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MEDICINE
In 1905 German scientist Alfred Einhorn created this first injectable local anesthetic used in dentistry
Time's up! The correct answer was novocaine
ANAGRAMMED CABINET DEPARTMENTS
Idea count
Time's up! The correct answer was Education
"GENERAL" JOB INFORMATION
The U.N.'s website says this job is "a spokesman for the interests of the world's peoples, in particular the poor"
Time's up! The correct answer was the Secretary-General
STATE GOVERNMENT
The counties of Iowa & Arizona are headed by boards of these
Time's up! The correct answer was supervisors
CNN
He & Robert Novak have worked together since 1963 & now co-anchor a CNN discussion program
Time's up! The correct answer was Rowland Evans
EPITAPHS & TRIBUTES
Signer of the Dec. of Indep., framer of the Constitution of Mass., second President of the United States
Time's up! The correct answer was John Adams
EXPLORERS
Louis Antoine de Bougainville arrived at this island in 1768 & natives gave him fowls, fruit & naked women
Time's up! The correct answer was Tahiti
NBA HALL OF FAMERS
In 2000 this former Celtics player coached the Indiana Pacers to the NBA finals
Time's up! The correct answer was Larry Bird
GENERAL SCIENCE
This tiny planet's thin atmosphere is mostly composed of helium & sodium thought to come from the solar wind
Time's up! The correct answer was Mercury
THEIR 4th TOP 40 HIT OF THE '60s
1963: "Walk Like A Man"
Time's up! The correct answer was Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
MASTER OF PUPPETS
This 2004 Matt Stone & Trey Parker film featured risque marionettes
Time's up! The correct answer was Team America
JEWELRY
Josiah Wedgwood designed these jewelry pieces using a white paste relief on a colored backgorund
Time's up! The correct answer was Cameos
THE TITANIC
Gates prevented 700 of these passengers from getting up to the main deck, though they didn't stop Leo in the movie
Time's up! The correct answer was third class
MASTER OF PUPPETS
Named for its early 19th century creator, bunraku is the traditional puppet theater of this country
Time's up! The correct answer was Japan
MUSICALS
This show opens with a Ziegfeld star waiting for her husband to be released from prison
Time's up! The correct answer was "Funny Girl"
THE SATURDAY EVENING POST
In the March 17, 1956 issue, Gary Cooper said, "In Westerns you were permitted to kiss" this "but never your girl"
Time's up! The correct answer was your horse
NAME THE WORK
Cervantes: "At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember"
Time's up! The correct answer was Don Quixote
FOUND
Fritz & Laura Perls founded this school of psychotherapy, from German for "form"
Time's up! The correct answer was Gestalt
DRESSING
2-word, somewhat contradictory-sounding term for the NBA's player dress code that allows dress slacks or khakis
Time's up! The correct answer was business casual
JERSEY GIRLS
Doing laundry in the sink, this "Jersey Shore" girl aka Nicole Polizzi said, "I feel like a pilgrim from the friggin' '20s"
Time's up! The correct answer was Snooki
OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS BY SPORT
1904: Thomas Kiely, with 6,036 points; 2000: Erki Nool, with 8,641
Time's up! The correct answer was the decathlon
2011 MOVIES
Emma Stone starred as aspiring writer Skeeter Phelan in this '60s-set drama based on a novel
Time's up! The correct answer was The Help
PRINCETON
In 1974 this Princeton grad & PBS host wrote "How to Make Money in Wall Street"
Time's up! The correct answer was Louis Rukeyser
THE "CO"-CATEGORY
In 2009 Paul McCartney headlined this music fest near Palm Springs, California
Time's up! The correct answer was Coachella
TAKE-OFFS
"Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry" is a satirical type of this guide
Time's up! The correct answer was a travel guide
MEASURING DEVICES
A spirometer measures the capacity of these organs
Time's up! The correct answer was the lungs
POOR & FAMOUS
She fled her rich Assisi family to found an order of "poor" nuns
Time's up! The correct answer was Saint Clare
THE 1960s
Turning down ABA offer of 3,500 head of cattle & 40,000 acre ranch in 1969, he signed with NBA Bucks
Time's up! The correct answer was Lew Alcindor
U.S. COLLEGES
Swarthmore College of Pennsylvania has a historical library devoted to this religious group that founded it
Time's up! The correct answer was Quakers
SONGS
A standard song says of this "fickle friend", it "came blowin' in from across the sea"
Time's up! The correct answer was "The Summer Wind"
SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN
In the 1st act, before he's king, this title character woos the newly-widowed Lady Anne
Time's up! The correct answer was Richard III
THE SUMMER OLYMPICS
In the Olympic 400-meter relay final, this many runners compete together as a team
Time's up! The correct answer was 4
CANADIAN CAPITALS
This Alberta capital is called the Gateway to the North
Time's up! The correct answer was Edmonton
WHAM-O
In 1997 Wham-O introduced a Max Flight version of this 1950s sensation that flew farther & was easy to catch
Time's up! The correct answer was the Frisbee
PLAY REVIVALS
He starred on Broadway in "The Crucible" in 1991, a few years before becoming president (on TV, that is)
Time's up! The correct answer was Martin Sheen
SOUNDS LIKE A CAPITAL CITY
Is old-time ballplayer Yogi able to?
Time's up! The correct answer was Canberra
OF "RATH"
It's an adjective meaning really, really angry
Time's up! The correct answer was wrathful
BUT IS IT ART?
The work of "Artists Barely in Control of the Brush" is seen at Boston's MOBA, museum of this art
Time's up! The correct answer was Bad art
"SIDE" EFFECTS
A trial judge may call this conference with the attorneys, out of the jury's hearing
Time's up! The correct answer was sidebar
THE "FIRST" STATE
This nuclear capability is designed to completely knock out an enemy's ability to respond to your attack
Time's up! The correct answer was first strike
THE MIDDLE AGES
2 types of these which were especially popular during the Middle Ages were "Miracle" & "Morality"
Time's up! The correct answer was Types of plays
ANAGRAMMED CABINET DEPARTMENTS
Send fee
Time's up! The correct answer was Defense
POLITICS & SHOW BIZ
Actress & Congresswoman Helen Gahagan took this last name when she wed Oscar-winning actor Melvyn
Time's up! The correct answer was Douglas
AMERICAN HISTORY
John O'Sullivan, who later became a diplomat, coined this term for the USA's right to cover the continent
Time's up! The correct answer was Manifest Destiny
CLOTHING WORDS
A score of 22-22, for instance
Time's up! The correct answer was tie
CAMERA
In 1986 Kodak left the instant camera business after a judge found it had violated this company's patents
Time's up! The correct answer was Polaroid
BASIC SCIENCE
Graphite is a soft form of this element
Time's up! The correct answer was carbon
REAL TO REEL
African captives revolt aboard their slave ship & then have to stand trial in this movie based on an 1839 event
Time's up! The correct answer was Amistad
A REALLY BIG CATEGORY
Until it met disaster in 1912, it was the largest & most luxurious passenger ship afloat
Time's up! The correct answer was Titanic
LIT MY FIRE
The burning of Moscow after Napoleon's exit is dramatized in this Tolstoy novel
Time's up! The correct answer was War and Peace
TREES
Continent on which the densest, tallest & most valuable stand of timber is found
Time's up! The correct answer was North America
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
It has the largest enrollment of any university in Utah
Time's up! The correct answer was Brigham Young
6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR
Esmeralda & Claude Frollo
Time's up! The correct answer was Hugo
EXPLORERS
His 1497-98 voyage to India opened the 1st all-water trade route between Europe & Asia
Time's up! The correct answer was Vasco da Gama
NAME THE FILM
1939: "I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"
Time's up! The correct answer was The Wizard Of Oz
WORKING ON THE RAILROAD
This semipublic corporation that operates intercity U.S. passenger trains was created by Congress in 1970
Time's up! The correct answer was Amtrak
GUINNESS RECORDS
With 2,685, Bralanda, Sweden was the site of the largest gathering of these holiday personalities
Time's up! The correct answer was Santa Claus
SIGNS & SYMBOLS
Baby, you're going to be a star, & we're going to put you next to this symbol on Turkey's flag
Time's up! The correct answer was a crescent
CONGRESSIONAL MISDEMEANORS
In 1954 this Wisconsin senator ws condemned for insulting other senators & obstructing investigations
Time's up! The correct answer was McCarthy
CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY, EH?
Appropriately, New Glasgow is in this Canadian province
Time's up! The correct answer was Nova Scotia
BACKWARDS
In T minus 5 seconds, you'll say this word for the inverted series used before a rocket launch
Time's up! The correct answer was a countdown
CHAD IS RAD
It's the country directly north of Chad
Time's up! The correct answer was Libya
ANCIENT HISTORY
This Old Kingdom capital of Egypt was originally named Hikouptah
Time's up! The correct answer was Memphis
"IRA"
The lady was quite overcome by this moisture exuded by the muscular estate gardener
Time's up! The correct answer was perspiration
IN THE TREASURY DEPT.
