Jeopardy 3
"F" TROOP $200: 1880s moms dressed their sons in velvet suits & curls in imitation of this "Little Lord" of literature
Fauntleroy
"ROY"ALTY $400: In a children's book, Cedric Errol of New York City becomes this little lord
Fauntleroy
"LIKE" A SONG $200: The Steve Miller Band soared with this Top 10 hit way back in 1977
Fly Like an Eagle
WE HAVE TO LET THEM GO $800: The Central African Republic got free from this country in 1960, but kept its language as official
France
FARMING $700 (Daily Double): A device for breaking up clods of dirt, or a school attended by the young Winston Churchill & Lord Byron
Harrow
FILE UNDER "H" $1600: Despite a clubfoot, Lord Byron played cricket for this London school in its rivalry match against Eton
Harrow
LORD BYRON $400: In 1801 young Byron began attending this school, Eton's rival
Harrow
SCULPTORS $800: To create his Stone Mountain sculpture, he had to devise a magic lantern to project a sketch onto the mountain
Gutzon Borglum
SCULPTURE $1,000 (Daily Double): On June 23, 1923 he began carving on Stone Mountain, completing Robert E. Lee's head within 7 months
Gutzon Borglum
MYTHOLOGY $1600: This Greek goddess of wisdom was wicked smart--she helped build the Trojan Horse
Athena
MYTHOLOGY $600: This goddess of wisdom had an unusual parentage-- no mom, just sprang full grown out of Zeus' head
Athena
OLYMPIANS $1200: She was ready to go to battle from the moment she sprang from Zeus' head
Athena
OLYMPIC MASCOTS $600: The mascots for the 2004 Summer Games were a brother & sister named Phevos & this, like the Greek goddess
Athena
OMG! $1200: Trojan prophet Helenus told the Greeks Troy wouldn't fall unless Palladium, this wise goddess' statue, was stolen
Athena
ON THE GREEK DEITY'S RESUMÉ $5,000 (Daily Double): Awards & Honors: •400s B.C.-- The Parthenon dedicated to me, wisely
Athena
THE FOUNTAINS OF EUROPE $800: A statue of this Greek goddess of war & wisdom adorns the fountain in front of Vienna's Parliament Bldg.
Athena
Capital of Central African Republic
Bangui
EDIBLE NAMES $1000: This actress shot her way into the heart of Robert Redford in "The Natural"
Barbara Hershey
BARONS & BARONESSES $2000: In 1955 this Woolworth heiress married her 6th husband, German tennis star Baron Gottfried von Cramm
Barbara Hutton
BARONS & BARONESSES $800: This Woolworth heiress' 6th husband was the tennis-playing Baron Gottfried von Cramm
Barbara Hutton
SINGERS & DANCERS $100: Her father Richard Whiting composed the songs "Sleepy Time Gal" & "Hooray For Hollywood"
Barbara Whitling (or Margaret Whitling)
PUT IT ON MY "BILL" $600: With about 100,000 people, this seat of Yellowstone County is Montana's most populous city
Billings
SANTA FE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Santa Fe, NM.) Though the palace of the governors is just a short walk from the jail where this young outlaw sat in 1880, Governor Lew Wallace refused to meet with him & discuss the pardon he had offered; a jailbreak soon followed
Billy the Kid (William Bonney)
THE PEN $1,000 (Daily Double): "One Day in My Life" was surreptitiously written on toilet paper by this Irish hunger striker
Bobby Sands
CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: This 1928 Ravel work was written on commission from ballet dancer Ida Rubinstein
Bolero
MEDICAL HISTORY $500: This symbol of the physician is derived from the wand of Aesculapius, the god of medicine
Caduceus
GBS $2000: The Temple of Ra & the Palace of Alexandria are settings in this one of Shaw's "Plays for Puritans"
Caesar and Cleopatra
A SHORT HISTORY OF VEGAS $1000: 1967: Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel attempts a jump over this casino's fountains
Caesar's Palace
CASINO ROYALE $400: It modestly bills itself as "a modern day Roman empire that will dazzle you with unparalleled excitement"
Caesar's Palace
COMING TO VEGAS $500: This hotel recently doubled the size of its Forum shopping area
Caesar's Palace
THE GOD SQUAD $400: The official seal of this U.S. state depicts the goddess Minerva & a grizzly bear
California
A COUNTRY OF AFRICA $200: The name of this central African republic comes from camaroes, a Portuguese word for the prawns found there
Cameroon
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC $200: The name of this central African republic comes from camaroes, a Portuguese word for the prawns found there
Cameroon
A POPS CONCERT $1200: Last name of Carmine, who composed the music for his son's film "Godfather III"
Coppola
APOCALYPSE NOW: THE CATEGORY $200: He directed "Apocalypse Now"
Coppola
CELEBRITY AKA $200: It's the real last name of Nicolas Cage--& of his famous uncle
Coppola
THE OSCARS: Last name of the only family to have a father & daughter receive Academy Award nominations for Best Director
Coppola
NICOLAS COPPOLA, AKA CAGE $800: Cage appeared in this 1984 film about a Harlem hot spot, directed by his uncle Francis
Cotton Club
THIS...WAS...SPARTA! $400: Like its main rival city, Sparta had an acropolis with a temple dedicated to this goddess
Athena
2-WORD SONG TITLES $1600: In 2013 Katy Perry was "coming atcha like a" this, perhaps James K. Polk
Dark Horse
ULYSSES $400: This goddess of wisdom appears to Ulysses' son Telemachus & tells him to find out what happened to Dad
Athena
WHAT A GODDESS $1200: This Greek goddess of war & handicraft changed Arachne into a spider after a weaving contest between them
Athena
YOU LOOK LIKE A GREEK GOD $1000: Talk about a difficult birth--she sprang from Zeus' head, which had been split with an axe
Athena
ZEUS YOUR DADDY $1600: This goddess represented strategic war planning over the raw violence of war; that's using your head, Zeus!
Athena
IT'S A MYTH $800: After being turned to stone by Perseus, this titan became the mountains of the same name in Africa
Atlas
THE SUMMER OF LOVE: 1967 $2000: At Governor George Romney's request, troops were sent to deal with racial unrest in this city
Detroit
MISSING LINKS $300: Louie, Huey
Dewey
LORD BYRON $100: In Byron's Biblical drama "Cain", she's the first female character to speak
Eve
FOUNTAINS $200: On January 1, 1968 he jumped the Caesar's Palace fountains on a motorcycle
Evel Knievel
ASIAN MOUNTAINS $1200: Rongbuk Monastery, at about 16,400 feet on this mountain in Tibet, is the world's highest religious temple
Everest
THOSE ARE MY INITIALS, TOO $800: Woolworth, De Klerk
F.W.
FRANKS & BEENS $400: He has been called the "Father of the Dime Store" (The F. stands for Frank)
F.W. Woolworth
INITIALLY YOURS $400: 5 & dimer Frank Winfield
F.W. Woolworth
NEW YORK BUILDINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): The building named for this retailer includes a sculpture of him counting nickels & dimes
F.W. Woolworth
THE 1800S $300: In 1879 he opened his first successful 5-&-10-cent store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
F.W. Woolworth
ARCHITECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Cass Gilbert designed this merchant's NYC skyscraper for 270,000,000 nickels or 135,000,000 dimes
F.W. Woolworth (Woolworth Building)
CROSSWORD CLUES "F" $800: Boston hall of fame (7)
Faneuil
FOR PETE'S SAKE $600: Last name of the Peter whose hall in Boston was completed in 1742
Faneuil
"HALL"s OF FAME $1600: In 1742 a local merchant gave this "Cradle of Liberty" to the City of Boston
Faneuil Hall
AMERICAN REVOLUTION $500: This building marked by a grasshopper weather vane, gained nickname "The cradle of liberty"
Faneuil Hall
BOSTON'S FREEDOM TRAIL $1000: "The Home of Free Speech" & "the Cradle of Liberty"--this historic building is now part of a bustling marketplace
Faneuil Hall
CRADLES $1000: This Boston Hall got its nickname "Cradle of Liberty" from a 1763 dedication speech delivered by James Otis Jr.
Faneuil Hall
EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $800: This Boston market & meeting hall known for its grasshopper weather vane opened on September 24, 1742
Faneuil Hall
EASY $200: Construction was completed on this Boston landmark in 1742, a year before its builder Peter Faneuil died
Faneuil Hall
U.S. BUILDINGS $2000: Built in Boston in the 1740s by the merchant for whom it's named, it's still used as a market & meeting place
Faneuil Hall
U.S. BUILDINGS $800: In 1742 a gilded grasshopper weathervane was placed atop this Boston hall; it's been there since
Faneuil Hall
NAME'S THE SAME $100: Flagg, Farmer
Fannie
20th CENTURY LIT $400: 1998's "Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!" is the latest from this "Fried Green Tomatoes" author
Fannie Flagg
ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS $400: She made a cameo appearance in the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" based on her novel
Fannie Flagg
AMERICAN WOMEN $1600: "Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!" is a 1998 book by this author of "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe"
Fannie Flagg
CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $400: This comedienne's "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" was inspired by her aunt's cafe in Alabama
Fannie Flagg
I WROTE A BOOK! $300: This former "Candid Camera" personality reads her literary work here "Baby girl, I wrote to tell you that I do not have good news about your mother, but it is not terrible news, either."
Fannie Flagg
IN THE BOOKSTORE $500: This author's "Original Whistle Stop Cafe Cookbook" tells how to make fried green tomatoes
Fannie Flagg
LITERARY TEARJERKERS $800: She wrote "Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man" before "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"
Fannie Flagg
STARS FELL FROM ALABAMA $2000: This "Match Game" panelist turned author based the town in "Fried Green Tomatoes..." on Irondale, Alabama
Fannie Flagg
WOMEN WRITERS $800: "Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!" is a recent book by this Southern novelist & TV personality
Fannie Flagg
VACATION SPOTS $800: You can view lions dining on wildebeest on your safari to this country's Masai Mara game reserve
Kenya
WORLD TRAVEL $500 (Daily Double): The Masai Mara Game Reserve in this country is world-famous for its annual wildebeest migration
Kenya
RETAILERS' HOME STATES $200: Woolworth, Barnes & Noble, Saks
New York
PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS $800: He was the first president survived by his mother, Jane Knox
James K. Polk
PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $500: The "First Dark Horse"
James K. Polk
PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $800: "The First Dark Horse"
James K. Polk
U.S. PRESIDENTS $1600: Upon his death in 1849, his last words were, "I love you Sarah, for all eternity, I love you"
James K. Polk
U.S. PRESIDENTS $2000: "A Country of Vast Designs" is a book subtitled him, "the Mexican War & the Conquest of the American Continent"
James K. Polk
PRESIDENTIAL MOMS $800: Jane Knox
James Knox Polk
FRENCH WHINES $500 (Daily Double): It is an artistic tragedy that zis American director & star of ze "Bellboy" has not made any recent films
Jerry Lewis
(Alex: Each response is a famous pair, but you must give us the response in reverse order.) PAIRS FAMOUS $1000: The first names of California governor Brown & Nebraska senator Sasse are less than delicious when paired
Jerry and Ben
MAGIC & SORCERY IN THE BIBLE $1,500 (Daily Double): This Phoenician princess & wife of King Ahab was accused of practicing witchcraft as queen of Israel
Jezebel
AUTH"ER"S $2,000 (Daily Double): Published posthumously in 2003, a novel by this Brooklyn guy was titled "Catch as Catch Can"
Joseph Heller
CAPITAL RIVERS $2000: The Baghmati River, which flows through this Himalayan capital, is sacred to Hindus
Kathmandu
WHO'S THAT GIRL DIRECTOR? $800: "The Hurt Locker"
Kathryn Bigelow
MONSTER MASH $1000: Jack Black brings this monster back to 1933 New York City in a 2005 Peter Jackson film
King Kong
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1000: This nationwide shoe chain is a subsidiary of Woolworth's
Kinney
EARLY AMERICA $400: In 1610 the Spanish began building the Palace of the Governors in what is now this Southwest city
Santa Fe
ABRAHAM $1200: After this wife's death, Abraham married Keturah
Sarah
BIBLE MVPs $600: This wife of Abraham & mother of Isaac was favored by God as the "mother of nations"
Sarah
BIBLICAL QUOTES $1000: God told Abraham that he would bless this wife "and she shall be a mother of nations"
Sarah
BIBLICAL WIFERY $400: Peter suggests wives be submissive "even as" she "obeyed Abraham, calling him lord"
Sarah
BIBLICAL WOMEN $1600: This wife of Abraham sent his mistress Hagar & her son Ishmael out into the wilderness
Sarah
BIBLICAL WOMEN $800: Married to Abraham, she became the "Mother of Nations" when she was 90 years old
Sarah
LITERARY SETTINGS: Zhongdian & Deqin, China both claim to be the inspiration for this imaginary place
Shangri-La
LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): The name of the Lamaist monastery in James Hilton's "Lost Horizon"
Shangri-La
LITERATURE & GEOGRAPHY: Zhongdian County in Southwest China has renamed itself after this fabled land from a 1933 book
Shangri-La
TCM'S 31 DAYS OF OSCAR $2000: (Ben Mankiewicz reads.) Scenic spots in Palm Springs & a humongous set on a Columbia Pictures backlot were used to create this Utopian land in 1937's "Lost Horizon"
Shangri-La
SINGERS $400: He won a Grammy for "Truly" being the Best Male Pop Vocalist of 1982
Lionel Richie
THE LAST MAN $300: In "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", he's paired with Michael Jackson for writing "We Are The World"
Lionel Richie
WE ARE THE CHILDREN $200: Of this "We Are The World" co-writer: Miles, Sofia & Nicole
Lionel Richie
WE LOVE "R" MUSIC $600: While still a Commodore, he penned "Lady" for Kenny Rogers
Lionel Richie
WHO WROTE THE NO. 1 HIT? $2000: Kenny Rogers' "Lady": this man, also a recording artist
Lionel Richie
PLUM CRAZY $100: He said, "What a good boy am I!" after pulling a plum out of his Christmas pie
Little Jack Horner
"LITTLE" MOVIES $1000: Ricky Schroder starred as Cedric in the TV version, but Mary Pickford did it 1st, in 1921
Little Lord Fauntleroy
A "LITTLE" LEARNING $2000: A pampered boy can get this 3-word nickname, an 1886 Burnett novel title
Little Lord Fauntleroy
A "LITTLE" LITERATURE $1200: In this 1886 story 7-year old Cedric Errol cuts a striking figure in black velvet, lace collar & yellow curls
Little Lord Fauntleroy
A LITTLE READING $3,000 (Daily Double): This 1886 Frances Hodgson Burnett novel inspired a fad of dressing young boys in velvet suits
Little Lord Fauntleroy
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: This pampered "Little Lord" had beautiful curls & wore a lace collar
Little Lord Fauntleroy
ENGLISH LIT $100: Frances Hodgson Burnett planted "The Secret Garden" in 1911 & has this "Little Lord" grow up in 1886
Little Lord Fauntleroy
FASHION HISTORY $100: A blouse with lace collar & cuffs is part of the costume named for this little Lord of literature
Little Lord Fauntleroy
FASHION HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1886 mothers began forcing their sons to wear silly velvet suits inspired by this titled tot of literature
Little Lord Fauntleroy
HOPE YOU'RE WELL READ... $2000: With his Mommy Dearest, this Frances Hodgson Burnett title character moves to England & inherits a title
Little Lord Fauntleroy
KIDDY LIT $400: As a lad, A.A. Milne wore his hair in the style of this Frances Hodgson Burnett character
Little Lord Fauntleroy
ALLUSIONAL THINKING $800: The allusion "ships that pass in the night" is from this American poet's "Tales of a Wayside Inn"
Longfellow
THE WRITE STUFF $1200: This author's collection "Tales of a Wayside Inn" is set at the Red Horse Tavern in Sudbury, Massachusetts
Longfellow
LITERARY CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $800: Fauntleroy is a "little" one (4)
Lord
QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $600: Byron's title & Mayberry sheriff Andy
Lord & Taylor
1812 $1000: On February 27 this poet addressed the House of Lords for the first time, speaking on the Luddite rioting
Lord Byron
1812: THE WAR & MORE $1200: Support of the Luddites was part of this poet's first speech before Britain's House of Lords
Lord Byron
19th CENTURY PEOPLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Lord Ruthven, the main character in the first English vampire story, was based on this author
Lord Byron
19th CENTURY POETRY: He rhymed the title character of one of his best-known poems with "drew on", "threw on" & "ruin"
Lord Byron
19th CENTURY POETS: In 1824 he was refused burial in Westminster Abbey for "questionable morality"; in 1969 he got a memorial stone there
Lord Byron
19th CENTURY WRITERS: After his death, he was given full military honors in Greece before his body was returned home for burial at his baronial seat
Lord Byron
ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Seen here is Giacomo Tracort's 19th century painting of this English poet in Greece
Lord Byron
BALLET $800: Arrgh! A pirate is the hero of "Le Corsaire", based on an 1814 poem by this British lord
Lord Byron
BONE VOYAGE $2000: Most of this Romantic poet who died helping Greek freedom fighters made it back to England; his lungs stayed in Greece
Lord Byron
BRITISH POETS & POETRY $600: Written in 1811, this lord's poem "Farewell To Malta" begins, "Adieu, ye joys of La Valette!"
Lord Byron
BYE LINES $800: This British Romantic poet & lord wrote, "Maid of Athens, ere we part, give, oh give me back my heart!"
Lord Byron
CAMBRIDGE (THE OTHER ONE) $200: This lord & poet known for his licentious behavior actually kept a pet bear at Cambridge
Lord Byron
LITERARY OPERAS $600: This lord never finished his poem "Don Juan", but Zdenìk Fibich based an opera on it anyway
Lord Byron
POET-POURRI $400: In 1806, while still a teenager, this lord published "Fugitive Pieces", his first volume of poetry
Lord Byron
POET-TREE $400: "Ah, droop not, my oak!" wrote this lord in "To an Oak at Newstead"
Lord Byron
POETIC LICENSE $400: Lady Caroline Lamb, a married lover of this lord, called him "mad, bad and dangerous to know"
Lord Byron
POETRY $1000: His poetic drama "The Deformed Transformed" was unfinished when he died a hero in Greece in 1824
Lord Byron
POETRY $200: "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" is this British lord's longest poem other than "Don Juan"
Lord Byron
POETRY $600: Not only did he write "Don Juan", he proved it was possible to swim the Hellespont by doing it himself
Lord Byron
POETS & POETRY $400: "Notwithstanding many hints to the contrary", he said, "I still maintain" Childe Harold "to be a fictitious personage"
Lord Byron
POETS & POETRY $400: This romantic poet's name gave us an adjective for the type of hero he created -- a brooding young man
Lord Byron
POETS & POETRY $800: This "Don Juan" poet adopted a third given name, Noel, to receive an inheritance from his mother-in-law
Lord Byron
SHE'S A LADY $400: Britannica calls Lady Augusta Ada, daughter of this rakish 19th c. poet, "the world's first computer programmer"
Lord Byron
TEENS & POETRY $1000: Don Juan, the teenage hero of a poem by this British lord, is "tall, handsome, slender, but well knit"
Lord Byron
TEENS OF THE PAST $600: This lord was a teenager when his first volume of poetry, "Fugitive Pieces", appeared in 1806
Lord Byron
THE QUOTABLE KEATS $400: In an 1819 letter Keats wrote that this lord & poet "cuts a figure, but he is not figurative"
Lord Byron
THE ROMANTIC POETS $1200: After part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" was published, this lord "awoke one morning and found myself famous"
Lord Byron
THE ROMANTICS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Venice, Italy) This poet talked about freedom at the Cafe Florian & later journeyed to help the Greeks fight for freedom
Lord Byron
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE $800: This British lord & poet declared, "Truth is always strange--stranger than fiction"
Lord Byron
THE WEDDING PLANNER $1000: For a wedding reading, you might like this English poet's "She Walks in Beauty"
Lord Byron
THE WINTER'S TALE $400: In "Don Juan" he quipped, "The English winter -- ending in July, to recommence in August"
Lord Byron
THEY SAYETH OF BEAUTY $400: In "Childe Harold" this poet talks of "the fatal gift of beauty"
Lord Byron
WOMEN POETS $1600: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "On the Death of" this poet mentions "that Harold's pilgrimage at last is o'er"
Lord Byron
WRITERS ON FILM $1600: In "Gothic", Gabriel Byrne was this lord of poetry
Lord Byron
MY FAIR LADY $1200: Beautiful Lady Caroline Lamb, wife of a future British P.M., had an affair with this lord famous as both a poet & a rake
Lord Byron rake /rāk/Submit noun DATED noun: rake; plural noun: rakes a fashionable or wealthy man of dissolute or promiscuous habits. "a merry Restoration rake" synonyms: playboy, libertine, profligate; degenerate, roué, debauchee; lecher, seducer, womanizer, philanderer, adulterer, Don Juan, Lothario, Casanova; informalladykiller, ladies' man, lech, tomcat, horndog "he was something of a rake"
ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: This financier of the King Tut excavation died 9 months before Tut's sarcophagus was discovered
Lord Carnarvon
19th CENTURY FEMALE AUTHORS $1200: Author Frances Hodgson Burnett based the long curls of this title pampered "Lord" on her son Vivian's
Lord Fauntleroy
LITERATURE $800: This title character in a Frances Hodgson Burnett novel is the grandson of an earl
Lord Fauntleroy
AN ARM $1200: This British admiral lost an eye in 1794 & his right arm in 1797
Lord Nelson
AYE AYE, ADMIRAL $200: In 1805, in memory of this admiral, his brother William was made an Earl of Trafalgar
Lord Nelson
LEFTIES $2,000 (Daily Double): This larboard British viscount won victories on the Nile & at Trafalgar against French forces
Lord Nelson
BIG, REALLY BIG! $1000: Lady Hamilton could tell you the name of this 185-foot column that went up in the early 1840s
Lord Nelson's Column
FICTIONAL HEROINES $200: Lo-Tsen lost her youth when she left Shangri-La in this novel
Lost Horizon
BEST DIRECTOR OSCAR NOMINEES $1200: For this 2003 film, Sofia Coppola became the first American woman nominated for a directing Oscar
Lost in Translation
FILMS OF THE 21st CENTURY $1200: Sofia Coppola won an Oscar for her screenplay & a nomination for directing this 2003 film
Lost in Translation
A STUDY IN SCARLETT JOHANSSON $800: As the face of this French luxury bag co., Scarlett may have had to clobber a few people selling knockoffs
Louis Vuitton
ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: For more than 100 years, archaeologists have explored this ancient city in South America
Machu Picchu
AFRICA $1000: This cattle-raising tribe of Kenya lives almost entirely on milk, blood & meat from its herds
Masai
AFRICANA $400: A lion subspecies shares its name with these nomadic people of Tanzania & Kenya
Masai
LYING IN STATE $1,800 (Daily Double): Peter Faneuil
Massachusetts
MYTHOLOGICAL PAINTINGS $800: Heads up! She's the subject in the Caravaggio painting seen here
Medusa
THE FEMININE MISTAKE $600: This lady of myth boasted of her beauty to Athena, who was a teensy bit jealous & gave her a monster makeover
Medusa
WOMEN OF MYTH $400: Courtesy of Perseus, her snaky severed head was placed on the shield of Athena
Medusa
ART $1200: Roy Lichtenstein's "Look Mickey!" depicts these 2 Disney characters fishing on a dock
Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck
QUICK PRESIDENTIAL STOPS $1200: George W. Bush visited his boyhood home in this Texas town for 45 minutes in 2008
Midland
CELEBRITY PARTIAL NAME CHANGES $2000: Natalie Hershlag & Winona Horowitz are better known by these last names they used as movie co-stars
Natalie Portman & Winona Ryder
SHELLS $200: This chambered mollusk is the only living cephalopod with an external shell
Nautilus
ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $1600: Soupy Sales
Navy
ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $400: Future president John F. Kennedy
Navy
ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $800: The Civil War's David Glasgow Farragut
Navy
VICE-PRESIDENTS $200: Reportedly, this "Rough Rider" once compared McKinley's backbone to a chocolate elcair
Teddy Roosevelt
____ OF THE ____ $1200: Future president James Polk held this congressional post from 1835 to 1839
Speaker of the House
ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: In 1970 the wreck of the El Gran Grifon, part of this fleet, was found off Scotland 382 years after it sank
the Spanish Armada
ARCHAEOLOGY $3,000 (Daily Double): In 2013 the stone paws of one of these creatures dedicated to Egyptian King Menkaure were found in Israel
the Sphinx
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC $800: The southernmost section of this largest African country stretches into the heart of central Africa
the Sudan
MESOPOTAMIA $1,500 (Daily Double): They settled Mesopotamia around 3500 B.C. & brought in some good ideas, like civilization & writing
the Sumerians
VERY CLEVER $3,000 (Daily Double): Supposedly an offering to Athena, it was built by the master carpenter Epeius
the Trojan Horse
ITALY BEFORE THE ROMANS $800: According to legend, refugees of this 1200 B.C. conflict first fled to Thrace, then north Africa & finally Italy
the Trojan War
WORLD LEADERS $800: Clement Attlee succeeded a more famous man as this country's prime minister
the U.K.
SIGNS & SYMBOLS $1000: Both the staff of Asclepius & this staff of Mercury feature snakes & are symbols of the medical profession
the caduceus
SYMBOLS: One tale of its origin says that the blind seer Tiresias separated 2 snakes with his staff
the caduceus
CAMERAS $1600: For centuries this "camera" was just a box with a pinhole, but in the early 1800s it began to record images
the camera obscura
STUCK $400: If you're "in" this, like Little Jack Horner, there's no place you can go
the corner
"C" CREATURES $500: A collector's item, the shiny, often speckled shell of this mollusk was once used as money in Africa
the cowrie
ORE Some gold ore is considered exogenetic, meaning it was formed in this layer of the Earth
the crust
BIRD UP! $1600: A bird of prey, the harpy species of this bird is even known to attack monkeys for food
the eagle
SLOTH $400: The harpy type of this raptor is one of the sloth's main predators
the eagle
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD $600: May 16, 1929 in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
the first Academy Awards Ceremony
TRANSPORTATION $200: In answer to the age-old question, archaeologists believe it was invented by the Sumerians
the wheel
UR $2000: Though built over 4,000 years ago, much of this great terraced, pyramid-shaped temple tower still exists
the ziggurat
SOUNDS LIKE A LANGUAGE $400: We thank Sir Thomas More for this adjective describing the mythical perfect place
utopian
(Alex: Each response is a famous pair, but you must give us the response in reverse order.) PAIRS FAMOUS $800: A plant that grows & climbs around a support & the place that gets a "Hooray for" it in song
vine and Hollywood
CHAMBER MUSIC $400: Though pianists like Rubinstein might protest, Brahms' 2-player opus 78 is known as this instrument's sonata
violin
THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE $400: The small European portion of this country, including the city of Istanbul, lies in a region called Thrace
Turkey
FOUNTAINS $500: This statue in the Louvre once stood in a fountain on the Greek isle of Samothrace
Winged Victory
ARCHAEOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE): The piece seen here found in Samothrace in 1950, is part of this ancient statue
Winged Victory of Samothrace
BETTER KNOWN AS... $100: She's Winona Horowitz
Winona Ryder
IT AIN'T ME, BABE $800: I played the simply named Jo March, but I was born with the last name Horowitz
Winona Ryder
DONALD DUCK $1000: In the opening of "The Mickey Mouse Club", Donald would strike this instrument, usually with disastrous results
a gong
GIVE ME A "HAND" $400: Abraham's wife Sarah had one of these female servants, an Egyptian named Hagar
a handmaiden
A "HA"! $1200: A shrewish woman is sometimes called this, after a mythical monster that was part woman & part vulture
a harpy
IT'S A BIRD $800: These tropical eagles are named for a woman-bird hybrid of Greek mythology
a harpy
CORPORATE AMERICA $200: First successful 5 & 10; from August '82 to August of '87, it outperformed all other stocks on the Dow Jones Industrial Average
Woolworth's
DJIA STOCKS $300: Foot Locker & Kinney Shoe Stores are owned by this five & dime company
Woolworth's
FOOTWEAR $100: The sandal-style shoe sold by this five & dime store is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute
Woolworth's
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: Former 5 & 10¢ store which now also owns Kinney Shoes & The Foot Locker
Woolworths
A STUDY IN SCARLETT JOHANSSON $2000: Scarlett is the Cristina of this 2008 Woody Allen film in which a love triangle becomes a love square
Vicky Christina Barcelona
"LOP"SIDED WORDS $400: Fan shell is another name for this mollusk
a scallop
FOODIE CALL $800: It can be a type of bivalve mollusk or a thin slice of meat made flatter by pounding
a scallop
SHELLFISH $800: This mollusk is easily recognized by its fan-shaped shell that has an earlike projection at each end of the hinge
a scallop
ANCIENT BABYLON $2000: Some scholars identify etemenanki, one of these Babylonian structures, as the Tower of Babel
a ziggurat
(Alex: We have military devices that have been anagrammed in...) WHIRLED OF WARCRAFT $800: In olden days, it could make people hurl: CLAP TAUT
a catapult
EAT IT! $1000: A Spanish word for a sloop gives us the name of this appetizer, a crisp corn tortilla "boat" filled with beef & cheese
a chalupa
BIRDS OF A FEATHER $200: Bald, harpy
an eagle
MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $1600: The advantages of riding this big creature include an "immunity from collisions" & the fine view one has from up there"
an elephant
FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $2000: Horowitz, Nabokov, Zworykin
Vladimir
"V.H." ONE $800: Born in Kiev in 1904, this pianist was one of the best known concert performers of the 20th century
Vladimir Horowitz
BEHIND EVERY GREAT MAN $2000: Naturally, a piano is behind this Russian-American virtuoso known for retirements & comebacks
Vladimir Horowitz
CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $1000: This Russian-born master who became a U.S. citizen adapted "The Stars and Stripes Forever" for piano
Vladimir Horowitz
PAYCHECKS $1000: This piano virtuoso married to Toscanini's daughter earns a concert paycheck of 80% of the gross
Vladimir Horowitz
"LIKE" A SONG $400: The Bangles instructed us all with this 1986 hit that was fit for a pharaoh
Walk Like an Egyptian
KIDDY LIT $800: In this 1959 book whose title means a journey through the bush, 2 white children are saved by an Aboriginal boy
Walkabout
AGES AGO $200: When Sumerians used these in war, they had 4 wheels & were drawn by big-eared equines called onagers
chariots
ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: 3rd c. Roman soldiers found near sulfur crystals were apparently early victims of this type of warfare
chemical warfare
ANIMALS $100: Popular food types of this mollusk include jacknife & steamer
clam
PRAWNOGRAPHY $1,500 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "having a shell", it's the subphylum to which all prawns belong
crustacean
ANIMAL IMPOSTORS $100 (Daily Double): Crayfish aren't fish but these, like their relative the lobster
crustaceans
LESSER-KNOWN MUSEUMS $2000: The International Museum of this -ology in Maine has exhibits for the Montauk Monster & the Jersey Devil
cryptozoology
A PIECE OF HISTORY $1000: The oldest artifact in D.C.'s Newseum is a 3,200-year-old Sumerian brick that spread the news using this writing system
cuneiform
ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: G.F. Grotefend and Sir Henry Rawlinson helped decipher forms of this wedge-shaped Sumerian writing
cuneiform
ENDLESS SUMER $800: Dating from around 3000 B.C., the Sumerians used this writing system seen here
cuneiform
IT'S POTPOURRI, "C"? $400: The Sumerians used this system of writing
cuneiform
THE GREEK ALPHABET: When spelled out as words in English, 2 of the 3 longest Greek letters
epsilon, upsilon, & omicron
FRENCH FIXINS $400: The vineyard & petit-gris are varieties of this mollusk; please respond in French, though it might "slow" you down
escargot
DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE $8,600 (Daily Double): "E" is for this hard outer body of an animal, like a mollusk's shell
exoskeleton
POETS & POETRY $400: Lord Byron wrote wistfully, "I am ashes where once I was" this
fire
CLAM UP $1000: The tide exposes clam-digging areas called these, a 5-letter plural; Essex, Massachusetts has a hotline devoted to them
flats
ZOOLOGY $300: Florida's Everglade kite is a bird of prey that eats only these slow mollusks
freshwater snails
ROCKS & MINERALS $500: The rock of Gibraltar is this type of rock made up of calcite, a form of calcium carbonate
limestone
SCULPTURE $2000: The Etruscans carved many of their works from tufa, a soft porous variety of this calcium carbonate rock
limestone
TURNING OVER A NEW REEF $1200: Coral polyps have skeletons of calcium carbonate, so in effect they build this sedimentary rock
limestone
OUT ON A "LIM" $1600: "Incredible" mollusk of the genus Patella
limpet
WORD ORIGINS $2000: From the Latin word lampreda we get lamprey, as well as the name of this mollusk
limpet
SHELL $500: These mollusks are famous for the tenacity for which they cling to rocks
limpets
"L" It's on the tip of your tongue... wait, no-- your ear
lobe
"L" Any anesthetic limited to a particular body part
local anesthetic
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: If a Frenchwoman receives a billet-doux, she's gotten one of these
love letter
Define matriarch
noun a woman who is the head of a family or tribe. an older woman who is powerful within a family or organization. "a domineering matriarch"
Define interjection
noun an abrupt remark, made especially as an aside or interruption. an exclamation, especially as a part of speech, e.g., ah! or dear me!.
