Geography
COASTAL U.S. STATES | 1000 | Wilmington, near the mouth of the Cape Fear River, is its main seaport
North Carolina
STATES THAT BORDER CANADA | 1000 | The geographic center of North America is in this state bordering Saskatchewan & Manitoba
North Dakota
OTHER LONE STAR FLAGS | 200 | The red star on this country's flag symbolizes the revolutionary traditions established by Kim Il-sung
North Korea
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES | 1000 | 1998:Political leaders John Hume & David Trimble
Northern Ireland
COUNTRIES BY AIRPORTS | 400 | Bergen &Kristiansand-Kjevik
Norway
COUNTRY OF BIRTH | 1200 | Football coaching legend Knute Rockne
Norway
RAISE THE WHITE IN THE FLAG | 400 | The king of Sweden had to approve this country's flag, which includs symbols of the Danish flag
Norway
HO CHI MINH CITY | 200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.) Saigon's cathedral was built in the 19th century using bricks from Marseille & other material entirely imported from France. In 1959, the statue of the Virgin Mary was added, & the cathedral got this name, like another famous French church
Notre-Dame
CANADIAN LAKES | 2000 | The half-mile-long St. Peters canal connects with the Atlantic with Bras d'Or Lake on this province's Cape Breton Island
Nova Scotia
LET'S GO TO THE AIRPORT | 400 | On March 23, 1963 JFK dedicated this airport, saying, ""There is no other airport in the world which serves so many people""
O\'Hare
STATES THAT BEGIN WITH CALIFORN | 800 | Named for the trees that grew in its hills, this city is a few miles across the bay from San Francisco
Oakland
GREEK ISLANDS | 800 | In 2010 Giorgio Armani bought Skorpios for $190 million from heirs of this billionaire who married Jackie Kennedy
Onassis
WORLD CITIES | 800 | (Vanna White delivers the clue from Jamaica.)Most cruise ships on Jamaica's northern coast dock at this port, whose name is Spanish for Eight Rivers
Ocho Rios
TRAVEL BOOKS | 600 | Alice Steinbach's intimate memoir of her world travels is titled ""Without"" these, what you might need to get a good table
Reservations
ATLANTIC CITIES | 800 | A statue of Leif Eriksson, a gift from the U.S., stands in front of Hallgrimskirkja church in this capital
Reykjavik
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) Honored with a monument, the 500 black soldiers at Valley Forge included the U.S. military's first African-American unit of free men, the regiment known as the First of this Ocean State
Rhode Island
SUPERLATIVE STATES | 200 | Smallest state:This, 1,214 square miles
Rhode Island
THE 6 NEW ENGLAND STATES | 1000 | Jack Reed is one of its senators
Rhode Island
MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS | 400 | Around 226 B.C. a ""colossal"" earthquake destroyed the statue of Helios on this island
Rhodes
AMERICAN CITIES | 200 | Once part of New Sweden, this Pennsylvania city is found where the Schuylkill River meets the Delaware River
Philadelphia
STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES | 1000 | Maine: about 66,000
Portland
THE U.S. CITY RAINS SUPREME | 1000 | Flowers get plenty of chances to bloom in this Pacific Northwest ""City of Roses"" with 37"" of rain a year
Portland
AIRPORT | 600 | To accommodate big jets, a girder bridge helped extend the runway 4,000 feet at Madeira International on an island of this nation
Portugal
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES | 1200 | The Tagus River runs across the entire width of this country
Portugal
EXTREME GEOGRAPHY | 200 | The westernmost point in continental Europe is Cape Roca in this country on a peninsula
Portugal
THE MAP OF EUROPE | 400 | In the 12th century, Afonso I reigned over this republic
Portugal
LANGUAGES OF AFRICA | 2000 | Countries using this as their official language include Mozambique & Guinea-Bissau
Portuguese
CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY | 200 | This province seen here has more than a third of Canada's people
Ontario
ISLAND FACTS | 400 | Manitoulin Island, the world's largest lake island, lies in Lake Huron & belongs to this Canadian province
Ontario
TRAVEL & TOURISM | 1000 | A boat on Lake Powell gives great views of this Utah natural bridge that's over 200 feet in both length & height
Rainbow Bridge
U.S. FORCES OVERSEAS | 2000 | (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from Germany.) Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is the largest American hospital outside the United States; most of its patients are wounded warriors who are flown in for care to this nearby well-known American airbase in Germany
Ramstein
CITY OF BIRTH | 800 | Aung San Suu Kyi
Rangoon (or Yangon)
SEAS THE DAY | 1200 | Instead of traveling around Denmark, ships often use the Kiel Canal to travel between the Baltic & this sea
the North Sea
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | Resorts in these barrier islands off North Carolina include Manteo & Wanchese on Roanoke Island
the Outer Banks
THE COUNTRY'S PRESIDENT | 600 | Ferdinand Marcos (1965 to 1986)
the Philippines
ITALIAN GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | The name of this region in northwest Italy known for its prize-winning wines means ""foot of the mountain""
the Piedmont
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | This Alaskan island group named for a Russian trader has more than 200 bird species in addition to its famous fur seals
the Pribilof Islands
TRANSPORTATION | 800 | In 1997 Toyota introduced this model, the world's first mass-produced hybrid passenger car
the Prius
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | Lake Texoma on the border of Texas & Oklahoma was created by the building of the Denison Dam on this river
the Red River
A RIVER RUNS BETWEEN THEM | 800 | Switzerland & Liechtenstein
the Rhine
EUROPE IN LATIN | 200 | A river:Rhenus
the Rhine
RIVERS ON THE BORDER | 1200 | This river is on the border of Germany & Switzerland
the Rhine
EUROPEAN RIVERS | 2000 | Cities on this important commercial waterway include Geneva, Lyon & Avignon
the Rhone
CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY | 400 | The Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s took place in this territory that borders Alaska
the Yukon
SOUND GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | This 1,980-mile-long river flows across Alaska & enters the Bering Sea via Norton Sound
the Yukon
A RIVER RUNS BETWEEN THEM | 1600 | Zimbabwe & Zambia
the Zambezi
COUNTRY ROADS | 400 | Pamplona's Calle Estafeta is where you can see these ruminants make their ""run"" each July
the bulls
COUNTRIES' CURRENCIES | 1200 | Before adopting the euro, Italy & Vatican City used this monetary unit
the lira
GEOGRAPHIC ABBREV. | 600 | SL:This West African nation
Sierra Leone
OH, B-CITY IN AFRICA | 800 | The city of Bo is a metropolis of 150,000 in this West African nation with a name from Portuguese
Sierra Leone
SEAN CONNERY & BURT REYNOLDS | 800 | Got your ears on, Snowman? Burt was eastbound & down, loaded up & truckin' in this 1977 comedy
Smokey and the Bandit
5-LETTER CAPITAL CITIES | 1600 | Have the wisdom to know that this capital lies at the geographic center of the Balkans
Sofia
NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD | 400 | Eucalyptus is common in Southwest National Park on this island state of Australia
Tasmania
CENTRAL PARK | 1600 | Cheers to this iconic restaurant that reopened its doors in 2014
Tavern on the Green
RED STATES | 200 | Going Republican in each presidential race since 1980, it's the second-largest state in both area & population
Texas
STUFF ABOUT STATES | 400 | It ranks second among the states in both population & area
Texas
SUPERLATIVE STATES | 1000 | Widest highway:The Katy Freeway in this state, 26 lanes
Texas
STATES' LONGEST BORDERS | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The longest border between two states is the 715-mile border between these two states
Texas & Oklahoma
STATE BY COUNTIES | 1600 | 2 states, please:Franklin,Crockett,Knox
Texas & Tennessee
GEOGRAPHY CLASS | 1000 | The city of Chiang Mai in this country is home to Baan Chang Elephant Park
Thailand
GEOGRAPHY IN RHYME | 800 | Uttaradit & Surin were places to go /In Hua Hin, what a fabulous show /I was out on tour with my band /In the country of...
Thailand
STATES' MOST POPULOUS COUNTIES | 800 | Fairfax County
Virginia
STUFF ABOUT STATES | 1600 | Of the 4 states officially called commonwealths, it's alphabetically last
Virginia
THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA | 1600 | Fredericksburg in this state changed hands 7 times during the Civil War
Virginia
THE UNITED STATES OF KENTUCKY | 400 | It was one of the original 13 colonies
Virginia
FEWER THAN A THOUSAND ISLANDS | 600 | A part of this island that's on the Susquehanna hit 4,000 degrees in a hurry in 1979
Three Mile Island
U.S. RIVERS | 1600 | This northern Indiana river from which a U.S. president received his nickname is fed by 88 natural lakes
Tippecanoe
JAPANESE CITIES | 800 | Koromo got this new name in 1959 to reflect the importance of its major employer, an auto manufacturer
Toyota
ATLANTIC CITY | 1000 | Borgata's poker room has a jackpot for one of these alliterative outcomes, like when your 4 10s loses to 4 aces
bad beat
U.S. CITY SEALS | 800 | In 1874 Philadelphia added the phrase ""Philadelphia maneto"", which means ""let"" this 2-word phrase ""continue""
brotherly love
EASTER ISLAND | 800 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Easter Island.) Moai, the giant stone statues that grace Easter Island, sit atop ceremonial pedestals known as ahus, that could also serve as these, celebrating important figures within
burial chambers
ADVENTURE TRAVEL | 400 | Many visitors make the 3-hour hike from the Mexican town of Angagueo to see the winter home of millions of these insects
butterflies
LONDON TRANSPORTATION | 800 | To do their job, they must pass an exam known as ""The Knowledge"" to show they know all of London's streets
cab drivers
CITY NICKNAMES | 400 | Agadir, Morocco is ""the City of Blue Men"", for the uniform of the drivers of these animals
camels
SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE | 200 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Warthogs are good fighters--butting heads & then using their tusks, which are actually these teeth also called cuspids in humans
canines (the eye teeth accepted)
U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD | 1600 | Have the vision to know that Holtville, Calif. makes its claim as this root vegetable ""capital of the world""
carrots
MAPS & GLOBES | 1200 | In 1700 Guillaume Delisle created 2 globes: one terrestrial, the other this type that ends with the same 3 letters
celestial
AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS | 800 | (Kareem Abdul-Jabar delivers the clue.) Granville T. Woods enabled moving trains to communicate with each other & with railray stations, reducing collisions & saving lives via the electric induction telegraph, which used existing telegraph lines & a coil in the train to produce this field around the train
electromagnetic
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT | 600 | Each year at Titusville, New Jersey, you can see a reenactment of the crossing of this river
the Delaware
RIVER UNDER THE BRIDGE | 1200 | Beneath the Ben Franklin Bridge that links Philadelphia & Camden, New Jersey
the Delaware
COUNTRIES WITH SHORT COASTLINES | 1600 | One of the largest countries in Africa at 905,000 sq. mi., this democratic republic has only a 23-mile coastline along the Atlantic
the Democratic Republic of the Congo
RIVERS | 1600 | The longest river entirely in Spain, it rises in the Cantabrian Mountains
the Ebro
A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER | 800 | Everyone remember where we parked! The van's in Al Qurnah, Iraq, where this 1,700-mile-long river joins the Tigris!
the Euphrates
CITIES ON THE RIVER | 800 | Varanasi &Allahabad
the Ganges
RIVER BANK ON IT | 1000 | It's an ancient custom to cremate the dead along this river's banks at Varanasi
the Ganges
RIVER UNDER THE BRIDGE | 1600 | Under the Mahatma Gandhi Setu Bridge in India
the Ganges
GEOGRAPHY FROM SPACE | 2000 | 2 nations share the 220-mile-wide delta of this Asian river
the Ganges River
IT'S NATIONAL PARK WEEK | 1600 | St. Louis' Jefferson National Expansion Memorial includes this landmark that cost $13 million to build
the Gateway Arch
TRAVEL & TOURISM | 600 | Here are the bright lights of Chuo-dori Street in this Tokyo shopping district
the Ginza
GEOGRAPHY | 800 | China is planting a new forest to stop this desert's southward expansion
the Gobi Desert
IN THE NATIONAL PARK | 1200 | Bright Angel Trail,East Rim Drive
the Grand Canyon
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK | 600 | This feature of the park was carved out by the Yellowstone River; the one in Arizona is a little deeper
the Grand Canyon
A QUICK DIP IN THE LAKE | 400 | In area, it's the largest inland saline body of water in North America
the Great Salt Lake
OTHER GREAT LAKES | 600 | In Utah it receives the Jordan & Weber Rivers
the Great Salt Lake
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 600 | The Jordan River rises in Utah Lake & empties into this one
the Great Salt Lake
MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY | 800 | There's the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea,and this national body of water indicated here
the Gulf of Oman
LINES ON THE MAP | 600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) China claims as its territorial waters everything within the Nine-Dash line; it used to have eleven dashes, but when Communist Vietnam was a closer ally, two in this gulf were dropped
the Gulf of Tonkin
GEOGRAPHY | 200 | 25,646-foot Nanda Devi, the highest peak wholly within India, lies in this range
the Himalayas
WORLD FLAGS | 400 | The 2 triangles of Nepal's flag symbolize these mountains
the Himalayas
BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER.... | 800 | The George Washington bridge, from Fort Lee to Manhattan
the Hudson
THE MOVIE MAP | 200 | Bill Murray as FDR: ""Hyde Park On ___""
the Hudson
ALL ABOOT CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | Take the combined area of the Great Lakes, multiply that by 3, & you're still short of this bay named for an English explorer
the Hudson Bay
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH THE BOOK | 800 | Years after Isaac Bashevis Singer's death came the first English translation of ""Shadows on"" this urban river
the Hudson River
RIVER UNDER THE BRIDGE | 400 | Under the Rip Van Winkle & Tappan Zee bridges in New York
the Hudson River
STATE FLAGS | 400 | On New York's state flag, 2 ships are sailing on this river
the Hudson River
MEANINGS OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES | 1000 | The name of this waterfall on the Argentina-Brazil border is derived from a Guarani word meaning ""great water""
the Iguazú (Falls)
EUROPE TO NO GOOD | 1200 | For his preferred method of executing his enemies, Prince Vlad III of Walachia earned this nickname
the Impaler
LAKES & RIVERS | 800 | The Ravi, as in Shankar, is a major tributary of this river that winds from Tibet to Pakistan
the Indus
MANY RIVERS TO CROSS | 600 | One of the cradles of civilization, the ancient city of Mohenjo-daro lies along this river in Pakistan
the Indus
THE RIVER'S TRIBUTARIES | 2000 | Kabul,Gar,Panjnad
the Indus
RIVERS | 2000 | The name of this river that runs through Myanmar is thought to come from a Sanskrit term meaning ""elephant river""
the Irrawaddy
NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD | 800 | This giant monitor lizard is a must-see on a visit to the Indonesian park located on 3 of the Lesser Sunda Islands
the Komodo dragon
AMERICAN LAKES | 2000 | Due to its serpentine curves, this large reservoir in central Missouri has been called ""the Magic Dragon""
the Lake of the Ozarks
GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 800 | Sort of the Prairies of South America, they derive their name from a Quechua Indian word
the Pampas
ON THE OLD MAP OF EUROPE | 2000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A big player in Medieval & Renaissance times, by 1861, the entity known as these ""States"" shrank to a dot on the map
the Papal States
MAPPING THE NFL | 800 | Based on the location of its stadium, this is the NFL's easternmost team.
the Patriots
THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ATLAS SHRUGGED | 400 | Though the Atlas says, ""This body of water is referred to by some as the Arabian Gulf"", it's ""commonly known as"" this
the Persian Gulf
UNDER THE SEA OR OCEAN | 2000 | Sea:The West Mariana Basin
the Philippine Sea
NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD | 1200 | A death march memorial can be found in Roosevelt Park, a part of this country's Bataan National Park
the Philippines
WHAT COUNTRY ARE YOU FROM? | 1000 | A Pinoy
the Philippines
U.S. RIVERS | 400 | Mount Vernon is on the banks of this river
the Potomac
COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Its widest point, around 200 miles, lies between Eritrea & Saudi Arabia
the Red Sea
RIVERS | 1200 | In Mexico, what we call the Rio Grande is called this, also the title of a John Wayne movie
the Rio Bravo
TRAVEL & TOURISM | 800 | It's the French name of the Seine's Left Bank, home to the Sorbonne & intellectual life
the Rive Gauche
EUROPEAN LAKES & RIVERS | 1600 | It rises under Cuilcagh Mountain & divides Ireland almost in 2
the River Shannon
AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY | 400 | The Libyan Desert forms the northeastern part of this larger desert
the Sahara
MAPPING THE NFL | 200 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of the U.S. with two cities marked.) Situated more than 2,700 miles apart, they're the northernmost & southernmost NFL teams
the Seahawks & the Dolphins
BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER.... | 400 | Paris' oldest, the Pont Neuf
the Seine
MANY RIVERS TO CROSS | 200 | Rising in the Langres Plateau, it flows 480 miles across France before reaching the English Channel
the Seine
RIVER BANK ON IT | 400 | It turns so sharply on its trip through Paris that its west bank becomes its east, so locals say Right & Left Bank instead
the Seine
RIVER UNDER THE BRIDGE | 800 | Beneath the Gustave Flaubert Bridge in Rouen
the Seine
AFRICANA | 1200 | This Tanzanian plain is home to the great annual migration of the wildebeest
the Serengeti
NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD | 800 | A Tanzanian national park on this plain features grassland & migrating antelope & zebras
the Serengeti
EUROPEAN RIVERS | 800 | Surrounded by peat bogs for much of its course, this 224-mile river drains most of central Ireland
the Shannon
RIVER RUN | 1200 | From the Cuilcagh Mountains to the Atlantic west of Limerick
the Shannon
ISLANDS | 600 | A breed of horse & a breed of dog are named for these Scottish islands
the Shetland Islands
BRITISH GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Out Stack, a rocky islet in this ""equine"" island group, is the United Kingdom's northernmost point
the Shetlands
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 600 | If you want to cross this California range, the best way is to use the Donner Pass over 7,000 feet up
the Sierra Nevada
THAT'S LUNAR SEA! | 800 | The moon's Mare Orientale is the Eastern Sea & the Mare Australe is this one
the Southern
AFRICAN AMERICANS | 1000 | (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar presents the clue.) In 1893 internal surgery was rare--most patients died of infection--but that year Dr. Daniel Hale Williams used antiseptic methods during one of the first successful open-heart surgeries suturing this sac around the heart
the pericardium
STATE CAPITALS | 800 | Atlanta's seal features this mythic bird, which symbolizes its rebuilding that began in 1865
the phoenix
DISEASES NAMED FOR PEOPLE | 1600 | Cushing's disease is caused by a tumor of this gland that sits on the underside of the brain
the pituitary
I STAND BEFORE THE COUNTRY | 400 | Before ""Verde""
Cape
TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS | 400 | Zagreb
Croatia
I STAND BEFORE THE COUNTRY | 200 | Before ""Timor""
East
STATES' LOWEST POINTS | 400 | Minnesota:On the western shore of this lake
Lake Superior
CITY BY STATUE | 200 | The 17-foot Lord Nelson atop his column
London
COUNTRY BY STATE | 600 | Hidalgo
Mexico
COUNTRIES IN 3 WORDS | 600 | Also called Burma
Myanmar
2-TIMING STATES | 800 | If it's midnight in Scottsbluff in this state, it's 1 a.m. in Kearney
Nebraska
BIG CITY SUBURBS | 400 | Scottsdale,Mesa
Phoenix
WHAT COUNTRY ARE YOU FROM? | 600 | A Medinan or a Khobari
Saudi Arabia
IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | 200 | The Nobel Museum, ABBA the Museum
Stockholm
CITIES IN SONG | 800 | Billy Joel:""Well, we're living here... and they're closing all the factories down""
Allentown
ON THE MAP | 800 | This region making up most of Turkey takes its name from the Greek for ""east""
Anatolia
IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | 1000 | The Sigmund Freud Museum, the Augarten
Vienna
U.S. STATES' LARGEST ISLANDS | 2000 | Home to the town of Bar Harbor, Maine is Mount this island
(Mount) Desert
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: CELEBRATING 125 YEARS | 1000 | In a 2004 article, this man, who found the Titanic 19 years earlier, surveys damage done to the wreck by the curious & greedy
(Robert) Ballard
STUFF ABOUT STATES | 800 | This original 13er is the largest state in land area east of the Mississippi River
Georgia
YOU DO THE GEOGRAPHIC MATH | 800 | The number of countries that begin with Q times the number of countries that begin with X
0
COUNTRY MATH | 800 | Stripes on the U.S. flag minus colors on the French flag
10
COUNTRY MATH | 1200 | The number of Canadian provinces times the number of Canadian official languages
20
THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION | 400 | The Emergency Operations Center, the CDC's control room for threats including quakes & anthrax, dates to Sept. of this year
2001
COUNTRY MATH | 1600 | The number of countries on Hispaniola plus the number on Timor
4
YOU DO THE GEOGRAPHIC MATH | 1600 | The number of continents minus the number of mountains above 29,000 feet
6
YOU DO THE GEOGRAPHIC MATH | 400 | The number of American colonies at the time of the Revolution plus the number of states today
63
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 800 | Freed slave Richard Allen was the founder & first bishop of the church known by these 3 initials for short
AME
GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | This body of water is indicated here
Adriatic Sea
COUNTRIES' PROVINCES | 800 | Kandahar & Baglan
Afghanistan
LET'S GO TO THE ISLANDS | 800 | When you said let's go to the islands, I didn't know you meant the Pribilof Islands in this state or I'd have brought a sweater
Alaska
STATES' HIGH & LOW POINTS | 200 | High:20,320 feet in Denali Borough
Alaska
U.S. STATES | 200 | The coldest on average
Alaska
U.S. STATES | 400 | The northernmost
Alaska
INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC | 600 | Lines of latitude & longitude & a bumpier part defined by the Rockies form the borders of this Canadian province
Alberta
MAP QUEST | 1000 | Named for a Spanish duke, it's the county seat of Bernalillo County
Albuquerque
ISLAND PRISONS | 400 | Notorious gangster ""Machine Gun"" Kelly spent 1934 to 1951 in this West Coast lockup
Alcatraz
ISLAND PRISONS | 800 | Inmates who died while incarcerated at this prison were turned over to the San Francisco County Coroner
Alcatraz
CITIES | 1000 | 2016 presidential candidate Gary Johnson seemed unfamiliar with this Syrian city, called Halab in Arabic
Aleppo
CAPTURE THE FLAG | 2000 | Symbols on the flag of this country come from a flag flown during resistance to French colonialism
Algeria
WHAT A COUNTRY! | 1200 | Between Morocco & Tunisia, it's almost 3.5 times the size of Texas
Algeria
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 1600 | Set in Georgia, her first novel was 1970's ""The Third Life of Grange Copeland""
Alice Walker
ASIAN CAPITALS | 1200 | It's the capital of a Hashemite kingdom
Amman
WORLD CAPITAL POINTS OF INTEREST | 800 | Enjoy the Van Gogh Museum & the Stock Exchange, founded in 1602 in this city... but don't stop for any red lights
Amsterdam
AFRICAN HISTORY | 2000 | In 2003 this southern African country's army & a rival faction, Unita, signed a ceasefire, ending a 27-year civil war
Angola
VWLLSS AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 1600 | NGL
Angola
TRAVELING ALONG THE 40th PARALLEL N. | 1200 | If you want to stand on the 40th parallel in this capital, go to Ataturk Forest Farm & Zoo; you'll be pretty close
Ankara
MAP QUEST | 800 | A-squared equals good times in this city, home to a 40,000-studentuniversity
Ann Arbor
STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES | 1200 | ""Crabtown""
Annapolis
ALSO A SEA | 800 | The emir Abd el-Kader wrote about the history of this horse breed
Arabian
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS | 1200 | Most scrolls were written in Hebrew, a few in Greek & the rest in this common language of the Jews at the time
Aramaic
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD | 400 | It takes 2 to do the tango, the national dance of this country where it originated
Argentina
STATES BY COUNTIES | 800 | Apache, Yuma
Arizona
STATES' HIGH & LOW POINTS | 600 | Low:Colorado River in Yuma County
Arizona
STATES' MOST POPULOUS COUNTIES | 2000 | Maricopa County
Arizona
STATE FLAGS | 2000 | This state's flag was designed by Miss Willie Hocker of the D.A.R.'s Pine Bluff chapter
Arkansas
OLYMPIC CITY ATTRACTIONS | 200 | The Theatre of Dionysus
Athens
BIG BUILDING OF THE CITY | 400 | 191 Peachtree Tower
Atlanta
STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 400 | The World of Coca-Cola, a multimedia experience
Atlanta
MUSIC CITIES, USA | 1200 | Stevie Ray Vaughan was one of this city's music legends, & a statue of him stands on the shores of its Lady Bird Lake
Austin
STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES | 200 | ""The Fun-tier Capital of Texas""
Austin
GUYS, CAPITALISM WORKS! | 800 | Better known as a novelist, she defended the morality of laissez-faire in ""Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal""
Ayn Rand
MOVIES' MAIN CITIES | 1000 | ""Avalon"" &""Diner""
Baltimore
GEOGRAPHY 101 | 800 | About 23 degrees N. of the equator is the Tropic of Cancer; about 23 degrees S. of the equator is the Tropic of this
Capricorn
HIDDEN U.K. CITIES | 800 | Before her beau arrived, Isabel fastidiously adjusted her bonnet
Belfast
4-LETTER U.S. CITIES | 1600 | The most populated city in Central Oregon, it's a mecca for outdoor enthusiasts
Bend
CAPITAL CITY HOTELS | 800 | Hotel Adlon Kempinski,Hotel California am Kurfurstendamm
Berlin
CITY BOOKS | 2000 | City preceding ""Alexanderplatz"" in the title of an Alfred Doblin novel
Berlin
GEOGRAPHICAL MUSIC GROUPS | 800 | ""Take My Breath Away""(1986)
Berlin
ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES | 2000 | Tango & Cheri are important Buddhist monasteries near Thimphu in this Himalayan nation
Bhutan
THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED | 1200 | A seminal L.A. punk band of the 1980s, or what a NASCAR driver gets if he's caught speeding on pit road
Black Flag
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 200 | This phrase of protest coined by Alicia Garza has become a hashtag & a movement
Black Lives Matter
COUNTRIES IN 3 WORDS | 200 | South America's largest
Brazil
ISLAND HOPPING | 400 | From London to Londonderry
Britain to Ireland
ALL ABOOT CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY | 800 | The southern border of this westernmost province touches Idaho & Montana
British Columbia
STATES THAT BORDER CANADA | 600 | All of Washington's 427-mile border with Canada is with this province
British Columbia
GEOGRAPHY BY THE BOOK | 400 | A classic:""A Tree Grows in ____""
Brooklyn
CAPITAL CITY CHURCHES | 1000 | Matthias Church, or Matyas Templom, where Franz Joseph was crowned in 1867
Budapest
HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC AKAs | 200 | Aquincum was the Roman name for this place that's now the capital of Hungary
Budapest
SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS | 400 | For a brief period in the early 19th century, it was the capital of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata
Buenos Aires
SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS | 400 | Stand back--it's the capital seen here
Buenos Aires
COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | In the Middle Ages this historic region of France included half of what is now Switzerland
Burgundy
AFRICA | 400 | Built around 1855, the first railroad in Africa linked Alexandria to this capital 100 miles away
Cairo
IN THE CAPITAL CITY | 200 | Oct. 6, 1981:Anwar Sadat is assassinated
Cairo
COUNTRIES' ETHNIC GROUPS | 200 | 90% Khmer
Cambodia
COUNTRY MEN | 400 | The ancient sage Kambu Svayambhuva lent his name to this country
Cambodia
COUNTRY MUSIC | 2000 | The Dead Kennedys,1980:""Holiday In ____""
Cambodia
ON THE OLD MAP | 800 | Called New Towne when Harvard college was established, the city soon got this name
Cambridge
NAME THE CAPITAL | 400 | Australia
Canberra
SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS | 600 | Oils well that ends well in this city by the Caribbean coast that became a capital in the 1820s
Caracas
CITY-TITLED MOVIES | 400 | In this film Ingrid Bergman asks Humphrey Bogart, ""Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?""
