niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
Category: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH 
Clue: First mentioned in a letter by Clement IV in 1265, this item worn by the Pope features an image of St. Peter in a boat
Output: a ring
Category: NOTABLE NAMES 
Clue: At his death in April 1955, his brain was preserved & his ashes scattered in the Delaware River
Output: albert einstein
Category: POTENT POTABLES 
Clue: This brand won a top prize at the 1893 Chicago Expo & has carried the award in its name ever since
Output: pabst blue ribbon beer
Category: WORD ORIGINS 
Clue: This 4-letter term for a religious group that holds distinctive beliefs comes from the Latin for "follow"
Output: a sect
Category: VIVE LA FRANCE! 
Clue: AKA "Chant de guerre pour l'armee du Rhin", it was banned by Napoleon, Louis XVIII & Napoleon III
Output: \"la marseillaise\"
Category: LEGENDARY HEROES 
Clue: Hero whose son is seen here on a Swiss postage stamp
Output: william tell
Category: USA 
Clue: Now part of a national recreation area, it was once referred to as "Uncle Sam's Devil's Island"
Output: alcatraz island
Category: 19th CENTURY DEMOCRATS 
Clue: He said, "I am the last president of the United States"
Output: james buchanan
Category: TV CHARACTERS 
Clue: Dozens of web sites are devoted to picking on this Sheryl Leach creation who only gives love
Output: barney
Category: THE CABINET 
Clue: James Wilson of Iowa, who headed this department for 16 years, served longer than any other cabinet officer
Output: department of agriculture
Category: POLAND 
Clue: Laid to rest temporarily at Arlington in 1941, his remains were returned to Poland in 1992
Output: jan paderewski
Category: HIT SONGS 
Clue: Inspired by a Meher Baba saying, this 1980s Grammy winner was the first a cappella recording to top the Billboard 100
Output: \"don\'t worry, be happy\"
Category: SHAKESPEAREANA 
Clue: A knight in "Henry VI, Part I" who flees battle to save his life is an early version of this great character
Output: sir john falstaff
Category: BIG COUNTRIES 
Clue: Forbes magazine uses "BRIC", an acronym for these 4 large nations advancing in economic power
Output: brazil, russia, india & china
Category: HITCHCOCK FILMS 
Clue: The action of this 1959 film moves from New York to South Dakota
Output: north by northwest
Category: AUTHORS 
Clue: In September 1941 this author christened the warship Atlanta, also known as "The Mighty A"
Output: margaret mitchell
Category: BRITISH AUTHORS 
Clue: She described her work as "Human nature in the Midland Countries" & involving "three or four families in a country village"
Output: jane austen
Category: ARTISTS 
Clue: She's seen wearing a rebozo in her 1937 "Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky"
Output: frida kahlo
Category: CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 
Clue: Her illustrations for 1890's "A Happy Pair" included elegantly dressed rabbits
Output: beatrix potter
Category: STATE CAPITALS 
Clue: It's the only 3-word state capital
Output: salt lake city
Category: THE MAP OF EUROPE 
Clue: Bordering Italy, Austria, Hungary & Croatia, it's one of the world's newest independent countries
Output: slovenia
Category: COUNTRIES' HIGHEST PEAKS 
Clue: These 2 nations, one an island, have highest peaks with the same name; they also share a common European culture
Output: greece & cyprus
Category: RELIGION 
Clue: Among the 854 people the Russian Orthodox Church canonized in 2000 was this czar who was buried in St. Petersburg in 1998
Output: nicholas ii
Category: LEGENDS 
Clue: She abducted Lancelot when he was a baby & kept him on an island
Output: the lady of the lake
Category: MARILYN MONROE MOVIES 
Clue: Marilyn plots her husband's murder at a honeymoon site in this, her only film with a 1-word title
Output: niagara
Category: HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY 
Clue: In 1756 Voltaire said of this political entity that none of the 3 parts of its name was accurate
Output: the holy roman empire
Category: TECHNOLOGY 
Clue: A famous one of these was first sent May 24, 1844 & a famous last one, January 27, 2006
Output: a telegram
Category: RULERS 
Clue: In 44 B.C. he was made dictator for life, a post abolished after he died the same year
Output: julius caesar
Category: U.S. STATES 
Clue: Of all the U.S. states named after European monarchs, it's the one that reaches the farthest west
Output: louisiana
Category: TV HISTORY 
Clue: When this animated TV show premiered, it was sponsored by One-A-Day vitamins & Winston cigarettes
Output: the flintstones
Category: BABY NAMES 
Clue: Of the Social Security Administration's top 10 boys' names in 2000, the 2, ending in the same letter, on a list of the 12 Apostles
Output: matthew & andrew
Category: WASHINGTON, D.C. 
Clue: The National Mall is bounded by these 2 avenues whose names recall historic documents
Output: constitution & independence avenues
Category: UNITED NATIONS HISTORY 
Clue: In 1960 this new national leader made the longest speech in United Nations history, 4 hours & 29 minutes
Output: fidel castro
Category: CIVIL WAR SITES 
Clue: Of the 6 Civil War-related national military parks, the northernmost & southernmost are in these 2 states
Output: pennsylvania & mississippi
Category: SPORTS IN AMERICA 
Clue: Founded in 1795, this city that hosts a popular annual sporting event has "sport" in its name
Output: williamsport
Category: MOVIE INDUSTRY HISTORY 
Clue: The company that produced most of Marion Davies' films was named for this magazine; the same person owned both
Output: cosmopolitan
Category: SHOW BUSINESS 
Clue: The wings on this, created in 1948, represent the "muse of art"; the atom represents the "electron of science"
Output: the emmy award
Category: HISTORIC JOURNALS 
Clue: On January 18, 1912 he arrived at a tent near the pole & found "a record of five Norwegians having been there"
Output: robert f. scott
Category: U.S. GOVERNMENT 
Clue: Full & correct title of the post held by the person seen here:  (William Rehnquist)
Output: chief justice of the united states
Category: BROADWAY 
Clue: The original 1994 Broadway cast of this musical based on a film featured Alan Oppenheimer as Cecil B. DeMille
Output: sunset boulevard
Category: WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR II 
Clue: This nickname given a bomber at a 1935 test flight reflected the early belief that it wouldn't need fighter protection
Output: the flying fortress
Category: 16th CENTURY EXPLORERS 
Clue: He was buried under a stone that read "Beneath this stone repose the bones of the valiant lion..."