Define caravel
noun HISTORICAL a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries.
Define moxie
nounINFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN force of character, determination, or nerve. "when you've got moxie, you need the clothes to match"
POLISH HISTORY $800: In 1957 Polish foreign minister Adam Rapacki proposed a European "zone" free of these
nuclear weapons
5 SHADES OF GRAY $400: A grayish white, or a tasty mollusk of that color
oyster
ANNUAL EVENTS $300: An Urbanna, Virginia festival devoted to this bivalve serves it in every conceivable fashion.
oysters
AQUATIC LIFE $400: A fish called the feather blenny lays its eggs in this mollusk's shells
oysters
BRITTANY $200: Brittany is famous for the Belon type of this mollusk, used for eating, not pearls
oysters
EAT IT! $400: Jonathan Swift wrote, "He was a bold man that first" ate these; let's be bold & enjoy them on the half shell
oysters
JEWELRY $600: A simple strand of these mollusk gems has been a classic fashion accessory for hundreds of years
pearls
MAGIC & SORCERY IN THE BIBLE $400: After seeing Moses' miracles, the ruler with this title called forth his own magicians to perform some of their own
pharoah
1986 B.C. $800: Historian Wm. Langer says the Sumerians were in a period of this, like Italy in 15th cent. A.D.
renaissance
MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $400: "I would throw out the old maxim, my country", this, "and instead I would say, 'My country when she is right'"
right or wrong
3 OF A KIND: I've got to hand it to you, these are the 3 choices when playing roshambo
rock, paper, scissors
PLAY RIGHT $200: You've got 3 options in this classic playground hand game that's also known as Roshambo
rock, paper, scissors
VENICE, AT LAST $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Venice.) It was Lord Byron who wrote, "I stood in Venice on" this bridge, "A palace and a prison on each hand"
the Bridge of Sighs
ABBREV. $1200: Between Chad & the Democratic Republic of the Congo is this country, C.A.R.
the Central African Republic
AFRICAN CAPITALS $1600: On the Ubangi River, Bangui is the capital of this 3-word nation
the Central African Republic
FEDEX DOESN'T GO THERE $2,200 (Daily Double): Though this country has "Central" in its name, it's too far off the beaten path for FedEx
the Central African Republic
GOVERNMENT $1000: This country with "Republic" in its name was less republican after a 2003 coup by General Francois Bozize
the Central African Republic
INTO AFRICA $1200: The French governed this republic under the territorial name Ubangi-Chari
the Central African Republic
OH, B-CITY IN AFRICA $1600: Bimbo in this country is not far from the capital, Bangui
the Central African Republic
STUPID ANSWERS $800: This centrally located African country is again a republic since elections were held in 2015
the Central African Republic
GOT YOUR GOAT $500: In Greek myth this fire-breather killed by Bellerophon had a she-goat's body
the Chimera
MONSTERS INC. $1600: In mythology this fire-breathing monster wreaked havoc in Lycia before she was killed by Bellerophon
the Chimera
ROCK 'N ROLL $200: Lionel Richie sang lead for this Motown group before going solo in the '80s
the Commodores
ARCHAEOLOGY $400: This collection of nearly 1,000 religious texts was discovered beginning in 1947 at Qumran
the Dead Sea Scrolls
A "D" IN GEOGRAPHY $1600: This Scottish river flows into the North Sea at Aberdeen
the Dee
1960s TELEVISION $2000: Carl Reiner won 3 Emmys for writing for this sitcom on which he occasionally played TV comedian Alan Brady
the Dick Van Dyke Show
AWARDS & HONORS $400: In 1998 the Kennedy Center created this prize for American humor
the Mark Twain Prize
YOU'RE A GRAND OLD FLAG $1000: Kenya's flag features an emblem depicting a shield & spears from this tribe
the Masai tribe
LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $400: The Nubian languages are spoken primarily along the banks of this river
the Nile
4-LETTER KNOWLEDGE $4,000 (Daily Double): Famous caravel of 1492
the Nina
HULL OF FAME $200: This ship, Columbus' favorite, made at least 5 trips to the New World
the Nina
LESSER-KNOWN EXPLORERS $800: After the Santa Maria was shipwrecked, Columbus joined Pinzon on this ship; Pinzon later explored Brazil
the Nina
AMERICANA $2,000 (Daily Double): After Noah Webster's death, the company named for these brothers bought the rights to his dictionary
the Merriam Brothers
SPORTS MASCOTS $200: It's suspected that Wild Wing, this team's mascot, is a direct descendant of Donald Duck
the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
THE "B" TEAM $1000: It was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's first pro team
the Milwaukee Bucks
"TRUTH" OR CONSEQUENCES $1200: Winston Smith works for this ironically named government unit in the novel "1984"
the Ministry of Truth
ORGAN RECITAL $400: The wood for the organ in this Salt Lake City edifice came from Utah's Parowan Mountains
the Mormon Tabernacle
U.S. BUILDINGS $400: Cue the choir! In 2007 this Salt Lake City building reopened after a 2-year renovation
the Mormon Tabernacle
UTAH $1600: To demonstrate the acoustics in this Salt Lake City building, tour guides will drop a pin
the Mormon Tabernacle
STATE CAPITAL EVENTS $400: In March 2016 you could catch an Easter concert by this group live in Salt Lake City or on closed-circuit simulcast
the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
THEY MADE THE TOP 40 $400: 1959: This 375-voice group with "Battle Hymn Of The Republic"
the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
REALLY OLD NEWS $400: Spanish navigator Vincente Yanez Pinzon captained this vessel on a famous 1492 voyage
the Nina
SAILING INTO HISTORY $200: This little lady that sailed with Columbus was originally named the Santa Clara
the Nina
3 OF A KIND: Replicas of these 3 ships were built to promote Expo '92 in Seville, Spain
the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria
EXPLORERS $600: On Christmas Day 1492, this ship ran aground off Hispaniola & was abandoned
the Santa Maria
MOVIE AUTHORS $200: Ken Russell's '87 film "Gothic" explored Lord Byron's odd relationship with this literary couple
the Shelley's
TURKEY $100: Just a thrace of Turkey, about 3% of its area, is on this continent
Europe
THEIR ORIGINAL NAMES $200: Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Coppola
Nicolas Cage
FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Hollander, Bobek, Richie
Nicole
LITERARY SETTINGS $1600: "Lost Horizon": This utopian lamasery in Tibet
Shangri-La
NICE "AB"s! $1000: This large mollusk is used as a source of mother-of-pearl
abalone
THE "A"s $800: It's the mollusk whose shell is a source of mother-of-pearl
abalone
HISTORIC TRANSPORTS $1000: A mortally wounded James Lawrence was referring to the USS Chesapeake when he issued this order
"Don't Give up the Ship"
HISTORICAL TRANSPORTS $1600: James Lawrence was referring to his frigate the Chesapeake when he gave this famous command in 1813
"Don't Give up the Ship"
SONG STANDARDS $200: Catchy "Fiddler on the Roof" song that goes, "Daidle, deedle, daidle, digguh, digguh, deedle, daidle, dum"
"If I Were a Rich Man"
KENNY ROGERS $300: His only #1 pop hit as a solo artist was this 1-word title song of 1980 written by Lionel Richie
"Lady"
"ON" & "OFF" SONGS $200: In 1984, comfortably or not, Lionel Richie was "stuck" here
"On You"
ON THE RADIO $1000: Gwen Stefani & Eve cashed in on this hit that was adapted from a song in "Fiddler on the Roof"
"Rich Girl"
SOUSA'S $400: In 1987 the U.S. flagged this Sousa tune as its official march
"Stars & Stripes Forever"
YOU MUST BE AT LEAST THIS OLD... $200: To play baccarat in the casino at Caesars Palace Las Vegas
21
TO THE NEAREST... $500: To the nearest mile, the height of Mount McKinley
4 (20,000 feet and change)
THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED $800: Seen here, the Washington Monument is encircled by this many flags
50
NOVEL CHARACTERS $800: Winston Smith & Julia don't have much privacy
1984
NOVELS $600: In this novel Winston Smith's job at the Ministry of Truth is to rewrite the public records
1984
NUMERICAL NOVEL BY CHARACTERS $400: Winston Smith, Julia
1984
ON THE BOOKSHELF $400: Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth in this novel
1984
ORIGINAL TITLES IN LITERATURE? $400: 1949: "Big Brother & The Holding Co.: A Winston Smith Novel"
1984
SMITH $1200: Winston Smith is a writer of Newspeak for the Ministry of Truth in this George Orwell novel
1984
VILLAINS $600: In this novel O'Brien, a member of the Inner Party, is Winston Smith's personal torturer & educator
1984
Define escargot
/ˌeskärˈɡō/ noun a snail, especially as an item on a menu.
IT'S AN INTERJECTION: In CB radio talk this numeric expression means "understood", good buddy!
10-4
NAME THE YEAR $400: McKinley assassinated, First wireless message sent across Atlantic, Queen Victoria dies
1901
GREEK GODS & GODDESSES $1600: This goddess was wise indeed to aid Jason in his quest for the Golden Fleece
Athena
CASTLES: The name of this large home located in Aberdeenshire means "the majestic dwelling" in Gaelic
Balmoral Castle
Define grifter
A grifter is a con artist: someone who swindles people out of money through fraud.
CLASSICAL LITERATURE $400: Herodotus described this "fabled" teller of tales as a slave from Thrace
Aesop
BORN THE SAME DAY $800: May 9, 1936 gave England Glenda Jackson & this actor whose film roles include Daddy Warbucks & Hercule Poirot
Albert Finney
DORM LIFE $800: You're all set to meet the Swedish students moving in across the hall with records like "Dancing Queen" by this band
ABBA
"A" IN GEOGRAPHY $2000: This Scottish seaport lies between the rivers Dee & Don
Aberdeen
MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $2000: Of this "Devil's Dictionary" author, Twain wrote, "For every laugh, there are 5 blushes & 10 shudders"
Ambrose Bierce
TIME PHRASES $800: A hit by Lionel Richie, or the length of time "You Shook Me" in an AC/DC song
All Night Long
ANN-A-GRAMS $400: Take my advice (stop) no one cares how you hang the toilet paper (stop) "Wake up and smell the coffee" (stop)
Ann Landers
COLLEGE BOWL $1,500 (Daily Double): Noah Webster was a co-founder of this Mass. college that administers the Folger Shakespeare Library
Amherst
COLLEGES WITH MASS. APPEAL $800: Noah Webster & Samuel Dickinson (Emily's grandpa) were among the co-founders of this private liberal arts college
Amherst
ENGLISH LITERATURE $1200: It's the last name of father & son novelists Kingsley & Martin
Amis
HIGH WATER $800: The Zuiderzee flood of 1287 killed 50,000 but also connected this then-village to the sea, & the rest is Dutch history
Amsterdam
THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $1600: "The Joy Luck Club" (1989)
Amy Tan
INTO THE SPIDER VERSE $1600: John Hollander titled a poem after this rival of Athena who got changed into a spider
Arachne
MIDDLE "C" $2000: After she challenged Athena to a weaving contest, Athena turned her into a spider
Arachne
BANANAS $600: This gastropod mollusk is the official mascot of the University of California at Santa Cruz
Banana slug
SHAKESPEARE'S SETTINGS $200: This play begins at a queen's palace in Alexandria
Antony and Cleopatra
CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $1200: (Hi. I'm Anderson Cooper.) I appreciate the maxim "Never get out of the boat", a cardinal rule of this 1979 Francis Ford Coppola film
Apocalypse Now
CUT $200: For his "Redux" of this war film, Francis Ford Coppola added 49 minutes of footage not in the original cut
Apocalypse Now
ON LOCATION $200: The jungles of Vietnam in this 1979 Coppola film were actually in the Philippines
Apocalypse Now
BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $2000: The horror, the horror at seeing a Coppola war film turn into a 1942 film where Bette Davis overcomes her domineering ma
Apocalypse Now, Voyager
THE CONSTELLATIONS $1,500 (Daily Double): The Sumerians believed it represented their sky-god, An, pouring waters of immortality upon the Earth
Aquarius
PRESIDENTIAL ASTROLOGY $500: With the exception of R. Reagan, all the presidents born under this sign died in office
Aquarius (William Henry Harrison, Lincoln, McKinley, FDR, were the Presidents who died in office)
A GREEK MYTHTAKE $1000: Don't challenge Athena in a weaving contest! You'll end up being changed into a spider, like her (knowing zoology will help)
Arachne
MYTHELLANEOUS $500: The first 3 ports of call of this ship were Lemnos, Samothrace & Cyzicus
Argo
NICOLAS COPPOLA, AKA CAGE $600: In a 1987 film, it was the last name of the infant Cage kidnapped to raise
Arizona
STEVE BUSCEMI FILMS $400: Steve's rockhound goes to save the world with Ben Affleck & Owen Wilson in this 1998 flick
Armageddon
MULTIPLE ROLES, SAME FILM $2000: This actor played the Winklevoss twins Cameron & Tyler in "The Social Network"
Armie Hammer
ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $400: Walter Reed
Army
ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $800: Al Gore, Jr.
Army
GENUS NAMES $400: The genus name of the burrowing owl is this Greek goddess of wisdom
Athena
GOOD GOD, Y'ALL $400: This goddess of wisdom assisted & inspired such Greek heroes such as Perseus, Odysseus & Heracles
Athena
THE 7 ANCIENT WONDERS $800: Her temple at Ephesus was destroyed by invading Goths in 262
Artemis
ARTS & ARTHURS $200: In 1976 President Ford awarded this piano virtuoso the Medal of Freedom, highest U.S. civilian honor
Arthur Rubinstein
IN THE NEWS $1000: Relics of this culture found at Nimrud in Iraq's Nineveh region were called the greatest find since King Tut
Assyrian
TECH COMPANY NAMES $1,600 (Daily Double): It got its name by removing the first 3 letters from the name of the horse that Bellerophon tried to fly to heaven
Asus
ACROPOLIS NOW $400: The main temple on the Acropolis was built in the 5th century B.C. to honor this goddess
Athena
EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a figurine at the Parthenon in Nashville, TN.) Available at the gift shop of Nashville's Parthenon is a 9" replica of the 42' statue of this warrior goddess
Athena
TRAVEL FRANCE $2000: The pope's private chambers & the Great Chapel are among the highlights in this city's Palace of the Popes
Avignon
ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Discoveries such as yarn & whetstones on this largest Canadian island suggest that Vikings once settled there
Baffin Island
LET'S VISIT SCOTLAND $1000: Prince Albert bought this estate in Aberdeenshire for Queen Victoria & helped design the castle himself
Balmoral
THIS & THAT $1600: Baltimore is in Maryland; this Aberdeenshire, Scotland castle is a summer residence of the British royal family
Balmoral
"B" MY LOVE $800: Here's an offer you can't refuse: a getaway to Francis Coppola's Turtle Inn Resort in this Central American country
Belize
BRITISH AUTHORS $400: Isaac D'Israeli, a critic & friend of Lord Byron's, named his oldest son this
Benjamin
LITERATURE $1000: Alan Bates & Robert Redford were "The Fixer" & "The Natural" in films based on his novels
Bernard Malamud
1984 $200: While sobering up, protagonist Winston Smith realizes he's written a slogan against this leader
Big Brother
U.S. CITIES $600: Courteney Cox & Fannie Flagg both hail from this most populous Alabama city
Birmingham
"WOO" WORDS $300: Robert Redford portrayed him in "All The President's Men"
Bob Woodward
THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED $1200: A seminal L.A. punk band of the 1980s, or what a NASCAR driver gets if he's caught speeding on pit road
Black Flag
OYSTERS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a mollusk at the Grand Central Terminal Oyster Bar in New York.) Oysters from this colorful location on Long Island's Great South Bay were so popular, the name is used for several East Coast oysters
Blue Point
ODD COMBINED RESPONSES $1200: A new team to make 2 towns shudder: city that's home to Faneuil Hall + the NATO phonetic alphabet word for "Y", pluralized
Boston Yankees
A PINT OF ALEC GUINNESS $1200: It's the 1957 Best Picture winner for which Guinness won his best actor Oscar as Col. Nicholson
Bridge on the River Kwai
20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE $400: In the 1980s Benjamin Thompson & Associates updated this city's Faneuil Hall Marketplace
Boston
ARCHITECTS $100: In 1805 Charles Bulfinch enlarged this city's Faneuil Hall
Boston
HEIR $600: Peter Faneuil, who gave this city its hall, inherited his uncle's fortune after another nephew was cut off for marrying
Boston
STATE CAPITALS $100: Among the notable buildings in this capital city are Quincy Market, Faneuil Hall & Paul Revere's house
Boston
U.S. CITIES $100: Built in 1742, Faneuil Hall was & still is a famous meeting place in this city
Boston
MR. MOVIEFONE $1200: Press 2 now if you want to hear Alec Guinness as Col. Nicholson in this 1957 war drama
Bridge on the River Kwai
PLAYING PRESIDENT $800: Uncle Bill on "Family Affair", his last role was William McKinley in the 1997 TNT film "Rough Riders"
Brian Keith
TRAVEL FRANCE $1600: The 3,000 granite megaliths at Carnac in this farthest-west region of France may date back to 4000 B.C.
Brittany
CALAMITY JANE $500: Jane's gig at the 1901 Pan-American Expo in this city was overshadowed by ths McKinley assassination there
Buffalo
U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): A stone obelisk dedicated to President William McKinley stands in this New York city's Niagara Square
Buffalo
WORDS OF LOVE $2000: "In her first passion woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love", he wrote in "Don Juan"
Byron
"B" PREPARED $1600: This adjective mans characteristic of the lord who penned "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
Byronic
19th CENTURY BRITS: In May 1810 during one of his more famous exploits, he employed the breaststroke
Byron
AUTHORS & THEIR RELATIVES $1600: The son of a rogue known as "Mad Jack", this Lord grew up to be "mad, bad and dangerous to know"
Byron
ENGLISH LIT. $600: This lord's poem "The Prisoner of Chillon" is based on the 16th C. imprisonment of Francois de Bonnivard
Byron
"CAMP" $400: Presidential retreat once known as Shangri-La
Camp David
20TH CENTURY PRESIDENTS $200: Once a New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps camp, it was called "Shangri-La" by FDR
Camp David
U.S. LANDMARKS: In 1942 a Maryland area was named for the Tibetan paradise in "Lost Horizon" but in 1953 was renamed this, for a young boy
Camp David
WWII: FDR liked to rest near water, but because of fears after Pearl Harbor, this inland place was created for him
Camp David
WHO GOES THERE $1200: In 2014 WHO went to the C.A.R., this country, & vaccinated more than 100,000 children against measles
Central African Republic
THE EMMY AWARDS 1995 $1200: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series: This sitcom legend as Alan Brady on "Mad About You"
Carl Reiner
THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $2000: Mel Brooks, Mary Tyler Moore & Dick Van Dyke were on hand to honor this writer/comedian in 2000
Carl Reiner
MAN MEETS TOON $400: In "The Three Caballeros", Donald Duck dances with this "Brazilian Bombshell"'s sister Aurora
Carmen Miranda
NEW EDITION $400: Christopher Buckley wrote the introduction for the 50th anniversary edition of this Joseph Heller novel
Catch-22
THE TWO-THOUSAND YEAR OLD MAN $200: (Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks present the clue.) "Of all the monarchs you've known, who was the most impressive?" "That's easy. It's this Russian empress who was born in 1729. She had such great legs! And, boy, what a way with horses"
Catherine the Great
MOVIE L.A. $400: In 1913, at Selma & Vine, this director known for epics shot the first feature made in Hollywood, "The Squaw Man"
Cecil B. DeMille
POTENTATES $800: When the Central African Republic's Pres. Bokassa declared himself Emperor, he renamed the country this
Central African Empire
STUPID ANSWERS $300: Bangui is the capital of this central African republic
Central African Republic
POTPOURRI $600: Located between 85th & 96th, the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir is found in this landmark
Central Park
INTO AFRICA $1000: Aside from the Republic of the Congo, one of the 3 countries once known together as French Equatorial Africa
Chad, Gabon, and the Central African Republic
ACCIDENTS OF HISTORY $200: Jason Clarke played Ted Kennedy in a 2018 movie named for this island, site of a fatal 1969 accident
Chappaquiddick
ON THE ISLAND $1200: A fatal car crash on this island dashed Ted Kennedy's presidential chances
Chappaquiddick
HISTORY ON FILM $2,400 (Daily Double): Alec Guinness is seen here as this monarch: "Democracy, Mr. Cromwell, was a Greek drollery, based on the foolish notion that there are extraordinary possibilities in very ordinary people."
Charles I
CLOTHING THROUGH THE AGES $600: In the 1920s, a jacket with large pockets and a rolled collar was popularized by this aviator
Charles Lindbergh
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $800: He was known as the "Dude" president, "America's First Gentleman" and "Our Chet"
Chester Arthur
OUT OF TOWN GUESTS $400: Bienvenidos amigos who have made it all the way from Mexico... from Monterrey & this dog-named city founded in 1709
Chihuahua
LORD BYRON $500: Byron's character Harold bears this title that once referred to a "youth" of noble birth
Childe
ARCHAEOLOGY $800: A coin of emperor Yongle found in Kenya shows this Asian nation was trying to become an economic power 600 years ago
China
NAME THAT TOON $200: These 2 Disney chipmunks make life difficult for Donald Duck
Chip & Dale
A LA DESCARTES $1600: In 1649 this Swedish queen summoned Descartes to her country to tutor her in philosophy
Christina
HISTORICAL CHESS PIECES $800: This learned 17th century Swedish queen was known as "The Minerva of the North"
Christina
DOUBLE TALK $100: Family-oriented Las Vegas hotel that's home to the world's largest permanent big-top show
Circus Circus
BRITISH HISTORY $800: In July 1945, British voters turned Winston Churchill out of office in favor of this man
Clement Attlee
BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $500: 1945-1951
Clement Attlee
ENDS IN "EE" $1000: He led Britain's Labour Party from 1935 to 1955 & succeeded Winston Churchill as prime minister in 1945
Clement Attlee
WORLD WAR II $800: In the midst of the Potsdam Conference, this man became England's new prime minister
Clement Attlee
FOREIGN-SOUNDING TEXAS PLACES $400: Bogata in Red River County is named for the capital of this country
Columbia
STATE CAPITALS $200: We're not sure whether the Spanish ship on its city flag represents the Nina, Pinta, or Santa Maria
Columbus (Ohio)
MOVIE MONEY $1000: This Cher film takes place at a Woolworth's in a small Texas town, not far from where "Giant" was shot
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
NASHVILLE $800: This commodore, not Lionel Richie, got a Nashville university named for him
Cornelius Vanderbilt
WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG $100: At 16, this "Jerry Maguire" co-star was breakdancing on stage with Lionel Richie at the 1984 Olympics
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
"C-U" $1000: The name of this resort city about 40 miles south of Mexico city translates to "horn of the cow"
Cuernavaca
DONALD DUCK $200: Donald's girlfriend, she was first known as Donna Duck but was renamed in her second film, "Mr. Duck Steps Out"
Daisy Duck
MY GIRLFRIEND $200: Donald Duck started dating this gal pal in the 1940 cartoon "Mr. Duck Steps Out"
Daisy Duck
THE NATIONALS $600: The Ubangi River forms part of the northern boundary of this African country that's sometimes shortened to DRC
Democratic Republic of Congo
JAMES K. POLK ME $100: Throughout his career Polk remained an ardent member of the Jacksonian wing of this political party
Democrats
NATIONAL PARKS $1000: Until 1980, it was known as Mount McKinley National Park
Denali
GEOGRAPHY $500: In 1980 Mt. McKinley National Park was renamed this
Denali National Park
DISNEY $400: With Jose Carioca & Panchito, he was the third "Caballero"
Donald Duck
NAME THAT TOON $100: 1943's "Der Fuehrer's Face" starring this Disney quack-up won an Oscar
Donald Duck
A PINT OF ALEC GUINNESS $4,400 (Daily Double): In a 1965 romantic epic, Guinness portrayed Yevgraf, the half-brother of this title physician
Doctor Zhivago
ACTORS & RUSSIAN ROLES $200: Alec Guinness played Yevgraf, the half brother of the title physician, in this romantic 1965 epic
Doctor Zhivago
DEPP PERCEPTION $800: Taking a cue from Lord Byron, Johnny played this title role in 1995
Don Juan
BEASTLY COMMON BONDS $400: White-tailed, harpy, golden
Eagles
THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $1200: This "Shrek" & "Beverly Hills Cop" performer said the prize is actually an award, because a prize comes with money
Eddie Murphy
ENDLESS SUMER $200: The Sumerian name for the Mesopotamian plain may have given us this name of a Biblical garden
Eden
PLAINS $100: The name of this Biblical garden of paradise may be from the Sumerian name for the Plain of Babylon
Eden
LANGUAGES: The 2 languages on the Rosetta Stone
Egyptian & Greek
THE OSCARS: The 2 men who directed Marlon Brando's Oscar-winning performances
Elia Kazan & Francis Ford Coppola
WOMEN POETS $5,201 (Daily Double): In 1850 the Athenaeum suggested that she succeed Wordsworth as England's poet laureate
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
ENDORSEMENTS $100: This supermodel can be seen wearing an Omega wristwatch in the magazine whose name is her first name
Elle MacPherson
ARTISTS $1000: A Lord Byron poem inspired this great French Romantic painter's "The Death of Sardanapalus"
Eugene Delacroix
IF IT AIN'T BAROQUE... $400: A 1912 work by Marc Chagall is titled after this musician found in the title of a Broadway show
Fiddler
AND THEN THERE'S BEA ARTHUR $600: In 1964 Bea shot to fame as Yente the matchmaker in the original Broadway production of this musical
Fiddler on the Roof
BROADWAY MUSICALS $1200: This musical set in the Jewish village of Anatevka was inspired by stories of Tevye & his daughters
Fiddler on the Roof
SHOPPING SPREE $600: Buy your next pair of insane kicks from a faux referee at this store started by Woolworth's
Foot Locker
WRITE ON, SISTER! $1000: In a 1916 story this "Little Lord Fauntleroy" author revealed "The Way to the House of Santa Claus"
Frances Hodgson Burnett
ACTRESSES: In 1997 she became the first to win an Oscar for a film directed by her husband; her brother-in-law produced the film
Frances McDormand
KIDDY LIT $2000: She wrote the children's classics "Little Lord Fauntleroy" & "The Secret Garden"
Frances Hodgson Burnett
"COP"s $200: He was nominated for an Oscar in Directing for 1972 & won for 1974
Francis Ford Coppola
BEGGARS CAN'T BE BOOZERS $1,600 (Daily Double): This film director & winery owner is said to have kept the empty bottle of a $24,000 1941 Cabernet atop his refrigerator
Francis Ford Coppola
CELEBRITY RELATIVES $200: "Peggy Sue Got Married" is one of the movies he directed that featured nephew Nicolas Cage
Francis Ford Coppola
"V"ACATION SPOTS $1600: On an island in southeast Texas, it was once "the Sin City of the Gulf" of Mexico
Galveston
MOVIES $200: Dustin Hoffman & Alec Guinness were considered for this role that won an Oscar for Ben Kingsley
Gandhi
U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: He was the fourth president to die in office & the second to be assassinated
Garfield
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD $400: For over 18 years this singing cowboy owned the studio we're standing in
Gene Autry
THE MEXICAN WAR $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1847 Mexico City had its independence day under occupation as this general took the city 2 days before
General Winfield Scott
THE TESTAMENT $800: "For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age at the set time of which God had spoken to him"
Genesis
PRESIDENTS $600: He preceded Benjamin Harrison in the White House, & what do you know, followed him too
Grover Cleveland
FASHION $1000: Lord Byron wore "jean trowsers" which were named for this Italian city
Genoa
AMERICAN COMPOSERS: Rachmaninoff & Heifetz watched Paul Whiteman conduct the 1924 premiere of a milestone work by this composer
Gershwin
AMERICAN ARTISTS $1600: He never completed his most famous painting of George Washington, the "Athenaeum" portrait
Gilbert Stuart
"ME" IN THE MIDDLE $1,200 (Daily Double): Sumerian epic hero who faced an apocalyptic flood
Gilgamesh
GET OUT YOUR LIBRARY TABLETS $2000: Ashurbanipal's library in Nineveh included a copy of the famous epic of this Sumerian king
Gilgamesh
I NEED A HERO $2000: Raised by animals, Enkidu was a companion of this Sumerian hero
Gilgamesh
A SECOND SCREEN EXPERIENCE $400: Francis Ford Coppola won 3 Oscars for this 1974 sequel
Godfather Part II
ROYALTY: It's the name of today's longest-ruling family in Europe, in power for most of the last 711 years
Grimaldi
VARIETY PACK $2000: In 1954 Monaco's Prince Rainier created the Order of this family to reward those who contribute to the country's prestige
Grimaldi
ROYALTY $1000: This ruling family 1st seized power in Monaco in 1297
Grimaldis
BIBLICAL RHYME TIME $500: Noah's son's marine mollusks
Ham's clams
ARCHAEOLOGY $800: An ancient stile, or large slab, depicts this man, who laid down the law way back when
Hammurabi
ENDLESS SUMER $1000: The Sumerian kingdom ended when this enemy king famous for his code conquered the city of Larsa
Hammurabi
GEOGRAPHICAL SONGS $100: "Hooray for" this city, where you're terrific if you're even good
Hollywood
LYRICISTS $800: Johnny Mercer came out here in 1935 & co-wrote the 1937 song "Hooray for" it
Hollywood
BRAIN MAUL! $100: Donald Duck's middle nephew alphabetically
Huey
THE DONALD $200: These 3 nephews of Donald Duck are the sons of his sister Dumbella
Huey, Dewey, and Louie
TRIOS $200: With them under foot, Uncle Donald's life wasn't duck soup
Huey, Dewey, and Louie
DONALD DUCK $600: In a 1938 cartoon, Donald's sister Dumbella sent these 3 nephews to visit him; chaos ensued
Huey, Louie, & Dewey
BACK TO '80s TV $2000: In the '80s he was a staple of "Wrestlemania"; he "Knows Best", according to the 2005 reality show about him
Hulk Hogan
THE ACADEMY AWARDS: Last names of the 2 famous families in which 3 generations have won Oscars
Huston & Coppola
ANCIENT HISTORY $400: The 2 modern nations that occupy the land that nurtured the Indus Valley civilization about 2300 B.C.