Casablanca
U.S. ISLANDS | 1000 | For 3 decades, this California island's Avalon Ballroom has been home to the JazzTrax music festival
Catalina
U.S. CITY NAME ORIGINS | 800 | Raleigh & Durham were named for people; this third leg of ""the Triangle"" got its name from a small church
Chapel Hill
ON THE ISLAND | 1200 | A fatal car crash on this island dashed Ted Kennedy's presidential chances
Chappaquiddick
WORLD AIRPORTS | 1000 | You can still see one of Air France's Concorde jets outside the Paris airport named for him
Charles de Gaulle
STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES | 1000 | ""The Home of Frontier Days""
Cheyenne
SKYSCRAPER CITY | 600 | The John Hancock Center at 875 N. Michigan Avenue
Chicago
COUNTRY MUSIC | 1600 | David Bowie,1983:""____ Girl""
China
COUNTRY ROADS | 600 | In the 1990s this country built a highway across the Takla Makan Desert, an area where once the Silk Road ran
China
REVOLUTIONARY COUNTRIES | 400 | The Cultural Revolution (1966)
China
THE COUNTRY DUE SOUTH | 200 | of Ulan Bator, Mongolia
China
THE MOVIE MAP | 600 | A Kurt Russell adventure: ""Big Trouble In Little ___""
China
CENTRAL PARK | 1200 | The oldest man-made object in the park, it originally stood on the banks of the Nile
Cleopatra\'s Needle
STATE THE CITY | 200 | Ohio: The most populous on Lake Erie
Cleveland
COUNTRY FACTS | 600 | A leading coffee & coal producer, this country ranks 2nd in population in South America
Colombia
ASIAN GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | Kotte, a suburb of this city, was once a capital of Sinhalese kings
Colombo
THE NORTHERNMOST STATE CAPITAL | 800 | Boston,Concord,Hartford
Concord
THE COUNTRY'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER... | 1600 | is entombed in Plac Pilsudskiego
Poland
U.S. ISLANDS | 200 | Long Island has 4 counties: Nassau, Suffolk, Kings & this
Queens
WELL-SEASONED BOOKS | 800 | This 1962 book warned that ""chemicals sprayed on croplands or forests or gardens lie long in soil""
Silent Spring
COUNTRIES BY AIRPORTS | 1000 | La Coloma &Jose Marti International
Cuba
ISLAND FACTS | 800 | Found in the Caribbean, it's the most populous island country in the western hemisphere
Cuba
SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES | 2000 | The inner city of this Incan capital was laid out in the shape of a puma whose head was the fort of Sacsayhuaman
Cusco
ISLAND NATIONS | 600 | Just like Greece, the Greek section of this Asian island nation in the Mediterranean has a Mount Olympus
Cyprus
WORLD CAPITAL POINTS OF INTEREST | 200 | The tomb of Saladin is in this Syrian capital
Damascus
STATES THAT BEGIN WITH CALIFORN | 400 | Lying chiefly in Cali, this national park boasts the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere--282' below sea level
Death Valley
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES | 800 | About 5 million live in this country
Denmark
SKYSCRAPER CITY | 400 | Republic Plaza, rising 714 feet (not a mile)
Denver
SEAN CONNERY & BURT REYNOLDS | 200 | Do be careful, 007! Sean's first movie adventure as James Bond pitted him against this ""physician"" in 1962
Dr. No
TRAVEL & TOURISM | 400 | If you want to see the Book of Kells, it's on display at the Old Library at Trinity College in this city
Dublin
TRAVEL & TOURISM | 800 | Looking for the Peacock Theatre in this city? It's under the foyer of the Abbey Theatre
Dublin
WORLD CAPITAL MUSEUMS | 200 | The Guinness Storehouse
Dublin
ON THE MAP | 1000 | One of the world's newest countries, it gained its independence in 2002
East Timor
DOUBLE UP ON YOUR COUNTRIES | 1600 | Of the 5 nations with compass directions in their names, 3 use ""South""; these 2 do not
East Timor & North Korea
ON WHAT ISLAND? | 800 | Around 800 monumental Moai
Easter Island
CAPITAL CITY CHURCHES | 600 | The High Kirk of St. Giles, where John Knox was minister
Edinburgh
CAPITAL CITY HOTELS | 1000 | The Balmoral,Nira Caledonia
Edinburgh
LET'S TRAVEL | 1200 | Visitors to this inventor's New Jersey lab can hear recordings from his 1890 talking doll, a costly failure
Edison
U.S. CITIES | 800 | The Olympics were held in the U.S. for the first time in 1904, hosted by this city that was also holding the World's Fair
St. Louis
BORDERING THE RED SEA | 1000 | Snorkel or sunbathe at the southernmost point in Israel, this resort city at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba
Eilat
COUNTRY ROADS | 1000 | Also the title of an Eddy Grant hit, it was London's first shopping street with a certain type of illumination
Electric Avenue
NEW TOURIST SLOGANS FOR ISLANDS? | 400 | About 1/2 mile north of Liberty Island: ""Come see where the Smazedkiewiczes became the Smiths""
Ellis Island
RUSSIAN CITIES | 1200 | Russia not only has a city named Marx, it has one named this for his co-writer
Engels
LANGUAGES OF AFRICA | 1200 | (Sara gives the clue from Pretoria, South Africa)In 1908, in Pretoria, South Africa, the Union Buildingswere designed to represent the unity of a once-divided people, with the two identical wings symbolizing these two then-official languages.
English and Afrikaans
LANDLOCKED AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 400 | After the 1993 secession of Eritrea, this other ""E"" nation became landlocked
Ethiopia
ON THE MAP | 200 | Get this country on the Horn of Africa
Ethiopia
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 2000 | In 2014 this former stand-up comic released his 21st novel, ""A Wanted Woman""
Eric Jerome Dickey
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Kelleys Island, Ohio's largest island, lies within this Great Lake
Erie
ON THE MAP | 1000 | In the trio of nations seen here, this one is the northernmost
Estonia
WELCOME TO THE U.N. | 1000 | 1991:From Europe's upper right-hand corner, Latvia, Lithuania & this republic
Estonia
MOVIE TITLES IN OTHER COUNTRIES | 2000 | Italy turned the title of this film with Jim Carrey & Kate Winslet into ""If You Leave Me I Delete You""
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
CITY FOUNDERS | 1200 | This home to the University of Oregon was founded by a Mr. Skinner & given his first name
Eugene
U.S. CITY NICKNAMES | 600 | Oregon:""Track Town USA""
Eugene
WHAT THE CITY NAME MEANS | 800 | Mr. Skinner, Oregon
Eugene
TRAVELING | 1000 | Finding guidebooks of his time boring, this Hungarian started his own travel series with 1936's ""On the Continent""
Eugene Fodor
U.S. CITY NAME ORIGINS | 1600 | This city that developed around Northwestern University was named for one of the school's benefactors
Evanston
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 400 | African-American History Month is celebrated in this month
February
EARLY U.S. CAPITALS | 800 | Pierre L'Enfant remodeled this hall in Lower Manhattan before it was the seat of government in 1789 & 1790
Federal Hall
BALLPARK FACTS & FIGURES | 200 | In 1934 this A.L. park got a new left field wall; in 1947 that wall was painted green to match the rest of the park
Fenway
WHAT A COUNTRY! | 800 | It's in between Ethiopia & Tanzania, ""K""?
Kenya
4-LETTER COUNTRY NAMES | 1600 | A Pacific island republic
Fiji
ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC | 400 | A brand of water named for this Pacific island nation is bottled at the source, the Yaqara Valley on Viti Levu
Fiji
LAKES | 400 | Lake Ladoga was divided between the Soviet Union & this nation until a 1940 war, when the Soviets seized the entire lake
Finland
AFRICAN LEADERS | 800 | Add a syllable to ""Kenya"" to get this last name of Kenya's first & current presidents, father & son
Kenyatta
THE COUNTIES OF IRELAND | 2000 | The lakes of Killarney & Dingle Peninsula make this SW county one of Ireland's most popular tourist destinations
Kerry
2-TIMING STATES | 1000 | In Michigan they're still asleep in Ironwood but getting up in this rock-hard seat of Genesee County
Flint
CAPTURE THE FLAG | 400 | A Seminole woman scatters flowers on the flag of this state
Florida
CURRENT SENATORS' STATES | 600 | This state:Nelson & Rubio
Florida
THE 50 STATES | 200 | That's a Space Shuttle above the trees on this state's quarter
Florida
GEOGRAPHICAL MUSIC GROUPS | 2000 | ""Dirt""(a 2-state country group)
Florida Georgia Line
MEANINGS OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES | 800 | The name of this Wisconsin city is French for ""bottom of the lake"", its position
Fond du Lac
U.S. CITIES | 1200 | Let's head for spring break at this ""Fort"" city known as the ""Venice of America"" for its many inland waterways
Fort Lauderdale
ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES | 1000 | NEWT FORAY,Indiana
Fort Wayne, Indiana
HOW TO DRAIN YOUR FLAGON | 800 | It took a while to drain your flagon after pouring a 25.4-ounce can of this Australian beer that hit U.S. shelves in 1972
Foster\'s
TRAVELING | 200 | In Bali, this luxury hotel chain calls its suites ""Royal Villas"", Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall
Four Seasons
THE HOT SEAT | 800 | This Russki's seat got hotter after the Cuban Missile Crisis, & he was out of power in 2 years
Khrushchev
COMPOSERS' COUNTRY OF BIRTH | 800 | Hector Berlioz
France
COUNTRIES' NATIONAL ANTHEMS | 200 | ""La Marseillaise""
France
IT BORDERS BOTH COUNTRIES | 200 | Germany &Spain
France
ON THE ISLAND | 1600 | Sarah stands by a map The 9.1 earthquake that caused the devastating moved part of this Indonesian island that was closest to the epicenter, 100 feet to the southwest
Sumatra
THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY | 2000 | Erech & Kish were cities of this earliest known civilization that flourished in Iraq in the 3rd millennium B.C.
Sumeria
SEASONAL SONGS | 800 | A top 20 hit for Bananarama: ""Cruel _____""
Summer
NAME THE CAPITAL | 200 | Kentucky
Frankfort
PARTS OF THE CITY | 1200 | In Gainesville, Florida, Kappa Alpha & Sigma Nu are on this row
Fraternity Row
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 1200 | The 1845 ""Narrative of the Life of"" this man was published just 7 years after he escaped slavery
Frederick Douglass
AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE | 1600 | ""My Bondage and My Freedom"" from 1855 is his second autobiography
Frederick Douglass
HO CHI MINH CITY | 600 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.) Built in the 1890s, Ho Chi Minh City's opera house is an outstanding example of the elegant architecture called French this
French Colonial
THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ATLAS SHRUGGED | 200 | The Atlas' map of cellphone use by country has a ""no data"" blank space for this French territory in South America
French Guiana
GUYS, CAPITALISM WORKS! | 2000 | The Uncle Miltie of economics, he wrote in ""Capitalism and Freedom"" that the former creates the latter
Friedman
LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES | 1200 | In the early 1700s immigrants from Fukien Province on the Chinese mainland founded this capital not on the mainland
Taipei
NAME THE CAPITAL | 400 | Taiwan
Taipei
EUROPEAN CITIES | 400 | Native son Christopher Columbus embodies the maritime tradition of this city
Genoa
ITALIAN CITIES | 600 | This seaport in Liguria lends its name to a popular type of salami
Genoa
ITALIAN GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | Italy's chief seaport, it lies on the northern end of the Ligurian Sea
Genoa
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS | 1600 | In 1997 15 members of Parliament & Funkadelic were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame along with this leader
George Clinton
STATES' LONGEST BORDERS | 2000 | Of Florida's 2 state borders, its longer one is with this state
Georgia
COUNTRIES IN SPANISH | 1600 | Alemania
Germany
COUNTRY BORDERS | 200 | On its north, Denmark;on its south, Switzerland
Germany
COUNTRY BY STATE | 200 | Hessen
Germany
ELLIS ISLAND | 800 | During WWI, about 1,800 citizens of this country were seized at ports & interned at Ellis Island before being deported
Germany
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES | 800 | 2001:U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Ghana
GEOGRAPHY 101 | 600 | 277 miles long & often 1 mile deep, it's the largest gorge in the U.S. of A.
Grand Canyon
CITY SEALS | 1600 | The capital of Switzerland has had this animal on its seal since the 1200s
a bear
PARKS | 1000 | It's not a bridge too far to visit this 1,000-acre San Francisco destination; 13 million folks do that every year
Golden Gate Park
ATLANTIC CITY | 600 | It's fitting that this Atlantic City casino comps with its 24 Karat Club
Golden Nugget
PARKS | 800 | Lonely Planet says this landmark, also a title of a novel, ""is one of the most festive places in Moscow""
Gorky Park
TRAILER PARK | 1000 | Julian Fellowes penned this 2001 Robert Altman murder mystery with a trailer showing Clive Owen as a valet
Gosford Park
NATIONAL PARKS | 400 | (Hi, I'm Ken Burns.) My 2009 film tells the history of many of our country's most prized lands, including Yellowstone, the first National Park, established by this president in 1872
Grant
MAP QUEST | 600 | Antelope Island, oddly home to a herd of wild buffalo,is the largest islandin this U.S. body of water
Great Salt Lake
GREAT & OTHER LAKES | 600 | The town of Yellowknife is located on the shore of this ""Great"" Canadian lake
Great Slave Lake
COUNTRIES BY AIRPORTS | 600 | Kalamata &Kos
Greece
CARIBBEAN CAPITALS | 400 | Spice baskets are popular gift items you can purchase in St. George's, capital of this island invaded by the U.S. in 1983
Grenada
COUNTRIES OF THE CARIBBEAN | 200 | Site of a 1983 U.S. invasion, it's also known as the Isle of Spice
Grenada
RIVERS ON THE BORDER | 1600 | The Usumacinta River forms the border between Mexico & this country
Guatemala
CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS | 800 | Ruins from the Mayan city Kaminaljuyu can be found in this capital but much has been covered by urban expansion
Guatemala City
STUPID GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS | 400 | Bissau is the capital of this African country that borders Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
EUROPE TO NO GOOD | 1600 | His failure to blow up Parliament is celebrated in Great Britain on November 5
Guy Fawkes
ENTERTAINMENT UNDER THE SEA | 400 | In ""Finding Nemo"", Marlin says, ""I know funny. I'm"" this type of fish that's born male but can switch sexes one time
a clownfish
ASIAN GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | This smallest Chinese province in area consists mostly of one island in the Gulf of Tonkin
Hainan
EAST ASIAN CITIES | 2000 | This Vietnamese city near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as the deepwater port for Hanoi
Haiphong
FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES | 400 | Its 10 million people all live on a third of a Caribbean island
Haiti
PLANT THE FLAG | 800 | This nation's flag was changed after the removal of Baby Doc Duvalier but still includes a palm tree in the coat of arms
Haiti
WORLD CAPITALS | 600 | This capital's most-visited site is Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum on the edge of Ba Dinh Square
Hanoi
CAPITAL CITY OVERLAPS | 400 | Cuba & Kenya
Havanairobi
WORLD CITIES | 2000 | In 1907 a 500,000-year-old ""man"" was found near & named for this southwest German city
Heidelberg
MARY-LOUISE PARKER | 1600 | What a dame! In ""Red"", this actress had to explain something to Mary-Louise: ""I kill people, dear""
Helen Mirren
4-LETTER U.S. CITIES | 2000 | It's the biggest city on the ""Big Island""
Hilo
U.S. CITIES | 200 | Completed in 1926, Aloha Tower greets visitors to this city
Honolulu
AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS | 1600 | There are nudist tours of Mona, a new museum in this capital on an island
Hobart
DISEASES NAMED FOR PEOPLE | 1200 | The section of lymph node seen here, is showing this uncommon cancer of the lymphatic system
Hodgkin\'s disease
LITERA-SEA | 400 | This ""Iliad"" poet often refers to ""The Wine-Dark Sea""
Homer
ON WHAT ISLAND? | 400 | Fukushima prefecture
Honshu
AMERICAN CITIES | 600 | This city of 2 million people--we have no problem
Houston
U.S. CITY NICKNAMES | 200 | Texas:""Space City""
Houston
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 600 | Beginning in 1867 school was in session for what is now Morehouse College & this university in Washington, D.C.
Howard University
JOLLY OLD CITIES IN ENGLAND | 2000 | The frame of a ship, or a Yorkshire port city of 250,000 people
Hull
TRANSPORTATION MILESTONES | 400 | In 1929 a Cleveland airport became the first to have one of these tall buildings with a clear view of the field
a control tower
COUNTRY OF BIRTH | 2000 | Nuclear physicist Edward Teller
Hungary
THE MAP OF CANADA | 200 | Ontario's wasaga beach is the world's longest freshwater beach, 9 miles along Georgian bay, an arm of this lake
Huron
BRAZILIAN GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Brazil's tourism industry depends in part on these spectacular falls on the border with Argentina
Iguazu Falls
STATES' MOST POPULOUS COUNTIES | 400 | Cook County
Illinois
COUNTRIES BY HOTEL | 200 | The Taj West End Hotel
India
IT BORDERS BOTH COUNTRIES | 400 | Pakistan &Bangladesh
India
TRAVELIN' AROUND THE COUNTRY | 800 | We'll drive up the coast, heading north from Cuddalore to Vishakhapatnam to Balasore
India
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT | 200 | Fort Dodge is on the Des Moines River in this state
Iowa
TRAVEL USA | 1000 | The National Farm Toy Museum in Dyersville is an attraction in this corn-rich state
Iowa
COUNTRIES WITH SHORT COASTLINES | 800 | It has just 306 miles of coastline between Kuwait & Iran
Iraq
POPULOUS EUROPEAN ISLANDS | 1200 | This island of 6 million is shared between one nation & part o' another
Ireland
THE COUNTRY'S PRESIDENT | 200 | Sean Thomas O'Kelly (1945 to 1959); we truly defy you to get this one wrong
Ireland
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS | 2000 | The best preserved of the scrolls contains all or part of all 66 chapters of this Old Testament prophet's book
Isaiah
COUNTRIES BY WORLD HERITAGE SITES | 1200 | Tel Megiddo &the Old City of Acre
Israel
COUNTRIES' NATIONAL ANTHEMS | 1000 | ""Hatikvah""
Israel
SMALL COUNTRIES | 1600 | The tiny nation of San Marino is completely surrounded by this other European country
Italy
FEWER THAN A THOUSAND ISLANDS | 800 | This Greek island, site of a famous mythical homecoming, has also been known as Thiaki
Ithaca
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: CELEBRATING 125 YEARS | 200 | The magazine ran several articles by this man whom the National Geographic Society sponsored on 37 expeditions
Jacques Cousteau
ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES | 400 | This capital of Indonesia is home to about 10 million people
Jakarta
WORLD CAPITALS | 200 | Indonesia's capital, it's on the island of Java
Jakarta
COUNTRIES' LOWEST POINTS | 400 | Lake Hachiro-gata
Japan
COUNTRIES' NATIONAL ANTHEMS | 400 | ""Kimigayo""
Japan
WORLD AIRPORTS | 800 | Resembling a bird about to take off, the terminal at Bilbao airport is nicknamed ""La Paloma"", Spanish for this
a dove
TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 66 | 400 | One of these theaters was opened in 1949 in Carthage, Missouri; occupying 9 acres, it's still in operation
a drive-in
OUT OF AFRICA | 1000 | An example of this pine family member is seen here
a fir
TALKING GEOGRAPHY | 400 | A Pennsylvania boulder field is an example of moraine, debris deposited by a melting one of these
a glacier
THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N. | 2000 | Despite being a longtime Democrat, this woman was named to the post by Ronald Reagan
Jean Kirkpatrick
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE | 200 | J.T. & this late night host cover everything from the Sugarhill Gang to Kendrick Lamar in ""The History Of Rap""
Jimmy Fallon
CENTRAL PARK | 400 | The mosaic seen here is a tribute to him
John Lennon
WORLD AIRPORTS | 600 | A British airport renamed for him in 2001 also adopted the slogan ""Above us only sky""
John Lennon
NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS | 1200 | The 2016 TV series ""The People v. O.J. Simpson"" put this late attorney, seen here at the trial, front & center
Johnnie Cochran
AIRPORT CODES | 1000 | A code for the airport in Ile Ouen, New Caledonia, or what we might have to give you if we don't have the $1,000
an IOU
STATES RHYME TIME | 400 | A Boise non-amateur
an Idaho pro
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 50 GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHS | 1600 | Sadly, after ingesting the marine debris on the right, this once-wandering baby bird died of starvation
an albatross
CAPITAL MAP IT ALL | 200 | No roads lead intothis state capital
Juneau
STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 800 | Its self-named icefield, which can be enjoyed via helicopter tour
Juneau
LANGUAGES OF AFRICA | 2000 | The most-spoken Khoe language is Nama in Namibia; the other Khoe languages are mainly heard in this desert in Botswana
Kalahari
STATE BY COUNTIES | 600 | Coffey,Lincoln,Leavenworth
Kansas
STATES' HIGHEST POINTS | 400 | Mount Sunflower
Kansas
WORLD CITIES | 2000 | This chief port of Pakistan served as the country's capital from 1947 to 1959
Karachi
CAPITAL RIVERS | 2000 | The Baghmati River, which flows through this Himalayan capital, is sacred to Hindus
Kathmandu
WORLD CAPITALS | 200 | This Nepalese capital's name means ""wood temple"" & refers to a 400-year-old temple built from a single tree
Kathmandu
WORLD CAPITALS | 800 | This capital of Nepal was once an independent principality
Kathmandu
THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS | 600 | It's the northernmost & most verdant of the major islands
Kauai
COUNTRY & TOWN | 2000 | Good Lord Almaty, a city name that may mean ""father of apples"", refers to the orchards in this nation
Kazakhstan
4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS | 400 | This capital city on the Dnieper river lends its name to a high-calorie chicken dish
Kiev
U.S. FORCES OVERSEAS | 1600 | Camp Patriot & a related Naval base are located on the southeast corner of this small Persian Gulf country
Kuwait
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE | 400 | (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) At the gift shop, you can pick up a kinara, a candleholder that represents African roots; it'll hold candles in the symbolic colors of black for the people, red for their struggle & green for hope, all to help you celebrate this late December holiday
Kwanzaa
BASIC GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | Canada's easternmost province is Newfoundland & this
Labrador
BILLBOARD'S ALL-TIME TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS | 2000 | Their 2010 album ""Need You Now""
Lady Antebellum
CITIES | 400 | More than 20 million people live in this former capital of Nigeria
Lagos
LAKES | 800 | In 1990 colonies of marine life were found living in hydrothermal vents at the bottom of this Siberian lake
Lake Baikal
CANADIAN LAKES | 800 | The northern tip of this Vermont-New York lake juts into Quebec just south of Montreal
Lake Champlain
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Vermont's lowest point is 95 feet above sea level on the shore of this lake
Lake Champlain
GREAT & OTHER LAKES | 200 | The Chicago River flows out of this Great Lake
Lake Michigan
LAKES | 1600 | To create this lake in the 1960s, historical ruins such as Abu Simbel were moved to higher ground
Lake Nasser
OLYMPIC HOST CITIES | 400 | A 2-time Olympic host, this New York village has a population of around 2,500
Lake Placid
MOVIES' MAIN CITIES | 200 | ""The Cooler"" &""Ocean's Eleven""
Las Vegas
THE CITY | 200 | This city's seal depicts Hoover Dam, 25 miles away
Las Vegas
U.S. CITIES | 200 | The bright lights of this city are seen here
Las Vegas
THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION | 1200 | In 1977 CDC detectives tracked the source of this new fatal pneumonia that infected victims at a Phila. convention
Legionnaires\' disease
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS | 1200 | One of the first black performers signed to a long-term Hollywood contract, this singer/actress died in 2010, age 92
Lena Horne
GREEK ISLANDS | 1600 | This island in the Aegean was the birthplace of such poets as Alcaeus, Terpander & Sappho
Lesbos
COUNTRIES' HIGHEST POINTS | 1000 | Bikku Bitti, near the southern border with Chad
Libya
FLAGS OF THE WORLD | 200 | This country replaced its all-green flag with a red, black & green one following Qaddafi's overthrow in 2011
Libya
THE WEATHER & GEOGRAPHY REPORT | 200 | It gets hot in El Azizia, near Tripoli, in this country--hot like 124 degrees one day in 1922
Libya
WHICH AFRICAN COUNTRY? | 1000 | The Tobruk War Cemetery
Libya
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD | 1200 | Schellenberg & Vaduz were united to form this tiny country
Liechtenstein
MEANINGS OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES | 200 | The name of this small country comes from German for ""light stone""
Liechtenstein
JOLLY OLD CITIES IN ENGLAND | 400 | It's home to the International Slavery Museum, but you may know it as the home of the Beatles
Liverpool
LITERARY CITIES | 400 | Next time you're in this city, stop by Duke's Bar, where the martinis inspired Ian Fleming to make them 007's drink
London
SHAKESPEAREAN GEOGRAPHY | 200 | This city's Boar's Head Inn is a favorite hangout of Falstaff & his friends
London
U.S. STATES' LARGEST ISLANDS | 400 | This New York island is named for the fact that it extends almost 120 miles
Long Island
GEOGRAPHIC CENTERS | 600 | In Avoyelles Parish, southeast of Marksville
Louisiana
STATES BY LAKE | 400 | Catahoula Lake,Bayou D'Arbonne Lake
Louisiana
STATES THAT FLOW TOGETHER | 800 | This big land buy named for one also got us the other
Louisiana & Arkansas
STUPID GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS | 200 | Luxembourg National Museum is located in the historic center of this city
Luxembourg
ALL OVER THE MAP | 1600 | Home to Quezon City:this island
Luzon
WHAT ISLAND? | 1600 | The Philippine National Police Academy
Luzon
SPANISH CITIES | 400 | Spain's Cortes, or parliament, meets in this city
Madrid
CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD | 1200 | Portland(1820)
Maine
NATIONAL PARKS | 1000 | Early guide Stephen Bishop called the centerpiece of this Kentucky park a ""grand, gloomy and peculiar place""
Mammoth Cave
GEOGRAPHIC BANDS | 800 | Had the apt hit ""Boy From New York City"":____ Transfer
Manhattan
THE MOVIE MAP | 400 | J. Lo is the help: ""Maid In ___""
Manhattan
LAKES & RIVERS | 1200 | The Philippines' largest lake is Laguna de Bay, referring to this nearby bay
Manila Bay
NORTH AMERICAN RIVERS | 1600 | Its major tributaries include the Spokane, Yakima, & Kootenai Rivers
the Columbia River
STATE CAPITAL EVENTS | 200 | On Jan. 29, 2016 in Baton Rouge, the Mystic Krewe of Artemis was the first parade in this annual event
Mardi Gras
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE | 1000 | (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) On Easter in 1939, after she was denied permission to sing at Constitution Hall, this contralto put on her Sunday best clothes & sang ""My Country, 'Tis Of Thee"" to a crowd of over 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial
Marian Anderson
AMERICAN ISLANDS | 800 | Until 2007 Chappaquiddick was attached to the eastern end of this larger island by a narrow 2-mile strip of beach
Martha\'s Vineyard
STATES BY COUNTIES | 200 | Calvert,Somerset,Anne Arundel
Maryland
COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS | 400 | South of Morocco:""Land of the Moors""
Mauritania
4-LETTER U.S. CITIES | 800 | In Arizona it forms a metropolitan area with Phoenix & Glendale
Mesa
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | This Minnesota range is the chief deposit of iron ore in the United States
Mesabi (Range)
AMERICAN CITIES | 1000 | The southernmost major city on the U.S. mainland, it had a population of only 343 when the railroad arrived in 1896
Miami
BIG CITY SUBURBS | 800 | Coral Gables,Hialeah
Miami
AFRICAN LAKES | 2000 | Crater lakes created by glaciers can be found on this second-highest African peak
Mount Kenya
TRAVEL USA | 800 | You can visit a weather museum at the top of this New Hampshire peak, reachable via a cog railway
Mt. Washington
STATELY GEOGRAPHY | 800 | 13,147-foot Boundary Peak,Area 51 (which we can't confirm or deny)
Nevada
STUFF ABOUT STATES | 1000 | The words ""Battle Born"" appear on the flag of this state that entered the Union during the Civil War
Nevada
U.S. ISLANDS | 1200 | To remember the islands in this R.I. bay, ""Prudence, Patience, Hope & Despair; & Little Hog Island right over there""
Narragansett
STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 1000 | Historic RCA Studio B,Belle Meade Plantation
Nashville
CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD | 400 | Omaha(1867)
Nebraska
PANHANDLE STATES | 400 | Chimney Rock, a landmark on the Oregon Trail, is located on the North Platte River in this state's panhandle
Nebraska
CAPTURE THE FLAG | 1600 | 2 sprigs of sagebrush, the state flower, surround a single star on this state's blue flag
Nevada
SKYSCRAPER CITY | 200 | The Trump building at 40 Wall St.
New York City
LAKES & RIVERS | 400 | According to Maori legend, this country's Lake Manapouri was formed by the tears of dying sisters
New Zealand
U.S. CITIES' INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS | 1000 | 14 miles from Manhattan, Liberty International
Newark
STUFF ABOUT STATES | 1200 | This Rhode Island city is home to the U.S. Naval War College & the Tennis Hall of Fame
Newport
U.S. CITIES | 800 | In this Rhode Island resort town, you can visit such mansions as Rosecliff & the Breakers
Newport
ALTERED STATES | 2000 | In Dixie:Orca Harlot Inn
North Carolina
THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS | 200 | It's home to the state capital
Oahu
STATES BY LAKE | 800 | Leesville Lake,Buckeye Lake
Ohio
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Council Bluffs, Iowa lies across the Missouri from this Nebraska city & makes up part of its metro area
Omaha
4-LETTER COUNTRY NAMES | 1200 | An Islamic sultanate
Oman
LET'S GO TO THE ISLANDS | 1200 | If you want to live long and prosper, keep your distance when Vulcan is active, in this island country, abbreviated PNG
Papua New Guinea
OCEANIA | 1200 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of part of the South Pacific.) Port Moresby, on the Coral Sea, is the capital of this three-named country.
