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SEUSS AT THE MULTIPLEX $400 "Beyond ovoid abandonment, beyond ovoid betrayal... you won't believe the ending when he ""Hatches the Egg""" Horton PRESIDENTIAL STATES OF BIRTH $400 California Nixon AIRLINE TRAVEL $400 "It can be a place to leave your puppy when you take a trip, or a carrier for him that fits under an airplane seat" a kennel THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION $400 "He's considered the author of the Pentateuch, which is hard to believe, as Deuteronomy continues after his death" Moses MUSICAL TRAINS $400 "Steven Tyler of this band lent his steamin' vocals to ""Train Kept A-Rollin'"", first popularized by the Yardbirds" Aerosmith "Xs & ""O""s" $400 Around 100 A.D. Tacitus wrote a book on how this art of persuasive speaking had declined since Cicero oratory PRESIDENTIAL STATES OF BIRTH $800 1 of the 2 born in Vermont Coolidge (or Chester Arthur) AIRLINE TRAVEL $800 "When it began on Pan Am & Qantas in the late '70s, it was basically a roped-off part of the economy cabin with free drinks" business class THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION $800 "Ali, who married this man's daughter Fatima, is considered by Shia Muslims to be his true successor" Muhammed MUSICAL TRAINS $800 "During the 1954-1955 Sun sessions, Elvis climbed aboard this train ""sixteen coaches long""" "the ""Mystery Train""" "Xs & ""O""s" $800 "The shorter glass seen here, or a quaint cocktail made with sugar & bitters" an old-fashioned DR. SEUSS AT THE MULTIPLEX "$1,200 " "Ripped from today's headlines, he was a turtle king gone mad; Mack was the one good turtle who'd bring him down" Yertle AIRLINE TRAVEL "$2,000 " "In 2003 this airline agreed to buy KLM, creating Europe's largest airline" Air France THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION "$1,200 " Philadelphia got its start as a colony for this religious group of which William Penn was a member the Quakers MUSICAL TRAINS "$1,200 " "This ""Modern Girl"" first hit the Billboard Top 10 with ""Morning Train (Nine To Five)""" (Sheena) Easton "Xs & ""O""s" "$1,200 " "This stiff silken fabric is favored for bridal gowns, like Christina Applegate's in 2001" organza DR. SEUSS AT THE MULTIPLEX "$1,600 " "Somewhere between truth & fiction lies Marco's reality... on Halloween, you won't believe you saw it on this St." Mulberry Street AIRLINE TRAVEL "$1,600 " In 2004 United launched this new service that features low fares & more seats per plane Ted THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION "$1,600 " With Mary I's accession in 1553 he ran to Geneva; he returned in 1559 & reformed the Church of Scotland (John) Knox MUSICAL TRAINS "$1,600 " "This band's ""Train In Vain"" was a hidden track on its original 1979 ""London Calling"" album" The Clash "Xs & ""O""s" "$1,600 " "Cross-country skiing is sometimes referred to by these 2 letters, the same ones used to denote 90 in Roman numerals" XC DR. SEUSS AT THE MULTIPLEX "$2,000 " """500 Hats""... 500 ways to die. On July 4th, this young boy will defy a king... & become a legend" Bartholomew Cubbins AIRLINE TRAVEL "$2,000 " "In the seat pocket you'll find the catalog called ""Sky"" this, with must-haves like a solar-powered patio umbrella" Mall THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION "$3,200 " In 1534 he & his buddy Francis Xavier founded the Society of Jesus (St. Ignatius) Loyola MUSICAL TRAINS "$2,000 " "In 1961 James Brown announced ""all aboard"" for this train" Night Train "Xs & ""O""s" "$2,000 " This 1797 imbroglio began when 3 French agents demanded a huge bribe from U.S. diplomats the XYZ Affair THE SOLAR SYSTEM None Objects that pass closer to the sun than Mercury have been named for this mythological figure Icarus "GEOGRAPHY ""E""" $200 It's the largest kingdom in the United Kingdom England RADIO DISNEY $200 Party In The U.S.A. is by this singer who also plays a young lady named Hannah Miley Cyrus PARTS OF PEACH $200 "If this part of a peach is downy or fuzzy, the fruit's called a peach; if it's smooth, a nectarine" the skin BE FRUITFUL & MULTIPLY $200 4 x 12 48 LET'S BOUNCE $200 This verb for bouncing a basketball sounds like you're slobbering dribbling RHYMES WITH SMART $200 Blood pumper heart "GEOGRAPHY ""E""" $400 "(Tate: I'm Tate Shaffer aboard the National Geographic Endeavour. Alex: And...) We're here in the Galapagos Islands at zero degrees latitude, which means we're right above this imaginary line that goes all the way around the Earth" the equator RADIO DISNEY $400 "Everybody Else knows these huggable toys precede ""On Fire"" in the name of a Radio Disney top 30 band; do you?" Care Bears PARTS OF PEACH $400 Peaches are more than 80% this compound H2O BE FRUITFUL & MULTIPLY $400 7 x 7 x 2 98 LET'S BOUNCE $400 Sound navigation& ranging is the full name for this device that bounces radio waves underwater sonar RHYMES WITH SMART $400 "Small, slender missile thrown at a board in a game" a dart "GEOGRAPHY ""E""" $600 "This island in the South Pacific is named for the day of its discovery, a religious holiday" Easter Island RADIO DISNEY $600 The songs on 'Under My Skin' are...deeper than those on 'Let Go' said this Canadian on Radio Disney's website Avril Lavigne PARTS OF PEACH $600 5-letter word for the hard interior of a peach the stone BE FRUITFUL & MULTIPLY $600 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 360 LET'S BOUNCE $600 "In this kid's game, you bounce a small rubber ball while picking up 6-pronged metal objects" jacks RHYMES WITH SMART $600 It can be a separating line in your hair or a role in a play a part "GEOGRAPHY ""E""" $800 Parts of the Arabian and Libyan deserts are found in this African country Egypt RADIO DISNEY $800 "I Never Told You this alliteratively named singer hit Disney's Top 30 with ""Fallin' For You""; wait, I just did" Colbie Caillat PARTS OF PEACH $800 "These parts of a peach tree are glossy green, pointed & lance shaped" leaves BE FRUITFUL & MULTIPLY $800 5 x 10 x 15 750 LET'S BOUNCE $800 "It's a type of bounce house, or a dance made famous by Michael Jackson" the moonwalk RHYMES WITH SMART $800 A graphic representation of information a chart "GEOGRAPHY ""E""" "$2,000 " The family history you wrote for school might include entering the U.S. at this island in New York Bay Ellis Island RADIO DISNEY "$1,000 " "Lead singer Ryan Tedder of this band has ""All The Right Moves""" OneRepublic PARTS OF PEACH "$1,000 " These parts of a peach tree grow at nodes along the shoots of the previous season's growth; they're usually pink blossoms BE FRUITFUL & MULTIPLY "$1,000 " "2 x 1,035" "2,070" LET'S BOUNCE "$1,000 " "This device whose name is from the Italian for ""springboard"" was perfected in the 1930s" a trampoline RHYMES WITH SMART "$1,000 " Composer Wolfgang Mozart SCIENCE CLASS $400 99.95% of the mass of an atom is in this part the nucleus KIDS IN SPORTS $400 "Park View of Chula Vista, California beat Taipei 6-3 to win this organization's 2009 World Series" the Little League JUST THE FACTS $400 This hero of several books is 11 when he discovers he's a wizard Harry Potter SEE & SAY $400 "Say the name of this type of mollusk you see" an octopus NEWS TO ME $400 "A 7.0 magnitude earthquake in this Caribbean country Jan. 12, 2010 brought a world outpouring of aid" Haiti IN THE DICTIONARY $400 It's the 4-letter name of the pleated skirt worn by men in Scotland a kilt SCIENCE CLASS $800 "During this plant process, carbon dioxide & water combine with light energy to create oxygen & glucose" photosynthesis KIDS IN SPORTS $800 The perfect waves of New Zealand's Piha Beach were the site for the 2010 World Junior Championships of this surfing JUST THE FACTS $800 "This city, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, has been called ""the entertainment capital of the world""" Las Vegas SEE & SAY $800 "Say this state that was admitted to the Union in 1859" Oregon NEWS TO ME $800 This car company has been in the news for widespread recalls of its Corollas & other models Toyota IN THE DICTIONARY $800 "As an adjective, it can mean proper; as a verb, ""to grade papers""" correct SCIENCE CLASS "$1,200 " The wedge is an adaptation of the simple machine called the inclined this plane KIDS IN SPORTS "$1,200 " "With a mighty leap of 5'1"", David Mosely set the U.S. 10 & under record in this event back in 1977" the high jump JUST THE FACTS "$1,200 " "This dog breed seen here is a loyal and protective companion" a German Shepherd SEE & SAY "$1,200 " "Say the name of this bug; don't worry, it doesn't breathe fire" the dragonfly NEWS TO ME "$1,200 " "(Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates, putting his arm over his mouth.) To avoid spreading germs & maybe flu, we learned the sneeze named for this character made famous in an 1897 book" Dracula IN THE DICTIONARY "$1,200 " Maize is another word for this corn SCIENCE CLASS "$5,000 " "Of the 6 noble gases on the periodic table, it is the lightest" helium KIDS IN SPORTS "$1,600 " 11-year-old Ashlyn White won a 2009 U.S. youth title in this martial art in which you try to throw your opponent judo JUST THE FACTS "$1,600 " "In 1751 the Penn Provincial Assembly placed the order for this symbol of freedom, now in Philadelphia" the Liberty Bell SEE & SAY "$1,600 " "Say the name of these big trees; it has a color in it" redwood NEWS TO ME "$1,600 " "In a surprise, Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat in this state went to a Republican in a January 2010 election" Massachusetts IN THE DICTIONARY "$5,000 " "This word for someone who walks comes from the Latin for ""foot""" pedestrian SCIENCE CLASS "$2,000 " Lava & igneous rock are formed from this hot liquid rock material found under the earth's crust magma KIDS IN SPORTS "$2,000 " This sport has an under-17 World Cup every 2 years; Haris Seferovic starred for the 2009 champion Switzerland soccer JUST THE FACTS "$2,000 " He's the older son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana Prince William SEE & SAY "$2,000 " "Say the name of this man you see shaking hands with the Premier of China" Ronald Reagan NEWS TO ME "$2,000 " "Falcon Heene, who it turned out was safe at home, not flying over Colorado, became known as this ""boy""" the balloon boy IN THE DICTIONARY "$2,000 " "Kayak is an example of this, a word that reads the same forwards & backwards" a palindrome HISTORIC WOMEN None "She was born in Virginia around 1596 & died in Kent, England in 1617" Pocahontas ROYAL FEMALE NICKNAMES $100 "Prime Minister Tony Blair dubbed her ""The People's Princess""" Princess Diana TV ACTORS & ROLES $100 "Once Tommy Mullaney on ""L.A. 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This man seen here starred on a classic British comedy show" Eric Idle FOREWORDS $300 "She said that her husband Frank O'Connor was the fuel that kept her spirited while she wrote ""The Fountainhead""" Ayn Rand BACKWORDS $300 You'd be naive to think you can make bottled water that's more popular than this Evian (naive) ROYAL FEMALE NICKNAMES $400 "The 19th century's ""Widow of Windsor""" Queen Victoria TV ACTORS & ROLES $400 "Teri Hatcher looked ""shipshape"" as one of the singing ""mermaids"" who jumped on board this cruisin' series in 1985" The Love Boat TRAVEL & TOURISM $500 Jomo Kenyatta International Airport serves this world capital "Nairobi, Kenya" I LADS $400 His is the first & longest book of the Bible's major prophets Isaiah FOREWORDS $400 "One edition calls this Darwin opus one of ""the most readable and approachable"" of revolutionary scientific works" The Origin of Species BACKWORDS $400 "Aye, lass, I'll wed thee ere this has dried on the fields" Dew (wed) ROYAL FEMALE NICKNAMES $500 The Catholic of 15th century Spain Queen Isabella TV ACTORS & ROLES $500 "On ""Saturday Night Live"", he's famous for playing Craig the Cheerleader, Janet Reno & moi" Will Ferrell TRAVEL & TOURISM $500 "Andrea Palladio's 1554 book on ""The Antiquities of"" this city was the standard guidebook for some 200 years" Rome I LADS $500 This auto exec's autobiography is one of the bestselling nonfiction works in publishing history Lee Iacocca BACKWORDS $500 "You know so much about policy, you qualify as this" Wonk (know) PEOPLE IN HISTORY $200 "After a 15-year stay in England, this proprietor of Pennsylvania returned to his colony in 1699" William Penn CINEMATIC DICTIONARY $200 "SFX is the standard abbreviation for these, from the rustling of trees to cannon fire" Sound effects IT'S OURS! $200 Saint-Pierre & Miquelon France BRITISH FASHION $200 "Designer Vivienne Westwood ran a shop with Malcolm McLaren, who launched this Johnny Rotten band" The Sex Pistols ANDY WARHOL $200 "Because he had the same thing for lunch every day for 20 years, Andy Warhol painted these, beginning in 1962" Campbell's Soup cans "THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES ""M""" $200 "Lerner & Loewe's ""Lusty Month"" (3)" May PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400 This young man put his savings into a small Cleveland refinery in 1862 & eventually had an oil monopoly John D. Rockefeller CINEMATIC DICTIONARY $400 "Term for the flow of a film, maintained by keeping details consistent throughout a scene" Continuity IT'S OURS! $400 Montserrat Great Britain (United Kingdom) BRITISH FASHION $400 Star designer John Galliano was born Juan Carlos Galliano in this British possession at the tip of Spain Gibraltar ANDY WARHOL $400 "Warhol went against his Capitalist tendencies with his portrait of this man, seen here" Mao Tse-tung "THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES ""M""" $400 "Patrick Dennis' ""Auntie"" (4)" Mame PEOPLE IN HISTORY $600 First Lady Helen Taft led a fund-raising drive for a memorial to this 1912 marine disaster Sinking of the Titanic CINEMATIC DICTIONARY $600 "Garland Jeffreys sang of having star-studded ""dreams"" of this size, like movie film" 35mm IT'S OURS! $600 Cook Islands New Zealand BRITISH FASHION $600 "Katharine Hamnett created the '80s T-shirt telling us to ""choose"" this" Life ANDY WARHOL $600 "Andy's ""15 minutes of fame"" quote was once the motto of this magazine" Interview "THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES ""M""" $600 "It ""Becomes Electra"" (8)" Mourning PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800 This Chiricahua Apache was a popular attraction at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis Geronimo CINEMATIC DICTIONARY "$1,000 " The inventors of this camera-stabilizing device won a special 1977 Oscar Steadicam IT'S OURS! $800 Madeira Islands Portugal ANDY WARHOL "$2,000 " Andy's loft on East 47th Street got this nickname from its former use & Andy's mass-production techniques The Factory "THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES ""M""" $800 Colchian jilted by Jason (5) Medea PEOPLE IN HISTORY "$1,000 " "In 1801 this onetime VP compiled ""A Manual of Parliamentary Practice"" still used in the U.S. Senate" Thomas Jefferson CINEMATIC DICTIONARY "$1,000 " "Near the end of the credits comes the ""cutter"" of this, the exposed but unfinished film" Negative cutter IT'S OURS! "$1,000 " Northern Mariana Islands USA ANDY WARHOL "$1,000 " Warhol became the manager of this Lou Reed rock group in 1965 & produced their first album Velvet Underground "THEATRE CROSSWORD CLUES ""M""" "$1,000 " Faust's fiendish foe (14) Mephistopheles SPORTS LEGENDS None "If Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak had gone one more game in 1941, this company would have given him a $10,000 contract" H.J. Heinz (Heinz 57 Varieties) GENERAL SCIENCE $100 "This white, glossy coating on your teeth is the hardest substance in the human body" Enamel GETTING POSSESSIVE $100 "This bovine took the rap for the disastrous fire of October 8, 1871" Mrs. O'Leary's cow FLAGS OF THE WORLD $100 It's the kingdom whose flag is seen here (Union Jack) Great Britain/England ARCHITECTS $100 Minoru Yamasaki reached new heights with this New York City complex World Trade Center 1994 FILMS $100 Quentin Tarantino directed this film & also had a bit role as Jimmy of Toluca Lake Pulp Fiction THE EYES HAVE IT $100 "A student, or a minor in Roman law" Pupil GENERAL SCIENCE $200 The time it takes for 50% of the atoms to decay in a radioactive substance is called this Half-life GETTING POSSESSIVE $200 "At 14,140 feet, this Rocky Mountain peak discovered in 1806 is one of Colorado's highest" Pike's Peak FLAGS OF THE WORLD $200 Seen here is the flag of this nation (the home of Bollywood) India ARCHITECTS $200 "William 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Betelgeuse" Red giants GETTING POSSESSIVE $400 You'll find this triangular island about 4 miles off the southeast coast of Massachusetts Martha's Vineyard FLAGS OF THE WORLD $400 "In the 1990s, this nation whose flag is seen here moved its seat of government to a different city" Germany ARCHITECTS $400 Dallas-Fort Worth Airport architect Gyo Obata helped design this Smithsonian museum Air & Space Museum 1994 FILMS $400 "Containing the hit ""Can You Feel The Love Tonight"", it was Disney's first animated feature not based on an existing story" The Lion King THE EYES HAVE IT $400 Flower seen here (that fits the category) Iris GENERAL SCIENCE $500 "On the pH scale, a pH of 7 indicates this type of solution" Neutral GETTING POSSESSIVE $500 "In Exodus, this was thrown down before Pharaoh at Moses' instruction" Aaron's rod (turned into a snake) FLAGS OF THE WORLD $500 "This Mediterranean country whose flag is seen here is ""The Word""" Greece ARCHITECTS $500 Louis Skidmore designed the secret atomic site that became this Tennessee town Oak Ridge 1994 FILMS $800 "In this film Martin Scorsese says the TV audience wants ""To watch the money""" Quiz Show THE EYES HAVE IT $500 People say these are what you need to make it in Hollywood Contacts ALASKA $200 "4 different species of bears live in Alaska: Kodiak, grizzly, black & this" Polar bears INTERNATIONAL SPORTSMEN $200 Nike's stock fell when this basketball player announced his retirement in January 1999 Michael Jordan DRAMA QUEENS $200 "In Euripides' play about this famed beauty, it's her double who goes to Troy" Helen ANGELS $200 In 1996 John Travolta spread his wings as this archangel Michael IN EXILE $200 "Porfirio Diaz seized power in this country in 1876, ruled for 35 years, fled in 1911 & died in exile" Mexico "THE ""I""s HAVE IT" $200 "This term for a fluid can also mean ""to sign"" as a contract" Ink ALASKA $400 "Tony Knowles is pulling in $81,648 per annum in this job" Governor INTERNATIONAL SPORTSMEN $400 Ronaldo Luiz Nazario de Lima began playing this sport for Brazil's national team at age 17 Soccer DRAMA QUEENS $400 "In a Shaw play, Caesar finds her hiding on a Sphinx" Cleopatra ANGELS $400 "In Book III of ""Paradise Lost"", the angels play these, which are ""golden"" & ""ever-tuned""" harps IN EXILE $400 In 1462 this printer known for movable type had to move out of Mainz Johannes Gutenberg "THE ""I""s HAVE IT" $400 Style of the 1877 painting seen here Impressionism ALASKA $600 This second-largest Alaskan city wasn't named for an actor Fairbanks INTERNATIONAL SPORTSMEN $600 Vladimir Samsonov is touted as Europe's only hope against China in this game Ping-pong DRAMA QUEENS $600 "A 1952 play covered the young life of this queen, like a 1998 Cate Blanchett film" Elizabeth I ANGELS $600 "ABBA sang about these & Curtis Lee sang about ""Pretty Little"" these" Angel Eyes IN EXILE $600 "Exiled for manslaughter, Eric the Red was forced to leave this country around 981" Iceland "THE ""I""s 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Garry Kasparov DRAMA QUEENS "$1,500 " In 1935 & '36 Helen Hayes reigned for 517 Broadway performances as this queen who reigned for 63 years Victoria ANGELS $800 "Group whose feast day is October 2, or a group founded in 1979 by Curtis Sliwa" Guardian Angels IN EXILE $800 David Ben-Gurion went to the U.S. in 1915 when this empire exiled Zionists from Palestine Ottoman Empire "THE ""I""s HAVE IT" $800 "From the Latin for ""to overhang"", it means ""likely to happen at any moment""" Imminent ALASKA "$1,000 " The mainland peninsula closest to Russia is named for this man William Seward INTERNATIONAL SPORTSMEN "$1,000 " New Zealand-born Jonah Lamu is tops on the pitch of this sport Rugby DRAMA QUEENS "$1,000 " "The queen in Marlowe's ""Edward II"" is named this, like a famous queen of Spain" Isabella ANGELS "$1,000 " "With an appropriate-sounding name, John Dye plays the angel of this on ""Touched By An Angel""" Angel of Death IN EXILE "$1,000 " Moshoeshoe II was exiled twice before regaining this southern African country's throne in 1995 Lesotho "THE ""I""s HAVE IT" "$1,000 " "Some scientists believe that the universe is undergoing expansion called this, also an economic term" Inflation THE MAP OF EUROPE None "Bordering Italy, Austria, Hungary & Croatia, it's one of the world's newest independent countries" Slovenia THE CIVIL WAR $200 "His first act after being sworn in as president of the Confederacy was to send a peace commission to Washington, D.C." Jefferson Davis CELEBS $200 "On Sept. 14, 2005 she gave birth to Sean Preston Federline" Britney Spears WHAT'S IN A NAME? $200 "Yeah, baby! Meaning ""magnificent"", this Texas-sounding name comes with certain ""Powers""" Austin EMOTICONS $200 ;-) Ocular act that sends a signal winking FLAG 'EM DOWN $200 The Alamo is located in this city & is depicted on its flag San Antonio TEEN SCENE $200 "Numerically speaking, read up on ""Fun Stuff"", ""Fashion"", ""Health"" & ""Stars"" at this magazine.com" seventeen.com THE CIVIL WAR $400 "Tired of eating mule jerky, Vicksburg fell in July 1863 after a 6-week one of these military tactics" a siege CELEBS $400 "The TV show ""Everybody Hates Chris"" is based on the childhood of this comic" Chris Rock WHAT'S IN A NAME? $400 This name shared by great & terrible rulers is a Russian variation of John Ivan EMOTICONS $400 ":-$ It's where this emoticon tells you to ""put your money""" where your mouth is FLAG 'EM DOWN $400 This descriptive nickname of the U.S. flag was coined by Francis Scott Key the Star-Spangled Banner TEEN SCENE $400 "If you're triskaidekaphobic, you're afraid of this number, & not just on a Friday" thirteen THE CIVIL WAR $600 Robert E. Lee saved this capital from capture with his June 1862 attack on McClellan's forces Richmond CELEBS $600 He auditioned for & won the part of Ron Weasley with a rap that he wrote Rupert Grint WHAT'S IN A NAME? $600 "This feminine form of Rex is from the Latin for ""queen""" Regina EMOTICONS $600 :-* Gene Simmons might accept one of these from any pretty woman a kiss FLAG 'EM DOWN $600 "The 2 colors found on all 3 national flags of the U.S., Mexico & Canada" red & white TEEN SCENE $600 "A holder for liquid, or a military base's general store" a canteen THE CIVIL WAR $800 In Feb. 2005 a reenactment was staged for this 140th anniversary of this fort's reoccupation by Union troops Fort Sumter CELEBS $800 "Her 18th birthday party was ""A Cinderella Story"" with 300 guests & red velvet cake" Hilary Duff WHAT'S IN A NAME? "$1,200 " This Welsh form of Margaret was among the USA's top 10 girls' names of the 1990s Megan EMOTICONS $800 =|:-)= This is an extension of the initials U.S. Uncle Sam FLAG 'EM DOWN $800 "The flag of this U.S. possession is almost the same as the flag of Cuba" Puerto Rico TEEN SCENE $800 "Golfing ""hole"" with a bar (where you can't go), or the amendment granting women's suffrage" 19th THE CIVIL WAR "$1,000 " "On Sept. 2, 1864 this general sent a wire saying, ""Atlanta is ours, and fairly won""" Sherman CELEBS "$1,000 " "You Stand Watching this ""Shine On"" singer" Ryan Cabrera WHAT'S IN A NAME? "$1,000 " "Previously attached to Theo- & Isa-, it became popular by itself after appearing in ""David Copperfield""" Dora EMOTICONS "$1,000 " :-b.. Doing this means either you're hungry or you're a pig drooling FLAG 'EM DOWN "$1,000 " The first 50-star U.S. flag was officially raised on July 4 of this year 1960 TEEN SCENE "$1,000 " "Number of lines in Shakespeare's poem that starts ""Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?""" 14 NOT A CURRENT NATIONAL CAPITAL $400 "Ljubljana, Bratislava, Barcelona" Barcelona U.S. WINTER OLYMPIANS $400 "Mike Eruzione of Winthrop, Mass. was captain of the miraculous 1980 Olympic team in this sport" hockey SCIENCE $400 "At sea level at 70 degrees this travels 1,129 feet per second; it speeds up over 1 foot per sec. for each rising degree" sound WORDS OF THE WRITER $400 I beheld the wretch--the miserable monster whom I had created Mary Shelley AT THE MALL $400 "Found ""just what I needed"" at this ""City"", an electronics store" Circuit City FROM THE GREEK $400 The name of this color comes from the Greek word porphyra purple NOT A CURRENT NATIONAL CAPITAL $800 "Istanbul, Ottawa, Amman" Istanbul U.S. WINTER OLYMPIANS $800 "(Jimmy of the Clue Crew puts some lines on the ice in the Olympic Oval rink at Park City, UT.) In 1998, this U.S. skater was 2nd at Nagano; in 2002, she was 3rd here in Utah" Michelle Kwan SCIENCE $800 "The largest tree, the General Sherman in California, is this type, also called a Sierra Redwood" a sequoia WORDS OF THE WRITER $800 "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Edgar Allan Poe AT THE MALL $800 SKX is the stock symbol for this manufacturer of sporty shoes Skechers FROM THE GREEK "$1,000 " "A bowl-shaped depression, as from the impact of a meteorite, it's from the Greek for ""mixing bowl""" crater NOT A CURRENT NATIONAL CAPITAL "$1,200 " "Sofia, Sarajevo, Saigon" Saigon U.S. WINTER OLYMPIANS "$1,200 " "Life has its ups & downs for Travis Mayer, a 2002 medalist in the event named for these little hills on the slopes" moguls SCIENCE "$1,200 " "(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the pole vault at Duke University's track in Durham, NC.) In bending an elastic solid, stress is the force causing deformation & this is the 6-letter term for the deformation" strain WORDS OF THE WRITER "$1,500 " "'Do all lawyers defend n-negroes, Atticus?' 'Of course they do, Scout'" Harper Lee AT THE MALL "$1,200 " "This ""Urban"" store is the parent company of Anthropologie" Urban Outfitters FROM THE GREEK "$1,200 " "From the Greek for ""false name"", it's a fictitious name used by an author" a pseudonym NOT A CURRENT NATIONAL CAPITAL "$1,600 " "Bucharest, Bonn, Bern" Bonn U.S. WINTER OLYMPIANS "$1,600 " In 2002 Vonetta Flowers & Jill Bakken won gold in the 2-woman version of this high-speed sport the bobsled SCIENCE "$1,600 " 6 elements once known as inert gases are now known by this aristocratic name noble gases WORDS OF THE WRITER "$1,600 " "For never man had a more faithful, loving, sincere servant, than Friday was to me" Daniel Defoe AT THE MALL "$1,600 " "This bookstore chain is named for its ""edgy"" founders, brothers Tom & Louis" Borders FROM THE GREEK "$1,600 " "(Jon of the Clue Crew paddles his kayak.) Kayak is an example of this type of reversible word from the Greek for ""running back again""" a palindrome NOT A CURRENT NATIONAL CAPITAL "$2,000 " "Belize City, Guatemala City, Panama City" Belize City U.S. WINTER OLYMPIANS "$2,000 " "His ""Bode"" of work includes 2 Alpine skiing silver medals in 2002" Bode Miller SCIENCE "$2,000 " "(A honey-colored retriever named Max tries to lick Cheryl of the Clue Crew as she pets him at NC State University in Raleigh, NC.) Veterinarians refer to this area of an animal's body as the posterior or this region, from the Latin for ""the tail""" the caudal region WORDS OF THE WRITER "$2,000 " '...Why look'st thou so?'--'With my crossbow I shot the albatross' Samuel Taylor Coleridge AT THE MALL "$2,000 " "The name of this clothing store for teens is French for ""airmail""" Aéropostale FROM THE GREEK "$2,000 " It's an outline of the contents of a course or curriculum a syllabus FAMOUS SHIPS None "On December 27, 1831 it departed Plymouth, England to map the coastline of South America" the HMS Beagle OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s $200 goop.com is a lifestyles website from this Oscar-winning actress; the g & p represent her initials Gwyneth Paltrow MOVIES & TV $200 "On March 19, 2009 he said, ""I'm excited and honored to introduce my first guest... Barack Obama""" Jay Leno A STATE OF COLLEGE-NESS $200 "Baylor, Stephen F. Austin, Rice" Texas ANIMAL COLLECTIVE $200 Synonym for dignity that's the term for a group of lions a pride I'D RATHER BE SKIING $200 "If you're a beginner, you might hippity-hop over to this smaller, gentler slope" a bunny hill PARLEZ VOUS? $200 "If your mate from Marseilles says he's getting to LAX via ""Sud-Ouest"", pick him up at this carrier" Southwest OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s $400 In 2008 David Gregory became moderator of this NBC Sunday morning news show Meet the Press MOVIES & TV $400 "Time magazine said this 2003 Pixar film was ""the ultimate fish-out-of-water story""" Finding Nemo A STATE OF COLLEGE-NESS $400 "Antioch, Bowling Green, Kent State" Ohio ANIMAL COLLECTIVE $400 "Like peas, whales & seals are in groups called these" pods I'D RATHER BE SKIING $400 "Something you'd sprinkle on after a shower, it's also the term for soft, dry, freshly fallen snow" powder PARLEZ VOUS? $400 "Duck, duck, l'oie; (l'oie of course referring to this other feathered friend)" a goose OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s $600 Linus Torvalds is the father of this operating system used on cell phones & supercomputers Linux MOVIES & TV $600 "Of his dialogue, this Han Solo actor said, ""You can type this (stuff), George, but you sure can't say it""" Harrison Ford A STATE OF COLLEGE-NESS $600 "DePaul, Wheaton, Northwestern" Illinois ANIMAL COLLECTIVE $600 A crash is a group of these large horned mammals rhinoceroses I'D RATHER BE SKIING $600 "In California, a premier spot for skiing is this resort area that shares its name with a prehistoric elephant" Mammoth PARLEZ VOUS? $600 "Je ne sais pas means this, but you still get credit if you phrase it in the form of a question" I don't know OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s $800 "The district of conservative rep. Patrick McHenry in this state includes Mooresville, a home of NASCAR" North Carolina MOVIES & TV $800 "Tim Robbins played a public TV newsman in ""Anchorman: The Legend of"" him" Ron Burgundy A STATE OF COLLEGE-NESS $800 "Wayne State, Kalamazoo College, Madonna University (it's Franciscan Catholic, not Material Girl)" Michigan ANIMAL COLLECTIVE $800 "It can be a pack of dogs, or a place to board them" a kennel I'D RATHER BE SKIING "$1,200 " In this type of race you have to zigzag between flags or other obstacles in proper order a slalom PARLEZ VOUS? $800 "When mom tells you to do something ""Maintenant!"", she means this" now OLD FOLKS IN THEIR 30s "$1,000 " Elon Musk is now making rockets & electric cars; before that he co-founded & sold this electronic payment system PayPal MOVIES & TV "$1,000 " "We were frakkin' sad when this sci fi show had its series finale on March 20, 2009" Battlestar Galactica A STATE OF COLLEGE-NESS "$1,000 " "Grambling, McNeese State, Southern" Louisiana ANIMAL COLLECTIVE "$1,000 " A flock of these black birds is called a murder crows I'D RATHER BE SKIING "$1,000 " "Bumps or mounds of snow that accumulate on a slope are called these, like some very wealthy & powerful people" moguls PARLEZ VOUS? "$1,000 " Huitieme is French for this ordinal number eighth AMERICAN AUTHORS $400 Her home Orchard House was the model for whre the March family lived in her most famous novel Louisa May Alcott ALBUMS THAT ROCK $400 "X&Y, ""Parachutes""" Coldplay ANATOMY $400 This cord that connects a fetus to the placenta contains 2 arteries & 1 vein the umbillical cord MATHEM-ATTACK! $400 "Che Guevara probably knew the political-sounding term for the root symbol seen here" radical NAME THE DECADE $400 The World Wide Web gets its first page the 1990s WORD ORIGINS $400 "This adjective meaning deceptive or sneaky is from the Latin de via, meaning ""out of the way""" devious AMERICAN AUTHORS $800 "During the War Of 1812, this ""Rip Van Winkle"" author wrote biographies of Naval commanders" Washington Irving ALBUMS THAT ROCK $800 "American Idiot, ""Dookie""" Green Day ANATOMY $800 "The human body has 3 types of these: skeletal, smooth & cardiac, a combination of skeletal & smooth" muscles MATHEM-ATTACK! $800 You should answer this one automatically: It's the property that says a = a reflexive NAME THE DECADE $800 The first controlled nuclear chain reaction the 1940s WORD ORIGINS $800 "This New York island's name may come from the Algonquian word for ""island""" Manhattan AMERICAN AUTHORS "$1,200 " "Susan & Benjamin Cheever, children of this short story master, are both authors as well" John Cheever ALBUMS THAT ROCK "$1,200 " "Master of Puppets, ""Death Magnetic""" Metallica ANATOMY "$1,200 " The talus fits between the ends of these 2 bones forming the ankle joint the tibia & fibula MATHEM-ATTACK! "$1,200 " "(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an array of numbers enclosed in brackets on the monitor.) A set of numbers in rows and columns can be used in many ways--for example, to encrypt a code or create 3-D computer graphics; the set shares this name with a 1999 film" a matrix NAME THE DECADE "$1,200 " "Khruschev's ""Secret Speech"" denounces Stalin" the 1950s WORD ORIGINS "$4,800 " "This compass direction may come from the Proto-Germanic for ""to the left of the rising sun""" north AMERICAN AUTHORS "$1,600 " "He stood 5'3"" & was the subject of movies that came out in 2005 & 2006" (Truman) Capote ALBUMS THAT ROCK "$1,600 " "In Your Honor, ""The Color and the Shape""" Foo Fighters ANATOMY "$1,600 " "Humans have 33 vertebrae, 7 of them cervical, meaning they are in this part of the body" your neck MATHEM-ATTACK! "$1,600 " The symbol i is used to represent the imaginary square root of this number -1 NAME THE DECADE "$1,800 " "George Orwell, 34 years dead, hits the bestseller list" the 1980s WORD ORIGINS "$1,600 " "From the Latin for ""much writing"", it's another name for a lie detector test" a polygraph AMERICAN AUTHORS "$2,000 " "He reviewed films & TV for the New Republic before his first book, ""Goodbye, Columbus"", was published in 1959" Philip Roth ALBUMS THAT ROCK "$2,000 " "Beggars Banquet, ""Steel Wheels""" the Rolling Stones ANATOMY "$2,000 " The pons connects the 2 hemispheres of this part of the brain that regulates balance the cerebellum MATHEM-ATTACK! "$2,000 " "(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.) Half the base times the height gives the area of a triangle; for a cylinder, the area of the base times the height gives this measurement" volume NAME THE DECADE "$2,000 " Man first reaches the South Pole the 1910s WORD ORIGINS "$2,000 " "A type of ear implant to help the deaf, it's from the Greek for ""snail""" cochlear EUROPEAN HISTORY None "He filed for divorce citing Leviticus 20:21, ""If a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing""" Henry VIII AMERICAN EXPLORERS $100 Edward Beale brought news of this 1848 discovery in California to the east coast gold MEASURING DEVICES $100 The amount of this in a solution can be measured by a saccharometer sugar MYTHOLOGY $100 Daedalus used this substance to fasten the wings to his back wax TELEVISION $100 "This Sunday night series is subtitled ""The New Adventures of Superman""" Lois & Clark ANNUAL EVENTS $100 This state's Days of '47 Festival honors the day Brigham Young reached the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 Utah HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $100 A complete donut center whole hole AMERICAN EXPLORERS $200 "Stephen Long & Zebulon Pike have peaks named for them in this state, an area they said was uninhabitable" Colorado MEASURING DEVICES $200 The energy from this is measured by a pyrheliometer the Sun MYTHOLOGY $200 Cadmus planted these parts of a dragon to raise some troops teeth TELEVISION $200 "Freddy's Nightmares, a horror anthology that debuted in 1988, was based on this movie series" Nightmare on Elm Street ANNUAL EVENTS $200 "Monroe, near Snohomish in this state, is the site of the annual Evergreen State Fair" Washington HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $200 "In a restaurant, it's a quartet's table request" for four AMERICAN EXPLORERS $300 Co-commanders of the 1st U.S. expedition to explore from Mississippi to the west coast Lewis & Clark MEASURING DEVICES $300 An odometer measures the distance covered by a vehicle & this device measures how far you've walked a pedometer MYTHOLOGY $300 "The sister of Orestes, mourning became her" Electra TELEVISION $300 This crime drama with Robert Wagner & Stefanie Powers was created by Sidney Sheldon Hart to Hart ANNUAL EVENTS $300 "Dog lovers look forward to the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, held each February in this city" New York City HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $300 Contented performing kittens might be paid this way per purr AMERICAN EXPLORERS $400 Jedediah Smith was a mountain man & explorer employed in this industry fur trading MEASURING DEVICES $400 A spirometer measures the capacity of these organs the lungs MYTHOLOGY $400 "Zeus' father, Cronus, was one of this group of 12" Titans TELEVISION $600 "Character seen here, his action-packed journeys are legendary:" Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) ANNUAL EVENTS $400 "The Pendleton Roundup, an annual rodeo, takes place in Pendleton in this northwestern state" Oregon HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $400 A squash that's been pierced by a bull's horn gored gourd AMERICAN EXPLORERS $500 "Senator Thomas Hart Benton's son-in-law was this ""Pathfinder""" John C. Frémont MEASURING DEVICES $500 A nilometer measures the height of the water in this the Nile River MYTHOLOGY $500 "Leda laid 2 eggs: one with Helen & Pollux in it, the other containing Clytemnestra & him" Castor TELEVISION $500 "Jack Wagner, formerly of ""General Hospital"", now plays Dr. Peter Burns on this Fox drama" Melrose Place ANNUAL EVENTS $500 The Tanglewood Music Festival is a summer highlight in Lenox in this New England state Massachusetts HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $500 Remained sedate stayed staid NOTABLE NONHUMANS $200 "This Nazi dictator sometimes dined alone with Blondi, his Alsatian" Adolf Hitler WORLD FACTS $200 This isthmus connects North & South America Isthmus of Panama ART & ARTISTS $200 "He painted ""Irises"" & ""Pink Roses"" as well as ""Sunflowers""" Vincent Van Gogh BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200 "It has over 9,700 tax preparation offices worldwide" H&R Block HISTORY $200 Historians refer to the Golden Age as the time during which Pericles ruled this city Athens POETS $200 "On Feb. 12, 1959, the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, he addressed a joint session of Congress" Carl Sandburg NOTABLE NONHUMANS $400 "In 1964 he lifted his beagles Him & Her by the ears on the White House lawn, provoking protest" Lyndon Johnson WORLD FACTS $400 "A humid city, Rio de Janeiro lies just north of this tropic line" the Tropic of Capricorn ART & ARTISTS $400 "This drip artist was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912" Jackson Pollock BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400 "In 1961 this firm introduced its Selectric typewriter, which used a spherical typing element" IBM HISTORY $400 "Under the 1814 Treaty of Kiel, this country gave Norway to Sweden but kept Greenland & other islands" Denmark POETS $400 "Between 1842 & 1885, he repeatedly revised his ""Idylls of the King""" Alfred Lord Tennyson NOTABLE NONHUMANS $600 "Colo was the first of these great apes born in captivity, in 1956 at the Columbus Zoo" Gorilla WORLD FACTS $600 "The lowest river in the world, it's revered by Jews, Christians & Muslims alike" The River Jordan ART & ARTISTS $600 "He spent several summers painting pointillist seascapes including ""Le Bec Du Hoc, Grandcamp""" Georges Seurat BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600 "In 1934 he plugged Bulova ""Lone Eagle"" watches" Charles Lindbergh HISTORY $600 In February 1904 this country attacked the Russian fleet at Port Arthur Japan POETS $600 "For much of the winter of 1794-95, he served as acting supervisor for Dumfries, Scotland" Robert Burns NOTABLE NONHUMANS $800 "In 1945 this famous scottie was injured in a fight with Blaze, Elliott Roosevelt's mastiff" Fala WORLD FACTS "$1,100 " "Discovered by David Livingstone, Botswana's Lake Ngami lies in the northern part of this desert" Kalahari Desert ART & ARTISTS $800 "His sculpture, ""The Age of Bronze"", exhibited in 1877, was inspired by Michelangelo" Auguste Rodin BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $800 Only Philip Morris & this Cincinnati-based firm have yearly ad expenditures exceeding $2 billion Procter & Gamble HISTORY $800 "On May 30, 1967 Colonel Ojukwu declared Biafra's independence from this country, starting a civil war" Nigeria POETS $800 "Her ""I Heard a Fly Buzz"" may have been based on a chapter in ""The House of the Seven Gables""" Emily Dickinson NOTABLE NONHUMANS "$1,000 " This favorite horse of Alexander the Great sometimes wore golden horns in battle Bucephalus WORLD FACTS "$1,000 " In area this country whose capital is now called Yangon is the largest in mainland southeast Asia Myanmar (Burma) ART & ARTISTS "$1,000 " "You can see this British sculptor's ""Reclining Mother and Child"" at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis" Henry Moore BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600 In 1811 this German family began its steel-making business by constructing a plant in Essen Krupp HISTORY "$1,000 " "In the midst of the Korean War, this South Korean president was elected to his second of 4 terms" Syngman Rhee POETS "$1,000 " "He once wrote, ""I choose to be a plain New Hampshire farmer""" Robert Frost BRITISH NOVELS None "This 1895 novel is subtitled ""An Invention""" The Time Machine LOST IN SPACE $200 "While making repairs on the Intl. Space Station, Scott Parazynski lost a needle-nose pair of these" pliers TIMELESS TV $200 September 2010 brought the 45th edition of this comedian's telethon Jerry Lewis LET'S HIT IT $200 "Hit this paper mache container, Spanish for ""jug"", if you want candy and small gifts" pinata "WORLD BOOK DESCRIBES THE ""G"" MAN" $200 "In 1997, the House (of Reps.) voted to reprimand him... It marked the first time the House had reprimanded a Speaker" Gingrich MONEY SLANG $200 "We'll give you 200, not $1,000, for this five letter word meaning stately or majestic" grand RVs $200 "(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the RV/MH Hall of Fame in Elkhart, IN.) The GMC Motorhome from the '60s & 70s was among the first models to have this innovation that helps with traction by putting the weight over the wheels that do the work" front-wheel drive LOST IN SPACE $400 "In its years of operation, this Soviet space station released more than 200 objects (mostly trash) into space" Mir TIMELESS TV $400 "Originally a half hour, this soap started in 1963 & featured Nurse Jessie Brewer" General Hospital LET'S HIT IT $400 This word seen on doors is what a right-handed batter does when he hits the ball to left field pull "WORLD BOOK DESCRIBES THE ""G"" MAN" $400 "See Simon, Paul" (Art) Garfunkel MONEY SLANG $400 "Proverbially, you can ""break"" this food, or ""take (it) out of someone's mouth""; earn some dough" bread RVs $400 "(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the RV/MH Hall of Fame in Elkhart, IN.) I'm behind the wheel of the very first motor home, from the company whose name has become a synonym for ""motor home""; since 1967, they've sold over 400,000 of them" Winnebago LOST IN SPACE $600 "Ed White, the first U.S. spacewalker, lost one of these outside Gemini 4; he must've looked like a later ""moonwalker""" a glove TIMELESS TV $600 In 1948 Douglas Edwards became the first anchor of this network's Evening News CBS LET'S HIT IT $600 Aaron Fechter invented this carnival game where you hit a mammal with a mallet Whack-A-Mole "WORLD BOOK DESCRIBES THE ""G"" MAN" $600 American poet... became known as a leader of the Beat literary movement of the 1950s (Allen) Ginsberg MONEY SLANG "$2,200 " The shell of this mollusk is composed chiefly of calcium carbonate a clam RVs $600 "(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the RV/MH Hall of Fame in Elkhart, IN.) One of the first times a movie star received a fancy trailer as a perk was in 1931; Paramount gave a Chevy house car to this sexy star as she left the stage to make movies like ""She Done Him Wrong""" Mae West LOST IN SPACE $800 Piers Sellers lost a tool in space while spreading putty into this Space Shuttle named for Capt. Cook's ship Discovery TIMELESS TV $800 "Shown Saturday afternoons on ABC, this sport's tour outdrew college football & moved to ESPN in 1997" the pro bowling tour LET'S HIT IT $800 Everlast makes these that come in speed and heavy varieties punching bags "WORLD BOOK DESCRIBES THE ""G"" MAN" $800 "Served under the Apache leaders Cochise and Mangas Coloradas... in 1894, he was moved to Fort Sill Geronimo MONEY SLANG $800 You don't get 5 guesses at this winglike appendage to the underwater portion of a hull a fin LOST IN SPACE $1,000 In 1992 Space Shuttle astronauts delivered ashes of this Star Trek"" creator into the final frontier" Gene Roddenberry TIMELESS TV "$1,000 " "2010's ""When Love Is Not Enough"" was the 240th presentation in this series from a greeting card company" Hallmark Hall of Fame LET'S HIT IT "$1,000 " "In some casinos, a blackjack dealer must hit with an ace & a 6, known as this type of 17" soft "WORLD BOOK DESCRIBES THE ""G"" MAN" "$1,000 " One of the most original and provocative American architects working today (Frank) Gehry MONEY SLANG "$1,000 " "When speaking of Messrs. Netanyahu or Britten, it's all about the first name, pluralized" the Benjamins PLAY HEROINES $400 Blanche DuBois A Streetcar Named Desire DEFENESTRATION IN CINEMA $400 "Giving the devil his due, Fr. Karras invites the devil inside himself, then exits from the second floor in this 1973 movie" The Exorcist "A MASSIVE ""M""ETROPOLIS" $400 3.6 million: Down Under Melbourne TAINTED GOV $400 "In 2010 this Illinois governor was tried on corruption charges, but convicted on only 1 count" Blagojevich MEDICINE $400 "As Franklin D. Roosevelt's blood pressure was 300/190, he suffered from this 1-word condition" hypertension 4 CONSONANTS IN A ROW $400 "If you're vertical but supported by your palms, you're doing one of these" a handstand PLAY HEROINES $800 Emily Webb of Grover's Corners Our Town DEFENESTRATION IN CINEMA $800 "In this Bruce Willis movie, the villain goes out the window of the Nakatomi building, gun in hand" Die Hard "A MASSIVE ""M""ETROPOLIS" $800 11 million: on Luzon Island Manila TAINTED GOV $800 In 2006 this Illinois governor was busted for racketeering; what's in the water there? George Ryan MEDICINE $800 In 1905 German scientist Alfred Einhorn created this first injectable local anesthetic used in dentistry