Jeopardy 4

AMERICANA $400: He wrote "The Tell-Tale Heart" when he lived in Philadelphia & a brick house he rented there is an historic site

Edgar Allan Poe

DEAD POETS $1600: "Lenore 'hath gone before', with hope, that flew beside, leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride"

Edgar Allan Poe

HOW NOVEL $400: The only complete novel by this American master of the macabre is "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym"

Edgar Allan Poe

IF I WERE IN RICHMOND... $400: I'd nevermore long to see the museum on Main St. devoted to this poet & Richmond resident

Edgar Allan Poe

LITERARY RECORDS $1200: His "Murders in the Rue Morgue" in 1841 is considered the first detective story in English

Edgar Allan Poe

LITERATURE $200: His famous story "The Tell-Tale Heart" tells us, "It was not the old man who vexed me, but his evil eye"

Edgar Allan Poe

MONOGRAMS OF THE FAMOUS & INFAMOUS $400: Hard-drinking 19th century poet & critic EAP

Edgar Allan Poe

SHORT STORIES $800: Montresor seeks revenge on wine connoisseur Fortunato in his 1846 tale "The Cask of Amontillado"

Edgar Allan Poe

THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $400: The Philadelphia home where he wrote "The Tell-tale Heart" is now a national historic site

Edgar Allan Poe

THE PEN IS MIGHTIER $2000: Though this poet was noted for drinking, rabies rather than alcohol may have caused his 1849 death in Baltimore

Edgar Allan Poe

VIRGINIA IS FOR WRITERS $400: This writer of creepy tales grew up largely in Richmond & one of his last readings was in 1849 at the Exchange Hotel

Edgar Allan Poe

WRITERS BY MIDDLE NAMES $200: Allan, who was "nevermore" as of Oct. 7, 1849

Edgar Allan Poe

WRITERS WHO SELF-PUBLISHED $2000: In 1827 he paid a printer to publish 50 copies of "Tamerlane and Other Poems"

Edgar Allan Poe

SINGERS WHO ACT $400: Bette Midler sang in the chorus of this Broadway musical before she moved up to the role of Tzeitel

Fiddler on the Roof

SONGS FROM MUSICALS $400: "If I Were A Rich Man"

Fiddler on the Roof

THEATRE $400: The French call this popular musical "Un Violon sur le Toit"

Fiddler on the Roof

BOOKS BY MEN $1200: The idea of this Joyce novel is that history is cyclic; the book begins with a sentence that is unfinished on the last page

Finnegans Wake

FERTILE "I"s $800: This high flyer's father built the Labyrinth

Icarus

GREEK ISLANDS $200: One island is the supposed burial place of this reckless mythical flier, & is named for him

Icarus

GREEK ISLANDS $400: Ikaria is named for this mythical aeronaut who plunged to his death

Icarus

MORE MYTHOLOGICAL MISTAKES $600: We often wax nostalgic about this young man who flew too close to the sun

Icarus

MYTHOLOGY $1600: Despite his dad's warnings, he flew too close to the sun; the wax on his wings melted & he plunged into the sea

Icarus

THAT'S A MYTHTAKE! $400: Daedalus fled to Sicily while this son flew too close to the sun & melted the wax in his wings

Icarus

THE SOLAR SYSTEM: Objects that pass closer to the sun than Mercury have been named for this mythological figure

Icarus

CLASSICS ON AUDIBLE $400: The wit & irony of this satiric novel are captured by David Hyde Pierce "As the common size of the natives is somewhat under six inches, so there is an exact proportion in all other animals"

Gulliver's Travels

OLD HAT $800: She put a little dent in a pillbox hat she wore on January 20, 1961, & suddenly dented pillboxes were all the rage

Jacqueline Kennedy

PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES $800: The LBJ Library sells CDs of the President's phone calls, like the following one with her LBJ: "...how we can carry on, if you give us a little strength." Woman: "But you know what I wanted to say to you about that letter? I know how rare a letter is in a president's handwriting."

Jacqueline Kennedy

CHINESE HISTORY $400: During his travels Marco Polo saw "Jasper and Chalcedony", this type of stone the Chinese carve into jewelry

Jade

THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS $7,100 (Daily Double): In 1890 he became president of the American Tobacco Company in Durham, North Carolina

James Buchanan Duke

SONGS FROM BROADWAY MUSICALS $1600: "Dulcinea" & "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)"

Man of La Mancha

ITALIAN EXPLORERS $800: In 1266 his father Niccolo & Uncle Maffeo became the first Europeans to reach what is now Beijing

Marco Polo

LESSEN PLAN $1200: To lessen his reliance on Chinese bureaucrats, Kublai Khan used foreigners like this man born in Venice in 1254

Marco Polo

MAN-AGRAMS $600: On his deathbed he admitted he didn't tell half of what he saw: A COOL ROMP

Marco Polo

MIDDLE AGE MEN $400: In the 1280s this Venetian served as an official for Kublai Khan in the city of Yangzhou

Marco Polo

SOJOURNER $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1271, this man left Venice with his dad and uncle & hit what is now Israel & Iran on his way to Shangdu, China, & the summer palace of Kublai Khan

Marco Polo

I THINK I'VE HEARD OF "M" $1200: This Italian excited the world by engineering wireless reporting of the 1899 America's Cup

Marconi

MOVIE QUEENS $400: Kirsten Dunst & Norma Shearer are among the many actresses who have played this queen of France

Marie Antoinette

ROYALTY ON FILM $1200: Kirsten Dunst in 2006 as this title queen

Marie Antoinette

IT'S A MYSTERY! $1000: "The Mystery of" her is Poe's sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"

Marie Roget

LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $1200: Murder victim Mary Rogers had her name Frenchified as this character in an Edgar Allan Poe mystery

Marie Roget

A JUDI DENCH FILM FESTIVAL $1600: In 2011 Dame Judi was Dame Sybil Thorndike opposite Michelle Williams as this actress

Marilyn Monroe

BIOGRAPHIES $800: Norman Mailer wrote a biography of this screen goddess, & the 2 of them shared the July 16, 1973 cover of Time

Marilyn Monroe

CITIZEN KANE $400: This actress whose career is caricatured in "Kane" was played by Kirsten Dunst in 2002's "The Cat's Meow"

Marion Davies

19th CENTURY TRANSPORTATION $400: This author wrote about traveling from Missouri to Nevada on a stagecoach he called a "cradle on wheels"

Mark Twain

AUTHORS & THEIR WORKS $1200: In 1867 he took a 5-month cruise to the Mediterranean; his newspaper articles sent back home became "The Innocents Abroad"

Mark Twain

DEATH SENTENCES $400: On rumors of his demise, he remarked, "The report of my death was an exaggeration"

Mark Twain

DWELLING ON THE PAST $400: We wonder if there were fences to paint on the 1874 completion of this author's Hartford home, now open to the public

Mark Twain

ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS $400: Richard Pryor was the first recipient of this prize for American humor that's named for a 19th century novelist

Mark Twain

EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' 'BOUT THEM $800: William Dean Howells called him "sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature"

Mark Twain

HERE'S FINAL JEOPARDY $200: On April 21, 1910 reports of this author's death were not greatly exaggerated

Mark Twain

HISTORIC HOMES $600: This writer's home in Hartford, Connecticut, where he lived beginning in 1874, is often called Steamboat Gothic

Mark Twain

LITERARY FROGS & TOADS $600: He gained early fame for a tale about a celebrated jumping frog in California

Mark Twain

LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $400: (Hi, this is Ryan Kristafer from News 8.) Harriet Beecher Stowe lived next door to this other great American author at the time he wrote "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"

Mark Twain

PALMISTRY $600: This 19th century skeptical humorist said a celebrity palmist "exposed my character... with humiliating accuracy"

Mark Twain

DISNEY SONGS $600: "You can bet before we're through, mister I'll make a man out of you", says a song from this China-set film

Mulan

FOLKLORE $100: In 1998 the story of this young Chinese lady became Disney's latest animated legend

Mulan

HISTORY $400: In 1999 China confirmed that this girl really existed & served in China's army 1,300 years ago

Mulan

MILITARY MOVIES $600: A Chinese girl joins the Imperial Army to fight the Huns in this 1998 Disney film

Mulan

MOVIE MUSICALS $400: "I'll Make a Man Out of You" & "The Huns Attack" are from this 1998 Disney musical

Mulan

SONGS FROM DISNEY FILMS $1000: "A Girl Worth Fighting For" & "True to Your Heart"

Mulan

WAR STARS $400: A young woman secretly takes her father's place in the Chinese army & becomes a great heroine in this Disney film

Mulan

FOR THE BIRDS $400: The name of this talkative bird seen here can be spelled with or without an "H" at the end

Myna/Mynah

SEATTLE MEANS BUSINESS $300: (Hi, I'm Jeff Bezos, founder & CEO of Amazon.com) Like many tech companies, Amazon.com is listed on this stock exchange -- symbol AMZN

NASDAQ

BEACH READING $1200: This character's journal for Oct. 26, 1659 says, "I walked about the shore almost all day... to fix my habitation"

Robinson Crusoe

BOOK LEARNIN' $1200: The full title of the novel that Daniel Defoe wrote about this guy is 68 words long; one key word of the 68--"Shipwreck"

Robinson Crusoe

DEFOE $400: Daniel Defoe was about 60 when he wrote of the "Adventures of" him & also of his "Further Adventures"

Robinson Crusoe

ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: In chapter 16 of this novel, Friday's father is rescued from cannibals

Robinson Crusoe

I AM CURIOUS ABOUT YELLOW $1200: Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for this lonely character, died at sea from yellow fever

Robinson Crusoe

LITERARY QUOTES $400: "One day" this Daniel Defore title character "was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's... foot on the shore"

Robinson Crusoe

LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $400: This stranded sailor never sees any trace of his shipmates except 3 hats, 1 cap & 2 mismatched shoes

Robinson Crusoe

MY NAME IS A TITLE $400: He is shipwrecked & lives on an island near the Orinoco River for 28 years

Robinson Crusoe

NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS $200: Part of the sub-title of the book about this man is he "lived eight and twenty years, all alone in an uninhabited island"

Robinson Crusoe

TARZAN REVIEW BOOKS $200: Title guy abandoned, alone for part of 28 years. On island, not jungle, but Tarzan relate

Robinson Crusoe

THE SOUTH PACIFIC $1200: This literary character was based on Alexander Selkirk, a sailor marooned on a South Pacific island for 4 years

Robinson Crusoe

THIS & THAT $400: It was on a Friday that this literary character gained a "faithful, loving, sincere servant"

Robinson Crusoe

AFRICAN LANGUAGES $800: Hausa, one of the few Chadic languages with a written form, switched from the Arabic alphabet to this one

Roman

A CATEGORY FULL OF HOLES $400: In case of rain when camping, always keep one of these South American cloaks with a hole in it ready for wear

a poncho

PALEOLITHIC $600: In 2008 the Lombok, a paleo-era type of this craft, navigated Indonesian waters for science

a raft

THE HIMALAYAS $400: Long, thick hair & a low number of sweat glands help this ox conserve heat in extreme temperatures

a yak

THET IZN'T SPELED RITE $800: Abismal, bisque, plebiscite

abysmal

Define demure

adjective (of a woman or her behavior) reserved, modest, and shy. "I shared a compartment with a child and his demure governess" synonyms: modest, unassuming, meek, mild, reserved, retiring, quiet, shy, bashful, diffident, reticent, timid, timorous, shrinking; More (of clothing) lending a modest appearance.

Define quixotic

adjective exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical. "a vast and perhaps quixotic project" synonyms: idealistic, romantic, visionary, utopian, extravagant, starry-eyed, unrealistic, unworldly; More

PETS $400: This type of parrot that bears the name of a South American river can get used to cooler temperatures

am Amazon parrot

GRAINS & STAPLES $600: Quinoa, like other non-cereal grains, is rich in lysine, one of these protein components

amino acids

HEALTH & NUTRITION $1000: Hailed as a supergrain, quinoa is considered a complete protein because it contains all 9 of the essential these

amino acids

SPELL CHECK HELL $400: Spell check keeps trying to change Antietam into this long-snouted insectivore that comes in giant & 3 other species

an anteater

SCIENCE CLASS $400: Emil Fischer must have been in a coffeehouse when he identified this stimulant as part of the purine group

caffeine

SHOWERS $600: A soap called Shower Shock contains & wakes you up with this stimulant before you've even had your joe

caffeine

STIMULANTS $100: This stimulant is considered the most commonly consumed drug in the U.S.

caffeine

TEA & SYMPATHY $400: Black tea contains this stimulant but I know you're sad it doesn't have more, so I got you a Jolt cola, with 160mg in 1 can

caffeine

TEA POTPOURRI $400: In 1827 theine was discovered in tea; it was later proven identical to this coffee stimulant

caffeine

TEA TIME $300: The longer you infuse your tea, the more of this stimulant winds up in your cup

caffeine

RELIGIOUS & SECULAR HOMOPHONES $3,000 (Daily Double): A religious code or a big gun

canon / cannon

CHEMISTRY $800: In 1947 Willard Libby perfected the archaeological dating method named for this isotope

carbon-14

DUDE, WHERE'S MY "CAR"? $1600: Isotope used to date archaeological specimens

carbon-14

IN THE TEENS $600: Like potassium-40, this radioactive isotope is used in archaeological dating

carbon-14

ARCHAEOLOGY $1600: In the 1940s chemist Willard Libby discovered this method of dating ancient artifacts

carbon-14 dating

ARCHAEOLOGY $600: This method of dating can tell the age of an artifact that is up to 40,000 years old

carbon-14 dating

HYPHENATED TERMS $3,200 (Daily Double): Willard Libby developed a method of this, used to determine the age of fossils & the like

carbon-dating

PREHISTORIC TIMES $600: In the late 1940s, Willard Libby developed this process for determining the age of a fossil

carbon-dating

AWESOME SAUCE $1000: This awesome pasta sauce contains eggs, cream, bits of bacon or prosciutto & grated cheese

carbonara

CAN WE TALK? $200: When having a casual conversation, you do this to "the rag" or "the fat"

chew

____ THE ____ $1,000 (Daily Double): To do this provides little sustenance for the amount of mastication, which may be why it refers to idle chatter

chew the fat

FAMOUS LASTS $800: Alexander VI (Borgia) was the last Pope to acknowledge having them

children

CHEWING THE "FAT" $1600: Abbreviated CFS, this medical condition is called "the thief of vitality"

chronic fatigue syndrome

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $1200: The Khoisan languages are rare in that they employ these sounds as consonants

clicks

PLANET EARTH $1000: Peat is the first stage in the transformation of vegetable matter into this fuel

coal

SCIENCE $200: The main types of this fuel are peat, lignite, bituminous & anthracite

coal

ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR $400: You're in good company if you know that Co is the symbol for this metal used in making alloys

cobalt

STATE THE CHEMICAL ELEMENT $400: Colorado

cobalt

WORDS IN THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS $1600: This synonym for "hallow" also means to turn bread & wine into the Eucharist

consecrate

Define tao

noun (in Chinese philosophy) the absolute principle underlying the universe, combining within itself the principles of yin and yang and signifying the way, or code of behavior, that is in harmony with the natural order. The interpretation of Tao in the Tao-te-Ching developed into the philosophical religion of Taoism. crossword clue: Living-in-harmony principle answer: tao

Define ollie

noun 1. (in skateboarding and snowboarding) a jump performed without the aid of a takeoff ramp, executed by pushing the back foot down on the tail of the board, bringing the board off the ground. verb 1. perform an ollie.

Define dame

noun 1. (in the UK) the title given to a woman equivalent to the rank of knight. 2. INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN a woman.

Define nebula

noun 1. ASTRONOMY a cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette against other luminous matter. 2. MEDICINE a clouded spot on the cornea causing defective vision.

GENEALOGY GLOSSARY $800: 2 couples out for the evening, or a genealogical reference using both the Gregorian & Julian calendars

double date

EAT IT, BEAT IT OR TREAT IT $2000: Quinoa

eat it

EAT IT, WEAR IT OR PLAY IT $400: Prosciutto

eat it

IF JUDD APATOW ADAPTED THE CLASSICS $1600: Seth Rogen's expression was priceless when Thyestes is tragically tricked into doing this to his sons

eating them

DOMAIN EXTENSIONS $200: The website vanderbilt.this has info to help you get a degree

edu

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $100: Muons, pions & electrons are among particles classified as these, my dear Watson

elementary

IT'S THE "E"-CONOMY $1000: It takes "work" to remember that Keynes' major opus is "The General Theory of" this, "Interest and Money"

employment

LET'S GET SCIENC"E" $1200: The adrenal & the thyroid are among these glands that regulate your body's processes by secreting hormones

endocrine

13-LETTER WORDS $2000: This branch of medicine deals with diseases of such glands as the thyroid & pancreas

endocrinology

BIOLOGY CLASS $600: It's the branch of biology that deals with glands such as the pituitary & thyroid

endocrinology

TRADITIONAL EASTERN MEDICINE $2000: Once in weight-loss products, ma huang is the Chinese name for this herbal stimulant used to treat asthma

ephedra

STIMULANTS $500: Also called adrenaline, this hormone is used to restore heart rhythm in cardiac arrest

epinephrine

WORDS IN THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS $400: The first sentence ends, "created" this way

equal

REMBRANDT $1,600 (Daily Double): In addition to his paintings, Rembrandt also did about 300 of these prints from metal plates; wanna see 'em?

etchings

ETERNAL $400: In November 1963 an Army engineer rigged a luau lamp with a propane line to make this for President Kennedy's grave

eternal flame

OUT OF THIS WORLD $1000: Astronomer believe supernovas cause bursts of these rays, among the most powerful events in the universe

gamma rays

A QUIET EVENING AT HOME $800: Researching the family tree, Grandpa's back on the Swenson family forum on the website called this -alogy.com

genealogy

ANTHROPOLO-"G" $400: It's the study of family origins, lineage & history

genealogy

GRAB BAG $1000: ancestry.com is one of the better-known websites for people interested in this 9-letter hobby

genealogy

HOBBY TIME $400: Find out if Great Aunt Agatha was really a spy when you take up this hobby, the study of family lineage

genealogy

IN THE BOY SCOUT HANDBOOK $1200: Merit badge types include Indian lore, dentistry, motorboating & this, making a record of one's ancestry

genealogy

ESOTERICA $400: The Pleistocene Epoch was the last time about 1/3 of the Earth's land surface was covered by these

glaciers

PREHISTORIC TIMES $300: In the Pleistocene epoch, these gouged at gorges in river valleys; when they melted, rocks & soil were left

glaciers

ROCKS OF AGES $400: The Pleistocene Epoch covered much of America with til, debris left by this as it advanced & retreated

glaciers

MEDICAL ETYMOLOGY $1600: The name of this enlargement of the thyroid gland goes back to the Latin word for "throat" or "gullet"

goiter

THEY MEAN BUSINESS! $400: 19th century robber baron Jay Gould caused the Black Friday panic with his speculation on this commodity

gold

THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART $200: Francesco Guardi's "View of the Rialto" includes lots of these Venetian boats

gondolas

SIMILES $2000: This 3-word simile is also the title of a Joseph Heller novel; the hero's first name is Bruce

good as gold

EAT WELL $400: Some of the recommended "whole" types of this food pyramid product are quinoa, millet, sorghum & barley

grains

GENEALOGY $2000: Grave robbing is frowned upon; this, transferring inscriptions & artwork with a wax crayon, is fine

grave rubbing

"HAB" A CLUE $7,000 (Daily Double): The name of this early species in the genus Homo means "handy" in Latin

habilis

EDIBLE COMMON BONDS $800: Kentucky, prosciutto, Westphalian

ham

FOOD & DRINK $400: Prosciutto is Italian for this meat, especially the Parma kind

ham

CULINARY COMMON BONDS $500: Westphalian, Bayonne, prosciutto

hams

TIME OF THE CAVEMAN $400: The name of Homo habilis, a crude tool user from 1.5 million years ago, means this; got any odd jobs?

handy man

RHYMING TERMS $800: In his play "Geneva", George Bernard Shaw used this hyphenated term for illicit or surreptitious sexual activity

hanky-panky

REMEMBERING TED KENNEDY $13,800 (Daily Double): Kennedy called this the cause of his life & was hoping to see a reform bill passed before he died

health care

BOTANY $100 (Daily Double): Also known as ling, this low evergreen shrub grows in the moors of Britain & is found in peat bogs

heather

DESERVES AN "ITHER" $200: Adverb meaning "to where I am"; it often precedes "and yon"

hither hither and yon idiom Definition of hither and yon old-fashioned + literary : here and there : many different places She has been very busy, traveling hither and yon.

POETRY $400: In a 1916 poem Edgar Guest wrote, "It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it" one of these

home

OXFORD $400: The ceremony called Encaenia awards this type of degree, as in 2000 to Judi Dench

honorary degree

DISEASES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1200: Graves' disease results in the thyroid's over-production of these & strikes women more often than men

hormones

AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,500 (Daily Double): C. Auguste Dupin is the hero of Edgar Allan Poe's first detective story, "The Murders" here

in the Rue Morgue

EDGAR ALLAN POE-POURRI $1,800 (Daily Double): In the world's first detective story, C. Auguste Dupin solves the title crimes in "The Murders" here

in the Rue Morgue

SCIENCE $100: Magnetism occurs most strongly in 3 elements: nickel, cobalt & this

iron

THE PERIODIC TABLE $1200: The 3 naturally occurring magnetic elements are cobalt, nickel & this one

iron

THE ELEMENTS $800: 1 of only 3 naturally occurring strongly magnetic elements

iron (nickel & cobalt)

Define minuet

noun 1. a slow, stately ballroom dance for two in triple time, popular especially in the 18th century. verb 1. dance a minuet. Crossword clue: Minuet movement Answer: step

Define tycoon

noun 1. a wealthy, powerful person in business or industry. "a newspaper tycoon" synonyms: magnate, mogul, industrialist, businessman, financier, entrepreneur, captain of industry, dealmaker, millionaire, multimillionaire, merchant prince; informalbig shot, bigwig, honcho, supremo, big wheel, kahuna, gazillionaire; derogatoryfat cat, robber baron "a newspaper tycoon" 2. a title applied by foreigners to the shogun of Japan in power between 1857 and 1868.

FOOD $500 (Daily Double): This ham is made from pigs fed the whey left over from making parmigiano cheese

prosciutto

GIVE A FIG $1000: How about a nice pizza with fig & this Parma ham?

prosciutto

HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $600: Like a bold, impulsive quest or a man of La Mancha (26 points)

quixotic

FASHION ABBREV. $200: Clothes that are mass-produced in standard sizes are RTW, this

ready to wear

"R" $1200: Clothing options include made-to-measure, made-to-order & this hyphenated phrase that means "off-the-rack"

ready-to-wear

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

ready-to-wear

FASHION $400: In French, this clothing style or line is called pret-a-porter

ready-to-wear

U.S. HISTORY $600: During WWI James Montgomery Flagg produced a series of about 45 posters for this purpose

recruiting for the military

GRAINS $400: Basmati, an aromatic type of this grain, is grown in the foothills of the Himalayas & is especially popular in India

rice

THE GILDED AGE $400: An 1874 congressional report on Vanderbilt railroad interests used this word before baron

robber

MY PRECIOUS $1000: Sur la Table sells the Spanish Mancha-Oro brand of this spice for almost $500 an ounce

saffron

"S"MORGASBORD $2000: This Italian dish that contains slices of veal & prosciutto sounds like a Cirque du Soleil show

saltimbocca

"SALT" $2000: From Italian for "jump into the mouth", it's a specialty with sliced veal & prosciutto

saltimbocca

GEOLOGY $1200: So much water was frozen in the Pleistocene epoch glaciers that this was at least 330 feet lower than today

sea level

5-LETTER BIRDS $400: This largest type of parrot can be tamed, but is not a particularly good talker

macaw

THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN MY DICTIONARY $200: This synonym for "giant" is an extinct woolly critter of the Pleistocene epoch

mammoth

SOUNDS THE SAME TO ME $2000: One side in an athletic contest, or a word meaning to abound

team/teem

RHYME SCHEME $1000: To swarm with a large number of moving, writhing things

teem

ARCHAEOLOGY $400: A hill marking the site of an ancient city, it's found in the names of some Middle East cities, including one of Israel's largest

tel

CROSSWORD CLUES "T" $800: Revealing, like Poe's heart (4-4)

tell-tale

NAMED FOR A PLACE $1000: For contributions from Oak Ridge Lab & Vanderbilt Univ., element no. 117, a superheavy halogen, has been named this

tennessine

GREECE $300: A limestone hill in the southwest of Athens, it houses the temple of Athena Nike

the Acropolis

IT'S ALL "APPLE" SAUCE $200: More prominent in men, it's a thyroid cartilage projection of the larynx

the Adam's apple

LIVED BY THE SEA $2000: A good place to play Marco Polo is in this sea that surrounds Marco Polo's city of birth

the Adriatic

ENDS IN "TU" $1600: This group of African languages that has more than 50 million speakers is said to have originated in Cameroon

the Bantu languages

THE BLUE & THE GRAY $1000: After Antietam, Lee withdrew into Virginia & whupped Burnside at this Dec. 13, 1862 battle

the Battle of Fredericksburg

HISTORY IN EUROPE $800: Winston Churchill said this, AKA the Battle of the Ardennes, was the greatest American battle of World War II

the Battle of the Bulge

JOHNNY, TELL THEM WHAT THEY'VE WON $800: You've beaten the Germans in this battle, their last offensive in the west during WWII, & the Ardennes is now yours to keep

the Battle of the Bulge

KEN BURNS DOCUMENTARIES $800: (Ken trudges through this next clue.) In "The War", my documentary about World War II, soldiers tell the harrowing story of this German offensive that took place in the frozen Ardennes forest

the Battle of the Bulge

MEDAL OF HONOR CITATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Sgt. Francis Currey, for actions at Malmedy, Belgium, Dec. 21, 1944, during this battle

the Battle of the Bulge

MILITARY HISTORY $2,600 (Daily Double): The shape of the area indicated here gave this battle its name

the Battle of the Bulge

ON BOXING DAY $1000: On Dec. 26, 1944 Patton's Third Army relieved Bastogne during this battle

the Battle of the Bulge

PULLING RANK $800: In late 1944 Hitler overruled his staff & ordered a last-ditch attack that became this "protruding" battle

the Battle of the Bulge

THE COLD WARS $2,000 (Daily Double): Lasting from December 16, 1944 to January 16, 1945, this critical WWII battle was fought in freezing mist & snow

the Battle of the Bulge

THE DAYS OF WORLD WAR II $800: This battle & German counterattack began on December 16, 1944

the Battle of the Bulge

WON THE BATTLE $400: The Allies won this battle, the last Nazi offensive in the West during WWII

the Battle of the Bulge

WORLD WAR II $1600: This heavy German offensive that began on December 16, 1944 took the Americans by surprise

the Battle of the Bulge

____ OF THE ____ $400: It was fought in the Ardennes Forest in December 1944, & by dieters everyday

the Battle of the Bulge

"BEN" THERE $400: If you follow all 1,560 miles of the Ganges from its source in the Himalayas, you'll end up in this bay

the Bay of Bengal

WILDLIFE $400: Bison may have reached America during the Pleistocene epoch via a land bridge across what's now this strait

the Bering Strait

"BIG" STUFF $1600: In France this feature of the night sky is known as "le casserole"

the Big Dipper

REACH FOR THE STARS $1600: Mizar is the middle star in its handle

the Big Dipper

STARS & CONSTELLATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Though not actually seen in that part of the sky, in Van Gogh's "Starry Night over the Rhone", you can clearly see this famous grouping, including Merak

the Big Dipper

THINGS $1600: An imaginary line extends north from the 2 stars at the front of the "cup" of this star group and points to Polaris

the Big Dipper

THE POPE-ARAZZI $400: Raphael snapped a candid of Julius II, who became pope through a bargain with Cesare of this family

the Borgias

WORLD HISTORY $1200: In 1492 Rodrigo of this family bribed his way to the papacy as Alexander VI

the Borgias

HOME $2000: After the original wooden home burned down, Cornelius Vanderbilt built this Rhode Island mansion

the Breakers

MORE STATELY MANSIONS $2000: This 70-room palazzo in Newport, Rhode Island was the Vanderbilts' summer cottage

the Breakers

VENICE, AT LAST $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Venice.) It was Lord Byron who wrote, "I stood in Venice on" this bridge, "A palace and a prison on each hand"

the Bridge of Sighs

ARCHAEOLOGY $800: A 2015 discovery of a Plains Indian site included a kind of mini-Stonehenge of these animals' bones

the Buffalo

GENEALOGY $400: One of the best resources for family history is this, the latest released with personal data being the 1940 one

the Census

GENEALOGY GLOSSARY $1000: A PAF, or personal ancestral file, is software from this church that's very into genealogy

the Church of Latter-day Saints

TENNESSEE HISTORY $800: A donation of $1 million in 1873 helped establish Vanderbilt University, whose sports teams sail with this name

the Commodores

WHO IS OUR LEADER? $200: British prime minister Theresa May is not only leader of the U.K., but this political party as well

the Conservative Party

YOU'VE GOT CHARACTER! $1600: Being sewn into a shroud & tossed into the sea doesn't stop this Dumas title character from having his revenge

the Count of Monte Cristo

"C" IN SCIENCE $2000: This early form of Homo sapiens coexisted with Neanderthals, but there is little evidence of interbreeding

the Cro-Magnon

CLOSE-UP $1200: Named for an area of France, he was the first type of human to have a strong chin

the Cro-Magnon man

CAPITAL RIVERS $2000: Bratislava

the Danube

SLOVENIA & SLOVAKIA $600: We'll be blue if you don't know Slovakia's capital of Bratislava lies on this river, 35 miles east of Vienna

the Danube

THE APOLLO $1200: Bratislava's Apollo Bridge spans this lengthy European river

the Danube

GENEALOGY $800: If your last name is Adams or Hamilton, you can try to track your ancestors through the DAR, this group

the Daughters of the American Revolution

WE LOVE PLANET EARTH $800: This period, the "age of fishes", was named for a fossil-rich part of southwest England

the Devonian Period

COUNTRIES WITH FEWER THAN 1 MILLION PEOPLE $400: The 750,000 people of Bhutan live in these mountains, which include the 24,800-foot Gangkar Puensum

the Himalayas

DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE! $1200: The bar-headed goose's migration includes flying over this mountain range at altitudes exceeding 23,000'

the Himalayas

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

the Himalayas

GEOLOGY $200: This mountain system was formed by the Eurasian & Indian tectonic plates ramming into each other

the Himalayas

IT'S JUST GORGE-OUS $400: Once an important trade route, the Kali Gandaki Gorge lies between Dhaulagiri & Annapurna--two peaks in this range

the Himalayas

LEXICON VALLEY $800: From Hindi for "valley", a dhoon is a type of valley found at the foot of these great mountains

the Himalayas

PEAKS & VALLEYS $800: Among the world's deepest, Nepal's Kali Gandaki River Valley lies between 2 26,000-foot peaks in this range

the Himalayas

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

the Himalayas

WORLD PIECE $800: This system stretches west to east from Nanga Parbat to Namcha Barwa

the Himalayas

WORLD WAR II $1200: Allied pilots flew a supply route to China called "The Hump" over these mountains

the Himalayas

ENCYCLOPEDIA TITANICA $1000: The name of this mountain range about 500 miles long & reaching 25,000 feet high means "Indian Killer"

the Hindu Kush

CABLE NETWORKS $200: "Gettysburg" & "God, Guns & Automobiles"

the History Channel

THAT '70s TEAM $400: In 1972 Jerry West, Happy Hairston & Pat Riley (yes, that Pat Riley) ran the floor for this team

the Lakers

SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS $1200: Fossil finds in Africa by this husband & wife established Homo habilis as an ancestor of modern man

the Leakeys

STARS & CONSTELLATIONS $600: This familiar figure forms almost the entire constellation of Ursa Minor, the Lesser Bear

the Little Dipper

GUYS, CAPITALISM WORKS! $1200: The 1930s pitted free market fan F.A. Hayek at the LSE, this school, vs. Cambridge's pro-government action J.M. Keynes

the London School of Economics

LAKES & RIVERS $2000: Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada, 2 degrees above the Arctic Circle, lies on this river's delta

the MacKenzie River

1980s BESTSELLERS $2000: The top fiction book of 1985 was Jean Auel's novel about these Ice Age "Hunters"

the Mammoth Hunters

THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG $600: For capturing the flag of the 19th Virginia regiment, Mass. Corporal Joseph de Castro earned this decoration

the Medal of Honor

ITALIAN HISTORY $600: Machiavelli was tortured on the rack for suspicion of trying to overthrow this Florentine family

the Medicis

EUROPE, AGES AGO $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew chops up a fact for us at the Lejre Archaeological Research Center, Denmark.) The Stone Age is divided into three parts, depending on the sophistication of the tools; these antler axes tell us we're in this middle part

the Mesolithic

SCIENCE $1200: Bears appeared during this epoch right before the Pliocene

the Miocene

"MIS"QUOTES $200: Mark Twain wrote about "the magnificent" this river "rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun"

the Mississippi

FAMOUS NAMES $400: Ella Flagg Young was the first woman president of this organization abbreviated NEA

the National Education Association

PREHISTORIC TIMES $500: This, the "New Stone" Age, saw man settle in villages & turn to agriculture

the Neolithic Age

REMBRANDT $400: Rembrandt was born in Leiden in this country in 1606

the Netherlands

EXTRAORDINARY DENTITION $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a skull at the Smithsonian's Hall of Human Origins.) When Mary Leakey discovered Paranthropus boisei in 1959, her husband Louis saw the heavy teeth & jaws & nicknamed the species this man, like the title character of a Tchaikovsky ballet

the Nutcracker

EUROPEANA $1200: Marcel Proust is buried in this vast Parisian cemetery

the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery

2 MILLION $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Greek for "most recent", this epoch began about 2 million years ago & saw the 1st appearance of humans

the Pleistocene

ALASKA'S GLACIERS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us the ice at Margerie Glacier in Alaska.) Today, glaciers cover 11% of the world's surface; 2.6 million years ago during this epoch, they covered 30%.