India & Pakistan
THE "US" $3,000 (Daily Double): The Sutlej & Ravi are major tributaries of this river
Indus
ARCHITECTURE $1,800 (Daily Double): Instead of Doric, seen here, columns at Athens' temple of Athena Nike are in this order, named for a region in Asia Minor
Ionic
BIBLICAL FATHERS & SONS $300: Abraham was 100 years old & Sarah was 90 when this child was born to them
Isaac
DOUBLE A, B, Cs $600: If you hear laughter, you may be hearing this son of Abraham & Sarah whose name means "laughter"
Isaac
THE 5 BOOKS OF MOSES $500: Sarah's handmaid bore Abraham this son & was told, "His hand will be against every man"
Ishmael
ATTORNEYS GENERAL $800: In the 1840s Nathan Clifford served for this president & negotiated the treaty that made California part of the U.S.
James K. Polk
MARTIN VAN BUREN $2000: Although Van Buren was the frontrunner in 1844, this dark horse won the Democratic party nomination
James K. Polk
MIDDLE NAMES $600: A Jacksonian Democrat: Knox
James K. Polk
MR. PRESIDENT $1000: In 1824 Sarah Childress married this future president
James K. Polk
POTPOURRI $1000: Some historians consider this first "Dark Horse" the best president between Jackson & Lincoln
James K. Polk
PRES-POURRI $1,200 (Daily Double): During the 1844 election, he said if he were elected pres., it would be only for one term; he won & kept his promise
James K. Polk
CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $800: At age 13 this violinist from Israel was presented to the U.S. by Ed Sullivan
Itzhak Perlman
AT 35 $200: At 35 he was elected to the Senate from Massachusetts; later he became the 35th president
JFK
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA $400: If you don't know the name of this Coppola-directed 1996 Robin Williams film, then you don't know this title
Jack
LET'S GO TO FLORENCE $1600: After divorcing director King Vidor, silent film star Florence Vidor married this Lithuanian-born violinist
Jascha Heifetz
MUSICIANS $1000: His brilliance on the violin might be explained by his unusual hand formation
Jascha Heifetz
THE VIOLIN $2500: This Lithuanian-born violinist taught master classes at USC before his death at age 86 in 1987
Jascha Heifetz
DUTCH BOYS $2000: This Delft painter might have used a camera obscura; his friend Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was a master lens maker
Johannes Vermeer
FAMOUS YOUNG WOMEN $2000: We've got Scarlett fever over her, the voice of Mindy in "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie"
Johansson
19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: On August 2, 1826 Daniel Webster delivered a eulogy on these 2 men at Faneuil Hall in Boston
John Adams & Thomas Jefferson
RELIGION $1000: President Polk's middle name indicates he was a descendant of this Scottish religious reformer
John Knox
THE SUMMER OF LOVE: 1967 $800: Pope Paul VI ordained 27 new cardinals, including one from Poland who would later become this pope
John Paul II
FRIENDS OFF THE COURT $1000: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote a book about this "50-year friendship" with this UCLA coach
John Wooden
I'M A BELIEVER $200: ...in this religion that considers Abraham & Sarah its patriarch & matriarch
Judaism
FICTIONAL WOMEN $2000: Winston Smith has a doomed romance with this young woman in "1984"
Julia
THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $800: In 2018 this actress added the prize to her record 6 consecutive Emmys for Best Actress in a Comedy
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
POMPEII $1200: A temple at Pompeii was dedicated to Minerva, Juno, and this chief god, whose bust still looks sadly over the city's ruins
Jupiter
THEIR ORIGINAL NAMES $600: Basketball great Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
PLACE "MAT"S $4,800 (Daily Double): Olive you should know that this capital of the Greek department of Messenia is a major fruit market
Kalamata
RANDOM HOUSE DEFINITIONS $600: "A male given name: from an Arabic word meaning 'generous'" (& not "skyhook master")
Kareem
ATHLETES' FILM QUOTES $400: "Airplane": "My name is Roger Murdock. I'm the co-pilot"
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
FRIENDS $400: Then known as Lew Alcindor, this 7'2" basketball star was a high school friend of not 7'2" funnyman Billy Crystal
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
POLITICALLY INCORRECT $200: "I have previously stated & I repeat now that the United States intends no military intervention in Cuba"
Kennedy
BANNED $1200: In 1977 this African country outlawed hunting; later it established game reserves, like the Masai Mara
Kenya
GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): The Masai Mara & Marsabit Game Reserves in this African nation were created to protect animals from poaching
Kenya
GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCTS $800: The Masai people of this African country mix cow blood with milk for a refreshing drink
Kenya
HERALDRY $1000: A rooster is depicted on a Masai shield on this country's coat of arms
Kenya
MY AFRICAN HOME $1200: (I'm Jeff Probst.) The flag of this country features the shield & two spears of a Masai warrior
Kenya
CLOTHES MAKE THE LAND $400: Proud Masai warriors like these live in either of these two East African countries
Kenya or Tanzania
POLK-ER $800: James K. Polk's mom was a descendant of this man who founded Scottish Presbyterianism
Knox
MUSIC IN "C" $800: 2004 marks the 10th anniversary of the death of this man from Aberdeen, Washington whose music touched the world
Kurt Cobain
THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $2000: "Player Piano" (1952)
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
HOTELS BY CITY $100: The Mirage, Excalibur, Caesar's Palace
Las Vegas
TRAVEL & TOURISM $800: Caesars Palace, the Luxor & the Excalibur lie on this boulevard nicknamed "The Strip"
Las Vegas Boulevard
LAST NAME'S THE SAME $800: "Blossom" actor Joey & naval officer James who wouldn't give up the ship
Lawrence
WHO DUNNIT? $400: "The First Deadly Sin"
Lawrence Sanders
HITS OF 1964 $400: The Detergents' "Leader of the Laundromat" was a parody of this Shangri-Las hit
Leader of the Pack
SONGS OF THE '60s $2000: A revving motorcycle is featured on this Shangri-Las No. 1 hit
Leader of the Pack
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $800: The Confederate memorial carving on Stone Mountain includes Stonewall Jackson & this other Civil War general
Lee
AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1964 the Warren Commission concluded that this man acted alone in killing President Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
MOVIES $400: Picasso's estate & Cary Grant lent paintings seen in this 1986 Robert Redford film
Legal Eagles
THE NIGHTTIME SKY $800: This constellation known as "The Lion" was named by the ancient Sumerians over 5,000 years ago
Leo
"LIKE" A SONG $800: This Madonna parody operated well for Weird Al in 1985
Like a Surgeon
BONE VOYAGE $400: On April 21, 1865 the bodies of him & his long-dead son Willie began a 20-day, 1,700-mile funeral journey
Lincoln
"HORN" IN $400: He had a plum role in a nursery rhyme
Little Jack Horner
"LITTLE" $200: We're never told what this "good boy" did with his thumb or the plum once he pulled them from the pie
Little Jack Horner
"LITTLE" NURSERY RHYME CHARACTERS $800: Historically, his "plum" may have been the deed to Mells Manor in Somerset, England
Little Jack Horner
DECONSTRUCTING THE NURSERY RHYME $200: This small boy based the perception of his behavior on the removal of a fruit item from pastry
Little Jack Horner
FAMOUS NAMES $500: Legend says the "plum" he took was land deeds hidden in pastry he carried to Henry VIII
Little Jack Horner
JACKS OR BETTER $200: This nursery rhyme kid likes plums & pies & has a big ego
Little Jack Horner
NURSERY RHYMES $300: He's been quoted as saying, "What a good boy am I"
Little Jack Horner
NURSERY RHYMES $400: He indulged in self-congratulation after using his pollex to extract a fruit from a baked food
Little Jack Horner
NURSERY RHYMES $400: He said, "What a good boy am I!"--if he's so good, why was he in the corner?
Little Jack Horner
"LIKE" A SONG $1000: The title of this 2011 single by Selena Gomez & The Scene mentions the kind of song it is
Love You Like a Love Song
WORKS LIKE A CHARM $200: In 1975 Waldo the Wizard briefly replaced this cereal's leprechaun mascot in some markets
Lucky Charms
TITLE CHARACTERS $1600: Kingsley Amis wrote of this "Lucky" lecturer
Lucky Jim Crossword Clue: "Lucky Jim" novelist Kingsley Answer: Amis
ENDS IN "WIG" $400: First name of von Drake, Donald Duck's uncle from the European side of the family
Ludwig
MIDDLE AGE MEN $1600: In 1057 he was killed in battle at Lumphanan in Aberdeenshire, not at Dunsinane Castle
Macbeth
ORDER $100: Presidents: James Polk, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln
Madison, Polk, Lincoln
THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A DAME $400: She was magic as professor Minerva McGonagall in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"
Maggie Smith
SPORTS $700 (Daily Double): In 1985 this U.S. runner married British discus thrower Richard Slaney
Mary Decker
SILENT MOVIES $100: This film could have been called "Little Lady Fauntleroy" since it starred her, "America's sweetheart"
Mary Pickford
YOU SEE L.A. $1,100 (Daily Double): In 1989 Martin Sheen, honorary mayor of this beach city, home of Pepperdine U., declared it a nuclear-free zone
Malibu
"MAN"-LY LIT $1600: This play by George Bernard Shaw portrays Don Juan as the quarry, not the hunter
Man and Superman
FOREWORDS $400: In the foreword to her 1818 novel, she recalls a trip to Switzerland & a ghost story contest with Lord Byron
Mary Shelley
ON THE "MA"P $2000: (Alex gives the clue from Africa.) An early morning balloon ride for all of us here in Kenya has taken us along this very important river
Mara
ART $800: His childhood in Vitebsk influenced his work, which often includes fiddlers on roofs
Marc Chagall
AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $800: Venice's airport is named for this Italian traveler
Marco Polo
COME SAIL AWAY $400: He sailed from China around 1292, arriving back home in Venice in 1295 at about age 41
Marco Polo
AUTHORS' CHILDREN $2000: First name of novelist Kingsley Amis' son, also a noted novelist
Martin
BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: In his memoir "Experience", he explores his relationship with his author-father Kingsley
Martin Amis
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA $200: This star had a heart attack & was even given last rites while making the 1979 Coppola film "Apocalypse Now"
Martin Sheen
MAIDEN NAMES $600: Runner who married marathoner Ron Tabb & then discus thrower Richard Slaney
Mary Decker
OFF & RUNNING $1,100 (Daily Double): In 1985 this American middle-distance runner married discus thrower Richard Slaney
Mary Decker
A FEW GOOD MEN $1200: One of the first U.S. presidents to have his picture taken, James Polk was photographed by this man in 1849
Matthew Brady
CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: In 1928 Ida Rubinstein commissioned him to write a ballet, so he created "Bolero"
Maurice Ravel
SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE $800: Ida Rubinstein commissioned him to compose a work for ballet with a Spanish flavor & he did--"Bolero"
Maurice Ravel
THE WOMEN OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $1000: Daughter of singer Minnie Riperton, she made quite an impression as Beyonce & Donatella Versace
Maya Rudolph
PEOPLE IN POETRY $1600: From a T.S. Eliot poem: "In the room the women come and go talking of" this Italian master
Michelangelo
19th CENTURY POLITICIANS $600: In 1892 this Ohio governor was third in delegate votes at the GOP Nat'l Convention; he won in 1896
McKinley
ASSASSINATIONS $800: Of the 2 presidents who died in Buffalo, N.Y., the one who was assassinated
McKinley
POLITICAL SLOGANS $800: "Four more years of the full dinner pail" symbolized this president's re-election campaign in 1900
McKinley
PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $800: This president who dies in 1901 was nicknamed "The idol of Ohio"
McKinley
SPANISH HISTORY $800: During the Spanish-American War it was King Alfonso XIII against this U.S. President
McKinley
COUNTRY MUSIC $400: In 1972 California governor Ronald Reagan granted a full pardon to this "Okie from Muskogee"
Merle Haggard
KING & COUNTRY $600: After the King's 1977 passing, this "Okie from Muskogee" had a hit with "From Graceland To The Promised Land"
Merle Haggard
PATRIOTIC SONGS $500: This country singer has written such patriotic songs as "Okie from Muskogee" & Fightin' Side"
Merle Haggard
THE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME $1600: In 2007 the Hall welcomed this "Okie from Muskogee"
Merle Haggard
THEREFORE, "IAM" $2,000 (Daily Double): Last name of brothers George & Charles, who in 1843 secured the rights to Noah Webster's dictionary
Merriam
ANCIENT HISTORY $600: The earliest known civilization, it was home to the Sumerians & Akkadians
Mesopotamia
JAMES K. POLK ME $300: During Polk's administration, the U.S. waged this war of expansion from 1846 to 1848
Mexican-American War
AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On May 13, 1846, President James K. Polk signed a declaration of war against this country
Mexico
PLAN $400: The 1821 Plan de Iguala, named for a city in Guerrero, led to this country's independence from Spain
Mexico
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL? $400: In 2016 "MNF" aired its first game from outside the U.S. as the Raiders beat the Texans in this city's Estadio Azteca
Mexico City
HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY $800: This world capital was built on the ruins of the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan
Mexico City
OLYMPIC CITY ATTRACTIONS $800: Museo Frida Kahlo
Mexico City
"M"YTHOLOGY $1200: How smart! This Roman goddess of wisdom graces California's state seal
Minerva
"M"YTHOLOGY $400: The Capitoline Triad consisted of Juno, Jupiter & this goddess of wisdom
Minerva
GODS AMONG US $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew watches an emblem being applied to a California Highway Patrol car.) The symbol of the highway patrol features the Great Seal of California & this Roman war goddess, whose Greek counterpart was Athena
Minerva
17th CENTURY LIT $1200: This French playwright had a flop with his 1665 take on the Don Juan legend
Moliere
PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: In 1665 this French playwright's "Don Juan" had a brief run but wasn't seen again during his lifetime due to church pressure
Moliere
MOUNTAINS $800: Lord Byron called this peak on the French-Italian border "The Monarch of Mountains"
Mont Blanc
CITY PARKS $800: This ruler's baths, Aztec-built waterfalls & canals, are a feature of Mexico City's Chapultepec Park
Montezuma
WORLD RELIGION $200: This oval building in Salt Lake City's Temple Square is famous for its choir
Mormon Tabernacle
RADIO: Now numbering some 320, this group has been heard over national radio weekly since 1929
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS $400: In this building, home to a church choir, a pin dropped at the pulpit can be heard at the back of the hall
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
GET YOUR INFO STRAIGHT $800: Fannie Flagg is a writer; Fannie Mae stands for the Federal National this Association
Mortgage
SHELL $200: This shiny material also called nacre is the inner layer of mollusk shells
Mother-of-Pearl
MOUNTAINS $1000: It's the highest mt. in Denali National Park, Denali being Indian name for this N. American mountain
Mount McKinley
MOUNTAINS $200: Due to the number of climbers, the Park Service may put an outhouse at the 17,000' level of this Alaskan peak
Mount McKinley
MOUNTAINS $200: This Alaskan peak has been sighted from land 230 miles away
Mount McKinley
MOUNTAINS $400: Not only does Alaska have this, the highest U.S. peak, it has the next 15 tallest, too
Mount McKinley
MOUNTAINS $600: The American Indian name for this peak is Denali
Mount McKinley
NATIONAL PARKS $600: Denali, also known as this, is the highest peak in Alaska's Denali National Park
Mount McKinley
MOUNTAINS $1,000 (Daily Double): The Athabascan name for this North American mountain means "The Great One"
Mount McKinley (Mount Denali)
U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: This 6,684-foot peak in western North Carolina is the highest U.S. point east of the Mississippi River
Mount Mitchell
COUNTRY SONGS $100: Merle Haggard was "proud to be an Okie from" this town, "a place where even squares can have a ball"
Muskogee
AFRICAN CAPITALS $200: This Kenyan capital's name is derived from a Masai word meaning "place of cool waters"
Nairobi
EARTH $200: This Kenyan capital gets its name from a Masai watering hole called "Cold Water"
Nairobi
WORLD CAPITALS $400: Founded as a railway settlement in Kenya in the 1890s, its name comes from the Masai for "cold water"
Nairobi
FOREIGN-SOUNDING TEXAS PLACES $1000: There's one in southern Italy, one in Florida & one in Texas near the Ark. border, "an old town with new horizons"
Naples
NICKNAMES $1200: Because of his oratory style, James K. Polk was nicknamed this French leader "of the stump"
Napolean
EAT IT! $200: I can't decide between chocolate, vanilla & strawberry ice cream; wait, I'll have all 3 in a brick called this
Neopolitan
FAMOUS FOLKS $1000: Formerly South Vietnam's prime minister & vice president, he now lives in Cal. and owes Caesars Palace $20,000
Nguyen Cao Ky
BETTER KNOWN AS... $400: Nicolas Coppola
Nicolas Cage
CELEBRITIES' ORIGINAL NAMES $200: Actor Nicholas Coppola
Nicolas Cage
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA $300: Leonard Maltin said the work of this relative of Francis' was "annoying" in "Peggy Sue Got Married"
Nicolas Cage
A PINT OF ALEC GUINNESS $800: Guinness played many Shakespearean roles at this theatre aka the Royal Victorian Theatre
Old Vic
OUT OF AFRICA $3,200 (Daily Double): 2.3 million-year-old tools have been found in this gorge in northern Tanzania
Olduvai Gorge
THIS IS GONNA BE TOUGH $800: In the 1800s this American removed the Us from honour & colour & turned "centre" into "center"
Noah Webster
FOREIGN-SOUNDING TEXAS PLACES $600: A mile east of the Rio Grande, this hamlet shares its name with a French area whose beaches became famous in 1944
Normandy
CONTINENTAL HIGH POINTS $100: Mt. McKinley
North America
MOUNTAINS $200: Mt. Logan was thought the highest on this continent till someone measured Mt. McKinley
North America
A PINT OF ALEC GUINNESS $400: Guinness played this mythic character in the first 3 "Star Wars" films
Obi-Wan Kenobi
THE ROLE IN COMMON $400: Sir Alec Guinness & Ewan McGregor
Obi-wan Kenobi
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD $1000: Adolph Zukor founded this movie studio & was its chairman of the board emeritus when he died at age 103
Paramount
PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES $600: William McKinley was known as the "Idol of" this Buckeye state, his birthplace
Ohio
STATE FLOWERS $600: Its official flower, the red carnation, was native son William McKinley's favorite
Ohio
MUSIC ON THE MAP $200: Protesting the '60s protest movement, Merle Haggard, son of Oklahoma migrants, called himself this
Okie from Muskogee
AMERICAN HISTORY $300: In 1907 Charles N. Haskell of Muskogee became this new state's first governor
Oklahoma
COUNTIES BY STATE $400: McClain, McCurtain, Muskogee
Oklahoma
GIRL SCOUT COOKIES $200: The first recorded Girl Scout cookie sale occurred in December 1917 by the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee in this state
Oklahoma
HAVE A COUNTY SEAT $800: Muskogee is both a county & county seat in this state
Oklahoma
STATES BY CITIES $600: Duncan, Lawton, Muskogee
Oklahoma
STATES BY COUNTIES $600: Choctaw, Cimarron, Muskogee
Oklahoma
STATES BY COUNTIES $300: Jefferson, Cherokee, Muskogee
Oklahoma Crossword Clue: Muskogee native Answer: sooner
U.S.A. $400: This Boston landmark was built in 1723 as a "house of prayer for all people"
Old North Church
MOVIES' 2 MALE LEADS $400: "Wedding Crashers"
Owen Wilson & Vince Vaughn
GET YOUR INFO STRAIGHT $2000: Owen Wilson is an actor; this company makes glass fiber & has the Pink Panther as its symbol
Owens Corning
MY NAME IS PERCY $400: This poet had a yacht named for Don Juan; sadly, he drowned when the yacht sank
Percy Shelley
Actors who have played The Hulk
One of the most iconic characters in popular culture,[4][5] the character has appeared on a variety of merchandise, such as clothing and collectable items, inspired real-world structures (such as theme park attractions), and been referenced in a number of media. Banner and the Hulk have been adapted in live-action, animated, and video game incarnations. The most notable of these were the 1970s The Incredible Hulk television series, in which the character was portrayed by Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno. The character was first played in a live-action feature film by Eric Bana, with Edward Norton and Mark Ruffalo portraying the character in the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
MOVIE DIRECTORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Robert Redford won his directing Oscar for this 1980 film
Ordinary People
MYTHIC OBITS $1200: Musician torn apart by the love-crazed women of Thrace
Orpheus
WORLD CAPITALS $600 (Daily Double): (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE): Capital in which the following was minted: (Canadian gold coin)
Ottawa Crossword Clue: Royal Canadian Mint City Answer: Ottawa
A WORLD OF BOOKS $1200: Detective Cordelia Gray debuted in this Englishwoman's "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman"
P.D. James
BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: Sharing the nickname "The Queen of Crime" are Agatha Christie & this author of the Adam Dalgliesh mysteries
P.D. James
ASIAN CITIES $400: Near the delta of the Indus River, the largest city in this country was formerly called Kolachi
Pakistan
LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Epic poem in which Lucifer, expelled from heaven, finds inner peace in Shangri-La
Paradise Lost Horizon
THEY CAN'T ALL BE GEMS $200: The "Roman" type of this mollusk gem is a glass bead filled with wax
Pearl
PLACE NAMES: Its original name, Wai Momi, & its current name both come from the valuable mollusks once found there
Pearl Harbor
CLEOPATRA $500: To impress Antony with her extravagance, Cleo dropped 2 of these mollusk gems in wine & drank them
Pearls
WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: 2003's "Blow Fly" is her twelfth novel to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now a private forensics consultant
Patricia Cornwell
BROADWAY 2017 $2000: "War Paint" stars Christine Ebersole as Elizabeth Arden & this legendary performer as Helena Rubinstein
Patti LuPone
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA $100: Francis won his first Oscar for co-writing this 1970 film biography starring George C. Scott
Patton
LONGFELLOW: In Longfellow's "Tales of a Wayside Inn", "The Landlord's Tale" concerns this man & begins with the word "Listen"
Paul Revere
POETRY $400: In Longfellow's "Tales of a Wayside Inn", the tale told by the landlord is of this man's ride
Paul Revere
A HORSE IS A HORSE $200: The Greek hero Bellerophon was crippled when he fell off this winged steed
Pegasus
GREEK MYTHOLOGY $1200: Athena gave Bellerophon a golden bridle for this wild horse
Pegasus
GREEK MYTHOLOGY $200: After causing this flying horse to throw Bellerophon, Zeus used it as a pack beast for thunderbolts
Pegasus
LEGENDS $400: Bellerophon caught & tamed this mighty steed
Pegasus
MYTHELLANEOUS $1000: Riding this winged horse made it possible for Bellerophon to approach & kill the chimera
Pegasus
MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES $800: Bellerophon was crippled when he was thrown from this horse as he was flying to Mount Olympus
Pegasus
NICOLAS COPPOLA, AKA CAGE $200: Kathleen Turner went back to the past in this film & met up with Cage, the director's nephew
Peggy Sue Got Married
THAT WAS ON TV $1600: In a TV movie based on a P.D. James mystery & Jane Austen's characters, "Death Comes to" this estate of Mr. Darcy
Pemberley
HIGH WATER $1600: A dam collapse in this state led to the deadly 1889 Johnstown flood
Pennsylvania
MYTHOLOGY $1600: Athena gave this Gorgon slayer a shield to use as a mirror when confronting Medusa
Perseus
BODIES OF WATER $500: Large banks of pearl-producing mollusks are found on this gulf's western shore on the Arabian Peninsula
Persian Gulf
"FAN" CLUB $1,200 (Daily Double): Boston merchant & "hall" monitor
Peter Faneuil
CITY OF THE DAY: BOSTON $1000: Since the 18th century, a grasshopper has sat atop the marketplace named for this Huguenot
Peter Faneuil
KING KONG $400: The next feature he directed after "The Return of the King" was a new version of "King Kong"
Peter Jackson
1845 $800: Also named James, this 11th president reinforced James Monroe with his own doctrine
Polk
THE JAMES $200: The third James to be president, he led the U.S. during the Mexican War
Polk
PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME $400: James K.'s kith & kin
Polk's folks (Polk folk)
PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME $800: James' egg parts
Polk's yolks
PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME $1000: James K.'s Ma & Pa
Polks folks
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $200: The Sumerians' pottery was the first made on this device
Potter's wheel
HAIL TO THE CHIEF $600: He changed the name of the presidential retreat from "Shangri-La" to "Camp David"
President Dwight Eisenhower
WHAT A PRINCE! $800: He succeeded his grandfather Louis II Matignon-Grimaldi in 1949
Prince Rainier
BROADWAY MUSICAL SETTINGS $400: "Fiddler on the Roof" may be the most famous American musical set in this country
Russia
AMPHIBIOUS INVASIONS $800: In 1759 Gen. James Wolfe sailed up the St. Lawrence River to capture this Canadian city
Quebec
ABDICATIONS $1600: In 1654 she stunned Europe by abdicating the Swedish throne because of her secret Conversion to Catholicism
Queen Christina
ABDICATIONS $800: When this Swedish queen abdicated in 1654, she named her cousin Charles X Gustav as her successor
Queen Christina
MOVIE ROYALTY $1000: Dressed in men's clothes, Garbo played not a drag queen but this Swedish queen
Queen Christina
THRONE FOR A LOOP $2000: The silver throne seen here was a gift to this Swedish queen for her 1650 coronation
Queen Christina
NFL RHYMES $200: A Los Angeles team's mollusks
Ram's clams
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' MOST-HATED MOVIES $400: Rodent-fearing Winston Smith shuddered through this 2007 Pixar movie featuring the voice of Patton Oswalt
Ratatouille
BIBLICAL WOMEN $2000: By offering water to Abraham's servant, she identified herself as the bride appointed by God for Isaac
Rebecca
CELEBRITY FATHERS & SONS $400: Comedian Carl & actor/filmmaker Rob
Reiner
AROUND THE WORLD $600: Lord Byron rhymed it with "alone" when he wrote of the "blue rushing of" this French-Swiss river
Rhone
PEOPLE IN POETRY $2000: "And" he, "one calm summer night, went home and put a bullet through his head"
Richard Cory
ARCHAEOLOGY $800: In 2013 the bones found under a parking lot in England were proven to be those of this king killed at Bosworth Field
Richard III
BROADWAY COMPOSERS $3,000 (Daily Double): He composed the music for Oklahoma's state song
Richard Rodgers
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: In "Ivanhoe" the black knight who rescues Wilfred & Rowena is really this king in disguise
Richard the Lionhearted
CAPITAL QUOTES $400: It was Lord Byron who wrote, "When falls the coliseum", it "shall fall; and when" it "falls -- the world"
Rome
SCENE OF THE RHYME $200: Lord Byron rhymed, "Sanctuary and home / of art and piety--pantheon!--pride of" this city
Rome
BROADWAY MUSICAL STARS $2000: A longtime talk show host & short-time "The View" co-host, she once played Golde in "Fiddler on the Roof"
Rosie O'Donnell
ARTISTS $1200: This painter's riffs on the comics include "Look, Mickey!", in which Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck are fishing
Roy Lichtenstein
PAINTINGS $800: Venus, Juno & Minerva are the full-bodied women in this Flemish master's 1638 "Judgment of Paris"
Rubens
IN CAESAR'S PALACE $400: In the palace swimming pool Julius might have practiced crossing this river & declaring "The die is cast"
Rubicon
MAGIC & SORCERY IN THE BIBLE $2000: This desperate king of Israel consulted the witch of Endor even though he himself had banned sorcery & magic
Saul
KIRSTEN, REESE OR SCARLETT $400: Born of a Danish father
Scarlett
A KISS IS STILL A KISS $600: A busy Tokyo street is the setting of a goodbye kiss between Bill Murray & her in a 2003 movie
Scarlett Johansson
CELEBS $400: Mrs. Ryan Reynolds, she did an album of Tom Waits covers
Scarlett Johansson
GOSSIP GIRLS $2000: This beauty kept tongues wagging after she married actor Ryan Reynolds in September 2008
Scarlett Johansson
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: University of Aberdeen in this country was the first in Great Britain to train students in medicine
Scotland
LITERARY ALLUSIONS $600: This term for an idyllic place can be checked out in the James Hilton work "Lost Horizon"
Shangri-La
CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $1600: 30 years older, this composer was a pal of Vladimir Horowitz, who could really bang out his 3rd Piano Concerto
Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninoff
PLACES OF FABLE $1200: The name of this mythic Tibetan Buddhist kingdom inspired a Three Dog Night hit song
Shambala
MOVIE PUNS $800: The title of this 2000 Jackie Chan & Owen Wilson film plays on the title of a 1952 Gary Cooper movie
Shanghai Noon
LONG LIVE THE COMPANY $1,600 (Daily Double): This company started in 1833 selling mollusk exoskeletons; it switched to selling oil for lamps in the 1890s
Shell
BEAUTIFUL QUOTATIONS $1600: Victorian poet Matthew Arnold called this "Adonais" poet a "beautiful and ineffectual angel"
Shelley
I HAVE A QUESTION $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1821 he wrote mournfully, "Where was lorn Urania when Adonais died?"
Shelley
INSPIRED CHARACTERS $400: Scythrop Glowry in the 1818 novel "Nightmare Abbey" is believed to be a spoof of this poet, Lord Byron's pal
Shelley
SONNETS $1200: This Romantic began his "England in 1819", "An old, mad, blind, despised and dying king"
Shelley
NAME THAT STOOGE $300: Born Samuel Horowitz, this Stooge's gruff & mindless persona earned him his own core of fans:
Shemp Howard
TONY WINNERS OF THE '50s $1600: In 1953 Thomas Mitchell won for the musical "Hazel Flagg" & this future TV "Hazel" won for "Time of the Cuckoo"
Shirley Booth
"A"UTHORS $1600: "Fiddler on the Roof" was based on his stories about Tevye the dairyman
Sholem Aleichem
FILL IN THE AUTHOR $1200: "Tevye the Dairyman" by S.A.
Sholem Aleichem
HORRIFYINGLY REAL MOTHER GOOSE $2000: It was post-pie revenge later in this rhyme when "down came a blackbird and snapped off" a maid's nose!
