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THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS | 1200 | Dec. 25, 1837:U.S. troops suffer heavy casualties fighting this Florida tribe at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee

the Seminole

SOUTHERN HISTORY | 600 | In 1817 U.S. troops invaded Florida in pursuit of this tribe

the Seminoles

THE 19th CENTURY | 2000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) An 1823 treaty assured the return of runaway slaves, & a move south to a 4-million-acre reservation by this Native American tribe

the Seminoles

HORRIBLE HISTORY | 2000 | The 1857-1858 mutiny named for these native soldiers in India was marked by brutality by both Indians & Britons

the Sepoy

THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR | 400 | The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French & Indian War as well as this larger global conflict

the Seven Years War

HISTORIC HANDSHAKES | 400 | In 1977, Jimmy Carter said this leader was ""an island of stability""; two years later, he was overthrown

the Shah of Iran (Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi)

18th CENTURY AMERICA | 1600 | In 1774 Mother Ann Lee brought this religious sect known for its furniture to America from England

the Shakers

A HISTORY LESSON | 200 | Scotland acquired these islands known for their pony in 1472 when a Norse king didn't pay his daughter's dowry to James III

the Shetlands

HISTORIC OBJECTS | 800 | In the 13- & 1400s French knight Geoffrey de Charny & his family fought the church over exhibiting this 14-foot linen cloth

the Shroud of Turin

A BRIEF TIME OF HISTORY | 600 | Israeli forces destroyed Egypt's air force on the ground on June 5, 1967, the first day of this war

the Six-Day War

WAR! | 800 | June 5-10, 1967:this war

the Six-Day War

13th CENTURY HIGHLIGHTS | 2000 | In the 1250s a court chaplain founded the Paris School of Theology, which was later named this for him

the Sorbonne

THIS MEANS WAR! | 800 | The explosion of the USS Maine

the Spanish-American War

BEASTLY BACKING BANDS | 2000 | David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust &this galactic group

the Spiders from Mars

THE EARLY 20th CENTURY | 800 | A low point of the Gangster Wars, this incident saw 7 gunned down in Chicago in February 1929

the St. Valentine\'s Day Massacre

THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND | 800 | ...of this house whose monarchs included Mary, Queen of Scots was William of Orange

the Stewart

1990s HISTORY | 600 | The British government returned this ""Stone of Destiny"" to Edinburgh in 1996

the Stone of Scone

THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS | 400 | The wars pitted Scots & Irish as well as English against Charles I & this royal house

the Stuarts

CHINESE HISTORY | 1600 | In 210 B.C. Emperor Shi Huangdi was buried with an honor guard, thousands of clay soldiers known as this ""army""

the Terracotta Army

NEW ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS? | 800 | We're not sure if Mr. Gilliam or Mr. Jones inspired this award for British comedy troupe members

the Terrys

THE VIETNAM WAR | 600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The 1968 assault shown here is called this, after its namesake holiday; attacks ranged from Khe Sanh down to Saigon & Vinh Loi

the Tet Offensive

THE 15th CENTURY | 1600 | Losing the battle of Grunwald in 1410 in Poland led to the end of the military power of these knights

the Teutonic Knights

FROM THE BRITISH MONARCHY'S WEBSITE | 200 | A ceremony dating from the 12th century, Swan Upping is an annual census of the swans on parts of this river

the Thames

17th CENTURY PEOPLE | 1200 | Catholic ruler Ferdinand II's persecution of Protestants in Bohemia in 1618 sparked this long European war

the Thirty Years\' War

HISTORIC NAMES | 1000 | In 1618 Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand tried to impose Catholicism & this war was on... & on... & on

the Thirty Years\' War

HISTORY: HIRED & FIRED | 400 | Captain Smith, you didn't bother to sound a general alarm after this ship hit an iceberg? You're fired!

the Titanic

YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT | 400 | In 1912 Shipbuilder magazine said it was ""practically unsinkable"" due to the watertight compartments

the Titanic

THE VIETNAM WAR ERA | 400 | Attacks on the U.S. destroyer Maddox in this gulf in August 1964 prompted LBJ to order air strikes against the North

the Tonkin

AWARDS & HONORS | 200 | These awards from the American Theatre Wing bear the nickname of a stage actress-turned-producer

the Tonys

A ROYAL BRITISH LOCKUP | 400 | Henry VI was twice imprisoned in this fortress by his rivals, eventually dying there in 1471

the Tower of London

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 600 | On January 8, 1863 ground was broken in Sacramento for this; ground was broken for it in Omaha 11 months later

the Trans-Continental Railway

WORKING WITH A BEATLE | 1600 | ""Handle with Care""! Along with George, this '80s group featured Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty & Bob Dylan

the Traveling Wilburys

THE WAR OF 1812 | 2000 | In Article X of this treaty, both the U.S. & Britain agreed to ""use their best endeavours"" to abolish slavery

the Treaty of Ghent

FROM THE BRITISH MONARCHY'S WEBSITE | 1000 | Elizabeth I was the last of the 5 sovereigns from this royal house

the Tudors

GOD SAVE THE ENGLISH KING! | 800 | At 1485's Battle of Bosworth Field, Richard III died without a horse & this royal family rode off with his kingdom

the Tudors

HORRIBLE HISTORY | 400 | On Feb. 14, 1929 7 members of Bugs Moran's gang became the victims in this event

the Valentine\'s Day Massacre

A PLACE FIT FOR A KING | 1600 | This Theban area includes Luxor & Karnak

the Valley of the Kings

PRINCE ALBERT | 800 | Though he's been gone for more than 150 years, Albert's name today still graces this London edifice

the Victoria and Albert Museum

IRISH HISTORY | 1200 | At Clontarf in 1014, King Brian Boru led the Irish to victory against these invaders but died at the battle

the Vikings

WAR STORIES | 400 | ""Rebel Train"" by David Healey

the War between the States (or the Civil War)

