDENTS
This country occupies all of the peninsula known as Asia Minor
Turkey
MEDITERRANEAN GEOGRAPHY
Jason Robards played this Washington Post editor in "All the President's Men"
Ben Bradley
JOURNALISTS
This fruit that's named for a bird looks like a brown egg that's covered with fuzz
a kiwi
FRUIT
In February 1998 the World Wide Web Consortium gave its imprimatur to this text format
XML
"X" RATED
This TV shrink's toughest case was the unbelievably neurotic Elliott Carlin
Bob Hartley (Bob Newhart accepted)
20th CENTURY POP CULTURE
Appointed in 1994, this justice from Massachusetts was the last to join the court in the 20th century
Breyer
THE SUPREMES
This Sicilian volcano's height varies between major eruptions; in some instances by several hundred feet
Etna
MEDITERRANEAN GEOGRAPHY
This son of a "60 Minutes" correspondent was at ABC News for 15 years before joining Fox News in 2003
Chris Wallace
JOURNALISTS
A sweet cherry is named for this Washington State landmark
Mt. Rainier
FRUIT
The horizontal number line in a Cartesian plane coordinate system
thex-axis
"X" RATED
"Lord knows I can't change", says this Lynyrd Skynyrd anthem often requested at rock shows
"Free Bird"
20th CENTURY POP CULTURE
This "colorful" justice appointed in 1937 was an ardent New Deal supporter
(Hugo) Black
THE SUPREMES
The name of this North African city means "three cities" & refers to the ancient cities of Oea, Sabrata & Leptis Major
Tripoli
MEDITERRANEAN GEOGRAPHY
"A Mighty Heart" is a 2003 biography of this slain Wall Street Journal reporter by his widow, Mariane
(Daniel) Pearl
JOURNALISTS
It's the most important fruit export of Costa Rica & Honduras
bananas
FRUIT
Before testing the Enterprise & flying on the STS-2 shuttle mission, Joe Engle piloted this craft into space 3 times
the X-15
"X" RATED
The Shmoos in this Al Capp comic strip could be made into food, clothing or anything else you liked
Li\'l Abner
20th CENTURY POP CULTURE
Though appointed by Nixon in 1969, this chief justice ruled that Nixon had no absolute right to privacy while in office
Warren Burger
THE SUPREMES
The largest of Spain's Balearic Islands, it's known as the "Pearl of the Mediterranean"
Majorca
MEDITERRANEAN GEOGRAPHY
This Pulitzer winner gained fame reporting on My Lai & has written on Iraq for the New Yorker
(Seymour) Hersh
JOURNALISTS
The name of this Pacific island fruit of the genus Artocarpus implies that it's starchy
breadfruit
FRUIT
This "Great" Persian King ruled from approximately 486-465 B.C.
Xerxes
"X" RATED
On radio this Hammett hero ended each episode's case summary to Effie with "Period. End of report"
Sam Spade
20th CENTURY POP CULTURE
Justice Harlan was named for this earlier justice & served nearly as long, 1877-1911
John Marshall
THE SUPREMES
This southern Greek peninsula was once called Morea, or "mulberry", for its mulberry-leaf shape
the Peloponnesus
MEDITERRANEAN GEOGRAPHY
Michael Kinsley is the founding editor of this "rocking" online publication
Slate
JOURNALISTS
This Japanese apple was created in part from the Ralls Janet, an antique apple that dates back to Thomas Jefferson
the Fuji
FRUIT
Bellamy, Hauteval & Hottinguer were the real last names of the men involved in this late 1790s U.S. diplomatic "afffair"
the XYZ Affair
"X" RATED
He's the 3 named character actor seenherein a 1930s film classic"Well, congratulations on your engagement, Miss Seton. You're not getting very much, but I'm sure you can improve him."
Edward Everett Horton
20th CENTURY POP CULTURE
In 1919 he stated the concept of "clear & present danger" as the only basis for limiting free speech
Oliver Wendell Holmes
THE SUPREMES
Ashley Wilkes says of him, "Arrogant devil, isn't he? He looks like one of the Borgias"
Rhett Butler
NOVEL CHARACTERS
Part of a house that comes before "community" in a term for a commuter suburb
bedroom
COMMUNITIES
The integral symbol seenhere, created by Leibniz, is a stylized "S" standing for this word
sum
MATH SYMBOLS
India's prime minister is the leader of a parliamentary system modeled after that of this country
the United Kingdom
THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA
It's quite logical that this branch of knowledge is from the Greek for "lover of knowledge"
philosophy
FROM THE GREEK
This 1897 title character crawls down the wall of his castle face down, with his cloak spreading out like wings
Dracula
NOVEL CHARACTERS
The chemistry (& torture) between Mel & Gary Busey's henchman was electric in this 1987 megahit
Lethal Weapon
MEL GIBSON: TORTURED THESPIAN
Dan Bern sings, "It's" this type of town, "like Hershey, Pennsylvania... like Akron, Ohio"
a company town
COMMUNITIES
Instead of a decimal point, the French use this common punctuation mark
a comma
MATH SYMBOLS
The prime minister's official residence is found at No. 7 Race Course Road in this city
New Delhi
THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA
Aptly enough, this word for a sports participant is from the Greek for "one who contends for a prize"
athlete
FROM THE GREEK
The heroine of this 1722 novel is born in Newgate Prison, where her mother is incarcerated
Moll Flanders
NOVEL CHARACTERS
Mad Mel's lashed to a pack animal & sent into the desert after a battle in this 1985 title structure
Thunderdome
MEL GIBSON: TORTURED THESPIAN
If the roads are bad near this type of small South African village, traffic might slow to one of these
a kraal
COMMUNITIES
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue standing at a chalkboard.) When you've used parentheses & brackets, it's time forthese
braces
MATH SYMBOLS
This third-generation Indian prime minister was once called "Mr. Clean" for his fight against corruption
Rajiv Gandhi
THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA
I exclaimed this when I found this Greek word for "I've found it" in the dictionary
Eureka
FROM THE GREEK
In Chapter 1 of a Theodore Dreiser novel, this naive 18-year-old heroine meets--uh-oh!--a traveling salesman
Sister Carrie
NOVEL CHARACTERS
Capt. Picard, no! Patrick Stewart water-tortures Mel in this 1997 pic, though without use of a grassy knoll
Conspiracy Theory
MEL GIBSON: TORTURED THESPIAN
Anatevka in "Fiddler on the Roof" is this, a Yiddish word for a small Jewish village
a shtetl
COMMUNITIES
An arrow with a dot at the non-pointed end indicates this, also a male first name
a ray
MATH SYMBOLS
The first non-Hindu Prime Minister of India, current PM Manmohan Singh, is a member of this faith
Sikhism
THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA
From the Greek "kuanos", meaning dark blue, it's a color used in printing & photography
cyan
FROM THE GREEK
Eustacia Vye's wild passion for Damon Wildeve leads to tragedy in this Thomas Hardy novel
The Return of the Native
NOVEL CHARACTERS
"Revenge" isn't quite the right word for this '99 pic where, when it comes to Mel's torture, let's say "The toes knows"
Payback
MEL GIBSON: TORTURED THESPIAN
Frenchman's Bend is this title type of town in a 1940 William Faulkner work
a hamlet
COMMUNITIES
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue standing at a chalkboard.) This "extreme" symbol indicates a square root; when used with araised 3, a cube root
a radical
MATH SYMBOLS
While in prison in the 1920s, he wrote "Glimpses of World History", a series of letters to his daughter
(Jawaharlal) Nehru
THE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA
Omigod! One of the top names for girls in the 1980s, it's from the Greek Theophania, "manifestation of God"
Tiffany
FROM THE GREEK
'Number of Canadian provinces that border the Great Lakes')
1
THE MAP OF NORTH AMERICA
In botany it's the term used for the liquid in the stems & roots of plants & trees
Sap
"S"CIENCE
On Sept. 30, 1927 Washington's Tom Zachary threw the pitch that became this man's 60th homer of the season
Babe Ruth
THE ROARING '20S
The American version of the British "Johnny Newcome"
"Johnny-come-lately"
CLICHES
Some Biblical scholars believe it was an orange or a quince -- or possibly an apricot
The Forbidden Fruit
THE BIBLE
As president of the Senate, on Jan. 4, 1989 he announced to Congress that George Bush won the election
George Bush
GOVERNMENT
Eric Knight died while serving in WWII, just 4 years after writing the story of this collie
Lassie
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
This bacterium is responsible for many infections including strep throat & scarlet fever
Streptococcus
"S"CIENCE
H.L. Mencken said his chief feat "was to sleep more than any other president"
Calvin Coolidge
THE ROARING '20S
Term for something that's different or unusual, not on the well-worn path
"Off the beaten path"
CLICHES
Governor of Judea who asked Jesus, "Art thou the king of the Jews?"
Pontius Pilate
THE BIBLE
Incumbent David Durenberger defeated Hubert Humphrey III in this state's 1988 Senate race
Minnesota
GOVERNMENT
Name shared by the 3 billy goats who met up with the wicked old troll
Gruff
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
The smallest of all constellations is Crux, also known by this name
Southern Cross
"S"CIENCE
Among this jazz bandleader's recorded hits were "King Porter Stomp" & "The Jelly Roll Blues"
Jelly Roll Morton
THE ROARING '20S
A person or thing that comes at the end of a list but is nonetheless important
"Last, but not least"
CLICHES
A ladder reaching to heaven appeared to him in a dream
Jacob
THE BIBLE
The first Speaker of the House, Frederick Muhlenberg, was a member of this party
Federalist
GOVERNMENT
His stories include "Brer Mink Holds His Breath" & "Brer Buzzard & The Tombstone"
Uncle Remus/Joel Chandler Harris
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
From the Greek for "earthquake writer", this instrument records any Earth movement
Seismograph
"S"CIENCE
A flapper was a girl & a flivver one of these
Automobile (Model T)
THE ROARING '20S
Phrase meaning "Wish me luck", from the old superstition of making the sign of the cross to ward off evil
"Keep your fingers crossed"
CLICHES
God first appeared to Moses in this form
Burning Bush
THE BIBLE
He was Wyoming's U.S. representative & GOP House Whip when he was nominated for Sec'y of Defense
Dick Cheney
GOVERNMENT
Willie Wonka owned the world's most famous one
Chocolate Factory
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
This bluish glow is sometimes seen at the tips of tall objects during thunderstorms
St. Elmo\'s Fire
"S"CIENCE
Pop psychologist Emile Coue promoted the motto, "Every day, in every way, I am" doing this
"Getting better & better"
THE ROARING '20S
From a magician's trick, it means to accomplish the unexpected or find a surprising solution
"Pull a rabbit out of a hat"
CLICHES
The first verse of the book of Proverbs attributes its authorship to this man
Solomon
THE BIBLE
The Rockefeller who's a Senator from West Virginia
Jay Rockefeller
GOVERNMENT
The profession of Nancy Drew's father
Lawyer
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
In a 1956 speech, he said, "Whether or not you like it, history is on our side. We will bury you."
Nikita Khrushchev
HISTORIC QUOTES
Tom Hanks got the starring role in this "huge" film after Robert De Niro turned it down
"Big"
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
Hadrian's Wall is in England; Hadrian's Tomb is in this city
Rome
WORLD CITIES
Departments of this media magazine include "Soaps", "Grapevine" & "Videocassette Report"
TV Guide
MAGAZINES
This "Threepenny Opera" composer studied with Engelbert Humperdinck -- the composer, not the singer
Kurt Weill
COMPOSERS
Emmissions of nitrogen & sulfur oxides into the air cause this, endangering fish & aquatic life
Acid Rain
THE ENVIRONMENT
Alfred E. Smith said, "All the ills of democracy can be cured by more" of this
Democracy
HISTORIC QUOTES
The great 19th C. actor Edwin Booth was most famous for playing this Shakespearean role
Hamlet
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
The chief port in Australia's Northern Territory; it was named after a naturalist on the Beagle
Darwin
WORLD CITIES
This magazine, the first undergraduate humor magazine in the U.S., was begun at Harvard in 1876
Harvard Lampoon
MAGAZINES
Great Broadway composer who wrote the music for the documentary series "Victory At Sea"
Richard Rodgers
COMPOSERS
In 1985 French military advisors at Auckland, New Zealand sank this group's vessel, the Rainbow Warrior
Greenpeace
THE ENVIRONMENT
This great Prussian king is credited with saying, "An army, like a serpent, travels on its belly"
Frederick the Great
HISTORIC QUOTES
(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):"Dallas" actor heard here singing in a 1953 movie musical:"Where is the light that's lit by land? Where is it now?"
Howard Keel
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
The 1759 British victory on the Plains of Abraham at this city helped them conquer Canada
Quebec City
WORLD CITIES
In addition to Penthouse, Bob Guccione owns this magazine of science & futurism
Omni
MAGAZINES
Borodin, the illegitimate son of a Russian prince, died before finishing his opera about this prince
Prince Igor
COMPOSERS
This device added to a car's exhaust system eliminates much of the pollution produced by gas combustion
Catalytic Converter
THE ENVIRONMENT
Asked after the Constitutional Convention "What have we got?", he replied "A republic, if you can keep it"
Benjamin Franklin
HISTORIC QUOTES
He was the first actor to win an Oscar & a Tony for the same role, for "Cyrano de Bergerac"
Jose Ferrer
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
It's the only city on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands
Charlotte Amalie
WORLD CITIES
In 1981 Budget Dir. Stockman's criticism of the Reagan administration was published in this monthly
The Atlantic Monthly
MAGAZINES
Rossini called this composer of "Gaite Parisienne" "Our little Mozart of the Champs-Elysees"
Jacques Offenbach
COMPOSERS
It's said various medical problems have resulted from toxins dumped in this part of Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Love Canal
THE ENVIRONMENT
When Napoleon said "England is a nation of shopkeepers", he was quoting this economist
Adam Smith
HISTORIC QUOTES
He was Ingrid Bergman's leading man in her 1st American film, "Intermezzo"
Leslie Howard
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
This city is the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway & home to the Soviet Pacific fleet
Vladivostok
WORLD CITIES
Since 1912 this federation of businesses has published its own monthly magazine, Nation's Business
U.S./National Chamber of Commerce
MAGAZINES
Trained as an engineer, this Hungarian composed the operettas "The Desert Song" & "The New Moon"
Sigmund Romberg
COMPOSERS
In 1978 the U.S. banned use of these, called CFCs for short, as propellants in most spray cans
Chloroflourocarbons
THE ENVIRONMENT
This planet's atmosphere is 99% nitrogen & oxygen
Earth
THE UNIVERSE
Diaphanous or sheer, as in clothing, or flimsy & obvious, as in a lie
Transparent
11-LETTER WORDS
The name of this meat is from the Latin "venatus", hunt
Venison
FOOD FACTS
Though he's had 5 no-hitters & the most career strikeouts of any pitcher, he's never won the Cy Young Award
Nolan Ryan
BASEBALL
As the master of ceremonies, this actor was the only one to reprise his stage role in 1972's "Cabaret"
Joel Grey
MOVIE MUSICALS
Elizabeth I reportedly whitened this with a mixture of eggshell, poppy seeds, borax & lead
Her Complexion
DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
It wasn't until 1959 that the "far side" of this body was seen
The Moon
THE UNIVERSE
Breathing in & out
Respiration
11-LETTER WORDS
Known botanically as "citrullus lanatus", this huge fruit grows on vines as long as 15 ft.
Watermelon
FOOD FACTS
The "Black Sox" team that threw the 1919 World Series lost to this Ohio team
Cincinnati Reds
BASEBALL
Actor who sang "If I Only Had The Nerve" & "If I Were King Of The Forest" in "The Wizard Of Oz"
Bert Lahr
MOVIE MUSICALS
Houdini was famous for hanging upside-down wearing one of these restrictive overgarments
Straitjacket
DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
William Herschel thought he saw these around Uranus in 1787; in 1977 they were really seen
Rings
THE UNIVERSE
The scientific study of birds
Ornithology
11-LETTER WORDS
Veal cutlets dipped in bread crumbs & cheese, then fried & covered with tomato sauce
Veal Parmigiana
FOOD FACTS
In Los Angeles, the Dodgers have had only these 2 managers
Walter Alston & Tommy Lasorda
BASEBALL
The only Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire film for which these 2 brothers wrote songs was 1937's "Shall We Dance"
George & Ira Gershwin
MOVIE MUSICALS
You have to have permission to do this in a barrel since someone died doing it in 1951
Going over Niagara Falls
DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
It's known for its prominences which are clouds, tubes & tongues of gasses
The Sun
THE UNIVERSE
A fashion or fad maker
Trendsetter
11-LETTER WORDS
German sausage named for the crackling sound the skin of the sausage makes when bitten into
Knockwurst
FOOD FACTS
In 1961 owner Calvin Griffith moved this team to Minneapolis where it became the Minnesota Twins
Washington Senators
BASEBALL
This actress who played Mary Stone on "The Donna Reed Show" was the only 1 to co-star in 3 Elvis films
Shelly Fabares
MOVIE MUSICALS
Icarus could have told you it's not a good idea to fly if your wings are held together with this
Wax
DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
British weight system based on a pound equal to 453.59 grams or 16 ounces
Avoirdupois
11-LETTER WORDS
The Atlantic variety of this popular fish is the largest of all flatfish
Halibut
FOOD FACTS
In 1972 owner Bob Short moved this team to Arlington, TX . where it became the Texas Rangers
Washington Senators
BASEBALL
This Russian composer was portrayed by Jean-Pierre Aumont in 1947's "Song Of Scheherazade"
Rimsky-Korsakov
MOVIE MUSICALS
This late, great circus star once performed an act with 40 -- count 'em, 40 -- lions & tigers
Clyde Beatty
DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME
The name of this musical form probably came from the Latin "matricale", meaning in the mother tongue
Madrigal
THE RENAISSANCE
She got into the advice business before her twin sister, Dear Abby
Ann Landers
PEOPLE
Britannica defines it as "any plant growing where it is not wanted"
Weed
PLANTS
In 1987 Molly Yard replaced Eleanor Smeal as president of this organization
National Organization for Women (NOW)
ORGANIZATIONS
The U.S. borders these 3 oceans
Arctic, Atlantic & Pacific
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
Terence, a Roman poet-playwright who lived in the second century B.C., said, "Charity begins" here
At Home
LITERARY QUOTES
The ruthless Cesare Borgia was the model for this book by Machiavelli
"The Prince"
THE RENAISSANCE
Evicted from his Oregon ashram, he now lives in Bombay & is called "Zorba The Buddha"
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
PEOPLE
A member of the sundew family, it requires about 10 days to fully digest an insect
Venus Flytrap
PLANTS
Int'l club that "promotes putting off until later those things that needn't be done today"
Procrastinator\'s Club
ORGANIZATIONS
There's a national park on the island of St. John in this U.S. possession
U.S. Virgin Islands
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
Robert Louis Stevenson said, "Marriage is ..... a field of battle, and not a bed of" these
Roses
LITERARY QUOTES
In his notebooks this Renaissance artist claimed, "The Medici created and destroyed me"
Leonardo Da Vinci
THE RENAISSANCE
Herbert Ross, who directed the film "Steel Magnolias", is married to this sister of Jackie Onassis
Lee Radziwill
PEOPLE
Plant whose twigs are used for dowsing & whose leaves & bark are used to make an astringent
Witch Hazel
PLANTS
One must be a member of this fraternal group in order to belong to the Shriners
Masons
ORGANIZATIONS
North Dakota has its Devils Lake & Wyoming its Devils one of these
Devils Tower
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
In "A Study in Scarlet" this author called London "that great cesspool"
Arthur Conan Doyle
LITERARY QUOTES
Plays were either comedies, tragedies or these love tales about woodland goddesses & shepherds
Pastorals
THE RENAISSANCE
William J. McCarthy is president of this union
Teamsters
PEOPLE
Name for a low, enclosed bed covered with glass or plastic for starting plants before the season
Cold Frame
PLANTS
Arm of Al-Anon that's specifically for young people between the ages of 12 & 20
Al-Ateen
ORGANIZATIONS
The Raritan is the longest river wholly within this state
New Jersey
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
Poet who wrote, "The woods are lovely, dark & deep, but I have promises to keep..."
Robert Frost
LITERARY QUOTES
Boccaccio work narrated by 3 men & 7 women fleeing the plague in Florence
"The Decameron"
THE RENAISSANCE
This historian & former Librarian of Congress was teaching history at Harvard while studying law at Yale
Daniel Boorstein
PEOPLE
This climbing tropical shrub was named for a French South Seas explorer
Bouganvillea
PLANTS
Social welfare organization founded in the 19th century, whose bimonthly publication is "The War Cry"
The Salvation Army
ORGANIZATIONS
One of the largest of these shallow channels in the U.S. is the Bartholomew in N. Louisiana
Bayou
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
"Always do right." he wrote; "This will gratify some people and astonish the rest"
Mark Twain
LITERARY QUOTES
'The world\'s most populous democracy')
India
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the beginning of the Freedom Trail.) The first strokes of the two-and-a-half mile Freedom Trail's line were painted in 1951 at this public park that dates back to the 1630s
Boston Common
ALONG BOSTON'S FREEDOM TRAIL
In Billy Joel's "___ Man"
piano
NAME THE INSTRUMENT
As you might expect, the Reuters Foundation sets up training programs for those in this field
journalism
A SOLID FOUNDATION
A 1982 play by this man is set among the Jerome family of Brighton Beach in 1937
Neil Simon
THE THEATAH
The second-most reported cause of occupational injury is from this pollution caused by jackhammers & music
sound pollution (or noise pollution)
POLLUTION
A carpet for a calico
a cat mat
BEASTLY RHYME TIME
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from outside the Old South Meeting House.) Here at Old South Meeting House on December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams gave a coded signal that began this protest event
the Boston Tea Party
ALONG BOSTON'S FREEDOM TRAIL
In Wynonna's "Girls With ___"
guitars
NAME THE INSTRUMENT
In 2004 the Starbright Foundation for sick kids merged, sensibly enough, with this foundation
the Starlight Foundation
A SOLID FOUNDATION
The plays of Franz Grillparzer, called this country's greatest dramatist, include "Family Strife In Hapsburg"
Austria
THE THEATAH
(Hi, I'm Christie Whitman.) As EPA head, I helped create a program to reduce diesel exhaust for these vehicles; children will breathe easier
school buses
POLLUTION
It's what the mallard acquired when he found a 4-leaf clover
duck luck
BEASTLY RHYME TIME
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Old North Church.) On April 18, 1775 North Church sexton Robert Newmanclimbedinto thesteepleto use the code famously known by this 9-word phrase
one if by land and two if by sea
ALONG BOSTON'S FREEDOM TRAIL
In Bruce Hornsby's "___ Rain"
mandolin
NAME THE INSTRUMENT
In 1914 the USA's first community foundation was set up in this Ohio city, then the nation's 6th largest
Cleveland
A SOLID FOUNDATION
Ralph "Mike Hammer" Meeker & John C. "Mr. Cellophane" Reilly have played this role made famous by Brando
Stanley Kowalski
THE THEATAH
The American Lung Association's list of cities with the worst particle air pollutuion is topped by 3 in this state
California
POLLUTION
Hard-to-wash-out mark that a large wading bird left on your clothing
a crane stain
BEASTLY RHYME TIME
(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in front of the U.S.S.Constitution.) The material that gave the U.S.S. Constitution this famous nickname islive oak from Georgia
"Old Ironsides"
ALONG BOSTON'S FREEDOM TRAIL
In Linda Ronstadt's "Different ___"
drum
NAME THE INSTRUMENT
It was launched in 1936 with car company stock, but its $10 billion portfolio no longer includes that stock
the Ford Foundation
A SOLID FOUNDATION
Aeschylus' play named for this king, Clytemnestra's husband, opens at his palace in Argos
Agamemnon
THE THEATAH
From the Greek for "heat", this type of water pollution kills fish when hot water is dumped into a lake
thermal
POLLUTION
Type of paint for your dromedary
camel enamel
BEASTLY RHYME TIME
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Freedom Trail.) Begun in 1795, it's the building behind me that Oliver Wendell Holmes called the "hub of the solar system"
the Bulfinch State House
ALONG BOSTON'S FREEDOM TRAIL
In the Byrds' "Mr. ___ Man"
tambourine
NAME THE INSTRUMENT
The breast cancer foundation named for this victim of the disease holds the "Race for the Cure"
Susan Komen
A SOLID FOUNDATION
Jack Absolute & Bob Acres, both vying for Lydia Languish's hand, are the title characters of this Sheridan play
The Rivals
THE THEATAH
TCDD is a type of this toxic industrial byproduct used in Agent Orange
dioxin
POLLUTION
Someone who guides or ministers to a big spotted feline
a leopard shepherd
BEASTLY RHYME TIME
Hydroplane races & water carnivals highlight Seafair, held annually on Lake Washington near this largest Wash. city
Seattle
WASHINGTON STATE
An extra playing card in a deck often used as a wild card
Joker
ALSO ABATMANVILLAIN
On Sept. 21, 1792 the monarchy was abolished; 4 months later, this king was guillotined
Louis XVI
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
London Street named for a 17th C. diplomat; the Prime Minister Lives on it
Downing
EPONYMOUS
On "M*A*S*H", this character used a great wardrobe to try & get out of the Army on a Section 8
Max Klinger
I, MAX
Grandmotherly drag is just the thing for FBI agent Martin Lawrence in this 2000 film
Big Momma\'s House
UP ON THE "BIG" SCREEN
With more than 50,000 employees in Washington, this aerospace company is one of the state's largest employers
Boeing
WASHINGTON STATE
Neurotoxic crawler who's hard on her mates
Black Widow
ALSO ABATMANVILLAIN
German poet Max Schneckenburger was famous for his 1840 poem about a watch on this river
the Rhine
I, MAX
In this "of 1938" Bob Hope introduced "Thanks For The Memory"
The Big Broadcast
UP ON THE "BIG" SCREEN
Whidbey Island is the largest of several islands in this inlet
Puget Sound
WASHINGTON STATE
Antarctic krill-eater
The Penguin
ALSO ABATMANVILLAIN
The Jacobins used the assassination of this editor of L'ami du Peuple as an excuse to begin the Reign of Terror
(Jean-Paul) Marat
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
He's the "big dada" whose work is seenhere
Max Ernst
I, MAX
Paul Reubens' 2 big movies of 1985 & 1988
Pee-wee\'s Big Adventure&Big Top Pee-wee
UP ON THE "BIG" SCREEN
The completion of the Grand Coulee dam in 1942 created the artificial lake named for this president
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
WASHINGTON STATE
Itchy cashew relative
Poison Ivy
ALSO ABATMANVILLAIN
This document approved on August 27, 1789 proclaimed that "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights"
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
The hypnotist villian in the 1894 novel "Trilby" gave us this word for one who controls another with evil intent
svengali
EPONYMOUS
This Vietnam vet has been head of the Veterans Administration & a senator from Georgia
(Max) Cleland
I, MAX
1989 gave us 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon as a Hollywood wannabe in this film
The Big Picture
UP ON THE "BIG" SCREEN
In 1977 this former head of the Atomic Energy Commission became Washington's first woman governor
(Dixy Lee) Ray
WASHINGTON STATE
His mask is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
King Tut
ALSO ABATMANVILLAIN
On June 20, 1789 assembly members took an oath at this sports venue not to separate until there was a new constitution
the tennis court
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
In 1880 this British land agent in Ireland refused to lower his rents; as a result, he was isolated by protesters
Charles Boycott
EPONYMOUS
Best known as the friend who refused to destroy Kafka's works, he wrote a historical novel on Tycho Brahe
Max Brod
I, MAX
In 1958 Gregory Peck took on Burl Ives over water rights in the Old West in this oater
The Big Country
UP ON THE "BIG" SCREEN
'This character studied medicine, "knowing it would be useful in long voyages"')
Gulliver
18th CENTURY LITERATURE
Thisget-wellcardwas sent by second graders to David Vetter, known as this boy kept in a plastic isolation unit
The Boy in the Bubble
FROM THE VAULTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN
This "colorful" 1967 Van Morrison song made the presidential cut
"Brown Eyed Girl"
ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S iPOD
This term can refer to an American born in the 1950s, a certain ex-NFL QB, or a male kangaroo
boomer
MARSUPIALS
The top 22 of these fortune-telling cards are known as the major arcana
tarot cards
22
20th century year in which America celebrated the tercentennial of the Pilgrims' landing at Plymouth
1920
YEARS
A stoutly made safe in which valuables are deposited
a strongbox
STILL GOING "STRONG"
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.) Starting in 1960, people whose hearts beat too slowly could have a Medtronic one oftheseimplanted; the Smithsonian has an early one
a pacemaker
FROM THE VAULTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN
Pres. Bush enjoys this John Fogerty song on his iPod that might remind him of his days as a baseball team owner
"Centerfield"
ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S iPOD
You can see why kangaroos are classified as macropodents, referring to the size ofthese
their feet
MARSUPIALS
This alphabet is made up of 22 letters including Yud & Bet
the Hebrew
22
It's the year the small step seenherewas taken
1969
YEARS
To use physical force or coercion against someone
to strong-arm
STILL GOING "STRONG"
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.) This inventor used adevicethat transmits a signal to a receiver to look for thebulletin President Garfield's body
Alexander Graham Bell
FROM THE VAULTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN
"Danger Zone" by this singer might be more apt than his "Alive 'n' Kickin'" on Bush's iPod
(Kenny) Loggins
ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S iPOD
The marsupial represented by the most species is this New World beast, with the Virginia species the largest
the opossum
MARSUPIALS
He was just 22 in 1962 when he won golf's U.S. Open
(Jack) Nicklaus
22
U.S. troops hit the beaches of Normandy in this year
1944
YEARS
A bridge-playing term, or a particular field in which someone has talent
a strong suit
STILL GOING "STRONG"
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.)Thisis part of the 1848 gold shipment shown to this president; he gave a report to Congress that kicked the Gold Rush into gear
James K. Polk
FROM THE VAULTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN
"The House Is Rockin'" by this Texas blues guitarist keeps the Prez rockin' through his jogging & biking
Stevie Ray Vaughan
ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S iPOD
Named partly for its temper, it's extinct on the Australian mainland but endures on an island
the Tasmanian devil
MARSUPIALS
In 1975 Junko Tabei became the first woman to scale Everest, 22 years after this New Zealander did it
Edmund Hillary
22
Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia all fell to the Communists in this year
1975
YEARS
It can be a place of refuge or an area dominated by a group
a stronghold
STILL GOING "STRONG"
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.)Thisbit of mold played its part in history when this London scientist noticed it destroying a bacterial sample
(Alexander) Fleming
FROM THE VAULTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN
Several songs by this country music legend appear on the first iPod, including "He Stopped Loving Her Today"
George Jones
ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S iPOD
Common and hairy-nosed are types of this creature that looks like a Down Under woodchuck
wombat
MARSUPIALS
Begun in 1887 to raise funds for 22 different agencies, the Charity Organization Society is known as this today
the United Way
22
In this year Senator Henry Clay pushed for a compromise in his last big speech before the Senate
1850
YEARS
One of the fundamental interactions between elementary particles binding them to a nucleus
strong force (strong forces accepted)
STILL GOING "STRONG"
A 1972 earthquake destroyed most of the downtown area of this Nicaraguan capital
Managua
WORLD CAPITALS
He's got drive & loves the green
Tiger Woods
CELEBRITY LOGOS
I like it, Chuck; an orphan overcomes the odds, dig the "Bill & Nancy" angle... do it as a musical? Are you nuts?!
Oliver Twist
DICKENS HEARS FROM HOLLYWOOD
A must-have for the preppy look: this short-sleeve collared shirt, particularly one of the brand of the same name
polo
FASHION
The first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, he was also involved in an early political sex scandal
Alexander Hamilton
WHO THE "H" ARE YOU?
Superman's cub reporter pal admits to fathering Mary-Kate & Ashley & they become known as the...
Jimmy Olsen twins
BEFORE & AFTER
This capital is surrounded by, but is not part of, the Flemish region of Brabant
Brussels
WORLD CAPITALS
Thisathlete gets a kick out of Madrid
(David) Beckham
CELEBRITY LOGOS
More orphans?! & this book's start, "My father's family name being Pirrip"... not exactly "Call me Ishmael", Chuck!
Great Expectations
DICKENS HEARS FROM HOLLYWOOD
This sneaker brand was introduced by the U.S. Rubber Co. in 1916
Keds
FASHION
In 1991 "The Star-Spangled Banner" entered the Billboard Top 40 for the first time, sung by her
Whitney Houston
WHO THE "H" ARE YOU?
A House majority leader goes ga-ga over Dylan's "big brass bed" occupant & earns the nickname...
Tom DeLay Lady Lay
BEFORE & AFTER
Until 1924 this Mongolian capital was called Urga
Ulan Bator
WORLD CAPITALS
Thisyoung gun drives the No. 8 car
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
CELEBRITY LOGOS
This Italian craftsman who died in 1960 titled his autobiography "Shoemaker of Dreams"
Ferragamo
FASHION
He appointed former President William Howard Taft to the Supreme Court
Harding
WHO THE "H" ARE YOU?
Goldie Hawn title character is promoted to Prime Minster under Victoria & becomes...
Private Benjamin Disraeli
BEFORE & AFTER
(Christiane Amanpour of CNN delivers the clue.) In 1992 I reported from the shores of this African capital when the U.S. military launched Operation: Restore Hope
Mogadishu
WORLD CAPITALS
Thisrapper changed nicknames, but kept the same initials
Puff Daddy
CELEBRITY LOGOS
Uncle Ralph's OK... nice alliterative title for this... but Wackford Squeers is now Ford Sears; we get 2 product placements for 1!
Nicholas Nickleby
DICKENS HEARS FROM HOLLYWOOD
The name of this garment is the French word for "breeches"
culottes
FASHION
He's the troubled prodigy whose story is told in the 1996 film "Shine"
(David) Helfgott
WHO THE "H" ARE YOU?
Lady tennis legend is grouchy with the press & gets compared to an arthropod with delicious legs as...
Billie Jean King Crab
BEFORE & AFTER
It's the home of Belarusian State University
Minsk
WORLD CAPITALS
Beforehejoined the NBA in 2003, his mother took out a loan to buy him a Hummer
LeBron James
CELEBRITY LOGOS
Last name of French design team Marithe & Francois, known for their streetwear
Girbaud
FASHION
This Japanese-American professor of linguistics was a California senator from 1977 to 1983
S.I. Hayakawa
WHO THE "H" ARE YOU?
'70s Jim Hutton TV detective goes on '50s Jack Bailey TV weeper & is mortified to be named...
