History
THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS | 1200 | Dec. 25, 1837:U.S. troops suffer heavy casualties fighting this Florida tribe at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee
the Seminole
SOUTHERN HISTORY | 600 | In 1817 U.S. troops invaded Florida in pursuit of this tribe
the Seminoles
THE 19th CENTURY | 2000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) An 1823 treaty assured the return of runaway slaves, & a move south to a 4-million-acre reservation by this Native American tribe
the Seminoles
HORRIBLE HISTORY | 2000 | The 1857-1858 mutiny named for these native soldiers in India was marked by brutality by both Indians & Britons
the Sepoy
THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR | 400 | The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French & Indian War as well as this larger global conflict
the Seven Years War
HISTORIC HANDSHAKES | 400 | In 1977, Jimmy Carter said this leader was ""an island of stability""; two years later, he was overthrown
the Shah of Iran (Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi)
18th CENTURY AMERICA | 1600 | In 1774 Mother Ann Lee brought this religious sect known for its furniture to America from England
the Shakers
A HISTORY LESSON | 200 | Scotland acquired these islands known for their pony in 1472 when a Norse king didn't pay his daughter's dowry to James III
the Shetlands
HISTORIC OBJECTS | 800 | In the 13- & 1400s French knight Geoffrey de Charny & his family fought the church over exhibiting this 14-foot linen cloth
the Shroud of Turin
A BRIEF TIME OF HISTORY | 600 | Israeli forces destroyed Egypt's air force on the ground on June 5, 1967, the first day of this war
the Six-Day War
WAR! | 800 | June 5-10, 1967:this war
the Six-Day War
13th CENTURY HIGHLIGHTS | 2000 | In the 1250s a court chaplain founded the Paris School of Theology, which was later named this for him
the Sorbonne
THIS MEANS WAR! | 800 | The explosion of the USS Maine
the Spanish-American War
BEASTLY BACKING BANDS | 2000 | David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust &this galactic group
the Spiders from Mars
THE EARLY 20th CENTURY | 800 | A low point of the Gangster Wars, this incident saw 7 gunned down in Chicago in February 1929
the St. Valentine\'s Day Massacre
THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND | 800 | ...of this house whose monarchs included Mary, Queen of Scots was William of Orange
the Stewart
1990s HISTORY | 600 | The British government returned this ""Stone of Destiny"" to Edinburgh in 1996
the Stone of Scone
THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS | 400 | The wars pitted Scots & Irish as well as English against Charles I & this royal house
the Stuarts
CHINESE HISTORY | 1600 | In 210 B.C. Emperor Shi Huangdi was buried with an honor guard, thousands of clay soldiers known as this ""army""
the Terracotta Army
NEW ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS? | 800 | We're not sure if Mr. Gilliam or Mr. Jones inspired this award for British comedy troupe members
the Terrys
THE VIETNAM WAR | 600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The 1968 assault shown here is called this, after its namesake holiday; attacks ranged from Khe Sanh down to Saigon & Vinh Loi
the Tet Offensive
THE 15th CENTURY | 1600 | Losing the battle of Grunwald in 1410 in Poland led to the end of the military power of these knights
the Teutonic Knights
FROM THE BRITISH MONARCHY'S WEBSITE | 200 | A ceremony dating from the 12th century, Swan Upping is an annual census of the swans on parts of this river
the Thames
17th CENTURY PEOPLE | 1200 | Catholic ruler Ferdinand II's persecution of Protestants in Bohemia in 1618 sparked this long European war
the Thirty Years\' War
HISTORIC NAMES | 1000 | In 1618 Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand tried to impose Catholicism & this war was on... & on... & on
the Thirty Years\' War
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
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT | 400 | In 1912 Shipbuilder magazine said it was ""practically unsinkable"" due to the watertight compartments
the Titanic
THE VIETNAM WAR ERA | 400 | Attacks on the U.S. destroyer Maddox in this gulf in August 1964 prompted LBJ to order air strikes against the North
the Tonkin
AWARDS & HONORS | 200 | These awards from the American Theatre Wing bear the nickname of a stage actress-turned-producer
the Tonys
A ROYAL BRITISH LOCKUP | 400 | Henry VI was twice imprisoned in this fortress by his rivals, eventually dying there in 1471
the Tower of London
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 600 | 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
WORKING WITH A BEATLE | 1600 | ""Handle with Care""! Along with George, this '80s group featured Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty & Bob Dylan
the Traveling Wilburys
THE WAR OF 1812 | 2000 | In Article X of this treaty, both the U.S. & Britain agreed to ""use their best endeavours"" to abolish slavery
the Treaty of Ghent
FROM THE BRITISH MONARCHY'S WEBSITE | 1000 | Elizabeth I was the last of the 5 sovereigns from this royal house
the Tudors
GOD SAVE THE ENGLISH KING! | 800 | At 1485's Battle of Bosworth Field, Richard III died without a horse & this royal family rode off with his kingdom
the Tudors
HORRIBLE HISTORY | 400 | On Feb. 14, 1929 7 members of Bugs Moran's gang became the victims in this event
the Valentine\'s Day Massacre
A PLACE FIT FOR A KING | 1600 | This Theban area includes Luxor & Karnak
the Valley of the Kings
PRINCE ALBERT | 800 | Though he's been gone for more than 150 years, Albert's name today still graces this London edifice
the Victoria and Albert Museum
IRISH HISTORY | 1200 | At Clontarf in 1014, King Brian Boru led the Irish to victory against these invaders but died at the battle
the Vikings
WAR STORIES | 400 | ""Rebel Train"" by David Healey
the War between the States (or the Civil War)
BATTLE OF BRITAIN | 2000 | The largest & bloodiest battle of this conflict was 1461's Battle of Towton
the War of the Roses
BATTLES IN THE WAR | 1000 | St. Albans &Towton(near York)
the Wars of the Roses
LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY | 1200 | Shaka, who built an empire of this southern African people, didn't need to learn from Vlad about impaling his enemies
the Zulu Empire
THE 19TH CENTURY | 800 | Shaka reigned as the paramount chief of this people only to be killed by his own brothers in 1828
the Zulus
20th CENTURY LITERARY DECADES | 600 | ""All Quiet on the Western Front"" &""This Side of Paradise""
the \'20s
DECADES BY NICKNAME | 400 | This ""Roaring"" decade produced the poem ""The Wild Party""
the \'20s
DECADES BY NICKNAME | 1200 | ""Swinging"" with Britain's Profumo Affair
the \'60s
DECADES BY NICKNAME | 1600 | ""Go-go"", as the USSR launched Mir
the \'80s
DECADES OF DANCE | 200 | The lambada & Michael Jackson's moonwalk
the \'80s
THE DEWAR'S DECIMAL SYSTEM | 2000 | The .02 of each barrel a year lost to evaporation as Dewar's ages is known as these heavenly beings' share
the angels\' share
PLANE SPEAKING | 400 | Gyroscopes help maintain course as part of this airplane feature; in the feature ""Airplane!"", it was inflatable
the autopilot
BATTLESHIPS | 1600 | A classic Eisenstein film recounts the drama of a real naval mutiny aboard this Russian battleship
the battleship Potemkin
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
THE '60s (19th CENTURY EDITION) | 600 | General Sheridan's plan to suppress Native Americans included killing all of these animals that supported their way of life
the bison (or the buffalo)
SPEAKING IN CODE | 600 | urbandictionary.com on this 3-letter code: ""Never drink the last beer, unless you have... specific permission that it is OK"", guys
the bro code
TRUCKING | 1000 | British soldiers gave the Mack truck this canine nickname in WWI for its blunt-nosed hood & durability
the bulldog
OHIO HISTORY | 600 | People laughed when Dayton's James Ritty added a bell to this store device, but the noise deterred theft
the cash register
AWARDS & HONORS | 1200 | Japan's highest order is the order of this flower
the chrysanthemum
HISTORIC DAYS | 1600 | 27514
the end of the Vietnam War
HISTORIC DAYS | 1200 | May 29, 1453
the fall of Constantinople
SCRAMBLED 20th CENTURY DECADES | 400 | War & more:""O STRIFE""
the forties
HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES | 200 | The 1897 Panhard Levassor was one of the first autos to put the engine in the ""French style"" here on the car
the front
TAKING IN THE SUN | 1600 | This field on the Sun is typically twice that of Earth but can reach 3,000 times as strong in areas with uneven surface rotation
the magnetic field
THE VIETNAM WAR | 600 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hanoi, Vietnam)Only a small part of Hanoi's infamous Hoa La prison remains standing today. During the war, inmates such as John McCain gave it this ironic nickname, reflecting the lack of hospitality they found there.
the Hanoi Hilton
THE QUEEN | 2000 | 14th century Queen Margaret I of Denmark took on this commercial league to win back coastal strongholds
the Hanseatic League
HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART II | 400 | Francis II, who became emperor of Austria in 1804, was also the last emperor of this
the Holy Roman Empire
HISTORY: HIRED & FIRED | 2000 | Byzantine Emperor Justinian, you oversaw a legal code & this ""holy wisdom"" church? Multitasker, you're hired
the Hagia Sophia
HISTORIC DOCUMENTS | 800 | One of the oldest known legal codes is this Babylonian one from around 1760 B.C.
the Hammurabi code
HISTORY | 800 | Until it was dissolved & absorbed by Napoleon in 1806, Francis II led this 1,000-year-old empire
the Holy Roman Empire
A HISTORY LESSON | 400 | Wellington defeated the French in 1813 at Vitoria, Spain in the Peninsular War, the peninsula being this one
the Iberian
THE 4th CENTURY | 1200 | In 391 the Serapeum, a temple that housed part of this ancient institution, was destroyed along with its books
the Library of Alexandria
AMERICA THE HISTORICAL | 200 | 250,000 gathered to hear the ""I Have a Dream"" speech in 1963 delivered from the steps of this landmark
the Lincoln Memorial
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY | 1000 | Retracing this 1930s journey will take you thousands of miles from Ruijin to Yan'an
the Long March
HISTORIC DOCUMENTS | 600 | Robert Livingston, U.S. minister to France, James Monroe & a French Treasury minister signed the treaty for this 1803 deal
the Louisiana Purchase
WORLD WAR I | 800 | The May 8, 1915 headline in the N.Y. Times blared this ship ""sunk by a submarine... twice torpedoed off Irish coast""
the Lusitania
THE VIETNAM WAR | 800 | This alphanumeric weapon became the standard U.S. infantry rifle in 1967
the M16
THE UNCIVIL WARS | 1600 | In 1946 troops of this ""abbreviated"" military corps were found guilty of shooting P.O.W.'s in the Malmedy Massacre
the SS
THE 20th CENTURY | 600 | This trial opened on July 10, 1925 with William Jennings Bryan arguing for the prosecution
the Scopes (Monkey) Trial
HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART II | 800 | A play in 5 acts, or a king in 2 years, 1483 to 1485
Richard III
UNCROWNED ENGLISH MONARCHS | 400 | Edward V reigned for a few brief uncrowned months in 1483 before his death, said to be set up by this uncle of his
Richard III
NEAR THE END OF THE CENTURY | 400 | This ""coeur-de-lion"" was killed at a siege in 1199
Richard the Lionhearted
THE CIVIL WAR | 600 | In mid-1861 Montgomery, Alabama was out & this city was in as capital of the Confederacy
Richmond, Virginia
16th CENTURY AMERICA | 200 | The 1st theatrical performance in America was a Spanish comedy produced in 1598 beside this river near El Paso
Rio Grande
THE 16th CENTURY | 800 | This colony was founded in North America in 1587, only to be ""lost"" 3 years later
Roanoke
CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN | 800 | ""I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union"", wrote this Virginian
Robert E. Lee
THE CIVIL WAR | 1600 | His son Custis served as an aide-de-camp to Jefferson Davis during the war
Robert E. Lee
THE CIVIL WAR | 200 | The 9 1/2-month siege of Petersburg resulted in the fall of Richmond & this Virginian's surrender
Robert E. Lee
THE MARCH OF HISTORY | 600 | In March 1865 this general said all his congress did was ""eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving""
Robert E. Lee
HISTORY AS THEATER | 1600 | Ted Tally's play ""Terra Nova"" is based on journals & letters found on the frozen body of this Antarctic explorer
Robert Falcon Scott
HISTORIC NAMES | 1600 | This giant of 19th century water transport was nicknamed ""Quicksilver Bob""
Robert Fulton
HUGO AWARD-WINNING NOVELS | 800 | This author's 5 Hugo-winning novels include ""Farmer in the Sky"" & ""Starship Troopers""
Robert Heinlein
HISTORIC CARS | 200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us car at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.) On a fateful day in 1968, this presidential candidate took this Rolls Royce Solver Cloud to address campaigners at Los Angeles's Ambassador Hotel after his primary win.
Robert Kennedy
HISTORY | 800 | In 1794 Napoleon was placed under arrest for ties to this incorruptible man, the force behind the Reign of Terror
Robespierre
YOU'RE HISTORY! | 1200 | France's Reign of Terror ended with the death by guillotine of this revolutionary leader on July 28, 1794
Robespierre
HISTORIC NAMES | 1200 | After he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony, he founded the colony of Rhode Island
Roger Williams
HISTORICAL NICKNAMES | 800 | ""The Father of Rhode Island""
Roger Williams
HISTORY | 400 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After World War I, this country gained new provinces, doubling its size; after World War II, it lost chunks in the northeast & southeast
Romania
WORRIER PRINCESS | 2000 | Audrey Hepburn as Princess Anne has royal worries that she ditches while going incognito in this city
Rome
WORLD WAR II | 1600 | In 1944 this field marshal & Afrika Korps leader was implicated in a plot to assassinate Hitler
Rommel
HISTORIC OBJECTS | 400 | Though probably cast in bronze earlier, the artifact seen here had this duo added around 1400 A.D.
Romulus & Remus
THE 20th CENTURY | 200 | On Dec. 1, 1955 she stood up for many by refusing to stand up & give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery
Rosa Parks
HISTORIC OBJECTS | 1600 | The stone that unlocked the language of the pharaohs was discovered in 1799 just outside this village
Rosetta
19th CENTURY OPERA | 2000 | Like its heroine, ""The Italian Girl in Algiers"" did some traveling as this composer's first opera staged in France & Germany
Rossini
A POTPOURRI OF HISTORY | 1000 | This European banking dynasty was founded by a man named Mayer Amschel
Rothschild
POLISH HISTORY | 1200 | Poland lost its independence in 1795 when Austria & these 2 rhyming countries partitioned the commonwealth
Russia & Prussia
SPEAKING IN CODE | 200 | It's what is asked for here in Morse code
SOS
PIGGYBACKING | 800 | No longer on the Catholic calendar, this saint is often shown carrying the Christ child on his back
Saint Christopher
THE 17th CENTURY | 400 | Between June & September 1692, 19 people were hanged as witches in this New England town
Salem
THE '60s (19th CENTURY EDITION) | 1000 | Texas joined the Confederacy in 1861 & forced this Unionist governor out of office
Sam Houston
WARM | 400 | The main base of the U.S. Navy's Pacific fleet is at this temperate California city not far from the Mexican border
San Diego
THE CENTURY'S FIRST YEAR | 1600 | According to tradition, it was founded on Sept. 3, 301; it's still a republic on the Italian peninsula
San Marino
18th CENTURY AMERICA | 400 | In 1763 England received Florida from this country in exchange for Havana
Spain
20th CENTURY HISTORY | 400 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife Sophie were assassinated on June 28, 1914 while motoring through this city
Sarajevo
B.C. KING | 200 | Around 1000 B.C. he became the first king of Israel
Saul
LESSER-KNOWN HISTORIC NAMES | 2000 | Jesuit missionary & explorer Isaac Jogues gave the falls that empty into Lake Huron this French name
Sault Ste. Marie
THE CIVIL WAR | 1000 | In December 1864 William T. Sherman wired Lincoln that he was presenting ""a Christmas gift"" of this port city
Savannah
EURO-MONARCHY | 400 | It's Europe's largest monarchy in area & stretches the farthest south
Spain
KING ME | 2000 | Charles III, Philip V & Alfonso XII all ruled this country
Spain
THE 18th CENTURY | 800 | From 1701 to 1714 much of Europe was drawn into the war of this ""succession""
Spanish
WAR OF THE GENERALS | 1200 | Escobar on one side, Queipo de Llano on the other
Spanish Civil War
WAR STORIES | 600 | ""The Rough Rider"" by Gilbert Morris
Spanish-American War
ANCIENT BATTLES | 1200 | 7,000 Thebans at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 B.C. broke the power this Greek city had enjoyed for a generation
Sparta
HISTORY | 1200 | Growing up in this militaristic ancient Greek city-state might include the diamastigosis, or flogging ordeal
Sparta
NOEL, COWARD | 600 | Noel wouldn't open his tool box after seeing one of the movies in this horror series featuring Tobin Bell
Saw
KING ARTHUR | 400 | One of 12 victories ascribed to Arthur is the defeat of an army of these Germanic invaders at the Battle of Badon Hill
Saxons
THE CENTURY'S FIRST YEAR | 400 | In 901 Edward the Elder took the title ""King of the Angles &"" these people
Saxons
WORLD HISTORY | 1600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In the fifth and sixth century, southern Britain was invaded & conquered by Germanic tribes from this historic region, whose name still exists in the names of three German states
Saxony
THE WORKING DEAD | 800 | MetLife ads helped this cartoonist draw in $40 million over a yearlong period
Schulz
HISTORY | 600 | In 1950 & then again in 1951, this capital city fell to invading forces who were evicted each time by U.N. troops
Seoul
SPANISH HISTORY | 2000 | This capital of Andalusia served as capital of the Moors for more than 500 years
Seville
THE 19th CENTURY | 800 | In the 1820s this monarch founded a Zulu empire, one of the largest in Africa
Shaka
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) 62,000 men in parallel corps columns covered up to 15 miles a day on their way to Savannah in this general's march to the sea
Sherman
CIVIL WAR NAMES | 400 | He reached Savannah in time for Christmas 1864 & presented the city to the Pres., along with 150 captured cannons
Sherman
THE CIVIL WAR | 1600 | He said, ""I can make the march"" & show ""the world... that we have a power which Davis cannot resist""
Sherman
AWARDS & HONORS | 1000 | A violin competition for those 30 & under is held every 5 years in Helsinki & named for this composer
Sibelius
ANCIENT HISTORY | 400 | Around 304 B.C. Agathocles, ""The Tyrant of Syracuse"" & king of this island, gained control of southern Italy
Sicily
WORLD HISTORY | 400 | In 1825 this revolutionary controlled an area from the Caribbean to Argentina
Simón BolÃvar
WORLD HISTORY | 800 | In an 1815 letter, he declared that the tie that bound South America ""to Spain has been severed""
Simón BolÃvar
FROM THE BRITISH MONARCHY'S WEBSITE | 400 | Its second verse begins, ""Thy choicest gifts in store on her be pleased to pour, long may she reign""
""God Save The Queen""
20th CENTURY QUOTES | 400 | In November 1973 Richard Nixon made this declaration, saying he'd earned everything he'd got
""I am not a crook""
THE WORLD AT WAR | 1600 | On Oct. 20, 1944 Douglas MacArthur fulfilled this 3-word promise he'd made to the Philippine people in 1942
""I shall return""
HISTORIC MOTTOES & SLOGANS | 400 | While she was First Lady, Nancy Reagan spearheaded an anti-drug campaign with this 3-word motto
""Just say no""
MY NAME IS PRINCE | 200 | During a downpour in Florida in 2007, Prince closed the Super Bowl halftime show with this aptly titled tune
""Purple Rain""
BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERS | 400 | Novel, 1988:This Thomas Harris thriller that made readers bleat
""Silence of the Lambs""
THE 19TH CENTURY | 200 | Chester Arthur's legacy includes starting the tradition of adding these 4 words to the end of the presidential oath
""So help me God""
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 200 | The words to this patriotic song first appeared in print in 1814 under the title ""Defence of Fort McHenry""
""The Star-Spangled Banner""
IRISH HISTORY | 2000 | A 1990s economic upsurge that turned out to be basically a bubble got Ireland the nickname ""Celtic"" this beast
""Tiger""
BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERS | 1200 | 2012, Graphic Novel:These ""Hunts"": ""A Graphic History of the Burning Times""
""Witch""
DISNEY'S 7 DWARFS | 400 | Nasally irritated
Sneezy
WHICH DISNEY DWARF? | 600 | Allergy Sufferer
Sneezy
20th CENTURY AMERICA | 800 | This first Disney animated feature had its world premiere on December 21, 1937
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
BANKING & FINANCE | 1600 | FDIC-insured banks will now protect deposits up to this amount, up from $100,000
$250,000
THE 19th CENTURY | 400 | This ex-vice president's shady dealings forced him to go by the name Adolphus Arnot in 1812
(Aaron) Burr
AWARDS & HONORS | 1000 | Computer science's equivalent to the Nobel Prize is named for this 20th century British mathematician
(Alan) Turing
HISTORICAL TO-DO LISTS | 1600 | Sept. 3, 1928:Discover mold juice... No, penicillin, that's a better name
(Alexander) Fleming
THE LATE 19th CENTURY | 800 | In the 1860s he combined nitroglycerin with a chalky substance called Kieselguhr to make a safe explosive
(Alfred) Nobel
CIVIL WAR PEOPLE | 1600 | After the War, this Union general known for his whiskers was elected Governor of Rhode Island 3 times
(Ambrose) Burnside
WOMEN IN HISTORY | 600 | This teacher stayed with Helen Keller from 1887 until her own death in 1936
(Anne) Sullivan
BRITISH HISTORY | 2000 | He was PM from 1902 to 1905; later, a declaration supporting a Jewish homeland in Palestine was named for him
(Arthur James) Balfour
THE TONY AWARDS | 600 | 2014's ""Beautiful"", about this woman who co-wrote hit songs with hubby Gerry Goffin, won for its star Jessie Mueller
(Carole) King
HISTORICAL QUOTES | 800 | After the fall of France in 1940, this general told his country, ""France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war""
(Charles) de Gaulle
YOU'RE HISTORY! | 2000 | In 2005, 350 years after this Dutch scientist discovered the moon Titan, a space probe named for him landed there
(Christiaan) Huygens
HISTORICAL NOVELS | 2000 | The 1593 murder of this Elizabethan playwright is the focus of George Garrett's ""Entered from the Sun""
(Christopher) Marlowe
I AM HISTORY! | 800 | The only surviving son of a rector, this 17th century man went on to design more than 50 churches in London
(Christopher) Wren
WORLD HISTORY | 800 | In 1840 the London Missionary Society sent this Scot to Africa, where he established a base in Bechuanaland
(David) Livingstone
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a diagram of the Battle of Gettysburg.) On the second day, Union General Sickles unwisely advanced his troops. Lucky for the north, General Warren noticed the move and the Union quickly reoccupied the strategic hill called Little this.
(Little) Round Top
A BRIEF HISTORY OF MIME | 400 | This Frenchman defined mime as ""expressing feelings by attitudes"", not ""expressing words through gestures""
(Marcel) Marceau
PO PRESENTS UNCONVENTIONAL WARRIORS | 600 | (Po delivers the clue.) In the American Revolution, I would have been grateful to this woman for bringing water in the heat of battle... though Molly Bowl of Noodles & Molly Dessert woutd have been nice to see, too
(Molly) Pitcher
CHICAGO HISTORY | 1000 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) In 1924, in the crime of the century, Chicago teen Bobby Franks was brutally murdered; these glasses found near the body were traced back to this man, who soon confessed, as did accomplice Richard Loeb
(Nathan) Leopold
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
FRENCH HISTORY | 1200 | In the 2012 election for president, Francois Hollande defeated this incumbent
(Nicolas) Sarkozy
THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS | 1200 | After 9 years, the wars ended with victory at Worcester by this future Lord Protector
(Oliver) Cromwell
HISTORICAL QUOTES | 1000 | In 1888 this Chancellor told the Reichstag, ""we Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world""
(Otto von) Bismarck
REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I | 2000 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) The tunic & cap belonged to this Prussian aristocrat who led Germany's wartime military dictatorship, gave his name to an ill-fated aircraft & appointed Adolf Hitler as Germany's chancellor
(Paul von) Hindenburg
THE PATRIOT ACT | 400 | The HBO miniseries starring him as ""John Adams"" won 13 Emmys & 4 Golden Globes
(Paul) Giamatti
AWARDS & HONORS | 600 | This Brit shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for proposing the boson that bears his name
(Peter) Higgs
THE QUEENS ENGLISH | 1600 | The Vander Ende-Onderdonk house is on a land grant from this Dutch Colonial governor
(Peter) Stuyvesant
THE CIVIL WAR | 1600 | On Oct. 19, 1864 this Union general known as ""Little Phil"" made his ride to stop Jubal Early at Cedar Creek
(Philip) Sheridan
WORRIER PRINCESS | 1200 | She asks, ""Is it safe?"" before getting on the magic carpet, but seems to chill when ""A Whole New World"" starts
(Princess) Jasmine
HISTORICAL NICKNAMES | 1000 | ""The Knight of the Cloak""
(Walter) Raleigh
HISTORICAL NOVELS | 1600 | Steven Pressfield's ""Gates of Fire"" is an epic novel about this battle lost by the Spartans in 480 B.C.
(the Battle of) Thermopylae
ANCIENT HISTORY | 1200 | The last prophecy of this Greek Oracle was a prediction that it would be the last one
(the Oracle of) Delphi
BRITISH HISTORY | 400 | Mistaking cheering for a riot, William the Conqueror's guards burned local houses after his coronation on Xmas of this year
1066
MONARCHS OF ENGLAND | 200 | Harold II had been king less than 10 months when he was defeated by William the Conqueror in this year
1066
THE CINEMA OF STEVE McQUEEN | 800 | The second Steve McQueen directed Chiwetel Ejiofor in this harrowing 2013 film set in the old south
12 Years a Slave
HISTORIC OBJECTS | 800 | The ceremonial mace kept in the House of Reps. is a copy of the one destroyed when the Brits invaded D.C. in this year
1814
HISTORY | 200 | After a 34-hour siege in April of this year, confederate forces captured Fort Sumter
1861
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 400 | On ""Juneteenth"", June 19 of this year, the remaining slaves in the U.S. learned that the North had won the Civil War
1865
20th CENTURY AMERICA | 1000 | Mark Twain died in this year in which Halley's Comet reappeared
1910
THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS | 400 | Dec. 25, this year:5 months into WWI, German & British troops emerge from their trenches for a game of soccer
1914
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG | 1000 | Veterans met at Gettysburg one last time for the 75th anniversary in this year; 2013 is the 150th anniversary.
1938
WORLD WAR II | 1200 | Germany launched its ill-fated invasion of the Soviet Union in June of this year
1941
QUICK HISTORY | 200 | The scene here took place during this year
1945
THE VIETNAM WAR | 1000 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Vietnam)The climactic moment of the war came when, after more than 20 years of fighting, North Vietnamese tanks burst through the gates of Saigon's Presidential Palace on April 30th of this year.
1975
GREEK HISTORY | 1200 | Many thought Greece would get the Olympics again in this centennial year of the games, but it happened 8 years later
1996
THE STORY OF THE 21st CENTURY | 800 | (I'm New York Times reporter Andrea Elliott.) I did extensive reporting on the scandal that broke in 2004 over the treatment of Iraqi prisoners at this prison near Baghdad
Abu Ghraib
CIVIL WAR PEOPLE | 2000 | A former slave, she was appointed to the National Freedman's Relief Association in 1864; in your face, Tubman!