BATTLE OF BRITAIN | 2000 | The largest & bloodiest battle of this conflict was 1461's Battle of Towton

the War of the Roses

BATTLES IN THE WAR | 1000 | St. Albans &Towton(near York)

the Wars of the Roses

LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY | 1200 | Shaka, who built an empire of this southern African people, didn't need to learn from Vlad about impaling his enemies

the Zulu Empire

THE 19TH CENTURY | 800 | Shaka reigned as the paramount chief of this people only to be killed by his own brothers in 1828

the Zulus

20th CENTURY LITERARY DECADES | 600 | ""All Quiet on the Western Front"" &""This Side of Paradise""

the \'20s

DECADES BY NICKNAME | 400 | This ""Roaring"" decade produced the poem ""The Wild Party""

the \'20s

DECADES BY NICKNAME | 1200 | ""Swinging"" with Britain's Profumo Affair

the \'60s

DECADES BY NICKNAME | 1600 | ""Go-go"", as the USSR launched Mir

the \'80s

DECADES OF DANCE | 200 | The lambada & Michael Jackson's moonwalk

the \'80s

THE DEWAR'S DECIMAL SYSTEM | 2000 | The .02 of each barrel a year lost to evaporation as Dewar's ages is known as these heavenly beings' share

the angels\' share

PLANE SPEAKING | 400 | Gyroscopes help maintain course as part of this airplane feature; in the feature ""Airplane!"", it was inflatable

the autopilot

BATTLESHIPS | 1600 | A classic Eisenstein film recounts the drama of a real naval mutiny aboard this Russian battleship

the battleship Potemkin

HERB & SPICE HISTORY | 400 | Today we pick this leaf of the laurel tree out of our food, but legend says oracles chewed it to promote visions

the bay leaf

THE '60s (19th CENTURY EDITION) | 600 | General Sheridan's plan to suppress Native Americans included killing all of these animals that supported their way of life

the bison (or the buffalo)

SPEAKING IN CODE | 600 | urbandictionary.com on this 3-letter code: ""Never drink the last beer, unless you have... specific permission that it is OK"", guys

the bro code

TRUCKING | 1000 | British soldiers gave the Mack truck this canine nickname in WWI for its blunt-nosed hood & durability

the bulldog

OHIO HISTORY | 600 | People laughed when Dayton's James Ritty added a bell to this store device, but the noise deterred theft

the cash register

AWARDS & HONORS | 1200 | Japan's highest order is the order of this flower

the chrysanthemum

HISTORIC DAYS | 1600 | 27514

the end of the Vietnam War

HISTORIC DAYS | 1200 | May 29, 1453

the fall of Constantinople

SCRAMBLED 20th CENTURY DECADES | 400 | War & more:""O STRIFE""

the forties

HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES | 200 | The 1897 Panhard Levassor was one of the first autos to put the engine in the ""French style"" here on the car

the front

TAKING IN THE SUN | 1600 | This field on the Sun is typically twice that of Earth but can reach 3,000 times as strong in areas with uneven surface rotation

the magnetic field

THE VIETNAM WAR | 600 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Hanoi, Vietnam)Only a small part of Hanoi's infamous Hoa La prison remains standing today. During the war, inmates such as John McCain gave it this ironic nickname, reflecting the lack of hospitality they found there.

the Hanoi Hilton

THE QUEEN | 2000 | 14th century Queen Margaret I of Denmark took on this commercial league to win back coastal strongholds

the Hanseatic League

HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART II | 400 | Francis II, who became emperor of Austria in 1804, was also the last emperor of this

the Holy Roman Empire

HISTORY: HIRED & FIRED | 2000 | Byzantine Emperor Justinian, you oversaw a legal code & this ""holy wisdom"" church? Multitasker, you're hired

the Hagia Sophia

HISTORIC DOCUMENTS | 800 | One of the oldest known legal codes is this Babylonian one from around 1760 B.C.

the Hammurabi code

HISTORY | 800 | Until it was dissolved & absorbed by Napoleon in 1806, Francis II led this 1,000-year-old empire

the Holy Roman Empire

A HISTORY LESSON | 400 | Wellington defeated the French in 1813 at Vitoria, Spain in the Peninsular War, the peninsula being this one

the Iberian

THE 4th CENTURY | 1200 | In 391 the Serapeum, a temple that housed part of this ancient institution, was destroyed along with its books

the Library of Alexandria

AMERICA THE HISTORICAL | 200 | 250,000 gathered to hear the ""I Have a Dream"" speech in 1963 delivered from the steps of this landmark

the Lincoln Memorial

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY | 1000 | Retracing this 1930s journey will take you thousands of miles from Ruijin to Yan'an

the Long March

HISTORIC DOCUMENTS | 600 | Robert Livingston, U.S. minister to France, James Monroe & a French Treasury minister signed the treaty for this 1803 deal

the Louisiana Purchase

WORLD WAR I | 800 | The May 8, 1915 headline in the N.Y. Times blared this ship ""sunk by a submarine... twice torpedoed off Irish coast""

the Lusitania

THE VIETNAM WAR | 800 | This alphanumeric weapon became the standard U.S. infantry rifle in 1967

the M16

THE UNCIVIL WARS | 1600 | In 1946 troops of this ""abbreviated"" military corps were found guilty of shooting P.O.W.'s in the Malmedy Massacre

the SS

THE 20th CENTURY | 600 | This trial opened on July 10, 1925 with William Jennings Bryan arguing for the prosecution

the Scopes (Monkey) Trial

HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART II | 800 | A play in 5 acts, or a king in 2 years, 1483 to 1485