the Pleistocene

GEOLOGY $1600: This geologic epoch that ended about 11,000 years ago included numerous ice ages

the Pleistocene

GEOLOGY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew) The glaciers here in Alaska are remnants of the last Ice Age, which ended about 11,500 years ago during this epoch

the Pleistocene

THE EARLY EARTH $1600: Lasting from about 2,011,000 to 11,000 B.C., this epoch featured glaciation cycles & a farewell to the mammoth

the Pleistocene

WAKING THE BABY MAMMOTH $2000: (Paleontologist Dan Fisher delivers the clue) When Lyuba was transported for testing, researchers were required to wear haz-mat suits as protection from viruses or pathogens from this geologic epoch, marked by a succession of ice ages

the Pleistocene epoch

VI PACK $1200: Rodrigo Borgia became Alexander VI in this post in 1492

the Pope

VICTOR $1600: The Battle of Antietam: The Army of this river

the Potomac

"P"EOPLE OF THE BIBLE $800: Seen here, his return was the subject of a late, great Rembrandt

the Prodigal Son

THE BORGIAS $400: Rodrigo Borgia was a corrupt pope whose spiritual neglect of the Church added to the development of this Reformation

the Protestant Reformation

BALL $800: No one survives a masked ball in Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Masque of" this colorful pestilence

the Red Death

DYNASTIES $500: "All of Me" director Carl begat "Stand by Me" director Rob

the Reiners

BRIDGES $1000: Antonio Da Ponte, whose name means "bridge" designed this Venetian bridge known for its boutiques

the Rialto

DEATH IN VENICE $1600: Before dying in Venice, Canaletto painted scenic views of the city for tourists, like the one of this bridge seen here

the Rialto

SHAKESPEARE $800: In Venice you may find the answer to the "Merchant Of Venice" question "What news on?" this bridge

the Rialto

WEBCAMS $1000: Looking at a webcam, you can always answer the question in "The Merchant of Venice", "what news on" this bridge?

the Rialto

WORKS OF THE BARD $2000: Shylock asks Bassanio, "What news on" this commercial heart of Venice?

the Rialto

CLASSICAL FAVORITES $400: Many of the tunes of Brahms' "Hungarian Dances" are not so much Hungarian as from this itinerant people

the Roma (or Gypsies)

FICTION-ALE $400: A blue ale is named for this warrior race related to Vulcans

the Romulans

SCI-FI TV: One of the twin planets this alien race called home was Remus

the Romulans

STAR TREK $2000: In the original series, Mr. Spock suggests this race, the bad guys in the 2009 movie, is an offshoot of his Vulcan race

the Romulans

GLOBE TROTTIN' $1000: Roughly the size of the Yukon, this largest ice shelf has served as a gateway to exploration of Antarctica

the Ross Ice Shelf

ROADS SCHOLAR $1600: A fictional street in Paris, it's the location of murders in an 1841 Edgar Allan Poe tale

the Rue Morgue

SERVING THE STATE DINNER $2,000 (Daily Double): Ulysses Grant's dinner for King Kalakaua of these islands (including Hawaii) likely didn't include the food of that name

the Sandwich Islands

GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY $1600: Before midnight, the stage ran red as Ethan Hawke opened as this tragic thane in 2013

the Scottish Play (or Macbeth)

THE WALT DISNEY ARCHIVES $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Walt Disney Archives in Burbank, CA.) A fictional ring once owned by Lucrezia Borgia that bore the inscription "in canis corpore transmuto" turns Tommy Kirk into this title canine

the Shaggy Dog

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

the Shannon

GET SOME CULTURE $1200: The Natufian culture of ancient Palestine dates to circa 9000 B.C.--the Mesolithic or Middle this age

the Stone Age

STONES $200: It's divided into Paleolithic, Mesolithic & Neolithic

the Stone Age

TIME SPANS $200: The Mesolithic Period is part of the Stone this

the Stone Age

ANATOMY $1600: Follicular cells in this gland secrete a hormone called thyroxine

the Thyroid

LAKES & RIVERS $600: Mosul, one of Iraq's largest cities, lies on the west bank of this river

the Tigris

MYTHOLOGY $300: With Athena's help, Epeius built this object in which the Greeks hid

the Trojan Horse

FAMOUS NAMES $1000: The Rhode Island home called "The Breakers" was built by Cornelius II of this well-off family

the Vanderbilts

HOME SWEET HOME $1600: In 1889 a member of this family began building a little country home in N.C., the 250-room Biltmore House

the Vanderbilts

STAYING AT HOME $1000: Get lost in the 250-room North Carolina mansion known as Biltmore that was once home to members of this family

the Vanderbilts

GIVING YOU THE BUSINESS $800: Jeff Bezos recently made the news when he purchased this newspaper for $250 million

the Washington Post

BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS $800: In 2015, this museum, named for the former Gertrude Vanderbilt, moved to a new building with a cantilevered entrance

the Whitney Museum of American Art

CANADIAN BODIES OF WATER $400: In Canada, this river passes through Whitehorse & Dawson before flowing into Alaska on its route to the Bering Sea

the Yukon

COLD PLACES $800: Snag, in this Canadian territory famed for its gold rush, hit 82 below in 1947... without wind chill

the Yukon

COLD WORLD OUT THERE $800: Snag, in this Canadian territory, had a population of about 10 on a -81 day in February 1947

the Yukon

RIVERS $2000: Whitehorse is on this river

the Yukon

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

the Yukon

LET'S GO TO ALASKA $800: Alaska's longest river, it rises in Canada & then winds 1,200 miles cross the state, emptying into Norton Sound

the Yukon River

U.S. RIVERS $1200: This river that runs east-west, bisecting Alaska, is known for the Chinook salmon that spawn in its creeks

the Yukon River

WHERE "YU" GOIN'? $200: Time to go rafting down this Alaskan-Canadian waterway that empties into the Bering Sea

the Yukon River

POPE-POURRI $1,000 (Daily Double): Clement VII, born into this powerful family, was raised by his uncle Lorenzo the Magnificent

the de' Medicis

ARCHAEOLOGY $400: Bones dating from Mesolithic times indicate that this wolf relative was the first domesticated animal

the dog

YOUR BODY HAS A SYSTEM $2000: The pituitary & thyroid glands are in this system that regulates body processes by secreting hormones

the endocrine system

ARCHAEOLOGY $600: Using traditional archaeology & 3D tech, scientists reconstructed a house in Pompeii as it looked before this 79 A.D. event

the eruption of Mount Vesuvius

THE VILLAGE IDIOM $800: Want conversation? At the barbershop you'll find someone ready to sit around & "chew" this

the fat

LET'S GO CRUISING $1000: Term for a woman who christens a cruise ship, like Kim Cattral for Norwegian Dawn & Judi Dench for Carnival Legend

the godmother

FEEL THE ROBERT BURNS! $800: At "Burns Night" dinners, one of these puddings is brought in on a platter & ceremonially sliced

the haggis

DANCE $800: The basic floor pattern of this elegant 17th c. French court dance evolved to resemble the letter Z

the minuet

DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION $600: The name of this stately dance popular in the 17th & 18th centuries is from the French for "small"

the minuet

I HEAR A SYMPHONY $800: Popularized at Louis XIV's Court, this dance, from the French for "small", is often the third movement in symphonies

the minuet

JOURNALING JOURNEYERS $1600: John Hanning Speke's diary has been published as "Journal of the Discovery of" this (turns out it's Lake Victoria)

the origin (or source) of the Nile Crossword Clue: River that drains Lake Victoria Answer: Nile

MYTHICAL CREATURES $800: Marco Polo told us of this 3-letter bird that could carry an elephant in its claws

the roc

IT'S YOUR BODY $1600: The parotid glands, which swell in cases of mumps, are the largest of these glands vital to eating & digestion

the salivary glands

IF JUDD APATOW ADAPTED THE CLASSICS $1200: These goaty creatures who form the chorus of Euripides' "Cyclops" sure make a lot of body part jokes

the satyrs

EARLY MAN $2000: Australopithecus has the foramen magnum, the hole in the skull for this, facing down rather than back as it did earlier

the spinal column

TAKE ME TO THE BALLET! $1200: I hear there's a heavenly body in "Icarus": it's the ballerina who plays this heavenly body

the sun

HUMAN EVOLUTION $800: From the size of these body parts, Australopithecus boisei became known as "Nutcracker Man"

the teeth

THE HUMAN BODY $2000: T cells, part of the immune system, are so named for being derived from this gland

the thymus gland

"ROID" RAGE $1600: The gland where you might get a goiter

the thyroid

PHYSIOLOGY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue:) To do a neck check, look in the mirror and take a sip of water. A bulge below the Adam's apple but above the collarbone could mean this gland is swollen and not functioning normally

the thyroid

SYMPTOMS $1000: Chronic fatigue & sensitivity to cold are symptoms that this endocrine gland in the neck is underactive

the thyroid gland

OUR BODIES $1000: The thyroid gland has 2 lobes, one on each side of this tube

the trachea

THEN WE CAN DIG IT $200: The neolithic folk of Catal Huyuk, Turkey exposed their dead to the vultures, then put these remains under their beds

their bones

PLAY REVIVALS $1,000 (Daily Double): Ethan Hawke appeared in a 1992 production of this Chekhov play with another bird in its name

"The Seagull"

AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: The narrator of this Poe story says, "The disease had sharpened my senses... Above all was the sense of hearing acute"

"The Tell-Tale Heart"

GEOGRAPHY $400: Besides Budapest, 1 of the 3 national capitals located on the Danube River

Belgrade, Bratislava, & Vienna

A PREQUEL TO WHICH MOVIE? $400: "The Somewhat Impressive Six"--to this 1960 tale

The Magnificent Seven

ACTORS & ACTRESSES $100: James Coburn shot to fame in 1960 as part of this title film septet

The Magnificent Seven

AMERICAN MOVIE REMAKES $400: "The Seven Samurai"

The Magnificent Seven

AT THE MOVIES $200: In a popular 1960 western, Yul Brynner & Charles Bronson are 2 of these title defenders of a Mexican town

The Magnificent Seven

FOREIGN FILMS $200: "The Seven Samurai" became this title group in a 1960 U.S. film

The Magnificent Seven

LUCKY 7 $1200: Charles Bronson & Steve McQueen were 2 of this title western-film heptad

The Magnificent Seven

MOVIE REMAKES $3,000 (Daily Double): Yul definitely know this 1960 remade version of "The Seven Samurai"

The Magnificent Seven

THE ACADEMY AWARDS $300: Academy listings have "The Seven Samurai" nominated under this name, what it was first titled for the U.S.

The Magnificent Seven

WESTERN FILMS $1000: Chris, Vin, Chico, Harry, O'Reilly, Lee & Britt

The Magnificent Seven

WESTERNS $800: 4 of the members of this title group, including James Coburn, die in the film's big gunfight

The Magnificent Seven

SHAKESPEARE TITLES IN OTHER WORDS $1000: "Rialto Retailer"

The Merchant of Venice

MARCO $2000: "The Travels of Marco Polo" is also known by this numerical title

The Million

EDGAR ALLAN POE $1200: These Poe "Murders" are often cited as the world's first detective story

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

POTENT POE‑TABLES $1600: The violent killings of an old woman & her daughter are the title crimes of this detective story

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

PUBLISHED FIRST $200: "The Sign of the Four", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

LITERARY POTPOURRI $1200: Gore Vidal feuded with Norman Mailer but admitted that this first Mailer book was the big one among World War II novels

The Naked and the Dead

LIVRES EN FRANCAIS $1200: Norman Mailer: "Les Nus Et Les Morts"

The Naked and the Dead

NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II $2000: 50 years after he wrote it, Norman Mailer said he was still fond of this novel: "It has virtues, it has faults"

The Naked and the Dead

ART $1000: This 1642 masterpiece by Rembrandt portrays members of an Amsterdam civic militia company

The Night Watch

CAPTAINS $800: This Rembrandt painting is a group portrait of the company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq

The Night Watch

WRITING FOR TV $400: "A Benihana Christmas" by Jennifer Celotta had this comedy's Michael Scott canceling the holiday itself

The Office

FREQUENTLY BANNED BOOKS $800: "The Perks of Being" this by Steven Chbosky became an Emma Watson film & got itself banned

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

LITERARY QUOTES $2,000 (Daily Double): This Edgar Allan Poe short story ends, "The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies"

The Pit and the Pendulum

CLASSIC NOVELS $1600: This autobiographical 1916 novel by James Joyce portrays the early years of Stephen Dedalus

The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

WORLD LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): The rises to power of Cesare Borgia & Francesco Sforza, among others, are related in this 1513 work

The Prince

INITIALITERATURE $400: "T.P.A.T.P." by Mark Twain

The Prince and the Pauper

POETS & POETRY $400: The first stanza of this poem mentions "Some visitor... tapping at my chamber door--only this and nothing more"

The Raven

BACK TO SCHOOL $200: Noah Webster's studies at Yale were interrupted by this war, but he did go back to graduate

The Revolutionary War

DESCRIBING THE NOVEL $1000: Cormac McCarthy bums us out (again); a boy & his dad's super-depressing journey through a post-apocalyptic U.S.A.

The Road

NOVELS $1000: A father & son try to avoid marauding cannibals on their trek in this Cormac McCarthy novel

The Road

THE CHARACTER SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS $2000: Viggo Mortensen was simply "The Man" in this 2009 Cormac McCarthy post-apocalyptic film adaptation

The Road

YOUNG PEOPLE IN BOOKS $2000: "The Boy" & his dad "The Man" navigate a terrible world in this novel by Cormac McCarthy

The Road

"7" MOVIES $500: "The Magnificent 7" was based on this 1954 Japanese film

The Seven Samurai

"SEVEN"s $600: This Akira Kurosawa film was the basis for the 1960 classic western "The Magnificent Seven"

The Seven Samurai

FICTIONAL BOOKS $400: On this show, "The Itchy & Scratchy Movie" was novelized by Norman Mailer

The Simpsons

TRUE STORY $1000: Peter Matthiessen's memoir of hiking in the Himalayas has this title, also a rare feline of that region

The Snow Leopard

LITERARY TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $400: A shipwrecked clan from a neutral country meets up with a shipwrecked 18th century character

The Swiss Family Robinson Crusoe

BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: The narrator of this Poe story says, "above all was the sense of hearing acute"

The Tell-Tale Heart

I HAVEN'T READ POE, BUT... $1000: It's a valentine that contains the story of a Swiss archer

The Tell-Tale Heart

SHORT FICTION $200: "A low, dull quick sound... such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton" is from this Poe story

The Tell-Tale Heart

SHORT STORIES $1,000 (Daily Double): This Poe story mentions "a low, dull, quick sound... as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton"

The Tell-Tale Heart

THE PEN IS MIGHTIER $800: Chapter IX of this Dumas novel is "D'Artagnan Takes Command"

The Three Musketeers

THE BORGIAS $3,000 (Daily Double): Sibling to Lucrezia & Cesare & equally treacherous, Juan Borgia was murdered in 1497, his body found in this river

The Tiber

MUSEUMS: Its museums include the Borgia Apartments, the Etruscan Museum & the Raphael Rooms

The Vatican

BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Norman Mailer was one of the founders of this alternative NYC tabloid in 1955

The Village Voice

MOVIE GROUPS $1600: This title group was led by William Holden as Pike Bishop

The Wild Bunch

DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $800: "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" (2005)

Judd Apatow

FREAKS AND GEEKS ALUMS $2000: This "Freaks and Geeks" writer penned "Knocked Up", in which his wife Leslie Mann co-starred

Judd Apatow

I DIRECTED MY WIFE IN THAT FILM $1200: Leslie Mann in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin"

Judd Apatow

THE PRODUCERS $1600: "Knocked Up", "Superbad"

Judd Apatow

BRITCOMS $800: This Oscar-winning dame has had sitcom success too, starring in "As Time Goes By" & "A Fine Romance"

Judi Dench

BROADWAY ROLES $400: In 2002 this "Notes on a Scandal" dame went "Into the Woods" as Giant (well, her recorded voice did, anyway)

Judi Dench

CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $600: In the preface to "Behind the Scenes", she says of her role as "M", I "was not...pleased when they killed me off in 'Skyfall'"

Judi Dench

GREAT DAMES $1600: This actress now portrays James Bond's M; she plays queens pretty well, too

Judi Dench

JUDY, JUDI, JUDIE $1000: Talk about quality time; though only onscreen for 8 minutes, this dame won an Oscar for "Shakespeare in Love"

Judi Dench

M $800: 1995's "Goldeneye" was her first outing as M

Judi Dench

MOVIE QUEENS $2000: This actress received her first of 7 Oscar nominations for playing Queen Victoria in 1997's "Mrs. Brown"

Judi Dench

ONE FACT AMONG THE FALSE GOSSIP $800: This dame is really from Des Moines! Between 1998 & 2007, this dame got 6 Oscar noms! This dame is having Kid Rock's love child!

Judi Dench

SCREEN QUEENS $1200: She's the dame who played Queen Victoria in 1997's "Mrs. Brown"

Judi Dench

SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $1000: Quick, name this dame who played Mistress Quickly in Kenneth Branagh's film of "Henry V"

Judi Dench

THE SILVER SCREEN $400: Her 6-minute role as Queen Elizabeth in "Shakespeare in Love" was the shortest Oscar-winning role

Judi Dench

THE TONY AWARDS $1000: This British actress followed up her "Shakespeare in Love" Oscar win with a Tony for "Amy's View"

Judi Dench

"K"APITAL CITIES $600: It's found in a fertile valley of the eastern Himalayas

Kathmandu

PRESIDENTIAL CREATIONS $200: This man whose wife was noted for her taste & elegance set up the President's Advisory Council on the Arts

Kennedy

THE CONGRESSIONAL FAMILY NAME $400: Massachusetts' Sen. Ted & Rhode Island's Rep. Patrick are father & son

Kennedy

CARIBBEAN CUISINE $200: Skyworld, a restaurant on Tortola, is famed for this citrus pie that's also a favorite in Florida

Key Lime Pie

SOUTHERN FOOD $600: Green food coloring often brightens the filling of this pie named for a Florida fruit

Key Lime Pie

THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a diagram of the Battle of Gettysburg.) On the second day, Union General Sickles unwisely advanced his troops. Lucky for the north, General Warren noticed the move and the Union quickly reoccupied the strategic hill called Little this.

Little Round Top

UNCHARTED $400: This 13th c. Italian's memoirs of China include one of the finest European references to the Pacific Ocean

Marco Polo

WORLD HISTORY $200: In 1271 he left Venice for the Far East with his father & uncle; 24 years later, he finally made it back home

Marco Polo

INTERESTING PEOPLE $1600: Born in China in the 13th century, Rabban Bar Sauma traveled to Europe & is called the "Reverse" of this Venetian

Marco Polo Definition of Venetian adjective 1. relating to Venice or its people. noun 1. a native or citizen of Venice.

I MARRIED... $800: The future Holy Roman Emperor Francis I, a love match that produced 16 kids

Maria Theresa

SOLVE THE MYSTERY TITLE $2000: By Edgar Allan Poe, "The Mystery of ___ Roget"

Marie

THAT WAS ON TV $400: (Hi. I'm Ken Burns.) One of my favorite documentaries was about this Missouri-born humorist who once said, "The human race has one really effective weapon, & that is laughter"

Mark Twain

ZOOLOGY $1000: Either of the smallest or largest types of monkey whose names both begin with the letter M

Marmosets and mandrills

CHICKS DIG ME $1200: At the Olduvai Gorge in 1959, she & hubby Louis found a 1.75 million-year-old Australopithecus boisei skull

Mary Leakey

A STATE OF CIVIL WAR $800: On September 17, 1862 Gen. Robert E. Lee's Northern march was halted in this slave-holding Union state

Maryland

STATE OF THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE $600: The Battle of Antietam

Maryland

THE CIVIL WAR: The bloodiest single day of fighting in the Civil War took place in this state

Maryland

MONEY BEST PLACES TO LIVE $800: Cozy Sharon in this northeast state's Norfolk County is teeming with history: a church there has a Paul Revere bell

Massachusetts

NEWS TO ME $1600: In a surprise, Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat in this state went to a Republican in a January 2010 election

Massachusetts

REMEMBERING TED KENNEDY $400: The third longest-serving senator in history, Kennedy represented this state for 47 years

Massachusetts

Define mastication

Mastication is the mechanical grinding of food into smaller pieces by teeth; it is essentially a technical word for "chewing". Mastication breaks down food so that it can go through the esophagus to the stomach.

JOHNS' MIDDLE NAMES $1600: British economist John Keynes

Maynard

LAST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Cormac, Joe & (a real dummy) Charlie

McCarthy

HISTORIC LOSERS $400: At the 1862 Battle of Antietam, Lee's army was exposed, but this Union general hesitated, losing a huge opportunity

McClellan

WOMEN WRITERS: On her 2012 passing this Oscar nominee was described as "an essayist and humorist in the Dorothy Parker mold" (but funnier)

Nora Ephron

AMERICANS IN PARIS $800: He was studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when he published "The Naked and the Dead"

Norman Mailer

AUTH"ER"S $2000: In 1991 this Brooklyn guy penned "Harlot's Ghost", focusing on the CIA

Norman Mailer

BOOK REVIEW $2000: "In the Belly of the Beast" is a prison memoir by Jack Henry Abbott, a protege of this writer who died in November 2007

Norman Mailer

BOOKS & AUTHORS $1200: This late author of controversial books like "Oswald's Tale" had 6 wives, including the one he stabbed

Norman Mailer

I LOVE LITERATURE $2000: In the '60s this controversial novelist wrote journalistic works like "Miami and the Siege of Chicago"

Norman Mailer

NONFICTION PULITZER WINNERS $3,000 (Daily Double): He won a Pulitzer for his nonfiction "The Armies of the Night" as well as for his fictional "The Executioner's Song"

Norman Mailer

NORM DE GUERRE $1600: His experiences in the Invasion of Luzon became the basis for his novel "The Naked And The Dead"

Norman Mailer

NORM! $1000: 1968 "The Armies of the Night" won him a Pulitzer & the National Book Award

Norman Mailer

NORMAN INVASION $1000: In 1969 this author and New Journalist failed in his bid to become Mayor of New York City

Norman Mailer

SOMEBODY WROTE THAT $1,000 (Daily Double): "Harlot's Ghost", "Why Are We in Vietnam?"

Norman Mailer

THE AUTHOR TWITTERS $400: Only 25 when "The Naked and the Dead" makes me famous. Feel like I'm gonna win 2 Pulitzers b4 I'm thru

Norman Mailer

HERE'S SOMETHING RANDOM $600: Castoroides, giant beavers of the Pleistocene, grew to 7 1/2 feet in length on this continent

North America

HATS $600: A Robert Burns poem gave this flat cap its name

a tam o'shanter

ADJECTIVES $2000: By definition, something that's described as sagittal is shaped like one of these

an arrow

"CU" LATER $2000: Lucy was an ancient African one discovered in 1974

an australopithecus

REMBRANDT $800: In the painting "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp", one of these postmortem exams is being performed

an autopsy

ARCHAEOLOGY $600: The Acheulian (Bless me!) tradition of Paleolithic times had as its main tool a "hand" one of these

an ax

SCIENC"E" $400: A muon decays into 2 neutrinos & one of these

an electron

IT'S ABOUT TIME $1000: The Pleistocene is an example of this subdivision of a period, itself subdivided into ages

an epoch

PLEISTOCENE STEALER $200: The last major one of these "glacial" time periods came during the Pleistocene Epoch

an ice age

CHEWING THE "FAT" $400: An extravagant short-lived passion

an infatuation

SCIENCE GRAB BAG $1600: Elements come in multiple forms called isotopes; amino acids come in these differently shaped forms, also starting with "iso"

an isomer

HOW AM "I" DOING? $1000: (Sofia presents the clue from the blackboard.) By adding a neutron, you can get this different form of a chemical element

an isotope

FINALS $5,000 (Daily Double): In contrast to James Joyce, Joseph Heller titled his final novel "A Portrait of an Artist" as this

an old man

GENEALOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): With over 10 billion genealogical records. this website says it's the "largest online family history resource"

ancestry.com

PREHISTORIC TIMES $800: Scientists have placed 5 species of prehumans into the genus Australopithecus, which means "southern" this

ape

ALONG CAME A SPIDER $400: Spiders belong to this class named for a Lydian maiden who was transformed by Athena into a spider

arachnids

LOW TECH $400: Stone item seen here from the Neolithic, or "New Stone" Age

arrowhead

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PROUST $200: At the age of 9 Proust had his first wheezing attack of this disease that plagued him the rest of his life

asthma

STIMULANTS $200: Because it acts as a bronchodilator, theophylline is used to treat emphysema, bronchitis & this chronic disease

asthma

SUMMARIZING PROUST $800: A chronic sufferer of this respiratory disease since childhood, at age 35 Proust became incapacitated by it

asthma

AMERICAN HELICOPTER MUSEUM $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pennsylvania.) With a fearsome armament that could include rockets, missiles, cannons, a Gatling gun & more, it's no wonder the "A" in the name of Army's Bell AH-1 Cobra stands for this, its primary mission

attack

STRATEGY GAMES $200: (I'm Anderson Cooper.) I trick you not, one of my ancestors, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, is known for creating the "contract" type of this game

bridge

COMMON BONDS $1000: The Rialto, Gateshead Millennium, the Helix in Singapore

bridges

THE "BUL" PULPIT $400: A protuberance; you may have "battled" one

bulge

"C" HERE $400: It's the main stimulant in coffee & tea

caffeine

8-LETTER WORDS $200: Introduced in 1985, Jolt Cola said it had twice as much of this stimulant as other colas

caffeine

THE ELEMENTS $400: Chemically like iron, this element, symbol "Co", is used in a blue pigment

cobalt

THE PERIODIC TABLE $500: Co doesn't stand for columbium but rather for this element used mostly in making alloys

cobalt

THERE'S CHEMISTRY BETWEEN US $200: Chemically, this stimulant is the principal alkaloid of coca leaves

cocaine

UNDER THE SEA $800: Georges Bank off Mass. once teemed with this "fish that changed the world", but the stock is overfished & in poor shape

codfish

THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS $400: Henry Frick made a fortune supplying the Pittsburgh steel industry with this product made from heating pulverized coal

coke

3 OF A KIND $1000: Sinhala, Xhosa, Novial

languages

PARROTS $1000: At almost 40 inches in length, the hyacinth species of this South American bird is the largest parrot

macaw

SOUTH AMERICAN WILDLIFE $1000: Brazil's Spix's species of this longest parrot may now be extinct; it hasn't been seen in the wild since 2000

macaw

PARROTS $500: Found only in Latin America, they are the largest parrots

macaws

CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON $400: The Gatling gun was the first practical one of these guns that fire a rapid, continuous stream of bullets

machine gun

LET'S EAT $1,000 (Daily Double): For Marcel Proust the "vicissitudes of life had become indifferent" after eating these small French cakes

madeleines

ANIMALS AMONG US $1200: Plentiful in the Eurasian steppes in the late Pleistocene, these animals stood 16 feet high & had tusks 16 feet long

mammoths

NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1200: In 2007 Nathan Rabin coined this phrase, MPDG for short, to describe Kirsten Dunst in "Elizabethtown"

manic pixie dream girl

ANIMALS $800: Critters of the Pleistocene epoch include the mammoth & this "breast tooth" relative

mastodon

APPETIZERS $300: As an appetizer, prosciutto is usually accompanied by this fruit

melon

ITALIAN FOOD $200: Traditionally, prosciutto is served as a first course with figs or this fruit

melon

GRISLY DISNEY $200: Oh, Scar, you ol' backstabber, say hello to your hyena friends; they want to chew the fat with you in this film

The Lion King

CINDERELLA ON BROADWAY $200: (The star of Cinderella, Laura Osnes, gives us the clue from the New York Broadway Theatre.) In costumes by William Ivey Long, I'm magically transformed from a poor servant girl to a princess ready for the ball; however, the magic all wears off at this hour

midnight

TIME FOR FRENCH $200: My darling, let's dance the minuet at minuit, this special time

midnight plus de minuit after midnight past midnight messe de minuit midnight mass à 3 heures/minuit at 3 o'clock/midnight le soleil de minuit the midnight sun sur le coup de minuit on the stroke of midnight

CULTURES OF SOUTH AFRICA $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Lesedi Cultural Village in South Africa.) The gumboot dance originated among workers who would communicate & express themselves with the boots they wore in these dank, damp workplaces

mines

17th CENTURY ARTS $200: Composer Jean-Baptiste Lully brought this French country dance to Louis XIV's court

minuet

DANCE HISTORY $400: This courtly, elegant dance fell out of favor when the waltz hit the dance halls of Europe about 1769

minuet

DANCES $500: Composers like Haydn & Mozart established this French court dance as the third movement of the symphony

minuet

HISTORY CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $800: Court dance for Louis XIV (6)

minuet

SCIENCE $1600: New studies say the rise of the Himalayas & cooler climates helped to form these winds over 12 million years ago

monsoons

THIS & THAT $800: It's all over the map--dotted Swiss is a type of this cotton fabric named for Mosul, Iraq

muslin

A STONY CATEGORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Geologists use these 2 Greek-derived terms to describe the "New Stone Age" & the "Old Stone Age" time periods

neolithic & paleolithic

WHAT KIN ARE YOU TO ME? $3,000 (Daily Double): Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is this to Senator Edward M. Kennedy

nephew

NUCLEAR PHYSICS $1500: Isotopes are atoms having the same number of protons by different numbers of these

neutrons

Define serenity

noun the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled. "an oasis of serenity amidst the bustling city" synonyms: calmness, calm, composure, tranquility, peacefulness, peace of mind, peace, peaceableness, collectedness, poise, aplomb, self-possession, sangfroid, imperturbability, equanimity, equableness, ease, placidity, placidness; More a title given to a reigning prince or similar dignitary. noun: His Serenity; noun: Your Serenity; plural noun: Serenities

Define archaeology

noun the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.

Define anthropology

noun the study of human societies and cultures and their development. the study of human biological and physiological characteristics and their evolution. noun: physical anthropology; plural noun: physical anthropologies

Define pere

noun used after a surname to distinguish a father from a son of the same name. "Alexandre Dumas père"

Define zed

noun BRITISH the letter Z. Crossword clue: Brit's last letter Answer: zed

Define hominid

nounZOOLOGY a primate of a family ( Hominidae ) that includes humans and their fossil ancestors and also (in recent systems) at least some of the great apes.