Papua New Guinea
LANDLOCKED COUNTRY FUN | 800 | Its name ends with the same 4 letters as another South American country
Paraguay
THE MOVIE MAP | 800 | Nick Nolte as TJ: ""Jefferson In ___""
Paris
DISEASES NAMED FOR PEOPLE | 400 | A British physician first described this disease in 1817 in ""An Essay on Shaking Palsy""
Parkinson\'s disease
STATE BY COUNTIES | 800 | Franklin,Lackawanna,Lehigh
Pennsylvania
COUNTRY MUSIC | 200 | In 2014 The Band this, made up of 3 siblings, won vocal group of the year at the ACM Awards
Perry
AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS | 2000 | This capital of Western Australia is famous for the black swans along the Swan River
Perth
COUNTRY BORDERS | 1000 | On its northwest, Ecuador;on its southeast, Bolivia
Peru
THE COUNTRY DUE SOUTH | 800 | of Quito, Ecuador
Peru
RIVER RUN | 1600 | From the Rockies to the Gulf, between Brownsville & Matamoros
the Rio Grande
RIVERS ON THE BORDER | 400 | This border river also called Rio Bravo empties into the Gulf of Mexico
the Rio Grande
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 2000 | In 1773 she put out the first book of poetry by an African American
Phillis Wheatley
STATE CAPITAL EVENTS | 800 | Cactus League spring training is held throughout the area of this capital
Phoenix
STATE CAPITALS AKA | 400 | Legendary rising bird
Phoenix
AROUND AFRICA | 800 | While this empire controlled Libya, it was part of the region known as Africa Nova
the Roman Empire
NAME THE CAPITAL | 600 | South Dakota
Pierre
STATE CAPITALS | 400 | In 1743 the site of this S.D. capital was claimed for France by the burial of a lead plate; the plate was found in 1913
Pierre
CITIES ON THE RIVER | 1600 | Kingston &Trois-Rivieres
the Saint Lawrence
TRAVEL & TOURISM | 800 | Exhibits at Pilgrim Hall in this Mass. city include William Bradford's wine cup & a cooking pot belonging to Myles Standish
Plymouth
EUROPEAN CITIES | 2000 | Mozart lived for a time in this city on the Vltava river & wrote a symphony named for it
Prague
WORLD CITIES | 400 | This capital on the Vltava River was once the capital of the kingdom of Bohemia
Prague
WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 1200 | The Franz Kafka Museum
Prague (Czech Republic)
WORLD CITIES | 1200 | Brisbane is the capital city of this ""royal"" Australian state
Queensland
ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS | 1600 | LEG HAIR
Raleigh
IN THE STATE CAPITAL | 800 | The Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts
Raleigh
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 400 | Born in Oklahoma City in 1914, he was named for the Transcendentalist author of ""Self-Reliance""
Ralph Ellison
____IN' COUNTRY SONGS | 800 | Waylon Jennings:""I'm A ____in' Man""
Ramblin\' Man
MAPS & GLOBES | 1600 | Goode's School Atlas was an early 1920s publication from this Skokie, Illinois company
Rand McNally
FEWER THAN A THOUSAND ISLANDS | 200 | We'll pony up if you know there are about 100 of these islands about 100 miles north of mainland Scotland
the Shetlands
THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N. | 800 | In 1997 this Hispanic American from New Mexico fit the bill
Richardson
REPORTING FROM THE STATE CAPITAL | 1000 | At the White House of the Confederacy on Clay Street
Richmond
STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 400 | The state capitol building, naturally, designed by Thomas Jefferson
Richmond
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 200 | John Tyler, James Monroe, & Jefferson Davis are all buried in this Virginia city's Hollywood Cemetery
Richmond
STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES | 800 | ""The Queen on the James""
Richmond (Virginia)
THE HUDSON RIVER | 200 | A cantilever bridge named for this Washington Irving sleeper stretches almost a mile across the Hudson at Catskill
Rip Van Winkle
MIDDLE EASTERN CAPITALS | 1600 | This capital's KAFD World Trade Centre rises 994 feet in the King Abdullah Financial District
Riyadh
TRAVELING AMONGST THE STARS | 600 | In 1987 this actress was ""The Princess Bride"" on film; these days she's married to politics on Netflix
Robin Wright
SEAN PENN | 1200 | A tumultuous marriage began when she became Sean's ""Princess Bride"" in 1996
Robin Wright Penn
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | Waterfalls on this river include Shoshone Falls & Twin Falls
the Snake River
OCEANIA! | 1600 | Display your wisdom & name this island group that includes Guadalcanal
the Solomon Islands
FLAGS OF THE WORLD | 600 | This nation's blue, yellow & red flag represents the colors used in the arms of Walachia & Moldavia
Romania
SEAS | 1600 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Mekong River in Vietnam.) Southeast Asia's longest river, the Mekong, starts in the Tibetan Highlands & flows 2,700 miles before emptying into the sea that we know as this, but which Vietnam wants to call the Southeast Asia Sea
the South China Sea
ADVENTURE TRAVEL | 600 | We could always follow the little green men to the Intl. UFO Museum & Research Center in this New Mexico city
Roswell
U.S. CITY NICKNAMES | 600 | New Mexico:""The Alien Capital of the World""
Roswell
EXTREME GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | If you ignore its claim of clear up to the North Pole, this country's northern tip is at over 81 degrees N, on Rudolf Island
Russia
U.S. CITY NICKNAMES | 800 | ""Georgia's First City""
Savannah
WORLD FLAGS | 1200 | Aka the Crux, this constellation is depicted on Brazil's flag
the Southern Cross
THE NORTHERNMOST STATE CAPITAL | 400 | Salt Lake City,Sacramento,Salem
Salem
STATE CAPITAL HEADQUARTERS | 1000 | Zions Bancorporation
Salt Lake City
ON THE MAP | 400 | A carillon in this city plays pieces specially composed by its native son Mozart
Salzburg
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 600 | The highest state capital in the U.S. at about 7,000 feet, it lies in the northern Rio Grande Valley
Santa Fe
TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 66 | 1000 | In 2009 the Route 66 Alliance designated this California city's pier as the ""end of the trail""
Santa Monica
SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS | 200 | In 2010 a massive 8.8 earthquake damaged this Chilean capital city
Santiago
NAME THE CAPITAL | 800 | The Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo
TRAVELING ALONG THE 40th PARALLEL N. | 1600 | The highest mountains of this Italian island just south of Corsica straddle the 40th parallel
Sardinia
WORLD CITIES | 1200 | This largest city of Saskatchewan also starts with ""S-A-S-K""
Saskatoon
2-WORD COUNTRIES | 800 | It occupies most of the world's largest peninsula
Saudi Arabia
COUNTRY MEN | 1600 | The sons of a man who died in 1953 still rule this Mideast country he founded
Saudi Arabia
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY | 400 | It's the name of the peninsula that includes Sweden & Norway as well as the region that also includes Denmark
Scandinavia
TRANSPORTATION PHRASES | 600 | Taken from a 1960s TV show: ""beam me up"", this guy means ""get me out of here""
Scotty
BIG BUILDING OF THE CITY | 800 | Rainier Tower
Seattle
SEALED | 1000 | As part of the job, this U.S. Cabinet secretary is the guardian of the Great Seal of the United States
Secretary of State
THE HOT SEAT | 200 | On March 5, 1861 Simon Cameron was appointed U.S. Secretary of this; he'd soon have quite a bit to do
Secretary of War
U.S. CITIES | 1600 | Take a hike & get in touch with your spiritual side at Cathedral Rock in this Arizona city
Sedona
SPANISH CITIES | 1600 | A 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct serves as a symbol of this city that shares its name with a famous guitarist
Segovia
AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 2000 | Gambia or the Gambia was once part of a union with this country that surrounds it
Senegal
STUPID GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS | 1000 | It was a 1980s confederation of Senegal & the Gambia
Senegambia
5-LETTER CAPITAL CITIES | 400 | Located on the Han River, it hosted the 21st Summer Olympics
Seoul
5-LETTER CAPITALS | 2000 | In the 1390s Yi Song-Gye began building this city to serve as the capital of Choson
Seoul
COUNTRY BORDERS | 600 | On its northwest, Croatia;on its southeast, Bulgaria
Serbia
SAINTS & THEIR CITIES | 1200 | A patron saint of the Internet, but not of barbers, Spanish theologian St. Isidore of here
Seville
AFRICAN AMERICANS | 600 | ""How to Get Away with Murder"" is but one part of her dominion as a TV writer-producer
Shonda Rhimes
ITALIAN ISLANDS | 800 | This island is the largest of Italy's 20 political regions
Sicily
MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS | 800 | Popular tourist destinations on this largest Mediterranean island include the ruins of Syracuse & Taormina
Sicily
NEW TOURIST SLOGANS FOR ISLANDS? | 1000 | ""See Mount Etna & feel the heat""
Sicily
POPULOUS EUROPEAN ISLANDS | 800 | These 2 islands combine to make a total of 6.5 million Italians
Sicily & Sardinia
ITALIAN CITIES & TOWNS | 1200 | The earth from this Tuscan city lent its name to a yellow-brown pigment & a ""burnt"" reddish-brown one
Siena
SAINTS & THEIR CITIES | 1600 | 14th century mystic & patron saint of Italy, St. Catherine of this city in Tuscany
Siena
COUNTRY MEN | 1200 | The country seen here was named after this man
Simón BolÃvar
THE HUDSON RIVER | 400 | Seen here is the original cell block of this institution on the banks of the Hudson
Sing Sing
COUNTRIES SMALLER THAN PUERTO RICO | 400 | In area this city-state is the largest port in southeast Asia
Singapore
PARKS | 2000 | The 105-year-old Looff Carousel in this Washington city's Riverfront Park is housed in a building remaining from Expo '74
Spokane
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH THE BOOK | 1600 | This poetic ""Anthology"" from Edgar Lee Masters became a Broadway play in 1963
Spoon River Anthology
TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS | 400 | Bratislava is the capital of this nation that Czeched out of a union with a neighbor
Slovakia
GEOGRAPHIC SAINTS | 800 | Built as a hotel, the Patee House Museum in this Missouri city was the Pony Express headquarters
St. Joseph
AFRICAN COUNTRY BY AIRPORT | 400 | Mogadishu International
Somalia
AFRICAN LEADERS | 2000 | Under president Siad Barre, who left in 1991, this East African land had its last real government for many years
Somalia
WHICH AFRICAN COUNTRY? | 400 | It's highlighted here
Somalia
RAISE THE WHITE IN THE FLAG | 2000 | This country's 1994 flag includes the black, green & yellow of liberation organizations, & red, white & blue of settler flags
South Africa
THE GEOGRAPHIC CENTER | 800 | Of this continent: the city of Cuiaba in the state of Mato Grosso
South America
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 1000 | 2013 saw the first Congress with 2 African-American senators when Mo Cowan of Mass. served with Tim Scott of this state
South Carolina
STATELY GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Badlands National Park,the Big Sioux River
South Dakota
GEOGRAPHIC BANDS | 400 | ""Stop, hey what's that sound"":Buffalo ____
Springfield
STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 600 | Abraham Lincoln's tomb
Springfield
STATE CAPITALS | 600 | The only house Abraham Lincoln ever owned is located at Jackson & 8th Streets in this capital
Springfield
THE NAME ON THE AIRPORT | 400 | The airport code for Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport is SPI, which stands for this state capital
Springfield
SEASONAL SONGS | 600 | Composed by Mel Brooks: ""_____time For Hitler""
Springtime
COUNTRIES' ETHNIC GROUPS | 800 | 74% Sinhalese
Sri Lanka
CARIBBEAN ISLANDS, MON | 1600 | In 1648 the French & the Dutch agreed to share this ""saintly"" 34-square-mile island
St. Martin
STATE CAPITALS AKA | 800 | A later apostle
St. Paul
GEOGRAPHIC SAINTS | 400 | Sightseeing in this city should include the admiralty, Russia's naval headquarters
St. Petersburg
GEOGRAPHIC TITLES | 2000 | Ken Follett: ""The Man from _____ _____""
St. Petersburg
FEWER THAN A THOUSAND ISLANDS | 400 | In 1993 this southern borough voted to secede from New York City, but the state legislature did not approve
Staten Island
FLORIDA GEOGRAPHY | 800 | This university in DeLand was named for a hat manufacturer who provided financial assistance
Stetson University
GEOGRAPHY CLASS | 400 | This Scandinavian city built on 14 islands is nicknamed the ""Venice of the North""
Stockholm
CANADIAN CITIES | 1200 | The swan is a symbol of this Ontario city; each year, white & black swans are released into the Avon River
Stratford
POINTY ON THE MAP | 800 | If you find yourself in Skagen, you're near the tip of Denmark & only 40 miles from this country
Sweden
EUROPE IN LATIN | 800 | A country:Helvetia
Switzerland
ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES | 200 | Home to the Orange:RACY USES
Syracuse
SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES | 800 | Known to locals as Sampa, this Brazilian city is the most populous in the Southern Hemisphere
São Paulo
WORLD CITIES | 400 | With 20 million people in its greater metro area, this Brazilian city is South America's most populous
São Paulo
U.N. COUNTRY ABBREVIATIONS | 600 | TJK
Tajikistan
NASCAR FROM THE DRIVER'S SEAT | 800 | (I'm Brad Keselowski.) In 2009 the first lap I ever led in a Sprint Cup race was the winning one at the Aaron's 499 in this city that's familiar to the fans of Ricky Bobby
Talladega
CONSONANT-FREE STATE CAPITALS | 200 | Actually not in Hawaii: AAAEE
Tallahassee
STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES | 400 | ""Florida's Beginning Point""
Tallahassee
COUNTRIES' HIGHEST POINTS | 200 | Mount Kilimanjaro
Tanzania
CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD | 800 | Knoxville(1796)
Tennessee
THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA | 2000 | After some federal control was established in 1862, Lincoln made Andrew Johnson the military gov. of this state
Tennessee
WELL-SEASONED BOOKS | 2000 | Cannibalism, lobotomy & forbidden desire all play out in this author's play ""Suddenly, Last Summer""
Tennessee Williams
OLD NAMES ON THE MAP | 1200 | Because it was the end of a railroad line, Atlanta had this original name, Latin for ""end""
Terminus
GEOGRAPHY 101 | 200 | The Nile is longer, but in terms of volume, this is the world's largest river
The Amazon
GEOGRAPHY 101 | 400 | Stretching for about 5,500 miles, the world's longest land mountain range is this South American one
The Andes
SEAN CONNERY & BURT REYNOLDS | 400 | As Boss Hogg in this 2005 film, Burt learned a valuable lesson--don't go up against Willie Nelson!
The Dukes of Hazzard
AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN | 1000 | In an essay defending this 2011 film, Myrlie Evers-Williams said, ""My mother was"" this film ""& so was her mother""
The Help
CITY-TITLED MOVIES | 1600 | Jeff Daniels as actor Tom Baxter steps out of a movie screen & into the life of a waitress in this Woody Allen film
The Purple Rose of Cairo
LITERA-SEA | 1600 | In this Jack London novel, Wolf Larsen is the captain of the Ghost, once a private yacht
The Sea-Wolf
LONDON TRANSPORTATION | 600 | The Underground has been known by this shorter nickname since 1890 when the first deep-level electric railway line opened
The Tube
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS | 400 | The scrolls were discovered in 1947 & offered for sale in a June 1, 1954 ad in this financial paper; they sold for $250,000
The Wall Street Journal
AMERICAN ISLANDS | 1600 | This island in the Susquehanna River is named for its distance from the town square in Middletown, Pennsylvania
Three Mile Island
BASIC GEOGRAPHY | 800 | You may get lightheaded in Gar, a town about 15,000 feet above sea level, in this autonomous region of China
Tibet
FLAGS OF THE WORLD | 400 | Some people of this region, officially part of China, use a white triangle flag to represent its location among high mountains
Tibet
GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) With an area of 471,000 square miles & a population of 3 million, this autonomous region was incorporated by China in 1951 amid controversy
Tibet
OUT OF AFRICA | 1200 | The name of this Mali city on the Sahara's southern edge is used to mean any place very distant
Timbuktu
FLAGS OF CROSS & CRESCENT | 1600 | This monarchy in the Pacific is about two-thirds Protestant
Tonga
OCEANIA | 1600 | If you want to see this country's king & family, attend Centenary Church in Nuku'alofa on Sundays
Tonga
ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS | 800 | TORN NET
Trenton
EARLY U.S. CAPITALS | 600 | Before it became capital of New Jersey, it was the U.S. capital for 2 months; Congress met at the French Arms Tavern
Trenton
HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC AKAs | 800 | Old maps used ""Natolia"" to denote the eastern part of what's now this country
Turkey
SEAS THE DAY | 400 | The sea of Marmara lies wholly within this country, between the Dardanelles & the Bosporus Straits
Turkey
U.N. COUNTRY ABBREVIATIONS | 200 | TUR
Turkey
FLAGS OF CROSS & CRESCENT | 2000 | The flags of these two countries that begin with the same two letters both use imagery from earlier Ottoman designs
Turkey and Tunisia
U.N. COUNTRY ABBREVIATIONS | 1000 | TKM
Turkmenistan
COUNTRY MUSIC | 800 | Chuck Berry,1959:""Back In The ____""
USA
COUNTRY MUSIC | 400 | The Beatles,1968:""Back In The ____""
USSR
AFRICAN COUNTRIES BY CAPITAL | 1600 | Kampala
Uganda
AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 400 | The Ganda are one of its major ethnic groups
Uganda
AFRICAN SETTINGS | 1600 | ""The Book of Mormon""
Uganda
VWLLSS AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 800 | GND
Uganda
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Kiev is the capital of this country
Ukraine
STATE PARKS | 1000 | This Is The Place Heritage Park state park takes up a lot of signage space in this state
Utah
CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY | 600 | YVR is the code for this West Coast airport
Vancouver
LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES | 400 | A top film production center & the largest city in western Canada, it's the closest sister city to L.A.
Vancouver
ITALIAN CITIES | 800 | In 1987 this city & its lagoon were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Venice
ASIAN ISLANDS | 1200 | This country's Phu Quoc Island is famous for its black pepper
Vietnam
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT | 800 | All 340 miles of the James River are within this state, which was home to an early settlement
Virginia
EUROPE IN LATIN | 600 | Part of the United Kingdom:Cambria
Wales
GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES | 2000 | ""Land Of The Leek""
Wales
____IN' COUNTRY SONGS | 400 | Patsy Cline:""____in' After Midnight""
Walkin\'
COUNTRY ROADS | 200 | Home of Mumbai's stock exchange, Dalal Street is India's answer to this New York City thoroughfare
Wall Street
ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES | 1000 | ""Colorful"" town possibly named for its abundant heavy fogs:WHISTLE PAIN
White Plains
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | It's the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada
Whitney
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | Dubuque, Iowa lies at the junction of 3 states: Iowa, Illinois, & this one
Wisconsin
SEASONAL SONGS | 200 | Kanye wrote is a eulogy for his mom:""Coldest _____""
Winter
GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES | 1000 | German city that's ""The Mother of Diets""
Worms
HAVE A COUNTY SEAT | 1000 | No one takes a back county seat to Jackson in this state's Teton County
Wyoming
LINES ON THE MAP | 800 | It's the only state whose borders, like with Montana to the north & Colorado to the south, are 4 straight lines
Wyoming
STATE BY COUNTIES | 400 | Teton,Lincoln,Laramie
Wyoming
THE FAULT IN OUR STATES | 600 | The Teton Fault
Wyoming
LINES ON THE MAP | 800 | Almost precisely straight lines mark the borders of these two states that joined the Union in 1876 and 1890
Wyoming and Colorado
BALLPARK FACTS & FIGURES | 1000 | A 1963 Mickey Mantle home run hit the upper deck of this stadium & bounced back nearly to second base
Yankee Stadium
IT'S NATIONAL PARK WEEK | 1200 | Here's Angel's Landing in this end-of-the-alphabet Utah park
Zion
NATIONAL PARKS | 600 | Perhaps the most famous landmark in this Utah park is the Great White Throne
Zion
ELECTRICITY | 2000 | Named for an Italian, it's the standard unit of electromotive force
a volt
WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS | 1600 | This tree in Tennessee's
ash (in Nashville)
WORDS IN STATES | 400 | If you're curious in Kodiak, just do this
ask (in Alaska)
WORDS IN STATES | 800 | Cognizant in Dover
aware (in Delaware)
TRANSPORTATION PHRASES | 400 | Someone who keeps giving unwelcome advice is this kind of ""driver""
backseat
WORDS IN WORLD CAPITALS | 400 | A prohibition in Thailand
ban
TALKING GEOGRAPHY | 200 | In Spanish this word is bahia, as in Bahia de Cochinos, this ""of Pigs""
bay
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 125th ANNIVERSARY | 400 | Larger animal life includes mule deer, black bears, mountain lions & this stocky species of sheep
bighorn
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK | 800 | These largest North American land mammals seem mellow but cause more injuries to humans in the park than bears do
bison
RHYMES WITH A GREAT LAKE | 2000 | 6-letter adjective for blurred & unfocused eyes
bleary
NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS | 400 | In 1942 Charles Drew received a patent for preserving this, allowing it to be stored in ""banks""
blood
COLOR THAT FLAG! | 400 | El Salvador & Israel (2 colors)
blue and white
WORDS IN WORLD CAPITALS | 1000 | A bad kid in Slovakia
brat
STATE CAPITALS | 1000 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Parthenon in Nashville, TN.) The Parthenon in Nashville boasts one of the world's largest sets of doors made from this metal--24' high & 7' wide
bronze
THE CASPIAN SEA | 400 | The Caspian is historically the chief source of the Beluga type of this food from sturgeon
caviar
INDEPENDENCE SEAPORT MUSEUM | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, PA.) Voyages became safer with the invention of this device that accurately determines longitude; its name is from the Greek for ""time measure""
chronometer
THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ATLAS SHRUGGED | 600 | The Atlas can't quite define this, but projects that by 2025 the world will have 447 of them of 10 million-plus people each
cities
ENTERTAINMENT UNDER THE SEA | 600 | The song ""Rock Lobster"" rhymes, ""He was in a jam, 's in a giant"" this
clam
TRAVEL & TOURISM | 400 | ""For all those Nosferatus"", a Berlin hotel offers a room with 2 of these, lids & all
coffins
ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC | 1600 | Anthropologists study the island of Yap for its use of 12-foot stone wheels not for transport but as this
currency (or money)
SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) The hide on a Cape buffalo's neck can reach two inches in thickness, which help males against other aggressive bulls trying to assert this, a type of hierarchy
dominance
LONDON TRANSPORTATION | 1000 | In 2012 a redesigned, hybrid, but still red version of this iconic London transport hit the roads
double-decker bus
WORDS IN STATES | 2000 | Me, myself & I in Eugene
ego (in Oregon)
TRANSPORTATION | 1200 | Cabs in trucks are of 2 types: conventional, in which the cab is behind the hood, & COE, which stands for cab-over-this
engine
TALKING GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | In the 1950s a change of prefix created this word for the areas beyond the suburbs
exurbs
THE 4 SEASONS-ISH | 800 | The descent of debris right after a nuclear explosion
fallout
THE UNITED STATES MARINES | 1200 | The Corps is usually at the vanguard in wartime, & one of its mottos is ""first to"" do this
fight
RAISE THE WHITE IN THE FLAG | 800 | The Olympic flag consists of this number of interlocking rings on a white field
five
FLAG TERMS | 400 | Finials are ornaments that decorate the tops of these; popular ones include star & spread eagle
flagpoles
BLUE STATES | 2000 | A map of the 100 Acre Wood describes Eeyore's place as this, as well as ""rather boggy and sad""
gloomy
U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD | 1200 | Palm Springs, Augusta, Naples, Pinehurst & Myrtle Beach all claim to be the ""capital of the world"" of this pastime
golf
WORDS IN ASIAN COUNTRIES | 1600 | Precipitation in Bangkok
hail (in Thailand)
WORDS IN WORLD CAPITALS | 200 | Poultry in Greece
hens
KANSAS CITY BARBEQUE | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from Arthur Bryant's Barbeque in Kansas City, MO.) Contributing to the meat's flavor is the type of wood used in the smoker; here, it's a combination of oak & this common hardwood, popular for traditional barbeque flavor
hickory
EASTER ISLAND | 1200 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Easter Island.) The original Rongorongo tablets of Easter Island are now housed in museums around the world; replicas here on the island show this type of pictographic script that was used, though the meanings have been lost to time
hieroglyphics
TRANSPORTATION | 400 | The Baltimore & Ohio's first train service in 1830 consisted of cars drawn by these
horses
COUNTRY ROADS | 800 | The Karakoram Highway has this superlative distinction amongst international highways
it\'s the highest altitude
THE HOT SEAT | 400 | Paul Volcker was named chairman of the Fed in 1979 with the mandate to control this, then at a whopping 13%
inflation
AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS | 1200 | Brisbane, Queensland is home to the world's first sanctuary for these cuddly looking creatures
koalas
DISEASES | 1200 | The disease that kills all these animals in Egypt in Exodus 9:6 is believed to have been anthrax
livestock (or cattle)
TRANSPORTATION MILESTONES | 2000 | In 1823 Maryland's Boonsborough Turnpike was the USA's first road to use this broken-stone pavement named for a Scot
macadam
STAR SEARCH | 1000 | We are serious that Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky, with a -1.46 measure of apparent this
magnitude
BLUE STATES | 1200 | In ancient physiology, the 4 humors were blood, phlegm, choler & this, aka black bile
melancholy
PANHANDLE STATES | 600 | Oklahoma's panhandle has the state's highest point, ""Black"" this type of flat-top formation of the Southwest
mesa
TRANSPORTATION | 400 | Operating since 1901, Germany's Schwebebahn is the world's oldest one of these trains that run on one track
monorail
FOREIGN GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 600 | In Dutch: Berg
mountain
SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE | 2000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds up a chameleon in the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Gaudy male chameleons pass on their genes more effectively than dull-looking ones--that's an example of what Darwin called the sexual type of this, favoring animals that are better at finding mates
natural selection
STAR SEARCH | 600 | This word for what we know to be a very old star is Latin for ""new""--silly ancient astronomers!
nova
TRANSPORTATION | 200 | In 1783 in France the hot air balloon & this air safety device both got their first successful demonstrations
parachute
CITY NICKNAMES | 400 | Manila, Philippines:This aquatic gem ""of the Orient""
pearl
A QUICK DIP IN THE LAKE | 800 | Biwa, Japan's largest lake, was long noted for culturing these gems
pearls
GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 1200 | Also a term for brewing coffee, this is the movement of water from the earth's surface to its subsurface
percolation
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK | 1000 | About 80% of Yellowstone is forest, & 80% of that is the lodgepole type of this tree
pine
HOW TO DRAIN YOUR FLAGON | 400 | Alsace produces yummy pinot gris; in northern Italy, the same grape is called this
pinot grigio
AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS | 2000 | Rita Dove was the first African American to serve in this government post, from 1993 to 1995
poet laureate
STATES & LICENSE PLATES | 800 | Idaho's plates advertise the state's ""famous"" these
potatoes
SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE | 400 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Giraffes are well adapted for tearing leaves & young shoots from trees, including a 20-inch grasping tongue that is classified as this, from the Latin for ""to seize""
prehensile
ELECTRICITY | 2000 | In 1929 the application of crystals of this mineral allowed for electric timepieces
quartz
RHYMES WITH A GREAT LAKE | 1600 | Introductory letter to a potential publisher
query
WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS | 1200 | This noodle in California's
ramen (in Sacramento)
TRANSPORTATION | 400 | It was the nickname-inducing color of Manfred von Richthofen's Fokker triplane
red
THE NAME OF THE FLAG | 1000 | Poland's flag is descriptively called bialo-czerwona, meaning these 2 colors
red and white
WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS | 800 | A payment in New Jersey's capital
rent (in Trenton)
THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION | 1600 | CDC researchers hit mosquitos with insecticide to test for this trait that makes antibiotics less effective on certain germs
resistance
ELECTRICITY | 800 | Rheostats & potentiometers are types of these devices that oppose the flow of current in electrical circuits
resistors
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 125th ANNIVERSARY | 1200 | Yosemite Valley is home to groves of these giant conifers that lend their name to another national park 100 miles south
sequoias
CITY NICKNAMES | 200 | Akron, Ohio, once home of B.F. Goodrich:This material ""Capital of the World""
rubber
HOW TO DRAIN YOUR FLAGON | 600 | The two most popular types of port are the tawny & this sweeter one named for its color
ruby
TRAVEL BOOKS | 800 | Referring to advice on facing animals, ""Whatever You do, Don't Run"" tells of Peter Allison's time as a guide on this type of trip
safari
GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES | 1600 | For Africa's lowest point, Lake Assal, this measurement is about 35%
salinity
TALKING GEOGRAPHY | 600 | The altitude of every point in the U.K. is measured against a brass bolt in Newlyn, Cornwall, marking this
sea level
SEALED | 800 | Navy SEALs know that their name comes from these 3 places where they fight
sea, land & air
SEALED | 200 | This resinous preparation is mentioned in ""Puff the Magic Dragon""
sealing wax
BLUE STATES | 1600 | Light therapy can help with SAD, this disorder first described by psychiatrist Norman Rosenthal
seasonal affective disorder
FLAG TERMS | 800 | From the Greek for ""sign bearer"", it's the type of flag used to send messages from ship to shore
semaphore
TALKING GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Midlatitude is another word for this zone whose name suggests a nice, moderate climate
temperate
KANSAS CITY BARBEQUE | 400 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Arthur Bryant's Barbeque in Kansas City, MO.) Some people call them racks, but Arthur Bryant's serves their ribs in these thick, meaty units
slabs
A RIVER RUNS TO IT | 1600 | The Indus, to this sea
the Arabian Sea
GEOGRAPHY CLASS | 600 | The smallest & shallowest of the world's 5 oceans is this one
the Arctic
LINES ON THE MAP | 400 | With this ring, I thee wed to frigid temperatures and 24-hour sun on the solstice
the Arctic Circle
RUSSIAN CITIES | 800 | With a population of about 300,000, the port city of Murmansk is the world's largest city north of this geographic line
the Arctic Circle
A TREASURE MAP | 200 | Sail this direction shown here for 318 miles
southwest
MAPPING THE NFL | 400 | The rivalry between these two teams goes back to the 1930s.