Richard III

UNCROWNED ENGLISH MONARCHS | 400 | Edward V reigned for a few brief uncrowned months in 1483 before his death, said to be set up by this uncle of his

Richard III

NEAR THE END OF THE CENTURY | 400 | This ""coeur-de-lion"" was killed at a siege in 1199

Richard the Lionhearted

THE CIVIL WAR | 600 | In mid-1861 Montgomery, Alabama was out & this city was in as capital of the Confederacy

Richmond, Virginia

16th CENTURY AMERICA | 200 | The 1st theatrical performance in America was a Spanish comedy produced in 1598 beside this river near El Paso

Rio Grande

THE 16th CENTURY | 800 | This colony was founded in North America in 1587, only to be ""lost"" 3 years later

Roanoke

CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN | 800 | ""I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union"", wrote this Virginian

Robert E. Lee

THE CIVIL WAR | 1600 | His son Custis served as an aide-de-camp to Jefferson Davis during the war

Robert E. Lee

THE CIVIL WAR | 200 | The 9 1/2-month siege of Petersburg resulted in the fall of Richmond & this Virginian's surrender

Robert E. Lee

THE MARCH OF HISTORY | 600 | In March 1865 this general said all his congress did was ""eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving""

Robert E. Lee

HISTORY AS THEATER | 1600 | Ted Tally's play ""Terra Nova"" is based on journals & letters found on the frozen body of this Antarctic explorer

Robert Falcon Scott

HISTORIC NAMES | 1600 | This giant of 19th century water transport was nicknamed ""Quicksilver Bob""

Robert Fulton

HUGO AWARD-WINNING NOVELS | 800 | This author's 5 Hugo-winning novels include ""Farmer in the Sky"" & ""Starship Troopers""

Robert Heinlein

HISTORIC CARS | 200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us car at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.) On a fateful day in 1968, this presidential candidate took this Rolls Royce Solver Cloud to address campaigners at Los Angeles's Ambassador Hotel after his primary win.

Robert Kennedy

HISTORY | 800 | In 1794 Napoleon was placed under arrest for ties to this incorruptible man, the force behind the Reign of Terror

Robespierre

YOU'RE HISTORY! | 1200 | France's Reign of Terror ended with the death by guillotine of this revolutionary leader on July 28, 1794

Robespierre

HISTORIC NAMES | 1200 | After he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony, he founded the colony of Rhode Island

Roger Williams

HISTORICAL NICKNAMES | 800 | ""The Father of Rhode Island""

Roger Williams

HISTORY | 400 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After World War I, this country gained new provinces, doubling its size; after World War II, it lost chunks in the northeast & southeast

Romania

WORRIER PRINCESS | 2000 | Audrey Hepburn as Princess Anne has royal worries that she ditches while going incognito in this city

Rome

WORLD WAR II | 1600 | In 1944 this field marshal & Afrika Korps leader was implicated in a plot to assassinate Hitler

Rommel

HISTORIC OBJECTS | 400 | Though probably cast in bronze earlier, the artifact seen here had this duo added around 1400 A.D.

Romulus & Remus

THE 20th CENTURY | 200 | On Dec. 1, 1955 she stood up for many by refusing to stand up & give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery

Rosa Parks

HISTORIC OBJECTS | 1600 | The stone that unlocked the language of the pharaohs was discovered in 1799 just outside this village

Rosetta

19th CENTURY OPERA | 2000 | Like its heroine, ""The Italian Girl in Algiers"" did some traveling as this composer's first opera staged in France & Germany

Rossini

A POTPOURRI OF HISTORY | 1000 | This European banking dynasty was founded by a man named Mayer Amschel

Rothschild

POLISH HISTORY | 1200 | Poland lost its independence in 1795 when Austria & these 2 rhyming countries partitioned the commonwealth

Russia & Prussia

SPEAKING IN CODE | 200 | It's what is asked for here in Morse code

SOS

PIGGYBACKING | 800 | No longer on the Catholic calendar, this saint is often shown carrying the Christ child on his back

Saint Christopher

THE 17th CENTURY | 400 | Between June & September 1692, 19 people were hanged as witches in this New England town

Salem

THE '60s (19th CENTURY EDITION) | 1000 | Texas joined the Confederacy in 1861 & forced this Unionist governor out of office

Sam Houston

WARM | 400 | The main base of the U.S. Navy's Pacific fleet is at this temperate California city not far from the Mexican border

San Diego

THE CENTURY'S FIRST YEAR | 1600 | According to tradition, it was founded on Sept. 3, 301; it's still a republic on the Italian peninsula

San Marino

18th CENTURY AMERICA | 400 | In 1763 England received Florida from this country in exchange for Havana

Spain

20th CENTURY HISTORY | 400 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife Sophie were assassinated on June 28, 1914 while motoring through this city

Sarajevo

B.C. KING | 200 | Around 1000 B.C. he became the first king of Israel

Saul

LESSER-KNOWN HISTORIC NAMES | 2000 | Jesuit missionary & explorer Isaac Jogues gave the falls that empty into Lake Huron this French name

Sault Ste. Marie

THE CIVIL WAR | 1000 | In December 1864 William T. Sherman wired Lincoln that he was presenting ""a Christmas gift"" of this port city

Savannah

EURO-MONARCHY | 400 | It's Europe's largest monarchy in area & stretches the farthest south

Spain

KING ME | 2000 | Charles III, Philip V & Alfonso XII all ruled this country

Spain

THE 18th CENTURY | 800 | From 1701 to 1714 much of Europe was drawn into the war of this ""succession""

