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Portugese

About 2 million in Northwestern Spain speak Galician, a dialect of this language spoken by its neighbor

Tamil

About 3/4 of Sri Lankans speak Sinhala & about 1/4 speak this as their native language

vipers

About 8% of all snakes are this poisonous type, which includes adders & rattlesnakes

Switzerland

About one-sixth of its people were born elsewhere; watches are still made in Jura; yodeling is still popular

Charles II

Called "The Merry Monarch", this English king had 14 children by mistresses, but failed to sire a legal heir

Maryland

Camp David, the presidential mountain retreat, is in Catoctin Mountain Park, in this state

Manitoba

Canada's fifth province

Eeyore

Canadian doctors say this Winnie the Pooh character suffered chronic depression & was unable to enjoy life

Colombo

Capital of Sri Lanka, it sounds like Peter Falk's been there

The Po River

Capsized in a riverboat off Turin, Italy

William Shatner

Captian James T. Kirk, Boston lawyer Denny Crane

Leviticus

After childbirth, offerings such as turtles & pigeons are required as per this third Bible book

Grand theft Auto

After his release from maximum security, Tommy Vercetti tries to take over Vice City in this game

John Updike

After pulling several "rabbits" from his hat, he made "The Witches of Eastwick" materialize

agua

After some fierce flamencoing, you might hear cries of this, Spanish for "water"

Faust

...in German lit if you can't recall that this Goethe title character messes with Mephistopheles

frog

...in biology if you actually pick up the poison dart species of this amphibian

Fermium

...in chemistry if you fail to identify this radioactive element named for physicist Enrico

Finland

...in international studies if you can't recollect that the Eduskunta is this country's Parliament

flute

...in music if you can't remember that the piccolo is a member of this woodwind's family

supine

...that means face up: A. prostrate B. prone C. supine D. incline

disingenuous

...that means not sincere: A. dissentious B. disputatious C. disingenuous D. discommodious

ancillary

...that means of secondary importance: A. ancillary B. fiduciary C. habilimentary D. pecuniary

nonplus

...that means to perplex: A. acrimonious B. congruous C. nonplus D. tremulous

vituperation

...that means verbal abuse: A. abrogation B. cogitation C. sinistration D. vituperation

kangaroo and emu

1 of 2 animals on its coat of arms

Botswana, Benin, Burkina Faso, or Burundi

1 of the 4 countries on the continent of Africa whose name starts with "B"

Mr. Lee

1,2,3 it could be Robert E.

Computer

ENIAC, which weighed over 30 tons, was the first electronic one of these

The Real World

Each season, 7 strangers share a home, as well as their lives, loves & libidos, on this long-running series

North Dakota

Earl Pomeroy from this state with 53 counties, including Sioux & Grand Forks

jet lag

In estimating the time to recover from this, figure one day for every hour of the time change

Erasmus

In his 1509 work "The Praise of Folly", this Dutch priest criticized the moral quality of church leaders

Alternating Current

It's the technical term for an electric current that regularly reverses direction

Calveras County

It's the title locale of the story Twain originally called "Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog"

Salem

It's the town where 20 people were executed for being witches in 1692

self-contained

It's what the "SC" stands for in scuba

fjord

It's what the Norwegians call a long, narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs

Ankle

It's where the leg bone's connected to the foot bone

middle ear

It's where your tympanic membrane is located

Verdi

Italian composer of "Aida" whose name in English is Joe Green

a capella

Italian for "in chapel style", it has come to mean singing without instrumental accompaniment

Aida

Italian opera set in Egypt featuring this march:

Botticelli

Italy has issued Euro coins with part of this painter's "Birth of Venus" on the reverse

University of Minnesota

Radio's Garrison Keillor

Smallville

In 2001 this "Clark Kent before he was Superman" series debuted on the WB

the screen actors guild

In 2002 Melissa Gilbert was reelected president of this guild formed by actors of the silver screen

dragon

Mythical creature that serves as 1 type of honors tiles in Mah Jongg

smoke detectors

NASA used this in Skylab back in 1973 to detect toxic vapors in the air

satellite dish

NASA's technology to reduce signal noise from a spacecraft allows this product to receive clear images for your TV

metallic

Over three-fourths of the elements fall into this category

Wedding Crashers

Owen Wilson & Vince Vaughn are divorce mediators in this film

peer-to-peer

P2P means this type of file sharing, like Kazaa or Limewire

10

Sum of the 3 Billy Goats Gruff, the 3 Little Pigs & Goldilocks & the 3 Bears

This is me...then

"All I Have" with LL Cool J was a last-minute addition to this Jennifer Lopez CD

Hemingway

"All stories, if continued far enough, end in death..." he wrote in "Death in the Afternoon"

Philadelphia

"America's Birthplace", July 4, 1776

Honda

"Because you've got better things to do than plug in and wait", the battery of this co.'s Civic Hybrid recharges itself

Adam's Apple

"Biblical" term for the thyroid cartilage that bulges in the throat

Henry VIII

"Catherine" was the name of 3 of his 6 wives

eat, drink, and be merry

"Consume, imbibe & swing" is another way of stating this hedonistic philosophy

Archbishop

"Death Comes for" him Willa Cather's classic

George III

"Drool Brittania" might have been a better anthem for this English king who went insane & also lost the American colonies

your own name

"Egosurfing" means searching the net for this

Afton

"Flow gently" this "sweet river, among thy green braes, flow gently. I'll sing thee a song in thy praise"

Anthropology

"Human Variation" is a course in this department at NYU

Linkin Park Place

"Hybrid Theory" & "Meteora" are albums by this alt-metal band that's the second-priciest Monopoly property

Gloria Steinem

"I can't mate in captivity." explained this feminist on why she's never married

Bart Simpson

"I will not encourage others to fly" & "I will not skateboard in the halls" are 2 of his chalkboard scribblings

Catch-22

"It was love at first sight" between Yossarian & his chaplain in this novel

citizen

"Jus soli", the right of soil, makes you this in the country of your birth

Montana

"Last Chance Gulch" is now the main street of its capital, Helena

Joyce Kilmer

"Martin" was one of the other poems in his 1914 collection "Trees and Other Poems"

USS Maine

"Memorable" battleship of 1898

Liberace

"Mr. Showmanship" whose Vegas museum's holdings include a $60,000 replica of George V's coronation robe

nashville

"Music City, U.S.A."

Dylan Thomas

"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog" is a collection of stories about this poet's youth in Wales

Japan

"Rashomon," Best Foreign Film of '51, was from this country

dignity

"Romeo and Juliet" begins, "Two households, both alike in" this

Tasmanian Devil

"Satanic" mammal found only on island S. of Australia

a whistle stop

"Shrill" name for train tour electioneering

Whoopi Goldberg Variations

"Sister Act" comedienne who is a 1740s piece of music J.S. Bach wrote for harpsichord

Marion

"Swamp Fox" Francis

Vin Diesel engine

"The Chronicles of Riddick" star who is an internal-combustion machine found in trucks

Alicia Keys

"The Diary of" this songstress included "Diary", a haunting duet with Tony! Toni! Tone!

Theodore Dreiser

"The Financier" by this author of "Sister Carrie" was inspired by real financier Charles T. Yerkes

Earth Day

"The Onion" reported that 450,000 unsold copies of "TIME"'s special issue on this April "day" went to a landfill

Romance

"To Kiss in Shadows" & "Stealing Heaven" won 2003 Rita Awards for this type of novel

instruction manual

"Treeware" is this; it comes with software programs

bats

"Vampire" variety of these actually do feed on the blood of other animals

voice

"VoIP" means this type of "Internet protocol" to make phone calls over the web

Huckleberry Finn

"You don't know about me without you have read...The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"

The Polar Express

"Zathura" is from a book by Chris Van Allsburg, author of this "cool" story, later a Tom Hanks animated film

Bob Cousy

'57 MVP, this guard led NBA in assists for 8 straight seasons with Boston Celtics

Gerald Ford

'70s president who, as a model, once appeared in "Look" magazine

Supernatural

'N Sync's "No Strings Attached" was the No. 1 album of 2000; this Santana album was No. 2

the puller

(Cheryl and Sofia of the Clue Crew shoot some skeet.) "Pull!" You should know the name of the person who releases the target in trap shooting

the Acropolis

(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Athens, Greece.) In Greek cities, orient yourself using this, whose name comes from words meaning "highest" and "city"

Apollo

(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Delos in Greece.) Delos was sacred as the birthplace of this music-loving sun god whose temple this is

Thurgood Marshall

(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the White House.) June 13, 1967 is a historic day as President Johnson appointed this great-grandson of a slave to the Supreme Court

Gerald Ford

(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the White House.) One year ago he represented Michigan's 5th District. Today, August 9th 1974, he enters the Oval Office as President

Sophocles

(Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands in the the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens, Greece.) In 401 B.C. here at the Theatre of Dionysus, this man won a posthumous first prize for his play "Oedipus at Colonus"

Cornelius Vanderbilt

(Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper of CNN.) My great-great-great grandfather was this shipping & railroad magnate known as "The Commodore"

Cornell

(Hi. I'm Keith Olberman.) I started when I was 16 and I graduated at 20 with a B.S. in communications at this Ivy League school in Ithaca

Doric

(Sarah of the Clue Crew stands in front of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece.) Built in the 400s B.C., the temple of Athena, known as the Parthenon, is the greatest example of this ancient architectural style

Atlantis

(Sarah of the Clue Crew speaks from Santorini in Greece.) Volcanic cliffs on Santorini are the remnants of an eruption that may be the source of the legend of this island

St. Mark's Square

(Sofia of the Clue Crew in Venice, Italy.) I'm here in Venice on this beautiful square which Napoleon called "The Drawing Room of Europe"

anti-

-aircraft, -climax

over-

-lord, -haul

semi-

-precious, -final

hyper-

-ventilate, -active

super-

-visor, -natural

a ruble

100 Russian kopecks equals this

Hadrian

117-138 A.D.: Had his own "wall" of fame

The Last Supper

13 ate at this event depicted by Leonard Da Vinci

Caligula

37-41 A.D.: Nutty guy who once "declared war" against the ocean

Edmonton

1938: To this Alberta city's Journal newspaper, for its freedom of the press editorials

Kansas City

1952: To this Missouri city's Star newspaper, for its coverage of a series of natural disasters

The Armada

1960: To Professor Garrett Mattingly, for his study of this 16th century Spanish fleet

Star Wars of the roses

1977 film in which Luke Skywalker uses the force in the struggle between the royal houses of York & Lancaster

The Christian Science Monitor

1978: To Richard Lee Strout, for his body of work for this "Christian" publication

Dr. Seuss

1984: To this "physician", for his books of playful rhymes, nonsense words & strange illustrations

The Spice Girls

1996 what British girls group release their debut album "Spice", goes on to sell 23 million copies

Election Day

1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in November

Citizen Kane

1st word in this Orson Welles movie is also the title character's last

Ionian, Doric, and Corinthian

2 of 3 orders of Greek column styles

Wolf

20th Century Literature: First name of Jack London's sea captain Larson of the Ghost

Augustus

27 B.C.-14 A.D.: His sister married Mark Antony & he defeated Mark Antony

fad

3-letter term for fashions that come & go quickly, such as hula hoops & coonskin caps

Constantine

306-337 A.D.: Converted to a non-Roman religion & moved the capital city

the Redgraves

4-generation film family which includes a knighted actor, his father, daughters & grandchildren

maze

4-letter English translation of the Spanish un laberinto

SA

5 state capitals, all of them on or west of the Mississippi, begin with these 2 letters

Nero

54-68 A.D.: Presided during a big barbecue

famine

6-letter time of scarcity, like the Irish potato one

a natural

7 or 11 in craps, or Robert Redford in recent movie

theology

8-letter opposite of demonology

Penicillin

A Rhodes Scholar, Howard Florey, led a research team at Oxford that discovered a way to mass-produce this antibiotic

quiz program

A TV program such as this one

Tony Hawk

A back-stabbing friend tries to keep you from going pro in the underground game named for this skateboarder

snake cake

A baked confection for a rattler

13

A baker's dozen

a shaven raven

A beardless bird who quoth "Nevermore"

a comma

A book by Lynne Truss warns against inserting this into the innocent panda description "eats shoots & leaves"

a hague plague

A calamity that befalls the Dutch seat of government

fluff

A chambermaid does it to your pillow; forgetful actors do it to their lines

Abbreviation

A cntrctd. form of a wd. or phrs., frm. the Ltn. for "shrtnd."

box

A common type of pet turtle, or the type of structure you might keep it in

midriff

A crop top is designed to leave this part of the body bare

sister

Claire Dunphy to Mitchell Pritchett on "Modern Family"

