Jeopardy Set 5-29-18

TITLE ROLE PLAYING 400 '"Lawrence of Arabia"'

"(Peter) O'Toole"

"O" BROTHER 800 '"Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest" is by this ex-Supreme Courter & her brother Alan'

"(Sandra Day) O'Connor"

1940s AMERICAN LIT Daily Double 'This 1946 novel about a Southern politician takes its title from the "Humpty Dumpty" nursery rhyme'

"All the King's Men"

SEAN PENN 2000 'Sean played Willie Stark in the 2006 remake of this political film'

"All the King's Men"

NEWSPAPERS 800 This famous 7-word motto appears in the top left corner of the New York Times' front page

"All the news that's fit to print"

LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS 200 'John T. Dorrance, a chemist who studied cooking in Paris, developed the first canned soups for this brand'

"Campbell's"

THOREAU-ING A 200th BIRTHDAY! 1000 In the opening of this essay, Thoreau wrote, "That government is best which governs least'"

"Civil Disobedience"

PAUNCH SHOPS 800 "Hit a Grand Slam Slugger with hash browns at one of these restaurants & you've knocked in 85% of your RDV of fat"

"Denny's"

A TOMB WITH A VIEW Daily Double "You'll also find a First Lady in this structure in Manhattan's Morningside Heights section"

"Grant's Tomb"

"H. H." 1000 This song asks what "makes that little ol' ant think he'll move that rubber tree plant"

"High Hopes"

CURTAINS 200 "On this game show, Wayne Brady may ask if you want to trade what you have for what's behind the curtain"

"Let's Make a Deal"

"READY" WHEN YOU ARE 1600 4-word nickname of President Zachary Taylor, who had served 40 years in the U.S. military

"Old Rough an Ready"

TV SHOWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 400 '"The Ropers", who were spun off from this show, lost their lease after 1 season'

"Three's Company"

GOOD WORKOUT SONGS 600 Get pumped with this DJ Snake & Lil John megahit

"Turn Down For What"

LAST IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE 400 'Casey Stengel led this "Amazin'" 1962 team to a 40-120 record, 60.5 games back, but they were first in errors'

"the Amazin' Mets"

FOOD WORDS & PHRASES 2000 'This 1928 Republican campaign slogan originated with a hope that Henry IV had for French peasants'

'"A chicken in every pot"'

CAIN & ABEL 600 'When God asked Cain where Abel was, Cain replied with this 5-word question'

'"Am I my brother's keeper?"'

STUPID ANSWERS 800 'The second verse of this classic American song begins, "O beautiful for pilgrim feet"'

'"America The Beautiful"'

YOU NEED TO CLEAR THAT UP 400 'This word precedes "Shade Of Winter" in a Bangles song title'

'"Hazy"'

YEATS IS GREATS 800 'A Yeats poem ends, "By his command these words are cut: cast a cold eye on life, on death." Then these 3 words'

'"Horseman, pass by"'

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES 1600 'Completes the line Whittier gave Barbara Frietchie: "Shoot, if you must this old grey head, but spare your country's..."'

'"flag"'

A CATEGORY WITH REVERENDS 1000 'He hosts "Politics Nation" on MSNBC'

'(Al) Sharpton'

BATTLE STARS 1600 'For capturing 123 Germans during the 1918 Meuse-Argonne Offensive, he got a Medal of Honor & a Gary Cooper movie'

'(Alvin) York'

TV CV 1000 '"Homicide" (Detective Frank Pembleton), "Last Resort" (Captain Marcus Chaplin)'

'(Andre) Braugher'

MILLION DOLLAR 1000 'A man who bought 65 negatives at a garage sale said they were the work of this landscape master & worth $200 million'

'(Ansel) Adams'

BRUCE ALMIGHTY 400 'He played child psychologist Malcolm Crowe in "The Sixth Sense"'

'(Bruce) Willis'

RED BOOK 1600 'This psychologist was unafreud to confront his own demons in "The Red Book", written between 1914 & 1930 & published in 2009'

'(Carl) Jung'

A BUCKET LIST 800 'Taste a thousand-dollar bottle of wine from this chateau bought by a Rothschild in 1868'

'(Chateau) Lafite'

THINGS TO DO & SEE IN ISRAEL 1200 'In Tel Aviv, stop by Independence Hall on Rothschild Blvd., where this leader declared the state of Israel on May 14, 1948'

'(David) Ben-Gurion'

DOCTOR, LAWYER, NATIVE AMERICAN LEADER 1000 'This doc imprisoned for his role in the assassination of Lincoln saved many prisoners & guards in a yellow fever epidemic'

'(Dr. Samuel) Mudd'

WRITTEN BY 600 'This Welsh poet wrote the play "Under Milk Wood"'

'(Dylan) Thomas'

HISTORY 400 'Protests in the Philippines in 1986 drove this longtime leader into exile'

'(Ferdinand) Marcos'

THE CIVIL WAR 800 'From Nov. 1864 through April 1865, this Union general led a march of 62,000 troops through the South'

'(General) Sherman'

THE BOOK BOOK 1600 'The Necronomicon, an ancient evil Book of the Dead, wreaks havoc in several stories by this author who died in 1937'

'(H.P.) Lovecraft'

BROADCASTER NEWS 1200 'Here's the "Situation": this anchor began his career in 1972 working for Reuters in Tel Aviv'

'(Wolf) Blitzer'

LABOR DAY FOR HERCULES 800 'Hercules went to the ends of the Earth to get these; maybe he wanted his tarte tatin to taste just right'

'(the Golden) Apples (of the Hesperides)'

STUPID ANSWERS 600 'This was first imprinted in black on individual M&Ms in 1950'

'(the letter) M'

WHAT DEGREE ARE YOU GETTING? 800 '212 degrees Fahrenheit equals this many degrees Celsius'

'100 degrees Celsius'

SOLVE FOR x 400 '99 - x = the number of keys on a standard piano'

'11'

SOLVE FOR x 1000 "30 + x = Douglas Adams' ultimate answer to...well, everything"

'12'

BY THE NUMBERS 800 "It's the number of yards in a mile"

'1760'

A HOT LATIN NUMBER 1000 "You're accountable for your actions now: duodeviginti"

'18'

YOU SAY POTATO 2000 'More than a million died in the Irish Potato Famine that started in this 19th Century decade'

'1840s'

HUMAN BODY NUMBERS 200 'Total digits on all my hands & feet'

'20'

A HOT LATIN NUMBER 800 "I'm sorry, Dave: duo milia et unum"

'2001'

SOLVE FOR x 200 '25x = the number of U.S. Senate members'

'4'

A HOT LATIN NUMBER 600 "It's the new 30: quadraginta"

'40'

SOLVE FOR x 600 '105/x = blackjack!'

'5'

BY THE NUMBERS 200 'It's the lot number of Levi's "Original Jeans"'

'501'

THE FOOD CHAIN 200 'This convenience store was born when the Southland Ice Co. sold milk & eggs after grocery stores closed'

'7-Eleven'

CARBONATION NATION 400 'One type of this beverage that already has a number in its name is called 10, for its calorie count'

'7-Up'

BLUE LITERATURE 2000 'Elizabeth Kata wrote the novel this "of Blue" on which a 1965 Sidney Poitier movie was based'

'A Patch'

THE FOOD CHAIN 800 'Established in 1859, this transoceanic supermarket merged with Pathmark in 2007'

'A&P (Atlantic & Pacific)'

MARSHALL LAW Daily Double 'In 1807 Marshall wrote the opinion for U.S. v. this politician, making standards of evidence for treason'

'Aaron Burr'

HOMER (SIMPSON)'S ODYSSEY 1000 "Homer's hippie mom abandoned him, so he was raised by a non-hippie dad named this"

'Abe'

FIRST LADIES 200 'The first "Second Lady" & the second First Lady'

'Abigail Adams'

WRITTEN BY 800 'Of the 90 plays written by this ancient Greek, only 7 have survived intact, including the "Oresteia"'

'Aeschylus'

COUNTRIES ALPHABETICALLY 200 'Your Poppy knows this "A" country is first alphabetically'

'Afghanistan'

BALLET 800 'Cecil B. De Mille's dancin' niece, she choreographed her last ballet, "The Other", in 1992 at age 86'

'Agnes de Mille'

GEOG. DICT. ABBREV. 400 'A.F.B. stands for one of these military installations'

'Air Force Base'

SNACKS ON A PLANE 200 'Bon appetit! On long flights, this airline serves baguettes, cheese & champagne in the "affaires" cabin'

'Air France'

OFFICIAL STATE STUFF 1000 '"The Miracle Worker" is the official outdoor drama of this state in which it is set'

'Alabama'

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES 1600 'Things got more explosive at this bureau: though still abbreviated ATF, its full name includes "Explosives"'

'Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms'

MANGIA! 800 'This rich sauce for fettuccine was named for signore di Lelio, its creator'

'Alfredo'

WORLD GEOGRAPHY 400 "Al-Jaza'ir isn't a TV network but the Arabic name for this capital city in north Africa"

'Algiers'

RUMORS 2000 '"If you haven't got anything nice to say... come sit next to me" was a motto of this daughter of Teddy Roosevelt'

'Alice'

HIP HOP HOOPSTERS 800 'Known as "A.I." in the NBA, this controversial guard raps under the name Jewelz'

'Allen Iverson'

NATIONALLY CLAIMED 1200 'Oi! The Adelaide Crows & the Sydney Swans are teams in this rugged sport'

'Australian rules football'

IN 1867... 200 'This dual monarchy with a population of about 50 million was formed; it lasted until 1918'

'Austria-Hungary'

NORTH AMERICAN LANGUAGES 1000 "Nahuatl, Mexico's second-most widely spoken language, is also known by the name of this pre-Columbian people"

'Aztecs'

MILLION DOLLAR 400 '2010, not a good year for this U.K. oil co.; in Sept. the EPA fined it $15 million for Clean Air Act violations at a refinery'

'BP'

PAY BALL! 200 'His 1927 salary with the Yankees was $70,000, or $1,166.67 per homer'

'Babe Ruth'

BEAR WITH THESE BOOKS 400 'This brown bear was Mowgli's teacher in Kipling's "Jungle Book"'

'Baloo'

IT ENDS WITH "U" 1600 'Malcolm Guthrie wrote a 4-volume reference, now the standard, on this group of African languages'

'Bantu'

COUNTRIES OF THE CARIBBEAN 1000 'A type of raw sugar is named for this easternmost island of the West Indies'

'Barbados'

AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN 400 'Many Mediterranean cruises embark from this second-largest Spanish city & major port'

'Barcelona'

BAD HEIR DAY 2000 "In June 1461 Prince Carlos' father made him Governor of Catalonia, but in September Carlos died in this city"

'Barcelona'

COSMOPOLITAN 400 'This Spanish city on the Mediterranean was known in antiquity as Barcino'

'Barcelona'

1970s TV CASTS 2000 'Buddy Ebsen, Lee Meriwether & Mark Shera; a Quinn Martin production'

'Barnaby Jones'

OLDE ENGLAND 2000 'A London hospital founded for the Order of the Star of Bethlehem became known as this, also meaning a madhouse'

'Bedlam'

FROM NOVEL TO FILM 'First published in 1880 & made into a film in 1907, 1925 & 1959, it was the first work of fiction blessed by a pope'

'Ben-Hur'

YES, THEY WILL 400 'In his 1788 will this Philadelphian called himself a printer & president of the state of Pennsylvania'

'Benjamin Franklin'

FIRST LADIES 800 'After meeting her future husband in Sunday school, she enrolled in a Kansas City, Missouri finishing school'

'Bess Truman'

THE EDICT OF NANCY 2000 'In "Oliver Twist", Nancy is his girlfriend'

'Bill Sikes'

BLUE LITERATURE 800 'Created by Charles Perrault, this fairy tale villain who killed 6 wives may be based on real murderer Gilles de Rais'

'Bluebeard'

NAVY SEALS 800 'As a SEAL team leader in Vietnam, this Nebraska senator earned the Medal of Honor'

'Bob Kerrey'

STATE CAPITALS Daily Double 'French-Canadian trappers named it for the tree-lined river that provided relief for those crossing the Snake River Plain'

'Boise'

BOB MARLEY & ME 800 'Inducting Marley into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, this U2 singer said Bob was "showman, shaman, human"'

'Bono'

WIMBLEDON 1000 "In 1985 he became the youngest player, the first unseeded player & the first German to win the men's singles title"

'Boris Becker'

HOMER (SIMPSON)'S ODYSSEY 200 "It's the maiden name of the gal Homer married in Shotgun Pete's wedding chapel & of the gal JFK married in Newport"

'Bouvier'

AMONG THE 10 MOST POPULOUS COUNTRIES 200 'This South American country has about as many people as all the other South American countries combined'

'Brazil'

SPORTS-POURRI 800 'This NHL "Golden Brett" said coach Mike Keenan was "the kind of guy who will stab you in the back right to your face"'

'Brett Hull'

BRUCE ALMIGHTY 1600 "He gets a gold medal for being Kim Kardashian's stepdad"

'Bruce Jenner'

BRUCE ALMIGHTY 1200 'This icon of martial arts wrote the book "Tao of Jeet Kune Do"'

'Bruce Lee'

BRUCE ALMIGHTY 800 '1980's "Hungry Heart" was his first Top 10 hit'

'Bruce Springsteen'

NICE "BUN"s 800 'This adjective meaning very large refers to a mythical lumberjack'

'Bunyanesque'

PAUNCH SHOPS 400 'Its Triple Whopper has a whopping 1,160 calories & 205 milligrams of cholesterol'

'Burger King'

"BUR" BANK 400 'On its southwest this nation borders the Bay of Bengal'

'Burma'

AIRPORT CODES 800 "From the initials of the man it's named for, the larger of Paris' 2 airports has this 3-letter code"

'CDG'

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE 400 'In 1983 Barbara Boxer punched in as a congresswoman from this state'

'California'

SOUTH SPECIFIC 1200 "A Miami Herald columnist since 1985, he's known for comic novels about Floridian corruption"

'Carl Hiaasen'

THE WORLD PRESS 400 'The Communist newspaper Granma was named for the yacht sailed from Mexico to Cuba in 1956 by rebels led by him'

'Castro'

CALIFORNIA 1200 'In 1926 Zane Grey built a home on this island off Los Angeles where he spent most of the rest of his life'

'Catalina Island'

STOCK SYMBOLS 400 "If you're in the market for a backhoe loader (& who isn't?), CAT, this company, may have what you need"

'Caterpillar'

LABOR DAY FOR HERCULES 600 'For his last labor, Hercules had to go to Hades & subdue this canine that had a dragon for a tail'

'Cerberus'

LITTLE-KNOWN ANCIENT GREEKS 400 'Because of his loyal slave, a Greek known for introducing performers was known as the master of him'

'Ceremonies'

THEIR ROMAN EQUIVALENTS 1600 'Demeter'

'Ceres'

YOU'RE A "CHAMP"! 400 'City & state of the place known until 1860 as West Urbana'

'Champaign, Illinois'

YOU'RE A "CHAMP"! 1000 'By age 16, this translator of the Rosetta Stone had mastered 8 ancient languages'

'Champollion'

YOU'VE GOT YOUR BORDERS 600 'To the east, Argentina; to the west, the Pacific'

'Chile'

DOMINOES 800 "Dominoes originated in this country in ancient times; the game didn't reach Europe until the 18th century"

'China'

THE LADIES WHO LAUNCH 400 "Tai chi was among the in-flight activities of Liu Yang, who in 2012 became this country's first female taikonaut"

'China'

RECENT TITLE ROLE PLAYING 1200 '"Captain America: The First Avenger"'

'Chris Evans'

HIP HOP HOOPSTERS 600 'This former University of Michigan & Sacramento Kings star raps as "C. Webb"'

'Chris Webber'

NAME-RO UNO 800 'In 1983 this Bulgarian-born artist surrounded 11 islands in Biscayne Bay with floating pink fabric'

'Christo'

DOCTOR, LAWYER, NATIVE AMERICAN LEADER 800 'He managed to save Leopold & Loeb from the death penalty in 1924; the 2 got 99 years plus life'

'Clarence Darrow'

TV WHO AM I 1200 "Former longtime Red Sox employee, later a bartender at Sam Malone's side"

'Coach'

OFFICIAL STATE STUFF 600 'One of the official state songs of this western state was a top 10 hit for John Denver'

'Colorado'

A CATEGORY WITH REVERENDS 800 "Downy first name of Increase Mather's son, a New England Puritan & Congregational minister"

'Cotton'

BAD HEIR DAY 400 'Adonijah, the fourth son of this biblical king, was killed by his brother Solomon'

'David'

SNACKS ON A PLANE 1000 'This Atlanta-based airline's "flight delights" includes hummus, pita chips & a deck of miniature playing cards'

'Delta'

PRO SPORTS 600 "The Spare Tires, a male dance team, perform at this NBA team's home games"

'Detroit Pistons'

TV WHO AM I 800 'Title blood-splatter expert for the Miami police'

'Dexter'

LABOR DAY FOR HERCULES Daily Double 'Hercules hunted down a brass-hooved stag that was sacred to this goddess'

'Diana'

THEIR ROMAN EQUIVALENTS 1200 'Artemis'

'Diana'

HISTORY 600 'In 2013 this Brazilian president was not happy that the U.S. was listening in on her phone calls'

'Dilma Rousseff'

PIZZA 400 "Sal's famous pizzeria is a focal point of this Spike Lee film"

'Do The Right Thing'

SPIN-OFFS 600 '"Torchwood" is an anagram & a spin-off of this BBC show'

'Doctor Who'

FIRST LADIES 600 "She prevented the British from burning Gilbert Stuart's painting of Washington, which still hangs in the East Room"

'Dolley Madison'

TV SHOWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 1200 'The title character of the reality spoof "My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss" was "Mr. N. Paul Todd", an anagram of this man's name'

'Donald Trump'

TV SHOWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 1600 "Jean & Liz Sagal played (arguably) humorless twins in this rhyming sitcom from the '80s"

'Double Trouble'

CARBONATION NATION 200 'In 1890 it said it was "good for brain and brawn"; well, it should know--it is a "physician"'

'Dr Pepper'

ACTING THE PART 400 'Russell Brand was just a kid when this actor originated the role of "Arthur" in 1981'

'Dudley Moore'

LITERARY PRINCIPALS & TEACHERS 400 "Harry's hairiest Hogwarts headmaster"

'Dumbledore'

PIZZA 800 '"Cold Pizza" was a morning show that debuted in 2003 on this sports cable network'

'ESPN'

PRIME MINISTERS OF GREAT BRITAIN Daily Double 'This early 1830s PM lives on in the name of a popular tea'

'Earl Grey'

YEATS IS GREATS 600 'Irishman Yeats wrote a poem entitled this holiday "1916"'

'Easter'

"BUR" BANK Daily Double 'This adventure author penned "Beyond the Farthest Star"'

'Edgar Rice Burroughs'

1940s AMERICAN LIT 400 'In 1947 this author's own publishing company released "Tarzan and the Foreign Legion", his last in the series'

'Edgar Rice Burroughs'

1961 600 'In his January 17 farewell address, he warned about the dangers of the "military-industrial complex"'

'Eisenhower'

DOCTOR, LAWYER, NATIVE AMERICAN LEADER Daily Double 'In 2009 she became Solicitor General of the U.S., arguing cases before the Supreme Court'

'Elena Kagan'

OLDE ENGLAND 400 'Her reign from 1558 until her death in 1603 is often called the golden age of English history'

'Elizabeth I'

ASIAN LANGUAGES 1200 "Iran's official language is Persian, also known as this; it's written in the Arabic alphabet"

'Farsi'

SEAN PENN 1600 'Told to get a job in this 1982 film, Sean replies, "all I need are some tasty waves, cool buzz & I'm fine"'

'Fast Times at Ridgemont High'

ELLE 400 "Marion Cotillard played Leonardo DiCaprio's dreamy wife Mal in this 2010 film"

'Inception'

"BUR" BANK 2000 'He surrendered at Saratoga on October 17, 1777'

'John Burgoyne'

U.S. BODIES OF WATER 2000 'The old Mormon town of St. Thomas, Nev. lies beneath this lake, & when the water is low, remnants can still be seen'

'Lake Mead'

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES 2000 'The Department of the Interior administers the BLM, the Bureau of this'

'Land Management'

LITTLE PEOPLE IN LIT 1000 'Tyrion's last name in "A Game of Thrones"'

'Lannister'

YOU'VE GOT YOUR BORDERS 1000 'To the west, Thailand; to the east, Vietnam; to the south, Cambodia'

'Laos'

CALIFORNIA 2000 'This 10,400-foot peak in Shasta County is one of the few active volcanoes in the U.S. outside of Alaska'

'Lassen Peak'

MEN OF SCIENCE 1600 "In the 1700s this Italian discovered that electricity could make a dead frog's muscles contract"

'Luigi Galvani'

COUNTRIES ALPHABETICALLY 1000 'This European country is in last place in the "L"s'

'Luxembourg'

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION FILM! 800 'This Danny Trejo title guy named for his weapon "Kills" again in 2013, & now, Charlie Sheen is involved'

'Machete'

IT ENDS WITH "U" 800 'The name of this site of ruins in the Andes means "old peak"'

'Machu Picchu'

DENZEL WASHINGTON FILMS 2000 'A Mexico City bodyguard looking for revenge'

'Man on Fire'

ASIAN LANGUAGES 1600 'Wu is the second-most common dialect in China, behind this one'

'Mandarin'

YES, THEY WILL 600 'This actress who died in 1962 left her personal effects to her mentor Lee Strasberg'

'Marilyn Monroe'

FELONIOUS MONKS 800 'John de Roma is one of the brutal monks in the 16th c. Protestant "Book of" these people who died for their faith'

'Martyrs'

BIBLICAL WHO'S WHO 600 'That must have been some exorcism when Jesus cast 7 devils out of her'

'Mary Magdelene'

NEW TESTAMENT QUOTES 200 'In Luke, Elisabeth told her, "Blessed art thou amoung women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb"'

'Mary'

YEATS IS GREATS 1000 'Yeats fell in love with this Irish beauty who later played the title role in his play "Cathleen Ni Houlihan"'

'Maud Gonne'

AUTHORS "This author whose 1st name is also an English word meaning a saying or motto was the 1st president of the Soviet writers' union"

'Maxim Gorky'

DOCTOR, LAWYER, NATIVE AMERICAN LEADER 200 'Last name of William & Charles, brothers who built their own medical center in Rochester, Minnesota in 1914'

'Mayo'

CELEBRITY SIBLING SURNAMES 1200 'Tennis champs John & Patrick'

'McEnroe'

HISTORY 1000 'In 1867 Mutsuhito, known as this "M"peror, came to the throne & the modernization of Japan began'

'Meiji'

WORLD GEOGRAPHY 1600 'In Australia, this city is second only to Sydney in population'

'Melbourne'

'ROUND MIDNIGHT 1600 '"The Book" gift shop in Savannah, Georgia offers souvenirs associated with this John Berendt bestseller'

'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'

STATE CAPITALS 600 'This New England state capital lies on the main pass through the Green Mountains'

'Montpelier'

THE FIRST MILLENNIUM Daily Double 'Pliny the Younger wrote that fumes from its eruption probably killed his uncle "by blocking his windpipe"'

'Mount Vesuvius'

PIZZA 2000 'Early in her career Julia Roberts played Daisy in this tasty film'

'Mystic Pizza'

THE EDICT OF NANCY 800 'One of the mysteries featuring her is "The Halloween Hoax"`'

'Nancy Drew'

THE EDICT OF NANCY 1600 'She lived with Sid Vicious in the Chelsea Hotel & died there'

'Nancy Spungen'

BOTTLES OF WATER 1200 'Calistoga Water calls itself the original mineral water of this California valley better known for wine'

'Napa'

U.S. BODIES OF WATER Daily Double 'Pamlico Sound, the largest lagoon on the East Coast, is located on the eastern shore of this state'

'North Carolina'

TECH STUFF 1200 "Hey there, Ralphie boy! PC Magazine gave 4 1/2 stars to this brand's antivirus 2012"

'Norton'

1961 200 'On August 4 he was born in Honolulu, & he has the papers to prove it'

'Obama'

NAME-RO UNO 1600 'This female folk singer who died in 2008 was called the "voice of the civil rights movement"'

'Odetta'

THOUGHT FOR FOOD 1600 "A New Jersey diner sold a 50-pound burger named for this home of ancient Greece's gods"

'Olympus'

LITTLE PEOPLE IN LIT 400 'These factory workers in a 1964 book love cacao beans'

'Oompa Loompas'

"O" BROTHER 2000 "His younger brother Frank, who also worked on the Manhattan Project, founded San Francisco's Exploratorium"

'Oppenheimer'

CLASSICAL GAS 800 'Beethoven wrote a sonata & Tchaikovsky a symphony with this pity-evoking title'

'Pathxc3xa9tique'

BEATLEWOMANIA 1000 'Before she was married to Eric Clapton, George Harrison wrote the song "Something" about her'

'Pattie Boyd'

BEATLEWOMANIA 600 'Buddy Clark's 1947 chart-topping song "Linda" was written about the future wife of this Beatle (when she was 5 years old)'

'Paul McCartney'

NEW TESTAMENT QUOTES 800 'Before his conversion on the road to Damascus, he "persecuted the church of God, and wasted it"'

'Paul'

BOTTLES OF WATER 1600 'In 1988 "S." this was the first Italian mineral water to be exported to France'

'Pellegrino'

THE FIRST MILLENNIUM 1600 'In 759 this "diminutive" father of Charlemagne extended his rule to the Pyrenees'

'Pepin the Short'

BOTTLES OF WATER 400 'This company with green bottles of mineral water asked us to "Decouvrez l'histoire de la main la plus sexy"'

'Perrier'

COUNTRIES' LOCAL NAMES 400 'Polska'

'Poland'

RUMORS Daily Double 'This mischievous Shakespeare character says, "I jest to Oberon... and sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl"'

'Puck'

LITTLE-KNOWN ANCIENT GREEKS 800 'Boy, how he used to talk about these mountains on the edge of Iberia; not like he ever went there'

'Pyrenees'

CELEBRITY SIBLING SURNAMES 800 'Actors Dennis & Randy'

'Quaid'

WEB MUSIC PARODIES 400 '"Is this the frat life?" begins College Humor's "Brohemian Rhapsody", a take on this band's tune'

'Queen'

SEAN PENN 1200 'A tumultuous marriage began when she became Sean's "Princess Bride" in 1996'

'Robin Wright Penn'

POP CULTURE 800 'In "Pillow Talk" to romance Doris Day he pretends to be a Texan named Rex Stetson'

'Rock Hudson'

PAPA JOHNS 400 'He had 4 daughters, Bessie, Alta, Alice & Edith, & one son, John D, Jr.'

'Rockefeller'

A CATEGORY WITH REVERENDS 600 'Joseph Simmons, aka Reverend Run, was a member of this pioneering rap group'

'Run-D.M.C.'

AMONG THE 10 MOST POPULOUS COUNTRIES 600 'The Ural mountains form a boundary between the European & Asian parts of this country'

'Russia'

PIZZA 1200 'Scar-Jo's hubby, he was one of the title "guys" in "Two Guys, A Girl And A Pizza Place"'

'Ryan Reynolds'

THE LADIES WHO LAUNCH 800 'Totally living up to her name, she made her second Shuttle flight in 1984 & used a remote arm to launch a satellite'

'Sally Ride'

VISITING THE CITY 600 'Take the "Sound of Music" tour or visit the Hagenauer House, once home to the Mozart family'

'Salzburg'

BOWL GAME CITIES 400 'The Valero Alamo Bowl at the Alamodome'

'San Antonio'

THEIR ROMAN EQUIVALENTS 2000 'Cronus'

'Saturn'

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES 800 'When this biblical king spares an ant hill, the Queen of Sheba realizes she knows "the secret of thy worth and wisdom"'

'Solomon'

NATIONALLY CLAIMED 2000 '96th Street is the southern border of East Harlem, aka this'

'Spanish Harlem'

SPIN-OFFS 200 'For 12 seasons Christopher Meloni was part of the "elite squad known as" this "Law & Order" spin-off'

'Special Victims Unit (SVU)'

RECENT TITLE ROLE PLAYING 1600 '"The Incredible Burt Wonderstone"'

'Steve Carell'

YOU'RE A "CHAMP"! 800 '4 old buddies relive glory days of high school hoops in this play'

'That Championship Season'

1961 800 'On February 9 they made their first appearance at the Cavern Club'

'The Beatles'

BLUE LITERATURE Daily Double 'In this 1908 romance by Henry de Vere Stacpoole, a pair of 8-year old cousins are marooned on a tropical island'

'The Blue Lagoon'

DENZEL WASHINGTON FILMS 1600 'A man who has memorized the Bible'

'The Book of Eli'

CHILD ACTORS 400 'Scott Lookinland played his father, Mike, in the TV movie about the making of this sitcom'

'The Brady Bunch'

BALLET 400 '"La Esmeralda", a 3-act ballet created in 1844, was based on this classic novel'

'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'

THE WORLD PRESS 2000 'Considered the first global newspaper, it was rescued by The New York Times, which took full ownership in 2003'

'The International Herald Tribune'

1970s TV CASTS 400 'Gavin MacLeod, Bernie Kopell & Ted Lange as your bartender'

'The Love Boat'

1940s AMERICAN LIT 1600 'This 1940 "Incident" by Walter Van Tilburg Clark tells the story of 3 men falsely accused & lynched for cattle rustling'

'The Ox-Bow Incident'

NOW WE ARE SIX 800 'The 6 schools of Hindu philosophy include Mimamsa, Vedanta & this one, usually associated with serene exercise'

'Yoga'

RIBBONS 1000 'With a 1,612-foot drop, Ribbon Fall in this national park is the tallest uninterrupted waterfall in the United States'

'Yosemite'

COUNTRIES ALPHABETICALLY 600 'In the "Z"s you'll find this country before Zimbabwe'

'Zambia'

WITTY LINES 200 'When asked how many husbands she's had, this Gabor sister said, "You mean apart from my own?"'

'Zsa Zsa Gabor'

THINGS TO DO & SEE IN ISRAEL 2000 "Try to catch the Israel Philharmonic led by this Bombay-born man, the orchestra's music director for life"

'Zubin Mehta'

11-LETTER WORDS 800 'A pilot who, in the early days of aviation, would travel to towns & perform aerial stunts above local farm fields'

'a barnstormer'

THE LAST "DROP" 1200 "Goody goody! It's this kind of candy made from corn syrup & gelatin"

'a gumdrop'

ABBREV. 1600 'This metric land measure is abbreviated ha'

'a hectare'

SOUNDS LIKE A NEW POKEMON 1000 "Plateosaurus was a grass type of dinosaur; it wasn't a carnivore or omnivore but this third type"

'a herbivore'

WHICH PART OF SPEECH? 800 'Which of these Lederhosen brings out my eyes?: which'

'a pronoun'

"PRO"s & "CON"s 400 'This working model of a new product is usually built to full scale'

'a prototype'

FUN WITH COLORS 1600 'Something that demands attention, or a warning banner you might want to "raise"'

'a red flag'

A LURE 400 "Cock-a-doodle-doo! In the 1950s Howard Worden developed a classic fishing lure called this animal's tail"

'a rooster (tail)'

FARMVILLE 200 "On a farm who needs an alarm clock when you have this bird's cock-a-doodle-doo to wake you?"