Sojourner Truth
HISTORIC OBJECTS | 1200 | A gold mask discovered in 1876 by Heinrich Schliemann is known by the name of this ancient Greek king
Agamemnon
STATE OF THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE | 200 | The Battle of Mobile Bay
Alabama
HISTORICAL NICKNAMES | 200 | ""The Madman of Macedonia""
Alexander the Great
WORLD HISTORY | 1600 | The O.A.S. was a secret French force that sought to prevent this African country from gaining independence
Algeria
19th CENTURY FRANCE | 1600 | In June 1830 French troops seized this North African capital from the Ottomans & Berbers
Algiers
HISTORIC NAMES | 2000 | This Athenian who introduced a more humane law code was considered one of the ""7 Wise Men of Greece""
Solon
20th CENTURY AMERICA | 600 | In August 1992 the U.S. military began relief efforts in this African nation but soon got involved in interclan fighting
Somalia
HISTORIC AGREEMENT WORDS | 800 | The USA bonded with Latin America through 1961's AFP, this for Progress
Alliance
THE TONY AWARDS | 2000 | This daughter of Christopher Plummer & Tammy Grimes is the only Tony winner whose parents both won Tonys
Amanda Plummer
HISTORY REPEATS | 200 | 5 years to the day after Lindbergh's historic transatlantic flight, she became the first woman to complete the feat
Amelia Earhart
THE 16th CENTURY | 1600 | A map printed in France in 1507 was the first with this 7-letter eponym
America
WAR STORIES | 200 | ""Redcoat"" by Bernard Cornwell
American Revolution
ANCIENT HISTORY | 800 | Meaning ""hidden"", this god's name is found in the name of a young pharaoh who restored worship of him
Amun
HISTORIC NICKNAMES | 400 | U.S. president:""The Duel Fighter""
Andrew Jackson
NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 800 | The Greeneville, Tennessee site honoring this president preseves 2 homes & his tailor shop
Andrew Johnson
QUEEN ELIZABETH'S DIAMOND JUBILEE | 600 | An official song for the jubilee was co-written by this musical theatre mogul who was knighted in 1992
Andrew Lloyd Webber
HISTORY | 800 | She was the mother of England's Queen Elizabeth I
Anne Boleyn
KINGS & QUEENS | 800 | In the spring of 1533, she was crowned queen in London; in the spring of 1536 she was executed
Anne Boleyn
BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERS | 800 | 2003, Lifetime Achievement:This woman who taught us a lot about vampires
Anne Rice
QUEEN OF | 2000 | AKA Akasha, the Queen of the Damned was a title character from this author
Anne Rice
THE CIVIL WAR | 800 | Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 5 days after this 1862 Union victory in Maryland
Antietam
QEII IS THEIR QUEEN TOO | 1600 | In 1632 the British colonized this island; it took them until 1678 to get around to Barbuda
Antigua
HISTORIC HANDSHAKES | 1000 | During a thaw in the Cold War, Alexey Leonov & Thomas Stafford shook hands after these two spacecraft docked in July 1975
Apollo & Soyuz
NOEL, COWARD | 200 | In 1997 Noel sold this company's stock for $3.28 a share; iKnow Noel regrets it went for over $700 in 2012
Apple
THE CIVIL WAR YEARS | 1000 | This county with a famous Court House hosted the main event of April 9, 1865 & is reenacting it in April 2015
Appomattox
HISTORY AS THEATER | 1200 | Sara Jane Moore & John Hinckley show up & sing in this Sondheim musical
Assassins
LITERARY AWARDS | 600 | A Swedish award for adolescent & children's literature is named for this ""Pippi Longstocking"" author
Astrid Lindgren
WORLD HISTORY | 400 | In 478 B.C. this city-state led the Delian League to remove the Persians from Greece
Athens
NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 400 | You'll find the Martin Luther King Jr. national historic site in this state capital
Atlanta
WARM | 200 | It gets a touch warm at Turner Field in this city in July, when the average temperature is 89 degrees
Atlanta
HISTORIC DOCUMENTS | 1000 | Watery charter of mutual support & postwar cooperation jointly declared by Churchill & Roosevelt in 1941
Atlantic Charter
WORKING WITH PLATO | 1200 | Plato's unfinished ""Critias"" was to detail the ancient war between Athens & this fabled island
Atlantis
FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES | 1000 | You got the Eastern Roman Empire to pay a ton of gold per year! Will you speak to our ""Scourge of God"" fan club?
Attila the Hun
PEOPLE IN HISTORY | 1200 | For this notorious Hun, the honeymoon was over before it began; he died in 453 A.D. on his wedding night
Attila the Hun
HISTORICAL TITLES | 2000 | In the cabinet, Alphonso Taft,1876-1877
Attorney-General
UNFORTUNATE HISTORY | 1600 | In 2003 this traditional French vacation month was marred by a heat wave that killed nearly 15,000
August
HISTORICAL TIME UNITS | 1200 | The Seven Weeks' War of 1866 is why this 90% German-speaking country isn't part of Germany
Austria
SCHWARZENEGGER | 200 | In 2011 a museum dedicated to Arnold's life opened in Thal, his childhood home in this country
Austria
THE 17th CENTURY | 1600 | Under the Treaty of Karlowitz of 1699, most of Hungary was ceded to this country by the Ottoman Empire
Austria
KING ARTHUR | 1600 | After his final battle, the wounded Arthur is carried off to this magical isle
Avalon
BOX OFFICE CHAMPS OF THE DECADE | 600 | The 2000s:starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana
Avatar
A STUDENT OF HISTORY | 2000 | Paul Ryan was greatly influenced by this female novelist who studied history in Russia
Ayn Rand
COMPUTER HISTORY | 1000 | The name of this early programming language is an acronym starting ""Beginner's All-purpose""
BASIC
THE 16th CENTURY | 400 | Early in the century, Giovanni Bellini painted ""The Infant"" this Roman god holding a wine pitcher
Bacchus
THE 18th CENTURY | 400 | Heard here is a piece from this German composer's ""English Suites"" composed around 1715
Bach
17th CENTURY THINKERS | 400 | Last name of Sir Francis, who crisply published ""The Advancement of Learning"" in 1605
Bacon
WAR STORIES | 400 | ""Imperial Life in the Emerald City"" is Rajiv Chandrasekaran's look at life in this war-torn city's Green Zone
Baghdad
NON-BRITISH ROYALS | 1200 | For more than a year, King Hamad of this Persian Gulf island country has been confronted by protests for greater democracy
Bahrain
WARM | 800 | The ""Love"" part of the memoir ""Eat, Pray, Love"" is set on this balmy Indonesian island
Bali
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
BATTLE NATIONS | 1200 | Go to this country to meet your 1815 battle site Waterloo
Belgium
19th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE | 1000 | ""'Jarndyce of'"" this residence, ""said Mr. Kenge. 'A dreary name', said the Lord Chancellor""
Bleak House
THE VIETNAM WAR ERA | 800 | In 1964 this comedian performed the first of his 9 USO Christmas shows for American troops in 'Nam
Bob Hope
WAR! | 1600 | 1932-35: the Chaco War, between Paraguay & this northern neighbor
Bolivia
WORLD HISTORY | 400 | After he was given the title of Liberator, he established the military Order of the Liberators of Venezuela
BolÃvar
WORLD HISTORY | 400 | The August 1819 Battle of Boyaca in Colombia convinced the bulk of the Spanish royalist army to surrender to him
BolÃvar
LITERARY AWARDS | 800 | The Man Group administers this prize now open to any novel written in English, not just by Brits
Booker Prize
KINGS OF ENGLAND NOT BORN IN ENGLAND | 1600 | Uncork a bottle of claret for King Richard II, born in this French wine region in 1367
Bordeaux
HISTORY | 400 | If an 1860s New Yorker was told, ""The boss wants to see you"", it might be this ""Boss"" in his mansion at 5th Ave. & 43rd St.
Boss Tweed
BATTLE HIM | 1600 | In 2012 the remains of Richard III were found in Leicester not far from this August 1485 battlefield
Bosworth
HISTORY, OLD & NEW | 800 | In effect the last battle of the Wars of the Roses was on this field on August 22, 1485
Bosworth
HISTORICAL BLINDNESS | 400 | Published in 1829, this reading system for the blind was based on a dot code for sending messages to soldiers at night
Braille
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 1200 | During an 1840-41 trip to England, he persuaded many to move to Nauvoo, Illinois
Brigham Young
THE 20th CENTURY | 800 | Under these 1978 peace accords, Israel agreed to return the Sinai to Egypt
Camp David
THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY | 1000 | Before her death in 1962, Eleanor made a final visit to the old family summer home on this Canadian island
Campobello
QEII IS THEIR QUEEN TOO | 400 | In area, it's the largest country with Elizabeth II as its queen, & she's been there over 20 times
Canada
HISTORY REPEATS | 1000 | Like Anne Boleyn, this fifth wife of Henry VIII was also accused of adultery & beheaded
Catherine Howard
HISTORIC NAMES | 400 | In 1762 she had herself proclaimed Empress of Russia
Catherine the Great
HISTORIC WOMEN | 1200 | In 1764 this czarina determined the borders of Poland & installed one of her lovers as king
Catherine the Great
HISTORICAL ROMANCES | 800 | This Empress was wild about the obese, vain & one-eyed Grigory Potemkin
Catherine the Great
THAT'S TOTALLY HISTORICAL! | 200 | Before she was Russian empress, she wanted serfs freed; after, not so much, enslaving previously free Ukrainians, too
Catherine the Great
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING | 800 | James II was converted to this faith before he became king; as a result, he was converted into an ex-king
Catholicism
WORST PICTURE OF THE YEAR RAZZIE AWARDS | 800 | This Halle Berry film clawed its way to the top--er, bottom for 2004
Catwoman
18th CENTURY SCIENTISTS | 1200 | This Swedish inventor of a temperature scale helped confirm that the Earth is a spheroid flat at the poles
Celsius
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG | 400 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a diagram of the Battle of Gettysburg.) Confederate forces seized the high ground of Seminary Ridge. Union troops retreated to face them along this ridge with a similar sounding, perhaps more appropriate name.
Cemetery Ridge
ANCIENT HISTORY: 1986 | 1000 | In January NASA's Stephen Nesbitt sadly reported ""a major malfunction"" with this Space Shuttle
Challenger
HISTORY REPEATS | 800 | Tragically, 17 years after Challenger, this Space Shuttle broke apart during reentry
Columbia
BEASTLY BACKING BANDS | 1200 | Neil Young &this ""loco"" group
Crazy Horse
PICK YOUR BATTLE | 600 | The arrows flew: Dien Bien Phu,Crécy,Balaklava
Crécy
I KINGS | 1600 | In the 490s B.C. this Persian king tried to invade Greece twice, losing the second time at the battle of Marathon
Darius
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY | 2000 | In February 1942 a Japanese air attack caused severe damage to this capital of the Northern Territory
Darwin
WAR NOVELS | 2000 | This novel by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim tells the harrowing tale of a captain & his crew aboard a WWII German sub
Das Boot
WHEN I'M KING... | 800 | Israel, from around 1000 to 960 B.C.
David
BRITISH HISTORY | 200 | In May 2015 this prime minister & his Conservative Party defied the polls & won a clear majority in Parliament
David Cameron
HISTORY | 400 | Built in 1354, Firuzabad was the fifth version of this city in India; it still didn't serve pastrami
Delhi
19th CENTURY FRANCE | 1200 | In 1894 he was convicted of selling military secrets to the Germans but was exonerated 12 years later
Dreyfus
HISTORIC NAMES | 400 | An 1890s ""affair"" was named for this Jewish officer in the French Army, accused of selling secrets
Dreyfus
A BRIEF HISTORY OF MIME | 2000 | With hundreds of performers in an evening, Victorian pantomime peaked at the theater named for this lane
Drury Lane
FORTUNE 500 THROUGH THE DECADES | 400 | 1984 was a bad year for Union Carbide but good for this other chemical company, No. 7
DuPont
THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND | 400 | ...named this was killed in 1094 at the instigation of his uncle Donald Bane, not murdered by Macbeth
Duncan
LITERARY AWARDS | 1200 | The first novel to win the Nebula Award was this one set on Arrakis
Dune
BOX OFFICE CHAMPS OF THE DECADE | 1000 | The 1980s:starring Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore
E.T.
20th CENTURY NAMES | 400 | On Aug. 2, 1939 this scientist wrote to the U.S. president to recommend that atom bombs be made, to his later regret
Einstein
HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART II | 1200 | In the 16th century Sir Walter Raleigh sailed up the Orinoco in search of this lost city of gold
El Dorado
17th CENTURY AMERICA | 800 | The first European settlement in Texas, Ysleta was founded on the site of this present-day city on the Rio Grande
El Paso
D.C. HISTORY | 1200 | Recently, D.C.'s Latino population has grown with a very large number from this smallest Central American nation by area
El Salvador
RECENT HISTORY | 800 | In July 2013 this general ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi & pledged new elections
El-Sisi
MICHIGAN HISTORY | 400 | December 10, 1915 marked a milestone with the production of the one millionth car from this company
Ford
NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 2000 | With the Oregon Trail & the Pony Express passing through the post, this Wyoming fort was the center of a nation moving west
Fort Laramie
THE WAR OF 1812 | 1200 | In September 1814 major George Armistead resisted an attack by the British navy on this fort
Fort McHenry
LESSER-KNOWN HISTORIC NAMES | 400 | On April 13, 1861 Major Robert Anderson surrendered this fort to the Confederates
Fort Sumter
THE CIVIL WAR | 200 | Not a single person was killed in the April 1861 battle over this fort, but it did launch the Civil War
Fort Sumter
THE CIVIL WAR | 800 | The American flag was lowered in surrender at this fort on April 14, 1861
Fort Sumter
WAR! | 400 | 1870-71: a coalition of German states vs. this country
France
18th CENTURY AMERICA | 2000 | Built as a NYC home early in the century, it later became a tavern where Washington said farewell to his officers
Fraunces Tavern
SPEAKING OF TONGUES | 600 | This Kiss bass player once published a men's lifestyle magazine called Tongue
Gene Simmons
WORLD WAR I | 2000 | In early 1918 this French general was named Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces on the Western Front
General Foch
THE CIVIL WAR | 1200 | On Nov. 1, 1861 this hero of the Mexican War resigned as general-in-chief of the Union armies
General Winfield Scott
THE CIVIL WAR | 400 | ""Goober grabbers"" were Civil War soldiers who hailed from this state
Georgia
DISNEY'S 7 DWARFS | 800 | Cantankerously sullen
Grumpy
HISTORIC NAMES | 800 | One of the early items printed by him in his shop in Mainz, Germany was a calendar for the year 1448
Gutenberg
PO PRESENTS UNCONVENTIONAL WARRIORS | 400 | (Po delivers the clue.) This Danish master wrote a tale about a brave one-legged tin soldier & his love for a tiny toy dancer; he ended up being melted by the fire into the shape of a heart--sorry, that one always kinda gets me
Hans Christian Andersen
DISNEY'S 7 DWARFS | 1000 | Jovially exultant
Happy
HISTORICAL TO-DO LISTS | 2000 | June 22, 1611:Make sure mutineers don't set me & my son adrift in the bay named for me; uh-oh
Henry Hudson
19th CENTURY LITERARY MARRIAGES | 1200 | In this author's ""The Portrait of a Lady"", Isabel has her pick of men & marries Gilbert; things go...poorly
Henry James
COME AT THE KING | 2000 | In 1485 he wasn't horsing around when his forces killed Richard III; for him, it was really good to be king
Henry VII
A BRIEF TIME OF HISTORY | 400 | Catherine Howard was married to this man from 1540 to 1542
Henry VIII
BRITISH KINGS NAMED EDWARD | 1200 | This king's only surviving son, King Edward VI, died at age 15 in 1553
Henry VIII
HISTORICAL TO-DO LISTS | 400 | July 12, 1543:Get married today. 6th time is the charm!
Henry VIII
PORTRAITS IN HISTORY | 200 | One thing you'd never hear from him--""I'm not the marrying kind""
Henry VIII
THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND | 1200 | ...to die in battle was killed at the 1513 Battle of Flodden Field by the forces of this English king
Henry VIII
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 1000 | In 1854 this poet began writing ""The Song of Hiawatha""
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
B.C. KING | 400 | At the time Jesus was born, this man, the Great, was king of Judea
Herod
WAR! | 2000 | 1969:the Soccer War between El Salvador & this northern neighbor
Honduras
POWER AWARDS | 200 | (I'm Lara Logan of CBS News.) I earned an Edward R. Murrow Award for ""Ramadi: On the Front Line""; a report on troops under fire in this country
Iraq
WAR! | 1200 | 1904-05:Russia vs. this country
Japan
16th CENTURY WRITING | 400 | British scholar Roger Ascham's ""Schoolmaster"" shows how to teach writing in this language
Latin
THE EARLY 20th CENTURY | 600 | He was born in Wales, but this part-time archaeologist & military strategist gained fame far away
Lawrence of Arabia
FRENCH HISTORY | 1000 | In November 2016 a show by Sting reopened this Paris concert hall 1 year after a terrorist attack
Le Bataclan
BATTLES | 1000 | World War II's largest naval engagement was the 1944 battle of this Philippine gulf
Leyte
15th CENTURY NOTABLES | 1600 | This ""Magnificent"" Medici ruled Florence from 1469 to 1492 without any official title
Lorenzo
20th CENTURY NAMES | 1200 | In 1995 this Nation of Islam leader organized & led the Million Man March in Washington, D.C.
Louis Farrakhan
LOOKING GOOD! | 400 | Who made that $2,665 limited-edition fuchsia quilted denim Linda bag? Oh, I see the ""LV""-- it's this brand
Louis Vitton
KING LOUIS | 400 | During his 72-year reign as king of France, he earned many nicknames, including ""Dieudonné"", or ""God-given""
Louis XIV
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING | 400 | The sun nearly went out when this child king of France was left unsupervised & almost drowned
Louis XIV
OUR HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS | 400 | The 1803 treaty for this deal stated that France would give up all military posts in New Orleans
Louisiana Purchase
AWARDS & HONORS | 1600 | The media coined the name ""Genius Grant"" for the fellowships from this foundation named for John D. & Catherine T.
MacArthur
BACKING BANDS | 600 | Florence + the ____
Machine
BATTLE HIM | 800 | In 1794 this ""Mad"" Pennsylvania general won the Battle of Fallen Timbers
Mad Anthony Wayne
WARNER BROS | 1200 | In ""The People v. O.J. Simpson"", this former ""Cosby Show"" actor got behind the wheel as Al Cowlings
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
19th CENTURY OPERA | 1200 | In an 1893 opera, Lescaut seems to have no first name, but this sister of his does
Manon
MRS. WARREN'S PROFESION | 400 | In 2012 Elizabeth Warren was elected a senator from this state
Massachusetts
NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 2000 | Celebrating over 200 years of firearms making, the Springfield Armory National Historic Site is found in this state
Massachusetts
THE 19th CENTURY | 2000 | Active during the Civil War, he spoke of an ""obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers""
Mathew Brady
WORLD WAR I | 1200 | The Zimmerman Note encouraged this nation to ally with Germany, which promised to let it annex lost land in the U.S.
Mexico
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 1200 | In 1847 Marines stormed & secured Chapultepec Castle in this world capital
Mexico City
OHIO HISTORY | 800 | Little Turtle fought off U.S. troops as a chief of this Ohio (not Florida) tribe
Miami
AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS | 400 | He was the recipient in 2009; his dad Kirk was honored in 1991
Michael Douglas
BEAUTY QUEENS | 1600 | This movie star who appeared in 2012's ""Dark Shadows"" was a sun bunny who became Miss Orange County
Michelle Pfeiffer
19th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS | 400 | What a name! Epaphroditus Ransom quit this Wolverine State's supreme court in 1848 after getting the guv gig
Michigan
HISTORICAL NOVELS | 800 | Lew Wallace's ""The Fair God"" centers on this Aztec ruler's efforts to resist Cortes in early 16th century Mexico
Montezuma
WORLD WAR II | 1600 | Under Ike's supervision, this British field marshal commanded all Allied ground forces on D-Day
Montgomery
ALABAMA HISTORY | 200 | Rosa Parks changed history in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in this city
Montgomery (Alabama)
UNFORTUNATE HISTORY | 2000 | This Caribbean island was all but obliterated in 1997 when the Soufriere Hills volcano woke up
Montserrat
THE WAR OF ...12 | 2000 | In 1212 victory at Las Navas de Tolosa ended Alfonso VIII's 40 years of warfare against them
Moors
IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT | 1000 | King Arthur & this nephew of his kill each other in battle
Mordred
HISTORY | 2000 | In 1962 FRELIMO, the front for the liberation of this African country, began its war for independence
Mozambique
CHICAGO HISTORY | 200 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) The museum houses many relics that survived the Great Fire of 1871, including a cowbell that was allegedly worn by this woman's cow, who was once blamed for kicking over a lantern & starting the fire
Mrs. O\'Leary
SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE | 2000 | One of its characters really is a hero:""GOD BOA HATH CONTINUUM""
Much Ado About Nothing
MAKING A BEE LINE | 800 | He once said, ""Float like a butterfly & sting like a bee, George can't hit what his hands can't see""
Muhammad Ali
WAR STARS | 400 | A young woman secretly takes her father's place in the Chinese army & becomes a great heroine in this Disney film
Mulan
HISTORICAL QUOTATIONS | 1600 | ""The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for its force to be renewed"", wrote this man in a 1920 editorial
Mussolini
KING ME | 800 | In 1922 King Victor Emmanuel III refused to proclaim martial law to stop this man's march on Rome
Mussolini
WORLD WAR II | 400 | After German paratroopers rescued him in 1943, he set up the Salo Republic, another fascist regime
Mussolini
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY | 1600 | In 1859 Queensland split from this state to the south
New South Wales
20th CENTURY AMERICA | 200 | The first televised presidential debate took place in 1960 between these 2 men
Nixon & Kennedy
TENNESSEE HISTORY | 1200 | In 1945 this atomic research city had a population of 75,000 but it wasn't open to walk-in visitors until 1949
Oak Ridge
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 1200 | On March 1, 1803 it became the 17th state & the first created from the Northwest Territory
Ohio
THE DAVY O'BRIEN QUARTERBACK AWARD | 1000 | 2006:Troy Smith, perfect against arch-rival Michigan
Ohio State
IT'S GETTING WARM | 800 | During an eruption, the water at the opening of this ""loyal"" Wyoming geyser is about 204 degrees
Old Faithful
THE TONY AWARDS | 1000 | Mark Rylance was a double nominee in 2014: as Richard III (he lost) & as this countess in ""Twelfth Night"" (he won)
Olivia
MOUNTAIN BIKING | 2000 | Named the USA's top trail, the 26-mile McKenzie River Trail not far from Bend in this state has many a bend itself
Oregon
THE DAVY O'BRIEN QUARTERBACK AWARD | 400 | 2014:The Duck Marcus Mariota
Oregon
THE AL FRANKEN DECADE | 400 | On May 22, 1980 Namco began gobbling up the competition by releasing this video game
Pac-Man
HISTORY | 400 | In the 8th century B.C., Phoenician traders founded this future capital of Sicily
Palermo
HISTORICAL ONLINE CHECK-INS | 1200 | December 1913: I'm in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, 'cause I'm governor now! Viva la revolucion!
Pancho Villa
THE PATRIOT ACT | 200 | Yo, Lexington! Sylvester Stallone voiced this man in ""Midnight Ride"", an episode of the animated series ""Liberty's Kids""
Paul Revere
NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 800 | A national historic site since 1964, the Allegheny Portage Railroad linked this state's canal system with the West
Pennsylvania
WARSAW PACT ALUMNI NATIONS | 400 | This member nation hosted the 1955 meeting that produced the agreement
Poland
16th CENTURY AMERICA | 800 | In 1513 he led an expedition from Puerto Rico & found what he thought was an island, which he named ""La Florida""
Ponce de Léon
HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES | 600 | In the 1977 movie ""Smokey & the Bandit"", Burt Reynolds drove a classic Trans Am from this brand
Pontiac
WARNER BROS | 400 | Glenn Warner, Cornell's 1894 football team captain, go this nickname because he was older than most students
Pop Warner
THE STORY OF THE 21st CENTURY | 400 | He resigned in 2013, saying ""due to an advanced age"", he was no longer suited to lead the Petrine ministry
Pope Benedict XVI
OSCAR-NOMINATED WARNER BROS. CARTOONS | 800 | ""Swooner Crooner"", starring th-th-this character as th-the supervisor of an egg factory
Porky Pig
20th CENTURY HISTORY | 2000 | Clement Attlee succeeded Churchill in the middle of the 1945 conference of allied leaders held in this German city
Potsdam
20th CENTURY PEOPLE | 200 | Before becoming royalty, she was a kindergarten teacher at the Young England School in Pimlico
Princess Diana
FRENCH HISTORY | 800 | After an 1870-71 war with this leading German kingdom, France lost parts of Alsace & Lorraine
Prussia
KING ME | 1600 | An attack by Frederick the Great, king of this Germanic nation, led to the war of the Austrian succession
Prussia
HISTORY 101 | 2000 | Berenice III, who became queen of Egypt in 101 B.C., was the daughter of the IX pharaoh of this name
Ptolemy
THE KOREAN WAR | 1600 | Many jet dogfights took place in ""MiG Alley"" between the Yalu River & this North Korean capital
Pyongyang
THE KOREAN WAR | 800 | ""War's End Near"" said a jubilant U.S. headline on the capture of this metropolis October 19, 1950
Pyongyang
COME AT THE KING | 400 | This king who lends his name to a costly type of victory was killed in a 272 B.C. battle to capture Argos
Pyrrhus
HISTORY | 1000 | Name of the king who after beating Rome at Asculum but taking heavy casualties, said one more such win would undo him
Pyrrhus
WORKING WITH PLATO | 800 | The followers of this philosopher & mathematician are the foils in ""Phaedo""; they don't take the right angle
Pythagoras
THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR | 800 | The British won the 1759 battle for this Canadian city & protected it from recapture 7 months later
Quebec
THE QUEEN'S EXPIRATION DATE | 1000 | March 20, 2004in Baarn, the Netherlands
Queen Juliana
HISTORIC WOMEN | 2000 | This monarch championed Hawaii's Oni Pa'a, or ""Stand Firm"", movement against U.S. annexation
Queen Lili\'uokalani
A SWEDISH KING NAMED GUS | 400 | Carl XVI Gustaf, current king of Sweden, is the great-great-grandson of this British monarch
Queen Victoria
HISTORICAL NOVELS | 2000 | Houdini & Henry Ford are among the figures who appear in this E.L. Doctorow tale of the early 1900s
Ragtime
THE ROYAL THEY | 800 | 1956 to 1982:he & Grace
Rainier
WARS | 400 | In 1973 the fourth Arab-Israeli War, sometimes called the Yom Kippur War, occurred during this Islamic month
Ramadan
A POTPOURRI OF HISTORY | 600 | A great builder, this pharaoh of Egypt's 19th dynasty sealed peace by marrying a Hittite princess
Ramses (the Great)
EX-PATRIOTS | 800 | He hauled in 47 receiving touchdowns for the Pats from 2007 to 2009
Randy Moss
THE IMAGE AWARDS | 1000 | This singer was such a ""genius"", he won the Hall of Fame Award twice, in 1983 & 2004
Ray Charles
GLASS & GLASSMAKING | 1600 | This French city sounds like a lot of paper, but its cathedral has some of the loveliest medieval stained glass
Reims
17th CENTURY PEOPLE | 400 | Painting Dr. Tulp, which means ""Dr. Tulip"", was one of this artist's first big jobs in Amsterdam
Rembrandt
THE 16th CENTURY | 1200 | Called ""the Magnificent"" in the West & ""the Lawgiver"" in the East, he was Ottoman sultan from 1520 to 1566
Suleiman
I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD | 1000 | Africa's last absolute monarch, King Mswati III of this country has 15 wives but only 13 royal palaces
Swaziland
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY | 800 | In 1803 the British established the first settlement on this Australian island at Risdon Cove on the Derwent River
Tasmania
BEST DRAMA SERIES EMMY AWARDS | 1000 | 1973: This series about a large family during the Depression
The Waltons
THE ROYAL THEY | 1600 | 1677 to 1694:they
William and Mary
NAME THAT WAR | 400 | The 3 Battles of Ypres
World War I
THE VIETNAM WAR | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Hanoi, Vietnam)Reminders of the warare everywhere in Vietnam. A small lake in a quiet Hanoi neighborhood still holds wreckage of one of these giant U.S. bombers that attacked the city in December 1972.
a B-52
MOUNTAIN BIKING | 400 | To ""bring home"" this yuletide item is to ride through plant life so dense you carry off some of it with you
a Christmas tree
SERIOUS HARDWARE | 400 | You can use this type of adjustable wrench, seen here, under the light of the moon
a Crescent wrench
STEPHEN KING | 1000 | Arnie Cunningham owns the jealous & deadly Christine, a Plymouth of this appropriate model
a Fury
THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY | 600 | On accepting the 1932 nomination for president, FDR said, ""I pledge you, I pledge myself to a"" this ""for the American people""
a New Deal
HONORS & AWARDS | 1200 | A social media account called Goats of Anarchy was a 2016 winner of one of these, honoring Internet excellence
a Webby
THE KING'S ENGLISH | 400 | Jacket potato isn't the latest British boy band sensation, it's this item in a British restaurant
a baked potato
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG | 200 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a diagram of the Battle of Gettysburg.) The battle began when Confederate troops, searching for shoes, ran into Union cavalry.The Union forces were then pushed back into a defensive formation that became known as this, after the anglers' device it resembled.
a fishhook
LOOKING FOR ALASKA | 800 | E.H. Harriman went on an expedition that discovered a new glacier & a new one of these Norwegian-style inlets
a fjord
THINKING | 400 | Lao-Tzu wrote that ""The journey of a thousand li commenced with a single"" one of these
a footstep (or a step)
BREAKING BAD | 400 | The small bone break called a stress fracture is aka this type of ""fracture"" that's not ""receding""
a hairline fracture
WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED | 400 | This porcupine-like mammal doesn't turn into a ball to roll quickly & gain video game points, but it does eat snakes & birds
a hedgehog
THE KOREAN WAR | 800 | The Korean War was the first time that this type of aircraft was used to carry troops into combat
a helicopter
WARDROBE | 2000 | This collarless pullover shirt with a few buttons at the top was copied from English rowers
a henley
IT'S GETTING WARM | 400 | Temperatures in a traditional home this, which often uses dry rather than steam heat, range from 150 to 190
a home sauna
RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? | 400 | Darling Beatrice! The picture you sent of yourself in this 4-letter skirt! Be still my heart, you wild vixen!
