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"F" TROOP $200: 1880s moms dressed their sons in velvet suits & curls in imitation of this "Little Lord" of literature

Fauntleroy

"ROY"ALTY $400: In a children's book, Cedric Errol of New York City becomes this little lord

Fauntleroy

"LIKE" A SONG $200: The Steve Miller Band soared with this Top 10 hit way back in 1977

Fly Like an Eagle

WE HAVE TO LET THEM GO $800: The Central African Republic got free from this country in 1960, but kept its language as official

France

FARMING $700 (Daily Double): A device for breaking up clods of dirt, or a school attended by the young Winston Churchill & Lord Byron

Harrow

FILE UNDER "H" $1600: Despite a clubfoot, Lord Byron played cricket for this London school in its rivalry match against Eton

Harrow

LORD BYRON $400: In 1801 young Byron began attending this school, Eton's rival

Harrow

SCULPTORS $800: To create his Stone Mountain sculpture, he had to devise a magic lantern to project a sketch onto the mountain

Gutzon Borglum

SCULPTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): On June 23, 1923 he began carving on Stone Mountain, completing Robert E. Lee's head within 7 months

Gutzon Borglum

MYTHOLOGY $1600: This Greek goddess of wisdom was wicked smart--she helped build the Trojan Horse

Athena

MYTHOLOGY $600: This goddess of wisdom had an unusual parentage-- no mom, just sprang full grown out of Zeus' head

Athena

OLYMPIANS $1200: She was ready to go to battle from the moment she sprang from Zeus' head

Athena

OLYMPIC MASCOTS $600: The mascots for the 2004 Summer Games were a brother & sister named Phevos & this, like the Greek goddess

Athena

OMG! $1200: Trojan prophet Helenus told the Greeks Troy wouldn't fall unless Palladium, this wise goddess' statue, was stolen

Athena

ON THE GREEK DEITY'S RESUMÉ $5,000 (Daily Double): Awards & Honors: •400s B.C.-- The Parthenon dedicated to me, wisely

Athena

THE FOUNTAINS OF EUROPE $800: A statue of this Greek goddess of war & wisdom adorns the fountain in front of Vienna's Parliament Bldg.

Athena

Capital of Central African Republic

Bangui

EDIBLE NAMES $1000: This actress shot her way into the heart of Robert Redford in "The Natural"

Barbara Hershey

BARONS & BARONESSES $2000: In 1955 this Woolworth heiress married her 6th husband, German tennis star Baron Gottfried von Cramm

Barbara Hutton

BARONS & BARONESSES $800: This Woolworth heiress' 6th husband was the tennis-playing Baron Gottfried von Cramm

Barbara Hutton

SINGERS & DANCERS $100: Her father Richard Whiting composed the songs "Sleepy Time Gal" & "Hooray For Hollywood"

Barbara Whitling (or Margaret Whitling)

PUT IT ON MY "BILL" $600: With about 100,000 people, this seat of Yellowstone County is Montana's most populous city

Billings

SANTA FE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Santa Fe, NM.) Though the palace of the governors is just a short walk from the jail where this young outlaw sat in 1880, Governor Lew Wallace refused to meet with him & discuss the pardon he had offered; a jailbreak soon followed

Billy the Kid (William Bonney)

THE PEN $1,000 (Daily Double): "One Day in My Life" was surreptitiously written on toilet paper by this Irish hunger striker

Bobby Sands

CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: This 1928 Ravel work was written on commission from ballet dancer Ida Rubinstein

Bolero

MEDICAL HISTORY $500: This symbol of the physician is derived from the wand of Aesculapius, the god of medicine

Caduceus

GBS $2000: The Temple of Ra & the Palace of Alexandria are settings in this one of Shaw's "Plays for Puritans"

Caesar and Cleopatra

A SHORT HISTORY OF VEGAS $1000: 1967: Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel attempts a jump over this casino's fountains

Caesar's Palace

CASINO ROYALE $400: It modestly bills itself as "a modern day Roman empire that will dazzle you with unparalleled excitement"

Caesar's Palace

COMING TO VEGAS $500: This hotel recently doubled the size of its Forum shopping area

Caesar's Palace

THE GOD SQUAD $400: The official seal of this U.S. state depicts the goddess Minerva & a grizzly bear

California

A COUNTRY OF AFRICA $200: The name of this central African republic comes from camaroes, a Portuguese word for the prawns found there

Cameroon

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC $200: The name of this central African republic comes from camaroes, a Portuguese word for the prawns found there

Cameroon

A POPS CONCERT $1200: Last name of Carmine, who composed the music for his son's film "Godfather III"

Coppola

APOCALYPSE NOW: THE CATEGORY $200: He directed "Apocalypse Now"

Coppola

CELEBRITY AKA $200: It's the real last name of Nicolas Cage--& of his famous uncle

Coppola

THE OSCARS: Last name of the only family to have a father & daughter receive Academy Award nominations for Best Director

Coppola

NICOLAS COPPOLA, AKA CAGE $800: Cage appeared in this 1984 film about a Harlem hot spot, directed by his uncle Francis

Cotton Club

THIS...WAS...SPARTA! $400: Like its main rival city, Sparta had an acropolis with a temple dedicated to this goddess

Athena

2-WORD SONG TITLES $1600: In 2013 Katy Perry was "coming atcha like a" this, perhaps James K. Polk

Dark Horse

ULYSSES $400: This goddess of wisdom appears to Ulysses' son Telemachus & tells him to find out what happened to Dad

Athena

WHAT A GODDESS $1200: This Greek goddess of war & handicraft changed Arachne into a spider after a weaving contest between them

Athena

YOU LOOK LIKE A GREEK GOD $1000: Talk about a difficult birth--she sprang from Zeus' head, which had been split with an axe

Athena

ZEUS YOUR DADDY $1600: This goddess represented strategic war planning over the raw violence of war; that's using your head, Zeus!

Athena

IT'S A MYTH $800: After being turned to stone by Perseus, this titan became the mountains of the same name in Africa

Atlas

THE SUMMER OF LOVE: 1967 $2000: At Governor George Romney's request, troops were sent to deal with racial unrest in this city

Detroit

MISSING LINKS $300: Louie, Huey

Dewey

LORD BYRON $100: In Byron's Biblical drama "Cain", she's the first female character to speak

Eve

FOUNTAINS $200: On January 1, 1968 he jumped the Caesar's Palace fountains on a motorcycle

Evel Knievel

ASIAN MOUNTAINS $1200: Rongbuk Monastery, at about 16,400 feet on this mountain in Tibet, is the world's highest religious temple

Everest

THOSE ARE MY INITIALS, TOO $800: Woolworth, De Klerk

F.W.

FRANKS & BEENS $400: He has been called the "Father of the Dime Store" (The F. stands for Frank)

F.W. Woolworth

INITIALLY YOURS $400: 5 & dimer Frank Winfield

F.W. Woolworth

NEW YORK BUILDINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): The building named for this retailer includes a sculpture of him counting nickels & dimes

F.W. Woolworth

THE 1800S $300: In 1879 he opened his first successful 5-&-10-cent store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

F.W. Woolworth

ARCHITECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Cass Gilbert designed this merchant's NYC skyscraper for 270,000,000 nickels or 135,000,000 dimes

F.W. Woolworth (Woolworth Building)

CROSSWORD CLUES "F" $800: Boston hall of fame (7)

Faneuil

FOR PETE'S SAKE $600: Last name of the Peter whose hall in Boston was completed in 1742

Faneuil

"HALL"s OF FAME $1600: In 1742 a local merchant gave this "Cradle of Liberty" to the City of Boston

Faneuil Hall

AMERICAN REVOLUTION $500: This building marked by a grasshopper weather vane, gained nickname "The cradle of liberty"

Faneuil Hall

BOSTON'S FREEDOM TRAIL $1000: "The Home of Free Speech" & "the Cradle of Liberty"--this historic building is now part of a bustling marketplace

Faneuil Hall

CRADLES $1000: This Boston Hall got its nickname "Cradle of Liberty" from a 1763 dedication speech delivered by James Otis Jr.

Faneuil Hall

EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $800: This Boston market & meeting hall known for its grasshopper weather vane opened on September 24, 1742

Faneuil Hall

EASY $200: Construction was completed on this Boston landmark in 1742, a year before its builder Peter Faneuil died

Faneuil Hall

U.S. BUILDINGS $2000: Built in Boston in the 1740s by the merchant for whom it's named, it's still used as a market & meeting place

Faneuil Hall

U.S. BUILDINGS $800: In 1742 a gilded grasshopper weathervane was placed atop this Boston hall; it's been there since

Faneuil Hall

NAME'S THE SAME $100: Flagg, Farmer

Fannie

20th CENTURY LIT $400: 1998's "Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!" is the latest from this "Fried Green Tomatoes" author

Fannie Flagg

ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $400: She made a cameo appearance in the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" based on her novel

Fannie Flagg

AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: "Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!" is a 1998 book by this author of "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe"

Fannie Flagg

CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $400: This comedienne's "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" was inspired by her aunt's cafe in Alabama

Fannie Flagg

I WROTE A BOOK! $300: This former "Candid Camera" personality reads her literary work here "Baby girl, I wrote to tell you that I do not have good news about your mother, but it is not terrible news, either."

Fannie Flagg

IN THE BOOKSTORE $500: This author's "Original Whistle Stop Cafe Cookbook" tells how to make fried green tomatoes

Fannie Flagg

LITERARY TEARJERKERS $800: She wrote "Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man" before "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"

Fannie Flagg

STARS FELL FROM ALABAMA $2000: This "Match Game" panelist turned author based the town in "Fried Green Tomatoes..." on Irondale, Alabama

Fannie Flagg

WOMEN WRITERS $800: "Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!" is a recent book by this Southern novelist & TV personality

Fannie Flagg

VACATION SPOTS $800: You can view lions dining on wildebeest on your safari to this country's Masai Mara game reserve

Kenya

WORLD TRAVEL $500 (Daily Double): The Masai Mara Game Reserve in this country is world-famous for its annual wildebeest migration

Kenya

RETAILERS' HOME STATES $200: Woolworth, Barnes & Noble, Saks

New York

PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS $800: He was the first president survived by his mother, Jane Knox

James K. Polk

PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $500: The "First Dark Horse"

James K. Polk

PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $800: "The First Dark Horse"

James K. Polk

U.S. PRESIDENTS $1600: Upon his death in 1849, his last words were, "I love you Sarah, for all eternity, I love you"

James K. Polk

U.S. PRESIDENTS $2000: "A Country of Vast Designs" is a book subtitled him, "the Mexican War & the Conquest of the American Continent"

James K. Polk

PRESIDENTIAL MOMS $800: Jane Knox

James Knox Polk

FRENCH WHINES $500 (Daily Double): It is an artistic tragedy that zis American director & star of ze "Bellboy" has not made any recent films

Jerry Lewis

(Alex: Each response is a famous pair, but you must give us the response in reverse order.) PAIRS FAMOUS $1000: The first names of California governor Brown & Nebraska senator Sasse are less than delicious when paired

Jerry and Ben

MAGIC & SORCERY IN THE BIBLE $1,500 (Daily Double): This Phoenician princess & wife of King Ahab was accused of practicing witchcraft as queen of Israel

Jezebel

AUTH"ER"S $2,000 (Daily Double): Published posthumously in 2003, a novel by this Brooklyn guy was titled "Catch as Catch Can"

Joseph Heller

CAPITAL RIVERS $2000: The Baghmati River, which flows through this Himalayan capital, is sacred to Hindus

Kathmandu

WHO'S THAT GIRL DIRECTOR? $800: "The Hurt Locker"

Kathryn Bigelow

MONSTER MASH $1000: Jack Black brings this monster back to 1933 New York City in a 2005 Peter Jackson film

King Kong

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1000: This nationwide shoe chain is a subsidiary of Woolworth's

Kinney

EARLY AMERICA $400: In 1610 the Spanish began building the Palace of the Governors in what is now this Southwest city

Santa Fe

ABRAHAM $1200: After this wife's death, Abraham married Keturah

Sarah

BIBLE MVPs $600: This wife of Abraham & mother of Isaac was favored by God as the "mother of nations"

Sarah

BIBLICAL QUOTES $1000: God told Abraham that he would bless this wife "and she shall be a mother of nations"

Sarah

BIBLICAL WIFERY $400: Peter suggests wives be submissive "even as" she "obeyed Abraham, calling him lord"

Sarah

BIBLICAL WOMEN $1600: This wife of Abraham sent his mistress Hagar & her son Ishmael out into the wilderness

Sarah

BIBLICAL WOMEN $800: Married to Abraham, she became the "Mother of Nations" when she was 90 years old

Sarah

LITERARY SETTINGS: Zhongdian & Deqin, China both claim to be the inspiration for this imaginary place

Shangri-La

LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): The name of the Lamaist monastery in James Hilton's "Lost Horizon"

Shangri-La

LITERATURE & GEOGRAPHY: Zhongdian County in Southwest China has renamed itself after this fabled land from a 1933 book

Shangri-La

TCM'S 31 DAYS OF OSCAR $2000: (Ben Mankiewicz reads.) Scenic spots in Palm Springs & a humongous set on a Columbia Pictures backlot were used to create this Utopian land in 1937's "Lost Horizon"

Shangri-La

SINGERS $400: He won a Grammy for "Truly" being the Best Male Pop Vocalist of 1982

Lionel Richie

THE LAST MAN $300: In "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", he's paired with Michael Jackson for writing "We Are The World"

Lionel Richie

WE ARE THE CHILDREN $200: Of this "We Are The World" co-writer: Miles, Sofia & Nicole

Lionel Richie

WE LOVE "R" MUSIC $600: While still a Commodore, he penned "Lady" for Kenny Rogers

Lionel Richie

WHO WROTE THE NO. 1 HIT? $2000: Kenny Rogers' "Lady": this man, also a recording artist

Lionel Richie

PLUM CRAZY $100: He said, "What a good boy am I!" after pulling a plum out of his Christmas pie

Little Jack Horner

"LITTLE" MOVIES $1000: Ricky Schroder starred as Cedric in the TV version, but Mary Pickford did it 1st, in 1921

Little Lord Fauntleroy

A "LITTLE" LEARNING $2000: A pampered boy can get this 3-word nickname, an 1886 Burnett novel title

Little Lord Fauntleroy

A "LITTLE" LITERATURE $1200: In this 1886 story 7-year old Cedric Errol cuts a striking figure in black velvet, lace collar & yellow curls

Little Lord Fauntleroy

A LITTLE READING $3,000 (Daily Double): This 1886 Frances Hodgson Burnett novel inspired a fad of dressing young boys in velvet suits

Little Lord Fauntleroy

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This pampered "Little Lord" had beautiful curls & wore a lace collar

Little Lord Fauntleroy

ENGLISH LIT $100: Frances Hodgson Burnett planted "The Secret Garden" in 1911 & has this "Little Lord" grow up in 1886

Little Lord Fauntleroy

FASHION HISTORY $100: A blouse with lace collar & cuffs is part of the costume named for this little Lord of literature

Little Lord Fauntleroy

FASHION HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1886 mothers began forcing their sons to wear silly velvet suits inspired by this titled tot of literature

Little Lord Fauntleroy

HOPE YOU'RE WELL READ... $2000: With his Mommy Dearest, this Frances Hodgson Burnett title character moves to England & inherits a title

Little Lord Fauntleroy

KIDDY LIT $400: As a lad, A.A. Milne wore his hair in the style of this Frances Hodgson Burnett character

Little Lord Fauntleroy

ALLUSIONAL THINKING $800: The allusion "ships that pass in the night" is from this American poet's "Tales of a Wayside Inn"

Longfellow

THE WRITE STUFF $1200: This author's collection "Tales of a Wayside Inn" is set at the Red Horse Tavern in Sudbury, Massachusetts

Longfellow

LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $800: Fauntleroy is a "little" one (4)

Lord

QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $600: Byron's title & Mayberry sheriff Andy

Lord & Taylor

1812 $1000: On February 27 this poet addressed the House of Lords for the first time, speaking on the Luddite rioting

Lord Byron

1812: THE WAR & MORE $1200: Support of the Luddites was part of this poet's first speech before Britain's House of Lords

Lord Byron

19th CENTURY PEOPLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Lord Ruthven, the main character in the first English vampire story, was based on this author

Lord Byron

19th CENTURY POETRY: He rhymed the title character of one of his best-known poems with "drew on", "threw on" & "ruin"

Lord Byron

19th CENTURY POETS: In 1824 he was refused burial in Westminster Abbey for "questionable morality"; in 1969 he got a memorial stone there

Lord Byron

19th CENTURY WRITERS: After his death, he was given full military honors in Greece before his body was returned home for burial at his baronial seat

Lord Byron

ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Seen here is Giacomo Tracort's 19th century painting of this English poet in Greece

Lord Byron

BALLET $800: Arrgh! A pirate is the hero of "Le Corsaire", based on an 1814 poem by this British lord

Lord Byron

BONE VOYAGE $2000: Most of this Romantic poet who died helping Greek freedom fighters made it back to England; his lungs stayed in Greece

Lord Byron

BRITISH POETS & POETRY $600: Written in 1811, this lord's poem "Farewell To Malta" begins, "Adieu, ye joys of La Valette!"

Lord Byron

BYE LINES $800: This British Romantic poet & lord wrote, "Maid of Athens, ere we part, give, oh give me back my heart!"

Lord Byron

CAMBRIDGE (THE OTHER ONE) $200: This lord & poet known for his licentious behavior actually kept a pet bear at Cambridge

Lord Byron

LITERARY OPERAS $600: This lord never finished his poem "Don Juan", but Zdenìk Fibich based an opera on it anyway

Lord Byron

POET-POURRI $400: In 1806, while still a teenager, this lord published "Fugitive Pieces", his first volume of poetry

Lord Byron

POET-TREE $400: "Ah, droop not, my oak!" wrote this lord in "To an Oak at Newstead"

Lord Byron

POETIC LICENSE $400: Lady Caroline Lamb, a married lover of this lord, called him "mad, bad and dangerous to know"

Lord Byron

POETRY $1000: His poetic drama "The Deformed Transformed" was unfinished when he died a hero in Greece in 1824

Lord Byron

POETRY $200: "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" is this British lord's longest poem other than "Don Juan"

Lord Byron

POETRY $600: Not only did he write "Don Juan", he proved it was possible to swim the Hellespont by doing it himself

Lord Byron

POETS & POETRY $400: "Notwithstanding many hints to the contrary", he said, "I still maintain" Childe Harold "to be a fictitious personage"

Lord Byron

POETS & POETRY $400: This romantic poet's name gave us an adjective for the type of hero he created -- a brooding young man

Lord Byron

POETS & POETRY $800: This "Don Juan" poet adopted a third given name, Noel, to receive an inheritance from his mother-in-law

Lord Byron

SHE'S A LADY $400: Britannica calls Lady Augusta Ada, daughter of this rakish 19th c. poet, "the world's first computer programmer"

Lord Byron

TEENS & POETRY $1000: Don Juan, the teenage hero of a poem by this British lord, is "tall, handsome, slender, but well knit"

Lord Byron

TEENS OF THE PAST $600: This lord was a teenager when his first volume of poetry, "Fugitive Pieces", appeared in 1806

Lord Byron

THE QUOTABLE KEATS $400: In an 1819 letter Keats wrote that this lord & poet "cuts a figure, but he is not figurative"

Lord Byron

THE ROMANTIC POETS $1200: After part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" was published, this lord "awoke one morning and found myself famous"

Lord Byron

THE ROMANTICS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Venice, Italy) This poet talked about freedom at the Cafe Florian & later journeyed to help the Greeks fight for freedom

Lord Byron

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE $800: This British lord & poet declared, "Truth is always strange--stranger than fiction"

Lord Byron

THE WEDDING PLANNER $1000: For a wedding reading, you might like this English poet's "She Walks in Beauty"

Lord Byron

THE WINTER'S TALE $400: In "Don Juan" he quipped, "The English winter -- ending in July, to recommence in August"

Lord Byron

THEY SAYETH OF BEAUTY $400: In "Childe Harold" this poet talks of "the fatal gift of beauty"

Lord Byron

WOMEN POETS $1600: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "On the Death of" this poet mentions "that Harold's pilgrimage at last is o'er"

Lord Byron

WRITERS ON FILM $1600: In "Gothic", Gabriel Byrne was this lord of poetry

Lord Byron

MY FAIR LADY $1200: Beautiful Lady Caroline Lamb, wife of a future British P.M., had an affair with this lord famous as both a poet & a rake

Lord Byron rake /rāk/Submit noun DATED noun: rake; plural noun: rakes a fashionable or wealthy man of dissolute or promiscuous habits. "a merry Restoration rake" synonyms: playboy, libertine, profligate; degenerate, roué, debauchee; lecher, seducer, womanizer, philanderer, adulterer, Don Juan, Lothario, Casanova; informalladykiller, ladies' man, lech, tomcat, horndog "he was something of a rake"

ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: This financier of the King Tut excavation died 9 months before Tut's sarcophagus was discovered

Lord Carnarvon

19th CENTURY FEMALE AUTHORS $1200: Author Frances Hodgson Burnett based the long curls of this title pampered "Lord" on her son Vivian's

Lord Fauntleroy

LITERATURE $800: This title character in a Frances Hodgson Burnett novel is the grandson of an earl

Lord Fauntleroy

AN ARM $1200: This British admiral lost an eye in 1794 & his right arm in 1797

Lord Nelson

AYE AYE, ADMIRAL $200: In 1805, in memory of this admiral, his brother William was made an Earl of Trafalgar

Lord Nelson

LEFTIES $2,000 (Daily Double): This larboard British viscount won victories on the Nile & at Trafalgar against French forces

Lord Nelson

BIG, REALLY BIG! $1000: Lady Hamilton could tell you the name of this 185-foot column that went up in the early 1840s

Lord Nelson's Column

FICTIONAL HEROINES $200: Lo-Tsen lost her youth when she left Shangri-La in this novel

Lost Horizon

BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR NOMINEES $1200: For this 2003 film, Sofia Coppola became the first American woman nominated for a directing Oscar

Lost in Translation

FILMS OF THE 21st CENTURY $1200: Sofia Coppola won an Oscar for her screenplay & a nomination for directing this 2003 film

Lost in Translation

A STUDY IN SCARLETT JOHANSSON $800: As the face of this French luxury bag co., Scarlett may have had to clobber a few people selling knockoffs

Louis Vuitton

ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: For more than 100 years, archaeologists have explored this ancient city in South America

Machu Picchu

AFRICA $1000: This cattle-raising tribe of Kenya lives almost entirely on milk, blood & meat from its herds

Masai

AFRICANA $400: A lion subspecies shares its name with these nomadic people of Tanzania & Kenya

Masai

LYING IN STATE $1,800 (Daily Double): Peter Faneuil

Massachusetts

MYTHOLOGICAL PAINTINGS $800: Heads up! She's the subject in the Caravaggio painting seen here

Medusa

THE FEMININE MISTAKE $600: This lady of myth boasted of her beauty to Athena, who was a teensy bit jealous & gave her a monster makeover

Medusa

WOMEN OF MYTH $400: Courtesy of Perseus, her snaky severed head was placed on the shield of Athena

Medusa

ART $1200: Roy Lichtenstein's "Look Mickey!" depicts these 2 Disney characters fishing on a dock

Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck

QUICK PRESIDENTIAL STOPS $1200: George W. Bush visited his boyhood home in this Texas town for 45 minutes in 2008

Midland

CELEBRITY PARTIAL NAME CHANGES $2000: Natalie Hershlag & Winona Horowitz are better known by these last names they used as movie co-stars

Natalie Portman & Winona Ryder

SHELLS $200: This chambered mollusk is the only living cephalopod with an external shell

Nautilus

ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $1600: Soupy Sales

Navy

ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $400: Future president John F. Kennedy

Navy

ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $800: The Civil War's David Glasgow Farragut

Navy

VICE-PRESIDENTS $200: Reportedly, this "Rough Rider" once compared McKinley's backbone to a chocolate elcair

Teddy Roosevelt

____ OF THE ____ $1200: Future president James Polk held this congressional post from 1835 to 1839

Speaker of the House

ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: In 1970 the wreck of the El Gran Grifon, part of this fleet, was found off Scotland 382 years after it sank

the Spanish Armada

ARCHAEOLOGY $3,000 (Daily Double): In 2013 the stone paws of one of these creatures dedicated to Egyptian King Menkaure were found in Israel

the Sphinx

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC $800: The southernmost section of this largest African country stretches into the heart of central Africa

the Sudan

MESOPOTAMIA $1,500 (Daily Double): They settled Mesopotamia around 3500 B.C. & brought in some good ideas, like civilization & writing

the Sumerians

VERY CLEVER $3,000 (Daily Double): Supposedly an offering to Athena, it was built by the master carpenter Epeius

the Trojan Horse

ITALY BEFORE THE ROMANS $800: According to legend, refugees of this 1200 B.C. conflict first fled to Thrace, then north Africa & finally Italy

the Trojan War

WORLD LEADERS $800: Clement Attlee succeeded a more famous man as this country's prime minister

the U.K.

SIGNS & SYMBOLS $1000: Both the staff of Asclepius & this staff of Mercury feature snakes & are symbols of the medical profession

the caduceus

SYMBOLS: One tale of its origin says that the blind seer Tiresias separated 2 snakes with his staff

the caduceus

CAMERAS $1600: For centuries this "camera" was just a box with a pinhole, but in the early 1800s it began to record images

the camera obscura

STUCK $400: If you're "in" this, like Little Jack Horner, there's no place you can go

the corner

"C" CREATURES $500: A collector's item, the shiny, often speckled shell of this mollusk was once used as money in Africa

the cowrie

ORE Some gold ore is considered exogenetic, meaning it was formed in this layer of the Earth

the crust

BIRD UP! $1600: A bird of prey, the harpy species of this bird is even known to attack monkeys for food

the eagle

SLOTH $400: The harpy type of this raptor is one of the sloth's main predators

the eagle

HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD $600: May 16, 1929 in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

the first Academy Awards Ceremony

TRANSPORTATION $200: In answer to the age-old question, archaeologists believe it was invented by the Sumerians

the wheel

UR $2000: Though built over 4,000 years ago, much of this great terraced, pyramid-shaped temple tower still exists

the ziggurat

SOUNDS LIKE A LANGUAGE $400: We thank Sir Thomas More for this adjective describing the mythical perfect place

utopian

(Alex: Each response is a famous pair, but you must give us the response in reverse order.) PAIRS FAMOUS $800: A plant that grows & climbs around a support & the place that gets a "Hooray for" it in song

vine and Hollywood

CHAMBER MUSIC $400: Though pianists like Rubinstein might protest, Brahms' 2-player opus 78 is known as this instrument's sonata

violin

THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE $400: The small European portion of this country, including the city of Istanbul, lies in a region called Thrace

Turkey

FOUNTAINS $500: This statue in the Louvre once stood in a fountain on the Greek isle of Samothrace

Winged Victory

ARCHAEOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE): The piece seen here found in Samothrace in 1950, is part of this ancient statue

Winged Victory of Samothrace

BETTER KNOWN AS... $100: She's Winona Horowitz

Winona Ryder

IT AIN'T ME, BABE $800: I played the simply named Jo March, but I was born with the last name Horowitz

Winona Ryder

DONALD DUCK $1000: In the opening of "The Mickey Mouse Club", Donald would strike this instrument, usually with disastrous results

a gong

GIVE ME A "HAND" $400: Abraham's wife Sarah had one of these female servants, an Egyptian named Hagar

a handmaiden

A "HA"! $1200: A shrewish woman is sometimes called this, after a mythical monster that was part woman & part vulture

a harpy

IT'S A BIRD $800: These tropical eagles are named for a woman-bird hybrid of Greek mythology

a harpy

CORPORATE AMERICA $200: First successful 5 & 10; from August '82 to August of '87, it outperformed all other stocks on the Dow Jones Industrial Average

Woolworth's

DJIA STOCKS $300: Foot Locker & Kinney Shoe Stores are owned by this five & dime company

Woolworth's

FOOTWEAR $100: The sandal-style shoe sold by this five & dime store is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute

Woolworth's

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: Former 5 & 10¢ store which now also owns Kinney Shoes & The Foot Locker

Woolworths

A STUDY IN SCARLETT JOHANSSON $2000: Scarlett is the Cristina of this 2008 Woody Allen film in which a love triangle becomes a love square

Vicky Christina Barcelona

"LOP"SIDED WORDS $400: Fan shell is another name for this mollusk

a scallop

FOODIE CALL $800: It can be a type of bivalve mollusk or a thin slice of meat made flatter by pounding

a scallop

SHELLFISH $800: This mollusk is easily recognized by its fan-shaped shell that has an earlike projection at each end of the hinge

a scallop

ANCIENT BABYLON $2000: Some scholars identify etemenanki, one of these Babylonian structures, as the Tower of Babel

a ziggurat

(Alex: We have military devices that have been anagrammed in...) WHIRLED OF WARCRAFT $800: In olden days, it could make people hurl: CLAP TAUT

a catapult

EAT IT! $1000: A Spanish word for a sloop gives us the name of this appetizer, a crisp corn tortilla "boat" filled with beef & cheese

a chalupa

BIRDS OF A FEATHER $200: Bald, harpy

an eagle

MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $1600: The advantages of riding this big creature include an "immunity from collisions" & the fine view one has from up there"

an elephant

FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $2000: Horowitz, Nabokov, Zworykin

Vladimir

"V.H." ONE $800: Born in Kiev in 1904, this pianist was one of the best known concert performers of the 20th century

Vladimir Horowitz

BEHIND EVERY GREAT MAN $2000: Naturally, a piano is behind this Russian-American virtuoso known for retirements & comebacks

Vladimir Horowitz

CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $1000: This Russian-born master who became a U.S. citizen adapted "The Stars and Stripes Forever" for piano

Vladimir Horowitz

PAYCHECKS $1000: This piano virtuoso married to Toscanini's daughter earns a concert paycheck of 80% of the gross

Vladimir Horowitz

"LIKE" A SONG $400: The Bangles instructed us all with this 1986 hit that was fit for a pharaoh

Walk Like an Egyptian

KIDDY LIT $800: In this 1959 book whose title means a journey through the bush, 2 white children are saved by an Aboriginal boy

Walkabout

AGES AGO $200: When Sumerians used these in war, they had 4 wheels & were drawn by big-eared equines called onagers

chariots

ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: 3rd c. Roman soldiers found near sulfur crystals were apparently early victims of this type of warfare

chemical warfare

ANIMALS $100: Popular food types of this mollusk include jacknife & steamer

clam

PRAWNOGRAPHY $1,500 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "having a shell", it's the subphylum to which all prawns belong

crustacean

ANIMAL IMPOSTORS $100 (Daily Double): Crayfish aren't fish but these, like their relative the lobster

crustaceans

LESSER-KNOWN MUSEUMS $2000: The International Museum of this -ology in Maine has exhibits for the Montauk Monster & the Jersey Devil

cryptozoology

A PIECE OF HISTORY $1000: The oldest artifact in D.C.'s Newseum is a 3,200-year-old Sumerian brick that spread the news using this writing system

cuneiform

ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: G.F. Grotefend and Sir Henry Rawlinson helped decipher forms of this wedge-shaped Sumerian writing

cuneiform

ENDLESS SUMER $800: Dating from around 3000 B.C., the Sumerians used this writing system seen here

cuneiform

IT'S POTPOURRI, "C"? $400: The Sumerians used this system of writing

cuneiform

THE GREEK ALPHABET: When spelled out as words in English, 2 of the 3 longest Greek letters

epsilon, upsilon, & omicron

FRENCH FIXINS $400: The vineyard & petit-gris are varieties of this mollusk; please respond in French, though it might "slow" you down

escargot

DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE $8,600 (Daily Double): "E" is for this hard outer body of an animal, like a mollusk's shell

exoskeleton

POETS & POETRY $400: Lord Byron wrote wistfully, "I am ashes where once I was" this

fire

CLAM UP $1000: The tide exposes clam-digging areas called these, a 5-letter plural; Essex, Massachusetts has a hotline devoted to them

flats

ZOOLOGY $300: Florida's Everglade kite is a bird of prey that eats only these slow mollusks

freshwater snails

ROCKS & MINERALS $500: The rock of Gibraltar is this type of rock made up of calcite, a form of calcium carbonate

limestone

SCULPTURE $2000: The Etruscans carved many of their works from tufa, a soft porous variety of this calcium carbonate rock

limestone

TURNING OVER A NEW REEF $1200: Coral polyps have skeletons of calcium carbonate, so in effect they build this sedimentary rock

limestone

OUT ON A "LIM" $1600: "Incredible" mollusk of the genus Patella

limpet

WORD ORIGINS $2000: From the Latin word lampreda we get lamprey, as well as the name of this mollusk

limpet

SHELL $500: These mollusks are famous for the tenacity for which they cling to rocks

limpets

"L" It's on the tip of your tongue... wait, no-- your ear

lobe

"L" Any anesthetic limited to a particular body part

local anesthetic

FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: If a Frenchwoman receives a billet-doux, she's gotten one of these

love letter

Define matriarch

noun a woman who is the head of a family or tribe. an older woman who is powerful within a family or organization. "a domineering matriarch"

Define interjection

noun an abrupt remark, made especially as an aside or interruption. an exclamation, especially as a part of speech, e.g., ah! or dear me!.