Output: ponce de leon
Category: ANIMALS 
Clue: The genus of this Asian animal is Ailuropoda, & its species name, appropriately, is melanoleuca
Output: the giant panda
Category: THE MIDDLE EAST 
Clue: By tradition, this nation's president is a Maronite Christian, the P.M. a Sunni & the speaker of the Parliament a Shiite
Output: lebanon
Category: 20th CENTURY HISTORY 
Clue: The NKVD, which liquidated its own first 2 chiefs in the 1930s, developed into this group in 1954
Output: the kgb
Category: WORLD LEADERS 
Clue: Francois Mitterand said this world leader "has the lips of Marilyn Monroe and the eyes of Caligula"
Output: margaret thatcher
Category: FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVANTS 
Clue: With 7 years' service, this man who resigned in June 2004 had the longest tenure in his position in over 4 decades
Output: george tenet
Category: AMERICANA 
Clue: In a February 22, 1936 reenactment, retired star pitcher Walter Johnson threw this across the Rappahannock
Output: a silver dollar
Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE 
Clue: An epigraph he used on one story says, "our hearts though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums are beating"
Output: edgar allan poe
Category: AMERICAN SPORTS 
Clue: Called "Little Brother of War", it's the oldest team sport known to have been played in what's now the U.S.
Output: lacrosse
Category: STOCK SYMBOLS 
Clue: This name is the 4-letter stock symbol of Golden Bear Golf Inc., which went public in 1996
Output: jack
Category: WORLD CURRENCY 
Clue: With inflation raging there at more than 2.2 million%, this nation issued $100 billion notes in 2008
Output: zimbabwe
Category: HISTORIC AMERICANS 
Clue: A 2007 book about these 2 men is subtitled "Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian"
Output: ulysses s. grant & robert e. lee
Category: POETS 
Clue: One of her poems says, "I was ten when they buried you.  At twenty I tried to die and get back, back, back to you"
Output: sylvia plath
Category: BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS 
Clue: One critic called Peter Martin's book about him "the best biography of the greatest biographer in the English language"
Output: james boswell
Category: HISTORIC QUOTATIONS 
Clue: In 1900 Teddy Roosevelt wrote, "I have always been fond of the West African proverb:" this
Output: \"speak softly and carry a big stick\"
Category: U.S. CURRENCY 
Clue: Of men pictured on currently printed paper money, he's the one most recently deceased
Output: ulysses s. grant
Category: MUSICAL HISTORY 
Clue: It's the nursery rhyme that inspired the title of a famous musical based on a 1913 G.B. Shaw work
Output: london bridge
Category: SHAKESPEARE 
Clue: These 2 "King Lear" characters, 1 male, 1 female, both represent truthfulness; one disappears when the other returns
Output: cordelia and the fool
Category: FOREIGN FILMS 
Clue: With 6, this 1981 German film holds the record for most Oscar nominations for a foreign-language film
Output: \"das boot\"
Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE 
Clue: Controversial even when serialized in the "National Era", it sold over 300,000 copies in book form in 1852
Output: uncle tom\'s cabin
Category: FOOD & DRINK 
Clue: Before the introduction of Diet Coke, this was he leading diet soft drink in the U.S.
Output: tab
Category: FAMOUS WOMEN 
Clue: Both Detroit, her home now, and Montgomery, Alabama, her home in 1955, have streets named for her
Output: rosa parks
Category: CLASSIC CARTOON CHARACTERS 
Clue: The 1935 cartoon "I Haven't Got a Hat" was the first of many cartoons that paired him with a cat named Beans
Output: porky pig
Category: SPORTS AWARDS 
Clue: In the 4 major U.S. sports leagues, he's won more regular season MVP awards than any other player
Output: wayne gretzky
Category: PLAYS 
Clue: The title of a Sean O'Casey play refers to these symbols on the flag of the Irish Citizen Army
Output: the plough and the stars
Category: HOLY PLACES 
Clue: The elevated area where the Dome of the Rock sits is commonly called this, after a different religious building
Output: the temple mount
Category: BRITISH MONARCHS 
Clue: Before Victoria & Elizabeth II, this was the last British monarch to reign during 2 different centuries
Output: george iii
Category: HISTORIC AMERICANS 
Clue: Elizabeth Shoumatoff was sketching his portrait when he fell unconscious April 12, 1945; he died 2 hours later
Output: franklin delano roosevelt
Category: POP SINGERS 
Clue: On March 10, 1996, this woman performed a song on the balcony of Buenos Aires' presidential palace
Output: madonna
Category: POETS' CORNER 
Clue: One reason he is not buried in Westminster Abbey is his epitaph, which concludes, "Curst be he that moves my bones"
Output: william shakespeare
Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES 
Clue: It was founded in 1851 to serve the territory that included Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois & part of Minnesota
Output: northwestern
Category: ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS 
Clue: She won many Oscars, including those for 1949's "The Heiress", 1951's "A Place in the Sun" & 1973's "The Sting"
Output: edith head
Category: BRITISH PAINTERS 
Clue: Tennyson called this British painter, Constable's contemporary, the "Shakespeare of Landscape"
Output: william turner
Category: PLACES IN CANADA 
Clue: Renamed in the 1830s, this city of 28,000 & its river were both originally called Little Thames
Output: stratford, ontario
Category: CANADA 
Clue: The flag & the coat of arms of this Canadian province feature a setting sun
Output: british columbia
Category: AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY 
Clue: It's a landlocked nation in Western Africa & its name is "locked" within the name of a nation on Africa's east coast
Output: mali
Category: ROYALTY 
Clue: The last king of the Hellenes, he was the second to bear this name
Output: king constantine ii
Category: WORD ORIGINS 
Clue: Ironically, this synonym for a stupid person is based on the name of 1 of the most brilliant scholars of the 14th c.