'a rooster'

FRENCH FOOD TALK 1200 "It's a mixture of butter or other fat & flour used to thicken sauces & soups"

'a roux'

HEADS OR TAILS 200 'The tail of the death-stalker type of this arachnid delivers poison that can cause paralysis & heart failure'

'a scorpion'

TALKING ITALIAN 1000 'A certain piece of hardware is una vite, so this hand tool used with it is un cacciavite'

'a screwdriver'

FOOD PREPARATION 200 'To slice a tomato, use a knife with this type of edge for a clean cut'

'a serrated edge'

ODD NAMINGS 200 "It's an imprecise 2-word name for a meteor that's burning up in the atmosphere"

'a shooting star'

CANCELED! 400 'All scheduled flights in & out of Heathrow Airport April 18, 2010 were canceled due to this'

'a volcanic eruption'

"W" 1600 'This 4-letter term for a ridge on the skin resulting from a blow also begins the name of a boxing weight division'

'a welt'

LET'S GET SIRIUS 600 'As massive as the sun but much more condensed, Sirius B was the first of these "colorful" little stars to be discovered'

'a white dwarf'

"W" 400 "It's a man who has lost his wife by death & has not remarried"

'a widower'

"W" 800 'An exploratory gas or oil well, or a nickname for a student from the University of Arizona'

'a wildcat'

ODD NAMINGS 600 "It's really a low-pitched oboe & what it has to do with Britain, no one is sure"

'an English horn'

MEASURE THIS! 800 'Bring your hoe! This unit of land is equal to 43,560 square feet'

'an acre'

WHICH PART OF SPEECH? 400 'A German's germs are not germane to a conversation about Jermaine Jackson: germane (with a "G")'

'an adjective'

NAVY SEALS 400 'U.S. special operations commander Eric T. Olson is the first SEAL to achieve 4-star status as one of these'

'an admiral'

GEOLOGY 400 'For the metal nickel, the mineral pentlandite is a major one of these sources'

'an ore'

CAR TALK 600 'Since 1927 Prestone has been making this for temperature-challenged engine parts'

'anti-freeze'

MANGIA! 600 'This course of appetizers, an assortment of foods, has a 9-letter Italian name'

'antipasto'

GEOLOGY 1600 "In geology it's a type of erosion; in business it's reducing staff without layoffs"

'attrition'

EASY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 600 'These one-celled organisms that may cause disease also produce the "snipping" enzymes that create recombinant DNA'

'bacteria'

ORES 2000 'This principal ore of aluminum is also used for oil filtration & the making of abrasives'

'bauxite'

DOMINOES Daily Double 'Domino pieces are sometimes called these because they were originally made of ivory'

'bones'

A SCOUT IS... 1000 'Exhibiting courage'

'brave'

BAD JOB INTERVIEW RESPONSES 800 '"Any questions?" What's your sick leave policy? I'm prone to this most common but least deadly type of plague'

'bubonic plague'

NICE "BUN"s 400 'In a 1969 Sam Peckinpah film, William Holden led a "Wild" one'

'bunch'

NICE "BUN"s 1000 'To botch'

'bungle'

NICE "BUN"s 600 'Western ranch hands often live in this 9-letter cabin or dormitory'

'bunkhouse'

FOODS, STUFFED 600 'The Russian dish golubtsy is traditionally made with these leaves, stuffed & rolled'

'cabbage leaves'

TRANSPORTATION 1600 "These have 3 types of brakes--wheel, track & emergency --so no fear of runaway carnage at Fisherman's Wharf"

'cable cars'

BIG BIRTHER 2000 'On Jan. 11, 1974 mother Susan gave birth to the Rosenkowitz sextuplets via this method'

'caesarean section'

NUTRITION FROM COOKING LIGHT 1000 'Instead of butter, saute in oil to consume less saturated fat; this flavorless oil has the least sat fat & also has omega-3s'

'canola oil'

PANTS 200 'A synonym for freight, or pants with large bellows pockets on the sides & 2 extra-large patch pockets in front'

'cargo pants'

THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA 400 'This term was coined to refer to Northern whites who went South seeking opportunities'

'carpetbaggers'

FIRST IN WAR 1200 'Charge! Composed of lesser nobles who could afford horses, weapons & armor, it first appeared around 1000 B.C.'

'cavalry'

A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE 400 'Wayne Gretzky & Wilt Chamberlain both played this position, though in different sports'

'centers'

PREHISTORIC TIMES Daily Double 'During the Chalcolithic period, 4,000-6,000 years ago, this metal became the first used for tools & weapons'

'copper'

WEIRD WORDS 1200 'A cruciverbalist is someone who engages in this endeavor'

'crosswords'

HERB & SPICE HISTORY 2000 'Jesus mentioned "mint and anise and" this spice used in chili powder & curry powder'

'cumin'

YEATS IS GREATS 200 'Yeats rhymed, "In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned; hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are" this'

'earnxc3xa9d'

THE LAST "DROP" 800 "To stand within the overhang of a building to hear something you shouldn't"

'eavesdrop'

THOUGHT FOR FOOD 400 'It can precede nog, plant & beater'

'egg'

NEW TESTAMENT QUOTES 600 'Jesus told those in the synagogue, "Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, physician" do this'

'heal thyself'

THE LAST "DROP" 2000 'To describe a moment of utter silence, these four words follow "You could have..."'

'heard a pin drop'

DOUBLE MEANINGS Daily Double 'As the gardeners planted a 12-foot ___ around his estate, he asked if I wanted to invest in his ___ fund'

'hedge'

PREFIXES 1600 'Before sphere, it means "half"'

'hemi-'

GEOG. DICT. ABBREV. 200 'N.H.S. stands for a "national" this type of "site" in the national park system'

'historic'

BUMPER STICKER HUMOR 200 'Do this with your car horn "if you love peace and quiet"'

'honk'

TRANSPORTATION 400 "The Baltimore & Ohio's first train service in 1830 consisted of cars drawn by these"

'horses'

THINGS TO DO & SEE IN ISRAEL 1600 'Head to the Negev Desert to see some of these mountain goats with back-curving horns in their native habitat'

'ibex'

"I" KNOW IT 400 'In Orthodox churches, screens before the altar display these for instruction'

'icons'

NOT OF GOOD CHARACTER 400 'You're not yourself today; you're this 8-letter word OED defines as "one who assumes a false character"'

'impostor'

YOU NEED TO CLEAR THAT UP 2000 'Grammatically, the word "an" is this type of article'

'indefinite'

LUTHER 2000 'The 95 Theses were partly inspired by anger at the attempts to get the faithful to buy these, freeing them from punishment'

'indulgences'

5-SYLLABLE WORDS 600 'Adjective for a condition not suitable for surgery'

'inoperable'

ECONOMICS 600 'Moral hazard refers to people taking risks with their health because they know they have this'

'insurance'

YOU WILL BE TESTED ON THIS 400 'The Stanford-Binet V tests this in students'

'intelligence'

ECONOMICS 400 'In fiscal 2011 Uncle Sam paid $230 billion in this, quite a bit of it on loans from Asia'

'interest'

THE J-5 400 'Combat involving horses & blunted lances'

'joust'

RANKS & TITLES 200 'Title of both Judy Sheindlin & her husband Jerry'

'judge'

FRENCH FOOD TALK 1600 "It means to cut food into thin matchlike pieces; it's also a clear soup garnished with vegetable strips"

'julienne'

HUMAN BODY NUMBERS 1000 'These are the largest of the 6 major pairs of joints in the human body'

'knees'

LET'S GET SIRIUS 200 'Sirius is pretty close--just 8.6 of these from Earth'

'light years'

CANCELED! 800 "The final round in the NCAA Division III women's golf championships May 13, 2011--due to this"

'lightning'

ECONOMICS 200 "In early 2013 there were about 900,000 discouraged workers among us, those who've stopped doing this"

'looking for work'

CAUSED BY... 1000 'Hypovolemic, a type of shock'

'loss of blood'

A SCOUT IS... 600 'Faithful, be it to your nation or your pal'

'loyal'

PANTS 400 'Calf-length pants styled in colorful island prints are named for this type of Hawaiian party'

'luau pants'

DOUBLE MEANINGS 2000 "I hope Naval History ___ runs my expose about what really caused the explosion of the USS Maine's ___"

'magazine'

LET'S GET SIRIUS 800 'Sirius is really bright--it has an apparent this of -1.44 (the lower the brighter)'

'magnitude'

PREFIXES 2000 'An -ologist who specifically studies birds gets this Greek prefix before his or her name'

'ornith- (or ornitho-)'

EARTHLY QUOTES 400 'Quoted as a Native American saying is "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from" this group'

'our children (our descendants accepted)'

SNACKS ON A PLANE 400 "Allergy concerns have caused most carriers to discontinue these snacks, but Northwest still serves 'em"

'peanuts'

FUN WITH COLORS 400 'Shades of white include oyster & this oyster gem'

'pearl'

LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS 600 'In 1827 Joseph Dixon founded a factory to make stove polish & these from graphite'

'pencils'

LESSER-KNOWN SCIENTISTS 200 'In 1779 Dutch scientist Jan Ingenhousz published his discovery of this process in green plants'

'photosynthesis'

FASHIONABLE WORDS 400 "Jackie Kennedy's iconic look included this classic round brimless hat"

'pillbox'

TRANSPOSITION WORDS 800 "It's a type of bean or horse"

'pinto'

CATS IN PROVERBS 400 '"When the cat's away, the mice will _____"'

'play'

TRANSPOSITION WORDS 200 'These dried grapes were grown as early as 2000 B.C. in Egypt'

'raisins'

3-LETTER WORDS 800 'It can precede cord, tide & -roaring'

'rip'

MANGIA! 400 'This Italian specialty is made by constantly stirring hot stock into rice'

'risotto'

DOMINOES 2000 'Early pieces had white faces on ebony backing, resembling a priest wearing a domino, a dark this'

'robe'

DOUBLE MEANINGS 800 "I'm a gullible ___ to believe Jane will ever love me, & to carry this torch will ___ my strength"

'sap'

ISLANDS 800 "Greece's Ionian Islands, which include Corfu, are sometimes called the Heptanesos because there are this many islands"

'seven'

"SIN"ONYMS 400 'Synonym for heartfelt'

'sincere'

"SIN"ONYMS 600 'Synonym for scorch'

'singe'

TRANSPOSITION WORDS 600 'To wrench an ankle without fracture'

'sprain'

LITTLE SEIZERS 400 'Sea anemones use these both to paralyze & to gather in passing prey'

'tentacles'

2011 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS 2000 'Round 8 served up this 10-letter Japanese word for meat & vegetables cooked tableside on a griddle'

'teppanyaki'

5-SYLLABLE WORDS 800 "Traditionally, these waters are within 3 miles of a country's coast"

'territorial'

THE WINNERS 200 'This team was the winner of the first Super Bowl'

'the (Green Bay) Packers'

LAST IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE 800 'They were "inaugurated" as a team in 2005 & have finished last 5 seasons out of 7'

'the (Washington) Nationals'

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES 1200 'In "Snow-Bound" Whittier was "content to let" this "roar in baffled rage at pane and door"'

'the (north) wind'

AMENDMENT HIGHLIGHTS 2000 '"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude"'

'the 13th'

DECADES OF DISASTER 600 'The Titanic sinks'

'the 1910s'

ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN 800 'The Cobb salad was invented at this Hollywood restaurant named for a hat'

'the Brown Derby'

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE 1000 'We have good hope you can tell us this alternate name for the African buffalo (it lives in Africa, by the way)'

'the Cape buffalo'

STUPID ANSWERS 400 'This building in our national capital was originally designed by Dr. William Thornton'

'the Capitol'

GEOLOGY Daily Double 'Naturally, plenty of coal was formed in this geologic period, 360 million to 300 million B.C.'

'the Carboniferous Period'

WORLD GEOGRAPHY 1600 'The gulf of Venezuela, bordering Venezuela & Colombia, is an inlet of this sea'

'the Caribbean'

TV SHOWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 2000 'We hope the producers had insurance on this sitcom based on characters in GEICO commercials'

'the Cavemen'

LAST IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE 1200 'A last-place 2006 N.L. Central finish insured a 98th straight year without a World Series title for this team'

'the Chicago Cubs'

SWEET WORD OF YOUTH 400 'The UK's Eglantyne Jebb founded the organization "Save" them'

'the Children'

HISTORY 200 '70 delegates were chosen for this 1787 gathering; 55 attended & 39 ended up signing'

'the Constitutional Convention'

RANKS & TITLES 1000 'An ataman was the leader of a village of these horsemen who gave a Tolstoy novel its title'

'the Cossacks'

RIVER CITY 1000 'Vienna, Austria'

'the Danube'

GEOGRAPHIC ADJECTIVES 'Of the nations with adjectives in their common names, only this Western Hemisphere one bears the name of a religious order'

'the Dominican Republic'

COMPLETELY BASSLESS 400 "Keyboardist Ray Manzarek's left hand was all the bass Jim Morrison needed backing him up in this band"

'the Doors'

ANCIENT EGYPT 2000 'In some cases you could buy this guide for the departed "off the rack" & have a scribe fill in your name'

'the Egyptian Book of the Dead'

OFFICIAL STATE STUFF Daily Double "To represent the abundance of Washington's forests, historian C.T. Conover coined this nickname"

'the Evergreen State'

THE "EX" FILES 1600 'In England, the Chancellor of this is the Minister of Finance'

'the Exchequer'

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES 400 'More than 542,000 complaints flooded this agency after the 2004 broadcast of the Super Bowl halftime show'

'the FCC'

WHERE ART THOU? 2000 'Raphael's "Holy Family": this museum in St. Petersburg, Russia'

'the Hermitage'

BODIES OF WATER 200 'This 315-mile-long river passes through Troy & Albany before hitting the bright lights of New York City'

'the Hudson'

FELONIOUS MONKS 1200 'Friar Vicente de Valverde gave Atahuallpa the choice of death by fire or garrote; he chose the latter & this empire ended'

'the Incan Empire'

NORTH AMERICAN LANGUAGES 800 'Nunavut means "our land" in the language of these people'

'the Inuit'

WHERE ART THOU? 400 'David's "The Oath of the Horatii": this national museum & art gallery of France'

'the Louvre'

OLDE ENGLAND 800 'The first section of this 1215 document states that "the English church shall be free"'

'the Magna Carta'

THE SEA AROUND US 1200 "It's hard to visit, but this deepest trench, in the Pacific Ocean, was designated a U.S. national monument"

'the Mariana Trench'

WORLD GEOGRAPHY 800 'The Ionian Sea & the Tyrrhenian Sea are parts of this larger sea'

'the Mediterranean Sea'

LAST IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE 2000 'In 1958, pitcher Robin Roberts won 17 games (yay), but this Pennsylvania team of his won only 52 more (not so yay)'

'the Philadelphia Phillies'

COMPLETELY BASSLESS 2000 'This triple-talk band makes do with drums, guitar & the vocals of Karen O'

'the Yeah Yeah Yeahs'

NORTH AMERICAN LANGUAGES 600 'As you might expect, Yucatec is a Mayan language spoken in Belize & Mexico on this peninsula'

'the Yucatan'

INSTRUMENTAL ROCKERS 800 'Flea, in the Red Hot Chili Peppers'

'the bass'

A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE 1000 'In major league baseball, when the ball is put in play only this player may be in foul territory'

'the catcher'

2011 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS 400 'Round 2 included this French-derived word for the supporting frame of a car'

'the chassis'

EXERCISE & FITNESS 400 'Doing exercise to strengthen this 4-letter region? It includes the stomach muscles, the butt, hips & lower back'

'the core'

RANKS & TITLES 600 'Deposed in 1797, Ludovico Manin was the last of these chief magistrates to rule Venice'

'the doges'

THERE MIGHT BE BLOOD 2000 'Only the female of this "equine" pest of the family Tabanidae feeds on blood; the male feeds on nectar'

'the horse-fly'

LESSER-KNOWN SCIENTISTS 800 'Joseph Lagrange insisted on 10 as the basic unit when standardizing French weights & measures, creating this system'

'the metric system'

LITERARY MONSTERS 800 'This offspring of a woman & a bull is one of the monsters in the Percy Jackson books'

'the minotaur'

THINGS TO DO & SEE IN ISRAEL 800 'First built in the 4th century, a church in Tabgha on the Sea of Galilee honors this culinary miracle of Matthew 14'

'the miracle of the loaves & fishes'

THERE MIGHT BE BLOOD 400 'Yellow fever is primarily carried by the Aedes aegypti species of this bloodsucker'

'the mosquito'

"PRO"s & "CON"s 1200 'In Marxist theory, members of this class of workers have no capital or property & must sell their labor to survive'

'the proletariat'

INSTRUMENTAL ROCKERS 600 "Clarence Clemons, of Bruce's E street Band; we miss you, big man"

'the saxophone'

LARRY, MO- & CURLY 600 'Holding an object against your neck, you spin 1 1/2 times to gain "mo", momentum, in this Olympic event'

'the shot put'

INTO AFRICA 'James Bruce taught himself Arabic & Amharic to prepare for his 1768 journey upriver in search of this spot'

'the source of the Nile'

YOU NEED TO CLEAR THAT UP 1200 '"V" know this word meaning not clear is from the Latin for "wandering"'

'vague'

HERB & SPICE HISTORY 1600 'It was suggested in 1602 that this pod spice, then used in a drink with cacao beans, could be used alone as a flavoring'

'vanilla'

ORES 1600 'Black jack & ruby jack are forms of the chief ore of this metal, symbol Zn'

'zinc'

3-LETTER WORDS 600 'Nada, nothing, or perhaps, to fasten your pants'

'zip'

PRESIDENTS' MIDDLE NAMES 1000 Alan

(Chester) Arthur

THE PITTSBURGH ADDRESS 800 In 1948 this general told the Chamber of Commerce, "Business has a special stake in European recovery"

(George C. Marshall

ENGLISH LIT 800 Mary Ann Evans wrote the novels "Adam Bede" & "Middlemarch" under this pen name

(George) Eliot

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

(Gilbert) Stuart

CAIRO 600 The Cairo Metro opened in 1987 under this Egyptian leader whose name was taken off a station in 2011

(Hosni) Mubarak

AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES 400 Azkaban Prison

(J. K.) Rowling

PRESIDENTS' MIDDLE NAMES 800 Earl

(Jimmy) Carter

LIT BLITZ 800 "Man's disobedience" & "the prime cause of his fall" are the subjects of this 17th century man's most famous poem

(John) Milton

DOCUMENTARIES 1600 She was declared a Nazi sympathizer for directing films like "Olympia" & "Triumph of the Will"

(Leni) Riefenstahl

PHYSICS TEST 2000 We'll test you to the max & ask for this German who introduced the fundamental constant of quantum theory

(Max) Planck

HISTORY: HIRED & FIRED 1600 You believed Hitler when he said he'd take no more of Czechoslovakia after 1938? No, prime minister. You're fired!

(Neville) Chamberlain

THE OLD WEST 1200 in 1882 this sheriff wrote the book "An Authentic Life of Billy the Kid" to correct "false statements" that had been published

(Pat) Garrett

THINK MUSIC 400 "If you want my body & you think I'm sexy, come on sugar let me know"

(Rod) Stewart

PLAY MS. "T" FOR ME 800 She & the Captain had a No. 1 hit with "Love Will Keep Us Together", but ultimately it didn't

(Toni) Tennille

PRESIDENTS' MIDDLE NAMES 400 Gamaliel

(Warren) Harding

DOMAIN EXTENSIONS Daily Double Wikipedia & Craigslist are the most popular sites with this domain suffix

.org

THE CONSTITUTION 200 Ratification of the 26th Amendment to the Constitution in July 1971 set this as the voting age

18

MADAM SECRETARY 800 Threatening their highway funds, Elizabeth Dole of D.O.T. got every state to raise the legal drinking age to this

21

BIBLICAL BEFORE & AFTER 800 Betrayal payment in Matthew 26 that's a term for the medium of film

30 pieces of silver screen

LOVE CRAFT 400 Want to make an anatomically correct felt heart for Valentine's Day? Make sure it has this many chambers

4

BOOKS' SUBTITLES Daily Double This number: "A Portrait of My Father" by George W. Bush

41

1968 IN AMERICAN HISTORY 400 On September 24 this primetime show debuted on CBS; it's still ticking

60 Minutes

NEWS ON THE SCREEN 800 This groundbreaking TV news magazine has been on CBS since 1968

60 Minutes

TECHNOLOGY MILESTONES 1000 In 2004 Morse code added a new character, a combination of the letters A & C, to denote this symbol

@

ENGLISH LIT 2000 E.M. Forster dedicated this 1924 novel to his friend Syed Ross Masood, one of the inspirations for Dr. Aziz

A Passage to India

TURN ON YOUR HEAVY METAL DEFECTOR 1200 In 1983 drummer Phil Rudd left this "high voltage" Aussie band powered by guitarist Angus Young

AC/DC

FUEL FOSSILS 400 Atlantic Refining & Richfield Petroleum are no more; in 1966 they merged to create the company known by this acronym

ARCO

WHODUNIT? 400 Took over Johnny Torrio's Chicago gang in 1925

Al Capone

NEWS ON THE SCREEN 1600 Reaching 270 million homes worldwide, AJE is the English version of this originally Arabic news service

Al Jazeera

AROUND THE WORLD 800 Mexican Hat is in Utah & Medicine Hat is in this Canadian province

Alberta

STABLE CHARACTERS 200 This Macedonian founded the city Bucephala, named for his horse Bucephalus

Alexander the Great

"X" IN THE CITY Daily Double Antony & Cleopatra died there in 30 B.C.

Alexandria

ACTORS & ACTRESSES 800 This brunette plays "Community" college student Annie Edison

Alison Brie

ORGANIZATIONS 400 curealz.org is the website for the fund to cure this dreadful disease

Alzheimer's

THE EAGLES 400 Teens like to stock up on clothes & accessories from this retailer whose stock symbol is AEO

American Eagle Outfitters

TV SPIN-OFFS 400 "The Flash"

Arrow

FILMS WITH SHORT TITLES 1200 The title character from this 1995 film was a composite of 48 real Yorkshire pigs & an animatronic double

Babe

HISTORY SINCE 1950 1000 This country's first female leader, Khaleda Zia was prime minister in the 1990s & again from 2001 to 2006

Bangladesh

WHO'S THE MRS.? 400 James Brolin

Barbra Streisand

PARISH THE THOUGHT, LOUISIANA 400 Parish-wise, there's East this capital city & West this capital city

Baton Rouge

HISTORY SINCE 1950 600 More than 1,000 rebels captured during this 1961 invasion of Cuba were later freed in exchange for food & medicine

Bay of Pigs

THE DESOLATION OF SMOG 1200 Face masks were de rigueur for the Oct. 2014 international marathon in this smog-stricken Asian capital city

Beijing

LIT BLITZ 2000 In honor of James Joyce, Ted Hughes & Sylvia Plath got married on this date in 1956

Bloomsday (or June 16)

THEIR ORIGINAL NAMES 400 Singer-songwriter Robert Zimmerman

Bob Dylan

THINK MUSIC 1200 "You're the reason I'm a-travelin' on, but don't think twice, it's all right" (he wrote it)

Bob Dylan

A PODCAST OF CHARACTERS 600 80 years old, this former "Face the Nation" host is trying a new format with a podcast "About the News"

Bob Schieffer

1968 IN AMERICAN HISTORY 200 The 747 jumbo jet was introduced by this company on September 30

Boeing

BRANDS 1000 The name of this brand of cleanser means "good friend"

Bon Ami

GOOD WORKOUT SONGS 400 Their "It's My Life" & "Livin' On A Prayer"

Bon Jovi

PLAY MS. "T" FOR ME 2000 If you don't have a total eclipse of the brain, you'll name this raspy-voiced lass born Gaynor Hopkins

Bonnie Tyler

BRANDS 200 It's the line of paper towels that's the "quicker picker-upper"

Bounty

SOUTH AMERICA This capital's name is a Latinized form of the name of its country

Brasilia

TELEVISION IN THE 2000s Blanco is the last name of the main character in "Metástasis", a Colombia-set version of this show

Breaking Bad

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS 800 In 1998 author Gloria Naylor revisited this title "Place", this time giving "The Men" a chance to be heard from

Brewster Place

THE WASHINGTON POST 800 Joseph E. Ralph worked as a plate cleaner for the BEP, this bureau, before becoming its director in 1908

Bureau of Engraving and Printing

StubHub SUBCULTURES 400 StubHub sells tickets to this "incendiary" Nevada festival that bills itself as "a city in the desert"

Burning Man

NEWS ON THE SCREEN 400 In June 2015 this media company known for its entertaining lists launched a news app

BuzzFeed

AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES 1000 Calormen--it's south of a more famous land

C. S. Lewis

WHO'S WHO IN THE BIBLE 1600 For committing murder, he was exiled to "the Land of Nod, on the east of Eden"

Cain

I'M SAXON & I KNOW IT 1600 The continental Saxons warred with the Franks but were conquered by this king around 804 A.D.

Charlemagne

AUTO MAKERS 200 Time to head to Nevada in its Tahoe

Chevy

BOND, JAMES BOND 1000 In 1967 not Sean Connery but this British gentleman played Bond in "Casino Royale"

David Niven

I'M SAXON & I KNOW IT 400 When mentioned by Ptolemy in the 2nd century, the Saxons occupied Jutland Peninsula, today mostly part of this country

Denmark

STUDY HALL 400 Yale's Peabody Museum features "The Great Hall of" these mighty extinct creatures

Dinosaurs

NOOK 800 This movie includes the line "Nobody puts Baby in a corner"

Dirty Dancing

THE "DIS"PATCH 2000 It's the "dis" word in ADA, a law passed in 1990 prohibiting discrimination

Disabilities

A SPANISH INQUISITION 800 ¿Hablas aleman?

Do you speak German?

THE OLD WEST 800 The Longbranch Saloon in this frontier city in Kansas served cold beer, tea, milk, lemonade & sasparilla

Dodge City

STRAIT TALK 800 The shortest distance across this strait lies between Cap Gris Nez in France & Shakespeare Beach in Britain

Dover Strait

BIG & SMALL SCREEN DOCTORS 800 This Mike Myers man had "one simple request, & that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads"

Dr. Evil

BIG & SMALL SCREEN DOCTORS 400 This title guy played by Peter Sellers notes, "The whole point of the doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret!"

Dr. Strangelove

FILMS OF THE '90s 400 In 2014 ninnies Lloyd & Harry were back in the sequel to this 1994 movie

Dumb and Dumber

1968 IN AMERICAN HISTORY 600 In June this Chief Justice tendered his resignation

Earl Warren

"E"-READERS 400 The original title of this Steinbeck novel was "Salinas Valley"

East of Eden

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS 1200 Walter Mosley's "Devil in a Blue Dress" saw the 1st appearance of this "effortless" detective in 1940s Los Angeles

Easy Rawlins

OTHER WONDER WOMEN 400 As mom & member of the Incredibles, Helen Parr is sometimes stretched thin as this non-caped crusader

Elastigirl

"E"-READERS 1200 Thomas Gray said, "The paths of glory lead but to the grave" in this sad poem "Written in a Country Churchyard"

Elegy

"E"-READERS Daily Double This novel by Sinclair Lewis caused an uproar for its satiric indictment of fundamentalist religion

Elmer Gantry

THE WORKING DEAD 600 Being dead since 1977 didn't stop this singer from making a cool $55 million between Octobers in 2013 & '14

Elvis

THOREAU-ING A 200th BIRTHDAY! Daily Double Thoreau was a protege of this thinker & lived at his home, acting as handyman & gardener

Emerson

WHO'S THE MRS.? 1200 Josh Duhamel

Fergie

WORLD LEADERS A landmark 1957 New York Times story called him "a powerful six-footer, olive-skinned...with a straggly beard"

Fidel Castro

FEMALE BOOK CHARACTERS 400 As this book begins, Anastasia Steele is getting ready for an interview that will change her (sex) life

Fifty Shades of Grey

SPINNING A WEBSITE 800 This site that seems to be missing a vowel in its name is "the home for all your photos"

Flickr

BUSINESS 200 This company calls its Mustang "#1 sports car for over 45 years"

Ford

WHODUNIT? 2000 Killed Jesse James

Ford

YOU MAD, BRO? 1600 In "The Godfather Part II", Michael says to this character, "I know it was you... you broke my heart"

Fredo

I'M SAXON & I KNOW IT 2000 "Sassenach", derived from "Saxon", is still what Irishmen call Englishmen in this language

Gaelic

NEWSPAPERS Daily Double The independent Florida Alligator is a newspaper aimed at college students in this city

Gainesville

AMERICAN ARTISTS 400 Edgar Leeteg was known as the "American" this artist because of his many works featuring Tahitian people

Gauguin

THEIR ORIGINAL NAMES 1200 U.S. President Leslie Lynch King Jr.

Gerald Ford

BOND, JAMES BOND 200 Auric was this villain's first name

Goldfinger

WHO'S WHO IN THE BIBLE 800 This big guy told Saul's army, "Give me a man, that we may fight together"

Goliath

THE END OF THE SOVIET UNION 400 On Dec. 25, 1991 he announced, "I hereby discontinue my activities at the post of president of the USSR"

Gorbachev

TV SHOWS BY EPISODES 800 "Arkham" & "Everyone has a Cobblepot"

Gotham

THE LIVES OF AUTHORS 800 After the Civil War this bestselling author spent time in the South & "Palmetto Leaves" is a book about her life in Florida

Harriet Beecher Stowe

HER MOVIE 2000 As Madame Mallory, she ran a Michelin-starred French restaurant in 2014's "The Hundred-Foot Journey"

Helen Mirren

EERIE 200 Ghostly sightings at Hampton Court Palace include one of Catherine Howard, wife of this monarch who had her executed

Henry VIII

MADAM SECRETARY 1200 In 1975 Carla Anderson Hills became the first female head of this department that ensures access to shelter

Housing and Urban Development

TV TAGLINES 400 This CBS comedy that ran from 2005 to 2014 had the tagline "A love story in reverse"

How I Met Your Mother

A SPANISH INQUISITION 600 ¿Cuantos años tienes?

How old are you?

LITERARY HOMES 1200 The title of this E.M. Forster novel refers to a country house, & there's no apostrophe

Howards End

3-LETTER RESPONSES 200 Just "think"--in 2012 Ginni Rometty became this company's first female CEO

IBM

MEDIEVAL LITERATURE 800 Our primary source for ancient Norse pagan beliefs is the Poetic Edda of this island nation

Iceland

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS 2000 Chester Himes explored racism in this book whose 6-word title is in the rhyme "Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Mo"

If He Hollers Let Him Go

DOCUMENTARIES 2000 The 1979 doc "From Mao to Mozart" recounts this master violinist's groundbreaking trip to China

Isaac Stern

THE U.S. MARINE CORPS 400 A photo of the flag-raising on this island was used as a model for the Marine Memorial at Arlington

Iwo Jima

AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES 200 Mordor

J. R. R. Tolkien

PRESIDENTS' MIDDLE NAMES 600 Abram

James Garfield

THE CONSTITUTION 800 This future pres. missed only a "fraction of an hour" here or there as he took copious notes of the discussions

James Madison

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS 1200 The papers were the product of Alexander Hamilton, John Jay & him

James Madison

CONCERT HALLS Daily Double The hall in Lahti, Finland is named after this composer

Jean Sibelius

PARISH THE THOUGHT, LOUISIANA 800 Crawfish field tours in the parish named for this Confederate president run from March to May

Jefferson Davis

TAKE IT "EZ" 800 In 2 Kings 9 she's thrown out of the window by eunuchs, trampled & then eaten by dogs

Jezebel

THE U.S. MARINE CORPS 2000 In 1962 he became the first Marine to orbit the Earth

John Glenn

CIVIL WAR LITERATURE 800 "Manhunt" by James Swanson is an account of the multi-day chase to find this killer

John Wilkes Booth

ACTORS & ACTRESSES 1000 This comic actor lost 40 pounds for the role in "Moneyball" that earned him a supporting actor Oscar nomination

Jonah Hill

AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES Daily Double Brobdingnag

Jonathan Swift

FORE! 1000 With 5 wins in 27 tournaments, this American was the top-ranked men's golfer of 2015

Jordan Spieth

AUTO MAKERS 1000 Don't crash its Cadenza into a credenza

Kia

KINGS & QUEENS 1200 Under Roman control, this monarch became king of Judea in 37 B.C. & later of all of Palestine

King Herod

BRITISH HISTORY On January 1, 1801, George III relinquished this royal title claimed by English monarchs since the Hundred Years' War

King of France

QUITE A VOCABULARY 1200 Last name of actor Taylor, or the vulgar quality of projects he avoids

Kitsch

TV SHOWS BY EPISODES 2000 "A Plush Ride" & "Kittnap"

Knight Rider

MOVIE TITLES IN OTHER COUNTRIES 1200 The Chinese call this wild 2007 comedy "One Night Big Belly" (Katherine Heigl's)

Knocked Up

TV REALITY CHECK 400 If you've been "Keeping Up with the Kardashians", you'll know she's the oldest of the 3 sisters

Kourtney

3-LETTER RESPONSES 1000 Timothy Leary was a leading advocate for the use of psychedelic drugs, this one in particular

LSD

"L"ITERATURE 1200 The first line of this D.H. Lawrence novel is "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically"

Lady Chatterley's Lover

GOOD WORKOUT SONGS 200 Her "Born This Way"

Lady Gaga

PARISH THE THOUGHT, LOUISIANA 1200 A French soldier of the Revolutionary War shares a name with this parish known for its Cajun folk

Lafayette

STRAIT TALK 1200 The Detroit River is actually a strait connecting Lake St. Clair with this Great Lake

Lake Erie

IT BORDERS CHINA 800 Under French rule since the 1800s, this landlocked country became fully independent in the 1950s

Laos

FILMS OF THE '90s 800 In 1996 Woody Harrelson portrayed this publisher & champion of free speech

Larry Flynt

StubHub SUBCULTURES 1200 At PAX East in 2017 you can watch play on the Fields of Justice in this alliterative arena game--book early!

