niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
Category: FRANCO-AMERICAN HISTORY 
Clue: After a large French army was wiped out by yellow fever on this island in 1802, Napoleon decided to sell Louisiana
Output: hispaniola
Category: PRESIDENTS 
Clue: Under an act passed in 1958, they became the first two former presidents eligible for a pension
Output: harry s. truman & herbert hoover
Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS 
Clue: As a senator, he shared lodgings with future vice president William Rufus Devane King
Output: james buchanan
Category: PRESIDENTS 
Clue: The only 2 consecutive U.S. presidents with the same first name
Output: james madison & james monroe
Category: COMPOSERS 
Clue: "Reaching for the Note" was the subtitle of a 1998 film about this American music legend who died in 1990
Output: leonard bernstein
Category: CLASSIC GAMES 
Clue: Monopoly creator Charles Darrow's sole quote in "the Yale Book of Quotations" includes this 3-digit number
Output: 200
Category: COMIC STRIP CHARACTERS 
Clue: Created in 1950, he finally hit a home run on March 30, 1993
Output: charlie brown
Category: FAMOUS PEOPLE 
Clue: In 1998 the govt. of Ontario was forced to pay them $2.8 million for exploiting them decades ago
Output: the dionne quintuplets
Category: COMPOSERS 
Clue: An anthem that he composed for George II's 1727 coronation has been used for British crownings ever since
Output: george frideric handel
Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY 
Clue: "Built From Scratch" is a book on how Bernie Marcus & Arthur Blank remodeled this chain founded in 1978
Output: home depot
Category: ISLANDS 
Clue: It's the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea
Output: sicily
Category: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 
Clue: He was the last sitting president to run for re-election & finish third in the Electoral College
Output: william howard taft
Category: PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES 
Clue: He defended civil rights as a representative from Massachusetts' 11th District from 1895 to 1901
Output: john francis fitzgerald
Category: LINES FROM LINCOLN 
Clue: Though it's not accurate, this meaning of the word "Mississippi" appears in one of Lincoln's most famous lines
Output: father of waters
Category: MEDICINE 1998 
Clue: An aspirin-acetominophen-caffeine pill is the first FDA-approved over-the-counter pill for this malady
Output: migraine headaches
Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY 
Clue: You can view the Jungfrau Peak from the main street of this town between the Brienz & Thun Lakes
Output: interlaken, switzerland
Category: POP MUSIC 
Clue: Selling over 12 million copies, this singer's 1999 album is the bestselling album by a teenage solo artist
Output: britney spears
Category: ENGLISH LANGUAGE WRITERS 
Clue: In his journal of 1710 to 1713, he referred to himself as "Presto"
Output: jonathan swift
Category: SHIPS 
Clue: It was refloated, towed to Matauri Bay & sunk there Dec. 12, 1987, with full Maori ceremony
Output: the rainbow warrior
Category: THE ELEMENTS 
Clue: By weight, this element makes up more of the human body than all the others combined
Output: oxygen
Category: AFI's TOP MOVIE QUOTES 
Clue: Prizefighter Roger Donoghue was Marlon Brando's trainer for "On the Waterfront" & inspired this line on the AFI list
Output: \"i coulda been a contender\"
Category: PEOPLE 
Clue: In honor of his 50th birthday, Nov. 14, 1998, 50 of his watercolors were displayed at Hampton Court
Output: prince charles
Category: PEOPLE 
Clue: He said, "I...really never considered myself a TV star.  I always thought I was a neighbor who just came in for a visit"
Output: fred rogers
Category: FOOD & DRINK 
Clue: In 2001 a 5,861-gallon version of this drink was served up at a Jimmy Buffett-owned place in Orlando
Output: a margarita
Category: HISTORIC ARTIFACTS 
Clue: In 1996 it came home to Scotland after 700 years
Output: stone of scone
Category: ARCHITECTURE 
Clue: De Maupassant, Zola & Dumas fils were among those signing a petition decrying it as "a gigantic... factory chimney"
Output: the eiffel tower
Category: CLASSICAL LITERATURE 
Clue: 4 single biographies & 23 pairs of biographies make up this classical work
Output: \"plutarch\'s lives\"
Category: FILMS OF THE '70s 
Clue: This 1973 thriller was re-released in 2000 with extra footage, including a scene in which Ritalin is prescribed
Output: the exorcist
Category: PRESIDENTS 
Clue: The last time there were no living ex-presidents was when this man was president
Output: richard nixon
Category: EXPLORING 
Clue: 2 of the 4 flags flown on Mount Everest on May 29, 1953; strangely, New Zealand's wasn't one of them
Output: great britain, india, nepal & the united nations flag
Category: AFRICA 
Clue: 1 of the 2 current African nations that were independent at the start of the 20th century
Output: liberia or ethiopia
Category: LAW & SOCIETY 
Clue: This Hollywood legend who died January 21, 1959 supported placing monuments that have since brought legal challenges
Output: cecil b. demille
Category: STATE CAPITALS 
Clue: In the continental United States, this city is the southernmost state capital
Output: austin, texas
Category: NAME'S THE SAME 
Clue: Name shared by any Englishman & a composer credited with England's national anthem "God Save The Queen"
Output: john bull
Category: FAMOUS WOMEN 
Clue: This 1904 Radcliffe graduate was a suffragist, political activist, Vaudeville performer & writer
Output: helen keller
Category: STORY INSPIRATIONS 
Clue: The 1949 shooting of Philly 1B Eddie Waitkus by Ruth Steinhagen inspired this novel, later a 1984 film
Output: the natural
Category: VICE PRESIDENTS 
Clue: He's the only sitting vice president since Martin Van Buren elected to the presidency
Output: george h.w. bush
Category: HIT SONGS 
Clue: This No. 1 hit from 1968 was part of a hit film's soundtrack & was originally written about Eleanor Roosevelt
Output: \"mrs. robinson\"
Category: HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY 
Clue: The former kingdom of Saxony is now located in this country
Output: germany
Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS 
Clue: He's the only man elected vice president twice & elected president twice
Output: richard nixon
Category: JAZZ SINGERS 
Clue: Comedian Harry Anderson was among those who gave eulogies at this singer's June 1999 funeral
Output: mel torme
Category: HISTORIC OCCASIONS 
Clue: On December 1, 1990 Philippe Cozette & Graham Fagg had a historic handshake here
Output: the chunnel
Category: 1940s MUSIC HISTORY 
Clue: While writing for Billboard, legendary producer Jerry Wexler coined this phrase to replace "race music"
Output: rhythm & blues
Category: ENGLISH HISTORY 
Clue: It was the "they" in the medal issued by Elizabeth I reading, "God breathed and they were scattered"
Output: the spanish armada
Category: RECENT FILMS 
Clue: An early scene in this 2011 film is set in Tonsberg, Norway in the year 965 A.D.
