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"TOMORROW"
This advice on procrastination is credited to a 1749 letter written by Lord Chesterfield to his son
Time's up! The correct answer was never put off till tomorrow what you can do today
FACTS & FIGURES
Got this river? It flows more than 600 miles through Alberta & Montana before entering the Missouri
Time's up! The correct answer was the Milk
PEOPLE
She got into the advice business before her twin sister, Dear Abby
Time's up! The correct answer was Ann Landers
TOM JONES
This "Kubla Khan" poet thought "Tom Jones" had 1 of the 3 best plots in all literature
Time's up! The correct answer was Samuel Taylor Coleridge
CLOTHING
This apron for young girls has a ruffled bibbed top & a gathered skirt
Time's up! The correct answer was a pinafore
NATIONAL MONUMENTS
George Custer's men are buried in a cemetery in the national monument named for this river
Time's up! The correct answer was Little Bighorn
PEARLS OF WISDOM
A playwright: "We are all born mad. Some remain so."
Time's up! The correct answer was Samuel Beckett
ANATOMY
This transparent membrane in the eye covers the iris & has no blood vessels
Time's up! The correct answer was the cornea
EDIBLES INSTANT REPLAY REVIEW
After review, the bierwurst, lop chong & kielbasa, types of these, were overcooked
Time's up! The correct answer was sausage
1933
The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 established this corporation that guarantees the savings of bank customers
Time's up! The correct answer was FDIC
THE 1990s
Jacques Chirac of the Rally for the Republic Party won a 7-year term as this country's president
Time's up! The correct answer was France
THE MUSICAL DR. IS IN
He dealt with ophthalmological issues in the 1972 hit "Doctor My Eyes"
Time's up! The correct answer was Jackson Browne
SPORTS SHORTS
In 2011 this QB was a first-round draft pick by Carolina
Time's up! The correct answer was Newton
MOVIES & TV
On March 19, 2009 he said, "I'm excited and honored to introduce my first guest... Barack Obama"
Time's up! The correct answer was Jay Leno
ASIAN CAPITALS
Check out the Kokugikan Sumo Budokan Arena in this capital
Time's up! The correct answer was Tokyo
CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AUTHORS
In May 1973 Sports Illustrated ran one of his short stories under the title "A Day of Wine and Roses"
Time's up! The correct answer was Dick Francis
SCULPTURE
An art museum on Madison Avenue is named for this sculptress who created the Titanic Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Time's up! The correct answer was Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
CROSSWORD CLUES "J"
Jettisoned goods (6)
Time's up! The correct answer was jetsam
THE SUMMER OLYMPICS
Throwing events include this one, the hurling of a spearlike shaft
Time's up! The correct answer was the javelin
FIRST NAMES
Once considered too sacred to use, it was later the top girl's name from 1880 to the 1940s
Time's up! The correct answer was Mary
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
"V"
A silk textile with a short, smooth surface, or the covering on deer's developing antlers
Time's up! The correct answer was velvet
THE CAT
The name of this striped color pattern may come from a market in Baghdad famous for 2-tone silk
Time's up! The correct answer was Tabby
HOW NOVEL
He not only appeared on the cover of some 350 romance novels, he's written ones like "Rogue" & "Mysterious"
Time's up! The correct answer was Fabio
GETTING POSSESSIVE
In Exodus, this was thrown down before Pharaoh at Moses' instruction
Time's up! The correct answer was Aaron's rod
ON THE "WAR"PATH
Homeothermic, like mammals
Time's up! The correct answer was warm-blooded
COUNTRY & WESTERN MUSIC
In "Red River Valley", cowboys sing, "come and" do this "if you love me"
Time's up! The correct answer was sit by my side
AMERICAN HISTORY
John Hancock held this political position from 1780-85 & from 1787-93
Time's up! The correct answer was Governor of Massachusetts
APOLLO 11
"Peaceful" site on the moon where the lunar module touched down
Time's up! The correct answer was the Sea of Tranquility
PITCHING HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE WOO
From this author's "The Jungle" I shall read lines like "On the killing beds you were apt to be covered with blood"
Time's up! The correct answer was Upton Sinclair
AMERICAN HISTORY
In 1951 he told a joint session of congress that he "tried to do his duty as god gave him the light to see that duty"
Time's up! The correct answer was McArthur
BRASS
In 1989 this son of Jamaican immigrants became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Time's up! The correct answer was Powell
FACTS & FIGURES
Since 1970 the number of U.S. men aged 25-34 still living here has increased from 10% to 15%
Time's up! The correct answer was at home
NUMBERS
Numbers appears at this number position in the order of the books of the Bible
Time's up! The correct answer was Fourth
NO. 1 ALBUMS
"Imagine"
Time's up! The correct answer was John Lennon
SIMPLE SCIENCE
Number of sides on a honeycomb cell or on a snowflake
Time's up! The correct answer was 6
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
He was the last sitting president to run for re-election & finish third in the Electoral College
Time's up! The correct answer was William Howard Taft
SPOTT THA MISPELED WURD
If you supersede the competition, you will excede all expectations
Time's up! The correct answer was exceed
GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP
This backcourt partner of Isiah Thomas on the "bad boys" of Detroit won the NBA's 1st Sportsmanship Award
Time's up! The correct answer was Joe Dumars
AN ABBREVIATED CATEGORY
In a Webster's Dictionary entry: imper.
Time's up! The correct answer was imperative
NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME
A 1975 inductee, he gave us "an electronic alphabet that could carry messages"
Time's up! The correct answer was Morse
UNOFFICIAL STATE NICKNAMES
Because of the way it was formed, Louisiana is sometimes called "The Child of" this river
Time's up! The correct answer was Mississippi
BOTANY
Reproducing by means of spores, the only tree with no flowers, fruits or seeds is called the tree type of this
Time's up! The correct answer was fern
& THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
When this fish is "red", it's been smoked; if "red" in slang, it's a misleading clue
Time's up! The correct answer was a herring
1938
Returning from Ireland to NYC in August, this aviator was given a parade down…er, up Broadway
Time's up! The correct answer was "Wrong Way" Corrigan
19th CENTURY NOVELISTS
William Wilkinson's "An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia" inspired this author's most famous novel
Time's up! The correct answer was Bram Stoker
FATHER'S IN LAW
Father learned about the quaint problems of the poor at Chicago's "Edwin F. Mandel" this type of "Clinic"
Time's up! The correct answer was legal aid
THE MOVIES
Known for comedies like "Mr. Mom", he donned the cape & cowl of Batman in 1989
Time's up! The correct answer was Michael Keaton
CARTOONS
On Saturday morning, this Disney hero attends Prometheus Academy
Time's up! The correct answer was Hercules
JULY
William Booth founded this charitable "army" on July 5, 1865 in London
Time's up! The correct answer was The Salvation Army
WHAT TO WEAR
Eddie Bauer & The Gap offer the flared-below-the-knee jeans called this "cut", from what they fit over
Time's up! The correct answer was boot-cut
WAR
"Operation Rolling Thunder" was the 1965 U.S. bombing campaign designed in part to stop men & supplies coming south on this road
Time's up! The correct answer was the Ho Chi Minh Trail
CARBON CREDITS
This carbon isotope, 2 down from radiocarbon, is the standard for the relative atomic mass of other elements
Time's up! The correct answer was C-12
WHAT COLOR IS GREEN?