the Chicago Bears and the Detroit Lions
WATER TRANSPORTATION | 400 | In February 2009 a British nuclear-armed one of these collided in the Atlantic with a French one, but everything's fine
submarines
THE 4 SEASONS-ISH | 1600 | Alliterative term for a repertory company's plays put on in June or July
summer stock
FLAG TERMS | 1200 | 2 types of tapering flags are pennants & these that end in 2 points like the bird part for which they're named
swallowtail
THE QUOTABLE DOROTHY PARKER | 800 | Clare Booth Luce stood aside for Dot, saying ""Age before beauty"", to which Parker said, ""Pearls before"" these
swine
COUNTRY DISTINCTIONS | 400 | Sri Lanka is the world's leading exporter of these leaves that make a hot beverage
tea
AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | 2 of Africa's deepest lakes, Tanganyika & Nyasa, lie in this 4,500-mile-long valley system
the (Great) Rift Valley
SEAS THE DAY | 2000 | The southern boundary of this sea is the Strait of Otranto between Italy & Albania
the Adriatic
RECENT AFRICAN HISTORY | 800 | From 1960 to 1990 this political party was banned & was forced to operate underground & outside South Africa's borders
the African National Congress
TRAVEL & TOURISM | 2000 | This southernmost region of Portugal is known for its pretty beaches & whitewashed houses
the Algarve
AIRPORT | 200 | At Courchevel, you land downhill & take off uphill for your trip to ski the nearby French these mountains
the Alps
SMALL COUNTRIES | 400 | Little Liechtenstein is almost completely located in these mountains
the Alps
U.S. CITY SEALS | 200 | In 2015 the council of Mobile, Alabama voted to remove from its seal this flag because it was deemed offensive
the Confederate flag
STATELY RIVERS | 2000 | New England's longest river, it flows from a small beaver pond near the Canadian border to Long Island Sound
the Connecticut
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 600 | This Rockies ridge splits the waters of the western U.S. into westward & eastward flowing
the Continental Divide
CAPITALS OF NON-COUNTRIES | 2000 | Avarua on Rarotonga is the capital of this self-governing island group in association with New Zealand
the Cook Islands
A RIVER RUNS BETWEEN THEM | 400 | Bulgaria & Romania
the Danube
BRITISH GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | 2,036-foot Snaefell is the tallest-- & only--mountain on this isle in the Irish Sea
the Isle of Man
COUNTRY MUSIC | 200 | In 2015 this mother-daughter duo reunited for ""Girls Night Out"", a series of shows in Las Vegas
the Judds (Naomi & Wynonna)
AFRICANA | 800 | Botswana's Orapa Mine in this desert produces about 11 million carats of diamonds annually
the Kalahari
SEAS | 2000 | Navigable only 2 months of the year, this Siberean sea shares its name with Supergirl's Kryptonian name
the Kara Sea
ON THE MAP | 800 | Beersheba is the largest city in this southern desert region of Israel
the Negev
CHEESY COUNTRIES | 1200 | Gouda
the Netherlands
COUNTRIES' LOWEST POINTS | 600 | Zuidplaspolder
the Netherlands
EUROPEAN LAKES | 800 | In 1932, a dam was built across the Zuiderzee, creating the IJsselmeer, this country's largest lake
the Netherlands
RIVERS ON THE BORDER | 800 | The Meuse River separates Belgium & this country from Maastricht to Maaseik
the Netherlands
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM | 400 | In North America:Goat Island & Navy Island
the Niagara River
A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER | 200 | Some of the great sights of Giza are the pyramids & my van on the bank of this river
the Nile
LANGUAGES OF AFRICA | 400 | The Nubian language group is spoken in the valley of this river in Sudan
the Nile
ON THE MAP | 200 | It's the longest river in the world that flows mainly from south to north
the Nile
ALSO A SEA | 400 | Victorious side in the U.S. Civil War
the North
TRAVEL & TOURISM | 2000 | ""Undressed: A Brief history of Underwear"" was a 2016 exhibit at this London museum known as the V&A
the Victoria and Albert
CARIBBEAN ISLANDS, MON | 1200 | St. Thomas in these islands was the birthplace of Camille Pissarro
the Virgin Islands
SOUND GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Pillsbury Sound between St. Thomas & St. John in this U.S. territory was named for a U.S. admiral, not a baker
the Virgin Islands
TRAVEL IRELAND | 800 | Over 1.5 million annually visit the shrine in the town of Knock, where visions of Joseph, St. John & her were seen in 1879
the Virgin Mary
WORLD RIVERS | 1200 | With just a bit in Kazakhstan, most of the 2,200-mile length of this river is found in Russia
the Volga
CRY ME A WORLD RIVER | 2000 | Chinese soldiers entered the Korean War in October of 1950 crossing this river in support of North Korea
the Yalu River
GEOGRAPHIC PHRASES | 400 | This phrase for the ocean follows ""the devil and""
the deep blue sea
ELECTRICITY | 1600 | This electromagnetic force that drives a current around a circuit is abbreviated emf
the electromotive force
ELECTRICITY | 400 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew rubs a balloon on her head.) The balloon gets negatively charged because these elementary particles rub off my hair & collect on the balloon, attracting the positive part of the toothpick so it falls
the electrons
THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED | 1600 | The main flag on a warship is called this, also a rank in the Navy
the ensign
PARTS OF THE CITY | 800 | Illuminating name of a type of district known for naughty goings-on
the red-light district
ELECTRICITY | 1600 | Electrical impulses come form the heart's natural pacemaker, the S-A node, short for this
the sinoatrial node
THE 4 SEASONS-ISH | 2000 | This African antelope got its name because it leaps 6 feet in the air when frightened
the springbok
DISEASES NAMED FOR PEOPLE | 800 | Dr. Hashimoto examined tissue samples & goiters to discover the disease now named for him that affects this gland
thyroid
GEOGRAPHY: DROP A LETTER | 400 | ...From a Pacific island nation to find this item of forum wear
toga (from Tonga)
WORDS IN WORLD CAPITALS | 800 | A journey in Libya
trip
LINES ON THE MAP | 400 | During a solstice, the sun is directly over one of these lines of latitude whose names suggest easy days & fruity drinks
tropic
DISEASES | 400 | Robert Koch in 1882 was first to link a germ to this disease (before that, you could say the info was TB-A)
tuberculosis
TRANSPORTATION | 2000 | Each Labor Day weekend, the Hudson River is the site of a race for these vessels that push & pull
tugboats
THAT'S LUNAR SEA! | 400 | The moon's craters were formed by meteorite impacts; the lava plains we call seas, by these events
volcanic eruptions
WORDS FOR TRAVELERS | 2000 | This French word for ""travelers"" is the name of a Minnesota national park
voyageurs
CANADIAN PROVINCIAL FLAGS | 400 | This cereal grain is depicted on the flags of the prairie provinces Alberta & Saskatchewan
wheat
COLOR THAT FLAG! | 800 | Cote d'Ivoire & Ireland (3 colors)
white, orange and green
AFRICA | 1600 | Mauritania is home to large herds of these cattle, also called brahmins, which you'll find near the end of the alphabet
zebu
LITERA-SEA | 800 | Adventures in this 1870 novel include traveling under the polar ice cap & the discovery of Atlantis
""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea""
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 1000 | Penned by James Weldon Johnson, the song do this ""And Sing"" became an African-American ""National Anthem""
""Lift Every Voice""
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE | 400 | This ""fashionable"" hit helped make Justin's album ""The 20/20 Experience"" one of the biggest sellers of 2013
""Suit & Tie""
WELL-SEASONED BOOKS | 1200 | Shakespeare was hot & cold with these 2 plays that have seasons in the title
A Midsummer Night\'s Dream and The Winter\'s Tale (A Winter\'s Tale accepted)
THAT'S LUNAR SEA! | 2000 | A current off the west coast of South America on earth & a sea on the moon share this man's name
Alexander von Humboldt
VWLLSS AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 2000 | LGR
Algeria
SEAN PENN | 2000 | Sean played Willie Stark in the 2006 remake of this political film
All the King\'s Men
CITY NICKNAMES | 2000 | The unofficial capital of Flemish-speaking Belgium, it's ""the City of the Madonnas""
Antwerp
FLAGS OF THE AMERICAS | 1600 | The stripes on the flags of Venezuela & Ecuador resembled those of this neighbor of which they were once a part
Colombia
STATES BY COUNTIES | 600 | Boulder,Baca
Colorado
____IN' COUNTRY SONGS | 600 | Johnny Cash:""Sunday Mornin' ____in' Down""
Comin\' Down
THE UNITED STATES MARINES | 2000 | General James Amos is the 35th man in this highest marine post; that makes him one of the joint Chiefs
Commandant of the Marine Corps
COUNTRIES' CURRENCIES | 1600 | Tuvalu, a small island country in the South Pacific, uses the dollar of this country 2,000 miles away
Australia
COUNTRIES' LOWEST POINTS | 1000 | Lake Eyre
Australia
GOIN' COUNTRY | 400 | Settled as a prison colony in 1788, this country averages only about 8 people per square mile
Australia
ISLAND PRISONS | 800 | If you were already a convict banished to this nation & committed a crime, you got sent to a tougher prison on Norfolk Island
Australia
NOVEL COUNTRIES | 400 | ""The Thorn Birds""
Australia
THAT'S OUR ISLAND! | 400 | Kangaroo Island
Australia
THE COUNTRY'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER... | 400 | lies in a Tasmanian blackwood coffin, with a slouch hat & a sprig of wattle
Australia
THE GEOGRAPHIC CENTER | 1600 | Of this continent: in the south of the Northern Territory
Australia
THE LARGEST COUNTRY... | 800 | Entirely south of the Equator, by area
Australia
THE ONION DESCRIBES THE COUNTRY | 400 | Enjoy this country's ""Vegemite Mine"" & ""Paul Hogan Institute of Knife Identification""
Australia
LET'S GO TO THE ISLANDS | 1600 | Running through Indonesia, Wallace's line divides islands with Asian fauna from ones with this continental type
Australian fauna
COUNTRIES' PROVINCES | 600 | Carinthia & Salzburg
Austria
ITALIAN GEOGRAPHY | 800 | The northernmost point is in South Tyrol on the border with this country
Austria
THE E.U. COUNTRY THAT... | 2000 | You'd visit to ski Kitzbuhel
Austria
ON THE OLD MAP OF EUROPE | 400 | Two countries visible on the map of Europe today used to be united as this dual monarchy
Austria-Hungary
BRITISH GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Nine UK rivers bear this name, including the one seen here; oh, that's the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in the background
Avon
TRAVEL & TOURISM | 200 | Double this letter to get a room in a private home with accommodations & a morning meal
B (a ""B & B"")
AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS | 800 | In 2000 Robert Johnson became the first African American billionaire after selling this TV network to Viacom
B.E.T.
AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS | 1000 | Part of Canada, this fifth-largest island is mostly inhabited by Inuit
Baffin
GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Thor Peak & Mount Asgard, known for their vertical drops, lie on this largest Canadian island
Baffin
CITY BOOKS | 1600 | A trilogy by Yasmina Khadra includes ""The Swallows of Kabul"" & ""The Sirens of"" this other capital
Baghdad
MIDDLE EASTERN CAPITALS | 1200 | This city on the Tigris river was founded in 762 as the capital of the Abbasid Dynasty
Baghdad
WORLD CAPITALS | 600 | The central part of this city has 2 main districts: Karkh & Rusafah, which lie on the west & east banks of the Tigris
Baghdad
COUNTRIES SMALLER THAN PUERTO RICO | 2000 | The Al-Khalifah royal family reigns in this island nation
Bahrain
THE U.N.'s COUNTRY ABBREVIATION | 600 | BHR
Bahrain
WHAT ISLAND? | 2000 | The Al Khamis Mosque & the Manama Souk Bazaar
Bahrain
ON THE GEOGRAPHIC MENU | 400 | A heated yet frozen dessert bearing the name of a big 1867 land purchase by the United States
Baked Alaska
U.S. CITY NICKNAMES | 800 | California:""Country Music Capital of the West Coast"" (though it's 100 miles inland)
Bakersfield
NAME THE CAPITAL | 1000 | Azerbaijan
Baku
TRAVEL & TOURISM | 1000 | The Ogoh-Ogoh parade is held on the eve of Nyepi, a Hindu holiday celebrated on this Indonesian island
Bali
NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD | 1600 | Canada's first national park, it was created in 1887 in Alberta & was originally called Rocky Mountains Park
Banff
AIRPORT | 400 | Better watch your slice at the 18-hole golf course between two runways at Don Mueang International, serving this Thai capital
Bangkok
WORLD CAPITAL POINTS OF INTEREST | 600 | One night in this Asian city, go to Wat Traimit, a temple with a 5 1/2-ton solid gold Buddha statue
Bangkok
WELCOME TO THE U.N. | 600 | 1974:This Asian nation, a few years after a famous ""concert for"" it
Bangladesh
OUT OF AFRICA | 2000 | A surf fashion brand made in Africa by Africans is named for this language group that includes Swahili & Zulu
Bantu
CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES | 1200 | Bridgetown is the capital of this ""Birthplace of Rum"", the easternmost nation in the West Indies
Barbados
COUNTRIES OF THE CARIBBEAN | 1000 | A type of raw sugar is named for this easternmost island of the West Indies
Barbados
THE U.N.'s COUNTRY ABBREVIATION | 800 | BRB
Barbados
CURRENT SENATORS' STATES | 800 | California:Feinstein & her
Barbara Boxer
CITIES | 200 | Antoni Gaudi helped design the fountain of Aurora in this Spanish city while he was still a student
Barcelona
EUROPEAN CITIES | 800 | On a visit to this seaport, Hans Christian Andersen called it ""the Paris of Spain""
Barcelona
OLYMPIC CITY ATTRACTIONS | 800 | The Museu Picasso
Barcelona
THE CITY OF... | 800 | Gaudi
Barcelona
ENTERTAINMENT UNDER THE SEA | 1000 | SpongeBob SquarePants loves the TV show ""The Adventures of Mermaid Man and"" him
Barnacle Boy
JOLLY OLD CITIES IN ENGLAND | 1600 | The Thermae Spa has updated the millennia-old hot springs tradition of this city
Bath
REPORTING FROM THE STATE CAPITAL | 600 | From the main campus of Southern University... so laissez les bon temps roulez
Baton Rouge
STATE CAPITALS | 2000 | It sits on the Mississippi across the river from the sugar plantations that gave the area the name ""Sugar Bowl of America""
Baton Rouge
STATE CAPITALS | 800 | Huey Long's grave has an honored place on the grounds of this city's capital building
Baton Rouge
STATE CAPITAL RIVERS | 600 | The Mississippi River--2 cities at opposite ends of the river
Baton Rouge & St. Paul
SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS | 1000 | It's roughly 300 miles from Panama, 200 miles from the Pacific & a mile & a half high
Bogotá
SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS | 800 | It's the Andean capital city shown here
Bogotá (Colombia)
CONSONANT-FREE STATE CAPITALS | 400 | Nowhere near Hawaii:OIE
Boise
REPORTING FROM THE STATE CAPITAL | 400 | From Bronco Stadium at halftime of the Potato Bowl
Boise
STATE CAPITALS | 1000 | French-Canadian trappers named it for the tree-lined river that provided relief for those crossing the Snake River Plain
Boise
STATE CAPITALS | 1200 | This Idaho capital has a basque museum & basque language school
Boise
AFRICAN HISTORY | 1200 | In 2014, 5 African nations made an alliance against this Islamist group notorious for kidnapping girls in Nigeria
Boko Haram
RECENT AFRICAN HISTORY | 1600 | The 2-word name of this terrorist group founded in Nigeria has been translated as ""Western education is forbidden""
Boko Haram
SEAN CONNERY & BURT REYNOLDS | 600 | Burt was Oscar-nominated for his role as an adult filmmaker in this 1997 movie
Boogie Nights
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 800 | This institute founder was the first African American featured on a U.S. postage stamp
Booker T. Washington
ASIAN ISLANDS | 1600 | The world's third-largest island, it's home to the Rafflesia, the world's largest flower
Borneo
COUNTRY FACTS | 1200 | Muslims make up the largest religious group of this nation once part of Yugoslavia
Bosnia
LITERARY NEW YORK CITY | 800 | E.L. Doctorow's ""The Waterworks"" is a Gothic thriller set during this man's corrupt 19th century rule of the city
Boss Tweed
BIG CITY MAYORS | 400 | Marty Walsh, succeeding Thomas Menino in 2014
Boston
STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 200 | Fenway Park
Boston
U.S. CITIES' INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS | 600 | Logan
Boston
BIG CITY SUBURBS | 200 | Concord,Lowell
Boston (Massachusetts)
AFRICA | 2000 | Gaborone is the capital of this African country formerly known as Bechuanaland
Botswana
THE CITY | 600 | When taking ""a trip to"" this Utah city, be sure to stop by its tabernacle, built before Salt Lake City's
Bountiful
COUNTRY MUSIC | 1000 | Completes the lyric in the Johnny Cash classic, ""I tell ya, life ain't easy for a...""
Boy named Sue
ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES | 800 | A ZEN MOB,Montana
Bozeman
WHAT A COUNTRY! | 1200 | This Western Hemisphere country is the largest nation in area whose capital city's name begins with the same letter
Brazil
WHAT COUNTRY ARE YOU FROM? | 800 | A Carioca
Brazil
MOST POPULOUS COUNTRIES | 400 | The 2 in the top 10 found in the Americas
Brazil & the United States
GEOGRAPHY | 400 | This Egyptian capital is fan-shaped, fading off into the delta to the north
Cairo
IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | 600 | Tahrir Square, the HQ of the Arab League
Cairo
CALIFORNIA COUNTIES | 2000 | Leapin' amphibians! It takes its name from the Spanish for ""skulls""
Calaveras
ASIAN CITIES | 1200 | Some 15 million Indians live in the metro area of this city once infamous for its ""Black Hole""
Calcutta
CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | In 1988 it became the first Canadian city to host the winter Olympics
Calgary
STATE PARKS | 400 | Malibu Creek State Park
California
STUFF ABOUT STATES | 800 | It was the first state to have a chemical element named for it
California
THE 50 STATES | 1000 | According to statute, the outer circle of its state seal is a color called golden poppy
California
COUNTRIES BY WORLD HERITAGE SITES | 2000 | Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump &L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site
Canada
COUNTRY NICKNAMES | 200 | ""The Great White North""
Canada
FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES | 800 | In area it's the largest country with French as an official language
Canada
PLANT THE FLAG | 400 | In an early design, the single leaf on this country's flag was green
Canada
THE LARGEST COUNTRY... | 400 | Entirely outside Asia, by area
Canada
THIS ISLAND IS YOUR ISLAND | 2000 | MacKenzie King Island
Canada
NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD | 2000 | See wombats in the wild at Namadgi National Park, just southwest of this capital city
Canberra
GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS | 2000 | I cannot believe this Chinese city is properly called Guangzhou
Canton (from cannot)
ON THE MAP | 1000 | This South African cape, not the Cape of Good Hope, is the southernmost point in Africa
Cape Agulhas
GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | This cape seen here is named for the woman seen here
Cape Ann
GEOGRAPHY FROM SPACE | 1200 | Extending 65 miles into the Atlantic Ocean off North America, its beaches attract visitors in droves
Cape Cod
ATLANTIC CITIES | 1200 | This South African city is often called ""the mother city"" because it was the first place in the nation settled by Europeans
Cape Town
COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUMS | 800 | In May 2005 she won ""American Idol""; 6 months later, her debut album ""Some Hearts"" was released
Carrie Underwood
COUNTRY MUSIC MOVERS & SHAKERS | 1200 | This Oklahoma native donated $1 million from her ""Blown Away"" tour to help tornado victims in her home state
Carrie Underwood
AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Dating back to the 700s B.C., the ruins of this ancient city can be found outside Tunis
Carthage
COUNTRY MEN | 2000 | First name of the man for whom Zimbabwe was formerly named
Cecil
PARKS | 200 | Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields in this park & on to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Central Park
THE WEATHER & GEOGRAPHY REPORT | 600 | Raindrops won't be fallin' on your head in Arica, in this south American country; it takes 30+ years to get one inch of rain
Chile
ISLANDS | 800 | Lying at the southern tip of South America, the islands of Tierra del Fuego are split between these 2 countries
Chile & Argentina
A RIVER RUNS TO IT | 800 | The Yangtze:a sea with this country in its name
China
U.S. CITY NAME ORIGINS | 2000 | Once called Buffalo City, this Wild West Kansas town was named for the commander of the nearby fort
Dodge City
ADJECTIVAL COUNTRY NAMES | 600 | Caribbean country bearing the name of an order of Catholic priests
Dominican Republic
BRITISH GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | In recent years, large chunks of the white chalk cliffs near this port have fallen into the sea
Dover
STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 600 | First State Heritage Park,Silver Lake
Dover
WE HAVE A NEW STATE CAPITAL | 1600 | Replacing New Castle
Dover
CANADIAN CAPITALS | 800 | Its nicknames include ""Oil City"" & ""E-Town""
Edmonton
ON THE MAP | 600 | It's the tiny country highlighted here
El Salvador
ITALIAN ISLANDS | 400 | Able was I ere I saw this largest Tuscan isle
Elba
COMPOSERS' COUNTRY OF BIRTH | 400 | Edward Elgar
England
COUNTRY OF BIRTH | 400 | Funny man Bob Hope
England
NATIONAL PARKS | 400 | This park's main entrance is the Ernest F. Cole Visitor Center named for the park's creator, a Miami naturalist
Everglades
PARKS | 400 | You might find a gator or 2 in this subtropical national park established in 1947
Everglades
CITY-TITLED MOVIES | 800 | Frances McDormand wore a fake tummy filled with birdseed to make her appear pregnant in this film
Fargo
STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES | 600 | North Dakota: about 107,000
Fargo
RIVERS ON THE BORDER | 2000 | The Torne River is on the border of Sweden & this country until it empties in the Gulf of Bothnia
Finland
THE COUNTRY'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER... | 2000 | has his tomb in Hietaniemi Cemetery near the tomb of Marshal Mannerheim
Finland
TRAVELING AMONGST THE STARS | 800 | In 1966 this crooner hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts with ""Strangers In The Night""
Frank Sinatra
IN THE STATE CAPITAL | 1000 | The graves of Daniel Boone & his wife, Rebecca
Frankfort
STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 800 | Buffalo Trace Distillery,Daniel Boone Burial Site
Frankfort
STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES | 600 | ""The Bluegrass Capital""
Frankfort (Kentucky)
ALTERED STATES | 400 | Ah I do
Idaho
PANHANDLE STATES | 800 | Much of the northern part of its panhandle is covered by the Coeur d'Alene Mountains
Idaho
STATE BY COUNTIES | 1000 | Nez Perce,Lincoln,Gem
Idaho
STATES' HIGH & LOW POINTS | 800 | Low:Snake River in Nez Perce County
Idaho
DOUBLE UP ON YOUR COUNTRIES | 800 | They're the 2 countries where Urdu is mainly spoken
India & Pakistan
2-TIMING STATES | 200 | In this state when it's noon in Poseyville, it's 1 p.m. in Muncie, which is on Eastern Time
Indiana
CONSONANT-FREE STATE CAPITALS | 600 | In the midwest, far from Hawaii:IIAAOI
Indianapolis
ALMOST THERE TO THE STATE CAPITAL | 2000 | The two capitals that have a Greek word for ""city"" at the end of their names
Indianapolis and Annapolis
WORLD CITIES | 1600 | Banda Aceh in this country sustained heavy damage from the 2004 tsunami
Indonesia
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD | 2000 | After it was stolen from India, the Peacock Throne became a symbol of this country's monarchy
Iran
THE CASPIAN SEA | 1600 | The Caspian's southern shoreline borders this country at the foot of the Elburz Mountains
Iran
GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS | 800 | As soon as I got to this country it started to rain
Iran (from rain)
FLORIDA GEOGRAPHY | 600 | Named for a president & developed around a ford in the St. Johns river, it's Florida's most populous city
Jacksonville
MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS CITIES | 200 | The Jaguars
Jacksonville
ON THE MAP | 400 | This U.S. port is the largest city in its state
Jacksonville
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 1600 | His relationship with his minister stepfather provided the basis for his 1953 novel ""Go Tell It on the Mountain""
James Baldwin
THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED | 2000 | Gilbert Baker created the rainbow flag & this man rode in a parade with one shortly before his 1978 assassination
Harvey Milk
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | North Carolina's easternmost point lies on this island where you'll also find a famous cape
Hatteras
CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES | 400 | President Obama's 2016 visit to this city was the first by a U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge showed up on a battleship
Havana
CITIES IN SONG | 1600 | Barry Manilow:""At the Copa, Copacabana, the hottest spot north of"" here
Havana
IN THE CAPITAL CITY | 600 | Dec. 11, 2012:Hugo Chavez has major cancer surgery (it's not Caracas)
Havana
IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | 200 | Communist Party HQ in the Plaza de la Revolucion
Havana
JAPANESE CITIES | 1000 | This city was home to the royal family for 1,074 years, from the Heian Period to the Meiji Restoration
Kyoto
PRETTY CITY | 2000 | Autumn is an especially beautiful time to visit the temples of this city, Japan's capital until 1868
Kyoto
CITIES IN SONG | 400 | Randy Newman:""Looks like another perfect day, I love"" this city
L.A.
U.S. CITIES | 1000 | A memorial on the site of the former South Fork Dam commemorates the devastating flood in this Pennsylvania city
Johnstown
THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED | 400 | It's the rather cheerful name for the flag seen here
Jolly Roger
BALLPARK TOWNS | 800 | U.S. Cellular Field (formerly New Comiskey)
Chicago
BIG BUILDING OF THE CITY | 1600 | 111 S. Wacker Drive
Chicago
BIG CITY MAYORS | 200 | Rahm Emanuel
Chicago
AFRICAN AMERICANS | 400 | In 1908 this composer put out an instruction book called ""School of Ragtime""
(Scott) Joplin
THE BRIDGES OF OTHER COUNTIES | 1000 | Cook County, Illinois is where you find the first bridge designed by this architect in 2004; note the biomorphic curves
(Frank) Gehry
U.S. CITY NAME ORIGINS | 1200 | Three Forks, Wash. changed its name to honor this sleeping car inventor who had given it an endowment
(George) Pullman
THEY SERVED OUR COUNTRY | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.) The B-24 Liberator was the most-produced U.S. aircraft of WWII; pilots who flew it on hazardous bombing missions over Germany included Senator George McGovern & this star of ""It's a Wonderful Life""
(Jimmy) Stewart
GUYS, CAPITALISM WORKS! | 400 | In July 2012 he said as president, he'd show ""the good things that can happen (with) more free enterprise""--he didn't get to
(Mitt) Romney
GEOGRAPHY IN RHYME | 600 | Come visit Mongo /Not far from the Congo /Tibesti mountains are not that bad /Yes, we're talking, talking 'bout...
Chad
COUNTRY NICKNAMES | 1000 | Fierce Pashtun fighters help make it the ""Graveyard of Empires""
Afghanistan
LANDLOCKED COUNTRY FUN | 400 | Among landlocked countries, this war-torn Asian land is alphabetically first
Afghanistan
GEOGRAPHIC BANDS | 1000 | A-listers who sang ""We Are The World"":USA for ____
Africa
LAKES & RIVERS | 400 | At 155 feet below sea level, Lake Assal in central Djibouti is this continent's lowest point
Africa
LANGUAGES OF AFRICA | 1600 | To ask, ""How are you?"" in this language, say ""Hoe gaan dit met jou?""