This service quarantines animals & can stop you from bringing sausages into the country
Time's up! The correct answer was Customs
GEORGIAN ON MY MIND
Dinah Shore, Sally Field & Loni Anderson were longtime loves of this hunk from Waycross
Time's up! The correct answer was Burt Reynolds
FOLKIES
The times they were a-changin' when this folk icon went electric at the 1965 Newport Festival
Time's up! The correct answer was Bob Dylan
HOMOPHONES
It's a sausage, or the absolute least best
Time's up! The correct answer was wurst/worst
COLORS
The 3 colors that make up the dots on a color TV screen
Time's up! The correct answer was blue, green, and red
YOU'RE AN ANIMAL!
The dwarf variety of this cold-blooded killer is seen here
Time's up! The correct answer was Crocodile
SPORTS NAME ORIGINS
This racket sport takes its name from the country home of the 19th century Duke of Beaufort
Time's up! The correct answer was Badminton
NUTRITION
For an active woman, 20 to 25 percent of her total calorie intake should be from this; don't go all Jack Sprat
Time's up! The correct answer was fat
IT'S GREEK MYTHOLOGY TO ME
Atalanta excelled in this blood sport of which Artemis was goddess
Time's up! The correct answer was hunting
NEPAL
Told to jump from 600 feet, these tough Nepalese soldiers, not knowing they'd get chutes, said 300 feet was easier
Time's up! The correct answer was Gurkhas
ENGLISH ROYAL HENRYS
These 2 warring royal houses were united in 1486 when Henry VII married Elizabeth, the daughter of Edward IV
Time's up! The correct answer was Lancaster & York
TELEVISION
"Cosmetic" name of the magazine that's the focus of "Just Shoot Me", or what its racier episodes may make you do
Time's up! The correct answer was Blush
REMEMBER THE TIME
In 1958 this country launched its second 5-year plan, called "The Great Leap Forward"
Time's up! The correct answer was China
THEATRE AROUND THE WORLD
There's a "method" behind his founding of the Moscow Art Theatre with Nemirovich-Danchenko
Time's up! The correct answer was Stanislavski
AMERICAN LITERATURE
He lived for several weeks among the cannibalistic Typee before he wrote the book of the same name
Time's up! The correct answer was Herman Melville
ARTS & CRAFTS
It's the oven or furnace in which pottery is fired
Time's up! The correct answer was a kiln
THE NORTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY
Hanoi, Phnom Penh, Rangoon, Vientiane
Time's up! The correct answer was Hanoi
THE SUMMER OLYMPICS
Throwing events include this one, the hurling of a spearlike shaft
Time's up! The correct answer was the javelin
NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS
Garry Wills used a lot more than 272 words writing "Lincoln at" this place, which won him a 1993 Pulitzer
Time's up! The correct answer was Gettysburg
U.S. PORT CITIES
Among the top 40 busiest ports in the U.S. are these Northeast & Northwest cities with the same name
Time's up! The correct answer was Portland
STARTS WITH A PRONOUN
It can mean transparently thin, or perfectly vertical, like a cliff
Time's up! The correct answer was sheer
POLITICAL TALK
Lincoln once said not to "swap" these "while crossing a stream"
Time's up! The correct answer was horses
NONFICTION
This book by Michael Lewis subtitled "Evolution of a Game" focused on left tackle prodigy Michael Oher
Time's up! The correct answer was The Blind Side
5-LETTER WORDS
One who steals by stealth: Thessalonians speaks of one "in the night"
Time's up! The correct answer was a thief
ALWAYS SAY NEVER
Shelley said of this, "Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert!"; Wordsworth said they "soar but never roam"
Time's up! The correct answer was a skylark
ACTING PRESIDENTS ON TV
Dennis Haysbert & D.B. Woodside as David & Wayne Palmer, respectively
Time's up! The correct answer was 24
"H" CITIES
This city's Atomic Bomb Dome, a structure left unrebuilt after WWII, has become a symbol of the peace movement
Time's up! The correct answer was Hiroshima
CENTRAL PARK
Central Park has a statue of King Wladyslaw II Jagiello of this country, who was also Grand Duke of Lithuania
Time's up! The correct answer was Poland
"EVER"S
Chris Rock narrated this show, loosely based on his childhood
Time's up! The correct answer was Everybody Hates Chris
POETIC TERMS
A deliberate violation of the rules of rhyming or grammar, not a little piece of paper from the DMV
Time's up! The correct answer was poetic license
MUSIC VIDEOS
Her video for "Baby It's You" features Bow Wow & takes place at an amusement park
Time's up! The correct answer was Jojo
FAMOUS NAMES
Creator of "The Cisco Kid", William Sidney Porter was better known by this name
Time's up! The correct answer was O. Henry
TEENS IN HISTORY
She was a teenage farm girl when she beat the famous marksman Frank Butler in an 1870s shooting match
Time's up! The correct answer was Annie Oakley
TOM JONES
It's not odd that this 1965 song is heard in the 1998 film "Little Voice"
Time's up! The correct answer was "It's Not Unusual"
KIDS IN BOOKS
Mowgli is the human kid hanging out in the woods with wolves & tigers in this Rudyard Kipling "Book"
Time's up! The correct answer was "The Jungle Book"
SCIENCE GUYS
His grandfather Erasmus argued in favor of evolution 60 years before he took up the cause himself
Time's up! The correct answer was Darwin
THRILLER
This author made a University of Virginia law professor the protagonist of his 2002 novel "The Summons"
Time's up! The correct answer was Grisham
BALLET
A new ballet about this puppet who yearns to be a boy had it's U.S. premiere in Atlanta in 2000
Time's up! The correct answer was Pinocchio
EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT IT...
Africa's lowest temperature was 11 degrees below zero in 1935 at Ifrane, just south of Fez in this country
Time's up! The correct answer was Morocco
THEN THERE'S MAUVE
Bella Donna Mauve is in the Color Riche line of these made by L'Oreal
Time's up! The correct answer was lipsticks
FEMINISM
The profession of Mary Prance in Henry James' 1886 "The Bostonians", it was about 1/5 female in Boston at the time
Time's up! The correct answer was a physician
BEFORE & AFTER
"Thin" piece of disputed Israeli-Palestinian land involved in a clothes-shedding card game
Time's up! The correct answer was Gaza Strip Poker
OF MILK
This sugar makes up almost all the carbohydrates in milk
Time's up! The correct answer was lactose
A PRAIRIE PRIMER
The largest cities in Canada's "Prairie Provinces" are Edmonton & Calgary in this one
Time's up! The correct answer was Alberta
CODES
1968's Nobel Prize in Medicine was for "interpretation of" this "code and its function in protein synthesis"
Time's up! The correct answer was the genetic code
THE "BUTLER" DID IT
The mission statement of this school says it's located "In...Indianapolis, one of America's most livable cities"
Time's up! The correct answer was Butler University
HELLO, DELI!
Someone pass me this noodle pudding filled with raisins & nuts
Time's up! The correct answer was kugel
1957
He ended his brief retirement to become chairman & president of Occidental Petroleum
Time's up! The correct answer was Armand Hammer
ARCHITECTURE
From 1617 to 1642 everyone was keeping up with this Jones, surveyor of works to the British Crown
Time's up! The correct answer was Inigo
GET SMART
A study of 3,500 Japanese men's brains found those who did this in moderation aged better than those who didn't
Time's up! The correct answer was drank alcohol
PUT ON YOUR JAMIES
This comic was Bundini Brown in "Ali" & Steamin' Beamen in "Any Given Sunday"
Time's up! The correct answer was Jamie Foxx
FAMOUS NAMES
Ines de la Fressange was a Chanel model when she was chosen to represent this French symbol
Time's up! The correct answer was Marianne
THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK AFTER...
Numbers
Time's up! The correct answer was Deuteronomy
...& THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON!