WOMEN IN SCIENCE $800: Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon developed a system of classifying stars & discovered 5 of these exploding ones

novas

POETS & POETRY $800: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" begins with these 5 words

once upon a midnight dreary

HODGEPODGE $300: A symbol of wisdom, this bird was associated with the goddess Athena

owl

JOY OF COOKING $200: For Thanksgiving, "Joy of Cooking" suggests starting out with a bisque made with these shucked bivalves

oysters

2011 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $800: A young man lost after placing an "H" in the middle of this Italian bacon

pancetta

A SIDE OF BACON $1000: From the Italian for "paunch" or "belly", this bacon is often wrapped around other meats

pancetta

CONTENTS OF TABLES $2000: Prosciutto is Italian ham; this is Italian bacon from the pork belly

pancetta

FOSSIL FUELS $1200: Fossil fuels include not only oil and coal, but also this partially carbonized moss found in bogs

peat

FUELS $600: This partly-decayed plant matter is a common fuel in areas without much coal

peat

IRELAND $200: Bogs still covering 1/9 of the island are valuable sources of this fuel

peat

SCIENCE & NATURE $200: Partly decayed plant matter commonly used as a fuel in Ireland

peat

TIME TO "EAT" $800: Moss type used as fuel

peat

WHAT ABOUT ESTONIA? $200: Bogs of this carbonized vegetation useful as fuel are found in much of Europe, including Estonia

peat

MORTAL MATTERS $400: Hundreds of "bog mummies" in Europe were naturally preserved by burial in this kind of bog

peat bog

BOTANY $800: Also called sphagnum or bog moss, it's sometimes used as a packing material for shipping plants

peat moss

GENEALOGY GLOSSARY $600: This term for a family tree comes from the Latin for "crane's foot" due to the appearance of the chart lines

pedigree

QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): The Gettysburg Address: "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not" do this

perish from the earth

SHUT YOUR MOUTH $800: You won't get enough coconut cream or key lime if you keep this slang term for your mouth shut

piehole

GOOD EATS $400: Paper-thin slices of this ham from Parma, Italy are often paired with figs or melon

prosciutto

HAM $500: Parma ham is the true form of this, Italian for "ham"

prosciutto

ITALIAN FOOD $2000: This famous ham from Parma is often designated cotto for cooked & crudo for raw

prosciutto

ITALIAN FOOD $400: This Italian ham is mentioned in the classic 1622 Italian poem "The Rape of the Bucket"

prosciutto

RHYMES WITH A PLANET $2000: Thin-sliced salted Italian ham

prosciutto

FIRST LETTER Q, SECOND LETTER NOT U $2000: Scrabble players know it's an evergreen shrub of Arabia & its leaf is a stimulant

qat

"Q" FOOD & DRINK $1600: This "supergrain of the future" is considered a complete protein

quinoa

GLUTEN-US MINIMUS $600: This high-protein grain is actually related to spinach & was considered the "gold of the Incas"

quinoa

NATIVE AMERICAN FOODS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) This seed was originally grown in the Andes & is used like couscous or rice & is high in protein

quinoa

THE LADY OF SHALLOTS $800: Giada De Laurentiis puts shallots in a pilaf made not with rice, but rather with this grain grown high in the Andes

quinoa

U.N. INTERNATIONAL YEARS $1000: 2013: This high-protein grain from South America

quinoa

ADJECTIVES $1200: This 8-letter word describes the journey of the "Man of La Mancha"

quixotic

BOOK TITLES $4,200 (Daily Double): Shakespeare's Sonnet 30 says, "I summon up" this, which became the title of a Proust work

remembrance of things past

THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO $1600: On Sumatra Polo saw this animal he described as a unicorn having feet like an elephant & nearly as large

rhinoceros

ALASKA $400: One of the 2 astronomical images found on Alaska's official license plate

the Big Dipper (or the North Star)

NONFICTION $1000: "The Last Castle" takes readers inside this largest residence in the U.S., once a Vanderbilt home

the Biltmore

IT'S SHOWTIME $1200: On a Showtime series, Jeremy Irons was the head of this 15th century Italian family

the Borgias

PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: "Aut Caesar Aut Nihil" --- "Either Caesar or Nothing" -- was a motto used by Cesare of this notorious family

the Borgias

POPE $1,100 (Daily Double): Vatican apartments originally built for Alexander VI are named for this power-hungry family of his

the Borgias

POPE-POURRI $100: Pope Alexander VI, a member of this family, used his power to get his daughter Lucrezia married 3 times

the Borgias

POPES $1,000 (Daily Double): Alexander VI, a member of this notorious family, used bribery to secure his election

the Borgias

COLLEGE TEAM NAMES $1000: They sail for Vanderbilt University

the Commodores

THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS $1600: 5 years after this act was passed, the Supreme Court gutted it in 1895's United States v. E.C. Knight

the Sherman Antitrust Act

THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO $2,000 (Daily Double): After the Polos crossed the Pamir Mountains, they followed this ancient trade route that led them into China

the Silk Road

SUMMARIZING PROUST $400: Proust studied law at this institution now part of the University of Paris

the Sorbonne

THE ROBBER BARONS $800: Carnegie chairman Henry Clay Frick survived being shot & stabbed during an 1892 labor dispute in this industry

the Steel Industry

"STONE"S $800: The Paleolithic period is part of this

the Stone Age

SCIENCE CLASS $400: This "Age" is divided into the Paleolithic, the Mesolithic, & the Neolithic

the Stone Age

O CANADA $1,000 (Daily Double): Alphabetically last of Canada's 3 territories, it can range in temperatures with 80s in the summer & -60s in winter

the Yukon Territory

THE MAP OF CANADA $600: Bigger than Sweden but home to just 35,000 people, this territory is famous for an 1890s gold rush

the Yukon territory

POETRY $1200: About these, Edgar Allan Poe wrote, "What a world of merriment their melody foretells!"

the bells

ALL THE "BEST" $600: According to Robert Burns, these schemes "gang aft agley"

the best-laid plans of mice and men

BEAR IT $1600: The "clan" of this extinct bear variety, Ursus spelaeus, lived in Europe during the Pleistocene Epoch

the cave bear

EXTINCT CREATURES $2,000 (Daily Double): It was best not to visit the clan of this 2-word animal of the Pleistocene; check out its reared-up skeleton (picture included)

the cave bear

THE B.G.s $800: In 1986 big band legend Benny Goodman spent his last hours of life practicing Brahms on this instrument

the clarinet

AFRICAN LANGUAGES $2000: A disapproving sound using the tongue is a version of this sound for which some Afr. tongues are named

the click

THE WISE MAN'S FEAR $1600: The imprisoned Abbe Faria, mentor to this Dumas character, regrets instilling in him "the desire for revenge"

the count of Monte Cristo (or Edmond Dantes)

ANATOMY $500: They are clenched when the temporalis muscles contract

the jaws (or the teeth)

ANIMALS $2,400 (Daily Double): The Maori gave this small flightless bird it name, an imitation of its call

the kiwi

PARROTS $500: This parrot's name might be from "macauba", a tree whose fruit it eats

the macaw

"M"USIC $1000: This elegant dance for couples dominated aristocratic European ballrooms from about 1650 to 1750

the minuet

DANCE $200: Music for this French court dance became the standardized third movement of symphonies by Haydn & Mozart

the minuet

WHERE'S THAT? $1000: Holiday Inn Bratislava: the country

Slovakia

WORLD CAPITALS $1600: Bratislava, on the left bank of the Danube, is the capital of this country

Slovakia

POT LUCK $800: A chapter of this 1532 book discusses the Machiavellian career of Cesare Borgia

"The Prince"

THE RENAISSANCE $400: The ruthless Cesare Borgia was the model for this book by Machiavelli

"The Prince"

LANGUAGES $800: Mosul is a good place to hear the Northern Kurmanji dialect of this minority language of Iraq

Kurdish

REFERENCE BOOKS $600: In 1843, G. & C. Merriam Company acquired the rights to this author's reference book

Noah Webster

THE 1790s $800: In 1793 NYC's daily newspaper The American Minerva was founded by this lexicographer

Noah Webster

LIT-POURRI $1600: This 1913 George Bernard Shaw play was based on an ancient Greek myth recounted by Ovid

Pygmalion

WHAT'S THAT ON TOP OF YOUR HEAD? $1200: Those feathers on the top of this critter's head are called a crest

a cockatoo

THE CIVIL WAR $400: Early models of the Gatling gun were manually operated using one of these

a crank

"ER" $800: This 3-word Gaelic phrase means "Ireland Forever"

"Erin Go Bragh!"

SONG STANDARDS $400: Song from "Fiddler on the Roof" containing the line "find me a match, catch me a catch"

"Matchmaker, Matchmaker"

GRAVE MATTERS $1600: Edgar Allan Poe's original burial site has a marker that bears this 4-word quote from one of his poems

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore'"

LITERARY WHITE PAPER $1200: The book "Mirror Mirror" transports this classic tale of young woman & septet to the time of the Borgias

"Snow White" ("and the Seven Dwarfs")

BROADWAY LYRICS $1,000 (Daily Double): "Fiddler on the Roof" song that begins with the lyrics heard here: "Is this the little girl I carried, is this the little boy at play..."

"Sunrise, Sunset"

POETS & POETRY $1200: Tintinnabulation "so musically wells" in this piece by Edgar Allan Poe

"The Bells"

AMERICAN LITERATURE: "The Naked and the Dead" and "The Executioner's Song" are books by this novelist.

Answer: Who is Norman Mailer?

ART: "Night Watch" is a classic painting from this 17th-century master.

Answer: Who is Rembrandt?

POETS AND POETRY: This Scot's beloved poems include "To a Mouse" and "Address to a Haggis."

Answer: Who is Robert Burns?

MYTHOLOGY: Hephaestus, the Greek god of fire and metalworking, was identified with this Roman god.

Answer: Who is Vulcan?

THE CURRENT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE WHO $800: ...has a presidential surname & made it to the court after Robert Bork was rejected

Anthony Kennedy (he retired in 2018)

-OLOGIES $1600: Archaeology is a subfield of this study of human beings' origins & cultures

Anthropology

"ANTI"-MATTER $1200: The Battle of Sharpsburg is what the South called the bloody Civil War battle of this creek

Antietam

A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows notes and a map on the monitor.) Union soldiers found Robert E. Lee's handwritten plans wrapped around three cigars & lying in a field east of Sharpsburg, Maryland, four days before this bloody 1862 battle

Antietam

BATTLE STATIONS $1200: Fought in Maryland in September of 1862, it was the bloodiest 1-day engagement of the Civil War with about 5,000 dead

Antietam

BATTLES $600: This battle fought in Maryland in 1862 was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War

Antietam

CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $1000: Future presidents William McKinley & Rutherford B. Hayes both fought in this bloodiest 1-day battle of the war

Antietam

HISTORIC AMERICA $800: This national battlefield near Sharpsburg, Md. commemorates the bloodiest single day of the Civil War

Antietam

HISTORICAL NOVELS $600: The 3rd book in James Reasoner's Civil War saga is named for this Maryland battle the Rebels called Sharpsburg

Antietam

IT'S A BATTLE $1,500 (Daily Double): On Sept. 17, 1862 in Maryland, over 3,000 men were killed & 17,000 wounded in this blood battle

Antietam

THE ODYSSEY $300: This goddess of wisdom pleads with Zeus to release Odysseus from the embrace of the nymph Calypso

Athena

WOMEN IN MYTHOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): The Parthenon was built in her honor

Athena

WOMEN IN MYTHOLOGY $1000: She promised Paris wisdom & victory in all battles if he judged her the fairest goddess

Athena

LET'S PUT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES IN THE PICTURE! $800: Hayes visits this Maryland battlefield also known as Sharpsburg; he was wounded & missed the action when his regiment fought there in 1862

Antietam

MARYLAND $1000: Over 22,000 men were killed or wounded September 17,1862 in a Civil War battle near this creek

Antietam

THE CIVIL WAR $1000: 5 days after this bloody Maryland battle, Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Antietam

THE CIVIL WAR $1000: The Emancipation Proclamation was made public in September 1862 after the Union victory in this Maryland battle

Antietam

THE CIVIL WAR $1000: This bloodiest 1-day battle of the Civil War stopped the first Confederate invasion of the North in 1862

Antietam

THE CIVIL WAR $1600: At Frederick, MD. 4 days before this battle, Lee's plan fell into Union hands after it was used to wrap cigars

Antietam

THE CIVIL WAR $800: Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 5 days after this 1862 Union victory in Maryland

Antietam

THE CIVIL WAR $800: The 1862 Battle of Sharpsburg was fought over a Maryland creek that gave the fight this other name

Antietam

WORLD MYTH $200: This Greek goddess of wisdom sprang fully armed from the head of her father Zeus

Athena

LEGENDARY RHYME TIME $1000: A wisdom goddess' amphitheaters

Athena's arenas

THE CIVIL WAR $800: This national battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md. commemorates the bloodiest single day of the Civil War

Antietam

THE MID-ATLANTIC STATES $600: On this Maryland site, during the bloodiest Civil War battle, Commissary Sgt. William McKinley served coffee

Antietam

U.S. HISTORY $1000: Usually known by name of a Maryland creek, this 1862 battle is known as the bloodiest day of the Civil War

Antietam

U.S. HISTORY $800: On Sept. 17, 1862 this bloody battle in Maryland ended the first Confederate invasion of the North

Antietam

U.S. MONEY $1000: A commemorative half dollar was issued in 1937 to honor this bloodiest one-day Civil War battle

Antietam

BLUE & THE GRAY $500 (Daily Double): Robert E. Lee lost nearly a quarter of his troops in this bloody Maryland battle of 1862

Antietam (or Sharpsburg)

THE CIVIL WAR $1000: This September 17, 1862 Maryland battle ended with over 27,000 casualties & Lee's retreat

Antietam (or Sharpsburg)

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

Bantu

LITERARY TRILOGIES $1200: He won a National Book Award for "All the Pretty Horses", the first book of his "Border Trilogy"

Cormac McCarthy

LITERARY VILLAINS $1600: Bald, pale & homicidal, Judge Holden is the monstrous nemesis in this author's "Blood Meridian"

Cormac McCarthy

MacARTHUR GENIUS WRITERS $800: This other "Mac" hadn't yet written "All the Pretty Horses" when the foundation honored him

Cormac McCarthy

McCARTHYISM $400: 1998's "Cities on the Plain" completed his Border trilogy; he's not exactly a laugh-a-minute novelist

Cormac McCarthy

McWRITERS $800: The film "No Country For Old Men" was based on a novel by him

Cormac McCarthy

THE MOORE THE MERRIER $5,000 (Daily Double): Elected to the U.S. Senate 8 times, his middle name is Moore

Edward M. ("Ted") Kennedy

19th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: In the 1810s this industrialist later known as a railroad tycoon operated a ferry between Staten Island & Manhattan

Cornelius Vanderbilt

WHO WROTE THE LINE? $3,000 (Daily Double): "Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago"

(Miguel de) Cervantes

COLLEGE RECOMMENDATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Be impressed that the $1 million given in 1873 to endow this U. was the Commodores only major philanthropy

Cornelius Vanderbilt

THE BOOK OF NORMAN $400: Norman Mailer's "The Gospel According to the Son" is in the form of a first-person memoir by him

Jesus Christ

I'D LIKE TO BUY AN OWL $400: The ancient Greeks believed that the owl was sacred to this goddess of wisdom

(Pallas) Athena

FAMILY VALUES $1000: This "commodore" left less than 5% of his $100 mil. to his second wife & 8 daughters--the rest went mainly to his son

Cornelius Vanderbilt

LAST WILLS & TESTAMENTS $600 (Daily Double): This "commodore" willed $90 million to his son William, $7.5 million to his 4 grandsons, & to his 8 daughters... well, not as much

Cornelius Vanderbilt

NONFICTION $2,500 (Daily Double): A 2009 biography of this builder of Grand Central Terminal calls him "the first tycoon"

Cornelius Vanderbilt

PROSPER $800: He quit school at age 11 &, as a teen in 1810, bought his first boat; later, as a "commodore", he'd be worth $100 million

Cornelius Vanderbilt

STOPPED BREATHING IN THE 1800s $800: After giving up the ship on Jan. 4, 1877, this "Commodore" left over $100 mil., the most in U.S. history at the time

Cornelius Vanderbilt

WELCOME TO NASHVILLE $1200: This Commodore's $1 million endowment to build a university in Nashville was his only major philanthropy

Cornelius Vanderbilt

CONSTELLATIONS $2,400 (Daily Double): Corona Australis is the Southern Cross; this is the Northern Crown

Corona Borealis

PREHISTORIC TIMES $1600: In 1868 Louis Lartet dug up the first skeletons of this prehistoric man in a cave in Les Eyzies in southwest France

Cro-Magnon

EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: Around 30,000 B.C. these hyphenated Homo sapiens succeeded the Neanderthals in Europe

Cro-Magnon Man

THE 1800S $500: The remains of this successor to Neanderthal Man were discovered in France in 1868

Cro-Magnon Man

20th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: Mark Twain died in this year in which Halley's Comet reappeared

1910

THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG $1000: Veterans met at Gettysburg one last time for the 75th anniversary in this year; 2013 is the 150th anniversary.

1938

AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN WORKS $1600: "St, George and the Godfather" is Norman Mailer's take on the presidential campaign of this year

1972

YEARS $800 (Daily Double): Age in years of the man being interviewed in the following: "By the way, sir, uh, are you married?" "I have been married several hundred times." "I'm afraid to ask the next question. You've had many hundreds of wives." "Hundreds and hundreds of wives." "How many children do you have?" "I have over forty-two thousand children. And not one comes to visit!"

2000

NUMBER, PLEASE $300: Joseph Heller's famous "catch"

22

THE BALL ROOM $200: To play carom billiards you have to buy this many balls

3 Crossword clue: ______ billiards, game on a pocketless table Answer: carom

A NUMBER LESS THAN 10 $200: Word that begins the Gettysburg Address

4

2-DIGIT NUMBERS $800: As in the title of a Judd Apatow comedy, "This is" the only 2-digit number whose letters are in alphabetical order

40

ODD NUMBER, PLEASE $400: Number of stars in the Big Dipper

7

A REALLY LONG TIME AGO $1200: This early ancestor of European man was named for the French cave site where the bones were first found

Cro-Magnon man

SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $1000: Wearing just a few small leaves, Judi Dench leaves nothing to the imagination as Titania in this 1968 film

A Midsummer Night's Dream

"MAN"-LY LIT $1200: Stephen Dedalus' formative years in Dublin are the subject of this novel by James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

LITERATURE $1000: James Joyce depicted himself as Stephen Dedalus in both "Ulysses" & this novel

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

WINDOW QUOTES $2,000 (Daily Double): "In the lighted windows, his books arranged three by three kept watch like angels" is from this Proust work

A Remembrance of Things Past

Define fen

A fen is one of the main types of wetland, the others being grassy marshes, forested swamps, and peaty bogs. Along with bogs, fens are a kind of mire. Fens are minerotrophic peatlands, usually fed by mineral-rich surface water or groundwater.

PRODUCT PLACEMENT $200: In 2000's "Hamlet", Ethan Hawke soliloquizes in one of this chain's video stores

Blockbuster

GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $2000: This 1985 Cormac McCarthy novel has the alternate title "The Evening Redness in the West"

Blood Meridian

CABLE CHANNELS $600: This channel shows films like "The Magnificent Seven" & original series like "Mad Men" & "Breaking Bad"

AMC

LANGUAGES $1000: The Khoisan languages of this continent are noted for their clicking sounds

Africa

LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD $400: Hausa, one of the Chadic languages, is spoken by some 50 million people on this continent

Africa

LANGUAGES $800: (I'm Lara Logan of CBS News.) As a reporter I find it helpful to know many languages, so I speak English, French, Portuguese & this Germanic language of my homeland, South Africa

Afrikaans

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $1600: To ask, "How are you?" in this language, say "Hoe gaan dit met jou?"

Afrikaans

BRITISH WOMEN: It's said that this woman who died in 1976 "made more money out of murder than any woman since Lucrezia Borgia"

Agatha Christie

What is stratigraphic dating?

Age can also be determined by identifying the age of the layer of rock that the artifacts are buried in. This is called stratigraphic dating, from the Latin word stratum, meaning "layer."

THE MIDDLE EAST $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The cities of Ramadi & Fallujah have given nightmares to U.S. troops engaged in this Sunni-majority province, Iraq's biggest in area

Al Anbar

SCHOOLED! $200: It's a convenient truth that this future veep studied at Vanderbilt in the 1970s

Al Gore

DISNEY FILM VOICES $400: A Tony winner for "Miss Saigon", Lea Salonga provided the singing voice for "Mulan" & for Princess Jasmine in this film

Aladdin

FLAGS $800: In 1927 13-year-old Benny Benson designed this U.S. state's flag, the North Star & Big Dipper on a blue background

Alaska

STATES OF THE UNION $3,300 (Daily Double): 13-year-old Benny Benson's winning design for this state's flag included the Big Dipper

Alaska

THE MAN OF THE HOUSE $800: This state's only representative in the House is Don Young, who hails from Fort Yukon

Alaska

ATHLETES' FILM QUOTES $1600: "Blazing Saddles": "Mongo only pawn in game of life"

Alex Karras

THE BORGIAS $2000: Jeremy Irons portrays Borgia patriarch Rodrigo, who's being inaugurated as the sixth pope of this name

Alexander

OLD NATIONAL ANTHEMS $2000: "The Song Of Girondists", used by France 1848-52, was originally in a historical drama by this writer of the time

Alexander Dumas

SENIOR-ITIS $2000: Around 1830 this pere wrote a series of historical plays like "Napoleon Bonaparte"

Alexandre Dumas (Pere)

FRENCH LIT $400: In 1845 this pere continued the story of a certain trio in "Twenty Years After"

Alexandre Dumas, pere

ANIMALS: Its name is from the Greek for "river horse."

Answer: What is the hippopotamus?

When she takes office on January 3, 2019, at the age of 29, ________ will be the youngest woman to serve in Congress in the history of the United States,[11] a distinction that had been previously held by New York Republican Elise Stefanik, who was elected at age 30 in 2014.[12]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez[pron 1] (born October 13, 1989) is an American politician and educator.[2][3] She is the U.S. Representative-elect for New York's 14th congressional district, elected on November 6, 2018. On June 26, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic primary in New York's 14th congressional district covering parts of the Bronx and Queens in New York City, defeating the incumbent Congressman, Democratic Caucus Chair Joe Crowley, in what was described as the biggest upset victory in the 2018 midterm election primaries.[9] Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.[10] When she takes office on January 3, 2019, at the age of 29, Ocasio-Cortez will be the youngest woman to serve in Congress in the history of the United States,[11] a distinction that had been previously held by New York Republican Elise Stefanik, who was elected at age 30 in 2014.[12]

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PROUST $800: In the 1890s Proust helped organize petitions on behalf of this Jewish army captain

Alfred Dreyfus

THE HUMAN BODY: An enlargement of this gland is called a goiter.

Answer: What is the thyroid (gland)?

PULITZER PRIZES: This author's dystopian novel "The Road" took the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Answer: Who is Cormac McCarthy?

HEDY LAMARR-VELOUS $1600: In 1938 Hedy made her American film debut with Charles Boyer in this film bearing the name of an African capital

Algiers

COLD MOVIES $1600: The Uruguayan rugby team has a bad day & not enough seasoning in this 1993 Ethan Hawke film

Alive

AMERICANA $800: Named for his literary relative, Edgar Allan Poe was named to the 1st of these elite college athletic teams in 1889

All-American

CLASSICAL MUSIC: This composer's 1868 work "Wiegenlied" is better known to us as "Lullaby."

Answer: Who is Johannes Brahms?

NONFICTION: This three-named economist wrote the influential 1936 work "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money."

Answer: Who is John Maynard Keynes?

FICTIONAL DETECTIVES: The 1930 book "Murder at the Vicarage" featured this female sleuth.

Answer: Who is Miss (Jane) Marple?

HIDING ON THE INTERNET $800: When you click the invisible link on this website, you'll see CEO Jeff Bezos' page honoring a past worker

Amazon

TEENAGE DREAM $600: Dream of free shipping forever on millions of items if you took over for Jeff Bezos as CEO of this online giant

Amazon

INTERNET-BUSINESS.COM $1200: Founder Jeff Bezos wanted to call it Cadabra, but when a lawyer misheard it as "cadaver", went with this instead

Amazon(.com)

BUSINESSMEN $800: Jeff Bezos, CEO of this giant online retailer, was Time's Person of the Year for 1999

Amazon.com

WEBSITES FROM A TO Z $200: A: It started as an online bookstore run from Jeff Bezos' garage

Amazon.com

CIVIL WAR GENERALS $1000: Before his Civil War service, this "bewhiskered" general invented & manufactured a breech-loading carbine

Ambrose Burnside

I HAVE THE WINE $600: This pale, dry Spanish sherry is mentioned in the title of an Edgar Allan Poe story

Amontillado

ART FOR ART'S SAKE $400: Rembrandt's "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" shows a procedure taking place in this world capital

Amsterdam

THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS $2000: Montana's Marcus Daly owned this, the USA's richest copper mine, as well as the town named for it

Anaconda

STARTS & ENDS WITH "A" $400: "Fiddler on the Roof" takes place in this village

Anatevka

PAINTED LADIES $800: Among Rembrandt's mythological paintings was one of this woman chained to a rock

Andromeda

DEAD POETS' SOCIETY $1000: A wind chilled & killed this maiden "who lived with no other thought than to love & be loved by" Edgar Allan Poe

Annabel Lee

WHEN THEY WERE TEENAGERS $200: She may have honed her vampire-interviewing skills while working on her Texas high school paper

Anne Rice

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES: Like a ship's, an aircraft's speed is typically measured in these units.

Answer: What are knots?

MOUNTAINS: You'll find 5-mile-high Nanga Parbat in this range.

Answer: What are the Himalayas?

MUSICAL THEATER: Lola helps save a failing shoe factory in this high-heeled 2013 Tony winner for best musical.

Answer: What is "Kinky Boots"?

FASHION: The French phrase prêt-à-porter literally means this.

Answer: What is "ready to wear"?

DESERT: Simpson Desert is a 55,000-square-mile region in this country's Northern Territory.

Answer: What is Australia?

BESTSELLING NONFICTION: "The Devil in the White City" tells of this city's 1893 World's Fair.

Answer: What is Chicago?

CITIES OF THE WORLD: Mosul and Ramadi can both be found in this Middle East country.

Answer: What is Iraq?

CANADA: Canada's three territories are Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and this one.

Answer: What is Yukon?

COOKING: A specialty of Naples, this pizza turnover's name means "trouser leg."

Answer: What is a calzone?

BEGINS AND ENDS WITH THE SAME LETTER: A guess as to the price or weight of something.

Answer: What is an estimate?

BOTANY: This green pigment is necessary for plants to carry out photosynthesis.

Answer: What is chlorophyll?

IF JUDD APATOW ADAPTED THE CLASSICS $2000: In Apatow's "Orestes", Will Ferrell makes a cameo as the deus ex machina, this son of Zeus

Apollo

FUN WITH THE ANCIENT LYDIANS $800: This Lydian girl got into a web of trouble when she challenged Athena to a weaving contest

Arachne

MYTHOLOGICAL WOMEN $1000: After a weaving contest, Athena turned this maiden into a spider so that she'd spend the rest of her life spinning

Arachne

MYTHOLOGY $500: She & Athena had a weaving contest

Arachne

THE STARS $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands next to a monitor.) The Big Dipper's handle shows us the way to the 4th-brightest night star; remember, "Arc to" this

Arcturus

REMEMBERING TED KENNEDY $1200: This governor said Uncle Teddy was "a liberal icon, a warrior for the less fortunate... the rock of his family"

Arnold Schwarzenegger

ATALANTA $500: This Greek goddess of the hunt took an interest in Atalanta, who grew up to be a great hunter

Artemis

THE 7 WONDERS $1000: As always, invading Goths got the blame for destroying her temple at Ephesus

Artemis/Diana

REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $1200: Galileo used a supernova in 1604 to disprove this ancient Greek's theory that the universe never changes

Aristotle

REMEMBERING TED KENNEDY $2000: After a funeral mass in Boston, Ted was laid to rest near John & Bobby at this cemetery

Arlington

POE-POURRI $1200: The raven perched on a bust of this Greek goddess "just above my chamber door"

Athena

I'M JUST A "VILLE" $2000: Built by a Vanderbilt, Biltmore House & Estate is in this city

Asheville (North Carolina)

GODDESSES $500: This goddess was called Parthenos, meaning "The Maiden"

Athena

MAIDS IN GREEK MYTH $2,500 (Daily Double): She served as the goddess of Greek cities & was also called Parthenos, or "The Maiden"

Athena

MYTHING IN ACTION $600: In some accounts Zeus' head had to be split with an ax to facilitate her birth in full armor

Athena

MYTHOLOGY $1000: This daughter of Zeus & goddess of wisdom assumed various disguises to aid Odysseus on his trip home

Athena

MYTHOLOGY $1000: Troy could not fall while it contained the Palladium, an image of this goddess

Athena

MYTHOLOGY $3,000 (Daily Double): Her epithet Pallas may have come from a giant of the same name she slew

Athena

MYTHOLOGY $600: After killing the giant Pallas, this goddess flayed him & used his skin as armor

Athena

NASHVILLE $500: Nashville's Parthenon has a 42-foot replica of this goddess

Athena

OLD MAN HOMER HAD A FARM $800: Soldiers couldn't see the heron this wise goddess sent for luck, but heard it squawk here & squawk there

Athena

MUSICAL CHAIRS $1600: Ahmet Ertegun was co-founder & chairman of this "oceanic" label home to Aretha Franklin & Led Zeppelin

Atlantic

RECORD LABELS $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1947, Ahmet Ertegun founded this jazz & R&B label, which soon had an "ocean" of talent, including Ray Charles

Atlantic

FEEL THE ROBERT BURNS! $400: Many worldwide ring in the new year singing this poem that Burns revised & updated

Auld Lang Syne

DESERTS $400: A single national park in the Simpson desert occupies 4,000 square miles of Queensland in this country

Australia

THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY $1600: Alice Springs & the Simpson Desert

Australia

THE NOVEL'S SUBTITLE $2000: Cormac McCarthy: "The Evening Redness in the West"

Blood Meridian

ANCIENT RELIGION $600: Animal remains found in the caves of these Paleolithic people suggest an early form of religion

Cro-Magnons/Neanderthals

16- (YES, 16-) LETTER WORDS $2000: An extinct genus of small-brained, large-toothed bipedal hominids that lived in Africa 1 to 4 million years ago

Australopithecus

ANTHROPOLOGY $1000: The Taung baby, discovered in 1924, was the first fossil ever found of this "southern" genus, species africanus

Australopithecus

CAVES $1,000 (Daily Double): Africa's Sterkfontein Caves yielded Mrs. Plesianthropus of this extinct genus, whose name means "southern ape"

Australopithecus

THE HALL OF HUMAN ORIGIN $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands near a trail of footprints.) 3.6 million years ago, in Africa, an early human left a trail of fossil footprints with a stride much shorter than ours; Mary Leakey found the prints, which were likely made by this type of human, whose name means "southern ape"

Australopithecus

PUT 'EM IN ORDER $600: Cro-Magnon, Australopithecus, Neanderthal

Australopithecus, Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon

CULTURES OF SOUTH AFRICA $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Lesedi Cultural Village in South Africa.) A Ndebele village features striking art mainly done by women; the most celebrated is Esther Mahlangu, who was invited to create an art car for this German company

BMW

AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $1,000 (Daily Double): Edgar Allan Poe's tale began in Boston in 1809 & ended in this other "B" city in 1849

Baltimore

BOMB THE "BAN" $600: Including Zulu & Xhosa, it's an African language group of over 500 languages

Bantu

CULTURES OF SOUTH AFRICA $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Lesedi Cultural Village in South Africa.) The Khoisan family of languages gave its click sound to some of this southern African group of over 500 languages, including Xhosa

Bantu

NOT A CURRENT NATIONAL CAPITAL $400: Ljubljana, Bratislava, Barcelona

Barcelona

ASIAN BODIES OF WATER $2000: In the southeast corner of Iraq, this main port of the country is on a waterway called the Shatt Al-Arab

Basra

ANIMALS IN COMPETITION $1000: Every May brings the frog jumping competition at the fair of this county southeast of Sacramento

Calaveras County

"OO" RAH $1600: French & English are the official languages of this country on Africa's west coast

Cameroon

THEY FOUGHT IN THE BIG ONE $800: There was just one springtime left for Hitler after this decisive December 1944 battle in which Mel Brooks fought

Battle of the Bulge

WORLD WAR II $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.) A panel honors the contribution of paratroop units like the 507th, which helped beat back this German counteroffensive of December 1944

Battle of the Bulge

____ OF THE ____ $800: The Germans drove a wedge into Allied lines during this World War II offensive, hence its name

Battle of the Bulge

BOOK DEDICATIONS $200: There's no catch--he dedicated "Catch-22" "To my mother and to my wife, Shirley, and my children, Erica and Ted"

Joseph Heller

BROADWAY MUSICALS $400: TV "Golden Girl" who played the matchmaker in "Fiddler on the Roof"

Bea Arthur

"BEFORE", NO AFTER $1200: Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy share one night in Vienna in this 1995 film

Before Sunrise

2004 OSCAR NOMINATIONS $800: Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke acted in this film, but were nominated for writing its screenplay

Before Sunset

CHINA, BUT NO BEACH $200: In 1275 Marco Polo visited this city, today China's capital, & praised its beauty

Beijing

EARLY MAN $5,000 (Daily Double): A major Homo erectus find took place at the Zhoukoudian Cave near this major city

Beijing (Peking)

COUNTRIES BY WORLD HERITAGE SITES $800: The Neolithic flint mines near Mons & the Brugge Historic Center

Belgium

A ROCKY CATEGORY $400: Rocky Aoki founded this chain of Japanese restaurants in which knife-wielding chefs entertain diners

Benihana

ASIAN AMERICANS $600: Entrepreneur Rocky Aoki founded this Japanese steakhouse chain famous for its hibachi tables

Benihana

I'M DATING MYSELF $400: I have teriyaki steak prepared just for me at my table in this restaurant founded by Rocky Aoki

Benihana

SUPERHERO DAY JOBS? $600: Wolverine slices & dices up meats for this teppanyaki restaurant chain that began in 1964

Benihana

ASIAN AMERICANS $400: Rocky Aoki founded this chain of Japanese restaurants where the chef puts on a show at the table

Benihana of Tokyo

TV DADS $200: James Noble, who plays Larry's dad on "Perfect Strangers", was Governor Gatling on this sitcom

Benson

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $2000: This official language of Morocco & Algeria is named for a nomadic people of north Africa

Berber

BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "God Knows", a 1984 novel by this "Catch-22" author, is a satire narrated by King David

Joseph Heller

OH! CALCUTTA! $500: A popular snack in the city is paan, a concoction of this nut that's a mild stimulant

Betel nut

IT'S WHERE I WANT TO "B" $800: This landlocked kingdom of the Himalayas

Bhutan

THE HIMALAYAS $1600: In 2007 this tiny, isolated kingdom east of Nepal held the first elections in its history

Bhutan

WORLD WAR I SLANG $1,000 (Daily Double): The German gun "Long Max" was not as famous as this alliterative Krupp product

Big Bertha

5 PEOPLE WHO'VE NEVER BEEN IN MY KITCHEN $200: In January 1999 Ted Kennedy & John McCain were sworn in as jurors in this man's trial

Bill Clinton

1895 $1200: This Asheville, North Carolina mansion was nearly finished after 6 years, so the Vanderbilts moved in

Biltmore

MOVIE ADJECTIVES $200: 1974: "_____ Saddles"

Blazing

COMEDY FILMS OF THE 1970s $1600: Harvey Korman had a villainous turn as Hedley Lamarr in this Mel Brooks Western

Blazing Saddles

HOT MOVIES $800: Hedy Lamarr sued Mel Brooks over the "use" of her name in this 1974 comedy & eventually settled out of court

Blazing Saddles

LIONS & TIGERS & BEARS, OH MY! $1200: Ex-Lions lineman Alex Karras KO'ed a horse with one punch in this comedy/Western film

Blazing Saddles

MOVIE COMEDY $400: Director Mel Brooks plays 2 roles in this 1974 comedy: Governor William J. Le Petomane & an Indian chief

Blazing Saddles

MOVIE COMEDY QUOTES $1600: "Mongo only pawn, in game of life"

Blazing Saddles

MOVIE POLITICIANS $800: Mel Brooks deals with Hedley (not Hedy!) Lamarr as Governor Le Petomane in this 1974 comedy

Blazing Saddles

MOVIES BY CHARACTERS $800: 1974: Bart, Lili von Shtupp, Gov. William J. LePetomane

Blazing Saddles

WE LOVE MEL BROOKS $800: Gene Wilder has a warning about Mongo in this film: "Don't do that. If you shoot him, you'll just make him mad"

Blazing Saddles

POP CULTURE $1200: Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin & Andrew Dice Clay were all in this 2013 Woody Allen movie

Blue Jasmine

AS A YOUNG MAN $2000: ...he ran his brother's senatorial campaign, then investigated Hoffa & the Teamsters

Bobby Kennedy

PLEISTOCENE STEALER $1000: Utah's Great Salt Lake is a remnant of this much larger Pleistocene lake that lent its name to some salt flats

Bonneville

125 YEARS OF CARNEGIE HALL $1600: In 1906, Mark Twain presided at this great educator's Tuskegee Institute Silver Anniversary lecture

Booker T. Washington

AVENGERS $400: In her quest for vengeance in a Donizetti opera, Lucrezia of this last name ends up poisoning her son

Borgia

BEFORE THEY WERE POPES $200: Alexander VI was formerly a high-living nobleman of this family & the father of Cesare & Lucrezia

Borgia

OPERA $800: Donizetti's operas include "Anna Bolena" & "Lucrezia" this

Borgia

RHYMES WITH A STATE $800: Surname of Cesare or Lucrezia

Borgia

FAMOUS FAMILIES $600: This treacherous Renaissance family reportedly held orgies in the Vatican

Borgias

NOTORIOUS $500: Rodrigo, a member of this flagrant family became Pope Alexander VI in 1492

Borgias

CHARACTER ASSASSINATION $1200: Air Force gunner Snowden catches some flak & dies in Yossarian's arms, courtesy of this author

Joseph Heller

FAMOUS QUOTES $800: The author who wrote, "That's some catch, that Catch-22"

Joseph Heller

"B" IN GEOGRAPHY $2000: This Slovakian capital was widely known by the German name Pressburg until after World War I

Bratislava

"B" PLUS $2000: This Slovak capital was also known by the German name of Pressburg

Bratislava

"B" SURE $800: It's the capital of Slovakia

Bratislava

ALL OVER THE WORLD $1000: With about 500,000 souls, this city is the most populous in Slovakia

Bratislava

COLLEGE WORLD $500: Slovak Technical University is found in this capital city

Bratislava

EUROPE $800: The capital of Hungary for over 200 years, it's now the capital of Slovakia

Bratislava

EUROPEAN CAPITALS: Since a national split in 1993, it's the only world capital that borders 2 other countries--Austria & Hungary

Bratislava

EUROPEAN HISTORY $1200: From 1541 to 1784 this current capital of Slovakia served as the capital of Hungary

Bratislava

ON THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE DANUBE $800: Hungary's former capital, this Danube city is now the capital of Slovakia

Bratislava

PYRAMIDS $1600: Who says a pyramid has to be pointy & up? Here's the headquarters of Slovak Radio in this capital city

Bratislava

WORLD CAPITALS $800: This Slovakian capital with "slav" in its name was occupied by the Slavs in the 8th century

Bratislava

ALL YOU NEED IS "LAV" $1,600 (Daily Double): The former capital of Hungary, today it's the capital of a neighboring country

Bratislava (in Slovakia)

Though they haven't won since 2002, with five titles, what long-time soccer powerhouse has more men's FIFA World Cup championships than any other?