Afrikaans
SUPERLATIVE STATES | 400 | Biggest retailer:This company based in Washington State
Amazon.com
BRAZILIAN GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | Add two letters to the name of a river to get this state, so big it borders three countries
Amazonas
U.S. CITIES | 400 | Home to Disneyland, this city was founded by German immigrants in 1857
Anaheim
LET'S GO TO THE ISLANDS | 2000 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Coral reefs grow best in warm water, so they're found mostly in tropical locales; one exception is this island, at 32 degrees north latitude, warmed by the Gulf Stream
Bermuda
4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS | 1200 | Found on the Aare river, this Swiss capital was founded according to tradition in 1191
Bern
NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARKS | 400 | It sounds like a building, but it's the name of the village that was the site of an 1865 surrender, now a historical park
Appomattox Courthouse
GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES | 400 | The lowest point in both the western & southern hemispheres is Laguna del Carbon in this nation's Patagonia region
Argentina
MY COUNTRY | 1000 | Men of letters Jorge Luis Borges & Manuel Puig
Argentina
NOVEL COUNTRIES | 1200 | ""Kiss of the Spider Woman""
Argentina
SAINTS & THEIR CITIES | 400 | The Franciscans' founder, St. Francis of this city
Assisi
WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 200 | The Parthenon
Athens
WORLD CAPITALS | 600 | This European capital city is served by 3 main ports: Piraeus, Rafina & Lavrion
Athens
CITY OF BIRTH | 1000 | Arianna Huffington
Athens, Greece
STATE CAPITAL HEADQUARTERS | 200 | Coca-Cola
Atlanta
COLORFUL U.S. CITIES | 2000 | This Alabama college town's name was inspired by a line from Oliver Goldsmith's poem ""The Deserted Village""
Auburn
CITY NICKNAMES | 1600 | This most populous New Zealand city is known as ""the City of Sails""
Auckland
U.S. CITIES | 400 | In recent years this Texas capital has ranked as one of the top U.S. cities for young adults
Austin
STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 1000 | Blue Bayou Water Park &Dixie Landin' Amusement Park
Baton Rouge
STATES BY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AREA | 2000 | Manzanar National Historic Site
California
CITY BY THE BAY | 800 | St. John, New Brunswick
Bay of Fundy
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 1200 | Kristin Hunter took the title for her novel ""God Bless the Child"" from this singer
Billie Holiday
U.S. CITIES | 600 | That's a statue of Vulcan in this Alabama city
Birmingham
AMUSEMENT & THEME PARKS | 600 | Step back in time at Silver Dollar City, an 1880s-style theme park in this Missouri city famous for its entertainment
Branson
& THE CATEGORY OF GEOGRAPHY | 800 | The greatest north-south distance of this South American country is 2,731 miles; east-west, 2,684
Brazil
ISLAND NATIONS | 200 | The Ivory Coast is officially Cote d'Ivoire & as of 2013, this island country not far off is Cabo Verde
Cape Verde
OH, B-CITY IN AFRICA | 1200 | The Republic of the Congo is sometimes called Congo-this, after its capital
Brazzaville
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 800 | In 1998 author Gloria Naylor revisited this title ""Place"", this time giving ""The Men"" a chance to be heard from
Brewster Place
LITERARY NEW YORK CITY | 2000 | This Jay McInerney novel evoked the yuppie party scene of 1980s New York City
Bright Lights, Big City
LANDLOCKED AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 2000 | This 2-word nation whose name means ""Land of Honorable People"" is landlocked like its neighbor Niger
Burkina Faso
WORLD CAPITALS | 800 | Yaounde, capital of this former French territory in Africa, was founded by Germans involved in the ivory trade
Cameroon
ISLAND NAMES | 1200 | Women's pants with a tapered leg that ends above the ankle
Capri
HIDDEN U.K. CITIES | 1600 | That's what happens when you treat Oscar differently from the other kids
Cardiff
COUNTRY & TOWN | 1600 | The 160' African Renaissance monument overlooks this capital of Senegal
Dakar
CAPITAL MAP IT ALL | 1000 | On November 25, 1861, it became a territorial capital
Carson City
AFRICAN CAPITALS | 2000 | This capital city is on Cape Verde peninsula but not in the country of Cape Verde
Dakar, Senegal
CITY WALK | 400 | Its nicknames include ""Carolina's Queen City"" & ""the Spearhead of the New South""
Charlotte
TAKING IN THE CITY SITES | 200 | charmeck.orgis the site for this city & Mecklenburg County
Charlotte
TAKING IN THE CITY SITES | 1000 | bigshoulders.com belongs to a digital video production company based here
Chicago
TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 66 | 200 | One end of Route 66 is at Grant Park on the corner of Jackson & Michigan Avenues in this city
Chicago
NASCAR FROM THE DRIVER'S SEAT | 400 | (I'm Matt Kenseth.) In 2000 I became the first rookie to win the Coca-Cola 600 & beat out this son of a legendary driver for Rookie of the Year honors
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
U.S. CITIES | 600 | This city's metro area includes Lorain, Lake & Cuyahoga; visit 'em all!
Cleveland
GEOGRAPHY | 400 | The name of this city comes from medieval Danish for ""merchants' harbor""
Copenhagen
IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | 800 | Tivoli Gardens amusement park
Copenhagen
AFRICANA | 1600 | In 2015 Abdel al-Sisi became the first Egyptian president to attend this religious group's Christmas mass
Coptic Christianity
THAT'S OUR ISLAND! | 2000 | Isle of Youth (or Isla de la Juventud)
Cuba
THE NAME OF THE FLAG | 600 | This Caribbean nation flies La Estrella Solitaria, ""The Solitary Star""
Cuba
FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES | 2000 | In 1985 this African nation officially changed its name to the French version
Côte d\'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
AIRPORT CODES | 200 | You'll find MOM in Moudjeria, Mauritania; this 3-letter code is over in Da Nang, Vietnam
DAD
ELECTRICITY | 400 | It's the 2-letter abbreviation for a flow of electric charge that doesn't change direction
DC
U.S. AIRPORT CODES | 1600 | American Airlines' largest hub is the Texas airport with this code
DFW
ASIAN CITIES | 1600 | Da Lat is in southern Vietnam; this city the French called Tourane is 300 miles north, on the coast
Da Nang
ENTERTAINMENT UNDER THE SEA | 200 | Living near Antarctica, Hoff crabs were named for this ""Baywatch"" star due to their hairy chests
David Hasselhoff
SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES | 1200 | From 1952 to 1955 Argentina's city of La Plata was named after this late beloved first lady
Evita Perón
U.S. AIRPORT CODES | 2000 | DTW serves this city; the airport's full name includes Wayne County
Detroit
U.S. CITY NICKNAMES | 200 | ""Motown""
Detroit
COUNTRY MUSIC | 600 | When her ""Here You Come Again"" hit the pop charts in 1977, she said, ""I'm not leaving country, I'm just taking it with me""
Dolly Parton
AFRICAN AMERICANS | 400 | In 1857 the Supreme Court ruled that, as a slave, he was not a citizen & therefore not entitled to sue in federal court
Dred Scott
AFRICAN COUNTRY BY AIRPORT | 200 | Aswan Airport
Egypt
AFRICAN SETTINGS | 400 | ""The Alexandria Quartet""
Egypt
AROUND AFRICA | 2000 | Governing for the Ottoman sultan, the khedive was the title of the ruler of this North African nation until 1914
Egypt
OPERA COUNTRY SETTINGS | 400 | Verdi's ""Aida""
Egypt
WHICH AFRICAN COUNTRY? | 200 | The Temple of Hatshepsut
Egypt
ON THE ISLAND | 800 | Here's our proclamation: Every August 1 Jamaicans celebrate this day of freedom
Emancipation Day
BORDERING THE RED SEA | 800 | The Red Sea Boys are the soccer team of this African country, the most recently independent Red Sea nation
Eritrea
AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 1200 | There was once a place called Italian East Africa; now most of it is this
Ethiopia
AFRICAN COUNTRY BY AIRPORT | 800 | Indaselassie Airport
Ethiopia
SEAN PENN | 1600 | Told to get a job in this 1982 film, Sean replies, ""all I need are some tasty waves, cool buzz & I'm fine""
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
THEY SERVED OUR COUNTRY | 600 | Semper fi! Before he coached some movie ""Hoosiers"", this actor was in the Marines
Gene Hackman
EUROPEAN CITIES | 1200 | This Swiss city was known as the ""Protestant Rome""
Geneva
WHAT A COUNTRY! | 2000 | After tensions escalated for years, it fought a short war with Russia in the summer of 2008
Georgia
CAPITAL RIVERS | 800 | The Taedong is the watery artery of this capital on the Korean Peninsula
Pyongyang
TRAVEL & TOURISM | 600 | Anne Hathaway's cottage in this British town features a butterfly trail & a floral garden
Stratford
AFRICAN LAKES | 1200 | One of the world's largest manmade lakes, Lake Kariba lies on ""Z"" border of these 2 African countries
Zambia & Zimbabwe
DISEASES NAMED FOR PEOPLE | 2000 | About 1 in 25 Ashkenazi Jews is a carrier of this disease named for a British physician & an American neurologist
Tay-Sachs disease
ISLAND HOPPING | 200 | From Hilo to Honolulu
Hawaii & Oahu
HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC AKAs | 600 | 19th century Europeans called this Pacific chain the Sandwich Islands
Hawaiian Islands
AIRPORTS | 200 | By the time it turned 60 in 2006, this London airport had handled around 1.4 billion passengers
Heathrow
LET'S GO TO THE AIRPORT | 600 | This London airport has but 2 runways, yet served 73.4 million passengers in 2014
Heathrow
SCANDINAVIAN CITIES | 1600 | Each August productions of ""Hamlet"" take place on Kronborg Castle in this Danish town
Helsingør (or Elsinore)
CAPITAL CITY CHURCHES | 400 | In this Finnish city, the Lutheran Cathedral, also known as Tuomiokirkko
Helsinki
CONSONANT-FREE STATE CAPITALS | 1000 | OOUU
Honolulu
STATE CAPITALS | 400 | Its National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific contains the graves of WWII, Korean War & Vietnam War dead
Honolulu
STATE CAPITALS | 800 | This capital's Kawaiaha'o church is known as the ""Westminster Abbey of the Pacific""
Honolulu
WORLD FLAGS | 1600 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows three flags on the monitor.) Not knowing flags can cause a diplomatic flap. Invert Poland's flag, & it looks not only like that of Monaco, but also like the flag of this Asian island country
Indonesia
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 2000 | Chester Himes explored racism in this book whose 6-word title is in the rhyme ""Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Mo""
If He Hollers Let Him Go
U.S. AIRPORT CODES | 800 | The codes for the 2 airports in Queens, NYC are LGA & this
JFK
SKYSCRAPER CITY | 1000 | The Marriott Rivercenter at 101 Bowie St.
San Antonio
BIG CITY SUBURBS | 1000 | Coronado,Chula Vista
San Diego
19th CENTURY TRANSPORTATION | 800 | This city's Market Street cable railway began running in 1883
San Francisco
BALLPARK TOWNS | 2000 | AT&T Park (formerly SBC Park, formerly Pacific Bell Park)
San Francisco
GEOGRAPHIC ABBREV. | 200 | It's the SF in the airport code SFO
San Francisco
NASCAR FROM THE DRIVER'S SEAT | 1000 | (I'm Chase Elliott.) In 2016 I followed in the footsteps of this NASCAR legend by taking over behind the wheel of the 24 car when he retired from a cup career that began in 1992
Jeff Gordon
WORLD CAPITALS | 1000 | 2 African capitals, Brazzaville & this one, lie across the Congo River from each other
Kinshasa
EPONYMOUS AIRPORTS | 400 | KRK is the code for this city's Pope John Paul II International Airport
Kraków
ASIA LOVES THAT AMERICAN BRAND | 1000 | In 2010 customers waited in line for 27 hours when this donut chain opened in Bangkok
Krispy Kreme
SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS | 1600 | Sucre is Bolivia's judicial capital; this city, the legislative capital
La Paz
CANADIAN LAKES | 400 | Canada's southernmost point lies within this Great Lake
Lake Erie
EXTREME GEOGRAPHY | 600 | Canada's southernmost point of land is Middle Island in this Great Lake, eh?
Lake Erie
THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM | 2000 | The monument seen here that commemorates Perry's victory rises 352 feet above this lake
Lake Erie
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 200 | The Niagara River is the only natural outlet of this Great Lake
Lake Erie
U.S. STATES' LARGEST ISLANDS | 1200 | Ohioans call Kelleys Island in this lake ""the Walleye Capital of the World""
Lake Erie
LAKES & RIVERS | 1200 | The strait of Promenthoux separates this large Alpine lake into the Grand Lac & the Petit Lac
Lake Geneva
4-LETTER COUNTRY NAMES | 800 | A communist country of southeast Asia
Laos
GOIN' COUNTRY | 2000 | In 2012 this country stretching between Vietnam & Thailand got its first visit from a U.S. Secretary of State in 5 decades
Laos
CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS | 400 | This Costa Rican capital's Gold Museum has hundreds of pre-Columbian gold artifacts
San José
VWLLSS AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 400 | LBR
Liberia
WHAT A COUNTRY! | 800 | In 1821 the American Colonization Society secured the land that became this African country
Liberia
2-WORD COUNTRIES | 1600 | Don't blink or you'll miss this republic on the map
San Marino
FRENCH CITIES & TOWNS | 2000 | This city at the juncture of the Rhone & Saone Rivers is famous for its cooked dishes prepared with onions
Lyon
THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM | 2000 | This California World War II relocation center is marked by a monument that reads ""soul consoling tower""
Manzanar
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 2000 | Hiram Revels, the first black U.S. senator, represented this state, but was too late to be Jeff Davis' colleague
Mississippi
STATE PARKS | 800 | When it comes to this state's parks, call LeFleur's Bluff... or Tishomingo or Natchez, for that matter
Mississippi
AMERICAN CITIES | 800 | Joplin in this state was not named for a musician but for a Methodist missionary
Missouri
GEOGRAPHIC CENTERS | 400 | 20 miles southwest of Jefferson City
Missouri
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Name shared by the state where St. Joseph is located & the river it's on
Missouri
THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS | 1000 | In the 1860s residents were moved from its Kalaupapa Peninsula & people with a certain disease moved in
Molokai
COUNTRIES WITH SHORT COASTLINES | 1200 | This principality has only about 2.5 miles of coast, on the Mediterranean Sea
Monaco
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of a country with parts of the coastline highlighted.) About 100 of this country's 485 acres were reclaimed from the Mediterranean Sea within the past twenty years
Monaco
THE NAME ON THE AIRPORT | 800 | Tributes to this woman of Albanian heritage include renaming Tirana International for her & in 2016, sainthood
Mother Teresa
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 800 | The snowy dome of this tallest volcano in the lower 48 states is often shrouded in clouds
Mount Rainier
2-TIMING STATES | 400 | It's 10:00 in most of Arizona, which doesn't use daylight saving time, but 11 in this ""nation"", which does
Navajo
COUNTRIES BY HOTEL | 600 | The Yak & Yeti
Nepal
COUNTRIES' BIGGEST CITIES | 200 | Kathmandu
Nepal
A RIVER RUNS TO IT | 1600 | The Hudson:""Upper"" this Bay
New York
OTHER GREAT LAKES | 200 | Great Sacandaga Lake in this state helps regulate the flow of the Hudson
New York
SITCOM CITIES | 400 | ""2 Broke Girls""
New York
STATE PARKS | 800 | Hudson Highlands State Park Preserve
New York
STATES BY LAKE | 2000 | Schroon Lake,Chautauqua Lake
New York
SUPERLATIVE STATES | 600 | Longest bridge span:Verrazano-Narrows in this state, 4,260 feet
New York
THE U.S. CITY RAINS SUPREME | 200 | ""The city so nice they named it twice:, it gets nearly 50"" of rain a year... good luck getting a cab!
New York
TRANSPORTATION | 400 | In 1832 the USA's first horse-drawn streetcar began driving up & down the Bowery in this city
New York
THE CITY IN QUESTION | 200 | 12 got death, 7 got prison & 3 were acquitted at the first of these trials, held from Nov. 1945 to Oct. 1946
Nuremberg
COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUMS | 1000 | This 2000 movie soundtrack album featured Alison Krauss on 3 tracks including ""Down To The River To Pray""
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
STATELY GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | The Red River region,Geronimo's grave
Oklahoma
THE NORTHERNMOST STATE CAPITAL | 600 | Tallahassee,Austin,Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City
STATE CAPITALS | 400 | This city southwest of Tacoma was named for some nearby mountains
Olympia
CALIFORNIA COUNTIES | 400 | Fruity county that's home to the Angels
Orange
U.S. CITIES | 1000 | Once Virginia's capital, this city has made sure to keep its colonial feel
Williamsburg
REVOLUTIONARY COUNTRIES | 2000 | The Orange Revolution (2004)
the Ukraine
ITALIAN CITIES | 1000 | Though Portugal claims him as a patron saint, St. Anthony is buried in this Italian city
Padua
HIDDEN U.K. CITIES | 1200 | How proud Pa Isley would have been if only he had lived to see ""Shout"" become a classic song
Paisley
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | Pasca, a Native American word for bread, gave this Gulf Coast city its name
Pascagoula
COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUMS | 400 | In 1978 this ""Red-Headed Stranger"" released ""Stardust"", an album of pop standards
Willie Nelson
CITIES IN SONG | 2000 | Bruce Springsteen:""Oh brother, are you gonna leave me wasting away on the streets of"" this city
Philadelphia
THE UNITED STATES MARINES | 400 | Recruitment for the first Marines was in this Penn. city's Tun Tavern; its beer is still sold to Marines worldwide
Philadelphia
THE CITY | 400 | The South Dakota capitol in this city saved money by using columns made of something called scagliola instead of marble
Pierre
ATLANTIC CITY | 400 | Find Gobstoppers or a golden ticket on the Bally's slot machine named for this Roald Dahl guy
Willy Wonka
COMPOSERS' COUNTRY OF BIRTH | 200 | Frederic Chopin
Poland
GEOGRAPHY | 400 | This nation of 11 million has about 600 miles of Atlantic coast
Portugal
U.S. STATES' LARGEST ISLANDS | 800 | Washington's? That would be Whidbey Island in this sound
Puget Sound
OUT OF AFRICA | 1600 | In the 1970s reggae music became identified with this pan-African movement inspired by Haile Selassie
Rastafarianism
TRAVEL & TOURISM | 1200 | Andrea Palladio's 1554 guidebooks to this city were quite popular in their day
Rome
WORLD CAPITAL MUSEUMS | 800 | The Borghese Gallery
Rome
ISLAND NAMES | 1600 | Type of tour for Sting & The Police in 2007 & '08
Reunion
GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES | 800 | The world's northernmost national capital is this one that's on an island
Reykjavik
AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN | 600 | Rita Dove titled a collection of poems ""On the Bus with"" this woman
Rosa Parks
CITY PARKS | 800 | A 1905 statue in Portland, Oregon's Washington Park was the USA's first of this Shoshone woman
Sacajawea
STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 1200 | Fairytale Town & the Leland Stanford mansion
Sacramento
STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES | 1000 | ""The Almond Capital of the World""
Sacramento
I STAND BEFORE THE COUNTRY | 600 | Before ""Sudan""
South
ADJECTIVAL COUNTRY NAMES | 400 | In 1961 this nation withdrew from the British Commonwealth over member criticism of its apartheid policies
South Africa
AFRICAN COUNTRY BY AIRPORT | 600 | Kruger Mpumalanga International
South Africa
EUROPEAN CAPITALS | 800 | This capital of Bosnia was once ruled by the Ottoman Empire, & its name is from a Turkish word for a palace
Sarajevo
COUNTRIES' PROVINCES | 200 | KwaZulu-Natal & Western Cape
South Africa
IN THE AFRICAN COUNTRY | 600 | Soweto Township, where a struggle for freedom was born
South Africa
IT BORDERS BOTH COUNTRIES | 800 | Namibia &Mozambique
South Africa
ON THE GEOGRAPHIC MENU | 600 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a fruity drink in a bar in Singapore.) Around 1910 bartender Ngiam Tong Boon created this cocktail, now made of gin, cherry brandy, grenadine and lime juice, a signature of the Raffles Hotel
a Singapore Sling
ASIAN CAPITALS | 1600 | It was founded in 1394 as the capital of the Kingdom of Choson
Seoul
EAST ASIAN CITIES | 400 | In 2004 President Roh Moo Hyun tried to move South Korea's capital from this city to Gongju
Seoul
WORLD CAPITALS | 200 | This South Korean capital is said to be the world's most wired city, with around 95% of households having broadband
Seoul
HO CHI MINH CITY | 400 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.) Colorful Pham Ngu Lao Street is lined with inexpensive hotels & restaurants that cater to budget travelers, so the neighborhood is called ""Khu Tay Balo"", or these people's area, for the type of luggage that young tourists often carry
a backpack
WORLD CITIES | 1200 | An 18th century tobacco factory made famous in ""Carmen"" is now home to this city's university
Seville
ASIAN CITIES | 800 | In 2010 this largest Chinese city overtook Singapore as the world's busiest container port
Shanghai
THE MOVIE MAP | 1000 | An Orson Welles classic: ""The Lady From ___""
Shanghai
LET YOUR GREEK FLAG FLY | 1200 | Seen here is the flag of this two-Greek-letter fraternity founded at VMI, part of the Lexington Triad
Sigma Nu
ON THE MAP | 400 | It's the closest of the other continents to Antarctica
South America
LANDLOCKED AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 1200 | This country became independent in 2011 (yay!) but in the process lost coastal access to the Red Sea (bummer)
South Sudan
THAT'S OUR ISLAND! | 1200 | Minorca
Spain
CARIBBEAN ISLANDS, MON | 2000 | The peak that forms much of this partner of Nevis is Mount Misery; with an average temperature of 80, sounds rough
St. Kitts
U.S. CITIES | 400 | This city seen here is its state's second largest.
St. Louis
CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY | 800 | In surface area, it's the largest lake within or on the borders of Canada
Superior
U.S. RIVERS | 400 | 7-foot, 100-pound sturgeon have returned to the St. Louis River, Minnesota's largest tributary of this Great Lake
Superior
FLORIDA GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | Its name may be a corruption of the Spanish for ""little St. John"", & it flows from the Okefenokee Swamp to the Gulf
Suwannee River
SCANDINAVIAN CITIES | 2000 | Whale & reindeer are on the menu in Longyearbyen, capital of this Norwegian island group also known as Spitsbergen
Svalbard
LANGUAGES OF AFRICA | 1600 | With 50 million speakers, this Bantu language is the most widely spoken native language on the continent
Swahili
OCEANIA | 2000 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of part of South America and the Pacific Ocean.) In 1766 Philip Carteret and Samuel Wallis sailed from England in two ships. Storms separated them and while Carteret discovered Pitcairn, Wallis found this other island that's part of the H.M.S. Bounty story
Tahiti
THE COUNTRY DUE SOUTH | 400 | of Nairobi, Kenya
Tanzania
THAT'S OUR ISLAND! | 1600 | Phuket
Thailand
LONDON TRANSPORTATION | 400 | Until Westminster Bridge opened in 1750, London Bridge was the city's only crossing over this river
Thames
HISTORY AT SEA | 400 | In 1854 the James Baines, this type of graceful sailing ship, ""cut"" the Atlantic crossing record to 12 days, 6 hrs.
a clipper
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 400 | Alice Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer for Fiction for this novel
The Color Purple
THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM | 400 | This type of formation seen here lends its name to a Montana national park
a glacier
TRANSPORTATION | 2000 | Able to carry 500 troops, Russia's Zubr-class is the largest of these air-cushioned vehicles
a hovercraft
WATER TRANSPORTATION | 800 | It sounds like a word for a helicopter, but it refers to an air cushion vehicle
a hovercraft
WORDS IN ASIAN COUNTRIES | 2000 | A simple roofed shelter in Thimphu
a hut (in Bhutan)
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 1600 | Around 1790 Benjamin Banneker helped survey the land that became this city
Washington, D.C.