Noted for their "feathery" legs, these Scottish draft horses were taken to North America in 1842, Bud
Time's up! The correct answer was Clydesdales
YOUTH IN ASIA
With songs like "Fly Away", rock star Cui Jian is one of the leading pop musicians from this Asian country
Time's up! The correct answer was China
FEMALE ATHLETES
This track star was nicknamed "Flo-Jo"
Time's up! The correct answer was Florence Griffith-Joyner
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS
In Act 1, Scene 1 of "Macbeth" this trio vanishes in "the fog and filthy air"
Time's up! The correct answer was the three witches
AIRLINE TRAVEL
In 2003 this airline agreed to buy KLM, creating Europe's largest airline
Time's up! The correct answer was Air France
MEDICINE
A Pseudofolliculitis barbae is an "ingrown" one of these
Time's up! The correct answer was a hair
A FLY CATEGORY
To WWI British aviators, the Red Baron's group with its colorful planes was one of these, like Monty Python's
Time's up! The correct answer was a Flying Circus
THE "FIRST" STATE
In 1975 Donald Johanson found a group of 13 hominid fossils he dubbed this, like the Nixons or Trumans
Time's up! The correct answer was the first family
INTERIOR DESIGN
Type of chair seen here named for its 20th C. designer:
Time's up! The correct answer was Eames Chair
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Made up of 1 large & many smaller islands, it's the most populous of Britain's remaining overseas territories
Time's up! The correct answer was Bermuda
GENERAL INFORMATION
Pick up a GT from this car co. for a tidy $169,000, or maybe start out with a Focus for a more reasonable $13,715
Time's up! The correct answer was Ford
AMERICANA
The name of this Texas city is Spanish for "yellow"
Time's up! The correct answer was Amarillo
BUSY AS A BEAVER
Gee, Wally, this classic TV show premiered on October 4, 1957
Time's up! The correct answer was Leave It to Beaver
"D" IN HISTORY
In 1578 a Mongolian ruler first gave the leader of Tibet's Yellow Hat sect of Buddhism this title
Time's up! The correct answer was Dalai Lama
MOVIE TAG LINES
1982 film that showed "A world inside a computer where man has never been. Never before now"
Time's up! The correct answer was Tron
ISLANDS
These islands famous for their ponies form the northernmost part of Scotland
Time's up! The correct answer was the Shetlands
HISTORIC PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS
On May 15, 1768 France bought this island from Genoa for 2 million livres
Time's up! The correct answer was Corsica
CHINESE CALENDAR ANIMALS
This wascally sign whose years include 1951 & 1999 shows bravery against high odds & is rarely be-Fudd-led
Time's up! The correct answer was a rabbit
STARTS WITH "B"
A Russian grandmother, or her kerchief
Time's up! The correct answer was Babushka
B FOLLOWS A
Meaning loathsome, it precedes snowman or, in a movie title, Dr. Phibes
Time's up! The correct answer was abominable
AFRICANA
The country's name is properly pronounced "Luh-Soo-Too", but is spelled this way
Time's up! The correct answer was L-E-S-O-T-H-O
LANGUAGES
Of Inka, Dinka or Doo, an actual language spoken in southern Sudan
Time's up! The correct answer was Dinka
DEPARTMENT "S"
Term for an early 20th century female agitator for women's voting rights
Time's up! The correct answer was a suffragist
THAT'S NO LADY...
He was a comic foil as Mr. Mooney on "The Lucy Show" & Mr. Wilson on "Dennis the Menace"
Time's up! The correct answer was Gale Gordon
DRAMA
In Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy", Joe Bonaparte gives up the violin for this sport
Time's up! The correct answer was Boxing
WHAT'S YOUR BEEF?
Part of the name of this expensive boneless cut means "dainty" in French
Time's up! The correct answer was filet mignon
ARCHITECTS
Albert Speer, who designed a stadium for this city, was convicted of war crimes in trials there
Time's up! The correct answer was Nuremberg
SHOTS HEARD AROUND THE WORLD
His "called shot" home run off Charlie Root in the 1932 World Series is baseball legend
Time's up! The correct answer was Babe Ruth
SHAKESPEAREAN OPERAS & BALLETS
Verdi wrote an aria called "La Luce Langue"--The Light Fails--for this bloothirsty villainess
Time's up! The correct answer was Lady Macbeth
AIRLINE TRAVEL
In the seat pocket you'll find the catalog called "Sky" this, with must-haves like a solar-powered patio umbrella
Time's up! The correct answer was Mall
IT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
The actual quote from this star of gangster films was "you dirty yellow-bellied rat!"
Time's up! The correct answer was Jimmy Cagney
THE 50 STATES
In 1845, after nearly 10 years of independence, it became the 28th state
Time's up! The correct answer was Texas
THE CIVIL WAR
On April 12, 1861 Confederate general Beauregard attacked this fort in Charleston Harbor
Time's up! The correct answer was Fort Sumter
COMPOUND WORDS
Common name for the patella
Time's up! The correct answer was the kneecap
COUNTIES BY STATE
McClain, McCurtain, Muskogee
Time's up! The correct answer was Oklahoma
WARNER BROS.
You can tour the Warner Bros. lot online, or in person in this San Fernando Valley city
Time's up! The correct answer was Burbank
"PH"UN WORDS
From the Greek for "shape", it means to transform an image into something else by computer
Time's up! The correct answer was morph
4-LETTER FRIENDS
In "Jaws", it's what Roy Scheider threw overboard to lure the shark
Time's up! The correct answer was chum
SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT THE MOVIES
In the same film, Mike Myers played Dr. Evil & this international man of mystery, baby
Time's up! The correct answer was Austin Powers
CZECH, PLEASE
His mother, Olga, was once ranked 2nd in Czechoslovakia in women's singles tennis
Time's up! The correct answer was Ivan Lendl
HOME, SWEET HOME
As a bachelor in the 1970s, Prince Charles romanced Camilla at Broadlands, the home of this lord, his great-uncle
Time's up! The correct answer was Mountbatten
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC "B"
This city that served as capital of a united Germany in 1871 became the capital of a reunited Germayny in 1990
Time's up! The correct answer was Berlin
MILITARY UNITS
From the medieval Latin for "army", it's a large fleet like the one Admiral Howard faced in 1588
Time's up! The correct answer was an armada
FRANCES FARMER
Actor Leif Erickson was Frances' first of 3 of these
Time's up! The correct answer was husbands
STATE BIRDS
Kentucky: This colorful songbird
Time's up! The correct answer was a cardinal
LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "L"
Imagist Amy (6)
Time's up! The correct answer was Lowell
SIGNS & SYMBOLS
The first seal designed for what is now this U.S. state depicted icebergs, igloos & the Northern Lights
Time's up! The correct answer was Alaska
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST SCENES
You could say this comedy "ends well" -- Helena finally wins the love of her husband Bertram
Time's up! The correct answer was All's Well That Ends Well
MEDICAL MILESTONES
In 1867 Thomas Allbutt invented one of these instruments which took 5 minutes to register instead of 20
Time's up! The correct answer was a thermometer
ONE LETTER DIFFERENT
A hole in the ground for your baked pastry
Time's up! The correct answer was a pie pit
FUN WITH OPERA
In "Johnny Strikes Up", a violin performance at the North Pole inspires the whole world to do this 1920s dance
Time's up! The correct answer was the Charleston
CARDS & DICE
It's the number of dice you toss on your first roll of Yahtzee
Time's up! The correct answer was 5
NATIONAL SPELLING BEE
1970's winning word was this French crescent-shaped roll
Time's up! The correct answer was C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-T
MOUNTAINS
The Waianae Mountains in this U.S. state rise up to 4,025-foot Mt. Kaala
Time's up! The correct answer was Hawaii
NOVEL QUOTES
(1937) "'It's me, Bilbo Baggins, companion of Thorin!'"
Time's up! The correct answer was The Hobbit
BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS
1945-1951
Time's up! The correct answer was Clement Atlee
TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE WORD THAT RHYMES WITH STAR
Django Reinhardt was a master of this instrument
Time's up! The correct answer was the guitar
A WHITE CATEGORY
Anne Catherick is all dressed up as the title character of this Wilkie Collins novel
Time's up! The correct answer was The Woman in White
1987
2 Russians made an impromptu spacewalk outside this space station & found a bag of trash that hindered docking
Time's up! The correct answer was Mir
DEPARTMENT "S"
Eternally doomed rock roller of Greek mythology
Time's up! The correct answer was Sisyphus
BRANDO
Johnny, leader of the Black Rebels
Time's up! The correct answer was The Wild One
BODIES OF WATER
After a 1,750-mile trip from Germany, this river breaks into 3 branches in Romania before emptying into the Black Sea
Time's up! The correct answer was the Danube
THE KILLERS
Bodyguards Satwant & Beant Singh killed this female leader of India in 1984
Time's up! The correct answer was Indira Gandhi
THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS
Shopkeepers aren't meeting when "introducing the shoemaker to the tailor" -- you've just done this to someone's rear
Time's up! The correct answer was kicked it
CHANCE
His 1742 "A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist" was a prelude to writings on other games
Time's up! The correct answer was Hoyle
YES, THAT'S "WHITE"
Condition of heavy snow or fog during daylight in which visibility is lost
Time's up! The correct answer was a whiteout
SCIENTISTS
He discovered that the observed frequency of light waves is affected by the relative motion of the source & detector
Time's up! The correct answer was Doppler
SPORTS
Ben Crenshaw & Phil Mickelson are the only 3-time winners of this college sport's championship tournament
Time's up! The correct answer was golf
POLITICAL TALK
According to the League of Women Voters, an "empty chair" one of these should be canceled
Time's up! The correct answer was debates
WHAT TO WEAR?