God did make these, & some of them are Granny Smiths
Time's up! The correct answer was apples
BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY
This mount "as altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire"
Time's up! The correct answer was Sinai
BALLET
The Carolina Ballet debuted a 2006 work based on this stormy Shakespearean shipwreck saga
Time's up! The correct answer was The Tempest
COMMON SIMILES
This ichthyological simile might apply to someone spending too much time at the bar
Time's up! The correct answer was drinking like a fish
THE ASPCA
An ASPCA program begun in 1992 promotes the adoption of these dogs when they retire from racing
Time's up! The correct answer was Greyhounds
"KEY"s
This type of private establishment admits only members & their guests
Time's up! The correct answer was a key club
ASSASSINS
In May 1981 would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Agca shot this man in St. Peter's Square
Time's up! The correct answer was Pope John Paul II
LANGUAGE QUESTIONS
"Donde está el baño?" is Spanish for "where is" this, sometimes discreetly called "the facilities"
Time's up! The correct answer was bathroom
DICE ROLL NICKNAMES
Snake Eyes
Time's up! The correct answer was 2
RHYME TIME
An intelligent beginning
Time's up! The correct answer was a smart start
NYC MUSIC HISTORY
She co-wrote "The Loco-Motion" in the Brill Building on Broadway
Time's up! The correct answer was Carole King
ANAGRAMMED CABINET DEPARTMENTS
To trap on trains
Time's up! The correct answer was Transportation
ANNIVERSARY GIFTS
19th century American "King of the South" that's a 2nd anniversary gift
Time's up! The correct answer was Cotton
EDGAR AWARD WINNERS
He won in the Best Fact Crime category for such works as "Helter Skelter" & "Till Death Us Do Part"
Time's up! The correct answer was Bugliosi
PARTS OF THE WHOLE
Mars light, tower ladder, water pressure gauge, hydrant intake
Time's up! The correct answer was a fire truck
EDIBLES INSTANT REPLAY REVIEW
After review, the bierwurst, lop chong & kielbasa, types of these, were overcooked
Time's up! The correct answer was sausage
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
1997's prize went in part to an international group trying to clear these from the world
Time's up! The correct answer was land mines
BESTSELLERS
A vampire series by Kerrelyn Sparks is punningly titled "Love at" this
Time's up! The correct answer was Stake
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
CliffsNotes
Title guy shipwrecks, ends up on 28-year island getaway, makes a friend, goes home
Time's up! The correct answer was "Robinson Crusoe"
SCIENTISTS
The symbol "J" as a unit of energy honors this physicist
Time's up! The correct answer was Joule
CROSSWORD CLUES "K"
Shy-sounding swimmers (3)
Time's up! The correct answer was koi
BRANDO
Johnny, leader of the Black Rebels
Time's up! The correct answer was The Wild One
FLOWERS
These flowers blooming in a Flanders cemetery during WWI inspired a famous poem by Major John McCrae
Time's up! The correct answer was poppies
THE UPPER CRUST
Oralando Montagu is making a lot of "bread" selling this lunch item (he's descended from the Earl who invented it)
Time's up! The correct answer was a sandwich
NEBRASKA, NEW YORK OR NORTH DAKOTA
The Oregon Trail crossed it
Time's up! The correct answer was Nebraska
BEN
Current events of 1751 included the appearance of Ben's scientific work "Experiments and Observations on" this
Time's up! The correct answer was "Electricity"
TOUR OF JUDY
This CNN news anchor once worked as a correspondent for "The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour"
Time's up! The correct answer was Judy Woodruff
"EN" THE BEGINNING
This Baja California port city is known as "Yellowtail Capital of the World"
Time's up! The correct answer was Ensenada
4 CONSONANTS IN A ROW
This important mechanism is what you're turning when you wind a clock
Time's up! The correct answer was the mainspring
COUNTY SEATS
As I walked out in the streets of this city, I was in the seat of Webb County, Texas
Time's up! The correct answer was Laredo
BEFORE & AFTER
1980 scarefest in which mom & daughter switch bodies one day & are stalked by Jason at Camp Crystal Lake
Time's up! The correct answer was Freaky Friday the 13th
PRIME NUMBERS
Columbus' first voyage to the new world ended in this year
Time's up! The correct answer was 1493
ROLLING STONE'S 100 GREATEST GUITARISTS
Surprisingly, only 2 women made the list: Joni Mitchell & this leader of the Blackhearts
Time's up! The correct answer was Joan Jett
ORGANIZATIONS
Arm of Al-Anon that's specifically for young people between the ages of 12 & 20
Time's up! The correct answer was Al-Ateen
COMPANIES YOUNGER THAN YOU
After selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo! for more than $5 billion, this Dallas NBA team owner started HDNet
Time's up! The correct answer was Mark Cuban
WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS
Coined in the '70s, the term "Ebonics" comes from these 2 words
Time's up! The correct answer was ebony & phonics
BOOKS & AUTHORS
In 1990 he reissued "The Stand" with nearly 500 more pages than the original
Time's up! The correct answer was Stephen King
MILITARY MATTERS
This kind of "force" is a temporary grouping of units to carry out a specific mission
Time's up! The correct answer was Task force
ALL ABOARD THE SOUL TRAIN
Oh yessssssss...he created the show & was the original producer & host
Time's up! The correct answer was Don Cornelius
BOOK NAMES
Theodore Dreiser: "Sister ____"
Time's up! The correct answer was Carrie
POP MUSIC
Alan, Merrill & Wayne, 3 of these Utah brothers, co-wrote their own 1972 hit "Crazy Horses"
Time's up! The correct answer was the Osmonds
MASTER OF PUPPETS
This evil puppet master from "Pinocchio" shared his name with a volcanic island near Sicily
Time's up! The correct answer was Stromboli
___ OG
Hey, "don't just sit there like a bump on" one of these
Time's up! The correct answer was a log
& GO TO "BED"
In the Bible she was mom to Moses & Aaron
Time's up! The correct answer was Jochebed
APOLLO 11
The three crew members of Apollo 11
Time's up! The correct answer was Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins
WHAT'S THAT SOUND?
Antarctica's McMurdo Sound was discovered in 1841 by this Brit who has a nearby sea & ice shelf named for him
Time's up! The correct answer was Ross
THE COMMODORES
The first American naval victory in the Revolution came under Commodore Esek Hopkins in these islands off Fla.
Time's up! The correct answer was Bahamas
FEMALE ATHLETES
This track star was nicknamed "Flo-Jo"
Time's up! The correct answer was Florence Griffith-Joyner
1957
When Wham-O introduced this toy in 1957, it was called the Pluto Platter
Time's up! The correct answer was Frisbee
YOU BEAST!
Russian circuses often feature these animals, a national symobol, trained in the art of juggling with their feet!
Time's up! The correct answer was bears
AND I QUOTE
3-word phrase for a quote meant for attribution, or a quote like "Gretzky's 92 goals are unbeatable!"
Time's up! The correct answer was On the record
THE 20th CENTURY
On Feb. 11, 1993 this Florida prosecutor was nominated Attorney General of the U.S.
Time's up! The correct answer was Janet Reno
U.N. SECRETARIES-GENERAL
Trying to resolve problems in the Congo, this Swedish secretary-general died in a plane crash in Africa in 1961
Time's up! The correct answer was Dag Hammarskjold
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
2 names that follow Gerald, who speaks in weird sounds instead of words in a Dr. Seuss story
Time's up! The correct answer was McBoing-Boing
WORLD BOOK DESCRIBES THE "G" MAN
"Served under the Apache leaders Cochise and Mangas Coloradas... in 1894, he was moved to Fort Sill
Time's up! The correct answer was Geronimo
BOY MEETS WORLD
Of 6, 10 or 14, the age of Michael Kearney in 1994 when he became the USA's youngest college graduate
Time's up! The correct answer was 10
CORPORATE SPORTS VENUES
This Disney-owned baseball team plays at Anaheim's Edison International Field
Time's up! The correct answer was Anaheim Angels
SECRET IDENTITIES
Batman
Time's up! The correct answer was Bruce Wayne
STRING THEORY 201
String theory is part of this "P" branch of physics that studies eensy little items
Time's up! The correct answer was particle
RHYMES WITH TEEN
"Lois & Clark" actor Cain
Time's up! The correct answer was Dean
HOLLYWOOD THRILLER PREVIEWS?
Finally, this 1963 Betty Friedan book hits the theaters--and wait 'til you see the car chases
Time's up! The correct answer was The Feminine Mystique
"LESS" IS MORE
Type of whisper in the title of a Wham! hit
Time's up! The correct answer was Careless
DRESSING
Scarlett O'Hara is introduced wearing a "tightly fitting basque", this upper part of a dress
Time's up! The correct answer was the bodice
AWARDS
"Pearls for Pigs" was 1998's best play in these off-Broadway awards given by the Village Voice
Time's up! The correct answer was Obies
ARCHITECTS
Dallas-Fort Worth Airport architect Gyo Obata helped design this Smithsonian museum
Time's up! The correct answer was Air & Space Museum
"BLACK" OR "WHITE"
This "Golden Girl" had her own show in 1958 & 1977 & in 1999 became part of the cast of "Ladies Man"
Time's up! The correct answer was Betty White
BRITISH POETS & POETRY
Elizabeth Barrett mentioned this future husband in her poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship" before they met
Time's up! The correct answer was Robert Browning
AUTHORS
In 1842 he lived with cannibals in the Taipi Valley in the Marquesas; his novel "Typee" was based on the experience
Time's up! The correct answer was Herman Melville
NEWMAN'S OWN
1969 film in which Paul Newman tells Robert Redford, "Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals"
Time's up! The correct answer was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
LANGUAGE QUESTIONS
If you're in Naples & don't know Italian, ask "Parla inglese?" which means this
Time's up! The correct answer was "Do you speak English?"