DISASTER CITY | 200 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Texas A&M Disaster City in College Station, TX.) At Disaster City, first responders learn how to deal with tornado or earthquake debris; if someone is trapped beneath more than can be lifted, use what's around as this simple machine to gain the edge you need
a lever
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE | 800 | Justin plays Napster founder Sean Parker in this movie about a start-up
The Social Network
NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARKS | 600 | Concord, Massachusetts has a visitor center for the park with this kind of soldier in its name
a minuteman
GEOGRAPHIC BANDS | 200 | They gave listeners a ""Taste of Honey"":Herb Alpert and the ____ Brass
Tijuana
SAINTS & THEIR CITIES | 2000 | Bishop, patron of France & ""The Glory of Gaul"", St. Martin of this city
Tours
U.N. COUNTRY ABBREVIATIONS | 800 | TGO
Togo
AFRICAN COUNTRIES BY CAPITAL | 400 | Tunis
Tunisia
ON THE OLD MAP | 400 | Since 1964 the former Northern Rhodesia has been this, second from the end on the African alphabet
Zambia
COUNTRIES BY HOTEL | 400 | The Victoria Falls Hotel, just south of the falls
Zimbabwe
19th CENTURY TRANSPORTATION | 2000 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows photos of transports on the monitor.) The disparity in wheel sizes of a tricycle duplicates the differentiated wheel sizes of this adult transport that first rolled upon the world stage in the 1870s
a penny-farthing
SEE THE SEA CREATURE | 1600 | This freshwater fish that can weigh up to 4 pounds is cousin to the pike & starts with the same letter
a perch
GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 1000 | It's smaller than a lake, but a lake doesn't have an organism called its own type of ""scum""
a pond
LOW COUNTRY TYPES | 800 | WWI Dutch aviator Anthony Fokker developed a way to synchronize machine gun fire with the rotation of this
a propeller
TRANSPORTATION | 800 | Like Huck & Jim, a ship's steward named Poon Lim drifted on one of these--for 133 days before being rescued
a raft
NASCAR FROM THE DRIVER'S SEAT | 200 | (I'm Joey Logano.) In 2015 I won my first Daytona 500 after some drama: a crash with 3 laps to go & then one of these--when the green flag waves & we hit the gas again
a restart
WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS | 1200 | A piece of jewelry in Illinois' capital
a ring (in Springfield)
UNDER THE SEA IN BAJA | 600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew snorkels in Baja California, Mexico.) A Baja resident named for a poisonous arachnid, this fish, with its spiny, venomous fins, uses camouflage to avoid detection
a scorpionfish
TRANSPORTATION | 200 | In 1911 Eugene Ely made the first airplane landing on one of these, the USS Pennsylvania
a ship
STATE FLAGS | 1600 | This sailing accessory can be found on the flags of both Rhode Island & Wisconsin
an anchor
GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) When a coral reef forms around an island and the island gradually sinks into the sea, what remains is this ring-like coral island
an atoll
WORLD FLAGS | 2000 | The flag of Albania depicts this bird, double-headed
an eagle
GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 2000 | From the Latin for ""tide"", it's the place where the wide mouth of a freshwater river meets the ocean tides
an estuary
WORDS IN WORLD CAPITALS | 600 | A container in Australia
can
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | Although ""Montana"" is Spanish for ""mountain"", 2/3 of the state is on the ""Great"" these
the Great Plains
SMALL COUNTRIES | 1200 | The Maldives in the Indian Ocean is made of this natural material & the locals are happy to sell you a necklace of it
coral
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 600 | The second African-American patent holder, Henry Blair got 2:for devices to plant corn & to plant this crop
cotton
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE | 200 | (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dismantled at its original location on Edisto Island, South Carolina, & now restored & a centerpiece of the museum, this cabin dates back to the early days of slavery but was used well into the 20th century, with residents picking as much as 100 pounds a day of this crop
cotton
U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD | 400 | This crop is king in Greenwood, Mississippi, its ""capital of the world""
cotton
ATLANTIC CITY | 200 | Trump Taj Mahal allows side bets called ""fire bets"" that are placed before the new shooter first rolls in this game
craps
AFRICA | 800 | Lake Turkana is home to what may be Africa's largest population of the Nile species of these reptiles
crocodiles
ELECTRICITY | 1200 | Canada's power is 60% this source, like the water going over Churchill Falls
hydroelectric
ASIAN GEOGRAPHY | 400 | The Khongoryn Els, or ""Singing Dunes"", are a popular tourist destination in this Central Asian Desert
the Gobi
WORLD RIVERS | 400 | It drains an area of 2.7 million square miles in 7 South American countries
the Amazon
CAPITAL RIVERS | 1600 | This ""Light"" river flows south to north through Amsterdam
the Amstel
MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS | 2000 | Ibiza & Minorca are part of this Spanish archipelago
the Balearic Islands
LAKES | 1200 | Shared by Macedonia & Albania, Ohrid Lake--one of Europe's most beautiful--is on this peninsula
the Balkan
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Lying between Estonia & Latvia, the Irbe Strait provides an outlet from the Gulf of Riga to this sea
the Baltic
A RIVER RUNS TO IT | 2000 | The Vistula:this sea
the Baltic Sea
CITY BY THE SEA | 800 | Riga
the Baltic Sea
THE MAP OF EUROPE | 1600 | Estonia is the northernmost of the 3 countries known as this sea's states
the Baltic states
INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK | 1000 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a Classical/Revival style building in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, PA.) Madison & Jefferson were opposed, but Hamilton's vision of a strong central government, in economics as well as politics, won out & this financial institution was created in 1791, headquartered here in Philadelphia
the Bank of the United States
GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES | 1600 | ""The Bay of Giant Tides""
the Bay of Fundy
FEATURING FLAGS | 400 | Various military flags are depicted in embroidery on this 11th century linen artwork
the Bayeux tapestry
EUROPEAN RIVERS | 400 | East of Belgrade this river flows through a narrow gorge called the iron gate
the Danube
CITY BY THE SEA | 2000 | Liverpool
the Irish Sea
LAKES & RIVERS | 2000 | Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada, 2 degrees above the Arctic Circle, lies on this river's delta
the MacKenzie River
ON THE MAP | 800 | This archipelago includes Luzon in the Philippines & Sumatra in Indonesia
the Malay Archipelago
COUNTRIES SMALLER THAN PUERTO RICO | 1600 | The more than 1,200 ""islands"" of this Pacific nation only add up to about 70 square miles
the Marshall Islands
OUR GREAT COUNTRY | 200 | Germany's Stuttgart Tower inspired Edward Carlson's initial sketch for this Seattle landmark
the Space Needle
INDEPENDENCE SEAPORT MUSEUM | 200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, PA.) Launched in 1892, the Olympia soon sailed to the Pacific, where she fought at Manila Bay, the first battle of this war, of which Olympia is the last surviving ship
the Spanish-American War
OUT OF AFRICA | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew lays on her front, propped up on her elbows.) A stress-reliever that strengthens the spine & even stretches the lungs, this yoga pose gets its name from a ""Great"" Egyptian landmark
the Sphinx
U.S. RIVERS | 2000 | Edgar Lee Masters wrote about the mussel shells on its banks, & its name comes from those shells, used in eating
the Spoon River
ASIAN FLAGS | 800 | Traditional name for the hexagram at the center of Israel's flag
the Star of David
ELLIS ISLAND | 1200 | In 1965 Lyndon Johnson issued a proclamation making Ellis Island a part of this national monument
the Statue of Liberty
WORLD CAPITALS | 1000 | The Andes rise east of this 4-letter coastal capital
Lima (Peru)
CAPITAL CITY OVERLAPS | 2000 | Peru & Bahrain
Limanama
U.S. CITY NICKNAMES | 200 | New Mexico:""Atomic City""
Los Alamos
MOVIES' MAIN CITIES | 600 | ""Chinatown"" &""Crash""
Los Angeles
SITCOM CITIES | 600 | ""New Girl""
Los Angeles
THE CITY OF... | 200 | Angels
Los Angeles
ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES | 400 | LONG LEASES,California
Los Angeles, California
DISEASES | 800 | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is more commonly known as the disease of this man who died in 1941
Lou Gehrig
U.S. CITY NICKNAMES | 600 | ""The Gateway to the South"" & ""Derby Town""
Louisville
THE CITY | 1000 | Texas Tech was founded there in 1923
Lubbock
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE | 2000 | (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) The tape recorder was used by this man, whose ideas for black activism couldn't be contained by the Nation of Islam, leading to the sad correctness of his prediction in his autobiography that, ""I, too, will die by violence""
Malcolm X
4-LETTER COUNTRY NAMES | 2000 | French troops started fighting jihadists there in January 2013
Mali
GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS | 1200 | Today I received mail from this African country
Mali (from mail)
COUNTRIES SMALLER THAN PUERTO RICO | 1200 | The strategic importance of this country, located 60 miles south of Sicily, has guaranteed it a turbulent history
Malta
EUROPE IN LATIN | 400 | An island:Melita
Malta
MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS | 1600 | Its capital, Valletta, was named for a Grand Master of the Knights Hospitallers
Malta
TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS | 1600 | Valletta
Malta
DOUBLE UP ON YOUR COUNTRIES | 1200 | These 2 Mediterranean islands are independent countries
Malta & Cyprus
CALIFORNIA COUNTIES | 1200 | The Golden Gate Bridge connects this affluent county with San Francisco to the south
Marin
WORLD CITIES | 1600 | Morocco was named for this city known for its centuries-old red clay buildings
Marrakesh
THE 50 STATES | 200 | Its state song includes the words ""From hill to hill, from creek to creek, Potomac calls to Chesapeake""
Maryland
THE OTHER 45 STATES | 1200 | Check out the groovy corner design of this state's flag. The yellow and black stripes honor the Calvert family
Maryland
ALTERED STATES | 1600 | In the Northeast:Casts same tush
Massachusetts
THE GEOGRAPHIC CENTER | 400 | Of this U.S. state: central Worcester County
Massachusetts
THE 6 NEW ENGLAND STATES | 600 | The 2 whose names come from Native American words
Massachusetts and Connecticut
LOW COUNTRY TYPES | 1600 | Margaretha Zelle was the less glamorous original name of this dancer & accused spy
Mata Hari
NATIONAL PARKS | 1000 | Hawaii has 2 national parks, Hawaii Volcanoes on the Big Island & Haleakala on this ""Valley Isle""
Maui
THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS | 400 | Wowie! This second-biggest island is named for a Polynesian demigod
Maui
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | Awash in glorious lava, Mount Haleakala lies on this ""Valley Isle""
Maui
COUNTRIES BY WORLD HERITAGE SITES | 1600 | The Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve& the Prehistoric Caves of Yagul
Mexico
COUNTRY OF BIRTH | 1600 | Mural artist David Siqueiros
Mexico
PLANT THE FLAG | 2000 | An eagle sits on a flowering nopal cactus in the center of the flag of this country
Mexico
TRAVELIN' AROUND THE COUNTRY | 200 | We'll start at Veracruz, drive up the coast to Tampico & end our trip by heading south to Taxco
Mexico
A CAPITAL IDEA | 1600 | This capital's major street the Paseo de la Reforma passes through Chapultepec Park
Mexico City
IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | 600 | Plaza de Garibaldi, near the Avenida Juarez
Mexico City
BLUE STATES | 800 | This Stephen King novel is about writer Paul Sheldon & his No. 1 fan
Misery
STATES BY COUNTIES | 1000 | Tallahatchie,Yazoo,Jasper
Mississippi
STATES THAT FLOW TOGETHER | 200 | One has St. Louis, the other has East St. Louis
Missouri & Illinois
DETROIT ROCK CITY | 2000 | The Detroit Wheels backed him on ""Devil With A Blue Dress On"" & ""Good Golly Miss Molly""
Mitch Ryder
NATIONAL FLAGS | 1200 | The writing on the national flag seen here includes this man's name
Mohammed
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD | 1600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A former Soviet republic, this landlocked country bounded by Romania & Ukraine is the least-visited country in Europe
Moldova
TRAVELING AMONGST THE STARS | 1000 | These 2 female co-stars of ""The Breakfast Club"" attended a 30th anniversary celebration of the movie in 2015
Molly Ringwald & Ally Sheedy
CAPITAL CITY HOTELS | 600 | Hotel Peter I,Hotel Soyuz
Moscow
SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES | 400 | In 1980 the U.S. & 64 other countries boycotted the Olympics held in this city
Moscow
WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 600 | Fallen Monument Park, featuring the guys seen here, is in this city
Moscow
ISLAND FACTS | 1600 | The tallest island peak, Puncak Jaya rises 16,024 feet above sea level on this, the world's second largest island
New Guinea
ISLANDS | 1000 | Amelia Earhart was lost near Howland Island after making her last stop at Lae on this Pacific island
New Guinea
ALTERED STATES | 1200 | A hen whimpers
New Hampshire
STATES & LICENSE PLATES | 1200 | in an all or nothing move, this state invites you to ""Live Free or Die""
New Hampshire
THE 6 NEW ENGLAND STATES | 800 | The submarine USS Portsmouth was commissioned there in 1983
New Hampshire
THE WEATHER & GEOGRAPHY REPORT | 800 | On April 12, 1934 Mount Washington, in this state, got quite a blow - wind clocked at 231 mph
New Hampshire
COASTAL U.S. STATES | 600 | Bay Head on its famous ""shore"" was ravaged by Superstorm Sandy
New Jersey
STATE BY COUNTIES | 200 | Rio Arriba,Lincoln,Taos
New Mexico
STATES BY CITY TRASH-TALKING | 200 | ""Truth or Consequences isn't a choice! & Los Alamos bay be the bomb, but it's Roswell that ends well!""
New Mexico
STATES' LOWEST POINTS | 800 | This state: 2,842 feet above sea level at Red Bluff Reservoir just east of Carlsbad Caverns
New Mexico
THE OTHER 45 STATES | 800 | Susana Martinez, this state's first female governor, is also the first Latina governor of a U.S. state
New Mexico
BIG CITY MAYORS | 1000 | Mitch Landrieu
New Orleans
MOVIES' MAIN CITIES | 400 | ""Pretty Baby"" &""A Streetcar Named Desire""
New Orleans
OCEANIA | 400 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of part of the South Pacific.) Two of the southernmost islands in Oceania are Chatham Island and Campbell Island, today both part of this country
New Zealand
GEOGRAPHIC TITLES | 400 | Agatha Christie: ""Death on the _____""
Nile
IN THE STATE CAPITAL | 200 | The Empire State Plaza
Albany
GEOGRAPHIC CENTERS | 1000 | 10 miles southwest of Brainerd
Minnesota
WHICH AFRICAN COUNTRY? | 600 | Kilimanjaro National Park
Tanzania
REPORTING FROM THE STATE CAPITAL | 200 | On the Patroon Island Bridge overlooking the Hudson
Albany
SAME NAME AS A STATE CAPITAL | 400 | Ray Charles was born in this city but in Georgia, not New York
Albany
STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 200 | Henry Hudson Planetarium,Schuyler Mansion
Albany
GOIN' COUNTRY | 800 | 10 times as long as it is wide, this South American country gained independence in 1818
Chile
TRAVELING AMONGST THE STARS | 200 | allmovie.com's review of ""Run All Night"" noted ""the constant hissing of threats into cell phones"" by this Irish actor
(Liam) Neeson
THE 28 COUNTRIES OF NATO | 1600 | The 2 island countries that are members
Iceland & the United Kingdom
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: CELEBRATING 125 YEARS | 800 | In September of 1960, the magazine reported the first world-famous find by this husband-&-wife pair
(Louis and Mary) Leakey
COUNTRIES OF THE CARIBBEAN | 800 | Saint paired with the Grenadines in a country's name
(St.) Vincent
THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N. | 1200 | On August 1st, 2005, the President named this man to the job in a recess appointment
(John) Bolton
THEY SERVED OUR COUNTRY | 400 | He's seen here in uniform before his days of political service to Arizona
(John) McCain
AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS | 400 | (Kareem Abdul-Jabar delivers the clue.) The son of slaves who taught himself to be a draftsman, Lewis Latimer drew the blueprints for this man's telephone patent, which won a patent race
(Alexander Graham) Bell
AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE | 800 | Here's this poet & author; note the color she's wearing
(Alice) Walker
AFRICAN HISTORY | 400 | Egypt's president throughout the 1970's he tried to open up the economy & and reached out in foreign affairs
(Anwar) Sadat
AFRICAN HISTORY | 1200 | We presume you know the name of this Scottish explorer who first set sail for Africa in 1840
(David) Livingstone
STATE PARKS | 400 | Tennessee parks include one named for this pioneer you may remember from the Alamo
(Davy) Crockett
THEY SERVED OUR COUNTRY | 1000 | Long before he was chief justice (1953-1969), he served in the army stateside during World War I
(Earl) Warren
YOU DO THE GEOGRAPHIC MATH | 2000 | The number of U.S. states on the Pacific Ocean squared
25
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES | 2000 | While this Balkan country's national name means ""land of eagles"", the name we know it by is from the Latin for ""white""
Albania
THE 28 COUNTRIES OF NATO | 800 | It's first alphabetically & only joined in 2009
Albania
STATES & LICENSE PLATES | 1600 | Driving straight from Rockford to Carbondale, most of the plates you see will have this man's face in the center
Abraham Lincoln
ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES | 400 | On the Hudson River:ANY LAB
Albany
CAPITAL MAP IT ALL | 400 | It was first settled in 1624
Albany
WORLD CAPITAL POINTS OF INTEREST | 1000 | If you're heading to A.A.-- this world capital, of course!-- take pictures of the Jubilee Palace
Addis Ababa
TRANSPORTATION | 1000 | This eurocompany, really big in passenger jets, also produces close to 1/3 of the world's helicopters
Airbus
AFRICAN HISTORY | 1600 | This Somali terrorist group whose name means ""the youth"" has carried out deadly attacks, like at a Nairobi mall
Al-Shabaab
STATES THAT FLOW TOGETHER | 600 | The state where Martin Luther King was born & the state where he married Coretta Scott
Alabama & Georgia
U.S. STATES | 600 | The westernmost
Alaska
U.S. STATES | 800 | The one with the most coastline
Alaska
DETROIT ROCK CITY | 1200 | Seen in the '80s, he sang of Hollywood Nights & Katmandu, but was born in a Detroit suburb
Bob Seger
EXTREME GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Rose Atoll in this ""American"" Pacific possession is the southernmost point in all U.S.-controlled territory
American Samoa
GEOGRAPHIC ABBREV. | 400 | AS:This U.S. Pacific territory
American Samoa
NATIONAL PARKS | 800 | A rainforest & coral reef make up the national park of this U.S. territory on the islands of Tutuila, Ta'u & Ofu
American Samoa
TRANSPORTATION | 1600 | This U.S. railway system has smartfares that will save you 25% on select routes throughout the country
Amtrak
CITY-TITLED MOVIES | 1200 | Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron danced to Gershwin in this 1951 Best Picture Oscar winner
An American in Paris
COUNTRIES SMALLER THAN PUERTO RICO | 800 | The highest peak of this mountainous land is 9,600-foot Coma Pedrosa near the frontier with Catalonia
Andorra
SMALL COUNTRIES | 800 | Catalan is the official language of this country between France & Spain
Andorra
SEAS THE DAY | 800 | The King Haakon VII Sea isn't near Norway, but off this continent's Queen Maud Land
Antarctica
GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES | 2000 | Of the 15 now independent former Soviet republics, this non-""stan"" is the smallest in area
Armenia
ON THE MAP | 1200 | Azerbaijan borders this country on the east; an enclave of Azerbaijan also borders it to the southwest
Armenia
CITY HALL | 600 | Completed in 1928, Asheville, North Carolina's City Hall is a masterpiece of this style, named for a Parisian expo held in 1925
Art Deco
CITY NICKNAMES | 800 | Edinburgh, Scotland, home to many a thinker:This Greek city ""of the North""
Athens
EUROPEAN LAKES | 1600 | Lake Marathon, an artificial lake, served as this capital's main water supply from 1931 until 1959
Athens
EUROPE TO NO GOOD | 400 | Around 445 he killed his brother Bleda to become sole leader of the Huns
Attila
LOW COUNTRY TYPES | 2000 | 1 month older than Anne Frank, this actress survived Nazi-occupied Holland & could not bring herself to portray Anne
Audrey Hepburn
PARKS | 800 | The New Orleans park named for this artist & naturalist has a rookery on Bird Island
Audubon
CAPITAL MAP IT ALL | 800 | It lies on both sides of the Kennebec River
Augusta
WE HAVE A NEW STATE CAPITAL | 2000 | Replacing Portland, in 1832
Augusta
ASIAN CAPITALS | 400 | Most of this Chinese capital's people belong to the Han ethnic group; Manchus & Mongols are in the minority
Beijing
CRY ME A WORLD RIVER | 400 | The Yongding & the Chaobai rivers both replenish this capital city
Beijing
WORLD CITIES | 400 | It's the capital of the world's most populous country
Beijing
ASIAN CAPITALS | 2000 | This port lies about 60 miles northwest of Damascus on the Bay of St. George
Beirut
THE NAME ON THE AIRPORT | 1600 | The airport of this Mideast city was renamed after Prime Minister Rafik Hariri following his 2005 assassination
Beirut
TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS | 1200 | Minsk
Belarus
COUNTRIES BY WORLD HERITAGE SITES | 800 | The Neolithic flint mines near Mons &the Brugge Historic Center
Belgium
PRETTY CITY | 1600 | You can see a Michelangelo in Bruges, a pretty little city in this European country
Belgium
THE 28 COUNTRIES OF NATO | 1200 | One of the smallest, this country is home to the main NATO headquarters
Belgium
THE MOST POPULOUS COUNTRY | 1000 | Bosnia,Belgium,Belize
Belgium
THE U.N.'s COUNTRY ABBREVIATION | 200 | BEL,in Western Europe
Belgium
NAME THE CAPITAL | 600 | Serbia
Belgrade
FLAGS OF THE AMERICAS | 1200 | The flag of this country, formerly known as British Honduras, is the only national flag depicting humans in its design
Belize
PLANT THE FLAG | 1600 | The flag of this central American country shows a mahogany tree & 2 men; the Union Jack was removed
Belize
WESTERN HEMISPHERE RIVERS | 400 | The Hondo River provides much of the border between Mexico & this small Central American nation
Belize
CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS | 1200 | This Belize capital was named for a Mayan tribe that never surrendered to the Spanish
Belmopan
THE U.N.'s COUNTRY ABBREVIATION | 400 | BEN
Benin
OH, B-CITY IN AFRICA | 2000 | The name of this South African judicial capital means ""fountain of flowers""
Bloemfontein
IN THE CAPITAL CITY | 400 | April 29, 1945:Eva Braun gets married
Berlin
IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | 1000 | The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, near a noted gate
Berlin
WORLD CAPITAL MUSEUMS | 1000 | The Bauhaus Archives & Museum of Design
Berlin
ATLANTIC CITIES | 1600 | Colorful shops linefront street in Hamilton, capital of this British territory off the east coast of the United States
Bermuda
A CAPITAL IDEA | 2000 | A statue of William Tell adorns the parliament building in this Swiss city
Bern
CITY BY THE BAY | 1200 | Miami, Florida
Biscayne Bay
I STAND BEFORE THE COUNTRY | 1000 | Before ""Darussalam""
Brunei
GEOGRAPHY: DROP A LETTER | 1000 | Drop a letter from a sultanate and you get this maiden name of Mrs. Sarkozy
Bruni (from Brunei)
EUROPEAN CAPITALS | 200 | It has sprouts named for it
Brussels
ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES | 600 | Great Lakes port:FLUB OAF
Buffalo
ASIA LOVES THAT AMERICAN BRAND | 800 | ""Wouldn't you really rather have"" this car? China would, buying triple the number of them sold in the U.S. in 2010
Buick
GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | On an alphabetical list of nations in English, this Balkan nation comes immediately before Burkina Faso
Bulgaria
U.S. CITIES | 2000 | A Montana city is named for a peak called ""Big"" this
Butte
HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC AKAs | 1000 | This former Soviet Republic between Ukraine & Latvia was once known as White Russia
Byelorussia
TRAVEL & TOURISM | 400 | Every even year watch the world's top sailors in the Atlantic Cup, a 1,000-mile race from this S.C. port to Portland, Me.
Charleston
WORLD CITIES | 2000 | The Confederation Chamber in Province House in this capital of P.E.I. is called the ""Birthplace of Canada""
Charlottetown
____IN' COUNTRY SONGS | 200 | Hank Williams:""Your ____in' Heart""
Cheatin\'
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 400 | In 2010 this city gave landmark status to the homes of Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks & Richard Wright
Chicago
CITY HALL | 1000 | The building housing this burg's City Hall also houses the offices administering Cook County
Chicago
MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS CITIES | 1000 | The Fire
Chicago
GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | Easter Island is a province of this country
Chile
POPULOUS EUROPEAN ISLANDS | 2000 | This island of 600,000 people marks the southern limit of the Aegean Sea
Crete
SEA WORTHY MOVIES | 1000 | Denzel Washington is second in command to Gene Hackman aboard the nuclear submarine Alabama in this thriller
Crimson Tide
SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS | 2000 | This Guyanan capital received its name in 1781, when it was named for the British monarch then on the throne
Georgetown
FLAGS OF CROSS & CRESCENT | 800 | The 5 red crosses on this former Soviet Socialist Republic's flag are the symbol of a certain saint, the Union Jack has one such cross
Georgia
THE COUNTIES OF IRELAND | 1600 | This largest Irish county in area is home to Doneraile National Park & Blarney Castle
Cork
ITALIAN CITIES & TOWNS | 1600 | In 2003 a campaign was launched to change the name of this Sicilian town, associated with the Mafia due to U.S. pop culture
Corleone
GREAT & OTHER LAKES | 800 | This lake in Oregon is the second-deepest lake in North America
Crater Lake
SUPERLATIVE STATES | 800 | Deepest lake:This one in Oregon, 1,943 feet
Crater Lake
IT'S NATIONAL PARK WEEK | 2000 | Appropriately, Apollo 14 astronauts trained at the Idaho monument with this four-word name
Craters of the Moon
GREEK ISLANDS | 1200 | At 8,058 feet, Mount Ida is the highest point on this island & was once a holy mountain in Minoan culture
Crete
LET YOUR GREEK FLAG FLY | 1600 | From 1898 to 1913 this large island was autonomous & had its own flag
Crete
NEW TOURIST SLOGANS FOR ISLANDS? | 200 | ""90 miles south of Key West, 90 trillion miles to the left of America""
Cuba
ISLANDS | 800 | A poet described this divided island as a ""golden green leaf thrown into"" the Mediterranean Sea
Cyprus
THE E.U. COUNTRY THAT... | 1200 | Is an island country due south of Turkey
Cyprus
ATLANTIC CITIES | 2000 | This Senegalese capital is the westernmost city of the African mainland
Dakar
CITY PARKS | 1600 | You can see the 1905 Wright Flyer III in a park in this Ohio city
Dayton
THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA | 400 | Union troops cut a path 50 miles wide, destroying all public buildings & mills on Sherman's march to the sea through this state
Georgia
SKYSCRAPER CITY | 800 | Named for an insurance company in a big insurance town, Travelers Tower
Hartford
ALTERED STATES | 800 | Eel award
Delaware
STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES | 400 | ""Broncoville""
Denver
TRAVELING | 400 | Twice the size of Manhattan, this Colorado facility opened February 28, 1995 to replace Stapleton
Denver International Airport
HIDDEN U.K. CITIES | 2000 | At the library you'll find love poems & more filed under Byron
Derby
THE NORTHERNMOST STATE CAPITAL | 1000 | Denver,Des Moines,Nashville
Des Moines
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 400 | Migrate north to this city to visit the largest museum of African-American history; it's named for Charles H. Wright
Detroit
ISLAND PRISONS | 1200 | Henri Charriere, aka Papillon, wrote a popular account of escaping this island prison on a coconut raft
Devil\'s Island
ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES | 1200 | This capital of Bangladesh is in the heart of the world's largest jute-growing region
Dhaka
WORDS IN STATES | 1600 | Moon goddess in Muncie
Diana (in Indiana)
ON THE OLD MAP | 200 | 1990 was the end for this country whose districts included Neubrandenburg, Leipzig & Karl-Marx-Stadt
East Germany
ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC | 2000 | Thor Heyerdahl believed this island was once colonized by a redheaded race from South America, possibly Peru
Easter Island
ISLANDS | 200 | There are more than 600 gigantic stone figures on this island
Easter Island
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 1200 | Walter Mosley's ""Devil in a Blue Dress"" saw the 1st appearance of this ""effortless"" detective in 1940s Los Angeles
Easy Rawlins
WHAT THE CITY NAME MEANS | 600 | Clear Water, Wisconsin
Eau Claire
MY COUNTRY | 800 | Generals Lysander & Timoleon
Greece
AFRICA | 800 | Most of the literature of this Horn of Africa country is written in either classical Ge'ez or modern Amharic
Ethiopia
AFRICAN COUNTRIES BY CAPITAL | 800 | Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
COUNTRY FACTS | 400 | In 1931 Haile Selaissie gave this country its first written constitution
Ethiopia
GEOGRAPHIC NAME CHANGES | 800 | This modern African republic was once known as Abyssinia
Ethiopia
ITALIAN CITIES & TOWNS | 2000 | Over 700 years old, the Palazzo Vecchio was the seat of government of this city back when it was a republic
Florence
THE COUNTRY DUE SOUTH | 600 | of Sofia, Bulgaria
Greece
THE COUNTRY'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER... | 1200 | has a monument flanked by inscriptions from Pericles' funeral oration
Greece
THE E.U. COUNTRY THAT... | 400 | Is described by World Book as ""a small country where western civilization started about 2,500 years ago""
Greece
OPERA COUNTRY SETTINGS | 600 | Giacomo Meyerbeer's ""The Huguenots""
France
VODKA COUNTRY OF ORIGIN | 800 | Grey Goose
France
STATE CAPITAL HEADQUARTERS | 800 | Aetna Insurance & Health Care
Hartford
TRAVELIN' AROUND THE COUNTRY | 400 | We'll go on a magical history tour from Stavros to Apsalos to Katsikas
Greece
U.S. CITY SEALS | 1000 | This state capital's seal features a deer, just like a major insurance company based there
Hartford
STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES | 800 | ""The Insurance Capital of the World""
Hartford, Connecticut
CITY BY THE BAY | 1600 | Texas City, Texas
Galveston Bay
BILLBOARD'S ALL-TIME TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS | 800 | His ""No Fences"" & ""Ropin' the Wind""
Garth Brooks
COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUMS | 200 | His ""Ropin' The Wind"" was 1991's top album, remaining at No. 1 for 18 weeks
Garth Brooks
COUNTRY MUSIC | 400 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew steps out of the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, TN.) Many a country singer got his start at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe, including this ""Friends In Low Places"" superstar
Garth Brooks
GOIN' COUNTRY | 600 | This superstar who had ""Friends In Low Places"" attended Oklahoma State on a track scholarship
Garth Brooks
NOVEL COUNTRIES | 800 | ""The Book Thief""
Germany
THE LARGEST COUNTRY... | 1200 | Entirely in Europe, by population
Germany
WHAT A COUNTRY! | 400 | Following a 1990 reunion, its population is 81 million
Germany
SAME NAME AS A STATE CAPITAL | 800 | Far from Mississippi, it's the site of Michigan's first state prison
Jackson
THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM | 800 | Special observances are held annually at this battlefield on Memorial Day & November 19
Gettysburg
SEAN PENN | 800 | Sean won an Oscar after announcing, ""My name is"" this title character from San Francisco ""and I'm here to recruit you! ""
Harvey Milk
MANY RIVERS TO CROSS | 800 | The bonny Rivers Clyde & Kelvin flow through this largest Scottish city
Glasgow
WORLD CITIES | 200 | George Square in this largest Scottish city has a very tall column with Sir Walter Scott atop it
Glasgow
AFRICAN LEADERS | 1600 | It's the first name of Nigerian president Jonathan, & it's what we wish him in battling Boko Haram rebels
Goodluck
TRANSPORTATION | 1200 | Bases for these are located at Carson, California, Pompano Beach, Florida & Akron, Ohio
Goodyear Blimps
OTHER GREAT LAKES | 1000 | The fourth-largest lake in North America, it was named for the large mammals that inhabited its shores
Great Bear Lake
AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS | 400 | In the 1720s Daniel Defoe published a 3-volume ""Tour"" of this home island
Great Britain
POPULOUS EUROPEAN ISLANDS | 400 | With 60 million, it's the most populous island in Europe
Great Britain
COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY | 800 | This Florida city in Palm Beach County shares its name with a sitcom that starred Eddie Albert & Eva Gabor
Greenacres
AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS | 200 | Geographically, this largest island is actually part of North America
Greenland
CAPITALS OF NON-COUNTRIES | 1200 | Nuuk, the capital of this large island, was once known by its Danish name, Godthab
Greenland
EXTREME GEOGRAPHY | 200 | At about 840,000 square miles, this island near Canada is the world's largest
Greenland
ISLAND NAMES | 400 | Verdant field
Greenland
ISLANDS | 400 | This Atlantic island is larger than the second-, third-& fourth-biggest islands combined
Greenland
CITY PARKS | 1200 | This 4,210-acre Los Angeles park features an observatory
Griffith Park
SEAN PENN | 400 | Sean helped rebuild this earthquake-hit Caribbean nation & is the 1st ambassador-at-large who's not a native
Haiti
CANADIAN CAPITALS | 600 | During WWII this capital of Nova Scotia was Canada's main naval base
Halifax
STATE CAPITAL RIVERS | 800 | The Susquehanna River
Harrisburg
STATE CAPITALS | 1000 | The state museum here is often called the William Penn Memorial Museum due to the statue of Penn in the central hall
Harrisburg
BASIC GEOGRAPHY | 600 | It's the capital of Montana; also, it's illegal to annoy passersby on sidewalks with a revolving water sprinkler there
Helena
OLYMPIC HOST CITIES | 200 | This world capital on the Gulf of Finland boasts a railway station designed by Eliel Saarinen
Helsinki
WORLD AIRPORTS | 200 | Long layover? No problem at this Finnish capital's airport, which offers sleep pods, a spa & more
Helsinki
WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 1000 | The Sibelius Monument
Helsinki
ADVENTURE TRAVEL | 800 | Don't get too close hiking near the Bardarbunga volcano, part of the Holuhraun lava field in this country
Iceland
ASIAN ISLANDS | 2000 | It's the least developed & northernmost of Japan's 4 main islands
Hokkaido
GEOGRAPHIC BANDS | 600 | Top 40 advice from them was ""Relax"":Frankie Goes to ____
Hollywood
NEW TOURIST SLOGANS FOR ISLANDS? | 800 | ""The U.K. lost its 99-year lease on us! Opened under new management in 1997!""