Define caravel

noun HISTORICAL a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries.

Define moxie

nounINFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN force of character, determination, or nerve. "when you've got moxie, you need the clothes to match"

POLISH HISTORY $800: In 1957 Polish foreign minister Adam Rapacki proposed a European "zone" free of these

nuclear weapons

5 SHADES OF GRAY $400: A grayish white, or a tasty mollusk of that color

oyster

ANNUAL EVENTS $300: An Urbanna, Virginia festival devoted to this bivalve serves it in every conceivable fashion.

oysters

AQUATIC LIFE $400: A fish called the feather blenny lays its eggs in this mollusk's shells

oysters

BRITTANY $200: Brittany is famous for the Belon type of this mollusk, used for eating, not pearls

oysters

EAT IT! $400: Jonathan Swift wrote, "He was a bold man that first" ate these; let's be bold & enjoy them on the half shell

oysters

JEWELRY $600: A simple strand of these mollusk gems has been a classic fashion accessory for hundreds of years

pearls

MAGIC & SORCERY IN THE BIBLE $400: After seeing Moses' miracles, the ruler with this title called forth his own magicians to perform some of their own

pharoah

1986 B.C. $800: Historian Wm. Langer says the Sumerians were in a period of this, like Italy in 15th cent. A.D.

renaissance

MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $400: "I would throw out the old maxim, my country", this, "and instead I would say, 'My country when she is right'"

right or wrong

3 OF A KIND: I've got to hand it to you, these are the 3 choices when playing roshambo

rock, paper, scissors

PLAY RIGHT $200: You've got 3 options in this classic playground hand game that's also known as Roshambo

rock, paper, scissors

VENICE, AT LAST $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Venice.) It was Lord Byron who wrote, "I stood in Venice on" this bridge, "A palace and a prison on each hand"

the Bridge of Sighs

ABBREV. $1200: Between Chad & the Democratic Republic of the Congo is this country, C.A.R.

the Central African Republic

AFRICAN CAPITALS $1600: On the Ubangi River, Bangui is the capital of this 3-word nation

the Central African Republic

FEDEX DOESN'T GO THERE $2,200 (Daily Double): Though this country has "Central" in its name, it's too far off the beaten path for FedEx

the Central African Republic

GOVERNMENT $1000: This country with "Republic" in its name was less republican after a 2003 coup by General Francois Bozize

the Central African Republic

INTO AFRICA $1200: The French governed this republic under the territorial name Ubangi-Chari

the Central African Republic

OH, B-CITY IN AFRICA $1600: Bimbo in this country is not far from the capital, Bangui

the Central African Republic

STUPID ANSWERS $800: This centrally located African country is again a republic since elections were held in 2015

the Central African Republic

GOT YOUR GOAT $500: In Greek myth this fire-breather killed by Bellerophon had a she-goat's body

the Chimera

MONSTERS INC. $1600: In mythology this fire-breathing monster wreaked havoc in Lycia before she was killed by Bellerophon

the Chimera

ROCK 'N ROLL $200: Lionel Richie sang lead for this Motown group before going solo in the '80s

the Commodores

ARCHAEOLOGY $400: This collection of nearly 1,000 religious texts was discovered beginning in 1947 at Qumran

the Dead Sea Scrolls

A "D" IN GEOGRAPHY $1600: This Scottish river flows into the North Sea at Aberdeen

the Dee

1960s TELEVISION $2000: Carl Reiner won 3 Emmys for writing for this sitcom on which he occasionally played TV comedian Alan Brady

the Dick Van Dyke Show

AWARDS & HONORS $400: In 1998 the Kennedy Center created this prize for American humor

the Mark Twain Prize

YOU'RE A GRAND OLD FLAG $1000: Kenya's flag features an emblem depicting a shield & spears from this tribe

the Masai tribe

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $400: The Nubian languages are spoken primarily along the banks of this river

the Nile

4-LETTER KNOWLEDGE $4,000 (Daily Double): Famous caravel of 1492

the Nina

HULL OF FAME $200: This ship, Columbus' favorite, made at least 5 trips to the New World

the Nina

LESSER-KNOWN EXPLORERS $800: After the Santa Maria was shipwrecked, Columbus joined Pinzon on this ship; Pinzon later explored Brazil

the Nina

AMERICANA $2,000 (Daily Double): After Noah Webster's death, the company named for these brothers bought the rights to his dictionary

the Merriam Brothers

SPORTS MASCOTS $200: It's suspected that Wild Wing, this team's mascot, is a direct descendant of Donald Duck

the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim

THE "B" TEAM $1000: It was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's first pro team

the Milwaukee Bucks

"TRUTH" OR CONSEQUENCES $1200: Winston Smith works for this ironically named government unit in the novel "1984"

the Ministry of Truth

ORGAN RECITAL $400: The wood for the organ in this Salt Lake City edifice came from Utah's Parowan Mountains

the Mormon Tabernacle

U.S. BUILDINGS $400: Cue the choir! In 2007 this Salt Lake City building reopened after a 2-year renovation

the Mormon Tabernacle

UTAH $1600: To demonstrate the acoustics in this Salt Lake City building, tour guides will drop a pin

the Mormon Tabernacle

STATE CAPITAL EVENTS $400: In March 2016 you could catch an Easter concert by this group live in Salt Lake City or on closed-circuit simulcast

the Mormon Tabernacle Choir

THEY MADE THE TOP 40 $400: 1959: This 375-voice group with "Battle Hymn Of The Republic"

the Mormon Tabernacle Choir

REALLY OLD NEWS $400: Spanish navigator Vincente Yanez Pinzon captained this vessel on a famous 1492 voyage

the Nina

SAILING INTO HISTORY $200: This little lady that sailed with Columbus was originally named the Santa Clara

the Nina

3 OF A KIND: Replicas of these 3 ships were built to promote Expo '92 in Seville, Spain

the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria

EXPLORERS $600: On Christmas Day 1492, this ship ran aground off Hispaniola & was abandoned

the Santa Maria

MOVIE AUTHORS $200: Ken Russell's '87 film "Gothic" explored Lord Byron's odd relationship with this literary couple

the Shelley's

TURKEY $100: Just a thrace of Turkey, about 3% of its area, is on this continent

Europe

THEIR ORIGINAL NAMES $200: Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Coppola

Nicolas Cage

FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Hollander, Bobek, Richie

Nicole

LITERARY SETTINGS $1600: "Lost Horizon": This utopian lamasery in Tibet

Shangri-La

NICE "AB"s! $1000: This large mollusk is used as a source of mother-of-pearl

abalone

THE "A"s $800: It's the mollusk whose shell is a source of mother-of-pearl

abalone

HISTORIC TRANSPORTS $1000: A mortally wounded James Lawrence was referring to the USS Chesapeake when he issued this order

"Don't Give up the Ship"

HISTORICAL TRANSPORTS $1600: James Lawrence was referring to his frigate the Chesapeake when he gave this famous command in 1813

"Don't Give up the Ship"

SONG STANDARDS $200: Catchy "Fiddler on the Roof" song that goes, "Daidle, deedle, daidle, digguh, digguh, deedle, daidle, dum"

"If I Were a Rich Man"

KENNY ROGERS $300: His only #1 pop hit as a solo artist was this 1-word title song of 1980 written by Lionel Richie

"Lady"

"ON" & "OFF" SONGS $200: In 1984, comfortably or not, Lionel Richie was "stuck" here

"On You"

ON THE RADIO $1000: Gwen Stefani & Eve cashed in on this hit that was adapted from a song in "Fiddler on the Roof"

"Rich Girl"

SOUSA'S $400: In 1987 the U.S. flagged this Sousa tune as its official march

"Stars & Stripes Forever"

YOU MUST BE AT LEAST THIS OLD... $200: To play baccarat in the casino at Caesars Palace Las Vegas

21

TO THE NEAREST... $500: To the nearest mile, the height of Mount McKinley

4 (20,000 feet and change)

THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED $800: Seen here, the Washington Monument is encircled by this many flags

50

NOVEL CHARACTERS $800: Winston Smith & Julia don't have much privacy

1984

NOVELS $600: In this novel Winston Smith's job at the Ministry of Truth is to rewrite the public records

1984

NUMERICAL NOVEL BY CHARACTERS $400: Winston Smith, Julia

1984

ON THE BOOKSHELF $400: Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth in this novel

1984

ORIGINAL TITLES IN LITERATURE? $400: 1949: "Big Brother & The Holding Co.: A Winston Smith Novel"

1984

SMITH $1200: Winston Smith is a writer of Newspeak for the Ministry of Truth in this George Orwell novel

1984

VILLAINS $600: In this novel O'Brien, a member of the Inner Party, is Winston Smith's personal torturer & educator

1984

Define escargot

/ˌeskärˈɡō/ noun a snail, especially as an item on a menu.

IT'S AN INTERJECTION: In CB radio talk this numeric expression means "understood", good buddy!

10-4

NAME THE YEAR $400: McKinley assassinated, First wireless message sent across Atlantic, Queen Victoria dies

1901

GREEK GODS & GODDESSES $1600: This goddess was wise indeed to aid Jason in his quest for the Golden Fleece

Athena

CASTLES: The name of this large home located in Aberdeenshire means "the majestic dwelling" in Gaelic

Balmoral Castle

Define grifter

A grifter is a con artist: someone who swindles people out of money through fraud.

CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: Herodotus described this "fabled" teller of tales as a slave from Thrace

Aesop

BORN THE SAME DAY $800: May 9, 1936 gave England Glenda Jackson & this actor whose film roles include Daddy Warbucks & Hercule Poirot

Albert Finney

DORM LIFE $800: You're all set to meet the Swedish students moving in across the hall with records like "Dancing Queen" by this band

ABBA

"A" IN GEOGRAPHY $2000: This Scottish seaport lies between the rivers Dee & Don

Aberdeen

MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $2000: Of this "Devil's Dictionary" author, Twain wrote, "For every laugh, there are 5 blushes & 10 shudders"

Ambrose Bierce

TIME PHRASES $800: A hit by Lionel Richie, or the length of time "You Shook Me" in an AC/DC song

All Night Long

ANN-A-GRAMS $400: Take my advice (stop) no one cares how you hang the toilet paper (stop) "Wake up and smell the coffee" (stop)

Ann Landers

COLLEGE BOWL $1,500 (Daily Double): Noah Webster was a co-founder of this Mass. college that administers the Folger Shakespeare Library

Amherst

COLLEGES WITH MASS. APPEAL $800: Noah Webster & Samuel Dickinson (Emily's grandpa) were among the co-founders of this private liberal arts college

Amherst

ENGLISH LITERATURE $1200: It's the last name of father & son novelists Kingsley & Martin

Amis

HIGH WATER $800: The Zuiderzee flood of 1287 killed 50,000 but also connected this then-village to the sea, & the rest is Dutch history

Amsterdam

THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $1600: "The Joy Luck Club" (1989)

Amy Tan

INTO THE SPIDER VERSE $1600: John Hollander titled a poem after this rival of Athena who got changed into a spider

Arachne

MIDDLE "C" $2000: After she challenged Athena to a weaving contest, Athena turned her into a spider

Arachne

BANANAS $600: This gastropod mollusk is the official mascot of the University of California at Santa Cruz

Banana slug

SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $200: This play begins at a queen's palace in Alexandria

Antony and Cleopatra

CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $1200: (Hi. I'm Anderson Cooper.) I appreciate the maxim "Never get out of the boat", a cardinal rule of this 1979 Francis Ford Coppola film

Apocalypse Now

CUT $200: For his "Redux" of this war film, Francis Ford Coppola added 49 minutes of footage not in the original cut

Apocalypse Now

ON LOCATION $200: The jungles of Vietnam in this 1979 Coppola film were actually in the Philippines

Apocalypse Now

BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $2000: The horror, the horror at seeing a Coppola war film turn into a 1942 film where Bette Davis overcomes her domineering ma

Apocalypse Now, Voyager

THE CONSTELLATIONS $1,500 (Daily Double): The Sumerians believed it represented their sky-god, An, pouring waters of immortality upon the Earth

Aquarius

PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY $500: With the exception of R. Reagan, all the presidents born under this sign died in office

Aquarius (William Henry Harrison, Lincoln, McKinley, FDR, were the Presidents who died in office)

A GREEK MYTHTAKE $1000: Don't challenge Athena in a weaving contest! You'll end up being changed into a spider, like her (knowing zoology will help)

Arachne

MYTHELLANEOUS $500: The first 3 ports of call of this ship were Lemnos, Samothrace & Cyzicus

Argo

NICOLAS COPPOLA, AKA CAGE $600: In a 1987 film, it was the last name of the infant Cage kidnapped to raise

Arizona

STEVE BUSCEMI FILMS $400: Steve's rockhound goes to save the world with Ben Affleck & Owen Wilson in this 1998 flick

Armageddon

MULTIPLE ROLES, SAME FILM $2000: This actor played the Winklevoss twins Cameron & Tyler in "The Social Network"

Armie Hammer

ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $400: Walter Reed

Army

ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $800: Al Gore, Jr.

Army

GENUS NAMES $400: The genus name of the burrowing owl is this Greek goddess of wisdom

Athena

GOOD GOD, Y'ALL $400: This goddess of wisdom assisted & inspired such Greek heroes such as Perseus, Odysseus & Heracles

Athena

THE 7 ANCIENT WONDERS $800: Her temple at Ephesus was destroyed by invading Goths in 262

Artemis

ARTS & ARTHURS $200: In 1976 President Ford awarded this piano virtuoso the Medal of Freedom, highest U.S. civilian honor

Arthur Rubinstein

IN THE NEWS $1000: Relics of this culture found at Nimrud in Iraq's Nineveh region were called the greatest find since King Tut

Assyrian

TECH COMPANY NAMES $1,600 (Daily Double): It got its name by removing the first 3 letters from the name of the horse that Bellerophon tried to fly to heaven

Asus

ACROPOLIS NOW $400: The main temple on the Acropolis was built in the 5th century B.C. to honor this goddess

Athena

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a figurine at the Parthenon in Nashville, TN.) Available at the gift shop of Nashville's Parthenon is a 9" replica of the 42' statue of this warrior goddess

Athena

TRAVEL FRANCE $2000: The pope's private chambers & the Great Chapel are among the highlights in this city's Palace of the Popes

Avignon

ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Discoveries such as yarn & whetstones on this largest Canadian island suggest that Vikings once settled there

Baffin Island

LET'S VISIT SCOTLAND $1000: Prince Albert bought this estate in Aberdeenshire for Queen Victoria & helped design the castle himself

Balmoral

THIS & THAT $1600: Baltimore is in Maryland; this Aberdeenshire, Scotland castle is a summer residence of the British royal family

Balmoral

"B" MY LOVE $800: Here's an offer you can't refuse: a getaway to Francis Coppola's Turtle Inn Resort in this Central American country

Belize

BRITISH AUTHORS $400: Isaac D'Israeli, a critic & friend of Lord Byron's, named his oldest son this

Benjamin

LITERATURE $1000: Alan Bates & Robert Redford were "The Fixer" & "The Natural" in films based on his novels

Bernard Malamud

1984 $200: While sobering up, protagonist Winston Smith realizes he's written a slogan against this leader

Big Brother

U.S. CITIES $600: Courteney Cox & Fannie Flagg both hail from this most populous Alabama city

Birmingham

"WOO" WORDS $300: Robert Redford portrayed him in "All The President's Men"

Bob Woodward

THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED $1200: A seminal L.A. punk band of the 1980s, or what a NASCAR driver gets if he's caught speeding on pit road

Black Flag

OYSTERS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a mollusk at the Grand Central Terminal Oyster Bar in New York.) Oysters from this colorful location on Long Island's Great South Bay were so popular, the name is used for several East Coast oysters

Blue Point

ODD COMBINED RESPONSES $1200: A new team to make 2 towns shudder: city that's home to Faneuil Hall + the NATO phonetic alphabet word for "Y", pluralized

Boston Yankees

A PINT OF ALEC GUINNESS $1200: It's the 1957 Best Picture winner for which Guinness won his best actor Oscar as Col. Nicholson

Bridge on the River Kwai

20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE $400: In the 1980s Benjamin Thompson & Associates updated this city's Faneuil Hall Marketplace

Boston

ARCHITECTS $100: In 1805 Charles Bulfinch enlarged this city's Faneuil Hall

Boston

HEIR $600: Peter Faneuil, who gave this city its hall, inherited his uncle's fortune after another nephew was cut off for marrying

Boston

STATE CAPITALS $100: Among the notable buildings in this capital city are Quincy Market, Faneuil Hall & Paul Revere's house

Boston

U.S. CITIES $100: Built in 1742, Faneuil Hall was & still is a famous meeting place in this city

Boston

MR. MOVIEFONE $1200: Press 2 now if you want to hear Alec Guinness as Col. Nicholson in this 1957 war drama

Bridge on the River Kwai

PLAYING PRESIDENT $800: Uncle Bill on "Family Affair", his last role was William McKinley in the 1997 TNT film "Rough Riders"

Brian Keith

TRAVEL FRANCE $1600: The 3,000 granite megaliths at Carnac in this farthest-west region of France may date back to 4000 B.C.

Brittany

CALAMITY JANE $500: Jane's gig at the 1901 Pan-American Expo in this city was overshadowed by ths McKinley assassination there

Buffalo

U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): A stone obelisk dedicated to President William McKinley stands in this New York city's Niagara Square

Buffalo

WORDS OF LOVE $2000: "In her first passion woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love", he wrote in "Don Juan"

Byron

"B" PREPARED $1600: This adjective mans characteristic of the lord who penned "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"

Byronic

19th CENTURY BRITS: In May 1810 during one of his more famous exploits, he employed the breaststroke

Byron

AUTHORS & THEIR RELATIVES $1600: The son of a rogue known as "Mad Jack", this Lord grew up to be "mad, bad and dangerous to know"

Byron

ENGLISH LIT. $600: This lord's poem "The Prisoner of Chillon" is based on the 16th C. imprisonment of Francois de Bonnivard

Byron

"CAMP" $400: Presidential retreat once known as Shangri-La

Camp David

20TH CENTURY PRESIDENTS $200: Once a New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps camp, it was called "Shangri-La" by FDR

Camp David

U.S. LANDMARKS: In 1942 a Maryland area was named for the Tibetan paradise in "Lost Horizon" but in 1953 was renamed this, for a young boy

Camp David

WWII: FDR liked to rest near water, but because of fears after Pearl Harbor, this inland place was created for him

Camp David

WHO GOES THERE $1200: In 2014 WHO went to the C.A.R., this country, & vaccinated more than 100,000 children against measles

Central African Republic

THE EMMY AWARDS 1995 $1200: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series: This sitcom legend as Alan Brady on "Mad About You"

Carl Reiner

THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $2000: Mel Brooks, Mary Tyler Moore & Dick Van Dyke were on hand to honor this writer/comedian in 2000

Carl Reiner

MAN MEETS TOON $400: In "The Three Caballeros", Donald Duck dances with this "Brazilian Bombshell"'s sister Aurora

Carmen Miranda

NEW EDITION $400: Christopher Buckley wrote the introduction for the 50th anniversary edition of this Joseph Heller novel

Catch-22

THE TWO-THOUSAND YEAR OLD MAN $200: (Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks present the clue.) "Of all the monarchs you've known, who was the most impressive?" "That's easy. It's this Russian empress who was born in 1729. She had such great legs! And, boy, what a way with horses"

Catherine the Great

MOVIE L.A. $400: In 1913, at Selma & Vine, this director known for epics shot the first feature made in Hollywood, "The Squaw Man"

Cecil B. DeMille

POTENTATES $800: When the Central African Republic's Pres. Bokassa declared himself Emperor, he renamed the country this

Central African Empire

STUPID ANSWERS $300: Bangui is the capital of this central African republic

Central African Republic

POTPOURRI $600: Located between 85th & 96th, the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir is found in this landmark

Central Park

INTO AFRICA $1000: Aside from the Republic of the Congo, one of the 3 countries once known together as French Equatorial Africa

Chad, Gabon, and the Central African Republic

ACCIDENTS OF HISTORY $200: Jason Clarke played Ted Kennedy in a 2018 movie named for this island, site of a fatal 1969 accident

Chappaquiddick

ON THE ISLAND $1200: A fatal car crash on this island dashed Ted Kennedy's presidential chances

Chappaquiddick

HISTORY ON FILM $2,400 (Daily Double): Alec Guinness is seen here as this monarch: "Democracy, Mr. Cromwell, was a Greek drollery, based on the foolish notion that there are extraordinary possibilities in very ordinary people."

Charles I

CLOTHING THROUGH THE AGES $600: In the 1920s, a jacket with large pockets and a rolled collar was popularized by this aviator

Charles Lindbergh

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $800: He was known as the "Dude" president, "America's First Gentleman" and "Our Chet"

Chester Arthur

OUT OF TOWN GUESTS $400: Bienvenidos amigos who have made it all the way from Mexico... from Monterrey & this dog-named city founded in 1709

Chihuahua

LORD BYRON $500: Byron's character Harold bears this title that once referred to a "youth" of noble birth

Childe

ARCHAEOLOGY $800: A coin of emperor Yongle found in Kenya shows this Asian nation was trying to become an economic power 600 years ago

China

NAME THAT TOON $200: These 2 Disney chipmunks make life difficult for Donald Duck

Chip & Dale

A LA DESCARTES $1600: In 1649 this Swedish queen summoned Descartes to her country to tutor her in philosophy

Christina

HISTORICAL CHESS PIECES $800: This learned 17th century Swedish queen was known as "The Minerva of the North"

Christina

DOUBLE TALK $100: Family-oriented Las Vegas hotel that's home to the world's largest permanent big-top show

Circus Circus

BRITISH HISTORY $800: In July 1945, British voters turned Winston Churchill out of office in favor of this man

Clement Attlee

BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $500: 1945-1951

Clement Attlee

ENDS IN "EE" $1000: He led Britain's Labour Party from 1935 to 1955 & succeeded Winston Churchill as prime minister in 1945

Clement Attlee

WORLD WAR II $800: In the midst of the Potsdam Conference, this man became England's new prime minister

Clement Attlee

FOREIGN-SOUNDING TEXAS PLACES $400: Bogata in Red River County is named for the capital of this country

Columbia

STATE CAPITALS $200: We're not sure whether the Spanish ship on its city flag represents the Nina, Pinta, or Santa Maria

Columbus (Ohio)

MOVIE MONEY $1000: This Cher film takes place at a Woolworth's in a small Texas town, not far from where "Giant" was shot

Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

NASHVILLE $800: This commodore, not Lionel Richie, got a Nashville university named for him

Cornelius Vanderbilt

WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG $100: At 16, this "Jerry Maguire" co-star was breakdancing on stage with Lionel Richie at the 1984 Olympics

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

"C-U" $1000: The name of this resort city about 40 miles south of Mexico city translates to "horn of the cow"

Cuernavaca

DONALD DUCK $200: Donald's girlfriend, she was first known as Donna Duck but was renamed in her second film, "Mr. Duck Steps Out"

Daisy Duck

MY GIRLFRIEND $200: Donald Duck started dating this gal pal in the 1940 cartoon "Mr. Duck Steps Out"

Daisy Duck

THE NATIONALS $600: The Ubangi River forms part of the northern boundary of this African country that's sometimes shortened to DRC

Democratic Republic of Congo

JAMES K. POLK ME $100: Throughout his career Polk remained an ardent member of the Jacksonian wing of this political party

Democrats

NATIONAL PARKS $1000: Until 1980, it was known as Mount McKinley National Park

Denali

GEOGRAPHY $500: In 1980 Mt. McKinley National Park was renamed this

Denali National Park

DISNEY $400: With Jose Carioca & Panchito, he was the third "Caballero"

Donald Duck

NAME THAT TOON $100: 1943's "Der Fuehrer's Face" starring this Disney quack-up won an Oscar

Donald Duck

A PINT OF ALEC GUINNESS $4,400 (Daily Double): In a 1965 romantic epic, Guinness portrayed Yevgraf, the half-brother of this title physician

Doctor Zhivago

ACTORS & RUSSIAN ROLES $200: Alec Guinness played Yevgraf, the half brother of the title physician, in this romantic 1965 epic

Doctor Zhivago

DEPP PERCEPTION $800: Taking a cue from Lord Byron, Johnny played this title role in 1995

Don Juan

BEASTLY COMMON BONDS $400: White-tailed, harpy, golden

Eagles

THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $1200: This "Shrek" & "Beverly Hills Cop" performer said the prize is actually an award, because a prize comes with money

Eddie Murphy

ENDLESS SUMER $200: The Sumerian name for the Mesopotamian plain may have given us this name of a Biblical garden

Eden

PLAINS $100: The name of this Biblical garden of paradise may be from the Sumerian name for the Plain of Babylon

Eden

LANGUAGES: The 2 languages on the Rosetta Stone

Egyptian & Greek

THE OSCARS: The 2 men who directed Marlon Brando's Oscar-winning performances

Elia Kazan & Francis Ford Coppola

WOMEN POETS $5,201 (Daily Double): In 1850 the Athenaeum suggested that she succeed Wordsworth as England's poet laureate

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

ENDORSEMENTS $100: This supermodel can be seen wearing an Omega wristwatch in the magazine whose name is her first name

Elle MacPherson

ARTISTS $1000: A Lord Byron poem inspired this great French Romantic painter's "The Death of Sardanapalus"

Eugene Delacroix

IF IT AIN'T BAROQUE... $400: A 1912 work by Marc Chagall is titled after this musician found in the title of a Broadway show

Fiddler

AND THEN THERE'S BEA ARTHUR $600: In 1964 Bea shot to fame as Yente the matchmaker in the original Broadway production of this musical

Fiddler on the Roof

BROADWAY MUSICALS $1200: This musical set in the Jewish village of Anatevka was inspired by stories of Tevye & his daughters

Fiddler on the Roof

SHOPPING SPREE $600: Buy your next pair of insane kicks from a faux referee at this store started by Woolworth's

Foot Locker

WRITE ON, SISTER! $1000: In a 1916 story this "Little Lord Fauntleroy" author revealed "The Way to the House of Santa Claus"

Frances Hodgson Burnett

ACTRESSES: In 1997 she became the first to win an Oscar for a film directed by her husband; her brother-in-law produced the film

Frances McDormand

KIDDY LIT $2000: She wrote the children's classics "Little Lord Fauntleroy" & "The Secret Garden"

Frances Hodgson Burnett

"COP"s $200: He was nominated for an Oscar in Directing for 1972 & won for 1974

Francis Ford Coppola

BEGGARS CAN'T BE BOOZERS $1,600 (Daily Double): This film director & winery owner is said to have kept the empty bottle of a $24,000 1941 Cabernet atop his refrigerator

Francis Ford Coppola

CELEBRITY RELATIVES $200: "Peggy Sue Got Married" is one of the movies he directed that featured nephew Nicolas Cage

Francis Ford Coppola

"V"ACATION SPOTS $1600: On an island in southeast Texas, it was once "the Sin City of the Gulf" of Mexico

Galveston

MOVIES $200: Dustin Hoffman & Alec Guinness were considered for this role that won an Oscar for Ben Kingsley

Gandhi

U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: He was the fourth president to die in office & the second to be assassinated

Garfield

HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD $400: For over 18 years this singing cowboy owned the studio we're standing in

Gene Autry

THE MEXICAN WAR $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1847 Mexico City had its independence day under occupation as this general took the city 2 days before

General Winfield Scott

THE TESTAMENT $800: "For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age at the set time of which God had spoken to him"

Genesis

PRESIDENTS $600: He preceded Benjamin Harrison in the White House, & what do you know, followed him too

Grover Cleveland

FASHION $1000: Lord Byron wore "jean trowsers" which were named for this Italian city

Genoa

AMERICAN COMPOSERS: Rachmaninoff & Heifetz watched Paul Whiteman conduct the 1924 premiere of a milestone work by this composer

Gershwin

AMERICAN ARTISTS $1600: He never completed his most famous painting of George Washington, the "Athenaeum" portrait

Gilbert Stuart

"ME" IN THE MIDDLE $1,200 (Daily Double): Sumerian epic hero who faced an apocalyptic flood

Gilgamesh

GET OUT YOUR LIBRARY TABLETS $2000: Ashurbanipal's library in Nineveh included a copy of the famous epic of this Sumerian king

Gilgamesh

I NEED A HERO $2000: Raised by animals, Enkidu was a companion of this Sumerian hero

Gilgamesh

A SECOND SCREEN EXPERIENCE $400: Francis Ford Coppola won 3 Oscars for this 1974 sequel

Godfather Part II

ROYALTY: It's the name of today's longest-ruling family in Europe, in power for most of the last 711 years

Grimaldi

VARIETY PACK $2000: In 1954 Monaco's Prince Rainier created the Order of this family to reward those who contribute to the country's prestige

Grimaldi

ROYALTY $1000: This ruling family 1st seized power in Monaco in 1297

Grimaldis

BIBLICAL RHYME TIME $500: Noah's son's marine mollusks

Ham's clams

ARCHAEOLOGY $800: An ancient stile, or large slab, depicts this man, who laid down the law way back when

Hammurabi

ENDLESS SUMER $1000: The Sumerian kingdom ended when this enemy king famous for his code conquered the city of Larsa

Hammurabi

GEOGRAPHICAL SONGS $100: "Hooray for" this city, where you're terrific if you're even good

Hollywood

LYRICISTS $800: Johnny Mercer came out here in 1935 & co-wrote the 1937 song "Hooray for" it

Hollywood

BRAIN MAUL! $100: Donald Duck's middle nephew alphabetically

Huey

THE DONALD $200: These 3 nephews of Donald Duck are the sons of his sister Dumbella

Huey, Dewey, and Louie

TRIOS $200: With them under foot, Uncle Donald's life wasn't duck soup

Huey, Dewey, and Louie

DONALD DUCK $600: In a 1938 cartoon, Donald's sister Dumbella sent these 3 nephews to visit him; chaos ensued

Huey, Louie, & Dewey

BACK TO '80s TV $2000: In the '80s he was a staple of "Wrestlemania"; he "Knows Best", according to the 2005 reality show about him

Hulk Hogan

THE ACADEMY AWARDS: Last names of the 2 famous families in which 3 generations have won Oscars

Huston & Coppola

ANCIENT HISTORY $400: The 2 modern nations that occupy the land that nurtured the Indus Valley civilization about 2300 B.C.