a hoop skirt
HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES | 200 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) Long before global warming changed the focus of auto makers, the 1916 Owen Magnetic used both gas & electric power as one of the first of these combined-fuel vehicles
a hybrid
LOOKING FOR ALASKA | 1200 | The first people came to Alaska some 15,000 years ago across what's called a ""land"" this
a land bridge
THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH | 600 | I can't hear you! You need a loud-hailer, one of these handy amplifiers
a megaphone
WAR OF THE WORDS | 1600 | 3 E's are the only vowels you need to spell this French word for a fight
a melee
SERIOUS HARDWARE | 800 | No need to be on the firing range to use this gun, heard in action here
a nail gun
ANCIENT HISTORY | 800 | In the 1200s B.C., warring Egyptians & Hittites produced the document seen here, said to be the first of these in history
a peace treaty
MAKING SOME COIN | 200 | In 2012 a 1792 copper one of these minted in Philadelphia sold for $1.15 million at auction
a penny
POLISH HISTORY | 1600 | Ignace Jan Paderewski, used to flattery in this profession, failed as PM in 1919 & lived in exile his last 22 years
a pianist (or a musician)
THE 8th CENTURY | 400 | In 752 Stephen was elected this but died days later without being consecrated, so he's not listed as an official one
a pope
18th CENTURY PEOPLE | 400 | Dennis O'Kelly owned Eclipse, one of these, & won a bet that Eclipse would beat the field by 240 yards
a racehorse
MY NAME IS PRINCE | 400 | Of this title object, Prince sang, ""and if it was warm, she wouldn't wear much more""
a raspberry beret
ANCIENT HISTORY | 1600 | Mayan hieroglyphics often used this type of symbolic puzzle in which drawn objects represented words
a rebus
CHECKING OUT ALL THE ANGLES | 1000 | It's the reactionary name for this type of angle
a reflex
TAKING IN THE SUN | 2000 | The Sun formed from a giant, rotating cloud of gas & dust known as a solar this
a solar nebula
THE VIETNAM WAR | 1000 | The first two names inscribed on the Memorial were not combat soldiers but military these, helping the South Vietnamese
advisers
EVERYTHING'S BACKWARDS | 800 | Fitzgerald's ""Curious Case of Benjamin Button"" is about a man who does this backwards
ages
THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH | 1000 | The queen wants you to add an ""I"" (& a syllable) to the name of this metal, atomic number 13
aluminum (or aluminium)
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE TITLES | 400 | It's the highest rank of a nation's diplomatic official sent to live abroad as a representative
ambassador
BANKING | 400 | The Americans with Disabilities Act says these must have Braille, even the drive-up ones
an ATM
SPEAKING ITALIAN | 1200 | The bancomat is this 3-letter acronym to us
an ATM
PIGGYBACKING | 1000 | In the piggyback type of this hospital setup, a secondary line adds intermittent doses of a new medication
an IV line
WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED | 600 | This Aafricaan maammaal is the only living member of the order Tubulidentata, or ""tube-toothed""
an aardvark
PLANE SPEAKING | 1000 | You get an ""A"" for IDing this movable surface near the trailing edge of a wing used in maneuvers like banking
an aileron
FLYING INTO HISTORY | 400 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) The F4U Corsair's unusual bent wings helped reducethe aircraft's drag; the wings also folded to save storage space when it operated from these, as it did in the Pacific in both World War II & the Korean War
an aircraft carrier
HUGO AWARD-WINNING NOVELS | 1200 | Frederik Pohl's 1978 winner ""Gateway"" is about an abandoned alien base ""formed around"" one of these space rocks
an asteroid
THE EARLY 20th CENTURY | 200 | Using accelerated particles in 1932, John Cockcroft & Ernest Walton became the first to divide one of these
an atom
EVERYTHING'S BACKWARDS | 400 | In 1812 one of these caused a fluvial tsunami in the Mississippi River, causing it to flow backwards
an earthquake
LOOKING DOWN WITH GEOEYE | 400 | Seen here off the Australian coast, this type of countercurrent that's also a first name can last a year
an eddy
CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN | 400 | Prior to being shot by a sniper, Union general John Sedgwick said, ""They couldn't hit"" this pachyderm ""at this distance""
an elephant
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 400 | The first hotel to install one of these was a 6-story establishment in NYC in 1859; the cab had plush seats
an elevator
PLANE SPEAKING | 600 | Top floor, please, Otis! It's a hinged surface on a plane's rear stabilizer that controls pitch
an elevator
BANKING & FINANCE | 2000 | It's a contract that gives someone the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell something before a certain date
an option
YUCKY HISTORY | 2000 | As in the western ""Flesh & the Spur"", Indians used staking people to these as a torture... or at least white settlers said so
anthills
THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH | 1200 | The Brits use a different prefix, producing this word instead of ""counter-clockwise""
anticlockwise
MICHIGAN HISTORY | 2000 | FDR's 1940 phrase ""the great"" this ""of democracy"" was later applied to Detroit as it turned out jeeps, tanks & bombers
arsenal
HISTORIC JOB TITLES | 200 | Edmund Halley,1720-42:This job ""royal""
astronomer
WAR OF THE WORDS | 800 | This word for a military fight can be found in front of ""axe"" or ""cry""
battle
HAPPY HISTORY | 1200 | In 1979 a Seminole chief used Indian sovereignty to offer healthy jackpots in this game also played in churches
bingo
20th CENTURY QUOTES | 600 | To winners of a writing contest, Lorraine Hansberry said it is ""doubly dynamic--to be young, gifted"" & this
black
SPEAKING ITALIAN | 800 | Don't fiddle around; ""nero"" translates to this color
black
COMPLETE THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS LINE | 800 | ""Hokey religions & ancient weapons are no match for a good ____ at your side""
blaster
THE DEWAR'S DECIMAL SYSTEM | 1200 | Dewar's was the 1st Scotch of this type to be a royal supplier; 40 single malts go into it, an average of .025 of the whole
blend
ANCIENT HISTORY | 400 | Shihuangdi unified the Chinese empire but was paranoid & held a burning of these items in 213 B.C.
books
MOUNTAIN BIKING | 1600 | When this item that presses against a disc squeals from wear or bad adjustment, it's called a ""wild pig""
brake pad
KING ME | 800 | In a competition in 1815, this 4-letter cheese was crowned le roi des fromages, ""the king of cheeses""
brie
HOOSIER HISTORY | 1600 | A trail or ""trace"" across the state was first used by these animals it's named for, then Native Americans, then settlers
buffalo
FORWARDS & BACKWORDS | 400 | Ignore someone at a party &hot dog holders
buns & snub
ITALIAN, WITH THE SPEAKING | 1000 | Making reservations for 8 PM, an hour hence? Open with this common expression literally meaning ""good evening""
buonasera
HISTORIC JOB TITLES | 1000 | Abu Bakr,632-34:This ""successor"" title, after Muhammad's death
caliph
MOROCCAN HISTORY | 1200 | These beasts helped make Morocco a key ancient trade route & one kissed Bob Hope in ""Road to Morocco""
camels
WARDROBE | 1200 | Unless you're in the military, garments sporting this pattern can actually make you stand out
camouflage
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY | 1200 | In 2014 a new, more conservative government made Oz the world's first country to repeal a tax on emissions of this
carbon
18th CENTURY SCIENTISTS | 1600 | Scottish chemist Joseph Black identified this 2-word gas, which he called ""fixed air""
carbon dioxide
MEXICAN HISTORY | 800 | Many innocents have died in a war between the Sinaloa & Zetas, 2 of the drug gangs called by this economic term
cartels
HISTORICAL BLINDNESS | 1600 | In 1748 Jacques Daviel was the first to treat this ailment by removing the clouded lens
cataracts
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE TITLES | 800 | If Otto von Bismarck were alive, he could use this prefix he got in 1871
chancellor
HISTORIC AGREEMENT WORDS | 1200 | In a 1941 U.S.-U.K. deal, it follows ""Atlantic""; it's also found before ""school""
charter
THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH | 400 | Draughts is this kingly game
checkers
COTTON IS KING | 800 | Once used to wrap a certain dairy product, this thin cotton fabric is used in the kitchen to drain liquid
cheesecloth
SAMURAI: THE WARRIOR TRANSFORMED | 800 | (Alex presents the clue from the National Geographic Museum.) Some scabbards were decorated with blossoms of this fruit tree; they fall at their moment of greatest beauty, & so to the samurai represent an ideal death
cherry blossoms
AWARDS FOR WRITING | 800 | The Newbery Medal goes to writers in this genre; Eleanor Estes won for 1952 with ""Ginger Pye""
children\'s writing
COTTON IS KING | 2000 | Similar to khaki, this durable cotton twill was originally used for U.S. Army uniforms; now it's often used for casual pants
chino
TENNESSEE HISTORY | 1600 | An epidemic of this waterborne disease hit the state in 1849 & claimed many lives, including that of former Pres. Polk
cholera
MEXICAN HISTORY | 1200 | Political separation of this pair was achieved by the war of the reform from 1858 to 1861
church and state
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
A BRIEF HISTORY OF MIME | 1200 | Mime contributed to the development of this Renaissance form, Italian for ""comedy of the profession""
commedia dell\'arte
CHECKING OUT ALL THE ANGLES | 400 | It describes these two angles that tell you how lovely & terrific you are
complementary
THINKING VERBS | 800 | To decide by reasoning; it can also mean to finish
conclude
HISTORIC AGREEMENT WORDS | 2000 | Concord is agreement; add 2 letters to get this agreement by a state & a pope
concordat
THINKING | 1600 | Let's run this 11-letter ""con""--it means to consider thoughtfully
contemplate
TAKING IN THE SUN | 1200 | This outermost zone of the solar interior is named for a process of transferring heat, as in a type of oven
convection
WORLD WAR I SLANG | 400 | When kids accuse each other of having these, they don't know that WWI sanitation popularized it as slang for lice
cooties
PREHISTORIC TIMES | 1600 | During the Chalcolithic period, 4,000-6,000 years ago, this metal became the first used for tools & weapons
copper
A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR | 1000 | This craft of stitching fabric with a hook instead of a needle developed in the 19th century
crochet
ROYAL WEDDINGS | 1200 | To marry Prince Albert of Monaco, Charlene Wittstock wore a gown with 40,000 Swarovski these
crystals
A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR | 800 | From the French for ""to cut out"", it's the craft of decorating a surface with paper shapes
decoupage
FORWARDS & BACKWORDS | 600 | Tough blue fabric &extracted ore
denim & mined
FORWARDS & BACKWORDS | 1000 | After-dinner treats &emotionally strained
desserts & stressed
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME | 2000 | Clocks flown around the Earth in 1971 diverged from stationary ones, confirming the relativity concept ""time"" this
dilation
MAKING SOME COIN | 400 | Only 2 of the 1975 ""no S"" proof Roosevelt this coin are said to exist
dimes
MAKING A BEE LINE | 1600 | In ""Henry V"" Shakespeare mentions ""the lazy yawning"" this bee that dies after mating
drone
ABBREV. BACKWARDS & FORWARDS | 2000 | For example, the company that makes the Profile dishwasher
e.g., GE
MOROCCAN HISTORY | 2000 | Morocco has battled over western Sahara & its wealth of phosphates, used as this growth aid
fertilizer
TABLEWARE INCLUDED | 200 | Often yellow or pink, the wool type of this material is used as a thermal insulator
fiberglass
SPEAKING ITALIAN | 2000 | The opera ""Pagliacci"" appropriately ends, ""La commedia è"" this word
finita
WORLD WAR II | 800 | Sword & Gold, 2 of the beaches at Normandy, were named for these creatures
fish
WAR OF THE WORDS | 2000 | This old-timey term for hand-to-hand combat starts with a hand ready to strike a blow
fisticuffs
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS | 400 | The Tiger-Lily says these talk because the ground is hard: ""In most gardens... they make the beds too soft"" & they sleep
flowers
SPEAKING ITALIAN | 400 | When you said I was buffo, this, I'm buffo how? I mean, buffo like I'm a clown, I amuse you?
funny
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
COTTON IS KING | 1600 | Dorothy's iconic blue & white checked pinafore in ""The Wizard of Oz"" was made from this cotton fabric
gingham
THINKING VERBS | 2000 | Also a way to collect information, it means to gather bits of grain left by reapers
glean
HISTORIC DAYS | 1000 | Jan, 24, 1848(out West)
gold discovered in California
ITALIAN, WITH THE SPEAKING | 800 | You look lovely in verde, this color
green
WORKING ON THE RAILROAD | 1200 | A go-devil is another word for one of these human-powered railroad trolleys
handcars
IT'S GETTING WARM | 1000 | Sunstroke is likely with prolonged exposure to over 105 degrees on the H.I., short for this
heat index
HISTORIC MOTTOES & SLOGANS | 1600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Kibbutz Ami'ad in Israel.) The original vision of kibbutz life focused on the collective good & the motto was, ""From each according to his ability, to each according to"" these
his needs (his need accepted)
COLORFUL HISTORY | 1200 | In 1776 Benjamin Franklin sailed to France with this dark blue dye to sell to help fund the war effort
indigo
MOUNTAIN BIKING | 800 | Ray's MTB in Cleveland is a venue to practice in this kind of environment, year-round
indoors
WAR OF WORDS | 1200 | This term that goes back to a word for ""boy"" or ""youth"" referred to those soldiers too inexperienced for the cavalry
infantry
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 800 | Rep. Daniel Sickles shot & killed his wife's lover in 1859 but was found not guilty, in the first use of this defense plea
insanity
WORLD HISTORY | 800 | A 1987 wave of violent Palestinian unrest Is known as the first this, from Arabicfor ""shaking off.""
intifada
A POTPOURRI OF HISTORY | 800 | After the British slave trade ended, this mammal product became the most important export from West Central Africa
ivory
17th CENTURY PEOPLE | 800 | A Japanese woman named Okuni began this theater for the common people in 1603
kabuki
TAKING IN THE SUN | 800 | A very stable source of energy, the Sun gives us 1.37 of these units abbreviated kW per square meter of earth
kilowatt
SERIOUS HARDWARE | 200 | You ascend the corporate one metaphorically & the extension type literally
ladder
HISTORIC MOTTOES & SLOGANS | 800 | This word precedes ""égalité, fraternité"" in a French Revolution slogan, dropped from use when royalty came back
liberté
AWARDS & HONORS | 800 | Paul Cohen's work on set theory earned him a Fields Medal, AKA the Nobel of this area of study
mathematics
HISTORIC SHIPS | 400 | Launched in 1959, the Savannah was the first American merchant ship powered by this
nuclear energy
THE 19th CENTURY | 400 | In 1805 a pharmacy assistant isolated morphine from this 10-times-weaker narcotic substance
opium
HISTORIC AGREEMENT WORDS | 400 | The 1939 Nazi-Soviet deal is usually called a nonaggression this 4-letter word
pact
THINKING | 1200 | Aristippus, the first systematic hedonist philosopher, gave this the lowest value among human experiences
pain
EVERYTHING'S BACKWARDS | 2000 | 101 is called this type of prime number because it reads the same backwards
palindromic
GLASS & GLASSMAKING | 800 | The Sabatini art gallery in Topeka is ready for Kansas winds--it has a collection of glass these for desktops
paperweights
MAKING THE GRADE | 400 | Some schools use the ""A-F"" grading system & some use ""P"" , ""F"" & ""IN"", these 3 grades
pass, fail, & incomplete
GERMAN HISTORY | 800 | In a 1520s revolt called these humble farming folks' war, 100,000 of them were killed
peasants
WAR OF WORDS | 1600 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Under Alexander the Great, the first five ranks in this military formation whose name comes from the Greek for ""finger"" held spears facing forward, while the rear rows likely held them aloft
phalanx
WORKING WOMEN | 600 | Anne Geddes & Annie Leibovitz share this profession
photography
THE 18th CENTURY | 200 | 1701 saw Captain William Kidd hanged for this crime
piracy
LITERARY AWARDS | 1600 | Awarded by Yale, the Bollingen Prize is given for achievement in this literary form
poetry
WOMEN IN HISTORY | 800 | Elizabeth Kennycame up with a method seen in use here to treat this disease
polio
WOMEN IN HISTORY | 600 | Lucrezia Borgia was the daughter of a corrupt man who got this title in 1492
pope
THE 20th CENTURY | 400 | In a 1964 address LBJ called for an ""unconditional war on"" this ""in America""
poverty
18th CENTURY PEOPLE | 800 | Robert Walpole, in power from 1721 to 1742, is regarded as the first of these British heads of government
prime minister
KICKING AROUND FOR A WHILE | 600 | Jeff Feagles lasted until 44 at this job due to his skill in downing balls (554 of them) inside the 20
punter
YUCKY HISTORY | 400 | A Samuel Pepys diary entry says, ""Went out to Charing Cross to see Major-General Harrison hanged, drawn, and"" this
quartered
17th CENTURY WORDS | 1200 | Meaning one who flees home or seeks asylum, it was first applied to Huguenots who fled France
refugees
QUEENS | 800 | Blanche of Castile was twice this temporary ruler of France, when her son was little & when he was crusading
regent
EVERYTHING'S BACKWARDS | 1600 | Neptune's moon Triton is one of the few in the solar system with this type of ""walking backwards"" orbit
retrograde
CAMBODIAN HISTORY & CULTURE | 2000 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Phnom Penh, Cambodia.) Phnom Penh's notorious gridlock is circumvented by the nimble tuk-tuk, a motorized taxi that's also known as an auto this, a similar Asian conveyance
rickshaw
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 600 | Philly pharmacist Charles Hires claimed to have invented this beverage
root beer
THINKING VERBS | 1200 | To memorize something exactly is to learn it ""by heart"" or ""by"" this, meaning as a result of repeated study
rote
WORLD WAR II: ON THE HOME FRONT | 400 | The first non-food item rationed was this; citizens were asked to turn in hoses, raincoats & bathing caps for recycling
rubber
BRITISH HISTORY | 1600 | Capturing Jamaica in 1655 allowed the English to replace the beer on ships with this, which didn't go bad
rum
THE DEWAR'S DECIMAL SYSTEM | 800 | 1.5 ounces of Dewar's product plus .5 ounces Schweppes product over ice makes this alliterative cocktail
scotch and soda
MOROCCAN HISTORY | 800 | Starting in the 1500s, Morocco was ruled by men with this title, like the one who ""don't like it"" in a clash song
sharif
A HISTORY LESSON | 800 | In 1185 Minamoto Yoritomo defeated the Taira clan in Japan & later was given this title meaning ""great general""
shogun
RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? | 800 | My taste buds have been amputated, Ida, yet I yearn for your pies with this insect name with brown sugar, molasses & butter
shoo-fly
LESSER-KNOWN HISTORIC NAMES | 1200 | Button Gwinnett died in 1777, less than a year after doing this; that combination makes his signature worth $1/2 mil.
signing the Declaration of Independence
THINKING | 2000 | Semiotics is the study of communication via these, be they the ""road"" or ""peace"" type
signs
THE 18th CENTURY | 400 | The first country to do so, Denmark decreed in 1792 it would abolish trade in these
slaves
QUEEN OF | 1600 | Irna Phillips & Agnes Nixon were each known as the Queen of this TV genre
soap operas
KICKING AROUND FOR A WHILE | 200 | Jan Stenerud, who retired at 43, was one of the first to kick field goals in the ""style"" of this other sport
soccer style
ITALIAN, WITH THE SPEAKING | 600 | That calzone will knock your calzini (these) off
socks
TALKING DIRTY | 400 | Also the hopefully fertile ground in which to grow crops, it can mean something done to damage one's good name
soil
SERIOUS HARDWARE | 600 | The ""L"" you don't say in this iron you use to join metal objects together
solder
A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR | 600 | Useful in electronics crafts, this process joins circuit components using a low melting point alloy
soldering
AWARDS & HONORS | 1600 | (I'm Senator Al Franken.) The 2003 audio version of my bestseller ""Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right"" won the Grammy in the category Best this type of album
spoken word
HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES | 400 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) To showcase its strength & durability, this 1964 Thunderbird was one of a handful of cars made with bodies of this alliterative alloy
stainless steel
HISTORY OF CARS | 1000 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California.) In 1901, 17-year-old Carl Breer attached a boiler & a crankshaft to a chassis to make an engine powered by this, which briefly challenged the combustion engine for supremacy
steam
ANCIENT HISTORY | 800 | Zeno got a parchment cut, went on without wincing & founded an Athens school promoting this philosophy
stoicism
COMPLETE THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS LINE | 2000 | ""Aren't you a little short for a ____""
stormtrooper
PREHISTORIC TIMES | 1200 | The iguanadon was named because these body parts resembled those of an iguana
teeth
STEPHEN KING | 800 | Be careful if you mess with teen misfit Carrie White, who has this ability to move things with her mind
telekinesis
CHICAGO HISTORY | 600 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) Made of wood & originally pulled by a steam locomotive, the car here, which transported passengers from the loop to the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 is the last one remaining of Chicago's first fleet of railcars to be called by this nickname
the ""El""
THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS | 400 | ""The Daily Show"" dealt with ""PSI: New England"" after the Pats won the AFC title game in 2015 against this ""luck""y team
the (Indianapolis) Colts
THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS | 600 | 2 Patriot losses in the Super Bowl came against this team, & both times near-miracle catches were involved
the (New York) Giants
OTHER GREAT DECADES | 1000 | Leonardo da Vinci paints ""The Last Supper""
the 1490s
THE DISASTER OF THE CENTURY | 1000 | The Black Death that killed at least 25 million Europeans
the 14th century
CENTURY OF THE INVENTION | 800 | Movable type (in Europe)
the 15th century
CENTURY OF THE MAN | 800 | England's Richard III
the 15th century
CENTURY OF THE MAN | 600 | Sir Francis Drake
the 16th century
NAME THAT CENTURY | 1600 | Cortez conquers the Aztecs
the 16th century
CENTURY OF THE INVENTION | 1000 | The telescope
the 17th century
CENTURY OF THE MAN | 1000 | Baruch Spinoza
the 17th century
THE CENTURY OF THE CRIME | 800 | The Salem witch trials burn into history
the 17th century
NAME THE 19th CENTURY DECADE | 1200 | General Kutuzov evacuates Moscow, which then burns
the 1810s
NAME THE 19th CENTURY DECADE | 400 | The Battle of Chattanooga
the 1860s
OTHER GREAT DECADES | 200 | The Suez Canal is opened & the Emancipation Proclamation is issued
the 1860s
OTHER GREAT DECADES | 800 | Conan Doyle introduces Sherlock Holmes
the 1880s
ERAS OF HISTORY | 400 | This decade was both ""naughty"" & ""gay""
the 1890s
HISTORICAL TIME UNITS | 400 | In the 1920s people started nostalgically calling this decade ""gay""
the 1890s
CENTURY OF THE INVENTION | 600 | The lightning rod
the 18th century
NAME THAT CENTURY | 800 | Robespierre sends many to their deaths & meets his own
the 18th century
THE CENTURY OF THE CRIME | 400 | Charlotte Corday kills Marat, is not sad
the 18th century
THE DISASTER OF THE CENTURY | 400 | The Boston Massacre
the 18th century
CRIME OF THE DECADE | 200 | The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
the 1910s
CRIME OF THE DECADE | 800 | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre takes place
the 1920s
NAME THE DECADE | 400 | The first commercial radio station in the U.S. begins broadcasting
the 1920s
CRIME OF THE DECADE | 400 | The Lindbergh baby is kidnapped
the 1930s
NAME THE DECADE | 600 | The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is created
the 1930s
20th CENTURY LITERARY DECADES | 200 | ""The Crucible"" &""On the Road""
the 1950s
NAME THE DECADE | 1000 | The first commercial nuclear plant opens
the 1950s
20th CENTURY LITERARY DECADES | 800 | ""Valley of the Dolls"" &""Silent Spring""
the 1960s
OTHER GREAT DECADES | 400 | The first successful human heart transplant & the invention of 8-track tapes
the 1960s
20th CENTURY LITERARY DECADES | 400 | ""Carrie"" &""Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders""
the 1970s
THE DISASTER OF THE CENTURY | 600 | The Chicago fire, leaving 90,000 homeless
the 19th century
NAME THAT CENTURY | 1200 | Gallipoli becomes an epic disaster for Britain's military
the 20th century
THE DISASTER OF THE CENTURY | 200 | The sinking of the Lusitania
the 20th century
THE KOREAN WAR | 2000 | A Security Council resolution issued when the war began demanded the Communists retreat to this parallel
the 38th parallel
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 2000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Fort Abraham Lincoln in Mandan, North Dakota.) In 1876, Lt. Col. George Custer left his home here at Fort Abraham Lincoln in the Dakota Territory with this regiment and led them into a battle from which they'd never return
the 7th Cavalry
NAME THAT CENTURY | 2000 | Muhammad's forces conquer Mecca
the 7th century
ANCIENT HISTORY | 200 | In the 400s B.C. Callicrates designed the temple of Athena Nike on this hill
the Acropolis
HISTORY | 2000 | The ancestors of this Aboriginal people of Hokkaido Island are thought to have reached Japan around 1000 B.C.