novocaine 4 CONSONANTS IN A ROW $800 A caterpillar that moves by contraction & expansion an inchworm DEFENESTRATION IN CINEMA "$1,200 " "Movie in which Axel Foley asks, ""where ...you get off arresting me for being thrown out a window?""" Beverly Hills Cop "A MASSIVE ""M""ETROPOLIS" "$1,200 " 1.1 million: in the heart of the Po River Valley Milan TAINTED GOV "$1,200 " "In 2010 it was revealed that Robert Rizzo made $800,000 a year as the city this of Bell, Calif., population 37,000" manager MEDICINE "$1,200 " "Micro-Trach is an oxygen delivery system developed by this physician known for his ""maneuver""" (Henry) Heimlich 4 CONSONANTS IN A ROW "$3,400 " "A loop found on footwear, it's a symbol of success through one's own efforts" a bootstrap "A MASSIVE ""M""ETROPOLIS" "$3,000 " 18 million: on the Arabian Sea Mumbai TAINTED GOV "$1,600 " In 2010 a House committee charged this veteran Harlem congressman with ethics violations (Charlie) Rangel MEDICINE "$1,600 " "(Dr. Oz presents the clue.) By surgically interrupting the electrical impulses that are causing an abnormal rhythm, the maze procedure is designed to threat this type of heart arrhythmia abbreviated ""A.F.""" atrial fibrillation 4 CONSONANTS IN A ROW "$1,600 " Hard coal that burns with little flame anthracite PLAY HEROINES "$2,000 " Barbara Undershaft Major Barbara DEFENESTRATION IN CINEMA "$2,000 " "In this Coen Brothers movie, Charles Durning jumps out a window during a board meeting" The Hudsucker Proxy "A MASSIVE ""M""ETROPOLIS" "$2,000 " 3.2 million: 150 miles from Bogota Medellin TAINTED GOV "$2,000 " "Elected to the Senate in 1930, he refused to resign as Louisiana's gov. until '32, when his handpicked crony got the gig" Huey Long MEDICINE "$2,000 " "The name of this branch of pediatrics that deals with newborn infants literally means ""newborn study""" neonatal 4 CONSONANTS IN A ROW "$2,000 " This important mechanism is what you're turning when you wind a clock the mainspring FLAGS OF THE WORLD None "In use from 1844 to 1905, a flag representing the union of these 2 countries was nicknamed the ""herring salad""" Norway and Sweden AMERICAN AUTHORS $200 "While he was in Spain in 1959, he wrote ""The Dangerous Summer"", a story about rival bullfighters" Hemingway BEGINNING & END $200 "Like a door, a Broadway show does these 2 things" open & close STATE SUPERLATIVES $200 A valley at 282 feet below sea level in this state is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere California 3 LITTLE LETTERS $200 "Like banks, many grocery stores now have these for dispensing cash & taking deposits" ATMs CALL OUT THE VOICE SQUAD $200 "He was the voice of Mickey Mouse in ""Steamboat Willie""" Walt Disney "YOU'RE UNDER A ""REST""" $200 Eastern European capital city of more than 2.2 million Bucharest AMERICAN AUTHORS $400 "In 1884 she moved to Red Cloud, Nebraska & later fictionalized it as the town of Hanover in ""O Pioneers!""" Willa Cather BEGINNING & END "$3,000 " In 2006 it began on July 1 in Strasbourg & ended on July 23 in Paris the Tour de France STATE SUPERLATIVES $400 "With 6,640 miles of coast, this state has the longest shoreline" Alaska 3 LITTLE LETTERS $400 "(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Catalina Island Conservancy.) Rampant use of this 3-letter insecticide lead to a hefty settlement for restorating the population of Catalina's bald eagles" DDT CALL OUT THE VOICE SQUAD $400 "(Hi, I'm Harry Shearer.) Among my many ""Simpsons"" voices are the subservient Smithers & this man who lives next door to Homer--Howdy, neighbor" Ned Flanders "YOU'RE UNDER A ""REST""" $400 Any mountain's summit crest AMERICAN AUTHORS $600 "(Alex reports from the Mark Twain House.) Mark Twain said that this anti-slavery novelist, his next-door neighbor, liked to sneak up behind people and ""fetch a war-whoop that would jump that person out of his clothes""" (Harriet Beecher) Stowe BEGINNING & END $600 From this to this is an idiom meaning from the start of a meal (or something else) to the end from soup to nuts STATE SUPERLATIVES $600 "It pumps more than one million barrels of oil a day, more than any other state" Texas 3 LITTLE LETTERS $600 "Day to Day & ""All Things Considered"" are among the programs going out to its 26 million listeners" NPR CALL OUT THE VOICE SQUAD $600 The voice of Daffy Duck (for the first 50 years) Mel Blanc "YOU'RE UNDER A ""REST""" $600 A braced framework for carrying a railroad over a chasm a trestle AMERICAN AUTHORS $800 "Under the name Laura Bancroft, he wrote about Twinkle & Chubbins in Nature Fairyland after taking us to Oz" L. Frank Baum BEGINNING & END $800 "These titles of the 2 paintings seen here represent the beginning & end of Jesus' life" "The Nativity & ""The Crucifixion""" STATE SUPERLATIVES $800 "Considered the healthiest state in 2006, it's also home to the Mayo Clinic" Minnesota 3 LITTLE LETTERS $800 "Its headquarters compound in Langley, Virginia is named for Former President George Bush" the CIA CALL OUT THE VOICE SQUAD $800 "He voiced Puss In Boots in ""Shrek 2""" Antonio Banderas "YOU'RE UNDER A ""REST""" $800 Quickly! (to an Italian) Presto AMERICAN AUTHORS "$1,000 " "William Rose Benet won a Pulitzer for ""The Dust Which Is God"", & this brother won for ""John Brown's Body""" Stephen Vincent Benet BEGINNING & END "$1,000 " "(Cheryl of the Clue Crew indicates the monitor.) A porkchop plot, named for its shape, is used for planning space missions; the vertical & horizontal axes plot possible dates for these 2 flight events" takeoff & landing (or launch & arrival) STATE SUPERLATIVES "$1,000 " Its Boeing manufacturing plant in Everett is the world's largest building by volume Washington 3 LITTLE LETTERS "$1,000 " "A TV cable network, or an explosive for bombs" TNT CALL OUT THE VOICE SQUAD "$1,000 " He provided the voices of both Beavis & Butthead Mike Judge "YOU'RE UNDER A ""REST""" "$1,000 " "The son of Agamemnon, he avenged his father's death by killing his mother Clytemnestra" Orestes EARLY AMERICA $400 In 1718 this Texas town was founded by Martin de Alarcon & Father Olivares & named for St. Anthony of Padua San Antonio BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS $400 "1980: ""Regular Folks""" Ordinary People DOWN MEXICO WAY $400 In 1986 Mexico scored as the first country to host this international sports competition twice the World Cup TAKE A PILL $400 "Going on a cruise? You might pick up this Pfizer product, the ""original"" or ""less drowsy"" formula" Dramamine TRANSPORTATION $400 The bestselling passenger car of all time is this company's Corolla Toyota AN E FOR AN I $400 A Hawaiian wreath becomes an area sheltered from wind a lei & a lee EARLY AMERICA $800 "In defending British soldiers on trial for this 1770 event, John Adams said, ""Facts are stubborn things""" the Boston Massacre BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS $800 "1932: ""Magnificent Inn""" Grand Hotel DOWN MEXICO WAY $800 This resort city about 200 miles southwest of Mexico City is famous for its cliff divers Acapulco TAKE A PILL $800 "Antabuse is designed to make you feel really, really bad after ingesting this" alcohol TRANSPORTATION $800 "The transport for a 19th century double date might have been a barouche, one of these" a carriage AN E FOR AN I $800 "A ""landing"" area is transformed into a serious throat infection" strep & strip EARLY AMERICA "$1,200 " "In 1685 he joined his father in pastorship of the Old North Church, a post he held until his death" Cotton Mather BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS "$1,200 " "1976: ""A Single Colorado Mountain""" Rocky DOWN MEXICO WAY "$1,200 " "Founded in the 1530s, this capital of Jalisco state is the second-largest in Mexico" Guadalajara TAKE A PILL "$1,200 " Estramustine is a chemotherapy agent for this glandular cancer in men prostate cancer TRANSPORTATION "$1,200 " "Cabbies in this Eur. city spend 2 years gaining ""the knowledge"", mental maps needed to get a license" London AN E FOR AN I "$4,000 " "Gentle becomes ""to blend""" mild & meld EARLY AMERICA "$1,600 " "In 1562, in what is now S.C., these French Protestants established a colony named Port Royal" the Huguenots BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS "$1,600 " "1954: ""Dockside""" On the Waterfront DOWN MEXICO WAY "$1,600 " This gritty 1961 Tennessee Williams play unfolds in a seedy Mexican hotel Night of the Iguana TAKE A PILL "$1,600 " Pravastatin aims to block your body's ability to make this cholesterol TRANSPORTATION "$1,600 " "In ""Sixteen Candles"", Molly Ringwald says, ""I loathe"" this method of transport" the bus AN E FOR AN I "$1,600 " "One means ""severely tested""; the other, ""trapped on a branch""" tried & treed EARLY AMERICA "$2,000 " "In ""Of Plymouth Plantation"", he wrote that there was so much disease ""the living were scarce able to bury the dead""" William Bradford BEST PICTURE OSCAR-WINNERS IN OTHER WORDS "$2,000 " "1966: ""One Bloke Year-Round""" A Man For All Seasons DOWN MEXICO WAY "$2,000 " This popular resort island lies north of Cozumel off the coast of the state of Quintana Roo Cancun TAKE A PILL "$2,000 " This tranquilizer that sounds like a village was introduced in 1955 & became the USA's bestselling drug Miltown TRANSPORTATION "$1,000 " Since 1899 these stalwart animals used in transport have served as the mascots of the Army Corps of Cadets mules AN E FOR AN I "$2,000 " "To replenish becomes ""to knock down""" to fill & to fell THE BRITISH THEATRE None "Richard Attenborough, who was in the original 1952 cast of this play, helped celebrate its performance No. 20,000 in 2000" The Mousetrap AT THE KENNEDY CENTER $100 Can you hear me? This rock opera by The Who was a big hit at the Kennedy Center in 1994 Tommy NATIONAL MONUMENTS $100 George Custer's men are buried in a cemetery in the national monument named for this river Little Bighorn THE CIRCUS $100 "Trainers shout, ""Tail Up!"" when they want these performers to follow each other trunk to tail" Elephants ON THE RADIO $100 "Radio abbreviation that precedes the name of rap figures Quik, Pooh & Jazzy Jeff" DJ CELEB STUFF $100 "On March 2, 1977 he made his first ""Tonight Show"" appearance; on May 25, 1992 he took over as host" Jay Leno COMMON BONDS $100 "Door, Nobel, booby" prizes AT THE KENNEDY CENTER $200 "In 1995 Luigi Bonino starred in a ballet about this ""Little Tramp"" of silent films" Charlie Chaplin NATIONAL MONUMENTS $200 Scotts Bluff National Monument lies in western Nebraska on this pioneer trail Oregon Trail THE CIRCUS $200 "It's the familiar term for a circus' largest tent, where the main show appears" the big top ON THE RADIO $200 "Robin Quivers is the radio consort of this self-proclaimed ""King of All Media""" Howard Stern CELEB STUFF "$1,500 " "(Hi, I'm Bob Eubanks.) 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This Asian favorite, sometimes chicken, sometimes beef, is usually served with a spicy peanut sauce" satay THRILLER "$1,000 " The Attorney Paul Madriani appears in several legal thrillers by this lawyer-turned-author Steve Martini BEN "$1,600 " The Hutchinson Letters scandal got Ben fired as deputy this in 1774 postmaster general "BLACK OR ""WHITE""" "$1,000 " Famous landmark composed of chalk in the county of Kent in England the White Cliffs of Dover REMEMBER THE TIME "$1,000 " This 1904-1905 war began in Manchuria & ended with the battle of Tsushima Strait Russo-Japanese War ROCK WITH YOU "$1,000 " "Quit your yellin' & name this 1995 hit duet for Michael & Janet Jackson, their first together" Scream EAT IT! 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One of Nuku Hiva's main exports is this--dried coconut meat" copra SCOTLAND "$2,000 " "Hundreds of years old, the de facto national flag features this saint's cross" Andrew BABY BOOMER MEMORIES "$2,000 " In 1967 this 21-year-old started Rolling Stone magazine Jann Wenner SOMETHING'S FISHY "$2,000 " "It springs to mind that there's a Florida city named for this game fish seen here" tarpon TELEVISION "$2,000 " "Co-hosted by John Davidson, it was ABC's response to NBC's ""Real People""" That's Incredible! WORLD RELIGION "$2,000 " "Made up of 1,028 hymns in 10 books, it's the oldest of the Vedas in Hinduism" Rigveda SORTA SOUNDS LIKE OPRAH? 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Shirley Jones LIBRARIES "$1,500 " "Salinas, California, has a public library named for this novelist" Steinbeck TELEPHONE HISTORY $400 In 1980 Dial-It National Sports became the first service on this new area code 1-900 VERMONTERS $400 George Franklin Edmunds wrote most of this antitrust act of 1890 the Sherman (Antitrust Act) "X, ""Y"", ""Z""" $400 "Some of these are produced by bremsstrahlung, from the German for ""breaking radiation""" x-rays SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES $400 "Puck's last speech in this play begins, ""If we shadows have offended, think but this--and all is mended""" A Midsummer Night's Dream ACTRESSES' FIRST FILMS $500 Halloween Jamie Lee Curtis LIBRARIES $500 In 1602 this university's library reopened after restoration work by Sir Thomas Bodley Oxford University TELEPHONE HISTORY $500 "In 1880 he invented the photophone, a device that sent messages through the air on beams of light" Alexander Graham Bell VERMONTERS $500 At age 15 this future New York Tribune editor was apprenticed to a printer in East Poultney Horace Greeley "X, ""Y"", ""Z""" $500 "This Saint Francis was the ""Apostle of the Indies""" Xavier SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES $500 "In the last scene of this comedy, Petruchio wins a bet that he has the most obedient wife" The Taming of the Shrew MEDICAL MILESTONES $200 "In 1751, with Benjamin Franklin's help, the 1st hospital in the U.S. was founded in this city" Philadelphia POETS & POETRY $200 "Of the 31 pilgrims in this Chaucer work, only 23 tell their stories" The Canterbury Tales WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200 Large aboriginal populations live in this country's states of Queensland & New South Wales Australia MIXED DRINKS $200 The juice of one of these citrus fruits makes a Whiskey Sour sour a lemon THE 1930s $200 "In 1936, in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles, this country began remilitarizing the Rhineland" Germany POP MUSIC $200 "He recorded ""Gone At Last"" with Phoebe Snow, not Art Garfunkel" Paul Simon MEDICAL MILESTONES $400 In 1867 Thomas Allbutt invented one of these instruments which took 5 minutes to register instead of 20 a thermometer POETS & POETRY $400 "This Longfellow poem was suggested by a smithy under a chestnut tree in Cambridge, Massachusetts" The Village Blacksmith WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400 "Administrative units in this country include Giza, Aswan & Suez" Egypt MIXED DRINKS $400 This pomegranate syrup turns a Pink Lady pink grenadine THE 1930s $400 This longtime anchor of the CBS Evening News became a UPI correspondent in 1939 Walter Cronkite POP MUSIC $400 "She sang ""Better Be Good To Me"" in 1984, a few years after she broke up with Ike" Tina Turner MEDICAL MILESTONES $600 Dutch physician Willem Kolff developed the 1st of these kidney machines that cleanse the blood a dialysis machine POETS & POETRY $600 "Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote of this ship, ""Oh better that her shattered hulk should sink beneath the wave""" Old Ironsides WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600 This longest river on the Iberian Peninsula is also known as the Tajo the Tagus MIXED DRINKS $600 A teaspoon of creme de cassis is added to this to make a Kir white wine THE 1930s $600 Helen Keller brought the first of these Japanese dogs to the United States in 1937 the akita POP MUSIC $600 "In ""Take Me Home, Country Roads"", John Denver sang, ""Almost heaven,"" this state" West Virginia MEDICAL MILESTONES $800 In 1906 August von Wassermann developed a well-known test for this sexually transmitted disease syphilis POETS & POETRY $800 "His ""When the Frost is on the Punkin"" was written for a series in the Indianapolis Journal" (James Whitcomb) Riley WORLD GEOGRAPHY "$1,500 " "Cabinda, an area of this former Portuguese colony, is separated from the rest of it by Zaire" Angola MIXED DRINKS $800 "A basic Gin Rickey is gin, lime & this non-potent potable" soda water THE 1930s $800 He was appointed conductor of the Boston Pops in 1930 Arthur Fiedler POP MUSIC $800 "Alan, Merrill & Wayne, 3 of these Utah brothers, co-wrote their own 1972 hit ""Crazy Horses""" the Osmonds MEDICAL MILESTONES "$2,000 " In 1982 William DeVries performed the 1st permanent artificial heart transplant on this man Barney Clark POETS & POETRY "$1,000 " "He was descended from an Abyssinian prince, Peter the Great's godson" (Aleksandr) Pushkin WORLD GEOGRAPHY "$1,000 " The Indus River provides the western border of this desert also known as the Great Indian Desert the Thar Desert MIXED DRINKS "$1,000 " Using Scotch whisky turns a Manhattan into this drink a Rob Roy THE 1930s "$1,000 " "This author of ""Anne of Green Gables"" was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1935" (Lucy Maud) Montgomery POP MUSIC "$1,000 " "This singer's 1970 hit ""I'll Never Fall In Love Again"" was from the Broadway musical ""Promises, Promises""" Dionne Warwick AMERICAN HISTORY None "On May 29, 1765 Patrick Henry's Stamp Act protest was interrupted with this one word" Treason! 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In 2009 this animated family was chosen to grace stamps, though postage did go up to 44 cents (D'oh!)" the Simpsons THE KILLERS $200 In Genesis 4 he becomes the first killer; God isn't happy Cain SPOTT THA MISPELED WURD $200 Meet me in the library for a liaison at your liesure leisure THE BIG 10 $200 The first 10 of these are known as the Bill of Rights the Amendments "CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY, EH?" $400 "Mount Logan, Canada's highest peak, is found in this territory" the Yukon Territory ON HIS BASEBALL HALL OF FAME PLAQUE $400 "Detroit - Philadelphia, A.L. - 1905-1926... retired with 4191 major league hits" (Ty) Cobb STAMPS $400 This astronomer for whom a space telescope is named is honored in the American Scientists series (Edwin) Hubble THE KILLERS $400 "In one of the few documented one-on-one Old West gunfights, this ""Wild"" man killed Davis Tutt in 1865" Wild Bill Hickok SPOTT THA MISPELED WURD $400 "The occasional misspelling is noticable on a telecast like ""Jeopardy!""" noticeable THE BIG 10 $400 In Israel Tevet is the tenth of these month "CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY, EH?" $600 "Of the top 5 Canadian cities in population, it's the one closest to the Pacific Ocean" Vancouver ON HIS BASEBALL HALL OF FAME PLAQUE $600 "'Mr. Octobe (Reggie) Jackson STAMPS $600 A stamp honors this 19th c. author about whom it was said, So this is the little lady who made this big war""" Harriet Beecher Stowe THE KILLERS $600 Bodyguards Satwant & Beant Singh killed this female leader of India in 1984 Indira Gandhi SPOTT THA MISPELED WURD $600 "If you supersede the competition, you will excede all expectations" exceed THE BIG 10 $600 "In L.A., the western tip of Interstate 10 is called this ""freeway"", after the beach community it passes through" Santa Monica "CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY, EH?" $800 "Appropriately, New Glasgow is in this Canadian province" Nova Scotia ON HIS BASEBALL HALL OF FAME PLAQUE $800 "This 2009 inductee was ""faster than a speeding bullet""" Rickey Henderson STAMPS $800 "An international rate stamp has a photo of this nearly 700-sq mile swamp in Georgia and Florida" the Okefenokee THE KILLERS $800 "This ""insect"" of a gangster was a real-life hit man for Murder Incorporated in the 1930s & '40s" Bugsy Siegel SPOTT THA MISPELED WURD $800 We want you to be committed to catagorizing your collectibles cohesively categorizing THE BIG 10 $800 "The title of this Boccaccio work means ""10 Days""" Decameron "CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY, EH?" 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It began when a reporter asked the FBI, ""Who are the toughest guys you're looking for?""" the FBI's 10 most wanted list GENERAL SCIENCE $400 In 1869 this Austrian monk published a paper on hawkweed: the experiments didn't work as well as the ones with peas Mendel INSTRUMENT ETYMOLOGY $400 "It's appropriate that the name of this double reed instrument with a low range comes from the Italian for ""low""" a bassoon FACIAL EXPRESSIONS $400 "This word meaning ""empty"" or ""to be filled in"" describes a vacant type of stare" blank LIT MY FIRE $400 "The Fire Sermon is Part III of this poet's ""The Waste Land""" T.S. Eliot THE STAR'S TV SHOW & MOVIE $400 "Sex and the City, ""Sex and the City"" (& ""Did you Hear About the Morgans?"")" 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this politician was ""Mr. Republican"", not ""Mr. Robert""" Robert Taft S-OTERICA "$1,600 " (I'm NFL running back Shaun Alexander) I play in this city that's the farthest distance away from any other NFL city Seattle VIETNAM "$1,600 " "The large ""S"" shape that is Vietnam juts out into this sea with a directional name" South China Sea TOUR OF JUDY "$1,600 " "She played an airheaded blonde to whom William Holden had to teach manners in ""Born Yesterday""" Judy Holliday PLAYWRIGHTS "$2,000 " "Born in 1799, this poet, novelist & playwright is to Russian literature what Shakespeare is to English literature" Alexander Pushkin AMERICAN NICKNAMES "$2,000 " "Gloria Vanderbilt or Doris Duke; it's also the translation of the Victoria Ruffo telenovela title ""Pobre Nina Rica""" Poor Little Rich Girl S-OTERICA "$2,000 " Peter Falk narrated this 1978 documentary in which hardened convicts frightened delinquent kids Scared Straight VIETNAM "$2,000 " "Vietnam's narrowest point, about 30 miles, is just north of this port city where U.S. troops landed in 1965" Da Nang TOUR OF JUDY "$2,000 " "This CNN news anchor once worked as a correspondent for ""The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour""" Judy Woodruff CANDY None "Bill Harmsen, who raised horses in Colo., happily founded this candy co. in 1949 to make money during the winter" Jolly Rancher HISTORIC NICKNAMES $200 "Because of his Hanoverian heritage, American colonists called this monarch ""German Georgie"" or ""Geordie""" George III "BIG, REALLY BIG!" $200 "Built on 200 acres, this Washington, D.C. train station was once the world's largest" Union Station POLITICAL MOVIES $200 2 reporters unearth a political scandal that goes all the way to the top in this 1976 film based on a book All the President's Men THE 1990s $200 "On Jan. 31, 1999 this team repeated as Super Bowl champs with John Elway throwing for 336 yards" the Denver Broncos U.S. STATES $200 Do the wild fais-do-do in this state while motoring on Interstate 10 to Baton Rouge or Ponchatoula Louisiana HISTORIC NICKNAMES $400 "Among the more colorful nicknames of this agricultural chemist were ""Peanut Man"" & ""Sweet-Potato Man""" George Washington Carver "BIG, REALLY BIG!" $400 The 120-foot big bat being transported here is now at the Kentucky museum named for this 2-word brand Louisville Slugger POLITICAL MOVIES $400 "Jimmy Stewart played Jefferson Smith, the naive & idealistic appointee to the U.S. Senate in this Capra classic" Mr. Smith Goes to Washington THE 1990s $400 "On January 4, 1995 he was sworn in as the first Republican speaker of the house in more than 40 years" Newt Gingrich U.S. STATES $400 It's the only U.S. state named for a French king Louisiana HISTORIC NICKNAMES $600 "This animal phrase meaning ""courageous"" was Richard I of England's nickname" the Lionhearted "BIG, REALLY BIG!" $600 "In 1956 a 12,000-square-mile one of these was seen floating off Antarctica; 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"$1,600 " Your striking resemblance to Kirk Douglas has convinced us to star you in the ballet about this gladiator Spartacus GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCTS "$1,600 " "When on this north Atlantic island be sure to try hakarl, a traditional dish of rotten shark" Iceland POTPOURRI "$1,600 " VP Garret Hobart cast the deciding vote against independence for these formerly Spanish Pacific islands the Philippines CAPITOL THINKERS "$2,000 " "This Vermont senator wrote, ""You get 15 Democrats together in a room, and you get 20 opinions""" Patrick Leahy MEET THE PARENTS "$2,000 " "Hyperion Books, Mammoth Records, Miramax Films" Disney YOU SHOULD BE IN A BALLET! "$2,000 " "Your ""Romeo and Juliet"" will make everyone forget the 1965 triumph of Rudolf Nureyev & this partner" Margot Fonteyn GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCTS "$2,000 " "Consisting of a sheep's minced heart, lung & liver, haggis is a specialty of this U.K. country" Scotland POTPOURRI "$2,000 " The website for this Bureau of the Treasury department is www.moneyfactory.com the Bureau of Printing and Engraving THE PRESIDENCY None "If a president is impeached, this official presides over the trial in the Senate" the Chief Justice of the United States AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $100 "The Qattara Depression, one of Africa's lowest points, lies 300 miles southwest of this country's pyramids" Egypt "BON APPE-""T""" $100 A folded tortilla filled with various ingredients Taco MONEY SLANG $100 Cheap way off a rodeo bronco Buck AIN'T THAT AMERICA $100 The Mackinac Bridge joins the upper & lower peninsulas of this U.S. state Michigan WHY? $100 These events occur because gas-filled magma is forced to the surface by pressure from solid rock Volcanic eruptions THE BUTLER DID IT $100 "Ted Cassidy played Bigfoot on ""The Six Million Dollar Man"" & filled this servant's shoes on ""The Addams Family""" Lurch AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $200 Arabs call this Libyan capital Tarabulus Tripoli "BON APPE-""T""" $200 "This ""steak"" is a hot dog" Tube steak MONEY SLANG $200 "No ""Wonder"" you're on a ""roll"" -- you're not a ""loaf""er & you're earning a lot of this" Bread/dough AIN'T THAT AMERICA $200 This state was named for a man who was a European king from 1643 to 1715 Louisiana WHY? $200 "They're ""unlucky"" because in the Middle Ages they were thought to be the mascots of witches" Black cats THE BUTLER DID IT $200 He must have a great benefit plan; Alfred began his service to this crime fighter way back in 1943 Batman AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $300 "Most of Africa's major rivers, including the Congo & the Niger, flow into this ocean" Atlantic "BON APPE-""T""" $300 This root vegetable often has white skin & a purple-tinged top Turnip MONEY SLANG $300 "If you have the itch to start a business ""from"" it, you'll certainly need some of it" Scratch AIN'T THAT AMERICA $300 There are more farms in this large southwestern state than in any other Texas WHY? $300 "According to Genesis 3:14, because it tricked Eve" Why does the snake crawl on the ground? 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THE BUTLER DID IT $400 "Daniel Davis played Niles the butler on this ""Fine"" TV comedy that featured the Sheffield family" The Nanny AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY "$1,500 " "Jebel Musa, a promontory in this mountain range, is one of the Pillars of Hercules" Atlas Mountains "BON APPE-""T""" $500 A yellow cheddar from Oregon Tillamook MONEY SLANG $500 2-word phrase for Henny Penny's lunch Chicken feed AIN'T THAT AMERICA $500 "On June 17, 1969 this controversial erotic revue opened off-Broadway; oh my!" Oh! Calcutta! WHY? $500 Because bacteria from carbon dioxide bubbles around which the curd hardens Why does Swiss cheese have holes? THE BUTLER DID IT $500 "Giles was the first name of this Sebastian Cabot character on ""Family Affair""" Mr. French SCIENCE & NATURE $200 In the East Indies certain species of this reptile are called flying dragons because they can glide from tree to tree Lizards "THE MELBOURNE OLYMPICS, 1956" $200 "As an 8-year-old in 1956, she sang with a group welcoming Queen Elizabeth II; later she sang to open the 2000 games" Olivia Newton-John WRITERS CUBED $200 "In 1845 he published ""The Raven and Other Poems""; the other poems include ""The Conqueror Worm""" Edgar Allan Poe BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES $200 Henry VIII Tudor AND I QUOTE $200 "Type of quotations in the title of ""Bartlett's""" Familiar "THE ""BUTLER"" DID IT" $200 "Film character who said, ""You should be kissed, and often, and by someone who knows how""" Rhett Butler SCIENCE & NATURE $400 "Newton, Cassegrain, Schmidt & Maksutov all have types of this instrument named for them" Telescope "THE MELBOURNE OLYMPICS, 1956" $400 "Teams were pulling out left & right, some in protest of the Soviet invasion of this country" Hungary WRITERS CUBED $400 "In 1977 a reconstruction of her ""Little House"" was put on the original site 13 miles southwest of Independence" Laura Ingalls Wilder BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES $400 George VI Windsor AND I QUOTE $400 "A quote can be taken ""out of"" this, from the Latin for ""to weave together""" Context "THE ""BUTLER"" DID IT" $400 "A former Dodger outfielder & TV's ""Grace Under Fire"" both go by this name" Brett Butler SCIENCE & NATURE "$1,800 " The flexible neck of this bird of prey allows it to rotate its head an amazing 270 degrees Owl "THE MELBOURNE OLYMPICS, 1956" $600 "Like Korea in 2000, this country entered the stadium in 1956 as a ""United"" team" Germany WRITERS CUBED $600 "19th century minister of the Second Church of Boston, known for essays like ""Self-Reliance""" Ralph Waldo Emerson BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES $600 Richard I Plantagenet AND I QUOTE $600 "Kim Walker's character in ""Say Anything"" has this annoying habit when quoting" Making quotations with your fingers "THE ""BUTLER"" DID IT" $600 "This Irish poet who penned ""The Winding Stair"" shares his middle name with his brother Jack & father John" William Butler Yeats SCIENCE & NATURE $800 "Change 1 letter in ""protest"" to get this word for a protozoan & others in its kingdom" Protist WRITERS CUBED $800 "Her 2000 novel ""Blonde"" is, of course, about Marilyn Monroe" Joyce Carol Oates BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES "$2,000 " James I Stuart AND I QUOTE $800 "3-word phrase for a quote meant for attribution, or a quote like ""Gretzky's 92 goals are unbeatable!""" 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Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!""" George Wallace ALL ABOARD THE SOUL TRAIN $400 This hair care product was among the first major backers of the show Afro Sheen WAR STORIES $400 "A Walk in the Sun, ""They Were Expendable""" World War II EUROPE $400 It's the smallest in area of the Benelux countries Luxembourg WEEDS $400 This fabric follows Queen Anne's in the name of the weed seen here Lace "SEEING ""RED""" $400 "In song, just ""remember"" this place ""and the cowboy that loves you so true""" Red River Valley 20th CENTURY QUOTES $500 "A professor, 1967: ""Turn on, tune in, drop out""" Timothy Leary ALL ABOARD THE SOUL TRAIN $500 "To gain better production values, ""Soul Train"" was moved from this city to Los Angeles" Chicago WAR STORIES $500 "Arundel, ""Johnny Tremain""" The Revolutionary War EUROPE $500 "The fertile plain east of the Danube, making up half this country's area, is called the Great Alfold" Hungary WEEDS $500 "In the names of weeds, this old word for a plant follows soap- & St. John's" Wort "SEEING ""RED""" $500 "The title of a 1928 song Sophie Tucker introduced, it was also her nickname" The Last of the Red Hot Mamas INITIAL T.V. $200 This show which had a 9-year-run on ABC was produced with help from J. Edgar Hoover The F.B.I. SAINTS BE PRAISED $200 "The emblem of St. Lawrence, it's also a nickname for a football field" Gridiron MR. OR MS. WILLIAMS $200 "Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1966, his lifetime batting average was .344" Ted Williams AIN'T THAT AMERICA $200 This state's largest lake may be 20 times as salty as any ocean Utah (Great Salt Lake) "SOMETHIN' TO ""C""" $200 "Oscar & Felix were an ""odd"" one" Couple INITIAL T.V. $400 "This '60s police drama with Jack Warden was missing the ""blue"" of the series that began in 1993" N.Y.P.D. SAINTS BE PRAISED $400 The first American citizen canonized was an immigrant from this country Italy (Mother Cabrini) MR. OR MS. WILLIAMS $400 "This crooner's hits include 1971's ""Where Do I Begin"" & 1959's ""Lonely Street""" Andy Williams AIN'T THAT AMERICA $400 "Francis Scott Key wrote ""The Star-Spangled Banner"" while in this state during the War of 1812" Maryland "SOMETHIN' TO ""C""" $400 Ichabod's patronymic Crane PHYSICAL SCIENCE $600 Max Planck gave this name to the smallest amount of energy that can be emitted as electromagnetic radiation Quantum INITIAL T.V. $600 "[Hi, I'm Pat O'Brien] David E. Kelley won 2 Emmys for this show in 1991, one as executive producer, one as writer" L.A. Law SAINTS BE PRAISED $600 "Saint Brigid was buried at Kildare, but was later moved to be buried with this saint" Saint Patrick MR. OR MS. WILLIAMS "$1,600 " The Hillbilly Shakespeare is one nickname of this legendary singer "Hank Williams, Sr." AIN'T THAT AMERICA $600 Ice cream cones were reportedly first served at the 1904 World's Fair in this state Missouri (St. Louis) "SOMETHIN' TO ""C""" $600 The means of production are privately owned in this economic system Capitalism PHYSICAL SCIENCE $800 "To scientists, it's force times distance; to Twain, it's ""whatever a body is obliged to do""" Work INITIAL T.V. $800 This '70s series about a harsh Navy drill instructor with a soft heart starred Don Rickles C.P.O. Sharkey SAINTS BE PRAISED $800 "Philip of Moscow foresaw that his post as primate of the Russian church might lead to martyrdom, as this man was czar" Ivan the Terrible MR. OR MS. WILLIAMS $800 The aquatic Mrs. Fernando Lamas Esther Williams AIN'T THAT AMERICA $500 In 1886 a pharmacist in this southern state became the first man to enjoy a Coke and a smile Georgia PHYSICAL SCIENCE "$1,000 " Stoichiometry is defined as the study of the quantities involved in these chemical events Chemical reactions INITIAL T.V. "$1,000 " "Organization that employed Alexander Waverly, Mark Slate & Illya Kuryakin" U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement) SAINTS BE PRAISED "$1,000 " "In September 1999 an abridged version of his ""City of God"" ranked 9,821st on Amazon.com's sales list" Saint Augustine MR. OR MS. WILLIAMS "$1,000 " This devoted mom has been called the most famous Miss America of all time Vanessa Williams AIN'T THAT AMERICA "$1,000 " From 1784 to 1788 the eastern part of this state was a separate state called Franklin Tennessee "SOMETHIN' TO ""C""" "$1,000 " In 41 A.D. Cassius Chaerea & company assassinated this Roman emperor Caligula FILM CLASSICS None This 1951 classic stars the AFI's top picks for the greatest male & female film legends The African Queen (Humphrey Bogart & Katharine Hepburn) NUMBERS $100 "Fittingly, the book of Numbers begins with God telling this man to count the number of Israelites" Moses '65 $100 "These 2 countries nicknamed the Bear & the Dragon conducted a ""verbal war""" Soviet Union & China FORE! $100 "In 1994 at age 18, he became the youngest golfer to win the U.S. Amateur Golf Tournament" Tiger Woods THREE $100 "Mother Goose rhyming line that follows ""Rub-a-dub-dub""" Three men in a tub TWO $100 In suds: Eberhard Anheuser &... Adolphus Busch JUAN $100 "Days out of prison in 1945, he married Maria Eva Duarte; we now know her as Evita" Juan Peron NUMBERS $200 Numbers appears at this number position in the order of the books of the Bible Fourth '65 $200 Strike up the band; this Christian organization turned 100 in June The Salvation Army FORE! $200 "Except during WWII, this golf tournament has been played at the Augusta National Golf Club every year since 1934" The Masters THREE $200 "It beats 2 pair, but not a straight" Three of a kind TWO $200 In pharmaceuticals: William Bristol &... John Myers JUAN $200 "While trying to colonize what's now this state, Juan Ponce de Leon received a mortal wound from the natives" Florida NUMBERS $300 "Of the 12 spies sent, only Caleb & this future leader believed the Israelites could take Canaan" Joshua '65 $300 "On January 20, 1965 he was inaugurated as U.S. vice president" Hubert H. Humphrey FORE! $300 This stretch of closely mowed grass from the tee to the green may be straight or at an angle called a dogleg Fairway THREE $300 "Stalin, FDR & Churchill were known by this collective nickname when they met in Teheran in 1943" The Big Three TWO $300 In advertising: Jay Chiat &... Guy Day JUAN $300 "Juan Belmonte is considered the founder of the modern version of this sport, ole!" Bullfighting NUMBERS $400 "In chapter 8, this tribe of Israelites is appointed to work in the tabernacle" Levites '65 $500 "Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Oct. 25, 1965, maybe it got its prize money in pennies on the 31st" UNICEF FORE! $400 This hazard is simply a depression in the ground; if it contains sand it's called a sand trap Bunker THREE $400 In 1979 this nuclear power plant near Harrisburg experienced a near meltdown Three Mile Island TWO $400 In engines: Stephen Briggs &... Harold Stratton JUAN $400 "1998's MVP in the American League was outfielder Juan Gonzalez, then with this team" Texas Rangers (now with the Tigers) NUMBERS $500 "In chapter 20, Eleazar succeeds this man, his father, as high priest" Aaron '65 $500 This company's new Toronado eliminated the hump on the floor with a new drive system Oldsmobile FORE! $500 "This ""Royal & Ancient Golf Club"" of Scotland set the standard for a round of golf at 18 holes" St. Andrews THREE $500 "Brecht & Weill's ""Die Dreigroschenoper"" is known as this in English" The Threepenny Opera TWO $500 In fashion: Domenico Dolce &... Stefano Gabbana JUAN $500 "In 1995 he was named ASCAP's Latin Songwriter of the Year & in 1996, sang a duet with Paul Anka" Juan Gabriel KOREA $200 "In 1976 this company produced the Pony, the first Korean car" Hyundai NEVER AT THE MOVIES $200 Advice that's the title of a 1941 W.C. Fields film Never Give a Sucker an Even Break POLAR EXPLORATION $200 Robert Peary was surprised to hear these natives accompanying him complain of cold noses Eskimos AIRPORT CODES $200 ATL Atlanta THAT'S NO LADY... $200 "In the '70s he played America's favorite bigot, Archie Bunker" Carroll O'Connor DOUBLE A $200 Quirks of this Eurocar include the ignition lock in the center console Saab KOREA $400 It's enlightening to know the eighth day of the fourth lunar month is celebrated as his birthday Buddha NEVER AT THE MOVIES $400 "(Hi, I'm Garry Marshall) I sent copy editor Drew Barrymore back to high school for an undercover assignment in this 1999 comedy" Never Been Kissed POLAR EXPLORATION $400 "Edward Bransfield, a possible discoverer of Antarctica, had to battle these birds to get ashore" Penguins AIRPORT CODES $400 BRU Brussels THAT'S NO LADY... $400 "Before he was a Yippie leader & one of the ""Chicago Seven"", he was a pharmaceuticals salesman" Abbie Hoffman DOUBLE A $400 It's how you properly address the Queen of England Maam KOREA $800 "The name of this martial art resembling karate is Korean for ""art of kicking and punching""" Taekwondo NEVER AT THE MOVIES $600 This 1977 movie about a schizophrenic girl was adapted from Joanne Greenberg's book of the same name I Never Promised You a Rose Garden POLAR EXPLORATION $600 "In 1969, on dogsled, a British team made the first surface crossing of this ocean" Arctic Ocean AIRPORT CODES $600 In Scandinavia: CPH Copenhagen THAT'S NO LADY... $600 "A legendary lineman for the Giants & the Rams, he also published a ""Needlepoint Book for Men""" Rosie (Roosevelt) Grier DOUBLE A $600 Biblical man with a talking ass Balaam KOREA $800 "Reportedly, the farther south you go, the hotter you'll find this common dish of pickled cabbage" Kimchi NEVER AT THE MOVIES $800 "Despite the promise of its title, this 1984 fantasy movie is 94 minutes long; the 1991 sequel is only 90 minutes" The Neverending Story POLAR EXPLORATION $800 "This South Pole conqueror died trying to rescue Umberto Nobile, who eventually lived to be 93" Roald Amundsen AIRPORT CODES $800 On the continent: ORY Paris (Orly) THAT'S NO LADY... $800 "He was a comic foil as Mr. Mooney on ""The Lucy Show"" & Mr. Wilson on ""Dennis the Menace""" Gale Gordon DOUBLE A $800 Architect Eero Saarinen KOREA "$1,000 " "South Korea's second-largest city, it gave its name to a Korean war ""perimeter""" Pusan NEVER AT THE MOVIES "$1,000 " "The 2 James Bond films that have ""Never"" in the title" Never Say Never Again & Tomorrow Never Dies POLAR EXPLORATION "$1,000 " This man who sailed with Scott later made a daring trek when his ship Endurance was trapped by ice Ernest Shackleton AIRPORT CODES "$1,000 " In the Midwest: MSP Minneapolis-St. Paul THAT'S NO LADY... "$1,000 " "He played the title character in ""Sunday in the Park with George"" when it debuted on Broadway" Mandy Patinkin DOUBLE A "$1,000 " "This river ""trans""its South Africa & flows into the Orange" Vaal River NONFICTION AUTHORS None "First published in 1946, a book written by this man became the bestselling book in the U.S. after the Bible" "Dr. Benjamin Spock (\""Baby and Child Care\"")" THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS $200 "The Tebenna, an Etruscan mantle, evolved into this garment perhaps worn most strikingly by John Belushi" a toga PEOPLE $200 This wrestler nicknamed his daughter born in August 2001 Pebbles The Rock SO YOU WANT TO BE A 19th CENTURY HEROINE $200 "If you have this adjective before your name, like Nell or Eva, don't bother planning for your old age" Little CENTRAL PARK $200 What's now officially called the Central Park Wildlife Center is probably better-known by this name the zoo THIS CATEGORY STINKS! $200 "Proverbially, this pungent bulb ""makes a man wink, drink & stink""" garlic ABBREVIATED STATES $200 This state that acts as a conjunction between Nevada & Washington has an abbreviation that is a conjunction Oregon THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS $400 Oscar Mayer could tell you that this is the city the Etruscans called Felsina Bologna PEOPLE $400 "Fatally, American groupie Nancy Spungen was this British punk rocker's girlfriend" Sid Vicious SO YOU WANT TO BE A 19th CENTURY HEROINE $400 "Your job options include teacher & this related job of the heroines in ""Jane Eyre"" & ""Vanity Fair""" governess CENTRAL PARK $400 "Central Park has a statue of King Wladyslaw II Jagiello of this country, who was also Grand Duke of Lithuania" Poland THIS CATEGORY STINKS! $400 It's the Belgian province bordering the Netherlands that's famous for originating a smelly cheese Limburgh ABBREVIATED STATES $400 The abbreviation of this state is also an abbreviation for the largest city in California Louisiana THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS $600 "Along with the Borgia apartments, the Etruscan Museum is one of the top attractions in this 109-acre country" Vatican City PEOPLE $600 She owns the St. Louis Rams Georgia Frontiere SO YOU WANT TO BE A 19th CENTURY HEROINE $600 "Even if you're 27 & still single, like Anne in this author's ""Persuasion"", your life may not be over" Jane Austen CENTRAL PARK $600 "(Sofia of the Clue Crew jogs through Central Park.) I'm running around the reservoir now named for this first lady, who lived nearby and used to go jogging here" Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis THIS CATEGORY STINKS! $600 "This cartoon character's big screen credits include ""For Scent-imental Reasons"" & ""Heaven Scent""" Pepé Le Pew ABBREVIATED STATES $600 Show me that the abbreviation for this state means the habits of a predictable criminal Missouri THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS $800 The wolf in the Capitoline Wolf statue may be Etruscan; these 2 babies she's suckling were added around 1509 Romulus & Remus PEOPLE $800 This actor gave a speech for Harvard roommate Al Gore at the 2000 Democratic Convention Tommy Lee Jones SO YOU WANT TO BE A 19th CENTURY HEROINE $800 "Like Gertrude in this author's ""The Europeans"", go ahead & marry a relative (it might get you out of your house, too)" Henry James CENTRAL PARK $800 "In the 1953 film ""The Band Wagon"" Fred Astaire & this leggy partner were ""Dancing In The Dark"" through Central Park" Cyd Charisse THIS CATEGORY STINKS! "$2,000 " The strong odor of this semi-aquatic rodent gives it its name the muskrat ABBREVIATED STATES $800 "When abbreviated before the number 47, this state becomes an assault weapon" Alaska THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS "$1,000 " "A 1927 visit to Etruscan sites inspired this author of ""The Plumed Serpent"" to write ""Etruscan Places""" D.H. Lawrence PEOPLE "$1,000 " "M.C. Hammer earned his nickname from his resemblance to this ""Hammerin'"" home run king" Hank Aaron SO YOU WANT TO BE A 19th CENTURY HEROINE "$1,000 " "Unlike Dorothea in this George Eliot book, marry for love, not intellectual compatibility" Middlemarch CENTRAL PARK "$1,000 " Cleopatra's Needle is a short walk from this Egyptian Temple in the Metropolitan Museum of Art the Temple of Dendur THIS CATEGORY STINKS! "$1,000 " "The only film ever released in ""Odorama"", it shares its name with a synthetic fabric popular in the 1970s" Polyester ABBREVIATED STATES "$1,000 " State whose abbreviation is also a cabinet department that was formed in 1989 Virginia COLONIAL ARTS $400 This South Carolina city that gave us a popular dance in the 1930s was the site of the first opera in America in 1735 Charleston INTERNATIONAL CUISINE $400 "When making this classic Chinese soup, be sure to remove the twigs, feathers & insects first" bird's nest soup WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS $400 "On New Year's Day 2002, this school's Seminoles beat Virginia Tech 30-17 to win the Gator Bowl" Florida State University RELIGION $400 The A.M.E. in A.M.E. Church stands for African Methodist this Episcopal "PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS" $400 The four-color problem relates to the minimum number of colors needed for this cartographic item a map EN THE BEGINNING $400 These peptide hormones in the brain reduce the sensation of pain endorphins COLONIAL ARTS $800 In 1750 theater was banned in this then-colonial capital as a form of Mass. entertainment Boston INTERNATIONAL CUISINE $800 "To enjoy this national Swiss dish, you'd better like cheese, lots of it, melted in wine" fondue WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS $800 In 2001 Brian Cappelletto won this game's World Championship with words like vozhd for 50 points & jerrid for 44 Scrabble RELIGION $800 Less than 20% of all Muslims are Shi'ites or of other groups; the rest belong to this branch Sunni "PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS" $800 "Ferdinand von Lindemann proved the problem of ""squaring"" this with compass & ruler was impossible" the circle EN THE BEGINNING $800 "2-word term for