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COASTAL U.S. STATES | 1000 | Wilmington, near the mouth of the Cape Fear River, is its main seaport

North Carolina

STATES THAT BORDER CANADA | 1000 | The geographic center of North America is in this state bordering Saskatchewan & Manitoba

North Dakota

OTHER LONE STAR FLAGS | 200 | The red star on this country's flag symbolizes the revolutionary traditions established by Kim Il-sung

North Korea

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES | 1000 | 1998:Political leaders John Hume & David Trimble

Northern Ireland

COUNTRIES BY AIRPORTS | 400 | Bergen &Kristiansand-Kjevik

Norway

COUNTRY OF BIRTH | 1200 | Football coaching legend Knute Rockne

Norway

RAISE THE WHITE IN THE FLAG | 400 | The king of Sweden had to approve this country's flag, which includs symbols of the Danish flag

Norway

HO CHI MINH CITY | 200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.) Saigon's cathedral was built in the 19th century using bricks from Marseille & other material entirely imported from France. In 1959, the statue of the Virgin Mary was added, & the cathedral got this name, like another famous French church

Notre-Dame

CANADIAN LAKES | 2000 | The half-mile-long St. Peters canal connects with the Atlantic with Bras d'Or Lake on this province's Cape Breton Island

Nova Scotia

LET'S GO TO THE AIRPORT | 400 | On March 23, 1963 JFK dedicated this airport, saying, ""There is no other airport in the world which serves so many people""

O\'Hare

STATES THAT BEGIN WITH CALIFORN | 800 | Named for the trees that grew in its hills, this city is a few miles across the bay from San Francisco

Oakland

GREEK ISLANDS | 800 | In 2010 Giorgio Armani bought Skorpios for $190 million from heirs of this billionaire who married Jackie Kennedy

Onassis

WORLD CITIES | 800 | (Vanna White delivers the clue from Jamaica.)Most cruise ships on Jamaica's northern coast dock at this port, whose name is Spanish for Eight Rivers

Ocho Rios

TRAVEL BOOKS | 600 | Alice Steinbach's intimate memoir of her world travels is titled ""Without"" these, what you might need to get a good table

Reservations

ATLANTIC CITIES | 800 | A statue of Leif Eriksson, a gift from the U.S., stands in front of Hallgrimskirkja church in this capital

Reykjavik

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) Honored with a monument, the 500 black soldiers at Valley Forge included the U.S. military's first African-American unit of free men, the regiment known as the First of this Ocean State

Rhode Island

SUPERLATIVE STATES | 200 | Smallest state:This, 1,214 square miles

Rhode Island

THE 6 NEW ENGLAND STATES | 1000 | Jack Reed is one of its senators

Rhode Island

MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS | 400 | Around 226 B.C. a ""colossal"" earthquake destroyed the statue of Helios on this island

Rhodes

AMERICAN CITIES | 200 | Once part of New Sweden, this Pennsylvania city is found where the Schuylkill River meets the Delaware River

Philadelphia

STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES | 1000 | Maine: about 66,000

Portland

THE U.S. CITY RAINS SUPREME | 1000 | Flowers get plenty of chances to bloom in this Pacific Northwest ""City of Roses"" with 37"" of rain a year

Portland

AIRPORT | 600 | To accommodate big jets, a girder bridge helped extend the runway 4,000 feet at Madeira International on an island of this nation

Portugal

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES | 1200 | The Tagus River runs across the entire width of this country

Portugal

EXTREME GEOGRAPHY | 200 | The westernmost point in continental Europe is Cape Roca in this country on a peninsula

Portugal

THE MAP OF EUROPE | 400 | In the 12th century, Afonso I reigned over this republic

Portugal

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA | 2000 | Countries using this as their official language include Mozambique & Guinea-Bissau

Portuguese

CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY | 200 | This province seen here has more than a third of Canada's people

Ontario

ISLAND FACTS | 400 | Manitoulin Island, the world's largest lake island, lies in Lake Huron & belongs to this Canadian province

Ontario

TRAVEL & TOURISM | 1000 | A boat on Lake Powell gives great views of this Utah natural bridge that's over 200 feet in both length & height

Rainbow Bridge

U.S. FORCES OVERSEAS | 2000 | (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from Germany.) Landstuhl Regional Medical Center is the largest American hospital outside the United States; most of its patients are wounded warriors who are flown in for care to this nearby well-known American airbase in Germany

Ramstein

CITY OF BIRTH | 800 | Aung San Suu Kyi

Rangoon (or Yangon)

SEAS THE DAY | 1200 | Instead of traveling around Denmark, ships often use the Kiel Canal to travel between the Baltic & this sea

the North Sea

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | Resorts in these barrier islands off North Carolina include Manteo & Wanchese on Roanoke Island

the Outer Banks

THE COUNTRY'S PRESIDENT | 600 | Ferdinand Marcos (1965 to 1986)

the Philippines

ITALIAN GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | The name of this region in northwest Italy known for its prize-winning wines means ""foot of the mountain""

the Piedmont

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | This Alaskan island group named for a Russian trader has more than 200 bird species in addition to its famous fur seals

the Pribilof Islands

TRANSPORTATION | 800 | In 1997 Toyota introduced this model, the world's first mass-produced hybrid passenger car

the Prius

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | Lake Texoma on the border of Texas & Oklahoma was created by the building of the Denison Dam on this river

the Red River

A RIVER RUNS BETWEEN THEM | 800 | Switzerland & Liechtenstein

the Rhine

EUROPE IN LATIN | 200 | A river:Rhenus

the Rhine

RIVERS ON THE BORDER | 1200 | This river is on the border of Germany & Switzerland

the Rhine

EUROPEAN RIVERS | 2000 | Cities on this important commercial waterway include Geneva, Lyon & Avignon

the Rhone

CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY | 400 | The Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s took place in this territory that borders Alaska

the Yukon

SOUND GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | This 1,980-mile-long river flows across Alaska & enters the Bering Sea via Norton Sound

the Yukon

A RIVER RUNS BETWEEN THEM | 1600 | Zimbabwe & Zambia

the Zambezi

COUNTRY ROADS | 400 | Pamplona's Calle Estafeta is where you can see these ruminants make their ""run"" each July

the bulls

COUNTRIES' CURRENCIES | 1200 | Before adopting the euro, Italy & Vatican City used this monetary unit

the lira

GEOGRAPHIC ABBREV. | 600 | SL:This West African nation

Sierra Leone

OH, B-CITY IN AFRICA | 800 | The city of Bo is a metropolis of 150,000 in this West African nation with a name from Portuguese

Sierra Leone

SEAN CONNERY & BURT REYNOLDS | 800 | Got your ears on, Snowman? Burt was eastbound & down, loaded up & truckin' in this 1977 comedy

Smokey and the Bandit

5-LETTER CAPITAL CITIES | 1600 | Have the wisdom to know that this capital lies at the geographic center of the Balkans

Sofia

NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD | 400 | Eucalyptus is common in Southwest National Park on this island state of Australia

Tasmania

CENTRAL PARK | 1600 | Cheers to this iconic restaurant that reopened its doors in 2014

Tavern on the Green

RED STATES | 200 | Going Republican in each presidential race since 1980, it's the second-largest state in both area & population

Texas

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

Texas

SUPERLATIVE STATES | 1000 | Widest highway:The Katy Freeway in this state, 26 lanes

Texas

STATES' LONGEST BORDERS | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The longest border between two states is the 715-mile border between these two states

Texas & Oklahoma

STATE BY COUNTIES | 1600 | 2 states, please:Franklin,Crockett,Knox

Texas & Tennessee

GEOGRAPHY CLASS | 1000 | The city of Chiang Mai in this country is home to Baan Chang Elephant Park

Thailand

GEOGRAPHY IN RHYME | 800 | Uttaradit & Surin were places to go /In Hua Hin, what a fabulous show /I was out on tour with my band /In the country of...

Thailand

STATES' MOST POPULOUS COUNTIES | 800 | Fairfax County

Virginia

STUFF ABOUT STATES | 1600 | Of the 4 states officially called commonwealths, it's alphabetically last

Virginia

THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA | 1600 | Fredericksburg in this state changed hands 7 times during the Civil War

Virginia

THE UNITED STATES OF KENTUCKY | 400 | It was one of the original 13 colonies

Virginia

FEWER THAN A THOUSAND ISLANDS | 600 | A part of this island that's on the Susquehanna hit 4,000 degrees in a hurry in 1979

Three Mile Island

U.S. RIVERS | 1600 | This northern Indiana river from which a U.S. president received his nickname is fed by 88 natural lakes

Tippecanoe

JAPANESE CITIES | 800 | Koromo got this new name in 1959 to reflect the importance of its major employer, an auto manufacturer

Toyota

ATLANTIC CITY | 1000 | Borgata's poker room has a jackpot for one of these alliterative outcomes, like when your 4 10s loses to 4 aces

bad beat

U.S. CITY SEALS | 800 | In 1874 Philadelphia added the phrase ""Philadelphia maneto"", which means ""let"" this 2-word phrase ""continue""

brotherly love

EASTER ISLAND | 800 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Easter Island.) Moai, the giant stone statues that grace Easter Island, sit atop ceremonial pedestals known as ahus, that could also serve as these, celebrating important figures within

burial chambers

ADVENTURE TRAVEL | 400 | Many visitors make the 3-hour hike from the Mexican town of Angagueo to see the winter home of millions of these insects

butterflies

LONDON TRANSPORTATION | 800 | To do their job, they must pass an exam known as ""The Knowledge"" to show they know all of London's streets

cab drivers

CITY NICKNAMES | 400 | Agadir, Morocco is ""the City of Blue Men"", for the uniform of the drivers of these animals

camels

SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE | 200 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Warthogs are good fighters--butting heads & then using their tusks, which are actually these teeth also called cuspids in humans

canines (the eye teeth accepted)

U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD | 1600 | Have the vision to know that Holtville, Calif. makes its claim as this root vegetable ""capital of the world""

carrots

MAPS & GLOBES | 1200 | In 1700 Guillaume Delisle created 2 globes: one terrestrial, the other this type that ends with the same 3 letters

celestial

AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS | 800 | (Kareem Abdul-Jabar delivers the clue.) Granville T. Woods enabled moving trains to communicate with each other & with railray stations, reducing collisions & saving lives via the electric induction telegraph, which used existing telegraph lines & a coil in the train to produce this field around the train

electromagnetic

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT | 600 | Each year at Titusville, New Jersey, you can see a reenactment of the crossing of this river

the Delaware

RIVER UNDER THE BRIDGE | 1200 | Beneath the Ben Franklin Bridge that links Philadelphia & Camden, New Jersey

the Delaware

COUNTRIES WITH SHORT COASTLINES | 1600 | One of the largest countries in Africa at 905,000 sq. mi., this democratic republic has only a 23-mile coastline along the Atlantic

the Democratic Republic of the Congo

RIVERS | 1600 | The longest river entirely in Spain, it rises in the Cantabrian Mountains

the Ebro

A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER | 800 | Everyone remember where we parked! The van's in Al Qurnah, Iraq, where this 1,700-mile-long river joins the Tigris!

the Euphrates

CITIES ON THE RIVER | 800 | Varanasi &Allahabad

the Ganges

RIVER BANK ON IT | 1000 | It's an ancient custom to cremate the dead along this river's banks at Varanasi

the Ganges

RIVER UNDER THE BRIDGE | 1600 | Under the Mahatma Gandhi Setu Bridge in India

the Ganges

GEOGRAPHY FROM SPACE | 2000 | 2 nations share the 220-mile-wide delta of this Asian river

the Ganges River

IT'S NATIONAL PARK WEEK | 1600 | St. Louis' Jefferson National Expansion Memorial includes this landmark that cost $13 million to build

the Gateway Arch

TRAVEL & TOURISM | 600 | Here are the bright lights of Chuo-dori Street in this Tokyo shopping district

the Ginza

GEOGRAPHY | 800 | China is planting a new forest to stop this desert's southward expansion

the Gobi Desert

IN THE NATIONAL PARK | 1200 | Bright Angel Trail,East Rim Drive

the Grand Canyon

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK | 600 | This feature of the park was carved out by the Yellowstone River; the one in Arizona is a little deeper

the Grand Canyon

A QUICK DIP IN THE LAKE | 400 | In area, it's the largest inland saline body of water in North America

the Great Salt Lake

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

the Great Salt Lake

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 600 | The Jordan River rises in Utah Lake & empties into this one

the Great Salt Lake

MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY | 800 | There's the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea,and this national body of water indicated here

the Gulf of Oman

LINES ON THE MAP | 600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) China claims as its territorial waters everything within the Nine-Dash line; it used to have eleven dashes, but when Communist Vietnam was a closer ally, two in this gulf were dropped

the Gulf of Tonkin

GEOGRAPHY | 200 | 25,646-foot Nanda Devi, the highest peak wholly within India, lies in this range

the Himalayas

WORLD FLAGS | 400 | The 2 triangles of Nepal's flag symbolize these mountains

the Himalayas

BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER.... | 800 | The George Washington bridge, from Fort Lee to Manhattan

the Hudson

THE MOVIE MAP | 200 | Bill Murray as FDR: ""Hyde Park On ___""

the Hudson

ALL ABOOT CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | Take the combined area of the Great Lakes, multiply that by 3, & you're still short of this bay named for an English explorer

the Hudson Bay

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH THE BOOK | 800 | Years after Isaac Bashevis Singer's death came the first English translation of ""Shadows on"" this urban river

the Hudson River

RIVER UNDER THE BRIDGE | 400 | Under the Rip Van Winkle & Tappan Zee bridges in New York

the Hudson River

STATE FLAGS | 400 | On New York's state flag, 2 ships are sailing on this river

the Hudson River

MEANINGS OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES | 1000 | The name of this waterfall on the Argentina-Brazil border is derived from a Guarani word meaning ""great water""

the Iguazú (Falls)

EUROPE TO NO GOOD | 1200 | For his preferred method of executing his enemies, Prince Vlad III of Walachia earned this nickname

the Impaler

LAKES & RIVERS | 800 | The Ravi, as in Shankar, is a major tributary of this river that winds from Tibet to Pakistan

the Indus

MANY RIVERS TO CROSS | 600 | One of the cradles of civilization, the ancient city of Mohenjo-daro lies along this river in Pakistan

the Indus

THE RIVER'S TRIBUTARIES | 2000 | Kabul,Gar,Panjnad

the Indus

RIVERS | 2000 | The name of this river that runs through Myanmar is thought to come from a Sanskrit term meaning ""elephant river""

the Irrawaddy

NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD | 800 | This giant monitor lizard is a must-see on a visit to the Indonesian park located on 3 of the Lesser Sunda Islands

the Komodo dragon

AMERICAN LAKES | 2000 | Due to its serpentine curves, this large reservoir in central Missouri has been called ""the Magic Dragon""

the Lake of the Ozarks

GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 800 | Sort of the Prairies of South America, they derive their name from a Quechua Indian word

the Pampas

ON THE OLD MAP OF EUROPE | 2000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A big player in Medieval & Renaissance times, by 1861, the entity known as these ""States"" shrank to a dot on the map

the Papal States

MAPPING THE NFL | 800 | Based on the location of its stadium, this is the NFL's easternmost team.

the Patriots

THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ATLAS SHRUGGED | 400 | Though the Atlas says, ""This body of water is referred to by some as the Arabian Gulf"", it's ""commonly known as"" this

the Persian Gulf

UNDER THE SEA OR OCEAN | 2000 | Sea:The West Mariana Basin

the Philippine Sea

NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD | 1200 | A death march memorial can be found in Roosevelt Park, a part of this country's Bataan National Park

the Philippines

WHAT COUNTRY ARE YOU FROM? | 1000 | A Pinoy

the Philippines

U.S. RIVERS | 400 | Mount Vernon is on the banks of this river

the Potomac

COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Its widest point, around 200 miles, lies between Eritrea & Saudi Arabia

the Red Sea

RIVERS | 1200 | In Mexico, what we call the Rio Grande is called this, also the title of a John Wayne movie

the Rio Bravo

TRAVEL & TOURISM | 800 | It's the French name of the Seine's Left Bank, home to the Sorbonne & intellectual life

the Rive Gauche

EUROPEAN LAKES & RIVERS | 1600 | It rises under Cuilcagh Mountain & divides Ireland almost in 2

the River Shannon

AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY | 400 | The Libyan Desert forms the northeastern part of this larger desert

the Sahara

MAPPING THE NFL | 200 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of the U.S. with two cities marked.) Situated more than 2,700 miles apart, they're the northernmost & southernmost NFL teams

the Seahawks & the Dolphins

BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER.... | 400 | Paris' oldest, the Pont Neuf

the Seine

MANY RIVERS TO CROSS | 200 | Rising in the Langres Plateau, it flows 480 miles across France before reaching the English Channel

the Seine

RIVER BANK ON IT | 400 | It turns so sharply on its trip through Paris that its west bank becomes its east, so locals say Right & Left Bank instead

the Seine

RIVER UNDER THE BRIDGE | 800 | Beneath the Gustave Flaubert Bridge in Rouen

the Seine

AFRICANA | 1200 | This Tanzanian plain is home to the great annual migration of the wildebeest

the Serengeti

NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD | 800 | A Tanzanian national park on this plain features grassland & migrating antelope & zebras

the Serengeti

EUROPEAN RIVERS | 800 | Surrounded by peat bogs for much of its course, this 224-mile river drains most of central Ireland

the Shannon

RIVER RUN | 1200 | From the Cuilcagh Mountains to the Atlantic west of Limerick

the Shannon

ISLANDS | 600 | A breed of horse & a breed of dog are named for these Scottish islands

the Shetland Islands

BRITISH GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Out Stack, a rocky islet in this ""equine"" island group, is the United Kingdom's northernmost point

the Shetlands

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 600 | If you want to cross this California range, the best way is to use the Donner Pass over 7,000 feet up

the Sierra Nevada

THAT'S LUNAR SEA! | 800 | The moon's Mare Orientale is the Eastern Sea & the Mare Australe is this one

the Southern

AFRICAN AMERICANS | 1000 | (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar presents the clue.) In 1893 internal surgery was rare--most patients died of infection--but that year Dr. Daniel Hale Williams used antiseptic methods during one of the first successful open-heart surgeries suturing this sac around the heart

the pericardium

STATE CAPITALS | 800 | Atlanta's seal features this mythic bird, which symbolizes its rebuilding that began in 1865

the phoenix

DISEASES NAMED FOR PEOPLE | 1600 | Cushing's disease is caused by a tumor of this gland that sits on the underside of the brain

the pituitary

I STAND BEFORE THE COUNTRY | 400 | Before ""Verde""

Cape

TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS | 400 | Zagreb

Croatia

I STAND BEFORE THE COUNTRY | 200 | Before ""Timor""

East

STATES' LOWEST POINTS | 400 | Minnesota:On the western shore of this lake

Lake Superior

CITY BY STATUE | 200 | The 17-foot Lord Nelson atop his column

London

COUNTRY BY STATE | 600 | Hidalgo

Mexico

COUNTRIES IN 3 WORDS | 600 | Also called Burma

Myanmar

2-TIMING STATES | 800 | If it's midnight in Scottsbluff in this state, it's 1 a.m. in Kearney

Nebraska

BIG CITY SUBURBS | 400 | Scottsdale,Mesa

Phoenix

WHAT COUNTRY ARE YOU FROM? | 600 | A Medinan or a Khobari

Saudi Arabia

IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | 200 | The Nobel Museum, ABBA the Museum

Stockholm

CITIES IN SONG | 800 | Billy Joel:""Well, we're living here... and they're closing all the factories down""

Allentown

ON THE MAP | 800 | This region making up most of Turkey takes its name from the Greek for ""east""

Anatolia

IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | 1000 | The Sigmund Freud Museum, the Augarten

Vienna

U.S. STATES' LARGEST ISLANDS | 2000 | Home to the town of Bar Harbor, Maine is Mount this island

(Mount) Desert

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: CELEBRATING 125 YEARS | 1000 | In a 2004 article, this man, who found the Titanic 19 years earlier, surveys damage done to the wreck by the curious & greedy

(Robert) Ballard

STUFF ABOUT STATES | 800 | This original 13er is the largest state in land area east of the Mississippi River

Georgia

YOU DO THE GEOGRAPHIC MATH | 800 | The number of countries that begin with Q times the number of countries that begin with X

0

COUNTRY MATH | 800 | Stripes on the U.S. flag minus colors on the French flag

10

COUNTRY MATH | 1200 | The number of Canadian provinces times the number of Canadian official languages

20

THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION | 400 | The Emergency Operations Center, the CDC's control room for threats including quakes & anthrax, dates to Sept. of this year

2001

COUNTRY MATH | 1600 | The number of countries on Hispaniola plus the number on Timor

4

YOU DO THE GEOGRAPHIC MATH | 1600 | The number of continents minus the number of mountains above 29,000 feet

6

YOU DO THE GEOGRAPHIC MATH | 400 | The number of American colonies at the time of the Revolution plus the number of states today

63

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 800 | Freed slave Richard Allen was the founder & first bishop of the church known by these 3 initials for short

AME

GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | This body of water is indicated here

Adriatic Sea

COUNTRIES' PROVINCES | 800 | Kandahar & Baglan

Afghanistan

LET'S GO TO THE ISLANDS | 800 | When you said let's go to the islands, I didn't know you meant the Pribilof Islands in this state or I'd have brought a sweater

Alaska

STATES' HIGH & LOW POINTS | 200 | High:20,320 feet in Denali Borough

Alaska

U.S. STATES | 200 | The coldest on average

Alaska

U.S. STATES | 400 | The northernmost

Alaska

INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC | 600 | Lines of latitude & longitude & a bumpier part defined by the Rockies form the borders of this Canadian province

Alberta

MAP QUEST | 1000 | Named for a Spanish duke, it's the county seat of Bernalillo County

Albuquerque

ISLAND PRISONS | 400 | Notorious gangster ""Machine Gun"" Kelly spent 1934 to 1951 in this West Coast lockup

Alcatraz

ISLAND PRISONS | 800 | Inmates who died while incarcerated at this prison were turned over to the San Francisco County Coroner

Alcatraz

CITIES | 1000 | 2016 presidential candidate Gary Johnson seemed unfamiliar with this Syrian city, called Halab in Arabic

Aleppo

CAPTURE THE FLAG | 2000 | Symbols on the flag of this country come from a flag flown during resistance to French colonialism

Algeria

WHAT A COUNTRY! | 1200 | Between Morocco & Tunisia, it's almost 3.5 times the size of Texas

Algeria

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 1600 | Set in Georgia, her first novel was 1970's ""The Third Life of Grange Copeland""

Alice Walker

ASIAN CAPITALS | 1200 | It's the capital of a Hashemite kingdom

Amman

WORLD CAPITAL POINTS OF INTEREST | 800 | Enjoy the Van Gogh Museum & the Stock Exchange, founded in 1602 in this city... but don't stop for any red lights

Amsterdam

AFRICAN HISTORY | 2000 | In 2003 this southern African country's army & a rival faction, Unita, signed a ceasefire, ending a 27-year civil war

Angola

VWLLSS AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 1600 | NGL

Angola

TRAVELING ALONG THE 40th PARALLEL N. | 1200 | If you want to stand on the 40th parallel in this capital, go to Ataturk Forest Farm & Zoo; you'll be pretty close

Ankara

MAP QUEST | 800 | A-squared equals good times in this city, home to a 40,000-studentuniversity

Ann Arbor

STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES | 1200 | ""Crabtown""

Annapolis

ALSO A SEA | 800 | The emir Abd el-Kader wrote about the history of this horse breed

Arabian

THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS | 1200 | Most scrolls were written in Hebrew, a few in Greek & the rest in this common language of the Jews at the time

Aramaic

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD | 400 | It takes 2 to do the tango, the national dance of this country where it originated

Argentina

STATES BY COUNTIES | 800 | Apache, Yuma

Arizona

STATES' HIGH & LOW POINTS | 600 | Low:Colorado River in Yuma County

Arizona

STATES' MOST POPULOUS COUNTIES | 2000 | Maricopa County

Arizona

STATE FLAGS | 2000 | This state's flag was designed by Miss Willie Hocker of the D.A.R.'s Pine Bluff chapter

Arkansas

OLYMPIC CITY ATTRACTIONS | 200 | The Theatre of Dionysus

Athens

BIG BUILDING OF THE CITY | 400 | 191 Peachtree Tower

Atlanta

STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 400 | The World of Coca-Cola, a multimedia experience

Atlanta

MUSIC CITIES, USA | 1200 | Stevie Ray Vaughan was one of this city's music legends, & a statue of him stands on the shores of its Lady Bird Lake

Austin

STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES | 200 | ""The Fun-tier Capital of Texas""

Austin

GUYS, CAPITALISM WORKS! | 800 | Better known as a novelist, she defended the morality of laissez-faire in ""Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal""

Ayn Rand

MOVIES' MAIN CITIES | 1000 | ""Avalon"" &""Diner""

Baltimore

GEOGRAPHY 101 | 800 | About 23 degrees N. of the equator is the Tropic of Cancer; about 23 degrees S. of the equator is the Tropic of this

Capricorn

HIDDEN U.K. CITIES | 800 | Before her beau arrived, Isabel fastidiously adjusted her bonnet

Belfast

4-LETTER U.S. CITIES | 1600 | The most populated city in Central Oregon, it's a mecca for outdoor enthusiasts

Bend

CAPITAL CITY HOTELS | 800 | Hotel Adlon Kempinski,Hotel California am Kurfurstendamm

Berlin

CITY BOOKS | 2000 | City preceding ""Alexanderplatz"" in the title of an Alfred Doblin novel

Berlin

GEOGRAPHICAL MUSIC GROUPS | 800 | ""Take My Breath Away""(1986)

Berlin

ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES | 2000 | Tango & Cheri are important Buddhist monasteries near Thimphu in this Himalayan nation

Bhutan

THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED | 1200 | A seminal L.A. punk band of the 1980s, or what a NASCAR driver gets if he's caught speeding on pit road

Black Flag

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 200 | This phrase of protest coined by Alicia Garza has become a hashtag & a movement

Black Lives Matter

COUNTRIES IN 3 WORDS | 200 | South America's largest

Brazil

ISLAND HOPPING | 400 | From London to Londonderry

Britain to Ireland

ALL ABOOT CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY | 800 | The southern border of this westernmost province touches Idaho & Montana

British Columbia

STATES THAT BORDER CANADA | 600 | All of Washington's 427-mile border with Canada is with this province

British Columbia

GEOGRAPHY BY THE BOOK | 400 | A classic:""A Tree Grows in ____""

Brooklyn

CAPITAL CITY CHURCHES | 1000 | Matthias Church, or Matyas Templom, where Franz Joseph was crowned in 1867

Budapest

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC AKAs | 200 | Aquincum was the Roman name for this place that's now the capital of Hungary

Budapest

SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS | 400 | For a brief period in the early 19th century, it was the capital of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata

Buenos Aires

SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS | 400 | Stand back--it's the capital seen here

Buenos Aires

COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | In the Middle Ages this historic region of France included half of what is now Switzerland

Burgundy

AFRICA | 400 | Built around 1855, the first railroad in Africa linked Alexandria to this capital 100 miles away

Cairo

IN THE CAPITAL CITY | 200 | Oct. 6, 1981:Anwar Sadat is assassinated

Cairo

COUNTRIES' ETHNIC GROUPS | 200 | 90% Khmer

Cambodia

COUNTRY MEN | 400 | The ancient sage Kambu Svayambhuva lent his name to this country

Cambodia

COUNTRY MUSIC | 2000 | The Dead Kennedys,1980:""Holiday In ____""

Cambodia

ON THE OLD MAP | 800 | Called New Towne when Harvard college was established, the city soon got this name

Cambridge

NAME THE CAPITAL | 400 | Australia

Canberra

SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS | 600 | Oils well that ends well in this city by the Caribbean coast that became a capital in the 1820s

Caracas

CITY-TITLED MOVIES | 400 | In this film Ingrid Bergman asks Humphrey Bogart, ""Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?""