Spanish

WAR OF THE GENERALS | 1200 | Escobar on one side, Queipo de Llano on the other

Spanish Civil War

WAR STORIES | 600 | ""The Rough Rider"" by Gilbert Morris

Spanish-American War

ANCIENT BATTLES | 1200 | 7,000 Thebans at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 B.C. broke the power this Greek city had enjoyed for a generation

Sparta

HISTORY | 1200 | Growing up in this militaristic ancient Greek city-state might include the diamastigosis, or flogging ordeal

Sparta

NOEL, COWARD | 600 | Noel wouldn't open his tool box after seeing one of the movies in this horror series featuring Tobin Bell

Saw

KING ARTHUR | 400 | One of 12 victories ascribed to Arthur is the defeat of an army of these Germanic invaders at the Battle of Badon Hill

Saxons

THE CENTURY'S FIRST YEAR | 400 | In 901 Edward the Elder took the title ""King of the Angles &"" these people

Saxons

WORLD HISTORY | 1600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In the fifth and sixth century, southern Britain was invaded & conquered by Germanic tribes from this historic region, whose name still exists in the names of three German states

Saxony

THE WORKING DEAD | 800 | MetLife ads helped this cartoonist draw in $40 million over a yearlong period

Schulz

HISTORY | 600 | In 1950 & then again in 1951, this capital city fell to invading forces who were evicted each time by U.N. troops

Seoul

SPANISH HISTORY | 2000 | This capital of Andalusia served as capital of the Moors for more than 500 years

Seville

THE 19th CENTURY | 800 | In the 1820s this monarch founded a Zulu empire, one of the largest in Africa

Shaka

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) 62,000 men in parallel corps columns covered up to 15 miles a day on their way to Savannah in this general's march to the sea

Sherman

CIVIL WAR NAMES | 400 | He reached Savannah in time for Christmas 1864 & presented the city to the Pres., along with 150 captured cannons

Sherman

THE CIVIL WAR | 1600 | He said, ""I can make the march"" & show ""the world... that we have a power which Davis cannot resist""

Sherman

AWARDS & HONORS | 1000 | A violin competition for those 30 & under is held every 5 years in Helsinki & named for this composer

Sibelius

ANCIENT HISTORY | 400 | Around 304 B.C. Agathocles, ""The Tyrant of Syracuse"" & king of this island, gained control of southern Italy

Sicily

WORLD HISTORY | 400 | In 1825 this revolutionary controlled an area from the Caribbean to Argentina

Simón BolÃvar

WORLD HISTORY | 800 | In an 1815 letter, he declared that the tie that bound South America ""to Spain has been severed""

Simón BolÃvar

FROM THE BRITISH MONARCHY'S WEBSITE | 400 | Its second verse begins, ""Thy choicest gifts in store on her be pleased to pour, long may she reign""

""God Save The Queen""

20th CENTURY QUOTES | 400 | In November 1973 Richard Nixon made this declaration, saying he'd earned everything he'd got

""I am not a crook""

THE WORLD AT WAR | 1600 | On Oct. 20, 1944 Douglas MacArthur fulfilled this 3-word promise he'd made to the Philippine people in 1942

""I shall return""

HISTORIC MOTTOES & SLOGANS | 400 | While she was First Lady, Nancy Reagan spearheaded an anti-drug campaign with this 3-word motto

""Just say no""

MY NAME IS PRINCE | 200 | During a downpour in Florida in 2007, Prince closed the Super Bowl halftime show with this aptly titled tune

""Purple Rain""

BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERS | 400 | Novel, 1988:This Thomas Harris thriller that made readers bleat

""Silence of the Lambs""

THE 19TH CENTURY | 200 | Chester Arthur's legacy includes starting the tradition of adding these 4 words to the end of the presidential oath

""So help me God""

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 200 | The words to this patriotic song first appeared in print in 1814 under the title ""Defence of Fort McHenry""

""The Star-Spangled Banner""

IRISH HISTORY | 2000 | A 1990s economic upsurge that turned out to be basically a bubble got Ireland the nickname ""Celtic"" this beast

""Tiger""

BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERS | 1200 | 2012, Graphic Novel:These ""Hunts"": ""A Graphic History of the Burning Times""

""Witch""

DISNEY'S 7 DWARFS | 400 | Nasally irritated

Sneezy

WHICH DISNEY DWARF? | 600 | Allergy Sufferer

Sneezy

20th CENTURY AMERICA | 800 | This first Disney animated feature had its world premiere on December 21, 1937

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

BANKING & FINANCE | 1600 | FDIC-insured banks will now protect deposits up to this amount, up from $100,000

$250,000

THE 19th CENTURY | 400 | This ex-vice president's shady dealings forced him to go by the name Adolphus Arnot in 1812

(Aaron) Burr

AWARDS & HONORS | 1000 | Computer science's equivalent to the Nobel Prize is named for this 20th century British mathematician

(Alan) Turing

HISTORICAL TO-DO LISTS | 1600 | Sept. 3, 1928:Discover mold juice... No, penicillin, that's a better name

(Alexander) Fleming

THE LATE 19th CENTURY | 800 | In the 1860s he combined nitroglycerin with a chalky substance called Kieselguhr to make a safe explosive

(Alfred) Nobel

CIVIL WAR PEOPLE | 1600 | After the War, this Union general known for his whiskers was elected Governor of Rhode Island 3 times

(Ambrose) Burnside

WOMEN IN HISTORY | 600 | This teacher stayed with Helen Keller from 1887 until her own death in 1936

