2019 - Jeopardy # 1

WORLD LANGUAGES 'Of the Romance languages, it has the greatest number of native speakers in a single country'

'Portuguese'

EUROPEAN CITIES 2000 'Mozart lived for a time in this city on the Vltava river & wrote a symphony named for it'

'Prague'

CANADA "It's the only Canadian province that is separated from the North American mainland"

'Prince Edward Island'

NAME THE BIBLE BOOK 400 '"Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins"'

'Proverbs'

OUR GEOMETRIC WORLD 800 'Mike Tyson & U2 have both done their thing at this arena in Memphis, Tennessee'

'Pyramid Arena'

EURO COINS 1600 "This queen is seen in profile on all of the Netherlands' euro coins"

'Queen Beatrix'

ETIQUETTE 200 'On an invitation, this 4-letter abbreviation of a French phrase means "please respond", so please do'

'RSVP'

HOLY DAYS & OBSERVANCES 400 'Id al-Fitr is a Muslim day of feasting immediately following this holy period'

'Ramadan'

COUNTRY GROUPS 600 'This country group stays in motion with hits like "I'm Movin' On" & "Life Is A Highway"'

'Rascal Flatts'

AFRICAN LEADERS 400 "Ethiopia's Haile Selassie was regarded as the messiah of the African race by this movement founded in Jamaica"

'Rastafarianism'

DEAD LINES 2000 '"The Ballad of" this gaol says, "something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope"'

'Reading Gaol'

"RED", "WHITE" OR "BLUE" 400 'A moat that separated the Kremlin from this was paved over in 1812'

'Red Square'

TV CARTOONS 800 '"Big House Blues" was the first episode featuring this asthmatic Chihuahua & "eediot" cat'

'Ren & Stimpy'

MGM WOULD HAVE CHANGED YOUR NAME 200 'Emil & Kjellfrid were the parents of this actress who had us at "Hello"'

'Renxc3x83xc2xa9e Zellweger'

POLITICAL ANIMALS 1600 'Someone too liberal for his party may be dubbed a RINO, short for this "in name only"'

'Republican'

TECH-TONICS 1000 'The BlackBerry Bold 9000 by R.I.M., this Canadian company, has a 624 MHz processor'

'Research In Motion'

NAME THE BIBLE BOOK 200 '"And he gathered them together into a place called... Armageddon "'

'Revelation'

& I LIVE WITH MY PARENTS 200 'I'm sure Mom won't mind; I had the last chicken & garlic box of this "San Francisco treat"'

'Rice-A-Roni'

ALSO ON THE FOOTBALL TEAM 400 'Deodorant with an "Xtreme Fresh" version'

'Right Guard'

THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY 2000 'Sadly, in 1959 Buddy died in a plane crash along with the Big Bopper & this 17-year-old singer'

'Ritchie Valens'

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE Daily Double 'Starving colonists at this N.C. island settlement were saved in 1586 by Drake returning from the West Indies'

'Roanoke'

BOOKS & AUTHORS 800 "To finance a move to Jamaica in 1786, this Scotsman began selling a book of his poems that became a huge hit; he didn't move"

'Robert Burns'

ACTORS IN BIOPICS 1600 'Charlie Chaplin in "Chaplin"'

'Robert Downey, Jr.'

TV PRIVATE EYES 800 'This late actor drove a T-Bird as Dan Tanna'

'Robert Urich'

HARK, IT'S ARKANSAS! 600 'A member of this illustrious & wealthy family was governor of Arkansas from 1967 to 1971'

'Rockefeller'

WATCHING THE DETECTIVES 400 'From 1974 to 1980 we watched this title guy drive his sweet Firebird to his even sweeter Malibu trailer (& catch bad guys)'

'Rockford'

TV CARTOONS 1000 'Hokey smoke! This squirrel from Frostbite Falls was a snare drum major at Juilliard'

'Rocky'

A CROCUS 800 'A king by the name of Crocus was a leader of the Alamanni Tribe when it attacked forces of this empire in 260 A.D.'

'Rome'

ROMEO ON THE RADIO 2000 'This band whose name implies a lack of romance is known for the song "Never Say Never"'

'Romeo Void'

TWINS 1000 'Amulius ordered these twin sons of myth thrown into the Tiber, but they floated to the future site of Rome'

'Romulus & Remus'

BESTSELLERS 400 'In 2011 this son of a president published the moving memoir "My Father at 100"'

'Ronald Reagan Jr.'

HUSBANDS & WIVES 400 'His second wife was the former Nancy Davis'

'Ronald Reagan'

TENNIS "E" 1600 '"Emmo" was the nickname of this Aussie legend who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles in the 1960s'

'Roy Emerson'

CELEBS 1000 'Chris Pratt, goofy Andy on "Parks and Recreation", played one of the members of this elite group in "zero dark thirty"'

'SEAL Team Six'

GO BALLISTIC! Daily Double 'An early forensic ballistics debate was central to the 1921 murder trial of these 2 Italian-American anarchists'

'Sacco & Vanzetti'

PATRON SAINTS 2000 'If something is missing, you may want to try praying to this Paduan patron saint of lost things'

'Saint Anthony'

PIGGYBACKING Daily Double 'No longer on the Catholic calendar, this saint is often shown carrying the Christ child on his back'

'Saint Christopher'

BRITISH AUTHORS 600 'After a fatwa was issued against him in February 1989, he went into hiding under police protection'

'Salman Rushdie'

LITERATURE CATS WOULD LOVE 1000 '"Tell me more", said puss about the Paul Torday love story with the odd title this "in the Yemen"'

'Salmon Fishing'

POLITICAL LEADERS 800 'Elected president of Chile in 1970, this Marxist died in a military takeover in 1973'

'Salvador Allende'

CALI 2000 'Named after a companion of St. Paul, this "San" county is the largest in area in the lower 48'

'San Bernardino County'

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE 1200 "1 story says that in this U.S. city's bay, Drake claimed the west coast for the queen; the city boasts a hotel named for Drake"

'San Francisco'

SMALLER THAN TULSA 1600 'This very old republic within northeastern Italy is famous for its colorful, collectible stamps'

'San Marino'

WORLD LITERATURE 400 'The Mahabharata is an epic poem originally written in this ancient language'

'Sanskrit'

"S"ITIES 1200 'Although this Bosnian capital is largely Muslim, it does have a Jewish museum housed in the old synagogue'

'Sarajevo'

WINTER OLYMPICS MASCOTS 1600 'Vucko the wolf won a poll of Yugoslav newspaper readers to decide the mascot of the Olympics held here'

'Sarajevo'

LESSER-KNOWN ART & ARTISTS Daily Double 'He's been thrown from his horse and struck blind in Parmigianino's painting of "The Conversion of" this man'

'Saul (of Tarsus) (better known as St. Paul)'

AUSTRIANS 200 'As a U.S. governor, he established the hydrogen highway & million solar roofs plan'

'Schwarzenegger'

WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT 400 'Bertha Landes, the first woman mayor of a large U.S. city, presided over this largest Washington city in the 1920s'

'Seattle'

TV PRIVATE EYES 200 'He won an Emmy playing Thomas Magnum'

'Selleck'

CELEBS 600 'This "Family Guy" guy hosted the Oscars in 2013'

'Seth MacFarlane'

"S"ITIES 800 'This fourth-largest Spanish city was originally known as Hispalis'

'Seville'

EXPO 1200 "Nearly 20,000 homes were demolished in preparation for this Chinese city's 2010 expo"

'Shanghai'

THE MOVIE MAP 1000 'An Orson Welles classic: "The Lady From ___"'

'Shanghai'

HOTELS 1000 'An Asia-based hotel chain is named for this idyllic land from "Lost Horizon"'

'Shangri-La'

"S"ITIES 2000 'This resort town on the Red Sea went from Israeli to Egyptian control with the rest of the Sinai in the 1980s'

'Sharm el-Sheikh'

THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES 800 'The Times liked the "smoky, greasy, steam-punk rendering of Victorian London" in this 2009 Robert Downey Jr. caper'

'Sherlock Holmes'

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS 'The 2 Middle East prime ministers of the same country who shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with another leader'

'Shimon Peres & Yitzhak Rabin'

BRANDS THAT SOUND LIKE VERBS 800 'We wish this stain remover would keep it down'

'Shout'

MUSIC 1000 'This composer's "Enigma Variations" contain cryptic references to his friends that he never revealed'

'Sir Edward Elgar'

MASTERS OF SIX 400 "This company is so over Texas; it operates Montreal's La Ronde & a theme park in Mexico City too"

'Six Flags'

KING KONG 600 'Until he was ape-napped, King Kong was the undisputed king of this "bony" isle'

'Skull Island'

TAKE IT "SLOW" 800 '"Layla" guitarist's lazy moniker'

'Slowhand'

TV GUIDE SAYS 1200 '"Brainiac visits Clark from the future"'

'Smallville'

THE BIBLICAL SENSE 200 'His "Song" says, "the vines with the tender grape give a good smell"'

'Solomon'

AFRICAN LEADERS 2000 'Under president Siad Barre, who left in 1991, this East African land had its last real government for many years'

'Somalia'

TV PHYSICIAN 600 'Maggie Siff as Dr. Tara Knowles tries to help out Jax & the Samcro Motorcycle Club on this FX show'

'Sons of Anarchy'

WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT 1200 'Born in New York to parents from Puerto Rico, this Supreme Court justice calls herself a "Nuyorican"'

'Sotomayor'

WHERE THE WILD THINGS WERE 200 'In prehistoric times 10 foot tall "terror birds" ranged over much of this continent, including Patagonia'

'South America'

STATE SHAPES 1600 'The 42nd parallel, which 5 states border from Utah to Oregon, was a dividing line in an 1819 U.S. treaty with this country'

'Spain'

I'M AUSTRALIAN 400 'In the 1910s Alexander MacRae responded to the growing beach culture by creating this swim brand'

'Speedo'

THE U.S. BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES 400 "D'oh! The USBGN's website says it's a myth that there's a community named this in each of the 50 states--there's one in only 34"

'Springfield'

BRANDS THAT SOUND LIKE VERBS Daily Double 'This 6-letter telecom company sounds fleet of foot'

'Sprint'

TECH-TONICS 600 'In 2000, tired of malware, Patrick Kolla came up with this "search & destroy" software & gave it away for free'

'Spybot'

LESSER-KNOWN ART & ARTISTS 400 "This saint wields a candy cane-like lance in Il Sodoma's painting of him slaying a dragon"

'St. George'

PATRON SAINTS Daily Double 'Born in 1225, this Italian is the patron saint of Catholic schools, universities & colleges'

'St. Thomas Aquinas'

MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES 400 'Name & number of the space film subtitled "The Wrath of Khan"'

'Star Trek II'

TV SIDEKICKS 2000 'Ken Hutchinson'

'Starsky'

TENNIS "E" 2000 "A world No. 1 & winner of 6 Grand Slam singles titles in the '80s & '90s, this Swede was inducted into the ITHoF in 2004"

'Stefan Edberg'

TECH-TONICS 200 "On Jan, 27, 2010 this CEO announced his company's latest creation, the iPad"

'Steve Jobs'

"S"ITIES 400 'Things to see in this capital include the Vasa Ship Museum & the royal palace, home to King Carl XVI Gustav'

'Stockholm'

FILM TITLES IN FOREIGN LANDS 400 'Michael J. Fox voiced this "Smart Little Mouse" in China & " "Naughty Mouse" in Egypt'

'Stuart Little'

SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY 1200 "This city named for Bolivia's first president was founded in 1538 on what had been a Quechua settlement"

'Sucre'

"S"ITIES 1600 "Almost half of this Fijian capital's population claims Indian ancestry"

'Suva'

IT'S SHOWTIME! 1200 'Buck, Alice & T are personalities among the "United States of" her'

'Tara'

MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES 600 'Arnold did say he'd be back, hence this film subtitled "Judgment Day"'

'Terminator 2'

HARK, IT'S ARKANSAS! 1000 'State Line Avenue divides this city in Miller County from the same-named city in the Lone Star State'

'Texarkana'

THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY 400 'In 1936 Buddy rocked into the world as Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock in this state'

'Texas'

IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE BOOK? 200 'Dr. Jeremy Stone tries to contain an out-of-this-world biological agent in this Michael Crichton novel'

'The Andromeda Strain'

TV GUIDE SAYS 2000 '"Howard baffles Sheldon"'

'The Big Bang Theory'

TV GUIDE SAYS 800 '"Bob and Jillian lead community-wide fitness challenges in seven cities"'

'The Biggest Loser'

WHAT'S ON TV? 400 'James Spader's character is "the concierge of crime" on this devious new NBC show'

'The Blacklist'

20th CENTURY NOVELS 2000 'Yakov Liebermann, the hero of this Ira Levin novel, was based on Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal'

'The Boys from Brazil'

THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY 1200 "The Beatles chose their name partly in homage to Buddy's backing band with this other insect name"

'The Crickets'

NEWSPAPERS Daily Double 'In 2013 this paper won a Pulitzer for its breaking news coverage of the Aurora theater shooting'

'The Denver Post'

CHICK LIT 600 'Andrea Sachs, assistant to the editor of a fashion magazine, is the protagonist of this novel by Lauren Weisberger'

'The Devil Wears Prada'

TV GUIDE SAYS 1600 '"Cesar tries rehabilitating three dog-wolf crossbreeds"'

'The Dog Whisperer'

WATCHING THE DETECTIVES 1200 'From 1963 to 1967, America watched Detective Gerard chase his quarry on this series (& rooted against him the whole time)'

'The Fugitive'

CALI 400 'Events in 1849 certainly helped California earn this official state nickname'

'The Golden State'

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 1000 "In 1922 the League's World Court held its first session in this city"

'The Hague'

BESTSELLERS 2000 'A code secretly based on a Daphne du Maurier novel is at the heart of this Ken Follett bestseller'

'The Key to Rebecca'

"LA" STORY 800 'Edgar Rice Burroughs pulp novel about a lost world of dinosaurs'

'The Land that Time Forgot'

"LA" STORY 1600 'Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel about the eruption of Vesuvius'

'The Last Days of Pompeii'

"L"ITERATURE 600 'The villain of this novel is a cunning & vengeful Huron named Magua'

'The Last of the Mohicans'

FILM TITLES IN FOREIGN LANDS 600 'This Adam Sandler football film was "Crazy Match in Prison" in Hong Kong; in Sweden, "Bonesquashing Mob -- Crush 'Em"'

'The Longest Yard'

BROADWAY MUSICALS 2000 '"(Ya Got) Trouble" when ya go to see this hill of a show'

'The Music Man'

COUNTRY GROUPS 800 'In 1981 they burned up the pop & country charts singing, "My heart's on fire, Elvira"'

'The Oak Ridge Boys'

CHICK LIT 800 'A sisterly rivalry to give Henry VIII a male heir is the basis for this Philippa Gregory historical novel'

'The Other Boleyn Girl'

MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS 400 '1984, at the first VMAs, Best Cinematography: this group's "Every Breath You Take"'

'The Police'

I DETECT A DETECTIVE 1200 'Leslie Charteris created this "heavenly" British detective'

'The Saint (Simon Templar)'

RECENT HISTORY 1200 'In May 2012 a pastel version of this Edvard Munch work set a record by selling for almost $120 million at auction'

'The Scream'

LINE 800 'As this 1994 movie reminded us, even in prison you either "get busy living or get busy dying"'

'The Shawshank Redemption'

I'M AUSTRALIAN Daily Double 'Colleen McCullough wrote this 1977 novel about generations of sheep ranchers'

'The Thorn Birds'

TAKE IN ORDER 800 'Nearly 50 years after their biggest hit, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", this group was still performing it at concerts in 2009'

'The Tokens'

IT'S SHOWTIME! 1600 'Joss Stone played Anne of Cleves on this drama where Henry VIII had heir problems'

'The Tudors'

SCIENCE-FICTION TV 400 'Episodes in this anthology included "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" & "To Serve Man"'

'The Twilight Zone'

BOOKS & AUTHORS 400 'Norman Mailer was one of the founders of this alternative NYC tabloid in 1955'

'The Village Voice'

WORLD LITERATURE 2000 'Igbo proverbs are found throughout this 1958 Chinua Achebe novel that sounds like a bad game of Jenga'

'Things Fall Apart'

REAL PEOPLE IN NOVELS 2000 'Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker Prize for "Wolf Hall", told from the perspective of this advisor to Henry VIII'

'Thomas Cromwell'

AN AUTHOR IS BORN 2000 "He was born at home Oct. 3, 1900 in Asheville, N.C. & later found out you can't go home again"

'Thomas Wolfe'

VIRGIN BERTHS 1000 'This guy with the name of a Norse god first took his raft Kon-Tiki for a spin in 1947'

'Thor Heyerdahl'

CAESAR Daily Double "If he'd been emperor of Egypt, his name would have been Nileius"

'Tiberius'

THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES 1200 'The Times said that this director tackled "Alice In Wonderland" with "his customary mix of torpor and frenzy"'

'Tim Burton'

VIRGIN BERTHS 200 "It took 62 seconds in 1911 for this ship's hull to slide from its building berth into Belfast's waters"

'Titanic'

BRITISH AUTHORS 400 'He originally wrote "The Hobbit" to entertain his kids'

'Tolkien'

BESTSELLERS 800 'In 2010 Jack Ryan Jr. & Sr. were back in this author's "Dead or Alive"'

'Tom Clancy'

TECH-TONICS 800 'The GO 550 LIVE GPS from this double-talk company scouts both fuel prices & traffic problems'

'TomTom'

IN THE STATE CAPITAL Daily Double 'Sumner Elementary School, known for its part in a 1954 Supreme Court Case'

'Topeka'

THE SPIRIT OF 1976 1600 "In March baseball's American League voted to award its first Canadian franchise to this city"

'Toronto'

& I LIVE WITH MY PARENTS 400 "Uh, Dad? I kinda crashed your Land Cruiser SUV made by this car co.; the 2009 model starts at nearly $65,000; I'm a little short"

'Toyota'

OUR GEOMETRIC WORLD 1200 'The Jan. 1, 1996 surrender of drug lord Khun Sa was a blow to the Asian trafficking area named the Golden This'

'Triangle'

IT HAPPENED IN JUNE Daily Double 'According to calculations by Eratosthenes, it was June 11, 1184 B.C. that this mythic city was sacked & burned'

'Troy'

MASTERS OF SIX 1000 'Shakespeare refers to it as "Priam's six-gated city"; Dardan & Timbria were 2 of them'

'Troy'

THAT'S TREASON! 1000 'Abdullah Ocalan was convicted for trying to found a Kurdish state in the southeast part of this country'

'Turkey'

JACKS OF ALL TRADES 400 'Jack Dorsey is chairman of this information network that touts itself as "the evolution of mobile messaging"'

'Twitter'

CAN'T HAVE TOO MANY SHOES 800 'Brian Smith founded this brand in 1979 to import sheepskin boots to the U.S. from Australia'

'Uggs'

THE 20th CENTURY 'In the 1940s Franklin Roosevelt coined this term in reference to all the countries allied against the Axis powers'

'United Nations'

DEAD LINES 1600 'In "Rabbit is Rich", he wrote, "the great thing about the dead, they make space"'

'Updike'

CONSTELLATION TRANSLATION 400 'Big bear'

'Ursa Major'

ACTORS IN BIOPICS 400 'Jim Morrison in "The Doors"'

'Val Kilmer'

EXPO 400 'In 1986 the world came to this Canadian city for an expo; in 2010 the world was back'

'Vancouver'

STATE NAME ORIGINS 400 'Its name is from the French for "green mountain"'

'Vermont'

TV PRIVATE EYES 1000 'Kristen Bell played this teen sleuth'

'Veronica Mars'

THE SPIRIT OF 1976 2000 'On July 2 North & South this reunited to form a republic'

'Vietnam'

CAN I HAVE A MOMENT? 1600 '"Old Bloomsbury" is a section in "Moments of Being", a collection of reminiscences by this writer'

'Virginia Woolf'

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT 800 'All 340 miles of the James River are within this state, which was home to an early settlement'

'Virginia'

HARDWARE 1000 'Hyphenated brand name for locking pliers that hold what is being worked on in place'

'Vise-Grip'

MOVIE VILLAINS 800 'Tom Marvolo Riddle is the real name of this villain'

'Voldemort'

BOOKS & AUTHORS 2000 "To disprove rumors of body-stealing after his 1778 death, his grave in Paris' Panthxc3xa9on was opened in 1897; he's in there"

'Voltaire'

I C U R A 1-LETTER RESPONSE 2000 "Chemically, it's the symbol for tungsten"

'W'

HERBS & SPICE GIRLS 1200 'The uniquely dressed Herb Tarlek hung out with Les Nessman & Dr. Johnny Fever at this title radio station (on TV)'

'WKRP in Cincinnati'

HEAD OF THE CLASSICAL MUSIC 400 'He concluded his "Ring" cycle with "The Twilight of the Gods" in 1874'

'Wagner'

SUPER 1200 "This hero-studded film is set during Nixon's fifth term, as the world is on the brink of nuclear war"

'Watchmen'

TV PHYSICIAN 200 'In 2013 TV shows on CBS & the BBC respectively, Lucy Liu & Martin Freeman played doctors with this surname'

'Watson'

TASTE 800 'Simple yet elegant--I only drink tea from china cups made by this pottery master born in 1730'

'Wedgwood'

BROADWAY MUSICALS 400 'Tunes in this '50s Broadway classic include "Gee, Officer Krupke" & "Cool"'

'West Side Story'

BEST PICTURE LETTER DROP 1200 "A NYC-set musical from 1961 becomes a member of Britain's Conservative Party"

'West Side Tory'

"RED", "WHITE" OR "BLUE" 1200 'A Big Crave 9 from here contains 20 sliders'

'White Castle'

"RED", "WHITE" OR "BLUE" 1600 "Other ships in this fleet's line were the Britannic & the Olympic"

'White Star Line'

HARK, IT'S ARKANSAS! 800 'The collapse of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan was at the heart of this Arkansas scandal'

'Whitewater'

LIFE WITH THE HOOD 1000 "This red-clad dandy was said to be Robin Hood's nephew"

'Will Scarlet'

"P"s ON EARTH Daily Double 'The grave of this founder of a U.S. state is at Old Jordans Cemetery, Buckinghamshire, England'

'William Penn'

SPORTS IN AMERICA 'Founded in 1795, this city that hosts a popular annual sporting event has "sport" in its name'

'Williamsport'

THE QUEEN 600 'During WWII, Elizabeth & her sister were evacuated to this castle where their grandfather George V is buried'

'Windsor Castle'

DOMINO'S PIZZA 400 'An American Legends pizza made with 6 different cheeses is named for this state'

'Wisconsin'

I'M UNEMPLOYED 800 '"On" this state, "On" this state that adopted the first unemployment insurance law in the U.S.! Fight on for her fame!'

'Wisconsin'

HEAD OF THE CLASSICAL MUSIC 1200 'Erich Korngold had this middle name, so he had to become a composer, of movie scores like "Captain Blood"'

'Wolfgang'

JACK 1000 'This raspy-voiced DJ & "Midnight Special" host was a fixture of American radio in the 1960s & '70s'

'Wolfman Jack'

DEAD LINES 800 'In 1975 this comedian-director wrote, "It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens"'

'Woody Allen'

I C U R A 1-LETTER RESPONSE 800 'A Roman numeral, or a symbol for a kiss'

'X'

LITERATURE CATS WOULD LOVE Daily Double 'Kitty doesn't like the knitting so much in the Debbie Macomber book called "A Good" this, but loves the threads'

'Yarn'

HOLY DAYS & OBSERVANCES 800 "It's the Jewish day of atonement"

'Yom Kippur'

THE QUEEN 800 'When Elizabeth was born, her parents were the Duke & Duchess of this Northern English city'

'York'

TOUCHÉ 200 "In a 1998 film Antonio Banderas as this swordsman wreaks havoc on Catherine Zeta-Jones' clothing"

'Zorro'

THIS IS HUGE 1200 "It's the trademarked name for a 32-ounce drink size at 7-Eleven"

'a Big Gulp'

SALAD 800 'This salad with chopped turkey, bacon, tomatoes & hard-boiled eggs is named for the owner of the Brown Derby'

'a Cobb salad'

IT'S A DOGGY DOG WORLD 800 'The Aztecs revered this dog; by the 19th century, it was nicknamed pelon, Spanish for "bald"'

'a Mexican hairless dog'

ON THE "M"ENU 400 "Disneyland's Blue Bayou restaurant serves this fried sandwich that has ham, Swiss & turkey"

'a Monte Cristo'

DOMINO'S PIZZA 800 'How about an oven baked sandwich, like this one that refers to a place in Pennsylvania'

'a Philly cheesesteak'

CHICK LIT 200 'Rebecca is an unrepentant spender in Sophie Kinsella's "Confessions of" this'

'a Shopaholic'

BEFORE, DURING & AFTER 1200 'In a deceptive Greek "equine" of an ancient war lies a bloodsucking winged insect content to be an unseen observer'

'a Trojan Horse fly on the wall'

PERSONAL SPACE INVADERS 200 'This "beastly" embrace is a Wall Street term for a takeover bid with a share price so high, the board can't refuse'

'a bear hug'

LEGAL MATTERS 200 'A group of lawyers is referred to as the bar; this piece of furniture is a group of judges'

'a bench'

PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR VOCABULARY 600 'The distance along a city street from where one road crosses it to the next road'

'a block'

THE NATURE OF THINGS 200 'This "colorful" whale can grow up to 100 feet long & weigh more than 150 tons'

'a blue whale'

BERRIES 2000 'In the book "Charlie And The Chocolate Factory", Violet Beauregarde turns into one of these berries'

'a blueberry'

"RED", "WHITE" OR "BLUE" 2000 'A lady with literary leanings'

'a bluestocking'

"B"s ON BOTH ENDS 800 'Slang for a short, written promotional statement'

'a blurb'

"B"s ON BOTH ENDS 200 'The opposite of a blockbuster at the box office'

'a bomb'

THINKING GREEN 400 'Oregon's 1972 first-in-the-nation recycling act for containers is commonly known as this alliterative "bill"'

'a bottle bill'

BEYOND THE "C" 800 'Your carnival knowledge should include this steam-powered instrument that has the same name as a muse'

'a calliope'

TECH-TONICS 400 'The Bloggie one of these from Sony has a lens that swivels 270 degrees'

'a camera'

NATURE STUDY Daily Double "This monkey of the Amazon is so-named because the dark patch of hair on its head resembles a monk's hood"

'a capuchin'

HARDWARE 400 'I've got a latch, now I need this part that rhymes with "latch" to hold it in place'

'a catch'

BUGS 800 'The wooly bear is this larval form of the Isabella tiger moth'

'a caterpillar'

HEY, THAT'S SHARP! 600 "It's the title movie object wielded by Leatherface in several motion pictures"

'a chainsaw'

SOUNDS GEOMETRIC 200 'You may facetiously call your wastebasket this "file"'

'a circular file'

TV PHYSICIAN 800 'On Adult Swim's "Childrens Hospital", Dr. Blake Downs uses makeup to look like one of these'

'a clown'

"C" SERPENTS 200 'The ringhals of southern Africa is also known as the spitting this'

'a cobra'

I'M AUSTRALIAN 2000 'Graeme Clark invented this type of surgically implanted multi-channel hearing aid'

'a cochlear implant'

THE NATURE OF THINGS 400 "It's been said only Keith Richards & this 350-mil.-year-old insect of the suborder Blattaria would survive a nuclear war"

'a cockroach'

DICT. ABBREV. 800 'Another way to shorten: contr.'

'a contraction'

"C" SERPENTS 600 'A penny for your thoughts on this venomous snake aka the highland moccasin'

'a copperhead'

"C" SERPENTS 800 'The harlequin snake is an eastern species of this colorful but deadly biter that sounds like a real undersea serpent'

'a coral snake'

LEGAL MATTERS 1000 "This medical professional's type of jury conducts an inquest into the cause of a suspicious death"

'a coroner'

"C" SERPENTS 1000 'A white lining exposed by an angry Agkistrodon piscivorus gets it this name'

'a cottonmouth'

BUGS 1600 'The scientific name of the European stag beetle is Lucanus cervus; cervus is Latin for this mammal'

'a deer'

DICT. ABBREV. 1200 'Not a comment on originality, but for etymology: der.'

'a derivative (derivation accepted)'

POLITICAL DEFINITIONS 1000 "Alluding to canines' sensitive hearing, this type of politics means speaking in a code meant for a specific group"

'a dog whistle'

ALL YOU NEED IS "OVE" 200 'Bird of the Columbidae family'

'a dove'

HOOK 200 'A hook & ladder is another way of referring to this type of conveyance'

'a fire truck'

QUIRKY NEWS 800 'Just like our "yule log", Norwegian public TV aired 12 hours of this--but with commentary!'

'a fireplace'

FOOTWEAR 400 "Also called zoris, they're backless rubber sandals with a thong between the first 2 toes"

'a flip-flop'

GO WITH THE "FLO" 1600 'Old English coin worth 2 shillings'

'a florin'

PLUMBING 1000 "1.6 is today's standard maximum gpf, gallons per this event"

'a flush'

THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT 2000 'Sir James Galway'

'a flute'

COMPLETES THE PROVERB 800 '"A man who is his own lawyer has..."'

'a fool for a client'

HOOK Daily Double 'Used on fishing boats, this long pole with an iron hook is a homophone of a social blunder'

'a gaff'

WEAK RHYMES 200 'A computer nerd'

'a geek'

THIS IS HUGE 800 'Pluto is a dwarf planet; Jupiter is this other type of planet, an antonym of dwarf'

'a giant'

WORDS IN ASIAN COUNTRIES 1200 "An open space in Dhaka's forest"

'a glade (in Bangladesh)'

HARDWARE 600 'Emery wheel is another name for this circular sharpening device'

'a grinding wheel'

HEY, THAT'S SHARP! 800 'Robespierre lost his head on one of these July 28, 1794'

'a guillotine'

ALSO A BOWLING TERM 600 'This trough under the eaves of a roof is used to drain rainwater'

'a gutter'

4-LETTER EDIBLES 800 'A Greek specialty similar to shawarma, lamb roasted on a spit, shaved off & put in a pita has this 4-letter name'

'a gyro'

PATRON SAINTS 800 'Eligius is the patron saint of all those who work with these ball-peen tools'

'a hammer'

A "HA"! 400 "Hyphenated term for an article of clothing passed on from one person who's outgrown it to the next"

'a hand-me-down'

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

'a harpy'

BERRIES 800 'This fruit was not named for a Hanna-Barbera pooch but is probably an alteration of "hurtleberry"'

'a huckleberry'

LET'S DO "UNCH" 800 "Let's have you prove me right by showing you know this term for an intuition"

'a hunch'

WORDS IN ASIAN COUNTRIES 2000 'A simple roofed shelter in Thimphu'

'a hut (in Bhutan)'

IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS 400 'The right to a trial by one of these'

'a jury'

CAN'T HAVE TOO MANY SHOES 200 'Ghillie brogues are traditionally worn with this Scottish skirt'

'a kilt'

LOST TEXTS FROM BEN FRANKLIN 1200 'This 2-wd invention of mine saved my house during bad storm! oz./prev. = lb./cure!'