League of Legends

"L"ITERATURE 400 In the 1855 preface to this collection of poems, Whitman said, "A great poem is no finish to a man or woman but ...a beginning"

Leaves of Grass

A PODCAST OF CHARACTERS 1000 Hosted by Josh Barrow & Rich Lowry, this political podcast from public radio comes at you from all directions

Left, Right & Center

THE EAGLES 600 Before winging it on their own, Glen Frey, Don Henley & other Eagles bandmates were often her backup group

Linda Ronstadt

THE SOVIET UNION 200 On March 11, 1990 this nation became the first Soviet republic to declare independence & tanks soon rolled into Vilnius

Lithuania

EERIE 600 Using sonar, even deeper parts of this largest freshwater lake in Britain have been found; make room for plesiosaurs!

Loch Ness

ENGLISH LIT 400 This trilogy begins with a "Fellowship" & ends with "The Return of the King"

Lord of the Rings

THE DESOLATION OF SMOG 400 Residents thought it was a Japanese chemical attack when this U.S. metropolis got its first big smog on July 26, 1943

Los Angeles

THE BIBLE 200 This third gospel is the only one that mentions the Roman emperors Augustus & Tiberius

Luke

& WHERE TO FIND "EM" Daily Double This tiny country is smooshed between Belgium, France & Germany

Luxembourg

FILMS WITH SHORT TITLES 2000 This 1931 Fritz Lang classic starred Peter Lorre as a child murderer who's tracked down by the Berlin underworld

M

TV SPIN-OFFS 1200 "Trapper John, M.D."

M*A*S*H

NEO GEO 1600 Bombay has become Mumbai & this southern city famous for its fabrics is now known as Chennai

Madras

DOCUMENTARIES 1200 This 2015 series on Netflix puts both possible killer Steven Avery & a Wisconsin county sheriff's dept. on trial

Making a Murderer

STUFF ABOUT STATES 200 Red Lake is the largest of the more than 10,000 lakes within this state

Minnesota

FEMALE BOOK CHARACTERS 800 "Sleeping Murder" is billed as the last case of this Agatha Christie character

Miss Marple

FEMALE BOOK CHARACTERS 1000 Part of Defoe's extended title about this woman: "Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia"

Moll Flanders

AFRICAN COUNTRY BY AIRPORT 1000 Mohammed V International Airport

Morocco

WHO'S WHO IN THE BIBLE 400 At the Burning Bush, God told him to take off his shoes, "for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground"

Moses

U.S. MOUNTAINS 1000 The observatory on the summit of this New Hampshire mountain provides guided tours of its weather station

Mount Washington

STABLE CHARACTERS 800 Wilbur Post inherited a talking palomino on this '60s sitcom

Mr. Ed

HOTEL CALIFORNIA 600 The actors who played these little folks had quite a wild time at the Culver Hotel during the making of a 1939 film

Munchkins

AFRICAN COUNTRIES 800 It gets its "N"ame from its large coastal desert

Namibia

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD Of the 5 countries with the lowest population density, this U.N. member is the only one named for a desert

Namibia

HOTEL CALIFORNIA 400 In 1970 he hosted a state dinner at the Hotel del Coronado rather than the White House

Nixon

BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES 400 By right of conquest in 1066 came the house with this geographic name

Norman

AMERICAN ARTISTS 800 Fittingly, his last published work was created for the USA's bicentennial; he died 2 years later

Norman Rockwell

IT BORDERS CHINA 400 A 2014 USA Today headline said the leader of this country was "'elected' with 100% of the vote"

North Korea

CIVIL WAR LITERATURE 400 This "directional" trilogy by John Jakes looks at the Civil War from the viewpoints of 2 families on opposite sides

North and South

U.S. MOUNTAINS 200 The U.S. army's Schofield Barracks are at the base of Ka'ala, this Hawaiian island's highest peak

Oahu

THE U.S. MARINE CORPS 1200 In the Pacific, Marine bases are located at Oahu, Hawaii & this Japanese island in the Ryukyus

Okinawa

THE OLD WEST 1600 The Santa Fe Trail split off into the Mountain Branch & the Cimarron Cutoff via now what's this state's panhandle

Oklahoma

OLIVIA 400 Australian vineyards provide the grapes for this singer's Koala Blue wines

Olivia Newton-John

OLIVIA 800 Her most famous role came in 1939 as Melanie Wilkes

Olivia de Havilland

HODGEPODGE 400 She's appeared on every cover of O magazine since it was launched in 2000

Oprah

PLAYWRIGHTS An 1892 Punch cartoon depicts him lounging with a cigarette & holding a fan with a name written on it

Oscar Wilde

"X" IN THE CITY 200 It's home to Britain's oldest university

Oxford

TURN ON YOUR HEAVY METAL DEFECTOR 400 This singer left Black Sabbath in 1979--hold on a sec... Shaaaaaronnn!--but was back with the band in 2016

Ozzy Osbourne

ABBREVIATIONS Its meaning as an individual product dates to 1977; its meaning as conforming to orthodox opinion dates to 1986

PC

3-LETTER RESPONSES 400 A make-out session in a restaurant or at a ballgame

PDA

IT BORDERS CHINA 600 After a 9-month civil war, Bangladesh broke away from this country in 1971

Pakistan

"PAY" DAY 200 In June 2011 this online transaction service reached 100 million active accounts

PayPal

THE CONSTITUTION 400 The name of this state hosting the Constitutional Convention is misspelled on the document: one "N" was left out

Pennsylvania

DOCUMENTARIES 800 Mais oui, a documentary short on this Looney Tunes character is called "The Charm of Stink"

Pepé Le Pew

YOU MAD, BRO? 400 Artaxerxes II, king of this land, had to deal with rebellion from his brother Cyrus the Younger--not cool, bro

Persia

MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Daily Double His 14th century collection "Canzoniere" established & perfected the Italian sonnet form

Petrarch

EPONYMS 800 In 1887 this German scientist invented the dish now named for him that's used in making bacteria cultures

Petri

TECHNOLOGY MILESTONES 600 In the 1940s this company introduced its Land camera, which produced a finished print 60 seconds after exposure

Polaroid

THE FILMS OF MERYL STREEP 800 This 1990 film in which Meryl plays a substance-addicted actress was based on a book by Carrie Fisher

Postcards from the Edge

NEO GEO 2000 Tshwane, after a local chief, is the new name of this South African city formerly named for a Boer leader

Pretoria

LITERARY HOMES 1600 This novel kicks off with news that Netherfield Park has been let

Pride and Prejudice

THE BIBLE 600 The 26th of these biblical poems begins, "Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity"

Psalms

I.M. PEI 2000 Among Pei's crowning achievements is the Museum of Islamic Art in this country's capital, Doha

Qatar

WHODUNIT? 1200 Proclaimed himself head of the Norwegian government in April 1940

Quisling

FILMS WITH SHORT TITLES Daily Double This 2004 Best Picture nominee featured such tunes as "What'd I Say" & "I Got A Woman"

Ray

NEWSPAPERS 1600 In names of newspapers, it follows Des Moines & Orange County

Register

BUSINESS 800 This British billionaire gave a TED talk entitled "Life at 30,000 Feet"

Richard Branson

SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS About himself he says, "Since the heavens have shap'd my body so, let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it"

Richard III

YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS 600 He was a Democrat in Texas' state House in the 1980s, but a Republican as governor for 14 years

Rick Perry

STATUES 1200 His sculpture of "The Thinker" is in the gardens at his home, the Hotel Biron in Paris, now a museum devoted to him

Rodin

AUTO MAKERS 600 I think I could learn to enjoy its Ghost Series II

Rolls-Royce

LUCKY 7 600 Viminal & Aventine are 2 of this ancient metropolis' 7 hills

Rome

CONCERT HALLS 400 In the 1940s the BBC Proms concerts moved from Queen's Hall to this one named for a prince

Royal Albert Hall

KABOOM! 2000 In 1908 the Tunguska object smashed into a remote region of this country, flattening half a million acres

Russia

HISTORY SINCE 1950 200 After months on the run, he was captured December 13, 2003 after he was found hiding in a hole near Tikrit

Saddam Hussein

THE GLOBE Daily Double This vast geographic feature is bordered by the Sahel on the south and the Maghreb on the north

Sahara Desert

SAINTS BE PRAISED 800 A Memphis hospital is named for this patron saint of desperate causes

Saint Jude

TV SHOWS BY EPISODES Daily Double "Dirty Little Secrets" & "Happy Birthday, Mr. President!"

Scandal

THE WORKING DEAD 800 MetLife ads helped this cartoonist draw in $40 million over a yearlong period

Schulz

BOOKS' SUBTITLES 400 This horse: "An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Seabiscuit

AFRICAN COUNTRIES 2000 Gambia or the Gambia was once part of a union with this country that surrounds it

Senegal

PLAY MS. "T" FOR ME 1200 In 2010 this Canadian country singer divorced the mutt who'd produced her hit albums like "The Woman in Me"

Shania Twain

"X" IN THE CITY 1000 It's the largest city in South Dakota & its X is silent

Sioux Falls

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

THE SOVIET UNION Daily Double Following the revolution Lenin gave him a job as commissar of nationalities but might have come to regret it

Stalin

STATUES 800 Russia's 278-foot "The Motherland Calls" statue commemorates the 1942-43 battle of this city

Stalingrad

ATHLETES IN THE HEADLINES 400 This Golden State superstar's wife Ayesha used Twitter to voice her complaints about officiating in the 2016 NBA finals

Stephen Curry

AUTO MAKERS 800 Perhaps its Impreza will imprezz you

Subaru

OTHER WONDER WOMEN 200 Back on the doomed planet of Krypton, she was known as Kara Zor-El

Supergirl

TV REALITY CHECK 200 Palau, Micronesia & Vanuatu have all been exotic settings for this TV show

Survivor

KINGS & QUEENS 2000 King Sobhuza II of this southern African kingdom reigned 1899-1982, enough time for 70 wives & 600 kids

Swaziland

HOW "SWEET" IT IS 2000 This liberal arts women's college in Virginia was founded in 1901 & named for the plantation on which it was built

Sweet Briar College

HOW "SWEET" IT IS 800 This little candies with printed sayings claim to be the bestselling Valentine's Day candy

Sweethearts

THE SOVIET UNION 1000 In the 1990s this news agency was renamed ITAR; it has its Soviet name back now

TASS

OTHER GREAT LAKES 400 Great Lake is the name of one of the largest lakes in this Australian island state

Tasmania

STRAIT TALK 400 The exploration of the Bass Strait in 1798 proved that this island was not part of the Australian mainland

Tasmania

1968 IN AMERICAN HISTORY 800 In late January 70,000 troops directed by North Vietnam began simultaneous attacks in this operation

Tet Offensive

STUFF ABOUT STATES 400 It ranks second among the states in both population & area

Texas

THINK MUSIC 2000 "You might think I'm foolish or maybe it's untrue, you might think I'm crazy, all I want is you"

The Cars

"E"-READERS 2000 Hana is the nurse who takes care of the nameless & terribly burned man in this novel by Michael Ondaatje

The English Patient

OLIVIA 1600 Olivia Goldsmith, who wrote this 1992 novel about women whose exes acquire younger spouses, died during a facelift

The First Wives Club

MOVIE TITLES IN OTHER COUNTRIES 1600 In Germany, this 1971 Gene Hackman film is "Focus Brooklyn"

The French Connection

FILMS OF THE '90s 200 The tag line of this film was "A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins"

The Fugitive

VETERANS DAY FILM FESTIVAL 2000 Charles Bronson played the Polish officer in charge of digging tunnels out of the German prison camp in this classic

The Great Escape

LIT BLITZ 400 In 2015 Elisabeth Moss of "Mad Men" starred as Heidi Holland in a Broadway revival of this Wendy Wasserstein play

The Heidi Chronicles

VETERANS DAY FILM FESTIVAL 800 Mark Boal, once embedded as a reporter in Iraq, won an Oscar for writing this 2009 film about an Army bomb squad

The Hurt Locker

ENGLISH LIT Daily Double "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" is the subtitle of this Oscar Wilde play of mistaken identity

The Importance of Being Earnest

TV SPIN-OFFS 2000 "Vanderpump Rules", on Bravo

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

A PODCAST OF CHARACTERS 400 "I Was There Too" has as guests supporting actors like Clancy Brown, prison guard captain Hadley in this 1994 film

The Shawshank Redemption

TV SHOWS BY EPISODES 400 "Two Tonys" & "A Hit is a Hit"

The Sopranos

TV SHOWS BY EPISODES 1200 "The Truth" & "Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man"

The X-Files

MOVIE TITLES IN OTHER COUNTRIES 800 To Mexican audiences, Daniel Day-Lewis starred in "Bloody Oil"--this movie

There Will Be Blood

THE LIVES OF AUTHORS 1600 This "Magic Mountain" author left Germany for the same L.A. street where O.J. Simpson later lived

Thomas Mann

THE QUOTABLE BEN FRANKLIN 200 His "Advice to a Young Tradesman": "Remember that" this "is Money"

Time

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS Daily Double Anthony is the middle name of this award-winning author who released her 11th novel, "God Help the Child", in 2015

Toni Morrison

ART & ARTISTS 1600 You can see his "Jane Avril Leaving the Moulin Rouge" at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford

Toulouse-Lautrec

AUTO MAKERS 400 Max out storage space in its Sienna minivan

Toyota

PLAY MS. "T" FOR ME 400 If your lips are movin', you're probably naming this ms. who broke through with "All About That Bass" in 2014

Trainor

THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY IN POP CULTURE 1000 In this film, Amy Schumer does the "I'm the king of the world" pose on the guardrails of the Staten Island Ferry

Trainwreck

DINOSAURS 400 "Hellboy", a newly discovered dino with facial horns & a shield-like appendage, was closely related to this 3-horned dino

Triceratops

THE U.S. MARINE CORPS 800 The Mameluke sword carried by officers dates to 1805, when the Marines rid the "shores of" this place of pirates

Tripoli

WHO'S THE MRS.? 800 Garth Brooks

Trisha Yearwood

BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES 1200 Henry VII's father was known as Edmund this, hence this house's moniker

Tudor

OLIVIA 1200 Nothing is ordinary for Olivia in this Shakespeare comedy: she loves Cesario, who is Viola in disguise

Twelfth Night

3-LETTER RESPONSES 800 This network's original series have included "Monk", "Psych" & "Suits"

USA

AFRICAN COUNTRIES 400 The Ganda are one of its major ethnic groups

Uganda

THE SUN 1200 Launched in 1990, the first spacecraft to fly over the sun's poles had this Homeric (& Joycean) name

Ulysses

NEWS ON THE SCREEN 1200 "Al Punto" (To the Point) is an interview show hosted by Jorge Ramos on this network

Univision

FILMS WITH SHORT TITLES 800 In this 2009 animated film, Russell exclaims, "I've never been in a floating house before!"

Up

THE END OF THE SOVIET UNION 2000 These 2 ethnic groups that both begin with "U" were the next-largest ethnic groups in the Soviet Union after Russians

Uzbeks & Ukrainians

"V"OCABULARY 600 In Norse mythology, it's Odin's palace

Valhalla

1 VOWEL, 3 TIMES 1600 This mythological hall of dead Norse warriors has 540 doors

Valhalla

TURN ON YOUR HEAVY METAL DEFECTOR 800 Whether he got canned or he quit, as of '96, Sammy Hagar was no longer the voice of this band of 2 brothers

Van Halen

TOLERANCE 800 "Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance... as now we do by accident," said this partner of Sacco

Vanzetti

"V"OCABULARY 800 The name of this form of theatrical entertainment comes from a valley in Normandy

Vaudeville

NEO GEO Daily Double In its official name this nation now describes itself as a "Bolivarian Republic"

Venezuela

STUDY HALL 1600 The Galerie des Glaces, or Hall of Mirrors, is quite a site at this onetime royal residence

Versailles

SPINNING A WEBSITE 400 I've got 6 seconds to tell you that in 2016 Twitter said it would discontinue this 4-letter mobile video app

Vine

TOLERANCE 1000 This Frenchman's 1734 "Lettres Philosophiques" argues in favor of religious tolerance

Voltaire

WORLD UNIVERSITIES 400 Prifysgol Cymru is the university of this U.K. country

Wales

THE WASHINGTON POST 1200 Michelin-starred chef Jean-Louis Palladin is among those who have run the kitchen at this infamous Washington hotel

Watergate

A SPANISH INQUISITION 400 ¿Como te llamas?

What is your name?

A SPANISH INQUISITION 200 ¿Que hora es?

What time is it?

SPINNING A WEBSITE 200 "1600 Penn" is a link at this.gov

White House

WHODUNIT? 1600 Ran Boston's Winter Hill Gang; was played by Johnny Depp

Whitey Bulger

ZERO 1000 Published in 1986 "Count Zero" is a sequel to his "Neuromancer"

William Gibson

BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES 800 Even after marrying a Mountbatten, Queen Elizabeth II said this house would remain

Windsor

ENGLISH LIT 1600 "Bring Up the Bodies" is Hilary Mantel's sequel to this historical novel about the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell

Wolf Hall

U.S. MOUNTAINS Daily Double A Wyoming peak was named for this man soon after his 1924 death; there are said to be 14 points on its ridges

Woodrow Wilson

NEWS ON THE SCREEN 2000 In 2014 Katie Couric became global anchor of this email, search & news website

Yahoo

I'M SAXON & I KNOW IT 1200 In the Saxon tongue, Dec. & Jan. were together known by this 4-letter name, today a synonym for Christmas

Yule

ZERO 600 He played Max Bialystock in the original film version of "The Producers"

Zero Mostel

WORLD UNIVERSITIES 1600 In the Times higher education rankings, this city's Swiss Federal Institute of Technology is 13th, tops outside the U.S. & U.K.

Zurich

A FISH IS STILL A FISH 1000 You "betta" believe this type of "fighting fish" will even attack its own image in a mirror

a Siamese fighting fish

BRANDS 400 A wood saw & a Phillips screwdriver are attachments on the Hercules model of this knife brand

a Swiss army knife

MY "BA-E" 800 It's the longer, fancier name for a bachelor's degree

a baccalaureate

THE QUOTABLE BEN FRANKLIN 600 "There never was a good war or" this

a bad peace

WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS Daily Double A prohibition in New York's capital

a ban (in Albany)

LOVE CRAFT 600 Susanna Hoffs loves this type of bracelet that sounds like the band she was in

a bangle

SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER 800 A pointy part of a fishhook, or a pointedly unpleasant remark

a barb

AN ORANGE FOR TEACHER 600 If I may be sanguine, Sicily is a major producer of this sweet-tart dessert orange

a blood orange

"OO" RAH 1200 A funny reel of footage is named for this type of goof

a blooper

DINOSAURS 2000 Just like a giraffe, this "arm lizard" had an extremely long neck that could reach high branches of trees for food

a brachiosaurus

FANTASTIC BEASTS 400 The constellation Sagittarius is depicted as one of these mythic half-breeds

a centaur

ETYMOLOGY 800 This word for a movie hall comes from an 1890s term used by the Lumiere Brothers

a cinema

REPLICAS 800 Some assembly is required when you buy a replica one of these at the Eli Whitney Museum & Workshop

a cotton gin

TV REALITY CHECK 600 On "Deadliest Catch", crews risk life & limb to catch these, like the snow or the king

a crab

PALMISTRY 200 Famous as a psychic, Jeane Dixon said an old gypsy saw her talents in her palm &--of course--gave her this ball

a crystal ball

FANTASTIC BEASTS 1000 Hercules had to deal with the quickness of the Ceryneian hind, a type of this animal

a deer

YOU KIDS TODAY! 600 Kelley Blue Book research shows that 97% of teens have or want this document that some millennials scorned

a driver's license

PHYSICS TEST 1200 Hey, farmer! It's the physics term for a region in which every point is affected by a force

a field

PAY 600 If you initiate a business transaction between 2 entities, you may be eligible for one of these alliterative sums

a finder's fee

KINDLE 1600 A sudden outburst of fire, violence or a rash

a flare-up

THE EAGLES 200 The Boy Scouts logo features an eagle on this french-named item, a stylized lily

a fleur-de-lis

FREE SPEECH 400 A trip with all your friends jammed into your car, or an all-inclusive scholarship

a full ride

FORE! 600 A golfer marks a scorecard with 2 numbers per hole if he has one of these, such as 20

a handicap

LETTER WORDS 1000 The address & date at a letter's beginning, it's also a word for a ship's direction

a heading

GIVE ME 5 "CC"s 1000 A respiratory spasm

a hiccup

EPONYMS Daily Double This above-ground burial chamber was named for an ancient Greek leader whose tomb was an Ancient Wonder

a mausoleum

TECHNOLOGY MILESTONES 200 Dutch lens maker Zacharias Janssen is credited with inventing the compound type of this device around 1590

a microscope

F-STOP 400 A recurring theme in a musical or literary work

a motif

WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS 400 A brief rest in Maryland's capital

a nap (in Annapolis)

THE "N"IMAL KINGDOM 800 An eft is the immature terrestrial stage of this amphibian

a newt

THE "N"IMAL KINGDOM 2000 It's a bottom-feeding shark with an occupational name

a nurse shark

EERIE 400 A giant one of these 5-pointed stars showed up on a lakeside during a Google Earth map survey over Kazakhstan

a pentagram

STUDY HALL 1200 Royal Albert Hall had a record crowd of 9,000 in 1906 when folks listened to one of these newfangled inventions

a phonograph

SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER 1200 A cabbie with an empty taxi may go to the airport to make this

a pickup

SUPERIOR 400 In 1797 Charles Newbold patented a cast-iron one--better than wood, but farmers worried it would poison the soil

a plow

LOVE CRAFT 1000 Be crafty & make your own one of these rings, given to a lover prior to an engagement ring

a promise ring

IN THAT HEAD 800 This photoreceptive area of sensitive nerve tissue covers 2/3 of the back of the eye

a retina

WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS 1200 A piece of jewelry in Illinois' capital

a ring (in Springfield)

FASHION 200 An obi is a broad one of these traditionally worn with a kimono

a sash

MASTERS OF SOCKS 800 Sometimes held in a gym, it's a shoeless school dance

a sock hop

VETERANS DAY FILM FESTIVAL 1200 In "Fury" Brad Pitt as Wardaddy commands one of these with a 5-man crew

a tank

"PAY" DAY 1000 The IRS W-9 form is a polite "request for" this "identification number and certification"

a taxpayer identification number

GIVING YOU THE EARTH & THE MOON 1600 On the moon, Schroter's this is more than a hundred miles long, like the fertile Shenandoah on Earth

a valley

WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS 2000 A foreign currency in Wyoming's capital

a yen (in Cheyenne)

5-SYLLABLE WORDS 800 Meaning repugnant, it also describes a certain snowman

abominable

5-SYLLABLE WORDS 1600 John Brown, Levi Coffin or Sojourner Truth

an abolitionist

THE BIBLE 1000 Zechariah predicted the new king would arrive in Jerusalem on one of these animals, & Jesus later does

an ass (a donkey accepted)

ETYMOLOGY 400 The Dutch for "donkey" gives us this word for a stand on which a painting is placed, much as a burden is placed on a donkey

an easel

QUITE A VOCABULARY 400 Vocation means a job; this word, 1 letter longer, means a hobby

avocation

MY "BA-E" 400 At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Ryan Murphy captured gold medals in the 100- & 200-meter this

backstroke

1 VOWEL, 3 TIMES 400 In bikes, it precedes seat; in desserts, split

banana

REPLICAS 1000 Caesars Palace in Las Vegas turned a replica of this type of Cleopatra craft into a nightclub

barge

MY "BA-E" 200 The name of this operatic voice is from the Greek for "deep-sounding"

baritone

SUPERIOR 200 Money proved superior to this system of swapping goods, as it was hard walking around with a cow or a sack of pears

bartering

4 YOUR CONSIDERATION 200 The 4 standard divisions of singers in a choir are soprano, alto, tenor & this one

bass

MY "BA-E" 1000 Almost all aluminum comes from this ore

bauxite

HODGEPODGE 1200 Rubber & duplicate are the 2 main types of the contract version of this card game

bridge

IN THE DICTIONARY 400 It's what you should do twice a day with a dentifrice

brush

TAKE IT "EZ" 600 Not to be confused with the Spanish word for beer, it's the Spanish word for head

cabeza

"OO" RAH 400 It partners with "whole kit" to denote something in its entirety

caboodle

A FRENCH PREPOSITION 200 Often used in restaurant titles, it means "in the house of"

chez

FUEL FOSSILS 800 Rudolf Diesel's first engine was designed to run on the dust of this solid fuel

coal

RULE OF LAW 2000 Under the rule of doubt, incomprehensible computer code can't be given this protection

copyright protection

LEGAL MATTERS 2000 The history of the possession of the evidence & where it's been is known as the "chain of" this

custody

THE QUOTABLE BEN FRANKLIN 400 "In this world nothing can be... certain, except" these 2 things

death & taxes

F-STOP 1000 To interrogate a friendly spy after a mission

debrief

POPULAR PSYCHOLOGY TERMS Anna Freud wrote, "The infantile ego resorts to" this behavior "in order not to become aware of some painful impression"

denial

A FRENCH PREPOSITION 800 In French, it's a preposition meaning "behind"; in English, it's a noun for the behind

derrière

PHYSICS TEST 1600 Newton's third law: when 2 bodies meet, they exert forces on each other that are equal in magnitude & opposite in this

direction

THE "DIS"PATCH 1600 It's a comprehensive list of recordings by a composer or artist

discography

THE "DIS"PATCH 1200 Get off your high horse or off a piece of gymnastics equipment

dismount

F-STOP 800 To tip the hat

doff

THE CONSTITUTION Daily Double The 5th Amendment says you can't be jailed "without" this phrase "of law", a protection rooted in Magna Carta

due process

THE SUN 400 Though it's 864,000 miles in diameter, the sun is classed as a yellow one of these stars

dwarf

DINOSAURS 1600 Heyuan, China is a world center for these fossilized items & in 2015 a road crew found another 43

eggs

EXPERIMENTS 1200 In 1961 Claus Johnson showed that like light, these subatomic particles can behave as waves, not as particles

electrons

BIOLOGY 800 Most of these catalysts are proteins that end with the letters -ase

enzymes

TRAVEL & TOURISM 1600 While in Fiji see this ceremony natives call vilavilairevo, or "jumping into the oven", & listen for "Ow! Ow! Ow!"

hot coal walking

NUTRITION 1200 For 19-to-50-year-olds, the RDA for this mineral is 8 mg for men, 18 mg for women & even more for vegetarians

iron

EERIE 800 In the Southwest there've been reports of livestock being killed by this cryptid creature, Spanish for "goat sucker"

la chupacabra

SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER 400 It means pertaining to the tongue

lingual

PUNNING POLITICAL TITLES 1000 Canada's Allan Fotheringham chronicled the Pierre Trudeau years in a book called this quality "in Blunderland"

malice

AN ORANGE FOR TEACHER 1000 Loose-skinned oranges like the Clementine are this kind of orange, also the name of a language

mandarin

GIVING YOU THE EARTH & THE MOON Daily Double Latin name for the large, dark lunar plains that early observers thought were seas

maria

AN ORANGE FOR TEACHER 200 Seville oranges are big in making this preserve, a word from the Portuguese

marmalade

"SECURITY" 800 If you're a man on death row in Tennessee, you're at the Riverbend this type of institution

maximum-security prison

NATURE STUDY 1600 Scientists believe the very long nose of this monkey of Borneo creates an echo chamber amplifying calls to attract mates

proboscis

RELIGIOUS TITLES 800 In John 6:25 Jesus' disciples refer to him by this Jewish title

rabbi

"READY" WHEN YOU ARE 800 Pret-a-porter is French for this type of clothing

ready-to-wear

A FISH IS STILL A FISH 200 Though guppies are freshwater fish, add this to their tank to help them build up a protective slime coat

salt

NUTRITION 400 The World Health Organization suggest limiting this to no more than a teaspoon a day & using the iodized type

salt

LEGAL MATTERS 1600 When attorneys confer with the judge out of the jury's earshot, it's this 7-letter type of conference

sidebar

THE PITTSBURGH ADDRESS 2000 In Pittsburgh in 1964, LBJ said, "The Great" this "is when America's promise and her practice come together"

society

THE PITTSBURGH ADDRESS Daily Double In a 1983 Pittsburgh speech, Ronald Reagan spoke about frustrated & "permanently laid-off" workers in this industry

steel

HOW "SWEET" IT IS 1200 Sugar & vinegar are key ingredients in this favorite Chinese chicken dish

sweet & sour chicken

HOW "SWEET" IT IS Daily Double Johnathan Swift wrote that honey & wax furnished "mankind with the two noblest of things, which are" these

sweetness & light

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 800 An electronic instrument, or someone who puts things together, such as ideas from disparate areas

synthesizer

RHYME HOLE 800 Bullfrog polliwog

tadpole

HUMAN BEHAVIOR 200 It's said that "There's no accounting for" this set of preferences

taste

COMMUNICATION 800 Sherlock Holmes often hears of new developments in a case via this, aka "the Victorian Internet"

telegraph

AMERICAN ARTISTS 1200 Andrew Wyeth said this type of painting using egg yolk "is not the medium for swiftness"

tempera

RULE OF LAW 1600 In California it enforces rules of professional conduct for lawyers

the (state) bar (association)

ORGANIZATIONS Daily Double The Scopes trial was a famous test case for this group that champions free speech

the ACLU (the American Civil Liberties Union)