the Ainu
THE UNCIVIL WARS | 800 | After it fell on March 6, 1836, all of its surviving defenders were executed
the Alamo
LOOKING FOR ALASKA | 1600 | Scientist William Dall charted the coastal features of this 1,100-mile island chain
the Aleutians
WORKING ON A BUILDING | 2000 | 1238: Muhammad Ibn al-Ahmar begins work on this Moorish masterpiece
the Alhambra
18th CENTURY AMERICA | 2000 | One of these acts passed in 1798 called for the deportation of foreigners considered dangerous
the Alien & Sedition Acts
THE LATE 19th CENTURY | 400 | In 1889 this list of the 11 best college football players in the country first came out
the All-American football team
STORIES OF THE WAR | 200 | ""Founding Brothers"" &""Founding Mothers""
the American Revolution
THE CIVIL WAR | 600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) General Winfield Scott wanted to blockade the South in a siege-like fashion, control the Mississippi River & strangle the Rebels in his plan named for this South American serpent
the Anaconda Plan
NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 1200 | Fort Bowie in Arizona marks operations against this Native American people who were led by Geronimo
the Apache
THE CIVIL WAR | 600 | These mountains divided the war into 2 main theaters: east to the Atlantic & west to the Mississippi River
the Appalachians
HISTORY | 800 | This movement that spread across the Middle East began in late 2010 when protests in Tunisia led to the ouster of Pres. Ben Ali
the Arab Spring
LOWLY HISTORY | 800 | 1381's Peasants' Revolt stormed London & executed many bigwigs including Simon of Sudbury, this religious official
the Archbishop of Canterbury
THAT'S TOTALLY HISTORICAL! | 800 | In 1779 all the states except Maryland, which had some land issues, had ratified this precursor to the Constitution
the Articles of the Confederation
BATTLE NATIONS | 2000 | Home team France might rather forget this October 1415 English victory
the Battle of Agincourt (or Azincourt)
THAT'S TOTALLY HISTORICAL! | 1000 | Britannica, on the Battle of this, as the Yorkists faded: ""Richard, preferring death, was unhorsed and killed in the bog""
the Battle of Bosworth Field
HISTORIC BATTLES | 1200 | In what's known as the Battle of this town, William defeated Harold II at Senlac Hill some 7 miles away
the Battle of Hastings
HISTORIC PLACES | 800 | This 1815 battle was actually fought 3 miles south of the village, itself 9 miles south of Brussels
the Battle of Waterloo
THE COLD WARS | 800 | Lasting from December 16, 1944 to January 16, 1945, this critical WWII battle was fought in freezing mist & snow
the Battle of the Bulge
BACKING BANDS | 1600 | Billy Vera
the Beaters
HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART II | 800 | In 1962 Peter Fechter's pleas for aid went unanswered after he was shot while trying to climb over this
the Berlin Wall
THE 18th CENTURY | 800 | Amendment 8 of the 10 collectively known as this said cruel & unusual punishment was a big no-no
the Bill of Rights
BATTLESHIPS | 800 | Robert Ballard found the remains of this WWII German battleship in 1989; it appeared to have been scuttled, not sunk
the Bismarck
HISTORY | 1200 | In 1966 Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded this militant party in Oakland
the Black Panthers
THE 19th CENTURY | 800 | Paul Kruger's 1899 ultimatum provoked this South African war with the British
the Boer War
HISTORY | 400 | A war was named for them, the Dutch ancestors of the Afrikaners
the Boers
CHINESE HISTORY | 1200 | In 1901 China agreed to pay 11 nations about $330 million in damages that arose from this rebellion
the Boxer Rebellion
CNN HISTORIC REVOLUTIONS | 800 | (Here is Anna Coren.) In June 1900 threatened foreigners were trapped in Beijing's Embassy District for more than 7 weeks before international relief forces rescued them during this Chinese rebellion
the Boxer Rebellion
HISTORY | 600 | An international force seized Beijing on August 14, 1900, crushing this rebellion
the Boxer Rebellion
19th CENTURY PEOPLE | 400 | Seen here is an illustration of ""The Frog Prince"" in this duo's 1812 collection
the Brothers Grimm
NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II | 400 | Herman Wouk's book about this ship's mutiny was inspired by his experiences aboard a similar WWII vessel
the Caine
JUDEAN HISTORY | 1600 | Immediately before the Israelite conquest under Joshua, these people dominated Judea
the Canaanites
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT | 1600 | In 1957 Ford G.M. Richard Krafve said this new model would exceed sales expectations; it failed miserably
the Edsel
D.C. HISTORY | 400 | Slaves in Washington, D.C. were freed in April 1862, 9 months before this January 1, 1863 manifesto
the Emancipation Proclamation
HISTORIC DOCUMENTS | 200 | This 1863 document allowed the Union to recruit black soldiers
the Emancipation Proclamation
HISTORY, OLD & NEW | 1000 | Despite the name, this period of American history, around 1817-1824, was marked by complacency & isolationism
the Era of Good Feelings
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 400 | The Niagara Escarpment was a challenge in the building of this canal
the Erie Canal
ANCIENT HISTORY | 1600 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of ancient Italy.) Around 300 B.C. Rome controlled the area seen here. Within about 25 years it had conquered most of the Italian peninsula, including the Umbrians and these people occupying what is now Tuscany
the Etruscans
THE 20th CENTURY | 1000 | The 1957 treaty of Rome established this, the EEC for short
the European Economic Community
WORLD HISTORY | 1200 | This organization includes countries that spent centuries fighting, but it won the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize
the European Union
BRITISH HISTORY | 800 | In 1833 the royal navy threw Argentina out of this island group; they did it again 149 years later
the Falkland Islands
BATTLES IN THE WAR | 400 | Goose Green &Darwin,in 1982
the Falkland War
HISTORY | 800 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a map of Argentina and the adjacent Atlantic Ocean including a group of islands.) In 1982, British forces made a 200-mile war zone & landed near Port San Carlos in this territory to attack its capital over land, a winning strategy
the Falklands
AMERICA THE HISTORICAL | 800 | Using the pseudonym Publius, Alexander Hamilton wrote the majority of these essays in defense of the Constitution
the Federalist Papers
2 FOR THE LITERARY TAKING | 800 | Teen detectives join forces in ""Double Crossing"" when Nancy Drew teams up with these guys, Frank & Joe
the Hardy Boys
WORLD WAR II | 2000 | The Spitfire & this lesser-known ""stormy"" fighter were the keys to the RAF's victory in the Battle of Britain
the Hawker Hurricane
BACKING BANDS | 400 | Tom Petty
the Heartbreakers
WORLD WAR II | 1200 | Allied pilots flew a supply route to China called ""The Hump"" over these mountains
the Himalayas
IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT | 800 | In some versions, it's the knight Percival who succeeds in finding this vessel; Wagner told his story in ""Parsifal""
the Holy Grail
QUICK HISTORY | 800 | In German it was called ""Heiliges Romisches Reich""
the Holy Roman Empire
THAT'S HISTORY | 200 | Commoners rejoiced when the Parliament Act of 1911 took the power of absolute veto away from this house
the House of Lords
WORLD HISTORY | 2000 | On May 2, 1670 this enterprise was granted a charter to trade in furs & to colonize North America
the Hudson\'s Bay Company
FRENCH HISTORY | 1600 | Sparking the French Wars of Religion, 1,000 members of this group were massacred on March 1, 1562
the Huguenots
WORLD HISTORY | 2000 | Count de Chabrol really liked to count; he coined this term for Napoleon's brief return, March 20 - July 8, 1815
the Hundred Days
WORLD HISTORY | 200 | The 1360 Treaty of Bretigny in which France agreed to pay a ransom for King John II created a temporary peace in this war
the Hundred Years War
NAME THAT WAR | 1600 | The 1356 Battle of Poitiers
the Hundred Years\' War
THE 4th CENTURY | 2000 | Around 376 this nomadic people from central Asia defeated the Visigoths
the Huns
HISTORIC HANDSHAKES | 800 | In 2012, the Queen shook hands with Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, formerly a commander in this
the IRA
HISTORIC BATTLES | 400 | Francisco Pizarro's defeat of this empire at Cajamarca in 1532 led to the conquest of most of South America
the Inca
THE 16th CENTURY | 400 | In 1572 Spanish conquistadors captured & killed Tupac Amaru, the last native leader of these people
the Incas
HOOSIER HISTORY | 400 | This iconic track was built in 1909 as a testing facility for the local automotive industry
the Indianapolis Speedway
DECODING THE HITMAKING BAND | 200 | Samuel L.,Jesse,Reggie,Phil &Stonewall
the Jackson 5
THE '60s (19th CENTURY EDITION) | 200 | In 1866 these brothers began their criminal career with a bank robbery at Liberty, Missouri
the James brothers
PIGGYBACKING | 200 | Piggybacking on a 747, Space Shuttle Endeavour says goodbye to this, its old launch facility
the Kennedy Space Center
BRITISH KINGS NAMED EDWARD | 400 | In 1340 British King Edward III took this additional title; Philip VI must have said, ""I thought that was moi""
the King of France
NAME THAT WAR | 800 | The Inchon landing
the Korean War
THIS MEANS WAR! | 1200 | Marshal Choe Yong Gun leads his troops across a border
the Korean War
WAR NOVELS | 1200 | In James Salter's ""The Hunters"", set during this war, USAF pilots face off against MiGs above the Yalu River
the Korean War
WARS | 200 | The ROKA & the KPA were initial combatants in this 1950s war
the Korean War
HISTORY | 400 | This Moscow fortress dates back to 1156 but has had more administrative than military use since the 1600s
the Kremlin
THE WAR OF ...12 | 800 | A Russian movie is titled ""1612"", the year Polish occupation of this Moscow central fortress ended
the Kremlin
HONORS & AWARDS | 2000 | Napoleon created it in 1802 as a general military & civil order of merit
the Legion of Honor (la Légion d\'Honneur)
THE STORY OF THE 21st CENTURY | 1000 | The over 150-year-old investment bank named for these brothers went under in the 2008 financial crisis
the Lehman Brothers
JAPANESE HISTORY | 2000 | Holding power for the majority of time since 1955, the dominant political party in Japan is this one, the LDP
the Liberal Democratic Party
SPEAKING OF TONGUES | 200 | After a trip to San Francisco's Panama Pacific Exposition in 1915, this bell's tongue, or clapper, was immobilized
the Liberty Bell
HORRIBLE HISTORY | 1600 | In 48 B.C. Caesar looted scrolls from this Egyptian institution, later destroyed
the Library at Alexandria
FRENCH HISTORY | 1600 | In 1929 France began to build this ""line"" of heavy defensive fortifications against Germany
the Maginot Line
A POTPOURRI OF HISTORY | 200 | After some changes were made, King John accepted this document on June 19, 1215
the Magna Carta
BATTLESHIPS | 400 | On February 15, 1898, just hours after the photo seen here was taken, this battleship exploded
the Maine
CENTURY 19 | 800 | In January 1898 this U.S. Battleship went to Havana Harbor in part to protect U.S. citizens, but it would never leave
the Maine
HISTORIC OBJECTS | 1600 | Today thought of as a bejeweled statue, it was the Knights of Malta's annual tribute to the Holy Roman Emperor
the Maltese Falcon
LITERARY AWARDS | 2000 | First awarded in 1969, it's Britain's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
the Man Booker Prize
WORLD HISTORY | 800 | Enduring into the 20th Century, this last Chinese Imperial Dynasty is also called the Qing
the Manchu Dynasty
THAT'S TOTALLY HISTORICAL! | 400 | The full name of this 1963 event in U.S. history included the concluding part, ""for Jobs and Freedom""
the March on Washington
WAR NOVELS | 800 | ""The Short-Timers"" by Gustav Hasford follows a member of this military branch, from basic training to war in Vietnam
the Marines
AWARDS & HONORS | 400 | In 1998 the Kennedy Center created this prize for American humor
the Mark Twain Prize
BATTLE CREEK | 1000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a video & map on the monitor.) 600 taxis rushed troops to the front in the opening weeks of World War I to turn back a German drive on Paris, an event that came to be known as the Miracle of this battleground river
the Marne
ANCIENT HISTORY | 1600 | The city of Tikal became an important ceremonial center for this civilization prior to 100 A.D.
the Maya
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG | 600 | For capturing the flag of the 19th Virginia regiment, Mass. Corporal Joseph de Castro earned this decoration
the Medal of Honor
THE 17th CENTURY | 400 | In 1647 astronomer Johannes Hevelius published ""Selenographia"", an atlas of the surface of this
the Moon
WORLD HISTORY | 400 | In 1969 Apollo 11 landed humans here for the first time ever
the Moon
NEAR THE END OF THE CENTURY | 200 | In 1499 Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros began forced mass conversions of these Iberian Muslims
the Moors
THE IMAGE AWARDS | 200 | Honoring African Americans in the arts, the Image Awards were established in 1967 by this organization
the NAACP
POWER AWARDS | 1000 | Tobias Wolff & Sally Field have won the National Medal of Arts from this ""National"" government agency
the National Endowment for the Arts
WAR | 1600 | Going quite a few leagues under the sea, it was the first sub powered by a nuclear reactor
the Nautilus
AWARDS FOR WRITING | 1600 | This science fiction award is named for an interstellar gas cloud
the Nebula Award
A HISTORY LESSON | 600 | The FSA & NYA were part of the ""alphabet soup"" of this 1930s U.S. government program
the New Deal
KICKING AROUND FOR A WHILE | 400 | Adam Vinatieri, who turned 40 in 2012, has 1 Super Bowl ring with the Colts & 3 with this other AFC team
the New England Patriots
AWARDS & HONORS | 400 | Since 1922 this medal has been awarded for excellence in American writing for children
the Newbery
BACKING BANDS | 1200 | Huey Lewis
the News
BACKING BANDS | 2000 | Grace Potter
the Nocturnals
THE CIVIL WAR | 200 | Lincoln made George Meade the leader of the ""Army of"" this river in 1863
the Potomac
HISTORY'S ODDS & ENDS | 400 | In May 1936 the Hindenburg crossed the Atlantic for the first time & in June, this largest ocean liner did
the Queen Mary
UNFORTUNATE HISTORY | 800 | Pressed into service during WWII, this ""royal"" luxury liner rammed a navy cruiser in 1942, cutting it in half
the Queen Mary
QUEENS | 1200 | According to Jewish & Islamic traditions, she was the monarch of an ancient kingdom believed to be in Ethiopia or Yemen
the Queen of Sheba
THE QUEEN | 1600 | Also known as Makeda, in the Bible she visited King Solomon
the Queen of Sheba
MOROCCAN HISTORY | 1600 | In 429 the Vandals ended 400 years of control by this empire
the Roman Empire
WHO WON THE WAR ANYWAY? | 400 | This empire was victorious in wars Gallic & Punic
the Roman Empire
HISTORIC OBJECTS | 1000 | This slab of black rock now in the British Museum was used as building material by the Ottomans for Fort Julien, Egypt
the Rosetta Stone
FLYING INTO HISTORY | 1000 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) Most of the more than 3,000 Bell P-63 Kingcobra fighters built during World War II were delivered as part of the lend-lease program to this country for use in what was called the Great Patriotic War
the Soviet Union
HISTORIC OOPSIES | 1000 | It wasn't a great decision to anchor this mighty fleet in an exposed position off Calais in July 1588
the Spanish Armada
WOMEN IN HISTORY | 800 | Dolores Ibárurri, a heroine of the losing side in this 1930s war, remained honorary president of the Communist Party until 1989
the Spanish Civil War
BATTLES IN THE WAR | 600 | Las Guasimas &San Juan Hill
the Spanish-American War
PUERTO RICAN HISTORY | 400 | Puerto Rico became part of the U.S. as part of the terms ending this 19th century conflict
the Spanish-American War
THERE'S A WAR ON | 800 | April-December 1898
the Spanish-American War
THE MONARCHS OF ENGLAND | 1200 | The restoration of King Charles II in 1660 also restored this royal house
the Stuarts
THE 20th CENTURY | 400 | A 1956 international crisis revolved around control of this canal
the Suez Canal
WORLD WAR II | 1600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a naval animation on the monitor.) At the 1942 Battle of Cape Esperance, a line of Japanese ships received deadly raking fire from American Admiral Scott's fleet in a classic naval maneuver called ""crossing"" this
the T
WORLD HISTORY | 2000 | In 2009 Sri Lanka's government defeated the insurgent group called these ""Tigers"" after a 25-year civil war
the Tamil Tigers
THERE'S A WAR ON | 600 | 1618 to 1648:Duh
the Thirty Years\' War
WORLD HISTORY | 800 | ""Finlandization"" entered the language to mean official neutrality under the influence of this country
the USSR
THE KOREAN WAR | 600 | The forces of this organization were Korean & American, supplemented by troops from 15 other countries
the United Nations
THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY | 400 | Eleanor's triumph, passage of the UDHR, got her the first standing ovation for a single delegate in this organization's history
the United Nations
THE DAVY O'BRIEN QUARTERBACK AWARD | 200 | 1986:Vinny Testaverde of the Hurricanes
the University of Miami
WAR STORIES | 2000 | ""Fields of Fire"" &""Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder""
the Vietnam War
WAR STORIES | 600 | ""In Country"" is Bobbie Ann Mason's novel of a young woman coming to terms with her father's death in this war
the Vietnam War
WARS BY BATTLE | 600 | Lake Erie &New Orleans
the War of 1812
LOOKING DOWN WITH GEOEYE | 200 | From the heavens, this East Coast structure looks like part of an enormous sun dial
the Washington Monument
HISTORICAL HAIKU | 1600 | Loveless French ""affair"" /1797 /Letter-perfect mess
the XYZ Affair
CHINESE HISTORY | 1600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a portrait and a map on the monitor.) Huangdi won a great battle that consolidated his power among the tribes of the Huang He River, so it's fitting that he is referred to in English as the this emperor
the Yellow Emperor
THIS MEANS WAR! | 1600 | Egypt & Syria simultaneously attack Israel on 2 fronts, on a holy day
the Yom Kippur War
THE WAR OF 1912 | 1200 | An armistice ended when Turkey's government was overthrown by this ""youthful"" nationalist group
the Young Turks
DECADES OF DANCE | 800 | The Charleston
the \'20s
THE 15th CENTURY | 400 | This religious suppression began in earnest in 1481 with its first auto-da-fe punishments
the inquisition
THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH | 2000 | To New Yorkers it's a type of subway train; to Brits, it's the pub near home you usually frequent
the local
HISTORIC OOPSIES | 200 | During WWII the British sent known Communist Klaus Fuchs to the U.S. to work on this; soon he introduced the USSR to a fat man
the nuclear bomb (the atomic bomb)
LOWLY HISTORY | 1600 | The cliche ""You'll drive me into"" this place refers to a real home for the indigent; young Annie Oakley lived in one
the poorhouse
THE WAR OF ...12 | 400 | In the War of the Holy League, a big deal in 1512, the man in this post assembled an alliance against France
the pope
HISTORIC DAYS | 2000 | December 15, 1791
the ratification of the Bill of Rights
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING | 1200 | When his father was out of the country, teenage Philip II of Spain served as this, from Latin for ""rule""
the regent
BANKING | 600 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a check on the monitor.) A check contains lots of numbers: the number of the check itself, an account number & this 9-digit number that identifies the bank involved in the transaction
the routing number
HISTORY OF CARS | 400 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California.) The 1930 Nash 482R had 2 spark plugs per cylinder, a top speed of 75 miles per hour, & one of these features, which was also known as the ""mother-in-law seat""
the rumble seat
SCRAMBLED 20th CENTURY DECADES | 800 | A decade for me, me, me:""TEEN VISES""
the seventies
SEEKING ASYLUM | 400 | Iranian-Egyptian relations were frosted over by Cairo's grant of asylum to this man in 1979
the shah
PLANE SPEAKING | 800 | This alert! Ground & flight are types of this flap on top of the wing that rises to reduce lift & increase drag
the spoiler
WORKING ON THE RAILROAD | 600 | In the 19th century it was a railroad laborer who fed the furnace on a coal-fired train
the stoker
THE '60s (19th CENTURY EDITION) | 400 | On Oct. 24, 1861 Western Union completed this coast-to-coast line
the telegraph line
THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH | 400 | It's the 5-letter British slang term for what they've watched ""Eastenders"" on since 1985
the telly
SCRAMBLED 20th CENTURY DECADES | 600 | High unemployment:""I HIT REST""
the thirties
SCRAMBLED 20th CENTURY DECADES | 1000 | Roar away:""WINE TEST""
the twenties
MOUNTAIN BIKING | 1200 | Pirelliology is the art of identifying different ones of these from the tracks they've left in dirt or mud
tire treads
THE KING'S ENGLISH | 1000 | ""To earth"" is the term British electricians use in place of this verb
to ground
THINKING VERBS | 1600 | To join different ideas together into a coherent whole; chemists do it to create new compounds
to synthesize
BANKING & FINANCE | 800 | The Fed says bigger banks can risk more because Uncle Sam won't let them go under, this 4-word principle
too big to fail
COMPUTER HISTORY | 600 | A big hit with 1960s scientists, the CDC 1604 was one of the first computers with these instead of vacuum tubes
transistors
WARTHOGS | 200 | A young warthog's canine teeth eventually grow into a pair of these formidable defensive weapons
tusks
YUCKY HISTORY | 800 | At Valley Forge, 12 men crowded into tiny huts, & diseases including this ""ty"" pair killed 2,000 over the winter
typhoid and typhus
THE CIVIL WAR | 1000 | U.S. Grant's initials came to stand for this after giving extremely limited capitulation terms to Gen. Buckner
unconditional surrender
WEIRD HISTORY | 200 | A 1954 act of Congress added these 2 words to the Pledge of Allegiance
under God
LOWLY HISTORY | 2000 | Burakumin, Japan's version of this often-shunned low Indian caste, officially got equality in 1871
untouchables
JAPANESE HISTORY | 400 | Article 9 of the 1947 constitution says ""The Japanese people forever renounce"" this
war
FORWARDS & BACKWORDS | 200 | Married &nightly condensation
wed & dew
THINKING VERBS | 400 | To consider evidence carefully in the mind, or to put it on a scale
weigh
THE KING'S ENGLISH | 800 | Someone on the dole in England isn't eating up your pineapple, he's on this American equivalent
welfare
18th CENTURY AMERICA | 1200 | It's Philadelphia in the 1750s & what has Ben Franklin foisted on us now? Street lamps powered by this animal product
whale oil
STORIES OF THE WAR | 600 | ""A Bridge Too Far"" &""Eye of the Needle""
World War II
WAR STORIES | 400 | ""Mister Roberts"" &""The Naked and the Dead""
World War II
WARS BY BATTLE | 200 | Anzio &Bataan
World War II
WORRIER PRINCESS | 400 | In a 1980 movie she says, ""You're not actually going into an asteroid field""
Princess Leia
MAKING SOME COIN | 600 | In 2000 this Shoshone woman first graced our golden dollar coin
Sacagawea
QUEENS | 2000 | In 1654 this nation's queen Christina stunned Europe when she abdicated & became a Catholic
Sweden
FRENCH HISTORY | 800 | It's the facility represented here during a 1789 event
the Bastille
THE 15th CENTURY | 800 | This 1450s tome changed the course of culture & history
the Gutenberg Bible
WORLD WAR I | 1600 | On July 4, 1917 this AEF leader marched his troops through Paris to lay a wreath on the tomb of Lafayette
(Jon J.) Pershing
20th CENTURY HISTORY | 800 | This doctor's vaccine was declared safe & effective on April 12, 1955, the 10th anniversary of FDR's death
(Jonas) Salk
THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS | 2000 | December 25, 1944: The U.S. 101st Airborne repels a German attack on this town at the heart of the ""Bulge""
Bastogne
WORLD WAR II | 800 | The ""Death March"" from this Philippine peninsula cost the lives of thousands of Allied prisoners of war
Bataan
SOUTHERN HISTORY | 1000 | A red post that marked a border between 2 tribes is long gone, but this state capital named for it is there
Baton Rouge
RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? | 600 | Ima, I fear we may be lost! We are in Encino in this state & it is eerily quiet
California
THE WORKING DEAD | 200 | Surprisingly busy since her 1962 death, she had a good financial report in 2014: $17 million
Marilyn Monroe
WARNER BROS | 1600 | This Virginia politician gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2008
Mark Warner
THE 18th CENTURY | 600 | In 1765 he gave a rousing speech in the House of Burgesses to support his legislation against the Stamp Act
Patrick Henry
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 16th CENTURY | 800 | Commissioned by Gustav Vasa, the entire Bible was officially translated into this language for the first time
Swedish
WORLD HISTORY | 800 | On Sept. 3, 1939 Great Britain & then France declared war on Germany, & this war was on
World War II
20th CENTURY SENATORS | 800 | Shortly after the 1954 elections, the Senate voted 67-22 to condemn him for conduct ""contrary to Senate traditions""
(Joseph) McCarthy
HISTORY: HIRED & FIRED | 800 | You found paths for the pathfinder John C. Fremont. You're hired! & we'll name Nevada's capital for you!
(Kit) Carson
A HISTORY LESSON | 400 | Under the leadership of this Polish electrician, some 17,000 workers went on strike in 1980 at the Lenin shipyard
(Lech) Walesa
BATTLE HIM | 2000 | British general William Howe probably passed a flask to celebrate his victory in this Penn. battle September 11, 1777
Battle of Brandywine Creek
WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR | 200 | In the Austro-Prussian war, ""Austro"" won a few battles, but this prime minister won the war
Bismarck
NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 800 | A D.C. site is where Dr. Carter G. Woodson came up with Negro History Week, now expanded & renamed this
Black History Month
LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY | 800 | In the 1990s divers off the Carolina coast found the wreck of the Queen Anne's Revenge, captained by this pirate
Blackbeard (Edward Teach)
OSCAR-NOMINATED WARNER BROS. CARTOONS | 200 | ""Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt"", starring this long-eared fellow
Bugs Bunny
LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY | 1600 | In 38 A.D. this ""little boot"" emperor executed the Praetorian Guard prefect to whose support he owed his accession
Caligula
HISTORY IS HAPPENING | 800 | On Sept. 21, 1931 Herbert Hoover faces the obvious & says, ""The world is passing through a Great"" one of these
Depression
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT | 800 | In April 1633 Chief Inquisitor Father Vincenzo da Firenzuola told this astronomer that the Sun orbited the Earth
Galileo
BATTLE NATIONS | 800 | Ancient Callipolis is now this Turkish site of a World War I clash
Gallipoli
OTTOMAN HISTORY | 2000 | In 1354 Suleyman turned this peninsula on the Dardanelles into a strategic base; in 1915 it played a key role in WWI
Gallipoli
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 800 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated map on the monitor.) While attacking Stonewall Jackson, Union General John Pope got outflanked by James Longstreet & lost the 1862 second battle of this
Bull Run
WORLD WAR I | 1200 | British general Sir Ian Hamilton's amphibious assault on this peninsula in April of 1915 ended in a bloody 8-month stalemate
Gallipoli
HISTORY REPEATS | 600 | Like Abraham Lincoln, this president was also born in a log cabin & died from wounds inflicted by an assassin, in 1881
Garfield
PORTRAITS IN HISTORY | 1000 | He's the Italian hero pictured here--you might recognize him by the color of his attire
Garibaldi
HISTORIC NAMES | 1600 | After helping to bring Catherine the Great to power, this military leader & statesman became her lover
Grigory Potemkin
BEARD AWARD-WINNING CHEFS | 800 | French food isn't moist inside & crunchy outside, so Michel Richard ""discovered texture"" at this fast food place
KFC
HISTORICAL TITLES | 400 | Wilhelm I,1871-1888
Kaiser
OUR HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS | 1600 | This 1854 act introduced by Stephen Douglas created 2 new territories west of Missouri
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A HISTORY LESSON | 1600 | In 1608 this captain & a few other colonists left Jamestown & explored the Chesapeake Bay & its tributaries
(John) Smith
HISTORICAL NOVELS | 400 | In ""Telegraph Days"", Nellie Courtright interviews this dentist for the Tombstone paper
(Doc) Holliday
EX-PATRIOTS | 600 | This diminutive 1984 Heisman winner for Boston College played his last NFL season as a Patriot
(Doug) Flutie
THE KOREAN WAR | 400 | In September 1950 this general led the amphibious landing on Inchon; 7 months later, he was removed from command
(Douglas) MacArthur
REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) Even before the U.S. entry into the war, Americans were volunteering to drive Red Cross ambulances; one such adventurer was this 18-year-old, who was badly wounded in a mortar attack in Italy, nearly costing the U.S. a future Nobel Prize in Literature
(Ernest) Hemingway
HISTORY, ON THE MOVE | 1600 | The 2nd offensive by this offensive German lasted from January to July, 1942, with stops in Tobruk & Benghazi
(Erwin) Rommel
HISTORY | 400 | Protests in the Philippines in 1986 drove this longtime leader into exile
(Ferdinand) Marcos
REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIGURES | 1600 | After the revolution this ""Swamp Fox"" became a state senator in South Carolina
(Francis) Marion
20th CENTURY NAMES | 1600 | This director of ""M"" left Germany after Joseph Goebbels suggested that he make films for the Nazi government
(Fritz) Lang
THE 20th CENTURY | 800 | From 1986 to 1997, he was number one in the world, and from 1997 to 2000, only number one among humans
(Garry) Kasparov
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WARS | 400 | This military man with a famous plan bested Albert Schweitzer, among others, to win the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize
(George C.) Marshall
HISTORIC NICKNAMES | 200 | African-American scientist:""The Sweet Potato Man""
(George Washington) Carver
CIVIL WAR PEOPLE | 400 | Known for his Gettysburg ""Charge"", after the War he sold insurance in Richmond
(George) Pickett
INVENTIVE THINKING | 800 | The National Inventors Hall of Fame said his 1863 sleeping car was ""a parlor by day and a first-class hotel room at night""
(George) Pullman
19th CENTURY PEOPLE | 800 | Puttering about with peas, this monk laid the foundation for modern genetics
(Gregor) Mendel
HISTORICAL NICKNAMES | 600 | France's ""Magician of Iron""
(Gustave) Eiffel
20th CENTURY QUOTES | 800 | In a 1916 interview this Michigan businessman said that ""history is more or less bunk""
(Henry) Ford
HISTORY | 1200 | Ignoring a fleet signal at an 1801 battle, this Brit claimed, ""I have only one eye. I have a right to be blind sometimes""
(Horatio) Nelson
PO PRESENTS UNCONVENTIONAL WARRIORS | 200 | (Po delivers the clue.) This British admiral, killed during his greatest victory at Trafalgar, was blind in one eye but didn't wear an eyepatch. You know I would have. Nobody messes with you when you wear an eyepatch
(Horatio) Nelson
PRINCELY NICKNAMES | 800 | Youthful thievery earned this ""White Fang"" author the nickname ""Prince of the Oyster Pirates""
(Jack) London
DRUNK HISTORY | 1600 | This U.S. artist's 1945 marriage to Lee Krasner was a stabilizing factor he needed against his drinking
(Jackson) Pollock
HAWAIIAN HISTORY | 800 | Fresh out of Harvard's School of Horticulture & Agriculture, he founded the Hawaiian Pineapple Company in 1901
(James) Dole
HISTORICAL BLINDNESS | 2000 | On his failing eyesight, this New Yorker cartoonist said, ""Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!""
(James) Thurber
THE 17th CENTURY | 2000 | In the painting seen here, this Dutch artist portrayed another girl with a pearl earring--possibly his daughter
(Jan) Vermeer
CIVIL WAR GENERALS | 1600 | A Texas fort is named for this confederate general who led the Texas Brigade of the army of northern Virginia
(John B.) Hood
FACES IN HISTORY | 1000 | The Sherman Antitrust Act was designed in part to thwart this oil man
(John D.) Rockefeller
HISTORY | 600 | Joan the Mad, this woman's daughter, became Queen of Castile in 1504 but in 1509 was imprisoned for the rest of her life
(Queen) Isabella
HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES | 800 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) Though most of the problems were worked out by the 1964 version, the Chevy Corvair was one of the main cars covered unfavorably in this man's book ""Unsafe at Any Speed""
(Ralph) Nader
CIVIL WAR PEOPLE | 800 | It was at a victory that this CSA Gen. reportedly said, ""It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it""
(Robert E.) Lee
17th CENTURY AMERICA | 1000 | This founder of Providence, Rhode Island published the first Native American language dictionary in 1643
(Roger) Williams
HISTORY IS HAPPENING | 1200 | The statue of this man topples just as he does, along with his regime in April, 2003
(Saddam) Hussein
FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES | 200 | Even when you were el dictador of Peru in 1825, we still said viva el libertador!