Robert Browning

His first letter to his future wife began: "I love your verses with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett"

stranglehold

AN ILLEGAL TECHNIQUE IN WRESTLING, OR AN 8-MINUTE GUITAR CLASSIC BY TED NUGENT

Cornwall

Cornish, the language of this county of England, became extinct in 1777

Jesus Christ

His is the final name mentioned in the Bible, in Revelation 22:21

Gran Turismo

A Ford Escort can race a VW Beetle in this "A-spec" PlayStation racing game with over 150 cars

clowns

A "College" for these silly circus performers opened in 1968 (& no, I am not a graduate)

Montpelier

A "Dolley" house (home to the Madisons)

violet

A 1971 New Jersey law made the common meadow type of this, not the African type, the state flower

Louisiana Purchase

A 2003 stamp honored the bicentennial of this, often called the greatest real estate deal in history

Dynamite

A 2004 comedy starred Jon Heder as high school geek Napoleon, with this explosive last name

cocaine

A 43-year old mother of 4 broke up a $3.5 billion ring dealing in this drug

A Study in Scarlet

A den painted deep red, or Sherlock Holmes' first story

Stephen Sondeim

A funny thing happened to this songwriter on his way to the Forum

a calf laugh

A guffaw from a young cow

Normandy

A large armada crossed the English Channel to invade the beaches of this historic region on June 6, 1944

Alexander Von Humboldt

A major ocean current off of Peru is named for this man who charted it in 1802

cord

A measure of wood, or three or more musical notes played together

summit

A meeting at the topmost level of leadership, like the November 2015 G20 one

The Wall Street Journal

A morning stock report is podcast by this Dow Jones-owned national newspaper

Atlas

A mountain chain in the Sahara bears the name of this mythical man who "bears the world"

a march

A musical composition that accompanies a procession; funeral ones are played in slow tempo

a note

A musical symbol, or a short informal letter

a cheat sheet

A no-no during a test, this item is covered with notes and instructions

Saudi Arabia

A pilgrimage to Mecca ends in this country

Edmund Spenser

A poet himself, Raleigh encouraged this man to publish "The Faerie Queene"

Moby Dick

A real 19th century whale named Mocha Dick may have inspired this 1851 novel

aftermath

A result or consequence, or immediately following multiplication

bundt

A ring-shaped cake pan with fluted sides

Diamond

A rock called pridotite produces this hardest gem

Ghostbusters

A sequel's to this top grossing film, called in France "S.O.S. Phantomes"

creak

A small stream, or the sound a squeaky stair makes

The time of my life

A song from "Dirty Dancing" says, "Now I've had" this; "Yes, I swear it's the truth and I owe it all to you"

Flint

A sparking rock or a Michigan city

backdrop

A stage's rear curtain, or the setting for any event

a fowl owl

A stinky barn-dwelling bird of prey

Trolley

A streetcar

burlap

A strong, coarsely woven cloth made from jute or hemp

lamp

A torchiere is a standing one of these that often has an inverted bowl shade

fox box

A vixen storage container

boar

A wild hog, or to drill a hole

Wimbledon

A writer said he'd eat his T-shirt if Andre won this British event in 1992 (bon appetit!)

gametes

A zygote is produced by the union of 2 of these sex cells, an egg & a sperm

Mice and Men

According to both Burns & Steinbeck, their best laid schemes "gang aft a-gley"

Antony and Cleopatra

Act I of this tragedy begins in a palace in Alexandria

codex

Add an X to a word meaning "a system of laws" to get this term for an early type of book

Saratoga

France entered the war on our side after this 1777 American victory in New York State

speed of light

After trying to measure this with signals between himself & an assistant, Galileo decided it was infinite

Africa

After years of neglect, the world finally responded to the famine raging on this continent

Pete Sampras

Agassi won the 1995 Australian Open by beating him, Andre's co-star in Nike's "Guerrilla Tennis" ads

Muhammad Ali

Albanian founder of the last Egyptian dynasty; his namesake is a famous prizefighter

Belgium

France, Italy, Belgium (which is a monarchy)

treason

In 1603 Sir Walter Raleigh was tried & convicted of this for plotting to dethrone the king

Paradise Lost

In 1671, Milton wrote "Paradise Regained", a sequel to this

Jet

Alpha Phi Alpha John H. Johnson founded this magazine in 1951, 6 years after Ebony

Bay

Also called the laurel, this tree's leaves are used to flavor foods

James Garfield

An 1881 autopsy on this assassinated president proved he died from infection from his doctors' efforts, not the bullets

Warren Buffett

An Alpha Sigma Phi at Penn, this Berkshire Hathaway man was worth a tidy $42.9 billion in '04

dark shark

An almost black hammerhead

Egypt

An ancient goddess of this civilization, Mut was depicted with a vulture's head

a dig

An archaeological excavation, or most common activity there

yoo-hoo

An audible attempt to get someone's attention, or a chocolate drink endorsed by Yogi Berra

hard-boiled

An egg that spins merrily & easily on the counter tells you it's this

Seville

An emblem of this city in Spain is the Giralda, a Muslim minaret that's part of the city's cathedral

a paddock

An enclosed grazing area for horses

Eddie Vedder

An official Pearl Jam website informs us this singer likes card tricks & the Chicago Bulls

Titanium

An oxide of this metal, symbol Ti, is used as a white pigment in paints

a limp blimp

An uninflated airship

catapult

Ancient weapon kept a stone's throw from its target

Interstellar

Anne Hathaway is among the travelers far from Earth in space & time in this Christopher Nolan movie

burning

In 1745 this was done to a book by materialist thinker Julien La Mettrie; in 1445 it would have been done to Julien

The Misanthrope, Tartuffe or Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Any 1 of the 3 Moliere plays which--admit it--you've only read in "Cliffs Notes"

hexahedron

Any solid figure having 6 faces; a cube, for example

mirror

Apparatus one needs to read the writing in da Vinci's notebooks

Leo

Appropriate astrological sign shared by Britain's Princesses Anne & Margaret

Turkey

Archaeologist Schliemann excavated ruins of ancient Troy in this country

Eva Peron

Argentina cried for her when this former actress & first lady died of cancer in 1952

patagonia

Argentinian region

Plato

Aristotle's teacher

Cape of Good Hope

As Cape Horn is to South America, this is to Africa

cat

As a witch's familiar, Pywacket is one of these animals in the play "Bell, Book and Candle"

platelets

As well as red & white blood cells you have these disk-like cells, aka thrombocytes, to help blood clot

walk in space

Astronaut Edward White was the 1st American to do this

Toyota

At 55 MPG, you could get from L.A. to Vegas on a bout 5 gallons driving a Prius from this company

Byron

At Cambridge, this "Lord" of poetry became a lifelong friend of John Cam Hobhouse, who later went to Greece with him

bayonet

At Parris Island, Marines learn techniques for using this rifle blade

Sir Edmond Halley

At greenwichpast.com I learned that this famed skywatcher was Astronomer Royal from 1720 to his death in 1742

perpendicular

At right angles

luge

At the 1992 Olympics, sisters Doris & Angelika Neuner took the gold & silver in this sport lying down

a stone wall

At the 1st Battle of Bull Run, Bernard Bee said, "There is Jackson, standing like..." this

Helen Keller

At the dedication of a fountain at Radcliffe College in 1960, she began her speech with the single word "Water"

kill people

At the end of "Collateral", Tom Cruise says, "I do this for a living"

Machiavelli

At the head of his own militia, this medieval author of "The Prince" helped conquer Pisa for Florence in 1509

Lincoln Memorial

At this Washington, D.C. landmark in 1963, King gave his famous "I have a dream" speech

Onassis

Athina Roussel, granddaughter of this Greek tycoon, inherited billions when she turned 18 in 2003

Unreal Tournament

Attain the crown of Grand Champion after completing over 30 levels of this epic first person bot shooter

Welfare

Aug. 22, 1996: Pres. Clinton's signature reforms this system that sent federal cash grants directly to poor families

Tuskegee

Author Ralph Ellison

Lolita

Azar Nafisi's "Memoir in Books" is called "Reading" this Nabokov classic "in Tehran"

The Children's hour

Based on obscure Scottish scandal, it was Lillian Hellman's 1st performed work

Galileo

Born in Pisa in the 16th century, he studied the laws of falling bodies & the motions of projectiles

Braveheart

Battle scenes in this 1995 Mel Gibson epic had to be reshot; some extras were wearing watches & sunglasses

James Brady

Beau Bridges made a pitch for gun control when he won for his TV role as this Reagan press spokesman

white sauce

Bechamel sauce is also called this color sauce

environmental impact statement

Before building a highway, a state has to submit an EIS, this 2-word "statement", to get federal funding

wolves

Before hunting, a pack of these meets & howls to keep other packs from its territory

bell

Being shaped like this gives the flower seen here its name and also its genus name, campanula

London

In 2003 Mayor Ken Livingstone of this metropolis introduced a tax of 5 pounds on cars entering the city center

bees

Bergamot is also called the "balm" of these creatures to which it's highly attractive

female umpire

Bernice Gera was the 1st in baseball

Vermont

Bernie Sanders from this state with 14 counties, including Rutland & Bennington

Gregor Mendel

Between 1856 &1863 this monk tested at least 5,000 pea plants

cheerleaders

Bevy of beauties who shake their pom-poms for the Cowboys or Rams for example

the 23rd psalm

Biblical Psalm that begins "The Lord is my shepherd"

monosyllabic

Big word which means each of these words has but one part

Thomas Chippendale

Born circa 1718, this English cabinetmaker was a "chip" off the old block: his father made furniture, too

Catherine the Great

In 1762 Peter III was deposed, she became reigning empress & poor ol' Pete was murdered shortly thereafter

Reuters

Blitzer started his career in 1972 with this huge news service named for the German who started it in 1851

Lake Havasu

Body of water, currently crossed by the 1831 London Bridge

Fenway Park

Boston's "Green Monster" is in this stadium

inch

Both the ounce & this unit of measure get their names from the Latin uncia, "twelfth part"

Daniel Pearl

In 2003 Wolf won an award named for this reporter slain in Pakistan by terrorists in 2002

Paradise Island

Bridge from Nassau connects with this "heavenly" Bahamian island

God Save the Queen

British national anthem whose melody is used for "My Country 'Tis Of Thee"

Coney Island

Brooklyn resort that's no longer an island

Alexander the Great

Bucephalus was the favorite horse of this ancient warrior, who built a city in its honor when it died

Barnes and Noble

Buy books at this company, BKS, which also goes under the B. Dalton name

oxygen

By definition an anaerobe is an organism that lives in an environment free of this element

rings

By examining these in some trees, you can figure out what the weather was like thousands of years ago

horsepower

By pedaling with all your might for a few minutes you can generate 250 watts, or barely one-third of this unit

glove

By wearing 1 instead of 2, Michael Jackson made it his landmark

Russia

In entertainment news, Anatoly Ivaskevich hosts this country's hit game show "Who Wants to Eat a Meal?"

Illinois

Carol Moseley-Braun, the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, represented this state, 1993-1999

Jean harlow

Carroll Baker & Carol Lynley played this '30s star in 2 movies with the same title

Tin

Cassiterite is the chief ore of this metal used to coat food containers

Lisbon

Catch an express train to the Algarve from the Barreiro Station in this Iberian capital

A&W

Celebrate this chain's 85th anniversary in 2004 with a hot dog & a root beer float

Nigeria

Celebrating its 1960 independence, October 1st is a national holiday in this country

Nashville, TN

Centennial Park in this southern capital contains a full-scale replica of the Parthenon

taipei

Chaing Kai-shek Memorial Hall is located in this capital

Abe Lincoln

Character from American history played on screen more than any other

The National Ski Patrol

Charles Dole helped create the Army's 10th Mountain Division & this "National" winter rescue organization

tribute

Charles Pinckney urged "Millions for defense, but not a damned penny for" this

"In one ear and out the other"

Chaucer's "Un air it heard, a tother out it went" is commonly quoted as this

Chess

Check it out: in 2000, 17-year-old M.I.T. freshman Elina Groverman was the U.S. women's co-champ in this board game

The College of William & Mary

In 1779 this Virginia college became the 1st in the U.S. to offer professional training in law

Yen

Cherry blossoms are featured on the back of the coin worth 100 of these

peso

Chile uses this basic unit of currency

Japan

China, Japan, South Korea (which is a monarchy)

oolong

Chinese tea for two

Dracula

Christopher Lee, later of "Lord of the Rings", sucked blood in 1968's he "Has Risen from the Grave"

Maybellene

Chuck Berry's 1st hit, it sounded like he was asking for mascara

midnight

Cinderella's deadline

middleweight

Class of a pro boxer topping out at 160 pounds

Castor & Pollux

Classical Mythology: Oddly, these "heavenly" twins had the same mother, Leda, but different fathers

Canada

Closest foreign country to Fairbanks, Alaska

Pluto

Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered this planet, made his telescope out of a cream separator & parts of an old Buick

Picasso

Cocteau said this artist friend believed it miraculous "That one did not melt in one's bath"

the green revolution

Colorful term used to describe effort to increase food production in developing countries

new york city

Columbia University

Joan Rivers

Comedienne who penned "The Life & Hard Times" of her best friend "Heidi Abromowitz"

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Comedy in which Lysander says, "The course of true love never did run smooth"

a flame

Common fiery name for a nasty or insulting email or newsgroup message

Carbon Dioxide

Common gas represented by the formula CO2

Japan

Commuter maglevs are still being tested in this country, so take a ride on the slower Shinkansen bullet trains

Magnetic North Pole

Compass needles are always attracted to this spot in northern Canada

"And he did it"

Completes "He started to sing as he tackled the thing that couldn't be done..."