If you're wearing Wellingtons at Wimbledon, you're wearing these
Time's up! The correct answer was rainboots
BRANDO
Terry Malloy, who could've been a contender
Time's up! The correct answer was On the Waterfront
2-LETTER WORDS
Don't have a cow, man, it's just the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet
Time's up! The correct answer was mu
ACTION!
This hero made his comic book debut in & on the cover of Action Comics No. 1
Time's up! The correct answer was Superman
IT'S RAINING "MN"
'Tis this season (of the year)
Time's up! The correct answer was autumn
I'M GOING "INN"
Another word for entrails or viscera (sorry, mealtime America)
Time's up! The correct answer was innards
HOLLYWOOD LEFTIES
This left-handed honey socked it to 'em on "Laugh-In" in the 1960s & as Private Benjamin in the 1980s
Time's up! The correct answer was Goldie Hawn
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY SAYS....
Edna wrote that this "burns at both ends; it will not last the night"
Time's up! The correct answer was My candle
ALASKA
4 different species of bears live in Alaska: Kodiak, grizzly, black & this
Time's up! The correct answer was Polar bears
THE FILM VAULT
Sidney Poitier starred in the 1961 film version of this Lorraine Hansberry drama about a black Chicago family
Time's up! The correct answer was A Raisin in the Sun
LET'S MESS WITH TEXAS
From 1846 to 1859 this ex-Tennessee governor was a U.S. senator from Texas
Time's up! The correct answer was Sam Houston
MORTAL MATTERS
This saint's remains were in a box atop a wardrobe for 6 years before being redisplayed February 14, 1999
Time's up! The correct answer was Saint Valentine
MOVIE DEBUTS
The Al Pacino legal drama "...And Justice for All" marked the screen debut of this actor, later TV's "Coach"
Time's up! The correct answer was Craig T. Nelson
AMERICAN HISTORY
Between 1856 & 1860, 2,962 of this faith set out from Iowa & Nebraska to Utah in the Handcart Migration
Time's up! The correct answer was Mormonism
HISTORIC DATES
The accident of April 25-26, 1986 at this facility was caused by a poorly designed experiment at its reactor unit 4
Time's up! The correct answer was Chernobyl
CANALS
Located at Sault Ste. Marie, the St. Marys Falls Canal connects these 2 Great Lakes
Time's up! The correct answer was Lake Superior & Lake Huron
BREAKFAST CEREALS
If you pour it just right, you'll have "26 tasty little letters in every bowl" of this Post cereal
Time's up! The correct answer was Alpha-bits
KOREA
In 1976 this company produced the Pony, the first Korean car
Time's up! The correct answer was Hyundai
MEN OF MUSIC
100,000 people of this city turned out for the 1849 funeral of beloved bandleader Johann Strauss Sr.
Time's up! The correct answer was Vienna
MEASURING DEVICES
The energy from this is measured by a pyrheliometer
Time's up! The correct answer was the Sun
MED. ABBREV.
A CAT scan is computerized axial this kind of imaging
Time's up! The correct answer was tomography
AROUND THE APARTMENT BUILDING
(Sofia of the Clue Crew) You can save lives & earn firemen's gratitude if you keep this in good working order
Time's up! The correct answer was smoke detector
18th CENTURY AMERICANS
In "The Federalist" No. 51, this future president put forth an argument for the separation of powers
Time's up! The correct answer was James Madison
& CROWN THY GOOD
In 1696 this Russian czar conquered the Ottoman port of Azov on the Black Sea; awesome! Again the wrong word
Time's up! The correct answer was Peter the Great
X MARKS THE SPOT
The only Benelux country that fits the bill
Time's up! The correct answer was Luxembourg
GOING DUTCH
This relative is "de oom", whether or not he's a "Dutch" one
Time's up! The correct answer was Uncle
RELIGION
The A.M.E. in A.M.E. Church stands for African Methodist this
Time's up! The correct answer was Episcopal
DEATH BY...
Air crash of his MiG fighter plane while on a training mission near Moscow, March 27, 1968
Time's up! The correct answer was Yuri Gagarin
RUN, RUN, RUN
In the modern pentathlon, athletes go 3,000 meters in this hyphenated type of running
Time's up! The correct answer was cross-country
ASTRONOMY ADD A LETTER
Add this letter to Saturn's moon Titan & you get a Renaissance guy who liked to paint Venus
Time's up! The correct answer was I
ALBUMS THAT ROCK
"X&Y", "Parachutes"
Time's up! The correct answer was Coldplay
BASEBALL HISTORY
During his 22-year career he walked a then-record 2,056 times
Time's up! The correct answer was Babe Ruth
BEFORE THEY WERE FIRST LADIES
Bloomer was the maiden name of this first lady who blossomed as a fashion model in pre-WWII NYC
Time's up! The correct answer was Betty Ford
FLY COUNTRIES
Olympic Airlines
Time's up! The correct answer was Greece
STAMPS
A stamp honors this 19th c. author about whom it was said, "So this is the little lady who made this big war"
Time's up! The correct answer was Harriet Beecher Stowe
THE BYRDS & THE BEAS
The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has the original illustrations she did for her many kids' books
Time's up! The correct answer was Beatrix Potter
BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES
George VI
Time's up! The correct answer was Windsor
3 LITTLE LETTERS
Like banks, many grocery stores now have these for dispensing cash & taking deposits
Time's up! The correct answer was ATMs
OFF TO A GOOD START
It's the go-ahead in a kid's game & for a car at an intersection
Time's up! The correct answer was a green light
COMICS STRIP
In "Get Him to the Greek", this Brit took a trip in the buff in a toy car
Time's up! The correct answer was Russell Brand
"X", "Y", "Z"
It looks like a sweet potato, but it isn't even a distant relative
Time's up! The correct answer was a yam
THE BIG APPLE
On the NYC subway this train will also take you to Harlem, but then it splits off & heads for Yankee Stadium
Time's up! The correct answer was the B train
PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME
Ulysses' trousers
Time's up! The correct answer was Grant's pants
LAW & GOVERNMENT
Though given 10 years for ratification, this amendment failed by 3 states in 1982
Time's up! The correct answer was the Equal Rights Amendment
PHRASES THAT SELL
"Be all that you can be" in this military branch
Time's up! The correct answer was the Army
JULIUS CAESAR
Caesar divorced his wife after a scandal & said, "Caesar's wife must be above" this
Time's up! The correct answer was suspicion
WHO'S THE MRS.?
Mrs. Blake Edwards
Time's up! The correct answer was Julie Andrews
FLY COUNTRIES
Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatshappij (you might know it by its abbreviation)
Time's up! The correct answer was The Netherlands
COMICS STRIP
This Monty Python stalwart went the full monty in "A Fish Called Wanda"
Time's up! The correct answer was Cleese
SKIP TO MY "LOO"
5-letter word for "remote in manner"
Time's up! The correct answer was aloof
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
At Bunker Hill, Colonel Prescott is said to have ordered, "Don't one of you fire until you see" these
Time's up! The correct answer was The whites of their eyes
PLANTS
Name for a low, enclosed bed covered with glass or plastic for starting plants before the season
Time's up! The correct answer was Cold Frame
THE "BUTLER" DID IT
A former Dodger outfielder & TV's "Grace Under Fire" both go by this name
Time's up! The correct answer was Brett Butler
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMAS
In 1928 this playwright had a "Strange Interlude"
Time's up! The correct answer was O'Neill
ELIZABETH TAYLOR FILMS
Liz won an Oscar for her role as a battlesome wife in this adaptation of an Albee play
Time's up! The correct answer was Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
HOW NOVEL
Gregory Maguire's novel "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" is a revision of this fairy tale
Time's up! The correct answer was "Cinderella"
FOREIGN TRAVEL
Though its slangy name suggests it goes behind, wear this in front to guard your valuables against theft
Time's up! The correct answer was a fanny pack
IT'S A "SIN"
It can mean to burn slightly, or to burn the ends of hair or cloth
Time's up! The correct answer was singe
MR. MOVIES
Of this 1939 film, the "New York Times" said "More fun even than the Senate itself!"