Output: thor
Category: 20th CENTURY ATHLETES 
Clue: In 1938, at age 25, she became the youngest person made a Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olav
Output: sonja henie
Category: 18th CENTURY LITERATURE 
Clue: This character studied medicine, "knowing it would be useful in long voyages"
Output: gulliver
Category: COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD 
Clue: This island nation is the only country in the world named for a biblical king
Output: the solomon islands
Category: INVENTORS 
Clue: In 1894, in his West Orange lab, Thomas Edison shot this sport, the first sporting event ever filmed
Output: boxing
Category: PLAYWRIGHTS 
Clue: On his death in 1950, he left part of his estate to promote a new phonetic alphabet
Output: george bernard shaw
Category: AFRICAN RIVERS 
Clue: The course of this river that's almost 3,000 miles long is an immense counter-clockwise semi-circle
Output: the congo
Category: POLITICAL JARGON 
Clue: This 2-word term was first used to describe advisors who spoke to the press after a 1984 Reagan-Mondale debate
Output: spin doctors
Category: SCIENTISTS 
Clue: In the 1740s he published "Flora Suecica" & "Fauna Suecica", 2 volumes of his observations
Output: carolus linnaeus
Category: CLASSIC MOVIE DUOS 
Clue: Around the world they're known variously as "Flip i Flap", "Dick und Doof" & "El Gordo y el Flaco"
Output: laurel & hardy
Category: CULINARY HISTORY 
Clue: This fruit dessert was created to celebrate Queen Victoria's decades on the British throne
Output: cherries jubilee
Category: THE INTERNET 
Clue: Among 2-letter country codes in Internet addresses, "de" is Germany, "kh" is Cambodia & "es" is this country
Output: spain
Category: WORLD OF BUSINESS 
Clue: According to McDonald's, it's the only country where their outlets do not sell beef hamburgers
Output: india
Category: PHRASE ORIGINS 
Clue: A 19th century gambling term meaning a desirable prize, its use in reference to NYC stems from a 1921 newspaper sports column
Output: the big apple
Category: PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PLAYS 
Clue: This play says "Then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at--Elysian Fields!"
Output: a streetcar named desire
Category: BUSINESS BIGGIES 
Clue: Founded in 1898 when several cracker companies merged, in 2000 it passed from one tobacco company to another
Output: nabisco
Category: BRITISH ROYALTY 
Clue: After the death in combat of the previous king, he became the last one to win the crown while on the battlefield
Output: henry vii
Category: SOUTH AMERICA 
Clue: These are the only 2 independent countries in South America named for a famous person
Output: colombia & bolivia
Category: THE HEISMAN TROPHY 
Clue: One of the 2 Heisman Trophy winners who share their surnames with U.S. presidents
Output: reggie bush or bo jackson
Category: WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS 
Clue: This phrase meaning the aristocracy is derived from the part of a loaf served to honored guests
Output: the upper crust
Category: WORLD LEADERS 
Clue: Unable to say this future leader's tribal name, a teacher gave him a new name, perhaps after a British naval hero
Output: nelson mandela
Category: NUMERICAL PHRASES 
Clue: Number & type of musical instruments hanging from a Mason City, Iowa ceiling, a tribute to a native son
Output: 76 trombones
Category: NEWSMAKERS 
Clue: In April 2005, during his first 2 days on the job, he received more than 56,000 e-mails
Output: pope benedict xvi
Category: GEOGRAPHY 
Clue: 10 million people live in this country that is almost bisected by the second-longest river in Europe
Output: hungary
Category: ROYAL COUPLES 
Clue: Princess Sophia of Greece gave up her right of succession to Greece's throne before marrying him in 1962
Output: king juan carlos of spain
Category: NYC TICKER-TAPE PARADE HONOREES 
Clue: Of the 3 men honored August 13, 1969, the one who spent part of July 20th miles from the other 2
Output: michael collins
Category: U.S. STATES 
Clue: 2 of the 4 states whose names were those of independent republics before they entered the Union
Output: hawaii, texas, california, & vermont
Category: BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS 
Clue: It's the last Best Picture winner with a real person's name in the title (a person who lived 400 years ago)
Output: shakespeare in love
Category: BIBLICAL WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 
Clue: As described in the Bible, the total volume of this was 450,000 cubic cubits
Output: noah\'s ark
Category: THE GLOBE 
Clue: If you dig straight through the Earth's center from Canton, Ohio you'll end up not in China but in this body of water
Output: the indian ocean
Category: SPORTS HEROES 
Clue: Born in January 1919, the month Teddy Roosevelt died, he was given the middle name Roosevelt
Output: jackie robinson
Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY 
Clue: The Welch's Company has its corporate headquarters in this Mass. town
Output: concord
Category: AFRICAN AMERICANS 
Clue: As U.S. Solicitor General in the 1960s, he won 14 of the 19 cases he argued before the Supreme Court
Output: thurgood marshall
Category: FAMOUS NAMES 
Clue: Before achieving fame in Hollywood, he was a cosmetician to the Russian royal court
Output: max factor
Category: BRITISH AUTHORS 
Clue: In 1954 she became the first recipient of the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America
Output: agatha christie
Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS 
Clue: Adventurous 26th president, he was 1st to ride in an automobile & an airplane
Output: theodore roosevelt
Category: GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES 
Clue: The city of Tromso in this country is home to the world's northernmost university & brewery
Output: norway
Category: EXPLORERS 
Clue: On March 29, 1912 he wrote, "We are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far... I do not think I can write more"
Output: robert scott
Category: THE UNITED NATIONS 
Clue: In 1994, after a 20-year absence, this country's delegation was allowed to be seated in the U.N. General Assembly
Output: south africa
Category: THE CENSUS 
Clue: 2 of the 4 U.S. states with a population density greater than 500 people per square mile
Output: connecticut, massachusetts, new jersey & rhode island
Category: HISTORIC NAMES 
Clue: To honor his work, this man's daughter took the name Maria Celeste when she became a nun in 1616
Output: galileo
Category: THE CARIBBEAN 
Clue: This capital, founded by Columbus' brother, is the oldest European-founded city in the Western Hemisphere