Hong Kong
TRAVEL & TOURISM | 600 | One of the world's busiest airports is built on an island off this Chinese administrative region to avoid all the tall buildings
Hong Kong
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD | 800 | Its nearest neighbor is Greenland, about 200 miles to the northwest
Iceland
GOIN' COUNTRY | 1600 | In June it's light almost 24 hours a day in this country about 200 miles east of Greenland
Iceland
LITERARY CITIES | 1600 | The intrigues & poisonings of this 1934 Robert Graves work take place in 1st century A.D. Rome
I, Claudius
GREEK ISLANDS | 400 | Ikaria is named for this mythical aeronaut who plunged to his death
Icarus
STATE CAPITALS | 200 | This Mississippi capital was named for a general who later became president
Jackson (Mississippi)
ASIAN CAPITALS | 800 | This capital is named for a religion
Islamabad
COUNTRIES IN 3 WORDS | 400 | Capital at Kingston
Jamaica
COUNTRIES OF THE CARIBBEAN | 600 | Kingston & Montego Bay are 2 of its largest towns
Jamaica
ON THE GEOGRAPHIC MENU | 200 | Slang for coffee, from an island south of Borneo
Java
U.S. ISLANDS | 2000 | This island off Georgia was named for a friend of James Robert Oglethorpe, not a Robert Louis Stevenson doctor
Jekyll
THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY | 1200 | This Biblical city's first walls, dating to 8000 B.C., were some 13 feet high & supported by a 28-foot watchtower
Jericho
GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES | 400 | It's ""The City of David""
Jerusalem
TRAVEL & TOURISM | 400 | In Kearney, Missouri you can visit the restored childhood home of this 19th c. bank & train robber
Jesse James
CURRENT SENATORS' STATES | 200 | Arizona:Flake & him
John McCain
INDEPENDENCE SEAPORT MUSEUM | 600 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, PA.) Here, in a painting attributed to Richard Paton, is the famous naval duel between Britain's Serapis & the Bonhomme Richard, captained to victory by this father of the American Navy
John Paul Jones
NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD | 400 | Indonesia has a national park with over 5,000 of these 300-pound lizards
Komodo dragons
THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ATLAS SHRUGGED | 1000 | Of this disputed region, the Atlas says, ""Some places show the Albanian name with the Serbian name in parentheses""
Kosovo
ALMOST THERE TO THE STATE CAPITAL | 1600 | The 2 capitals with the complete names of months within their names
Juneau, Alaska and Augusta, Maine
TRAILER PARK | 200 | A hatching dinosaur is a highlight in a trailer for this 1993 blockbuster movie
Jurassic Park
5-LETTER CAPITALS | 800 | This capital commands the main approaches through the Khyber Pass to Pakistan & India
Kabul
WORLD CAPITAL POINTS OF INTEREST | 400 | Afghanistan's capital since 1776, of all years, is this city whose sights include Babur's Gardens
Kabul
CAPITAL CITY OVERLAPS | 1600 | Afghanistan & Mongolia
Kabulaanbaatar
TRAVELING ALONG THE 40th PARALLEL N. | 800 | In the U.S. the 40th parallel north sets the border between Nebraska & this state due south
Kansas
BALLPARK TOWNS | 400 | Kauffman Stadium (formerly Royals Stadium)
Kansas City
THE 50 STATES | 400 | This state leads the U.S. in the production of burley tobacco & bourbon whiskey
Kentucky
AFRICAN SETTINGS | 2000 | ""Born Free""
Kenya
IN THE AFRICAN COUNTRY | 200 | The Nairobi National Museum
Kenya
THE ONION DESCRIBES THE COUNTRY | 1000 | ""Running... from their problems"", this African country's ""traditional greeting"" is ""on your left""
Kenya
AFRICAN HISTORY | 2000 | This capital of South Africa's Northern Cape was founded after an 1871 diamond find; today it's a name for baby girls
Kimberley
CAPITAL RIVERS | 1200 | One of the 2 capitals on the Congo River; they sit on opposite sides of it
Kinshasa or Brazzaville
MOVIE TITLES IN OTHER COUNTRIES | 1200 | The Chinese call this wild 2007 comedy ""One Night Big Belly"" (Catherine Heigl's)
Knocked Up
AMUSEMENT & THEME PARKS | 400 | At Halloween Knott's Berry Farm goes all creepy & becomes Knott's this Farm
Knott\'s Scary Farm
ELLIS ISLAND | 1600 | While attending law school, this future NYC mayor known as ""The Little Flower"" served as an interpreter on the island
LaGuardia
LET'S GO TO THE AIRPORT | 200 | Until 1929, you could visit the Gala Amusement Park; on-site now, runways at this airport, named for a New York City mayor
LaGuardia
GREAT & OTHER LAKES | 1000 | Percy Shelley wrote of this Italian lake, it ""exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty""
Lake Como
LAKES | 2000 | This lake that has a female name lies in an old glacial basin between Germany, Austria & Switzerland
Lake Constance
AMERICAN LAKES | 800 | This lake in Upstate New York was named in 1755 to honor the then-current British monarch
Lake George
CANADIAN LAKES | 1600 | This lake in Banff National Park was once called Emerald Lake for its blue-green glacial waters
Lake Louise
LAKES | 1600 | This scenic lake in central Switzerland is also known as the Lake of the Four Forest Cantons
Lake Lucerne
LAKES & RIVERS | 1000 | In 1699 Sieur d'Iberville saw Okwata, a vast lake near the Gulf of Mexico, & renamed it this
Lake Pontchartrain
GREAT & OTHER LAKES | 400 | In surface area this one of the 5 Great Lakes is the largest body of fresh water in the world
Lake Superior
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | Many rivers flow into this large lake in the Sierra Nevada, but only the Truckee flows out
Lake Tahoe
AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Isn't it romantic? After flowing over Murchison Falls, waters from this lake eventually reach Lake Albert
Lake Victoria
AFRICAN LAKES | 400 | The Ssese Islands, an 84-island archipelago, lie in the Uganda portion of this huge lake
Lake Victoria
LAKES & RIVERS | 200 | This largest lake in Africa is also the main reservoir of the Nile River
Lake Victoria
CANADIAN LAKES | 1200 | This Manitoba lake is the largest body of water entirely within any province
Lake Winnipeg
WESTERN HEMISPHERE RIVERS | 2000 | The Winnipeg River rises in this U.S.-Canada lake & empties into Lake Winnipeg
Lake of the Woods
THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS | 800 | Take a seat on the porch & see if you can decide which island's name is Hawaiian for ""conquest day""
Lanai
4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS | 800 | The name of this city comes from the Quechua word rimac, & it's on the Rimac River
Lima
GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY | 800 | The career of this British soldier culminated in the 1918 capture of Damascus
Lawrence of Arabia
SCANDINAVIAN CITIES | 1200 | The Norwegian Olympic Museum is in this small town
Lillehammer
LANDLOCKED COUNTRY FUN | 1200 | Found in Africa, it's the southernmost landlocked country
Lesotho
OLD STATE CAPITALS | 1600 | Named in 1775 after a battle, it was once Kentucky's capital
Lexington
U.S. CITIES | 400 | Mary Todd Lincoln was born in this Kentucky city, now a major center for horse breeding
Lexington
AFRICAN LEADERS | 1200 | The first woman elected head of state in Africa is Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of this country founded in the 1800s
Liberia
STATE CAPITALS | 1000 | It was selected as a compromise between North Platters & South Platters, who each favored different locale
Lincoln, Nebraska
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS | 400 | There were 36 stars on the flags lowered to half staff due to this April 1865 event
Lincoln\'s assassination
WORLD CAPITALS | 200 | Like Rome, this Portuguese capital was built on 7 hills
Lisbon
TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS | 1600 | It's the closest mainland European capital to the United States
Lisbon (Portugal)
COUNTRY MUSIC | 600 | At the 2015 CMA awards, their ""Girl Crush"" won for Single of the Year, & they won for Vocal Group
Little Big Town
IN THE STATE CAPITAL | 400 | Central High School, site of a 1957 clash on desegregation
Little Rock
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 400 | This Arkansas capital is in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains
Little Rock
BIG CITY MAYORS | 800 | Overseas - Boris Johnson, who has been promoting one mode of transport
London
EUROPEAN CAPITALS | 400 | You can see the two major airports, but fog obscures the lights of these surrounding suburbs of this city
London
IN THE CAPITAL CITY | 1000 | 1665:the ""Great Plague"" kills 7,000 people in one week
London
WHAT ISLAND? | 1200 | Great Neck & Amagansett
Long Island
SOUND GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | Almost all of Connecticut's coastline lies along this arm of the Atlantic
Long Island Sound
EPONYMOUS AIRPORTS | 1200 | There's an Alexander the Great Airport in this former Yugoslav republic
Macedonia
GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES | 600 | It's ""The Lost City of the Incas""
Machu Picchu
& THE CATEGORY OF GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | Over 9,400 feet, Maromokotro is the highest point on this island 250 miles east of Africa's mainland
Madagascar
ISLAND NATIONS | 800 | The majority of the citizens of Antananarivo, this nation's capital, are of Indonesian ancestry
Madagascar
NEW TOURIST SLOGANS FOR ISLANDS? | 600 | ""Come for the 250-mile swim across Mozambique channel--then stay for the lemurs""
Madagascar
POINTY ON THE MAP | 1600 | You'll reach the Seychelles if you keep going north from this island country's Cap d'Ambre
Madagascar
WHAT ISLAND? | 800 | Ankarafantsika National Park, with its unique collection of lemur species
Madagascar
COUNTRY BY STATE | 1000 | Malacca
Malaysia
AFRICAN AMERICANS | 200 | In 1953 this Nation of Islam leader founded & was the minister of Boston Temple No. 11
Malcolm X
STUFF ABOUT STATES | 200 | Red Lake is the largest of the more than 10,000 lakes within this state
Minnesota
OTHER LONE STAR FLAGS | 400 | On this state's flag, note the pine tree under one star, the North Star
Maine
STATE PARKS | 2000 | Quoddy Head State Park
Maine
STATE THE NATIONAL PARK | 800 | Acadia
Maine
STATES THAT BORDER CANADA | 800 | Presque Isle in this eastern state is less than 10 miles from our neighbors
Maine
THE 6 NEW ENGLAND STATES | 200 | The largest in area of the 6
Maine
CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS | 1600 | It shares its name with the lake on whose shores it is located
Managua
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | Once called Derryfield, this largest New Hampshire city was renamed in 1810 for a British city
Manchester
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 400 | In August 2013 bells rang out across the nation to mark the 50th anniversary of his ""I Have a Dream"" speech
Martin Luther King, Jr.
HOW TO DRAIN YOUR FLAGON | 1000 | It got a bad rap in the film ""Sideways"", but wine.com says it's the top grape for the Right Bank of Bordeaux
Merlot
5-LETTER CAPITAL CITIES | 800 | Population 1.8 million, it's home to the National Opera & Ballet Theater of Belarus
Minsk
THE COUNTIES OF IRELAND | 800 | Each July pilgrims climb Ireland's holy mountain Croagh Patrick, in this county that sounds like a sandwich spread
Mayo
OCEANIA! | 2000 | This region's name comes from Greek words for ""black"" & ""island""; it'll be esia to respond if you know Greek
Melanesia
AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS | 800 | This capital of Victoria was the first capital of Australia, serving from 1901 to 1927
Melbourne
CITY FOUNDERS | 400 | Andrew Jackson was a co-founder of this largest Tennessee city
Memphis
MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS CITIES | 800 | The Grizzlies
Memphis
AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN | 200 | When asked to describe herself, she says first & foremost, she is Malia & Sasha's mom
Michelle Obama
CITY SEALS | 400 | Chicago's seal displays this lake
Michigan
HAVE A COUNTY SEAT | 400 | Washtenaw's county seat is Ann Arbor in this state; go Blue!
Michigan
STATES BY LAKE | 1200 | Lake Charlevoix,Lake Cadillac
Michigan
STATES' MOST POPULOUS COUNTIES | 1600 | Wayne County
Michigan
SMALL COUNTRIES | 2000 | About 600 small islands make up this Pacific Ocean country whose name means ""small islands""
Micronesia
CITY BY STATUE | 600 | The Bronze Fonz
Milwaukee
TAKING IN THE CITY SITES | 800 | startribune.comis the site for a major newspaper based in this city
Minneapolis
U.S. CITIES | 600 | St. Paul is the twin of this city that's 100,000 people bigger
Minneapolis
LANDLOCKED COUNTRY FUN | 1600 | This large landlocked Asian country starts with the same 3 letters as a day of the week
Mongolia
AFRICAN CITIES | 800 | Wooden 2-story verandas in this Liberian capital are an architectural link to the U.S. south
Monrovia
WORLD GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | Rising 15,800 feet, it's known in Latin as Mons Albus
Mont Blanc
STATES BY COUNTIES | 1000 | Missoula, Mineral
Montana
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Though it's the fourth-largest state in area, barely 1 million people live there
Montana
ISLANDS | 2000 | Immortalized by Alexandre Dumas, this isle in the Tuscan archipelago has been infested with black rats in recent years
Montecristo
TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS | 2000 | Podgorica
Montenegro
STATES THAT BEGIN WITH CALIFORN | 1000 | Shown here, it's the port city located on the same-named peninsula, Jack
Monterey
WORLD CITIES | 800 | It's the only big city in Uruguay
Montevideo
STATE CAPITALS AKA | 1200 | On ""The Simpsons"" it comes between C. & Burns
Montgomery
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE | 800 | (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) Thomas Jefferson wrote that ""all men are created equal"", yet, as seen from the names on the bricks, he was a major slaveholder owning hundreds at this home and plantation in Virginia
Monticello
STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 1600 | Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks --you can order online, but it's more fun to visit
Montpelier
STATE CAPITALS | 600 | This New England state capital lies on the main pass through the Green Mountains
Montpelier
CANADIAN CITIES | 400 | In 1992, this city's velodrome, once used in the Olympic Games, was transformed into an environmental biodome
Montreal
SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES | 1200 | In 2006, 30 years late, the debt was paid off for the stadium called ""The Big Owe"" & the rest of this city's games
Montreal
TRAVEL & TOURISM | 800 | This city's La Ronde amusement park stands on the site of Expo '67
Montreal
ON WHAT ISLAND? | 2000 | Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
Montreal Island
AFRICAN COUNTRY BY AIRPORT | 1000 | Mohammed V International Airport
Morocco
COUNTRIES' LOWEST POINTS | 800 | Sebkha Tah, southwest of Marrakech
Morocco
IN THE AFRICAN COUNTRY | 1000 | 13,600-foot Jebel Toubkal, the highest peak in the Atlas Mountains
Morocco
GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES | 1200 | Sicily's ""Mountain of Fire""
Mount Etna
GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES | 800 | ""The Parnassus of Japan""
Mount Fuji
THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM | 400 | The original idea for this shrine in the Black Hills of South Dakota was to sculpt faces of Native American & Old West heroes
Mount Rushmore
INTO AFRICA | 2000 | This coastal republic of 23 million is separated from Madagascar by the channel of the same name
Mozambique
RECENT AFRICAN HISTORY | 1200 | This leader was born in a tent near Surt, Libya, the town where he would die in 2011
Muammar Gaddafi
EUROPEAN CITIES | 1600 | This Bavarian city traces its origins to a Benedictine monastery at Tegernsee
Munich
GERMAN CITIES | 2000 | The Karlstor, the Sendlinger Tor & Isartor are gates from medieval times that have been preserved in this Bavarian city
Munich
OLD STATE CAPITALS | 1200 | From 1818 to 1826 Tennessee's capital was this boro
Murfreesboro
MIDDLE EASTERN CAPITALS | 2000 | This Omani capital is dominated by the sultan's palace & 2 Portuguese forts built in the 16th century
Muscat
EUROPE TO NO GOOD | 800 | Certainly up to no good were Hitler & this Italian leader, pictured together in 1937
Mussolini
EAST ASIAN CITIES | 1600 | This country's 2nd-largest city, Mandalay, is known for a pagoda containing 729 stone Buddhist tablets
Myanmar (or Burma)
RAISE THE WHITE IN THE FLAG | 1200 | The flag of ""the Tar Heel State"" has these 2 letters on either side of a white star
NC
WORLD CAPITALS | 400 | The Kenyatta International Conference Centre is in this city
Nairobi
AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 800 | It gets its ""N""ame from its large coastal desert
Namibia
INTO AFRICA | 1200 | Once controlled by Germany, today this country bears the name of a desert found there
Namibia
THE COUNTRY DUE SOUTH | 1000 | of Luanda, Angola
Namibia
U.S. ISLANDS | 600 | This island shaped like a pork chop is to the east of Martha's Vineyard across Muskeget Channel
Nantucket
4-LETTER U.S. CITIES | 400 | It's the gateway to California's ""Wine Trail""
Napa
CALIFORNIA COUNTIES | 800 | Take your designated driver & sample this county's Chimney Rock & Rutherford Hill wineries
Napa
ITALIAN CITIES | 400 | The name of this city on a celebrated bay comes from the Greek for ""new city""
Naples
STATES THAT FLOW TOGETHER | 400 | Hoover Dam is on their border
Nevada & Arizona
WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 200 | The Nehru Memorial Museum & Library
New Delhi
WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 800 | The India Gate
New Delhi
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE | 600 | (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) He was known to always carry a Bible, & the small one displayed here likely belonged to this preacher & slave rebellion leader, who may have been carrying it when he was captured in 1831
Nat Turner
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | The largest area of sand dunes in the U.S. lies mainly in this state, north of the Platte River
Nebraska
U.S. LAKES & RIVERS | 1600 | Lake McConaughy, this state's largest lake, is a reservoir created by the Kingsley Dam on the North Platte River
Nebraska
INTO AFRICA | 1600 | The third-longest river in Africa lends its name to these 2 countries
Niger and Nigeria
AFRICAN COUNTRIES BY CAPITAL | 2000 | Abuja
Nigeria
COLORFUL U.S. CITIES | 1200 | You can visit the city of Bowling Green & the state university of the same name; they're both in this state
Ohio
STATES' MOST POPULOUS COUNTIES | 1200 | Cuyahoga County
Ohio
THE UNITED STATES OF KENTUCKY | 200 | The shoreline of this state includes 50 miles along Sandusky Bay
Ohio
LAKES & RIVERS | 400 | This Florida lake bears a Hitchiti name that means ""big water""
Okeechobee
U.S. FORCES OVERSEAS | 800 | The largest installation in the Asia-Pacific region, the Kadena Air Force Base operates from this Japanese island
Okinawa
CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD | 2000 | Guthrie(1907)
Oklahoma
PARTS OF THE CITY | 400 | Philadelphia & Jerusalem each have central areas called by this ancient name (Jerusalem's is the more ancient)
Old City
STATE CAPITALS AKA | 1600 | Ancient Greek site of athletic fame
Olympia
AFRICAN RIVERS | 2000 | The Vanderkloof Dam on this ""colorful"" river helped to create productive farmland in South Africa
Orange River
2-TIMING STATES | 600 | If it's happy hour in Corvallis, it's dinner time in Ontario in this state
Oregon
STATE FLAGS | 800 | This state's flag is the only one with different designs on each side; one features a yellow beaver
Oregon
THE FAULT IN OUR STATES | 800 | The Corvallis Fault
Oregon
4-LETTER U.S. CITIES | 2000 | This neighbor of Provo was named for the president of the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad
Orem
ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES | 200 | ORAL NOD,Florida
Orlando
GEOGRAPHY | 600 | This European capital was founded near a fjord in the 11th century
Oslo
WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 2000 | The Kon-Tiki Museum
Oslo
WORLD CAPITAL MUSEUMS | 400 | The Edvard Munch Museum
Oslo
CITY BY STATUE | 800 | Alexander Mackenzie (at Parliament Hill)
Ottawa
WELL-SEASONED BOOKS | 1600 | ""Drums of Autumn"" is the 4th book in this series about a woman traveling through time using an ancient Scottish stone circle
Outlander
ON THE OLD MAP | 600 | In 1972 an island about 20 miles off India said so long, Ceylon, & took this name
Sri Lanka
PLANT THE FLAG | 1200 | The flag of this Indian Ocean island nation has 4 leaves of the bodhi tree
Sri Lanka
CANADIAN PROVINCIAL FLAGS | 1600 | Nova Scotia's flag features this cross of Scotland
St. Andrew\'s
SHAKESPEAREAN GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | This city in northern Italy known for its university is the setting for ""The Taming of the Shrew""
Padua
THE MOST POPULOUS COUNTRY | 200 | Peru,Pakistan,Poland
Pakistan
WHAT A COUNTRY! | 1600 | Urdu you think you are? Mamnoon Hussain, president of this country where that's the official language
Pakistan
MOST POPULOUS COUNTRIES | 800 | India ranks No. 2 & these 2 countries that straddle it come in at 6 & 8
Pakistan & Bangladesh
COUNTRIES' NATIONAL ANTHEMS | 800 | ""Himno Istmeño"", or ""Isthmus Hymn""
Panama
COUNTRIES' PROVINCES | 1000 | Colon & Darien
Panama
WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 800 | Museo del Canal Interoceanico
Panama (City)
CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS | 2000 | Port facilities serving this capital lie in the adjacent city of Balboa
Panama City
5-LETTER CAPITALS | 400 | Henry IV designed the Place des Vosges, the focal point of this city's fashionable Marais District
Paris
CITY BOOKS | 400 | The 1910 novel ""The Phantom of the Opera"" is set in this city
Paris
PRETTY CITY | 800 | Cole Porter loved this city ""In The Springtime"" & ""In The Fall""
Paris
PARKS | 1200 | The planetarium in this city's Fountain of Youth Park features the night sky as Ponce de Leon would have seen it
St. Augustine
SITCOM CITIES | 1000 | ""Parks and Recreation"" (a fictional city)
Pawnee
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS | 2000 | In 1967, she played the title matchmaker, leading an all-black cast on Broadway in ""Hello, Dolly!""
Pearl Bailey
AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS | 400 | Messman Dorie Miller was the first African American awarded the Navy Cross for bravery at this place, December 7th, 1941.
Pearl Harbor
AMERICAN ISLANDS | 400 | Ford Island at this site was the center of the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941; 7 battleships were moored there
Pearl Harbor
AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS | 400 | It's the capital of the state of New South Wales & it's Australia's largest city
Sydney
STATES BY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AREA | 800 | Flight 93 National Memorial
Pennsylvania
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 800 | In WWII 28,000 aviators trained in & around this Florida Panhandle city
Pensacola
MAP QUEST | 400 | But will it play in this city, originally a settlement called Fort Crevecoeur?
Peoria
CANADIAN CAPITALS | 1000 | It's the capital & second-largest city of Saskatchewan
Regina
NAME THE CAPITAL | 1000 | Saskatchewan
Regina
THE MAP OF CANADA | 1000 | Rising above the Saskatchewan prairie in this city is the largest provincial legislative building in Canada
Regina
GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY | 400 | This persecuted group fled England in 1609 & lived in the Netherlands for 11 years before crossing the Atlantic
Pilgrims
AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE | 400 | August Wilson chronicled the Black experience in his cycle of plays set in the Hill District of this Pennsylvania city
Pittsburgh
U.S. CITIES | 800 | The 64-story U.S. Steel Tower in this city is one of the tallest buildings in Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
ASIA LOVES THAT AMERICAN BRAND | 200 | This fast food chain is the No. 1 casual dining brand in China with 660 restaurants; that's a lot of P'zones to go
Pizza Hut
ASIA LOVES THAT AMERICAN BRAND | 400 | The CEO of this magazine with a bunny logo said it's ""more of a fashion brand"" in Asia & ""we're more like Louis Vuitton""
Playboy
THE E.U. COUNTRY THAT... | 800 | Is bordered on the north by the Baltic Sea & separated from Germany by the Oder River
Poland
VODKA COUNTRY OF ORIGIN | 1000 | Belvedere
Poland
LAKES | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A narrow passage called the Rigolets connects this Louisiana Lake to Lake Borgne & the Gulf of Mexico
Pontchartrain
WORLD GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Canada's smallest province, it's also the only one that's not connected to the North American mainland
Prince Edward Island
EARLY U.S. CAPITALS | 400 | In 1783 Nassau Hall on this Ivy League school's campus received the first foreign minister to the U.S., a delegate from Holland
Princeton
GEOGRAPHIC TITLES | 800 | Peter Mayle: ""A Year in _____""
Provence
STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 800 | The Roger Williams Park Zoo
Providence
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 200 | Whidbey Island, just north of Seattle, provides the northern boundary of this body of water
Puget Sound
TRAVELING THROUGH TIME | 800 | A new time zone was created on Aug. 15, 2015--this world capital ""time"", set 30 minutes behind South Korea
Pyongyang
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE | 1200 | (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) Among Harriet Tubman's most treasured possessions was a lace shawl she received in recognition of her heroic efforts from this woman, who was celebrating her diamond jubilee
Queen Victoria
COUNTRY MUSIC | 1000 | She's not only been a mentor to Kelly Clarkson--in 2013, she became Kelly's mother-in-law
Reba McEntire
ALSO A SEA | 200 | In sports names, it precedes Auerbach & Grange
Red
NATIONAL PARKS | 200 | This national park lying along California's Pacific coast features the world's tallest trees
Redwood
4-LETTER U.S. CITIES | 200 | We bet you know that in population it's the largest city in Northern Nevada
Reno
MAPS & GLOBES | 2000 | A bathymetric map represents topography in this type of environment
the ocean
WORLD CAPITALS | 400 | About one third of Latvia's people live in this capital, the largest city in the Baltic states
Riga
ISLAND PRISONS | 1600 | New York City's main correctional facility, it lies in the East River & consists of 10 separate jails
Riker\'s Island
CAPITAL CITY CHURCHES | 200 | The Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano
Rome
THE CITY OF... | 600 | Seven Hills, in Europe
Rome
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS | 800 | In 1977 poet & author Maya Angelou appeared in this TV miniseries
Roots
NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARKS | 200 | A California park named for this WWII icon commemorates the women who worked in wartime industries
Rosie the Riveter
REVOLUTIONARY COUNTRIES | 1200 | The October Revolution (1917)
Russia
THE GEOGRAPHIC CENTER | 2000 | Of this big country: Evenkia, on Lake Vivi; its only resident, Anatoly, died in 2003
Russia
WESTERN HEMISPHERE RIVERS | 1200 | In the 1520s Sebastian Cabot named a South American river this, believing the nearby area had lots of silver
RÃo de la Plata
STATE CAPITALS | 600 | This capital's name is derived from a Hebrew word meaning ""peace""
Salem (Oregon)
CITY HALL | 200 | In this Western state capital, the City Hall went up in 1894 & was controversial because it rivaled the Temple
Salt Lake City
STATE CAPITALS | 1600 | Its family history library on NW Temple St. has over 2.4 million rolls of microfilmed genealogical records
Salt Lake City
U.S. AIRPORT CODES | 400 | SLC serves this state capital
Salt Lake City
PRETTY CITY | 1200 | Here, you can see several of the ""Painted Ladies"" Victorian homes in this U.S. city
San Francisco
TAKING IN THE CITY SITES | 400 | Iovehaight.orgis for people who love this town, summer or not
San Francisco
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 200 | The 3-mile-long Golden Gate Strait connects this bay with the Pacific Ocean
San Francisco Bay
BASIC GEOGRAPHY | 400 | From here in southern California, do you know the way to this Central American capital city? We'll show you
San Jose
WORLD CAPITALS | 600 | This central American capital was named for its patron saint, Joseph
San Jose (Costa Rica)
COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUMS | 600 | In 1975 a double album was released combining 2 previous LPs featuring Johnny Cash at these 2 penitentiaries
San Quentin and Folsom
A CAPITAL IDEA | 1200 | El Salvador means ""the savior""; this name of its capital means ""sainted savior""
San Salvador
ASIAN CITIES | 2000 | The old part of this Yemeni capital is surrounded by a 30-foot high wall
Sana\'a
TAKING IN THE CITY SITES | 600 | spl.orgis for this city's library system, including the Rainier Beach branch
Seattle
U.S. CITIES | 400 | If you're in front of the former Sears building seen here, you're in this city
Seattle
CALIFORNIA COUNTIES | 1600 | This county shares its name with a 14,000-foot volcano ""Mount"" that's found nearby
Shasta
THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM | 2000 | The only national parks now in the original 13 states are one each in North & South Carolina, & this beautiful park in Virginia
Shenandoah
PEOPLE ON THE MAP | 2000 | This Oscar winner directed ""The Firm"", ""Out of Africa"" & ""Tootsie"", in which he also acted
Sydney Pollack
AFRICAN SETTINGS | 800 | ""Cry, the Beloved Country""
South Africa
2-WORD COUNTRIES | 400 | One of this country's major exports is known as K-pop, like the hit ""Gangnam Style""
South Korea
CAPTURE THE FLAG | 800 | The flag of this Asian democracy depicts a yin-yang symbol in its center
South Korea
COUNTRIES BY HOTEL | 1000 | The Westin Chosun
South Korea
THE COUNTRY'S PRESIDENT | 1000 | Park Chung Hee (1963 to 1979)
South Korea
AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS | 1200 | In 1950 Juanita Hall became the first African American to win a Tony, for playing Bloody Mary in this musical
South Pacific
THE COUNTRY'S PRESIDENT | 800 | Nguyen Van Thieu (1967 to 1975)
South Vietnam
EUROPEAN RIVERS | 1600 | Iberus was the ancient name for the longest river entirely within this country
Spain
ON THE MAP | 200 | It's the foreign country closest to the French cities of Lourdes & Bordeaux
Spain
THIS ISLAND IS YOUR ISLAND | 400 | Majorca
Spain
CARIBBEAN CAPITALS | 1600 | This capital of Antigua & Barbuda shares its name with the capital of Newfoundland
St. John\'s
CITY WALK | 800 | On May 14, 1804 Lewis & Clark departed this city to begin their expedition to the Pacific Northwest
St. Louis
OLYMPIC CITY ATTRACTIONS | 600 | The Anheuser-Busch Consumer Hospitality Center
St. Louis
OLD NAMES ON THE MAP | 800 | From 1925 to 1961 Volgograd had this name, after a dictator
Stalingrad
TRANSPORTATION | 800 | Last name of the automating twin bros. famous for their ""Steamers"", one of which broke a speed record in 1906 at 127.7 mph
Stanley
ISLANDS | 400 | New York City's highest natural point is Todt Hill, on this island reachable by ferry
Staten Island
ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES | 800 | The Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines is a popular attraction in this city
Taipei
FLORIDA GEOGRAPHY | 400 | The metro area that includes these two twin cities on Florida's West Coast is home to almost 3 million people
Tampa and St. Petersburg
AFRICAN COUNTRIES BY CAPITAL | 1200 | Khartoum
Sudan
GOIN' COUNTRY | 1000 | Jennifer Nettles & Kristian Bush front this ""sweet"" band, one ""Incredible Machine""
Sugarland
GEOGRAPHY IN RHYME | 200 | Sundsvall should be all you're needin' /'Cause you know, we're referring to...