(Simón) BolÃvar
FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES | 400 | Sir, your 1704 book ""Opticks"" laid the foundation for the science of spectrum analysis! You totally rock!
(Sir Isaac) Newton
IRISH HISTORY | 1600 | Perhaps an opportunistic co-opting of a Pagan goddess, she is the second-most prominent Irish saint
(St.) Bridget
THEY'RE HISTORY! | 800 | In 1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton & this woman formed the national woman suffrage association
(Susan B.) Anthony
LITERARY AWARDS | 1000 | Though dead almost 20 years, she won a 1982 Pulitzer for her ""Collected Poems""
(Sylvia) Plath
RECENT HISTORY | 1600 | In September 2013 this Texas senator held the floor for 21 hours in an effort to derail Obamacare
(Ted) Cruz
OHIO HISTORY | 200 | What's today known as this was established near Columbus in 1870 as an agricultural & mechanical college
(The) Ohio State (University)
INVENTIVE THINKING | 1000 | More than Bell's sidekick, he came up with a ringer that let a telephone caller alert the recipient
(Thomas) Watson
HISTORICAL QUOTATIONS | 800 | At Fort Donelson, Tennessee, in 1862, he uttered his demand for unconditional & immediate surrender
(Ulysses) Grant
LOOKING FOR ALASKA | 2000 | In 1728 this Dane in Russia's navy made the first of 2 voyages to the North Pacific
(Vitus) Bering
PRINCELY NICKNAMES | 1200 | ""Cowboy Philosopher"" & ""Prince of Wit & Wisdom"" were nicknames of this 1930s humorist
(Will) Rogers
HISTORY, ON THE MOVE | 800 | This Union general swung north in February 1865 through the Carolinas toward Virginia
(William T.) Sherman
CIVIL WAR GENERALS | 800 | Known for his scorched earth policy, this union general worked as a banker & lawyer before the war
(William Tecumseh) Sherman
HISTORY | 400 | In 1684 this Quaker said, ""I have led the greatest colony into America that ever any man did upon a private credit""
(William) Penn
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME | 800 | This 18th century German's ""critique"" of time? It's ""phenomenally real"" but ""noumenally unreal""
Kant
THE 19th CENTURY | 1600 | Exiled from Prussia in 1849, this newspaper editor printed his final issue in red
Karl Marx
ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS | 400 | MTV's Video of the Year for 2011 was this California gurl's ""Firework""
Katy Perry
WAR STARS | 200 | Cottage cheese was part of Michael Fassbender's Spartan diet to prep for this movie set at Thermopylae
300
QUEEN ELIZABETH'S DIAMOND JUBILEE | 200 | Jubilee festivities kicked off with a this many gun salute from the Tower of London, 41 more than a normal salute
62
THE STORY OF THE 21st CENTURY | 600 | Mike Piazza & this son of a Major Leaguer are the 2 sluggers joining the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2016
Ken Griffey, Jr.
HISTORY AS THEATER | 2000 | Not compromising with Henry VIII proves fatal for Sir Thomas More in this Robert Bolt drama
A Man for All Seasons
SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE | 800 | It is a fairy tale:""RUMMAGE MASTERMIND DISH""
A Midsummer Night\'s Dream
WORST PICTURE OF THE YEAR RAZZIE AWARDS | 1600 | ""I Know Who Killed Me"" starred this former child star & current bad girl as twins
Lindsay Lohan
MOROCCAN HISTORY | 400 | The opening of the film ""Casablanca"" tells us during World War II the city was full of people trying to get to this European capital
Lisbon
THE WORLD AT WAR | 2000 | This Japanese admiral planned and led the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor
Admiral Yamamoto
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WARS | 800 | Nobody won the Peace Prize in 1939, but both Neville Chamberlain & this Munich Pact partner were nominated
Adolf Hitler
BATTLES | 800 | In Shakespeare, before this battle Henry V rallies his troops, calling them ""We few, we happy few, we band of brothers""
Agincourt
EARLY 21st CENTURY CINEMA | 400 | In the documentary ""An Inconvenient Truth"", he mentions the South Atlantic had its first hurricane in 2004
Al Gore
THEY'RE HISTORY! | 400 | In 2007 this former VP won the Nobel Peace Prize, sharing it with the intergovernmental panel on climate change
Al Gore
A HISTORY LESSON | 800 | Czar Alexander II signed the 1867 Treaty of Cession that gave this territory to the United States
Alaska
THE WAR OF 1912 | 1600 | At war's end in 1913, this country on the Adriatic achieved independence from Turkey after 4 centuries
Albania
BRITISH HISTORY | 1600 | Perhaps referring to the White Cliffs of Dover, this earliest-known name for Britain was used as far back as 300 B.C.
Albion
19th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS | 800 | In 1882 this ex-vice president of the Confederacy was elected gov. of Georgia but died shortly after taking office
Alexander Stephens
THE CIVIL WAR | 2000 | In February 1865 Lincoln met with this Confederate vice president aboard the River Queen at Hampton Roads, Virginia
Alexander Stephens
HISTORICAL QUOTES | 400 | When told of a new theory, this Macedonian wept, ""When the number of worlds is infinite, I have not conquered one""
Alexander the Great
WORLD HISTORY | 400 | He's depicted here dealing with a tough knot In one of the storied moments of his career.
Alexander the Great
HISTORIC NAMES | 600 | She didn't see the revolution coming, resulting in her death at age 46 in 1918
Alexandra (of Russia)
D.C. HISTORY | 1600 | Washington originally included 2 port cities within its boundaries: Georgetown & this city that returned to Virginia in 1846
Alexandria
THE BRITISH MONARCH WHO... | 2000 | defeated the Danes at the Battle of Edington in 878
Alfred the Great
20th CENTURY EUROPE | 1200 | After this North African nation was given independence in 1962, some army officers accused de Gaulle of betraying France
Algeria
THE TONY AWARDS | 800 | This ""Murder, She Wrote"" actress has hosted or co-hosted a record 5 Tony telecasts
Angela Lansbury
WORLD HISTORY | 2000 | In 1961 Algerians began training rebels from this West African colony who wanted independence from the Portuguese
Angola
TEXAS HISTORY | 1000 | We miss this outspoken woman with white hair who became the governor of Texas in 1991
Ann Richards
HISTORICAL TITLES | 1600 | Book of Common Prayerauthor Thomas Cranmer,1533-1556
Archbishop of Canterbury
WORKING WOMEN | 400 | She's the author, commentator & media mogul seen here
Arianna Huffington
THE CIVIL WAR YEARS | 400 | In 1861 Army Surgeon Bernard Irwin earned the 1st Medal of Honor in Hostilities vs. Chiricahua Apaches in this future state
Arizona
WORLD HISTORY | 1200 | Named for a mythic king, this brother of Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon first before dying at age 15
Arthur (Prince of Wales)
LITERARY AWARDS | 1600 | A British sci-fi award named for this ""Childhood's End"" author consists of an engraved bookend
Arthur C. Clarke
SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE | 400 | With a happy ending:""YOU SAIL KITE""
As You Like It
HISTORY SINCE 1950 | 1000 | This country's first female leader, Khaleda Zia was prime minister in the 1990s & again from 2001 to 2006
Bangladesh
SEEKING ASYLUM | 800 | Known as Misha, he got asylum from Canada before joining the American Ballet Theatre
Baryshnikov
THE CIVIL WAR | 1200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) On May 2, 1863 Stonewall Jackson led his men on a 12-mile march to get into position for an attack on the unsuspecting federal troops. Lee remained behind for a frontal assault. This battle is considered Lee's greatest victory
Battle of Chancellorsville
WAR STARS | 600 | Agu is a child soldier in an African Civil War in this film that earned Idris Elba a Golden Globe nomination
Beasts of No Nation
JUDEAN HISTORY | 2000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Biblical Palestine was divided into two kingdoms--Israel in the north & Judea in the south, with this city that's still the main community of the Negev region as its southernmost town
Beersheba
EURO-MONARCHY | 1600 | Philippe, seen here, took over as this country's king in 2013
Belgium
SPOKEN WORD GRAMMY AWARDS | 600 | ""The Words of Gandhi"" won an 1984 Grammy for this actor who spoke them
Ben Kingsley
HISTORIC NAMES | 2000 | In 1861, 4 years after being selected to preside over Mexico's supreme court, he was elected president
Benito Juárez
THE 19TH CENTURY | 1000 | A 20th century Italian dictator was named for this 1860s president of Mexico
Benito Juárez
18th CENTURY SCIENTISTS | 400 | He wrote, ""In September 1752, I erected an iron rod to draw the lightning down into my house""
Benjamin Franklin
THAT IS LIKE SO LATE 20th CENTURY | 600 | ""It's all about"" these first names, aka C-notes
Benjamins
THE 18th CENTURY | 1000 | Working with Peter the Great's navy, this explorer went ""strait"" to the water routes between Siberia & North America
Bering
NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICALLY | 1600 | North Carolina's second-oldest town was named ""New"" this by Swiss settlers; a capital idea!
Bern
THE 12th CENTURY | 1200 | Berthold V founded this future Swiss capital in 1191 as a military post on the Aare river
Bern
HISTORICAL HAIKU | 400 | Seamstress for the band /Pennsylvania Navy job /1830s death
Betsy Ross
WORLD WAR I SLANG | 800 | The German gun ""Long Max"" was not as famous as this alliterative Krupp product
Big Bertha
20th CENTURY AMERICA | 400 | In 1975, it was the first monster truck & shared its name with an American legend
Bigfoot
ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS | 800 | This British musical about a coal miner's young son danced away with 10 Tony Awards in 2009
Billy Elliot
GERMAN HISTORY | 1600 | Jealous of this chancellor's fame, Wilhelm II forced him to resign on March 18, 1890
Bismarck
HISTORICAL QUOTES | 2000 | This 19th century ""Iron Chancellor"" predicted a European war started by some ""foolish thing in the Balkans""
Bismarck
A POTPOURRI OF HISTORY | 400 | Vlad III (that's the impaler) built the fortress of this Romanian city to try to hold back the Turks
Bucharest
A HISTORY LESSON | 800 | In 1703, John Sheffield, Duke of this, built a palatial estate on the former site of London's Arlington House
Buckingham
HISTORIC PLACES | 2000 | On Aug. 31,1901 Leon Czolgosz arrived in this city, where he would shoot Pres. McKinley
Buffalo
HISTORICAL TO-DO LISTS | 800 | July 20, 1969:Become second guy to walk on Moon; celebrate communion there
Buzz Aldrin
QUICK HISTORY | 400 | In 1756 this city's ""black hole"" made news
Calcutta
FORTUNE 500 THROUGH THE DECADES | 600 | In 1974 it was ""Good Times"" for this network, the top media company at No. 14
CBS
20th CENTURY AMERICA | 800 | These items that caused a 1983 holiday season frenzy were later immortalized on a stamp
Cabbage Patch Kids
BEST DRAMA SERIES EMMY AWARDS | 600 | 1985 & '86: This series about a female cop duo
Cagney & Lacey
CHINESE HISTORY | 400 | Begun in 486 B.C., China's ""Grand"" this is the world's longest manmade waterway
Canal
BRITISH HISTORY | 1000 | In 598 St. Augustine built a monastery near this settlement, which became the main religious center of England
Canterbury
NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 400 | Men, after visiting the Pro Football H.O.F. in this Ohio city, take your own first lady to the nearby First Ladies Historic Site
Canton
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 400 | In an 1875 ceremony at St. Patrick's, Archbishop John McCloskey became the first in the U.S. to achieve this position
Cardinal
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
16th CENTURY WRITING | 1200 | John Skelton's satire ""Collyn Clout"" was directed against this cardinal & adviser to Henry VIII
Cardinal Wolsey
THE EMMY AWARDS 1995 | 1200 | Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series:This sitcom legend as Alan Brady on ""Mad About You""
Carl Reiner
HISTORY | 600 | Her temperance newspapers included ""The Smasher's Mail"" & ""The Hatchet""
Carrie Nation
ANCIENT HISTORY | 2000 | In 439 A.D. Genseric the Vandal captured this North African city, which became the Vandal capital
Carthage
BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR | 400 | The story of this brave engineer began in Missouri in 1863
Casey Jones
THEY'RE HISTORY! | 2000 | Brutus called this man, his co-conspirator, ""the last of the Romans""
Cassius
BRITISH HISTORY | 800 | Still negotiating for peace, this prime minister met with Mussolini in Rome in January 1939
Chamberlain
HISTORIC JOB TITLES | 800 | Charles Townshend,1766:This taxing position under Pitt
Chancellor of the Exchequer
KING OF THE HILL | 1200 | Chaberton in France,800 A.D.
Charlemagne
WORLD HISTORY | 2000 | In 1429 Joan of Arc escorted the soon-to-be VIIth king of this name to Reims & stood by his side as he was crowned
Charles
A ROYAL BRITISH LOCKUP | 800 | This doomed king tried to break out of Carisbrooke Castle in 1648 but got stuck in the bars on his window
Charles I
KINGS OF ENGLAND NOT BORN IN ENGLAND | 800 | Dunfermline, Scotland was his birthplace in 1600; a chopping block was his final destination in 1649
Charles I
WHICH BRITISH MONARCH'S REIGN? | 1200 | Oliver Cromwell enters Parliament
Charles I
WHO WON THE WAR ANYWAY? | 1600 | The English Civil War was Parliament vs. this king, who surrendered in 1646
Charles I
MONARCHS OF ENGLAND | 1000 | This restored king ruled during the great plague of 1665 & the Great Fire of London the following year
Charles II
HISTORICAL ONLINE CHECK-INS | 1600 | 1949: I'm in Taiwan, setting up a government with other nationalist Chinese leaders
Chiang Kai-shek
WHO WON THE WAR ANYWAY? | 2000 | South America's War of the Pacific ended in 1883 with this winning nation cutting off Bolivia from the sea
Chile
WORLD HISTORY | 1200 | In August 2008 the Summer Olympics took place in this Asian country
China
HISTORIC HANDSHAKES | 1200 | The 2015 shake by Xi Jinping & Ma Ying-jeou marked the first top-level contact between these two countries in 66 years
China & Taiwan
A STUDENT OF HISTORY | 1200 | After this Brown University history major worked as a college sports commentator, he would. Go. All. The. Way to ESPN
Chris Berman
HISTORICAL TO-DO LISTS | 1200 | Sept. 5, 1666:Begin plan to rebuild post-Great Fire London; hand in to King in a week or so
Christopher Wren
IT HAPPENED IN THE 20th CENTURY | 600 | In May 1940 he became prime minister & began inspiring the British people
Churchill
HISTORIC NAMES | 2000 | Rome's greatest orator, he was invited to join the triumvirate of Caesar, Crassus & Pompey but declined
Cicero
QUEEN OF | 1200 | It was a while ago, so we'll give Longfellow a pass when he called this Ohio city ""Queen of the West""
Cincinnati
ANCIENT HISTORY | 1000 | The first Roman emperor born outside Italy, this slightly deaf & limping man took power in 41 A.D.
Claudius
THE DAVY O'BRIEN QUARTERBACK AWARD | 800 | 2015:The Tiger Deshaun Watson
Clemson
A PAGEANT OF ROYALTY | 600 | She had a Caesar on the side while she was married to her brother Ptolemy XIV
Cleopatra
ANCIENT HISTORY | 400 | After this queen died in 30 B.C., Egypt fell under Roman domination
Cleopatra
HISTORICAL NICKNAMES | 400 | ""The Serpent of the Nile""
Cleopatra
KINGS & QUEENS | 400 | She became queen in 51 B.C. when her father the pharaoh died
Cleopatra
THE QUEEN'S EXPIRATION DATE | 200 | August 30 B.C.in Alexandria
Cleopatra
YOU'RE HISTORY! | 800 | The name of this ancient queen is from the Greek for ""glory of her father""
Cleopatra
THE 19th CENTURY | 1600 | In 1893 his daughter Esther became the first child of a president to be born in the White House
Cleveland
HISTORIC HANDSHAKES | 200 | While attending Boys Nation in Washington, D.C., on July 24, 1963, this future president shook hands with JFK
Clinton
BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES | 2000 | Brunswick-Luneburg was an earlier name for the Hanovers; Saxe-this & Gotha was what they became
Coburg
STEPHEN KING | 400 | Like ""The Shining"", ""Misery"" deals with a writer stuck in this U.S. state during winter
Colorado
HISTORICAL QUOTATIONS | 400 | In a 1500 letter, he wrote, ""I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people""
Columbus
REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIGURES | 400 | On April 18, 1775, Massachusetts Governor Gage ordered British troops to destroy military stores in this town near Lexington
Concord
ANCIENT HISTORY | 1000 | Born in China in 551 B.C., this teacher & philosopher is also referred to as Kongfuzi, or ""Master Kong""
Confucius
HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE | 400 | In the 400s B.C. this Chinese philosopher went into exile for 12 years
Confucius
THE 4th CENTURY | 1600 | In 330 he dedicated the city of New Rome as his capital on the Bosporus; soon it was named for him
Constantine
THE WAR OF 1912 | 800 | The Greeks captured Salonika under this future king who shared his name with the namesake of ancient Istanbul
Constantine
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 1600 | In the 1810s this industrialist later known as a railroad tycoon operated a ferry between Staten Island & Manhattan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
WORLD WAR II | 1600 | On May 6, 1942 U.S. troops on this fortress island in Manila Bay surrendered to the Japanese
Corregidor
HISTORIC OOPSIES | 800 | In 1519 Montezuma let forces led by this Spanish explorer enter Tenochtitlan--oops
Cortés
WORLD HISTORY | 1600 | In the mid-1400s this Medici, grandfather of Lorenzo the Magnificent, headed the largest bank in Europe
Cosimo
WORLD HISTORY | 2000 | The legendary wealth of this king in what's now Turkey didn't help in 546 B.C. when the Persians defeated him
Croesus
BATTLE HIM | 1200 | He was killed in battle in June 1876, along with all of his approximately 210 soldiers
Custer
THE CIVIL WAR | 400 | More famous for a Montana battle, he & his men kept Jeb Stuart from attacking the Union rear at Gettysburg
Custer
BREAKING BAD | 800 | Germany broke the Munich Agreement of 1938 in march of 1939 by seizing the rest of this country that no longer exists
Czechoslovakia
WARSAW PACT ALUMNI NATIONS | 1200 | This onetime Warsaw Pact member has since split into 2 countries
Czechoslovakia
HISTORY | 1600 | In 1973 U.S. officials misread a Soviet message & went to level 3 in this system, 1 below the Cuban Missile Crisis
DEFCON
FACES IN HISTORY | 400 | This Tennessean is one of those we remember from the Alamo
Davy Crockett
HISTORIC HANDSHAKES | 1600 | They're the two men seen here in 1990
De Klerk & Mandela
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 800 | In the 1812 election, President Madison defeated this man, the nephew of his first Veep George Clinton
DeWitt Clinton
IT'S GETTING WARM | 600 | In 1913 this California low point had 5 straight days of at least 129 degrees
Death Valley
THE 17th CENTURY | 800 | In the Kalmar War these 2 countries fought over a region that is now part of northern Norway
Denmark & Sweden
20th CENTURY | 800 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virginia.) As war gave way to peace & then to war again, the battleship Wisconsin was mothballed three times & recommissioned twice; her latest return to service was in 1988, & three years later, she became the last U.S. battleship to actively participate in a foreign war when she took part in this operation
Desert Storm
CHECKING IN ON MARCH 26 | 200 | We are ""supreme""ly aware of March 26's significance to this singer--happy 71st
Diana Ross
BEAUTY QUEENS | 400 | Currently the anchor of ""ABC World News"", she served as America's Junior Miss of 1963
Diane Sawyer
WORLD HISTORY | 2000 | On May 7, 1954 a French outpost at this location fell to Communist Vietnamese forces
Dien Bien Phu
HISTORY | 600 | In 2013 this Brazilian president was not happy that the U.S. was listening in on her phone calls
Dilma Rousseff
DISNEY'S 7 DWARFS | 600 | Byname of sometime dentist John Henry Holliday
Doc
THE WAR OF 1812 | 800 | She had the frame of Gilbert Stuart's Washington portrait broken so that the canvas could be taken for safekeeping
Dolley Madison
HISTORIC NAMES | 2000 | Cixi, who ruled China in the late 19th & early 20th centuries, was known as the ""Empress"" this type of widow
Dowager
19th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE | 200 | ""I shall fix some things she like not--garlic and a crucifix--and so seal up the door of the tomb""
Dracula
IN THE ____ OF BATTLE | 800 | 1658 on a beach near Dunkirk, named for the sand formations on which it was fought:Battle of the ____
Dunes
HAWAIIAN HISTORY | 600 | In 1898 a camera crew from this inventor's company filmed scenes in the Hawaiian Islands
Edison
A ROYAL BRITISH LOCKUP | 2000 | Captured by barons, Henry III was freed in 1265 by his son, the future first king of this name
Edward
KINGS OF ENGLAND NOT BORN IN ENGLAND | 2000 | Born in Rouen in 1442, the fourth king of this name was a prominent figure in the Wars of the Roses
Edward
UNCROWNED ENGLISH MONARCHS | 1600 | His unpopular intention to marry twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson led to his abdication & non-crowning
Edward VIII
PRINCELY NICKNAMES | 1600 | This 19th c. actor known as the ""Prince of Players"" was the brother of a presidential assassin
Edwin Booth
THE SECRETARY OF WAR | 2000 | Secretary during the Civil War, he died 4 days after Grant appointed him to the Supreme Court
Edwin Stanton
NEAR THE END OF THE CENTURY | 800 | In 1799 the Rosetta Stone was found in this country
Egypt
A PAGEANT OF ROYALTY | 800 | In 1137 she was but a teenager, & not only did she inherit Aquitaine but also wed the future king of France!
Eleanor (of Aquitaine)
A ROYAL BRITISH LOCKUP | 1600 | After attempting to help her rebellious sons in 1173, she was imprisoned by her husband Henry II
Eleanor of Aquitaine
THE 12th CENTURY | 2000 | This queen of France was divorced from Louis VII in March 1152 & married Henry Plantagenet 2 months later
Eleanor of Aquitaine
BRITISH HISTORY | 800 | Thomas Bruce, earl of this, went east to Greece to get some marbles; his son James went west & was gov.-gen. of Canada
Elgin
COTTON IS KING | 400 | In 1794 this man patented his cotton gin
Eli Whitney
A ROYAL BRITISH LOCKUP | 1200 | In 1554 she spent 2 months in captivity after her sister Queen Mary suspected her of complicity in the Wyatt rebellion
Elizabeth I
MONARCHS OF ENGLAND | 600 | The one with the second-longest reign
Elizabeth II
WORKING WITH A BEATLE | 2000 | On Thanksgiving 1974, John joined this man at Madison Square Garden to perform ""Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds""
Elton John
WHEN I'M KING... | 400 | Japan, 1926-1989
Emperor Hirohito
A BRIEF TIME OF HISTORY | 800 | In Rome, 69 A.D. was ""The Year of the Four"" these, including Galba & Otho
Emperors
A SWEDISH KING NAMED GUS | 2000 | A patron of the arts, Gustav III reigned over an intellectual & cultural period of the 18th c. called Sweden's this
Enlightenment
THINKING | 800 | Flick the switch; the Age of Reason was also known as this
Enlightenment
20th CENTURY EUROPE | 1600 | By 1921 Romania, Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia formed a defense alliance called the Little this, French for ""understanding""
Entente
HISTORIC AGREEMENT WORDS | 1600 | In 1907 Britain, France & Russia formed the Triple this French word
Entente
PRINCELY NICKNAMES | 2000 | This 16th century Dutch scholar & author of ""Praise of Folly"" was known as the ""Prince of Humanists""
Erasmus
WOMEN IN HISTORY | 200 | In 1860 she established a school for nurses at St. Thomas' hospital
Florence Nightingale
WOMEN IN HISTORY | 400 | She declined burial in Westminster Abbey; her pallbearers were from Army units whose wounded she had tended
Florence Nightingale
THE VIETNAM WAR ERA | 1600 | In 1968 this anti-war candidate vied with fellow Minnesotan Hubert Humphrey for the Democratic nomination
Eugene McCarthy
20th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS | 400 | In 1959 NYC's Coronet Theatre was renamed to honor this ""Iceman Cometh"" dramatist
Eugene O\'Neill
'80s TONY AWARDS | 400 | In 1980 Mandy Patinkin took home a Tony for his role as Che in this musical
Evita
IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT | 600 | Arthur proves to be the rightful king of England by pulling this sword from the stone
Excalibur
FIRST, QUEENS | 600 | Parts of Queens were once marshland, including these ""Meadows"" that have hosted 2 World's Fairs
Flushing Meadows
CHINESE HISTORY | 2000 | After a massive demonstration in Beijing in 1999, China banned this spiritual movement, calling it a heretical cult
Falun Gong
FIRST, QUEENS | 1000 | A nature preserve makes up part of this Queens peninsula that juts ""Far"" into the Atlantic
Far Rockaway
CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN | 1600 | In the spring of 1862, this naval hero & his fleet captured New Orleans
Farragut
MICHIGAN HISTORY | 1600 | A city up north is named for this French priest who founded Michigan's first permanent Eur. settlement c. 1668
Father Marquette
OSCAR-NOMINATED WARNER BROS. CARTOONS | 600 | ""Walky Talky Hawky"", starring this, I say, this rooster
Foghorn Leghorn
CIVIL WAR SLANG | 1600 | A Union soldier could be called this, now found before ""Trade Commission""
Federal
THE 18th CENTURY | 600 | 1780s Americans who advocated a strong central government used this name, today associated with states' rights
Federalists
THE TONY AWARDS | 800 | This drama by August Wilson won for best revival of a play in 2010; stars Denzel Washington & Viola Davis also won
Fences
THE 8th CENTURY | 1600 | A tip of the hat to Idris I, who founded this Moroccan city in 789
Fez
THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS | 1600 | December 25, 1939:The Battle of Jelja commences in the ""Winter War"" between these 2 foes
Finland & Russia
WORRIER PRINCESS | 800 | This animated princess says to her rescuer, ""This is all wrong. You're not supposed to be an ogre""
Fiona
MICHIGAN HISTORY | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a graph on the monitor.) In 2016, the Washington Post showed lead in parts-per-billion in Michigan; with the normal level of cause for concern being 5, in Troy, it was 1.1, in Detroit, it was 2.3, & in this city, a staggering 27
Flint
THE 16th CENTURY | 400 | In 1501 Michelangelo returned to this city, his hometown, & began work on ""David""
Florence
HISTORIC NAMES | 400 | An 1855 London Times article called this wartime nurse ""a ministering angel without any exaggeration""
Florence Nightingale
CAMBODIAN HISTORY & CULTURE | 400 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh.) The Royal Palace grounds feature a statue of King Norodom, who in the late 1800s was compelled to first put his country under the control of this European power; of course, it was sculpted in that country
France
THE WAR OF 1812 | 1600 | This Washington attorney was held prisoner aboard a British ship in mid-September 1814
Francis Scott Key
13th CENTURY HIGHLIGHTS | 1600 | This patron saint of Italy died in 1226 & was swiftly canonized in 1228
Francis of Assisi
SPANISH HISTORY | 400 | Hitler said that he'd rather have teeth pulled than negotiate with this Spanish generalissimo
Franco
WHO WON THE WAR ANYWAY? | 1200 | In the 1930s Fascist forces led by this general won the Spanish Civil War
Franco
OF THE NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS | 1000 | For works like the one seen here, this Canadian-born architect won the first Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000
Frank Gehry
UNFORTUNATE HISTORY | 1200 | This president from N.H. began his inaugural address in ""bitter sorrow"", his son having recently died in a train wreck
Franklin Pierce
THE LATE 19th CENTURY | 400 | After the death of his cousin in 1889, this man became heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne
Franz Ferdinand
THE WALKING DEAD | 200 | Robert Englund once again sank his claws into this role in ""A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master""
Freddy Krueger
19th CENTURY NOTABLES | 800 | The Rochester, N.Y. home of this orator & former slave was a station on the Underground Railroad
Frederick Douglass
LITERARY AWARDS | 1600 | An award at Yale for the most outstanding nonfiction book on slavery &/or abolition is named for this man
Frederick Douglass
THE CIVIL WAR | 400 | In 1863 he published the article ""Men of Color, to Arms!"", urging black enlistment in the army
Frederick Douglass
I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD | 800 | In 1747 this Prussian king presented a musical theme to Bach, who used it to develop his ""Musical Offering""
Frederick the Great
ROYALTY | 800 | Under his rule from 1740 to 1786, Prussia became one of the great military powers & intellectual centers of Europe
Frederick the Great
WAR STARS | 800 | As the first female trainee in the Navy's elite SEAL program, Demi Moore is determined to succeed in this film
G.I. Jane
WARDROBE | 1600 | In 2012 this jeans & apparel company founded by Georges Marciano & Brothers celebrated 30 years in retail
GUESS
13th CENTURY HIGHLIGHTS | 400 | In 1215 Beijing was captured by this nomadic warrior-ruler
Genghis Khan
ITALIAN HISTORY | 2000 | This city-state & republic on the Ligurian Sea lasted from the 11th century until 1797
Genoa
MONARCHS OF ENGLAND | 400 | He was king not only during the American war of independence but during the War of 1812 as well
George III
PRE-'80s HISTORY | 200 | The U.K. was formed with the 1801 addition of Ireland to the realm of this king
George III
WHICH BRITISH MONARCH'S REIGN? | 1600 | The Battle of Trafalgar
George III
THE CIVIL WAR | 1000 | In November 1861 this Union man became general in chief of all armies; by March 1862, he lost the gig
George McClellan
RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? | 200 | Petunia my lovely, this Pennsylvania battle goes on & we are to assault Culp's Hill! My life insurance policy is in the chifforobe
Gettysburg
QUEEN VICTORIA | 800 | Not always stuffy, Vicki saw this duo's ""The Gondoliers"" & beat time to the song ""Then One Of Us Will Be A Queen""
Gilbert & Sullivan
B.C. KING | 1000 | This legendary king of uruk ruled in the third millennium B.C.; the ""epic"" thought to be about him would come later
Gilgamesh
20th CENTURY PEOPLE | 1000 | After her 1978 death, it was revealed that this ex-prime minister of Israel had leukemia for 12 years
Golda Meir
I AM HISTORY! | 2000 | Ukraine-born, she moved to the U.S. in 1906 & eventually became a world leader for Israel
Golda Meir
NEAR THE END OF THE CENTURY | 600 | 1998 brought the ""agreement"" named for this holiday to Northern Ireland; just in time for Easter!