Output: santo domingo, dominican republic
Category: HARVARD MEN 
Clue: Books by this alumnus include 1957's "Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy" & 1994's "Diplomacy"
Output: henry kissinger
Category: ORGANIZATIONS 
Clue: In 1901 Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Boston, D.C., Baltimore & Philadelphia made up this; Tampa Bay joined in 1998
Output: the american league
Category: ACTRESSES 
Clue: This actress, who won a 1976 Oscar, later earned acclaim for playing an actress who won a 1945 Oscar
Output: faye dunaway
Category: IN THE NEWS 
Clue: Launched in 2004, a spacecraft named MESSENGER is on a mission to study this planet
Output: mercury
Category: SCIENTISTS 
Clue: He won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics primarily for his work on the photoelectric effect, not for relativity
Output: albert einstein
Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS 
Clue: He was the first U.S. president to be elected in an Olympic year
Output: mckinley
Category: FOOD & DRINK 
Clue: This coffee brand was so named because its creator served it only once a year at a yuletide dinner party
Output: yuban
Category: SOVIET HISTORY 
Clue: He died in Moscow September 11, 1971 following nearly 7 years of house arrest
Output: nikita khrushchev
Category: BRANDS 
Clue: Jack Odell gave his child a tiny vehicle to bring to school inside one of these items, & a toy brand name was born
Output: a matchbox
Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS 
Clue: This president was the first to put solar panels on the White House
Output: jimmy carter
Category: AGRICULTURE 
Clue: Of the world's 4 largest countries in area, it has smallest percentage of farmland
Output: canada
Category: LANDMARKS 
Clue: Some of its pieces, which weighed up to 50 tons, were quarried at Marlborough Downs, about 20 miles away
Output: stonehenge
Category: WEIGHTS & MEASURES 
Clue: A unit of length measuring 6 feet, or a verb meaning to comprehend
Output: fathom
Category: AIRPORTS 
Clue: It's the site of a presidential swearing-in & the headquarters of Southwest Airlines
Output: love field
Category: THE U.S. SENATE 
Clue: In the year 1958, the U.S. Senate was made up of this many members
Output: 96
Category: TRANSPORTATION HISTORY 
Clue: In 1807 he wrote, "The distance from New York to Albany is 150 miles; I ran it up in thirty-two hours"
Output: robert fulton
Category: ENTERTAINMENT 
Clue: It began in the early 1980s as Club des Talons Hauts, a stilt-walking troupe
Output: cirque du soleil
Category: HALLS OF FAME 
Clue: Inductees into the Hall of Fame for these include Bob Keeshan, Oleg Popov & Red Skelton
Output: clowns
Category: JOURNALISTS 
Clue: Before his death in 1920, he led America's Communist Labor Party, drew up its manifesto & edited its paper
Output: john reed
Category: PRESIDENTIAL LASTS 
Clue: He was the most recent president who had not previously been a state governor
Output: george h.w. bush
Category: THE 50 STATES 
Clue: Since 1776, it has been the only U.S. state to be the most populous state for more than a century
Output: new york
Category: LITERARY FIREARMS 
Clue: The "Polizei Pistole Kurz" model was often used very effectively by this literary character introduced in 1953
Output: james bond
Category: BUSINESS HISTORY 
Clue: By the time it was disbanded in 1858, this company controlled an area the size of Europe & home to 200 million people
Output: the british east india company
Category: MONARCHS 
Clue: In 2001 Bulgaria elected as prime minister its former child monarch, the only person now living to have held this royal title
Output: czar
Category: 20th CENTURY POLITICS 
Clue: On September 23, 1952 some 60 million people, the largest TV audience to that time, tuned in for this live address
Output: the checkers speech
Category: GERMAN OPERA 
Clue: The swan that pulls this title character's boat is actually Elsa's enchanted brother, Gottfried
Output: lohengrin
Category: BIBLICAL NAMES 
Clue: Trees with biblical names include the Joshua tree & the world's oldest tree, a 4,700-year-old pine named for him
Output: methuselah
Category: ROCKS & MINERALS 
Clue: Mines near Ticonderoga, New York were once the USA's principal source for this 8-letter mineral
Output: graphite
Category: TELEVISION 
Clue: The television documentary "America's Favorite Neighbor" was a tribute to him
Output: fred rogers
Category: U.S. CITIES 
Clue: Its name includes the county of which it's the seat & the state of which it's the capital
Output: oklahoma city
Category: THE SUPER BOWL 
Clue: As of 2010 it's the only current NFC team that has never played in the Super Bowl
Output: the detroit lions
Category: THE SOLAR SYSTEM 
Clue: The 2 planets in our solar system that have atmospheres made up mostly of carbon dioxide
Output: venus & mars
Category: EUROPEAN COUNTRIES 
Clue: This co-principality is considered to have had the last remnant of Medieval Europe's feudal system
Output: andorra
Category: SWEET TREATS 
Clue: Once known as fairy floss in the U.S., it's "papa's beard" in France & "sugar wool" in Germany
Output: cotton candy
Category: THE CABINET 
Clue: The seal of this cabinet department has an anvil on it
Output: department of labor
Category: FADS 
Clue: It was inspired by a piece of Australian physical education equipment & 100 million were sold worldwide in 1958
Output: the hula hoop
Category: STATE CAPITALS 
Clue: This Southern capital was named for an ancestor of a 20th century poet known for his clever rhymes
Output: nashville, tennessee
Category: FAMOUS WOMEN 
Clue: 1 of the 2 women who've appeared the most on the cover of Time Magazine, they're separated by 2,000 years
Output: princess diana or the virgin mary
Category: U.S. HISTORY 
Clue: This president signed the bill to create a transcontinental railroad; he didn't live to see its completion
Output: abraham lincoln
Category: SHAKESPEARE 
Clue: Tho Shakespeare wrote many plays about kings, she is the only title character who is a queen
Output: cleopatra
Category: LANDMARKS 
Clue: In the 1879 Mathew Brady photo seen here, this structure was about 150 feet tall
Output: washington monument
Category: RANKS & TITLES 
Clue: Queen Victoria & Indira Gandhi each held this title, though only one was official
Output: empress of india
Category: PSYCHOLOGY TERMS 
Clue: This 2-word term has its origins in a hostage-taking that followed the botched 1973 Norrmalmstorg bank robbery
Output: stockholm syndrome
Category: POP CULTURE 
Clue: In 2004 a spokesman announced the "break-up" of this "couple" who had "dated" for 43 years
Output: ken & barbie