India & Pakistan

THE "US" $3,000 (Daily Double): The Sutlej & Ravi are major tributaries of this river

Indus

ARCHITECTURE $1,800 (Daily Double): Instead of Doric, seen here, columns at Athens' temple of Athena Nike are in this order, named for a region in Asia Minor

Ionic

BIBLICAL FATHERS & SONS $300: Abraham was 100 years old & Sarah was 90 when this child was born to them

Isaac

DOUBLE A, B, Cs $600: If you hear laughter, you may be hearing this son of Abraham & Sarah whose name means "laughter"

Isaac

THE 5 BOOKS OF MOSES $500: Sarah's handmaid bore Abraham this son & was told, "His hand will be against every man"

Ishmael

ATTORNEYS GENERAL $800: In the 1840s Nathan Clifford served for this president & negotiated the treaty that made California part of the U.S.

James K. Polk

MARTIN VAN BUREN $2000: Although Van Buren was the frontrunner in 1844, this dark horse won the Democratic party nomination

James K. Polk

MIDDLE NAMES $600: A Jacksonian Democrat: Knox

James K. Polk

MR. PRESIDENT $1000: In 1824 Sarah Childress married this future president

James K. Polk

POTPOURRI $1000: Some historians consider this first "Dark Horse" the best president between Jackson & Lincoln

James K. Polk

PRES-POURRI $1,200 (Daily Double): During the 1844 election, he said if he were elected pres., it would be only for one term; he won & kept his promise

James K. Polk

CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $800: At age 13 this violinist from Israel was presented to the U.S. by Ed Sullivan

Itzhak Perlman

AT 35 $200: At 35 he was elected to the Senate from Massachusetts; later he became the 35th president

JFK

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA $400: If you don't know the name of this Coppola-directed 1996 Robin Williams film, then you don't know this title

Jack

LET'S GO TO FLORENCE $1600: After divorcing director King Vidor, silent film star Florence Vidor married this Lithuanian-born violinist

Jascha Heifetz

MUSICIANS $1000: His brilliance on the violin might be explained by his unusual hand formation

Jascha Heifetz

THE VIOLIN $2500: This Lithuanian-born violinist taught master classes at USC before his death at age 86 in 1987

Jascha Heifetz

DUTCH BOYS $2000: This Delft painter might have used a camera obscura; his friend Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was a master lens maker

Johannes Vermeer

FAMOUS YOUNG WOMEN $2000: We've got Scarlett fever over her, the voice of Mindy in "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie"

Johansson

19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On August 2, 1826 Daniel Webster delivered a eulogy on these 2 men at Faneuil Hall in Boston

John Adams & Thomas Jefferson

RELIGION $1000: President Polk's middle name indicates he was a descendant of this Scottish religious reformer

John Knox

THE SUMMER OF LOVE: 1967 $800: Pope Paul VI ordained 27 new cardinals, including one from Poland who would later become this pope

John Paul II

FRIENDS OFF THE COURT $1000: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote a book about this "50-year friendship" with this UCLA coach

John Wooden

I'M A BELIEVER $200: ...in this religion that considers Abraham & Sarah its patriarch & matriarch

Judaism

FICTIONAL WOMEN $2000: Winston Smith has a doomed romance with this young woman in "1984"

Julia

THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $800: In 2018 this actress added the prize to her record 6 consecutive Emmys for Best Actress in a Comedy

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

POMPEII $1200: A temple at Pompeii was dedicated to Minerva, Juno, and this chief god, whose bust still looks sadly over the city's ruins

Jupiter

THEIR ORIGINAL NAMES $600: Basketball great Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

PLACE "MAT"S $4,800 (Daily Double): Olive you should know that this capital of the Greek department of Messenia is a major fruit market

Kalamata

RANDOM HOUSE DEFINITIONS $600: "A male given name: from an Arabic word meaning 'generous'" (& not "skyhook master")

Kareem

ATHLETES' FILM QUOTES $400: "Airplane": "My name is Roger Murdock. I'm the co-pilot"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

FRIENDS $400: Then known as Lew Alcindor, this 7'2" basketball star was a high school friend of not 7'2" funnyman Billy Crystal

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

POLITICALLY INCORRECT $200: "I have previously stated & I repeat now that the United States intends no military intervention in Cuba"

Kennedy

BANNED $1200: In 1977 this African country outlawed hunting; later it established game reserves, like the Masai Mara

Kenya

GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): The Masai Mara & Marsabit Game Reserves in this African nation were created to protect animals from poaching

Kenya

GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCTS $800: The Masai people of this African country mix cow blood with milk for a refreshing drink

Kenya

HERALDRY $1000: A rooster is depicted on a Masai shield on this country's coat of arms

Kenya

MY AFRICAN HOME $1200: (I'm Jeff Probst.) The flag of this country features the shield & two spears of a Masai warrior

Kenya

CLOTHES MAKE THE LAND $400: Proud Masai warriors like these live in either of these two East African countries

Kenya or Tanzania

POLK-ER $800: James K. Polk's mom was a descendant of this man who founded Scottish Presbyterianism

Knox

MUSIC IN "C" $800: 2004 marks the 10th anniversary of the death of this man from Aberdeen, Washington whose music touched the world

Kurt Cobain

THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $2000: "Player Piano" (1952)

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

HOTELS BY CITY $100: The Mirage, Excalibur, Caesar's Palace

Las Vegas

TRAVEL & TOURISM $800: Caesars Palace, the Luxor & the Excalibur lie on this boulevard nicknamed "The Strip"

Las Vegas Boulevard

LAST NAME'S THE SAME $800: "Blossom" actor Joey & naval officer James who wouldn't give up the ship

Lawrence

WHO DUNNIT? $400: "The First Deadly Sin"

Lawrence Sanders

HITS OF 1964 $400: The Detergents' "Leader of the Laundromat" was a parody of this Shangri-Las hit

Leader of the Pack

SONGS OF THE '60s $2000: A revving motorcycle is featured on this Shangri-Las No. 1 hit

Leader of the Pack

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $800: The Confederate memorial carving on Stone Mountain includes Stonewall Jackson & this other Civil War general

Lee

AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1964 the Warren Commission concluded that this man acted alone in killing President Kennedy

Lee Harvey Oswald

MOVIES $400: Picasso's estate & Cary Grant lent paintings seen in this 1986 Robert Redford film

Legal Eagles

THE NIGHTTIME SKY $800: This constellation known as "The Lion" was named by the ancient Sumerians over 5,000 years ago

Leo

"LIKE" A SONG $800: This Madonna parody operated well for Weird Al in 1985

Like a Surgeon

BONE VOYAGE $400: On April 21, 1865 the bodies of him & his long-dead son Willie began a 20-day, 1,700-mile funeral journey

Lincoln

"HORN" IN $400: He had a plum role in a nursery rhyme

Little Jack Horner

"LITTLE" $200: We're never told what this "good boy" did with his thumb or the plum once he pulled them from the pie

Little Jack Horner

"LITTLE" NURSERY RHYME CHARACTERS $800: Historically, his "plum" may have been the deed to Mells Manor in Somerset, England

Little Jack Horner

DECONSTRUCTING THE NURSERY RHYME $200: This small boy based the perception of his behavior on the removal of a fruit item from pastry

Little Jack Horner

FAMOUS NAMES $500: Legend says the "plum" he took was land deeds hidden in pastry he carried to Henry VIII

Little Jack Horner

JACKS OR BETTER $200: This nursery rhyme kid likes plums & pies & has a big ego

Little Jack Horner

NURSERY RHYMES $300: He's been quoted as saying, "What a good boy am I"

Little Jack Horner

NURSERY RHYMES $400: He indulged in self-congratulation after using his pollex to extract a fruit from a baked food

Little Jack Horner

NURSERY RHYMES $400: He said, "What a good boy am I!"--if he's so good, why was he in the corner?

Little Jack Horner

"LIKE" A SONG $1000: The title of this 2011 single by Selena Gomez & The Scene mentions the kind of song it is

Love You Like a Love Song

WORKS LIKE A CHARM $200: In 1975 Waldo the Wizard briefly replaced this cereal's leprechaun mascot in some markets

Lucky Charms

TITLE CHARACTERS $1600: Kingsley Amis wrote of this "Lucky" lecturer

Lucky Jim Crossword Clue: "Lucky Jim" novelist Kingsley Answer: Amis

ENDS IN "WIG" $400: First name of von Drake, Donald Duck's uncle from the European side of the family

Ludwig

MIDDLE AGE MEN $1600: In 1057 he was killed in battle at Lumphanan in Aberdeenshire, not at Dunsinane Castle

Macbeth

ORDER $100: Presidents: James Polk, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln

Madison, Polk, Lincoln

THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A DAME $400: She was magic as professor Minerva McGonagall in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"

Maggie Smith

SPORTS $700 (Daily Double): In 1985 this U.S. runner married British discus thrower Richard Slaney

Mary Decker

SILENT MOVIES $100: This film could have been called "Little Lady Fauntleroy" since it starred her, "America's sweetheart"

Mary Pickford

YOU SEE L.A. $1,100 (Daily Double): In 1989 Martin Sheen, honorary mayor of this beach city, home of Pepperdine U., declared it a nuclear-free zone

Malibu

"MAN"-LY LIT $1600: This play by George Bernard Shaw portrays Don Juan as the quarry, not the hunter

Man and Superman

FOREWORDS $400: In the foreword to her 1818 novel, she recalls a trip to Switzerland & a ghost story contest with Lord Byron

Mary Shelley

ON THE "MA"P $2000: (Alex gives the clue from Africa.) An early morning balloon ride for all of us here in Kenya has taken us along this very important river

Mara

ART $800: His childhood in Vitebsk influenced his work, which often includes fiddlers on roofs

Marc Chagall

AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $800: Venice's airport is named for this Italian traveler

Marco Polo

COME SAIL AWAY $400: He sailed from China around 1292, arriving back home in Venice in 1295 at about age 41

Marco Polo

AUTHORS' CHILDREN $2000: First name of novelist Kingsley Amis' son, also a noted novelist

Martin

BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: In his memoir "Experience", he explores his relationship with his author-father Kingsley

Martin Amis

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA $200: This star had a heart attack & was even given last rites while making the 1979 Coppola film "Apocalypse Now"

Martin Sheen

MAIDEN NAMES $600: Runner who married marathoner Ron Tabb & then discus thrower Richard Slaney

Mary Decker

OFF & RUNNING $1,100 (Daily Double): In 1985 this American middle-distance runner married discus thrower Richard Slaney

Mary Decker

A FEW GOOD MEN $1200: One of the first U.S. presidents to have his picture taken, James Polk was photographed by this man in 1849

Matthew Brady

CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: In 1928 Ida Rubinstein commissioned him to write a ballet, so he created "Bolero"

Maurice Ravel

SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE $800: Ida Rubinstein commissioned him to compose a work for ballet with a Spanish flavor & he did--"Bolero"

Maurice Ravel

THE WOMEN OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $1000: Daughter of singer Minnie Riperton, she made quite an impression as Beyonce & Donatella Versace

Maya Rudolph

PEOPLE IN POETRY $1600: From a T.S. Eliot poem: "In the room the women come and go talking of" this Italian master

Michelangelo

19th CENTURY POLITICIANS $600: In 1892 this Ohio governor was third in delegate votes at the GOP Nat'l Convention; he won in 1896

McKinley

ASSASSINATIONS $800: Of the 2 presidents who died in Buffalo, N.Y., the one who was assassinated

McKinley

POLITICAL SLOGANS $800: "Four more years of the full dinner pail" symbolized this president's re-election campaign in 1900

McKinley

PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $800: This president who dies in 1901 was nicknamed "The idol of Ohio"

McKinley

SPANISH HISTORY $800: During the Spanish-American War it was King Alfonso XIII against this U.S. President

McKinley

COUNTRY MUSIC $400: In 1972 California governor Ronald Reagan granted a full pardon to this "Okie from Muskogee"

Merle Haggard

KING & COUNTRY $600: After the King's 1977 passing, this "Okie from Muskogee" had a hit with "From Graceland To The Promised Land"

Merle Haggard

PATRIOTIC SONGS $500: This country singer has written such patriotic songs as "Okie from Muskogee" & Fightin' Side"

Merle Haggard

THE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME $1600: In 2007 the Hall welcomed this "Okie from Muskogee"

Merle Haggard

THEREFORE, "IAM" $2,000 (Daily Double): Last name of brothers George & Charles, who in 1843 secured the rights to Noah Webster's dictionary

Merriam

ANCIENT HISTORY $600: The earliest known civilization, it was home to the Sumerians & Akkadians

Mesopotamia

JAMES K. POLK ME $300: During Polk's administration, the U.S. waged this war of expansion from 1846 to 1848

Mexican-American War

AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On May 13, 1846, President James K. Polk signed a declaration of war against this country

Mexico

PLAN $400: The 1821 Plan de Iguala, named for a city in Guerrero, led to this country's independence from Spain

Mexico

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL? $400: In 2016 "MNF" aired its first game from outside the U.S. as the Raiders beat the Texans in this city's Estadio Azteca

Mexico City

HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY $800: This world capital was built on the ruins of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan

Mexico City

OLYMPIC CITY ATTRACTIONS $800: Museo Frida Kahlo

Mexico City

"M"YTHOLOGY $1200: How smart! This Roman goddess of wisdom graces California's state seal

Minerva

"M"YTHOLOGY $400: The Capitoline Triad consisted of Juno, Jupiter & this goddess of wisdom

Minerva

GODS AMONG US $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew watches an emblem being applied to a California Highway Patrol car.) The symbol of the highway patrol features the Great Seal of California & this Roman war goddess, whose Greek counterpart was Athena

Minerva

17th CENTURY LIT $1200: This French playwright had a flop with his 1665 take on the Don Juan legend

Moliere

PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: In 1665 this French playwright's "Don Juan" had a brief run but wasn't seen again during his lifetime due to church pressure

Moliere

MOUNTAINS $800: Lord Byron called this peak on the French-Italian border "The Monarch of Mountains"

Mont Blanc

CITY PARKS $800: This ruler's baths, Aztec-built waterfalls & canals, are a feature of Mexico City's Chapultepec Park

Montezuma

WORLD RELIGION $200: This oval building in Salt Lake City's Temple Square is famous for its choir

Mormon Tabernacle

RADIO: Now numbering some 320, this group has been heard over national radio weekly since 1929

Mormon Tabernacle Choir

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS $400: In this building, home to a church choir, a pin dropped at the pulpit can be heard at the back of the hall

Mormon Tabernacle Choir

GET YOUR INFO STRAIGHT $800: Fannie Flagg is a writer; Fannie Mae stands for the Federal National this Association

Mortgage

SHELL $200: This shiny material also called nacre is the inner layer of mollusk shells

Mother-of-Pearl

MOUNTAINS $1000: It's the highest mt. in Denali National Park, Denali being Indian name for this N. American mountain

Mount McKinley

MOUNTAINS $200: Due to the number of climbers, the Park Service may put an outhouse at the 17,000' level of this Alaskan peak

Mount McKinley

MOUNTAINS $200: This Alaskan peak has been sighted from land 230 miles away

Mount McKinley

MOUNTAINS $400: Not only does Alaska have this, the highest U.S. peak, it has the next 15 tallest, too

Mount McKinley

MOUNTAINS $600: The American Indian name for this peak is Denali

Mount McKinley

NATIONAL PARKS $600: Denali, also known as this, is the highest peak in Alaska's Denali National Park

Mount McKinley

MOUNTAINS $1,000 (Daily Double): The Athabascan name for this North American mountain means "The Great One"

Mount McKinley (Mount Denali)

U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: This 6,684-foot peak in western North Carolina is the highest U.S. point east of the Mississippi River

Mount Mitchell

COUNTRY SONGS $100: Merle Haggard was "proud to be an Okie from" this town, "a place where even squares can have a ball"

Muskogee

AFRICAN CAPITALS $200: This Kenyan capital's name is derived from a Masai word meaning "place of cool waters"

Nairobi

EARTH $200: This Kenyan capital gets its name from a Masai watering hole called "Cold Water"

Nairobi

WORLD CAPITALS $400: Founded as a railway settlement in Kenya in the 1890s, its name comes from the Masai for "cold water"

Nairobi

FOREIGN-SOUNDING TEXAS PLACES $1000: There's one in southern Italy, one in Florida & one in Texas near the Ark. border, "an old town with new horizons"

Naples

NICKNAMES $1200: Because of his oratory style, James K. Polk was nicknamed this French leader "of the stump"

Napolean

EAT IT! $200: I can't decide between chocolate, vanilla & strawberry ice cream; wait, I'll have all 3 in a brick called this

Neopolitan

FAMOUS FOLKS $1000: Formerly South Vietnam's prime minister & vice president, he now lives in Cal. and owes Caesars Palace $20,000

Nguyen Cao Ky

BETTER KNOWN AS... $400: Nicolas Coppola

Nicolas Cage

CELEBRITIES' ORIGINAL NAMES $200: Actor Nicholas Coppola

Nicolas Cage

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA $300: Leonard Maltin said the work of this relative of Francis' was "annoying" in "Peggy Sue Got Married"

Nicolas Cage

A PINT OF ALEC GUINNESS $800: Guinness played many Shakespearean roles at this theatre aka the Royal Victorian Theatre

Old Vic

OUT OF AFRICA $3,200 (Daily Double): 2.3 million-year-old tools have been found in this gorge in northern Tanzania

Olduvai Gorge

THIS IS GONNA BE TOUGH $800: In the 1800s this American removed the Us from honour & colour & turned "centre" into "center"

Noah Webster

FOREIGN-SOUNDING TEXAS PLACES $600: A mile east of the Rio Grande, this hamlet shares its name with a French area whose beaches became famous in 1944

Normandy

CONTINENTAL HIGH POINTS $100: Mt. McKinley

North America

MOUNTAINS $200: Mt. Logan was thought the highest on this continent till someone measured Mt. McKinley

North America

A PINT OF ALEC GUINNESS $400: Guinness played this mythic character in the first 3 "Star Wars" films

Obi-Wan Kenobi

THE ROLE IN COMMON $400: Sir Alec Guinness & Ewan McGregor

Obi-wan Kenobi

HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD $1000: Adolph Zukor founded this movie studio & was its chairman of the board emeritus when he died at age 103

Paramount

PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $600: William McKinley was known as the "Idol of" this Buckeye state, his birthplace

Ohio

STATE FLOWERS $600: Its official flower, the red carnation, was native son William McKinley's favorite

Ohio

MUSIC ON THE MAP $200: Protesting the '60s protest movement, Merle Haggard, son of Oklahoma migrants, called himself this

Okie from Muskogee

AMERICAN HISTORY $300: In 1907 Charles N. Haskell of Muskogee became this new state's first governor

Oklahoma

COUNTIES BY STATE $400: McClain, McCurtain, Muskogee

Oklahoma

GIRL SCOUT COOKIES $200: The first recorded Girl Scout cookie sale occurred in December 1917 by the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee in this state

Oklahoma

HAVE A COUNTY SEAT $800: Muskogee is both a county & county seat in this state

Oklahoma

STATES BY CITIES $600: Duncan, Lawton, Muskogee

Oklahoma

STATES BY COUNTIES $600: Choctaw, Cimarron, Muskogee

Oklahoma

STATES BY COUNTIES $300: Jefferson, Cherokee, Muskogee

Oklahoma Crossword Clue: Muskogee native Answer: sooner

U.S.A. $400: This Boston landmark was built in 1723 as a "house of prayer for all people"

Old North Church

MOVIES' 2 MALE LEADS $400: "Wedding Crashers"

Owen Wilson & Vince Vaughn

GET YOUR INFO STRAIGHT $2000: Owen Wilson is an actor; this company makes glass fiber & has the Pink Panther as its symbol

Owens Corning

MY NAME IS PERCY $400: This poet had a yacht named for Don Juan; sadly, he drowned when the yacht sank

Percy Shelley

Actors who have played The Hulk

One of the most iconic characters in popular culture,[4][5] the character has appeared on a variety of merchandise, such as clothing and collectable items, inspired real-world structures (such as theme park attractions), and been referenced in a number of media. Banner and the Hulk have been adapted in live-action, animated, and video game incarnations. The most notable of these were the 1970s The Incredible Hulk television series, in which the character was portrayed by Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno. The character was first played in a live-action feature film by Eric Bana, with Edward Norton and Mark Ruffalo portraying the character in the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

MOVIE DIRECTORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Robert Redford won his directing Oscar for this 1980 film

Ordinary People

MYTHIC OBITS $1200: Musician torn apart by the love-crazed women of Thrace

Orpheus

WORLD CAPITALS $600 (Daily Double): (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE): Capital in which the following was minted: (Canadian gold coin)

Ottawa Crossword Clue: Royal Canadian Mint City Answer: Ottawa

A WORLD OF BOOKS $1200: Detective Cordelia Gray debuted in this Englishwoman's "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman"

P.D. James

BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: Sharing the nickname "The Queen of Crime" are Agatha Christie & this author of the Adam Dalgliesh mysteries

P.D. James

ASIAN CITIES $400: Near the delta of the Indus River, the largest city in this country was formerly called Kolachi

Pakistan

LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Epic poem in which Lucifer, expelled from heaven, finds inner peace in Shangri-La

Paradise Lost Horizon

THEY CAN'T ALL BE GEMS $200: The "Roman" type of this mollusk gem is a glass bead filled with wax

Pearl

PLACE NAMES: Its original name, Wai Momi, & its current name both come from the valuable mollusks once found there

Pearl Harbor

CLEOPATRA $500: To impress Antony with her extravagance, Cleo dropped 2 of these mollusk gems in wine & drank them

Pearls

WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: 2003's "Blow Fly" is her twelfth novel to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now a private forensics consultant

Patricia Cornwell

BROADWAY 2017 $2000: "War Paint" stars Christine Ebersole as Elizabeth Arden & this legendary performer as Helena Rubinstein

Patti LuPone

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA $100: Francis won his first Oscar for co-writing this 1970 film biography starring George C. Scott

Patton

LONGFELLOW: In Longfellow's "Tales of a Wayside Inn", "The Landlord's Tale" concerns this man & begins with the word "Listen"

Paul Revere

POETRY $400: In Longfellow's "Tales of a Wayside Inn", the tale told by the landlord is of this man's ride

Paul Revere

A HORSE IS A HORSE $200: The Greek hero Bellerophon was crippled when he fell off this winged steed

Pegasus

GREEK MYTHOLOGY $1200: Athena gave Bellerophon a golden bridle for this wild horse

Pegasus

GREEK MYTHOLOGY $200: After causing this flying horse to throw Bellerophon, Zeus used it as a pack beast for thunderbolts

Pegasus

LEGENDS $400: Bellerophon caught & tamed this mighty steed

Pegasus

MYTHELLANEOUS $1000: Riding this winged horse made it possible for Bellerophon to approach & kill the chimera

Pegasus

MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES $800: Bellerophon was crippled when he was thrown from this horse as he was flying to Mount Olympus

Pegasus

NICOLAS COPPOLA, AKA CAGE $200: Kathleen Turner went back to the past in this film & met up with Cage, the director's nephew

Peggy Sue Got Married

THAT WAS ON TV $1600: In a TV movie based on a P.D. James mystery & Jane Austen's characters, "Death Comes to" this estate of Mr. Darcy

Pemberley

HIGH WATER $1600: A dam collapse in this state led to the deadly 1889 Johnstown flood

Pennsylvania

MYTHOLOGY $1600: Athena gave this Gorgon slayer a shield to use as a mirror when confronting Medusa

Perseus

BODIES OF WATER $500: Large banks of pearl-producing mollusks are found on this gulf's western shore on the Arabian Peninsula

Persian Gulf

"FAN" CLUB $1,200 (Daily Double): Boston merchant & "hall" monitor

Peter Faneuil

CITY OF THE DAY: BOSTON $1000: Since the 18th century, a grasshopper has sat atop the marketplace named for this Huguenot

Peter Faneuil

KING KONG $400: The next feature he directed after "The Return of the King" was a new version of "King Kong"

Peter Jackson

1845 $800: Also named James, this 11th president reinforced James Monroe with his own doctrine

Polk

THE JAMES $200: The third James to be president, he led the U.S. during the Mexican War

Polk

PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME $400: James K.'s kith & kin

Polk's folks (Polk folk)

PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME $800: James' egg parts

Polk's yolks

PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME $1000: James K.'s Ma & Pa

Polks folks

ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $200: The Sumerians' pottery was the first made on this device

Potter's wheel

HAIL TO THE CHIEF $600: He changed the name of the presidential retreat from "Shangri-La" to "Camp David"

President Dwight Eisenhower

WHAT A PRINCE! $800: He succeeded his grandfather Louis II Matignon-Grimaldi in 1949

Prince Rainier

BROADWAY MUSICAL SETTINGS $400: "Fiddler on the Roof" may be the most famous American musical set in this country

Russia

AMPHIBIOUS INVASIONS $800: In 1759 Gen. James Wolfe sailed up the St. Lawrence River to capture this Canadian city

Quebec

ABDICATIONS $1600: In 1654 she stunned Europe by abdicating the Swedish throne because of her secret Conversion to Catholicism

Queen Christina

ABDICATIONS $800: When this Swedish queen abdicated in 1654, she named her cousin Charles X Gustav as her successor

Queen Christina

MOVIE ROYALTY $1000: Dressed in men's clothes, Garbo played not a drag queen but this Swedish queen

Queen Christina

THRONE FOR A LOOP $2000: The silver throne seen here was a gift to this Swedish queen for her 1650 coronation

Queen Christina

NFL RHYMES $200: A Los Angeles team's mollusks

Ram's clams

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' MOST-HATED MOVIES $400: Rodent-fearing Winston Smith shuddered through this 2007 Pixar movie featuring the voice of Patton Oswalt

Ratatouille

BIBLICAL WOMEN $2000: By offering water to Abraham's servant, she identified herself as the bride appointed by God for Isaac

Rebecca

CELEBRITY FATHERS & SONS $400: Comedian Carl & actor/filmmaker Rob

Reiner

AROUND THE WORLD $600: Lord Byron rhymed it with "alone" when he wrote of the "blue rushing of" this French-Swiss river

Rhone

PEOPLE IN POETRY $2000: "And" he, "one calm summer night, went home and put a bullet through his head"

Richard Cory

ARCHAEOLOGY $800: In 2013 the bones found under a parking lot in England were proven to be those of this king killed at Bosworth Field

Richard III

BROADWAY COMPOSERS $3,000 (Daily Double): He composed the music for Oklahoma's state song

Richard Rodgers

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: In "Ivanhoe" the black knight who rescues Wilfred & Rowena is really this king in disguise

Richard the Lionhearted

CAPITAL QUOTES $400: It was Lord Byron who wrote, "When falls the coliseum", it "shall fall; and when" it "falls -- the world"

Rome

SCENE OF THE RHYME $200: Lord Byron rhymed, "Sanctuary and home / of art and piety--pantheon!--pride of" this city

Rome

BROADWAY MUSICAL STARS $2000: A longtime talk show host & short-time "The View" co-host, she once played Golde in "Fiddler on the Roof"

Rosie O'Donnell

ARTISTS $1200: This painter's riffs on the comics include "Look, Mickey!", in which Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck are fishing

Roy Lichtenstein

PAINTINGS $800: Venus, Juno & Minerva are the full-bodied women in this Flemish master's 1638 "Judgment of Paris"

Rubens

IN CAESAR'S PALACE $400: In the palace swimming pool Julius might have practiced crossing this river & declaring "The die is cast"

Rubicon

MAGIC & SORCERY IN THE BIBLE $2000: This desperate king of Israel consulted the witch of Endor even though he himself had banned sorcery & magic

Saul

KIRSTEN, REESE OR SCARLETT $400: Born of a Danish father

Scarlett

A KISS IS STILL A KISS $600: A busy Tokyo street is the setting of a goodbye kiss between Bill Murray & her in a 2003 movie

Scarlett Johansson

CELEBS $400: Mrs. Ryan Reynolds, she did an album of Tom Waits covers

Scarlett Johansson

GOSSIP GIRLS $2000: This beauty kept tongues wagging after she married actor Ryan Reynolds in September 2008

Scarlett Johansson

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: University of Aberdeen in this country was the first in Great Britain to train students in medicine

Scotland

LITERARY ALLUSIONS $600: This term for an idyllic place can be checked out in the James Hilton work "Lost Horizon"

Shangri-La

CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $1600: 30 years older, this composer was a pal of Vladimir Horowitz, who could really bang out his 3rd Piano Concerto

Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninoff

PLACES OF FABLE $1200: The name of this mythic Tibetan Buddhist kingdom inspired a Three Dog Night hit song

Shambala

MOVIE PUNS $800: The title of this 2000 Jackie Chan & Owen Wilson film plays on the title of a 1952 Gary Cooper movie

Shanghai Noon

LONG LIVE THE COMPANY $1,600 (Daily Double): This company started in 1833 selling mollusk exoskeletons; it switched to selling oil for lamps in the 1890s

Shell

BEAUTIFUL QUOTATIONS $1600: Victorian poet Matthew Arnold called this "Adonais" poet a "beautiful and ineffectual angel"

Shelley

I HAVE A QUESTION $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1821 he wrote mournfully, "Where was lorn Urania when Adonais died?"

Shelley

INSPIRED CHARACTERS $400: Scythrop Glowry in the 1818 novel "Nightmare Abbey" is believed to be a spoof of this poet, Lord Byron's pal

Shelley

SONNETS $1200: This Romantic began his "England in 1819", "An old, mad, blind, despised and dying king"

Shelley

NAME THAT STOOGE $300: Born Samuel Horowitz, this Stooge's gruff & mindless persona earned him his own core of fans:

Shemp Howard

TONY WINNERS OF THE '50s $1600: In 1953 Thomas Mitchell won for the musical "Hazel Flagg" & this future TV "Hazel" won for "Time of the Cuckoo"

Shirley Booth

"A"UTHORS $1600: "Fiddler on the Roof" was based on his stories about Tevye the dairyman

Sholem Aleichem

FILL IN THE AUTHOR $1200: "Tevye the Dairyman" by S.A.

Sholem Aleichem

HORRIFYINGLY REAL MOTHER GOOSE $2000: It was post-pie revenge later in this rhyme when "down came a blackbird and snapped off" a maid's nose!