'a lightning rod'

ALSO A TYPE OF FOOTWEAR 400 "That guy you work with who's always lounging around"

'a loafer'

HEY, THAT'S SHARP! 400 'In Latin America this large, heavy Spanish-named knife is used for cutting sugar cane & clearing underbrush'

'a machete'

I JUST "ATE" 1200 'A big election win means you have this, the authority to carry out your program'

'a mandate'

CAN I HAVE A MOMENT? 2000 '3-word phrase for a decisive instant; Arthur Koestler defined it as "the sudden emergence of a new insight"'

'a moment of truth'

"MON"-OTONY 400 'Display device for a computer'

'a monitor'

"MON"-OTONY 1200 "It's a sequence of overlapping film clips edited for effect"

'a montage'

STINKER 400 "Recent research suggests malaria parasites alter this animal's behavior to make it seek out smelly, sweaty people"

'a mosquito'

HOMOPHONES 200 'An ache, or a piece of glass in a window'

'a pain/pane'

WORDS IN ASIAN COUNTRIES 800 'A friend in Kathmandu'

'a pal (in Nepal)'

WORDS IN ASIAN COUNTRIES 400 'A bad review in Osaka'

'a pan (in Japan)'

ANOTHER DEFINITION, PLEASE 2000 'Not a small, wrapped package for delivery, but a tract of land'

'a parcel'

EXPO 800 'It's the structure representing a country; at the 1937 Paris Expo, you could see "Guernica" at the Spanish one'

'a pavilion'

"P"s ON EARTH 400 "In 2010 a cable snapped, sending Foucault's original one of these crashing to a Paris museum floor"

'a pendulum'

FOOTWEAR 1000 'Casual slip-on shoes with flaps on the front of the tongues sometimes used to hold a coin'

'a penny loafer'

THIS IS HUGE 400 'A concert grand one of these from Steinway & sons weighs in at 990 pounds'

'a piano'

COATS OF ARMS 800 'The coat of arms of Norfolk Island in the South Pacific features the Norfolk species of this conifer'

'a pine tree'

DICT. ABBREV. 400 'A part of speech: prep.'

'a preposition'

"MATE" 1200 'An archbishop ranking first in a province or country'

'a primate'

ALSO A TYPE OF FOOTWEAR 1200 'To increase stimulative government spending is to "prime" this'

'a pump'

HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? 800 '"I went fishing just for the halibut" is one of these, which have been termed "the lowest form of wit"'

'a pun'

PUNCH 200 'No joke, it comes at the end of a joke'

'a punchline'

PUNCH 800 'A blow to the back of the neck is the punch named for this animal'

'a rabbit punch'

ALSO ON THE FOOTBALL TEAM 800 'The part of a stereo system that gets the electrical signals & converts them so you can listen'

'a receiver'

MUSIC 800 'This term for a concert given by an individual musical performer sounds like reading something from memory'

'a recital'

THE GREAT & POWERFUL WOZ 800 "CL9, a Wozniak home electronics venture, gave us the programmable universal this, but you'd never hit mute on me, right?"

'a remote'

ETIQUETTE 400 'When seeking a job, keep the cover letter to one page & this summary of your skills to one or 2 pages'

'a rxc3xa9sumxc3xa9'

WINTER OLYMPICS MASCOTS 800 'One mascot for the 2010 Vancouver Games was Quatchi, one of these mythical creatures'

'a sasquatch'

SOFTWARE 200 'Simaquarium is a great one of these for your monitor when you go AFK'

'a screensaver'

"RIGHT" OR "LEFT" 2000 'A schooner builder'

'a shipwright'

"ALL" 1600 'Type of commercial site the Westfield Group specializes in running'

'a shopping mall'

STINKER 200 'The rare hooded variety is one of about a dozen species of these stinkers in the mammal family Mephitidae'

'a skunk'

TAKE IT "SLOW" 400 'Hamilton beach sells a programmable one of these to keep pot roast at the right temperature'

'a slow cooker'

ETIQUETTE 600 'Emily Post says to think of this "as an aerosol spray of infection", so if there's no tissue, use the inside of your elbow'

'a sneeze'

CODA 1600 'You'll often hear a coda at the end of a movement in one of these classical compositions, from Italian for "to sound"'

'a sonata'

POETRY 600 'Sidney's form in "Astrophel and Stella"'

'a sonnet'

ALSO A BOWLING TERM 200 'If you have a flat on the freeway, better hope you have one of these replacement tires'

'a spare'

SOUNDS GEOMETRIC 400 'The Texas Dept. of Agriculture uses this geometric term for the nutritious food kids should eat--breakfast, lunch & dinner'

'a square meal'

"MATE" 800 'A deadlock in which no action can be taken'

'a stalemate'

"ALL" 800 'A booth where items are displayed for sale'

'a stall'

BUGS 1200 'The harlequin bug is also known by this "smelly" name'

'a stinkbug'

BERRIES 400 'This shortcake fruit has an average of 200 seeds on each berry'

'a strawberry'

ODE ON A 1200 Vocalists sing this Schiller poem at the end of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

"Ode To Joy"

POTPOURRI 1600 'Alfalfa has a long one of these primary roots; on older plants it can go down 50 feet'

'a taproot'

EVEN MONEY 800 'Thomas Jefferson fans know that these were first issued in 1862 & last in 2003'

'$2 bills'

WORLD LITERATURE 1600 'In 1956 he published "La Chute", or "The Fall"; the next year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature'

'(Albert) Camus'

THINGS & STUFF 1000 'This ex-president passed away on June 8, 1845 at the Hermitage'

'(Andrew) Jackson'

TENNIS "E" 800 'It's no backhand compliment--"America's tennis sweetheart", she won Grand Slam titles every year from 1974 to 1986'

'(Chris) Evert'

QUICK LIT 2000 'His "Berlin Stories" inspired "I Am a Camera"'

'(Christopher) Isherwood'

AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION 800 'This Virginia college was founded in 1693 to educate the youth in piety, "good letters and manners"'

'(College of) William & Mary'

I'M UNEMPLOYED 1000 "In 2007 CBS Radio fired this broadcaster after his controversial comments about the women's hoops team at Rutgers"

'(Don) Imus'

ALSO A BOWLING TERM 1000 'Beltsville Small White, White Holland & Bourbon Red are varieties of this largest North American game bird'

'a turkey'

HARDWARE 200 'A flat, thin metal ring used between a bolt & a nut to increase tightness'

'a washer'

"ALL" 400 'A small one is a cascade; a large one, a cataract'

'a waterfall'

ALSO A TYPE OF FOOTWEAR 1600 'Shape that laughing cow cheese comes in'

'a wedge'

POLITICAL ANIMALS 800 'A "dog" this is something only canines can hear; politically, it's a subtle signal to one's base'

'a whistle'

LEGAL MATTERS 400 'To knowingly assist someone in the commission of a crime is to "aid and " this 4-letter word'

'abet'

"MATE" 1600 'To become accustomed to a new environment'

'acclimate'

SMELL 1000 'Add a letter to "acid" & you get this adjective for an irritating smell'

'acrid'

SOUNDS GEOMETRIC 800 'Rather than long-term care for chronic disorders, some hospitals give this type of care (the opposite of obtuse)'

'acute'

LATIN Daily Double 'This phrase literally means "until seasickness"'

'ad nauseam'

_____ THE _____ 400 "This expression meaning opposite one's basic temperament refers to the direction of fibers in wood"

'against the grain'

PHILOSOPHIC IDEAS 800 'The belief that we cannot know whether or not God exists'

'agnosticism'

WORDS FROM POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS 1000 'Alabama plus Missouri plus North Dakota equals this'

'almond'

THE GREAT & POWERFUL WOZ 600 'A 1981 plane crash left Steve with this, from the Greek for "to remember", & he had to take a sabbatical'

'amnesia'

NAME THE POET 1200 '"I taste a liquor never brewed-- / From tankards scooped in Pearl-- / Not all the vats on the Rhine / Yield such an alcohol"'

'(Emily) Dickinson'

REAL PEOPLE IN NOVELS Daily Double 'The novel "The Paris Wife" is narrated by Hadley Richardson, this writer's first wife'

'(Ernest) Hemingway'

INVENTIVE MINDS 2000 'In 1888 his lightweight, box-shaped invention eliminated the need for glass photographic plates'

'(George) Eastman'

I'M UNEMPLOYED 200 'She finished her first novel about a magical 11-year-old orphan while she was an unemployed teacher in Edinburgh'

'(J.K.) Rowling'

JACK 400 'This Jack & his 3 brothers founded one of the "Big Five" Hollywood studios in 1923'

'(Jack) Warner'

AN AUTHOR IS BORN 1200 'Born in Bedfordshire, England in 1628, he was making "Progress" from the start'

'(John) Bunyan'

SPORTS STARS 400 'In August 2009 hundreds joined him for a bike ride in Glasgow after he issued an invitation via Twitter'

'(Lance) Armstrong'

RAD PSEUDONYMS 1000 'Lev Bronshtein is thought to have taken this pseudonym from one of his jailers, probably without axing'

'(Leon) Trotsky'

TASTE 1000 'No one sings the role of Norma like this Greek-American soprano who died in 1977'

'(Maria) Callas'

THE U.S. BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES 800 "The USBGN has been in the middle as Alaska's lawmakers have fought with Ohio's over the name of this mountain"

'(Mt.) McKinley'

NAME THE POET 400 '"Fleas": "Adam had 'em"'

'(Ogden) Nash'

AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION 600 'In August 1664 this governor was forced to surrender New Netherland to the British'

'(Peter) Stuyvesant'

LET'S DO "UNCH" 1000 'Let's read "An American Dilemma", this Nobel Prize winner's 1944 study of race relations'

'(Ralph) Bunche'

I DETECT A DETECTIVE 800 'That's right, sweetheart, "The Big Sleep" saw the debut of Philip Marlowe, this author's Los-Angels based P.I.'

'(Raymond) Chandler'

BALLET 1600 'Before studying ballet & opening his own ballet school in New York City in 1953, he was a tap dancer'

'(Robert) Joffrey'

NEWSPAPERS 800 'In April 2013 the Chicago Sun-Times announced the death of this man who reviewed movies for the paper for 46 years'

'(Roger) Ebert'

1900 EVENTS 1200 'His "Interpretation of Dreams" went from a vision to a reality'

'(Sigmund) Freud'

SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY 400 'On Jan. 1, 1817, with a small force recruited in Haiti, he returned to Venezuela to drive out the Spanish'

'(Simxc3xb3n) Bolxc3xadvar'

NAME THE POET 2000 '"Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time"'

'(Sylvia) Plath'

RECENT HISTORY 1600 'In September 2013 this Texas senator held the floor for 21 hours in an effort to derail Obamacare'

'(Ted) Cruz'

POTENT POEâ€'TABLES 1600 'The violent killings of an old woman & her daughter are the title crimes of this detective story'

'(The) Murders in the Rue Morgue'

LOST TEXTS FROM BEN FRANKLIN 1600 '1783: War over! Didnt get Canada 2day when I signed Treaty of this but USA h2s!'

'(Treaty of) Paris'

SPORTS STARS 1600 'Lightning struck in 2009 when he set a world record in the 100-meter Sprint: 9.58 seconds'

'(Usain) Bolt'

20th CENTURY NOVELS 1600 'At 900+ pages, his 1998 novel "I Know This Much is True" is one hefty read'

'(Wally) Lamb'

AUSTRIANS 600 "Pre-Spago, this chef's first job in the U.S. was at La Tour in Indianapolis in 1973"

'(Wolfgang) Puck'

BORN ON THE 14th OF JULY 400 'In 1912 this folk music legend had his 1st chance to say "This land is your land" (which he did not do, as he was a newborn)'

'(Woody) Guthrie'

STATE SHAPES 2000 "The anti-secession vote in Virginia helped shape West Virginia's eventual border when it joined the Union in this year"

'1863'

I'M UNEMPLOYED 600 "The nation's unemployment rate was 25% when FDR took his first presidential oath of office in this year"

'1933'

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 400 'The League was dissolved in April of this year; the United Nations charter had been ratified the previous October'

'1946'

POLITICAL LEADERS 600 'David Ben-Gurion first became prime minister of Israel in this year'

'1948'

THE QUEEN 200 'Queen Elizabeth II has this many children'

'4'

THE NEW TESTAMENT 200 'After he was baptized, Jesus was tempted in the wilderness by Satan for this many days'

'40 days'

LINE 200 'This 1951 movie includes the line "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers"'

'A Streetcar Named Desire'

AUDIO BOOK PERFORMERS Daily Double 'Andrew Sachs, who played a Spaniard among Brits on "Fawlty Towers", reads this 1859 "tale" of a Brit among the French'

'A Tale of Two Cities'

TEX-ARCANA 1600 'Cattleman C.W. Merchant apparently named this Texas city after a Kansas cattle town'

'Abilene'

IT HAPPENED IN JUNE 200 'On June 16, 1858 this man gave his "House Divided" speech in Springfield, Illinois'

'Abraham Lincoln'

PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES 800 'The Ann Rutledge, a train that ran between Chicago & Kansas City, was named for an early love of this president'

'Abraham Lincoln'

THE BIBLICAL SENSE 600 'In Genesis he tells God, "I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked"'

'Adam'

IT HAPPENED IN JUNE 1000 'This leader did some sightseeing around a newly defeated Paris on June 23, 1940'

'Adolf Hitler'

WHERE THE WILD THINGS WERE 600 'Though specimens still exist in zoos, the Barbary lion, native to the north of this continent, is extinct in the wild'

'Africa'

NEWSPAPERS 1200 "Ohio's largest newspapers include The Blade of Toledo & this city's Beacon journal"

'Akron'

THE END OF THE LINE 400 'Scars were no longer a concern for this gangster after Jan. 25, 1947'

'Al Capone'

COUNTRY GROUPS 400 'Randy Owen fronted this "stately" group whose hits include "Christmas in Dixie" & "Born Country"'

'Alabama'

TURNING 50 IN 2011 800 'A 2011 stamp celebrates the 50th anniversary of his historic flight aboard the Mercury capsule Freedom 7'

'Alan Shepard'

HUSBANDS & WIVES 1200 'When he divorced first wife Mileva in 1919, he promised to give her the money if he ever won a Nobel Prize (he won & paid)'

'Albert Einstein'

SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY 1600 'In April 1992 this Peruvian president of Japanese descent suspended the constitution & dissolved the legislature'

'Alberto Fujimori'

QUICK LIT 1600 '"The Plague" by Camus is set in what is now this African country'

'Algeria'

SCIENCE-FICTION TV 1600 "They're not fraternity members, they're an elite team of mental superstars led by David Strathairn on Syfy"

'Alphas'

SMALLER THAN TULSA 800 'The main roads in this country follow the Valira Del Norte River toward France & the Valira River into Spain'

'Andorra'

TV SIDEKICKS 400 'Barney Fife'

'Andy Taylor'

POTENT POEâ€'TABLES 1200 '"And this was the reason that, long ago, in this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling my beautiful" her'

'Annabel Lee'

THE GREAT & POWERFUL WOZ 200 "In 1976 Steve Wozniak co-founded this company in his partner's garage; it went public in 1980"

'Apple'

WORLD LEADERS 800 'Last name of Corazon & Benigno III, mother & son presidents of the Philippines'

'Aquino'

WHAT'S ON TV? 2000 'This animated spy on FX declares, "Lying is like 95% of what I do"'

'Archer'

CONSTELLATION TRANSLATION 600 'Ram'

'Aries'

BRITISH AUTHORS 800 'He helped cover the Apollo 12 & 15 space missions with Walter Cronkite & Wally Schirra'

'Arthur C. Clarke'

AN AUTHOR IS BORN 400 'This American sci fi author started looking into the future in Petrovichi, Russia on Jan. 2, 1920'

'Asimov'

IN THE STATE CAPITAL 600 'The city-operated Margaret Mitchell House'

'Atlanta'

TAKE IN ORDER 200 'In 2006 the Miss America pageant took a gamble & moved to Las Vegas from this longtime home'

'Atlantic City'

GOLD 600 'Gold has the atomic number 79 & this chemical symbol'

'Au (Aurum)'

IN THE STATE CAPITAL 400 'The Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library'

'Austin, Texas'

BROADWAY MUSICALS 1200 'This show with a street in its title had songs like "I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today"'

'Avenue Q'

THE ROCK & ROLL CALENDAR 400 '2011's "Goodbye Lullaby" is the fourth album from this Canadian woman whose first name is a French month'

'Avril Lavigne'

CROSSWORD CLUES "B" 400 'Biblical tower town (5)'

'Babel'

TURNING 50 IN 2011 400 'Born in Honolulu August 4, 1961, he was given the same Swahili name as his father; it means "blessed by God"'

'Barack Obama'

TWINS Daily Double 'These twins & recent First Daughters were named for their grandmothers'

'Barbara & Jenna'

EUROPEAN CITIES 800 'On a visit to this seaport, Hans Christian Andersen called it "the Paris of Spain"'

'Barcelona'

THINGS & STUFF 600 'This school of design & its sites in Weimar & Dessau have been designated World Heritage Sites'

'Bauhaus'

CROSSWORD CLUES "B" 1200 'A desert nomad (7)'

'Bedouin'

INVENTIVE MINDS 800 'On Feb. 14, 1876 Elisha Gray was a few hours behind this man at the U.S. Patent Office, filing a speech-transmitting device'

'Bell'

THAT'S TREASON! 400 'He tried to surrender West Point, a key to the Hudson River Valley'

'Benedict Arnold'

COUNTRY GROUPS 2000 "It's a common 3-syllable acronym for the Low Countries"

'Benelux'

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE 200 'In 2011 the median home value in this southern Calif. city was around $1.9 million, with or without cee-ment ponds'

'Beverly Hills'

FILM TITLES IN FOREIGN LANDS 200 'In Romania, this Nicole Kidman film was called "What New Magic Tricks My Wife Did"'

'Bewitched'

IT'S SHOWTIME! 400 'On Showtime 2, you could see what the housemates on this Julie Chen-hosted show were like "After Dark"'

'Big Brother'

POP QUIZ 800 "He's Hannah Montana's real-life daddy"

'Billy Ray Cyrus'

THE END OF THE LINE 800 'On July 30, 1898 this Prussian was sunk'

'Bismarck'

HEAD OF THE CLASSICAL MUSIC 800 'This "Carmen" composer became a student at the Paris conservatory just before turning 10'

'Bizet'

ATHLETIC EYEWEAR 1600 'In 1977 this Miami field general became the first NFL quarterback to wear glasses on the field'

'Bob Griese'

"B"s ON BOTH ENDS 400 'Cratchit or Sideshow'

'Bob'

POP QUIZ 1000 'He fathered baseball * Barry Bonds'

'Bobby Bonds'

CROSSWORD CLUES "B" 2000 '"Decameron" dude (9)'

'Boccaccio'

WATCHING THE DETECTIVES 2000 'Got HBO? You can watch Jason Schwartzman play a Brooklyn writer turned P.I. on this show'

'Bored to Death'

ANNUAL EVENTS 400 "This city's 4th of July celebration includes fireworks & music on the Charles, near the Longfellow Bridge"

'Boston'

IN THE STATE CAPITAL 200 'The 3-mile-long Freedom Trail (& a few other Revolutionary War bits of history, here & there)'

'Boston'

MY NAME IS GEORGE 1000 'This singer guested as himself in a 1986 episode of "The A-Team"; do you really want to hurt him & not know his name?'

'Boy George'

SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY Daily Double 'In 1888 this country abolished slavery & freed about 750,000 slaves, many of whom worked on rubber plantations'

'Brazil'

SPORTS STARS 800 'At almost 40, this quarterback began his 19th year in the NFL with a new team--the Minnesota Vikings'

'Brett Favre'

CORNERSTONES 400 'As president of the Mormon church, he laid one of the cornerstones for the Salt Lake temple in 1853'

'Brigham Young'

MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS 2000 '2011, Best Pop Video: "Till The World Ends" (the fans didn't leave her alone)'

'Britney Spears'

NUMBER WORD PLAY Daily Double "Alphabetically, it's the first Roman numeral"

'C'

KEEP ON TRUCKIN' 1000 'Truckers know these have a range of about 25 miles in motor vehicles & federally limited power of 4 watts'

'C.B. radios'

CAESAR 400 'Hail this Caesar who boasted that he found Rome a city of bricks & left it a city of marble'

'Caesar Augustus'

WINTER OLYMPICS MASCOTS 1200 'Hidy & Howdy were the polar bear mascots for the 1988 Olympics in this Canadian city'

'Calgary'

D-DAY 200 "The deepest ground penetration on June 6 was not by Americans or Brits but by this country's forces at Juno beach"

'Canada'

CHICK LIT 1000 'Her classics of the genre include "Lipstick Jungle", "4 Blondes" &, of course, "Sex and the City"'

'Candace Bushnell'

IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE BOOK? 1000 '"All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds", claims Dr. Pangloss in this French novel'

'Candide'

WE PREDICT YOU'LL DEAL WITH THE ZODIAC 400 'The 10th sign of the zodiac, this cardinal earth sign really gets your goat'

'Capricorn'

HEY, THAT'S SHARP! 200 'Some of the hatchets she used in her saloon-smashing have been donated to the Kansas historical society'

'Carrie Nation'

LIT STUDENTS 800 'In an early Stephen King novel, she has the last laugh at Ewen High'

'Carrie'

LIT STUDENTS 200 'Novel in which we learn that one Mr. Caulfield has failed 4 out of 5 classes at Pencey'

'Catcher in the Rye'

PICTURE BOOK TITLE ANIMALS 400 '"The Very Hungry ____"'

'Caterpillar'

PHYSICS QUIZ 400 'When this man developed his temperature scale in 1742, he set it where water boils at 0 & freezes at 100 degrees'

'Celsius'

EURO COINS 400 "This man, the father of Spanish literature, is on Spain's 50-cent coins"

'Cervantes'

'80s ONE-HIT WONDERS 1600 'Vangelis, with his theme from this movie'

'Chariots of Fire'

POP QUIZ 200 "He was English king Charles II's daddy (don't think too hard)"

'Charles I'

FAMOUS AMERICANS 'About him F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "In the spring of '27, something bright and alien flashed across the sky..."'

'Charles Lindbergh'

I DETECT A DETECTIVE 400 'Number One Son could tell you Earl Biggers created this Chinese detective'

'Charlie Chan'

FRENCH HISTORY 'She said, "I told my plans to no one. I was not killing a man, but a wild beast that was devouring the French people"'

'Charlotte Corday'

RAD PSEUDONYMS 200 'In the 1950s Ernesto Guevara de la Serna began going by this name'

'Che'

HARK, IT'S ARKANSAS! 400 'This presidential daughter was born in Little Rock, Arkansas February 27, 1980'

'Chelsea Clinton'

RHYMING FOLKS 1600 'On "Saturday Night Live", she played Judge Judy & also Melissa Rivers'

'Cheri Oteri'

BIG-SCREEN EDUCATORS 800 '1986: William Hurt as James Leeds, a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf'

'Children of a Lesser God'

INTERNATIONAL SEAFOOD 800 'Caldillo de congrio is a chowder from this South American country, that on the map is practically all seacoast'

'Chile'

RECENT HISTORY 800 'In 2010, after 69 days trapped underground, 33 miners were rescued in this country'

'Chile'

THE MOVIE MAP 600 'A Kurt Russell adventure: "Big Trouble In Little ___"'

'China'

AUDIO BOOK PERFORMERS 2000 'Natascha McElhone interprets the poems of this British poet, sister of Dante Gabriel'

'Christina Rossetti'

WHERE THE WILD THINGS WERE 1000 'The bulldog rat disappeared around 1900 from this Aussie-owned island named for a holiday'

'Christmas Island'

SUPER 400 'The 2006 film "Superman Returns" contains a dedication to this actor who died in 2004'

'Christopher Reeve'

MGM WOULD HAVE CHANGED YOUR NAME 400 'Yvonne Strahovski plays a CIA agent on this TV show about a geek turned spy'

'Chuck'

WORLD LEADERS 200 'Neville Chamberlain wanted the foreign secretary to succeed him as P.M. but luckily this man got the post'

'Churchill'

LESSER-KNOWN ART & ARTISTS 1600 'In a painting by John William Waterhouse, this femme fatale offers a cup to Ulysses'

'Circe'

THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES 1600 '"Looking every inch a heavy-metal god, with a tangle of beard and power shoulder pads", Liam Neeson is Zeus in this 2010 flick'

'Clash of the Titans'

JACKS OF ALL TRADES 1000 'Jack Mazzola serves only organic & fair trade at his west village "Stir Brew" this'

'Coffee'

MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS 1600 '2003, Best Group Video: "The Scientist" (those Brits give us chills)'

'Coldplay'

NAME THE POET 800 '"Day after day, day after day, / We stuck, no breath or motion; / As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted ocean"'

'Coleridge'

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT 400 'One of the highest navigable rivers in the U.S., the Animas rises to over 10,000 feet in this state'

'Colorado'

BLAME IT ON THE RAIN 600 'September 2013 flooding in 17 counties of this state wrecked thousands of homes & cut off entire towns'

'Colorado'

I'M UNEMPLOYED 400 'The website of the California DWC, the Division of Workers' this, has a link to "when I get hurt on the job"'

'Compensation'

BRITISH AUTHORS 200 'His professor, Dr. Joseph Bell, a master of diagnostic deduction, was his model for Sherlock Holmes'

'Conan Doyle'

BEYOND THE "C" 600 'Legalizing Christianity throughout the Roman Empire, the Edict of Milan was declared by this emperor in 313'

'Constantine'

TEX-ARCANA Daily Double 'This Texas port was named for a Roman Catholic feast day celebrating the body of the Savior'

'Corpus Christi'

HOTELS 800 "One of this Central American country's 5-star hotels is the Barcelo San Jose Palacio"

'Costa Rica'

CELEBRITY MOMS 800 'In 2009 this rocker & rock widow lost custody of her daughter Frances Bean Cobain'

'Courtney Love'

A CROCUS 2000 "Early cultivation of crocus is depicted in frescoes found in this Mediterranean island's Knossos Archaeology Site"

'Crete'

TV PRIVATE EYES 600 'She portrayed ex-model Maddie Hayes'

'Cybill Shepherd'

THE LIBERTY BELL 400 'The Liberty Bell was struck on June 6, 1944; the sound was broadcast on radios across the U.S. to announce this event'

'D-Day'

FILM TITLES IN FOREIGN LANDS 1000 'Folks in Greece know this Eddie Murphy film as "Daddies as Nannies"'

'Daddy Day Care'

IT HAPPENED IN JUNE 600 'In June 2006 this newsman ended his 44-year career at CBS'

'Dan Rather'

BEST PICTURE LETTER DROP 800 'People from Copenhagen get to know wild canines when the letter C falls from the 1990 winner'

'Danes with Wolves'

BIG-SCREEN EDUCATORS 400 '1995: Michelle Pfeiffer as ex-Marine & inner city high school teacher Louanne Johnson'

'Dangerous Minds'

MOVIE VILLAINS 400 '"Star Wars" had Darth Vader; "Phantom Menace" had this other Darth'

'Darth Maul'

EXPORTS 1600 "This country's exports to the Middle East were down 15% in 2006, backlash from caricatures of Muhammad"

'Denmark'

TV PHYSICIAN 400 'Before movies like "Crimson Tide" & "Flight", he played Dr. Philip Chandler on "St. Elsewhere"'

'Denzel Washington'

KEEP ON TRUCKIN' 600 'In 2008 Atlanta truckers protested the rising price of this type of fuel, their lifeline'

'Diesel'

SITE 400 'This news website that lets you share "top news" sounds like it's trying to get to China the hard way'

'Digg'

LINE 600 'This movie spawned 1,000 imitators saying, "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?"'

'Dirty Harry'

BEST PICTURE LETTER DROP 400 'A chauffeured lady from 1989 joins Greg Louganis in competition'

'Diving Miss Daisy'

MOVIE VILLAINS 1200 'Slave owner Calvin Candie fills this film with evil'

'Django Unchained'

SCIENCE-FICTION TV 2000 'This show about a very old time lord from the planet Gallifrey debuted on the BBC in 1963'

'Doctor Who'

WHAT'S ON TV? 1200 'In 2013 it was announced Peter Capaldi will be the next title time traveler in this 50-year-old show'

'Doctor Who'

PICTURE BOOK TITLE ANIMALS 1600 '"Harry the Dirty ____"'

'Dog'

LOST TEXTS FROM BEN FRANKLIN 2000 '1722: wrote 14 essays as "Silence" this: gr8 2 make fun of kids @ Harvard! LOL!'

'Dogood'

CLASSIC NOVELS 'In his will, this title guy tells his niece Antonia she should marry a man who knows not "about... chivalry"'

'Don Quixote de la Mancha'

LITERATURE & MUSIC 'The band called "They Might Be Giants" ultimately gets its name from a phrase said by this title hero in a 1605 work'

'Don Quixote'

QUIRKY NEWS 400 "Bill Maher said if this real estate tycoon could prove his dad isn't an orangutan, Maher would give him $5 million"

'Donald Trump'

LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS 'Lord Henry tells him, "What an exquisite life you have had!... It has not marred you. You are still the same"'

'Dorian Gray'

TOUCHÉ 800 'Swordplay in movies like 1926's "The Black Pirate" earned this "senior" actor the title "king of the swashbucklers"'

'Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.'

IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE BOOK? 600 '"The Island of" this doctor by H.G. Wells concerns a man trying to turn animals into men'

'Dr. Moreau'

CONSTELLATION TRANSLATION 1000 'Dragon (not "Athenian statesman")'

'Draco'

BROADWAY MUSICALS 1600 '"I Meant You No Harm" is a song for James Thunder Early in this '60s & '70s-set show'

'Dreamgirls'

PICTURE BOOK TITLE ANIMALS 1200 '"Make Way for ____"'

'Ducklings'

SITE 800 'Insider content on this website can get you NBA Rumor Central or NFL draft analysis by Mel Kiper, Jr.'

'ESPN'

"E" DAY Daily Double 'The U.S. Department of Energy has a website urging us to "Make every day" this April event'

'Earth Day'

THE GREEN PAGES 400 'Al Gore made his environmental sentiments clear in the 1992 book this "in the Balance"'

'Earth'

QUICK LIT 400 'This 1952 Steinbeck novel has a biblical title & a biblical story'

'East of Eden'

"E" DAY 1600 'Fittingly, schools were not closed on April 5, 2009, which was this "and sharing day, U.S.A."'