Casablanca

U.S. ISLANDS | 1000 | For 3 decades, this California island's Avalon Ballroom has been home to the JazzTrax music festival

Catalina

U.S. CITY NAME ORIGINS | 800 | Raleigh & Durham were named for people; this third leg of ""the Triangle"" got its name from a small church

Chapel Hill

ON THE ISLAND | 1200 | A fatal car crash on this island dashed Ted Kennedy's presidential chances

Chappaquiddick

WORLD AIRPORTS | 1000 | You can still see one of Air France's Concorde jets outside the Paris airport named for him

Charles de Gaulle

STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES | 1000 | ""The Home of Frontier Days""

Cheyenne

SKYSCRAPER CITY | 600 | The John Hancock Center at 875 N. Michigan Avenue

Chicago

COUNTRY MUSIC | 1600 | David Bowie,1983:""____ Girl""

China

COUNTRY ROADS | 600 | In the 1990s this country built a highway across the Takla Makan Desert, an area where once the Silk Road ran

China

REVOLUTIONARY COUNTRIES | 400 | The Cultural Revolution (1966)

China

THE COUNTRY DUE SOUTH | 200 | of Ulan Bator, Mongolia

China

THE MOVIE MAP | 600 | A Kurt Russell adventure: ""Big Trouble In Little ___""

China

CENTRAL PARK | 1200 | The oldest man-made object in the park, it originally stood on the banks of the Nile

Cleopatra\'s Needle

STATE THE CITY | 200 | Ohio: The most populous on Lake Erie

Cleveland

COUNTRY FACTS | 600 | A leading coffee & coal producer, this country ranks 2nd in population in South America

Colombia

ASIAN GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | Kotte, a suburb of this city, was once a capital of Sinhalese kings

Colombo

THE NORTHERNMOST STATE CAPITAL | 800 | Boston,Concord,Hartford

Concord

THE COUNTRY'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER... | 1600 | is entombed in Plac Pilsudskiego

Poland

U.S. ISLANDS | 200 | Long Island has 4 counties: Nassau, Suffolk, Kings & this

Queens

WELL-SEASONED BOOKS | 800 | This 1962 book warned that ""chemicals sprayed on croplands or forests or gardens lie long in soil""

Silent Spring

COUNTRIES BY AIRPORTS | 1000 | La Coloma &Jose Marti International

Cuba

ISLAND FACTS | 800 | Found in the Caribbean, it's the most populous island country in the western hemisphere

Cuba

SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES | 2000 | The inner city of this Incan capital was laid out in the shape of a puma whose head was the fort of Sacsayhuaman

Cusco

ISLAND NATIONS | 600 | Just like Greece, the Greek section of this Asian island nation in the Mediterranean has a Mount Olympus

Cyprus

WORLD CAPITAL POINTS OF INTEREST | 200 | The tomb of Saladin is in this Syrian capital

Damascus

STATES THAT BEGIN WITH CALIFORN | 400 | Lying chiefly in Cali, this national park boasts the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere--282' below sea level

Death Valley

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES | 800 | About 5 million live in this country

Denmark

SKYSCRAPER CITY | 400 | Republic Plaza, rising 714 feet (not a mile)

Denver

SEAN CONNERY & BURT REYNOLDS | 200 | Do be careful, 007! Sean's first movie adventure as James Bond pitted him against this ""physician"" in 1962

Dr. No

TRAVEL & TOURISM | 400 | If you want to see the Book of Kells, it's on display at the Old Library at Trinity College in this city

Dublin

TRAVEL & TOURISM | 800 | Looking for the Peacock Theatre in this city? It's under the foyer of the Abbey Theatre

Dublin

WORLD CAPITAL MUSEUMS | 200 | The Guinness Storehouse

Dublin

ON THE MAP | 1000 | One of the world's newest countries, it gained its independence in 2002

East Timor

DOUBLE UP ON YOUR COUNTRIES | 1600 | Of the 5 nations with compass directions in their names, 3 use ""South""; these 2 do not

East Timor & North Korea

ON WHAT ISLAND? | 800 | Around 800 monumental Moai

Easter Island

CAPITAL CITY CHURCHES | 600 | The High Kirk of St. Giles, where John Knox was minister

Edinburgh

CAPITAL CITY HOTELS | 1000 | The Balmoral,Nira Caledonia

Edinburgh

LET'S TRAVEL | 1200 | Visitors to this inventor's New Jersey lab can hear recordings from his 1890 talking doll, a costly failure

Edison

U.S. CITIES | 800 | The Olympics were held in the U.S. for the first time in 1904, hosted by this city that was also holding the World's Fair

St. Louis

BORDERING THE RED SEA | 1000 | Snorkel or sunbathe at the southernmost point in Israel, this resort city at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba

Eilat

COUNTRY ROADS | 1000 | Also the title of an Eddy Grant hit, it was London's first shopping street with a certain type of illumination

Electric Avenue

NEW TOURIST SLOGANS FOR ISLANDS? | 400 | About 1/2 mile north of Liberty Island: ""Come see where the Smazedkiewiczes became the Smiths""

Ellis Island

RUSSIAN CITIES | 1200 | Russia not only has a city named Marx, it has one named this for his co-writer

Engels

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA | 1200 | (Sara gives the clue from Pretoria, South Africa)In 1908, in Pretoria, South Africa, the Union Buildingswere designed to represent the unity of a once-divided people, with the two identical wings symbolizing these two then-official languages.

English and Afrikaans

LANDLOCKED AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 400 | After the 1993 secession of Eritrea, this other ""E"" nation became landlocked

Ethiopia

ON THE MAP | 200 | Get this country on the Horn of Africa

Ethiopia

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 2000 | In 2014 this former stand-up comic released his 21st novel, ""A Wanted Woman""

Eric Jerome Dickey

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Kelleys Island, Ohio's largest island, lies within this Great Lake

Erie

ON THE MAP | 1000 | In the trio of nations seen here, this one is the northernmost

Estonia

WELCOME TO THE U.N. | 1000 | 1991:From Europe's upper right-hand corner, Latvia, Lithuania & this republic

Estonia

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

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

CITY FOUNDERS | 1200 | This home to the University of Oregon was founded by a Mr. Skinner & given his first name

Eugene

U.S. CITY NICKNAMES | 600 | Oregon:""Track Town USA""

Eugene

WHAT THE CITY NAME MEANS | 800 | Mr. Skinner, Oregon

Eugene

TRAVELING | 1000 | Finding guidebooks of his time boring, this Hungarian started his own travel series with 1936's ""On the Continent""

Eugene Fodor

U.S. CITY NAME ORIGINS | 1600 | This city that developed around Northwestern University was named for one of the school's benefactors

Evanston

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 400 | African-American History Month is celebrated in this month

February

EARLY U.S. CAPITALS | 800 | Pierre L'Enfant remodeled this hall in Lower Manhattan before it was the seat of government in 1789 & 1790

Federal Hall

BALLPARK FACTS & FIGURES | 200 | In 1934 this A.L. park got a new left field wall; in 1947 that wall was painted green to match the rest of the park

Fenway

WHAT A COUNTRY! | 800 | It's in between Ethiopia & Tanzania, ""K""?

Kenya

4-LETTER COUNTRY NAMES | 1600 | A Pacific island republic

Fiji

ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC | 400 | A brand of water named for this Pacific island nation is bottled at the source, the Yaqara Valley on Viti Levu

Fiji

LAKES | 400 | Lake Ladoga was divided between the Soviet Union & this nation until a 1940 war, when the Soviets seized the entire lake

Finland

AFRICAN LEADERS | 800 | Add a syllable to ""Kenya"" to get this last name of Kenya's first & current presidents, father & son

Kenyatta

THE COUNTIES OF IRELAND | 2000 | The lakes of Killarney & Dingle Peninsula make this SW county one of Ireland's most popular tourist destinations

Kerry

2-TIMING STATES | 1000 | In Michigan they're still asleep in Ironwood but getting up in this rock-hard seat of Genesee County

Flint

CAPTURE THE FLAG | 400 | A Seminole woman scatters flowers on the flag of this state

Florida

CURRENT SENATORS' STATES | 600 | This state:Nelson & Rubio

Florida

THE 50 STATES | 200 | That's a Space Shuttle above the trees on this state's quarter

Florida

GEOGRAPHICAL MUSIC GROUPS | 2000 | ""Dirt""(a 2-state country group)

Florida Georgia Line

MEANINGS OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES | 800 | The name of this Wisconsin city is French for ""bottom of the lake"", its position

Fond du Lac

U.S. CITIES | 1200 | Let's head for spring break at this ""Fort"" city known as the ""Venice of America"" for its many inland waterways

Fort Lauderdale

ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES | 1000 | NEWT FORAY,Indiana

Fort Wayne, Indiana

HOW TO DRAIN YOUR FLAGON | 800 | It took a while to drain your flagon after pouring a 25.4-ounce can of this Australian beer that hit U.S. shelves in 1972

Foster\'s

TRAVELING | 200 | In Bali, this luxury hotel chain calls its suites ""Royal Villas"", Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall

Four Seasons

THE HOT SEAT | 800 | This Russki's seat got hotter after the Cuban Missile Crisis, & he was out of power in 2 years

Khrushchev

COMPOSERS' COUNTRY OF BIRTH | 800 | Hector Berlioz

France

COUNTRIES' NATIONAL ANTHEMS | 200 | ""La Marseillaise""

France

IT BORDERS BOTH COUNTRIES | 200 | Germany &Spain

France

ON THE ISLAND | 1600 | Sarah stands by a map The 9.1 earthquake that caused the devastating moved part of this Indonesian island that was closest to the epicenter, 100 feet to the southwest

Sumatra

THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY | 2000 | Erech & Kish were cities of this earliest known civilization that flourished in Iraq in the 3rd millennium B.C.

Sumeria

SEASONAL SONGS | 800 | A top 20 hit for Bananarama: ""Cruel _____""

Summer

NAME THE CAPITAL | 200 | Kentucky

Frankfort

PARTS OF THE CITY | 1200 | In Gainesville, Florida, Kappa Alpha & Sigma Nu are on this row

Fraternity Row

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 1200 | The 1845 ""Narrative of the Life of"" this man was published just 7 years after he escaped slavery

Frederick Douglass

AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE | 1600 | ""My Bondage and My Freedom"" from 1855 is his second autobiography

Frederick Douglass

HO CHI MINH CITY | 600 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.) Built in the 1890s, Ho Chi Minh City's opera house is an outstanding example of the elegant architecture called French this

French Colonial

THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ATLAS SHRUGGED | 200 | The Atlas' map of cellphone use by country has a ""no data"" blank space for this French territory in South America

French Guiana

GUYS, CAPITALISM WORKS! | 2000 | The Uncle Miltie of economics, he wrote in ""Capitalism and Freedom"" that the former creates the latter

Friedman

LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES | 1200 | In the early 1700s immigrants from Fukien Province on the Chinese mainland founded this capital not on the mainland

Taipei

NAME THE CAPITAL | 400 | Taiwan

Taipei

EUROPEAN CITIES | 400 | Native son Christopher Columbus embodies the maritime tradition of this city

Genoa

ITALIAN CITIES | 600 | This seaport in Liguria lends its name to a popular type of salami

Genoa

ITALIAN GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | Italy's chief seaport, it lies on the northern end of the Ligurian Sea

Genoa

AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS | 1600 | In 1997 15 members of Parliament & Funkadelic were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame along with this leader

George Clinton

STATES' LONGEST BORDERS | 2000 | Of Florida's 2 state borders, its longer one is with this state

Georgia

COUNTRIES IN SPANISH | 1600 | Alemania

Germany

COUNTRY BORDERS | 200 | On its north, Denmark;on its south, Switzerland

Germany

COUNTRY BY STATE | 200 | Hessen

Germany

ELLIS ISLAND | 800 | During WWI, about 1,800 citizens of this country were seized at ports & interned at Ellis Island before being deported

Germany

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES | 800 | 2001:U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan

Ghana

GEOGRAPHY 101 | 600 | 277 miles long & often 1 mile deep, it's the largest gorge in the U.S. of A.

Grand Canyon

CITY SEALS | 1600 | The capital of Switzerland has had this animal on its seal since the 1200s

a bear

PARKS | 1000 | It's not a bridge too far to visit this 1,000-acre San Francisco destination; 13 million folks do that every year

Golden Gate Park

ATLANTIC CITY | 600 | It's fitting that this Atlantic City casino comps with its 24 Karat Club

Golden Nugget

PARKS | 800 | Lonely Planet says this landmark, also a title of a novel, ""is one of the most festive places in Moscow""

Gorky Park

TRAILER PARK | 1000 | Julian Fellowes penned this 2001 Robert Altman murder mystery with a trailer showing Clive Owen as a valet

Gosford Park

NATIONAL PARKS | 400 | (Hi, I'm Ken Burns.) My 2009 film tells the history of many of our country's most prized lands, including Yellowstone, the first National Park, established by this president in 1872

Grant

MAP QUEST | 600 | Antelope Island, oddly home to a herd of wild buffalo,is the largest islandin this U.S. body of water

Great Salt Lake

GREAT & OTHER LAKES | 600 | The town of Yellowknife is located on the shore of this ""Great"" Canadian lake

Great Slave Lake

COUNTRIES BY AIRPORTS | 600 | Kalamata &Kos

Greece

CARIBBEAN CAPITALS | 400 | Spice baskets are popular gift items you can purchase in St. George's, capital of this island invaded by the U.S. in 1983

Grenada

COUNTRIES OF THE CARIBBEAN | 200 | Site of a 1983 U.S. invasion, it's also known as the Isle of Spice

Grenada

RIVERS ON THE BORDER | 1600 | The Usumacinta River forms the border between Mexico & this country

Guatemala

CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS | 800 | Ruins from the Mayan city Kaminaljuyu can be found in this capital but much has been covered by urban expansion

Guatemala City

STUPID GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS | 400 | Bissau is the capital of this African country that borders Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

EUROPE TO NO GOOD | 1600 | His failure to blow up Parliament is celebrated in Great Britain on November 5

Guy Fawkes

ENTERTAINMENT UNDER THE SEA | 400 | In ""Finding Nemo"", Marlin says, ""I know funny. I'm"" this type of fish that's born male but can switch sexes one time

a clownfish

ASIAN GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | This smallest Chinese province in area consists mostly of one island in the Gulf of Tonkin

Hainan

EAST ASIAN CITIES | 2000 | This Vietnamese city near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as the deepwater port for Hanoi

Haiphong

FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES | 400 | Its 10 million people all live on a third of a Caribbean island

Haiti

PLANT THE FLAG | 800 | This nation's flag was changed after the removal of Baby Doc Duvalier but still includes a palm tree in the coat of arms

Haiti

WORLD CAPITALS | 600 | This capital's most-visited site is Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum on the edge of Ba Dinh Square

Hanoi

CAPITAL CITY OVERLAPS | 400 | Cuba & Kenya

Havanairobi

WORLD CITIES | 2000 | In 1907 a 500,000-year-old ""man"" was found near & named for this southwest German city

Heidelberg

MARY-LOUISE PARKER | 1600 | What a dame! In ""Red"", this actress had to explain something to Mary-Louise: ""I kill people, dear""

Helen Mirren

4-LETTER U.S. CITIES | 2000 | It's the biggest city on the ""Big Island""

Hilo

U.S. CITIES | 200 | Completed in 1926, Aloha Tower greets visitors to this city

Honolulu

AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS | 1600 | There are nudist tours of Mona, a new museum in this capital on an island

Hobart

DISEASES NAMED FOR PEOPLE | 1200 | The section of lymph node seen here, is showing this uncommon cancer of the lymphatic system

Hodgkin\'s disease

LITERA-SEA | 400 | This ""Iliad"" poet often refers to ""The Wine-Dark Sea""

Homer

ON WHAT ISLAND? | 400 | Fukushima prefecture

Honshu

AMERICAN CITIES | 600 | This city of 2 million people--we have no problem

Houston

U.S. CITY NICKNAMES | 200 | Texas:""Space City""

Houston

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 600 | Beginning in 1867 school was in session for what is now Morehouse College & this university in Washington, D.C.

Howard University

JOLLY OLD CITIES IN ENGLAND | 2000 | The frame of a ship, or a Yorkshire port city of 250,000 people

Hull

TRANSPORTATION MILESTONES | 400 | In 1929 a Cleveland airport became the first to have one of these tall buildings with a clear view of the field

a control tower

COUNTRY OF BIRTH | 2000 | Nuclear physicist Edward Teller

Hungary

THE MAP OF CANADA | 200 | Ontario's wasaga beach is the world's longest freshwater beach, 9 miles along Georgian bay, an arm of this lake

Huron

BRAZILIAN GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Brazil's tourism industry depends in part on these spectacular falls on the border with Argentina

Iguazu Falls

STATES' MOST POPULOUS COUNTIES | 400 | Cook County

Illinois

COUNTRIES BY HOTEL | 200 | The Taj West End Hotel

India

IT BORDERS BOTH COUNTRIES | 400 | Pakistan &Bangladesh

India

TRAVELIN' AROUND THE COUNTRY | 800 | We'll drive up the coast, heading north from Cuddalore to Vishakhapatnam to Balasore

India

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT | 200 | Fort Dodge is on the Des Moines River in this state

Iowa

TRAVEL USA | 1000 | The National Farm Toy Museum in Dyersville is an attraction in this corn-rich state

Iowa

COUNTRIES WITH SHORT COASTLINES | 800 | It has just 306 miles of coastline between Kuwait & Iran

Iraq

POPULOUS EUROPEAN ISLANDS | 1200 | This island of 6 million is shared between one nation & part o' another

Ireland

THE COUNTRY'S PRESIDENT | 200 | Sean Thomas O'Kelly (1945 to 1959); we truly defy you to get this one wrong

Ireland

THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS | 2000 | The best preserved of the scrolls contains all or part of all 66 chapters of this Old Testament prophet's book

Isaiah

COUNTRIES BY WORLD HERITAGE SITES | 1200 | Tel Megiddo &the Old City of Acre

Israel

COUNTRIES' NATIONAL ANTHEMS | 1000 | ""Hatikvah""

Israel

SMALL COUNTRIES | 1600 | The tiny nation of San Marino is completely surrounded by this other European country

Italy

FEWER THAN A THOUSAND ISLANDS | 800 | This Greek island, site of a famous mythical homecoming, has also been known as Thiaki

Ithaca

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: CELEBRATING 125 YEARS | 200 | The magazine ran several articles by this man whom the National Geographic Society sponsored on 37 expeditions

Jacques Cousteau

ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES | 400 | This capital of Indonesia is home to about 10 million people

Jakarta

WORLD CAPITALS | 200 | Indonesia's capital, it's on the island of Java

Jakarta

COUNTRIES' LOWEST POINTS | 400 | Lake Hachiro-gata

Japan

COUNTRIES' NATIONAL ANTHEMS | 400 | ""Kimigayo""

Japan

WORLD AIRPORTS | 800 | Resembling a bird about to take off, the terminal at Bilbao airport is nicknamed ""La Paloma"", Spanish for this

a dove

TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 66 | 400 | One of these theaters was opened in 1949 in Carthage, Missouri; occupying 9 acres, it's still in operation

a drive-in

OUT OF AFRICA | 1000 | An example of this pine family member is seen here

a fir

TALKING GEOGRAPHY | 400 | A Pennsylvania boulder field is an example of moraine, debris deposited by a melting one of these

a glacier

THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N. | 2000 | Despite being a longtime Democrat, this woman was named to the post by Ronald Reagan

Jean Kirkpatrick

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE | 200 | J.T. & this late night host cover everything from the Sugarhill Gang to Kendrick Lamar in ""The History Of Rap""

Jimmy Fallon

CENTRAL PARK | 400 | The mosaic seen here is a tribute to him

John Lennon

WORLD AIRPORTS | 600 | A British airport renamed for him in 2001 also adopted the slogan ""Above us only sky""

John Lennon

NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS | 1200 | The 2016 TV series ""The People v. O.J. Simpson"" put this late attorney, seen here at the trial, front & center

Johnnie Cochran

AIRPORT CODES | 1000 | A code for the airport in Ile Ouen, New Caledonia, or what we might have to give you if we don't have the $1,000

an IOU

STATES RHYME TIME | 400 | A Boise non-amateur

an Idaho pro

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 50 GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHS | 1600 | Sadly, after ingesting the marine debris on the right, this once-wandering baby bird died of starvation

an albatross

CAPITAL MAP IT ALL | 200 | No roads lead intothis state capital

Juneau

STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 800 | Its self-named icefield, which can be enjoyed via helicopter tour

Juneau

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA | 2000 | The most-spoken Khoe language is Nama in Namibia; the other Khoe languages are mainly heard in this desert in Botswana

Kalahari

STATE BY COUNTIES | 600 | Coffey,Lincoln,Leavenworth

Kansas

STATES' HIGHEST POINTS | 400 | Mount Sunflower

Kansas

WORLD CITIES | 2000 | This chief port of Pakistan served as the country's capital from 1947 to 1959

Karachi

CAPITAL RIVERS | 2000 | The Baghmati River, which flows through this Himalayan capital, is sacred to Hindus

Kathmandu

WORLD CAPITALS | 200 | This Nepalese capital's name means ""wood temple"" & refers to a 400-year-old temple built from a single tree

Kathmandu

WORLD CAPITALS | 800 | This capital of Nepal was once an independent principality

Kathmandu

THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS | 600 | It's the northernmost & most verdant of the major islands

Kauai

COUNTRY & TOWN | 2000 | Good Lord Almaty, a city name that may mean ""father of apples"", refers to the orchards in this nation

Kazakhstan

4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS | 400 | This capital city on the Dnieper river lends its name to a high-calorie chicken dish

Kiev

U.S. FORCES OVERSEAS | 1600 | Camp Patriot & a related Naval base are located on the southeast corner of this small Persian Gulf country

Kuwait

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE | 400 | (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) At the gift shop, you can pick up a kinara, a candleholder that represents African roots; it'll hold candles in the symbolic colors of black for the people, red for their struggle & green for hope, all to help you celebrate this late December holiday

Kwanzaa

BASIC GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | Canada's easternmost province is Newfoundland & this

Labrador

BILLBOARD'S ALL-TIME TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS | 2000 | Their 2010 album ""Need You Now""

Lady Antebellum

CITIES | 400 | More than 20 million people live in this former capital of Nigeria

Lagos

LAKES | 800 | In 1990 colonies of marine life were found living in hydrothermal vents at the bottom of this Siberian lake

Lake Baikal

CANADIAN LAKES | 800 | The northern tip of this Vermont-New York lake juts into Quebec just south of Montreal

Lake Champlain

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Vermont's lowest point is 95 feet above sea level on the shore of this lake

Lake Champlain

GREAT & OTHER LAKES | 200 | The Chicago River flows out of this Great Lake

Lake Michigan

LAKES | 1600 | To create this lake in the 1960s, historical ruins such as Abu Simbel were moved to higher ground

Lake Nasser

OLYMPIC HOST CITIES | 400 | A 2-time Olympic host, this New York village has a population of around 2,500

Lake Placid

MOVIES' MAIN CITIES | 200 | ""The Cooler"" &""Ocean's Eleven""

Las Vegas

THE CITY | 200 | This city's seal depicts Hoover Dam, 25 miles away

Las Vegas

U.S. CITIES | 200 | The bright lights of this city are seen here

Las Vegas

THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION | 1200 | In 1977 CDC detectives tracked the source of this new fatal pneumonia that infected victims at a Phila. convention

Legionnaires\' disease

AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS | 1200 | One of the first black performers signed to a long-term Hollywood contract, this singer/actress died in 2010, age 92

Lena Horne

GREEK ISLANDS | 1600 | This island in the Aegean was the birthplace of such poets as Alcaeus, Terpander & Sappho

Lesbos

COUNTRIES' HIGHEST POINTS | 1000 | Bikku Bitti, near the southern border with Chad

Libya

FLAGS OF THE WORLD | 200 | This country replaced its all-green flag with a red, black & green one following Qaddafi's overthrow in 2011

Libya

THE WEATHER & GEOGRAPHY REPORT | 200 | It gets hot in El Azizia, near Tripoli, in this country--hot like 124 degrees one day in 1922

Libya

WHICH AFRICAN COUNTRY? | 1000 | The Tobruk War Cemetery

Libya

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD | 1200 | Schellenberg & Vaduz were united to form this tiny country

Liechtenstein

MEANINGS OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES | 200 | The name of this small country comes from German for ""light stone""

Liechtenstein

JOLLY OLD CITIES IN ENGLAND | 400 | It's home to the International Slavery Museum, but you may know it as the home of the Beatles

Liverpool

LITERARY CITIES | 400 | Next time you're in this city, stop by Duke's Bar, where the martinis inspired Ian Fleming to make them 007's drink

London

SHAKESPEAREAN GEOGRAPHY | 200 | This city's Boar's Head Inn is a favorite hangout of Falstaff & his friends

London

U.S. STATES' LARGEST ISLANDS | 400 | This New York island is named for the fact that it extends almost 120 miles

Long Island

GEOGRAPHIC CENTERS | 600 | In Avoyelles Parish, southeast of Marksville

Louisiana

STATES BY LAKE | 400 | Catahoula Lake,Bayou D'Arbonne Lake

Louisiana

STATES THAT FLOW TOGETHER | 800 | This big land buy named for one also got us the other

Louisiana & Arkansas

STUPID GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS | 200 | Luxembourg National Museum is located in the historic center of this city

Luxembourg

ALL OVER THE MAP | 1600 | Home to Quezon City:this island

Luzon

WHAT ISLAND? | 1600 | The Philippine National Police Academy

Luzon

SPANISH CITIES | 400 | Spain's Cortes, or parliament, meets in this city

Madrid

CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD | 1200 | Portland(1820)

Maine

NATIONAL PARKS | 1000 | Early guide Stephen Bishop called the centerpiece of this Kentucky park a ""grand, gloomy and peculiar place""

Mammoth Cave

GEOGRAPHIC BANDS | 800 | Had the apt hit ""Boy From New York City"":____ Transfer

Manhattan

THE MOVIE MAP | 400 | J. Lo is the help: ""Maid In ___""

Manhattan

LAKES & RIVERS | 1200 | The Philippines' largest lake is Laguna de Bay, referring to this nearby bay

Manila Bay

NORTH AMERICAN RIVERS | 1600 | Its major tributaries include the Spokane, Yakima, & Kootenai Rivers

the Columbia River

STATE CAPITAL EVENTS | 200 | On Jan. 29, 2016 in Baton Rouge, the Mystic Krewe of Artemis was the first parade in this annual event

Mardi Gras

THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE | 1000 | (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) On Easter in 1939, after she was denied permission to sing at Constitution Hall, this contralto put on her Sunday best clothes & sang ""My Country, 'Tis Of Thee"" to a crowd of over 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial

Marian Anderson

AMERICAN ISLANDS | 800 | Until 2007 Chappaquiddick was attached to the eastern end of this larger island by a narrow 2-mile strip of beach

Martha\'s Vineyard

STATES BY COUNTIES | 200 | Calvert,Somerset,Anne Arundel

Maryland

COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS | 400 | South of Morocco:""Land of the Moors""

Mauritania

4-LETTER U.S. CITIES | 800 | In Arizona it forms a metropolitan area with Phoenix & Glendale

Mesa

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | This Minnesota range is the chief deposit of iron ore in the United States

Mesabi (Range)

AMERICAN CITIES | 1000 | The southernmost major city on the U.S. mainland, it had a population of only 343 when the railroad arrived in 1896

Miami

BIG CITY SUBURBS | 800 | Coral Gables,Hialeah

Miami

AFRICAN LAKES | 2000 | Crater lakes created by glaciers can be found on this second-highest African peak

Mount Kenya

TRAVEL USA | 800 | You can visit a weather museum at the top of this New Hampshire peak, reachable via a cog railway

Mt. Washington

STATELY GEOGRAPHY | 800 | 13,147-foot Boundary Peak,Area 51 (which we can't confirm or deny)

Nevada

STUFF ABOUT STATES | 1000 | The words ""Battle Born"" appear on the flag of this state that entered the Union during the Civil War

Nevada

U.S. ISLANDS | 1200 | To remember the islands in this R.I. bay, ""Prudence, Patience, Hope & Despair; & Little Hog Island right over there""

Narragansett

STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 1000 | Historic RCA Studio B,Belle Meade Plantation

Nashville

CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD | 400 | Omaha(1867)

Nebraska

PANHANDLE STATES | 400 | Chimney Rock, a landmark on the Oregon Trail, is located on the North Platte River in this state's panhandle

Nebraska

CAPTURE THE FLAG | 1600 | 2 sprigs of sagebrush, the state flower, surround a single star on this state's blue flag

Nevada

SKYSCRAPER CITY | 200 | The Trump building at 40 Wall St.

New York City

LAKES & RIVERS | 400 | According to Maori legend, this country's Lake Manapouri was formed by the tears of dying sisters

New Zealand

U.S. CITIES' INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS | 1000 | 14 miles from Manhattan, Liberty International

Newark

STUFF ABOUT STATES | 1200 | This Rhode Island city is home to the U.S. Naval War College & the Tennis Hall of Fame

Newport

U.S. CITIES | 800 | In this Rhode Island resort town, you can visit such mansions as Rosecliff & the Breakers

Newport

ALTERED STATES | 2000 | In Dixie:Orca Harlot Inn

North Carolina

THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS | 200 | It's home to the state capital

Oahu

STATES BY LAKE | 800 | Leesville Lake,Buckeye Lake

Ohio

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Council Bluffs, Iowa lies across the Missouri from this Nebraska city & makes up part of its metro area

Omaha

4-LETTER COUNTRY NAMES | 1200 | An Islamic sultanate

Oman

LET'S GO TO THE ISLANDS | 1200 | If you want to live long and prosper, keep your distance when Vulcan is active, in this island country, abbreviated PNG

Papua New Guinea

OCEANIA | 1200 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of part of the South Pacific.) Port Moresby, on the Coral Sea, is the capital of this three-named country.