Ellery Queen for a Day
BEFORE & AFTER
'This man who became a ruler in April 2005 is the great-nephew of the 1926 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama')
Prince Albert II of Monaco
EUROPEAN RULERS
In 1777 this land, later a state, was named in honor of the Green Mountain Boys
Vermont
18TH CENTURY AMERICA
This talk show queen sometimes seats people at the Eccentric Restaurant in Chicago -- she's a co-owner
Oprah Winfrey
CELEBRITIES
The common U.S. coin that's named for the metal it contains
Nickel
MONEY
In India, ghee, which is a clarified form of this, is widely used in cooking
Butter
FOOD
"Ev'ry morning, ev'ry evening, ain't we got" this
Fun
SING-ALONG SONGS
The March Hare had one of these with a dormouse in it, not a tempest
Teapot
FILE UNDER "T"
Term for the American colonists who supported the Redcoats during the revolution
Tories/Loyalists
18TH CENTURY AMERICA
Shelley Duvall, exec. producer of "Nightmare Classics", says she was named for this nightmarish authoress
Mary Shelley
CELEBRITIES
Taxpayers will have to share the burden of bailing out more than 500 of these insolvent institutions
Savings & Loans
MONEY
Be quiet little dog, & I'll feed you these deep fried concoctions made of corn meal
Hush Puppies
FOOD
"When you're smiling, the whole world" does this
Smiles with you
SING-ALONG SONGS
It's the name of a national monument in the Salt River Valley in Arizona, kimosabe
Tonto National Monument
FILE UNDER "T"
In 1776, with a membership of 5 students, it became the 1st social fraternity at a U.S. college
Phi Beta Kappa
18TH CENTURY AMERICA
This author of "Hollywood Wives" said, "People don't believe it, but everything I write is true!"
Jackie Collins
CELEBRITIES
The lowest rate of interest on bank loans at any given time, it's offered to preferred borrowers
Prime Rate
MONEY
Flavor of the jelly or sauce that's a common accompaniment to roast lamb
Mint
FOOD
"Nicknack paddywhack, give a dog a bone", he "came rolling home"
This old man
SING-ALONG SONGS
Type of drum played by a piper's son
Tom-Tom
FILE UNDER "T"
Year in which Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison, "France will be quiet this year"
1789
18TH CENTURY AMERICA
Arnold Schwarzenegger was born in this country
Austria
CELEBRITIES
Established December 23, 1913, it's the central bank of the U.S.
Federal Reserve Bank
MONEY
Color of the beans you'd find in a feijoada, the national dish of Brazil
Black
FOOD
Casey would waltz with this girl "and the band played on"
the Strawberry Blonde
SING-ALONG SONGS
This line lies 23 degrees 27 minutes north of the Equator
Tropic of Cancer
FILE UNDER "T"
Known for their simple furniture, this sect came to the U.S. from England in 1774, led by "Mother Ann" Lee
Shakers
18TH CENTURY AMERICA
Dionne Warwick co-wrote this TV show's theme song, "Champagne Wishes & Caviar Dreams"
"Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous"
CELEBRITIES
Scene on the reverse of the Jefferson $2 bill
Signing of the Declaration of Independence
MONEY
Islanders who live in this group are called Fuegians
Tierra Del Fuego
FILE UNDER "T"
Uriah Heep is the 'umble clerk who embezzles from Mr. Wickfield in this Dickens novel
"David Copperfield"
ENGLISH LIT
The ring-necked species of this bird was introduced into Oregon from China in the 1880s
Pheasant
BIRDS
Conservationists estimate almost 90% of Indiana was once covered by these, now less than 20% is
Forests/Trees
INDIANA
If your soil is too heavy or sandy, you can add this moss to improve its texture
Peat Moss
GARDENING
This terrifying czar died on March 18, 1584 while playing a game of chess
Ivan The Terrible
NOTORIOUS
When he said, "I coulda been a contender!" in "On The Waterfront", he was referring to this sport
Boxing
MARLON BRANDO
His 1st major novel was the autobiographical "Sons & Lovers"
D.H. Lawrence
ENGLISH LIT
(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):Though these members of the parrot family rarely learn to talk, they can perform stunts:
Cockatoos
BIRDS
Indiana, not Pennsylvania, ranks 1st in the U.S. in the production of this alloy
Steel
INDIANA
Organic fertilizer that can be made by layering plant matter, soil & lime
Compost
GARDENING
This had just become a federal prison when Al Capone was transferred there in 1934
Alcatraz
NOTORIOUS
Brando starred in the last film this silent screen legend directed, 1967's "A Countess From Hong Kong"
Charles Chaplin
MARLON BRANDO
When Lord Petre cut off a bit of Arabella Fremor's hair, it inspired this poem by Alexander Pope
"The Rape of the Lock"
ENGLISH LIT
This process usually includes taking oil from a gland at the base of the tail & applying it to the feathers
Preening
BIRDS
City that's located on the southernmost point along the St. Joseph River
South Bend
INDIANA
A self-contained indoor garden consisting of small plants grown in a covered glass container
Terrarium
GARDENING
Dona Marina, who was this man's mistress & interpreter, has been called the betrayer of the Aztecs
Hernando Cortez
NOTORIOUS
Yes, he did stuff his cheeks for this 1972 film; he wore a special mouthpiece, too
"The Godfather"
MARLON BRANDO
The Reader's Encyclopedia says his best-known novel is "The Way of All Flesh"
Samuel Butler
ENGLISH LIT
Because these baby birds feed from their parents' pouches, some think they're drinking blood
Pelicans
BIRDS
19th century president who grew to manhood in southern Indiana
Abraham Lincoln
INDIANA
They were gunned down near Gibsland, Louisiana on May 23, 1934
Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow
NOTORIOUS
Brando's bravura performance in this brutish role made him a Broadway star in 1947
Stanley Kowalski ("A Streetcar Named Desire")
MARLON BRANDO
The 1812 publication of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" made this poet an immediate sensation
Lord Byron
ENGLISH LIT
Before the metal-tipped pen, the standard writing instrument was a feather from this bird
a goose
BIRDS
The highest point in Indianapolis is at the Crown Hill Cemetery grave of this Indiana poet
James Whitcomb Riley
INDIANA
Haiti's "Papa Doc" Duvalier's dreaded secret police force
Tonton Macoute
NOTORIOUS
He took a gamble & made his musical debut in this 1955 film, & he did his own singing, too
"Guys And Dolls"
MARLON BRANDO
'The only state that\'s home to 2 Ivy League schools')
New York (Columbia, in NYC & Cornell, in Ithaca)
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
It was the big event in London September 2-5, 1666
the Great Fire
REMEMBER SEPTEMBER?
Please, no mumbling when I tell you it's an abnormal sound in a person's heartbeat
a murmur
DOUBLE TALK
This variety of collie is named for its origin near the region between England & Scotland
border collie
YOU AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A HOUND DOG
It wasn't the barber who took a little off the top ofthisEnglish king
Charles I
THE KING
On Sept. 14, 1812 French troops occupied this capital city & found it almost deserted
Moscow
REMEMBER SEPTEMBER?
The first VP ever to succeed a resigning president & the actor who piloted the Millennium Falcon
Gerald & Harrison Ford
UNLIKELY PRESIDENTIAL SIBLINGS
Here's your "Q": This Mesoam. god created a tornado that wiped out man, except for those he changed into monkeys
Quetzalcoatl
MYTHELLANEOUS
Using a hot sauce called harissa, Tunisians spice up this steamed semolina dish
couscous
DOUBLE TALK
These 2 hounds whose names begin with the same letter are said by the AKC to have the keenest sense of smell
bloodhound & basset hound
YOU AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A HOUND DOG
Once more,thisLancastrian breached his greatest success around 1415
Henry V
THE KING
In September 1988 this city hosted the Summer Olympics
Seoul
REMEMBER SEPTEMBER?
He Tippecanoed into the White House in 1841; she won our hearts in "Lord of the Rings"
John & Liv Tyler
UNLIKELY PRESIDENTIAL SIBLINGS
In Norse mythology, the Norns are 3 sisters who made one of these for every life
a thread
MYTHELLANEOUS
Many parts of Africa are uninhabitable due to this fly that spreads African sleeping sickness
the tsetse fly
DOUBLE TALK
This name of a popular hunting dog means "swift" in Russian
borzoi
YOU AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A HOUND DOG
ThisEnglish king is seen here with his Prime Minister
George VI
THE KING
As Prime Minister of Israel, he signed the Camp David accords in September 1978
Begin
REMEMBER SEPTEMBER?
The "Plains" folk governor & the long-imprisoned boxer
Jimmy & Rubin Carter
UNLIKELY PRESIDENTIAL SIBLINGS
This mythical king of Sparta was Agamemnon's brother & Helen of Troy's husband
Meneleus
MYTHELLANEOUS
Traitorous WWII broadcaster William Joyce was better known as Lord this
Lord Haw-Haw
DOUBLE TALK
Nicknamed the "coach dog", it probably earned its name during the Balkan wars of 1912 & 1913 in Croatia
a dalmatian
YOU AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A HOUND DOG
Sadly, this Tudor king didn't live to be much older than he looks in the depiction seenhere
Edward VI
THE KING
In February 1991 he formed Haiti's first democratic government; in September he was ousted by a coup
Aristide
REMEMBER SEPTEMBER?
Reconstruction ends in the South during his term & he constructs the voice of Chef Jerome McElroy for "South Park"
Rutherford & Isaac Hayes
UNLIKELY PRESIDENTIAL SIBLINGS
The son of the sun god, Cuchulain was a great hero of the myths & legends of this country
Ireland
MYTHELLANEOUS
(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) Just like the word "gong", the word forthisgong of Chinese origin is derived from thesoundit makes
a tam-tam
DOUBLE TALK
Similar to but larger than a beagle, this breed shares its name with a type of hawk & a type of British jet fighter
the harrier
YOU AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A HOUND DOG
In 1714, the Brits toldthisking to "come on over"
George I
THE KING
Like a teenager or the Moon, matter may go through one of these states, such as liquid or gas
phases
PHYSICS
Things don't end well for Faye Dunaway as this 1967 title character
Bonnie (Parker)
MY FEAR LADY
We wonder if trolls guard the Saab design center in Trollhattan in this country
Sweden
AROUND THE WORLD
Eggs, diced ham, green pepper & onion
a Western Omelet
BEST "WESTERN"
The extract of this spice is made by percolating alcohol & water through the chopped, cured orchid beans
vanilla
LET'S SPICE IT UP A BIT
Sir Richard Burton translated this Hindu love manual into English around 1883
theKama Sutra
LITERARY EROTICA
Pure water's density is approximately 1 gram per cubic centimeter, & its "specific" this is also 1
gravity
PHYSICS
Glenn Close chillingly warned Michael Douglas"I'm not gonna be ignored"in this 1987 film
Fatal Attraction
MY FEAR LADY
(Survivor's Jeff Probst delivers the clue from Palau.) Palau has a lake named for these gelatinous creatures which, believe me, do not taste good spread on toast
jellyfish
AROUND THE WORLD
One of the original 11 companies listed when the New York Stock Exchange was created in 1884
Western Union
BEST "WESTERN"
This spice, Zingiber officinale, was used during the Middle Ages against the plague because it caused sweating
ginger
LET'S SPICE IT UP A BIT
This former talk show host helped us all out by writing "Sex for Dummies"
Dr. Ruth
LITERARY EROTICA
A machine developed by Sidney James measures slippery surfaces' COF, coefficient of this
friction
PHYSICS
Cloris Leachman brought the fearsomeFrau Blucherto life in this 1974 comedy
Young Frankenstein
MY FEAR LADY
Guys in armor must feel at home in this section of London that's home to Harrods
Knightsbridge
AROUND THE WORLD
Its capital is Perth
Western Australia
BEST "WESTERN"
In the 16th century the Sinhalese king in Ceylon paid the Portuguese annual tributes of 240,000 lb. of this quill spice
cinnamon
LET'S SPICE IT UP A BIT
Pauline Reage is credited as the once-anonymous author of this steamy "Story"
Story of O
LITERARY EROTICA
(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the science lab.) Of the three colors I havehere, it's the one with the highest degree of saturation
blue
PHYSICS
As Annie Wilkes, Kathy Bates sets podiatry back about 1,000 years in this 1990 film
Misery
MY FEAR LADY
When in Vienna, sample some of this torte that's so famous it was the subject of a 1965 lawsuit
Sachertorte
AROUND THE WORLD
It's directly below the Al-Aqsa mosque complex in Jerusalem
the Western Wall
BEST "WESTERN"
Hungarian chemist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi was the first to isolate vitamin C from the pods of this spice
paprika
LET'S SPICE IT UP A BIT
She penned the racy bestsellers "Delta of Venus" & "Henry and June"
(Anais) Nin
LITERARY EROTICA
We wash our hands of this Scotswoman, played on film by Jeanette Nolan in 1948 & on TV by Judi Dench in 1978
Lady Macbeth
MY FEAR LADY
The tallest bridge in the Caribbean is the Queen Juliana Bridge in this capital of Curacao
Willemstad
AROUND THE WORLD
It's the state bird of Kansas & Nebraska
Western Meadowlark
BEST "WESTERN"
This spice gives American-style mustard its bright yellow color
turmeric
LET'S SPICE IT UP A BIT
Perhaps due in part to the amoral rakishness of his advice book "The Art of Love", he was banned from ancient Rome
Ovid
LITERARY EROTICA
Dye
染
Beim Eier-FÄRBEN nimmt man NEUN Teile WASSER und ein Teil HOLZ-Färbemittel.
In 1811 the first of these to ply the Ohio River was built in Pittsburgh--the New Orleans, named for where it was headed
a steamboat
PITTSTORY
This show that debuted in '02 has cursing by mom, dad, son & daughter, & dogs that aren't housebroken
The Osbournes
NONMUSICAL MTV
This animal's horns, seenhere, are made entirely of keratin, a fibrous hair protein
the rhinoceros
HORNED ANIMALS
He was a Teke, a Tau Kappa Epsilon, & founded a hotel chain, but you probably just know him as Paris' great-granddad
Conrad Hilton
FRATERNITY SUIT
Ogden Nash said these people were "Tinglish"
the English
POETRY
…that means of secondary importance:A. ancillaryB. fiduciaryC. habilimentaryD. pecuniary
ancillary
WHAT'S THAT WORD...?
It's the geographically appropriate name of the Pittsburgh landmark seenhereon Feb. 11, 2001
Three Rivers Stadium
PITTSTORY
On "Newlyweds", Nick Lachey had to explain to her that Chicken of the Sea is actually fish
Jessica Simpson
NONMUSICAL MTV
Though closely related to sheep, this animal has a beard & its horns are not spirally twisted
a goat
HORNED ANIMALS
Nike founder Phil Knight went tropical at Oregon by joining Phi Gamma Delta, known by this "national" name
the Fijis
FRATERNITY SUIT
It's "burning bright in the forests of the night"
Tyger, Tyger
POETRY
…that means to perplex:A. acrimoniousB. congruousC. nonplusD. tremulous
nonplus
WHAT'S THAT WORD...?
In 1753 this Virginian with a future in politics said the area was "extremely well situated for a fort"
George Washington
PITTSTORY
Each season, 7 strangers share a home, as well as their lives, loves & libidos, on this long-running series
The Real World
NONMUSICAL MTV
Life is unfair for the males of this animal, seenhere; they're bald on top of their horns, while the female has hair
a giraffe
HORNED ANIMALS
An Alpha Sigma Phi at Penn, this Berkshire Hathaway man was worth a tidy $42.9 billion in '04
Warren Buffett
FRATERNITY SUIT
It's the mournful type of poem "written in a country churchyard by Thomas Gray
an elegy
POETRY
…that means face up:A. prostrateB. proneC. supineD. incline
supine
WHAT'S THAT WORD...?
The photo of this national hero seen here was taken in Pittsburgh on August 3, 1927
(Charles) Lindbergh
PITTSTORY
On one episode, Halle Berry is denied entrance to her own movie premiere on this prank-filled show
Punk\'d
NONMUSICAL MTV
This North American animal's population had dropped from almost 50 million to under 1000 by 1889
the buffalo (or the bison)
HORNED ANIMALS
Last name of the Michigan State A.T.O. [alpha tau omega] who, in '99, followed in Dad's footsteps & became president of the Teamsters
(James P.) Hoffa
FRATERNITY SUIT
He believed "a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars"
Walt Whitman
POETRY
…that means verbal abuse:A. abrogationB. cogitationC. sinistrationD. vituperation
vituperation
WHAT'S THAT WORD...?
On July 4, 1826, a historic date, this "Oh! Susanna" composer was born in what's now a part of Pittsburgh
(Stephen) Foster
PITTSTORY
Contestants must complete a mission in order to get to a new location on this x-treme travel adventure series
Road Rules
NONMUSICAL MTV
It was one of the largest of the horned dinosaurs; 2 of its 3 horns were up to 3 feet long
triceratops
HORNED ANIMALS
Alpha Phi Alpha John H. Johnson founded this magazine in 1951, 6 years after Ebony
Jet
FRATERNITY SUIT
His "Ulalume" rhymes "sober" with "lonesome October"
Edgar Allan Poe
POETRY
…that means not sincere:A. dissentiousB. disputatiousC. disingenuousD. discommodious
disingenuous
WHAT'S THAT WORD...?
Brad played this Greek hero in the epic "Troy"
Achilles
PITT STORY
This event that began in 1789 embodied many Enlightenment ideas, but is thought to have ended the era
the French Revolution
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Don Young from this state with 27 boroughs, including Sitka & North Slope
Alaska
THE LONE REPRESENTATIVE
By examining these in some trees, you can figure out what the weather was like thousands of years ago
the rings
OUR TROUBLED PLANET
With an average car speed of 6 mph, it's easy to see how this "Eternal City" wasn't built in a day
Rome
INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC
A guffaw from a young cow
a calf laugh
RHYME TIME
Brad & Edward Norton created this title underground group whose 1st & 2nd rules are not to talk about it
Fight Club
PITT STORY
In 1745 this was done to a book by materialist thinker Julien La Mettrie; in 1445 it would have been done to Julien
burning
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Earl Pomeroy from this state with 53 counties, including Sioux & Grand Forks
North Dakota
THE LONE REPRESENTATIVE
Your average U.S. municipal landfill is over 40% of this product, way more than plastic or metal
paper
OUR TROUBLED PLANET
This Thai capital's traffic was so bad that gas stations sold personal port-a-potties called "Comfort 100"
Bangkok
INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC
An uninflated airship
a limp blimp
RHYME TIME
Brad climbed high as Austrian mountain climber Heinrich Harrer, who met the Dalai Lama in this real-life drama
Seven Years in Tibet
PITT STORY
Priestly, Watt & Wedgwood were in a scientific club of "Lunaticks" whose meetings were set for each one of these
a full moon
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Michael Castle from this state with 3 counties: New Castle, Kent & Sussex
Delaware
THE LONE REPRESENTATIVE
Before building a highway, a state has to submit an EIS, this 2-word "statement", to get federal funding
environmental impact statement
OUR TROUBLED PLANET
Stuck in traffic & ill, Kip Keino had to jog a mile to get to the 1,500 meter run at the '68 Olympics in this city (he still won)
Mexico City
INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC
A no-no during a test, this item is covered with notes and instructions
a cheat sheet
RHYME TIME
Death (Brad Pitt) takes a holiday & falls in love with Claire Forlani in this 1998 movie
Meet Joe Black
PITT STORY
Time's July 5, 2004 cover story was "The Radical Mind of" this American Enlightenment thinker
Thomas Jefferson
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Bernie Sanders from this state with 14 counties, including Rutland & Bennington
Vermont
THE LONE REPRESENTATIVE
The first ban on killing the "right" types of these creatures came into force in 1935
whales
OUR TROUBLED PLANET
In 2003 Mayor Ken Livingstone of this metropolis introduced a tax of 5 pounds on cars entering the city center
London
INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC
A calamity that befalls the Dutch seat of government
a Hague plague
RHYME TIME
Brad Pitt was an Irish Gypsy boxer with an indecipherable accent in this 2000 Guy Ritchie flick
Snatch
PITT STORY
This 35-volume Denis Diderot project began as a translation of a British reference work
the Encyclopedie
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Stephanie Herseth from this state with 66 counties, including Yankton & Miner
South Dakota
THE LONE REPRESENTATIVE
Newts are New Hampshire's state amphibian, partly for helping track this form of liquid pollution
acid rain
OUR TROUBLED PLANET
Murtala Mohammed, this country's head of state, was shot dead in a Lagos traffic jam in 1976
Nigeria
INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC
Donor of a hepatic organ
a liver giver
RHYME TIME
'Poet & critic Ludwig Rellstab compared this piano work to a nighttime boat ride on Lake Lucerne')
Moonlight Sonata
BEETHOVEN
After the war, Confederate general Nathan Forrest served as the first head of this supremacist group
Ku Klux Klan
THE CIVIL WAR
The word salad comes from Latin for this, because most Romans dressed their salads with little else
Salt
SALADS
A perosn who uses offensive epithets against a political opponent is said to be doing this with mud
Slinging
VOCABULARY
This Harrison Ford movie was the 1st collaboration by George Lucas & Steven Spielberg
"Raiders of the Lost Ark"
1981 MOVIES
E.T. Holmes made the first one of these in 1877 to serve 6 telephone subscribers in Boston
Telephone Switchboard (even though there were only 6 subscribers)
INVENTIONS
1 of the 3 heavyweight boxing champs to fit this category
Joe Frazier, Joe Louis & "Jersey Joe" Walcott
FAMOUS JOES & JOSEPHS
Lincoln was asked to make a "few appropriate remarks" here November 19, 1863
Gettysburg
THE CIVIL WAR
Toss together some lettuce, olives, cucumbers & feta cheese & you've got this ethnic salad
Greek Salad
SALADS
Meaning savage & cruel, it comes from the Latin "trux", which means fierce
Truculent
VOCABULARY
Miles O'Keeffe played this title role in a film produced by Bo Derek & directed by husband John
Tarzan the Ape Man
1981 MOVIES
You could have gotten stuck on this company's first stick-on Band-Aids in 1921
Johnson & Johnson
INVENTIONS
This Delaware senator chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee
Joseph Biden
FAMOUS JOES & JOSEPHS
The Confederates held this fort from April 1861 to February 1865
Fort Sumter
THE CIVIL WAR
This 3-letter prefix that precedes "goblin" can also mean goblin when it stands alone
Hob
VOCABULARY
This film starring Laurence Olivier as Gen. Douglas MacArthur was produced by the Unification Church
Inchon
1981 MOVIES
In 11th century China, Pi Sheng made this out of clay; about 1445 Gutenberg used metal
Movable Type
INVENTIONS
This world leader's real name was Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
Joseph Stalin
FAMOUS JOES & JOSEPHS
He earned his nickname at First Bull Run & led 25,000 Confederates at its sequel, Second Bull Run
Stonewall Jackson
THE CIVIL WAR
It can be a spokesman, part of your phone or a protective rubber device worn by a boxer
Mouthpiece
VOCABULARY
This actor had his last theatrical film role as police commissioner Waldo in "Ragtime"
James Cagney
1981 MOVIES
In 1982 this British singer paired with Jennifer Warnes in the No. 1 hit "Up Where We Belong"
Joe Cocker
FAMOUS JOES & JOSEPHS
Due to rumors of his Southern sympathies, the U.S. Gov't didn't buy his new machine gun during the war
Gatling
THE CIVIL WAR
In Europe salad may follow the main course because vinegar dressings can conflict with the taste of this
wine
SALADS
This adjective meaning "of the earliest ages" appears in the first line of Longfellow's "Evangeline"
Primeval ("This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines & the hemlocks")
VOCABULARY
In "First Monday in October", this actress played Ruth Loomis, 1st woman on the Supreme Court
Jill Clayburgh
1981 MOVIES
The U.S. developed the NTSC system of this; France, SECAM & Germany, PAL
Different systems of broadcasting color television
INVENTIONS
Late charismatic scholar seen on a PBS series in 1988 conversing with Bill Moyers on "The Power Of Myth"
Joseph Campbell
FAMOUS JOES & JOSEPHS
At the end of their story, one returns to his estate, one marries a rich widow & one becomes a monk
"The Three Musketeers"
FRENCH LITERATURE
Berlioz neglected his medical studies in this capital, preferring to spend his nights at the opera
Paris
COMPOSERS
In the closing arguments in a federal criminal case, this side goes first & gets to do a rebuttal
Prosecution
LAW
After divorcing Daniel Patterson, she married her third husband, Asa Gilbert Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy
AMERICAN RELIGION
Many consider a genius to be someone who scores 140 or better on a standard one of these
IQ Test
PSYCHOLOGY
Though Abidjan has the main gov't buildings, Yamoussoukro is this country's official capital, tusk, tusk
Ivory Coast
GEOGRAPHY
Type of lit. that was the specialty of Francois Villon, Marie De France & Charles Baudelaire
Poetry
FRENCH LITERATURE
A master composer of ballets, he was the leading Russian composer of the late 19th century
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
COMPOSERS
You can perform Shakespeare's plays without paying royalties since copyright law defines them as this
Public Domain
LAW
In the 1600s the Baptists began baptizing by this method
Immersion
AMERICAN RELIGION
Term for a physical illness caused or worsened by psychological factors
Psychosomatic
PSYCHOLOGY
To Tibetans it's "Chomolungma", the goddess mother
Mount Everest
GEOGRAPHY
The son of Grandgousier & Gargamelle, he was a medieval folk hero before Rabelais wrote about him
Gargantua
FRENCH LITERATURE
Friedrich Nietzsche was a close friend of this "Lohengrin" composer but later turned against him
Richard Wagner
COMPOSERS
In Latin legal lingo it means "by the fact itself"
Ipso Facto
LAW
In 1790 the first emancipation petition was submitted to Congress by this religious group
Quakers
AMERICAN RELIGION
Field of psychology that centers on the study of work & work environments
Industrial Psychology
PSYCHOLOGY
There's a canyon full of odd rocks named for pioneer Ebenezer Bryce in this state
Utah
GEOGRAPHY
A teacher of philosophy until her first novel was published, her best-known work is "The Second Sex"
Simone De Beauvoir
FRENCH LITERATURE
First name shared by Vivaldi & Salieri
Antonio
COMPOSERS
He was the last president to be one of the litigants in a case before the Supreme Court
Richard Nixon
LAW
The Catholic mission at San Juan Capistrano was founded in the 18th century by this Franciscan
Juniperro Serra
AMERICAN RELIGION
An adult who returrns to a childhood level of behavior is exhibiting this defense mechanism
Regression
PSYCHOLOGY
It's the longest U.S. river east of the Mississippi
Ohio River
GEOGRAPHY
Denis Diderot is best known as editor of one of these reference works, the first modern one in any language
Encyclopedia
FRENCH LITERATURE
Despite his protests, Claude Debussy's distinctive style was labeled this
Impressionistic
COMPOSERS
1849 work in which Thoreau asked, "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them...?"
"Civil Disobedience"
LAW
Circuit riding preachers of pioneer days were most associated with this Protestant denomination
Methodists
AMERICAN RELIGION
Oliver Sacks wrote a book about one of his patients called "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For" this
For a Hat
PSYCHOLOGY
In 1884 it lost its Atacama province to Chile & became a landlocked country
Bolivia
GEOGRAPHY
'He became a nat\'l hero when he led the Spanish Foreign Legion against Moroccan rebels in the 1920s')
Gen. Francisco Franco
WORLD HISTORY
This F. Scott Fitzgerald character was born James Gatz
The Great Gatsby
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
Some authorities believe it was actually Jim Bowie's brother Rezin who designed this weapon
Bowie Knife
NAMESAKES
Jackson was the first president to use this form of transportation while in office
Railroad
ANDREW JACKSON
Louis Armstrong's only No. 1 hit, it hit the charts for 19 weeks in 1964
"Hello, Dolly!"
SONGS OF THE '60S
You take the SAT exam to get into college & the LSAT to get into one of these schools
Law School
ABBREVIATIONS
After death, this faith's devout members get houris, celestial handmaidens
Islam
SUDDEN DEATH
In "Ivanhoe" the black knight who rescues Wilfred & Rowena is really this king in disguise
Richard the Lionhearted
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
This measure of sound intensity is named for Alexander Graham Bell
Decibel
NAMESAKES
In 1804 & again in 1837 Jackson retired from public life to this estate
The Hermitage
ANDREW JACKSON
Sonny & Cher's only No. 1 hit, they used to sing it at the close of their TV show
"I Got You Babe"
SONGS OF THE '60S
Nickname formed from the initials of the Government National Mortgage Association
Ginnie Mae
ABBREVIATIONS
The last words of this first president to die were, "It is well I die hard, but I am not afraid to go."
George Washington
SUDDEN DEATH
For saving this little girl from the waters of the Mississippi, Uncle Tom was bought by her father
Little Eva
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
What Michael Begon & J.G. Zinn had named after them
Flowers (begonias & zinnias)
NAMESAKES
It's what Jackson had in common with Lewis Robards from Aug. 1791 to Sept. 1793
Same Wife (they both thought they were married to the same woman)
ANDREW JACKSON
Group whose first No. 1 hit, "Cherish", was recorded in a garage that was converted to a studio
The Association
SONGS OF THE '60S
You could see one of them write down "q.i.d.", but you might find it hard to read
Doctors (they write that down on your prescription; take it 4 times a day)
ABBREVIATIONS
Romeo commits suicide by drinking poison whereas Juliet kills herself using this
A Dagger
SUDDEN DEATH
John D. MacDonald used colors in the titles of all the adventures of this private investigator
Travis McGee
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
Two foods named for opera singer Dame Nellie Melba
Melba Toast & Peach Melba
NAMESAKES
Jackson's choice for minister to Great Britain; after the Senate turned him down he became VP & then president
Martin Van Buren
ANDREW JACKSON
The Beatles' 8th No. 1 hit, it begins "I think I'm gonna be sad"
"Ticket To Ride"
SONGS OF THE '60S
It's an editor's abbreviation for more than one manuscript
MSS
ABBREVIATIONS
In 1984 this author of "The Complete Book of Running" died while running
Jim Fixx
SUDDEN DEATH
Educated at Rennsselaer Polytechnic, he built railroads & bridges before his amusement park ride
George Washington Gale Ferris
NAMESAKES
Collective term for Jackson's unofficial group of presidential advisors
"Kitchen Cabinet"
ANDREW JACKSON
They had No. 1 hits with Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" & Pete Seeger's "Turn, Turn, Turn"
The Byrds
SONGS OF THE '60S
A cousin to the R.A.F., the R.A.A.F. is this
Royal Australian Air Force
ABBREVIATIONS
By custom, books printed in the U.S. carry this library's card catalogue number on the copyright page
Library of Congress
PUBLISHING
A simple one of these consists of a small weight swinging to & fro on the end of a string
Pendulum
SCIENCE
Paris was known by its Celtic name "Lutetia", when he took it from the Parisii tribe in 52 B.C.
Julius Caesar
ANCIENT HISTORY
Providence County is this state's largest county in both area & population
Rhode Island
U.S. STATES
It "makes all men equal" & "makes the world go round"
Love
PROVERBS
He fled the Potala, his palace in Tibet, when Chinese forces invaded Lhasa in 1959
The Dalai Lama
PALACES
Of 4-6 pages, 14-20 pages or 40-60 pages, the size of the typical Soviet daily newspaper
4-6 pages
PUBLISHING
The process by which a substance changes from liquid to a gas is called this
Vaporization
SCIENCE
Cleopatra had 4 children out of wedlock, 3 fathered by this Roman
Marc Antony
ANCIENT HISTORY
Symbols of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Choctaw & Seminole Indian nations are on its seal
Oklahoma
U.S. STATES
He coined the saying, Early to bed & early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy & wise"
Benjamin Franklin
PROVERBS
From 1561-1567, Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh was the home of this queen of Scotland
Mary Stuart
PALACES
"The Talk Of The Town" is a weekly feature of this magazine also known for its drawings
The New Yorker
PUBLISHING
The planets that are smaller than Earth are Mercury, Venus & these two
Mars & Pluto
SCIENCE
The earliest known civilization, it was home to the Sumerians & Akkadians
Mesopotamia
ANCIENT HISTORY
State whose motto "Eureka", meaning "I have found it" is attributed to Archimedes
California
U.S. STATES
They're the "Windows of the Soul"
The Eyes
PROVERBS
King of Bavaria whose Neuschwanstein Castle might be called a monument to his madness
Ludwig II
PALACES
"The Budget" is a weekly paper published nationally for members of this Mennonite sect
Amish
PUBLISHING
An LED; it's used for displaying readings on digital watches & calculators
Light Emitting Diode
SCIENCE
The Hebrew kingdom split into Judah & Israel after the death of this king
Solomon
ANCIENT HISTORY
This "Tree Planters State" in the midwest has the only 2 man-made national forests in the U.S.
Nebraska
U.S. STATES
Proverb that was the title of a Kaufman/Hart play about an unconventional family
"You Can\'t Take It With You"
PROVERBS
Huis Ten Bosch Palace, home of Holland's Queen Beatrix, is in this city
The Hague
PALACES
"News You Can Use" & "Worldgram" are registered trademarks of this magazine
U.S. News & World Report
PUBLISHING
When this scientist discovered oxygen, he called it dephlogisticated air
Joseph Priestley
SCIENCE
The ruins of Ur are in a desert because this river, which once ran near it, changed course
Euphrates
ANCIENT HISTORY
The Great Serpent Mound near Hillsboro in this state is an ancient Indian burial site
Ohio
U.S. STATES
In a Thomas Gray poem this precedes " 'Tis folly to be wise"
Where Ignorance Is Bliss
PROVERBS
Hiram Bingham claimed he found a castle of the Incas in this remote fortress city he excavated
Machu Picchu
PALACES
'This actor won a 1952 Tony and a 1956 Oscar for playing the same ruler')
Yul Brynner (\"The King & I\")
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
As of July 17, 2005 this Dan Brown novel had spent 120 weeks on the N.Y. Times' list
The Da Vinci Code
2005 FICTION BESTSELLERS
His original lyrics to "This Land Is Your Land" mention the relief office & people who stood hungry
(Woody) Guthrie
MEET THE FOLKERS
This World War II radio propagandist was born on the Fourth of July, 1916
Tokyo Rose
A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE
In 1966 this French president pulled France out of NATO's integrated military structure
Charles de Gaulle
HI, FRENCHIE!
The Saluki,the Sanhedrin,the Salmineo
the Saluki
SPOT THE POOCH
It's a folded & grilled flour tortilla filled with cheese & often chicken; es muy buena!
a quesadilla
THAT'S JUST "SAD"
Appropriately, "A Salty Piece of Land" was penned by this "Margaritaville" singer
(Jimmy) Buffett
2005 FICTION BESTSELLERS
In 1963 this trio breezed to No. 2 with "Blowin' In The Wind"
Peter, Paul and Mary
MEET THE FOLKERS
Alliterative woman described in songhereby Nat King Cole"Wild and wind-blown /That's how you've grown"
"Ramblin\' Rose"
A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE
This French emperor's own "Waterloo" came against the Germans in 1870
Napoleon III
HI, FRENCHIE!