Category: ENTERTAINMENT 
Clue: This title character who debuted in 1999 was created by former marine biology educator Steve Hillenburg
Output: spongebob squarepants
Category: CANADIAN LITERATURE 
Clue: This 1908 work that was followed by several sequels is the bestselling book ever written by a Canadian
Output: anne of green gables
Category: COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD 
Clue: In 1958 this country's army overthrew its govt. & set up a council with a Kurd, a Shiite & a Sunni Arab
Output: iraq
Category: COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD 
Clue: In 1839 Thomas Buchanan, cousin of a U.S. president, became the first governor of this future country
Output: liberia
Category: SHAKESPEARE 
Clue: Shakespeare's only play named for a Tudor monarch
Output: henry viii
Category: HORSE BREEDS 
Clue: This American breed was named for its ability to race a distance of 1,320 feet
Output: quarter horse
Category: SLANG TERM ORIGINS 
Clue: Now referring to a scapegoat, this term originated as someone designated as a "proxy for correction"
Output: a whipping boy
Category: BUSINESS NEWS 
Clue: They were introduced in 1941, designated as just "Plain" in 1954 & rechristened as "Milk Chocolate" in 2000
Output: m&m\'s
Category: 20th CENTURY WRITERS 
Clue: In the '50s, she taught English at Smith College, then worked as a secretary at a Boston psychiatric clinic
Output: sylvia plath
Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS 
Clue: He was the last man elected president who had served as a U.S. Senator
Output: richard m. nixon
Category: WORLD CAPITALS 
Clue: A large bay bearing its name borders this capital settled by the Spaniards in 1571
Output: manila, philippines
Category: FICTIONAL PLACES 
Clue: The creator of this Minnesota town says its name is Ojibwa for "Place where we waited all day for you in the rain"
Output: lake wobegon
Category: FAMOUS NAMES 
Clue: A city bus is part of the exhibits at the Montgomery, Alabama library & museum named for this person
Output: rosa parks
Category: WORD ORIGINS 
Clue: From the Old French for a soldier sent ahead to clear the way, today it refers to the first settlers of a region
Output: pioneers
Category: CABLE TELEVISION 
Clue: 2002's "A Season on the Brink" was this cable network's first original movie
Output: espn/espn2
Category: SPORTS FIRSTS 
Clue: The first baseball World Series game played outside the U.S. was played in this city in 1992
Output: toronto
Category: HERALDIC SYMBOLS 
Clue: Dating from the second half of the 15th century, the Tudor rose has petals of these 2 colors
Output: red & white
Category: BEATLES MUSIC 
Clue: Chauffeur Alf Bicknell was the inspiration for this 1965 song
Output: \"drive my car\"
Category: U.S. INDUSTRIES 
Clue: Around 1850 it used a fleet of over 700 ships; by 1930 this U.S. industry was practically defunct
Output: whaling
Category: FAMOUS NAMES 
Clue: Once a top spy, he invented the mug shot seen on reward posters in the Wild West
Output: allan pinkerton
Category: INVENTIONS 
Clue: On April 25, 1792 Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person in history to have a bad encounter with this
Output: the guillotine
Category: SYMBOLS 
Clue: One tale of its origin says that the blind seer Tiresias separated 2 snakes with his staff
Output: the caduceus
Category: WORDS FROM THE BIBLE 
Clue: A 17th C. sermon on the book of Judges led to this group's name being applied to uneducated townspeople
Output: philistines
Category: 20th CENTURY AMERICANS 
Clue: Encouraged by RFK to seek public office, he left the Marines as a colonel in 1965 & won a Senate seat 9 years later
Output: john glenn
Category: CELEBRATIONS 
Clue: Homecoming Scotland is a yearlong celebration fo this man's 250th birthday on Jan. 25, 2009
Output: robbie burns
Category: QUOTATIONS ABOUT LAWYERS 
Clue: Playwright who penned the famous line, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
Output: william shakespeare
Category: ROYALTY 
Clue: The king of this Asian country is known as the "Possessor of the 24 Golden Umbrellas"
Output: thailand
Category: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 
Clue: One of the 2 presidents to win the national popular vote 3 times but only be elected president twice
Output: grover cleveland & andrew jackson
Category: ARCHITECTURE 
Clue: Once a professor of astronomy, he designed the Royal Observatory at Greenwich
Output: sir christopher wren
Category: THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION 
Clue: In February 1998 David Satcher was sworn in to this post, left vacant since 1994
Output: surgeon general
Category: EVENTS OF 2010 
Clue: A piece of custom-made equipment called the Phoenix played a key role in an October event in this country
Output: chile
Category: THE NOBEL PRIZES 
Clue: For the first time in its history, the Nobel Prize for Literature was not awarded in this year
Output: 1914
Category: CONGRESSMEN 
Clue: He was the chief sponsor of the Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962
Output: eugene keogh
Category: SHAKESPEARE PLAYS 
Clue: One of the 2 plays whose plots are set in motion by shipwrecks, one off Illyria & one off an unnamed island
Output: the tempest & twelfth night
Category: PRESIDENTS 
Clue: The last president who did not serve in the armed forces
Output: franklin d. roosevelt
Category: FAMOUS NAMES OF THE 1950s 
Clue: The lyricist of the song "That's America to Me" adopted the 2 brothers with this last name, orphaned in 1953
Output: rosenberg
Category: BESTSELLING AUTHORS 
Clue: Since coming on the beat, he's had more N.Y. Times bestsellers than any other author, including over 20 in the last 5 years
Output: james patterson
Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS 
Clue: Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to wear a beard; this man was the second
Output: ulysses s. grant
Category: BRITISH HISTORY 
Clue: The 14th Earl of this was prime minister in 1852; the 12th Earl of this had a race named for him
Output: earl of derby
Category: WORDS 
Clue: Merrythought is an old, chiefly British term for this part of a chicken
Output: wishbone
Category: NEWSPAPER PEOPLE 
Clue: In 1887 her assignment for the New York World was an expose of the insane asylum on Blackwell's Island
Output: nellie bly
Category: BIBLICAL BEASTS 
Clue: It's the total number of legs on the 2 non-human animals whose words are quoted in the Old Testament
Output: 4
Category: POP MUSIC 
Clue: Take 2 letters off a Beatles song title & you get this title of Paul McCartney's 2002 live CD of his American tour
Output: back in the u.s.