Papua New Guinea

LANDLOCKED COUNTRY FUN | 800 | Its name ends with the same 4 letters as another South American country

Paraguay

THE MOVIE MAP | 800 | Nick Nolte as TJ: ""Jefferson In ___""

Paris

DISEASES NAMED FOR PEOPLE | 400 | A British physician first described this disease in 1817 in ""An Essay on Shaking Palsy""

Parkinson\'s disease

STATE BY COUNTIES | 800 | Franklin,Lackawanna,Lehigh

Pennsylvania

COUNTRY MUSIC | 200 | In 2014 The Band this, made up of 3 siblings, won vocal group of the year at the ACM Awards

Perry

AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS | 2000 | This capital of Western Australia is famous for the black swans along the Swan River

Perth

COUNTRY BORDERS | 1000 | On its northwest, Ecuador;on its southeast, Bolivia

Peru

THE COUNTRY DUE SOUTH | 800 | of Quito, Ecuador

Peru

RIVER RUN | 1600 | From the Rockies to the Gulf, between Brownsville & Matamoros

the Rio Grande

RIVERS ON THE BORDER | 400 | This border river also called Rio Bravo empties into the Gulf of Mexico

the Rio Grande

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 2000 | In 1773 she put out the first book of poetry by an African American

Phillis Wheatley

STATE CAPITAL EVENTS | 800 | Cactus League spring training is held throughout the area of this capital

Phoenix

STATE CAPITALS AKA | 400 | Legendary rising bird

Phoenix

AROUND AFRICA | 800 | While this empire controlled Libya, it was part of the region known as Africa Nova

the Roman Empire

NAME THE CAPITAL | 600 | South Dakota

Pierre

STATE CAPITALS | 400 | In 1743 the site of this S.D. capital was claimed for France by the burial of a lead plate; the plate was found in 1913

Pierre

CITIES ON THE RIVER | 1600 | Kingston &Trois-Rivieres

the Saint Lawrence

TRAVEL & TOURISM | 800 | Exhibits at Pilgrim Hall in this Mass. city include William Bradford's wine cup & a cooking pot belonging to Myles Standish

Plymouth

EUROPEAN CITIES | 2000 | Mozart lived for a time in this city on the Vltava river & wrote a symphony named for it

Prague

WORLD CITIES | 400 | This capital on the Vltava River was once the capital of the kingdom of Bohemia

Prague

WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 1200 | The Franz Kafka Museum

Prague (Czech Republic)

WORLD CITIES | 1200 | Brisbane is the capital city of this ""royal"" Australian state

Queensland

ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS | 1600 | LEG HAIR

Raleigh

IN THE STATE CAPITAL | 800 | The Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts

Raleigh

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 400 | Born in Oklahoma City in 1914, he was named for the Transcendentalist author of ""Self-Reliance""

Ralph Ellison

____IN' COUNTRY SONGS | 800 | Waylon Jennings:""I'm A ____in' Man""

Ramblin\' Man

MAPS & GLOBES | 1600 | Goode's School Atlas was an early 1920s publication from this Skokie, Illinois company

Rand McNally

FEWER THAN A THOUSAND ISLANDS | 200 | We'll pony up if you know there are about 100 of these islands about 100 miles north of mainland Scotland

the Shetlands

THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N. | 800 | In 1997 this Hispanic American from New Mexico fit the bill

Richardson

REPORTING FROM THE STATE CAPITAL | 1000 | At the White House of the Confederacy on Clay Street

Richmond

STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 400 | The state capitol building, naturally, designed by Thomas Jefferson

Richmond

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 200 | John Tyler, James Monroe, & Jefferson Davis are all buried in this Virginia city's Hollywood Cemetery

Richmond

STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES | 800 | ""The Queen on the James""

Richmond (Virginia)

THE HUDSON RIVER | 200 | A cantilever bridge named for this Washington Irving sleeper stretches almost a mile across the Hudson at Catskill

Rip Van Winkle

MIDDLE EASTERN CAPITALS | 1600 | This capital's KAFD World Trade Centre rises 994 feet in the King Abdullah Financial District

Riyadh

TRAVELING AMONGST THE STARS | 600 | In 1987 this actress was ""The Princess Bride"" on film; these days she's married to politics on Netflix

Robin Wright

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

Robin Wright Penn

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | Waterfalls on this river include Shoshone Falls & Twin Falls

the Snake River

OCEANIA! | 1600 | Display your wisdom & name this island group that includes Guadalcanal

the Solomon Islands

FLAGS OF THE WORLD | 600 | This nation's blue, yellow & red flag represents the colors used in the arms of Walachia & Moldavia

Romania

SEAS | 1600 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Mekong River in Vietnam.) Southeast Asia's longest river, the Mekong, starts in the Tibetan Highlands & flows 2,700 miles before emptying into the sea that we know as this, but which Vietnam wants to call the Southeast Asia Sea

the South China Sea

ADVENTURE TRAVEL | 600 | We could always follow the little green men to the Intl. UFO Museum & Research Center in this New Mexico city

Roswell

U.S. CITY NICKNAMES | 600 | New Mexico:""The Alien Capital of the World""

Roswell

EXTREME GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | If you ignore its claim of clear up to the North Pole, this country's northern tip is at over 81 degrees N, on Rudolf Island

Russia

U.S. CITY NICKNAMES | 800 | ""Georgia's First City""

Savannah

WORLD FLAGS | 1200 | Aka the Crux, this constellation is depicted on Brazil's flag

the Southern Cross

THE NORTHERNMOST STATE CAPITAL | 400 | Salt Lake City,Sacramento,Salem

Salem

STATE CAPITAL HEADQUARTERS | 1000 | Zions Bancorporation

Salt Lake City

ON THE MAP | 400 | A carillon in this city plays pieces specially composed by its native son Mozart

Salzburg

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 600 | The highest state capital in the U.S. at about 7,000 feet, it lies in the northern Rio Grande Valley

Santa Fe

TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 66 | 1000 | In 2009 the Route 66 Alliance designated this California city's pier as the ""end of the trail""

Santa Monica

SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS | 200 | In 2010 a massive 8.8 earthquake damaged this Chilean capital city

Santiago

NAME THE CAPITAL | 800 | The Dominican Republic

Santo Domingo

TRAVELING ALONG THE 40th PARALLEL N. | 1600 | The highest mountains of this Italian island just south of Corsica straddle the 40th parallel

Sardinia

WORLD CITIES | 1200 | This largest city of Saskatchewan also starts with ""S-A-S-K""

Saskatoon

2-WORD COUNTRIES | 800 | It occupies most of the world's largest peninsula

Saudi Arabia

COUNTRY MEN | 1600 | The sons of a man who died in 1953 still rule this Mideast country he founded

Saudi Arabia

EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY | 400 | It's the name of the peninsula that includes Sweden & Norway as well as the region that also includes Denmark

Scandinavia

TRANSPORTATION PHRASES | 600 | Taken from a 1960s TV show: ""beam me up"", this guy means ""get me out of here""

Scotty

BIG BUILDING OF THE CITY | 800 | Rainier Tower

Seattle

SEALED | 1000 | As part of the job, this U.S. Cabinet secretary is the guardian of the Great Seal of the United States

Secretary of State

THE HOT SEAT | 200 | On March 5, 1861 Simon Cameron was appointed U.S. Secretary of this; he'd soon have quite a bit to do

Secretary of War

U.S. CITIES | 1600 | Take a hike & get in touch with your spiritual side at Cathedral Rock in this Arizona city

Sedona

SPANISH CITIES | 1600 | A 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct serves as a symbol of this city that shares its name with a famous guitarist

Segovia

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

Senegal

STUPID GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS | 1000 | It was a 1980s confederation of Senegal & the Gambia

Senegambia

5-LETTER CAPITAL CITIES | 400 | Located on the Han River, it hosted the 21st Summer Olympics

Seoul

5-LETTER CAPITALS | 2000 | In the 1390s Yi Song-Gye began building this city to serve as the capital of Choson

Seoul

COUNTRY BORDERS | 600 | On its northwest, Croatia;on its southeast, Bulgaria

Serbia

SAINTS & THEIR CITIES | 1200 | A patron saint of the Internet, but not of barbers, Spanish theologian St. Isidore of here

Seville

AFRICAN AMERICANS | 600 | ""How to Get Away with Murder"" is but one part of her dominion as a TV writer-producer

Shonda Rhimes

ITALIAN ISLANDS | 800 | This island is the largest of Italy's 20 political regions

Sicily

MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS | 800 | Popular tourist destinations on this largest Mediterranean island include the ruins of Syracuse & Taormina

Sicily

NEW TOURIST SLOGANS FOR ISLANDS? | 1000 | ""See Mount Etna & feel the heat""

Sicily

POPULOUS EUROPEAN ISLANDS | 800 | These 2 islands combine to make a total of 6.5 million Italians

Sicily & Sardinia

ITALIAN CITIES & TOWNS | 1200 | The earth from this Tuscan city lent its name to a yellow-brown pigment & a ""burnt"" reddish-brown one

Siena

SAINTS & THEIR CITIES | 1600 | 14th century mystic & patron saint of Italy, St. Catherine of this city in Tuscany

Siena

COUNTRY MEN | 1200 | The country seen here was named after this man

Simón BolÃvar

THE HUDSON RIVER | 400 | Seen here is the original cell block of this institution on the banks of the Hudson

Sing Sing

COUNTRIES SMALLER THAN PUERTO RICO | 400 | In area this city-state is the largest port in southeast Asia

Singapore

PARKS | 2000 | The 105-year-old Looff Carousel in this Washington city's Riverfront Park is housed in a building remaining from Expo '74

Spokane

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH THE BOOK | 1600 | This poetic ""Anthology"" from Edgar Lee Masters became a Broadway play in 1963

Spoon River Anthology

TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS | 400 | Bratislava is the capital of this nation that Czeched out of a union with a neighbor

Slovakia

GEOGRAPHIC SAINTS | 800 | Built as a hotel, the Patee House Museum in this Missouri city was the Pony Express headquarters

St. Joseph

AFRICAN COUNTRY BY AIRPORT | 400 | Mogadishu International

Somalia

AFRICAN LEADERS | 2000 | Under president Siad Barre, who left in 1991, this East African land had its last real government for many years

Somalia

WHICH AFRICAN COUNTRY? | 400 | It's highlighted here

Somalia

RAISE THE WHITE IN THE FLAG | 2000 | This country's 1994 flag includes the black, green & yellow of liberation organizations, & red, white & blue of settler flags

South Africa

THE GEOGRAPHIC CENTER | 800 | Of this continent: the city of Cuiaba in the state of Mato Grosso

South America

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 1000 | 2013 saw the first Congress with 2 African-American senators when Mo Cowan of Mass. served with Tim Scott of this state

South Carolina

STATELY GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Badlands National Park,the Big Sioux River

South Dakota

GEOGRAPHIC BANDS | 400 | ""Stop, hey what's that sound"":Buffalo ____

Springfield

STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 600 | Abraham Lincoln's tomb

Springfield

STATE CAPITALS | 600 | The only house Abraham Lincoln ever owned is located at Jackson & 8th Streets in this capital

Springfield

THE NAME ON THE AIRPORT | 400 | The airport code for Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport is SPI, which stands for this state capital

Springfield

SEASONAL SONGS | 600 | Composed by Mel Brooks: ""_____time For Hitler""

Springtime

COUNTRIES' ETHNIC GROUPS | 800 | 74% Sinhalese

Sri Lanka

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS, MON | 1600 | In 1648 the French & the Dutch agreed to share this ""saintly"" 34-square-mile island

St. Martin

STATE CAPITALS AKA | 800 | A later apostle

St. Paul

GEOGRAPHIC SAINTS | 400 | Sightseeing in this city should include the admiralty, Russia's naval headquarters

St. Petersburg

GEOGRAPHIC TITLES | 2000 | Ken Follett: ""The Man from _____ _____""

St. Petersburg

FEWER THAN A THOUSAND ISLANDS | 400 | In 1993 this southern borough voted to secede from New York City, but the state legislature did not approve

Staten Island

FLORIDA GEOGRAPHY | 800 | This university in DeLand was named for a hat manufacturer who provided financial assistance

Stetson University

GEOGRAPHY CLASS | 400 | This Scandinavian city built on 14 islands is nicknamed the ""Venice of the North""

Stockholm

CANADIAN CITIES | 1200 | The swan is a symbol of this Ontario city; each year, white & black swans are released into the Avon River

Stratford

POINTY ON THE MAP | 800 | If you find yourself in Skagen, you're near the tip of Denmark & only 40 miles from this country

Sweden

EUROPE IN LATIN | 800 | A country:Helvetia

Switzerland

ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES | 200 | Home to the Orange:RACY USES

Syracuse

SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES | 800 | Known to locals as Sampa, this Brazilian city is the most populous in the Southern Hemisphere

São Paulo

WORLD CITIES | 400 | With 20 million people in its greater metro area, this Brazilian city is South America's most populous

São Paulo

U.N. COUNTRY ABBREVIATIONS | 600 | TJK

Tajikistan

NASCAR FROM THE DRIVER'S SEAT | 800 | (I'm Brad Keselowski.) In 2009 the first lap I ever led in a Sprint Cup race was the winning one at the Aaron's 499 in this city that's familiar to the fans of Ricky Bobby

Talladega

CONSONANT-FREE STATE CAPITALS | 200 | Actually not in Hawaii: AAAEE

Tallahassee

STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES | 400 | ""Florida's Beginning Point""

Tallahassee

COUNTRIES' HIGHEST POINTS | 200 | Mount Kilimanjaro

Tanzania

CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD | 800 | Knoxville(1796)

Tennessee

THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA | 2000 | After some federal control was established in 1862, Lincoln made Andrew Johnson the military gov. of this state

Tennessee

WELL-SEASONED BOOKS | 2000 | Cannibalism, lobotomy & forbidden desire all play out in this author's play ""Suddenly, Last Summer""

Tennessee Williams

OLD NAMES ON THE MAP | 1200 | Because it was the end of a railroad line, Atlanta had this original name, Latin for ""end""

Terminus

GEOGRAPHY 101 | 200 | The Nile is longer, but in terms of volume, this is the world's largest river

The Amazon

GEOGRAPHY 101 | 400 | Stretching for about 5,500 miles, the world's longest land mountain range is this South American one

The Andes

SEAN CONNERY & BURT REYNOLDS | 400 | As Boss Hogg in this 2005 film, Burt learned a valuable lesson--don't go up against Willie Nelson!

The Dukes of Hazzard

AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN | 1000 | In an essay defending this 2011 film, Myrlie Evers-Williams said, ""My mother was"" this film ""& so was her mother""

The Help

CITY-TITLED MOVIES | 1600 | Jeff Daniels as actor Tom Baxter steps out of a movie screen & into the life of a waitress in this Woody Allen film

The Purple Rose of Cairo

LITERA-SEA | 1600 | In this Jack London novel, Wolf Larsen is the captain of the Ghost, once a private yacht

The Sea-Wolf

LONDON TRANSPORTATION | 600 | The Underground has been known by this shorter nickname since 1890 when the first deep-level electric railway line opened

The Tube

THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS | 400 | The scrolls were discovered in 1947 & offered for sale in a June 1, 1954 ad in this financial paper; they sold for $250,000

The Wall Street Journal

AMERICAN ISLANDS | 1600 | This island in the Susquehanna River is named for its distance from the town square in Middletown, Pennsylvania

Three Mile Island

BASIC GEOGRAPHY | 800 | You may get lightheaded in Gar, a town about 15,000 feet above sea level, in this autonomous region of China

Tibet

FLAGS OF THE WORLD | 400 | Some people of this region, officially part of China, use a white triangle flag to represent its location among high mountains

Tibet

GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) With an area of 471,000 square miles & a population of 3 million, this autonomous region was incorporated by China in 1951 amid controversy

Tibet

OUT OF AFRICA | 1200 | The name of this Mali city on the Sahara's southern edge is used to mean any place very distant

Timbuktu

FLAGS OF CROSS & CRESCENT | 1600 | This monarchy in the Pacific is about two-thirds Protestant

Tonga

OCEANIA | 1600 | If you want to see this country's king & family, attend Centenary Church in Nuku'alofa on Sundays

Tonga

ANAGRAMMED STATE CAPITALS | 800 | TORN NET

Trenton

EARLY U.S. CAPITALS | 600 | Before it became capital of New Jersey, it was the U.S. capital for 2 months; Congress met at the French Arms Tavern

Trenton

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC AKAs | 800 | Old maps used ""Natolia"" to denote the eastern part of what's now this country

Turkey

SEAS THE DAY | 400 | The sea of Marmara lies wholly within this country, between the Dardanelles & the Bosporus Straits

Turkey

U.N. COUNTRY ABBREVIATIONS | 200 | TUR

Turkey

FLAGS OF CROSS & CRESCENT | 2000 | The flags of these two countries that begin with the same two letters both use imagery from earlier Ottoman designs

Turkey and Tunisia

U.N. COUNTRY ABBREVIATIONS | 1000 | TKM

Turkmenistan

COUNTRY MUSIC | 800 | Chuck Berry,1959:""Back In The ____""

USA

COUNTRY MUSIC | 400 | The Beatles,1968:""Back In The ____""

USSR

AFRICAN COUNTRIES BY CAPITAL | 1600 | Kampala

Uganda

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

Uganda

AFRICAN SETTINGS | 1600 | ""The Book of Mormon""

Uganda

VWLLSS AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 800 | GND

Uganda

EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Kiev is the capital of this country

Ukraine

STATE PARKS | 1000 | This Is The Place Heritage Park state park takes up a lot of signage space in this state

Utah

CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY | 600 | YVR is the code for this West Coast airport

Vancouver

LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES | 400 | A top film production center & the largest city in western Canada, it's the closest sister city to L.A.

Vancouver

ITALIAN CITIES | 800 | In 1987 this city & its lagoon were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Venice

ASIAN ISLANDS | 1200 | This country's Phu Quoc Island is famous for its black pepper

Vietnam

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT | 800 | All 340 miles of the James River are within this state, which was home to an early settlement

Virginia

EUROPE IN LATIN | 600 | Part of the United Kingdom:Cambria

Wales

GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES | 2000 | ""Land Of The Leek""

Wales

____IN' COUNTRY SONGS | 400 | Patsy Cline:""____in' After Midnight""

Walkin\'

COUNTRY ROADS | 200 | Home of Mumbai's stock exchange, Dalal Street is India's answer to this New York City thoroughfare

Wall Street

ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES | 1000 | ""Colorful"" town possibly named for its abundant heavy fogs:WHISTLE PAIN

White Plains

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | It's the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada

Whitney

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | Dubuque, Iowa lies at the junction of 3 states: Iowa, Illinois, & this one

Wisconsin

SEASONAL SONGS | 200 | Kanye wrote is a eulogy for his mom:""Coldest _____""

Winter

GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES | 1000 | German city that's ""The Mother of Diets""

Worms

HAVE A COUNTY SEAT | 1000 | No one takes a back county seat to Jackson in this state's Teton County

Wyoming

LINES ON THE MAP | 800 | It's the only state whose borders, like with Montana to the north & Colorado to the south, are 4 straight lines

Wyoming

STATE BY COUNTIES | 400 | Teton,Lincoln,Laramie

Wyoming

THE FAULT IN OUR STATES | 600 | The Teton Fault

Wyoming

LINES ON THE MAP | 800 | Almost precisely straight lines mark the borders of these two states that joined the Union in 1876 and 1890

Wyoming and Colorado

BALLPARK FACTS & FIGURES | 1000 | A 1963 Mickey Mantle home run hit the upper deck of this stadium & bounced back nearly to second base

Yankee Stadium

IT'S NATIONAL PARK WEEK | 1200 | Here's Angel's Landing in this end-of-the-alphabet Utah park

Zion

NATIONAL PARKS | 600 | Perhaps the most famous landmark in this Utah park is the Great White Throne

Zion

ELECTRICITY | 2000 | Named for an Italian, it's the standard unit of electromotive force

a volt

WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS | 1600 | This tree in Tennessee's

ash (in Nashville)

WORDS IN STATES | 400 | If you're curious in Kodiak, just do this

ask (in Alaska)

WORDS IN STATES | 800 | Cognizant in Dover

aware (in Delaware)

TRANSPORTATION PHRASES | 400 | Someone who keeps giving unwelcome advice is this kind of ""driver""

backseat

WORDS IN WORLD CAPITALS | 400 | A prohibition in Thailand

ban

TALKING GEOGRAPHY | 200 | In Spanish this word is bahia, as in Bahia de Cochinos, this ""of Pigs""

bay

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 125th ANNIVERSARY | 400 | Larger animal life includes mule deer, black bears, mountain lions & this stocky species of sheep

bighorn

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK | 800 | These largest North American land mammals seem mellow but cause more injuries to humans in the park than bears do

bison

RHYMES WITH A GREAT LAKE | 2000 | 6-letter adjective for blurred & unfocused eyes

bleary

NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS | 400 | In 1942 Charles Drew received a patent for preserving this, allowing it to be stored in ""banks""

blood

COLOR THAT FLAG! | 400 | El Salvador & Israel (2 colors)

blue and white

WORDS IN WORLD CAPITALS | 1000 | A bad kid in Slovakia

brat

STATE CAPITALS | 1000 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Parthenon in Nashville, TN.) The Parthenon in Nashville boasts one of the world's largest sets of doors made from this metal--24' high & 7' wide

bronze

THE CASPIAN SEA | 400 | The Caspian is historically the chief source of the Beluga type of this food from sturgeon

caviar

INDEPENDENCE SEAPORT MUSEUM | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, PA.) Voyages became safer with the invention of this device that accurately determines longitude; its name is from the Greek for ""time measure""

chronometer

THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ATLAS SHRUGGED | 600 | The Atlas can't quite define this, but projects that by 2025 the world will have 447 of them of 10 million-plus people each

cities

ENTERTAINMENT UNDER THE SEA | 600 | The song ""Rock Lobster"" rhymes, ""He was in a jam, 's in a giant"" this

clam

TRAVEL & TOURISM | 400 | ""For all those Nosferatus"", a Berlin hotel offers a room with 2 of these, lids & all

coffins

ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC | 1600 | Anthropologists study the island of Yap for its use of 12-foot stone wheels not for transport but as this

currency (or money)

SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) The hide on a Cape buffalo's neck can reach two inches in thickness, which help males against other aggressive bulls trying to assert this, a type of hierarchy

dominance

LONDON TRANSPORTATION | 1000 | In 2012 a redesigned, hybrid, but still red version of this iconic London transport hit the roads

double-decker bus

WORDS IN STATES | 2000 | Me, myself & I in Eugene

ego (in Oregon)

TRANSPORTATION | 1200 | Cabs in trucks are of 2 types: conventional, in which the cab is behind the hood, & COE, which stands for cab-over-this

engine

TALKING GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | In the 1950s a change of prefix created this word for the areas beyond the suburbs

exurbs

THE 4 SEASONS-ISH | 800 | The descent of debris right after a nuclear explosion

fallout

THE UNITED STATES MARINES | 1200 | The Corps is usually at the vanguard in wartime, & one of its mottos is ""first to"" do this

fight

RAISE THE WHITE IN THE FLAG | 800 | The Olympic flag consists of this number of interlocking rings on a white field

five

FLAG TERMS | 400 | Finials are ornaments that decorate the tops of these; popular ones include star & spread eagle

flagpoles

BLUE STATES | 2000 | A map of the 100 Acre Wood describes Eeyore's place as this, as well as ""rather boggy and sad""

gloomy

U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD | 1200 | Palm Springs, Augusta, Naples, Pinehurst & Myrtle Beach all claim to be the ""capital of the world"" of this pastime

golf

WORDS IN ASIAN COUNTRIES | 1600 | Precipitation in Bangkok

hail (in Thailand)

WORDS IN WORLD CAPITALS | 200 | Poultry in Greece

hens

KANSAS CITY BARBEQUE | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents from Arthur Bryant's Barbeque in Kansas City, MO.) Contributing to the meat's flavor is the type of wood used in the smoker; here, it's a combination of oak & this common hardwood, popular for traditional barbeque flavor

hickory

EASTER ISLAND | 1200 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Easter Island.) The original Rongorongo tablets of Easter Island are now housed in museums around the world; replicas here on the island show this type of pictographic script that was used, though the meanings have been lost to time

hieroglyphics

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

horses

COUNTRY ROADS | 800 | The Karakoram Highway has this superlative distinction amongst international highways

it\'s the highest altitude

THE HOT SEAT | 400 | Paul Volcker was named chairman of the Fed in 1979 with the mandate to control this, then at a whopping 13%

inflation

AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS | 1200 | Brisbane, Queensland is home to the world's first sanctuary for these cuddly looking creatures

koalas

DISEASES | 1200 | The disease that kills all these animals in Egypt in Exodus 9:6 is believed to have been anthrax

livestock (or cattle)

TRANSPORTATION MILESTONES | 2000 | In 1823 Maryland's Boonsborough Turnpike was the USA's first road to use this broken-stone pavement named for a Scot

macadam

STAR SEARCH | 1000 | We are serious that Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky, with a -1.46 measure of apparent this

magnitude

BLUE STATES | 1200 | In ancient physiology, the 4 humors were blood, phlegm, choler & this, aka black bile

melancholy

PANHANDLE STATES | 600 | Oklahoma's panhandle has the state's highest point, ""Black"" this type of flat-top formation of the Southwest

mesa

TRANSPORTATION | 400 | Operating since 1901, Germany's Schwebebahn is the world's oldest one of these trains that run on one track

monorail

FOREIGN GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 600 | In Dutch: Berg

mountain

SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE | 2000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds up a chameleon in the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Gaudy male chameleons pass on their genes more effectively than dull-looking ones--that's an example of what Darwin called the sexual type of this, favoring animals that are better at finding mates

natural selection

STAR SEARCH | 600 | This word for what we know to be a very old star is Latin for ""new""--silly ancient astronomers!

nova

TRANSPORTATION | 200 | In 1783 in France the hot air balloon & this air safety device both got their first successful demonstrations

parachute

CITY NICKNAMES | 400 | Manila, Philippines:This aquatic gem ""of the Orient""

pearl

A QUICK DIP IN THE LAKE | 800 | Biwa, Japan's largest lake, was long noted for culturing these gems

pearls

GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 1200 | Also a term for brewing coffee, this is the movement of water from the earth's surface to its subsurface

percolation

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK | 1000 | About 80% of Yellowstone is forest, & 80% of that is the lodgepole type of this tree

pine

HOW TO DRAIN YOUR FLAGON | 400 | Alsace produces yummy pinot gris; in northern Italy, the same grape is called this

pinot grigio

AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS | 2000 | Rita Dove was the first African American to serve in this government post, from 1993 to 1995

poet laureate

STATES & LICENSE PLATES | 800 | Idaho's plates advertise the state's ""famous"" these

potatoes

SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE | 400 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Giraffes are well adapted for tearing leaves & young shoots from trees, including a 20-inch grasping tongue that is classified as this, from the Latin for ""to seize""

prehensile

ELECTRICITY | 2000 | In 1929 the application of crystals of this mineral allowed for electric timepieces

quartz

RHYMES WITH A GREAT LAKE | 1600 | Introductory letter to a potential publisher

query

WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS | 1200 | This noodle in California's

ramen (in Sacramento)

TRANSPORTATION | 400 | It was the nickname-inducing color of Manfred von Richthofen's Fokker triplane

red

THE NAME OF THE FLAG | 1000 | Poland's flag is descriptively called bialo-czerwona, meaning these 2 colors

red and white

WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS | 800 | A payment in New Jersey's capital

rent (in Trenton)

THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION | 1600 | CDC researchers hit mosquitos with insecticide to test for this trait that makes antibiotics less effective on certain germs

resistance

ELECTRICITY | 800 | Rheostats & potentiometers are types of these devices that oppose the flow of current in electrical circuits

resistors

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK 125th ANNIVERSARY | 1200 | Yosemite Valley is home to groves of these giant conifers that lend their name to another national park 100 miles south

sequoias

CITY NICKNAMES | 200 | Akron, Ohio, once home of B.F. Goodrich:This material ""Capital of the World""

rubber

HOW TO DRAIN YOUR FLAGON | 600 | The two most popular types of port are the tawny & this sweeter one named for its color

ruby

TRAVEL BOOKS | 800 | Referring to advice on facing animals, ""Whatever You do, Don't Run"" tells of Peter Allison's time as a guide on this type of trip

safari

GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES | 1600 | For Africa's lowest point, Lake Assal, this measurement is about 35%

salinity

TALKING GEOGRAPHY | 600 | The altitude of every point in the U.K. is measured against a brass bolt in Newlyn, Cornwall, marking this

sea level

SEALED | 800 | Navy SEALs know that their name comes from these 3 places where they fight

sea, land & air

SEALED | 200 | This resinous preparation is mentioned in ""Puff the Magic Dragon""

sealing wax

BLUE STATES | 1600 | Light therapy can help with SAD, this disorder first described by psychiatrist Norman Rosenthal

seasonal affective disorder

FLAG TERMS | 800 | From the Greek for ""sign bearer"", it's the type of flag used to send messages from ship to shore

semaphore

TALKING GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Midlatitude is another word for this zone whose name suggests a nice, moderate climate

temperate

KANSAS CITY BARBEQUE | 400 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Arthur Bryant's Barbeque in Kansas City, MO.) Some people call them racks, but Arthur Bryant's serves their ribs in these thick, meaty units

slabs

A RIVER RUNS TO IT | 1600 | The Indus, to this sea

the Arabian Sea

GEOGRAPHY CLASS | 600 | The smallest & shallowest of the world's 5 oceans is this one

the Arctic

LINES ON THE MAP | 400 | With this ring, I thee wed to frigid temperatures and 24-hour sun on the solstice

the Arctic Circle

RUSSIAN CITIES | 800 | With a population of about 300,000, the port city of Murmansk is the world's largest city north of this geographic line

the Arctic Circle

A TREASURE MAP | 200 | Sail this direction shown here for 318 miles

southwest

MAPPING THE NFL | 400 | The rivalry between these two teams goes back to the 1930s.

the Chicago Bears and the Detroit Lions

WATER TRANSPORTATION | 400 | In February 2009 a British nuclear-armed one of these collided in the Atlantic with a French one, but everything's fine

submarines

THE 4 SEASONS-ISH | 1600 | Alliterative term for a repertory company's plays put on in June or July

summer stock

FLAG TERMS | 1200 | 2 types of tapering flags are pennants & these that end in 2 points like the bird part for which they're named

swallowtail

THE QUOTABLE DOROTHY PARKER | 800 | Clare Booth Luce stood aside for Dot, saying ""Age before beauty"", to which Parker said, ""Pearls before"" these

swine

COUNTRY DISTINCTIONS | 400 | Sri Lanka is the world's leading exporter of these leaves that make a hot beverage

tea

AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | 2 of Africa's deepest lakes, Tanganyika & Nyasa, lie in this 4,500-mile-long valley system

the (Great) Rift Valley

SEAS THE DAY | 2000 | The southern boundary of this sea is the Strait of Otranto between Italy & Albania

the Adriatic

RECENT AFRICAN HISTORY | 800 | From 1960 to 1990 this political party was banned & was forced to operate underground & outside South Africa's borders

the African National Congress

TRAVEL & TOURISM | 2000 | This southernmost region of Portugal is known for its pretty beaches & whitewashed houses

the Algarve

AIRPORT | 200 | At Courchevel, you land downhill & take off uphill for your trip to ski the nearby French these mountains

the Alps

SMALL COUNTRIES | 400 | Little Liechtenstein is almost completely located in these mountains

the Alps

U.S. CITY SEALS | 200 | In 2015 the council of Mobile, Alabama voted to remove from its seal this flag because it was deemed offensive

the Confederate flag

STATELY RIVERS | 2000 | New England's longest river, it flows from a small beaver pond near the Canadian border to Long Island Sound

the Connecticut

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 600 | This Rockies ridge splits the waters of the western U.S. into westward & eastward flowing

the Continental Divide

CAPITALS OF NON-COUNTRIES | 2000 | Avarua on Rarotonga is the capital of this self-governing island group in association with New Zealand

the Cook Islands

A RIVER RUNS BETWEEN THEM | 400 | Bulgaria & Romania

the Danube

BRITISH GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | 2,036-foot Snaefell is the tallest-- & only--mountain on this isle in the Irish Sea

the Isle of Man

COUNTRY MUSIC | 200 | In 2015 this mother-daughter duo reunited for ""Girls Night Out"", a series of shows in Las Vegas

the Judds (Naomi & Wynonna)

AFRICANA | 800 | Botswana's Orapa Mine in this desert produces about 11 million carats of diamonds annually

the Kalahari

SEAS | 2000 | Navigable only 2 months of the year, this Siberean sea shares its name with Supergirl's Kryptonian name

the Kara Sea

ON THE MAP | 800 | Beersheba is the largest city in this southern desert region of Israel

the Negev

CHEESY COUNTRIES | 1200 | Gouda

the Netherlands

COUNTRIES' LOWEST POINTS | 600 | Zuidplaspolder

the Netherlands

EUROPEAN LAKES | 800 | In 1932, a dam was built across the Zuiderzee, creating the IJsselmeer, this country's largest lake

the Netherlands

RIVERS ON THE BORDER | 800 | The Meuse River separates Belgium & this country from Maastricht to Maaseik

the Netherlands

ISLANDS IN THE STREAM | 400 | In North America:Goat Island & Navy Island

the Niagara River

A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER | 200 | Some of the great sights of Giza are the pyramids & my van on the bank of this river

the Nile

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA | 400 | The Nubian language group is spoken in the valley of this river in Sudan

the Nile

ON THE MAP | 200 | It's the longest river in the world that flows mainly from south to north

the Nile

ALSO A SEA | 400 | Victorious side in the U.S. Civil War

the North

TRAVEL & TOURISM | 2000 | ""Undressed: A Brief history of Underwear"" was a 2016 exhibit at this London museum known as the V&A

the Victoria and Albert

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS, MON | 1200 | St. Thomas in these islands was the birthplace of Camille Pissarro

the Virgin Islands

SOUND GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Pillsbury Sound between St. Thomas & St. John in this U.S. territory was named for a U.S. admiral, not a baker

the Virgin Islands

TRAVEL IRELAND | 800 | Over 1.5 million annually visit the shrine in the town of Knock, where visions of Joseph, St. John & her were seen in 1879

the Virgin Mary

WORLD RIVERS | 1200 | With just a bit in Kazakhstan, most of the 2,200-mile length of this river is found in Russia

the Volga

CRY ME A WORLD RIVER | 2000 | Chinese soldiers entered the Korean War in October of 1950 crossing this river in support of North Korea

the Yalu River

GEOGRAPHIC PHRASES | 400 | This phrase for the ocean follows ""the devil and""

the deep blue sea

ELECTRICITY | 1600 | This electromagnetic force that drives a current around a circuit is abbreviated emf

the electromotive force

ELECTRICITY | 400 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew rubs a balloon on her head.) The balloon gets negatively charged because these elementary particles rub off my hair & collect on the balloon, attracting the positive part of the toothpick so it falls

the electrons

THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED | 1600 | The main flag on a warship is called this, also a rank in the Navy

the ensign

PARTS OF THE CITY | 800 | Illuminating name of a type of district known for naughty goings-on

the red-light district

ELECTRICITY | 1600 | Electrical impulses come form the heart's natural pacemaker, the S-A node, short for this

the sinoatrial node

THE 4 SEASONS-ISH | 2000 | This African antelope got its name because it leaps 6 feet in the air when frightened

the springbok

DISEASES NAMED FOR PEOPLE | 800 | Dr. Hashimoto examined tissue samples & goiters to discover the disease now named for him that affects this gland

thyroid

GEOGRAPHY: DROP A LETTER | 400 | ...From a Pacific island nation to find this item of forum wear

toga (from Tonga)

WORDS IN WORLD CAPITALS | 800 | A journey in Libya

trip

LINES ON THE MAP | 400 | During a solstice, the sun is directly over one of these lines of latitude whose names suggest easy days & fruity drinks

tropic

DISEASES | 400 | Robert Koch in 1882 was first to link a germ to this disease (before that, you could say the info was TB-A)

tuberculosis

TRANSPORTATION | 2000 | Each Labor Day weekend, the Hudson River is the site of a race for these vessels that push & pull

tugboats

THAT'S LUNAR SEA! | 400 | The moon's craters were formed by meteorite impacts; the lava plains we call seas, by these events

volcanic eruptions

WORDS FOR TRAVELERS | 2000 | This French word for ""travelers"" is the name of a Minnesota national park

voyageurs

CANADIAN PROVINCIAL FLAGS | 400 | This cereal grain is depicted on the flags of the prairie provinces Alberta & Saskatchewan

wheat

COLOR THAT FLAG! | 800 | Cote d'Ivoire & Ireland (3 colors)

white, orange and green

AFRICA | 1600 | Mauritania is home to large herds of these cattle, also called brahmins, which you'll find near the end of the alphabet

zebu

LITERA-SEA | 800 | Adventures in this 1870 novel include traveling under the polar ice cap & the discovery of Atlantis

""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea""

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 1000 | Penned by James Weldon Johnson, the song do this ""And Sing"" became an African-American ""National Anthem""

""Lift Every Voice""

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE | 400 | This ""fashionable"" hit helped make Justin's album ""The 20/20 Experience"" one of the biggest sellers of 2013

""Suit & Tie""

WELL-SEASONED BOOKS | 1200 | Shakespeare was hot & cold with these 2 plays that have seasons in the title

A Midsummer Night\'s Dream and The Winter\'s Tale (A Winter\'s Tale accepted)

THAT'S LUNAR SEA! | 2000 | A current off the west coast of South America on earth & a sea on the moon share this man's name

Alexander von Humboldt

VWLLSS AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 2000 | LGR

Algeria

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

All the King\'s Men

CITY NICKNAMES | 2000 | The unofficial capital of Flemish-speaking Belgium, it's ""the City of the Madonnas""

Antwerp

FLAGS OF THE AMERICAS | 1600 | The stripes on the flags of Venezuela & Ecuador resembled those of this neighbor of which they were once a part

Colombia

STATES BY COUNTIES | 600 | Boulder,Baca

Colorado

____IN' COUNTRY SONGS | 600 | Johnny Cash:""Sunday Mornin' ____in' Down""

Comin\' Down

THE UNITED STATES MARINES | 2000 | General James Amos is the 35th man in this highest marine post; that makes him one of the joint Chiefs

Commandant of the Marine Corps

COUNTRIES' CURRENCIES | 1600 | Tuvalu, a small island country in the South Pacific, uses the dollar of this country 2,000 miles away

Australia

COUNTRIES' LOWEST POINTS | 1000 | Lake Eyre

Australia

GOIN' COUNTRY | 400 | Settled as a prison colony in 1788, this country averages only about 8 people per square mile

Australia

ISLAND PRISONS | 800 | If you were already a convict banished to this nation & committed a crime, you got sent to a tougher prison on Norfolk Island

Australia

NOVEL COUNTRIES | 400 | ""The Thorn Birds""

Australia

THAT'S OUR ISLAND! | 400 | Kangaroo Island

Australia

THE COUNTRY'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER... | 400 | lies in a Tasmanian blackwood coffin, with a slouch hat & a sprig of wattle

Australia

THE GEOGRAPHIC CENTER | 1600 | Of this continent: in the south of the Northern Territory

Australia

THE LARGEST COUNTRY... | 800 | Entirely south of the Equator, by area

Australia

THE ONION DESCRIBES THE COUNTRY | 400 | Enjoy this country's ""Vegemite Mine"" & ""Paul Hogan Institute of Knife Identification""

Australia

LET'S GO TO THE ISLANDS | 1600 | Running through Indonesia, Wallace's line divides islands with Asian fauna from ones with this continental type

Australian fauna

COUNTRIES' PROVINCES | 600 | Carinthia & Salzburg

Austria

ITALIAN GEOGRAPHY | 800 | The northernmost point is in South Tyrol on the border with this country

Austria

THE E.U. COUNTRY THAT... | 2000 | You'd visit to ski Kitzbuhel

Austria

ON THE OLD MAP OF EUROPE | 400 | Two countries visible on the map of Europe today used to be united as this dual monarchy

Austria-Hungary

BRITISH GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Nine UK rivers bear this name, including the one seen here; oh, that's the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in the background

Avon

TRAVEL & TOURISM | 200 | Double this letter to get a room in a private home with accommodations & a morning meal

B (a ""B & B"")

AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS | 800 | In 2000 Robert Johnson became the first African American billionaire after selling this TV network to Viacom

B.E.T.

AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS | 1000 | Part of Canada, this fifth-largest island is mostly inhabited by Inuit

Baffin

GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Thor Peak & Mount Asgard, known for their vertical drops, lie on this largest Canadian island

Baffin

CITY BOOKS | 1600 | A trilogy by Yasmina Khadra includes ""The Swallows of Kabul"" & ""The Sirens of"" this other capital

Baghdad

MIDDLE EASTERN CAPITALS | 1200 | This city on the Tigris river was founded in 762 as the capital of the Abbasid Dynasty

Baghdad

WORLD CAPITALS | 600 | The central part of this city has 2 main districts: Karkh & Rusafah, which lie on the west & east banks of the Tigris

Baghdad

COUNTRIES SMALLER THAN PUERTO RICO | 2000 | The Al-Khalifah royal family reigns in this island nation

Bahrain

THE U.N.'s COUNTRY ABBREVIATION | 600 | BHR

Bahrain

WHAT ISLAND? | 2000 | The Al Khamis Mosque & the Manama Souk Bazaar

Bahrain

ON THE GEOGRAPHIC MENU | 400 | A heated yet frozen dessert bearing the name of a big 1867 land purchase by the United States

Baked Alaska

U.S. CITY NICKNAMES | 800 | California:""Country Music Capital of the West Coast"" (though it's 100 miles inland)

Bakersfield

NAME THE CAPITAL | 1000 | Azerbaijan

Baku

TRAVEL & TOURISM | 1000 | The Ogoh-Ogoh parade is held on the eve of Nyepi, a Hindu holiday celebrated on this Indonesian island

Bali

NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD | 1600 | Canada's first national park, it was created in 1887 in Alberta & was originally called Rocky Mountains Park

Banff

AIRPORT | 400 | Better watch your slice at the 18-hole golf course between two runways at Don Mueang International, serving this Thai capital

Bangkok

WORLD CAPITAL POINTS OF INTEREST | 600 | One night in this Asian city, go to Wat Traimit, a temple with a 5 1/2-ton solid gold Buddha statue

Bangkok

WELCOME TO THE U.N. | 600 | 1974:This Asian nation, a few years after a famous ""concert for"" it

Bangladesh

OUT OF AFRICA | 2000 | A surf fashion brand made in Africa by Africans is named for this language group that includes Swahili & Zulu

Bantu

CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES | 1200 | Bridgetown is the capital of this ""Birthplace of Rum"", the easternmost nation in the West Indies

Barbados

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

Barbados

THE U.N.'s COUNTRY ABBREVIATION | 800 | BRB

Barbados

CURRENT SENATORS' STATES | 800 | California:Feinstein & her

Barbara Boxer

CITIES | 200 | Antoni Gaudi helped design the fountain of Aurora in this Spanish city while he was still a student

Barcelona

EUROPEAN CITIES | 800 | On a visit to this seaport, Hans Christian Andersen called it ""the Paris of Spain""

Barcelona

OLYMPIC CITY ATTRACTIONS | 800 | The Museu Picasso

Barcelona

THE CITY OF... | 800 | Gaudi

Barcelona

ENTERTAINMENT UNDER THE SEA | 1000 | SpongeBob SquarePants loves the TV show ""The Adventures of Mermaid Man and"" him

Barnacle Boy

JOLLY OLD CITIES IN ENGLAND | 1600 | The Thermae Spa has updated the millennia-old hot springs tradition of this city

Bath

REPORTING FROM THE STATE CAPITAL | 600 | From the main campus of Southern University... so laissez les bon temps roulez

Baton Rouge

STATE CAPITALS | 2000 | It sits on the Mississippi across the river from the sugar plantations that gave the area the name ""Sugar Bowl of America""

Baton Rouge

STATE CAPITALS | 800 | Huey Long's grave has an honored place on the grounds of this city's capital building

Baton Rouge

STATE CAPITAL RIVERS | 600 | The Mississippi River--2 cities at opposite ends of the river

Baton Rouge & St. Paul

SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS | 1000 | It's roughly 300 miles from Panama, 200 miles from the Pacific & a mile & a half high

Bogotá

SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS | 800 | It's the Andean capital city shown here

Bogotá (Colombia)

CONSONANT-FREE STATE CAPITALS | 400 | Nowhere near Hawaii:OIE

Boise

REPORTING FROM THE STATE CAPITAL | 400 | From Bronco Stadium at halftime of the Potato Bowl

Boise

STATE CAPITALS | 1000 | French-Canadian trappers named it for the tree-lined river that provided relief for those crossing the Snake River Plain

Boise

STATE CAPITALS | 1200 | This Idaho capital has a basque museum & basque language school

Boise

AFRICAN HISTORY | 1200 | In 2014, 5 African nations made an alliance against this Islamist group notorious for kidnapping girls in Nigeria

Boko Haram

RECENT AFRICAN HISTORY | 1600 | The 2-word name of this terrorist group founded in Nigeria has been translated as ""Western education is forbidden""

Boko Haram

SEAN CONNERY & BURT REYNOLDS | 600 | Burt was Oscar-nominated for his role as an adult filmmaker in this 1997 movie

Boogie Nights

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 800 | This institute founder was the first African American featured on a U.S. postage stamp

Booker T. Washington

ASIAN ISLANDS | 1600 | The world's third-largest island, it's home to the Rafflesia, the world's largest flower

Borneo

COUNTRY FACTS | 1200 | Muslims make up the largest religious group of this nation once part of Yugoslavia

Bosnia

LITERARY NEW YORK CITY | 800 | E.L. Doctorow's ""The Waterworks"" is a Gothic thriller set during this man's corrupt 19th century rule of the city

Boss Tweed

BIG CITY MAYORS | 400 | Marty Walsh, succeeding Thomas Menino in 2014

Boston

STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 200 | Fenway Park

Boston

U.S. CITIES' INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS | 600 | Logan

Boston

BIG CITY SUBURBS | 200 | Concord,Lowell

Boston (Massachusetts)

AFRICA | 2000 | Gaborone is the capital of this African country formerly known as Bechuanaland

Botswana

THE CITY | 600 | When taking ""a trip to"" this Utah city, be sure to stop by its tabernacle, built before Salt Lake City's

Bountiful

COUNTRY MUSIC | 1000 | Completes the lyric in the Johnny Cash classic, ""I tell ya, life ain't easy for a...""

Boy named Sue

ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES | 800 | A ZEN MOB,Montana

Bozeman

WHAT A COUNTRY! | 1200 | This Western Hemisphere country is the largest nation in area whose capital city's name begins with the same letter

Brazil

WHAT COUNTRY ARE YOU FROM? | 800 | A Carioca

Brazil

MOST POPULOUS COUNTRIES | 400 | The 2 in the top 10 found in the Americas

Brazil & the United States

GEOGRAPHY | 400 | This Egyptian capital is fan-shaped, fading off into the delta to the north

Cairo

IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | 600 | Tahrir Square, the HQ of the Arab League

Cairo

CALIFORNIA COUNTIES | 2000 | Leapin' amphibians! It takes its name from the Spanish for ""skulls""

Calaveras

ASIAN CITIES | 1200 | Some 15 million Indians live in the metro area of this city once infamous for its ""Black Hole""

Calcutta

CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | In 1988 it became the first Canadian city to host the winter Olympics

Calgary

STATE PARKS | 400 | Malibu Creek State Park

California

STUFF ABOUT STATES | 800 | It was the first state to have a chemical element named for it

California

THE 50 STATES | 1000 | According to statute, the outer circle of its state seal is a color called golden poppy

California

COUNTRIES BY WORLD HERITAGE SITES | 2000 | Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump &L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site

Canada

COUNTRY NICKNAMES | 200 | ""The Great White North""

Canada

FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES | 800 | In area it's the largest country with French as an official language

Canada

PLANT THE FLAG | 400 | In an early design, the single leaf on this country's flag was green

Canada

THE LARGEST COUNTRY... | 400 | Entirely outside Asia, by area

Canada

THIS ISLAND IS YOUR ISLAND | 2000 | MacKenzie King Island

Canada

NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD | 2000 | See wombats in the wild at Namadgi National Park, just southwest of this capital city

Canberra

GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS | 2000 | I cannot believe this Chinese city is properly called Guangzhou

Canton (from cannot)

ON THE MAP | 1000 | This South African cape, not the Cape of Good Hope, is the southernmost point in Africa

Cape Agulhas

GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | This cape seen here is named for the woman seen here

Cape Ann

GEOGRAPHY FROM SPACE | 1200 | Extending 65 miles into the Atlantic Ocean off North America, its beaches attract visitors in droves

Cape Cod

ATLANTIC CITIES | 1200 | This South African city is often called ""the mother city"" because it was the first place in the nation settled by Europeans

Cape Town

COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUMS | 800 | In May 2005 she won ""American Idol""; 6 months later, her debut album ""Some Hearts"" was released

Carrie Underwood

COUNTRY MUSIC MOVERS & SHAKERS | 1200 | This Oklahoma native donated $1 million from her ""Blown Away"" tour to help tornado victims in her home state

Carrie Underwood

AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Dating back to the 700s B.C., the ruins of this ancient city can be found outside Tunis

Carthage

COUNTRY MEN | 2000 | First name of the man for whom Zimbabwe was formerly named

Cecil

PARKS | 200 | Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields in this park & on to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Central Park

THE WEATHER & GEOGRAPHY REPORT | 600 | Raindrops won't be fallin' on your head in Arica, in this south American country; it takes 30+ years to get one inch of rain

Chile

ISLANDS | 800 | Lying at the southern tip of South America, the islands of Tierra del Fuego are split between these 2 countries

Chile & Argentina

A RIVER RUNS TO IT | 800 | The Yangtze:a sea with this country in its name

China

U.S. CITY NAME ORIGINS | 2000 | Once called Buffalo City, this Wild West Kansas town was named for the commander of the nearby fort

Dodge City

ADJECTIVAL COUNTRY NAMES | 600 | Caribbean country bearing the name of an order of Catholic priests

Dominican Republic

BRITISH GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | In recent years, large chunks of the white chalk cliffs near this port have fallen into the sea

Dover

STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 600 | First State Heritage Park,Silver Lake

Dover

WE HAVE A NEW STATE CAPITAL | 1600 | Replacing New Castle

Dover

CANADIAN CAPITALS | 800 | Its nicknames include ""Oil City"" & ""E-Town""

Edmonton

ON THE MAP | 600 | It's the tiny country highlighted here

El Salvador

ITALIAN ISLANDS | 400 | Able was I ere I saw this largest Tuscan isle

Elba

COMPOSERS' COUNTRY OF BIRTH | 400 | Edward Elgar

England

COUNTRY OF BIRTH | 400 | Funny man Bob Hope

England

NATIONAL PARKS | 400 | This park's main entrance is the Ernest F. Cole Visitor Center named for the park's creator, a Miami naturalist

Everglades

PARKS | 400 | You might find a gator or 2 in this subtropical national park established in 1947

Everglades

CITY-TITLED MOVIES | 800 | Frances McDormand wore a fake tummy filled with birdseed to make her appear pregnant in this film

Fargo

STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES | 600 | North Dakota: about 107,000

Fargo

RIVERS ON THE BORDER | 2000 | The Torne River is on the border of Sweden & this country until it empties in the Gulf of Bothnia

Finland

THE COUNTRY'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER... | 2000 | has his tomb in Hietaniemi Cemetery near the tomb of Marshal Mannerheim

Finland

TRAVELING AMONGST THE STARS | 800 | In 1966 this crooner hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts with ""Strangers In The Night""

Frank Sinatra

IN THE STATE CAPITAL | 1000 | The graves of Daniel Boone & his wife, Rebecca

Frankfort

STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 800 | Buffalo Trace Distillery,Daniel Boone Burial Site

Frankfort

STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES | 600 | ""The Bluegrass Capital""

Frankfort (Kentucky)

ALTERED STATES | 400 | Ah I do

Idaho

PANHANDLE STATES | 800 | Much of the northern part of its panhandle is covered by the Coeur d'Alene Mountains

Idaho

STATE BY COUNTIES | 1000 | Nez Perce,Lincoln,Gem

Idaho

STATES' HIGH & LOW POINTS | 800 | Low:Snake River in Nez Perce County

Idaho

DOUBLE UP ON YOUR COUNTRIES | 800 | They're the 2 countries where Urdu is mainly spoken

India & Pakistan

2-TIMING STATES | 200 | In this state when it's noon in Poseyville, it's 1 p.m. in Muncie, which is on Eastern Time

Indiana

CONSONANT-FREE STATE CAPITALS | 600 | In the midwest, far from Hawaii:IIAAOI

Indianapolis

ALMOST THERE TO THE STATE CAPITAL | 2000 | The two capitals that have a Greek word for ""city"" at the end of their names

Indianapolis and Annapolis

WORLD CITIES | 1600 | Banda Aceh in this country sustained heavy damage from the 2004 tsunami

Indonesia

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD | 2000 | After it was stolen from India, the Peacock Throne became a symbol of this country's monarchy

Iran

THE CASPIAN SEA | 1600 | The Caspian's southern shoreline borders this country at the foot of the Elburz Mountains

Iran

GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS | 800 | As soon as I got to this country it started to rain

Iran (from rain)

FLORIDA GEOGRAPHY | 600 | Named for a president & developed around a ford in the St. Johns river, it's Florida's most populous city

Jacksonville

MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS CITIES | 200 | The Jaguars

Jacksonville

ON THE MAP | 400 | This U.S. port is the largest city in its state

Jacksonville

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 1600 | His relationship with his minister stepfather provided the basis for his 1953 novel ""Go Tell It on the Mountain""

James Baldwin

THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED | 2000 | Gilbert Baker created the rainbow flag & this man rode in a parade with one shortly before his 1978 assassination

Harvey Milk

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | North Carolina's easternmost point lies on this island where you'll also find a famous cape

Hatteras

CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES | 400 | President Obama's 2016 visit to this city was the first by a U.S. president since Calvin Coolidge showed up on a battleship

Havana

CITIES IN SONG | 1600 | Barry Manilow:""At the Copa, Copacabana, the hottest spot north of"" here

Havana

IN THE CAPITAL CITY | 600 | Dec. 11, 2012:Hugo Chavez has major cancer surgery (it's not Caracas)

Havana

IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | 200 | Communist Party HQ in the Plaza de la Revolucion

Havana

JAPANESE CITIES | 1000 | This city was home to the royal family for 1,074 years, from the Heian Period to the Meiji Restoration

Kyoto

PRETTY CITY | 2000 | Autumn is an especially beautiful time to visit the temples of this city, Japan's capital until 1868

Kyoto

CITIES IN SONG | 400 | Randy Newman:""Looks like another perfect day, I love"" this city

L.A.

U.S. CITIES | 1000 | A memorial on the site of the former South Fork Dam commemorates the devastating flood in this Pennsylvania city

Johnstown

THIS CATEGORY HAS BEEN FLAGGED | 400 | It's the rather cheerful name for the flag seen here

Jolly Roger

BALLPARK TOWNS | 800 | U.S. Cellular Field (formerly New Comiskey)

Chicago

BIG BUILDING OF THE CITY | 1600 | 111 S. Wacker Drive

Chicago

BIG CITY MAYORS | 200 | Rahm Emanuel

Chicago

AFRICAN AMERICANS | 400 | In 1908 this composer put out an instruction book called ""School of Ragtime""

(Scott) Joplin

THE BRIDGES OF OTHER COUNTIES | 1000 | Cook County, Illinois is where you find the first bridge designed by this architect in 2004; note the biomorphic curves

(Frank) Gehry

U.S. CITY NAME ORIGINS | 1200 | Three Forks, Wash. changed its name to honor this sleeping car inventor who had given it an endowment

(George) Pullman

THEY SERVED OUR COUNTRY | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.) The B-24 Liberator was the most-produced U.S. aircraft of WWII; pilots who flew it on hazardous bombing missions over Germany included Senator George McGovern & this star of ""It's a Wonderful Life""

(Jimmy) Stewart

GUYS, CAPITALISM WORKS! | 400 | In July 2012 he said as president, he'd show ""the good things that can happen (with) more free enterprise""--he didn't get to

(Mitt) Romney

GEOGRAPHY IN RHYME | 600 | Come visit Mongo /Not far from the Congo /Tibesti mountains are not that bad /Yes, we're talking, talking 'bout...

Chad

COUNTRY NICKNAMES | 1000 | Fierce Pashtun fighters help make it the ""Graveyard of Empires""

Afghanistan

LANDLOCKED COUNTRY FUN | 400 | Among landlocked countries, this war-torn Asian land is alphabetically first

Afghanistan

GEOGRAPHIC BANDS | 1000 | A-listers who sang ""We Are The World"":USA for ____

Africa

LAKES & RIVERS | 400 | At 155 feet below sea level, Lake Assal in central Djibouti is this continent's lowest point

Africa

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA | 1600 | To ask, ""How are you?"" in this language, say ""Hoe gaan dit met jou?""