The Ridgeway,the Ridgeback,the Ridgebone
The Ridgeback
SPOT THE POOCH
10-letter term for feeling stiff from horseback riding
saddlesore
THAT'S JUST "SAD"
The CIA arranges a presidential pardon for mover & shaker Joel Backman in this John Grisham tale
The Broker
2005 FICTION BESTSELLERS
In 1997 he won a Grammy for his first new album in over a decade, simply titled "Pete"
(Pete) Seeger
MEET THE FOLKERS
In 1956 Aussie Murray Rose became the 1st male swimmer to win 2 solo Olympic golds since this man in 1924
(Johnny) Weissmuller
A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE
In French, this French monk of the Middle Ages is known as Pierre l'Ermite
Peter the Hermit
HI, FRENCHIE!
The Dandie Dinmont,the Dandie Dinkum,the Dandie Doodahday
the Dandie Dinmont
SPOT THE POOCH
We see this Southern California ctiy, originally named Indiana Colony, through rose-colored glasses
Pasadena
THAT'S JUST "SAD"
The doctor was in, or rather on, the list with his environmentally themed "State of Fear"
Michael Crichton
2005 FICTION BESTSELLERS
In 1958 this group heardherereigned at No. 1"...well /Hang down your head, Tom Dooley /Hang down your head..."
The Kingston Trio
MEET THE FOLKERS
In this Umberto Eco novel, William of Baskerville solves a murder like a medieval Sherlock Holmes
The Name of the Rose
A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE
"The Moon and Sixpence" was Somerset Maugham's roman a clef based on the life of this French artist
Paul Gauguin
HI, FRENCHIE!
Ekkenpinscher,Hauzzenpinscher,Affenpinscher,Didhepinscher
Affenpinscher
SPOT THE POOCH
Any war carried out under papal sanction
a crusade
THAT'S JUST "SAD"
This Tom Wolfe novel got the Presidential seal of approval when W. recommended it to friends
I Am Charlotte Simmons
2005 FICTION BESTSELLERS
After she sang the anthem "We Shall Overcome" at a 1963 march, her version of it hit the charts
Joan Baez
MEET THE FOLKERS
The 2 British royal houses of the Wars of the Roses
York & Lancaster
A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE
This 19th century French politician & writer gave his name to a style of steak
(Francois Auguste) Chateaubriand
HI, FRENCHIE!
Redfoot Coonhound,Greenhead Coonhound,Bluetick Coonhound
Bluetick Coonhound
SPOT THE POOCH
His rule of Syria included the 1982 killing of perhaps 20,000 in the city of Hamah
Hafez al-Assad
THAT'S JUST "SAD"
In the 1700s Rosalba Carriera, whose work is seenhere, was the first to popularize these pigment sticks
pastels
ART TECHNIQUE
Lactobacillus bulgaricus & Streptococcus thermophilus are the usual bacteria that culture this food
yogurt
"Y"s UP!
The title of the article Donald Trump penned on her was "The Domestic Diva Is Back"
Martha Stewart
TIME's TOP 100
"Sonnets from the Portuguese" was so named because "Portuguese" was this man's nickname for its author
Robert Browning
SONNETS
In 1484 he tried to get King John II of Portugal to finance his transoceanic trip
Columbus
FROM THE PORTUGUESE
(Kelly of the Clue Crew makes some cartoon trees grow.) By enlarging the nearest part of the image, thistechniqueadds the illusion of depth
foreshortening
ART TECHNIQUE
3 strangers are united by tragedy in "___ Grams"
21
MOVIE NUMBERS
They're the two complementary cosmic forces representedhere
yin & yang
"Y"s UP!
The World Health Org. says his & his wife's foundation has "already saved the lives of 670,000 children"
Bill Gates
TIME's TOP 100
"When I consider how my light is spent" begins this sonnet about his loss of sight
Milton
SONNETS
In 1763 Portugal's South American colonies were unified with the capital set in this city
Rio de Janeiro
FROM THE PORTUGUESE
Encaustic painting, used since ancient times, applies this animal product to a rigid surface & fixes it with heat
wax
ART TECHNIQUE
A Hitchcock thriller:"The ___ Steps"
39
MOVIE NUMBERS
The Rockefeller Foundation scientists who developed a vaccine for this "colorful" disease often caught it
yellow fever
"Y"s UP!
The article on economist Jeffrey Sachs was by this Dubliner who worked with Sachs on world debt relief
Bono
TIME's TOP 100
This Romantic began his "England in 1819", "An old, mad, blind, despised and dying king"
Shelley
SONNETS
The name of Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point of this continent, is Portuguese for "needles"
Africa
FROM THE PORTUGUESE
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows off a blank canvas.) This step in prepping a canvas doesn't mean measuring; it means adding a layer of glue so thepaintdoesn't sink in & lose its color
to size your canvas
ART TECHNIQUE
Inspired by the director's own early life:"The ___ Blows"
400
MOVIE NUMBERS
In Judaism the holiest of all days is this day of atonement
Yom Kippur
"Y"s UP!
The headline of this man's article was "Dear Leader Goes Nuclear"
Kim Jong Il
TIME's TOP 100
The "Canzoniere" by this Tuscan contained over 300 sonnets to an idealized beloved he had never met
Petrarch
SONNETS
Before 1974 this country with a hyphenated name was known as Portuguese Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
FROM THE PORTUGUESE
(Kelly of the Clue Crew fiddles with some classical whiskers.) This term for deliberately blurring an area, as Titian didhere, sounds like a combination of "scramble" & "jumble"
scumble
ART TECHNIQUE
Set on New Year's Eve:"___ Cigarettes"
200
MOVIE NUMBERS
For many years, Aden, this country's second-largest city, was a British Crown Colony
Yemen
"Y"s UP!
After he defeated Alan Keyes for an Illinois senate seat, Time asked if he was "The future of the Democratic Party?"
(Barack) Obama
TIME's TOP 100
Perhaps the most distinguished 20th century sonneteer was this German poet in works like "Sonnets to Orpheus"
(Rainer Maria) Rilke
SONNETS
1494's Treaty of Tordesillas aimed to settle a dispute between Portugal & this nation over New World territories
Spain
FROM THE PORTUGUESE
'In 1950 Pius XII was Pontifex Maximus; exactly 2,000 years earlier, this man held a title of the same name')
Julius Caesar
RANKS & TITLES
(Cheryl of the Clue Crue walks around a control panel in the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) This equipment was used for the first televised presidential debate between John F. Kennedy & this man
Nixon
THE JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
No. 2 for these 2 in '82: "The girl is mine, the doggone girl is mine, don't waste your time, because the doggone girl is mine"
Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney
LYRICALLY YOURS
Gerbert picked this name, not Tweety, when he became pope in 999
Sylvester
POPE-POURRI
John Lennon,Ringo Starr,George Harrison
Ringo Starr
BORN FIRST
Their rivalry was legend, but on Halloween, be it Braeburn or Criterion... this fruit's gonna get candied
an apple
FOOD A LAFONTAINE
From the Latin for "weaving", it's any woven or knitted fabric
a textile
"T" TIME
A 19th C. goblet in the library was given to Pres. Kennedy when he visited this country of his ancestors in 1963
Ireland
THE JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
"She'll make you live her crazy life but she'll take away your pain, like a bullet to your brain" in this 1999 song
"Livin\' La Vida Loca"
LYRICALLY YOURS
Pope Paul VI named more than 2 dozen new ones of these in 1965, bringing the world total up to 103
cardinals
POPE-POURRI
Stokely Carmichael,Martin Luther King, Jr.,Malcolm X
Malcolm X
BORN FIRST
It's a pastry shell filled with a custard of seasonings, eggs & cream... this November, real men will eat...
quiche
FOOD A LAFONTAINE
Dipsy is the green one of these characters on PBS
a Teletubby
"T" TIME
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew points to a coconut shell enshrined in the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) This is the actual piece of coconut on which John F. Kennedycarved a plea for helpafter this boat was cut in half during World War II
PT-109
THE JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
In 1986, Sammy Hagar wailed, "Only time will tell if we stand the test of time" when he was this band's lead singer
Van Halen
LYRICALLY YOURS
Pope Gregory IX formalized the medieval version of this one-word search & destroy heretics program
the Inquisition
POPE-POURRI
Alexander the Great,Darius the Great,Frederick the Great
Darius
BORN FIRST
Once, this vit. A & C-rich herb got top billing; now, sage, rosemary & thyme are back in "Scarborough Fair 2: Reloaded"
parsley
FOOD A LAFONTAINE
This small Arizona city is home to Boot Hill Graveyard & the O.K. Corral
Tombstone
"T" TIME
The library has JFK's phonetic notations to remind himself how to pronounce these 4 words on June 26, 1963
Ich bin ein Berliner
THE JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Can't argue with that: in "Fly Like An Eagle" he sang, "Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'... into the future"
(Steve) Miller
LYRICALLY YOURS
Nicholas V was the last pope to serve concurrently with one of these--Felix V, who resigned in 1449
an antipope
POPE-POURRI
Leon Trotsky,Vladimir Lenin,Josef Stalin
Lenin
BORN FIRST
Boneless, from the small end of the tenderloin... it's coming after your credit card... with a vengeance
filet mignon
FOOD A LAFONTAINE
Thin, pale & young, the image of this model born Leslie Hornby seemed to sum up her era
Twiggy
"T" TIME
(Sarah of the Clue Crew fawns over a metal-plated case in the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) This beautiful humidor, sans cigars, was given to John F. Kennedy by this cranky premier when they first met in Vienna in 1961
Nikita Khrushchev
THE JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
In this hit, "Feels so good when you know you're down, a super dope homeboy from the Oaktown... Stop. Hammer time"
"U Can\'t Touch This"
LYRICALLY YOURS
John Paul Stevens,William Rehnquist,David Souter
John Paul Stevens
BORN FIRST
Sponge cake, ice cream, meringue, baked hot for 5 minutes... at your next party, this "stately" dessert will be on fire!
Baked Alaska
FOOD A LAFONTAINE
It's beef stomach lining, yum!
tripe
"T" TIME
(Leroy Chiao, aboard the International Space Station, reads the clue.) On January 14, 2004 President Bush said the I.S.S. would focus on human biology in space, to prepare for a first visit to this planet
Mars
MAN IN SPACE
"The Blob","Bullitt","The Thomas Crown Affair"
(Steve) McQueen
FILMOGRAPHIES
Garfield Todd tried to reduce government racism as a 1950s P.M. of Southern Rhodesia, now this country
Zimbabwe
WHAT HATH TODD WROUGHT?
25 of the title character's poems form the last part of this Boris Pasternak novel
Dr. Zhivago
RUSSIAN LIT
In boxing, do something crazy like, I don't know, biting a guy's ear off & you'll get a DQ, this
disqualification
16- (YES, 16-) LETTER WORDS
Deke Slayton, grounded from this program in 1962 for medical reasons, finally went into space in 1975
the Mercury program
MAN IN SPACE
"Evelyn","The Tailor of Panama","The Thomas Crown Affair"
(Pierce) Brosnan
FILMOGRAPHIES
Not only was Henry Ford born in this Michigan city, he also started his first auto company there
Dearborn
HISTORIC "D" TOUR
In 1779 Isaac Todd helped form the North West Co. to challenge the Hudson Bay Co.'s monopoly in this trade
the fur trade
WHAT HATH TODD WROUGHT?
When parts of this novel were published in Paris in 1973, Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn was branded a traitor
The Gulag Archipelago
RUSSIAN LIT
An attack by an army against an already-attacking enemy force
counteroffensive
16- (YES, 16-) LETTER WORDS
(Leroy Chiao reads again.) An early vision of aspace stationwas in a 1952 Collier's magazine article by this scientist
Wernher von Braun
MAN IN SPACE
"Get Shorty","Ransom","The Thomas Crown Affair"
Rene Russo
FILMOGRAPHIES
In 1895 French army captain Alfred Dreyfus was sent there
Devil\'s Island
HISTORIC "D" TOUR
He promoted the wide-screen process Todd-AO, first used in the 1955 movie "Oklahoma!"
Mike Todd
WHAT HATH TODD WROUGHT?
While in Moscow for the first performance of his "The Cherry Orchard", he became ill and soon died
Anton Chekhov
RUSSIAN LIT
Breathe into a paper bag to relax the muscles when suffering from this, breathing too fast & too deeply
hyperventilation
16- (YES, 16-) LETTER WORDS
"Nixon","Pleasantville","The Upside of Anger"
Joan Allen
FILMOGRAPHIES
For many years Paul Klee taught at the National Academy of Art in this German city
Dusseldorf
HISTORIC "D" TOUR
In 1812 Thomas Todd didn't need a wedding at the Elks Lodge; his bride's sister Dolley arranged to have it here
the White House
WHAT HATH TODD WROUGHT?
Before his death sentence was commuted he wrote "The Little Hero"; after being freed, he wrote "The Idiot"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
RUSSIAN LIT
Indisputable, or not open to question, it can precede "evidence" in a courtroom
incontrovertible
16- (YES, 16-) LETTER WORDS
"Gosford Park","Random Hearts","The Horse Whisperer"
Kristin Scott Thomas
FILMOGRAPHIES
Until 1975 the West African Republic of Benin was known by this name
Dahomey
HISTORIC "D" TOUR
John Todd gave his name to a type of this algebraic expression of 2 or more terms connected by symbols
polynomials
WHAT HATH TODD WROUGHT?
Some say this 1836 Nikolay Gogol play about a civil servant named Khlestakov is the greatest in the Russian language
The Inspector General
RUSSIAN LIT
An extinct genus of small-brained, large-toothed bipedal hominids that lived in Africa 1 to 4 million years ago
Australopithecus
16- (YES, 16-) LETTER WORDS
'The phrase "How I want a drink, alcoholic of course" is often used to help memorize this')
Pi
BY THE NUMBERS
Longer than the Mississippi, this river wasn't made navigable until the 20th century
Missouri River
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
One-word title for the person who operated the device developed by Samuel F.B. Morse
Telegrapher
ODD JOBS
In the Middle Ages this insect was dedicated to the Virgin & called "The Beetle Of Our Lady"
Ladybug/Ladybird Beetle
ANIMALS
Robert Frost wrote, "To" do this "is human, not to, animal"
Err
QUOTES
Tofu has been prepared on this continent for over 1,000 years
Asia
FOOD & DRINK
Baseball player Jay Hanna Dean was known by this giddy moniker
Dizzy Dean
NICKNAMES
This 10-state region isn't flat; it rises from 2,000 ft. near Omaha to 6,000 ft. at Cheyenne
Great Plains
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
From the Greek for "know beforehand", it's someone who predicts things, like the weather
Prognosticator
ODD JOBS
Smaller forms of these birds are usually called doves
Pigeons
ANIMALS
In "An Essay On Man" Pope wrote this "springs eternal in the human breast"
Hope
QUOTES
Planted chiefly in Hawaii, the most widely grown variety of this fruit is the smooth cayenne
Pineapple
FOOD & DRINK
Bewhiskered western sidekick George Hayes went by this "talkative" nickname
Gabby Hayes
NICKNAMES
The only state with areas that have a Mediterranean climate
California
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
A cryptographer doesn't break into tombs but breaks these
Codes
ODD JOBS
The largest members of this phylum are the giant squids & the smallest are snails
Mollusks
ANIMALS
Advised not to be a lawyer, as the profession was overcrowded, D. Webster said, "There is always room" here
At the top
QUOTES
This French word describes the very driest champagnes
Brut
FOOD & DRINK
He's been called "The World's Oldest Living Teenager"
Dick Clark
NICKNAMES
The lower valley of the Susquehanna & its tributaries have created this large Atlantic bay
Chesapeake Bay
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
The job of a sommelier in a restaurant is to serve this
Wine
ODD JOBS
These arachnids differ from true spiders by the extreme length & thinness of their legs
Daddy Longlegs
ANIMALS
Carl Sandburg wrote, "Sometime they'll give" one of these "and nobody will come"
War
QUOTES
This mixture of apples, nuts, celery & mayonnaise was named for a hotel
Waldorf Salad
FOOD & DRINK
He earned the nickname "Hero of Mobile Bay" in the Civil War
Admiral David Farragut
NICKNAMES
This western branch of the Appalachians runs from north central Penn. through MD., VA. & W. VA.
Alleghenies
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
If you hired an expert in drayage, you needed this done
Having something moved (or hauled by cart in the old days)
ODD JOBS
Surprisingly, the white, or beluga, species of this mammal can be found in the St. Lawrence River
Whale
ANIMALS
Kipling said, "He travels the fastest who travels" this way
Alone
QUOTES
The "Court" variety of this is a stock in which fish are poached & can contain herbs & vegetables
Boullion
FOOD & DRINK
This producer of "Hello, Dolly!" has been called "The Barnum of Broadway Producers"
David Merrick
NICKNAMES
Wess Roberts called his 1989 guide to success "Leadership Secrets Of" this Hun
Attila
BOOKS OF THE '80S
Although Switzerland has 4 national languages, 70% of the population speaks this one
German
SWITZERLAND
The tea thrown overboard into Boston harbor in 1773 belonged to this British company
East India Comapny
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1 of the 2 Bogart movies with "Sierra" in their titles
High Sierra&Treasure of the Sierra Madre
CINEMA
According to Collier's Encyclopedia, this son of Cronus had more than 3 dozen kids
Zeus
MYTHS & LEGENDS
This "new" art style was popular in France just before Art Deco
Art Nouveau
ART & DESIGN
John Gregory Dunne's '89 memoir, "Harp", details his search for his ancestral roots in this country
Ireland
BOOKS OF THE '80S
This is compulsory for all men between the ages of 20 & 50
Military Service
SWITZERLAND
In 1776, while encamped with Washington's troops, he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls"
Thomas Paine
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
This '84 film about the horrors of the Khmer Rouge was finally shown in a Cambodian theater in 1989
"The Killing Fields"
CINEMA
This Greek god lived with his wife, Amphitrite, in a golden palace at the bottom of the sea
Poseidon
MYTHS & LEGENDS
A walkway or porch with a roof supported by columns, it's featured in Greek architecture
Portico
ART & DESIGN
Robert D. Parker's "Poodle Springs" is based on this author's unfinished Philip Marlowe novel
Raymond Chandler
BOOKS OF THE '80S
This white star-shaped flower is Switzerland's national flower
Edelweiss
SWITZERLAND
In 1780 & '81 this general commanded Britain's forces in the southern colonies
Lord Cornwallis
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The Horse of a Different Color in this film was actually 6 different horses colored with Jell-O powder
"The Wizard of Oz"
CINEMA
Born from the blood of Uranus, they punish those who escape punishment
The Furies
MYTHS & LEGENDS
This name refers to any depiction of the Virgin holding the dead Christ, not just Michelangelo's sculpture
Pieta
ART & DESIGN
Tom Wolfe has described this book of his as "A 'Vanity Fair' written 150 years later"
"Bonfire of the Vanities"
BOOKS OF THE '80S
On the night of April 18, 1775, he & Paul Revere rode the countryside warning of the Redcoats' advance
William Dawes
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
In "The Road to Utopia", Bob Hope acted macho by saying, "I'll take lemonade - - in" one of these
A Dirty Glass
CINEMA
Among Hercules' teachers were these twins who taught him horsemanship & boxing
Castor & Pollux
MYTHS & LEGENDS
A praying desk with a knee bench, its name means "Pray God"
Prie-Dieu
ART & DESIGN
"The Noose of Laurels" concludes that neither of these rivals reached the North Pole
Frederic Cook & Robert Peary
BOOKS OF THE '80S
In 1774 the 1st Continental Congress convened at this Philadelphia building, not Independence Hall
Carpenters\' Hall
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Near the end of this 1959 Hitchcock film, Martin Landau falls off Mount Rushmore
"North By Northwest"
CINEMA
The Romans worshipped this huntress in a grove south of Rome
Diana
MYTHS & LEGENDS
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe & Philip Johnson designed this NYC skyscraper named for a liquor company
Seagram\'s Building/Tower
ART & DESIGN
'Country whose basic monetary unit is the Balboa')
Panama
MONEY
Edmund Randolph helped draft & ratify the Constitution before becoming this man's Attorney General
Washington
ATTORNEYS GENERAL
The Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series in 4 straight games, finally exorcising this man's "curse"
The Bambino (The Babe accepted)
THE WORLD SERIES
Also a Lone Star State lottery game, it's a numerical country dance
the Texas Two-Step
STATE THE ITEM
Eskimo boat
kayak
PALINDROMIC WORDS
Born on Oct. 31, 1887 in the Zhejiang Province, he'd Taiwan-on in 1949
Chiang Kai-shek
BORN
A Louisiana man put $20 on a Circle-K counter, asked for change, then robbed the place for $15; he forgot about this
the $20 he had put in
THE DARWIN AWARDS
A relative of Napoleon, Charles Bonaparte served as Navy Secretary in 1905 & later as Attorney General for this president
Theodore Roosevelt
ATTORNEYS GENERAL
"Say Hey"! This Giants outfielder's catch of a Vic Wertz drive was a highlight of the 1954 World Series
Willie Mays
THE WORLD SERIES
About 250 of these 2-named Western U.S. vultures survive in the world, most in captivity
California condors
STATE THE ITEM
A failed munition
dud
PALINDROMIC WORDS
Born on March 18, 1869 in Birmingham, England, he appeased away 71 years later
Neville Chamberlain
BORN
A teen involved in a previous fireworks mishap tried to light gunpowder with this 9-letter metalworking aid
a blowtorch
THE DARWIN AWARDS
This man appointed Harry Daugherty, who'd helped him become lt. gov. of Ohio & a U.S. senator as well as president
Warren G. Harding
ATTORNEYS GENERAL
In game one of the 1968 Series, this Cardinals pitcher struck out a record 17 Tigers
Bob Gibson
THE WORLD SERIES
An American breed of chickens having dark reddish-brown feathers & producing brown eggs
a Rhode Island red
STATE THE ITEM
A title for an important Islamic leader; Khan you dig it?
aga
PALINDROMIC WORDS
No truth to the rumor this Soviet leader's eyebrows added 5 lbs. to his Dec. 19, 1906 birth
(Leonid) Brezhnev
BORN
A man from this "Nutmeg State" ended a chase by ducking into a high-security prison, thinking it was a mall
Connecticut
THE DARWIN AWARDS
A.G. Roger Taney wrote this president's speech announcing the veto of the bill renewing the Bank of the U.S.
Andrew Jackson
ATTORNEYS GENERAL
This outfielder was named World Series MVP twice: with the Oakland A's in 1973 & with the Yankees in 1977
Reggie Jackson
THE WORLD SERIES
"Yes, I lost my little darlin' the night they were playing" this beautiful state song
the "Tennessee Waltz"
STATE THE ITEM
Muscle "cuff" that permits free shoulder movement
rotator
PALINDROMIC WORDS
He made his very first exploration into the cold world on July 16, 1872 in Borge, near Oslo, Norway
Amundsen
BORN
Explosive habit! A W.V. man lit a cigarette in an outhouse but forgot about the presence of this, aka marsh gas
methane
THE DARWIN AWARDS
This Yankee catcher hit the 1st pinch-hit home run in Series history in '47; he hit 11 more homers in his Series career
Yogi Berra
THE WORLD SERIES
1854's Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed this
the Missouri Compromise
STATE THE ITEM
Enemy of God in Ezekiel & Revelation
Gog
PALINDROMIC WORDS
This painter was nude descending into the world on July 28, 1887 in Blainville, France
(Marcel) Duchamp
BORN
In '02 a boy in this westernmost cont. European country refused his soup until Mom let him play with a gun; yes, she survived
Portugal
THE DARWIN AWARDS
A tear in this light-receptive layer at the back of the eye can cause it to detach from the underlying tissue
the retina
HEALTH & MEDICINE
1997:Agent J,Agent K,Chief Zed
Men in Black
MOVIES BY CHARACTERS
In Act I her nurse & mother discuss her upcoming 14th birthday
Juliet
SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN
This funny man & movie Santa Claus titled one of his books of musings "Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man"
Tim Allen
THE NAKED TRUTH
This mountain has additional named peaks that exceed 24,000 feet, including Lhotse & Changtse
Mount Everest
MOUNTAINS
In 1891 African-American jockey Isaac Murphy became the first man to win this horse race 3 times
the Kentucky Derby
"K" RATIONS
A lack of iodine in the diet can cause a goiter, which is an enlargement of this gland that's just below the larynx
a thyroid
HEALTH & MEDICINE
1978:Bluto,Otter,Flounder,D-Day
Animal House
MOVIES BY CHARACTERS
She says of her husband, "His unkindness may defeat my life, but never taint my love" (She was right)
Desdemona
SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN
Flash back to this event in 1974 where the famous photo seenherewas taken
the Oscars
THE NAKED TRUTH
The name of Mexico's Popocatepetl means "smoking mountain" in the language of this people
the Aztecs
MOUNTAINS
From a Chinese word meaning "skill", it's an ancient style of weaponless combat
kung fu
"K" RATIONS
An angiogram may reveal one of these bulges in the wall of a blood vessel
an aneurysm
HEALTH & MEDICINE
2005:Paul Crewe,Warden Hazen,Cheeseburger
The Longest Yard
MOVIES BY CHARACTERS
The Duke of Albany & the Duke of Cornwall are the husbands of these 2 sisters
Goneril & Regan
SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN
When Adam & Eve realized they were naked, they sewed these together to make aprons
fig leaves
THE NAKED TRUTH
The name of this sacred mountain is said to be derived from the Ainu word for "fire"
Mount Fuji
MOUNTAINS
For more than 1,000 years, this city served as the seat of Japan's imperial court
Kyoto
"K" RATIONS
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the top secretJeopardy!science lab.) It's the 11-letter adjective forthistype of medical application; the first approved use was for motion sickness
transdermal
HEALTH & MEDICINE
1974:The Waco Kid,Hedley Lamarr,Mongo
Blazing Saddles
MOVIES BY CHARACTERS
Hurry up & name this character who makes bawdy puns during a Latin lesson in "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
Mistress Quickly
SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN
Taken by this woman, the last portrait of John Lennon shows him nude on a bed with a fully clothed Yoko Ono
Annie Leibovitz
THE NAKED TRUTH
Canada's 10 highest mountains lie totally or partly in this territory
the Yukon Territory
MOUNTAINS
This melancholic philosopher & author of "Fear & Trembling" was a frail hunchback born in Denmark in 1813
Kierkegaard
"K" RATIONS
In a severe case, this lateral curvature of the spine can cause a 90-degree displacement of the pelvis
scoliosis
HEALTH & MEDICINE
1989:Ray& Annie Kinsella,Moonlight Graham
Field of Dreams
MOVIES BY CHARACTERS
She's the younger sister in "The Taming of the Shrew"
Bianca
SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN
Many speculate that the model for Goya's "The Naked Maja" was the duchess of this
Alba
THE NAKED TRUTH
Although it stands almost on the equator, this second-highest African peak is capped by 12 glaciers
Mount Kenya
MOUNTAINS
A famous book of medieval illuminated manuscripts bears the name of this town in Ireland's County Meath
Kells
"K" RATIONS
'His great-granddad wrote the best-seller "White Rose of Memphis", a city 40 miles north of the county in which he was raised')
William Faulkner
NOVELISTS
This star of "Kojak" admits he shaves his head every morning
Telly Savalas
FAMOUS NAMES
"When you care enough to send the very best", send one of these
Hallmark Card
ADVERTISING SLOGANS
Among these tales told by Jesus were those "of the net", "of the mustard seed" & "of the hidden treasures"
Parables
THE BIBLE
Airplanes can trigger bolts of this when traveling through electrified clouds
Lightning
WEATHER
This word commonly follows cuff or missing
Link
4-LETTER WORDS
Gerald Ford was the last president born under this "crab"by sign
Cancer
PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY
Creator of "The Cisco Kid", William Sidney Porter was better known by this name
O. Henry
FAMOUS NAMES
"Wouldn't you really rather have" one of these cars
Buick
ADVERTISING SLOGANS
I Corinthians 7:9 states, "It is better to marry than to" do this
Burn
THE BIBLE
Air is described as supersaturated when the relative humidity is higher than this percent
100%
WEATHER
From the Greek word for "deep sleep", it's a deep, prolonged unconsciousness
Coma
4-LETTER WORDS
It's Jimmy Carter's sign, so don't tip his scales
Libra
PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY
"The First Time Ever" she had a No. 1 album was "First Take" in 1972
Roberta Flack
FAMOUS NAMES
"I like" this lemon-lime soda "in you"
Sprite
ADVERTISING SLOGANS
It was like coriander seed, white; & the taste of it was like wafers made with honey
Manna
THE BIBLE
Tornadoes that develop over water are called these
Waterspouts
WEATHER
It can be part of your foot, your shoe, your stocking or your loaf of bread
Heel
4-LETTER WORDS
Appropriately, we've had 2 presidents born under this sign, Bush & Kennedy
Gemini
PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY
George Bush pardoned this 91-year-old industrialist for his illegal contributions to Nixon's campaign
Armand Hammer
FAMOUS NAMES
"Tan, don't burn use" this
Coppertone
ADVERTISING SLOGANS
Things saved from this city were the gold & silver, the iron & brass vessels & Rahab & her family
Jericho
THE BIBLE
Season of the year when Arizona has its "monsoons"
Summer
WEATHER
A roue, or his garden implement
Rake
4-LETTER WORDS
Our last Sagittarian pres.; his last name sounds like something Sagittarius' arrows could do
(Franklin) Pierce
PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY
Ines de la Fressange was a Chanel model when she was chosen to represent this French symbol
Marianne
FAMOUS NAMES
This maker of pre-school toys says, "Our work is child's play"
Fisher-Price
ADVERTISING SLOGANS
While carting this, Uzza touched it to right it after the oxen stumbled, & the Lord smote him
The Ark of the Covenant
THE BIBLE
An increase in air temperature at higher altitudes is unusual & is called this
Inversion
WEATHER
A raisin can be called by this other fruit's name when it's added to a pudding or a cake
Plum
4-LETTER WORDS
With the exception of R. Reagan, all the presidents born under this sign died in office
Aquarius (W.H. Harrison, Lincoln, McKinley & FDR were the presidents who died in office)
PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY
The iris is a flower & the ibis is one of these
Bird
SCIENCE & NATURE
This country is named after the town of Oporto
Portugal
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
In this 1935 film that made him a star, Errol Flynn was Dr. Peter Blood, a physician who turns to piracy
"Captain Blood"
PIRATE MOVIES
He wrote a non-baby book called "Decent And Indecent: Our Personal And Political Behavior"
Dr. Benjamin Spock
AUTHORS
It became a U.S. territory in 1900 & a state 59 years later
Hawaii
AMERICAN HISTORY
Malaga is a sweet dessert wine that originated in this country
Spain
WINE
In a healthy mouth, this line separates the crown from the root of a tooth
Gum Line
SCIENCE & NATURE
The Sea of Galilee is just a broad basin of this river
The River Jordan
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
Anthony Quinn was a pirate stuck with stowaway children in the film "A High Wind In" this place
Jamaica
PIRATE MOVIES
This author's home where he wrote "To Have And Have Not" is now a nat'l landmark in Key West, Fla.
Ernest Hemingway
AUTHORS
Susan B. Anthony was arrested in 1872 for doing this
Voting
AMERICAN HISTORY
On wine labels, this word which means "estate" precedes Lafite & Mouton-Rothschild
Chateau
WINE
Every summer thousands of these animals go to the Pribilof Islands in the north Pacific to breed
Seals
SCIENCE & NATURE
The surface of this lake in Siberia is about 1,490 ft. above sea level, the bottom over 5,300 ft. below
Lake Baikal
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
Silent screen swashbuckler; his film "The Black Pirate" has been called "a definitive pirate movie"
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
PIRATE MOVIES
Oscar Wilde's only novel
"The Picture Of Dorian Gray"
AUTHORS
In 1949 Henry H. Arnold became the first general of this branch of the armed forces
Air Force
AMERICAN HISTORY
"Anatomical" term for a wine's bouquet
Nose
WINE
Man-made metal 1st positively identified in 1958 & named for a Swedish inventor; it has no known use
Nobelium
SCIENCE & NATURE
Papua New Guinea is just off this country's Cape York Peninsula
Australia
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
Robert Newton played this pirate before Peter Ustinov played his ghost in a Disney film
Blackbeard
PIRATE MOVIES
An eye ailment contracted at Eton School ended his plans to study biology, like his brother Julian
Aldous Huxley
AUTHORS
In April 1984 this U.S. government agency admitted its role in the mining of Nicaraguan harbors
CIA
AMERICAN HISTORY
The term for pouring wine into another container before serving; it helps clear it of sediments
Decanting
WINE
Take the fibrinogen out of blood plasma & you're left with a fluid called this
Serum
SCIENCE & NATURE
1 of the 2 Central American countries with only 1 sea coast
Belize & El Salvador
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
Ingrid Bergman's husband in "Casablanca", he played a pirate captain in "Pirates Of Tripoli"
Paul Henreid
PIRATE MOVIES
A member of the Algonquin Round Table, this petite brunette wrote a story called "Big Blonde"
Dorothy Parker
AUTHORS
John Hancock held this political position from 1780-85 & from 1787-93
Governor of Massachusetts
AMERICAN HISTORY
The famous Moselle wines come from this country
Germany
WINE
'The name of this channel can be traced back to a movie theater that opened in 1905 in McKeesport, Pa.')
Nickelodeon
CABLE TELEVISION
Tuvalu used to be the Ellice these
Islands
ON OLD MAPS
Though originally drafted by the Steelers, Johnny Unitas was a real "horse" for 17 years on this team
the (Baltimore) Colts
UNITAS AGAINST ALL ENEMIES
Karl Probst designed an army recon vehicle in 2 days in 1940; we know it better as this
the Jeep
TRANSPORTATION
Holtville, Ca. has carrot ice cream for its Carrot Festival, & Goleta, Ca. serves yellow cotton candy for this fruit's fest
the lemon
FUN ACROSS AMERICA
John Stossel, a co-anchor of this ABC News show, overcame stuttering & has won 19 Emmys
20/20
CAN YOU DIGIT?
"It is easier for" this animal "to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God"
a camel
ANIMAL QUOTATIONS
Part of this country was once Kievan Rus
the Ukraine
ON OLD MAPS
Johnny was considered "the Man with" this valuable type of appendage, like Frank Sinatra in a 1955 movie
"the Golden Arm"
UNITAS AGAINST ALL ENEMIES
France II, at 419 feet the largest merchant sailing ship ever built, also had 2 of these to back up the sails
engines
TRANSPORTATION
The world's largest Hard Rock Cafe really rocks on Citywalk at this Florida theme park
Universal Studios
FUN ACROSS AMERICA
Number of stories on each of the 1,483-foot-high Petronas towers, or of keys on a standard piano keyboard
88
CAN YOU DIGIT?
John Donne called it "Nature's great masterpiece... the only harmless great thing; the giant of beasts"
the elephant
ANIMAL QUOTATIONS
What's now this Southwest Arizona city was Arizona City before being renamed for a native people
Yuma
ON OLD MAPS
Johnny U won the 1958 NFL Championship game against Frank Gifford & this "mammoth" team
the (New York) Giants
UNITAS AGAINST ALL ENEMIES
"Flight attendants prepare doors for departure and" do this means make sure your door & the one opposite yours are armed
cross-check
TRANSPORTATION
Indulge in a cocoa massage or a chocolate sugar scrub at the Hotel Hershey's spa in this state
Pennsylvania
FUN ACROSS AMERICA
For the records, translate these 2 Roman numerals, XLV & LXXVIII
45 & 78
CAN YOU DIGIT?