Knee

Completes Stephen Vincent Benet's line "Bury my heart at Wounded..."

it grows to a cat

Completes the saying "The trouble with a kitten is that..."

Chile

Conger eel is a taste treat; the cowboys are called huasos; its national congress is in Valparaiso

Uganda

Containing a source of the Nile near Jinja, this country's surface is 1/6 water

Road Rules

Contestants must complete a mission in order to get to a new location on this x-treme travel adventure series

North America

Continent Greenland is considered part of

Indians

Contrary to TV, in the 1st year on the Oregon Trail no wagon train was attacked by them

The 1812 Overture

Contrary to title, Tchaikovsky composed it in 1880

the cotton club

Controversial Coppola film about a '20s Harlem nightspot

Hans Holbein

Court painted for Henry VIII who painted him & several of his wives

Flubadub

Creature made up from parts of 8 different animals

Yugoslavia

Croatia & Slovenia, former parts of this country, were recognized by the Euro. Community as ind. states

2

Cups of butter in a pound

wife

Currently, Bernadette to Howard on "The Big Bang Theory"

Morse

Dash-ing code creator born in 1791

the Run for the Roses

Dashing to the florist, or the Kentucky Derby

daughter

Daya Diaz to Aleida Diaz on "Orange Is the New Black"

.75

Decimal equivalent of 3/4

webster

In 1843, the Merriams took over the rights to his dictionary

Wagner

Declaring "the world owes me what I need," he bathed in incense, dressed only in silk & wrote the "Ring Cycle"

Texas

Democratic house members fled this state in order to block republicans from redrawing congressional districts

Gone with the Wind

Describes how Dorothy left Kansas, or a Mitchell novel

hydrogen

Deuterium is the "heavy" isotope of this element

Republican Party

In 1856 William L. Dayton ran unsuccessfully as this party's first vice-presidential candidate

Everest

Different surveys have reported its height as 29,002, 29,141 and 29,028 feet

JFK

Directing winner Oliver Stone said he hopes this film prompts the FBI to open its secret files

Telephone Directory

In 1878 the first one of these directories was issued in New Haven, Connecticut, and contained 21 names

Alaska

Don Young from this state with 27 boroughs, including Sitka & North Slope

Germany and France

Donald Rumsfeld called these 2 countries "Old Europe" after they opposed military action against Iraq

liver giver

Donor of a hepatic organ

Ted Danson

Dr. John Becker, Sam Malone

Engels

In 1883 he gave the eulogy at the funeral of his good friend & co-writer Karl Marx

CAT Scan

During one in a hospital, your brain should think "cheese"

WWI

During the Battle of the Marne in this war, 6,000 French soldiers were rushed to the front lines in taxicabs

Kansas

During the Civil War, this Midwest state sent proportionally the most men into the Union Army

Lenin

In 1887 the brother of this first USSR leader was executed for attempting to kill Czar Alexander III

midget

Eddie Gaedel, number 1/8th, was the only one ever to play in the Major Leagues

Thomas Hardy

Edward Driffield, a novelist in Maugham's "Cakes and Ale", is said to be based on this "Jude the Obscure" author

cause

Effect is the immediate result of this

Omar Sharif

Egyptian-born actor Michael Shalhoub, his most famous role was a Russian doctor

All of Me

Film where Lily Tomlin is really Steve Martin's better half

sold flowers

Eliza Doolittle did it for a living

Maggie the Cat

Elizabeth Taylor character that could have burnt her paws on a hot tin roof

Taco Bell

Enchiritos & Meximelts are specialties found on its menu

Hank Aaron

Ending this man's 50-year reign atop the alphabetical list of MLBers, David Aardsma said, "I owe it all to my parents"

Remembrance of Things Past

English title of 7-part novel "A la recherche du temps perdu" by Proust

Subway

For those watching their carbs, this sandwich chain offers "Atkins-friendly" salads & wraps

parachute

Escape device used by hijacker D.B. Cooper

midwife

Even Rachel in the Bible had one of these women to help her deliver her baby

Pompeii

Excavations at this city destroyed by Vesuvius have revealed people trapped in time

joystick

Fans of computer flight simulations are ecstatic about this type of controller, developed for the lunar rover

eggplant

For vegetarians, instead of vitello alla parmigiana, veal parmesean, make malanzine alla parmigiana, this

battleship

In 1902, what you would have seen if someone showed you a dreadnought

Poland

Father Jerzy Popieluszko was murdered by henchmen of this country's oppressive regime

hypnos

Father of Morpheus, he was the Greek god of sleep

Around the World in 80 Days

Feat in this Jules Verne novel could have been done over 4000 times since it was published

Once Upon a time in America

Film in which Robert DeNiro & James Woods, of Italian & Irish ancestry, play Jewish gangsters

crowbar

Firefighters' equipment includes axes and this modified "bar" that operates as a lever

Vermont

First state to forbid slavery & guarantee universal male suffrage & public education to all

Tallahassee

Florida State

Gothic

Flying buttresses & ribbed vaults characterize this 13 c. style

Sinai

Following Sadat's visit to Jerusalem, Egypt regained the occupied parts of this peninsula

super size

For McDonald's fries, this portion found in the name of a documentary translates to 610 calories & 29 grams of fat

cordless

For NASA, Black & Decker developed this type of tool to let astronauts work on the moon without needing a wall socket

Eggs

For a fancy breakfast, you can cook these popular items Benedict or Sardou

Bulworth

For the 1999 Oscars, I wrongly predicted a screenplay award for this film with Warren Beatty as a politician

Gwyneth Paltrow and Judi Dench

For the Oscars in 1999, I correctly predicted these 2 actresses would win for "Shakespeare in Love"

Texas Instruments

For the ultimate in geek chic, get the TI-89 Titanium graphing calculator from this company, TXN

Kyoto

Formerly the capital of Japan, it's also an anagram of the current capital

potbelly

Found on some stoves & some beer drinkers

Alabama

Founded in 1813, the Mobile Register is this state's oldest newspaper

Emory

Founded in 1836 by the Methodist church, this Atlanta university is located along the Clifton Corridor

Eyes

Francis Bourdillon wrote, "The night has a thousand of" these "and the day, but one"

Bernadette

Franz Werfel's most famous novel is "The Song of" this young girl of Lourdes

Red Sox

In 1903 this Boston team won baseball's first World Series

Oedipus Complex

Freudian theory in which a son wants to kill his father & marry his mother

Truman

From 1927 to 1935 he served as the presiding judge of Jackson County, Missouri

chauvinism

From French solider Nicolas Chauvin, who was steadfastly, loyal to Napoleon

copper

From Greek "kurpos", meaning "Cyprus", which was an ancient source of this metal

inch

From Latin "uncia", measurement taken from the width of a thumb

Primogeniture

From Latin for "first birth", it's the rule that only the oldest son inherited the property of a parent

Kemal Ataturk

In 1928 this president of Turkey outlawed Ottoman Turkish & switched alphabets from Arabic to Roman

minaret

From Turkish meaning "lighthouse", it's a slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque

silver

From its Latin name argentum, Ag is the chemical symbol for this metallic element

diction

From the Latin for "speak" in speaking, it's clarity of pronounciation; in writing, it's word choice

pueblo

From the Spanish for "village", it's a collective name for Indian tribes like the Hopi & Zuni

steward

From the old English for "House Guard", it's the old term for a male flight attendant

Wendell Willkie

In 1940, FDR beat him to win 3rd term

Iguanas

Galapagos Islands are home to only variety of this reptile to feed in the sea

Milky Way

Galaxy we live in

Hinduism

Ganesha is this religion's god of luck & wisdom

Man of Steel

General Zod escapes from a black hole prison in this 2013 film, a nickname for the hero

cottontail

General name for the wild rabbits of Canada, the U.S. & Mexico; Peter is one

seaweed

General term for underwater marine plants & algae, such as kelp

Dalai Lama

In 1940, at age 5, Tenzin Gyatso was enthroned as the 14th one of these spiritual leaders

Carter and Wife

Georgia couple who spent their vacation renovating a N.Y. Lower East Side slum building

lichens

Get in touch with your inner reindeer & paw through snow to reach these symbiotic fungi to eat

porridge

Goldilocks' gruel

Titanic

In 1997 Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" appeared on her album "Let's Talk About Love" & on this soundtrack

freight

Goods or cargo transported commercially

Devil

Gounod had him tempt Faust in the form of Mephistopheles

Maja

Goya painted her "Clothed" & "Naked"

meadow

Grassy field that joins with "lark"

typewriter

Gunmakers Remington & Sons began making this different product in 1874

Freud

Gustav Mahler was treated for severe mental stress by this noted Austrian psychoanalyst

Apple

Gwyneth Paltrow & Chris Martin gave their yummy morsel born April 14 this name

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Harrison Ford famously shot a swordsman in this first Indiana Jones film because he was too ill to do a fight scene

The Colorado River

Having a splash in Needles, California

Everest

Hillary Step, a 40-foot wall of rock & ice, greets climbers as they approach the summit of this mountain

Steve McQueen

He "Wanted..." to get out of television & made "The Great Escape" to films

Walt Whitman

He believed "a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars"

John Hancock

He boldly served as President of the Continental Congress when the Declaration of Independence was adopted

John Adams

He built the first White House stables in 1800 to house his favorite horse, Cleopatra

Truman

He called himself "the plain people's pres. against the privileged people's Congress"

Bach

He fathered 6 "Brandenburg Concertos" & 20 children

Edward G. Robinson

Himself a dying man, he played a man who chooses to die in his last film "Soylent Green"

Strauss

His "Blue Danube" waltzed a space station through "2001"

Aladdin

He makes a genie appear by rubbing a lamp

Thomas More

He opposed Henry VIII's divorce, but Henry appointed him anyway to succeed Cardinal Wolsey as Lord Chancellor

George Burns

He said in his next sequel he'd like to play "God, and the devil, and the Virgin Mary"

bailiff

He solemnly swears you in, in court

Edgar Allen Poe

His "Ulalume" rhymes "sober" with "lonesome October"

Rudyard Kipling

His 1892 collection, "Barrack-Room Ballads", included "Fuzzy Wuzzy" & "Gunga Din"

James Fenimore Cooper

His 5 "Leather-Stocking Tales" include "The Deerslayer" & "The Pathfinder"

Tom Selleck

He starred as Quigley in "Quigley Down Under"

Conrad Hilton

He was a Teke, a Tau Kappa Epsilon, & founded a hotel chain, but you probably just know him as Paris' great-granddad

Bob Smith

He was both the host & voice of Howdy Doody

Al Roker

He was in college in '74 when he became a weekend weatherman in Syracuse; today he's on the "Today" show

mercury

He was on the dime immediately before FDR

Beethoven

His Sixth Symphony was termed the "Pastoral"

Jimmy (Olsen)

His cub reporter buddy at the Daily Planet newspaper

Odin

He was the one-eyed top god of the Vikings

John Goodman

He went from second banana on "Roseanne" to top banana of England in "King Ralph"

Guy Ritchie

He wore a kilt when he married Madonna in a Scottish castle

Arthur Sullivan

He wrote "Onward Christian Soldiers" as well as "The Mikado" & "H.M.S. Pinafore"

Longfellow

He wrote "There was a little girl, she had a little curl" & "The Wreck of the Hesperus", too

Ed McMahon

He's paid to laugh at Johnny's jokes

Carson

He's the fashion savant on "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"

Mike Myers

He's the funny man who played the title role in the movie version of "The Cat in the Hat"

Schweitzer

He's the missionary and humanitarian seen here

a wedding

Hebrew ceremony which takes place under a canopy called a huppa

supergirl

Helen Salter is playing this role, a cousin to one played by Christopher Reeve

the sun

Helico- refers to a spiral & helio- to this

sonnet

Henry Howard, a 16th century Earl of Surrey, liked breaking windows & writing early poems in this form adapted from Italy

Edna Ferber

Her "Giant" grew into an epic movie

Rachel Carson

Her findings on pesticides in the book "Silent Spring" sparked the environmental protection movement

Carly Simon

Her song, "Anticipation", ended up on Heinz ketchup commercial

Florida

Highest elevation in this "Sunshine State" is only 345 feet

T.S. Eliot

His poems were the catalyst for "Cats"

George McGovern

His presidential campaign won him the electoral votes of only Mass. & Washington, D.C.