FRUIT
The name of this fruit, genus Prunus, can precede picker, pie & Coke
Time's up! The correct answer was cherry
PEARLS OF WISDOM
A playwright: "We are all born mad. Some remain so."
Time's up! The correct answer was Samuel Beckett
HE WAS IN THAT?
Mike Farrell of "Providence" can be seen in the hotel in this 1967 Dustin Hoffman classic
Time's up! The correct answer was The Graduate
ALSO SOMETHING YOU WEAR
A hard blow or punch
Time's up! The correct answer was a sock
I READ THE NEWS TODAY
Political theorist Nikolai Bukharin edited this "truthful" Soviet newspaper from 1917 to 1929
Time's up! The correct answer was Pravda
"DREAM"Y SONGS
"Cheer up sleepy Jean, oh what can it mean to" one of these "and a homecoming queen"
Time's up! The correct answer was A daydream believer
SEE THE USA
It was almost named "Texas Under 6 Flags", but someone said "Texas ain't never been under nothin'!"
Time's up! The correct answer was Six Flags Over Texas
NATURE
Often found clinging to rocks, limpids are a type of this mollusk
Time's up! The correct answer was snails
BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY
In the Song of Solomon, a bride refers to herself as "the rose of" this plain between Joppa & Mount Carmel
Time's up! The correct answer was Sharon
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
LISA
Lisa Guerrero is the sideline reporter for this popular weekly sports event
Time's up! The correct answer was Monday Night Football
MAY DAYS
On May 6, 1984 Jose Napoleon Duarte won this country's presidential election with 54% of the vote
Time's up! The correct answer was El Salvador
TITLES FROM SHAKESPEARE
Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" as well as Steinbeck's "The Moon Is Down" come from this play
Time's up! The correct answer was Macbeth
WORDS OF LOVE
"In her first passion woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love", he wrote in "Don Juan"
Time's up! The correct answer was Byron
THE USA
At an altitude of about 10,200 feet, this Colorado city is the highest incorporated city in the USA
Time's up! The correct answer was Leadville
HISTORIC DATES
He dissolved England's Rump Parliament on April 20, 1653
Time's up! The correct answer was Cromwell
FEMALE ATHLETES
This tennis player won women's singles titles at Wimbledon in 2000 & 2001, but lost to her little sister in 2002
Time's up! The correct answer was Venus Williams
MAIN STREET U.S.A.
There's a house dating from 1648 on Main St. in this "directional" resort village in New York's Hamptons
Time's up! The correct answer was Southampton
ROAMIN' THE WORLD
About two-thirds of this U.K. country's area is in its highlands & islands
Time's up! The correct answer was Scotland
CARDS & DICE
It's the number of dice you toss on your first roll of Yahtzee
Time's up! The correct answer was 5
LEGAL "E"s
This person is appointed by a testator to carry out the directions & requests in his will
Time's up! The correct answer was executor
OATS
Cereal lovers know it's the high-in-fiber outer casing of the oat
Time's up! The correct answer was Bran
ALL ASHORE FOR BIRD LORE
Like its relative the peacock, the Argus type of this bird has "eyes" in its elaborate tail feathers
Time's up! The correct answer was the pheasant
THE 1890s
Relationship of Lizzie Borden to the woman she was acquitted of killing
Time's up! The correct answer was stepdaughter
THRILLER
"The Attorney" Paul Madriani appears in several legal thrillers by this lawyer-turned-author
Time's up! The correct answer was Steve Martini
STATES' FORMER CAPITALS
New Haven
Time's up! The correct answer was Connecticut
TAKE A PILL
Estramustine is a chemotherapy agent for this glandular cancer in men
Time's up! The correct answer was prostate cancer
LITERARY COLLABORATORS
These brothers first published their "Fairy Tales" in 1812 as "Kinderund Hausmarchen"
Time's up! The correct answer was the Brothers Grimm
"NIGHT"
"Timely" 5-word nickname that describes Scandinavia north of the Arctic Circle
Time's up! The correct answer was "Land of the Midnight Sun"
HISPANIC HISTORY
As president of this country, Antonio Guzman Blanco had a new capital built in Caracas
Time's up! The correct answer was Venezuela
ITALIAN ART
"Pumpkin Head" is a 1420s sculpture of a bald man by Donato di Niccolo, better known as this
Time's up! The correct answer was Donatello
THRILLER
You were born to identify this author of "The Bourne Identity"
Time's up! The correct answer was Ludlum
& NOW THE "END" IS NEAR
Poe knows this swinging lever regulates the speed of a clock mechanism
Time's up! The correct answer was pendulum
FOOD CHAIN
"Dip Into Something Different" at the Melting Pot, found across the nation, & specializing in this Swiss dish
Time's up! The correct answer was fondue
MYTHICAL CREATURES
The word "panic" comes from the name of a Greek god who was this type of creature
Time's up! The correct answer was a satyr
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
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"
MILITARY SLANG
A "ROAD" scholar is "retired on" this (coasting until actual retirement)
Time's up! The correct answer was active duty
WORDS OF LOVE
Marlowe rhymed, "Where both deliberate, the love is slight; who ever loved, that loved not at" this?
Time's up! The correct answer was first sight
1933
Known as the "Little Flower", he left the House of Representatives in 1933 & became mayor of NYC
Time's up! The correct answer was Fiorello LaGuardia
IT CAME FROM THE NEW WORLD
Also known as butter beans, they were, prior to being exported to Europe, a diet staple of the Inca
Time's up! The correct answer was lima beans
THEN THERE'S MAUVE
"Madame de Mauves" was an 1874 novel by this expatriate American
Time's up! The correct answer was Henry James
TINKER
Sometimes called "Irish Cobs" or "Gypsy Cobs", Irish Tinkers are a type of this animal
Time's up! The correct answer was horse
SPORTS OF THE FEMALE OLYMPIANS
Misty May & Kerri Walsh
Time's up! The correct answer was beach volleyball
I KNOW THAT SONG
"Whenever we go out, the people always shout, there goes" this man
Time's up! The correct answer was John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
GRAPES
Ths underwear maker's logo contains fig leaves, an apple & different types of grapes
Time's up! The correct answer was Fruit of the Loom
WOOD & WIND
This author wrote of Fangorn Forest, named for the oldest of the Ents-or was the Ent named for the forest?
Time's up! The correct answer was Tolkien
HEY, "U"!