Brazil

COMEDY FILMS $2000: Kirsten Dunst had all the right moves as captain of a cheerleading squad in this 2000 film

Bring It On

IT'S PG-13 $200: In it, Kirsten Dunst finds her cheerleader routines were stolen from East Compton

Bring It On

CANADIAN PROVINCES $1600: On its north, this province borders the Yukon; on its south, Idaho

British Columbia

FIRST NOVELS $200: "Catch-22"

Joseph Heller

GET LIT $400: He worked as a copywriter for Time magazine &, in his spare time, wrote the novel "Catch-22"

Joseph Heller

THE OLD WEST $800: He called his buffalo gun Lucrezia Borgia

Buffalo Bill Cody

"B" YOURSELF $200: In 1944 Allied soldiers & some of their heavy friends fought "The Battle of" this type of protrusion

Bulge

POE FOLKS $1600: In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", this sleuth is said to come from an illustrious family

C. Auguste Dupin

THE LONDON STAGE $1600: Judi Dench bowled 'em over as Sally Bowles in this musical that began its London run in 1968

Cabaret

EGYPT BEYOND THE PYRAMIDS $200: This teeming capital of today is found very near the site of the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis

Cairo

FROM SOUP TO NUTS $200: Its gourmet bisques include sweet potato tomatillo & Thai tomato coconut; M'm! M'm! Good!

Campbell's

DON'T BE A DUMAS $800: Winning the Nobel Prize in 1957, this African-born French author said he would've voted for Andre Malraux

Camus

SCANDINAVIANS $1,000 (Daily Double): We wouldn't call ourselves Homo sapiens without the work of this 18th C. Swedish naturalist

Carl Linnaeus

SECOND BANANAS $500: Mel Brooks & this second banana won a Spoken Comedy Grammy in 1999 for "The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000"

Carl Reiner

TV REDUX $600: A 1995 episode of "Mad About You" featured this actor as Alan Brady, his part on the old "Dick Van Dyke Show"

Carl Reiner

TV TRIVIA $400: On a 1995 "Mad About You", he reprised his "Dick Van Dyke Show" role of Alan Brady

Carl Reiner

PEOPLE $300: From 1969-1979 he was editor of Icarus, the international journal of solar system studies

Carl Sagan

THAT'S THE CHICAGO WAY! $400: He wrote that Chicago was proud to be a "player with railroads and freight handler to the nation"

Carl Sandburg

ALL THE PRESIDENTS' CHILDREN $200: In 2002 she edited a new book of essays: "Profiles in Courage for Our Time"

Caroline Kennedy

THE CONSTELLATIONS $2000: In 1572 Tycho Brahe discovered a supernova in this constellation which looks like an irregular "W" or "M"

Cassiopeia

20th CENTURY NOVELS $100: In a 1961 Joseph Heller novel, "There was only one catch and that was" this

Catch-22

AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: This 1961 Joseph Heller novel was set on the island of Pianosa during WWII

Catch-22

BOOK SEQUELS $600: Joseph Heller's "Closing Time"

Catch-22

BOOKS BY THE NUMBERS $400: The title of this Joseph Heller novel has come to mean an impossible situation

Catch-22

CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $800: (Hi, I'm Charles Shaughnessy.) I love Yossarian in this Joseph Heller novel, especially when he shows up naked at his own medal ceremony

Catch-22

ISLANDS IN LITERATURE $400: Joseph Heller used the Mediterranean island of Pianosa as the setting for this 1961 WWII novel

Catch-22

LIT-POURRI $200: This 1961 novel by Joseph Heller takes place on the island of Pianosa

Catch-22

NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS $200: Joseph Heller based his play "Clevinger's Trial" on Chapter 8 of this, his most famous novel

Catch-22

WAR STORIES $200: In this Joseph Heller novel, Captain Yossarian pleads insanity in an attempt to get grounded from flying

Catch-22

21st CENTURY OSCAR WINNERS: She's the only performer to win an Oscar for playing a real-life Oscar winner

Cate Blanchett

ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $600: Galadriel & Katharine Hepburn

Cate Blanchett

BIG-SCREEN GENDER BENDERS $2000: Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There"

Cate Blanchett

MOVIE QUEENS $1600: 9 years after "Elizabeth", she had another go-round as the monarch in 2007's "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"

Cate Blanchett

SEX & THE CITY $1000: Female; born Melbourne, 1969; specializes in playing Queen Elizabeth I on film

Cate Blanchett

SPIRITED CINEMA $1600: In "The Gift" this Aussie actress plays a psychic who gets some much needed help from her former client

Cate Blanchett

THE AUSSIE POSSE $400: This actress who plays elf queen Galadriel provides the narration for "The Fellowship of the Ring"

Cate Blanchett

THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $2000: (Blue) Jasmine turned into a red-hot role for this Aussie

Cate Blanchett

TITLE ACTORS $1200: "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"

Cate Blanchett

EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: This Medici had "24 maids of honor of high rank & low principles to help her seduce...nobles"

Catherine de Medici

THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a diagram of the Battle of Gettysburg.) Confederate forces seized the high ground of Seminary Ridge. Union troops retreated to face them along this ridge with a similar sounding, perhaps more appropriate name.

Cemetary Ridge

PLANET EARTH $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents a timeline on the monitor.) Chronologically, the major eras of Earth's history are the Paleozoic, the Mesozoic & this new animal era, in which we & the Earth live today

Cenozoic

THE BORGIAS $1200: The policies of this conniving Borgia son were so ruthless that Machiavelli cited him as an example of the new prince

Cesare

THE RENAISSANCE $800: In 1497 this Borgia was accused of murdering his brother Giovanni, Duke of Benevento & Gandia

Cesare

PRINCE $1000: This member of the infamous Borgia family was the model for & was idealized in Machiavelli's "The Prince"

Cesare Borgia

RENAISSANCE MEN $2000: In "The Prince", Machiavelli used him as the model for the ruthless ruler who'd do anything to retain power

Cesare Borgia

CONFUSING LYRICS $1000: This "boozy" Oasis tune has the line "slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball"

Champagne Supernova

FOR A SONG $2000: In an Oasis song "someday you will find me, caught beneath the landslide, in a" this title "in the sky"

Champagne Supernova

Who is Cate Blanchett?

Catherine Elise Blanchett, AC (/ˈblæntʃət/;[1][2] born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actress and theatre director. She has received many accolades, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and three BAFTA Awards. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2007 and in 2018, she was ranked among the highest-paid actresses in the world. After graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Blanchett began her acting career in the Australian stage, taking on roles in Electra in 1992 and in Hamlet in 1994. She came to international attention for portraying Elizabeth I of England in the drama film Elizabeth (1998), for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress and earned her first Academy Award for Best Actress nomination. Her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator (2004) earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and she won the Best Actress Oscar for playing a neurotic divorcée in Blue Jasmine (2013). Her other Oscar-nominated roles were in the dramas Notes on a Scandal (2006), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), I'm Not There (2007), and Carol (2015). Blanchett's most commercially successful films include The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003) and The Hobbit trilogy (2012-2014), Babel (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Cinderella (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), and Ocean's 8 (2018). From 2008 to 2013, Blanchett and her husband Andrew Upton served as the artistic directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. Some of her stage roles during this period were in revivals of A Streetcar Named Desire, Uncle Vanya, and The Maids. She made her Broadway debut in 2017 with The Present, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. Blanchett has been awarded the Centenary Medal by the Australian government, who made her a companion of the Order of Australia in 2017.[3] She was appointed Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2012. She has been presented with a Doctor of Letters from University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, and Macquarie University. In 2015, she was honoured by the Museum of Modern Art and received the British Film Institute Fellowship.

FILMS OF THE '60s $2,000 (Daily Double): Before becoming a superstar, he was 1 of "The Magnificent Seven" & "The Dirty Dozen"

Charles Bronson

MOVIE GROUPS $2000: He's the only actor to be included in both "The Magnificent Seven" & "The Dirty Dozen"

Charles Bronson

BESTSELLERS BY AUTHOR $800: "All the Pretty Horses" (1992)

Cormac McCarthy

COLORFUL LIT $1600: This Sebastian Faulks novel set during WWII was turned into a 2001 movie starring Cate Blanchett

Charlotte Gray

FORESTS $600: The forest around this Ukrainian nuclear plant is still unsafe for humans, but teems with possibly mutant wild boars

Chernobyl

BLACK & WHITE & READ $600: Erik Larson's "The Devil in the White City" tells of "Murder, Magic, and Madness" at this city's 1893 World's Fair

Chicago

IN THE BOOKSTORE $600: "The Devil in the White City" examines "Murder, Magic & Madness" at the 1893 World's Fair in this U.S. city

Chicago

COMMA SYMPATHIZERS $2000: Even this punctuation-averse author of "Blood Meridian" admits to the "occasional comma"

Cormac McCarthy

ANCIENT TIMES $200: The ancient Ban Chiang poetry of Thailand resembles that of this country's neolithic Yang-Shao period

China

UNFINISHED OPERAS $1600: Let's wax philosophical & wonder why Rousseau left only fragments of his opera about Daphnis & her

Chloe

THEIR TEEN YEARS $1600: At 17, this ex-Mousketeer sang "Reflection" on the soundtrack for "Mulan"

Christina Aguilera

WHAT'S THE PLAN? $1000: He told Spain he planned to use the proceeds from his trip to Asia to help recapture Jerusalem from the Muslims

Christopher Columbus

LESSER-KNOWN ART & ARTISTS $1600: In a painting by John William Waterhouse, this femme fatale offers a cup to Ulysses

Circe

BATTLES $200: Antietam, Atlanta & Chickamauga were battles during this war

Civil War

WAR STORIES $100: "Marching On", "By Antietam Creek"

Civil War

ANCIENT MOVIES $2000: John Sayles wrote the script for this film that starred Daryl Hannah as a Cro-Magnon gal raised by Neanderthals

Clan of the Cave Bear

CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $700 (Daily Double): This famous nurse was nearly killed when a bullet ripped through her dress at the battle of Antietam

Clara Barton

MEN AT WORK $1000: This Scopes trial man was an occasional law partner with the poet Edgar Lee Masters

Clarence Darrow

CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $800: This author of "The Road" told Oprah he doesn't use commas because they "block the page up with weird little marks"

Cormac McCarthy

FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $600: Several of his books have been filmed, including "No Country for Old Men"

Cormac McCarthy

HEADLINES FROM THE ONION $1000: This "Blood Meridian" author "Flaunts Sexy New Beach Body"

Cormac McCarthy

CONSUMER PRODUCTS: This product was reintroduced in 1906 with trimethylxanthine as the sole remaining stimulant

Coca-Cola

HE PLAYED CHURCHILL $800: In "The King's Speech" Timothy Spall was Churchill to his George VI

Colin Firth

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS GO POSTAL $200: The chemical symbol for cobalt is the U.S. postal abbreviation for this state

Colorado (Co)

HELLER $200: Joseph Heller was born in 1923 in this section of Brooklyn that shares its name with an amusement park

Coney Island

THE UNIVERSE $1000: A supernova explosion observed by the Chinese in 1054 left this hazy cloud in Taurus

Crab Nebula

19th CENTURY SCIENCE $1000: The first skeletons of this early human were discovered in a French cave in 1868

Cro-Magnon

ARCHAEOLOGY $200: A fossil found in Portugal may have been the child of Neanderthals & these early modern humans

Cro-Magnon

EARLY MAN $1200: Named for an area in France, these humans of 40,000 to 10,000 years ago get rave reviews for their art

Cro-Magnon

IT'S HYPHENATED $1,000 (Daily Double): Named for a cave in France, these prehistoric humans were skillful artists & toolmakers

Cro-Magnon

PREHISTORIC TIMES $1,200 (Daily Double): This prehistoric people that followed Neanderthal man produced the first examples of human artwork

Cro-Magnon

THE CIVIL WAR $400: More famous for a Montana battle, he & his men kept Jeb Stuart from attacking the Union rear at Gettysburg

Custer

SPECIFIC GENERAL HISTORY $400: A brigadier gen. at 23, he distinguished himself at Gettysburg, but things didn't go as well for him in the Montana territory

Custer (George Armstrong Custer)

CONSTELLATIONS $2000: 2 stars in the Big Dipper's bowl point to the North Star; 2 others point to this constellation of the swan

Cygnus

A BEFORE E $1600: Wax nostalgic & name this Athenian craftsman, father of Icarus

Daedalus

AVIATION $400: In 1988 a Greek cyclist pedaled 74 miles across the Aegean in an aircraft named for this father of Icarus

Daedalus

BAD FORTUNE COOKIES $200: Your words of advice are as powerful as when this man of myth warned his boy Icarus about flying too near the sun

Daedalus

FATHERS & SONS: The island where this man's son washed ashore was later named Ikaria

Daedalus

GREEK MYTHOLOGY $800: Some say he fled Crete by boat & his son Icarus fell overboard & drowned

Daedalus

GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Ariadne got the ball of twine that she gave to Theseus from this man before his flight from Crete

Daedalus

MYTHOLOGY $200: He designed the labyrinth at Minos & was later imprisoned there with his son Icarus

Daedalus

MYTHOLOGY $400: This father of Icarus was considered the first aviator

Daedalus

MYTHOLOGY $800: He made wax wings so he & his son Icarus could escape Crete; a great plan in theory, but...

Daedalus

MYTHOLOGY $800: This father of Icarus was hired to construct the Labyrinth & was then held prisoner

Daedalus

MYTHOLOGY: Banished from Athens, this inventor found trouble on Crete too, but escaped

Daedalus

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'S MARS $800: Part of the series is set in 2033, when the first human mission heads to Mars on a ship named for this father of Icarus

Daedalus

THEY'RE STILL MYTHING $400: Icarus' dad, he built the Labyrinth

Daedalus

MYTH ME? $500: Serge Lifar's ballet "Icare" is based on the myth of this father & son flying team

Daedalus & Icarus

IT OPENED IN NEW HAVEN $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven) Appropriately, this "Catch-22" author's play, "We Bombed in New Haven," opened in New Haven, at Yale Rep.

Joseph Heller

2027: THE YEAR IN ENTERTAINMENT $800: She won an Oscar as the Queen in "Shakespeare in Love"; now she wins a Grammy for her CD of 50 Cent rap covers

Dame Judi Dench

ENDS IN "ENCH" $600: She played "M" in the James Bond movies "Tomorrow Never Dies" & "The World is Not Enough"

Dame Judi Dench

THE OSCARS: Since 1998 this actress has received 7 Oscar nominations, the most earned after age 60 by any performer

Dame Judi Dench

ART & RELIGION $2000: Here's the writing on the wall--Rembrandt painted Belshazzar's feast from chapter 5 of this Biblical book

Daniel

WORLD LITERATURE $400: In 1703 this "Robinson Crusoe" author offended each side in a religious dispute & was sentenced to Newgate Prison

Daniel Defoe

LITERARY LAST NAMES $800: "The Count of Monte Cristo": Edmond

Dantes

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT $200: Vienna & Bratislava

Danube

GEOGRAPHY $600: Bratislava, Belgrade & Budapest all lie on this river

Danube

INTERNATIONAL POTPOURRI $200: Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, lies on this "Beautiful Blue" river

Danube

THE HIMALAYAS $2,500 (Daily Double): Tea is the main product of this city on the slopes of the Himalayas in West Bengal

Darjeeling

NEWS ON THE MARCH $2000: In March 1967 Robert Kennedy came up with a nifty Vietnam peace plan, but this Secretary of State rejected it

Dean Rusk

OSCAR WINNERS' RHYME TIME $2000: Dame Judi's ditches

Dench's trenches

CARNAC-IAN BONDS $800: Dame Judi, a serving girl & the tool she may hit you with for calling her that

Dench, Wench, Wrench

MARTIN SCORSESE, ACTOR $1000: Scorsese joined Ethan Hawke & this "Easy Rider" star in the cast of 1995's "Search And Destroy"

Dennis Hopper

THE NEW TESTAMENT $600: In Acts 19, St. Paul spoke at Ephesus against this goddess whose temple was an ancient wonder

Diana (or Artemis)

NEBRASKANS $1200: This 1968-1975 ABC talk show host had intellectual cachet--Norman Mailer head-butted Gore Vidal in his green room!

Dick Cavett

THE BIG BLANK THEORY $400: Big ____: Alcor & Mizar are in its handle

Dipper

CELEBS WE'D LIKE TO SEE ON REALITY SHOWS $600: Duane Chapman's new sidekick chasing down bad guys on this A&E show? 3 words: Dame. Judi. Dench

Dog the Bounty Hunter

TALE AS OLD AS TIME $200: Tired & disillusioned after a duel with the knight of the white moon, he returns home to La Mancha

Don Quixote

IN THE "D" TALES $4,000 (Daily Double): The full title of this novel includes "El Ingenioso Hidalgo"

Don Quixote (de la Mancha)

MUSIC $1,800 (Daily Double): The women he wrote operas about include Anna Bolena, Lucrezia Borgia & La Fille du Regiment

Donizetti

FASHION $500: At Blomingdale's, the DKNY shop features ready-to-wear clothes by this N.Y. designer

Donna Karan

SINGERS IN TOON $2000: This former teen idol sang for Shang in "Mulan"

Donny Osmond

STREETS $200: In 2000 Tony Blair lived there

Downing Street

NOW THAT'S INVENTIVE! $200: Around 1862 this doctor invented a machine gun that could fire about 350 rounds per minute

Dr. Richard Gatling

LAWYER/ AUTHORS NOT JOHN GRISHAM $2000: This 3-named poet maintained his successful Chicago law practice while penning works like "Spoon River Anthology"

Edgar Lee Masters

THE SENATOR OF MY WORLD $400: In early 2010 Scott Brown defeated Martha Coakley to win the seat held by this man for 47 years

Edward Kennedy (Ted Kennedy)

SUMMARIZING PROUST $2000: Proust organized petitions for this French soldier, unjustly sentenced in 1894 to imprisonment on Devil's Island

Dreyfus

ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $200: James Joyce's 15 stories about the metropolitan Irish around 1900

Dubliners

Who were the Rebels in the Civil War?

During and immediately after the war, U.S. officials, Southern Unionists, and pro-Union writers often referred to Confederates as "Rebels". The earliest histories published in northern U.S. states commonly refer to the American Civil War as "the Great Rebellion" or "the War of the Rebellion", as do many war monuments.

EMMY WINNERS: These 2 men with 16 total career Emmys appeared in series with Mary Tyler Moore, one playing a TV host, one a TV producer

Ed Asner & Carl Reiner

CARTOON VOICES $600: Before his Donkey days, this funny guy voiced Mushu the dragon in "Mulan"

Eddie Murphy

ENTERTAINING CRITTERS $1000: He voiced a dragon in "Mulan"

Eddie Murphy

MURPHY! $2000: In 2015 this star of TV & film was honored with the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

Eddie Murphy

AN ALL-EDDIE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Grambling State's football coach from 1941 to 1997 becomes a Defoe title character

Eddie Robinson Crusoe

ACTORS PLAYING WRITERS $400: In "The Raven" a serial killer is inspired by the works of this author played by John Cusack

Edgar Allan Poe

AMERICAN LIT: He wrote, "The hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker & quicker, & louder & louder every instant"

Edgar Allan Poe

BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $200: "Nevermore: A Photobiography of" him

Edgar Allan Poe

I PLAYED HIM IN THE RECENT MOVIE $600: Guy Pearce: This abdicator in "The King's Speech"

Edward VIII

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $400: Cairene Arabic is perhaps the most widely understood form of Arabic due to this country's films & TV shows

Egypt

CAMPBELLS $200: George Bernard Shaw wrote this role in "Pygmalion" for the actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell, who played her in 1914

Eliza Doolittle

DRAMA QUEENS $600: A 1952 play covered the young life of this queen, like a 1998 Cate Blanchett film

Elizabeth I

ROLE IN COMMON $400: Bette Davis, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett

Elizabeth I

ROYALTY ON FILM $800: Cate Blanchett in 1998 as this title queen

Elizabeth I

THE BRITISH MONARCH WHEN... $400: ...John F. Kennedy was assassinated

Elizabeth II

HISTORIC AMERICA $200: Issued after the battle of Antietam, this document took effect January 1, 1863

Emancipation Proclamation

SHORE LINES $800: A poem by her rhymes "your poor" with "the wretched refuse of your teeming shore"

Emma Lazarus

A STUDENT OF FILM $400: She left Hogwarts for a new school as Sam in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"

Emma Watson

ACTRESSES $1200: She voiced Princess Pea in "The Tale of Despereaux"; oh yeah, she was also Hermione in a few "Harry Potter"s

Emma Watson

ALL THINGS DISNEY $600: Belle from "Beauty and the Beast" was a role model for this actress growing up & in 2017 she got to play her on film

Emma Watson

AT LEAST 20 MILLION TWITTER FOLLOWERS $800: 29 million: This "Harry Potter" actress is a champion for women both on & off screen

Emma Watson

OUR OLD PAL WATSON $600: On film, she's Hermione Granger

Emma Watson

ROLE REVERSAL $1200: She entranced us as a proper little witch but then cast a spell as a Valley Girl party animal in "The Bling Ring"

Emma Watson

YOUNG ACTORS $2,400 (Daily Double): This "Harry Potter" actress made history in 2005 as the youngest ever to grace the cover of Teen Vogue

Emma Watson

JOE MAMA $2000: Fuhgeddaboudit! This Brooklyn-born writer, Lena's boy, flew 60 combat missions as a WWII bombardier

Joseph Heller

JOE-POURRI $500: "Closing Time" was his 1994 sequel to "Catch-22"

Joseph Heller

AFRICA'S OFFICIAL LANGUAGES $1000: In Rwanda: Kinyarwanda, French & this

English

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

English and Afrikaans

GET YOUR IRISH UP $1000: 3-word phrase meaning "Ireland forever"

Erin go bragh

NOT JUST AN AD WRITER $400: While working at an ad agency in 1953, he started work on a book called "Catch-18"

Joseph Heller

NOVELS & NOVELISTS $400: He wrote a play called "Clevinger's Trial", based on Chapter 8 of his novel "Catch-22"

Joseph Heller

PLAYWRIGHTS $400: He also wrote the stage version of "Catch-22"

Joseph Heller

A MIDNIGHT MOVIE $2000: "Before Midnight" is the third film starring Julie Delpy as Celine & him as Jesse

Ethan Hawke

ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: This "Training Day" co-star wrote the novels "The Hottest State" & "Ash Wednesday"

Ethan Hawke

BOOKS BY CELEBRITIES $1000: With "Great Expectations", this "Gattaca" star published his first novel "The Hottest State" in 1996

Ethan Hawke

CELEBRITY BOOKS $800: "Ash Wednesday" is a novel about love & marriage by this actor, Uma Thurman's husband

Ethan Hawke

FEATURE FILM DEBUTS $400: He was just 14 (& not yet married to Uma Thurman) when he debuted in "Explorers" in 1985

Ethan Hawke

FILMS OF THE FUTURE $1200: In "Gattaca", it's odd that he plays a genetic failure but appropriate that he falls for Uma Thurman

Ethan Hawke

HEY, GOOD LOOKING! $1600: (Hey, I'm Mark McGrath.) People often mistake me for this "Training Day" actor, so I'll sign autographs as him & he'll sign autographs as me

Ethan Hawke

GROWING UP ON FILM $1000: Jeremy Kissner & Raquel Beaudene grow up to be these 2 actors in 1998's "Great Expectations"

Ethan Hawke & Gwyneth Paltrow

OUR ANCIENT RELATIVES $1600: The oldest Homo sapiens fossils date from 195,000 years ago & were found in this Horn of Africa nation

Ethiopia

IN MEMORIAM 2009 $400: This founder of the Special Olympics & member of a political dynasty passed away in Hyannis at 88

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS $1000: The idea for the Special Olympics grew out of a summer camp for the disabled started by this Kennedy sister

Eunice Shriver

TELEVISION $200: Gary David Goldberg & Alan Uger won 1987 Emmys for writing this series' "My Name Is Alex" episode

Family Ties

CELEBRITY BOOKS $1000: Not surprisingly, her "Whistle Stop Cafe Cookbook" includes a recipe for fried green tomatoes

Fannie Flagg

CLUES ACROSS NEW YORK CITY $800: (I'm Liz Cho from New York's ABC7.) Ulysses S. Grant & his wife Julia lie together in Grant's Tomb in upper Manhattan; it is said their desire to be interred side by side stemmed from a visit to the tomb of this Spanish royal couple

Ferdinand and Isabella

What instrument did Ferris Bueller play in the movie Ferris Beuller's Day Off?

Ferris plays a Clarinet.

19th CENTURY LIT $200: "Tevye the Dairyman", published beginning in 1894, inspired this Broadway & movie musical

Fiddler on the Roof

ANAGRAMMED BROADWAY MUSICALS $600: Zero was my hero in this: "INFERRED FOOT HOLD"

Fiddler on the Roof

BROADWAY MUSICALS $200: In the 1960s Pia Zadora, Bette Midler & A. Barbeau all played Tevye's daughters in this musical

Fiddler on the Roof

BROADWAY MUSICALS $800: "Un Violon sur le Toit" was a French version of this Broadway smash

Fiddler on the Roof

BROADWAY TRADITIONS $600: Talk about "Tradition": In 2004 Alfred Molina starred in the fourth Broadway revival of this musical

Fiddler on the Roof

CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $300: Attention, matchmakers: Tzeitel, Hodel, Chava, Shprintze & Bielke are the 5 daughters in this musical

Fiddler on the Roof

CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $400: Lazar Wolf

Fiddler on the Roof

CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $800: As a child in the '60s, Pia Zadora played Tevye's daughter Bielke in this Broadway musical

Fiddler on the Roof

CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $800: Harvey Fierstein milked the role of Tevye in a revival of this classic musical

Fiddler on the Roof

MUSICAL MUSICALS $600: It featured the songs "Sunrise, Sunset" & "Matchmaker, Matchmaker"

Fiddler on the Roof

MUSICAL THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Sharon Lawrence.) Before appearing on TV I appeared on Broadway in several musical revivals including this one set in Anatevka

Fiddler on the Roof

MUSICAL THEATRE $300: At the end of this musical, Tevye & Golde leave Anatevka for America to join their uncle Abram

Fiddler on the Roof

NAME THE MUSICAL $200 (Daily Double): Rabbi, Fruma-Sarah, Grandma Tzeitel

Fiddler on the Roof

PLACE THAT TUNE $800: "Sunrise, Sunset"

Fiddler on the Roof

PAINT MISS, BEHAVING $600: Rembrandt liked to depict his wife as this goddess of blooming plants--note the garland

Flora

"FOOL"ISHNESS $400: Rash, reckless, or what Stan Laurel might do if he played a trick

Foolhardy

THEIR FIRST NOVELS $400: "Catch-22" (1961)

Joseph Heller

VETERANS $400: This late veteran bombardier wrote a novel about a bombardier, "Catch-22"

Joseph Heller

WRITERS IN WARTIME $1600: His time in the 488th Bombardment Squadron, 340th Bombardment Group inspired a classic satirical novel

Joseph Heller

First line of the Gettyburg Address?

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The Gettysburg Address?

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863

EARLY MAN $400: Remains of the Cro-Magnon Man were discovered in 1868 in the Cromagnon cave in this country

France

THE BORGIAS $1200: As Pope Alexander VI, Rodrigo Borgia fought the invasion of Italy by King Charles VIII of this country; plague helped

France

SECONDS $2000: From 1577 to 1580 he commanded the second voyage ever to go around the world

Francis Drake

HOLLYWOOD SQUARES $1000: Judd Apatow produced this 1999 TV series about weirdos & dweebs

Freaks and Geeks

PICK YOUR BATTLE $800: Won by the Rebs: Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Sharpsburg

Fredericksburg

AFRICA'S OFFICIAL LANGUAGES $200: In Benin: this

French

AFRICA'S OFFICIAL LANGUAGES $400: In Gabon: this

French

AFRICA'S OFFICIAL LANGUAGES $600: In Cameroon: English & this

French

AFRICA'S OFFICIAL LANGUAGES $800: In Equatorial Guinea: Spanish & this

French

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $800: This European language is an official language of Chad & Burkina Faso, among other countries

French

CHARACTERS IN BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): In a 1719 novel it is the name given to a man who is rescued from a band of cannibals

Friday

LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: Robinson Crusoe writes, "I made him know his name should be" this, "which was the day I saved his life"

Friday

LITERARY SECOND BANANAS $400: Robinson Crusoe "taught him to say yes and no and to know the meaning of them"

Friday

TRUTH SEEKERS $1200: In his "Genealogy of Morals", this 19th c. German philosopher wrote that "The will to truth requires a critique"

Friedrich Nietzsche

HIT TV THEME SONGS $400: The Rembrandts sang "I'll Be There For You", the theme song of this show

Friends

IMPRISONED AUTHORS $1600: Marco Polo dictated his far east adventures while in prison in this city, Venice's rival

Genoa

1937 $600: In December he was appointed U.S. ambassador to Great Britain; wife Rose & his large family accompanied him there

Joseph Kennedy

WORD ORIGINS $500: Our word "bog" probably came from this language; it helps if you think of peat bogs

Gaelic

BODIES OF WATER $400: Around 1633 Rembrandt painted the Biblical scene "Storm on the Sea of" this

Galilee

SINGLE-ARTIST MUSEUMS $400: The museum created for this woman also maintains her home & studio in Abiquiu, New Mexico, 60 miles away

Georgia O'Keeffe

"FIELD" TRIP $1600: Decent but dull Jon Q. Arbuckle owns this comic strip animal

Garfield Crossword clue: Garfield, to Jon Arbuckle Answer: petcat

BORN IN 1818 $2000: He invented seed-planting & cotton-thinning machines as well as his crank-operated machine gun

Gatling

IF EARLY INVENTORS USED KICKSTARTER $1200: OK, my 1839 screw propeller for steamboats was a few months late at the patent office, but help me fire up my 1862 machine gun

Gatling

THE 1860s $600: The drawing accompanying an 1862 weapons patent by this man is seen here

Gatling

THE CIVIL WAR $500: Due to rumors of his Southern sympathies, the U.S. Gov't didn't buy his new machine gun during the war

Gatling

THE SPLENDID LITTLE WAR $1000: Teddy Roosevelt called the sound of these early machine guns "the only sound I ever heard my men cheer in battle"

Gatling Guns

THE CIVIL WAR $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.) At the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, the Union's center line at Cemetery Ridge was hit by 12,000 Confederates who suffered 42% casualties in the skirmish known as this man's "charge"

Gen. George Pickett

ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE SCHOOLS $800: Its fight song says you're "a hell of a engineer" at this school that opened in 1888

Georgia Tech

& NOW THIS UPDATE $1600: Wouldn't it be loverly for you to name this author of "Pygmalion", from which "My Fair Lady" was adapted

George Bernard Shaw

'TIS IRISH LITERATURE $600: In "Arms and the Man", by him, a fugitive soldier exposes some villagers' romantic ideas about war

George Bernard Shaw

FAQ $1200: This "Pygmalion" playwright wrote, "You see things; & you say, 'Why?' but I dream things that never were; & I say, 'Why not?"'