Afrikaans

SUPERLATIVE STATES | 400 | Biggest retailer:This company based in Washington State

Amazon.com

BRAZILIAN GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | Add two letters to the name of a river to get this state, so big it borders three countries

Amazonas

U.S. CITIES | 400 | Home to Disneyland, this city was founded by German immigrants in 1857

Anaheim

LET'S GO TO THE ISLANDS | 2000 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Coral reefs grow best in warm water, so they're found mostly in tropical locales; one exception is this island, at 32 degrees north latitude, warmed by the Gulf Stream

Bermuda

4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS | 1200 | Found on the Aare river, this Swiss capital was founded according to tradition in 1191

Bern

NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARKS | 400 | It sounds like a building, but it's the name of the village that was the site of an 1865 surrender, now a historical park

Appomattox Courthouse

GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES | 400 | The lowest point in both the western & southern hemispheres is Laguna del Carbon in this nation's Patagonia region

Argentina

MY COUNTRY | 1000 | Men of letters Jorge Luis Borges & Manuel Puig

Argentina

NOVEL COUNTRIES | 1200 | ""Kiss of the Spider Woman""

Argentina

SAINTS & THEIR CITIES | 400 | The Franciscans' founder, St. Francis of this city

Assisi

WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 200 | The Parthenon

Athens

WORLD CAPITALS | 600 | This European capital city is served by 3 main ports: Piraeus, Rafina & Lavrion

Athens

CITY OF BIRTH | 1000 | Arianna Huffington

Athens, Greece

STATE CAPITAL HEADQUARTERS | 200 | Coca-Cola

Atlanta

COLORFUL U.S. CITIES | 2000 | This Alabama college town's name was inspired by a line from Oliver Goldsmith's poem ""The Deserted Village""

Auburn

CITY NICKNAMES | 1600 | This most populous New Zealand city is known as ""the City of Sails""

Auckland

U.S. CITIES | 400 | In recent years this Texas capital has ranked as one of the top U.S. cities for young adults

Austin

STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 1000 | Blue Bayou Water Park &Dixie Landin' Amusement Park

Baton Rouge

STATES BY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AREA | 2000 | Manzanar National Historic Site

California

CITY BY THE BAY | 800 | St. John, New Brunswick

Bay of Fundy

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 1200 | Kristin Hunter took the title for her novel ""God Bless the Child"" from this singer

Billie Holiday

U.S. CITIES | 600 | That's a statue of Vulcan in this Alabama city

Birmingham

AMUSEMENT & THEME PARKS | 600 | Step back in time at Silver Dollar City, an 1880s-style theme park in this Missouri city famous for its entertainment

Branson

& THE CATEGORY OF GEOGRAPHY | 800 | The greatest north-south distance of this South American country is 2,731 miles; east-west, 2,684

Brazil

ISLAND NATIONS | 200 | The Ivory Coast is officially Cote d'Ivoire & as of 2013, this island country not far off is Cabo Verde

Cape Verde

OH, B-CITY IN AFRICA | 1200 | The Republic of the Congo is sometimes called Congo-this, after its capital

Brazzaville

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

Brewster Place

LITERARY NEW YORK CITY | 2000 | This Jay McInerney novel evoked the yuppie party scene of 1980s New York City

Bright Lights, Big City

LANDLOCKED AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 2000 | This 2-word nation whose name means ""Land of Honorable People"" is landlocked like its neighbor Niger

Burkina Faso

WORLD CAPITALS | 800 | Yaounde, capital of this former French territory in Africa, was founded by Germans involved in the ivory trade

Cameroon

ISLAND NAMES | 1200 | Women's pants with a tapered leg that ends above the ankle

Capri

HIDDEN U.K. CITIES | 1600 | That's what happens when you treat Oscar differently from the other kids

Cardiff

COUNTRY & TOWN | 1600 | The 160' African Renaissance monument overlooks this capital of Senegal

Dakar

CAPITAL MAP IT ALL | 1000 | On November 25, 1861, it became a territorial capital

Carson City

AFRICAN CAPITALS | 2000 | This capital city is on Cape Verde peninsula but not in the country of Cape Verde

Dakar, Senegal

CITY WALK | 400 | Its nicknames include ""Carolina's Queen City"" & ""the Spearhead of the New South""

Charlotte

TAKING IN THE CITY SITES | 200 | charmeck.orgis the site for this city & Mecklenburg County

Charlotte

TAKING IN THE CITY SITES | 1000 | bigshoulders.com belongs to a digital video production company based here

Chicago

TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 66 | 200 | One end of Route 66 is at Grant Park on the corner of Jackson & Michigan Avenues in this city

Chicago

NASCAR FROM THE DRIVER'S SEAT | 400 | (I'm Matt Kenseth.) In 2000 I became the first rookie to win the Coca-Cola 600 & beat out this son of a legendary driver for Rookie of the Year honors

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

U.S. CITIES | 600 | This city's metro area includes Lorain, Lake & Cuyahoga; visit 'em all!

Cleveland

GEOGRAPHY | 400 | The name of this city comes from medieval Danish for ""merchants' harbor""

Copenhagen

IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | 800 | Tivoli Gardens amusement park

Copenhagen

AFRICANA | 1600 | In 2015 Abdel al-Sisi became the first Egyptian president to attend this religious group's Christmas mass

Coptic Christianity

THAT'S OUR ISLAND! | 2000 | Isle of Youth (or Isla de la Juventud)

Cuba

THE NAME OF THE FLAG | 600 | This Caribbean nation flies La Estrella Solitaria, ""The Solitary Star""

Cuba

FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES | 2000 | In 1985 this African nation officially changed its name to the French version

Côte d\'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)

AIRPORT CODES | 200 | You'll find MOM in Moudjeria, Mauritania; this 3-letter code is over in Da Nang, Vietnam

DAD

ELECTRICITY | 400 | It's the 2-letter abbreviation for a flow of electric charge that doesn't change direction

DC

U.S. AIRPORT CODES | 1600 | American Airlines' largest hub is the Texas airport with this code

DFW

ASIAN CITIES | 1600 | Da Lat is in southern Vietnam; this city the French called Tourane is 300 miles north, on the coast

Da Nang

ENTERTAINMENT UNDER THE SEA | 200 | Living near Antarctica, Hoff crabs were named for this ""Baywatch"" star due to their hairy chests

David Hasselhoff

SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES | 1200 | From 1952 to 1955 Argentina's city of La Plata was named after this late beloved first lady

Evita Perón

U.S. AIRPORT CODES | 2000 | DTW serves this city; the airport's full name includes Wayne County

Detroit

U.S. CITY NICKNAMES | 200 | ""Motown""

Detroit

COUNTRY MUSIC | 600 | When her ""Here You Come Again"" hit the pop charts in 1977, she said, ""I'm not leaving country, I'm just taking it with me""

Dolly Parton

AFRICAN AMERICANS | 400 | In 1857 the Supreme Court ruled that, as a slave, he was not a citizen & therefore not entitled to sue in federal court

Dred Scott

AFRICAN COUNTRY BY AIRPORT | 200 | Aswan Airport

Egypt

AFRICAN SETTINGS | 400 | ""The Alexandria Quartet""

Egypt

AROUND AFRICA | 2000 | Governing for the Ottoman sultan, the khedive was the title of the ruler of this North African nation until 1914

Egypt

OPERA COUNTRY SETTINGS | 400 | Verdi's ""Aida""

Egypt

WHICH AFRICAN COUNTRY? | 200 | The Temple of Hatshepsut

Egypt

ON THE ISLAND | 800 | Here's our proclamation: Every August 1 Jamaicans celebrate this day of freedom

Emancipation Day

BORDERING THE RED SEA | 800 | The Red Sea Boys are the soccer team of this African country, the most recently independent Red Sea nation

Eritrea

AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 1200 | There was once a place called Italian East Africa; now most of it is this

Ethiopia

AFRICAN COUNTRY BY AIRPORT | 800 | Indaselassie Airport

Ethiopia

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

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

THEY SERVED OUR COUNTRY | 600 | Semper fi! Before he coached some movie ""Hoosiers"", this actor was in the Marines

Gene Hackman

EUROPEAN CITIES | 1200 | This Swiss city was known as the ""Protestant Rome""

Geneva

WHAT A COUNTRY! | 2000 | After tensions escalated for years, it fought a short war with Russia in the summer of 2008

Georgia

CAPITAL RIVERS | 800 | The Taedong is the watery artery of this capital on the Korean Peninsula

Pyongyang

TRAVEL & TOURISM | 600 | Anne Hathaway's cottage in this British town features a butterfly trail & a floral garden

Stratford

AFRICAN LAKES | 1200 | One of the world's largest manmade lakes, Lake Kariba lies on ""Z"" border of these 2 African countries

Zambia & Zimbabwe

DISEASES NAMED FOR PEOPLE | 2000 | About 1 in 25 Ashkenazi Jews is a carrier of this disease named for a British physician & an American neurologist

Tay-Sachs disease

ISLAND HOPPING | 200 | From Hilo to Honolulu

Hawaii & Oahu

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC AKAs | 600 | 19th century Europeans called this Pacific chain the Sandwich Islands

Hawaiian Islands

AIRPORTS | 200 | By the time it turned 60 in 2006, this London airport had handled around 1.4 billion passengers

Heathrow

LET'S GO TO THE AIRPORT | 600 | This London airport has but 2 runways, yet served 73.4 million passengers in 2014

Heathrow

SCANDINAVIAN CITIES | 1600 | Each August productions of ""Hamlet"" take place on Kronborg Castle in this Danish town

Helsingør (or Elsinore)

CAPITAL CITY CHURCHES | 400 | In this Finnish city, the Lutheran Cathedral, also known as Tuomiokirkko

Helsinki

CONSONANT-FREE STATE CAPITALS | 1000 | OOUU

Honolulu

STATE CAPITALS | 400 | Its National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific contains the graves of WWII, Korean War & Vietnam War dead

Honolulu

STATE CAPITALS | 800 | This capital's Kawaiaha'o church is known as the ""Westminster Abbey of the Pacific""

Honolulu

WORLD FLAGS | 1600 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows three flags on the monitor.) Not knowing flags can cause a diplomatic flap. Invert Poland's flag, & it looks not only like that of Monaco, but also like the flag of this Asian island country

Indonesia

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

If He Hollers Let Him Go

U.S. AIRPORT CODES | 800 | The codes for the 2 airports in Queens, NYC are LGA & this

JFK

SKYSCRAPER CITY | 1000 | The Marriott Rivercenter at 101 Bowie St.

San Antonio

BIG CITY SUBURBS | 1000 | Coronado,Chula Vista

San Diego

19th CENTURY TRANSPORTATION | 800 | This city's Market Street cable railway began running in 1883

San Francisco

BALLPARK TOWNS | 2000 | AT&T Park (formerly SBC Park, formerly Pacific Bell Park)

San Francisco

GEOGRAPHIC ABBREV. | 200 | It's the SF in the airport code SFO

San Francisco

NASCAR FROM THE DRIVER'S SEAT | 1000 | (I'm Chase Elliott.) In 2016 I followed in the footsteps of this NASCAR legend by taking over behind the wheel of the 24 car when he retired from a cup career that began in 1992

Jeff Gordon

WORLD CAPITALS | 1000 | 2 African capitals, Brazzaville & this one, lie across the Congo River from each other

Kinshasa

EPONYMOUS AIRPORTS | 400 | KRK is the code for this city's Pope John Paul II International Airport

Kraków

ASIA LOVES THAT AMERICAN BRAND | 1000 | In 2010 customers waited in line for 27 hours when this donut chain opened in Bangkok

Krispy Kreme

SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS | 1600 | Sucre is Bolivia's judicial capital; this city, the legislative capital

La Paz

CANADIAN LAKES | 400 | Canada's southernmost point lies within this Great Lake

Lake Erie

EXTREME GEOGRAPHY | 600 | Canada's southernmost point of land is Middle Island in this Great Lake, eh?

Lake Erie

THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM | 2000 | The monument seen here that commemorates Perry's victory rises 352 feet above this lake

Lake Erie

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 200 | The Niagara River is the only natural outlet of this Great Lake

Lake Erie

U.S. STATES' LARGEST ISLANDS | 1200 | Ohioans call Kelleys Island in this lake ""the Walleye Capital of the World""

Lake Erie

LAKES & RIVERS | 1200 | The strait of Promenthoux separates this large Alpine lake into the Grand Lac & the Petit Lac

Lake Geneva

4-LETTER COUNTRY NAMES | 800 | A communist country of southeast Asia

Laos

GOIN' COUNTRY | 2000 | In 2012 this country stretching between Vietnam & Thailand got its first visit from a U.S. Secretary of State in 5 decades

Laos

CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS | 400 | This Costa Rican capital's Gold Museum has hundreds of pre-Columbian gold artifacts

San José

VWLLSS AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 400 | LBR

Liberia

WHAT A COUNTRY! | 800 | In 1821 the American Colonization Society secured the land that became this African country

Liberia

2-WORD COUNTRIES | 1600 | Don't blink or you'll miss this republic on the map

San Marino

FRENCH CITIES & TOWNS | 2000 | This city at the juncture of the Rhone & Saone Rivers is famous for its cooked dishes prepared with onions

Lyon

THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM | 2000 | This California World War II relocation center is marked by a monument that reads ""soul consoling tower""

Manzanar

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 2000 | Hiram Revels, the first black U.S. senator, represented this state, but was too late to be Jeff Davis' colleague

Mississippi

STATE PARKS | 800 | When it comes to this state's parks, call LeFleur's Bluff... or Tishomingo or Natchez, for that matter

Mississippi

AMERICAN CITIES | 800 | Joplin in this state was not named for a musician but for a Methodist missionary

Missouri

GEOGRAPHIC CENTERS | 400 | 20 miles southwest of Jefferson City

Missouri

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Name shared by the state where St. Joseph is located & the river it's on

Missouri

THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS | 1000 | In the 1860s residents were moved from its Kalaupapa Peninsula & people with a certain disease moved in

Molokai

COUNTRIES WITH SHORT COASTLINES | 1200 | This principality has only about 2.5 miles of coast, on the Mediterranean Sea

Monaco

EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of a country with parts of the coastline highlighted.) About 100 of this country's 485 acres were reclaimed from the Mediterranean Sea within the past twenty years

Monaco

THE NAME ON THE AIRPORT | 800 | Tributes to this woman of Albanian heritage include renaming Tirana International for her & in 2016, sainthood

Mother Teresa

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 800 | The snowy dome of this tallest volcano in the lower 48 states is often shrouded in clouds

Mount Rainier

2-TIMING STATES | 400 | It's 10:00 in most of Arizona, which doesn't use daylight saving time, but 11 in this ""nation"", which does

Navajo

COUNTRIES BY HOTEL | 600 | The Yak & Yeti

Nepal

COUNTRIES' BIGGEST CITIES | 200 | Kathmandu

Nepal

A RIVER RUNS TO IT | 1600 | The Hudson:""Upper"" this Bay

New York

OTHER GREAT LAKES | 200 | Great Sacandaga Lake in this state helps regulate the flow of the Hudson

New York

SITCOM CITIES | 400 | ""2 Broke Girls""

New York

STATE PARKS | 800 | Hudson Highlands State Park Preserve

New York

STATES BY LAKE | 2000 | Schroon Lake,Chautauqua Lake

New York

SUPERLATIVE STATES | 600 | Longest bridge span:Verrazano-Narrows in this state, 4,260 feet

New York

THE U.S. CITY RAINS SUPREME | 200 | ""The city so nice they named it twice:, it gets nearly 50"" of rain a year... good luck getting a cab!

New York

TRANSPORTATION | 400 | In 1832 the USA's first horse-drawn streetcar began driving up & down the Bowery in this city

New York

THE CITY IN QUESTION | 200 | 12 got death, 7 got prison & 3 were acquitted at the first of these trials, held from Nov. 1945 to Oct. 1946

Nuremberg

COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUMS | 1000 | This 2000 movie soundtrack album featured Alison Krauss on 3 tracks including ""Down To The River To Pray""

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

STATELY GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | The Red River region,Geronimo's grave

Oklahoma

THE NORTHERNMOST STATE CAPITAL | 600 | Tallahassee,Austin,Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City

STATE CAPITALS | 400 | This city southwest of Tacoma was named for some nearby mountains

Olympia

CALIFORNIA COUNTIES | 400 | Fruity county that's home to the Angels

Orange

U.S. CITIES | 1000 | Once Virginia's capital, this city has made sure to keep its colonial feel

Williamsburg

REVOLUTIONARY COUNTRIES | 2000 | The Orange Revolution (2004)

the Ukraine

ITALIAN CITIES | 1000 | Though Portugal claims him as a patron saint, St. Anthony is buried in this Italian city

Padua

HIDDEN U.K. CITIES | 1200 | How proud Pa Isley would have been if only he had lived to see ""Shout"" become a classic song

Paisley

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | Pasca, a Native American word for bread, gave this Gulf Coast city its name

Pascagoula

COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUMS | 400 | In 1978 this ""Red-Headed Stranger"" released ""Stardust"", an album of pop standards

Willie Nelson

CITIES IN SONG | 2000 | Bruce Springsteen:""Oh brother, are you gonna leave me wasting away on the streets of"" this city

Philadelphia

THE UNITED STATES MARINES | 400 | Recruitment for the first Marines was in this Penn. city's Tun Tavern; its beer is still sold to Marines worldwide

Philadelphia

THE CITY | 400 | The South Dakota capitol in this city saved money by using columns made of something called scagliola instead of marble

Pierre

ATLANTIC CITY | 400 | Find Gobstoppers or a golden ticket on the Bally's slot machine named for this Roald Dahl guy

Willy Wonka

COMPOSERS' COUNTRY OF BIRTH | 200 | Frederic Chopin

Poland

GEOGRAPHY | 400 | This nation of 11 million has about 600 miles of Atlantic coast

Portugal

U.S. STATES' LARGEST ISLANDS | 800 | Washington's? That would be Whidbey Island in this sound

Puget Sound

OUT OF AFRICA | 1600 | In the 1970s reggae music became identified with this pan-African movement inspired by Haile Selassie

Rastafarianism

TRAVEL & TOURISM | 1200 | Andrea Palladio's 1554 guidebooks to this city were quite popular in their day

Rome

WORLD CAPITAL MUSEUMS | 800 | The Borghese Gallery

Rome

ISLAND NAMES | 1600 | Type of tour for Sting & The Police in 2007 & '08

Reunion

GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES | 800 | The world's northernmost national capital is this one that's on an island

Reykjavik

AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN | 600 | Rita Dove titled a collection of poems ""On the Bus with"" this woman

Rosa Parks

CITY PARKS | 800 | A 1905 statue in Portland, Oregon's Washington Park was the USA's first of this Shoshone woman

Sacajawea

STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 1200 | Fairytale Town & the Leland Stanford mansion

Sacramento

STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES | 1000 | ""The Almond Capital of the World""

Sacramento

I STAND BEFORE THE COUNTRY | 600 | Before ""Sudan""

South

ADJECTIVAL COUNTRY NAMES | 400 | In 1961 this nation withdrew from the British Commonwealth over member criticism of its apartheid policies

South Africa

AFRICAN COUNTRY BY AIRPORT | 600 | Kruger Mpumalanga International

South Africa

EUROPEAN CAPITALS | 800 | This capital of Bosnia was once ruled by the Ottoman Empire, & its name is from a Turkish word for a palace

Sarajevo

COUNTRIES' PROVINCES | 200 | KwaZulu-Natal & Western Cape

South Africa

IN THE AFRICAN COUNTRY | 600 | Soweto Township, where a struggle for freedom was born

South Africa

IT BORDERS BOTH COUNTRIES | 800 | Namibia &Mozambique

South Africa

ON THE GEOGRAPHIC MENU | 600 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a fruity drink in a bar in Singapore.) Around 1910 bartender Ngiam Tong Boon created this cocktail, now made of gin, cherry brandy, grenadine and lime juice, a signature of the Raffles Hotel

a Singapore Sling

ASIAN CAPITALS | 1600 | It was founded in 1394 as the capital of the Kingdom of Choson

Seoul

EAST ASIAN CITIES | 400 | In 2004 President Roh Moo Hyun tried to move South Korea's capital from this city to Gongju

Seoul

WORLD CAPITALS | 200 | This South Korean capital is said to be the world's most wired city, with around 95% of households having broadband

Seoul

HO CHI MINH CITY | 400 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.) Colorful Pham Ngu Lao Street is lined with inexpensive hotels & restaurants that cater to budget travelers, so the neighborhood is called ""Khu Tay Balo"", or these people's area, for the type of luggage that young tourists often carry

a backpack

WORLD CITIES | 1200 | An 18th century tobacco factory made famous in ""Carmen"" is now home to this city's university

Seville

ASIAN CITIES | 800 | In 2010 this largest Chinese city overtook Singapore as the world's busiest container port

Shanghai

THE MOVIE MAP | 1000 | An Orson Welles classic: ""The Lady From ___""

Shanghai

LET YOUR GREEK FLAG FLY | 1200 | Seen here is the flag of this two-Greek-letter fraternity founded at VMI, part of the Lexington Triad

Sigma Nu

ON THE MAP | 400 | It's the closest of the other continents to Antarctica

South America

LANDLOCKED AFRICAN COUNTRIES | 1200 | This country became independent in 2011 (yay!) but in the process lost coastal access to the Red Sea (bummer)

South Sudan

THAT'S OUR ISLAND! | 1200 | Minorca

Spain

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS, MON | 2000 | The peak that forms much of this partner of Nevis is Mount Misery; with an average temperature of 80, sounds rough

St. Kitts

U.S. CITIES | 400 | This city seen here is its state's second largest.

St. Louis

CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY | 800 | In surface area, it's the largest lake within or on the borders of Canada

Superior

U.S. RIVERS | 400 | 7-foot, 100-pound sturgeon have returned to the St. Louis River, Minnesota's largest tributary of this Great Lake

Superior

FLORIDA GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | Its name may be a corruption of the Spanish for ""little St. John"", & it flows from the Okefenokee Swamp to the Gulf

Suwannee River

SCANDINAVIAN CITIES | 2000 | Whale & reindeer are on the menu in Longyearbyen, capital of this Norwegian island group also known as Spitsbergen

Svalbard

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA | 1600 | With 50 million speakers, this Bantu language is the most widely spoken native language on the continent

Swahili

OCEANIA | 2000 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of part of South America and the Pacific Ocean.) In 1766 Philip Carteret and Samuel Wallis sailed from England in two ships. Storms separated them and while Carteret discovered Pitcairn, Wallis found this other island that's part of the H.M.S. Bounty story

Tahiti

THE COUNTRY DUE SOUTH | 400 | of Nairobi, Kenya

Tanzania

THAT'S OUR ISLAND! | 1600 | Phuket

Thailand

LONDON TRANSPORTATION | 400 | Until Westminster Bridge opened in 1750, London Bridge was the city's only crossing over this river

Thames

HISTORY AT SEA | 400 | In 1854 the James Baines, this type of graceful sailing ship, ""cut"" the Atlantic crossing record to 12 days, 6 hrs.

a clipper

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 400 | Alice Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer for Fiction for this novel

The Color Purple

THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM | 400 | This type of formation seen here lends its name to a Montana national park

a glacier

TRANSPORTATION | 2000 | Able to carry 500 troops, Russia's Zubr-class is the largest of these air-cushioned vehicles

a hovercraft

WATER TRANSPORTATION | 800 | It sounds like a word for a helicopter, but it refers to an air cushion vehicle

a hovercraft

WORDS IN ASIAN COUNTRIES | 2000 | A simple roofed shelter in Thimphu

a hut (in Bhutan)

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 1600 | Around 1790 Benjamin Banneker helped survey the land that became this city

Washington, D.C.

DISASTER CITY | 200 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Texas A&M Disaster City in College Station, TX.) At Disaster City, first responders learn how to deal with tornado or earthquake debris; if someone is trapped beneath more than can be lifted, use what's around as this simple machine to gain the edge you need

a lever

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE | 800 | Justin plays Napster founder Sean Parker in this movie about a start-up

The Social Network

NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARKS | 600 | Concord, Massachusetts has a visitor center for the park with this kind of soldier in its name

a minuteman

GEOGRAPHIC BANDS | 200 | They gave listeners a ""Taste of Honey"":Herb Alpert and the ____ Brass

Tijuana

SAINTS & THEIR CITIES | 2000 | Bishop, patron of France & ""The Glory of Gaul"", St. Martin of this city

Tours

U.N. COUNTRY ABBREVIATIONS | 800 | TGO

Togo

AFRICAN COUNTRIES BY CAPITAL | 400 | Tunis

Tunisia

ON THE OLD MAP | 400 | Since 1964 the former Northern Rhodesia has been this, second from the end on the African alphabet

Zambia

COUNTRIES BY HOTEL | 400 | The Victoria Falls Hotel, just south of the falls

Zimbabwe

19th CENTURY TRANSPORTATION | 2000 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows photos of transports on the monitor.) The disparity in wheel sizes of a tricycle duplicates the differentiated wheel sizes of this adult transport that first rolled upon the world stage in the 1870s

a penny-farthing

SEE THE SEA CREATURE | 1600 | This freshwater fish that can weigh up to 4 pounds is cousin to the pike & starts with the same letter

a perch

GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 1000 | It's smaller than a lake, but a lake doesn't have an organism called its own type of ""scum""

a pond

LOW COUNTRY TYPES | 800 | WWI Dutch aviator Anthony Fokker developed a way to synchronize machine gun fire with the rotation of this

a propeller

TRANSPORTATION | 800 | Like Huck & Jim, a ship's steward named Poon Lim drifted on one of these--for 133 days before being rescued

a raft

NASCAR FROM THE DRIVER'S SEAT | 200 | (I'm Joey Logano.) In 2015 I won my first Daytona 500 after some drama: a crash with 3 laps to go & then one of these--when the green flag waves & we hit the gas again

a restart

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

a ring (in Springfield)

UNDER THE SEA IN BAJA | 600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew snorkels in Baja California, Mexico.) A Baja resident named for a poisonous arachnid, this fish, with its spiny, venomous fins, uses camouflage to avoid detection

a scorpionfish

TRANSPORTATION | 200 | In 1911 Eugene Ely made the first airplane landing on one of these, the USS Pennsylvania

a ship

STATE FLAGS | 1600 | This sailing accessory can be found on the flags of both Rhode Island & Wisconsin

an anchor

GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) When a coral reef forms around an island and the island gradually sinks into the sea, what remains is this ring-like coral island

an atoll

WORLD FLAGS | 2000 | The flag of Albania depicts this bird, double-headed

an eagle

GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 2000 | From the Latin for ""tide"", it's the place where the wide mouth of a freshwater river meets the ocean tides

an estuary

WORDS IN WORLD CAPITALS | 600 | A container in Australia

can

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | Although ""Montana"" is Spanish for ""mountain"", 2/3 of the state is on the ""Great"" these

the Great Plains

SMALL COUNTRIES | 1200 | The Maldives in the Indian Ocean is made of this natural material & the locals are happy to sell you a necklace of it

coral

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 600 | The second African-American patent holder, Henry Blair got 2:for devices to plant corn & to plant this crop

cotton

THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE | 200 | (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Dismantled at its original location on Edisto Island, South Carolina, & now restored & a centerpiece of the museum, this cabin dates back to the early days of slavery but was used well into the 20th century, with residents picking as much as 100 pounds a day of this crop

cotton

U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD | 400 | This crop is king in Greenwood, Mississippi, its ""capital of the world""

cotton

ATLANTIC CITY | 200 | Trump Taj Mahal allows side bets called ""fire bets"" that are placed before the new shooter first rolls in this game

craps

AFRICA | 800 | Lake Turkana is home to what may be Africa's largest population of the Nile species of these reptiles

crocodiles

ELECTRICITY | 1200 | Canada's power is 60% this source, like the water going over Churchill Falls

hydroelectric

ASIAN GEOGRAPHY | 400 | The Khongoryn Els, or ""Singing Dunes"", are a popular tourist destination in this Central Asian Desert

the Gobi

WORLD RIVERS | 400 | It drains an area of 2.7 million square miles in 7 South American countries

the Amazon

CAPITAL RIVERS | 1600 | This ""Light"" river flows south to north through Amsterdam

the Amstel

MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS | 2000 | Ibiza & Minorca are part of this Spanish archipelago

the Balearic Islands

LAKES | 1200 | Shared by Macedonia & Albania, Ohrid Lake--one of Europe's most beautiful--is on this peninsula

the Balkan

EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Lying between Estonia & Latvia, the Irbe Strait provides an outlet from the Gulf of Riga to this sea

the Baltic

A RIVER RUNS TO IT | 2000 | The Vistula:this sea

the Baltic Sea

CITY BY THE SEA | 800 | Riga

the Baltic Sea

THE MAP OF EUROPE | 1600 | Estonia is the northernmost of the 3 countries known as this sea's states

the Baltic states

INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK | 1000 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a Classical/Revival style building in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, PA.) Madison & Jefferson were opposed, but Hamilton's vision of a strong central government, in economics as well as politics, won out & this financial institution was created in 1791, headquartered here in Philadelphia

the Bank of the United States

GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES | 1600 | ""The Bay of Giant Tides""

the Bay of Fundy

FEATURING FLAGS | 400 | Various military flags are depicted in embroidery on this 11th century linen artwork

the Bayeux tapestry

EUROPEAN RIVERS | 400 | East of Belgrade this river flows through a narrow gorge called the iron gate

the Danube

CITY BY THE SEA | 2000 | Liverpool

the Irish Sea

LAKES & RIVERS | 2000 | Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada, 2 degrees above the Arctic Circle, lies on this river's delta

the MacKenzie River

ON THE MAP | 800 | This archipelago includes Luzon in the Philippines & Sumatra in Indonesia

the Malay Archipelago

COUNTRIES SMALLER THAN PUERTO RICO | 1600 | The more than 1,200 ""islands"" of this Pacific nation only add up to about 70 square miles

the Marshall Islands

OUR GREAT COUNTRY | 200 | Germany's Stuttgart Tower inspired Edward Carlson's initial sketch for this Seattle landmark

the Space Needle

INDEPENDENCE SEAPORT MUSEUM | 200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, PA.) Launched in 1892, the Olympia soon sailed to the Pacific, where she fought at Manila Bay, the first battle of this war, of which Olympia is the last surviving ship

the Spanish-American War

OUT OF AFRICA | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew lays on her front, propped up on her elbows.) A stress-reliever that strengthens the spine & even stretches the lungs, this yoga pose gets its name from a ""Great"" Egyptian landmark

the Sphinx

U.S. RIVERS | 2000 | Edgar Lee Masters wrote about the mussel shells on its banks, & its name comes from those shells, used in eating

the Spoon River

ASIAN FLAGS | 800 | Traditional name for the hexagram at the center of Israel's flag

the Star of David

ELLIS ISLAND | 1200 | In 1965 Lyndon Johnson issued a proclamation making Ellis Island a part of this national monument

the Statue of Liberty

WORLD CAPITALS | 1000 | The Andes rise east of this 4-letter coastal capital

Lima (Peru)