Good Friday
THE MARCH OF HISTORY | 200 | In March 1985 this man who would make big changes became general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party
Gorbachev
19th CENTURY OPERA | 1600 | One of the many composers to write a ""Faust"" opera, he was buddies with Bizet
Gounod
18th CENTURY AMERICA | 1600 | In the 1780s this ""Gouverneur"" proposed the decimal monetary system & devised the name ""cent"" for the basic coin
Gouverneur Morris
HISTORICAL TITLES | 1200 | Pontius Pilate in Judea,26-36
Governor
19th CENTURY NOVEL QUOTES | 1200 | ""Miss Havisham was alone. 'Well?' said she, fixing her eyes upon me. 'I hope you want nothing? You'll get nothing""'
Great Expectations
THE WORLD AT WAR | 400 | In October 1940 Italy launched an invasion of this country only to get routed by the gyros of General Papagos
Greece
QEII IS THEIR QUEEN TOO | 800 | A Crown colony in 1877, it became independent in 1974 & was invaded by the U.S. in 1983
Grenada
THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS | 800 | Not to be confused with ""I am Groot"", this exuberant tight end could declare, ""I am Gronk""
Gronkowski
HISTORIC BATTLES | 2000 | The U.S. Marines' 6-month battle for this island in the Solomons helped secure American air superiority in the Pacific
Guadalcanal
FORTUNE 500 THROUGH THE DECADES | 800 | In 1964 the top 10 had 4 oil companies, including this one named for a body of water
Gulf
A SWEDISH KING NAMED GUS | 1200 | Deposed in 1809, Gustav IV Adolf went into exile using this last name, which makes sense as his father was Gustav III
Gustafsson
THE 2nd CENTURY | 800 | This Roman emperor visited Britain in 122 A.D. & had some ideas for military construction
Hadrian
19th CENTURY PEOPLE | 600 | A former slave, Emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines was assassinated in what's now this Caribbean nation in 1806
Haiti
HISTORY | 1000 | Henri Christophe helped Toussaint L'Ouverture liberate this country, then tyrannically ruled its northern part
Haiti
ANCIENT HISTORY: 1986 | 400 | This object reached its closest point to Earth in April 1986, its second visit to our skies in the 20th century
Halley\'s Comet
BRITISH KINGS NAMED EDWARD | 800 | King Edward I was known as this carpentry tool ""Of The Scotts""
Hammer
ANCIENT HISTORY | 400 | Much of what is known about Babylonian society comes from this 18th century B.C. king's code
Hammurabi
ANCIENT HISTORY | 400 | Under this Babylonian king's code, receiving stolen property was punishable by death
Hammurabi
SPEAKING IN CODE | 800 | If your wife got sick, it was cool to re-wed, but you had to take care of your sick wife until she passed, said his 1700s B.C. code
Hammurabi
CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE | 2000 | The Battle of the Monitor & the Merrimack is also called the Battle of this Virginia channel
Hampton Roads
ANCIENT BATTLES | 1600 | Defeat at the 207 B.C. Battle of the Metaurus River ended this man's efforts to conquer Italy
Hannibal
HISTORIC BATTLES | 800 | At Zama in 202 B.C., he sent 80 elephants charging into Roman ranks but lost the battle
Hannibal
WORLD HISTORY | 600 | In 219 B.C. this Carthaginian attacked the Roman ally of Saguntum in Spain, & Rome soon declared war.
Hannibal
WHICH DISNEY DWARF? | 400 | Jocund
Happy
THE LATE 19th CENTURY | 2000 | In 1890 a mercenary force organized by Cecil Rhodes founded Fort Salisbury, today this national capital
Harare (Zimbabwe)
HISTORICAL QUOTES | 1200 | This former slave once told Frederick Douglass that in all her journeys she ""never lost a single passenger""
Harriet Tubman
HUGO AWARD-WINNING NOVELS | 400 | J.K. Rowling won in 2001 for this novel partly about an object full of flames
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
THE TONY AWARDS | 1600 | 2 have won Tonys for playing the opposite sex: Mary Martin as Peter Pan & this actor as Edna Turnblad in ""Hairspray""
Harvey Fierstein
POLISH HISTORY | 2000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1569, a jointly elected sovereign was a feature of the Union of Lublin, which merged Poland with this country, whose modern borders are seen here
Lithuania
BATTLE CREEK | 400 | A tributary of the largest tributary of the Yellowstone, it became famous in 1876
Little Big Horn
19th CENTURY BRIT LIT | 2000 | Amy is the real name of this Dickens title character who was born in the Marshalsea debtor's prison
Little Dorrit
WAR STORIES | 1000 | ""The Winds of War"" in the title of this man's 1971 bestseller blow the U.S. into World War II
Herman Wouk
FLYING INTO HISTORY | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) In the P-51 Mustang, the Allies finally had a fighter with the range to fly from England into the heart of Germany & back; when he saw mustangs over Berlin, this Luftwaffe chief reportedly said he knew that World War II was lost
Hermann Goering
HISTORIC NAMES | 800 | In a Jan. 1, 1946 broadcast, he repudiated his semi-divine status as emperor
Hirohito
KING OF THE HILL | 800 | Mount Fuji,1944
Hirohito
THE 15th CENTURY | 800 | Already king of Hungary & Bohemia, Sigismund ascended to this imperial title in 1433
Holy Roman Emperor
HISTORY 101 | 800 | Around 101 A.D., an invasion began to drive the indigenous Ainu from this largest Japanese island
Honshu
19th CENTURY LITERARY MARRIAGES | 2000 | Charles, a simple widower, marries Emma, this title Frenchwoman; things go...poorly
Madame Bovary
I AM HISTORY! | 1600 | In the 1940s he needed 2 tries to become mayor of Minneapolis; 20 years later, he was vice president
Hubert Humphrey
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS | 800 | When Alice first meets this character, he's sitting on top of a high wall ""with his legs crossed, like a Turk""
Humpty Dumpty
WARSAW PACT ALUMNI NATIONS | 800 | In November 1956 it said it was leaving the pact; enter Soviet tanks
Hungary
I KINGS | 1200 | This Jordanian king who died in 1999 was known to his people as Al-Malik Al-Insan or ""The Humane King""
Hussein
HISTORIC NICKNAMES | 1000 | U.S. admiral:""Father of the Atomic Submarine""
Hyman Rickover
ALABAMA HISTORY | 400 | Alabama claims the USA's oldest of these pre-Lenten celebrations, & moon pies are more typical than beads on the floats
Mardi Gras
COMPUTER HISTORY | 1600 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California)Punch-card tabulators vastly reduced the time needed to conduct the 1890 census and save taxpayers millions; They were created by Herman Hollerith, the father of modern automatic computation, who founded what is, today, this three-letter business giant
IBM
WORKING OVERTIME AT THE COMPANY | 1600 | I'm not leaving my office at this company until I finish putting together a set of our Klubbo nesting tables
IKEA
ABBREV. BACKWARDS & FORWARDS | 1600 | A heart attack suffered by a member of Jim Phelps' force
IM MI
HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE | 1000 | It was the peninsula fought over in the peninsular war of 1808 to 1814
Iberian peninsula
TRUCKING | 800 | Episodes of this History Channel series have taken place on Alaska's Dalton Highway & the frozen lakes of Canada
Ice Road Truckers
THE 8th CENTURY | 800 | The Irish probably discovered this island in the 8th century; the Vikings settled it in 874
Iceland
WEIRD HISTORY | 600 | Part of this former dictator of Uganda's official title was ""lord of all the beasts of the Earth & fishes of the sea""
Idi Amin
PRINCE ALBERT | 2000 | Though Albert was only a prince, Alfred, Lord Tennyson dedicated this epic poetic work to him in the 1862 edition
Idylls of the King
PICK YOUR BATTLE | 1000 | Starring Napoleon:Marathon,Marengo,Megiddo
Marengo
WOMEN IN HISTORY | 1000 | In 1914 she began distributing a pamphlet called ""Family Limitation"" that outlined her views
Margaret Sanger
DECODING THE HITMAKING BAND | 800 | Form a mental image of Puff & Drogon
Imagine Dragons
18th CENTURY PEOPLE | 2000 | In 1781 he ""critique""d Leibniz' idea that the mind can grasp truths about entities like God
Immanuel Kant
FASHION HISTORY | 1200 | Worn in the 1870s, a full sleeve tied at intervals was named for this wife of Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
HISTORIC WOMEN | 800 | In June 1984 she ordered an army attack on a Sikh shrine at Amritsar that killed hundreds
Indira Gandhi
HISTORICAL TIME UNITS | 2000 | Brutal repression of Communists made 1965 this Asian country's ""Year of Living Dangerously""
Indonesia
HISTORIC WOMEN | 400 | Lavish spending & an extravagant lifestyle led her countrymen to call this 18th c. French queen ""Madame Deficit""
Marie Antoinette
THE UNCIVIL WARS | 400 | Casualty estimates for the bitter 1980s war between Iran & this country range from 1 to 2 million
Iraq
HISTORY | 400 | The Normans invaded England in 1066, & the Anglo-Normans invaded this large nearby isle in 1169
Ireland
THE 18th CENTURY | 400 | The problem with the story of this queen saying, ""Let them eat cake"" after being told Parisians had no bread? It's false
Marie Antoinette
THE QUEEN'S EXPIRATION DATE | 600 | November 26, 1504inMedina del Campo, Spain
Isabella
WOMEN IN HISTORY | 600 | In 1770, at age 14, she married Louis XVI by proxy in Vienna; the 2 had never met
Marie Antoinette
UNCROWNED ENGLISH MONARCHS | 1200 | This third wife of Henry VIII had her coronation postponed due to plague & then died after childbirth
Jane Seymour
EX-PATRIOTS | 1000 | The family of this former Patriot linebacker allowed his brain to be studied after his untimely death in 2012
Junior Seau
THE LATE 19th CENTURY | 1200 | In 1892 astronomer E.E. Barnard discovered Amalthea, the 5th moon of this planet; the first 4 were found in 1610
Jupiter
WORLD WAR II | 400 | The Allies blew up an abbey en route to capturing Monte Cassino in this country
Italy
WORLD HISTORY | 1600 | It's believed no public statue has ever been made of this czar & folks in Oryol City said in 2016 we don't want one either
Ivan the Terrible
THE QUEENS ENGLISH | 400 | This airport in Queens used to be called Idlewild
JFK
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY | 400 | A tour of his infamous trail of murder starts at the Aldgate East Tube station
Jack the Ripper
2 FOR THE LITERARY TAKING | 2000 | First names of the fairy tale-collecting Grimm Brothers
Jacob & Wilhelm
FRENCH HISTORY | 1200 | France enjoyed a round of ""Frere Jacques"" in 1995 when he went from being mayor of Paris to the presidency
Jacques Chirac
QEII IS THEIR QUEEN TOO | 2000 | Don't dread this English-speaking country 90 miles south of Cuba
Jamaica
THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND | 2000 | ...who wasn't also king of England was the V of this name, reigning from 1513 to 1542
James
THE BRITISH MONARCH WHO... | 400 | became king of Scotland in 1567 & of England in 1603
James I
WHICH BRITISH MONARCH'S REIGN? | 2000 | Shakespeare dies
James I
THE SECRETARY OF WAR | 1600 | Nice balancing act! This future prez was Madison's Secretary of State & War at the same time
James Monroe
15th CENTURY NOTABLES | 2000 | In 1411 the pope excommunicated this Czech reformer for espousing the tenets of John Wycliffe
Jan Hus
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WARS | 1600 | Columbia University president Nicholas Murray butler & this Hull House founder tied for first for the 1931 Peace Prize
Jane Addams
HISTORICAL HAIKU | 2000 | 10 days, that's too much /I don't want the crown, she said /16 & headless
Jane Grey
'80s TONY AWARDS | 800 | In 1989 ""Jerome Robbins' Broadway"" won 6 Tonys, including one for this ""Seinfeld"" co-star
Jason Alexander
THE SECRETARY OF WAR | 800 | Pierce's War Secretary, he soon ended up in a war, all right... with the United States
Jefferson Davis
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY | 200 | Trace Jesus' steps in this city as he walked down the Via Dolorosa towards Golgotha
Jerusalem
STEPHEN KING | 800 | It's the full name of the town visited by vampires in ""'Salem's Lot""
Jerusalem\'s Lot
A SWEDISH KING NAMED GUS | 800 | At the 1912 Olympic games, Gustav V told this American, ""Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world""
Jim Thorpe
FACES IN HISTORY | 600 | Here's this 15th century French woman in happier times, at the coronation of Charles VII
Joan of Arc
FRENCH HISTORY | 800 | In Domremy around 1425, she began to hear voices encouraging her to lead the French army
Joan of Arc
YAS QUEEN | 1000 | A 16th century queen of Castile was known as Juana La Loca, which translates to this in English
Joan the Mad (or Crazy)
GOD SAVE THE ENGLISH KING! | 400 | Under threat of civil war, this king set his seal to the Magna Carta in 1215
John
MONARCHS OF ENGLAND | 800 | This king, brother of Richard the Lionheart has a bad reputation; even his title, Count of Mortain, sounds evil
John
PORTRAITS IN HISTORY | 400 | His wife, Abigail, called the portrait of him painted by Samuel Morse ""a stern, unpleasing likeness""
John Adams
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 400 | He's the abolitionist pictured here a few years before his raid on an arsenal & his hanging
John Brown
QUEEN VICTORIA | 1600 | Queen Victoria was buried with a picture of this devoted personal servant & a lock of his hair
John Brown
YOU'RE HISTORY! | 1600 | This man who died in Geneva in 1564 carried on the Reformation after Luther
John Calvin
MAKING SOME COIN | 800 | In 1948 Ben Franklin was on our half-dollar piece; 1964 saw the first minting with this man's face
John F. Kennedy
LITERARY AWARDS | 2000 | Arthur Schlesinger Jr. won 2 National Book Awards for nonfiction for books about each of these 2 brothers
John F. Kennedy and R. F. Kennedy
FACES IN HISTORY | 800 | This first Chief Justice affirmed the federal government's power over states
John Jay
THE QUEENS ENGLISH | 800 | Dis guy, dis guy grew up in Queens and won de big event in de borough four times
John McEnroe
YOU'RE HISTORY! | 400 | After the Revolutionary War, this ""Father of the American Navy"" served as a rear admiral in Russia's fleet
John Paul Jones
HISTORY | 400 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A stop at Dr. Samuel Mudd's home, landing mistakenly in Maryland, & dying a few days later near Bowling Green were part of his ill-fated 1865 escape route
John Wilkes Booth
THE 19th CENTURY | 1200 | Not a fan of abolitionists, he was a volunteer in the militia at the hanging of John Brown
John Wilkes Booth
CIVIL WAR SLANG | 1200 | A Confederate soldier could be called by this first name whether he was ""marching home"" or not
Johnny
WORLD WAR II: ON THE HOME FRONT | 1600 | In 1943 kids were enjoying Esther Forbes' novel about this title Johnny & the Revolutionary War
Johnny Tremain
AMERICA THE HISTORICAL | 1000 | On May 31, 1889 a dam collapse led to this Pennsylvania city's flood, killing 2,200 people
Johnstown
HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE | 800 | The Ammonites held sway in this Mideast country in the 1200s B.C. & the capital is named for them
Jordan
QUEENS | 1600 | Lisa Halaby took the name Noor al-Hussein in 1978 when she became queen consort of this country
Jordan
SPANISH HISTORY | 1600 | In 1808 Napoleon gained control of Spain & named this brother as king
Joseph Bonaparte
THE MARCH OF HISTORY | 400 | She married Napoleon March 9, 1796; 2 days later, her groom left for the army
Josephine
BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERS | 1600 | 2012, Screenplay:""The Cabin in the Woods"" by Drew Goddard & this ""Buffy"" biggie
Joss Whedon
BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERS | 2000 | Novel, 1995:""Zombie"" by this prolific woman
Joyce Carol Oates
I KINGS | 800 | In 1975, after a lapse of 44 years, he restored the Bourbon monarchy to Spain
Juan Carlos
KING OF THE HILL | 2000 | Pico Del Teide in the Canary Islands,since 1975
Juan Carlos
WORLD HISTORY | 1200 | Devised in 46 B.C. & named for a Roman leader, it marked time for more than 1,500 years before being replaced
Julian calendar
THE EMMY AWARDS 1995 | 800 | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series:This actress as nurse Carol Hathaway on ""ER""
Julianna Margulies
ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS | 1200 | Ty Burrell & this TV wife on ""Modern Family"" both won Best Supporting Comedy Emmys in 2011
Julie Bowen
HISTORY | 800 | This dictator's last battle was the defeat of Pompey's sons at Munda in 45 B.C.
Julius Caesar
HAPPY HISTORY | 400 | Venezuela declared independence on this date, 35 years & 1 day after ours
July 5, 1811
THE LATE 19th CENTURY | 1600 | When P.T. Barnum purchased this animal from the London Zoo in 1882, the queen demanded the sale be stopped
Jumbo
LOOKING FOR ALASKA | 400 | In 1880 gold was found near this city that would later become Alaska's capital
Juneau
WARM | 600 | Because it's located near the equator, Mombasa in this country enjoys good weather all year
Kenya
CAMBODIAN HISTORY & CULTURE | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Cambodia.) Not to be confused with karma, krama is a popular accessory sold in cambodia; the word means ""scarf"" in this national language of Cambodia
Khmer
WORKING OVERTIME AT THE COMPANY | 2000 | It's 2 A.M. & I'm going over the specs for a Sedona from this car company; lucky I'm not behind the wheel of one
Kia
NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICALLY | 1200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Wright Brothers Nat'l Memorial in North Carolina.) In 1902, the Wright Brothers made over 1,000 glider flights from the slopes of this 90-foot hill that was then a massive sand dune
Kill Devil Hill
20th CENTURY PEOPLE | 600 | North Korea's press said this leader played his very 1st round of golf in 1994 & did okay--a nifty 38 under, with 5 aces
Kim Jong-il
KINGS & QUEENS | 1200 | Under Roman control, this monarch became king of Judea in 37 B.C. & later of all of Palestine
King Herod
ROYALTY | 1200 | Under this king, Jordan expelled the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1971
King Hussein
COME AT THE KING | 1600 | In 336 B.C. a young Macedonian noble named Pausanias killed this king but was killed on the spot himself
King Philip
A PLACE FIT FOR A KING | 2000 | The seat of Ulster County, it was New York's first state capital
Kingston
HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE | 200 | This member of the Nixon & Ford cabinets was born in Furth, Germany in 1923
Kissinger
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 2000 | In 1882 Father Michael McGivney founded this Catholic fraternal organization
Knights of Columbus
HOOSIER HISTORY | 1200 | From 1918 to 1931, he coached football in Indiana, racking up 105 wins, 12 losses & 5 ties
Knute Rockne
INVENTIVE THINKING | 400 | In 1888 George Eastman offered this small box camera for $25; that's about $600 in today's dollars
Kodak
1990s HISTORY | 800 | In 1997 he became the U.N.'s first secretary-general from sub-Saharan Africa; in 2012 he tried to make peace in Syria
Kofi Annan
THE 15th CENTURY | 2000 | Hangul was developed and made the official writing system of this peninsula
Korea
WAR STORIES | 1000 | ""The Manchurian Candidate"" by Richard Condon
Korean War
A HISTORY LESSON | 1200 | In support of this Yugoslav province, NATO launched a 78-day air-strike campaign on Serbian targets in March 1999
Kosovo
THE 20th CENTURY | 1000 | Called the Night of Broken Glass in English, it's the German name for the terrible night of November 9-10, 1938
Kristallnacht
HISTORIC OBJECTS | 800 | To reconstruct the original Hollywood sign, you'd have to add these 4 letters
L-A-N-D
LOOKING GOOD! | 800 | That Dermablend face makeup is magnifique! This company that makes the stuff was right: you're worth it!
L\'Oreal
ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS | 1600 | In 2008 this trio composed of Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott & Dave Haywood was named CMA New Artist of the Year
Lady Antebellum
SPOKEN WORD GRAMMY AWARDS | 400 | Garrison Keillor earned a Grammy for telling tales about the ""Days"" of this spot
Lake Wobegon
RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? | 1000 | O fair Lulubelle, my pancreas lies somewhere in S.C. but its islets of this, whose beta cells make insulin, live in my mem'ry
Langerhans
THE 19th CENTURY | 400 | In the 1870s cowboy Frank Maynard turned an old ballad into the mournful song about ""The Streets Of"" this city
Laredo
THE 20th CENTURY | 2000 | From April to October 1980, a flotilla of Cubans seeking freedom in the U.S. fled this Cuban port
Mariel
I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD | 400 | This Shakespeare king says he's ""a very foolish fond old man"" & asks his daughter to ""forget and forgive""
Lear
TEXAS HISTORY | 400 | On Nov. 22, 1963 around 1:45 PM, he was arrested at the Texas Theatre, about an hour & 15 minutes after his crime
Lee Harvey Oswald
THE 11th CENTURY | 800 | In 1001 Norway's King Olaf commissioned this explorer to spread Christianity across Greenland; he got sidetracked
Leif Erikson
HISTORICAL QUOTES | 800 | One quote from him is ""We must now set about building a proletarian socialist state in Russia""
Lenin
WORLD WAR II | 2000 | Scientists at a seed bank starved rather than eat the seeds in the siege of what was then this Soviet city
Leningrad
NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II | 1600 | His 1961 novel ""Mila 18"" tells of the 1943 Jewish uprising in the Warsaw ghetto
Leon Uris
ROYALTY | 1600 | Let's see if you know that Letsie III has been king of this African country since the 1990s
Lesotho
WAR STARS | 1000 | As General Kuribayashi, Ken Watanabe led the defense of an isolated Pacific island in this 2006 movie
Letters from Iwo Jima
'80s TONY AWARDS | 1600 | This funny lady's ""Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"" yielded her a Tony in 1986
Lily Tomlin
WORKING WITH A BEATLE | 800 | ""Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey"", a 1971 No. 1, is credited to Paul and this woman
Linda Eastman (McCartney)
HISTORIC DAYS | 800 | 10003
Lindbergh flight across Atlantic
THE ROYAL THEY | 400 | 1660 to 1683: this radiant royal & Marie-Therese
Louis XIV
COME AT THE KING | 800 | Talk about wanting a recount! On Jan. 19, 1793, this king was condemned to death by 380 votes to 310
Louis XVI
1812: THE WAR & MORE | 400 | Formerly the Orleans Territory, it became the 18th state
Louisiana
19th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS | 200 | Pierre Auguste Bourguignon Derbigny, Henry Thibodaux & Andre Bienvenu Roman governed this state
Louisiana
YOU'RE HISTORY! | 800 | This Borgia died in 1519 from childbirth complications, leaving behind at least 5 other kids
Lucretia
HORRIBLE HISTORY | 1200 | Barely 20 minutes after a torpedo struck in 1915, it disappeared beneath the waves taking more than 1,000 souls with it
Lusitania
20th CENTURY SENATORS | 400 | In 1951 this Texan became the Democratic whip; 10 years later he presided over the Senate as vice president
Lyndon B. Johnson
'80s TONY AWARDS | 1200 | In 1988 this drama by David Henry Hwang flew off with the Tony for Best Play
M. Butterfly
HISTORIC CARS | 1000 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a smooth car at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Las Angeles.) Containing no sharp edges, the aesthetic & technical achievements of the 1947 Cisitalia 202 GT were enough for this progressive New York City museum to consider it a work of art & put it on display
MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art
KING LOUIS | 800 | On June 13, 1886 this Bavarian king aka Louis II drowned in a lake, as did his psychiatrist who tried to save him
Mad King Ludwig
BACKING BANDS | 1000 | Edward Sharpe and the ____ ____
Magnetic Zeros
STEPHEN KING | 200 | Many of Stephen King's stories & novels are set in this state, his birthplace
Maine
WORLD HISTORY | 1600 | Treaties in 1858 & 1860 handed over to Russia large sections of this northeast Chinese region
Manchuria
A HISTORY LESSON | 1200 | He led the 6,000-mile Long March from 1934 to 1935 & had to abandon 2 of his kids along the way
Mao
HISTORY SINCE 1950 | 800 | In China his Great Leap Forward program took a great leap back, contributing to a famine & millions of deaths
Mao
THEY'RE HISTORY! | 1200 | In 1959, he gave up the title of chairman of the People's Republic of China but kept control of the country
Mao Tse-Tung
IT HAPPENED IN THE 20th CENTURY | 1000 | In 1949 mainland China became a Communist state with this man as its leader
Mao Zedong
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 600 | In 1857 the celebration of this day with a parade & floats became an annual New Orleans tradition
Mardi Gras
HISTORIC OOPSIES | 600 | In 1999 NASA used the metric system for the $125 million orbiter of this planet; Lockheed Martin did not... bye bye, orbiter
Mars
THE 20th CENTURY | 400 | A day after touching down on this planet in 1976, Viking 1 took the first color photos of its surface
Mars
18th CENTURY PEOPLE | 1200 | She disliked living in New York City; living in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1797 suited her a bit better
Martha Washington
HISTORIC HOMES | 200 | His birth home on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta is not far from Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he & his dad preached
Martin Luther King
20th CENTURY AMERICA | 200 | On April 16, 1963 he wrote, ""I am in Birmingham because injustice is here""
Martin Luther King Jr.
20th CENTURY PEOPLE | 400 | He was arrested in February of 1956 for organizing a bus boycott; his $500 fine was suspended on appeal
Martin Luther King, Jr.
THE 20th CENTURY | 1600 | On April 3, 1968 he said, ""So I'm happy tonight, I'm not worried about anything, I'm not fearing any man""
Martin Luther King, Jr.
HISTORIC PLACES | 1600 | Tradition says a door of the Schlosskirche, aka Castle Church, is the site where these were posted in 1517
Martin Luther\'s (95) theses
CHECKING IN ON MARCH 26 | 800 | By Jiminy! This actor attended his very first premiere on March 26, 1950 in Ontario, Canada
Martin Short
THE MONARCHS OF ENGLAND | 1600 | She married the future king of Spain in Winchester Cathedral in 1554
Mary
19th CENTURY NOTABLES | 1200 | In 1875 she published the main text of her movement, ""Science and Health with a Key to the Scriptures""
Mary Baker Eddy
THE 16th CENTURY | 600 | In 1558 Elizabeth I succeeded this half-sister on the throne of England
Mary I (or Mary Tudor)
STATE OF THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE | 600 | The Battle of Antietam
Maryland
ITALIAN, WITH THE SPEAKING | 200 | The merry month of maggio is this
May
HISTORY | 1600 | In 1954 Joseph Nye Welch, special council for the Army, asked him, ""Have you no sense of decency?""