George Bernard Shaw

IN PRAISE OF OLDER WRITERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In his 90s, this Irish playwright was still writing comedies like "Far-Fetched Fables"

George Bernard Shaw

MONOGRAM MANIA $600: A famous playwright: GBS

George Bernard Shaw

PLAYWRIGHTS $800: "Mrs. Warren's Profession" was scandalous when this Irish-born man wrote a 1902 play of that title

George Bernard Shaw

WORLD OF BOOKS $800: 4 Nobel Prize literature winners were born on the Emerald Isle: Yeats, Beckett, Heaney & this playwright

George Bernard Shaw

WRITERS BY INITIALS $200: A play-full Dublin native: GBS

George Bernard Shaw

THE PLAYWRIGHT WRITES $1200: "By George, Eliza, the streets will be strewn with the bodies of men shooting themselves for your sake"

George Bernard Shaw (in Pygmalion)

OOPS! $500: In July 1995 the RCMP & the Secret Service had to rescue this former U.S. president from a Canadian peat bog

George Bush

WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO? $1200: Lincoln: "Pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since...Antietam that fatigue anything?"

George McClellan

THE UNION, JACK $1000: Days after assuming command of the Army of the Potomac, he led the Union to victory at Gettysburg

George Meade

BOOK SMARTS $800: The 8 books recommended by Neil deGrasse Tyson for smart people include the Bible & this book about Yahoos

Gulliver's Travels

CIVIL WAR NAMES $800: Of a doomed attack at Gettysburg, this Confederate made the charge that Lee "had my division massacred"

George Pickett

CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $1600: Asked why the Confederates lost Gettysburg, he "charge"d, "The Yankees had something to do with it"

George Pickett

CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $400: Known for his Gettysburg "Charge", after the War he sold insurance in Richmond

George Pickett

THE CIVIL WAR $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated map diagram on the monitor.) Although he was but 1 of 4 division commanders with Trimble, Pettigrew & Anderson in an attack at Gettysburg, the charge is named for this general

George Pickett

BYE, GEORGE! $400: This king's speech ended on Feb. 6, 1952 in Sandringham

George VI

MASTERPIECES OF ART $200: Gilbert Stuart's unfinished "Athenaeum Head" portrait of this man appears on the $1 bill

George Washington

REMEMBERING TED KENNEDY $800: Destined for a political career, Ted Kennedy was born Feb. 22, 1932, the 200th anniv. of this president's birth

George Washington

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PROUST $400: One of Marcel's chums at the Lycee Condorcet was Jacques, son of this "Carmen" composer

Georges Bizet

IF THEY MARRIED... $1000: Ms. Frontiere, owner of the Rams, marries Lucrezia's brother Cesare & gets this rhyming name

Georgia Borgia

NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN $800: This artist began living in New Mexico in the 1930s, eventually buying a hacienda in Abiquiu with a large garden

Georgia O'Keeffe

SCULPTURE $800: An art museum on Madison Avenue is named for this sculptress who created the Titanic Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

"GET" GOING $1200: It's about 40 miles southwest of Harrisburg

Gettysburg

A BRIDGE TO SOMEWHERE $600: We will largely note & long remember Sachs Bridge in this city used by both Union & rebel troops

Gettysburg

ANNUAL EVENTS $1200: On November 19, Dedication Day at a national cemetery commemorates the anniversary of this speech

Gettysburg

BEGINS & ENDS IN "G" $5,005 (Daily Double): The farm where Pres. Eisenhower lived after his retirement lies outside this Pennsylvania town

Gettysburg

CEREMONIES $1,000 (Daily Double): A ceremony on November 19, 1863 dedicated a cemetery in this town

Gettysburg

CIVIL WAR DIARY $800: July 1, 1863: Good news, get to keep leg; bad news, I'm going to Cemetery Ridge for this Penn. battle

Gettysburg

CIVIL WAR LITERATURE $400: Michael Shaara's 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner "The Killer Angels" tells the story of this 3-day battle

Gettysburg

FACTS ABOUT FICTION $400: "The Killer Angels", Michael Shaara's fiction Pulitzer winner for 1975, covers this decisive July 1863 battle

Gettysburg

HISTORICAL FICTION $1200: "Gods and Generals" by Jeff Shaara fictionalizes the events culminating in this Civil War battle

Gettysburg

LINCOLN QUOTES $200: Lincoln was at this location when he said that "we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain"

Gettysburg

AMERICAN ARTISTS $600: His portraits of George Washington include Athenaeum, Vaughan & Landsdowne types

Gilbert Stuart

ART & ARTISTS $600: He painted 3 types of a portraits of George Washington called Vaughan, Athenaeum & Lansdowne

Gilbert Stuart

FEEL THE ROBERT BURNS! $1200: The Mitchell Library in this city houses a vast Burns collection that "rangers" from manuscripts to scrapbooks

Glasgow

POLITICS & SHOW BIZ $300: She's played Queen Elizabeth I, but decided to join the House of Commons:

Glenda Jackson

CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $600: "The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss" is by Anderson Cooper & her

Gloria Vanderbilt

GLORIA, GLORIA $800: With good jeans, this heiress & socialite turned 92 in 2016

Gloria Vanderbilt

THE "VAN" POOL $1600: Anderson Cooper must have good jeans: his mom is this heiress & designer

Gloria Vanderbilt

GENERAL SCIENCE $1000: Quarks are bound together by hypothetical force particles called these

Gluons

CULTURES OF SOUTH AFRICA $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Lesedi Cultural Village in South Africa.) The Xhosa hymn "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" evolved into the South African national anthem; "Nkosi" is God, so the title means this

God Bless Africa

WORLD AUTHORS $1200: He conceived the general plan for "Faust" in 1770, but it wasn't until 1808 that the complete first part was published

Goethe

TALES $400: The islands of Luggnagg & Glubbdubdrib are visited in this 1726 satiric adventure

Gulliver's Travels

CAVES $2000: Stunning examples of Paleolithic art, like the ones seen here, can be found in this cave in France's Vézère Valley

Lascaux Cave

THE "GOOD" BOOK $800: This Joseph Heller novel treats Jewish family life & the Washington political scene

Good as Gold

WHAT'S UP, DOC? $1000: It appears you have hyperthyroidism resulting from this serious-sounding disease, its most common cause

Graves' Disease

THE "GREAT" $600: You'll be a big dipper if you know Ursa Major means this

Great Bear

THE KENNEDYS $600: Joseph Kennedy was appointed Ambassador to this country beginning in 1937

Great Britain

'90s MOVIES $500: Ethan Hawke & Robert De Niro starred in this film based on a Dickens novel

Great Expectations

CEO COMPENSATION $800: Not Marco, but certainly "Polo"! He wore it well, drawing nearly $67 million

Lauren

Which of these weapons is the only one that does NOT appear on the official national flag of a current UN-recognized country? A. Sword B. Grenade C. Spear D. AK-47

Grenade

PLAYING JOURNALIST $2000: Last name of Veronica, the crusading Irish journalist played by Cate Blanchett in 2003

Guerin

FICTIONAL PLACES $800: His "Travels" include meeting a bunch of Yahoos on the island of the Houyhnhnms

Gulliver

AT THE YARD SALE $800: Ah! A copy of this book that Jonathan Swift published "to vex the world rather than to divert it"

Gulliver's Travels

ROGER EBERT ON MOVIES $200: For the Oscars in 1999, I correctly predicted these 2 actresses would win for "Shakespeare in Love"

Gwyneth Paltrow & Judi Dench

UNREAL ESTATE $1600: In 1900 Mark Twain wrote a story about "The Man Who Corrupted" this honest & upright burg

Hadleyburg

URBAN LITERATURE $1200: A mysterious sack in a bank vault stirs greed in the Mark Twain tale "The Man that Corrupted" this town

Hadleyburg

THEY'RE HISTORY! $300: Known for his long wall, he also built Rome's magnificent Athenaeum

Hadrian

PUT OUT THE CHINA $1200: In 87 B.C. the Chinese recorded an astronomical phenomenon that scientists think was this, also seen in 1607 A.D.

Halley's comet

AFRICAN LANGUAGES $1600: Semitic languages are named for Shem; this group of languages, for another of Noah's sons

Hamitic

NATIVE SONS $1,000 (Daily Double): A plain white fence on Hill Street is a tourist attraction in this Missouri town

Hannibal, Missouri

STRAIGHT MEN $200: This partner of Stan Laurel was known for saying, "Here's another nice mess you've gotten me into"

Hardy

INTRODUCTION TO FILM $200: 1962: "Introducing Peter O'Toole"

Lawrence of Arabia

NOOK $1200: From 1871 to 1891 Mark Twain lived in the Nook Farm region of this Connecticut city

Hartford

STATE CAPITAL HAIKU $2,800 (Daily Double): Mark Twain called it home / Founded 1635 / Knows Courant events

Hartford

AVIATION $600: This international airport was named for an agricultural village near London inhabited in Neolithic times

Heathrow

COUNTY SEATS $1,000 (Daily Double): Cornelius Vanderbilt's rustic rocking chair is in the museum named for this other rich guy in Wayne County, Michigan

Henry Ford

THE 1600s $2,400 (Daily Double): After hoarding food rations, he & his son were kept at bay, literally, by mutineers who set them adrift in 1611

Henry Hudson

THAT'S INVENTIVE! $2000: In 1803 the British army adopted the metal-scattering shell that this man invented back in 1784

Henry Shrapnel

ARCHAEOLOGY $800: 18th century archaeologists uncovered the Villa of the Papyri, an ancient library, in this neighbor to Pompeii

Herculaneum

ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: Emma Watson made her acting debut as this bookish friend of Harry Potter

Hermione Granger

COLLEGE COURSES $200: Not surprisingly, at Gettysburg College, the History 340 courses include the Civil War & one on this president

Lincoln

POTPOURRI $800: This Swedish botanist coined the term Homo sapiens to classify humans

Linnaeus

ALL THE GLITTERING PRIZES $800: The Rembrandts are annual film awards given out in this nation

Holland (or the Netherlands)

PREHISTORIC TIMES $1000: According to experts, it's the species that developed into Homo-Sapiens

Homo Erectus

LIFE $400: Many think that a few hundred thousand years ago, Homo erectus evolved into this taxonomic group

Homo Sapiens

ANTHROPOLOGY $1200: Java Man is an example of this forerunner of ours whose name is Latin for "upright man"

Homo erectus

ANTHROPOLOGY $2000: Dubois found the first fossils IDed as this species of our genus; later, finding a femur convinced him that it walked upright

Homo erectus

EARLY MAN $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a partial skull at the Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins.) The enlarged brain of this early human species helped it become the longest-lived member of the human family tree; named for its upright posture, it survived nine times longer than our species has been around

Homo erectus

EARLY MAN $1000: Species whose time span ran from about 1.6 million to 150,000 years ago

Homo erectus

HUMAN EVOLUTION $2000: Discovered in 1984, the Nariokotome boy was assigned to this species of standup guys from 1 ½ million B.C.

Homo erectus

INNOVATION $1000: By 500,000 B.C., fire was being controlled & used by this "upright" species

Homo erectus

OUR ANCIENT RELATIVES $2000: This early "upright man" pioneered the use of tools & hunted game 2 million years ago

Homo erectus

PREHISTORIC TIMES $1200: Anthropologists say this was the first of the genus Homo to leave Africa, sometime after 1.8 million years ago

Homo erectus

YOU BETTER KNOW SOME SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): Java Man & Peking Man are examples of this guy who stands between Australopithecus & Homo sapiens

Homo erectus

GRAB BAG $1600: Latin for "handy man", it's the oldest type of human being, according to many anthropologists

Homo habilis

AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: Things went south, not West, for this presidential candidate in 1872; he lost to Ulysses Grant & died three weeks after the election

Horace Greeley

THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1271, the Polos left Venice for China; when they couldn't find seaworthy ships in this town, that shared its name with a nearby strait, they continued their journey by land

Hormuz

ARCHAEOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): Prior to his famous 1922 discovery, this Brit found the tombs of Hatshepsut & Mentuhotep, among others

Howard Carter

MAKES SENSE--MOVIES EDITION $400: Many residents of Rock Ridge in "Blazing Saddles" have the surname Johnson, & this character owns an ice cream shop

Howard Johnson

BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG $200: This Mark Twain character is "hated" by moms because he is "vulgar & bad" but "all their children admired him"

Huckleberry Finn

LITERARY CHARACTERS BASED ON REAL PEOPLE $800: Tom Blankenship, the son of the town drunkard in Hannibal, was the inspiration for this classic character

Huckleberry Finn

HISTORIC AMERICANS $6,000 (Daily Double): (Hi. I'm Ken Burns.) My film about this man who inspired Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men" depicts his road to the White House cut short by an assassin in 1935

Huey Long

DYLAN $1200: Richard Gere, Heath Ledger & Cate Blanchett played incarnations of Bob in this unusual biopic

I'm Not There

What does it mean to chew the fat?

INFORMAL chat in a leisurely way, especially at length.

"I" DO $600: This mythic male melted his man-wings & smashed into the Aegean Sea

Icarus

A CLOSE LOOK AT ART $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew poses with a seascape.) W.H. Auden wrote, "Everything turns away quite leisurely from a disaster" in Bruegel's "Landscape with the Fall of" this mythical flier

Icarus

ALSO AN ASTEROID $200: The son who flew too near the sun

Icarus

ART SUBJECTS $800: Canova's statue "Daedalus And" this doomed son looked so real, he was accused of making casts of live models

Icarus

ASTEROID NAMES $400: Mythological son who waxed then waned as he fell into the sea

Icarus

ASTRONOMY: Appropriate mythological name given the asteroid in our solar system that passes closest to the sun

Icarus

BALLET $200: Serge Lifar's ballet "Icare" tells the story of this mythical figure who flew too close to the sun

Icarus

BALLET: In a 1935 ballet based on this mythical person, a dancer leaps toward the sun, then crashes to the stage

Icarus

FALL DOWN, GO BOOM $7,800 (Daily Double): Son of Daedalus, his first flying lesson is generally considered something of a failure

Icarus

NONFICTION $400: Mark Twain gave a nonfiction account of his travels to Europe in the work called these people "Abroad"

Innocents

LITERARY TERMS $600: In "Reality Bites" Ethan Hawke says it's when the actual meaning is different from the literal meaning

Irony

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $200: This country was originally formed out of the Turkish provinces of Basra, Mosul & Baghdad

Iraq

POWER AWARDS $200: (I'm Lara Logan of CBS News.) I earned an Edward R. Murrow Award for "Ramadi: On the Front Line"; a report on troops under fire in this country

Iraq

REDRAWING THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE $800: Mosul & Basra were 2 of the 3 provinces that were eventually merged into this country

Iraq

SECOND-LARGEST CITIES $1200: Mosul, 1.8 million

Iraq

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES $400: "Erin go bragh" means this country "forever"

Ireland

GOD BLESS YOU $400: Eriu is a celtic fertility goddess of this island named for her; Eire & Erin are corruptions of her name

Ireland

NATIONAL ANTHEMS $200: "In Erin's cause, come woe or weal, 'mid cannons' roar and rifles peal, we'll chant a soldier's song"

Ireland

THE JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM $400: A 19th C. goblet in the library was given to Pres. Kennedy when he visited this country of his ancestors in 1963

Ireland

FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: The ancient Gaelic battle cry "Erin Go Bragh" means this

Ireland Forever

WRITERS ON FILM $1200: Judi Dench got an Oscar nomination for playing this British writer who battled Alzheimer's

Iris Murdoch

WRITERS ON FILM $2000: She was portrayed by both Kate Winslet & Dame Judi Dench in the 2001 biopic "Iris"

Iris Murdoch

SEMILITERATE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Tony Stark creation who becomes Don Quixote in a musical

Iron Man of la Mancha

THE STARS OF FRIENDS: UPDATE $800: She's one of the executive producers of the TLC genealogy series "Who Do You Think You Are?"

Lisa Kudrow

THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $800: The grave seen here is typical of the many found at this historic battlefield, now a national monument

Little Big Horn

THE NATURAL WORLD $1600: The longest horns of any sheep belong to an Asian species named for this explorer who first described it in 1273

Marco Polo

STRIFE WITH FATHER $400: Thanks to an angel, Abraham didn't make him the ultimate sacrifice

Isaac

KJPY CLASSICAL RADIO $2000: Tomorrow KJPY presents a tribute to this "Fiddler on the Roof" who died in 2001

Isaac Stern

THE BORGIAS $800: The first Borgia to become pope was Calixtus III, whose first Papal Act in 1455 was to try to recover this city from the Turks

Istanbul

A JUDI DENCH FILM FESTIVAL $1200: In 2011 Judi was Annie Hoover, a doting mother in this biopic

J. Edgar

THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS $1200: The "P." in the name of this preeminent banker of the Gilded Age stood for Pierpont, his mother's family

J.P. Morgan

THE ROBBER BARONS $1200: Rich enough to be almost a one-man central bank, he got his middle initial P. from the Pierponts, who helped found Yale

J.P. Morgan

PRESIDENT & ACCOUNTED FOR $1200: In 1960 he defeated Richard Nixon by fewer than 115,000 popular votes

JFK (John Kennedy)

HEAVY $600: This novelist of Yukon adventure also wrote "Martin Eden", about a novelist who kills himself at the end

Jack London

URBAN LITERATURE $4,000 (Daily Double): He sought his fortune in Yukon gold prospecting, but made it big as the USA's highest-paid writer

Jack London

PURPLE PROSE $800: Sister of actress Joan, this author of "The Stud" was dubbed "Hollywood's own Marcel Proust" by Vanity Fair

Jackie Collins

PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES $400: In the early 1960s her hairdo became fashionable with the ladies of the United States

Jackie Kennedy

ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.) This person's inspiration for the eternal flame on John F. Kennedy's grave was the one on Paris's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Jacqueline Kennedy

I'VE GOT 3 NAMES $1600: Here he is, perhaps making the 114 offenses against literary art Mark Twain accused him of in two-thirds of a page of "The Deerslayer"

James Fenimore Cooper

RETORTS $600: "May I kiss the hand that wrote 'Ulysses'?" an admirer asked this man, who said, "No--it did lots of other things too"

James Joyce

THE AUTHOR WRITES $2,000 (Daily Double): "Stephen Dedalus is my name, Ireland is my nation. Clongowes is my dwellingplace and heaven my expectation"

James Joyce

WRITERS ON FILM $4,000 (Daily Double): The movie "Nora" tells of the relationship between Nora Barnacle & this writer played by Ewan McGregor

James Joyce

LITERARY SELF-PORTRAITS $400: Stephen Daedalus

James Joyce "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"

BRITISH AUTHORS $400: You'll find Emma Watson in an unfinished work by her & Emma Woodhouse in a finished work by her

Jane Austen

LOST IN TRANSLATION $1000: Rosuto

Japanese

HEY, GOOD LOOKIN' $800: A co-star of Kiefer Sutherland's in "The Lost Boys", we don't know why he felt the need for "Speed 2"

Jason Patric

ANTHROPOLOGY $500 (Daily Double): Eugene Dubois thought there'd be fossils of Homo Erectus in the East Indies & found them on this island

Java

BIG ISLANDS $800: In 1891 the first fossils of Homo erectus were discovered on this Indonesian island

Java

EARLY MAN $1,200 (Daily Double): Homo erectus reached this island between 1 & 2 million B.C.; Homo Dutch traderensis, in 1596 A.D.

Java

GENERAL SCIENCE $800: In 1891 Eugene Dubois found a skull cap of Homo erectus on this Indonesian island

Java

WHERE'D YA FIND THAT? $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1891 the then oldest known fossils of Homo Erectus found outside of Africa were discovered on this island

Java

"J"EOPARDY! $1600: Remains of this million-year-old type of Homo erectus were discovered in Indonesia in the 1890s

Java Man

B.C. & AFTER $2000: Homo erectus archaeological find on Jakarta's island by an expatriate U.S. photographer

Java Man Ray

CELEBRITY DATE BOOK $1000: Oct. 19, 2014: Jimmy Fallon roasts & honors this predecessor who's getting the Mark Twain Prize for Humor

Jay Leno

CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $600: She went abroad to visit Cro-Magnon caves after writing "The Clan of the Cave Bear"

Jean Auel

A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES $1600: He was known as the Eyes of the Army; before Gettysburg, his cavalry raid left the South deprived of intelligence

Jeb Stuart

BUSINESS LEADERS $2000: Since founding Amazon.com in 1994, he's tried to make it "The Earth's most customer-centric company"

Jeff Bezos

ENTREPRENEURS $800: Read all about it! In 2013 this Amazon founder bought the Washington Post

Jeff Bezos

FOREWORDS $1000: In the foreword to "The Long Run", this CEO remarked about how writer Mishka Shubaly was helped by Kindle Singles

Jeff Bezos

JEFF $400: Under this man's leadership, amazon.com became the largest online retailer

Jeff Bezos

LIKE A BOSS $600: Running up the score before halftime, Amazon's strong 2nd quarter in 2015 helped put an extra $16.5 bil. in this CEO's pocket

Jeff Bezos

NONFICTION $600: "The Everything Store" is subtitled this man "and the Age of Amazon"

Jeff Bezos

Now both just old enough to run for president themselves, which former pair of White House "First Sisters" -- who are also twins -- co-wrote the 2017 memoir "Sister's First"

Jenna and Barbara Bush

FEARLESS GIRL $1200: Mark Twain said his favorite book of all those he had written was his fictional biography of this French lass

Joan of Arc

COMPOSERS $1,000 (Daily Double): 18th-century composer on whose composition the following, a 1965 No. 2 hit, is based: "How gentle is the rain / That falls softly on the meadow / Birds high up in the trees / Serenade the flowers with their melodies..."

Johann Sebastian Bach (Minuet in G)

COMPOSERS $400: In the rivalry between him & Wagner, his supporters were called Brahmins

Johannes Brahms

FEEL THE ROBERT BURNS! $2000: This personification of potent potables was used in a 1782 Burns poem

John Barleycorn

GENEALOGY $1600: This man's "peerage", dating back to 1826, is a guide to the noble families of the United Kingdom

John Burke

BURIED AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $400: Seen here, his is one of the most visited graves at Arlington

John F. Kennedy

THE U.S. PRESIDENT WHO... $200: was the youngest man to be elected president

John F. Kennedy

PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE INITIALS $400: F.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

THE ROBBER BARONS $2000: A true pioneer of robber baroning, he incorporated the American Fur Company way back in 1808

John Jacob Astor

SPOT THE CANADIAN $1000: Milton Friedman, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Maynard Keynes

John Kenneth Galbraith

ECONOMICS $1600: In 1936 this British economist said the way to beat a recession was a government-sponsored policy of full employment

John Maynard Keynes

ECONOMICS $2000: This economist in the Bloomsbury Group theorized governments must practice deficit spending during depressions

John Maynard Keynes

ECONOMIST DANCE PARTY $1200: This 3-named Brit's "General Theory" says unemployment is reduced with more government spending; how low can you go?

John Maynard Keynes

LOOK AT ME $600: Politicians continue to debate the economic ideas of this Brit, who died in 1946

John Maynard Keynes

POTPOURRI $1000: This Brit wrote the book on economics: 1936's "The General Theory Of Employment, Interest & Money"

John Maynard Keynes

THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WARS $1200: In 1922 Fridtjof Nansen beat out this Brit economist who'd opposed harsh economic reparations against Germany

John Maynard Keynes

LET'S BE ECONOMICAL $2000: In 1944 this British baron traveled to Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, where the IMF was created

John Maynard Keynes IMF - International Monetary Fund

ART & THE BIBLE $800: At the Hermitage in Russia is Rembrandt's painting of David saying goodbye to this friend & son of Saul

Jonathan

THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL $800: Novelist Heller

Joseph

WAR MOVIES: A controversial 1979 war film was based on a 1902 work by this author

Joseph Conrad

1984 $2000: Here's the "catch": in 1984 he penned "God Knows" in the form of an autobiography of King David

Joseph Heller

AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: After his "Catch-22", "Something Happened", "Good as Gold", "God Knows"

Joseph Heller

AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: His service in the Air Force gave him the background to write about a madcap bombardier in "Catch-22"

Joseph Heller

AMERICAN AUTHORS $300: When he began writing "Catch-22", he was an advertising writer for TIME magazine

Joseph Heller

AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: His experiences as a bombardier in WWII were the basis of the novel "Catch-22"

Joseph Heller

AUTHORS AT WAR $3,000 (Daily Double): Auctioned in 2011, a letter by this author who satirized the military said, "In truth I enjoyed" fighting in WWII

Joseph Heller

AUTHORS AT WAR $400: This "Catch-22" author flew 60 bomber missions in WWII

Joseph Heller

AUTHORS NOT WRITING $3,000 (Daily Double): In WWII he flew 60 combat missions as a bombardier with the U.S. Army Air Forces in Europe

Joseph Heller

AUTHORS ON THEMSELVES $400: "When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'"

Joseph Heller

AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES $1200: The "Catch" is that this satirical writer was born in Brooklyn in 1923 (not '22)

Joseph Heller

BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $1600: An American novelist: "Just One Catch"

Joseph Heller

BEST SELLERS $200: This biblical king is enjoying a revival in both a Joseph Heller novel & a Richard Gere film

King David

KIRSTEN, REESE OR SCARLETT $200: Has starred with Pitt & Cruise

Kirsten

KIRSTEN, REESE OR SCARLETT $800: The tallest at 5'7"

Kirsten

Who is Kirsten Dunst?

Kirsten Caroline Dunst (/ˈkɪərstən/; born April 30, 1982) is an American actress. She made her debut in the 1989 anthology film New York Stories, appearing in the segment Oedipus Wrecks directed by Woody Allen. At the age of twelve, Dunst gained widespread recognition as Claudia in Interview with the Vampire (1994), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. She appeared in Little Women the same year and in Jumanji the following year. After a recurring role on the third season of ER (1996-97), and appearances in films such as Wag the Dog (1997), Small Soldiers (1998), and The Virgin Suicides (1999), Dunst starred in a string of comedies, including Drop Dead Gorgeous, Dick (both 1999), Bring It On (2000), Get Over It and Crazy/Beautiful (both 2001). Dunst achieved fame for her portrayal of Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002-2007). Since then, her films have included Mona Lisa Smile (2003), Wimbledon, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (both 2004), Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown (2005), the title role in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006), How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008), Bachelorette (2012), and The Two Faces of January (2014). In 2011, she won Best Actress at Cannes for her performance in Lars von Trier's Melancholia. In 2015, Dunst starred as Peggy Blumquist on the second season of the television series Fargo. Her performance garnered critical acclaim, leading to her winning the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress, and being nominated for Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy awards. In 2017, Dunst received a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in the film Hidden Figures, and co-starred in her third collaboration with Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled.

MTV MOVIE AWARDS: BEST KISS $400: For a 2003 win, she locked lips with an upside-down Tobey Maguire in "Spider-Man"

Kirsten Dunst

MTV MOVIE AWARDS: BEST KISS WINNERS $1200: 2003: Tobey Maguire & her

Kirsten Dunst

POP CULTURE $800: As a child, this "Spider-Man" co-star called herself Kiki; her first name was just too hard to pronounce

Kirsten Dunst

TEEN PEOPLE $500: Talk about most embarrassing moments, she said hers was on "Jeopardy!":

Kirsten Dunst

WHEN THEY WERE TEENS $1200: Spider-Man wasn't there to protect her when she was menaced by giant spiders in "Jumanji"

Kirsten Dunst

WHO PLAYED 'EM? $800: 2002: Mary Jane Watson, the girl of Peter Parker's dreams

Kirsten Dunst

YOUNG STARS $800: She got "Greedy" playing "Jumanji" during an "Interview With The Vampire"

Kirsten Dunst

STAR TREK $500: 1 of the 3 alien races Mark Lenard portrayed in the "Star Trek" TV shows & films

Klingons, Romulans, or Vulcans

THE U.N. $400: The seventh Secretary-General, he's fluent in English, French & several African languages

Kofi Annan

AFRICAN HISTORY $600: One of the few stimulants allowed in Islam, this soft drink "nut" was a cash cow for Medieval Guinea

Kola nut

AGES AGO $400: From 1275 to 1292, Marco Polo worked for the Yuan Dynasty under this emperor

Kublai Khan

KHAAAAAAAAAN! $400: In 1275 Marco Polo arrived in Shando, the summer capital of this emperor, & may have seen his stately pleasure dome

Kublai Khan

KHAN MEN $1600: Xanadu you know that Shizu was the temple name of this man born in 1215?

Kublai Khan

MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN $800: "I know from his 13th century writings that visiting China during the time of Marco Polo means we're also here when this man ruled as emperor." "That's the khan do spirit Sherman, well done"

Kublai Khan

What does L'Chaim mean?

L'Chaim in Hebrew is a toast meaning "to life". When a couple becomes engaged, they get together with friends and family to celebrate. Since they drink l'chaim ("to life"), the celebration is also called a l'chaim.

What three teams did Pat Riley coach?

LA Lakers, New York Knicks, and Miami Heat

Whose song "Mama Said Knock You Out" is said to have been inspired by his grandmother, who told him to "knock out" critics who bad-mouthed his previous album?

LL Cool J

What is the Musketeers' Cup?

La Coupe des Mousquetaires (English: The Musketeers' Trophy) is the trophy awarded to the winner of the Men's Singles competition at the French Open.

A "LA" CARTE $2000: It's the celebrated region in Spain that's shown here

La Mancha

BLEAK HOUSE $400: Your house won't be bleak for long if it has a Rialto luxury lift power recliner from this hyphenated company

La-Z-Boy

& PARTY EV-ER-Y DAY $800: Prime minister Tony Blair

Labour

MY FEAR LADY $2000: We wash our hands of this Scotswoman, played on film by Jeanette Nolan in 1948 & on TV by Judi Dench in 1978

Lady Macbeth

A ROUND OF GULF $1200: The Speke Gulf is at the southeastern corner of this lake, Africa's largest

Lake Victoria

A WATERY BORDER $800: To its north, Tanzania borders this 26,800-square-mile body of water

Lake Victoria

AFRICAN ISLANDS $1200: Uganda's Bugaba Island in this large lake is a home of the African grey parrot

Lake Victoria

GEOGRAPH"IA" $1200: It covers more than 26,000 square miles, mainly in Tanzania & Uganda

Lake Victoria

I LAKE IT LIKE THAT $800: In 1858 this largest lake in Africa was given its royal name by the first European explorer to reach it

Lake Victoria

BEST SELLERS $600: In "Show Time", Pat Riley, this team's coach, tells the story of their 1987 championship season

Lakers

THE ROBBER BARONS $1,000 (Daily Double): 1860s Calif. governor & university founder: it's said he used bribery & intimidation to help amass his fortune

Leland Stanford

NAMES WITH THE SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $1000: First name of the literary character whose 1726 "Travels" took him far & wide

Lemuel (Gulliver)

COMPOSERS GO TO THE MOVIES $400: Elmer Bernstein of "The Magnificent Seven" fame was known as Bernstein west; this classical giant was Bernstein east

Leonard

THE AGE OF MANN $1200: She's appeared in several of the comedies directed by her husband Judd Apatow

Leslie Mann

4-WORD EXCHANGE $1600: Chapter 1 of this Mark Twain memoir talks about "The River and its History"

Life on the Mississippi

A LITERARY MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH $500 (Daily Double): This 1883 Mark Twain memoir begins with a short history of Hernando de Soto & his first sighting of a river

Life on the Mississippi

MAIN STREAM MEDIA $600: Mark Twain talks about his career as a steamboat pilot in this memoir

Life on the Mississippi

UNREAL ESTATE $800: 6-inch-tall folk populate this country in "Gulliver's Travels"

Lilliput

FLOWERS $200: Convallarin, a heart stimulant, is obtained from this flower "of the valley"

Lily

LEAVES $600: This Stevenson "sea-cook" had not "gone empty-handed"; he took a sack of coins to "help him on his... wanderings"

Long John Silver

TALE SHIPS $4,000 (Daily Double): The Fuwalda was the ship that stranded Lord John & Lady Alice, this character's parents

Lord Greystoke (Tarzan)

With an "e" at the end to make it more feminine, what singer's stage name stems from her fascination not with religion, as some people think -- but with aristocracy?