The Camp David Accords

History was made today, September 17, 1978, when P.M. Begin & Pres. Sadat signed these accords at the White House

India

Holy cow! It has the most cattle of any country in the world

Lincoln Logs

Honest Abe's diaries, or his building toy sets

Hong Kong

In 1997 this British crown colony will become a special administrative region of China

Honeybee

How sweet it is that this is North Carolina's official state insect

ear

Human organ containing the smallest bones

paprika

Hungarian for "pepper", it spices up goulash

The French Open

In 1999 Agassi made a thrilling comeback, winning this clay-court Grand Slam tournament

Nicholas II

In 2000 the Russian Orthodox Church canonized this last Russian czar & his family

Billy Preston

I TAKE "THE FIFTH BEATLE" TO MEAN THIS "NOTHING FROM NOTHING" KEYBOARDIST, BUT YOU MAY HAVE OTHERS IN MIND

The Chicago Tribune

I had problems with "Message in a Bottle" in which Robin Wright Penn works for this rival of the Chicago Sun-Times

transportation

I learned about the obligations of my moving company at dot.gov, the website of this Cabinet department

D.B. Cooper

IN NOVEMBER 1971, A MAN THAT WENT BY THIS NAME PARACHUTED FROM A NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT & WAS NEVER SEEN AGAIN

San juan

If you can tear yourself away from the beach in Puerto Rico, visit the Museum of Art & History in this capital city

Saul Bellow

In 2000 this creator of Augie March & Mr. Sammler gave us "Ravelstein", who resembles scholar Allan Bloom

the Spanish-American War

In 2001 Teddy Roosevelt received a posthumous Medal of Honor for his actions during this war

salt

If you put too much of this into a dish, drop in a peeled potato to absorb it

gung-ho

If you're eager, enthusiastic, rarin' & read to go, you're this, from the Chinese meaning "work together"

smorgasbord

If you're really hungry, pig out on one of these, the Swedish equivalent of a buffet

Winnipeg

Impress friends by memorizing all the Canadian provinical capitals including this capital of Manitoba

William III

Imprisoned for quarelling at the court of James II, the Earl of Devonshire asked this successor to take the throne

Chevy

In "American Pie", Don McLean drove this to the levee

Jupiter

In "Europa Report" Sharlto Copley drifts helplessly away from his ship after an accident near this planet

Ares

In "God of War", PlayStation 2 lets you play Kratos, a Greek warrior whose final fight is with this Greek god of war

Sandra Bullock

In "Gravity" she drifts away for a while, but is rescued by George Clooney

Langston Hughes

In "Harlem" he asked, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"

Sparky Anderson

In '84, he became 1st manager to win over 100 games with teams in both Major Leagues

the Huguenots

In 1569 Raleigh fought in France on the side of these French Protestants

the Channel Islands

In 1600 Raleigh was appointed governor of Jersey, part of this island group

Baptist

In 1948 Dr. King was ordained a minister in this Christian denomination

Sandra Day O'Connor

In 1952 William Rehnquist graduated first in his class at Stanford Law & she graduated third

Vice President

In 1956, JFK lost Dem. nomination to Sen. Kefauver for this national office

Galapagos Islands

In 1959, Ecuador made these islands a national park & wildlife refuge

Haile Selassie (of Ethiopia)

In 1974 the military overthrew this African leader who claimed to be descended from Solomon & the Queen of Sheba

saint

In 1977 John Neumann, a bishop of Philadelphia, became the first American male to be made this

James Galway

In 1978 this Irish flutist had a hit in England with "Annie's Song"

DNA

In 1979 it was discovered that this genetic structure spirals to the left, not to the right as once believed

Saturn

In 1980-81, this planet was found to have 14 small moons besides its 9 largers ones

a trampoline

In 1989 accidents on this exercise apparatus "bounced" nearly 16,000 people to the hospital

Boris Yeltsin

In 1991 Wolf returned to Moscow to cover this new Russian president

The Teamsters

In 1991 reformer Ron Carey became the first directly elected president of this transportation union

Meg Ryan

In 1991's "The Doors", she plays Jim Morrison's girlfriend, Pamela

The U.S. Open

In 1994 Andre became the first unseeded men's singles champ at this NYC Grand Slam event

Ricky Martin

In 1996 he was "Livin' La Vida Loca" on Broadway, playing Marius in "Les Miz"

Lois Lane

In 1996 in the comics, Superman finally married her

Africa

In 2004 Pitt alumna Wangari Maathai became the first woman from this continent to win the Nobel Peace Prize

Thackeray

In 2004 Reese Witherspoon starred in the big screen version of "Vanity Fair" by this author

McDonald's

In 2004 this chain launched its Go Active! Happy Meals for Adults

All Saints Day

In 2015 Drew Brees threw for 7 TDs on November 1, which fittingly is this religious holiday

Twitter

In 2015 Jack Dorsey became "permanent CEO" of this online co. & immediately posted about slashing 8% of its work force

deep-six

In American slang, to get rid of something by throwing it overboard is to give it this kind of six

connections

In Britain, if you need these well-placed friends to land a job, they'd be spelled with an X instead of the CT

license plates

In California, this auto necessity is made at Folsom Prison

King Tutankhamun

In D.C., exhibit of this king's "Treasures" drew 835,000, more than city's population

the lunar module

In Dec. 1972 Gene Cernan became the last man to command one of these vehicles known as the LM

City Slickers

In France, Billy Crystal learned all about "life, love and cows" in this film

50 First Dates

In France, this unforgettable Adam Sandler film became "Love & Amnesia"

Eve

In Genesis God tells this woman, "Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee"

The Leaning Tower

In Italian it's known as "La Torre Pendente"

Imelda Marcos

In January 1992 this former first lady announced her candidacy for president of the Philippines

human genome

In June 2000 Bill Clinton described it as "the most wondrous map ever produced"

El Alamein

In November 1942 Montgomery's troops scored a major victory at this northern Egyptian town

XXX

In Roman numerals, one-fifth of CL is this saucy-looking result

cinderella

In Rossini's opera, she's recognized by a bracelet, not a glass slipper

Robinson Crusoe

In a 1719 sequel, he & his manservant revisit the island where he was shipwrecked

Russell Crowe

In a 2003 film he played "Master and Commander" Captain Jack Aubrey

Hansel & Gretel

In a Grimm fairy tale, a witch entices this brother & sister into a gingerbread house

J. Edgar Hoover

In a headline from history, "War Rationing Boards Restricts Nylon Use to Armed Forces" & this FBI director

dives

In a meet, these are performed in this order: forward, back, reverse, inward & forward with a half twist

Patrick Henry

In a speech against the Stamp Act in 1765, he said, "If this be treason, make the most of it"

Lake Geneva

In an Alpine lake that's a widening of the Rhone River

chicken parm

In commercials Peyton Manning sings to this kind of sandwich, "you taste so good"

Repel

In magnetism, like poles do this

passport

In part to prevent child abductions, the State Dept. now requires that minors appear in person to get this

John Madden

In the '05 version of the EA title named for this ex-Raiders coach, Al Michaels does the play-by-play

pollute

In the 1970s Woodsy Owl said, "Give a hoot! Don't" do this

Lex Luthor

In the 1978 movie, Gene Hackman played this villain & perpetual thorn in Superman's side

Upper lip

In the 19th century, Phoebe Carey advised "And though hard be the task, keep a stiff" one of these

David

In the Bible, Saul's son Jonathan becomes great friends with this future king after battling the Philistines

wranglers

In the Old West they were in charge of horses, on a movie set in charge of chickens

the Vatican

It's the small independent state that's headquarters to the aid group Caritas Internationalis

the lithosphere

It's the solid part of the earth as distinguished from the atmosphere & hydrosphere

Henry VIII

In the first of several marriages, this English king married his sister-in-law in 1509

Life on the Mississippi

In the first part of this 1883 memoir, Twain recalled his days as a riverboat pilot

Young Goodman Brown

In this Hawthorne tale, a "young" man discovers his neighbors practicing witchcraft

Star Trek: Into Darkness

In this film Benedict Cumberbatch says, "My ship was found adrift; I alone was revived"

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

In this poem, T.S. Eliot wrote, "I should have been a pair of ragged claws"

Iowa

Indian name for "sleepy ones", 95% of this "Corn State" is farmland

Grand Theft Auto

Installments of this controversial crime-based game include "San Andreas" & "Vice City"

Saudi Arabia

Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia (which is a monarchy)

the king

It's normal chess move is one square in any direction

yeoman

It's not how a rapper gets your attention, it's a Naval Petty Officer

borders

It's not just doctors--there are now groups called teachers, builders & clowns "without" these

sub-

It's often found in front of "marine sandwich"

John Steinbeck

It's said that Doc in his novel "Cannery Row" is based on a marine biologist with whom he'd written a book

culture shock

It's suffered by one who goes from his simple society to a very complex one

cuticle

It's the area of hardened skin at the base & sides of your fingernails, or a protective outer layer of a hair

Oklahoma City

It's the capital of the Sooner State

The Boer War

It began in 1899 when the Orange Free State & South African Republic declared war on Britain

sea

It can precede "anemone" or "cow"

scull

It can refer to the oars used to propel a boat, or a racing boat propelled by those oars

ultra-

It comes before "light", "sound" & "violet"

Palm Sunday

It's the horticultural name for the sixth Sunday in Lent

Pudd'n'head Wilson

It's the humorous nickname of the lawyer who solves the murder of York Driscoll, Dawson Landing's chief citizen

fawning

It's the kind of sycophantic favor-seeking you'd expect from someone named Bambi

catalyst

It gets things going in a chemical reaction

Malaysia

It has a tropical climate; its king is called the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong; there's a beautiful zoo near Kuala Lumpur

April

It is "the cruelest month" in T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"

easy chair

It isn't "hard" to come up with this other name for a grandfather chair

angst

It means extreme fear or anxiety in German or English

Cold Mountain

It might come back to you that this Civil War movie was based on a novel by Charles Frazier

flying

It precedes Dutchman, fish & saucer

Reno, Nevada

It proclaims itself, "The Biggest Little City in the World"

subway

It started selling sandwiches in 1965 & now claims the title "world's largest restaurant chain"

Crowning of Queen Elizabeth II

It took place June 2, 1953 at Westminster Abbey

meat or beef

It turns chili into "chili con carne"

Apple

It was a sad day when an employee of this computer company was fired for "thinking a little too different"

Springfield, Illinois

It was chosen as a state capital in 1837, the same year Lincoln moved there

The Suez Canal

It was closed June 6, 1967 & re-opened June 5, 1975

an elegy

It's the mournful type of poem "written in a country churchyard by Thomas Gray

Pluto

It's the only planet that has yet to be visited by a spacecraft

bottom of the arc in equilibrium

It's the point of maximum velocity in a pendulum's swing

the Maltese Falcon

It was known as the dingus, the stuff dreams are made of & the black bird

triceratops

It was one of the largest of the horned dinosaurs; 2 of its 3 horns were up to 3 feet long

Greenwich Village

It was the "Next Stop" for Paul Mazursky

Nickelback

It's "The Long Road" back to Canada when this band calls

Tyger, Tyger

It's "burning bright in the forests of the night"

Pilot

It's Jessica Biel's occupation in "Stealth"

Halo

It's Master Chief versus the Covenant in the first version of this Xbox game named for a ring-like space station

ivory soap

It's advertised as "99 & 44/100 percent pure"

Chihuahua

It's both the largest state in area in Mexico & the smallest breed of dog

Count Martial

It's convened for trying & punishing offenses committed by members of the U.S. armed forces

Chicago

It's easy to recognize this city's skyline--see the Sears Tower?

the United States

It's estimated there are about 40,000 separate police agencies in this country

Monaco

It's famous for its luxury hotels; it's on the Riviera; Princess Stephanie was born there

U-Haul

Its website says, "Since 1945" this company "has been serving do-it-yourself movers and their households"

Cordon Bleu

Paris cooking school named after ribbons worn by the Order of the Holy Ghost

Harvard

JFK (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

Yale

JFK (John Forbes Kerry)

mosquito net

Jamaica's Rock House Hotel advertises four-poster beds with this protective material over them

007

James Bond (oo)

Ordinary People

Judith Guest's first novel that was made into 1980's extraordinary Oscar-winner

Jennifer Aniston

Jeannie Bueller, Rachel Green

provolone

Jersey Mike's menu offering No. 6 is roast beef & this Italian cheese

nuclear submarine

Jimmy Carter served as naval engineering officer on one of these

University of Wisconsin

Joan Cusack performed with an improv group while studying at this school in Madison

The Silence of the Lambs

Jodie Foster was far from "silent" when she won for this film: she said, "I can't stop laughing"

The Mayflower Compact

John Alden was the last surviving signer of this

Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan classic that we suspect has sold more "Cliffs Notes" copies than the real thing

Ode to a Nightingale

John Keats ode containing the line, "Thou was not born for death, immortal bird"

feet

Part of a pilgrim a Pope washes on Maundy Thursday

Finnegan's Wake

Joyce classic about the Earwicker family... uh, maybe... okay, we admit it; we haven't read it either

Augustus

Julia, the daughter of this first Roman emperor, was so outrageous he had her banished from Rome

Coca-Cola

KO the competition with this "Classic" soft drink company, symbol KO

Whale Rider

Keisha-Castle Hughes played a young Maori girl destined to be her tribe's leader in this critically acclaimed film

Nairobi

Kenyan capital where the Earl of Erroll frolicked with randy, druggie friends--until he was murdered!