STRAIT TALK Daily Double Amchitka Pass lies between the Rat Islands & the Andreanof Islands in this Alaskan archipelago

the Aleutian Islands

HOTEL CALIFORNIA 1000 A victory celebration turned to grief in 1968 when Sirhan Sirhan shot Robert Kennedy at this Los Angeles hotel

the Ambassador

EPONYMS 400 This Mennonite sect found in rural Pennsylvania & Ohio was named for a 17th century Swiss bishop

the Amish

I'M SAXON & I KNOW IT 800 In the 400s the Saxons began migrating to Great Britain & soon got mixed up with these people who had a geometric name

the Angles

GIVING YOU THE EARTH & THE MOON 2000 Mons Huygens, the moon's tallest peak, is in this lunar range; Monte Corno is the tallest in the earthly one

the Apennines

BALLET UP TO THE BARRE 1200 When Serge Diaghilev brought this ballet company to the U.S. in 1916, Vaslav Nijinsky was a featured dancer

the Ballets Russes

NFL TEAM NAMES 200 Their name was chosen to be a complement to the Cubs baseball team

the Bears

NEWSPAPERS 400 Buzz in if you know it's the name shared by Fresno's & Sacramento's main newspapers

the Bee

STUDY HALL 2000 The attempted coup d'etat known by this name began at the Burgerbraukeller on Nov. 8, 1923

the Beer Hall Putsch

BIGGER THAN A BREADBOX 400 In 1972 this Volkswagen surpassed the Model T as the most produced car model in history

the Beetle

PUNNING POLITICAL TITLES 200 "Dave Barry hits below the" this 64-mile interstate encircling D.C.

the Beltway

KABOOM! 1200 Cosmologists believe that the universe started from a very small volume with this event

the Big Bang

RULE OF LAW 800 A 2015 SEC rule says companies must disclose the pay gap between workers & this 3-letter boss

the CEO

YOU MAD, BRO? Daily Double Henry I eased onto England's throne in 1100 because his brother Robert Curthose was away fighting in the first of these

the Crusades

NEO GEO 400 You take the left half of the old name, we'll take the right, said these 2 new European countries in 1993

the Czech Republic & Slovakia

HOTEL CALIFORNIA 800 "The Happiest Hotel on Earth"--book a room or themed suite in its Adventure, Fantasy or Frontier towers

the Disneyland Hotel

STABLE CHARACTERS 400 This Waterloo winner rode a horse named Copenhagen

the Duke of Wellington

AROUND THE WORLD Daily Double They drive on the left in this South Atlantic group of about 200 islands & 2,900 people

the Falklands

LEGAL MATTERS 400 This amendment says you cannot be compelled to be a witness against yourself in a criminal matter

the Fifth Amendment

OTHER GREAT LAKES 600 In Utah it receives the Jordan & Weber Rivers

the Great Salt Lake

HISTORY: HIRED & FIRED 2000 Byzantine Emperor Justinian, you oversaw a legal code & this "holy wisdom" church? Multitasker, you're hired

the Hagia Sophia

H.P. 800 Young Teddy Roosevelt served as club secretary for this Harvard club known for its theatricals

the Hasty Pudding Club

19th CENTURY AMERICA 800 In 1895 Secretary of State Richard Olney said this doctrine allowed us to intervene in intl. disputes in the W. hemisphere

the Monroe doctrine

SAINTS BE PRAISED 400 They had Billy Kilmer & Jim Taylor when they began play in 1967

the New Orleans Saints

CAIRO 200 Cairo is at the bottom of the fan formed by this delta

the Nile

"READY" WHEN YOU ARE 1200 This name for the original troupe of "Saturday Night Live" performers reflected their late night work

the Not Ready for Prime Time Players

FORE! 800 This biennial cup has pitted Europe's top golfers against America's best since 1927

the Ryder Cup

HISTORY: HIRED & FIRED 400 Captain Smith, you didn't bother to sound a general alarm after this ship hit an iceberg? You're fired!

the Titanic

19th CENTURY AMERICA Daily Double On January 8, 1863 ground was broken in Sacramento for this; ground was broken for it in Omaha 11 months later

the Trans-Continental Railway

DOCUMENTARIES 400 The 1967 doc "The Anderson Platoon" went to war with the title military unit during this conflict

the Vietnam War

THE END OF THE SOVIET UNION Daily Double This mutual defense treaty between the USSR & other Communist states was disbanded in 1991

the Warsaw Pact

TAKE IT "EZ" 1000 This African river plunges over Victoria Falls

the Zambezi

IN THAT HEAD 1200 The genioglossus muscle helps this other important muscle to protrude & pull back

the tongue

WEAPONRY 800 'A spray used in self-defense, or a spiked, club-like item to do even more damage'

'a mace'

SLANG-UAGE 2000 '"Deadly" 2-word alliterative term for a strategy used to prevent a corporate takeover'

'a poison pill'

WHICH PART OF SPEECH? 600 'The golf tourney was a success despite the trampling incident: despite'

'a preposition'

CURTAINS 400 'The Baja stripe model in Cape Cod fabric from Bed Bath & Beyond is this type of curtain'

'a shower curtain'

ABBREV. 2000 'SRB stands for this kind of booster'

'a solid rocket booster'

FASHIONABLE WORDS 800 'Weskit is a synonym for this part of a 3-piece suit'

'a vest'

RANKS & TITLES 400 'A vicereine is the wife of one of these officials'

'a viceroy'

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 800 'The theme song of "Futurama" features chimes, also known as tubular these'

'bells'

SLANG-UAGE 800 'A "Futurama" robot, or slang for a drinking spree'

'bender'

EASY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Daily Double 'This process is benign when it replicates DNA segments, but makes people nervous when it replicates mammals'

'cloning'

"PRO"s & "CON"s 800 'From the Latin for "to know", it's a person with expert knowledge or training'

'connoisseur'

E BEFORE I 800 'Not native'

'foreign'

A SCOUT IS... 800 'This synonym for "amiable" linked with a comic book ghost'

'friendly'

IT ENDS WITH "U" 2000 'Specially trained chefs prepare this puffer fish in Japan, where it is a delicacy'

'fugu'

BUMPER STICKER HUMOR 1000 '"I believe in ghosts. My past just came back to" do this'

'haunt me'

"SIN"ONYMS 200 'Synonym for unattached'

'single'

PREHISTORIC TIMES 1200 'The iguanadon was named because these body parts resembled those of an iguana'

'teeth'

ISLANDS 1200 'Inagua in this nation just east of Miami is home to more than 80,000 flamingos, the national bird'

'the Bahamas'

CURTAINS 1000 'This political barrier between the west & the Communist nations of Asia arose after the Chinese revolution of 1949'

'the Bamboo Curtain'

BODIES OF WATER 1000 "The Aleutian Islands & the Commander Islands mark this sea's southern border"

'the Bering Sea'

MARSHALL LAW 400 'In an 1833 decision John Marshall said this 10-item list was a limitation of the national government only'

'the Bill of Rights'

COMPLETELY BASSLESS 1200 'Patrick Carney & Dan Auerbach make up this blues-rock duo whose name is even musical'

'the Black Keys'

YOU'RE A "CHAMP"! 200 'It begins at the Place de la Concorde'

'the Champs-xc3x89lysxc3xa9es'

ANTEBELLUM ROBERT E. LEE 400 'Robert E. Lee was born Jan. 19, 1807 at Stratford Hall, the Lee family estate in Northern Virginia on the banks of this river'

'the Potomac'

ENDS IN "SS" 400 "Place your bets! Each May Baltimore's Pimlico Track hosts this Triple Crown race"

'the Preakness'

WORLD GEOGRAPHY Daily Double 'This mountain range separates Spain & France'

'the Pyrenees'

BODIES OF WATER 800 'Bonn, Germany & Strasbourg, France are cities on this river'

'the Rhine'

TREATIES 400 'The 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty allowed Israel access to this man-made waterway'

'the Suez Canal'

A TOMB WITH A VIEW 400 'UNESCO calls this, a world heritage site since 1983, "The jewel of Muslim art in India"'

'the Taj Mahal'

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 200 'The first official list of military calls for this trumpet-like valveless instrument was issued in 1798'

'the bugle'

MYTHING IN ACTION 1000 'Now an emblem of the medical profession, it was the staff carried by Mercury'

'the caduceus'

FOOD WORDS & PHRASES 400 'Idiomatically, the stick is the coercion while this vegetable is the reward'

'the carrot'

BOOKS FOR KIDS "In Wonderland, Alice comes upon a mad tea-party attended by the Hatter, March Hare, & this creature, who's asleep"

'the dormouse'

CAUSED BY... 200 'Aeolian, like certain vibrations'

'wind'

YOU MAD, BRO? 2000 This late British atheist said his brother's article about him was a "fraternal stab between the shoulder blades"

(Christopher) Hitchens

"SECURITY" 1000 The company ADT says it's "#1 in" this

home security

FEMALE BOOK CHARACTERS 200 After her affair with Count Vronsky, she commits suicide by throwing herself in front of a train

Anna Karenina

HER MOVIE 400 In 2014 she was magnificent as "Maleficent", whom she called "wonderfully, deliciously cruel"

Angelina Jolie

KINGS & QUEENS 800 In the spring of 1533, she was crowned queen in London; in the spring of 1536 she was executed

Anne Boleyn

19th CENTURY AMERICA 400 Until the California gold rush in 1849, this largest North Carolina city was the center of the USA's gold production

Charlotte

BIG & SMALL SCREEN DOCTORS 1000 On this Adult Swim series, Nate Corddry was Dr. Jason Mantzoukas & Jason Mantzoukas was Mole Man

Childrens Hospital

MASTERS OF SOCKS 200 The town of Zhuji in this country is known as "Sock City" & has produced as many as 17 billion pairs a year

China

KINGS & QUEENS 400 She became queen in 51 B.C. when her father the pharaoh died

Cleopatra

FEMALE BOOK CHARACTERS 600 This object of the Great Gatsby's affection is Nick Carraway's second cousin once removed

Daisy (Buchanan)

ATHLETES IN THE HEADLINES 800 After this rookie guided the Cowboys to an 8-1 record, injured Tony Romo said he'd "earned the right to be our quarterback"

Dak Prescott

THE PITTSBURGH ADDRESS 1600 "You want to look back and say, 'I did the best I could'", this Pitt grad & Dolphins HOF QB said at the 2008 commencement

Dan Marino

WHO'S WHO IN THE BIBLE 2000 His jealous rivals should have seen the handwriting on the wall when the lions failed to eat him

Daniel

YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS 1000 This Ivy League college's Rauner Special Collections Library is home to the Robert Frost collection

Dartmouth

THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY IN POP CULTURE 400 The opening credits of CBS' "The Late Show with" him included a night view of an illuminated Staten Island Ferry

David Letterman

MOVIE TITLES IN OTHER COUNTRIES 2000 Italy turned the title of this film with Jim Carrey & Kate Winslet into "If You Leave Me I Delete You"

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

"READY" WHEN YOU ARE Daily Double In the year 1000 England's king was this man who sounds ill-prepared

Ethelred the Unready

MEDIEVAL LITERATURE 400 In Sir Thomas Malory's "Morte d'Arthur", she retires to a nunnery after an affair

Guinevere

SPINNING A WEBSITE 1000 You can help fight the devastation of Hurricane Matthew & 2010's earthquake at hopeforthisnation.com

Haiti

"X" IN THE CITY 400 This Nova Scotia capital is actually closer to Dublin, Ireland than it is to Victoria, British Columbia

Halifax

BUSINESS 400 A crown symbolizes this company that produces 10,000 new & redesigned greeting cards a year

Hallmark

THE BIBLE 800 The name of this villain in the Book of Esther comes before "tasch" in the name of a Purim pastry

Haman

SHAKESPEARE These 2 title characters who have the same pair of initials both die by stabbing

Juliet Capulet & Julius Caesar

PALMISTRY 1000 In the 20th century palmistry found a new life via this Swiss-born analytic psychiatrist who gave it credence

Jung

TOLERANCE 200 In 1649 this colony led by Cecilius, Lord Baron of Baltimore, passed a law of religious toleration

Maryland

TRANSLATE THE FRENCH 1000 La mariee, perhaps all in white

bride

YOU KIDS TODAY! 400 You're not rushing to the plow, as the average age of this occupation is up from 51 in 1982 to near 60 today

farming

THE GLOBE 400 On this "new" island, the world's second largest, some people may still practice the old habit of cannibalism

New Guinea

BOWL GAME CITIES 200 'The Chick-fil-A Bowl at the Georgia Dome'

'Atlanta'

WHO'S THE MRS.? 400 'Michael Douglas'

'Catherine Zeta-Jones'

BOTTLES OF WATER 800 'This 5-letter brand from the French Alps also offers a facial spray boasting "unique mineral balance and neutral pH"'

'Evian'

MYTHING IN ACTION 800 "One legend says this was given by the Lady of the Lake & thrown back in the lake on King Arthur's death"

'Excalibur'

WEAPONRY 1200 'This sword from some royal tales is said to derive from Caladbolg, a weapon of Irish legend'

'Excalibur'

STOCK SYMBOLS 1000 'This energy company, XOM, gives me gas'

'Exxon Mobil'

THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK, ALPHABETICALLY 1200 'Exodus'

'Ezekiel'

FACE BOOKS 1600 'I can't recall the name, but "The Face Is" this, by Ogden Nash'

'Familiar'

FATHER FIGURES OF SPEECH 200 "It's a British name for Santa Claus"

'Father Christmas'

COUNTRIES' LOCAL NAMES 2000 'Suomi'

'Finland'

WITTY LINES 1000 'Noel Coward punned in a telegram: "coughing myself into a" this, the Italian name for Florence'

'Firenze'

"FIRST" PHRASES 'The earliest known use of this term was in an Indianapolis Star opinion piece of September 20, 1914'

'First World War'

SONG LYRICS 800 'Young Money (featuring Lloyd) just wants you to call him "Mr." this "I can make your bed rock"'

'Flintstone'

THE CIVIL WAR Daily Double 'Site of the first battle, this fort was incomplete & its 60 guns pointed out to sea'

'Fort Sumter'

FELONIOUS MONKS 400 "In 1589 a fanatical monk named Jacques Clement assassinated this country's reigning King Henry III"

'France'

LITERARY MONSTERS 200 'Assembled from dead bodies, the monster in this Mary Shelley book turns against his creator'

'Frankenstein'

THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK, ALPHABETICALLY 400 'Galatians'

'Genesis'

COUNTRIES OF THE CARIBBEAN 600 'Kingston & Montego Bay are 2 of its largest towns'

'Jamaica'

THE BOOK BOOK 1200 '5 women & 1 man form a title "Book Club" that reads the novels of this 19th century woman'

'Jane Austen'

THE CIVIL WAR 1200 'On Jan. 21, 1861 he made a moving farewell speech in the Senate pleading for peace; a month later, he was the Confederate Pres.'

'Jefferson Davis'

SNACKS ON A PLANE 800 'United's "classic snackbox" includes this brand of gourmet jelly beans'

'Jelly Belly'

THINGS TO DO & SEE IN ISRAEL 400 'Armored vehicles from a 1948 Arab siege of this holy city, long left as rusty memorials, have moved to a national park'

'Jerusalem'

A CATEGORY WITH REVERENDS 400 'This 2-time presidential candidate established the National Rainbow Coalition in 1984'

'Jesse Jackson'

"O" BROTHER 1600 'He had 6 older brothers to go along with 4 gold medals from the 1936 Olympics'

'Jesse Owens'

NAVY SEALS 200 'This wrestler & Minnesota governor served on a SEAL underwater demolition team in the Vietnam era'

'Jesse Ventura'

ANTEBELLUM ROBERT E. LEE 1000 "In 1859 Robert E. Lee commanded the U.S. Marines that assaulted this man's barricaded forces at Harpers Ferry"

'John Brown'

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION FILM! 1000 'Among the exploits of this character in action films: making 2 Gruber brothers sad & killing a helicopter with a car'

'John McClane'

PAPA JOHNS 2000 'This "Rabbit, Run" author & father of 4 also wrote "A Child's Calendar", with a poem for every month'

'John Updike'

ACTING THE PART 200 'In a remake of "True Grit", Jeff Bridges plays Rooster Cogburn, a role first played onscreen by this legend'

'John Wayne'

BIBLICAL WHO'S WHO 200 "After Herod promises his stepdaughter anything, she requests this man's head on a platter"

'John the Baptist'

THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA 600 "This man's impeachment trial brought Senate president pro tem Ben Wade within 1 vote of being U.S. president"

'Johnson'

LITTLE-KNOWN ANCIENT GREEKS 1200 'He got this name because of what he was known for "taking" by expressing rude intimacy with a stranger'

'Liberties'

WHO'S THE MRS.? 800 'Nick Cannon'

'Mariah Carey'

LITTLE-KNOWN ANCIENT GREEKS 1600 "Instead of showing up once a week for 13 weeks, he'd appear 3 or 4 nights in a row, & it was always very dramatic"

'Miniseries'

WHO'S THE MRS.? 1600 'Blake Shelton'

'Miranda Lambert'

BOWL GAME CITIES 800 'The Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl at LP Field'

'Nashville'

PAY BALL! 800 'In 1979 this no-hit king became the first major leaguer with a guaranteed $1 million salary'

'Nolan Ryan'

LITTLE PEOPLE IN LIT 600 'L. Frank Baum's Oz books include these underground folk, spelled without the silent "G"'

'Nomes'

CELEBRITY SIBLING SURNAMES 2000 'Celebrity offspring Kelly & Jack'

'Osbourne'

PAUNCH SHOPS 1000 'The Melbourne, a porterhouse at this steakhouse chain, weighs in at over 1,000 calories'

'Outback'

LITTLE PEOPLE IN LIT 800 'Say "a prayer for" this tiny boy who kills his pal's mom with a foul ball'

'Owen Meany'

BEAR WITH THESE BOOKS 800 'Mr. & Mrs. Brown look after this bear after he emigrates from Darkest Peru to London'

'Paddington'

PANTS 1000 "The baggy shalwar is always in fashion in this country on India's northwest border"

'Pakistan'

CALIFORNIA 800 'The "Almanac of Famous People" lists 1 person born in this desert resort, 56 who died there, including Zeppo Marx'

'Palm Springs'

IT'S A MYTH 1600 'This guy famous for his judgment killed Achilles with a poisoned arrow; karma: he was then killed by a poisoned arrow'

'Paris'

THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T BE KING 800 '"In the name of God, go!" declared Cromwell in dismissing the so-called "Rump" version of this in 1653'

'Parliament'

BIBLICAL WHO'S WHO 1000 "Joseph was Jacob's 11th son & the firstborn son of this woman"

'Rachel'

LITERARY LOVERS 400 'He's the "him" in Scarlett O'Hara's line at the end of "Gone with the Wind", "I'll think of some way to get him back"'

'Rhett Butler'

ROMANCE IN LITERATURE 400 '"Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now", he said in "Gone with the Wind"'

'Rhett Butler'

ROYALTY 'He was the last English monarch to die in battle'

'Richard III'

MEN OF SCIENCE 400 'On a scale of 1 to 10, his "Earthquakes" article for the 15th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica was a 10'

'Richter'

WORLD CITIES 'A member of the Hanseatic League, this city with a 4-letter name was once known as the "Paris of the Baltic"'

'Riga'

YES, THEY WILL 1000 'This 19th c. British novelist asked to be buried on Mount Vaea in Samoa "under the wide and starry sky"'

'Robert Louis Stevenson'

VISITING THE CITY 1000 "Arriving at the train station built for the 1992 World's Fair, check out the Alcazar Palace & Biennial of Flemenco art"

'Seville'

BLUE LITERATURE 400 'In this detective's 1892 "Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", the carbuncle was a blue garnet hidden in a goose'

'Sherlock Holmes'

AWARDS & HONORS 1000 'A violin competition for those 30 & under is held every 5 years in Helsinki & named for this composer'

'Sibelius'

CLASSICAL GAS 1600 'He based the tone poem "Pohjola's Daughter" on the Finnish saga "Kalevala"'

'Sibelius'

WORLD GEOGRAPHY 1200 'This large island forms an autonomous region of Italy along with smaller islands, like Pantelleria'

'Sicily'

BIBLICAL WHO'S WHO 800 'Jesus called this disciple by his Aramaic name, Simon bar-Jona'

'Simon Peter'

"SIN"ONYMS 1000 'Synonym for Sri Lankan'

'Sinhalese'

TECH STUFF 800 'Say "I love you" to this Apple virtual assistant & she may reply, "I hope you don't say that to those other mobile phones"'

'Siri'

ACTING THE PART 800 'In 2010 this Oscar winner had a recurring role as Washington lobbyist Marilyn Densham on "Big Love"'

'Sissy Spacek'

FAMOUS NAMES 400 'In 399 B.C. it was safe to declare the prosecution of this philosopher for impiety the Trial of the Century'

'Socrates'

MILLION DOLLAR 200 'The 2006 swimsuit issue of this athletic magazine featured a $30 million diamond bikini'

'Sports Illustrated'

RUMORS 1200 'This Stephen Crane story says, "The army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors"'

'The Red Badge Of Courage'

RED BOOK Daily Double 'In "The Veteran", a sequel to this 1895 novel, Henry Fleming tells us Chancellorsville was where he was wounded'

'The Red Badge of Courage'

CHILD ACTORS 1000 'In the 1930s Baby LeRoy played opposite this comedian, who spiked his bottle with gin to shut him up'

'W.C. Fields'

THE FOOD CHAIN 400 "This company's first Supercenter opened in 1988 & included a grocery & 36 departments of general merchandise"

'Walmart'

BATTLE STARS 800 'Before he got his big break playing the lead at Waterloo, he played the sticks in India, Portugal & Spain'

'Wellington'

ANTEBELLUM ROBERT E. LEE 200 'Robert graduated from this school in 1829 with an incredible zero demerits'

'West Point'

GERMAN LITERATURE 400 'Karl May has been called the German Louis L'Amour for works like "Old Surehand" in this genre'

'Western'

THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T BE KING 400 "Later dug up & hanged, Oliver Cromwell's body was originally buried in this church upon his death in 1658"

'Westminster Abbey'

THE FOOD CHAIN 600 "Starting in 1980 as a small store in Austin, today this grocery chain is one of the world's leaders in organic & natural foods"

'Whole Foods'

IN 1867... 600 'The fame of this scout was spread by a Harper's article that went "wild" over his "exquisite manly proportions"'

'Wild Bill Hickok'

LUTHER 800 'Martin Luther spoke of Aristotle & this man of Ockham as "his teachers"'

'William (of Ockham)'

PRIME MINISTERS OF GREAT BRITAIN 1600 'This man "the Younger" took over in 1783 & probably looked much older by 1801'

'William Pitt'

PAY BALL! 400 'Say hey! Say what? In 1965 he hit 52 homers & won his ninth straight Gold Glove--& made $105,000'

'Willie Mays'

THE FOOD CHAIN 1000 'This company, stock symbol WINN on the NASDAQ, got its name "because of" acquisitions'

'Winn-Dixie'

BEAR WITH THESE BOOKS 200 'The heffalump gave this title bear nightmares'

'Winnie the Pooh'

FARMVILLE 600 'Hey! usually the hay you use on a farm is tightly compressed in this 4-letter bundle'

'a bale'

SLANG-UAGE 1200 "This 3-word term for a restrictive device is used facetiously (we hope) when referring to one's wife"

'a ball and chain'

WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS 'After living in Honduras, O. Henry coined this term for a small country dependent on a single export'

'a banana republic'

CALL TRIPLE A 400 'A large printed kerchief that doubles as a headscarf'

'a bandana'

THERE MIGHT BE BLOOD 800 'This nocturnal insect, Cimex lectularius, often finds shelter in the seams, tufts & crevices of mattresses'

'a bedbug'

LET'S GET SIRIUS 400 'In 1844 Friedrich Bessel discovered that Sirius was one of these, also called a double or twin star'

'a binary'

RHYME HELL 800 'This word can refer to an explosive piece of ordnance or a sensational sexy actress'

'a bombshell'

POINT THE "FINGER" 200 'The identification of the unique marks a gun leaves on a bullet is called "ballistic" this--no dusting required'

'a fingerprint'

WEB MUSIC PARODIES 800 'Billy Joel is parodied in "We Didn't Start" this type of war in which insults are hurled online'

'a flame war'

NUTRITION FROM COOKING LIGHT 800 "Trade in a ribeye for this steak whose name indicates it's from the cow's side; it's leaner & easier on the budget"

'a flank steak'

INSTRUMENTAL ROCKERS 1000 'Ian Anderson, of Jethro Tull; Ron Burgundy played a jazz one'

'a flute'

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS Daily Double Federalist 74 said, "The dread of being accused of... connivance" would keep presidents from abusing this power

pardon

RHYME HOLE 1200 To release from captivity under conditions that must be adhered to

parole

VOCABULARY 800 Latin medeor, "to heal", gives us this word for a cure

remedy

MEDIEVAL LITERATURE 1200 "The Dream of the Rood" tells the story of Jesus' crucifixion from the perspective of the rood, this

the cross

THE "N"IMAL KINGDOM 1600 It's Hawaii's state bird, you silly goose!

the nene

A TOMB WITH A VIEW 200 'Among the more than 100 tombs within this Vatican City church are those of 91 popes & Queen Christina of Sweden'

"St. Peter's Cathedral"

WRITTEN BY 1000 'This book written by Norman Mailer focused on condemned killer Gary Gilmore'

"The Executioner's Song"

GOOD WORKOUT SONGS 800 This only Top 40 hit by Twisted Sister

"We're Not Gonna Take It"

TALKING ITALIAN 200 '"Grazie" & "prego" translate to these 2 2-word companion phrases'

"thank you & you're welcome"

SONG LYRICS 1000 'This 1995 hit begins, "If God had a name what would it be?"'

'"One Of Us"'

CLASSICAL GAS 400 'Elgar named this musical march, often heard at graduation, after a phrase in "Othello"'

'"Pomp And Circumstance"'

LITERARY LOVERS 1000 'In this O. Henry story, Della sells her hair to buy a Christmas present for Jim, only to discover that he bought her combs'

'"The Gift of the Magi"'

FIRST IN "P"s 1200 "John C. Fremont's exploration of the West earned him this nickname"

'"The Pathfinder"'

'ROUND MIDNIGHT 800 'This poem begins, "Once upon a midnight dreary"'

'"The Raven"'

WEB MUSIC PARODIES 1000 'A YouTube cover of this Lana Del Rey song features Princess Peach & the Mario brothers in a love triangle'

'"Video Games"'

NOT OF GOOD CHARACTER 2000 'Miles Davis recorded "Freddie Freeloader"; Cab Calloway recorded "Minnie" this'

'"the Moocher"'

SONG LYRICS Daily Double 'In R.E.M.'s "It's The End Of The World As We Know It", 2 of the 4 men with the initials "L.B."'

'(2 of) Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce, Lester Bangs & Leonard Bernstein'

FAMOUS NAMES 800 'Before Romney-Ryan, the last same-first-letter major party ticket was in 1952: him & John Sparkman'

'(Adlai) Stevenson'

MEN OF SCIENCE 2000 'According to his law, electric current is equal to the ratio of the voltage to the resistance'

'(Georg) Ohm'

TITLE ROLE PLAYING 1200 '"Fantastic Mr. Fox"'

'(George) Clooney'

"O" BROTHER 400 'He had 2 sisters, Marjorie & Avril, & no brothers-- though he later got famous for a "big" one'

'(George) Orwell'

GERMAN LITERATURE 800 'His 1922 novella "Siddhartha" tells the story of an Indian boy on a spiritual journey during the time of Buddha'

'(Hermann) Hesse'

PAY BALL! 1000 'After hitting .350 in 1907, this Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop got his salary doubled for 1908--to a whopping $10,000'

'(Honus) Wagner'

TV CV 800 '"Arrested Development" (Michael Bluth), "Valerie's Family" (David Hogan)'

'(Jason) Bateman'

TV CV 200 '"Friends" (Rachel), "Dirt" (Tina Harrod)'

'(Jennifer) Aniston'

"O" BROTHER 1200 'In 1917, then known as Larry, he played Brutus in a school production of "Julius Caesar"; his brother Dickie got the lead'

'(Laurence) Olivier'

LARRY, MO- & CURLY 400 'Harold Gray pitched a cartoon feature called "Little Orphan Otto" but ended up creating this curly-haired girl'

'(Little Orphan) Annie'

ACTING THE PART 1000 'This dame's roles have included the Mother Superior in "Sister Act", Granny Wendy in "Hook" & Miss Jean Brodie'

'(Maggie) Smith'

FAMOUS NAMES 600 "He put on a tie for Obama, but met investors ahead of Facebook's IPO in his trademark hoodie"

'(Mark) Zuckerberg'

MILLION DOLLAR 800 'This co-founder of Facebook agreed to donate $100 million to Newark public schools'

'(Mark) Zuckerberg'

TV CV 600 '"Family Guy" (the voice of Meg), "That '70s Show" (Jackie)'

'(Mila) Kunis'

MEN OF SCIENCE Daily Double 'An institute of physical sciences at the University of Copenhagen is named for this physicist'

'(Niels) Bohr'

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE 1200 "She gently drifted down from Maine to D.C. in 1979; she's in the Senate now"

'(Olympia) Snowe'

AWARDS & HONORS 600 'This Brit shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for proposing the boson that bears his name'

'(Peter) Higgs'

WRITTEN BY 200 '"Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" were written by him'

'(Rabbie) Burns'

TRANSPORTATION 800 "This man's company Virgin Galactic is now offering 2-hour trips to space for a cool $200,000"

'(Richard) Branson'

BATTLE STARS 400 'As commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, he starred opposite U.S. Grant in the 1864 Battle of the Wilderness'

'(Robert E.) Lee'

THEY ALSO WROTE CHILDREN'S BOOKS 1600 'No fatwa was issued against this author's children's book "Haroun & the Sea of Stories"'

'(Salman) Rushdie'

COUNTRIES OF THE CARIBBEAN 800 "Saint paired with the Grenadines in a country's name"

'(St.) Vincent'

WITTY LINES 800 'This comic deadpanned, "I stayed up one night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house & 4 people died"'

'(Steven) Wright'

SPORTS-POURRI 1000 'This floppy-haired Giants ace pitcher started the 2010 World Series-winning game'

'(Tim) Lincecum'

TITLE ROLE PLAYING 800 '"Turner & Hooch" (just Turner, please)'

'(Tom) Hanks'

PRIME MINISTERS OF GREAT BRITAIN 400 'The day he left office after 10 years in 2007, he had a new job as a Mideast envoy'

'(Tony) Blair'

TV CV 400 '"Monk" (Monk), "The X-Files" (Dr. Chester Ray Banton)'

'(Tony) Shaloub'

RHYME HELL 400 'Swiss archer who saved his son by slicing an apple'

'(William) Tell'

CLASSIC GAMES 'Monopoly creator Charles Darrow's sole quote in "the Yale Book of Quotations" includes this 3-digit number'

'200'

HUMAN BODY NUMBERS 600 'Of 106, 206 or 506, the approximate number of bones in the human body'

'206'

BY THE NUMBERS 400 'Arthur C. Clarke's final "Space Odyssey" book takes place in this year, 1,000 years after the first'

'3001'

STOCK SYMBOLS 600 "This company's symbol is MMM; don't overthink it"

'3M'

BY THE NUMBERS 600 'The probability of throwing any number on a standard die is 1 in this many'

'6'

SOLVE FOR x 800 '20 - x = days in a fortnight'

'6'

TIPS ON NETWORKING 1000 'Wonder if the "Hoarders" & "Monster In-Laws" are for real'

'A&E'

CARBONATION NATION 600 'rootbeer.com is operated by this letter-perfect company, around since 1919'

'A&W'

SNACKS ON A PLANE 600 'USA! USA! This red-white-&-blue carrier will sell you a 4-ounce chocolate chip cookie for just 3 bucks'

'American Airlines'

TELEVISION FOR SHORT 400 '"Asylum" & "Freak Show" are seasons of this show, "AHS" for short'

'American Horror Story'

OLD PAINT 1200 'In 1970, long before iPhones, this realist from Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania painted "Siri"'

'Andrew Wyeth'

SPIN-OFFS 400 'This heavenly spin-off from "Buffy" borrowed Cordelia Chase as well as the title character'

'Angel'

TIPS ON NETWORKING 200 'Snarl along with "Big Cat Diary" & "Pit Bulls and Parolees"'

'Animal Planet'

ROMANCE IN LITERATURE 1200 'The mad, impetuous woman played by Keira Knightley opposite Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Vronsky in a 2012 film'

'Anna Karenina'

BALLET 1200 'Among the few filmed sequences of this Russian ballerina are clips of her "dying swan" from 1907'

'Anna Pavlova'

HISTORY 800 "She was the mother of England's Queen Elizabeth I"

'Anne Boleyn'

ABBREV. 800 'In the computer world, NAVI is Norton this'

'Antivirus'

IT'S A MYTH Daily Double 'One of the epithets that followed her name was Epistrophia, "she who turns men to love"'

'Aphrodite'

POP CULTURE 1600 'This 2008 movie with Ed Harris & Viggo Mortensen as lawmen is a real horse opera'

'Appaloosa'

BOTTLES OF WATER 2000 "Introduced in Wichita in '94 & as a national brand 3 years later, this brand from Pepsi believes its water fine"

'Aquafina'

BAD HEIR DAY Daily Double 'June 28, 1914 was the last day for this heir to a European throne'

'Archduke (Franz) Ferdinand'

NAME-RO UNO 400 'This philosopher was born in Stagira in Macedonia around 384 B.C.'