the consumer, for whom a computer is ultimately designed" an end user COLONIAL ARTS "$1,200 " "Some of the earliest surviving colonial portraits are of Richard & Increase, members of this family" the Mathers INTERNATIONAL CUISINE "$1,200 " "The seafood in this Mexican dish is ""cooked"" not by heat, but by the acid in lime juice" ceviche WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS "$1,200 " In 1993 she became the first woman from Ukraine to win the world figure skating championships Oksana Baiul RELIGION "$1,200 " "Founded by & named for a Persian prophet, this religion flourished during Persia's Achaemenian empire" Zoroastrianism "PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS" "$1,200 " "(Cheryl of the Clue Crew peruses a model train hobbyist's fantasy setup.) If train ""A"" leaves at 6:00 at 60 mph, & train ""B"" leaves at 5:00 at 90 mph, this equation, d=rt, tells you when B passes A" distance equals rate times time EN THE BEGINNING "$1,200 " "This Baja California port city is known as ""Yellowtail Capital of the World""" Ensenada COLONIAL ARTS "$1,600 " "Meaning ""tobacco peddler"", it's the title of a 1708 Ebenezer Cooke poem & a 1960 John Barth novel about Cooke" The Sot-Weed Factor INTERNATIONAL CUISINE "$1,600 " This Greek dish typically consists of layers of eggplant & ground lamb or beef topped with a white sauce moussaka WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS "$1,200 " "At Wimbledon 2000, Venus Williams expressed appreciation for this 1957 & '58 champion" Althea Gibson RELIGION "$1,600 " "Traditionally, in Judaism a ram's horn called this is blown at the end of Yom Kippur" shofar "PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS" "$1,600 " "To apply relativity to the cosmos, Einstein introduced a term called the ""cosmological"" this" constant EN THE BEGINNING "$1,600 " The U.S. conducted nuclear tests on this atoll in the Marshall Islands from 1948 to 1958 Enewetak COLONIAL ARTS "$2,000 " "James Alexander, whose doggerel contributed to this publisher's arrest, helped defend him as a lawyer" Zenger INTERNATIONAL CUISINE "$2,000 " "On an Italian menu this term describes pasta with a sauce of eggs, cream, parmesan & bacon" carbonara WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS "$2,000 " "The last British athlete to win the Olympic decathlon, he won it back-to-back in 1980 & 1984" Daley Thompson RELIGION "$4,000 " Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from gold plates revealed to him by an angel named this Moroni "PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS" "$2,000 " "This Frenchman's ""last theorem"", stated in 1637, was proved by Andrew Wiles in the 1990s" (Pierre de) Fermat EN THE BEGINNING "$2,000 " John Keats wrote a poem about this handsome Greek whose youth was preserved by eternal sleep Endymion KNOWLEDGE BY THE NUMBERS None Number of males who served as British PM in the 1990s plus Oscars won by Tom Hanks plus protons in a helium nucleus 6 (2 + 2 + 2) THE MIDDLE AGES $100 Crackowes were a style of these with toes so long they were sometimes attached to the knees with chains shoes MANIAS $100 One suffering from bruxomania unconsciously gnashes these Teeth JEWELRY $100 Sotheby's has announced it won't sell any items of this tusk material produced since 1939 Ivory AUSTRALIA $100 It's the basic unit of currency of Australia Australian Dollar SPORTS EQUIPMENT $100 Until 1954 major league players could leave these on the field when it was their team's turn to bat Gloves PEANUTS $100 "When Charlie Brown gave Snoopy one of these, it took Snoopy an hour to put it on the flea" Flea Collar THE MIDDLE AGES $200 "Eleanor of Aquitaine accompanied her 1st husband, King Louis VII, on the 2nd one of these in 1147" Crusades MANIAS $200 In a 1987 hit Whitney Houston showed signs of choreomania when she wanted to do this with somebody Dance JEWELRY $200 "The scarab, lotus flower & Isis knot were all designs used in this country's jewelry" Egypt AUSTRALIA $200 "After America won its independence, the British decided to ship these people to Australia" Convicts/Prisoners SPORTS EQUIPMENT $200 A curved wicker basket called a cesta is used to catch & throw the ball in this sport jai alai PEANUTS $200 "Of a 25th, 30th or 40th anniversary, what ""Peanuts"" is celebrating in 1990" 40th Anniversary THE MIDDLE AGES $300 It's estimated this dread 14th century epidemic killed 1/3 of the population of Europe Black Death MANIAS $300 A lycomaniac has a howling time believing he is one of these Wolf JEWELRY $300 "Known for its malleability & white brilliance, this rare metal has been used in jewelry since the 19th C." Platinum AUSTRALIA $300 "The name of this capital city is Aboriginal for ""meeting place""" Canberra SPORTS EQUIPMENT $300 1 of 2 pieces of equipment in track & field that weigh 16 pounds Hammer & Shot-Put PEANUTS $300 "When Lucy invites Charlie Brown to kick a football, you can expect her to do this" Pull it out from under him THE MIDDLE AGES $400 "2 types of these which were especially popular during the Middle Ages were ""Miracle"" & ""Morality""" Types of plays MANIAS $400 "A dipsomaniac craves this, not guacamole" Alcoholic Beverages JEWELRY $400 Josiah Wedgwood designed these jewelry pieces using a white paste relief on a colored backgorund Cameos AUSTRALIA $400 "Banjo Paterson, known for his ""bush ballads"", wrote this song, 1st published in 1917" Waltzing Matilda SPORTS EQUIPMENT $400 Alternate name for the number one wood in golf Driver PEANUTS $400 This girl's name was inspired by a type of candy Peppermint Patty THE MIDDLE AGES $500 "This famous ""song"" is a romanticized account of the Battle of Roncesvalles, fought in 778" Song Of Roland MANIAS $500 "From the Greek for ""great"", it's the delusion of wealth, power or omnipotence" Megalomania JEWELRY $500 Tahiti & French Polynesia are famous for pearls of this color Black AUSTRALIA $500 This flightless bird is featured on Australia's coat of arms Emu SPORTS EQUIPMENT $500 This apparatus used in women's gymnastics is about 4 in. wide & 16 ft. long Balance Beam PEANUTS $500 Charlie Brown's parents bought Snoopy at this puppy farm Daisy Hill Puppy Farm U.S.A. $200 "On average this city packs more than 23,000 people into 1 sq. mile" New York City PEN NAMES $200 2 of his pen names were rather transparent: Antosha Chekhonte & Anton Ch. Anton Chekhov ANATOMY $200 The only mobile bone of the face Mandible MYTHOLOGICAL PAIRS $200 Both a she-wolf & a woodpecker fed & cared for them until they were found by Faustulus Romulus & Remus 11-LETTER WORDS $200 "Something that evokes happiness & sadness at the same time, or a kind of chocolate" Bittersweet MUSICALS $200 "This title character's last name is McLonergan, not Rainbow" Finian U.S.A. $400 Caucasians constitute about 1/3 of this state's population Hawaii PEN NAMES $400 "Dublin-born playwright John Casey changed his name to this, which sounds more Irish" Sean O' Casey ANATOMY $400 The nephrons function as filtering units in this pair of organs Kidneys MYTHOLOGICAL PAIRS $400 "In all of Babylonia, Pyramus was the handsomest youth & she was the fairest maiden" Thisbe 11-LETTER WORDS $400 Term for stunt pilots or politicians who tour small towns to show they've got the right stuff Barnstormer MUSICALS "$1,900 " "(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE): Gwen Verdon sang the following song in the original Broadway version of this show: ""Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets...""" Damn Yankees! U.S.A. $600 "Even though it's officially ""dry"", this state's Moore County is the home of Jack Daniel's Whiskey" Tennessee PEN NAMES $600 We don't know why this dame sometimes wrote under the name Mary Westmacott; it's a mystery to us Agatha Christie ANATOMY "$3,100 " "The term for the brain & spinal cord, often abbreviated CNS" Central Nervous System MYTHOLOGICAL PAIRS $600 "He travels to Ireland to ask the hand of the princess Isolde for his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall" Tristan 11-LETTER WORDS $600 Don't complain to your waiter that your soup is cold if you're served this French potato soup Vichysoisse MUSICALS $600 This show opens with a Ziegfeld star waiting for her husband to be released from prison Funny Girl U.S.A. $800 "Ironically, the prison inmates of this state produce license plates which read ""Live Free Or Die""" New Hampshire PEN NAMES $800 "Pseudonym of the mysterious recluse who wrote ""The Treasure of the Sierra Madre""" B. Traven ANATOMY $800 "This section of the digestive tract is divided into the duodenum, jejunum & ileum" Small Intestine MYTHOLOGICAL PAIRS $800 "Wounded by Cupid's arrow, Venus fell in love with this handsome guy at 1st sight" Adonis 11-LETTER WORDS $800 "Another name for mercury, it also means mercurial or temperamental" Quicksilver MUSICALS $800 "Mrs. Ray Bolger co-produced this 1948 Ray Bolger musical based on ""Charley's Aunt""" Where's Charley? U.S.A. "$1,000 " "1 of the largest lakes in Minnesota, its name begins with the same 5 letters as Minnesota" Lake Minnetonka PEN NAMES "$1,000 " "Rosemary Jansze, who was born in Ceylon, writes her romance novels under this married name" Rosemary Rogers ANATOMY "$1,000 " The 4 principal arteries of the head & neck are all called this Carotid Arteries MYTHOLOGICAL PAIRS "$1,000 " "Until the night he drowned, Leander swam across the Hellespont every night to meet her" Hero 11-LETTER WORDS "$1,000 " "Term for someone who collects deniers, drachmas & doubloons" Numismatist MUSICALS "$1,000 " This show features a concubine from Burma named Tuptim The King And I FAMOUS NAMES None "He published a history of Virginia & New England in 1624, after escaping from Turks, Indians & pirates" Captain John Smith FAMOUS NAMES $100 "This star of ""Kojak"" admits he shaves his head every morning" Telly Savalas ADVERTISING SLOGANS $100 "When you care enough to send the very best, send one of these" Hallmark Card THE BIBLE $100 "Among these tales told by Jesus were those ""of the net"", ""of the mustard seed"" & ""of the hidden treasures""" Parables WEATHER $100 Airplanes can trigger bolts of this when traveling through electrified clouds Lightning 4-LETTER WORDS $100 This word commonly follows cuff or missing Link PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY $100 "Gerald Ford was the last president born under this ""crab""by sign" Cancer FAMOUS NAMES $200 "Creator of ""The Cisco Kid"", William Sidney Porter was better known by this name" O. Henry ADVERTISING SLOGANS $200 Wouldn't you really rather have one of these cars Buick THE BIBLE $200 "I Corinthians 7:9 states, ""It is better to marry than to"" do this" Burn WEATHER $200 Air is described as supersaturated when the relative humidity is higher than this percent 100% 4-LETTER WORDS $200 "From the Greek word for ""deep sleep"", it's a deep, prolonged unconsciousness" Coma PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY $200 "It's Jimmy Carter's sign, so don't tip his scales" Libra FAMOUS NAMES $300 "The First Time Ever she had a No. 1 album was ""First Take"" in 1972" Roberta Flack ADVERTISING SLOGANS $300 "I like this lemon-lime soda ""in you""" Sprite THE BIBLE $300 "It was like coriander seed, white; & the taste of it was like wafers made with honey" Manna WEATHER $300 Tornadoes that develop over water are called these Waterspouts 4-LETTER WORDS $300 "It can be part of your foot, your shoe, your stocking or your loaf of bread" Heel PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY $300 "Appropriately, we've had 2 presidents born under this sign, Bush & Kennedy" Gemini FAMOUS NAMES $400 George Bush pardoned this 91-year-old industrialist for his illegal contributions to Nixon's campaign Armand Hammer ADVERTISING SLOGANS $400 "Tan, don't burn use this" Coppertone THE BIBLE $400 "Things saved from this city were the gold & silver, the iron & brass vessels & Rahab & her family" Jericho WEATHER $400 "Season of the year when Arizona has its ""monsoons""" Summer 4-LETTER WORDS $400 "A roue, or his garden implement" Rake PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY $400 Our last Sagittarian pres.; his last name sounds like something Sagittarius' arrows could do (Franklin) Pierce FAMOUS NAMES $500 Ines de la Fressange was a Chanel model when she was chosen to represent this French symbol Marianne ADVERTISING SLOGANS $500 "This maker of pre-school toys says, ""Our work is child's play""" Fisher-Price THE BIBLE $500 "While carting this, Uzza touched it to right it after the oxen stumbled, & the Lord smote him" The Ark of the Covenant WEATHER $500 An increase in air temperature at higher altitudes is unusual & is called this Inversion 4-LETTER WORDS $500 A raisin can be called by this other fruit's name when it's added to a pudding or a cake Plum PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY $500 "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)" SCIENCE & NATURE $200 The iris is a flower & the ibis is one of these Bird WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200 This country is named after the town of Oporto Portugal PIRATE MOVIES $200 "In this 1935 film that made him a star, Errol Flynn was Dr. Peter Blood, a physician who turns to piracy" Captain Blood AUTHORS $200 "He wrote a non-baby book called ""Decent And Indecent: Our Personal And Political Behavior""" Dr. Benjamin Spock AMERICAN HISTORY $200 It became a U.S. territory in 1900 & a state 59 years later Hawaii WINE $200 Malaga is a sweet dessert wine that originated in this country Spain SCIENCE & NATURE $400 "In a healthy mouth, this line separates the crown from the root of a tooth" Gum Line WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400 The Sea of Galilee is just a broad basin of this river The River Jordan PIRATE MOVIES $400 "Anthony Quinn was a pirate stuck with stowaway children in the film ""A High Wind In"" this place" Jamaica AUTHORS $400 "This author's home where he wrote ""To Have And Have Not"" is now a nat'l landmark in Key West, Fla." Ernest Hemingway AMERICAN HISTORY $400 Susan B. Anthony was arrested in 1872 for doing this Voting WINE $400 "On wine labels, this word which means ""estate"" precedes Lafite & Mouton-Rothschild" Chateau SCIENCE & NATURE $600 Every summer thousands of these animals go to the Pribilof Islands in the north Pacific to breed Seals WORLD GEOGRAPHY $600 "The surface of this lake in Siberia is about 1,490 ft. above sea level, the bottom over 5,300 ft. below" Lake Baikal PIRATE MOVIES $600 "Silent screen swashbuckler; his film ""The Black Pirate"" has been called ""a definitive pirate movie""" "Douglas Fairbanks, Sr." AUTHORS $700 Oscar Wilde's only novel The Picture Of Dorian Gray AMERICAN HISTORY $600 In 1949 Henry H. Arnold became the first general of this branch of the armed forces Air Force WINE $600 Anatomical term for a wine's bouquet Nose SCIENCE & NATURE $800 Man-made metal 1st positively identified in 1958 & named for a Swedish inventor; it has no known use Nobelium WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800 Papua New Guinea is just off this country's Cape York Peninsula Australia PIRATE MOVIES $800 Robert Newton played this pirate before Peter Ustinov played his ghost in a Disney film Blackbeard AUTHORS $800 "An eye ailment contracted at Eton School ended his plans to study biology, like his brother Julian" Aldous Huxley AMERICAN HISTORY $800 In April 1984 this U.S. government agency admitted its role in the mining of Nicaraguan harbors CIA WINE $800 The term for pouring wine into another container before serving; it helps clear it of sediments Decanting SCIENCE & NATURE "$1,000 " Take the fibrinogen out of blood plasma & you're left with a fluid called this Serum WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800 1 of the 2 Central American countries with only 1 sea coast Belize & El Salvador PIRATE MOVIES "$1,000 " "Ingrid Bergman's husband in ""Casablanca"", he played a pirate captain in ""Pirates Of Tripoli""" Paul Henreid AUTHORS "$1,000 " "A member of the Algonquin Round Table, this petite brunette wrote a story called ""Big Blonde""" Dorothy Parker AMERICAN HISTORY "$1,000 " John Hancock held this political position from 1780-85 & from 1787-93 Governor of Massachusetts WINE "$1,000 " The famous Moselle wines come from this country Germany CABLE TELEVISION None "The name of this channel can be traced back to a movie theater that opened in 1905 in McKeesport, Pa." Nickelodeon TEACHER'S PET $200 "(Jon of the Clue Crew teaches his dog Rocko to sit.) Rocko, sit! When I teach human kids, I wish I could use the commands that are taught in this class, from the Latin for ""listen""--Okay!" obedience class MUSIC VIDEOS $200 "At the beginning of her 2005 ""Boyfriend"" video, she is being chased by the police" Ashlee Simpson HOW DO YOU... $200 "Hold the ends of the coiled toy first sold in 1945, then raise & lower each hand in a rhythmic motion" work a Slinky (a Slinky accepted) "TELL 'EM WHAT THEY'VE WON, JOHNNY" $200 "The first of these were awarded in 1901 & they are given out yearly for Physics, Chemistry, Peace & 3 other disciplines" the Nobel Prizes PIZZA TOPPINGS $200 This type of hard sausage is America's favorite pizza topping pepperoni ALLITERATION STATION $200 "If he ""picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers"" he ""picked""?" Peter Piper TEACHER'S PET $400 "(Jon of the Clue Crew points out Rocko's blue collar pedigree.) Some collars have both an insecticide to kill these jumping insects & a growth regulator to attack the eggs" fleas MUSIC VIDEOS $400 "Paris Hilton is in this rapper's ""Just Lose It"" video; he appears as himself & as Santa Claus, among others" Eminem HOW DO YOU... $400 Churn a sweet dairy mix in a container that's surrounded by frozen water & salt make ice cream "TELL 'EM WHAT THEY'VE WON, JOHNNY" $400 In 1990 Paul McCartney received a Lifetime Achievement Award at these awards the Grammys PIZZA TOPPINGS $400 How about a nice traditional Hawaiian pizza topped with ham or Canadian bacon & this fruit pineapple ALLITERATION STATION $400 An evening where 2 couples go out together a double date TEACHER'S PET $600 "(Jon of the Clue Crew gets ready to clean Rocko's teeth with a finger-mounted brush.) Just like you, dogs need to get rid of this film that can build up into tartar--regular brushing sure helps" plaque MUSIC VIDEOS $600 "At the 2004 MTV VMAs, No Doubt won Best Group Video & Best Pop Video for this song" It's My Life HOW DO YOU... $600 "Holding the bottom of the ear in the left hand, grasp the husk from the top with the right hand & pull down" shuck corn "TELL 'EM WHAT THEY'VE WON, JOHNNY" $600 "A brave French soldier might receive the award known as the ""Croix de Guerre"", meaning ""Cross of"" this" War PIZZA TOPPINGS $600 "These on your pizza may be fire-roasted, sun-dried, or just fresh sliced Romas" tomatoes ALLITERATION STATION "$1,000 " An appointed hour to play golf tee time TEACHER'S PET $800 "(Rocko lends Jon of the Clue Crew a paw.) Apply cream to your dog's pads before a winter walk; they're made of skin just like yours with this as the outer layer" epidermis MUSIC VIDEOS $800 "This former ""Moesha"" star rides around on the bus in her ""Who Is She 2 U"" video" Brandy HOW DO YOU... $800 "Dial 011-33-1 & a local number, say ""Pourrais-je parler a M. Chirac?""" call the president of France "TELL 'EM WHAT THEY'VE WON, JOHNNY" $800 The Borg-Warner Trophy is awarded every year to the winner of this epic auto race held on Memorial Day weekend the Indy 500 PIZZA TOPPINGS $800 On November 12 celebrate National Pizza with the Works Except these fish Day Anchovies ALLITERATION STATION $800 "The almost indestructible flight recording device is known by this ""colorful"" name" the black box TEACHER'S PET "$1,000 " "(Rocko gets frisky with his owner Jon of the Clue Crew.) Regular exercise benefits this system, a word referring to the heart & blood vessels together" the cardiovascular system MUSIC VIDEOS "$1,000 " "Her video for ""Baby It's You"" features Bow Wow & takes place at an amusement park" Jojo HOW DO YOU... "$1,000 " "Attach a pencil to a string, pin the other end of the string down & move the pencil around the pin" draw a circle "TELL 'EM WHAT THEY'VE WON, JOHNNY" "$1,000 " In 1921 Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Fiction prize named for this news publisher Pulitzer PIZZA TOPPINGS "$1,000 " "Wild ones of these found on pizza include shiitakes, morels & chanterelles" mushrooms ALLITERATION STATION "$1,000 " Daisy Buchanan is the object of a racketeer's desire in this 1925 Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby WOMEN ON U.S. STAMPS $400 1902: The first First Lady Martha Washington MOVIE TITLE TRANSLATIONS $400 "Hong Kong titled the second movie about this creature ""I May Be A Pig, But I Am Not Stupid""" Babe NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $400 "He was honored for discovering ""hundreds of new uses for crops such as the peanut""" George Washington Carver JULIUS CAESAR $400 "In 46 B.C. this Egyptian came with Caesar to Rome, where her statue was placed in the temple of Venus Genetrix" Cleopatra LOVE POETRY $400 "The immortal 6 words that begin Lee Bernstein's opus sung on ""Barney & Friends"" to the tune of ""This Old Man""" I love you; you love me WORDS IN (THE) ENCYCLOPEDIA $400 Book of Genesis garden Eden WOMEN ON U.S. STAMPS $800 1952: A famous seamstress & flagmaker Betsy Ross MOVIE TITLE TRANSLATIONS $800 "They were the 2 main stars of the sequel Hong Kong knew as ""Special Unit in Black Glasses Part 2""" Tommy Lee Jones & Will Smith NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $800 "Inducted in 1973, he ""earned patents for more than a thousand inventions, including... the phonograph""" Edison JULIUS CAESAR $800 "Caesar divorced his wife after a scandal & said, ""Caesar's wife must be above"" this" suspicion LOVE POETRY $800 "Marvell rhymed, ""Had we but world enough, and"" this, his mistress' coyness ""were no crime""" time WORDS IN (THE) ENCYCLOPEDIA $800 This type of year happens once every four leap WOMEN ON U.S. STAMPS "$1,200 " 1994: A Shoshone guide for a famous expedition Sacagawea MOVIE TITLE TRANSLATIONS "$1,200 " "China and Taiwan reached the agreement that this film at ""Full Throttle"" would be ""Hot Chicks: Full Speed""" Charlie's Angels NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME "$1,200 " 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' was the first full length animated film to use this inductee's multiplane camera Walt Disney JULIUS CAESAR "$3,000 " "In his early 20s, Julius Caesar traveled to this ""colossal"" island to study rhetoric under Molon" Rhodes LOVE POETRY "$1,200 " "It makes sense that Marlowe's ""passionate shepherd"" promises his love ""a gown made of the finest"" this" wool WORDS IN (THE) ENCYCLOPEDIA "$1,200 " Brown & white are the main U.S. types of this pouch-mouthed bird pelican WOMEN ON U.S. STAMPS "$1,600 " 1907: A Powhatan princess Pocahontas MOVIE TITLE TRANSLATIONS "$1,600 " "In Greece, this Eddie Murphy film became ""Daddies as Nannies""" Daddy Day Care NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME "$3,000 " "A 1975 inductee, he gave us ""an electronic alphabet that could carry messages""" (Samuel) Morse JULIUS CAESAR "$1,600 " "After defeating Pharnaces II at Zela, Caesar dispatched this 3-part message to the Roman Senate" "Veni, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)" LOVE POETRY "$1,600 " A Shakespeare sonnet accuses this purple flower of steaing its smell from the poet's love the violet WORDS IN (THE) ENCYCLOPEDIA "$1,600 " Fake wooden bird used by hunters to attract ducks decoy WOMEN ON U.S. STAMPS "$2,000 " 1963: A pilot Amelia Earhart MOVIE TITLE TRANSLATIONS "$2,000 " "In Finland, this Tim Burton film was subtitled ""Fish Stories as Large as Life Itself""" Big Fish NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME "$2,000 " "This French chemist inducted in 1978 ""was the founder of microbiological sciences""" (Louis) Pasteur JULIUS CAESAR "$2,000 " Around 48 B.C. Caesar pardoned this man & later made him governor of Cisalpine Gaul; oops Brutus LOVE POETRY "$2,000 " "Wi' monie a vow and locked embrace our parting was fu' tender"", he wrote of ""Highland Mary""" Rabbie Burns WORDS IN (THE) ENCYCLOPEDIA "$2,000 " Genetic duplicate clone THE 50 STATES None "Since 1776, it has been the only U.S. state to be the most populous state for more than a century" New York FIRST NOVELS $100 "Few have heard of his first novel, ""The Snake's Pass"", but everyone knows his ""Dracula""" Bram Stoker CLASSIC AD LINES $100 Fly The Friendly Skies... United Airlines LESSER-KNOWN MUSICALS $100 "Elementary, my dear Watson: ""Baker Street"" was a musical about this detective" Sherlock Holmes HORNS $100 Christian tradition says this archangel will blow his trumpet to announce the Second Coming Gabriel IT'S A DOGGY DOG WORLD $100 "Jura, Schweitzer, Lucerne & Berner are the 4 types of this country's laufhund" Switzerland MUMs THE WORD $100 This contagious viral disease can occasionally cause sterility in males Mumps FIRST NOVELS $200 "His first novel, ""The Town And The City"", might be good to read while you're ""On The Road""" Jack Kerouac CLASSIC AD LINES $200 We Bring Good Things To Life General Electric LESSER-KNOWN MUSICALS $200 Comin' Uptown moved this classic tale to Harlem; it starred Gregory Hines as a slumlord named Scrooge A Christmas Carol HORNS $200 "South America's southernmost point, its rocky terrain rises to a height of 1,391 feet" Cape Horn IT'S A DOGGY DOG WORLD $200 "Seen here, it's named for a peninsula shared by Quebec & Newfoundland" Labrador Retriever MUMs THE WORD $200 ....I said it's to utter something quietly & unclearly! Mumble FIRST NOVELS $300 "This ""Brideshead Revisited"" author's career was ascendant when he published his first novel, ""Decline And Fall""" Evelyn Waugh CLASSIC AD LINES $300 Tastes So Good Cats Ask For It By Name Meow Mix LESSER-KNOWN MUSICALS $300 "Danny Kaye's career ""ark"" included this Biblical role in ""Two By Two""" Noah HORNS $300 "All species of this large land creature, whose name is from the Greek for ""nose-horned"", are nearly extinct" Rhinoceros IT'S A DOGGY DOG WORLD $300 "If this Norwegian breed had originated in North America, it would be called the moosehound" Elkhound MUMs THE WORD $300 "This 2-word term for confusing language may come from a Mande phrase for ""ancestor wearing a pompom""" Mumbo-jumbo FIRST NOVELS $500 "Sadly, the manuscript of her very first novel was destroyed in a fire in Nanking" Pearl S. Buck CLASSIC AD LINES $400 The Power To Be Your Best Apple Computer LESSER-KNOWN MUSICALS $400 "Bully for Len Cariou, who played this famous man in the musical ""Teddy And Alice""" Theodore Roosevelt HORNS $400 "This ""continental"" wind instrument is played with one hand inside the bell to control its tone" French horn IT'S A DOGGY DOG WORLD $400 "This dog once prized by the Aztecs is sometimes called perro pelon, ""bald dog""" the Mexican hairless MUMs THE WORD $400 "Formerly called Bombay, it's in the top 5 cities in the world in population" Mumbai FIRST NOVELS $500 "He was poet-in-residence at the University of South Carolina when he delivered his first novel, ""Deliverance""" James Dickey CLASSIC AD LINES $500 "When It Absolutely, Positively Has To Be There Overnight" Federal Express LESSER-KNOWN MUSICALS $500 "Shaun Cassidy was 10 years old when these actors, his parents, starred in the 1968 musical ""Maggie Flynn""" Jack Cassidy & Shirley Jones HORNS $500 "According to mythology, this Horn of Plenty is the horn of the goat Amalthea" Cornucopia IT'S A DOGGY DOG WORLD $500 "The Australian cattle dog was first bred in the 19th century from collies, kelpies & this wild canine" Dingo MUMs THE WORD $500 You'll see this group parading through Philly each New Year's Day Mummers THE BIBLE $200 "This wise king of Israel had ""Forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen""" Solomon TELEVISION $200 "In 1998 Brian Dennehy made his first appearance as Red Finch, David Spade's firefighter father, on this hit series" Just Shoot Me LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS $200 Aloha State Hawaii BIG MERGERS $200 In January 1999 we found out Viacom had its eye on this TV network CBS D IN HISTORY $200 In 1578 a Mongolian ruler first gave the leader of Tibet's Yellow Hat sect of Buddhism this title Dalai Lama ADJECTIVES $200 "Adjective in the name of the site seen here:" grand (Canyon) THE BIBLE $400 "Under the command of this Babylonian king, Nebuzaradan burned ""All the houses of Jerusalem""" Nebuchadnezzar TELEVISION $400 "(Hi, I'm Heather Tom of The Young and the Restless.) My sister Nicholle played Mr. Sheffield's daughter Maggie on this Fran Drescher sitcom" The Nanny LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS $400 "10,000 Lakes" Minnesota BIG MERGERS $400 In November 1998 Daimler-Benz-AG parked this American automaker in its garage Chrysler D IN HISTORY $400 "The Vikings founded this city in the mid-800s, probably naming it for a black pool in the river Liffey" Dublin ADJECTIVES $400 "As a noun, it's pieces for fastening; as an adjective it's large & robust, like some young men" strapping THE BIBLE $600 "In 1 Corinthians, he wrote that ""Your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God""" Paul TELEVISION $600 In January 2000 this libidinous HBO show won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy Series Sex and the City LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS "$2,000 " Native America Oklahoma BIG MERGERS $600 In 1998 Norwest Corporation acquired this bank all in one stage without coaching Wells Fargo D IN HISTORY $600 In 1868 he became the first person of Jewish ancestry to become prime minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli ADJECTIVES "$2,000 " It can refer to a person without mercy or to a Bible missing the book between Judges & Samuel ruthless THE BIBLE $800 "This son of Jacob served under Potiphar, captain of Pharaoh's palace guard" Joseph TELEVISION $800 "In 1999 an ABC sitcom dropped ""a Pizza Place"" from its name, which changed to this" Two Guys and a Girl LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS $800 First In Flight North Carolina BIG MERGERS $800 Exxon moved to merge with this corporation in December 1998 Mobil D IN HISTORY $800 In 1793 this former mistress of Louis XV was guillotined for aiding those seeking to restore the monarchy Madame Dubarry ADJECTIVES $800 "Adjective in the name of Hans, the turn-of-the-century calculating horse" clever THE BIBLE "$1,000 " "While they were mending their nets, John & this brother were summoned by Jesus to become disciples" James TELEVISION "$1,000 " Gilligan's Island creator Sherwood Schwartz said he wrote this role with his friend Jim Backus in mind Thurston Howell III LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS "$1,000 " Great Lakes Splendor Michigan BIG MERGERS "$1,000 " "On March 9, 1999 AT&T officially hooked itself up with this cable company (we figure sometime between 1 & 5 PM)" "TCI (Telecommunications, Inc.)" D IN HISTORY "$1,000 " "This long-range radar ""line"" was established in 1957 to warn the U.S. & Canada of air attack from over the North Pole" DEW (Distant Early Warning) Line ADJECTIVES "$1,000 " "When found before ""potato"", it's not a potato; before ""meats"", not meats; & before ""bread"", not bread" sweet ASIA None It's Asia's southernmost national capital Jakarta (Indonesia) TRIALS OF THE CENTURY $100 "In 1946 Hans Frank, Rudolf Hess & Fritz Sauckel were among those convicted of war crimes in this city" Nuremberg LET'S GET M*A*S*Hed $100 It was Major Margaret Houlihan's sexy nickname Hot Lips VALUABLE PLACES $100 "Hickham Field sustained damage during the Japanese attack on this nearby site December 7, 1941" Pearl Harbor NAME THE AUTOMAKER $100 Taurus & T-Bird Ford THEATRE HODGEPODGE $100 "In a song in ""The Fantasticks"", ""Soon it's gonna"" do this, ""I can see it. Soon it's gonna"" do this, ""I can tell""" Rain PRONOUNS $100 An introductory part in a novel Prologue TRIALS OF THE CENTURY $200 "After their convictions, this pair became the first civilians put to death for espionage in the U.S." Julius & Ethel Rosenberg LET'S GET M*A*S*Hed $200 "Johnny Mandel wrote this ""painless"" tune that was the show's theme song" Suicide is Painless VALUABLE PLACES $200 The Yellow Brick Road leads to it The Emerald City NAME THE AUTOMAKER $200 Legend & Integra Acura THEATRE HODGEPODGE $200 This William Inge play inspired a Marilyn Maxwell TV series & a Marilyn Monroe film Bus Stop PRONOUNS $200 "Gosh darn it! It's abusive, vulgar or irreverent language" Profanity TRIALS OF THE CENTURY $300 "This famous orator aided the prosecution of John Scopes during Tennessee's sensational ""Monkey"" trial" William Jennings Bryan LET'S GET M*A*S*Hed $300 William Christopher played this lovable chaplain on the show Father Mulcahy VALUABLE PLACES $300 "Sir Joseph Paxton's palace, or Dr. Robert Schuller's cathedral" Crystal NAME THE AUTOMAKER $300 Stratus & Stealth Dodge THEATRE HODGEPODGE $300 "In titles of musicals, this word stands alone, follows ""Bubbling Brown"" & precedes ""Babies""" Sugar PRONOUNS $300 "The ""dry"" period in which the 18th Amendment was in force" Prohibition TRIALS OF THE CENTURY $400 "Despite a highly controversial trial, these 2 were executed for murders in 1920 at a Mass. factory" Sacco & Vanzetti LET'S GET M*A*S*Hed $400 "Company clerk ""Radar"" O'Reilly was from this state" Iowa VALUABLE PLACES $400 "You can keep the valuable rocks you find in the state park near Murfreesboro, Arkansas: Crater of these" Diamonds NAME THE AUTOMAKER $400 Protege & Millenia Mazda THEATRE HODGEPODGE $400 "Big Stone Gap, Virginia is home to the outdoor drama ""Trail of the Lonesome"" this" Pine PRONOUNS $400 The working class Proletariat TRIALS OF THE CENTURY "$1,400 " Evidence of this man's guilt in a famous 1935 kidnapping case included finding ransom money at his house Bruno Hauptmann LET'S GET M*A*S*Hed $500 The colonel & lt. colonel who were the 4077th's commanding officers Lt. Col. Henry Blake & Col. Sherman Potter VALUABLE PLACES $500 "During a 1992 standoff, the FBI captured white supremacist Randy Weaver at this Idaho site" Ruby Ridge NAME THE AUTOMAKER $500 Corniche & Silver Shadow Rolls-Royce THEATRE HODGEPODGE $500 "Shakespeare's play about this Tudor king begins, ""I come no more to make you laugh...""" 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TV Guide THE CAST OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS $400 "This ""Mannix"" star was known as Touch Connors when he played an Amalekite herder in the film" Mike Connors RHYMES WITH STONEHENGE $400 "This area with structures called ""Princess"" & ""Trimline"" may have been a communication center" Phonehenge QUEEN VICTORIA $400 Britain celebrated Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887 & recovered in time for this jubilee in 1897 Diamond WE ARE AMUSED $400 "Ms. Rodham Clinton's first name comes from the same Latin root as this word meaning ""very funny""" Hilarious HEADS OF STATE "$1,200 " He was born in 1921 on the island of Java; he left office in 1998 Suharto MAGAZINES $600 Conan O'Brien was the first since Robert Benchley to be president of this Harvard humor magazine 2 straight years Harvard Lampoon RHYMES WITH STONEHENGE $600 It's easy to get lost in this arrangement of genetically identical creations Clonehenge QUEEN VICTORIA $600 "Victoria found this poet laureate's ""In Memoriam"" a great comfort in her widowhood" Alfred Lord Tennyson WE ARE AMUSED $600 "Shylock asked, ""If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you"" do this, ""do we not laugh?""" 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Berkeley "SO ""LONG""" $200 A unit of distance equal to 220 yards a furlong & THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH $200 "Varieties of this fish include brown, rainbow & cutthroat" trout COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400 In 1865 this school in Poughkeepsie became the first women's college in the U.S. to have facilities equal to the men's schools Vassar SI's SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE $400 "A Little League team in Kentucky is sponsored by this ""delightfully tacky yet unrefined"" restaurant" Hooters LITERARY GENRES $400 "A villanella, an Italian song, became a villanelle, a French this" a poem RECORD LOSSES IN 2005 $400 "Named for a sport that embodies high society, this Ralph Lauren co. was hacked for 180,000 credit card numbers" Polo "SO ""LONG""" $400 This arachnid is also called a harvestman a daddy long-legs & THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH $400 "Baseball's Mr. Hunter might've appreciated this bottom feeder, seen here" a catfish COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600 "In 1937 this Malibu, Calif. university was established by & named for the founder of Western Auto Supply Company" Pepperdine SI's SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE $600 "This Miami Heat superstar center's ""wife, Shaunie, said their family has outgrown its 18-bedroom home""" Shaquille O'Neal LITERARY GENRES $600 "The name of this literary form also means ""to try""" an essay RECORD LOSSES IN 2005 $600 "This company that owns HBO & Turner Broadcasting lost a backup tape with 600,000 names & SSNs" Time Warner "SO ""LONG""" $600 "Random House says this is a ""chiefly Texas"" term for a bottle of beer" a longneck & THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH $600 "Pleuronectidae, one family of this fish, generally has eyes on the right side; another, Bothidae, on the left" flounder COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800 "This Tulsa, Oklahoma school's athletic teams are called the Golden Eagles, not the Evangelists" Oral Roberts University SI's SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE $800 "A ski jumping competition in this country, Land of the Midnight Sun, ""rewarded competitors for landing in trees""" Norway LITERARY GENRES $800 "The story of Gisli Sursson, or John Jakes' chronicle of the Kent family" sagas RECORD LOSSES IN 2005 $800 Data on 4 million customers were lost by this group formed by a 1998 merger with Travelers Citigroup "SO ""LONG""" $800 12-letter term for one employed on the wharves of a port a longshoreman & THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH $800 "When this fish is ""red"", it's been smoked; if ""red"" in slang, it's a misleading clue" a herring COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES "$1,000 " "This West Lafayette, Indiana school's Hall of Music has seating for more than 6,000" Purdue SI's SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE "$1,000 " Golfer John Daly has... endorsement deals with Dunkin' Donuts & this Anna Nicole Smith-endorsed diet aid TrimSpa LITERARY GENRES "$1,000 " In the 1880s Guy de Maupassant published 300 of these short stories RECORD LOSSES IN 2005 "$1,000 " "A medical group lost 185,000 personal & medical records in this city, the seat of Santa Clara County" San Jose "SO ""LONG""" "$1,000 " "2-word term for the body part highlighted here" medulla oblongata & THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH "$2,000 " "The name of this type of fish seen here also means an elevated position" a perch CANALS $400 The city of Balboa is the Pacific terminus of this 51-mile-long canal the Panama Canal NYPD TV $400 "Detectives Diane Russell, Jill Kirkendall & Connie McDowell were on the job for this ABC drama" NYPD Blue HIDDEN BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $400 Sending money was the best her friends could do for her Esther (best her) INDEPENDENCE DAYS $400 This country celebrates its 1945 independence from Fascism on April 25th Italy BACK IN 1906 $400 "Burned in 1864, this city was placed under martial law following racial tensions in September 1906" Atlanta FROM THE LATIN $400 "You'll often find a statue's feet atop this kind of base whose name is from the Latin for ""foot""" a pedestal CANALS $800 "While in Milan in the late 15th century, this artist designed locks to join the city's canals" Leonardo da Vinci NYPD TV $800 "Wojo, Harris, Yemana & Fish were 12th Precinct detectives on this sitcom" Barney Miller HIDDEN BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $800 Fight the evil mojo by using your good voodoo Job (mojo by) INDEPENDENCE DAYS $800 "Though it was first settled by the French, July 1 marks its partial independence from the U.K." Canada BACK IN 1906 $800 "Now take this question... please! 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Angela's Ashes (by Frank McCourt) NONFICTION PEOPLE $200 "Stephen Ambrose looked at this president's ""Ruin and Recovery, 1973-1990""" Richard Nixon WHAT A WEEK $200 "In 1958 the theme of the first national week for these places was ""Wake up & read!""" libraries THE SILVER SCREEN $200 "1960 film that says ""Matricide is probably the most unbearable crime of all"", especially for ""the son who commits it""" Psycho "ENGLAND, SCOTLAND OR WALES" $200 The largest in area of the 3 England THE TITANIC $200 "Milvina Dean, who had this distinction among the 2,200 people on board, lived to see the 95th anniv. in 2007" the youngest person TOO MUCH $200 "Fighting ferociously, you go at it this ""& nail""" tooth NONFICTION PEOPLE $400 "A biography of him is subtitled ""Man's Slave Becomes God's Scientist""" George Washington Carver WHAT A WEEK $400 "This is a rough week for pledges, but if they can make it through, they can be fraternity members" hell week THE SILVER SCREEN $400 "Her 6-minute role as Queen Elizabeth in ""Shakespeare in Love"" was the shortest Oscar-winning role" Judi Dench "ENGLAND, SCOTLAND OR WALES" $400 Tony Blair was born there Scotland THE TITANIC $400 "The U.S. Senate inquiry noted that the 16 compartments in the Titanic's hull that supposedly were this, weren't" watertight TOO MUCH $400 "It's a signal at night for soldiers to go to their quarters, or an indelible pattern drawn on the skin" a tattoo NONFICTION PEOPLE "$1,000 " "The Apotheosis of this English navigator explores ""European Mythmaking in the Pacific""" (James) Cook WHAT A WEEK $600 "Each year, World Space Week is at the start of October, commemorating this 1957 event" the Sputnik launch THE SILVER SCREEN $600 "Chris O'Donnell was originally cast as her son in ""Prince of Tides"", but she chose her real son instead" Barbra Streisand "ENGLAND, SCOTLAND OR WALES" $600 The one that is technically a principality Wales THE TITANIC $600 "The Titanic carried plenty of these, 3,560, but many passengers died wearing them in the 28-degree water" lifejackets TOO MUCH $600 It's a small porch on the front of the house a stoop NONFICTION PEOPLE $800 "He's called a ""Rough Stone Rolling"" in a 2005 ""Cultural Biography of Mormonism's Founder""" Joseph Smith WHAT A WEEK $800 "In 1999 this country began 3 ""golden weeks"" of vacation for its vast populace, including one around May Day" China THE SILVER SCREEN $800 "Anthony Hopkins said his voice for this movie role was ""a combination of Truman Capote and Katharine Hepburn""" Hannibal Lecter "ENGLAND, SCOTLAND OR WALES" $800 It has the westernmost territory Scotland THE TITANIC $800 "You can still see the crane to lower these; the starboard & port ones weighed 9 tons, the center one, 17 tons" anchors TOO MUCH $800 "As seen here, seaplanes have these, or they'd be at the bottom of the sea" pontoons NONFICTION PEOPLE "$1,000 " "The Corsican is a diary of his life ""In His Own Words""" Napoleon WHAT A WEEK "$1,000 " "Carrie on ""Sex and the City"" really enjoyed this event that brings ships & thousands of sailors to NYC" Fleet Week THE SILVER SCREEN "$1,000 " Schwarzenegger is a Soviet cop teamed with James Belushi's Chicago cop in this action movie Red Heat "ENGLAND, SCOTLAND OR WALES" "$1,000 " The Cambrian Mountains cover most of it Wales THE TITANIC "$1,000 " "The ship was so big, communication was by telegraph from this navigating area to the engine room" the bridge TOO MUCH "$1,000 " "It's a string or garland of flowers hung in a curve, or to decorate with them" festoon HISPANIC HISTORY $400 "As president of this country, Antonio Guzman Blanco had a new capital built in Caracas" Venezuela THE LAST POPE OF THIS NAME $400 "There have been more popes of this name than any other, but the last, number XXIII, was more than 40 years ago" John IBLES & BITS $400 "Adjective for handwriting that can actually be read, unlike my doctor's" legible SCIENCE GUYS $400 His grandfather Erasmus argued in favor of evolution 60 years before he took up the cause himself (Charles) Darwin FUNNY FOR NOTHIN' $400 "On his first night taking over ""The Daily Show"", he informed us, ""Craig Kilborn is on assignment in Kuala Lumpur""" Jon Stewart CHICKENS FOR FREE $400 "He celebrated his 86th birthday at ""21"" by having his own famous fried chicken delivered to his table in section 21" Colonel Sanders HISPANIC HISTORY $800 "The USA's second ""drug czar"", Bob Martinez had been governor of this state" Florida THE LAST POPE OF THIS NAME $800 The VI & last pope to have this name reigned from 1963 to 1978 Paul IBLES & BITS $800 "Easily duped or conned, perhaps like a seabird" gullible SCIENCE GUYS $800 "This astronomer was born in Pisa, Italy February 15, 1564" Galileo FUNNY FOR NOTHIN' $800 "A writer, on the U.S. soccer team's 4 total shots in 3 games: ""Four shots?"" This Laker ""takes that many during a timeout""" Kobe Bryant CHICKENS FOR FREE $800 "In doro wat, Ethiopian chicken stew, these go in at the end of cooking, so the chicken stew comes first" the eggs HISPANIC HISTORY "$1,200 " "To supply Coronado's party, Hernando de Alarcon sailed 3 ships up this river in 1540 to where Yuma, Ariz. is now" the Colorado THE LAST POPE OF THIS NAME "$1,200 " 1878 to 1903 was the tenure of the XIII & last pope with this name that's also a sign of the Zodiac Leo IBLES & BITS "$1,200 " You chew with it mandible SCIENCE GUYS "$1,200 " "In 1920, he was named director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen" (Niels) Bohr FUNNY FOR NOTHIN' "$1,200 " "This Fox-TV cartoon boy: ""Just so you don't hear any wild rumors, I'm being indicted for fraud in Australia""" Bart Simpson CHICKENS FOR FREE "$1,200 " "Chicken this ""royal"" way is served in a rich cream sauce with mushrooms, pimentos, green peppers & sherry" a la king HISPANIC HISTORY "$1,600 " "The dictator of Paraguay from 1816 to 1840 wasn't called just ""El Bueno"" but this superlative" El Supremo THE LAST POPE OF THIS NAME "$3,000 " "The XII & last pope of this name that sounds like a synonym for ""devout"" ended his 19-year reign in 1958" Pius IBLES & BITS "$1,600 " 14-letter adjective for something that can't be wiped out indestructible SCIENCE GUYS "$1,600 " "Until his death in 1907, this chemist headed the Weights & Measures Bureau in St. Petersburg, Russia" Mendeleev FUNNY FOR NOTHIN' "$1,600 " "This deadpan comic said, ""I installed a skylight in my apartment... 