Lorde

RENAISSANCE MEN $400: Machiavelli addressed "The Prince" to this man who he hoped would give him a position to support his family

Lorenzo de Medici

"LOST" & "FOUND" $600: Hugh Conway finds inner peace in the Himalayas in this James Hilton work

Lost Horizon

SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $400: In 1959 his wife Mary found a fossil of Australopithecus in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge

Louis Leakey

THE LAKE SHOW $1600: Every little breeze seems to whisper this Alberta lake, so named to honor the daughter of Queen Victoria

Louise

OLD KING COAL $200: This European adventurer reported that coal was widely used in the 13th century Far East

Marco Polo

RETURNS $400: After 17 years in the service of Kublai Khan, he returned home to Venice in 1295

Marco Polo

YOU'RE HISTORY! $800: This Borgia died in 1519 from childbirth complications, leaving behind at least 5 other kids

Lucretia

WOMEN IN HISTORY $800: An illegitimate child of Pope Alexander VI, her reputation was "poisoned" by incest rumors

Lucretia Borgia

THE BORGIAS $1600: History has portrayed this Borgia daughter as a master of political intrigue, though she may have been a pawn

Lucrezia

ALEXANDER THE NOT-SO-GREAT $2000: Pope Alexander VI sired Cesare Borgia & this notorious sister

Lucrezia Borgia

FEMMES FATALES $1000: Daughter of the man who became Pope Alexander VI, she became infamous for intrigues & poisonings

Lucrezia Borgia

HISTORY WITH MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN $300: Mr. Peabody has to concoct a special poison to foil this woman from a famous Italian family

Lucrezia Borgia

OPERA $400: Donizetti's opera about this female Borgia is based on a play by Victor Hugo

Lucrezia Borgia

OPERATIC DEMISES $1000: In a Donizetti opera, this vengeful female Borgia treats a roomful of dinner guests to poisoned wine

Lucrezia Borgia

PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1000: This notorious daughter of a pope married Giovanni Sforza, Lord of Pesaro, in 1493

Lucrezia Borgia

PEOPLE IN HISTORY $600: This Borgia, seen here, looks far more innocent than all those nasty rumors would imply

Lucrezia Borgia

THE HISTORIC SEÑOR-"A" OR SEÑORIT-"A" $4,200 (Daily Double): Her father, Pope Alexander VI, arranged several marriages for her, including one at age 13 in 1493 to Giovanni Sforza

Lucrezia Borgia

THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE $2000: Her father, later Pope Alexander VI, arranged 3 marriages for her; the first was when she was 13

Lucrezia Borgia

THE RENAISSANCE $400: Her father, Rodrigo Borgia, arranged her marriage at age 13 to further his own ambitions

Lucrezia Borgia

THE RENAISSANCE $800: In 1500 her husband, Alfonso of Aragon, was murdered on orders of her brother Cesare

Lucrezia Borgia

WICKED WOMEN $300: Historians now believe she was merely the tool of her brother Cesare & her father Pope Alexander VI

Lucrezia Borgia

WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT $2000: To further the ambitions of her brother, her father, Pope Alexander VI, arranged several marriages for her

Lucrezia Borgia

COUNTRY SINGERS ON FILM $600: This "long tall Texan" played a bootmaker involved with Lauren Bacall in Robert Altman's "Ready to Wear"

Lyle Lovett

A JUDI DENCH FILM FESTIVAL $800: In "GoldenEye" Ms. Dench took her first run at this role

M

FUN WITH LETTERS $600: It's the single-letter movie role played by Judi Dench beginning with "GoldenEye"

M

JAMES BOND $200: Performers who have played this boss of Bond include Bernard Lee, Robert Brown, & most recently, Judi Dench

M

Who is M in James Bond films?

M is a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond book and film series; the character is the Head of the Secret Intelligence Service—also known as MI6—and is Bond's superior. Fleming based the character on a number of people he knew who commanded sections of British intelligence. M has appeared in the novels by Fleming and seven continuation authors, as well as appearing in twenty-four films. In the Eon Productions series of films, M has been portrayed by four actors: Bernard Lee, Robert Brown, Judi Dench and Ralph Fiennes, the incumbent; in the two independent productions, M was played by John Huston, David Niven and Edward Fox.

While Leo has fulfilled the role since 1957, Slats, George, Jackie and Tanner were all also once mascots of what film studio?

MGM

THE RENAISSANCE $600: Some say he based the ruthless ruler in "The Prince" on Cesare Borgia

Machiavelli

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $1200: The world's Austronesian languages include Tagalog, Javanese & Malagasy, spoken mainly on this island nation

Madagascar

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PROUST $1000: In "Remembrance of Things Past", Proust immortalized this shell-shaped cake that prompted a flood of memories

Madeleines

MOVIE ADJECTIVES $200: 1960 & 2016: "The ____ Seven"

Magnificent

MOVIE ADJECTIVES $400: 1960: "The ___ Seven"

Magnificent

Difference between archaeology and anthropology

Main Difference - Archaeology vs Anthropology Archaeology and Anthropology are both disciplines of Social science and study of human societies. The main difference between archaeology and anthropology is that archaeology is the study of past civilizations while anthropology is the study of both contemporary cultures and their historical origins. In this article, we are going to look at this difference between Archaeology and Anthropology.

THE PLAY'S THE THING $1600: Look! Up in the sky! It's not a bird or a plane, but it is this 1905 George Bernard Shaw play about humanity & God!

Man and Superman

"MAN"LY MOVIES $800: Peter O'Toole sang & tilted at windmills in the movie adaptation of this musical

Man of La Mancha

MOVIE MUSICAL ROLES $1600: Peter O'Toole dreamed "The Impossible Dream" when he played Don Quixote in this film

Man of La Mancha

20th CENTURY NOVELS $200: The narrator of his "Remembrance of Things Past" is named Marcel

Marcel Proust

ALL ABOUT AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): A narrator in this French author's multivolume work says, "The materials of my work consisted of my own past"

Marcel Proust

AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): This French author is best remembered for his "A la recherche du temps perdu"

Marcel Proust

DON'T BE A DUMAS $1200: Completes the title of Raymond Queneau's novel about a brat who only wants to ride the subway, "Zazie dans le..."

Metro

PUT 'EM IN ORDER $200: Christo, Rembrandt, Michelangelo

Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Christo

THE BORGIAS $1600: Lucrezia Borgia was married 3 times, the first at age 13 to a son of the Sforzas, a powerful clan of this Lombard city

Milan

CHEWING THE "FAT" $800: Better-known name of billiards master Rudolf Wanderone

Minnesota Fats

REBEL, REBEL $400: Mark Twain, who in 1861 briefly joined a pro-secessionist unit of this state's guard

Missouri

STATES BY LAKES $400: Mark Twain Lake, Blind Pony Lake

Missouri

STATE THE SENATOR $800: Since 2007: Claire McCaskill

Missouri Josh Hawley Assuming office January 3, 2019 Succeeding Claire McCaskill

ARCHEOLOGY $400: A Paleolithic flint industry has been discovered at Grimaldi just east of this principality

Monaco

ART $400: The floor type of this art form originated with pebble floors laid in late-Neolithic Crete

Mosaics

Define toerag

NOUN British informal A contemptible or worthless person. Crossword clue: Scoundrel (in British slang) Answer: toerag

NONFICTION $400: "The American Spelling Book" was the first part of his "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language"

Noah Webster

NUTMEGGERS $500: To safeguard his "Blue-Backed Speller" in the 1780s, he was a staunch advocate of copyright laws

Noah Webster

PEOPLE FROM CONNECTICUT $600: His "Blue-Backed Speller", issued in 1783, is still in print in revised form

Noah Webster

IN THE NEWS $1000: In October 2016 a coalition force began what was hoped to be a 2-month quest to retake this Iraqi city from ISIS

Mosul

WORDS FROM PLACES $1600: The fabric muslin gets its name from this third-largest city in Iraq

Mosul

ALL ABOOT CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: X-Man Wolverine knows this Yukon mount is almost 20,000' high & has the largest base circumference of any mountain

Mount Logan

YUKON $2000: Canada's highest point, it rises 19,551 feet in the St. Elias Mountains

Mount Logan

CLASSICAL MUSIC $1200: Originally, his "A Little Night Music" contained an additional minuet, but it has been lost

Mozart

CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: Kochel No. 1 is the G major minuet & trio he composed when he was about 5

Mozart

STAR TREK $200: Mark Lenard played 2 roles in the TV series, a Romulan commander & the Vulcan father of this character

Mr. Spock

DISNEY FILM CHARACTERS $1000: She joins the Chinese army to protect her father & ends up a hero

Mulan

DISNEY FILM VOICES $1,000 (Daily Double): Ming-Na, who plays Dr. Chen on "ER", provided the voice of this title character in 1998

Mulan

DISNEY FILM VOICES $1000: Eddie Murphy was dragon around as a dragon named Mushu in this 1998 release

Mulan

DISNEY FILM VOICES $800: (Hi, I'm Donny Osmond.) I provided the singing voice of Captain Shang for this 1998 animated Disney film

Mulan

DISNEY FILM VOICES $800: Princess Jasmine's singing voice in "Aladdin" sounds a bit like this Chinese heroine's; Lea Salonga sang for both of them

Mulan

DISNEY FILMS $1000: 1998: A young girl joins the Chinese army in place of her ailing father

Mulan

DISNEY MOVIES BY VILLAIN $800: 1998: Shan-Yu

Mulan

DISNEY PRINCESS NAMES $600: "Magnolia" or literally "wood" & "orchid" in Chinese

Mulan

TEXT ALERTS $2000: This Poe story describes an ape, "Razor still in hand", running through the streets at 3 in the morning

Murders in the Rue Morgue Crossword clue: ___ Morgue (Poe Locale) Answer: rue

FABRICS & TEXTILES $200: The city of Damascus gave us the name Damask & the city of Mosul gave us the name of this fabric

Muslin

ANAGRAMMED MUSICALS $300: "A LID MAY FRY"

My Fair Lady

THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Marco Polo was asked by Kublai Khan to make diplomatic trips to the far reaches of Khan's empire, perhaps making it as far as what is now this country

Myanmar

YUKON $1600: The Little Salmon Carmacks & Teslin Tlingit are 2 members of CYFN, the Council of Yukon First these

Nations

EDUCATION $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1783, while teaching in Goshen, N.Y., this educator first published his "American Spelling Book"

Noah Webster

FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: A former lawyer & schoolteacher, this noted lexicographer helped found Amherst College in 1821

Noah Webster

HAIFA LOAF $1200: Oddly, in 1983 a skeleton of this Pleistocene hominid named for a German valley was found near Haifa

Neanderthal

BEFORE & AFTER $800: A heavy-browed archaic human unearthed in 1856 does Don Quixote on Broadway

Neanderthal Man of la Mancha

HUMAN EVOLUTION $1200: These Pleistocene cave-dwellers whose name is synonymous with brutishness had bigger brains than we do

Neanderthals

PREHISTORIC TIMES $1600: The Mousterian industry was the tool culture associated with these humans who predated the Cro-Magnons

Neanderthals

"N" MASSE $1600: Begun around 5,000 years ago, Stonehenge's construction belongs to this "new stone" time period

Neolithic

AMERICAN LIT $400: It's the last word of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

Nevermore

BRITISH HISTORY $2000: Signaling change, Tony Blair ended his first speech as party leader with these 2 words, followed by "New Britain"

New Labour

HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: This dictionary compiler was descended from William Bradford, second governor of the Plymouth Colony

Noah Webster

PHILOSOPHY IN A NUTSHELL $2000: In 1887 this German published "The Genealogy of Morals"

Nietzsche

THE JOHN F. KENNEDY LIBRARY AND MUSEUM $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew fawns over a metal-plated case in the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) This beautiful humidor, sans cigars, was given to John F. Kennedy by this cranky premier when they first met in Vienna in 1961

Nikita Khrushchev

BUDS $800: Mark Twain often came to the lab of this inventor from the Balkans to see him demonstrate his latest gizmos

Nikola Tesla

AFRICAN LANGUAGES $400: The Nubian languages are mostly spoken along this river (between cataracts 1 & 4)

Nile

WEAK END $3,000 (Daily Double): Slate called the last scene of this 2007 Oscar winner based on Cormac McCarthy's novel "a tacked on chunk of meaning"

No Country for Old Men

WHAT ARE YOU READING? $800: This Cormac McCarthy novel with the cattle gun-wielding Chigurh

No Country for Old Men

1801-1810 $100: In 1806 he published his first lexicographical work, "A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language"

Noah Webster

19TH CENTURY AMERICANS $200: This educator's "Compendious Dictionary of the English Language" was 1st published in 1806

Noah Webster

19th C. AMERICANS $1000: This noted lexicographer helped found Amherst College in 1821

Noah Webster

19th CENTURY NAMES: In preparation for a work he published in 1828 that was over 20 years in the making, he learned 26 languages

Noah Webster

AUTHORS $1000: Published in 1783, his "Blue-Backed Speller" was still selling 1 million copies a year almost a century later

Noah Webster

CELEBRATIONS $800: Dictionary Day, October 16, celebrates the birthday of this American lexicographer; look it up!

Noah Webster

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: This famous lexicographer was one of the founders of Amherst College

Noah Webster

EARLY AMERICANS $2,000 (Daily Double): Some of his unaccepted spelling changes were hed for head, rong for wrong & iz for is

Noah Webster

EARLY AMERICANS $200: He felt his greatest work was his revision of the Bible, not his speller or dictionary

Noah Webster

MYTHOL-"O"-GY $200: He's also known as Ulysses

Odysseus

READINGS FROM HOMER SIMPSON $100: Hero speaking here: "Nine days I drifted on the teeming sea... upon the tenth we came to the coastline of the lotus eaters... mmmm, lotus!"

Odysseus

EPONYMOUSE $600: Robert Burns' "best laid schemes" of this pair led to a Steinbeck title

Of Mice and Men

FEEL THE ROBERT BURNS! $4,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 1937 novel about migrant laborers comes from a line in Robbie's poem "To a Mouse"

Of Mice and Men

WORKING BOOK TITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): John Steinbeck changed "Something That Happened" to this title, a reference to a Robert Burns poem

Of Mice and Men

AMERICAN POETS $1600: He wrote, "What would you do if you were up a dark alley with Caesar Borgia and he was coming torgia"

Ogden Nash

"DUCK SOUP" $200: The film's director, Leo McCarey, was the genius who got Stan Laurel to team up with this man

Oliver Hardy

THE HARDY BOYS $400: He partnered with Stan Laurel in more than 100 comedies

Oliver Hardy

SKATEBOARDERS $400: Stan Laurel could tell you the name of this trick where the board is propelled into the air by tapping the tail hard

Ollie

AIRLINES $1,000 (Daily Double): Icarus is the frequent-flyer program of this international airline

Olympic Airlines

THE MOVIES $1000: "Ready to Wear" ("Pret-a-Porter") is this director's 1994 film about high jinks & high fashion

Robert Altman

EASTERN EUROPE $400: Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia & Ljubljana is the capital of this former Yugoslav republic

Slovenia

BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: To finance a move to Jamaica in 1786, this Scotsman began selling a book of his poems that became a huge hit; he didn't move

Robert Burns

ELEGIES $400: His "Elegy on the Year 1788" begins, "For lords or kings I dinna mourn, e'en let them die--for that they're born"

Robert Burns

BATTLES OF THE BULGE $800: After visiting the Angel Network on her website, check out her weight loss health eating section

Oprah

MADE YA LOOK--UP! $600: You can hunt down 2 of the 10 brightest stars in the night sky in this constellation

Orion

GLASS & GLASSMAKING $1000: As a gift to the Kennedy Center, Sweden donated 18 15-foot-long crystal chandeliers made by this company

Orrefors

LITERARY TITLE PAIRS $1600: Made into a Ralph Fiennes/Cate Blanchett film: "____ and Lucinda"

Oscar

NICKNAMES $1600: Shakespeare was "the Bard of Avon"; this Scotsman was "the Bard of Ayrshire"

Robert Burns

THE WRITE STUFF $600: Mark Twain didn't think Shakespeare wrote the famous plays, wondering why this 1616 document mentions no books

his will

21 $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from behind the bar at 21.) Among the mementos at 21 is a gift, donated by John F. Kennedy, of the model that represents this boat

PT-109

HISTORIC NAMES $500: This pianist & composer who wrote the "Minuet in G" was also the Prime Minister of Poland

Paderewski

ARCHAEOLOGY $600: In 1865 John Lubbock became the first to use this term referring to the "Old Stone Age"

Paleolithic

CAVES $2000: France's Chauvet Cave has lion & rhino paintings from 30,000 years ago in this period also called the Old Stone Age

Paleolithic

HISTORY $400: Stone tools were first used during this period known as the "Old Stone Age"

Paleolithic

SCULPTURE $800: Some 25,000 years old, the stone statuette Venus of Willendorf is fittingly from this period whose name means "old stone"

Paleolithic

THE OED "PAL" COMPLEX $800: "Designating the earliest of the three major divisions of the Stone Age"

Paleolithic

GENERAL SCIENCE $600: The name of this geologic era in which amphibians & reptiles were introduced means "ancient life"

Paleozoic

GIVE "P"s A CHANCE $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico.) The fossils in Carlsbad Caverns include sponges, snails & trilobites, all from the Permian period, the tail end of this era whose name means "ancient life"

Paleozoic

PUBLISHED FIRST $400: "Robinson Crusoe", "Paradise Lost", "Sense and Sensibility"

Paradise Lost

CAPITAL CITY BIRTHPLACES $400: Marcel Proust

Paris

MIGHTY APHRODITE $1,600 (Daily Double): This Trojan prince awarded Aphrodite a golden apple over Hera & Athena in a beauty contest

Paris

MYTHOLOGY $800: Athena promised him wisdom & victory in all battles if he judged her the fairest goddess

Paris

AT THE BUFFET $200: The buffet boasts this ham, the true prosciutto, from an Italian province that's also famous for a certain cheese

Parma

BIRDS $600: The hyacinth macaw is the largest of these birds of the family psittacidae

Parrots

A SPORTING CHANCE $800: He was NBA Coach of the Year 3 times in the 1990s with 3 different teams

Pat Riley

BASKETBALL $1000: He's won 6 NBA championship rings: 1 as a player, 1 as an asst. coach & 4 as head coach of the Lakers in the 1980s

Pat Riley

COACH $600: He was NBA coach of the year 3 times in the 1990s with the Lakers, Knicks & Miami Heat

Pat Riley

IRISH AMERICANS $300: The life of this coach has included stints with the Lakers, the Knicks, and the Miami Heat

Pat Riley

PRO BASKETBALL $100: In the 1980s this Lakers coach guided his team to 4 NBA championships

Pat Riley

THE DAN, PATRICK SHOW $400: (Dan Patrick reads the clue from his studio.) He coached the Lakers to 4 NBA titles in the '80s; now he catches some heat as Miami's president & part-time owner

Pat Riley

THE NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA.) Here is the 2006 Miami Heat championship ring of this coach, but don't worry--he still has four other NBA rings that he won patrolling the sidelines

Pat Riley

THIRD $600: Led by this tank general, the U.S. Third Army liberated the key city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge

Patton

GREEK MYTHOLOGY $1200: Athena gave Bellerophon a golden bridle for this wild horse

Pegasus

"P.M." $600: Sinanthropus pekinensis is another name for this Homo erectus whose remains were discovered in the 1920s

Peking Man

ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: The Zhoukoudian excavations in China led to debate to whether this homo erectus knew how to use fire

Peking Man

LIFE $600: Scientists date these last Asian homo erectus specimens at 300,000 - 500,000 years old

Peking Man

QUICK PRESIDENTIAL STOPS $400: Gettysburg wasn't Lincoln's first visit to this state; in 1861 he was in Leaman Place for 4 minutes

Pennsylvania

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Categories

Performers, Ahmet Ertegun Award (non-performers), Early Influences, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Award for Musical Excellence, The Singles Included in 2018: Link Wray - "Rumble" The Kingsmen - "Louie Louie" Chubby Checker - "The Twist" Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats - "Rocket 88" Steppenwolf - "Born to Be Wild" Procol Harum - "A Whiter Shade of Pale"

POET, KNOW IT $400: "Farewell the glen sae bushy, O! Farewell the plain sae rashy, O! To other lands I now must go, To sing my highland lassie, O"

Robert Burns

ART & ARTISTS $400: Born in 1577 and named for two saints, he's the Flemish master seen here in a self-portrait

Peter Paul Rubens

MYTHIC OBITS $1600: Son of the sun god, he took dad's chariot for a fatal joy ride

Phaeton

METS, GIANTS, RANGERS & KNICKS $800: In 1973-74 this Zen-like Knick averaged a career-high 11.1 ppg; oh yeah, he's coached a little in Chicago & L.A., too

Phil Jackson

NONFICTION $400: Dame Judi Dench wrote the foreword to this expose on the role of the Catholic church in forced adoptions

Philomena

CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN $1200: Known for his "Charge" at Gettysburg, he was relieved of his command days prior to Appomattox

Pickett

IN THE FRAYS $800: As Union troops weathered this man's "charge" at Gettysburg, they cried "Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!"

Pickett

HISTORIC OOPSIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Civil War historian Shelby Foote described this attack at Gettysburg as "an incredible mistake"

Pickett's Charge

DISCOVERY CHANNEL UNSOLVED HISTORY $1600: The show seen here investigates the failure of this effort made in the afternoon of July 3, 1863 "The fences along the Emmitsburg Road created a hazard not anticipated by the field commanders, which proved to be a fatal mistake."

Pickett's charge at Gettysburg

POETIC WOMEN $400: The Nancy in this Scot's "A Fond Kiss" was Agnes McLehose

Robert Burns

E BEFORE I $1000: The Great Ice Age occurred during this geologic epoch

Pleistocene

Which of these instruments is used to measure rainfall?

Pluviometer

STARRY NIGHT $200: Merak & Dubhe, the pointer stars in the Big Dipper, point to this star

Polaris

ACTUAL POLICE BLOTTER REPORTS $200: "Police checked the area...an officer went inside and called...'Marco'... police found the suspect after he responded" this

Polo

POETS & POETRY $1600: He wrote, "Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes"

Robert Burns

SUCH NOVEL CHARACTERS $1200: This one of Dumas' 3 musketeers is the extrovert of the group--loud, brash & a courageous fighter & friend

Porthos

READER'S DIGEST $600: Stephen Dedalus' childhood, school days & early manhood, when he decides to leave Dublin for Paris to become a writer

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

BEFORE & AFTER $1600: James Joyce novel that becomes a musical whose characters include Stephen Dedalus, Aldonza & Sancho Panza

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man of La Mancha

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the official language in 5 African countries, including Mozambique & Cape Verde

Portuguese

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $4,000 (Daily Double): Countries using this as their official language include Mozambique & Guinea-Bissau

Portuguese

POETS' MONOGRAMS $2,000 (Daily Double): He was the "Ploughman Poet": RB

Robert Burns

Define madeleine

noun plural noun: madeleines a small rich cake, typically baked in a shell-shaped mold and often decorated with coconut and jam.

BIOGRAPHIES $1600: Andre Maurois wrote a 1949 biography called "A la Recherche de" this other French author

Proust

WRITER'S HOMES $1600: He spent summer holidays from 1907 to 1914 remembering things past at a seaside resort in Normandy

Proust

NEW YORK SCHOOLS $400: NYC-born novelist Joseph Heller went to P.S. 188, P.S. standing for this

Public School

MOVIE BIO DOUBLE $800: Cate Blanchett in 1998, Judi Dench in 1998

Queen Elizabeth I

MOVIE ROLES $200: Dame Judi Dench & Cate Blanchett both received Oscar nominations for portraying this woman in different '98 films

Queen Elizabeth I

THE ROLE PLAYED $1,000 (Daily Double): Bette Davis, Glenda Jackson, Dame Judi Dench

Queen Elizabeth I

I NEED MORE COWBELL $1600: The cowbell on "Little Sister" is one of the "Lullabies to Paralyze" by this paleolithic group

Queens of the Stone Age

COMPLETES THE PAIR $1200: Saddam's sons, both killed in a 2003 firefight in Mosul: Uday & ____

Qusay

BEFORE & AFTER $1600: "Bullet in the Head" heavy metal rap band that's a weapon perfected by Richard Gatling in the late 19th century

Rage Against the Machine Gun

BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $800: 1988 Dustin Hoffman film that definitely, definitely became the musical film version of "Don Quixote"

Rain Man of La Mancha

I'M LIKE ON PAGE 1 $1600: He began a book, "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe"

Ralph Ellison

TITLES FROM POETRY $3,000 (Daily Double): The best-laid plans of these 2 authors gave us 1785's "To a Mouse" & the 1937 title inspired by it, "Of Mice and Men"

Robert Burns and John Steinbeck

Define paleontology

noun the branch of science concerned with fossil animals and plants.

MISSING LINKS $100: Old Rough & ____ to Wear

Ready

"R" MOVIES $400: Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke & Ben Stiller form a romantic triangle in this 1994 Stiller directed

Reality Bites

KIRSTEN, REESE OR SCARLETT $1000: Born in the 1970s, she's the oldest

Reese

KIRSTEN, REESE OR SCARLETT $600: Married, with children

Reese

BURNS, BABY, BURNS $200: The poet Robert Burns was born on Jan, 25, 1759 in Alloway, a village on the river Doon in this country

Scotland

BEFORE & AFTER $800: Dynastic "Everyday People" singing group that subdivides into paleolithic, mesolithic & neolithic periods

Sly & the Family Stone Age

17th CENTURY PEOPLE $400: Painting Dr. Tulp, which means "Dr. Tulip", was one of this artist's first big jobs in Amsterdam

Rembrandt

ART & MYTHOLOGY $400: (Alex presents the clue from the J. Paul Getty Museum.) Only a fraction of the paintings by this great Dutch master depict scenes from mythology, but the Getty has one showing Jupiter in the guise of a bull abducting Europa

Rembrandt

COURSES AT CALTECH $600: The techies take a humanities break in "From Van Eyck to" this master painter of the Dutch golden age

Rembrandt

IN THE LOUVRE $400: A Dutch import: "Bathsheba at Her Bath"; "Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels with a Velvet Beret"

Rembrandt

SELFIE OF THE ARTIST $400: Here's a 1659 work by & of this Dutch boy, who rarely said no to painting a selfie

Rembrandt

THE ARTS $2000: The house where this artist lived & worked from 1639 to 1658 is now a museum in Amsterdam

Rembrandt

"OF" LITERATURE $600: "A la recherche du temps perdu" is the French title of this Proust masterpiece

Remembrance of Things Past

BIG BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): The remembered taste of a cake provides a turning point in this Proust work about memory

Remembrance of Things Past

DON'T BE A DUMAS $1600: If you recall, "The Sweet Cheat Gone" & "The Past Recaptured" are found in this 7-part Proust masterpiece

Remembrance of Things Past

FRENCH LITERATURE $1200: Marcel Proust began writing this 7-part, 3,000-page novel in 1909 & continued working on it until his death in 1922

Remembrance of Things Past

FRENCH LITERATURE: Its first chapter recalls "the little scallop-shell of pastry, so richly sensual under its severe, religious folds"

Remembrance of Things Past

IF THEY WERE MUSICALS... $1000: "Stop and Smell the Cake and Tea" is a showstopping number in the musical based on this 7-part Proust work

Remembrance of Things Past

LITERATURE $1000: Marcel Proust published "Swann's Way", the 1st part of this lengthy novel, at his own expense

Remembrance of Things Past

LITERATURE $1000: Proust paid to publish "Swann's Way", the first part of this epic work, after publishers rejected it

Remembrance of Things Past

NOVEL CHARACTERS $400: Ashley Wilkes says of him, "Arrogant devil, isn't he? He looks like one of the Borgias"

Rhett Butler

STATE OF THE ESTATE $1000: The Vanderbilts' summer "cottage", The Breakers

Rhode Island

"G" WHIZZES $800: The gun this man invented in 1862 could fire 350 rounds per minute

Richard Gatling

INVENTIONS $800: In addition to his machine gun, this Civil War-era man also invented a steam plow

Richard Gatling

SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $600: In 1862 he patented America's first practical quick-firing machine gun

Richard Gatling

THE 19th CENTURY $200: Besides farm machines he invented the first practical rapid-fire machine gun in the U.S.

Richard Gatling

TOSSIN' & TURNIN' $1000: In 1862 he patented his now famous gun with a hand crank for rapid firing of 250 or more rounds a minute

Richard Gatling

FAMOUS SCIENTISTS $600: The son of anthropologists Louis & Mary, he found an almost complete homo erectus skeleton in 1984

Richard Leakey

JOKERS ARE WILD $800: For "Blazing Saddles", this legendary black standup wrote the classic line "Mongo only pawn in game of life"

Richard Pryor

POP GOES THE CULTURE $1600: This late comic was first cast as Sheriff Bart in "Blazing Saddles" but the studio balked due to his volatile reputation

Richard Pryor

BATTLES OF THE BULGE $2000: This star of HBO's "Extras" refuses to diet & prefers to buy new clothes every few months when he gains weight

Ricky Gervais

BLAME IT ON THE SUPERNOVA $2000: "R" you ready?! The brightest star in Orion, this is set to go super-nova! (But relax, only within 10 mil. years or so)

Rigel

Rx MARKS THE SPOT $200: The stimulant methylphenidate, used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, is known by this trade name

Ritalin

THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $600: "Vincent & Theo", "The Player", "Ready to Wear"

Robert Altman

ONE OF THESE NIGHTS $800: He's heard here in a speech the night of Martin Luther King's murder "What we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another."

Robert F. Kennedy

PROJECT RUNAWAY $1000: L.A. spent about $600 million to turn the Ambassador Hotel into a K-12 school complex named for this late politician

Robert F. Kennedy

THE KENNEDY YEARS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the JFK Library & Museum in Boston, MA.) One exhibit at the Kennedy Library recreates the Justice Department office of this man, John F. Kennedy's most trusted advisor

Robert Kennedy

PIN THE TALE ON THE DONKEY $1000: In 1879 this young Scot documented his adventures in France in "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes"

Robert Louis Stevenson

BESTSELLING PAGETURNERS $3,000 (Daily Double): "The Matarese Countdown", "The Osterman Weekend", "The Icarus Agenda"

Robert Ludlum

SPY FICTION $500: You can name this author in 3 words..."The Icarus Agenda", "The Osterman Weekend", "The Matarese Circle"

Robert Ludlum

SPY NOVELS $600: His most recent bestseller is "The Icarus Agenda", published in 1988

Robert Ludlum

28 IS GREAT $400: This literary character spent 28 years marooned on a desert island

Robinson Crusoe

A NOVEL SUM-UP $800: Friend or Defoe?: the original "Survivor"; cannibals don't make for good company; thank God it's Friday!

Robinson Crusoe

AUTHORS' SECOND NOVELS $800: Knowing a good thing when he'd found it, Daniel Defoe penned "The Further Adventures of" this guy

Robinson Crusoe

ANCIENT TIMES $100: We know Hadrian's study center called the Athenaeum was in this city, we just don't know where

Rome

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT $800: In 1480, Lucrezia Borgia was born in what is now this capital

Rome

HISTORIC TV $200: This '70s miniseries scored a monster 71% of viewers for its finale & boosted interest in genealogy

Roots

"ROUND" 'EM UP $2000: 2 crucial hills in the Battle of Gettysburg were "Big" & "Little" this

Round Top

MUSICAL THEATER $400: The "Fiddler on the Roof" is fiddling on a roof in this country

Russia

CIVIL WAR $1000: This Col. fought at Antietam in 1862 along with Sgt. Wm. McKinley & became president 14 1/2 years later

Rutherford B. Hayes

YUKON $800: This cross on Yukon's coat of arms represents the early English explorers of the region

Saint George's cross

ESSAYS $1600: Norman Mailer dissed this author who died in 2010 as being "no more than the greatest mind ever to stay in prep school"

Salinger

ARCHAEOLOGY $400: In the 1700s William Stukeley was the first to recognize that the objects of this British site were aligned on the solstices

Stonehenge

BIOGRAPHIES $1600: Marquis James' biography "The Raven" isn't about Edgar Allan Poe but about this flamboyant pres. of early Texas

Sam Houston

A BIT OF LIT $2000: Before he waited for Godot, this Irish author wrote a critical study of Proust

Samuel Beckett

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PROUST $600: One of the first critiques in English of Proust's work was by this "Godot" playwright in 1931

Samuel Beckett

A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING $1600: This prestigious liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York was named for the wife of a real estate tycoon

Sarah Lawrence College

REMBRANDT $2000: This beloved wife of Rembrandt appeared in many of his paintings, including the one here of the two of them

Saskia

FOOT POTPOURRI $800: The Salish language gives us this other name for Bigfoot

Sasquatch

LET'S VISIT THE MIDEAST $800: This 830,000-square-mile kingdom is not a lifeless desert but teems with quince trees & wild gerbils

Saudi Arabia

KIRSTEN, REESE OR SCARLETT $400: Born of a Danish father

Scarlett

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $400: Bratislava, capital of this eastern neighbor of the Czech Republic, was known as Pressburg until 1919

Slovakia

CULTURES OF SOUTH AFRICA $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Lesedi Cultural Village in South Africa.) The short stabbing spear replacing the long throwing spear was an innovation of this Zulu chief who died in 1828; he also taught how to hook away an enemy's shield, exposing his ribs

Shaka

A JUDI DENCH FILM FESTIVAL $400: Judi played Queen Elizabeth I in a brief but Oscar-winning performance in this film

Shakespeare in Love

IT'S ALL RELATIVE $600: (I'm Anderson Cooper.) During the Civil War, my great-great-grandfather, Union general Judson Kilpatrick, fought at Gettysburg & under the command of this general on his "march to the sea"

Sherman

THE CIVIL WAR: 1st major battle with heavy causalities was at this Tennessee site named for a church on the battlefield

Shiloh

WHO SAID IT, SHAKESPEARE? $800: "Signior Antonio, many a time and oft in the Rialto you have rated me about my moneys and my usances"

Shylock

THE FABULOUS FIFTIES $800: Pat Carroll, Carl Reiner & Nanette Fabray all won Emmys in 1957 for their work on this comic's "Hour"

Sid Caesar

CAMBRIDGE $6,435 (Daily Double): The chapels at Pembroke & Emmanuel Colleges were designed by this architect

Sir Christopher Wren

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $600 (Daily Double): Bratislava is the capital of this republic

Slovakia

HOMELANDS $1000: Gustav lives in Bratislava, this country's capital

Slovakia

NEO GEO $200: This country took its half of the name & went home to Bratislava, becoming a separate nation in 1993

Slovakia

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

Slovakia

LANGUAGES $1,000 (Daily Double): Zulu, Sesotho & Xhosa are among this country's 11 official languages

South Africa

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $800: Tsonga isn't spoken in Tonga but is one of 11 official languages in this country, as are Tswana & Zulu

South Africa

MUSEUMS $600: This country's Transvaal Museum is noted for such fossilized remains as Australopithecus Africanus

South Africa

IN THE OCEAN $600: The Humboldt Current, teeming with life, is found off this continent's west coast

South America

DGA FEATURE FILM AWARD WINNERS $1000: 2010: Tom Hooper, who then had to give a non-royal one

The King's Speech

MOVIE QUEENS $800: Young Freya Wilson played future Queen Elizabeth II in this 2010 film

The King's Speech

SAY CHEESE! $1200: This country's manchego is so named because the sheep that originally made it grazed on La Mancha's plains

Spain

MOVIE KISSES $200: Tobey Maguire said kissing Kirsten Dunst upside-down in the rain was the hardest thing he's done as this superhero

Spider-Man

OTHER STAR TREK CHARACTERS $400: Mark Lenard played the first fully seen Romulan, the first Klingon with the forehead ridges & logically, the dad of this guy

Spock

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

Spoon River Anthology

MOVIES BY OSCARS $400: 2010: Actor Colin Firth & director Tom Hooper

The King's Speech

THE STAR OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $1200: 2010: Colin Firth

The King's Speech

LET'S GET ORGANIZED $1000: "Clemens, Samuel: see Twain, Mark" is one of these hyphenated notes that directs readers to info in an another place

a cross-reference

Patron saint of sailors

St. Elmo (Erasmus of Formia)

HOLLYWOOD HISTORY $200: This comic actor produced a singing cowboy Western without his partner Ollie

Stan Laurel

MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: Born Arthur Stanley Jefferson, this skinny half of a comedy team directed several of their films

Stan Laurel

STARS OF THE SILENT SCREEN $200: He starred solo & directed before being paired with Oliver Hardy

Stan Laurel

WEDDING TRIVIA $100: In the film "Our Wife", cross-eyed Ben Turpin married Oliver Hardy to this co-star

Stan Laurel

WELL-KNOWN NAMES $500: The real name of this half of a classic comedy team was Arthur Stanley Jefferson

Stan Laurel

BIBLICAL ART $1000: Dating from 1625, Rembrandt's earliest known painting was "The Stoning of" this martyr

Stephen

EVEN STEPHEN $2000: This character was James Joyce's fictional counterpart in "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" & "Ulysses"

Stephen Dedalus

JAMES JOYCE'S DUBLIN $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Dublin, Ireland.) This young hero of "Ulysses" stands in this spot looking over the sea and pondering love's bitter mystery

Stephen Dedalus

LITERATURE & MYTHOLOGY: The "very name embodies the idea of flight", says one analysis of a 20th century novel in describing this main character

Stephen Dedalus

READ ANY GOOD BOOKS? $400: This character is the young man in Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"

Stephen Dedalus

PALEOLITHIC $200: As the name implies, Paleolithic refers to what's called the "Old" this age

Stone Age

SCIENCE $600: In 1834, Christian Thomsen divided early human history into these 3 ages

Stone, Bronze, and Iron

EARLY MAN $1,200 (Daily Double): Prehistory can be divided into these 3 ages, each named for a different tool material

Stone, Iron, & Bronze

"S"TUFF $800: Attributed to Druids, Greeks & even Romans, this Neolithic site on Salisbury Plain was erected by unknown builders

Stonehenge

BROADWAY LYRICS $400: The song from "Fiddler on the Roof" that asks, "Is this the little girl I carried?"