It precedes label, suit & Jack
Time's up! The correct answer was Union
ROCK OF STAGES
"Smokey Joe's Cafe" features "Hound Dog" & other songs written by Jerry Lieber & him
Time's up! The correct answer was Mike Stoller
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Washington warned against "The insidious wiles of foreign influences" in this published declaration
Time's up! The correct answer was His Farewell Address
THE EVOLUTIONARY WAR
Orderly people are bothered by the idea of thse random changes in genetic material helping evolution along
Time's up! The correct answer was mutations
EVERYTHING'S "GOLDEN", BABY
It's the popular breed seen here: (dog)
Time's up! The correct answer was Golden retriever
OCCUPATION HAZARDS
Chafing from chaps, rope burns from lassos & that saddle horn -- watch where you sit if you're one of these
Time's up! The correct answer was cowboy
LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER
Faulkner novel about Joe Christmas that's the Swedish playwright of "The Dance of Death"
Time's up! The correct answer was The Light in August Strindberg
THOSE AMAZING ANIMALS
This clam named for a sharp instrument can burrow almost as fast as you can shovel
Time's up! The correct answer was a razor clam
PIANO KEYS
It's the only letter in "piano" that corresponds to a piano key
Time's up! The correct answer was A
"S"-OTERICA
Slang term for a left-handed boxer or fiddle player
Time's up! The correct answer was southpaw
IN EXILE
Porfirio Diaz seized power in this country in 1876, ruled for 35 years, fled in 1911 & died in exile
Time's up! The correct answer was Mexico
PICK A PLANET
It was the first to be discovered with the aid of the telescope
Time's up! The correct answer was Uranus
CHECK OUT MY CRIB
Wanna put your feet up? How about on one of these with a "Turkish" name
Time's up! The correct answer was an ottoman
4 N
Number of "beers on the wall" at the beginning of the song
Time's up! The correct answer was ninety-nine
CROSSWORD CLUES "Q"
Petty critique (7)
Time's up! The correct answer was quibble
GENERAL SCIENCE
The time it takes for 50% of the atoms to decay in a radioactive substance is called this
Time's up! The correct answer was Half-life
WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS
Politically, this word for a region reflecting a large trend comes from a lead sheep with a ringer around its neck
Time's up! The correct answer was a bellwether
WEATHER WORLD
In Venezuela, this "season" is from April to October; in the mountains of Peru, from November to March
Time's up! The correct answer was rainy season
"LAP" DANCE
A region of northern Scandinavia or Russia
Time's up! The correct answer was Lapland
ALLITERATION STATION
An appointed hour to play golf
Time's up! The correct answer was tee time
PUSH BY SAFIRE
At the American National Exhibition in Moscow in 1959, Safire corralled these 2 politicos into a mock kitchen & the 2 debated
Time's up! The correct answer was Nixon & Khrushchev
NO. 1 ALBUMS
"Imagine"
Time's up! The correct answer was John Lennon
BUSINESS LEADERS
In 1886 he started his first successful business, the Lancaster Caramel Co.; the chocolate came later
Time's up! The correct answer was Hershey
ODDS & ENDS
This French tennis star of the 1920s who went on to start a clothing line was known as "the Crocodile"
Time's up! The correct answer was Lacoste
ORGANIZATIONS
The Max Planck Society is one of this country's chief organizations for scientific research
Time's up! The correct answer was Germany
THAT OLD "BLACK" MAGIC
Yo-ho, yo-ho! His real name was believed to be Edward Teach
Time's up! The correct answer was Blackbeard
NAME THE OPERA
("Triumph March")
Time's up! The correct answer was "Aida"
EMBRACEABLE "U"
This technique uses high-frequency waves & is often used to view fetuses
Time's up! The correct answer was Ultrasound
LITERARY HOUSES
In this novel by John Kennedy Toole, Ignatius J. Reilly lives with his mother in her New Orleans home
Time's up! The correct answer was The Confederacy of Dunces
HISTORIC NAMES
Margaret Roper, who died in 1544, is said to have been buried with the head of this "Utopia" author, her father
Time's up! The correct answer was Saint Thomas More
THE JEFFERSON ADMINISTRATION
In April 1803 Napoleon renounced this territory in America "with the greatest regret"; so we bought it
Time's up! The correct answer was the Louisiana Territory
ALL IN YOUR MIND
You can have a deja entendu, meaning "already heard" in addition to this, "already seen"
Time's up! The correct answer was deja vu
OFFICIAL STATE THINGS
Who was that masked animal? Oklahoma's official state furbearer, that's who
Time's up! The correct answer was a raccoon
DRESSING
Traditional Highland dress includes a wide belt, presumably holding up this
Time's up! The correct answer was a kilt
CROSSWORD CLUES "B"
Mr. Bumble's occupation in "Oliver Twist" (6)
Time's up! The correct answer was beadle
BULL
In 1996 Standing Rock College of Fort Yates, N.D., a Native American school, changed its name to this for a Sioux chief
Time's up! The correct answer was Sitting Bull
COMPANIES YOUNGER THAN YOU
After selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo! for more than $5 billion, this Dallas NBA team owner started HDNet
Time's up! The correct answer was Mark Cuban
THE USA
At an altitude of about 10,200 feet, this Colorado city is the highest incorporated city in the USA
Time's up! The correct answer was Leadville
GOLD RUSH
Forty-niners from this European country were called Keskydees, a corruption of an oft-used phrase
Time's up! The correct answer was France
TIME TO "EAT"
To practice trickery or fraud in game play
Time's up! The correct answer was cheat
POET'S GLOSSARY
From the Latin for "stopping place", it's 2 or more lines of poetry that form a division within a poem
Time's up! The correct answer was a stanza
POETRY
Originally, he didn't want his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" published
Time's up! The correct answer was Gray
ARCHITECTS
In 1805 Charles Bulfinch enlarged this city's Faneuil Hall
Time's up! The correct answer was Boston
GENERAL INFORMATION
This title folk story guy steals a golden egg-laying hen, bags of gold & a golden harp; the "giant-cide" comes later
Time's up! The correct answer was Jack
EXPLORERS
In 1828 Rene Caille reached this remote African city, "an object of curiosity" to Europeans
Time's up! The correct answer was Timbuktu
THE FUNNIES
Profession of Rex Morgan
Time's up! The correct answer was M.D.
WORLD CAPITALS
Foreign embassies are located in Jiddah, some 500 miles from this country's capital, Riyadh
Time's up! The correct answer was Saudi Arabia
WHAT A CHARACTER!
Hardcore fans of "Gilligan's Island" known that this character's real name is Roy Hinkley
Time's up! The correct answer was the Professor
& CROWN THY GOOD
In 336 B.C. at age 20, he succeeded his murdered father as Macedonia's king & was just super...wait, that's not the right word
Time's up! The correct answer was Alexander the Great
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
SELLERS
In 1978 Campbell Soup bought this pickle producer famous for its stork symbol
Time's up! The correct answer was Vlasic Foods
BIBLICAL WORDS & PHRASES
To "pass over" this river means to reach the promised land
Time's up! The correct answer was Jordan River
ON THE CALENDAR
In 1974, to save energy, it began in January instead of April & ended on October 27
Time's up! The correct answer was Daylight saving time
YOUNG WOMEN OF TODAY
In "Jerry Maguire", this actress told Tom Cruise, "You had me at hello"
Time's up! The correct answer was Renee Zellweger
JAZZ IT UP
At the 2000 Grammys the Best Boxed Recording Package was this late trumpeter's "Complete Bitches Brew Sessions"
Time's up! The correct answer was Miles Davis
INSECTS
Migration of insects thru the air is classed as active or passive, depending on use of this
Time's up! The correct answer was wind
EUROPE
The fertile plain east of the Danube, making up half this country's area, is called the Great Alfold
Time's up! The correct answer was Hungary
TOP 40 BONUS
"California Girls"
Time's up! The correct answer was The Beach Boys & David Lee Roth
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
HAIRY
The short hairstyles worn by the men who fought the Cavaliers in 17th C. England earned them this name
Time's up! The correct answer was the Roundheads
ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE
When his friend became Pope in 1623, he thought he'd be allowed to discuss his heliocentric theory
Time's up! The correct answer was Galileo
ARE WE THERE YET?
Take a trolley to tour the National Cathedral, Georgetown & the Smithsonian in this city
Time's up! The correct answer was Washington, D.C.
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!
This principal leader of the Reign of Terror faced the guillotine himself on July 28, 1794
Time's up! The correct answer was Robespierre
THEY'RE ON CABLE
He plays novelist Hank Moody, a New Yorker transplanted to L.A., on "Californication"
Time's up! The correct answer was David Duchovny
WHO DO YOU THINK I AM?!
Newspapers I own include the Daily Telegraph of Sydney & the Australian
Time's up! The correct answer was Rupert Murdoch
BROADWAY LYRICS
"Immigrant goes to America, many hellos in America; nobody knows in America, Puerto Rico's in America!"
Time's up! The correct answer was West Side Story
OSCARDS WILD
This "American Beauty" nominee nearly had a pregnant pause at the 2000 show; she was due with her 4th at any moment
Time's up! The correct answer was Annette Bening
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
LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS
"10,000 Lakes"
Time's up! The correct answer was Minnesota
TOP OF THE LIST
U.S. News & World Report calls this New Haven school the best value college, even with tuition at over $38,000 a year
Time's up! The correct answer was Yale
MUSIC/TELEVISION
Legendary singer Eartha Kitt was just purr-fect as this "Batman" villainess
Time's up! The correct answer was Catwoman
I'D RATHER BE SKIING
In California, a premier spot for skiing is this resort area that shares its name with a prehistoric elephant
Time's up! The correct answer was Mammoth
LONG WORDS
Among bodily noises, hiccup & burp are this type of word that imitates sound
Time's up! The correct answer was an onomatopoeia
AMERICANA
Lancaster, which has the largest stockyards east of Chicago, was this state's capital from 1799 to 1812
Time's up! The correct answer was Pennsylvania
THE ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN
In the aftermath this owner of the theater/crime scene was thrown in jail as a possible conspirator
Time's up! The correct answer was Ford
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
The Raritan is the longest river wholly within this state
Time's up! The correct answer was New Jersey
LITERARY QUOTES
Terence, a Roman poet-playwright who lived in the second century B.C., said, "Charity begins" here
Time's up! The correct answer was At Home
AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE
This carnivorous marsupial serves as the symbol of the Tasmanian Parks & Wildlife Service
Time's up! The correct answer was the Tasmanian devil
MIDDLE "C"
For a nice chianti, visit this wine-making region of Italy that's famous for it
Time's up! The correct answer was Tuscany
CLASSIC AD LINES
"Tastes So Good Cats Ask For It By Name"
Time's up! The correct answer was Meow Mix
LET THE GAMES BEGIN
On a basic playing board in this matching game, the numbers range from B-1 to O-75
Time's up! The correct answer was bingo
CHANTED
Their chant in "Macbeth" begins, "Double, double, toil and trouble"
Time's up! The correct answer was the witches
FOREIGN TRAVEL
Jamaica's Rock House Hotel advertises four-poster beds with this protective material over them
Time's up! The correct answer was a mosquito net
SORTA SOUNDS LIKE OPRAH?