Time's up! The correct answer was Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
NORSE MYTHOLOGY
Norse myth is big on trees; the first man & woman -- Ask & Embla -- were created out of these 2 species
Time's up! The correct answer was ash & elm
THE GRIDIRON
[Hi, I'm Raghib Ismail of the Dallas Cowboys] While at this school, I was named MVP of the Orange Bowl on the first day of the '90s
Time's up! The correct answer was Notre Dame
CELEBS
The TV show "Everybody Hates Chris" is based on the childhood of this comic
Time's up! The correct answer was Chris Rock
PIANO KEYS
It's the only letter in "piano" that corresponds to a piano key
Time's up! The correct answer was A
LIVE IN TEXAS
Man from Sugarland, Texas known as "The Hammer" in the U.S. House of Representatives
Time's up! The correct answer was Tom DeLay
NORSE MYTHOLOGY
Laerad is the great tree around which this hall of the slain was built
Time's up! The correct answer was Valhalla
SPOOKS
Spy Richard Sorge warned this Russian leader of Germany's WWII invasion but was ignored
Time's up! The correct answer was Josef Stalin
CANADIAN CAPITALS
Commercial cod fishing, long a mainstay of this Newfoundland capital, declined to almost nothing by 1990
Time's up! The correct answer was St. John's
RICH & FAMOUS
A 1994 book details the "way" he became "the world's greatest investor"
Time's up! The correct answer was Warren Buffett
ON THE COVER OF SGT. PEPPER
This "Das Kapital" author stands between comedian Oliver Hardy & H.G. Wells
Time's up! The correct answer was Karl Marx
ROSE BOWL HISTORY
The only time the game wasn't held in Calif. was 1942, when it was in N.C., amidst fears of another event like this one
Time's up! The correct answer was Pearl Harbor
HEIR
Heirs want to stay on the good side of this, the person mainly charged with carrying out a will's provisions
Time's up! The correct answer was the executor
TOUR OF JUDY
Twice nominated for Oscars, this actress once studied at an Australian convent & sang in a rock band
Time's up! The correct answer was Judy Davis
MILITARY POWER
Whether general or ready, they're the troops held close by
Time's up! The correct answer was Reserves
BON APPE-"T"
This root vegetable often has white skin & a purple-tinged top
Time's up! The correct answer was Turnip
HOW INSPIRATIONAL
When your prom date leaves the dance without you, recall the proverb, this "heals all wounds"
Time's up! The correct answer was time
3-LETTER ABBREV.
A religious group: LDS
Time's up! The correct answer was Latter Day Saints
TELEVISION
Ben Gould & Samantha Becker roam the halls of Bayside High as part of "The New Class" on this show
Time's up! The correct answer was Saved By the Bell
WHO'S ON FIRST?
For the 2000-2001 season, "The Simpsons" led into this show that led into "The X-Files"--you might say it was...
Time's up! The correct answer was Malcolm In The Middle
RHYMES WITH TEEN
Jack Sprat's wife couldn't eat any
Time's up! The correct answer was Lean
MOTHER GOOSE
Some say these 2 were actually Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette, who were beheaded (or broke their crowns) in 1793
Time's up! The correct answer was Jack & Jill
REALLY BIG
With its supporting roots & trunks, a single one of these trees in India covers some 3 acres
Time's up! The correct answer was Banyan
HOME
There are 2 types of these safety devices, photoelectric & ionization
Time's up! The correct answer was Smoke detectors
RHYMES WITH TRACK
A somewhat shapeless dress
Time's up! The correct answer was a sack
THE BILLBOARD HOT 100
A song by this artist hit No. 1 in 1999, making her at age 52 the oldest female to have a Billboard No. 1 single
Time's up! The correct answer was Cher
CELEBRITIES' MIDDLE NAMES
Her middle name is Louise; her last name at birth: Ciccone
Time's up! The correct answer was Madonna
STATE OF THE UNION
The Jack Daniel's distillery is in Lynchburg in this state
Time's up! The correct answer was Tennessee
CLASSIC STAR TREK
Captain Kirk shares this name, his middle name, with a first century Roman emperor
Time's up! The correct answer was Tiberius
LITERARY ANIMALS
Anna Sewell wrote her only novel about this title animal as a plea for the proper care of horses
Time's up! The correct answer was "Black Beauty"
DISNEY VILLAINS
Ursula
Time's up! The correct answer was The Little Mermaid
THE NBA
For 9 straight seasons, ending in '96, this Utah Jazz player led the NBA in average assists per game
Time's up! The correct answer was John Stockton
BRIDGES
This bridge spanning NYC's East River was designated a national historic landmark in 1964
Time's up! The correct answer was Brooklyn Bridge
1807
Following his victory in the Battle of Friedland in June, he forced the capitulation of the Russian Empire
Time's up! The correct answer was Napoleon
LITERATURE FOR KIDS
This loving relative who takes care of Tom Sawyer was inspired by Mark Twain's own mother
Time's up! The correct answer was Aunt Polly
LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER
Jules Verne-Wilkie Collins sci-fi/detective novel about Civil War vets who want to shoot a cannon into a gem
Time's up! The correct answer was From the Earth to the Moonstone
TECHNOLOGY
Count Rumford, who died in 1814, invented the drip version of this
Time's up! The correct answer was the coffee maker
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY SAYS....
Of this deaf composer she wrote, "Sweet sounds, oh beautiful music, do not cease!"
Time's up! The correct answer was L.V. Beethoven
LITERARY ALLUSIONS
Jonathan Swift created Lilliputians; this author created Munchkins
Time's up! The correct answer was Baum
EXPLORATION
He wrote in his diary, "The loss of pony transport in March 1911 obliged me to start later than I had intended"
Time's up! The correct answer was Robert Falcon Scott
"IP" SO FACTO
Landing or Gaza
Time's up! The correct answer was a strip
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
This Dallas bowl game has been played at the same site consecutively longer than any other major bowl game
Time's up! The correct answer was Cotton Bowl
LITERARY CHARACTERS
Emma is the first name of this title character of an 1857 Gustave Flaubert novel
Time's up! The correct answer was Madame Bovary
"TU"
The ruins of Carthage are in this country
Time's up! The correct answer was Tunisia
LITERARY COLLABORATORS
These brothers first published their "Fairy Tales" in 1812 as "Kinderund Hausmarchen"
Time's up! The correct answer was the Brothers Grimm
LIT MY FIRE
"The Fire Sermon" is Part III of this poet's "The Waste Land"
Time's up! The correct answer was T.S. Eliot
OH MY GOD! YOU'VE GOT 3 "I"s
Type of doctor who's most likely to give a patient a lollipop
Time's up! The correct answer was pediatrician
SCOTLAND
Hundreds of years old, the de facto national flag features this saint's cross
Time's up! The correct answer was Andrew
BUSINESS LEADERS
In the 1880s he built a town in Illinois to house employees of his sleeping car company
Time's up! The correct answer was Pullman
"NEVER" AT THE MOVIES
Despite the promise of its title, this 1984 fantasy movie is 94 minutes long; the 1991 sequel is only 90 minutes
Time's up! The correct answer was The Neverending Story
ALL GOD'S CREATURES
Edison proposed a flying machine based on the flight of this creature, also the subject of a musical work
Time's up! The correct answer was bumblebee
PLANT LIFE
Club, reindeer & Spanish are called this but botanically are not true this
Time's up! The correct answer was moss
CITY FOLK
Damascenes
Time's up! The correct answer was Damascus residents
THE 50 STATES
Among its nicknames are "The Prairie State" & "The Land of Lincoln"
Time's up! The correct answer was Illinois
OPERA & BALLET
This composer of "The Nutcracker" said, "The music of a ballet is not invariably bad"
Time's up! The correct answer was Tchaikovsky
ROCK FORMATIONS
This Jimmy Page foursome first played together as part of the session group on P.J. Proby's "Three Week Hero"
Time's up! The correct answer was Led Zeppelin
ARCHITECTS
Richard Hunt, the first American to attend the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, designed this statue's stone-&-concrete pedestal
Time's up! The correct answer was Statue of Liberty
COMIC STRIPS
This Scott Adams title guy with a gravity-defying tie accidentally invented a death ray that interested North Korea
Time's up! The correct answer was Dilbert
ANNUAL EVENTS
Monroe, near Snohomish in this state, is the site of the annual Evergreen State Fair
Time's up! The correct answer was Washington
THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Neptune also has these features, including LeVerrier & Adams; only Saturn's can be seen through a small telescope
Time's up! The correct answer was rings
AMERICAN INDIANS
A woman claiming to be this Lewis & Clark companion died in 1884; she would have been about 100
Time's up! The correct answer was Sacagawea
SIGNS & SYMBOLS
The same 2 letters in the same order make up Arkansas' postal abbreviation & the symbol of this chemical element
Time's up! The correct answer was argon
"NIGHT"
Any of the various plants of the family Solanaceae; some may be "deadly"
Time's up! The correct answer was nightshades
JAY
He drafted the constitution of New York state & was appointed chief justice of the state in 1777
Time's up! The correct answer was John Jay
ROCK WITH YOU
Jakob Dylan, the son of Bob Dylan, is the frontman for this group
Time's up! The correct answer was The Wallflowers
FROM THE LATIN
A fun way to get to the top of a mountain is this kind of cable railway whose name is from the Latin for "rope"
Time's up! The correct answer was a funicular
ABBREV.