Category: CASTLES 
Clue: The name of this large home located in Aberdeenshire means "the majestic dwelling" in Gaelic
Output: balmoral castle
Category: THE ELEMENTS 
Clue: Once called radium F, this element was named for the homeland of one of its discoverers
Output: polonium
Category: AFRICA 
Clue: In January 2006 this country swore in Africa's first elected female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Output: liberia
Category: WORD ODDITIES 
Clue: This Britishism, a homophone of a letter in the alphabet, has one consonant followed by a line of 4 vowels
Output: queue
Category: THE COLD WAR 
Clue: He died November 15, 1996, having outlived his accuser by 35 years
Output: alger hiss
Category: 20th CENTURY AMERICA 
Clue: Experts say Glenn McDuffie is the mystery man in the classic Eisenstaedt photo taken in this year
Output: 1945
Category: AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS 
Clue: They're the only father & son to receive the AFI's Life Achievement Award-- dad in 1991, son in 2009
Output: kirk douglas and michael douglas
Category: MEN OF SCIENCE 
Clue: "Somnium", an early work of science fiction, was written by this German & published posthumously in 1634
Output: johannes kepler
Category: THE GLOBE 
Clue: Of the more than a dozen countries through which the equator passes, this country stretches farthest south
Output: brazil
Category: SCIENTISTS 
Clue: Bertrand Russell said that "What Galileo and Newton were to the 17th century," this man "was to the 19th"
Output: charles darwin
Category: TELEVISION 
Clue: Milli Vanilli was the first subject of this series, which came from questions like whatever happened to Milli Vanilli
Output: behind the music
Category: ACTORS & THEIR ROLES 
Clue: Robert Shaw, Richard Burton & Charles Laughton all played this ruler on film
Output: henry viii
Category: PRO FOOTBALL GEOGRAPHY 
Clue: Of all the U.S. states with 2 current NFL teams, it’s the only state the Mississippi River touches
Output: missouri
Category: ARCHITECTURE & SOCIETY 
Clue: The tiered steeple of St. Bride's Church in London inspired the traditional form of this festive item
Output: a wedding cake
Category: FAMOUS AMERICANS 
Clue: In 1888 he wrote he was working on an invention "which does for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear"
Output: thomas alva edison
Category: HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS 
Clue: According to its earliest ads, .56% of this product was made up of carbonates, mineral matter & uncombined alkali
Output: ivory soap
Category: NOVELISTS 
Clue: In the April 2000 National Geographic, he wrote an article dispelling myths about the great white shark
Output: peter benchley
Category: SCIENTIFIC NAMES 
Clue: It was first given a scientific name meaning "flat-footed duck"; it was later given one meaning "birdlike snout"
Output: a platypus
Category: EUROPEAN REGIONS 
Clue: This arboreally named area was made famous by a prince in the region noted for impaling enemies on stakes
Output: transylvania
Category: THE CABINET 
Clue: This department contains the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Secret Service & the Coast Guard
Output: department of homeland security
Category: HISTORIC OBJECTS 
Clue: Standart, Azov & Clock are among the names of these items, given as royal Easter gifts starting in the mid-1880s
Output: fabergé eggs
Category: HISTORIC AMERICANS 
Clue: General Winfield Scott called him "the very best soldier I ever saw in the field"
Output: robert e. lee
Category: PRESIDENTS 
Clue: 2 of the 3 men who went from being either a U.S. senator or congressman directly to the presidency
Output: kennedy, garfield, and harding
Category: 20th CENTURY VICE PRESIDENTS 
Clue: Aptly, his middle name contained the word "rich"
Output: nelson aldrich rockefeller
Category: NATURAL WONDERS 
Clue: Given its current name by John Wesley Powell, it was called Kaibab, or "mountain lying down" by the Paiutes
Output: the grand canyon
Category: LITERATURE 
Clue: In early drafts, the heroine of this novel was named Pansy & her family home was called Fontenoy Hall
Output: gone with the wind
Category: THE 50 STATES 
Clue: An 1881 resolution established that this state's name was to be spelled one way but pronounced another
Output: arkansas
Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS 
Clue: 1 of the 3 U.S. Presidents to run on a third-party ticket after having already served as president
Output: teddy roosevelt, martin van buren & millard fillmore
Category: FAMOUS COUPLES 
Clue: The inscription on their crypt reads "Together Again" with the dates 1902-1964 & 1896-1996
Output: george burns & gracie allen
Category: RELIGIOUS HISTORY 
Clue: The 1549 Act of Uniformity imposed upon England this single liturgical volume to be used by everyone
Output: the book of common prayer
Category: POLITICIANS 
Clue: In 1928 this oilman served as chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of Kansas
Output: alf landon
Category: AMERICAN HISTORY 
Clue: He was the only member of the Warren Commission who would later face would-be assassins himself
Output: gerald ford
Category: WORLD WAR II 
Clue: Launched Sept. 27, 1941, the first of the Liberty Ships was named for this Revolutionary War figure
Output: patrick henry
Category: WORLD LANDMARKS 
Clue: In the 1920s this nation's churches pooled their money & erected a 120-foot religious monument on a 2,300-foot peak
Output: brazil
Category: CLASSIC TV 
Clue: Among those who objected to this drama series that premiered in October 1959 were Frank Sinatra & J. Edgar Hoover
Output: the untouchables
Category: AWARDS 
Clue: The London Theatre's equivalent of Broadway's Tony Awards are named for him
Output: sir laurence olivier
Category: 19th CENTURY NAMES 
Clue: Once known as "the handsomest man in America", he performed his last play, "The Apostate", on March 18, 1865
Output: john wilkes booth
Category: WORLD CITIES 
Clue: According to U.N. data, it's the world's most populous city named for a person
Output: são paulo, brazil
Category: THE PLANETS 
Clue: It's the densest of the planets in our solar system & the only one not named for a deity
Output: earth
Category: THE OSCARS 
Clue: Only Orson Welles & this man have been nominated for Best Actor & Original Screenplay in the same year while in their 20s
Output: matt damon
Category: '70s OSCARS 
Clue: This film whose title refers to an establishment holds the record for most wins, 8, without winning Best Picture
Output: cabaret
Category: RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS 
Clue: This song's recording session occurred right after the 1985 American Music Awards & lasted all night long
Output: we are the world
Category: THE PRESIDENCY 
Clue: He was the last president to take the oath of office from someone other than the Chief Justice of the U.S.