Bizet's "Carmen", for example
Time's up! The correct answer was an opera
PRESIDENTS
The first president who wasn't born a British subject was this New Yorker
Time's up! The correct answer was Martin Van Buren
AN ARTHUR BEE
Go to Flushing Meadows & see the 22,547-capacity stadium named for this man
Time's up! The correct answer was Arthur Ashe
AN ABBREVIATED CATEGORY
To a baseball pitcher: ERA
Time's up! The correct answer was earned run average
WORLD CITIES
Recife is called "The Venice of" this South American country
Time's up! The correct answer was Brazil
FOOD FACTS
Hard sauce is made by beating together sugar, this spread, & a flavoring such as brandy
Time's up! The correct answer was butter
ABBREVIATED STATES
When abbreviated before the number 47, this state becomes an assault weapon
Time's up! The correct answer was Alaska
ONE LETTER DIFFERENT
Humorous wordplay about a quill
Time's up! The correct answer was a pen pun
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
ON BROADWAY: 1970
Though he never won an Emmy as Barney Miller, he did win a Tony for his role in "The Rothschilds"
Time's up! The correct answer was Hal Linden
CALIFORNIA HERE I COME FILMS
In this 1995 film, Whoopi, Mary-Louise & Drew head to San Diego
Time's up! The correct answer was Boys on the Side
THE KILLERS
This "insect" of a gangster was a real-life hit man for Murder Incorporated in the 1930s & '40s
Time's up! The correct answer was Bugsy Siegel
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
While studying at Cambridge in the late 1960s, this prince showed a flair for acting in comedy revues
Time's up! The correct answer was Prince Charles
WARNER BROS.
Former mortuary entrepreneur Steve Ross negotiated Warners' 1989 merger with this publisher
Time's up! The correct answer was Time
SONG LYRICS
Evita sang, "Don't" do this "for me Argentina -- the truth is I never left you"
Time's up! The correct answer was Cry
INITIALS M.D.
He won an Oscar as co-writer of "Good Will Hunting"
Time's up! The correct answer was Matt Damon
"G"ARDEN GLOSSARY
This cereal grain embryo is usually separated from the endosperm during milling; health nuts love the "wheat" kind
Time's up! The correct answer was the germ
AN E FOR AN I
A Hawaiian wreath becomes an area sheltered from wind
Time's up! The correct answer was a lei & a lee
ALSO A GUN MANUFACTURER
He's the guitarist who had a Top 40 hit with "Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo"
Time's up! The correct answer was Rick Derringer
FIRE!
Though the 1871 Chicago fire began in this family's barn, their house suffered only minor damages
Time's up! The correct answer was the O'Learys
ANIMATED FILMS
Pretty Belle falls for a prince who's been transformed into a monster in this 1991 film
Time's up! The correct answer was Beauty and the Beast
LANGUAGES
This Scandinavian language changed "aa" to a circle-topped "a", making it closer to Swedish and Norwegian
Time's up! The correct answer was Danish
NATIONAL SPELLING BEE
Now that you've got the hang of it, 1932's word was this, like the group that sang "My Sharona"
Time's up! The correct answer was K-N-A-C-K
NOTABLE NONHUMANS
This favorite horse of Alexander the Great sometimes wore golden horns in battle
Time's up! The correct answer was Bucephalus
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
In 1937 this Malibu, Calif. university was established by & named for the founder of Western Auto Supply Company
Time's up! The correct answer was Pepperdine
DANGER IN WONDERLAND
She tried to whack Alice with that "off with her head" line; wait 'til she gets a load of you
Time's up! The correct answer was the Queen of Hearts
SNAP
Along with Snap, they've been appearing on boxes of Rice Krispies since the 1930s
Time's up! The correct answer was Crackle & Pop
THAT'S WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE SOUTH
Scenic traces include one along Lake Pontchartrain & a 500-mile one from Nashville to this city
Time's up! The correct answer was Natchez
BUSINESS LEADERS
In 1886 he started his first successful business, the Lancaster Caramel Co.; the chocolate came later
Time's up! The correct answer was Hershey
VERMONTERS
This leader of the Green Mountain Boys did not live to see Vermont become a state
Time's up! The correct answer was Ethan Allen
BACKWORDS
We'll look smart in these vehicles that returned to London in 1999
Time's up! The correct answer was Trams
THE JEFFERSON ADMINISTRATION
In 1807, after a trip up the Hudson, he wrote, "The power of propelling boats by steam is now fully proved"
Time's up! The correct answer was Fulton
BREAKFAST CEREALS
This whole grain cereal from General Mills makes the rounds in frosted & honey nut as well as the original
Time's up! The correct answer was Cheerios
THE "FIRST" STATE
In a symphony orchestra, the leader of this group serves as concertmaster
Time's up! The correct answer was first violin
MISC.
This N.H. school was the last U.S. institution of higher learning to be founded by royal decree
Time's up! The correct answer was Dartmouth
TRAVEL & TOURISM
While visiting the city of Agra in this country, don't miss the Agra Fort & the Taj Mahal
Time's up! The correct answer was India
WHAT'S THAT SOUND?
Ports lying on the banks of this sound include Bremerton, Everett & Tacoma
Time's up! The correct answer was Puget Sound
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
RELIGION BY THE NUMBERS
The sixth of these was an outbreak of boils & sores
Time's up! The correct answer was Ten Plagues of Egypt
MANY IRONS
It's gold! Gold, I tell you! Gold!!! Oh, no -- it's not... it's this, fool's gold
Time's up! The correct answer was Iron pyrite
LIBRARIES
In 1889 this philanthropist funded his first U.S. library in Braddock, Penn., home to one of his steel mills
Time's up! The correct answer was Carnegie
THE UPPER CRUST
Oralando Montagu is making a lot of "bread" selling this lunch item (he's descended from the Earl who invented it)
Time's up! The correct answer was a sandwich
AMERICAN LITERATURE
This captain of the Ghost rescues literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden & poet Maude Brewster from a shipwreck
Time's up! The correct answer was Wolf Larsen
THE EVOLUTIONARY WAR
A 1981 Arkansas law called for balanced teaching of evolution & this opposite type of "science"
Time's up! The correct answer was creationism
OOH... A WISE GUY
Therefore it's this 17th century mathematician and philosopher--I think
Time's up! The correct answer was Descartes
BROADWAY
The musical "Into the Woods" is based on several fairy tales, including the one about this boy and his beanstalk
Time's up! The correct answer was Jack
ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS
Proved nice
Time's up! The correct answer was Providence
RHYMES WITH STONEHENGE
It's easy to get lost in this arrangement of genetically identical creations
Time's up! The correct answer was Clonehenge
HISTORY
In February 1904 this country attacked the Russian fleet at Port Arthur
Time's up! The correct answer was Japan
BIG MERGERS
On March 9, 1999 AT&T officially hooked itself up with this cable company (we figure sometime between 1 & 5 PM)
Time's up! The correct answer was TCI
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
SEEING "RED"
Stephen Crane wrote, "He wished that he, too, had a wound," this
Time's up! The correct answer was A red badge of courage
WHEAT
This embryo of the wheat seed is a rich source of vitamin E
Time's up! The correct answer was Germ
AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY
Jebel Musa, a promontory in this mountain range, is one of the Pillars of Hercules
Time's up! The correct answer was Atlas Mountains
BEFORE THEY WERE SENATORS
Later a U.S. senator, in 1962 he made a famous 75,000-mile trip
Time's up! The correct answer was John Glenn
DOUBLE A
It's how you properly address the Queen of England
Time's up! The correct answer was Maam
"DREAM"Y SONGS
1 of 2 "dream"y Top 20 songs recorded by Cass Elliott with The Mamas and The Papas
Time's up! The correct answer was "California Dreamin'" & "Dream a Little Dream of Me"
BEFORE & AFTER
Otis Redding's No. 1 hit that's performed by a Scottish band on S-a-t-u-r-d-a-y Night
Time's up! The correct answer was Sitting on the Dock of the Bay City Rollers