A recent, frightening addition to our world language: WMD
Time's up! The correct answer was weapons of mass destruction
THE "B.G."s
(Sofia of the Clue Crew standing in front of a chalkboard) It's a visual method for comparing numbers
Time's up! The correct answer was bar graph
THE SATURDAY EVENING POST
Pre-"Peanuts", he sold some of his cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post
Time's up! The correct answer was Charles Schulz
BACKWARDS
In T minus 5 seconds, you'll say this word for the inverted series used before a rocket launch
Time's up! The correct answer was a countdown
SECRET MENUS
Have it your way at this chain & order a Mustard Whopper, which substitutes the yellow stuff for mayo
Time's up! The correct answer was Burger King
LITERARY LAST NAME'S THE SAME
C.K., Emlyn, Tennessee
Time's up! The correct answer was Williams
HARRISON FORD MOVIES
"Replicants are like any other machine -- they're either a benefit or a hazard"
Time's up! The correct answer was Blade Runner
I'M "L__X"
It's a shorter way of saying Los Angeles International Airport
Time's up! The correct answer was LAX
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE
Synonym for dignity that's the term for a group of lions
Time's up! The correct answer was a pride
ROCK MUSIC
He recorded his 1982 hit album, "Nebraska", as a series of demos on a 4-track machine at home
Time's up! The correct answer was Bruce Springsteen
MYTHICAL CREATURES
If you know that a Kirin is the Japanese type of this mythological creature, pour yourself a beer
Time's up! The correct answer was unicorn
SPORTS
On Sept. 23, 1926 this heavyweight boxing champ lost his title to Gene Tunney in a decision
Time's up! The correct answer was Jack Dempsey
POTPOURRI
The website for this Bureau of the Treasury department is www.moneyfactory.com
Time's up! The correct answer was the Bureau of Printing and Engraving
CITY OF BIRTH
The controversial Ahmed Chalabi
Time's up! The correct answer was Baghdad
GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP
In 2008 Central Wash. players of this sport carried injured Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon around the bases
Time's up! The correct answer was softball
DRAMA
Robert Bolt depicted Elizabeth I in "Vivat! Vivat Regina!" & Henry VIII in this play
Time's up! The correct answer was A Man for All Seasons
AUTHORS
He wrote a non-baby book called "Decent And Indecent: Our Personal And Political Behavior"
Time's up! The correct answer was Dr. Benjamin Spock
WHEAT
Types of wheat are grouped according to these 2 seasons
Time's up! The correct answer was Winter & spring
RICHARD
He shot the famous photo of Nastassja Kinski & the serpent
Time's up! The correct answer was Richard Avedon
THE 1990s
On Jan. 31, 1999 this team repeated as Super Bowl champs with John Elway throwing for 336 yards
Time's up! The correct answer was the Denver Broncos
NATIONAL FOODS
Its other names include Poor Knights of Windsor & Pain Perdu (lost bread)
Time's up! The correct answer was French toast
AUTHORS
An eye ailment contracted at Eton School ended his plans to study biology, like his brother Julian
Time's up! The correct answer was Aldous Huxley
THE RECORD SHOWS I TOOK THE BLOWS
In 1775 his leg was severely wounded in an assault on Quebec & he was promoted to brig. gen.; 5 years later, he'd be in disgrace
Time's up! The correct answer was Benedict Arnold
THE BIG BANGLADESH
Over 80% of those in Bangladesh follow this religion
Time's up! The correct answer was Islam
MILITARY POWER
Contour flying is when a pilot flies low, following the Earth's contours, to avoid this
Time's up! The correct answer was Radar
1938
17 acres surrounding her cottage were transferred to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Time's up! The correct answer was Anne Hathaway
LITERARY COLLABORATORS
She & her tres cher ami Jean-Paul Sartre collaborated on the political & literary journal Modern Times
Time's up! The correct answer was Simone de Beauvoir
IN THE GOOD OLD SUMER TIME
Sumerians scratched this writing system into stone & wax in addition to clay tablets
Time's up! The correct answer was Cuneiform
NAME THE PLAY
Orsino: "O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, methought she purged the air of pestilence"
Time's up! The correct answer was Twelfth Night
NOT A CURRENT NATIONAL CAPITAL
Ljubljana, Bratislava, Barcelona
Time's up! The correct answer was Barcelona
MUSICAL BY CHARACTERS
Rolf Gruber & Mother Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey
Time's up! The correct answer was The Sound of Music
ART
Edward Steichen led the movement to recognize as art these images, whose name means "drawn with light"
Time's up! The correct answer was photographs
COMPOSERS ON FILM
James Cagney in "The Seven Little Foys"
Time's up! The correct answer was George M. Cohan
MORTAL MATTERS
When Dallas sent out this annual tax form to 13,000 city employees, it marked them dead
Time's up! The correct answer was W-2
GOAT-POURRI
In "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", Pierre Gringoire rescues this gypsy girl's goat from a mob
Time's up! The correct answer was Esmeralda
ALSO A GUN MANUFACTURER
Fredric March portrayed this poet in "The Barrets of Wimpole Street"
Time's up! The correct answer was Browning
iPOD, YOUTUBE OR WII
Its name was reportedly inspired by a line from "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Time's up! The correct answer was iPod
FIRST LADIES' RHYME TIME
Mrs. Truman's frocks
Time's up! The correct answer was Bess's dresses
BRAND-O
George Blaisdell invented this lighter in 1932
Time's up! The correct answer was the Zippo
PRE-COLUMBIAN CULTURES
The Folsom culture about 10,900 years ago had a fluted type of this weapon & a "thrower" for it
Time's up! The correct answer was Spear
THE KOREAN WAR
His reaction to the North's invasion was "Dean, we've got to stop the blanks of blanks no matter what"
Time's up! The correct answer was Harry S. Truman
WHAT A GEM!
This December birthstone is the state gem of Arizona & New Mexico
Time's up! The correct answer was turquoise
HERE'S LUCY
Before playing Xena, she co-hosted the travel show "Air New Zealand Holiday"
Time's up! The correct answer was Lucy Lawless
BRAND-O
Models of this car brand include the Metro & the Storm
Time's up! The correct answer was Geo
OSCAR WINNERS & NOMINEES ON TV
Executive producer of "Ugly Betty", she has also guest starred as Sofia Reyes
Time's up! The correct answer was Salma Hayek
MAGAZINES
Marilyn Vos Savant's column appears in this magazine that comes with Sunday newspapers
Time's up! The correct answer was Parade Magazine
THE BIG 10
In L.A., the western tip of Interstate 10 is called this "freeway", after the beach community it passes through
Time's up! The correct answer was Santa Monica
"DIAMOND"s IN THE ROUGH
Carol Channing's Broadway ballad from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
Time's up! The correct answer was "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend"
SPACE MISSIONS
The Hinode mission showed magnetic waves are critical in driving the flow of charged particles called this wind
Time's up! The correct answer was the solar wind
CINEMA OF "BLOOD"
Sylvester Stallone played Vietnam vet John Rambo in this 1982 film
Time's up! The correct answer was First Blood
PHYSICS
Sublimation is the direct change from solid to gas without passing through this stage
Time's up! The correct answer was liquid
EVERYTHING'S "GOLDEN", BABY
While Moses was on Mount Sinai, the Israelites worshipped this
Time's up! The correct answer was Golden Calf
INVENTIVE MINDS
In 1948, Rene Bussoz sold the USA's first Aqua Lung, invented by this Frenchman
Time's up! The correct answer was Cousteau
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
In the painting seen here, Lincoln is reading this historic document that led to the end of slavery
Time's up! The correct answer was the Emancipation Proclamation
THE SUPREME COURT
After the 1987 rejection of this man's nomination to the court, Anthony Kennedy filled Powell's seat
Time's up! The correct answer was Robert Bork
IT'S "BIG"
Empire Toys' trikes for tykes
Time's up! The correct answer was Big Wheels
GETTING POSSESSIVE
You'll find this triangular island about 4 miles off the southeast coast of Massachusetts
Time's up! The correct answer was Martha's Vineyard
ALSO A TOOL
"U Can't Touch This" bone, aka the malleus, just behind the eardrum
Time's up! The correct answer was the hammer
DIARIES
The diary of this woman, wife of a famous aviator, describes the kidnapping of her son
Time's up! The correct answer was Anne Morrow Lindbergh
MEN OF THE WORLD
Armando Munoz Garcia sculpted a 55' statue of a nude woman & lived in it in this Mexican city near San Diego
Time's up! The correct answer was Tijuana
BROADWAY TEENS
[clue missing because of technical glitch]
Time's up! The correct answer was Anne Frank
THAT'S HANDY
The hand gesture with 2 pairs of fingers bunched together was made by this Vulcan on the original "Star Trek"
Time's up! The correct answer was Mr. Spock
FROM T TO SHINING T
Proverbially, you can have one of these "in a teacup"
Time's up! The correct answer was a tempest
"LAP" DANCE
The type of filmmaking seen here
Time's up! The correct answer was Time-lapse photography
FROM T TO SHINING T
It gains you admission to the ballgame; Yeah, that's the...