Output: dunce
Category: PEN NAMES 
Clue: A 20th century writer derived this pen name from the patron saint of England & a river in Suffolk
Output: george orwell
Category: PLAYS 
Clue: In 1998 the city of New Orleans gave the title object of this play to the city of San Francisco
Output: \"a streetcar named desire\"
Category: AUTHORS 
Clue: In 1961 John F. Kennedy helped this man's widow get permission to go to Cuba to pick up her late husband's papers
Output: ernest hemingway
Category: THE BIBLE 
Clue: This happens several times, as in I Kings 17 & Acts 20; the most famous time, it's done by Jesus in John 11
Output: raising the dead
Category: TOYS & GAMES 
Clue: It was inspired by support for economist Henry George's idea that only land should be taxed
Output: monopoly
Category: SCIENCE HISTORY 
Clue: An experiment with mirrors on Mt. Wilson & Mt. San Antonio, Calif. determined what became an accepted figure for this
Output: the speed of light
Category: THE TONY AWARDS 
Clue: The only tie in the Best Musical category came in 1960, between "The Sound of Music" & this show about a NYC mayor
Output: fiorello!
Category: QUOTATIONS 
Clue: In 1883 he wrote, "Your true pilot cares nothing about anything on Earth but the river"
Output: mark twain
Category: ADVERTISING ICONS 
Clue: Of Advertising Age's Top 10 Advertising Icons of the 20th Century, one of the 3 that are animals
Output: elsie the cow, the energizer bunny or tony the tiger
Category: TREES 
Clue: This type of tree that includes the pecan is common in the eastern U.S., is noted for toughness & can live to 300
Output: hickory
Category: 20th CENTURY WEDDINGS 
Clue: Her 1956 wedding attracted more than 1,500 news reporters to a country with just 20,000 citizens at the time
Output: grace kelly
Category: FOOD & SPORTS 
Clue: In August 1999, for the first time in its 75-year history, Wheaties began featuring players of this sport on its boxes
Output: soccer
Category: HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY 
Clue: Named for its shape, this region stretches NW from the Persian Gulf, W. to Syria, then S. through Palestine
Output: fertile crescent
Category: HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES 
Clue: AT&T says more collect calls are made on this holiday than on any other day of the year
Output: father\'s day
Category: ORGANIZATIONS 
Clue: This organization was dissolved in 1956 after its last member, Albert Woolson, died at age 109
Output: the grand army of the republic
Category: AUTHORS 
Clue: Her first published writings appeared in the Shanghai Mercury when she was 7
Output: pearl buck
Category: 20th CENTURY NOVELS 
Clue: It begins, "'To be born again,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die'"
Output: the satanic verses
Category: THE BALKANS 
Clue: On June 3, 2006 this nation of 600,000 proclaimed its independence, making it the world's newest country
Output: montenegro
Category: FAMOUS POEMS 
Clue: 1913 poem that includes the line "A nest of robins in her hair"
Output: \"trees\"
Category: LANGUAGES 
Clue: The 2 languages on the Rosetta Stone
Output: egyptian & greek
Category: THE TOY BOX 
Clue: Spud & Yam are 2 of the offspring of this toy introduced in 1952
Output: mr. potato head
Category: THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE 
Clue: Of the 30 corporations that make up the Dow Jones index, it's the only one that began as an entertainment company
Output: disney
Category: HISTORIC LASTS 
Clue: In the "thanks a lot, fellas" department, Mongolia was the last country to join this group--August 9, 1945
Output: the allies
Category: TRAVEL & TOURISM 
Clue: This sparsely populated state has the highest percentage of its workforce in tourism, about a third
Output: nevada
Category: HISTORIC NAMES 
Clue: 2 of the people who witnessed his execution were John Wilkes Booth & Stonewall Jackson
Output: john brown
Category: WASHINGTON, D.C. 
Clue: Some of the sculptures outside the entrance of this building depict Moses, Confucius, Solon & William Howard Taft
Output: the supreme court building
Category: NOVELISTS 
Clue: "Omerta", the title of the last book he completed before his death in 1999, is Sicilian for "code of silence"
Output: mario puzo
Category: THE ACADEMY AWARDS 
Clue: He was nominated for Best Director twice in the same year, the first so honored since Michael Curtiz for 1938
Output: steven soderbergh
Category: NUMBERS & LETTERS 
Clue: It's the world's most common number system & second-most common alphabet
Output: arabic
Category: NOVEL TITLES 
Clue: "In the souls of the people" these "are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage"
Output: the grapes of wrath
Category: IT HAPPENED IN NEW YORK CITY 
Clue: On August 10, 2004, 2 days after her death at the age of 96, the Empire State Building dimmed its lights for 15 minutes in her memory
Output: fay wray
Category: EUROPEAN COUNTRIES 
Clue: German is its official national language; Croatian, Slovene & Hungarian are each official in one of its states
Output: austria
Category: FAMOUS AMERICANS 
Clue: About him F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "In the spring of '27, something bright and alien flashed across the sky..."