McCarthy
QUEEN OF | 400 | Both comedienne Lisa Lampanelli & hotelieuse Leona Helmsley have been rhymingly called ""Queen of"" this
Mean
THE 19TH CENTURY | 400 | In 1853 Sir Richard Burton made a dangerous journey in disguise to this city, now in Saudi Arabia
Mecca
WORLD HISTORY | 1200 | In 622 Muhammad fled from Mecca to this city, from which Islam spread across the region
Medina
HISTORY | 1000 | In 1867 Mutsuhito, known as this ""M""peror, came to the throne & the modernization of Japan began
Meiji
BACKING BANDS | 400 | Ziggy Marley & the ____ Makers
Melody
AWARDS & HONORS | 400 | His 1861 textbook on organic chemistry won the Demidov Prize from the Russian Academy of Sciences
Mendeleev
IT'S GETTING WARM | 200 | It can reach 800 degrees during the day on this planet (Venus is a little hotter), but the night's a bit brisk at -275
Mercury
THE 20th CENTURY | 1200 | In May 1963 L. Gordon Cooper became the last of 6 astronauts to fly in this project
Mercury
ANCIENT HISTORY | 600 | Babylonia & Sumer were civilizations in this ancient region that gave us a little something called civilization
Mesopotamia
19th CENTURY LITERARY MARRIAGES | 1600 | Dorothea & Tertius each get married in this really long George Eliot ""Study of Provincial Life""; things go...poorly
Middlemarch
PICK YOUR BATTLE | 200 | On the high seas:Ankara,Puebla,Midway
Midway
HISTORICAL BLINDNESS | 1200 | This Englishman was completely blind by the time he penned ""Paradise Lost""
Milton
20th CENTURY QUOTES | 1000 | In the 1970s, this Nobel Prize-winning economist popularized the phrase ""There's no such thing as a free lunch""
Milton Friedman
THE VIETNAM WAR | 400 | A key U.S. aim was winning Vietnamese ""Hearts and"" these, the title of an Oscar-winning documentary opposing the war
Minds
NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 1600 | In South Dakota, you can visit a launch facility for these cold war missiles with a Revolutionary War name
Minuteman
TENNESSEE HISTORY | 400 | Barbara Jo Walker from Memphis won this distinction in 1947 & was the last to be crowned in a swimsuit
Miss America
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY | 800 | Hike in the footsteps of settlers & Native Americans on the Natchez Trace, starting in Natchez in this state
Mississippi
STATE OF THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE | 800 | The Battle of Independence
Missouri
THE CIVIL WAR | 2000 | Both neighbors of Illinois, these 2 border states did not secede but groups there sent delegates to the CSA Congress
Missouri and Kentucky
SOUTHERN HISTORY | 400 | In 1711 this Alabama city fittingly ""moved"" from 27 Mile Bluff to its current location
Mobile
19th CENTURY NOVEL QUOTES | 400 | ""The least chip or crumb of the boats touched his skin, his tail swiftly drew back, and came sideways smiting the sea""
Moby-Dick
REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIGURES | 1200 | This heroine of the Battle of Monmouth began receiving a $40 annual pension in 1822 for her war efforts
Molly Pitcher
HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART II | 200 | The 1928 eruption of this Sicilian volcano buried the village of Mascali
Mount Etna
IN THE ____ OF BATTLE | 1200 | Tennessee, 1863:Battle of Lookout ____
Mountain
17th CENTURY PEOPLE | 2000 | Made famous in a Longfellow poem, in 1621 this man was named military leader of Plymouth Colony
Myles Standish
RECENT HISTORY | 800 | In April 2009 Croatia & Albania became the most recent additions to this alliance that includes the U.S. & the United Kingdom
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
JAPANESE HISTORY | 2000 | From the 1630s to 1850s, this port on Kyushu served as Japan's only window to the Western World
Nagasaki
THE MARCH OF HISTORY | 800 | This country once known as South West Africa gained full independence in March 1990
Namibia
EARLY 21st CENTURY CINEMA | 1200 | In 2005 moviegoers met Emma Thompson in the guise of this magical nanny
Nanny McPhee
FRENCH HISTORY | 2000 | In 1685 Louis XIV revoked the Edict of this, which had guaranteed freedom of worship to French Protestants
Nantes
FACES IN HISTORY | 200 | Here's this little big man in his study at Tuileries
Napoleon
HISTORIC OOPSIES | 200 | In 1812 this world leader learned a hard lesson--don't wage war in Russia in winter
Napoleon
OTTOMAN HISTORY | 800 | The expedition of this European into Egypt from 1798 to 1801 forced Sultan Selim III to ally with Great Britain
Napoleon
THE TONY AWARDS | 200 | In 2001 he beat out Matthew Broderick, his co-star in ""The Producers"", to win the Tony for best actor in a musical
Nathan Lane
20th CENTURY | 2000 | This 1935 act, a New Deal program, guaranteed workers the right to organize unions
National Labor Relations Act
SPEAKING IN CODE | 400 | In 1942 the Marines recruited 29 men from this Native American tribe to develop a code, one the Japanese never broke
Navajo
PREHISTORIC TIMES | 800 | These early humans of Europe are the first known to bury their dead & may have placed flowers on their graves
Neanderthal
THE DAVY O'BRIEN QUARTERBACK AWARD | 600 | 2001:Eric Crouch, flingin' in Lincoln
Nebraska
WORLD HISTORY | 1600 | In 597 B.C., this Babylonian king captured Jerusalem & took 18-year-old King Jehoaichin back to Babylon as a captive
Nebuchadnezzar
HISTORY | 1600 | In 1912 an expedition found a painted bust of this Egyptian queen whose name means ""the beautiful one has come""
Nefertiti
THE LAST CENTURY | 2000 | In 1924 Wyoming made her the first woman elected governor of a U.S. state
Nellie Tayloe Ross
WORKING OVERTIME AT THE COMPANY | 800 | I'd go home from this company, but I've eaten 10 of our 100 Grand bars & 5 boxes of our Goobers...OMG, I'm totally wired!
Nestlé
MEXICAN HISTORY | 1600 | Appointed in 1535, Antonio de Mendoza governed Mexico as the first viceroy of this 2-word place
New Spain
A STATE OF WAR | 600 | The Battle of White Plains,1776
New York
QEII IS THEIR QUEEN TOO | 1200 | The 2 countries farthest south that recognize Elizabeth as queen
New Zealand & Australia
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME | 400 | In 1687 this Brit differentiated ""absolute, true, and mathematical time"" & ""relative, apparent, and common time""
Newton
WORLD WAR I | 400 | The Russian people suffered greatly during the war & blamed this czar who was forced off the throne in early 1917
Nicholas II
THE ROYAL THEY | 2000 | 1894 to 1918: ____ II & ____
Nicholas and Alexandra
THE PATRIOT ACT | 800 | Thandie Newton co-starred when this actor was ""Jefferson in Paris""
Nick Nolte
THE LATE 19th CENTURY | 2000 | In 1898 gold was discovered on Anvil Creek near this future port on Alaska's Seward Peninsula
Nome, Alaska
THE AL FRANKEN DECADE | 800 | A commander of Panama's National Guard, he promoted himself to general in 1983 & life was good for him... for a while
Noriega
BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES | 400 | By right of conquest in 1066 came the house with this geographic name
Norman
FRENCH HISTORY | 200 | On D-Day during WWII, Allied forces landed on the beaches of this French region
Normandy
RECENT HISTORY | 1000 | In August 2009 Bill Clinton traveled to this country & helped win the release of 2 American journalists
North Korea
EURO-MONARCHY | 1200 | This country no longer crowns its king; the royal regalia is on display in Trondheim
Norway
HISTORIC OBJECTS | 200 | In 1790 the Marquis de Lafayette gifted George Washington with the main key to this prison, & it's still on display at Mount Vernon
the Bastille
THE 12th CENTURY | 400 | Tradition has it that the first stone for this Paris cathedral was laid in 1163 by Pope Alexander III
Notre Dame
WORKING ON A BUILDING | 800 | 1163: Pope Alexander III lays the foundation stone for this Paris cathedral; bells & bell-ringers come later
Notre Dame
NON-BRITISH ROYALS | 400 | Overshadowed by Kate & William, the nuptials of this Monaco monarch were termed ""The Other Wedding""
Prince Albert (of Monaco)
THE IMAGE AWARDS | 400 | She won for Outstanding News, Talk or Information Show in 1993--& '94, '96, '98...
Oprah Winfrey
HUGO AWARD-WINNING NOVELS | 1600 | This author won twice in a row in the 1980s, for ""Speaker for the Dead"" & ""Ender's Game""
Orson Scott Card
THE VIKINGS | 800 | The Vikings may have been named for Viken, located in a fjord of this future Scandinavian capital
Oslo
DURING THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I | 800 | Incorporating earlier collections of books, the Bodleian Library opened at this university in 1602
Oxford
MY NAME IS PRINCE | 800 | It's the alliterative name of Prince's label, as well as his home & studios outside Minneapolis
Paisley Park
THE CENTURY'S FIRST YEAR | 800 | In 1501 Rodrigo de Bastidas sailed west from Colombia & became the first European to reach this isthmus
Panama
DECODING THE HITMAKING BAND | 400 | The U.K.'s central lawmaking body
Parliament
THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS | 800 | Executing the king was authorized in 1649 by the legislative body called the ""Long"" this, which had sat since 1640
Parliament
16th CENTURY AMERICA | 1000 | Hundreds of years before the Marines got there, this South Carolina island was settled by French Huguenots in 1562
Parris Island
REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIGURES | 2000 | In March 1775 he told the Second Virginia Convention, ""We have done everything that could be done to avert the storm""
Patrick Henry
THE WORLD AT WAR | 1200 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated map on the monitor.) In July 1943, this U.S. general's Seventh Army swept through western Sicily, then turned east to help Montgomery's British Eighth
Patton
PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA | 1200 | It precedes ""Gazette"" in the name of the newspaper that Ben Franklin bought in 1729 & made into a leading paper
Pennsylvania
MRS. WARREN'S PROFESION | 800 | Mrs. Warren is on the Senate committee known as HELP: Health, Eduction, Labor & these retirement benefits
Pensions
OSCAR-NOMINATED WARNER BROS. CARTOONS | 1000 | ""For Scent-imental Reasons"", starring this early example of Eurotrash
Pepe LePew
PEOPLE IN HISTORY | 2000 | A golden age of culture, the Age of him in Greece lasted from about 460 B.C. to 430 B.C.
Pericles
KING ARTHUR | 2000 | A chair at the Round Table reserved for the Grail finder but deadly to anyone else is called the ""Siege"" this word
Perilous
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 1600 | The 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa opening Japanese ports to U.S. ships is also known as this commodore's convention
Perry
HISTORY 101 | 1600 | Around 101 the Moche began a great civilization on the west coast of South America in this country
Peru
18th CENTURY PEOPLE | 1600 | This Russian's achievements included the founding of cities
Peter the Great
KING OF THE HILL | 1600 | Mount Narodnaya in Russia,1682-1725
Peter the Great
THE 11th CENTURY | 1000 | While traveling to Constantinople in 1096, this French hermit sacked Belgrade
Peter the Hermit
PRE-'80s HISTORY | 1000 | In 1914 the once & future St. Petersburg got this new name; 10 years later it became Leningrad
Petrograd
THE WAR OF 1812 | 1600 | In October 1814 Congress proposed moving the capital back to this city but the house rejected the bill, 83-74
Philadelphia
WHEN I'M KING... | 1600 | Spain, 1556-1598
Philip II
B.C. KING | 800 | This father of Alexander the Great wasn't so bad himself, extending his dominion over all of Greece
Phillip
HISTORIC OOPSIES | 600 | Civil War historian Shelby Foote described this attack at Gettysburg as ""an incredible mistake""
Pickett\'s Charge
THEY'RE HISTORY! | 1600 | Singular last name of Zebulon, who got a Colorado peak named for him without ever reaching the top
Pike
JUDEAN HISTORY | 1200 | He was the Roman prefect or governor of Judea from 26 to 36 A.D.
Pilate
WORKING WITH PLATO | 2000 | This work is about an ideal city where justice is complete & imitative poets are exiled
Plato\'s Republic
HISTORY 101 | 400 | Written around 101 A.D., this author's ""Parallel Lives"" includes Pericles
Plutarch
LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY | 400 | 1 1/2 million Cambodians perished under the rule of this Khmer Rouge leader who came to power in 1975
Pol Pot
PRINCE ALBERT | 1200 | Prince Albert didn't get to be officially called the ""Prince"" this until 17 years after marrying Queen Victoria
Prince Consort
HISTORICAL TIME UNITS | 1600 | The House of Tomorrow was in the innovation-focused 1930s Chicago World's Fair called ""Century of"" this
Progress
COLORFUL HISTORY | 400 | Since the late 1700s orange has symbolized this religious group in Ireland & Northern Ireland
Protestants
HISTORICAL NOVELS | 1200 | ""Across the Endless River"" is a fictional account of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, son of this Shoshone
Sacagawea
13th CENTURY HIGHLIGHTS | 1200 | In 1296 the Scottish coronation stone was moved to Westminster from here
Scone
BATTLE OF BRITAIN | 800 | Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat in the 1746 Battle of Culloden Moor in this country ended hopes of a Stuart restoration
Scotland
FIRST, QUEENS | 400 | Queens is the site of Citi Field & this predecessor, seen here
Shea Stadium
BATTLE CREEK | 600 | Pittsburg Landing, Grant's base on the Tennessee River, is a less biblical name for this 1862 battle
Shiloh
MY NAME IS PRINCE | 600 | This Irish lass' No. 1 hit ""Nothing Compares 2 U"" was written by Prince
Sinead O\'Connor
IRISH HISTORY | 800 | A printer by trade, Arthur Griffith negotiated a 1921 treaty with the British & founded this Irish-named political party
Sinn Fein
16th CENTURY AMERICA | 600 | While in California in 1579, this circumnavigator held the first Protestant religious service in the New World
Sir Francis Drake
WORLD HISTORY | 400 | This English captain called his 1587 raid on Cadiz, destroying much of the Armada, ""singeing the King of Spain's Beard""
Sir Francis Drake
PO PRESENTS UNCONVENTIONAL WARRIORS | 800 | (Po delivers the clue.) I'm a big fan of this Shakespeare knight but Prince Hal ends up telling him, ""the grave doth gape for thee thrice wider""--c'mon, that's not what you say to an old buddy
Sir John Falstaff
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
19th CENTURY BRIT LIT | 800 | ""Ivanhoe"" was an immediate success when released in 1819, & this author soon became a baronet
Sir Walter Scott
HISTORIC NAMES | 1200 | The last pope named this was V, in 1585--it'll sound cool when someone takes VI
Sixtus
SNOW WHITE'S LESSER-KNOWN DWARFS | 800 | He was named for his mom's favorite brand of peanut butter that's been around since the 1930s
Skippy
NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II | 1200 | Billy Pilgrim witnesses the firebombing of Dresden & subsequent killing of 135,000 in this Vonnegut novel
Slaughterhouse-Five
TALKING DIRTY | 800 | A chimney sweep business named ""Dr."" this claims, ""We treat the flue""
Soot
A HISTORY LESSON | 2000 | In 1910 Louis Botha became this country's first prime minister, a post he held until 1919
South Africa
THE 11th CENTURY | 200 | Made king of a reunited Leon & Castile in 1072, Alfonso the Brave declared himself ""Emperor of all"" this land
Spain
17th CENTURY THINKERS | 2000 | This seminal Dutch thinker of the Enlightenment was the son of parents who fled the Inquisition in Portugal
Spinoza
HISTORIC OBJECTS | 1200 | This 23-inch beeping metal sphere galvanized America in the 1950s
Sputnik
BRITISH HISTORY | 1200 | In December 1947 Parliament passed the law granting independence to this Asian island
Sri Lanka
SPANISH HISTORY | 1200 | In the 1520s this founder of the Jesuits was twice imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition
St. Ignatius of Loyola
THE 4th CENTURY | 800 | This Rome basilica built in the mid-4th century lasted until the 16th century, when it was torn down & replaced
St. Peter\'s
THE 11th CENTURY | 600 | In 1083 during canonization, this 1st Hungarian king was exhumed & his right arm was found preserved as if by a miracle
St. Stephen
THAT'S HISTORY | 1000 | The battle of this city raged from July 1942 to February 1943; when it was over, the German 6th Army was kaput
Stalingrad
BOX OFFICE CHAMPS OF THE DECADE | 400 | The 1970s:starring Mark Hamill, Alec Guinness
Star Wars
FORTUNE 500 THROUGH THE DECADES | 200 | On the first list, in 1955, this word followed ""U.S."", ""Bethlehem"" & ""Republic"" in the top 30
Steel
SPOKEN WORD GRAMMY AWARDS | 200 | This late night TV host won in 2013 for ""America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't""
Stephen Colbert
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 2000 | This American naval hero wasn't killed in the Illinois city that bears his surname, but rather in a duel in Maryland
Stephen Decatur
MEMOIRS OF THE WORKING LIFE | 1200 | ""Born Standing Up"" is this man's story of bursting onto the comedy scene in the 1970s, white suit & all
Steve Martin
CIVIL WAR NAMES | 1200 | Gen. Bee's comment about this man may not have been a compliment of steadfastness but a complaint about a lack of support
Stonewall Jackson
THE CIVIL WAR | 800 | A favorite of Lee, this general actually favored preservation of the Union but went with Virginia after secession
Stonewall Jackson
20th CENTURY SENATORS | 1200 | South Carolina sent him to the Senate as a write-in candidate; he served almost 50 years
Strom Thurmond
KINGS & QUEENS | 2000 | King Sobhuza II of this southern African kingdom reigned 1899-1982, enough time for 70 wives & 600 kids
Swaziland
19th CENTURY OPERA | 400 | We're not neutral about ""Un ballo in maschera"", about the assassination of a king of this Scandinavian country
Sweden
20th CENTURY EUROPE | 800 | In the 1950s Basel became the first city in this country to allow women to vote in local elections
Switzerland
MRS. WARREN'S PROFESION | 1200 | Elizabeth chaired the Congressional Oversight Panel for this program whose 4-letter abbrev. sounds like a canvas cover
TARP
WORLD HISTORY | 800 | The Olmecs flourished form around 1200 to 400 B.C. along Mexico's Gulf Coast in what became Veracruz & this ""hot"" state
Tabasco
HISTORY | 800 | Born in 1746, this Polish patriot fought in America's war for independence & is called the ""Hero of Two Worlds""
Tadeusz Kosciuszko
OTTOMAN HISTORY | 1600 | The 1402 Battle of Ankara saw Turkish forces overwhelmed by this man aka Timur
Tamerlane (Timur the Lame)
THE 15th CENTURY | 1000 | Around 1401 Baghdad fell to this lame conqueror
Tamerlane (Timur the Lame)
THE LATE 19th CENTURY | 1200 | This notorious political organization ran New York City from its headquarters at 141 East 14th St.
Tammany Hall
1812: THE WAR & MORE | 2000 | This Shawnee chief fought for the British & led Native American allies but was killed in battle the next year
Tecumseh
ALABAMA HISTORY | 1000 | In 1812 this Shawnee leader came to Alabama to convince the Creek tribes to join the British against the Americans
Tecumseh
CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE | 800 | This middle name of Civil War general Sherman honored a Shawnee chief
Tecumseh
BATTLE HIM | 400 | ""Oh, but we had a bully fight"", he said, referring to the 1898 Battle of San Juan Hill
Teddy Roosevelt
A STATE OF WAR | 400 | The Battle of Stones River, aka the Battle of Murfreesboro,1862-63
Tennessee
A STATE OF WAR | 1000 | The Battle of San Patricio,1836
Texas
IN THE ____ OF BATTLE | 1600 | 1813 fight in which Tecumseh was killed near a river in Ontario, not central London:Battle of the ____
Thames
HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART II | 2000 | This WWII battle was named for the area of water between Australia & New Caledonia
the Battle of the Coral Sea
CHINESE HISTORY | 2000 | ""Know the enemy & know yourself"" is a lesson from this treatise, tactics from which were later used by Mao
The Art of War
THE WAR OF 1812 | 400 | In this last battle of the War, about 2,000 British were killed, wounded or captured; fewer than 50 Americans were killed
The Battle Of New Orleans
NEAR THE END OF THE CENTURY | 1000 | In 1899 the Bloemfontein conference didn't prevent this South African war
The Boer War
NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II | 800 | In this young adult novel set during the war, ""The Grave Digger's Handbook"" is the first item Liesel Meminger steals
The Book Thief
HISTORY IS HAPPENING | 2000 | Around 11 A.M. on Oct. 25, 1854 Lord Cardigan leads this attack that's less successful than a poem it inspired
The Charge Of The Light Brigade
HISTORICAL QUOTES | 200 | Concerning this failed operation, JFK said, ""the Cuban people have not yet spoken their final piece""
the Bay of Pigs
SCHWARZENEGGER | 800 | The indispensable Arnold has played Trench in the first 3 films in this recent series
The Expendables
18th CENTURY AMERICA | 800 | In 1792 Robert Thomas first published this almanac about New England life &, of course, the weather
The Farmer\'s Almanac
KICKING AROUND FOR A WHILE | 1000 | Morten Andersen kicked until age 48, becoming the NFL's all-time leading scorer & earning this nickname, a dog breed
The Great Dane
THE CINEMA OF STEVE McQUEEN | 400 | The first Steve McQueen played a P.O.W. in this 1963 film in which he led the Nazis on a motorcycle chase
The Great Escape
PRINCE ALBERT | 1600 | Albert successfully organized & ran this ""Great"" event held at London's Crystal Palace in 1851
The Great Exhibition
STEPHEN KING | 600 | This nickname for death row at Cold Mountain penitentiary is also the title of a serial novel by King
The Green Mile
THE IMAGE AWARDS | 800 | Denzel Washington blew through the competition to win an Outstanding Actor award for this boxing biopic
The Hurricane
HISTORIC OBJECTS | 600 | More than 70 scenes are depicted on it with the last, chronologically, showing the English retreating at Hastings in 1066
the Bayeux Tapestry
NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II | 2000 | 50 years after he wrote it, Norman Mailer said he was still fond of this novel: ""It has virtues, it has faults""
The Naked and the Dead
THE LAST CENTURY | 800 | In 1989 Ayatollah Khomeini called this book blasphemous & condemned Salman Rushdie, its author, to death
The Satanic Verses
RECENT HISTORY | 1200 | In May 2012 a pastel version of this Edvard Munch work set a record by selling for almost $120 million at auction
The Scream
MAKING A BEE LINE | 1200 | Sue Monk Kidd said in this book that women make the best beekeepers because they can ""love creatures that sting""
The Secret Life of Bees
CHECKING IN ON MARCH 26 | 400 | Many happy returns to Michael Imperioli, known for his role as Chris-tu-fuh Moltisanti on this HBO drama
The Sopranos
A PLACE FIT FOR A KING | 800 | West of Seward Peninsula, King Island is a rocky isle in this strait
the Bering Strait
STEPHEN KING | 1000 | These spirits of dead miners who try to warn the living of cave-ins may have inspired King's 1987 novel of the same name
The Tommyknockers
HUGO AWARD-WINNING NOVELS | 2000 | A new planet's appearance wreaks havoc on Earth in this 1965 winner named for what ""planet"" means in Greek
The Wanderer
AWARDS | 800 | From 2000 through 2003 this fast-moving, fast-talking political drama won the Drama Series Emmy
The West Wing
WORKING ON A BUILDING | 1600 | 1902: Daniel Burnham completes NYC's Fuller Building, now known by this household appliance name
the Flatiron
HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART II | 400 | Transparency & openness in diplomacy was No. 1 on this 1918 declaration by President Wilson
the Fourteen Points
THE LATE 19th CENTURY | 1600 | Author Guy de Maupassant got some good story material as an army private during this 1870 war
the Franco-Prussian War
BRITISH HISTORY | 400 | The site of many coronations, this religious edifice was dedicated December 28, 1065
Westminster Abbey
THIS MEANS WAR! | 2000 | Bismarck publishes the Ems telegram, royally peeving Napoleon III
the Franco-Prussian War
A BRIEF HISTORY OF MIME | 1600 | The first Greek mime is said to have been Telestes, a dancer in ""Seven Against"" this city
Thebes
WORLD HISTORY | 2000 | This early Germanic people in Gaul were split into 2 major branches, the Salians & the Ripuarians
the Franks
DRUNK HISTORY | 1200 | Many a patriot hoisted a mug at the Warren Tavern, today a nice break from the red line of this Boston urban trail
the Freedom Trail
ERAS OF HISTORY | 800 | The Ancien Regime, or ""old order"", refers to the period up to this event
the French Revolution
HISTORICAL QUOTATIONS | 1200 | In 1170 Henry II asked, ""Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"", the priest being this man
Thomas Becket
19th CENTURY BRIT LIT | 400 | He set many of his works, beginning with ""Far From the Madding Crowd"", in an area of England called Wessex
Thomas Hardy
THE 18th CENTURY | 1600 | In 1790 he became our first Secretary of State; he got a big promotion a little over a decade later
Thomas Jefferson
HISTORY AS THEATER | 800 | ""Murder in the Cathedral"" by T.S. Eliot is about this man's slaying in 1170
Thomas à Becket
SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE | 1600 | It's got murders, rape & heads baked in a pie:""CUSTODIAN NUT SIR""
Titus Andronicus
FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES | 800 | Will you sign my copy of the ""Domesday Book"" you commissioned, my king? It's a first edition from 1086!
William the Conqueror
THE AL FRANKEN DECADE | 600 | A historic 1989 event in this Asian plaza is also called the June 4th Incident
Tiananmen Square
BATTLE CREEK | 800 | Site of a Nov. 7, 1811 battle, this Indiana river got additional notoriety in an 1840 campaign of a different sort
Tippecanoe
BOX OFFICE CHAMPS OF THE DECADE | 200 | The 1990s:starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet
Titanic
FLYING INTO HISTORY | 200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) Used in every theater of World War II, the B-25 Mitchell is best known as the plane used by Doolittle's Raiders in the dramatic 1942 attack immortalized on film as ""Thirty Seconds Over"" this city
Tokyo
JAPANESE HISTORY | 800 | On March 20, 1995 a cult released sarin gas in this city's subway system, killing a dozen people
Tokyo
THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS | 200 | A sixth-round pick in the 2000 draft, this QB told owner Robert Kraft, ""I'm the best decision"" the team ""ever made""
Tom Brady
AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS | 800 | This 2-time best actor Oscar winner of the '90s is the youngest honoree ever
Tom Hanks
BEARD AWARD-WINNING CHEFS | 200 | Tom Colicchio turned down the job of judge on this Bravo show 3 times before saying yes
Top Chef
THE WAR OF 1812 | 800 | On April 27, 1813 American forces captured York, the capital of upper Canada; today York is known by this name
Toronto
HISTORY 101 | 1200 | Famous for his triumphal column, this emperor began an expansion of the Roman Empire in 101 A.D.