Isabella

King Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, was the daughter of this famous queen

Cordelia

King Lear foolishly rejects this viruous daughter

El Greco

King Philip II hated this artist's "Martyrdom at St. Maurice", so he never gained royal favor; he soon moved to Toledo

The Nobel Peace Prize

King donated the money he received for winning this international award in December 1964 to civil rights causes

Hemlock

Knowing that this was the state tree of Pennsylvania would have just killed Socrates

ultraviolet rays

Known as "black light" because most of them can't be seen with the naked eye

Russia

Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (location)

Moses

Korah rebels against Aaron & this man

Britain

MI6 (location)

English

Language in which Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese" was originally written

Hawk

Last name of skateboarding legend Tony, who's never "dove-ish" when bombing or carving

Hoffa

Last name of the Michigan State A.T.O. who, in '99, followed in Dad's footsteps & became president of the Teamsters

Bluster

Last name of triplets Don Jose, Hector Hamhock & Phineas T.

NYC

Late every December 31st, people across the nation watch this city drop the ball

Indonesia

Merapi, or "mountain of fire", is a sacred volcano on Java in this country

Sadat

Leader assassinated at parade celebrating 8th anniversary of Yom Kippur War

Trojan War

Legend has it that this war lasted for 10 years, ending in 1184 B.C.

Indian Ocean

Less than half the size of the Pacific, it's the third-largest ocean

giraffe

Life is unfair for the males of this animal, seen here; they're bald on top of their horns, while the female has hair

the beatniks

Like, to these cats & chicks, Kerouac was the most

oodles

Loads, gobs, or heaps of anything

Field of Dreams

Local boys Ben Affleck & Matt Damon were Fenway Park extras in this 1989 Kevin Costner film

Saskatchewan

Located in Saskatoon, the University of this Canadian province is set for its centennial in 2007

Newfoundland

Located in this province, Terra Nova National Park is Canada's most easterly national park

a curl

Longfellow wrote, "There was a little girl who had" one of these "right in the middle of her forehead"

Ireland

Lord Chancellor of this country 1789-1802, the Earl of Clare fought against rights for Catholics there

Painted

Lt. Joseph Ives is credited with having been the first to call a brilliantly colored desert in Arizona this

carpetbagger

Luggage-based term for a war-profiteering Northerner in the Postbellum South

The Sea of Tranquility

Lunar sea on which Apollo 11 landed

1984

MCMLXXXIV

Hamlet

Play in which Queen Gertrude, while watching a play, says, "The lady doth protest too much"

Santa Claus

Macy's employee who performed the "Miracle on 34th Street"

Malaysia

Malaysia, Singapore, The Philippines (which is a monarchy)

cat people

Malcolm McDowell & Nastassja Kinski's "purr"fect roles in 1982

Quadrangle

Many a college campus has an area called a quad, which is short for this

Buddhism

Mara, this Asian religion's god of evil, rides an elephant & has 100 arms

Polonium

Marie Curie named this element for her native land

types of dogs

Mastiffs, Pomeranians, & pugs

repeating

Math Year 1: As a rule every fraction can be expressed as a terminating decimal or this kind

emperor

Maximinus Thrax, Marcus Aurelius, & Hadrian all held this ancient top post

metric system

Measuring system established in France in 1790, called originally "Systeme Internationale"

Tchaikovsky

Melancholy Russian whose patron of 14 yrs. required they never meet

harmony

Melody, rhythm & this third main element, used as a synonym for "chord", making music beautiful

The Whale

Melville's subtitle for the first American edition

Foreign Legion

Members of all nationalities except French can join this fighting force

Orion

Mentioned 3 times in the Bible, this constellation is named for a legendary Greek hunter

Gemini

Mercury flights had 1 astronaut, Apollo had 3; this intermediate program had 2-man flights

Vassar

Meryl Streep starred in a campus production of "Miss Julie" as an undergrad at this Poughkeepsie college

Tigris and Euphrates

Mespotamia, where many early civilizations developed, was located between these 2 rivers

Tungsten

Metal with highest melting point, it's commonly used in light bulb filaments

Calcium

Metallic element essential for strong bones & teeth

deductive reasoning

Method of reasoning which goes from general statements to specific conclusions

Delaware

Michael Castle from this state with 3 counties: New Castle, Kent & Sussex

pitchblende

Mineral that's the richest in uranium ore

Annie Sullivan

Miracle worker for Arthur & Kate Keller

Prospero

Miranda's father, he ends "The Tempest" with an epilogue

grandson

Morty to Rick on "Rick and Morty"

Israel

Mossad (location)

Hong Kong

Most coverage of this territory's return to China left out its desperate plea to Jackie Chan for help

silicon

Most rocks are composed primarily of oxygen & this element

Quebec

Mount Caubvick, Labrador's highest peak, lies on the border with this province

Appenines

Mount Corno is the highest peak in this Italian range that stretches 870 miles north to south

Aileron

Moveable part of airplane wing providing lateral control

the Moulin Rouge

Movie of Toulouse-Lautrec's life named for where he spent part of it

Amadeus

Mozart's middle name becomes a movie

the magic flute

Mozart's opera about a wonderful woodwind

Dumbo

Mrs. Jumbo's big-eared baby boy

North America

Mt. Logan was thought the highest on this continent till someone measured Mt. McKinley

Nigeria

Murtala Mohammed, this country's head of state, was shot dead in a Lagos traffic jam in 1976

oompah

Name for beer hall brass band that plays like this:

Luftwaffe

Name of the air arm of the German military

george

Name shared by brothers of Liberace & Ira Gershwin

aluminum

Named by British scientist Humphry Davy, it's now pronounced & spelled his way in the U.S.; others add an "I"

Montpelier, Vermont

Named for a city in France, it's located in the Green Mountains on the upper Winooski River

Neptune

Named for a water nymph, Naiad is this planet's nearest known moon

Wagner

Neitzsche was a close friend of this "Parsifal" composer, but later things went sour between them

Southern Cross

Never directly seen in the Northern Hemisphere, it's featured on the flags of 5 of the world's countries

The Boston Globe

New England's largest paper is this Boston daily

the Post

Newspapers in Houston, Denver & Washington share this name

Coal

Newsweek called British strike in this industry the country's "longest, costliest & most bitter"

acid rain

Newts are New Hampshire's state amphibian, partly for helping track this form of liquid pollution

The Interpreter

Nicole Kidman speaks fluent Ku as this 2005 title character

Fiji

Nike founder Phil Knight went tropical at Oregon by joining Phi Gamma Delta, known by this "national" name

Sirius

No joke, this satellite radio company signed former MTV-VJ Adam Curry as its exclusive PJ

The White House

No peeking! This building is portrayed on the back of the $20 bill

dixie

Northern song that became Confederacy favorite "away down south"

the nuclear family

Not a radioactive clan, but the core group of one's relatives

John Marshall Mathers

Not only was this man Chief Justice of the U.S. from 1801 to 1835, he's also Eminem's real name

Brautigan

Novelist & poet who went "Trout Fishing in America"

General Mills

Novelist & poet who went "Trout Fishing in America"

Thomas Wolsey

November 4 this english cardinal was arrested

Don Larsen

Now a paper company sales rep, he pitched the only perfect game in World Series history

4

Number of cards in a bridge trick

6

Number of feet in a fathom

3

Number of fingers used to draw a bow

100 stamps

Number of first-class stamps in a $20 roll

1,001

Number of nights story teller Scheherazade kept it up

red tape

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS IN ENGLAND WERE BOUND USING THIS, WHICH GAVE US A MODERN PHRASE FOR EXCESSIVE BUREAUCRACY

Ohio

Oberlin, home to an underground railroad stop & one of the first U.S. colleges with black students, is in this state

Thrasher

Of Cruiser, Thrasher, or Grinder, the magazine that's the bible of rad skateboard culture

A Brussels Griffon

Of the Brussels Dragon, the Brussels Unicorn or the Brussels Griffon, the one that's a dog

The Rachel

Of the Monica, the Rachel or the Phoebe, the rescue ship at the tale's end

United States

Office of Strategic Services (location)

The English

Ogden Nash said these people were "Tinglish"

columbus

Ohio State University

Alaska

Only U.S. railroad owned and operated by Federal gov't. is found entirely within this sizeable state

Polaris (north star)

Only star in northen hemisphere sky that never appears to move

Jessica Simpson

On "Newlyweds", Nick Lachey had to explain to her that Chicken of the Sea is actually fish

Janet reno

On Feb. 11, 1993 this Florida prosecutor was nominated Attorney General of the U.S.

John Glenn

On Feb. 20, 1962 the destroyer USS Noa found him floating in the Atlantic after a journey of 75,679 miles

Mesa

On a "table" of Arizona's most populous cities, this one would be listed third

Barnard

On an alphabetical list of the colleges known as the Seven Sisters, this Manhattan school comes first

customs

On entering the U.K., if you have anything to declare (besides "They talk funny here"), see one of these officers

Punk'd

On one episode, Halle Berry is denied entrance to her own movie premiere on this prank-filled show

Aztecs

On the belief the sun needed nourishment, this civilization sacrificed about 20,000 people a year

T. S. Eliot

On this day this American-born British poet wins Nobel Prize for literature

Washington

Only temperate zone rain forest in the U.S. is on this state's Olympic peninsula

Tower Bridge

One of London's most fun attractions is the exhibition that opened inside this bridge in the 1990s

Samuel Adams

One of the leading architects of the Revolution was this second cousin of the second U.S. president

St. Bernard

One of these dogs rescued 40 people lost in the snow in Switzerland around 1800

New York and Chicago

Only 2 cities with both a National & American League baseball team

telegraph

Only 2 days after this service began the Pony Express came to an end

The Republican Party

Only 32 senators & 17 governors were members of this political group in '65

Anna Karenina

Oprah picked this Tolstoy tragedy about an unhappy family for her book club

Light in August

Oprah's Book Club read Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying", "The Sound & the Fury" & this aptly titled one in summer 2005

The Deep End of the Ocean

Oprah's first selection for her book club, in 1996, was this book by Jacquelyn Mitchard about a kidnapping

sandwich

Oralando Montagu is making a lot of "bread" selling this lunch item (he's descended from the Earl who invented it)

Pearls

Organic & opaque, they represent purity & virginity

48

Original number of Howdy's freckles, they equaled the number of U.S. states

Diary of Anne Frank

Originally in Dutch, "Het Achterhus", this "Diary of a Young Girl" is best known by its play title

Best Buy

Originally named Sound of Music, this company, BBY, still offers sound electronics & music

Tricycle

Originally ridden by such dignitaties as Queen Victoria, this 3-wheeler is now mostly for kids

a caddy

Originally used to designate an errand boy, it was introduced into Scotland by golfer Mary, Queen of Scots

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde combined with comedy with farce for this play, his last & most famous

Jerusalem

Oskar Schindler is buried on Mount Zion in this city

Dingo

Other names for this Australian dog are Noggum, Maliki & Boolomo; don't let one "steal your by-bee"

tulips

Ottawa, Canada is famous for these flowers seen here

Robert Kennedy

Our lead story for Jan. 21, 1961: this man, brother of the President, was sworn in as Attorney General

bunker hill

Our side was winning the battle of this hill near Boston until we ran out of ammo and the tide turned

the earth

Over 1,500 species of worm are named for this habitat

coal

Over 50% of the electric power generated in the U.S. is produced by the burning of this fuel

seeds

Peas, lima beans, navy beans & corn are examples of this part of a plant

deep vein thrombosis

People on bed rest are at risk for a serious blood clot in the legs known as DVT, short for this

idealism

Philosophy portrayed in More's "Utopia" & personified in Don Quixote's tilting at windmills

feather

Pluma can be either a pen or one of these, as from a swan

Moonlight Sonata

Poet & critic Ludwig Rellstab compared this piano work to a nighttime boat ride on Lake Lucerne