Output: charles lindbergh
Category: AMERICAN CITIES 
Clue: 6 of the top 10 U.S. cities in population are found in these 2 states
Output: california & texas
Category: HISTORIC PHRASES 
Clue: Sidney Sherman, who died in Texas in 1873, is credited with coining this 3-word phrase
Output: \"remember the alamo\"
Category: THE ANIMAL KINGDOM 
Clue: John Cleveland defined it as "Nature's Confectioner"
Output: bee
Category: WORDS IN LITERATURE 
Clue: In Webster's, it means either a soldier using a certain muzzle-loading weapon, or a boon companion
Output: musketeer
Category: EUROPEAN HISTORY 
Clue: So Prussia could dominate Germany, Bismarck excluded this country that lost the 1866 Battle of Koniggratz
Output: austria
Category: LITERARY CHARACTERS 
Clue: Last name of Sir Clifford, whose crippling war injuries make life difficult for his wife
Output: chatterley
Category: THE CABINET 
Clue: A top member of the Reagan Cabinet, he was also Labor Secretary & Treasury Secretary under Richard Nixon
Output: george shultz
Category: COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES 
Clue: This 2-word term for a famous group of colleges 1st appeared in an AP story that ran in the Providence Journal in 1935
Output: ivy league
Category: MEDIEVAL FIRSTS 
Clue: In the Middle Ages, this man introduced fireworks to western Europe
Output: marco polo
Category: MUSIC & THE MOVIES 
Clue: When this 1940 classic was on the drawing board, it was referred to simply as "The Concert Feature"
Output: fantasia
Category: VOCABULARY 
Clue: Its original meaning was a resident of a certain wealthy city; now it means one who indulges in luxury
Output: sybarite
Category: FAMOUS NAMES 
Clue: In the 19th century he created a new type of reference work, a dictionary named from the Greek word for "treasury"
Output: roget
Category: COMPOSERS 
Clue: His Rococo-style summer house in Prague is nicknamed "America"
Output: antonin dvorak
Category: DIRECTORS 
Clue: Appropriately, the 100th anniversary of this director's birth was on a Friday the 13th -- August 13, 1999
Output: alfred hitchcock
Category: AMERICAN NOVELS 
Clue: Chapter 15 of this 1881 novel is entitled "Tom as King"
Output: the prince and the pauper
Category: COMPUTER SCIENCE 
Clue: John Tukey coined this compound word in 1958 saying it was as important as "tubes, transistors, wires, tapes..."
Output: software
Category: POLITICAL TERMS 
Clue: A 1912 speech said the Bull Moose Party "comes from" these; "it has grown from the soil of...people's hard necessities"
Output: grass roots
Category: CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 
Clue: First line of the poem thought to be based on Mary Sawyer's experience at a Massachusetts school-house around 1815
Output: \"mary had a little lamb\"
Category: THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY 
Clue: Joining such pop culture icons as Dorothy's ruby slippers, this was donated to the museum by Jerry Seinfeld in 2004
Output: the puffy shirt
Category: FAMOUS FATHERS 
Clue: He played rhythm & blues guitar before working as a crane operator & raising a family in Gary, Indiana
Output: joe jackson
Category: GREEK MYTHOLOGY 
Clue: Pytho, the site of Apollo's oracle, was renamed this after Apollo appeared disguised as a sea creature
Output: delphi
Category: POLITICAL ROCK & ROLL 
Clue: In 2008 John McCain used this 1958 Top 10 hit by Chuck Berry as an anthem for his presidential bid
Output: \"johnny b. goode\"
Category: LANGUAGES 
Clue: In South America, these are the 2 most widely spoken languages
Output: spanish & portuguese
Category: ANCIENT HISTORY 
Clue: Crassus, Julius Caesar & this man formed the 1st Triumvirate
Output: pompey
Category: U.S.A. 
Clue: Chocolate Avenue & Cocoa Avenue are 2 of the main thoroughfares in this town that was established in 1903
Output: hershey, pennsylvania
Category: CIVIL WAR HISTORY 
Clue: Though 1863's Emancipation Proclamation applied only to the Confederacy, this Union state, one of the original 13, ended slavery November 1, 1864
Output: maryland
Category: MONARCHS 
Clue: From 1513 to 1972, only men named Christian & Frederick alternated as rulers of this nation
Output: denmark
Category: PRESIDENTIAL PETS 
Clue: As a warning to Congress, president James Garfield named his dog this
Output: veto
Category: SCIENTIFIC INVENTIONS 
Clue: In 1608 its inventor offered it exclusively to the Dutch government for military use
Output: telescope
Category: AUTHORS 
Clue: This writer was born in Germantown, Penn. on Nov. 29, 1832, the second of 4 daughters
Output: louisa may alcott
Category: RELIGIOUS PERSONALITIES 
Clue: In the 56 years from 1948 to 2004, he appeared 48 times on the Gallup Poll's annual "Most Admired" lists
Output: the reverend billy graham
Category: ASIA 
Clue: Along with Communist China and North Korea, one of the 2 formerly Communist nations bordering Asian Russia
Output: kazakhstan & mongolia
Category: AMERICAN AUTHORS 
Clue: In 1900 he sent the Library of Congress $2.20 to copyright his "The Navy Alphabet" & another, more "Wonderful", book
Output: l. frank baum
Category: THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD 
Clue: Of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, this one was the smallest
Output: statue of zeus at olympia
Category: AWARDS 
Clue: In 1927 Cedric Gibbons designed this award that he went on to win 11 times
Output: the academy award
Category: HOLLYWOOD HISTORY 
Clue: They were the first 2 sisters ever nominated for the same acting Oscar in the same year
Output: joan fontaine and olivia de havilland
Category: MODERN MONARCHIES 
Clue: Of the 3 African countries ruled by monarchs, it's the farthest north
Output: morocco
Category: 1999 TELEVISION 
Clue: The final episode of this sitcom was called "The Final Frontier"
Output: mad about you
Category: ACTORS & ROLES 
Clue: 1 of 3 actors who won Best Actor Oscar for playing an actor
Output: jimmy cagney, ronald colman, or richard dreyfuss
Category: OFFICIAL LANGUAGES 
Clue: It is an official language of about 30 countries, second only to English
Output: french
Category: AFRICAN CITIES 
Clue: Africa's most populous city not on a navigable body of water; its settlers didn't need water when they had gold
Output: johannesburg
Category: PATRON SAINTS 
Clue: Legend says Saint Rule brought this saint's relics to the coast of Fife in 368
Output: st. andrew
Category: THE ANIMAL KINGDOM 
Clue: The family Monodontidae is composed of 2 members: the beluga whale & this other marine mammal