Sing a Song of Sixpence

AT THE MOVIES $1600: In a tour-de-force performance, he played 8 different roles in 1949's "Kind Hearts and Coronets"

Sir Alec Guinness

DIARIES $600: "My Name Escapes Me" is "The Diary of a Retiring Actor" by this portrayer of Obi-Wan Kenobi

Sir Alec Guinness

INTERNATIONAL FILM STARS $1000: This knighted British star's 1985 autobiography is titled "Blessings In Disguise"

Sir Alec Guinness

"LIKE" A SONG $600: Nirvana reached the charts for the first time in 1991 with this grunge anthem

Smells Like Teen Spirit

CITY PEOPLE $1000: This "Virgin Suicides" director was the infant in the baptism scene in the original "Godfather"

Sofia Coppola

WORLD CULTURES $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, MA.) The people of relatively isolated Pacific islands relied on canoes; according to the first Europeans to visit these biblically named islands, they could catch Spanish sailing ships that had a 6-mile head start

Solomon Islands

Define racketeering

Someone who's guilty of racketeering has been participating in something illegal, most likely organized crime or criminal business dealings. You can use the noun racket to describe an illegal scheme or plan, and racketeering to mean the act of running or engaging in a racket. The word comes up most often when someone is being accused or arrested or convicted of this type of criminal activity. The root of both racket and racketeering is probably racquet, with its connection to the idea of a game

BITS & PIECES $1000: This state's lowest point, Big Stone Lake, lies about 100 miles east of Aberdeen on its border with Minnesota

South Dakota

IT'S CHOPPER ALEX WITH TRAFFIC $1600: I-29 past Sioux Falls; clear. 281 near Aberdeen; clear. I-90 around Rapid City; clear. This state... clear

South Dakota

ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: Art found in the Altamira cave in this country depicts wild animals from more than 20,000 years ago

Spain

HEIFETZ $400: With the USO, Heifetz told soldiers that Bach was like this vegetable -- you may not like it, but it's good for you

Spinach

(Alex: We have military devices that have been anagrammed in...) WHIRLED OF WARCRAFT $2000: A WWII British fighter: PIER FIST

Spitfire

A STUDY IN SCARLETT JOHANSSON $400: In 2004 Scarlett hit the Krusty Krab as the voice of Mindy the mermaid in this title guy's movie

SpongeBob SquarePants

BODIES OF WATER $1600: The Gulf of Mannar between India & this island nation is noted for its pearl banks & the sacred chank, a gastropod mollusk

Sri Lanka

SAINTS BE PRAISED $1600: If you're in Pinellas Point Park near where Tampa Bay meets the Gulf of Mexico, you're in this city

St. Petersburg

1899 $300: William McKinley became the first sitting president to ride in a car when he took a spin in this "steamer"

Stanley Steamer

BOX OFFICE CHAMPS OF THE DECADE $400: The 1970s: starring Mark Hamill, Alec Guinness

Star Wars

TV TO MOVIE ROLES $800: This TV cop duo was played on the big screen by Ben Stiller & Owen Wilson

Starsky & Hutch

AMERICANA $500: It's said Will Rogers called this huge Georgia boulder a pebble Calif. threw at Florida & missed

Stone Mountain

ATLANTA $800: The Scenic Skylift offers cable-car service to the top of this nearby mountain

Stone Mountain

MOUNTAIN HIGH $600: From 1964 to 1969 3 noted Confederates were carved into this Georgia peak

Stone Mountain

SOFT ROCK $400: Putting the "easy" into easy listening, Lionel Richie sang, "That's why I'm easy, I'm easy like" this

Sunday morning

SYMBOLS: In a 2013 movie, this character says of a symbol he wears, "It's not an 'S'--on my world it means 'hope'"

Superman

IN CAESAR'S PALACE $1,000 (Daily Double): In Caesar's map room you might find his plans to fight the Helvetii, a people from a region today known as this

Swiss

PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $300: This man, McKinley's VP, said McKinley "has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair"

Teddy Roosevelt

LITERARY TITLE OVERLAPS $400: "The Canterbury _____ of a Wayside Inn"

Tales

LINES FROM LONGFELLOW $600: This 1874 book of "Tales" includes Paul Revere's Ride & the line "ships that pass in the night"

Tales of a Wayside Inn

BETTER KNOWN AS... $400: Talia Coppola

Talia Shire

CELEBRITY RELATIVES $800: She got her first big break playing Connie in "The Godfather", directed by her brother Francis Ford Coppola

Talia Shire

THE MOVIES $400: This sister of Francis Ford Coppola appeared in all of his "Godfather" films

Talia Shire

20th CENTURY SENATORS $1600: In 1994 this man won a 6th full term when he defeated Mitt Romney

Ted Kennedy

PLAYING POLITICS $800: This Northeastern man was 30, the minimum age for a U.S. senator, when he ran in 1962; he stuck around 47 years

Ted Kennedy

RECENT NONFICTION $800: "True Compass: A Memoir", by this late Democratic senator & scion

Ted Kennedy

SECRET SERVICE CODE NAMES $800: This late Massachusetts senator was "Sunburn"; his mom, "Coppertone"

Ted Kennedy

SENATORS WHO SOUGHT HIGHER OFFICE $2,400 (Daily Double): This Dem., falling short in 1980: "The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, & the dream shall never die"

Ted Kennedy

STAGE WHISKERS $1600: Tradition says you need a beard to play this lead "Fiddler on the Roof" character

Tevye

AQUATIC-SOUNDING CINEMA $400: Alec Guinness whistled while he worked his way to an Oscar in this 1957 David Lean epic

The Bridge on the River Kwai

FOR HE'S A JOLLY LONGFELLOW $400: "Tales Of A Wayside Inn" was modeled in part on this Chaucer work

The Canterbury Tales

20 YEARS AGO: 1978 $800 (Daily Double): Group heard here when Lionel Richie was still a member: ("You're once, twice, three times a lady...")

The Commodores

BRICK BY BRICK $600: This Lionel Richie group sang, "She's a brick house, yeah, she's the one, the only one, built like an Amazon"

The Commodores

KICK THE CANNES $600: People were talking when Coppola won for this 1974 Gene Hackman movie where he listens to a murder plot

The Conversation

DIDN'T DIRECT IT $400: Francis Coppola: "The Conversation", "The Deer Hunter", "The Cotton Club"

The Deer Hunter

STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Entertainer Marvin Hamlisch won a 1974 Grammy for this instrumental hit from the movie "The Sting"

The Entertainer

EPICS $2000: This Sumerian epic was written in cuneiform on clay tablets about 4,000 years ago

The Epic of Gilgamesh

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY $200: Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola (1972)

The Godfather

MOVIE MUSIC $600: Love themes from "St. Elmo's Fire", "A Star Is Born" & this 1972 Coppola classic have been Top 40 hits

The Godfather

TALES FROM THE SCRIPT $200: Francis Ford Coppola said that to satisfy Al Pacino, he rewrote the first sequel in this series over a weekend

The Godfather

"GREAT" FILMS $400: The 1974 adaptation of this Fitzgerald novel featured Robert Redford in the title role

The Great Gatsby

ANIMAL-TITLED FILMS $800: In 1958 Alec Guinness played painter Gulley Jimson; we got it straight from this, the title of the film

The Horse's Mouth

ART & ARTISTS $2000: Minerva, Venus & Juno are the 3 being "judged" in this famous Claude Lorrain painting

The Judgment of Paris

IT'S GOOD TO BE "KING" $800: Though Elizabeth was on the throne, Kingsley Amis titled his guide to correct usage this

The King's English

A PINT OF ALEC GUINNESS $2000: Guinness received his first Oscar nomination for this 1951 comedy about a "Mob" that robs a bank

The Lavender Hill Mob

"LITTLE" WOMEN $500: Sara Crewe is this title character of a Frances Hodgson Burnett novel

The Little Princess

'88 MOVIES $1000: Robert Redford directed this film about disputed water rights in New Mexico

The Milagro Beanfield War

A STUDY IN SCARLETT JOHANSSON $1600: Scarlett provided child care for the Xs (Paul Giamatti & Laura Linney) in this 2007 film

The Nanny Diaries

COUNTRY MUSIC $600 (Daily Double): President Bush keeps cassettes of this group's music in his briefcase to play in his limousine: "Elvira / Elvira / My heart's on fire, for / Elvira..."

The Oak Ridge Boys

MULTIPLE ROLES, SAME FILM $400: In this 1961 film Hayley Mills played twins separated as babies; LIndsay Lohan starred in the 1998 remake

The Parent Trap

BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Henry James-D.H. Lawrence work in which an American woman goes to Europe & has an affair with a gamekeeper

The Portrait of a Lady Chatterley's Lover

LITERARY OOPS! $1600: In this story of 16th c. lookalikes Mark Twain had the locals watching "Punch & Judy" shows that began 100 years later

The Prince and the Pauper

NICOLAS COPPOLA, AKA CAGE $400: The 1996 Cage film about a "hard place"

The Rock

BROADWAY MUSICALS $1,300 (Daily Double): An orphan goes to live with her uncle in this 1991 musical inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel

The Secret Garden

KID LIT $800 (Daily Double): In a Frances Hodgson Burnett tale, Mary Lennox tends to this title place & Colin grows stronger as it blooms

The Secret Garden

MUSICAL THEATER $800 (Daily Double): Lucy Simon, Carly's sister, wrote the music for this show based on a Frances Hodgson Burnett book

The Secret Garden

ON THE STAGE $600: Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's book, this musical is named for the "secret" place

The Secret Garden

AT THE MOVIES $800: (Leonard Maltin reads the clue.) This 1973 film won 7 Oscars & helped spark a national revival of Scott Joplin's ragtime music

The Sting

CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $400: (Warren Buffett delivers the clue.) One of my favorites is this 1973 movie in which Paul Newman invests a little time to con a large sum of out evil mobster Doyle Lonnegan

The Sting

CINEMATIC CHICAGO $400: Chicago con men Newman & Redford stage an elaborate revenge on a gangster in this film that won 7 Oscars

The Sting

SYMBOLS: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Many countries have special names for their flags; we have the Stars and Stripes, Denmark has its Dannebrog & then there's this flag

The Union Jack

MOVIEMAKER'S MASHUP $1600: Sofia Coppola: "The Virgin Translation"

The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation

"WILD" MOVIES $400: Sam Peckinpah. Lots of blood. This 1969 western

The Wild Bunch

HIGH HOPES $200: In Genesis 11 this structure of bricks & mortar is meant to reach heaven

Tower of Babel

UNFINISHED BUSINESS $200: The story of this unfinished ziggurat was once used to explain the origin of languages

Tower of Babel

FAMOUS NAVAL CONFLICTS $1000: This Oct. 21, 1805 battle resulted in a British victory but over 1,500 British casualties, including Lord Nelson

Trafalgar

NAVAL BATTLES $800: In this 1805 battle Lord Nelson split Admiral Villeneuve's fleet in half & then proceeded to destroy each half

Trafalgar

ENGLISH "T" $600: E.H. Baily's 17-foot-tall statue of Lord Nelson is in this London plaza

Trafalgar Square

WORLD LITERATURE $800: In "1984" Winston Smith works for the Ministry of this

Truth

"U-R" THERE $800: The small European part of this country lies in Thrace; the rest is in Asia

Turkey

LESSER-KNOWN MUSEUMS $400: The Tate Geological Museum in Casper, Wyoming has a cast of a skull of this dinosaur "king" with battle scars

Tyrannosaurus Rex

WHERE "U" GOIN'? $2000: To this African river formed bv the confluence of the Bomu & the Uele

Ubangi

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC $400: Kampala is the bustling capital city of this central African republic of about 20 million

Uganda

CRY "UNCLE" $100: In his famous recruitment poster, James Montgomery Flagg modeled this figure on himself

Uncle Sam

TOPS OF THE WORLD, MA! $200: Mount McKinley

United States

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: James K. Polk went to this "tarheel university"

University of North Carolina

EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $800: Canaletto used a camera obscura to help him get those sweeping views of this, his hometown

Venice

HIGH WATER $400: After floods in 1966, UNESCO made efforts to save this Italian city & its treasures, like the Biblioteca Marciana

Venice

IN CAESAR'S PALACE $200: Julius' palace chapel may have included a shrine to this love goddess that his family regarded as an ancestor

Venus

"V" $2000: Born in this capital of Lithuanian, violinist Jascha Heifetz was giving concerts there by age 6

Vilnius

THIS IS "US" $1,000 (Daily Double): Violinist Jascha Heifetz was born in this Baltic capital in 1901

Vilnius

PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $500 (Daily Double): His wife Florence consulted an astrologer who said that he'd win the presidency but die in office

Warren G. Harding

MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $800: This city is "the grand old benevolent national asylum for the helpless"

Washington

HENRIK IBSEN OR HENRY GIBSON $800: When this marriage-centered Owen Wilson & Vince Vaughn film needed a priest, Henry Gibson was in as Father O'Neil

Wedding Crashers

ASSASSINATIONS $200: James Garfield died of a gunshot wound in September 1881, as did this president in September 1901

William McKinley

ASSASSINATIONS $800: This president's September 6, 1901 assassination was inspired by the killing of Italy's King Umberto I the year before

William McKinley

"WILD" MOVIES $200: Kevin Kline was the gadget-loving 1860s government agent Artemus Gordon in this film based on a TV show

Wild Wild West

"WILD" MOVIES $600: An Elvis-obsessed Nicolas Cage takes up with Laura Dern in this 1990 David Lynch film

Wild at Heart

"RTH" $800: In 1913, this five-&-dime magnet built what was then the tallest building in the world

Woolworth

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: It's said S.S. Kresge closed all his stores for 1 hour the day this "Granddaddy of the Five & Dime" died

Woolworth

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: In 1962 this company opened Woolco, a U.S. & Canadian discount chain

Woolworth

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600: In 1909 this American opened his first "Three and Sixpence" store in England

Woolworth

BUSINESSMEN $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1913 he spent some of those nickels & dimes to build in NYC what was then the world's tallest building

Woolworth

NO LONGER AROUND $1000: In 1997 after nearly 120 years in business, this iconic 5 & dime chain closed up shop in the USA

Woolworth

TEXAS HOLD'EM HANDS $800: A hand consisting of a 5 & 10 is nicknamed this, like a famous chain of stores

Woolworth

FROM A TO E $1200: This sea mollusk, a source of mother-of-pearl, is sometimes called an ear shell

abalone

CLOTHING THROUGH THE AGES $200: A surcoat in medieval times was a loose tunic worn over this type of protection

armor

IT'S AN INTERJECTION: Letter/number lotto game!

bingo

GETTING SCIENTIFIC $400: A form of calcium carbonate makes up the bulk of this blackboard accessory

chalk

TRIVIA $400: The White Cliffs of Dover are composed of this substance

chalk

ORE In its purest form, hematite is about 70% this element

iron

Define ganja

marijuana

SYMBOLISM $1000: Asclepius' staff, a symbol of this profession, has a serpent curled around it

medicine

FROM NOAH WEBSTER'S 1828 DICTIONARY $800: "Quicksilver... extensively used as medicines. The preparation called calomel, is a most efficacious deobstruent"

mercury

HIGH WATER $1200: The Mississippi flood of 1927 helped spur the mass movement of African Americans north & west, the "Great" this

migration

HATS ALL, FOLKS! $100: Donald Duck could tell you it's the occupational hat seen here:

sailor

LESSER-KNOWN MUSEUMS $1200: Berlin's Currywurst Museum is devoted to a type of this street food popular on the Platz

sausage

HOT POTATO $1600: A mollusk is in the name of this dish, sliced potatoes layered with a creamy sauce

scalloped potatoes

LET'S GRAB SOME SEAFOOD $1000: This bivalve mollusk has 2 fan-shaped shells that can be used to serve dishes like coquilles St. Jacques

scallops

IT'S AN INTERJECTION: Fencing word used to acknowledge a rejoinder!

touche

IT'S AN INTERJECTION: Exciting 3-letter palindromic audio term!

wow

1 FOR THE PRICE OF 2 $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from atop a horse.) The cattle known as black baldies are Hereford bred with this Scottish variety

Aberdeen Angus

BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $300: This patriarch bought Machpelah in Canaan & he & his family, including his wife Sarah, are buried there

Abraham

BIBLICAL PEOPLE $800: Ephron the Hittite sold this patriarch the field where he buried his wife Sarah

Abraham

GENESIS $600: When his wife Sarah was barren, he used Hagar, her maid, as a surrogate mother

Abraham

HE ASKED GOD $800: "What wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless?"

Abraham

KING JAMES BIBLE $1600: After Sarah's death, he married Keturah, who bore him Zimran, Ishbak & others

Abraham

KNOW YOUR BIBLE $800: He told the King of Garar that Sarah was his sister, not his wife

Abraham

TENTS IN THE BIBLE $800: When asked "Where is Sarah thy wife?", he replied, "In the tent"

Abraham

THANKSGIVING $200: Sarah Hale's letters to this president convinced him to proclaim it a national holiday in 1863

Abraham Lincoln

DETECTIVE FICTION $1000: "A Taste for Death" is one of P.D. James' novels about this Scotland Yard detective and published poet

Adam Dalgliesh

BIBLICALLY INSPIRED LITERATURE $400: In Mark Twain's "Diaries of" this couple, she says he's really bad at naming creatures & wanted to call the dodo a wildcat

Adam and Eve

21st CENTURY GRAMMYS: This singer has won Album, Record & Song of the Year twice, the only artist to do so

Adele

BODIES OF WATER $100: In 700 B.C. Greeks first crossed this sea to colonize Samothrace

Aegean Sea

THERE IT IS $400: The Ubangi River: this continent

Africa

COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $800: At Cambridge, this "Lord" of poetry became a lifelong friend of John Cam Hobhouse, who later went to Greece with him

Byron

FASHION HISTORY $2000: This rakish lord of poetry, born in 1788, wore romantic open-neck shirts still popular with poets today

Byron

OPERA--IT'S GOOD FOR YOU! $800: The poetry of this English lord inspired a number of operas, including "Lara" & "The Bride of Abydos"

Byron

POETRY, THY NAME IS HIM $1600: "Don Juan's parents lived beside the river, a noble stream, and call'd the Guadalquivir"

Byron

POETS & POETRY $1200: In 1814, seeing a lady in mourning in a spangled dress, this lord wrote, "She walks in beauty, like the night"

Byron

POETS & POETRY $2000: His masterpiece poem "Don Juan" is divided into cantos

Byron

SHAKESPEARE $500 (Daily Double): They're the 3 daughters of King Lear

Cordelia, Goneril, & Regan

THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR DIDN'T GO TO... $400: This "tradition"-al 1971 film about Tevye & his daughters

Fiddler on the Roof

THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT $400: In 1964 Hal Prince produced this musical set in an east European shtetl; it ran for 3,242 performances

Fiddler on the Roof

THE THEATER $800: 2 recent books, "Wonder of Wonders" & "Tradition!", celebrate this show that turned 50 in 2014

Fiddler on the Roof

TO LIFE $800: A song from this musical begins, "To life, to life, L'chaim!"

Fiddler on the Roof

RHYME TIME $300: In boxing it could be Caesars Palace or Madison Square Garden

Fight site

HE DIRECTED THAT? $1000: One of Francis Ford Coppola's early films was this musical about a leprechaun & a stolen pot of gold

Finian's Rainbow

WRITERS' RHYME TIME $400: Actress-novelist Fannie's satchels

Flagg's bags

19th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This 3-named "Little Lord Fauntleroy" author also penned "A Little Princess"

Frances Hodgson Burnett

AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: She based Little Lord Fauntleroy's costume on one Oscar Wilde wore when he visited her

Frances Hodgson Burnett

CELEBRITY WINEMAKERS $400: This director is "The Godfather" of celebrity winemakers

Francis Ford Coppola

I WENT TO UCLA $1200: Here's an offer you can't refuse: name this co-writer & director of "The Godfather"

Francis Ford Coppola

I WORKED FOR ROGER CORMAN $800: Corman made this director an offer he couldn't refuse: to rewrite & edit the 1963 pic "Battle Beyond The Sun"

Francis Ford Coppola

SHOW BUSINESS FAMILIES: The car company that sponsored the radio show for which his father worked inspired the middle name of this filmmaker

Francis Ford Coppola

THE ACADEMY AWARDS $100: In 1973 Bob Fosse beat out this director with "Cabaret"; in 1975 Fosse lost to his "Godfather II"

Francis Ford Coppola

THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $200: In addition to the "Godfather" movies, he directed Michael Jackson's "Captain EO"

Francis Ford Coppola

THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $600: "Dementia 13", "Bram Stoker's Dracula", "The Cotton Club"

Francis Ford Coppola

THEY ALMOST STARRED IN... $200: When Winona Ryder bowed out of "The Godfather, Part III" his daughter Sofia replaced her

Francis Ford Coppola

WHO'S YOUR DADDY? $600: Oscar-winning screenwriter Sofia

Francis Ford Coppola

WINE $200: This director of "The Godfather" purchased the Napa Valley estate of Gustav Niebaum in 1975

Francis Ford Coppola

FATHERLY NICKNAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): This merchant known as the "Father of the Dime Store" opened his first store in 1879 after borrowing $300

Frank W. Woolworth

FOR WHAT IT'S "WORTH" $200: By 1912 this merchant's company owned more than 500 stores bearing his name across the U.S.

Frank Winfield Woolworth

LORD BYRON $400: In her introduction to this classic, Mary Shelley said it was Byron who suggested, "We will each write a ghost story"

Frankenstein

NATIONAL HISTORIC PARKS $400: Of Faneuil Hall, Bunker Hill or Fraunces Tavern, the one not part of Boston Park

Fraunces Tavern

THE REAL FIRST NAME $800: of Lord Byron

George

POETRY $1000: The 4 cantos of this Lord's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" were published over a period of 6 years

George Gordon Lord Byron

U.S. PRESIDENTS: His half-brother Lawrence served in the British navy under Admiral Edward Vernon

George Washington

MOUNTAINS $500: Riding the skylift to the top of Stone Mountain is one of the fun things to do in this Southern state

Georgia

STATE OF THE ART $400: Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial carving

Georgia

STATES BY STATE PARKS $400: Stone Mountain State Park

Georgia

U.S. MOUNTAINS $800: This state's tallest peak is 4,784-foot Brasstown Bald, not Stone Mountain

Georgia

U.S. STATES $800: This state has a Lake Sidney Lanier about 25 miles north of Stone Mountain

Georgia

The big 3 of ancient Greek gods were Zeus, Poseidon & this brother of theirs

Hades

5 IN A "ROW" $1600: Alumni of this school include Winston Churchill, Sir Robert Peel & Lord Byron

Harrow

IVY LEAGUE ALMA MATERS $200: John F. Kennedy & brother Ted

Harvard

THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED $2000: Gilbert Baker created the rainbow flag & this man rode in a parade with one shortly before his 1978 assassination

Harvey Milk

JULY $1000: On July 7, 1898 Pres. McKinley signed a joint resolution of Congress annexing this future state

Hawaii

MUSIC ODDS & ENDS $1200: In 1798, back from his time in London, this Austrian-born composer wrote the "Lord Nelson Mass"

Haydn

HOLLYWOOD BLVD. $100: In June 1999 the Metro Rail opened a station named for this world-famous intersection

Hollywood & Vine

NEW HOLLYWOOD $400: At this famed intersection, the Brown Derby was succeeded by hip-hop hot spots like Basque

Hollywood & Vine

A STUDY IN SCARLETT JOHANSSON $1200: In 1997 Macaulay Culkin was out of the third entry in this film series, but Scarlett was in, as Molly

Home Alone

WHERE THE "H" ARE WE? $200: Victoria Peak, Kai Tak Airport, Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel

Hong Kong

"HOO" $100: Cheer "for Hollywood"

Hooray

AMERICAN SONGS $2000: In this 1938 song the title line is followed by "Where you're terrific if you're even good"

Hooray for Hollywood

POT LUCK $500: This 44 carat blue diamond was presented to the Smithsonian in 1958 by Harry Winston

Hope Diamond

NURSERY RHYME TIME $1000: Little Jack's funeralgoers

Horner's mourners

I GOT YOUR BOOK $400: Using the pen name Robert Markham, Kingsley Amis wrote the first James Bond story not penned by this man

Ian Fleming

FIRST LADIES $500 (Daily Double): The widow Sarah Polk was linked for a while in the press to this bachelor president

James Buchanan

SECRETARIES OF STATE $800: The last Secretary of State to become president, he served under Polk & Taylor before being elected in 1856

James Buchanan

THE CABINET $800: The last Secretary of State to be president, this James served under another James--Polk

James Buchanan

PRESIDENTS $1000: He lingered for 2 mos. after being shot & might have survived had doctors located a bullet in his back

James Garfield

PRESIDENTS $400: While Wm. H. Harrison served shortest term, this assassinated president served the 2nd-shortest, 6 1/2 months

James Garfield

FICTIONAL LANDS $600: Shangri-La

James Hilton

FROM THE VAULTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.) This is part of the 1848 gold shipment shown to this president; he gave a report to Congress that kicked the Gold Rush into gear

James K. Polk

GOT "LK" $600: This president snagged Oregon for the United States

James K. Polk

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $1,000 (Daily Double): Originally, his family name was Pollok

James K. Polk

PRESIDENTS $1000: The "54º40' or Fight" fever over Oregon helped elect this president, the only one ever to be speaker of the U.S. House

James K. Polk

PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $300: This 11th president's last words, "I love you, Sarah", were to his wife

James K. Polk

PRESIDENTS AT REST $2000: On the Capitol grounds in Nashville

James K. Polk

STATE CAPITOLS $1200: On the grounds of the state capitol in Nashville, you'll find the tomb of this "Dark Horse" president & his wife

James K. Polk

U.S. PRESIDENTS $1200: He was named for his maternal grandfather James Knox, a Revolutionary War captain

James K. Polk

U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: In 1845 this "dark horse" became the first man inaugurated as president under age 50 -- he was 49

James K. Polk

19TH C. AMERICANS $1000: He was president when the U.S. declared war on Mexico & some called it his war

James Knox Polk

PRESIDENTS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Knox

James Knox Polk

PRESIDENTS' MONOGRAMS $500: JKP

James Knox Polk

U.S. PRESIDENTS $800 (Daily Double): This president's grandfather, James Knox, was a captain in the American Revolution

James Knox Polk

U.S. PRESIDENTS: On his mother's side, he was a descendant of Scottish Protestant reformer John Knox

James Knox Polk

SHIPS $1600: The flagship of Oliver Hazard Perry was named for this captain who said, "Don't give up the ship"

James Lawrence

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW TREASURES $1000: "I want you for U.S. Army" reads an ungrammatical WWI version of this artist's poster; bet it's worth a fortune

James Montgomery Flagg

OF REPRESENTATIVES $1600: The only Speaker of the House to become president was this Tennessee representative & 11th president

James Polk

ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: The 2012 discovery of a girl's skull at this Virginia colony was the first evidence of cannibalism in the British colonies

Jamestown

WOMEN WRITERS $400: John Murray, Lord Byron's publisher, also put out this woman's "Emma" & "Mansfield Park"

Jane Austen

THE OSCARS: Brother & sister who were both nominated for 1969 Oscars: he for a screenplay, she for Best Actress; they didn't win

Jane Fonda & Peter Fonda

LIKE A LAMB $1000: You'd be like this "Lady" if you were Lord Byron's lover in 1812

Lady Caroline Lamb

LITERARY "LADY"s $1000: Her 1st novel, "Glenarvon", fictionalized her notorious romance with Lord Byron

Lady Caroline Lamb

BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $1000: Artist George Romney thought this beautiful lady was quite an eyeful; so did Lord Nelson

Lady Hamilton

THE MONTANAS, JOE & HELENA $400: She's the lady seen here atop the state capitol in Helena, Montana

Lady Liberty

EUROPEAN LAKES & RIVERS $500: The castle of Chillon on this lake's eastern shore was made famous in a Lord Byron poem

Lake Geneva

LAKES & RIVERS $1600: Lord Byron set a poem at the Castle of Chillon along the shores of this European lake

Lake Geneva

POETS ON POETS: Coleridge said this poet will "not be remembered at all, except as a wicked lord who... pretended to be ten times more wicked than he was"

Lord Byron

SINGERS "R" US $100: This former lead singer of the Commodores wrote Kenny Rogers' 1980 hit "Lady"

Lionel Richie

POPULAR POETS $1600: Once popular, Thomas Moore is remembered for burning the memoirs of this famed poet who died in Greece

Lord Byron

REMEMBER THE 1700s? $600: In 1798 this poet was given a new title he inherited from his great-uncle

Lord Byron

BONE UP ON YOUR BONAPARTE $400: The admiral who defeated Napoleon's navy in 1798's Battle of the Nile

Lord Nelson

FULL NELSON $600: He was a captain by 1779, the year he turned 21

Lord Nelson

GREAT BRITS $400: He joined the British navy at age 12 & died at the Battle of Trafalgar 35 years later

Lord Nelson

HISTORIC AMOURS $600: Lady Hamilton was the lover of this British admiral honored in Trafalgar Square

Lord Nelson

KISS-AND-TELL $600: He reportedly said, "Kiss me, Hardy" before succumbing to his wounds in 1805

Lord Nelson

GEOGRAPHY 101 $400: U.S. Hwy 101 once stretched from Washington to Mexico; now its southern end is in this city's Boyle Heights area

Los Angeles

"LOST" & "FOUND" $600: Hugh Conway finds inner peace in the Himalayas in this James Hilton work

Lost Horizon

BUILDING CHARACTER $1,000 (Daily Double): In this novel, Hugh Conway finds out he's been recruited to replace a very old High Lama

Lost Horizon

MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Jack Cassidy & Carol Lawrence appeared in "Shangri-La", a 1956 musical based on this famous novel

Lost Horizon

"IN" THE MOVIES $1600: Bill Murray hangs out with Scarlett Johansson in Tokyo in this 2003 treat

Lost in Translation

AUNTIQUITY $500: As Abraham's wife, the biblical Sarah was the aunt of this man who settled in Sodom

Lot

LITERARY EPONYMS $2000: Casanova, Romeo & Don Juan are all synonyms for this eponymous seducer from a 1703 play

Lothario

MARVEL $1000: Giving him a Muscle Beach Lifetime Achievement Award, Stan Lee said this actor was "born to be the Hulk"

Lou Ferrigno

DONALD DUCK $800: Introduced on TV in 1961, this uncle of Donald was a professor who spoke with a European accent

Ludwig Von Drake

THE BRETHREN $1200: Acting brothers from Texas whose collective credits include "Old School" & "Shanghai Noon"

Luke & Owen Wilson

LITERARY LANDMARKS $1200: Now a hotel, Seaham Hall is the manor where this licentious lord married Annabella Milbanke in 1815

Lord Byron

LITERARY RELATIVES $400: The adventures of his grandfather "Foul-Weather Jack" inspired parts of "Don Juan"

Lord Byron

LITERARY VENICE $400: This libidinous lord's Venetian exploits included an 1818 swim from the Lido "right to the end of the Grand Canal"

Lord Byron

MUSIC & LITERATURE $600: Donizetti wrote an opera based on this British lord's poem "Parisina"

Lord Byron

POET-POURRI $1000: In 1809 he took his seat in the House of Lords & began 2 years of travel in Portugal, Spain & Greece

Lord Byron

MOUNTAINS $400: It's the only mountain in North America whose height exceeds 20,000 feet

Mt. McKinley / Denali

WASHINGTON STATE $400: Largest American glaciers outside Alaska are found on this highest Washington peak

Mt. Rainier

THE BLUES $1,000 (Daily Double): McKinley Morganfield played in a creek as a child & was given this nickname

Muddy Waters

DOUBLE LETTERS $2000: This city in eastern Oklahoma named for a tribe of the Creek nation was once the capital of the Indian territory

Muskogee

NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1200: Merle Haggard sang, "I'm proud to be an Okie from" this place

Muskogee

THE COUNTY LINE $200: Oklahoma is rich in double-E counties like Cherokee, Pawnee & this one from a Merle Haggard title

Muskogee

AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER $1600: George Harrison song that says, "I really want to see you" & is the titled poet who was mad, bad & dangerous to know

My Sweet Lord Byron

SKYSCRAPERS BY CITY $700 (Daily Double): James K. Polk State Office Building

Nashville

U.S. PRESIDENTS $4,400 (Daily Double): In 1893 James K. Polk's tomb was moved from his estate to the state capitol grounds in this city

Nashville

FAMOUS COUPLES $300: Dr. Jonas Salk's wife, Francoise Gilot, was once the companion of this late, great modern artist

Pablo Picasso

COLD PLAY $1600: "Go where the snow never melts away" is from the song "Lost Horizon" in the musical named for this place

Shangri-La

FICTIONAL LOCALES: Featured in a 1933 novel, it may have been inspired by the 1920s Tibetan travel writings of explorer Joseph Rock

Shangri-La

FICTIONAL PLACES $800: This name refers to both a lamasery & the valley in Tibet that it overlooks

Shangri-La

HOTELS $1000: An Asia-based hotel chain is named for this idyllic land from "Lost Horizon"

Shangri-La

IN RESIDENCE $1000: The presidential retreat today known as Camp David was first named this by FDR after a James Hilton novel

Shangri-La

LITERARY QUOTES $800: In "Lost Horizon", "Its forsaken courts and pale pavilions shimmered in repose"

Shangri-La

UTOPIAS $200: In a James Hilton novel, this mountain valley is ruled by the High Lama

Shangri-La

(Alex: We have military devices that have been anagrammed in...) WHIRLED OF WARCRAFT $1600: I M4 this vehicle, named for a 19th century guy: SMARTEN ANKH

Sherman tank

SCULPTURE $400: In 1915 Gutzon Borglum designed a memorial to the Confederacy on this Georgia mountain

Stone Mountain

THE SOUTH $1000: Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee & "Stonewall" Jackson are depicted on horseback on this GA. monument

Stone Mountain

WE "ONE" YOU $1200: Robert E. Lee rides for all time on this giant sculpture outside of Atlanta

Stone Mountain

SCULPTURE: This, the largest sculpture in the United States, is not located in South Dakota

Stone Mountain (in Georgia)