Lead

Poisoning from this metal is sometimes called plumbism or saturnism

Copernicus

Polish astronomer who was 1st to theorize earth isn't the center of the universe

Puerto Rico

Ponce is the chief Caribbean port of this island once ruled by Ponce de Leon

Andy Warhol

Pop artist who claimed "in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"

deep-fried

Potato chips are cooked this way

The Limbo

Prepare for life after college by doing this West Indian dance that shares its name with a border region of hell

Alaska

President Harding drove the golden spike at Nenana for this state's RR & died on the way home

a full moon

Priestly, Watt & Wedgwood were in a scientific club of "Lunaticks" whose meetings were set for each one of these

Frank Lloyd Wright

Prior to his '59 death, he was planning a mile-high skyscraper

Hillary Clinton

Prior to the 2000 elections, Wolf hosted a town hall meeting with this First Lady & Senate hopeful

Tom Sawyer

Prior to this novel's publication, its whitewash scene appeared in the Philadelphia Sunday Republic

Woodrow wilson

Probably our most scholarly president, he was only one to earn a Ph.D.

electrician

Professional whose tool kit would most likely include a multimeter & a wire stripper

refuse

Pronounced one way, it means to decline; pronounced another way, it's trash

feedbag

Provided for a horse's dining pleasure, it's also called a nose bag

the atomic bomb

Purpose of the Manhattan Project was to make this

chickens

Raise some of these animals, like the Rhode Island Red or the Cornish, in the quad

Gandhi

Rajiv became reluctant new leader of this ruling family after his mother's violent death

potato

Raleigh introduced this tuber into Ireland; seemed like a good idea at the time

a breeder reactor

Reactor type where more fissionable material is created than consumed

hoagie

Regional names for submarine sandwiches include hero &, in Philly, this other "H" one

Mary I

Religion 1400-1600: This queen had Protestant Thomas Cranmer burned for heresy

The Mediterranean Sea

The Italian city of Pisa is located at the mouth of the Arno River, where it flows into this body of water

Rice

The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy is on the campus of this Houston University

Bill Clinton

Robert Reich met this man on the voyage to Oxford, where both were Rhodes Scholars, & later served as his Secretary of Labor

The thinker

Rodin aptly expressed the task of a philosopher in this famous statue

flubber

Rubbery stuff that made "The Absent-Minded Professor's" Model T fly

England

Rupert Brooke wrote, "there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever" this country

Jonah

The biblical prophet who's the subject of chapter 83

Snoop Dogg

Sadly, Shante Broadus got served with divizzle papers after a 7-year marriage to this rapper

Teddy Roosevelt

Said he could either run the country or control his daughter Alice, "But not both"

"oops"

Said when you make a faux pas

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Salem, Massachusetts author to whom the 1851 novel is dedicated

Alyssa Milano

Samantha Micelli, Jennifer Mancini, Phoebe Halliwell

yemen

Sana is the capital of this Middle Eastern country

Moulin Rouge!

Satine, a courtesan, & Christian, a poet, pair off in this musical set at a French nightclub

Norway

Scandinavian homeland of Edvard Grieg

paleontology

Science of fossils

Doctrow

Scott Joplin wrote "ragtime" music, but this guy wrote the book

Thomas Paine

The body of this "Common Sense" author was taken to be put on display in England, but eventually his remains were lost

To Kill a Mockingbird

Scout Finch lives with dad Atticus & brother Jem in Maycomb, Alabama in this classic novel

roses

Seeing the English Gardens at Mottisfont Abbey made Martha Stewart laugh at her own efforts to grow these

Deepak Chopra

Seen here, he was an endocrinologist before promoting Ayur Veda, an ancient form of holistic medicine

braces

Since NASA created strong translucent ceramics, it's tinsel teeth no more when you wear these

couscous

Served like rice, this common N. African dish is steamed semolina flour

tensile

Seven letter word for the type of strength, based on the cohesion of molecules, that varies in different materials

Great Dane

Several breeds were crossed to develop the giant schnauzer, including this "great" dog

Twelfth Night

Shakespeare comedy subtitled "Or, What You Will"

Kate Hudson

She & Chris Robinson have a baby named Ryder Russell Robinson

the Watts Towers

Simon Rodia built these fairy-tale structures in a South L.A. ghetto

E=mc^2

Simple formula used to determine how much energy a chain reaction would release

Cambridge

Sir Isaac Newton

Guyana

Site of Nov. '78 headline tragedy, it's the only S.A. country with English as official language

General Hospital

Soap opera Custer or Patton might have gone to if sick

talc

Soapstone, used as an electrical insulator, is a greenish-gray variety of this soft mineral

Lost in Translation

Sofia Coppola won an Oscar for her screenplay & a nomination for directing this 2003 film

notes

Solmization is the system of representing these by syllables instead of letters

The horn

Somalia is on the geographic projection usually called this "of Africa"

pearl

Some 19th century papier mache furniture was painted & then inlaid with mother-of-this

smoke tobacco

Some walk a mile, but Rodrigo de Jerez sailed the Atlantic in 1492 & became first European to do this

dispatcher

Somebody whose job it is to control a fleet of vehicles like taxis by radio communication

Kill Bill

Sonny Chiba, star of such memorable films as "The Bushido Blade", appeared in "Volume One" of this Tarantino epic

Ethiopia

Sorghum is a major crop; the Zagwe dynasty once ruled it; Addis Ababa University is there

Everquest

Spell-casters & adventurers do battle in the land of Norrath in this online role-playing game

Elizabeth Arden

Spokesman Jeff Gordon sprays the fastlane with Halston Z-14 from this company, RDEN

bullfighting

Sport defined by Hemingway as "Death in the Afternoon"

football

Sport featured in the movie "Heaven Can Wait"

football

Sport that allows players to throw bombs

Debra Messing

Stacey Colbert, Dr. Sloan Parker, Grace Adler

Ollie

Stan Laurel could tell you the name of this trick where the board is propelled into the air by tapping the tail hard

Minnesota

State whose license plate reads "Land of 10,000 Lakes"

South Dakota

Stephanie Herseth from this state with 66 counties, including Yankton & Miner

copper

Sterling silver is not pure silver; it's actually an alloy consisting of 92.5% silver & 7.5% this metal

Lapis Lazuli

Stone of Laz, the Arabian goddess of love

quick kick

Strategic punt on 1st, 2nd, or 3rd down

sixteen tons

Straw Boss said "Bless my soul" when Tennessee Ernie mined this much coal

Mexico City

Stuck in traffic & ill, Kip Keino had to jog a mile to get to the 1,500 meter run at the '68 Olympics in this city (he still won)

herpetology

Subjects of this branch of zoology are seen here

Star Trek III

Subtitled "The Search for Spock"

Pearl Harbor

Sunk at this Honolulu location in 1941, the USS Oklahoma was salvaged but sank again en route to California

the American Way (freedom)

Superman vows a never-ending fight for "truth, justice and" this

John Sherman

THANKS TO THIS OHIO SENATOR FOR AUTHORING A LANDMARK ANTITRUST LAW IN 1890 THAT BEARS HIS NAME

Rush Hour

THIS 1998 BUDDY COP FILM STARRED JACKIE CHAN & CHRIS TUCKER

John Grisham

THIS AUTHOR SAID HIS 1991 WORK "THE FIRM" WAS "A NAKED STAB AT COMMERCIAL FICTION"

buffalo

This North American animal's population had dropped from almost 50 million to under 1000 by 1889

seventh inning

Taft was the first president to get up and stretch during this inning of a ball game

Saturn

Taken recently, the ultraviolet image seen here shows this planet's most famous feature

The Amazon River

Taking a dip in Iquitos, Peru

Black Hawk Down

This Oscar-winning film set in Somalia became "Helicopter on Fire" in Poland

Harrisburg

This Pennsylvania capital was previously called Louisbourg, after Louis XVI

Buckingham Palace

Telephone this official London residence of the Queen & ask if they have Prince Albert in a can

penitentiary

Term for prison from word meaning "sorrow for wrongdoing"

francophobia

Term for the fear or hatred of Gallic culture

bedlam

Term for total chaos derived from English asylum of St. Mary of Bethlehem

Lake Victoria

Testing the water in Africa's largest freshwater lake

four

Tetra-, as seen in the words tetrapod & tetralogy, refers to this number

Montevideo

This capital's Plaza Independencia has a statue of Jose Artigas, hero of Uruguayan independencia

the bacon

The "breadwinner" is also said to bring this home

Brezhnev

The 1980s were tough on Russian heads of state: he died in 1982, Andropov in 1984 & Chernenko in 1985

Paul & Ringo

The 2 left-handed members of the Beatles

The Louvre

The 2 slaves Michelangelo sculpted for the unfinished tomb of Pope Julius II are in this Parisian museum

the earth and the heavens

The 2 things created in the 1st line of the King James Bible

Congressional Terms

The 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution sets these to end at noon on January 3rd

Domino's

The 3 dots on their pizza boxes represent their first 3 stores

The Crimean War

The 7th Earl of Cardigan saw his famous light brigade decimated in the Battle of Balaklava in this war

sight

The Afghan hunts by this sense, not by smell

Colorado Springs

The Air Force Academy

Nissan

The Altra EV from this company that also makes the Altima can hit 75 MPH; what a (non) gas!

Switzerland

The America's Cup was won for the first time by a European country: ironically this landlocked nation

Anthony Wayne

The Americans had to evacuate Philadelphia after his defeat at Paoli, which must have made him "mad"

the 400

The Astors & the Vanderbilts led this list of 1880's New York elite

Flooding of the Nile

The Aswan High Dam gave Egyptians control over this annual event that dominated ancient agriculture

Western Division

The Atlanta Braves are in this division of the National League

aluminum

The British call this element aluminium

Cyrillic

The Bulgarian language is written in this alphabet

Holy Sepulchre

The Church of this in Jerusalem is said to be built over the site where Jesus was entombed after his crucifixion

UCLA

The Daily Bruin (which school)

USC

The Daily Gamecock (which school)

UNC

The Daily Tar Heel (which school)

mother-in-law

The Dowager Countess of Grantham to Cora Crawley on "Downton Abbey"

General Motors

The EV1 got a fantastic 0 MPG, as it was a no-gas vehicle from this U.S. co. organized by William Durant in 1908

The Old North Church

The Episcopal Church at 193 Salem Street in Boston has been holding services continually since December 29, 1723

Ford

The Escape Hybrid from this company claims to have a "range of well over 400 miles on a single tank"

Brussels

The Eurostar chunnels from London to Paris & this other nearby capital

ephedra

The FDA said it would ban dietary supplements containing this after a baseball player's death was linked to it

jot

The Greek word "iota" gave us this 3-letter word that means to write down hastily

The Arabian Peninsula and Sinai Peninsula

The Gulf of Aqaba separates these 2 Mid-East peninsulas

the mantle

The Gutenberg Discontinuity is the boundary that separates the core from this part of the earth

the white house

The Harrison family was living in this mansion in the Spring of 1891 when it was wired for electricity

Henry VII

The Henry who defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field & established Tudor dynasty

Georgetown

The Hoya (which school)

Mount Wilson

The Las Campanas observatory in Chile was built to supplement findings of this California observatory

dreams

The Louisville-based factory named for these tries to make them come true for very ill children

opening ceremony

The Olympic Games begin with these events

Pfizer

The P in Provera & Prevnar isn't silent, but the one in this drug company that makes them is

Norway

The Peer Gynt ski area has been called this country's best place for cross-country skiing

Italy

The Renaissance began in the early 1300s in the northern city-states of what is now this country

Nice

This city, "Capital of the French Riviera", likely got its name from the Greek word for "Victory"

Aimee Semple McPherson

The Roaring '20s foremost evangelist, she founded the Foursquare Gospel Church

Japan

The Sapporo Snow Festival in this country features stunning snow sculptures like the one seen here:

Aegean Sea

The Sea of Crete is the southernmost part of this sea, an arm of the Mediterranean

Terrier

The Skye breed of this dog is known for its alertness

Charlie McCarthy

The Smithsonian is now home to Candice Bergen's "brother"

Johnson (LBJ)

The Space Center in Houston is named for this president who was an early advocate of manned space flight

India

The Thar is the largest desert on this sub-continent

Encyclopedia

The World Book, for example

The pickwick papers

The activities of a certain London club form the basis of this Dickens novel, his first

the flood

The adjective "antediluvian" means before this biblical event

0

The answer to 65 divided by 4/7 x 0

calories

The average adult male needs 3000 a day, a female, 2200

Quebec

The battle that was fought the farthest north was the one at this Canadian city, December 31, 1775

Princeton

The bestseller "The Rule of Four" was co-written by a graduate of this New Jersey school, also the book's setting

Hellboy

The censorship board in Malaysia damned this Ron Perlman film with the title "Super Sapiens"

nervous system

The central one of these, which pulls our hands away from fire, & the peripheral one, which lets us taste chocolate

corn

The cereal that Tony the Tiger thinks is gr-r-reat is Kellogg's Frosted Flakes of this

warden

The chief administrator of a prison

Jupiter

The diameter of this largest planet in our solar system is more than 11 times that of the earth

fire

The elaborate use of brick in Lubeck, Germany began early in the city's history, partially in response to this disaster in 1157

whales

The first ban on killing the "right" types of these creatures came into force in 1935

Montgomery, Alabama

This city, not Richmond, is where you can find the first White House of the Confederacy

flags

The flag of the Organization of American States has 35 different ones of these on it

Atlantic City

The game properties in classic Monopoly were named for streets in this city

a table

The gateleg style of this piece of furniture is a variation of the drop-leaf one

colossal

The gigantic statue at Rhodes, one of the 7 ancient wonders, gave us this adjective meaning gigantic

Walter Washington

The great-grandson of a slave, he was the first black mayor of Washington, D.C.