Time's up! The correct answer was ticket
HORS D'OEUVRES
Chicken livers & water chestnuts wrapped in bacon; fortune cookies to follow
Time's up! The correct answer was rumaki
1987
A judge said no custody of "Baby M" for this type of mother who'd agreed to bear her for $10,000
Time's up! The correct answer was a surrogate
FLEETS
This empire's fleet was defeated in the 1571 Battle of Lepanto
Time's up! The correct answer was the Ottoman Empire
TIME TO CONVERT
It's the simplest fractional form of .75
Time's up! The correct answer was 4-Mar
STRINGS
The hope behind String Theory is that it will result in this, sometimes shortened to "T.O.E."
Time's up! The correct answer was the theory of everything
"AI"
This 2-word term for a nanny is French for "equal"
Time's up! The correct answer was an au pair
COMPOUND WORDS
Lunar term meaning mentally deranged or dreamily romantic
Time's up! The correct answer was moonstruck
POEMS ON POETS
This romantic poet was really not clairvoyant / In 1822 / He put "Hellas" into view / But we wish he was more buoyant
Time's up! The correct answer was Shelley
TEENS IN HISTORY
She was a teenage farm girl when she beat the famous marksman Frank Butler in an 1870s shooting match
Time's up! The correct answer was Annie Oakley
I'M GOING "INN"
Another word for entrails or viscera (sorry, mealtime America)
Time's up! The correct answer was innards
& NOW THE "END" IS NEAR
If I said a clue about a stripper had really nice pair of facts, it'd be an example of this 2-word French term
Time's up! The correct answer was a double entendre
TOUGH MOVIE TRIVIA
Kurt Russell, who later played Elvis, was in the 1963 Elvis film "It Happened" here
Time's up! The correct answer was At the World's Fair
SALMON
The roe of the chum salmon is a popular source for the red variety of this
Time's up! The correct answer was caviar
CROSSWORD CLUES "Q"
Feather pen (5)
Time's up! The correct answer was quill
SOCIOLOGY
Robert & Helen Lynd based their "Middletown" studies on Muncie in this state
Time's up! The correct answer was Indiana
TAKE OUT
A keratotomy is an incision of this eye part; a keratectomy removes part of it
Time's up! The correct answer was the cornea
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Melville said this abolitionist who was hanged in Charlestown, Va. in 1859 was "the meteor of the war"
Time's up! The correct answer was John Brown
VOLCANOES
About its eruption in 79 A.D., an observer wrote that "broad sheets of fire and leaping flames blazed at several points"
Time's up! The correct answer was Vesuvius
HISTORY
The 1st prime minister of independent Kenya
Time's up! The correct answer was Jomo Kenyatta
ALBUMS THAT ROCK
"Master of Puppets", "Death Magnetic"
Time's up! The correct answer was Metallica
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
The Judgement of Paris refers to the picking of a winner in one of these contests
Time's up! The correct answer was a beauty contest
PLANT PARENTHOOD
Named for the Virgin Mary, these carnivorous little red beetles can help rid your garden of aphids & other insects
Time's up! The correct answer was ladybugs
U.S. CABINET DEPARTMENTS IN OTHER WORDS
mc<sup>2</sup>
Time's up! The correct answer was Energy
TBA
When the national votes are tallied, the 43rd one of these will be announced November 7, 2000
Time's up! The correct answer was President of the United States
MUSICALS
This title character's last name is McLonergan, not Rainbow
Time's up! The correct answer was Finian
I BIT OFF MORE THAN I COULD CHEW
Oleg Zhornitskiy turned this sandwich spread into a meal by gulping down 4 32-ounce bowls in 8 minutes
Time's up! The correct answer was mayonnaise
BALLET
This dancer choreographed a new version of "The Nutcracker" in 1976, a "Turning Point" in his career
Time's up! The correct answer was Baryshnikov
BARTLETT'S PAIRS
Kenneth Grahame's 2 quotes both come from this children's book
Time's up! The correct answer was The Wind in the Willows
PRESIDENTS
The last President to sport a moustache or beard while in office
Time's up! The correct answer was William Howard Taft
THE CANARY ISLANDS
The Canary Islands were named for a large number of these the Romans found there, not yellow songbirds
Time's up! The correct answer was wild dogs
ARTHUR MILLER
Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" was his tragic tale of this title character
Time's up! The correct answer was Willy Loman
GAME SHOWS
The first letter ever turned by Vanna White on this game show was a "T"
Time's up! The correct answer was Wheel of Fortune
SILENCE
The journal of this quiet type of institution gives an award for the one "of the Year"; in 2010 it was in Columbus
Time's up! The correct answer was a library
ANCIENT TIMES
Hetepheres was the mother of this Great Pyramid king; when her tomb was found, Mummy's mummy was missing
Time's up! The correct answer was Cheops
THE FRENCH CONNECTION
A homophone for the French word for "wheel", you need a good one to make gumbo
Time's up! The correct answer was a roux
REMEMBER THE TIME
In 1526 he greeted an Inca nobleman on his ship, but conquest would have to wait a few years until funds were raised
Time's up! The correct answer was Pizarro
TAKE-OFFS
"The Ninety-Nine Guardsmen", one of Bret Harte's "condensed novels", parodies this French tale
Time's up! The correct answer was The Three Musketeers
IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL
This '80s trio were "Spirits in the Material World" before the synchronicity of their 2007 reunion
Time's up! The correct answer was The Police
ON THE RADIO
The AAA format, featuring artists like the Cranberries & Tom Petty, stands for adult album this
Time's up! The correct answer was alternative
FILM FACTS
As a child, this "Doctor Zhivago" co-star had a bit role in her father's film "Limelight"
Time's up! The correct answer was Geraldine Chaplin
WON THE BATTLE
With 1/3 the troops of his enemy, this American general beat Santa Anna in the 1847 Battle of Buena Vista
Time's up! The correct answer was Taylor
AT THE MOVIES
2005: A group of teenage chicks share some trousers
Time's up! The correct answer was The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
This feminine form of Rex is from the Latin for "queen"
Time's up! The correct answer was Regina
UNIVERSITY SPORTS TEAMS
Penn State's teams, they were named partly for a mountain & partly for a creature that could defeat Princeton's Tigers
Time's up! The correct answer was the Nittany Lions
MILITARY TELEVISION
Bad guys should stay out of harm's way (that's Cmdr. Harmon Rabb's way) on this military-legal series
Time's up! The correct answer was JAG
19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS
James K. Polk is the only president to have previously held this position in the House of Representatives
Time's up! The correct answer was Speaker
LOVE POETRY
A Shakespeare sonnet accuses this purple flower of steaing its smell from the poet's love
Time's up! The correct answer was the violet
SPORTS TRIVIA
The French Open tennis tournament is played on courts of this color clay
Time's up! The correct answer was Red
FIRST NAME'S THE SAME
Giuliani, Valentino, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Time's up! The correct answer was Rudolph
FIRST LADIES' RHYME TIME
Mrs. Reagan's whims
Time's up! The correct answer was Nancy's fancies
THE ENVIRONMENT
This "colorful" & controversial activist environmental group was formed in Canada in 1971
Time's up! The correct answer was Greenpeace
MYSPACE.MAN
On April 12, 1961, he took his 5 1/4-ton Vostok 1 for a spin at 9:07 A.M. Moscow time; he had it back by 10:55
Time's up! The correct answer was Gagarin
MAGAZINES
This man's "Lady's Book" was published in Philadelphia from 1830 to 1892
Time's up! The correct answer was Louis Godey
WAR MOVIES
1970: An historically correct re-creation of Pearl Harbor
Time's up! The correct answer was Tora! Tora! Tora!