DON'T BE A PAIN
Pain registers in one area of the outer portion of the cerebrum called the cerebral this
Time's up! The correct answer was cortex
A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
This computer language gets oxymoronic when it follows "Advanced"
Time's up! The correct answer was BASIC
OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS BY SPORT
1964: Joe Frazier; 1996: Wladimir Klitschko
Time's up! The correct answer was boxing
COME "IN"
Paul Apak Angilirq was a producer as Canada's IBC, this Broadcasting Corporation
Time's up! The correct answer was Inuit
U.S. STATES
It's the only U.S. state named for a French king
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@sinful lotus guessed it! The answer was: Louisiana
ANATOMY
The term for the brain & spinal cord, often abbreviated CNS
Time's up! The correct answer was Central Nervous System
BICYCLES
1985 film that was a story of a “rebel & his bike”
Time's up! The correct answer was Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
IT CAME FROM THE NEW WORLD
Also known as butter beans, they were, prior to being exported to Europe, a diet staple of the Inca
Time's up! The correct answer was lima beans
KFC
The company would have been called Indiana Fried Chicken if it were named for the birthplace of this founder
Time's up! The correct answer was Col. Harland Sanders
NOT A CURRENT NATIONAL CAPITAL
Ljubljana, Bratislava, Barcelona
Time's up! The correct answer was Barcelona
"L.B."s
In 1893 this horticulturist published his first nursery catalog offering his "New Creations in Fruits and Flowers"
Time's up! The correct answer was Luther Burbank
TAKE A GUESS
Of a pogo stick injury, a dense winter fog or the bite of a comic strip possum, what a pogonip is
Time's up! The correct answer was a dense winter fog
GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT
Theodore Dreiser wrote "An American Tragedy"; Philip Roth, "The Great American" this
Time's up! The correct answer was Novel
THE COMPANY LINE
This company's Accutron watch, introduced in 1960, had a guarantee of accuracy to within one minute a month
Time's up! The correct answer was Bulova
PLAY REVIVALS
In August 2000 Lea Thompson sallied forth as Sally Bowles in the Broadway revival of this musical
Time's up! The correct answer was "Cabaret"
INTO THE "WOOD"s
A heavyset rodent common in northern North America
Time's up! The correct answer was a woodchuck
WOMEN'S FASHION
This turn-of-the-century "girl" wore a shortwaist dress with puffed sleeves & a Pompadour hairdo
Time's up! The correct answer was Gibson Girl
WHO DO YOU THINK I AM?!
I died around 965 B.C. & my son Solomon succeeded me as King of Israel
Time's up! The correct answer was David
THE "A"s
Whether for a sorcerer or a craft guild, one serves time as one of these before becoming a journeyman
Time's up! The correct answer was apprentice
THE 1970 TV SEASON
The prime time spellcaster wasn't Sabrina, but Samantha in this series
Time's up! The correct answer was Bewitched
2-LETTER ABBREV.
Your DL is a form of this; it shows who you are & how old you are
Time's up! The correct answer was ID
HAVE A WHISKEY
In the 1880s Ontario-brewed Club whiskey got this new national name
Time's up! The correct answer was Canadian Club
TRAVEL & TOURISM
This British wax museum famed for its chamber of horrors now has a time-traveling ride in it, too
Time's up! The correct answer was Madame Tussauds
AMERICAN AUTHORS
William Rose Benet won a Pulitzer for "The Dust Which Is God", & this brother won for "John Brown's Body"
Time's up! The correct answer was Stephen Vincent Benet
ARE WE THERE YET?
Take a trolley to tour the National Cathedral, Georgetown & the Smithsonian in this city
Time's up! The correct answer was Washington, D.C.
BASEBALL HISTORY
During his 22-year career he walked a then-record 2,056 times
Time's up! The correct answer was Babe Ruth
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
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
CLIMBING
Alpinism is European climbing; Andinismo refersto climbing on this continent
Time's up! The correct answer was South America
VIETNAM
A fertile marshland, Vietnam's southernmost region is the broad delta of this river
Time's up! The correct answer was Mekong
HEY, "U"!
This citrus fruit from Jamaica is named for its lack of physical beauty
Time's up! The correct answer was Ugli fruit
U.S. POLITICS
Since 1960, only Massachusetts & this state have produced more than one of the 10 Democratic presidential nominees
Time's up! The correct answer was Minnesota
REEL MOTHERS
Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch & Harvey Keitel play this title trio in a movie about an ambulance service
Time's up! The correct answer was Mother, Jugs & Speed
TOP 40 BONUS
"Live And Let Die"
Time's up! The correct answer was Wings & Guns N' Roses
ARCHITECTS
Cass Gilbert designed this merchant's NYC skyscraper for 270,000,000 nickels or 135,000,000 dimes
Time's up! The correct answer was F.W. Woolworth
RELIGIOUS RHYME TIME
A Latter-Day jury spokesperson
Time's up! The correct answer was a Mormon foreman
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
In 1993 she became the first woman from Ukraine to win the world figure skating championships
Time's up! The correct answer was Oksana Baiul
NETWORK
"Pros & Cons", "Crime Stories", "DC Insider"
Time's up! The correct answer was Court TV
GOING DUTCH
Ask a Dutchman "Spreekt U Engels?", which means this, & he'll probably say, "Yes"
Time's up! The correct answer was Do you speak English?
MONEY SLANG
Cheap way off a rodeo bronco
Time's up! The correct answer was Buck
MY NAME IS EARL WARREN
In Reynolds v. Sims I said that representation in legislatures must be based mostly on population: one man, one this
Time's up! The correct answer was vote
U.S. STATES
Besides X,Y & Z, 2 of the 3 consonants that don't begin a state's name
Time's up! The correct answer was J & Q
HISTORIC NAMES
While rounding the tip of South America in 1520, this Portuguese explorer named Cape Virgines & Patagonia
Time's up! The correct answer was Ferdinand Magellan
KHOMEINI, KHAMENEI OR KHATAMI
Elected president in 1997
Time's up! The correct answer was Khatami
MARK TWAIN: BOOK LOVER
One of Twain's favorite books was the "Diary of" this Englishman; Twain credited it as the model for his book "1601"
Time's up! The correct answer was Pepys
U.S. PRESIDENTS
A Civil War general, he was the last man to go directly from the House of Representatives to the presidency
Time's up! The correct answer was James A. Garfield
THE RENAISSANCE
In his notebooks this Renaissance artist claimed, "The Medici created and destroyed me"
Time's up! The correct answer was Leonardo Da Vinci
AT THE KENNEDY CENTER
Can you hear me? This rock opera by The Who was a big hit at the Kennedy Center in 1994
Time's up! The correct answer was Tommy
ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE
When his friend became Pope in 1623, he thought he'd be allowed to discuss his heliocentric theory
Time's up! The correct answer was Galileo
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Escamillo is a toreador in "Carmen", an opera set in this European country
Time's up! The correct answer was Spain
COMPANIES YOUNGER THAN YOU
After selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo! for more than $5 billion, this Dallas NBA team owner started HDNet
Time's up! The correct answer was Mark Cuban
BIG MERGERS
In January 1999 we found out Viacom had its eye on this TV network
Time's up! The correct answer was CBS
REQUIRED READING
This 19th century American writer of scary stories also wrote the love poem "Annabel Lee"
Time's up! The correct answer was Poe
BEFORE & AFTER
"Bouncy" 1965 Beatles album that took over for Don Cornelius as host of a dance show
Time's up! The correct answer was Rubber Soul Train
MUSEUMS
The Eisenhower Center in this Kansas town houses numerous mementos of the president's life & career
Time's up! The correct answer was Abilene
FOOD
Varieties include Chinese & Dijon
Time's up! The correct answer was mustard
"TOO" MUCH
Fighting ferociously, you go at it this "& nail"
Time's up! The correct answer was tooth
"PU"
It means downright rotten
Time's up! The correct answer was Putrid
HOW DO YOU...