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Abso-lute-ly: NIL NOMAD mandolin BOOK NAMES $400 "Alexander Solzhenitsyn: ""One Day in the Life of ____ ____""" Ivan Denisovich WHAT ARE YOU DOING? "$1,000 " Giving a room visual interest with this trim aka a dado rail; it protects plaster walls from the item in its name a chair rail COVER ME! "$1,000 " "Are We Not Men? We Are this '80s group who covered the Stones' ""Satisfaction""" Devo "I'M GOING ""INN""" "$1,000 " An indirect intimation about a person of a disparaging or derogatory nature innuendo ASIAN CAPITALS $400 Check out the Kokugikan Sumo Budokan Arena in this capital Tokyo I LOVE L.A. KERS $400 "Kobe called it ""idiotic criticism"" that he hadn't (until 2009) won an NBA title without this teammate" Shaquille O'Neal COOKING EQUIPMENT FOOD $400 Go to logcabinsyrups.com & you'll immediately see a stack of them pancakes INTERNATIONAL NAMES $400 As a boy Bolivia's president Evo Morales herded these pack animals llamas MYTHICAL CREATURES $400 This bird was said to embalm the ashes of its predecessor & then fly to Heliopolis the phoenix "THE ""CO""-CATEGORY" $400 It's the smallest armed service of the United States the Coast Guard ASIAN CAPITALS $800 This capital lies on the north coast of West Java at the mouth of the Liwung River Jakarta I LOVE L.A. KERS $800 "A wizard at passing the ball, this Laker is the NBA's all-time leader in assists per game" Magic Johnson COOKING EQUIPMENT FOOD $800 "They're the Asian restaurant items seen here" pot stickers INTERNATIONAL NAMES $800 "Alex Salmond, first minister of this country, wants to take it out of the United Kingdom" Scotland MYTHICAL CREATURES $800 Marco Polo told us of this 3-letter bird that could carry an elephant in its claws the roc "THE ""CO""-CATEGORY" $800 "A Greek word for ""poppy"" gives us the name of this analgesic, an alkaloid of opium" codeine ASIAN CAPITALS $800 "Once the capital of the French protectorate of Tonkin, it's now the capital of an entire country" Hanoi (Vietnam) I LOVE L.A. 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KERS "$1,600 " This Hall-of-Fame guard & former Lakers GM is said to be the model for the player depicted in the NBA's logo Jerry West COOKING EQUIPMENT FOOD "$1,600 " Orville Redenbacher sells this sweet & salty treat as well as its more famous cousin kettle corn INTERNATIONAL NAMES "$2,000 " "The U.N. ties of this Secretary-General date back to 1975, when he was a South Korean diplomat" Ban Ki-moon MYTHICAL CREATURES "$1,600 " This winged creature sprang from the blood of Medusa after Perseus beheaded her Pegasus "THE ""CO""-CATEGORY" "$1,600 " "In 2009 Paul McCartney headlined this music fest near Palm Springs, California" Coachella ASIAN CAPITALS "$2,000 " "The name of this capital is Mongol for ""City of the Red Hero""" Ulan Bator I LOVE L.A. KERS "$2,000 " "This flashy Lakers forward was nicknamed ""Big Game"" for his clutch playoff performances" James Worthy COOKING EQUIPMENT FOOD "$2,000 " Bobby Flay's recipe for this includes as special equipment a rod to skewer the bird with rotisserie chicken INTERNATIONAL NAMES "$2,000 " In 2008 he succeeded his close ally Vladimir Putin as Russia's president Medvedev MYTHICAL CREATURES "$2,000 " "If you know that a Kirin is the Japanese type of this mythological creature, pour yourself a beer" unicorn "THE ""CO""-CATEGORY" "$2,000 " It's an exclusive group or clique a coterie PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS None He was the last sitting president to run for re-election & finish third in the Electoral College William Howard Taft A DICKENSIAN NIGHTMARE $200 "The prospect of an endless lawsuit winding through generations leaves a ""bleak"" vision" Bleak House UNIVERSITY SPORTS TEAMS $200 "While Harvard has the Crimson, this university has the Crimson Tide" Alabama GENERAL JOB INFORMATION $200 Alberto Gonzales & Robert F. 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Oliver Twist UNIVERSITY SPORTS TEAMS $600 "You could say these athletes at UNLV aren't ""without a cause""" the (Runnin') Rebels GENERAL JOB INFORMATION $600 It's the rank just below (the very model of a modern) major general brigadier general BATTLE TO NAME THE WAR $600 "Quebec &, a year later, Trenton" the Revolutionary War MAGAZINE FEATURES $600 "Agenda, Fairground, Fanfair" Vanity Fair 3-LETTER ABBREV. $600 A religious group: LDS Latter Day Saints A DICKENSIAN NIGHTMARE $800 "Oh no, it's the cruel headmaster of Salem House, Mr. Creakle, & his peg leg buddy, Tungay--will this never end?!" David Copperfield UNIVERSITY SPORTS TEAMS $800 "Worn by the National College football champions for 1993 & 1999, this team's logo is seen here" the (Florida State) Seminoles GENERAL JOB INFORMATION $800 "The U.N.'s website says this job is ""a spokesman for the interests of the world's peoples, in particular the poor""" the Secretary-General BATTLE TO NAME THE WAR $800 No one enjoyed the portions at Pork Chop Hill the Korean War MAGAZINE FEATURES $800 "Star Tracks, Scoop, Chatter" People 3-LETTER ABBREV. $800 "For tax purposes, the total amount you earned less deductions: AGI" adjusted gross income A DICKENSIAN NIGHTMARE "$1,000 " "It's no ""mystery"" why John Jasper haunts me--his fingers have knives on them!" 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The Western Wall is the only remnant of a retaining wall that was built to support the Temple Mount; now tradition says this mount was Moriah, the site where this patriarch prepared to sacrifice his son" Abraham PHILMOGRAPHIES $400 "Jingle All the Way, ""So I Married an Axe Murderer"" (plus 153 episodes of ""SNL"")" Phil Hartman ARTISTS' RETREATS $400 "Ariel, ""Portnoy's Complaint"" & this 1969 mob novel were all written partly in Yaddo in Upstate N.Y." The Godfather GET SMART $400 Choline may help adult brains grow; one of these breakfast items has about a third of your RDA--want an omelette? an egg U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400 "Instead of counties, this state has boroughs (or is it brrr-oughs?)" Alaska CHILL OUT! $400 "15th century Pope Innocent VIII ""The Honest"" was the first pope to publicly admit having these" children BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES "$5,000 " "Ezra was the leader of the Jews who returned from this land, by whose waters they had sat down & wept" Babylon PHILMOGRAPHIES $800 "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, ""It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"" (plus his own 1955-59 TV show)" Phil Silvers ARTISTS' RETREATS $800 "Proceeds from ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" helped him start a residency program on Long Island" Edward Albee GET SMART $800 "A study of 3,500 Japanese men's brains found those who did this in moderation aged better than those who didn't" drank alcohol U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800 This state capital is located on the Merrimack River about 15 miles north of Manchester Concord CHILL OUT! $800 The Battle of Missionary Ridge was a chief encounter of the 1863 battle of this southeastern city Chattanooga BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES "$1,200 " "(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands on the bank of the Jordan River in Israel.) As depicted in art, after parting the River Jordan with his cloak, this biblical prophet followed a chariot of fire into Heaven" Elijah PHILMOGRAPHIES "$1,200 " "Buster, ""Hook"", ""The Genesis Concert Movie""" Phil Collins ARTISTS' RETREATS "$2,800 " The patronage of Mabel Dodge Luhan made an artists' magnet of this town 55 miles from Santa Fe "Taos, New Mexico" GET SMART "$1,200 " A Boston study found doing this for 40 minutes a day builds up the cerebral cortex; monks must be really smart! meditate U.S. GEOGRAPHY "$1,200 " "Tributaries of this Mississippi tributary include the Cheyenne, James & Platte" the Missouri CHILL OUT! "$1,200 " The Chinese call these kuaizi chopsticks BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES "$1,600 " It was the wealthiest Greek city in Paul's time; he founded a church there & wrote 2 letters to its Christians Corinth PHILMOGRAPHIES "$1,600 " "Doubt, ""Capote""" Philip Seymour Hoffman ARTISTS' RETREATS "$1,600 " The colony bearing this single name features a barn poet Edna built from a Sears kit Millay GET SMART "$1,600 " "Excess weight can interfere with this hormone, raising risk of diabetes & impairing brain function--so hit the gym, Einstein" insulin U.S. GEOGRAPHY "$1,600 " The Houston ship channel flows into this bay that shares its name with a city Galveston Bay CHILL OUT! "$1,600 " "Don't squawk if you're accused of having illegible handwriting, aka this" chicken scratches BIBLICAL PEOPLE & PLACES "$2,000 " "(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads the clue from a church in Galilee in northern Israel.) This Italian Franciscan church is dedicated to these 9 assertions Jesus made nearby about the blessed" the Beatitudes PHILMOGRAPHIES "$2,000 " "As a director: ""The Right Stuff"", ""Invasion of the Body Snatchers""" Philip Kaufman ARTISTS' RETREATS "$2,000 " "Around 1912, 2 painters from the Art Institute of this city founded the Ox-Bow Institute in Saugatuck, Mich." Chicago GET SMART "$2,000 " A U. of California study found that listening to the too many notes in this guy's sonatas raised IQ scores 8-9 points Mozart U.S. GEOGRAPHY "$2,000 " "This N.C. peak, the highest east of the Mississippi, was named for the man who surveyed it, died on it & is buried at the top" Mt. Mitchell CHILL OUT! "$2,000 " Specific 5-letter term for the block of wood you wedge under the wheels when jacking up a car chock INFLUENTIAL 19th CENTURY THINKERS None "At the University of Bonn in 1836, he was wounded in a duel with a member of an aristocratic Prussian fraternity" Karl Marx STATE OF THE UNION $200 The Jack Daniel's distillery is in Lynchburg in this state Tennessee CELEBRITY RHYME TIME $200 Willis's Snapples and Cran-apples Bruce's juices NORM! $200 The dad of this First Gulf War general was a N.J. State Police bigwig & worked the Lindbergh kidnapping case (Norman) Schwarzkopf "iPOD, YOUTUBE OR WII" $200 "It was introduced as a way to ""put 1,000 songs in your pocket""" iPod ALL ASHORE FOR BIRD LORE $200 Lions don't like to attack ostriches because the big birds do this & can even kill the king of beasts this way kick THE ENGLISH TOP 100 $200 "It's No. 1, & no, you don't get a hint" the STATE OF THE UNION $400 "When Jimi Hendrix played ""The Star-Spangled Banner"" at Woodstock, he was strumming in this state" New York CELEBRITY RHYME TIME $400 Ashton's meat sellers Kutcher's butchers NORM! $400 "A sample of this artist's work is seen here" (Norman) Rockwell "iPOD, YOUTUBE OR WII" $400 "There are websites devoted to injuries suffered by its users, such as pulled muscles & bloodied hands" Wii ALL ASHORE FOR BIRD LORE $400 "This forward from French Lick, Indiana was NBA MVP 3 times in the 1980s" Larry Bird THE ENGLISH TOP 100 $400 This No. 30 must be obeyed she STATE OF THE UNION $600 The Trinity site in this state was the location of the USA's first atomic explosion New Mexico CELEBRITY RHYME TIME $600 "Cattrall's rooms for hot, sweaty workouts" Kim's gyms NORM! $600 "In 1981 this ""All in the Family"" producer co-founded People for the American Way" Norman Lear "iPOD, YOUTUBE OR WII" $600 "This has been banned in Thailand, Turkey, Pakistan & Iran" YouTube ALL ASHORE FOR BIRD LORE "$1,000 " This bird term for pro-war politicians was popular in the period leading up to the War of 1812 hawks THE ENGLISH TOP 100 $600 "Self-congratulations, egotists! This word made it all the way to No. 10" I STATE OF THE UNION $800 The Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport is in this state Rhode Island CELEBRITY RHYME TIME $800 Amanda's avenues Peet's streets NORM! $800 "Think positively! You'll know this man who wrote the newspaper column ""Confident Living""" (Norman Vincent) Peale "iPOD, YOUTUBE OR WII" $800 "Its name was reportedly inspired by a line from ""2001: A Space Odyssey""" iPod ALL ASHORE FOR BIRD LORE $800 "It's the color in the name of New Hampshire's state bird, a finch, & a state flower, a lilac" purple THE ENGLISH TOP 100 $800 "No. 2, this verb form is a homophone of a letter of the alphabet" be STATE OF THE UNION "$1,000 " Where The Columbines Grow is its official state song Colorado CELEBRITY RHYME TIME "$1,000 " Lauer's chiropterans Matt's bats NORM! "$1,000 " "1968 ""The Armies of the Night"" won him a Pulitzer & the National Book Award" Norman Mailer "iPOD, YOUTUBE OR WII" "$1,000 " Britain's Prince William got one last Christmas & Queen Elizabeth promptly commandeered it Wii ALL ASHORE FOR BIRD LORE "$1,000 " "Like its relative the peacock, the Argus type of this bird has ""eyes"" in its elaborate tail feathers" the pheasant THE ENGLISH TOP 100 "$1,000 " "Title of the Beatles song that tells us ""life is very short""--5 words: Nos. 27, 53, 87, 11, 43" We Can Work It Out BRASS $400 In 1989 this son of Jamaican immigrants became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Colin) Powell STRINGS $400 "When this product was introduced in 1972, it was said to have a full ""quarter mile"" of fun shot out of a can" Silly String WOOD & WIND $400 "This author wrote of Fangorn Forest, named for the oldest of the Ents-or was the Ent named for the forest?" Tolkien PERCUSSION $400 "A type of fish, or to sit on an elevated platform" perch CONDUCTORS $400 The Lone Ranger could tell you this precious metal is the best conductor of electricity among metals silver SYMPHONIES ON FILM $400 "The Philadelphia Orchestra played Beethoven's ""Pastoral Symphony"" for this 1940 Disney film" Fantasia BRASS $800 "If you don't know he was made commander of the 2nd Armored Tank Division in April 1941, I'll slap you silly" (George) Patton STRINGS "$2,000 " In the 1630s it was a backup bow & arrow part; today it means backup on a sports team second string WOOD & WIND $800 "In this Herman Wouk tale, Pug Henry is an advisor to FDR prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor" The Winds of War PERCUSSION $800 "(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Gathering of Nations.) The Colorado nonprofit Hawkquest doesn't just protect hawks; they also help these falcons, whose name means ""wandering""" peregrine CONDUCTORS $800 "(Jon of the Clue Crew lights up a bulb by touching wires to its terminals.) It's a series of electrical components that form a conducting path" a circuit SYMPHONIES ON FILM $800 "This Russian director's Mexico footage was compiled as ""Mexican Symphony"" in 1941" (Sergey) Eisenstein BRASS "$1,200 " We shall return to this man who graduated from West Point in 1903 with the highest honors in his class Doug MacArthur STRINGS "$1,200 " "To make this candy, put a string in a glass of sugar & water that was boiled to a syrup & let stand for a week" rock candy WOOD & WIND "$1,200 " "His play ""Under Milk Wood"", about the inhabitants of a Welsh seaside town, was published posthumously" Dylan Thomas PERCUSSION "$1,200 " "Russian for ""rebuilding"", this term was first used by Gorbachev in the mid-1980s" perestroika CONDUCTORS "$1,200 " "Unlike most nonmetals, this element with the symbol B is a workable conductor" boron SYMPHONIES ON FILM "$1,200 " "In 1998's ""Serengeti Symphony"", the title nature reserve in this country is shown with only music & natural sound" Tanzania BRASS "$1,600 " "A 10-man, 22-ton ""infantry fighting vehicle"" named for this general has a 2-man turret & a 25mm cannon" (Omar) Bradley STRINGS "$1,600 " "According to Bud Collins' ""Encyclopedia of Modern Tennis"", the best of this string material comes from cows" gut WOOD & WIND "$1,600 " "The line ""O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn's being"" starts an 1819 ode by this man" Percy Shelley PERCUSSION "$1,600 " This daughter of Zeus & Demeter made regular trips to Hades Persephone CONDUCTORS "$1,600 " It's the term for material that conducts at high temperatures & insulates at low temperatures a semiconductor SYMPHONIES ON FILM "$1,600 " "This 1922 film seen here was subtitled ""A Symphony of Horror""" Nosferatu BRASS "$8,000 " "In 1864 Democrats nominated this Union general for president, though he repudiated their platform" George McClellan STRINGS "$2,000 " "The hope behind String Theory is that it will result in this, sometimes shortened to ""T.O.E.""" the theory of everything WOOD & WIND "$2,000 " "This Frost poem ends with ""And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep""" Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening PERCUSSION "$2,000 " 11-letter word for the sac containing the heart pericardium CONDUCTORS "$2,000 " "(Jimmy of the Clue Crew powers a fan by putting one terminal into a beaker of saltwater.) 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McKinley FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $400 "Bakula, Wolf" Scott NOVELS $400 "Even the epilogue is lengthy in this 1869 Tolstoy epic; it comes out in 2 parts &, in our copy, is 105 pages long" War and Peace BRIGHT IDEAS $400 "In 1948 scientists at Bristol-Meyers ""buffered"" this medicine for the first time" aspirin TEENS IN HISTORY $400 She was a teenage farm girl when she beat the famous marksman Frank Butler in an 1870s shooting match Annie Oakley RHYME TIME $400 A more obese baseball slugger a fatter batter U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600 "This river begins in Colorado & empties into the Gulf of Mexico near Brownsville, Texas" Rio Grande FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $600 "Carey, Bledsoe" Drew NOVELS $600 This 1939 Steinbeck novel helped publicize the plight of Dust Bowl refugees The Grapes of Wrath BRIGHT IDEAS $600 Lawrence Sperry used the gyroscope his dad developed in this device that keeps planes on course without human aid autopilot TEENS IN HISTORY "$1,000 " In the 1850s this future sculptor failed the Ecole des Beaux-Arts entrance exam 3 times (think about it) Rodin RHYME TIME $600 A wealthy sorceress a rich witch U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800 Florida's panhandle borders these 2 states Alabama and Georgia FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $800 "Lillard, Modine" Matthew NOVELS $800 "Chapter 10 of this 1960 novel begins, ""Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty""" To Kill a Mockingbird BRIGHT IDEAS $800 In 1882 Schuyler Wheeler put a propellor on the shaft of an electric motor & created this--how cool! a fan TEENS IN HISTORY $800 "Betrothed as a teen to her creepy cousin in 1744, she later became a ""Great"" empress of Russia" Catherine the Great RHYME TIME $800 Written text of a movie about an underground burial chamber a crypt script U.S. GEOGRAPHY "$1,000 " This large lake on the New York-Vermont border is Vermont's lowest point Lake Champlain FIRST NAME'S THE SAME "$1,000 " "Connelly, Garner, Holliday" Jennifer NOVELS "$1,000 " "Published in 1949, this futuristic tale is set in Oceania, a few years before you were born" 1984 BRIGHT IDEAS "$1,000 " "James Fergason invented this type of ""display"" that found an early use in calculators" LCD (or Liquid Crystal Display) TEENS IN HISTORY "$1,000 " "Apprenticed to a British shipowner as a teen in the 1740s, he became one of the great explorers of the Pacific" Captain Cook RHYME TIME "$1,000 " "Voraciously eat an ""all-purpose"" baking ingredient" devour flour CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS $400 "Of particular interest to the NRA is the amendment that allows us ""to keep & bear"" these" arms SPORTS OF THE FEMALE OLYMPIANS $400 "Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain & their 9 teammates on the field" soccer LOW CUT GENES $400 "Because they develop from a single ovum, this variety of twins has the same genetic makeup" identical IN THE DICTIONARY $400 "This math term comes from the Latin frangere, ""to break""" fraction FINE DINING $400 A Vacherin dessert features this crisp concoction of beaten egg whites & sugar meringue TAKE OUT $400 It's the common operation to remove 2 small oval masses of tissue at the back of the mouth a tonsillectomy CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS "$6,000 " "Under the 5th Amendment, 1 of the 3 things that no person shall be deprived of ""without due process of law""" life (or liberty or property) SPORTS OF THE FEMALE OLYMPIANS $800 "Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie & their 3 teammates on the floor" basketball LOW CUT GENES $800 "Genes that affect hereditary traits are called alleles & are either ""dominant"" or this" recessive IN THE DICTIONARY $800 "This synonym for ""room"" can precede music & maid" chamber FINE DINING $800 NYC sushi chef Masa Takayama has paid more than $120 a pound for this fish--a bit pricier than Star-Kist's tuna TAKE OUT $800 A rhytidectomy removes these surgically; botox takes them out another way wrinkles CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS "$1,200 " "The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, was ratified in this year" 1865 SPORTS OF THE FEMALE OLYMPIANS "$1,200 " Misty May & Kerri Walsh beach volleyball LOW CUT GENES "$1,200 " Since the 1980s this hormone used by diabetics has been produced by genetically engineered bacteria insulin IN THE DICTIONARY "$1,200 " "The name of this 6-pointed star comes from the Greek for ""six"" & ""letter""" a hexagram FINE DINING "$1,200 " This word for a French stew is pronounced the same as a pasta sauce brand ragout TAKE OUT "$1,200 " A lobectomy removes one of the 5 lobes of the lungs; a lobotomy takes out part of this organ the brain CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS "$1,600 " "The 24th Amendment says you don't have to pay this type of tax, or any other in order to vote" poll SPORTS OF THE FEMALE OLYMPIANS "$1,600 " "Mohini Bhardwaj, Courtney Kupets & their 4 teammates" gymnastics LOW CUT GENES "$1,600 " A pair of chromosomes with this 2-letter designation makes a woman a woman XX IN THE DICTIONARY "$1,600 " "The name of this African equine comes from the Portuguese for ""wild ass""" a zebra FINE DINING "$1,600 " "A company at Union Wharf in Portland ships all kinds of seafood, but is called ""Maine"" this creature ""Direct""" Lobster TAKE OUT "$1,600 " A keratotomy is an incision of this eye part; 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I am Chris Hardwick.) In April 1987 MTV premiered the video show ""Headbanger's Ball"" for devotees of this type of music" heavy metal AT THE BUILDING SITE $300 "A Fats Waller is a pianist & this ""waller"" is an installer of plasterboard" a drywaller "HEY, GOOD-LOOKIN'" $300 "In boxing, it's when you've fallen & you can't get up" a knockout WHAT'CHA GOT COOKIN'? $300 I'm making passover breakfast fun by using this unleavened bread in a version of French toast matzah COMMON BONDS $400 "Roofs, halos, quantum mechanics" things that are over my head SIMPLE SCIENCE $400 "A poison in pure form, this element used as a germicide on cuts has a chemical symbol that's a pronoun" iodine ROCK MUSIC $400 "This Seattle grunge band backed Neil Young on his ""Mirror Ball"" CD" Pearl Jam AT THE BUILDING SITE $400 "He'll get you stoned or brickworked, & maybe even teach you a secret handshake" a mason "HEY, GOOD-LOOKIN'" $400 "Psalm 8 declares, ""Out of the mouth of"" these ""and sucklings hast thou ordained strength""" babes WHAT'CHA GOT COOKIN'? $400 "I'm sauteeing this organ meat in butter & lemon juice, as you'd know, if you had any" brains COMMON BONDS $500 "Purpose of the structures seen here: [1] [2] [3]" astronomy (or observatories) SIMPLE SCIENCE $500 French mathematician who devised the plotting system that uses coordinates named for him Rene Descartes ROCK MUSIC $500 "He recorded his 1982 hit album, ""Nebraska"", as a series of demos on a 4-track machine at home" Bruce Springsteen AT THE BUILDING SITE $500 "A teacher could handle this, the moving of earth to form a smooth surface for a roadway" a grader "HEY, GOOD-LOOKIN'" $500 "An explosive device, a stunning revelation, or a stunning blonde" a bombshell WHAT'CHA GOT COOKIN'? $500 "This clear meat soup will be finished in a jiffy; actually, ""finished"" is what its name means" a consommé LITERARY HOUSES $200 "Harry Angstrom's house burns to the ground in this author's 1971 novel ""Rabbit Redux""" (John) Updike THE MAINE ATTRACTION $200 "Summer is the time for Whatever Week, a celebration of the Kennebec River in this state capital" Augusta ACTRESSES $200 "Ralph Macchio's love interest in ""The Karate Kid"", she took a darker turn in ""Leaving Las Vegas""" Elisabeth Shue "CROSSWORD CLUES ""M""" $200 Diamond deposit; it ain't yours! (4) mine IT'S GREEK MYTHOLOGY TO ME $200 "Menelaus not only wanted this wife back, but the treasure Paris stole along with her" Helen TAKE A GUESS $200 Gwilym is the Welsh form of this name that's been popular in England for centuries William LITERARY HOUSES $400 "In this Anne Tyler novel, a travel writer breaks his leg & moves into his siblings' home" The Accidental Tourist THE MAINE ATTRACTION $400 "Parson's Way, a scenic walkway in Kennebunkport, passes near this former president's home, Walker's Point" (George Herbert Walker) Bush ACTRESSES $400 "Her first name honors the playwriting partner of Russel Crouse, her father" Lindsey Crouse "CROSSWORD CLUES ""M""" $400 "When it's ""praying"", it's preying (6)" mantis IT'S GREEK MYTHOLOGY TO ME $400 This god zapped Salmoneus into oblivion for trying to imitate his thunder & lightning Zeus TAKE A GUESS $400 John David Joyce set a Guinness record by doing this continuously in a hammock for 240 hours rocking (or swinging) LITERARY HOUSES $800 "The Red Cloud, Nebraska home seen here was the model for Antonia's home in a novel by this author:" Willa Cather THE MAINE ATTRACTION $600 Maine is so famous for these berries that the town of Machias honors them with a festival blueberries ACTRESSES $600 "Tamara Dobson fought drugs as ""Cleopatra Jones"" in 1973, 10 years after this woman was ""Cleopatra""" Liz Taylor "CROSSWORD CLUES ""M""" $600 Actor Fredric's month (5) March IT'S GREEK MYTHOLOGY TO ME $600 This war god wasn't too successful in battle; he was once captured & stuck in a jar for 13 months Ares TAKE A GUESS $600 "Of a pogo stick injury, a dense winter fog or the bite of a comic strip possum, what a pogonip is" a dense winter fog LITERARY HOUSES $800 "In the novel by Isabel Allende, Clara del Valle Trueba shares a house with these title entities" the Spirits THE MAINE ATTRACTION $800 "A national wildlife refuge near Kittery is named for this biologist who wrote ""Silent Spring""" Rachel Carson ACTRESSES $800 "This star brought ""Beaches"" & ""For the Boys"" to the screen through her All Girl Productions" Bette Midler "CROSSWORD CLUES ""M""" $800 Stubborn slippers (5) mules IT'S GREEK MYTHOLOGY TO ME $800 "This underworld kingpin had a helmet that made him invisible; after all, his name means ""the unseen""" Hades TAKE A GUESS $800 "2 of the 4 actors who earned 1974 Oscar nominations for ""The Godfather Part II""; one of them won" "(2 of) Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Michael V. 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BIRDS! $100 "It loves to swim, but this bird seen here is one of the few that do not fly" Penguin CANDY & GUM SLOGANS $100 "Gimme a Break, Gimme a Break, Break Me Off a Piece of this candy bar" Kit Kat THOSE WACKY GERMANS $100 "Gesundheit, meaning ""health"", is what Germans say instead of ""bless you"" when you do this" Sneeze CARTOONS $100 "On Saturday morning, this Disney hero attends Prometheus Academy" Hercules "THE ""X"" FILES" $100 A shortened form of Christmas is spelled this way Xmas FARAWAY PLACES $200 This land that's north of England has odd place names lile Loch Lochy & Loch Oich Scotland BIRDS! BIRDS! BIRDS! $200 "Seen here, the great horned type of this bird is found from Alaska to South America" Owl CANDY & GUM SLOGANS $200 The Milk Chocolate Melts in Your Mouth -- not in Your Hand M&M's THOSE WACKY GERMANS $200 "The food many Germans like best is wurst, which are these hot-dog-shaped meat treats" Sausages CARTOONS $200 The monster seen here (Godzilla) originally appeared in movies from this country Japan "THE ""X"" FILES" $200 High-energy radiation used to take a picture of your insides X-rays FARAWAY PLACES $300 "The Forbidden City is at the heart of this capital of China, also called Peking" Beijing BIRDS! BIRDS! BIRDS! $300 "The largest bird in the world, this one, seen here, is also the fastest on land" Ostrich CANDY & GUM SLOGANS $300 The Great American Chocolate Bar Hershey's THOSE WACKY GERMANS $300 "Germans decorate Christmas trees with silvery strings & call it the ""hair"" of these heavenly beings" Angels CARTOONS $300 "This ""Funnie"" middle school student got his first movie in March 1999" Doug "THE ""X"" FILES" $300 "Breastplated ""Warrior Princess"" played by Lucy Lawless" Xena FARAWAY PLACES $700 "To get from Africa to Arabia, you cross (or part) this sea that has a colorful name" Red Sea BIRDS! BIRDS! 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Philip Randolph, who first proposed a march on this city in 1941, also helped organize the one in 1963" "Washington, D.C." 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Hall of Fame" Danielle Steel GOAT-POURRI $800 "In 1846 Neptune was discovered in this constellation, the 10th sign of the zodiac" Capricorn EPONYMS $800 "This country is named after ""the George Washington of South America"" (the actual George only got cities & a state)" Bolivia A SCIENCE CATEGORY "$1,200 " (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands behind a table) The experiment showing that two objects weighing the same displace different amounts of water because they have different densities was developed by this mathematician Archimedes MOVIE CITIES "$1,200 " "2010, starring Kristen Bell: ""When in ____""" Rome LAST NAME'S THE SAME "$1,200 " Late radio commentator Paul & James I's physician William Harvey WOMEN: WRITE ON! "$1,200 " "Esther Greenwood is an aspiring poet in this poet's novel ""The Bell Jar""" Sylvia Plath GOAT-POURRI "$1,200 " "In ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"", Pierre Gringoire rescues this gypsy girl's goat from a mob" Esmeralda EPONYMS "$4,000 " "Meaning elegant or fancy, it's from the name of a hotel chain founded by a Swiss businessman" ritzy A SCIENCE CATEGORY "$1,600 " In the 1920s Edwin Hubble determined that this galaxy was in fact a separate galaxy from the Milky Way Andromeda MOVIE CITIES "$1,600 " "2008's ""The Mysteries of ____"" was based on a novel" Pittsburgh LAST NAME'S THE SAME "$1,600 " Tennessee Tailor Andrew & poet/NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson WOMEN: WRITE ON! "$1,600 " "Shiksa Goddess: (or, How I Spent My Forties) is a collection of essays by this ""Heidi Chronicles"" playwright" (Wendy) Wasserstein GOAT-POURRI "$1,600 " The backward-curving horns of the Siberian species of this 4-letter goat may be nearly 5 feet long ibex EPONYMS "$1,600 " This submachine gun was named for an Israeli army officer whose design won a competition in the 1950s Uzi A SCIENCE CATEGORY "$12,000 " These are just small masses of lymphoid tissue in the nasopharynx adenoids MOVIE CITIES "$2,000 " "The 1980 Oscar winner for Foreign Language Film was ""____ does Not Believe in Tears""" Moscow LAST NAME'S THE SAME "$2,000 " 17th century philosopher Sir Francis & 20th century painter Francis Bacon WOMEN: WRITE ON! 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$300 Java is a synonym for coffee; a high-grade bean also comes from this next most populous Indonesian island Sumatra THE DIRECTOR SPEAKS $400 "Manhattanite who said, ""Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable""--sounds ""Bananas"" to us" Woody Allen PLACES $400 "A place where a river is shallow enough to cross on foot, alone or with an ""escort""" a ford LIGHTs $400 "A joking question asked about many groups is ""How many does it take to"" do this" screw in a light bulb ACTION! $400 "The action of a boy can ring a girl's bell, & the action of these can ring a buoy's bell" a wave WHERE'S MY COFFEE? $400 "Mexico's best coffee comes from Chiapas, a state that borders this noted coffee-growing nation" Guatemala THE DIRECTOR SPEAKS $500 "The best director is the one you don't see, observed this director of ""Some Like It Hot""" Billy Wilder PLACES $500 This term for a house's entrance hall also refers to the space between cars on a train the vestibule LIGHTs $500 "I'm gonna let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine" this little light of mine ACTION! $500 "Dutch-American artist about whose work the term ""action painting"" was coined" Willem de Kooning SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS $200 "It's the play that inspired Reynaldo Hahn's opera ""Le Marchand de Venise""" The Merchant of Venice BACKWARDS $200 "In T minus 5 seconds, you'll say this word for the inverted series used before a rocket launch" a countdown CARTOONS $200 Mel Blanc said he created this character's voice by combining Brooklyn & Bronx accents Bugs Bunny 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200 The discovery of this in 1896 turned Seward's Folly into Seward's Good Fortune gold MEN OF THE WORLD $200 Armando Munoz Garcia sculpted a 55' statue of a nude woman & lived in it in this Mexican city near San Diego Tijuana WORD ORIGINS $200 "This state's name is from the Sioux for ""sky-tinted waters""; maybe they meant the 10,000 lakes" Minnesota SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS $400 "The Bolshoi presented this ballet at the Met in 1959, with Yuri Zhdanov & Galina Ulanova as the title lovers" Romeo & Juliet BACKWARDS $400 "In psychology it's the process of reverting to an earlier, childlike form of behavior" regression CARTOONS $400 "I say there, son, this Warner Bros. cartoon rooster is sometimes pursued by a chicken hawk" Foghorn Leghorn 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400 The 1866 Civil Rights Act was passed over this president's veto Johnson MEN OF THE WORLD $400 "The U.S. statesman seen here was born in 1923 in this country:" Germany WORD ORIGINS $400 "The Old Norse word ""vindauga"" gave us this pane-ful word for an opening in a wall" window SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS $600 "You'll need some long-winded singers to star in ""Stormen"", a Swedish opera based on this play" The Tempest BACKWARDS $600 Field Marshal Barclay used this maneuver associated with defeat to lure Napoleon deep into Russia a retreat CARTOONS $600 "On screen, he's a ""tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff""" Winnie the Pooh 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600 "Kansas homesteader Bewster Higley's poem ""The Western Home"" was retitled this when set to music" Home On The Range MEN OF THE WORLD $600 This media mogul from Melbourne has been called a real-life Citizen Kane Rupert Murdoch WORD ORIGINS $600 "Derived from the Latin for ""salted vegetables"", this cold dish might be enhanced with a little oil & vinegar" salad SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS $800 "Verdi wrote an aria called ""La Luce Langue""--The Light Fails--for this bloothirsty villainess" Lady Macbeth BACKWARDS $800 "In competitive rowing, this is the only person in the boat whose back is not to the finish line" the coxswain CARTOONS $800 "Ted Cassidy, who played Thing on ""The Addams Family"", was also the voice of The Thing of this superhero group" The Fantastic 4 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800 "To avoid Boss Tweed's graft, Alfred Beach secretly built one of these under Broadway in 1869-70" a subway WORD ORIGINS $800 "This number can be traced back to the Sankrit ""Shunya"", or empty" zero SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS $500 Title character played by former Alvin Ailey dancer Desmond Richardson in a 1997 ballet Othello BACKWARDS "$1,000 " "Called ""Bojangles"", he was renowned for tap dancing on stairs & running backwards at high speed" (Bill) Robinson CARTOONS "$1,000 " "Sylvester believes Hippety Hopper, a baby one of these, to be a gigantic mouse" a kangaroo WORD ORIGINS "$1,000 " The -sex suffix on British placenames refers to this Germanic people the Saxons FAMOUS VOYAGES None Capt. 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In my film ""Music and Lyrics"", Hugh Grant plays the ""Jeopardy! Think Music"" written by this creator of ""Jeopardy!""" 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"$1,200 " Someone pass me this noodle pudding filled with raisins & nuts kugel ALSO A BOOK IN THE BIBLE "$1,200 " "Hey, this, don't be ""obscure""" Jude "IS IT ""TEA"" TIME YET?" "$1,200 " "This slang synonym for oil is mentioned in the theme song to ""The Beverly Hillbillies""" Texas tea GENERAL INFORMATION "$1,600 " "The only place this general wouldn't ""march"" was to the presidency; he told the GOP ""I will not accept if nominated"" in 1884" Sherman TV PRODUCERS "$1,600 " "In 2003 this ""Survivor"" head honcho began conducting a search to give Donald Trump an apprentice" Mark Burnett TOUGH BODIES OF WATER "$1,600 " The Uruguay River forms the border between Uruguay & Argentina & most of the border between Argentina & this country Brazil "HELLO, DELI!" "$1,600 " It's a good knight for one of these Jewish turnovers with a meat or potato filling a knish ALSO A BOOK IN THE BIBLE "$1,600 " This character first hit the radio in 1928 with his partner Andy Amos "IS IT ""TEA"" TIME YET?" "$1,600 " "When Lady Diana had doubts about marrying Prince Charles, she was told: Too late. ""Your face is on"" these cloth items" tea towels GENERAL INFORMATION "$2,000 " This Army general headed American-led forces during the initial combat phase of the Iraq War as it began in 2003 Tommy Franks TV PRODUCERS "$2,000 " "He probably has another 6 or 7 ""Law & Order"" offshoots on his desk just waiting for network slots" Dick Wolf TOUGH BODIES OF WATER "$2,000 " This Venezuelan lake is the only one of the world's 25 largest lakes whose elevation is sea level Lake Maracaibo "HELLO, DELI!" "$2,000 " Something smells fishy--must be this chopped fish patty mixed with crumbs & eggs & served cold in a jellied broth gefilte fish ALSO A BOOK IN THE BIBLE "$2,000 " "Few were ""better than"" this Mr. Cornell who founded the university in 1865" Ezra "IS IT ""TEA"" TIME YET?" 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Mikhail Lomonosov became the first scientist to record the freezing of this liquid metal mercury CANADIAN FOOTBALL "$1,200 " "French for ""red"", it's the term used for the point that is scored if a punt goes out of the end zone untouched" rouge GUYANESE GEOGRAPHY "$1,200 " "Spectacular waterfalls in Guyana include one named for a British king of this name, who ruled 1901-10" Edward TURKISH LITERATURE "$1,200 " "Sultan Abdulhamid II's censorship hindered Ottoman writers until this ""youthful"" group's 1908 revolution" the Young Turks CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS "$1,200 " This sign for 2006 shows devotion to family; aren't you a good sign? Yes you are! Good sign! the dog BRAZILIAN WORDS & PHRASES "$1,200 " "Cousin Fred said he was Napoleon last night; I'm afraid he might be ""maluco"", this" crazy RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS "$1,600 " "Lev Landau won a 1962 Nobel Prize for working in low-temperature physics, also known as this" cryogenics CANADIAN FOOTBALL "$1,600 " This former Boston College & New England Patriots QB was the CFL's most outstanding player 6 times Doug Flutie GUYANESE GEOGRAPHY "$3,000 " "One of Guyana's largest cities, it's also an old name for New York City" New Amsterdam TURKISH LITERATURE "$1,600 " "Peter Ustinov directed & starred in the film version of the Yasar Kemal novel ""Memed, My"" this predatory bird" Hawk CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS "$1,600 " "1967 folks ""flock"" to this sign that represents the essence of the Yin, the feminine passive principle" the sheep BRAZILIAN WORDS & PHRASES "$1,600 " "If you want another drink, hand over some ""grana"", this; I'm not covering for you anymore after last night" money RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS "$2,000 " "(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows the periodic table on the monitor.) 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"$1,000 " Mrs. Blake Edwards Julie Andrews TRANSPORTATION "$1,000 " The Kearsarge was the only one of these not named for a U.S. state a battleship MYTHELLANEOUS "$1,000 " Riding this winged horse made it possible for Bellerophon to approach & kill the chimera Pegasus NOW YOU'RE TALKING MY LANGUAGE "$1,000 " Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala is a well-known writer in this language of the Incas Quechua BIRD HUNTING "$1,000 " "The Academy of Pro Players Power Hitting Baseball Camp can help you with bat speed, bunting & hitting the curve" a bunting OSCARS OF THE '70s $400 "No relation to the Lakers' center, she's the youngest ever to win a Supporting Actress Oscar" Tatum O'Neal THE STING $400 "Most bar recipes for the stinger call for the white version of this potent potable, not the green" crème de menthe ROCKY $400 "SF Sorrow by The Pretty Things was the first of these works; ""Tommy"" came soon after" a rock opera THE GODFATHER $400 "This S.F. Giant, Barry Bonds' godfather, got his nickname from his unique greetings to fans" Say Hey Willie Mays DEAR JUNTA $400 "Shortly after the death of Gen. Omar Torrijos, Manuel Noriega controlled the junta that ruled this country" Panama THE FRENCH CONNECTION $400 "From Old French, its [sic] what we call the person who runs the roulette table" croupier OSCARS OF THE '70s $800 "Colorful actor seen here who won Best Supporting Actor in 1973" Joel Grey THE STING $800 Singer/actor Sting played Feyd-Rautha in this David Lynch film based on a Frank Herbert novel Dune ROCKY $800 National Guard troops escorted black students to class in this southern state capital in August 1959 Little Rock THE GODFATHER $800 "After the death of his mother, this future poet was taken in by his godfather John Allan in 1811" (Edgar Allan) Poe DEAR JUNTA "$6,200 " "The ""Juntas Provinciales"" organized the Spanish resistance to this man's 1808 invasion" Napoleon (Bonaparte) THE FRENCH CONNECTION $800 Campari & Pernod are good options for this pre-meal potent potable apéritif OSCARS OF THE '70s "$1,200 " "Of Jack Nicholson's 5 nominations in the 1970s, this was the only movie for which he won" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest THE STING "$1,200 " "The creature known as this ""false"" arachnid has venomous pincers & no tail" a scorpion ROCKY "$1,200 " "Also known as the Mosque of Omar, it was home to the Knights Templar during the Crusades" the Dome of the Rock THE GODFATHER "$1,200 " He was the royal godfather to the son of French playwright Moliere King Louis XIV DEAR JUNTA "$1,200 " "This former priest was ousted in Feb. 2004, even after a U.S.