"Honesty dwells like a miser... in a poor house, as your pearl in your foul" this
an oyster
ANIMAL QUOTATIONS
1890s U.S. maps showed the twin territories, Oklahoma Territory & this
Indian Territory
ON OLD MAPS
Johnny ended his Hall-of-Fame career with this Calif. team in '73, the rookie year of future Hall of Famer Dan Fouts
the San Diego Chargers
UNITAS AGAINST ALL ENEMIES
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads while a burlesque puppet dances in the background.) Lucy will be strutting her stuff at a new $40 million theater built especially for "Avenue Q" in this city
Las Vegas
FUN ACROSS AMERICA
Tennyson's "Valley of Death" chargers minus the total number of U.S. senators
500
CAN YOU DIGIT?
Benjamin Disraeli wrote that this "which had never been thought of... rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph"
a dark horse
ANIMAL QUOTATIONS
The area once known as United Provinces is now this Indian state that also has the initials U.P.
Uttar Pradesh
ON OLD MAPS
Johnny's 47 straight games with one of these has been compared to DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak
a touchdown pass
UNITAS AGAINST ALL ENEMIES
Windy, a 4-masted schooner, takes tourists on 90-minute cruises from this city's Navy Pier
Chicago
FUN ACROSS AMERICA
In print journalism this number is traditionally used to mark the end of a piece of copy
30
CAN YOU DIGIT?
In "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", William Blake wrote, "The pride of" this bird "is the glory of God"
the peacock
ANIMAL QUOTATIONS
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands in a room with a podium and plaques along the walls in the Pentagon.) The Pentagon's Hall of Heroes is dedicated to over 3,440 recipients of this, our nation's highest military decoration
the Congressional Medal of Honor
THE PENTAGON
Native to South America,theseflowers from woody vines are commonly found in Florida & California
bougainvillea
FLOWER
Alfred Nobel named this explosive after the Greek word for power
dynamite
POW-ER
"You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door"
L.A. Story
A STEVE MARTIN FILM FESTIVAL
He wrote most of his "Waverley" novels while living at No. 39 Castle St. in Edinburgh
Sir Walter Scott
LITERARY LANDMARKS
Its larvae infest & destroy the seedpods of cotton plants
boll weevils
"B" BRAVE
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew wanders through a basement corridor in the Pentagon.) The Pentagon is so vast, in 1989 this Secretary of Defense got lost in the basement for 10 minutes before finding his way out
Dick Cheney
THE PENTAGON
This flower seenherewas named for a Jesuit missionary, not for a 19th century French courtesan
a camellia
FLOWER
This incendiary substance of gelled gasoline was used extensively in Vietnam
napalm
POW-ER
"I can envision the day when the brains of brilliant men can be kept alive in the bodies of dumb people"
The Man with Two Brains
A STEVE MARTIN FILM FESTIVAL
In the Bronx, visit the cottage that he shared with his sickly young wife Virginia, who, tragically, died there in 1847
Edgar Allan Poe
LITERARY LANDMARKS
A work such as a movie that enjoys enormous success, or a home video rental chain that has enjoyed enormous success
blockbuster
"B" BRAVE
Thisblossom is often used to symbolize events in the last hours of Christ's life, hence its name
the passion flower
FLOWER
Meaning "moldable", it's a term for moldable explosive such as RDX & PETN
plastique
POW-ER
"All dames are alike: they reach down your throat & they grab your heart, pull it out & they throw it on the floor"
Dead Men Don\'t Wear Plaid
A STEVE MARTIN FILM FESTIVAL
Now a hotel, Seaham Hall is the manor where this licentious lord married Annabella Milbanke in 1815
Lord Byron
LITERARY LANDMARKS
Two Bs back to back was this fashion designer's trademark
Bill Blass
"B" BRAVE
The Rose of Sharon and the Chinese variety are popular types ofthisflower used in perfumes
a hibiscus
FLOWER
This dye industry chemical was not used as an explosive until 1904; it later became prized by the military
TNT
POW-ER
"Wherever there is injustice, you will find us"
The Three Amigos
A STEVE MARTIN FILM FESTIVAL
Hyde Park's W.H. Hudson Memorial boasts a statue of this bird girl, heroine of Hudson's novel "Green Mansions"
Rima
LITERARY LANDMARKS
A ratio of systolic & diastolic values
blood pressure
"B" BRAVE
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew introduces us to a bust in the Pentagon.) This alcove is dedicated to this man, the first & only career soldier to win a Nobel Peace Prize
(George) Marshall
THE PENTAGON
Native to Mexico,thisflower was named for a Swedish botanist & student of Linnaeus
the Dahlia
FLOWER
This chemical explosive called blasting oil was discovered in 1846 by Ascanio Sobrero
nitroglycerin
POW-ER
"He hates these cans! Stay away from the cans!"
The Jerk
A STEVE MARTIN FILM FESTIVAL
You'll have to go to Gwent, Wales to see this abbey immortalized in a 1798 Wordsworth poem
Tintern Abbey
LITERARY LANDMARKS
As many as 1 million may have died during the 1971 civil war that produced this country
Bangladesh
"B" BRAVE
'It was originally painted as the centerpiece for the Spanish Government Pavillion at the 1937 Paris World\'s Fair')
Guernica(by Pablo Picasso)
FAMOUS PAINTINGS
1980 film in which 2 shipwrecked kids grow up to be Brooke Shields & Christopher Atkins
"The Blue Lagoon"
"BLUE" MOVIES
This test for cervical cancer was devised by & named for Dr. George Papanicolaou
Pap Smear
MEDICINE
According to one superstition, a gift of a purse or wallet should always contain some of this
Money
SUPERSTITIONS
Completes the proverb "Living well is the best..."
Revenge
PROVERBS
The front part of a hindquarter with the flank removed, it may be "tender"
Loin
MEAT
In England french fries are called this
Chips
POTATOES
In this 1930 film Marlene Dietrich played Lola-Lola, a sultry cabaret singer
"The Blue Angel"
"BLUE" MOVIES
Queen Victoria passed this hereditary blood disease to many of her royal descendants
Hemophilia
MEDICINE
Wedding custom that is supposed to ensure the marriage will produce many children
throwing rice
SUPERSTITIONS
These "that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails."
Bees
PROVERBS
It's the term for a young pig that's fattened for its meat
Porker
MEAT
About 10 days before harvest farmers do this to the vines
Cut them down
POTATOES
George Gershwin's songs were featured in this 1945 biographical film
"Rhapsody In Blue"
"BLUE" MOVIES
A disease that comes & goes quickly is "acute", while this describes a disease of long duration
Chronic
MEDICINE
4 is an unlucky number in this country because "shi", the word for 4, sounds like the word for death
Japan
SUPERSTITIONS
"Better the foot slip than" this
Tongue
PROVERBS
This country is the world's largest exporter of mutton
Australia
MEAT
To distinguish a potato from the unrelated sweet potato, it's usually called "Irish" or this color
White
POTATOES
1 of the 2 Elvis Presley films that fit the category
"Blue Hawaii" & "G.I. Blues"
"BLUE" MOVIES
Rickets is caused by inadequate exposure to sunlight or a lack of this vitamin in the diet
vitamin D
MEDICINE
Term for the symbols seen on barns in Pennsylvania Dutch country
Hex signs
SUPERSTITIONS
"The mouse that has but one" of these "is quickly taken."
Hole
PROVERBS
This variety meat is the thymus gland, usually taken from a calf, but occasionally a lamb
Sweetbreads
MEAT
This country leads the world in production of potatoes
Soviet Union
POTATOES
Isabella Rossellini sang the title song, an old Bobby Vinton hit, in this 1986 film
"Blue Velvet"
"BLUE" MOVIES
In the South it was thought a sin to do this, as in the title of a Harper Lee novel
"To Kill A Mockingbird"
SUPERSTITIONS
Line that pairs with "See a pin and let it lie, you'll want a pin before you die."
"See a pin and pick it up, and all the day you shall have good luck."
PROVERBS
Spelling that completes the jingle "Oscar Mayer has a way with...."
B-O-L-O-G-N-A
MEAT
It's the primary variety of potato grown in the U.S.
Russet/Burbank
POTATOES
The 2 Olympics are distinguished by these seasonal names
Summer & Winter
THE 4 SEASONS
Mt. Waialeale, the wettest spot in the world, is located in this state
Hawaii
U.S. STATES
She says to Juliet, "O Romeo, Romeo! Who ever would have thought it? Romeo!"
Juliet\'s Nurse
FICTIONAL SERVANTS
King Victor Emmanuel III appionted him prime minister of Italy in 1922
Benito Mussolini
WORLD HISTORY
During WWI the British called them "limps", the most common being the "B" type
Blimps
TRANSPORTATION
"Come on and hear, come on and hear", this song, Berlin's first big hit, which he wrote in 1911
"Alexander\'s Ragtime Band"
IRVING BERLIN
If you're old you're not this type of chicken
Spring Chicken
THE 4 SEASONS
The capital of this state was named for Pierre Chouteau, a French fur trader
South Dakota
U.S. STATES
She was nanny to little Londoners Jane & Michael Banks
Mary Poppins
FICTIONAL SERVANTS
This Parisian school was founded as a college of theology in 1253
The Sorbonne
WORLD HISTORY
It's said these are "manned" in an emergency, but they're usually womened & childrened first
Lifeboats
TRANSPORTATION
This Irving Berlin song has been called "The Nation's Unofficial Second National Anthem"
"God Bless America"
IRVING BERLIN
The 2 seasons that begin on an equinox
Spring & Fall
THE 4 SEASONS
The Hawkeyes of this "Hawkeye State" must read a lot -- they have the highest literacy rate in the U.S.
Iowa
U.S. STATES
What Mrs. Bridges did "downstairs" for the Bellamy famliy, who lived "upstairs"
Cook
FICTIONAL SERVANTS
This N. European country was a grand duchy ruled by Russia before gaining its independence in 1917
Finland
WORLD HISTORY
A San Franciscan can tell you BART stands for this
Bay Area Rapid Transit
TRANSPORTATION
(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):In 1927 A. Jolson sang this Berlin tune in "The Jazz Singer"; Willie Nelson had a hit with it 50 years later:
"Blue Skies"
IRVING BERLIN
In a sonnet Shakespeare asked, "Shall I compare thee" to a "day" in this season
Summer
THE 4 SEASONS
Canyonlands National Park & Arches National Park are tourist attractions in this state
Utah
U.S. STATES
P.G. Wodehouse first introduced this gentleman's gentleman in "Extricating Young Gussie"
Jeeves
FICTIONAL SERVANTS
A reported attack on 2 U.S. destroyers in this gulf led to the passage of the 1964 resolution named for it
Gulf of Tonkin
WORLD HISTORY
It's what "powered" the first B&O; passenger train back in 1830
Horses
TRANSPORTATION
Berlin's 1946 Broadway hit, it featured the songs "The Girl That I Marry" & "I'm An Indian Too!"
"Annie Get Your Gun"
IRVING BERLIN
The 2 seasons used to distinguish types of wheat
Winter & Spring
THE 4 SEASONS
This state ceded Tennessee to the U.S. in 1784, then reclaimed it & ceded it again in 1789
North Carolina
U.S. STATES
Jean Genet play in which 2 sisters attempt to poison their mistress
"The Maids"
FICTIONAL SERVANTS
A 1795 partition ended its existence as a separate state in E. Europe; in 1918 it was back as a republic
Poland
WORLD HISTORY
The Goodspeed, Sarah Constant & Discovery brought the first people to this settlement
Jamestown
TRANSPORTATION
Complete's Jerome Kern's quote "Irving Berlin has no place in American music..."
"Irving Berlin Is American Music"
IRVING BERLIN
'The 2 major literary monthlies founded in the 1850s that survive today')
The Atlantic Monthly & Harpers
MAGAZINES
1993:An undersized undergrad fights to make the Notre Dame football team
Rudy
SPORTS MOVIES
Aeschylus wrote of this "bound" Titan who was a hero to humankind
Prometheus
REMEMBER THE TITANS
Heiress Marie-Chantal Miller wed Prince Pavlos of this country in a 6-figure-priced gown in 1995
Greece
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
After this 1968 Communist onslaught, Walter Cronkite told Americans Vietnam didn't look winnable
the Tet Offensive
THE BAD NEWS BEARERS
Hurricane season in the U.S. runs from the first of June to the end of this month
November
THE HURRICANE
60-footer of the North Atlantic
a right whale
ALL THE "RIGHT" MOVES
1980:A self-destructive middleweight boxing champ battles in & out of the ring
Raging Bull
SPORTS MOVIES
Mnemosyne, the Titan goddess of memory, was also the mother of these inspirational goddesses
the Muses
REMEMBER THE TITANS
Born Oct. 5, 1983, she was named for her great-uncle, once married to Elizabeth Taylor
Nikki Hilton
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
(Hi, I'm Keith Olbermann.) For my coverage of the 9/11 events, I won one of the awards named for this famous newscaster who died in 1965
(Edward R.) Murrow
THE BAD NEWS BEARERS
One of only 3 category 5 hurricanes to hit the U.S. since 1899, it struck Florida with a vengeance in 1992
Andrew
THE HURRICANE
Bring up a pop-up menu by doing it with your mouse
right-click
ALL THE "RIGHT" MOVES
1984:An overaged baseball player comes out of nowhere to become a legendary player
The Natural
SPORTS MOVIES
Goddess of the Earth, was was the mother of the Titans
Gaia
REMEMBER THE TITANS
Beauregard & Rhett are 2 of this billionaire's grown kids
Ted Turner
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Russell Jones won a 1957 Pulitzer for reporting on "ruthless Soviet repression of" this rebellious people
the Hungarians
THE BAD NEWS BEARERS
You could call Max Mayfield the Cyclone Ranger as he's the director of this, the NHC
the National Hurricane Center
THE HURRICANE
Hillary Clinton once said a "vast" this had existed "against my husband since the day he announced for president"
a right-wing conspiracy
ALL THE "RIGHT" MOVES
1996:A washed-up golf pro tries to qualify for the U.S. Open to impress a woman
Tin Cup
SPORTS MOVIES
The youngest of the Titans, he found time to father the Olympians
Cronos
REMEMBER THE TITANS
Little Caleigh was at the center of a custody fight between Patricia Duff & this man the tabloids call "Revlon Ron"
Ron Perelman
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
John Howard Griffin darkened his skin to research this 1961 expose of racism
Black Like Me
THE BAD NEWS BEARERS
The deadliest hurricane in U.S. history killed more than 8,000 people when it hit this Texas city in September 1900
Galveston
THE HURRICANE
The text of the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment deals with this
the right to bear arms
ALL THE "RIGHT" MOVES
1988:Professional baseball players deliberately lose the 1919 World Series
Eight Men Out
SPORTS MOVIES
A South American birdie told me this Titan was Zeus' mother & mother-in-law
Rhea
REMEMBER THE TITANS
In 1972 Edward C. Johnson 3d faithfully took over from his dad, the 2d, as head of this big mutual fund company
Fidelity Investments
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
From Germany, reporter Sigrid Schultz had the store of this deadly night in the Nov. 10, 1938 Chicago Tribune
Kristallnacht
THE BAD NEWS BEARERS
Sacre Bleu! Hurricane Lenny flooded out the 1999 tourist season on this Dutch-French Caribbean island
St. Martin (or St. Maarten)
THE HURRICANE
It's the correct 2-word prefix to the titles of earls & barons
Right Honourable
ALL THE "RIGHT" MOVES
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of a modest home.) I'm at Richard Nixon's birthplace in this Orange County, California city
Yorba Linda
WHERE AM I?
Patrick the starfish often visits this TV title friend at 123 Conch Street, Bikini Bottom, USA
SpongeBob SquarePants
TV SHOW ADDRESSES
Since Judith Krantz was this puppeteer's sister-in-law, guess that made her Lamb Chop's aunt
(Shari) Lewis
WRITERS' RELATIVES
If she sells seashells in the Seychelles, she knows that the coco de mer found there is a huge one of these
a coconut
INTERNATIONAL "C"UISINE
Scored a 10 with "Bolero" for a ballet commission in 1928, clock struck 12 in Paris on Dec. 28, 1937
Ravel
COMPOSING, DECOMPOSING
The greatest distance it's possible to see with the naked eye, it's often part of the weather forecast
visibility
10-LETTER WORDS
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from a busy terminal.) I'm at this site, once called Idlewild, which, in aceremonyDecember 24, 1963, was officially renamed this
JFK International Airport
WHERE AM I?
Apartment No. 1901, Elliot Bay Towers, Seattle was home to this befuddled radio headshrinker
Frasier Crane
TV SHOW ADDRESSES
Catharine Beecher, a promoter of higher education for women, was the sister of this famous author
Harriet Beecher Stowe
WRITERS' RELATIVES
In sushi bars, tairagai is the razor-shell type of this
a clam
INTERNATIONAL "C"UISINE
Gave us "Symphony No. 1 in E Minor" in 1899, gave out on Sept. 20, 1957 in Jarvenpaa, Finland
Sibelius
COMPOSING, DECOMPOSING
A driveway area where cars reverse direction, or the time needed to complete a task
turnaround
10-LETTER WORDS
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the seaside.) I'm at this site built to defend against foreign enemies; it was attacked by Louisiana's General Beauregard in 1861
Fort Sumter
WHERE AM I?
On this show the family that lived at either 933 or 953 Hillcrest Drive helped make a ZIP code famous
Beverly Hills, 90210
TV SHOW ADDRESSES
His father Emmet, a country doctor, gave him much of the background for Dr. Kennicott in his novel "Main Street"
Sinclair Lewis
WRITERS' RELATIVES
On French menus, potage froid au concombre is a cold soup made from this gourd
cucumber
INTERNATIONAL "C"UISINE
Checked in with "Cello Concerto in B Minor" in 1895, Czech-ed out in Prague on May 1, 1904
Dvorak
COMPOSING, DECOMPOSING
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a vantage overlooking a certain skyline.) I'm in this city, whose air used to lookdifferentuntil a movement called the Renaissance after World War II
Pittsburgh
WHERE AM I?
After waking up each day at 119 N. Weatherly Avenue in Minneapolis, she turned the world on with her smile
Mary Tyler Moore
TV SHOW ADDRESSES
Graham Greene was born 10 years after this distant writer relative of his died in the South Seas
Robert Louis Stevenson
WRITERS' RELATIVES
These spices named for their resemblence to little nails were used by the ancients in love potions
cloves
INTERNATIONAL "C"UISINE
Made an overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1826, went gentle into that good night on Nov. 4, 1847 in Leipzig
Felix Mendelssohn
COMPOSING, DECOMPOSING
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew carries the Bunny Rabbit puppet fromCaptain Kangaroothrough some archives.) I'm with a few of the 3 million objects in this museum of the Smithsonian, once the Museum of History and Technology
the Museum of American History (the American History Museum accepted)
WHERE AM I?
The crawdads were always cooking at this family's home, 518 Crestview Drive, Beverly Hills
the Beverly Hillbillies
TV SHOW ADDRESSES
Kentucky's first governor, Isaac Shelby, was a direct ancestor of this "Civil War: A Narrative" author
Shelby Foote
WRITERS' RELATIVES
Popular in Scandinavia, these berries with a "heavenly" name are related to the raspberry
cloudberries
INTERNATIONAL "C"UISINE
Doctored up the 1-act operetta "Le docteur miracle" in 1857, went past doctor's help on June 3, 1875 in Bougival, France
(Georges) Bizet
COMPOSING, DECOMPOSING
It's the art historical term for sculpture painted in many colors, like the Donatelloseenhere
polychrome
10-LETTER WORDS
'At a military funeral, the American flag is folded this many times to resemble a Revolutionary War soldier\'s hat')
13
MILITARY TRADITIONS
He was the one-eyed top god of the Vikings
Odin
THE GOD SQUAD
My daughter put this Canadian singer's songs on my iPod, but I'm man enough to admit I listen to her too"All this time you were pretending /So much for my happy ending..."
Avril Lavigne
MUSIC ON MY iPOD
He boldly served as President of the Continental Congress when the Declaration of Independence was adopted
John Hancock
OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
In 2004 this chain launched its Go Active! Happy Meals for Adults
McDonald\'s
COLLEGIATE FINE DINING
Over 50% of the electric power generated in the U.S. is produced by the burning of this fuel
coal
SHOCKING!
You have too much of this in your blood if you have diabetes mellitus
sugar
YOU HAVE TOO MUCH...
The official seal of this U.S. state depicts the goddess Minerva & a grizzly bear
California
THE GOD SQUAD
I'm really into this band whose name means "Boys entering anarchistic state towards internal excellence"
Beastie Boys
MUSIC ON MY iPOD
You're on the money if you know that he's the statesman seenhere
Alexander Hamilton
OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
For those watching their carbs, this sandwich chain offers "Atkins-friendly" salads & wraps
Subway
COLLEGIATE FINE DINING
The Harrison family was living in this mansion in the Spring of 1891 when it was wired for electricity
the White House
SHOCKING!
...of this if afflicted with hirsutism
hair
YOU HAVE TOO MUCH...
An ancient goddess of this civilization, Mut was depicted with a vulture's head
Egypt
THE GOD SQUAD
This band of brothers started their career in their dad's band"I been lost in my own place and I'm gettin' weary..."
Los Lonely Boys
MUSIC ON MY iPOD
In a speech against the Stamp Act in 1765, he said, "If this be treason, make the most of it"
Patrick Henry
OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
Enchiritos & Meximelts are specialties found on its menu
Taco Bell
COLLEGIATE FINE DINING
This huge electric company was formed in 1892 by the merger of Thomas Edison's company with its main rival
General Electric
SHOCKING!
...of this on your bow that's overstrung
tension
YOU HAVE TOO MUCH...
Mara, this Asian religion's god of evil, rides an elephant & has 100 arms
Buddism
THE GOD SQUAD
The song "Failure's Not Flattering", by this band, was originally dubbed "Belinda Carlisle" as an homage to its '80s sound
New Found Glory
MUSIC ON MY iPOD
One of the leading architects of the Revolution was this second cousin of the second U.S. president
Samuel Adams
OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
Celebrate this chain's 85th anniversary in 2004 with a hot dog & a root beer float
A&W;
COLLEGIATE FINE DINING
It's the technical term for an electric current that regularly reverses direction
Alternating Current
SHOCKING!
...if you suffer from hypernatremia (put down the potato chips)
sodium
YOU HAVE TOO MUCH...
Ganesha is this religion's god of luck & wisdom
Hinduism
THE GOD SQUAD
This group's song is more than great listening, it's a history lesson"...Springsteen, Madonna /Way before Nirvana there was /U2 and Blondie..."
Bowling for Soup
MUSIC ON MY iPOD
This youngest Constitution signer gave his name to the Ohio city called "The Birthplace of Aviation"
Jonathan Dayton
OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
The 3 dots on their pizza boxes represent their first 3 stores
Domino\'s
COLLEGIATE FINE DINING
This unit of electrical resistance is named for a 19th century German physicist
ohms
SHOCKING!
...if you're bicycling with higher-than-recommended PSI
pressure in your tires
YOU HAVE TOO MUCH...
Testing the water in Africa's largest freshwater lake
Lake Victoria
YOU'RE SWIMMING IN IT
A writer said he'd eat his T-shirt if Andre won this British event in 1992 (bon appetit!)
Wimbledon
THE AGASSI & THE ECSTASY
King Lear foolishly rejects this viruous daughter
Cordelia
SHAKESPEARE
This cold region of Russia makes up about 75% of the country's land area
Siberia
GENERAL ED.
Telephone this official London residence of the Queen & ask if they have Prince Albert in a can
Buckingham Palace
PASSING TIME ON CAMPUS
Repetitive literary device illustrated in "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"
alliteration
DOUBLE "L"
Having a splash in Needles, California
the Colorado River
YOU'RE SWIMMING IN IT
In 1999 Agassi made a thrilling comeback, winning this clay-court Grand Slam tournament
the French Open
THE AGASSI & THE ECSTASY
Miranda's father, he ends "The Tempest" with an epilogue
Prospero
SHAKESPEARE
Canadian doctors say this Winnie the Pooh character suffered chronic depression & was unable to enjoy life
Eeyore
GENERAL ED.
Impress friends by memorizing all the Canadian provinical capitals including this capital of Manitoba
Winnipeg
PASSING TIME ON CAMPUS
A streetcar
trolley
DOUBLE "L"
Taking a dip in Iquitos, Peru
the Amazon River
YOU'RE SWIMMING IN IT
This German woman, the current Mrs. Agassi, won the 1988 Grand Slam
Steffi Graf
THE AGASSI & THE ECSTASY
"Romeo and Juliet" begins, "Two households, both alike in" this
dignity
SHAKESPEARE
Carol Moseley-Braun, the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, represented this state, 1993-1999
Illinois
GENERAL ED.
Raise some of these animals, like the Rhode Island Red or the Cornish, in the quad
chickens
PASSING TIME ON CAMPUS
An emblem of this city in Spain is the Giralda, a Muslim minaret that's part of the city's cathedral
Seville
DOUBLE "L"
In an Alpine lake that's a widening of the Rhone River
Lake Geneva
YOU'RE SWIMMING IN IT
Agassi won the 1995 Australian Open by beating him, Andre's co-star in Nike's "Guerrilla Tennis" ads
Pete Sampras
THE AGASSI & THE ECSTASY
Act I of this tragedy begins in a palace in Alexandria
Antony and Cleopatra
SHAKESPEARE
Oscar Wilde combined with comedy with farce for this play, his last & most famous
The Importance of Being Earnest
GENERAL ED.
Prepare for life after college by doing this West Indian dance that shares its name with a border region of hell
the Limbo
PASSING TIME ON CAMPUS
It can refer to the oars used to propel a boat, or a racing boat propelled by those oars
scull
DOUBLE "L"
Capsized in a riverboat off Turin, Italy
the Po River
YOU'RE SWIMMING IN IT
In 1994 Andre became the first unseeded men's singles champ at this NYC Grand Slam event
the U.S. Open
THE AGASSI & THE ECSTASY
Comedy in which Lysander says, "The course of true love never did run smooth"
A Midsummer Night\'s Dream
SHAKESPEARE
A zygote is produced by the union of 2 of these sex cells, an egg & a sperm
gametes
GENERAL ED.
Get in touch with your inner reindeer & paw through snow to reach these symbiotic fungi to eat
lichens
PASSING TIME ON CAMPUS
The Bulgarian language is written in this alphabet
Cyrillic
DOUBLE "L"
'While working as one, Charlotte Bronte complained that one of these "has no existence, is not considered as a living... being"')
a governess
OCCUPATIONS
Rumors surfaced among Cubans in America that this premier had remarried, but they've never been confirmed
Fidel Castro
1962
An ornamental suspension over a bed, it was originally an emblem of privilege & rank
a canopy
ANTIQUES
Chekhov uncle whose last line is "Oh, if you only knew how my heart aches!"
Uncle Vanya
THEATER
In 1981 this company introduced the PC, its first home computer
IBM
TECHNOLOGY
With plans uncertain, he told his E Street Band that they could pursue other projects
Bruce Springsteen
PEOPLE
John Ehrlichman coined the expression "It'll play in" this Illinois city
Peoria
THE MIDWEST
Ittopped the pop charts in the summer of '62:
"The Stripper" (by David Rose)
1962
Cast iron, which is cast in a mold, antedates this type of iron, which is formed & worked by hand
wrought iron (or forged iron)
ANTIQUES
"Toys in the Attic" & "A Streetcar Named Desire" are both set in this city
New Orleans
THEATER
This Italian city, known for its flooding, plans to build sea gates to control flow from the Adriatic
Venice
TECHNOLOGY
In October 1989 someone socked this Ohio senator in the jaw during a TV interview
John Glenn
PEOPLE
Sojourner Truth died in her house on College Street in this "cereal" city
Battle Creek, Michigan
THE MIDWEST
Pope John XXIII opened this historic meeting in St. Peter's Basilica on October 11
the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II)
1962
What you would keep in a small glass-topped display case called a "bijouterie"
jewelry
ANTIQUES
In the 1800s side whiskers were called "Dundrearies", for a character in this play seen by Lincoln
Our American Cousin
THEATER
The Museum of Broadcasting is transferring masters of all its shows from analog videotape to this type
digital tape
TECHNOLOGY
In 1989 this 88-year-old British novelist dictated her 500th novel, "Spirit of Love"
Dame Barbara Cartland
PEOPLE
This city's Red Stockings were the first baseball team to receive salaries
Cincinnati
THE MIDWEST
On July 3 Charles De Gaulle proclaimed the independence of this African country
Algeria
1962
This Shaw play is set in the 15th century during the Hundred Years' War
St. Joan
THEATER
The USSR lost contact with its Phobos 2 craft before it landed on Phobos, a moon of this planet
Mars
TECHNOLOGY
In "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down", this former SCLC head wrote about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Ralph Abernathy
PEOPLE
Minnesota city that's home to the world famous Mayo Clinic
Rochester
THE MIDWEST
There were requiems for this author of "Requiem for a Nun" after he died July 6
William Faulkner
1962
Nationality of the playwright who wrote "Becket" & "The Waltz of the Toreadors"
French (Jean Anouilh)
THEATER
A semiconductor diode is the most common of these devices that convert A.C. to D.C.
rectifiers
TECHNOLOGY
He was extradited from Switzerland to the U.S. to face charges he aided the Marcoses
Adnan Khashoggi
PEOPLE
You can see rock formations called Devil's Elbow & Fat Man's Misery in this state's "Dells"
Wisconsin
THE MIDWEST
This cemetery on the Potomac is on land originally part of Martha Washington's estate
Arlington National Cemetery
U.S. HISTORY
This short-haired Asian breed with almond-shaped eyes was introduced to the West in the 1880s
Siamese
CATS
Dickens' boy who was sold by the orphanage after asking for a second bowl of porridge
Oliver Twist
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Appropriately, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice uses this droopy-eared dog as its nickname
bloodhounds
COLLEGE NICKNAMES
Perfumes from this country include Innisfree, Connemara & Eire
Ireland
PERFUME
Nomadic people whose name is Arabic for "desert dweller"
Bedouins
THE MIDEAST
In 1634 the first English settlers in this colony founded the city of St. Mary's
Maryland
U.S. HISTORY
Considered evil in the Middle Ages, many cats were killed, which may have led to this scourge
the Black Death
CATS
The "Elizabethan" literature of Elizabeth I's reign was followed by the "Jacobean", named for this king
James I
ENGLISH LITERATURE
This Georgetown University nickname comes from a Latin phrase meaning "What Rocks!"