(Anne) Sullivan

BRITISH HISTORY | 2000 | He was PM from 1902 to 1905; later, a declaration supporting a Jewish homeland in Palestine was named for him

(Arthur James) Balfour

THE TONY AWARDS | 600 | 2014's ""Beautiful"", about this woman who co-wrote hit songs with hubby Gerry Goffin, won for its star Jessie Mueller

(Carole) King

HISTORICAL QUOTES | 800 | After the fall of France in 1940, this general told his country, ""France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war""

(Charles) de Gaulle

YOU'RE HISTORY! | 2000 | In 2005, 350 years after this Dutch scientist discovered the moon Titan, a space probe named for him landed there

(Christiaan) Huygens

HISTORICAL NOVELS | 2000 | The 1593 murder of this Elizabethan playwright is the focus of George Garrett's ""Entered from the Sun""

(Christopher) Marlowe

I AM HISTORY! | 800 | The only surviving son of a rector, this 17th century man went on to design more than 50 churches in London

(Christopher) Wren

WORLD HISTORY | 800 | In 1840 the London Missionary Society sent this Scot to Africa, where he established a base in Bechuanaland

(David) Livingstone

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

(Little) Round Top

A BRIEF HISTORY OF MIME | 400 | This Frenchman defined mime as ""expressing feelings by attitudes"", not ""expressing words through gestures""

(Marcel) Marceau

PO PRESENTS UNCONVENTIONAL WARRIORS | 600 | (Po delivers the clue.) In the American Revolution, I would have been grateful to this woman for bringing water in the heat of battle... though Molly Bowl of Noodles & Molly Dessert woutd have been nice to see, too

(Molly) Pitcher

CHICAGO HISTORY | 1000 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) In 1924, in the crime of the century, Chicago teen Bobby Franks was brutally murdered; these glasses found near the body were traced back to this man, who soon confessed, as did accomplice Richard Loeb

(Nathan) Leopold

HISTORY: HIRED & FIRED | 1600 | You believed Hitler when he said he'd take no more of Czechoslovakia after 1938? No, prime minister. You're fired!

(Neville) Chamberlain

FRENCH HISTORY | 1200 | In the 2012 election for president, Francois Hollande defeated this incumbent

(Nicolas) Sarkozy

THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS | 1200 | After 9 years, the wars ended with victory at Worcester by this future Lord Protector

(Oliver) Cromwell

HISTORICAL QUOTES | 1000 | In 1888 this Chancellor told the Reichstag, ""we Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world""

(Otto von) Bismarck

REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I | 2000 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) The tunic & cap belonged to this Prussian aristocrat who led Germany's wartime military dictatorship, gave his name to an ill-fated aircraft & appointed Adolf Hitler as Germany's chancellor

(Paul von) Hindenburg

THE PATRIOT ACT | 400 | The HBO miniseries starring him as ""John Adams"" won 13 Emmys & 4 Golden Globes

(Paul) Giamatti

AWARDS & HONORS | 600 | This Brit shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for proposing the boson that bears his name

(Peter) Higgs

THE QUEENS ENGLISH | 1600 | The Vander Ende-Onderdonk house is on a land grant from this Dutch Colonial governor

(Peter) Stuyvesant

THE CIVIL WAR | 1600 | On Oct. 19, 1864 this Union general known as ""Little Phil"" made his ride to stop Jubal Early at Cedar Creek

(Philip) Sheridan

WORRIER PRINCESS | 1200 | She asks, ""Is it safe?"" before getting on the magic carpet, but seems to chill when ""A Whole New World"" starts

(Princess) Jasmine

HISTORICAL NICKNAMES | 1000 | ""The Knight of the Cloak""

(Walter) Raleigh

HISTORICAL NOVELS | 1600 | Steven Pressfield's ""Gates of Fire"" is an epic novel about this battle lost by the Spartans in 480 B.C.

(the Battle of) Thermopylae

ANCIENT HISTORY | 1200 | The last prophecy of this Greek Oracle was a prediction that it would be the last one

(the Oracle of) Delphi

BRITISH HISTORY | 400 | Mistaking cheering for a riot, William the Conqueror's guards burned local houses after his coronation on Xmas of this year

1066

MONARCHS OF ENGLAND | 200 | Harold II had been king less than 10 months when he was defeated by William the Conqueror in this year

1066

THE CINEMA OF STEVE McQUEEN | 800 | The second Steve McQueen directed Chiwetel Ejiofor in this harrowing 2013 film set in the old south

12 Years a Slave

HISTORIC OBJECTS | 800 | The ceremonial mace kept in the House of Reps. is a copy of the one destroyed when the Brits invaded D.C. in this year

1814

HISTORY | 200 | After a 34-hour siege in April of this year, confederate forces captured Fort Sumter

1861

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 400 | On ""Juneteenth"", June 19 of this year, the remaining slaves in the U.S. learned that the North had won the Civil War

1865

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

1910

THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS | 400 | Dec. 25, this year:5 months into WWI, German & British troops emerge from their trenches for a game of soccer

1914

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

1938

WORLD WAR II | 1200 | Germany launched its ill-fated invasion of the Soviet Union in June of this year

1941

QUICK HISTORY | 200 | The scene here took place during this year

1945

THE VIETNAM WAR | 1000 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Vietnam)The climactic moment of the war came when, after more than 20 years of fighting, North Vietnamese tanks burst through the gates of Saigon's Presidential Palace on April 30th of this year.