CAPITAL CITY OVERLAPS | 2000 | Peru & Bahrain

Limanama

U.S. CITY NICKNAMES | 200 | New Mexico:""Atomic City""

Los Alamos

MOVIES' MAIN CITIES | 600 | ""Chinatown"" &""Crash""

Los Angeles

SITCOM CITIES | 600 | ""New Girl""

Los Angeles

THE CITY OF... | 200 | Angels

Los Angeles

ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES | 400 | LONG LEASES,California

Los Angeles, California

DISEASES | 800 | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is more commonly known as the disease of this man who died in 1941

Lou Gehrig

U.S. CITY NICKNAMES | 600 | ""The Gateway to the South"" & ""Derby Town""

Louisville

THE CITY | 1000 | Texas Tech was founded there in 1923

Lubbock

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE | 2000 | (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) The tape recorder was used by this man, whose ideas for black activism couldn't be contained by the Nation of Islam, leading to the sad correctness of his prediction in his autobiography that, ""I, too, will die by violence""

Malcolm X

4-LETTER COUNTRY NAMES | 2000 | French troops started fighting jihadists there in January 2013

Mali

GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS | 1200 | Today I received mail from this African country

Mali (from mail)

COUNTRIES SMALLER THAN PUERTO RICO | 1200 | The strategic importance of this country, located 60 miles south of Sicily, has guaranteed it a turbulent history

Malta

EUROPE IN LATIN | 400 | An island:Melita

Malta

MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS | 1600 | Its capital, Valletta, was named for a Grand Master of the Knights Hospitallers

Malta

TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS | 1600 | Valletta

Malta

DOUBLE UP ON YOUR COUNTRIES | 1200 | These 2 Mediterranean islands are independent countries

Malta & Cyprus

CALIFORNIA COUNTIES | 1200 | The Golden Gate Bridge connects this affluent county with San Francisco to the south

Marin

WORLD CITIES | 1600 | Morocco was named for this city known for its centuries-old red clay buildings

Marrakesh

THE 50 STATES | 200 | Its state song includes the words ""From hill to hill, from creek to creek, Potomac calls to Chesapeake""

Maryland

THE OTHER 45 STATES | 1200 | Check out the groovy corner design of this state's flag. The yellow and black stripes honor the Calvert family

Maryland

ALTERED STATES | 1600 | In the Northeast:Casts same tush

Massachusetts

THE GEOGRAPHIC CENTER | 400 | Of this U.S. state: central Worcester County

Massachusetts

THE 6 NEW ENGLAND STATES | 600 | The 2 whose names come from Native American words

Massachusetts and Connecticut

LOW COUNTRY TYPES | 1600 | Margaretha Zelle was the less glamorous original name of this dancer & accused spy

Mata Hari

NATIONAL PARKS | 1000 | Hawaii has 2 national parks, Hawaii Volcanoes on the Big Island & Haleakala on this ""Valley Isle""

Maui

THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS | 400 | Wowie! This second-biggest island is named for a Polynesian demigod

Maui

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | Awash in glorious lava, Mount Haleakala lies on this ""Valley Isle""

Maui

COUNTRIES BY WORLD HERITAGE SITES | 1600 | The Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve& the Prehistoric Caves of Yagul

Mexico

COUNTRY OF BIRTH | 1600 | Mural artist David Siqueiros

Mexico

PLANT THE FLAG | 2000 | An eagle sits on a flowering nopal cactus in the center of the flag of this country

Mexico

TRAVELIN' AROUND THE COUNTRY | 200 | We'll start at Veracruz, drive up the coast to Tampico & end our trip by heading south to Taxco

Mexico

A CAPITAL IDEA | 1600 | This capital's major street the Paseo de la Reforma passes through Chapultepec Park

Mexico City

IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | 600 | Plaza de Garibaldi, near the Avenida Juarez

Mexico City

BLUE STATES | 800 | This Stephen King novel is about writer Paul Sheldon & his No. 1 fan

Misery

STATES BY COUNTIES | 1000 | Tallahatchie,Yazoo,Jasper

Mississippi

STATES THAT FLOW TOGETHER | 200 | One has St. Louis, the other has East St. Louis

Missouri & Illinois

DETROIT ROCK CITY | 2000 | The Detroit Wheels backed him on ""Devil With A Blue Dress On"" & ""Good Golly Miss Molly""

Mitch Ryder

NATIONAL FLAGS | 1200 | The writing on the national flag seen here includes this man's name

Mohammed

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD | 1600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A former Soviet republic, this landlocked country bounded by Romania & Ukraine is the least-visited country in Europe

Moldova

TRAVELING AMONGST THE STARS | 1000 | These 2 female co-stars of ""The Breakfast Club"" attended a 30th anniversary celebration of the movie in 2015

Molly Ringwald & Ally Sheedy

CAPITAL CITY HOTELS | 600 | Hotel Peter I,Hotel Soyuz

Moscow

SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES | 400 | In 1980 the U.S. & 64 other countries boycotted the Olympics held in this city

Moscow

WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 600 | Fallen Monument Park, featuring the guys seen here, is in this city

Moscow

ISLAND FACTS | 1600 | The tallest island peak, Puncak Jaya rises 16,024 feet above sea level on this, the world's second largest island

New Guinea

ISLANDS | 1000 | Amelia Earhart was lost near Howland Island after making her last stop at Lae on this Pacific island

New Guinea

ALTERED STATES | 1200 | A hen whimpers

New Hampshire

STATES & LICENSE PLATES | 1200 | in an all or nothing move, this state invites you to ""Live Free or Die""

New Hampshire

THE 6 NEW ENGLAND STATES | 800 | The submarine USS Portsmouth was commissioned there in 1983

New Hampshire

THE WEATHER & GEOGRAPHY REPORT | 800 | On April 12, 1934 Mount Washington, in this state, got quite a blow - wind clocked at 231 mph

New Hampshire

COASTAL U.S. STATES | 600 | Bay Head on its famous ""shore"" was ravaged by Superstorm Sandy

New Jersey

STATE BY COUNTIES | 200 | Rio Arriba,Lincoln,Taos

New Mexico

STATES BY CITY TRASH-TALKING | 200 | ""Truth or Consequences isn't a choice! & Los Alamos bay be the bomb, but it's Roswell that ends well!""

New Mexico

STATES' LOWEST POINTS | 800 | This state: 2,842 feet above sea level at Red Bluff Reservoir just east of Carlsbad Caverns

New Mexico

THE OTHER 45 STATES | 800 | Susana Martinez, this state's first female governor, is also the first Latina governor of a U.S. state

New Mexico

BIG CITY MAYORS | 1000 | Mitch Landrieu

New Orleans

MOVIES' MAIN CITIES | 400 | ""Pretty Baby"" &""A Streetcar Named Desire""

New Orleans

OCEANIA | 400 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of part of the South Pacific.) Two of the southernmost islands in Oceania are Chatham Island and Campbell Island, today both part of this country

New Zealand

GEOGRAPHIC TITLES | 400 | Agatha Christie: ""Death on the _____""

Nile

IN THE STATE CAPITAL | 200 | The Empire State Plaza

Albany

GEOGRAPHIC CENTERS | 1000 | 10 miles southwest of Brainerd

Minnesota

WHICH AFRICAN COUNTRY? | 600 | Kilimanjaro National Park

Tanzania

REPORTING FROM THE STATE CAPITAL | 200 | On the Patroon Island Bridge overlooking the Hudson

Albany

SAME NAME AS A STATE CAPITAL | 400 | Ray Charles was born in this city but in Georgia, not New York

Albany

STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 200 | Henry Hudson Planetarium,Schuyler Mansion

Albany

GOIN' COUNTRY | 800 | 10 times as long as it is wide, this South American country gained independence in 1818

Chile

TRAVELING AMONGST THE STARS | 200 | allmovie.com's review of ""Run All Night"" noted ""the constant hissing of threats into cell phones"" by this Irish actor

(Liam) Neeson

THE 28 COUNTRIES OF NATO | 1600 | The 2 island countries that are members

Iceland & the United Kingdom

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: CELEBRATING 125 YEARS | 800 | In September of 1960, the magazine reported the first world-famous find by this husband-&-wife pair

(Louis and Mary) Leakey

COUNTRIES OF THE CARIBBEAN | 800 | Saint paired with the Grenadines in a country's name

(St.) Vincent

THE U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N. | 1200 | On August 1st, 2005, the President named this man to the job in a recess appointment

(John) Bolton

THEY SERVED OUR COUNTRY | 400 | He's seen here in uniform before his days of political service to Arizona

(John) McCain

AFRICAN-AMERICAN INVENTORS | 400 | (Kareem Abdul-Jabar delivers the clue.) The son of slaves who taught himself to be a draftsman, Lewis Latimer drew the blueprints for this man's telephone patent, which won a patent race

(Alexander Graham) Bell

AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE | 800 | Here's this poet & author; note the color she's wearing

(Alice) Walker

AFRICAN HISTORY | 400 | Egypt's president throughout the 1970's he tried to open up the economy & and reached out in foreign affairs

(Anwar) Sadat

AFRICAN HISTORY | 1200 | We presume you know the name of this Scottish explorer who first set sail for Africa in 1840

(David) Livingstone

STATE PARKS | 400 | Tennessee parks include one named for this pioneer you may remember from the Alamo

(Davy) Crockett

THEY SERVED OUR COUNTRY | 1000 | Long before he was chief justice (1953-1969), he served in the army stateside during World War I

(Earl) Warren

YOU DO THE GEOGRAPHIC MATH | 2000 | The number of U.S. states on the Pacific Ocean squared

25

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES | 2000 | While this Balkan country's national name means ""land of eagles"", the name we know it by is from the Latin for ""white""

Albania

THE 28 COUNTRIES OF NATO | 800 | It's first alphabetically & only joined in 2009

Albania

STATES & LICENSE PLATES | 1600 | Driving straight from Rockford to Carbondale, most of the plates you see will have this man's face in the center

Abraham Lincoln

ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES | 400 | On the Hudson River:ANY LAB

Albany

CAPITAL MAP IT ALL | 400 | It was first settled in 1624

Albany

WORLD CAPITAL POINTS OF INTEREST | 1000 | If you're heading to A.A.-- this world capital, of course!-- take pictures of the Jubilee Palace

Addis Ababa

TRANSPORTATION | 1000 | This eurocompany, really big in passenger jets, also produces close to 1/3 of the world's helicopters

Airbus

AFRICAN HISTORY | 1600 | This Somali terrorist group whose name means ""the youth"" has carried out deadly attacks, like at a Nairobi mall

Al-Shabaab

STATES THAT FLOW TOGETHER | 600 | The state where Martin Luther King was born & the state where he married Coretta Scott

Alabama & Georgia

U.S. STATES | 600 | The westernmost

Alaska

U.S. STATES | 800 | The one with the most coastline

Alaska

DETROIT ROCK CITY | 1200 | Seen in the '80s, he sang of Hollywood Nights & Katmandu, but was born in a Detroit suburb

Bob Seger

EXTREME GEOGRAPHY | 400 | Rose Atoll in this ""American"" Pacific possession is the southernmost point in all U.S.-controlled territory

American Samoa

GEOGRAPHIC ABBREV. | 400 | AS:This U.S. Pacific territory

American Samoa

NATIONAL PARKS | 800 | A rainforest & coral reef make up the national park of this U.S. territory on the islands of Tutuila, Ta'u & Ofu

American Samoa

TRANSPORTATION | 1600 | This U.S. railway system has smartfares that will save you 25% on select routes throughout the country

Amtrak

CITY-TITLED MOVIES | 1200 | Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron danced to Gershwin in this 1951 Best Picture Oscar winner

An American in Paris

COUNTRIES SMALLER THAN PUERTO RICO | 800 | The highest peak of this mountainous land is 9,600-foot Coma Pedrosa near the frontier with Catalonia

Andorra

SMALL COUNTRIES | 800 | Catalan is the official language of this country between France & Spain

Andorra

SEAS THE DAY | 800 | The King Haakon VII Sea isn't near Norway, but off this continent's Queen Maud Land

Antarctica

GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES | 2000 | Of the 15 now independent former Soviet republics, this non-""stan"" is the smallest in area

Armenia

ON THE MAP | 1200 | Azerbaijan borders this country on the east; an enclave of Azerbaijan also borders it to the southwest

Armenia

CITY HALL | 600 | Completed in 1928, Asheville, North Carolina's City Hall is a masterpiece of this style, named for a Parisian expo held in 1925

Art Deco

CITY NICKNAMES | 800 | Edinburgh, Scotland, home to many a thinker:This Greek city ""of the North""

Athens

EUROPEAN LAKES | 1600 | Lake Marathon, an artificial lake, served as this capital's main water supply from 1931 until 1959

Athens

EUROPE TO NO GOOD | 400 | Around 445 he killed his brother Bleda to become sole leader of the Huns

Attila

LOW COUNTRY TYPES | 2000 | 1 month older than Anne Frank, this actress survived Nazi-occupied Holland & could not bring herself to portray Anne

Audrey Hepburn

PARKS | 800 | The New Orleans park named for this artist & naturalist has a rookery on Bird Island

Audubon

CAPITAL MAP IT ALL | 800 | It lies on both sides of the Kennebec River

Augusta

WE HAVE A NEW STATE CAPITAL | 2000 | Replacing Portland, in 1832

Augusta

ASIAN CAPITALS | 400 | Most of this Chinese capital's people belong to the Han ethnic group; Manchus & Mongols are in the minority

Beijing

CRY ME A WORLD RIVER | 400 | The Yongding & the Chaobai rivers both replenish this capital city

Beijing

WORLD CITIES | 400 | It's the capital of the world's most populous country

Beijing

ASIAN CAPITALS | 2000 | This port lies about 60 miles northwest of Damascus on the Bay of St. George

Beirut

THE NAME ON THE AIRPORT | 1600 | The airport of this Mideast city was renamed after Prime Minister Rafik Hariri following his 2005 assassination

Beirut

TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS | 1200 | Minsk

Belarus

COUNTRIES BY WORLD HERITAGE SITES | 800 | The Neolithic flint mines near Mons &the Brugge Historic Center

Belgium

PRETTY CITY | 1600 | You can see a Michelangelo in Bruges, a pretty little city in this European country

Belgium

THE 28 COUNTRIES OF NATO | 1200 | One of the smallest, this country is home to the main NATO headquarters

Belgium

THE MOST POPULOUS COUNTRY | 1000 | Bosnia,Belgium,Belize

Belgium

THE U.N.'s COUNTRY ABBREVIATION | 200 | BEL,in Western Europe

Belgium

NAME THE CAPITAL | 600 | Serbia

Belgrade

FLAGS OF THE AMERICAS | 1200 | The flag of this country, formerly known as British Honduras, is the only national flag depicting humans in its design

Belize

PLANT THE FLAG | 1600 | The flag of this central American country shows a mahogany tree & 2 men; the Union Jack was removed

Belize

WESTERN HEMISPHERE RIVERS | 400 | The Hondo River provides much of the border between Mexico & this small Central American nation

Belize

CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS | 1200 | This Belize capital was named for a Mayan tribe that never surrendered to the Spanish

Belmopan

THE U.N.'s COUNTRY ABBREVIATION | 400 | BEN

Benin

OH, B-CITY IN AFRICA | 2000 | The name of this South African judicial capital means ""fountain of flowers""

Bloemfontein

IN THE CAPITAL CITY | 400 | April 29, 1945:Eva Braun gets married

Berlin

IN THE WORLD CAPITAL | 1000 | The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, near a noted gate

Berlin

WORLD CAPITAL MUSEUMS | 1000 | The Bauhaus Archives & Museum of Design

Berlin

ATLANTIC CITIES | 1600 | Colorful shops linefront street in Hamilton, capital of this British territory off the east coast of the United States

Bermuda

A CAPITAL IDEA | 2000 | A statue of William Tell adorns the parliament building in this Swiss city

Bern

CITY BY THE BAY | 1200 | Miami, Florida

Biscayne Bay

I STAND BEFORE THE COUNTRY | 1000 | Before ""Darussalam""

Brunei

GEOGRAPHY: DROP A LETTER | 1000 | Drop a letter from a sultanate and you get this maiden name of Mrs. Sarkozy

Bruni (from Brunei)

EUROPEAN CAPITALS | 200 | It has sprouts named for it

Brussels

ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES | 600 | Great Lakes port:FLUB OAF

Buffalo

ASIA LOVES THAT AMERICAN BRAND | 800 | ""Wouldn't you really rather have"" this car? China would, buying triple the number of them sold in the U.S. in 2010

Buick

GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | On an alphabetical list of nations in English, this Balkan nation comes immediately before Burkina Faso

Bulgaria

U.S. CITIES | 2000 | A Montana city is named for a peak called ""Big"" this

Butte

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC AKAs | 1000 | This former Soviet Republic between Ukraine & Latvia was once known as White Russia

Byelorussia

TRAVEL & TOURISM | 400 | Every even year watch the world's top sailors in the Atlantic Cup, a 1,000-mile race from this S.C. port to Portland, Me.

Charleston

WORLD CITIES | 2000 | The Confederation Chamber in Province House in this capital of P.E.I. is called the ""Birthplace of Canada""

Charlottetown

____IN' COUNTRY SONGS | 200 | Hank Williams:""Your ____in' Heart""

Cheatin\'

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 400 | In 2010 this city gave landmark status to the homes of Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks & Richard Wright

Chicago

CITY HALL | 1000 | The building housing this burg's City Hall also houses the offices administering Cook County

Chicago

MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS CITIES | 1000 | The Fire

Chicago

GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | Easter Island is a province of this country

Chile

POPULOUS EUROPEAN ISLANDS | 2000 | This island of 600,000 people marks the southern limit of the Aegean Sea

Crete

SEA WORTHY MOVIES | 1000 | Denzel Washington is second in command to Gene Hackman aboard the nuclear submarine Alabama in this thriller

Crimson Tide

SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITALS | 2000 | This Guyanan capital received its name in 1781, when it was named for the British monarch then on the throne

Georgetown

FLAGS OF CROSS & CRESCENT | 800 | The 5 red crosses on this former Soviet Socialist Republic's flag are the symbol of a certain saint, the Union Jack has one such cross

Georgia

THE COUNTIES OF IRELAND | 1600 | This largest Irish county in area is home to Doneraile National Park & Blarney Castle

Cork

ITALIAN CITIES & TOWNS | 1600 | In 2003 a campaign was launched to change the name of this Sicilian town, associated with the Mafia due to U.S. pop culture

Corleone

GREAT & OTHER LAKES | 800 | This lake in Oregon is the second-deepest lake in North America

Crater Lake

SUPERLATIVE STATES | 800 | Deepest lake:This one in Oregon, 1,943 feet

Crater Lake

IT'S NATIONAL PARK WEEK | 2000 | Appropriately, Apollo 14 astronauts trained at the Idaho monument with this four-word name

Craters of the Moon

GREEK ISLANDS | 1200 | At 8,058 feet, Mount Ida is the highest point on this island & was once a holy mountain in Minoan culture

Crete

LET YOUR GREEK FLAG FLY | 1600 | From 1898 to 1913 this large island was autonomous & had its own flag

Crete

NEW TOURIST SLOGANS FOR ISLANDS? | 200 | ""90 miles south of Key West, 90 trillion miles to the left of America""

Cuba

ISLANDS | 800 | A poet described this divided island as a ""golden green leaf thrown into"" the Mediterranean Sea

Cyprus

THE E.U. COUNTRY THAT... | 1200 | Is an island country due south of Turkey

Cyprus

ATLANTIC CITIES | 2000 | This Senegalese capital is the westernmost city of the African mainland

Dakar

CITY PARKS | 1600 | You can see the 1905 Wright Flyer III in a park in this Ohio city

Dayton

THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA | 400 | Union troops cut a path 50 miles wide, destroying all public buildings & mills on Sherman's march to the sea through this state

Georgia

SKYSCRAPER CITY | 800 | Named for an insurance company in a big insurance town, Travelers Tower

Hartford

ALTERED STATES | 800 | Eel award

Delaware

STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES | 400 | ""Broncoville""

Denver

TRAVELING | 400 | Twice the size of Manhattan, this Colorado facility opened February 28, 1995 to replace Stapleton

Denver International Airport

HIDDEN U.K. CITIES | 2000 | At the library you'll find love poems & more filed under Byron

Derby

THE NORTHERNMOST STATE CAPITAL | 1000 | Denver,Des Moines,Nashville

Des Moines

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 400 | Migrate north to this city to visit the largest museum of African-American history; it's named for Charles H. Wright

Detroit

ISLAND PRISONS | 1200 | Henri Charriere, aka Papillon, wrote a popular account of escaping this island prison on a coconut raft

Devil\'s Island

ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES | 1200 | This capital of Bangladesh is in the heart of the world's largest jute-growing region

Dhaka

WORDS IN STATES | 1600 | Moon goddess in Muncie

Diana (in Indiana)

ON THE OLD MAP | 200 | 1990 was the end for this country whose districts included Neubrandenburg, Leipzig & Karl-Marx-Stadt

East Germany

ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC | 2000 | Thor Heyerdahl believed this island was once colonized by a redheaded race from South America, possibly Peru

Easter Island

ISLANDS | 200 | There are more than 600 gigantic stone figures on this island

Easter Island

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

Easy Rawlins

WHAT THE CITY NAME MEANS | 600 | Clear Water, Wisconsin

Eau Claire

MY COUNTRY | 800 | Generals Lysander & Timoleon

Greece

AFRICA | 800 | Most of the literature of this Horn of Africa country is written in either classical Ge'ez or modern Amharic

Ethiopia

AFRICAN COUNTRIES BY CAPITAL | 800 | Addis Ababa

Ethiopia

COUNTRY FACTS | 400 | In 1931 Haile Selaissie gave this country its first written constitution

Ethiopia

GEOGRAPHIC NAME CHANGES | 800 | This modern African republic was once known as Abyssinia

Ethiopia

ITALIAN CITIES & TOWNS | 2000 | Over 700 years old, the Palazzo Vecchio was the seat of government of this city back when it was a republic

Florence

THE COUNTRY DUE SOUTH | 600 | of Sofia, Bulgaria

Greece

THE COUNTRY'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER... | 1200 | has a monument flanked by inscriptions from Pericles' funeral oration

Greece

THE E.U. COUNTRY THAT... | 400 | Is described by World Book as ""a small country where western civilization started about 2,500 years ago""

Greece

OPERA COUNTRY SETTINGS | 600 | Giacomo Meyerbeer's ""The Huguenots""

France

VODKA COUNTRY OF ORIGIN | 800 | Grey Goose

France

STATE CAPITAL HEADQUARTERS | 800 | Aetna Insurance & Health Care

Hartford

TRAVELIN' AROUND THE COUNTRY | 400 | We'll go on a magical history tour from Stavros to Apsalos to Katsikas

Greece

U.S. CITY SEALS | 1000 | This state capital's seal features a deer, just like a major insurance company based there

Hartford

STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES | 800 | ""The Insurance Capital of the World""

Hartford, Connecticut

CITY BY THE BAY | 1600 | Texas City, Texas

Galveston Bay

BILLBOARD'S ALL-TIME TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS | 800 | His ""No Fences"" & ""Ropin' the Wind""

Garth Brooks

COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUMS | 200 | His ""Ropin' The Wind"" was 1991's top album, remaining at No. 1 for 18 weeks

Garth Brooks

COUNTRY MUSIC | 400 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew steps out of the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, TN.) Many a country singer got his start at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe, including this ""Friends In Low Places"" superstar

Garth Brooks

GOIN' COUNTRY | 600 | This superstar who had ""Friends In Low Places"" attended Oklahoma State on a track scholarship

Garth Brooks

NOVEL COUNTRIES | 800 | ""The Book Thief""

Germany

THE LARGEST COUNTRY... | 1200 | Entirely in Europe, by population

Germany

WHAT A COUNTRY! | 400 | Following a 1990 reunion, its population is 81 million

Germany

SAME NAME AS A STATE CAPITAL | 800 | Far from Mississippi, it's the site of Michigan's first state prison

Jackson

THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM | 800 | Special observances are held annually at this battlefield on Memorial Day & November 19

Gettysburg

SEAN PENN | 800 | Sean won an Oscar after announcing, ""My name is"" this title character from San Francisco ""and I'm here to recruit you! ""

Harvey Milk

MANY RIVERS TO CROSS | 800 | The bonny Rivers Clyde & Kelvin flow through this largest Scottish city

Glasgow

WORLD CITIES | 200 | George Square in this largest Scottish city has a very tall column with Sir Walter Scott atop it

Glasgow

AFRICAN LEADERS | 1600 | It's the first name of Nigerian president Jonathan, & it's what we wish him in battling Boko Haram rebels

Goodluck

TRANSPORTATION | 1200 | Bases for these are located at Carson, California, Pompano Beach, Florida & Akron, Ohio

Goodyear Blimps

OTHER GREAT LAKES | 1000 | The fourth-largest lake in North America, it was named for the large mammals that inhabited its shores

Great Bear Lake

AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS | 400 | In the 1720s Daniel Defoe published a 3-volume ""Tour"" of this home island

Great Britain

POPULOUS EUROPEAN ISLANDS | 400 | With 60 million, it's the most populous island in Europe

Great Britain

COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY | 800 | This Florida city in Palm Beach County shares its name with a sitcom that starred Eddie Albert & Eva Gabor

Greenacres

AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS | 200 | Geographically, this largest island is actually part of North America

Greenland

CAPITALS OF NON-COUNTRIES | 1200 | Nuuk, the capital of this large island, was once known by its Danish name, Godthab

Greenland

EXTREME GEOGRAPHY | 200 | At about 840,000 square miles, this island near Canada is the world's largest

Greenland

ISLAND NAMES | 400 | Verdant field

Greenland

ISLANDS | 400 | This Atlantic island is larger than the second-, third-& fourth-biggest islands combined

Greenland

CITY PARKS | 1200 | This 4,210-acre Los Angeles park features an observatory

Griffith Park

SEAN PENN | 400 | Sean helped rebuild this earthquake-hit Caribbean nation & is the 1st ambassador-at-large who's not a native

Haiti

CANADIAN CAPITALS | 600 | During WWII this capital of Nova Scotia was Canada's main naval base

Halifax

STATE CAPITAL RIVERS | 800 | The Susquehanna River

Harrisburg

STATE CAPITALS | 1000 | The state museum here is often called the William Penn Memorial Museum due to the statue of Penn in the central hall

Harrisburg

BASIC GEOGRAPHY | 600 | It's the capital of Montana; also, it's illegal to annoy passersby on sidewalks with a revolving water sprinkler there

Helena

OLYMPIC HOST CITIES | 200 | This world capital on the Gulf of Finland boasts a railway station designed by Eliel Saarinen

Helsinki

WORLD AIRPORTS | 200 | Long layover? No problem at this Finnish capital's airport, which offers sleep pods, a spa & more

Helsinki

WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 1000 | The Sibelius Monument

Helsinki

ADVENTURE TRAVEL | 800 | Don't get too close hiking near the Bardarbunga volcano, part of the Holuhraun lava field in this country

Iceland

ASIAN ISLANDS | 2000 | It's the least developed & northernmost of Japan's 4 main islands

Hokkaido

GEOGRAPHIC BANDS | 600 | Top 40 advice from them was ""Relax"":Frankie Goes to ____

Hollywood

NEW TOURIST SLOGANS FOR ISLANDS? | 800 | ""The U.K. lost its 99-year lease on us! Opened under new management in 1997!""