Hoyas
COLLEGE NICKNAMES
The name of this Nina Ricci perfume is French for "The Air of Time"
L\'air du temps
PERFUME
This Mideastern nation has the largest number of proven oil reserves by far
Saudi Arabia
THE MIDEAST
Henry Flagler, a founder of Miami, was one of the original stockholders in this Ohio-based oil company
Standard Oil
U.S. HISTORY
Creature who "With eyes of flame, came whiffling thru the tulgey wood and burbled as it came!"
the Jabberwock
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Stanford's singular nickname comes not from a bird or religious rank but from this red color
cardinal
COLLEGE NICKNAMES
A light summer fabric, or the summery Estee Lauder perfume you might wear with it
White Linen
PERFUME
Its president & vice president are the emir, or prince, of Abu Dhabi & the emir of Dubai
United Arab Emirates
THE MIDEAST
Term used to describe white Southerners who joined with carpetbaggers during Reconstruction
Scalawags
U.S. HISTORY
The "wind" that Shelley calls "Thou breath of autumn's being"
The West Wind
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Florida State's nickname is the Seminoles & the University of Florida's is this
the Gators
COLLEGE NICKNAMES
The perfume named for this Monegasque made its debut in October 1989
Princess Stephanie of Monaco
PERFUME
More than a million pilgrims travel to Mecca each year for this great pilgrimage
the Hajj
THE MIDEAST
The Papago & Pima Indians were early residents of what is now this state
Arizona
U.S. HISTORY
Neoclassical twosome who published their essays in "The Tatler" & "The Spectator"
Addison & Steele
ENGLISH LITERATURE
This university's Blue Devils nickname was derived from an elite French Alpine fighting unit of WWI
Duke
COLLEGE NICKNAMES
This perfume by Cher was mistakenly given a 1989 Fifi Award when judged in the wrong price range
Uninhibited
PERFUME
The name of this small oil-rich state at the head of the Persian Gulf means "little fort"
Kuwait
THE MIDEAST
'Word meaning "immeasurably small"; its first 8 letters are a word meaning "immeasurably great"')
infinitesimal
13-LETTER WORDS
Deuteronomy 14:7 commands us that we can do everything to this desert animal but eat it
a camel
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
She had a No. 1 hit with the theme from "Mahogany" (she also starred in the movie)
Diana Ross
NO. 1 HITS OF THE '70s
Now an Arizona senator, he spent 5 1/2 years in Vietnam as a POW
John McCain
MEMORIES OF VIETNAM
"Music City, USA",Tennessee
Nashville
CITY NICKNAMES
18th century clergyman Augustus Montague Toplady wrote the verses, not heardhere, to this hymn
"Rock Of Ages"
SUCH AUGUST GENTLEMEN
This common term for a weak, ineffectual person may be derived from "whimper"
wimp
WORD ORIGINS
Of the hippo, hawk or hammerhead shark, the one that can be described as insessorial
the hawk
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
Donna Summer was "Hot Stuff" in the summer of 1979, topping the charts with "Hot Stuff" & this naughty hit
"Bad Girls"
NO. 1 HITS OF THE '70s
John Kerry served on these boats in the Mekong Delta & a group of their "Veterans for Truth" opposed him in '04
swift boats
MEMORIES OF VIETNAM
The "Pittsburgh of the South",Alabama
Birmingham
CITY NICKNAMES
A work from around 1910 by this Auguste gentleman is seenhere
Rodin
SUCH AUGUST GENTLEMEN
This word said to sled dogs may be an alteration of the French marchons, meaning "let's go"
mush
WORD ORIGINS
This order of mammals is often divided into prosimians & larger, smarter anthropoids
primates
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
This No. 1 hit by the Bee Gees says, "What you doin' and you're laying on your back, aah"
"You Should Be Dancing"
NO. 1 HITS OF THE '70s
Shocking events in this Vietnamese village led to the 1970 court-martial of William Calley
My Lai
MEMORIES OF VIETNAM
The "Hornets' Nest",North Carolina
Charlotte
CITY NICKNAMES
St. Ambrose himself converted & baptized this longtime influential bishop of Hippo
(St.) Augustine
SUCH AUGUST GENTLEMEN
Billingsgate, a term for foul language, comes from the name of an old fish market in this world capital
London
WORD ORIGINS
It's the 2-word name of the Arctic bovine seenhere
a musk ox
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots had a No. 1 hit in 1976 with this "fowl" song
"Disco Duck"
NO. 1 HITS OF THE '70s
In December 1969 this Texas billionaire tried to send gifts, food & supplies to U.S. POWs in North Vietnam
Ross Perot
MEMORIES OF VIETNAM
The "Cream City",Wisconsin
Milwaukee
CITY NICKNAMES
Augusto is the first name of this controversial onetime South American dictator
Pinochet
SUCH AUGUST GENTLEMEN
From the Latin for "mother", it's a female prison worker who may be less than maternal
matron
WORD ORIGINS
Encyclopedia Britannica says this amphibian was originally an eft, then its name evolved into neft, & finally to this
a newt
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
Elton John & this woman had a No. 1 duet with "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
Kiki Dee
NO. 1 HITS OF THE '70s
This general who passed away in 2005 commanded the U.S. forces fighting in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968
Westmoreland
MEMORIES OF VIETNAM
"Garden City","America's Most Beautiful City",Georgia
Savannah
CITY NICKNAMES
Augustus was the middle name of this "Lucky" hero born in 1902
(Charles A.) Lindbergh
SUCH AUGUST GENTLEMEN
Take a whirl on the dance floor under these lights whose name comes from the Greek for the "act of whirling"
strobe lights
WORD ORIGINS
This Low Country's principal rivers are the Maas, the Schelde & the Rhine
the Netherlands
RIVERS
Unfortunately, Christopher Walken, as Nick, prefers the Russian variety of roulette in this '78 classic
The Deer Hunter
DEAD MAN WALKEN
One of the EPA's 6 common air pollutants is this element that at least has been cut in gasoline
lead
THE ENVIRONMENT
(Sarah of the Clue Crew introduces her mummy.) In 1978 some of the objects here at the Egyptian Museum went to New York in a historic exhibit fittingly titled these "of Tutankhamen"
Treasures
ALL'S PHARAOH
Aeneas & Dido are lovers in this ancient Roman poet's epic poem on the founding of Rome
Virgil
IN LOVE
From the Old English for "oath-breaker", it's a male sorcerer or wizard
a warlock
"WAR"
In 1999 this river was put on the back of the New Jersey quarter
the Delaware
RIVERS
Chris literally loses his robotic mind in this 2004 remake starring Nicole Kidman
The Stepford Wives
DEAD MAN WALKEN
Most of these biodiverse areas are in the tropics, but Chile's Valdivian one is in a temperate zone
a rain forest
THE ENVIRONMENT
King Tut's mummy was protected by 9 outer cases, the innermost made from almost 300 solid pounds of this
gold
ALL'S PHARAOH
In this 1932 Pulitzer Prize-winner, Wang Lung & O-Lan get along just fine until he takes a concubine
The Good Earth
IN LOVE
TV title description of the leather-clad Xena
warrior princess
"WAR"
The country whose capital is Dakar, or the river that forms part of its border with Mauritania
Senegal
RIVERS
Trying to destroy Silicon Valley in a 1985 film, Walken tumbles off a blimp fighting this character
James Bond
DEAD MAN WALKEN
As in a put-down, the name of India's forest-saving Chipko Andolan movement literally means do this
hug trees
THE ENVIRONMENT
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Luxor, Egypt.) I'm here, French for "room in front," between the entranceway and Tut's resting place; it wasfilled with objectswhen it was discovered
antechamber
ALL'S PHARAOH
In "Winter on Majorca", this author describes a wretched stay on the island with her ailing lover Chopin
George Sand
IN LOVE
A small American bird of the family Parulidae known for its singing & bright colors
a warbler
"WAR"
Columbus may have spotted the mouth of this Venezuelan river in 1498
the Orinoco
RIVERS
Chris was not quite dead yet as a coma patient who develops ESP in this Stephen King-based film
The Dead Zone
DEAD MAN WALKEN
The sewage of half the Russians drains into the Volga--bad news for fish in this body of water at the Volga's end
the Caspian Sea
THE ENVIRONMENT
Tut's tomb was protected from robbers by rubble from the building of the tomb of the 4th pharaoh with this name
Ramses
ALL'S PHARAOH
It's the classic novel about Emma, her husband Charles & her lovers Rodolphe & Leon
Madame Bovary
IN LOVE
In 1955 the West formed the Baghdad Pact & the Eastern Bloc formed this military alliance
the Warsaw Pact
"WAR"
To get from Madrid to Lisbon by river, take the Manzanares to the Jarama to this river
the Tagus
RIVERS
Walken's Frank Abagnale Sr. didn't live to see the end of this 2002 Spielberg scam film
Catch Me If You Can
DEAD MAN WALKEN
In 1980 the U.S. Congress set aside 17 million acres of land in this state as a permanent wilderness
Alaska
THE ENVIRONMENT
(Sarah of the Clue Crew muses over the first glimpse at the boy king in Luxor, Egypt.) In this year, the view into Tut's tomb was glimpsed for the first time in over 3,000 years by Howard Carter & Lord Carnarvon
1922
ALL'S PHARAOH
Canio the clown stabs his wife Nedda & her lover Silvio to death near the end of this opera
Pagliacci
IN LOVE
It was the maiden name of the American-born Duchess of Windsor
Warfield
"WAR"
'Equatorial Guinea is the only African nation whose offical language is this')
Spanish
AFRICA
Edgar Bergen received an honorary Oscar in 1938 for creating this dummy
Charlie McCarthy
THE OSCARS
The first Europeans to visit the area were explorers from this country
Spain
UTAH
In 1957 Mary Quant opened her Bazaar Boutique on the King's Road in this city
London
FASHION DESIGNERS
The Pleistocene epoch of extensive glaciation in Europe & America is also called this
The Ice Age
WEATHER
"Mrs." is an abbreviation of this title
Mistress
TITLES
Some call this American war "The War of Northern Aggression"
The Civil War
LEFTOVERS
The last Oscar for cinematography in B & W went to this '66 film based on an Edward Albee play
Who\'s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
THE OSCARS
This university in Provo, run by the Mormon church, is the largest in the state
Brigham Young University
UTAH
Geoffrey Beene designed the gown that Lynda Bird Johnson wore for this Dec. 9, 1967 event
her wedding
FASHION DESIGNERS
A magnetic storm is a worldwide disturbance of Earth's magnetic field caused by disturbances there
The Sun
WEATHER
Any Mongol could tell you it means "Universal Ruler"
Genghis Khan
TITLES
October, our tenth month, is from the Latin word "octo", meaning this
Eight
LEFTOVERS
Record speeds of more than 600 MPH have been reached at the International Speedway here
Bonneville Salt Flats
UTAH
This Bronx native designs western-inspired fashions for ladies & for "chaps"
Ralph Lauren
FASHION DESIGNERS
The temperature & humidity conditions characteristic of Santa Ana, Foehn & Chinook winds
Hot & Dry
WEATHER
In 1973 Lou Ferrigno was "Mr." this, & Maria Margarita Moran, "Miss"
Universe
TITLES
It was the No. 2 reactor at this Pennsylvania site that caused fears of a meltdown
Three Mile Island
LEFTOVERS
When it applied for statehood in 1849, some wanted to call it Deseret, which means this
Honeybees
UTAH
By the 1920s Balenciaga was the leading couturier in this country, his homeland
Spain
FASHION DESIGNERS
"Seasonal" term that describes the cold & dark weather that nuclear war could bring
Nuclear Winter
WEATHER
This moniker for a mendicant comes from the Latin for "brother"
Friar
TITLES
In 1968 Creighton Abrams replaced this general as commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam
William Westmoreland
LEFTOVERS
The state's largest ski area, Park City, is on the eastern slopes of this range of the Rockies
Wasatch
UTAH
This Havana-born designer is known by his first name, not by his last, Sardina
Adolfo
FASHION DESIGNERS
The 2 most commonly used temperature scales, each named for its inventor
Celsius & Fahrenheit
WEATHER
It follows "your" when addressing a duke
Grace
TITLES
This chairman of Occidental Petroleum said he will raise $250 million a year in a "Stop Cancer" drive
Armand Hammer
LEFTOVERS
In 1954 the U.S. tested a hydrogen bomb in the Marshall Islands & launched this nuclear sub
theNautilus
RECENT U.S. HISTORY
Poet John Donne was first to write "No man is" this
an island
LITERATURE
This spotted breed originated in the Palouse River region of Washington & Idaho
Appaloosa
HORSES
Type of American school that's equivalent to a European gymnasium
high school
EDUCATION
In 1788 a handful of officials & some 700 convicts founded this Australian city on Botany Bay
Sydney
WORLD CITIES
1 of the 2 things the Lord "rained" upon the cities to destroy them
fire (or brimstone)
SODOM & GOMORRAH
N.Y. governor who announced in January 1948 he'd run for president if nominated; he was; he lost
Thomas Dewey
RECENT U.S. HISTORY
Bret Harte wrote a short story about "The Outcasts of" this mining camp
Poker Flat
LITERATURE
Of 18, 36 or 48, the maximum number of letters allowed in the name of a thoroughbred racehorse
18
HORSES
The women who raised $500,000 to open this Baltimore med school in 1893 insisted women be admitted
Johns Hopkins
EDUCATION
Intercontinental flights to Scotland land at Prestwick Airport just outside this city
Glasgow
WORLD CITIES
Jesus told them the fate of people who don't heed them will be worse than Sodom & Gomorrah
the Apostles
SODOM & GOMORRAH
In 1973 he chaired the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
Sam Ervin
RECENT U.S. HISTORY
The Reader's Encyclopedia said, "He loved the... main streets of America even as he deplored them"
Sinclair Lewis
LITERATURE
During their first year, both male & female horses are referred to by this term
foal
HORSES
In 1989 this city's school system, 3rd largest in the U.S., was required by state law to decentralize
Chicago
EDUCATION
In 1919 locksmith Anton Drexler founded the forerunner of the Nazi Party in this Bavarian capital
Munich
WORLD CITIES
Lyndon Johnson convinced Arthur Goldberg to give up his Supreme Court seat for this job
Ambassador to the U.N.
RECENT U.S. HISTORY
Ayn Rand book that ends with "Then there was only the ocean and the sky and the figure of Howard Roark"
The Fountainhead
LITERATURE
It's a projection with a tuft of hair on the back of a horse's leg just above the hoof
a fetlock
HORSES
The first U.S. school of architecture was established at this Mass. school founded in 1861
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
EDUCATION
Much in the news of late, it's Colombia's second largest city
Medellin
WORLD CITIES
In 1972 she ran for president on the slogan "Unbought and unbossed"
Shirley Chisholm
RECENT U.S. HISTORY
His eccentric novel "Tristram Shandy" contains blank pages & 1-sentence chapters
Laurence Sterne
LITERATURE
This harness breed shares its name with a 17th century English coach for hire
Hackney Pony
HORSES
Headquartered in the Bronx, its ads say it's the "Jesuit University of New York City"
Fordham
EDUCATION
You can see an exhibit about early transatlantic flights at this Newfoundland city's airport
Gander
WORLD CITIES
'This company was incorporated in 1946 as Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation')
Sony
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Southwest Texas State(class of 1930)
Lyndon Johnson
PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS
"Almost heaven,West Virginia,Blue Ridge Mountains,Shenandoah River"
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"
A JOHN DENVER SONGBOOK
Ford's Crown Victoria accounts for over 3/4 of these purchased, many painted black & white
police cars
CARS
This village was an appropriate name for Apollo 14's command module
Kitty Hawk
HELLO KITTY
In 1932 she became the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross
Amelia Earhart
FEMALE FIRSTS
Shapely slang term for a wastebasket
a circular file
THE "FILE" FILE
U.S. Military Academy(class of 1843)
U.S. Grant
PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS
"Well, I got me a fine wife,I got me old fiddle"
"Thank God I\'m A Country Boy"
A JOHN DENVER SONGBOOK
An octet of these gives the VW Passat W8 its name
cylinders
CARS
She would've been First Lady if her husband had won 158 more electoral votes in 1988
Kitty Dukakis
HELLO KITTY
Daisy Gordon, the niece of Juliette Gordon Low, became the first member of this organization when she joined in 1912
the Girl Scouts
FEMALE FIRSTS
To make foul, dirty or unclean
to defile
THE "FILE" FILE
Harvard(class of 1940)
John Kennedy
PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS
"If I had a day that I could give you, I'd give to you a day just like today"
"Sunshine On My Shoulders"
A JOHN DENVER SONGBOOK
Subaru's Outback was one of the first vehicles to combine an SUV & this traditional favorite of suburbanites
a station wagon
CARS
This frontiersman served as an Indian agent from 1853 to 1861 in Taos, New Mexico
Kit Carson
HELLO KITTY
This gymnast, a 1984 Olympic gold medal winner, was the first female to appear on the front of the Wheaties box
Mary Lou Retton
FEMALE FIRSTS
3-word term for the members of a group apart from its leaders or officers
rank and file
THE "FILE" FILE
Harvard(class of 1755)
John Adams
PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS
"To sail on a dream on a crystal clear ocean, to ride on the crest of a wild raging storm"
"Calypso"
A JOHN DENVER SONGBOOK
Showing its "age", this 106-year-old GM line of cars sent its last one off the assembly line in 2004
Oldsmobile
CARS
AKA Vulpes velox, this small gray animal is valuable for its fur
a kit fox
HELLO KITTY
This UPI correspondent was the first woman to head the White House bureau of a major news service
Helen Thomas
FEMALE FIRSTS
When exhibiting a deliberately inconspicuous or anonymous manner, you're "keeping" this
a low profile
THE "FILE" FILE
Princeton(class of 1879)
Woodrow Wilson
PRESIDENTIAL ALMA MATERS
"You fill up my senses like a night in a forest..."
"Annie\'s Song"
A JOHN DENVER SONGBOOK
At the 1953 Paris motor show, along came this famed Porsche model
the Spyder
CARS
In 2004 she wrote the controversial "The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty"
Kitty Kelley
HELLO KITTY
In 1976 she became the first woman to conduct the Metropolitan Opera when she took the baton for "La Traviata"
Sarah Caldwell
FEMALE FIRSTS
A device for holding bills & memos having a projecting metal spike on which to stick papers
a spindle file
THE "FILE" FILE
This South American city is the world's most populous capital south of the equator
Buenos Aires
SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR
This scientific work is subtitled "The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life"
Origin of Species
LITERARY ____ OF ____
Something gone for good is said to be "dead as" this form of entertainment that played the Palace Theatre
Vaudeville
GONE WITH THE WIND
The fiercest of the Knights of the Round Table, he had an affair with Queen Guinevere
Lancelot
IT HAPPENED ONE KNIGHT
"They had more than love--they had fun" was the tagline for the 1976 biopic about Gable's romance with her
Carole Lombard
CLARK GABLE
One side of a sloop
starboard
YOU'RE A "STAR"
One of the world's largest diamond mines is located in Orapa, Botswana, in the northeastern part of this desert
the Kalahari
SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR
This Steinbeck masterpiece tells the story of the Trasks & the Hamiltons
East of Eden
LITERARY ____ OF ____
In 1968, this sewing machine company's New York Citytower--once the world's tallest building--became the tallest ever demolished
Singer
GONE WITH THE WIND
Born in 742, this King of the Franks led a 30-year conquest of Europe "by the sword & the cross"
Charlemagne
IT HAPPENED ONE KNIGHT
After she was a wow singing to Gable at his 36th birthday party, she got to sing to his photo on film
Judy Garland
CLARK GABLE
This academy trains future Jim Kirks of the galaxy on "Star Trek"
Starfleet Academy
YOU'RE A "STAR"
The Australian capital territory, which includes Canberra, was carved out of this most populous state
New South Wales
SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR
This Toni Morrison novel ends, "If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it"
Song of Solomon
LITERARY ____ OF ____
A legendary city, or a legendary Cadillac model that was discontinued in 2002
El Dorado
GONE WITH THE WIND
One of the premier leaders of this enterprise, Duke Godfrey of Bouillon led the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099
the Crusades
IT HAPPENED ONE KNIGHT
In this rebellious 1935 release, Gable romances island girl Mamo Clark
Mutiny on the Bounty
CLARK GABLE
Rhyming nickname for the first official Confederate flag
"Stars and Bars"
YOU'RE A "STAR"
(Jeff Probst reads the clue.) In 1774, Captain James Cook charted the islands that now compose Vanuatu & named them this for an island group off Scotland
the New Hebrides
SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR
Venitidius is a false friend of the title guy of this Shakespeare play
Timon of Athens
LITERARY ____ OF ____
William Lear of jet fame developed this numerical music-playing format that went in an endless loop
8-track
GONE WITH THE WIND
Among the better-known adventures of Sir Gawain are his exploits against this "colorful" character
the Green Knight
IT HAPPENED ONE KNIGHT
Gable's last line on film, "Just head for that big star straight on... it'll take us right home", is in this movie
The Misfits
CLARK GABLE
The 563-carat sapphire known as this was actually found in Sri Lanka
the Star of India
YOU'RE A "STAR"
Longwood Golf Course on this South Atlantic British dependency is probably the world's remotest 18-hole course
St. Helena
SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR
This classic says "Kurtz--that means short in German--don't it?"
Heart of Darkness
LITERARY ____ OF ____
After a name change to the House Internal Security Committee, it was abolished in 1975
the House Un-American Activities Committee
GONE WITH THE WIND
Portrayed in verse as the perfect knight, he led the "Reconquista" against the Moors until his death in 1099
El Cid
IT HAPPENED ONE KNIGHT
The title of this movie with Gable as an adman is a term for flashy, aggressive salesmen
The Hucksters
CLARK GABLE
Henry VII's secret court to try cases involving state security
the Star Chamber
YOU'RE A "STAR"
'Someone chatting about preserving natural resources is these 2 similar words, anagrams of each other')
conversationist & conservationist
15-LETTER ANAGRAMS
After hosting the 1976 Summer Olympics, this city's Olympic Stadium became the home of the Expos
Montreal
WORLD CITIES
In 1978 B. Mandrell was "Sleeping single in" one of these, "thinking over things I wish I'd said"
a double bed
COUNTRY MUSIC
It's believed his association with the North Pole & reindeer came from Scandinavian legend
Santa Claus
THE NORTH POLE
This biggest computer company is biggest also among companies in philanthropic contributions
IBM
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
His Feb. 11, 1990 release from a South African jail after some 27 years made world headlines
(Nelson) Mandela
FEBRUARY
You say it to a sneezer to wish him or her "good health"
gesundheit
SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH?
Buildings in this Italian city don't stand on solid ground, but use wooden posts driven into the mud
Venice
WORLD CITIES
These 2 singers were the original co-hosts of TV's "Hee Haw"
Roy Clark & Buck Owens
COUNTRY MUSIC
It's the northernmost region of the Earth & the North Pole is in its center
the Arctic
THE NORTH POLE
The first major U.S. company to publish solely paperbacks, it's named for where their books could fit
Pocket Books
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
Congress established this National Park in Arizona February 26, 1919
the Grand Canyon
FEBRUARY
As Wayne Newton could tell you, it means "thank you"
danke schoen
SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH?
After London and Birmingham, this Scottish city is Great Britain's third largest
Glasgow
WORLD CITIES
This singer's short story collection, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", was named for his 1979 hit song
Charlie Daniels
COUNTRY MUSIC
The Soviet North Pole station set up in 1937 drifted away & was rescued 9 months later off this island
Greenland
THE NORTH POLE
They claim to run "the tightest ship in the shipping business"
UPS
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
It was founded in Feb. 1941 to serve the social, religious, educational & welfare needs of our servicemen
the USO
FEBRUARY
Brand of beer that means "lion's brew"
Lowenbrau
SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH?
Once called Philadelphia, this capital of Jordan assumed its present name in the 7th century
Amman
WORLD CITIES
Texas town that's the title of Waylon Jennings' 1977 hit subtitled "Back To The Basics Of Love"
Luckenbach
COUNTRY MUSIC
Regular job of the first surface ship to reach the North Pole
icebreaker
THE NORTH POLE
This company introduced the Band-Aid to America in 1920
Johnson & Johnson
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
On February 10, 1943 he started a 21-day fast
Gandhi
FEBRUARY
The name of this flower which grows in the Alps means "noble white"
edelweiss
SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH?
When first founded, this capital of the Bahamas was known as Charles Towne
Nassau
WORLD CITIES
Roy Acuff, the 1st living member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, had a big hit withthe followingsong:
"Wabash Cannonball"
COUNTRY MUSIC
In an 1818 novel he pursues his creation to the North Pole where they both die
Frankenstein
THE NORTH POLE
This peanut-packed candy bar, the 1st successful one by Mars, is the current top seller
Snickers
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
On February 11, 1960 he walked off his late night television show while on the air
(Jack) Paar
FEBRUARY
In the name of a popular veal dish, Vienna style, it means "slice" or "shaving"
schnitzel
SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH?
In 1877 Henry Flipper became the first black graduate of this military academy
West Point
BLACK AMERICA
In Sir Walter Scott's poem, it precedes "when first we practice to deceive"
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave"
POETS & POETRY
Its alpha & beta stars are called the pointers because they point to the North Star
the Big Dipper (or Ursa Major)
CONSTELLATIONS
The Hellenistic period in Ancient Greek art began with his conquests
Alexander the Great
ANCIENT GREECE
If your frozen seafood dinner's from Mrs. Paul's, it's a product of this soup company
Campbell\'s
A SEAFOOD SAMPLER
Though Ben didn't approve of parts of it, he urged the Convention to unanimously adopt it
the Constitution
BEN FRANKLIN
Birdland, a jazz palace of the '50s, was named for this sax player who was nicknamed "Bird"
Charlie Parker
BLACK AMERICA
Oliver Wendell Holmes began this poem, "Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high"
"Old Ironsides"
POETS & POETRY
This constellation named for the son of Poseidon & Euryale is known as "The Hunter"
Orion
CONSTELLATIONS
The serfs of this warlike city-state were called Helots
Sparta
ANCIENT GREECE
This British coastal town has a lot of sole named for it
Dover
A SEAFOOD SAMPLER
In 1958 this contralto was an alternate U.S. delegate to the UN
Marian Anderson
BLACK AMERICA
The title of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" was suggested by this author of "On the Road"
(Jack) Kerouac
POETS & POETRY
Associated with the onset of spring, this constellation is first in the zodiac
Aries
CONSTELLATIONS
This unit of currency was first worth 6 iron cooking spits
the drachma
ANCIENT GREECE
In song, Sweet Molly Malone sold cockles & this shellfish "Alive, alive O!"
mussels
A SEAFOOD SAMPLER
For supervising the Arab-Israeli armstice, he was awarded the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize
Ralph Bunche
BLACK AMERICA
Poetess who wrote "I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you--nobody--too?"
(Emily) Dickinson
POETS & POETRY
The constellation Corona Borealis is called this in English
the Northern Crown
CONSTELLATIONS
Greek literature is said to have begun with this poet
Homer
ANCIENT GREECE
"Joy of Cooking" says, to have "a real nice" one, "dig a sand pit about 1 ft. deep & 3 ft. across"
a clam bake
A SEAFOOD SAMPLER
Edmund Waller wrote a poem "To Phyllis" & Ben Jonson wrote a "Song" to her
Celia
POETS & POETRY
Other than the sun, the closest star to the Earth is located in this southern constellation
Centaurus
CONSTELLATIONS
The Greeks defended this pass, whose name means "hot gates", against the Celts as well as the Persians
Thermopylae
ANCIENT GREECE
"Colorful" smoked fish, used to throw hounds off a fox's scent, that's become a figure of speech
a red herring
A SEAFOOD SAMPLER
'Her 1st husband, Alexandre de Beauharnais, fought in both the American & French Revolutions')
Empress Josephine
WOMEN IN HISTORY
This no-nonsense first lady admitted that her trademark pearls are fake
Barbara Bush
FIRST LADIES
Numerical "Force" "from Navarone" that Harrison Ford was part of, or Bo Derek's No. in a 1979 film
10
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
In 1990 Doug Drabek became the first Pittsburgh Pirate since Vern Law in 1960 to win this pitching award
the Cy Young Award
AWARDS
Term for a type of triangle with three equal sides
equilateral
MATH
You should whip this ingredient before you top your Chantilly potatoes with it
cream
COOKING
Both NYC & Philadelphia claim the oldest of these in the U.S.
zoo
CATCHING SOME "Z"s
She had 4 sons but only the oldest, Robert, lived to adulthood
Mary Todd Lincoln
FIRST LADIES
This Nicholson was a Joker
Jack
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
Cartoonist Bill Watterson won a Reuben Award for this comic strip about a boy & his tiger
Calvin & Hobbes
AWARDS
For this operation, most people use the borrow method
subtraction
MATH
A classic plum pudding contains this kind of fat
suet
COOKING
In the old standard song, "The strings of my heart" went this way
zing
CATCHING SOME "Z"s
Zasu Pitts got this first lady her first professional role in a play
Nancy Reagan
FIRST LADIES
If you want to see a butterfly that's prissy, check out this butterfly in "Gone with the Wind"
Butterfly McQueen
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
In 1975 Sen. Proxmire originated this award to publicize wasteful gov't spending
the Golden Fleece Award
AWARDS
After multiplying these you should reduce the product if possible
fractions
MATH
A type of shell that holds creamed meat dishes, or a nickname for Patricia
patty
COOKING
Johnston McCulley's novel "The Curse of Capistrano" gave us this character a.k.a. Don Diego
Zorro
CATCHING SOME "Z"s
She didn't attend her husband's 1797 inauguration because her mother-in-law was ill
Abigail Adams
FIRST LADIES
As Cody Allen on TV, this Perry lived on the boat "Riptide"
Perry King
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
Named for magazine publisher Hugo Gernsback, the Hugo Award honors this literary genre
science fiction
AWARDS
The name "geometry" comes from two Greek words meaning this
Earth & measure
MATH
If you want to be veddy British, sprinkle your fish & chips with the malt type of this
vinegar
COOKING
The Tom Wilson comic character who has his own line of greeting cards
Ziggy
CATCHING SOME "Z"s
The only first lady whose given name was Claudia
Claudia Alta Taylor (Lady Bird Johnson)
FIRST LADIES
On the PBS anthology series "Mystery!", Sam Neill played Reilly, who was this "of Spies"
Ace
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
The Obie Awards for off-Broadway theater are sponsored by this weekly New York paper
theVillage Voice
AWARDS
It's a quarter of a circle or one of four divisions of a plane
a quadrant
MATH
A genoise is a butter-rich one of these
a sponge cake
COOKING
Ahura Mazda is not a model of car, but the 1 true god of this religion
Zoroastrianism
CATCHING SOME "Z"s
The games featuring these fighters began in the 3rd Cent. B.C. as part of funeral ceremonies
the gladiators
ANCIENT ROME
The short story writer Saki was killed in action in this war in 1916
World War I
AUTHORS
The name for this sea comes from the Latin for "in the middle of land"
Mediterranean
BODIES OF WATER
This Russian word is from the Greek for "sailor of the universe"
cosmonaut
SPACE EXPLORATION
"The Starry Night"
Van Gogh
NAME THE ARTIST
The 4th king of Rome, Ancus Marcus, is credited with building the 1st bridge across this river
the Tiber
ANCIENT ROME
Scotsman who published "The Betrothed" & "The Talisman" together as "Tales of the Crusaders"
(Sir Walter) Scott
AUTHORS
A combine is a combination harvester & this machine that separates seed from straw
thresher
AGRICULTURE
The Tasman sea separates Australia & this country
New Zealand
BODIES OF WATER
On March 23, 1965 Gus Grissom & John Young became the 1st pair to orbit in this new space project
Gemini
SPACE EXPLORATION
"2 Tahitian Women"
Gauguin
NAME THE ARTIST
He named himself princeps, or first citizen, but is known in history as the first emperor
Augustus
ANCIENT ROME
Wilkie Collins wrote a novel about a mysterious "Woman in" this color who lived in an asylum
white
AUTHORS
The largest farms, some over 60,000 acres, are the state farms in this country
the Soviet Union
AGRICULTURE
It's New Mexico's largest & longest river
the Rio Grande
BODIES OF WATER
While Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin explored the moon, he orbited about 70 miles above
(Michael) Collins
SPACE EXPLORATION
"Luncheon on the Grass"
Eduouard Manet
NAME THE ARTIST
The 2 men in this post were responsible for counting the Romans & controlling moral conduct
the censors
ANCIENT ROME
Ole E. Rolvaag wrote "Giants in the Earth" in this language; it was then translated into English
Norwegian
AUTHORS
Of the top 3 grains grown in the world, the U.S. is first in the production of this one
corn
AGRICULTURE
The name of this river which empties into the Bay of Bengal means "the son of Brahma"
the Brahmaputra
BODIES OF WATER
It's the only planet not yet encountered by a space probe
Pluto
SPACE EXPLORATION
"View of Toledo"
El Greco
NAME THE ARTIST
It's believed the Romans turned against the ruling Etruscans after Sextus Tarquinius raped her
Lucretia
ANCIENT ROME
Completes the title of Olive Ann Burns' novel "Cold Sassy..."
Tree
AUTHORS
Connecticut is bordered on the south by this arm of the Atlantic
Long Island Sound
BODIES OF WATER
The European Space Agency designed this 3-stage rocket to launch its payloads
the Ariane
SPACE EXPLORATION
"The Dance Class"
Degas
NAME THE ARTIST
'This country\'s national anthem is "William of Nassau"')
the Netherlands
NATIONAL ANTHEMS
In a 1939 film, Spencer Tracy played Stanley & Cedric Hardwicke enacted this role, I presume
Dr. Livingstone
HISTORICAL FILMS
Varieties of this fruit, suitable for home orchards, include Red Rome, Jonathan & Stark Jumbo
Apples
PLANTS
An achievement is signified by a feather in this
Cap
3-LETTER WORDS
Fittingly, this country was the site of the first modern Olympics in 1896
Greece
THE OLYMPICS
This eastern U.S. gambling resort lies on Absecon Island
Atlantic City
AMERICAN ISLANDS
Felicity & Felicia are feminine forms of this masculine name
Felix
NAMES
When Norma Shearer played this queen, John Barrymore played her father-in-law, Louis XV
Marie Antoinette
HISTORICAL FILMS
Russian thistle breaks from its base & goes drifting along with the wind -- so it's called this
Tumbleweed
PLANTS
When you get mad you might "flip your lid" or "blow" this
Top
3-LETTER WORDS
In 1932, when women could enter only 3 events, this American woman won 3 medals
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
THE OLYMPICS
The Wright brothers' first flight took place near this village on N. Carolina's Bodie Island
Kitty Hawk
AMERICAN ISLANDS
The daughter of Ptolemy XII, her name means "Father's Glory"
Cleopatra
NAMES
Paul Muni won an Oscar for his performance in this role, which he "milked" for all it was worth
Louis Pasteur
HISTORICAL FILMS
Medium in which an Egyptian or lotus plant grows
Water
PLANTS
Henry Fielding wrote, "Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of" this beverage
Tea
3-LETTER WORDS
In 1912 this Native American won the decathlon & pentathlon
Jim Thorpe
THE OLYMPICS
This island, known for its huge bears, was the site of Alaska's first school in 1784
Kodiak
AMERICAN ISLANDS
Made famous by a Johanna Spyri novel, it was originally a nickname for "Adelaide"
Heidi
NAMES
Gregory Peck played the title role in this 1977 film bio about a U.S. general
MacArthur
HISTORICAL FILMS
Economically it's the most important bean in the world
Soybean
PLANTS
Nautically speaking, if you don't like the look of someone, you don't like "the cut of his" one of these
Jib
3-LETTER WORDS
In 1948 Gretchen Fraser became the first American to win a gold medal in this winter sport
Skiing
THE OLYMPICS
Carib Indian relics can be found in a national park in this island group
U.S. Virgin Islands
AMERICAN ISLANDS
(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):Name in the title of the following 1956 hit:
"Long Tall Sally" (by Little Richard)
NAMES
A 1946 Rosalind Russell film dramatized the life of this nurse famed for her work with polio patients
Sister Elizabeth Kenney
HISTORICAL FILMS
Jacarandas are tropical trees with flowers of this color
Bluish Purple
PLANTS
The 2 horses bet on in "Camptown Races"
The nag & the bay
3-LETTER WORDS
In 1972 Vassili Alexeyev, known as the "Russian Bear", won his 1st Olympic gold medal in this sport
Weightlifting
THE OLYMPICS
This state's Mount Desert Island is the site of the Bar Harbor Resort
Maine
AMERICAN ISLANDS
Woman's name that's Old German for "armored warrior maiden"
Brunhilde
NAMES
Milton's "Paradise Lost" is based on this book of the Bible
Genesis
ENGLISH LITERATURE
To perform Prokofiev's "Romeo & Juliet" an orchestra needs a pair of these gourd rattles
Maracas
MUSIC
Of 20 years, 30 years or 40 years, the length of time the Wars of the Roses lasted
30 years
WARS
This piece of jewelry has been worn around the thigh or the ankle, but most people prefer the wrist
Bracelet
JEWELRY
The Koran quotes Allah as saying he gave Moses the law, Jesus the Gospels & this man the Koran
Mohammed
RELIGIOUS LEADERS
She said she enjoys using Franklin Pierce's china in the White House because he's a distant relative
Barbara Bush
THE WHITE HOUSE
The 1st major work of English literature, this poem about a brave hero is by author or authors unknown
"Beowulf"
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Mozart dedicated 6 string quartets to this Austrian composer of "The Creation"
Franz Josef Haydn
MUSIC
This N. American conflict which began in 1754 led to the outbreak of the 7 Years War in Europe in 1756
French And Indian War
WARS
Many of these gems, one of June's birthstones, come from Sri Lanka, not the lunar surface
moonstones
JEWELRY
Catholic tradition holds that Jesus gave him the keys to heaven
Peter
RELIGIOUS LEADERS
This president had the interior gutted & completely restored, & added a balcony
Harry Truman
THE WHITE HOUSE
Called John Dryden's best comedy, his play about intrigue & adultery is titled "Marriage A La" this
A La Mode
ENGLISH LITERATURE
He composed ragtime music in addition to the ballets "The Firebird" & "Petrushka"
Igor Stravinsky
MUSIC
Baklava is a pastry, but Balaklava was the site of a major battle of this war in 1854
The Crimean War
WARS
Nanak, who lived c. 1500, was the first guru of this religion which sought to unite Islam & Hinduism
Sikhism
RELIGIOUS LEADERS
It has been a tradition since 1902 to adorn the ground floor corridor with their portraits
First Ladies
THE WHITE HOUSE
It wasn't until 1825 that his diary of the 1660s, written in shorthand, was deciphered
Samuel Pepys
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Soprano born in Stockholm October 6, 1820; her last public performance was in 1883
Jenny Lind
MUSIC
The Indian "king" for whom this war was named was tracked down & killed in 1676
King Philip
WARS
American evangelist Dwight, who founded a church & a bible institute now named after him
Dwight Moody
RELIGIOUS LEADERS
Large press conferences are usually held in this room, the largest in the White House
The East Room
THE WHITE HOUSE
"The Fifth Child" is a recent work by this English author of "The Golden Notebook"
Doris Lessing
ENGLISH LITERATURE
In 1989 this Scottish military pipe, drum & dance corps celebrated its 250th anniversary
The Black Watch
MUSIC
The War of the Austrian Succession erupted when she became archduchess of Austria in 1740
Maria Theresa
WARS
Last name of the French jeweler Rene, who was famous for his art nouveau designs & his crystal
Lalique
JEWELRY
Minister who founded the Martyr's Memorial Free Presbyterian Church in Belfast in 1969
Rev. Ian Paisley
RELIGIOUS LEADERS
He was the first president to live in the White House after it was burned down & rebuilt
James Monroe
THE WHITE HOUSE
'This city was named for a first century Roman citizen & missionary')
St. Paul, Minnesota
STATE CAPITALS
In the 1949 film "Sands of Iwo Jima", he played the implacable Marine sergeant John M. Stryker
John Wayne
SEND IN THE MARINES
"Just the facts..." You need more?! OK, this show aired in prime time on 3 different days but never on Fridays
Dragnet
ARRESTING TELEVISION
Completes the title of an Earth, Wind & Fire hit song "Serpentine..."