MULTIPLE CHOICE $500: Of the 3 figures carved on Georgia's Stone Mountain, the 1 killed during the Civil War

Stonewall Jackson

HEIFETZ $600: One of Heifetz' prized violins was made by this great Cremonese in 1731

Stradivarius

ART CLASS $800: It's believed that Vermeer used this image-making device to help transfer images to canvas

a camera obscura

PAINTERS & PAINTINGS $2000: Some say that to achieve the look of his paintings, Vermeer must have used this device, Latin for "dark chamber"

a camera obscura

PHOTOGRAPHY $800: This box whose name is Latin for "dark chamber" was used to produce large images before photography

a camera obscura

SUN $500: Aristotle made a simple type of this "camera" using a hole in a screen to create a simply-viewed image of the sun

a camera obscura

MULTIPLE ROLES, SAME FILM $800: Frank Morgan had 5 roles in this 1939 classic, including Professor Marvel, the carriage driver & the title role

The Wizard of Oz

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Good Housekeeping Institute in New York.) At "Goodhousekeeping" they use this cylinder that lets moms and dads know if a toy presents this type of hazard; at home, a toilet paper roll works well, too

a choking hazard

ARCHAEOLOGY $400: The Almendres Cromlech in Portugal is an ancient megalithic complex arranged in this shape, just like Stonehenge

a circle

BOTTOM FEEDERS $400: The long-necked species of this bivalve is also known as the steamer

a clam

DUCKS $600: Scoters, or sea coots, love to feed on mollusks, like the razor type of this

a clam

MARINE BIOLOGY $400: You might be "As happy as" this mollusk that has a heart but no brain

a clam

MONEY SLANG $2,200 (Daily Double): The shell of this mollusk is composed chiefly of calcium carbonate

a clam

LOUD NOISES $2000: The first 4 letters of this loud word spell the name of a bivalve mollusk

a clamor

CRAIGS LIST $400: Stretching back to the Middle Ages, the Craigs of Aberdeenshire, Scotland are one of these family groups

a clan

MAN ON BOARD $800: If Lionel Richie commanded a group of ships, he'd be one of these (musically, he already was)

a commodore

"CROSS"WORDS $1200: In 1139 the church banned this weapon with a riflelike stock, saying it was "hateful to God" & unfit for Christians

a crossbow

"CROSS"WORDS $1600: Medically speaking, it's the testing of the compatibility of the blood of a donor & recipient

a crossmatch

POLITICAL CONVENTIONS $1000: At the 1844 Democratic convention, James Polk became this type of unexpected "equine" nominee

a dark horse

POLITICAL LINGO $200: 2-word term for a long-shot candidate for nomination, like James Polk in 1844

a dark horse

MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $1200: Of one of these practitioners, Twain quipped he had the "surgical look of a man who could endure pain in others"

a dentist

THAT'S HISTORY, KIDS! $200: April 14, 1828: Noah Webster publishes this type of book

a dictionary

ANCIENT TIMES $1600: Nebuchadnezzar's many building projects included the repair of this type of stepped tower devoted to the god Marduk

a ziggurat

I KNOW UR $4,000 (Daily Double): Ur is dominated by one of these stepped, pyramidal temple towers dating from the 3rd millennium B.C.

a ziggurat

WORDPLAY-POURRI $1000: "Z" word on the street: Let's play Pyramid--it's a Babylonian temple

a ziggurat

FROM NOAH WEBSTER'S 1828 DICTIONARY $2000: "The doctrine, science, or art of sailing in the air, by means of a balloon"

aeronautics

KENYA FEEL THE LOVE $200: Traditionally, the nomadic Masai of Kenya live almost entirely on their herds of these

cattle

SCOTLAND $400: Famous Scottish breeds of these include the Galloway, the Ayrshire, & the Aberdeen-Angus

cattle

JANUARY $400: Many Hindus celebrate a January harvest festival called Makar Sankranti by bathing in this river

the Ganges

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WATER $400: When ailing, Hindus bathe in this, India's most sacred river; and once dead, their ashes are scattered therein

the Ganges

RELIGIOUS PLACES $2000: The city of Varanasi, which devout Hindus believe has always existed, is on this river

the Ganges

HODGEPODGE $200: The Masai subspecies of this mammal can reach 19 feet tall

the Giraffe

ASIAN $600: Covering part of northern China is this desert of which Marco Polo said, "It would take a year to go from end to end"

the Gobi Desert

FACTS & FIGURES $1000: It extends for more than 1,300 miles & is home to over 1,500 species of fish & 3,000 types of mollusks

the Great Barrier Reef

THE DISASTER ARTISTS $400: The painter Peter Jackson captures this 1666 conflagration

the Great Fire of London

EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: This ruling family of Monaco was deposed during the French Revolution, but regained the throne in 1814

the Grimaldis

HISTORIC "G''s $400: This prominent Monegasque family is descended from wealthy Genoese merchants & politicians

the Grimaldis

WELCOME TO MONACO $2000: In 1297 this family began its long reign over Monaco

the Grimaldis

ANCIENT BABYLON $1200: An Oxford researcher says this terraced marvel that helped make Babylon famous was actually in Assyria

the Hanging Gardens

ZIGGURATS $1200: Ziggurats were often landscaped with trees & shrubs like this ancient wonder of Babylon

the Hanging Gardens

AT THE SMITHSONIAN $800: Weighing in at 45.52 karats, it was donated to the Smithsonian by Harry Winston in 1958

the Hope Diamond

GEMS & JEWELRY $200: On Nov. 10, 1958 New York City jeweler Harry Winston donated this great blue stone to the Smithsonian

the Hope Diamond

YOU'VE GOT MAIL $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1958 Harry Winston mailed this priceless treasure to the Smithsonian in a brown paper parcel

the Hope Diamond

BYRON $400: In 1809, at the age of 21, Byron took his seat in this parliamentary body

the House of Lords

"IND" THE KNOW $600: Punjab means "land of 5 rivers", & all 5 of the rivers eventually flow into this one

the Indus

ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $800: Around 3000 B.C. the Harappan civilization around this river in what's now Pakistan began cultivating cotton

the Indus

ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: Cities arose c. 2500 B.C. at sites now in Pakistan, in this river valley

the Indus

ANCIENT PERSIA $2000: At its greatest extent, the Persian Empire stretched from Cyrenaica in Libya to this longest river in Pakistan

the Indus

ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: Mohenjo-daro & Harappa were the twin capitals that flourished in this river valley

the Indus

ASIAN RIVERS $1600: This river's most notable tributaries, including the Ravi & Sutlej, are located in the Punjab plain

the Indus

LAKES & RIVERS $800: The Ravi, as in Shankar, is a major tributary of this river that winds from Tibet to Pakistan

the Indus

MANY RIVERS TO CROSS $600: One of the cradles of civilization, the ancient city of Mohenjo-daro lies along this river in Pakistan

the Indus

THE HIMALAYAS $2000: This river, Pakistan's longest, rises in Tibet & then flows through the Himalayas on its way to the sea

the Indus

WORLD HISTORY $1600: Around 2500 B.C. the Harappan Civilization sprung up around this river in Pakistan & nothwestern India

the Indus

"IN" PLACES $200: Civilization in the valley of this Pakistani river dates back about 4500 years

the Indus River

UNCHARTED $2000: In the 500s B.C. Scylax sailed the length of this longest river of Pakistan to the Arabian Sea and beyond

the Indus River

WORLD PLACE NAMES $1600: As you might guess, India derives its name from this river

the Indus River

B.C. $1600: Around 3000 B.C. people moving east from Baluchistan began settling in this south Asian river's valley

the Indus River Valley

ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: The beginning of this metallic age varied geographically, with China being a latecomer in around 600 B.C.

the Iron Age

ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: Robert Koldewey began excavating this 8th gate of Babylon; it was reconstructed at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin

the Ishtar Gate

THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $400: Ellen DeGeneres was proud to be honored in this center "where so many space shuttles have been launched"

the Kennedy Center

PLANET OF THE CAPES $400: This government facility abbreviated KSC is found on Cape Canaveral in Florida

the Kennedy Space Center

BIOGRAPHIES $2,500 (Daily Double): Horowitz & Collier wrote the family bios "The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty" & them: "An American Drama"

the Kennedy's

HIS LAST NFL TEAM $600: Namath became "Hollywood & Vine Joe" in finishing his career with this team that has since moved

the Los Angeles Rams

PUT IT THERE $400: The Winged Victory of Samothrace: This museum, non?

the Louvre

ARCHAEOLOGY $800: In 2012 scientists in Guatemala unearthed the tomb of Lady K'abel, who ruled the Snake Dynasty of this civilization

the Maya

MEANWHILE... $1600: The Sumerians settled the city of Ur in the 3000s B.C., the beginning of this civilization's "long count" calendar

the Maya

CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: This famous group was founded in 1847, a few weeks after its members reached Utah

the Mormon Tabernacle Choir

USING YOUR JEOP-PS $600: (Sarah's voice reads the clue in a monotone fashion) You have arrived at 50 West North Temple St. in Salt Lake City, home to this 3-word singing group

the Mormon Tabernacle Choir

SESAME STREET $600: The "sponsors" of Sesame Street

these letters of the alphabet & these numbers

"Z" IS FOR... $2000: This Babylonian temple tower

a ziggurat

"Z" STUFF $1600: The Sumerians like this type of rectangular temple

a ziggurat

ORE Magnetite is also called this "stone" & was used as a primitive compass

lodestone

GEOGRPAPHIC FEATURES $600: A raised area of flat land; one covers much of Tibet

plateau

THE TWO-THOUSAND YEAR OLD MAN $1000: (Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks present the clue.) "Attila the Hun--was he really as rotten as they say?" "Rottener. You never addressed him by his 3-word nickname. You always said, 'Hey, you're looking good today', 'Hey', stuff like that. But you never called him by his 3-word nickname. That's the clue--3-word nickname"

"Scourge of God"

THE MARCH KING $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1987 the U.S. flagged this Sousa tune as its official march

"Stars and Stripes Forever"

BROADWAY LYRICS $400: This song from "Fiddler on the Roof" begins, "Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the little boy at play?"

"Sunrise, Sunset"

WEDDING SONGS $800: Perfect for a dance with a parent is this show tune that begins, "Is this the little girl I carried"

"Sunrise, Sunset"

TOP OF THE CHARTS, MA! $1200: Soloists on this 1985 song include Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan & Cyndi Lauper

"We Are the World"

THE ACADEMY AWARDS: As of 2006, 1 of only 3 women to be nominated for best director, for 1976, 1993 & 2003

(1 of) Lina Wertmuller, Jane Campion, Sophia Coppola

THE TWO-THOUSAND YEAR OLD MAN $600: (Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks present the clue.) "You have worked with some of our great presidents." "Mm-hmm." "Who were they?" "Go back to the first. Washington. He used to wear his wig cockeye. I straightened him out. I straightened out his wooden teeth. But Wilson--Woodrow Wilson took my advice. I said, 'Woody, you're making too many points in this declaration. How many points do you really need?'"

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THE 1960s $600: Ironically, it was the year of the "Summer of Love" & the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War

1967

THE SWINGIN' '60s $800: The Summer of Love was the summer of this year in which "Sgt. Pepper's" was released

1967

WHAT YEAR WAS THAT? $800: The Constitution gets a 25th Amendment, the Six-Day War, "The Summer of Love"

1967

A YEAR ENDING IN 8 $400: Martin Luther King & Robert Kennedy are assassinated

1968

BOOK LEARNIN' $200: Winston Smith lives in Oceania in this George Orwell work

1984

BRITISH LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): Winston Smith is arrested by the Thought Police in this 1949 novel

1984

LITERARY VILLAINS $1200: Pretending to be an ally of Winston Smith in this novel, O'Brien is a party leader who's been watching Winston for years

1984

CHILDREN'S LIT $800: Sara Crewe is the little title character of this classic by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Little Princess

CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: The title of this Frances Hodgson Burnett book refers to Sara Crewe, who goes from privileged to pauper

A Little Princess (The Little Princess accepted)

TAKE THE "A" TRAIN $1,000 (Daily Double): Scotrail's high speed Turbostar trains run on routes from Edinburgh to Glasgow & to this city

Aberdeen

THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARYLAND $200 (Daily Double): This U.S. Army "Proving Ground" for weapons testing occupies over 70,000 acres in Harford County

Aberdeen

ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $2000: Ellison Onizuka

Air Force

POP GOES THE MUSICAL $1,000 (Daily Double): (Before the clue is given, Toni Award-nominated actress Carolee Carmello from the Broadway play Mamma Mia! helps with the clue.) "Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh / You can dance / You can jive / Having the time of your life / Ooh-ooh-ooh, see that girl / Watch that scene / Dig in the dancing queen /" "Dancing Queen" is one of many hit songs in "Mamma Mia!" that were originally made famous by this Swedish group

ABBA

ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $600: "The Right Stuff" guy Chuck Yeager after 1947

Air Force

"A" IN GEOGRAPHY $500: In the 1970s this Scottish fishing port became the center of the North Sea oil industry

Aberdeen

"EEN" $2000: Scotland's third-largest city, it's known as the oil capital of Europe

Aberdeen

EUROPEAN CITIES $2000: Known as the "Granite City", its name is Scots for "At the Mouth of the Dee", the river on which it lies

Aberdeen

SCOTLAND $500: Scotland's "Granite City"; its name means "mouth of the Dee" River, which is where it's located

Aberdeen

SOME MEAN RHYMES $2000: This seaport of 200,000 is the commercial center of northeast Scotland

Aberdeen

NURSERY RHYMES $100: Jack Horner sat in his corner & ate a pie associated with this holiday

Christmas

ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $1,000 (Daily Double): Cold War figure Francis Gary Powers

Air Force

ACTORS & ACTRESSES $300: He played Michael Corleone in all 3 of Francis Ford Coppola's "Godfather" films

Al Pacino

TOP O' THE STATE $200: Mount McKinley

Alaska

U.S. HIGHS & LOWS $200: This state has the highest point in the U.S., 20,320 feet

Alaska (Mt. McKinley)

IT'S A BIG WORLD $100: The USA's highest mountain is found in this state, the USA's largest

Alaska (Mt. McKinley/Denali)

ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: Born Alec de Cuffe, he was illegitimate & has never learned his father's identity

Alec Guinness

ANAGRAMS $800 (Daily Double): This "Star Wars" star has "genuine class"

Alec Guinness

BORN 100 YEARS AGO $2000: The force was with this future thespian when he was born in London in April 1914

Alec Guinness

CLASSIC CINEMA $800: In "Kind Hearts & Coronets", he played 8 roles, including Lady Agatha

Alec Guinness

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA $1600: Lawrence is sent to help Prince Faisal, played by this future "Star Wars" actor

Alec Guinness

MULTIPLE ROLES, SAME ACTOR $2000: This Brit played 8 victims in "Kind Hearts and Coronets"

Alec Guinness

MULTIPLE ROLES, SAME FILM $1200: 28 years before Obi-Wan Kenobi, he played 8 members of a family in 1949's "Kind Hearts and Coronets"

Alec Guinness

SHOW BIZ BOOKS $200: "Dear Alec" is a tribute to this actor at 75

Alec Guinness

CREATIVE WRITERS $800: Anthony Horowitz created this teen spy found in books like "Snakehead"

Alex Rider

ANCIENT HISTORY $1500: The Seleucid Kingdom which once stretched from Thrace to India was a fragment of his empire

Alexander the Great

BRITISH AUTHORS $400: Byron was Lord Byron from age 10; this poet had to wait until his 70s, in 1884

Alfred Lord Tennyson

LITERATURE $300: "For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever", this "Lord" of poetry babbled in "The Brook"

Alfred Lord Tennyson

LITERATURE $800: In a poem dedicated to this lord, Longfellow wrote, "Poet! I come to touch thy lance with mine"

Alfred Lord Tennyson

POETS & POETRY $300: This lord's 1879 poem "The Defence of Lucknow" concerns the Sepoy Rebellion

Alfred Lord Tennyson

POETS & POETRY $500: This lord's 1850 elegy "In Memoriam" was about his close friend Arthur Henry Hallam

Alfred Lord Tennyson

POETS: Made a baron in the early 1880s, he was the first Englishman elevated to that rank for literary work alone

Alfred Lord Tennyson

WRITERS $400: Queen Victoria made this "Lord"ly poet the Baron of Aldworth and Farringford

Alfred Lord Tennyson

AUTHORS & THEIR SLEUTHS $2,000 (Daily Double): Bishop Blackie Ryan

Andrew Greeley

A POLK $400: Because of his devotion & support to this former president, James K. Polk was nicknamed "Young Hickory"

Andrew Jackson

AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $300: He continued to support the political career of protege James "Young Hickory" Polk

Andrew Jackson

THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES $600: On this Maryland site, during the bloodiest Civil War battle, Commissary Sgt. William McKinley served coffee

Antietam

GREEK MYTHOLOGY $400: In a battle between them, Ares is defeated by this Greek goddess of war, his female counterpart

Athena

MYTHELLANEOUS $800: This goddess after whom a major city in Greece is named sprang from the head of Zeus

Athena

MYTHOLOGY $400: The Palladium was a divine statue that represented this goddess, sometimes called Pallas

Athena

SHE'S A GODDESS! $400: The original statue of her in the Parthenon was lost by 400 A.D.

Athena

THE OLYMPIAN GODS $1000: This Greek wisdom goddess was born full grown from Zeus' head because he'd swallowed his pregnant first wife

Athena

THE U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads in front of a set of wooden doors at West Point, NY.) The United States Military Academy's coat of arms depicts the helmet of this Greek goddess of wisdom & warfare

Athena

DICKENS TITLE LETTER DROP $800: Bah! Humbug! It's Rob Reiner's dad on December 25

Christmas Carl

CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: Richard Horowitz, a timpanist with the Met, makes these sticks that a conductor uses

Batons

"WILD" MOVIES $1000: Hushpuppy deals with some prehistoric creatures called aurochs in this 2012 drama set in the delta

Beasts of the Southern Wild

THOSE DARN FRANCISCANS $800: 13th c. Italians in Mongol lands included Marco Polo & John of Monte Corvino, first archbishop of this capital

Beijing

"B" SHARP $1200: This hero rode Pegasus

Bellerophon

"B" SHARP $600: This hero rode Pegasus

Bellerophon

"BELL"s $800: With the aid of the winged horse Pegasus, this mythical Corinthian hero slew the Chimera

Bellerophon

MAKE NO MYTHTAKE $2000: He fell off Pegasus to his death

Bellerophon

MYTHOLOGY $1000: He tamed the winged horse Pegasus with a bridle given to him by Athena

Bellerophon

WHO PLAYED 'EM? $1200: 2004: Starsky & Hutch

Ben Stiller & Owen Wilson

SWEET LI'L FILMS $800: Owen Wilson co-wrote the quirky "Rushmore", starring this "Ghostbuster" as Mr. Blume

Bill Murray

EASY AS "PIE" $100: Little Jack Horner stuck his thumb in this & pulled out a plum

Christmas pie

CLUB ME! $200: The Cleopatra's Barge nightclub has a swaying dance floor that really rocks this Roman-themed Vegas casino

Caesar's Palace

HERE'S THE ADDRESS $4,000 (Daily Double): 3570 Las Vegas Blvd. South: We who are about to gamble salute you

Caesar's Palace

LAS VEGAS $200: Appropriately, you'll find "The Appian Way" at this hotel casino on The Strip

Caesar's Palace

THE BUSINESS OF PLEASURE $600: Gary Loveman is prez of Harrah's Entertainment, which runs this Roman-themed Vegas casino & many others

Caesar's Palace

TRAVEL U.S.A. $400: Caligula would love the Caligula Suite in the Emperors Complex of this Las Vegas hotel

Caesar's Palace

A PRIEST, AN ELEPHANT & EVEL KNIEVEL... $800: On New Year's Eve in 1967 Evel jumped 151 feet over the fountains at this Las Vegas casino; never mind the landing...

Caesars Palace

AT THE VEGAS HOTEL $600: Cleopatra's Barge, the Colosseum

Caesars Palace

CELEBRATING CHER $400: From 2008 to 2011 Cher had a residency at this Las Vegas hotel for her "Cher at the Colosseum" show

Caesars Palace

DINING OUT $400: The Bacchanal in this Las Vegas hotel features food fit for an emperor

Caesars Palace

LAS VEGAS $400: When visiting the forum shops at this hotel look for the talking statues of Roman gods

Caesars Palace

PLACES TO STAY IN VEGAS $200: This casino that naturally contains the Appian Way shops

Caesars Palace

SHOPPING U.S.A. $300: This Las Vegas hotel-casino is known for its Appian Way plaza shops as well as its Forum shops

Caesars Palace

U.S. BUILDINGS $200: Towers in this Las Vegas casino include Octavius & Forum

Caesars Palace

VEGAS CASINO RESTAURANTS $200: Neros, Empress Court

Caesars Palace

VEGAS CASINOS $400: Hail, yes! There's a 4,100-seat Colosseum to showcase acts like Bette Midler & Cher at this casino

Caesars Palace

VIVA LAS VEGAS $100: New in 1996, Caesars Magical Empire is a subterranean dining & magic experience of this famed hotel

Caesars Palace

VIVA LAS VEGAS $300: Its 10 "Fantasy Suites" feature Roman, Egyptian or Pompeian decors

Caesars Palace

LORD BYRON $400: In a poetic drama, this biblical brother becomes a willing pupil of Lucifer

Cain

THREE'S A CROWD $400: The Nina, Pinta & Santa Maria were under his command

Christopher Columbus

FORMULA 1 $1600: The chemical formula of this compound with a 2-word name is CaCO3

Calcium Carbonate

SCIENCE $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew displays a chemical formula on the monitor.) When acetic acid in vinegar reacts with CaCO3, this compound in the eggshell, bubbles of CO2 form in the vinegar & dissolve the shell, leaving just the membrane

Calcium Carbonate

IN CAESAR'S PALACE $1000: In Julius Caesar's private chamber you might find this woman, the last of his 3 Roman wives

Calpurnia

MOVIE MUSIC $400: Last name of Carmine, who provided music for all 3 "Godfather" films--he may have had an in with the director

Carmine Coppola

HEIFETZ $200: When Jascha debuted in this NYC hall in 1917, its steel-making benefactor was still alive

Carnegie Hall

MUSIC TRIVIA $300: Heifetz, Horowitz & Paderewski all made their U.S. debuts in this concert hall

Carnegie Hall

PIANISTS $200: Vladimir Horowitz made his U.S. debut in 1928 at this NYC auditorium

Carnegie Hall

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: Brothers Andrew & Richard & Scottish industrialist Andrew founded what became this Pittsburgh school

Carnegie-Mellon

POP $800: Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, she won the 4th season of "American Idol" in 2005

Carrie Underwood

4-LETTER FILMS $800: This 2006 film features the voices of Owen Wilson & Bonnie Hunt

Cars

"C"OUNTRIES $1000: Cameroon, Congo & this country all border the Central African Republic

Chad

MULTIPLE ROLES, SAME FILM $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1940's "The Great Dictator", this comedian played a Jewish barber & a takeoff of Hitler named Adenoid Hynkel

Charlie Chaplin

LITERATURE $800: They each had their first published novels in 1847: "Jane Eyre" & "Wuthering Heights"

Charlotte & Emily Bronte

THE TWO-THOUSAND YEAR OLD MAN $800: (Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks present the clue.) "What was your most annoying job?" "Well, I was a scrivener for this poet who couldn't spell. The first line of his prologue, he spells 'April' like this-A-P-R-I-L-L-E. That's--that's how he spelled 'April'"

Chaucer

REAL NAMES ON THE MARQUEE $600: Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPiere & Nicolas Coppola in "Moonstruck"

Cher & Nicolas Cage

19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: Name of the ship that James Lawrence urged his men, "Don't give up", it was also paired in a railroad with Ohio

Chesapeake

WORLD CULTURES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, MA.) Many cultures have valued tiny feet, but none as much as this country, the source of the shoe here; already tiny, they sometimes had lifts in back to raise the heel so the foot was even tinier

China

BALLET $800: I'da love to have seen Ida Rubinstein play this queen swathed like a mummy who was then unwrapped

Cleopatra

TV COMEDY ADJECTIVES $600: Here's a hint: it was based on a movie & starred Rachel Blanchard as Cher Horowitz, "____"

Clueless

HORSES: This breed was named for an area around Scotland's most important river

Clydesdale

CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $400: (Hi, I'm Harry Shearer.) John Kennedy Toole committed suicide, unable to find a publisher for this satiric novel that later won a Pulitzer Prize

Confederacy of Dunces

THIS & THAT $400: The chief northern tributary of this river is the Ubangi

Congo

REMEMBER APRIL $200: Donald Duck's nephews are Huey, Dewey & Louie; her nieces are April, May & June

Daisy Duck

U.S. CITIES $800: This large Texas city was named for James K. Polk's vice president

Dallas

MUSICAL ARCHITECTURE $500 (Daily Double): In "Royal Wedding" Fred Astaire gives a textbook demonstration of this, the title of a 1986 Lionel Richie hit

Dancing on the Ceiling

AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On Aug. 2, 1826 at Boston's Faneuil Hall, this great orator delivered a eulogy on Jefferson & Adams

Daniel Webster

PEOPLE IN POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): Longfellow referred to him as the "Tuscan that wanderest through the realms of gloom"

Dante

"DAVID"s $400: Consumers can "fight back" with him

David Horowitz

FAMOUS KNIGHTS $1000: These 2 knights were part of "A Passage to India"; one as director, one in a leading role

David Lean & Alec Guinness

THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $1600: Longtime employee Biff Henderson showed up with headset to help this late night host accept his trophy in 2017

David Letterman

SPORTS 2003 $1000: 1967 had the Summer of this; 2003 had the Summer of this golfer who was at the top of the money list in Aug.

Davis Love III

WORLD CULTURES $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, MA.) With this belief in the return to earth of the departed, the ofrenda, or altar, that honors deceased loved ones & welcomes them back for a visit is part of the Mesoamerican influence on this autumn day celebrated in Mexico

Day of the Dead

THREE'S A CROWD $800: In cartoons, his nephews are Huey, Dewey & Louie

Donald Duck

LANDMARKS $1000: The only theater in Washington's Kennedy Center which is named for a president is named for this one

Eisenhower

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $300: In the epic Lord Byron poem named for him, this Spanish lover romances a harem girl named Dudu

Don Juan

LITERATURE $800: This character's first literary appearance was in the tragic drama "The Seducer of Seville"

Don Juan

LORD BYRON $300: Ironically, Byron, who was a legendary rake, left his poem about this Spanish seducer unfinished

Don Juan

LORD BYRON $800: In his poem about this famous lover, Byron wrote "Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction"

Don Juan

POETRY $200: Lord Byron never finished his epic poem about this legendary Spanish lover

Don Juan

RAKE $1,800 (Daily Double): This Byron poem says, "What men call gallantry, & gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry"

Don Juan

WITH LOVE $400: This fictional libertine appeared in 1630's "El Burlador de Sevilla" ("The Seducer of Seville")

Don Juan

YOU ARE THE JUAN $400: John Barrymore played this Spanish lover in a 1926 film & averaged about a kiss a minute

Don Juan

FLAGS $400: Oliver Hazard Perry's flag bore this phrase uttered by James Lawrence in the War of 1812

Don't Give up the Ship

THE NAVY $300: Bartlett's says this naval motto is actually a misquote of Capt. James Lawrence's dying command

Don't Give up the Ship

3 OF A KIND: This animated character's nephews are Huey, Dewey & Louie

Donald Duck

THAT'S IN BRITOONICA $400: This "ill-tempered squawking" duck wears a sailor's hat, "at the drop of which he often explodes into a rage"

Donald Duck

THE 2005 GREENSBORO MAYORAL RACE $1000: 3 votes went to this Disney character who debuted in "The Wise Little Hen" in 1934

Donald Duck

FLY ME $800: This Donald was known for his DC, not Duck, line of commercial planes

Douglas

MEDICINE: His vaccine was announced safe in April '55, the 10th anniversary of FDR's death

Dr. Jonas Salk

THAT'S MY MOVIE! $800: Sure, in 1992 Francis Ford Coppola directed, but it was, in fact, "Bram Stoker's..."

