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0 | The Chicago River flows out of this Great Lake | Lake Michigan |
1 | In surface area this one of the 5 Great Lakes is the largest body of fresh water in the world | Lake Superior |
2 | The town of Yellowknife is located on the shore of this Great Canadian lake | Great Slave Lake |
3 | This lake in Oregon is the second-deepest lake in North America | Crater Lake |
4 | Percy Shelley wrote of this Italian lake, it exceeds anything I ever beheld in beauty | Lake Como |
5 | This Oscar winner for Ordinary People leads a team of thieves & hackers on TNT's Leverage | (Timothy) Hutton |
6 | In the 1980s he & his daughter Holly hosted Ripley's Believe It or Not, though we don't remember any one-armed push-ups | Jack Palance |
7 | This Oscar-winning daughter of an Oscar-winning director plays producer Eileen Rand on Smash | Anjelica Huston |
8 | In 2012 this 2-time Oscar winner won a Golden Globe for her role on American Horror Story | Jessica Lange |
9 | On a clear day, I can see this landmark unveiled in 1923; it's lost 4 letters since then | the Hollywood Sign |
10 | In summer I listen to this great broadcaster, now in his 63rd year calling Dodger games | Vin Scully |
11 | Weekends I go to Musso & Frank's iconic restaurant; GQ called their version of this gin-based cocktail America's best | a martini |
12 | When I say I live in the Valley, I mean this one that's home to such communities as Studio City & Encino | San Fernando Valley |
13 | Sometimes I get my kicks driving to Glendora to visit the acclaimed Donut Man on this route | Route 66 |
14 | In Milton's Paradise Lost, Gabriel sends 2 of these beings to watch over Paradise, & Satan flees | angels |
15 | When Moby Dick is harpooned, this man becomes fouled in the line & is taken under the sea to his death | Ahab |
16 | Chapter 1 of this Tolstoy novel tells us, Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house | Anna Karenina |
17 | The oldest of the 3 Musketeers, he was once married to the evil Milady de Winter | Athos |
18 | Theodore Dreiser based this novel on the case of Chester Gillette, who murdered Grace Brown on Big Moose Lake | An American Tragedy |
19 | Lapsus linguae, a sudden, unfortunate utterance, translates to this 4-word phrase | slip of the tongue |
20 | Said at funerals, requiescat in pace translates to this | rest in peace |
21 | Agnus dei is this 4-legged animal of God | a lamb |
22 | In utero means within the womb; this other phrase describes something that happens in glass | in vitro |
23 | i.e. is short for this, meaning that is | id est |
24 | What's this? | four of a kind |
25 | What's this? | a flush |
26 | What's this? | a full house |
27 | & I'm here... to remind you... her Jagged Little Pill was No. 1 in 1995 & again in '96 | Alanis Morissette |
28 | The soundtrack from this movie felt the love tonight (& for 10 weeks) | The Lion King |
29 | This Seattle band was Unplugged in New York; cuts included Lake Of Fire | Nirvana |
30 | Not afraid to re-dip in previous success, he topped the chart with Bat out of Hell II: Back Into Hell | Meat Loaf |
31 | This band's Monster album included Crush With Eyeliner | R.E.M. |
32 | The 3 Battles of Ypres | World War I |
33 | The Inchon Landing | the Korean War |
34 | The Battle of Lookout Mountain | the Civil War |
35 | The 1356 Battle of Poitiers | the Hundred Years' War |
36 | The Battle of Tarawa | World War II |
37 | George Hepplewhite was known for designing the backs of these in such shapes as hearts & shields | chairs |
38 | In the early 20th century, Gerrit Rietveld led this country's De Stijl movement, which emphasized abstract furniture | the Netherlands |
39 | This London furniture maker popularized his style in his book Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director | Thomas Chippendale |
40 | Most of the early work by this N.Y. cabinetmaker whose name sounds like a musical instrument was in mahogany | Duncan Phyfe |
41 | Both Alvar Aalto & Charles Eames designed furniture using this layered wood product | laminate |
42 | Margaret Hamilton spoke the immortal movie line I'll get you, my pretty, and these 4 words | your little dog, too! |
43 | English dramatist John Webster noted, they that sleep with dogs shall rise with these | fleas |
44 | This Shakespeare play includes the line Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war | Julius Caesar |
45 | In 1994, as he left the governorship of New York, he said, dog eat dog produces... just one dog, and that's a lonely way to live | (Mario) Cuomo |
46 | An editor of The New York Sun said, but if this happens, that is news | man bites dog |
47 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows three geometric figures on the monitor.) A trapezium, a rhombus, & even a kite are examples of this type of planed figure, from the Latin for 4-sided | a quadrilateral |
48 | Now would be a good time to remember that it's 1/60 of a degree | a minute |
49 | Don't be dense; tell us this word for an angle of more than 90 but fewer than 180 degrees | obtuse |
50 | The letter m indicates this steepness of a line | a slope |
51 | An assertion that can be proven true, often using axioms & postulates | a theorem |