"Fire"
EARTH, WIND OR FIRE
Rock on! All diamonds consist primarily of this element
carbon
ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR
In Jamestown, North Dakota, you can see what is claimed to be the world's largest statue of this animal
a buffalo
ROADSIDE AMERICA
More than 345 million individuals each month hit this website
Yahoo!
HEY "YA"
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew visits a training course at Parris Island, SC.) In 1976 with women in the Corps, the Marines phased out "We're looking for a few good men" & went to this recruiting slogan
"The few, the proud"
SEND IN THE MARINES
Gary Sinise dusts for DNA as Det. Mac Taylor on this Gotham-based whodunit
CSI: New York
ARRESTING TELEVISION
As in aardvark or aardwolf, aarde means this in Afrikaans
earth
EARTH, WIND OR FIRE
The U.S. refused to sell this gas to the Zeppelin Aircraft Company, which used the more flammable hydrogen instead
helium
ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR
All 134' of this object in Baker, Ca. represents the record 134 heat once recorded in nearby Death Valley
a thermometer
ROADSIDE AMERICA
A skullcap worn during prayer by Jewish men
yarmulke
HEY "YA"
The Marine Corps was officially founded on Nov. 10 of this year the American Revolution started
1775
SEND IN THE MARINES
Sherry Stringfield practiced law on this "colorful" ABC cop show before getting her medical degree on "ER"
NYPD Blue
ARRESTING TELEVISION
The one with a heteronym
wind
EARTH, WIND OR FIRE
It's the university city in which the element californium was discovered
Berkeley
ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR
On Broad Street in Columbus, Ohio, yell out "Where's the beef?" as you check out the first restaurant in this large chain
Wendy\'s
ROADSIDE AMERICA
3-word nonsense term meaning "& so on" once featured in a popular sitcom
yada yada yada
HEY "YA"
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew visits a training course at Parris Island, SC.) 10 weeks into training, recruits undergo this endurance test, hauling 54 lbs. of gear; it's named for a metal melting vessel
the Crucible
SEND IN THE MARINES
Sgt. Esterhaus led roll call on this '80s drama & hey! Let's be careful out there
Hill Street Blues
ARRESTING TELEVISION
Shoe with what's termed a "negative heel"
earth
EARTH, WIND OR FIRE
Any old salt could tell you they're the 2 most abundant elements dissolved in seawater
sodium & chlorine
ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR
In the city park in Reading, Pa., take a gander at the anchor of this ship sunk in 1898 by a mysterious explosion
theMaine
ROADSIDE AMERICA
"Barbaric" often precedes this word derived from Middle English meaning "harsh cry"
yawp
HEY "YA"
This "Chesty" guy who received 5 Navy crosses was one of the most decorated U.S. Marines in history
(Lewis "Chesty") Puller
SEND IN THE MARINES
After writing for "My Two Dads", Shawn Ryan did a serious 180 & created this Michael Chiklis cop show
The Shield
ARRESTING TELEVISION
Boreas was a Greek god of this
wind
EARTH, WIND OR FIRE
1 of the 3 naturally occurring magnetic elements
iron (or nickel or cobalt)
ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR
The center named for this man in Huntington, Ind. contains the vice pres. museum that may leave you spellbound
(Dan) Quayle
ROADSIDE AMERICA
Slang word for a convict, or a Charlie Parker nickname
yardbird
HEY "YA"
Wang Hongwen, Zhang Chunqiao, Yau Wen-Yuan & Jiang Qing, Mao's wife, were known by this collective name
the Gang of Four
CHINESE HISTORY
Ganges River:This bay
the Bay of Bengal
LET'S GO WITH THE FLOW
16 letters:The thickening & loss of elasticity in the walls of an artery
arteriosclerosis
LONG WORDS
This national theatre of Ireland celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2004
the Abbey Theatre
ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE
Missed the last TD? Don't worry, this innovation premiered in the 1963 Army-Navy game & has been here ever since
instant replay
WE LOVE FOOTBALL ON TV
Born Nov. 25, 1981, they are the granddaughters of a president
Jenna & Barbara Bush
AND TWINS!
In 868 this dynasty produced the world's first block-printed book, but not the drink favored by astronauts
Tang
CHINESE HISTORY
Dnieper River:This sea
the Black Sea
LET'S GO WITH THE FLOW
16 letters:What the "I" stands for in HIV
immunodeficiency
LONG WORDS
It's believed that Nicomaco, a character in this famous Florentine's 1525 play "Clizia", is a self-portrait
Niccolo Machiavelli
ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE
All right, we admit it, one reason we watch football on TV is to get a glimpse of this group seenhere
the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders
WE LOVE FOOTBALL ON TV
Fraternal twins of the "Star Wars" saga
Luke & Leia
AND TWINS!
On July 22, 1999 the government banned this religious sect after it staged unauthorized demonstrations
Falun Gong
CHINESE HISTORY
Loire River:This bay
Biscay
LET'S GO WITH THE FLOW
18 letters:The Roman Catholic doctrine of bread & wine changing into the body & blood of Christ
transubstantiation
LONG WORDS
The audience for this Russian's play "A Month in the Country" should always include some "Fathers and Sons"
Turgenev
ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE
Before his career as a popular TV commentator, John Madden prowled the sidelines as this team's head coach
the Oakland Raiders
WE LOVE FOOTBALL ON TV
This playwright & his wife had 3 children, including the twins Judith & Hamnet
Shakespeare
AND TWINS!
A physician educated in the U.S., he led the movement to overthrow the Manchu Dynasty in 1911
Sun Yat-sen
CHINESE HISTORY
Alabama River:This bay, y'all
Mobile Bay
LET'S GO WITH THE FLOW
13 letters:A noun meaning a side-by-side placement, especially for comparison or contrast
juxtaposition
LONG WORDS
His 2004 play "Exits and Entrances" made its entrance onto the world stage in L.A., not in his native South Africa
Athol Fugard
ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE
In a harrowing piece of live TV, Lawrence Taylor broke this quarterback's leg on "Monday Night Football"
Joe Theismann
WE LOVE FOOTBALL ON TV
American Olympic skiing stars born May 10, 1957
Phil & Steve Mahre
AND TWINS!
In 1816 Lord Amherst, British envoy to China, was not received because he wouldn't perform this ritual
kowtow
CHINESE HISTORY
Uruguay River:This estuary
the Rio de la Plata
LET'S GO WITH THE FLOW
13 letters:A journey by foot, not falcon
peregrination
LONG WORDS
He's the Belgian playwright who gave us the bird--"The Blue Bird"
Maurice Maeterlinck
ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE
Millions were outraged in 1968 when a game was preempted with a minute to go by a TV movie about this girl
Heidi
WE LOVE FOOTBALL ON TV
Guinness Book of Records creators born Aug. 12, 1925
Norris & Ross McWhirter
AND TWINS!
'On May 18, 1980 its height was reduced from 9,677 feet to 8,364 feet')
Mount Saint Helens
THE 1980s
In "Frank Fairlegh" Francis Edward Smedley wrote "All's fair in" these 2 activities
Love & War
FAMOUS QUOTES
Chief justice Charles Evans Hughes opposed this president's attempt to "pack" the court
Franklin D. Roosevelt
THE SUPREME COURT
Country star Jeannie C. Riley's only hit on the pop charts; it was about a small town's P.T.A.
"Harper Valley P.T.A."
GOLDEN OLDIES
Fiction writer who titled his memoirs about his early days in Paris "A Moveable Feast"
Ernest Hemingway
NONFICTION
In Texas the most common variety of these armored mammals is the nine-banded one
Armadillo
ZOOLOGY
Because of its cold ice cream interior & hot meringue covering, it was once called "Alaska-Florida"
Baked Alaska
DESSERTS
"Be nice to people on your way up" for this reason
"You may meet them on your way down"
FAMOUS QUOTES
This president appointed the most members of the current court
Ronald Reagan
THE SUPREME COURT
Jimmy Webb song about a "park" that was a No. 2 hit for Richard Harris & a No. 1 hit for Donna Summer
"MacArthur Park"
GOLDEN OLDIES
Historian Simon Schama wrote the '89 book "Citizens, A Chronicle Of" this 18th century event
The French Revolution
NONFICTION
The term for a female rabbit, it can also refer to a female deer
Doe
ZOOLOGY
Joy of Cooking says whether this cake is "round or rectangular, the cutting begins at the lowest tier"
Wedding Cake
DESSERTS
"When the one great scorer comes to write against your name, he marks -- not that you won or lost -- but" this
How you played the game
FAMOUS QUOTES
He handed down the famous Brown v. Board of Education ruling 7 months after becoming chief justice
Earl Warren
THE SUPREME COURT
(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):Heard here, it was British star Petula Clark's last Top 10 hit in the U.S.:"You wander around, on your own little cloud, when you don't see the whys or the wherefores...."
"Don\'t Sleep In The Subway"
GOLDEN OLDIES
He wrote "I Gave Them A Sword" based on his 1977 interviews with ex-president Richard Nixon
David Frost
NONFICTION
Of all bears, this one is the best swimmer
Polar Bear
ZOOLOGY
Completes "Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like" this
a Woman scorn\'d
FAMOUS QUOTES
Known as the "Great Chief Justice", he had served under Washington at Valley Forge
John Marshall
THE SUPREME COURT
New Jersey & North Carolina each have a Surf City, but California, home of this "Surf City" duo, doesn't
Jan & Dean
GOLDEN OLDIES
"The American Spelling Book" was the first part of his "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language"
Noah Webster
NONFICTION
A pit viper's pits are highly sensitive to this & help it find its prey in the dark
Heat
ZOOLOGY
In 1940, U.S. poet Alice D. Miller wrote, "In a world where" this country "is...dead, I do not wish to live"
England
FAMOUS QUOTES
First Republican president after Taft, he appointed Taft chief justice
Warren G. Harding
THE SUPREME COURT
Born Frederick Picariello, his first 2 hits were "Tallahassee Lassie" & "Way Down Yonder In New Orleans"
Freddy Cannon
GOLDEN OLDIES
He won a 1962 Pulitzer Prize for "The Making of the President 1960"
Theodore White
NONFICTION
Sometimes called the bird spider, it's the largest of all spiders
Tarantula
ZOOLOGY
Hetty Green, the richest woman of her day, was known as the "Witch Of" this street
Wall Street
19TH CENTURY AMERICA
Over 90% of Poles are followers of this religion, first adopted by Poland in 966
Roman Catholicism
POLAND
Ray Bradbury & producer-dir. John Huston co-wrote the screenplay based on this Melville classic
"Moby Dick"
LITERATURE ON FILM
She has 2 children, David & Sarah Armstrong-Jones
Princess Margaret
ROYALTY
Born Niklas Koppernigk, he was a canon of Frauenberg Cathedral from 1497 until his death in 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
ASTRONOMERS
From the Latin "denigrare", to blacken, it means to belittle or blacken a character
Denigrate
FROM THE LATIN
On July 5, 1846 John C. Fremont was chosen to direct the affairs of this "Bear Flag" republic
California
19TH CENTURY AMERICA
Poland's longest one is the Vistula
River
POLAND
In a 1941 film based on R.L. Stevenson's horror classic, Spencer Tracy played these 2 title characters
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
LITERATURE ON FILM
She may have been a cousin of her husband Akhenaton; you can see the resemblance in her bust
Nefertiti
ROYALTY
Astronomer Frank Drake set up Project Ozma about 1960 to search for this -- didn't work
Extraterrestrial Intelligence/Life Elsewhere
ASTRONOMERS
Meaning "to bear", Hamlet did it with "slings & arrows of outrageous fortune"
Suffer
FROM THE LATIN
In 1892 the Edison Co. merged with the Thomson-Houston Electrical Co. to form this company
General Electric
19TH CENTURY AMERICA
As a result of WWII, Poland gained land in the west from Germany & lost land in the east to this country
the Soviet Union (USSR)
POLAND
Rod Taylor traveled from the year 1899 to 802,701 A.D. in this film based on an H.G. Wells book
"The Time Machine"
LITERATURE ON FILM
Prince Bernhard of this country is a former president of the World Wildlife Fund
Holland/The Netherlands
ROYALTY
In 1675 Danish astronomer Olaus Roemer announced the 1st real measurement of the speed of this
Light
ASTRONOMERS
Body tissues named for their "mouselike" movements
Muscles
FROM THE LATIN
2 of the 4 people the Clanton gang went up against October 26, 1881
Morgan, Virgil & Wyatt Earp & Doc Holliday
19TH CENTURY AMERICA
James Dean & Raymond Massey starred in this Cain & Abel fable based on a novel by John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
LITERATURE ON FILM
The last Anglo-Saxon king of England was killed in this battle
Battle of Hastings (which Harold II lost)
ROYALTY
While teaching at the Univ. of Padua in 1610, he discovered 4 moons of Jupiter using a 30-power telescope
Galileo
ASTRONOMERS
Originally meaning "concealed", it now refers to the supernatural
Occult
FROM THE LATIN
In 1887 while librarian at Columbia U., he founded the first school for training librarians
Melville Dewey
19TH CENTURY AMERICA
This 1880 novel by Lew Wallace was made into a film in 1907, 1926 & 1959
"Ben-Hur"
LITERATURE ON FILM
In 1080 Canute IV succeeded his brother Harold Hen as king of this country
Denmark
ROYALTY
This Italian astronomer discovered the division in Saturn's rings that bear his name
Giovanni Cassini
ASTRONOMERS
To show we know "Ain't" ain't proper usage, we can use this 3-letter word in parentheses after it
sic
FROM THE LATIN
'His most famous play was first produced in 1895, the year he was sent to jail, & he never wrote another')
Oscar Wilde (\"The Importance of Being Earnest\")
PLAYWRIGHTS
In "Swanson On Swanson", Gloria claimed she had a love affair with this father of a president
Joseph Kennedy
1980
"One More Try" was this singer's third No. 1 hit from his "Faith" album
George Michael
SINGERS
This word can stand alone or follow gun; either way, it's a gangster's girlfriend
Moll
4-LETTER WORDS
The water in this large Utah lake is saltier than ocean water
The Great Salt Lake
BODIES OF WATER
4 pearl grains equal 1 of these units also used for diamonds
Carats
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
The month in which the USSR celebrates the anniversary of the October Revolution
November
THINK TWICE
Pres. Carter signed a bill granting $1.5 billion in loan guarantees to this company
Chrysler
1980
In Sept. 1989 this English rock group introduced its own line of clothes
The Rolling Stones
SINGERS
To descend to the bottom of anything, even a lavatory
Sink
4-LETTER WORDS
Winter ocean air west of Norway is over 40 degrees warmer than average for that latitude because of this current
The Gulf Stream
BODIES OF WATER
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" takes place during this season
Spring
THINK TWICE
United Artists withdrew this Michael Cimino film from theaters for re-editing
"Heaven\'s Gate"
1980
24 years after "I Want To Hold Your Hand", this ex-Beatle had a No. 1 hit with "Got My Mind Set On You"
George Harrison
SINGERS
A roll of cloth, or a flash of lightning
Bolt
4-LETTER WORDS
This ocean has the greatest length of coastline because of its irregular shape
Atlantic
BODIES OF WATER
Catgut comes from these animals
Sheep
THINK TWICE
FBI agents posed as foreign businessmen in this investigation that implicated 8 congressmen
ABSCAM
1980
"Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" was this singer's third No. 1 single with 8 words in the title
Billy Ocean
SINGERS
To flow forth suddenly & violently, or to make an excessive display of sentiment
Gush
4-LETTER WORDS
Changing monsoon winds cause seasonal reverses of surface water movement in this Indian Ocean bay
Bay of Bengal
BODIES OF WATER
You're not wet behind the ears if you know this international unit equals 6,076.11549 feet
Nautical Mile
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
The Canary Islands were named after these animals
Dogs
THINK TWICE
In January its price reached an all-time high of $50.35 per ounce
Silver
1980
Carrying on the reggae tradition of his father, this singer has released 5 albums
Ziggy Marley
SINGERS
Ironically, it can mean to dance with light, quick steps or to stumble like a clumsy ox
Trip
4-LETTER WORDS
Once part of the Gulf of California, it's now the largest natural lake entirely within the state
Salton Sea
BODIES OF WATER
If you're a half pint, you're equal to this many cups
1
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
Most Chinese gooseberries are grown in this country
New Zealand (AKA the Kiwi Fruit)
THINK TWICE
The home Lassie went back to in the 1940 novel "Lassie Come Home" was in this country
England
LITERARY CLASSICS
Accoridng to Forbes Magazine, Steven Spielberg made $70 million or so on this one videotape
"E.T."
AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN
After James I granted Derry, Ireland to the citizens of London, it became known as this
Londonderry
HISTORY
Olympic ice skater Carol Heiss played Snow White in a 1961 film starring this wacky trio
The Three Stooges
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
This country's name is from the Turkish word "on-ogur", signifying 10 tribes
Hungary
EASTERN EUROPE
Newton used one of these to spread out white light into a colored band
Prism
SIR ISAAC NEWTON
He wrote his "Georgics" in praise of the agricultural life before he wrote a Roman epic
Virgil
LITERARY CLASSICS
Marino Faliero, who was the doge of this, led a plot to kill the nobles & was executed in 1355
Venice
HISTORY
Amy Irving's mom, Priscilla Pointer, played Pam's mom on this prime time TV soap
"Dallas"
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
In 1989 this country's leader, Egon Krenz, opened its borders to halt population loss
East Germany
EASTERN EUROPE
A body at rest stays at rest, F=ma & reaction is always equal & opposite in action
Newton\'s 3 Laws of Motion
SIR ISAAC NEWTON
The Indian sage Vatsyayana wrote this erotic how-to manual whose name is Sanskrit for "Love Science"
Kama Sutra
LITERARY CLASSICS
The 8 richest people in Delaware all belong to this family
DuPont
AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN
This czar established a parliament called the Duma
Nicholas II
HISTORY
He played a crime king in his last film, 1964's "The Killers"
Ronald Reagan
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
This capital's name 1st appeared in a document of Vlad the Impaler, the prototype of Dracula
Bucharest (Romania)
EASTERN EUROPE
This noted astronomer paid to have Newton's "Principia" published
Sir Edmond Halley
SIR ISAAC NEWTON
This Greek historian's "Parallel Lives" analyzes the character of well-known Greeks & Romans
Plutarch
LITERARY CLASSICS
In 1887 this man replaced Levi Abt as a partner with Max & Harry Hart & Marcus Marx
Joseph Schaffner
AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN
The outbreak of this war in 431 B.C. put an end to Athens' Golden Age of Pericles
The Peloponnesian War
HISTORY
He spent some "Happy Days" playing Fiorello LaGuardia, & won a Tony too
Tom Bosley
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
The Jadranska Magistrala, or Adriatic Highway, runs along this country's coast
Yugoslavia
EASTERN EUROPE
Newton said, "If I have seen further than other men, it is because I stood on" these
The Shoulders of Giants
SIR ISAAC NEWTON
Britannica calls this John McCrae poem the only important Canadian verse related to WWI
"In Flanders Fields"
LITERARY CLASSICS
In 1963 this Texas hobby store chain owner bought the Boston-based Radio Shack chain
Charles Tandy
AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN
Atahualpa was the unlucky 13th emperor of these people
Incas
HISTORY
In 1989 this Oscar winner starred in HBO's "Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story"
Ben Kingsley (won Oscar for "Gandhi" in 1982)
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
In November 1989 hard liner Todor Zhivkov resigned after leading this country for 35 years
Bulgaria
EASTERN EUROPE
'The only U.S. state that borders 4 Great Lakes')
Michigan (borders Huron, Michigan, Erie & Superior)
U.S. STATES
The game properties in classic Monopoly were named for streets in this city
Atlantic City
U.S. CITIES
This handsome hunk played basketball at USC long before “Magnum, P.I.” made him a star
Tom Selleck
WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE
Oprah picked this Tolstoy tragedy about an unhappy family for her book club
Anna Karenina
BESTSELLERS
This government department recommended duct tape & plastic sheets to seal a room against a chemical attack
the Department of Homeland Security
LAST YEAR'S NEWS
It’s the point of maximum velocity in a pendulum’s swing
the bottom of the arc in equilibrium
PHYSICS
Cinderella's deadline
midnight
"MID" TERMS
It’s easy to recognizethiscity’s skyline--see the Sears Tower?
Chicago
U.S. CITIES
This “Alien” star has been a close pal of playwright Christopher Durang ever since they were drama students at Yale
Sigourney Weaver
WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE
This weepie by Nicholas Sparks was made into a film starring Ryan Gosling & Rachel McAdams
The Notebook
BESTSELLERS
Donald Rumsfeld called these 2 countries “Old Europe” after they opposed military action against Iraq
Germany and France
LAST YEAR'S NEWS
After trying to measure this with signals between himself & an assistant, Galileo decided it was infinite
The speed of light
PHYSICS
A crop top is designed to leave this part of the body bare
the midriff
"MID" TERMS
This seat of Indiana University may have been named for its flowers or for an early settler
Bloomington
U.S. CITIES
He was in college in ’74 when he became a weekend weatherman in Syracuse; today he’s on the “Today” show
Al Roker
WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE
The title of this series by Tim Lahaye & Jerry B. Jenkins refers to the people who remain on Earth after the rapture
Left Behind
BESTSELLERS
Democratic house members fled this state in order to block republicans from redrawing congressional districts
Texas
LAST YEAR'S NEWS
(Jimmy and Sarah of the Clue Crew pull on cords of different thicknesses.) Seven letter word for the type of strength, based on the cohesion of molecules, that varies in different materials
tensile
PHYSICS
This word completes the proverb “Don’t change horses in...”
midstream
"MID" TERMS
The heart of French Louisiana & the unofficial capital of the Cajun country is this city named for a French patriot
Lafayette
U.S. CITIES
Joan Cusack performed with an improv group while studying at this school in Madison
University of Wisconsin
WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE
The narrator of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” has this developmental condition
autism
BESTSELLERS
The FDA said it would ban dietary supplements containing this after a baseball player's death was linked to it
ephedra
LAST YEAR'S NEWS
The zeroth law of this says 2 bodies each in thermal equilibrium with a 3rd are in thermal equilibrium with each other
thermodynamics
PHYSICS
Even Rachel in the Bible had one of these women to help her deliver her baby
a midwife
"MID" TERMS
On a “table” of Arizona’s most populous cities, this one would be listed third
Mesa
U.S. CITIES
Meryl Streep starred in a campus production of “Miss Julie” as an undergrad at this Poughkeepsie college
Vassar
WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE
Azar Nafisi’s “Memoir in Books” is called “Reading” this Nabokov classic “in Tehran”
Lolita
BESTSELLERS
The America’s Cup was won for the first time by a European country: ironically this landlocked nation
Switzerland
LAST YEAR'S NEWS
Thisrepresents the direction and the magnitude, by the arrow’s length, of certain quantities
a vector
PHYSICS
It’s where your tympanic membrane is located
the middle ear
"MID" TERMS
Excavations atthiscity destroyed by Vesuvius have revealed people trapped in time
Pompeii
REMAINS TO BE SEEN
In 2001 this "Clark Kent before he was Superman" series debuted on the WB
Smallville
A QUICKIE WITH SUPERMAN
In 2001 Teddy Roosevelt received a posthumous Medal of Honor for his actions during this war
the Spanish-American War
THIS MEANS WAR
To make this basis of soup, simmer chicken parts for 3 hours, with frequent skimming, or drop a cube into water
broth (or stock)
COOKING
Zwilling J. A. Henckels will sell the aspiring chef an 18-piece block set of these
knives
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
Goods or cargo transported commercially
freight
E BEFORE I
Today on display in an Italian museum, the body of a 5,300-year-old man was found in 1991 thawing out in these mountains
the Alps
REMAINS TO BE SEEN
In 1996 in the comics, Superman finally married her
Lois Lane
A QUICKIE WITH SUPERMAN
Legend has it that this war lasted for 10 years, ending in 1184 B.C.
the Trojan War
THIS MEANS WAR
If you put too much of this into a dish, drop in a peeled potato to absorb it
salt
COOKING
Firefighters' equipment includes axes and this modified "bar" that operates as a lever
a crowbar
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
Chaing Kai-Shek Memorial Hall is located in this capital
Taipei
E BEFORE I
The philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who died in 1832, is kept in a glass case at University College in this British city
London
REMAINS TO BE SEEN
His cub reporter buddy at the Daily Planet newspaper
Jimmy (Olsen)
A QUICKIE WITH SUPERMAN
It began in 1899 when the Orange Free State & South African Republic declared war on Britain
the Boer War
THIS MEANS WAR
An egg that spins merrily & easily on the counter tells you it's this
hard-boiled
COOKING
Professional whose tool kit would most likely include a multimeter & a wire stripper
electrician
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
The leader of an Arab tribe or village
a sheikh
E BEFORE I
The body of this "Common Sense" author was taken to be put on display in England, but eventually his remains were lost
(Thomas) Paine
REMAINS TO BE SEEN
Superman vows a never-ending fight for "truth, justice and" this
the American Way (freedom also accepted)
A QUICKIE WITH SUPERMAN
The 7th Earl of Cardigan saw his famous light brigade decimated in the Battle of Balaklava in this war
the Crimean War
THIS MEANS WAR
For vegetarians, instead of vitello alla parmigiana, veal parmesean, make malanzine alla parmigiana, this
eggplant
COOKING
Tusa's visio, with a polycarbonate frame, is this piece of scuba equipment
a mask
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
He's the missionary and humanitarian seenhere
Albert Schweitzer
E BEFORE I
This patron saint of Lourdes'bodyhas remained unchanged in its glass display case since her death in 1879
Saint Bernadette
REMAINS TO BE SEEN
In the 1978 movie, Gene Hackman played this villain & perpetual thorn in Superman's side
Lex Luthor
A QUICKIE WITH SUPERMAN
The second of these wars between ancient Rome & Carthage is also known as the Hannibalic war
the Punic Wars
THIS MEANS WAR
You'll want to remove the stem and possibly the gills before cooking withthisjumbo-sized mushroom
portobello
COOKING
To achieve the surf style on one of these, use a whammy bar
a guitar
TOOLS OF THE TRADE
In November 1942 Montgomery's troops scored a major victory at this northern Egyptian town
El Alamein
E BEFORE I
'In June 2000 Bill Clinton described it as "the most wondrous map ever produced"')
the human genome
SCIENCE NEWS
A term for politics at the local level, or items found in your lawn
grass roots
POLITICAL LINGO
"Chim Chim Cher-ee"
Mary Poppins
OSCAR-WINNING SONGS
Sandy Koufax, when on the mound
a southpaw
"SOUTH" PARK
In one myth the decapitated head of the giant Mimir was an advisor to this Norse god
Odin
OH, MY GODS!
He's the kilt-clad kinsmen picturedherearound 1980
Prince Charles
THEY KILT
Dr. Alfred Kinsey was born in this New Jersey city in 1894, as was Frank Sinatra 21 years later
Hoboken
KINSEY
A GOP plan to eliminated filibusters on judicial nominees has been called this alarming "option"
nuclear
POLITICAL LINGO
"Talk To The Animals"
Dr. Dolittle
OSCAR-WINNING SONGS
This popular diet was developed to help cardiac patients lose weight
the South Beach Diet
"SOUTH" PARK
Associated with nature & plants, Xipe Totec was an important god of these North American people
the Aztecs
OH, MY GODS!
When this actor was knighted in 1999 he wore a kilt to the ceremony
Sean Connery
THEY KILT
Caused by a deficiency of vitamin D, this bone-softening disease curved Dr. Kinsey's spine as a child
rickets
KINSEY
In 1826, John Cam Hobhouse coined the phrase "His Majesty's" this for the party not in power
Opposition
POLITICAL LINGO
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
OSCAR-WINNING SONGS
It's surrounded by the Philippines, Borneo & Taiwan
the South China Sea
"SOUTH" PARK
The Roman goddess of flowers, she had an herb that was said to make you pregnant if you touched it
Flora
OH, MY GODS!
Sometimes decorated with fur, a sporran is a traditional one of these worn in front of a kilt
a pouch (or purse)
THEY KILT
Before he took up sex, Dr. Kinsey studied & became a renowned expert on the gall type of this insect
a wasp
KINSEY
From the Latin for "all", it's the type of $388-billion spending bill Congress passed in December 2004
omnibus
POLITICAL LINGO
"Colors Of The Wind"
Pocahontas
OSCAR-WINNING SONGS
There is nothing like this musical that opened in New York in 1949
South Pacific
"SOUTH" PARK
If sometimes you feel like a "nut", check out Nut, a goddess of this ancient civilization
Egypt
OH, MY GODS!
The Royal Stuart is a type of this, a plaid pattern on the fabric of a kilt
a tartan
THEY KILT
In 1947 Dr. Kinsey founded his institute for sex research at this Bloomington university
Indiana
KINSEY
A junior member of Parliament, from the location of his or her seat
a back-bencher
POLITICAL LINGO
"Al Otro Lado Del Rio"
The Motorcycle Diaries
OSCAR-WINNING SONGS
In 2003 the name of this area was officially changed to South Los Angeles
South Central
"SOUTH" PARK
The sub bearing the name of this trumpeter sea god & son of Poseidon was the first to travel around the world underwater
Triton
OH, MY GODS!
In 1822, when this author organized a royal visit to Edinburgh, he wore a kilt & got George IV to sport one also
Sir Walter Scott
THEY KILT
Completes the title of Dr. Kinsey's shocking 1948 work "Sexual Behavior in" this
the Human Male
KINSEY
Number that's the greatest common factor of 15, 130 & 10,000
5
MATH
1 of the 2 shows that debuted in the fall of 1988 with a Murphy in the title
Murphy Brown(orMurphy\'s Law)
'80s TV
On Sept. 22, 1776, the morning after his capture by the British & with no trial, he gave the one life he had
Nathan Hale
START SPREADIN' THE NOOSE
(Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge gives the clue.) I introduced the threat advisory system; during my time at the DHS we were never able to go below this color, for "elevated threat"
yellow
LET'S BE SECURE
About 96 percent of Mongols are of this religion
Buddhist
MONGO FOR MONGOLIA
Since 1937, it's been the location of the U.S. gold depository
Fort Knox
"OX" MARKS THE SPOT
Slow down when you approach this type of set that contains elements common to 2 other sets
an intersection
MATH
20 years after its debut, this quirky show came out on DVD in 2005 with commentary from Cybill Shepherd & Bruce Willis
Moonlighting
'80s TV
Tradition says this Biblical figure kissed himself off on a tree that now bears his name
Judas Iscariot
START SPREADIN' THE NOOSE
DHS is charged with protecting "critical" this--from subways to satellites, the systems we rely on every day
infrastructure
LET'S BE SECURE
In recent years measures taken by the Mongolian government have stabilized the tugrik, which is this
the currency
MONGO FOR MONGOLIA
A nickleodeon was an early version of this 7-letter machine
a jukebox
"OX" MARKS THE SPOT
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands at a chalkboard.) Multiplying in scientific notation gets me a product withthisexponent
9
MATH
"Three's a Crowd" picked up where this sitcom left off
Three\'s Company
'80s TV
Emerson said this man, hanged for treason on Dec. 2, 1859, would make the gallows "as glorious as the cross"
John Brown
START SPREADIN' THE NOOSE
(Tom Ridge reads.) I led the largest reorganization of the government since the 1940s, including bringing the Secret Service, customs, & this whole military service into the DHS
the Coast Guard
LET'S BE SECURE
In the 1990s the Przewalski variety of this was reintroduced to Mongolia
horse
MONGO FOR MONGOLIA
Seward's, it was said, was Alaska
an icebox
"OX" MARKS THE SPOT
For a line, this is defined as the ratio of vertical to horizontal distance it covers
slope
MATH
Joe Penny played Jake; he played the Fatman
(William) Conrad
'80s TV
Washington denied his request to be shot like a gentleman & not hanged like a spy, which he was on Oct. 2, 1780
Major John Andr
START SPREADIN' THE NOOSE
Passenger screening is the responsibility of this Homeland Security agency established in November 2001
the TSA
LET'S BE SECURE
Founded around 1368, this Chinese dynasty drove the Mongols out of power in China that same year
the Ming
MONGO FOR MONGOLIA
Jenner used this bovine pathogen to make his vaccine
cowpox
"OX" MARKS THE SPOT
Doc Severinson performed its theme during the '80s; Ray Charles did it during the '90s
Designing Women
'80s TV
In 1987 Spandau prison officials reported that this Nazi had hanged himself at age 93
Rudolph Hess
START SPREADIN' THE NOOSE
(Tom Ridge reads one last time.) Our front line of defense against a terrorist attack is local police & firefighters, known as "first" these
responders
LET'S BE SECURE
In the 1200s the Mongols established this capital city with the same name as K2's mountain range
Karakoram
MONGO FOR MONGOLIA
Popular Western United States perennial seenhere
phlox
"OX" MARKS THE SPOT
'In 2004 a top entry in a 6,000 mile albatross race was sponsored by a descendant of this man who died in 1834')
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
FAMOUS ENGLISHMEN
Sitting Bull nicknamed her "Little Sure Shot"
Annie Oakley
NICKNAMES
What Mia would keep in her quiver if she took up archery
Farrow\'s Arrows
RHYME TIME
Some say this brunch dish was created to cure the hangover of a Mr. Samuel Benedict
Eggs Benedict
FOOD & DRINK
Goll-ee! It was the first spin-off of "The Andy Griffith Show"
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
TV SPIN-OFFS
This means of transportation invented by Andrew Hallidie was first used in San Francisco in 1873
Cable Car
19TH CENTURY AMERICA
The wolf's reply to "What big eyes you have"
"All the better to see you with"
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
He was the "Rock of Notre Dame"
Knute Rockne
NICKNAMES
What you could have filled at a pharmacy in Cairo
Egyptian Prescription
RHYME TIME
This dressing commonly found on sandwiches may derive its name from a seaport in Minorca
Mayonnaise (Mayon)
FOOD & DRINK
Before they moved on up to the east side, "The Jeffersons" resided in this sitcom
"All In The Family"
TV SPIN-OFFS
This 363-mile waterway opened on October 26, 1825
Erie Canal
19TH CENTURY AMERICA
This is the first person the wolf devours
Grandma
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
This colonist was nicknamed "Little Indian Fighter", but we don't know what Priscilla called him
Miles Standish
NICKNAMES
A more adorable guy who wants to marry you
Cuter Suitor
RHYME TIME
Pancake mix whose name came from the title of a Vaudeville song, not someone's relative
Aunt Jemima
FOOD & DRINK
6 months after this NBC police series ended in '87, Dennis Franz premiered as "Beverly Hills Buntz"
"Hill Street Blues"
TV SPIN-OFFS
The first boardwalk in America was completed in 1870 in this resort city
Atlantic City
19TH CENTURY AMERICA
In a Disney cartoon this trio warns Red about the Big Bad Wolf
The Three Little Pigs
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
"Dark" nickname shared by Jackie Onassis' father, John Bouvier, & General Pershing
"Black Jack"
NICKNAMES
To hurt Fred Astaire's dancing partner
Injure Ginger
RHYME TIME
This extremely strong-smelling cheese was named for a province in Belgium
Limburger
FOOD & DRINK
This Robert Guillaume series lasted 7 years -- 3 years longer than "Soap", from which it sprang
"Benson"
TV SPIN-OFFS
When he didn't get along with this president, John C. Calhoun resigned as vice president in 1832
Andrew Jackson
19TH CENTURY AMERICA
In the German version, this character was added to save the day
The Woodsman
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
Early 19th century chief justice nicknamed "Silver Heels" because he had run races in his stocking feet
John Marshall
NICKNAMES
A typical evening gown
Normal Formal
RHYME TIME
You can add your favorite fruit to this rum & lime cocktail named for a district in Cuba
Daiquiri
FOOD & DRINK
This daughter of Darrin & Samantha Stevens on "Bewitched" grew up to have her own series in 1978
Tabitha
TV SPIN-OFFS
In 1854 this Ill. senator sponsored the Kan.-Neb. Act whose passage angered anti-slavery forces
Stephen Douglas
19TH CENTURY AMERICA
In the 1966 hit song, line that followed "Hey there Lil' Red Riding Hood..."