Output: narwhal
Category: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 
Clue: The subtitle of this influential 1762 treatise is "Principes du droit politique" ("Principles of Political Right")
Output: the social contract
Category: BODIES OF WATER 
Clue: The Latin name of this waterway is Fretum Herculeum
Output: the strait of gibraltar
Category: 20th CENTURY PEOPLE 
Clue: The July 1, 1946 cover of Time magazine depicted him with the caption, "All matter is speed and flame"
Output: albert einstein
Category: CLASSIC ROCK 
Clue: As there was another album by that title, this classic from 1973 was at one point going to be called "Eclipse"
Output: the dark side of the moon
Category: ROYALTY 
Clue: The son of an Oscar winner, this prince is also a 5-time Olympian
Output: prince albert
Category: WORDS FROM LATIN 
Clue: Some of the periods of time called this occurred in 304 A.D. (4 years), 1314 (2 years), 1958 (19 days), 1963 & 2005
Output: interregnum
Category: PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS 
Clue: The first president to cross the Atlantic Ocean while in office, he did so to meet with other world leaders
Output: wilson
Category: LITERARY SEQUELS 
Clue: The mirror motif in this 1871 sequel includes 2 characters who are enantiomorphs, or mirror-image twins
Output: through the looking glass
Category: INVENTORS 
Clue: In September 1899 he equipped 2 ships to report the progress of the America's Cup yacht race to a NYC newspaper
Output: guglielmo marconi
Category: BOOKS 
Clue: The accompanying text to this book was published separately as "Ornithological Biography" in the 1830s
Output: birds of america
Category: CLASSIC SONGS FROM MOVIES 
Clue: 6-word title of the song that says, "For the house fell on her head & the coroner pronounced her dead"
Output: \"ding-dong!  the witch is dead\"
Category: BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS 
Clue: A Red Sox pitcher, later a Yankee, he held the World Series record for consecutive scoreless innings from 1918 to 1961
Output: babe ruth
Category: AMERICAN NOVELS 
Clue: The narrator of this 1951 novel first appeared in the short stories "I'm Crazy" & "Slight Rebellion off Madison"
Output: \"catcher in the rye\"
Category: FILM ROLES 
Clue: Dick Powell, Robert Mitchum & Elliott Gould have all played this character on film
Output: philip marlowe
Category: 20th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS 
Clue: 2006 marks the centennial of this absurdist known for his sometimes bleak outlook; he was born on Good Friday, the 13th
Output: samuel beckett
Category: THEORIES OF SCIENCE 
Clue: Physicist John Wheeler compared possible passages through space & time to the work of this creature
Output: a worm
Category: ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS 
Clue: Her 48-year span between her first & last Oscars, 1933 & 1981, is the longest for a performer in Academy history
Output: katharine hepburn
Category: U.S. STAMPS 
Clue: FDR's in 1982 was the last stamp to show 1 of these; they were removed from photos of Jackson Pollock & Edward R. Murrow
Output: cigarette
Category: WAR & PEACE 
Clue: In 1839 the first of several wars broke out over the trade of an extract from a flower of this family
Output: poppy
Category: 19th CENTURY MEN 
Clue: In 1813 La. Gov. William Claiborne put a $500 bounty on him; he responded by offering one for the gov.'s head
Output: jean lafitte
Category: 19th CENTURY BOOKS 
Clue: "Political power... is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another" is from this work
Output: the communist manifesto
Category: INVENTORS 
Clue: Before the Monitor, John Ericsson designed a screw-driven steamboat & named it for this ancient Greek
Output: archimedes
Category: NOTABLE NAMES 
Clue: The fervent patriotism of this man who died in 1919 earned him the nickname "The Star-Spangled Scotchman"
Output: andrew carnegie
Category: U.S. LAKES 
Clue: This lake is the remnant of former Lake Bonneville, which existed during the Pleistocene epoch
Output: the great salt lake
Category: ON THE GLOBE 
Clue: 2-word alternate name for 0 degrees longitude
Output: prime meridian
Category: OSCAR WINNERS 
Clue: She's the first woman to win 2 Best Actress Oscars before the age of 30
Output: luise rainer
Category: THE CALENDAR 
Clue: The only day of the week named for a Roman god
Output: saturday
Category: FAMILIAR PHRASES 
Clue: This phrase meaning "discuss the most important matter" dates back to 1920s movie editing
Output: cut to the chase
Category: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM NAMES 
Clue: This team received its name after an 1890 incident in which it "stole" away an important player from another team
Output: pittsburgh pirates
Category: AMERICAN STORIES 
Clue: Story that begins, "Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill Mountains"
Output: \"rip van winkle\"
Category: SEPTEMBER 1984 
Clue: History-making woman whose Sept. 1984 itinerary included speeches in Dallas, Spokane, Syracuse & Youngstown
Output: geraldine ferraro
Category: PRESIDENTIAL FACTS 
Clue: FDR called it the Sacred Cow; for Truman it was Independence; for Eisenhower, the Columbine; & from JFK on, this
Output: air force one
Category: DRAMA 
Clue: This play is divided into "parts", not acts, with the 2nd titled "The Gentleman Calls"
Output: the glass menagerie
Category: AUTHORS 
Clue: His father was a general under Napoleon & he took part in Garibaldi's liberation of Sicily in 1860
Output: alexandre dumas
Category: BASEBALL 
Clue: The best American League lefthanded pitcher 1916-18, he was moved to left field in 1919
Output: babe ruth
Category: ECONOMICS 
Clue: In 2007 this 18th century professor & writer became the first Scotsman to appear on an English banknote
Output: adam smith
Category: 20th CENTURY NOTABLES 
Clue: Einstein said of him, "Generations to come will scarcely believe" one such as he "walked the Earth in flesh & blood"
Output: mohandas gandhi
Category: THE SUPREME COURT 
Clue: The 1973 case Doe v. Bolton was decided with this more famous case
Output: roe v. wade
Category: PRIME MINISTERS 
Clue: 2 of the 4 countries that have had prime ministers who were father & daughter
Output: bangladesh, india, pakistan & sri lanka
Category: FOREIGN-BORN INVENTORS 
Clue: His 1922 New York Times obituary mentions that his patent No. 174,465 "has been called the most valuable patent ever issued"
Output: alexander graham bell