Holding the bottom of the ear in the left hand, grasp the husk from the top with the right hand & pull down
Time's up! The correct answer was shuck corn
JUBAL EARLY
Early, a man known for his patriarchal beard, was active in this party in Virginia in the 1840s
Time's up! The correct answer was Whig
FIRST NAME'S THE SAME
Connelly, Garner, Holliday
Time's up! The correct answer was Jennifer
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
EPITAPHS & TRIBUTES
Revolutionary War hero: "His spirit is in Vermont now"
Time's up! The correct answer was Ethan Allen
QUEEN VICTORIA
Victoria found this poet laureate's "In Memoriam" a great comfort in her widowhood
Time's up! The correct answer was Alfred Lord Tennyson
ALSO SOMETHING YOU WEAR
A hard blow or punch
Time's up! The correct answer was a sock
SNAP
A snap fastener is simply a ball-and-this, like your hip joint
Time's up! The correct answer was ball-and-socket
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
FRUIT
This hybrid of a tangerine & a grapefruit comes in 2 main varieties: Orlando & Minneola
Time's up! The correct answer was Tangelo
PARLEZ VOUS?
When mom tells you to do something "Maintenant!", she means this
Time's up! The correct answer was now
EPONYMS
This screw with a cross-slotted head (& the needed screwdriver) was invented by a Portland man in 1936
Time's up! The correct answer was Phillips
TOUR OF JUDY
This CNN news anchor once worked as a correspondent for "The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour"
Time's up! The correct answer was Judy Woodruff
CONTESTS
At the 1999 Westminster Dog Show, CH Loteki Supernatural Being won this award for matching the breed standard
Time's up! The correct answer was Best in Show
FOOD
Butternut refers to both an actual nut & this type of gourd
Time's up! The correct answer was squash
CliffsNotes
Title guy shipwrecks, ends up on 28-year island getaway, makes a friend, goes home
Time's up! The correct answer was "Robinson Crusoe"
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
Medieval Europeans believed that birds begin to mate on this day
Time's up! The correct answer was St. Valentine's Day
SOMETHIN' TO "C"
Oscar & Felix were an "odd" one
Time's up! The correct answer was Couple
STATE CAPITALS
This twin city is the capital of Minnesota
Time's up! The correct answer was St. Paul
THE PLANETS
As viewed from Earth, it's the brightest planet in the nighttime sky
Time's up! The correct answer was Venus
THE STAR'S TV SHOW & MOVIE
"The Office", "Bruce Almighty"
Time's up! The correct answer was Steve Carell
A DICKENSIAN NIGHTMARE
That wedding gown, that faded gown--I cannot get it, or poor Miss Havisham, out of my head
Time's up! The correct answer was Great Expectations
LAST NAME'S THE SAME
17th century philosopher Sir Francis & 20th century painter Francis
Time's up! The correct answer was Bacon
PUNJAB
Since 1947, the historic region of Punjab has been divided between these 2 countries
Time's up! The correct answer was India & Pakistan
TIME TO "EAT"
The administrative metropolis in a U.S. county
Time's up! The correct answer was the seat
PARDON MY "FRENCH"
In a French restaurant, they're called pommes frites
Time's up! The correct answer was French fries
THE KIDS LOVE THAT ROCK & ROLL
Of King Ad Rock, Thugmuffin C, MCA or Mike D, the one who's not a member of the Beastie Boys
Time's up! The correct answer was Thugmuffin C
U.N. SECRETARIES-GENERAL
This Oslo-born secretary-general served in the Norwegian government in exile during WWII
Time's up! The correct answer was Trygve Lie
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
COLOSSUS
Immeasurably great, like the "Jest" in a David Foster Wallace title
Time's up! The correct answer was infinite
FLY COUNTRIES
Aer Lingus
Time's up! The correct answer was Ireland
WORMS
In this 1965 sci-fi novel, giant sandworms on the planet Arrakis create a much-desired spice called melange
Time's up! The correct answer was "Dune"
"KEY"s
It's Pennsylvania's nickname
Time's up! The correct answer was the Keystone state
PHRASES THAT SELL
"Obey your thirst" and drink this
Time's up! The correct answer was Sprite
AUTHORS
She first wrote "Ethan Frome" in French, then later translated it into English
Time's up! The correct answer was Edith Wharton
20th CENTURY NICKNAMES
"The People's Lawyer" & 2000 Green Party presidential candidate
Time's up! The correct answer was Ralph Nader
ENGLISH LIT
Since the beadle named his waifs alphabetically, this character came between Swubble & Unwin
Time's up! The correct answer was Twist
FILM FACTS
Roy Rogers sang "Buttons and Bows" with Bob Hope & Jane Russell in this sequel to "The Paleface"
Time's up! The correct answer was Son of Paleface
SCIENCE & NATURE
A magnetic field is measured in units called gauss or this after a real "coil" guy
Time's up! The correct answer was Nikola Tesla
TEENS OF THE PAST
In his teens in the 1860s this "bright light" of inventors worked as a roving telegraph operator
Time's up! The correct answer was Thomas Edison
HOW'S THE WEATHER?
High clouds may bring this type of damaging precipitation, especially to the "alley" for it in the Rockies
Time's up! The correct answer was hail
BERRIES
The tart, red cowberry is also called the "mountain" type of this berry, it is likewise used for sauce
Time's up! The correct answer was Cranberry
FLY ME, BUT NOT TO THE MOON
Hong Kong's home carrier, in 2006 it celebrated its 60th anniversary
Time's up! The correct answer was Cathay Pacific
LITERATURE FOR KIDS
This author who wrote about "The Princess Who Could Not Laugh" made us smile with "Winnie-the-Pooh"
Time's up! The correct answer was A.A. Milne
PLAY ADJECTIVES
Howard Sackler's "The ____ ____ Hope"
Time's up! The correct answer was The Great White Hope
SWEET!
Butter is an ingredient of this hard candy that has "butter" in its name; the rest of its name doesn't refer to whisky
Time's up! The correct answer was butterscotch
BERMUDA SHORTS
The cahow, or Bermuda petrel, a type of this, breeds only in Bermuda
Time's up! The correct answer was a bird
THEIR ALMA MATERS
Author Ralph Ellison
Time's up! The correct answer was Tuskegee
EDS
He hosted a phenomenally successful prime-time variety show for 24 years
Time's up! The correct answer was Ed Sullivan
THE PRODUCERS
This West Coast state procuces the most wind-generated energy
Time's up! The correct answer was California
18th CENTURY AMERICANS
This Pennsylvanian's son William served as royal governor of New Jersey & remained loyal to the crown
Time's up! The correct answer was Ben Franklin
HISTORIC DATES
The Egyptian government opened his mummy case on March 6, 1924
Time's up! The correct answer was Tutankhamun
THE RENAISSANCE
Boccaccio work narrated by 3 men & 7 women fleeing the plague in Florence
Time's up! The correct answer was "The Decameron"
INTERNATIONAL LANDMARKS
Its roof has been variously described as sails, clam shells & a huddle of nuns in a high wind
Time's up! The correct answer was the Sydney Opera House
CROSSWORD CLUES "J"
Belligerent nationalist (5)
Time's up! The correct answer was jingo
OSCAR NIGHT 2003
This Best Actress Winner said that Russell Crowe told her not to cry...but she did anyway
Time's up! The correct answer was Nicole Kidman
"V" HAVE MAPS
As a 19th century emperor of this country, Minh Mang executed several French Catholic missionaries
Time's up! The correct answer was Vietnam
TWO
In advertising: Jay Chiat &...