Sweden
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES | 600 | 1961:U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold
Sweden
EUROPEAN COUNTRY BY REGIONS | 400 | Zug,Lucerne,Valais
Switzerland
WELCOME TO THE U.N. | 200 | 2002:This European country traditionally wary of international involvement
Switzerland
FRENCH CITIES & TOWNS | 400 | A decree from Louis XIV created this palatial city about 15 miles southwest of Paris
Versailles
BING'S TOP SEARCHES: 2012 | 200 | With its lineup of mighty superheroes, this was the most searched movie
The Avengers
NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS | 2000 | James Armistead told Lafayette that the British were moving into this Va. town; siege & surrender soon followed
Yorktown
AIRPORT CODES | 600 | FYI--FYI is an unofficial code standing for Fresno this national park International
Yosemite
IN THE NATIONAL PARK | 800 | Half Dome
Yosemite
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 400 | About 140 miles east of San Francisco, you'll find this national park
Yosemite
BILLBOARD'S ALL-TIME TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS | 400 | Take a chance on this 1978 Kenny Rogers album
The Gambler
NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS | 1600 | As a mission specialist on STS-8 aboard one of these, Guion Bluford helped deploy INSAT-1B
a Space Shuttle
STATES RHYME TIME | 1000 | A Chattanooga monetary charge
a Tennessee fee
TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 66 | 800 | Part of this 1940 Henry Fonda movie was filmed in Santa Rosa, New Mexico on Route 66
The Grapes of Wrath
STATES RHYME TIME | 800 | A Casper wedding band
a Wyoming ring
STATE SEALS | 400 | This mammal sits atop the shield of Wisconsin's seal
a badger
GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 200 | In the bathroom it's a sink; on the map it's an area drained by a single river
a basin
FOREIGN GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 800 | In Spanish: playa
a beach
CANADIAN PROVINCIAL FLAGS | 800 | This mammal of the plains that provided food & clothing for indigenous peoples is depicted on Manitoba's flag
a bison
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 400 | (I'm Misty Copeland.) In 2014 I made history as the first African-American ballerina to dance the role of Clara in American Ballet Theatre's production of this ballet, a holiday favorite
The Nutcracker
SEA WORTHY MOVIES | 600 | In this 1972 disaster epic, an ocean liner capsizes at sea & the all-star cast struggles to survive
The Poseidon Adventure
SEAN CONNERY & BURT REYNOLDS | 1000 | Sean said, ""He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue"" in this film
The Untouchables
MOVIE TITLES IN OTHER COUNTRIES | 800 | To Mexican audiences, Daniel Day-Lewis starred in ""Bloody Oil""--this movie
There Will Be Blood
WORLD CITIES | 1200 | In 2014 this Spanish city honored El Greco on the 400th anniversary of his death with a series of exhibitions & concerts
Toledo
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 2000 | This author of ""The Bluest Eye"" was made an officer of the French Legion of Honor in 2010
Toni Morrison
NASCAR FROM THE DRIVER'S SEAT | 600 | Smoke gets in the other drivers' eyes when this champion & team owner hits the track
Tony Stewart
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 400 | Segregation was ruled unconstitutional in the case Brown v. the Board of Education of this city in Kansas
Topeka
CANADIAN CAPITALS | 400 | This provincial capital is home to Canada's tallest structure
Toronto
MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS CITIES | 400 | The Blue Jays
Toronto
CARIBBEAN ISLANDS, MON | 800 | In 1632 the Dutch settled on this island, about 20 miles northeast of Trinidad
Tobago
MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | In June of 1942, Erwin Rommel captured this port city from the British,who took it back in November
Tobruk
COUNTRY MUSIC | 400 | This singer who goes by his first & middle names is known for his rousing country anthems
Toby Keith
4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS | 1600 | Lome is the capital & largest city of this West African country whose name is also 4 letters long
Togo
JAPANESE CITIES | 200 | Yes, that's a roller coaster passing through the centerless Big O Ferris wheel in this capital of Japan
Tokyo
SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES | 800 | This city hosted the Summer Games in 1964, a first for Asia
Tokyo
ATLANTIC CITY | 800 | If you've got the ""juice"", play slots in this casino's high-stakes Palm Cove section
Tropicana
4-LETTER U.S. CITIES | 1200 | It's no myth--for most of the last 15 years, this city has ranked as the safest in Michigan
Troy
U.S. CITIES | 800 | The art deco-style Union Depot & Phillips Oil ""Philcade"" suit this city in Oklahoma to a ""T""
Tulsa
AFRICAN HISTORY | 800 | The ruins of the ancient city of Carthage are found in what is today this African country
Tunisia
ITALIAN CITIES | 200 | In 2015 the Pope said this city's shroud was ""an icon of love""
Turin
THE HUDSON RIVER | 1000 | This Italian explorer reached the Hudson River in 1524, 85 years before Henry Hudson
Verrazano
STATE THE NATIONAL PARK | 600 | Bryce Canyon
Utah
STATES' LOWEST POINTS | 1000 | This state: 2,178 feet above sea level in Beaver Dam Wash, around 23 miles from the city of St. George
Utah
STUFF ABOUT STATES | 2000 | Its national monuments include the Real Rainbow Bridge, Natural Bridges & Timpanogos Cave
Utah
THE FAULT IN OUR STATES | 1000 | The Wasatch Fault
Utah
AFRICAN AMERICANS | 1000 | Born Valerie Bowman, she's a longtime advisor to Pres. Obama, who has said she's like a sister to him
Valerie Jarrett
SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES | 1600 | It's Chile's chief seaport & home to the Chilean Naval Academy
ValparaÃso
COUNTRY BY STATE | 400 | Amazonas & Bolivar
Venezuela
THE 6 NEW ENGLAND STATES | 400 | It features great skiing at Stratton & Stowe
Vermont
ITALIAN CITIES & TOWNS | 400 | A neolithic skeletal pair were unearthed ""embracing"" near this city where Romeo & Juliet lived
Verona
COUNTRY MEN | 800 | North & South America were named for a man with this last name
Vespucci
FRENCH CITIES & TOWNS | 1200 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After France surrendered to the Nazis in June 1940, the country was divided into a German-occupied area & an unoccupied zone with an administrative center in this spa town, by whose name the region would be known
Vichy
AFRICAN CITIES | 1000 | Named for a 19th century queen, this capital of the Seychelles has fewer than 30,000 people
Victoria
CANADIAN CITIES | 1600 | An intersection in this provincial capital is the original western terminus of the Trans-Canada Highway
Victoria, British Columbia
IN THE CAPITAL CITY | 800 | Nov. 7, 1867:The future Marie Curie is born
Warsaw
FEATURING FLAGS | 800 | It's the only U.S. state to use a primarily green flag, which honors its nickname
Washington
NATIONAL PARKS | 800 | Olympic National Park in this state has tracts of rain forest & rugged Pacific cliffs
Washington
STATES BY CITY TRASH-TALKING | 800 | ""I'm not Spokane for, & I ain't putting on the Ritzville! Everybody loves Raymond!""
Washington
WORLD CAPITAL MUSEUMS | 600 | The Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
& THE CATEGORY OF GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | In January 1855, 15 years after the founding of what's now this New Zealand capital, it suffered an 8.2 earthquake
Wellington
WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 1000 | Zealandia Wildlife Sanctuary
Wellington
TRANSPORTATION | 1600 | In 1866 this company purchased Ben Holladay's line, creating the world's largest stagecoach empire
Wells Fargo
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES | 400 | 1971:Chancellor Willy Brandt (be specific)
West Germany
COLORFUL U.S. CITIES | 1600 | For more than 40 years, Edison worked in this town with both a direction & a color
West Orange
RED STATES | 800 | Some of its larger cities, including Huntington & Wheeling, are on the Ohio River
West Virginia
STATELY GEOGRAPHY | 600 | The Wheeling Heritage Trails,Blennerhassett Island
West Virginia
THE BRIDGES OF OTHER COUNTIES | 600 | Take me home, Fayette County roads in this state, but not on Bridge Day, when New River Gorge closes & BASE jumpers have at it
West Virginia
CRY ME A WORLD RIVER | 1200 | Winning the battle of Ireland's Boyne River in 1690 gave this ""colorful"" king a complete triumph over the deposed James II
William of Orange
STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES | 800 | Delaware: about 71,000
Wilmington
THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM | 1200 | This national park has the world's greatest concentration of geysers
Yellowstone
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | Billings, Montana is found on this ""colorful"" river that shares its name with a major attraction
Yellowstone
MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY | 400 | The island of Socotra,200 miles south of the coast Is part ofthis Arabian peninsula nation
Yemen
ON THE OLD MAP OF EUROPE | 1600 | In 1946 this federal state took up a big slab of the Balkans with 6 republics; in 2003, not so much
Yugoslavia
4-LETTER U.S. CITIES | 1600 | It's located where the Colorado River meets the Gila River in southwestern Arizona
Yuma
AROUND AFRICA | 1200 | Gazing from space at Victoria Falls, we're looking at the border of these two nations that start with the same letter
Zambia & Zimbabwe
WORLD CITIES | 800 | Cabaret Voltaire in this largest Swiss city is considered the birthplace of Dadaism
Zurich
ON THE GEOGRAPHIC MENU | 800 | Ich bin one of these jelly-filled donuts also known as pfannkuchen
a Berliner
TRANSPORTATION | 1200 | For most of the 21st century, this Toyota model has been the USA's bestselling passenger car
a Camry
STATES RHYME TIME | 600 | A Wilmington seat
a Delaware chair
LOW COUNTRY TYPES | 1200 | Rembrandt was one of these, & his painting was featured on the box of the cigars of the same name
a Dutch master
COUNTRY RHYME TIME | 200 | A large extended family in Yokohama
a Japan clan
NATIONAL PARKS | 200 | For the lakes of Voyageurs National Park, you can rent one of these; the original voyageurs had birch bark ones
a canoe
TRANSPORTATION | 2000 | To symbolize a pioneering spirit, in 1965 the 1st NASA mission patch ever featured one of these 19th century transports
a covered wagon
OTHER LONE STAR FLAGS | 800 | Mauritania's green flag has one of these under its single star
a crescent
A HANSEATIC LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN | 1200 | The league had no governing body but had assemblies called these; the Holy Roman Empire held one in Worms
a diet
WORDS FOR TRAVELERS | 400 | Ask Meadowlark, ""Trotador de Globo"" is Portuguese for one of these
a globetrotter
TRANSPORTATION | 400 | The Professional Caddies Association calls it ""the caddie's worst enemy""
a golf cart
TRANSPORTATION | 1200 | In 1784 2 Frenchmen built Europe's first flying model of this type of aircraft; its rotors were made of feathers
a helicopter
GEOGRAPHIC PHRASES | 2000 | John Winthrop's 1630 sermon ""A Model of Christian Charity"" said ""we shall be as a city upon"" this
a hill
ELECTRICITY | 1200 | If you have an HEV, you have this type of ""electric vehicle""
a hybrid
WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS | 400 | A brief rest in Maryland's capital
a nap (in Annapolis)
WATER TRANSPORTATION | 200 | Monroe, Louisiana took its name to honor the arrival of one of these, named for the president, up the Ouachita river
a steamboat
TRAVELING | 600 | For her cabin on this type of Cunard vessel, a Victorian-era traveler packed this type of ""trunk""
a steamer
FEATURING FLAGS | 2000 | A black one of these birds is featured on the flag of Western Australia
a swan
EASTER ISLAND | 2000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Easter Island.) The stone village of Orongo was the site of a yearly trial where young men scaled down a cliff and swam through shark-infested waters to retrieve the egg of a sooty one of these birds
a tern
TRANSPORTATION | 600 | Maglev is technology that helped one of these achieve a record 361 mph in 2003
a train
LET YOUR GREEK FLAG FLY | 800 | Pyrros Dimas has carried Greece's flag at 2 Olympics; he must not find it heavy, as this was his sport
a weightlifter
WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS | 2000 | A foreign currency in Wyoming's capital
a yen (in Cheyenne)
UNDER THE SEA IN BAJA | 400 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew snorkels in Baja California, Mexico.) Though the beaks of parrot fish can scar coral reefs, the fish are vital to the reef's health by eating these organisms that otherwise could smother the coral
algae
ELECTRICITY | 400 | Most generators on power networks use this type of current
alternating current
DISASTER CITY | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Texas A&M Disaster City in College Station, TX.) By itself, a downed transformer is dangerous, but branches that touch one can be, too, as they could conduct electricity via sap or water; use rubber gloves that act in this capacity due to their low conductivity
an insulator
FOREIGN GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 200 | In French: ile
an island
GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 400 | Peru's Huacachina, seen here, has been called the only true one of these fertile desert areas in the Americas
an oasis
ENTERTAINMENT UNDER THE SEA | 800 | Before you ""Free Willy"", this creature, better have a place for it; males can weigh 10 tons & females can live 90 years
an orca (or killer whale)
OUT OF AFRICA | 400 | An African bird with 2 toes on each foot, or someone who refuses to face unpleasant truths
an ostrich
UNDER THE SEA IN BAJA | 200 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew snorkels in Baja California, Mexico.) The marine types of these heavenly creatures are brighter & often seen around reefs; the Cortez & king type are found near Baja
angelfish
NATIONAL PARKS | 600 | Sections of sandstone walls collapsed, leaving these formations that give their name to a Utah park
arches
WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS | 400 | This crime is in Nevada's capital
arson (in Carson City)
TRAVEL TEXAS | 400 | Say howdy to 52-foot Big Tex at the state fair of Texas, a stone's throw from this college football stadium
the Cotton Bowl
CITY SEALS | 1200 | The seal of DeLand, Florida has a cross, anchor & heart, symbolizing faith, hope & this
charity
LINES ON THE MAP | 2000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) These lines on a map connect points of equal elevation & allow mountains & other features to be depicted in 2 dimensions
contour lines
MAPS | 800 | Latitude & longitude are examples of the number pairs that in the Cartesian system are called these
coordinates
A TREASURE MAP | 400 | You will come to this kind of island; it sounds like it would resemble the Sahara, but the word means ""abandoned""
desert (deserted accepted)
THE UNITED STATES MARINES | 1600 | Legend says Germans in WWI called Marines ""Teufelshunde"", which led to this alliterative nickname
devil dogs
FLAGS OF THE AMERICAS | 800 | Peru's flag was inspired by a flock of these wading birds, though it's red & white, not pink & white
flamingoes
A HANSEATIC LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN | 400 | The Hanseatic League fostered safe navigation by training pilots & building many of these structures along the coasts
lighthouses
THE RIVER'S TRIBUTARIES | 1600 | Inn,Morava,Tisza
the Danube
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Baltimore lies on the Patapsco River, which flows into this bay
the Chesapeake
TRAVELING THROUGH TIME | 400 | OK... our train left France at 5; the trip to England through this feature took 35 minutes, so now it's 4:35
the Chunnel
NORTH AMERICAN RIVERS | 2000 | This 1,000-mile-long river emptying into Hudson Bay wasn't named for a British P.M. but a governor of Hudson's Bay Company
the Churchill River
A RIVER RUNS BETWEEN THEM | 1200 | The United States & Mexico (in addition to the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo)
the Colorado
U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 800 | This river & its tributaries flow through 3 major deserts: the Great Basin, the Sonoran & the Mojave
the Colorado River
U.S. RIVERS | 1200 | Called Utah's major stream, the Green River drains the northeast quarter of the state & flows into this longer one
the Colorado River
WORLD RIVERS | 2000 | This river that rises in the Black Forest flows through Germany & on into Austria
the Danube
THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY | 800 | The sand in this Roman amphitheater was sometimes dyed red to disguise the blood
the Colosseum
THE RIVER'S TRIBUTARIES | 800 | Pend Oreille,Willamette,Snake
the Columbia
U.S. ISLANDS | 400 | East Sand Island in this river near Chinook, Wash. is home to a vast nesting colony of Caspian terns
the Columbia
GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY | 200 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In order to gain military advantage, the ancient Romans were the first to build roads like the Via Claudia Augusta across this mountain system between central Europe & Italy
the Alps
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 50 GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHS | 800 | These river dolphins seem to glow orange as they swim in the tea-colored waters of this South American river basin
the Amazon
TRAVELING | 800 | A cold beer is just the thing to quench your thirst when cruising along this river in the capital of the Netherlands
the Amstel River
THE MAP OF CANADA | 800 | This gulf named for the Norwegian who explored the area between 1903 & 1906 is at the western end of the NW passage
the Amundsen Gulf
FLAGS OF THE AMERICAS | 400 | On Chile's flag, the red is for the blood of the patriots, the blue is sky & the white is the snow of these mountains
the Andes
GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 1600 | It's an imaginary circle located approximately at 66 1/2 degrees south latitude
the Antarctic Circle
AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 1200 | It's Showtime at this Harlem theater that began hosting its amateur night in 1934
the Apollo
AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS | 400 | In 1962 James Brown recorded a live album in this NYC theater opened in 1914
the Apollo
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | Mount Corno is the highest peak in this range known as the ""backbone of Italy""
the Appenines
POINTY ON THE MAP | 400 | This peninsula has a pointy northeastern tip on the Strait of Hormuz
the Arabian Peninsula
A RIVER RUNS TO IT | 1200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on a monitor.) The Indus River rises in Tibet and flows 1800 miles through South Asia before emptying into this sea that shares its name with an adjacent peninsula
the Arabian Sea
U.S. RIVERS | 1600 | There's a maritime museum named for this river near its mouth in Astoria, Oregon
the Columbia
A RIVER RUNS TO IT | 400 | The Yakima:to this larger Pacific Northwest river
the Columbia River
U.S. LAKES & RIVERS | 1200 | 1,240 miles long & rich in hydro power, it's the largest river by volume that flows from the U.S. into the Pacific Ocean
the Columbia River
TRANSPORTATION PHRASES | 200 | Go faster! ""Put the pedal to"" this
the metal
LAKES & RIVERS | 800 | The principal river of Tuscany rises on Monte Falterona
the Arno River
UNDER THE SEA OR OCEAN | 800 | Ocean:Reykjanes Ridge
the Atlantic
A RIVER RUNS TO IT | 1200 | The Gambia, to this ocean
the Atlantic Ocean
AFRICAN LAKES | 800 | These mountains of Morocco are home to an annual wedding festival at Tislit & Isli Lakes
the Atlas Mountains
HISTORY AT SEA | 1200 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated map on the monitor.) On the return trip during his first voyage, Columbus and the crew of the Niña were almost arrested on Santa Maria Island in this group, because the governor may have thought they were pirates
the Azores
ISLANDS | 800 | These islands were uninhabited when Portugal claimed them in 1431; they are now home to a quarter of a million people
the Azores
NATIONAL PARKS | 600 | Evil-sounding park in southwestern South Dakota
the Badlands
ISLANDS | 1200 | Inagua in this nation just east of Miami is home to more than 80,000 flamingos, the national bird
the Bahamas
WORLD GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | America's Little Diomede & Russia's Big Diomede Islands are only 2 1/2 miles apart in this waterway
the Bering Strait
TRAVEL & TOURISM | 600 | Holders of the Schwarzwaldcard get discounts at more than 100 attractions in this German area
the Black Forest
TRAVEL IRELAND | 400 | To kiss this, visitors once had to be held by their ankles & lowered head first; today, just lie down & lean backward
the Blarney Stone
COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | This colorful range is known for its beautiful scenery, especially along the Skyline Drive in Virginia
the Blue Ridge Mountains
ON THE MAP | 1600 | It connects the Black Sea & the Sea of Marmara
the Bosphorus
CARIBBEAN CAPITALS | 1200 | H.M. [Her Majesty's] Prison, which dates to the 1840s, is the oldest building in Road Town, the capital of this British island group
the British Virgin Islands
THE BRIDGES OF OTHER COUNTIES | 200 | Part of this bridge built in the 19th century is in Kings County
the Brooklyn Bridge
AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | Once called the Cape of Storms, this southern cape was given its present name by King John II of Portugal
the Cape of Good Hope
A RIVER RUNS TO IT | 400 | The Volga, to this so-called ""sea""
the Caspian Sea
LAKES | 1200 | Bordered by 5 countries, this saltwater lake is also called the Khazar Sea & the Mazandaran Sea
the Caspian Sea
EUROPEAN LAKES | 400 | This resident of a lake in the Scottish Highlands is purportedly seen here
the Loch Ness monster
LINES ON THE MAP | 200 | Important in pre-Civil War America, it bears the name of two guys from England
the Mason-Dixon line
ALL OVER THE MAP | 2000 | Looming over Zermatt:this 14,692-foot peak
the Matterhorn
CITY HALL | 800 | You can't visit this ancient wonder at Halicarnassus, but behold the tower of Los Angeles City Hall, designed to resemble it
the Mausoleum
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: CELEBRATING 125 YEARS | 600 | The April 2002 issue revealed the oldest known (by 700 years) mural of this Central American people from 100 A.D.
the Maya
CITY BY THE SEA | 1600 | Cartagena (the older city)
the Mediterranean
MEANINGS OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES | 400 | The name of this body of water comes from words meaning ""middle"" & ""earth""
the Mediterranean
UNDER THE SEA OR OCEAN | 400 | Under this sea:The Nile Fan
the Mediterranean
BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER.... | 1600 | The Thai-Lao Friendship bridges
the Mekong
CITIES ON THE RIVER | 400 | Nong Khai &Phnom Penh
the Mekong
THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY | 1600 | Knossos was the principal city of this oldest Aegean civilization, & that's no bull
the Minoans
A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER | 600 | Darned van broke down for good on River Road in Baton Rouge, beside this river
the Mississippi
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM | 800 | In the Midwest:Blanchard Island & Kaskaskia island (until the silt came)
the Mississippi
MANY RIVERS TO CROSS | 400 | Show me you know that this stately river has a ""Little"" 600-mile namesake that joins it in North Dakota
the Missouri
STATELY RIVERS | 1600 | The first permanent white settlements in Nebraska & South Dakota were located on this river
the Missouri
DETROIT ROCK CITY | 400 | An abbreviation of this nickname for Detroit gave the hard-rocking MC5 their name
the Motor City
ISLAND HOPPING | 600 | From Christchurch 275 miles to Wellington
the North & South Islands of New Zealand
CITY BY THE SEA | 1200 | Edinburgh
the North Sea
STATELY RIVERS | 800 | Louisville, Kentucky lies on this river that forms most of the state's northern border
the Ohio
THE RIVER'S TRIBUTARIES | 400 | Wabash,Kentucky,Monongahela
the Ohio
WESTERN HEMISPHERE RIVERS | 800 | Its many tributaries include the Great Miami & Wabash Rivers
the Ohio
LAKES & RIVERS | 800 | At Paducah, Kentucky, the Tennessee River meets this other one named for a state
the Ohio River
COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | This river & its chief tributary, the Vaal, form a drainage basin of around 330,000 square miles in southern Africa
the Orange River
MARITIME FLAGS OF CONVENIENCE | 400 | F.O.C. offer fewer regs & lower fees; on paper, the Marshall Islands in this ocean has one of the world's largest fleets
the Pacific
INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC | 400 | A gigantic vegetation-filled swamp known as al-suds chokes the Nile in this country
the Sudan
OTHER GREAT LAKES | 800 | Great Bitter Lake is a marshy lake in Egypt that forms part of this manmade waterway
the Suez Canal
SEAS | 800 | George Takei said that Gene Roddenberry came up with his ""Star Trek"" character's name by seeing this sea on a map
the Sulu Sea
U.S. RIVERS | 800 | Way down upon this river, the old folks (& everyone else) can see Florida's largest whitewater rapids
the Suwannee
TRAVELING ALONG THE 40th PARALLEL N. | 2000 | After this river joins with the Jarama River in Aranjuez, Spain at the 40th, it flows on into Portugal
the Tagus
ON THE MAP | 800 | This strait named for an island connects the South China Sea with the East China Sea
the Taiwan Strait
SEAS THE DAY | 1600 | Both Aussies & Kiwis refer to this sea between their countries as ""The Ditch""
the Tasman Sea
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS | 1600 | One scroll, a mash-up of a few Old Testament books, is devoted to the building & operation of this edifice
the Temple
A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER | 400 | I drove on the left to park my van beside this river, right near the U.K.'s Houses of Parliament
the Thames
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM | 1600 | Off continental Europe:Temple Mill Island & Eel Pie Island
the Thames
RIVER BANK ON IT | 800 | Cleopatra's Needle & Paul's Walk are on its north bank
the Thames
MAPS & GLOBES | 400 | Harry Beck's 1930s map of this system in London was revolutionary because it ignored distances
the Tube (or the subway)
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE | 400 | (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Guests at the opening ceremony for the museum included these men who trained in Alabama as part of this World War II group of aviators who escorted over 200 bombing missions with the loss of just a handful of bombers
the Tuskegee Airmen
COUNTRIES' LOWEST POINTS | 200 | Death Valley
the U.S.
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES | 200 | 1975:Physicist & activist Andrei Sakharov
the U.S.S.R.
WATER TRANSPORTATION | 600 | Alexander Graham Bell gave the first airboat its name; he said ""we have named her"" this ""and hope she will turn out to be a swan""
the Ugly Duckling
THE 28 COUNTRIES OF NATO | 400 | The one with the largest population
the United States
VODKA COUNTRY OF ORIGIN | 600 | Skyy
the United States
WORLD RIVERS | 1600 | Called the cradle of Chinese civilization, the Huang He River has this colorful name in English
the Yellow River
ON THE MAP | 600 | They're the 2 large peninsulas that nearly enclose the Gulf of Mexico
the Yucatan & Florida
GEOGRAPHIC PHRASES | 1600 | The ""great"" one of these can refer to death or form part of the Montana-Idaho border
the great divide
SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE | 1600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a group of animals running through the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Though it looks less elegant than other antelopes, one of the fastest & most tireless runners is the red type of this ruminant whose name includes an Afrikaans & English word for deer
the hartebeest