Output: lyndon johnson
Category: BOOKS ABOUT ACTORS 
Clue: Stefan Kanfer's 2008 biography of this star is titled "Somebody", a nod to one of his most famous lines
Output: marlon brando
Category: FUN WITH NUMBERS 
Clue: It's the only whole number that when spelled out has all its letters in reverse alphabetical order
Output: one
Category: THE UNITED NATIONS 
Clue: It's the point in the center of the circle in the U.N. emblem
Output: north pole
Category: HISTORIC ENGLISHMEN 
Clue: A Punch cartoon showed this man like an ancient wonder standing over Africa, one foot on the Cape, one on Cairo
Output: cecil rhodes
Category: STATES OF MEXICO 
Clue: It's Mexico's northernmost state, but part of its name means "low"
Output: baja california
Category: ROYALTY 
Clue: On the run following the siege of Oxford, he surrendered May 5, 1646 near Newark on Trent
Output: charles i
Category: RELIGIOUS HISTORY 
Clue: From the Greek, the name of this movement of the early Christian era means that its members had knowledge of God
Output: gnosticism
Category: HISTORIC NEW YORK CITY 
Clue: The USA's first Labor Day parade, in 1882, went from City Hall to this square just north of 14th Street
Output: union square
Category: AUTHORS 
Clue: In June 1998 a museum dedicated to this author opened in Salinas, California
Output: john steinbeck
Category: WORLD GEOGRAPHY 
Clue: Heads of state Jiang Zemin & Jorge Sampaio were on hand when this territory changed hands in Dec. 1999
Output: macau
Category: LITERATURE 
Clue: Maris, Lycon, Laogonus, Erymas, Sarpedon, Erylaus & Patroclus die in Book 16 of this work
Output: the iliad
Category: HISTORIC PEOPLE 
Clue: Apsley House, the London home of this historic duke, boasts an 11' 4" nude statue of Napoleon
Output: the duke of wellington
Category: WORDS FROM PHYSICS 
Clue: It means "relating to the motion of projectiles", or "very angry"
Output: ballistic
Category: FOREIGN AIRLINES 
Clue: In terms of number of passengers, it's the busiest foreign carrier operating at LAX
Output: mexicana airlines
Category: 21st CENTURY EMMYS 
Clue: As 2 different characters, she is the first actress to win lead acting Emmys in both the drama & comedy categories
Output: edie falco
Category: THE BILLBOARD TOP 40 
Clue: Previously done by the Trapp Family, this song about an instrumentalist was a Top 40 hit every December from 1958 to 1962
Output: \"the little drummer boy\"
Category: STATE CAPITALS 
Clue: 1 of the 2 U.S. state capitals that begin with the names of months
Output: juneau, alaska or augusta, maine
Category: WORDS & PHRASES 
Clue: Once slang for brain, this 2-word phrase now means the Heritage Foundation or the Brookings Institution
Output: a think tank
Category: AMERICAN BALLET 
Clue: Characters in this 1942 ballet include the head wrangler & the champion roper
Output: rodeo
Category: EARLY AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 
Clue: This short story, written around 1820, contains the line "If I can but reach that bridge... I am safe"
Output: \"the legend of sleepy hollow\"
Category: HISTORIC DOCUMENTS 
Clue: Clause 39 of this reads "No freeman shall be taken, or imprisoned... except by the legal judgment of his peers"
Output: the magna carta
Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS 
Clue: They're the 2 men who served the U.S. as President representing the Union Party
Output: abraham lincoln & andrew johnson
Category: THEATRE 
Clue: In 1999 Del Close willed this to the Goodman Theatre in Chicago to be used in Act 5, Scene 1 of "Hamlet"
Output: his own skull
Category: NATIONAL PARKS 
Clue: When it became a national park in 1919, it got this name used by the locals because it seemed like heaven on Earth
Output: zion national park
Category: NOTABLE NAMES 
Clue: He declined the offer to lead a country & once said, "Politics is for the present... an equation is... for eternity"
Output: albert einstein
Category: BRITISH WOMEN 
Clue: It's said that this woman who died in 1976 "made more money out of murder than any woman since Lucrezia Borgia"
Output: agatha christie
Category: MONEY 
Clue: The first of a series of 50 new U.S. quarters, released in January 1999, honored this state
Output: delaware
Category: FAMOUS AMERICANS 
Clue: In 1826 Daniel Webster eulogized these 2 men, saying, "They took their flight together to the world of spirits"
Output: thomas jefferson & john adams
Category: BOOK TITLE REFERENCES 
Clue: It "had been built... for pigs about to be butchered.  Now it was going to serve as a home... for 100 American P.O.W.s"
Output: slaughterhouse 5
Category: NONFICTION BOOKS 
Clue: "The Road to Middle-Earth" is a book about this writer
Output: j.r.r. tolkien
Category: RECENT MOVIES 
Clue: The young John Webster, who grew up to write "The Duchess of Malfi", is a character in this 1998 film
Output: shakespeare in love
Category: FAMOUS LASTS 
Clue: In July 2003 the last old-style one of these rolled off an assembly line in Mexico, headed for a museum in Germany
Output: the volkswagen beetle
Category: ISLANDS 
Clue: It's the only inhabited U.S. territory south of the equator
Output: american samoa
Category: TELEVISION & HISTORY 
Clue: When "60 Minutes" premiered, this man was U.S. president
Output: lyndon b. johnson
Category: MOVIE HISTORY 
Clue: During the making of this classic, sets from "King Kong" & "The Garden of Allah" were intentionally burned down
Output: gone with the wind
Category: BUSINESS & INDUSTRY 
Clue: This U.S. firm is the world's largest processor of tomatoes
Output: h.j. heinz