'Education'

IT'S IN THE PAPERS 400 'A book from Princeton Univ. Press is titled his "Miraculous Year: Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics"'

'Einstein'

GOLD 1000 'A fabled lost city of gold lends its name to this California county'

'El Dorado'

"E" DAY 400 'In November 1848, for the first time, it was the same for Americans in every state'

'Election Day'

INVENTIVE MINDS 400 'His cotton gin gets all the press, but he had a nail-making business even before he went to Yale'

'Eli Whitney'

"E" DAY 800 'In 1834 slavery was abolished in the British Empire as of August 1, long celebrated as this day'

'Emacipation Day'

"E" DAY 2000 'In Japan before WWII February 11 was celebrated as this large political unit day'

'Empire Day'

I DETECT A DETECTIVE 1600 'No objection--this 3-named author created the dogged defense lawyer Perry Mason'

'Erle Stanley Gardner'

NAME THE BIBLE BOOK 800 '"Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus"'

'Esther'

I C U R A 1-LETTER RESPONSE 1600 "It's the 4th tone in the scale of C major"

'F'

REAL PEOPLE IN NOVELS 400 'In "Gatsby's Girl" Caroline Preston fictionalized the romance of Ginevra King & this writer during his Princeton days'

'F. Scott Fitzgerald'

SCIENCE-FICTION TV 800 'This Steven Spielberg-produced alien invasion series on TNT features Noah Wyle as a resistance fighter'

'Falling Skies'

BIG-SCREEN EDUCATORS 600 '1980: Debbie Allen as dance instructor Lydia Grant'

'Fame'

REAL PEOPLE IN NOVELS 1200 'The title of Jerry Stahl's "I, Fatty" refers to this comedian who narrates it'

'Fatty Arbuckle'

EXPO 2000 'A 21-hour production of this Goethe tale was a highlight of the 2000 expo in Hanover, Germany'

'Faust'

RHYMING FOLKS 400 '"On the Other Hand" is the autobiography of this "King Kong" actress'

'Fay Wray'

THE "VILLE" OF THE PEOPLE 2000 "This city that's home to the main campus of the U. of Arkansas was occupied by Union troops during the Civil War"

'Fayetteville'

THE ROCK & ROLL CALENDAR 1200 'In "American Pie" it "made me shiver with every paper I'd deliver"'

'February'

20th CENTURY NOVELS 800 '"riverrun, past Eve and Adam's" is the opening passage, & about the most comprehensible part, of this Joyce novel'

'Finnegans Wake'

SOFTWARE 600 'Browsers are software too, like this bushy-tailed hottie from Mozilla'

'Firefox'

THE OFFICE 2000 '...will be closed on June 14 for this holiday commemorating a 1777 event'

'Flag Day'

GO WITH THE "FLO" 2000 'This steroid spray relieves stuffy noses'

'Flonase'

THE END OF THE LINE 600 'O say, can you see he became D.A. of D.C. in 1833 but was D.O.A. on Jan. 11, 1843'

'Francis Scott Key'

REAL PEOPLE IN NOVELS 800 'The title of Nancy Horan's historical novel "Loving Frank" refers to this creator of Taliesin'

'Frank Lloyd Wright'

MOVIE VILLAINS 2000 'This serial killer made Elm Street a nightmare'

'Fred Kruger'

AUSTRIANS 400 'He graduated from the medical school of the University of Vienna in 1881; tell me, how do you feel about that?'

'Freud'

LIFE WITH THE HOOD 800 'In "Ivanhoe" this devout man is known as the Clerk of Copmanhurst & lives at a Hermitage'

'Friar Tuck'

THAT'S WHAT CHE SAID 2000 'Che said that when this previous Cuban dictator "fled, he cleaned out the national treasury"'

'Fulgencio Batista'

MGM WOULD HAVE CHANGED YOUR NAME 1000 'This actress whose dad is from Senegal followed up "Precious" with a role as a student on "The Big C"'

'Gabourey Sidibe'

NEWSPAPERS 2000 'This media company owns over 80 newspapers, including USA Today & the Des Moines Register'

'Gannett'

LIT STUDENTS 600 'This John Irving character is a student at steering prep school, where he takes up wrestling'

'Garp'

CONSTELLATION TRANSLATION 200 'Twins'

'Gemini'

WE PREDICT YOU'LL DEAL WITH THE ZODIAC 800 'A person born under this May 22-June 21 sign is said to have a 2-sided personality & to often change moods quickly'

'Gemini'

EUROPEAN CITIES 1200 'This Swiss city was known as the "Protestant Rome"'

'Geneva'

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 200 "The Palace of Nations, the League's headquarters, was built on land next to this Swiss lake"

'Geneva'

COMPLETES THE QUOTATION 2000 '" _____ is one percent inspiration & 99 percent perspiration"'

'Genius'

EUROPEAN CITIES 400 'Native son Christopher Columbus embodies the maritime tradition of this city'

'Genoa'

AUDIO BOOK PERFORMERS 400 'Monty Python's Terry Jones says of this pre-Shakespeare poet, "Once you get past the spelling, he speaks so clearly"'

'Geoffrey Chaucer'

MY NAME IS GEORGE 800 'His reported salary for co-writing, directing & starring in "Good Night, and Good Luck" was $1'

'George Clooney'

CORNERSTONES 2000 'In June 1904 the cornerstone for the U.S. Naval Academy chapel was laid by this hero & admiral'

'George Dewey'

MY NAME IS GEORGE 600 'In 1919 this composer wrote his first successful popular song, "Swanee"'

'George Gershwin'

MY NAME IS GEORGE 200 'This musician & 3 other lads won an Oscar for Best Music, Original Song Score for 1970's "Let It Be"'

'George Harrison'

PRE-'80s HISTORY 200 'The U.K. was formed with the 1801 addition of Ireland to the realm of this king'

'George III'

MY NAME IS GEORGE 400 'Meet this TV guy... his boy Elroy... daughter Judy... Jane, his wife--he never could "stop this crazy thing!"'

'George Jetson'

ENGLISH MONARCHS 'Since 1066, the longest consecutive period when the monarch had the same name was 116 years with this given name'

'George'

STATE LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS 400 '"...on my Mind"'

'Georgia'

HERBS & SPICE GIRLS 400 'In 2003 Geri Halliwell, this redheaded spice, played Phoebe in an episode of "Sex and the City"'

'Ginger Spice'

POTPOURRI 400 'Craig Ferguson is a proud Glaswegian--a native of this city'

'Glasgow'

TV GUIDE SAYS 400 '"Rachel and Finn decide to throw a duet competition to give Sam a better chance to win"'

'Glee'

ONE MAN, ONE BOAT 1200 'In 1969 Robin Knox-Johnston sailed around the world solo & nonstop, earning a trophy called this, like an acting award'

'Golden Globe'

MOVIE VILLAINS 1600 "He's the villain formerly known as Smeagol"

'Gollum'

AFRICAN LEADERS 1600 "It's the first name of Nigerian president Jonathan, & it's what we wish him in battling Boko Haram rebels"

'Goodluck'

BOOKS & AUTHORS 1200 "Margaret Wise Brown, author of this 1947 book about a bunny's bedtime, loved to hunt rabbits"

'Goodnight Moon'

BEST PICTURE LETTER DROP 2000 "When a 1952 Cecil B. DeMille circus film loses a letter, there aren't enough awards to give the pig"

'Greatest Sow on Earth'

THE QUEEN Daily Double "To marry Elizabeth, Prince Philip had to renounce claims to this southern European country's crown"

'Greece'

SALAD 1000 'This "colorful" salad dressing was created in San Francisco in the 1920s & named for a play'

'Green Goddess'

HEAD OF THE CLASSICAL MUSIC 1600 'In 1867 he founded the Norwegian Academy of Music'

'Grieg'

LEGENDARY WOMEN 'In various tales, she is abducted by Melwas, Meleagant & Mordred'

'Guinevere'

CELEBRITY MOMS 200 'No doubt you know that this No Doubt singer has sons named Kingston & Zuma'

'Gwen Stefani'

CELEBRITY MOMS 1000 'Blythe Danner is mom to this actress, a mother of 2 herself'

'Gwyneth Paltrow'

SPORTS TERM HISTORY 'After throwing a long, last-second touchdown in 1975, Roger Staubach said, "I closed my eyes & said" this'

'Hail Mary'

SOFTWARE 1000 'It's hard being an "angel" when playing the PC version of this first-person shooter, dubbed "combat evolved"'

'Halo'

LIT STUDENTS 1000 'This title Shakespeare guy attended school in Wittenberg & 2 of his mates there are later brought into the plot'

'Hamlet'

SUPER 800 'The title superhero of this 2008 film shares his name with a signer of the Declaration of Independence'

'Hancock'

MUSIC 200 'This man's aria "Ombra Mai Fu" from "Xerxes" is not as famous as his "Hallelujah Chorus"'

'Handel'

U.S. TOURISM "You can reach this town's convention & visitors bureau by calling 1-TOMANDHUCK"

'Hannibal, Missouri'

RHYMING FOLKS 800 'There were "Holy Cow"s in the high mass & a banner reading "Heaventh Inning Stretch" at his Chicago funeral in 1998'

'Harry Caray'

IN THE STATE CAPITAL 800 'Aetna Insurance corporate headquarters'

'Hartford, Connecticut'

1900 EVENTS Daily Double 'This future state became a possession in 1898 & a territory in 1900'

'Hawaii'

NATURE STUDY 400 'This U.S. state had no snakes until one small species arrived years ago, reportedly in the soil of potted plants'

'Hawaii'

HEAD OF THE CLASSICAL MUSIC 2000 'Here's a surprise: "The Drumroll" is the nickname of symphony no, 103 by this Austrian composer'

'Haydn'

GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS 400 'Yvette Sanchez Fuentes is the head of this program that got its start in 1965 to help kids out of poverty'

'Head Start'

WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT 1600 "Oveta Culp Hobby, the only woman in Eisenhower's cabinet, was the first head of this department, HEW for short"

'Health, Education & Welfare'

TIME OF THE CAVEMAN 2000 'One of the 1st hominids in Europe bears the name of this German city near where its fossils were found in 1907'

'Heidelberg'

PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES 2000 "In 2001 NASA's solar-powered plane named for this Greek sun god reached a record altitude of 96,863 feet"

'Helios'

AN AUTHOR IS BORN 800 'This son also rose on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois'

'Hemingway'

HERBS & SPICE GIRLS 800 'This trumpet player headed the Tijuana Brass on "Spanish Flea", the theme song for "The Dating Game"'

'Herb Alpert'

HOLY DAYS & OBSERVANCES 600 "Holy Innocents' Day on December 28 commemorates the killing of children by order of this king"

'Herod'

JUDEA 800 'This ruler of Judea attempted to kill the infant Jesus'

'Herod'

MASADA 800 'Masada is dominated by the remains of the palace of this infamous New Testament king called "the Great"'

'Herod'

BRANDS THAT SOUND LIKE VERBS 1000 'This car rental company sounds like it uses torture equipment'

'Hertz'

TOUCHÉ 600 'In this 1986 film Sean Connery as Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez instructs Connor MacLeod in swordplay'

'Highlander'

RAD PSEUDONYMS 400 'During WWII a Vietnamese leader born Nguyen Sinh Cung began using this name meaning "bringer of light"'

'Ho Chi Minh'

LIT STUDENTS 400 "You'll find Draco Malfoy studying at this school"

'Hogwarts'

ANNUAL EVENTS 200 'Every year since 1992, the World Invitational Hula Festival has been held in this state capital'

'Honolulu'

THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES 400 'A.O. Scott says he's not entirely joking calling this 2010 John Cusack comedy a "poignant story of 3 men, adrift in their 40s"'

'Hot Tub Time Machine'

WHAT'S ON TV? 1600 '3 homes are priced, toured & critiqued on both domestic & "international" versions of this HGTV show; which one will you pick?'

'House Hunters'

TEX-ARCANA 800 'The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is in this Texas city'

'Houston'

BOOKS & AUTHORS Daily Double "The title of this E. M. Forster novel refers to a country house, not to someone's death"

'Howards End'

WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT 2000 "His widow Muriel became Minnesota's first female senator when she filled his vacant seat in 1978"

'Hubert Humphrey'

& JUSTICE FOR ALL 600 'This "Watch" started ticking in 1988, when advocacy orgs. in Europe, Africa, Asia & the Americas adopted the name'

'Human Rights Watch'

PERSONAL SPACE INVADERS 600 'LBJ got physical when persuading or motivating; this "Happy Warrior" once showed reporters his leg scars'

'Humphrey'

NAME THE BIBLE BOOK 1000 '(The first book) "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"'

'I Corinthians'

AUTHORS 'An international airport in Jamaica is named for this author who set many of his stories of the 1950s & 1960s there'

'Ian Fleming'

MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES 1000 '"Dawn of the Dinosaurs" is the third offering in this animated series'

'Ice Age'

STATE LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS 200 '"Famous Potatoes"'

'Idaho'

STATE LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS 600 '"Land of Lincoln"'

'Illinois'

BORN ON THE 14th OF JULY 1200 'We're sure there were plenty of "Cries and Whispers" when this Swedish film director was born in 1918'

'Ingmar Bergman'

THE SPIRIT OF 1976 800 'In February the Winter Olympics opened in this Austrian mountain town'

'Innsbruck'

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT 200 'Fort Dodge is on the Des Moines River in this state'

'Iowa'

CAN I HAVE A MOMENT? 1200 "The Webby Awards' top Internet moments for 2000-2009 include Twitter's role in this country's 2009 election protests"

'Iran'

BORN ON THE 14th OF JULY 2000 '"Rock-solid" writer of fictionalized biographies who had a "Lust for Life" on July 14, 1903'

'Irving Stone'

1900 EVENTS 1600 '2 years after imposing martial law, King Umberto I of this country was assassinated by an anarchist'

'Italy'

POLITICAL LEADERS 200 "In 1983 Bettino Craxi became this country's first socialist prime minister"

'Italy'

WORLD LITERATURE 1200 'Tolstoy's "Death of" this title character initially deals with others' reactions to his passing'

'Ivan Ilych'

RHYMING FOLKS 1200 'He took some severe punishment south of the border in the title role of "Nacho Libre"'

'Jack Black'

JACK 800 'Fox-hunting dog breed named for a 19th century British clergyman'

'Jack Russell'

'80s ONE-HIT WONDERS 2000 'This actor, then starring as Frisco on "General Hospital", with "All I Need"'

'Jack Wagner'

POLITICAL LEADERS 1000 "An ardent Polish patriot, this piano virtuoso served as the country's leader in 1919 & again in exile from 1940 to 1941"

'Jan Paderewski'

CHICK LIT 400 '6 Californians read & discuss "Persuasion", "Emma" & 4 other novels in Karen Joy Fowler's novel her "Book Club"'

'Jane Austen'

MGM WOULD HAVE CHANGED YOUR NAME 600 'This "30 Rock" actress changed her own name--it used to have a "J" before the second "K"'

'Jane Krakowski'

BROADWAY MUSICALS 800 'Mary Bridget Davies belts out "Me & Bobby McGee" in the 2013 show "A Night with" her'

'Janis Joplin'

BESTSELLERS 1200 'After 18 years in captivity, starting at age 11, she justly called her 2011 memoir "A Stolen Life"'

'Jaycee Dugard'

20th CENTURY THINKERS 'Refusing to imprison this man for demonstrating during the 1960s, de Gaulle said, "One does not arrest Voltaire"'

'Jean-Paul Sartre'

WHAT'S ON TV? 800 'In 2013 he won the Emmy for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role on "The Newsroom"'

'Jeff Daniels'

WATCHING THE DETECTIVES 1600 'In 2009 we watched this tall guy replace Chris Noth on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent"'

'Jeff Goldblum'

CELEBRITY MOMS 600 'Her "Alias" is mom to Violet & Seraphina Affleck'

'Jennifer Garner'

THE BIBLE BOOK IMMEDIATELY BEFORE 1000 '...Lamentations (the prophet said to be doing the lamenting)'

'Jeremiah'

BORN ON THE 14th OF JULY 1600 'On July 14, 1938 Abbie Hoffman was in short pants when this future "Chicago 7" leader made the scene as the "Cincinnati 1"'

'Jerry Rubin'

HOTELS 200 'Overlooking the Old City, King David Hotel is at 23 King David St. in this city'

'Jerusalem'

KING KONG 1000 'In the 1976 version she spoke the lines "Oh, come on, Kong, forget about me. This thing's just never going to work"'

'Jessica Lange'

TV PRIVATE EYES 400 'James Garner played this guy who lived in a Malibu trailer'

'Jim Rockford'

THE SPIRIT OF 1976 400 'In January this then little-known governor won the Iowa Democratic Caucus'

'Jimmy Carter'

INVENTIVE MINDS 1200 "In 1837 he built a smooth, hard moldboard out of a circular saw, & seeing nothing ran like 'em, began to make steel plows"

'John Deere'

NAME THE POET 1600 '"One short sleep past, we wake eternally, / And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die"'

'John Donne'

PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES 'The only foreign-born First Lady was the wife of this man who served in the diplomatic corps from age 14'

'John Quincy Adams'

HEAL THYSELF 200 "If you're applying a Band-Aid to your scuffed knee, you can thank this company that makes the brand"

'Johnson & Johnson'

NAME THE BIBLE BOOK Daily Double '"But the Lord sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest"'

'Jonah'

MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES 'In 1949 this kingdom dropped the word "Trans" from the beginning of its name'

'Jordan'

1900 EVENTS 400 'Life becomes a jungle in his 1900 work "Lord Jim"'

'Joseph Conrad'

THE BIBLE BOOK IMMEDIATELY BEFORE 600 '...Revelation (Hey...!)'

'Jude'

LESSER-KNOWN ART & ARTISTS 1200 "This Jewish woman's face is grimly composed in Gentileschi's painting of her slaying Holofernes"

'Judith'

CAESAR 200 'Suetonius' book "The Twelve Caesars" begins with this man before covering 11 emperors'

'Julius Caesar'

THIS IS HUGE Daily Double 'A synonym for "huge" starts the name of this model of large-screen TV developed by Sony & seen in stadiums'

'Jumbotron'

CELEBS 400 'He's the JT in JT & the Tennessee kids, seen on the Grammys in 2013 performing "suit & tie"'

'Justin Timberlake'

GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS 1200 'Kalpen Modi, who works for the Obama admin. doing outreach to Asian Americans, is better known to moviegoers as this'

'Kal Penn'

QUOTES FROM THE WIZARD OF OZ 200 'The Wizard tells Dorothy that he's from this state, "Born and bred in the heart of the Western wilderness"'

'Kansas'

MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS 800 '2005, Best Male Video: "Jesus Walks" (No one interrupted his speech)'

'Kanye West'

CELEBS 800 'She appeared on the cover of the 2013 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition with the caption "polar bare"'

'Kate Upton'

TURNING 50 IN 2011 200 'Turns out Barbie, age 52, likes younger guys: this plastic man turned 50 on March 11'

'Ken'

AFRICAN LEADERS 800 'Add a syllable to "Kenya" to get this last name of Kenya's first & current presidents, father & son'

'Kenyatta'

ACTORS IN BIOPICS 2000 'Bobby Darin in "Beyond the Sea"'

'Kevin Spacey'

JACK 200 'He was twice jailed in the 1990s for assisting the suicides of terminally ill patients'

'Kevorkian'

TOUCHÉ 400 'Split into two parts, this film finds the bride imploring Hattori Hanzo to make her a sword so she can get revenge'

'Kill Bill'

BIG-SCREEN EDUCATORS 200 '1990: Arnold Schwarzenegger as undercover police detective John Kimble, teaching little kids'

'Kindergarten Cop'

WORLD LEADERS 1000 'On May 25, 1946 this grandfather of Hussein was crowned the first king of Jordan'

'King Abdullah'

THE "VILLE" OF THE PEOPLE 1600 "The site of a World's Fair, this city serves as a gateway to Great Smoky Mountains National Park"

'Knoxville'

COUNTRY GROUPS 200 'The "Lady" in this group that won 5 2010 ACM Awards is Hillary Scott, daughter of country singer Linda Davis'

'Lady Antebellum'

"LA" STORY 1200 'Romantic Sir Walter Scott poem about a gal on an island in Loch Katrine'

'Lady of the Lake'

"LA" STORY 2000 'Creepy Bram Stoker novel about a big pale snake'

'Lair of the White Worm'

IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE BOOK? 400 'You wouldn't want to be operated on by Dr. Gonzo in Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing" here'

'Las Vegas'

ATHLETIC EYEWEAR 800 'After wearing specs throughout an illustrious PGA career, Tom Kite had this surgery in 1998'

'Lasik'

"L"ITERATURE 400 'Eric Knight touched hearts with the 1940 novel imploring this dog to "Come Home"'

'Lassie'

BRANDS THAT SOUND LIKE VERBS 200 "This potato chip brand sounds like it's got some carpet work to do"

'Lays'

BIG-SCREEN EDUCATORS 1000 '1989: Morgan Freeman as baseball bat-wielding principal Joe Clark'

'Lean on Me'

CODA 1200 'This rock band released the album "Coda" in 1982, shortly after the death of their drummer prompted their breakup'

'Led Zeppelin'

OUR GEOMETRIC WORLD 2000 '"Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell" this, between the Haymarket & Charing Cross Road'

'Leicester Square'

TV SIDEKICKS 800 'Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman'

'Lenny'

HOLY DAYS & OBSERVANCES 200 'This 40-day period of fasting & penitence begins on Ash Wednesday'

'Lent'

AFRICAN LEADERS 1200 'The first woman elected head of state in Africa is Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of this country founded in the 1800s'

'Liberia'

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 600 'When established, the League had only 2 nations from Africa: South Africa & this one founded in 1847'

'Liberia'

CONSTELLATION TRANSLATION 800 'Scales'

'Libra'

WE PREDICT YOU'LL DEAL WITH THE ZODIAC 600 '"The Astrology Encyclopedia" says the key phrase for this sign is "I balance"'

'Libra'

SMALLER THAN TULSA 1200 'Foreign workers make up half the labor force of this principality nestled between Austria & Switzerland'

'Liechtenstein'

"L"ITERATURE 1000 "Pancho Villa's revolutionary deeds influence the lives of the characters in this Laura Esquivel bestseller"

'Like Water for Chocolate'

WINTER OLYMPICS MASCOTS Daily Double "Haakon & Kristin, mascots of this city's Olympics, were named for a Norwegian prince & princess"

'Lillehammer'

LIFE WITH THE HOOD 200 "Some stories say that this member of Robin Hood's merry men was 7 feet tall"

'Little John'

"L"ITERATURE 800 "The second in Ian Fleming's series, it features James Bond battling Soviet spies & voodoo"

'Live and Let Die'

PICTURE BOOK TITLE ANIMALS 2000 '"Is Your Momma a ____?"'

'Llama'

THE GREAT & POWERFUL WOZ 400 'Woz was born in 1950, the son of an electrical engineer at this co. that merged with Martin Marietta in 1995'

'Lockheed'

COUNTRY GROUPS 1000 'In 2001 these guys from Texas were No. 1 on the country charts with "I'm Already There"'

'Lonestar'

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'

I DETECT A DETECTIVE 2000 'Dorothy Sayers created this sleuthing aristocratic lord who solved crimes through 12 novels'

'Lord Peter Wimsey'

SCIENCE-FICTION TV 1200 'In this series the Robinsons were headed to a distant star on the Jupiter II until Dr. Smith got in the way'

'Lost in Space'

ACTORS IN BIOPICS 800 'Ritchie Valens in "La Bamba"'

'Lou Diamond Phillips'

LANGUAGES "They're the 2 states with the highest percentage of people who speak French at home"

'Louisiana & Maine'

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT 1000 'In the south of this state, the Atchafalaya River empties into Atchafalaya Bay'

'Louisiana'

STATE NAME ORIGINS 600 'It was named for a king of France'

'Louisiana'

"L"ITERATURE 200 'Boy meets girl, boy loses girl in this tearjerker about Oliver & Jenny'

'Love Story'

THE NEW TESTAMENT 400 'This "beloved physician" dedicated his gospel & the book of acts to a Christian named Theophilus'

'Luke'

WATCHING THE DETECTIVES 800 'From 1980 to 1988 we watched this title guy drive his sweet Ferrari to his even sweeter Hawaiian pad (& catch bad guys)'

'Magnum'

LIFE WITH THE HOOD 600 '16th century plays by Anthony Munday call this woman Matilda Fitzwater'

'Maid Marian'

COATS OF ARMS 2000 "On Singapore's coat of arms, the lion represents Singapore itself & a tiger represents its historical link to this country"

'Malaysia'

SMALLER THAN TULSA Daily Double 'In 1530 the Holy Roman Emperor gave it to the order of St. John of Jerusalem as a base against the Turks'

'Malta'

TOUCHÉ 1000 'Christopher Guest prepares to die as this actor avenges his dad's death in "The Princess Bride"'

'Mandy Patinkin'

THE MOVIE MAP 400 'J. Lo is the help: "Maid In ___"'

'Manhattan'

THE SPIRIT OF 1976 1200 'On Sept. 9 China's news agency announced the death of this "esteemed and beloved great leader"'

'Mao Tse-tung'

THAT'S TREASON! 200 'Accused of incest as well as treason, she was guillotined Oct. 16, 1793'

'Marie Antoinette'

THE END OF THE LINE 200 'She lost her head on the guillotine, October 16, 1793'

'Marie Antoinette'

TV SIDEKICKS 1600 'Chester Goode'

'Marshall Matt Dillon'

HUSBANDS & WIVES 2000 "In an HBO movie, Nicole Kidman played this war correspondent, Hemingway's third wife"

'Martha Gellhorn'

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

'Martin Amis'

POP QUIZ 600 'He gave the world Emilio Estevez'

'Martin Sheen'

THE END OF THE LINE 1000 'This ex-president got the kinderhook on July 24, 1862'

'Martin Van Buren'

STATE LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS 1000 '"The Spirit of America"'

'Massachusetts'

1900 EVENTS 2000 'A constant is named for this physicist who in 1900 postulated that energy is radiated in quanta'

'Max Planck'

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE 1000 "The 200' Chapultepec Hill boasts the castle where this Mexican emperor lived in the 1860s"

'Maximilian'

BORN ON THE 14th OF JULY 800 'Last name of Ferdinand II, born in 1610 & the 5th Grand Duke of Tuscany, where his family name carried a lot of weight'

'Medici'

STATE NAME ORIGINS 200 'This state's name is from Chippewa words meaning "great water", after the lake of the same name'

'Michigan'

THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES 2000 'Reviewing "The Last Song", the Times noted, "It is likely that we can look forward to more movies starring" this teen singer'

'Miley Cyrus'

MGM WOULD HAVE CHANGED YOUR NAME 800 'This singer/model "Fifth Element" star wants you to know her last name begins with a "yo" sound'

'Milla Jovovich'

RAD PSEUDONYMS 600 'Have a cocktail & tell us this pseudonym adopted by Russian revolutionary Vyacheslev Skryabin'

'Molotov'

SMALLER THAN TULSA 400 'This tiny principality is famed for its casino at Monte Carlo & a Grand Prix auto race'

'Monaco'

TAKE IN ORDER 1000 'Collect $1,000 if you know that the previous clues in the category lead you to this game'

'Monopoly'

JACK 600 "It's a mild, smooth cow's-milk cheese named for a town on California's central coast"

'Monterey Jack'

RAD PSEUDONYMS 800 'Pseudonym of labor activist & magazine namesake Mary Harris Jones'

'Mother Jones'

"P"s ON EARTH 1200 "The U.S. sped up its pullout from Luzon's Clark Air Force Base after this volcano's 1991 eruption"

'Mount Pinatubo'

AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION 200 'In 1761 George Washington inherited this home from the widow of his brother Lawrence'

'Mount Vernon'

PICTURE BOOK TITLE ANIMALS 800 '"If You Give a ____ a Cookie"'

'Mouse'

LITERATURE CATS WOULD LOVE 400 'This Agatha Christie play that features Detective Sergeant Trotter is something most cats would love to have'

'Mousetrap'

CODA 800 'His 1788 "Jupiter" Symphony features an extended coda combining 5 previously heard independent motifs'

'Mozart'

TV CARTOONS 200 'The most despised man in Springfield, he offered his employees a free beer policy instead of a dental plan'

'Mr. Burns'

CALI 1600 "At 14,495 feet, this peak is California's highest point"

'Mt. Whitney'

EUROPEAN CITIES Daily Double 'This Bavarian city traces its origins to a Benedictine monastery at Tegernsee'

'Munich'

IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE BOOK? 800 'Dr. Constantine is the coroner on the train who helps Poirot gather evidence in this novel'

'Murder on the Orient Express'

NOBEL LAUREATES 'The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner from this country was under arrest at the time of the award'

'Myanmar'

SUPER 1600 'Cutlery was the chosen weapon of the Blue Raja, played by Hank Azaria in this 1999 superfilm spoof'

'Mystery Men'

A NEGATIVE ATTITUDE 200 'It's the letter you add to "no" to write "no" en francais'

'N'

COUNTRY GROUPS 400 'This organization was formed in April 1949 to counter the Soviet Union'

'NATO'

CAN I HAVE A MOMENT? 800 'A driveway moment is when your car idles as Robert Siegel wraps up a fascinating story on this radio network'

'NPR'

ALL SYSTEMS GO 1200 "This emperor's early 19th century blockade called the Continental System hurt British commerce for a few years"

'Napoleon'

HARK, IT'S ARKANSAS! 200 'Like Tennessee, Arkansas has a city named this, but it isn't the "Country Music Capital of the World"'

'Nashville'

JACKS OF ALL TRADES 800 'Jack Cawthon, the "Bar-B-Que King" of this town, has a restaurant overlooking the Ryman Auditorium'

'Nashville'

ACTORS IN BIOPICS 1200 'Anne in "The Other Boleyn Girl"'

'Natalie Portman'

MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES 800 'The second Nicolas Cage film titled this is subtitled "Book of Secrets"'

'National Treasure'

THE NEW TESTAMENT 800 'After Herod died, Joseph, Mary & Jesus left Egypt & returned to this Galiliean city'

'Nazareth'

RECENT HISTORY 400 '2010 saw scientists sequence the genome of this ancient species, proving it interbred with us'

'Neanderthals'

20th CENTURY NOVELS 1200 'Just before his death in 1975, Rex Stout published "A Family Affair", his final book about this portly detective'

'Nero Wolfe'

WORLD LEADERS 600 'This leader of the Likud Party is the first prime minister born after the founding of Israel as a nation'

'Netanyahu'

STATE NAME ORIGINS Daily Double 'This state was named for an island in the English Channel'

'New Jersey'

COATS OF ARMS 400 "This country's coat of arms features a Maori chieftain & a European woman supporting the shield"

'New Zealand'

IT HAPPENED IN JUNE 400 'Acrobat Charles Blondin crossed this North American landmark on a tightrope on June 30, 1859'

'Niagara Falls'

SUPER 2000 'A scene at the end of "Iron Man" finds Samuel L. Jackson as this one-eyed S.H.I.E.L.D. director'

'Nick Fury'

CELEBRITY MOMS 400 'This Aussie actress had a daughter on July 7, 2008--a Monday--but named her Sunday Rose'

'Nicole Kidman'

LINE 400 'In a Hitchcock film, this character delivers the line "A boy's best friend is his mother"'

'Norman Bates'

COUNTRY GROUPS 1600 'MENA is a somewhat vague acronym for the countries of the "Middle East &" here'

'North Africa'

STATE LICENSE PLATE MOTTOS 800 '"First in Flight"'

'North Carolina'

RECENT HISTORY 2000 'Prompting further international sanctions, in February 2013 this nation conducted its third nuclear test'

'North Korea'

THE QUEEN 400 'After Elizabeth became queen, her first regional tours included a controversial visit to this smallest U.K. country'

'Northern Ireland'

SOFTWARE 800 'Symantec has a popular line of anti-virus software named for this man, first name Peter'

'Norton'

THE ROCK & ROLL CALENDAR 800 'Guns N' Roses informed us that "nothing lasts forever, even" this "rain"'

'November rain'

IT'S SHOWTIME! 2000 'This title E.R. woman had an affair, forged an organ donor card, etc., etc.'