Hong Kong

TRAVEL & TOURISM | 600 | One of the world's busiest airports is built on an island off this Chinese administrative region to avoid all the tall buildings

Hong Kong

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD | 800 | Its nearest neighbor is Greenland, about 200 miles to the northwest

Iceland

GOIN' COUNTRY | 1600 | In June it's light almost 24 hours a day in this country about 200 miles east of Greenland

Iceland

LITERARY CITIES | 1600 | The intrigues & poisonings of this 1934 Robert Graves work take place in 1st century A.D. Rome

I, Claudius

GREEK ISLANDS | 400 | Ikaria is named for this mythical aeronaut who plunged to his death

Icarus

STATE CAPITALS | 200 | This Mississippi capital was named for a general who later became president

Jackson (Mississippi)

ASIAN CAPITALS | 800 | This capital is named for a religion

Islamabad

COUNTRIES IN 3 WORDS | 400 | Capital at Kingston

Jamaica

COUNTRIES OF THE CARIBBEAN | 600 | Kingston & Montego Bay are 2 of its largest towns

Jamaica

ON THE GEOGRAPHIC MENU | 200 | Slang for coffee, from an island south of Borneo

Java

U.S. ISLANDS | 2000 | This island off Georgia was named for a friend of James Robert Oglethorpe, not a Robert Louis Stevenson doctor

Jekyll

THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY | 1200 | This Biblical city's first walls, dating to 8000 B.C., were some 13 feet high & supported by a 28-foot watchtower

Jericho

GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES | 400 | It's ""The City of David""

Jerusalem

TRAVEL & TOURISM | 400 | In Kearney, Missouri you can visit the restored childhood home of this 19th c. bank & train robber

Jesse James

CURRENT SENATORS' STATES | 200 | Arizona:Flake & him

John McCain

INDEPENDENCE SEAPORT MUSEUM | 600 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, PA.) Here, in a painting attributed to Richard Paton, is the famous naval duel between Britain's Serapis & the Bonhomme Richard, captained to victory by this father of the American Navy

John Paul Jones

NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD | 400 | Indonesia has a national park with over 5,000 of these 300-pound lizards

Komodo dragons

THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ATLAS SHRUGGED | 1000 | Of this disputed region, the Atlas says, ""Some places show the Albanian name with the Serbian name in parentheses""

Kosovo

ALMOST THERE TO THE STATE CAPITAL | 1600 | The 2 capitals with the complete names of months within their names

Juneau, Alaska and Augusta, Maine

TRAILER PARK | 200 | A hatching dinosaur is a highlight in a trailer for this 1993 blockbuster movie

Jurassic Park

5-LETTER CAPITALS | 800 | This capital commands the main approaches through the Khyber Pass to Pakistan & India

Kabul

WORLD CAPITAL POINTS OF INTEREST | 400 | Afghanistan's capital since 1776, of all years, is this city whose sights include Babur's Gardens

Kabul

CAPITAL CITY OVERLAPS | 1600 | Afghanistan & Mongolia

Kabulaanbaatar

TRAVELING ALONG THE 40th PARALLEL N. | 800 | In the U.S. the 40th parallel north sets the border between Nebraska & this state due south

Kansas

BALLPARK TOWNS | 400 | Kauffman Stadium (formerly Royals Stadium)

Kansas City

THE 50 STATES | 400 | This state leads the U.S. in the production of burley tobacco & bourbon whiskey

Kentucky

AFRICAN SETTINGS | 2000 | ""Born Free""

Kenya

IN THE AFRICAN COUNTRY | 200 | The Nairobi National Museum

Kenya

THE ONION DESCRIBES THE COUNTRY | 1000 | ""Running... from their problems"", this African country's ""traditional greeting"" is ""on your left""

Kenya

AFRICAN HISTORY | 2000 | This capital of South Africa's Northern Cape was founded after an 1871 diamond find; today it's a name for baby girls

Kimberley

CAPITAL RIVERS | 1200 | One of the 2 capitals on the Congo River; they sit on opposite sides of it

Kinshasa or Brazzaville

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

Knocked Up

AMUSEMENT & THEME PARKS | 400 | At Halloween Knott's Berry Farm goes all creepy & becomes Knott's this Farm

Knott\'s Scary Farm

ELLIS ISLAND | 1600 | While attending law school, this future NYC mayor known as ""The Little Flower"" served as an interpreter on the island

LaGuardia

LET'S GO TO THE AIRPORT | 200 | Until 1929, you could visit the Gala Amusement Park; on-site now, runways at this airport, named for a New York City mayor

LaGuardia

GREAT & OTHER LAKES | 1000 | Percy Shelley wrote of this Italian lake, it ""exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty""

Lake Como

LAKES | 2000 | This lake that has a female name lies in an old glacial basin between Germany, Austria & Switzerland

Lake Constance

AMERICAN LAKES | 800 | This lake in Upstate New York was named in 1755 to honor the then-current British monarch

Lake George

CANADIAN LAKES | 1600 | This lake in Banff National Park was once called Emerald Lake for its blue-green glacial waters

Lake Louise

LAKES | 1600 | This scenic lake in central Switzerland is also known as the Lake of the Four Forest Cantons

Lake Lucerne

LAKES & RIVERS | 1000 | In 1699 Sieur d'Iberville saw Okwata, a vast lake near the Gulf of Mexico, & renamed it this

Lake Pontchartrain

GREAT & OTHER LAKES | 400 | In surface area this one of the 5 Great Lakes is the largest body of fresh water in the world

Lake Superior

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | Many rivers flow into this large lake in the Sierra Nevada, but only the Truckee flows out

Lake Tahoe

AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Isn't it romantic? After flowing over Murchison Falls, waters from this lake eventually reach Lake Albert

Lake Victoria

AFRICAN LAKES | 400 | The Ssese Islands, an 84-island archipelago, lie in the Uganda portion of this huge lake

Lake Victoria

LAKES & RIVERS | 200 | This largest lake in Africa is also the main reservoir of the Nile River

Lake Victoria

CANADIAN LAKES | 1200 | This Manitoba lake is the largest body of water entirely within any province

Lake Winnipeg

WESTERN HEMISPHERE RIVERS | 2000 | The Winnipeg River rises in this U.S.-Canada lake & empties into Lake Winnipeg

Lake of the Woods

THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS | 800 | Take a seat on the porch & see if you can decide which island's name is Hawaiian for ""conquest day""

Lanai

4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS | 800 | The name of this city comes from the Quechua word rimac, & it's on the Rimac River

Lima

GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY | 800 | The career of this British soldier culminated in the 1918 capture of Damascus

Lawrence of Arabia

SCANDINAVIAN CITIES | 1200 | The Norwegian Olympic Museum is in this small town

Lillehammer

LANDLOCKED COUNTRY FUN | 1200 | Found in Africa, it's the southernmost landlocked country

Lesotho

OLD STATE CAPITALS | 1600 | Named in 1775 after a battle, it was once Kentucky's capital

Lexington

U.S. CITIES | 400 | Mary Todd Lincoln was born in this Kentucky city, now a major center for horse breeding

Lexington

AFRICAN LEADERS | 1200 | The first woman elected head of state in Africa is Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of this country founded in the 1800s

Liberia

STATE CAPITALS | 1000 | It was selected as a compromise between North Platters & South Platters, who each favored different locale

Lincoln, Nebraska

FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS | 400 | There were 36 stars on the flags lowered to half staff due to this April 1865 event

Lincoln\'s assassination

WORLD CAPITALS | 200 | Like Rome, this Portuguese capital was built on 7 hills

Lisbon

TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS | 1600 | It's the closest mainland European capital to the United States

Lisbon (Portugal)

COUNTRY MUSIC | 600 | At the 2015 CMA awards, their ""Girl Crush"" won for Single of the Year, & they won for Vocal Group

Little Big Town

IN THE STATE CAPITAL | 400 | Central High School, site of a 1957 clash on desegregation

Little Rock

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 400 | This Arkansas capital is in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains

Little Rock

BIG CITY MAYORS | 800 | Overseas - Boris Johnson, who has been promoting one mode of transport

London

EUROPEAN CAPITALS | 400 | You can see the two major airports, but fog obscures the lights of these surrounding suburbs of this city

London

IN THE CAPITAL CITY | 1000 | 1665:the ""Great Plague"" kills 7,000 people in one week

London

WHAT ISLAND? | 1200 | Great Neck & Amagansett

Long Island

SOUND GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | Almost all of Connecticut's coastline lies along this arm of the Atlantic

Long Island Sound

EPONYMOUS AIRPORTS | 1200 | There's an Alexander the Great Airport in this former Yugoslav republic

Macedonia

GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES | 600 | It's ""The Lost City of the Incas""

Machu Picchu

& THE CATEGORY OF GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | Over 9,400 feet, Maromokotro is the highest point on this island 250 miles east of Africa's mainland

Madagascar

ISLAND NATIONS | 800 | The majority of the citizens of Antananarivo, this nation's capital, are of Indonesian ancestry

Madagascar

NEW TOURIST SLOGANS FOR ISLANDS? | 600 | ""Come for the 250-mile swim across Mozambique channel--then stay for the lemurs""

Madagascar

POINTY ON THE MAP | 1600 | You'll reach the Seychelles if you keep going north from this island country's Cap d'Ambre

Madagascar

WHAT ISLAND? | 800 | Ankarafantsika National Park, with its unique collection of lemur species

Madagascar

COUNTRY BY STATE | 1000 | Malacca

Malaysia

AFRICAN AMERICANS | 200 | In 1953 this Nation of Islam leader founded & was the minister of Boston Temple No. 11

Malcolm X

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

Minnesota

OTHER LONE STAR FLAGS | 400 | On this state's flag, note the pine tree under one star, the North Star

Maine

STATE PARKS | 2000 | Quoddy Head State Park

Maine

STATE THE NATIONAL PARK | 800 | Acadia

Maine

STATES THAT BORDER CANADA | 800 | Presque Isle in this eastern state is less than 10 miles from our neighbors

Maine

THE 6 NEW ENGLAND STATES | 200 | The largest in area of the 6

Maine

CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS | 1600 | It shares its name with the lake on whose shores it is located

Managua

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | Once called Derryfield, this largest New Hampshire city was renamed in 1810 for a British city

Manchester

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 400 | In August 2013 bells rang out across the nation to mark the 50th anniversary of his ""I Have a Dream"" speech

Martin Luther King, Jr.

HOW TO DRAIN YOUR FLAGON | 1000 | It got a bad rap in the film ""Sideways"", but wine.com says it's the top grape for the Right Bank of Bordeaux

Merlot

5-LETTER CAPITAL CITIES | 800 | Population 1.8 million, it's home to the National Opera & Ballet Theater of Belarus

Minsk

THE COUNTIES OF IRELAND | 800 | Each July pilgrims climb Ireland's holy mountain Croagh Patrick, in this county that sounds like a sandwich spread

Mayo

OCEANIA! | 2000 | This region's name comes from Greek words for ""black"" & ""island""; it'll be esia to respond if you know Greek

Melanesia

AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS | 800 | This capital of Victoria was the first capital of Australia, serving from 1901 to 1927

Melbourne

CITY FOUNDERS | 400 | Andrew Jackson was a co-founder of this largest Tennessee city

Memphis

MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS CITIES | 800 | The Grizzlies

Memphis

AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN | 200 | When asked to describe herself, she says first & foremost, she is Malia & Sasha's mom

Michelle Obama

CITY SEALS | 400 | Chicago's seal displays this lake

Michigan

HAVE A COUNTY SEAT | 400 | Washtenaw's county seat is Ann Arbor in this state; go Blue!

Michigan

STATES BY LAKE | 1200 | Lake Charlevoix,Lake Cadillac

Michigan

STATES' MOST POPULOUS COUNTIES | 1600 | Wayne County

Michigan

SMALL COUNTRIES | 2000 | About 600 small islands make up this Pacific Ocean country whose name means ""small islands""

Micronesia

CITY BY STATUE | 600 | The Bronze Fonz

Milwaukee

TAKING IN THE CITY SITES | 800 | startribune.comis the site for a major newspaper based in this city

Minneapolis

U.S. CITIES | 600 | St. Paul is the twin of this city that's 100,000 people bigger

Minneapolis

LANDLOCKED COUNTRY FUN | 1600 | This large landlocked Asian country starts with the same 3 letters as a day of the week

Mongolia

AFRICAN CITIES | 800 | Wooden 2-story verandas in this Liberian capital are an architectural link to the U.S. south

Monrovia

WORLD GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | Rising 15,800 feet, it's known in Latin as Mons Albus

Mont Blanc

STATES BY COUNTIES | 1000 | Missoula, Mineral

Montana

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Though it's the fourth-largest state in area, barely 1 million people live there

Montana

ISLANDS | 2000 | Immortalized by Alexandre Dumas, this isle in the Tuscan archipelago has been infested with black rats in recent years

Montecristo

TOUGH EUROPEAN CAPITALS | 2000 | Podgorica

Montenegro

STATES THAT BEGIN WITH CALIFORN | 1000 | Shown here, it's the port city located on the same-named peninsula, Jack

Monterey

WORLD CITIES | 800 | It's the only big city in Uruguay

Montevideo

STATE CAPITALS AKA | 1200 | On ""The Simpsons"" it comes between C. & Burns

Montgomery

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE | 800 | (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) Thomas Jefferson wrote that ""all men are created equal"", yet, as seen from the names on the bricks, he was a major slaveholder owning hundreds at this home and plantation in Virginia

Monticello

STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 1600 | Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks --you can order online, but it's more fun to visit

Montpelier

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

Montpelier

CANADIAN CITIES | 400 | In 1992, this city's velodrome, once used in the Olympic Games, was transformed into an environmental biodome

Montreal

SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES | 1200 | In 2006, 30 years late, the debt was paid off for the stadium called ""The Big Owe"" & the rest of this city's games

Montreal

TRAVEL & TOURISM | 800 | This city's La Ronde amusement park stands on the site of Expo '67

Montreal

ON WHAT ISLAND? | 2000 | Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport

Montreal Island

AFRICAN COUNTRY BY AIRPORT | 1000 | Mohammed V International Airport

Morocco

COUNTRIES' LOWEST POINTS | 800 | Sebkha Tah, southwest of Marrakech

Morocco

IN THE AFRICAN COUNTRY | 1000 | 13,600-foot Jebel Toubkal, the highest peak in the Atlas Mountains

Morocco

GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES | 1200 | Sicily's ""Mountain of Fire""

Mount Etna

GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES | 800 | ""The Parnassus of Japan""

Mount Fuji

THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM | 400 | The original idea for this shrine in the Black Hills of South Dakota was to sculpt faces of Native American & Old West heroes

Mount Rushmore

INTO AFRICA | 2000 | This coastal republic of 23 million is separated from Madagascar by the channel of the same name

Mozambique

RECENT AFRICAN HISTORY | 1200 | This leader was born in a tent near Surt, Libya, the town where he would die in 2011

Muammar Gaddafi

EUROPEAN CITIES | 1600 | This Bavarian city traces its origins to a Benedictine monastery at Tegernsee

Munich

GERMAN CITIES | 2000 | The Karlstor, the Sendlinger Tor & Isartor are gates from medieval times that have been preserved in this Bavarian city

Munich

OLD STATE CAPITALS | 1200 | From 1818 to 1826 Tennessee's capital was this boro

Murfreesboro

MIDDLE EASTERN CAPITALS | 2000 | This Omani capital is dominated by the sultan's palace & 2 Portuguese forts built in the 16th century

Muscat

EUROPE TO NO GOOD | 800 | Certainly up to no good were Hitler & this Italian leader, pictured together in 1937

Mussolini

EAST ASIAN CITIES | 1600 | This country's 2nd-largest city, Mandalay, is known for a pagoda containing 729 stone Buddhist tablets

Myanmar (or Burma)

RAISE THE WHITE IN THE FLAG | 1200 | The flag of ""the Tar Heel State"" has these 2 letters on either side of a white star

NC

WORLD CAPITALS | 400 | The Kenyatta International Conference Centre is in this city

Nairobi

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

Namibia

INTO AFRICA | 1200 | Once controlled by Germany, today this country bears the name of a desert found there

Namibia

THE COUNTRY DUE SOUTH | 1000 | of Luanda, Angola

Namibia

U.S. ISLANDS | 600 | This island shaped like a pork chop is to the east of Martha's Vineyard across Muskeget Channel

Nantucket

4-LETTER U.S. CITIES | 400 | It's the gateway to California's ""Wine Trail""

Napa

CALIFORNIA COUNTIES | 800 | Take your designated driver & sample this county's Chimney Rock & Rutherford Hill wineries

Napa

ITALIAN CITIES | 400 | The name of this city on a celebrated bay comes from the Greek for ""new city""

Naples

STATES THAT FLOW TOGETHER | 400 | Hoover Dam is on their border

Nevada & Arizona

WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 200 | The Nehru Memorial Museum & Library

New Delhi

WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 800 | The India Gate

New Delhi

THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE | 600 | (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) He was known to always carry a Bible, & the small one displayed here likely belonged to this preacher & slave rebellion leader, who may have been carrying it when he was captured in 1831

Nat Turner

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | The largest area of sand dunes in the U.S. lies mainly in this state, north of the Platte River

Nebraska

U.S. LAKES & RIVERS | 1600 | Lake McConaughy, this state's largest lake, is a reservoir created by the Kingsley Dam on the North Platte River

Nebraska

INTO AFRICA | 1600 | The third-longest river in Africa lends its name to these 2 countries

Niger and Nigeria

AFRICAN COUNTRIES BY CAPITAL | 2000 | Abuja

Nigeria

COLORFUL U.S. CITIES | 1200 | You can visit the city of Bowling Green & the state university of the same name; they're both in this state

Ohio

STATES' MOST POPULOUS COUNTIES | 1200 | Cuyahoga County

Ohio

THE UNITED STATES OF KENTUCKY | 200 | The shoreline of this state includes 50 miles along Sandusky Bay

Ohio

LAKES & RIVERS | 400 | This Florida lake bears a Hitchiti name that means ""big water""

Okeechobee

U.S. FORCES OVERSEAS | 800 | The largest installation in the Asia-Pacific region, the Kadena Air Force Base operates from this Japanese island

Okinawa

CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD | 2000 | Guthrie(1907)

Oklahoma

PARTS OF THE CITY | 400 | Philadelphia & Jerusalem each have central areas called by this ancient name (Jerusalem's is the more ancient)

Old City

STATE CAPITALS AKA | 1600 | Ancient Greek site of athletic fame

Olympia

AFRICAN RIVERS | 2000 | The Vanderkloof Dam on this ""colorful"" river helped to create productive farmland in South Africa

Orange River

2-TIMING STATES | 600 | If it's happy hour in Corvallis, it's dinner time in Ontario in this state

Oregon

STATE FLAGS | 800 | This state's flag is the only one with different designs on each side; one features a yellow beaver

Oregon

THE FAULT IN OUR STATES | 800 | The Corvallis Fault

Oregon

4-LETTER U.S. CITIES | 2000 | This neighbor of Provo was named for the president of the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad

Orem

ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES | 200 | ORAL NOD,Florida

Orlando

GEOGRAPHY | 600 | This European capital was founded near a fjord in the 11th century

Oslo

WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 2000 | The Kon-Tiki Museum

Oslo

WORLD CAPITAL MUSEUMS | 400 | The Edvard Munch Museum

Oslo

CITY BY STATUE | 800 | Alexander Mackenzie (at Parliament Hill)

Ottawa

WELL-SEASONED BOOKS | 1600 | ""Drums of Autumn"" is the 4th book in this series about a woman traveling through time using an ancient Scottish stone circle

Outlander

ON THE OLD MAP | 600 | In 1972 an island about 20 miles off India said so long, Ceylon, & took this name

Sri Lanka

PLANT THE FLAG | 1200 | The flag of this Indian Ocean island nation has 4 leaves of the bodhi tree

Sri Lanka

CANADIAN PROVINCIAL FLAGS | 1600 | Nova Scotia's flag features this cross of Scotland

St. Andrew\'s

SHAKESPEAREAN GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | This city in northern Italy known for its university is the setting for ""The Taming of the Shrew""

Padua

THE MOST POPULOUS COUNTRY | 200 | Peru,Pakistan,Poland

Pakistan

WHAT A COUNTRY! | 1600 | Urdu you think you are? Mamnoon Hussain, president of this country where that's the official language

Pakistan

MOST POPULOUS COUNTRIES | 800 | India ranks No. 2 & these 2 countries that straddle it come in at 6 & 8

Pakistan & Bangladesh

COUNTRIES' NATIONAL ANTHEMS | 800 | ""Himno Istmeño"", or ""Isthmus Hymn""

Panama

COUNTRIES' PROVINCES | 1000 | Colon & Darien

Panama

WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 800 | Museo del Canal Interoceanico

Panama (City)

CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITALS | 2000 | Port facilities serving this capital lie in the adjacent city of Balboa

Panama City

5-LETTER CAPITALS | 400 | Henry IV designed the Place des Vosges, the focal point of this city's fashionable Marais District

Paris

CITY BOOKS | 400 | The 1910 novel ""The Phantom of the Opera"" is set in this city

Paris

PRETTY CITY | 800 | Cole Porter loved this city ""In The Springtime"" & ""In The Fall""

Paris

PARKS | 1200 | The planetarium in this city's Fountain of Youth Park features the night sky as Ponce de Leon would have seen it

St. Augustine

SITCOM CITIES | 1000 | ""Parks and Recreation"" (a fictional city)

Pawnee

AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS | 2000 | In 1967, she played the title matchmaker, leading an all-black cast on Broadway in ""Hello, Dolly!""

Pearl Bailey

AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS | 400 | Messman Dorie Miller was the first African American awarded the Navy Cross for bravery at this place, December 7th, 1941.

Pearl Harbor

AMERICAN ISLANDS | 400 | Ford Island at this site was the center of the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941; 7 battleships were moored there

Pearl Harbor

AUSTRALIAN CAPITALS | 400 | It's the capital of the state of New South Wales & it's Australia's largest city

Sydney

STATES BY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AREA | 800 | Flight 93 National Memorial

Pennsylvania

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 800 | In WWII 28,000 aviators trained in & around this Florida Panhandle city

Pensacola

MAP QUEST | 400 | But will it play in this city, originally a settlement called Fort Crevecoeur?

Peoria

CANADIAN CAPITALS | 1000 | It's the capital & second-largest city of Saskatchewan

Regina

NAME THE CAPITAL | 1000 | Saskatchewan

Regina

THE MAP OF CANADA | 1000 | Rising above the Saskatchewan prairie in this city is the largest provincial legislative building in Canada

Regina

GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY | 400 | This persecuted group fled England in 1609 & lived in the Netherlands for 11 years before crossing the Atlantic

Pilgrims

AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE | 400 | August Wilson chronicled the Black experience in his cycle of plays set in the Hill District of this Pennsylvania city

Pittsburgh

U.S. CITIES | 800 | The 64-story U.S. Steel Tower in this city is one of the tallest buildings in Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh

ASIA LOVES THAT AMERICAN BRAND | 200 | This fast food chain is the No. 1 casual dining brand in China with 660 restaurants; that's a lot of P'zones to go

Pizza Hut

ASIA LOVES THAT AMERICAN BRAND | 400 | The CEO of this magazine with a bunny logo said it's ""more of a fashion brand"" in Asia & ""we're more like Louis Vuitton""

Playboy

THE E.U. COUNTRY THAT... | 800 | Is bordered on the north by the Baltic Sea & separated from Germany by the Oder River

Poland

VODKA COUNTRY OF ORIGIN | 1000 | Belvedere

Poland

LAKES | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A narrow passage called the Rigolets connects this Louisiana Lake to Lake Borgne & the Gulf of Mexico

Pontchartrain

WORLD GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Canada's smallest province, it's also the only one that's not connected to the North American mainland

Prince Edward Island

EARLY U.S. CAPITALS | 400 | In 1783 Nassau Hall on this Ivy League school's campus received the first foreign minister to the U.S., a delegate from Holland

Princeton

GEOGRAPHIC TITLES | 800 | Peter Mayle: ""A Year in _____""

Provence

STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 800 | The Roger Williams Park Zoo

Providence

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 200 | Whidbey Island, just north of Seattle, provides the northern boundary of this body of water

Puget Sound

TRAVELING THROUGH TIME | 800 | A new time zone was created on Aug. 15, 2015--this world capital ""time"", set 30 minutes behind South Korea

Pyongyang

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE | 1200 | (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) Among Harriet Tubman's most treasured possessions was a lace shawl she received in recognition of her heroic efforts from this woman, who was celebrating her diamond jubilee

Queen Victoria

COUNTRY MUSIC | 1000 | She's not only been a mentor to Kelly Clarkson--in 2013, she became Kelly's mother-in-law

Reba McEntire

ALSO A SEA | 200 | In sports names, it precedes Auerbach & Grange

Red

NATIONAL PARKS | 200 | This national park lying along California's Pacific coast features the world's tallest trees

Redwood

4-LETTER U.S. CITIES | 200 | We bet you know that in population it's the largest city in Northern Nevada

Reno

MAPS & GLOBES | 2000 | A bathymetric map represents topography in this type of environment

the ocean

WORLD CAPITALS | 400 | About one third of Latvia's people live in this capital, the largest city in the Baltic states

Riga

ISLAND PRISONS | 1600 | New York City's main correctional facility, it lies in the East River & consists of 10 separate jails

Riker\'s Island

CAPITAL CITY CHURCHES | 200 | The Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano

Rome

THE CITY OF... | 600 | Seven Hills, in Europe

Rome

AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS | 800 | In 1977 poet & author Maya Angelou appeared in this TV miniseries

Roots

NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARKS | 200 | A California park named for this WWII icon commemorates the women who worked in wartime industries

Rosie the Riveter

REVOLUTIONARY COUNTRIES | 1200 | The October Revolution (1917)

Russia

THE GEOGRAPHIC CENTER | 2000 | Of this big country: Evenkia, on Lake Vivi; its only resident, Anatoly, died in 2003

Russia

WESTERN HEMISPHERE RIVERS | 1200 | In the 1520s Sebastian Cabot named a South American river this, believing the nearby area had lots of silver

RÃo de la Plata

STATE CAPITALS | 600 | This capital's name is derived from a Hebrew word meaning ""peace""

Salem (Oregon)

CITY HALL | 200 | In this Western state capital, the City Hall went up in 1894 & was controversial because it rivaled the Temple

Salt Lake City

STATE CAPITALS | 1600 | Its family history library on NW Temple St. has over 2.4 million rolls of microfilmed genealogical records

Salt Lake City

U.S. AIRPORT CODES | 400 | SLC serves this state capital

Salt Lake City

PRETTY CITY | 1200 | Here, you can see several of the ""Painted Ladies"" Victorian homes in this U.S. city

San Francisco

TAKING IN THE CITY SITES | 400 | Iovehaight.orgis for people who love this town, summer or not

San Francisco

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 200 | The 3-mile-long Golden Gate Strait connects this bay with the Pacific Ocean

San Francisco Bay

BASIC GEOGRAPHY | 400 | From here in southern California, do you know the way to this Central American capital city? We'll show you

San Jose

WORLD CAPITALS | 600 | This central American capital was named for its patron saint, Joseph

San Jose (Costa Rica)

COUNTRY MUSIC ALBUMS | 600 | In 1975 a double album was released combining 2 previous LPs featuring Johnny Cash at these 2 penitentiaries

San Quentin and Folsom

A CAPITAL IDEA | 1200 | El Salvador means ""the savior""; this name of its capital means ""sainted savior""

San Salvador

ASIAN CITIES | 2000 | The old part of this Yemeni capital is surrounded by a 30-foot high wall

Sana\'a

TAKING IN THE CITY SITES | 600 | spl.orgis for this city's library system, including the Rainier Beach branch

Seattle

U.S. CITIES | 400 | If you're in front of the former Sears building seen here, you're in this city

Seattle

CALIFORNIA COUNTIES | 1600 | This county shares its name with a 14,000-foot volcano ""Mount"" that's found nearby

Shasta

THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM | 2000 | The only national parks now in the original 13 states are one each in North & South Carolina, & this beautiful park in Virginia

Shenandoah

PEOPLE ON THE MAP | 2000 | This Oscar winner directed ""The Firm"", ""Out of Africa"" & ""Tootsie"", in which he also acted

Sydney Pollack

AFRICAN SETTINGS | 800 | ""Cry, the Beloved Country""

South Africa

2-WORD COUNTRIES | 400 | One of this country's major exports is known as K-pop, like the hit ""Gangnam Style""

South Korea

CAPTURE THE FLAG | 800 | The flag of this Asian democracy depicts a yin-yang symbol in its center

South Korea

COUNTRIES BY HOTEL | 1000 | The Westin Chosun

South Korea

THE COUNTRY'S PRESIDENT | 1000 | Park Chung Hee (1963 to 1979)

South Korea

AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS | 1200 | In 1950 Juanita Hall became the first African American to win a Tony, for playing Bloody Mary in this musical

South Pacific

THE COUNTRY'S PRESIDENT | 800 | Nguyen Van Thieu (1967 to 1975)

South Vietnam

EUROPEAN RIVERS | 1600 | Iberus was the ancient name for the longest river entirely within this country

Spain

ON THE MAP | 200 | It's the foreign country closest to the French cities of Lourdes & Bordeaux

Spain

THIS ISLAND IS YOUR ISLAND | 400 | Majorca

Spain

CARIBBEAN CAPITALS | 1600 | This capital of Antigua & Barbuda shares its name with the capital of Newfoundland

St. John\'s

CITY WALK | 800 | On May 14, 1804 Lewis & Clark departed this city to begin their expedition to the Pacific Northwest

St. Louis

OLYMPIC CITY ATTRACTIONS | 600 | The Anheuser-Busch Consumer Hospitality Center

St. Louis

OLD NAMES ON THE MAP | 800 | From 1925 to 1961 Volgograd had this name, after a dictator

Stalingrad

TRANSPORTATION | 800 | Last name of the automating twin bros. famous for their ""Steamers"", one of which broke a speed record in 1906 at 127.7 mph

Stanley

ISLANDS | 400 | New York City's highest natural point is Todt Hill, on this island reachable by ferry

Staten Island

ASIAN CAPITAL CITIES | 800 | The Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines is a popular attraction in this city

Taipei

FLORIDA GEOGRAPHY | 400 | The metro area that includes these two twin cities on Florida's West Coast is home to almost 3 million people

Tampa and St. Petersburg

AFRICAN COUNTRIES BY CAPITAL | 1200 | Khartoum

Sudan

GOIN' COUNTRY | 1000 | Jennifer Nettles & Kristian Bush front this ""sweet"" band, one ""Incredible Machine""

Sugarland

GEOGRAPHY IN RHYME | 200 | Sundsvall should be all you're needin' /'Cause you know, we're referring to...