'Aristotle'

THE BOOK BOOK 2000 'A hidden book by this ancient Greek is at the heart of the Umberto Eco thriller "The Name of the Rose"'

'Aristotle'

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 FIRST MILLENNIUM 1200 'In 452 Pope Leo I met this warrior known as the "Scourge of God" & persuaded him not to sack Rome'

'Attila the Hun'

COUNTRIES ALPHABETICALLY 400 "You'll find this country between Cambodia and Canada"

'Cameroon'

CLASSICAL GAS 2000 'This French composer of "Danse Macabre" was writing music by the time he was 5'

'Camille Saint-Saxc3xabns'

TV WHO AM I 400 'Author of the New York Star's "Sex & the City" column'

'Carrie (Bradshaw)'

IN 1867... Daily Double 'She wed a doomed physician suffering from alcoholism, perhaps contributing to her violent hatred of booze'

'Carrie Nation'

STUPID ANSWERS 200 'On the west, Central Park is bounded by this street'

'Central Park West'

FAMOUS ENGLISHMEN 'On the eve of his 200th birthday in 2009, the Church of England offered him "an apology for misunderstanding you"'

'Charles Darwin'

THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T BE KING 1200 'Oliver Cromwell ruled between these 2 kings, a father & son'

'Charles I & Charles II'

FILM LEGENDS 'His only competitive Oscar win was for Best Score in 1973 for a 1952 film in which he had starred as a washed-up comic'

'Charlie Chaplin'

FRENCH FOOD TALK 800 'This dish, a thick cut of beef for 2 served with bearnaise, is named for a French statesman'

'Chateaubriand'

MARSHALL LAW 2000 'Marshall said an Indian tribe wasn't a separate state but was under U.S. protection in this "Nation" v. Georgia'

'Cherokee'

IT ENDS WITH "U" 1200 'This orange-flavored liqueur is often an ingredient in a cosmopolitan'

'Cointreau'

TIPS ON NETWORKING 400 'At least grin at "Workaholics" & "Nick Swardson's Pretend Time"'

'Comedy Central'

SOUTH SPECIFIC 800 'Allan Gurganus shot to fame with his novel about the "Oldest Living" this who "Tells All"'

'Confederate Widow'

AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN Daily Double 'Balzac described it as "a French island basking in the Italian sun"'

'Corsica'

1961 400 'On January 3 the U.S. severed diplomatic relations with this nation'

'Cuba'

CATS IN PROVERBS 200 '"_____ killed the cat"'

'Curiousity'

WHAT A 19th CENTURY CHARACTER 400 'This French title character duels with a nobleman who has insulted his enormous nose'

'Cyrano'

FATHER FIGURES OF SPEECH 800 'The Asp was an aid to this comic strip character'

'Daddy Warbucks'

RECENT TITLE ROLE PLAYING 400 '"Lincoln"'

'Daniel Day-Lewis'

VARIE-TEAS 2000 'This strong tea is named for a place in the foothills of the Himalayas whose name means "land of the thunderbolt"'

'Darjeeling'

PAY BALL! 600 'This player nicknamed "Big Papi" pulls down $12.5 million with the Red Sox'

'David Ortiz'

BIBLICAL WHO'S WHO 400 "In First Kings he's the first king mentioned"

'David'

CHILD ACTORS 200 'Henry Thomas, who played this role in "E.T.", turned 40 in 2011'

'Elliott'

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 800 "David McKee's stories of this patchwork elephant subtly convey the message that it's OK to be different"

'Elmer'

ACTRESSES 800 'She played Katherine in then-husband Kenneth Branagh's 1989 film of "Henry V"'

'Emma Thompson'

LITERARY LOVERS 600 "This Jane Austen protagonist eventually falls in love with George Knightley, brother of her sister's husband"

'Emma'

WHAT A 19th CENTURY CHARACTER Daily Double 'Mr. Woodhouse, eternally preoccupied with health & food, is the father of this Austen title character'

'Emma'

GERMAN LITERATURE Daily Double 'During World War I he fought on the Western Front & was wounded several times; he later wrote a 1929 novel about it'

'Erich Maria Remarque'

GEOG. DICT. ABBREV. 600 '"est." (little e) stands for estimated; "Est." (big E) is this country'

'Estonia'

"EU" FIRST 1200 "It's another name for Holy Communion in the Catholic church"

'Eucharist'

"EU" FIRST 1600 'Surveyors named this city in northeastern Ohio for a mathematician'

'Euclid'

NORTH AMERICAN LANGUAGES 400 'About 4 million Canadians are unilingual speakers of this language'

'French'

PIZZA 1600 'This TV show centers on Fry, a pizza boy who was cryogenically frozen in 2000 & reawakened in the year 2999'

'Futurama'

WEB MUSIC PARODIES 600 '"Keep it secret, keep it safe, I got a long grey beard", says this magic man in a Psy spoof'

'Gandalf'

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES 2000 '"Thou hast nerved the afric's hand", wrote Whittier in a poem to this abolitionist who published The Liberator'

'Garrison'

POP CULTURE 1200 'AKA Mr. Gwen Stefani, this former singer for Bush put out a solo CD in 2008 called "Wanderlust"'

'Gavin Rossdale'

CAIN & ABEL 200 'The story of Cain & Abel is told in this book of the Old Testament'

'Genesis'

WRITTEN BY 400 'The Dorlcote Mill is "The Mill on the Floss" in a book written by this woman'

'George Eliot'

TV SHOWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 800 'The failed sitcom "George", about a retired boxer & starring this man, only went 9 rounds before getting knocked out'

'George Foreman'

ANTEBELLUM ROBERT E. LEE Daily Double 'In 1831 Lee married Mary Anna Custis, the step-great-granddaughter of this man'

'George Washington'

THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA 200 'In 1870 this "Goober State" became the last to be permanently readmitted to the Union'

'Georgia'

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE 800 "In 1978 she was elected to the house from N.Y.'s Ninth District; in 1984 she was not elected vice president"

'Geraldine Ferraro'

NATIONALLY CLAIMED 400 'Commonly black & tan, this popular dog breed traces its origins to the city of Karlsruhe in 1899'

'German shepherd'

A BUCKET LIST 1000 'Learn to speak Romansch & these 3 other official languages of Switzerland'

'German, French & Italian'

THEY ALSO WROTE CHILDREN'S BOOKS 800 'A kid is a kid is a kid in her book for younger readers "The World Is Round"'

'Gertrude Stein'

DENZEL WASHINGTON FILMS 800 'A member of the 54th regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry'

'Glory'

LARRY, MO- & CURLY 200 'Aug. 19, 2004 was a good day for Larry Page--he netted $3.8 billion as this website he co-founded went public'

'Google'

LITERARY MONSTERS 400 'Title monsters in this skin-crawling R.L. Stine series include a mummy, a scarecrow & a snowman'

'Goosebumps'

OLD PAINT 400 'His sister Nan & his dentist B.H. McKeeby were the models for his 1930 masterpiece "American Gothic"'

'Grant Wood'

AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN 800 'The deepest part of the Mediterranean, over 16,000 feet, is just south of this country, in the Ionian basin'

'Greece'

COUNTRIES' LOCAL NAMES Daily Double 'Hellas'

'Greece'

FUN WITH COLORS 2000 'This organization was founded in 1971; its efforts to save the whales gained worldwide attention'

'Greenpeace'

COUNTRIES OF THE CARIBBEAN 200 "Site of a 1983 U.S. invasion, it's also known as the Isle of Spice"

'Grenada'

WITTY LINES 600 'This fraternal funnyman quipped, "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read"'

'Groucho Marx'

BOB MARLEY & ME Daily Double '"War", a song off Bob's 1976 album "Rastaman Vibration", had lyrics taken from a speech by this emperor'

'Haile Selassie'

COUNTRIES OF THE CARIBBEAN 400 'The reverend Gerard Jean-Juste championed the cause of refugees from this Caribbean country'

'Haiti'

SEAN PENN 400 "Sean helped rebuild this earthquake-hit Caribbean nation & is the 1st ambassador-at-large who's not a native"

'Haiti'

STATE CAPITALS 'Seen here is the seal of this New England city that got its current name in 1637'

'Hartford, Connecticut'

LARRY, MO- & CURLY 800 'As president of this university, Larry Summers did not think much of the Winklevoss twins'

'Harvard'

SEAN PENN 800 'Sean won an Oscar after announcing, "My name is" this title character from San Francisco "and I'm here to recruit you! "'

'Harvey Milk'

NORTH AMERICAN LANGUAGES 200 'When traveling to a certain part of the U.S., you might be called a "malihini", meaning tourist in this language'

'Hawaiian'

THE TRUTH LIES THEREIN 200 'Symbol for the second-lightest element'

'He'

AIRPORT CODES 400 'In 1966 London Airport was renamed this, which uses the code LHR'

'Heathrow'

ASIAN LANGUAGES 800 '"The language of Canaan" mentioned by Isaiah is thought to be this one still spoken today'

'Hebrew'

THE WINNERS 1000 'With a glam rock feel, this production won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical'

'Hedwig and the Angry Inch'

TECH STUFF 400 'In 1939 Stanford classmates Bill & Dave used their last names in founding this company now known for printers'

'Hewlett-Packard'

THE FIRST MILLENNIUM 2000 'In 430 St. Augustine died in this North African port after 34 years as its bishop'

'Hippo'

TELEVISION FOR SHORT 800 'The "H" in "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stands for this, also in the name of a Cabinet department'

'Homeland'

STATE CAPITALS 400 'Its National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific contains the graves of WWII, Korean War & Vietnam War dead'

'Honolulu'

SPIN-OFFS 1000 'Cedric the Entertainer stars in "The Soul Man", a spin-off of this Ohio-set TV Land show'

'Hot in Cleveland'

CELEBRITY SIBLING SURNAMES 1600 'Julianne & Derek, of "Dancing with the Stars" fame'

'Hough'

TELEVISION FOR SHORT 2000 '"M.D." was in the full title of this show that hung up its stethoscope in 2012'

'House, M.D.'

COUNTRIES' LOCAL NAMES 1200 'Magyarorszag'

'Hungary'

MILLION DOLLAR 600 'In 1979 the final construction cost of the JFK Library & Museum, designed by this Chinese American, was $12 million'

'I.M. Pei'

"I" KNOW IT 200 'The restaurant chain known by these 4 letters also serves Florentine, Danish & Swedish crepes'

'IHOP'

"I" KNOW IT 800 "It's a European peninsula, or a European airline founded in 1927"

'Iberia'

WHAT A 19th CENTURY CHARACTER 1600 'Playful Nora Helmer & her banker husband Torvald live in this author's "Doll's House"'

'Ibsen'

LITERARY PRINCIPALS & TEACHERS 800 'This "Sleepy Hollow" teacher had "huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose"'

'Ichabod Crane'

YOU SAY POTATO 400 'Presbyterian Minister Henry Spalding planted the first potatoes in this state in 1837'

'Idaho'

IT'S ALL POLITICS 800 "In a 2009 impeachment trial, this state's Senate voted 59-0 to convict Governor Rod Blagojevich"

'Illinois'

SCHOOLS OF ROCK 1000 'Jane Addams was one of the first to receive a B.A. degree at Rockford College in this state'

'Illinois'

SOUNDS LIKE A NEW POKEMON 200 "Chimu won't defeat anyone nowadays: it's a people of Peru defeated by this empire in the 1400s"

'Inca'

'ROUND MIDNIGHT Daily Double '"Midnight's Children" by Salman Rusdie tells of the post-colonial era in this nation where Rushdie was born'

'India'

AMONG THE 10 MOST POPULOUS COUNTRIES 400 'The Dharma Chakra or "Wheel of Law" appears on the flag of this country'

'India'

ASIAN LANGUAGES 400 "Telugu is an official language of this country's Andhra Pradesh state"

'India'

AMONG THE 10 MOST POPULOUS COUNTRIES 1000 'It claims all or part of 3 of the 10 largest islands in the world'

'Indonesia'

ASIAN LANGUAGES Daily Double 'Sundanese & Dutch are 2 of the major languages spoken in this island nation'

'Indonesia'

THEY ALSO WROTE CHILDREN'S BOOKS 2000 'This Romanian absurdist playwright also wrote absurd children's tales like "Story Number 1"'

'Ionesco'

AWARDS & HONORS 800 'This Academy Award for Excellence in Producing Films is named for the "Boy Wonder" of Hollywood'

'Irving Thalberg'

LET'S GET SIRIUS 1000 'In Ancient Egypt Sirius was known as the Nile star or the star of this goddess'

'Isis'

WHO'S THE MRS.? 2000 'Sacha Baron Cohen'

'Isla Fisher'

CAIN & ABEL 400 "In this religion's version of the Cain & Abel story, the brothers are known as Kabil & Habil"

'Islam'

"I" KNOW IT 600 'Formerly aligned with Lacoste, this clothing brand is now a brand of Phillips-Van Heusen'

'Izod'

POP CULTURE 2000 'During WWII this "All-American Boy" of radio drama helped track down Nazi spies & traitors'

'Jack Armstrong'

STATE CAPITALS 200 'This Mississippi capital was named for a general who later became president'

'Jackson (Mississippi)'

BOB MARLEY & ME 400 'To commemorate the birth of reggae legend & native son Bob Marley, Feb. 6, 1990 was a national holiday in this country'

'Jamaica'

THEY ALSO WROTE CHILDREN'S BOOKS 400 'In 2011 he had bestsellers with the thriller "Cross Fire" & the kids' book "Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life"'

'James Patterson'

YOU SAY POTATO 1600 'Potatoes arrived in North America in 1621 when 2 chests of them were sent from Bermuda to this Virginia colony'

'Jamestown'

COUNTRIES' LOCAL NAMES 800 'Nippon'

'Japan'

MYTHING IN ACTION 200 "The yata-no-kagami mirror was used by the sun goddess Amaterasu to bring light to the world in this country's mythology"

'Japan'

WORLD GEOGRAPHY 1200 "Hokkaido is one of this country's main islands"

'Japan'

BEAR WITH THESE BOOKS 1000 'Brer Bear is one of the animals in his "Uncle Remus" stories'

'Joel Chandler Harris'

PAPA JOHNS 800 'He had 2 daughters & 2 other sons in addition to the one who became president in 1825'

'John Adams'

PAPA JOHNS 1600 "This poet's third daughter, Deborah, was born in 1652, shortly after he went totally blind"

'John Milton'

PAPA JOHNS Daily Double 'One of his sons, John IV, wrote the memoir "The Other Side of Eden"'

'John Steinbeck'

COMPLETELY BASSLESS 1600 'The name of this guitarist precedes "Blues Explosion" in a bassless '90s trio'

'Jon Spencer'

THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK, ALPHABETICALLY Daily Double 'John 3'

'Jonah'

TELEVISION FOR SHORT 1600 'On CBS "JAG" stood for this military investigation arm'

'Judge Advocate General'

TITLE ROLE PLAYING 2000 '"Mary Reilly"'

'Julia Roberts'

ELLE 2000 'She starred with Ethan Hawke in "Before Sunrise"; she & Ethan Hawke not only starred in the sequel but also co-wrote it'

'Julie Delpy'

BIG BIRTHER 400 'Maureen Boyle gave birth to quadruplets known as the "Four on the Fourth" in this month, 1990'

'July'

SWEET WORD OF YOUTH 800 "It's the J in Jaycees"

'Junior'

THEIR ROMAN EQUIVALENTS 400 'Zeus'

'Jupiter'

PAUNCH SHOPS 200 "There are 290 fat calories in one of this chain's extra crispy breasts, but only 130 in the original recipe ones"

'KFC'

GERMAN LITERATURE 1200 'This German-language writer's novels were all published after his 1924 death, including "The Trial"'

'Kafka'

LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS 800 'In 2003 this state replaced its statue of George Washington Glick in Statuary Hall with one of Dwight Eisenhower'

'Kansas'

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE 1600 'In 2002 this Florida Secretary of State published "Center of the Storm" & was elected to Congress'

'Katherine Harris'

TITLE ROLE PLAYING 1600 '"Peggy Sue Got Married"'

'Kathleen Turner'

RECENT TITLE ROLE PLAYING 800 '"Anna Karenina"'

'Keira Knightley'

BROADCASTER NEWS 1600 'This "Current" newsman wrote the book "The Worst Person in the World: And 202 Strong Contenders"'

'Keith Olbermann'

COSMOPOLITAN 800 'Sudan University of Science & Technology, including the Institute of Laser, is in this capital'

'Khartoum'

SPIN-OFFS 800 '"Keeping Up with the Kardashians" spawned this cultural landmark whose title includes an NBA player's name'

'Khloxc3x83xc2xa9 & Lamar'

STOCK SYMBOLS 200 'Oreos, Jell-O & Planters peanuts are treats from this company, KFT'

'Kraft'

RECENT TITLE ROLE PLAYING 2000 '"Snow White & the Huntsman" (both, please)'

'Kristen Stewart and (Chris) Hemsworth'

CHILD ACTORS 600 'At age 11, this future portrayer of Bella Swan was Jodie Foster's daughter in "Panic Room"'

'Kristen Stewart'

WHO'S THE MRS.? 1200 'Kevin Bacon'

'Kyra Sedgwick'

PRIME MINISTERS OF GREAT BRITAIN 1200 'Harold Wilson of this party was the last PM to serve 2 nonconsecutive terms, 1964-70 & 1974-76'

'Labor'

THE WORLD PRESS Daily Double "Translate the name of Tulsa's leading newspaper into French & you have this Paris daily"

'Le Monde'

SPORTS-POURRI 600 'This MVP from Akron considered petitioning to enter the NBA draft after his junior year... of high school'

'LeBron James'

WORLD GEOGRAPHY 2000 "Asia's 2 smallest mainland nations are Qatar at 4,473 square miles & this country west of Syria at 4,015 square miles"

'Lebanon'

YOU'VE GOT YOUR BORDERS Daily Double 'To the south, Israel; to the east, Syria; to the west, the Mediterranean'

'Lebanon'

ROMANCE IN LITERATURE 1600 'The love between Marius & Cosette cannot be stilled in this Hugo novel'

'Les Miserables'

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 1000 'As well as kids' books, this 19th century author wrote "Examples in Arithmetic" & other math textbooks'

'Lewis Carroll'

COSMOPOLITAN 1600 "The Postal Museum in Vaduz, this principality's capital, is a must-visit for stamp collectors"

'Liechtenstein'

TIPS ON NETWORKING 600 'Watch movies like "Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story" & "Sins of the Mother"'

'Lifetime'

LITTLE PEOPLE IN LIT 200 'Part I of a 1726 book is "A Voyage to" this place, home to human creatures "not six inches high"'

'Lilliput'

SCHOOLS OF ROCK 200 'The University of Arkansas has a campus in this state capital'

'Little Rock'

BEATLEWOMANIA 400 "Ringo Starr wed first wife Maureen Cox in London in 1965; she'd been born in this Mersey River city in 1946"

'Liverpool'

'ROUND MIDNIGHT 400 'In 1861 this poet wrote about "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"'

'Longfellow'

THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T BE KING 1600 'When he ruled England from 1653 to 1658, Oliver Cromwell went by this 2-word title'

'Lord Protector'

20th CENTURY BOOKS '"A Cry of Children" & "Nightmare Island" were proposed titles for this novel'

'Lord of the Flies'

ABBREV. 400 'To Frodo (& others), "LOTR" stands for this'

'Lord of the Rings'

EUROPEAN HISTORY 'This 17th century king named his throne room the Apollo Chamber'

'Louis XIV'

TREATIES 1600 "This French king recognized William of Orange as William II, King of England, under the terms of 1697's Treaty of Ryswick"

'Louis XIV'

THE LADIES WHO LAUNCH Daily Double "Let's be clear--it's the last name of Shannon, inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2014"

'Lucid'

MARSHALL LAW 1200 "This battle of M's in John Marshall's Supreme Court was the first time an act of Congress was declared unconstitutional"

'Marbury v. Madison'

PRO SPORTS 800 "This baseball team plays its home games in the Miami area's Sun Life stadium"

'Marlins'

CELEBRITY SIBLING SURNAMES 400 'Producer/director Garry & comic actress/ director Penny'

'Marshall'

WIMBLEDON 600 'Between 1973 & 2006 this Czech-American appeared in 326 Wimbledon matches, the most of any player, male or female'

'Martina Navratilova'

RUMORS 400 'A saying attributed to Henry Ward Beecher is that "rumor has winged feet like" this Roman god'

'Mercury'

BAD JOB INTERVIEW RESPONSES 600 '"Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" Replacing Kirk Hammett as lead guitarist of this "Unforgiven" band'

'Metallica'

VISITING THE CITY 200 'Experience Little Havana along Calle Ocho, then get sprayed at the Seaquarium'

'Miami'

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE 2000 'Former Rep. Debbie Stabenow took a stab & is now a U.S. senator from this state'

'Michigan'

'ROUND MIDNIGHT 2000 'James Leo Herlihy wrote this 1965 novel about Joe Buck, who tries to make it in New York as a stud for hire'

'Midnight Cowboy'

ACTRESSES 1200 'This alumna of "That '70s Show" went to the future in "The Book of Eli"; "Friends with Benefits" is present-day'

'Mila Kunis'

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION FILM! 200 'In 2011 Jeremy Renner & Simon Pegg followed "Ghost Protocol" in the fourth installment of this series'

'Mission: Impossible'

YOU'VE GOT YOUR BORDERS 400 'To the west, Louisiana; to the east, Alabama'

'Mississippi'

WHERE ART THOU? 800 'Van Gogh's "The Starry Night": this Manhattan museum'

'MoMA (Museum of Modern Art)'

U.S. BODIES OF WATER 1200 'On August 5, 1864 it was "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" into this bay with Admiral Farragut's flagship in the lead'

'Mobile Bay'

NAVY SEALS 1000 'SEAL John Gay survived a firefight in this Somali capital after a bullet deflected off the knife he wore'

'Mogadishu'

NAME-RO UNO 1200 'In 1659 he produced his first major comedy, "Les Precieuses Ridicules" for Louis XIV'

'Molixc3x83xc2xa8re'

TALKING ITALIAN 800 'I'm loony for "lunedxc3xac", this day of the week'

'Monday'

CARBONATION NATION 1000 'This energy drink wants you to "Unleash the beast", perhaps with options like M-80 or Assault'

'Monster'

AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN 1200 'You'll need a passport to gamble in the 149-year-old "Casino de" this location; locals aren't allowed'

'Monte Carlo'

ISLANDS 2000 'Immortalized by Alexandre Dumas, this isle in the Tuscan archipelago has been infested with black rats in recent years'

'Montecristo'

BAD JOB INTERVIEW RESPONSES 400 '"Would you relocate?" Only to this Vermont capital, as I'm uncomfortable in any capital city over 8,000 people'

'Montpelier'

CARBONATION NATION 800 'I've been billed as "a great tasting soft drink that's strong & bold & refreshing"; they call me Mr. this!'

'Mr. Pibb'

COSMOPOLITAN 1200 "India's financial capital, this West Coast city consists of several islands that have become one land mass via reclamation"

'Mumbai'

FATHER FIGURES OF SPEECH 1000 'The 1990s gave us soccer mom; the 2000s introduced this "racy" term for a white working-class father'

'NASCAR dad'

THE EDICT OF NANCY 1200 "She's the voice of Nelson, Ralph Wiggum & Bart Simpson"

'Nancy Cartwright'

THE EDICT OF NANCY 400 'She was the chair of the California Democratic Party, 1981-1983'

'Nancy Pelosi'

YES, THEY WILL Daily Double 'His 1821 will, written on St. Helena, stipulated that his ashes be scattered "on the banks of the Seine"'

'Napolxc3xa9on (Bonaparte)'

PREHISTORIC TIMES 800 'These early humans of Europe are the first known to bury their dead & may have placed flowers on their graves'

'Neanderthal'

HOMER (SIMPSON)'S ODYSSEY 600 "Homer's dislikes include his boss (Mr. Burns), yard work & his next-door neighbor, this man"

'Ned Flanders'

ACTRESSES 1600 'This "Party of Five" actress, a trained ballerina, starred in Robert Altman's ballet film "The Company"'

'Neve Campbell'

TREATIES 1200 'The Munich Agreement of 1938 was signed by Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier & this British Prime Minister'

'Neville Chamberlain'

ISLANDS 400 'In 1906 Britain transferred the territory of Papua on this island to the jurisdiction of Australia'

'New Guinea'

MYTHING IN ACTION 400 'Maori legend says the South Island of this country is the canoe of the Polynesian demi-god Maui'

'New Zealand'

TIPS ON NETWORKING 800 'Enjoy some of "The Fairly Oddparents" & some "Bubble Guppies"'

'Nickelodeon'

ACTING THE PART 600 'In the "National Treasure" movies, he plays archaeologist extraordinaire Ben Franklin Gates'

'Nicolas Cage'

AMONG THE 10 MOST POPULOUS COUNTRIES 800 "It's the only African country in the top 10"

'Nigeria'

MEN OF SCIENCE 800 'Tragically, in 1864, his nitroglycerin factory blew up, killing several people, including his younger brother Emil'

'Nobel'

AIRPORT CODES 1000 'Jorge Chavez International Airport has the 3-letter code LIM & is in this country'

'Peru'

DENZEL WASHINGTON FILMS 400 "Tom Hanks' Pennsylvania lawyer"

'Philadelphia'

ISLANDS 1600 "Founded by Bounty mutineers, it's now encouraging immigration because its small population of about 50 is aging"

'Pitcairn Island'

FELONIOUS MONKS Daily Double 'AKA Saloth Sar, he was a novice monk for a time in Cambodia before becoming infamous for "Killing Fields"'

'Pol Pot'

1970s TV CASTS 1600 'Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman & Ed Bernard; Pepper was salty!'

'Police Woman'

IT'S A MYTH 400 'The sea monster Charybdis was the daughter of Gaea & this Greek sea god'

'Poseidon'

THE WORLD PRESS 1200 'In July 1996 this organ of Communist thought in Russia ceased publication after 84 years of "truth"'

'Pravda'

OLDE ENGLAND Daily Double 'This title was re-created in 1301 when Edward I gave it to his son who was born in Caernarfon'

'Prince of Wales'

YES, THEY WILL 200 "This royal's will provided for her sons William & Harry & 50,000 pounds for former servant Paul Burrell"

'Princess Diana'

THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK, ALPHABETICALLY 800 'Proverbs'

'Psalms'

BAD HEIR DAY 800 'Robert the Steward was heir presumptive to his grandfather, this Scot, who suddenly had a son in 1324'

'Robert the Bruce'

SCHOOLS OF ROCK 600 '"Science for the benefit of humanity" is the motto of the NYC school named for & founded by this man in 1901'

'Rockefeller'

YOU WILL BE TESTED ON THIS 1000 'Testing of blood serum helps diagnose this tick-borne ailment named for a range of peaks'

'Rocky Mountain spotted fever'

BAD HEIR DAY 1200 'A December 2010 news story said this product was angling for Prince William, who was just 28, as a spokesman'

'Rogaine'

LITERARY LOVERS 200 'Shakespeare wrote about these 2, "Never was a story of more woe"'

'Romeo and Juliet'

HIP HOP HOOPSTERS 1000 'Once part of a notorious brawl, this star defender now a Laker tells his side on the "My World" CD'

'Ron Artest'

TV WHO AM I 1600 'Mustachioed director of the Pawnee Parks & Recreation Department'

'Ron'

THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T BE KING 2000 "Cromwell's Puritan followers were known as these for their closely cropped hair"

'Roundheads'

1961 1000 'While in Paris with the Kirov Ballet, this dancer requested asylum in France'

'Rudolf Nureyev'

BOWL GAME CITIES 1000 'The Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl at Qualcomm Stadium'

'San Diego'

CALIFORNIA 400 'The first Spanish mission in California was established in 1769 in what is now this city near the Mexican border'

'San Diego'

CAIN & ABEL 1000 'This other brother of Cain & Abel was born after the murder'

'Seth'

RIBBONS 200 'Unable to find a store open to buy a printer ribbon in 1985, Tom Stemberg founded this office supply superstore'

'Staples'

BLUE LITERATURE 1200 '4 years after "The Red Badge of Courage", he wrote "The Blue Hotel", considered one of his finest short stories'

'Stephen Crane'

EUROPEAN AUTHORS 'Amazon said this author who died in 2004 was the first to sell a million Kindle e-books'

'Stieg Larsson'

NAME-RO UNO 2000 'The second president of Indonesia, he ruled from 1968 to 1998'

'Suharto'

YOU'VE GOT YOUR BORDERS 200 'It better stay neutral--France, Italy, Austria & Germany have it surrounded'

'Switzerland'

LESSER-KNOWN SCIENTISTS 400 'The "crown jewels" of Alcoa are the bits of this metal that chemist Charles Hall isolated when he was just 22'

'aluminum'

YOU NEED TO CLEAR THAT UP 800 '"Big" is found within this big word that means "open to interpretation"'

'ambiguous'

WEAPONRY 1600 "It's an alphanumeric Soviet assault rifle with a cyclic firing rate of 600 rounds per minute"

'an AK-47'

ENDS IN "SS" 800 'From the Greek for "bottomless", it's an immeasurably deep chasm or void'

'an abyss'

SCIENCE TERMS 1000 '"Oid" vey! My grandson is into all kinds of these nitrogenous compounds, like nicotine & ephedrine'

'an alkaloid'

MEASURING DEVICES 1600 'In 1450 Italian architect Leon Alberti invented the first mechanical one of these to measure wind speed'

'an anemometer'

NAVY SEALS 600 'SEAL Christopher Cassidy completed training as one of these in 2006; he was a mission specialist on STS-127'

'an astronaut'

CALL TRIPLE A 1600 'A graphical image that represents the user on the Internet'

'an avatar'

EXERCISE & FITNESS 800 'The name of this machine that gives a low-impact cardio workout is the almost circular motion its pedals make'

'an elliptical'

MORE VOWELS 400 "A light bulb will sometimes light up over an animated character's head when he gets one of these"

'an idea'

SOUNDS LIKE A NEW POKEMON 400 "Melodeon's only power is to give enjoyment: it's a reed one of these"

'an instrument'

ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN 1000 "The Cortland variety of these brown very slowly after they're cut, making them a good choice for garnishes"

'apples'

PREFIXES 400 'Before -naut & -physics, it means "star"'

'astro-'

ECONOMICS 1000 'George Akerlof won a Nobel for his theory of this "lopsided" type of info, meaning one party knows more than the other'

'asymmetrical information'

FRENCH FOOD TALK 400 'This term refers to any dish baked with a browned crumb or cheese & crumb topping, especially potatoes'

'au gratin'

PRO SPORTS 400 'This 4-letter word is the second "a" in NASCAR'

'auto'

VARIE-TEAS 1600 'Earl Grey tea gets its flavor from this citrus fruit, sort of an acidic orange'

'bergamot'

FOOD PREPARATION 600 'Colorful cooking methods include browning & this one associated with Cajun cooking'

'blackening'

FOOD WORDS & PHRASES 800 '2 basic foods are joined together in this adjective for a type of pickle or for a basic need'

'bread & butter'

VARIE-TEAS 400 'This meal is found after Irish & English in the names of teas'

'breakfast'

FOOD PREPARATION 1000 'The name of this technique indicates that meat is soaked in saltwater, though other liquids can be used instead'

'brining'

LITERARY MONSTERS 1000 "In a Barbara Jean Hicks story, monsters are tricked into eating these veggies when told they're giant trees"

'broccoli'

"BUR" BANK 800 'A plain-woven fabric of jute or hemp'

'burlap'

I BELIEVE WEBSTER'S DEFINES IT AS... 800 '"conj... 1 a: except for the fact--used to introduce a dependent clause"'

'but'

PREFIXES 800 'The manu- in manuscript literally means it was written this way'

'by hand'

SWEET WORD OF YOUTH 200 'A young person may be shallow as well as this word that rhymes with shallow & means "immature"'

'callow'

VARIE-TEAS 800 'The name of this Indian tea made with milk & spices like cinnamon & cardamom is one syllable & rhymes with "pie"'

'chai'

VARIE-TEAS 1200 'This herbal tea is made with a daisylike flower; Peter Rabbit was put to bed with some'

'chamomile tea'

YOU'RE A "CHAMP"! 600 'In this idiom that refers to an impatient horse, many people substitute "chomp"'

'champing at the bit'

THE FIRST MILLENNIUM 400 'In 532 a riot broke out during races of these vehicles at the Hippodrome in Constantinople & much of the city was destroyed'

'chariots'

BUMPER STICKER HUMOR 400 '"When" this food "gets its picture taken, what does it say?"'