Queequeg

The harpooner from Kokovoko with the rad tats

Lafayette

The heart of French Louisiana & the unofficial capital of the Cajun country is this city named for a French patriot

a robot

The heroes of "Zathura" meet up with one of these mechanical devices, not the helpful kind, but one with claw hands that smashes through walls

insomnia

The inability to sleep

Westminster Abbey

The last British sovereign buried at this church was George II in 1760; since then, they've been buried at Windsor

redundancy

This clue would get or receive a failing & inadequate grade for inordinate & excess use of this 10-letter problem

Siberia

This cold region of Russia makes up about 75% of the country's land area

sheikh

The leader of an Arab tribe or village

Mount Vesuvius

The most famous peak of the Apennines in Italy

Anne Bancroft

The movie is called "Garbo Talks", but she has all the lines

Negev

The name of this desert in the south of Israel is from the Hebrew for "south"

choreographer

The name of this job comes from the Greek for "dance writing"

conga

The name of this line dance comes from Spanish & refers to a country in Africa

dinar

The name of this unit of currency used in Libya is from the Latin for "ten"

autism

The narrator of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" has this developmental condition

California

The official seal of this U.S. state depicts the goddess Minerva & a grizzly bear

the Indian Head

The only human figure on the standard B & W test pattern

Hawaii

The only leper colony in the U.S. is on an island in this state

Lyndon B. Johnson

The only president to be sworn in by a woman

London

The philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who died in 1832, is kept in a glass case at University College in this British city

IBM

The podcast by this company discussed the promise of "on demand" with its new mainframes

The Divine Comedy

The poet & his buddy Virgil spend some time in Hell, a fate you avoided by buying our version of this classic

blood

The prefixes hem-, haem-, haemo- & hemo- all refer to this

Buchanan

The president just before Lincoln, he called slavery "a great political & a great moral evil" but didn't do much about it

General Motors

This company's first podcast talked about its new Cadillacs at the Chicago Auto Show

brand

The purpose of the spring round-up was to do this to as many calves as possible

JFK

The real Jim Garrison played Earl Warren in this 1991 film

Rhodes

The real colossus of this Greek island is Mount Attavyros, its highest peak at 3,986 feet

egyptology

The regional study of objects like the one shown here

Lazarus

The resurrection of him by Jesus is shown here in a Caravaggio painting

Democrats

The rooster was symbol of this party before Thomas Nast drew their new one in 1870

muscle

The sartorius, which flexes the thigh, is the body's longest one of these

acoustics

The science of sound

St. Patrick's Cathedral

The seat of New York's Roman Catholic Archdiocese, it's a great example of Gothic Revival architecture

Shreveport

The second "S" in LSUS stands for this city

the Punic Wars

The second of these wars between ancient Rome & Carthage is also known as the Hannibalic war

yellow pages

The slogan "let your fingers do the walking" was created for the this directory

15

The square root of 225

independence

The state motto of Pennsylvania is "Virtue, liberty, and" this, quite a declaration

peeping tom

The tailor struck blind for having looked at Lady Godiva was 1st one of these

etymology

The this of this is: from the Greek for "true sense of a word"

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The title of this novel refers to "a small log building, close adjoining to 'The House'... his master's dwelling"

Left Behind

The title of this series by Tim Lahaye & Jerry B. Jenkins refers to the people who remain on Earth after the rapture

Statue of Liberty

The total weight of copper in this statue is 31 tons, though the copper sheeting is only 3/32 of an inch thick

argumentative

The type of essay where you back up your opinion, or the type of person who always challenges others' opinions

addiction

The universal caution code "H" on a prescription means it's possible the drug will lead to this

Key West

The very farthest west you can drive in the Florida Keys is to this island

Cameron Diaz

The voice of Princess Fiona in "Shrek", she broke her nose while surfing in Hawaii on her August 30, 2003 birthday

penitentiary

The walls at the U.S. one in Leavenworth are 40 feet high & 40 feet below ground

Venus Williams

The website of this tennis "goddess" told us that she's 6'2", loves to write poetry & wants to go to Croatia

gentlemen, start your engines

The words that announce the start of the Indianpolis 500

Islambad

The world's largest mosque is Shah Faisal Mosque near this Pakistani capital; it can hold 100,000 worshippers

thermodynamics

The zeroth law of this says 2 bodies each in thermal equilibrium with a 3rd are in thermal equilibrium with each other

The Red Hot Chili Peppers

Their 1999 CD "Californication" reunited guitarist John Frusciante with the group

The Nelsons

Their grandfather had a No. 1 record in 1935; their father, No. 1's in 1958 & 1961; and they hit No. 1 in 1990

pyramids

There are some 80 of these structures in Egypt, but the three at Giza are the most famous

United Nations

There's a Ralph J. Bunche Park across the street from this organization's New York City headquarters

navy beans

These "nautical" legumes are often used to make soup

Mississippi and Missouri

These 2 "stately" rivers are the longest in the U.S.

China and Mongolia

These 2 countries share the Gobi Desert

The Koch Brothers

These 2 politically active billionaire brothers share the No. 5 spot on the 2015 Forbes 400

Louisiana and Texas

These 2 states are "Cajun Country"

Machu Pichu

These Inca ruins near Cusco, Peru weren't discovered until 1911

trucks

These devices on the undersides of boards hold the wheels & share their name with large transport vehicles

potatoes

These tubers make up 1/4 of all vegetables grown in U.S. & Canada

underwriters and undertakers

These two words, synonyms for insurers & morticians, both begin with "under"

irons (golf clubs)

They can be mashies & niblicks

galoshes

They got their name from the wooden sandals worn by the French court to protect shoes on rainy days

dogs

They were 1st trained to help with police work about 1900 in Ghent, Belgium

Girls

They were first allowed to play Little League ball in 1974

Venus and Mars

They're the 2 planets whose astrological symbols also signify male & female

Sigourney Weaver

This "Alien" star has been a close pal of playwright Christopher Durang ever since they were drama students at Yale

Mel Gibson

This "Lethal Weapon" star told me he makes sure no one presses his clothes, so he can display that rumpled charm

The Bill of Rights

This 10-item document ratified by New Jersey in 1789 & Connecticut in 1939

tron

This 1982 Disney film in which a man gets lost in a computer was part of my 1999 Overlooked Film Festival

Harriet Tubman

This 19th century woman boasted, "I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger"

North shore

This 2004 Fox show featured the line "I'm going to Waikiki to get a bikini wax... want to meet me after your shift's over?"

Closer

This 2004 film is about photographer Julia Roberts & bedmates

General Clark

This 2004 presidential hopeful graduated first in his class at West Point and was a Rhodes Scholar

flu

This 3-letter name of an illness sounds like part of a chimney

The Encyclopedia

This 35-volume Denis Diderot project began as a translation of a British reference work

Hubble

This American astronomer for whom a telescope is named studied law as a Rhodes Scholar

Rebecca Romijn-Stamos

This American supermodel's dad is a Dutch-born furniture maker

Steve Wozniak

This Apple co-founder said he never read the "Steve Jobs" book--"I was there"

Bertrand Russell

This British peer & noted thinker was arrested after an anti-nuclear demonstration when he was 89

Nova Scotia

This Canadian Maritime province was named after the native land of England's James I

Native Son

This Chicago-set Richard Wright novel centers on Bigger Thomas, who ends up killing his own sweetheart

Lady Chatterly's Lover

This D.H. Lawrence work was not published in full in England until Penguin books did it in 1960

Everglades National Park

This Florida national park contains the southernmost point on the U.S. mainland

Alexandre Dumas

This French author penned the immortal line "All for one, and one for all"

Rabelais

This French author poked fun at man's follies in his stinging satire "Gargantua"

Napoleon

This French dictator's sister Pauline was so scandalous, you might say her specialty was "Foreign Affairs"

impromptu

This French term that means "improvised" often refers to a piano piece that sounds improvised

Rodin

This Frenchman sculpted Victor Hugo in 1886 & Pope Benedict XV in 1915

Steffi Graf

This German woman, the current Mrs. Agassi, won the 1988 Grand Slam

Franz Liszt

This Hungarian piano virtuoso was scandalously involved with the married princess Carolyn Sayn-Wittgenstein

the Fulbright Scholarship

This International Exchange Scholarship is named for the U.S. Senator, a Rhodes Scholar, who sponsored it

Frankenstein

This Mary Shelley tale is told through the letters of an Arctic explorer named Walton

Odd Couple

This Neil Simon play featured the antics of fussy Felix & slovenly Oscar

Bratislava

This Slovak capital was also known by the German name of Pressburg

Bangkok

This Thai capital's traffic was so bad that gas stations sold personal port-a-potties called "Comfort 100"

The New York Times

This U.S. newspaper's 1851 index was the first ever published, and it's still publishing them

Bennington

This Vermont school chartered in 1925 boasts that its graduates have resumes as well as diplomas

sophomoric

This adjective for a second-year student is defined as "intellectually pretentious", "conceited" & "immature"

Lawrence of Arabia

This adventurous man was a close friend of George Bernard Shaw & changed his name to T.E. Shaw in 1927

gneiss

This agreeable-sounding metamorphic rock has alternating bands of dark- & light-colored minerals

The rhinoceros

This animal's horns, seen here, are made entirely of keratin, a fibrous hair protein

"Take Your Daughter to Work Day"

This annual event was co-created in 1993 by Marie C. Wilson, mother of 5 & president of the National Ms. Foundation

horseshoe crab

This arthropod seen here, Delaware's state marine animal, shares its name with quadruped footwear

Alex Haley

This author first learned of his African ancestor Kunta Kinte while living with his grandparents in Tennessee

Alex Haley

This author of the smash bestseller "Roots" died in 1992 at age 70

Nirvana

This band's last U.S. concert was at Seattle's Center Arena on January 8, 1994

The Red Sea

This body of water separates Egypt from Saudi Arabia

the beagle

This breed shares its name with a famous 1830s British science ship

South Africa

This country's Progressive Fed. Party broke racial barriers by granting blacks membership

India

This country's royal trains will take you from a Jain temple city to the Arabian Sea

The Iran Hostage Crisis

This crisis in U.S. diplomacy lasted from November 1979 to January 1981

Nicole Richie

This daughter of a pop music icon found "The Simple Life" on Fox

Yankee Doodle

This ditty about a pony-riding gentleman is Connecticut's state song

Franz Joseph

This emperor's brother was killed in Mexico in 1867 & his wife was assassinated in 1898

The French Revolution

This event that began in 1789 embodied many Enlightenment ideas, but is thought to have ended the era

Richard Simmons

This fitness guru was accused of slapping a 255 lb. man (an actual cage wrestler!) who made fun of his exercise videos

magma

This form of molten rock deep within the earth can reach a temperature of over 2100 degrees

Ulysses Grant

This general's acceptance letter upon receiving the Republican nomination in 1868 included the line "Let us have peace"

Department of Homeland Security

This government department recommended duct tape & plastic sheets to seal a room against a chemical attack

the Supreme Court

This group was originally made up of 6 members; in 1869 Congress changed its total to 9

Tom Selleck

This handsome hunk played basketball at USC long before "Magnum, P.I." made him a star

a rudder

This hinged object at the stern below the waterline is controlled to steer a boat

General Electric

This huge electric company was formed in 1892 by the merger of Thomas Edison's company with its main rival

Polanski

This innovative Polish director brought Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist" to life in 2005

Elba

This island off the Italian coast where Napoleon was first exiled was controlled for many years by Pisa

tortilla

This just about wraps up a burrito or taco

Lake Louise

This lake in the Banff National Park is the most visited place in the Canadian Rockies

Lake Victoria

This large lake is the chief source of the Nile River

a snow leopard

This leopard lives at nearly 20,000 feet in Central Asia

"The Flight of the Bumblebee"

This light classical favorite buzzed out of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Tale Of Tzar Saltan"

balsa

This light wood gets its name from the Spanish for "raft" because people in the tropics have used its logs for rafts

La Loire

This longest river in France is famous for its picturesque valley & chateaux

Oliver Cromwell

This man and his son ruled England following the execution of King Charles I

Prince William

This prince was really in the swim when he was voted water polo captain at St. Andrews University

Pepperdine

This private Christian university overlooks the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, California

curing

This process does not "heal" food, but preserves it

erosion

This process that begins with weathering, for giving us Bryce Canyon & Niagara Falls

eggplant

This member of the nightshade family is often prepared Parmigiana

The Pyrenees

This mountain range extends along France's border with Spain

staccato

This musical direction is sometimes abbreviated stacc.