Sing a Song of Sixpence
AT THE MOVIES $1600: In a tour-de-force performance, he played 8 different roles in 1949's "Kind Hearts and Coronets"
Sir Alec Guinness
DIARIES $600: "My Name Escapes Me" is "The Diary of a Retiring Actor" by this portrayer of Obi-Wan Kenobi
Sir Alec Guinness
INTERNATIONAL FILM STARS $1000: This knighted British star's 1985 autobiography is titled "Blessings In Disguise"
Sir Alec Guinness
"LIKE" A SONG $600: Nirvana reached the charts for the first time in 1991 with this grunge anthem
Smells Like Teen Spirit
CITY PEOPLE $1000: This "Virgin Suicides" director was the infant in the baptism scene in the original "Godfather"
Sofia Coppola
WORLD CULTURES $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, MA.) The people of relatively isolated Pacific islands relied on canoes; according to the first Europeans to visit these biblically named islands, they could catch Spanish sailing ships that had a 6-mile head start
Solomon Islands
Define racketeering
Someone who's guilty of racketeering has been participating in something illegal, most likely organized crime or criminal business dealings. You can use the noun racket to describe an illegal scheme or plan, and racketeering to mean the act of running or engaging in a racket. The word comes up most often when someone is being accused or arrested or convicted of this type of criminal activity. The root of both racket and racketeering is probably racquet, with its connection to the idea of a game
BITS & PIECES $1000: This state's lowest point, Big Stone Lake, lies about 100 miles east of Aberdeen on its border with Minnesota
South Dakota
IT'S CHOPPER ALEX WITH TRAFFIC $1600: I-29 past Sioux Falls; clear. 281 near Aberdeen; clear. I-90 around Rapid City; clear. This state... clear
South Dakota
ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: Art found in the Altamira cave in this country depicts wild animals from more than 20,000 years ago
Spain
HEIFETZ $400: With the USO, Heifetz told soldiers that Bach was like this vegetable -- you may not like it, but it's good for you
Spinach
(Alex: We have military devices that have been anagrammed in...) WHIRLED OF WARCRAFT $2000: A WWII British fighter: PIER FIST
Spitfire
A STUDY IN SCARLETT JOHANSSON $400: In 2004 Scarlett hit the Krusty Krab as the voice of Mindy the mermaid in this title guy's movie
SpongeBob SquarePants
BODIES OF WATER $1600: The Gulf of Mannar between India & this island nation is noted for its pearl banks & the sacred chank, a gastropod mollusk
Sri Lanka
SAINTS BE PRAISED $1600: If you're in Pinellas Point Park near where Tampa Bay meets the Gulf of Mexico, you're in this city
St. Petersburg
1899 $300: William McKinley became the first sitting president to ride in a car when he took a spin in this "steamer"
Stanley Steamer
BOX OFFICE CHAMPS OF THE DECADE $400: The 1970s: starring Mark Hamill, Alec Guinness
Star Wars
TV TO MOVIE ROLES $800: This TV cop duo was played on the big screen by Ben Stiller & Owen Wilson
Starsky & Hutch
AMERICANA $500: It's said Will Rogers called this huge Georgia boulder a pebble Calif. threw at Florida & missed
Stone Mountain
ATLANTA $800: The Scenic Skylift offers cable-car service to the top of this nearby mountain
Stone Mountain
MOUNTAIN HIGH $600: From 1964 to 1969 3 noted Confederates were carved into this Georgia peak
Stone Mountain
SOFT ROCK $400: Putting the "easy" into easy listening, Lionel Richie sang, "That's why I'm easy, I'm easy like" this
Sunday morning
SYMBOLS: In a 2013 movie, this character says of a symbol he wears, "It's not an 'S'--on my world it means 'hope'"
Superman
IN CAESAR'S PALACE $1,000 (Daily Double): In Caesar's map room you might find his plans to fight the Helvetii, a people from a region today known as this
Swiss
PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $300: This man, McKinley's VP, said McKinley "has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair"
Teddy Roosevelt
LITERARY TITLE OVERLAPS $400: "The Canterbury _____ of a Wayside Inn"
Tales
LINES FROM LONGFELLOW $600: This 1874 book of "Tales" includes Paul Revere's Ride & the line "ships that pass in the night"
Tales of a Wayside Inn
BETTER KNOWN AS... $400: Talia Coppola
Talia Shire
CELEBRITY RELATIVES $800: She got her first big break playing Connie in "The Godfather", directed by her brother Francis Ford Coppola
Talia Shire
THE MOVIES $400: This sister of Francis Ford Coppola appeared in all of his "Godfather" films
Talia Shire
20th CENTURY SENATORS $1600: In 1994 this man won a 6th full term when he defeated Mitt Romney
Ted Kennedy
PLAYING POLITICS $800: This Northeastern man was 30, the minimum age for a U.S. senator, when he ran in 1962; he stuck around 47 years
Ted Kennedy
RECENT NONFICTION $800: "True Compass: A Memoir", by this late Democratic senator & scion
Ted Kennedy
SECRET SERVICE CODE NAMES $800: This late Massachusetts senator was "Sunburn"; his mom, "Coppertone"
Ted Kennedy
SENATORS WHO SOUGHT HIGHER OFFICE $2,400 (Daily Double): This Dem., falling short in 1980: "The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, & the dream shall never die"
Ted Kennedy
STAGE WHISKERS $1600: Tradition says you need a beard to play this lead "Fiddler on the Roof" character
Tevye
AQUATIC-SOUNDING CINEMA $400: Alec Guinness whistled while he worked his way to an Oscar in this 1957 David Lean epic
The Bridge on the River Kwai
FOR HE'S A JOLLY LONGFELLOW $400: "Tales Of A Wayside Inn" was modeled in part on this Chaucer work
The Canterbury Tales
20 YEARS AGO: 1978 $800 (Daily Double): Group heard here when Lionel Richie was still a member: ("You're once, twice, three times a lady...")
The Commodores
BRICK BY BRICK $600: This Lionel Richie group sang, "She's a brick house, yeah, she's the one, the only one, built like an Amazon"
The Commodores
KICK THE CANNES $600: People were talking when Coppola won for this 1974 Gene Hackman movie where he listens to a murder plot
The Conversation
DIDN'T DIRECT IT $400: Francis Coppola: "The Conversation", "The Deer Hunter", "The Cotton Club"
The Deer Hunter
STUPID ANSWERS $1000: Entertainer Marvin Hamlisch won a 1974 Grammy for this instrumental hit from the movie "The Sting"
The Entertainer
EPICS $2000: This Sumerian epic was written in cuneiform on clay tablets about 4,000 years ago
The Epic of Gilgamesh
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY $200: Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
The Godfather
MOVIE MUSIC $600: Love themes from "St. Elmo's Fire", "A Star Is Born" & this 1972 Coppola classic have been Top 40 hits
The Godfather
TALES FROM THE SCRIPT $200: Francis Ford Coppola said that to satisfy Al Pacino, he rewrote the first sequel in this series over a weekend
The Godfather
"GREAT" FILMS $400: The 1974 adaptation of this Fitzgerald novel featured Robert Redford in the title role
The Great Gatsby
ANIMAL-TITLED FILMS $800: In 1958 Alec Guinness played painter Gulley Jimson; we got it straight from this, the title of the film
The Horse's Mouth
ART & ARTISTS $2000: Minerva, Venus & Juno are the 3 being "judged" in this famous Claude Lorrain painting
The Judgment of Paris
IT'S GOOD TO BE "KING" $800: Though Elizabeth was on the throne, Kingsley Amis titled his guide to correct usage this
The King's English
A PINT OF ALEC GUINNESS $2000: Guinness received his first Oscar nomination for this 1951 comedy about a "Mob" that robs a bank
The Lavender Hill Mob
"LITTLE" WOMEN $500: Sara Crewe is this title character of a Frances Hodgson Burnett novel
The Little Princess
'88 MOVIES $1000: Robert Redford directed this film about disputed water rights in New Mexico
The Milagro Beanfield War
A STUDY IN SCARLETT JOHANSSON $1600: Scarlett provided child care for the Xs (Paul Giamatti & Laura Linney) in this 2007 film
The Nanny Diaries
COUNTRY MUSIC $600 (Daily Double): President Bush keeps cassettes of this group's music in his briefcase to play in his limousine: "Elvira / Elvira / My heart's on fire, for / Elvira..."
The Oak Ridge Boys
MULTIPLE ROLES, SAME FILM $400: In this 1961 film Hayley Mills played twins separated as babies; LIndsay Lohan starred in the 1998 remake
The Parent Trap
BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Henry James-D.H. Lawrence work in which an American woman goes to Europe & has an affair with a gamekeeper
The Portrait of a Lady Chatterley's Lover
LITERARY OOPS! $1600: In this story of 16th c. lookalikes Mark Twain had the locals watching "Punch & Judy" shows that began 100 years later
The Prince and the Pauper
NICOLAS COPPOLA, AKA CAGE $400: The 1996 Cage film about a "hard place"
The Rock
BROADWAY MUSICALS $1,300 (Daily Double): An orphan goes to live with her uncle in this 1991 musical inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel
The Secret Garden
KID LIT $800 (Daily Double): In a Frances Hodgson Burnett tale, Mary Lennox tends to this title place & Colin grows stronger as it blooms
The Secret Garden
MUSICAL THEATER $800 (Daily Double): Lucy Simon, Carly's sister, wrote the music for this show based on a Frances Hodgson Burnett book
The Secret Garden
ON THE STAGE $600: Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's book, this musical is named for the "secret" place
The Secret Garden
AT THE MOVIES $800: (Leonard Maltin reads the clue.) This 1973 film won 7 Oscars & helped spark a national revival of Scott Joplin's ragtime music
The Sting
CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $400: (Warren Buffett delivers the clue.) One of my favorites is this 1973 movie in which Paul Newman invests a little time to con a large sum of out evil mobster Doyle Lonnegan
The Sting
CINEMATIC CHICAGO $400: Chicago con men Newman & Redford stage an elaborate revenge on a gangster in this film that won 7 Oscars
The Sting
SYMBOLS: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Many countries have special names for their flags; we have the Stars and Stripes, Denmark has its Dannebrog & then there's this flag
The Union Jack
MOVIEMAKER'S MASHUP $1600: Sofia Coppola: "The Virgin Translation"
The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation
"WILD" MOVIES $400: Sam Peckinpah. Lots of blood. This 1969 western
The Wild Bunch
HIGH HOPES $200: In Genesis 11 this structure of bricks & mortar is meant to reach heaven
Tower of Babel
UNFINISHED BUSINESS $200: The story of this unfinished ziggurat was once used to explain the origin of languages
Tower of Babel
FAMOUS NAVAL CONFLICTS $1000: This Oct. 21, 1805 battle resulted in a British victory but over 1,500 British casualties, including Lord Nelson
Trafalgar
NAVAL BATTLES $800: In this 1805 battle Lord Nelson split Admiral Villeneuve's fleet in half & then proceeded to destroy each half
Trafalgar
ENGLISH "T" $600: E.H. Baily's 17-foot-tall statue of Lord Nelson is in this London plaza
Trafalgar Square
WORLD LITERATURE $800: In "1984" Winston Smith works for the Ministry of this
Truth
"U-R" THERE $800: The small European part of this country lies in Thrace; the rest is in Asia
Turkey
LESSER-KNOWN MUSEUMS $400: The Tate Geological Museum in Casper, Wyoming has a cast of a skull of this dinosaur "king" with battle scars
Tyrannosaurus Rex
WHERE "U" GOIN'? $2000: To this African river formed bv the confluence of the Bomu & the Uele
Ubangi
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC $400: Kampala is the bustling capital city of this central African republic of about 20 million
Uganda
CRY "UNCLE" $100: In his famous recruitment poster, James Montgomery Flagg modeled this figure on himself
Uncle Sam
TOPS OF THE WORLD, MA! $200: Mount McKinley
United States
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: James K. Polk went to this "tarheel university"
University of North Carolina
EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $800: Canaletto used a camera obscura to help him get those sweeping views of this, his hometown
Venice
HIGH WATER $400: After floods in 1966, UNESCO made efforts to save this Italian city & its treasures, like the Biblioteca Marciana
Venice
IN CAESAR'S PALACE $200: Julius' palace chapel may have included a shrine to this love goddess that his family regarded as an ancestor
Venus
"V" $2000: Born in this capital of Lithuanian, violinist Jascha Heifetz was giving concerts there by age 6
Vilnius
THIS IS "US" $1,000 (Daily Double): Violinist Jascha Heifetz was born in this Baltic capital in 1901
Vilnius
PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $500 (Daily Double): His wife Florence consulted an astrologer who said that he'd win the presidency but die in office
Warren G. Harding
MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $800: This city is "the grand old benevolent national asylum for the helpless"
Washington
HENRIK IBSEN OR HENRY GIBSON $800: When this marriage-centered Owen Wilson & Vince Vaughn film needed a priest, Henry Gibson was in as Father O'Neil
Wedding Crashers
ASSASSINATIONS $200: James Garfield died of a gunshot wound in September 1881, as did this president in September 1901
William McKinley
ASSASSINATIONS $800: This president's September 6, 1901 assassination was inspired by the killing of Italy's King Umberto I the year before
William McKinley
"WILD" MOVIES $200: Kevin Kline was the gadget-loving 1860s government agent Artemus Gordon in this film based on a TV show
Wild Wild West
"WILD" MOVIES $600: An Elvis-obsessed Nicolas Cage takes up with Laura Dern in this 1990 David Lynch film
Wild at Heart
"RTH" $800: In 1913, this five-&-dime magnet built what was then the tallest building in the world
Woolworth
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: It's said S.S. Kresge closed all his stores for 1 hour the day this "Granddaddy of the Five & Dime" died
Woolworth
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: In 1962 this company opened Woolco, a U.S. & Canadian discount chain
Woolworth
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600: In 1909 this American opened his first "Three and Sixpence" store in England
Woolworth
BUSINESSMEN $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1913 he spent some of those nickels & dimes to build in NYC what was then the world's tallest building
Woolworth
NO LONGER AROUND $1000: In 1997 after nearly 120 years in business, this iconic 5 & dime chain closed up shop in the USA
Woolworth
TEXAS HOLD'EM HANDS $800: A hand consisting of a 5 & 10 is nicknamed this, like a famous chain of stores
Woolworth
FROM A TO E $1200: This sea mollusk, a source of mother-of-pearl, is sometimes called an ear shell
abalone
CLOTHING THROUGH THE AGES $200: A surcoat in medieval times was a loose tunic worn over this type of protection
armor
IT'S AN INTERJECTION: Letter/number lotto game!
bingo
GETTING SCIENTIFIC $400: A form of calcium carbonate makes up the bulk of this blackboard accessory
chalk
TRIVIA $400: The White Cliffs of Dover are composed of this substance
chalk
ORE In its purest form, hematite is about 70% this element
iron
Define ganja
marijuana
SYMBOLISM $1000: Asclepius' staff, a symbol of this profession, has a serpent curled around it
medicine
FROM NOAH WEBSTER'S 1828 DICTIONARY $800: "Quicksilver... extensively used as medicines. The preparation called calomel, is a most efficacious deobstruent"
mercury
HIGH WATER $1200: The Mississippi flood of 1927 helped spur the mass movement of African Americans north & west, the "Great" this
migration
HATS ALL, FOLKS! $100: Donald Duck could tell you it's the occupational hat seen here:
sailor
LESSER-KNOWN MUSEUMS $1200: Berlin's Currywurst Museum is devoted to a type of this street food popular on the Platz
sausage
HOT POTATO $1600: A mollusk is in the name of this dish, sliced potatoes layered with a creamy sauce
scalloped potatoes
LET'S GRAB SOME SEAFOOD $1000: This bivalve mollusk has 2 fan-shaped shells that can be used to serve dishes like coquilles St. Jacques
scallops
IT'S AN INTERJECTION: Fencing word used to acknowledge a rejoinder!
touche
IT'S AN INTERJECTION: Exciting 3-letter palindromic audio term!
wow
1 FOR THE PRICE OF 2 $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from atop a horse.) The cattle known as black baldies are Hereford bred with this Scottish variety
Aberdeen Angus
BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $300: This patriarch bought Machpelah in Canaan & he & his family, including his wife Sarah, are buried there
Abraham
BIBLICAL PEOPLE $800: Ephron the Hittite sold this patriarch the field where he buried his wife Sarah
Abraham
GENESIS $600: When his wife Sarah was barren, he used Hagar, her maid, as a surrogate mother
Abraham
HE ASKED GOD $800: "What wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless?"
Abraham
KING JAMES BIBLE $1600: After Sarah's death, he married Keturah, who bore him Zimran, Ishbak & others
Abraham
KNOW YOUR BIBLE $800: He told the King of Garar that Sarah was his sister, not his wife
Abraham
TENTS IN THE BIBLE $800: When asked "Where is Sarah thy wife?", he replied, "In the tent"
Abraham
THANKSGIVING $200: Sarah Hale's letters to this president convinced him to proclaim it a national holiday in 1863
Abraham Lincoln
DETECTIVE FICTION $1000: "A Taste for Death" is one of P.D. James' novels about this Scotland Yard detective and published poet
Adam Dalgliesh
BIBLICALLY INSPIRED LITERATURE $400: In Mark Twain's "Diaries of" this couple, she says he's really bad at naming creatures & wanted to call the dodo a wildcat
Adam and Eve
21st CENTURY GRAMMYS: This singer has won Album, Record & Song of the Year twice, the only artist to do so
Adele
BODIES OF WATER $100: In 700 B.C. Greeks first crossed this sea to colonize Samothrace
Aegean Sea
THERE IT IS $400: The Ubangi River: this continent
Africa
COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $800: At Cambridge, this "Lord" of poetry became a lifelong friend of John Cam Hobhouse, who later went to Greece with him
Byron
FASHION HISTORY $2000: This rakish lord of poetry, born in 1788, wore romantic open-neck shirts still popular with poets today
Byron
OPERA--IT'S GOOD FOR YOU! $800: The poetry of this English lord inspired a number of operas, including "Lara" & "The Bride of Abydos"
Byron
POETRY, THY NAME IS HIM $1600: "Don Juan's parents lived beside the river, a noble stream, and call'd the Guadalquivir"
Byron
POETS & POETRY $1200: In 1814, seeing a lady in mourning in a spangled dress, this lord wrote, "She walks in beauty, like the night"
Byron
POETS & POETRY $2000: His masterpiece poem "Don Juan" is divided into cantos
Byron
SHAKESPEARE $500 (Daily Double): They're the 3 daughters of King Lear
Cordelia, Goneril, & Regan
THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR DIDN'T GO TO... $400: This "tradition"-al 1971 film about Tevye & his daughters
Fiddler on the Roof
THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT $400: In 1964 Hal Prince produced this musical set in an east European shtetl; it ran for 3,242 performances
Fiddler on the Roof
THE THEATER $800: 2 recent books, "Wonder of Wonders" & "Tradition!", celebrate this show that turned 50 in 2014
Fiddler on the Roof
TO LIFE $800: A song from this musical begins, "To life, to life, L'chaim!"
Fiddler on the Roof
RHYME TIME $300: In boxing it could be Caesars Palace or Madison Square Garden
Fight site
HE DIRECTED THAT? $1000: One of Francis Ford Coppola's early films was this musical about a leprechaun & a stolen pot of gold
Finian's Rainbow
WRITERS' RHYME TIME $400: Actress-novelist Fannie's satchels
Flagg's bags
19th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This 3-named "Little Lord Fauntleroy" author also penned "A Little Princess"
Frances Hodgson Burnett
AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: She based Little Lord Fauntleroy's costume on one Oscar Wilde wore when he visited her
Frances Hodgson Burnett
CELEBRITY WINEMAKERS $400: This director is "The Godfather" of celebrity winemakers
Francis Ford Coppola
I WENT TO UCLA $1200: Here's an offer you can't refuse: name this co-writer & director of "The Godfather"
Francis Ford Coppola
I WORKED FOR ROGER CORMAN $800: Corman made this director an offer he couldn't refuse: to rewrite & edit the 1963 pic "Battle Beyond The Sun"
Francis Ford Coppola
SHOW BUSINESS FAMILIES: The car company that sponsored the radio show for which his father worked inspired the middle name of this filmmaker
Francis Ford Coppola
THE ACADEMY AWARDS $100: In 1973 Bob Fosse beat out this director with "Cabaret"; in 1975 Fosse lost to his "Godfather II"
Francis Ford Coppola
THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $200: In addition to the "Godfather" movies, he directed Michael Jackson's "Captain EO"
Francis Ford Coppola
THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $600: "Dementia 13", "Bram Stoker's Dracula", "The Cotton Club"
Francis Ford Coppola
THEY ALMOST STARRED IN... $200: When Winona Ryder bowed out of "The Godfather, Part III" his daughter Sofia replaced her
Francis Ford Coppola
WHO'S YOUR DADDY? $600: Oscar-winning screenwriter Sofia
Francis Ford Coppola
WINE $200: This director of "The Godfather" purchased the Napa Valley estate of Gustav Niebaum in 1975
Francis Ford Coppola
FATHERLY NICKNAMES $2,000 (Daily Double): This merchant known as the "Father of the Dime Store" opened his first store in 1879 after borrowing $300
Frank W. Woolworth
FOR WHAT IT'S "WORTH" $200: By 1912 this merchant's company owned more than 500 stores bearing his name across the U.S.
Frank Winfield Woolworth
LORD BYRON $400: In her introduction to this classic, Mary Shelley said it was Byron who suggested, "We will each write a ghost story"
Frankenstein
NATIONAL HISTORIC PARKS $400: Of Faneuil Hall, Bunker Hill or Fraunces Tavern, the one not part of Boston Park
Fraunces Tavern
THE REAL FIRST NAME $800: of Lord Byron
George
POETRY $1000: The 4 cantos of this Lord's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" were published over a period of 6 years
George Gordon Lord Byron
U.S. PRESIDENTS: His half-brother Lawrence served in the British navy under Admiral Edward Vernon
George Washington
MOUNTAINS $500: Riding the skylift to the top of Stone Mountain is one of the fun things to do in this Southern state
Georgia
STATE OF THE ART $400: Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial carving
Georgia
STATES BY STATE PARKS $400: Stone Mountain State Park
Georgia
U.S. MOUNTAINS $800: This state's tallest peak is 4,784-foot Brasstown Bald, not Stone Mountain
Georgia
U.S. STATES $800: This state has a Lake Sidney Lanier about 25 miles north of Stone Mountain
Georgia
The big 3 of ancient Greek gods were Zeus, Poseidon & this brother of theirs
Hades
5 IN A "ROW" $1600: Alumni of this school include Winston Churchill, Sir Robert Peel & Lord Byron
Harrow
IVY LEAGUE ALMA MATERS $200: John F. Kennedy & brother Ted
Harvard
THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED $2000: Gilbert Baker created the rainbow flag & this man rode in a parade with one shortly before his 1978 assassination
Harvey Milk
JULY $1000: On July 7, 1898 Pres. McKinley signed a joint resolution of Congress annexing this future state
Hawaii
MUSIC ODDS & ENDS $1200: In 1798, back from his time in London, this Austrian-born composer wrote the "Lord Nelson Mass"
Haydn
HOLLYWOOD BLVD. $100: In June 1999 the Metro Rail opened a station named for this world-famous intersection
Hollywood & Vine
NEW HOLLYWOOD $400: At this famed intersection, the Brown Derby was succeeded by hip-hop hot spots like Basque
Hollywood & Vine
A STUDY IN SCARLETT JOHANSSON $1200: In 1997 Macaulay Culkin was out of the third entry in this film series, but Scarlett was in, as Molly
Home Alone
WHERE THE "H" ARE WE? $200: Victoria Peak, Kai Tak Airport, Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel
Hong Kong
"HOO" $100: Cheer "for Hollywood"
Hooray
AMERICAN SONGS $2000: In this 1938 song the title line is followed by "Where you're terrific if you're even good"
Hooray for Hollywood
POT LUCK $500: This 44 carat blue diamond was presented to the Smithsonian in 1958 by Harry Winston
Hope Diamond
NURSERY RHYME TIME $1000: Little Jack's funeralgoers
Horner's mourners
I GOT YOUR BOOK $400: Using the pen name Robert Markham, Kingsley Amis wrote the first James Bond story not penned by this man
Ian Fleming
FIRST LADIES $500 (Daily Double): The widow Sarah Polk was linked for a while in the press to this bachelor president
James Buchanan
SECRETARIES OF STATE $800: The last Secretary of State to become president, he served under Polk & Taylor before being elected in 1856
James Buchanan
THE CABINET $800: The last Secretary of State to be president, this James served under another James--Polk
James Buchanan
PRESIDENTS $1000: He lingered for 2 mos. after being shot & might have survived had doctors located a bullet in his back
James Garfield
PRESIDENTS $400: While Wm. H. Harrison served shortest term, this assassinated president served the 2nd-shortest, 6 1/2 months
James Garfield
FICTIONAL LANDS $600: Shangri-La
James Hilton
FROM THE VAULTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.) This is part of the 1848 gold shipment shown to this president; he gave a report to Congress that kicked the Gold Rush into gear
James K. Polk
GOT "LK" $600: This president snagged Oregon for the United States
James K. Polk
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $1,000 (Daily Double): Originally, his family name was Pollok
James K. Polk
PRESIDENTS $1000: The "54º40' or Fight" fever over Oregon helped elect this president, the only one ever to be speaker of the U.S. House
James K. Polk
PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $300: This 11th president's last words, "I love you, Sarah", were to his wife
James K. Polk
PRESIDENTS AT REST $2000: On the Capitol grounds in Nashville
James K. Polk
STATE CAPITOLS $1200: On the grounds of the state capitol in Nashville, you'll find the tomb of this "Dark Horse" president & his wife
James K. Polk
U.S. PRESIDENTS $1200: He was named for his maternal grandfather James Knox, a Revolutionary War captain
James K. Polk
U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: In 1845 this "dark horse" became the first man inaugurated as president under age 50 -- he was 49
James K. Polk
19TH C. AMERICANS $1000: He was president when the U.S. declared war on Mexico & some called it his war
James Knox Polk
PRESIDENTS' MIDDLE NAMES $800: Knox
James Knox Polk
PRESIDENTS' MONOGRAMS $500: JKP
James Knox Polk
U.S. PRESIDENTS $800 (Daily Double): This president's grandfather, James Knox, was a captain in the American Revolution
James Knox Polk
U.S. PRESIDENTS: On his mother's side, he was a descendant of Scottish Protestant reformer John Knox
James Knox Polk
SHIPS $1600: The flagship of Oliver Hazard Perry was named for this captain who said, "Don't give up the ship"
James Lawrence
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW TREASURES $1000: "I want you for U.S. Army" reads an ungrammatical WWI version of this artist's poster; bet it's worth a fortune
James Montgomery Flagg
OF REPRESENTATIVES $1600: The only Speaker of the House to become president was this Tennessee representative & 11th president
James Polk
ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: The 2012 discovery of a girl's skull at this Virginia colony was the first evidence of cannibalism in the British colonies
Jamestown
WOMEN WRITERS $400: John Murray, Lord Byron's publisher, also put out this woman's "Emma" & "Mansfield Park"
Jane Austen
THE OSCARS: Brother & sister who were both nominated for 1969 Oscars: he for a screenplay, she for Best Actress; they didn't win
Jane Fonda & Peter Fonda
LIKE A LAMB $1000: You'd be like this "Lady" if you were Lord Byron's lover in 1812
Lady Caroline Lamb
LITERARY "LADY"s $1000: Her 1st novel, "Glenarvon", fictionalized her notorious romance with Lord Byron
Lady Caroline Lamb
BRITISH ART & ARTISTS $1000: Artist George Romney thought this beautiful lady was quite an eyeful; so did Lord Nelson
Lady Hamilton
THE MONTANAS, JOE & HELENA $400: She's the lady seen here atop the state capitol in Helena, Montana
Lady Liberty
EUROPEAN LAKES & RIVERS $500: The castle of Chillon on this lake's eastern shore was made famous in a Lord Byron poem
Lake Geneva
LAKES & RIVERS $1600: Lord Byron set a poem at the Castle of Chillon along the shores of this European lake
Lake Geneva
POETS ON POETS: Coleridge said this poet will "not be remembered at all, except as a wicked lord who... pretended to be ten times more wicked than he was"
Lord Byron
SINGERS "R" US $100: This former lead singer of the Commodores wrote Kenny Rogers' 1980 hit "Lady"
Lionel Richie
POPULAR POETS $1600: Once popular, Thomas Moore is remembered for burning the memoirs of this famed poet who died in Greece
Lord Byron
REMEMBER THE 1700s? $600: In 1798 this poet was given a new title he inherited from his great-uncle
Lord Byron
BONE UP ON YOUR BONAPARTE $400: The admiral who defeated Napoleon's navy in 1798's Battle of the Nile
Lord Nelson
FULL NELSON $600: He was a captain by 1779, the year he turned 21
Lord Nelson
GREAT BRITS $400: He joined the British navy at age 12 & died at the Battle of Trafalgar 35 years later
Lord Nelson
HISTORIC AMOURS $600: Lady Hamilton was the lover of this British admiral honored in Trafalgar Square
Lord Nelson
KISS-AND-TELL $600: He reportedly said, "Kiss me, Hardy" before succumbing to his wounds in 1805
Lord Nelson
GEOGRAPHY 101 $400: U.S. Hwy 101 once stretched from Washington to Mexico; now its southern end is in this city's Boyle Heights area
Los Angeles
"LOST" & "FOUND" $600: Hugh Conway finds inner peace in the Himalayas in this James Hilton work
Lost Horizon
BUILDING CHARACTER $1,000 (Daily Double): In this novel, Hugh Conway finds out he's been recruited to replace a very old High Lama
Lost Horizon
MUSICAL THEATRE $400: Jack Cassidy & Carol Lawrence appeared in "Shangri-La", a 1956 musical based on this famous novel
Lost Horizon
"IN" THE MOVIES $1600: Bill Murray hangs out with Scarlett Johansson in Tokyo in this 2003 treat
Lost in Translation
AUNTIQUITY $500: As Abraham's wife, the biblical Sarah was the aunt of this man who settled in Sodom
Lot
LITERARY EPONYMS $2000: Casanova, Romeo & Don Juan are all synonyms for this eponymous seducer from a 1703 play
Lothario
MARVEL $1000: Giving him a Muscle Beach Lifetime Achievement Award, Stan Lee said this actor was "born to be the Hulk"
Lou Ferrigno
DONALD DUCK $800: Introduced on TV in 1961, this uncle of Donald was a professor who spoke with a European accent
Ludwig Von Drake
THE BRETHREN $1200: Acting brothers from Texas whose collective credits include "Old School" & "Shanghai Noon"
Luke & Owen Wilson
LITERARY LANDMARKS $1200: Now a hotel, Seaham Hall is the manor where this licentious lord married Annabella Milbanke in 1815
Lord Byron
LITERARY RELATIVES $400: The adventures of his grandfather "Foul-Weather Jack" inspired parts of "Don Juan"
Lord Byron
LITERARY VENICE $400: This libidinous lord's Venetian exploits included an 1818 swim from the Lido "right to the end of the Grand Canal"
Lord Byron
MUSIC & LITERATURE $600: Donizetti wrote an opera based on this British lord's poem "Parisina"
Lord Byron
POET-POURRI $1000: In 1809 he took his seat in the House of Lords & began 2 years of travel in Portugal, Spain & Greece
Lord Byron
MOUNTAINS $400: It's the only mountain in North America whose height exceeds 20,000 feet
Mt. McKinley / Denali
WASHINGTON STATE $400: Largest American glaciers outside Alaska are found on this highest Washington peak
Mt. Rainier
THE BLUES $1,000 (Daily Double): McKinley Morganfield played in a creek as a child & was given this nickname
Muddy Waters
DOUBLE LETTERS $2000: This city in eastern Oklahoma named for a tribe of the Creek nation was once the capital of the Indian territory
Muskogee
NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1200: Merle Haggard sang, "I'm proud to be an Okie from" this place
Muskogee
THE COUNTY LINE $200: Oklahoma is rich in double-E counties like Cherokee, Pawnee & this one from a Merle Haggard title
Muskogee
AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER $1600: George Harrison song that says, "I really want to see you" & is the titled poet who was mad, bad & dangerous to know
My Sweet Lord Byron
SKYSCRAPERS BY CITY $700 (Daily Double): James K. Polk State Office Building
Nashville
U.S. PRESIDENTS $4,400 (Daily Double): In 1893 James K. Polk's tomb was moved from his estate to the state capitol grounds in this city
Nashville
FAMOUS COUPLES $300: Dr. Jonas Salk's wife, Francoise Gilot, was once the companion of this late, great modern artist
Pablo Picasso
COLD PLAY $1600: "Go where the snow never melts away" is from the song "Lost Horizon" in the musical named for this place
Shangri-La
FICTIONAL LOCALES: Featured in a 1933 novel, it may have been inspired by the 1920s Tibetan travel writings of explorer Joseph Rock
Shangri-La
FICTIONAL PLACES $800: This name refers to both a lamasery & the valley in Tibet that it overlooks
Shangri-La
HOTELS $1000: An Asia-based hotel chain is named for this idyllic land from "Lost Horizon"
Shangri-La
IN RESIDENCE $1000: The presidential retreat today known as Camp David was first named this by FDR after a James Hilton novel
Shangri-La
LITERARY QUOTES $800: In "Lost Horizon", "Its forsaken courts and pale pavilions shimmered in repose"
Shangri-La
UTOPIAS $200: In a James Hilton novel, this mountain valley is ruled by the High Lama
Shangri-La
(Alex: We have military devices that have been anagrammed in...) WHIRLED OF WARCRAFT $1600: I M4 this vehicle, named for a 19th century guy: SMARTEN ANKH
Sherman tank
SCULPTURE $400: In 1915 Gutzon Borglum designed a memorial to the Confederacy on this Georgia mountain
Stone Mountain
THE SOUTH $1000: Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee & "Stonewall" Jackson are depicted on horseback on this GA. monument
Stone Mountain
WE "ONE" YOU $1200: Robert E. Lee rides for all time on this giant sculpture outside of Atlanta
Stone Mountain
SCULPTURE: This, the largest sculpture in the United States, is not located in South Dakota
Stone Mountain (in Georgia)
MULTIPLE CHOICE $500: Of the 3 figures carved on Georgia's Stone Mountain, the 1 killed during the Civil War
Stonewall Jackson
HEIFETZ $600: One of Heifetz' prized violins was made by this great Cremonese in 1731
Stradivarius
ART CLASS $800: It's believed that Vermeer used this image-making device to help transfer images to canvas
a camera obscura
PAINTERS & PAINTINGS $2000: Some say that to achieve the look of his paintings, Vermeer must have used this device, Latin for "dark chamber"
a camera obscura
PHOTOGRAPHY $800: This box whose name is Latin for "dark chamber" was used to produce large images before photography
a camera obscura
SUN $500: Aristotle made a simple type of this "camera" using a hole in a screen to create a simply-viewed image of the sun
a camera obscura
MULTIPLE ROLES, SAME FILM $800: Frank Morgan had 5 roles in this 1939 classic, including Professor Marvel, the carriage driver & the title role
The Wizard of Oz
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from inside the Good Housekeeping Institute in New York.) At "Goodhousekeeping" they use this cylinder that lets moms and dads know if a toy presents this type of hazard; at home, a toilet paper roll works well, too
a choking hazard
ARCHAEOLOGY $400: The Almendres Cromlech in Portugal is an ancient megalithic complex arranged in this shape, just like Stonehenge
a circle
BOTTOM FEEDERS $400: The long-necked species of this bivalve is also known as the steamer
a clam
DUCKS $600: Scoters, or sea coots, love to feed on mollusks, like the razor type of this
a clam
MARINE BIOLOGY $400: You might be "As happy as" this mollusk that has a heart but no brain
a clam
MONEY SLANG $2,200 (Daily Double): The shell of this mollusk is composed chiefly of calcium carbonate
a clam
LOUD NOISES $2000: The first 4 letters of this loud word spell the name of a bivalve mollusk
a clamor
CRAIGS LIST $400: Stretching back to the Middle Ages, the Craigs of Aberdeenshire, Scotland are one of these family groups
a clan
MAN ON BOARD $800: If Lionel Richie commanded a group of ships, he'd be one of these (musically, he already was)
a commodore
"CROSS"WORDS $1200: In 1139 the church banned this weapon with a riflelike stock, saying it was "hateful to God" & unfit for Christians
a crossbow
"CROSS"WORDS $1600: Medically speaking, it's the testing of the compatibility of the blood of a donor & recipient
a crossmatch
POLITICAL CONVENTIONS $1000: At the 1844 Democratic convention, James Polk became this type of unexpected "equine" nominee
a dark horse
POLITICAL LINGO $200: 2-word term for a long-shot candidate for nomination, like James Polk in 1844
a dark horse
MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT $1200: Of one of these practitioners, Twain quipped he had the "surgical look of a man who could endure pain in others"
a dentist
THAT'S HISTORY, KIDS! $200: April 14, 1828: Noah Webster publishes this type of book
a dictionary
ANCIENT TIMES $1600: Nebuchadnezzar's many building projects included the repair of this type of stepped tower devoted to the god Marduk
a ziggurat
I KNOW UR $4,000 (Daily Double): Ur is dominated by one of these stepped, pyramidal temple towers dating from the 3rd millennium B.C.