Dracula

BEFORE & AFTER $200: Morgan Freeman film where he drives his web-footed boss to her boyfriend Donald's house

Driving Miss Daisy Duck

FOREIGN-SOUNDING TEXAS PLACES $200: Faith & begorrah! A 2005 state bill proclaimed this town the official Irish capital of Texas

Dublin

THE DONALD $1000: It's Donald Duck's home town

Duckburg

DIANA ROSS $400: The most successful duet of the '80s was this ballad that Diana recorded with Lionel Richie

Endless Love

SONGS FROM MUSICALS $400: "If I Were A Rich Man"

Fiddler on the Roof

NOT TO BE CONFUSED $1600: The Willamette River runs through Eugene, Oregon; this title Pushkin character is a sort of Russian Don Juan

Eugene Onegin

THE ROLES OF A LIFETIME $2000: James Joyce, Rodney Copperbottom, Obi-Wan Kenobi

Ewan McGregor

SONGS IN MUSICALS $400: "Tradition" & "Matchmaker, Matchmaker"

Fiddler on the Roof

THE 1940s $1200: One of Alec Guinness's many masterly character portrayals was as this man in 1948's "Oliver Twist"

Fagin

HISTORIC QUOTES $400: Daniel Webster called this Boston building "The Cradle of American Liberty"

Faneuil Hall

HISTORIC U.S. BUILDINGS $2000: This Boston hall houses the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, chartered in 1638

Faneuil Hall

THE BOSTON TEA PARTY $800: Thousands met near this famed meeting house to support & spur on the raiders

Faneuil Hall

THE CRADLE $300: This Boston "Hall" is known as "The Cradle of American Liberty"

Faneuil Hall

THE FREEDOM TRAIL $400: Given to the city in 1742, this famous landmark burned in 1761, was rebuilt in 1763 & was enlarged in 1805

Faneuil Hall

NICOLAS COPPOLA, AKA CAGE $1000: Cage was billed as Coppola in this 1982 Sean Penn film based on a Cameron Crowe book

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

CLASSIC LIT $200: In a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 7-year-old Cedric Errol inherits a title & is known as "Little Lord" this

Fauntleroy

THE WARDROBE $200: A book by Frances Hodgson Burnett inspired the velvet suit for boys called "Little Lord" this

Fauntleroy

BROADWAY MUSICALS BY CHARACTERS $200: Tevye, Golde, Yente

Fiddler on the Roof

BROADWAY MUSICALS BY CHARACTERS $800: Tevye, Yente, Lazar Wolf

Fiddler on the Roof

BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $400: "If I Were A Rich Man" & "Tradition"

Fiddler on the Roof

HE WAS IN THAT? $1000: Before "Starsky and Hutch", Paul Michael Glaser played Perchik in this movie musical (Hint: Topol got top billing)

Fiddler on the Roof

MUSICALS' OPENING NUMBERS $400: "Tradition"

Fiddler on the Roof

PLAY DOUGH $400: In this musical Perchik says, "Money is the world's curse" & Tevye replies, "May the Lord smite me with it"

Fiddler on the Roof

SMASH BROADWAY MUSICALS $1,000 (Daily Double): It's set in the Jewish village of Anatevka in 1905

Fiddler on the Roof

BROADWAY COMPOSERS $800: That's Lerner standing, so that must be him at the piano

Frederick Loewe

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES $800: Official language in common to the Central African Republic & Canada

French

I GO TO FAMOUS PERSON HIGH SCHOOL $800: Los Angeles St. in the city of angels boasts a school named for this woman, one of Mexico's most notable painters

Frida Kahlo

KATHY BATES GONE WILD $1600: Kathy is draped in a plastic wrap dress, & little else, in a scene from this movie based on a Fannie Flagg novel

Fried Green Tomatoes

POETS & POETRY $1200: He was nearly 87 when he recited his poem "The Gift Outright" at President Kennedy's inauguration

Frost

IT'S EPIC $1600: Perhaps the first ever written, "The Epic of" this king of Uruk includes a Sumerian account of a great flood

Gilgamesh

MESOPOTAMIA $1200: The epic poem of this Sumerian king includes an account of a great flood

Gilgamesh

WHAT THE?! $1000: This "epic" Sumerian god-king finds hell is where the dead "drink dirt and eat stone"

Gilgamesh

ART HOUSE MOVIES $1600: Scarlett Johansson flashes some jewelry in this film in which she plays muse to Vermeer

Girl with a Pearl Earring

I'M GIVIN' YA PEARLS! $1200: Scarlett Johansson poses for Jan Vermeer in this 2003 film

Girl with a Pearl Earring

ONE-WORD FILM TITLES $800: Richard Harris played Marcus Aurelius in this Russell Crowe film

Gladiator

19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: President McKinley dedicated this president's NYC tomb in 1897

Grant

THEY USED TO BE IN CHARGE $200: Clement Attlee

Great Britain / England

"G" WHIZ! $400: In 1824 Lord Byron died of a fever in Missolonghi, now in this country

Greece

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $300: The regions of Thrace, Macedonia & Epirus make up the northern tier of this country

Greece

HISTORY $1200: Lord Byron donated his money & his time to help this country stave off the evil Ottoman empire

Greece

LORD BYRON $1600: In 1823 Byron gave 4,000 pounds of his own money to activate this country's fleet in its war against the Turks

Greece

THE NEWSEUM $2000: (Alex reports from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) A key moment in the Civil Rights era was a sit-in protest after four black students were refused service at an all-white F.W. Woolworth lunch counter in this North Carolina city

Greensboro, North Carolina

THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $800: "The Time Machine" (1895)

H.G. Wells

ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: This "man" named for a German university city was first known from a single bone called the Mauer jaw

Heidelberg Man

PEOPLE IN POETRY $800: "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships.... sweet" her, "make me immortal with a kiss"

Helen

ADELE $200: Like Lionel Richie, in 2015 Adele had a No. 1 hit bearing this title

Hello

A BETTE MIDLER MEDLEY $800: In 2017 Bette is set to star in a Broadway revival of this musical in which she'll play the matchmaking Mrs. Levi

Hello Dolly

FAMOUS NAMES $400: Newstead Abbey, Lord Byron's family estate, was given to his ancestors by this Tudor king

Henry VIII

AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The storytelling characters in his book "Tales of a Wayside Inn" are based on real people

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD $1000: He published perhaps his most famous volume, "Tales of a Wayside Inn", 2 years after his wife's death

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

POETS $400: In "Tales of a Wayside Inn", he wrote about "Ships that pass in the night"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

POETS & POETRY $400: One of his "Tales of a Wayside Inn" begins, "Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

MYTHOLOGICAL HEROES: The second half of his service to Eurystheus took him to 6 different places, like Crete, Thrace & the Underworld

Hercules

AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1839, at age 19, he joined the crew of the freighter St. Lawrence that ran between NYC & Liverpool

Herman Melville

CARRIERS $2000: Mercury's counterpart, this Greek messenger of the gods carries a caduceus

Hermes

LEGENDARY! $5,000 (Daily Double): He invented the lyre & gave it to Apollo; Apollo gave him the caduceus in return

Hermes

CLOTHING THROUGH THE AGES $1000: 18th c. riding boots decorated with tassels shared this name with German mercenaries hired by the Brits

Hessians

MUSIC TO YOUR EARS $200: This teen queen sang, "Wake up, wake up on a Saturday night, could be N.Y., maybe Hollywood & Vine"

Hilary Duff

NAME THE JAMES $1600: ...who conjured up Shangri-La for a 1933 novel

Hilton

RECENT FILMS $800: Owen Wilson & Eddie Murphy teamed up for this action comedy loosely based on an old TV show

I Spy

RHYMING MOVIES $800: TV's Bill Cosby & Robert Culp were replaced by Eddie Murphy & Owen Wilson in this 2002 film

I Spy

ASIAN RIVERS $2,000 (Daily Double): A 1947 partition divided the water in the basin of this 1,800-mile-long river on the border of Pakistan

Indus River

ANCIENT TIMES $500: The Harappan civilization is another name for the ancient civilization of this Asian river valley

Indus River Valley

ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: The bricks used around 2000 B.C. in Mohenjo-Daro, in Pakistan, were the standard size used all over this valley

Indus Valley

ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $200: The Sumerians, who invented cuneiform writing, date back to 5500 B.C. in Mesopotamia, in what is now this country

Iraq

ANCIENT WORLDS $1000: The Sumerians established Sumer in what is now this Mideast country

Iraq

ART-FULLY STOLEN $400: After a worldwide hunt, a statue of Sumerian king Entemena was returned to this country after it was stolen in 2003

Iraq

Q WITHOUT U $800: This country's ancient ruins of Ur & its ziggurat date back about 4,500 years

Iraq

CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $1600: Arthur Rubinstein, born in Poland, moved to the U.S. & is interred in this country that has a piano competition named for him

Israel

U.S. CITIES $300: This Florida city was named for the general who led the fight to take Florida from the Spanish

Jacksonville

AT THE SMITHSONIAN $400: The evening gown worn by this first lady to her first state dinner was created by Oleg Cassini, one of her favorite designers

Jacqueline Kennedy

FIRST, MIDDLE & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $2000: Flutist Galway, birder John Audubon, Author P.D.

James

NAME IN COMMON $800: Authors Ellroy & P.D.

James

LODGE PODGE $200: He was elected U.S. senator from Massachusetts in 1952, ousting incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge

John F. Kennedy

WHERE THERE'S A WILL... $1200: Speechwriter Ted Sorensen witnessed the June 18, 1954 signing of this then-senator's will

John F. Kennedy

THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $1200: "Looking for Alaska" (2005)

John Green

MOVIE DIRECTORS: He's the only person to direct his daughter & his father in Oscar-winning performances

John Huston

ELEGIES $1200: Percy Shelley wrote "Adonais" on the death of this friend & fellow poet

John Keats

EPITAPHS: His headstone in Rome reads in part: "This grave contains all that was mortal, of a young English poet"

John Keats

A TOUCH OF ROBERT FROST IN THE AIR $1200: 86-year-old Robert Frost recited his poem "The Gift Outright" at this man's inauguration

John Kennedy

THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED $400: It's the rather cheerful name for the flag seen here

Jolly Roger

BIOGRAPHIES $800: "The Polio Man", a 1962 biography, tells of this doctor who developed the first polio vaccine

Jonas Salk

BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Readers had to wait 13 years between his first novel "Catch-22", & his next, "Something Happened"

Joseph Heller

MALE AUTHORS $400 (Daily Double): "Catch as Catch Can" is a posthumous collection of stories by this real-life WWII bombardier

Joseph Heller

POSTHUMOUS PUBLISHING $1200: Here's the catch: this author's "Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man" was published after his 1999 death

Joseph Heller

PREQUELS & SEQUELS $2,600 (Daily Double): In a follow-up to an earlier novel, "Closing Time" by this author revisits Yossarian & Milo Minderbinder in NYC in the 1990s

Joseph Heller

THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $400: "Catch-22" (1961)

Joseph Heller

IT'S A RAP $2000: Public Enemy: "You go ooh and ahh when I jump in my car/ People treat me like" this hall of fame L.A. Lakers center

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

NBA ALL-STARS $200: A record 19 times: This Buck, Laker & Celebrity "Jeopardy!" contestant

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

NBA GREATS $200: Alphabetically first on the NBA's list of its 50 greatest players is this Bucks, Lakers & Celebrity "Jeopardy!" star

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

SPORTS EQUIPMENT $800: After an eye injury in 1974, this legendary NBA center began wearing Plexiglas goggles

Kareen Abdul-Jabbar

MUSIC $400: This "Chained To The Rhythm" singer is a judge on the 2018 version of "American Idol"

Katy Perry

PLAY THIS $400: It's off to Skull Island for Peter Jackson's official video game adaptation of this ape movie

King Kong

20th CENTURY LIT $800: Middle name of "Naked and the Dead" author Mailer or first name of "Lucky Jim" author Amis

Kingsley

AUTHORS: In 1890 he witnessed a mild cyclone in Aberdeen, South Dakota, fodder for his most famous novel

L. Frank Baum

SOUTH DAKOTA $400: In Storybook Land in Aberdeen, where this author once lived, the "Oz" stories come to life

L. Frank Baum

ON HIS PRESIDENCY'S SECRET SERVICE $400: During his term Congress directed the Service to protect Jackie Kennedy & her children for 2 years

LBJ (Lyndon Johnson)

THE SUMMER OF LOVE: 1967 $1600: Media response to all the love included the CBS special "The Hippie Temptation", that being mainly this drug

LSD

BROADWAY COMPOSERS $1200: Jerry Herman turned down every project for 6 months until he was finally asked to adapt this film about 2 gay men

La Cage aux Folles

HIGH WATER $2000: 2010-11 floods in Australia were exacerbated by this Pacific Ocean weather phenomenon with a feminine name

La Nina

FOUR $1,000 (Daily Double): Alcaeus, Arion, Sappho &Terpander were the "4 Poets of" this island

Lesbos

GREEK ISLANDS $1600: This island in the Aegean was the birthplace of such poets as Alcaeus, Terpander & Sappho

Lesbos

19th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, NM.) His eventful career included preventing the capture of Washington, D.C. as a Civil War general & a stint living here as governor of New Mexico, during which he found time to write "Ben-Hur"

Lew Wallace

1980s ROCK MUSIC $800: At the August 12, 1984 closing of the Summer Olympics, he sang "All Night Long"

Lionel Richie

BLACK AMERICA $600: Born & raised at Tuskegee Institute, he was celebrity star at 1984 Olympics closing

Lionel Richie

LOVE SONGS, NOTHING BUT '80s LOVE SONGS $1200: "Hello, is it me you're looking for?...& you know what to do, & I want to tell you so much, I love you"

Lionel Richie

NAME THE SINGER $300: "Penny Lover", "Say You, Say Me"

Lionel Richie

NO. 2 ON THE CHARTS $2000: Oh, what a feelin', when this guy hit No. 2 in 1986 with "Dancing On The Ceiling"

Lionel Richie

POP MUSIC $400: If he were "Stuck on You", he might say "Hello", "You Are" "Truly" "My Love" -- "All Night Long"

Lionel Richie

RELATED SONG TITLES $600: He sang lead on "Three Times A Lady" & "Lady (You Bring Me Up)"; heck, he even wrote "Lady" for Kenny Rogers

Lionel Richie

SCHOOL OF ROCK $600: He rose to the rank of Commodore after graduating from Joliet Township High School in Illinois

Lionel Richie

SINGERS "R" US $1000: In 2012 this singer released an album of country duets called "Tuskegee", for his birthplace in Alabama

Lionel Richie

NURSERY RHYMES $400: Though he ate like a slob, he nonetheless concluded, "What a good boy am I"

Little Jack Horner

WOMEN AUTHORS $500: Frances H. Burnett based this "little" hero in long curls, velvet & lace on her own son, Vivian

Little Lord Fauntleroy

BOOKS ABOUT AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1830 biographer Thomas Moore burned the memoirs of this aristocratic Brit to protect the poet's reputation

Lord Byron

BRITISH LITERATURE $400: In 1816 this Lord left England for good; in 1818 he praised Italy in his poem "Beppo"

Lord Byron

COVERING BARON GROUND $400: This poet who helped the Greeks fight the Turks was the 6th baron in his family line

Lord Byron

DANIEL BOONE $1600: In his poem "Don Juan", this Englishman wrote 7 stanzas about Daniel Boone & his virile exploits

Lord Byron

DANIEL BOONE WAS A MAN $1200: After Boone's death in 1820, this Brit made him the subject of 7 stanzas of "Don Juan"

Lord Byron

DOG-GONE IT $400: "Epitaph for a Dog", a favorite one of this lord & romantic poet, can be seen on a monument at Newstead Abbey

Lord Byron

GOING TO THE DOGE $600: 14th century doge Marino Faliero was the subject of a tragedy by this "Don Juan" poet

Lord Byron

GOTHIC LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): Lady Caroline Lamb featured a version of this ex-lover in her Gothic novel "Glenarvon", calling him Ruthven

Lord Byron

HISTORIC HEARTTHROBS $1000: This lord's 1812 poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" made him a star in London at age 24

Lord Byron

THE ROMAN GOD OR GODDESS OF... $600: Wisdom, spinning & weaving; this goddess could do it all

Minerva

WHO PLAYED 'EM? $400: From 2001 on: Minerva McGonagall, one of Harry Potter's professors

Maggie Smith

THE BRIDGE & TUNNEL CROWD $1600: These lions outside Beijing watch people go between them on the bridge named for this European born in 1254

Marco Polo

THE TWO-THOUSAND YEAR OLD MAN $400: (Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks present the clue.) "What was one of your best times?" "One of my best times was sitting around with this guy in Venice. He'd tell me stories about going to China, and I'd say, 'Don't mention the part about spaghetti & gunpowder. They don't go good together'"

Marco Polo

KENNEDY CENTER HONOREES $2000: The first group of honorees in 1978 included Arthur Rubinstein & this African-American opera singer

Marian Anderson

ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $1000: Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald

Marines

ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $1200: Sen. Joe McCarthy

Marines

ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $400: Iwo Jima flag raiser Ira Hayes

Marines

SUPER MARIO $400: Francis Coppola brought this author's most famous work to the big screen

Mario Puzo

ON YOUR MARK $1000: In 2004 this Dire Straits leader rocked out with his fourth solo album, "Shangri-La"

Mark Knopfler

AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $800: The town of Hadleyburg

Mark Twain

CRY $1600: Try not to sob as Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston & their kids hold a funeral for the family dog in this 2008 film

Marley & Me

THANKS FOR THE MEMORABILIA $800: A script of "The Godfather" with notes by this man pulled in more than $300,000 at a 2005 auction

Marlon Brando

COMIC STRIP CANINES $1200: In 2010 this Great Dane leaped from the funny papers to the big screen in a live action film with Owen Wilson providing his voice

Marmaduke

STAMPS AND COINS $1000: The sale of 1903 gold coins featuring this president helped pay for his Niles, Ohio memorial

McKinley

U.S. HISTORY $300: In 1901, right after being shot, this president cautioned against hurting his attacker

McKinley

BRAINBUSTERS $400: 2 of the 3 U.S. presidents in the 20th century named William

McKinley, Taft, and/or Clinton

MOUNTAINS $400: In 1954 the U.S. Geological Survey established the height of this American mountain at 20,320 feet

Mt. McKinley (or Denali)

THERE IT IS $800: The Zocalo, once the center of Tenochtitlan: this capital

Mexico City

WORLD CAPITALS $800: You want pyramids, we got pyramids! Come to Teotihuacan near this capital & see the Pyramid of the Sun

Mexico City

What is the biggest city (by population) in North America? A. Toronto B. New York City C. Mexico City D. Los Angeles

Mexico City With a population of 8.9 million, Mexico City beats out all the competition. In 2013, Toronto (population 2.79 million) overtook Chicago to become the fourth-largest city in North America.

POP MUSIC $400: In 1997 Babyface tied this performer's 1983 record of 12 Grammy nominations in one year

Michael Jackson

PEOPLE IN POETRY $400: "But there is no joy in Mudville--" this guy "has struck out"

Mighty Casey

GREEK GOD OUT, ROMAN GOD IN $2000: Most of the Greek myths for Athena were adopted by the Romans for this goddess whose temple was on Capitoline Hill

Minerva

I AM LEGEND $2000: In Roman myth, she's the goddess of wisdom & of the arts & sciences

Minerva

MYTH-ELLANY $1600: Maria Shriver created an award for women named for this Roman goddess of wisdom, seen on California's state seal

Minerva

MYTH-POURRI $1000: Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom & war, was called this by the Romans

Minerva

MYTHING VOWELS $400: Roman: MNRV

Minerva

MYTHOLOGY $1000: This Roman goddess of wisdom wears a helmet because she's also the Roman goddess of war

Minerva

MYTHOLOGY $400: This Roman goddess of wisdom is said to have leaped forth from the brain of Jupiter, fully mature & in armor

Minerva

MYTHS & LEGENDS $800: Roman goddess of crafts & war, she was identified with the Greek Athena, but was probably native to Italy

Minerva

OTHER WONDER WOMEN $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents an acronym on the monitor.) Saying "Shazam!" gave Mary Batson godly powers; "S" for Selena, "H" for Hippolyta, "A" for Ariadne, "Z" for Zephyrus, "A" for Aurora, and "M" for this wise Roman goddess

Minerva

THE RODIN MUSEUM $1000: (Alex delivers the clue from the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia.) Medusa on the breastplate & an owl on the helmet help identify this highly polished marble sculpture as this Roman goddess

Minerva

ARCHEOLOGY $400: A Paleolithic flint industry has been discovered at Grimaldi just east of this principality

Monaco

COATS OF ARMS $800 (Daily Double): The 2 monks on its coat of arms represent the 1297 conquest by Francois Grimaldi, whose soldiers dressed as monks

Monaco

COUNTRIES THAT END IN "O" $400: This nation has been ruled by the Grimaldi royal family since the 14th century

Monaco

EUROPEAN HISTORY $600: In 1297 this principality was acquired by the house of Grimaldi

Monaco

HEIRS $800: This country reverts to French control if the Grimaldi family fails to produce a male heir

Monaco

ITS REIGNING MEN $1,800 (Daily Double): Hercule Grimaldi, Honore Grimaldi

Monaco

PROFILES $400: In happier times the royal Grimaldi family of this country kicked up its heels

Monaco

SMALL CAPITALS $400: The Grimaldis rule over this country's capital, nicknamed "The Rock" due to its position on a rocky promontory

Monaco

SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL COME $400: Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand de Grimaldi is a prince of this principality

Monaco

WORLD HISTORY $400: The Grimaldi family first gained control of this country in 1297

Monaco

TRAVEL FRANCE $800: You could spend a delightful day visiting this artist's house and gardens in Giverny

Monet

RELIGIOUS LANDMARKS $400: Salt Lake City structure where you'll find an 11,000-pipe organ

Mormon tabernacle

BRITISH DRAMA CHARACTER NAMES $1600: Not Little Jack, just plain this is the seducer hero of "The Country Wife"

Mr. Horner

FIRST LADIES $500: After her husband's 1901 assassination, she returned to Canton, Ohio, where she died 6 years later

Mrs. McKinley (Ida Saxton)

1992 $100: During one week in May, 7 people died climbing this Alaskan mountain

Mt. McKinley

AMERICAN PEAKS $100: Ain't no mountain high enough in the U.S. to top this Alaskan peak

Mt. McKinley

GEOGRAPHY $200: Located in Alaska, it's North America's highest peak

Mt. McKinley

U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: Sometimes called the "Tip of the Continent", it's the only U.S. mountain whose peak exceeds 20,000 feet

Mt. McKinley

MOUNTAIN $300: In Alaska's Denali National Park: 20,320 feet

Mt. McKinley (Denali)

MAGIC & SORCERY IN THE BIBLE $800: This Babylonian king had his own group of magicians, but it was Daniel who interpreted his dreams

Nebuchadnezzar

ZIGGURATS $4,000 (Daily Double): In the 500s B.C. this king who conquered Jerusalem restored the main ziggurat of Babylon

Nebuchadnezzar

IT'S ALL RELATIVE $100: Nicolas Cage is this to Francis Ford Coppola

Nephew

THEY SHOULD HAVE PLAYED VEGAS $200: Fiddle me this: This emperor born in 37 A.D. could really burn up the stage at Caesars Palace

Nero

HOME, SWEET HOME $200: Michael Jackson, who identified with Peter Pan, lived on a sprawling California ranch he called this

Neverland

MOVIE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: He wasn't an Oscar winner yet when his uncle Francis Ford Coppola directed him in "Rumble Fish" in 1983

Nicolas Cage

RELATIVE-ITY $800: Jason Schwartzman & Sofia Coppola can always say, "hey, cousin" to this "Ghost Rider"

Nicolas Cage

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC $600: Niamey is the capital city of this republic that shares its name with Africa's third-longest river

Niger

ANT HISTORY $400: The Louvre's sculpture of this Greek goddess of Samothrace is also called "Winged Victory"

Nike

SCULPTURE $1200: The Louvre has a sculpture of this winged goddess that was found on Samothrace & probably honors a sea battle

Nike

WINGS & THINGS $2,000 (Daily Double): Winged Victory is a headless statue of this goddess

Nike

SCULPTURE $1600: This sculpture from Samothrace is on a pedestal like a ship's prow, & her cloak is "held" against her by the "wind"

Nike (Winged Victory)

SHIPS $1000: Brothers Martin & Vincente Pinzon commanded these 2 ships on Columbus' first voyage to the New World

Nina and Pinta

18th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: In 1793 this lexicographer founded the American Minerva, New York City's first daily newspaper

Noah Webster

A CONNECTICUT YANKEE $1000: This Connecticut lexicographer's "Blue-Backed Speller" has never been out of print

Noah Webster

BORN IN CONNECTICUT $600: This Yale grad put out "An American Dictionary of the English Language" in 1828, when he was 70

Noah Webster

CELEBRATIONS & GATHERINGS $1200: Party on, "Jeopardy!" fans! Dictionary Day, October 16, is celebrated on the birthday of this lexicographer

Noah Webster

EDUCATION $400: Although best known for his 1828 dictionary, he wrote textbooks on science, grammar & history

Noah Webster

EDUCATION $400: His famed "Blue-backed Speller" of 1783 helped standardize American spelling & pronunciation

Noah Webster

NEW HAVEN $200: He moved to New Haven in 1822 & it was there in 1843 he would expire (verb; to breathe one's last breath: to die)

Noah Webster

THE 1790s $800: In 1793 NYC's daily newspaper The American Minerva was founded by this lexicographer

Noah Webster

THE 1820s $600: He was about 70 when he published his "American Dictionary of the English Language" in 2 volumes in 1828

Noah Webster

THE AMERICANS $1,000 (Daily Double): Best known for a different work, in 1833 he produced a "Common Version" of the Holy Bible "with Amendments of the Language"

Noah Webster

THE LAWYER WHO... $200: ...put some 70,000 words in alphabetical order to make a new American dictionary in 1828

Noah Webster

YOU KNOW NOTHING $600: Since the 1889 expiry of a copyright, anyone can put out a dictionary & slap this man's name on it

Noah Webster

ODD COMBINED RESPONSES $2000: Belonging to dictionary maker Mr. Webster + a game in which you might hear, "You sank my aircraft carrier!"

Noah's Battleship

GREEK ALPHABET SOUP $800: This Swiss watch company was founded by Louis Brandt in 1848

Omega

GREEK LETTERS $600: It's the final name in watch brands

Omega

LANGUAGES $400: Among the 7 vowels in the Greek alphabet, omicron is the short "O" & this is the long

Omega

STUFF I WANT $600: Daniel Craig's James Bond wears the Seamaster, a watch from this Greek letter company

Omega

TIME PIECES $200: This watch brand with a Greek letter name says it made the world's first diver's watch

Omega

THAT'S A GREEK LETTER $600: The name of this brand of watch also denotes some fatty acids

Omega Crossword Clue: Rolex competitor Answer: Omega

"O" BROTHER $200: Luke & Andrew are famous brothers of this man seen here

Owen Wilson

TAYLOR, SWIFT $2000: In a 2008 film he played Drillbit Taylor

Owen Wilson

WHEN THEY WERE TEENS $1000: As a young scamp, he was expelled from the school he attended with his brother Luke & sent to a military academy

Owen Wilson

WHO PLAYED 'EM? $1000: Lt. Chris Burnett, a Navy pilot shot down "Behind Enemy Lines"

Owen Wilson

CHERCHEZ LA FEMME $1000: P.D. James, P.G. Wodehouse, P.J. O'Rourke

P.D. James

ENGLISH LIT $1000: This baroness whose first name is Phyllis is famous for mystery novels about detective Adam Dalgliesh

P.D. James

FACE BOOK $2000: "Cover Her Face" is an Adam Dalgliesh mystery by this British woman

P.D. James

FICTION $2000: One of Britain's great mystery authors, she went back a couple of centuries for "Death Comes to Pemberley"

P.D. James

FICTIONAL DETECTIVES $800: In 1962 she introduced Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh in her first novel, "Cover Her Face"

P.D. James

MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $600: Phyllis Dorothy...

P.D. James

MURDER, SHE WROTE $400: "A Mind for Murder" & "A Taste for Death" are works by this author whose first names are Phyllis Dorothy

P.D. James

SLEUTHS & THEIR CREATORS $800: Adam Dalgliesh

P.D. James

THE JAMES GANG $800: "Cover Her Face" was the first of her mysteries to feature her detective Adam Dalgliesh, a Scotland Yard man

P.D. James

CRIME WRITERS: 1 of the 2 female crime writers who were in the British House of Lords in 1998

P.D. James & Ruth Rendell

DAM IT! $400: The Tarbela Dam is located on the Indus River not far from Islamabad in this country

Pakistan

HISTORY TIME $2000: The ancient city of Mohenjo-Daro lies on the Indus River in what's now this country

Pakistan

FOREIGN-SOUNDING TEXAS PLACES $800: A land divided by Jordan, Egypt & Israel, or the seat of Anderson County, Texas

Palestine

HISTORIC CELEBRITY SCANDALS $400: "Good Lord!" This Romantic poet "Expelled from Oxford for Writing 'The Necessity of Atheism'"

Percy Shelley

MOVIE DIRECTORS $2000: His first try at a "King Kong" remake was stopped, as "Mighty Joe Young" & "Godzilla" were being produced

Peter Jackson

MOVIE FOLK $2000: To get orc war screams for the Helm's Deep battle, this director put phonetic yells on a scoreboard for 25,000 cricket fans

Peter Jackson

NAME THE OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR $400: 2003 for "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"

Peter Jackson

NEW ZEALAND $400: New Zealander who took on the giant task of making 3 films at once about the little hobbits

Peter Jackson

NOT BORED OF DIRECTORS $400: This director can't bore "Lord of the Rings" fans, even with the 4-hr. 10-min. DVD version of "The Return of the King"

Peter Jackson

THE OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR $1200: 2003: Here's the thing--"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" got him the bling

Peter Jackson

THE WAR OF ART $1200: This 17th c. Flemish man got mythical with "Minerva Protects Pax from Mars ('Peace and War')"

Peter Paul Rubens

BROADWAY COMPOSERS $400: "Love Never Dies", Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to this show, moves the action from Paris to Coney Island

Phantom of the Opera

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' $500: In October mollusk lovers flock to this beach city for its annual clam festival

Pismo Beach

LORD BYRON $200: Because of his scandalous life, Byron was refused burial here, among other literary lions

Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey

WORKS LIKE A CHARM $600: In the "Sun and Moon" edition of this 20-year-old game from Japan, the shiny charm helps to catch the title critters

Pokemon

LET'S HAVE ORDER $600 (Daily Double): Presidential administrations: Chester A. Arthur, James K. Polk, Millard Fillmore

Polk, Fillmore, Arthur

ACTORS & ROLES $600: Before playing the psychic Tangina in this film, 4' 3" Zelda Rubinstein worked on a shrimp boat

Poltergeist

ONLY SMALL ACTORS $800: Zelda Rubinstein appeared as clairvoyant Tangina Barrons in this spooky 1982 Tobe Hooper film

Poltergeist

IN CAESAR'S PALACE $800: 1 of the 2 other members of the First Triumvirate who might join Julius in the palace study

Pompey (or Crassus)

20th CENTURY HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Clement Attlee succeeded Churchill in the middle of the 1945 conference of allied leaders held in this German city

Potsdam

SUMMIT MEETINGS $500: In 1945 Truman conferred with Stalin & with British leaders Churchill & Attlee at this Berlin suburb

Potsdam

WOMEN IN HISTORY $100: Lady Caroline Lamb was both Lord Byron's lover & the wife of William Lamb, this queen's 1st P.M.

Queen Victoria

SHOPPING U.S.A. $400: Now a trendy shopping area, this marketplace near Boston's Faneuil Hall dates from 1826

Quincy Market

SENATORS $400: From 1965 to 1968 these 2 siblings served in the Senate at the same time

RFK & Ted Kennedy

CELEBRITY CRITTERS $800: A star of silent movies & his own TV show, this dog has his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1623 Vine Street

Rin Tin Tin

LOST $500: Performed annually in North Carolina, "The Lost Colony" is an outdoor drama about this lost colony

Roanoke Island

BROADWAY COMPOSERS $2000: Playing an early version of one of his songs from "Avenue Q" helped him woo future "Frozen" partner Kristen Anderson

Robert Lopez

ALLITERATIVE NAMES $300: He founded Utah's Sundance Institute, which encourages the work of independent filmmakers

Robert Redford

MOVIE TITLE ROLES $300: "Brubaker"

Robert Redford

MOVIEMAKERS $200: In his debut as a director, this actor won an Oscar for 1980's "Ordinary People"

Robert Redford

THE OSCARS $400: These two actors have won Oscars only as directors in 1980 & 1981

Robert Redford & Warren Beatty

FILM STARS $300: Francis Coppola & this "Cape Fear" star are co-owners of Rubicon, a San Francisco restaurant

Robert de Niro

CIVIL WAR $1000: This Col. fought at Antietam in 1862 along with Sgt. Wm. McKinley & became president 14 1/2 years later

Rutherford B. Hayes

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC $1000: This central African republic's old national flag was a red, yellow & green tricolor with an "R" in the middle

Rwanda

MAGIC & SORCERY IN THE BIBLE $1200: In the city of Paphos, this apostle blinded a sorcerer who tried to oppose him

Saint Paul

TRAVEL FRANCE $1200: The Place aux Herbes in this "saintly" resort town on the Riviera is a charming area of veggie, fruit & flower stalls

Saint-Tropez

HOUSES OF THE HOLY $400: The Mormon Tabernacle

Salt Lake City

STATE CAPITALS $600: You can see & hear one of the world's largest pipe organs at the Mormon Tabernacle in this city

Salt Lake City

BIOGRAPHY SUBTITLES $1,800 (Daily Double): An entrepreneur: "Bargain Billionaire"

Sam Walton

"RACE" TO THE ANSWER $1000: Once part of the Ottoman Empire, this Greek island is where the "Winged Victory" statue was discovered

Samothrace

GREECE IS THE WORD $1000: It was on this now Greek isle that the famous statue of Nike, now in the Louvre, was found in 1863

Samothrace

ISLANDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Mount Fengari, the highest point in the Aegean, is on this island, famous for its "Winged Victory" statue

Samothrace

MUTILATED ART $2000: Seen here at the Louvre is the work known as "Nike" or the "Winged Victory of" this Aegean island

Samothrace

FAMOUS ENGLISHMEN: In 2004 a top entry in a 6,000 mile albatross race was sponsored by a descendant of this man who died in 1834

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

POETIC INSPIRATIONS: One summer day in 1797 this British poet fell asleep reading a book that adapted the writings of Marco Polo

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

ANNUAL EVENTS $400: On the second Sunday of June, the 1967 Summer of Love is re-created at the Haight Street Fair in this city

San Francisco

ROCK MUSIC GEOGRAPHY $300: The songs of Jefferson Airplane were in the air during this city's 1967 "Summer Of Love"

San Francisco

NEW MEXICO $400: Built in 1610, the Palace of the Governors in this city is the oldest public building in the U.S.