Japan

This nation's Yomiuri Shimbun has the world's largest daily circulation, over 14 million

$10,000 bill

This note is the highest denomination in circulation in the U.S.

Vice presidency

This office remained vacant during Truman's 1st administration

Alexander Fleming

This scientist was knighted in 1944 for his discovery of penicillin

Bloomington

This seat of Indiana University may have been named for its flowers or for an early settler

Saint Bernadette

This patron saint of Lourdes' body has remained unchanged in its glass display case since her death in 1879

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

This quartet's second film is subtitled "The Secret of the Ooze"

The Deep South

This region of the U.S. includes Mississippi & Alabama

vector

This represents the direction and the magnitude, by the arrow's length, of certain quantities

World of Warcraft

This role-playing game out in 2004 returns to the "World" of Azeroth, where heroes like Leeroy Jenkins do battle

pug

This short-nosed, short-named breed developed in Asia is sometimes called the largest of the toy dogs

The Osbournes

This show that debuted in '02 has cursing by mom, dad, son & daughter, & dogs that aren't housebroken

Michael Jackson

This singer cut his "Black Or White" video after complaints it was lewd & too violent

tuna

This squishy sub filling might be albacore

New York

This state & its capital were named for 2 dukedoms held by the same British man

petrified wood

This state gem of Washington was once a tree, or at least a piece of it

enamel

This substance that covers the tooth is the hardest tissue in the body

hippo

This swimming African animal "yawns" as an aggressive gesture before it attacks

litter

This synonym for trash can also mean a group of puppies

Common Law

This system not based on a code, but on previous decisions and customs, evolved in England

Brave New World

This tale published in 1932 is set in the year 632 AF (After Ford)

Andy Roddick

This tennis star born in Omaha is nicknamed A-Rod

coven

This term for a group of witches is from an Anglo-Norman word meaning "assembly"

debris

This term for detritus or trash is a French word that means "fragments" or "pieces"

blitzkreig

This term, German for "lightning war," was used to describe the rapid capture of Poland by Germany in 1939

point

This unit for measuring type size was invented in 1737 by Pierre Simon Fournier

Ohms

This unit of electrical resistance is named for a 19th century German physicist

carat

This unit of weight used for gemstones equals 200 milligrams

yahoo!

This web site started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web"

The Notebook

This weepie by Nicholas Sparks was made into a film starring Ryan Gosling & Rachel McAdams

saddle shoe

This white school shoe is named for the shape of the black leather piece that's over the middle section of the shoe

bikini

This womens' two-piece swimsuit made its first appearance at a Paris fashion show in 1946

midstream

This word completes the proverb "Don't change horses in..."

Revolution

This word follows January (China, 1967); March (Germany, 1848); July (France, 1830) & famously, October

rubbish

This word for trash may come from the word "rubble"

gamut

This word meaning "complete range" comes from the 3rd Greek letter, which used to be the low end of the musical scale

polar

This word refers to extreme opposites or a type of bear

Jonathan Dayton

This youngest Constitution signer gave his name to the Ohio city called "The Birthplace of Aviation"

Pinecones

Those of a jack pine's remain tightly closed & hang on the tree till activated by fire

a pound

Those who are "penny-wise" may be this "foolish"

a goat

Though closely related to sheep, this animal has a beard & its horns are not spirally twisted

south

Though it may look strange on a map, to get from lower to upper Egypt, you go in this direction

fanny pack

Though its slangy name suggests it goes behind, wear this in front to guard your valuables against theft

Asia

Though leader in total world food production at 35%, this continent has 59% of the world's population

pressure

Thrust comes from the sudden inequality of this, sometimes measured in atmospheres, inside & outside a rocket

Thomas Jefferson

Time's July 5, 2004 cover story was "The Radical Mind of" this American Enlightenment thinker

Mr. and Mrs. Bridge

Title Kansas City couple played by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in a 1990 film

Risky Business

Title describing Tom Cruise's precarious commercial enterprise

Barber

Title occupation of Figaro in a Rossini opera

America the Beautiful

Title of Katharine Lee Bates poem which begins "O beautiful, for spacious skies"

polar bear

To a Spaniard or a Spanish-speaking Eskimo, this creature is an oso blanco

guitar

To achieve the surf style on one of these, use a whammy bar

gild

To coat with gold, or an association for members of the same profession

liter

To convert pints into these metric units of liquid measure, multiply by .47

Sicily

To fool the Nazis before an attack on this large island near Italy, the Allies planted a dead man with false papers

medal

To interfere in someone's business, or an Olympic award

escape velocity

To leave Earth's orbit, a rocket must accelerate to 25,000 mph to achieve this, EV for short

broth (or stock)

To make this basis of soup, simmer chicken parts for 3 hours, with frequent skimming, or drop a cube into water

Prince Harry

To mark his 18th birthday in 2002, this prince visited the sick & homeless to carry on the work of his late mother

smile

To protect his image, Buster Keaton's MGM contract did not allow him to do this onscreen

the Alps

Today on display in an Italian museum, the body of a 5,300-year-old man was found in 1991 thawing out in these mountains

Maine

Traditionally speaking, as this state goes, "so goes the nation"

Memphis

Tragically, Dr. King was assassinated in 1968 while visiting this Tennessee city

Innocents

Travel letters Twain wrote during a tour of Europe were collected in his book called these "Abroad"

Po River

Turin is the only major city on both banks of this river

a mask

Tusa's visio, with a polycarbonate frame, is this piece of scuba equipment

Degas

Tutu much! A bronze ballerina by this artist was auctioned off for $11.9 million in 1996

Sabotage and Saboteur

Two Alfred Hitchcock films which begin with the letters "Sab-"

Bali, Singapore, and Hong Kong

Two of three Asian countries Crosby/Hope "Road" pictures went "to"

scallop

Type of seafood French call Coquilles St. Jacques because its shell was emblem of St. James church

middle class

U.S. equivalent to the bourgeoisie which developed between the aristocrats & the peasants in France

cartoonists

Ub Iwerks, Friz Freleng & Tex Avery drew the line at this job

Russia

Ulysses Grant's granddaughter Julia married a prince from this country & had to flee its revolution in 1917

tuscon

University of Arizona

manslaughter

Unlawful killing of another person without implied malice

Candide

Unlike Pangloss, this title character finally wises up, like you did when you got our version of this classic

The Theory of Evolution

Until 1967 it was illegal to teach this theory in Tennessee public schools

adamant

Unyielding or inflexible

boxer

Used as a guide for the blind, this German breed gets its name from its habit of striking out with its front legs

Long John Silver

W.E. Henley, the amputee who wrote the brave poem "Invictus", inspired this character in an 1883 book

Abdullah Bulbul Amir

Valiant & bold & unaccustomed to fear was this son of the prophet

Cambodia

Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia (which is a monarchy)

Robert Redford

Visitors to the Sundance Film Festival know that the Sundance Institute was founded by this man in 1981

Gelato

WE'RE GOING OUT FOR THIS NEW DESSERT TREAT THAT LITERALLY MEANS "FROZEN" IN ITALIAN

NYU

Washington Square News (which school)

Battlestar Galactica

We aren't sure if the podcasts for this Sci Fi Channel show are created by humans or Cylons

creme de la creme

We commonly use this 4-word French phrase to mean "the best of the best"

Nevada

We'll gamble on your knowing that almost all of this state is in the Great Basin Desert

scales

Weighing device used by "justice" & supermarket cashiers

the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers

What A.S.C.A.P. stands for

Florentine

What it's called when "I eats me spinach" as a major ingredient of an Italian dish

pitchfork

What the man holds in Grant Wood's "American Gothic"

The beagle

What's that, Lassie? You say this Scottish breed got popular after royalty got some in the 1860s? Nice fact, girl!

Emerson

When Henry David Thoreau lived on the shores of Walden Pond, this friend of his was the landlord

The Prince of Tides

When Nick Nolte won for this film, he thanked his director, Barbra Streisand -- what a "prince"

whippet

When a problem comes along you must name this British breed seen here

Warren Beatty

When he won for directing "Bugsy", he thanked Annette Bening, the mother of his new baby

Madonna

When this singer rings, it means she needs a partner for her Kabbalah class

Casimir Pulaski

While Kosciusko survived the war, this Polish count was mortally wounded at Savannah

Gandhi

While at Crozer Theological Seminary, King studied the nonviolent philosophy of this Asian leader

Jesus Christ

While he performed 36 miracles, he didn't want his disciples to spread it around

The Elbe

While poets pour over the Rhine & Danube this 2nd largest German river gets no press

governess

While working as one, Charlotte Bronte complained that one of these "has no existence, is not considered as a living... being"

German shepherd

With public sentiment running high from WWI, the British renamed this breed Alsatian

cheek

Whittier's "Barefoot Boy" had this "of tan"

spinning

William Hale's 1844 military rocket, using curved vanes, stayed stable by doing this in flight

world cup

With 1 ½ billion viewers, this '82 championship had largest TV audience in sports history

Rome

With an average car speed of 6 mph, it's easy to see how this "Eternal City" wasn't built in a day

Swahili

With nearly 50 million speakers, this Bantu language is the most widely spoken in Africa

Ireland

Within the Oglaigh na h-Eireann: G2 (location)

Buffalo

Wolf Blitzer was born in this New York city that's home to some Bills, Sabres & Wings

brain

World Book describes this organ as a "grayish-pink jellylike ball with many ridges and grooves"

Borneo

Worlds 3rd largest, some of its inhabitants are "wild men"

deep fry

You can cook the Thanksgiving turkey this way so the outside is crispy & the inside juicy (just beware of splattered oil)

weightlifting

You can muscle your way up in this sport by doing the snatch or clean & jerk

Champagne

You can tour the cellars of Moet et Chandon in Epernay, fittingly on an avenue with this sparkling name

Ivan the Terrible

You could say it was horrible that he became the first Russian czar in 1547, but that wouldn't be quite the right word

Tension

You have too much ...of this on your bow that's overstrung

hair

You have too much of this if afflicted with hirsutism

sugar

You have too much of this in your blood if you have diabetes mellitus

shoes

You remove them before entering a house in Japan

journal

You'll find the French word for "day" in this word that may be a daily assignment

Mad Magazine

You'll often find Alfred E. Neuman on the cover of this magazine

portobello

You'll want to remove the stem and possibly the gills before cooking with this jumbo-sized mushroom

Alexander Hamilton

You're on the money if you know that he's the statesman seen here

paper

Your average U.S. municipal landfill is over 40% of this product, way more than plastic or metal

Montreal

Yum! Ant cakes & spicy locusts have been on the menu at the annual insect tastings in this Quebec city's Insectarium

Rhodesia

Zambia and Zimbabwe used to be Northern & Southern this

Afghan

Zeppo Marx helped establish the U.S. line of this hound that would feel at home in Kandahar

reindeer

Zoology: Animals of the genus Rangifer that provide the Lapps with meat, milk, clothing & transportation

knives

Zwilling J. A. Henckels will sell the aspiring chef an 18-piece block set of these

Groucho Marx

a.k.a. Otis B. Driftwood, Rufus T. Firefly & Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush

Italian

freetranslation.com taught me "Your eyes shine like oysters" in this language--"I suoi occhi brillano come le ostriche"

helicopter

howstuffworks.com told me each Apache one of these can carry 16 Hellfire missiles--cool

Princess Stephanie

princess of Monaco who dropped Jean-Paul Belmondo's son for Alain Delon's

high blood pressure

webmd.com tells me this condition, which can cause no symptoms until a stroke, is the "silent killer"

sodium

you have too much ...if you suffer from hypernatremia (put down the potato chips)

pressure in your time

you have too much...if you're bicycling with higher-than-recommended PSI


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