-brokered deal in 1994 with the Haitian junta kept him in power" Aristide OSCARS OF THE '70s "$10,000 " "For her portrayal of Greta Ohlsson in a 1974 mystery, this legendary actress scored her third Oscar" Ingrid Bergman THE STING "$1,600 " The WNBA team belonging to this southern city is known as The Sting Charlotte ROCKY "$1,600 " "Also called halite, this common mineral can be formed by the drying of enclosed bodies of seawater" rock salt THE GODFATHER "$1,600 " "After a mock funeral for this counterculture icon, his goddaughter, Winona Ryder, moved in with him" Timothy Leary DEAR JUNTA "$1,600 " "After the junta released activist Aung San Suu Kyi to house arrest, Japan restored aid to this country" Burma (or Myanmar) THE FRENCH CONNECTION "$1,600 " "A homophone for the French word for ""wheel"", you need a good one to make gumbo" a roux OSCARS OF THE '70s "$2,000 " This son of a famous French impressionist painter received an honorary Oscar in 1975 Jean Renoir THE STING "$2,000 " "This famous FBI sting derived its name from one its fictitious enterprises, Abdul Enterprises" Abscam ROCKY "$2,000 " This peninsula in the borough of Queens is one of the principal resort areas for New Yorkers Rockaway Beach (or Peninsula) THE GODFATHER "$2,000 " This British philosopher who won a Nobel Prize in 1950 was the godchild of John Stuart Mill Bertrand Russell DEAR JUNTA "$2,000 " "In 1998 Nigerian-led forces captured Freetown, ousting the junta that controlled this African country" Sierra Leone THE FRENCH CONNECTION "$2,000 " "From the French for ""to sort"" comes the word for this process of treating patients based on need" triage SHAKESPEARE None 2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays in which ghosts appear on stage "(2 of) Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Richard III" 5-LETTER CAPITALS $100 12 avenues radiate from Place Charles de Gaulle in this city Paris SPORTS $100 This Florida-born women's great who retired in 1989 wrote the World Book Encyclopedia article on tennis Chris Evert PRE-COLUMBIAN CULTURES $100 "Probably the biggest big game the Clovis culture went after 11,200 years ago, it was woolly" Mammoth 20th CENTURY INVENTION $100 3M's Richard Drew invented it in 1930 to have something to seal the cellophane of food products Scotch tape ON THE MOVE $100 "Long, flat-bottomed & painted a somber black, they're the traditional taxis of Venice" Gondolas DOUBLE TALK $100 "In the familiar jokes, it precedes ""Who's there?""" Knock Knock 5-LETTER CAPITALS $200 Bridges crossing the Nile River in this capital include El Gama'a & El Giza Cairo SPORTS $200 In 1984 this quarterback became the first Boston College player to win the Heisman Trophy Doug Flutie PRE-COLUMBIAN CULTURES $200 "The Folsom culture about 10,900 years ago had a fluted type of this weapon & a ""thrower"" for it" Spear 20th CENTURY INVENTION $200 "Newsweek reports Westinghouse made one in 1952 that played ""How Dry I Am"" at the end of each cycle" Clothes dryer ON THE MOVE $200 In 1980 the U.S. government loaned this auto company $1.5 billion; the loans were repaid within 3 years Chrysler DOUBLE TALK $200 "It's a sailor's way of saying to a superior ""I understand & will obey""" Aye-Aye 5-LETTER CAPITALS $300 Haiphong near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as this city's main port Hanoi SPORTS $300 Babe Ruth's father once operated a saloon on what is now center field in this Baltimore ballpark Oriole Park at Camden Yards PRE-COLUMBIAN CULTURES $300 "The Anasazi, a word from this Indian language for ""ancient ones"", lived in what's now the 4 Corners area" Navajo 20th CENTURY INVENTION $300 In 1939 the Hydra-Matic system made this automatic in the Oldsmobile Transmission ON THE MOVE $300 This U.S. city has more miles of subway than any other subway system in the Western Hemisphere New York City DOUBLE TALK $300 "This full, loose women's garment with a bright print is traditional attire in Hawaii" Muumuu 5-LETTER CAPITALS $400 The ancient Greeks called this Jordanian capital Philadelphia Amman SPORTS $400 "In the 1997 Belmont Stakes, Touch Gold dashed this ""charmed"" horse's Triple Crown bid" Silver Charm PRE-COLUMBIAN CULTURES $400 "The Adena-Hopewell culture in the Ohio area was known for building these, both the burial & effigy types" Mounds 20th CENTURY INVENTION $400 In 1983 the first U.S. commercial call on one of these was from Chicago to a descendant of Bell in Germany Cellular phone ON THE MOVE $400 "In Britain, it's a kitchen on a ship's deck; in the U.S., it's traditionally the last car on a freight train" Caboose DOUBLE TALK $400 It's a hand-beaten drum used by American Indians Tom-tom 5-LETTER CAPITALS $500 In 1809 one of the first revolts for independence in Latin America broke out in this Ecuadoran capital Quito SPORTS $500 "National Hockey League team whose logo is seen here: (knife through a ""B"")" Buffalo Sabres PRE-COLUMBIAN CULTURES $500 Warriors of this Yucatan civilization battle in the computer-enhanced mural seen here: Mayans 20th CENTURY INVENTION $500 They were invented in 1947 & by the 1990s millions were being placed on a single chip Transistors ON THE MOVE $500 "When it opened, it cut the distance from London to Bombay by 5,100 miles" Suez Canal DOUBLE TALK $500 He's Barney & Betty Rubble's noisy son Bamm-Bamm DIARIES $200 "The diary of this woman, wife of a famous aviator, describes the kidnapping of her son" Anne Morrow Lindbergh TOUGH MOVIE TRIVIA $200 "Kurt Russell, who later played Elvis, was in the 1963 Elvis film ""It Happened"" here" At the World's Fair O YOU ANIMAL! $200 The Pacific species of this has an arm span of up to 33 feet Octopus INTERIOR DESIGN $200 The barrel species of this spiny plant can bring a touch of the desert into your home Cactus NAME THE OPERA $200 "(""Habanera"")" Carmen PEOPLE WHO BECAME WORDS $200 Don't lose your head trying to name this execution device named after a French doctor Guillotine DIARIES $400 "Fittingly, Samuel Pepys began keeping his famous diary on this date in 1660" 1-Jan TOUGH MOVIE TRIVIA $400 It's what you wear to protect yourself against the effects of the device seen here: Sunglasses O YOU ANIMAL! $400 Cool cat seen here: Ocelot INTERIOR DESIGN $400 Some 18th C. chairs had footrests to accommodate the swollen feet of sufferers from this disease Gout NAME THE OPERA $400 (Audio clip in Italian from opera about clowns) Pagliacci PEOPLE WHO BECAME WORDS $400 Up on the highwire you might wear this bodysuit named for a famous 19th century trapeze artist Leotard DIARIES $600 "My Name Escapes Me is ""The Diary of A Retiring Actor"" by this portrayer of Obi-Wan Kenobi" Sir Alec Guinness TOUGH MOVIE TRIVIA $600 "Actor in common to the coming-to-California films ""True Romance"" & ""Kalifornia""" Brad Pitt O YOU ANIMAL! $600 "It ""coughs"" out sediment by clapping its shell shut" Oyster INTERIOR DESIGN $600 "China & India provide many of the ""imports"" in the name of this Texas-based home furnishings retailer" Pier 1 Imports NAME THE OPERA $600 "(""La Dona e Mobile"")" Rigoletto PEOPLE WHO BECAME WORDS $600 This term for artillery fragments is named for a British officer who invented a new kind of shell Shrapnel DIARIES $800 This creator of Peter Rabbit devised a private code for the journals she kept in her youth Beatrix Potter TOUGH MOVIE TRIVIA $800 "1996's ""Trainspotting"" was about the underground drug life in this city" Edinburgh O YOU ANIMAL! $800 "They might swing through the trees asking ""What's Sumatra? Nothing, what's Sumatra with you?""" Orangutan INTERIOR DESIGN $800 Type of chair seen here named for its 20th C. designer: Eames Chair NAME THE OPERA $800 "(""Triumph March"")" Aida PEOPLE WHO BECAME WORDS $800 "This food poisoning bacteria is named after the scientist who identified it, not a fish" Salmonella DIARIES "$2,000 " "The anonymous author of this diary took her title from the Jefferson Airplane song ""White Rabbit""" Go Ask Alice TOUGH MOVIE TRIVIA "$1,000 " "In this 1989 film, Eddie Murphy was the adopted son of a 1930s nightclub owner played by Richard Pryor" Harlem Nights O YOU ANIMAL! "$1,000 " "When the giraffe invites all its taxonomic ""family"" to a party, this is the only animal that shows up" Okapi INTERIOR DESIGN "$1,000 " In 1991 Charles Hall sued Aqua Queen & other companies for infringing his patent on this furniture item the waterbed PEOPLE WHO BECAME WORDS "$1,000 " "She must have been hairy, as this hairstyle is named for the big-haired mistress of a French emperor" Pompadour TELEVISION & HISTORY None "When ""60 Minutes"" premiered, this man was U.S. president" "Lyndon B. Johnson (show premiered Sept. 24, 1968)" 5 BANDS $200 "Appropriately, this '80s band sang, ""You can't go on thinking, nothing's wrong, who's gonna drive you home tonight?""" The Cars THE REPLACEMENTS $200 "A piece that makes it to your foe's deepest row in checkers can be replaced with one of these ""royal"" ones" a king THE FALL $200 "In October 1967 in Tehran, he crowned himself Light of the Aryan Race, among other things" the Shah (Mohammed Reza Pahlavi) 'HUSKER DO $200 "(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Girls and Boys Town in Omaha, NE.) After becoming a parish priest in O'Neill, Nebraska, he founded Boys Town near Omaha" Father (Edward) Flanagan THE ENGLISH BEAT $200 "This city, first mentioned in 912, is the seat of Britain's oldest university, developed in the 1100s" Oxford "BIG ""STAR""" $200 "As soon as corn is picked, its sugar begins to turn into this, so get it into the pot fast!" starch 5 BANDS $400 "2 members of this '70s ""Ramblin' Man"" band died in bike crashes, a year apart & within 3 blocks of each other" The Allman Brothers Band THE REPLACEMENTS $400 "When companies do this to their stock, they replace outstanding shares with multiple new ones" a split THE FALL $400 "Headed by Chief Justice Charles T. Wells, the Supreme Court of this state was in the news in November 2000" Florida 'HUSKER DO $400 "Not just a noted NYC psychiatric hospital, it's Nebraska's oldest town, established around 1822 as a fur-trading center" Belleview THE ENGLISH BEAT $400 Researchers estimate its construction on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire took about 30 million man-hours Stonehenge "BIG ""STAR""" $400 In 1990 this company expanded its Seattle HQ & built a new roasting plant Starbucks 5 BANDS $600 "Fun, ""sleazy"" & ""raucous"" are under ""moods"" at AllMusic.com for this metal band co-founded by Tommy Lee" Mötley Crüe THE REPLACEMENTS $600 "The ""arthro"" in ""arthroplasty"" refers to these body parts that are replaced with stainless steel or plastic ones" joints THE FALL $600 "In October 1983 the U.S. invaded this Caribbean country, officially to protect American medical students there" Grenada 'HUSKER DO $600 "(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the University of Nebraska.) Before going to Congress, he strode this field for 25 years as Nebraska's head coach, and the field is now named for him" Tom Osborne THE ENGLISH BEAT $600 In 1964 a Shakespeare center was opened on Henley Street in this city Stratford-upon-Avon "BIG ""STAR""" $600 This hotel & casino at 3000 Las Vegas Blvd. South cashed out in 2006 the Stardust 5 BANDS $800 "Remember when we traveled 'round the world, we met a lot of people & girls, sang this Joey McIntyre boy band" New Kids on the Block THE REPLACEMENTS $800 George Williams founded the association familiarly known as this to replace life on the street with Bible study the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) THE FALL "$1,800 " "On Nov. 8, 1519 the sight of his forces made the Tenochtitlaners feel like they'd ""eaten stupefying mushrooms""" (Hernándo) Cortés 'HUSKER DO $800 "One of the 2 vice presidents born in Nebraska; one in 1913, the other in 1941" Gerald Ford (or Dick Cheney) THE ENGLISH BEAT $800 You'll find the Cavern Club at 10 Mathew Street in this port city; how fab Liverpool "BIG ""STAR""" $800 "In WWI Germany introduced this chemical weapon, C4H8Cl2S" mustard gas 5 BANDS "$1,000 " Welcome to Paradise; tre cool drums for this punk-pop band who performed at 2005's Live 8 Green Day THE REPLACEMENTS "$1,000 " This cell-division process in which a cell's nucleus replicates is vital for repair & replacement of worn-out cells mitosis THE FALL "$1,000 " In 1918 this date in autumn brought the signing of the armistice ending World War I 11-Nov 'HUSKER DO "$1,000 " "(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Omaha, NE.) I'm in a replica of the Omaha grocery a man with this last name started running in 1915; 50 years later, his grandson started running an investment business called Berkshire-Hathaway" Buffett THE ENGLISH BEAT "$1,000 " "Centenary Square, in the center of this city, is its main cultural center; Alabama has a city by that name as well" Birmingham "BIG ""STAR""" "$1,000 " "It's a dessert made of eggs, sugar & milk, either baked, boiled or frozen" custard INSIDE THE ARTIST'S STUDIO WITH JAMES LIPTON $400 "(James Lipton reads the clue.) The 19th century--more than 800 oil paintings and 700 drawings--yet you sold but one in your 37 years. Are you bitter?" Van Gogh MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NICKNAMES $400 The Ryan Express Nolan Ryan OPERA $400 Stravinsky enlisted the help of Cocteau for a Libretto based on Sophocles' play about this Theban king Oedipus WORLD MUSEUMS $400 "Hanoi, where this man died in 1969, has a museum devoted to him" Ho Chi Minh LIFE SCIENCE $400 A nematode is a roundworm; a planarian's shape gives it this name a flatworm DOUBLE MEANINGS $400 "I know Mike _____ his expense account, but I can't believe he'd steal legal _____ from the conference room" pads INSIDE THE ARTIST'S STUDIO WITH JAMES LIPTON $800 "(James Lipton reads the clue.) In 1891, you sold 30 paintings to help finance your move to Tahiti. How marvelous!" Gauguin MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NICKNAMES $800 The Rocket Clemens OPERA $800 George finds out Lennie has a dead mouse in his pocket in this Carlisle Floyd opera based on a 1937 novel Of Mice And Men WORLD MUSEUMS $800 "Totem poles & Noh masks are at the Pitt Rivers Museum, given on condition that Oxford hire a lecturer on this -ology" anthropology LIFE SCIENCE $800 "In colenterates like jellyfish, the cavity called the coelenteron has an opening called this--don't get too complex" a mouth DOUBLE MEANINGS $800 Maybe Don needs to get more exercise; he _____ just from pulling up his _____ pants INSIDE THE ARTIST'S STUDIO WITH JAMES LIPTON "$1,200 " "(James Lipton reads the clue.) You finished ""The Sick Child"" in 1886. 7 years later, the world would recoil from ""The Scream."" Tell us about your pain" Munch MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NICKNAMES "$1,200 " The Big Hurt Frank Thomas OPERA "$1,200 " Verdi's work on this General's life opens in Cyprus; Shakespeare's tale begins in Venice Otello WORLD MUSEUMS "$1,200 " "ANZACs in France, 1969 was a 2006 exhibit at a war museum in this capital city" Canberra LIFE SCIENCE "$1,200 " "In nat. selection, a ref froggus trebekus has .5 relative fitness if it produces 1/2 as many of these as a pink one" offspring DOUBLE MEANINGS "$1,200 " "I liked that girl with the cute little _____ nose, so to have her _____ me really hurts" snub MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NICKNAMES "$1,600 " "Yankee batting champ ""Donnie Baseball""" Mattingly OPERA "$1,600 " Titania & Puck play a part in the Carl Maria Von Weber opera named for this king of the fairies Oberon WORLD MUSEUMS "$1,600 " "A Durer collection is highlight of this city's Kunsthistorisches Museum, built up by the Hapsburgs" Vienna LIFE SCIENCE "$2,000 " "In a fish's 2-chambered heart, it's the chamber that receives blood from the veins" atrium DOUBLE MEANINGS "$1,600 " Chairman Mao was very resourceful when he built a seaworthy _____ out of a lot of old _____ lying around junk MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NICKNAMES "$2,000 " "The Bird--seen here--he was a national sensation in 1976" Mark Fidrych OPERA "$2,000 " "Disney World crowds might go nuts for this title knight, aka Roland, made famous by both Hande & Vivaldi" Orlando WORLD MUSEUMS "$2,000 " "It's the set of museums that includes the Museo Pio-Clementino, exhibiting sculpture" the Vatican Museums LIFE SCIENCE "$2,000 " "The 2 main types of vascular seed plants are gymnosperms & these, 80% of known green plants" angiosperms DOUBLE MEANINGS "$2,000 " "I started to _____ in the hot sun, but I had to grab the _____ out of Ed's belt so he wouldn't score a TD" flag LITERARY TITLES None "This 1954 book title refers to an impaled sow's head, an offering to the ""beast""" Lord of the Flies PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES $200 "(Jon of the Clue Crew presents from a staged office.) A replica of this man's Oval Office desk includes gifts from the Georgia Democratic Party and from Hyman Rickover, his mentor in the Navy" Jimmy Carter SPORTS LEGENDS $200 "Barry Bonds, among others, is currently trying to break this man's home run record of 755" Hank Aaron BALLET $200 "Cadets attend a dance at a girls' school in ""Graduation Ball"", a ballet set in this capital of Austria" Vienna CHECK OUT MY CRIB $200 A Black Molly or 2 would be perfect to keep this calming crib feature in your living room free from algae an aquarium MOUNTAINS $200 "The Hoosac Mountains are a range of these ""colorful"" mountains located in Vermont" the Green Mountains WORDS $200 "Chat about this in your chat room: ""chat"" is merely a shortened form of this 7-letter word" chatter PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES $400 "His presidential library is about 35 miles from the Kansas City, Missouri airport" Harry Truman SPORTS LEGENDS $400 "This 7-time Tour de France champ said the 2006 NYC Marathon was the ""hardest physical thing"" he'd ever done" Lance Armstrong BALLET $400 "The 2000 ballet ""Todo Buenos Aires"" features different interpretations of this sensual ballroom dance" the tango CHECK OUT MY CRIB $400 "Sit down in this chair with an X-shaped frame & a canvas seat, perfect for yelling, ""Quiet on the set!""" a director's chair MOUNTAINS $400 "Seen here is Tenzing Norgay, standing on the summit of this mountain ""because it's there""" Mount Everest WORDS $400 "This name for a work of art that you may carve in art class comes from the Latin for ""to carve""" sculpture PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES $600 "(Jon of the Clue Crew is at the wheel.) In 1948, George H.W. Bush and this young wife of his packed their belongings into a Studebaker and drove west to Odessa, Texas" Barbara SPORTS LEGENDS $600 "From 1984 to 1992, 2 of the 3 players who won all the NBA MVP awards" Magic Johnson & Larry Bird (& Michael Jordan) BALLET $600 "I may say ""neigh!"" if you do a pas de cheval, a ballet step that imitates this animal" a horse CHECK OUT MY CRIB $600 Chandeliers look great but nowadays don't usually use these items from which their name is derived candles MOUNTAINS $600 "The Waianae Mountains in this U.S. state rise up to 4,025-foot Mt. Kaala" Hawaii WORDS $600 "If you say, ""I'm eating a hot dog with"" this, you could mean a chopped pickle topping or just plain enjoyment" relish PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES $800 His library has a desk that's an exact replica of the one that his son was photographed under in 1963 John F. Kennedy SPORTS LEGENDS $800 In 1904 he became the first pitcher in the American League to throw a perfect game; now an award is named for him Cy Young BALLET $800 "He designed sets & costumes for ""Where the Wlid Things Are"", a ballet based on his own beloved book" Maurice Sendak CHECK OUT MY CRIB $800 "In the furniture sense, this synonym of ""pride"" is dressing table" vanity MOUNTAINS $800 The Caucusus Mountains of Eastern Europe are predominantly found in this large country Russia WORDS $800 Someone who sees a crime is an eyewitness; someone who experiences it aurally is this similar word an earwitness PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES "$1,000 " "(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Austin, Texas.) At the dedication in Austin in 1971, he said that of all the words in his presidential library, the two that best express his philosophy are ""man can""" L.B.J. SPORTS LEGENDS "$1,000 " This Czech-born woman who retired in 2006 won a record 9 Wimbledon Singles Championships Martina Navratilova BALLET "$1,000 " The Carolina Ballet debuted a 2006 work based on this stormy Shakespearean shipwreck saga The Tempest CHECK OUT MY CRIB "$1,000 " "Wanna put your feet up? How about on one of these with a ""Turkish"" name" an ottoman MOUNTAINS "$4,800 " "Geological evidence shows that this 5,000-mile mountain chain may extend south into Antarctica" the Andes WORDS "$1,000 " "The name of these small towers often seen on castles comes from Old French for ""small towers""" turrets JULY $400 "William Booth founded this charitable ""army"" on July 5, 1865 in London" The Salvation Army WHAT'S ON TV? $400 "This ""American Idol"" judge told one contestant, ""you sounded like Cher after she's been to the dentist""" Simon Cowell LAW ENFORCEMENT $400 The truant officer may come after you if you fail to do this go to school LITERATURE $400 "In chapter 52 of this novel, a boisterous crowd is gathering for Fagin's execution" Oliver Twist COMPANIES YOUNGER THAN YOU $400 "This commerce site founded in 1995 now also owns Skype, Paypal, & Shopping.com" eBay SYNONYMS $400 "As a noun, it's a synonym for ""flower"", as a verb, it's to blossom or come into one's own" bloom JULY $800 "On July 20, 1861 the Congress of the Confederate States began holding sessions in this Virginia city" Richmond WHAT'S ON TV? $800 "This ABC series set at Mode magazine is based on the hit Columbian telenovela ""Yo Soy Betty, La Fea""" Ugly Betty LAW ENFORCEMENT $800 "It's the identification procedure that uses the kind of grid seen here" a line-up LITERATURE $800 "19th c. author known for writing about a ""venerable mansion"" with ""seven acutely peaked gables""" (Nathaniel) Hawthorne COMPANIES YOUNGER THAN YOU $800 "The first name of this company's search engine was Backrub, as it analyzed the back links pointing to websites" Google SYNONYMS "$4,000 " "Synonyms for ""crowd"" include throng, flock & this word that can also mean an infatuation" a crush JULY "$4,000 " "A July 17, 1917 royal proclamation changed the name of the British royal family to this, like a castle" Windsor WHAT'S ON TV? "$1,200 " This Neil Patrick Harris sitcom is narrated through flashbacks from the future How I Met Your Mother LAW ENFORCEMENT "$1,200 " This agency's criminal justice information services div. has the fingerprints of more than 47 million people the FBI LITERATURE "$1,200 " "People from the past appear to a brother & sister in ""Rewards and Fairies"" by this author of ""The Jungle Book""" Kipling COMPANIES YOUNGER THAN YOU "$1,200 " "While a student at Northeastern, Shawn Fanning started this P2P music-sharing service that now gone legit" Napster SYNONYMS "$1,200 " "In court you won't hear a lawyer say ""remonstrance!"" but this synonym" objection JULY "$1,600 " John Adams' dying words on this date in 1826 were that Thomas Jefferson still lived; John Adams was wrong 4-Jul WHAT'S ON TV? "$1,600 " Penn Jillette hosts this NBC game show about first impressions Identity LAW ENFORCEMENT "$1,600 " "A counter-terrorism program is called ""NYPD"" this, another term for a police badge" Shield LITERATURE "$1,600 " "Modern novels with biblical titles include Jane Hamilton's ""The Book of Ruth"" & Toni Morrison's ""Song of"" him" Solomon COMPANIES YOUNGER THAN YOU "$1,600 " "After selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo! for more than $5 billion, this Dallas NBA team owner started HDNet" Mark Cuban SYNONYMS "$1,600 " "Back in the 19th century, ladies didn't faint but did this 5-letter synonym" swoon JULY "$2,000 " In July 1893 this president underwent a secret operation to remove part of his jaw due to cancer Grover Cleveland WHAT'S ON TV? "$2,000 " "In its 1st episode, citizens of a Kansas town saw a mushroom cloud on the horizon & were cut off from the outside world" Jericho LAW ENFORCEMENT "$2,000 " "Not just a remark like ""the soup's too salty"", it's a formal charge a victim can swear out, leading to an arrest" a complaint LITERATURE "$2,000 " Even Grendel would love Seamus Heaney's new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic about this title geat Beowulf COMPANIES YOUNGER THAN YOU "$2,000 " "Started in 2001, Verasun Energy has now become the second-leading producer of this alternative fuel" ethanol SYNONYMS "$2,000 " "This synonym for ""to seclude"" is also a word for part of a monastery or convent" cloister ANIMALS None "The genus of this Asian animal is Ailuropoda, & its species name, appropriately, is melanoleuca" the giant panda HISTORIC AMERICANS $200 "When asked how he became a hero, this president remarked, ""It was involuntary. They sank my boat""" John F. Kennedy NATIONAL FOODS $200 This breakfast treat with deep pockets was introduced to Americans at the 1964 World's Fair Belgian waffles THE PLANET URANUS $200 Observations by astronomer James Elliot in 1977 discovered 5 of these around Uranus rings PICTURE THIS $200 One of the first printed books with illustrations was a collection of this ancient man's fables in 1476 Aesop ALL MY Xs $200 In 1968 the MPAA rated a film adult by giving it this many Xs 1 LIVE IN TEXAS $200 "If you're on the road again in Texas, stop at Luck, this singer's world headquarters" Willie Nelson HISTORIC AMERICANS $400 At the time of her 1937 disappearance she was married to publisher George Palmer Putnam Amelia Earhart NATIONAL FOODS $400 "Thomas' is a brand of these, famed for their nooks & crannies" English muffins THE PLANET URANUS $400 "Of 84, 184 or 284, the length in years of one orbit by Uranus around the sun" 84 PICTURE THIS $400 In 1964 this first lady made the first call to inaugurate the new commercial picturephone service Lady Bird Johnson ALL MY Xs $400 "In a 2002 film, number of Xs on Vin Diesel's neck tattoo" 3 LIVE IN TEXAS $400 "In June 2002 this ""Men in Black"" agent & Texas rancher was reported to be shopping for a horse farm" Tommy Lee Jones HISTORIC AMERICANS $600 "In 1881 Louis Tiffany & others decorated the first floor of this author's mansion in Hartford, Conn." Mark Twain NATIONAL FOODS $600 This cured meat is in the classic McDonald's Egg McMuffin Canadian bacon THE PLANET URANUS $600 Uranus' 2 largest moons share their names with characters created by this author William Shakespeare PICTURE THIS $600 "In 1907 the Wall Street Journal declared Percival Lowell's photo of its ""canals"" proof of intelligent life" Mars ALL MY Xs $600 "Claudia Silva starred in an L.A.-area theater production of ""Cuatro Equis"", this many" 4 LIVE IN TEXAS $600 "This world-famous cyclist named his home in Austin ""Casa Linda"" after his mother" Lance Armstrong HISTORIC AMERICANS $800 In 1973 he resigned as governor of New York to found the Commission on Critical Choices for Americans Nelson Rockefeller NATIONAL FOODS $800 "Actually an American recipe, this condiment may have been given its name because caviar was once an ingredient" Russian dressing THE PLANET URANUS $800 In 1846 astronomers found this planet from the effects it had on Uranus' orbit Neptune PICTURE THIS $800 "Nose art, referring to pictures on the noses of these, really took off during WWII" airplanes ALL MY Xs $800 "Without getting a tic-tac-toe on ""Hollywood Squares"" you could still win a game with this many Xs" 5 LIVE IN TEXAS $800 "Man from Sugarland, Texas known as ""The Hammer"" in the U.S. House of Representatives" Tom DeLay HISTORIC AMERICANS "$1,000 " This attorney was the only representative of New York to sign the U.S. Constitution Alexander Hamilton NATIONAL FOODS "$1,200 " Its other names include Poor Knights of Windsor & Pain Perdu (lost bread) French toast THE PLANET URANUS "$1,000 " He discovered Uranus as well as 2 of its moons William Herschel PICTURE THIS "$1,000 " "The rights to 5 of Tom Kelley's red velvet photos of this actress taken in 1949 were put on eBay in 2001, but weren't sold" Marilyn Monroe ALL MY Xs "$1,000 " Maximum number of Xs that can appear on one bowler's score sheet in one game 12 LIVE IN TEXAS "$1,000 " This billionaire Texan was asked to testify on his Plano company's involvement in California's energy crisis H. Ross Perot FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $400 Jean Duvet created a series of engravings depicting the hunting of this 1-horned mythical beast unicorn ON THE GO $400 The Wright Bros.' experiments in this type of chamber in their bicycle shop led to designs of their flyer's wings wind tunnel 3-NAMED AUTHORS $400 "His novels include ""The Prairie"", ""The Pioneers"", & ""The Pathfinder""" James Fenimore Cooper HORSE SENSE $400 Golden Cloud had great pull with Roy Rogers under this stage name Trigger THE EMPEROR NERO $400 "In the year prior to his death, Nero participated in these games in Greece" Olympic Games BOO! $400 Soft woolen shoes for a baby booties FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $800 Francois Lemoyne painted the Hercules ceiling at this French palace & voila! became premier peintre du roi Versailles ON THE GO $800 "Created in 1971 as the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, it's better known by this name" Amtrak 3-NAMED AUTHORS $800 "She wrote ""Jo's Boys"" in 1886, a second sequel to her 1860s novel" Louisa May Alcott HORSE SENSE $800 "Buck, ridden by James Arness on ""Gunsmoke"", was later used by Lorne Greene on this series" Bonanza THE EMPEROR NERO $800 "Nero's indulgences included poetry, acting & racing these vehicles" chariots BOO! $800 "An illegally made product, especially a musical recording" bootleg ON THE GO "$1,200 " "(Sofia of the Clue Crew paddling a canoe) Some of the earliest canoes were this type of boat, made from a hollowed-out tree trunk" dugout canoe 3-NAMED AUTHORS "$1,200 " "This ""Ship of Fools"" author won a Pulitzer & the National Book Award for her 1965 ""Collected Stories""" Katherine Anne Porter HORSE SENSE "$1,200 " The Pie was little Liz Taylor's horse in this classic National Velvet THE EMPEROR NERO "$1,200 " "Contrary to myth, no evidence exists that Nero played a fiddle, or anything else, while this happened" while Rome burned BOO! "$1,200 " "A hidden explosive device, it sounds like a snare for a tropical seabird" boobytrap FRENCH ART & ARTISTS "$1,600 " "In 1834 Delacroix painted the lush ""Women of"" this Algerian city ""in Their Apartment""" Algiers ON THE GO "$1,600 " "Lighter than a Conestoga wagon, it was named for its white canvas covering which resembled the sails of ships" prairie schooner 3-NAMED AUTHORS "$1,600 " "The movie ""Yentl"" was based on a story by him" Isaac Bashevis Singer HORSE SENSE "$1,600 " Guy Williams rode Tornado as this hero Zorro THE EMPEROR NERO $400 "At age 16, Nero was proclaimed emperor by this military unit & immediately confirmed by the Senate" Praetorian Guard BOO! "$1,600 " A government project of little value funded to gain political favor boondoggle FRENCH ART & ARTISTS "$2,000 " Talent ran in the family: this first woman to join the Impressionists was a granddaughter of the Rococo painter Fragonard Berthe Morisot ON THE GO "$2,000 " This Newfoundland capital is the easternmost terminus of the Trans-Canada Highway St. John's 3-NAMED AUTHORS "$2,000 " "In 2001 this novelist & short story writer's ""We Were the Mulvaneys"" was chosen for Oprah's Book Club" Joyce Carol Oates HORSE SENSE "$1,200 " "Shakespeare has this king saying, ""Saddle White Surrey for the field to-morrow""" Richard III BOO! "$2,000 " "According to Lewis Carroll, the snark was one of these, you see" boojum IN THE DICTIONARY None "This 5-letter word can refer to one type of work by a composer, or to several works of different types" opera IT BORDERS JUST ONE OTHER COUNTRY $200 Canada the United States 21st CENTURY MUSIC $200 The nickname of this woman from the Black Eyed Peas is just a shortening of her last name Fergie BABY NAMES A LA SHAKESPEARE $200 "Knowing it's from the Greek for ""serpent"" might turn you off this name of a doomed lass in ""Hamlet""" Ophelia "YES, THAT'S ""WHITE""" $200 Turbulent rapids whitewater WHEN THE SAINTS $200 Santa Rosa de Lima is honored with festivals each August 30 in this country where she's patron saint Peru "COME, HO CHI MINH" $200 Ho Chi Minh is buried in this capital city Hanoi IT BORDERS JUST ONE OTHER COUNTRY $400 South Korea North Korea 21st CENTURY MUSIC $400 "The stage name of this R&B singer born Shaffer Smith is a play on the name of a character in ""The Matrix""" Ne-Yo BABY NAMES A LA SHAKESPEARE $400 "Name a girl this after the ""Merchant of Venice"" heroine & she'll probably grow up to like fast sports cars" Portia "YES, THAT'S ""WHITE""" $400 Milk with butter & flour added used as a base in cooking a white sauce WHEN THE SAINTS $400 "The site of this city, now the seat of Saint Johns County, Florida, was visited by Ponce de Leon in 1513" St. Augustine "COME, HO CHI MINH" $400 Ho Chi Minh helped start Vietnam's Communist Party & in the 1920s helped start this Eur. country's Communist Party France IT BORDERS JUST ONE OTHER COUNTRY "$1,000 " Denmark Germany 21st CENTURY MUSIC $600 "Ordinary People singer John Stephens took on this last name, the stuff that myths are made of" Legend BABY NAMES A LA SHAKESPEARE $600 "If you give your son this villainous 4-letter name from ""Othello"", you're just asking for trouble" Iago "YES, THAT'S ""WHITE""" $600 Condition of heavy snow or fog during daylight in which visibility is lost a whiteout WHEN THE SAINTS $600 You're a Slav to the study of language if you know that this alphabet bears the name of a 9th c. saint Cyrillic "COME, HO CHI MINH" $600 The trail bearing Ho's name was a series of Viet Cong supply routes mostly through this neighboring nation Laos IT BORDERS JUST ONE OTHER COUNTRY $800 San Marino Italy 21st CENTURY MUSIC $800 Icky Thump was a No. 1 modern rock hit for this duo the White Stripes BABY NAMES A LA SHAKESPEARE $800 I'd think twice about naming your daughter this; she might turn into a shrew like in the play Katherine "YES, THAT'S ""WHITE""" $800 "A chess piece, or a company involved in a friendly takeover of another" a white knight WHEN THE SAINTS $800 "It's the secret identity of the British detective known as ""The Saint""" Simon Templar "COME, HO CHI MINH" $800 "Ho Chi Minh was also known by the nickname Bac Ho, meaning this relative" uncle IT BORDERS JUST ONE OTHER COUNTRY "$1,000 " Brunei Malaysia 21st CENTURY MUSIC "$1,000 " Brothers Chad & Mike Kroeger make up half of this rock band Nickelback BABY NAMES A LA SHAKESPEARE "$1,000 " "For an eighth child, preferably a daughter, this name from ""Antony and Cleopatra"" would be fitting" Octavia "YES, THAT'S ""WHITE""" "$1,000 " Down a shot & name this 1973 Burt Reynolds movie White Lightning WHEN THE SAINTS "$1,000 " This Afro-Cuban belief system uses Catholic saints as representations of the spirit world Santería "COME, HO CHI MINH" "$1,000 " "Ho Chi Minh's real family name wasn't Ho, it was this, like many other Vietnamese" Nguyen BALLETS WE'VE NEVER ASKED ABOUT BEFORE $400 "In Jerome Robbins' ""Celebration"", couples representing 5 countries dance this, ""step for 2"" in French" pas de deux BEST MOVIE QUOTES EVER! $400 "1967: ""We rob banks""" Bonnie and Clyde 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR $400 D'Artagnan Dumas SYRIA'S EATING $400 "Syria had to wait until 2006 for an American fast food franchise, this fowl-selling one" KFC UP IN THE AIR $400 "It decreases for the first 6 miles of the atmosphere, then goes way up, way down & finally up again around 55 miles high" the temperature ABBREV. $400 "A recent, frightening addition to our world language: WMD" weapons of mass destruction BALLETS WE'VE NEVER ASKED ABOUT BEFORE $800 Fete Noire was first presented in 1971 by the fledgling dance theatre of this Manhattan area Harlem BEST MOVIE QUOTES EVER! $800 "1975: ""She turned me into a newt!""" Monty Python and the Holy Grail 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR $800 "Harry Angstrom, aka ""Rabbit""" (John) Updike SYRIA'S EATING $800 Mansaf is this favorite meat cooked in a yogurt sauce lamb UP IN THE AIR $800 Warm air flows deflected by the Earth's rotation create winds that were named this by business-minded mariners trade winds ABBREV. $800 "Since 1871, they've aimed to please: NRA" the National Rifle Association BALLETS WE'VE NEVER ASKED ABOUT BEFORE "$1,200 " "In ""Harlequinade"" the hero tries to rescue Columbine with the help of the magical ""La Bonne Fee"", this in English" the good fairy BEST MOVIE QUOTES EVER! "$1,200 " "1999: ""Get in my belly!"" (Second in a series)" Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR "$1,200 " Esmeralda & Claude Frollo (Victor) Hugo SYRIA'S EATING "$1,200 " "Sultan Ibrahim is a Mideastern name for red mullet, a type of this creature" fish UP IN THE AIR "$1,200 " "At under 6,000 feet, this 7-letter layered type of cloud is one of the lowest" stratus ABBREV. "$1,200 " Printer particular: DPI dots per inch BALLETS WE'VE NEVER ASKED ABOUT BEFORE "$1,600 " "The ballet ""Bhakti"" features 3 Hindu gods including this ""destroyer"", whose wife, Shakti, dances for him" Shiva BEST MOVIE QUOTES EVER! "$1,600 " "1999: ""Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler""" Office Space 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR "$1,600 " Catherine Earnshaw Emily Brontë SYRIA'S EATING "$1,600 " The leaves of mulukhiya resemble those of this vegetable; we hope Syrian kids don't turn up their noses at mulukhiya spinach UP IN THE AIR "$1,600 " "Pilots are leery of CAT, or clear-air this, which often occurs over mountains & around thunderstorms" turbulence ABBREV. "$1,600 " You can bank on it: FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation BALLETS WE'VE NEVER ASKED ABOUT BEFORE "$2,000 " "The 1969 ballet ""Trinity"" was inspired by the peace movement in this California university city" Berkeley BEST MOVIE QUOTES EVER! "$2,000 " "1951: ""Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above""" The African Queen 6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR "$2,000 " "Paul Baumer, a young German soldier" Erich Maria Remarque SYRIA'S EATING "$2,000 " "To make eish al-Saraya or ""Syrian dessert"" you need this preparation made by steeping petals in liquid" rosewater UP IN THE AIR "$2,000 " "From 30 to 50 miles up is this intermediate section of the atmosphere; it gets its name from the Greek for ""middle""" mesosphere ABBREV. "$4,000 " "Like NAFTA, but farther south: CAFTA" Central American Free Trade Agreement THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART None 64 paintings from the Met's founding purchase are still in its collection; over 1/3 of them are from this current European nation the Netherlands THE 23rd PSALM $200 They're the first 5 words of the psalm The Lord is my shepherd GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP $200 J.P. Hayes cost himself a 2009 spot on this tour by confessing to using an unapproved ball the PGA tour SILENCE $200 "In a silent one of these, the bids are written--none of that ""do I hear..."" business" an auction V $200 Sabin and Salk product vaccines PUSH BY SAFIRE $200 "William Safire won this prize in 1978 ""For Commentary on the Bert Lance Affair"" (""Affair"" being Lance's banking practices)" the Pulitzer MAKE IT RIGHT $200 "(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.) This actor who founded Make It Right not only pledged $5 million, but moved his large family to New Orleans & threw himself into sustainable rebuilding" Brad Pitt THE 23rd PSALM $400 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside these still waters GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP $400 In 2008 Central Wash. players of this sport carried injured Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon around the bases softball SILENCE $400 "The journal of this quiet type of institution gives an award for the one ""of the Year""; in 2010 it was in Columbus" a library V $400 A tramp or wanderer a vagabond PUSH BY SAFIRE $400 "Safire wrote, ""A president's ability to deflect charges of sleaze...aimed at his administration"" was a this-coated presidency" teflon MAKE IT RIGHT $400 "(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.) The ""E"" in insulated ""Low-E windows"" stands for this; the windows allow light through but prevent solar heat gain & block UV rays" emission THE 23rd PSALM $600 "These 2 items, ""they comfort me""" rod & staff GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP $600 Mike Bossy & Alexander Mogilny have won the Lady Byng Trophy for gentlemanly conduct in this sport hockey SILENCE "$1,500 " "The type used for a trumpet or sax is more familiar, but string instruments can be muffled with this device" a mute V $600 "A silk textile with a short, smooth surface, or the covering on deer's developing antlers" velvet PUSH BY SAFIRE $600 "In 2006 George W. Bush awarded Safire this ""presidential"" item, the highest honor given to civilians" the Medal of Freedom MAKE IT RIGHT $600 "(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.) A wood product called TimberSIL gives Make It Right homes durability; it endures, resists warping, & is a Class A fire retardant, due to being infused with this common transparent material" glass THE 23rd PSALM $800 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of these mine enemies GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP $800 "The chronicles of this hard-serving American include, in 2005, calling an opponent's shot in, costing himself the match" Andy Roddick SILENCE $800 "No cell phone use is permitted on ""quiet cars"", begun in 2000 on this service's Philly-Washington run" Amtrak V $800 9-letter word meaning to waver between courses of action vacillate PUSH BY SAFIRE $800 "Safire defined ""the proof of guilt that precipitates resignations"" as this 2-word term describing a discharged firearm" a smoking gun MAKE IT RIGHT $800 "(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.) In a flood, a float house can rise on guideposts & is actually so light that it's weighted against winds; architect Thom Mayne compares it to this 4-letter beach structure, moving with the tide" a pier THE 23rd PSALM "$1,000 " "Surely these 2 quantities ""shall follow me all the days of my life""" goodness & mercy GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP "$1,000 " "This backcourt partner of Isiah Thomas on the ""bad boys"" of Detroit won the NBA's 1st Sportsmanship Award" Joe Dumars SILENCE "$1,000 " The name of this branch of monks known for keeping silent comes from a 17th century Cistercian Abbey the Trappists V "$1,000 " 2-word legal term for preliminary examination of jurors voir dire PUSH BY SAFIRE "$1,000 " "At the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959, Safire corralled these 2 politicos into a mock kitchen & the 2 debated" Nixon & Khrushchev MAKE IT RIGHT "$1,000 " "(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.) The architects who designed Make It Right homes all used the tradition of this type of home, suited to the narrow New Orleans lots with high ceilings to let heat rise" a shotgun shack WORLD LEADERS $400 "Elected in 2008, president Dimitris Christofias of this divided island nation is the EU's only communist head of state" Cyprus "THE TREES WERE ANGRY THAT DAY, MY FRIENDS" $400 An apple tree angrily slaps the hand of a Kansas girl trying to pick from it in this film The Wizard of Oz BESTSELLERS $400 "Numerical title of Jeffrey Toobin's look ""Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court""" The Nine DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE COMPANIES $400 "There's American Express & this ""of America""" Bank PHOTOGRAPHERS $400 "In April 1875 the Library of Congress gained possession of his Civil War photographic plates for $25,000" Mathew Brady "SAY ""CHI""s" $400 Giving up your seat to the lady proves that this medieval system is not dead chivalry WORLD LEADERS $800 Lee Myung-Bak is its head of state; he makes the news a bit less often than his counterpart to the north South Korea "THE TREES WERE ANGRY THAT DAY, MY FRIENDS" $800 "In the third film of this title guy's animated series, Fiona's planned attack on 2 tree/ guards doesn't make them happy" Shrek BESTSELLERS $800 "Don Piper describes his brush with death in ""90 Minutes in"" this place" Heaven DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE COMPANIES $800 "It has a Supercenter on South 9th St. in Salina, Kansas" Walmart PHOTOGRAPHERS $800 Black photographer James Van Der Zee chronicled life in this NYC section for more than a half century Harlem "SAY ""CHI""s" $800 Part of a house that has its own professional sweep a chimney WORLD LEADERS "$1,200 " "Serzh Sargsian is its president, Tigran Sargsian is its prime minister" Armenia "THE TREES WERE ANGRY THAT DAY, MY FRIENDS" "$1,200 " "Treebeard rallies the Ents & goes after Saruman's forces in this second film in the ""Lord of the Rings"" trilogy" The Two Towers BESTSELLERS "$1,200 " "A vampire series by Kerrelyn Sparks is punningly titled ""Love at"" this" Stake DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE COMPANIES "$1,200 " "Roy E., the son of its co-founder, died in December 2009" Disney PHOTOGRAPHERS "$7,000 " "He once said that his life was ""colored and modulated by the great earth gesture of the sierra""" (Ansel) Adams "SAY ""CHI""s" "$1,200 " "In the Army today no one outranks General George W. Casey Jr., because he's this" Chief of Staff WORLD LEADERS "$1,600 " Former Sofia mayor Boyko Borissov is now its prime minister Bulgaria "THE TREES WERE ANGRY THAT DAY, MY FRIENDS" "$1,600 " "A tree snatches Robbie in this 1982 thriller known for the catchphrase ""They're heee-reee!""" Poltergeist DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE COMPANIES "$1,600 " Pfounded in 18P49 Pfizer PHOTOGRAPHERS "$1,600 " Her 1981 Rolling Stone cover shot of a nude John Lennon was taken hours before his murder Annie Leibovitz "SAY ""CHI""s" "$1,600 " "You can ""pet"" this Southwestern plant, Salvia Columbariae" a chia WORLD LEADERS "$2,000 " "It's prime minister Mr. Tuila'Epa, won a silver medal in archery at the 2007 South Pacific Games" Samoa "THE TREES WERE ANGRY THAT DAY, MY FRIENDS" "$2,000 " "In M. Night Shyamalan's ""The Happening"", the trees are mad at us, & Elliot Moore, played by him, must deal with it" (Mark) Wahlberg DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE COMPANIES "$7,000 " Its original purpose was to insure people on journeys Travelers PHOTOGRAPHERS "$2,000 " "Mattias Klum's photo essays for this magazine include 2008's ""Borneo's Moment of Truth""" National Geographic "SAY ""CHI""s" "$2,000 " Deception or trickery chicanery WORD AND PHRASE ORIGINS None "Meaning ""rapidly"", this term began in England, referring to the speed with which the mail was delivered" post haste AYE! IT'S IRELAND $100 "Also called Trinity College, the university of this capital was founded in 1592" Dublin PRESIDENTS IN THE CABINET $100 "While Secretary of State from 1811 to 1817, he might have been asked, ""What's up, doctrine?""" James Monroe TV CASTS $100 "On ""Spin City"" Michael J. Fox played Mike; this actor who replaced him plays Charlie" Charlie Sheen GRAVE MATTERS $100 "In 1995 these married physicists were laid to rest (again), this time at the Pantheon in Paris" Pierre & Marie Curie ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $100 Robert Delaunay is known for his colorful series of Cubist paintings of this French tower Eiffel Tower CELEBRITY RHYME TIME $100 Aykroyd's blueprints Dan's plans AYE! IT'S IRELAND $200 "Held each year in County Kildare, the Irish Derby is a famous event in this sport" Horse racing PRESIDENTS IN THE CABINET $200 "While Secretary of State from 1801 to 1809, he was president from 1809 to 1817" James Madison TV CASTS $200 "In 2000 this Oscar nominee joined the cast of ""Ally McBeal"" as a lawyer" "Robert Downey, Jr." GRAVE MATTERS $200 "In 2000, 25 years after his death, this country's last emperor Haile Selassie was laid to rest in a crypt in Addis Ababa" Ethiopia ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $200 Oh oh! Chauncey B. Ives depicted this mythological woman seen here on the verge of opening a box Pandora CELEBRITY RHYME TIME $200 Sajak's Stetsons & sombreros Pat's hats AYE! IT'S IRELAND $300 "Reflecting its lush, beautiful countryside. it's Ireland's gem of a nickname" The Emerald Isle PRESIDENTS IN THE CABINET $300 "Through skillful negotiation, Secretary of State Martin Van Buren got the U.S. this trade status with Turkey" Most favored nation TV CASTS $300 "Aliens abducted Mulder on ""The X-Files"", so Scully got partnered with this ""Terminator 2"" actor" Robert Patrick GRAVE MATTERS $300 It was no laughing matter when this silent film legend's body was stolen from a Swiss cemetery in 1978 Charlie Chaplin ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $300 Marcel Duchamp coined this term to describe Alexander Calder's moving sculptures Mobiles CELEBRITY RHYME TIME $300 The vistas seen from Ms. Barrymore's home Drew's views AYE! IT'S IRELAND $400 "One of Ireland's most important exports, it's also Ireland's most popular brand of stout beer" Guinness PRESIDENTS IN THE CABINET $400 "As Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams told this country to govern Florida better or cede it to the U.S." Spain TV CASTS $400 "This tap dancer has a recurring role on ""Will & Grace"" as Eric McCormack's boss" Gregory Hines GRAVE MATTERS $400 Wayne Newton hopes to find the remains of this tribal ancestor in Britain & bring them home to her native Virginia Pocahontas ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $400 Conrad Witz depicted this wealthy queen with King Solomon in the 15th C. work seen here Queen of Sheba CELEBRITY RHYME TIME $400 Harrelson's yummies Woody's goodies AYE! IT'S IRELAND $500 Ireland's national coat of arms features this traditional Irish musical instrument Harp PRESIDENTS IN THE CABINET "$1,000 " "He wasn't a Secretary of State, he was Andrew Johnson's Secretary of War in 1867 & 1868" Ulysses S. Grant TV CASTS $500 "In 2000 this rapper-turned-actor joined the cast of ""Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"" as Richard Belzer's partner" Ice-T GRAVE MATTERS $500 "Thomas Crawford's best-known work, ""Armed Liberty"", is the bronze atop the dome of this American landmark" U.S. Capitol Building ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $500 In Salzburg you can visit the graves of his parents & his wife Constanze; his own location is uncertain W.A. Mozart CELEBRITY RHYME TIME $500 Hairdresser Vidal's woodwinds Sassoon's bassoons GREEN THINGS $200 It's the body part you're said to have if you've a knack for growing plants easily a green thumb LITERARY CHARACTERS $200 "He said, ""My mother was an ape, and of course she couldn't tell me much about it""" Tarzan AVIARY $200 "Perhaps ""imitating"" Florida, in 1929 Arkansas chose this as its state bird" mockingbird NUTRITION $200 "For an active woman, 20 to 25 percent of her total calorie intake should be from this; don't go all Jack Sprat" fat MOVIE SONGS $200 "1996: ""Don't Cry For Me, Argentina""" Evita OXYMORONS $200 "The ""double"" version of this card game for one requires 2 players" solitaire GREEN THINGS $400 "After protecting this territory during WWII, the U.S. offered to buy it, but Denmark refused" Greenland LITERARY CHARACTERS "$1,000 " "In ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"", his character puts Hank Morgan to sleep for 1,300 years" Merlin AVIARY $400 Bob Hope claimed his mother saw his nose & cried that the doctor took the baby & left this bird stork NUTRITION $400 It's good to break a little this between friends--it supplies carbs & fiber bread MOVIE SONGS $400 "1995: ""Exhale (Shoop Shoop)""" Waiting to Exhale OXYMORONS $400 "In November 1996 Roy Jones, Jr. knocked down Mike McCallum & won the WBC title in this division" light-heavyweight GREEN THINGS $600 "A political party organized after the Civil War, or a piece of U.S. currency" Greenback LITERARY CHARACTERS $600 "He tells his 10-year-old sister Phoebe that he wants to be a ""catcher in the rye""" Holden Caulfield AVIARY $600 "Unit of Random House whose logo is seen here:" Bantam Books NUTRITION $600 People with hypertension should diet & limit their intake of alcohol & this chemical element sodium MOVIE SONGS $600 "1991: ""(Everything I Do) I Do It For You""" Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves OXYMORONS $600 "The American Academy of Pediatrics called smoking ""The leading cause of"" this oxymoron in the U.S." preventable death GREEN THINGS $800 "Oh yes, this North Carolina city was the birthplace of O. Henry" Greensboro LITERARY CHARACTERS $800 Emma is the first name of this title character of an 1857 Gustave Flaubert novel Madame Bovary AVIARY $800 "The ""sky"" type of this songbird, of which Shelley wrote, may be gone from Britain by 2009" skylark NUTRITION "$2,000 " "The flavonoids in this may help prevent heart disease, so a ""kiss"" a day may keep the cardiologist away" chocolate MOVIE SONGS $800 "1969: ""Everybody's Talkin'""" Midnight Cowboy OXYMORONS $800 "Roberto Benigni's film ""Life Is Beautiful"" is a beautiful example of this oxymoronic genre" tragic comedy GREEN THINGS "$1,000 " A precocious redhaired little girl is the heroine of this 1908 children's book by Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables LITERARY CHARACTERS "$1,000 " This Sinclair Lewis real estate broker is a member of the Zenith civic booster club George Babbitt NUTRITION "$1,000 " "An ounce of cheddar cheese has 200 milligrams of this, crucial to healthy bones" calcium MOVIE SONGS "$1,000 " "1985: ""We Don't Need Another Hero""" Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome SPORTS NAME ORIGINS None This racket sport takes its name from the country home of the 19th century Duke of Beaufort Badminton PSYCHOLOGY $100 "In the psychology of learning, it’s “the retention of association”; in “Cats”, it’s a showstopping song" memory MINERALS $100 "You’ll discover not gold, but a black mark, after rubbing this “gold” on porcelain" fool’s gold MOONS $100 It brings out the worst in werewolves a full moon BICYCLES $100 The woman’s bicycle without the bar was created so women could ride while wearing these a skirt GREECE $100 Goddess of wisdom for whom Athens was named Athena STUPID ANSWERS $100 It was invented in 1911 by Hans Geiger the Geiger counter PSYCHOLOGY $200 "According to psychoanalytic theory, it’s part of the personality which balances the id & superego" the ego MINERALS $200 "A scratch test won’t reveal a mineral’s allergies, but this property" hardness MOONS $200 Michael Jackson and Neil Armstrong are both experts at this the moonwalk BICYCLES $200 A German circus performer has made the Guinness record book for riding a bicycle with this distinction the smallest GREECE $200 The popular dish moussaka is layers of ground meat & this vegetable eggplant STUPID ANSWERS $200 Number of different basic shapes in a box of Post Alpha-Bits 26 PSYCHOLOGY $300 Standard test of responding to a key word with the 1st words which come to your mind word association MOONS $300 Every week Cybill Shepherd & Bruce Willis have been doing this on ABC Moonlighting BICYCLES $300 This French company is known for making fine bicycles as well as cars Peugeot GREECE $300 The mainland of Greece forms the southern part of this peninsula the Balkan Peninsula STUPID ANSWERS $300 "In 1842, Richard Owen coined this word for “dinosaur”" dinosaur PSYCHOLOGY $400 Character from group therapy on old Bob Newhart show who checked into St. Elsewhere this season Mr. Carlin MOONS "$1,000 " "Title of the following, it can be performed by a big bandleader or a nighttime Romeo" Moonlight Serenade BICYCLES $400 "In the 1984 Olympics, Alexi Grewal won a gold medal in cycling for this country" the United States GREECE $400 "By tradition, the sons in a Greek family don’t marry until this happens first" the daughters marry STUPID ANSWERS $400 Whole number equidistant from 5 & 7 6 PSYCHOLOGY $500 "Founder of “individual psychology”, he broke with Freud in 1911" Alfred Adler MOONS $500 “Moon shots” referred to home runs hit by this Dodger over short left field screen in L.A. Coliseum Wally Moon BICYCLES $500 1985 film that was a story of a “rebel & his bike” Pee Wee’s Big Adventure GREECE $500 The prosperous 5th century B.C. in Greece is better known as this the Golden Age (or the Age of Pericles) STUPID ANSWERS $500 "While Bugs was “introduced” in “Porky’s Hare Hunt”, Daffy was introduced in this cartoon" Porky’s Duck Hunt THE 1960s $200 It’s what chewable “chocks” were vitamins COMPOSERS $200 Composers known as “the 3 B’s” "Bach, Beethoven & Brahms" GOVERNMENT $200 "Until 1896, majority in this branch of Congress were 1st termers, now less than 10% are" the House of Representatives WORD ORIGINS $200 "From Dutch “kaban huis”, meaning ship’s galley, in U.S. it came to mean last car on a train" the caboose THE FUNNIES $200 Profession of Rex Morgan M.D. THE 1960s $400 "Vanishing in the ‘60s, it’s what YUkon, KLondike & VAlencia were examples of" telephone prefixes COMPOSERS $400 "In 1810, the same year as Schumann, this Polish pianist & composer was born" Chopin GOVERNMENT $400 "This council’s members are the president, vice president, sec’y of state & sec’y of defense" the National Security Council WORD ORIGINS $400 Laboratory culture dish named for the German bacteriologist who invented it a Petri dish THE FUNNIES $400 “Marmaduke” is this breed of dog a Great Dane THE 1960s $600 "Turning down ABA offer of 3,500 head of cattle & 40,000 acre ranch in 1969, he signed with NBA Bucks" Lew Alcindor (or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) COMPOSERS $600 Mendelssohn wrote a series of 49 piano pieces which were appropriately titled “Songs Without” these words GOVERNMENT $600 "He, not the Attorney General, represents the government in cases before the Supreme Court" the Solicitor General of the U.S. WORD ORIGINS $600 "Chinese for “work together”, it was motto of U.S. marine raiders in WWII" gung ho INSECTS $600 "Migration of insects thru the air is classed as active or passive, depending on use of this" wind THE FUNNIES $600 "Dolly, Jeffrey, Billy & P.J." the kids in the Family Circus THE 1960s $800 "The last #1 song of the ‘60s, it was Diana Ross’ last song with the Supremes" Someday We’ll Be Together COMPOSERS $800 Vivaldi was known as “the red priest” due to his clerical rank & this the color of his hair GOVERNMENT $800 "FDR appointed Frances Perkins, 1st woman cabinet member, to head this department" the Department of Labor WORD ORIGINS "$1,000 " "Originally a brand applied to slaves & criminals, it has come to mean a mark of disgrace" a stigma THE FUNNIES $800 "The title of this Jim Unger comic refers to everyone in it, not just a single character" Herman THE 1960s "$1,000 " "In “Understanding Media”, he explained the Dodgers move to L.A. & fishnet stockings" Marshall McLuhan COMPOSERS "$1,000 " There’s nothing fishy about his “Trout” quintet Schubert GOVERNMENT "$1,000 " "In 1966, Supreme Court ruled the 24th amendment outlawed this tax on both federal & state levels" the poll tax WORD ORIGINS "$1,000 " "Run-down part of town, from the rough forest paths along which newly-cut logs were dragged" skid row INSECTS "$1,000 " "Largest North American wasp, it hunts tarantulas like a bird of prey" the tarantula hawk THE FUNNIES "$1,000 " "Creator of “Beetle Bailey”, whose name was defined in “B.C.” as “a dead nightcrawler”" Mort Walker GAMBLING None "Next to slots, Nevada casinos make more money from this game than any other, nearly $3/4 billion in 1985" blackjack THE 1980s $100 "As many as 5,000 pro-democracy demonstrators were killed in this city's Tiananmen Square" Beijing ANIMATED FILMS $100 Pretty Belle falls for a prince who's been transformed into a monster in this 1991 film Beauty and the Beast FROG ANATOMY $100 It's divided into 3 chambers: 2 auricles & 1 ventricle the frog's heart THE BIBLE $100 "Adam & Eve sewed leaves of this tree ""together, and made themselves aprons""" the fig tree SWEET TREATS $100 These cookies were introduced by Nabisco in 1902 in a small box imprinted to look like a circus cage Animal Crackers RHYME TIME $100 A public recreation area devoid of light a dark park THE 1980s $200 Representative Jim Wright resigned this congressional office & his seat in the House Speaker of the House ANIMATED FILMS $200 Pop star Tiffany provided the voice of Judy for this film about a space-age family The Jetsons FROG ANATOMY $200 It's attached at the front of the mouth so the frog can flick it out rapidly the frog's tongue THE BIBLE $200 God guided the Israelites out of this country with a pillar of cloud by day & of fire by night Egypt SWEET TREATS $200 From 1910 to 1912 this popcorn confection came with prize coupons instead of the prizes themselves Cracker Jack RHYME TIME $200 A cloaklike garment for a gorilla an ape cape THE 1980s $300 "On Dec. 13, 1989 Pres. F.W. De Clerk met with this imprisoned African National Congress leader for the first time" Nelson Mandela ANIMATED FILMS $300 "One of the highlights of this film was Sebastian the Caribbean crab singing ""Under The Sea""" The Little Mermaid FROG ANATOMY $300 The frog stores liquid waste in this organ & can reabsorb water from it in dry times the bladder THE BIBLE $300 "John 1:29 calls Jesus this animal ""of God, which taketh away the sin of the world""" a lamb SWEET TREATS $300 "This snack cake, which turned 60 in 1990, was originally filled with banana creme, not vanilla" Twinkies RHYME TIME $300 An inexpensive Army vehicle a cheap jeep THE 1980s $400 Nicolae Ceausescu was deposed as dictator of this country & executed in 1989 Romania ANIMATED FILMS $400 Cruella de Vil was the villainess who kidnapped this title brood 101 Dalmatians FROG ANATOMY $400 The pancreas & this 3-lobed organ provide digestive enzymes a frog liver THE BIBLE $400 "This wise successor of David is also called Jedidiah, meaning ""Yahweh's beloved""" Solomon SWEET TREATS $400 "Nestle says over 125,000 tons of these chocolate chip cookies are baked in the home every year" Toll House Cookies RHYME TIME $400 "A quick, casual kiss on the nape" a neck peck THE 1980s $500 Vaclav Havel went from political prisoner to president of this country in 1989 Czechoslovakia ANIMATED FILMS $500 This 1988 film told of an orphaned baby brontosaurus named Littlefoot The Land Before Time FROG ANATOMY $500 The nictitating membrane is also called the third one of these the frog's eyelid THE BIBLE $500 God instructed Noah to use this kind of wood to build the ark gopher wood SWEET TREATS $500 "This almost cube-shaped candy was named for the developer's granddaughter, a ""hefty"" baby" Chunky RHYME TIME $500 A silent mob scene a quiet riot U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200 "Known as the ""Father of Waters"", this river drains an area of approx. 1,247,000 square miles" the Mississippi LAW & GOVERNMENT $200 "The constitution divides the government into three branches: Executive, Judicial & this" Legislative THE BYRDS & THE BEAS $200 "For her, 1st came ""All In The Family"", then came ""Maude"", the came ""The Golden Girls""" Bea Arthur DANCE $200 Some dancers get their kicks doing high kicks in this Radio City Music Hall chorus line the Rockettes HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200 It's the holiday on which the Tournament of Roses & Mummers parades usually take place New Year's Day SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $200 "In Act 1, Scene 1 of ""Macbeth"" this trio vanishes in ""the fog and filthy air""" the three witches U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400 The westernmost and northernmost points in the U.S. are both located in this state Alaska LAW & GOVERNMENT $400 A measure defeated in 1990 would have allowed states to prosecute persons who desecrated this the American flag THE BYRDS & THE BEAS $400 In 1934 he spent several months alone near the South Pole Admiral Byrd DANCE $400 19th c. women exposed their petticoats when they did this naughty French dance also known as Le Chahut the can-can HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400 "Nation Fire Prevention Week always includes October 9, the anniversary of this city's 1871 fire" Chicago SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $400 "Soon after Hamlet finishes his ""Alas, poor Yorick!"" speech he sees this woman's funeral procession" Ophelia U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600 "The Bluegrass region, an area of gently rolling pastures, covers the north central part of this state" Kentucky LAW & GOVERNMENT $800 "Though given 10 years for ratification, this amendment failed by 3 states in 1982" the Equal Rights Amendment THE BYRDS & THE BEAS $600 The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has the original illustrations she did for her many kids' books Beatrix Potter DANCE $600 "The 1786 Opera ""Una Cosa Rara"" featured one of the first of these Viennese dances" a waltz HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $600 This Jewish holiday is celebrated on the first day of the lunar month of Tishri Rosh Hashanah SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $600 "She says, ""that death's unnatural that kills for loving"" before Othello strangles her" Desdemona U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800 Lake Pontchartrain & St. Bernard Parish form part of this city's northern & southern boundaries New Orleans LAW & GOVERNMENT $800 "Because of its secretiveness, the American Party in the 1850s was also known by this name" The Know-Nothings THE BYRDS & THE BEAS $800 "He was the Senate's Minority Leader from 1980-87, then moved up to Majority Leader" Robert Byrd DANCE $800 The basic floor pattern of this elegant 17th c. French court dance evolved to resemble the letter Z the minuet HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800 "The night before the 3rd Monday in April, lanterns are hung in the steeple of this Boston church" the Old North Church SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS "$2,000 " "I am a very foolish fond old man, he tells his daughter Cordelia" King Lear U.S. GEOGRAPHY "$1,000 " "Important dams on this river include Rock Island, Rocky Reach & Grand Coulee" the Columbia River LAW & GOVERNMENT "$1,000 " In 1798 Congress passed these controversial laws dealing with foreigners & with inciting rebellion the Alien & Sedition Acts THE BYRDS & THE BEAS "$1,000 " The only country in the world today with a reigning Queen Bea the Netherlands DANCE "$1,000 " Late black choreographer whose American Dance Theatre became multiracial in the 1960s Alvin Ailey HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES "$1,000 " Medieval Europeans believed that birds begin to mate on this day St. Valentine's Day SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS "$1,000 " Portia disguises herself as a male lawyer in this play set in Italy Merchant of Venice 20th CENTURY VICE PRESIDENTS None The only VP to become president not immediately after his vice presidential term Richard Nixon "GEOGRAPH""Y""" $100 "There's an active volcano on Sicily, an island that's part of this country" Italy TELEVISION $100 "Ben Gould & Samantha Becker roam the halls of Bayside High as part of ""The New Class"" on this show" Saved By the Bell REQUIRED READING $100 "In 2 classic survival stories, it's the last name of a Swiss family & the first name of Mr. Crusoe" Robinson HOMOPHONES $100 "Rain heavily, or a tiny opening in the skin" a pour/pore YOU DO THE MATH $100 The number of items in a dozen times the number of months in a year 144 (12 x 12) ODDS & ENDS $100 "The Time Almanac states ""There is little reason to believe that the architects intended"" this ""to lean""" the Leaning Tower of Pisa "GEOGRAPH""Y""" $200 It's the largest city in Utah Salt Lake City TELEVISION $200 "The series finale of this Fox drama aired on May 17, 2000, 2 weeks after the last ""Party of Five""" "Beverly Hills, 90210" REQUIRED READING $200 "The photo seen here is on the cover of an award-winning ""photobiography"" of this man" Abraham Lincoln HOMOPHONES $200 "Masculine, or letters & packages" male/mail YOU DO THE MATH $200 The number of legs on a spider plus the number of legs on a fly 14 (8 + 6) ODDS & ENDS $200 This constellation is also called The Twins Gemini "GEOGRAPH""Y""" $300 This Scandinavian country has 2 forms of its official language -- Bokmal & Nynorsk Norway TELEVISION $300 "This wallaby's ""Modern Life"" takes place in O Town with his dog Spunky & his pal Heffer" Rocko REQUIRED READING $300 "Last name of sisters Emily & Charlotte, a 1-2 punch with ""Wuthering Heights"" & ""Jane Eyre""" Bronte HOMOPHONES $300 "A walkway between sections of seats in a theater, or a small piece of land surrounded by water" an aisle/isle YOU DO THE MATH $300 The number of sides on an octagon minus the number of sides on a hexagon 2 (8 - 6) ODDS & ENDS $300 Room of the house in which you'd normally find a four-poster the bedroom "GEOGRAPH""Y""" $400 "While many countries in Europe have been splitting up, this one got back together in 1990" Germany TELEVISION $400 Alice is the housekeeper on this classic sitcom; Sam the butcher is her boyfriend The Brady Bunch REQUIRED READING $400 "This 19th century American writer of scary stories also wrote the love poem ""Annabel Lee""" (Edgar Allan) Poe HOMOPHONES $400 "A monetary gain, or one who foretells the future" profit/prophet YOU DO THE MATH $400 "The number of days in a week times the number of ancient ""wonders of the world""" 49 (7 x 7) ODDS & ENDS $400 "To make these on your own, cube day-old bread, fry in butter, oil & garlic, then bake" croutons "GEOGRAPH""Y""" $500 The last British ship of convicts pulled into this Australian city's port in 1849 Sydney TELEVISION $500 "On this NBC sci-fi drama, genius Jarod was played by Michael T. Weiss as a man & by Ryan Merriman as a boy" The Pretender REQUIRED READING $500 "In works of mythology, Ajax was one of the heroes of this country in the Trojan War" Greece HOMOPHONES $800 "Deserve, or a large decorative vase" earn/urn YOU DO THE MATH $500 The number of events in a decathlon divided by the number of years in a decade 1 (10 / 10) ODDS & ENDS $500 Odds are 1 in 3 that the American spud you're eating was grown in this state Idaho THE SOLAR SYSTEM $200 "Neptune also has these features, including LeVerrier & Adams; only Saturn's can be seen through a small telescope" rings HISTORY IN MOVIES $200 The Quest for Camelot featured Pierce Brosnan as the voice of this Valiant Ruler King Arthur BALLET $200 A new ballet about this puppet who yearns to be a boy had it's U.S. premiere in Atlanta in 2000 Pinocchio THE SPOOKY & THE MYSTERIOUS $200 "Supposedly, President Harrison is heard in the attic & Jackson haunts the Rose Bedroom in this house" the White House TRAVEL & TOURISM $200 "If you don't mind the cold, you can pan for this metal at Tankavaara in Finland" gold QUOTATIONS $200 "In a 1961 speech he said, ""...ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man""" JFK (John F. Kennedy) THE SOLAR SYSTEM $400 "It's been estimated that this planet contains about 70% of all the material in the solar system, excluding the sun" Jupiter HISTORY IN MOVIES $400 "Kathy Bates played the real-life ""Unsinkable"" Molly Brown in this Leonardo DiCaprio adventure" Titanic BALLET $400 Scrooge is a festive holiday ballet inspired by this beloved book A Christmas Carol THE SPOOKY & THE MYSTERIOUS $400 "This ""Triangle"" near Florida has been the site of numerous maritime disasters" the Bermuda Triangle TRAVEL & TOURISM $400 "While visiting the city of Agra in this country, don't miss the Agra Fort & the Taj Mahal" India QUOTATIONS $400 "This ""Huck Finn"" author wrote ""Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example""" Mark Twain THE SOLAR SYSTEM $600 "Because of its similar size, this planet is known as Earth's ""twin""" Venus HISTORY IN MOVIES $600 The Prince of Egypt featured Ralph Fiennes as the voice of this stubborn ruler the Pharaoh BALLET $600 "In a Tchaikovsky ballet, this title character is awakened with a kiss" Sleeping Beauty THE SPOOKY & THE MYSTERIOUS $600 "It's the mysterious prehistoric structure seen here" a Stonehenge TRAVEL & TOURISM $600 The International UFO Museum & Research Center is in this New Mexico city where some say UFOs have landed Roswell QUOTATIONS $600 "This talk show host said, ""I admire, respect & adore authors"" when she was honored for her book club" Oprah THE SOLAR SYSTEM $800 "This planet has more in common with Triton, Neptune's largest moon, than it does with any of the other planets" Pluto HISTORY IN MOVIES $800 "In ""Sahara"", set in this war, German soldiers attack Humphrey Bogart at a desert oasis" World War II BALLET $800 The Nutcracker often features a pas de deux bythe prince and this fairy who rules the Kingdom of Sweets the Sugarplum Fairy THE SPOOKY & THE MYSTERIOUS $800 Thousands of years ago this legendary lost continent is believed by some to have vanished beneath the waves Atlantis TRAVEL & TOURISM $800 "To visit Abraham Lincoln's birthplace, you have to go to this U.S. state" Kentucky QUOTATIONS "$1,100 " "In 1944 she wrote in her diary, ""In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart""" Anne Frank THE SOLAR SYSTEM "$1,000 " "(All right players, take a look at the monitor, and here's Bill Nye, the Science Guy:) The dividing line between the light and the dark side of the moon is called this [puts on shades, as lights go out] ""I'll be back.""" the terminator HISTORY IN MOVIES "$1,000 " In this famous film Scarlett O'Hara doesn't let the South losing the Civil War slow her down Gone With the Wind BALLET "$1,000 " The Steadfast Tin Soldier is based on a fairy tale by this famous Dane Hans Christian Andersen THE SPOOKY & THE MYSTERIOUS "$1,000 " This large dinosaur-like creature possibly lives in a large Scottish lake near Inverness the Loch Ness Monster TRAVEL & TOURISM "$1,000 " "This British wax museum famed for its chamber of horrors now has a time-traveling ride in it, too" Madame Tussauds QUOTATIONS "$1,000 " The preamble to the U.S. Constitution begins with these 3 words We the People FAMOUS TEENAGERS None "This young man who turned 18 on June 21, 2000 has a dog named Widgeon & a younger brother named Harry" Prince William A LITERARY TOUR $200 "Head to Odense, Denmark to see his childhood home & sculptures inspired by his fairy tales" (Hans Christian) Andersen COLORFUL GROUPS $200 "They ""Wish You Were Here"": ____ Floyd" Pink UNFORESEEN FINDS $200 In 1879 this was discovered when a scientist's food was found to be sweet from the residue of a coal tar experiment saccharin THE TITANIC $200 The only country outside the British Isles where the Titanic ever anchored France WHAT'S THAT SOUND? $200 "Ports lying on the banks of this sound include Bremerton, Everett & Tacoma" Puget Sound B PREPARED $200 A non-rigid flexible dirigible blimp A LITERARY TOUR $400 "To see the Great Bed of Ware mentioned in ""Twelfth Night"", go to this museum named for a royal couple" the Victoria and Albert Museum (Victoria & Albert accepted) COLORFUL GROUPS $400 "They'd like you to ""Shake Your Money Maker"": The ____ Crowes" Black UNFORESEEN FINDS $400 G.E. scientists looking for synthetic rubber during WWII discovered this toy that lifts images off a page Silly Putty THE TITANIC $400 2 of these towered over the deck & were used as flagpoles & to string the wireless aerial masts WHAT'S THAT SOUND? $400 Block Island Sound separates Block Island from this tiny state's mainland Rhode Island B PREPARED $400 I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean is one of many lively songs in this Lerner & Loewe musical Brigadoon A LITERARY TOUR $600 "Have a homey lunch at this author's Salinas, California birthplace; it's now a restaurant" John Steinbeck COLORFUL GROUPS $600 "Leaders of a ""Seven Nation Army"": The ____ Stripes" White UNFORESEEN FINDS $600 "To spite a customer who complained the tubers were too thick, chef George Crum created what became this treat" potato chips THE TITANIC $600 "This happened between the third & fourth funnel, a fact no one knew until the Titanic was found in 1985" it broke in half WHAT'S THAT SOUND? $600 "This state's outer banks create Pamlico Sound, the largest lagoon on the East Coast of the United States" North Carolina B PREPARED $600 This period lasted from about 3500 to 1500 B.C. the Bronze Age A LITERARY TOUR $800 Chat about Lady Chatterley at this author's birthplace museum in Nottinghamshire D.H. Lawrence COLORFUL GROUPS $800 "They're ""Under The Bridge"": ____ ____ Chili Peppers" Red Hot UNFORESEEN FINDS $800 This product was born when a new 3M jet-fuel hose material spilled on shoes & made them waterproof & stain-resistant Scotchgard THE TITANIC $800 "The first warning of the iceberg came at 11:40 P.M. from Fred Fleet, the lookout in this platform high above the deck" the crow's nest WHAT'S THAT SOUND? $800 "The islands in Australia's Yampi Sound are rich in hematite, an ore of this metal" iron B PREPARED $800 This U.S. government department is abbreviated B.I.A. the Bureau of Indian Affairs A LITERARY TOUR "$1,000 " "Perhaps you'll draft your Nobel Prize acceptance speech at NYC's Algonquin Hotel, as this Mississippi man did in 1950" Faulkner COLORFUL GROUPS "$1,000 " "Hard rockers ""Burnin' For You"": ____ ____ Cult" Blue Öyster UNFORESEEN FINDS "$1,000 " The idea for this device occurred when a magnetron melted a candy bar in Raytheon engineer Percy Spencer's pocket the microwave THE TITANIC "$1,000 " "Gates prevented 700 of these passengers from getting up to the main deck, though they didn't stop Leo in the movie" third class WHAT'S THAT SOUND? "$1,000 " Antarctica's McMurdo Sound was discovered in 1841 by this Brit who has a nearby sea & ice shelf named for him (Sir James Clark) Ross B PREPARED "$1,000 " "Meaning a noisy commotion, it may derive from ""baruch habba"", a loud traditional greeting at a synagogue" brouhaha CAESAR $400 "The Arch of the Emperor Titus in Rome heralds his conquest of this city in 70 A.D., ending the Jewish revolt" Jerusalem NEWMAN'S OWN $400 "1969 film in which Paul Newman tells Robert Redford, ""Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals""" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid CATALINA $400 "(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from near a fountain on Catalina Island, CA.) In 1919 this chewing gum magnate bought Catalina & built it into a world-class resort" (William) Wrigley CRAFT $400 Saddler's pliers were created for gripping this material leather ITALIAN $400 "Parla come mangi, literally ""speak the way you"" do this, means to speak simply & clearly" eat DRESSING $400 "Traditional Highland dress includes a wide belt, presumably holding up this" a kilt CAESAR $800 He was caesar & emperor when Jesus was born Augustus NEWMAN'S OWN $800 Newman played Brick opposite Liz Taylor's Maggie in this film adaptation of a play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof CATALINA $800 "Movies shot on Catalina include this 1935 Oscar winner starring Clark Gable & Charles Laughton" Mutiny on the Bounty CRAFT $800 "This word for a step in sewing a garment is also found paired with ""hawing""" hemming ITALIAN $800 "Literally ""good day"", it's the basic Italian hello" buon giorno DRESSING $800 "The hour for mixed drinks, or the type of short evening dress appropriate then" cocktail CAESAR "$4,000 " "AKA the Flavian Amphitheatre, this ancient structure was begun by the Roman emperor Vespasian around 72 A.D." the Colosseum NEWMAN'S OWN "$1,200 " "Paul Newman played ""Fast"" Eddie Felson in these 2 movies" The Hustler & The Color of Money CATALINA "$1,200 " "(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a hillside on Catalina Island, CA.) One of Catalina's most famous residents was this author of ""Riders of the Purple Sage"", who built a home here in 1926" (Zane) Grey CRAFT "$1,200 " "If you apply pieces of one material to another, you're practicing this craft, from the French for ""apply""" appliqué ITALIAN "$1,200 " "The divine ""Don Giovanni"" duet ""La ci darem la mano"" means ""There, you'll give me"" this" your hand DRESSING "$7,000 " In 1953 the Witty Brothers promoted the first suit made of this by having a model wear it for 67 straight days polyester CAESAR "$1,600 " "According to legend, this unhinged Roman emperor made his horse a priest & a consul" Caligula NEWMAN'S OWN "$1,600 " Film in which washed-up lawyer Newman redeems himself by taking a medical malpractice case to trial The Verdict CATALINA "$1,600 " Catalina had Southern Calif.'s first golf course; from 1931 to 1955 it hosted a tournament named for this Ga. great Bobby Jones CRAFT "$1,600 " "With drying, drilling & maybe decorating, a gourd can be made into one of these, perhaps for a purple martin" a birdhouse ITALIAN "$1,600 " "From an Italian word for ""grape stalk"", it's brandy distilled from the remains of grapes after pressing" grappa DRESSING "$1,600 " "2-word, somewhat contradictory-sounding term for the NBA's player dress code that allows dress slacks or khakis" business casual CAESAR "$2,000 " "The chief figure in 2 books by Robert Graves, this emperor may have been poisoned by his fourth wife" Claudius NEWMAN'S OWN "$2,000 " Newman played Irish mob boss John Rooney in Depression-era Chicago in this 2002 film Road to Perdition CATALINA "$2,000 " "(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from on high on Catalina Island, CA.) Catalina's only city shares its name with this island of the King Arthur legends" Avalon CRAFT "$2,000 " The tole type of this decorative activity was originally done on tin utensils but now uses lots of surfaces painting ITALIAN "$2,000 " "If you're not going sinistra or destra, you're going sempre diritto, meaning this" always straight DRESSING "$2,000 " "Scarlett O'Hara is introduced wearing a ""tightly fitting basque"", this upper part of a dress" the bodice WORLD CAPITALS None "Started in 1988 for this city's 75th anniversary, a Springtime Flower Festival in September shows off its Commonwealth Park" "Canberra, Australia" ISRAEL $200 "If you're getting engaged, consider a visit to Netanya, a world center for cutting & polishing these" diamonds ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $200 A holiday standard: key rut turkey FRANCIS SCOTT KEY $200 "Washingtonians refer to the Francis Scott Key Bridge over this river as ""The Car-Strangled Spanner""" the Potomac I'LL MAKE A NOTE OF IT $200 "In astrological notation, this sign is represented by 2 fish" Pisces FOOD CHAIN $200 In 1979 this chain introduced its Happy Meal McDonald's HARRISON FORD MOVIES $200 Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes? Raiders of the Lost Ark ISRAEL $400 "Sde Boker, one of these cooperative communities, was the retirement home of first prime minister David Ben-Gurion" kibbutz ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $400 A big African: to Chris ostrich FRANCIS SCOTT KEY $400 Part of Key's solution to this problem was helping found the American Colonization Society slavery I'LL MAKE A NOTE OF IT $400 (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the chalkboard) It's the classic game being represented here chess FOOD CHAIN $400 P.F. Chang's is an upscale bistro specializing in the cuisine of this country China HARRISON FORD MOVIES $400 Get off my plane! Air Force One ISRAEL $600 "This port city on & around Mount Carmel has been compared to San Francisco, its sister city" Haifa ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $600 A head-banger: cowpoke red woodpecker FRANCIS SCOTT KEY $600 "Sent to this city in September 1814 to secure a prisoner exchange, Key got stuck near there during an attack" Baltimore I'LL MAKE A NOTE OF IT $600 In the 1800s this Frenchman also developed a musical notation system for blind musicians Louis Braille FOOD CHAIN $600 "Offering ""Home Style Meals"" & a line of frozen entrees, this chain is headquartered in Colorado, not Massachusetts" Boston Market HARRISON FORD MOVIES $600 I didn't kill my wife! The Fugitive ISRAEL $800 "In 1961 this Israeli airline set a record for the longest nonstop commercial flight, New York to Tel Aviv" El Al ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $800 A city dweller: ego nip pigeon FRANCIS SCOTT KEY $800 James Lick of observatory fame was responsible for the Key Memorial in this San Francisco park Golden Gate Park I'LL MAKE A NOTE OF IT "$1,200 " In physics notation the speed of light is symbolized by this letter in lower case c FOOD CHAIN $800 "Dip Into Something Different at the Melting Pot, found across the nation, & specializing in this Swiss dish" fondue HARRISON FORD MOVIES $800 Replicants are like any other machine -- they're either a benefit or a hazard Blade Runner ISRAEL "$1,000 " "Home to spectacular ruins, Caesarea was founded around 20 B.C. & named for this Caesar" Augustus ANAGRAMMED BIRDS "$1,000 " A front yard favorite: I'm no flag flamingo FRANCIS SCOTT KEY "$1,000 " Key's brother-in-law & law partner Roger B. Taney served as this from 1836 to 1864 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court I'LL MAKE A NOTE OF IT "$1,000 " "Named for its inventor, Labanotation is a notation system for this so you know when to do a fouette" dance FOOD CHAIN "$1,000 " "Featuring the Famous Bloomin' Onion, this restaurant also offers a Joey Menu for kids" Outback HARRISON FORD MOVIES "$1,000 " Something wrong with buttons?...got anything against zippers? Witness THE PRODUCERS $400 This central state produces more cheese than any other Wisconsin HAIRY $400 "This term for a knight's apprentice is also the name of a bobbed, usually jaw-length hairstyle" page boy LISA $400 She's played Phoebe Buffay on one primetime series & Phoebe's twin sister Ursula on another Lisa Kudrow ROCK-Y $400 An area in Central Park dedicated to the memory of John Lennon is named for this Beatles song Strawberry Fields Forever GEHRY $400 "Though he's lived for many years in the U.S., architect Frank Gehry was born in this Ontario city of 4.5 million" Toronto "I'M ""L__X""" $400 It's a shorter way of saying Los Angeles International Airport LAX THE PRODUCERS $800 This state produces more lobsters than any other Maine HAIRY $800 This female ice skater lent her name to a wedge haircut she made popular during the 1976 Winter Olympics Dorothy Hamill LISA $800 "In 1983 Apple introduced the Lisa personal computer, the first PC with one of these controls" a mouse ROCK-Y $800 "Michael Stipe formed this ""Man on the Moon"" band in Athens, Georgia" R.E.M. GEHRY $800 "Frank Gehry's ""Easy Edges"" line built furniture out of this stuff in which your furniture usually arrives" cardboard "I'M ""L__X""" $800 "From Middle High German, this Yiddish word means ""salmon""" lox THE PRODUCERS "$1,200 " Orange you glad to know that this state leads the U.S. in citrus production Florida HAIRY "$1,200 " "Dudes, it's the ""fishy"" hairstyle worn by David Spade in ""Joe Dirt""" the mullet LISA "$1,200 " Lisa Guerrero is the sideline reporter for this popular weekly sports event Monday Night Football ROCK-Y "$1,200 " "1984's ""Jump"" was the first No. 1 hit for this group that features brothers Alex & Eddie" Van Halen GEHRY "$1,200 " The Gehry-designed Nationale Nederlanden Building is informally known as this film dancing pair Fred & Ginger "I'M ""L__X""" "$1,200 " "This ""Tax"" is found on a Monopoly board" Luxury Tax THE PRODUCERS "$1,600 " It leads the states in apple production Washington HAIRY "$1,400 " The short hairstyles worn by the men who fought the Cavaliers in 17th C. England earned them this name the Roundheads LISA "$1,600 " She's the popular sports celebrity seen here Lisa Leslie ROCK-Y "$3,000 " The title of Falco's biggest hit mentions this fellow Austrian musician "Mozart (""Rock Me Amadeus"")" GEHRY "$1,600 " The Guggenheim Museum in this city of Spain's Basque region is one of the best-known structures designed by Gehry Bilbao "I'M ""L__X""" "$1,600 " This city of east central Egypt is the southern half of the site of ancient Thebes Luxor THE PRODUCERS "$2,000 " This West Coast state procuces the most wind-generated energy California HAIRY "$2,000 " "From the Latin for ""to clip"", it's the shaved patch on the crowns of the heads of some monks" tonsure LISA "$2,000 " In 1997 Lisa Pollak won a Pulitzer Prize reporting for this Baltimore newspaper where H.L. Mencken once worked the Baltimore Sun ROCK-Y "$2,000 " "His innovations include multitrack recording, overdubbing & the solid-body electric guitar" Les Paul GEHRY "$2,000 " "In 1989 Gehry was awarded this prize commonly referred to as ""The Nobel of Architecture""" The Pritzker Prize "I'M ""L__X""" "$2,000 " "From the Greek for ""of words"", it's all the words belonging to a particular branch of knowledge" lexicon FAMOUS NAMES None "A grandson of Man O' War, he defeated his uncle in a famous matchup November 1, 1938" Seabiscuit ANATOMY $200 This transparent membrane in the eye covers the iris & has no blood vessels the cornea "DUDE, YOU'RE A SONG!" $200 "...don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better" Jude ALWAYS SAY NEVER $200 "There's an old expression that says these ""never prosper""; remember that" cheaters L____O $200 "It's a long rope with a loop on one end, used to rope cattle" a lasso AN ARTHUR BEE $200 He followed Garfield as president Chester Arthur THEN THERE'S MAUVE $200 The mauve flowers of the Paulownia tree adorn the highest grade of the Order of the Rising Sun award of this country Japan ANATOMY $400 "This vein's name comes from the Latin for ""collarbone""" the jugular "DUDE, YOU'RE A SONG!" $400 "...and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more" Jack ALWAYS SAY NEVER $400 "Line that precedes ""they simply fade away"" in a British army song" Old soldiers never die L____O $400 "This term for the sex drive comes from the Latin for ""lust""" libido AN ARTHUR BEE $400 "Go to Flushing Meadows & see the 22,547-capacity stadium named for this man" Arthur Ashe THEN THERE'S MAUVE $400 "First obtained from aniline, the color mauve was the first commercially successful synthetic this" a dye ANATOMY $600 "The head of the femur fits into the acetabulum, a socket in this pelvic bone" the hip bone "DUDE, YOU'RE A SONG!" $600 "There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood, where lived a country boy named..." Johnny B. Goode ALWAYS SAY NEVER $600 "He that fights and runs away may these 5 words ""but he that is in battle slain will never rise to fight again""" live to fight another day L____O $600 How low can you go? Perhaps to this place on the border of heaven or hell limbo AN ARTHUR BEE $600 His father was Uther Pendragon King Arthur THEN THERE'S MAUVE $600 "Not much mauve but lots of gray in the paintings of Anton Mauve, a member of The Hague school in this country" the Netherlands ANATOMY "$1,000 " The base of the fibula forms the outer projection of this joint the ankle "DUDE, YOU'RE A SONG!" $800 "Trouble ahead, trouble behind, and you know that notion just crossed my mind (Now we see who's the Deadhead)" Casey Jones ALWAYS SAY NEVER $800 "In his ""Ballad of East and West"", this Brit wrote, ""east is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet""" (Rudyard) Kipling L____O $800 "The opposite of staccato, it's a direction to play music smoothly" legato AN ARTHUR BEE $800 "Author of ""3001: The Final Odyssey""" Arthur C. Clarke THEN THERE'S MAUVE $800 Bella Donna Mauve is in the Color Riche line of these made by L'Oreal lipsticks ANATOMY "$1,000 " "A ringlike muscle called the pyloric sphincter lies at the end of this, leading into the duodenum" the stomach "DUDE, YOU'RE A SONG!" "$1,000 " "In a Pearl Jam tune this boy ""spoke in class today""" Jeremy ALWAYS SAY NEVER "$1,000 " "Shelley said of this, ""Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert!""; Wordsworth said they ""soar but never roam""" a skylark L____O "$1,000 " "This term for any man who seduces & deceives women comes from a character in the 18th century play ""The Fair Penitent""" lothario AN ARTHUR BEE "$1,000 " For 50 seasons this Boston-born man was director of the Boston Pops Arthur Fiedler THEN THERE'S MAUVE "$1,000 " Madame de Mauves was an 1874 novel by this expatriate American Henry James ISLANDS $400 These islands famous for their ponies form the northernmost part of Scotland the Shetlands CALENDAR GIRLS $400 "Donna Douglas played this ""Beverly Hillbillies"" gal on TV & Erika Eleniak played her in the 1993 movie" Elly May 19th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK $400 "This imposing American landmark is seen here as it looked in 1876" the Washington Monument POLITICAL TALK $400 "Lincoln once said not to ""swap"" these ""while crossing a stream""" horses BORN IN DUBLIN $400 "After the Battle of Waterloo, he said, ""Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won""" Wellington "CALL ME A""LEX""" $400 3 housing units all under one roof a triplex ISLANDS $800 "Portuguese sailors originally named this island in the South China Sea Ilha Formosa, ""beautiful island""" Taiwan CALENDAR GIRLS $800 "In 1963 she co-wrote ""Ring of Fire"" with Merle Kilgore" (June) Carter (Cash) 19th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK $800 "Successful ""Little"" author seen here" (Louisa May) Alcott POLITICAL TALK $800 "This type of ""son"" holds a state's convention votes together but is not a serious candidate for presidency" a favorite son BORN IN DUBLIN $800 John Millington Synge wasn't born on Dublin's Synge St.; this other 3-named playwright was George Bernard Shaw "CALL ME A""LEX""" $800 Adjective meaning able to bend & snap back readily without breaking flexible ISLANDS "$1,200 " "The Leeward Islands are among the ""Lesser"" of these islands; Cuba & Jamaica are among the ""Greater""" the Antilles CALENDAR GIRLS "$1,200 " "Patricia Clarkson was nominated for an Oscar for ""Pieces of"" this title gal played by Katie Holmes" April (Burns) 19th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK "$1,200 " "Future leader of the UK seen here on the right in the 1880s" Churchill POLITICAL TALK "$1,200 " "A ""strict"" one of these 15-letter words tends to interpret the Constitution literally" a constructionist BORN IN DUBLIN "$1,200 " "This red-haired beauty born in the Dublin suburb of Ranelagh played Natalie Wood's mother in ""Miracle on 34th Street""" Maureen O'Hara "CALL ME A""LEX""" "$1,200 " "By profession, Noah Webster was one of these" a lexicographer ISLANDS "$1,600 " In the Caribbean this island is partnered with Nevis St. Kitts CALENDAR GIRLS "$1,600 " "This MGM star and wife of Dick Powell is seen here" June Allyson 19th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK "$1,600 " "This Russian seen here set the table for future chemists" Mendeleyev POLITICAL TALK "$5,000 " "According to the League of Women Voters, an ""empty chair"" one of these should be canceled" debates BORN IN DUBLIN "$1,600 " "His first major satire, ""A Tale of a Tub"", was published in 1704" Swift "CALL ME A""LEX""" "$1,600 " Elaborate in structure or by nature complex ISLANDS "$3,000 " "(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Because they surround Delos, the sacred birthplace of Apollo & Artemis, this island group derives its name from the Greek word for ""circle""" the Cyclades CALENDAR GIRLS "$2,000 " "Pernilla August once worked with Ingmar Bergman, but we know her best for playing Shmi in the fourth film in this series" the Star Wars series 19th CENTURY SCRAPBOOK "$2,000 " "Pictured here around 1890, he was the original ""iron"" man" (Otto von) Bismarck POLITICAL TALK "$2,000 " Saddle up & give us this 5-letter term for an added provision that may not be germane to the purpose of a bill a rider BORN IN DUBLIN "$2,000 " "This ""Babes in Toyland"" composer helped found the organization ASCAP in 1914" Victor Herbert "CALL ME A""LEX""" "$2,000 " A light transparent weather-resistant man-made thermoplastic Plexiglas LITERATURE OF THE 1800s None "This character said, ""I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me""" Ebenezer Scrooge ANATOMY $200 "The layers of the skin are the epi-this, the this & the hypo-this" the dermis SPORTS FACTS $200 "This Giants outfielder is the only player in history to receive the MVP award 4 consecutive years, 2001 to 2004" (Barry) Bonds BRAND-TASTIC $200 "Barry Manilow wrote the jingle that had us ""stuck on"" this brand" Band-Aid APT ANAGRAMS $200 "It's decorated in December: SEARCH, SET, TRIM" Christmas tree A THOMAS GUIDE $200 "He obtained 1,093 patents, the most the U.S. Patent Office has ever issued to one person" (Thomas) Edison IT'S AN L.A. THING $200 "Wanna live in this city, 90210? in July 2008 the median home price there was $2.3 million" Beverly Hills ANATOMY $400 "The uvea, the eye's middle layer, includes this contractile diaphragm, the colored part of the eye" the iris SPORTS FACTS $400 In 1980 this boxer came out of retirement to fight Larry Holmes & then Trevor Berbick; he lost both bouts (Muhammad) Ali BRAND-TASTIC $400 "In 1932 George Blaisdell developed this cigarette lighter in Bradford, Pennsylvania" Zippo APT ANAGRAMS $400 "A ""high"" time in art: SIENNA ACRES" Renaissance A THOMAS GUIDE $400 In 1989 George H.W. Bush appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Clarence Thomas IT'S AN L.A. THING $400 "Originally the letters in this landmark were 30 feet wide & 50 feet tall, & had 4,000 20-watt light bulbs" the Hollywood sign ANATOMY $600 "Each wrist has 8 of these bones, also the name of a tunnel in the wrist" the carpals SPORTS FACTS $600 In 1962 this country's Dawn Fraser became the first woman swimmer to break one minute in the 100-meter freestyle Australia BRAND-TASTIC $600 Dr. Joseph Lawrence & Jordan Lambert invented this bad-breath-busting product in 1879 Listerine APT ANAGRAMS $600 "A Texan battle cry: A MEMORABLE TERM, EH?" Remember the Alamo A THOMAS GUIDE "$1,000 " "In 1952 this poet told us to ""Rage, rage against the dying of the light""" Dylan Thomas IT'S AN L.A. THING $600 "Good times are Bruin in this district, home to UCLA, where John Wooden was a ""wizard""" Westwood ANATOMY $800 "(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor, then puts her heel down.) The soleus and gastrocnemius, two major muscles of the calf, act like a lever system with this largest tendon to lift or lower the heel" the Achilles tendon SPORTS FACTS $800 "In the 1960s he won 7 major tournaments, more than any other golfer" (Jack) Nicklaus BRAND-TASTIC $800 This yogurt brand is named for founder Isaac Carasso's son Daniel Dannon APT ANAGRAMS $800 "He co-wrote ""South Pacific"": MASS ROMANTIC HERE" Oscar Hammerstein A THOMAS GUIDE $800 "His 1947 novel ""Doctor Faustus"" symbolically paralleled the rise of Nazism" Thomas Mann IT'S AN L.A. THING $800 "You can hit the Comedy Store, House of Blues, Whisky A Go Go & the Viper Room on this ""strip"" of L.A." Sunset Strip ANATOMY "$1,000 " "Familiar to pitchers, the group of muscles called this includes the subscapularis muscle" the rotator cuff SPORTS FACTS "$1,000 " Iowa state's Dan Gable won 2 NCAA titles in this sport & then coached Iowa to 15 team titles from1978 to 1997 wrestling BRAND-TASTIC "$1,000 " "The logo of this outdoor brand is seen here" Coleman APT ANAGRAMS "$1,000 " This Internet service was big in the '90s: I ONCE RAN EMAIL America Online A THOMAS GUIDE "$1,000 " "This late medieval Christian spiritual writer is the probable author of ""Imitation of Christ""" Thomas à Kempis IT'S AN L.A. THING "$1,000 " "Originally called ""Nuestro Pueblo"" by the artist, it's the L.A. landmark seen here" the Watts Towers WHO'S ON FIRST? $400 "In many cities ""Jeopardy!"" leads into this sister show" Wheel of Fortune NORSE MYTHOLOGY $400 "The Norns are counterparts of the Fates: Urd represents the past; Verdandi & Skuld, these 2 things" the present & the future GIVE THE BUCHAREST $400 Times change: in 1990 a statue of this Russian was removed from a Bucharest square after 3 decades there Lenin IT'S ALL ABOUT ME $400 Excessive self-contemplation is called this anatomical gazing navel BARD BITS $400 "Mark Antony called him ""the noblest Roman of them all""" Brutus "CROSSWORD CLUES ""R""" $400 A stuffed pasta pocket (7) a ravioli WHO'S ON FIRST? $800 "I pity the fool who doesn't know that this show led into ""Remington Steele"" on NBC's 1983-84 schedule" The A-Team NORSE MYTHOLOGY $800 Hymir was really hammered by the hammer of this god Thor GIVE THE BUCHAREST $800 1913's treaty of Bucharest ended the second of these peninsular wars the Balkan Wars IT'S ALL ABOUT ME $800 "Self, launched in 1979, is one of these" a (women's) magazine BARD BITS $800 "In the first line of ""Twelfth Night"", this is described as the ""food of love""" music "CROSSWORD CLUES ""R""" $800 "Beam, beacon & frequency preceder (5)" radar (or radio) WHO'S ON FIRST? "$1,200 " "Sundays from 1984 to 1995, ""60 Minutes"" led into this CBS crime drama--guess Jessica finally got tired of writing" "Murder, She Wrote" NORSE MYTHOLOGY "$1,200 " "The name Midgard, the world of humans, can be translated as this, a place familiar to Tolkien" Middle Earth GIVE THE BUCHAREST "$1,200 " "In 1977 one of these phenomena devastated Bucharest, killing about 1,500 people" an earthquake IT'S ALL ABOUT ME "$1,200 " "Albrecht Durer's first known drawing, done at the age of 13, was one of these artistic efforts" a self-portrait BARD BITS "$1,200 " "In ""Henry VIII"" this cardinal bids ""a long farewell to all my greatness""" Cardinal Wolsey "CROSSWORD CLUES ""R""" "$1,200 " Room or building in the round (7) rotunda WHO'S ON FIRST? "$1,492 " "On Mondays in 1970, something called ""The Silent Force"" led into this longer-running ABC program" Monday Night Football NORSE MYTHOLOGY "$1,600 " Laerad is the great tree around which this hall of the slain was built Valhalla GIVE THE BUCHAREST "$1,600 " "This star of 1937's ""The Last Gangster"" was born Emanuel Goldenberg in Bucharest, Romania" Edward G. Robinson IT'S ALL ABOUT ME "$1,600 " "Self-referential prefix before -didact, -suggestion & -biography" auto BARD BITS "$1,600 " Much of the action takes place in the court of the Duke of Milan in this play with another Italian locale in its title Two Gentlemen of Verona "CROSSWORD CLUES ""R""" $700 "Boat race, Italian style (7)" regatta WHO'S ON FIRST? "$2,000 " "For the 2000-2001 season, ""The Simpsons"" led into this show that led into ""The X-Files""--you might say it was..." Malcolm In The Middle NORSE MYTHOLOGY "$2,000 " This mischief-maker was up to his old tricks when he stole Freya's necklace Loki GIVE THE BUCHAREST "$2,000 " In 1659 Bucharest became the capital of this principality Wallachia IT'S ALL ABOUT ME "$2,000 " "Per the ""American Psychiatric Glossary"", this mania is ""pathological preoccupation with self""" egomania BARD BITS "$2,000 " "Comparing ""thee to a summer's day"" in sonnet 18, the bard realizes that ""Thou art more lovely and more"" this" temperate "CROSSWORD CLUES ""R""" "$2,000 " South American ostrich cousin (4) a rhea CIVIL WAR PEOPLE None He was the only person who died during the Civil War to be featured on Confederate currency Stonewall Jackson NOTED EUROPEANS $200 "In 1863, this man from Wuppertal started a dye company that evolved into an aspirin-making giant" (Friedrich) Bayer AT THE MOVIES $200 1980: Jake LaMotta battles his way to the middleweight title Raging Bull THE HIGHEST-SCORING SCRABBLE WORD $200 "Hell, heaven or limbo" heaven AMERICAN COUNTIES $200 All the letters in this state's name are found in the name of its Uintah County Utah SATURDAY $200 "In 1916, he sold his first of more than 300 Saturday Evening Post covers" (Norman) Rockwell NIGHT $200 "A bedtime nip of alcohol, or the second game of a doubleheader" a nightcap NOTED EUROPEANS $400 "On the 50th anniv. of Bunker Hill, this European was back on our shores to lay the monument's cornerstone" Lafayette AT THE MOVIES $400 "1967: That's the sound of Newman working on the chain gang" Cool Hand Luke THE HIGHEST-SCORING SCRABBLE WORD $400 "Vow, knight or grail" knight AMERICAN COUNTIES $400 "Ogemaw, Saginaw & Washtenaw are all counties in this state" Michigan SATURDAY $400 "In a classic ""SNL"" skit, Laraine Newman found this NYC landmark less than packed when covering the Jewish New Year" Times Square NIGHT $400 "Thrush to judgment and name this type of bird seen here" a nightingale NOTED EUROPEANS $600 "(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Gdansk, Poland.) Few noticed him start in 1967 as a Gdansk shipyard electrician, but many noticed him in 1980 when he became the leader of Solidarity" Lech Wałęsa AT THE MOVIES $600 2002: A young Maori girl defies tradition & mounts a cetacean Whale Rider THE HIGHEST-SCORING SCRABBLE WORD $600 "Happy, snappy or pappy" happy AMERICAN COUNTIES $400 Name shared by the counties in which you'll find Disneyland & Disney World Orange (County) SATURDAY $600 "Established in 1875, this Louisville event is run annually on the first Saturday in May" the Kentucky Derby NIGHT $600 "Any of the various plants of the family Solanaceae; some may be ""deadly""" nightshades NOTED EUROPEANS $800 "Giuseppina Strepponi, a prima donna in ""Nabucco"", married this famous Giuseppe in 1859" Verdi AT THE MOVIES $800 "1977: After an experience with a UFO, an electric-line worker is drawn to a remote mountain" Close Encounters of the Third Kind THE HIGHEST-SCORING SCRABBLE WORD $800 "Cozy, wax or quilt" cozy AMERICAN COUNTIES $800 This state's Norfolk County disappeared in 1963 when it became part of the city of Chesapeake Virginia SATURDAY $800 "Founded in 1932 as The Palestine Post, this morning paper appears daily, except for Saturday" The Jerusalem Post NIGHT $800 "Get to the Bottom of this Shakespeare play, published in 1600" A Midsummer Night's Dream NOTED EUROPEANS "$1,000 " "Although this king had already reigned for fifty-eight years, he's seen here in his coronation robes to add majesty." Louis XIV AT THE MOVIES "$1,000 " 2005: A group of teenage chicks share some trousers The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants THE HIGHEST-SCORING SCRABBLE WORD "$1,000 " "Fad, dad or glad" fad AMERICAN COUNTIES "$1,000 " "While many states have counties named Lincoln, this is the only state that has one named Snohomish" Washington SATURDAY "$1,000 " "At age 3, as Bubbles Silverman, this opera star sang on a Sat. morning radio show, ""Uncle Bob's Rainbow House""" Beverly Sills NIGHT "$1,000 " Timely 5-word nickname that describes Scandinavia north of the Arctic Circle Land of the Midnight Sun SHIPS $400 "On May 7, 1915 German submarine commander Walter Schweiger gave the command to torpedo this British liner" the Lusitania THE MUSICAL DR. IS IN $400 This rapper & producer co-founded N.W.A. & is the stepbrother of Warren G Dr. Dre "LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES ""L""" $400 "Delicious ""Doone"" damsel (5)" Lorna 14:59 $400 This government employee was in the spotlight in the late 1990s for her conduct as a girlfriend of Monica Lewinsky Linda Tripp RELIGION $400 "The Talmud says ""when"" this ""goes in, secrets are revealed"" & on the Sabbath, Kiddush is said over a cup of it" wine FROM THE FRENCH $400 "This type of needlework gets its name from the French for ""hook""" crochet SHIPS $800 In 1717 this pirate captured La Concorde & renamed it Queen Anne's Revenge; a year later it ran aground off N.C. Edward Teach (Blackbeard) THE MUSICAL DR. IS IN $800 "Doctor, doctor, give me the news, I've got this Robert Palmer title affliction" Bad Case Of Loving You "LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES ""L""" $800 "Jack's ""capital"" surname (6)" London 14:59 $800 "Before her 15 minutes expired, this gal who got mixed up with televangelist Jim Bakker got onto Playboy's cover" Jessica Hahn RELIGION $800 "In this Asian religion, a lohan is not an actress but a holy person, & monasteries have images of lohans" Buddhism FROM THE FRENCH $800 "This word for any style of cooking is from the French for ""kitchen""" cuisine SHIPS "$1,200 " The 1st ship built in the colonies by English settlers was built in 1607 on the Kennebec River in what is now this state Maine THE MUSICAL DR. IS IN "$1,200 " "He dealt with ophthalmological issues in the 1972 hit ""Doctor My Eyes""" Jackson Browne "LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES ""L""" "$1,200 " "A singable poem, perhaps ""of the Last Minstrel"" (3)" lay 14:59 "$1,200 " "The joke's over, said Simon Cowell about this ""American Idol"" singer with a unique rendition of ""She Bangs""" William Hung RELIGION "$1,200 " The Southern Convention of this denomination split from the Yankees in 1845 the Baptists FROM THE FRENCH "$1,200 " "A term for a keepsake or memento, it comes from the French for ""to remember""" souvenir SHIPS "$1,600 " "The flagship of Oliver Hazard Perry was named for this captain who said, ""Don't give up the ship""" James Lawrence THE MUSICAL DR. IS IN "$1,600 " "The ""Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits"" describes this ""Right Place Wrong Time"" man as a ""swamp-rock singer/pianist""" Dr. John "LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES ""L""" "$1,600 " Imagist Amy (6) Lowell 14:59 "$3,000 " "Perhaps knowing her time was nigh, she asked President Bush to be removed as a Supreme Court nominee" Harriet Miers RELIGION "$3,000 " This 13th century Italian theologian was born in Roccasecca near the town of Aquino St. Thomas Aquinas FROM THE FRENCH "$1,600 " "This light tannish color gets its name from the French for ""raw"", as in raw vegetables" ecru SHIPS "$2,000 " "In 1994, 9 years after it was hijacked by PLF members, this Italian cruise ship burned & sank in the Indian Ocean" Achille Lauro THE MUSICAL DR. IS IN "$2,000 " "Despite its name, this synth-pop English band who gave us 1984's ""Doctor! Doctor!"" was a trio" The Thompson Twins "LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES ""L""" "$2,000 " Writer Wyndham (5) Lewis 14:59 "$2,000 " "A free week at a hotel chain would be apropos for knowing the name of this ""Joe Millionaire"" reality star" (Evan) Marriott RELIGION "$2,000 " "Jainism, with 4 1/2 million adherents, was founded in this country by Mahavira, ""the Great Hero""" India FROM THE FRENCH "$2,000 " "(Jon of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) This verb for one set of gears meshing with another set comes from the Old French for ""pledge""" engage FAMOUS NAMES None "Once a top spy, he invented the mug shot seen on reward posters in the Wild West" Allan Pinkerton SOCIOLOGY $200 "Going from rags to riches is what sociologists call ""social"" this, specifically the ""upward"" type" mobility THE STARTING INFIELD $200 "In 1977 Chambliss, Randolph, Dent & Nettles took the field for this team" the Yankees DICTATORS & TYRANTS $200 "On Sept. 9, 1948 the DPRK, aka North Korea, was established with this man as its supreme leader" Kim Il-sung THE ONION $200 "Nov. 15, 2001: This pasta treat ""discontinued as Franco-American relations break down""" SpaghettiOs WORLD AUTHORS $200 "This Brit coined ""doublethink"" & ""Big Brother is watching you""" (George) Orwell "CROSSWORD CLUES ""J""" $200 Carroll's slithy nonsense poem (11) Jabberwocky SOCIOLOGY $400 Expecting my son to be a cop & my daughter to be a nurse is assigning these sex-based roles gender roles THE STARTING INFIELD $400 "From 1974 through 1981 the Dodgers fielded Garvey, Lopes, Russell & this third baseman, ""The Penguin""" Ron Cey DICTATORS & TYRANTS $400 "As the dictator of this city-state, Francesco Foscari ruined its army & economy by endlessly fighting Milan" Venice THE ONION $400 "Feb. 20, 2006: This late ""Feminine Mystique"" writer ""honored with second-class postage stamp""" (Betty) Friedan WORLD AUTHORS $400 "In a 1605 prologue, this Spaniard tells the reader that he has written an ""invective against books of chivalry""" Cervantes "CROSSWORD CLUES ""J""" $400 Jettisoned goods (6) jetsam SOCIOLOGY $600 "William H. White put this word before ""think"" to mean conformity to consensus" group THE STARTING INFIELD $600 The 1908 Chicago Cubs featured Harry Steinfeldt & these 3 guys of yore "Tinker, Evers & Chance" DICTATORS & TYRANTS $600 "By murdering all his brothers around 1413, Mehmed I took power as the fifth ruler of this empire" the Ottoman Empire THE ONION $600 "Aug. 9, 2000: Popular names for these include Shopwood, Storemont & Indianburialgroundbrook" shopping malls WORLD AUTHORS $600 "While at University College, Dublin, he wrote the essay ""The Day of the Rabblement"", attacking the Irish Literary Theatre" James Joyce "CROSSWORD CLUES ""J""" $600 Riding breeches (8) jodhpurs SOCIOLOGY $800 "A joint author on a paper, or someone who assists the power occupying his country" a collaborator THE STARTING INFIELD $800 "The 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers sent out Hodges, Gilliam, Reese & this groundbreaking infielder" Jackie Robinson DICTATORS & TYRANTS "$1,000 " The pro-Soviet dictator Babrak Karmal came to power in this country after a 1979 invasion Afghanistan THE ONION $800 "From an issue in 2056: This island & commonwealth ceded to the U.S. in 1898... ""Should it become our 63rd state?""" Puerto Rico WORLD AUTHORS $800 This literary whiz' name is sometimes transliterated from Bengali as Ravindranatha Thakura (Rabindranath) Tagore "CROSSWORD CLUES ""J""" $800 A joyful celebration (10) jubilation SOCIOLOGY "$1,000 " "A plant, animal or object that's the symbol of a clan; it's often taboo & was paired with ""Taboo"" in a Freud title" totem THE STARTING INFIELD "$1,000 " "The 1975 Reds fielded Rose, Concepcion, Perez & this Hall of Fame second sacker, now a broadcaster" Joe Morgan DICTATORS & TYRANTS "$1,000 " "A humble lawyer from Arras, in 1793 he became Head of the Committee of Public Safety & launched a bloodbath" Robespierre THE ONION "$1,000 " "Sept. 12, 1928: This ""It Girl"" ""to appear sleeveless in Oct. Collier's; 'Besleeve yourself, strumpet!' clergy urge""" (Clara) Bow WORLD AUTHORS "$1,000 " "This French writer ""steaked"" a claim as ""The Father of Romanticism"" by writing such works as ""Atala""" (René de) Chateaubriand "CROSSWORD CLUES ""J""" "$1,000 " Belligerent nationalist (5) jingo BUSINESS LEADERS $400 "His business card bore the Golden Arches & the titles ""Founder"" & ""Senior Chairman of the Board""" (Ray) Kroc RADIO $400 "Instrument struck when a contestant failed on the ""Original Amateur Hour""" a gong THAT'S ITALIAN! $400 It's the Italian name for the country's biggest island Sicilia REDUCED SHAKESPEARE $400 "Name this tragedy: ""Love you."" ""Love you."" ""Speak. ...Nothing will come of nothing!"" ""Hmph!"" ""Hmph!"" ""Huh? I should go mad! Blbl-blbl-blbl-blbl-bl! Oh, no life! Oh!""" King Lear NEW WEAPONS $400 "The USA's ""E-Bomb"" will disable grids & computers and reheat the enemies' lasagna by sending out these waves" microwaves 5-LETTER WORDS $400 "One who steals by stealth: Thessalonians speaks of one ""in the night""" a thief BUSINESS LEADERS $800 "In 1886 he started his first successful business, the Lancaster Caramel Co.; the chocolate came later" Hershey RADIO $800 "This word ends the title of a 1941 Bill of Rights tribute program heard by 60 million, ""We hold these...""" Truths THAT'S ITALIAN! $800 "Roman soldiers passed the time playing this game, the Italian version of lawn bowling" bocce REDUCED SHAKESPEARE $800 "This time, a comedy: ""Beware my sting!"" ""She will be my chattel. Ha ha ha!"" ""I'm starved!"" [Snores] ""Giddy from lack of sleep. What is thy will, sir?"" ""Mm-wah!"" ""Ha ha ha ha ha!"" ""Ha ha ha ha ha!"" ""Ah!"" ""Ah!""" The Taming of the Shrew NEW WEAPONS $800 "The ""Storm Shadow"" is a new British version of this type of low-altitude, radar-evading missile" a cruise missile 5-LETTER WORDS $800 "A big fishing net, maybe in the river of the same name" a seine BUSINESS LEADERS "$1,200 " In the 1880s he built a town in Illinois to house employees of his sleeping car company (George) Pullman RADIO "$1,200 " "Can't forget the sponsor--Jack Benny's opening line wasn't ""Hello again"" but this dessert ""again""" Jell-O THAT'S ITALIAN! "$1,200 " "These thin tubes of pasta, Italian for ""bridegrooms"", are often baked" ziti REDUCED SHAKESPEARE "$1,200 " "Tragedy: ""Victorious!"" ""Rue the tears I shed!"" ""Banishment!"" ""Son!"" ""Ah!"" ""Ha ha ha ha ha!"" ""Ha ha ha ha ha!"" ""Mad? Not!"" ""Ugh!"" ""Ugh!"" ""Uh-huh! Emperor!""" Titus Andronicus NEW WEAPONS "$1,200 " "It's the Indian tribe in the name of the USA's AH-64D Longbow, the most advanced combat helicopter in the world" Apache 5-LETTER WORDS "$3,000 " "It can mean ""brief & forceful"" or ""resembling the inner core of a stem""" pithy BUSINESS LEADERS "$1,600 " "Before founding his own corp., John K. Northrop was chief engineer for this company & designed its Vega airplane" Lockheed RADIO "$1,600 " In 2005 NPR revived this 1950s program in which people state their credos This I Believe THAT'S ITALIAN! "$1,600 " "(Kelly of the Clue Crew gives us a sign linguistic demonstration.) An 1832 book on the gestures of this southern city includes ""Mm-wah, perfecto!""--& many others we can't show you" Naples REDUCED SHAKESPEARE "$1,600 " "Here's the title king of this play: ""Plots have I laid. Wear this ring!"" ""Oh, pretty!"" ""King! Good-night."" ""Ow!"" ""Marriage. Ah!"" ""Thank you.""" Richard III NEW WEAPONS "$1,600 " "The FA-18E/F is the ""Super"" version of this high-tech U.S. Navy fighter jet with a wasplike name" a Hornet 5-LETTER WORDS "$1,600 " "Teddy Roosevelt said ""The credit belongs to the man"" in this, ""whose face is marred by dust & sweat & blood""" the arena BUSINESS LEADERS "$2,000 " "Since founding Amazon.com in 1994, he's tried to make it ""The Earth's most customer-centric company""" Jeff Bezos RADIO "$1,000 " "On April 3, 1936 a nation listened as Gabriel Heatter covered this man's execution" Bruno Hauptmann THAT'S ITALIAN! "$2,000 " "This 15th century movement may have first been named in a 1550 book, using the Italian word rinascita" the Renaissance REDUCED SHAKESPEARE "$2,000 " "Name this comedy: ""Your oaths."" ""Not to see ladies."" [All] ""Hup!"" [Gasps] [All] ""Love."" ""We'll mark no words that wooers say for 12 months in the day."" [All] ""Hmm!"" [All] ""Oh!"" ""That's too long for a play.""" Love's Labour's Lost NEW WEAPONS "$2,000 " "With advanced capabilities, this unmanned air vehicle seen here takes its name from the Latin for ""to plunder""" the Predator 5-LETTER WORDS "$2,000 " "Greek for ""word"", it can mean the word of God" logos SCIENTISTS None American Prometheus is a biography of this physicist who died in 1967 J. Robert Oppenheimer BALLET $200 "The New York City ballet's first visit to this city's famous festival inspired the ballet ""Scotch Symphony""" Edinburgh IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL $200 "He perked up his career by letting Starbucks release his album ""Memory Almost Full""" McCartney ALSO A TOOL $200 This drink consists of 2 ounces of vodka & 5 ounces of orange juice a screwdriver HABEAS CORPSES $200 "In part due to fears of body snatching, his body was moved 17 times around his Springfield, Ill. national monument" Lincoln IRA $200 "Hey, you saps who think pneumonia killed President Harrison--I've got this kind of theory involving a group plan" a conspiracy theory BALLET $400 "The 1972 ballet ""Printemps"" premiered in the winter, but its name is French for this season" spring IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL $400 "This '80s trio were ""Spirits in the Material World"" before the synchronicity of their 2007 reunion" The Police ALSO A TOOL $400 We recommend giving someone this figuratively if you must fire him; later he might have one to grind the axe HABEAS CORPSES $400 "4 places claimed to be the burial site of this explorer, including crypts in Seville & Santo Domingo" Christopher Columbus IRA $400 The lady was quite overcome by this moisture exuded by the muscular estate gardener perspiration BALLET $600 "Balanchine choreographed the leading role in ""Allegro Brillante"" for this part-Osage Indian ex-wife" Maria Tallchief IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL $600 "Who Knew this colorful singer could be so ""M!ssundaztood""" Pink ALSO A TOOL $600 "U Can't Touch This bone, aka the malleus, just behind the eardrum" the hammer HABEAS CORPSES $600 "Kept for years in her husband's dining room, her embalmed body was buried in Buenos Aires in '74" Eva Peron FINANCE $600 "Not a fraud scheme, the risk type of this puts more of your assets into the low-risk than the high-risk area" a pyramid IRA "$1,400 " "The Motion Picture Association of America says this cost producers, theater owners, etc. $18.2 billion in 2005" piracy BALLET $800 "Alexandre Dumas fils' tale about ""The Lady of"" these flowers bloomed as the ballet ""Marguerite and Armand""" the Camellias IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL $800 "This band is now part of the ""Zeitgeist"" after suffering ""Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness""" Smashing Pumpkins ALSO A TOOL $800 "A light, stroking touch, or a dense growth of bushes" a brush HABEAS CORPSES $800 "Executed in 1915, this radical labor activist was cremated & his ashes mailed to labor unions all over the world" Joe Hill FINANCE $800 "It's often set up by the wealthy for their kids, but California has a state children's one for poor folks" a trust fund IRA $800 Australia's Yellow Tail winery sells this on its own as well as in a cabernet blend shiraz BALLET "$1,000 " "As a law student in St. Petersburg, this man became interested in the arts, & in 1909 he founded the Ballets Russes" Diaghilev IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL "$1,000 " "Hybrid Theory, the title of this rock-rap band's first hit album, was one of the band's former names" Linkin Park ALSO A TOOL "$1,000 " Hit the backyard with this old term for a libertine a rake HABEAS CORPSES "$1,000 " This 19th century philosopher's body has been very utilitarian; it's on display at a university in London Jeremy Bentham FINANCE "$1,000 " "(Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows an upward-tending graph with a deviant dip between March and May on the monitor.) Named for the implication that it brought some rationality to an exuberant market, it's a downward move by generally rising prices" a correction IRA "$1,000 " This type of medieval play often shows the Virgin Mary coming to the rescue a miracle play WAR MOVIES $400 2004: Angry Greeks attack a fortified city-state Troy ISLANDS $400 "This ""colossal"" island is the largest in Greece's Dodecanese archipelago" Rhodes HISTORIC BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS $400 "Older brother Frank is thrilled to welcome this Sept. 5, 1847 baby; 10 days old & making guns with his tiny fingers" Jesse James WAR MOVIES $800 1978: The wife of a soldier fighting in Vietnam works at a VA hospital & has an affair with a wounded vet Coming Home THE RULE OF THIRDS $800 "On Jan. 19, 1966 this woman was elected the third prime minister of her country" Indira Gandhi ISLANDS $800 This group of islands off the northern coast of France was the only British soil occupied by the Germans in WWII the Channel Islands HISTORIC BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS $800 "This king is thrilled by the birth of Mary, Feb. 18, 1516; there's still plenty of time to have a son--right?" Henry VIII AFRICAN LANGUAGE LAB $800 "Whether a surfin' one or a Pontiac, this term comes from the Swahili meaning ""journey""" safari LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER "$1,200 " Jules Verne-Wilkie Collins sci-fi/detective novel about Civil War vets who want to shoot a cannon into a gem From the Earth to the Moonstone WAR MOVIES "$1,200 " 1970: An historically correct re-creation of Pearl Harbor Tora! Tora! Tora! THE RULE OF THIRDS "$1,200 " You have to go through this ceremony in order to become a Freemason the Third Degree ISLANDS "$1,200 " "This island nation's highest peak, Yu Shan, in the Chungyang range, is also called Mount Morrison" Taiwan HISTORIC BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS "$3,000 " "Henry & Clara Ford are proud to announce the rollout of this model Nov. 6, 1893" the Edsel AFRICAN LANGUAGE LAB "$1,200 " "The word ""okra"" is West African; in the language of Angola, okra was called this, which to us is a soup or stew" gumbo LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER "$1,600 " "Novel-poem in which Sal & Dean hitchhike through a yellow wood where the path diverges, making all the difference" On the Road Not Taken WAR MOVIES "$1,600 " "1936: Errol Flynn leads a cavalry unit into cannon, annihilation & everlasting glory" Charge of the Light Brigade THE RULE OF THIRDS "$3,000 " "Twice in the 1990s, he came in third in U.S. presidential elections" Ross Perot ISLANDS "$1,600 " A causeway connects this Persian Gulf nation with the Saudi Arabian mainland Bahrain HISTORIC BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS "$1,600 " A 1906 announcement: dad Socrates & mom Penelope celebrate the launch of this new little ship Aristotle Onassis AFRICAN LANGUAGE LAB "$1,600 " "Go where some men have gone before with this 4-letter term from the Afrikaans for ""migrate""" trek LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER "$2,000 " "Faulkner novel about Joe Christmas that's the Swedish playwright of ""The Dance of Death""" The Light in August Strindberg WAR MOVIES "$2,000 " 1951: Erwin Rommel succeeds... for a while... in North Africa The Desert Fox THE RULE OF THIRDS "$2,000 " "A member of the British Commonwealth, this country is the third-largest island in the Caribbean" Jamaica ISLANDS "$2,000 " "One of France's 26 regions, it doesn't count as an overseas one though it's 100 miles across the Mediterranean" Corsica HISTORIC BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS "$2,000 " "James & Lady Blanche have a ""declaration"": the July 25, 1848 birth of this future foreign secretary & prime minister" (Arthur James) Balfour AFRICAN LANGUAGE LAB "$2,000 " "The marimba was popularized in Central America, but the word is from this sub-Saharan group of about 500 langs." the Bantu languages SCIENTISTS None In 2007 this 1962 American Nobel laureate became the first person to receive his own personal genome map James Watson THE BIG APPLE $200 There's an annual footrace up its 86 flights of stairs the Empire State Building COMPOSERS ON FILM $200 "Kevin Kline in ""De-Lovely""" (Cole) Porter A SHAPELY CATEGORY $200 "Often stuffed & baked, conchiglioni is jumbo pasta shaped like these" shells SALMON $200 Fish ladders help salmon travel upstream over these man-made obstructions dams CHANTED $200 "In a children's playground chant, they're the 2 things that will ""break my bones, but names will never hurt me""" sticks & stones EVENING $200 Dangerous ones include hemorrhagic & scarlet fever THE BIG APPLE $400 "On the NYC subway this train will also take you to Harlem, but then it splits off & heads for Yankee Stadium" the B train COMPOSERS ON FILM $400 "Cary Grant in ""Night and Day""" Cole Porter A SHAPELY CATEGORY $400 "Something that's cordate is shaped like this, my love" a heart SALMON $400 "World Book says this country leads the world in salmon fishing, with more than 450,000 tons caught each year" the United States CHANTED $400 "This musical instrument consists of a chanter, several drones & an air sack" a bagpipe EVENING $400 "In a hit song by the Monkees, ""Then I saw her face, now I'm"" one of these" a believer THE BIG APPLE $600 "In 1865 NYC, already home to 800,000, finally abandoned this type of fire department" volunteer COMPOSERS ON FILM $600 "James Cagney in ""Yankee Doodle Dandy""" George M. Cohan A SHAPELY CATEGORY $600 It's the more common 4-letter name for a regular hexahedron a cube SALMON $600 The roe of the chum salmon is a popular source for the red variety of this caviar CHANTED $600 "Their chant in ""Macbeth"" begins, ""Double, double, toil and trouble""" the witches EVENING $600 "In 1905 this former U.S. president remarked, ""Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote""" Grover Cleveland THE BIG APPLE $800 One of NYC's most famous seafood joints is the bar for these bivalves in Grand Central oysters COMPOSERS ON FILM $800 "James Cagney in ""The Seven Little Foys""" George M. Cohan A SHAPELY CATEGORY $800 Dendroid means shaped like a tree; dentiform means shaped like this a tooth SALMON $800 Salmon are members of the same family as the speckled or brook variety of this fish trout CHANTED $800 The Kol Nidre prayer is chanted by the cantor on the eve of this Jewish day of atonement Yom Kippur EVENING $800 "A bracketed projecting beam supported on only one end, or a type of bridge" a cantilever THE BIG APPLE "$1,000 " Artsy types like Maya Lin & Art Spiegelman find inspiration in this area that gets its name from its northern border SoHo (South of Houston) COMPOSERS ON FILM "$1,000 " "Toralv Maurstad in ""Song of Norway""" Edvard Grieg A SHAPELY CATEGORY "$1,000 " "(Kelly of the Clue Crew points out a four-sided shape on the monitor.) In geometry, I'm sure you've come across this shape: it's a plane figure with 2 parallel & 2 non-parallel sides" a trapezoid SALMON "$1,000 " "Weighing up to 100 pounds, this large type of salmon shares its name with a warm, dry wind" chinook CHANTED "$1,500 " "Named for a 6th century pope, these a capella songs might have earned a Papal's Choice Award" Gregorian chants EVENING "$1,000 " "It's the ""A"" in JA, the youth organization begun in 1919 to teach young people about American business" Achievement HISTORIC NAMES $400 "In 312, emboldened by the sight of a cross in the sky, this man defeated the Emperor Maxentius & seized Rome" Constantine WHAT A CHARACTER! $400 "Well, goll-ly! He left his job & home in Mayberry to join the Marine Corps" Gomer Pyle GEOLOGY $400 The Mercalli scale measures the intensity of these from I to XII earthquakes "HOME, SWEET HOME" $400 Scout out the home Kit Carson shared with his lovely bride in Taos in this state New Mexico NAME THE POET $400 The caged bird sings / With a fearful trill / Of things unknown / But longed for still Maya Angelou "CROSSWORD CLUES ""B""" $400 A baby belch (4) burp HISTORIC NAMES $800 In 1955 Ngo Dinh Diem became the first president of this country that no longer exists South Vietnam WHAT A CHARACTER! $800 "On ""The Addams Family"", he was married to Morticia" Gomez GEOLOGY $800 "Geysers aren't common; major centers include Yellowstone, Iceland & this country's North Island" New Zealand "HOME, SWEET HOME" $800 "Doris Duke never had to rough it at Rough Point, her 105-room estate in this ritzy Rhode Island town" Newport NAME THE POET $800 "Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie, / O, what a panic's in thy breastie!" Rabbie Burns "CROSSWORD CLUES ""B""" $800 "It precedes dance, laugh or flop (5)" belly HISTORIC NAMES "$1,200 " "This Apache tried to keep peace with the palefaces, but after his death, his son joined with the militant Geronimo" Cochise WHAT A CHARACTER! "$1,200 " "(Hi, I'm Martin Short, and) I first introduced this pointy-haired nerd on SCTV; he later had his own cartoon series, & Pat Sajak was his big hero--but don't tell Alex" Ed Grimley GEOLOGY "$1,200 " "This rock can be formed by the accumulation of shells or coral, but not from citrus fruit" limestone "HOME, SWEET HOME" "$1,200 " "People in this job never had an official home until ""Number One Observatory Circle"" was chosen in the '70s" the vice president NAME THE POET "$1,200 " "There was an old man with a beard, / Who said, 'It is just as I feared!'" Edward Lear "CROSSWORD CLUES ""B""" "$1,200 " "Bestselling book that has its own ""belt"" (5)" Bible HISTORIC NAMES "$1,600 " "Margaret Roper, who died in 1544, is said to have been buried with the head of this ""Utopia"" author, her father" Saint Thomas More WHAT A CHARACTER! "$1,600 " "During a dream sequence, it was revealed that this Richard Dean Anderson character had the first name Angus" MacGyver GEOLOGY $800 This 9-letter geologic science is the study of the movement & distribution of all the Earth's waters hydrology "HOME, SWEET HOME" "$2,000 " "Ralph Waldo Emerson owned a Concord home nicknamed this; Hawthorne rented it & wrote some ""Mosses from"" it" the Old Manse NAME THE POET "$1,600 " "A little learning is a dang'rous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring" Alexander Pope "CROSSWORD CLUES ""B""" "$1,600 " "A throng, often ""of beauties"" (4)" bevy HISTORIC NAMES "$2,000 " "(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands outside the Imperial Palace in Vienna, Austria.) Today, the Imperial Palace is home to Austria's head of state, the president; in Mozart's time, it was home to the head of state, this archduchess" Maria Theresa WHAT A CHARACTER! "$2,000 " "Hardcore fans of ""Gilligan's Island"" known that this character's real name is Roy Hinkley" the Professor GEOLOGY "$2,000 " "A 6-mile-wide caldera, or volcanic crater, is a highlight of La Palma in this Spanish Island group off Africa" the Canaries "HOME, SWEET HOME" "$2,000 " "As a bachelor in the 1970s, Prince Charles romanced Camilla at Broadlands, the home of this lord, his great-uncle" Mountbatten NAME THE POET "$2,000 " "Drink to me only with thine eyes, / And I will pledge with mine" Ben Jonson "CROSSWORD CLUES ""B""" "$2,000 " "Mr. Bumble's occupation in ""Oliver Twist"" (6)" beadle U.S. POLITICS None "Since 1960, only Massachusetts & this state have produced more than one of the 10 Democratic presidential nominees" Minnesota (Hubert Humphrey & Walter Mondale) ASSASSINS $200 In May 1981 would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Agca shot this man in St. Peter's Square Pope John Paul II THE REEL STORY $200 "Kate Winslet wears a blue diamond necklace called the ""Heart of the Ocean"" in this 1997 film" Titanic SIGNS & SYMBOLS $200 "The first seal designed for what is now this U.S. state depicted icebergs, igloos & the Northern Lights" Alaska GOVERNMENT $200 Since 1909 every government in Denmark's parliament has been this type that needs to strike deals minority government (a coalition accepted) VISUALIZE $200 "Deadly lady seen here" a black widow "WORLD ""P""s" $200 "The ""4 questions"" asked on this occasion include wondering why we have to eat unleavened bread" Passover ASSASSINS $400 Reginald Fitzurse was among the Knights who took Henry II's remark literally to rid him of this archbishop Thomas à Becket THE REEL STORY $400 Keanu Reeves is a supernatural detective in this 2005 flick based on the Hellblazer comic book Constantine SIGNS & SYMBOLS $400 "It's the calendar year depicted here in Roman numerals" 2004 GOVERNMENT $400 In 1978 Ricardo Bordallo was Guam's head of government & this man was its head of state Jimmy Carter VISUALIZE $400 "Numerical name for the unruly group seen here during their trial in 1970" the Chicago Seven "WORLD ""P""s" $400 Malay or Sinai peninsula ASSASSINS $600 "In 1994, 31 years after the crime, Byron de la Beckwith was convicted of murdering this Civil Rights leader" Medgar Evers THE REEL STORY $600 "This singer starred in ""Waiting to Exhale"" & ""The Bodyguard""" Whitney Houston SIGNS & SYMBOLS $600 Sleepy Bear has been this motel chain's logo since 1954 Travelodge GOVERNMENT $600 "This country's National People's Congress has had up to around 3,500 members" China VISUALIZE $600 "Try to photograph this swift critter, and you might only get its tail, seen here" a cheetah "WORLD ""P""s" $600 "Gunmen after this South American dictator in 1986 used rockets, bazookas, rifles & grenades--& missed!" Pinochet ASSASSINS $800 "Yigal Amir, a student at Bar-Ilan University, is serving a life sentence for assassinating this leader in 1995" Rabin THE REEL STORY $800 "He played Mozart in the 1984 film ""Amadeus""" Tom Hulce SIGNS & SYMBOLS $800 The 3 Zodiac signs with horns "Aries, Capricorn & Taurus" GOVERNMENT $800 "Brazil has 2 federal legislative houses, the Chamber of Deputies & this" the Senate VISUALIZE $800 "Viceroy of India was one of the titles of this military man" Mountbatten "WORLD ""P""s" $800 World Heritage sites in this nation include the Nasca Lines Peru ASSASSINS "$1,000 " "Ramon Mercader, who killed this man in 1940, was later awarded the Order of Lenin" Trotsky THE REEL STORY "$1,000 " M. Night Shyamalan wrote & directed this creepy Bruce Willis-Haley Joel Osment film The Sixth Sense SIGNS & SYMBOLS "$1,000 " The same 2 letters in the same order make up Arkansas' postal abbreviation & the symbol of this chemical element argon GOVERNMENT "$1,000 " "This country with ""Republic"" in its name was less republican after a 2003 coup by General Francois Bozize" the Central African Republic VISUALIZE "$1,000 " "(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a hefty-looking sewing kit.) In ""Moby Dick,"" Ahab asks Starbuck for one of these with a triangular point to pierce through materials" a sailmaker's needle "WORLD ""P""s" "$1,000 " "Named for an adviser to Catherine the Great, this type of ""village"" looks deceptively impressive" a Potemkin village EUROPE $400 In 1917 the name of this castle that dates back to the 11th century was adopted by a royal house Windsor MUSICALS OF THE '20s $400 "The 1924 musical revue ""I'll Say She Is"" made these goofy brothers legitimate Broadway stars" the Marx Brothers NOVELS OF THE PAST $400 "In Barry Unsworth's ""The Songs of the Kings"", the Greek fleet bound for here is trapped by unfavorable winds" Troy TRANSPLANTS $400 "(I'm Dr. Thomas Starzl.) In 1967, on a patient suffering from hepatoma, I performed the first successful human transplant of this organ" the liver CITY OF BIRTH $400 The controversial Ahmed Chalabi Baghdad "CROSSWORD CLUES ""K""" $400 "A ""bear""y nice Alaskan island (6)" Kodiak EUROPE $800 This country whose abbreviation is a conjunction joins Spain to France Andorra MUSICALS OF THE '20s $800 "In a 1927 title, this phrase preceded ""Bonnie"" (it didn't precede ""Birdie"" until 1960)" Bye Bye NOVELS OF THE PAST $800 "James Fenimore Cooper's ""Mercedes of Castile"" combines a love story with the voyages of this man" (Christopher) Columbus TRANSPLANTS $800 "This organ was first successfully transplanted in 1981, as a package deal with a heart" a lung CITY OF BIRTH $800 Mad magazine illustrator James Warhola Pittsburgh "CROSSWORD CLUES ""K""" $800 Jean-Claude of the slopes (5) Killy EUROPE "$1,200 " The person with this title gets to appoint people to Luxembourg's Council of State & they get to stay on for life the Grand Duke MUSICALS OF THE '20s "$1,200 " "The big attraction of the 1923 hit ""Poppy"" was this future film comic as Eustace McGargle" W.C. Fields NOVELS OF THE PAST "$1,200 " "The hero of Neal Stephenson's ""Quicksilver"" has to settle the calculus dispute between Leibniz & him" Newton TRANSPLANTS "$1,200 " "(Dr. Thomas Starzl reads the clue.) A pioneering kidney transplant of 1954 was from Ronald Herrick to Richard Herrick, this very specific type of relative" an identical twin CITY OF BIRTH "$4,000 " Frederick the Great & Mike Nichols Berlin "CROSSWORD CLUES ""K""" $500 Shy-sounding swimmers (3) koi EUROPE "$1,600 " "France has about 100,000 of these Defense Ministry employees who perform police functions outside the main cities" gendarmes MUSICALS OF THE '20s "$1,600 " "The saucy 1928 musical ""Paris"" introduced this composer's immortal song ""Let's Do It""" Cole Porter NOVELS OF THE PAST "$1,600 " This antagonist of the Crusaders looks back on his life in a novel by Tariq Ali Saladin TRANSPLANTS "$1,600 " "He's seen here in 1967, the year of his historic operation" (Dr. Christiaan) Barnard CITY OF BIRTH "$1,600 " Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau was not born in France; his birthplace was this European city Geneva "CROSSWORD CLUES ""K""" "$1,600 " Its alias is turnip cabbage (8) kohlrabi EUROPE "$2,000 " "Until recently, Slovakia was part of Czechoslovakia & Slovenia was part of this" Yugoslavia MUSICALS OF THE '20s "$2,000 " "As a servant in the musical ""Bombo"", he sang ""Toot, Toot, Tootsie!"" & ""California, Here I Come""" Al Jolson NOVELS OF THE PAST "$2,000 " "It's the second name of Taras, a 16th century Cossack in a 19th century Gogol novel" Bulba TRANSPLANTS "$2,000 " "(Dr. Thomas Starzl reads the clue.) In 1992 my team transplanted a liver from one of these primates into a man" a baboon CITY OF BIRTH "$2,000 " Sidney Bechet New Orleans "CROSSWORD CLUES ""K""" "$2,000 " "Ceremonial chamber you'd ""Hopi"" into (4)" a kiva ARLINGTON'S TOMB OF UNKNOWNS None Sentinels at the tomb walk exactly this many steps at a time before they stop & turn 21 LUXEMBOURG $200 Rivaner is a profitable type of this planted in Luxembourg's Moselle Valley grape THE CINEMA $200 "1999 film with the line ""The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to""" The Matrix WHAT AM I HAVING? $200 "(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Germany.) Haben sie Bier vom Fass?