a ziggurat
WORDPLAY-POURRI $1000: "Z" word on the street: Let's play Pyramid--it's a Babylonian temple
a ziggurat
FROM NOAH WEBSTER'S 1828 DICTIONARY $2000: "The doctrine, science, or art of sailing in the air, by means of a balloon"
aeronautics
KENYA FEEL THE LOVE $200: Traditionally, the nomadic Masai of Kenya live almost entirely on their herds of these
cattle
SCOTLAND $400: Famous Scottish breeds of these include the Galloway, the Ayrshire, & the Aberdeen-Angus
cattle
JANUARY $400: Many Hindus celebrate a January harvest festival called Makar Sankranti by bathing in this river
the Ganges
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WATER $400: When ailing, Hindus bathe in this, India's most sacred river; and once dead, their ashes are scattered therein
the Ganges
RELIGIOUS PLACES $2000: The city of Varanasi, which devout Hindus believe has always existed, is on this river
the Ganges
HODGEPODGE $200: The Masai subspecies of this mammal can reach 19 feet tall
the Giraffe
ASIAN $600: Covering part of northern China is this desert of which Marco Polo said, "It would take a year to go from end to end"
the Gobi Desert
FACTS & FIGURES $1000: It extends for more than 1,300 miles & is home to over 1,500 species of fish & 3,000 types of mollusks
the Great Barrier Reef
THE DISASTER ARTISTS $400: The painter Peter Jackson captures this 1666 conflagration
the Great Fire of London
EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: This ruling family of Monaco was deposed during the French Revolution, but regained the throne in 1814
the Grimaldis
HISTORIC "G''s $400: This prominent Monegasque family is descended from wealthy Genoese merchants & politicians
the Grimaldis
WELCOME TO MONACO $2000: In 1297 this family began its long reign over Monaco
the Grimaldis
ANCIENT BABYLON $1200: An Oxford researcher says this terraced marvel that helped make Babylon famous was actually in Assyria
the Hanging Gardens
ZIGGURATS $1200: Ziggurats were often landscaped with trees & shrubs like this ancient wonder of Babylon
the Hanging Gardens
AT THE SMITHSONIAN $800: Weighing in at 45.52 karats, it was donated to the Smithsonian by Harry Winston in 1958
the Hope Diamond
GEMS & JEWELRY $200: On Nov. 10, 1958 New York City jeweler Harry Winston donated this great blue stone to the Smithsonian
the Hope Diamond
YOU'VE GOT MAIL $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1958 Harry Winston mailed this priceless treasure to the Smithsonian in a brown paper parcel
the Hope Diamond
BYRON $400: In 1809, at the age of 21, Byron took his seat in this parliamentary body
the House of Lords
"IND" THE KNOW $600: Punjab means "land of 5 rivers", & all 5 of the rivers eventually flow into this one
the Indus
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $800: Around 3000 B.C. the Harappan civilization around this river in what's now Pakistan began cultivating cotton
the Indus
ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: Cities arose c. 2500 B.C. at sites now in Pakistan, in this river valley
the Indus
ANCIENT PERSIA $2000: At its greatest extent, the Persian Empire stretched from Cyrenaica in Libya to this longest river in Pakistan
the Indus
ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: Mohenjo-daro & Harappa were the twin capitals that flourished in this river valley
the Indus
ASIAN RIVERS $1600: This river's most notable tributaries, including the Ravi & Sutlej, are located in the Punjab plain
the Indus
LAKES & RIVERS $800: The Ravi, as in Shankar, is a major tributary of this river that winds from Tibet to Pakistan
the Indus
MANY RIVERS TO CROSS $600: One of the cradles of civilization, the ancient city of Mohenjo-daro lies along this river in Pakistan
the Indus
THE HIMALAYAS $2000: This river, Pakistan's longest, rises in Tibet & then flows through the Himalayas on its way to the sea
the Indus
WORLD HISTORY $1600: Around 2500 B.C. the Harappan Civilization sprung up around this river in Pakistan & nothwestern India
the Indus
"IN" PLACES $200: Civilization in the valley of this Pakistani river dates back about 4500 years
the Indus River
UNCHARTED $2000: In the 500s B.C. Scylax sailed the length of this longest river of Pakistan to the Arabian Sea and beyond
the Indus River
WORLD PLACE NAMES $1600: As you might guess, India derives its name from this river
the Indus River
B.C. $1600: Around 3000 B.C. people moving east from Baluchistan began settling in this south Asian river's valley
the Indus River Valley
ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: The beginning of this metallic age varied geographically, with China being a latecomer in around 600 B.C.
the Iron Age
ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: Robert Koldewey began excavating this 8th gate of Babylon; it was reconstructed at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin
the Ishtar Gate
THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $400: Ellen DeGeneres was proud to be honored in this center "where so many space shuttles have been launched"
the Kennedy Center
PLANET OF THE CAPES $400: This government facility abbreviated KSC is found on Cape Canaveral in Florida
the Kennedy Space Center
BIOGRAPHIES $2,500 (Daily Double): Horowitz & Collier wrote the family bios "The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty" & them: "An American Drama"
the Kennedy's
HIS LAST NFL TEAM $600: Namath became "Hollywood & Vine Joe" in finishing his career with this team that has since moved
the Los Angeles Rams
PUT IT THERE $400: The Winged Victory of Samothrace: This museum, non?
the Louvre
ARCHAEOLOGY $800: In 2012 scientists in Guatemala unearthed the tomb of Lady K'abel, who ruled the Snake Dynasty of this civilization
the Maya
MEANWHILE... $1600: The Sumerians settled the city of Ur in the 3000s B.C., the beginning of this civilization's "long count" calendar
the Maya
CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: This famous group was founded in 1847, a few weeks after its members reached Utah
the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
USING YOUR JEOP-PS $600: (Sarah's voice reads the clue in a monotone fashion) You have arrived at 50 West North Temple St. in Salt Lake City, home to this 3-word singing group
the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
SESAME STREET $600: The "sponsors" of Sesame Street
these letters of the alphabet & these numbers
"Z" IS FOR... $2000: This Babylonian temple tower
a ziggurat
"Z" STUFF $1600: The Sumerians like this type of rectangular temple
a ziggurat
ORE Magnetite is also called this "stone" & was used as a primitive compass
lodestone
GEOGRPAPHIC FEATURES $600: A raised area of flat land; one covers much of Tibet
plateau
THE TWO-THOUSAND YEAR OLD MAN $1000: (Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks present the clue.) "Attila the Hun--was he really as rotten as they say?" "Rottener. You never addressed him by his 3-word nickname. You always said, 'Hey, you're looking good today', 'Hey', stuff like that. But you never called him by his 3-word nickname. That's the clue--3-word nickname"
"Scourge of God"
THE MARCH KING $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1987 the U.S. flagged this Sousa tune as its official march
"Stars and Stripes Forever"
BROADWAY LYRICS $400: This song from "Fiddler on the Roof" begins, "Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the little boy at play?"
"Sunrise, Sunset"
WEDDING SONGS $800: Perfect for a dance with a parent is this show tune that begins, "Is this the little girl I carried"
"Sunrise, Sunset"
TOP OF THE CHARTS, MA! $1200: Soloists on this 1985 song include Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan & Cyndi Lauper
"We Are the World"
THE ACADEMY AWARDS: As of 2006, 1 of only 3 women to be nominated for best director, for 1976, 1993 & 2003
(1 of) Lina Wertmuller, Jane Campion, Sophia Coppola
THE TWO-THOUSAND YEAR OLD MAN $600: (Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks present the clue.) "You have worked with some of our great presidents." "Mm-hmm." "Who were they?" "Go back to the first. Washington. He used to wear his wig cockeye. I straightened him out. I straightened out his wooden teeth. But Wilson--Woodrow Wilson took my advice. I said, 'Woody, you're making too many points in this declaration. How many points do you really need?'"
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THE 1960s $600: Ironically, it was the year of the "Summer of Love" & the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War
1967
THE SWINGIN' '60s $800: The Summer of Love was the summer of this year in which "Sgt. Pepper's" was released
1967
WHAT YEAR WAS THAT? $800: The Constitution gets a 25th Amendment, the Six-Day War, "The Summer of Love"
1967
A YEAR ENDING IN 8 $400: Martin Luther King & Robert Kennedy are assassinated
1968
BOOK LEARNIN' $200: Winston Smith lives in Oceania in this George Orwell work
1984
BRITISH LIT $1,000 (Daily Double): Winston Smith is arrested by the Thought Police in this 1949 novel
1984
LITERARY VILLAINS $1200: Pretending to be an ally of Winston Smith in this novel, O'Brien is a party leader who's been watching Winston for years
1984
CHILDREN'S LIT $800: Sara Crewe is the little title character of this classic by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Little Princess
CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $800: The title of this Frances Hodgson Burnett book refers to Sara Crewe, who goes from privileged to pauper
A Little Princess (The Little Princess accepted)
TAKE THE "A" TRAIN $1,000 (Daily Double): Scotrail's high speed Turbostar trains run on routes from Edinburgh to Glasgow & to this city
Aberdeen
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARYLAND $200 (Daily Double): This U.S. Army "Proving Ground" for weapons testing occupies over 70,000 acres in Harford County
Aberdeen
ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $2000: Ellison Onizuka
Air Force
POP GOES THE MUSICAL $1,000 (Daily Double): (Before the clue is given, Toni Award-nominated actress Carolee Carmello from the Broadway play Mamma Mia! helps with the clue.) "Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh / You can dance / You can jive / Having the time of your life / Ooh-ooh-ooh, see that girl / Watch that scene / Dig in the dancing queen /" "Dancing Queen" is one of many hit songs in "Mamma Mia!" that were originally made famous by this Swedish group
ABBA
ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $600: "The Right Stuff" guy Chuck Yeager after 1947
Air Force
"A" IN GEOGRAPHY $500: In the 1970s this Scottish fishing port became the center of the North Sea oil industry
Aberdeen
"EEN" $2000: Scotland's third-largest city, it's known as the oil capital of Europe
Aberdeen
EUROPEAN CITIES $2000: Known as the "Granite City", its name is Scots for "At the Mouth of the Dee", the river on which it lies
Aberdeen
SCOTLAND $500: Scotland's "Granite City"; its name means "mouth of the Dee" River, which is where it's located
Aberdeen
SOME MEAN RHYMES $2000: This seaport of 200,000 is the commercial center of northeast Scotland
Aberdeen
NURSERY RHYMES $100: Jack Horner sat in his corner & ate a pie associated with this holiday
Christmas
ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $1,000 (Daily Double): Cold War figure Francis Gary Powers
Air Force
ACTORS & ACTRESSES $300: He played Michael Corleone in all 3 of Francis Ford Coppola's "Godfather" films
Al Pacino
TOP O' THE STATE $200: Mount McKinley
Alaska
U.S. HIGHS & LOWS $200: This state has the highest point in the U.S., 20,320 feet
Alaska (Mt. McKinley)
IT'S A BIG WORLD $100: The USA's highest mountain is found in this state, the USA's largest
Alaska (Mt. McKinley/Denali)
ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: Born Alec de Cuffe, he was illegitimate & has never learned his father's identity
Alec Guinness
ANAGRAMS $800 (Daily Double): This "Star Wars" star has "genuine class"
Alec Guinness
BORN 100 YEARS AGO $2000: The force was with this future thespian when he was born in London in April 1914
Alec Guinness
CLASSIC CINEMA $800: In "Kind Hearts & Coronets", he played 8 roles, including Lady Agatha
Alec Guinness
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA $1600: Lawrence is sent to help Prince Faisal, played by this future "Star Wars" actor
Alec Guinness
MULTIPLE ROLES, SAME ACTOR $2000: This Brit played 8 victims in "Kind Hearts and Coronets"
Alec Guinness
MULTIPLE ROLES, SAME FILM $1200: 28 years before Obi-Wan Kenobi, he played 8 members of a family in 1949's "Kind Hearts and Coronets"
Alec Guinness
SHOW BIZ BOOKS $200: "Dear Alec" is a tribute to this actor at 75
Alec Guinness
CREATIVE WRITERS $800: Anthony Horowitz created this teen spy found in books like "Snakehead"
Alex Rider
ANCIENT HISTORY $1500: The Seleucid Kingdom which once stretched from Thrace to India was a fragment of his empire
Alexander the Great
BRITISH AUTHORS $400: Byron was Lord Byron from age 10; this poet had to wait until his 70s, in 1884
Alfred Lord Tennyson
LITERATURE $300: "For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever", this "Lord" of poetry babbled in "The Brook"
Alfred Lord Tennyson
LITERATURE $800: In a poem dedicated to this lord, Longfellow wrote, "Poet! I come to touch thy lance with mine"
Alfred Lord Tennyson
POETS & POETRY $300: This lord's 1879 poem "The Defence of Lucknow" concerns the Sepoy Rebellion
Alfred Lord Tennyson
POETS & POETRY $500: This lord's 1850 elegy "In Memoriam" was about his close friend Arthur Henry Hallam
Alfred Lord Tennyson
POETS: Made a baron in the early 1880s, he was the first Englishman elevated to that rank for literary work alone
Alfred Lord Tennyson
WRITERS $400: Queen Victoria made this "Lord"ly poet the Baron of Aldworth and Farringford
Alfred Lord Tennyson
AUTHORS & THEIR SLEUTHS $2,000 (Daily Double): Bishop Blackie Ryan
Andrew Greeley
A POLK $400: Because of his devotion & support to this former president, James K. Polk was nicknamed "Young Hickory"
Andrew Jackson
AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $300: He continued to support the political career of protege James "Young Hickory" Polk
Andrew Jackson
THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES $600: On this Maryland site, during the bloodiest Civil War battle, Commissary Sgt. William McKinley served coffee
Antietam
GREEK MYTHOLOGY $400: In a battle between them, Ares is defeated by this Greek goddess of war, his female counterpart
Athena
MYTHELLANEOUS $800: This goddess after whom a major city in Greece is named sprang from the head of Zeus
Athena
MYTHOLOGY $400: The Palladium was a divine statue that represented this goddess, sometimes called Pallas
Athena
SHE'S A GODDESS! $400: The original statue of her in the Parthenon was lost by 400 A.D.
Athena
THE OLYMPIAN GODS $1000: This Greek wisdom goddess was born full grown from Zeus' head because he'd swallowed his pregnant first wife
Athena
THE U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads in front of a set of wooden doors at West Point, NY.) The United States Military Academy's coat of arms depicts the helmet of this Greek goddess of wisdom & warfare
Athena
DICKENS TITLE LETTER DROP $800: Bah! Humbug! It's Rob Reiner's dad on December 25
Christmas Carl
CLASSICAL MUSIC $200: Richard Horowitz, a timpanist with the Met, makes these sticks that a conductor uses
Batons
"WILD" MOVIES $1000: Hushpuppy deals with some prehistoric creatures called aurochs in this 2012 drama set in the delta
Beasts of the Southern Wild
THOSE DARN FRANCISCANS $800: 13th c. Italians in Mongol lands included Marco Polo & John of Monte Corvino, first archbishop of this capital
Beijing
"B" SHARP $1200: This hero rode Pegasus
Bellerophon
"B" SHARP $600: This hero rode Pegasus
Bellerophon
"BELL"s $800: With the aid of the winged horse Pegasus, this mythical Corinthian hero slew the Chimera
Bellerophon
MAKE NO MYTHTAKE $2000: He fell off Pegasus to his death
Bellerophon
MYTHOLOGY $1000: He tamed the winged horse Pegasus with a bridle given to him by Athena
Bellerophon
WHO PLAYED 'EM? $1200: 2004: Starsky & Hutch
Ben Stiller & Owen Wilson
SWEET LI'L FILMS $800: Owen Wilson co-wrote the quirky "Rushmore", starring this "Ghostbuster" as Mr. Blume
Bill Murray
EASY AS "PIE" $100: Little Jack Horner stuck his thumb in this & pulled out a plum
Christmas pie
CLUB ME! $200: The Cleopatra's Barge nightclub has a swaying dance floor that really rocks this Roman-themed Vegas casino
Caesar's Palace
HERE'S THE ADDRESS $4,000 (Daily Double): 3570 Las Vegas Blvd. South: We who are about to gamble salute you
Caesar's Palace
LAS VEGAS $200: Appropriately, you'll find "The Appian Way" at this hotel casino on The Strip
Caesar's Palace
THE BUSINESS OF PLEASURE $600: Gary Loveman is prez of Harrah's Entertainment, which runs this Roman-themed Vegas casino & many others
Caesar's Palace
TRAVEL U.S.A. $400: Caligula would love the Caligula Suite in the Emperors Complex of this Las Vegas hotel
Caesar's Palace
A PRIEST, AN ELEPHANT & EVEL KNIEVEL... $800: On New Year's Eve in 1967 Evel jumped 151 feet over the fountains at this Las Vegas casino; never mind the landing...
Caesars Palace
AT THE VEGAS HOTEL $600: Cleopatra's Barge, the Colosseum
Caesars Palace
CELEBRATING CHER $400: From 2008 to 2011 Cher had a residency at this Las Vegas hotel for her "Cher at the Colosseum" show
Caesars Palace
DINING OUT $400: The Bacchanal in this Las Vegas hotel features food fit for an emperor
Caesars Palace
LAS VEGAS $400: When visiting the forum shops at this hotel look for the talking statues of Roman gods
Caesars Palace
PLACES TO STAY IN VEGAS $200: This casino that naturally contains the Appian Way shops
Caesars Palace
SHOPPING U.S.A. $300: This Las Vegas hotel-casino is known for its Appian Way plaza shops as well as its Forum shops
Caesars Palace
U.S. BUILDINGS $200: Towers in this Las Vegas casino include Octavius & Forum
Caesars Palace
VEGAS CASINO RESTAURANTS $200: Neros, Empress Court
Caesars Palace
VEGAS CASINOS $400: Hail, yes! There's a 4,100-seat Colosseum to showcase acts like Bette Midler & Cher at this casino
Caesars Palace
VIVA LAS VEGAS $100: New in 1996, Caesars Magical Empire is a subterranean dining & magic experience of this famed hotel
Caesars Palace
VIVA LAS VEGAS $300: Its 10 "Fantasy Suites" feature Roman, Egyptian or Pompeian decors
Caesars Palace
LORD BYRON $400: In a poetic drama, this biblical brother becomes a willing pupil of Lucifer
Cain
THREE'S A CROWD $400: The Nina, Pinta & Santa Maria were under his command
Christopher Columbus
FORMULA 1 $1600: The chemical formula of this compound with a 2-word name is CaCO3
Calcium Carbonate
SCIENCE $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew displays a chemical formula on the monitor.) When acetic acid in vinegar reacts with CaCO3, this compound in the eggshell, bubbles of CO2 form in the vinegar & dissolve the shell, leaving just the membrane
Calcium Carbonate
IN CAESAR'S PALACE $1000: In Julius Caesar's private chamber you might find this woman, the last of his 3 Roman wives
Calpurnia
MOVIE MUSIC $400: Last name of Carmine, who provided music for all 3 "Godfather" films--he may have had an in with the director
Carmine Coppola
HEIFETZ $200: When Jascha debuted in this NYC hall in 1917, its steel-making benefactor was still alive
Carnegie Hall
MUSIC TRIVIA $300: Heifetz, Horowitz & Paderewski all made their U.S. debuts in this concert hall
Carnegie Hall
PIANISTS $200: Vladimir Horowitz made his U.S. debut in 1928 at this NYC auditorium
Carnegie Hall
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: Brothers Andrew & Richard & Scottish industrialist Andrew founded what became this Pittsburgh school
Carnegie-Mellon
POP $800: Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, she won the 4th season of "American Idol" in 2005
Carrie Underwood
4-LETTER FILMS $800: This 2006 film features the voices of Owen Wilson & Bonnie Hunt
Cars
"C"OUNTRIES $1000: Cameroon, Congo & this country all border the Central African Republic
Chad
MULTIPLE ROLES, SAME FILM $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1940's "The Great Dictator", this comedian played a Jewish barber & a takeoff of Hitler named Adenoid Hynkel
Charlie Chaplin
LITERATURE $800: They each had their first published novels in 1847: "Jane Eyre" & "Wuthering Heights"
Charlotte & Emily Bronte
THE TWO-THOUSAND YEAR OLD MAN $800: (Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks present the clue.) "What was your most annoying job?" "Well, I was a scrivener for this poet who couldn't spell. The first line of his prologue, he spells 'April' like this-A-P-R-I-L-L-E. That's--that's how he spelled 'April'"
Chaucer
REAL NAMES ON THE MARQUEE $600: Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPiere & Nicolas Coppola in "Moonstruck"
Cher & Nicolas Cage
19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: Name of the ship that James Lawrence urged his men, "Don't give up", it was also paired in a railroad with Ohio
Chesapeake
WORLD CULTURES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, MA.) Many cultures have valued tiny feet, but none as much as this country, the source of the shoe here; already tiny, they sometimes had lifts in back to raise the heel so the foot was even tinier
China
BALLET $800: I'da love to have seen Ida Rubinstein play this queen swathed like a mummy who was then unwrapped
Cleopatra
TV COMEDY ADJECTIVES $600: Here's a hint: it was based on a movie & starred Rachel Blanchard as Cher Horowitz, "____"
Clueless
HORSES: This breed was named for an area around Scotland's most important river
Clydesdale
CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $400: (Hi, I'm Harry Shearer.) John Kennedy Toole committed suicide, unable to find a publisher for this satiric novel that later won a Pulitzer Prize
Confederacy of Dunces
THIS & THAT $400: The chief northern tributary of this river is the Ubangi
Congo
REMEMBER APRIL $200: Donald Duck's nephews are Huey, Dewey & Louie; her nieces are April, May & June
Daisy Duck
U.S. CITIES $800: This large Texas city was named for James K. Polk's vice president
Dallas
MUSICAL ARCHITECTURE $500 (Daily Double): In "Royal Wedding" Fred Astaire gives a textbook demonstration of this, the title of a 1986 Lionel Richie hit
Dancing on the Ceiling
AMERICAN HISTORY $400: On Aug. 2, 1826 at Boston's Faneuil Hall, this great orator delivered a eulogy on Jefferson & Adams
Daniel Webster
PEOPLE IN POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): Longfellow referred to him as the "Tuscan that wanderest through the realms of gloom"
Dante
"DAVID"s $400: Consumers can "fight back" with him
David Horowitz
FAMOUS KNIGHTS $1000: These 2 knights were part of "A Passage to India"; one as director, one in a leading role
David Lean & Alec Guinness
THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR $1600: Longtime employee Biff Henderson showed up with headset to help this late night host accept his trophy in 2017
David Letterman
SPORTS 2003 $1000: 1967 had the Summer of this; 2003 had the Summer of this golfer who was at the top of the money list in Aug.
Davis Love III
WORLD CULTURES $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, MA.) With this belief in the return to earth of the departed, the ofrenda, or altar, that honors deceased loved ones & welcomes them back for a visit is part of the Mesoamerican influence on this autumn day celebrated in Mexico
Day of the Dead
THREE'S A CROWD $800: In cartoons, his nephews are Huey, Dewey & Louie
Donald Duck
LANDMARKS $1000: The only theater in Washington's Kennedy Center which is named for a president is named for this one
Eisenhower
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $300: In the epic Lord Byron poem named for him, this Spanish lover romances a harem girl named Dudu
Don Juan
LITERATURE $800: This character's first literary appearance was in the tragic drama "The Seducer of Seville"
Don Juan
LORD BYRON $300: Ironically, Byron, who was a legendary rake, left his poem about this Spanish seducer unfinished
Don Juan
LORD BYRON $800: In his poem about this famous lover, Byron wrote "Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction"
Don Juan
POETRY $200: Lord Byron never finished his epic poem about this legendary Spanish lover
Don Juan
RAKE $1,800 (Daily Double): This Byron poem says, "What men call gallantry, & gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry"
Don Juan
WITH LOVE $400: This fictional libertine appeared in 1630's "El Burlador de Sevilla" ("The Seducer of Seville")
Don Juan
YOU ARE THE JUAN $400: John Barrymore played this Spanish lover in a 1926 film & averaged about a kiss a minute
Don Juan
FLAGS $400: Oliver Hazard Perry's flag bore this phrase uttered by James Lawrence in the War of 1812
Don't Give up the Ship
THE NAVY $300: Bartlett's says this naval motto is actually a misquote of Capt. James Lawrence's dying command
Don't Give up the Ship
3 OF A KIND: This animated character's nephews are Huey, Dewey & Louie
Donald Duck
THAT'S IN BRITOONICA $400: This "ill-tempered squawking" duck wears a sailor's hat, "at the drop of which he often explodes into a rage"
Donald Duck
THE 2005 GREENSBORO MAYORAL RACE $1000: 3 votes went to this Disney character who debuted in "The Wise Little Hen" in 1934
Donald Duck
FLY ME $800: This Donald was known for his DC, not Duck, line of commercial planes
Douglas
MEDICINE: His vaccine was announced safe in April '55, the 10th anniversary of FDR's death
Dr. Jonas Salk
THAT'S MY MOVIE! $800: Sure, in 1992 Francis Ford Coppola directed, but it was, in fact, "Bram Stoker's..."