'Nurse Jackie'

AN AUTHOR IS BORN 1600 "We'll give you a chocolate bar if you'll name this short story writer born Sept. 11, 1862 in North Carolina"

'O. Henry'

"O", 'BAMA Daily Double 'Population 100, it shares its name with a Tennessee city famous in atomic history'

'Oak Ridge'

"O", 'BAMA 1600 "In Alabama there's one just north of Tuscumbia; in California, it's a neighbor of San Francisco"

'Oakland'

THE ROCK & ROLL CALENDAR 2000 "U2's second album"

'October'

THE OFFICE 1200 '...of these 2 things helping the president with money matters is OMB for short'

'Office of Management and Budget'

BEFORE, DURING & AFTER 400 '"The pipes, the pipes are calling" for a Culture Club lad & late Yankees owner'

'Oh Danny Boy George Steinbrenner'

QUOTES FROM THE WIZARD OF OZ 800 'These 2 words follow "Lions and tigers and bears..."'

'Oh, my'

BEFORE, DURING & AFTER 2000 'Nebraska-named D-Day landing area whose album "Pet Sounds" clones Nazis in South America'

'Omaha Beach Boys from Brazil'

LITERATURE CATS WOULD LOVE 200 "There are 4 servings of seafood in this Dr. Seuss title, & kitty doesn't mind at all"

'One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish'

"O", 'BAMA 400 'Fittingly, this juicy-sounding "Beach" is right next to the Florida border'

'Orange Beach'

"O", 'BAMA 2000 'Population 500, it hunts in a large constellation'

'Orion'

LESSER-KNOWN ART & ARTISTS 2000 'Niccolo Dell"abbate painted "The Death of Eurydice", the wife of this guy'

'Orpheus'

WORLD LITERATURE 800 'Kafka wrote "The Metamorphosis"; this ancient Roman wrote "Metamorphoses"'

'Ovid'

ALSO A TYPE OF FOOTWEAR 2000 'Ohio city once home to Big Ben (Roethlisberger)'

'Oxford'

"O", 'BAMA 800 "This city's name is the singular version of a mountain range in Arkansas"

'Ozark'

I C U R A 1-LETTER RESPONSE 1200 'Notation for the least valuable chessman'

'P'

TEX-ARCANA 2000 'First called Isla Blanca, it was later renamed for a priest'

'Padre Island'

JUDEA 1000 'Galilee, Samaria & Judea in the south were the 3 traditional divisions of this ancient area with a still-current name'

'Palestine'

BRANDS THAT SOUND LIKE VERBS 400 'Brand of diapers that means "treats with too much indulgence"'

'Pampers'

QUICK LIT 800 'A Rabelais title is "Gargantua and" him'

'Pantagruel'

D-DAY 600 'A counterattack by tanks called these, from the German for "armor", was barely turned back by British gunners'

'Panzers'

THE MOVIE MAP 800 'Nick Nolte as TJ: "Jefferson In ___"'

'Paris'

TV CARTOONS 400 "Not exactly the brightest starfish in the sea, he's SpongeBob's neighbor & best friend"

'Patrick'

HERBS & SPICE GIRLS 2000 'In 1979 this duo hit No. 1 for 4 weeks with "Reunited"'

'Peaches & Herb'

THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY 800 'This title gal of a 1957 Buddy hit inspired a 1986 hit Kathleen Turner/Nicolas Cage movie'

'Peggy Sue'

IT'S A DOGGY DOG WORLD 400 'The British rescued 5 of these toy dogs when looting the Chinese imperial palace in 1860; one was presented to Queen Victoria'

'Pekingese'

IT'S SHOWTIME! 800 'Only 1 of these 2 magicians speaks, but both are "pit bulls for the truth"'

'Penn & Teller'

STATE NAME ORIGINS 800 'The first part of its name honors the father of the colony's founder; the rest means "woodland"'

'Pennsylvania'

HUSBANDS & WIVES 1600 "He met Mary Godwin in 1812, but they didn't wed until 1816 because he was still married to his first wife, Harriet"

'Percy Shelley'

BEFORE, DURING & AFTER 1600 "Early Beatles drummer who wins Westminster Kennel Club top honors by yelling Cuba Gooding Jr.'s most famous line"

'Pete Best in Show me the money'

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

'Peter Jackson'

DEAD LINES 400 'This character said, "Every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies', there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead"'

'Peter Pan'

PRE-'80s HISTORY 1000 'In 1914 the once & future St. Petersburg got this new name; 10 years later it became Leningrad'

'Petrograd'

LOST TEXTS FROM BEN FRANKLIN 400 "OMG! So tired of bro James b-ting me up! I'm 17 & running away 2 live in this city! Market St is gr8!"

'Philadelphia'

SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY 800 'Following the 1973 coup that included an air strike on the presidential palace, this general seized control of Chile'

'Pinochet'

QUICK LIT 1200 'Characters have been rejected by their author in a 1921 play by this Italian'

'Pirandello'

MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES 200 'With Davy Jones (the sailor, not the Monkee), the second film in this series is "Dead Man's Chest"'

'Pirates of the Caribbean'

WE PREDICT YOU'LL DEAL WITH THE ZODIAC 200 'Nothing, or perhaps everything, is fishy about Neptune being one of the 2 planets said to rule this sign'

'Pisces'

ANNUAL EVENTS 600 "This city's annual Three Rivers Regatta features live concerts & the National Dragon Boat Championships"

'Pittsburgh'

BLAME IT ON THE RAIN 1000 'Heavy rains swelled the Allegheny & Monongahela in March 1936, inundating this city'

'Pittsburgh'

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE 1600 'In 1581 Drake was made the mayor of this English seaport'

'Plymouth'

20th CENTURY NOVELS 400 "James Michener's novel about this country centers on a village on the Vistula River"

'Poland'

CUT! 600 'Named for a NYC restaurant, this cut of beef contains filet mignon & New York separated by a big bone'

'Porterhouse'

PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES 1600 "Amtrak's Downeaster runs between Boston & this city, the largest in its state"

'Portland'

COUNTRY GROUPS 800 'The PIIGS countries are European nations carrying heavy debt; the P & S are these southern neighbors'

'Portugal & Spain'

YOU'RE SO COLORFUL 2000 'This slang term for the intellect is also the name of colorful nerve tissue in the brain'

'gray matter'

THAT'S WHAT CHE SAID 400 'Che Guevara described this type of warfare as "irregular., struggle against enemies of superior military power"'

'guerilla warfare'

WORDS IN ASIAN COUNTRIES 1600 'Precipitation in Bangkok'

'hail (in Thailand)'

BODY LANGUAGE 600 'If you're earning money rapidly, you're said to be making it this body part "over" this partner body part'

'hand over fist'

TIME OF THE CAVEMAN 400 'The name of Homo habilis, a crude tool user from 1.5 million years ago, means this; got any odd jobs?'

'handy man'

PHYSIOLOGY 400 'Almost the entire dry weight of a red blood cell consists of this protein'

'hemoglobin'

A GAME OF IDIOMS 1000 'Drop the gloves'

'hockey'

VERBS 400 '3-letter animal verb meaning "take more than your share of"'

'hog'

GOVERNMENT AWARDS & HONORS 800 'Raoul Wallenberg & the Marquis de Lafayette are among the few to be made honorary these'

'honorary citizens of the United States'

4-LETTER FILL IN THE PROVERB 600 '"Where there's life there's ____" (the last name of Bing's "Road" partner)'

'hope'

A GAME OF IDIOMS 600 'Down to the wire'

'horse racing'

POLITICAL ANIMALS 2000 'A candidate put forward to ease the way for another candidate is called a "stalking" this'

'horse'

ALL YOU NEED IS "OVE" 800 'To linger around a particular place'

'hover'

SITE 1000 'The front page of this "database", an Amazon company, lists box office tallies & tells you what's opening this week'

'imdb'

HOW'S YOUR CONSTITUTION? Daily Double 'Article II section 2 allows the president to grant pardons except in cases of this, to which section 4 makes him liable'

'impeachment'

VERBS 200 "To put on the character & appearance of someone else, like a police officer, in which case it's a crime"

'impersonate'

COMPLETES THE PROVERB 200 '"Never look a gift horse..."'

'in the mouth'

BESTSELLERS 1600 'In the title of one of her bestsellers, Erma Bombeck asked, "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries--What Am I Doing" here'

'in the pits'

TAKE IN ORDER 600 'In 1931 a federal jury convicted Al Capone, not of murder, mind you, but of evading this 2-word levy'

'income tax'

PERSONAL SPACE INVADERS 1000 'This word, the big no-no in intellectual property law, can also mean encroaching on personal space'

'infringement'

LEGAL MATTERS 600 'The McNaghten case of 1843 is the standard in about half the states for a verdict of not guilty by reason of this'

'insanity'

PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR VOCABULARY 1000 'Electrical activity impeding communication'

'interference'

PHILOSOPHIC IDEAS 400 "It's the direct apprehension of knowledge without the application of reason; a woman's is said to be pretty good"

'intuition'

COMPLETES THE PROVERB 1000 '"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to..."'

'invent him'

A CROCUS 1600 'Botanically, the crocus is a member of this 4-letter plant family named for the Greek goddess of the rainbow'

'iris'

CHEMISTRY 2000 'These compounds contain the same types of atoms in the same proportions but in different arrangements'

'isomers'

HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? 400 'In a standard type of draw poker, you need a pair of these face cards also called knaves to open the betting'

'jacks'

SALAD 600 'Add some crunch to your salad with this white-fleshed veggie also called a Mexican potato'

'jicama'

4-LETTER EDIBLES 1000 "Vegans love this veggie that's basically a primitive cabbage"

'kale'

GO BALLISTIC! 2000 "Internal ballistics studies the conversion of a propellant's chemical energy into a projectile's energy of this type"

'kinetic'

BODY LANGUAGE 1000 'To seriously apply oneself or redouble one's efforts is to this body part "down"'

'knuckle'

IT'S A DOGGY DOG WORLD 1600 'In the 1980s Wally Conron was the first to breed this dog; now there are oodles of them'

'labradoodles'

POLITICAL ANIMALS 400 "In July 2009 Sarah Palin said she didn't want to accept this status of late-term ineffectiveness, so bye-bye"

'lame duck'

VALLEY GIRL SPEAK 800 'Adjective applied to differently abled 14th century conqueror Timur'

'lame'

LATIN 400 'Your Latin lex-icon should include the fact that "lex" means this, as in "lex succurit ignoranti"'

'law'

HEARING 800 'If you share one of these with another defendant in the same trial, a Garcia hearing makes sure you know you can trade him in'

'lawyer'

THINKING GREEN 800 'The U.S. Army experimented with green bullets, thought to be more Earth-friendly without this metal'

'lead'

"RIGHT" OR "LEFT" 400 '10-letter synonym for "southpaw"'

'left-handed'

MASADA 1600 'The Roman attacking force, 15,000 strong, was the tenth one of these Roman military units'

'legion'

THE NATURE OF THINGS 800 'Wolverines feed on this rodent of Norway, known for its periodic mass migrations that can lead to mass drownings'

'lemmings'

CHEMISTRY 400 'In 1814 Jakob Berzelius proposed the idea of having these, instead of hieroglyphics, stand for the elements'

'letters'

THINGS & STUFF 200 'The iceberg type of this food is also called crisphead'

'lettuce'

EURO COINS 1200 "This 3-word motto of the French Republic is on France's 1- & 2-euro coins"

'libertxc3xa9, xc3xa9galitxc3xa9 & fraternitxc3xa9'

COMPLETES THE QUOTATION 1200 '"Four score & 7 years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in _____"'

'liberty'

CHEMISTRY 800 'This stormy natural phenomenon is a cause of significant amounts of nitrogen oxides'

'lightning'

INTERNATIONAL SEAFOOD 400 'A Maltese specialty, lampuki pie is made with the fish better known by this double talk name'

'mahi mahi'

WORDS FROM POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS 200 'Massachusetts plus Illinois delivers this'

'mail'

MASTERS OF SIX 600 'The King James version of Genesis says on the 6th day, "God said, let us make" this "in our image"'

'man'

THE BIBLICAL SENSE 800 'Exodus 16:31 says the taste of this bread that rained down on the Israelites "was like wafers made with honey"'

'manna'

ON THE "M"ENU 600 'This 6-letter word is used throughout India for a blend of spices, like the garam one'

'masala'

THAT'S WHAT CHE SAID 800 '"I began my career" in this field; "I came into close contact with poverty... with the inability to treat a child"'

'medicine'

ON THE "M"ENU 1000 'If you see this Italian word on a menu, know that it means eggplant'

'melanzane'

PHYSIOLOGY 1600 'The pineal gland secretes this hormone that helps regulate sleep'

'melatonin'

CHROME 2000 'Chrome is used as a refractory, meaning it has an unusually high one of these'

'melting point'

SAY THANK YOU! 1200 'In French'

'merci'

HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? Daily Double "This chemical element has the lowest melting point of any metal & that's why it's liquid at room temperature"

'mercury'

COMPLETES THE QUOTATION Daily Double '"A well regulated ____, being necessary to the security of a free state"'

'militia'

DR. MASSEUSE RHYMES 600 'The innermost of the 3 in each rear / is a pain when I try to sit in a bus / it is amiss, now please do this / fix my gluteus...'

'minimus'

ON THE "M"ENU 200 'This flavor jelly traditionally accompanies lamb'

'mint'

ON THE "M"ENU 800 'This 2-word term means chemistry & physics have come to the kitchen; liquid nitrogen & lasers might be involved'

'molecular gastronomy (or cooking)'

"MON"-OTONY 1600 "It's another term for a nickname, Shorty"

'moniker'

ADD AN E 2000 'A proposal formally made to a deliberative assembly takes on an E to get in touch with 1 of its many types of feelings'

'motion & emotion'

KEEP ON TRUCKIN' 800 'Also called splash guards, these on a truck help prevent splashing on following cars'

'mud flaps'

GO BALLISTIC! 1200 "This 2-word term that includes part of the gun refers to a bullet's speed as it leaves; 2,000 F.P.S. is not uncommon"

'muzzle velocity'

POLITICAL DEFINITIONS 400 "It's the taking of an industry or business into state ownership"

'nationalizing'

EXPORTS 800 'Algeria is a major exporter of this resource, the NG in LNG'

'natural gas'

RETRONYMS 1600 'No C-section? Little or no drugs? Then the childbirth was this, aptly from the Latin for "birth"'

'natural'

A NEGATIVE ATTITUDE 400 '8 isn't enough to say this 4-letter German word for "no"'

'nein'

THE END OF THE LINE Daily Double '"The very first requirement in a hospital (is) that it should do the sick ____"'

'no harm'

2-LETTER WORDS 600 'Supernatural elements appear in kiri, a play in this Japanese form'

'no'

ASTRONOMICAL! 1600 'This is a star with a sudden increase in brightness; the super this can be 100 times as luminous as the regular one'

'nova'

DR. MASSEUSE RHYMES 1000 "Internal or external / the pain there's infernal / feel my abdomen go weak / it means indirect, it's my..."

'oblique'

SMELL 600 'The National Rotten Sneaker Contest is sponsored by the brand called this-eaters'

'odor'

HOOK 600 'This 3-word phrase can mean out of trouble, free from obligation or, in slang parlance, excellent!'

'off the hook'

2-LETTER WORDS 200 "This mystical word used in mantras contains 3 sounds, but in English it's 2 letters"

'om'

_____ THE _____ 2000 'One item in a violinist's bag of tricks is the thin, glassy tone made by playing "sul ponticello", Italian for this'

'on the bridge'

STARTS & ENDS WITH A VOWEL 2000 'In Italian this veal dish means "pierced bone"'

'ossobuco'

#NAME?

'outer space'

STARTS & ENDS WITH A VOWEL 1200 'Barbayanni, founded in 1860, is a popular brand of this Greek spirit'

'ouzo'

WINTER OLYMPICS MASCOTS 400 'Snowple the weasel was replaced for the Nagano Games by 4 of these wise birds'

'owls'

"ACE" 800 "A runner's rate, or a popular brand of salsa"

'pace'

_____ THE _____ 1200 'Street performers collect money by doing this, literally & figuratively'

'pass the hat'

4-LETTER FILL IN THE PROVERB 400 'It may seem permanent but "this, too, shall ____"'

'pass'

PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR VOCABULARY 400 'A gap through a mountain range, e.g. Donner'

'pass'

CUT! 200 'To move text to another part of a computer document is called "cut and" this'

'paste'

ANOTHER DEFINITION, PLEASE 1600 'Not a person who walks, but something plodding or commonplace'

'pedestrian'

SCIENCE 400 'The word rubber comes from the discovery that the stuff could be used to rub out marks made with this'

'pencil'

I'M AUSTRALIAN 1200 'During WWII Nobel Prize winner John Cornforth worked on the structure of this antibiotic'

'penicillin'

DOMINO'S PIZZA 200 'The Meatzza feast has ham, beef, Italian sausage & slices of this Italian salami'

'pepperoni'

PUNCTUATION EQUIVOCATION? 600 'An NHL game has at least 3 of these that are 20 minutes apiece'

'periods'

THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT 400 'Van Cliburn'

'piano'

PERSONAL SPACE INVADERS 800 'In 2013 the frequency of this crime by gypsy children shut down the Louvre'

'pickpocketing'

BROKE-DOWN WORDS 200 'My 1-2-3 letter is the stone of a fruit & my 4-5-6-7 is a season'

'pitfall'

"ALL" 2000 'On a Volga River cruise, Uglich & Yaroslavl might be these 3-word stops'

'ports of call'

SCIENCE NEWS 2000 'The scarily named "antimatter gun" fires bursts of these particles sometimes called antielectrons'

'positrons'

DOMINO'S PIZZA 600 'Domino's has pasta in a bread bowl, including this "Spring" style with veggies'

'primavera'

CUT! 800 'This "royal" cut of diamond is designed to get maximum brilliance from a square cut'

'princess'

& JUSTICE FOR ALL 200 'Equal Justice Works provides legal help for underserved populations this way, "for the good" in Latin'

'pro bono'

A NEGATIVE ATTITUDE 600 'A law or decree that forbids, like what the 18th Amendment established'

'prohibition'

#NAME?

'psychology'

ALSO ON THE FOOTBALL TEAM 1000 'British term for a gambler'

'punter'

THE NATURE OF THINGS 1000 'Rock on! This, composed of silicon dioxide, is the most abundant mineral in the continental crust'

'quartz'

VALLEY GIRL SPEAK 1000 'A unit used to measure X-ray exposure, equal to 100 ergs per gram'

'rad'

2-LETTER WORDS 400 'It often follows "in" to mean "concerning"'

're'

YOU'RE SO COLORFUL 400 '2-word term for the highest emergency state of readiness'

'red alert'

HOW'S YOUR CONSTITUTION? 400 'Article VI says no test of this can be required for any public office (the Brits had had trouble with test acts)'

'religion'

THAT'S WHAT CHE SAID 1600 'This type of event that Che advocated "is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. you have to make it fall"'

'revolution'

4-LETTER EDIBLES 400 'Basmati & jasmine are types of this'

'rice'

"RIGHT" OR "LEFT" 1600 'Completes the Robert Browning line "God's in his heaven--all's..."'

'right with the world'

"RIGHT" OR "LEFT" 800 'The Gospel of Matthew says, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst" for this quality'

'righteousness'

HOMOPHONES 400 'Got up, or lines of seats'

'rose/rows'

CHROME 1200 "Chrome is popular because it's resistant to this slow deterioration"

'rusting (or corrosion)'

POLITICAL ANIMALS 1200 "They're supposedly untouchable programs; in 2009 Washington Gov. Gregoire said it's time to put them out to pasture"

'sacred cows'

THAT WORD SMARTS! 1000 '"Are you going to Scarborough Fair?" Then you better bring "parsley", this, "rosemary & thyme"'

'sage'

BARTENDING 400 'Use the kosher type of this, not iodized, to rim glasses'

'salt'

CHEMISTRY 1200 "Bittern, a solution rich in bromines, is what's left after this is crystallized from seawater"

'salt'

PUNCH 1000 'The name of this red wine punch is from the Spanish for "Bleeding"'

'sangria'

DR. MASSEUSE RHYMES 800 'The longest in the body / this muscle feels ungodly / rest my thigh at the bar? glorious! / now work on my...'

'sartorius'

THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT 1600 'Charlie Parker'

'saxophone'

PLUMBING 800 "If you're not connected to the city sewer system, your home will need this type of tank"

'septic'

ROCKS & MINERALS 1000 'Named for its scaly, snakelike appearance, this mineral commonly passes for jade'

'serpentine'

MASTERS OF SIX 200 'If you're at "sixes &" these, you're in a confused & upset state'

'sevens'

NUMBER WORD PLAY 2000 'This number, one of the first 20, uses only one vowel (4 times!)'

'seventeen'

PERSONAL SPACE INVADERS 400 "In the U.S. Army's definition, unsolicited back or neck rubs are examples of this 2-word offense"

'sexual harrassment'

THAT WORD SMARTS! 800 'From the German for "a cut", it's the opposite of blunt or rounded'

'sharp'

PRE-'80s HISTORY 800 'In 1868 an enlightened emperor took over as leader of Japan from the man in this position'

'shogun'

THE BIBLICAL SENSE 400 'In John 9, Jesus restores this sense to a man who had been missing it since birth'

'sight'

POTENT POEâ€'TABLES 400 '"The Bells" features golden wedding bells & sledges with bells of this metal (might make a good Christmas carol)'

'silver'

MASTERS OF SIX 800 'Sing a song of this old U.K. coin equal to half a shilling'

'sixpence'

TAKE IT "SLOW" 1000 'What camera crews call "over-cranking" produces this effect'

'slow motion'

TAKE IT "SLOW" 200 'The ball must arc at least 3 feet in this type of softball'

'slow pitch'

LEGAL MATTERS 800 'People often represent themselves in this, aka conciliation court, where damages are below a specified amount'

'small claims'

INVENTIVE MINDS 1600 "Sir Frederick Abel's invention of cordite eliminated this, produced by gunpowder, from the battlefield"

'smoke'

ROCKS & MINERALS 800 "Composed mostly of talc, this soft rock derives its name from its greasy feel, but don't try to wash with it"

'soapstone'

IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS 600 'No requirement to house these during peacetime'

'soldiers'

INTERNATIONAL SEAFOOD 2000 'Proust rhapsodizes about this flatfish prepared a la meuniere'

'sole'

PHYSICS QUIZ 200 'In air at a temperature of 32 degrees Fahrenheit, it travels 1,087 feet per second'

'sound'

"ACE" 200 'The final frontier for Kirk & the crew'

'space'

SAY THANK YOU! 2000 'In Russian'

'spasiba'

ANOTHER DEFINITION, PLEASE 800 'Raise your glass for these, not ghosts but liquor'

'spirits'

ADD AN E 800 'To expectorate, with an E added, adds to the bitter ill will'

'spit & spite'

ALSO A BOWLING TERM 400 'This word can precede end, infinitive & ticket'

'split'

BARTENDING 800 'To create a rainbow with different colored cordials, pour each one slowly over this utensil, rounded side up'

'spoon'

CHROME 1600 'This type of alliterative "steel" varies in chromium content from 10 to 26%'

'stainless steel'

COMPLETES THE PROVERB 400 '"Feed a cold &..."'

'starve a fever'

VALLEY GIRL SPEAK 400 '6-letter word for what you did when you fed the furnace'

'stoked'

VERBS 1000 'From the German for "punish", it's to fire on ground troops from a plane'

'strafe'

DICT. ABBREV. 2000 'The mood of a verb: subj.'

'subjunctive'

PUNCH 400 'An unexpected blow, or a 2011 movie about a girl named Babydoll with a wild imagination'

'sucker punch'

PHILOSOPHIC IDEAS Daily Double "Look! It's this advanced, ideal being described in the works of Nietzsche"

'superman'

INTERNATIONAL SEAFOOD 1600 'Kajiki is this fish, made into sushi: be "en garde" for its strong taste'

'swordfish'

PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR VOCABULARY 800 '6-letter word for fishing equipment'

'tackle'

RETRONYMS 400 'This water is directly from the faucet, distinct from bottled water or sparkling water'

'tap water'

TASTE 600 'Why yes, it is an authentic Gobelin one of these woven wall hangings (imitations are so tawdry)'

'tapestry'

GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS 800 "It's the term for a period of service, like a senator's 6 years"

'term'

NATURE STUDY 1200 'These "white ants" are distinguished from true ants by their thick waists; true ants have narrow, wasplike abdomens'

'termites'

"ACE" 1000 'A porch adjoining a building, like where Mummy often served tea'

'terrace'

KEEP ON TRUCKIN' 200 'In 2010 the D.O.T. issued rules banning this new form of communication by truckers while driving'

'texting'

EVEN MONEY 200 'Alexander Hamilton can be found gazing out from the front of this bill'

'the $10'

EVEN MONEY 400 "Big Bill McKinley was on this big bill last issued in 1945; it's worth 5 Franklins"

'the $500 bill'

AT WIDE RECEIVER FOR THIS TEAM... 800 "1976: Fred Biletnikoff, Cliff Branch (Fred's in the Hall of Fame; Cliff may get there, too)"

'the (Oakland) Raiders'

THE LIBERTY BELL 600 "Created by an ex-slave & celebrated at the Liberty Bell, Natl. Freedom Day commemorates Lincoln's signing of this amendment"

'the 13th Amendment'

NAME THAT CENTURY 1600 'Cortez conquers the Aztecs'

'the 16th century'

NAME THAT CENTURY 800 'Robespierre sends many to their deaths & meets his own'

'the 18th century'

NAME THAT CENTURY 400 "The USA's Free Soil Party peaks in popularity"

'the 19th century'

NAME THAT CENTURY 1200 "Gallipoli becomes an epic disaster for Britain's military"

'the 20th century'

AT WIDE RECEIVER FOR THIS TEAM... 200 "1988: John Taylor, Jerry Rice; Taylor caught Super Bowl XXIII's game-winning pass, but Rice got MVP"

'the 49ers'

EVEN MONEY 600 '"Walking Liberty" preceded ol' Ben on the obverse of these U.S. coins'

'the 50-cent piece'

NAME THAT CENTURY 2000 "Muhammad's forces conquer Mecca"

'the 7th century'

ANNUAL EVENTS 1000 'An annual festival in Caraquet, New Brunswick celebrates the culture of these French settlers'

'the Acadians'

THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR 1600 'In the 1750s the British expelled most of these French peasants from the maritime provinces'

'the Acadians'

HISTORIC LASTS 'In the "thanks a lot, fellas" department, Mongolia was the last country to join this group--August 9, 1945'

'the Allies'

EXPO Daily Double 'A 1906 Milan fair celebrated the opening of the Simplon Tunnel under these'

'the Alps'

STINKER 600 'The hoatzin, or "stink bird", of this 4,000-mile-long river's basin is so smelly it's rarely hunted for food'

'the Amazon'

COUNTRY GROUPS 1200 'In 1945 Iraq became a founding member of this regional association of sovereign states'

'the Arab League'

OUR GEOMETRIC WORLD 400 'Each point on this line is 1,624 miles from the North Pole'

'the Arctic Circle'

PRE-'80s HISTORY 600 'In the 1930s Franco abolished the use of Euskara, the language of this ethnic group'

'the Basques'

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE 600 'This range covers 6,000 square miles in southwestern South Dakota & eastern Wyoming'

'the Black Hills'

TWINS 400 "A series of children's books by Laura Lee Hope featured these 2 sets of fraternal twins: Bert & Nan & Freddie & Flossie"

'the Bobbsey Twins'

BALLET 400 "In the 1960s Galina Ulanova retired & Maya Plisetskaya became this company's prima ballerina"

'the Bolshoi'

VIRGIN BERTHS Daily Double 'Formerly known as the Bethia, this refitted ship set sail to find Tahitian breadfruit in 1787'

'the Bounty'

EURO COINS 800 "This gate, a symbol of German division & reunification, is on Germany's 10-, 20-, & 50-cent coins"

'the Brandenburg Gate'

CORNERSTONES 1200 'In June 1825, 50 years after the battle, Lafayette laid the'

'the Bunker Hill monument'

& I LIVE WITH MY PARENTS 600 'Maaaaaa! We're out of this bathroom tissue Mr. Whipple always said to "Please don't squeeze"! Maaaaaa!'

'the Charmin'

THINKING GREEN 200 'Since 1974 mulch from this annual Rockefeller Center sight has gone to Boy Scouts to use as ground cover in camps'

'the Christmas tree'

CORNERSTONES Daily Double "The cornerstone for this Virginia school's first building, the Wren Building, was laid in 1695"

'the College of William & Mary'

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE 800 'Wold, a Middle English geographical word, gave us the name of these hills, home to Bath & Cheltenham'

'the Cotswolds'

THE LIBERTY BELL 200 'On July 8, 1776 the Liberty Bell rang to celebrate the first public reading of this document'

'the Declaration of Independence'

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT 600 'Each year at Titusville, New Jersey, you can see a reenactment of the crossing of this river'

'the Delaware'

RIVERS 400 'The Brooklyn Bridge & the Williamsburg Bridge both span this river'

'the East River'

RIVERS 1600 'The longest river entirely in Spain, it rises in the Cantabrian Mountains'

'the Ebro'

QUIRKY NEWS 1000 'TV viewers were warned of zombies rising from their graves when this warning system, EAS for short, was hacked in 2013'

'the Emergency Alert System'

KING KONG 200 "At the end of the original version, King Kong's dreams come crashing down to earth at this NYC landmark"

'the Empire State Building'

STATE SHAPES 800 'Starting this project in 1817 forced the redrawing of the borders of Ill., Ind., Ohio, Michigan & Wisconsin'

'the Erie Canal'

IT'S IN THE PAPERS 1200 '77 of these essays defending the Constitution appeared in book form in 1788'

'the Federalist Papers'

CAESAR 600 'You can stand at the spot where in 69, after 7 months in power, Galba was killed in this area of temples & shops'

'the Forum'

CELEBS 200 'Rooney Mara is NFL royalty: her relatives founded the Steelers & also this New York team'

'the Giants'

TV SIDEKICKS 1200 'Kato'

'the Green Hornet'

THE U.S. BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES 600 'The USBGN shot down a recent proposal to change the name of this to the "Gulf of America"'

'the Gulf of Mexico'

THAT'S TREASON! 600 'This English plot blew up in the faces of the plotters, many executed for treason in 1606'

'the Gunpowder Plot'

A "HA"! 2000 'From the 13th to the 15th centuries, commercial activity in northern Europe was dominated by this league'

'the Hanseatic League'

POLITICAL DEFINITIONS 800 'The lower & effectively ruling chamber in the U.K. Parliament'

'the House of Commons'

THE MOVIE MAP 200 'Bill Murray as FDR: "Hyde Park On ___"'

'the Hudson'

SITE 200 'An FAQ on this agency's .gov website asks, "What is a split refund?"'