Trajan
I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD | 600 | He's Poseidon's son; in a Disney movie, he's the undersea king
Triton
THE EARLY 20th CENTURY | 1000 | In the USSR the '20s saw the start of Stalin's rule, the collectivization of farms & the expulsion of this Stalin rival
Trotsky
THE WALKING DEAD | 400 | Russell, a vampire on this HBO show, took over a TV newscast, said he'd eat us all, then threw it to Tiffany for the weather
True Blood
THE KOREAN WAR | 200 | General Douglas MacArthur led the forces in support of South Korea until this president fired him in April 1951
Truman
BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES | 1200 | Henry VII's father was known as Edmund this, hence this house's moniker
Tudor
NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 1200 | In 1998 the Alabama airfield where these black pilots received their training in WWII became a National Historic Site
Tuskegee
TRUCKING | 400 | If you're ""On The Road Again"", you might stop for BioWillie diesel, an alternative fuel named for this country star
Willie Nelson
HORRIBLE HISTORY | 800 | This woman worked as a cook in New York, spreading deadly disease to more than 50 people between 1900 & 1915
Typhoid Mary
BEST DRAMA SERIES EMMY AWARDS | 400 | 1974 & '75: This class-conscious PBS show that wasn't even about Americans
Upstairs, Downstairs
KING ARTHUR | 800 | In some versions the ""sword in the stone"" that Arthur pulls free to become king was the sword of this man, his dad
Uther Pendragon
HISTORIC DAYS | 800 | 16664
V-J Day
HISTORIC DAYS | 400 | 16565
VE day
ABBREV. BACKWARDS & FORWARDS | 400 | A Jetta or a Golf in Wheeling
VW and WV
THE COLD WARS | 400 | The title of the painting seen here is ""Washington at"" this place
Valley Forge
19th CENTURY BRIT LIT | 1200 | ""A Novel Without a Hero"" is the subtitle of this Thackeray work
Vanity Fair
POWER AWARDS | 800 | The ""Election Night"" episode of this HBO show won the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Emmy in 2015
Veep
OTTOMAN HISTORY | 1200 | 1423 marked the first war with this Italian city-state that had a strong navy but struggled on the ground
Venice
PICK YOUR BATTLE | 400 | During World War I:Culloden,Sedan,Verdun
Verdun
NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICALLY | 800 | In 1524 this Italian made it to the mouth of the Cape Fear River; there was no bridge named for him there, though
Verrazzano
THE BRITISH MONARCH WHO... | 800 | helped organize relief efforts & visited hospitals during the Crimean War
Victoria
THE MONARCHS OF ENGLAND | 400 | In 1842 she survived an assassination attempt by a dwarf
Victoria
YAS QUEEN | 400 | The last of the Hanover Dynasty, she was around long enough to have an entire ""Age"" named for her
Victoria
A HISTORY LESSON | 800 | Under the Congress of this city, 1814-15, Denmark was forced to give Norway to Sweden
Vienna
STORIES OF THE WAR | 1000 | ""The 13th Valley"" &""The Short-Timers""
Vietnam
BATTLE CREEK | 200 | An Old English poem records a 991 event in which a Saxon earl let a band of these warriors cross a stream--oops
Vikings
19th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS | 600 | At the turn of the 19th century, James Monroe was this state's leader; he'd leave the job but get re-elected in 1811
Virginia
A STATE OF WAR | 800 | The Battle of Chancellorsville,1863
Virginia
STATE OF THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE | 1000 | The Battle of Petersburg
Virginia
WHEN I'M KING... | 1200 | Italy, 1861-1878, the second with this double name
Vittorio Emanuele (or Victor Emmanuel)
15th CENTURY NOTABLES | 1200 | 4-letter name of the ruler of Walachia whom the Turks referred to as ""the impaler prince""
Vlad
THE 15th CENTURY | 1200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of the Ottoman Empire.) In 1462 the mighty Ottoman army retreated after a large massacre by this Wallachian prince and his forces
Vlad (Tepes, Count Dracula)
PORTRAITS IN HISTORY | 600 | He's the French author & philosopher seen here, book in hand
Voltaire
1990s HISTORY | 1000 | A 51-day standoff between the feds & Branch Davidians took place in 1993 near this seat of McLennan County, Texas
Waco
HISTORY | 2000 | The discovery of gold near this double-talk Washington city made it a hotbed of activity in the 1860s
Walla Walla
BRITISH KINGS NAMED EDWARD | 2000 | In 1936 King Edward VIII gave it all up for the woman he loved, this twice-divorced American
Wallis Simpson
FORTUNE 500 THROUGH THE DECADES | 1000 | In 2004, busy cash registers at this retailer made it No. 1
Walmart
HISTORIC NAMES | 800 | Born around 1552 in Devon, he lost a colony in 1590 & lost his head in 1618
Walter Raleigh
THE TONY AWARDS | 1200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shares the stage with a life-size puppet horse and its handler.) The extraordinary journey of Joey here through the events of 1914 & after is magnificently portrayed in this 2011 Tony Award-winning Best Play
War Horse
COMPUTER HISTORY | 200 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew clicks the signaling device from behind a familiar lectern at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California; Jimmy is her sole human competitor.) The museum has an homage to this ""Jeopardy!"" cyber contestant, whose brilliance is now being put to work diagnosing illnesses, recommending better investments & helping researchers around the world find information faster
Watson
HISTORY | 1600 | This infamous quartet implemented Mao Zedong's harsh policies during the Cultural Revolution
the Gang of Four
LOOKING GOOD! | 200 | You've lost 60 pounds! What's your secret? Oh, this alliterative group founded in the '70s by Jean Nidetch
Weight Watchers
GERMAN HISTORY | 2000 | In 1919 the National Assembly met in this city to write a new constitution & establish a federal republic
Weimar
LITERARY AWARDS | 400 | Since 1953, the Spur Awards have been presented annually to writers of this genre
Western
CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE | 400 | The second sentence of this speech begins, ""Now we are engaged in a great civil war""
the Gettysburg Address
HISTORICAL NOVELS | 400 | Pete Dexter's ""Deadwood"" tells the tale of this aging gunfighter who just wanted to be left alone to drink & play cards
Wild Bill Hickok
19th CENTURY PEOPLE | 1000 | On a roll, this king of Prussia became the first kaiser of Germany in 1871
Wilhelm (I)
GOD SAVE THE ENGLISH KING! | 1600 | Daniel Defoe wrote ""The True-Born Englishman"" in support of this Dutch prince who became king in 1689
William (of Orange)
WORLD HISTORY | 1600 | On Jan. 26, 1808 George Johnston of Australia's New South Wales Corps led a mutiny vs. this governor & arrested him
William Bligh
MAKING A BEE LINE | 2000 | He wrote, ""I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree... and live alone in the bee-loud glade""
William Butler Yeats
19th CENTURY PEOPLE | 200 | The worse speller of a famous duo, in November 1805 he wrote in his journal, ""Ocian in view! O! the joy""
William Clark
19th CENTURY NOTABLES | 1600 | Seen here,he was the last presidentborn under British rule
William Henry Harrison
FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES | 600 | Loved your Mar. 4, 1841 speech, despite the weather! 1 hour, 45 minutes of awesome! Now it's clear skies for your presidency!
William Henry Harrison
THE BRITISH MONARCH WHO... | 1600 | introduced England to a form of Norman feudalism
William I (William the Conqueror)
HISTORIC NAMES | 200 | In 1984 this 17th c. Quaker who governed a colony was made an honorary U.S. citizen
William Penn
YOU'RE HISTORY! | 600 | Known as the father of the Keystone State, he also fathered 14 children
William Penn
CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE | 1600 | In August 1863 he & his guerrilla band irregularly attached to the Confederate army sacked Lawrence, Kansas
William Quantrill
HISTORICAL ROMANCES | 2000 | In 1297 an English sheriff hanged Marion, the bride of this Scottish outlaw--big mistake
William Wallace
HISTORY | 1200 | This Scottish hero was defeated by Edward I at the 1298 Battle of Falkirk
William Wallace
BATTLE OF BRITAIN | 400 | This invader's army defeated Harold II on the Sussex coast in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings
William the Conqueror
CHINESE HISTORY | 800 | A folk tale tells of Meng Jiangnu, who searches for her husband along this public works project
the Great Wall of China
BRITISH HISTORY | 400 | In 1917 the royal family took this new name, also a castle
Windsor
BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES | 800 | Even after marrying a Mountbatten, Queen Elizabeth II said this house would remain
Windsor
19th CENTURY AMERICA | 1000 | A hero of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War, this general and Whig candidate lost the 1852 presidential election
Winfield Scott
MAKING A BEE LINE | 400 | This kid lit bear said, ""When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is not to let the bees know you're coming""
Winnie the Pooh
COMPLETE THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS LINE | 1200 | ""Let the ____ win""
Wookiee
STORIES OF THE WAR | 400 | ""All Quiet on the Western Front"" &""Parade's End""
World War I
WAR OF THE GENERALS | 1600 | Falkenhayn,Foch,French
World War I
WAR STORIES | 200 | In ""Khaki Wings"" a young British man courts danger by joining the fledgling Royal Flying Corps during this war
World War I
WAR STORIES | 800 | ""A Farewell to Arms"" by Ernest Hemingway
World War I
WARS BY BATTLE | 400 | Amiens &Belleau Wood
World War I
NAME THAT WAR | 2000 | The Battle of Tarawa
World War II
19th CENTURY NOVEL QUOTES | 1600 | ""Mr. Earnshaw was sitting by the fire, deadly sick; his evil genius, almost as...ghastly, leant against the chimney""
Wuthering Heights
WORKING WOMEN | 200 | The first African-American woman to head a Fortune 500 company, Ursula Burns became its CEO in 2009; copy that!
Xerox
GREEK HISTORY | 1600 | In 480 B.C. this son of Darius invaded Greece but the Greek navy defeated him at the Bay of Salamis & he returned to Persia
Xerxes
HISTORICAL ONLINE CHECK-INS | 2000 | 480 B.C.: Crossing the Hellespont, supported by 700 ships; it's good to be the Persian king!
Xerxes
A STUDENT OF HISTORY | 800 | George W. Bush graduated from this Ivy League university with a B.A. in history
Yale
HISTORIC CARS | 400 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a car at Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.) This specially made armored limousine was made for Franklin Delano Roosevelt & used as he hammered out issues at this Crimean conference in 1945
Yalta
OUR HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS | 2000 | The 1872 act establishing this called it a ""tract of land in the territories of Montana and Wyoming""
Yellowstone National Park
BRITISH KINGS NAMED EDWARD | 1600 | King Edward IV, a participant in the Wars of the Roses, was the son of Richard, Duke of this side in the wars
York
THE COLD WARS | 1200 | On March 29, 1461 this side beat the Lancastrians in a blizzard in the bloodiest battle of the Wars of the Roses
York
HISTORIC CARS | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us another car at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.) Inspired by the '56 Packard, the 1962 Chaika was a favorite of Nikita Khrushchev, who owned one himself & gave one as a present to this first cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin
THE 2nd CENTURY | 400 | After more than 600 years, the temple of this Olympian ruler of the gods was finally completed in Athens
Zeus
SNOW WHITE'S LESSER-KNOWN DWARFS | 1200 | This lively guy shares his name with a comic strip pinhead
Zippy
THE WALKING DEAD | 1000 | Woody Harrelson loves Twinkies & killing the undead in this 2009 film
Zombieland
WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED | 200 | In 2007 this bird was removed from the U.S. threatened & endangered species list; nice, with it being a natl. symbol & all
a bald eagle
WAR | 1200 | AKA the M9A1 rocket launcher, this shoulder-held weapon could pierce 5 inches of armor plate, Joe
a bazooka
THE KOREAN WAR | 400 | U.S. General ""Rosie"" O'Donnell commanded operations of B-29s, this type of plane
a bomber
WORKING ON THE RAILROAD | 400 | One single rolling railroad freight unit; 2 of them are a roll of 12 in dice
a boxcar
THINKING | 400 | A bunch of people all thinking & giving ideas is this kind of anatomically named session
a brainstorming session
20th CENTURY AMERICA | 1000 | A sign at the 1912 Progressive party convention read, ""I want to be"" one of these ""with antlers on my forehead""
a bull moose
CIVIL WAR SLANG | 2000 | Now it's slang for any bad situation; back then it was a foraging soldier
a bummer
BANKING | 800 | This type of check is accepted without question & is signed by the banker it's named for
a cashier\'s check
IT HAPPENED IN THE 20th CENTURY | 400 | In 1981 Ananda Chakrabarty received a patent for a life form made of just 1 this
a cell
WARNER BROS | 800 | This Vermont regiment led by Seth Warner was crucial in the 1777 Battle of Bennington
the Green Mountain Boys
THE 18th CENTURY | 200 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Easter Island.) When Captain Cook reached Easter Island in 1774, he found many of the great statues toppled & the Polynesian population decimated by this type of localized conflict
a civil war
WARDROBE | 800 | Varying in length & color, the name of this semi-formal dress suggests it's perfect for happy hour
a cocktail dress
PUERTO RICAN HISTORY | 1000 | In 1951 Puerto Rico voted to become one of these as part of the U.S.; in 1967 & 1993, it voted to stay one
a commonwealth
MAKING THE GRADE | 1000 | Factors such as amnesia & loss of consciousness help grade this injury as mild, moderate or severe
a concussion
WAR OF THE WORDS | 400 | A public official might have this war word ""of interest"" & have to recuse himself
a conflict
THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH | 800 | Zebra crossing isn't an African road sign, it's one of these found on the street
a crosswalk
THE 16th CENTURY | 800 | A 1531 writer gave this word a new meaning, saying Martin Luther was making this big kind of change to the whole world
a reformation
CHECKING OUT ALL THE ANGLES | 200 | Correct, it's the name given to this type of angle
a right angle
SERIOUS HARDWARE | 1000 | A computer tool used to connect networks, or a hardware tool that cuts below the main surface
a router
NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICALLY | 400 | At a Greensboro lunch counter in 1960, 4 students began this hyphenated type of protest & it lasted for 6 months
a sit-in
THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH | 800 | If Dennis the Menace hailed from Denston, he'd call this kid's weapon a catapult
a slingshot
WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED | 800 | The ai... a type of this mammal... has 3 toes... on each front foot
a sloth
WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED | 1000 | Melospiza melodia is the song type of this small, common brown bird
a sparrow
17th CENTURY WORDS | 800 | In Newton's day this word was first used to mean the band of colors produced when light passes through a prism
a spectrum
A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR | 400 | A simple method of printing & duplicating uses these cutouts; paint is sprayed through the removed areas
a stencil
FASHION HISTORY | 800 | Chimney-pot is another name for this high silk top hat big in the 19th century
a stove pipe
CNN HISTORIC REVOLUTIONS | 1600 | (Ivan Watson has the clue this time.) Here in Istanbul in 1908 the original ""Young Turks"" occupied the city as part of a revolution against a dictatorial one of these Ottoman Rulers
a sultan
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE TITLES | 600 | A nice job title if you can get it; in 2016 Brunei was on its 29th
a sultan
THE 12th CENTURY | 800 | In 1181 this type of exploding star lit up the nighttime sky in Cassiopeia & remained visible for 185 days
a supernova
THE KING'S ENGLISH | 200 | Get on the blower & ask the queen if she knows a blower is this in the States
a telephone
FASHION HISTORY | 2000 | This 18th century variation on the cocked hat had an upturned brim forming 3 equidistant peaks
a tricorn hat
HISTORY OF CARS | 200 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California.) Fred Astaire's elegant 1927 Rolls town car has many luxurious features, like a means of speaking to the chauffeur &, in the rear... a Louis Vuitton one of these, later a term for a car's built-in storage compartment
a trunk
MEMOIRS OF THE WORKING LIFE | 800 | ""All Creatures Great and Small launched a series on James Herriot's many year in this profession
a veterinarian
THAT'S HISTORY | 400 | A 1968 pandemic of H3N2, aka ""Hong Kong"" this, caused more than a million deaths
a virus (or flu)
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE TITLES | 200 | The lowest grade of nobility; the ""Red"" one became an international figure in his own right
baron
HISTORY | 800 | On Aug. 7, 1964 this resolution passed in the House, 414 to zero
the Gulf of Tonkin resolution
CIVIL WAR SLANG | 400 | From the Latin for ""life"", vittles meant this
food
EX-PATRIOTS | 400 | Adam Vinatieri used his right one as time expired on Feb. 3, 2002 to give the Patriots their first Super Bowl victory
foot
TALKING DIRTY | 200 | A swing & a drive, curving out of play--it's this, a term meaning disgustingly loathsome
foul
BRITISH HISTORY | 1200 | Robert Catesby, an extremist Catholic, masterminded this 1605 plot to blow up Parliament
the Gunpowder Treason and Plot
GLASS & GLASSMAKING | 400 | Nature-produced glass includes fulgurites, slender tubes made by this discharge
lightning
WARTHOGS | 400 | A warthog's enemies include these 2 predators that begin with the same ""L""etter
lions and leopards
THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS | 1600 | Captured royalist leader Rowland Laugharne was spared execution by the drawing of these--bad luck, John Poyer
lots
WAR OF WORDS | 400 | This 4-letter word is a weapon in 2 senses: a club with a spiked head & a nonlethal spray
mace
18th CENTURY SCIENTISTS | 800 | In 1759 Braun & Lomonosov used snow & acid to freeze this liquid metal
mercury
INVENTIVE THINKING | 200 | Gail Borden Jr.'s process for condensing this preserved it with no refrigeration & enabled transport over long distance
milk
HISTORIC DAYS | 200 | 25404
moon landing
CHICAGO HISTORY | 400 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) During Prohibition, which saw a rise in criminal activity, copper stills & buckets like these were used at home to make illegal high-proof whiskey known by this lunar name
moonshine
THE 15th CENTURY | 600 | In 1451 Nicholas of Cusa prescribed concave lenses to remedy this
nearsightedness (myopia)
MEXICAN HISTORY | 400 | The serendipitous sighting of seepage helped Weetman Pearson become the pioneer of this industry in Mexico
oil
TEXAS HISTORY | 200 | In 1901 Beaumont, Texas saw the birth of this industry at Spindletop & the fortunes of the state were changed forever
oil & gas
PRE-'80s HISTORY | 600 | In the 1930s Franco abolished the use of Euskara, the language of this ethnic group
the Basques
FASHION HISTORY | 1600 | A clog of French peasants; add ""-age"" to get a type of destruction the peasants did by putting the shoes in machinery
sabot
PUERTO RICAN HISTORY | 600 | To improve its financial situation, on July 1, 2015 Puerto Rico raised this to 11.5%, the highest in the U.S.
sales tax
TRUCKING | 600 | In the 1920s the Fruehauf Company introduced the refrigerated trailer using ice & this compound
salt
CHECKING OUT ALL THE ANGLES | 800 | Additionally, it describes the angles here
supplementary
HAWAIIAN HISTORY | 200 | Missionaries preached against this ocean pastime, but it was designated the state individual sport in 1998
surfing
THE 12th CENTURY | 1600 | One of the first books on this branch of medicine also practiced by barbers advocated molten lard
surgery
THE VIETNAM WAR ERA | 1200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Mekong River in Vietnam.) The muddy waters of the Mekong were the site of many actions involving small U.S. Navy vessels formerly called patrol fast craft, but better known by this nickname made famous during the 2004 presidential election
swift boats
WORKING ON THE RAILROAD | 1000 | A ""tank town"" was a spot on a railroad route often stopped in only to do this
take on water
YUCKY HISTORY | 1200 | These stinky hide-processing plants were represented by a 19th C. Australian ""Noxious Traders Association""
tanneries
TALKING DIRTY | 1000 | Discoloration formed when silver reacts with sulfur compounds in the air
tarnish
QUEEN OF | 800 | Depicting a woman sitting on a throne by a shore, the Queen of Cups can be found in a set of these
tarot cards
CRIME OF THE DECADE | 1000 | The Achille Lauro cruise ship is hijacked, Leon Klinghoffer is killed
the 1980s
NAME THE DECADE | 200 | Sally Ride rides in space
the 1980s (1980 accepted)
WOMEN IN HISTORY | 1000 | In Susan B, Anthony's centennial year, the U.S. passed this number amendment that achieved her goal
the 19th
A HISTORY LESSON | 2000 | No. 47 of these from 1517 reads, ""Christians are to be taught that the buying of pardons is a matter of free will""
the 95 Theses (of Martin Luther)
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY | 400 | In 1967 Australians approved a referendum to allow the census to count these people
the Aborigines
WORKING WITH PLATO | 1600 | In 529 A.D. almost 1,000 years after it was created by Plato, this school was closed by Justinian I
the Academy
WORLD WAR II | 400 | This name for the group of countries that lost the war dates to a 1936 German-Italian pact
the Axis
HISTORICAL QUOTES | 400 | As reported by Hernan Cortes in a 1522 dispatch, these people said that ""by no means would they give themselves up""
the Aztecs
JUDEAN HISTORY | 800 | Around 587 B.C. this empire conquered Judea & exiled most of the Jews
the Babylonian Empire
THE 19th CENTURY | 800 | The French capture of Algiers in 1830 ended a long run of preying on shipping by these Barbary-an guys
the Barbary pirates
FRENCH HISTORY | 1200 | The French epic ""Song of Roland"" depicts a battle against Saracens, but it was actually vs. these people of the Pyrenees
the Basques
FLYING INTO HISTORY | 600 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) C-54 Skymasters carried most of the 2.3 million tons of cargo delivered between June 1948 & October 1949 as part of this Cold War program, nicknamed ""Operation Vittles""
the Berlin Airlift
COLORFUL HISTORY | 1600 | Founded in Munich in 1921, this paramilitary group intimidated & assaulted Nazi opponents
the Brownshirts
WARM | 1000 | Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik was born in these Spanish islands in the Atlantic that enjoy year-round springlike temps
the Canaries
THE 16th CENTURY | 1000 | Matteo da Bascio wasn't monkeying around when he founded this order of friars in 1525
the Capuchins
20th CENTURY HISTORY | 1600 | By 9 A.M. on April 15, 1912, this ship had rescued about 705 survivors of the Titanic disaster
the Carpathia
AWARDS FOR WRITING | 1200 | Named for a 16th century luminary, this prize is awarded by the Spanish ministry of culture
the Cervantes Award
FROM THE BRITISH MONARCHY'S WEBSITE | 800 | These islands are grouped into the 2 main bailiwicks of Jersey & Guernsey
the Channel Islands
HISTORY, ON THE MOVE | 1200 | After its futile appeal to the Supreme Court, this tribe lost 4,000 members along the 1830s ""Trail of Tears""
the Cherokee
NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICALLY | 2000 | In 1776 this N.C. tribe supported the British & led by Chief Dragging Canoe attacked the colonists
the Cherokee
HISTORIC DOCUMENTS | 200 | The 1534 Act of Supremacy established this church with Henry VIII at its head
the Church of England
NAME THAT WAR | 1200 | The Battle of Lookout Mountain
the Civil War
WAR STORIES | 800 | ""Gods and Generals"" by Jeff Shaara
the Civil War
WARS BY BATTLE | 1000 | Kennesaw Mountain &Poison Spring
the Civil War
KICKING AROUND FOR A WHILE | 800 | Lou ""The Toe"" Groza split the uprights until he was past 40 for this storied Ohio franchise
the Cleveland Browns
AWARDS & HONORS | 1600 | Oddly, this award for excellence in advertising is named for the muse of history
the Clio
WORKING ON A BUILDING | 400 | 82 A.D.: Domitian adds a level of nosebleed seats to this amphitheater so more Romans can watch gladiatorbleeds
the Colosseum
TENNESSEE HISTORY | 800 | A donation of $1 million in 1873 helped establish Vanderbilt University, whose sports teams sail with this name
the Commodores
ERAS OF HISTORY | 1000 | Instead of B.C. some prefer the less religious B.C.E., for ""before"" this ""Era""
the Common Era
WHO WON THE WAR ANYWAY? | 800 | In 1949 this group won the Chinese Civil War
the Communists
HISTORY | 200 | 70 delegates were chosen for this 1787 gathering; 55 attended & 39 ended up signing
the Constitutional Convention
OHIO HISTORY | 1000 | During the Civil War, Ohio rep. Clement Vallandigham was a leader of these ""snaky"" antiwar northerners
the Copperheads
LESSER-KNOWN HISTORIC NAMES | 1600 | Stenka Razin, who led an uprising of these horsemen of the steppes, was the subject of the 1st Russian feature film, from 1908
the Cossacks
THE 11th CENTURY | 400 | A supernova lit up the sky in 1054; its remnants are this nebula that resembles a certain crustacean
the Crab Nebula
BATTLES IN THE WAR | 800 | Balaklava &Sevastopol
the Crimean War
OTTOMAN HISTORY | 400 | In 1853 the Ottoman Turks declared war on Russia, igniting this conflict
the Crimean War
WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR | 400 | Russia 1, Turkey 0at Sinope;Allies 1, Russia 0in this 1853 to 1856 war
the Crimean War
THE 2nd CENTURY | 1200 | A half-mile bridge over this river in what's now Romania had the longest span built for the next 1,000 years
the Danube
WORLD WAR I | 2000 | The Allies suffered around 250,000 casualties trying unsuccessfully to reopen this strait also known as the Hellespont
the Dardanelles
THE 19th CENTURY | 1600 | These ""monthly"" rebels of 1825 Russia rose up in protest over Nicholas I's assumption of the throne
the Decembrists
JAPANESE HISTORY | 1600 | The Meiji Constitution of 1889 created this 4-letter legislature with 2 houses
the Diet
HISTORY'S ODDS & ENDS | 1000 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In Wyoming on July 18, as many turned right to the familiar route west, this 20-wagon party went left toward Fort Bridger & Hastings Cutoff; that did not end well
the Donner party
FIRST, QUEENS | 200 | Between the boroughs of Queens & Manhattan flows this ""directional"" river
the East River
THE QUEENS ENGLISH | 1200 | It's a little weird to say, but Queens is bounded on the west by this river
the East River
LITERARY AWARDS | 400 | These awards presented by the Mystery Writers of America are named for Mr. Poe
the Edgars
BANKING | 200 | U.S. banks earn money by giving loans at interest rates regulated by this body created in 1913
the Federal Reserve
BEASTLY BACKING BANDS | 1600 | Country Joe &these swimmers
the Fish
ANCIENT HISTORY | 600 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Covering 120,000 square miles from Mexico into Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador & the Honduras, this civilization peaked from 250 to 900 A.D.
the Mayans
A HISTORY LESSON | 1200 | In 1513 Machiavelli was accused of conspiracy against this Florentine family & was tortured on the rack
the Medicis
THE VIETNAM WAR | 400 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Vietnam)For more than a decade, U.S. and South Vietnameseforces fought Vietcong guerrillas for control of Vietnam's rice bowl, this fertile region near the Mekong River's mouth.
the Mekong Delta
HISTORIC SHIPS | 1200 | Once the flagship of the USA's Pacific Squadron, it was salvaged by the Confederates & recommissioned as the Virginia
the Merrimack
THERE'S A WAR ON | 400 | 1846 to 1848:Starring Zachary Taylor
the Mexican-American War
NEW ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS? | 1600 | Given for cutest boy in an ad, it's named for the 4-year-old in a Life cereal commercial
the Mikey
THE 17th CENTURY | 1200 | The peasants uprising led by Li Zicheng ended this Chinese dynasty in 1644
the Ming
THE CIVIL WAR | 400 | By June 1862 the Union held this river as far south as Memphis
the Mississippi
WORLD HISTORY | 1600 | In 1368 the Chinese told this dynasty, also called the Yuan, you Khan go now
the Mongol
WORLD HISTORY | 800 | In 1240 Batu Khan, leader of these people, sacked & burned Kiev
the Mongols
WORKING WITH A BEATLE | 400 | In a 1995 Pizza Hut ad, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork & Davy Jones welcomed Ringo as this band's new drummer
the Monkees
WORLD HISTORY | 2000 | In 1805 & 1806 Mungo Park traced most of this river, from above Timbuktu to Kainji Lake
the Niger
AWARDS FOR WRITING | 400 | Won in 2015 by Svetlana Alexievich, it's handed out annually by the Swedish Academy
the Nobel Prize in Literature
KING ME | 400 | Greece's George I supported a movement to revive this sporting event abolished in 393 A.D.
the Olympics
THE 4th CENTURY | 400 | Emperor Theodosius banned these athletic events begun 12 centuries before, calling them a pagan cult
the Olympics
THE WAR OF ...12 | 1600 | In 1912 Serbia was fighting this empire in the First Balkan War
the Ottoman
HISTORIC PLACES | 1200 | This temple was intact until the 5th century when Phidias' giant statue of Athena was removed
the Parthenon
D.C. HISTORY | 800 | When D.C. burned in 1814, this office important to inventors was spared after its head pleaded with the British
the Patent Office
RECENT HISTORY | 2000 | In October 2001 Congress passed this act to deter & punish terrorism
the Patriot Act
AWARDS & HONORS | 2000 | In 2008 NPR's ""Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!"" was among the winners of this award administered by the University of Georgia
the Peabody
HONORS & AWARDS | 1600 | The Natl. Assoc. of Broadcasters came up with these radio awards in 1938 as the equivalent of a Pulitzer
the Peabody Awards
ANCIENT HISTORY | 2000 | After the defeat at Leuctra in 371 B.C., Spartan power declined & this league went out of existence
the Peleponnesian League
WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR | 600 | Around 428 B.C. Athens kept control of Lesbos but by 404 things had swung Sparta's way in this war
the Peloponnesian War
WORKING ON A BUILDING | 1200 | 1941-43: 13,000 American workers Labor Day & night to turn swampland into this federal office complex
the Pentagon
B.C. KING | 600 | After his father died, Artaxerxes I became king of this empire
the Persian Empire
YAS QUEEN | 600 | Who do you think you are, this royal who visited King Solomon's court at the head of a camel caravan in the Bible?
the Queen of Sheba
FRENCH HISTORY | 600 | Robespierre ruled as a virtual dictator during this troubled period from 1793 to 1794
the Reign of Terror
BRITISH HISTORY | 400 | The return in 1660 of the monarchy & King Charles II isn't called the Reinstallation or the Redemption but this
the Restoration
BATTLES IN THE WAR | 200 | Cowpens &Trenton
the Revolutionary War
GERMAN HISTORY | 400 | In the 1806 Confederation of this river, Napoleon united all the states of Germany except for Austria & Prussia
the Rhine
THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY | 800 | Referring to this volunteer regiment & their victorious charge in Cuba, Teddy called it ""the great day of my life""
the Rough Riders
THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS | 2000 | The royalist cavaliers, with flowing locks, battled these forces named for their close-cropped hair
the Roundheads
HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART II | 1000 | The Lex Cornelia Majestatis was the ancient Roman & a Ghostbuster-ish way of saying ""Don't cross this stream!""
the Rubicon
PRE-'80s HISTORY | 400 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) By law, Roman generals couldn't lead forces out of their assigned province; Caesar's 49 B.C. crossing of this stream separating Cisalpine Gaul from Italy acted as a war declaration
the Rubicon
KING LOUIS | 1000 | One legend about this potato soup is that king Louis XV had so many food testers that it was always cold when it got to him
vichyssoise
WORLD WAR II: ON THE HOME FRONT | 2000 | To reduce demand for commercial produce during the war, millions of people did their part by planting these gardens
victory gardens
DRUNK HISTORY | 800 | Peter the Great's 51st birthday party included mandatory drinking of this from a barrel; Peter died at 52
vodka
NOEL, COWARD | 1000 | Noel freaks when it comes to Yb, this element; it's the most volatile rare-earth metal, & Noel can't stand volatility!
ytterbium