'cheese'

HERB & SPICE HISTORY 1200 "To show remorse after murdering his wife, Nero may have burned a year's supply of this spice that comes in quills"

'cinnamon'

11-LETTER WORDS 1600 'Meaning hidden or done in secret, this adjective is sometimes used to describe an illicit love affair'

'clandestine'

CANCELED! 200 'These formed a "cover" overhead & forced the cancellation of a Feb. 7, 2010 Space Shuttle launch'

'clouds'

BUMPER STICKER HUMOR 800 '"Cannibals won't eat" these circus performers... "they taste funny"'

'clowns'

THE "OQ" CORRAL 1000 'I "C" you know it means a conversational exchange'

'colloquy'

"PRO"s & "CON"s 2000 'A poetic image with an outlandish comparison'

'conceit'

"PRO"s & "CON"s 1600 'Smuggled goods'

'contraband'

WHAT A 19th CENTURY CHARACTER 800 "It's the noble title of Aleksei Vronsky, who has an affair to remember with Anna Karenina"

'count'

FARMVILLE 1000 'Important breeds of this on a farm include the brown Swiss & Holstein'

'cows'

NUTRITION FROM COOKING LIGHT 400 'In the U.S., neufchatel is a reduced fat type of this; frost your carrot cake with it to save 25 calories per ounce'

'cream cheese'

THE "OQ" CORRAL 200 'Balls of wood! Mallets! Anyone for this game?'

'croquet'

WIMBLEDON 800 'This sport is attached to the name of the club that sponsors Wimbledon, though activities are confined to tennis'

'croquet'

EXERCISE & FITNESS 1200 '"Your" these "will amaze you", says the women-only gym of the same name'

'curves'

LESSER-KNOWN SCIENTISTS 1000 'In 1785 William Withering suggested using this drug from the foxglove plant to treat heart disease'

'digitalis (or digoxin)'

BIG BIRTHER 800 'Number of babies (boys & girls, not cephalopods) birthed by Nadya Suleman in January 2009'

'eight'

TALKING ITALIAN 400 'You oughta know "otto" is Italian for this number'

'eight'

E BEFORE I 400 'Legally, adult status is achieved at this age'

'eighteen'

CAUSED BY... 800 'Affective, in psychology'

'emotions'

THE TRUTH LIES THEREIN 1000 'A palindromic preposition of the past'

'ere'

"EU" FIRST 800 'Traditionally they guarded the harem'

'eunuchs'

THE "EX" FILES 1200 'A type of tax, it can also mean to cut out, like a tumor'

'excise'

THE "EX" FILES 400 "Good thing for tourists that Honolulu's Diamond Head is this type of volcano"

'extinct'

THE "EX" FILES 800 'Rachael Ray is such a fan of this type of olive oil that she even launched her own brand'

'extra-virgin'

MEASURING DEVICES 800 "A creepmeter doesn't measure how weird your date is but the movement of these cracks between quakes"

'faults'

NUTRITION FROM COOKING LIGHT 600 'Use brown rice instead of white & you add this, aka roughage, making you feel full faster'

'fiber'

POINT THE "FINGER" 600 'The lunula is the small white crescent-moon-shaped part of one of these'

'fingernails'

WHAT DEGREE ARE YOU GETTING? 600 "Under California law, killing someone while you're carjacking him is this crime"

'first-degree murder'

BIG BIRTHER 1600 'In Canada Elzire Dionne gave birth to this many babies May 28, 1934'

'five'

THERE MIGHT BE BLOOD 1200 'There are more than 10,000 species of this bloodsucker but Pulex irritans is the one used in most "circuses"'

'fleas'

CAUSED BY... 600 'Diluvial, like some debris'

'flooding'

CANCELED! 1000 "Culprit in the cancellation of the Blue Angels' San Francisco show Oct. 10, 2009"

'fog'

YOU NEED TO CLEAR THAT UP 1600 'Verbiage from the State Department may leave you in this state; it comes before "Bottom" in the D.C. area where state is located'

'foggy'

I BELIEVE WEBSTER'S DEFINES IT AS... 400 '"vt 1 archaic: to plan ahead... 2 a...to predict (weather conditions)"'

'forecast'

IN 1867... 800 'August von Hofmann discovered this fluid; 25 years later it could have been used to embalm him'

'formaldehyde'

WEB MUSIC PARODIES 200 'Yahoo!'s Sketchy Players sang of the grayer set with "We're Not Young", a parody of this band'

'fun.'

RHYME HELL 200 'To congeal or become firm'

'gel'

HERB & SPICE HISTORY 800 '19th century English pubs had containers of this spice from a root so that patrons could shake it into their ale'

'ginger'

CATS IN PROVERBS 1000 '"A cat in _____ catches no mice"'

'gloves'

MANGIA! 1000 'Unlike wheat pasta, these dumplings are often made from potatoes; their textured surface helps hold sauce'

'gnocchi'

A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE 600 'Georges Vezina (of trophy fame) & Briana Scurry both played this position, though in different sports'

'goalies'

ENDS IN "SS" 200 'Proverbially speaking, it's what "cleanliness is next to"'

'godliness'

GEOLOGY 800 'This commonest coarse-grained plutonic rock is desirable for countertops'

'granite'

WIMBLEDON 400 'The Wimbledon championships are the only Grand Slam event played on this surface'

'grass'

ANCIENT EGYPT 1200 'During the Old Kingdom, Egyptians would paint their eyelids this color using malachite, an oxide of copper'

'green'

GOING "GREEN" 2000 'A raiding practice of buying up shares, forcing the company to buy them back at a premium'

'greenmail'

CATS IN PROVERBS 800 '"In the dark all cats are _____"'

'grey'

EASY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1000 'Linus Pauling used X-ray crystallography to study the patterns of keratin in this body part'

'hair'

I BELIEVE WEBSTER'S DEFINES IT AS... 1000 '"adj... 2 b: happy, golden" as in (this) era or the (this) days of youth'

'halcyon'

FARMVILLE Daily Double "It's the time when ripened crops are gathered, or the yield of crops themselves."

'harvest'

THE TRUTH LIES THEREIN 400 'Old school GPS on a shopping mall map: "You are" this'

'here'

3-LETTER WORDS 1000 'After a 1997 golf injury, Evel Knievel got this body part replaced'

'his hip'

BEATLEWOMANIA 800 '"Half of what I say is meaningless", John Lennon sang on "Julia", which bears the name of this woman in his life'

'his mother'

CURIOUS Daily Double 'A Latin word for "to ask" gave us this adjective meaning curious for knowledge'

'inquisitive'

ORES 1200 'Goethite & magnetite are ores of this metal'

'iron'

WEIRD WORDS 1600 "Seen in rodeos, estrapade is a horse's attempt to remove this"

'its rider'

THE J-5 1200 'Worn out by overindulgence; yawn... been there, done that'

'jaded'

THE J-5 800 'Some have a "beef" with this word meaning characterized by sudden starts'

'jerky'

FASHIONABLE WORDS 600 'The name of these riding breeches is derived from a city in India'

'jodhpurs'

2011 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS 1200 'From its etymology you can figure out that "sangsue", from Round 15, is a name for this worm'

'leech'

THERE MIGHT BE BLOOD 1600 'In 19th century France, this aquatic worm was raised on farms by the thousands for medicinal purposes'

'leeches'

CALL TRIPLE A 800 'Barbie's twitter feed once said, "a true man will ruin your lipstick, not" this'

'mascara'

A TOMB WITH A VIEW 1000 'This ancient wonder built for the ruler of Caria gave us the generic term for any large tomb'

'mausoleum'

MEASURING DEVICES 400 'A lactometer measures the specific gravity of this liquid'

'milk'

MEASURE THIS! 1000 'In a blood pressure reading such as 115/75, the numbers represent these of mercury'

'millimeters'

MANGIA! 200 'The name of this familiar Italian vegetable soup means "thick soup", referring to its broth'

'minestrone'

ECONOMICS 800 'Oddly, "The Economist" defines this, MFN for short, as at least equal treatment in trade'

'most favored nation treatment'

HUMAN BODY NUMBERS 800 'There are about 700 of these in the human body, including biceps & triceps'

'muscles'

FOODS, STUFFED 200 'For a tasty appetizer, try crab-stuffed portobello ones of these'

'mushrooms'

MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD 800 'This gas, a WWI blistering agent, was also called yperite'

'mustard gas'

E BEFORE I 200 'The person who lives next door'

'neighbor'

11-LETTER WORDS Daily Double "It's the term for someone who collects pieces of eight, Venetian ducats or Confederate half-dollars"

'numismatist'

FOODS, STUFFED 1000 'Miss Leone's "Fire in the Pit" are queen ones of these stuffed with hot peppers'

'olives'

FIRST IN "P"s 800 'This racket game can be played on a court that has 1, 3 or 4 walls'

'paddleball'

FOOD PREPARATION 800 'Simmer short-grain rice seasoned with saffron in the broad, shallow pan that gives this Spanish dish its name'

'paella'

2011 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS 800 'A young man lost after placing an "h" in the middle of this Italian bacon'

'pancetta'

A TOMB WITH A VIEW 800 'Venezuela's heroes are entombed in this, from the Greek for "temple of all the gods"'

'pantheon'

FIRST IN WAR Daily Double 'The 1940 invasion of Norway saw the first combat use of these troops, the German Fallschirmjager'

'paratroopers'

PANTS 600 'When introduced, these wide, baggy pants were 4 inches longer than usual knicker length'

'plus fours'

AMPHIBIANS 400 'The larvae of frogs are known as tadpoles or these, from the Middle English for "wiggle head"'

'pollywogs'

SCIENCE TERMS 200 'As well as rain or snow, it can mean the process of separating a solid from a solution'

'precipitation'

5-LETTER LITERARY TERMS 'The "History" by Herodotus has been called the earliest surviving European work of this form, from Latin for "straightforward"'

'prose'

EASY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 400 'Early studies focused on finding the structure not of carbs & fat but of this compound, collagen being one example'

'protein'

BATTLE STARS Daily Double 'An unsung star of the Battle of Britain was Robert Watson-Wyatt, developer of this Luftwaffe-detecting system'

'radar'

LUTHER Daily Double 'After deeming his writings heretical, Pope Leo X gave Luther 60 days to do this, from the Latin for "sing again"'

'recant'

THE TRUTH LIES THEREIN 800 'Colt controller'

'rein'

NOT OF GOOD CHARACTER 1600 'Originally one who renounced his faith, it's now one who "re"bels & becomes an outlaw'

'renegade'

GEOG. DICT. ABBREV. 800 'Res. can stand for a reservation or this type of body of water'

'reservoir'

RIBBONS 400 "Pack your ribbons if you're competing in this sport, an Olympic medal event since 1984"

'rhythmic gymnastics'

HUMAN BODY NUMBERS 400 "You've got 24 of these in the front of your chest, protecting your inner organs"

'ribs'

DOUBLE MEANINGS 1600 "Time is short, so Edna ___ to the water's edge to pick ___; she intends to weave them into baskets"

'rushes'

ANCIENT EGYPT 400 'The Egyptians were the first known civilization to power boats using these, probably large leafy fronds on the bow'

'sails'

LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS 1000 'Katharine Drexel is only the second person born in the U.S. to be recognized as one of these; Elizabeth Ann Seton was 1st'

'saints'

THE SEA AROUND US 2000 "This is a measure of certain minerals in the water; for the deep waters of the Dead Sea, it's about 332 parts per thousand"

'salinity'

THOUGHT FOR FOOD 1200 'A good source of vitamin C & some B vitamins, it's German for "sour cabbage"'

'sauerkraut'

WHAT DEGREE ARE YOU GETTING? 1000 'With shared great-grandparents, the children of Caroline Kennedy & RFK Jr. are this degree of cousin'

'second cousins'

BIG BIRTHER 1200 'How lucky--in 1997 Bobbi McCaughey of Des Moines, Iowa gave birth to the first surviving set of these'

'septuplets'

CAIN & ABEL 800 'In sacrifice to God Cain offered the "fruit of the ground"; Abel offered these animals'

'sheep'

THE WORLD PRESS 800 "Founded in 1831, this city's Morning Herald is Australia's oldest continuously published newspaper"

'Sydney'

VISITING THE CITY 800 "There's a great opera house on Bennelong Point from which you can see Fort Denison in the harbor"

'Sydney'

THEY ALSO WROTE CHILDREN'S BOOKS 1200 'She wrote a cheery work for kids titled "The Bed Book", published after her suicide'

'Sylvia Plath'

PAUNCH SHOPS 600 "If you're thinking outside the bun, think about the 990 calories & 1,930 mg of sodium in this chain's Volcano Nachos"

'Taco Bell'

BOWL GAME CITIES 600 'The Insight Bowl at Sun Devil Stadium'

'Tempe'

SOUTH SPECIFIC 400 '"A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" is a lesser play by this man with a southern state in his name'

'Tennessee Williams'

ROMANCE IN LITERATURE 800 "A photographer finds brief but unforgettable love in Iowa in this '90s novel"

'The Bridges of Madison County'

A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE 200 'Cal Ripken, Jr. had another consecutive game streak--13 straight All-Star Game starts at this position'

'shortstop'

ORES 400 'This precious metal can be obtained from pure deposits & from ores such as argentite'

'silver'

"SIN"ONYMS 800 'Synonym for menacing'

'sinister'

3-LETTER WORDS 200 'Take a small drink'

'sip'

CATS IN PROVERBS 600 '"There's more than one way to _____ a cat"'

'skin'

YOU SAY POTATO 1200 'Use red spuds & leave the skin on & you get this dish that adds 1 letter to a classic comfort food'

'smashed potatoes'

RUMORS 800 'George Eliot wrote that gossip is this "that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it"'

'smoke'

CANCELED! 600 "Reason school was canceled in Pensacola Feb. 12, 2010--it's an every-20-year kind of thing"

'snow'

ENDS IN "SS" 600 'It describes any invertebrate animal, or a person lacking courage'

'spineless'

ODD NAMINGS 1000 'Even the OED is stumped as to how this pancreatic delicacy got its name'

'sweetbreads'

DOUBLE MEANINGS 400 "Playing ___, Jakey came so close to catching Suzie that he could read the ___ on her OshKosh B'Gosh overalls"

'tag'

FIRST IN WAR 1600 'The first major use of these vehicles was at the 1917 Battle of Cambrai, leading to a rare breakthrough on the Western Front'

'tanks'

FRENCH FOOD TALK 2000 "Popularly served on crackers, it's a spread made from capers, anchovies, olives, olive oil & lemon juice"

'tapenade'

GO TO THE DOGS 1200 'Breeds of this dog group include the Airedale & Bedlington'

'terriers'

THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA 800 'In 1868 this Amendment gave African Americans full citizenship'

'the 14th'

DECADES OF DISASTER Daily Double 'The USS Maine goes down, killing 260'

'the 1890s'

LITERARY LOVERS 800 'In this Ayn Rand novel, the chilly Dominique Francon finally throws herself at heroic architect Howard Roark'

'The Fountainhead'

THE WINNERS Daily Double 'It was the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture'

'The Godfather Part II'

SOUTH SPECIFIC 2000 'This debut novel by Carson McCullers empathetically tracks an isolated misfit in a Georgia town'

'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter'

LITERARY PRINCIPALS & TEACHERS 1200 '1961 Muriel Spark novel about an Edinburgh educator in her "Prime"'

'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'

RED BOOK 1200 'This Stendhal novel title was inspired by the colors worn by the Catholic clergy & the French military'

'The Red and the Black'

1940s AMERICAN LIT 2000 "A fan asking what may have happened to Jesus' garments after the Crucifixion inspired Lloyd Douglas to write this novel"

'The Robe'

1970s TV CASTS 800 'Lee Majors & 3 different guys as Dr. Rudy Wells; this show could both rebuild & recast'

'The Six Million Dollar Man'

ROMANCE IN LITERATURE 2000 'In a Madrid taxi, Jake & Lady Brett dream of what might have been at the end of this Hemingway tale'

'The Sun Also Rises'

DENZEL WASHINGTON FILMS 1200 'A NYC subway dispatcher'

'The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3'

RED BOOK 2000 'Made into a 1998 film, this James Jones novel fictionalizes the "narrow"ly won battle for Guadalcanal'

'The Thin Red Line'

CURTAINS 800 'In one scene of this film, a small dog pulls at a shiny green curtain, revealing the white-haired man hidden behind it'

'The Wizard of Oz'

THE TRUTH LIES THEREIN 600 'Old school CBS history show: "You Are" this'

'There'

RECENT FILMS 'An early scene in this 2011 film is set in Tonsberg, Norway in the year 965 A.D.'

'Thor'

1940s AMERICAN LIT 1200 'His 1942 collection "My World and Welcome to It" included "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"'

'Thurber'

PLAYWRIGHTS "This Brit won Tonys for Best Play in 1968, 1976, 1984 & 2007; in the '90s he settled for the 1998 Best Screenplay Oscar"

'Tom Stoppard'

TECH STUFF 1600 'Get the beat with this double-named GPS maker of the XXL 540 S, with 7 million points of interest'

'TomTom'

HIP HOP HOOPSTERS Daily Double 'This former hubby of Eva Longoria had some success in his native France with his hip hop album "TP"'

'Tony Parker'

VISITING THE CITY 400 'First the Royal Ontario Museum, then for lunch, maybe one of the 5 Chinatowns'

'Toronto'

FELONIOUS MONKS 2000 'As the first Grand Inquisitor in Spain, this Dominican authorized torture'

'Torquemada'

MYTHING IN ACTION 600 'The wooden statue Palladium kept this city safe until Odysseus & Diomedes took it'

'Troy'

HIP HOP HOOPSTERS 200 'On his modestly titled "K.O.B.E.", Kobe Bryant duetted with this top model & talk show host'

'Tyra Banks'

THE WINNERS 600 'With 22 & counting, this quartet has won more Grammys than any other rock group'

'U2'

THEIR ROMAN EQUIVALENTS 800 'Odysseus'

'Ulysses'

COUNTRIES ALPHABETICALLY Daily Double 'Uruguay was supplanted by this country as the last "U" alphabetically'

'Uzbekistan'

THE WINNERS 400 'In 2013 Tony Hale won an Emmy as Gary Walsh, enabler to the politician Selina Meyer, on this HBO series'

'Veep'

1970s TV CASTS 1200 'Robert Urich, Bart Braverman & Tony Curtis as Philip Roth (no, not the author)'

'Vega$'

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION FILM! 400 'These 2 eventual state governors grappled, but not over fiscal policy, in the 1987 futuristic flick "The Running Man"'

'Ventura & Schwarzenegger'

OLD PAINT 800 'Rubens often painted his young wife Helene as this love goddess, as in her "and Adonis"'

'Venus'

STOCK SYMBOLS 800 'Can you hear me now? VZ is this company'

'Verizon'

WORLD GEOGRAPHY 400 "Once the seat of the Holy Roman Empire, it's now the capital of Austria"

'Vienna'

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION FILM! 600 'In 2013 this actor was back as "Riddick", left for dead on a nasty planet'

'Vin Diesel'

AIRPORT CODES 200 'Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has the code DCA but is located in this state'

'Virginia'

PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS 'His second inauguration marked the first time that women officially participated in the inaugural parade'

'Woodrow Wilson'

OSCAR NOMINEES 'One of his first Oscar nominations was for Best Actor; none of his 22 other Oscar nominations was for acting'

'Woody Allen'

LUTHER 1600 'Luther responded to claims of heresy at a diet held in this German city in 1521'

'Worms'

WHAT A 19th CENTURY CHARACTER 2000 'The besotted Hindley Earnshaw appears in this classic novel'

'Wuthering Heights'

EASY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 200 'The presence of this letter chromosome determines that a zygote will develop into a male'

'Y'

COSMOPOLITAN Daily Double 'This city in the Crimea is a health resort with many sanatoriums, including one suggested by Chekhov in 1899'

'Yalta'

BEATLEWOMANIA 200 'Lady Gaga was among the stars who joined her new "Plastic" band for a 2010 rendition of "Give Peace A Chance"'

'Yoko Ono'

EXERCISE & FITNESS 2000 'Colombian-born Alberto Perez brought this Latin-inspired "Dance Fitness Party" to Miami in 2001'

'Zumba'

TYPES OF AIRCRAFT Daily Double 'Webster's dictionary from 1806 defined an aeronaut as "an aerial sailor in" one of these'

'a (hot-air) balloon'

TYPES OF AIRCRAFT 1000 "This Douglas plane with an alphanumeric all-rhyming name dominated airline travel in the '30s"

'a DC-3'

FATHER FIGURES OF SPEECH 400 'Also known as a harvestman, this arachnid is a beneficial garden predator'

'a Daddy Longlegs'

WEAPONRY 2000 'This flat, angular bomber the Air Force unveiled in 1988 can really fly under the radar--or through it'

'a Stealth Bomber (B-2)'

WEAPONRY 400 "An 1897 officer's knife, aka this, had a corkscrew & second blade; no one's neutral when holding one"

'a Swiss Army knife'

NATIONALLY CLAIMED 1600 'Shake vodka, Kahlua & light cream & strain over ice to make one of these'

'a White Russian'

THE LAST "DROP" 1600 "Let me set the stage for you; it's the rear curtain of a stage setting"

'a backdrop'

NOT OF GOOD CHARACTER 800 "One who speaks ill of you when you're not around, or who implants a dagger in your dorsal region"

'a backstabber'

ODD NAMINGS 800 'The head of this second-largest North American bird of prey is covered with white feathers, not just skin'

'a bald eagle'

SWEET WORD OF YOUTH 1000 'Fledgling can mean a young or inexperienced person or, in the animal world, one of these'

'a bird'

WAITING FOR THE HAIRDRESSER 800 "I'll get my hair straightened with the Brazilian this; it's also what happened to my favorite football team, 35-0"

'a blowout'

HOMER (SIMPSON)'S ODYSSEY 400 'In "The Homer They Fall", after learning he can withstand any blow to the head, Homer becomes a pro one of these'

'a boxer'

LUTHER 400 'Martin Luther contradicted Clement VI's "Unigentus Dei Filius", this 4-letter type of document'

'a bull'

NICE "BUN"s 200 "An elasticized cord that's handy for jumping safely from a great height"

'a bungee cord'

SONG LYRICS 200 '"Stairway To Heaven" explains what's up "if there's" this "in your hedgerow"'

'a bustle'

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 1000 'This steam-whistle organ was often used on 19th century Mississippi steamboats to announce their arrival at ports'

'a calliope'

SCIENCE TERMS 800 'A big name in air conditioning, or one immune to a disease but able to transmit it'

'a carrier'

CALL TRIPLE A 1200 'One who is shipwrecked'

'a castaway'

CURTAINS 600 'At Framlingham, a medieval one of these, the outer or curtain wall stands 44 feet high & 8 feet thick'

'a castle'

CAR TALK 1000 "This converter reduces the level of harmful pollutants in a car's exhaust"

'a catalytic converter'

RHYME HELL 600 'It can be a small room in a monastery as well as in a correctional facility'

'a cell'

CALL TRIPLE A 2000 'An impostor or fraud'

'a charlatan'

FOODS, STUFFED 800 'This Mexican dish whose name means "stuffed pepper" is typically a green chile stuffed with cheese, covered in batter & fried'

'a chile relleno'

AMPHIBIANS 1200 "If you've heard them croaking together, you know why a group of frogs is known by this musical term"

'a chorus'

SOUNDS LIKE A NEW POKEMON 600 "If you put down in your pokedex that you have anorak, you've got one of these, similar to a parka"

'a coat'

LESSER-KNOWN SCIENTISTS 600 "Gowin Knight's 1745 development of a better way to magnetize steel allowed him to improve this device used by mariners"

'a compass'

WHICH PART OF SPEECH? 1000 "Neither rain nor snow nor sleet shall keep me from my appointed rounds, but locusts? I'm out: nor"

'a conjunction'

5-SYLLABLE WORDS 400 'As an adjective, this word can refer to a document drawn up in 1787; as a noun, it means a healthy walk'

'a constitutional'

FARMVILLE 400 "It's a 4-letter wired cage or enclosure for chickens, though they may wish to fly it & go free"

'a coop'

LITTLE SEIZERS 1600 'The pea type of this lives on bivalves & grabs food from bivalves with its pincers'

'a crab'

FASHIONABLE WORDS 1000 'This skirt with a German name is still worn in the Austrian & Bavarian Alps'

'a dirndl'

DOMINOES 1200 'A domino with both ends having the same value is called a double or this, which is 1 letter longer & also a garment'

'a doublet'

"EU" FIRST 400 'It's from the Greek for "well spoken"; Bindi Irwin gave a moving one for her dad'

'a eulogy'

TYPES OF AIRCRAFT 800 'Used in Vietnam, the F-105 was this kind of craft, combining the 2 basic types of combat aircraft'

'a fighter-bomber'

POINT THE "FINGER" 400 'After dining on finger foods, dip your digits into one of these to clean off'

'a finger bowl'

POINT THE "FINGER" 800 'Close basketball shot from the tip of the hand into the basket'

'a finger roll'

"BUR" BANK 1200 'In this ordinal type of injury, only the epidermis is affected'

'a first-degree burn'

SCIENCE TERMS 400 'A mouthbreeder is one of these, especially a cichlid, that carries eggs or young in its mouth'

'a fish'

LITTLE SEIZERS 1200 'The white-handed species of this Asian lesser ape uses its white hands to grab fruit & eggs'

'a gibbon'

TYPES OF AIRCRAFT 200 'No motor needed when soaring in a sailplane, one type of this'

'a glider'

GOING "GREEN" 1600 'A swath of parks or rural land surrounding a city, or a rank of a karate student'

'a greenbelt'

GOING "GREEN" 800 'A retailer of fresh vegetables & fruits in England'

'a greengrocer'

GOING "GREEN" 1200 'A first timer on a cattle drive'

'a greenhorn'

GOING "GREEN" 400 'This structure for the cultivation of your prized orchids can have quite an "effect" on visitors'

'a greenhouse'

MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD 400 'The word for this hand-held explosive comes from a French word for " pomegranate" , which it resembled'

'a grenade'

NOW WE ARE SIX 1000 'A sexangle is another name for this geometric figure, from the Greek for "six"'

'a hexagon'

HEADS OR TAILS 400 'This 2nd-largest land mammal has its eyes & ears on top of its head so it can keep track of things from underwater'

'a hippopotamus'

NOT OF GOOD CHARACTER 1200 'This term for a rowdy British soccer fan may come from an Irish surname'

'a hooligan'

MEASURING DEVICES 2000 'The hair type of this instrument uses human hair to measure relative humidity'

'a hygrometer'

THE J-5 1600 'An instant or flash, as in, "I'll be there in a" this'

'a jiffy'

THE J-5 2000 "It's a small group ruling a country after a coup"

'a junta'

PREHISTORIC TIMES 400 'The procoptodon, a 450-pound one of these, jumped all over Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch'

'a kangaroo'

I BELIEVE WEBSTER'S DEFINES IT AS... 200 '"n... an Eskimo canoe made of a frame covered usu. with sealskin except for a small opening in the center"'

'a kayak'

LITTLE SEIZERS 800 "There's a 1/2-ounce African dwarf species of this colorful bird that dives into rivers to seize lunch"

'a kingfisher'

5-SYLLABLE WORDS 200 'From the Greek for "thief", it's someone who suffers from an irresistible impulse to steal'

'a kleptomaniac'

MEASURE THIS! 400 "Used by junks & schooners alike, it's about 1.15 miles"

'a knot (or a nautical mile)'

FUN WITH COLORS 1200 'A moderate to brilliant shade of yellow is named for this citrus fruit'

'a lemon'

HEADS OR TAILS 800 "In Madagascar, the male ring-tailed this slashes a tree trunk with a spur to mark his troop's territory"

'a lemur'

LABOR DAY FOR HERCULES 200 "Hercules is often depicted wearing this animal's skin; killing the Nemean one was quite a labor"

'a lion'

3-LETTER WORDS 400 'It's the "stiff upper" projecting rim of a pitcher'

'a lip'

YOU WILL BE TESTED ON THIS 800 'Lichens provide the coloring for this, also a term for a crucial, revealing test'

'a litmus test'

PRO SPORTS 200 "Toronto's pro hockey team is named for this, also seen on Canada's flag"

'a maple leaf'

SLANG-UAGE 400 'This term for a piece of sporting equipment protecting your teeth also refers to a criminal lawyer'

'a mouthpiece'

FOOD WORDS & PHRASES 1200 'A person who wears tight jeans that cause flab to spill out over the waistband is said to have this'

'a muffin top'

FASHIONABLE WORDS 200 "It's the animal name for a high-heeled shoe or a slipper with no back"

'a mule'

A LURE 2000 'Mepps makes its special "killer" lure to catch this large member of the pike family, not Hubert Humphrey's running mate'

'a muskie'

CURIOUS 800 "Spider-Man's alter ego Peter could be called this 2-word phrase meaning a busybody"

'a nosy parker'

WHICH PART OF SPEECH? 200 'Fabio won a Nobel Prize for chemistry: Fabio'

'a noun'

FIRST IN "P"s 400 'The African gray is this type of bird; the male can precisely echo human speech'

'a parrot'

ODD NAMINGS 400 "Found in Snickers, it's actually a legume; you eat the seed that's in a pod"

'a peanut'

FIRST IN "P"s 2000 'How oxymoronic! This 10-letter name of a musical instrument means "soft loud"'

'a pianoforte'

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 600 'Fife & drum corps often use this higher-pitched woodwind whose name means "small"'

'a piccolo'

DOMINOES 400 'We have great expectations you know this 3-letter term for a dot on a domino'

'a pip'

FIRST IN "P"s 1600 'Unlike other marsupials, bandicoots have this, formed in the lining of the uterus to nourish the fetus'

'a placenta'

THE "OQ" CORRAL 600 "In a play, it's an utterance by one talking to oneself"

'a soliloquy'

TRANSPOSITION WORDS 1000 "It's another word fer cuspidor (fer yer tobaccy, ya low-down varmint!)"