THE BUTLER DID IT
Ted Cassidy played Bigfoot on "The Six Million Dollar Man" & filled this servant's shoes on "The Addams Family"
Time's up! The correct answer was Lurch
THE ROLLING STONES
The Rolling Stones took their name from a song by this legendary blues musician
Time's up! The correct answer was Muddy Waters
PLAY HEROINES
Barbara Undershaft
Time's up! The correct answer was Major Barbara
WEAPONRY
The weapons that are "bursting" in line 5 of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Time's up! The correct answer was bombs
COMPOSERS ON FILM
James Cagney in "The Seven Little Foys"
Time's up! The correct answer was George M. Cohan
STARTS WITH "B"
2-word French term for a small bundle of herbs, often tied together & used for flavoring
Time's up! The correct answer was Bouquet Garni
"GENERAL" JOB INFORMATION
The U.N.'s website says this job is "a spokesman for the interests of the world's peoples, in particular the poor"
Time's up! The correct answer was the Secretary-General
ANCIENT COINS
Around 334 B.C. this Macedonian's stater became a world currency
Time's up! The correct answer was Alexander the Great
SAY CHEESE
The 2 cheeses coated with red wax named for towns, one in North Holland province, one in South
Time's up! The correct answer was Edam & Gouda
DECADES OF BESTSELLERS
"The Nanny Diaries" & "Q is for Quarry"
Time's up! The correct answer was the 2000s
LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS
"Native America"
Time's up! The correct answer was Oklahoma
CHANCE
To figure out the chance of a given roll with 2 dice, take the number of ways that total can come up & divide by this
Time's up! The correct answer was thirty-six
IT BORDERS JUST ONE OTHER COUNTRY
South Korea
Time's up! The correct answer was North Korea
THE BIBLE
God guided the Israelites out of this country with a pillar of cloud by day & of fire by night
Time's up! The correct answer was Egypt
THE WOK OF FAME
The 4 main Chinese types of these strips of dried dough are soup, sauce, stir-fried & shallow-fried
Time's up! The correct answer was Noodles
UP IN THE AIR
Warm air flows deflected by the Earth's rotation create winds that were named this by business-minded mariners
Time's up! The correct answer was trade winds
KFC
General Tao was smiling in 1987 when KFC became the first U.S. fast-food chain in this country
Time's up! The correct answer was China
IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL
This '80s trio were "Spirits in the Material World" before the synchronicity of their 2007 reunion
Time's up! The correct answer was The Police
THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
Members observe Saturday Sabbath because of Genesis 2:3, which says God did this on the seventh day
Time's up! The correct answer was He rested
HISTORIC ENGLISHMEN
Ironically, he might have saved himself from death in 1779 if he had known how to swim
Time's up! The correct answer was Captain Cook
CONDUCTORS
It's the term for material that conducts at high temperatures & insulates at low temperatures
Time's up! The correct answer was a semiconductor
SPORTS FACTS
In 1962 this country's Dawn Fraser became the first woman swimmer to break one minute in the 100-meter freestyle
Time's up! The correct answer was Australia
DIED ON THE SAME DAY
This famed aviator outlived his brother by 35 years, passing away in 1948 on the same day Gandhi was assassinated
Time's up! The correct answer was Orville Wright
THEIR 4th TOP 40 HIT OF THE '60s
1964: "Please Please Me"
Time's up! The correct answer was The Beatles
CIVIL WAR LITERATURE
Jeff Shaara has written a prequel & a sequel to this 1974 novel about Gettysburg by his father Michael
Time's up! The correct answer was "The Killer Angels"
HOW TO BE A BAD SPORT
Get a leg up in this sport by stepping on your opponent's ball in the fairway
Time's up! The correct answer was Golf
THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS
Oscar Mayer could tell you that this is the city the Etruscans called Felsina
Time's up! The correct answer was Bologna
"EVE"NING
Dangerous ones include hemorrhagic & scarlet
Time's up! The correct answer was fever
PUSH BY SAFIRE
Safire defined "the proof of guilt that precipitates resignations" as this 2-word term describing a discharged firearm
Time's up! The correct answer was a smoking gun
TOP O' THE CHARTS
Her "Control" album produced 5 Top 5 singles, each in a different spot; "When I Think Of You" hit No. 1
Time's up! The correct answer was Janet Jackson
THE VIRTUES
This virtue is also a name of a Rhode Island island & of prim, cautious women
Time's up! The correct answer was Prudence
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Anne Shirley leaves the orphanage to live on this "colorful" farm in Avonlea
Time's up! The correct answer was Green Gables
NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS
William Warner's "Beautiful Swimmers" is an exploration of the Atlantic blue crab & this bay
Time's up! The correct answer was the Chesapeake
AMERICAN INDIANS
In 1777 Chief Joseph Brant led his fellow Mohawks in the Battle of Oriskany during this war
Time's up! The correct answer was the Revolutionary War
ART
This artist used trowels, sticks & even basters to create some of his drip paintings, like "Cathedral"
Time's up! The correct answer was Jackson Pollock
SIMPLE SCIENCE
French mathematician who devised the plotting system that uses coordinates named for him
Time's up! The correct answer was Rene Descartes
OF MILK
Many countries have laws requiring that milk undergo this process that guards against pathogens
Time's up! The correct answer was pasteurization
& SO I FACE THE FINAL CURTAIN
It was nice to see this musical "Looking Swell" & "Still Goin' Strong", but after 2,844 shows, it bowed out in 1970
Time's up! The correct answer was Hello, Dolly!
WEBSITES
Seen here, Arfie fetches results at this metasearch engine
Time's up! The correct answer was Dogpile
SEEING "RED"
The title of a 1928 song Sophie Tucker introduced, it was also her nickname
Time's up! The correct answer was "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas"
SCIENCE GUYS
In 1920, he was named director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen
Time's up! The correct answer was Bohr
STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE
Chartered in 1769, this Ivy League school is N.H.'s oldest & ranks among the 10 oldest U.S. colleges
Time's up! The correct answer was Dartmouth
ACTRESSES ON TV
On "Brothers & Sisters", she plays right-wing TV pundit Kitty Walker
Time's up! The correct answer was Calista Flockhart
THE FILM THAT ALMOST WAS
Will Smith turned down the lead in this futuristic 1999 flick, later saying of it, "Keanu was brilliant"
Time's up! The correct answer was The Matrix
POP MUSIC
In "Take Me Home, Country Roads", John Denver sang, "Almost heaven," this state
Time's up! The correct answer was West Virginia
DRIVING
Do this if you love Jesus but don't do it just as the light turns green
Time's up! The correct answer was honk
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
In Sri Lanka: Sinhala & this
Time's up! The correct answer was Tamil
CANADIAN CAPITALS
A ferry & 2 suspension bridges connect Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with this capital
Time's up! The correct answer was Halifax
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
The surface of this lake in Siberia is about 1,490 ft. above sea level, the bottom over 5,300 ft. below
Time's up! The correct answer was Lake Baikal
THOSE CRAZY GUGGENHEIMS
The Guggenheim Foundation is the assignee of the patents of this rocket pioneer; it had financed him in the 1940s
Time's up! The correct answer was Robert Goddard
LANGUAGES
Punjabi is spoken by about half of all households in this country
Time's up! The correct answer was Pakistan
ANYTHING BUT CHEESESTEAK
This hot dog condiment is basically chopped sweet pickles
Time's up! The correct answer was relish
GOULASH
Beechwood & juniper branches are used to smoke Germany's Westphalian type of this meat
Time's up! The correct answer was Ham
SOUNDS THAT KITTIES MAKE
Starting around 1922, this phrase meant something excellent or desirable
Time's up! The correct answer was the cat's meow
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
The search for the philosopher's stone is the subject of Ben Jonson's play about this title profession
Time's up! The correct answer was "The Alchemist"
IT CAME FROM THE NEW WORLD
In 1604 King James I called this plant a "perpetual stinking torment" & "dangerous to the lungs"; he was right
Time's up! The correct answer was tobacco
TELEVISION
Ben Gould & Samantha Becker roam the halls of Bayside High as part of "The New Class" on this show
Time's up! The correct answer was Saved By the Bell
FAMOUS PEOPLE
In 2001, she produced & hosted the Travel Channel's "Secrets of San Simeon"
Time's up! The correct answer was Patty Hearst
THE GODFATHER
This S.F. Giant, Barry Bonds' godfather, got his nickname from his unique greetings to fans
Time's up! The correct answer was Say Hey Willie Mays
VIVA ANN-MARGRET!
Ann-Margret got her second Oscar nomination for playing Roger Daltrey's mom in this rock film
Time's up! The correct answer was Tommy
BRAND NAMES
It's "The Quicker Picker Upper"
Time's up! The correct answer was Bounty
U.S. COLLEGES
The student newspaper of this Hanover, N.H. school calls itself "America's Oldest College Newspaper"
Time's up! The correct answer was Dartmouth
FUNNY FOR NOTHIN'
This deadpan comic said, "I installed a skylight in my apartment... The people who live above me are furious"
Time's up! The correct answer was Steven Wright
MEDICINE
Micro-Trach is an oxygen delivery system developed by this physician known for his "maneuver"
Time's up! The correct answer was Heimlich
FRUIT
More than 50 medications are affected by the juice of this citrus fruit; its enzymes break down the meds
Time's up! The correct answer was grapefruit
THE BIG 10-LETTER WORDS
The report's back from the lab; it's the science dealing with the detection of poisons
Time's up! The correct answer was toxicology
HELLO, DELI!
I think I'll just have a nosh--a bagel, cream cheese & the Nova Scotia type of this
Time's up! The correct answer was lox
TAKE A PILL
This tranquilizer that sounds like a village was introduced in 1955 & became the USA's bestselling drug
Time's up! The correct answer was Miltown
FLAGS OF THE WORLD
It's the kingdom whose flag is seen here (Union Jack)
Time's up! The correct answer was Great Britain/England
CATHOLIC PRIESTS
Title of any priest's immediate boss; the U.S. has 270 of them
Time's up! The correct answer was bishop
MEDICINE
Nitroglycerin is an example of this type of drug that widens blood vessels
Time's up! The correct answer was vasodilator