'the IRS'

STARTS & ENDS WITH A VOWEL Daily Double 'The name of this secrect sect said to have formed in 1776 is from the Latin for "enlightened"... but I've said too much'

'the Illuminati'

PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES 1200 'In 2008 Chevy offered a special 50th anniversary edition of this classic sedan'

'the Impala'

ALL SYSTEMS GO 2000 'In the 1960s the British ditched this system that used feet & pounds'

'the Imperial System'

AT WIDE RECEIVER FOR THIS TEAM... 600 '2008: Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne; they had a pretty good quarterback'

'the Indianapolis Colts'

& JUSTICE FOR ALL 400 'Since 1992 this "Project" has used DNA evidence to help exonerate more than 250 wrongly convicted people'

'the Innocence Project'

THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR 2000 'This Indian confederacy that controlled Upstate New York sided with the British'

'the Iroquois'

RIVERS 2000 'The name of this river that runs through Myanmar is thought to come from a Sanskrit term meaning "elephant river"'

'the Irrawaddy'

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE 800 'In 1573 Drake led a land raid on a mule train carrying Peruvian silver across this isthmus'

'the Isthmus of Panama'

GOLD 800 'The 1897 Canadian gold rush named for this river occurred around the confluence of the Yukon River & it'

'the Klondike'

ANNUAL EVENTS 800 'An annual Michigan event is the Labor Day walk over this bridge between the Upper & Lower Peninsulas'

'the Mackinac Bridge'

ALL SYSTEMS GO 1600 'In 1601 the Banner System organized armies to conquer China & create this dynasty aka the Qing'

'the Manchu Dynasty'

DRIVING IN EUROPE Daily Double 'This little 1959 car was built because of the Suez fuel crisis; a British race car driver soon put his own stamp on it'

'the Mini (Cooper)'

CALI 1200 'This 25,000-square-mile California desert includes Joshua Tree National Park'

'the Mojave'

AT WIDE RECEIVER FOR THIS TEAM... 400 '2009: Wes Welker, Randy Moss; they had a pretty good quarterback'

'the New England Patriots'

TWINS 200 'These twins, actresses & entrepreneurs, were born June 13, 1986 in Sherman Oaks, California'

'the Olsens'

POLITICAL LEADERS 400 'The son of a former president, Benigno Aquino III has been president of this nation since 2010'

'the Philippines'

IT'S IN THE PAPERS Daily Double 'The full title of a Dickens novel is "The Posthumous Papers of" this club'

'the Pickwick Club'

AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION Daily Double 'It remained a separate colony for most of its 71 years until it was absorbed by Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691'

'the Plymouth Colony'

VIRGIN BERTHS 800 'Launched in 1938, it became a WWII troopship & then entered regular transatlantic service for Cunard in 1946'

'the Queen Elizabeth'

PUNCH 600 'Fighting puppets Punch & Judy have been around since this period that began in 1660 with the return of Charles II'

'the Restoration'

RIVERS 1200 'In Mexico, what we call the Rio Grande is called this, also the title of a John Wayne movie'

'the Rio Bravo'

TEX-ARCANA 400 'Big Bend National Park is on a Big Bend of this river in western Texas'

'the Rio Grande'

JUDEA 200 'The territory of Judea became part of this empire in 63 B.C.'

'the Roman Empire'

EVEN MONEY 1000 'When this coin was redesigned in 1946, anticommunists alleged engraver John Sinnock's initials stood for "Joseph Stalin"'

'the Roosevelt dime'

AMERICAN HISTORY "This volunteer group was born in May 1898 near the bar in San Antonio's Menger Hotel; it existed for just 133 days"

'the Rough Riders'

CALI 800 "This great fracture of California's crust is the principal fault of a 600-mile network of faults across the state"

'the San Andreas Fault'

RIVERS 800 'It empties into the English Channel at Le Havre'

'the Seine'

LIFE WITH THE HOOD 400 'This sheriff & main enemy of Robin Hood is also the chief law enforcement officer of Derbyshire'

'the Sheriff of Nottingham'

THE GREEN PAGES 800 'It was just deserts for Burton Bernstein with his study of "The Great & Terrible wilderness" of this desert of Moses'

'the Sinai'

& JUSTICE FOR ALL 1000 'The Montgomery-based SPLC, this center, is "dedicated to... seeking justice for the most vulnerable"'

'the Southern Poverty Law Center'

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE 400 'As Vice Admiral, Sir Francis Drake helped lead the fleet that beat this massive flotilla in 1588'

'the Spanish Armada'

PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES 400 'At the Smithsonian you can see this plane in which Charles Lindbergh made his historic flight across the Atlantic'

'the Spirit of St. Louis'

GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS 1600 'The Ohio House of Representatives makes state law in this building'

'the State House'

AT WIDE RECEIVER FOR THIS TEAM... 1000 '1978: John Stallworth, Lynn Swann; who do you double cover with that combo?'

'the Steelers'

ONE MAN, ONE BOAT Daily Double 'Edward Miles took the short way around, sailing solo through this canal completed in 1869'

'the Suez Canal'

THINGS & STUFF 400 'The lower the magnitude, the brighter the object; this one has a magnitude of a bright -26.51'

'the Sun'

WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT 800 "Formerly director of Arkansas' department of health, in 1993 Joycelyn Elders was appointed to this higher post"

'the Surgeon General'

BLAME IT ON THE RAIN 800 "Rome's Pantheon was surrounded by water 12 feet deep after this river overflowed its banks on Christmas Eve 1598"

'the Tiber'

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS 800 'In March 1920 the U.S. Senate did not ratify this treaty that created the League of Nations'

'the Treaty of Versailles'

GOVERNMENTAL STUPID ANSWERS 2000 'In this post James Clapper serves under Secretary of Defense Gates, who turns to him for intelligence'

'the Undersecretary of Defense (for Intelligence)'

I'M AUSTRALIAN 800 'An ardent spokesman for small countries, Herbert Vere Evatt helped write the charter for this organization'

'the United Nations'

& JUSTICE FOR ALL 800 'Its Article 6 says, "Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law"'

'the Universal Declaration of Human Rights'

NATURE STUDY 2000 'Also called an ear shell or ormer, this marine snail has a colorful shell that may reach a foot in length'

'the abalone'

DRIVING IN EUROPE 2000 'In Germany the fastest road is an Autobahn; in Italy it's this toll road also starting with "auto"'

'the autostrada'

WEAK RHYMES 600 'The most striking feature on a puffin is this colorful body part'

'the beak'

TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER 400 'To have a casual conversation is to "shoot" this'

'the breeze'

BEYOND THE "C" 1000 'Of limestone or pottery, these jars were used in Ancient Egypt to hold the internal organs of the mummified'

'the canopic jars'

"C" SERPENTS 400 'Because its markings resemble the patterns on an oriental rug, an Australian python species is called this'

'the carpet python'

THE NEW TESTAMENT 1000 'Among miracles in Capernaum was healing the servant of this Roman soldier who displayed deep faith in him'

'the centurion'

"CIRCUM"-NAVIGATING 800 'The length of the closed curve of a circle'

'the circumference'

SKELETON CREW 1200 'Just below the sacrum is this bone, consisting of 3-5 fused vertebrae'

'the coccyx'

SCIENCE NEWS 1600 "A newly discovered body part, Dua's layer is in this part of the eye that along with the lens does the focusing"

'the cornea'

TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER 2000 'When you're down & out, you're said to be "in" this belt of calm, light winds near the equator'

'the doldrums'

PHYSIOLOGY Daily Double 'When you swallow, this flap of cartilage acts like a lid to the larynx'

'the epiglottis'

ALL SYSTEMS GO Daily Double 'Largely gone since the 14th century is this system in which a fief holder took an oath in a ceremony called homage'

'the feudal system'

THE BONE IDENTITY 1600 'This long, slender bone parallel to the tibia bears little body weight, but the security of the ankle joint depends on it'

'the fibula'

GO WITH THE "FLO" 1200 "It's an Olympic gymnastics event"

'the floor routine (or floor exercise)'

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE 400 'Encyclopedia Britannica says Wels, Austria is in these lower parts of the Eastern Alps'

'the foothills'

POTPOURRI 2000 "It's the illustration facing the title page of a book"

'the frontispiece'

A "HA"! 800 'Something for sale at an auction is said to be "under" this'

'the hammer'

ATHLETIC EYEWEAR 400 "In 2008 Cuba's bespectacled Dayron Robles leaped to glory with a world record in the 110-meter these"

'the hurdles'

SKELETON CREW 2000 'This bone is purely an anchor for the tongue; it articulates with no other bones'

'the hyoid bone'

HOW'S YOUR CONSTITUTION? 1200 'Article III is specifically concerned with the establishment of this branch of government'

'the judiciary'

D-DAY 1000 'Rommel said, "the first 24 hours of the invasion will be decisive...it will be" this, which became the title of a book & movie'

'the longest day'

IT'S IN THE PAPERS 800 '"The Valachi Papers" collects testimony by Joe Valachi of the Genovese family against this organization'

'the mafia'

ETIQUETTE 1000 "During the wedding ceremony, this person holds the groom's wedding ring & the bride's bouquet"

'the maid of honor'

THE BONE IDENTITY 800 'The largest & strongest facial bone is this one of the lower jaw'

'the mandible'

SKELETON CREW 1600 'These 5 bones form the skeleton of the sole of the foot'

'the metatarsals'

NATURE STUDY 800 'Pacific Grove, California has a sanctuary for this migrating butterfly that arrives each Oct. for a 5-month stay'

'the monarch'

"MON"-OTONY 2000 'The only members of this group of mammals are the echidnas & the platypus'

'the monotremes'

LET'S DO "UNCH" 600 "Let's get a pizza... & a couple of burritos... & some chips... I've got a bad case of these"

'the munchies'

DICT. ABBREV. 1600 'A grammatical case: nom.'

'the nominative'

THE 5 SENSES 200 'Though it sounds like an aged building for assembling goods, this system is just the sense of smell'

'the olfactory system'

THE 5 SENSES 600 'In humans, taste receptors are not just on the tongue but also on this, the roof of the mouth'

'the palate'

ETIQUETTE 800 'The family of the deceased should make sure that those chosen for this funeral job are physically up to the lifting'

'the pallbearers'

SOUNDS GEOMETRIC 600 'At the 1976 Olympics, Nadia Comaneci got a perfect 10 on this uneven equipment'

'the parallel bars'

SKELETON CREW 400 "It's the largest sesamoid bone in the body (another hint: it's also called the kneecap)"

'the patella'

SCIENCE 2000 'Dimitri Mendeleyev made modern chemistry possible when he set this grouping of the elements'

'the periodic table'

YOU'RE SO COLORFUL 800 'You're "in" this if you're in good health'

'the pink'

BERRIES Daily Double 'This berry is known as framboos by the Dutch'

'the raspberry'

THE 5 SENSES 400 'Vision occurs when an image focuses on this inner layer of the eyeball, actually an extension of the brain'

'the retina'

THE BONE IDENTITY 2000 "This wedge-shaped bone that's just above the coccyx is actually 5 bones that fuse in early adulthood"

'the sacrum'

HOW'S YOUR CONSTITUTION? 2000 "The constitution's last & shortest article, it spells out the ratification process"

'the seventh'

YOU'RE SO COLORFUL 1600 '"Metallic" term for what you see when you see the bright side of a bad situation'

'the silver lining'

SKELETON CREW 800 'Found in the chest, this bone includes the xiphoid process'

'the sternum'

TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER 800 'To survive a difficult situation is to "weather" this'

'the storm'

CODA 400 'Appropriately, "coda", the concluding part of a musical work, is Italian for this terminal part of an animal's body'

'the tail'

WEAK RHYMES 800 'Tall East Indian timber tree with durable, hard wood'

'the teak'

PATRON SAINTS 400 'Saint Blaise is the patron saint of those afflicted in this body part, as with tonsillitis'

'the throat'

PHYSIOLOGY 1200 'The "T" in T cells refers to this gland where they mature'

'the thymus'

HARDWARE 800 "It's not a snare, it's the s-shaped section of pipe under a sink that seals off sewer gases"

'the trap'

AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION 400 'In the 1540s Coronado & his men were amazed at the great number of this native fowl with "great hanging chins"'

'the turkey'

THE 5 SENSES 800 'The eardrum is also called this membrane'

'the tympanic membrane'

THE BONE IDENTITY 1200 'The radius is parallel to this bone'

'the ulna'

PHYSIOLOGY 2000 'Take a gamble & name this longest cranial nerve, which runs from the brain through the neck & thorax to the abdomen'

'the vagus'

THE OFFICE 400 '...gossip center is traditionally this device; at "Jeopardy!" we have an oasis one'

'the water cooler'

THE GREEN PAGES Daily Double 'Victor Scheffer's "The Year of" this mammal is a 1969 classic study on the conservation of an ocean species'

'the whale'

THE NEW TESTAMENT 600 'John 13 says Jesus got up from supper, took a towel & began washing these parts of his disciples'

'their feet'

SOFTWARE 400 'As its name implies, W2mate 2008 from Real Business Solutions aids those trying to prepare these'

'their taxes'

TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER 1200 'When you show somebody up or get attention that is due others, you "steal" their this'

'their thunder'

#NAME?

'theology'

POTPOURRI 800 'Sheet retailers try to impress you with this number, 300 or 600 or even 1,500'

'thread count'

GO BALLISTIC! 400 'Ballistics, the science of projectiles, comes from the Greek "ballein", to do this to something'

'throw'

SCIENCE 1200 "In parts of the Caribbean, these are on a diurnal cycle: one high, one low a day, that's it"

'tides'

YOU'RE SO COLORFUL 1200 'To do this is to bring your own lunch to work from home, not necessarily in a paper sack'

'to brown bag'

"MATE" 400 'To burn to ashes'

'to cremate'

I JUST "ATE" 800 "It's to pronounce words in a clear, articulate manner, just like this"

'to enunciate'

WEAK RHYMES 1000 'Originally referring to smoke, it means to smell offensively bad'

'to reek'

I JUST "ATE" 1600 'To reflect on over & over again, or to chew the cud like a cow'

'to ruminate'

WEAK RHYMES 400 'To run naked in a public place'

'to streak'

THE BIBLICAL SENSE 1000 'In Genesis 3, God warns Eve away from some fruit, saying, "Ye shall not eat of it" nor do this to it'

'touch it'

DR. MASSEUSE RHYMES 200 "A knot I've found, oh, heck! / in this muscle of the upper part of my neck / but not in my ol' a-sneezius! / no! 'tis in my..."

'trapezius'

DR. MASSEUSE RHYMES 400 "Arising from 3 heads / this extensor muscle's dead / my upper arm does no more reps / until some help for my..."

'triceps'

THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT 800 'Dizzy Gillespie'

'trumpet'

COMPLETES THE QUOTATION 800 '"Glory, glory hallelujah, his _____ is marching on"'

'truth'

VALLEY GIRL SPEAK 200 'Cylindrical, like a breaking wave or certain bells'

'tubular'

_____ THE _____ 800 'To be in a tight spot is to be here "without a paddle"'

'up the creek'

PLUMBING 600 "Drains need air to maintain flow, so they're connected to these outlets on the roof"

'vents'

POLITICAL DEFINITIONS 600 '7-letter term for the examination that makes sure a potential running mate has no hidden baggage'

'vetting'

RETRONYMS 800 'The name of this resin is used to describe records, to differentiate them from CDs'

'vinyl'

THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT 1200 'Itzhak Perlman'

'violin'

SCIENCE 800 "As it's caused by a lack of niacin, pellagra is termed this type of deficiency disease"

'vitamin deficiency'

GOVERNMENT AWARDS & HONORS 1200 'The Presidents Call to Service Award honors people who do this, & you must spend 4,000 hours over a lifetime to get one'

'volunteer'

FOOTWEAR 600 "Used in fishing and hunting, they're named for the activity of walking into water"

'waders'

BROKE-DOWN WORDS Daily Double 'My 1-2-3 is active hostility between nations & my 4-5-6-7 is a gated chamber in a canal or dam'

'warlock'

D-DAY 400 'The decision to go on June 6 was due to James Stagg, chief adviser to Eisenhower on this atmospheric science'

'weather'

STINKER 800 'The red trillium flower gives off a unique foul odor, earning it this "drenched pet" nickname'

'wet dog'

THE 5 SENSES 1000 'On animals these, also known as vibrissae, act as tactile organs'

'whiskers'

PHILOSOPHIC IDEAS 1200 'In ancient times, the 4 basic constituent elements of the physical world'

'wind, earth, fire and water'

THAT WORD SMARTS! 600 'You can "live by your" these or "be at your" these "end", but at the least, "keep your" these "about you"'

'wits'

WHERE THE WILD THINGS WERE 400 'The shamainu or Honshu type of this canine, died out early in the 20th century'

'wolf'

A CROCUS 1200 'Crocus is a shade of this color, as are primrose & jonquil'

'yellow'

THE BONE IDENTITY 400 'Scapula is the Latin name for this, which resembles the blade of a shovel'

'your shoulder'

WHAT'S "NEW"? 2000 There was an uptick in scientific knowledge when he published "Opticks" in 1704

(Sir Isaac) Newton

GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY 400 "iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon" is the 2006 autobiography of this Apple co-founder

(Steve) Wozniak

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Daily Double This brigadier general who gave his name to a Colorado peak was killed during the War of 1812

(Zebulon) Pike

CAN I HAVE A MOMENT? 400 'Oprah calls instants of realization these moments; actress Ginnifer Goodwin had one that made her become a vegan'

'an Aha! Moment'

PIGGYBACKING 1000 'In the piggyback type of this hospital setup, a secondary line adds intermittent doses of a new medication'

'an IV line'

VIRGIN BERTHS 400 'On March 15, 2006 the George H.W. Bush was launched as the 10th & final ship in the Nimitz class of these'

'an aircraft carrier'

ALSO A BOWLING TERM 800 "From the French, it's a narrow lane or passageway"

'an alley'

CHROME 800 'Chromium is a metal that is frequently used in these combinations of 2 or more metals'

'an alloy'

HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? 1200 'An 1895 textbook calls this one-celled creature the lowest form of animal life'

'an amoeba'

HEAL THYSELF 600 'Used to relieve allergy symptoms, diphenhydramine is one of these drugs named for what they counteract'

'an antihistamine'

THE U.S. BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES 200 'The USBGN rarely approves the use of this punctuation mark, so it endorses names like Henrys Fork & Pikes Peak'

'an apostrophe'

WORDS FROM POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS 600 'Arkansas plus Iowa performs this'

'an aria'

STARTS & ENDS WITH A VOWEL 400 'An agreeable fragrance from cooking'

'an aroma'

TER"MA"NATORS 200 'An agreeable odor'

'an aroma'

STARTS & ENDS WITH A VOWEL 800 "It's soft; it's pendulous; it's one of the 2 on your head"

'an earlobe'

PLUMBING 200 "If the plumber says this is rusted, it's not his arm joint, it's a fitting to make an L-shaped pipe"

'an elbow'

SCIENCE Daily Double "It's a substance that conducts current; sodium & potassium are 2 of the ones Gatorade restores to your body"

'an electrolyte'

"ALL" 1200 'Ocular orb'

'an eyeball'

HOMOPHONES 1000 'A small bit of land surrounded by water, or a small hole for the passage of a shoelace'

'an islet/eyelet'

CODA 2000 'As it comes at the other end of the song from the intro, a coda in popular music is often referred to as this'

'an outtro'

A NEGATIVE ATTITUDE 800 'This prefix meaning "against" can be found before freeze, climax & depressant'

'anti-'

#NAME?

'archaeology'

IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS 200 'The right "to keep and bear" these'

'arms'

SMELL 400 'This 5-letter word for a good scent precedes "therapy" in a treatment using good smells'

'aroma'

WORDS FROM POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS 400 'American Samoa plus Kansas--it has you questioning'

'asks'

HEAL THYSELF 400 'You give me fever, so hand me 2 of these acetylsalicylic acid tablets & a glass of water'

'aspirin'

IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS 800 'The right "of the people peaceably to" do this, gather together'

'assemble'

PUNCTUATION EQUIVOCATION? 800 'It can mean something shaped like a star'

'asterisk'

JACKS OF ALL TRADES 600 'Jack Horkheimer, who passed away in 2010, was the longtime host of PBS' "Star Gazer", devoted to naked-eye this'

'astronomy'

AUDIO BOOK PERFORMERS 1200 'This amazon.com subsidiary .com has an A-list collection that includes Anne Hathaway reading L. Frank Baum'

'audible.com'

"B"s ON BOTH ENDS 1000 'An early name for Google was this type of massage'

'backrub'

HOW'S YOUR CONSTITUTION? 800 "The 8th amendment told the courts they couldn't impose excessive fines nor require excessive amounts of this"

'bail'

TAKE IT "SLOW" 600 'In "The Streets of Laredo", this line that became a book & movie title precedes "& play the fife lowly"'

'bang the drum slowly'

HEY, THAT'S SHARP! Daily Double "The Devil's Rope Museum in McLean, Texas is devoted to the history of this material"

'barbed wire'

A GAME OF IDIOMS 200 'Step up to the plate'

'baseball'

D-DAY 800 'Visits to Longues-sur-Mer, the only coastal German one of these emplacements with guns intact, are "electrifying"'

'batteries'

ALL YOU NEED IS "OVE" 400 'A hitter wears them on his hands'

'batting glove'

KING KONG 800 'In its last line the 1933 film stressed that "it wasn't the airplanes, it was" this that "killed the beast"'

'beauty'

CROSSWORD CLUES "B" 1600 'To invite or summon (6)'

'beckon'

BOTANICAL ETYMOLOGY "This plant's name may have come from its use by Italian Renaissance women to dilate pupils, which, they felt, augmented beauty"

'belladonna'

KEEP ON TRUCKIN' 400 '"Massive" rhyming term for your standard tractor-trailer truck'

'big rig'

NUMBER WORD PLAY 400 'Carl Sagan knew that this number is the first to contain a "B" when spelled out'

'billion'

BARTENDING Daily Double 'Unlike liqueurs, this type of spirit flavored with herbs & roots is unsweetened, as you can gather from the name'

'bitters'

"B"s ON BOTH ENDS 600 'To divulge confidential info'

'blab'

PHYSICS QUIZ 1000 'Named for the British physicist, Hawking radiation is a weak force emitted by these'

'black holes'

"RED", "WHITE" OR "BLUE" 800 'These statutes forbid certain secular activity on Sundays'

'blue laws'

HEARING 600 'This word that follows "bail" is also the type of hearing that sets the amount of a defendant's bail'

'bond'

FOOTWEAR 200 "An infant's knitted or crocheted sock worn as an indoor shoe"

'bootie'

BARTENDING 1200 'At a meal, a wine glass should only be filled halfway so the wine can be swirled to appreciate this 7-letter quality'

'bouquet'

SMELL 200 'Your nose knows it can mean a bunch of flowers as well as the characteristic smell of wines'

'bouquet'

A GAME OF IDIOMS 400 'Saved by the bell'

'boxing'

PUNCTUATION EQUIVOCATION? 400 'You fill these out to participate in an NCAA hoops March Madness pool (purely for fun, with no betting, of course)'

'brackets'

RETRONYMS 1200 'These 2 building materials are used to describe actual stores, as opposed to online retailers'

'bricks & mortar'

THAT WORD SMARTS! 200 'As well as smart, this 6-letter word means shining, radiant or filled with light'

'bright'

RETRONYMS 2000 "This word is used for television that's sent over the airwaves, in contrast to cable or satellite"

'broadcast'

BODY LANGUAGE 400 'Intimidation using looks or words is called this kind of "beating"'

'brow beating'

LET'S DO "UNCH" 200 "Let's have this mid-morning meal with a portmanteau name"

'brunch'

CROSSWORD CLUES "B" 800 'Fasten your seat belt (6)'

'buckle'

A CROCUS 400 'Crocuses grow from corms, sometimes called "solid" these objects from which tulips grow'

'bulbs'

LATIN 800 'From the Latin for "purse" come "purser" & this word for a college's treasurer'

'bursar'

WHERE THE WILD THINGS WERE 800 "The Xerces Blue of this insect, native to sand dunes in San Francisco's Sunset District, became extinct in the 1940s"

'butterflies'

THAT'S WHAT CHE SAID 1200 'Che sent many men to execution by this & reportedly spoke of it as the "pedagogy of the wall"'

'by firing squad'

SALAD 400 'This salad of tomatoes & mozzarella gets its name from an island near the Bay of Naples'

'caprese'

LATIN 2000 'This 2-word phrase means a reason for going to war'

'casus belli'

BEYOND THE "C" 200 'In the Middle Ages, a mangonel was one of these with a bowl-shaped bucket used to launch large projectiles'

'catapult'

THE U.S. BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES 1000 "The USBGN catalogs the locations of these but won't release them; if you want to spelunk, you're on your own"

'caves'

CAESAR 1000 'In 85 Domitian gave himself a lifetime job as this--not stopping book publication but supervising Senate membership'

'censor'

TER"MA"NATORS 400 'JFK had this type of charm & magnetism'

'charisma'

ADD AN E 1200 'To converse in an informal manner, with an E, will violate rules in a game'

'chat & cheat'

THAT'S TREASON! 800 'It was treason when Roman naval commander Claudius threw these creatures used for augury into the sea'

'chickens'

HOTELS 600 'This French word for "castle" precedes "Marmont" in the name of an upscale West Hollywood Hotel'

'chxc3x83xc2xa2teau'

DOMINO'S PIZZA 1000 'For dessert, Domino's has "stix" sprinkled with sugar & this spice'

'cinnamon'

"CIRCUM"-NAVIGATING 2000 'From the Greek for "speaking around", it's an indirect evasive way of expressing something'

'circumlocution'

"CIRCUM"-NAVIGATING 1200 'To draw a line around a geometric figure'

'circumscribe'

"CIRCUM"-NAVIGATING 1600 'This adjective means prudent & heedful of potential consequences'

'circumspect'

"CIRCUM"-NAVIGATING 400 'This legal evidence is considered complementary & not direct'

'circumstantial'

"RIGHT" OR "LEFT" 1200 'Divided, like a chin'

'cleft'

THAT WORD SMARTS! 400 'Cut out the "A" from a meat hatchet & you get this word that means having quick intelligence'

'clever'

HOMOPHONES 800 'A meteorological environment, or to go up a mountain'

'clime/climb'

FOOTWEAR 800 'A wooden shoe traditionally worn in Holland'

'clog'

ALSO ON THE FOOTBALL TEAM 600 'Another name for the economy section of the airplane'

'coach'

ROCKS & MINERALS 200 "Utah's state rock, it's burned to produce heat & electricity"

'coal'

POLITICAL DEFINITIONS 200 'From the Latin for "fellowship", it's a temporary arrangement between political parties to form a government'

'coalition'

EXPORTS 1200 "Brazil was once the top producer of this sweet stuff--before the witches'-broom fungus attacked the trees"

'cocoa (or chocolate)'

ADD AN E 400 'A North Atlantic food fish ingests an E to become a system used for secrecy of communication'

'cod & code'

EXPORTS 400 "Grown on small-scale farms & large estates, this, mostly the arabica type, is one of Kenya's main exports"

'coffee'

SMELL 800 'The Paris Hilton men collection includes this type of scent named for a German city'

'cologne'

CHROME 400 'Due to its varied appearance, chromium takes its name from the Greek word for this'

'color'

MUSIC 600 'Born in Verona in 1743, composer Giuseppe Gazzaniga wrote many opera buffas, known by this 2-word term in English'

'comic opera'

THE END OF THE LINE 800 '"A specter is haunting Europe--the specter of" this political theory'

'communism'

BEYOND THE "C" 400 'In states with the system of this "property", a spouse is entitled to half of what the other earned while wed'

'community'

HEARING Daily Double 'This 10-letter type of hearing figures out whether someone has the mental capacity to stand trial'

'competence'

HEARING 400 'In criminal cases, a Jackson-Denno hearing usually determines whether this type of statement was voluntary'

'confession'

4-SYLLABLE WORDS 2000 'This word for intricate or complicated literally means "having overlapping folds"'

'convoluted'

TASTE 400 'Keep your hot jazz; I prefer this opposite type, a word found in a 1957 Miles Davis album title'

'cool (jazz)'

PLUMBING 400 'Mueller Streamline is a brand of pipe made from this durable metal that many prefer to iron & steel'

'copper'

POTENT POEâ€'TABLES 2000 'The narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" hears a low, dull sound--"such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in" this'

'cotton'

HOMOPHONES 600 'To give advice, or an assembly formed to reach conclusions'

'counsel/council'

THE END OF THE LINE 400 '"How do I love thee? Let me" do these 3 words'

'count the ways'

QUOTES FROM THE WIZARD OF OZ Daily Double 'It answers the question posed by the Lion, "What makes a king out of a slave?"'

'courage'

ALL YOU NEED IS "OVE" 1000 'To aim a gun directly at someone'

'cover'

ALL YOU NEED IS "OVE" 600 'To desire something that belongs to someone else'

'covet'

TIME OF THE CAVEMAN 1600 "The Lascaux cave paintings show aurochs, a beast 6' at the shoulder from which these modern farm animals descend"

'cows'

THE NATURE OF THINGS 600 'This "crustacean" lawn weed has tricky stems that can make the plant shed more seed as you mow'

'crab grass'

_____ THE _____ Daily Double "To sternly demand hard work; it's also something Indiana Jones often does"

'crack the whip'

BERRIES 1200 'They are dislodged from their vines using water reels & then float to the surface to be harvested'

'cranberries'

BUGS 400 'An association in Beijing sponsors fighting tournaments for the field type of these chirping insects'

'crickets'

IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS 1000 'No excessive bail or fines or either of these kinds of "punishment"'

'cruel or unusual'

LET'S DO "UNCH" 400 "Let's hit the gym & do these till our abs cry"

'crunch'

THE OFFICE 1600 '...may be divided into these spaces; the man who pioneered them said people were using the idea to create hellholes'

'cubicles'

ANOTHER DEFINITION, PLEASE 1200 'In this case, not a spicy Indian dish but to groom a horse'

'curry'

SAY THANK YOU! 800 'In German'

'danke'

PUNCTUATION EQUIVOCATION? 1000 'Preceding "off", it means "to hurry away"; preceding "down", it means "to write hastily'

'dash'

4-LETTER FILL IN THE PROVERB 800 '"The darkest hour is just before ___"'

'dawn'

4-LETTER FILL IN THE PROVERB 1000 '"There are none so ____ as those who will not hear"'

'deaf'

COMPLETES THE QUOTATION 400 '"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of _____, I will fear no evil"'

'death'

"MATE" 2000 'This word is from the Latin for the punishment of every tenth man chosen by lot'

'decimate'

4-LETTER FILL IN THE PROVERB 200 '"Still waters run ____"'

'deep'

I JUST "ATE" 400 'From Latin meaning "to balance or weigh", it's what members of a jury do to reach a verdict'

'deliberate'

VERBS 800 'Verb commonly used with "a letter", "a lecture" & "a baby"'

'deliver'

HEARING 200 'A removal hearing is a step toward this, sending an illegal alien back to his or her homeland'

'deportation'

TER"MA"NATORS 600 'From the Sanskrit for "duty", one of its dhefinitions is the teaching of the Buddha'

'dharma'

4-LETTER EDIBLES 200 'The seed of this herb is often used in the mix to cure pickles'

'dill'

COMPLETES THE PROVERB 600 '"To err is human, to forgive..."'