Sunrise, Sunset

THE 11th CENTURY $200: In 1054 the Chinese observed one of these "super" astronomic cataclysms that ends a star's life

Supernova

REQUIRED READING $2000: For "Feminism and Film" at Vanderbilt: "Backlash" by this Pulitzer winner

Susan Faludi

AFRICAN LANGUAGES $1200: The dialect of Lamu in Kenya has produced classic poetry in this Bantu language

Swahili

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $1,200 (Daily Double): With 50 million speakers, this Bantu language is the most widely spoken native language on the continent

Swahili

LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $800: This language's many dialects include kiMvita spoken in Mombasa

Swahili

WHOSE WHAT? $2000: This first of the 7 parts of "Remembrance of Things Past" had to be published at author Marcel Proust's expense

Swann's Way

HOMOPHONES $300: A Proust character, or a ballet lake

Swann/Swan

LANGUAGES & DIALECTS $2000: The official languages of this small African kingdom are siSwati & English

Swaziland

REALLY FOREIGN LANGUAGES $1000: English & Siswati are the official languages of this small landlocked African nation

Swaziland

DISNEY SIDEKICKS $400: In "Mulan", Mushu is one of these legendary creatures

a dragon

SUMMARIZING PROUST $1600: As editor for the Criterion, this "Hollow Men" poet provided a literary platform for Proust

T.S. Eliot

"T" ZONES $400: This African republic's 2 official languages are English & Swahili

Tanzania

BLAME IT ON THE SUPERNOVA $400: Here's some total bull--in 1054 a supernova lit up one of the horns in this constellation

Taurus

SCIENCE & NATURE $2000: The Crab Nebula in this Zodiac constallation is the remains of the supernova of 1054 A.D.

Taurus

Define taurus

Taurus is one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Its symbol is a bull. People who are born between approximately the 20th of April and the 20th of May come under this sign.

POLITICIANS $400: 2 years after his brother was elected President, this senator from Massachusetts took office

Ted (or Edward) Kennedy

BORN & DIED $200: Born: Feb. 22, 1932, Boston, Massachusetts. Died: Aug. 25, 2009, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts

Ted Kennedy

KENNEDY FAMILY MEMBERS $6,400 (Daily Double): Lost the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination to Jimmy Carter

Ted Kennedy

NONFICTION $800: 2009's "Last Lion" is subtitled "The Fall and Rise of" this political brother

Ted Kennedy

POLITICAL CARICATURES $200: He was only 30 when he won his U.S. Senate seat in 1962

Ted Kennedy

SURVIVOR: CONGRESS $200: The tribe has spoken to the 8 Republicans who have run against this Massachusetts senator since 1962

Ted Kennedy

THE KENNEDYS $800: On Dec. 20, 1982 this Kennedy's stormy 24-year marriage ended

Ted Kennedy

THE KENNEDY CENTER $600: The Kennedy Center presented a series of one-act plays as "Five by Tenn", a reference to this playwright

Tennessee Williams

YUKON $400: On April 1, 2003 this word was officially dropped from Yukon's name

Territory

CHARACTERS IN PLAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): He's the resident milkman in the village of Anatevka

Tevye

FROM PAGE TO MUSICAL $400: The Tony-winning musical "Big River" was based on this Mark Twain classic

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

THEY CO-STARRED WITH LEO DiCAPRIO $1200: Cate Blanchett as Ketharine Hepburn, darling

The Aviator

HISTORICAL HAIKU $800: Civil War battle / Pickett charges to ruin / The rebels retreat

The Battle of Gettysburg

A JUDI DENCH FILM FESTIVAL $2000: Judi is a widow giving India a go in the film about this hotel that bills itself as "the best"

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

GET A HANDLE ON IT $600: This star group in Ursa Major is also called the Plow

The Big Dipper

U.S.A. $1000: This Boston library was founded in 1807; its name may be "Greek" to you

The Boston Athenaeum

THE 1893 CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR $1000: This bestseller by Erik Larson tells the true story of a serial killer who used the 1893 fair to lure his victims

The Devil in the White City

'60s TV $800: As producer, Carl Reiner picked up an Emmy for this Outstanding Comedy Series of 1965-66

The Dick Van Dyke Show

CLASSIC SITCOMS $300: The pilot for this sitcom was called "Head of the Family" & starred Carl Reiner as Rob Petrie

The Dick Van Dyke Show

THE EMMYS $800: Alan Brady would have been jealous when Carl Reiner won Emmys for writing & producing this series in the '60s

The Dick Van Dyke Show

FILE UNDER "E" $300: Poet William Drennan claimed to have coined this colorful name for Ireland about 1795

The Emerald Isle

GEMS $500: 18th century poet William Drennan claimed he coined this nickname for Ireland in his poem "Erin"

The Emerald Isle

AWARDS & HONORS $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1980 this Norman Mailer book won a Pulitzer, not a pardon

The Executioner's Song

FICTION PULITZERS $400: Norman Mailer won in 1980 for this grisly worker's "Song"

The Executioner's Song

IN THE BOOKSTORE $1600: This Norman Mailer work is the true story of murderer Gary Gilmore, who chose a firing squad when given the death penalty

The Executioner's Song

THE CONDEMNED MAN $2000: This Norman Mailer book tells how convicted killer Gary Gilmore lobbied for his own death by firing squad

The Executioner's Song

WRITTEN BY $1000: This book written by Norman Mailer focused on condemned killer Gary Gilmore

The Executioner's Song

LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Norman Mailer's true story of Gary Gilmore, a key player in Toni Morrison's "biblical" novel

The Executioner's Song of Solomon

GOTHIC LITERATURE $1600: Edgar Allan Poe fed a 19th century Gothic revival with stories like this supernatural tale about Roderick & his doomed family

The Fall of the House of Usher

TWO OF A KIND $1600: In this Edgar Allan Poe tale, Roderick confesses that his not-dead-yet twin sister Madeline has been laid in the family tomb

The Fall of the House of Usher

CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE $400: The second sentence of this speech begins, "Now we are engaged in a great civil war"

The Gettysburg Address

MUMMY DEAREST $800: Those who found the well-preserved Tollund Man in 1950 in this peaty type of swamp called the cops, not the archaeologists

a fen (or a bog)

THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a diagram of the Battle of Gettysburg.) The battle began when Confederate troops, searching for shoes, ran into Union cavalry.The Union forces were then pushed back into a defensive formation that became known as this, after the anglers' device it resembled.

a fishhook

Define australopithecus

a fossil bipedal primate with both apelike and human characteristics, found in Pliocene and lower Pleistocene deposits ( c. 4 million to 1 million years old) in Africa.

2016 MINUTES OF FAME $1200: Andrea Leadsom said, I'd be a better U.K. PM because I'm a mother; exit Andrea, enter this new PM

Theresa May

WAY BACK IN 2017 (Tiebreaker clue): Her April decision to call a snap parliamentary election proved less than brilliant on June 8

Theresa May

Current Prime Minister of England

Theresa May (July 13, 2016 - ?)

FAMOUS RAYS $2000: In 2005 NASA pinpointed GRB050709, the "GRB" for this type of burst brighter than a billion suns

a gamma-ray burst

ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: The Himalayas border the southern end of the vast plateau of this Chinese region

Tibet

THE HIMALAYAS $800: The highest tree in the Himalayas is a juniper tree found at around 16,000' in this autonomous region of China

Tibet

FUNNY LADIES $200: In 2010, she became the youngest recipient of the Mark Twain prize for humor

Tina Fey

FRENCH LITERATURE $400: "Twenty Years After" & "The Vicomte de Bragelonne" were both sequels to this Alexandre Dumas work

Three Musketeers

SONG/BOOK $1200: Song: Rush; book: Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer

A LOOK AT BOOKS $1000: Norman Mailer said a novel by this man didn't have the right stuff: "It is a 742-page work that reads as if it is 1,500"

Tom Wolfe

BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $800: In 2015 he apologized for "mistakes in planning" but found it hard to apologize "for removing Saddam"

Tony Blair

I READ THE NEWS TODAY $800: In 2018 this ex-PM from the Labour Party said he wouldn't mind a referendum on the Brexit referendum

Tony Blair

MOVIE QUEENS $1200: In "The Queen" Michael Sheen as this man helps Helen Mirren's Elizabeth II do right by Princess Diana's memory

Tony Blair

QE II's PMs $800: He served the second-longest tenure as PM for Elizabeth II--10 years, from 1997 to 2007

Tony Blair

THE PREVIOUS WORLD LEADER $400: Gordon Brown finally got his turn after this man left

Tony Blair

THE PRIOR WORLD LEADER $400: Before Gordon Brown, if you Labour to remember

Tony Blair

BROADWAY SONGS $800: "Fiddler on the Roof" tune which tells us "Poppa must scramble for a living"

Tradition

POE FOLKS $400: Things are not going well when we meet Edgar Allan Poe's Roderick, proprietor of "the house of" this

Usher

PREHISTORIC TIMES $400: The procoptodon, a 450-pound one of these, jumped all over Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch

a kangaroo

ARCHAEOLOGY $200: 9 periods of habitation have been discovered in this ancient city of Anatolia; VIIa is the one written about by Homer

Troy

IF JUDD APATOW ADAPTED THE CLASSICS $800: Agamemnon goes on a hilarious bender after sacrificing his daughter to gain a fair wind to this city

Troy

COLLEGE COLLAGE $800: Home to the William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive, this university is known as the "Harvard of the South"

Tulane

ASTRONOMY $800: In 1572 this Danish astronomer discovered a supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia

Tycho Brahe

BLAME IT ON THE SUPERNOVA $1200: Before 1572, many thought no change could occur in the heavens beyond the moon's orbit; then this Dane saw a supernova

Tycho Brahe

A NOVEL CATEGORY $400: This James Joyce novel could be called "A Day in the Life of Leopold & Molly Bloom & Stephen Dedalus"

Ulysses

CHALLENGED & BANNED BOOKS $600: A landmark obscenity case in 1933 lifted a ban in the U.S. on this James Joyce work

Ulysses

CLASSIC NOVELS $1,000 (Daily Double): In this novel, banned in the U.S. until 1933, Molly Bloom & Stephen Dedalus represent Penelope & Telemachus

Ulysses

IT'S IN THE BOOK $800: From 1922, Dubliner Molly Bloom

Ulysses

SAILING LIT $600: "My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset", he says in a Tennyson poem that bears his name, set after a Homer epic

Ulysses

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

Ulysses

ART & MYTHOLOGY $600: On the vase dating from the 5th century B.C., this hero is tied to the mast of his ship to resist the singing of the sirens

Ulysses (or Odysseus)

HAIL TO THE CHIEF $200: This general's acceptance letter upon receiving the Republican nomination in 1868 included the line "Let us have peace"

Ulysses Grant

PRESIDENTIAL BOOKS $800: In 1884 Mark Twain offered him a $50,000 advance for his "Personal Memoirs", which he finished just prior to his death

Ulysses Grant

PUTTING THE VICE IN VICE PRESIDENT $1000: Schuyler Colfax, No. 2 to this military hero, got implicated in shady contracts to build the Union Pacific Railroad

Ulysses Grant

U.S. MILITARY MEN $800: More than a million people attended his 1885 funeral in NYC & in 1897 a million attended the dedication of his tomb

Ulysses S. Grant

CELEBRITY SPOUSES $800: Mrs. Ethan Hawke

Uma Thurman

SPOUSE IN COMMON $600: Gary Oldman, Ethan Hawke

Uma Thurman

CONSTELLATIONS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a constellation on the monitor.) Look for the Big Dipper to find this third largest constellation: the handle forms its tail; other stars form its paws

Ursa Major

CONSTELLATIONS $400: The handle of the Big Dipper forms the tail of this constellation, the Great Bear

Ursa Major

NO MAN'S SKY $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a constellation on the monitor.) Look for the Big Dipper, then for the three pairs of stars that form the paws when tracing the entire figure of this constellation

Ursa Major

SPACE STUFF $400: The Big Dipper is part of this constellation, from the Latin for "great bear"

Ursa Major

BATTLES OF THE BULGE $1600: Since losing 40 pounds on Jenny Craig, she said she can finally go on tour like her son Wolfie

Valerie Bertinelli

AMERICAN GRADUATORS $1000: Tipper Gore & Dinah Shore got degrees from this prestigious university in Nashville

Vanderbilt

COLLEGE KNOWLEDGE $2000: A noted Commodore from this university was Al Gore, who studied at both its divinity & law schools

Vanderbilt

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: Bishop Holland McTyeire, a cousin of the founder's wife, chose the site in Nashville for the campus of this private university

Vanderbilt

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: Learn fiddle & gee-tar at the Blair school of music of this university--it is in Nashville, after all

Vanderbilt

COLLEGES BY TEAM NAMES $600: The Commodores

Vanderbilt

TEACHING THE TEACHERS $1200: The U.S. news No. 1-ranked education grad school is the Peabody School at this Nashville university

Vanderbilt

THE MANSION FAMILY $800: Marble House in Newport, Rhode Island was bilt in the late 1800s for William, last name this

Vanderbilt

THE BORGIAS $400: Built for the family, the Borgia Apartments are an important part of the heritage of this location within Rome

Vatican City

THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS $600: Along with the Borgia apartments, the Etruscan Museum is one of the top attractions in this 109-acre country

Vatican City

A SHAKESPEARE TOUR $800: A city: "What news on the Rialto?"

Venice

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE $2000: Here's sunrise from the Rialto in this city

Venice

LANDMARKS $600: The famous Rialto Bridge was the only bridge over this city's Grand Canal until modern times

Venice

PRETTY CITY $400: Here's a view of this pretty city from the Rialto Bridge

Venice

WORLD CITIES $200: This city's main shopping street is the Mercerie, between the Rialto Bridge & St. Mark's Square

Venice

PALEOLITHIC $400: Scholars name paleolithic figurines like the one seen here for this Roman love goddess

Venus

PLANETARY NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): General term for a zaftig female statuette from Paleolithic times

Venus

YOU, SIR, ARE AN IMPASTO $1600: "Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window" is an excellent example of impasto from this Dutch master

Vermeer

ITALIAN CITIES & TOWNS $400: A neolithic skeletal pair were unearthed "embracing" near this city where Romeo & Juliet lived

Verona

NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICALLY $800: In 1524 this Italian made it to the mouth of the Cape Fear River; there was no bridge named for him there, though

Verrazzano

THE CIVIL WAR $1200: The Union won at Gettysburg on July 3 1863 & this other vital "burg" July 4, & the Confederacy was on the ropes

Vicksburg Vicksburg is a city in western Mississippi. It's known as the site of a key Civil War battle. The Siege of Vicksburg is commemorated at the vast Vicksburg National Military Park, which encompasses the Vicksburg National Cemetery and the restored USS Cairo gunboat. The landmark Old Court House has a museum displaying Civil War artifacts. The Lower Mississippi River Museum features an aquarium and interactive exhibits.

DON'T BE A DUMAS $400: In 1843, 12 years after he scored with Notre Dame, his play "The Burgraves" failed & his daughter drowned

Victor Hugo

FRUITS & VEGETABLES $800: This variety of lime grown only in Southern Florida is best known as an ingredient in a certain pie

a key lime

PLEISTOCENE STEALER $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) During the Pleistocene Epoch, the ocean receded & Beringia emerged, an example of this 2-word type of isthmus, allowing humans to come from Asia to America

a land bridge

BATTLES OF THE BULGE $1200: In 2008 Esquire wrote that this "Wedding Crashers" actor looked like himself, only bigger

Vince Vaughn

TITLES FROM POETRY $800: The first line of this ancient poet's "Aeneid" inspired George Bernard Shaw's play title "Arms and the Man"

Virgil

DON'T BE A DUMAS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1717 it was Bastille Day for this 1-named author who'd do 11 months for satirical verses against the govt.

Voltaire

SALEM $1000: The Salem Athenaeum is one of these & a membership that includes borrowing rights is $45 a year

a library

THE ROBBER BARONS $400: Financier James Fisk, "The Barnum of" this NYC street, was shot to death by a business & love rival

Wall Street

"M"ANIMAL $600: Seen here, this tropical flier is known for its brilliant plumage and strong voice

a macaw

"M"ENAGERIE $600: The largest of all parrot species

a macaw

APRIL $300: He was 70 when his "American Dictionary of the English Language" was first published on April 14, 1828

Webster

ARE "WE" THERE YET? $800: It's the last name of dictionary compiler Noah

Webster

A TRIP TO CENTRAL AMERICA $600: Because it lives high up in the trees and can fly 35 mph, the scarlet type of this parrot is a rare sight

a macaw

CREATURES AMONG US $1000: Seen here is the largest member of the parrot family, the hyacinth type of this

a macaw

YUKON $1200: More than 2/3 of Yukon's population lives in this capital city

Whitehorse

LAST NAME'S THE SAME $600: Cotton gin maker Eli & NYC museum founder Gertrude Vanderbilt

Whitney

GENEALOGY $1200: Celebrities whose family history has been traced on this TV series include Reba McEntire & Helen Hunt

Who Do You Think You Are?

STUPID ANSWERS ACROSS AMERICA $400: (Hi, I'm Liz Cho from ABC7.) Ulysses S. Grant was interred here in his New York City tomb in 1897; years later, Groucho Marx made a famous running gag out of this question

Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb?

SOUTH AMERICAN WILDLIFE $1000: (Jeff Probst) There are about 12 species of this type of parrot in Brazil

a macaw

FASHION DESIGNERS $800: American designer Willi Smith's ready-to-wear label

Williwear

I LOVE L.A. KERS $1200: This Laker giant was nicknamed "The Big Dipper" for his habit of dipping his head to fit through doorways

Wilt Chamberlain

NET FLICKS $400: In a 2004 film tennis players Kirsten Dunst & Paul Bettany fall in love while competing in this Grand Slam event

Wimbledon

THE REEL WORLD $600: Kirsten Dunst is a world-class tennis player in this 2004 film named for a famous British tournament

Wimbledon

CLASSICAL MUSIC $1000: This Austrian child prodigy began composing minuets when he was only 5

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

THE RED, WHITE & BLUE $400: There's no Norwegian blue, but the blue hyacinth species of this type of parrot does have beautiful plumage

a macaw

OH, YOU ANIMAL! $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the zoo.) These largest parrots are prized for their beautifully colored plumage

a macaw crossword clue: colorful bird in a rainforest answer: macaw

NOVELS WITH CONFLICT $800: "The Naked & the Dead" by Norman Mailer

World War II

PREHISTORIC TIMES $100: Historians generally agree that the development of this separates prehistory from history

Writing

THE MIDDLE AGES $1600: After a journey of 3 1/2 years, Marco Polo reached Shang-tu, China, which was called this in "Kubla Khan"

Xanadu

CHEWING THE "FAT" $1200: He was the head of the P.L.O. from 1969 to 2004

Yasser Arafat

TAKE MY "Y", PLEASE! $1000: Take this role in "Fiddler on the Roof"; I wanted to play it, but Bea Arthur's old Broadway costume doesn't fit me

Yenta

THE HIMALAYAS $1200: Going to Mount Everest? Book a flight to Lukla with this Nepalese airline named for the abominable snowman

Yeti

LITERARY CHARACTERS $1000: This Joseph Heller hero is also called Yo-Yo

Yossarian

SATIRE $800: He's the anti-hero of Joseph Heller's satire of military bureaucracy, "Catch-22"

Yossarian

When picking a color to paint your home's exterior, design experts recommend choosing a sahde the complements the color of what?

Your roof

HOT POTATO $2000: Yee-ha! I've struck it rich with these potatoes that were developed in Canada and are perfect for boiling

Yukon Gold

FRENCH FIXINS $1000: In a remembrance of things Proust, it's a small, buttery sponge cake eaten as a cookie, often dipped in coffee

a madeleine

3-M $400: About 10 feet high at the shoulder, this Pleistocene animal had complex molar teeth

a mammoth

THE NAME ON THE LABEL $200: Influences on the designs of this firm include the Ballets Russes & the writings of Proust (YSL)

Yves Saint Laurent

MYTHOLOGY $400: When he learned that Metis was pregnant, this main Greek god swallowed her & Athena was born from his head

Zeus

RELIGIOUS WORKS $1200: Phidias' masterpieces were the statues of Athena in the Parthenon & of him at Olympia

Zeus

JULES VERNE $400: Verne drew from Edgar Allan Poe to write his first novel, "Five Weeks in" this aerial transport

a Balloon

GENEALOGY $400: A family one of these can help--not because you descend from Noah, but because births & deaths were written in it

a Bible

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

GUNS $200: In June 1864 this early machine gun was used by Union troops at the siege of Petersburg, Virginia

a Gatling gun

THE CIVIL WAR $1600: This 6-barreled, hand-cranked weapon was first used in war by Union troops at the Battle of Petersburg

a Gatling gun

ANTHROPOLOGY $1600: A 2016 report suggests that this European hominin of the Pleistocene Epoch may have practiced cannibalism

a Neanderthal

EPONYM DROPPER $1600: Seen here, it's named for a U.S. Army officer who designed it as an effective weapon for trench warfare

a Thompson (submachine) gun

RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE $800: Trees breathed easier after 7.5-ft. Castoroides, a species of this with huge gnawing teeth, went extinct in the Pleistocene

a beaver

THE DARK NIGHT RISES $1000: Mizar & Alcor in the Big Dipper's handle make up a "visual" one of these visible to the naked eye

a binary

"B"EGINNINGS $1600: It's unglazed china or a thick, cream soup with shellfish

a bisque

FRENCH DIP $400: While playing Marco Polo at the beach, I almost collided with un bateau, one of these

a boat

BLARNEY $400: For peat sake, you should know this word for wet, spongy ground

a bog

WEIRD SPORTS $1600: Speed snorkeling through these peat moss wetlands of Europe can earn you a spot in the record books

a bog

THROWING THE "BOOK" AT YOU $1600: In 2016 Emma Watson launched an online feminist one

a book club

LANDMARKS $600: Named for Marco Polo, one of these structures crosses China's Yongding River

a bridge

THE BORGIAS $800: Rodrigo's uncle Pope Calixtus III made 25-year-old Rodrigo one of these high ecclesiastics

a cardinal

CHEWING THE "FAT" $2000: It's a mirage over water named for a female figure of Arthurian legend

fata Morgana

STIMULANTS $300: In the mid-1990s the diet drug with this homophonic name dangerously paired an appetite suppressant & a stimulant

fen-phen

POTPOURRI $400: Raul Rodriguez is a famed designer of these, & he's often seen riding on one on January 1st with his pet macaw

float

LET US FLOAT SOMETHING BY YOU $1000: Ask Robinson Crusoe--the dessert seen here is known as a floating this

floating island

ALL ABOUT NUMBERS $400: Number of years in the first line of the Gettysburg Address

four score and seven (87)

BLAME IT ON THE SUPERNOVA $800: Some supernovae produce these rays but the odds of them turning you super-strong & green as in comic books? Low

gamma rays

CHEMISTRY $1600: Iron, cobalt & this silver-white next metal up on the periodic table share similar chemical properties

nickel

CROSSWORD CLUES "N" $400: Addictive tobacco stimulant (8)

nicotine

WORDS IN THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS $2000: "The world will little" this, "nor long remember, what we say here"--so he thought

note

Define rialto

noun pl. -·tos a theater district a trading area or marketplace Origin of rialto after Rialto, island in Venice, Italy, formerly a center of business and trade Crossword clue: district for playgoers answer: rialto

ALL IN THE CELEBRITY FAMILY $800: Christian & Kirsten

the Dunsts

WRITE, PATTERSON $200: James Patterson's first novel, "The Thomas Berryman Number", won this literary award named for Mr. Poe

the Edgar Award

LITERARY AWARDS $400: These awards presented by the Mystery Writers of America are named for Mr. Poe

the Edgars

GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES: From the 1795 poem "Erin": "Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to defile/ The cause, or the men, of" this place

the Emerald Isle

RABBITS, RABBITS, RABBITS $600: He wears sunglasses & flip-flops & keeps going & going & going ...

the Energizer Bunny

THE CIVIL WAR $600: After this major battle July 21, 1861, the North believed the war had begun in earnest

the First Battle of Bull Run

WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $400: This sacred river flows about 1,500 miles from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal

the Ganges

GUNS N' ROSES $800: Though patented in 1862, this crank-operated machine gun didn't become official U.S. Army weaponry until 1866

the Gatling Gun

ADDRESS ME $400: This speech ends, "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"

the Gettysburg Address

THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO $400: Polo wrote, this Asian desert "is reported to be so long that it would take a year to go from end to end"

the Gobi

WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $800: Beneath the Rialto Bridge in Venice: this busy waterway

the Grand Canal

PLEISTOCENE STEALER $400: This 277-mile-long gorge of the Colorado River was primarily formed during the Pleistocene

the Grand Canyon

U.S. LAKES: This lake is the remnant of former Lake Bonneville, which existed during the Pleistocene epoch

the Great Salt Lake

GIMME AN "H" $1000: This scientific endeavor abbreviated HGP had the goal of mapping every gene of Homo sapiens

the Human Genome Project

A LONG TIME AGO IN AMERICA $400: When capitalized, this term refers to the Pleistocene glacial epoch that started creeping over North America 2 million years ago

the Ice Age

THE END OF TIME $800: The last major one of these ages ended with the Pleistocene Epoch nearly 12,000 years ago

the Ice Age

COLONIAL AMERICA $400: Anthropologists have stated these peoples were at a Neolithic stage when colonists landed

the Indians

RELIGION $800: 1 of the Borgias, Duke Francisco, was made a saint for his work in expanding & reforming this religious order

the Jesuits

WHAT'S YOUR RANGE? $2000: K2 (it's what the "K" stands for)

the Karakoram

IN THE RANGE $2000: The former Mount Godwin-Austen, now known as K2

the Karakoram Range

BORN TO RUN $1200: Patrick of this illustrious family was first elected to Congress from Rhode Island in 1994

the Kennedy family (Patrick is the son of Ted Kennedy)

NO RUSH $800: If you arrived in Dawson in 1899, you were too late for the gold rush named for this Yukon river

the Klondike River

THE RED AUERBACH TROPHY $400: 1989-90: Pat Riley of this "Showtime" squad

the L.A. Lakers

NOW YOU'VE STEPPED IN IT $600: The bubbling pools of sticky asphalt at this L.A. spot have yielded millions of specimens since the Pleistocene

the La Brea Tar Pits

BOOKS $800: A review said ancestors of this Yann Martel novel include "Gulliver's Travels" & "Robinson Crusoe"

the Life of Pi

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

the Nile

FOUND IN SPACE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) Two stars in the Big Dipper's bowl are called pointer stars because the line drawn through them points to this

the North Star

OH, WHAT A TANGLED WEBSITE WE WEAVE $600: A headline at this parody news site read, "Staten Island historians piece together genealogy of Wu-Tang Clan"

the Onion

FLOWERY PROSE $4,000 (Daily Double): In an Alexandre Dumas novel, the town of Haarlem offers a prize to anyone who can grow a black one of these

tulip

I'M JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU $600: For you, it's got to be roses; I prefer this type of flower that comes in Rembrandt & Greigii varieties

tulips

WORDS IN THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS $800: It's what the dead "shall not have died in"

vain

GENEALOGY GLOSSARY $200: Relict is a rather unkind-sounding term for this grieving person

widow

BODY PART TITLES $600: Poe played an organ of a different sort--under the floorboards-- in this tense short story

"The Tell-Tale Heart"

INQUISITIVE WRITERS $800: This Poe tale begins, "True!...Nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"

"The Tell-Tale Heart"

PERFECT RESPONSES FOR JEOPARDY! $1000: This question from "The Merchant of Venice" mentions a bridge on the grand canal

"What news on the Rialto?"

QUESTIONABLE TELEVISION $1200: On NBC & then TLC, a genealogy show has asked celebrities this title question

"Who Do You Think You Are?"

WORLD WAR II: The 1944 Battle of the Ardennes is also alliteratively called the "Battle of" this.

Answer: What is the Bulge?

PARTS OF THE BODY: This vestigial organ is attached to a part of the large intestine called the cecum.

Answer: What is the appendix?

AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He received only $10 for the first publication of "The Tell-Tale Heart"

Edgar Allan Poe

SHOW TUNES $200: "Tradition", "If I Were a Rich Man"

Fiddler on the Roof

AMERICAN LITERATURE $200: Among the scary stories he published in 1843 were "The Tell-Tale Heart" & "The Black Cat"

Edgar Allan Poe

GEOGRAPHIC TERMS: A country that has no direct access to the sea is referred to by this 10-letter term.

Answer: What is landlocked?

THE ORCHESTRA: Castanets and the tambourine belong to this section of the orchestra.

Answer: What is percussion?

WOMEN OF HISTORY: Clara Barton was the founder of this group.

Answer: What is the (American) Red Cross?

ASTRONOMY: The seven brightest stars in Ursa Major are collectively known as this.

Answer: What is the Big Dipper?

VOCABULARY: A type of humor includes the name of this structure used in hangings.

Answer: What is gallows?

HOBBIES: Not gardening, but this hobby with a nine-letter name is getting to the roots of your ancestors.

Answer: What is genealogy?

CHEMISTRY: The two main types of chemical bonds are covalent and this type found in salts.

Answer: What is ionic?