Dracula
BEFORE & AFTER $200: Morgan Freeman film where he drives his web-footed boss to her boyfriend Donald's house
Driving Miss Daisy Duck
FOREIGN-SOUNDING TEXAS PLACES $200: Faith & begorrah! A 2005 state bill proclaimed this town the official Irish capital of Texas
Dublin
THE DONALD $1000: It's Donald Duck's home town
Duckburg
DIANA ROSS $400: The most successful duet of the '80s was this ballad that Diana recorded with Lionel Richie
Endless Love
SONGS FROM MUSICALS $400: "If I Were A Rich Man"
Fiddler on the Roof
NOT TO BE CONFUSED $1600: The Willamette River runs through Eugene, Oregon; this title Pushkin character is a sort of Russian Don Juan
Eugene Onegin
THE ROLES OF A LIFETIME $2000: James Joyce, Rodney Copperbottom, Obi-Wan Kenobi
Ewan McGregor
SONGS IN MUSICALS $400: "Tradition" & "Matchmaker, Matchmaker"
Fiddler on the Roof
THE 1940s $1200: One of Alec Guinness's many masterly character portrayals was as this man in 1948's "Oliver Twist"
Fagin
HISTORIC QUOTES $400: Daniel Webster called this Boston building "The Cradle of American Liberty"
Faneuil Hall
HISTORIC U.S. BUILDINGS $2000: This Boston hall houses the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, chartered in 1638
Faneuil Hall
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY $800: Thousands met near this famed meeting house to support & spur on the raiders
Faneuil Hall
THE CRADLE $300: This Boston "Hall" is known as "The Cradle of American Liberty"
Faneuil Hall
THE FREEDOM TRAIL $400: Given to the city in 1742, this famous landmark burned in 1761, was rebuilt in 1763 & was enlarged in 1805
Faneuil Hall
NICOLAS COPPOLA, AKA CAGE $1000: Cage was billed as Coppola in this 1982 Sean Penn film based on a Cameron Crowe book
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
CLASSIC LIT $200: In a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 7-year-old Cedric Errol inherits a title & is known as "Little Lord" this
Fauntleroy
THE WARDROBE $200: A book by Frances Hodgson Burnett inspired the velvet suit for boys called "Little Lord" this
Fauntleroy
BROADWAY MUSICALS BY CHARACTERS $200: Tevye, Golde, Yente
Fiddler on the Roof
BROADWAY MUSICALS BY CHARACTERS $800: Tevye, Yente, Lazar Wolf
Fiddler on the Roof
BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $400: "If I Were A Rich Man" & "Tradition"
Fiddler on the Roof
HE WAS IN THAT? $1000: Before "Starsky and Hutch", Paul Michael Glaser played Perchik in this movie musical (Hint: Topol got top billing)
Fiddler on the Roof
MUSICALS' OPENING NUMBERS $400: "Tradition"
Fiddler on the Roof
PLAY DOUGH $400: In this musical Perchik says, "Money is the world's curse" & Tevye replies, "May the Lord smite me with it"
Fiddler on the Roof
SMASH BROADWAY MUSICALS $1,000 (Daily Double): It's set in the Jewish village of Anatevka in 1905
Fiddler on the Roof
BROADWAY COMPOSERS $800: That's Lerner standing, so that must be him at the piano
Frederick Loewe
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES $800: Official language in common to the Central African Republic & Canada
French
I GO TO FAMOUS PERSON HIGH SCHOOL $800: Los Angeles St. in the city of angels boasts a school named for this woman, one of Mexico's most notable painters
Frida Kahlo
KATHY BATES GONE WILD $1600: Kathy is draped in a plastic wrap dress, & little else, in a scene from this movie based on a Fannie Flagg novel
Fried Green Tomatoes
POETS & POETRY $1200: He was nearly 87 when he recited his poem "The Gift Outright" at President Kennedy's inauguration
Frost
IT'S EPIC $1600: Perhaps the first ever written, "The Epic of" this king of Uruk includes a Sumerian account of a great flood
Gilgamesh
MESOPOTAMIA $1200: The epic poem of this Sumerian king includes an account of a great flood
Gilgamesh
WHAT THE?! $1000: This "epic" Sumerian god-king finds hell is where the dead "drink dirt and eat stone"
Gilgamesh
ART HOUSE MOVIES $1600: Scarlett Johansson flashes some jewelry in this film in which she plays muse to Vermeer
Girl with a Pearl Earring
I'M GIVIN' YA PEARLS! $1200: Scarlett Johansson poses for Jan Vermeer in this 2003 film
Girl with a Pearl Earring
ONE-WORD FILM TITLES $800: Richard Harris played Marcus Aurelius in this Russell Crowe film
Gladiator
19th CENTURY AMERICA $100: President McKinley dedicated this president's NYC tomb in 1897
Grant
THEY USED TO BE IN CHARGE $200: Clement Attlee
Great Britain / England
"G" WHIZ! $400: In 1824 Lord Byron died of a fever in Missolonghi, now in this country
Greece
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $300: The regions of Thrace, Macedonia & Epirus make up the northern tier of this country
Greece
HISTORY $1200: Lord Byron donated his money & his time to help this country stave off the evil Ottoman empire
Greece
LORD BYRON $1600: In 1823 Byron gave 4,000 pounds of his own money to activate this country's fleet in its war against the Turks
Greece
THE NEWSEUM $2000: (Alex reports from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) A key moment in the Civil Rights era was a sit-in protest after four black students were refused service at an all-white F.W. Woolworth lunch counter in this North Carolina city
Greensboro, North Carolina
THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $800: "The Time Machine" (1895)
H.G. Wells
ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: This "man" named for a German university city was first known from a single bone called the Mauer jaw
Heidelberg Man
PEOPLE IN POETRY $800: "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships.... sweet" her, "make me immortal with a kiss"
Helen
ADELE $200: Like Lionel Richie, in 2015 Adele had a No. 1 hit bearing this title
Hello
A BETTE MIDLER MEDLEY $800: In 2017 Bette is set to star in a Broadway revival of this musical in which she'll play the matchmaking Mrs. Levi
Hello Dolly
FAMOUS NAMES $400: Newstead Abbey, Lord Byron's family estate, was given to his ancestors by this Tudor king
Henry VIII
AMERICAN LITERATURE $600: The storytelling characters in his book "Tales of a Wayside Inn" are based on real people
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD $1000: He published perhaps his most famous volume, "Tales of a Wayside Inn", 2 years after his wife's death
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
POETS $400: In "Tales of a Wayside Inn", he wrote about "Ships that pass in the night"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
POETS & POETRY $400: One of his "Tales of a Wayside Inn" begins, "Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
MYTHOLOGICAL HEROES: The second half of his service to Eurystheus took him to 6 different places, like Crete, Thrace & the Underworld
Hercules
AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1839, at age 19, he joined the crew of the freighter St. Lawrence that ran between NYC & Liverpool
Herman Melville
CARRIERS $2000: Mercury's counterpart, this Greek messenger of the gods carries a caduceus
Hermes
LEGENDARY! $5,000 (Daily Double): He invented the lyre & gave it to Apollo; Apollo gave him the caduceus in return
Hermes
CLOTHING THROUGH THE AGES $1000: 18th c. riding boots decorated with tassels shared this name with German mercenaries hired by the Brits
Hessians
MUSIC TO YOUR EARS $200: This teen queen sang, "Wake up, wake up on a Saturday night, could be N.Y., maybe Hollywood & Vine"
Hilary Duff
NAME THE JAMES $1600: ...who conjured up Shangri-La for a 1933 novel
Hilton
RECENT FILMS $800: Owen Wilson & Eddie Murphy teamed up for this action comedy loosely based on an old TV show
I Spy
RHYMING MOVIES $800: TV's Bill Cosby & Robert Culp were replaced by Eddie Murphy & Owen Wilson in this 2002 film
I Spy
ASIAN RIVERS $2,000 (Daily Double): A 1947 partition divided the water in the basin of this 1,800-mile-long river on the border of Pakistan
Indus River
ANCIENT TIMES $500: The Harappan civilization is another name for the ancient civilization of this Asian river valley
Indus River Valley
ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: The bricks used around 2000 B.C. in Mohenjo-Daro, in Pakistan, were the standard size used all over this valley
Indus Valley
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS $200: The Sumerians, who invented cuneiform writing, date back to 5500 B.C. in Mesopotamia, in what is now this country
Iraq
ANCIENT WORLDS $1000: The Sumerians established Sumer in what is now this Mideast country
Iraq
ART-FULLY STOLEN $400: After a worldwide hunt, a statue of Sumerian king Entemena was returned to this country after it was stolen in 2003
Iraq
Q WITHOUT U $800: This country's ancient ruins of Ur & its ziggurat date back about 4,500 years
Iraq
CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $1600: Arthur Rubinstein, born in Poland, moved to the U.S. & is interred in this country that has a piano competition named for him
Israel
U.S. CITIES $300: This Florida city was named for the general who led the fight to take Florida from the Spanish
Jacksonville
AT THE SMITHSONIAN $400: The evening gown worn by this first lady to her first state dinner was created by Oleg Cassini, one of her favorite designers
Jacqueline Kennedy
FIRST, MIDDLE & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $2000: Flutist Galway, birder John Audubon, Author P.D.
James
NAME IN COMMON $800: Authors Ellroy & P.D.
James
LODGE PODGE $200: He was elected U.S. senator from Massachusetts in 1952, ousting incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge
John F. Kennedy
WHERE THERE'S A WILL... $1200: Speechwriter Ted Sorensen witnessed the June 18, 1954 signing of this then-senator's will
John F. Kennedy
THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $1200: "Looking for Alaska" (2005)
John Green
MOVIE DIRECTORS: He's the only person to direct his daughter & his father in Oscar-winning performances
John Huston
ELEGIES $1200: Percy Shelley wrote "Adonais" on the death of this friend & fellow poet
John Keats
EPITAPHS: His headstone in Rome reads in part: "This grave contains all that was mortal, of a young English poet"
John Keats
A TOUCH OF ROBERT FROST IN THE AIR $1200: 86-year-old Robert Frost recited his poem "The Gift Outright" at this man's inauguration
John Kennedy
THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED $400: It's the rather cheerful name for the flag seen here
Jolly Roger
BIOGRAPHIES $800: "The Polio Man", a 1962 biography, tells of this doctor who developed the first polio vaccine
Jonas Salk
BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Readers had to wait 13 years between his first novel "Catch-22", & his next, "Something Happened"
Joseph Heller
MALE AUTHORS $400 (Daily Double): "Catch as Catch Can" is a posthumous collection of stories by this real-life WWII bombardier
Joseph Heller
POSTHUMOUS PUBLISHING $1200: Here's the catch: this author's "Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man" was published after his 1999 death
Joseph Heller
PREQUELS & SEQUELS $2,600 (Daily Double): In a follow-up to an earlier novel, "Closing Time" by this author revisits Yossarian & Milo Minderbinder in NYC in the 1990s
Joseph Heller
THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $400: "Catch-22" (1961)
Joseph Heller
IT'S A RAP $2000: Public Enemy: "You go ooh and ahh when I jump in my car/ People treat me like" this hall of fame L.A. Lakers center
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
NBA ALL-STARS $200: A record 19 times: This Buck, Laker & Celebrity "Jeopardy!" contestant
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
NBA GREATS $200: Alphabetically first on the NBA's list of its 50 greatest players is this Bucks, Lakers & Celebrity "Jeopardy!" star
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
SPORTS EQUIPMENT $800: After an eye injury in 1974, this legendary NBA center began wearing Plexiglas goggles
Kareen Abdul-Jabbar
MUSIC $400: This "Chained To The Rhythm" singer is a judge on the 2018 version of "American Idol"
Katy Perry
PLAY THIS $400: It's off to Skull Island for Peter Jackson's official video game adaptation of this ape movie
King Kong
20th CENTURY LIT $800: Middle name of "Naked and the Dead" author Mailer or first name of "Lucky Jim" author Amis
Kingsley
AUTHORS: In 1890 he witnessed a mild cyclone in Aberdeen, South Dakota, fodder for his most famous novel
L. Frank Baum
SOUTH DAKOTA $400: In Storybook Land in Aberdeen, where this author once lived, the "Oz" stories come to life
L. Frank Baum
ON HIS PRESIDENCY'S SECRET SERVICE $400: During his term Congress directed the Service to protect Jackie Kennedy & her children for 2 years
LBJ (Lyndon Johnson)
THE SUMMER OF LOVE: 1967 $1600: Media response to all the love included the CBS special "The Hippie Temptation", that being mainly this drug
LSD
BROADWAY COMPOSERS $1200: Jerry Herman turned down every project for 6 months until he was finally asked to adapt this film about 2 gay men
La Cage aux Folles
HIGH WATER $2000: 2010-11 floods in Australia were exacerbated by this Pacific Ocean weather phenomenon with a feminine name
La Nina
FOUR $1,000 (Daily Double): Alcaeus, Arion, Sappho &Terpander were the "4 Poets of" this island
Lesbos
GREEK ISLANDS $1600: This island in the Aegean was the birthplace of such poets as Alcaeus, Terpander & Sappho
Lesbos
19th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, NM.) His eventful career included preventing the capture of Washington, D.C. as a Civil War general & a stint living here as governor of New Mexico, during which he found time to write "Ben-Hur"
Lew Wallace
1980s ROCK MUSIC $800: At the August 12, 1984 closing of the Summer Olympics, he sang "All Night Long"
Lionel Richie
BLACK AMERICA $600: Born & raised at Tuskegee Institute, he was celebrity star at 1984 Olympics closing
Lionel Richie
LOVE SONGS, NOTHING BUT '80s LOVE SONGS $1200: "Hello, is it me you're looking for?...& you know what to do, & I want to tell you so much, I love you"
Lionel Richie
NAME THE SINGER $300: "Penny Lover", "Say You, Say Me"
Lionel Richie
NO. 2 ON THE CHARTS $2000: Oh, what a feelin', when this guy hit No. 2 in 1986 with "Dancing On The Ceiling"
Lionel Richie
POP MUSIC $400: If he were "Stuck on You", he might say "Hello", "You Are" "Truly" "My Love" -- "All Night Long"
Lionel Richie
RELATED SONG TITLES $600: He sang lead on "Three Times A Lady" & "Lady (You Bring Me Up)"; heck, he even wrote "Lady" for Kenny Rogers
Lionel Richie
SCHOOL OF ROCK $600: He rose to the rank of Commodore after graduating from Joliet Township High School in Illinois
Lionel Richie
SINGERS "R" US $1000: In 2012 this singer released an album of country duets called "Tuskegee", for his birthplace in Alabama
Lionel Richie
NURSERY RHYMES $400: Though he ate like a slob, he nonetheless concluded, "What a good boy am I"
Little Jack Horner
WOMEN AUTHORS $500: Frances H. Burnett based this "little" hero in long curls, velvet & lace on her own son, Vivian
Little Lord Fauntleroy
BOOKS ABOUT AUTHORS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1830 biographer Thomas Moore burned the memoirs of this aristocratic Brit to protect the poet's reputation
Lord Byron
BRITISH LITERATURE $400: In 1816 this Lord left England for good; in 1818 he praised Italy in his poem "Beppo"
Lord Byron
COVERING BARON GROUND $400: This poet who helped the Greeks fight the Turks was the 6th baron in his family line
Lord Byron
DANIEL BOONE $1600: In his poem "Don Juan", this Englishman wrote 7 stanzas about Daniel Boone & his virile exploits
Lord Byron
DANIEL BOONE WAS A MAN $1200: After Boone's death in 1820, this Brit made him the subject of 7 stanzas of "Don Juan"
Lord Byron
DOG-GONE IT $400: "Epitaph for a Dog", a favorite one of this lord & romantic poet, can be seen on a monument at Newstead Abbey
Lord Byron
GOING TO THE DOGE $600: 14th century doge Marino Faliero was the subject of a tragedy by this "Don Juan" poet
Lord Byron
GOTHIC LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): Lady Caroline Lamb featured a version of this ex-lover in her Gothic novel "Glenarvon", calling him Ruthven
Lord Byron
HISTORIC HEARTTHROBS $1000: This lord's 1812 poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" made him a star in London at age 24
Lord Byron
THE ROMAN GOD OR GODDESS OF... $600: Wisdom, spinning & weaving; this goddess could do it all
Minerva
WHO PLAYED 'EM? $400: From 2001 on: Minerva McGonagall, one of Harry Potter's professors
Maggie Smith
THE BRIDGE & TUNNEL CROWD $1600: These lions outside Beijing watch people go between them on the bridge named for this European born in 1254
Marco Polo
THE TWO-THOUSAND YEAR OLD MAN $400: (Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks present the clue.) "What was one of your best times?" "One of my best times was sitting around with this guy in Venice. He'd tell me stories about going to China, and I'd say, 'Don't mention the part about spaghetti & gunpowder. They don't go good together'"
Marco Polo
KENNEDY CENTER HONOREES $2000: The first group of honorees in 1978 included Arthur Rubinstein & this African-American opera singer
Marian Anderson
ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $1000: Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
Marines
ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $1200: Sen. Joe McCarthy
Marines
ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $400: Iwo Jima flag raiser Ira Hayes
Marines
SUPER MARIO $400: Francis Coppola brought this author's most famous work to the big screen
Mario Puzo
ON YOUR MARK $1000: In 2004 this Dire Straits leader rocked out with his fourth solo album, "Shangri-La"
Mark Knopfler
AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $800: The town of Hadleyburg
Mark Twain
CRY $1600: Try not to sob as Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston & their kids hold a funeral for the family dog in this 2008 film
Marley & Me
THANKS FOR THE MEMORABILIA $800: A script of "The Godfather" with notes by this man pulled in more than $300,000 at a 2005 auction
Marlon Brando
COMIC STRIP CANINES $1200: In 2010 this Great Dane leaped from the funny papers to the big screen in a live action film with Owen Wilson providing his voice
Marmaduke
STAMPS AND COINS $1000: The sale of 1903 gold coins featuring this president helped pay for his Niles, Ohio memorial
McKinley
U.S. HISTORY $300: In 1901, right after being shot, this president cautioned against hurting his attacker
McKinley
BRAINBUSTERS $400: 2 of the 3 U.S. presidents in the 20th century named William
McKinley, Taft, and/or Clinton
MOUNTAINS $400: In 1954 the U.S. Geological Survey established the height of this American mountain at 20,320 feet
Mt. McKinley (or Denali)
THERE IT IS $800: The Zocalo, once the center of Tenochtitlan: this capital
Mexico City
WORLD CAPITALS $800: You want pyramids, we got pyramids! Come to Teotihuacan near this capital & see the Pyramid of the Sun
Mexico City
What is the biggest city (by population) in North America? A. Toronto B. New York City C. Mexico City D. Los Angeles
Mexico City With a population of 8.9 million, Mexico City beats out all the competition. In 2013, Toronto (population 2.79 million) overtook Chicago to become the fourth-largest city in North America.
POP MUSIC $400: In 1997 Babyface tied this performer's 1983 record of 12 Grammy nominations in one year
Michael Jackson
PEOPLE IN POETRY $400: "But there is no joy in Mudville--" this guy "has struck out"
Mighty Casey
GREEK GOD OUT, ROMAN GOD IN $2000: Most of the Greek myths for Athena were adopted by the Romans for this goddess whose temple was on Capitoline Hill
Minerva
I AM LEGEND $2000: In Roman myth, she's the goddess of wisdom & of the arts & sciences
Minerva
MYTH-ELLANY $1600: Maria Shriver created an award for women named for this Roman goddess of wisdom, seen on California's state seal
Minerva
MYTH-POURRI $1000: Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom & war, was called this by the Romans
Minerva
MYTHING VOWELS $400: Roman: MNRV
Minerva
MYTHOLOGY $1000: This Roman goddess of wisdom wears a helmet because she's also the Roman goddess of war
Minerva
MYTHOLOGY $400: This Roman goddess of wisdom is said to have leaped forth from the brain of Jupiter, fully mature & in armor
Minerva
MYTHS & LEGENDS $800: Roman goddess of crafts & war, she was identified with the Greek Athena, but was probably native to Italy
Minerva
OTHER WONDER WOMEN $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents an acronym on the monitor.) Saying "Shazam!" gave Mary Batson godly powers; "S" for Selena, "H" for Hippolyta, "A" for Ariadne, "Z" for Zephyrus, "A" for Aurora, and "M" for this wise Roman goddess
Minerva
THE RODIN MUSEUM $1000: (Alex delivers the clue from the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia.) Medusa on the breastplate & an owl on the helmet help identify this highly polished marble sculpture as this Roman goddess
Minerva
ARCHEOLOGY $400: A Paleolithic flint industry has been discovered at Grimaldi just east of this principality
Monaco
COATS OF ARMS $800 (Daily Double): The 2 monks on its coat of arms represent the 1297 conquest by Francois Grimaldi, whose soldiers dressed as monks
Monaco
COUNTRIES THAT END IN "O" $400: This nation has been ruled by the Grimaldi royal family since the 14th century
Monaco
EUROPEAN HISTORY $600: In 1297 this principality was acquired by the house of Grimaldi
Monaco
HEIRS $800: This country reverts to French control if the Grimaldi family fails to produce a male heir
Monaco
ITS REIGNING MEN $1,800 (Daily Double): Hercule Grimaldi, Honore Grimaldi
Monaco
PROFILES $400: In happier times the royal Grimaldi family of this country kicked up its heels
Monaco
SMALL CAPITALS $400: The Grimaldis rule over this country's capital, nicknamed "The Rock" due to its position on a rocky promontory
Monaco
SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL COME $400: Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand de Grimaldi is a prince of this principality
Monaco
WORLD HISTORY $400: The Grimaldi family first gained control of this country in 1297
Monaco
TRAVEL FRANCE $800: You could spend a delightful day visiting this artist's house and gardens in Giverny
Monet
RELIGIOUS LANDMARKS $400: Salt Lake City structure where you'll find an 11,000-pipe organ
Mormon tabernacle
BRITISH DRAMA CHARACTER NAMES $1600: Not Little Jack, just plain this is the seducer hero of "The Country Wife"
Mr. Horner
FIRST LADIES $500: After her husband's 1901 assassination, she returned to Canton, Ohio, where she died 6 years later
Mrs. McKinley (Ida Saxton)
1992 $100: During one week in May, 7 people died climbing this Alaskan mountain
Mt. McKinley
AMERICAN PEAKS $100: Ain't no mountain high enough in the U.S. to top this Alaskan peak
Mt. McKinley
GEOGRAPHY $200: Located in Alaska, it's North America's highest peak
Mt. McKinley
U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: Sometimes called the "Tip of the Continent", it's the only U.S. mountain whose peak exceeds 20,000 feet
Mt. McKinley
MOUNTAIN $300: In Alaska's Denali National Park: 20,320 feet
Mt. McKinley (Denali)
MAGIC & SORCERY IN THE BIBLE $800: This Babylonian king had his own group of magicians, but it was Daniel who interpreted his dreams
Nebuchadnezzar
ZIGGURATS $4,000 (Daily Double): In the 500s B.C. this king who conquered Jerusalem restored the main ziggurat of Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar
IT'S ALL RELATIVE $100: Nicolas Cage is this to Francis Ford Coppola
Nephew
THEY SHOULD HAVE PLAYED VEGAS $200: Fiddle me this: This emperor born in 37 A.D. could really burn up the stage at Caesars Palace
Nero
HOME, SWEET HOME $200: Michael Jackson, who identified with Peter Pan, lived on a sprawling California ranch he called this
Neverland
MOVIE ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: He wasn't an Oscar winner yet when his uncle Francis Ford Coppola directed him in "Rumble Fish" in 1983
Nicolas Cage
RELATIVE-ITY $800: Jason Schwartzman & Sofia Coppola can always say, "hey, cousin" to this "Ghost Rider"
Nicolas Cage
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC $600: Niamey is the capital city of this republic that shares its name with Africa's third-longest river
Niger
ANT HISTORY $400: The Louvre's sculpture of this Greek goddess of Samothrace is also called "Winged Victory"
Nike
SCULPTURE $1200: The Louvre has a sculpture of this winged goddess that was found on Samothrace & probably honors a sea battle
Nike
WINGS & THINGS $2,000 (Daily Double): Winged Victory is a headless statue of this goddess
Nike
SCULPTURE $1600: This sculpture from Samothrace is on a pedestal like a ship's prow, & her cloak is "held" against her by the "wind"
Nike (Winged Victory)
SHIPS $1000: Brothers Martin & Vincente Pinzon commanded these 2 ships on Columbus' first voyage to the New World
Nina and Pinta
18th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: In 1793 this lexicographer founded the American Minerva, New York City's first daily newspaper
Noah Webster
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE $1000: This Connecticut lexicographer's "Blue-Backed Speller" has never been out of print
Noah Webster
BORN IN CONNECTICUT $600: This Yale grad put out "An American Dictionary of the English Language" in 1828, when he was 70
Noah Webster
CELEBRATIONS & GATHERINGS $1200: Party on, "Jeopardy!" fans! Dictionary Day, October 16, is celebrated on the birthday of this lexicographer
Noah Webster
EDUCATION $400: Although best known for his 1828 dictionary, he wrote textbooks on science, grammar & history
Noah Webster
EDUCATION $400: His famed "Blue-backed Speller" of 1783 helped standardize American spelling & pronunciation
Noah Webster
NEW HAVEN $200: He moved to New Haven in 1822 & it was there in 1843 he would expire (verb; to breathe one's last breath: to die)
Noah Webster
THE 1790s $800: In 1793 NYC's daily newspaper The American Minerva was founded by this lexicographer
Noah Webster
THE 1820s $600: He was about 70 when he published his "American Dictionary of the English Language" in 2 volumes in 1828
Noah Webster
THE AMERICANS $1,000 (Daily Double): Best known for a different work, in 1833 he produced a "Common Version" of the Holy Bible "with Amendments of the Language"
Noah Webster
THE LAWYER WHO... $200: ...put some 70,000 words in alphabetical order to make a new American dictionary in 1828
Noah Webster
YOU KNOW NOTHING $600: Since the 1889 expiry of a copyright, anyone can put out a dictionary & slap this man's name on it
Noah Webster
ODD COMBINED RESPONSES $2000: Belonging to dictionary maker Mr. Webster + a game in which you might hear, "You sank my aircraft carrier!"
Noah's Battleship
GREEK ALPHABET SOUP $800: This Swiss watch company was founded by Louis Brandt in 1848
Omega
GREEK LETTERS $600: It's the final name in watch brands
Omega
LANGUAGES $400: Among the 7 vowels in the Greek alphabet, omicron is the short "O" & this is the long
Omega
STUFF I WANT $600: Daniel Craig's James Bond wears the Seamaster, a watch from this Greek letter company
Omega
TIME PIECES $200: This watch brand with a Greek letter name says it made the world's first diver's watch
Omega
THAT'S A GREEK LETTER $600: The name of this brand of watch also denotes some fatty acids
Omega Crossword Clue: Rolex competitor Answer: Omega
"O" BROTHER $200: Luke & Andrew are famous brothers of this man seen here
Owen Wilson
TAYLOR, SWIFT $2000: In a 2008 film he played Drillbit Taylor
Owen Wilson
WHEN THEY WERE TEENS $1000: As a young scamp, he was expelled from the school he attended with his brother Luke & sent to a military academy
Owen Wilson
WHO PLAYED 'EM? $1000: Lt. Chris Burnett, a Navy pilot shot down "Behind Enemy Lines"
Owen Wilson
CHERCHEZ LA FEMME $1000: P.D. James, P.G. Wodehouse, P.J. O'Rourke
P.D. James
ENGLISH LIT $1000: This baroness whose first name is Phyllis is famous for mystery novels about detective Adam Dalgliesh
P.D. James
FACE BOOK $2000: "Cover Her Face" is an Adam Dalgliesh mystery by this British woman
P.D. James
FICTION $2000: One of Britain's great mystery authors, she went back a couple of centuries for "Death Comes to Pemberley"
P.D. James
FICTIONAL DETECTIVES $800: In 1962 she introduced Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh in her first novel, "Cover Her Face"
P.D. James
MEN & WOMEN OF LETTERS $600: Phyllis Dorothy...
P.D. James
MURDER, SHE WROTE $400: "A Mind for Murder" & "A Taste for Death" are works by this author whose first names are Phyllis Dorothy
P.D. James
SLEUTHS & THEIR CREATORS $800: Adam Dalgliesh
P.D. James
THE JAMES GANG $800: "Cover Her Face" was the first of her mysteries to feature her detective Adam Dalgliesh, a Scotland Yard man
P.D. James
CRIME WRITERS: 1 of the 2 female crime writers who were in the British House of Lords in 1998
P.D. James & Ruth Rendell
DAM IT! $400: The Tarbela Dam is located on the Indus River not far from Islamabad in this country
Pakistan
HISTORY TIME $2000: The ancient city of Mohenjo-Daro lies on the Indus River in what's now this country
Pakistan
FOREIGN-SOUNDING TEXAS PLACES $800: A land divided by Jordan, Egypt & Israel, or the seat of Anderson County, Texas
Palestine
HISTORIC CELEBRITY SCANDALS $400: "Good Lord!" This Romantic poet "Expelled from Oxford for Writing 'The Necessity of Atheism'"
Percy Shelley
MOVIE DIRECTORS $2000: His first try at a "King Kong" remake was stopped, as "Mighty Joe Young" & "Godzilla" were being produced
Peter Jackson
MOVIE FOLK $2000: To get orc war screams for the Helm's Deep battle, this director put phonetic yells on a scoreboard for 25,000 cricket fans
Peter Jackson
NAME THE OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR $400: 2003 for "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
Peter Jackson
NEW ZEALAND $400: New Zealander who took on the giant task of making 3 films at once about the little hobbits
Peter Jackson
NOT BORED OF DIRECTORS $400: This director can't bore "Lord of the Rings" fans, even with the 4-hr. 10-min. DVD version of "The Return of the King"
Peter Jackson
THE OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTOR $1200: 2003: Here's the thing--"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" got him the bling
Peter Jackson
THE WAR OF ART $1200: This 17th c. Flemish man got mythical with "Minerva Protects Pax from Mars ('Peace and War')"
Peter Paul Rubens
BROADWAY COMPOSERS $400: "Love Never Dies", Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to this show, moves the action from Paris to Coney Island
Phantom of the Opera
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' $500: In October mollusk lovers flock to this beach city for its annual clam festival
Pismo Beach
LORD BYRON $200: Because of his scandalous life, Byron was refused burial here, among other literary lions
Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey
WORKS LIKE A CHARM $600: In the "Sun and Moon" edition of this 20-year-old game from Japan, the shiny charm helps to catch the title critters
Pokemon
LET'S HAVE ORDER $600 (Daily Double): Presidential administrations: Chester A. Arthur, James K. Polk, Millard Fillmore
Polk, Fillmore, Arthur
ACTORS & ROLES $600: Before playing the psychic Tangina in this film, 4' 3" Zelda Rubinstein worked on a shrimp boat
Poltergeist
ONLY SMALL ACTORS $800: Zelda Rubinstein appeared as clairvoyant Tangina Barrons in this spooky 1982 Tobe Hooper film
Poltergeist
IN CAESAR'S PALACE $800: 1 of the 2 other members of the First Triumvirate who might join Julius in the palace study
Pompey (or Crassus)
20th CENTURY HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Clement Attlee succeeded Churchill in the middle of the 1945 conference of allied leaders held in this German city
Potsdam
SUMMIT MEETINGS $500: In 1945 Truman conferred with Stalin & with British leaders Churchill & Attlee at this Berlin suburb
Potsdam
WOMEN IN HISTORY $100: Lady Caroline Lamb was both Lord Byron's lover & the wife of William Lamb, this queen's 1st P.M.
Queen Victoria
SHOPPING U.S.A. $400: Now a trendy shopping area, this marketplace near Boston's Faneuil Hall dates from 1826
Quincy Market
SENATORS $400: From 1965 to 1968 these 2 siblings served in the Senate at the same time
RFK & Ted Kennedy
CELEBRITY CRITTERS $800: A star of silent movies & his own TV show, this dog has his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1623 Vine Street
Rin Tin Tin
LOST $500: Performed annually in North Carolina, "The Lost Colony" is an outdoor drama about this lost colony
Roanoke Island
BROADWAY COMPOSERS $2000: Playing an early version of one of his songs from "Avenue Q" helped him woo future "Frozen" partner Kristen Anderson
Robert Lopez
ALLITERATIVE NAMES $300: He founded Utah's Sundance Institute, which encourages the work of independent filmmakers
Robert Redford
MOVIE TITLE ROLES $300: "Brubaker"
Robert Redford
MOVIEMAKERS $200: In his debut as a director, this actor won an Oscar for 1980's "Ordinary People"
Robert Redford
THE OSCARS $400: These two actors have won Oscars only as directors in 1980 & 1981
Robert Redford & Warren Beatty
FILM STARS $300: Francis Coppola & this "Cape Fear" star are co-owners of Rubicon, a San Francisco restaurant
Robert de Niro
CIVIL WAR $1000: This Col. fought at Antietam in 1862 along with Sgt. Wm. McKinley & became president 14 1/2 years later
Rutherford B. Hayes
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC $1000: This central African republic's old national flag was a red, yellow & green tricolor with an "R" in the middle
Rwanda
MAGIC & SORCERY IN THE BIBLE $1200: In the city of Paphos, this apostle blinded a sorcerer who tried to oppose him
Saint Paul
TRAVEL FRANCE $1200: The Place aux Herbes in this "saintly" resort town on the Riviera is a charming area of veggie, fruit & flower stalls
Saint-Tropez
HOUSES OF THE HOLY $400: The Mormon Tabernacle
Salt Lake City
STATE CAPITALS $600: You can see & hear one of the world's largest pipe organs at the Mormon Tabernacle in this city
Salt Lake City
BIOGRAPHY SUBTITLES $1,800 (Daily Double): An entrepreneur: "Bargain Billionaire"
Sam Walton
"RACE" TO THE ANSWER $1000: Once part of the Ottoman Empire, this Greek island is where the "Winged Victory" statue was discovered
Samothrace
GREECE IS THE WORD $1000: It was on this now Greek isle that the famous statue of Nike, now in the Louvre, was found in 1863
Samothrace
ISLANDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Mount Fengari, the highest point in the Aegean, is on this island, famous for its "Winged Victory" statue
Samothrace
MUTILATED ART $2000: Seen here at the Louvre is the work known as "Nike" or the "Winged Victory of" this Aegean island
Samothrace
FAMOUS ENGLISHMEN: In 2004 a top entry in a 6,000 mile albatross race was sponsored by a descendant of this man who died in 1834
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
POETIC INSPIRATIONS: One summer day in 1797 this British poet fell asleep reading a book that adapted the writings of Marco Polo
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ANNUAL EVENTS $400: On the second Sunday of June, the 1967 Summer of Love is re-created at the Haight Street Fair in this city
San Francisco
ROCK MUSIC GEOGRAPHY $300: The songs of Jefferson Airplane were in the air during this city's 1967 "Summer Of Love"
San Francisco
NEW MEXICO $400: Built in 1610, the Palace of the Governors in this city is the oldest public building in the U.S.