--I just asked for this form of beer" draft beer Y-R $200 "An astronomer may speak of a solar, lunar, equinoctial or sidereal one" a year HAIR TODAY $200 "This palindromic word can mean to cut short, or a short, blunt cut, with or without bangs" bob GONE TOMORROW? $200 "The Oahu tree one of these gastropods is quickly, not slowly, disappearing" a snail LUXEMBOURG $400 "Encyclopedia Britannica says this, not French, is the lingua franca of Luxembourg" German THE CINEMA $400 "The park bench Tom Hanks sat on in much of this 1994 film was in Chippewa Square in Savannah, Georgia" Forrest Gump WHAT AM I HAVING? $400 "(Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Spain.) Por favor, un plato de chorizo--a plate of this, please" sausage Y-R $400 A short war between Israel & Egypt & Syria in October 1973 was named for this high holiday Yom Kippur HAIR TODAY $400 In 2004 this real estate tycoon told People magazine that his signature swept-forward style is his own handiwork Trump GONE TOMORROW? $400 The Hine's emerald species of this insect has a wingspan that can reach about 3.5 inches a dragonfly LUXEMBOURG $600 "During his years in exile, this ""Les Miserables"" author lived for a while in Vianden; his house there is now a museum" Victor Hugo THE CINEMA $600 "The popular soundtrack of this 2000 film includes ""I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow"" & ""You Are My Sunshine""" "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" WHAT AM I HAVING? $600 "(Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Venice.) Caffe con zucchero, per favore--I take my coffee with this" sugar Y-R $600 "In October 2002 he made another supersonic flight, 55 years after his first" Chuck Yeager HAIR TODAY $600 This rastafarian style is Whoopi Goldberg's trademark dreadlocks GONE TOMORROW? $600 The endangerment of the New Mexico ridge-nosed species of this snake was caused in part by collectors a rattlesnake LUXEMBOURG "$2,000 " In the 1940s Luxembourg joined with these 2 countries to form a customs union Belgium & the Netherlands THE CINEMA $800 "It was the mythological container sought by Lara Croft in ""Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life""" Pandora's box WHAT AM I HAVING? $800 "(Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Mexico.) Voy a comer pollo con mole--I'm having this in a classic Mexican sauce" chicken Y-R $800 This Cole was a known associate of Jesse James Younger HAIR TODAY $800 "This 6-letter hairstyle is ""business in front, party in the back""" a mullet GONE TOMORROW? $800 "Picoides Borealis is the red-cockaded species of this bird, still on the endangered list in 2004" the woodpecker LUXEMBOURG "$1,000 " The Congress of Vienna in 1815 made Luxembourg a state headed by this type of ruler a grand duke THE CINEMA "$1,000 " "In this animated film, Henry J. Waternoose says, ""Kids these days. They just don't get scared like they used to""" "Monsters, Inc." WHAT AM I HAVING? "$1,000 " "(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Bronx.) Hey, Sal, I got some hungry people out here; give me a garbage pie--I just ordered up one of these" a pizza with everything Y-R "$1,000 " "Savage Sam is a sequel to the Fred Gipson book called ""Old"" this" Yeller HAIR TODAY "$1,000 " "George Clooney popularized the close-cut style named this, like a certain leader" a Caesar (cut) GONE TOMORROW? "$1,000 " Among the colorful mammals on the endangered list are the gray & the red ones of these predators a wolf MAIN STREET U.S.A. $400 "Borgen's Cafe, on Main St. in Westby, Wisconsin, feels a bit like Oslo, with menus & banter in this language" Norwegian POP MUSIC $400 "This rapper won a 2000 MTV award for Best Male Video for ""The Real Slim Shady""" Eminem ANCIENT GREEKS $400 A fabulist: 620-560 B.C. Aesop FLOWERS $400 "The white petals of this flower are usually pulled to see if ""she loves me"" or ""she loves me not""" a daisy BRITISH INVENTIONS $400 "A perambulator or pram to the Brits, it was invented in 1733 by William Kent for the Duke of Devonshire's kids" a baby carriage BEFORE & AFTER $400 1980 scarefest in which mom & daughter switch bodies one day & are stalked by Jason at Camp Crystal Lake Freaky Friday the 13th MAIN STREET U.S.A. $800 In Salt Lake City take Main Street to this square to find the Mormon Tabernacle Temple Square POP MUSIC $800 "'60s Dylan classic that begins, ""Once upon a time you dressed so fine""" Like A Rolling Stone ANCIENT GREEKS $800 A philosopher & student of Plato: 384-322 B.C. Aristotle FLOWERS $800 "This flower seen here is often spotted on a man's lapel" a carnation BRITISH INVENTIONS $800 In 1676 Robert Hooke came up with a universal one of these to manipulate the mirrors of his helioscope a universal joint BEFORE & AFTER $800 Leif Ericson's dad who was a huge star with low surface temperature Erik the Red Giant MAIN STREET U.S.A. "$1,200 " "There's a house dating from 1648 on Main St. in this ""directional"" resort village in New York's Hamptons" Southampton POP MUSIC "$1,200 " "In the summer of 2002 this country star hit the Hot 100 chart with ""Courtesy Of The Red, White and Blue""" Toby Keith ANCIENT GREEKS "$1,200 " A comedic dramatist: 445-385 B.C. Aristophanes FLOWERS "$5,000 " These flowers blooming in a Flanders cemetery during WWI inspired a famous poem by Major John McCrae poppies BRITISH INVENTIONS "$1,200 " The name of this Scot who invented the steam hammer sounds just like the American who invented basketball (James) Nasmyth BEFORE & AFTER "$1,200 " "Fictional girl sleuth who's the granddaughter of ""The Great Profile""" Nancy Drew Barrymore MAIN STREET U.S.A. "$1,600 " "Bob Seger was ""down on Main Street"" in this city, home to a university" Ann Arbor POP MUSIC "$1,600 " "Alicia Keys received 5 Grammys for 2001, including best new artist & song of the year for this hit" Fallin' ANCIENT GREEKS "$1,600 " A mathematician: 287-212 B.C. Archimedes FLOWERS "$1,600 " "Grown from bulbs, they're the cheerful spring flowers seen here" daffodils BRITISH INVENTIONS "$1,600 " "For the military, zoologist John Kerr developed the ""dazzle paint"" type of this, something animals also use" camouflage BEFORE & AFTER "$1,600 " Projection at the southern tip of South America also called a cornucopia Cape Horn o' Plenty MAIN STREET U.S.A. "$3,200 " "Your feelings may run deep on historic Main Street in this city, home of Oklahoma State University" Stillwater POP MUSIC "$2,000 " "Come Back Home is the first single from his 2003 album ""Day I Forgot""" Pete Yorn ANCIENT GREEKS "$2,000 " "The ""Oresteia"" tragedian: 525-456 B.C." Aeschylus FLOWERS "$2,000 " "In song, Colorado is where these bluish & white state flowers grow" the Rocky Mountain columbines BRITISH INVENTIONS "$2,000 " The miner's safety lamp was also called by the name of this British chemist who invented it in 1815 Sir Humphry Davy BEFORE & AFTER "$2,000 " Lethal Weapon director whose group was caught in a Sierra Nevada pass in the winter of 1846-47 the Richard Donner Party BOOK TITLES None "I am the rose of Sharon & ""When you know your name, you should hang on to it"" are from 2 different books titled this" Song of Solomon U.S. PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $200 The Surveyor President George Washington BALLPARK FIGURES $200 "In 2004 he published ""My Prison Without Bars""" Pete Rose WEDDINGS $200 "It's the job of the lad seen here" ringbearer NOVEL QUOTES $200 "(1937) ""'It's me, Bilbo Baggins, companion of Thorin!'""" The Hobbit THREE CHEERS! $200 "It's the breakfast cereal pitched by the animated elves Snap, Crackle & Pop" Rice Krispies "GIVE ME AN ""A""!" $200 "Wow! In 2002 a ""supercolony"" of billions of these was discovered stretching across several countries in Europe" ants U.S. PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $400 "The Illinois Baboon & ""The Martyr President""" Abraham Lincoln BALLPARK FIGURES $400 "With the Yankees from 1923 to 1939, his No. 4 was the first number retired in either league" Lou Gehrig WEDDINGS $400 In 2002 a hot pink frock worn by Robin Durr won the DeKuyper Contest for the worst of these a bridesmaid's dress NOVEL QUOTES $400 "(1719) ""I made him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life""" Robinson Crusoe THREE CHEERS! $400 The 3 U.K. countries that make up the island of Great Britain "England, Scotland & Wales" "GIVE ME AN ""A""!" $400 "Robert Frost wondered ""How many"" of these ""fell on Newton's head before he took the hint!""" apples U.S. PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $600 "Red Fox & ""The Scribe of the Revolution""" Thomas Jefferson BALLPARK FIGURES $600 "Baseball's ""Mr. October"", he generated headlines for his cantankerous personality & his athletic prowess" Reggie Jackson WEDDINGS $600 "The traditional conclusion of the pre-vow line ""If anyone can show just cause why they may not be joined together...""" let him speak now or forever hold his peace NOVEL QUOTES $600 "(1945) ""All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others""" Animal Farm THREE CHEERS! $600 The 4-legged Omaha made the record books in 1935 with this 3-feat racing's Triple Crown "GIVE ME AN ""A""!" $600 In 2004 an Arctic Beauty wild hair contest became part of the famous Fur Rendezvous in this U.S. city Anchorage U.S. PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $800 "(Sofia of the Clue Crew stands next to a bust of President Hoover at the Hoover Dam Visitor Center.) Herbert Hoover, for whom the dam is named, was known as ""The Great"" this, his prepolitics profession" Engineer BALLPARK FIGURES $800 "Famous nickname of Leon Goslin, who played in all 19 World Series games with the Washington Senators" Goose WEDDINGS $800 "A Navy wedding features an arch of swords; an Army wedding, an arch of these heavy cavalry swords" sabres NOVEL QUOTES $800 "(1932) ""Over the main entrance the words, Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre""" Brave New World THREE CHEERS! $800 "Since the 1979 incident at this location, no new nuclear reactors have been ordered in the U.S." Three-Mile Island "GIVE ME AN ""A""!" $800 "(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Cape Cod, MA.) In 1986, this vessel, named either for a chipmunk or Woods Hole scientist Alan Vine, reached the Titanic" the Alvin U.S. PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES "$1,000 " The Schoolmaster in Politics Woodrow Wilson BALLPARK FIGURES "$1,000 " "Sadly, this lefty pitcher who coined the Mets' battle cry ""You gotta believe"" died in 2004" Tug McGraw WEDDINGS "$1,000 " It's the festive-sounding name for one who officiates at a wedding the celebrant NOVEL QUOTES "$1,000 " "(1972) ""Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate""" Watership Down THREE CHEERS! "$1,000 " "Mythical monstrosity manifested here" Cerberus "GIVE ME AN ""A""!" "$1,000 " "The name Zog is not as much in vogue as it once was, when King Zog I ruled this European country" Albania RUBY $400 "In newspapers, Jack Ruby was invariably described as an ""operator"" of these joints" strip joints (or nightclubs) THE EMERALD ISLE $400 "It's the only Irish city with a population above 500,000" Dublin PEARLS OF WISDOM $400 "An artist: ""In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes""" Andy Warhol CORAL REEF LIFE $400 "Just off Australia, it's the largest chain of coral reefs in the world" the Great Barrier Reef DIAMONDs IN THE ROUGH $400 Dangerous American pit viper the diamondback WHAT A GEM! $400 The largest deposits of this fossil tree resin are found in the sands along the shores of the Baltic Sea amber RUBY $800 "On Feb. 29, 2004 she won an Oscar for playing a woman named Ruby" Renée Zellweger THE EMERALD ISLE $800 It's the one-word term for the traditional 6 counties known as Northern Ireland Ulster PEARLS OF WISDOM $800 "A Founding Father: ""There never was a good war or a bad peace""" Benjamin Franklin CORAL REEF LIFE $800 "John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, the USA's first underwater park, is just off the coast of this Florida key" Key Largo DIAMONDs IN THE ROUGH $800 Honolulu high spot Diamond Head WHAT A GEM! $800 This December birthstone is the state gem of Arizona & New Mexico turquoise RUBY "$1,200 " She was married to Al Jolson when she starred in those classic 1930s Busby Berkeley musicals Ruby Keeler THE EMERALD ISLE "$1,200 " This U.S. president visited his family's ancestral village of Ballyporeen in 1984 Reagan PEARLS OF WISDOM "$5,000 " "A 17th century writer: ""Angling can be said to be so like the mathematics, that it can never be fully learnt""" Izaak Walton CORAL REEF LIFE "$1,200 " A species of these well-armed creatures known as the crown-of-thorns feasts on coral reefs starfish DIAMONDs IN THE ROUGH "$1,200 " "Carol Channing's Broadway ballad from ""Gentlemen Prefer Blondes""" Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend WHAT A GEM! "$1,200 " Cornflower blue is the most prized color of this gem a sapphire RUBY "$1,600 " "Harry Ruby & Bert Kalmar wrote this classic song about ""eight little letters which simply mean I love you""" Three Little Words THE EMERALD ISLE "$1,600 " This Irish port city on the River Suir is world famous for its crystal Waterford PEARLS OF WISDOM "$1,600 " "A playwright: ""We are all born mad. Some remain so.""" Samuel Beckett CORAL REEF LIFE "$1,600 " "This coral reef dweller seen here can be vicious & has been known to attack underwater divers" a moray eel DIAMONDs IN THE ROUGH "$1,600 " Arkansassy state park near Murfreesboro Crater of Diamonds State Park WHAT A GEM! "$1,600 " Mexico is known for its water & fire varieties of this gem opal RUBY "$2,000 " "In a 1999 TV movie, she played Bessie, of the centenarian Delany sisters" Ruby Dee THE EMERALD ISLE "$2,000 " "At about 230 miles, it's not only the longest river in Ireland, it's the longest in the British Isles" the River Shannon PEARLS OF WISDOM "$2,000 " "A philosopher: ""Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it""" George Santayana CORAL REEF LIFE "$2,000 " "It's a ring-shaped coral island surrounding a lagoon, like Bikini or Eniwetok" an atoll DIAMONDs IN THE ROUGH "$2,000 " This lavish-living turn-of-the-century financier rose from a job as a bellhop Diamond Jim Brady WHAT A GEM! "$2,000 " In 1750 a Parisian jeweler found that heat turns this sherry-colored Brazilian gem pink topaz HISTORIC ENGLISHMEN None "Ironically, he might have saved himself from death in 1779 if he had known how to swim" Captain Cook AUTHORS $200 "During WWII this ""Gone with the Wind"" author was an American Red Cross volunteer & sold war bonds" (Margaret) Mitchell 1987 $200 This British prime minister won a rare third term in June Margaret Thatcher SNACK ATTACK $200 I'll sip a Berries & Kreme Chiller with my hot Original Glazed doughnut from this chain Krispy Kreme BIRDS $200 "It's the type of swan heard here" a trumpeter swan ODDS & ENDS $200 This oil cartel controls 40% of world production OPEC FIRST LADIES' RHYME TIME $200 Mrs. Reagan's whims Nancy's fancies AUTHORS $400 "In 1842 he lived with cannibals in the Taipi Valley in the Marquesas; his novel ""Typee"" was based on the experience" Herman Melville 1987 $400 Pat Cash beat this Czech-born tennis great to win the Wimbledon singles title (Ivan) Lendl SNACK ATTACK $400 "I've got a big appetite, so give me the Big Cup version of this Reese's treat" a peanut butter cup BIRDS $400 "Listen, you white-bellied bustard, I know where you live-- this continent's savanna" Africa ODDS & ENDS $400 The USA's highest occupied office space is the 98th floor of this Chicago structure the Sears Tower FIRST LADIES' RHYME TIME $400 Mrs. Nixon's floor pads for gymnastics Pat's mats AUTHORS $600 "He wrote his last short story, ""The Betrothed"", shortly before his play ""The Cherry Orchard""" Chekhov 1987 $600 "A judge said no custody of ""Baby M"" for this type of mother who'd agreed to bear her for $10,000" a surrogate SNACK ATTACK $600 "I'd love some Honey Apple Raisin Chocolate Cookie ice cream, but this duo purposely misplaced the recipe" Ben & Jerry BIRDS $600 "This bird shown in an illustration is distinguished from the heron by the bustle of feathers over its rump" crane ODDS & ENDS $600 "On April 9, 1963 this Brit was made the first honorary U.S. citizen" Winston Churchill FIRST LADIES' RHYME TIME $600 Mrs. Truman's frocks Bess's dresses AUTHORS $800 "After years of writing science fiction, he found his niche with historical novels such as ""North and South""" (John) Jakes 1987 $800 2 Russians made an impromptu spacewalk outside this space station & found a bag of trash that hindered docking Mir SNACK ATTACK $800 "Wow! The Chocolate Delight snack bar named for this ""Miami"" diet has just 100 calories! I'll have 6 of them" the South Beach diet BIRDS $800 "Perhaps this ""thrush"", a type of babbler, hangs out at comedy clubs with the same-named hyena" laughing thrush ODDS & ENDS $800 "This French tennis star of the 1920s who went on to start a clothing line was known as ""the Crocodile""" (Rene) Lacoste FIRST LADIES' RHYME TIME $800 Mrs. Ford's landing wharfs Betty's jetties AUTHORS "$1,000 " "She first wrote ""Ethan Frome"" in French, then later translated it into English" Edith Wharton 1987 "$1,000 " In October the Senate rejected this former Watergate figure's nomination to the Supreme Court Robert Bork SNACK ATTACK "$1,000 " I could eat a whole bag of this type of snack invented in Saratoga Springs in 1853 potato chips BIRDS $500 "The long legs of the bird seen here give it this name, from a prop used by circus performers" a stilt ODDS & ENDS "$1,000 " "Using beeswax, olive oil, rose petals & water, Galen invented this skin cleanser with a ""frigid"" name c. 200 A.D." cold cream FIRST LADIES' RHYME TIME "$1,000 " Mrs. Bush's luminous radiations Laura's auras MUNICH $400 "In 1634 & 1635 an outbreak of this deadly contagion devastated Munich, killing more than one third of its residents" bubonic plague AI $400 "China or other ceramic objects can also be called this, after the material they're made of" porcelain THE COLOR PURPLE $400 "Established by George Washington in 1782, it can also be given to P.O.W.s who've been mistreated" Purple Heart MINORITY REPORT $400 "A 1936 dissent by Justice Stone accused 6 other justices of a ""tortured construction"" of this document" the Constitution CLOSE ENCOUNTERS $400 "When the earth is at perihelion, it is having its closest encounter with this" the sun SPIELBERG MOVIES $400 Spielberg directed segment 2 of this 1983 movie based on a creepy anthology series Twilight Zone MUNICH $800 "Munich's motto used to be ""die weltstadt mit herz"", the world city with one of these" heart AI $800 "This dictionary term meaning ""old"" is applied to words like ""wast""" archaic THE COLOR PURPLE "$1,500 " "Day of the week in February 2006 when the top of the Empire State Building was lit purple, green & gold" Tuesday MINORITY REPORT $800 "In his first major case as Chief Justice, he found himself in the minority in 2006 as Oregon assisted suicide was okayed" John Roberts CLOSE ENCOUNTERS $800 "In a Wilde tale, an American family in the mansion Canterville Chase encounters this trying to scare them" a ghost SPIELBERG MOVIES $800 "This 1968 short film with a ""strollin"" title lent its name to Spielberg's production company" Amblin MUNICH "$1,200 " The Summer Olympics in Munich in this year were sadly marred by terrorism & tragedy 1972 AI "$1,200 " This often blended rum & juice cocktail is named for a Cuban town daiquiri THE COLOR PURPLE "$1,200 " "Defensive tackle Alan Page was part of the ""purple people eaters"" of this NFL team" the Minnesota Vikings MINORITY REPORT "$1,200 " "Justice Brennan, dissenting in Paris Adult Theater v. Slaton, said this quality is too vaguely defined to regulate" obscenity CLOSE ENCOUNTERS "$1,200 " "He's now a correspondant emeritus for ""60 Minutes""; his memoir ""Close Encounters"" came out in 1984" Mike Wallace SPIELBERG MOVIES "$1,200 " "Spielberg wasn't paid for directing this film; he said it would be ""blood money""" Schindler's List MUNICH "$1,600 " On Munich's coat of arms you'll find one of these religious figures who originally settled the city and gave it its name monk AI "$1,600 " "This 2-word term for a nanny is French for ""equal""" an au pair THE COLOR PURPLE "$1,600 " "2 centuries late, this unstable British king was diagnosed with an excess of purple pigments in the blood" King George III MINORITY REPORT "$1,500 " "Justice Holmes dissented when seditionist Jacob Abrams' conviction was upheld, saying he didn't pose this type of ""danger""" clear and present CLOSE ENCOUNTERS "$1,600 " "On May 13, 1981 he had a close encounter with Mehmet Ali Agca in Rome; he would later visit Agca in prison" Pope John Paul II SPIELBERG MOVIES "$1,600 " 13-year-old Christian Bale starred in this J.G. Ballard tale about a young prisoner in WWII China Empire of the Sun MUNICH "$2,000 " "In the 16th century, Munich was a center of the German phase of this movement against Protestantism" the Counter-Reformation AI "$2,000 " Broad-snouted and smooth-fronted are 2 types of this South American reptile caiman THE COLOR PURPLE "$2,000 " This purple flower is the state flower of Colorado the columbine MINORITY REPORT "$2,000 " "Justice Harlan was an honorable one-man minority in this 1896 decision that enshrined the ""separate but equal"" doctrine" Plessy v. Ferguson CLOSE ENCOUNTERS "$2,000 " "In meteorology, when a cold one has a close encounter with a warm one & takes it over, it's called an occluded one" a front SPIELBERG MOVIES "$2,000 " "Before ""The Blues Brothers"", Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi starred in this WWII farce" 1941 SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY CHARACTERS None "To the consternation of the title character, we learn that this character was born by C-section" Macduff OPERA $200 "Stationed in Seville, Don Jose is bewitched by a gypsy girl in this Bizet opera" Carmen A TOM CRUISE FILM FESTIVAL $200 I lost the Number 1 draft pick the night before the draft! Jerry Maguire BODIES OF WATER $200 In 1975 the United Kingdom began piping oil from this sea to its shores the North Sea OCCUPATION HAZARDS $200 "Chafing from chaps, rope burns from lassos & that saddle horn -- watch where you sit if you're one of these" cowboy PLANT PARENTHOOD $200 "Named for the Virgin Mary, these carnivorous little red beetles can help rid your garden of aphids & other insects" ladybugs PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME $200 Ulysses' trousers Grant's pants OPERA $400 "Like many of his works, this composer's ""Tannhauser"" is based on Germanic legends" (Richard) Wagner A TOM CRUISE FILM FESTIVAL $400 What I wouldn't give for a drop of good old-fashioned Creole blood Interview with the Vampire BODIES OF WATER $400 The St. Mary's River connects Lake Superior to this second-largest Great Lake Lake Huron OCCUPATION HAZARDS $400 If this is you're job you'd be fired if this clue go t by you uncorected proofreader PLANT PARENTHOOD $400 (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in the laboratory) Any glass or plastic container can be used to build one of these self-contained indoor gardens terrariums PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME $400 Arthur's school terms Chester's semesters OPERA "$2,500 " Mozart opera in which the count tries to thwart & postpone his valet's wedding The Marriage of Figaro A TOM CRUISE FILM FESTIVAL $600 I am a Vietnam veteran! I fought for my country! Born on the Fourth of July BODIES OF WATER $600 "12,500' above sea level, this South American lake bordering Bolivia & Peru is the world's most navigable lake" Lake Titicaca OCCUPATION HAZARDS $600 "In this job aiding a medical professional, Angie might get a finger nipped by little Billy while X-raying his molar" dental hygienist PLANT PARENTHOOD $600 "Juniper & maple are good trees to use in this cultivating art whose name means ""plant in a tray"" in Japanese" bonsai PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME $600 Zachary's wardens Taylor's jailers OPERA $800 Musetta has her very own waltz in Act II of this Puccini opera La boheme A TOM CRUISE FILM FESTIVAL $800 "I'm gonna let ya in on a little secret, Ray. K-Mart sucks" Rain Man BODIES OF WATER $800 "At Khartoum, Sudan these colorful branches meet to form the Nile River" the Blue Nile & the White Nile OCCUPATION HAZARDS $800 "He has to listen to his wheels going round, round, round all day & may get a paper cut from a transfer" bus driver PLANT PARENTHOOD $800 "(Sarah of the Clue Crew in the laboratory) A must for any gardener, a soil testing kit is used to take a reading of this level, a measure of acidity" pH level PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME $800 James' egg parts Polk's yolks OPERA "$1,000 " "At 35 he decided for the first time to sit right down & write himself an opera; he produced ""Fidelio""" (Ludwig van) Beethoven A TOM CRUISE FILM FESTIVAL "$1,000 " They're dead...my team is dead...they knew we were coming Mission: Impossible BODIES OF WATER "$1,000 " "After a 1,750-mile trip from Germany, this river breaks into 3 branches in Romania before emptying into the Black Sea" the Danube OCCUPATION HAZARDS "$1,000 " If this is your job you might get brine in your eye after dropping the cucumber in the barrel pickler PLANT PARENTHOOD "$1,000 " "The 3 elements most commonly found in garden fertilizers are phosphorus, potassium & this element" nitrogen PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME "$1,000 " Tyler's conducting sticks John's batons THE ROYALS $400 She was the Virgin Queen or Good Queen Bess Elizabeth I THE TIGERS $400 "Founded by Claire Chennault, these aviators shot down hundreds of Japanese planes during World War II" the Flying Tigers THE GIANTS $400 1 Samuel 17 informs us that the Philistine city of Gath was the home of this giant Goliath THE REDS $400 "This man's most avid supporters during the Cultural Revolution were students mobilized as ""Red Guards""" Mao Tse-tung "THE ""A""s" $400 "Winston Churchill said that this weapon ""brought peace, but man alone can keep that peace""" the atomic bomb BASEBALL HISTORY $400 "In a June 19, 1846 game, J.W. Davis of the N.Y. Nine was fined 6 cents for swearing at this person" the umpire THE ROYALS $800 Louis VI of France was known as this; as a child he must have shopped in le husky department Louis the Fat THE TIGERS $800 "Now endangered, this largest variety of tiger bears the name of a large Russian region" the Siberian tiger THE GIANTS $800 In Lilliput he's a giant Gulliver THE REDS $800 "In the Catholic Church, they wear red hats" cardinals "THE ""A""s" $800 Some scientists believe the dinosaurs died out when one of these interstellar objects struck the Earth an asteroid BASEBALL HISTORY $800 "To injure opposing players, Ty Cobb was said to sharpen these" his spikes THE ROYALS "$1,200 " "Russia's first ruler with this name was called Kalita, meaning ""moneybags""; not so terrible" Ivan THE TIGERS "$1,200 " "Genus sphyraena, this long, thin predatory fish with protruding jaws & teeth is known as the ""tiger of the sea""" barracuda THE GIANTS "$1,200 " "Jett Rink, a poor ranch hand, becomes an oil millionaire in her novel ""Giant""" Edna Ferber THE REDS "$1,200 " "It's the world-famous ""colorful"" area seen here in the 1950s" Red Square "THE ""A""s" "$1,200 " "Whether for a sorcerer or a craft guild, one serves time as one of these before becoming a journeyman" apprentice BASEBALL HISTORY "$1,200 " Topps' 1952 series No. 311 was this player's first card & is a holy grail among collectors Mickey Mantle THE ROYALS $400 "Charles Edward Stuart could have worn a T.Y.P. necklace for ""The Young Pretender"" or a B.P.C. one for this nickname" Bonnie Prince Charlie THE TIGERS "$1,600 " "One of this man's most famous poems begins, ""Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, in the forests of the night""" William Blake THE GIANTS "$1,600 " Giants in the Earth is Ole Rolvaag's novel about immigrants from this country adjusting to life on the prairie Norway THE REDS "$1,600 " "About 1,200 miles long, it has a maximum depth of almost 10,000 feet" the Red Sea "THE ""A""s" "$1,600 " "This ""Khan"" is the spiritual leader of the Ismaili sect of Muslims" the Aga Khan BASEBALL HISTORY "$1,600 " 2 of the 5 cities that had both National League & American League teams in 1903 "(2 of 5) Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis" THE ROYALS "$2,000 " "This first king of Poland was alliteratively nicknamed ""the Brave""" Boleslaw THE TIGERS $500 "The autobiography written by this famous Nepalese was titled ""Tiger of the Snows""" Tenzing Norgay THE GIANTS "$2,000 " Odysseus incurs the wrath of Poseidon by blinding this giant Cyclops Polyphemus THE REDS "$2,000 " The flag of this U.K. division features an impressive red dragon with a forked tongue & tail Wales "THE ""A""s" "$2,000 " In 1841 ex-president John Quincy Adams represented the mutineers of this ship before the Supreme Court the Amistad BASEBALL HISTORY "$2,000 " "During his 22-year career he walked a then-record 2,056 times" Babe Ruth 20th CENTURY NOTABLES None "Einstein said of him, ""Generations to come will scarcely believe"" one such as he ""walked the Earth in flesh & blood""" Mohandas Gandhi CINCO DE MAYO BIRTHDAYS $200 "This co-author of ""Manifest Der Kommunisttischen Partei"" was born May 5, 1818" (Karl) Marx "SAME TITLE, DIFFERENT SONG" $200 "You're nuts if you don't know this title of hits by Seal, Icehouse & Patsy Cline" Crazy LOW TECH $200 "A tactical formation in the form of a V, or an ""issue"" dividing an otherwise unified group" a wedge POLITICIANS MAKE ME CUSS $200 "For Michigan Republican congressman Hoekstra's ""sake!""" Pete's U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200 "This state's largest county, San Bernardino, was divided in 1893 to form Riverside county" California "ALL ""AMERICAN""" $200 "Their publications include ""First Aid Fast"" & a ""Babysitter's Handbook""" the American Red Cross CINCO DE MAYO BIRTHDAYS $400 "Philosopher Soren Kierkegaard was born May 5, 1813 in this capital" Copenhagen "SAME TITLE, DIFFERENT SONG" $400 "The Eagles in 1975 & The Emotions in 1977 both hit No. 1 singing about ""The Best Of"" this" My Love LOW TECH $400 "Ticonderoga is no. 1 in making no. 2 these, introduced in 1913" pencils POLITICIANS MAKE ME CUSS $400 For the love of Wyoming senator Enzi! Mike U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400 Leadville in the Rockies in this state is the USA's highest incorporated city Colorado "ALL ""AMERICAN""" $400 A gorilla named Koko learned to communicate using gestures from this American Sign Language CINCO DE MAYO BIRTHDAYS $600 "Born May 5, 1919, Giorgios Papadopoulos became dictator of this country in 1967" Greece "SAME TITLE, DIFFERENT SONG" $600 "Robbie Nevil & B*witched had tunes called this French phrase meaning ""that's life""" C'est La Vie LOW TECH $600 16 tablespoons equals one of these a cup POLITICIANS MAKE ME CUSS $600 Heavens to ex-New York lieutenant governor McCaughey! Betsy U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600 "At about 1,700 square miles, this saline lake is one of the largest lakes in the world with no outlet" the Salt Lake "ALL ""AMERICAN""" $600 In 2009 this organization that maintains the largest registry for purebred dogs celebrated its 125th anniversary the American Kennel Club CINCO DE MAYO BIRTHDAYS $800 This May-5 born Monty Python member & BBC travel filmmaker is a commando of the Order of the British Empire (Michael) Palin "SAME TITLE, DIFFERENT SONG" $800 Sammy Davis Jr. in 1972 & Christina Aguilera in 2007 sang about this sweet guy Candyman LOW TECH $800 "This brand says its ""magic"" tape is ""the original matte-finish, invisible tape""" Scotch POLITICIANS MAKE ME CUSS $800 Geez House Rules Committee ranking Democrat Slaughter Louise U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800 "Nome, Alaska lies on this peninsula named for a 19th century Secretary of State" the Seward peninsula "ALL ""AMERICAN""" $800 "When Iowa farmers & their wives first saw this 1930 painting of a farm couple, many of them were downright angry" American Gothic CINCO DE MAYO BIRTHDAYS "$1,000 " "A culinary foundation is named for this dean of American cookery who was born in Portland May 5, 1903" James Beard "SAME TITLE, DIFFERENT SONG" "$1,000 " Sticky-sweet title of no. 1s for Bobby Goldsboro in 1968 & Mariah Carey in 1997 Honey LOW TECH "$1,000 " "11-letter word for embroidery on canvas, with uniform spacing of stitches in a pattern" needlepoint POLITICIANS MAKE ME CUSS "$1,000 " "South Carolina legislator John ""O'Goshen!""" land U.S. GEOGRAPHY "$1,000 " "(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The northwest angle belongs to the U.S., although it doesn't look that way; it's the only part of the lower 48 that extends miles north of this parallel of latitude" the 49th parallel "ALL ""AMERICAN""" $500 "In 2009 the U.S. Mint issued a quarter for this territory featuring an ava bowl, a whisk & a coconut tree" American Samoa SCIENTISTS $400 This man's injected dead virus vaccine inspired Albert Sabin's live-virus oral vaccine for polio (Jonas) Salk ELIZABETH TAYLOR FILMS $400 "This 1963 epic included 79 sets & 26,000 costumes" Cleopatra WHY SO BLUE? $400 Utah's state tree is the blue type of this evergreen the spruce JURY DUTY $400 A deadlocked jury is this 4-letter word hung WHEN IN ROME? $400 The U.S. Fifth Army comes to town: June 4 of this year 1944 EPONYMS $400 This 2-word term for a skeptic refers to one of Jesus' apostles a doubting Thomas SCIENTISTS $800 "This naturalist wrote, ""for my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey""" (Charles) Darwin ELIZABETH TAYLOR FILMS $800 "Variety called it ""a horse picture"" with ""a new dramatic find-- moppet Elizabeth Taylor""" National Velvet WHY SO BLUE? $800 "Seen here, a Navajo bracelet features this mineral" turquoise JURY DUTY $800 This type of jury charged with deciding whether there's enough evidence to try a person may have up to 23 members a grand jury WHEN IN ROME? $800 Michaelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel: this century the 16th EPONYMS $800 This big hair style is derived from the title of a mistress of Louis XV a madame pompadour SCIENTISTS "$1,200 " "Despite his advocacy of megadoses of vitamin c, he & his wife Ava got cancer" Linus Pauling ELIZABETH TAYLOR FILMS "$1,200 " Mike Todd was killed in a plane crash while Liz was making this film in which she played Maggie Pollitt Cat on a Hot Tin Roof WHY SO BLUE? "$1,200 " This jeweler's blue box is a registered trademark Tiffany JURY DUTY "$1,200 " The general type of this military tribunal must have at least 5 members & the defense attorney may be military or civilian court martial WHEN IN ROME? "$1,200 " Mussolini becomes prime minister: this decade the 1920s EPONYMS "$2,400 " "To abstain from buying or doing trade with, in honor of an Irish landlord against whom such tactics were used" to boycott SCIENTISTS "$2,000 " This Russian's work on gastrointestinal secretions in animals earned him a Nobel prize Pavlov ELIZABETH TAYLOR FILMS "$1,600 " Liz won an Oscar for her role as a battlesome wife in this adaptation of an Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? WHY SO BLUE? "$1,600 " "The vase seen here is made from this semiprecious stone" lapis lazuli JURY DUTY "$1,600 " In the Manson trial this isolation of a jury to protect it from outside influences lasted 8 1/2 months sequestering WHEN IN ROME? "$1,600 " Rome burns while an emperor relaxes in his villa at Antium: this century 1st (A.D.) EPONYMS "$1,600 " "This ancient king of Lydia, thought the wealthiest man on earth, had the Midas touch, hence the phrase ""as rich as"" him" Croesus SCIENTISTS "$2,000 " He discovered that the observed frequency of light waves is affected by the relative motion of the source & detector Doppler ELIZABETH TAYLOR FILMS "$2,000 " "James Dean, Rock Hudson & Liz formed a love triangle in this Texas-set film" Giant WHY SO BLUE? "$2,000 " "The blue type of this game fish, M. Nigricans, has a long pointed bill" a marlin JURY DUTY "$2,000 " "In selecting jurors, an attorney may reject some for no stated reason-- this type of challenge" a peremptory challenge WHEN IN ROME? "$2,000 " "Charlemagne is crowned emperor by Pope Leo III: this day, 800 A.D." Christmas EPONYMS "$2,000 " "This flower seen here is named for a German botanist" a zinnia WORLD LEADERS None "Shortly after he received the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, his country ceased to exist" Mikhail Gorbachev I HAVE A PREPOSITION FOR YOU $200 "This word meaning ""for each"" precedes annum or diem" per 2011 MOVIES $200 "In ""Rise of the Planet of the Apes"" the name of the fictional drug ALZ112 indicates it's a possible treatment for this" Alzheimer's GOING TO PIECES $200 "This type of ""piece"" sounds like a smoking pipe, but it's an article written to flatter or glorify the subject" a puff piece GROUP COUNTDOWN $200 "In this sporting quintet, the center is considered No. 5 when diagramming plays" a basketball team THE LAST BATTLE $200 The Siege of Yorktown the American Revolution THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $200 "In his acceptance speech, Pres. Obama quoted this 1964 American recipient saying, ""violence never brings permanent peace""" (Martin Luther) King (Jr.) I HAVE A PREPOSITION FOR YOU $400 5-letter word meaning less by the subtraction of; don't overthink it minus 2011 MOVIES $400 Emma Stone starred as aspiring writer Skeeter Phelan in this '60s-set drama based on a novel The Help GOING TO PIECES $400 "Every Christmas, the Indiana post office in the town named for him postmarks a half a million pieces of mail" Santa Claus GROUP COUNTDOWN $400 A foursome is required to play this game where you try to win the rubber bridge THE LAST BATTLE $400 The Battle of New Orleans the War of 1812 THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $400 "(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Nobel Peace Prize Center in Oslo, Norway.) Henry Dunant, who founded this international organization that works to relieve suffering, won a share of the first Peace Prize in 1901; since then, the organization itself has won an unprecedented three prizes" the Red Cross I HAVE A PREPOSITION FOR YOU $600 "It's the ""A"" in the advocacy group known as MADD" Against 2011 MOVIES $600 "He was busy in 2011, with parts in ""Paul"", ""Horrible Bosses"" & ""The Change-Up""" (Jason) Bateman GOING TO PIECES $600 "The U.S. hasn't minted these, between a penny & a nickel, since 1872" a two-cent coin GROUP COUNTDOWN $600 "If Andy yearns for Brenda & Brenda cares about Charlene who pines for Andy, the 3 of them form one of these" a love triangle THE LAST BATTLE $600 The Battle of the Meuse-Argonne World War I THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $600 1997's prize went in part to an international group trying to clear these from the world land mines I HAVE A PREPOSITION FOR YOU $800 "Neil Gaiman wrote, ""Now slip, now slide, now move unseen, above, beneath, betwixt,"" this" between 2011 MOVIES $800 "Known for his work as a Shakespearean actor, he directed ""Thor""" (Kenneth) Branagh GOING TO PIECES $800 5-letter archaeological term for a broken scrap of earthenware a shard GROUP COUNTDOWN $800 "In interrogation, one officer who acts threatening & another who comes on nicer to win the suspect's trust" "good cop, bad cop" THE LAST BATTLE "$1,000 " The Battle of Chapultepec the Mexican-American War THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $800 "This U.N. agency, created in 1946 to aid children in Europe, won the 1965 Peace Prize" UNICEF I HAVE A PREPOSITION FOR YOU "$1,000 " "It means against, & is also a prefix found before -diction" contra 2011 MOVIES "$1,000 " Kate Bosworth & James Marsden star in the 2011 remake of this Sam Peckinpah film Straw Dogs GOING TO PIECES "$1,000 " "From the Latin for ""of the night"", these pensive musical pieces were popularized by Chopin & Bartok" nocturnes GROUP COUNTDOWN "$1,000 " "It can mean ""one"" or a military entity like the army's Third Armored Division" unit THE LAST BATTLE "$1,000 " The Battle of Bosworth the Wars of the Roses THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE "$1,000 " "This 1990 winner said it was ""a recognition of what we call perestroika and innovative political thinking""" Gorbachev WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? $400 "In an essay Woolf wrote, ""A woman must have money and a"" this ""of her own... to write fiction""" a room of one's own CARBON CREDITS $400 "This gas, CO, prevents hemoglobin from supplying oxygen to the body" carbon monoxide THEIR 4th TOP 40 HIT OF THE '60s $400 "1964: ""Please Please Me""" The Beatles 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $400 James K. Polk is the only president to have previously held this position in the House of Representatives Speaker IT CAME FROM THE NEW WORLD $400 "In 1604 King James I called this plant a ""perpetual stinking torment"" & ""dangerous to the lungs""; he was right" tobacco TRANSLATION EXERCISES $400 "Yiddish to French: The polite ""a sheynem dank""" merci beaucoup WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? $800 "Virginia's father Sir Leslie Stephen was earlier married to a daughter of this ""Vanity Fair"" author" Thackeray CARBON CREDITS $800 This 2-word study of living things is primarily devoted to carbon compounds organic chemistry THEIR 4th TOP 40 HIT OF THE '60s $800 "1965: ""My Girl""" The Temptations 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $800 "This U.S. president was named for his great-grandfather, a signer of the Declaration of Independence" Benjamin Harrison IT CAME FROM THE NEW WORLD $800 "Christopher Columbus sampled this grain in Cuba, declaring it ""most tasty boiled, roasted or ground into flour""" corn (or maize) TRANSLATION EXERCISES $800 "Turkish to Spanish: Relatively speaking, ""anne"" & ""baba""" madre y padre WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? "$6,000 " "This 1928 title character begins as a man & ends, almost 400 years later, as a young woman (but not in Florida)" Orlando CARBON CREDITS "$1,200 " "AKA black lead, this form of carbon has a greasy feel & is used in making lubricants" graphite THEIR 4th TOP 40 HIT OF THE '60s "$1,200 " "1963: ""Walk Like A Man""" Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS "$1,200 " "The time of his administration was known as ""the Era of Good Feelings""" Monroe IT CAME FROM THE NEW WORLD "$1,200 " This fruit from the family Bromeliaceae is native to Brazil & Paraguay; it didn't reach Hawaii until the early 1500s the pineapple TRANSLATION EXERCISES "$1,200 " "Portuguese to Russian: The positive ""sim""" da WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? "$1,600 " "In 1904 Virginia & her siblings moved to this London district, where they would host ""group"" gatherings" Bloomsbury CARBON CREDITS "$1,600 " "This carbon isotope, 2 down from radiocarbon, is the standard for the relative atomic mass of other elements" C-12 (or carbon-12) THEIR 4th TOP 40 HIT OF THE '60s "$1,600 " "1967: ""Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon""" Neil Diamond 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS "$1,600 " "Pre-Civil War president considered by some to have been the handsomest" (Franklin) Pierce IT CAME FROM THE NEW WORLD "$1,600 " "When this member of the nightshade family reached Italy, it was known as pomi d'oro, or gold apple" a tomato TRANSLATION EXERCISES "$1,600 " "Polish to Latin: ""Bog"", a divine word" deus WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? "$2,000 " "Michael Cunningham's ""The Hours"" was inspired by this novel that Woolf originally called ""The Hours""" Mrs. Dalloway CARBON CREDITS "$2,000 " "The atoms in a diamond are arranged in this ""4-faced"" pyramid-shaped pattern, giving it a rigid structure" tetrahedral THEIR 4th TOP 40 HIT OF THE '60s "$2,000 " "1963: ""You've Really Got A Hold On Me""" Smokey Robinson and the Miracles 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS "$2,000 " "On Nov. 2, 1880 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Ohio, a senator-elect & president-elect" Garfield IT CAME FROM THE NEW WORLD "$5,000 " "Also known as butter beans, they were, prior to being exported to Europe, a diet staple of the Inca" lima beans TRANSLATION EXERCISES "$2,000 " "Swahili to German: The magic word ""tafadhali""" bitte COUNTRIES' HIGHEST PEAKS None "These 2 nations, one an island, have highest peaks with the same name; they also share a common European culture" Greece & Cyprus SNL CELEBRITY JEOPARDY! $200 "As he did in ""Anchorman"", Will Ferrell sports this facial feature in the ""SNL"" ""Jeopardy!"" skits" a mustache STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE $200 The Franklin Pierce Law Center & Christa McAuliffe Planetarium can be found in this capital of New Hampshire Concord WHAT COLOR IS GREEN? $200 "God did make these, & some of them are Granny Smiths" (little green) apples CURRENT BLACK PRESIDENTS $200 "Africa's oldest democracy, this nation headed by Pres. Ian Khama is mainly made up of the Tswana people" Botswana SOUNDS THAT KITTIES MAKE $200 This sound made by lions can carry 5 miles a roar TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE WORD THAT RHYMES WITH STAR $200 "Proverbial food storage container where your ""hand is caught"" when busted for taking a bribe" the cookie jar SNL CELEBRITY JEOPARDY! $400 "Darrell Hammond played this Scottish actor who... Nope, I can't say anything else; just name him" Sean Connery STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE $400 "New Hampshire is bounded to the north by this Canadian province, the country's largest in area" Quebec WHAT COLOR IS GREEN? $400 "Lincoln Green is also called this green, where you might see it were it not for the trees" a forest CURRENT BLACK PRESIDENTS $400 "Taking over from his assassinated father in 2001, Joseph Kabila is the president of this country abbreviated D.R.C." the Democratic Republic of the Congo SOUNDS THAT KITTIES MAKE $400 This sound of aggression from a domestic cat is also produced by vipers a hiss TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE WORD THAT RHYMES WITH STAR $400 "A 1-pound tin of premium sevruga this can go for more than $2,000" caviar SNL CELEBRITY JEOPARDY! $600 "Norm MacDonald played this ""Smokey and the Bandit"" star who had a slight problem IDing Pat Morita's ancestry" Burt Reynolds STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE $600 "Chartered in 1769, this Ivy League school is N.H.'s oldest & ranks among the 10 oldest U.S. colleges" Dartmouth WHAT COLOR IS GREEN? $600 "This old song says, ""Alas, my love, you do me wrong, to cast me off discourteously""" Greensleeves CURRENT BLACK PRESIDENTS $600 Troubles with neighboring Somalia & Eritrea surely occupy President Girma Woldegiorgis of this country Ethiopia SOUNDS THAT KITTIES MAKE $600 "In ""The Maltese Falcon"", Dashiell Hammett wrote, ""'That will be excellent,' Gutman"" did this" purred TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE WORD THAT RHYMES WITH STAR $600 Django Reinhardt was a master of this instrument the guitar SNL CELEBRITY JEOPARDY! $800 "Ben Stiller played this star of ""The Firm"" on a show where one category was ""FOODS THAT END IN 'AMBURGER'""" Tom Cruise STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE $800 New Hampshire's Squam Lakes provided the title location for this 1981 Fonda & Hepburn film On Golden Pond WHAT COLOR IS GREEN? $800 This American political party that formed in 1874 favored an increase in paper currency the Greenback Party CURRENT BLACK PRESIDENTS $600 President Laurent Gbagbo heads this country that goes by its French name most of the time Côte d'Ivoire (the Ivory Coast) SOUNDS THAT KITTIES MAKE $800 "This threatening sound can also mean ""to become tangled""" snarled TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE WORD THAT RHYMES WITH STAR $800 "The incarnation of a god in Hindu myth, or an Internet graphical image representing a person" an avatar SNL CELEBRITY JEOPARDY! "$1,000 " "Kristen Wiig played this ""Today"" co-host, who, like so many of our players, brought Chardonnay on stage" Kathie Lee Gifford STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE "$1,000 " "Also the name of a ""United"" city in England, this city lies along the banks of the Merrimack River" Manchester WHAT COLOR IS GREEN? "$1,000 " "This play says, ""Beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster""" Othello CURRENT BLACK PRESIDENTS "$1,000 " President Amadou Toure has led this Saharan nation with a 4-letter name since 2002 Mali SOUNDS THAT KITTIES MAKE "$1,000 " "Starting around 1922, this phrase meant something excellent or desirable" the cat's meow TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE WORD THAT RHYMES WITH STAR "$1,000 " This animal's scientific name is Panthera onca jaguar WORDS OF LOVE $400 "He concludes ""The Divine Comedy"" with ""The love that moves the sun and the other stars""" Dante NEEDY NO.1 HITMAKERS $400 "1964: ""I Want To Hold Your Hand""" The Beatles FRUIT $400 "The name of this fruit, genus Prunus, can precede picker, pie & Coke" cherry ENDS WITH 3 VOWELS $400 Hawaiian feast a luau DON'T BE A PAIN $400 This drug marketed as Advil & Nuprin reduces pain by inhibiting chemicals that cause inflammation ibuprofen A JOURNEY THROUGH ISRAEL $400 "(Alex reports from the Western Wall in Jerusalem.) In Jewish circles, the Wailing Wall became known as the Western Wall after this 1967 war & the reunification of Jerusalem" the Six-Day War WORDS OF LOVE $800 "Marlowe rhymed, ""Where both deliberate, the love is slight; who ever loved, that loved not at"" this?" first sight NEEDY NO.1 HITMAKERS $800 "1987: ""I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)""" (Whitney) Houston FRUIT $800 More than 50 medications are affected by the juice of this citrus fruit; its enzymes break down the meds grapefruit ENDS WITH 3 VOWELS $800 "Pierre's ""farewell""" adieu DON'T BE A PAIN $800 "To control pain, some patients try this technique in which they monitor their body functions & try to alter them" biofeedback A JOURNEY THROUGH ISRAEL $800 "(Sarah of the Clue Crew is in a boat.) 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This ruined fortress atop a mesa is where thousands of Israeli soldiers have taken an oath swearing that it shall not fall again" Masada WORDS OF LOVE "$2,000 " "In her first passion woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love, he wrote in ""Don Juan""" Byron NEEDY NO.1 HITMAKERS "$2,000 " "1970: ""I Want You Back""" The Jackson 5 FRUIT "$2,000 " Fraise is French for this fruit strawberry ENDS WITH 3 VOWELS "$2,000 " Environment or setting milieu DON'T BE A PAIN "$2,000 " "There are several types of these nerve cells: some respond to temperature, some to pressure & some to pain" sensory receptors A JOURNEY THROUGH ISRAEL "$2,000 " "(Alex floats in the Dead Sea.) Floating in the Dead Sea is easy; now what keeps me buoyant? 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