'divine'

BROKE-DOWN WORDS 400 "My 1-2-3 is a basenji or borzoi and my 4-5-6-7-8-9-10 was Mike Piazza's position"

'dogcatcher'

PATRON SAINTS 1200 'Cliff Clavin would likely bend a knee to St. Hubert, the patron saint who protects against the bite of these'

'dogs'

QUIRKY NEWS 200 "Disproving the adage that you can't teach an old one new tricks, these pets learned to drive as part of an SPCA campaign"

'dogs'

SAY THANK YOU! 1600 'In Japanese'

'domo arigato'

PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR VOCABULARY 200 "It covers a baby bird, or it's in your quilt"

'down'

GO BALLISTIC! 800 "A projectile's trajectory is subject to gravity, lift & this force that's heavily dependent on nose shape"

'drag'

JACKS OF ALL TRADES 200 'Jack Wilson of the Eugene Register-Guard writes these opinion pieces, from the Latin for "to put forth"'

'editorial'

VERBS Daily Double "To express one's own opinions, as if in a newspaper you ran"

'editorialize'

BODY LANGUAGE 800 'This 2-word phrase means space to work comfortably & mentions a certain joint'

'elbow room'

"ACE" 600 'It can mean to hug or to take up a cause eagerly'

'embrace'

BEFORE, DURING & AFTER 800 'The governmental right to seize property & an Internet address can compel you to guess a song title after a few notes'

'eminent domain Name That Tune'

PHILOSOPHIC IDEAS 2000 'David Hume held this view, that sense & experience are the sole foundation of knowledge'

'empiricism'

ALSO ON THE FOOTBALL TEAM 200 'Idiomatically, it follows "at wit's"'

'end'

TENNIS "E" 400 'In tennis lingo, it's a bad shot; there are "forced" & "unforced" types'

'errors'

2-LETTER WORDS 800 'It's Latin for "and" , Y'al.'

'et'

I JUST "ATE" 2000 'To remove the entrails from an animal'

'eviscerate'

THE OFFICE 800 '...of this act, freeing people from satanic dominion, is part of the archdiocese of Manila'

'exorcism'

GOVERNMENT AWARDS & HONORS 2000 'The Department of Commerce is behind the president's "E" Awards, which salute those who increase the country's these'

'exports'

CHEMISTRY Daily Double "It's the conversion of a carbohydrate such as sugar into an acid or an alcohol"

'fermentation'

TABLEWARE INCLUDED 200 'Often yellow or pink, the wool type of this material is used as a thermal insulator'

'fiberglass'

BODY LANGUAGE 200 'A kleptomaniac could be accused of having "sticky" these'

'fingers'

"ACE" 400 'Home hearth'

'fireplace'

BLAME IT ON THE RAIN 200 'Dangerous gushes that occur suddenly in canyons or gulches are known by this alliterative term'

'flash floods'

ALSO A TYPE OF FOOTWEAR 800 'In Britain, people live in "council" ones'

'flats'

GO WITH THE "FLO" 400 'Flight crews tell you your seat cushion "may be used as" this device'

'floatation device'

ANOTHER DEFINITION, PLEASE 400 "Not to move loosely like a dog's ears, but to fail like a film or play"

'flop'

GO WITH THE "FLO" 800 'Rosy or ruddy, like a complexion'

'florid'

WORDS FROM POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS 800 'Florida plus Oregon plus Idaho equals this'

'florid'

CUT! Daily Double 'The forte is the lower, sturdier part of a sword; this upper, weaker part of the blade also refers to any human flaw'

'foible'

A GAME OF IDIOMS 800 'Do an end run'

'football'

BROKE-DOWN WORDS 800 'My 1-2-3-4 is what a bad golfer yells & my 5-6-7-8-9-10 follows him on a sunny day'

'foreshadow'

PIGGYBACKING 600 'Princeton Delivery Systems manufactures the Piggyback line of these trucks that raise loads with a pair of tongs'

'forklifts'

NUMBER WORD PLAY 1200 'This multiple of 10 is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order'

'forty'

NUMBER WORD PLAY 1600 'When spelled out this number has as many letters as its value'

'four'

PHYSICS QUIZ 800 'Alliterative term for the state of a body in midair acted on by nothing but gravity'

'free-falling'

ADD AN E 1600 'A synonym for fear adds an E to become cargo transported for pay'

'fright & freight'

BROKE-DOWN WORDS 600 'My 1-2-3-4-5 was British host David & my 6-7-8-9 means "to wound with the teeth"'

'frostbite'

STINKER 1000 'Stinkhorns are a type of these that attract flies to spread their spores by smelling like rotting meat'

'fungi (a mushroom accepted)'

BIOLO"G" 800 'From the Greek for "stomach", this 7-letter adjective means pertaining to an organism's stomach'

'gastric'

GOVERNMENT AWARDS & HONORS 1600 'Senators who preside over the floor for 100 hours in a year get the alliterative "golden" this'

'gavel'

#NAME?

'gemology'

BIOLO"G" 200 'A single unit of hereditary information'

'gene'

BIOLO"G" 1000 "In plants, it's the initial development growth stage from a seed or spore"

'germination'

THE INTERNET 'The inventor of this image format said the OED wrongly has 2 pronunciations of it--the right one is with a soft "G"'

'gif'

BIOLO"G" 400 'Organs found behind the head in certain aquatic animals & specialized for oxygen exchange'

'gills'

CAN'T HAVE TOO MANY SHOES 400 "Caesar is the name of Stuart Weitzman's sandal in this style"

'gladiator'

TER"MA"NATORS 800 "It's abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye"

'glaucoma'

VALLEY GIRL SPEAK 600 'Adjective for old, twisted hands or knotty wood'

'gnarly'

2-LETTER WORDS 1000 '"To say or utter" is one of the American Heritage Dictionary's many definitions for this word--ask any teen'

'go'

GOLD 400 'Still widely used today, these extremely thin sheets of gold were used for gilding medieval manuscripts'

'gold leaf'

SAY THANK YOU! 400 'In Spanish'

'gracias'

ROCKS & MINERALS 400 'Mount Rushmore is carved into a cliff made of this coarse rock'

'granite'

BIOLO"G" 600 'Positive geotropism is the effect of this force on plants causing their roots to grow downward'

'gravity'

THERE'S A COLOR IN MY BRAND 800 This brand known for smokehouse almonds named itself for a rare gem

Blue Diamond almonds

ROLE IN COMMON 400 This actor & Robert De Niro both won Oscars for playing Vito Corleone

Brando

LORD OF THE JUNGLE 200 Lisbon-born Pedro I founded the 19th century empire of this giant jungle country

Brazil

REMEMBER SEPTEMBER 200 On September 7 each year, this Western Hemisphere nation celebrates its independence from Portugal

Brazil

FRENCH FILM REMAKES 1600 It's the English title of the 1983 English-language remake of Jean-Luc Godard's classic "A bout de souffle"

Breathless

FREQUENTLY BANNED BOOKS 1600 Profanity was one objection to this Katherine Paterson book about a structure to a fantastic place

Bridge to Terabithia

"B"OOKS 200 It's the huge 1992 bestseller about a photographer, a farm wife & 4 days in Iowa

Bridges of Madison County

COMPOSER RHYME TIME 2000 20th century Englishman Benjamin in love

Britten smitten

SITCOMEDY TONIGHT 1600 This "bra-mance" of Abbi & Ilana moved from the web to Comedy Central in 2014

Broad City

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

Catch-22

A REAL CHARACTER 800 Michelle Pfeiffer & Halle Berry have both played this transformed character with heightened powers

Catwoman

DOUBLE THAT LETTER! 400 The last name of a French fashion designer & a body of water like the one next to France

Chanel & channel

LITERARY POTPOURRI 400 This writer of "Uncle Vanya" was the grandson of an ex-serf who had purchased his freedom

Chekhov

IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR 1600 In 1968 the Democrats held a riotous convention in this city

Chicago

MUSICAL SETTINGS Daily Double The Cook County jail in the 1920s is the setting for much of this show

Chicago

I HEART CAPES 1200 There's Cape Horn & False Cape Horn at the bottom of this country on the west coast of South America

Chile

I'D LIKE TO THANK 800 this country for its hospitality; I love Valparaiso, your seaport city on the Pacific

Chile

NATIONS OF THE WORLD Its contiguous territory covers 36 degrees of latitude, the longest stretch of any country not in the top 10 in area

Chile

WONDER WOMEN 2000 Why should women wear corsets? This French designer said, "Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury"

Coco Chanel

STATE FACTS 800 In 1786 South Carolina's assembly met in Charleston to say let's blow this joint & move the capital here

Columbia

IN SINK 800 This cleanser with a star on its label was introduced as a gentler alternative to Ajax

Comet

"MM" BOP 2000 In the original Dr. Spock title, these 2 words preceded "Book of Baby and Child Care"

Common Sense

LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER 2000 The Supreme Court justice known for not speaking becomes the reclusive "Lot 49" novelist known for not speaking

Clarence Thomas Pynchon

A "COOL" CATEGORY 1200 It's been topping desserts since 1966

Cool Whip

A "COOL" CATEGORY 400 It's the nom de rap of Artis Ivey

Coolio

THERE'S A COLOR IN MY BRAND 400 "Tan, don't burn" was once a slogan of this brand of sunscreen

Coppertone

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN AUTHORS This Pulitzer winner changed his first name to that of an Irish king, avoiding associations with a famous ventriloquist's dummy

Cormac McCarthy

AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE 600 Ajaccio on this French island has named its airport for Napoleon

Corsica

NASDAQ COMPANIES 1200 Let's see... I need some gas, a patio set & 27 boxes of cereal at this retailer whose roots trace back to 1976

Costco

ALL KINDS OF TV 1600 This CBS series about FBI profilers rolls on, Hotch or no Hotch

Criminal Minds

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB CLASSICS 1600 As a tie-in with her selection of this Alan Paton work about apartheid, Oprah sent 3 viewers on a trip to South Africa

Cry, the Beloved Country

DECIMALS 200 The representation of a number in the decimal system is called its decimal expansion; for 1/4, it's this

0.25

PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES 1200 In accepting his 1988 nomination, he called on govt. & the private sector to bring about "a kinder and gentler nation"

George H.W. Bush

LORD OF THE JUNGLE 400 As emperor of India from 1910 to 1936, he was George of a heck of a lot of jungle

George V

IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR 1200 In 1984 Democratic nominee Walter Mondale chose this running mate, a historic selection

Geraldine Ferraro

HODGEPODGE 800 Franz Kafka's "The Trial" was originally written in this language

German

COUNTRIES IN SPANISH 1600 Alemania

Germany

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK 600 Ms. de Laurentiis is a new kid on the Las Vegas Strip with her first restaurant, simply called this name

Giada

CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS 1200 The original name of this title character comes from a blend of the Japanese words for "gorilla" & "whale"

Godzilla

GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY 200 You can look it up--Susan Wojicicki, employee No. 16 at this search engine company, rented it her garage as its early HQ

Google

MUSICAL THEATER 200 This show's female lead was Carole Demas on Broadway, Olivia Newton-John on film & Julianne Hough live on TV

Grease

BESTSELLERS 400 "Turtles All the Way Down" is his first book since "The Fault in Our Stars"

Green

MARGARET ME 1600 Margaret Burbidge was the first woman to head up this royal observatory

Greenwich

QEII IS THEIR QUEEN TOO 800 A Crown colony in 1877, it became independent in 1974 & was invaded by the U.S. in 1983

Grenada

DOCUMENTARIES 2000 This 1975 documentary about recluses Big & Little Edie Beale inspired an HBO movie & a Broadway musical

Grey Gardens

THERE'S A COLOR IN MY BRAND 600 This fancy brand of Dijon mustard has a rouge variety, flavored with Cabernet sauvignon & blackberries

Grey Poupon

COMPOSER RHYME TIME 800 Edvard's fantasy football groups

Grieg's leagues

SCIENCE FICTION TITLES IN FRENCH 400 "Je suis une légende"

I Am Legend

LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER 1200 Asimov's 1950 classic tale that gave us the 3 laws becomes a a poultry-titled animated show on Adult Swim

I, Robot Chicken

STATE FACTS 200 Its biggest university is Boise State

Idaho

PLAYING POLITICS 200 Steve Beshear, Rand Paul & Henry Clay were left, right & center working for this state

Kentucky

LYRE, LYRE 200 This Biblical king was known for hanging a type of lyre called a kinnor above his bed to catch the wind

King David

THE SOPRANOS 2000 This Down Under diva with a Maori name had an over 30-year career on the opera stage

Kiri Te Kanawa

MUSICAL SETTINGS 600 It's set at a Baltimore theatre that's doing a musical version of "The Taming of the Shrew"

Kiss Me, Kate

REDRAWING THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE 1600 This ethnic group got autonomy (not independence) at the San Remo conference, but the Treaty of Lausanne nixed it

Kurds

FRENCH FILM REMAKES 400 Elaine May adapted the Oscar-nominated screenplay of this 1978 French film for Mike Nichols' "The Birdcage"

La Cage aux Folles

FRENCH FILM REMAKES 800 In "Point of No Return", a remake of this 1990 French film, Bridget Fonda plays an assassin for the government

La Femme Nikita

YOU KNOW MY NAME 200 Washington told doctors, "Treat him as if he were my son" after this Frenchman was wounded in a 1777 battle

Lafayette

THE BIBLE 2000 Appropriately, "she weepeth sore in the night" & "the ways of Zion do mourn" are in this Old Testament book

Lamentations

KANSAS HISTORY 1200 Last name of 1930s governor Alf; in 1978 Kansans made his daughter Nancy their first female U.S. senator

Landon

COUNTRIES IN SPANISH 1200 Letonia, north of Lituania

Latvia

TIME TO PULL AN ALL-NIGHTER 800 Except for 1940 to 1948, this 24-hour endurance race has been run in France every year since 1923

Le Mans

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

Lee

THE FIRST 10 BIBLE BOOKS 800 This book of the Pentateuch has a Latin name & is mostly concerned with priests & their duties

Leviticus

SAINTS & THEIR CITIES 800 Patron saint of Peru & all of South America, St. Rose of this city

Lima

WOOD 1000 This construction toy created by John Lloyd Wright turned 100 in 2016 & is all wood after an unfortunate era of plastic

Lincoln Logs

RAISE THE WHITE IN THE FLAG 1600 This small Mediterranean island nation flies a George cross on a white & red field

Malta

CLASSICAL MUSIC 400 "Glory to God in the highest" is one of numerous Biblical verses used in the text of this Handel work

Messiah

ICYMI 400 In 2013, this "Enter Sandman" metal band became the first to perform on all 7 continents when it played at an Antarctic base

Metallica

BOTANISTS 1200 In 1888 Liberty H. Bailey established the 1st horticultural laboratory in the U.S. at this East Lansing school

Michigan State

HAIRLESS BANDS 1000 Hope you were up late to know that "Beds Are Burning" was sung by Peter Garrett of this Aussie band

Midnight Oil

HOUSE OF CARDS 2000 Its name meaning "a thousand milestones", this French racing game was introduced in the U.S. by Parker Brothers

Mille Bornes

ODE ON A 1600 This Chilean celebrated ordinary things via odes "To the Onion" & "To My Socks"

Neruda

ISLANDS 1000 The musical "Hamilton" has increased tourism to this Caribbean island of Alexander's birth

Nevis

WE ADMINISTER! 2000 Tokelau

New Zealand

QEII IS THEIR QUEEN TOO 1200 The 2 countries farthest south that recognize Elizabeth as queen

New Zealand & Australia

"N" THE MAP 200 The New Jersey Devils play home games at the Prudential Center in this city

Newark

HODGEPODGE 1600 Dating back to the 19th century, it's a variation of volleyball where you catch the ball

Newcomb ball

MUSICAL THEATER 1000 Paperboys go on strike in this musical set in NYC in the late 1800s

Newsies

SAD! 1200 All the singing in the world from Ewan McGregor can't bring this actress back to life at the end of "Moulin Rouge!"

Nicole Kidman

STUDYING ABROAD 200 Congratulations! You're a Rhodes Scholar! Now pack your bags because you'll be studying at this university

Oxford

SAD! 1600 After his death, Gerard Butler's love letters sent to Hilary Swank end with this afterthought, the movie's title

P.S. I Love You

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 600 Formed in 1980, it's the largest animal rights organization in the world

PETA

ODE ON A Daily Double Keats wrote an "Ode to" this mythological persona who wed Cupid

Psyche

THE GIG ECONOMY 600 One commandment that applies to its Galaxy S2 tablet: thou canst upgrade to 128 gigs with a micro SD expansion

Samsung

THE FIRST 10 BIBLE BOOKS 2000 The ninth & tenth books are First & Second him

Samuel

LIT-POURRI 1000 This Irish-born Nobel Prize-winning playwright earned the Croix de Guerre for helping the French Resistance

Samuel Beckett

THE BRADY BUNCH 800 She died in April 2015 after 30 years of gun control activism

Sarah Brady

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE! 1200 This kingdom's 436-foot Jeddah Light overlooks the Red Sea

Saudi Arabia

GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY 600 Bobby Murphy was a co-founder of this conversation app once known as Picaboo

Snapchat

THE BIBLE 1200 Isaiah 1:10 tells these 2 cities to "hear the word of the Lord"; they didn't

Sodom and Gomorrah

REMEMBER SEPTEMBER 1000 In September 1980 this historic trade union was founded in Gdansk

Solidarity

A HISTORY LESSON Daily Double In 1910 Louis Botha became this country's first prime minister, a post he held until 1919

South Africa

NATION STATE 200 Majority ANC party plagued by infighting; military deployed to keep Zimbabweans from coming over the border

South Africa

COUNTRIES IN SPANISH 400 Corea del Sur

South Korea

WE ADMINISTER! 1200 Western Sahara, until 1976

Spain

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

SCIENCE FICTION TITLES IN FRENCH 1600 "La main gauche de la nuit"

The Left Hand of Darkness

I'D LIKE TO THANK 600 Kanye West for giving us so many different versions to choose from of this early 2016 album

The Life of Pablo

PLAYING POLITICS 400 Magna cum laude at Harvard, Fred Grandy was your yeoman purser on this show before "making another run" at Congress

The Love Boat

AT THE OPERA 400 Mozart would live just 2 months after this "Magic" work premiered Sept. 30, 1791

The Magic Flute

THE SOPRANOS Daily Double Kathleen Battle excelled in Mozart operas like this one where she was Susanna, whose wedding is alluded to in the title

The Marriage of Figaro

SCIENCE FICTION TITLES IN FRENCH 800 "Chroniques martiennes"

The Martian Chronicles

SCI-FI BOOKS 800 Thomas in this James Dashner sci-fi book awakens being "jerked upward like an old lift in a mine shaft"

The Maze Runner

LITERARY POTPOURRI 1200 Gore Vidal feuded with Norman Mailer but admitted that this first Mailer book was the big one among World War II novels

The Naked and the Dead

WHAT'S "NEW"? 800 This "Gray Lady" published its first issue on September 18, 1851

The New York Times

FREQUENTLY BANNED BOOKS 800 "The Perks of Being" this by Steven Chbosky became an Emma Watson film & got itself banned

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB CLASSICS 1200 One of the 3 William Faulkner books Oprah picked for 2005

The Sound and the Fury (or Light in August or As I Lay Dying)

MUSICAL SETTINGS 400 Act I of this musical starts in 1938 at Nonnberg Abbey in Austria

The Sound of Music

LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER 1600 Milan Kundera's "Unbearable" novel turns into a 1999 film about literally getting into a real-life movie star's head

The Unbearable Lightness of Being John Malkovich

THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION 1200 The cast of this gritty show included Idris Elba as drug kingpin Stringer Bell

The Wire

FROM PAGE TO MUSICAL 200 It was a 75-year journey, but "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" stepped out as this musical with an all-black cast

The Wiz

FRENCH FILM REMAKES 2000 In this 1994 action film based on "La Totale!", agent Arnold Schwarzenegger dances the tango with Tia Carrere

True Lies

NEW EDITION 600 Color photos of the title pond & woods were part of the 150th anniversary edition of this work by Thoreau

Walden

THE BRADY BUNCH 200 This improv comedian currently hosts the daytime revival of "Let's Make a Deal"

Wayne Brady

ROCKET, MAN Daily Double "About Combustion Tests", this German's 1934 Ph.D. thesis, dealt with 660-pound-thrust rocket engines

Wernher von Braun

LOUIS, LOUIS 200 With novels like "The Burning Hills" & "Silver Canyon", Louis L'Amour was a master of this fiction genre

Western

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1600 In 1968 he turned over command of U.S. forces in Vietnam to General Creighton Abrams

Westmoreland

IMAGINARY FOLKS' JOBS 1000 Dudley Do-Right

a Canadian Mountie

THE GIG ECONOMY 400 In 1995 this type of disc debuted; it looked like a CD but could store 4.7 gigs of digital video

a DVD

STUPID ANSWERS--MISDIRECTION 200 If you master the history of the credit card, you'll discover the first purchase with this was at a Sears in 1985

a Discover Card

PANTS ON FIRE 600 A big trend of the '80s was denim treated with bleach to fade the color, creating this-washed jeans

acid

JOBS 800 Richard Castle on "Castle" hobnobs with the police, but is actually one of these

an author (or writer)

HIDDEN GEMS 400 After seeing the 37.8-carat Chalk one at the Smithsonian, Angela had ephemeral dreams of this green gem

an emerald

FRUITS & VEGETABLES 200 A veggie that comes in spears, or the genus it belongs to

asparagus

HOUSE OF CARDS 1600 Chemin de Fer & punto banco are related to this card game whose magic number is 9, & you can take that to its bank

baccarat

FOOD & DRINK SCIENCE 800 The "danger zone rule" suggests that these organisms, like Shigella, multiply right up until you cook them at 140°

bacteria

CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE Daily Double Underground passageways made movement easy in these Roman places with rooms like frigidariums & tepidariums

baths

WAR OF THE WORDS 800 This word for a military fight can be found in front of "axe" or "cry"

battle

5 LETTERS, 1 SYLLABLE 800 Starbucks offers a "house" this, mixing different types of whole bean coffee

blend

5 LETTERS, 1 SYLLABLE 400 A piece of wood, or a group of executives who decide on something

board

GET A JOB! 400 George Balanchine was a renowned one of these, a creator of dances

choreographer

ADD A LETTER 400 Add a letter to a god of love & he becomes one of the canine teeth

cuspid and Cupid

"FR" 1000 It entered our vocabulary in 1953 when the oil & gas journal called it "a new exploratory tool"

fracking

"FR" 400 Among the crimes Bernie Madoff pled guilty to: securities this, mail this & wire this

fraud

ONE DIRECTION 400 It precedes "state" in a word for the direction from Chicago to Carbondale

down

"UV" PROTECTION 1200 A quilt comforter, from the French for "down"

duvet

NASDAQ COMPANIES 1600 In 202 this Nasdaq co. put in a winning bid of $1.5 billion to buy PayPal, which would be quite handy for it

eBay

TEACHER VOCABULARY 2000 The same Latin word gives us a synonym for a building & this word for teaching that provides moral uplift

edify

THE CLASSIC MARQUEE INGREDIENT 200 Benedict or over easy

eggs

PORTMANTEAU WORDS 400 In the late 19th century, new technology made possible this method of capital punishment

electrocution

ALSO A MILITARY RANK 1000 O-1 in the Navy; any heraldic badge of authority

ensign

FOOD & DRINK SCIENCE 2000 Green bananas produce this gas, which causes them to ripen; trapping the gas in a bag speeds up the process

ethylene

ECONOMICS 1200 In 1886 Henry George published "Protection or" this 2-word policy, which he preferred

free trade

____ OF THE ____ 400 The Latin legal phrase amicus curiae means this in English

friend of the court

IN SINK 200 Many thought John Hammes was a madman when he created the InSinkErator, one of the first of these

garbage disposal

MAY I QUOTE YOU? 800 Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of these"

giants

2016 STAMPS 200 The first Halloween-themed stamps issued by the USPS feature these grinning items

jack-o'-lanterns

HIDDEN GEMS 1000 The raja delved into the history of the carved figure & found it was made of this prized gemstone

jade

"UV" PROTECTION 800 Infantile or immature

juvenile

IMAGINARY FOLKS' JOBS 800 Buffy's Watcher, Mr. Giles, at Sunnydale High

librarian

LAW FIRMS 400 Sidley Austin of K Street can help you with this activity of making Congressmen see an issue your way

lobbying

GET A JOB! 1200 They get their name from where they might wait for the politicians whose votes they want to influence

lobbyist

HORMONES 1000 Darkness triggers production of this hormone isolated in 1958, so turn out the lights at bedtime

melatonin

THE "AMERICAN"S Daily Double James Truslow Adams popularized this phrase, a hope for life "richer and fuller... with opportunity for each"

the American dream

EUROPEAN LANDMARKS 400 After his victory at Austerlitz in 1805, Napoleon began building this structure to honor the French army

the Arc de Triomphe

SPORTS 200 In a Super Bowl first, in 2017 this team's Matt Ryan had a perfect QB rating for the first half

the Atlanta Falcons

"BOY" BANDS 1000 When is a "boy" band totally a boy band? We nominate this group who wanted us to "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)", baby

the Backstreet Boys

LOGOS 1200 This NFL team's logo features a purple bird's head with a gold letter "B" on it

the Baltimore Ravens

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK 1000 In 2015 Christian Thielemann got the new job of music director at this festival, a shrine to Wagner

the Bayreuth Festival

I HEART CAPES 1600 This cape with a cheerful name at the bottom of Africa was first sighted by Europeans in 1488

the Cape of Good Hope

I'D LIKE TO THANK 1000 Sen. Edmund Muskie for sponsoring this 1970 Act, ordering auto emissions cut by 90%

the Clean Air Act

ODE ON A 400 The Battle of Shiloh is mentioned in Allen Tate's ode to the dead soldiers of this losing side

the Confederacy

YOU CAN SET YOUR WATCH BY IT 400 Boston residents peeved at this ship's twice-a-day cannon blasts should know it's been going on for over 200 years

the Constitution

REMEMBER SEPTEMBER 600 In September 1774 Peyton Randolph was chosen president of the first of these political gatherings

the Continental Congress

WORLD HISTORY Daily Double In 1966 the Chinese government unleashed radical youth against older Communists in this movement

the Cultural Revolution

'90s MUSIC 1600 In 1998 these gals had back-to-back No. 1 hits with "There's Your Troubles" & "Wide Open Spaces"

the Dixie Chicks

D.C. HISTORY 400 Slaves in Washington, D.C. were freed in April 1862, 9 months before this January 1, 1863 manifesto

the Emancipation Proclamation

ALL KINDS OF TV 800 You'll find "Trisha's Southern Kitchen" on this network

the Food Network

WORLD HISTORY 800 The 1864 convention in this city called for "relief to the wounded without any distinction as to nationality"

the Geneva Convention

LOGOS 400 In the early 1960s McDonald's starting using this as its logo--didn't hurt that it looked like an "M"

the Golden Arches

THE BIBLE Daily Double In Roman 1 Paul says "I am debtor both to" the barbarians & these people from whom "barbarians" derives

the Greeks

LOUIS, LOUIS 600 In the 1970s bodybuilder & actor Lou Ferrigno brought this green guy to life on TV

the Incredible Hulk

BIG TIME RUSH 1000 Discovery of the "Eureka" diamond began the 1870s rush to this South African mining town bearing a feminine name

the Kimberley diamond mine

GATES 800 To exit this compound onto Red Square, you'll have to go through the red-brick Saviour Gate

the Kremlin

LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER 800 The woman who gave King Arthur his sword moves to Garrison Keillor's fictitious town

the Lady of the Lake Wobegon

THE ORIENT EXPRESSION 2000 "Orient' is from the Latin for "rising sun"; French for "rise" gave us this word for the area east of the Mediterranean

the Levant

WORLD HISTORY 1600 During the reign of Egypt's Ptolemy II around 280 B.C., Sostratus completed this ancient wonder

the Lighthouse at Alexandria

A HISTORY LESSON 1200 In 1513 Machiavelli was accused of conspiracy against this Florentine family & was tortured on the rack

the Medicis

ROCKET MAN 200 Maurice "Rocket" Richard of this 1950s team's dynasty was the first NHL player to score 500 goals

the Montreal Canadiens

THE NEW TESTAMENT 600 The Book of Acts records that Jesus ascended unto heaven from this mount named for the trees on its slopes

the Mount of Olives

LYRE, LYRE 800 Erato & Terpsichore, 2 of these, were often depicted lyre in hand

the Muses

"N" THE MAP 1000 Prudence & Patience (very New England values) are islands in this bay

the Narragansett

WHAT'S "NEW"? 1200 It runs from the Book of Matthew to Revelation

the New Testament

WHAT'S "NEW"? 400 Collective term for the Western Hemisphere after Columbus' voyages

the New World

"N" THE MAP 400 2 Ugandan portions of this river are known as Victoria & Albert

the Nile

"BOY" BANDS 800 When is a "boy" band not a boy band? We nominate this country group with the name of a Tennessee atomic research city

the Oak Ridge Boys

PLAYING POLITICS 600 Photos taken in this D.C. space that's 36 by 29 feet (well, roughly) may not be used in political campaigns

the Oval Office

D.C. HISTORY 800 When D.C. burned in 1814, this office important to inventors was spared after its head pleaded with the British

the Patent Office

"BOY" BANDS 600 This British duo revived the career of Dusty Springfield when she joined them on "What Have I Done To Deserve This?"

the Pet Shop Boys

ART 400 Michelangelo was one of the leading figures of this great period of art in Italy from around 1400 to 1600

the Renaissance

EUROPEAN MUSEUMS In one of her last official acts before abdicating, Queen Beatrix reopened this museum after a 10-year renovation

the Rijksmuseum

HAIRLESS BANDS 600 The follically consistent Billy Corgan fronted this band on "1979"

the Smashing Pumpkins

WE ADMINISTER! 400 Guam

the U.S.