'a spittoon'

LITERARY MONSTERS 600 'In a Jules Verne work, the Nautilus has to deal with a big one of these, referred to as a devilfish'

'a squid'

LITTLE SEIZERS 2000 '3 inches long with a 2 1/2-inch fluffy tail, the African pygmy this feeds on seeds--nuts are out of its league'

'a squirrel'

THE CIVIL WAR 2000 'On July 21, 1861 Gen. Barnard Bee said, "There is Jackson, standing like" one of these & a nickname was born'

'a stone wall (Stonewall)'

RHYME HELL 1000 "Surf's up! It's one long, continuous wave in an ocean"

'a swell'

SOUNDS LIKE A NEW POKEMON 800 "Scimitar could help you win some battles: it's a type of this"

'a sword'

WEIRD WORDS 2000 'Want to open your Veuve Clicquot with style? Try sabrage, where you use one of these'

'a sword'

THE LAST "DROP" 400 'A saline lacrimal secretion'

'a teardrop'

MEASURE THIS! 200 'Contrary to its name, this signature cowboy accessory would actually hold about 96 ounces'

'a ten-gallon hat'

PREFIXES 1200 'It it lived up to the milli-part of its name, a millipede with have this many feet'

'a thousand'

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES 400 'In a nature poem Whittier rhymed, "The winding water's sounding rush, the long note of" this bird'

'a thrush'

MEASURE THIS! 600 'Due to drying & planing, the piece of lumber known by this name is actually 1 1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inches'

'a two-by-four'

SCIENCE TERMS 600 'A Pelean one of these events is a violent one'

'a volcanic eruption'

"W" 1200 'In a Coors light ad, the guy with this "avian" nickname tries to help his amorous buddy "live the dream"'

'a wingman'

YOU WILL BE TESTED ON THIS 600 'In a Monty Python film, the test for identifying one of these is whether she weighs as much as a duck'

'a witch'

FUN WITH COLORS 800 'A pale tan, like the color of a certain oval-shaped nut used to make marzipan'

'almond'

MORE VOWELS 800 'Shrubby succulent used to treat burns'

'aloe'

DECADES OF DISASTER 200 'Pearl Harbor is attacked'

'the 1940s'

DECADES OF DISASTER 800 'Three Mile Island is the site of the worst commercial nuclear accident in U.S. history'

'the 1970s'

DECADES OF DISASTER 400 'The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes'

'the 1980s'

AMENDMENT HIGHLIGHTS 400 '"Congress shall make no law"'

'the 1st'

SPORTS-POURRI 200 'The current Olympic record in this event is 19.30 seconds by Usain Bolt'

'the 200 meters'

BY THE NUMBERS 1000 'Ratified in 1971, this amendment gives 18-year-olds the right to vote'

'the 26th'

AMENDMENT HIGHLIGHTS 800 '"A well regulated militia, being necessary"'

'the 2nd Amendment'

AMENDMENT HIGHLIGHTS Daily Double '"Nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself"'

'the 5th Amendment'

AMENDMENT HIGHLIGHTS 1600 '"Nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted"'

'the 8th'

YEATS IS GREATS 400 'This Dublin theatre that opened in 1904 grew out of the Irish literary theatre, which Yeats co-founded'

'the Abbey Theatre'

THE SEA AROUND US 1600 'The Gulf of Volos or Pagasai, anciently called Sinus Pagasaeus, is an arm of this sea'

'the Aegean'

ANCIENT EGYPT 1600 'A Greek scholar named Callimachus wrote a bibliographical survey of the authors of the books held here'

'the Alexandrian Library'

BOB MARLEY & ME 1200 'In February 1979 Marley & his group headlined at this Harlem venue, the first reggae band to do so'

'the Apollo'

AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN 1600 'Rising above the Mediterranean coast are these mountains that form the backbone of Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia'

'the Atlas Mountains'

WIMBLEDON 200 'In 1967 color TV was introduced to the U.K. when this network sponsored a tournament on centre court'

'the BBC'

TREATIES Daily Double 'The Montreux Convention of 1936 returned control of these 2 straits to Turkey'

'the Bosporus & the Dardanelles'

THE BOOK BOOK 800 'In a Robert Barnard mystery, Scotland Yard det. Trethowan seeks a lost book ms. by one of these sisters'

'the Brontxc3xab sisters'

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES 800 'In 2008 this agency issued a warning against eating certain frozen mussel products imported from Ireland'

'the FDA'

SONG LYRICS 600 'They were the "3 men I admire most" in Don McLean's "American Pie"'

'the Father, Son & the Holy Ghost'

POINT THE "FINGER" 1000 'Elmira Corning Regional Airport is one gateway to this scenic region'

'the Finger Lakes'

THE CIVIL WAR 400 'Lincoln wrote 5 different versions of this Nov. 19, 1863 speech & made several changes as he spoke; nice ad-libbing, Abe!'

'the Gettysburg Address'

FAMOUS BUILDINGS 'Recent evidence suggests that, despite its name, this 1599 building was a 20-sided icosagon'

'the Globe Theatre'

THE SEA AROUND US 400 'The song "This Land Is Your Land" mentions these waters, a warm ocean current flowing in the North Atlantic'

'the Gulf Stream waters'

RIBBONS 600 'The Blue Ribbon Foundation raises funds for the grounds where this annual Iowa event takes place'

'the Iowa State Fair'

"I" KNOW IT 1000 "It's Albuquerque's minor league baseball team; I can't wait for uranium 235 to bat"

'the Isotopes'

SCHOOLS OF ROCK 800 "Missouri's Rockhurst University was founded in 1910 by this Catholic teaching order"

'the Jesuits'

LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS 400 'In the 1940s Stetson Kennedy infiltrated this group, whom he mocked as the "Dumb Klux"'

'the KKK (Ku Klux Klan)'

FOOD WORDS & PHRASES Daily Double 'California car buyers are protected by the Tanner Consumer Protection Act, known by this alliterative name'

'the Lemon Law'

THE BOOK BOOK 400 'In a Margaret Truman novel, a lost diary of one of Columbus' men is linked to a "Murder at" this D.C. library'

'the Library of Congress'

MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD 400 'This museum on the Seine was opened to the public in 1793'

'the Louvre'

ANTEBELLUM ROBERT E. LEE 800 'During this war Lee distinguished himself at the siege of Veracruz & other battles'

'the Mexican War'

FIRST IN WAR 400 'At the 1862 Battle of Hampton Roads, these 2 vessels fought the first engagement between ironclad warships'

'the Monitor & the Merrimack'

STUPID ANSWERS 1000 'The Mosquito Indians are a majority population of this coastal region of Honduras & Nicaragua'

'the Mosquito Coast'

AWARDS & HONORS 400 'Since 1922 this medal has been awarded for excellence in American writing for children'

'the Newbery'

MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD 1600 'This 71-foot-long oxymoronic ICBM had a range of about 7,000 miles'

'the Peacekeeper'

WORLD GEOGRAPHY 800 'The Luzon Strait separates Taiwan from this country to the south'

'the Philippines'

RANKS & TITLES 800 'In "The Mikado" this grand fellow was the "Lord High Everything Else"'

'the Pooh-bah'

THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA Daily Double 'Charles Sumner & Thaddeus Stevens were leaders of this "extreme" Republican group'

'the Radical Republicans'

MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD 1200 "The Air Force's F-22, known by this dinosaur & NBA team name, can reach supersonic speeds without afterburning"

'the Raptor'

BODIES OF WATER 400 'At its northern end, this "colorful" sea branches into the Gulf of Suez on the west & the Gulf of Aqaba on the east'

'the Red'

RIVER CITY 200 'Cologne, Germany'

'the Rhine'

RIVER CITY 400 'Basel, Switzerland'

'the Rhine'

RIVER CITY 600 'Strasbourg, France'

'the Rhine'

RIVER CITY 800 'Arnhem, Netherlands'

'the Rhine'

MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD 1200 'During a recent renovation, it moved "The Night Watch" & other works to the Philips wing'

'the Rijksmuseum'

WHERE ART THOU? 1200 '"The Night Watch" by Rembrandt: this museum that's home to the Dutch National Art Collection'

'the Rijksmuseum'

SCHOOLS OF ROCK 400 'The university named for these is in Colorado Springs'

'the Rockies'

GO TO THE DOGS 2000 'Believed to be the oldest purebred dog, this greyhoundlike canine was sacred to the Egyptians'

'the Saluki'

LAST IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE 1600 'In 2007 this team was dead last in the N.L. West, but in 2010 it won the World Series'

'the San Francisco Giants'

SPORTS-POURRI 400 'In 2011 this NFL team became the first to win its division with a losing record'

'the Seattle Seahawks'

U.S. BODIES OF WATER 800 'This winding tributary of the Columbia River rises in a corner of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming'

'the Snake River'

HOMER (SIMPSON)'S ODYSSEY 800 'Homer's official bio says he's earned "the distinction of being the longest-term entry-level employee" here'

'the Springfield nuclear plant'

GERMAN LITERATURE 1600 'In "Heroes Like Us" the hero's father works for this East German secret police'

'the Stasi'

IT'S ALL POLITICS 400 "Usually given in January, it was once known simply as the president's annual message to congress"

'the State of the Union Address'

MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD Daily Double "This London art museum opened in 1897, with much of the gallery being a gift from the industrialist for whom it's named"

'the Tate'

WITTY LINES 400 'In one of their shorts, a judge cries for order, to which Curly says, "I'll take a ham sandwich"'

'the Three Stooges'

AWARDS & HONORS 200 'These awards from the American Theatre Wing bear the nickname of a stage actress-turned-producer'

'the Tonys'

MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD 1600 'This Florence gallery was designed by Vasari to be an office, hence its name'

'the Uffizi'

WHERE ART THOU? 1600 '"The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli: this gallery in Florence'

'the Uffizi'

MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD 800 'Its museums include the Gregorian Museum of Etruscan Art & the Room of the Immaculate Conception'

'the Vatican'

BOB MARLEY & ME 1600 'Marley said his backup band was named this "because we started out crying"'

'the Wailers'

OLDE ENGLAND 1200 'Some call the 1487 Battle of Stoke won by Henry VII the last battle in this war between 2 royal houses'

'the Wars of the Roses'

COMPLETELY BASSLESS 800 'This group, Jack on guitar & Meg on drums, broke up in 2011'

'the White Stripes'

BODIES OF WATER 600 'Originating in the Tanggula Mountains, this is known to many Chinese as "long river" ('cause it's 3,900 miles)'

'the Yangtze'

IT'S ALL POLITICS Daily Double 'In the late 1780s, fearing a strong central govt., the anti-these opposed the adoption of the Constitution'

'the anti-federalists'

HERB & SPICE HISTORY 400 'Today we pick this leaf of the laurel tree out of our food, but legend says oracles chewed it to promote visions'

'the bay leaf'

INSTRUMENTAL ROCKERS 400 'Phil Collins, in Genesis'

'the drums'

IT ENDS WITH "U" 400 'This flightless bird is related to the cassowary'

'the emu'

YOU WILL BE TESTED ON THIS 200 'The Snellen chart tests these body parts; the top line is 20/400'

'the eyes'

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 400 'A violin body amplifies the sound escaping from the 2 holes usually called these, as they resemble an italicized letter'

'the f-holes'

NEW TESTAMENT QUOTES 400 '"Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but" this "is weak"'

'the flesh'

RIBBONS 800 'The ribbon snake, which usually has 3 yellow stripes down its back, is a species of this commonest North American snake'

'the garter snake'

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE 800 'Go deep (though not 20,000 leagues) to find Architeuthis dux, this rarely seen cephalopod'

'the giant squid'

SLANG-UAGE 1600 'All aboard this transport toting a topping for turkey--it means an easy, lucrative job'

'the gravy train'

CALIFORNIA 1600 "The California poppy is the state's official flower & this tough critter is the official state animal"

'the grizzly bear'

INSTRUMENTAL ROCKERS 200 'Eric Clapton, aka Slowhand'

'the guitar'

LABOR DAY FOR HERCULES 400 'Hercules used 2 rivers to clean these Augean structures'

'the stables'

EARTHLY QUOTES 2000 '"Everyone wants a piece of land. It's the only sure investment", writes Sam Shepard in his play "Curse of" this group'

'the starving class'

MARSHALL LAW 800 'Gibbons v. Ogden said a federal license trumped a state grant of monopoly in the use of this Robert Fulton invention'

'the steamboat'

AMPHIBIANS 800 'Unlike on most salamanders, this part of a newt is flat'

'the tail'

5-SYLLABLE WORDS 1000 'This type of physics uses mathematical models & abstractions rather than experimentation'

'theoretical'

I BELIEVE WEBSTER'S DEFINES IT AS... 600 '"pron... archaic... a nominative pronoun of the second person singular esp. in biblical... language"'

'thou'

A SCOUT IS... 400 'Frugal, or a car rental company'

'thrifty'

11-LETTER WORDS 400 'In this game, players try to snap small disks into a cup by pressing them on the edge with a larger disk'

'tiddlywinks'

PANTS Daily Double "Tight-fitting pants patterned after those worn by bullfighters aren't usually called matador pants but these"

'toreador pants'

WAITING FOR THE HAIRDRESSER 400 'I might ask for "just a" this, a simple shortening & tidying up around the edges'

'trim'

ENDS IN "SS" 1000 'After you stuff a turkey, you might do this to it, meaning tie up the wings & legs for easier cooking & a nice appearance'

'truss'

A SCOUT IS... 200 "Deserving of confidence; this 11-letter word is the first on the Scout Law's list"

'trustworthy'

TRANSPORTATION 2000 'Each Labor Day weekend, the Hudson River is the site of a race for these vessels that push & pull'

'tugboats'

A LURE 1200 'Rapala lures are made to mimic wounded fish; in 2003 Phillipe Marn used one to land a record 385-lb. yellowfin this'

'tuna'

ABBREV. 1200 'B.I.D. means you take an Rx this many times a day'

'twice'

SWEET WORD OF YOUTH 600 'It can mean "not experienced" or "without salt & pepper"'

'unseasoned'

CAUSED BY... 400 'Anthropogenic, as in some environmental problems'

'us (humans)'

2011 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS 1600 'Early in Round 3 was this Spanish word for cowboy'

'vaquero'

THE "OQ" CORRAL 400 'Someone trying to talk without moving his lips is probably practicing this'

'ventriloquism'

11-LETTER WORDS 2000 "It's the growing of grapes, especially for use in making wine"

'viniculture (viticulture accepted)'

GEOG. DICT. ABBREV. 1000 'Pk. is park; to get an abbreviation for a scenic road, add these 2 letters'

'w & y'

THE LADIES WHO LAUNCH 1200 'Kathryn Sullivan was the first U.S. woman to do this in space, for 3 1/2 hours in 1984'

'walk'

E BEFORE I 1000 '5-letter adjective meaning unusual or eccentric'

'weird'

BUMPER STICKER HUMOR 600 '"Veni, vidi, Visa. I came, I saw, I" did this'

'went shopping (spent money/charged it accepted)'

TALKING ITALIAN 600 'A journalist would uncover that "chi" , "che", "quando", "dove" & "perchxc3xa9" translate to these 5 terms'

'who, what, where, why & when'

WHAT DEGREE ARE YOU GETTING? 200 'Not baddest but this word is the proper superlative degree of "bad"'

'worst'

NUTRITION FROM COOKING LIGHT 200 'You can save 11 grams of fat per tablespoon if you use the 2% or nonfat Greek type of this instead of mayonnaise'

'yogurt'

YOU SAY POTATO 800 'On average a potato contains 3 grams of protein, 23 grams of carbohydrates & this many grams of fat'

'zero'

"C"s THE DAY 600 The second Monday in March is this day & more than 60 countries & dependencies get to hear from the British monarch

Commonwealth Day

THOREAU-ING A 200th BIRTHDAY! 200 In his Harvard class bio, Thoreau wrote, "I first saw the light in" this "quiet village" that's not far from Lexington

Concord

CIVIL WAR LITERATURE 1200 It's the "snaky" title of Bernard Cornwell's novel about a Confederate officer jailed as a Yankee spy

Copperhead

HODGEPODGE 2000 Since her marriage to Prince Charles, Camilla Parker Bowles uses the title Duchess of this place

Cornwall

"C"s THE DAY 800 Marking the ascension to the throne by King Bhumibol, this Thai national holiday is held on may 5

Coronation Day

POP STARS She won the 1984 Grammy for Best New Artist & in 2013 became the first solo woman to win a Tony Award for Best Score

Cyndi Lauper

THE PITTSBURGH ADDRESS 400 In a 1932 Pittsburgh campaign speech, he accused Republicans of "spreading the gospel of fear"

FDR

PRESIDENTS BY WON-LOST RECORD 200 The only one who went 4-0

FDR (Franklin Roosevelt)

THEIR ORIGINAL NAMES 800 Author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

Lewis Carroll

THE STATE GOVERNED 800 Christine Todd Whitman

New Jersey

OTHER GREAT LAKES 200 Great Sacandaga Lake in this state helps regulate the flow of the Hudson

New York

THE STATE GOVERNED 400 George Pataki

New York

THE "N"IMAL KINGDOM 400 Meriwether Lewis' dog Seaman & Nana in "Peter Pan" were both this Canadian breed

Newfys (or Newfoundlands)

TURN ON YOUR HEAVY METAL DEFECTOR 2000 In October 1996 Axl Rose faxed MTV (how '90s is that!) that this guitarist had not been making music with their band since '94

Slash

BALLET UP TO THE BARRE 800 One scene in this fairy tale ballet is called "The Awakening"

Sleeping Beauty

FILMS OF THE '90s 1000 They're the title objects that split Gwyneth Paltrow's life in two

Sliding Doors

LUCKY 7 800 One of the "Seven Sisters" colleges, this Northampton, Mass. school has been empowering women since the 1870s

Smith

"SECURITY" 400 FDR sent it to Congress as the Economic Security Bill; Congressman Frank Buck suggested the name change

Social Security Act

AFRICAN COUNTRY BY AIRPORT 600 Kruger Mpumalanga International

South Africa

BRANDS 600 Campbell Soups owns this brand of pasta for kids & describes it as "spoonable"

SpaghettiOs

19th CENTURY AMERICA 1000 This "stately" act of 1854 repealed the Missouri Compromise's restrictions on slavery

the Kansas-Nebraska Act

"L"ITERATURE 800 This set of "Tales" by James Fenimore Cooper includes "The Deerslayer" & "The Last of the Mohicans"

the Leatherstocking Tales

I.M. PEI 400 The ground-level entrance to this museum is crowned by a steel-&-glass pyramid designed by I.M. Pei

the Louvre

BIGGER THAN A BREADBOX 800 This hotel on the Las Vegas Strip is built in the shape of a giant pyramid

the Luxor

KABOOM! 800 On July 16, 1945 this secret project got big results near Alamogordo, New Mexico

the Manhattan Project

FORE! 400 It's the only one of golf's Grand Slam tournaments that's held at the same course every year

the Masters

ROMAN CIVICS 800 Every 5 years a Roman citizen had to declare his slaves in this tally, lest he become a slave himself

the census

TV TAGLINES 600 The U.S. version of this PBS show was hyped as "Part adventure, part history lesson and part treasure hunt"

Antiques Roadshow

THE GLOBE 800 The globe's largest peninsula is this one found in the Middle East

Arabian Peninsula

YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS 800 In Genesis, this man says, "I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth"

Cain

STUFF ABOUT STATES Daily Double It was the first state to have a chemical element named for it

California

ACTORS & ACTRESSES 200 Here's something about this "There's Something About Mary" star: she went to high school with Snoop Dogg

Cameron Diaz

"OO" RAH 1600 French & English are the official languages of this country on Africa's west coast

Cameroon

"C"s THE DAY 400 Whether besting melanoma or leukemia, you can celebrate the first Sunday in June as "National" this "Survivors Day"

Cancer

WHO'S THE MRS.? 1600 John Krasinski

Emily Blunt

BIBLICAL BEFORE & AFTER 1600 Roman-installed monarch stretching from Liaoning province to Jiayu Pass

Herod the Great Wall of China

TV TAGLINES 800 "Save the cheerleader. Save the world"

Heroes

COMMUNICATION 400 Harry Obst helped 7 presidents communicate with German leaders & wrote the book "White House" this job

Interpreter

TURN ON YOUR HEAVY METAL DEFECTOR 1600 In 1981 singer Paul Di'Anno was out & Bruce Dickinson was in this Brit metal band named for a torture device

Iron Maiden

HER MOVIE 800 She & Spencer Tracy starred in 9 films together, beginning with "Woman of the Year" in 1942

Katharine Hepburn

BUSINESS 1000 This 5-letter company began in 1903 as a wholesale cheese business

Kraft

THEIR ORIGINAL NAMES 1600 Controversial nightclub comedian Leonard Schneider

Lenny Bruce

FASHION 600 Madonna & daughter Lourdes launched a clothing line called this, the name of a 1985 hit by Madonna

Material Girl

IT BORDERS BOTH 600 Wisconsin & Ohio

Michigan

AFRICAN COUNTRY BY AIRPORT 400 Mogadishu International

Somalia

A SPANISH INQUISITION 1000 ¿Quien paga por el muro?

Who pays for the wall?

CAIRO 1000 Cairo was made a capital in 972-973 by al-Mu'izz, one of these Islamic leaders who claim succession from Muhammad

a caliph

COMMUNICATION 1200 On film Ringo Starr played Atouk, this title type of "man", whose language included ool ("food") & haraka ("fire")

a caveman

ROMAN CIVICS 400 Thermae were complexes designed primarily for this activity, & all classes of Romans mixed there

baths

THE QUOTABLE BEN FRANKLIN 1000 From this game "we may learn... foresight... circumspection... caution... and... the habit of not being discouraged"

chess

LOVE CRAFT 800 The do-it-yourself "flowers" imade from these paper breakfast helpers look great, but now I have none to hold my arabica

coffee filters

TRAVEL & TOURISM 400 "For all those Nosferatus", a Berlin hotel offers a room with 2 of these, lids & all

coffins

KINDLE 800 Found between "internal" & "engine", it's rapid oxidation usually coupled with heat

combustion

DOMAIN EXTENSIONS 600 The "com" in .com stands for this, something you see a lot of during the Super Bowl

commercial

FREE SPEECH 200 This adjective can refer to a word of praise or to something you get for free

complimentary

RHYME HOLE 1600 To alleviate someone's grief & raise their spirits

console

IN THAT HEAD 2000 The thalamus relays messages to the cerebral this, the outer layer of gray matter

cortex

VOCABULARY 400 Carl Sagan defined this word as "the opposite of chaos"

cosmos

FASHION 1000 These French-named pants cut to look like a skirt were back on the runways in 2014

culottes

TV REALITY CHECK 800 These 2 coaches on "The Voice" have been there for all 12 seasons of the show

Adam Levine & Blake Shelton

BUSINESS 600 This biotech biggie was founded in 1980 as Applied Molecular Genetics

Amgen

CIVIL WAR LITERATURE 1600 Begun in 1863 & published in 1994, John Ransom's diary is his eloquent account of survival in this notorious prison

Andersonville

THE GLOBE 1200 Canada's Mackenzie River system traverses 2,635 miles from the Omineca mountains to this ocean

Arctic Ocean

THE STATE GOVERNED 1000 Janet Napolitano

Arizona

IT BORDERS BOTH Daily Double Missouri & Louisiana

Arkansas

THE STATE GOVERNED 200 Bill Clinton

Arkansas

StubHub SUBCULTURES 800 Fans can grab tickets to "Toruk--The First Flight", Cirque du Soleil's show inspired by this James Cameron sci-fi epic

Avatar

WHODUNIT? 800 Ran history's biggest Ponzi scheme until 2008

Bernie Madoff

TV REALITY CHECK 1000 "You are evicted" is the elimination catchphrase on this reality TV show

Big Brother

MASTERS OF SOCKS 400 This president & his family had a pet cat named Socks

Bill Clinton

PUNNING POLITICAL TITLES 400 After abandoning conservative politics, David Brock titled a book "Blinded by" this

Blinded by the Right

DINOSAURS Daily Double In 2015 scientists concluded that this old name was valid after all; the Apatosaurus was another beast

Brontosaurus

THE WORKING DEAD 1000 More than 40 years after his untimely death, this movie legend kicked up $9 million over a 12-month span ending in 2014

Bruce Lee

THE OLD WEST 400 A presentation of "Custer's last stand" in this man's wild west shows used some Lakota who fought in the battle

Buffalo Bill

BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES 2000 Brunswick-Luneburg was an earlier name for the Hanovers; Saxe-this & Gotha was what they became

Coburg

"C"s THE DAY 1000 February 2 is this day when Mary went to the Temple in Jerusalem to be purified after birth

Candlemas

THOREAU-ING A 200th BIRTHDAY! 600 In a travel book about this peninsula, Thoreau called it "the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts"

Cape Cod

KINGS & QUEENS 1600 King at 4, Louis XIV was advised by his mother, Anne of Austria, & Jules Mazarin, a minister with this religious title

Cardinal

THINK MUSIC 800 "You probably think this song is about you"

Carly Simon

THE WASHINGTON POST 1600 The White House job called Chief this is a general manager of the building; Angella Reid was the first woman in the post

Chief Usher

AROUND THE WORLD 1000 Though not one of the 10 biggest countries, it stretches nearly 2,700 miles from north to south

Chile

"C"s THE DAY 200 This holiday is known as "natale" in Italian & "noel" in French

Christmas

& WHERE TO FIND "EM" 200 This South Carolina city is home to the 2017 NCAA national football champions

Clemson

NEWSPAPERS 2000 Follow baseball's Indians in this paper with the highest circulation of any Ohio newspaper

Cleveland Plain Dealer

STABLE CHARACTERS 1000 Trainer Wilhelm von Osten performed with this "clever" horse that seemed to display human intelligence

Clever Hans

THINK MUSIC 1600 "I'm thinking out loud, maybe we found love right where we are"

Ed Sheeran

AFRICAN COUNTRY BY AIRPORT 200 Aswan Airport

Egypt

HISTORY SINCE 1950 400 This first African-American Attorney General said he was quitting in 2014 but was still on the job in 2015

Eric Holder

AFRICAN COUNTRIES 1200 There was once a place called Italian East Africa; now most of it is this

Ethiopia

AFRICAN COUNTRY BY AIRPORT 800 Indaselassie Airport

Ethiopia

SAINTS BE PRAISED 1200 She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "On the Waterfront", her very first feature film

Eva Marie Saint

"E"-READERS 800 Longfellow's "Tale of Acadie", it begins, "This is the forest primeval"

Evangeline

"READY" WHEN YOU ARE 400 This company produces handheld lights & several types of batteries, including rechargeables

Eveready

RULE OF LAW 400 "Hearsay bad!" is one of the Federal Rules of this

Evidence

MADAM SECRETARY 400 The first madam in the Cabinet, Frances Perkins was named Secretary of Labor in 1933 by this president

FDR

TV SPIN-OFFS 1600 Daytime's "Port Charles"

General Hospital

20th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES He was awarded a DFC in WWII for a combat mission as pilot of the B-24 bomber he named the "Dakota Queen"

George McGovern

PRESIDENTS BY WON-LOST RECORD 1000 One of the 2 who went 0-1

Gerald Ford (or Millard Fillmore)

THE LIVES OF AUTHORS 2000 Written while she lived in France, "Tender Buttons" is a 1914 collection of poems by this American author & art patron

Gertrude Stein

TV TAGLINES 1000 Jennifer Love Hewitt was the "she" in the slogan "The dead are talking... and she is listening"

Ghost Whisperer

BALLET UP TO THE BARRE 2000 It's been said that "Coppelia" is ballet's great comedy & this 1841 tale of a doomed maiden, its great tragedy

Giselle

VETERANS DAY FILM FESTIVAL 1600 Denzel Washington is part of an all-black volunteer company in this Civil War film

Glory

MOVIE TITLES IN OTHER COUNTRIES 400 Argentina renders this musical as "Vaseline"

Grease

OTHER GREAT LAKES Daily Double The fourth-largest lake in North America, it was named for the large mammals that inhabited its shores

Great Bear Lake

HER MOVIE 1600 Her favorite film role was 1936's "Camille"; she would only make 3 movies after that

Greta Garbo

BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES 1600 This house that collapsed in 9 days bore the name of an ill-fated lady

Grey

ZERO 400 In 2011 Mayor Bloomberg said though "we will never forget the devastation of the area", it's time to stop calling it this

Ground Zero

YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS 400 The population of this country, the western third of Hispaniola, is almost entirely descended from African slaves

Haiti

H.P. 400 This small measure was Pa's nickname for Laura on "Little House on the Prairie"

Half-Pint

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS 400 The title character in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" moves from the Deep South to this New York City district

Harlem

THE HAROLD 400 The sequel in which this duo "Escape from Guantanamo Bay" answered the question "What would NPH do?"

Harold & Kumar

THE HAROLD 2000 He composed many classic songs including "Stormy Weather" & "Over The Rainbow"

Harold Arlen

THE HAROLD 800 He teamed with Bill Murray in "Stripes", "Ghostbusters" & "Groundhog Day"

Harold Ramis

NOOK 1200 From 1871 to 1891 Mark Twain lived in the Nook Farm region of this Connecticut city

Hartford

WEATHER 800 This state's Kona storms are characterized by strong southerly or southwesterly winds & heavy rains

Hawaii

PRESIDENTS BY WON-LOST RECORD 800 1-0, in a split decision over Samuel Tilden

Hayes

"L"ITERATURE 2000 Ever the optimist, Hobbes wrote in this work: "The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"

Leviathan

THE FILMS OF MERYL STREEP 200 Meryl mistakenly left the Oscar she had just won for this 1979 film co-starring Dustin Hoffman in the ladies' room

Kramer vs. Kramer

"HIGH" PAGE DRIFTERS 1200 John Cusack starred in the film version of this record-obsessed Nick Hornby book

High Fidelity

"HIGH" PAGE DRIFTERS 400 Michael Eric Dyson's book on Hurricane Katrina is titled "Come Hell or" this

High Water

"HIGH" PAGE DRIFTERS 800 Stephen Covey's self-help book "The 7 Habits of" these "People" was on the best-sellers list for over 270 weeks

Highly Effective People

RELIGIOUS TITLES 400 Titles in this religion include swami, maharishi & guru

Hinduism

"I.M." 800 This Filipina power broker reportedly said "Win or lose, we go shopping after the election"

Imelda Marcos

DINOSAURS 1200 The name of this "Jurassic World" lab creation means "untamable king"

Indominus rex

ATHLETES IN THE HEADLINES 1000 This young Cubs third baseman capped off a 2016 MVP season with 2 World Series home runs

Kris Bryant

WHO'S THE MRS.? 2000 Dax Shepard

Kristen Bell

THE HAROLD 1200 Post-"Oz", Harold Perrineau searched high & low for his kidnapped son Walt on this ABC drama

LOST

BOND, JAMES BOND 400 Later to play an Old West doctor, she was the Bond girl Solitaire in "Live and Let Die"

Jane Seymour

WORLD UNIVERSITIES 1200 India has universities named for Indira Gandhi & this man, her father

Jawaharlal Nehru

FILMS WITH SHORT TITLES 400 "Don't go in the water" was one of several taglines used for this 1975 film

Jaws

LIT BLITZ 1600 In 1895 this author of Polish descent took us to the exotic port of Sambir with his first novel, "Almayer's Folly"

Joseph Conrad

BOOKS' SUBTITLES 2000 This one-word title: "Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict" by William S. Burroughs

Junkie

ATHLETES IN THE HEADLINES 200 49ers coach Chip Kelly said this QB's decision not to stand for the national anthem was "his right as a citizen"

Kaepernick

GOOD WORKOUT SONGS 1000 This country singer's "Days Go By" & "Who Wouldn't Wanna be Me?"