"Hey, you sure are lookin\' good"
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
While hidden at Wartburg Castle in 1521, this man began his German translation of the New Testament
Martin Luther
EUROPEAN HISTORY
An incident on a warship on which his cousin was an officer may have inspired "Billy Budd"
Herman Melville
LITERARY RELATIVES
The title of Donizetti's opera "La Fille Du Regiment" translates to this
"The Daughter of the Regiment"
OPERA
The tip of your dentist's high-speed drill is made of tungsten carbide & may contain this gem
Diamond
TECHNOLOGY
The practice of interpreting the influence of the stars & planets on earthly affairs
Astrology
THE OCCULT
A Bremen Town Musician works in this country
West Germany
WEST ON THE MAP
This one time Dominican prior ruled the Spanish Inquisition with an iron hand for 15 years
Tomas de Torquemada
EUROPEAN HISTORY
She began writing her diaries as letters to her father, Spanish composer Joaquin Nin
Anais Nin
LITERARY RELATIVES
"Lakme" is set in this country, where Lakme is the daughter of a Brahman priest
India
OPERA
Name given the world's first artificial satellite
Sputnik
TECHNOLOGY
(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):Occult communication device in use here:
Ouija Board
THE OCCULT
Gaston Caperton is this state's governor
West Virginia
WEST ON THE MAP
Russia's 1939 invasion of this neighbor met with resistance from highly mobile ski troops
Finland
EUROPEAN HISTORY
This Frenchman's paternal grandparents were a marquis & a black woman from Santo Domingo
Alexandre Dumas (pere)
LITERARY RELATIVES
Of a baritone, a bass or a tenor, what Caruso was
Tenor
OPERA
It's what you need to operate the 1861 invention of Linus Yale
Key (creation of lock)
TECHNOLOGY
The first laboratory for the study of parapsychology was established at this N.C. univ. in the '20s
Duke
THE OCCULT
Since 1967 Israel has occupied a controversial area on the West Bank of this river
The Jordan River
WEST ON THE MAP
In its drive for German unification, this country defeated Austria in the 7 Weeks' War of 1866
Prussia
EUROPEAN HISTORY
Daniel Day Lewis, who starred in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" is this late poet laureate's son
Cecil Day Lewis
LITERARY RELATIVES
Pietro Mascagni said, "It is a pity I wrote" this opera "first. I was crowned before I became king."
Cavalleria rusticana
OPERA
The moveable lined glass on a slide rule or the blinking symbol on a computer screen
Cursor
TECHNOLOGY
The name of this daughter of King Priam is synonymous with a person whose prophecies go unheeded
Cassandra
THE OCCULT
Antigua, Santa Lucia & Barbados are part of this archipelago
West Indies
WEST ON THE MAP
In about 1403 Belgrade, now the capital of Yuogslavia, became the capital of this country
Serbia
EUROPEAN HISTORY
His daughter Susan's memoir about life with him is called "Home Before Dark"
John Cheever
LITERARY RELATIVES
In Verdi's opera "Don Carlos", Don Carlos is the son of this 16th century Spanish king
King Philip II
OPERA
This process removes salt from sea water & in artificial kidneys waste from the blood
Dialysis
TECHNOLOGY
The most famous one of these shrines in the ancient world was located on the slopes of Mount Parnassus
Oracle
THE OCCULT
Buckingham Palace is in this borough of London
Westminster
WEST ON THE MAP
'Once a professor of astronomy, he designed the Royal Observatory at Greenwich')
Sir Christopher Wren
ARCHITECTURE
Tolstoy's first full-length novel, it includes a cast of more than 500 characters
War and Peace
WORLD LITERATURE
No. 7 in pinstripes, this pride of Oklahoma was honored in 1969
Mickey Mantle
RETIRED JERSEYS
To score an eagle in golf is to score this many shots under par on a hole
two under par
EAGLE-EYED
In 2000heconsidered a presidential run on the Reform Party ticket
Mr. (Donald) Trump
THE POLITICAL HAIR APPARENT
This term for a certain group of undergraduates is from the Latin for "elder"
seniors
COLLEGE COLLAGE
"White Christmas" crooner who joined 2 other guys to form a "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" supergroup
Bing Crosby, Stills and Nash
MUSICAL BEFORE & AFTER
Chapter 8 of this 17th century work begins, "They came in sight of thirty, forty windmills"
Don Quixote
WORLD LITERATURE
Hewas so good--& indecisive--that his team retired his jersey twice, in 1994 & 1999
(Michael) Jordan
RETIRED JERSEYS
The symbol of this youth organization is an eagle superimposed on a stylized iris
the Boy Scouts
EAGLE-EYED
Do the 'do of the New York politico seenhere
(Rudolph) Giuliani
THE POLITICAL HAIR APPARENT
With close to 50,000 students, this Columbus-based university is one of the USA's largest
Ohio State
COLLEGE COLLAGE
Men's fragrance that wants to be a "Wannabe" group
Old Spice Girls
MUSICAL BEFORE & AFTER
Buried treasure found on an islet in the Tuscan Archipelago makes this character wealthy
the Count of Monte Cristo
WORLD LITERATURE
Appropriately,hiswas retired in 1999
Wayne Gretzky
RETIRED JERSEYS
In 1969 he commanded the "Eagle" lunar module
Armstrong
EAGLE-EYED
Hiswould-be boss joked that this man had better hair than Dick Cheney
John Edwards
THE POLITICAL HAIR APPARENT
Also known as a city college, it's a local junior college without residential facilities
a community college
COLLEGE COLLAGE
Reggae widow who appears to Scrooge
Rita Marley\'s Ghost
MUSICAL BEFORE & AFTER
This Albert Camus novel begins with the discovery of a dead rat outside Dr. Bernard Rieux' door; more dead rats follow
The Plague
WORLD LITERATURE
Thislegend hit the rafters in 1993
Larry Bird
RETIRED JERSEYS
The bald eagle became our national emblem in 1782 with the adoption of this "Great" object
the Great Seal
EAGLE-EYED
ThisMississippi congressman has seen his "hair share" of controversy
Trent Lott
THE POLITICAL HAIR APPARENT
The first black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, was founded at this university in 1908
Howard
COLLEGE COLLAGE
Pizza restaurant chain mogul who composed "Stars & Stripes Forever"
Papa John Philip Sousa
MUSICAL BEFORE & AFTER
In 1902 Kipling published a volume of these "Stories", including "The Cat that Walked by Himself"
theJust So Stories
WORLD LITERATURE
Statethisman whose jersey was retired in 1997
Joe Montana
RETIRED JERSEYS
This constellation that features the star Altair is in the shape of an eagle with considerable wingspan
Aquila
EAGLE-EYED
He's the powerful Texas congressman partially seenhere
(Tom) DeLay
THE POLITICAL HAIR APPARENT
Larry McMurtry & Joyce Carol Oates are among the alumni of this Houston university
Rice
COLLEGE COLLAGE
5-star general who rocked out the South with "Fire On The Mountain"
George Marshall Tucker Band
MUSICAL BEFORE & AFTER
Robert Hooke spent lots of time arguing over who made discoveries first, notably with this man over gravitation
Newton
SCIENTISTS
Computer expert Angela Bennett
The Net
SANDRA BULLOCK MOVIES
3 of these leaves appear on Ontario's coat of arms
the maple leaf
ONWARD TO ONTARIO
Statue-torily, there's one of these at the center of Indiana's flag, representing Liberty
a torch
FLAGS
To her friends, this exotic "Sarong Girl" of the movies was just plain "Dottie"
Dorothy Lamour
DOT
Don Evans was the 34th secretary of this cabinet department
Commerce
"COM"
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the top secretJeopardy!science lab.) Laplace published the equation named for him in his treatise on these mechanics--the mathematics of theheavens
celestial
SCIENTISTS
Chicago "L" token seller Lucy, in love with the comatose Peter
While You Were Sleeping
SANDRA BULLOCK MOVIES
In 1953 a dramatic festival devoted to the works of Shakespeare appropriately began in this Ontario town
Stratford
ONWARD TO ONTARIO
The Confederacy's second flag (above) was replaced with the third flag (below) because the second could be mistaken for this
a flag of truce (or surrender)
FLAGS
"The only thing I didn't like about 'The Barretts of Wimpole Street' was the play", said this Algonquin wit
Dorothy Parker
DOT
1-word term for fellowship, or the act of receiving the Eucharistic elements
communion
"COM"
It took a Russian, Lomonosov, to first record the freezing temperature of this metallic element, at about -40
mercury
SCIENTISTS
Newspaper columnist Gwen Cummings, who enters rehab for 4 weeks
28 Days
SANDRA BULLOCK MOVIES
Founded in 1836, an Ontario univ. that's part of the University of Toronto bears the name of this British queen
Victoria
ONWARD TO ONTARIO
The flag of this place "Where America's day ends" features an eagle holding symbols of chiefs' authority
American Samoa
FLAGS
She appeared with her sister Lillian in the 1912 film "The New York Hat"
Dorothy Gish
DOT
2-word Latin term meaning mentally sound; we usually hear about the reverse that starts with "non"
compos mentis
"COM"
Snell measured the Earth by first using this geometric method to measure the distance between towns
triangulation
SCIENTISTS
Lenina Huxley, a cop in 2032 who unfreezes John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone)
Demolition Man
SANDRA BULLOCK MOVIES
Along with the smaller James Bay, this large body of water forms Ontario's northern coastline
the Hudson Bay
ONWARD TO ONTARIO
The fleur-de-lis, on the flag & license plates of Quebec, was a symbol of the man in this position
the King of France
FLAGS
"Introducing" this African-American actress who appeared briefly with her sister in the Marx Bros.' "A Day at the Races"
Dorothy Dandridge
DOT
Controversial 1969 Philip Roth novel that was made into a 1972 film
Portnoy\'s Complaint
"COM"
(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the top secretJeopardy!science lab.) This great experimenter also gave lectures to London kids; in 1860, heshowedthem combustion requires air
Michael Faraday
SCIENTISTS
Geeky research scientist Diane Farrow
Love Potion No. 9
SANDRA BULLOCK MOVIES
The War of 1812 Battle of Moraviantown in Canada was also known as the Battle of this Ontario River
the Thames
ONWARD TO ONTARIO
When there was just 1 of this country, emperor Kojong chose white as the flag's background color
Korea
FLAGS
Connect the dots; the British author of "Pilgrimage" or a 2-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist softball player
Dot Richardson
DOT
A Native American tribe belonging to the Shoshonean division of the Uto-Aztecan linguistic stock
Comanche
"COM"
'For the first time in its history, the Nobel Prize for Literature was not awarded in this year')
1914
THE NOBEL PRIZES
As a prefix, this single letter can mean on, in, to or without
A
LETTER PERFECT
On Nov. 24, 1963 Senator Mike Mansfield said, "A piece of each of us has died" the moment he was shot
John F. Kennedy
POLITICAL QUOTES
On June 14, 1959 this vice president & his family opened Disneyland's monorail
Richard Nixon
DISNEYLAND
"Where both deliberate, the love is slight; who ever loved, that loved not at first" this
Sight
LOVE POEMS
Wine should be stored lying down, so this remains wet & swollen
Cork
WINE
This Wrigley product has been using twins in its ads since 1939
Doublemint Gum
TWINS
For the Flying Fortress this letter preceded -17; for the Superfortress, -29
B
LETTER PERFECT
FDR told the nation in 1936 that "This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with" this
Destiny
POLITICAL QUOTES
2 of the 4 peaks in the Disneyland "mountain range"
Big Thunder, Matterhorn, Space Mountain & Splash Mountain
DISNEYLAND
Edmund Spenser called this season "The herald of love's mighty king"
Spring
LOVE POEMS
It follows "Cabernet" in a red wine, & precedes "Blanc" in a white wine
Sauvignon
WINE
A Minnesota Twin could tell you this word is a synonym for twin bill
Doubleheader
TWINS
When this letter follows 100 degrees it makes it the boiling point of water
C
LETTER PERFECT
Senator who said in '83, "I regret that I have but 1 wife to give to my country's infrastructure"
Bob Dole
POLITICAL QUOTES
Of 7 days, 7 weeks or 7 months, time it took for the first million guests to visit Disneyland
7 weeks
DISNEYLAND
"Man, man, man is for the woman made .... as the spur is for the jade, as the scabbard for" this
The Blade
LOVE POEMS
During fermentation, this converts sugar in the grape juice into alcohol & carbon dioxide
Yeast
WINE
A survey found the twins who play toddler Michelle Tanner on this show among viewers' favorite performers
"Full House"
TWINS
Single letter in the nickname of the second largest city in Texas
("Big) D" (for Dallas)
LETTER PERFECT
1 of the 3 things which, according to John Fremont's 1856 G.O.P. campaign, should be free
Soil, men & speech
POLITICAL QUOTES
New Orleans Square restaurant, or a hit song for Linda Ronstadt & Roy Orbison
Blue Bayou
DISNEYLAND
"If I should meet thee after long years, how should I greet thee? -- with silence and" these
Tears
LOVE POEMS
A wine that's not a "sparkling" variety is called this
still wine
WINE
Biblical pair born to Isaac & Rebekah, one was red all over when he was born, like a hairy garment
Jacob & Esau
TWINS
Letter that occurs most often in the phrase "An elephant never forgets"
E
LETTER PERFECT
William Jennings Bryan was referring to him when he said, "We have a president who has kept .... us out of war."
Woodrow Wilson
POLITICAL QUOTES
It may be Sleeping Beauty's castle, but in the doorway you hear this song from "Pinocchio"
"When You Wish Upon A Star"
DISNEYLAND
The poet who wrote, "And I will luve thee still, my dear, till a' the seas gang dry"
Robert Burns
LOVE POEMS
President Bush was upset when some of his staff posed for a photo with this "invisible twin" from Doonesbury
"Skippy"
TWINS
He wrote the dialogue for "Oklahoma!", "Carousel" & "The King & I", as well as the lyrics
Oscar Hammerstein
PLAYWRIGHTS
This capital of Turkey was once known as Angora & became known for its mohair
Ankara
HISTORIC CITIES
In April 1865 he had a dream foretelling his assassination
Abraham Lincoln
PROPHECIES & PREDICTIONS
In the Badlands area these animals live in colonies called dog towns
Prairie Dogs
THE DAKOTAS
This university's Bodleian Library is entitled to free copies of all books printed in England
Oxford
LIBRARIES
This rock star not only had the most No. 1 songs by a solo performer, he also had the most No. 2 hits
Elvis Presley
POTPOURRI
First name shared by playwrights Webster, Dryden & Singe
John
PLAYWRIGHTS
The 2 cities that have served as capitals of Japan whose names are anagrams
Kyoto & Tokyo
HISTORIC CITIES
Attributed to the apostle John, this prophetic work is the last book of the New Testament
Revelation/The Apocalypse
PROPHECIES & PREDICTIONS
Both states are split by the Missouri River & both fall into these 2 time zones
Central & Mountain
THE DAKOTAS
This 7-day observance promoted by the American Library Association takes place in April
National Library Week
LIBRARIES
"Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars" is this disk jockey's TV & radio sign-off
Casey Kasem
POTPOURRI
"Catty" poet whose 1949 play "The Cocktail Party" is based on an ancient Greek play by Euripides
T.S. Eliot
PLAYWRIGHTS
Also known as Aix-La- Chapelle, Aachen, Germany is the city where this ruler established his court in 794
Charlemagne
HISTORIC CITIES
He supposedly predicted the Great Fire of London & the death of King Henry II of France
Nostradamus
PROPHECIES & PREDICTIONS
The 2 states' largest cities are Fargo & Sioux Falls, not these, their capitals
Bismarck & Pierre
THE DAKOTAS
In the 1870s this type of catalog began to replace the book-form catalog
Card Catalog
LIBRARIES
He co-wrote the stage version of his novel "Native Son" with Paul Green
Richard Wright
PLAYWRIGHTS
At the Diet held in this city in 1521, Martin Luther refused to eat his words
Worms
HISTORIC CITIES
Some ancient cultures made predictions by hepatoscopy, examining this organ of a sacrificed lamb
Liver
PROPHECIES & PREDICTIONS
It took treaties with these 2 countries for the U.S. to get all the area that's now North Dakota
England & France
THE DAKOTAS
The Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image is part of the library at this theater complex
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
LIBRARIES
His lesser-known plays include "Fools", "God's Favorite" & "The Gingerbread Lady"
Neil Simon
PLAYWRIGHTS
The oldest stock exchange in Europe is located in this Belgian center of the world diamond trade
Antwerp
HISTORIC CITIES
Known as "The Sleeping Prophet", in 1941 he predicted NYC would be destroyed near the year 2000
Edgar Cayce
PROPHECIES & PREDICTIONS
When B. Harrison signed the 2 bills making the Dakotas states, this information was kept secret
Which state was first
THE DAKOTAS
Paris library whose beginning may be traced back to the 1300s, making it one of the world's oldest
Bibliotheque Nationale
LIBRARIES
'Robert Shaw, Richard Burton & Charles Laughton all played this ruler on film')
Henry VIII
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES
Li Po, who lived over 1,000 years ago, was one of this country's greatest poets
China
WORLD LITERATURE
3 months after Congress authorized the Department of Foreign Affairs, it changed its name to this
Department of State
AMERICAN HISTORY
Silent screen cowboy Tom, or what many people do at cocktail parties
Mix
NAMES THAT ARE VERBS
JFK outlined his idea for the Peace Corps during a 1960 campaign speech on this school's Ann Arbor campus
University of Michigan
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
It's also called the Drinker Respirator, after Philip Drinker, who invented it
Iron Lung
IRON
The appearance of a performer at the end of a show in response to applause
Curtain Call
CURTAINS
"Shadows On The Grass" is a collection of African vignettes by this Danish baroness
Isak Dinesen
WORLD LITERATURE
He died in 1804 the day after his duel with Aaron Burr
Alexander Hamilton
AMERICAN HISTORY
Mr. Martindale, or what he might do if he likes you
Wink
NAMES THAT ARE VERBS
Nixon & Khrushchev sang this school's song, "The Ramblin' Wreck", during Nixon's '59 visit to Moscow
Georgia Tech
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
The iron first used by man was probably taken from these that fell to Earth
Meteors/meteorites
IRON
1939 movie that included the line "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain...."
The Wizard of Oz
CURTAINS
In German, the title of this Thomas Mann novella is "Der Tod in Venedig"
"Death In Venice"
WORLD LITERATURE
In 1945-46 the number of these government employees dropped from 12 million to less than 3 million
Armed Forces/Servicemen & women
AMERICAN HISTORY
Mr. Owens, or what his horse might do to throw him
Buck
NAMES THAT ARE VERBS
Tulane & Loyola, both on St. Charles Ave. in this city, are an average of 4 feet below sea level
New Orleans
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Spike-lined medieval torture device that had a deadly hug
Iron Maiden
IRON
Game show that asked "Would you like the box or what's behind the curtain Carol's pointing to?"
Let\'s Make A Deal
CURTAINS
Virginia Woolf wrote about one "of one's own"; E.M. Forster wrote about one "with a view"
Room
WORLD LITERATURE
In 1932 Hattie Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman elected to this body
U.S. Senate
AMERICAN HISTORY
E. Howard, or what he'd do stalking game
Hunt
NAMES THAT ARE VERBS
McGill University in this Canadian city is known as the "Harvard of the North"
Montreal
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Most iron ore is reduced to pig iron in this type of furnace
Blast Furnace
IRON
Song that begins "And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain"
"My Way"
CURTAINS
Nationality of the woman who created Hans Brinker
American (Mary Mapes Dodge)
WORLD LITERATURE
After the original 13 colonies, this was the first state to enter the union
Vermont
AMERICAN HISTORY
TV "Avenger" Emma, or what she could do in a burlesque show
Peel
NAMES THAT ARE VERBS
This land grant university operates joint campuses with Indiana U. at Indianapolis & Ft. Wayne
Purdue
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
By definition, steel is an alloy of iron & this element
Carbon
IRON
This popular detective died in the 1975 best seller "Curtain"
Hercule Poirot
CURTAINS
In the beginning of the 17th C. the "." & the "x" were introduced as signs for this & both are still used today
Multiplication
THE RENAISSANCE
Garry Kasparov recently beat a computer program, Deep Thought, in a game of this
Chess
IN THE NEWS
Legendary tax protester whose real name was probably Godgifu, meaning "Gift of God"
Lady Godiva
ENGLAND
Chapultepec Park, 1st used by Aztec emperors, is the largest park in this Latin American capital
Mexico City
ODDS & ENDS
2 varieties of this desert plant are named for holidays: Christmas & Easter
Cactus
PLANTS & TREES
"Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, I'm free at last!"
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
EPITAPHS
Philologists of the Renaissance most commonly studied these 2 classical languages
Greek & Latin
THE RENAISSANCE
This evangelist who has personally preached to over 100 mil. now has his own star on Hollywood Blvd.
Rev. Billy Graham
IN THE NEWS
He's the primate of all England
Archbishop of Canterbury
ENGLAND
Drugs that the FDA approves as safe for self-medication are termed "OTC", which stands for this
Over-the-Counter
ODDS & ENDS
Term for the cutting of plants & trees to enhance growth & improve appearance
Pruning
PLANTS & TREES
A statue at the Will Rogers Memorial bears this epitaph, his most famous line
"I never met a man I didn\'t like"
EPITAPHS
In 1414 the Council of Constance condemned Jan Hus, who was burned at the stake for this "crime"
Heresy
THE RENAISSANCE
Leftist guerrillas are in their 10th yr. of trying to overthrow this country's gov't now led by Alfredo Cristiani
El Salvador
IN THE NEWS
He's the patron saint of The Order of the Garter, the highest order of English knighthood
St. George
ENGLAND
The steel drum was developed in the 1940s in this Caribbean island nation near Venezuela
Trinidad
ODDS & ENDS
It can mean any umbrella-shaped fungus or inedible mushroom
Toadstool
PLANTS & TREES
The epitaph on his footstone reads, "Truth & history. 21 men. The boy bandit king -- he died as he lived."
Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney)
EPITAPHS
The word "renaissance" comes from the Old French "renaistre", meaning to be this
Reborn
THE RENAISSANCE
This oil company announced it is moving its hdqrs. from Rockefeller Center in NYC to Irving, Texas
Exxon
IN THE NEWS
The last of Henry VIII's children to rule England
Queen Elizabeth I
ENGLAND
This planet was named for the father of Saturn & the grandfather of Jupiter
Uranus
ODDS & ENDS
One way to recognize poison ivy is to know its leaves always come in clusters of this many
3
PLANTS & TREES
This New Englander's "I had a lover's quarrel with the world" is from his poem "The Lesson For Today"
Robert Frost
EPITAPHS
Field in which Brunelleschi & Palladio worked during the Renaissance
Architecture
THE RENAISSANCE
Relics of this culture found at Nimrud in Iraq's Nineveh region were called the greatest find since King Tut
Assyrian
IN THE NEWS
Walter Tyler, who led a 1381 rebellion, was better known by this nickname
"Wat" Tyler
ENGLAND
Every 4 years Dixville Notch in upstate New Hampshire holds this distinction
First primary voting for President of the U.S.
ODDS & ENDS
Spruces have drooping cones & angular leaves while these have upright cones & flat leaves
Firs
PLANTS & TREES
His tombstone says, "He gave to man control over that dreadful scourge, yellow fever"
Walter Reed
EPITAPHS
'The 2 astronauts who went on to become U.S. Senators')
John Glenn (Ohio) & Harrison Schmitt (New Mexico)
THE SENATE
His words "The people's heroes are immortal" are engraved on a monument in Tiananmen Square
Mao Tse-tung
MONUMENTS
In Style's first issue, in 1994, visited Barbra Streisand's pad in this wealthy California coastal community
Malibu
IN STYLE
In the 2005 Orange Bowl, this university's Trojans trampled the Sooners, 55-19
Southern California
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
The Incas munched on charque (what we call jerky) from the dried meat of this 5-letter pack animal
the llama
DO YOU HAVE THE MUNCHIES?
On January 3, 1990 he surrendered to U.S. troops surrounding the Vatican Embassy
Manuel Noriega
MANUEL LABOR
In the old song standard, it's the line that precedes "all the livelong day"
"I\'ve been working on the railroad"
HARD "WORK"
Vasco da Gama is among those depicted onthiscapital city's Monument to the Discoveries
Lisbon
MONUMENTS
In Style's 10th anniversary cover girl was this South African actress in gold sequins
Charlize Theron
IN STYLE
Of the Ivy League colleges, this one is alphabetically first
Brown
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
2 of the 5 different nuts in a jar of Planters Deluxe Mixed Nuts
cashews & pecans (also, hazelnuts, brazils, & almonds)
DO YOU HAVE THE MUNCHIES?
Longtime congressman Manuel Lujan was appointed Secretary of the Interior by this man in 1989
George H.W. Bush
MANUEL LABOR
This play is set in Tuscumbia, Alabama & at the Perkins Institute for the blind
The Miracle Worker
HARD "WORK"
Though Mumtaz died in 1631, this tomb of hers (& it was some tomb) wasn't completed until about 1643
the Taj Mahal
MONUMENTS
In Style often features these places that feature massage & pampering, named for a town in Belgium
spa
IN STYLE
Seton Hill University is in Greensburg, Penn.; Seton Hall University is in South Orange in this state
New Jersey
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
In 2003 these frozen waffles let go with a 50th anniversary party
Eggos
DO YOU HAVE THE MUNCHIES?
In this novel, Judge Miller's gardener's helper Manuel kidnaps the dog Buck & sells him to pay his gambling debts
The Call of the Wild
MANUEL LABOR
2-word term for insurance required of businesses for employees injured on the job
workman\'s compensation
HARD "WORK"
(Jimmy from the clue crew reports from Parris Island, SC.) The Iwo Jima monument on Parris Island represents the famousraising of the flagon this mountain
Mount Suribachi
MONUMENTS
The TV special "In Style Celebrity Weddings" included the nuptials of Danielle Spencer to this actor
Russell Crowe
IN STYLE
Wheaton College in Illinois recently ranked No. 1 in college food, followed by this school in Brunswick, Maine
Bowdoin College
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Though it sounds like the most terrible food, it's really just German for sausage
wurst
DO YOU HAVE THE MUNCHIES?
In 1962 Cesar Chavez founded the union that is today known as this
the United Farm Workers of America
HARD "WORK"
Auckland'sOne Tree Hillis the former site of a "pa", or fortified village, of these people
the Maori
MONUMENTS
In Style defined this type of "fabulous" as requiring lots of jewelry & fur, as seen on Lil' Kim & Missy Elliott
ghetto fabulous
IN STYLE
In 1982 Jimmy Carter established the Carter Center in partnership with this university
Emory
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Yum! It's removed from a fish, pressed through a screen to remove membranes, put in brine, then packed with salt in a tin
caviar
DO YOU HAVE THE MUNCHIES?
One of the "New Deal" programs created for the unemployed, it was abbreviated the WPA
the Works Progress Administration
HARD "WORK"
Strangely, Charles XIV John of this Scandinavian country had a "Death to all kings" tattoo
Sweden
ROYAL ODDITIES
Dawson on "Dawson's Creek" idolized this man who directed "The Sugarland Express" in his mid-20s
Steven Spielberg
MOVIE DIRECTORS
Australia is home to 2 egg-laying mammals, or monotremes: the spiny anteater & this one
the platypus
THE LAND DOWN UNDER
It's where you'll find the protons in an atom
the nucleus
SUBATOMIC MASS PERSUASION
1958:B.P.,Russia
Boris Pasternak
NOBEL LIT WINNERS, INITIALLY YOURS
George Washington's birthplace is on Pope's Creek, a small stream that flows into this
the Potomac
"POT" POURRI
Emperor Menelik II of this African country once used an electric chair as his throne
Ethiopia
ROYAL ODDITIES
(Hi, I'm Joel Schumacher.) Directing movies based on this author's "The Client" & "A Time to Kill" was like getting paid to go to law school
John Grisham
MOVIE DIRECTORS
In 1983 the Yacht Club of Perth became the first outside the U.S. to house this trophy
the Americas Cup
THE LAND DOWN UNDER
These particles were named for Satyendra Nath Bose, who worked out their behavior in 1924
bosons
SUBATOMIC MASS PERSUASION
1946:H.H.,Switzerland
Hermann Hesse
NOBEL LIT WINNERS, INITIALLY YOURS
Benjamin Bunny & Squirrel Nutkin were 2 of the many characters created by this harebrained author
Beatrix Potter
"POT" POURRI
Although officially listed, this 18th century French king was never crowned & never ruled
Louis XVII
ROYAL ODDITIES
His career includes directing "Paper Moon", writing the book "Who the Devil Made It" & acting in "The Sopranos"
Peter Bogdanovich
MOVIE DIRECTORS
Australia's tallest building is the 823-foot high Rialto Towers in this former capital
Melbourne
THE LAND DOWN UNDER
The 2 main forms of quantum mechanics were developed by Erwin Schrodinger & this "uncertain" German
Heisenberg
SUBATOMIC MASS PERSUASION
1957:A.C.,France
Albert Camus
NOBEL LIT WINNERS, INITIALLY YOURS
In 1905 a famous mutiny took place aboard it
thePotemkin
"POT" POURRI
A spider that died by falling into a a poisoned drink saved the life of this "Great" Prussian king
Frederick
ROYAL ODDITIES
This "Philadelphia Story" director was patriotically named for Admiral George Dewey
George Cukor
MOVIE DIRECTORS
The title of this popular song refers to wandering with a blanket roll, not a dance or a lady
"Waltzing Matilda"
THE LAND DOWN UNDER
The mass of any 1 proton is about equal to the mass of one atom of this element
hydrogen
SUBATOMIC MASS PERSUASION
1971:P.N.,Chile
Pablo Neruda
NOBEL LIT WINNERS, INITIALLY YOURS
Also known as a powwow, it's a Native American get-together for discussion & fun
potlatch
"POT" POURRI
This director of "Casablanca", a classic film about refugees, had himself left his homeland of Hungary
Michael Curtiz
MOVIE DIRECTORS
Located in a national park, it's about 1 1/2 miles long & rises 1,142 feet above the desert floor
Ayers Rock
THE LAND DOWN UNDER
In 1998 it was found that these particles that pass through everything at light speed do have mass
neutrinos
SUBATOMIC MASS PERSUASION
1938:P.S.B.,United States
Pearl Buck
NOBEL LIT WINNERS, INITIALLY YOURS
1969's "The Promise" & 1990's "The Gift of Asher Lev" are sequels to 2 of this writer's earlier works
(Chaim) Potok
"POT" POURRI
'He defended civil rights as a representative from Massachusetts\' 11th District from 1895 to 1901')
John Francis Fitzgerald
PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES
"Hey, Wait A Minute (I Wrote A Book!)" by this former Raiders coach was a best seller in 1984
John Madden
BEST SELLERS
In 1971 this lead singer of The Doors was buried in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris
Jim Morrison
ROCK GROUPS
Like birds, all species of salmon & trout build these
Nests
FISH
In 1908 William Durant founded this company that included Oldsmobile & Buick
General Motors
THE AUTO INDUSTRY
When her spouse was found guilty on Oct. 5, 1989, she sang a religious song for the press
Tammy Faye Bakker
FAMOUS COUPLES
The driver of this "train" at Disneyland needs a one-track mind
Monorail
FILE UNDER "M"
In 1987 a Soviet magazine ran excerpts from this B. Pasternak novel -- 29 years after it was banned
"Doctor Zhivago"
BEST SELLERS
Kenny Rogers & other members of the New Christy Minstrels left the group to form this one in 1967
The First Edition
ROCK GROUPS
Southern California fish that come ashore to spawn & then run back into the ocean
Grunion
FISH
Built by Carl Benz in 1885, the first internal combustion car had this many wheels
3
THE AUTO INDUSTRY
Chef whose wife, K, is the "K" in K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen
Paul Prudhomme
FAMOUS COUPLES
It's the liquid that remains after sugar crystals are removed from concentrated cane juice
Molasses
FILE UNDER "M"
His "Kids Say The Darndest Things!" topped the best-seller lists in both 1957 & 1958
Art Linkletter
BEST SELLERS
This group's "Nights In White Satin" appeared on an album 5 yrs. before the single hit No. 2 in 1972
The Moody Blues
ROCK GROUPS
The Walking, Electric & Pencil species of this fish have "whiskers"
Catfish
FISH
The first true example of this automobile was introduced in 1906 & called the Silver Ghost
Rolls-Royce
THE AUTO INDUSTRY
Dr. Jonas Salk's wife, Francoise Gilot, was once the companion of this late, great modern artist
Pablo Picasso
FAMOUS COUPLES
His resume included Archduke of Austria & Emperor of Mexico
Maximillian
FILE UNDER "M"
"Made In America" was this businessman's memoir of the 1984 Olympics
Peter Ueberroth
BEST SELLERS
Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons & Peter Criss formed this rock group
KISS
ROCK GROUPS
The Portuguese got the name for this toothed fish from the Tupi Indians who live along the Amazon
piranhas
FISH
A Ford model that came out in '68, or the Italian name of the city that's home to Fiat
Torino
THE AUTO INDUSTRY
"Major Dad" star Gerald McRaney must have had designs on this "Designing Woman" because he married her
Delta Burke
FAMOUS COUPLES
It begins "John, by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy & Aquitaine...."