Category: U.S. STATES 
Clue: Before Congress named it for a person, its residents wanted to call it the territory of Columbia
Output: washington
Category: FOREIGN CURRENCY 
Clue: This currency of Costa Rica gets its name from the first European to see the nation
Output: the colon
Category: WORLD LEADERS 
Clue: This world leader who left office as president in 1994 titled his autobiography "The Last Trek: A New Beginning"
Output: f.w. de klerk
Category: THE OSCARS 
Clue: Husband and wife who won Oscars almost 30 years apart, she in 1958, he in 1987
Output: paul newman & joanne woodward
Category: U.S. LAKES 
Clue: Wizard Island sits in this lake in what was once Mount Mazama
Output: crater lake
Category: 19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS 
Clue: Hanged in an 1837 novel, he so angered some Londoners that his creator toned him down in future editions
Output: fagin
Category: BESTSELLING AUTHORS 
Clue: One of the world's bestselling novelists, he created TV's "I Dream of Jeannie"
Output: sidney sheldon
Category: ANCIENT WONDERS 
Clue: Of the other 6 wonders, this one was nearest to the only wonder which still exists, the pyramids
Output: pharos of alexandria
Category: CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY 
Clue: By 1948, all but one of the 9 in this group charged in a 1931 crime had been freed
Output: the scottsboro boys
Category: THE PARTS OF SPEECH 
Clue: Of the traditional 8 parts of speech, it's the only one that doesn't end in the same 4 letters as 1 of the other parts of speech
Output: adjective
Category: WWII 
Clue: FDR liked to rest near water, but because of fears after Pearl Harbor, this inland place was created for him
Output: camp david
Category: U.S. CITIES 
Clue: Among its sister cities are Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Turin, Italy; & Toyota City, Japan
Output: detroit
Category: GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS 
Clue: Last name of 2 brothers, one currently a cabinet secretary & one mayor of a city of several million
Output: daley
Category: THE OSCARS 
Clue: The 2 men who directed Marlon Brando's Oscar-winning performances
Output: elia kazan & francis ford coppola
Category: NAMES IN THE NEWS 
Clue: This former U.N. ambassador is a co-chairman of the host city's committee for the 1996 Olympic Games
Output: andrew young
Category: ASIA 
Clue: It's the largest landlocked country in the world
Output: mongolia
Category: AMERICAN POLITICAL TERMS 
Clue: This phrase first appeared in 1845, followed by "to overspread the continent alloted by providence"
Output: manifest destiny
Category: MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS 
Clue: The Arab-Israeli War that started on June 5, 1967 ended with a cease-fire on this date in Israel
Output: june 10, 1967
Category: ADVERTISING 
Clue: In Scandinavian countries these characters are known as Pif, Paf & Pof
Output: snap, crackle & pop
Category: RECENT BOOKS 
Clue: In a lecture called "Storia Senza Storia" (Story Without History), an Italian Cardinal rebutted claims in this 2003 novel
Output: the da vinci code
Category: POETS 
Clue: She has over 30 honorary degrees, wrote a poem for Clinton's first inauguration & now has a line of Hallmark Cards
Output: maya angelou
Category: LATIN PHRASES 
Clue: It can refer to the host used in the Eucharist, or a city southwest of Houston
Output: corpus christi, texas
Category: COMPUTERS 
Clue: In 2003 Dell made this computer part on its PCs an option; Apple had stopped including it on Macintoshes 5 years earlier
Output: floppy disk drive
Category: THE NOBEL PRIZE 
Clue: 1 of the 2 women from the United States who have won the Nobel Prize for Literature
Output: toni morrison or pearl buck
Category: BRAND NAMES 
Clue: To feature its "Strong enough to stand on" product, in 1965 Shwayder Bros., Inc. changed its name to this
Output: samsonite luggage
Category: ACTOR-DIRECTORS 
Clue: The only woman to win a Golden Globe for directing, she won for a 1983 film that she had also co-written
Output: barbra streisand
Category: U.S. HISTORY 
Clue: After Virginia, more Civil War battles were fought in this state than in any other
Output: tennessee
Category: GEORGE WASHINGTON 
Clue: In 1798 George wrote to John Greenwood, a man in this profession, "I am...ready to pay what ever you may charge me"
Output: dentist
Category: AUTHORS 
Clue: He publicly objected to the name of a 2004 documentary for infringing on the title of one of his books
Output: ray bradbury
Category: FAMOUS AMERICANS 
Clue: After his death in 1994 at age 81, Time magazine put him on its cover for a record 55th time
Output: richard m. nixon
Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE 
Clue: "The Scarlet Letter" says, "to forbid the culprit to hide his face... was the essence of" this 7-letter punishment
Output: the pillory
Category: WARTIME 
Clue: The Victoria Cross is made from metal taken from enemy guns captured in this war
Output: the crimean war
Category: AMERICAN HISTORY 
Clue: As minister to Mexico, he was authorized by President Pierce to buy border land for the railroads
Output: james gadsden
Category: ITALIAN INVENTORS 
Clue: In 1910 his new invention helped Scotland Yard catch a murderer escaping to North America across the Atlantic
Output: marconi
Category: WORLD RIVERS 
Clue: With 4, more national capitals are located on this river than any other river in the world
Output: the danube
Category: FAMOUS NAMES 
Clue: At this man's death in 1997, Jacques Chirac called him probably the best known Frenchman in the world