WHO PLAYED 'EM? $1600: 2010: Maid Marian to Russell Crowe's Robin Hood

Cate Blanchett

CELEBRITY RHYME TIME $400: Blanchett's beaus

Cate's dates

AMERICAN AUTHORS $2000: Though the real first name of this "Blood Meridian" author is Charles, he adopted a more Irish-sounding name

Cormac McCarthy

IF 1800s AMERICA HAD TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY $800: Instagram @timothyosullivan is a downer with shots like "A harvest of death" from this July 1863 battlefield

Gettysburg

MEMORIAL DAY $3,000 (Daily Double): To honor the 100th anniversary of a battle here, LBJ gave a Memorial Day speech in 1963

Gettysburg

QUOTATIONS $800: It's the "here" in the 1863 line "those who here gave their lives that that nation might live"

Gettysburg

RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? $200: Petunia my lovely, this Pennsylvania battle goes on & we are to assault Culp's Hill! My life insurance policy is in the chifforobe

Gettysburg

SLEEPY $2,000 (Daily Double): This sleepy Pennsylvania town is often called "The Most Famous Small Town in America"

Gettysburg

THE CIVIL WAR $800: The Battle of Little Round Top was one of the bloody skirmishes in this 3-day battle in July 1863

Gettysburg

THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $800: Special observances are held annually at this battlefield on Memorial Day & November 19

Gettysburg

THE PATRIOT LEAGUE $1600: Joshua Chamberlain held Little Round Top during this Civil War battle

Gettysburg

THE SCHOOL YEAR $1,500 (Daily Double): This Pennsylvania college was founded in 1832, 31 years before it served as a field hospital

Gettysburg

WAR MOVIES $400: (Hi, I'm Ken Burns.) Sure I direct, but I've also been in front of the camera, like when I acted in the epic named for this Civil War battle that included Pickett's Charge

Gettysburg

WARTIME IMAGES $1200: Timothy O'Sullivan's 1863 shot of its aftermath is titled "A Harvest of Death"

Gettysburg

WESTMINSTER $200: Westminster, Md. was an important Union supply base during this July 1863 battle 20 miles north in Pennsylvania

Gettysburg

U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1600: The Eisenhower National Historic Site is just a stone's throw from this battlefield

Gettysburg Eisenhower National Historic Site preserves the home and farm of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States, and its surrounding property of 690.5 acres. It is located in Cumberland Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, just outside Gettysburg.

NEXT IN ORDER $2000: Hominids: Australopithecus africanus, Australopithecus robustus, this first Homo

Homo habilis

PREHISTORIC TIMES $2000: The name of this earliest human species is Latin for "skillful human being"

Homo habilis

SCIENCE $2000: The original "handy man" was this early human whose name means just that

Homo habilis

TURNS OF THE CENTURY $1000: Around 2,000,001 B.C., this probable ancestor of ours, whose name means "handy man", was using simple tools

Homo habilis

BIOLOGY $400: Humans belong to the class Mammalia, to the order Primates & to this genus & species

Homo sapiens

EARLY MAN $2000: In a common scientific classification of Neanderthal man, Neanderthalensis follows these 2 words

Homo sapiens

EVOLUTION $1000: Modern man is the only living member of this species

Homo sapiens

FAMILY MEMBERS $400: It's the scientific name of the only extant species of the primate family Hominidae

Homo sapiens

THE WORLD $600: All of the peoples of the world belong to this single species

Homo sapiens

WISE GUYS $600: This name for the human species literally means "wise man"

Homo sapiens

YOU'RE AN ANIMAL! $500: It's the genus & species of this animal ("caveman")

Homo sapiens

ZOOLOGY $1,500 (Daily Double): This is the only species in the family "hominidae"

Homo sapiens (man)

LA LITERATURE FRANÇAISE $800: Don't forget that "Swann's Way" is the first part of this epic by Proust

In Search of Lost Time

WE'RE GOING LONG $400: Guinness recognizes this 7-part Proust work as the longest novel

In Search of Lost Time (or Remembrance of Things Past)

Increasing in popularity in the past few years, a "flat white" is something you'd be most likely to ask for where?

In a coffee shop

EARLY MAN $500: The Australopithecus afarensis skeleton found in 1974 in eastern Africa was "Desi"gnated this

Lucy

HOMECOMING $2,000 (Daily Double): After he returned home to Venice in 1295, he was called "Il Milione", the "man with a million stories"

Marco Polo

BIBLE STUDY $1000: Rembrandt painted this prophet, sad that his book says all the houses of Jerusalem were burned

Jeremiah

Kirsten Dunst is engaged to....

Jesse Plemons

SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR $1600: John Yossarian

Joseph Heller

THAT CHARACTER HAS AUTHOR! $800: Major Major Major Major, a major character

Joseph Heller

THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $2000: Audiences have had "A Fine Romance" with this British dame since she debuted in "The Third Secret"

Judi Dench

PICK A PART $2000: 2001: Iris Murdoch (1 of the 2)

Judi Dench or Kate Winslet

GREAT DAMES $800: In 1995 she was "Victor/Victoria" onstage; maybe she could get a knighthood, as well

Julie Andrews

ELLE $2000: She starred with Ethan Hawke in "Before Sunrise"; she & Ethan Hawke not only starred in the sequel but also co-wrote it

Julie Delpy

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

HISTORICAL MOVIES: One of the 2 actresses nominated for Oscars for playing the same person in a 1997 blockbuster

Kate Winslet & Gloria Stuart

OSCARS SINCE 2000 $800: Cate Blanchett won an Oscar for playing this 4-time Oscar-winning actress in "The Aviator"

Katharine Hepburn

BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Opera diva who was Nazi Germany's last major counteroffensive in December 1944

Kathleen Battle of the Bulge

THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE $1600: Her first marriage was annulled by her father Pope Alexander VI; her brother Cesare had her second husband strangled

Lucrezio Borgia

ANTHROPOLOGY $400: At 40% intact, the 3.2-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis skeleton with this nickname is remarkably complete

Lucy

ARCHAEOLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): Anthropologists now argue over the gender of this famous Australopithecene once accepted as female

Lucy

AUTHORS $400: This author of "Remembrance of Things Past" was a semirecluse who suffered from chronic asthma

Marcel Proust

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVELS $400: He remembered things past when he went "In Search of Lost Time"

Marcel Proust

BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: This "Remembrance of Things Past" author was so deathly afraid of germs he wouldn't pick up a pen if he had dropped it

Marcel Proust

BOOKS & AUTHORS $2500: If you've read his "A la recherche du temps perdu", then you know about the Madeleines

Marcel Proust

FICTIONAL WOMEN $1600: This author created Gilberte Swann, who entrances the young Marcel

Marcel Proust

FRENCH LIT $800: The first volume in this author's 3,000-page novel was 1913's "Du Cote de Chez Swann"

Marcel Proust

FRENCH NOVELISTS $200: "Within A Budding Grove", the 2nd part of his "Remembrance of Things Past", won the Goncourt Literary Prize

Marcel Proust

IN PERE-LACHAISE CEMETERY $600 (Daily Double): This novelist's magnum opus is literally translated "In Search of Lost Time"

Marcel Proust

LA LITTERATURE FRANCAISE $2000: 1919's prestigious Prix Goncourt went to "Within a Budding Grove", part of this man's swann song

Marcel Proust

LITERARY QUOTES $1200: He wrote in "Remembrance of Things Past", "The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic"

Marcel Proust

LITERATURE $1200: One of his most famous works is called "Du Côte de Chez Swann" in the original French

Marcel Proust

MODERN LITERATURE $3,600 (Daily Double): He died in 1922 before the last 3 volumes of his "Remembrance of Things Past" were published

Marcel Proust

PEN NAMES $1000: Since he remembered things past, Echo was an apropos nom de plume for this Frenchman

Marcel Proust

RECLUSIVE AUTHORS $800: After age 35 he rarely left the cork-lined room where he wrote "Remembrance of Things Past"

Marcel Proust

THE PERE LACHAISE LOUNGE $600: What could be more appropriate than this author reading selections from his own "Remembrance of Things Past"

Marcel Proust

THE WRITER $1000: This man who penned "A la recherche du temps perdu" suffered from asthma

Marcel Proust

FRENCH NOVELISTS: A relative of Henri Bergson's wife, he used Bergson's mystical concepts of time in his most famous work

Marcel Proust (Remembrance of Things Past)

FAMOUS AMYS $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Kirsten Dunst) In "Little Women" Amy is the youngest of 4 sisters with this last name

March

A WORLD OF OPERA $400 (Daily Double): This explorer turns up as a character in "A Night at the Chinese Opera"

Marco Polo

BIOPICS $400: In 1938 Gary Cooper discovered spaghetti & gunpowder as this adventurer in the East

Marco Polo

DEATH IN VENICE $400: Asked to retract his fables on his deathbed in Venice in 1324, this explorer said he had only told half of what he saw

Marco Polo

DISCOVERING JAPAN $1,200 (Daily Double): Though he didn't make it all the way to "Cipango", he reported it had gold in the greatest abundance

Marco Polo

FIRST BORN $1000: Marco Polo, Henry the Navigator, Christopher Columbus

Marco Polo

GAMES $200: An explorer lends his name to this call & response swimming pool game

Marco Polo

GAMES $800: To play this pool game named for an Italian, try to determine where people are by homing in on their voices

Marco Polo

HISTORIC FIGURES SPEAK $200: I wrote a book about serving Kublai Khan, but if I hear one more kid scream my name playing in a pool, I'm gonna lose it!

Marco Polo

HISTORIC NAMES $400: His travels took him from Venice to Asia & back again (1271-1295); he died in Venice in 1324

Marco Polo

WE SUGGEST BIOGRAPHY TITLES $800: This general who was fired by Lincoln for not chasing Lee's army (again!) after Antietam: "Not-So-Curious George"

McClellan

TOO BAD $600: Last name of Lorenzino, who on Jan. 5, 1537 decided the Duke of Florence needed to breathe a lot less

Medici

CURLY $1200: In mythology, Athena changed the beautiful curls of this maiden into hissing serpents

Medusa

GREEK MYTHOLOGY $400: For daring to compare herself to Athena, this Gorgon maiden was changed into a monster

Medusa

IT'S ALL A MYTH $2000: This most famous of the snake-haired gorgons wound up with her head cut off & placed on the shield of Athena

Medusa

MYTHOLOGICAL MISTAKES $600: She foolishly fooled around with Poseidon in Athena's temple, so Athena turned her hair into snakes

Medusa

MYTHOLOGY $100: Athena caught Poseidon & this gorgon in her temple & turned her into a monster

Medusa

MYTHOLOGY $500: Athena gave this maiden snaky hair & a face so hideous that a glimpse of it would turn men to stone

Medusa

MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH... $800: My 1947 TV show "Read the Proust" bombed against this NBC show that's still running

Meet the Press

CELEBRITY VETERANS $800: This producer of "The Producers" first saw combat duty against German forces at the Battle of the Bulge

Mel Brooks

ENTERTAINERS: Interviewed on "60 Minutes" in 2001, he said, "It's been one of my lifelong jobs... to make the world laugh at Adolf Hitler"

Mel Brooks

GRAMMY-WINNING COMEDY ALBUMS $600: 1998: Their "The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000"

Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner

THE LAND DOWN UNDER $1200: Australia's tallest building is the 823-foot high Rialto Towers in this former capital

Melbourne

SCIENCE $100: Among alkaloids found in plants, this stimulant is found in coffee or tea

caffeine

LITERATURE $600: English title of 7-part novel "A la recherche du temps perdu" by Proust

Remembrance of Things Past

MOVIES FROM CLASSICS $1000: In 1984, Jeremy Irons was "Swann in Love", in an adaptation of this massive work by Proust

Remembrance of Things Past

SUMMARIZING PROUST $1200: As is evident in the title of this 16-piece Proust epic masterpiece, Proust was preoccupied with time

Remembrance of Things Past

THANKS FOR THE TITLE, SHAKESPEARE $400: A sonnet says "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up" this, the English title of a Proust work

Remembrance of Things Past

TITLES TAKEN FROM SHAKESPEARE $200: Sonnet 30, line 2 by Proust

Remembrance of Things Past

WHO READS $1600: Justice Stephen Breyer said that on finishing this Proust work he promptly reread it & "that happens... to many readers"

Remembrance of Things Past

____ OF ____ BOOKS $800: This 7-volume novel is based on Marcel Proust's life

Remembrance of Things Past

FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $500: David Guterson's book about racism in the Pacific Northwest became this 1999 film that stars a brooding Ethan Hawke

Snow Falling on Cedars

A BIT OF LIT $400: The name of the island in the title of this Dumas novel came from a speck in the ocean off the island of Elba

The Count of Monte Cristo

THE CIVIL WAR $400: Lincoln said of it, "That speech won't scour. It is a flat failure"

The Gettysburg Address

MEMORABLE MOVIE SCENES $1000: 1925: In the Yukon, a starving Charlie Chaplin dines on one of his shoes, laces & all

The Gold Rush

LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: The peat bogs of Dartmoor, England inspired the fictional home of the beastly title character in this 1902 tale

The Hound of the Baskervilles

WEATHER $100: The Pleistocene epoch of extensive glaciation in Europe & America is also called this

The Ice Age

LESSER-KNOWN AMERICANS $400: In the 1940s Stetson Kennedy infiltrated this group, whom he mocked as the "Dumb Klux"

The KKK (Ku Klux Klan)

YUL TIDE FILMS $1,000 (Daily Double): Steve McQueen & Charles Bronson, among others, joined Yul in this 1960 western based on a Japanese film

The Magnificent Seven

BEFORE & AFTER MOVIE TITLES $1000: Charles Bronson & 6 other gunslingers save a town & then all get married

The Magnificent Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

MUSICAL BY CHARACTERS $400: Miguel de Cervantes & Aldonza

The Man of La Mancha

SHORT STORIES $2,000 (Daily Double): In this Edgar Allan Poe story, a fatal & hideous pestilence causes scarlet stains upon the body & "face of the victim"

The Masque of the Red Death

HAY IS $1200: ...The last name of Oliver Perry, one of these scientists, known for his history of the vertebrates of the Pleistocene

a paleontologist

FOOD & DRINK $200: The amount of this stimulant in tea leaves is about 3%

caffeine

HEALTH MATTERS $200: Best to avoid dark chocolate before bed; 2 oz. contain about as much of this stimulant as a cup of black tea

caffeine

FROM "C" TO SHINING "C" $600: Mark Twain said this type of book is one that people praise but don't read

a classic

SYMBOLS $500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Kirsten Dunst.) A communion wafer as well as this better-known Christian symbol can be used against vampires

a cross

AUTHORS USE NEW WORDS $200: In 1973 Norman Mailer added this suffix to "fact" for "facts which have no existence before appearing" in the media

a factoid

GET UP & DANCE! $400: Kick up your heels to this Baroque dance in 3/4 time

a minuet

THE HALL OF HUMAN ORIGIN $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates the morphing station.) The hall's morphing station allows visitors to see what they'd look like, had they been born into a different human species; here, I'm morphing from a Homo sapiens into one of these long-extinct cousins

a neanderthal

BLAME IT ON THE SUPERNOVA $1600: A term used since the 1930s, this star--the smallest & densest type known--can be one object left behind by a supernova

a neutron star

ROBBERS $200: A noble who stole from those passing through his lands, or a U.S. capitalist who became rich unethically

a robber baron

THE ART WORLD $400: "The Fiddler" by Marc Chagall is portrayed as a fiddler on one of these -- L'Chaim!

a roof

IN THE RED $400: A poem by Robert Burns says that his love is like this red flower "that's newly sprung in June"

a rose

PLEISTOCENE STEALER $3,400 (Daily Double): If you had a Smilodon smiling down on you, you were in trouble with one of these Pleistocene cats

a saber-tooth tiger (or a lion)

COMMUNITIES $1600: Anatevka in "Fiddler on the Roof" is this, a Yiddish word for a small Jewish village

a shtetl

PREHISTORIC TIMES $200: Homo sapiens had a higher & more rounded one of these than did Homo erectus

a skull

Define t-man

a special agent of the U.S. Treasury Department. Crossword clue: G-man or T-man Answer: fed G-man noun INFORMAL •US an FBI agent.

AUTHORS' OTHER JOBS $400: Mark Twain got the idea for his pen name from his time in this job

a steamboat pilot

ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Argonne National Lab in Chicago.) Scientists studying the life cycle of stars have used the Argonne National Labs' supercomputer to investigate the nuclear flame bubble that builds up inside a white dwarf just before one of these spectacular events

a supernova

ASTRONOMY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical simulation on the monitor.) If the star Betelgeuse were to explode & change from a red super giant to this next stage at its evolution, our sky could light up for two months straight

a supernova

FOUND IN SPACE $2000: 9-letter word for the phenomenon that produced the mass of stellar debris called Cassiopeia A

a supernova

RADIOASTRONOMY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia.) The Byrd Telescope has helped astronomers map the remnants of SN 1006, one of these spectacular events; when it was first observed 1,000 years ago, It was so bright, it was visible to the naked eye in daylight

a supernova

REACH FOR THE STARS $600: A "super" one of these hurls debris through space at over 40 million mph & then can form a nebula

a supernova

SPACE: THE FINAL CATEGORY $400: That's super! In 1987 an exploding star in the Large Magellanic Cloud was the first of these in 400 years seen by naked eye

a supernova

THAT'S "SUPER"! $600: When a massive star dies out, it may explode & become one of these, billions of times as bright as the sun

a supernova

LIFE OF RILEY $400: In 1988 Lakers coach Pat Riley trademarked this term denoting a trio of consecutive title wins

a three-peat

NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $3,000 (Daily Double): The Lakers won championships in 1987 & '88, so before the next season, Pat Riley trademarked this

a three-peat

CROOKS & NANNIES $400: Unscrupulous 19th century financiers like James Fisk were known as "robber" these

barons

MIND YOUR BUSINESS $200: Turn-of-the-century businessmen like Vanderbilt & Rockefeller were known as "robber" these

barons

THE FOOT $300: Describing humans, it's from the Latin for "two-footed"

bipedal

"B" SHARP $800: A type of unglazed china, or a thick cream soup often made with lobster

bisque

"B" SURE $400: A type of unglazed china, or a thick cream soup often made with lobster

bisque

A WORLD OF SOUP $400: We'll take the "risque" that you can name this creamy French soup usually made with seafood

bisque

ALL DOLLED UP $2000: It sounds like a type of soup, but it's the kind of unglazed china used to make many beautiful 19th century dolls

bisque

ALPHABET SOUP $800: B is for this thick 6-letter soup, perhaps lobster or mushroom

bisque

FINE CHINA $100: Unglazed "biscuit" china is commonly referred to by this shorter name

bisque

FOOD $300: Name shared by an ice cream containing ground nuts or macaroons & a rich, creamy shellfish soup

bisque

FRENCH FOOD TERMS $1000: This type of cream soup was formerly made from pigeons, but now may contain shrimp or lobster

bisque

HELLO, DOLLY! $1000: In the 1800s some doll heads were made from this unglazed porcelain whose name sounds like a seafood soup

bisque

SOUP $1000: This name for a thick soup that usually contains pureed seafood is also used for a type of unglazed white porcelain

bisque

DESIGN $100: Antique majolica pottery was often decorated in the cobalt shade of this color

blue

GEOGRAPHIC GLOSSARY $1600: The U.S. has the Great Dismal Swamp; Ireland has the peat-loaded this of Allen

bog

CENTRAL AMERICAN WILDLIFE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Golfo Dulce in Costa Rica.) Macaws use their powerful beaks as a third foot when climbing trees & as a tool when opening nuts; inside their tongue is a little one of these structures that they use to dislodge nutmeat

bone in their tongue (lever accepted)

"B" NICE $800: Robert Burns wrote that the men of Ayr were honest & the lasses were this

bonnie

SELLERS $300: [Hi, I'm Jeff Bezos, founder & CEO of Amazon.com] It's estimated that 60% of net shoppers flag an average of 7 sites with one of these, also used in products we sell

bookmarks

EARLY MAN $400: You & I have about 1,350 cc. of capacity for this organ; Homo habilis, 2 million years ago, had 500-800

brain

MELTING POTPOURRI $1000: Melting copper & zinc together is the traditional recipe for this alloy used since Neolithic times

brass

A MATTER OF TASTE $800: Cacao beans, the source of chocolate, aren't sweet -- they contain this bitter, popular stimulant

caffeine

COFFEE BREAK $100: This stimulant can be removed with water or a solvent such as methylene chloride

caffeine

COFFEE BREAK $100: This stimulant found in coffee can ease headaches by constricting blood vessels

caffeine

COFFEE BREAK $200: The Swiss water process is a popular way to remove this bitter stimulant from coffee

caffeine

E FOLLOWS F $200: Kola nuts from a West African tree have been a source of this stimulant used in American soft drinks

caffeine

FIX THE FAMOUS QUOTATION $1000: "We can not dedicate--we can not excavate--we can not hallow--this ground"

consecrate But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

OLD NAMES FOR CHEMICAL ELEMENTS $400: Cuprum, used since neolithic times, is this metal

copper

FOOD STUFF $800: A classic beverage of Peru is chicha de jora, a brew made from this grain that's been fermented

corn

GENEALOGY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presnts the clue on a monitor.) Anne and Oscar share the same grandfather, John. Therefore, Oscar is this relation to Anne

cousin

NOT AS GREAT AS PUSS IN BOOTS $800: (Puss in Boots delivers the clue.) Claro que si, Dumas must have looked to me to create this expert swordsman of great honesty & integrity, but he had to join forces with Athos, Porthos & Aramis

d'Artagnan

NON-P.C. WORDS FOR GALS $800: "There is nothing like" one: Judi Dench, for example

dame

WORDS OF LOVE $2,000 (Daily Double): The Gettysburg Address speaks of "the last full measure of" this committed emotion

devotion

MILITARY QUOTES $400: Joseph Heller wrote of his hero in "Catch 22", "He decided to live forever" or do this "in the attempt"

die

FLOWERS $500: Foxglove produces large bell-shaped flowers & this heart stimulant

digitalis

NATURE $800: The dried leaves of the purple foxglove are used to produce this heart stimulant

digitalis

YOU ARE SO FOXY! $2000: The foxglove plant is the main source of this medicine used as a stimulant in damaged heart tissue

digitalis

BETWEEN JOBS $600: Encyclopedia Britannica lists Judd Apatow as "American writer," this, & then "producer"

director

CHEM LAB $1000: The Greek prefix meaning "equal" is used in this term for 2 forms of the same element

isotope

PHYSICAL SCIENCE $300: It's defined as a form of an element with the same atomic number but different atomic weight

isotope

PUT OUT THE GOOD SILVER $800: Silver-107 & silver-109 are 2 naturally occurring these of silver

isotopes

FOOD & DRINK $400: This tart, yellowish lime that's native to Florida is the main ingredient in a popular pie

key lime

AMERICAN PIE $500 (Daily Double): This custard pie is made from the Florida citrus which has a yellow skin, not the typical green

key lime pie

Define bridle

noun 1. the headgear used to control a horse, consisting of buckled straps to which a bit and reins are attached. synonyms: harness, headgear; hackamore "a horse's bridle" verb 1. put a bridle on (a horse). 2. show one's resentment or anger, especially by throwing up the head and drawing in the chin. "ranchers have bridled at excessive federal control" synonyms: bristle, take offense, take umbrage, be affronted, be offended, get angry "William seemed to bridle at the brusque manner of questioning"

Define bog

noun 1. wet muddy ground too soft to support a heavy body. "the island is a wilderness of bog" synonyms: marsh, swamp, muskeg, mire, quagmire, morass, slough, fen, wetland, bogland "the bogs were alive with chirring insects and croaking frogs" 2. INFORMAL•BRITISH a bathroom. verb 1. cause (a vehicle, person, or animal) to become stuck in mud or wet ground. "the car became bogged down on the beach road"

Define prosciutto

noun Italian ham cured by drying and typically served in very thin slices.

Define peat

noun a brown, soil-like material characteristic of boggy, acid ground, consisting of partly decomposed vegetable matter. It is widely cut and dried for use in gardening and as fuel. "cuttings are rooted in a homemade mixture of equal parts peat and sand" crossword clue: Fuel from bogs answer: peat

Define paranthropus

noun a genus name often applied to robust fossil hominids first found in South Africa in 1938.

Define commodore

noun a naval officer of high rank, in particular an officer in the US Navy or Coast Guard ranking above captain and below rear admiral. the president of a yacht club. the senior captain of a shipping line.

Define dotard

noun an old person, especially one who has become physically weak or whose mental faculties have declined. Crossword clue: weak-minded type Answer: dotard

Define bisque

noun noun: bisque; plural noun: bisques a rich, creamy soup typically made with shellfish, especially lobster. crossword clue: creamy seafood soup answer: bisque

Define enamel

noun noun: enamel; plural noun: enamels 1. an opaque or semitransparent glassy substance applied to metallic or other hard surfaces for ornament or as a protective coating. synonyms: coating, lacquer, varnish, glaze, finish "shiny red enamel" a work of art executed in enamel. the hard glossy substance that covers the crown of a tooth. a paint that dries to give a smooth, hard coat. noun: enamel paint; plural noun: enamel paints DATED nail polish. verb verb: enamel; 3rd person present: enamels; past tense: enamelled; past participle: enamelled; gerund or present participle: enamelling; past tense: enameled; past participle: enameled; gerund or present participle: enameling 1. coat or decorate (a metallic or hard object) with enamel. "an enameled roasting pan" DATED apply nail polish to (fingernails or toenails). Crossword Clue: Glossy finishes Answer: enamel

Define artifact

noun plural noun: artifacts 1. an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest. "gold and silver artifacts" synonyms: relic, article; handiwork "hundreds of unidentified artifacts are stored in numerous rooms beneath the museum" 2. something observed in a scientific investigation or experiment that is not naturally present but occurs as a result of the preparative or investigative procedure. "widespread tissue infection may be a technical artifact"

6-LETTER BIRDS $400: The flightless New Zealand kakapo is the heaviest type of this bird; the macaw is the largest

parrot

BIRDS! BIRDS! BIRDS! $400: The colorful macaw variety of this bird is seen here

parrot

SQUAWK ON THE STREET $400: The scarlet macaw, part of this talkative family, has beautiful plumage but an ugly squawk

parrots

PAST, PRESENT OR FUTURE $800: Proust's title "A la recherche du temps perdu" ends with this word in the English translation

past

AUTHORS' NEW DIRECTIONS $2000: The past-obsessed Marcel Proust wrote a book of these parodies that begin with "past"

pastiches

BIOLOGY $600: This partially decomposed plant material that forms in bogs is the first step in coal formation

peat

CUT & DRIED $500: Cut from a bog, it's then dried for use as a fuel

peat

FLORA $1600: To keep them from drying out, orchids & other rare plants are potted in this moss found in bogs

peat

WHERE THERE'S SMOKE $400: In the making of Talisker Scotch whisky, the malt is flavored by the smoke of this stuff from bogs

peat

HOMOPHONES $600: Fuel from a bog, or the "Little Rascal" dog

peat / Pete

A TOUR OF EATALY $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Eataly in New York.) Parmesan cheese comes from the northern Italian city of Parma, where the whey from cheese making is fed to the local pigs, helping create another famous local product, this

prosciutto

BE AFRAID... $300: Lucrezia Borgia may not be a good choice as a dinner guest if you're toxiphobic, afraid of this

poison

GHASTLY OPERATIC DEMISES $400: In "Luisa Miller", Rodolfo kills himself & Luisa by this method -- he must have seen "Lucrezia Borgia"

poisoning

ARCHAEOLOGY $600: Common dating techniques are carbon-14, counting tree rings & analyzing grains of this

pollen

HISTORY $300: Lucrezia & Cesare Borgia are 2 of the few people in history whose father held this position

pope

WOMEN IN HISTORY $600: Lucrezia Borgia was the daughter of a corrupt man who got this title in 1492

pope

DOLL COLLECTING $1000: 19th c. Kammer & Reinhardt dolls often have wood bodies but heads of bisque, a type of this material

porcelain

GENEALOGY $1200: A govt. database of immigration records dating from 1820 is arranged by these, like Charleston or Tacoma

ports of entry (into the United States)

EAT YOUR VEGGIES $600: Developed in Canada, the Yukon Gold variety of this tuber has yellow flesh

potato

FRENCH DRESSING $2000: The Americans say "off the rack"; the French, this 3-word term meaning "ready to wear"

pret-a-porter

WORDS IN THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS $1200: Lincoln joins 2 synonyms in the phrase "fitting and" this

proper

"PRO" NOUNS $600: Popularly served with melon, it's paper-thin slices of ham that have been salt-cured & air-dried

prosciutto

RECREATION $200: Time to hit the street on this piece of equipment & do a Caballerial, a fakie 360 ollie (fakie means backwards)

skateboard

INTERNATIONAL SEAFOOD $2000: Proust rhapsodizes about this flatfish prepared a la meuniere

sole

PROHIBITED AIRLINE CARRY‑ONS $800: Sorry, Rembrandt, none of that flammable turpentine, used by artists as this type of diluting agent

solvent (or paint thinner)

THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES "S" $1000: 23 down: Homo sapiens, for example (7)

species

YOU $1600: This soft, purplish organ with sinusoids may be removed if one has cancer of the lymphatic system

spleen

THINGS THAT EXPLODE $500: In a supernova, one of these collapses & explodes, releasing lots of energy

star

CAN I GET A WITNESS? $400: When Kirsten Dunst testified at a 2009 burglary trial, she was naturally described as this most important type of witness

star witness (or key witness)

DRUGS $800: 2 basic drug categories are depressants & these, which include caffeine

stimulants

MOVING FORWARD IN SCIENCE $800: In medicine, depressants are the opposite of these, which include adrenaline & caffeine

stimulants

PHARMACOLOGY $200: 2 basic drug categories are depressants & these, which include caffeine

stimulants

STIMULANTS $400: Often used as rodent poison, this alkaloid has been used medicinally as a tonic & a stimulant

strychnine

THAT'S "SUPER"! $1000: Antares, the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius, is classified as a red one of these

supergiant

ASTRONOMY $500: The crab nebula is the remnant of one of these witnessed by Chinese astronomers in 1054

supernova

ASTROPHYSICS WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON $1600: (Dr. Tyson delivers the clue.) The existence on Earth of heavy elements like gold, silver & iron confirms that our solar system was formed from the debris of one of these enormous cataclysmic explosions

supernova

THE SCIENCE SECTION $800: Spanning about 35 degrees in the southern sky, the Gum Nebula is a large remnant of one of these explosions

supernova

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

thyroid

WHICH BODY PART? $2000: Graves disease: This gland

thyroid

ANCIENT LIFE $200: Homo habilis is considered the first of our ancestors to fashion these items

tools

ANTHROPOLOGY $400: These, carved by natives in the Pacific Northwest, often included a genealogy but you need good eyes to see the top

totem poles

BRANCHES OF SCIENCE $1600: Lucrezia Borgia may have been an expert in this, the study of poisonous substances

toxicology

THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, IL.) Though it wasn't in original drafts of the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln ad-libbed this 2-word phrase--later added to the Pledge of Allegiance--& added it to copies like this one, which he wrote out later

under God

Define teem

verb be full of or swarming with. "every garden is teeming with wildlife" synonyms: be full of, be filled with, be alive with, be brimming with, abound in, be swarming with, be aswarm with; be packed with, be crawling with, be overrun by, bristle with, seethe with, be thick with; be jam-packed with, be chock-full of "the pond once teemed with fish" crossword clue: rains cats and dogs answer: teems

Define abound

verb exist in large numbers or amounts. "rumors of a further scandal abound" synonyms: be plentiful, be abundant, be numerous, proliferate, superabound, be thick on the ground; More have in large numbers or amounts. "this land abounds with wildlife" synonyms: be full of, overflow with, teem with, be packed with, be crowded with, be thronged with; be alive with, be crawling with, be overrun by/with, swarm with, bristle with, be infested with, be thick with; informalbe stuffed with, be jam-packed with, be chockablock with, be chock-full of "the stream abounds with trout and eels"

Define culminate

verb gerund or present participle: culminating reach a climax or point of highest development. "the tensions and disorders which culminated in World War II" synonyms: come to a climax, come to a head, peak, climax, reach a pinnacle; build up to, lead up to; end with, finish with, conclude with "two hours and ten minutes of toe-tapping merriment culminating in the grandest musical finale on Broadway" be the climax or point of highest development of. "her book culminated a research project on the symmetry studies of Escher" ASTRONOMY•ASTROLOGY (of a celestial body) reach the highest point at the meridian.

Define consecrate

verb make or declare (something, typically a church) sacred; dedicate formally to a religious or divine purpose. "the present Holy Trinity church was consecrated in 1845" (in Christian belief) make (bread or wine) into the body or blood of Christ. "they received the host but not the consecrated wine" ordain (someone) to a sacred office, typically that of bishop. "in 1969 he was consecrated bishop of Northern Uganda" synonyms: sanctify, bless, make holy, make sacred; More

Define loll

verb sit, lie, or stand in a lazy, relaxed way. "the two girls lolled in their chairs" synonyms: lounge, sprawl, drape oneself, stretch oneself; More hang loosely; droop. "he slumped against a tree trunk, his head lolling back" stick out (one's tongue) so that it hangs loosely out of the mouth. "the boy lolled out his tongue" synonyms: hang down, hang loosely, hang, droop, dangle, sag, drop, flop "her head lolled to one side" Crossword clue: Be a lazybones answer: loll

Define hallow

verb verb: hallow; 3rd person present: hallows; past tense: hallowed; past participle: hallowed; gerund or present participle: hallowing 1. honor as holy. "the Ganges is hallowed as a sacred, cleansing river" make holy; consecrate. synonyms: holy, sacred, consecrated, sanctified, blessed; More greatly revered or respected. "in keeping with a hallowed family tradition" nounARCHAIC noun: hallow; plural noun: hallows 1. a saint or holy person.

GENEALOGY GLOSSARY $1,000 (Daily Double): Also a zodiac sign, in English marriage records this term referred to unmarried women

virgo

EARLY MAN $800: Compared to apes, Australopiths had a shorter & broader pelvic bone, helping with this innovation

walking erect

DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME $400: Icarus could have told you it's not a good idea to fly if your wings are held together with this

wax

MYTHOLOGY $200: Lofty means of escape Daedalus & son Icarus used to flee King Minos

wings

COLORS $300: Key lime pie, when made with true key limes, is not green but this color

yellow

3-LETTER WORDS $800: Over there; often hitched with hither

yon Crossword Clue: Hither's companion Answer: yon

ALL IN THE "FAMILY" $400: Arboreal chart of your genealogy

your family tree

GENEALOGY $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew explains two types of charts.) On both a sprawling pedigree chart & a space-saving Ahnentafel, meaning "ancestor table", you can identify ancestors by number; this relative is number 7