Santa Fe

STATE CAPITALS $400: Built in 1610, the Spanish Palace of Governors in this Southwest capital is now a museum

Santa Fe

U.S. BUILDINGS $1000: The 400-year-old Palace of the Governors in this SW capital city now serves as the state's history museum

Santa Fe

U.S. BUILDINGS $1200: The Palace of the Governors in this New Mexico city is the USA's oldest continuously occupied building

Santa Fe

WHERE AM I? $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports.) I'm at the USA's oldest public building, the Palace of the Governors, in this city founded in 1610, the oldest city that serves as a state capital

Santa Fe

BIBLICAL DATING GAME $800: Fearing he'd be killed by jealous men, Abraham falsely said he was this woman's brother

Sarah

GENESIS $400: She conceived and bore Abraham a son, Isaac, in his old age

Sarah

NAMES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT $1000: In Genesis she posed as her husband's sister when they traveled to Egypt

Sarah

OLD TESTAMENT WOMEN $500: When told she was going to have a child by Abraham, she "laughed within herself"

Sarah

THE BIBLE $2000: While barren, she gave her Egyptian maid Hagar to Abraham to bear his children

Sarah

MOVIE ROLES $1000: 2008: Mary, "The Other Boleyn Girl"

Scarlett Johansson

RECENT CINEMA $400: In "The Nanny Diaries" she plays Annie Braddock, a college student taking care of a rich family's kid

Scarlett Johansson

MUSIC APPRECIATION $600: Despite her deafness, Evelyn Glennie, born near Aberdeen in this country, is a world-famous percussionist

Scotland

RIVERS $200: The Dee & Don Rivers are scenic features of Aberdeen, in this country

Scotland

U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: A railroad president named Aberdeen, South Dakota for his birthplace in this country

Scotland

THOSE ARE SOME BIG SHOES $1000: After filling Ted Kennedy's shoes in Mass., this man decided to try out Jeanne Shaheen's senatorial ones in New Hampshire

Scott Brown

DOGS $300: This breed was originally called the Aberdeen terrier

Scottish terrier

CHRISTMAS MOVIES $400: In a 1970 film, Alec Guinness played Jacob Marley's ghost & Albert Finney played this man

Scrooge

DONALD DUCK $400: A creation of the comic books, this rich old miser wears a red coat & a black silk top hat

Scrooge McDuck

OUR WRITERS' FAVORITE COMIC BOOKS $200: He's Donald Duck's rich uncle & he has his own comic book

Scrooge McDuck

BIG BUSINESS $1600: This company's first retail store opened on February 2, 1925 at Homan Avenue & Arthington Street in Chicago

Sears

"SH"!! $1200: James Hilton's high mountain valley

Shangri-La

20th CENTURY AMERICA $500: When it was set up in 1942, the presidential retreat, now Camp David, was called this

Shangri-La

AIRCRAFT CARRIER NAMES $1000: An aircraft carrier was named this, a fictional Tibetan land of eternal youth

Shangri-La

WORLD CULTURES $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, MA.) 1 of only 7 surviving Indian artifacts positively linked to Lewis & Clark is a bear claw necklace; Lewis wrote, "It was worn by those who esteemed themselves brave" among these people to whom Sacagawea belonged

Shoshone

GHOSTBUSTERS $600: She played cellist Dana Barrett, who becomes possessed by a Sumerian god named Zuul

Sigourney Weaver

THEY ALL PLAYED HAMLET $300: The role of Obi-Wan Kenobi was light-years away when he played Hamlet at the Old Vic in 1938

Sir Alec Guinness

LITERATURE $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from New York's Central Park.) Central Park's Literary Walk features Robert Burns & this great novelist & countryman, both sculpted by John Steell of Aberdeen

Sir Walter Scott

BONE VOYAGE $1200: The remains of Tatanka Yotanka, AKA this Sioux leader, were taken by his nephew from North Dakota to South Dakota

Sitting Bull

KIDDY LIT $1,400 (Daily Double): Robin McKinley's "Spindle's End" is a retelling of this fairy tale

Sleeping Beauty

LITERATURE ALIASES $1000: Randall Flagg, a character created by this man, is aka Nyarlathotep, Walter Padick & Walter O'Dim

Stephen King

ROBERT E. LEE $600: The detail of Lee seen here is from this monumental landmark in Georgia

Stone Mountain

ROLLING "STONE" $400: This large granite memorial near Atlanta was dedicated in 1970

Stone Mountain

A CAPITAL IDEA? $1000: Her father Francis says at about age 3 she heard him in a long argument & said, "Cut!"

Sophia Coppola

CELEBRITY RELATIVES $800: One of Nicolas Cage's cousins is this woman who directed "Lost in Translation" & "Marie Antoinette"

Sophia Coppola

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA $500: In 1999 Francis produced "The Virgin Suicides", which marked the directorial debut of this woman, his daughter

Sophia Coppola

OSCAR WINNERS: Later an Oscar winner, she appeared as the child baptized towards the end of "The Godfather"

Sophia Coppola

OSCAR-WINNING WRITERS $1600: 2003, original: "Lost in Translation"

Sophia Coppola

TAKE ME TO YOUR DIRECTOR $400: She followed in her father's footsteps when she directed "The Virgin Suicides"

Sophia Coppola

WHEN THEY WERE TEENS $800: This daughter of Francis Ford Coppola was an intern for fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld in Paris

Sophia Coppola

WOMEN DIRECTORS $800: With films like "Marie Antoinette" & "Lost in Translation", directing must run in the family for this woman

Sophia Coppola

REBEL WITHOUT A PULSE $400: I'm this man from Thrace who led a 90,000-man slave rebellion vs. Rome until his death in 71 B.C.--No! I'm this man!

Spartacus

WHO'S THE MAMA? $1000: Jason Schwartzman (Yo! This actress)

Talia Shire

WOMEN DIRECTORS $1200: This sister of Francis Ford Coppola & aunt of Sofia also directed "One Night Stand", starring Ally Sheedy

Talia Shire

WOMEN DIRECTORS $600: This sister of Francis Ford Coppola directed her first feature film, "One Night Stand", in 1994

Talia Shire

SENATORS WITH STAMINA $400: From 1952 to 2009 this Democrat with a good name for politics served Massachusetts

Ted Kennedy

AMERICAN KNIGHTS $600: In 2009, 6 months before his death, this giant of Massachusetts politics got a knighthood

Teddy Kennedy

(Alex: Each response is a famous pair, but you must give us the response in reverse order.) PAIRS FAMOUS $200: A bank employee paying out money at the counter & a common name for a university in west Philly

Teller and Penn

MAIN STREET U.S.A. $800: In Salt Lake City take Main Street to this square to find the Mormon Tabernacle

Temple Square

JAMES K. POLK ME $500: Before winning the White House, Polk served in this state's assembly & as its governor

Tennessee

BRITISH POETRY $400: Lord Byron was a major influence on this later poet lord who wrote 1842's "The Lord of Burleigh"

Tennyson

LITERARY BROTHERS $400: He was a teenager (& not yet a lord) when he wrote "Poems by Two Brothers" with his brothers Charles & Frederick

Tennyson

TEDDY ROOSEVELT $300: Roosevelt was only 42 whern he succeeded this man as president in 1901

William McKinley

LESSER-KNOWN MOVIES $800: Francis Ford Coppola followed "The Godfather" with this film starring Gene Hackman as a wiretapper

The Conversation

MOVIE PRODUCERS $500: Julia Phillips was the first woman producer to win a Best Picture Oscar, for this 1973 con game film

The Sting

PLAYING THE PONIES $1600: Robert Shaw bets on Lucky Dan at 4-1 in this movie, but not to place--oops!

The Sting

THE WRATH OF CAAN $400: As Sonny in this Coppola film, James Caan beats the cannoli out of his no-good brother-in-law

The Godfather

ROBERT REDFORD $600: Costume designer Edith Head won her 8th & final Oscar for this Chicago-set film that starred Redford & Newman

The Sting

SCOTT JOPLIN $800: Interest in Joplin's music was revived by this 1973 film that featured many of his songs & starred Newman & Redford

The Sting

"WILD" MOVIES $800: Meryl Streep needed a lot more than one degree of separation from Kevin Bacon on the water in this movie

The River Wild

THAT '70s FILM $400: Devotees bring toilet paper, rice, rubber gloves & other props to midnight showings of this 1975 film

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

THE ASSASSIN'S VICTIM $800: 1901: Leon Czolgosz

William McKinley

SECRETS $1600: In a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mary Lennox finds a key that she hopes will open this title place

The Secret Garden

TIME TO HIT THE BOOKS $1000: Bratty & spoiled Mary Lennox becomes the ward of her English uncle in this 1911 Frances Hodgson Burnett classic

The Secret Garden

UNREAL ESTATE $1200: Most of this 1909 book by Frances Hodgson Burnett is set at Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire

The Secret Garden

UNREAL ESTATE $2000: Most of this kids' book by Frances Hodgson Burnett takes place at Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire

The Secret Garden

LITERATURE $600: At 16 Frances Hodgson Burnett moved from England to U.S. & later wrote this children's classic

The Secret Garden (or Little Lord Fauntleroy)

FILMS OF THE '70s $200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew rides on the carousel.) I'm riding the Santa Monica Pier carousel, which you may recognize from this 1973 Newman & Redford ragtime film

The Sting

What is the Union Jack

The Union Jack, or Union Flag, is the national flag of the United Kingdom. The flag also has a semi-official status in Canada, by parliamentary resolution, where it is known as the Royal Union Flag. Additionally, it is used as an official flag in some of the smaller British overseas territories.

THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $200: He's the subject of the September 7, 1901 headline seen here: [President Shot At Buffalo Fair]

William McKinley

THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $600: He said in his inaugural address "War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed"

William McKinley

TURN OF THE CENTURY FILMS $600: On August 28, 1899 a film of this president reviewing troops was shot in Pittsburgh; he was shot in 1901

William McKinley

TURNS OF THE CENTURY $800: This world leader died September 14, 1901

William McKinley

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $500: He said McKinley had "no more backbone than a chocolate eclair" but was his V.P. & successor

Theodore Roosevelt

PRESIDENTS $400: He was climbing in the Adirondacks when he was notified that Pres. McKinley was dying

Theodore Roosevelt

HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD $100: A pizzeria, a souvenir shop, a candy factory & a defunct loan co, now stand at Hollywood Blvd. & this street

Vine

LAND O' LAKERS $400: L.A.'s city fathers renamed Weyse Avenue this street; "Hollywood & Weyse" just didn't cling

Vine

THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME $300: The stars run east & west on Hollywood Boulevard, & north & south on this street

Vine Street

U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: This president campaigned for reelection in 1900 using the slogan "The Full Dinner Pail"

William McKinley

WORLD'S FAIRS & EXPOSITIONS $1,600 (Daily Double): He was the only president assassinated at a World's Fair

William McKinley (1901)

"RACE" $1000: This ancient region in the Balkan Peninsula was later a Roman province

Thrace

THE SUMMER OF LOVE: 1967 $400: This lawyer was confirmed as the 96th justice & first African American on the Supreme Court

Thurgood Marshall

1965 $400: This "Roof of the World" became an autonomous region of China in 1965 & the Chinese took over many of the local govt. jobs

Tibet

BASIC GEOGRAPHY $800: You may get lightheaded in Gar, a town about 15,000 feet above sea level, in this autonomous region of China

Tibet

GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) With an area of 471,000 square miles & a population of 3 million, this autonomous region was incorporated by China in 1951 amid controversy

Tibet

THE HIMALAYAS $800: The highest tree in the Himalayas is a juniper tree found at around 16,000' in this autonomous region of China

Tibet

ENDLESS SUMER $600: The ancient Sumerian civilization flourished in the "Fertile Crescent" region between these 2 rivers

Tigris & Euphrates

HISTORY $200: The fertile farmland of the Sumerians was found between these 2 rivers

Tigris & Euphrates

SPEAKER'S CORNER $600: Thomas was the real name of this man who in 1936 graduated Boston College & joined the Mass. State House

Tip O'Neill

What states border South Dakota?

To the north (North Dakota) To the east (Minnesota) on the southeastern corner (Iowa) To the south (Nebraska) To the west (Wyoming and Montana) Montana is north of Wyoming

WHERE'D YA GO TO SCHOOL? $1000: Isaac Newton & Lord Byron: this Cambridge University college

Trinity

MOVIE QUOTES $1200: A 2010 remake: "I'm a foolish old man who's been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpy in trousers and a nincompoop"

True Grit

ANIMALS ON THE MAP $800: About 3% of this country lies at the eastern edge of southern Europe in Thrace

Turkey

THE MIDDLE EAST $1000: Eastern Thrace is the European portion of this nation

Turkey

SYMBOLS: On WWI recruitment posters, James Montgomery Flagg drew this icon who is pointing & saying, "I want you for U.S. Army"

Uncle Sam

COMIC BOOKS $200: Among the wealthy characters with their own comics are Richie Rich & this relative of Donald Duck

Uncle Scrooge McDuck

"U" GOT IT! $800: Mesannepadda & Aannepadda were 2 early rulers of this 2-letter Sumerian city

Ur

2-LETTER WORDS $2000: The home of Abraham, this Sumerian city was rediscovered in the 1850s

Ur

2—LETTER WORDS $500: The temple of the moon god Nanna was the largest building in this ancient Sumerian city

Ur

ANCIENT TIMES $1000: Nanna the moon-god was the patron deity of this 2-letter Sumerian city

Ur

ARACHAEOLOGY $800: In 1922 Leonard Woolley began unearthing this Sumerian city, enhancing our knowledge of Mesopotamia

Ur

ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: In 1922 the remains of this 2-lettered Sumerian city & its cemetery were unearthed

Ur

ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: Sir Leonard Woolley is known for his excavations of this Sumerian city with a very short name

Ur

ASIA $2000: This ancient Sumerian city's ruins were first excavated in the 1850s, when the Ziggurat of Nanna was discovered

Ur

WHERE ART THOU? $1600: Herdin' some sheep with Abraham in this Sumerian city with a 2-letter name

Ur

ZIGGURATS $2000: Around 550 B.C., King Nabonidus of Babylon remodeled the ziggurat of this city with a 2-letter name

Ur

POLITICIANS $800 (Daily Double): 1 of the 2 Ohio governors elected president of the U.S. in the late 19th century

William McKinley (or Rutherford B. Hayes)

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $600: Cornelia, daughter of Gen. Nathanael Greene, was conceived while he was billeted at this cold Penn. site

Valley Forge

THE 1st TIME SINCE... $500: He played his 1st recital since 1978 at the state dinner the Reagans threw for the Gorbachevs

Van Cliburn

ENDS IN "ITZ" $500: Legendary Russian-born pianist who married Arturo Toscanini's daughter Wanda in 1933

Vladimir Horowitz

FAMOUS RUSSIANS $1000: 61 years after leaving Russia, this piano virtuoso returned in 1986 for a series of performances

Vladimir Horowitz

LADS NAMED VLAD $1600: This Russian-born piano virtuoso was the son-in-law of Arturo Toscanini

Vladimir Horowitz

PIANISTS $100: This great pianist, who died in November 1989, was Arturo Toscanini's son-in-law

Vladimir Horowitz

BONE VOYAGE $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a portrait on the monitor.) After dying an enemy of the state in 1778, this French philosopher became the posthumous hero of the revolution, and in 1791, his body was paraded to the Bastille tower where he had chosen his pen name

Voltaire

ZIGGURATS $800: This legendary tower of the Bible has been popularly associated with the ziggurat of Marduk

babel

LITERATURE $400: Longfellow based his tales of this inn on the Red Horse Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts

Wayside Inn

1806 $400: In 1806 this man published his first American English dictionary

Webster

HERE COMES THE WEDDING MOVIE $800: Vince Vaughn & Owen Wilson aren't invited but make the best guests anyway in this 2005 comedy

Wedding Crashers

MOVIE STARS GO TO WORK $400: Owen Wilson & Vince Vaughn are divorce mediators in this film

Wedding Crashers

WATER GATE $400: Last name of Australian director Peter that's also a term for a water barrier

Weir

POETS $200: Lord Byron was refused burial in this London church, but in 1969 a memorial to him was placed there

Westminster Abbey

1900 $1000: He lost the presidential race to McKinley for the 2nd time in a row

William Jennings Bryan

U.S. HISTORY $1000: His golden-voiced speech at the 1896 Democratic Convention clinched his nomination

William Jennings Bryan

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $500: This president is seen here with his camera-shy wife Ida

William McKinley

BIRTH OF A PRESIDENT $1000: January 29, 1843 in Niles, Ohio

William McKinley

CHOCOLATEY QUOTES $400: Teddy Roosevelt served as this man's VP & said that he had "No more backbone than a chocolate eclair"

William McKinley

FIRST LADIES $600 (Daily Double): Ida went with this man, her husband, to Buffalo, but wasn't present at the exposition where he was shot

William McKinley

FIRST LADIES $800: Ida Saxton, the daughter of a Canton, Ohio banker, married this future president in 1871

William McKinley

HAIL TO THE CHIEF $2,900 (Daily Double): He was the last civil war veteran to become president, & the first to serve during the 20th century

William McKinley

HAIL TO THE CHIEF $800 (Daily Double): In 1900 the GOP claimed his reelection would give people "four years more of the full dinner pail"

William McKinley

HAIL TO THE CHIEF $800: He remembered the Maine; it blew up during his time in office

William McKinley

MOUNTAINS $200: He was only a candidate for president when North America's tallest mountain was named for him

William McKinley

PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1896 he became the first to use the telephone during a presidential election campaign, often calling GOP HQ

William McKinley

PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $500: In 1897 he said, "War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed"

William McKinley

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $1000: In 1896, he became 1st pres. candidate to campaign by phone, tho probably not from his famous front porch

William McKinley

PRESIDENTIAL VPs $500: Theodore Roosevelt

William McKinley

PRESIDENTS $1000: This Ohio gov. ran his 1896 campaign from his front porch in Canton & won

William McKinley

PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $500: Ida, the wife of this 25th president, had epilepsy

William McKinley

POTPOURRI $300: Some say that Jesse James was with this man & his gang when they raided Lawrence, Kansas

William Quantrill

THE CIVIL WAR $2000: Cole Younger & Frank James accompanied this Colonel when he raided Lawrence, Kansas in 1863

William Quantrill

LORD BYRON $2000: Lord Byron got a bit childish & replaced the "W" at the beginning of this "Prelude" poet's name with a "T"

William Wordsworth

BONE VOYAGE $800: In 1562, almost 500 years after this Norman's greatest victory, Huguenots ransacked his tomb, scattering his bones

William the Conqueror

THE SUMMER OF LOVE: 1967 $1200: The first U.K. TV broadcasts in color began with live coverage of these championships

Wimbledon

HISTORY $200: In 1945 Clement Attlee defeated him, becoming British prime minister

Winston Churchill

WORLD LEADERS $300: In 1951 he defeated Clement Attlee to become prime minister of Britain again

Winston Churchill

1984 $1600: This main character of "1984" works at the Ministry of Truth

Winston Smith

BAD FOLKS IN BOOKS $600: Inner party member & torturer O'Brien shows this man the true face of evil in "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Winston Smith

BRITISH LITERATURE $2000: Early in "1984" this character writes, "Down with Big Brother" over & over again in his diary

Winston Smith

LITERARY E-MAIL ADDRESSES $2000: [email protected]

Winston Smith

WE PUT CHARACTERS ON TRIAL $800: The Ministry of Love was the scene of the trial of this main character; his lawyer is appealing-- after 29 years

Winston Smith

TALL U.S. BUILDINGS $1,200 (Daily Double): A historic New York skyscraper was completed in 1913 to house the headquarters of this five-and-dime store

Woolworth

THAT'S MY DEPARTMENT STORE $200: In 1962, the year the first Wal-mart opened, this 5-&-dime retailer launched its Woolco stores

Woolworth

THE FIVE & DIME $100: Barbara Hutton's grandad, his NYC skyscraper was built on your parents' nickels & dimes

Woolworth

U.S. BUILDINGS $600: A sculpture in this New York City building depicts its founder holding one of the nickels used to create his five-and-dime empire

Woolworth Building

1997 BUSINESS NEWS $400: In July this retailer said it was closing 400 stores; it had nickeled-&-dimed itself to death

Woolworth's

CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $800: In February 1960 4 young black men staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter at a N.C. branch of this 5 & dime

Woolworth's

THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $600: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) A sit-in by four young African-Americans in 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparked nationwide interest & activity in the civil-rights movement & also led this five-and-dime store to desegregate its lunch counters just about six months later

Woolworth's

PICK ONE $600: Of Woolworth, Wordsworth or Wadsworth, the one who was a stamp distributor in Westmoreland County

Wordsworth

THE OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL $2000: The emblem of the Surgeon General bears a white anchor & this traditional symbol of Hermes

a caduceus

THE MIDDLE AGES $1600: After a journey of 3 1/2 years, Marco Polo reached Shang-tu, China, which was called this in "Kubla Khan"

Xanadu

U.S. CITIES $1000: An A to Z list of Ohio cities might run from Aberdeen to this birthplace of a famous western author

Zanesville

BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS $1000: 1965: As Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof"

Zero Mostel

BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS $600: "Fiddler on the Roof" (1965)

Zero Mostel

PYRAMID $400: From the Assyrian for "summit", it's a terraced pyramid of the ancient Babylonians

Ziggurat

A MESS O' MESOPOTAMIA $800: Mesopotamia's versions of pyramids were these stepped structures with temples on top

Ziggurats

ARCHITECTURE $800: The largest known one of these Mesopotamian temple towers is at Chogha Zabil in Iran

Ziggurats

IN THE GOOD OLD SUMER TIME $800: These Sumerian pyramids were topped by temples

Ziggurats

POKER HANDS $200: In Texas hold 'em these 2 cards are a "Woolworth"

a 5 and a 10

8-LETTER WORDS $1600: This symbol of the medical profession is modeled on a staff that Mercury carried

a Caduceus

TYPES OF SALADS $600: From Thessaloniki or Samothrace

a Greek salad

WORKS LIKE A CHARM $800: The user's manual says the first step in assembling the Motorola CHARM for use is to insert this card

a SIM card

APOLLO 11 $1600: Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy aboard one of these mighty rockets

a Saturn V

I FEEL A BIT "ILL" $1000: A soldier's lodging place

a billet

I'M JUST A "BILL" $1200: Lodging for a soldier

a billet

DOLLAR "BIL" $2000: Lodging for a soldier

a billet Crossword Clue: House, as soldiers Answer: billet

"BI"OLOGY $400: A mollusk, like an oyster or clam, with a shell consisting of 2 hinged parts

a bivalve

CLOTHING THROUGH THE AGES $800: Beastly term for a scarf of feathers or fur, but usually not scales

a boa

PROVERBS OF DEATH $500: A soldier might say "Every" one of these "has its billet"

a bullet

AND THEN YOU "DY" $2000: 2 individuals or units regarded as a pair

a dyad crossword clue: couples answer: dyads Define dyad nounTECHNICAL something that consists of two elements or parts. "the mother-child dyad" MATHEMATICS an operator that is a combination of two vectors. CHEMISTRY a divalent atom or radical.

ART $600: Marc Chagall painted several versions of this type of musician hovering above roofs

a fiddler

MYTHELLANEOUS $200: The mythical Sumerian hero Utnapishtim built a big vessel at God's urging & thereby survived this catastrophe

a flood

MONSTER MANUAL $1600: It had a woman's head & a bird's body & met up with the Argonauts; c'mon get...

a harpy

MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: A shrewish woman, or a predatory mythological creature who is part woman, part bird

a harpy

GET A ROOM! $400: Take a romantic bath in the Garden of Eden Apple Suite at Caesars Pocono Palace--your tub is shaped like this

a heart

7-LETTER WORDS $200: In track & field, women throw one that's at least as long as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is tall

a javelin

IT'S TOTALLY TUBULAR $200: This tube in which you can see changing colors was popular from its invention in 1816; Lord Byron got one as a gift

a kaleidoscope

CALL ME A"LEX" $1200: By profession, Noah Webster was one of these

a lexicographer

FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Your girlfriend will be ecstatic if you send her a billet-doux or "sweet note", this alliterative item

a love letter

FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: If a Frenchwoman receives a billet-doux, she's gotten one of these

a love note or letter

"AT" EASE $1600: A terraced pyramid of the ancient Babylonians

a ziggurat

SCIENCE IS A 7-LETTER WORD $3,000 (Daily Double): Examples of this type of soft-bodied invertebrate include the snail & the octopus

a mollusk

WET SCIENCE $1600: The zebra type of this mollusk is so successful at filtering the Great Lakes, water clarity is causing algae blooms

a mussel

HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $2000: Contracting tissue in a bivalve mollusk

a mussel muscle

GAMES $400: 7 or 11 in craps, or Robert Redford in recent movie

a natural

MOLLUSKS $400: This "chambered" mollusk begins life with about 4 chambers & develops around 30 by adulthood

a nautilus

CLAM UP $200: Take that, oysters! One of the largest of these is a 75-pound specimen extracted from a giant clam

a pearl

JEWELRY $200: The color of this gem ranges from black to white, depending on the mollusk & it's environment

a pearl

FROM NOAH WEBSTER'S 1828 DICTIONARY $3,000 (Daily Double): "One versed in the science of government and the art of governing"; also "a man of artifice or deep contrivance"

a politician

JAMES K. POLK ME $400: After John Quincy Adams' disputed election, Polk called for an end to the electoral system & for this type of vote

a popular vote

ISAAC $600: Abraham was ready to sacrifice Isaac as commanded, but God provided this adult animal caught in a thicket

a ram

THE NEW YORK TIMES DINING & WINE $800: A tasty but tongue-twisting recipe from Mark Bittman paired the bay type of this bivalve mollusk with scallions

a scallop

GREEK MYTHOLOGY $1600: Athena gave Perseus one of these to use as a mirror against Medusa &, reflecting back, it was a good thing

a shield

"CROSS"WORDS $800: They're on the flag known as the Jolly Roger

a skull and crossbones

ENDS IN "G" $200: A small snail-like mollusk that has no shell, or a metal disk often used illegally in vending machines

a slug

FLORIDA & FAUNA $1200: Broward County is known for the Florida tree this, a mollusk whose shell can have pink streaks (but not racing stripes)

a snail

POETRY SLAM $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew recites "poetry.") A dream cracked And I awoke Frozen tears rising Like this calcium carbonate deposit On a cave floor

a stalagmite

CLAM UP $600: This soft-shell clam named for 1 way it's cooked is pronounced in New England to rhyme with "Lima"

a steamer clam

ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: An upright slab with writing, like the Merneptah one Stanley Kowalski--er, Sir Flinders Petrie--found in 1896

a stela

BEE WORDS $600: It's an elaborate confidence game like the one pulled off by Paul Newman & Robert Redford in a 1973 film

a sting

CLOTHING THROUGH THE AGES $400: In ancient Rome a balteus was a shoulder "belt" formed from the twisted folds of one of these garments

a toga

CLICHES MADE FANCY $1000: "One ziggurat as an incarnation of brawn"

a tower of strength

ANIMAL WORDS $1000: A quarrelsome woman; one might even say she's vulpine

a vixen

TECHNOLOGY OF THE PAST $1000: A Sumerian pictograph shows one in 3500 B.C.: the oldest are wooden disks with 3 carved planks clamped by struts

a wheel

OF SPRINGS $800: The Omega brand of this accessory boasts of its tiny but critical silicon balance spring

a wristwatch

4 LEGS FOR YOU $1000: Likely domesticated in Tibet, this oxlike mammal aka "hairy cattle" can check in at around 1,800 pounds

a yak

EAT IT! $800: For a quick version of this French sauce, mix together mayo, minced garlic, a little salt & lemon juice

aioli

IT'S GREEK TO ME $800: As the English alphabet runs from A to Z, the Greek runs this way

alpha to omega

(Alex: We have military devices that have been anagrammed in...) WHIRLED OF WARCRAFT $1200: Large & in charge barge: ERRATIC CAR FRIAR

an aircraft carrier

WORKS LIKE A CHARM $1000: In 2013 TechCrunch called Charm, a then-new one of these, "Tinder meets Vine"

an app

ABOARD "SHIP" $800: In a 2013 film Owen Wilson got a coveted one of these title positions at Google

an internship

ANIMALS $600: This mollusk, also called a devilfish, may inject a poison to paralyze prey

an octopus

TAUNT "O" $800: When you try to make a point, you flail around like one of these mollusks with 8 limbs

an octopus

SIGNS & SYMBOLS $200: Athena is a goddess of wisdom, as symbolized by this creature

an owl

FOOD & DRINK $200: The "Olympia" variety of this seafood is a favorite for eating on the half shell

an oyster

JONATHAN SWIFTIES $200: "He was a bold man that first ate" this bivalve mollusk

an oyster

COWS $800: The black, polled beef cattle aka the Aberdeen this was introduced to the U.S. in 1873

angus

-OLOGIES $400: The study of ancient cultures by examining their material remains

archaeology

LESSER-KNOWN MUSEUMS $1600: The Devil's Rope Museum in McLean, Texas is devoted to this type of barrier

barbed wire

REPLICAS $1000: Caesars Palace in Las Vegas turned a replica of this type of Cleopatra craft into a nightclub

barge

(Alex: Each response is a famous pair, but you must give us the response in reverse order.) PAIRS FAMOUS $600: A Duracell item & one of the "A"s in the Marines' AAV-7 vehicle

battery and assault

LORD BYRON $1200: Byron's poem "She Walks In" this was inspired by a lovely lady in a mourning dress

beauty

LORD BYRON $1200: Inspired by his cousin's wife, Byron wrote, "she walks in" this, "like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies"

beauty

CHANGE A LETTER $1200: Change a letter in "ballet" & you get this lodging for a soldier

billet

PUT IT ON MY "BILL" $1000: Mais oui, ma chere, it's a hyphenated French term for a love letter

billet-doux

FEMALE INVENTORS $600: Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, is said by some to be the first programmer, as she used this number system

binary

CLAM UP $400: This term for organisms like clams means they're made of 2 shells

bivalves

GOOD "BI" $1600: An oyster, clam or mussel

bivalves

ZOOLOGY $500: Mollusks who have shells with 2 similar halves are classed as these

bivalves

HISSSTORY $1000: This ancient winged staff featuring 2 intertwined snakes is now the symbol of the U.S. Army Medical Corps

caduceus

MYTHOLOGY $500: Hermes' winged sandals were the talaria & his staff, this

caduceus

MYTHOLOGY $800: In return for the lyre, Apollo gave Hermes this golden staff with coiled serpents

caduceus

SNAKE STUFF $2000: According to legend, Hermes traded a lyre to Apollo for this snake-wrapped stick

caduceus

THE "DUCE" YOU SAY $1000: Snake-encircled wand carried by Mercury

caduceus

ROCKS & STONES $2000: Also beginning with C-A, it's the one-word name for the form of calcium carbonate seen here as Iceland's spar

calcite

THE ELEMENTS $200: Seashells are made of its carbonate, your bones of its phosphate

calcium

THE HUMAN BODY $1,000 (Daily Double): About 2/3 of the weight of bone tissue consists of the minerals phosphate, carbonate & this

calcium

WATER SCIENCE $400: Mineral water from natural springs usually has a high level of carbonate of this chemical element

calcium

"C.C." SENOR! $2000: Chalk is a naturally occurring form of this compound whose chemical formula is CaCO3

calcium carbonate

CLAM UP $800: To grow their protective outer shells, clams secrete this compound, CaCO3

calcium carbonate

GENERAL SCIENCE $300: Chalk & limestone are naturally occurring forms of this compound, CaCO3

calcium carbonate

INVERTEBRATES $400: The skeleton of a starfish is made of this, CaCO3, just like chalk

calcium carbonate

MEET YOU IN THE MIDDLE $800: Digital ____ obscura

camera

EAT IT! $600: Mozzarella, tomatoes & basil are in this simple salad that gets its name from an Italian island

caprese

3 OF A KIND: Classical music's "Million Dollar Trio" was Heifetz, Rubinstein &, on this instrument, Gregor Piatigorsky

cello

"C" IN SCIENCE $2000: The name of this class of mollusks comes from Greek words meaning "head foot"

cephalapod

ORE Cinnamon is a spice, not to be confused with this reddish ore of mercury with a similar-sounding name

cinnabar

BY THE SEASHORE $200: Yielding 20 pounds of edible flesh, the giant type of this is the largest bivalve mollusk

clam

SHUT YOUR MOUTH $600: In a familiar phrase for becoming silent, "up" follows the name of this bivalve mollusk

clam

CLOTHING $300: You don't have to be shoveling for mollusks to wear these pants, as their name suggests

clam diggers

THE SHUSH DOCTRINE $400: There's a bivalve mollusk in this 2-word idiom meaning to become silent

clam up

MOLLUSKS $200: This drink created in 1969 is basically a Bloody Mary mix with a tiny bit of mollusk broth in the recipe

clamato

HIT THE BEACHES $2000: It's the activity of gathering quahogs & longnecks, maybe on the beaches of Martha's Vineyard

clamming

I AM THE WALRUS $400: A walrus feeds on these mollusks, though we doubt they're served "casino"

clams

SEA LIFE $600: 2 Pacific coast species of this mollusk are pismo & geoduck

clams

SHOW ME THE MONEY SLANG $1,100 (Daily Double): Mollusks of the class Pelecypoda

clams

BY DEGREES $1000: To Francis Ford Coppola, nephew Nicolas Cage is in the third degree of this 13-letter word from the Latin for "blood"

consanguinity

"L" These birds have longer tails and longer names than the very similar lories

lorikeet

IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS $1000: Tannenbaums? No--just Christmas tree worms that live in the calcium carbonate skeletons of these marine creatures

coral

ANTIQUES $500 (Daily Double): Because of 1891's McKinley Tariff Act, this was required to appear on the bottoms of plates coming into U.S.