Keith Urban

HER MOVIE 1200 Her film roles have included Vicki Vale in "Batman" & Vicki Anderson in "The Marrying Man"

Kim Basinger

A PODCAST OF CHARACTERS 200 In 2015 "Wait Wait ...Don't Tell Me!" angered some fans when this reality TV star was on to promote her book of "Piktures"

Kim Kardashian

CONTEMPORARIES On an 1851 visit to Europe, Mathew Brady had hoped to meet this man who inspired him, but he died just as Brady set sail

Louis Daguerre

THOREAU-ING A 200th BIRTHDAY! 400 This "Little Woman" memorialized her former school teacher with a poem called "Thoreau's Flute"

Louisa May Alcott

CIVIL WAR LITERATURE 2000 A Union officer is killed but not in warfare in "Murder at" this Virginia town, name of the war's first major battle

Manassas

LITERARY HOMES 400 "Rebecca" begins, "Last night I dreamt I went to" this home "again"

Manderley

OLIVIA 2000 Olivia Williams is stuck in 1940s New Mexico as a physicist's wife on this WGN series without "Project" in its title

Manhattan

GARDEN PARTY 400 A symbol of friendship between the U.S. & Canada, the International Peace Garden is on the border of N.D. & this province

Manitoba

HISTORY SINCE 1950 800 In China his Great Leap Forward program took a great leap back, contributing to a famine & millions of deaths

Mao

THE WORKING DEAD 200 Surprisingly busy since her 1962 death, she had a good financial report in 2014: $17 million

Marilyn Monroe

AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES 800 The town of Hadleyburg

Mark Twain

PALMISTRY 600 This 19th century skeptical humorist said a celebrity palmist "exposed my character... with humiliating accuracy"

Mark Twain

WHO'S WHO IN THE BIBLE 1200 A 1640 painting is entitled "The Repentant" this once-bad woman who became devoted to Christ

Mary Magdalene

TV SPIN-OFFS 800 "Lou Grant"

Mary Tyler Moore

WORLD UNIVERSITIES Daily Double From 2009 to 2014 4 alums of this Montreal school won Nobel Prizes

McGill

& WHERE TO FIND "EM" 600 This city lies on the Chickasaw Bluffs near where Tennessee, Arkansas & Mississippi meet

Memphis

THE WORKING DEAD 400 In a 12-month span he released his posthumous album "Xscape" & made $140 million

Michael Jackson

ART & ARTISTS 800 His home & gardens in Giverny have been open to the public since 1980

Monet

IT BORDERS CHINA 200 Its national university was founded in Ulaanbaatar in 1942

Mongolia

GEOG. DICT. ABBREV. 2000 NHS, as in Golden Spike NHS

National Historic Site

IT BORDERS BOTH 800 Kansas & South Dakota

Nebraska

STATUES 1600 A statue of this admiral in Barbados predates the one in London's Trafalgar Square

Nelson

IT BORDERS BOTH 400 California & Utah

Nevada

STUFF ABOUT STATES 1000 The words "Battle Born" appear on the flag of this state that entered the Union during the Civil War

Nevada

TV TAGLINES 200 This Zooey Deschanel sitcom is billed as "Simply adorkable"

New Girl

IT BORDERS BOTH 200 Maine & Vermont: this state

New Hampshire

HISTORY: HIRED & FIRED 1200 Yeah, you could always charm Elizabeth I, but disobeying James I & attacking the Spanish in 1618? Bad move. You're fired

Sir Walter Raleigh

YOU MAD, BRO? 800 In 2009 the Mirror reported the Gallagher brothers of this "Wonderwall" band "only communicate by web insults"

Oasis

PRESIDENTS' MIDDLE NAMES 200 Hussein

Obama

FANTASTIC BEASTS 800 The ravens Hugin & Munin gave this Norse top guy the scoop on far-flung developments

Odin

THE STATE GOVERNED 600 William McKinley

Ohio

ORGANIZATIONS 1200 This organization traces its roots to Margaret Sanger's birth control movement

Planned Parenthood

TRAVEL & TOURISM 800 Exhibits at Pilgrim Hall in this Mass. city include William Bradford's wine cup & a cooking pot belonging to Myles Standish

Plymouth

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS 2000 Each of the paper was signed with this Roman name, perhaps derived from a word meaning "people

Publius

ACTORS & ACTRESSES 600 He & Stephen Merchant created the British TV show "The Office"

Ricky Gervais

F-STOP 600 A role in "Rocky Horror", or low-class folks

Riff Raff

BOOKS' SUBTITLES 1200 "Endurance": this Antarctic explorer's "Incredible Voyage"

Sir Ernest Shackleton

EXPERIMENTS 1600 Testing thermal coatings was among the 82 experiments on this fittingly named 1973-74 U.S. spacecraft

Skylab

THEIR ORIGINAL NAMES 2000 American choreographer & ballet company founder Abdullah Jaffa Bey Khan

Robert Joffrey

LITERARY HOMES 800 This employer of Jane Eyre owns Thornfield Hall

Rochester

LIT BLITZ 1200 The murder & guilt of "Crime and Punishment" play out in this former capital city

Saint Petersburg

SAINTS BE PRAISED 2000 December 26 is the feast day of this first Christian martyr

Saint Stephen

THE EAGLES 1000 The eagle of this 12th century sultan adorns the coats of arms of Egypt & Iraq

Sallah ad-Din (Saladin)

NEO GEO 800 This Pacific island nation dropped the "Western" from its name & it's now just "the Independent State of" it

Samoa

THE U.S. MARINE CORPS 1600 Marine recruits receive basic training in one of 2 places: Parris Island, S.C. or this Southern California city

San Diego

HOTEL CALIFORNIA 200 The nearly 800-room Palace Hotel in this city was one of the largest in the world when it was destroyed by a fire in 1906

San Francisco

THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY IN POP CULTURE 800 "I lost my choo!" she said while running for the Staten Island Ferry on an episode of "Sex and the City"

Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie Bradshaw)

VETERANS DAY FILM FESTIVAL 400 In this film Tom Hanks as Captain Miller tells his men, "Keep the sand out of your weapons... I'll see you on the beach"

Saving Private Ryan

AFRICAN COUNTRIES 1600 In 1462 an explorer gave this country its name, possibly because a nearby mountain resembled a lion

Sierra Leone

THE FILMS OF MERYL STREEP 1000 This film stars streep as a technician at the Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant in Oklahoma

Silkwood

STABLE CHARACTERS 600 Naturally, a pure white horse with this name was cast as Armie Hammer's steed in the 2013 film "The Lone Ranger"

Silver

THE FILMS OF MERYL STREEP 600 Meryl donated her entire salary from playing Margaret Thatcher in this film to the National Women's History Museum

The Iron Lady

STATUES 2000 Denmark's most photographed statue, it was modeled after the sculptor's wife Eline Eriksen--sans tail, of course

The Little Mermaid

"L"ITERATURE 1600 F. Scott Fitzgerald died with this fifth novel unfinished; he may have wanted the title to begin "The Love of..."

The Love of the Last Tycoon

SPINNING A WEBSITE 600 At this satiric news site: "Incoming class of Subway trainees spends week practicing on sandwich cadavers"

The Onion

BOND, JAMES BOND 800 This movie's theme song contains the lyrics "Nobody does it better, makes me feel sad for the rest"

The Spy Who Loved Me

A FISH IS STILL A FISH 600 You might say giddyap! to this long-snouted fish (yes, it is a fish) that sucks food into its cylindrical mouth

a seahorse

ACTORS & ACTRESSES 400 She's starred in movies like "Flirting with Disaster", "Spanglish" & "Fun with Dick and Jane"

Téa Leoni

"SECURITY" 200 It consists of 15 members, 5 permanent & 10 elected by the General Assembly

U. N. Security Council

LITERARY HOMES 2000 In a Henry James novel, Catherine Sloper's fictional home is on this real Manhattan square

Washington Square

NATURE STUDY 800 This creature with an equine name moves its dorsal fin back & forth 35 times a second for propulsion

a seahorse

INDOOR & OUTDOOR CATS 200 After mating, the male of this big cat doesn't stay long with the female before he leaves for good, perhaps at 70 mph

a cheetah

WEATHER Daily Double On the Beaufort scale, this 4-letter wind is stronger than a breeze but not as violent as a storm

a gale

"OO" RAH 800 A pipe of near eastern origin with a flexible intake tube

a hookah

KINDLE 2000 Rhyming term for a section of forest that keeps catching fire

a hot spot

PAY Daily Double 2-word term for any large sum; in 1360 it was literally 3 million gold crowns for John II

a king's ransom

YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS 200 New Zealanders know this fruit is native to China & has green flesh spattered with tiny, edible black seeds

a kiwi

IN THE DICTIONARY 2000 This one-ounce gold coin was named for an early South African president

a krugerrand

BRANDS 800 The Gatorade logo is a G with an orange one of these symbols in the center

a lightning bolt

WEATHER 400 One of these can travel at a third the speed of light & heat the air in its path to more than 50,000 degrees

a lightning bolt

INDOOR & OUTDOOR CATS Daily Double As of 2013 there were said to be about 300 left of the Iberian this, which would also like to buy a vowel, Pat

a lynx

BIGGER THAN A BREADBOX 1000 This sporting good measures 9 feet long, is 2 1/2 feet above the ground & is divided in half by a net

a ping-pong table

MASTERS OF SOCKS 1000 Tabi & flip-flop socks have this unique feature

a separated big toe (a big toe accepted)

YOU KIDS TODAY! 200 I think you like ink: 3 in 10 Americans have one of these today, up from 2 in 10 less than 5 years ago

a tattoo

SUPERIOR 600 During the 17th c. this scientific instrument was improved by making it reflecting, starting with Zucchi's circa 1616

a telescope

BALLET UP TO THE BARRE 400 In the romantic style, this skirt falls to mid-calf; in the classical style, the entire leg is showing

a tutu

GIVE ME 5 "CC"s 200 Hurry up & name this synonym for "quicken"

accelerate

HOW ARE "THINGS"? 1200 In the King James version of Matthew 19, Jesus tells his disciples, "With God..." these 4 words

all things are possible

FLAG COLORS They're the 3 colors of New York City's flag & of the Knicks & Mets teams; 2 are on the Dutch flag & 1 used to be

blue, white, and orange

AN ORANGE FOR TEACHER 800 Milk, water, sugar, vanilla, ice cubes & of course, frozen O.J. are in food.com's recipe for this other "O.J."

an Orange Julius

1 VOWEL, 3 TIMES 800 Part of a whole, say, in a periodic table

an element

5, 5 Daily Double Milan's La Scala is this type of place

an opera house

NOOK 2000 Perfect for a nook is this stand, a series of shelves for small objects whose name is from the French for "shelf"

an étagère

LEGAL MATTERS 800 A decision can be reconsidered by "a court of" this; in the U.S., the Supreme Court is the final one

appeals

QUITE A VOCABULARY 800 The Latin arca, "chest", gives us this word meaning secret or mysterious

arcane

THE DESOLATION OF SMOG 800 Exposure to smog can worsen bronchitis, emphysema & this breathing disorder that afflicts 7-10% of children

asthma

GIVE ME 5 "CC"s 600 This ball-rolling game is a Special Olympics event

bocce

4 YOUR CONSIDERATION 800 For UFO fans, a close encounter of the 3rd kind is meeting aliens; this is one of the 4th kind

being abducted by aliens

CAIRO 800 The Bazaar shop of Mahmoud Abd al Ghaffar is devoted to costumes for this sensual art dating back centuries

belly dancing

HUMAN BEHAVIOR 600 About half of college students who consume alcohol do this, defined as having 5 or more on the same occasion

binge drinking

BIOLOGY 1600 It's the 10-letter term for the principle that living organisms are produced only by other living organisms

biogenesis

HUMAN BEHAVIOR 800 "Dark" verb meaning to exclude someone socially, like from membership in a club

blackball

KABOOM! 400 The 4 varieties of this explosive are straight, ammonia, straight gelatin & ammonia gelatin

dynamite

RELIGIOUS TITLES Daily Double In the 16th century, Suleiman constructed a semahane, or whirling hall, for these people

dervishes

RATING SYSTEMS 1600 AAA rates hotels with these items--5 of them signifies ultimate luxury

diamonds

QUITE A VOCABULARY 2000 Business prof Clayton Christensen put it before "technology" as a buzzword for an innovation that shakes things up

disruptive

THE "DIS"PATCH 800 On its website, Columbia University offers doctoral students tips on completing this paper "without tears"

dissertation

GIVE ME 5 "CC"s 800 Odd or irregular

eccentric

WORLD UNIVERSITIES 2000 Mick Jagger may have learned to count his money when he attended the London School of this & Political Science

economics

DOMAIN EXTENSIONS 200 The website vanderbilt.this has info to help you get a degree

edu

HUMAN BEHAVIOR 1000 Letitia Baldrige, an expert on this, called it "A set of behavior rules... which will guide you safely through life"

etiquette

PUNNING POLITICAL TITLES 600 A book praising conservative donors as heroes calls them "funding" these

fathers

THE QUOTABLE BEN FRANKLIN 800 These "and visitors stink in three days"

fish

TRANSLATE THE FRENCH 400 For dinner it's poisson (note the double "S")

fish

PAY 400 For its first 70 years, you could buy a Coca-cola for this princely sum

five cents

YOU KIDS TODAY! 1000 Percentages of 2012 graduates carrying loans were 66 for public colleges & 88 for this type of private college

for-profit colleges

THE DESOLATION OF SMOG 1600 The EPA has a smog rating of tailpipe emission chemicals like carbon monoxide & HCHO, this specimen-preserving fluid

formaldehyde

WEATHER 1200 In 1919 Norwegian meteorologist Jacob Bjerknes announced the discovery of these zones where air masses meet

fronts

THE SUN 800 Each second, the sun coverts 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium via this process

fusion

AFTER GLOW 200 We're sticking with the fact that it's obtained by boiling hooves

glue

AFTER GLOW 800 Onomatopoeia for imbibing

glug

AFTER GLOW 400 Morose

glum

AFTER GLOW 600 A massive surplus

glut

AFTER GLOW 1000 Adjective meaning pertaining to the buttocks

gluteal

ROMAN CIVICS 1200 If fleeing your home, you'd grab the images of the Penates, or household these, from their shrines

gods

ETYMOLOGY 1200 In 1847 Thomas Savage gave this type of ape a name that referred to a legendary African tribe of hairy women

gorilla

TRANSLATE THE FRENCH 600 Don't let le gazon grow under your feet

grass

FREE SPEECH 1000 Free things are said to be given this way, from Latin for "grace"

gratis

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 400 In the mid-20th C. the pedal steel one largely replaced the lap steel one as a typical country music sound

guitar

"H. H." 400 This period of day at the bar has reduced prices on booze

happy hour

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 1600 Unlike a piano, this 17th & 18th c. instrument creates sound by plucking strings rather than striking them

harpsichord

H.P. 1000 This phrase is Greek for "the many"

hoi polloi

ETYMOLOGY Daily Double Something that produces a rainbow of colors is said to be this adjective, after the Greek word for rainbow

iridescent

LEGAL MATTERS 1200 Generally inadmissible, this type of evidence that's not directly experienced is also called secondhand evidence

hearsay

"H. H." 200 2-word interjection used by sailors when pulling a rope

heave-ho

QUITE A VOCABULARY 1600 It can mean a break from production for a TV show or a space within a body part

hiatus

"HIGH" PAGE DRIFTERS 1600 Mage/musician Kvothe rocks in Patrick Rothfuss' "Kingkiller Chronicle", part of this subgenre

high fantasy

TRANSLATE THE FRENCH 200 Chaud, as in chocolat chaud

hot

KINDLE 400 This word meaning "to kindle" starts with the same first 3 letters as a basic type of rock

ignite

1 VOWEL, 3 TIMES 1200 It's very close to illegal, in that it also means "illegal"

illicit

KABOOM! Daily Double The National Demolition Assoc. says this process of collapsing a building "is the most visible face" of the industry

implosion

"I.M." 200 This section of the Oscars telecast highlights those who passed on in the previous year

in memoriam

CONCERT HALLS 200 In Berlin's Philharmonie you might sit behind the orchestra; it's built "in-the-" this, also a term used of theaters

in the round

NOOK 1600 You'll find "nook" in this word from the Scottish for a cozy corner by the hearth

inglenook

"I.M." 600 If a doctor specializes in "IM", this is his field

internal medicine

PAY 200 In classic Monopoly, you can pay 50 bucks to escape this

jail

PAY 800 A downpayment is usually required when purchasing something using this rhyming "plan"

layaway plan

RULE OF LAW 1200 The rule of lenity tells courts to interpret an ambiguous law this way in sentencing

leniently

BIOLOGY 400 Insert 2 letters into "melanin" to get this hormone that helps make you sleepy

melatonin

EERIE 1000 In Victorian times loved ones were often immortalized in death photos called these, Latin for "remember that you must die"

memento mori

ETYMOLOGY 1600 The Latin for "things to be remembered" gives us this non-S plural word for souvenirs

memorabilia

FREE SPEECH 800 Combine 2 rhyming words to get this term for a freebie computer program

shareware

DOMAIN EXTENSIONS 400 Soldier, remember to type these 3 letters after www.army.

mil

VOCABULARY 200 In Britain this word describes the younger of 2 brothers; in college it's a mini-major

minor

GIVE ME 5 "CC"s 400 A type of snake, or that old soft shoe

moccasin

IN THAT HEAD 400 The adult mouth has 12 of these large, flat teeth to grind food

molar

NUTRITION 2000 Avocados are high in fat, but it's mostly this 15-letter kind that may lower your cholesterol

monounsaturated

"OO" RAH 2000 Imperative & subjunctive are 2 examples of this property of verbs

mood

"I.M." 1000 .im is the internet domain for the British offshore dependency

the Isle of Man

PUNNING POLITICAL TITLES 800 A P.J. O'Rourke anthology is "thrown under the" this 7-letter "transport"

omnibus

FREE SPEECH 600 This 3-word phrase describes roof singles or free stuff at a restaurant

on the house

5-SYLLABLE WORDS 400 Proverbially it "seldom knocks twice"

opportunity

IN THAT HEAD 1600 The eyes are enclosed in eye sockets, also known as these, like the paths of satellites

orbits

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 2000 Zamfir could tell you that the syrinx is another name for this musical instrument beloved by shepherds

pan flute (pan pipe)

ROMAN CIVICS 1600 Passage of the 445 B.C. law known as the Lex Canuleia allowed plebeians to marry this other "P" class of Romans

patricians

"PAY" DAY 600 This 1-word 1959 scandal enveloped many prominent DJs

payola

TRANSLATE THE FRENCH 800 A reporter should carry un stylo

pen

THE SOVIET UNION 600 In the 1980s Mikhail Gorbachev instituted this economic policy of "restructuring", but it couldn't save the USSR

perestroika

LETTER WORDS 200 If you think of something to add after you've finished a letter, put it in one of these, abbreviated P.S.

postscript

NUTRITION 1600 Fermented dairy products like yogurt & kefir are sources of these good bacteria that line your gut

probiotics

IN THE DICTIONARY 1200 It's a 7-letter word meaning a child with extraordinary ability

prodigy

PHYSICS TEST 800 I'll find it strangely charming if you can identify these particles with a word taken from "Finnegans Wake"

quark

COMMUNICATION Daily Double From March to May of 1932, the Lindbergh family received 13 of these criminal communications

ransom notes

LETTER WORDS 800 With certified mail & this 10-letter type, the postal service provides proof of mailing

registered

WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS 800 A payment in New Jersey's capital

rent (in Trenton)

A PODCAST OF CHARACTERS 800 Malcolm Gladwell "Re"examines an accepted view in the podcast called this type of "History"

revisionist

EXPERIMENTS 2000 Christiaan Eijkman fed the unpolished type of this grain to chickens & prisoners, proving it helped to stave off beriberi

rice

EXPERIMENTS 800 Gravitational waves from 2 black holes were found to be little waves describes as these in space-time, validating Einstein

ripples

IN THE DICTIONARY 800 Specific term for the pine sap material used on violin bows to increase friction

rosin

LETTER WORDS 600 This word for the greeting that begins a letter comes from Latin for "health"

salutation

A FRENCH PREPOSITION 400 Meaning "without", this word is pronounced with an "S" sound at the end in the U.S., but not in France

sans

KINDLE 1200 Victory at all costs is sometimes referred to as a this "earth" policy

scorched

F-STOP 200 The nape of the neck

scruff

"SECURITY" 600 Linus van Pelt's main accessory

security blanket

HUMAN BEHAVIOR 400 Enforced separation of races; in 1954 Earl Warren said it's "a denial of... equal protection"

segregation

5, 5 800 This dish gets its name from the Turkish for "skewer" & "roast meat"

shish kebab

SUPERIOR 1000 In a slogan at the start of the Iraq War in 2003, U.S. air superiority was to instill these paired feelings in Iraqis

shock & awe

VOCABULARY 1000 Describing a sharp tone, this 6-letter adjective is also a verb meaning "to scream"

shrill

COMMUNICATION 2000 You won't be able to make out the message if there's too low an S/N ratio, S/N standing for this

signal-to-noise

WEATHER 2000 Developed in the 1940s, cloud seeding produces rain by saturating clouds with dry ice & this compound, AgI

silver iodide

LETTER WORDS 400 Letter writers must really mean what they say, as they often sign off pairing this 9-letter adverb with "yours"

sincerely

THE EAGLES 800 Eagle River, Wisc. is home to the annual world championships of these vehicles once called motor toboggans

snowmobiles

YOU KIDS TODAY! 800 Oldsters don't love this political philosophy defined by Bernie Sanders in a Nov. 19, 2015 speech; kids like it more

socialism

5, 5 400 This is unrestricted on much of the German Autobahn

speed limit

5-SYLLABLE WORDS 2000 As punishment for the Boston Tea Party in 1773, Britain passed these Acts

the Intolerable Acts

NFL TEAM NAMES 600 The Cleveland team's name was decided by a 1945 fan contest; the winning submission honored this first coach

the Browns

NFL TEAM NAMES 1000 This team that entered the AFL in 1960 gets its name from a frontiersman

the Buffalo Bills

NFL TEAM NAMES 400 They weren't named for a beautiful bird but for used reddish jerseys purchased from a college

the Cardinals

WORLD CAPITALS Ruled at times by Persians, Mongols & Russians, Baku is the only capital that borders this body of water

the Caspian Sea

MADAM SECRETARY 1600 Donna Shalala, HHS secretary from 1993 to 2001, heads up this charitable foundation much in the news in 2016

the Clinton Foundation

THE END OF THE SOVIET UNION 1600 This entity, the C.I.S., keeps some of the old Soviet countries together in an economic & cultural confederation

the Commonwealth of Independent States

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS 400 The Federalist Papers were published in 1787 & 1788 to persuade New Yorkers to ratify this

the Constitution

HISTORIC DOCUMENTS William Seward objected to its timing, saying "it may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government"

the Emancipation Proclamation

AMERICANA A 1931 story in the New Yorker said this "weighs 600,000,000 pounds (&)... contains 37,000,000 cubic feet"

the Empire State Building

I.M. PEI 1200 Pei designed a pentagonal air traffic control tower for this government agency

the FAA (Federal Aviation Agency)

"HIGH" PAGE DRIFTERS 2000 In 2015 Ridley Scott helped bring to TV the Philip K. Dick novel called "The Man in" this structure

the High Castle

THE FEDERALIST PAPERS 800 Federalist 56 argued that one member for every 30,000 people in a state would work for this body

the House of Representatives

BIG & SMALL SCREEN DOCTORS 200 Advised to make a change in his life, this Mark Ruffalo character says, "That's my secret, Captain. I'm always angry"

the Hulk or Bruce Banner

THE LIVES OF AUTHORS 400 In 1359 Geoffrey Chaucer was captured in France as a soldier in this war; luckily he wasn't held for its whole duration

the Hundred Years' War

CONCERT HALLS 600 Manchester's Bridgewater Hall is so sonically tight that workmen in it didn't hear a 2-ton bomb this org. set off 1/2 mile away

the IRA (the Irish Republican Army)

StubHub SUBCULTURES 1600 Sal, Murr, Joe & Q, aka these guys, do crazy pranks & have some crazier fans; see them on their national tour

the Impractical Jokers

ORGANIZATIONS 2000 Barry Scheck co-founded this "Project" that uses DNA testing to exonerate the wrongfully convicted

the Innocence Project

StubHub SUBCULTURES 2000 If you're just a juggalo, don't despair; StubHub has you covered for this band's 2017 Florida dates

the Insane Clown Posse

MADAM SECRETARY Daily Double Sally Jewell, 2009 winner of the Audubon Society's Rachel Carson Award, was named secretary of this in 2013

the Interior

HOW ARE "THINGS"? 800 I.O.T. stands for this, when all your devices are connected

the Internet of Things

THE END OF THE SOVIET UNION 800 The chief policy-making body of the Communist Party, it was dissolved with the USSR

the Politburo

BIBLICAL BEFORE & AFTER 400 Wayward offspring who in a parable marries your daughter

the Prodigal Son-in-law

TOLERANCE 400 "Let there be no compulsion in religion", says this book's second surah

the Quran

STUDY HALL 800 Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone helped to establish this in Cleveland in 1983

the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

U.S. MOUNTAINS 400 Utah's Uinta range, a part of this mountain system, is the only major range in the contiguous U.S. running east-west

the Rockies

BOOKS' SUBTITLES 1600 These "Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra"

the Romanovs

OTHER WONDER WOMEN 800 This colorful sorceress sided with the Captain in "Captain America: Civil War"

the Scarlet Witch

LUCKY 7 1000 This conflict changed little in Europe but saw Great Britain gain the bulk of New France

the Seven Years' War

U.S. MOUNTAINS 800 Mount Whitney is the tallest & most frequently climbed mountain in this range

the Sierra Nevada

THE WASHINGTON POST 2000 Not the Attorney General but this person supervises Uncle Sam's cases before the Supreme Court; Ted Olson once held the post

the Solicitor General

STRAIT TALK 2000 Iran & Oman share territorial rights over the waters of this strategic strait

the Strait of Hormuz

OTHER GREAT LAKES 800 Great Bitter Lake is a marshy lake in Egypt that forms part of this manmade waterway

the Suez Canal

GARDEN PARTY 800 Though the palace was destroyed in 1871, this Parisian garden remains a beloved historical landmark

the Tuileries

& WHERE TO FIND "EM" 1000 This country has Saudi Arabia on its southwest border & Oman on its southeast border

the United Arab Emirates

TRAVEL & TOURISM 2000 "Undressed: A Brief history of Underwear" was a 2016 exhibit at this London museum known as the V&A

the Victoria and Albert

NFL TEAM NAMES 800 General Manager Bert Rose decided on this team name because of the Scandinavian heritage of those living in the area

the Vikings

ATHLETES IN THE HEADLINES 600 In 2016 Tamara James, formerly of this league's Washington Mystics, was elected mayor of Dania Beach, Fla.

the WNBA

ORGANIZATIONS 1600 Peter Scott created the panda logo used by this group that protects endangered species

the WWF (the World Wildlife Fund)

AMERICAN ARTISTS 2000 "Early Sunday Morning" by Edward Hopper is just 1 masterpiece in this NYC museum dedicated to American art

the Whitney

IN THE DICTIONARY Daily Double Its definition as a burden is derived from a Coleridge poem

the albatross

BIBLICAL BEFORE & AFTER 2000 Amazing shrub seen by Moses that says the U.S. has the right to preemptive action to stop terror

the burning Bush Doctrine

ZERO 200 It circles the Earth at zero degrees latitude

the equator

ROMAN CIVICS 2000 Now a term more familiar from the Olympics, this class of citizens got its name from its former cavalry role

the equestrian order

TAKE IT "EZ" 200 It was adopted as the official headgear of the Shriners back in 1872

the fez

PHYSICS TEST 400 On the once widely used Reaumur scale, 0 degrees & 80 degrees represented these 2 points

the freezing & boiling points of water

"H. H." 800 This product that debuted in the U.S. in 1958 was inspired by a piece of Australian physical education equipment

the hula-hoop

"I.M." 400 Butterfly, back, breast, then freestyle

the individual medley

TOLERANCE 600 Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance says the tolerant should claim the right not to tolerate these people

the intolerant

FANTASTIC BEASTS 600 Delphyne was a female dragon whose job it was to guard this person at Delphi

the oracle

RELIGIOUS TITLES 2000 The city of Shigatse is the traditional seat of this lama who's not quite dalai

the panchen lama

"PAY" DAY 800 The explosive charge carried by a missile

the payload

AN ORANGE FOR TEACHER 400 The outside of an orange is the peel; this 4-letter term also starting with "P" is the white substance between the peel & flesh

the pith

RELIGIOUS TITLES 1200 In Catholicism this bishop with a title that also applies to apes has authority over other bishops in his province

the primate

SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER 1600 It's the list of all the available players you can use in your team's lineup

the roster

THE BIBLE 400 When confronted by God for misbehavior in Genesis 3, Adam blames Eve & Eve blames this creature

the serpent

BIOLOGY 1200 Your floating ribs are so named because their anterior ends don't attach to this bone

the sternum (or breastbone)

HOW "SWEET" IT IS 400 It's the place on a racquet or paddle where it's most effective to ht a ball

the sweet spot

BIBLICAL BEFORE & AFTER 1200 Visitors to Jesus' birthplace who sang "Who Can It Be Now?"

the three wise Men at Work

HOW ARE "THINGS"? 2000 Yeats used this 3-word phrase before "the center cannot hold"; Chinua Achebe used it as a title

things fall apart

HOW ARE "THINGS"? 1600 Deliver us "from ghoulies & ghosties & long-leggedy beasties, &" these 7-word noisy creepies

things that go bump in the night

RATING SYSTEMS 800 The first person to have 2 restaurants earn this top Michelin rating was Eugenie Brazier

three stars

"PAY" DAY 400 To perform an ovario-hysterectomy on a dog

to spay

TAKE IT "EZ" 400 Richie, Chela, Tito & Armando, the Flying Gaonas, were one of the most prominent of these circus acts

trapeze

RHYME HOLE Daily Double It's from the Old Norse for "demon"

troll

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 1200 Bandleader Glenn Miller was also a virtuoso on this brass instrument

trombone

NATURE STUDY 400 The Old Farmer's Almanac says this bulb flower may "vary in shape from...cups, bowls & goblets to more complex forms"

tulip

VOCABULARY 600 This word means "hidden" when it goes before "motives"; it can also mean "happening later"

ulterior

"V"OCABULARY 200 This 20th c. word describes someone who avoids animal products in clothes & household items, not just food

vegan

5-SYLLABLE WORDS Daily Double This dinosaur whose name means "swift thief" roamed the Earth during the Cretaceous period, not the Jurassic

velociraptor

THE WASHINGTON POST 400 Donald L. Neiffer is the chief one of these doctors at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

veterinarian

"V"OCABULARY 1000 5-letter word for an article of food

viand

A FRENCH PREPOSITION 1000 This 3-word term for "face to face" is generally used in English for comparisons

vis-a-vis

AUTO SHOP TALK 1000 10W-40 is a grade of this quality of your engine oil's thickness & resistance to flowing

viscosity

"V"OCABULARY 400 Synonyms for this adjective include coarse, crude & unrefined

vulgar

THE CONSTITUTION 1000 Congress has power to "fix the standard of" these 2 items, which make up a classic "Jeopardy!" category

weights & measures

THE SOVIET UNION 800 After the invasion of Afghanistan, Pres. Carter ended shipments of this specific foodstuff to the Soviets

wheat

4 YOUR CONSIDERATION 400 Of the 4 seasons, the one when you'll most likely find an animal in his hibernaculum

winter

FORE! 200 Despite the name, these clubs used for long shots, like the driver, are now usually made of metal or composite