Category: TELEVISION HISTORY 
Clue: In the late '60s this character was created to show children it's okay to be grumpy
Output: oscar the grouch
Category: 19th CENTURY AMERICA 
Clue: It was written for American schoolkids to recite on the dedication day of the Chicago World's Fair
Output: the pledge of allegiance
Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS 
Clue: President elected to 2nd term with 523 electoral votes, the greatest number in any election
Output: franklin d. roosevelt
Category: 19th CENTURY NOVELISTS 
Clue: William Wilkinson's "An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia" inspired this author's most famous novel
Output: bram stoker
Category: INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS 
Clue: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Yale Repertory Theatre)  During apartheid, this man chose to premiere several of his plays, including "A Place with the Pigs", here at Yale
Output: athol fugard
Category: THE MOVIES 
Clue: This musical drama was made in 1927 & remade in 1953 and 1980
Output: the jazz singer
Category: LITERATURE 
Clue: Northumbria in the "Age of Bede" or Mercia in Offa's reign are guesses as to where & when this work was created
Output: beowulf
Category: WORLD CITIES 
Clue: This major North American city is built around the mountain for which it's named
Output: montreal
Category: MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY 
Clue: A circumorbital hematoma is more commonly known as this
Output: a black eye
Category: LITERARY TERMS 
Clue: Jonathan Swift defined it as "A glass wherein beholders discover everybody's face but their own"
Output: satire
Category: PRESIDENTIAL FAMILIES 
Clue: The Time Almanac lists only the children from his 1772 marriage, but says there's DNA evidence of more
Output: thomas jefferson
Category: PEOPLE IN POLITICS 
Clue: A former gov. & presidential candidate & now mayor-elect, in 1998 he quit the "corrupted" Democratic party
Output: jerry brown
Category: U.S. TOURISM 
Clue: You can reach this town's convention & visitors bureau by calling 1-TOMANDHUCK
Output: hannibal, missouri
Category: PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS 
Clue: He was the first president to preside over 14 states
Output: george washington
Category: ARTISTS 
Clue: Looking at kids' art, he said at "Their age I could draw like Raphael, but it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like them"
Output: pablo picasso
Category: 1960s OSCAR NOMINATIONS 
Clue: One of the 2 male actors nominated in the '60s for playing more than one character in the same film
Output: peter sellers or lee marvin
Category: WOMEN IN POLITICS 
Clue: Elected in 1916, she was the subject of a 1995 biography called "Bright Star in the Big Sky"
Output: jeannette rankin
Category: THE NEW TESTAMENT 
Clue: Never mentioned by name in the Bible, this daughter of Herodias is one of the most famous women in it
Output: salome
Category: FAMOUS NICKNAMES 
Clue: This famous 20th century nickname is the Argentinian equivalent of "Y'know?" or "Hey, you!"
Output: che
Category: OLYMPIC HOST COUNTRIES 
Clue: 3 of the 6 countries that have hosted both the summer & winter Olympics
Output: united states, canada, france, germany, italy & japan
Category: U.S. HISTORY 
Clue: For evading taxes on profits earned, former CIA agent Thomas Clines was the only one sent to prison over this scandal
Output: iran-contra
Category: NOVELS 
Clue: It was partly inspired by Owen Chase's narrative of the shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex
Output: moby-dick
Category: STATE CAPITALS 
Clue: 2 of the 3 state capitals lying on the Missouri River
Output: jefferson city
Category: ACTRESSES 
Clue: In 1999 Liz Smith quoted her as saying, "I look at the Empire State Building and I feel like it belongs to me"
Output: fay wray
Category: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN 
Clue: According to the London Times she was England's highest-earning British woman in 2001, followed by Queen Elizabeth II
Output: j.k. rowling
Category: GENESIS 
Clue: The final word in Genesis is the name of this country
Output: egypt
Category: ROSE BOWL HISTORY 
Clue: The only time the game wasn't held in Calif. was 1942, when it was in N.C., amidst fears of another event like this one
Output: pearl harbor
Category: BEFORE THEY WERE SENATORS 
Clue: Later a U.S. senator, in 1962 he made a famous 75,000-mile trip
Output: john glenn
Category: CHILDREN'S AUTHORS 
Clue: In 1896 he said his mother had lost her childhood at 8; he "knew a time would come when I also must give up the games"
Output: j.m. barrie
Category: U.S. ORGANIZATIONS 
Clue: A New Deal agency & a present-day organization, both using an eagle symbol, share these initials
Output: nra
Category: IN THE KITCHEN 
Clue: Now in over 44 million U.S. kitchens, this type of product was illegal in NYC until 1997
Output: garbage disposal
Category: CATCHPHRASES 
Clue: Maiden name of author Edith Wharton, whose social-climbing family may have inspired a catchphrase
Output: jones
Category: SPORTS 
Clue: In action since 1917, this sports franchise is now largely owned by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
Output: toronto maple leafs
Category: VICE PRESIDENTS 
Clue: The 2 GOP vice presidents who succeeded to the presidency & were later elected president in their own right
Output: theodore roosevelt & calvin coolidge
Category: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 
Clue: He was the only incumbent vice president to defeat a president in a presidential election
Output: thomas jefferson
Category: GOVERNORS 
Clue: In 1967 she became the first woman governor of a state east of the Mississippi River
Output: lurleen b. wallace
Category: THE ZODIAC 
Clue: Appropriate astrological sign shared by Britain's Princesses Anne & Margaret
Output: leo
Category: THE SUPREME COURT 
Clue: Britannica said the court's ruling in his case "seemed a mortal blow to the newly created Republican Party"
Output: dred scott
Category: CHARLES DICKENS 
Clue: The title setting of this novel includes figures in china, iron & ivory; suits of armor; old carvings & furniture
Output: the old curiosity shop
Category: PRESIDENTIAL BOOKS 
Clue: His writings include "The Naval War of 1812" & as co-writer, "The Deer Family"
Output: theodore roosevelt
Category: THE CARIBBEAN 
Clue: Columbus sighted this volcanic island in 1493 & gave it a name meaning "saw-toothed mountain"