COUNTRIES IN SPANISH Daily Double Reino Unido

the United Kingdom

ICYMI 800 Sam Bradford of this purple-clad team completed an NFL record 71.6% of his passes but not a run to the playoffs in 2016

the Vikings

'90s MUSIC 2000 "Protect Ya Neck" was the first single by this hip-hop group with a martial arts-themed name

the Wu-Tang Clan

PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES Daily Double In 1832 Andrew Jackson complained that this institution "is trying to kill me, but I will kill it"

the bank

LEGAL LINGO 1600 This word refers to an illegally high rate of interest charged by loan sharks

usury

GRECIAN EARN 1200 Shipping heir Philip Niarchos inherited his dad's art, including "Self-Portrait with a Bandaged Ear" by this man

van Gogh

4-LETTER "V"ORDS 600 This word meaning to use an e-cigarette was Oxford Dictionaries' Word of the Year for 2014

vape

4-LETTER "V"ORDS 200 It's commonly served parmigiana

veal

BRING YOUR "EI" GAME 400 You're so this blood vessel

vein

LEGAL LINGO 1200 The place where a court trial is held; a "change of" it may be requested because of possible prejudice

venue

ALSO A MILITARY RANK 800 O-9 in the Navy, this word in front of "admiral" that also comes before "squad"

vice

CLASSICAL MUSIC 1600 One of Bartok's last works was a concerto for this instrument that often plays second fiddle to the fiddle

viola

POTENTATE POTABLES 400 Around 1500 Czar Ivan III introduced a state monopoly to control the production of this potent potable

vodka

BOTANISTS Daily Double As a professor of botany at Uppsala University, he wrote several works including "Species Plantarum"

Linnaeus

MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS 1200 '2000, Best Pop Video: "Bye Bye Bye" (a boy band)'

"'N Sync"

THINGS & STUFF 800 'This 17th c. Brit's "choice" meant customers at his stable had to take the horse nearest the door'

"(Thomas) Hobson's"

LOOK UP THE BEATLES NUMBER 600 Lyrics from this song include "He say one & one & one is three. Got to be good looking 'cause he's so hard to see"

"Come Together"

STATE QUARTERS 'The back of the quarter for this state is the only one that features a monarch'

"Hawai'i"

STATE FACTS 600 Cue the deer & antelope--this is Kansas' state song

"Home On The Range"

HOOK 1000 'University of Texas cheerleader Harley Clark created the gesture known by this phrase'

"Hook 'em Horns"

THE END OF THE LINE 2000 'A Beckett work ends, "you must go on, I can't go on," then these 3 words'

"I'll go on"

"LA" STORY 400 'Risque D.H. Lawrence novel'

"Lady Chatterley's Lover"

ROMEO ON THE RADIO 1200 'Son of rap mogul Master P, this artist was only 11 when his debut song "My Baby" went to No. 1 in 2001'

"Lil' Romeo"

LOOK UP THE BEATLES NUMBER 400 Desmond "buys a 20-carat golden ring, takes it back to Molly waiting at the door & as he gives it to her she begins to sing" this

"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"

LOST TEXTS FROM BEN FRANKLIN 800 "1758 will b last yr of me writing & pub. this: been at it 4 25 yrs, that's enuf"

"Poor Richard's Almanack"

LOOK UP THE BEATLES NUMBER 1000 Lines from this tune: "There's one for you, 19 for me" & "Should 5% appear too small, be thankful I don't take it all"

"Taxman"

QUOTES FROM THE WIZARD OF OZ 1000 '"The Wizard of Oz" ends with this 5-word phrase'

"There's no place like home"

LOOK UP THE BEATLES NUMBER 800 This song opens, "Well, she was just seventeen, you know what I mean"

"When I Saw Her Standing There" (or "I Saw Her Standing There")

LOOK UP THE BEATLES NUMBER 200 This song notes, "You'll be older too" & wonders, "Will you still need me, will you still feed me"

"When I'm 64"

WONDER WOMEN 1600 From her window Juliet asks, "O Romeo, Romeo!" this question

"Wherefore art thou, Romeo?"

FILM TITLES IN FOREIGN LANDS 800 'Switzerland messed with this Adam Sandler title, calling it "For Your Hair Only"; Spain had a "License to Comb"'

"You Don't Mess with the Zohan"

THE END OF THE LINE 1200 'Sonnet 18: "shall I compare thee to" this? Compare! Compare!'

"a summer's day"

THE LIBERTY BELL Daily Double 'A bell replica toured the U.S. in 1915 with the clapper chained; it rang at last in 1920 to celebrate this event'

"women's suffrage"

THE ECONOMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS & SCIENCES 400 In 2015 Universal became the first studio ever to have 3 films each pass this monetary earnings mark

$1 billion

ROMEO ON THE RADIO 800 "If you don't remember this Blue Oyster Cult song that mentions Romeo, maybe a little cowbell will help"

'"(Don't Fear) The Reaper"'

"me"TUNES 1200 'Carly Rae Jepsen personally okayed Holden Nowell as the co-star of the video for this song'

'"Call Me Maybe"'

"me"TUNES 800 '"Cover me with kisses, baby, cover me with love" is a line in this Blondie song'

'"Call Me"'

MUSIC 400 'Liszt, Borodin & Rimsky-Korsakov all wrote variations of this simple waltz'

'"Chopsticks"'

"me"TUNES 1600 'Back off! In 1981 The Police had proximity issues with this Top 10 hit'

'"Don't Stand So Close To Me"'

ROMEO ON THE RADIO 1600 'This song that pairs Romeo & Juliet with Samson & Delilah was a hit for the Pointer Sisters'

'"Fire"'

"me"TUNES 2000 'This No. 1 hit by Pink begins, "Right from the start you were a thief, you stole my heart"'

'"Just Give Me A Reason"'

POETRY 800 "Whitman's 1855 collection"

'"Leaves of Grass"'

POETRY 1000 'Langland's 14th century title "Plowman"'

'"Piers the Plowman"'

THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY 1600 'In 1957 Buddy topped the charts with a hit with this title, a line repeatedly spoken by John Wayne in "The Searchers"'

'"That'll Be The Day"'

LITERATURE CATS WOULD LOVE 600 "Kitty's ears perk up when she hears the title of this Daphne du Maurier tale of fierce finches & robins"

'"The Birds"'

TAKE IN ORDER 400 'The Drifters sang about being on a blanket with their baby, down by the sea, in their hit song "Under" this'

'"The Boardwalk"'

POETRY 400 "Dante's trilogy"

'"The Divine Comedy"'

POETRY 200 'Poe's "ebony bird"'

'"The Raven"'

POTENT POEâ€'TABLES 800 'This poem includes the line "much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly"'

'"The Raven"'

"me"TUNES 400 'Considering the title of this Wham! song, the lyric "don't leave me hanging on like a yo-yo" had to happen'

'"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"'

HERBS & SPICE GIRLS 1600 '"I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want"; for you to name this 1-word 1997 Spice Girls No. 1 hit'

'"Wannabe"'

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB CLASSICS 2000 "Night" is this author's autobiographical work about a 12-year-old enduring Nazi camps

(Elie) Wiesel

CLASSICAL MUSIC 2000 As choir director for St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, he wrote 6 cantatas known as the "Christmas Oratorio"

(Johann Sebastian) Bach

A HISTORY LESSON 1600 In 1608 this captain & a few other colonists left Jamestown & explored the Chesapeake Bay & its tributaries

(John) Smith

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK 800 In 2015 this African-American journalist became the anchor of the "NBC Nightly News"

(Lester) Holt

LIT-POURRI 200 A sonnet typically has this many lines with 10 syllables in each one

14

MUSICAL SETTINGS 1000 This show is set in Philadelphia during the Continental Congress

1776

KANSAS HISTORY 400 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state in this year that also saw the beginning of a war

1861

IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR 2000 It's the year "Smiling Bill" Taft won the White House

1908

MUSIC TO MY YEARS 2000 "Oh What A Night" The Four Seasons had in late December of this title year

1963

MUSIC TO MY YEARS 1600 "No Elvis, Beatles, or the Rolling Stones", sang The Clash in the song titled this year of Elvis' passing

1977

MUSIC TO MY YEARS 400 Orwell's estate nixed a David Bowie musical based on this novel, but a song with the title made it onto "Diamond Dogs"

1984

MUSIC TO MY YEARS 800 This title of a 2014 Taylor Swift album is also the year of her birth

1989

MUSIC TO MY YEARS 1200 This Prince album was released October 27, 1982

1999

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS The only election year since 1952 in which neither major-party candidate had been president or vice president

2008

NYC TV 400 A line from this Big Apple show is "There ain't no party like a Liz Lemon party 'cause a Liz Lemon party is mandatory"

30 Rock

TIME TO PULL AN ALL-NIGHTER 600 It's gonna be an all-out comic binge, starting with all the DC reboots in their "New" this number event

52

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)

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB CLASSICS 400 This Charles Dickens novel that partly takes place in France got the Oprah nod in 2010

A Tale of Two Cities

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE! 400 One of the 7 Ancient Wonders, the Pharos of this Egyptian city stood on an island in its harbor

Alexandria

5-LETTER PALINDROMES 2000 This Amharic word for "flower" is a girl's name & part of a world capital's name

Ababa

THE SOPRANOS 400 Jessye Norman is among the famed sopranos to sing this title Verdi role, a slave to the Egyptian princess Amneris

Aida

A HISTORY LESSON 800 Czar Alexander II signed the 1867 Treaty of Cession that gave this territory to the United States

Alaska

AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE Daily Double Cities in Greece & Macedonia both have airports named for this man

Alexander

CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 400 His "Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" begins when he wakes up with gum in his hair

Alexander

D.C. HISTORY Daily Double Washington originally included 2 port cities within its boundaries: Georgetown & this city that returned to Virginia in 1846

Alexandria

LIT-POURRI 400 Flamingos are used as croquet mallets in this Lewis Carroll work

Alice in Wonderland

SITCOMEDY TONIGHT 1200 The first sound of a toilet bowl flush in U.S. prime time was on this show about Archie & Edith Bunker

All in the Family

STUPID ANSWERS--MISDIRECTION 1000 An amazon of revenue comes to this co. that's before Apple in the alphabet & passed Apple in 2016 as the most valuable

Alphabet

NASDAQ COMPANIES 400 A share of stock in this company, then just a bookseller, cost about $1.50 in June 1997; 20 years later? Over $1,100!

Amazon

ART MODELS Seen here in 1942 are the real-life models for this painting

American Gothic

THE "AMERICAN"S 400 Adapted by Thomas Gallaudet, it's ASL for short

American Sign Language

A REAL CHARACTER 2000 This boy, voiced by John Morris, owns most of the "Toy Story" toys

Andy

SPORTS 800 This "A-Rod" of tennis was 2003 U.S. Men's Open champ

Andy Roddick

GOTTA CRAM 200 The largest crowd for a hockey game came in 2010 when 104,173 fans filled Michigan's "Big House" in this city

Ann Arbor

KID LIT 200 Once "of Green Gables" she grows up & becomes a principal in "of Windy Poplars"

Anne

NEW EDITION 200 A "Definitive Edition" of her diary includes previously unknown entries that were discovered in 1998

Anne Frank

THE SUPREME COURT With the passing of Antonin Scalia, this Reagan appointee became the longest-tenured justice on the court

Anthony Kennedy

QEII IS THEIR QUEEN TOO 1600 In 1632 the British colonized this island; it took them until 1678 to get around to Barbuda

Antigua

LYRE, LYRE 400 The lyre was an attribute of this Greek bigwig, god of music & the sun

Apollo

THERE'S A COLOR IN MY BRAND 1000 This Heritage brand calls itself "all weather" professional hairspray

Aqua Net

GRECIAN EARN 800 In 2011 this gal from Athens earned big time when her post sold for $315 million

Arianna Huffington

GRECIAN EARN 400 Born in 1906, this Greek who made his first million at 25 had a philosopher for a middle name too--Socrates

Aristotle (Socrates) Onassis

LAW FIRMS Daily Double Vince Foster was once a partner at Rose Law Firm, which claims the title of oldest in this state

Arkansas

BESTSELLERS 1200 "The Hammer of Thor" is book 2 in the series "Magnus Chase and the Gods of" this realm

Asgard

SAINTS & THEIR CITIES 400 The Franciscans' founder, St. Francis of this city

Assisi

STUDYING ABROAD 800 A program on Holocaust studies includes a visit to Birkenau, part of this largest concentration camp

Auschwitz

ROCKET MAN 1000 Rod "The Rocket" Laver of this country is tennis' only repeat Grand Slam winner

Australia

COMPUTER HISTORY 1000 The name of this early programming language is an acronym starting "Beginner's All-purpose"

BASIC

"B"OOKS Daily Double This classic kids' book by Felix Salten is subtitled "A Life in the Woods"

Bambi

STUDYING ABROAD 400 If you're interested in Asian culture, spend a semester abroad studying at Mahidol University in this Thai capital

Bangkok

EUROPEAN LANDMARKS 1200 The Sagrada Familia built by Catalan architect Antonio Gaudi is this Spanish city's top tourist attraction

Barcelona

____ OF THE ____ 800 The Germans drove a wedge into Allied lines during this World War II offensive, hence its name

Battle of the Bulge

SAD! 2000 Lifelong friends Bette Midler & Barbara Hershey sit on the sand one last time at the end of this uber-chick flick

Beaches

"B"OOKS 1000 The French title of this existential work is "L'Etre et le neant"

Being and Nothingness

"B"OOKS 600 The title of this bestseller by Ann Patchett refers to a smooth style of opera singing

Bel Canto

STUPID ANSWERS--MISDIRECTION 600 Heading on a holiday, Doc? Why not check out the grave of this Wild West legend; it's got a star, a horse & a bell on it

Belle Starr

BIG BEN 1200 This Ben, no longer head of the Fed, became an advisor to investment management firm Pimco

Ben Bernanke

BIG BEN 2000 In 1598 this dramatist killed an actor in a duel, no doubt putting him out of his humour

Ben Jonson

THE BRADY BUNCH 400 In a 1917 movie Alice Brady played this flag maker, with lines like "There can be no reward so great as the honor"

Betsy Ross

DOCUMENTARIES 800 Spike Lee's "4 Little Girls" tells of the 1963 bombing of a Baptist church in this city, claiming 4 lives

Birmingham

A "COOL" CATEGORY 2000 The tracks on this 1957 Miles Davis album introduced a kind of jazz that never got too hot, hence its title

Birth of the Cool

AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE 1000 Konrad Adenauer Airport serves this city where Konrad worked as chancellor of West Germany

Bonn

"BOY" BANDS 400 In 1994 this group had back-II-back No. 1z with "I'll Make Love To You" & "On Bended Knee"

Boyz II Men

CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS 2000 Steve McQueen was behind the wheel of a Mustang as the title San Francisco cop in this thriller

Bullitt

STUDYING ABROAD 1000 Students can work with leading physicists at this center near Geneva that studies subatomic particles

CERN

FROM PAGE TO MUSICAL 800 Welcome, old chum, to this musical based on Christopher Isherwood's "Berlin Stories"

Cabaret

NATION STATE 400 Has border spats with Thailand, but fairly calm since Prince Norodom Sihamoni took over for his dad in 2004

Cambodia

FROM PAGE TO MUSICAL 1000 Lerner & Loewe adapted this musical from T.H. White's "The Once & Future King"

Camelot

BIG TIME RUSH 200 In 1858 a discovery along the Fraser River in British Columbia led to a gold rush in this country

Canada

POTENTATE POTABLES 2000 When King George VI visited this country in 1939, Crown Royal whisky was introduced there as a tribute

Canada

QEII IS THEIR QUEEN TOO 400 In area, it's the largest country with Elizabeth II as its queen, & she's been there over 20 times

Canada

I HEART CAPES 800 This cape in Brevard County, Florida changed its name to honor John F. Kennedy & then back again

Cape Canaveral

I HEART CAPES 400 In 1620 the Pilgrims landed at Provincetown on the tip of this cape

Cape Cod

I HEART CAPES 2000 This "Cape" city in Southeastern Missouri is the hometown of Rush Limbaugh

Cape Girardeau

SAD! 400 Tom Hanks just wants some time with his girl after ages on an island in this 2000 movie, but she's moved on

Cast Away

SITCOMEDY TONIGHT 800 Before becoming an action movie star, he hung around Indiana as Andy Dwyer on "Parks & Rec"

Chris Pratt

"MM" BOP 1200 Ironically, it was the for the movie "Beginners" that at 82 he became the oldest person to win an acting Oscar

Christopher Plummer

COUNTRIES IN SPANISH 2000 Costa de Marfil

Côte d'Ivoire

HAIRLESS BANDS 800 This "It's Not Over" band gets its name from a shaven-headed "American Idol" competitor

Daughtry

FRENCH FILM REMAKES 1200 In "La Femme infidele", Stephanie Audran cheats on Michel Bouquet; in "Unfaithful", it's this actress & Richard Gere

Diane Lane

WOODY 2000 Woody Paige of the Denver Post is a regular guest on this network's "Around the Horn"

ESPN

GATES Daily Double In 1989 black steel gates were installed at the entrance to this street to protect Margaret Thatcher from attack

Downing Street

THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION 400 This period drama had Maggie Smith say, "Don't be defeatist, dear. It's very middle class"

Downton Abbey

ALL KINDS OF TV 400 The "Dr."-ate of this mustached talk show host is in clinical psychology

Dr. Phil

THE ORIENT EXPRESSION 800 In a Kipling poem this line precedes" and never the twain shall meet"

East is East and West is West

ANIMALS In Greek myth she was a half-serpent & mother of the Sphinx; in zoology it's a weird mammal that lays eggs

Echidna

SCI-FI BOOKS 1000 Hiroshi Sakurazaka's "All You Need Is Kill" was "reborn" in 2014 as this Tom Cruise flick

Edge of Tomorrow

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 400 In 1944 this future president directed Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion at Normandy

Eisenhower

D.C. HISTORY 1200 Recently, D.C.'s Latino population has grown with a very large number from this smallest Central American nation by area

El Salvador

MARGARET ME 1200 Princess Margaret was born in 1930, 4 years after this sister

Elizabeth II

SITCOMEDY TONIGHT 400 Mr. Romano played a sportswriter for Newsday on this sitcom in which the man was quite popular, apparently

Everybody Loves Raymond

LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER 400 A steamy E.L. James book becomes Canadian football's biggest team prize

Fifty Shades of Grey Cup

WE ADMINISTER! 1600 New Caledonia

France

FREQUENTLY BANNED BOOKS 400 This H.G. Bissinger book about a small-town Texas football squad was oft-penalized

Friday Night Lights

____ OF THE ____ 200 The name of this underwear brand was trademarked in 1871

Fruit of the Loom

WORLD WAR I Site of an arduous WWI campaign, this town on the Dardanelles gets its name from the Greek for "beautiful city"

Gallipoli

NASDAQ COMPANIES 2000 Buy a Driveluxe GPS from this company & you'll get free lifetime updates of North American maps

Garmin

'90s MUSIC 800 This country superstar's "Friends In Low Places" was named CMA Single of the Year for 1991

Garth Brooks

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE! 800 The Windward Point Light in Cuba stands on the grounds of this U.S. naval station

Guantánamo

FROM PAGE TO MUSICAL Daily Double Damon Runyon's story "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" rolled the dice as this musical

Guys and Dolls

REDRAWING THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE 2000 Great Britain acquired southern Mesopotamia & this city, today the largest port in Israel

Haifa

ROCKET MAN 800 This NBA center was "The Dream" leading the Houston Rockets to 1994 & 1995 NBA titles

Hakeem Olajuwon

WORLD HISTORY 400 In 195 B.C. this Carthaginian fled the Romans & went into exile under the protection of the Seleucid Empire

Hannibal

DOCUMENTARIES 1600 "The Times of Harvey Milk" is narrated by this Harvey of stage & screen

Harvey Fierstein

COMPOSER RHYME TIME 400 Franz Joseph's Greek water gods

Haydn's Poseidons

WONDER WOMEN 800 She asked Annie Sullivan, "What is love?" & wondered, "Is love the sweetness of flowers?"

Helen Keller

THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION 1600 Nicholas Brody gave intel that led to the death of terrorist leader Abu Nazir on this drama

Homeland

PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES 1600 In 1996 Bill Clinton declared, "I still believe in a place called" this, "a place called America"

Hope

NYC TV 600 Part of this sitcom took place in 2030 as an older Ted told his kids a lot of NYC-set stories that defied the show's title

How I Met Your Mother

CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS 1600 In 1989 Sean Connery played a Holy Grail expert & professor who was the father of this title archaeologist

Indiana Jones

CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS 800 "A Shot in the Dark" is one of the movies with Peter Sellers as this bumbling policeman

Inspector Clouseau

REDRAWING THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE 800 Mosul & Basra were 2 of the 3 provinces that were eventually merged into this country

Iraq

ALL KINDS OF TV 1200 In 2017 Kaitlin Olson of this show set in a Pennsylvania bar got a new sitcom as "The Mick"

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

THERE'S A COLOR IN MY BRAND 200 A product known as White Soap got too much air in one batch; the result was renamed this, still around today

Ivory (soap)

QEII IS THEIR QUEEN TOO 2000 Don't dread this English-speaking country 90 miles south of Cuba

Jamaica

ROLE IN COMMON 2000 Ryan Gosling ages into this actor in the weepie romance "The Notebook"

James Garner

PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES 800 In his 2nd inaugural address, he said, "I know that the acquisition of Louisiana has been disapproved by some"

Jefferson

19th CENTURY NOTABLES He died in New Orleans on December 6, 1889, a little over 20 years after his treason case had been dropped

Jefferson Davis

IT'S AN ELECTION YEAR 800 In 1976 this man beat Gerald Ford to win the White House

Jimmy Carter

YOU KNOW MY NAME Daily Double World Book puts the dates on the life of this labor union leader as (1913-1975?)

Jimmy Hoffa

LOUIS, LOUIS 400 Near Detroit's Hart Plaza is a huge statue of this boxer's fist, sans glove

Joe Louis

BREAKING BAD 1200 In 1985 this Redskin QB's career came to a gruesome end when he broke his leg on "Monday Night Football"

Joe Theismann

THE NEW TESTAMENT 200 An angel tells Zacharias to name his son this; "the Baptist" got added later

John

ECONOMICS 2000 This economist in the Bloomsbury Group theorized governments must practice deficit spending during depressions

John Maynard Keynes

THE BIBLE 400 In Mark 1 he says, "There cometh one mightier than I after me"

John the Baptist

ICYMI 600 Mexico's first Trump-era IPO was a success for this tequila company named for an 18th c. señor

Jose Cuervo

THE FIRST 10 BIBLE BOOKS 1200 "Now after the death of Moses", begins this, the first Bible book called by a man's name

Joshua

INTERJECTIONS! 800 Another name for Jupiter is in the interjection "by" this Roman god

Jove

THE FIRST 10 BIBLE BOOKS 400 Referring to a line of charismatic leaders of Israel, it's the only book title in the first 10 that's an occupation

Judges

PANTS ON FIRE 800 The brand called this Couture got trendy putting its name in rhinestones on the seats of its velour sweatpants

Juicy

OLD NAMES ON THE MAP 1600 For most of the 1980s, Cambodia was known by this name

Kampuchea

BESTSELLERS 800 "Circling the Sun" fictionalizes the love triangle of Beryl Markham, Denys Finch Hatton & this author of "Out of Africa"

Karen Blixen

STUPID ANSWERS--MISDIRECTION 800 Michael Dawson & Richard Alpert are men who've loved & lost as characters on this show & are mad as hell about it

Lost

LOUIS, LOUIS 1000 Appointed in 1916, he became the first Jewish Supreme Court justice

Louis Brandeis

LOUIS, LOUIS 800 Prior to becoming leader of the Nation of Islam, he was a Calypso singer

Louis Farrakhan

FRENCH MONARCHS His reign was interrupted for "100 days" in the 19th century before he was restored & reigned for 9 years more

Louis XVIII

BOTANISTS 1600 This Santa Rosa, Calif. botanist's "How Plants Are Trained to Work for Man" influenced the 1930 Plant Patent Act

Luther Burbank

GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY 800 In 2014 co-founder John Zimmer shaved the pink mustaches off the grills of its rides when it began servicing New York City

Lyft

TIME TO PULL AN ALL-NIGHTER 400 We'll be up for a while, so let's watch "Clubland" on this channel & then "Music Feed" into the wee hours

MTV

GATES 1000 In 1870 the Portuguese built a new barrier gate at the border of China & this small colonial possession

Macau

THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION 800 Characters on this series included Sally Draper & office manager Joan Holloway

Mad Men

LORD OF THE JUNGLE 600 In the 19th c. Radama I ruled the lemurs of this once jungle-rich island that's now been largely deforested

Madagascar

NEW EDITION 1000 To celebrate this red-haired girl's 75th birthday, a 2014 edition of her kids' book included a pop-up panorama of Paris

Madeline

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 800 It's "the Pine Tree State"

Maine

THEATER RHYME TIME 1000 A proscenium month

March arch

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

Marco Polo

MARGARET ME 2000 She coined the term "birth control"

Margaret Sanger

MARGARET ME 400 She led Britain through the 1980s

Margaret Thatcher

MUSICAL THEATER 600 In "West Side Story", Tony sings of his love for this young woman he's recently met

Maria

WONDER WOMEN 400 For her thesis, she wondered if elements other than uranium exhibited radioactivity; that won her a Nobel

Marie Curie

THE NEW TESTAMENT 800 After the resurrection, Jesus appeared to this woman who at first thought he was a gardener

Mary Magdalene

CHILDREN'S LIT As she arrived at the house of her new employer, "the wind seemed to catch her up into the air and fling her" at the door

Mary Poppins

ROLE IN COMMON 1600 In "Beaches", this actress "blossomed" into Bette Midler

Mayim Bialik

INVERTEBRATES 200 This main body type of jellyfish is named for a snake-haired gal

Medusa

BOTANISTS 800 This monk's 2 basic principles of heredity are the law of independent assortment & the law of segregation

Mendel

REMEMBER SEPTEMBER 800 The setting for literature's "Cannery Row", this California city also has a hep September jazz festival

Monterey

ISLANDS 600 Logically, it's the main island of Canada's second-biggest metropolis

Montreal Island

CLASSICAL MUSIC 1200 Originally, his "A Little Night Music" contained an additional minuet, but it has been lost

Mozart

COMPOSER RHYME TIME 1200 Wolfgang's amusement park racing vehicles

Mozart's go-karts

THE ORIENT EXPRESSION 1600 It precedes "Thai" in the name of the sport also known as kickboxing

Muay

SPORTS 400 This last name of golfer David is applied to what he called a "correction shot"

Mulligan

RAISE THE WHITE IN THE FLAG Daily Double The flag of "the Tar Heel State" has these 2 letters on either side of a white star

NC

GRECIAN EARN 2000 She, of the black spectacles, is worth around $300 million & is said to be the world's top-selling female singer

Nana Mouskouri

YOU KNOW MY NAME 800 Even after the White House, she continued her campaign to teach children to "Just Say No" to drugs

Nancy Reagan

"N" THE MAP 600 This Bahamian city got its name from a family name of England's King William III

Nassau

OLD NAMES ON THE MAP 2000 Prior to 1925 this world capital was known as Kristiania

Oslo

"N" THE MAP 800 This region of France includes the departments of Manche, Calvados & Seine-Maritime

Normandy

BIG TIME RUSH 400 An oil boom using modern techniques in this Prairie State has made it second in crude production in the U.S. behind Texas

North Dakota

ONE DIRECTION Daily Double Willem Barents sailed in this direction from Amsterdam to the Barents Sea; he was looking for this passage

Northeast

VERY, VERY U.K. ELECTION CONSTITUENCIES 800 Batley & Spen; Pudsey; this city, home to Robin Hood's law enforcement enemy East

Nottingham

"O-M-G"! 600 They've been held in Antwerp, Chamonix & Seoul

Olympic games

TIME TO PULL AN ALL-NIGHTER 200 A song by them says, "The story of my life, I take her home, I drive all night to keep her warm"

One Direction

REDRAWING THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE Daily Double Hotly contested today, this 9-letter region was made an "international zone"

Palestine

'90s MUSIC 1200 This Seattle band's 1991 debut album was titled "Ten" for the uniform number of NBA player Mookie Blaylock

Pearl Jam

KID LIT 600 At the beginning of "The Lightning Thief", this kid thinks his pre-algebra teacher turns into a monster

Percy Jackson

ALL KINDS OF TV 2000 MeTV has a pairing of Matlock & this other TV attorney, first name Perry

Perry Mason

THE NEW TESTAMENT 400 In Matthew 14 Jesus walks on the Sea of Galilee & this disciple briefly walks out to meet him

Peter

4 PETERS & A WOLF 1200 He received an honorary Oscar in 2003 for his memorable roles like Mr. Chips & Alan Swann

Peter O'Toole

4 PETERS & A WOLF 800 He narrowly escapes certain doom after sneaking into Mr. McGregor's garden

Peter Rabbit

4 PETERS & A WOLF 1600 A NYC neighborhood bears the name of this Dutch governor whose farm was the Bouwerie

Peter Stuyvesant

HAIRLESS BANDS 400 This drummer sang, "It's always the same, it's just a shame, that's all" with Genesis

Phil Collins

ART 800 This Cubist once said, "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them"; that would explain it

Picasso

CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 200 This classic is subtitled "The Tale of a Puppet"

Pinocchio

IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE 1000 Charon is the largest moon of this small onetime planet

Pluto

AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE 200 If you are in Wroclaw in this country, you might observe the airport named for Copernicus

Poland

A HISTORY LESSON 400 In 1249 King Alfonso III eliminated the last Moorish stronghold in this neighbor of Spain

Portugal

ETIQUETTE 200 Although some use "regrets only" with invitations, this 4-letter abbreviated request is still common

RSVP

COMPUTER HISTORY 800 Unveiled in 1977, the TRS-80 got its name from the Tandy Corporation & this retail chain where it was sold

Radio Shack

YOU KNOW MY NAME 600 Really, Empress Alexandra? This Siberian's name is Russian for "debauched one"! No warning signal there!

Rasputin

NYC TV 1000 The crew of a NYC firehouse dealt with gambling addiction, alcoholism, murder & even ghosts on this FX show

Rescue Me

OLD NAMES ON THE MAP 1200 Zimbabwe was formerly known as this & also Southern this

Rhodesia

AT THE OPERA 1600 After Mussorgsky died, this friend with a hyphenated name revised the orchestration for his "Boris Godunov"

Rimsky-Korsakov

ROCKET MAN 600 This "Rocket" was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award 7 times

Roger Clemens

SPORTS 600 Amanda Nunes KO'd her in December 2016

Ronda Rousey

ADVENTURE TRAVEL 600 We could always follow the little green men to the Intl. UFO Museum & Research Center in this New Mexico city

Roswell

NASDAQ COMPANIES 800 The news (corp) had been good & then bad for this founder in his long bid to take over European broadcaster sky

Rupert Murdoch

IN SINK 400 Irwin Cox answered a distress call when he invented this brand of steel-wool pads, found in kitchen sinks since 1917

S.O.S.