Time's up! The correct answer was Guy Day
DEPARTMENT "S"
Eternally doomed rock roller of Greek mythology
Time's up! The correct answer was Sisyphus
TV MINISERIES
(Hi, I'm Kristoff St. John from "The Young and the Restless") Earlier in my career, I appeared in "Roots: The Next Generation", playing this author as a boy
Time's up! The correct answer was Alex Haley
“SAINTS”
A patron saint of Russia, he was probably skinny & never wore a red suit
Time's up! The correct answer was St. Nicholas
B FOLLOWS A
In a Harry Potter novel, Sirius Black is a convicted murderer who escapes from this island prison in the North Sea
Time's up! The correct answer was Azkaban
PHOTOGRAPHERS
He once said that his life was "colored and modulated by the great earth gesture of the sierra"
Time's up! The correct answer was Adams
HISTORIC NICKNAMES
This animal phrase meaning "courageous" was Richard I of England's nickname
Time's up! The correct answer was the Lionhearted
ALSO A VEGAS CASINO
Stevenson's rousing tale from 1881
Time's up! The correct answer was Treasure Island
COUNTRIES' HIGHEST PEAKS
These 2 nations, one an island, have highest peaks with the same name; they also share a common European culture
Time's up! The correct answer was Greece & Cyprus
A LITERARY TOUR
To see the Great Bed of Ware mentioned in "Twelfth Night", go to this museum named for a royal couple
Time's up! The correct answer was the Victoria and Albert Museum
NICKNAMES
"The Belle of Amherst"
Time's up! The correct answer was Emily Dickinson
FEDERAL AID PROGRAMS
The Black Lung Program benefits those who worked as these, & their widows & their dependents
Time's up! The correct answer was coal miners
AMERICAN PLAYS
"I'm Not Rappaport" takes place on a battered bench near the lake in this famous park
Time's up! The correct answer was Central Park
BOXING MOVIES
He played Elvis' trainer in "Kid Galahad" a "Dirty Dozen" years before he starred in "Death Wish"
Time's up! The correct answer was Charles Bronson
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
Canada (both, please)
Time's up! The correct answer was French & English
OPERA & BALLET
The ballet "Les Sylphides" is danced to music by this Polish-French composer
Time's up! The correct answer was Frederic Chopin
THE NOBEL PRIZE
The 1996 Chemistry Prize went to the discoverers of a 60-carbon atom molecule called this
Time's up! The correct answer was Buckyball
SOUNDS THAT KITTIES MAKE
This threatening sound can also mean "to become tangled"
Time's up! The correct answer was snarled
NEBRASKA, NEW YORK OR NORTH DAKOTA
The Oregon Trail crossed it
Time's up! The correct answer was Nebraska
I'D RATHER BE SKIING
If you're a beginner, you might hippity-hop over to this smaller, gentler slope
Time's up! The correct answer was a bunny hill
NO. 1 ALBUMS
"Imagine"
Time's up! The correct answer was John Lennon
TOP O' THE CHARTS
In 1991 this heartthrob took Percy Sledge's "When A Man Loves A Woman" back to the top spot
Time's up! The correct answer was Michael Bolton
PHYSICAL SCIENCE
Max Planck gave this name to the smallest amount of energy that can be emitted as electromagnetic radiation
Time's up! The correct answer was Quantum
AIN'T THAT "GRAND"
The Republicans had been around less than 30 years when they were dubbed this
Time's up! The correct answer was the Grand Old Party
JEWELRY
Tahiti & French Polynesia are famous for pearls of this color
Time's up! The correct answer was Black
MISC.
Before applying to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, a resident alien must have reached this age
Time's up! The correct answer was eighteen
"PH"UN WORDS
This Olivia Newton-John recording spent 10 weeks at No. 1, the longest of any single in the 1980's
Time's up! The correct answer was "Physical"
LET'S HIT IT
Everlast makes these that come in speed and heavy varieties
Time's up! The correct answer was punching bags
HOW DO YOU...
Dial 011-33-1 & a local number, say "Pourrais-je parler a M. Chirac?"
Time's up! The correct answer was call the president of France
SOCIOLOGY
Robert & Helen Lynd based their "Middletown" studies on Muncie in this state
Time's up! The correct answer was Indiana
OCCUPATION HAZARDS
If this is your job you might get brine in your eye after dropping the cucumber in the barrel
Time's up! The correct answer was pickler
KIDDIE LIT
The first line of the early 19th century nursery rhyme whose original title was "The Star"
Time's up! The correct answer was "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star"
MOVIE DEBUTS
This half-sister of country singer Wynonna first hit the big screen in the 1992 comedy "Kuffs"
Time's up! The correct answer was Ashley Judd
1984
98% of voters in Pakistan elected this leader killed 4 years later in a plane crash
Time's up! The correct answer was Zia Ul-Haq
THE PRODUCERS
It leads the states in apple production
Time's up! The correct answer was Washington
EAT IT!
Traditionally, shepherd's pie contains this meat, ground or diced
Time's up! The correct answer was lamb
GIANTS OF SCIENCE
Good Lord! With absolute zero heirs at his death in 1907, this physicist's peerage became extinct
Time's up! The correct answer was Lord Kelvin
WORDS OF THE WRITER
"Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Time's up! The correct answer was Edgar Allan Poe
U.S. WINTER OLYMPIANS
Life has its ups & downs for Travis Mayer, a 2002 medalist in the event named for these little hills on the slopes
Time's up! The correct answer was moguls
FOREIGN CURRENCY
A Philippine one-peso coin of 1947 depicted this American, calling him "Defender and Liberator"
Time's up! The correct answer was Douglas MacArthur
ACTORS WHO DIRECT
"A Bronx Tale"
Time's up! The correct answer was Robert De Niro
ON THE "WAR"PATH
Pop art poster boy who was famous much longer than 15 minutes
Time's up! The correct answer was Andy Warhol
NOTORIOUS
White supremacy group depicted as heroes in film classic "Birth of a Nation"
Time's up! The correct answer was the Ku Klux Klan
QUOTATIONS
This talk show host said, "I admire, respect & adore authors" when she was honored for her book club
Time's up! The correct answer was Oprah
ROUGH POLITICS
On Aug. 5, 1994 he was named independent counsel in the Whitewater affair
Time's up! The correct answer was Kenneth Starr
AN E FOR AN I
"Gentle" becomes "to blend"
Time's up! The correct answer was mild & meld
NO. 3 SONGS
Singer of the No. 3 hit heard here: ("I Feel Good")
Time's up! The correct answer was James Brown
NOT A VERB
Salt, pepper, sage
Time's up! The correct answer was sage
SPORTS LEGENDS
Barry Bonds, among others, is currently trying to break this man's home run record of 755
Time's up! The correct answer was Hank Aaron
"DREAM"Y SONGS
In 1959 Bobby Darin wailed, "Every night I hope and pray", she "will come my way"
Time's up! The correct answer was "Dream Lover"
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
Part of Key's solution to this problem was helping found the American Colonization Society
Time's up! The correct answer was slavery
SO YOU WANT TO BE A 19th CENTURY HEROINE
Even if you're 27 & still single, like Anne in this author's "Persuasion", your life may not be over
Time's up! The correct answer was Jane Austen
SKUNKS
Skunks are the major carriers of this disease in the continental U.S.
Time's up! The correct answer was rabies
MR. OR MS. WILLIAMS
"The Hillbilly Shakespeare" is one nickname of this legendary singer
Time's up! The correct answer was Hank Williams, Sr.
"DON'T" YOU KNOW THIS SONG?
If you've given up, stop! & tell us this Tom Petty song that won the Best Special Effects MTV Music Video Award in '85
Time's up! The correct answer was "Don't Come Around Here No More"
ANTIQUES
A method of joining 2 pieces of wood at right angles named for its resemblance to a bird's tail
Time's up! The correct answer was Dovetail
MAY DAYS
On May 6, 1984 Jose Napoleon Duarte won this country's presidential election with 54% of the vote
Time's up! The correct answer was El Salvador
ROCK OF STAGES
Gonna be a big man someday & name this hit U.K. musical based on the music of Queen
Time's up! The correct answer was We Will Rock You
FOOD CHAIN
"Dip Into Something Different" at the Melting Pot, found across the nation, & specializing in this Swiss dish
Time's up! The correct answer was fondue
A SHAKESPEARE PLAY, FOR OPENERS
Completes the opening sentence "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of..."
Time's up! The correct answer was York
TRANSPORTATION
This light Russian sleigh is pulled by 3 horses
Time's up! The correct answer was Troika
"SUPER"
In this 1986 video game, Luigi & his sibling are trying to rescue Princess Toadstool
Time's up! The correct answer was Super Mario Brothers
"TU"
Creature seen here in a non-candid photo
Time's up! The correct answer was Tuna
ANTIQUES
Used as early as the 15th century, apostle spoons usually came in sets of this number
Time's up! The correct answer was 12 or 13
DEATH BY...
Possible dropping of a tortoise on his head by an eagle, in 456 B.C.
Time's up! The correct answer was Aeschylus
MOVIE DEBUTS
This half-sister of country singer Wynonna first hit the big screen in the 1992 comedy "Kuffs"
Time's up! The correct answer was Ashley Judd
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
FOR THE BIRDS
The canvasback is a wild North American variety of this bird
Time's up! The correct answer was a duck
10-LETTER WORDS
Lionel Hampton's instrument
Time's up! The correct answer was Vibraphone
FAMOUS AMERICANS
In February 1865, 2 months before surrendering, he became general in chief of all the Confederate armies
Time's up! The correct answer was Robert E. Lee
WAITER!
For dessert, bring me some of this apple-filled rolled pastry whose name is from the German for "whirlpool"
Time's up! The correct answer was strudel
LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS
"10,000 Lakes"
Time's up! The correct answer was Minnesota
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