1975

GREEK HISTORY | 1200 | Many thought Greece would get the Olympics again in this centennial year of the games, but it happened 8 years later

1996

THE STORY OF THE 21st CENTURY | 800 | (I'm New York Times reporter Andrea Elliott.) I did extensive reporting on the scandal that broke in 2004 over the treatment of Iraqi prisoners at this prison near Baghdad

Abu Ghraib

CIVIL WAR PEOPLE | 2000 | A former slave, she was appointed to the National Freedman's Relief Association in 1864; in your face, Tubman!

Sojourner Truth

HISTORIC OBJECTS | 1200 | A gold mask discovered in 1876 by Heinrich Schliemann is known by the name of this ancient Greek king

Agamemnon

STATE OF THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE | 200 | The Battle of Mobile Bay

Alabama

HISTORICAL NICKNAMES | 200 | ""The Madman of Macedonia""

Alexander the Great

WORLD HISTORY | 1600 | The O.A.S. was a secret French force that sought to prevent this African country from gaining independence

Algeria

19th CENTURY FRANCE | 1600 | In June 1830 French troops seized this North African capital from the Ottomans & Berbers

Algiers

HISTORIC NAMES | 2000 | This Athenian who introduced a more humane law code was considered one of the ""7 Wise Men of Greece""

Solon

20th CENTURY AMERICA | 600 | In August 1992 the U.S. military began relief efforts in this African nation but soon got involved in interclan fighting

Somalia

HISTORIC AGREEMENT WORDS | 800 | The USA bonded with Latin America through 1961's AFP, this for Progress

Alliance

THE TONY AWARDS | 2000 | This daughter of Christopher Plummer & Tammy Grimes is the only Tony winner whose parents both won Tonys

Amanda Plummer

HISTORY REPEATS | 200 | 5 years to the day after Lindbergh's historic transatlantic flight, she became the first woman to complete the feat

Amelia Earhart

THE 16th CENTURY | 1600 | A map printed in France in 1507 was the first with this 7-letter eponym

America

WAR STORIES | 200 | ""Redcoat"" by Bernard Cornwell

American Revolution

ANCIENT HISTORY | 800 | Meaning ""hidden"", this god's name is found in the name of a young pharaoh who restored worship of him

Amun

HISTORIC NICKNAMES | 400 | U.S. president:""The Duel Fighter""

Andrew Jackson

NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 800 | The Greeneville, Tennessee site honoring this president preseves 2 homes & his tailor shop

Andrew Johnson

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S DIAMOND JUBILEE | 600 | An official song for the jubilee was co-written by this musical theatre mogul who was knighted in 1992

Andrew Lloyd Webber

HISTORY | 800 | She was the mother of England's Queen Elizabeth I

Anne Boleyn

KINGS & QUEENS | 800 | In the spring of 1533, she was crowned queen in London; in the spring of 1536 she was executed

Anne Boleyn

BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERS | 800 | 2003, Lifetime Achievement:This woman who taught us a lot about vampires

Anne Rice

QUEEN OF | 2000 | AKA Akasha, the Queen of the Damned was a title character from this author

Anne Rice

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

Antietam

QEII IS THEIR QUEEN TOO | 1600 | In 1632 the British colonized this island; it took them until 1678 to get around to Barbuda

Antigua

HISTORIC HANDSHAKES | 1000 | During a thaw in the Cold War, Alexey Leonov & Thomas Stafford shook hands after these two spacecraft docked in July 1975

Apollo & Soyuz

NOEL, COWARD | 200 | In 1997 Noel sold this company's stock for $3.28 a share; iKnow Noel regrets it went for over $700 in 2012

Apple

THE CIVIL WAR YEARS | 1000 | This county with a famous Court House hosted the main event of April 9, 1865 & is reenacting it in April 2015

Appomattox

HISTORY AS THEATER | 1200 | Sara Jane Moore & John Hinckley show up & sing in this Sondheim musical

Assassins

LITERARY AWARDS | 600 | A Swedish award for adolescent & children's literature is named for this ""Pippi Longstocking"" author

Astrid Lindgren

WORLD HISTORY | 400 | In 478 B.C. this city-state led the Delian League to remove the Persians from Greece

Athens

NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 400 | You'll find the Martin Luther King Jr. national historic site in this state capital

Atlanta

WARM | 200 | It gets a touch warm at Turner Field in this city in July, when the average temperature is 89 degrees

Atlanta

HISTORIC DOCUMENTS | 1000 | Watery charter of mutual support & postwar cooperation jointly declared by Churchill & Roosevelt in 1941

Atlantic Charter

WORKING WITH PLATO | 1200 | Plato's unfinished ""Critias"" was to detail the ancient war between Athens & this fabled island

Atlantis

FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES | 1000 | You got the Eastern Roman Empire to pay a ton of gold per year! Will you speak to our ""Scourge of God"" fan club?

Attila the Hun

PEOPLE IN HISTORY | 1200 | For this notorious Hun, the honeymoon was over before it began; he died in 453 A.D. on his wedding night

Attila the Hun

HISTORICAL TITLES | 2000 | In the cabinet, Alphonso Taft,1876-1877

Attorney-General

UNFORTUNATE HISTORY | 1600 | In 2003 this traditional French vacation month was marred by a heat wave that killed nearly 15,000

August

HISTORICAL TIME UNITS | 1200 | The Seven Weeks' War of 1866 is why this 90% German-speaking country isn't part of Germany

Austria

SCHWARZENEGGER | 200 | In 2011 a museum dedicated to Arnold's life opened in Thal, his childhood home in this country

Austria

THE 17th CENTURY | 1600 | Under the Treaty of Karlowitz of 1699, most of Hungary was ceded to this country by the Ottoman Empire

Austria

KING ARTHUR | 1600 | After his final battle, the wounded Arthur is carried off to this magical isle

Avalon

BOX OFFICE CHAMPS OF THE DECADE | 600 | The 2000s:starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana

Avatar

A STUDENT OF HISTORY | 2000 | Paul Ryan was greatly influenced by this female novelist who studied history in Russia

Ayn Rand

COMPUTER HISTORY | 1000 | The name of this early programming language is an acronym starting ""Beginner's All-purpose""

BASIC

THE 16th CENTURY | 400 | Early in the century, Giovanni Bellini painted ""The Infant"" this Roman god holding a wine pitcher

Bacchus

THE 18th CENTURY | 400 | Heard here is a piece from this German composer's ""English Suites"" composed around 1715

Bach

17th CENTURY THINKERS | 400 | Last name of Sir Francis, who crisply published ""The Advancement of Learning"" in 1605

Bacon

WAR STORIES | 400 | ""Imperial Life in the Emerald City"" is Rajiv Chandrasekaran's look at life in this war-torn city's Green Zone

Baghdad

NON-BRITISH ROYALS | 1200 | For more than a year, King Hamad of this Persian Gulf island country has been confronted by protests for greater democracy

Bahrain

WARM | 800 | The ""Love"" part of the memoir ""Eat, Pray, Love"" is set on this balmy Indonesian island

Bali

HISTORY SINCE 1950 | 600 | More than 1,000 rebels captured during this 1961 invasion of Cuba were later freed in exchange for food & medicine

Bay of Pigs

BATTLE NATIONS | 1200 | Go to this country to meet your 1815 battle site Waterloo

Belgium

19th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE | 1000 | ""'Jarndyce of'"" this residence, ""said Mr. Kenge. 'A dreary name', said the Lord Chancellor""

Bleak House

THE VIETNAM WAR ERA | 800 | In 1964 this comedian performed the first of his 9 USO Christmas shows for American troops in 'Nam

Bob Hope

WAR! | 1600 | 1932-35: the Chaco War, between Paraguay & this northern neighbor

Bolivia

WORLD HISTORY | 400 | After he was given the title of Liberator, he established the military Order of the Liberators of Venezuela

BolÃvar

WORLD HISTORY | 400 | The August 1819 Battle of Boyaca in Colombia convinced the bulk of the Spanish royalist army to surrender to him

BolÃvar

LITERARY AWARDS | 800 | The Man Group administers this prize now open to any novel written in English, not just by Brits

Booker Prize

KINGS OF ENGLAND NOT BORN IN ENGLAND | 1600 | Uncork a bottle of claret for King Richard II, born in this French wine region in 1367

Bordeaux

HISTORY | 400 | If an 1860s New Yorker was told, ""The boss wants to see you"", it might be this ""Boss"" in his mansion at 5th Ave. & 43rd St.

Boss Tweed

BATTLE HIM | 1600 | In 2012 the remains of Richard III were found in Leicester not far from this August 1485 battlefield

Bosworth

HISTORY, OLD & NEW | 800 | In effect the last battle of the Wars of the Roses was on this field on August 22, 1485

Bosworth

HISTORICAL BLINDNESS | 400 | Published in 1829, this reading system for the blind was based on a dot code for sending messages to soldiers at night

Braille

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 1200 | During an 1840-41 trip to England, he persuaded many to move to Nauvoo, Illinois

Brigham Young

THE 20th CENTURY | 800 | Under these 1978 peace accords, Israel agreed to return the Sinai to Egypt

Camp David

THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY | 1000 | Before her death in 1962, Eleanor made a final visit to the old family summer home on this Canadian island

Campobello

QEII IS THEIR QUEEN TOO | 400 | In area, it's the largest country with Elizabeth II as its queen, & she's been there over 20 times

Canada

HISTORY REPEATS | 1000 | Like Anne Boleyn, this fifth wife of Henry VIII was also accused of adultery & beheaded

Catherine Howard

HISTORIC NAMES | 400 | In 1762 she had herself proclaimed Empress of Russia

Catherine the Great

HISTORIC WOMEN | 1200 | In 1764 this czarina determined the borders of Poland & installed one of her lovers as king

Catherine the Great

HISTORICAL ROMANCES | 800 | This Empress was wild about the obese, vain & one-eyed Grigory Potemkin

Catherine the Great

THAT'S TOTALLY HISTORICAL! | 200 | Before she was Russian empress, she wanted serfs freed; after, not so much, enslaving previously free Ukrainians, too

Catherine the Great

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING | 800 | James II was converted to this faith before he became king; as a result, he was converted into an ex-king

Catholicism

WORST PICTURE OF THE YEAR RAZZIE AWARDS | 800 | This Halle Berry film clawed its way to the top--er, bottom for 2004

Catwoman

18th CENTURY SCIENTISTS | 1200 | This Swedish inventor of a temperature scale helped confirm that the Earth is a spheroid flat at the poles

Celsius

THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG | 400 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a diagram of the Battle of Gettysburg.) Confederate forces seized the high ground of Seminary Ridge. Union troops retreated to face them along this ridge with a similar sounding, perhaps more appropriate name.

Cemetery Ridge

ANCIENT HISTORY: 1986 | 1000 | In January NASA's Stephen Nesbitt sadly reported ""a major malfunction"" with this Space Shuttle

Challenger

HISTORY REPEATS | 800 | Tragically, 17 years after Challenger, this Space Shuttle broke apart during reentry

Columbia

BEASTLY BACKING BANDS | 1200 | Neil Young &this ""loco"" group

Crazy Horse

PICK YOUR BATTLE | 600 | The arrows flew: Dien Bien Phu,Crécy,Balaklava

Crécy

I KINGS | 1600 | In the 490s B.C. this Persian king tried to invade Greece twice, losing the second time at the battle of Marathon

Darius

AUSTRALIAN HISTORY | 2000 | In February 1942 a Japanese air attack caused severe damage to this capital of the Northern Territory

Darwin

WAR NOVELS | 2000 | This novel by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim tells the harrowing tale of a captain & his crew aboard a WWII German sub

Das Boot

WHEN I'M KING... | 800 | Israel, from around 1000 to 960 B.C.