Output: montserrat
Category: MYTHOLOGY 
Clue: They were the 2 parents of a son who ended up half man, half woman
Output: hermes & aphrodite
Category: BUSINESS HISTORY 
Clue: Last names of the 2 men, both engineers, who met & formed a partnership at England's Midland Hotel in May 1904
Output: rolls and royce
Category: CONTEMPORARY AMERICANS 
Clue: In December 1996 his reference to "Irrational Exuberance" sent stock prices plunging around the world
Output: alan greenspan
Category: FAMOUS WOMEN 
Clue: During WWI this American showed off her talents in a play called "The Western Girl"
Output: annie oakley
Category: THE SENATE 
Clue: The 2 astronauts who went on to become U.S. Senators
Output: john glenn
Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS 
Clue: During his tenure, he never threw out an opening day first pitch, but before he was president, he did it for the Braves
Output: jimmy carter
Category: MODERN U.S. HISTORY 
Clue: This group consisted of the Chief Justice, 4 members of Congress, & ex-heads of the CIA & the World Bank
Output: the warren commission
Category: AMERICANA 
Clue: In June 2005, amid some controversy, a statue of Elizabeth Montgomery was unveiled in this city
Output: salem, massachusetts
Category: SPORTS BOOKS 
Clue: In 1998 the author of this controversial 1970 book was finally invited to play in a Yankees old-timers' game
Output: \"ball four\"
Category: THE 1970s 
Clue: In April 1974 Jimmy Carter presented him with a license plate that read "HLA715"
Output: hank aaron
Category: THE PULITZER PRIZES 
Clue: The first man to win the Pulitzer Prize for his film criticism, he's lobbied for a Pulitzer Prize for the movies
Output: roger ebert
Category: ROCK & ROLL HISTORY 
Clue: The name "Beatles" was inspired by the backup group of this singer
Output: buddy holly
Category: HISTORIC OBJECTS 
Clue: More than 600 people, 200 horses, 40 ships, Edward the Confessor & Halley's Comet are depicted on it
Output: the bayeux tapestry
Category: MILITARY MATTERS 
Clue: According to the CIA, this foreign country has the highest military expenditures per capita
Output: israel
Category: AFRICA 
Clue: Its Declaration of Independence was signed in 1847 by 11 men in that nation's Providence Baptist Church
Output: liberia
Category: POLITICAL CONNECTIONS 
Clue: In 1832 when the House tried Sam Houston for contempt, he was defended by this lawyer & lyricist
Output: francis scott key
Category: ENTERTAINERS OF THE PAST 
Clue: This Missouri-born expatriate starred in the 1935 French film "Princess Tam-Tam"
Output: josephine baker
Category: POETS 
Clue: This poet wrote, "I love thee freely, as men strive for right; I love thee purely, as they turn from praise"
Output: elizabeth barrett browning
Category: PLACE NAME ORIGINS 
Clue: Site of a famous leader's exile, it was named for the mother of Constantine the Great
Output: saint helena
Category: AUTHORS 
Clue: He died in 1995, the day before the opening of a Glasgow veterinary library named for him
Output: james herriot
Category: FLAGS 
Clue: This color appears on more different national flags than any other
Output: red
Category: TELEVISION 
Clue: Show inspired by an article saying about 30% of the people who married in 1965 had kids from a previous marriage
Output: the brady bunch
Category: ENGLAND 
Clue: Also known as New Sarum, this city famous for its cathedral is just a stone's throw from Stonehenge
Output: salisbury
Category: WORLD CITIES 
Clue: In 1634 a Spanish royal decree recognized it as the "Key to the New World and the Bulwark of the West Indies"
Output: havana, cuba
Category: ISLANDS 
Clue: In 1867 the U.S. bought this island group named for a Russian captain & leased it to seal hunting companies
Output: pribilof islands
Category: EUROPEAN CAPITALS 
Clue: This city was named for a Byzantine church
Output: sofia, bulgaria
Category: MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES 
Clue: This prized object was the coat of the winged ram that flew Phrixus to safety
Output: the golden fleece
Category: '60s NOVELS' FIRST LINES 
Clue: It begins, "Amerigo Bonasera... waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter"
Output: the godfather
Category: AUTHORS' LESSER-KNOWN NOVELS 
Clue: A manipulative widow goes husband-hunting in "Lady Susan", finally published in 1871, 54 years after her death
Output: jane austen
Category: AUTOBIOGRAPHIES 
Clue: His books include "Skyward" (1928), "Little America" (1930) & "Alone" (1938)
Output: admiral richard e. byrd
Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS 
Clue: Although he graduated 64th out of 112 in his 1935 high school class, he was voted "Most Likely To Succeed"
Output: john fitzgerald kennedy
Category: QUOTABLE DEFINITIONS 
Clue: Ted Hughes wrote that it's where a child can sit "with the genius of the Earth"
Output: library
Category: THE TITANIC 
Clue: This man whose invention was used to call for help held a ticket for the voyage but changed his plans
Output: guglielmo marconi
Category: ARBOREAL MAMMALS 
Clue: Of the genus Phascolarctos, it's 23-33" tall with a stout gray or brown body, a big round nose & strong claws
Output: a koala
Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY 
Clue: On July 16, 1995 this company made its first sale, a science textbook
Output: amazon.com
Category: WOMEN AUTHORS 
Clue: Tourists may visit the Chawton, England home of this sensible 19th C. novelist, still popular today
Output: jane austen
Category: 2002 NEWS 
Clue: These 2 men, both christened Paul, made news when they visited Africa together in May 2002
Output: bono & treasury secretary paul o\'neill
Category: U.S PRESIDENTS 
Clue: A native Kentuckian, he was the first president born outside of the original 13 states
Output: abraham lincoln
Category: WORD ORIGINS 
Clue: Meaning to ascribe predetermined characteristics, this word comes from a printing process using metal plates
Output: stereotype
Category: NO. 1 HITS OF THE 1970s 
Clue: In 2008 doctors said that, aptly, this Bee Gees song provides an ideal beat to follow
Output: \"stayin\' alive\"
Category: SECRETARIES OF STATE 
Clue: In 1947 he said Europe's food needs require "substantial additional help" to prevent social deterioration
Output: george c. marshall
Category: 20th CENTURY U.S. PRESIDENTS 
Clue: His mother, Louise, said, "I do not want my son to be president... his is a judicial mind and he loves the law"
Output: william howard taft
Category: POETRY 