country of origin

MEN'S FASHION $200: It was the footwear recommended for the black tie Bush inaugural gala sponsored by Texas

cowboy boots

"CROSS"WORDS $400: It's the sport seen here--remember the category title

cross-country skiing

"CROSS"WORDS $2000: If you're esotropic, you're this

cross-eyed

MARINE BIOLOGY $1600: Barnacles were once classified as mollusks but now are included in this class along with crayfish

crustacean

HISTORY $1000: About 3000 B.S. the Sumerians invented this writing system which used triangular marks

cuneiform

IN THE GOOD OLD SUMER TIME $600: Sumerians scratched this writing system into stone & wax in addition to clay tablets

cuneiform

GARDENING $800: The yellow & white flower seen here; Donald might "duck" out to get some as a gift

daisy

"DARK" $400: In 1844 James K. Polk was the 1st of this type of candidate to win the presidency

dark horse

JAMES K. POLK ME $200: Running for president as a relative unknown, Polk is considered the first of these swarthy animals

dark horse

IT'S AN INTERJECTION: It can mean to mend clothing, & not go all the way to damn!

darn

ART & MYTHOLOGY $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) In Botticelli's painting of Athena restraining a centaur, the interlocking rings on her clothing are a symbol of this family, a member of which commissioned the work

de Medici

LANGUAGES $200: Since they're no longer spoken, Sumerian, Etruscan & Gothic are given this lifeless name

dead languages

E BEFORE I, BUT NO C DO I SPY $800: Odin or Athena

deity

ROCK OF AGES $1600: The Rock of Gibraltar is made up mostly of this rock that's generally composed of calcium carbonate

limestone

AMERICAN HISTORY $300: McKinley campaigned for president promising "a full" one of these

dinner pail

POTPOURRI $200: Of mollusks, algae or dinosaurs, the last one to appear on Earth

dinosaurs

WORKS LIKE A CHARM $400: Like a Chinese chicken dish, Charms candy pops come in this alliterative pair of contrasting flavors

sweet and sour

GREECE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in front of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece.) Built in the 400s B.C., the temple of Athena, known as the Parthenon, is the greatest example of this ancient architectural style

doric

ANIMAL PADS $400: An aerie is for these, perhaps the harpy or bald type

eagle

NATURE $400: The Harpy type of this bird lives in South American rain forests & preys on monkeys & other mammals

eagle

MINING FOR "ORE" $1000: Classical music greats Horowitz & Rostropovich each put out an album of tunes they used as these crowd-pleasers

encores

THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED $2,000 (Daily Double): The main flag on a warship is called this, also a rank in the Navy

ensign

FRYER TUCK $1000: Tuck goes full Fannie Flagg making this 3-word title dish, dipping 'em in flour, milk, eggs & bread crumbs

fried green tomatoes

THE SCIENTIFIC NAME GAME $800: Ittibittium is a genus of (very small) marine snails, part of this mollusk class

gastropod

THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $500: The name of this class of mollusks comes from the Greek for "belly foot"

gastropods

FROM NOAH WEBSTER'S 1828 DICTIONARY $400: "The doctrine or science of the structure of the... terraqueous globe, and of the substances which compose it"

geology

PIERCED NAVAL HISTORY $800: Even though the mortally wounded James Lawrence on the Chesapeake cried, "Don't" do this, his crew finally had to

give up the ship

THE WAR OF 1812 $400: As he was carried below, mortally wounded, Capt. James Lawrence of the Chesapeake ordered, "don't" do this

give up the ship

NURSERY RHYME TIME $400: Jack Horner's depressed pie filling

glum plum

MYTHOLOGY $100: Post held by Neith for the ancient Egyptians, Minerva for the Romans & Athena for the Greeks

goddess of wisdom

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $500: If you put J. Arthur Rank's, Donald Duck's, & Chuck Barris' together, you might have a bonang

gong

ROCKS & MINERALS $1000: True alabaster is a variety of this mineral used for making plaster of Paris

gypsum (calcium sulfate)

OLD TESTAMENT $800: Sarah was Abraham's wife, while Keturah was only this

handmaiden (concubine)

VERBS $1000: A school attended by Lord Byron & Winston Churchill; as a verb, it means to inflict great stress

harrow

IN THE OCEAN $1,000 (Daily Double): This type of crab moves into the empty shells of mollusks

hermit crab

WOOD $600: Andrew Jackson & James K. Polk were both nicknamed after this tree known for its tough wood

hickory

WORLD CULTURES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, MA.) The Copan stelae are the major source for scholars' growing understanding of Mayan writing; though we associate this term with picture writing, each symbol had a word associated with it, too

hieroglyphics

NURSERY RHYMES $400: "Little Jack Horner sat in the corner eating" this

his Christmas pie

STING $1200: The sting in the movie "The Sting" involves Robert Shaw placing a half-million-dollar bet on this sport

horse racing

WALKIN' SONGS $800: In 1964 the Shangri-Las wanted you to "Remember--walking..." here

in the sand

IT'S IN THE BIBLE $500: Problem for which couples Hannah & Elkanah and Abraham & Sarah would likely have sought medical help

infertility

SCULPTURE MATERIAL $1,000 (Daily Double): Chryselephantine statues like Phidias' "Athena" (the "Elephantine" part)

ivory

LETTER & WORD $1000: During World War II, these soldier meals included a stick of gum, toilet paper & 4 cigarettes

k-rations

GAMING $500: Caesars Palace historians tell us this game with numbers marked on a ticket helped fund the Great Wall of China

keno

"L" Don't be this 13-letter synonym for "lazy"

lackadaisical

"L" Verb meaning to dissolve out via percolation

leach

ORE Galena, PbS, is the chief ore mineral of this grayish metal

lead

FROM NOAH WEBSTER'S 1828 DICTIONARY $1600: "A species of aquatic worm, which is used in the medical art for topical bleeding"

leeches

CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $3,600 (Daily Double): Noah Webster, for example (13)

lexicographer

CAVES $800: Caves eroded by water are most commonly found in this type of rock composed mainly of calcium carbonate

limestone

GEOLOGY TEST $1600: Calcium bicarbonate from this, the most abundant soluble rock, is used by sea creatures in forming shells

limestone

I AM A ROCK $1000: The Rock of Gibraltar is a huge block of this rock made of calcite, a mineral form of calcium carbonate

limestone

NATURE $500: Coral is made of this substance secreted by polyps as an external skeleton

limestone

REEF MADNESS $800: The skeletons of coral polyps are made of calcium carbonate, so coral reefs are mainly this sedimentary rock

limestone

ARCHITECTURE $500: The Turkish style of these Islamic prayer towers is slender, pencil-shaped & girded with balconies

minaret

"MOD"s $2,000 (Daily Double): Winston Churchill said that political rival Clement Attlee was this, & had much to be this about

modest

ANIMALS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows the giant shipworm on the monitor.) The giant shipworm comes out of its shell, & the bacteria inside allow it to digest the sulfur compound in the mud around it; it's not actually a worm, but from this shelled phylum

mollusk

MARINE BIOLOGY $600: To biologists, a "whelk" is not a "wunnerful, wunnerful" bandleader but a type of this univalve

mollusk (snail)

ANIMALS $300: The largest members of this phylum are the giant squids & the smallest are snails

mollusks

COCKLES & MUSCLES $1000: The shell with radiating ribs identifies cockles, part of this vast group that also includes snails & squid

mollusks

THE OCEAN $600: 20,000 feet under the sea you'll still find animals of this phylum, different from their brethren octopi & clams

mollusks

THE SNAIL $1000: Both the squid & the snail are members of this animal phylum whose name is from the Latin for "soft"

mollusks

ZOOLOGY $2,200 (Daily Double): Malacology is the zoology branch that deals with these invertebrates, such as snails & clams

mollusks

ANIMALS $500: Shellfish are not fish, but members of 2 invertebrate classifications, of which this is 1

mollusks or crustaceans

MODE OF TRANSPORT $800: Our contestant Jeremy Horowitz dreamed of being an announcer at rallies of these (Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! ...Roaring out of the gates of Hades!)

monster trucks

ANCIENT TIMES $200: A great temple was built at Ur to honor Nannar, the Sumerian god of this heavenly body

moon

"MOTHER", "FATHER", "SISTER", "BROTHER" $1600: The inner iridescent layers of the shells of many bivalve mollusks

mother of pearl

PRECIOUS "M"s $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue crew shows off her choker.) You can buy some unique jewelry made of this, the lining of some mollusk shells

mother of pearl

SCIENCE CLASS $800: This prized natural substance is made up of alternating thin plates of calcium carbonate & conchiolin

mother of pearl

SEASHELLS $400: The finest pearls are produced by mollusks whose shells are lined with this

mother of pearl

SHELLS $500: Also called nacre, this iridescent inner layer of certain shells is composed mainly of calcium carbonate

mother of pearl

LANGUAGES $500: The last letter in the Greek alphabet is equivalent to this letter, not Z, in English

omega

THE INTERNATIONAL BUTLER ACADEMY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew eats expensive fish eggs at the International Butler Academy, the Netherlands.) The academy teaches the proper serving of caviar--always use a nonmetallic spoon, perhaps one made of this material, from the interior of mollusks

mother of pearl

DESIGN $400: It's the iridescent lining of mollusk shells used in decorative inlays

mother-of-pearl

"M"ENAGERIE $300: Mother-of-pearl from the freshwater species of this bivalve was once used to make buttons

mussel

ANIMALS $400: These mollusks, not oysters, are the most common source for freshwater pearls

mussels

FOOD $400: These bivalves should have their beards removed before cooking

mussels

SEASHELLS $600: The blue species of this common bivalve accounts for much of the shell litter on East & West Coast beaches

mussels

SHELLFISH $500: A recipe for moules mariniere would call for these mollusks

mussels

ISLANDS $200: Lord Byron's poem "The Island" was based on this famous mutiny

mutiny on the bounty

ENDS IN "RE", NOT ER $1200: Composed of calcium carbonate & conchiolin, it creates the iridescent effect attributed to pearls

nacre

THE PEARL $1600: This 5-letter substance is secreted by the mollusk to create a pearl

nacre

SEASHELLS $800: A type of cephalopod mollusk whose name is a favorite for submarines, both real & fictional

nautilus

Define ziggurat

noun (among the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians) a temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramidal tower, consisting of a number of stories and having about the outside a broad ascent winding round the structure, presenting the appearance of a series of terraces.

Define dame

noun 1. (in the UK) the title given to a woman equivalent to the rank of knight. 2. INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN a woman.

Define Muskogee

noun 1. a member of an American Indian people of the southeastern US, who led the Creek Indian confederacy. 2. the Muskogean language of the Muskogee. adjective 1. relating to the Muskogee or their language.

Define incarnation

noun 1. a person who embodies in the flesh a deity, spirit, or abstract quality. "Rama was Vishnu's incarnation on earth" synonyms: embodiment, personification, exemplification, type, epitome; More 2. (with reference to reincarnation) one of a series of lifetimes that a person spends on earth. "in my next incarnation, I'd like to be the Secretary of Fun" synonyms: lifetime, life, existence "a previous incarnation"

Define brawn

noun 1. physical strength in contrast to intelligence. "commando work required as much brain as brawn" synonyms: physical strength, muscle(s), burliness, huskiness, toughness, power, might; More 2. BRITISH meat from a pig's or calf's head that is cooked and pressed in a pot with jelly.

Define patriarch

noun 1. the male head of a family or tribe. 2. any of those biblical figures regarded as fathers of the human race, especially Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, their forefathers, or the sons of Jacob. synonyms: senior figure, father, paterfamilias, leader, elder "as patriarch of this family, I am passing fiduciary control of the estate on to Derek"

Define Thrace

noun 1. an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece. 2. a modern region corresponding to the S part of the Roman province: now divided between Greece (Western Thrace) and Turkey (Eastern Thrace) .

Define lexicographer

noun a person who compiles dictionaries.

Define rejoinder

noun a reply, especially a sharp or witty one. "she would have made some cutting rejoinder but none came to mind" synonyms: answer, reply, response, retort, riposte, counter; informalcomeback "what serious rejoinder could I possibly offer when you make such a ludicrous accusation?" DATED•LAW a defendant's answer to the plaintiff's reply or replication.

"O" MY $200: Marine mollusk good at arm to arm to arm to arm to arm to arm to arm to arm combat

octopus

ANIMANIA $1000: The blue-ringed variety of this sea mollusk has a venom so potent it can kill a human being in a matter of minutes

octopus

EYE 8 $400: Eye exactly 8 tentacles on a marine mollusk & you're looking at one of these animals

octopus

EATING OUT $200: Grimaldi's under the Brooklyn Bridge is often voted No. 1 for this; try a slice!

pizza

WHO CARES? $100: The state shell of Virginia is that of this yummy mollusk

oyster

THE "O.C." $400: These crispy snacks were created for a certain mollusk soup

oyster crackers

THE BUTCHER $2000: If you're into experimenting, ask your butcher for the hip steak named for this mollusk

oyster steak

"OY"! $600: These edible bivalve mollusks can reach 12 inches across

oysters

FESTIVALS $200: A highlight of the St. Mary's county, Maryland festival devoted to this bivalve is the national shucking contest

oysters

FINE FOOD $200: At a raw bar, try the Lynnhaven type of this mollusk--it doesn't shuck

oysters

FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD $400: You need to shuck some of these for a Hangtown fry

oysters

GERMAN CUISINE $600: Gerostete Austern are these mollusks roasted & served on the half shell

oysters

HELL'S KITCHEN $1200: Traditionally, "angels on horseback" are these bacon-wrapped bivalves; add Tabasco for "devils"

oysters

WRITERS NOT WRITING $1200: As a youth, Jack London was a pirate--stealing these mollusks from farms in San Francisco Bay

oysters

SYNONYMS $1600: In the eastern U.S. the puma is called by this name that also starts with "P"

panther

THE DONALD $400: A popular urban legend says that Finland banned Donald Duck because he doesn't wear these

pants

WITH SCISSORS $200: In the hand game known as roshambo, it's what scissors beats

paper

WHAT'S IN YOUR SUPERMARKET CART? $600: An 8-pack of Brawny

paper towels

HAND, SOLO $1600: You'll need one hand for the World Series of Roshambo, but you can turn it into any of these 3 weapons

paper, rock, & scissor

SHIPS $100: In "Tales of a Wayside Inn", Longfellow compares brief encounters to "ships that" do this

pass in the night

(Alex: Each response is a famous pair, but you must give us the response in reverse order.) PAIRS FAMOUS $400: A flour/water mixture used to stick papers together (don't eat it, kids!) & an edit of a film in progress

paste and cut

GEMS $200: The Hope, a famous Baroque one of these mollusk gems, is 2 inches long & weighs several ounces

pearl

GEMS & JEWELS $200: The orient is the term for the surface iridescence of this mollusk product

pearl

FACTS FROM THE WORLD ALMANAC $200: Bahrain's natural resources include oil, fish, natural gas & these prized mollusk products

pearls

GEMS & JEWELRY $100: Renaissance women wore several necklaces at a time, often made of these mollusk gems

pearls

GEMS & JEWELRY $400: Legend says Cleopatra once dropped 2 of these mollusk gems in wine or vinegar & drank them

pearls

GEMS & JEWELRY $400: Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I show that she wore necklaces of these mollusk gems

pearls

NURSERY RHYMES $600: Little Jack Horner put his thumb in a Christmas pie & pulled out this fruit

plum

3-LETTER WORDS $100: It's one layer of toilet paper or wood

ply

DRUG STORE $400: It's said a Sumerian clay tablet from 2000 B.C., calling for plant materials, is the oldest one known

prescription

DRUGS $400: A Sumerian clay tablet from 2000 B.C. calling for plant materials is the oldest one known

prescription

WILD CATS $1,000 (Daily Double): The cougar has the Guinness record for most other names in English, over 40, including this 4-letter name

puma

CATCH THE QUECHUA WORD $400: This 4-letter alternate name for the mountain lion comes from the Quechua

puma Crossword Clue: Big cat of the Americas Answer: puma

ZIGGURATS $400: Dating back 5,000 years, ziggurats were temple towers of Mesopotamia built in the "step" style of this shape

pyramid

LESSER-KNOWN MUSEUMS $800: There's an early X-ray room in the Albuquerque Museum of the ASRT, the "R" referring to this medical field

radiology

SEAFOOD $2000: Coquilles St. Jacques is often served in the shell of these mollusks, the dish's main ingredient

scallops

5-LETTER WORDS $800: As a verb, it means to remove the husk from an ear of corn or the top shell of an oyster or clam

shuck

Define shul

shul or schul [shool, shoo l] Examples See more synonyms for shul on Thesaurus.com noun, plural shuln [shooln, shoo ln] /ʃuln, ʃʊln/, Yiddish. a synagogue. Crossword Clue: Sabbath service site Answer: shul

GENERAL SCIENCE $2000: Most sponge skeletons consist of either calcium carbonate or this glasslike mineral

silica

FATHER FIGURES $200: For designing the tallest of his era, like the Woolworth building, Cass Gilbert was "the father of" this type of structure

skyscraper

REPORTER'S DICTIONARY $1000: This short 1- or 2-word label for a news story sounds like a mollusk without a shell

slug

NATURE $400: Often found clinging to rocks, limpets are a type of this mollusk

snails

WRITERS' HOBBIES $600: Lord Byron enjoyed this athletic activity & crossed the Hellespont that way (about a mile) in 1810

swimming

19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $400: James K. Polk is the only president to have previously held this position in the House of Representatives

speaker

AD VERBS $400: Charmin toilet paper implored, "Please don't ____ the Charmin"

squeeze

5-LETTER ANIMALS $400: The giant variety of this sea mollusk may grow to 55 feet long

squid

SEA CREATURES $200: This 10-armed mollusk ranges in size from a couple of inches to more than 55 feet

squid

SEAFOOD DIET $300: Calamari, another name for this mollusk with an edible ink, comes from the Latin for "writing pen"

squid

ZOOLOGY $300: Some of these mollusks related to the octopus are also known as sea arrows

squids

SCIENCE & NATURE $200: It's a formation of calcium carbonate built up on the floor of a cave, formerly water dripping from a stalactite

stalagmite

HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD $200: Jack Palance, Dyan Cannon & Will Rogers have theirs in front of Frederick's of Hollywood

stars (on the Hollywood walk of fame)

FILL IN THE PHRASE $1000: "There are lies, damned lies & ____"

statistics

(Alex: We have military devices that have been anagrammed in...) WHIRLED OF WARCRAFT $400: It goes deep: MAN BRUISE

submarine

ENDLESS SUMER $400: Utu, who judged the dead at the end of each day, was the Sumerian god of this celestial body

sun

WORLD MYTH $400: Utu, the Sumerian god of this celestial body, judges the dead in the underworld at the end of the day

sun

"T" TIME $400: This word for any house of worship is from the Latin for "tent"; the Mormon one is famous for its choir

tabernacle

10-LETTER WORDS $200: A Mormon hall, or the portable sanctuary in which the Ark of the Covenant was carried

tabernacle

10-LETTER WORDS $600: There are 360 members of the famous Mormon this Choir

tabernacle

10-LETTER WORDS $800: The tent that housed the Ark of the Covenant; today the Mormons have a big one in Salt Lake City

tabernacle

RELIGIOUSI-"T" $400: This word for a house of worship is found between "Mormon" & "Choir"

tabernacle

WEIRDPODGE $800: From 1879 to 1931 this was the most any item cost at Woolworth's

ten cents

SPARE ME! $1000: (Kelley of the clue crew gives the clue) To pick up a woolworths split, a bowler tries to clip the left side of the 5 pin, throwing it across the lane to hit the pin with this number

the 10 pin

LET'S GO BOWLING $2,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, in a Woolworth split, these 2 pins are left standing

the 5 & the 10

DOCTORS $200: Now 76, Jonas Salk has joined the quest to find a vaccine for this

the AIDS Virus

ANCIENT HISTORY $200: In the 400s B.C. Callicrates designed the temple of Athena Nike on this hill

the Acropolis

ROCKS OF AGES $800: This mountain range, including Mont Blanc, began with underwater limestone deposits 200 million years ago

the Alps

A RIVER RUNS TO IT $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on a monitor.) The Indus River rises in Tibet and flows 1800 miles through South Asia before emptying into this sea that shares its name with an adjacent peninsula

the Arabian Sea

CRAFTS $2000: Athena furnished this seacraft with a talking timber from the Forest of Dodona

the Argo

ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $200: Secretary of State Colin Powell

the Army

HISTORY AT SEA $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated map on the monitor.) On the return trip during his first voyage, Columbus and the crew of the Niña were almost arrested on Santa Maria Island in this group, because the governor may have thought they were pirates

the Azores

NOTIFY $2000: Before this battle, Lord Nelson sent the message to his sailors that "England expects that every man will do his duty"

the Battle of Trafalgar

MAYOR GARCETTI'S LOS ANGELES $200: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) Just north of Hollywood & Vine, the studios at Capitol Records have been used by Frank Sinatra, Green Day, Sam Smith & this band, who recorded their "Surfin' Safari" album in the tower

the Beach Boys

ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: The mud of Novgorod has yielded hundreds of medieval letters on the bark of this tree, a Russian national symbol

the Birch tree

"OO" WHO? $400: These brothers, Joseph & Lyman, founded an upscale NYC department store in 1872

the Bloomingdale's

U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: Mountain range that surrounds city of Atlanta

the Blue Ridge Mountains

LANDMARKS: Lord Byron wrote, "I stood in Venice on" this, "a palace and a prison on each hand"

the Bridge of Sighs

TRAVEL FRANCE $400: In 1889 a weather station was installed on its third & highest floor to measure wind speed & air pressure

the Eiffel Tower

MONEY $200: In Burkina Faso, Mali, the Central African Republic & Switzerland, the monetary unit is called this

the Franc

ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $3,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Arlington National Cemetery.) Robert F. Kennedy wanted JFK buried under a simple wooden cross; that was overruled, but when he died, Robert, a World War II veteran of this same service as his brother Jack, got the humble monument he desired

the Navy

SHIP SHAPE $200: In 1492 the Santa Clara & La Gallega were given these names & joined the Pinta on an epic ocean voyage

the Nina and the Santa Maria

ALWAYS REMEMBER SEPTEMBER $400: The names of the 3 ships that left the Canary Islands on Sept. 6, 1492, heading west

the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria

THEY COME IN THREES $600: In August 1492 Columbus & his crews set sail on the ocean blue on these 3 ships

the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria

THE MONROE DOCTRINE $1,200 (Daily Double): James K. Polk cited the doctrine in getting sole control from Britain of this territory below the 49th parallel

the Oregon Territory

"PAR"TY TIME $800: After Muslims captured Athens in the 1400s, this temple to Athena was used as a mosque

the Parthenon

HISTORIC PLACES $1200: This temple was intact until the 5th century when Phidias' giant statue of Athena was removed

the Parthenon

LET'S VISIT A MUSEUM $800: At the Acropolis museum in Athens, you'll find a whole gallery devoted to this ancient temple of Athena

the Parthenon

BODIES OF WATER $400: Banks of pearl-producing mollusks are found around Bahrain, on the Arabian shore of this gulf

the Persian Gulf

VOYAGERS $200: Of Columbus' 3 ships in 1492, the Nina & Pinta were smaller than this one

the Santa Maria

MUST SEA TV $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A 2002 National Geographic special recounted the finding of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in this sea with the name of a Biblical king

the Sea of Solomon (or the Solomon Sea)

ARCHAEOLOGY $400: An 1847 study of the mound builders of Ohio was the first publication of this Washington, D.C. institution

the Smithsonian

SEAS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Mekong River in Vietnam.) Southeast Asia's longest river, the Mekong, starts in the Tibetan Highlands & flows 2,700 miles before emptying into the sea that we know as this, but which Vietnam wants to call the Southeast Asia Sea

the South China Sea

BABYLON 5 $800: Etemenanki, a ziggurat, is sometimes identified as this legendary landmark

the Tower of Babel

COLLEGE SPORTS MASCOTS: In 1947 Walt Disney made a handshake deal to let this university use one of his major characters as its mascot, still in use today

the University of Oregon

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds up a flag at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, PA.) You might want to commemmorate your trip to the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia with a "Don't Give Up the Ship" flag featuring the immortal words of Captain James Lawrence during this war

the War of 1812

HULL OF FAME $400: It was during this war against the British that naval captain James Lawrence said, "Don't give up the ship"

the War of 1812

THERE'S A "WAY" $2000: James K. Polk chaired this House committee from 1833 to 1835; Bill Thomas chairs it today

the Ways and Means Committee

INNS $1000: The Red Horse Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts was the model for Longfellow's "Tales of" this "Inn"

the Wayside Inn

WORDS WITH A "WAY" $2000: "Tales of" this inn begins, "One autumn night, in Sudbury town, across the meadows bare and brown"

the Wayside Inn

"WHITE" $1,400 (Daily Double): Calcium carbonate conglomeration in England's county Kent

the White Cliffs of Dover

THE LOUVRE $1000: This statue was probably an offering by the people of Rhodes in commemoration of a naval triumph in the 100s B.C.

the Winged Victory of Samothrace

20th CENTURY AMERICA $300: When completed in 1913, the NYC skyscraper built by this dime store magnate was the tallest in the world

the Woolworth Building

ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: The temple pyramid known as El Castillo dominates the ruins of a city on this peninsula

the Yucatan

ON THE BATTLEFIELD $2000: (Jon shows a map on a monitor.) In 1879 at Isandlwana, a maneuver called "Horns of the Beast" allowed this African group to get close enough to overrun the British

the Zulu

FROM A TO E $1600: Like the opening in a camera, the main opening in the shell of a mollusk is called this

the aperture

ARMY BRANCHES $600: It's the ancient symbol seen here on the insignia of the Medical Service Corps

the caduceus

MEDICINE $600: This symbol of the physician is based on the staff of Asclepius

the caduceus

MYTHING IN ACTION $1000: Now an emblem of the medical profession, it was the staff carried by Mercury

the caduceus

CAMERAS $500: Many consider this, whose name is New Latin for "dark chamber", the earliest form of the camera

the camera obscura

ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: In 2009 the earliest known depictions of the Apostles from the 4th c. were found in these underground tombs in Rome

the catacombs

THE ORCHESTRA $1,600 (Daily Double): For much of the 20th c., Gregor Piatigorsky was regarded as the world's second-greatest virtuoso on this instrument

the cello

IN THE GOOD OLD SUMER TIME $200: Mythic Sumerian hero Utnapishtim built a big boat & survived this catastrophe

the flood

DISCOVERIES & INVENTIONS $600: George Clemens prevented untold chafing when he invented this device found in restaurant bathrooms

the hand dryer

ANIMAL PLANET $800: A kangaroo caught nibbling on toilet paper in an Aussie restroom led to the rhyming UPI headline "'Roo in the" this

the loo

THE FIRST MODERN OLYMPICS $1200: As in 2004, in 1896 Panathenaic Stadium had the finish of this, won back then by national hero Spiridon Louis

the marathon

"MOTHER", "FATHER", "SISTER", "BROTHER" $600: Produced by certain mollusks, it's also known as nacre

the mother of pearl

LITERATURE OF THE 19-OUGHTS $2000: Frank Norris titled his 1901 novel about a railroad that's strangling farmers after this marine mollusk

the octopus

THEY BITE, THEY STING $200: This mollusk captures its prey with its 8 arms, bites it with its beak & injects poison from its salivary glands

the octopus

ANCIENT COINS $1600: A tetradrachm from 5th century B.C. Athens depicts Athena wearing a helmet on one side & this bird on the other

the owl

SIGNS & SYMBOLS $1200: Like Athena, Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, was depicted with this bird as her symbol

the owl

EIGHTYSOMETHING $800: At age 89 virtuoso Arthur Rubinstein gave his last public concert on this instrument

the piano

SHELLFISH $1000: The shell of this mollusk gave its name to a method of cooking & to a curved edge, on cloth, for example

the scallop

THE NATURAL WORLD $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew scuba diving in the Barrier Reef near Belize) Sponges are classified based on what this structure is made of, such as calcium carbonate or silica

the skeleton

"S"PORTS TALK $2000: Broadcaster Eddie Doucette coined this term for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's trademark arcing shot

the skyhook

CREATURES OF NATURE $200: Taking the 'go" out of escargot, this mollusk is said to be able to lie dormant for months at a time

the snail

THE 1920s $4,400 (Daily Double): "Undreamed of splendors", boasted newspaper headlines about this 1922 discovery

the tomb of King Tut (Tutankhamen)

BRITISH POETS & POETRY $400: In 1823 Lord Byron penned, "And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but" this "in masquerade"

the truth

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1000: Jascha Heifetz taught a master class on this instrument at USC

the violin

THE MUSIC MAN'S INSTRUMENT $1600: Jascha Heifetz

the violin

AQUATIC MAMMALS $800: This pinniped uses its tusks to dig mollusks from the ocean floor

the walrus

ANCIENT SCIENCE $3,000 (Daily Double): The ancient Sumerian number system, based on 60, is still used today to measure this

time

FIRSTS $400: The Scott brothers sold rolls of this in 1890; 2-ply came later

toilet paper

INVENTIVE MINDS $400: Walter Alcock perforated this bathroom product in the 1870s

toilet paper

SPANISH PHRASE BOOK $400: Shortly after "¿Donde esta el baño?", you might have to ask, "¿Tienes mas papel higienico?" do you have more of this?

toilet paper

IN THE W.C. $200: In 1992 Ann Landers swore she was printing her last letter on whether this goes under or over the roll

toilet paper (or bathroom tissue)

BEGINNINGS $600: This bathroom article was 1st made in the U.S. in 1857 & sold as "Gayetty's Medicated Paper"

toilet tissue

_____ING THE _____ $600: Passing through a crisis safely, or navigating your way 90 degrees from Hollywood to Vine

turning the corner

IT HAPPENED ON GROUNDHOG DAY $200: Jascha Heifetz, born Feb. 2, 1901, was giving concerts on this instrument by 1907

violin

THE ILIAD & THE ODYSSEY $800: Apollo & Athena appropriately assume the shape of these carrion eaters to observe the battling Greeks & Trojans

vultures

SOUNDS SIMILAR $800: One who rules over specific pages & sites on the Internet & has the same name as lexicographer Noah

webmaster Webster

NURSERY RHYMES $1000: A compendium of nursery rhyme character quotes would include this one under Horner, Little Jack

what a good boy am I

POETS & POETRY $200: Around 600 B.C. Alcaeus (Alky for short?) wrote verse in praise of this drink & how it brings out truth

wine

SYMBOLS: The caduceus is symbolic to many cultures, but it really took off when these were added above the serpents

wings

SYMBOLS: These 2 cosmic forces in Eastern thought are sometimes symbolized by the tiger & the dragon

yin & yang

MESOPOTAMIA $2000: From the Assyrian for "height", this stepped structure was used as a temple by Mesopotamian cultures

ziggurat

ARCHITECTURE $800: Mesopotamians built these temples to look like miniature mountains

ziggurats


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