Magna Carta
FILE UNDER "M"
This Lloyd C. Douglas novel of the crucifixion was a best seller in '43 & '53 when the movie came out
"The Robe"
BEST SELLERS
4 hit singles came from this group's "Hi Infidelity" album
REO Speedwagon
ROCK GROUPS
The largest species of this fish is the bluefin; the smallest, the skipjack
Tuna
FISH
August Horch founded 2 car companies - Horch & this one that's the Latin translation of his surname
Audi
THE AUTO INDUSTRY
Their daughter Linn Ullmann married an Oslo lawyer in 1989
Liv Ullmann & Ingmar Bergman
FAMOUS COUPLES
From the French for "a mixture", it's a free-for-all battle
Melee
FILE UNDER "M"
On March 10, 1775 this frontiersman began blazing the Wilderness Road
Daniel Boone
EARLY AMERICA
In the title of a play by Robert Anderson, it's paired with "sympathy"
Tea
PLAYS
The Paraguay River divides Paraguay into 2 major regions: Occidental Paraguay & this
Oriental Paraguay
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
Politically speaking, it's a cause that looks promising; you can join by "jumping on" it
Bandwagon
POLITICAL TERMS
One legend claims they fought in the Trojan War under their queen, Penthesilea
Amazons
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
This "good" guy who discovered vulcanization was born in New Haven
Charles Goodyear
NUTMEGGERS
In early colonial Boston only men belonging to this religious sect could vote or hold office
Puritans
EARLY AMERICA
In "Painting Churches", the churches aren't buildings but these
People
PLAYS
The Denmark Strait is located between Iceland & this Danish possession
Greenland
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
A special-interest group, named for the place in a capital building that is frequented by them
Lobby
POLITICAL TERMS
It starts life again as a small worm that crawls out of the ashes of its own funeral pyre
The Phoenix
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Born in Winsted, he practiced law in Connecticut before he wrote "Unsafe At Any Speed"
Ralph Nader
NUTMEGGERS
Drawn up in 1620, this document formed the basis of Plymouth Colony's legal system
The Mayflower Compact
EARLY AMERICA
Anita Loos wrote the non-musical stage adaptation of this Colette novel
"Gigi"
PLAYS
Cristoforo Colombo Int'l Airport serves this city, Italy's busiest port
Genoa
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
Someone who votes for candidates of different parties on the same ballot votes this kind of "ticket"
Split Ticket
POLITICAL TERMS
To make her son invulnerable, Achilles' mother bathed all but the famous heel in this river
The Styx
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
His character, Radar O' Reilly, was from Iowa, but this actor was born in Bristol, Connecticut
Gary Burghoff
NUTMEGGERS
1797 "affair" in which 3 agents for France demanded a $250,000 bribe from U.S. diplomats
"XYZ" Affair
EARLY AMERICA
"Dial 'M' For Murder" takes place in the living room of an apartment in this foreign capital
London
PLAYS
75 times the size of Belgium, the former Belgian Congo is now known by this name
Zaire
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
A candidate who's nominated by his home state at a convention, often as an honorary gesture
Favorite Son
POLITICAL TERMS
After she fell in love with him, Circe lifted the spell that had changed men into swine
Odysseus
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Her "immediate family" raised her mostly in Greenwich & also briefly in Africa
Glenn Close
NUTMEGGERS
On March 1, 1781 Maryland became the last state to ratify this document
Articles of Confederation
EARLY AMERICA
"Regina" was a 1949 musical version of this Lillian Hellman play
"The Little Foxes"
PLAYS
More American Indians live in this country on South America's Pacific coast than any other
Peru
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
The "privilege" exercised by Congress & the executive branch to use the Postal Service free of charge
Franking
POLITICAL TERMS
Her sisters Stheno & Euryale are mentioned in myth, but we don't know if they were as ugly
Medusa
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
This Watergate judge born in Waterbury was Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" for 1973
John Sirica
NUTMEGGERS
'When Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics, he was a naturalized citizen of this country')
Switzerland (He came to the U.S. later on)
SCIENTISTS
Centuries before Columbus, these people encountered Native Americans & called them skraelings
Vikings
BEFORE COLUMBUS
It was his portrayal of the mummy that was used on the U.S. stamp seenhere
Boris Karloff
MUMMY DEAREST
Usually you begin this game by asking, "Animal, vegetable, or mineral?"
Twenty Questions
twentysomething
"I never doubted myself", the Chicago Bulls star said after his title-winning jump shot in 1998
Michael Jordan
DA BULLS
Thick fur and a layer of blubber keep this northernmost species warm
a polar bear
BEARS
Stocks not listed on exchanges are said to be sold this way, like nonprescription drugs
over-the-counter
THE STOCK MARKET
Around 9000 B.C., herds of these large wild cattle dramatically increased & became a major food source
buffalo (or bison)
BEFORE COLUMBUS
"The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb" is a top-seller in this kids' book series
Goosebumps
MUMMY DEAREST
At arrival or departure, this "salute" is fired for a U.S. president or a visiting head of state
a 21-gun salute
twentysomething
In 1991 Scottie Pippen's defense on Magic Johnson helped the Bulls beat this team for their first title
the Lakers
DA BULLS
Bears' dormancy in this season isn't true hibernation, as their body temperature doesn't drop
winter
BEARS
These open-end investment "funds" began in the U.S. in the 1920s & now hold over $5 trillion
mutual funds
THE STOCK MARKET
The name of this light axe used as both weapon & tool comes from the proto-Algonquin for "to cut off"
tomahawk
BEFORE COLUMBUS
Ancient Egyptians worshipped these animals and now their "scans" are used to study mummies
cats
MUMMY DEAREST
It's the numerical designation for normal visual acuity
20/20
twentysomething
This colorful rebounding champ was an airport janitor when he began playing organized basketball
Dennis Rodman
DA BULLS
The sloth bear is also called this "bear" after the food it & Pooh both crave
honey(bear)
BEARS
Known as S&P;, it tracks the market with reports, guides, and indices
Standard & Poors
THE STOCK MARKET
In the 1100s the Awatovi Pueblos near what is now Tuba City in this state housed 1,000 people in 1,300 rooms
Arizona
BEFORE COLUMBUS
In the movies, 9 tana leaves have the power to do this
resurrect the dead (bring a mummy back to life)
MUMMY DEAREST
To the closest mile, it's the length of an Olympic marathon
twenty-six
twentysomething
John Paxson clinched the title for the Bulls in 1993 with one of these shots instituted in the 1979-'80 season
a three-pointer
DA BULLS
The "clan of" this animal, ursus speleaus, became extinct about 10,000 years ago
cave bear
BEARS
This printing terms refers to funds deposited with a broker to protect the broker against loss
margin
THE STOCK MARKET
The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca tribes made up this "league" founded around 1450
the Iroquois League
BEFORE COLUMBUS
In 1994 the Royal Mummy Room in this city's Egyptian Museum was reopened after 13 years
Cairo
MUMMY DEAREST
As Captain Kirk could tell you, the original "Star Trek" TV series was set in this century
the twenty-third century
twentysomething
Artis Gilmore, a star at this position, twice started the All-Star game against Kareem
center
DA BULLS
Thisspecies is named for its distinctive markings
spectacled bear
BEARS
Short for "long-term equity anticipation securities", or what distraught investors took in the 1929 crash
LEAPS
THE STOCK MARKET
Zane Grey's ancestor Betty Zane helped save Fort Henry, now the site of this state's city of Wheeling
West Virginia
THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES
In this film Debra Winger gets to have a fling with John Lithgow before she dies
Terms of Endearment
FILMS OF THE 1980s
"So rested he by the tumtum tree, and stood awhile in thought" is a line from his "Jabberwocky"
Lewis Carroll
POET-TREE
In 1999 this will resume its rightful position as 9th planet from the sun
Pluto
FILE UNDER "P"
Its state fair is held in Columbia
South Carolina
THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES
Stephen Hopkins, more recently "Lost in Space", directed the fifth installment of this Freddy Krueger series
Nightmare on Elm Street
FILMS OF THE 1980s
This measure is used for radioactive decay because the time for all atoms to break down is unknowable
half-life
PHYSICS
He wrote "Tree at My Window" a few years after "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
(Robert) Frost
POET-TREE
Ling-Ling was a famous one
a panda
FILE UNDER "P"
(Hey, what's happening? I'm Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray. The answer is…) While touring in 1996, we played with Johnny Rotten & this group who had reunited
the Sex Pistols
REUNIONS
On this Maryland site, during the bloodiest Civil War battle, Commissary Sgt. William McKinley served coffee
Antietam
THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES
In a 1985 spy movie, Timothy Hutton was "The Falcon" & Sean Penn was this cohort
the Snowman
FILMS OF THE 1980s
It's the study of the nature & behavior of light, & also the title of an Isaac Newton treatise
optics
PHYSICS
"O my palm-tree…rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bare", she wrote in "Sonnets from the Portuguese"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
POET-TREE
Holiday for Matzo, Matzo men
Passover
FILE UNDER "P"
Frank Sinatra brokered the reconciliation of these 2 on the 1976 Muscular Dystrophy Telethon
Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin
REUNIONS
Mary Pickford, Pearl White, and Theda Bara were among those who made movies in Fort Lee in this state
New Jersey
THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES
She was a sultry 16 when she starred in the 1981 romance "Endless Love"
Brooke Shields
FILMS OF THE 1980s
In present day accelerators, particles reach energies of over 1 trillion eV, this unit
electron-volt
PHYSICS
It was George Pope Morris who wrote "Woodman," do this! "Touch not a single bough!"
spare that tree
POET-TREE
The tine of a fork, or the point of an antler
a prong
FILE UNDER "P"
East met West with this country's October 3, 1990 reunion
Germany
REUNIONS
With Raleigh & Durham, it forms North Carolina's "Research Triangle"
Chapel Hill
THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES
Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" inspired this movie with Harrison Ford as an android hunter
Blade Runner
FILMS OF THE 1980s
Also heard in economics, it's the property of a solid forced object out of shape, then returning to its original form
elasticity
PHYSICS
Longfellow poem that begins in "The forest primeval" where "hemlocks… stand like Druids of eld"
"Evangeline"
POET-TREE
This "soup" didn't start your meal, it started you and all
the primordial soup
FILE UNDER "P"
'At the time of his 1902 nomination to the Supreme Court, he was Chief Justice of Massachusetts')
Oliver Wendell Holmes
THE SUPREME COURT
In 1978 their duet "You're The One That I Want" replaced another duet by Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams at No. 1
Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta
TOP O' THE CHARTS
A popular brand of orange juice
Tropicana
ALSO A VEGAS CASINO
Abe gained the respect of local ruffians when he held his own against one of the Clary's Grove boys in this sport
wrestling
YOUNG ABE LINCOLN
This warehouse club has over 43 million members, some of them Gold Star, lugging home the big jars of mayo
Costco
COMPANIES
We don't see what was so good about this 2-word term for the worldwide 1930s economic disaster
the Great Depression
A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
Her "Control" album produced 5 Top 5 singles, each in a different spot; "When I Think Of You" hit No. 1
Janet Jackson
TOP O' THE CHARTS
A 3.5-million-square-mile land area between the Atlantic Ocean & the Red Sea
the Sahara
ALSO A VEGAS CASINO
Among the books read by Lincoln as a youngster were "Robinson Crusoe", "Aesop's Fables", & Mason Weems' "Life of" this man
Washington
YOUNG ABE LINCOLN
This co. agreed in 1993 to lease the New Amsterdam Theatre, & the old Times Square of degradation & filth was history
Disney
COMPANIES
Both pleasant & painful, as in a memory
bittersweet
A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
"Refugees Row" this entire island "to Miami"
Cuba
THE ONIONHEADLINES FROM THE YEAR 2056
In 1977 this "sleepy" song became Fleetwood Mac's only No. 1 hit
"Dreams"
TOP O' THE CHARTS
A weapon removed from a stone
Excalibur
ALSO A VEGAS CASINO
On October 5, 1818 this mother of Lincoln & 2 of her relatives died of milk sickness
Nancy Hanks
YOUNG ABE LINCOLN
This chain with a month as its name has acquired stores like Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh & Robinson's in L.A.
May Company (May\'s Department Store accepted)
COMPANIES
Alliterative two-word term for action by one's own forces causing casualties to one's own troops
friendly fire
A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
Boston rejoices as this team "Lose(s) In 50th Straight Pennant Race; Fans Blame 'Curse of Jeter'"
the Yankees
THE ONIONHEADLINES FROM THE YEAR 2056
Madonna's "This Used To Be My Playground" was sung over the closing credits of this 1992 film
A League of Their Own
TOP O' THE CHARTS
Stevenson's rousing tale from 1881
Treasure Island
ALSO A VEGAS CASINO
While serving in the Illinois legislature, Abe switched to this party of his political idol Henry Clay
the Whigs
YOUNG ABE LINCOLN
Orange & Rockland Utilities is a subsidiary of this company named for an inventor
Consolidated Edison (ConEd)
COMPANIES
2-word term for something supposedly confidential but actually known quite generally
an open secret
A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
This country "Bombed Back into the Renaissance"
Italy
THE ONIONHEADLINES FROM THE YEAR 2056
In 1991 this heartthrob took Percy Sledge's "When A Man Loves A Woman" back to the top spot
Michael Bolton
TOP O' THE CHARTS
A market town of Upper Egypt built on the ruins of Thebes
Luxor
ALSO A VEGAS CASINO
During his 80 days of military service in 1832, Abe attempted without success to track down this Sauk & Fox Indian chief
Black Hawk
YOUNG ABE LINCOLN
In 1959 Richard De Vos & Jay Van Andel founded this company that now has 3 million independent distributors
Amway
COMPANIES
This computer language gets oxymoronic when it follows "Advanced"
BASIC
A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
Jessica Tandy finds a farmer dead, his eyes gouged out, in this 1963 thriller
The Birds
HITCHCOCK
Chad's colonial overlord until independence in 1960
France
CHAD IS RAD
It can mean to burn slightly, or to burn the ends of hair or cloth
singe
IT'S A "SIN"
This late author's representatives sued over "The Cat Not in the Hat", a rhyming account of the O.J. Simpson trial
Dr. Seuss
TAKE-OFFS
As its name suggests, the tipp toe approach procedure at SFO is meant to minimize this
noise
LANDINGS
Hitchcock made this film in 1934 & then remade it in 1956 with Doris Day & Jimmy Stewart
The Man Who Knew Too Much
HITCHCOCK
(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows some animal tracks displayed on a monitor.) Though its tail sometimes drags over its trail, this animal, Castor canadensis, can be identified by itswebbed hind foot
the beaver
ANIMAL TRACKS
In the 11th century the kings of Chad converted to this faith
Islam
CHAD IS RAD
For more than 200 years, the annual Baltic Herring Market & Fair has been a big to-do in this world capital
Helsinki
IT'S A "SIN"
"Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry" is a satirical type of this guide
a travel guide
TAKE-OFFS
Runways are numbered by compass degrees without the last digit, so this is the highest number used
36
LANDINGS
Cary Grant admires Grace Kelly's big diamonds in this 1955 caper
To Catch a Thief
HITCHCOCK
Refugees from the neighboring Darfur region of this country have fled into eastern Chad
the Sudan
CHAD IS RAD
Carson Sink & the Great Salt Lake lie in the drainage area known as the Great this
Basin
IT'S A "SIN"
"The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen", one of Bret Harte's "condensed novels", parodies this French tale
The Three Musketeers
TAKE-OFFS
You land, not anchor, at this Phoenix airport, named by a board member from Scenic Airways
Sky Harbor Airport
LANDINGS
Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman fall in love & ferret out Nazis in Brazil in this classic
Notorious
HITCHCOCK
(Sarah of the Clue Crew displays some animal tracks on a monitor.) The overlapping track of this animal, also known as the bay lynx, is similar to that of the siamese but bigger & deeper
a bobcat
ANIMAL TRACKS
It's the country directly north of Chad
Libya
CHAD IS RAD
Of Welsh extraction, Frank Lloyd Wright named his homes & fellowship after this early Welsh poet
Taliesin
IT'S A "SIN"
Rafreaky the baboon & a 30-year-old Annie have appeared in this NYC theater spoof that debuted in 1982
Forbidden Broadway
TAKE-OFFS
A beach on this half-Dutch island offersclose-up viewsof planes landing at Princess Juliana Airport
St. Maarten
LANDINGS
John Dall & Farley Granger strangle a college friend just for thrills in this, Hitch's first color film
Rope
HITCHCOCK
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows some animal tracks on a monitor.) Deer usually leave a simple, 2-toed track, but if they run in snow, you can see the imprint of these vestigial claws
the dewclaws
ANIMAL TRACKS
The capital & largest city
N\'Djamena
CHAD IS RAD
As well as discovering a famous gap in Saturn's rings, he also discovered 4 of Saturn's moons
(Giovanni) Cassini
IT'S A "SIN"
"Go for Barocco" is a take-off of Balanchine by this hairy, all-male ballet troupe
the Trockadero de Monte Carlo
TAKE-OFFS
The ILS, short for this, was first installed at Indianapolis in 1940
the Instrument Landing System
LANDINGS
'Ironically, this 1953 science fiction book began appearing in a censored version in 1967')
Fahrenheit 451
20th CENTURY NOVELS
This university's 2 campuses in Chicago & Evanston, Illinois both front on Lake Michigan
Northwestern
"NORTH"
In 1838 Congress granted mail carrier status to this new form of transportation
Railroads
U.S. HISTORY
Marigold petals are sometimes added to chicken feed to insure that these will be bright yellow
Egg Yolks
FOOD
Switzerland's largest city in population, it's alphabetically last except for Zurzach & Zweisimmen
Zurich
EUROPE
Called the "King of the Terriers", its original home was the valley of the river Aire
Airedale
ANIMALS
Slang for a left-handed baseball pitcher
Southpaw
"SOUTH"
(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):This 1960 hit song served as the title tune to a 20th Century Fox film:
"North To Alaska" (by Johnny Horton)
"NORTH"
America's first successful world exposition was held in 1876 in this Pennsylvania city
Philadelphia
U.S. HISTORY
In the early 1900s this fast food was sometimes called "Coney Island Chicken"
Hot Dog
FOOD
It's the only country that borders both the Baltic & Black Seas
Soviet Union/Russia
EUROPE
Like a lot of birds, the monarch butterfly does this in the winter
Migrate
ANIMALS
Notre Dame University is located near this Indiana city first called Big St. Joseph
South Bend
"SOUTH"
The founder of Lockheed later founded this competing aircraft company named for himself
Northrup
"NORTH"
The territory acquired by the 1853 Gadsden Purchase is now part of these 2 states
Arizona & New Mexico
U.S. HISTORY
Native to Mexico, this pear-shaped green fruit is a hardy member of the laurel family
the avocado
FOOD
In Germany the autobahn is the freeway & the U-bahn, one of these
Subway/underground
EUROPE
A camel's hump doesn't contain water, as once was thought, but this, for energy when food is scarce
Fat
ANIMALS
In a hit song by the Orlons, it's the answer to the question, "Where do all the hippies meet?"
"South Street"
"SOUTH"
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar said, "If I could pray to move, prayers would move me; but I am as constant as" this
The North Star
"NORTH"
The Marquis De Lafayette served in the American Revolution, the Lafayette Escadrille in this war
World War I
U.S. HISTORY
It's recommended you try the Sachertorte while at the Hotel Sacher in this capital city
Vienna
EUROPE
The only female deer with antlers, it uses them to dig in the snow for food
Reindeer
ANIMALS
SEATO, a defensive alliance formed in 1954 & dissolved in 1977, was an acronym for this
SouthEast Asia Treaty Organization
"SOUTH"
Robert Duvall portrayed Jesse James in this 1972 film about an 1876 bank robbery
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
"NORTH"
This last president from the Whig party rode Lincoln's funeral train from Batavia, N.Y. to Buffalo
Millard Fillmore
U.S. HISTORY
Tradition says throwing coins into this will insure your return to Rome
Trevi Fountain
EUROPE
Marine creature whose zoological name is Hippocampus
Seahorse
ANIMALS
This successful, no-frills airline is headquartered at Love Field in Dallas
Southwest Airlines
"SOUTH"
This church faced periodic persecution for 300 years, until Constantine's conversion
Christian Church
ANCIENT ROME
Prince Chulalongkorn becomes king at the end of this Rodgers & Hammerstein musical
The King and I
THEATER
Estavayer-Le-Vac, Switzerland boasts a museum full of these dead amphibians arranged in human poses
Frogs
MUSEUMS
Several weeks before July 4, 1776 New Hampshire issued its own one of these
Declaration of Independence
NEW HAMPSHIRE
One biography of this author was called "The Man Who Wrote Dracula", which lacks a certain bite
Bram Stoker
BIOGRAPHIES
Director of the CIA during the Iran-Contra scandal, he died before he could testify at the hearings
William Casey
THE CIA
In 73 B.C. he escaped from a school for gladiators & gathered an army of 70,000 rebels
Spartacus
ANCIENT ROME
"Cold-blooded" author who set his musical "House of Flowers" in a bordello in the West Indies
Truman Capote
THEATER
In English, Brazil's Museu Do Ouro & Colombia's Museo Del Oro are both known as this
Museum of Gold
MUSEUMS
New Hampshire quarries provided this type of stone for building the Library of Congress
Granite
NEW HAMPSHIRE
"Madame Sarah" is Cornelia Otis Skinner's biography of this woman
Sarah Bernhardt
BIOGRAPHIES
In 1975 the Rockefeller Commission concluded the CIA was spying illegally in this country
U.S.A.
THE CIA
Ironically, the last titular emperor of Rome bore this name, the same as Rome's founder
Augustus Romulus
ANCIENT ROME
This island, famous for its coffee beans, is the home of the Royal Kona Coffee Mill & Museum
Big Island of Hawaii
MUSEUMS
A key element in local gov't is this type of meeting held annually on the first Tuesday in March
Town Meeting
NEW HAMPSHIRE
He was a biographer himself, but he's best known as the subject of a 1791 biography
Samuel Johnson
BIOGRAPHIES
He directed the CIA in the 1950s while his brother was Secretary of State
Allen Dulles (his brother was John Foster Dulles)
THE CIA
Admission was free at this huge arena, estimated to have been 3 times the size of the Colosseum
Circus Maximus
ANCIENT ROME
The Woolaroc Museum near Bartlesville in this state is famous for its collection of Indian blankets
Oklahoma
MUSEUMS
Though it's New Hampshire's largest port city, the naval shipyard of the same name is in Maine
Portsmouth
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Maude Howe Elliott won a Pulitzer Prize for co-authoring a book about this poet, her mother
Julia Ward Howe
BIOGRAPHIES
The CIA & this watchdog "council" were established by the same act of Congress in 1947
National Security Council
THE CIA
Emperor Julian, who sought to restore paganism in place of Christianity, was nicknamed this
Julian the Apostate
ANCIENT ROME
The buildings that house the Science Museum of VA. & Paris' Musee D' Orsay were once this type of station
Train Station
MUSEUMS
In New Hampshire, these geographic features are called notches
Mountain Passes
NEW HAMPSHIRE
This author, not Gary Larson, is the subject of "The Far Side of Paradise"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
BIOGRAPHIES
One of the CIA's early major operations was to help restore this Mideastern potentate to his throne in 1953
Shah of Iran
THE CIA
'Merlin the Magician cast a spell putting this title character to sleep for 1,300 years')
A Connecticut Yankee (In King Arthur\'s Court)
AMERICAN LITERATURE
A rock called pridotite produces this hardest gem
diamond
ROCKS & STUFF
Captian James T. Kirk, Boston lawyer Denny Crane
William Shatner
I PLAYED 'EM ON TV
In 1883 he gave the eulogy at the funeral of his good friend & co-writer Karl Marx
Engels
FAMOUS FRIENDSHIPS
Fans of computer flight simulations are ecstatic about this type of controller, developed for the lunar rover
joy stick
NASA PRODUCTS
This 10-item document ratified by New Jersey in 1789 & Connecticut in 1939
the Bill of Rights
THINGS TO GIVE THANKS FOR
If you're really hungry, pig out on one of these, the Swedish equivalent of a buffet
a smorgasbord
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
This form of molten rock deep within the earth can reach a temperature of over 2100 degrees
magma
ROCKS & STUFF
Jeannie Bueller,Rachel Green
Jennifer Aniston
I PLAYED 'EM ON TV
In the Bible, Saul's son Jonathan becomes great friends with this future king after battling the Philistines
David
FAMOUS FRIENDSHIPS
For NASA, Black & Decker developed this type of tool to let astronauts work on the moon without needing a wall socket
cordless
NASA PRODUCTS
This process that begins with weathering, for giving us Bryce Canyon & Niagara Falls
erosion
THINGS TO GIVE THANKS FOR
We commonly use this 4-word French phrase to mean "the best of the best"
creme de la creme
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
This agreeable-sounding metamorphic rock has alternating bands of dark- & light-colored minerals
gneiss
ROCKS & STUFF
Dr. John Becker,Sam Malone
Ted Danson
I PLAYED 'EM ON TV
When Henry David Thoreau lived on the shores of Walden Pond, this friend of his was the landlord
Emerson
FAMOUS FRIENDSHIPS
NASA used this in Skylab back in 1973 to detect toxic vapors in the air
smoke detectors
NASA PRODUCTS
The central one of these, which pulls our hands away from fire, & the peripheral one, which lets us taste chocolate
nervous system
THINGS TO GIVE THANKS FOR
It's what the Norwegians call a long, narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs
fjord
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
Most rocks are composed primarily of oxygen & this element
silicon
ROCKS & STUFF
Stacey Colbert,Dr. Sloan Parker,Grace Adler
Debra Messing
I PLAYED 'EM ON TV
This adventurous man was a close friend of George Bernard Shaw & changed his name to T.E. Shaw in 1927
Lawrence of Arabia
FAMOUS FRIENDSHIPS
Since NASA created strong translucent ceramics, it's tinsel teeth no more when you wear these
braces
NASA PRODUCTS
Melody, rhythm & this third main element, used as a synonym for "chord", making music beautiful
harmony
THINGS TO GIVE THANKS FOR
After some fierce flamencoing, you might hear cries of this, Spanish for "water"
agua
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
Soapstone, used as an electrical insulator, is a greenish-gray variety of this soft mineral
talc
ROCKS & STUFF
Samantha Micelli,Jennifer Mancini,Phoebe Halliwell
Alyssa Milano
I PLAYED 'EM ON TV
Neitzsche was a close friend of this "Parsifal" composer, but later things went sour between them
Wagner
FAMOUS FRIENDSHIPS
NASA's technology to reduce signal noise from a spacecraft allows this product to receive clear images for your TV
satellite dish
NASA PRODUCTS
Give thanks forher
Julianne Moore
THINGS TO GIVE THANKS FOR
If you're eager, enthusiastic, rarin' & read to go, you're this, from the Chinese meaning "work together"
gung-ho
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
You can tour the cellars of Moet et Chandon in Epernay, fittingly on an avenue with this sparkling name
Champagne
TOUR DE FRANCE
Harrison Ford famously shot a swordsman in this first Indiana Jones film because he was too ill to do a fight scene
Raiders of the Lost Ark
CINEMA TRIVIA
Kenyan capital where the Earl of Erroll frolicked with randy, druggie friends--until he was murdered!
Nairobi
EARLS GONE WILD
(Sarah of the Clue Crew points to an image of a painting on a screen.) You can see why John Constable said that in this type of work, the sky is the chief organ of sentiment
a landscape
ART HISTORY CLASS
...in music if you can't remember that the piccolo is a member of this woodwind's family
flute
YOU GET AN "F"
Title occuptation of Figaro in a Rossini opera
Barber
FIND A JOB, KID
A large armada crossed the English Channel to invade the beaches of this historic region on June 6, 1944
Normandy
TOUR DE FRANCE
Battle scenes in this 1995 Mel Gibson epic had to be reshot; some extras were wearing watches & sunglasses
Braveheart
CINEMA TRIVIA
Henry Howard, a 16th century Earl of Surrey, liked breaking windows & writing early poems in this form adapted from Italy
sonnet
EARLS GONE WILD
(Sarah of the Clue Crew points to an image of a cave painting on a screen.) Temperature and moisture within the Lascaux cave preserved even the pigments from 15,000 B.C. in this age
the Stone Age
ART HISTORY CLASS
...in biology if you actually pick up the poison dart species of this amphibian
frog
YOU GET AN "F"
From the old English for "House Guard", it's the old term for a male flight attendant
steward
FIND A JOB, KID
This mountain range extends along France's border with Spain
the Pyrenees
TOUR DE FRANCE
The voice of Princess Fiona in "Shrek", she broke her nose while surfing in Hawaii on her August 30, 2003 birthday
Cameron Diaz
CINEMA TRIVIA
Lord Chancellor of this country 1789-1802, the Earl of Clare fought against rights for Catholics there
Ireland
EARLS GONE WILD
(Sarah of the Clue Crew points to an image of a painting on a screen.) As painters began to portray domestic life, "The Merode Altarpiece" gave this humble character his due
Joseph
ART HISTORY CLASS
...in international studies if you can't recollect that the Eduskunta is this country's Parliament
Finland
YOU GET AN "F"
These two words, synonyms for insurers & morticians, both begin with "under"
underwriters and undertakers
FIND A JOB, KID
This city, "Capital of the French Riviera", likely got its name from the Greek word for "Victory"
Nice
TOUR DE FRANCE
Local boys Ben Affleck & Matt Damon were Fenway Park extras in this 1989 Kevin Costner film
Field of Dreams
CINEMA TRIVIA
This British peer & noted thinker was arrested after an anti-nuclear demonstration when he was 89
Bertrand Russell
EARLS GONE WILD
(Sarah of the Clue Crew points to an image of a painting on a screen.) The brushstroke works of this pop artist are parodies on abstract art technique
Lichtenstein
ART HISTORY CLASS
...in German lit if you can't recall that this Goethe title character messes with Mephistopheles
Faust
YOU GET AN "F"
The name of this job comes from the Greek for "dance writing"
choreographer
FIND A JOB, KID
This longest river in France is famous for its picturesque valley & chateaux
the Loire
TOUR DE FRANCE
The real Jim Garrison played Earl Warren in this 1991 film
JFK
CINEMA TRIVIA
Imprisoned for quarelling at the court of James II, the Earl of Devonshire asked this successor to take the throne
William III
EARLS GONE WILD
(Sarah of the Clue Crew points to an image of a painting on a screen.) In Monet's work, we see the impressionist's varied colors, known as "the rainbow" this
palette
ART HISTORY CLASS
...in chemistry if you fail to identify this radioactive element named for physicist Enrico
Fermium
YOU GET AN "F"
Somebody whose job it is to control a fleet of vehicles like taxis by radio communication
dispatcher
FIND A JOB, KID
'The image seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-11-18_FJ.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> is part of Faulkner\'s original text of this 1930 novel')
As I Lay Dying
AMERICAN NOVELS
After the South took it, the fort endured a 15-mo. siege, reinforcing its walls, symbolically, with bales of this
cotton
FORT SUMTER
The bobbleheaded character seenhereplays a pivotal role in this horrific film series
Hellraiser
A BOBBLEHEAD CATEGORY
Women will curse thee if this bathroom object is left in the up position
the toilet seat
THE NOT-SO-DEADLY SINS
The Portuguese were the first Europeans to enterthiscountry
Vietnam
INTERNATIONAL ROAD VEHICLE STICKERS
This city precedes "Fog" in the name of a brand of raincoats
London
BRANDS
Any song about Earth's natural satellite
a Moon tune
ASTRONOMICAL RHYME TIME
The "Civil War Dictionary" says this "developer of modern baseball" "aimed the first gun fired in defense of Ft. Sumter"
Abner Doubleday
FORT SUMTER
Dude, in the 1970s,thiscomedy team was smokin'
Cheech & Chong
A BOBBLEHEAD CATEGORY
To capitalize all text in an email is an abomination that signifies the person is doing this
shouting
THE NOT-SO-DEADLY SINS
Itfirst achieved independence in 1821
Costa Rica
INTERNATIONAL ROAD VEHICLE STICKERS
Ironically, commercials using a toy bunny to advertise this brand weren't meant to "keep going"
Energizer
BRANDS
Red planet pubs
Mars bars
ASTRONOMICAL RHYME TIME
On Dec. 27, 1860 Major Robert Anderson raised the stakes when he raised a 36- by 20-foot one of these
the American flag
FORT SUMTER
You'll be my Little Buddy when you name this actor depictedhere
Bob Denver
A BOBBLEHEAD CATEGORY
God's grace will shine on mealtime when this is put on a lap, not tucked into one's collar
the napkin
THE NOT-SO-DEADLY SINS
Most ofitspeople are Sunni Muslims
Tajikistan
INTERNATIONAL ROAD VEHICLE STICKERS
This brand name was first put on sacks of generic "self-rising pancake flour" around 1890
Aunt Jemima
BRANDS
Space telescope problem
Hubble trouble
ASTRONOMICAL RHYME TIME
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the waters of Charleston, SC.) In January 1861,thispresident tried to relieve Ft. Sumter with a supply ship, but it was turned back, &amp; the stage was set
Buchanan
FORT SUMTER
On the late-'70s TV series that featured the big guy seenhere, he was played by this big man
Lou Ferrigno
A BOBBLEHEAD CATEGORY
The Kingdom of Heaven will be thine, even to those who remove the tags from this signature Serta product
the mattress
THE NOT-SO-DEADLY SINS
At one time,itconsisted of several independent kingdoms, including Ganja &amp; Ashanti
Ghana
INTERNATIONAL ROAD VEHICLE STICKERS
Say bonjour, kitty to this faux French clothing brand with a leaping feline as its logo
Le Tigre
BRANDS
Comet discoverer Edmond's narrow lanes
Halley\'s alleys
ASTRONOMICAL RHYME TIME
3 decades after the Civil War, fear of this European enemy prompted the building of a new battery; it was never used
Spain
FORT SUMTER
Pleasant dreams--it's the full name ofthischaracter who repeats his mayhem across multiple movies
Jason Voorhees
A BOBBLEHEAD CATEGORY
Thou shalt not wear white shoes from Labor Day til this holiday first officially observed in 1868
Memorial Day
THE NOT-SO-DEADLY SINS
The most common languagethere, after Spanish, is Guarani
Paraguay
INTERNATIONAL ROAD VEHICLE STICKERS
This company's first washing machines were "So simple, a child could do it"
Maytag
BRANDS
One who determines the age of meteorite impact holes
a crater dater (crater rater accepted)
ASTRONOMICAL RHYME TIME
This Mediterranean port is France's second-largest city (&amp; something to sing about)
Marseilles
VILLES DE FRANCE
Viola Fields, Mom to J. Lo's fiance
Monster-in-Law
JANE FONDA FILM ROLES
Sawbones is Old West slang for this profession
surgeon
THE "S" FILES <