Clue: The woman with the most quotes in the new edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is this American
Output: emily dickinson
Category: WORLD LEADERS 
Clue: This famous man was the grandfather of the current prime minister of India
Output: jawaharlal nehru
Category: RELIGION 
Clue: An aid to the faithful since the 13th century, one standard version has parts arranged in groups of 1, 3 or 10
Output: the rosary
Category: HISTORIC ROYALTY 
Clue: These two men seen here, allies during World War I, were sometimes mistaken for each other
Output: czar nicholas ii & king george v
Category: EUROPEAN TRAVEL & TOURISM 
Clue: Visited by 15 million people a year, this spot in Britain honors an 1805 battle fought elsewhere
Output: trafalgar square
Category: THE 20th CENTURY 
Clue: To allow people to communicate more quickly, on May 15, 1918, courtesy of the U.S. Army, this service began
Output: air mail
Category: SPAIN 
Clue: This Catalonian city, once the capital of the Visigoths, may be named for a Carthaginian family
Output: barcelona
Category: ROMAN EMPERORS 
Clue: In 54 A.D., as the result of his mother's scheming, he became the first teenage emperor of Rome at age 16
Output: nero
Category: NOTORIOUS 
Clue: A corrections museum in Trenton, New Jersey contains the chair in which he was executed in 1936
Output: bruno richard hauptmann
Category: WORD ORIGINS 
Clue: This word meaning an expert commentator is derived from the Sanskrit for "learned man"
Output: pundit
Category: FRENCH NOVELISTS 
Clue: Ideas in his novels that have come true include space travel, television & the submarine
Output: jules verne
Category: TV & LITERATURE 
Clue: The "X-Files" episode entitled "Post-Modern Prometheus" was an update of this classic 1818 tale
Output: frankenstein
Category: THE ANIMAL KINGDOM 
Clue: The coelacanth & the ivory-billed woodpecker are sometimes referred to as this biblical man "species"
Output: lazarus
Category: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 
Clue: The only 2 Democratic presidents defeated for reelection since the Civil War
Output: grover cleveland & jimmy carter
Category: POP STARS 
Clue: This pop star born in 1970 was named for a song in "Paint Your Wagon"
Output: mariah carey
Category: FAMOUS FILMS 
Clue: He made the first home movie to be named to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry
Output: abraham zapruder
Category: FUN WITH NUMBERS 
Clue: Number of degrees the minute hand on a standard clock travels in one hour
Output: 360
Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS 
Clue: Excluding honorary degrees, he's the only president to have degrees from both Harvard & Yale
Output: george w. bush
Category: MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS 
Clue: Newly discovered, perhaps the oldest playable instrument is one of these, made from a crane's bone
Output: flute
Category: HISTORICAL PLAYS 
Clue: "If I were to dress as a woman, they would think of me as a woman... What would become of me?" is a line from this 1923 play
Output: saint joan
Category: THE WORLD OF MATHEMATICS 
Clue: Of ancient people, only the Hindus, Babylonians & Mayans invented a symbol for this; the Mayans' is seen here:
Output: zero
Category: LITERARY GREATS 
Clue: His last published work, an 1898 poem, was first issued under his cell number
Output: oscar wilde
Category: AMERICAN THINKERS 
Clue: "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude", he wrote in a chapter on solitude in an 1854 work
Output: henry david thoreau
Category: EUROPEAN AUTHORS 
Clue: The name of this author who died in 1924 has become an adjective meaning surreal or nightmarish
Output: franz kafka
Category: SCIENCE 
Clue: He invented carbonated water as a byproduct of his investigations into the chemistry of air
Output: joseph priestley
Category: ACTOR-DIRECTORS 
Clue: This 1990 winner is the most recent to win the Best Director Oscar for his directorial debut
Output: kevin costner
Category: MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS 
Clue: Its name is from the Greek for "to bind", which in turn may come from the Egyptian shesep-ankh, "living image"
Output: the sphinx
Category: VITAMINS & MINERALS 
Clue: The name of this vitamin is from the Latin for "leaf" because leafy green vegetables are a good source
Output: folic acid
Category: SENATE COMMITTEES 
Clue: 1-word name of the committee that sets the spending priorities that the Finance & Appropriation committees carry out
Output: budget
Category: WORLD HISTORY 
Clue: The 2 countries that became independent on Aug. 14 & 15, 1947
Output: pakistan & india
Category: MILITARY MEN 
Clue: Books about this American are subtitled "Warrior as Wordsmith" & "The Far Eastern General"
Output: douglas macarthur
Category: U.S. GOVERNMENT 
Clue: Last year in which we went an entire calendar year without a vice president in office
Output: 1964
Category: ACTORS & ACTRESSES 
Clue: 2 of 3 performers to win three or more Academy Awards for acting
Output: katharine hepburn, walter brennan or ingrid bergman
Category: SPORTS 
Clue: Last awarded in 1970, the Jules Rimet Cup was replaced by this trophy in 1974
Output: the world cup
Category: U.S. STATES 
Clue: It's the only state whose name & capital city both consist of 2 words
Output: new mexico
Category: EUROPEAN PRINCESSES 
Clue: On July 20, 1999 she gave birth to her fourth child, Princess Alexandra of Hanover
Output: princess caroline of monaco
Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS 
Clue: He is the only president of the United States to be awarded the Purple Heart
Output: john f. kennedy
Category: SPACE MEN 
Clue: He was the oldest man to walk on the Moon, & the only World War II veteran
Output: alan shepard
Category: OFFICIAL STATE SONGS 
Clue: In 1953 it became the only state whose official song was written for a Broadway musical
Output: oklahoma
Category: MEDICINE 
Clue: While many diseases bear doctors' names, a nerve disease is named for this victim who died in 1941
Output: lou gehrig
Category: THE ACADEMY AWARDS 
Clue: 1 of the 2 Best Picture winners in the 1990s with one-word titles
Output: braveheart or unforgiven
Category: RANKS & TITLES 
Clue: In 1950 Pius XII was Pontifex Maximus; exactly 2,000 years earlier, this man held a title of the same name
Output: julius caesar
Category: SPACE NEWS 
Clue: In 2009 NASA named the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill for this man
Output: stephen colbert