Santa Fe
STATE CAPITALS $400: Built in 1610, the Spanish Palace of Governors in this Southwest capital is now a museum
Santa Fe
U.S. BUILDINGS $1000: The 400-year-old Palace of the Governors in this SW capital city now serves as the state's history museum
Santa Fe
U.S. BUILDINGS $1200: The Palace of the Governors in this New Mexico city is the USA's oldest continuously occupied building
Santa Fe
WHERE AM I? $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports.) I'm at the USA's oldest public building, the Palace of the Governors, in this city founded in 1610, the oldest city that serves as a state capital
Santa Fe
BIBLICAL DATING GAME $800: Fearing he'd be killed by jealous men, Abraham falsely said he was this woman's brother
Sarah
GENESIS $400: She conceived and bore Abraham a son, Isaac, in his old age
Sarah
NAMES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT $1000: In Genesis she posed as her husband's sister when they traveled to Egypt
Sarah
OLD TESTAMENT WOMEN $500: When told she was going to have a child by Abraham, she "laughed within herself"
Sarah
THE BIBLE $2000: While barren, she gave her Egyptian maid Hagar to Abraham to bear his children
Sarah
MOVIE ROLES $1000: 2008: Mary, "The Other Boleyn Girl"
Scarlett Johansson
RECENT CINEMA $400: In "The Nanny Diaries" she plays Annie Braddock, a college student taking care of a rich family's kid
Scarlett Johansson
MUSIC APPRECIATION $600: Despite her deafness, Evelyn Glennie, born near Aberdeen in this country, is a world-famous percussionist
Scotland
RIVERS $200: The Dee & Don Rivers are scenic features of Aberdeen, in this country
Scotland
U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: A railroad president named Aberdeen, South Dakota for his birthplace in this country
Scotland
THOSE ARE SOME BIG SHOES $1000: After filling Ted Kennedy's shoes in Mass., this man decided to try out Jeanne Shaheen's senatorial ones in New Hampshire
Scott Brown
DOGS $300: This breed was originally called the Aberdeen terrier
Scottish terrier
CHRISTMAS MOVIES $400: In a 1970 film, Alec Guinness played Jacob Marley's ghost & Albert Finney played this man
Scrooge
DONALD DUCK $400: A creation of the comic books, this rich old miser wears a red coat & a black silk top hat
Scrooge McDuck
OUR WRITERS' FAVORITE COMIC BOOKS $200: He's Donald Duck's rich uncle & he has his own comic book
Scrooge McDuck
BIG BUSINESS $1600: This company's first retail store opened on February 2, 1925 at Homan Avenue & Arthington Street in Chicago
Sears
"SH"!! $1200: James Hilton's high mountain valley
Shangri-La
20th CENTURY AMERICA $500: When it was set up in 1942, the presidential retreat, now Camp David, was called this
Shangri-La
AIRCRAFT CARRIER NAMES $1000: An aircraft carrier was named this, a fictional Tibetan land of eternal youth
Shangri-La
WORLD CULTURES $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, MA.) 1 of only 7 surviving Indian artifacts positively linked to Lewis & Clark is a bear claw necklace; Lewis wrote, "It was worn by those who esteemed themselves brave" among these people to whom Sacagawea belonged
Shoshone
GHOSTBUSTERS $600: She played cellist Dana Barrett, who becomes possessed by a Sumerian god named Zuul
Sigourney Weaver
THEY ALL PLAYED HAMLET $300: The role of Obi-Wan Kenobi was light-years away when he played Hamlet at the Old Vic in 1938
Sir Alec Guinness
LITERATURE $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from New York's Central Park.) Central Park's Literary Walk features Robert Burns & this great novelist & countryman, both sculpted by John Steell of Aberdeen
Sir Walter Scott
BONE VOYAGE $1200: The remains of Tatanka Yotanka, AKA this Sioux leader, were taken by his nephew from North Dakota to South Dakota
Sitting Bull
KIDDY LIT $1,400 (Daily Double): Robin McKinley's "Spindle's End" is a retelling of this fairy tale
Sleeping Beauty
LITERATURE ALIASES $1000: Randall Flagg, a character created by this man, is aka Nyarlathotep, Walter Padick & Walter O'Dim
Stephen King
ROBERT E. LEE $600: The detail of Lee seen here is from this monumental landmark in Georgia
Stone Mountain
ROLLING "STONE" $400: This large granite memorial near Atlanta was dedicated in 1970
Stone Mountain
A CAPITAL IDEA? $1000: Her father Francis says at about age 3 she heard him in a long argument & said, "Cut!"
Sophia Coppola
CELEBRITY RELATIVES $800: One of Nicolas Cage's cousins is this woman who directed "Lost in Translation" & "Marie Antoinette"
Sophia Coppola
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA $500: In 1999 Francis produced "The Virgin Suicides", which marked the directorial debut of this woman, his daughter
Sophia Coppola
OSCAR WINNERS: Later an Oscar winner, she appeared as the child baptized towards the end of "The Godfather"
Sophia Coppola
OSCAR-WINNING WRITERS $1600: 2003, original: "Lost in Translation"
Sophia Coppola
TAKE ME TO YOUR DIRECTOR $400: She followed in her father's footsteps when she directed "The Virgin Suicides"
Sophia Coppola
WHEN THEY WERE TEENS $800: This daughter of Francis Ford Coppola was an intern for fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld in Paris
Sophia Coppola
WOMEN DIRECTORS $800: With films like "Marie Antoinette" & "Lost in Translation", directing must run in the family for this woman
Sophia Coppola
REBEL WITHOUT A PULSE $400: I'm this man from Thrace who led a 90,000-man slave rebellion vs. Rome until his death in 71 B.C.--No! I'm this man!
Spartacus
WHO'S THE MAMA? $1000: Jason Schwartzman (Yo! This actress)
Talia Shire
WOMEN DIRECTORS $1200: This sister of Francis Ford Coppola & aunt of Sofia also directed "One Night Stand", starring Ally Sheedy
Talia Shire
WOMEN DIRECTORS $600: This sister of Francis Ford Coppola directed her first feature film, "One Night Stand", in 1994
Talia Shire
SENATORS WITH STAMINA $400: From 1952 to 2009 this Democrat with a good name for politics served Massachusetts
Ted Kennedy
AMERICAN KNIGHTS $600: In 2009, 6 months before his death, this giant of Massachusetts politics got a knighthood
Teddy Kennedy
(Alex: Each response is a famous pair, but you must give us the response in reverse order.) PAIRS FAMOUS $200: A bank employee paying out money at the counter & a common name for a university in west Philly
Teller and Penn
MAIN STREET U.S.A. $800: In Salt Lake City take Main Street to this square to find the Mormon Tabernacle
Temple Square
JAMES K. POLK ME $500: Before winning the White House, Polk served in this state's assembly & as its governor
Tennessee
BRITISH POETRY $400: Lord Byron was a major influence on this later poet lord who wrote 1842's "The Lord of Burleigh"
Tennyson
LITERARY BROTHERS $400: He was a teenager (& not yet a lord) when he wrote "Poems by Two Brothers" with his brothers Charles & Frederick
Tennyson
TEDDY ROOSEVELT $300: Roosevelt was only 42 whern he succeeded this man as president in 1901
William McKinley
LESSER-KNOWN MOVIES $800: Francis Ford Coppola followed "The Godfather" with this film starring Gene Hackman as a wiretapper
The Conversation
MOVIE PRODUCERS $500: Julia Phillips was the first woman producer to win a Best Picture Oscar, for this 1973 con game film
The Sting
PLAYING THE PONIES $1600: Robert Shaw bets on Lucky Dan at 4-1 in this movie, but not to place--oops!
The Sting
THE WRATH OF CAAN $400: As Sonny in this Coppola film, James Caan beats the cannoli out of his no-good brother-in-law
The Godfather
ROBERT REDFORD $600: Costume designer Edith Head won her 8th & final Oscar for this Chicago-set film that starred Redford & Newman
The Sting
SCOTT JOPLIN $800: Interest in Joplin's music was revived by this 1973 film that featured many of his songs & starred Newman & Redford
The Sting
"WILD" MOVIES $800: Meryl Streep needed a lot more than one degree of separation from Kevin Bacon on the water in this movie
The River Wild
THAT '70s FILM $400: Devotees bring toilet paper, rice, rubber gloves & other props to midnight showings of this 1975 film
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
THE ASSASSIN'S VICTIM $800: 1901: Leon Czolgosz
William McKinley
SECRETS $1600: In a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mary Lennox finds a key that she hopes will open this title place
The Secret Garden
TIME TO HIT THE BOOKS $1000: Bratty & spoiled Mary Lennox becomes the ward of her English uncle in this 1911 Frances Hodgson Burnett classic
The Secret Garden
UNREAL ESTATE $1200: Most of this 1909 book by Frances Hodgson Burnett is set at Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire
The Secret Garden
UNREAL ESTATE $2000: Most of this kids' book by Frances Hodgson Burnett takes place at Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire
The Secret Garden
LITERATURE $600: At 16 Frances Hodgson Burnett moved from England to U.S. & later wrote this children's classic
The Secret Garden (or Little Lord Fauntleroy)
FILMS OF THE '70s $200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew rides on the carousel.) I'm riding the Santa Monica Pier carousel, which you may recognize from this 1973 Newman & Redford ragtime film
The Sting
What is the Union Jack
The Union Jack, or Union Flag, is the national flag of the United Kingdom. The flag also has a semi-official status in Canada, by parliamentary resolution, where it is known as the Royal Union Flag. Additionally, it is used as an official flag in some of the smaller British overseas territories.
THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $200: He's the subject of the September 7, 1901 headline seen here: [President Shot At Buffalo Fair]
William McKinley
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $600: He said in his inaugural address "War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed"
William McKinley
TURN OF THE CENTURY FILMS $600: On August 28, 1899 a film of this president reviewing troops was shot in Pittsburgh; he was shot in 1901
William McKinley
TURNS OF THE CENTURY $800: This world leader died September 14, 1901
William McKinley
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $500: He said McKinley had "no more backbone than a chocolate eclair" but was his V.P. & successor
Theodore Roosevelt
PRESIDENTS $400: He was climbing in the Adirondacks when he was notified that Pres. McKinley was dying
Theodore Roosevelt
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD $100: A pizzeria, a souvenir shop, a candy factory & a defunct loan co, now stand at Hollywood Blvd. & this street
Vine
LAND O' LAKERS $400: L.A.'s city fathers renamed Weyse Avenue this street; "Hollywood & Weyse" just didn't cling
Vine
THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME $300: The stars run east & west on Hollywood Boulevard, & north & south on this street
Vine Street
U.S. PRESIDENTS $1000: This president campaigned for reelection in 1900 using the slogan "The Full Dinner Pail"
William McKinley
WORLD'S FAIRS & EXPOSITIONS $1,600 (Daily Double): He was the only president assassinated at a World's Fair
William McKinley (1901)
"RACE" $1000: This ancient region in the Balkan Peninsula was later a Roman province
Thrace
THE SUMMER OF LOVE: 1967 $400: This lawyer was confirmed as the 96th justice & first African American on the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
1965 $400: This "Roof of the World" became an autonomous region of China in 1965 & the Chinese took over many of the local govt. jobs
Tibet
BASIC GEOGRAPHY $800: You may get lightheaded in Gar, a town about 15,000 feet above sea level, in this autonomous region of China
Tibet
GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) With an area of 471,000 square miles & a population of 3 million, this autonomous region was incorporated by China in 1951 amid controversy
Tibet
THE HIMALAYAS $800: The highest tree in the Himalayas is a juniper tree found at around 16,000' in this autonomous region of China
Tibet
ENDLESS SUMER $600: The ancient Sumerian civilization flourished in the "Fertile Crescent" region between these 2 rivers
Tigris & Euphrates
HISTORY $200: The fertile farmland of the Sumerians was found between these 2 rivers
Tigris & Euphrates
SPEAKER'S CORNER $600: Thomas was the real name of this man who in 1936 graduated Boston College & joined the Mass. State House
Tip O'Neill
What states border South Dakota?
To the north (North Dakota) To the east (Minnesota) on the southeastern corner (Iowa) To the south (Nebraska) To the west (Wyoming and Montana) Montana is north of Wyoming
WHERE'D YA GO TO SCHOOL? $1000: Isaac Newton & Lord Byron: this Cambridge University college
Trinity
MOVIE QUOTES $1200: A 2010 remake: "I'm a foolish old man who's been drawn into a wild goose chase by a harpy in trousers and a nincompoop"
True Grit
ANIMALS ON THE MAP $800: About 3% of this country lies at the eastern edge of southern Europe in Thrace
Turkey
THE MIDDLE EAST $1000: Eastern Thrace is the European portion of this nation
Turkey
SYMBOLS: On WWI recruitment posters, James Montgomery Flagg drew this icon who is pointing & saying, "I want you for U.S. Army"
Uncle Sam
COMIC BOOKS $200: Among the wealthy characters with their own comics are Richie Rich & this relative of Donald Duck
Uncle Scrooge McDuck
"U" GOT IT! $800: Mesannepadda & Aannepadda were 2 early rulers of this 2-letter Sumerian city
Ur
2-LETTER WORDS $2000: The home of Abraham, this Sumerian city was rediscovered in the 1850s
Ur
2—LETTER WORDS $500: The temple of the moon god Nanna was the largest building in this ancient Sumerian city
Ur
ANCIENT TIMES $1000: Nanna the moon-god was the patron deity of this 2-letter Sumerian city
Ur
ARACHAEOLOGY $800: In 1922 Leonard Woolley began unearthing this Sumerian city, enhancing our knowledge of Mesopotamia
Ur
ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: In 1922 the remains of this 2-lettered Sumerian city & its cemetery were unearthed
Ur
ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: Sir Leonard Woolley is known for his excavations of this Sumerian city with a very short name
Ur
ASIA $2000: This ancient Sumerian city's ruins were first excavated in the 1850s, when the Ziggurat of Nanna was discovered
Ur
WHERE ART THOU? $1600: Herdin' some sheep with Abraham in this Sumerian city with a 2-letter name
Ur
ZIGGURATS $2000: Around 550 B.C., King Nabonidus of Babylon remodeled the ziggurat of this city with a 2-letter name
Ur
POLITICIANS $800 (Daily Double): 1 of the 2 Ohio governors elected president of the U.S. in the late 19th century
William McKinley (or Rutherford B. Hayes)
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $600: Cornelia, daughter of Gen. Nathanael Greene, was conceived while he was billeted at this cold Penn. site
Valley Forge
THE 1st TIME SINCE... $500: He played his 1st recital since 1978 at the state dinner the Reagans threw for the Gorbachevs
Van Cliburn
ENDS IN "ITZ" $500: Legendary Russian-born pianist who married Arturo Toscanini's daughter Wanda in 1933
Vladimir Horowitz
FAMOUS RUSSIANS $1000: 61 years after leaving Russia, this piano virtuoso returned in 1986 for a series of performances
Vladimir Horowitz
LADS NAMED VLAD $1600: This Russian-born piano virtuoso was the son-in-law of Arturo Toscanini
Vladimir Horowitz
PIANISTS $100: This great pianist, who died in November 1989, was Arturo Toscanini's son-in-law
Vladimir Horowitz
BONE VOYAGE $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a portrait on the monitor.) After dying an enemy of the state in 1778, this French philosopher became the posthumous hero of the revolution, and in 1791, his body was paraded to the Bastille tower where he had chosen his pen name
Voltaire
ZIGGURATS $800: This legendary tower of the Bible has been popularly associated with the ziggurat of Marduk
babel
LITERATURE $400: Longfellow based his tales of this inn on the Red Horse Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts
Wayside Inn
1806 $400: In 1806 this man published his first American English dictionary
Webster
HERE COMES THE WEDDING MOVIE $800: Vince Vaughn & Owen Wilson aren't invited but make the best guests anyway in this 2005 comedy
Wedding Crashers
MOVIE STARS GO TO WORK $400: Owen Wilson & Vince Vaughn are divorce mediators in this film
Wedding Crashers
WATER GATE $400: Last name of Australian director Peter that's also a term for a water barrier
Weir
POETS $200: Lord Byron was refused burial in this London church, but in 1969 a memorial to him was placed there
Westminster Abbey
1900 $1000: He lost the presidential race to McKinley for the 2nd time in a row
William Jennings Bryan
U.S. HISTORY $1000: His golden-voiced speech at the 1896 Democratic Convention clinched his nomination
William Jennings Bryan
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE $500: This president is seen here with his camera-shy wife Ida
William McKinley
BIRTH OF A PRESIDENT $1000: January 29, 1843 in Niles, Ohio
William McKinley
CHOCOLATEY QUOTES $400: Teddy Roosevelt served as this man's VP & said that he had "No more backbone than a chocolate eclair"
William McKinley
FIRST LADIES $600 (Daily Double): Ida went with this man, her husband, to Buffalo, but wasn't present at the exposition where he was shot
William McKinley
FIRST LADIES $800: Ida Saxton, the daughter of a Canton, Ohio banker, married this future president in 1871
William McKinley
HAIL TO THE CHIEF $2,900 (Daily Double): He was the last civil war veteran to become president, & the first to serve during the 20th century
William McKinley
HAIL TO THE CHIEF $800 (Daily Double): In 1900 the GOP claimed his reelection would give people "four years more of the full dinner pail"
William McKinley
HAIL TO THE CHIEF $800: He remembered the Maine; it blew up during his time in office
William McKinley
MOUNTAINS $200: He was only a candidate for president when North America's tallest mountain was named for him
William McKinley
PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1896 he became the first to use the telephone during a presidential election campaign, often calling GOP HQ
William McKinley
PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $500: In 1897 he said, "War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed"
William McKinley
PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $1000: In 1896, he became 1st pres. candidate to campaign by phone, tho probably not from his famous front porch
William McKinley
PRESIDENTIAL VPs $500: Theodore Roosevelt
William McKinley
PRESIDENTS $1000: This Ohio gov. ran his 1896 campaign from his front porch in Canton & won
William McKinley
PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $500: Ida, the wife of this 25th president, had epilepsy
William McKinley
POTPOURRI $300: Some say that Jesse James was with this man & his gang when they raided Lawrence, Kansas
William Quantrill
THE CIVIL WAR $2000: Cole Younger & Frank James accompanied this Colonel when he raided Lawrence, Kansas in 1863
William Quantrill
LORD BYRON $2000: Lord Byron got a bit childish & replaced the "W" at the beginning of this "Prelude" poet's name with a "T"
William Wordsworth
BONE VOYAGE $800: In 1562, almost 500 years after this Norman's greatest victory, Huguenots ransacked his tomb, scattering his bones
William the Conqueror
THE SUMMER OF LOVE: 1967 $1200: The first U.K. TV broadcasts in color began with live coverage of these championships
Wimbledon
HISTORY $200: In 1945 Clement Attlee defeated him, becoming British prime minister
Winston Churchill
WORLD LEADERS $300: In 1951 he defeated Clement Attlee to become prime minister of Britain again
Winston Churchill
1984 $1600: This main character of "1984" works at the Ministry of Truth
Winston Smith
BAD FOLKS IN BOOKS $600: Inner party member & torturer O'Brien shows this man the true face of evil in "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
Winston Smith
BRITISH LITERATURE $2000: Early in "1984" this character writes, "Down with Big Brother" over & over again in his diary
Winston Smith
LITERARY E-MAIL ADDRESSES $2000: [email protected]
Winston Smith
WE PUT CHARACTERS ON TRIAL $800: The Ministry of Love was the scene of the trial of this main character; his lawyer is appealing-- after 29 years
Winston Smith
TALL U.S. BUILDINGS $1,200 (Daily Double): A historic New York skyscraper was completed in 1913 to house the headquarters of this five-and-dime store
Woolworth
THAT'S MY DEPARTMENT STORE $200: In 1962, the year the first Wal-mart opened, this 5-&-dime retailer launched its Woolco stores
Woolworth
THE FIVE & DIME $100: Barbara Hutton's grandad, his NYC skyscraper was built on your parents' nickels & dimes
Woolworth
U.S. BUILDINGS $600: A sculpture in this New York City building depicts its founder holding one of the nickels used to create his five-and-dime empire
Woolworth Building
1997 BUSINESS NEWS $400: In July this retailer said it was closing 400 stores; it had nickeled-&-dimed itself to death
Woolworth's
CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $800: In February 1960 4 young black men staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter at a N.C. branch of this 5 & dime
Woolworth's
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY $600: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.) A sit-in by four young African-Americans in 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparked nationwide interest & activity in the civil-rights movement & also led this five-and-dime store to desegregate its lunch counters just about six months later
Woolworth's
PICK ONE $600: Of Woolworth, Wordsworth or Wadsworth, the one who was a stamp distributor in Westmoreland County
Wordsworth
THE OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL $2000: The emblem of the Surgeon General bears a white anchor & this traditional symbol of Hermes
a caduceus
THE MIDDLE AGES $1600: After a journey of 3 1/2 years, Marco Polo reached Shang-tu, China, which was called this in "Kubla Khan"
Xanadu
U.S. CITIES $1000: An A to Z list of Ohio cities might run from Aberdeen to this birthplace of a famous western author
Zanesville
BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS $1000: 1965: As Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof"
Zero Mostel
BEST MUSICAL ACTOR TONY WINNERS $600: "Fiddler on the Roof" (1965)
Zero Mostel
PYRAMID $400: From the Assyrian for "summit", it's a terraced pyramid of the ancient Babylonians
Ziggurat
A MESS O' MESOPOTAMIA $800: Mesopotamia's versions of pyramids were these stepped structures with temples on top
Ziggurats
ARCHITECTURE $800: The largest known one of these Mesopotamian temple towers is at Chogha Zabil in Iran
Ziggurats
IN THE GOOD OLD SUMER TIME $800: These Sumerian pyramids were topped by temples
Ziggurats
POKER HANDS $200: In Texas hold 'em these 2 cards are a "Woolworth"
a 5 and a 10
8-LETTER WORDS $1600: This symbol of the medical profession is modeled on a staff that Mercury carried
a Caduceus
TYPES OF SALADS $600: From Thessaloniki or Samothrace
a Greek salad
WORKS LIKE A CHARM $800: The user's manual says the first step in assembling the Motorola CHARM for use is to insert this card
a SIM card
APOLLO 11 $1600: Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy aboard one of these mighty rockets
a Saturn V
I FEEL A BIT "ILL" $1000: A soldier's lodging place
a billet
I'M JUST A "BILL" $1200: Lodging for a soldier
a billet
DOLLAR "BIL" $2000: Lodging for a soldier
a billet Crossword Clue: House, as soldiers Answer: billet
"BI"OLOGY $400: A mollusk, like an oyster or clam, with a shell consisting of 2 hinged parts
a bivalve
CLOTHING THROUGH THE AGES $800: Beastly term for a scarf of feathers or fur, but usually not scales
a boa
PROVERBS OF DEATH $500: A soldier might say "Every" one of these "has its billet"
a bullet
AND THEN YOU "DY" $2000: 2 individuals or units regarded as a pair
a dyad crossword clue: couples answer: dyads Define dyad nounTECHNICAL something that consists of two elements or parts. "the mother-child dyad" MATHEMATICS an operator that is a combination of two vectors. CHEMISTRY a divalent atom or radical.
ART $600: Marc Chagall painted several versions of this type of musician hovering above roofs
a fiddler
MYTHELLANEOUS $200: The mythical Sumerian hero Utnapishtim built a big vessel at God's urging & thereby survived this catastrophe
a flood
MONSTER MANUAL $1600: It had a woman's head & a bird's body & met up with the Argonauts; c'mon get...
a harpy
MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: A shrewish woman, or a predatory mythological creature who is part woman, part bird
a harpy
GET A ROOM! $400: Take a romantic bath in the Garden of Eden Apple Suite at Caesars Pocono Palace--your tub is shaped like this
a heart
7-LETTER WORDS $200: In track & field, women throw one that's at least as long as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is tall
a javelin
IT'S TOTALLY TUBULAR $200: This tube in which you can see changing colors was popular from its invention in 1816; Lord Byron got one as a gift
a kaleidoscope
CALL ME A"LEX" $1200: By profession, Noah Webster was one of these
a lexicographer
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Your girlfriend will be ecstatic if you send her a billet-doux or "sweet note", this alliterative item
a love letter
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: If a Frenchwoman receives a billet-doux, she's gotten one of these
a love note or letter
"AT" EASE $1600: A terraced pyramid of the ancient Babylonians
a ziggurat
SCIENCE IS A 7-LETTER WORD $3,000 (Daily Double): Examples of this type of soft-bodied invertebrate include the snail & the octopus
a mollusk
WET SCIENCE $1600: The zebra type of this mollusk is so successful at filtering the Great Lakes, water clarity is causing algae blooms
a mussel
HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $2000: Contracting tissue in a bivalve mollusk
a mussel muscle
GAMES $400: 7 or 11 in craps, or Robert Redford in recent movie
a natural
MOLLUSKS $400: This "chambered" mollusk begins life with about 4 chambers & develops around 30 by adulthood
a nautilus
CLAM UP $200: Take that, oysters! One of the largest of these is a 75-pound specimen extracted from a giant clam
a pearl
JEWELRY $200: The color of this gem ranges from black to white, depending on the mollusk & it's environment
a pearl
FROM NOAH WEBSTER'S 1828 DICTIONARY $3,000 (Daily Double): "One versed in the science of government and the art of governing"; also "a man of artifice or deep contrivance"
a politician
JAMES K. POLK ME $400: After John Quincy Adams' disputed election, Polk called for an end to the electoral system & for this type of vote
a popular vote
ISAAC $600: Abraham was ready to sacrifice Isaac as commanded, but God provided this adult animal caught in a thicket
a ram
THE NEW YORK TIMES DINING & WINE $800: A tasty but tongue-twisting recipe from Mark Bittman paired the bay type of this bivalve mollusk with scallions
a scallop
GREEK MYTHOLOGY $1600: Athena gave Perseus one of these to use as a mirror against Medusa &, reflecting back, it was a good thing
a shield
"CROSS"WORDS $800: They're on the flag known as the Jolly Roger
a skull and crossbones
ENDS IN "G" $200: A small snail-like mollusk that has no shell, or a metal disk often used illegally in vending machines
a slug
FLORIDA & FAUNA $1200: Broward County is known for the Florida tree this, a mollusk whose shell can have pink streaks (but not racing stripes)
a snail
POETRY SLAM $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew recites "poetry.") A dream cracked And I awoke Frozen tears rising Like this calcium carbonate deposit On a cave floor
a stalagmite
CLAM UP $600: This soft-shell clam named for 1 way it's cooked is pronounced in New England to rhyme with "Lima"
a steamer clam
ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: An upright slab with writing, like the Merneptah one Stanley Kowalski--er, Sir Flinders Petrie--found in 1896
a stela
BEE WORDS $600: It's an elaborate confidence game like the one pulled off by Paul Newman & Robert Redford in a 1973 film
a sting
CLOTHING THROUGH THE AGES $400: In ancient Rome a balteus was a shoulder "belt" formed from the twisted folds of one of these garments
a toga
CLICHES MADE FANCY $1000: "One ziggurat as an incarnation of brawn"
a tower of strength
ANIMAL WORDS $1000: A quarrelsome woman; one might even say she's vulpine
a vixen
TECHNOLOGY OF THE PAST $1000: A Sumerian pictograph shows one in 3500 B.C.: the oldest are wooden disks with 3 carved planks clamped by struts
a wheel
OF SPRINGS $800: The Omega brand of this accessory boasts of its tiny but critical silicon balance spring
a wristwatch
4 LEGS FOR YOU $1000: Likely domesticated in Tibet, this oxlike mammal aka "hairy cattle" can check in at around 1,800 pounds
a yak
EAT IT! $800: For a quick version of this French sauce, mix together mayo, minced garlic, a little salt & lemon juice
aioli
IT'S GREEK TO ME $800: As the English alphabet runs from A to Z, the Greek runs this way
alpha to omega
(Alex: We have military devices that have been anagrammed in...) WHIRLED OF WARCRAFT $1200: Large & in charge barge: ERRATIC CAR FRIAR
an aircraft carrier
WORKS LIKE A CHARM $1000: In 2013 TechCrunch called Charm, a then-new one of these, "Tinder meets Vine"
an app
ABOARD "SHIP" $800: In a 2013 film Owen Wilson got a coveted one of these title positions at Google
an internship
ANIMALS $600: This mollusk, also called a devilfish, may inject a poison to paralyze prey
an octopus
TAUNT "O" $800: When you try to make a point, you flail around like one of these mollusks with 8 limbs
an octopus
SIGNS & SYMBOLS $200: Athena is a goddess of wisdom, as symbolized by this creature
an owl
FOOD & DRINK $200: The "Olympia" variety of this seafood is a favorite for eating on the half shell
an oyster
JONATHAN SWIFTIES $200: "He was a bold man that first ate" this bivalve mollusk
an oyster
COWS $800: The black, polled beef cattle aka the Aberdeen this was introduced to the U.S. in 1873
angus
-OLOGIES $400: The study of ancient cultures by examining their material remains
archaeology
LESSER-KNOWN MUSEUMS $1600: The Devil's Rope Museum in McLean, Texas is devoted to this type of barrier
barbed wire
REPLICAS $1000: Caesars Palace in Las Vegas turned a replica of this type of Cleopatra craft into a nightclub
barge
(Alex: Each response is a famous pair, but you must give us the response in reverse order.) PAIRS FAMOUS $600: A Duracell item & one of the "A"s in the Marines' AAV-7 vehicle
battery and assault
LORD BYRON $1200: Byron's poem "She Walks In" this was inspired by a lovely lady in a mourning dress
beauty
LORD BYRON $1200: Inspired by his cousin's wife, Byron wrote, "she walks in" this, "like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies"
beauty
CHANGE A LETTER $1200: Change a letter in "ballet" & you get this lodging for a soldier
billet
PUT IT ON MY "BILL" $1000: Mais oui, ma chere, it's a hyphenated French term for a love letter
billet-doux
FEMALE INVENTORS $600: Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, is said by some to be the first programmer, as she used this number system
binary
CLAM UP $400: This term for organisms like clams means they're made of 2 shells
bivalves
GOOD "BI" $1600: An oyster, clam or mussel
bivalves
ZOOLOGY $500: Mollusks who have shells with 2 similar halves are classed as these
bivalves
HISSSTORY $1000: This ancient winged staff featuring 2 intertwined snakes is now the symbol of the U.S. Army Medical Corps
caduceus
MYTHOLOGY $500: Hermes' winged sandals were the talaria & his staff, this
caduceus
MYTHOLOGY $800: In return for the lyre, Apollo gave Hermes this golden staff with coiled serpents
caduceus
SNAKE STUFF $2000: According to legend, Hermes traded a lyre to Apollo for this snake-wrapped stick
caduceus
THE "DUCE" YOU SAY $1000: Snake-encircled wand carried by Mercury
caduceus
ROCKS & STONES $2000: Also beginning with C-A, it's the one-word name for the form of calcium carbonate seen here as Iceland's spar
calcite
THE ELEMENTS $200: Seashells are made of its carbonate, your bones of its phosphate
calcium
THE HUMAN BODY $1,000 (Daily Double): About 2/3 of the weight of bone tissue consists of the minerals phosphate, carbonate & this
calcium
WATER SCIENCE $400: Mineral water from natural springs usually has a high level of carbonate of this chemical element
calcium
"C.C." SENOR! $2000: Chalk is a naturally occurring form of this compound whose chemical formula is CaCO3
calcium carbonate
CLAM UP $800: To grow their protective outer shells, clams secrete this compound, CaCO3
calcium carbonate
GENERAL SCIENCE $300: Chalk & limestone are naturally occurring forms of this compound, CaCO3
calcium carbonate
INVERTEBRATES $400: The skeleton of a starfish is made of this, CaCO3, just like chalk
calcium carbonate
MEET YOU IN THE MIDDLE $800: Digital ____ obscura
camera
EAT IT! $600: Mozzarella, tomatoes & basil are in this simple salad that gets its name from an Italian island
caprese
3 OF A KIND: Classical music's "Million Dollar Trio" was Heifetz, Rubinstein &, on this instrument, Gregor Piatigorsky
cello
"C" IN SCIENCE $2000: The name of this class of mollusks comes from Greek words meaning "head foot"
cephalapod
ORE Cinnamon is a spice, not to be confused with this reddish ore of mercury with a similar-sounding name
cinnabar
BY THE SEASHORE $200: Yielding 20 pounds of edible flesh, the giant type of this is the largest bivalve mollusk
clam
SHUT YOUR MOUTH $600: In a familiar phrase for becoming silent, "up" follows the name of this bivalve mollusk
clam
CLOTHING $300: You don't have to be shoveling for mollusks to wear these pants, as their name suggests
clam diggers
THE SHUSH DOCTRINE $400: There's a bivalve mollusk in this 2-word idiom meaning to become silent
clam up
MOLLUSKS $200: This drink created in 1969 is basically a Bloody Mary mix with a tiny bit of mollusk broth in the recipe
clamato
HIT THE BEACHES $2000: It's the activity of gathering quahogs & longnecks, maybe on the beaches of Martha's Vineyard
clamming
I AM THE WALRUS $400: A walrus feeds on these mollusks, though we doubt they're served "casino"
clams
SEA LIFE $600: 2 Pacific coast species of this mollusk are pismo & geoduck
clams
SHOW ME THE MONEY SLANG $1,100 (Daily Double): Mollusks of the class Pelecypoda
clams
BY DEGREES $1000: To Francis Ford Coppola, nephew Nicolas Cage is in the third degree of this 13-letter word from the Latin for "blood"
consanguinity
"L" These birds have longer tails and longer names than the very similar lories
lorikeet
IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS $1000: Tannenbaums? No--just Christmas tree worms that live in the calcium carbonate skeletons of these marine creatures
coral
ANTIQUES $500 (Daily Double): Because of 1891's McKinley Tariff Act, this was required to appear on the bottoms of plates coming into U.S.