Sweden

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES | 600 | 1961:U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold

Sweden

EUROPEAN COUNTRY BY REGIONS | 400 | Zug,Lucerne,Valais

Switzerland

WELCOME TO THE U.N. | 200 | 2002:This European country traditionally wary of international involvement

Switzerland

FRENCH CITIES & TOWNS | 400 | A decree from Louis XIV created this palatial city about 15 miles southwest of Paris

Versailles

BING'S TOP SEARCHES: 2012 | 200 | With its lineup of mighty superheroes, this was the most searched movie

The Avengers

NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS | 2000 | James Armistead told Lafayette that the British were moving into this Va. town; siege & surrender soon followed

Yorktown

AIRPORT CODES | 600 | FYI--FYI is an unofficial code standing for Fresno this national park International

Yosemite

IN THE NATIONAL PARK | 800 | Half Dome

Yosemite

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 400 | About 140 miles east of San Francisco, you'll find this national park

Yosemite

BILLBOARD'S ALL-TIME TOP COUNTRY ALBUMS | 400 | Take a chance on this 1978 Kenny Rogers album

The Gambler

NOTED AFRICAN AMERICANS | 1600 | As a mission specialist on STS-8 aboard one of these, Guion Bluford helped deploy INSAT-1B

a Space Shuttle

STATES RHYME TIME | 1000 | A Chattanooga monetary charge

a Tennessee fee

TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 66 | 800 | Part of this 1940 Henry Fonda movie was filmed in Santa Rosa, New Mexico on Route 66

The Grapes of Wrath

STATES RHYME TIME | 800 | A Casper wedding band

a Wyoming ring

STATE SEALS | 400 | This mammal sits atop the shield of Wisconsin's seal

a badger

GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 200 | In the bathroom it's a sink; on the map it's an area drained by a single river

a basin

FOREIGN GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 800 | In Spanish: playa

a beach

CANADIAN PROVINCIAL FLAGS | 800 | This mammal of the plains that provided food & clothing for indigenous peoples is depicted on Manitoba's flag

a bison

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 400 | (I'm Misty Copeland.) In 2014 I made history as the first African-American ballerina to dance the role of Clara in American Ballet Theatre's production of this ballet, a holiday favorite

The Nutcracker

SEA WORTHY MOVIES | 600 | In this 1972 disaster epic, an ocean liner capsizes at sea & the all-star cast struggles to survive

The Poseidon Adventure

SEAN CONNERY & BURT REYNOLDS | 1000 | Sean said, ""He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue"" in this film

The Untouchables

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

There Will Be Blood

WORLD CITIES | 1200 | In 2014 this Spanish city honored El Greco on the 400th anniversary of his death with a series of exhibitions & concerts

Toledo

AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS | 2000 | This author of ""The Bluest Eye"" was made an officer of the French Legion of Honor in 2010

Toni Morrison

NASCAR FROM THE DRIVER'S SEAT | 600 | Smoke gets in the other drivers' eyes when this champion & team owner hits the track

Tony Stewart

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 400 | Segregation was ruled unconstitutional in the case Brown v. the Board of Education of this city in Kansas

Topeka

CANADIAN CAPITALS | 400 | This provincial capital is home to Canada's tallest structure

Toronto

MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS CITIES | 400 | The Blue Jays

Toronto

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS, MON | 800 | In 1632 the Dutch settled on this island, about 20 miles northeast of Trinidad

Tobago

MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | In June of 1942, Erwin Rommel captured this port city from the British,who took it back in November

Tobruk

COUNTRY MUSIC | 400 | This singer who goes by his first & middle names is known for his rousing country anthems

Toby Keith

4-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS | 1600 | Lome is the capital & largest city of this West African country whose name is also 4 letters long

Togo

JAPANESE CITIES | 200 | Yes, that's a roller coaster passing through the centerless Big O Ferris wheel in this capital of Japan

Tokyo

SUMMER OLYMPIC CITIES | 800 | This city hosted the Summer Games in 1964, a first for Asia

Tokyo

ATLANTIC CITY | 800 | If you've got the ""juice"", play slots in this casino's high-stakes Palm Cove section

Tropicana

4-LETTER U.S. CITIES | 1200 | It's no myth--for most of the last 15 years, this city has ranked as the safest in Michigan

Troy

U.S. CITIES | 800 | The art deco-style Union Depot & Phillips Oil ""Philcade"" suit this city in Oklahoma to a ""T""

Tulsa

AFRICAN HISTORY | 800 | The ruins of the ancient city of Carthage are found in what is today this African country

Tunisia

ITALIAN CITIES | 200 | In 2015 the Pope said this city's shroud was ""an icon of love""

Turin

THE HUDSON RIVER | 1000 | This Italian explorer reached the Hudson River in 1524, 85 years before Henry Hudson

Verrazano

STATE THE NATIONAL PARK | 600 | Bryce Canyon

Utah

STATES' LOWEST POINTS | 1000 | This state: 2,178 feet above sea level in Beaver Dam Wash, around 23 miles from the city of St. George

Utah

STUFF ABOUT STATES | 2000 | Its national monuments include the Real Rainbow Bridge, Natural Bridges & Timpanogos Cave

Utah

THE FAULT IN OUR STATES | 1000 | The Wasatch Fault

Utah

AFRICAN AMERICANS | 1000 | Born Valerie Bowman, she's a longtime advisor to Pres. Obama, who has said she's like a sister to him

Valerie Jarrett

SOUTH AMERICAN CITIES | 1600 | It's Chile's chief seaport & home to the Chilean Naval Academy

ValparaÃso

COUNTRY BY STATE | 400 | Amazonas & Bolivar

Venezuela

THE 6 NEW ENGLAND STATES | 400 | It features great skiing at Stratton & Stowe

Vermont

ITALIAN CITIES & TOWNS | 400 | A neolithic skeletal pair were unearthed ""embracing"" near this city where Romeo & Juliet lived

Verona

COUNTRY MEN | 800 | North & South America were named for a man with this last name

Vespucci

FRENCH CITIES & TOWNS | 1200 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After France surrendered to the Nazis in June 1940, the country was divided into a German-occupied area & an unoccupied zone with an administrative center in this spa town, by whose name the region would be known

Vichy

AFRICAN CITIES | 1000 | Named for a 19th century queen, this capital of the Seychelles has fewer than 30,000 people

Victoria

CANADIAN CITIES | 1600 | An intersection in this provincial capital is the original western terminus of the Trans-Canada Highway

Victoria, British Columbia

IN THE CAPITAL CITY | 800 | Nov. 7, 1867:The future Marie Curie is born

Warsaw

FEATURING FLAGS | 800 | It's the only U.S. state to use a primarily green flag, which honors its nickname

Washington

NATIONAL PARKS | 800 | Olympic National Park in this state has tracts of rain forest & rugged Pacific cliffs

Washington

STATES BY CITY TRASH-TALKING | 800 | ""I'm not Spokane for, & I ain't putting on the Ritzville! Everybody loves Raymond!""

Washington

WORLD CAPITAL MUSEUMS | 600 | The Corcoran Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

& THE CATEGORY OF GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | In January 1855, 15 years after the founding of what's now this New Zealand capital, it suffered an 8.2 earthquake

Wellington

WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS | 1000 | Zealandia Wildlife Sanctuary

Wellington

TRANSPORTATION | 1600 | In 1866 this company purchased Ben Holladay's line, creating the world's largest stagecoach empire

Wells Fargo

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES | 400 | 1971:Chancellor Willy Brandt (be specific)

West Germany

COLORFUL U.S. CITIES | 1600 | For more than 40 years, Edison worked in this town with both a direction & a color

West Orange

RED STATES | 800 | Some of its larger cities, including Huntington & Wheeling, are on the Ohio River

West Virginia

STATELY GEOGRAPHY | 600 | The Wheeling Heritage Trails,Blennerhassett Island

West Virginia

THE BRIDGES OF OTHER COUNTIES | 600 | Take me home, Fayette County roads in this state, but not on Bridge Day, when New River Gorge closes & BASE jumpers have at it

West Virginia

CRY ME A WORLD RIVER | 1200 | Winning the battle of Ireland's Boyne River in 1690 gave this ""colorful"" king a complete triumph over the deposed James II

William of Orange

STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES | 800 | Delaware: about 71,000

Wilmington

THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM | 1200 | This national park has the world's greatest concentration of geysers

Yellowstone

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 1000 | Billings, Montana is found on this ""colorful"" river that shares its name with a major attraction

Yellowstone

MIDDLE EAST GEOGRAPHY | 400 | The island of Socotra,200 miles south of the coast Is part ofthis Arabian peninsula nation

Yemen

ON THE OLD MAP OF EUROPE | 1600 | In 1946 this federal state took up a big slab of the Balkans with 6 republics; in 2003, not so much

Yugoslavia

4-LETTER U.S. CITIES | 1600 | It's located where the Colorado River meets the Gila River in southwestern Arizona

Yuma

AROUND AFRICA | 1200 | Gazing from space at Victoria Falls, we're looking at the border of these two nations that start with the same letter

Zambia & Zimbabwe

WORLD CITIES | 800 | Cabaret Voltaire in this largest Swiss city is considered the birthplace of Dadaism

Zurich

ON THE GEOGRAPHIC MENU | 800 | Ich bin one of these jelly-filled donuts also known as pfannkuchen

a Berliner

TRANSPORTATION | 1200 | For most of the 21st century, this Toyota model has been the USA's bestselling passenger car

a Camry

STATES RHYME TIME | 600 | A Wilmington seat

a Delaware chair

LOW COUNTRY TYPES | 1200 | Rembrandt was one of these, & his painting was featured on the box of the cigars of the same name

a Dutch master

COUNTRY RHYME TIME | 200 | A large extended family in Yokohama

a Japan clan

NATIONAL PARKS | 200 | For the lakes of Voyageurs National Park, you can rent one of these; the original voyageurs had birch bark ones

a canoe

TRANSPORTATION | 2000 | To symbolize a pioneering spirit, in 1965 the 1st NASA mission patch ever featured one of these 19th century transports

a covered wagon

OTHER LONE STAR FLAGS | 800 | Mauritania's green flag has one of these under its single star

a crescent

A HANSEATIC LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN | 1200 | The league had no governing body but had assemblies called these; the Holy Roman Empire held one in Worms

a diet

WORDS FOR TRAVELERS | 400 | Ask Meadowlark, ""Trotador de Globo"" is Portuguese for one of these

a globetrotter

TRANSPORTATION | 400 | The Professional Caddies Association calls it ""the caddie's worst enemy""

a golf cart

TRANSPORTATION | 1200 | In 1784 2 Frenchmen built Europe's first flying model of this type of aircraft; its rotors were made of feathers

a helicopter

GEOGRAPHIC PHRASES | 2000 | John Winthrop's 1630 sermon ""A Model of Christian Charity"" said ""we shall be as a city upon"" this

a hill

ELECTRICITY | 1200 | If you have an HEV, you have this type of ""electric vehicle""

a hybrid

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

a nap (in Annapolis)

WATER TRANSPORTATION | 200 | Monroe, Louisiana took its name to honor the arrival of one of these, named for the president, up the Ouachita river

a steamboat

TRAVELING | 600 | For her cabin on this type of Cunard vessel, a Victorian-era traveler packed this type of ""trunk""

a steamer

FEATURING FLAGS | 2000 | A black one of these birds is featured on the flag of Western Australia

a swan

EASTER ISLAND | 2000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Easter Island.) The stone village of Orongo was the site of a yearly trial where young men scaled down a cliff and swam through shark-infested waters to retrieve the egg of a sooty one of these birds

a tern

TRANSPORTATION | 600 | Maglev is technology that helped one of these achieve a record 361 mph in 2003

a train

LET YOUR GREEK FLAG FLY | 800 | Pyrros Dimas has carried Greece's flag at 2 Olympics; he must not find it heavy, as this was his sport

a weightlifter

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

a yen (in Cheyenne)

UNDER THE SEA IN BAJA | 400 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew snorkels in Baja California, Mexico.) Though the beaks of parrot fish can scar coral reefs, the fish are vital to the reef's health by eating these organisms that otherwise could smother the coral

algae

ELECTRICITY | 400 | Most generators on power networks use this type of current

alternating current

DISASTER CITY | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Texas A&M Disaster City in College Station, TX.) By itself, a downed transformer is dangerous, but branches that touch one can be, too, as they could conduct electricity via sap or water; use rubber gloves that act in this capacity due to their low conductivity

an insulator

FOREIGN GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 200 | In French: ile

an island

GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 400 | Peru's Huacachina, seen here, has been called the only true one of these fertile desert areas in the Americas

an oasis

ENTERTAINMENT UNDER THE SEA | 800 | Before you ""Free Willy"", this creature, better have a place for it; males can weigh 10 tons & females can live 90 years

an orca (or killer whale)

OUT OF AFRICA | 400 | An African bird with 2 toes on each foot, or someone who refuses to face unpleasant truths

an ostrich

UNDER THE SEA IN BAJA | 200 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew snorkels in Baja California, Mexico.) The marine types of these heavenly creatures are brighter & often seen around reefs; the Cortez & king type are found near Baja

angelfish

NATIONAL PARKS | 600 | Sections of sandstone walls collapsed, leaving these formations that give their name to a Utah park

arches

WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS | 400 | This crime is in Nevada's capital

arson (in Carson City)

TRAVEL TEXAS | 400 | Say howdy to 52-foot Big Tex at the state fair of Texas, a stone's throw from this college football stadium

the Cotton Bowl

CITY SEALS | 1200 | The seal of DeLand, Florida has a cross, anchor & heart, symbolizing faith, hope & this

charity

LINES ON THE MAP | 2000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) These lines on a map connect points of equal elevation & allow mountains & other features to be depicted in 2 dimensions

contour lines

MAPS | 800 | Latitude & longitude are examples of the number pairs that in the Cartesian system are called these

coordinates

A TREASURE MAP | 400 | You will come to this kind of island; it sounds like it would resemble the Sahara, but the word means ""abandoned""

desert (deserted accepted)

THE UNITED STATES MARINES | 1600 | Legend says Germans in WWI called Marines ""Teufelshunde"", which led to this alliterative nickname

devil dogs

FLAGS OF THE AMERICAS | 800 | Peru's flag was inspired by a flock of these wading birds, though it's red & white, not pink & white

flamingoes

A HANSEATIC LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN | 400 | The Hanseatic League fostered safe navigation by training pilots & building many of these structures along the coasts

lighthouses

THE RIVER'S TRIBUTARIES | 1600 | Inn,Morava,Tisza

the Danube

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 800 | Baltimore lies on the Patapsco River, which flows into this bay

the Chesapeake

TRAVELING THROUGH TIME | 400 | OK... our train left France at 5; the trip to England through this feature took 35 minutes, so now it's 4:35

the Chunnel

NORTH AMERICAN RIVERS | 2000 | This 1,000-mile-long river emptying into Hudson Bay wasn't named for a British P.M. but a governor of Hudson's Bay Company

the Churchill River

A RIVER RUNS BETWEEN THEM | 1200 | The United States & Mexico (in addition to the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo)

the Colorado

U.S. GEOGRAPHY | 800 | This river & its tributaries flow through 3 major deserts: the Great Basin, the Sonoran & the Mojave

the Colorado River

U.S. RIVERS | 1200 | Called Utah's major stream, the Green River drains the northeast quarter of the state & flows into this longer one

the Colorado River

WORLD RIVERS | 2000 | This river that rises in the Black Forest flows through Germany & on into Austria

the Danube

THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY | 800 | The sand in this Roman amphitheater was sometimes dyed red to disguise the blood

the Colosseum

THE RIVER'S TRIBUTARIES | 800 | Pend Oreille,Willamette,Snake

the Columbia

U.S. ISLANDS | 400 | East Sand Island in this river near Chinook, Wash. is home to a vast nesting colony of Caspian terns

the Columbia

GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY | 200 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In order to gain military advantage, the ancient Romans were the first to build roads like the Via Claudia Augusta across this mountain system between central Europe & Italy

the Alps

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 50 GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHS | 800 | These river dolphins seem to glow orange as they swim in the tea-colored waters of this South American river basin

the Amazon

TRAVELING | 800 | A cold beer is just the thing to quench your thirst when cruising along this river in the capital of the Netherlands

the Amstel River

THE MAP OF CANADA | 800 | This gulf named for the Norwegian who explored the area between 1903 & 1906 is at the western end of the NW passage

the Amundsen Gulf

FLAGS OF THE AMERICAS | 400 | On Chile's flag, the red is for the blood of the patriots, the blue is sky & the white is the snow of these mountains

the Andes

GEOGRAPHIC TERMS | 1600 | It's an imaginary circle located approximately at 66 1/2 degrees south latitude

the Antarctic Circle

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY | 1200 | It's Showtime at this Harlem theater that began hosting its amateur night in 1934

the Apollo

AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERFORMERS | 400 | In 1962 James Brown recorded a live album in this NYC theater opened in 1914

the Apollo

EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | Mount Corno is the highest peak in this range known as the ""backbone of Italy""

the Appenines

POINTY ON THE MAP | 400 | This peninsula has a pointy northeastern tip on the Strait of Hormuz

the Arabian Peninsula

A RIVER RUNS TO IT | 1200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on a monitor.) The Indus River rises in Tibet and flows 1800 miles through South Asia before emptying into this sea that shares its name with an adjacent peninsula

the Arabian Sea

U.S. RIVERS | 1600 | There's a maritime museum named for this river near its mouth in Astoria, Oregon

the Columbia

A RIVER RUNS TO IT | 400 | The Yakima:to this larger Pacific Northwest river

the Columbia River

U.S. LAKES & RIVERS | 1200 | 1,240 miles long & rich in hydro power, it's the largest river by volume that flows from the U.S. into the Pacific Ocean

the Columbia River

TRANSPORTATION PHRASES | 200 | Go faster! ""Put the pedal to"" this

the metal

LAKES & RIVERS | 800 | The principal river of Tuscany rises on Monte Falterona

the Arno River

UNDER THE SEA OR OCEAN | 800 | Ocean:Reykjanes Ridge

the Atlantic

A RIVER RUNS TO IT | 1200 | The Gambia, to this ocean

the Atlantic Ocean

AFRICAN LAKES | 800 | These mountains of Morocco are home to an annual wedding festival at Tislit & Isli Lakes

the Atlas Mountains

HISTORY AT SEA | 1200 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated map on the monitor.) On the return trip during his first voyage, Columbus and the crew of the Niña were almost arrested on Santa Maria Island in this group, because the governor may have thought they were pirates

the Azores

ISLANDS | 800 | These islands were uninhabited when Portugal claimed them in 1431; they are now home to a quarter of a million people

the Azores

NATIONAL PARKS | 600 | Evil-sounding park in southwestern South Dakota

the Badlands

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

the Bahamas

WORLD GEOGRAPHY | 1200 | America's Little Diomede & Russia's Big Diomede Islands are only 2 1/2 miles apart in this waterway

the Bering Strait

TRAVEL & TOURISM | 600 | Holders of the Schwarzwaldcard get discounts at more than 100 attractions in this German area

the Black Forest

TRAVEL IRELAND | 400 | To kiss this, visitors once had to be held by their ankles & lowered head first; today, just lie down & lean backward

the Blarney Stone

COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY | 1600 | This colorful range is known for its beautiful scenery, especially along the Skyline Drive in Virginia

the Blue Ridge Mountains

ON THE MAP | 1600 | It connects the Black Sea & the Sea of Marmara

the Bosphorus

CARIBBEAN CAPITALS | 1200 | H.M. [Her Majesty's] Prison, which dates to the 1840s, is the oldest building in Road Town, the capital of this British island group

the British Virgin Islands

THE BRIDGES OF OTHER COUNTIES | 200 | Part of this bridge built in the 19th century is in Kings County

the Brooklyn Bridge

AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | Once called the Cape of Storms, this southern cape was given its present name by King John II of Portugal

the Cape of Good Hope

A RIVER RUNS TO IT | 400 | The Volga, to this so-called ""sea""

the Caspian Sea

LAKES | 1200 | Bordered by 5 countries, this saltwater lake is also called the Khazar Sea & the Mazandaran Sea

the Caspian Sea

EUROPEAN LAKES | 400 | This resident of a lake in the Scottish Highlands is purportedly seen here

the Loch Ness monster

LINES ON THE MAP | 200 | Important in pre-Civil War America, it bears the name of two guys from England

the Mason-Dixon line

ALL OVER THE MAP | 2000 | Looming over Zermatt:this 14,692-foot peak

the Matterhorn

CITY HALL | 800 | You can't visit this ancient wonder at Halicarnassus, but behold the tower of Los Angeles City Hall, designed to resemble it

the Mausoleum

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: CELEBRATING 125 YEARS | 600 | The April 2002 issue revealed the oldest known (by 700 years) mural of this Central American people from 100 A.D.

the Maya

CITY BY THE SEA | 1600 | Cartagena (the older city)

the Mediterranean

MEANINGS OF GEOGRAPHIC NAMES | 400 | The name of this body of water comes from words meaning ""middle"" & ""earth""

the Mediterranean

UNDER THE SEA OR OCEAN | 400 | Under this sea:The Nile Fan

the Mediterranean

BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER.... | 1600 | The Thai-Lao Friendship bridges

the Mekong

CITIES ON THE RIVER | 400 | Nong Khai &Phnom Penh

the Mekong

THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY | 1600 | Knossos was the principal city of this oldest Aegean civilization, & that's no bull

the Minoans

A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER | 600 | Darned van broke down for good on River Road in Baton Rouge, beside this river

the Mississippi

ISLANDS IN THE STREAM | 800 | In the Midwest:Blanchard Island & Kaskaskia island (until the silt came)

the Mississippi

MANY RIVERS TO CROSS | 400 | Show me you know that this stately river has a ""Little"" 600-mile namesake that joins it in North Dakota

the Missouri

STATELY RIVERS | 1600 | The first permanent white settlements in Nebraska & South Dakota were located on this river

the Missouri

DETROIT ROCK CITY | 400 | An abbreviation of this nickname for Detroit gave the hard-rocking MC5 their name

the Motor City

ISLAND HOPPING | 600 | From Christchurch 275 miles to Wellington

the North & South Islands of New Zealand

CITY BY THE SEA | 1200 | Edinburgh

the North Sea

STATELY RIVERS | 800 | Louisville, Kentucky lies on this river that forms most of the state's northern border

the Ohio

THE RIVER'S TRIBUTARIES | 400 | Wabash,Kentucky,Monongahela

the Ohio

WESTERN HEMISPHERE RIVERS | 800 | Its many tributaries include the Great Miami & Wabash Rivers

the Ohio

LAKES & RIVERS | 800 | At Paducah, Kentucky, the Tennessee River meets this other one named for a state

the Ohio River

COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY | 2000 | This river & its chief tributary, the Vaal, form a drainage basin of around 330,000 square miles in southern Africa

the Orange River

MARITIME FLAGS OF CONVENIENCE | 400 | F.O.C. offer fewer regs & lower fees; on paper, the Marshall Islands in this ocean has one of the world's largest fleets

the Pacific

INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC | 400 | A gigantic vegetation-filled swamp known as al-suds chokes the Nile in this country

the Sudan

OTHER GREAT LAKES | 800 | Great Bitter Lake is a marshy lake in Egypt that forms part of this manmade waterway

the Suez Canal

SEAS | 800 | George Takei said that Gene Roddenberry came up with his ""Star Trek"" character's name by seeing this sea on a map

the Sulu Sea

U.S. RIVERS | 800 | Way down upon this river, the old folks (& everyone else) can see Florida's largest whitewater rapids

the Suwannee

TRAVELING ALONG THE 40th PARALLEL N. | 2000 | After this river joins with the Jarama River in Aranjuez, Spain at the 40th, it flows on into Portugal

the Tagus

ON THE MAP | 800 | This strait named for an island connects the South China Sea with the East China Sea

the Taiwan Strait

SEAS THE DAY | 1600 | Both Aussies & Kiwis refer to this sea between their countries as ""The Ditch""

the Tasman Sea

THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS | 1600 | One scroll, a mash-up of a few Old Testament books, is devoted to the building & operation of this edifice

the Temple

A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER | 400 | I drove on the left to park my van beside this river, right near the U.K.'s Houses of Parliament

the Thames

ISLANDS IN THE STREAM | 1600 | Off continental Europe:Temple Mill Island & Eel Pie Island

the Thames

RIVER BANK ON IT | 800 | Cleopatra's Needle & Paul's Walk are on its north bank

the Thames

MAPS & GLOBES | 400 | Harry Beck's 1930s map of this system in London was revolutionary because it ignored distances

the Tube (or the subway)

THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE | 400 | (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Guests at the opening ceremony for the museum included these men who trained in Alabama as part of this World War II group of aviators who escorted over 200 bombing missions with the loss of just a handful of bombers

the Tuskegee Airmen

COUNTRIES' LOWEST POINTS | 200 | Death Valley

the U.S.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS' HOME COUNTRIES | 200 | 1975:Physicist & activist Andrei Sakharov

the U.S.S.R.

WATER TRANSPORTATION | 600 | Alexander Graham Bell gave the first airboat its name; he said ""we have named her"" this ""and hope she will turn out to be a swan""

the Ugly Duckling

THE 28 COUNTRIES OF NATO | 400 | The one with the largest population

the United States

VODKA COUNTRY OF ORIGIN | 600 | Skyy

the United States

WORLD RIVERS | 1600 | Called the cradle of Chinese civilization, the Huang He River has this colorful name in English

the Yellow River

ON THE MAP | 600 | They're the 2 large peninsulas that nearly enclose the Gulf of Mexico

the Yucatan & Florida

GEOGRAPHIC PHRASES | 1600 | The ""great"" one of these can refer to death or form part of the Montana-Idaho border

the great divide

SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE | 1600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a group of animals running through the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Though it looks less elegant than other antelopes, one of the fastest & most tireless runners is the red type of this ruminant whose name includes an Afrikaans & English word for deer

the hartebeest


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