52 | A substance used to clean injured skin & to prevent infection | antiseptic |
53 | It's Italian for Joseph, Mr. Verdi | Giuseppe |
54 | A chamber used as a grave | sepulcher |
55 | The part of a cross-shaped church that intersects the main aisle at right angles | transept |
56 | As its name suggests, this early version of the Old Testament was translated by 70 writers | the Septuagint |
57 | Of the world's 5 largest islands by area, the 2 with territory of more than 1 country are Borneo & this one | New Guinea |
58 | For $90,000, the X6 M sport utility from this German automaker better be one freakin' amazing driving machine | BMW |
59 | The 2011 911 Speedster convertible from this company cost $204,000! Someone call 911! | Porsche |
60 | It's a very right & proper $300,000 for a 2012 Ghost from this British carmaker | Rolls-Royce |
61 | James Bond would enjoy a One-77 from this 2-named company; it's yours for $1.9 million, but only 77 were made | Aston Martin |
62 | Mary had a little 2009 Reventon from this Italian company—Mary likes going 0-62 in 3.4 secs. & had $1.6 million to blow | Lamborghini |
63 | This term for the termination of a proceeding without a verdict sounds like the end of a school class | dismissal |
64 | Glenn Close knows they're monies awarded to a litigant for loss or injury | damages |
65 | Punishable by fine or imprisonment of one year or less, they're 5 times more common than felonies in many states | misdemeanors |
66 | This other A word is an accomplice or abettor in a crime but is not there when it is committed | accessory |
67 | In order to get a more objective trial, ask for a change of this to seek to have a case heard in a new jurisdiction | venue |
68 | Cristina Kirchner of this country ably succeeded her husband | Argentina |
69 | Jalal Talabani has been this troubled nation's president since 2005 | Iraq |
70 | Next on the menu, this country's prime minister—Recep Tayyip Erdogan | Turkey |
71 | This Venezuelan calls himself leader of the Bolivarian revolution | Chavez |
72 | His term as Mexican president ends in 2012 | Felipe Calderón |
73 | Most stars are made of the same stuff when they form, about 74% hydrogen & 25% this gas | helium |
74 | The beehive cluster, a group of stars visible to the naked eye, is on the shell of this crabby constellation | Cancer |
75 | This word for what we know to be a very old star is Latin for new—silly ancient astronomers! | nova |
76 | Most stars are red these, with less than 50% the mass of the Sun | dwarfs |
77 | We are serious that Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky, with a -1.46 measure of apparent this | magnitude |
78 | It's the ES in ESP, or do you need to read my mind? | extrasensory |
79 | After films like Alien & Independence Day, these beings might demand a better image in the media | extraterrestrials |
80 | A YouTube clip from the 1940s shows a newsboy saying this 6-word line before Millionaire Playboy in Trouble Again! | Extra! Extra! Read all about it! |
81 | This adjective means not pertinent to the issue at hand | extraneous |
82 | It's calculating a value beyond the range of that which is known | extrapolation |
83 | This show that began in 1970 has featured on-air talent like Jon Gruden & Keith Jackson | Monday Night Football |
84 | As of October 1975 it had run longer than the Korean War, & still had 8 years left | M*A*S*H |
85 | This TV show traces its origins to 1992, when 2 Univ. of Colorado students made the animated short Jesus vs. Frosty | South Park |
86 | Set in post-Civil War Kansas, it ran from 1955 to 1975 | Gunsmoke |
87 | Meanwhile, Back in the Nixon Suite was one segment when it debuted in 1968 on a Tuesday; it now airs on another night | 60 Minutes |
88 | Theodore H. White wrote a series of books about The Making of this elected official | the President |
89 | Joan Didion analyzed the turbulent 1960s in a nonfiction work called this, like a Beatles LP | The White Album |
90 | The book Mirror Mirror transports this classic tale of young woman & septet to the time of the Borgias | Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs) |
91 | It was the wild, the savage, frozen-hearted northland wild, he wrote in White Fang | Jack London |
92 | This character actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket | the White Rabbit |
93 | Argus-eyed, meaning extremely observant, refers to a 100-eyed giant whose eyes were transferred to this bird's tail | the peacock |
94 | This exclamation used by Scarlett O'Hara refers to a musical instrument | fiddle-dee-dee |
95 | From pillar to post, meaning to and fro, has its origins in this court sport | tennis |
96 | This 4-word phrase meaning natural selection was coined by philosopher Herbert Spencer, not Darwin | survival of the fittest |
97 | This walking stick or club takes its name from a town in Ireland | shillelagh |
98 | Rather than let his gunpowder-filled ship be captured, Captain Jan van Speijk did this to it, he & his crew still aboard | blew it up |
99 | The village of Spaarndam has a statue of the boy who heroically stuck his finger in this | the dam (or the dike) |
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