country of origin
MEN'S FASHION $200: It was the footwear recommended for the black tie Bush inaugural gala sponsored by Texas
cowboy boots
"CROSS"WORDS $400: It's the sport seen here--remember the category title
cross-country skiing
"CROSS"WORDS $2000: If you're esotropic, you're this
cross-eyed
MARINE BIOLOGY $1600: Barnacles were once classified as mollusks but now are included in this class along with crayfish
crustacean
HISTORY $1000: About 3000 B.S. the Sumerians invented this writing system which used triangular marks
cuneiform
IN THE GOOD OLD SUMER TIME $600: Sumerians scratched this writing system into stone & wax in addition to clay tablets
cuneiform
GARDENING $800: The yellow & white flower seen here; Donald might "duck" out to get some as a gift
daisy
"DARK" $400: In 1844 James K. Polk was the 1st of this type of candidate to win the presidency
dark horse
JAMES K. POLK ME $200: Running for president as a relative unknown, Polk is considered the first of these swarthy animals
dark horse
IT'S AN INTERJECTION: It can mean to mend clothing, & not go all the way to damn!
darn
ART & MYTHOLOGY $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) In Botticelli's painting of Athena restraining a centaur, the interlocking rings on her clothing are a symbol of this family, a member of which commissioned the work
de Medici
LANGUAGES $200: Since they're no longer spoken, Sumerian, Etruscan & Gothic are given this lifeless name
dead languages
E BEFORE I, BUT NO C DO I SPY $800: Odin or Athena
deity
ROCK OF AGES $1600: The Rock of Gibraltar is made up mostly of this rock that's generally composed of calcium carbonate
limestone
AMERICAN HISTORY $300: McKinley campaigned for president promising "a full" one of these
dinner pail
POTPOURRI $200: Of mollusks, algae or dinosaurs, the last one to appear on Earth
dinosaurs
WORKS LIKE A CHARM $400: Like a Chinese chicken dish, Charms candy pops come in this alliterative pair of contrasting flavors
sweet and sour
GREECE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in front of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece.) Built in the 400s B.C., the temple of Athena, known as the Parthenon, is the greatest example of this ancient architectural style
doric
ANIMAL PADS $400: An aerie is for these, perhaps the harpy or bald type
eagle
NATURE $400: The Harpy type of this bird lives in South American rain forests & preys on monkeys & other mammals
eagle
MINING FOR "ORE" $1000: Classical music greats Horowitz & Rostropovich each put out an album of tunes they used as these crowd-pleasers
encores
THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED $2,000 (Daily Double): The main flag on a warship is called this, also a rank in the Navy
ensign
FRYER TUCK $1000: Tuck goes full Fannie Flagg making this 3-word title dish, dipping 'em in flour, milk, eggs & bread crumbs
fried green tomatoes
THE SCIENTIFIC NAME GAME $800: Ittibittium is a genus of (very small) marine snails, part of this mollusk class
gastropod
THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $500: The name of this class of mollusks comes from the Greek for "belly foot"
gastropods
FROM NOAH WEBSTER'S 1828 DICTIONARY $400: "The doctrine or science of the structure of the... terraqueous globe, and of the substances which compose it"
geology
PIERCED NAVAL HISTORY $800: Even though the mortally wounded James Lawrence on the Chesapeake cried, "Don't" do this, his crew finally had to
give up the ship
THE WAR OF 1812 $400: As he was carried below, mortally wounded, Capt. James Lawrence of the Chesapeake ordered, "don't" do this
give up the ship
NURSERY RHYME TIME $400: Jack Horner's depressed pie filling
glum plum
MYTHOLOGY $100: Post held by Neith for the ancient Egyptians, Minerva for the Romans & Athena for the Greeks
goddess of wisdom
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $500: If you put J. Arthur Rank's, Donald Duck's, & Chuck Barris' together, you might have a bonang
gong
ROCKS & MINERALS $1000: True alabaster is a variety of this mineral used for making plaster of Paris
gypsum (calcium sulfate)
OLD TESTAMENT $800: Sarah was Abraham's wife, while Keturah was only this
handmaiden (concubine)
VERBS $1000: A school attended by Lord Byron & Winston Churchill; as a verb, it means to inflict great stress
harrow
IN THE OCEAN $1,000 (Daily Double): This type of crab moves into the empty shells of mollusks
hermit crab
WOOD $600: Andrew Jackson & James K. Polk were both nicknamed after this tree known for its tough wood
hickory
WORLD CULTURES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, MA.) The Copan stelae are the major source for scholars' growing understanding of Mayan writing; though we associate this term with picture writing, each symbol had a word associated with it, too
hieroglyphics
NURSERY RHYMES $400: "Little Jack Horner sat in the corner eating" this
his Christmas pie
STING $1200: The sting in the movie "The Sting" involves Robert Shaw placing a half-million-dollar bet on this sport
horse racing
WALKIN' SONGS $800: In 1964 the Shangri-Las wanted you to "Remember--walking..." here
in the sand
IT'S IN THE BIBLE $500: Problem for which couples Hannah & Elkanah and Abraham & Sarah would likely have sought medical help
infertility
SCULPTURE MATERIAL $1,000 (Daily Double): Chryselephantine statues like Phidias' "Athena" (the "Elephantine" part)
ivory
LETTER & WORD $1000: During World War II, these soldier meals included a stick of gum, toilet paper & 4 cigarettes
k-rations
GAMING $500: Caesars Palace historians tell us this game with numbers marked on a ticket helped fund the Great Wall of China
keno
"L" Don't be this 13-letter synonym for "lazy"
lackadaisical
"L" Verb meaning to dissolve out via percolation
leach
ORE Galena, PbS, is the chief ore mineral of this grayish metal
lead
FROM NOAH WEBSTER'S 1828 DICTIONARY $1600: "A species of aquatic worm, which is used in the medical art for topical bleeding"
leeches
CROSSWORD CLUES "L" $3,600 (Daily Double): Noah Webster, for example (13)
lexicographer
CAVES $800: Caves eroded by water are most commonly found in this type of rock composed mainly of calcium carbonate
limestone
GEOLOGY TEST $1600: Calcium bicarbonate from this, the most abundant soluble rock, is used by sea creatures in forming shells
limestone
I AM A ROCK $1000: The Rock of Gibraltar is a huge block of this rock made of calcite, a mineral form of calcium carbonate
limestone
NATURE $500: Coral is made of this substance secreted by polyps as an external skeleton
limestone
REEF MADNESS $800: The skeletons of coral polyps are made of calcium carbonate, so coral reefs are mainly this sedimentary rock
limestone
ARCHITECTURE $500: The Turkish style of these Islamic prayer towers is slender, pencil-shaped & girded with balconies
minaret
"MOD"s $2,000 (Daily Double): Winston Churchill said that political rival Clement Attlee was this, & had much to be this about
modest
ANIMALS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows the giant shipworm on the monitor.) The giant shipworm comes out of its shell, & the bacteria inside allow it to digest the sulfur compound in the mud around it; it's not actually a worm, but from this shelled phylum
mollusk
MARINE BIOLOGY $600: To biologists, a "whelk" is not a "wunnerful, wunnerful" bandleader but a type of this univalve
mollusk (snail)
ANIMALS $300: The largest members of this phylum are the giant squids & the smallest are snails
mollusks
COCKLES & MUSCLES $1000: The shell with radiating ribs identifies cockles, part of this vast group that also includes snails & squid
mollusks
THE OCEAN $600: 20,000 feet under the sea you'll still find animals of this phylum, different from their brethren octopi & clams
mollusks
THE SNAIL $1000: Both the squid & the snail are members of this animal phylum whose name is from the Latin for "soft"
mollusks
ZOOLOGY $2,200 (Daily Double): Malacology is the zoology branch that deals with these invertebrates, such as snails & clams
mollusks
ANIMALS $500: Shellfish are not fish, but members of 2 invertebrate classifications, of which this is 1
mollusks or crustaceans
MODE OF TRANSPORT $800: Our contestant Jeremy Horowitz dreamed of being an announcer at rallies of these (Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! ...Roaring out of the gates of Hades!)
monster trucks
ANCIENT TIMES $200: A great temple was built at Ur to honor Nannar, the Sumerian god of this heavenly body
moon
"MOTHER", "FATHER", "SISTER", "BROTHER" $1600: The inner iridescent layers of the shells of many bivalve mollusks
mother of pearl
PRECIOUS "M"s $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue crew shows off her choker.) You can buy some unique jewelry made of this, the lining of some mollusk shells
mother of pearl
SCIENCE CLASS $800: This prized natural substance is made up of alternating thin plates of calcium carbonate & conchiolin
mother of pearl
SEASHELLS $400: The finest pearls are produced by mollusks whose shells are lined with this
mother of pearl
SHELLS $500: Also called nacre, this iridescent inner layer of certain shells is composed mainly of calcium carbonate
mother of pearl
LANGUAGES $500: The last letter in the Greek alphabet is equivalent to this letter, not Z, in English
omega
THE INTERNATIONAL BUTLER ACADEMY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew eats expensive fish eggs at the International Butler Academy, the Netherlands.) The academy teaches the proper serving of caviar--always use a nonmetallic spoon, perhaps one made of this material, from the interior of mollusks
mother of pearl
DESIGN $400: It's the iridescent lining of mollusk shells used in decorative inlays
mother-of-pearl
"M"ENAGERIE $300: Mother-of-pearl from the freshwater species of this bivalve was once used to make buttons
mussel
ANIMALS $400: These mollusks, not oysters, are the most common source for freshwater pearls
mussels
FOOD $400: These bivalves should have their beards removed before cooking
mussels
SEASHELLS $600: The blue species of this common bivalve accounts for much of the shell litter on East & West Coast beaches
mussels
SHELLFISH $500: A recipe for moules mariniere would call for these mollusks
mussels
ISLANDS $200: Lord Byron's poem "The Island" was based on this famous mutiny
mutiny on the bounty
ENDS IN "RE", NOT ER $1200: Composed of calcium carbonate & conchiolin, it creates the iridescent effect attributed to pearls
nacre
THE PEARL $1600: This 5-letter substance is secreted by the mollusk to create a pearl
nacre
SEASHELLS $800: A type of cephalopod mollusk whose name is a favorite for submarines, both real & fictional
nautilus
Define ziggurat
noun (among the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians) a temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramidal tower, consisting of a number of stories and having about the outside a broad ascent winding round the structure, presenting the appearance of a series of terraces.
Define dame
noun 1. (in the UK) the title given to a woman equivalent to the rank of knight. 2. INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN a woman.
Define Muskogee
noun 1. a member of an American Indian people of the southeastern US, who led the Creek Indian confederacy. 2. the Muskogean language of the Muskogee. adjective 1. relating to the Muskogee or their language.
Define incarnation
noun 1. a person who embodies in the flesh a deity, spirit, or abstract quality. "Rama was Vishnu's incarnation on earth" synonyms: embodiment, personification, exemplification, type, epitome; More 2. (with reference to reincarnation) one of a series of lifetimes that a person spends on earth. "in my next incarnation, I'd like to be the Secretary of Fun" synonyms: lifetime, life, existence "a previous incarnation"
Define brawn
noun 1. physical strength in contrast to intelligence. "commando work required as much brain as brawn" synonyms: physical strength, muscle(s), burliness, huskiness, toughness, power, might; More 2. BRITISH meat from a pig's or calf's head that is cooked and pressed in a pot with jelly.
Define patriarch
noun 1. the male head of a family or tribe. 2. any of those biblical figures regarded as fathers of the human race, especially Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, their forefathers, or the sons of Jacob. synonyms: senior figure, father, paterfamilias, leader, elder "as patriarch of this family, I am passing fiduciary control of the estate on to Derek"
Define Thrace
noun 1. an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece. 2. a modern region corresponding to the S part of the Roman province: now divided between Greece (Western Thrace) and Turkey (Eastern Thrace) .
Define lexicographer
noun a person who compiles dictionaries.
Define rejoinder
noun a reply, especially a sharp or witty one. "she would have made some cutting rejoinder but none came to mind" synonyms: answer, reply, response, retort, riposte, counter; informalcomeback "what serious rejoinder could I possibly offer when you make such a ludicrous accusation?" DATED•LAW a defendant's answer to the plaintiff's reply or replication.
"O" MY $200: Marine mollusk good at arm to arm to arm to arm to arm to arm to arm to arm combat
octopus
ANIMANIA $1000: The blue-ringed variety of this sea mollusk has a venom so potent it can kill a human being in a matter of minutes
octopus
EYE 8 $400: Eye exactly 8 tentacles on a marine mollusk & you're looking at one of these animals
octopus
EATING OUT $200: Grimaldi's under the Brooklyn Bridge is often voted No. 1 for this; try a slice!
pizza
WHO CARES? $100: The state shell of Virginia is that of this yummy mollusk
oyster
THE "O.C." $400: These crispy snacks were created for a certain mollusk soup
oyster crackers
THE BUTCHER $2000: If you're into experimenting, ask your butcher for the hip steak named for this mollusk
oyster steak
"OY"! $600: These edible bivalve mollusks can reach 12 inches across
oysters
FESTIVALS $200: A highlight of the St. Mary's county, Maryland festival devoted to this bivalve is the national shucking contest
oysters
FINE FOOD $200: At a raw bar, try the Lynnhaven type of this mollusk--it doesn't shuck
oysters
FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD $400: You need to shuck some of these for a Hangtown fry
oysters
GERMAN CUISINE $600: Gerostete Austern are these mollusks roasted & served on the half shell
oysters
HELL'S KITCHEN $1200: Traditionally, "angels on horseback" are these bacon-wrapped bivalves; add Tabasco for "devils"
oysters
WRITERS NOT WRITING $1200: As a youth, Jack London was a pirate--stealing these mollusks from farms in San Francisco Bay
oysters
SYNONYMS $1600: In the eastern U.S. the puma is called by this name that also starts with "P"
panther
THE DONALD $400: A popular urban legend says that Finland banned Donald Duck because he doesn't wear these
pants
WITH SCISSORS $200: In the hand game known as roshambo, it's what scissors beats
paper
WHAT'S IN YOUR SUPERMARKET CART? $600: An 8-pack of Brawny
paper towels
HAND, SOLO $1600: You'll need one hand for the World Series of Roshambo, but you can turn it into any of these 3 weapons
paper, rock, & scissor
SHIPS $100: In "Tales of a Wayside Inn", Longfellow compares brief encounters to "ships that" do this
pass in the night
(Alex: Each response is a famous pair, but you must give us the response in reverse order.) PAIRS FAMOUS $400: A flour/water mixture used to stick papers together (don't eat it, kids!) & an edit of a film in progress
paste and cut
GEMS $200: The Hope, a famous Baroque one of these mollusk gems, is 2 inches long & weighs several ounces
pearl
GEMS & JEWELS $200: The orient is the term for the surface iridescence of this mollusk product
pearl
FACTS FROM THE WORLD ALMANAC $200: Bahrain's natural resources include oil, fish, natural gas & these prized mollusk products
pearls
GEMS & JEWELRY $100: Renaissance women wore several necklaces at a time, often made of these mollusk gems
pearls
GEMS & JEWELRY $400: Legend says Cleopatra once dropped 2 of these mollusk gems in wine or vinegar & drank them
pearls
GEMS & JEWELRY $400: Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I show that she wore necklaces of these mollusk gems
pearls
NURSERY RHYMES $600: Little Jack Horner put his thumb in a Christmas pie & pulled out this fruit
plum
3-LETTER WORDS $100: It's one layer of toilet paper or wood
ply
DRUG STORE $400: It's said a Sumerian clay tablet from 2000 B.C., calling for plant materials, is the oldest one known
prescription
DRUGS $400: A Sumerian clay tablet from 2000 B.C. calling for plant materials is the oldest one known
prescription
WILD CATS $1,000 (Daily Double): The cougar has the Guinness record for most other names in English, over 40, including this 4-letter name
puma
CATCH THE QUECHUA WORD $400: This 4-letter alternate name for the mountain lion comes from the Quechua
puma Crossword Clue: Big cat of the Americas Answer: puma
ZIGGURATS $400: Dating back 5,000 years, ziggurats were temple towers of Mesopotamia built in the "step" style of this shape
pyramid
LESSER-KNOWN MUSEUMS $800: There's an early X-ray room in the Albuquerque Museum of the ASRT, the "R" referring to this medical field
radiology
SEAFOOD $2000: Coquilles St. Jacques is often served in the shell of these mollusks, the dish's main ingredient
scallops
5-LETTER WORDS $800: As a verb, it means to remove the husk from an ear of corn or the top shell of an oyster or clam
shuck
Define shul
shul or schul [shool, shoo l] Examples See more synonyms for shul on Thesaurus.com noun, plural shuln [shooln, shoo ln] /ʃuln, ʃʊln/, Yiddish. a synagogue. Crossword Clue: Sabbath service site Answer: shul
GENERAL SCIENCE $2000: Most sponge skeletons consist of either calcium carbonate or this glasslike mineral
silica
FATHER FIGURES $200: For designing the tallest of his era, like the Woolworth building, Cass Gilbert was "the father of" this type of structure
skyscraper
REPORTER'S DICTIONARY $1000: This short 1- or 2-word label for a news story sounds like a mollusk without a shell
slug
NATURE $400: Often found clinging to rocks, limpets are a type of this mollusk
snails
WRITERS' HOBBIES $600: Lord Byron enjoyed this athletic activity & crossed the Hellespont that way (about a mile) in 1810
swimming
19th CENTURY PRESIDENTS $400: James K. Polk is the only president to have previously held this position in the House of Representatives
speaker
AD VERBS $400: Charmin toilet paper implored, "Please don't ____ the Charmin"
squeeze
5-LETTER ANIMALS $400: The giant variety of this sea mollusk may grow to 55 feet long
squid
SEA CREATURES $200: This 10-armed mollusk ranges in size from a couple of inches to more than 55 feet
squid
SEAFOOD DIET $300: Calamari, another name for this mollusk with an edible ink, comes from the Latin for "writing pen"
squid
ZOOLOGY $300: Some of these mollusks related to the octopus are also known as sea arrows
squids
SCIENCE & NATURE $200: It's a formation of calcium carbonate built up on the floor of a cave, formerly water dripping from a stalactite
stalagmite
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD $200: Jack Palance, Dyan Cannon & Will Rogers have theirs in front of Frederick's of Hollywood
stars (on the Hollywood walk of fame)
FILL IN THE PHRASE $1000: "There are lies, damned lies & ____"
statistics
(Alex: We have military devices that have been anagrammed in...) WHIRLED OF WARCRAFT $400: It goes deep: MAN BRUISE
submarine
ENDLESS SUMER $400: Utu, who judged the dead at the end of each day, was the Sumerian god of this celestial body
sun
WORLD MYTH $400: Utu, the Sumerian god of this celestial body, judges the dead in the underworld at the end of the day
sun
"T" TIME $400: This word for any house of worship is from the Latin for "tent"; the Mormon one is famous for its choir
tabernacle
10-LETTER WORDS $200: A Mormon hall, or the portable sanctuary in which the Ark of the Covenant was carried
tabernacle
10-LETTER WORDS $600: There are 360 members of the famous Mormon this Choir
tabernacle
10-LETTER WORDS $800: The tent that housed the Ark of the Covenant; today the Mormons have a big one in Salt Lake City
tabernacle
RELIGIOUSI-"T" $400: This word for a house of worship is found between "Mormon" & "Choir"
tabernacle
WEIRDPODGE $800: From 1879 to 1931 this was the most any item cost at Woolworth's
ten cents
SPARE ME! $1000: (Kelley of the clue crew gives the clue) To pick up a woolworths split, a bowler tries to clip the left side of the 5 pin, throwing it across the lane to hit the pin with this number
the 10 pin
LET'S GO BOWLING $2,000 (Daily Double): Appropriately, in a Woolworth split, these 2 pins are left standing
the 5 & the 10
DOCTORS $200: Now 76, Jonas Salk has joined the quest to find a vaccine for this
the AIDS Virus
ANCIENT HISTORY $200: In the 400s B.C. Callicrates designed the temple of Athena Nike on this hill
the Acropolis
ROCKS OF AGES $800: This mountain range, including Mont Blanc, began with underwater limestone deposits 200 million years ago
the Alps
A RIVER RUNS TO IT $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on a monitor.) The Indus River rises in Tibet and flows 1800 miles through South Asia before emptying into this sea that shares its name with an adjacent peninsula
the Arabian Sea
CRAFTS $2000: Athena furnished this seacraft with a talking timber from the Forest of Dodona
the Argo
ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE OR MARINES $200: Secretary of State Colin Powell
the Army
HISTORY AT SEA $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated map on the monitor.) On the return trip during his first voyage, Columbus and the crew of the Niña were almost arrested on Santa Maria Island in this group, because the governor may have thought they were pirates
the Azores
NOTIFY $2000: Before this battle, Lord Nelson sent the message to his sailors that "England expects that every man will do his duty"
the Battle of Trafalgar
MAYOR GARCETTI'S LOS ANGELES $200: (His Honor, the Mayor Eric Garcetti delivers the clue.) Just north of Hollywood & Vine, the studios at Capitol Records have been used by Frank Sinatra, Green Day, Sam Smith & this band, who recorded their "Surfin' Safari" album in the tower
the Beach Boys
ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: The mud of Novgorod has yielded hundreds of medieval letters on the bark of this tree, a Russian national symbol
the Birch tree
"OO" WHO? $400: These brothers, Joseph & Lyman, founded an upscale NYC department store in 1872
the Bloomingdale's
U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: Mountain range that surrounds city of Atlanta
the Blue Ridge Mountains
LANDMARKS: Lord Byron wrote, "I stood in Venice on" this, "a palace and a prison on each hand"
the Bridge of Sighs
TRAVEL FRANCE $400: In 1889 a weather station was installed on its third & highest floor to measure wind speed & air pressure
the Eiffel Tower
MONEY $200: In Burkina Faso, Mali, the Central African Republic & Switzerland, the monetary unit is called this
the Franc
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $3,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Arlington National Cemetery.) Robert F. Kennedy wanted JFK buried under a simple wooden cross; that was overruled, but when he died, Robert, a World War II veteran of this same service as his brother Jack, got the humble monument he desired
the Navy
SHIP SHAPE $200: In 1492 the Santa Clara & La Gallega were given these names & joined the Pinta on an epic ocean voyage
the Nina and the Santa Maria
ALWAYS REMEMBER SEPTEMBER $400: The names of the 3 ships that left the Canary Islands on Sept. 6, 1492, heading west
the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria
THEY COME IN THREES $600: In August 1492 Columbus & his crews set sail on the ocean blue on these 3 ships
the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria
THE MONROE DOCTRINE $1,200 (Daily Double): James K. Polk cited the doctrine in getting sole control from Britain of this territory below the 49th parallel
the Oregon Territory
"PAR"TY TIME $800: After Muslims captured Athens in the 1400s, this temple to Athena was used as a mosque
the Parthenon
HISTORIC PLACES $1200: This temple was intact until the 5th century when Phidias' giant statue of Athena was removed
the Parthenon
LET'S VISIT A MUSEUM $800: At the Acropolis museum in Athens, you'll find a whole gallery devoted to this ancient temple of Athena
the Parthenon
BODIES OF WATER $400: Banks of pearl-producing mollusks are found around Bahrain, on the Arabian shore of this gulf
the Persian Gulf
VOYAGERS $200: Of Columbus' 3 ships in 1492, the Nina & Pinta were smaller than this one
the Santa Maria
MUST SEA TV $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A 2002 National Geographic special recounted the finding of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in this sea with the name of a Biblical king
the Sea of Solomon (or the Solomon Sea)
ARCHAEOLOGY $400: An 1847 study of the mound builders of Ohio was the first publication of this Washington, D.C. institution
the Smithsonian
SEAS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Mekong River in Vietnam.) Southeast Asia's longest river, the Mekong, starts in the Tibetan Highlands & flows 2,700 miles before emptying into the sea that we know as this, but which Vietnam wants to call the Southeast Asia Sea
the South China Sea
BABYLON 5 $800: Etemenanki, a ziggurat, is sometimes identified as this legendary landmark
the Tower of Babel
COLLEGE SPORTS MASCOTS: In 1947 Walt Disney made a handshake deal to let this university use one of his major characters as its mascot, still in use today
the University of Oregon
EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds up a flag at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, PA.) You might want to commemmorate your trip to the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia with a "Don't Give Up the Ship" flag featuring the immortal words of Captain James Lawrence during this war
the War of 1812
HULL OF FAME $400: It was during this war against the British that naval captain James Lawrence said, "Don't give up the ship"
the War of 1812
THERE'S A "WAY" $2000: James K. Polk chaired this House committee from 1833 to 1835; Bill Thomas chairs it today
the Ways and Means Committee
INNS $1000: The Red Horse Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts was the model for Longfellow's "Tales of" this "Inn"
the Wayside Inn
WORDS WITH A "WAY" $2000: "Tales of" this inn begins, "One autumn night, in Sudbury town, across the meadows bare and brown"
the Wayside Inn
"WHITE" $1,400 (Daily Double): Calcium carbonate conglomeration in England's county Kent
the White Cliffs of Dover
THE LOUVRE $1000: This statue was probably an offering by the people of Rhodes in commemoration of a naval triumph in the 100s B.C.
the Winged Victory of Samothrace
20th CENTURY AMERICA $300: When completed in 1913, the NYC skyscraper built by this dime store magnate was the tallest in the world
the Woolworth Building
ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: The temple pyramid known as El Castillo dominates the ruins of a city on this peninsula
the Yucatan
ON THE BATTLEFIELD $2000: (Jon shows a map on a monitor.) In 1879 at Isandlwana, a maneuver called "Horns of the Beast" allowed this African group to get close enough to overrun the British
the Zulu
FROM A TO E $1600: Like the opening in a camera, the main opening in the shell of a mollusk is called this
the aperture
ARMY BRANCHES $600: It's the ancient symbol seen here on the insignia of the Medical Service Corps
the caduceus
MEDICINE $600: This symbol of the physician is based on the staff of Asclepius
the caduceus
MYTHING IN ACTION $1000: Now an emblem of the medical profession, it was the staff carried by Mercury
the caduceus
CAMERAS $500: Many consider this, whose name is New Latin for "dark chamber", the earliest form of the camera
the camera obscura
ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: In 2009 the earliest known depictions of the Apostles from the 4th c. were found in these underground tombs in Rome
the catacombs
THE ORCHESTRA $1,600 (Daily Double): For much of the 20th c., Gregor Piatigorsky was regarded as the world's second-greatest virtuoso on this instrument
the cello
IN THE GOOD OLD SUMER TIME $200: Mythic Sumerian hero Utnapishtim built a big boat & survived this catastrophe
the flood
DISCOVERIES & INVENTIONS $600: George Clemens prevented untold chafing when he invented this device found in restaurant bathrooms
the hand dryer
ANIMAL PLANET $800: A kangaroo caught nibbling on toilet paper in an Aussie restroom led to the rhyming UPI headline "'Roo in the" this
the loo
THE FIRST MODERN OLYMPICS $1200: As in 2004, in 1896 Panathenaic Stadium had the finish of this, won back then by national hero Spiridon Louis
the marathon
"MOTHER", "FATHER", "SISTER", "BROTHER" $600: Produced by certain mollusks, it's also known as nacre
the mother of pearl
LITERATURE OF THE 19-OUGHTS $2000: Frank Norris titled his 1901 novel about a railroad that's strangling farmers after this marine mollusk
the octopus
THEY BITE, THEY STING $200: This mollusk captures its prey with its 8 arms, bites it with its beak & injects poison from its salivary glands
the octopus
ANCIENT COINS $1600: A tetradrachm from 5th century B.C. Athens depicts Athena wearing a helmet on one side & this bird on the other
the owl
SIGNS & SYMBOLS $1200: Like Athena, Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, was depicted with this bird as her symbol
the owl
EIGHTYSOMETHING $800: At age 89 virtuoso Arthur Rubinstein gave his last public concert on this instrument
the piano
SHELLFISH $1000: The shell of this mollusk gave its name to a method of cooking & to a curved edge, on cloth, for example
the scallop
THE NATURAL WORLD $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew scuba diving in the Barrier Reef near Belize) Sponges are classified based on what this structure is made of, such as calcium carbonate or silica
the skeleton
"S"PORTS TALK $2000: Broadcaster Eddie Doucette coined this term for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's trademark arcing shot
the skyhook
CREATURES OF NATURE $200: Taking the 'go" out of escargot, this mollusk is said to be able to lie dormant for months at a time
the snail
THE 1920s $4,400 (Daily Double): "Undreamed of splendors", boasted newspaper headlines about this 1922 discovery
the tomb of King Tut (Tutankhamen)
BRITISH POETS & POETRY $400: In 1823 Lord Byron penned, "And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but" this "in masquerade"
the truth
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1000: Jascha Heifetz taught a master class on this instrument at USC
the violin
THE MUSIC MAN'S INSTRUMENT $1600: Jascha Heifetz
the violin
AQUATIC MAMMALS $800: This pinniped uses its tusks to dig mollusks from the ocean floor
the walrus
ANCIENT SCIENCE $3,000 (Daily Double): The ancient Sumerian number system, based on 60, is still used today to measure this
time
FIRSTS $400: The Scott brothers sold rolls of this in 1890; 2-ply came later
toilet paper
INVENTIVE MINDS $400: Walter Alcock perforated this bathroom product in the 1870s
toilet paper
SPANISH PHRASE BOOK $400: Shortly after "¿Donde esta el baño?", you might have to ask, "¿Tienes mas papel higienico?" do you have more of this?
toilet paper
IN THE W.C. $200: In 1992 Ann Landers swore she was printing her last letter on whether this goes under or over the roll
toilet paper (or bathroom tissue)
BEGINNINGS $600: This bathroom article was 1st made in the U.S. in 1857 & sold as "Gayetty's Medicated Paper"
toilet tissue
_____ING THE _____ $600: Passing through a crisis safely, or navigating your way 90 degrees from Hollywood to Vine
turning the corner
IT HAPPENED ON GROUNDHOG DAY $200: Jascha Heifetz, born Feb. 2, 1901, was giving concerts on this instrument by 1907
violin
THE ILIAD & THE ODYSSEY $800: Apollo & Athena appropriately assume the shape of these carrion eaters to observe the battling Greeks & Trojans
vultures
SOUNDS SIMILAR $800: One who rules over specific pages & sites on the Internet & has the same name as lexicographer Noah
webmaster Webster
NURSERY RHYMES $1000: A compendium of nursery rhyme character quotes would include this one under Horner, Little Jack
what a good boy am I
POETS & POETRY $200: Around 600 B.C. Alcaeus (Alky for short?) wrote verse in praise of this drink & how it brings out truth
wine
SYMBOLS: The caduceus is symbolic to many cultures, but it really took off when these were added above the serpents
wings
SYMBOLS: These 2 cosmic forces in Eastern thought are sometimes symbolized by the tiger & the dragon
yin & yang
MESOPOTAMIA $2000: From the Assyrian for "height", this stepped structure was used as a temple by Mesopotamian cultures
ziggurat
ARCHITECTURE $800: Mesopotamians built these temples to look like miniature mountains
ziggurats