OLD NAMES ON THE MAP 400 After North Vietnamese troops captured it in 1975, it was renamed Ho Chi Minh City

Saigon

CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS 400 Dooley Wilson played this piano man in "Casablanca"

Sam

THE BRADY BUNCH 600 From 1988 to 1993 Nicholas Brady's signature appeared on our paper currency because of his position as this

Secretary of the Treasury

WORLD HISTORY 2000 In 1783 the Russians began building this naval base & fortress in the Crimea

Sevastopol

SAINTS & THEIR CITIES 1200 A patron saint of the Internet, but not of barbers, Spanish theologian St. Isidore of here

Seville

NYC TV 800 J-Lo deals with the FBI & NYPD on this "colorful" NBC show

Shades of Blue

'90s MUSIC 400 After years as a backup singer, she hit it big in 1994 with "All I Wanna Do"

Sheryl Crow

OLD NAMES ON THE MAP 800 "The King and I" is set in the 1860s in this country

Siam

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 400 While this chilly region makes up about 75% of Russia's territory, only 25% of the people live there

Siberia

SAINTS & THEIR CITIES 1600 14th century mystic & patron saint of Italy, St. Catherine of this city in Tuscany

Siena

SITCOMEDY TONIGHT 2000 Michael Boatman played mayoral aide Carter Heywood, owner of Rags the suicidal dog, on this NYC-set ABC sitcom

Spin City

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1000 The first person born in the Americas to be canonized was this woman of Lima

St. Rose of Lima

ISLANDS 400 New York City's highest natural point is Todt Hill, on this island reachable by ferry

Staten Island

PLAYING POLITICS 1000 Rep. Michael Grimm, whose district encompassed this NYC borough, threatened to toss a reporter off a balcony

Staten Island

LOGOS 1600 The name of this automaker is a Japanese term for the Pleiades, which are represented in the car's logo

Subaru

MUSICAL SETTINGS 200 This musical mostly takes place in & around a palace in Bangkok

The King and I

IN SINK 600 To the joy of dish washers, in 1960 DuPont introduced cookware coated with the nonstick polymer known by this trade name

Teflon

WRITERS A New Orleans literary festival in his honor includes various panels, a walking tour & a Stanley & Stella shouting contest

Tennessee Williams

ODE ON A 800 "I faint in this obscurity, thou dewy dawn of memory", ends an ode by this "Idylls of the King" poet

Tennyson

NOVEL "T"s 1200 Spoiler alert! Thomas Hardy's novel about this woman ends with her arrest & death

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

HOUSE OF CARDS 400 In live casinos the most popular poker game to play is this one with a stately name

Texas hold'em

FROM PAGE TO MUSICAL 400 The Tony-winning musical "Big River" was based on this Mark Twain classic

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

ROCK & ROLL The group Nazareth took its name from the first line of a 1968 song from this other group

The Band

AT THE OPERA 800 Vasek, a ninny, is the intended groom, but this Smetana title character has other ideas

The Bartered Bride

"BOY" BANDS 200 The 2015 Brian Wilson biopic "Love & Mercy" depicts the making of this group's "Pet Sounds"

The Beach Boys

"B"OOKS 800 Sylvia Plath committed suicide one month after this novel of hers was published

The Bell Jar

CLASSIC TV HOMES In 2017 the Bel-Air estate used in this '60s TV show was listed for $350 million

The Beverly Hillbillies

ART 1600 The 2 best-known paintings at the Huntington in California are "Pinkie" & this colorful Gainsborough kid

The Blue Boy

FREQUENTLY BANNED BOOKS 2000 The spectrum of challenged books includes "The Color Purple" & this first novel by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

MUSICAL THEATER 800 A Liberian warlord known as General Butt Naked inspired an antagonist in this recent musical about missionaries in Africa

The Book of Mormon

LITERARY POTPOURRI 2000 Piscator teaches his friend Venator to bait a hook & catch fish in this 17th century classic

The Compleat Angler

NEW EDITION 800 This scary book about 11-year-old Regan, who's possessed by a demon, was reincarnated for a 2011 edition

The Exorcist

SCIENCE FICTION TITLES IN FRENCH 1200 "Le cycle de Fondation"

The Foundation Trilogy

BESTSELLERS 1600 This memoir begins with Jeannette Walls in a taxi, seeing her mom rooting through a dumpster

The Glass Castle

SCIENCE FICTION TITLES IN FRENCH 2000 Margaret Atwood's "La servante écarlate"

The Handmaid's Tale

SCI-FI BOOKS Daily Double Dubbed "wildly inaccurate", it "supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the... repository of all knowledge"

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

NOVEL "T"s 2000 Referring to this Zora Neale Hurston novel, Alice Walker said, "There is no book more important to me"

Their Eyes Were Watching God

FRUITS & VEGETABLES 800 Almost all California raisins are produced from this seedless grape named for an English immigrant

Thompson seedless grapes

THE GIG ECONOMY 800 The Bolt DVR from this video recording pioneer unifies your TV watching with its minimum 500 GB hard drive

TiVo

THE NEWS 1600 Pioneering all-news radio in 1961, XTRA broadcast to Southern California from this city just into Mexico

Tijuana

CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 1000 She is "exquisitely gowned in a skeleton leaf... through which her figure could be seen to the best advantage"

Tinker Bell

NOVEL "T"s 800 It begins, "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow"

To Kill a Mockingbird

ROCKET MAN 400 Matt Campbell coaches football for the Rockets of this university that's in Ohio but sounds like it could be in Spain

Toledo

LIT-POURRI 600 This 18th c. novel has wordy chapter titles like "Containing a Conversation which Mr. Jones Had with Himself"

Tom Jones

ROLE IN COMMON 1200 "Men in Black 3" had Josh Brolin as the young Agent K; he's the older Agent K

Tommy Lee Jones

SAINTS & THEIR CITIES 2000 Bishop, patron of France & "The Glory of Gaul", St. Martin of this city

Tours

SAD! 800 When Andy gives Woody to Bonnie in the third movie in this series, the handkerchiefs start a-flutterin'

Toy Story

KID LIT 1000 The "Everlasting" family with this last name is cursed to live forever

Tuck

NOVEL "T"s 400 Quoting this novel, "About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire"

Twilight

HAIRLESS BANDS 200 His locks no longer flowing in the breeze, the Edge has worn many hats for this band

U2

WE ADMINISTER! 800 Bermuda

United Kingdom

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES Founded in 1873, it was endowed by & named for the richest man in America

Vanderbilt University

ART 1200 In 1987 his "Irises" sold at auction for a then-record $53.9 million

Vincent van Gogh

MUSICAL THEATER 400 Elphaba goes green as a high-flying character in this magical musical

Wicked

VERY, VERY U.K. ELECTION CONSTITUENCIES 1000 Stoke-on-Trent North; Bootle; this town on the Thames with a William the Conqueror-initiated castle

Windsor

A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY 200 This media source abbreviated WWD is often called "the fashion bible"

Women's Wear Daily

WOODY 400 He has more Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay than anyone else

Woody Allen

WOODY 800 His song "Do Re Mi" warned Dust Bowl migrants that California might not be so receptive

Woody Guthrie

WOODY 1200 One of his earliest TV characters married Kelly Gaines, daughter of one of Boston's richest men

Woody Harrelson

WOODY 1600 This jazz clarinetist fronted the herd

Woody Herman

AWESOME SAUCE Daily Double While Lea & Perrins keeps its recipe for this "geographic" product secret, we know it contains garlic, anchovies & tamarind extract

Worcestershire sauce

SCI-FI BOOKS 400 This Max Brooks novel tells of the drug Phalanx, which failed to stop the undead hordes

World War Z

STATE FACTS 1000 This Western state is last in population with around 580,000

Wyoming

GIANTS OF TECHNOLOGY 1000 Marc Andreessen tweeted, "Marissa Mayer is a hero for taking on the challenge at" this.com!

Yahoo

COMPOSER RHYME TIME 1600 What you'll feel against your jaw if you say, "Lousy piano playing, Franz"

a Liszt fist

BIG BEN 400 In 1978 Ben Abruzzo & 2 companions made the first transatlantic flight in one of these full of gas, not hot air

a balloon

SIX FEET UNDER 2000 Killing weak trees (good) but also healthy ones (not good), the pine engraver is this alliterative type of beetle

a bark beetle

STUPID ANSWERS--MISDIRECTION 400 You'd be a wise old owl if you knew that the Scripps spelling bee has one of these creatures on its logo

a bee

YOU CAN SET YOUR WATCH BY IT 800 First a gavel, then a gong, now one of these is sounded each day at 4 P.M. to close trading at 11 Wall Street

a bell

WAR OF THE WORDS 1200 This 4-letter word can mean a boxing match or a period of illness

a bout

EUROPEAN LANDMARKS Daily Double Zeitglockenturm means this kind of tower; one in Bern features a rooster, marching bears, a jester & a gilded knight

a clock tower

THE NEWS 1200 Sometimes hyphenated, it's the author's name as printed on a newspaper story

a byline

VO"CAB"ULARY 1600 A small body of intriguers

a cabal

VO"CAB"ULARY 800 Originally meaning a shed or wooden dwelling, it now refers to a nightclub

a cabaret

VO"CAB"ULARY 2000 A light horse-drawn chaise, or an auto with a folding top; VW & Audi have made them

a cabriolet

"C" THE FLOWERS 800 It's also known as a trumpet lily

a calla lily

IN THE DICTIONARY 800 It's defined as any substance with the tendency to produce a cancer

a carcinogen

ICYMI 200 In 2017 the Westminster Dog Show included this animal for the first time in its 140 years; what could go wrong?

a cat

INVERTEBRATES 800 The sea anemone's tentacles provide a protective home for this "circus" fish while the anemone dines on the fish's scraps

a clownfish

DECIMALS 800 In continental Europe, this punctuation mark, not a dot, is used to represent a decimal point

a comma

WAR OF THE WORDS 400 A public official might have this war word "of interest" & have to recuse himself

a conflict

"ON" THE MIDDLE 200 Here comes this small North American rabbit of the genus Sylvilagus, hoppin' down the bunny trail

a cottontail

ADD A LETTER 200 A letter added to something owed turns it into a first public appearance

a debt and debut

DECIMALS 400 Each numeral from 0 to 9 is a decimal one of these, from a word meaning "finger"

a digit

YOU GET A "D" 600 Mr. Gilbert, I have here this collection of information & documents about you--most interesting

a dossier

THEATER RHYME TIME 200 A swift complement of actors in a play

a fast cast

BRING YOUR "EI" GAME 2000 The doomed Edmund Fitzgerald was one

a freighter

"FR" 800 Bono for U2 or Eddie Vedder for Pearl Jam

a frontman

IN THE DICTIONARY 400 This word for a person with a big appetite often precedes "for punishment"

a glutton

IN COGNITO 600 This hockey heavy

a goon

THE GIG ECONOMY 1000 Here's the "deal"--NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN Z, one of these, has 12 gigs of memory & is billed as a "gaming monster"

a graphics card

BREAKING BAD 400 The small bone break called a stress fracture is aka this type of "fracture" that's not "receding"

a hairline fracture

LOGOS 2000 The logo of Papyrus cards & stationery stores includes this type of bird

a hummingbird

WOOD 400 These often round spots in wood planks are the remaining stumps of onetime tree branches

a knot

GRECIAN EARN 1600 Socrates Kokkalis made his coin in the telecom industry & as owner of Olympiacos FC, one of these

a soccer team

PORTMANTEAU WORDS 1000 It's the word for online clickbait pieces with titles like "14 Ways Ferns Can Change Your Life"

a listicle

WAR OF THE WORDS 1600 3 E's are the only vowels you need to spell this French word for a fight

a melee

LOGOS 800 Starbucks' logo features one of these creatures

a mermaid

HODGEPODGE 400 Milkweed is being planted in the Midwest in an effort to preserve this "regal" insect

a monarch butterfly

THE ECONOMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS & SCIENCES 200 Increasing sales, one building containing several movie theaters is known by this term

a multiplex

THEATER RHYME TIME 600 A short snooze inside an opening in a stage floor

a nap trap

BRING YOUR "EI" GAME 800 A whinny

a neigh

JOBS 1000 On "Friends" Ross was this type of scientist

a paleontologist

10-LETTER WORDS Daily Double "Madam, I'm Adam" is a famous one

a palindrome

"ON" THE MIDDLE 400 Body of water smaller than a lake but bigger than a puddle

a pond

THEATER RHYME TIME 400 A place to sell stage objects

a prop shop

BOTANISTS 400 Nehemiah Grew (good name for a botanist) coined the term "radicle" for the embryonic one of these

a root

HIDDEN GEMS 200 How charming! The cherub you painted has cheeks as rosy as this red birthstone

a ruby

VO"CAB"ULARY 400 A strikebreaker

a scab

"ON" THE MIDDLE 600 A wall bracket for a light

a sconce

SPORTS 1000 Fernando Valenzuela threw this reverse curve with a zany name

a screwball

PORTMANTEAU WORDS 200 If buying stuff at the mall is your equivalent of a fifth of booze, you're this

a shopaholic

IMAGINARY FOLKS' JOBS 600 Lola in the song "Copacabana"

a showgirl

"AB"SOLUTELY 1200 A young or newly hatched pigeon

a squab

ROCKET, MAN 400 A separable section of a rocket that is jettisoned, or the thing you're standing on

a stage

"AB"SOLUTELY 400 In 2012 Microsoft introduced its first computer--the Surface, this type of portable PC

a tablet

JOBS 200 If you guys don't know that Jess Day on "New Girl" is one of these, you'll get a demerit

a teacher

5-LETTER PALINDROMES 800 A principle of belief, especially of religion or philosophy

a tenet

KID LIT 400 When "The Enormous Egg" hatches in an Oliver Butterworth book, one of these 3-horned dinosaurs emerges

a triceratops

ICYMI 1000 The Australian Natl. Univ. created an algorithm in 2016 to help warn coastal cities of this dangerous event

a tsunami

TEACHER VOCABULARY 400 Also starting with "T", it can mean a private teacher or be a verb meaning to act as one

a tutor

"AB"SOLUTELY 2000 The Latin for "wandering" gives us this name for one who wanders with no means of support

a vagabond

4-LETTER "V"ORDS 1000 A femme fatale

a vamp

10-LETTER WORDS 400 One's partner in crime

accomplice

"ON" THE MIDDLE 1000 To scold in a mild manner

admonish

INTERJECTIONS! 600 "Forever & ever" is sandwiched between this one-word religious exclamation in the chorus of a Handel oratorio

allelujah

"UV" PROTECTION 2000 This "plain" is a level surface formed of sediments laid down by running water

alluvial

THE BIBLE 800 Fittingly, in the King James version the New Testament ends with this 4-letter word

amen

VO"CAB"ULARY 1200 From Latin for "friend", it means "friendly"

amicable

"MM" BOP 1600 It's a gas made up of 1 part nitrogen & 3 parts hydrogen

ammonia

THE "AMERICAN"S 1200 In December 2015 Arkansas tight end Hunter Henry was named a consensus one

an All-American

"AB"SOLUTELY 800 Any deviation from what's normal, or the failure of light rays to focus properly

an aberration

"AB"SOLUTELY 1600 A summary, like one "of title" that covers the history of a parcel of real estate

an abstract

THE "AMERICAN"S 800 Espresso topped off with hot water

an americano

LAW FIRMS 1200 A law firm as well as an individual may file a friend of the court brief, known by this Latin term

an amicus

GET A JOB! 2000 This profession takes its name from a Greek word meaning "chief builder"

an architect

ETIQUETTE 600 Business Mag Inc. says to limit this punctuation mark to 1 per email or you appear childish & unprofessional

an exclamation point

THE GIG ECONOMY 200 Smaller than its cousins, the Shuffle model of this music player only has 2 gigs of memory, but does come in pink

an iPod

IN COGNITO 800 This bar of gold

an ingot

HIDDEN GEMS 600 To buy the fire type of this gem, shop along Pitt Street in Sydney's city centre

an opal

THE "AMERICAN"S 2000 This term for an arrogant Yankee overseas originally was a positive term about selfless U.S. aid workers

an ugly American

FOOD & DRINK SCIENCE 1200 Black teas increase by almost half the possibly anti-aging activity of these compounds, like vitamin E

antioxidants

GEMS & JEWELRY Daily Double This blue-green variety of beryl is routinely heated to make it bluer by removing the yellow color

aquamarine

IMAGINARY FOLKS' JOBS 200 Atticus Finch & Denny Crane

attorney

DOCUMENTARIES 1200 Documentaries about people with this 6-letter disorder include "Loving Lampposts" & "Normal People Scare Me"

autism

THE CLASSIC MARQUEE INGREDIENT 400 Bourguignon or tartare

beef

SIX FEET UNDER 1600 These social insects use the "waggle dance" to communicate the location of distant food sources

bees

BRING YOUR "EI" GAME 1600 Very light brown

beige

PANTS ON FIRE 400 In the 1960s Sonny & Cher helped popularize these wide-flared pants based on ones originally worn by sailors

bell-bottoms

PORTMANTEAU WORDS 600 Unpack the portmanteau word "bit" & you'll find it's made up of this word & "digit"

binary

GET A JOB! 800 You can use "person" instead of "boy" in this word for one who clears tables

busboy

ADVENTURE TRAVEL 400 Many visitors make the 3-hour hike from the Mexican town of Angagueo to see the winter home of millions of these insects

butterflies

KID LIT Daily Double Milo of "Phantom Tollbooth" fame learns you can only get to the Isle of Conclusions by doing this

by jumping

FRUITS & VEGETABLES 600 The fruit sold under this name, from that of an Italian estate, is a muskmelon

cantaloupe

FOOD & DRINK SCIENCE 1600 Birds can't taste this pungent compound found in hot peppers, so they eat them & spread the seeds far & wide

capsaicin

AWESOME SAUCE 1000 This awesome pasta sauce contains eggs, cream, bits of bacon or prosciutto & grated cheese

carbonara

"C" THE FLOWERS 200 These flowers are the symbol of Mother's Day: pink if Mom is living, white if she is not

carnations

____ OF THE ____ 600 In Monopoly, a Chance card says, "You have been elected" to this position; "pay each player $50"

chairman of the board

"C" THE FLOWERS 400 The daisy-like flowers of this herb are used to make a calming tea

chamomile

INTERJECTIONS! 200 This exclamation over a chessboard means the game has been won

checkmate

THE CLASSIC MARQUEE INGREDIENT 800 Kiev or a la king

chicken

IN COGNITO 400 In sum it precedes "ergo"

cogito

POTENTATE POTABLES 1600 Naturally, Napoleon took brandy into exile, specifically Courvoisier, this special type

cognac

ADD A LETTER 1000 Stick a letter to a picture made by pasting various objects onto a surface to get a protein that helps keep your skin firm

collage and collagen

THE SOPRANOS 1600 Dame Joan Sutherland was acclaimed for her roles in this trilling style, from the Italian for "coloring"

coloratura

ALSO A MILITARY RANK 200 E-4 in the Army; an adjective referring to physical punishment

corporal

GEMS & JEWELRY 400 This clothing term refers to inexpensive mass-produced jewelry

costume jewelry

THE CLASSIC MARQUEE INGREDIENT 1000 Louie or cakes

crab

YOU GET A "D" 200 A situation with no chance for progress, or a street with no exits

dead end

YOU GET A "D" 1000 In a 1999 auction Ty Cobb's pair of these took an over $7,000 "bite" out of someone's wallet

dentures

ADD A LETTER 800 Insert a letter in a train station & it becomes a tyrant

depot and despot

HODGEPODGE 1200 In 1972 the Pulsar was the first electronic commercial watch of this type; you pushed a button to see the time

digital

IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE 800 You dilute a solution by watering it down; you do this to your pupils, 1 letter different, by making them expand

dilate

LAW FIRMS 800 Try Falangetti & Weimortz for your criminal case-- they've both been on the other side as deputy these

district attorneys

YOU GET A "D" 400 It's a calendar or list of the upcoming cases set to be tried at a court

docket

IN THE DICTIONARY 600 This word for the animals of a particular region is from the Latin

fauna

INVERTEBRATES 400 Butterflies have taste receptors on their tarsi, or these, allowing them to determine if a leaf is a good place to lay eggs

feet

INTERJECTIONS! 1000 Scarlett O'Hara used this favorite expression before "War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party"

fiddle-dee-dee

WAR OF THE WORDS Daily Double This old-timey term for hand-to-hand combat starts with a hand ready to strike a blow

fisticuffs

RAISE THE WHITE IN THE FLAG 800 The Olympic flag consists of this number of interlocking rings on a white field

five

COMPUTER HISTORY 400 The alternative to hard disk wasn't called soft disk but this, & 5 billion a year were sold in the mid-'90s

floppy disk

HOUSE OF CARDS 1200 This kids' card game may be derived from an Italian gambling game called andare a piscere

go fish

5 LETTERS, 1 SYLLABLE 1600 Run through by the horn of that bull

gored

5 LETTERS, 1 SYLLABLE 2000 If you're "out of your" this type of fruit, you're just plain loco

gourd

WOOD 600 This term for the fibers within a piece of finished wood can refer to direction, size or arrangement

grain

BREAKING BAD 2000 When the bone breaks only on one side, it gets this "colorful" name that's fit for the forest

greenstick

THE ECONOMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS & SCIENCES 600 If you're sharing in a movie's revenue, you don't want your take based on net profits but on this opposite

gross earnings

FOOD & DRINK SCIENCE 400 Too many fats in beer interfere with foam stability, so you might not get that nice one of these at the top of the glass

head

IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE 400 The symbol for this element is He

helium

THE NEW TESTAMENT 1000 "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for" these people

his friends

DOUBLE THAT LETTER! 1600 The place where you live & the French word for man

home & homme

PANTS ON FIRE 200 Women's Wear Daily coined this term for the ultra-short shorts whose sales were on fire in the 1970s

hot pants

HORMONES 800 Acromegaly, a disorder in which the hands & feet enlarge, is caused by overproduction of this

human growth hormone

"MM" BOP 800 Advil, Aleve & aspirin are among the over-the-counter anti-this type of drugs

inflammatory

ECONOMICS Daily Double Full employment can be defined as the highest percentage that won't trigger this as workers ask for more money

inflation

TEACHER VOCABULARY 800 In the U.S. military D.I. is short for "drill" this; now give me 50, you worthless lumps!

instructor

HORMONES 600 Glucagon, which raises glucose levels in the blood, works in opposition to this other pancreatic hormone

insulin

LAW FIRMS 1600 Tops for patent litigation per U.S. News & World Report, Fish & Richardson specializes in IP, short for this

intellectual property

ONE DIRECTION 800 Direction on a map from Iran to Iraq, or proverbial direction to find the indie stations on the radio dial

left

IMAGINARY FOLKS' JOBS 400 Folk hero Paul Bunyan

lumberjack

REMEMBER SEPTEMBER 400 September is the awareness month for leukemia & this other "L" type of cancer

lymphoma

ALSO A MILITARY RANK 600 O-4 in the Air Force; it's aka a course of study

major

JOBS 600 On "Curb Your Enthusiasm", Jeff Garlin isn't Larry's agent but rather his this

manager

PORTMANTEAU WORDS 800 From a gardening term, it's the way males deal with unwanted body hair

manscaping

HORMONES 200 In female mammals prolactin initiates the secretion of this

milk

MAY I QUOTE YOU? 2000 J.K. Galbraith: This "ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And... with death as his greatest source of anxiety"

money

SIX FEET UNDER 800 For these biting pests of the family Culicidae, that annoying whine helps attract mates

mosquitoes

"UV" PROTECTION 400 We always hear about this French word preceding "riche", but it also is found in front of "pauvre" for a newly poor person

nouveau

GET A JOB! 1600 Put in a little O.T. studying & you could be one of these health professionals, an O.T.

occupational therapist

ECONOMICS 800 A downturn in the U.S. economy from 1836 to 1838 was partly caused by a lack of confidence in this common type of currency

paper currency

"O-M-G"! 400 Members of OPEC declared one of these 2-word stoppages in 1973

oil embargo

FRUITS & VEGETABLES 1000 Pickled pods of this have been called "a standard hors d'oeuvre at... every Southern cocktail party"

okra

"O-M-G"! 1000 Fancy name for Fleischmann's

oleomargarine

ADD A LETTER Daily Double Add a letter to a Spanish cheer & you'll be cheering for a spicy, chocolatey Mexican sauce

olé and mole

"O-M-G"! 200 This traffic is headed your way

oncoming

"O-M-G"! 800 The study of eye diseases

opthamology

GOTTA CRAM 800 In 2016 El Pollo Loco introduced new quesadillas that were called this, something you might say about your fluffy sofa

overstuffed

ETIQUETTE 1000 At a funeral the honorary ones of these leave the church ahead of the casket & the not-honorary ones

pallbearers

THE CLASSIC MARQUEE INGREDIENT 600 E fagioli or primavera

pasta

SYNONYMOUS ANAGRAMS 200 Tap

pat

TEACHER VOCABULARY 1200 Mussolini was a demagogue; an educator is this, with the same final 6 letters

pedagogue

PANTS ON FIRE 1000 Part of a bicycle is in the name of these cropped pants, originally worn for biking

pedal pushers

DOUBLE THAT LETTER! 1200 A word meaning vigor & to look through a small opening

pep & peep

LEGAL LINGO 800 Larceny is "grand" when it exceeds a certain amount; this, when it's less

petty

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 200 In 2000 Albert Sabin's oral vaccine for this was discontinued in the U.S.

polio

PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES 400 Harry Truman, who defied these surveys, mused, "What would Jesus Christ have preached if he'd taken" one?

polls

TEACHER VOCABULARY 1600 Those spectacles & the tweed jacket make you look this adjective, meaning pertaining to a university teacher

professorial

THE ORIENT EXPRESSION 1200 The Viggo Mortensen movie title "Eastern" these echoes a U.K. candy slogan

promises

5-LETTER PALINDROMES Daily Double Used operationally by the Brits beginning in 1935, it helped against German air attacks

radar

MAY I QUOTE YOU? Daily Double Jesse Jackson: "Our flag is red, white, and blue, but our nation is a" this

rainbow

5-LETTER PALINDROMES 1600 Verb meaning to pass a matter on to another

refer

ECONOMICS 400 The opposite of progressive, it's the type of tax that takes a bigger portion as income drops

regressive

GATES 400 The Propylaea, a large roofed gateway, served as the entrance to the temple complex on this hill in Athens

the Acropolis

ADVENTURE TRAVEL 200 Let's sail up this river 2,300 miles from the Atlantic all the way to the port city of Iquitos in Peru

the Amazon

"ON" THE MIDDLE 800 Type of "reading" that alternates a line by a pastor & by the congregation

responsive

YOU CAN SET YOUR WATCH BY IT 1600 Reveille is played every morning at 6:30 A.M. at Fort Leonard Wood; this other "re" is sounded at 5 P.M.

retreat

I'D LIKE TO THANK 200 the person who invented the Cuban cocktail--lime juice, lemon juice, sugar & this potent potable

rum

IN THE DICTIONARY 200 A Biblical woman's name, it means pity but is usually found before "-less" to mean pitiless

ruth

LEGAL LINGO 2000 Treason is betraying one's country by committing hostile acts; this is inciting the betrayal

sedition

THEATER RHYME TIME 800 "Electrifying" movements & positions of actors on the stage

shock block

JOBS 400 On "Nashville" Connie Britton & Hayden Panettiere play competing these

singers

ADVENTURE TRAVEL 1000 From November to May, rather than hiking, this how to go hut-to-hut in Colorado's 10th Mountain Division system

skiing

ONE DIRECTION 200 It's the one compass direction you can go from 90 degrees north latitude

south

ONE DIRECTION 600 Direction from St. Louis to Dallas, or airline that will take you on the trip

southwest

AWESOME SAUCE 200 At kikkoman.com you'll find an online museum for this sauce

soy sauce

THE NEWS 2000 Also what a comic does in a club, it's the term for a reporter's report straight to camera from the scene of breaking news

stand-up

GOTTA CRAM 600 If the airplane has too many fliers & you have low priority, you accept this status & hope a seat opens up

standby

GOTTA CRAM 400 Every seat at the play is taken; it's SRO, short for this

standing room only

5-LETTER PALINDROMES 400 Short for the numerical records kept on players in sports

stats

LEGAL LINGO 400 The 4-letter postponement of a legal proceeding; it may precede "of execution"

stay

BIG BEN 800 Ben Rich used the security alias Ben Dover when he helped design the F-117 Nighthawk, the first of these hard-to-spot craft

stealth craft

HORMONES 400 The 1990s weren't baseball's sex hormone era, but sex hormones are these compounds of 17 carbon atoms

steroids

5 LETTERS, 1 SYLLABLE 1200 14 pounds, in Plymouth

stone

POTENTATE POTABLES 1200 Proud that she could drink "like an Englishman", Catherine the Great enjoyed this "fat" type of beer

stout

CRIME OF THE DECADE 400 The Lindbergh baby is kidnapped

the 1930s

CRIME OF THE DECADE 1000 The Achille Lauro cruise ship is hijacked, Leon Klinghoffer is killed

the 1980s

THE FIRST 10 BIBLE BOOKS 1600 The Book of Numbers is this number book in the Bible

the 4th

AWESOME SAUCE 400 For a quick version of this on a plate of skate, mix together mayo, sweet pickle relish & a little lemon juice

tartar sauce

THE ORIENT EXPRESSION 400 No, not for anything, "not for all" this "in China"

tea

ROCKET, MAN 2000 The radio link between the ground & a rocket or missile isn't called television but this tele-word

telemetry

THE ECONOMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS & SCIENCES 1000 This "wooden" term for the main film released during the summer peak season implies that it holds up a studio's fortunes

tentpole

CRIME OF THE DECADE 600 Mary Surratt is found guilty of conspiracy

the 1860s

CRIME OF THE DECADE 200 The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

the 1910s

CRIME OF THE DECADE 800 The St. Valentine's Day Massacre takes place

the 1920s

YOU CAN SET YOUR WATCH BY IT Daily Double For years the third U.S. infantry has been doing this ritual "every hour on the hour" at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

the changing of the guard

IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE 200 4-letter word for the central part of the Earth or the muscles of the torso that provide stability

the core

WONDER WOMEN 1200 Paula Cole wondered, "Where is my John Wayne?" in the song that asks, "Where Have All" these "Gone?"

the cowboys

BREAKING BAD 1600 This body part is loaded with bones, including the tarsals, so fractures there are unfortunately common

the foot

INVERTEBRATES 600 The earthworm has no teeth, but like a chicken, it has this organ that helps grind its food

the gizzard

THE ECONOMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS & SCIENCES 800 In production budgets, grips & catering are said to be "below" this; star actors & producers, "above" it

the line

SCI-FI BOOKS 200 The "hard rain" in Neal Stephenson's "Seveneves" comes from this natural satellite that's broken up & falling to Earth bit by bit

the moon

MAY I QUOTE YOU? 1200 Gil Scott-Heron: This "will not make you look 5 pounds thinner because" this "will not be televised"

the revolution

ETIQUETTE 800 This young boy usually enters a wedding ceremony along with the flower girl

the ring bearer

INVERTEBRATES 1000 The giant triton species of this gastropod is protected in Australia because it eats starfish that feed on coral

the snail

KANSAS HISTORY 800 Kansas voters decide every 6 years whether to retain the members of this body; in 2016 all 5 survived a challenge

the state supreme court

QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY 2000 MLK: "I have a dream that one day... sons of former slaves & the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at" this

the table of brotherhood

SIX FEET UNDER 400 The 6 feet (OK, legs) under an insect are typically attached to this, the middle of its 3 body sections

the thorax

CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE 400 The heart of Mycenaean palaces was the megaron, a great hall with a hearth & this royal furniture

the throne

NOVEL "T"s Daily Double In Audrey Niffenegger's bestseller, Clare Abshire DeTamble is this title spouse

the time traveler's wife

"UV" PROTECTION 1600 Babs could tell you this fleshy cone at the back of the throat keeps food from entering the nasal passages

the uvula

4-LETTER "V"ORDS 400 You "take" this when you make your vows and become a nun

the veil

CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 600 The man in this identifying piece of headwear brings Curious George over from Africa

the yellow hat

WOOD 200 Wood suitable to be used for building, or a word used when a tree is falling

timber

IN COGNITO 200 Gimme a gin & this mixer, light on the mixer

tonic

HIDDEN GEMS 800 A top azalea breeder named Hans Hachmann came up with a flower in a gold one named for this gem

topaz

BREAKING BAD 800 This 8-letter process slowly realigns a broken bone using weights & pulleys

traction

COMPUTER HISTORY 600 A big hit with 1960s scientists, the CDC 1604 was one of the first computers with these instead of vacuum tubes

transistors

10-LETTER WORDS 2000 Background music for a movie, or a line drawn beneath a word

underscore

DOUBLE THAT LETTER! 800 Walked through shallow water & balled up paper into a small lump

waded & wadded

DOUBLE THAT LETTER! 2000 Carried on a war & moved like some tails