Output: jacques-yves cousteau
Category: THE TONY AWARDS 
Clue: There has never been a Tony award winner for best musical set on either of these 2 continents
Output: antarctica and australia
Category: ARTISTS 
Clue: He was born in 1577 on the eve of the feast day of two apostles
Output: peter paul rubens
Category: 20th CENTURY WOMEN 
Clue: A group chaired by her produced a system that President Bush says now needs "wise and effective reform"
Output: frances perkins
Category: FICTIONAL CHARACTERS 
Clue: Character from an 18th century tale who felt "Above an hundred arrows discharged on my left hand"
Output: gulliver
Category: AMERICA 
Clue: It says, "Prudence... will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes"
Output: the declaration of independence
Category: TELEVISION HISTORY 
Clue: Set in the 1870s, it ran from 1955 to 1975
Output: gunsmoke
Category: WORLD LEADERS 
Clue: Current European head of state whose last name means "cabbage"
Output: helmut kohl
Category: WORD ORIGINS 
Clue: The name of this dialect comes from a Hindi word, mantri, meaning "counselor"
Output: mandarin
Category: ODD TITLES 
Clue: Gilbert & Sullivan's "Mikado", not Milne, gave us this hyphenated title for a pompous functionary
Output: grand poo-bah
Category: PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION 
Clue: It's the name of the person next in the line of presidential succession after Robert Byrd
Output: condoleezza rice
Category: PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACES 
Clue: 4 U.S. presidents serving in 3 different centuries have been born in the same county in this state
Output: massachusetts
Category: SCIENCE WORD ORIGINS 
Clue: Coined by the chemist J.B. van Helmont, the word gas comes from this Greek word meaning "unformed mass"
Output: chaos
Category: STATE CAPITALS 
Clue: This Midwest city is the only state capital whose unabbreviated name starts with 3 consonants
Output: springfield, illinois
Category: THE CALENDAR 
Clue: In the U.S. it's the latest date in November on which Thanksgiving can fall
Output: november 28
Category: THE WESTERN U.S. 
Clue: This city's official seal depicts a phoenix & a motto in Spanish:  "Gold in Peace -- Iron in War"
Output: san francisco
Category: 18th CENTURY AMERICANS 
Clue: A military post & a Tennessee city are both named for this first U.S. Secretary of War
Output: henry knox
Category: THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE 
Clue: This country won independence from Spain in 1821 & from France in 1867
Output: mexico
Category: NOTABLE WOMEN 
Clue: In 1963 she said, "I feel as though I'm suddenly on stage for a part I never rehearsed"
Output: lady bird johnson
Category: THE 1980s 
Clue: On May 18, 1980 its height was reduced from 9,677 feet to 8,364 feet
Output: mount saint helens
Category: HOLIDAYS 
Clue: Some believe a Roman celebration of the coming of spring, including fertility rites, led to the holiday we observe on this date
Output: february 14
Category: RELIGIOUS NAMES 
Clue: In commemoration of his predecessors, he was the first pope to choose a double name
Output: pope john paul i
Category: SHAKESPEAREAN HEROINES 
Clue: The name of this heroine known for her filial devotion is probably derived from the Latin for "heart"
Output: cordelia
Category: HISTORIC ROYAL RELATIVES 
Clue: This wife of Henry VIII was the aunt of the powerful Holy Roman Emperor Charles V
Output: catherine of aragon
Category: THE 1930s 
Clue: In April 1935 in Oklahoma, when blowing soil darkened the sky, a reporter coined this term for the region
Output: the dust bowl
Category: FICTION 
Clue: This 1953 novel contains the famous recipe 3 measures of Gordon's, 1 of vodka; shake it until it's ice-cold
Output: casino royale
Category: THE RAILROADS 
Clue: The railroad founded in 1859 by a Kansas state charter reached this state capital on February 16, 1880
Output: santa fe
Category: LONDON 
Clue: Borough in which Henry VIII was born, they say you can stand in 2 different hemispheres there
Output: greenwich
Category: SCIENTISTS 
Clue: "American Prometheus" is a biography of this physicist who died in 1967
Output: j. robert oppenheimer
Category: 1910s HISTORY 
Clue: World Book said it "ranks as one of the greatest engineering achievements in the world"
Output: the panama canal
Category: OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS 
Clue: He's the last person to win the Best Director Oscar for a film in which he also starred
Output: mel gibson
Category: U.S. CITIES 
Clue: Massachusetts city named for an industrialist whose family included several poets & an astronomer
Output: lowell
Category: THE OLYMPICS 
Clue: Of the 5 continents symbolized by Olympic rings, only one never to hold Games
Output: africa
Category: BODIES OF WATER 
Clue: Bordering on Mich. & N.Y., these 2 Great Lakes are the only ones to border on 1 state each
Output: lake huron & lake ontario
Category: ANCIENT TIMES 
Clue: Plutarch's chapter on Romulus quotes this much later man as saying, "I love treason but hate a traitor"
Output: julius caesar
Category: NFL TEAM NAMES 
Clue: 2 of the 4 teams in the NFL with completely alliterative names
Output: the seattle seahawks, the jacksonville jaguars, the buffalo bills, & the tennessee titans
Category: WORLD HISTORY 
Clue: Surus was the last known one of these to survive a mountain crossing in the 3rd century B.C.
Output: an elephant
Category: RECENT EVENTS 
Clue: Discovered in 1930, in August 2006 it was officially downgraded to a "dwarf"
Output: pluto