David

BRITISH HISTORY | 200 | In May 2015 this prime minister & his Conservative Party defied the polls & won a clear majority in Parliament

David Cameron

HISTORY | 400 | Built in 1354, Firuzabad was the fifth version of this city in India; it still didn't serve pastrami

Delhi

19th CENTURY FRANCE | 1200 | In 1894 he was convicted of selling military secrets to the Germans but was exonerated 12 years later

Dreyfus

HISTORIC NAMES | 400 | An 1890s ""affair"" was named for this Jewish officer in the French Army, accused of selling secrets

Dreyfus

A BRIEF HISTORY OF MIME | 2000 | With hundreds of performers in an evening, Victorian pantomime peaked at the theater named for this lane

Drury Lane

FORTUNE 500 THROUGH THE DECADES | 400 | 1984 was a bad year for Union Carbide but good for this other chemical company, No. 7

DuPont

THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND | 400 | ...named this was killed in 1094 at the instigation of his uncle Donald Bane, not murdered by Macbeth

Duncan

LITERARY AWARDS | 1200 | The first novel to win the Nebula Award was this one set on Arrakis

Dune

BOX OFFICE CHAMPS OF THE DECADE | 1000 | The 1980s:starring Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore

E.T.

20th CENTURY NAMES | 400 | On Aug. 2, 1939 this scientist wrote to the U.S. president to recommend that atom bombs be made, to his later regret

Einstein

HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART II | 1200 | In the 16th century Sir Walter Raleigh sailed up the Orinoco in search of this lost city of gold

El Dorado

17th CENTURY AMERICA | 800 | The first European settlement in Texas, Ysleta was founded on the site of this present-day city on the Rio Grande

El Paso

D.C. HISTORY | 1200 | Recently, D.C.'s Latino population has grown with a very large number from this smallest Central American nation by area

El Salvador

RECENT HISTORY | 800 | In July 2013 this general ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi & pledged new elections

El-Sisi

MICHIGAN HISTORY | 400 | December 10, 1915 marked a milestone with the production of the one millionth car from this company

Ford

NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 2000 | With the Oregon Trail & the Pony Express passing through the post, this Wyoming fort was the center of a nation moving west

Fort Laramie

THE WAR OF 1812 | 1200 | In September 1814 major George Armistead resisted an attack by the British navy on this fort

Fort McHenry

LESSER-KNOWN HISTORIC NAMES | 400 | On April 13, 1861 Major Robert Anderson surrendered this fort to the Confederates

Fort Sumter

THE CIVIL WAR | 200 | Not a single person was killed in the April 1861 battle over this fort, but it did launch the Civil War

Fort Sumter

THE CIVIL WAR | 800 | The American flag was lowered in surrender at this fort on April 14, 1861

Fort Sumter

WAR! | 400 | 1870-71: a coalition of German states vs. this country

France

18th CENTURY AMERICA | 2000 | Built as a NYC home early in the century, it later became a tavern where Washington said farewell to his officers

Fraunces Tavern

SPEAKING OF TONGUES | 600 | This Kiss bass player once published a men's lifestyle magazine called Tongue

Gene Simmons

WORLD WAR I | 2000 | In early 1918 this French general was named Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces on the Western Front

General Foch

THE CIVIL WAR | 1200 | On Nov. 1, 1861 this hero of the Mexican War resigned as general-in-chief of the Union armies

General Winfield Scott

THE CIVIL WAR | 400 | ""Goober grabbers"" were Civil War soldiers who hailed from this state

Georgia

DISNEY'S 7 DWARFS | 800 | Cantankerously sullen

Grumpy

HISTORIC NAMES | 800 | One of the early items printed by him in his shop in Mainz, Germany was a calendar for the year 1448

Gutenberg

PO PRESENTS UNCONVENTIONAL WARRIORS | 400 | (Po delivers the clue.) This Danish master wrote a tale about a brave one-legged tin soldier & his love for a tiny toy dancer; he ended up being melted by the fire into the shape of a heart--sorry, that one always kinda gets me

Hans Christian Andersen

DISNEY'S 7 DWARFS | 1000 | Jovially exultant

Happy

HISTORICAL TO-DO LISTS | 2000 | June 22, 1611:Make sure mutineers don't set me & my son adrift in the bay named for me; uh-oh

Henry Hudson

19th CENTURY LITERARY MARRIAGES | 1200 | In this author's ""The Portrait of a Lady"", Isabel has her pick of men & marries Gilbert; things go...poorly

Henry James

COME AT THE KING | 2000 | In 1485 he wasn't horsing around when his forces killed Richard III; for him, it was really good to be king

Henry VII

A BRIEF TIME OF HISTORY | 400 | Catherine Howard was married to this man from 1540 to 1542

Henry VIII

BRITISH KINGS NAMED EDWARD | 1200 | This king's only surviving son, King Edward VI, died at age 15 in 1553

Henry VIII

HISTORICAL TO-DO LISTS | 400 | July 12, 1543:Get married today. 6th time is the charm!

Henry VIII

PORTRAITS IN HISTORY | 200 | One thing you'd never hear from him--""I'm not the marrying kind""

Henry VIII

THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND | 1200 | ...to die in battle was killed at the 1513 Battle of Flodden Field by the forces of this English king

Henry VIII

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 1000 | In 1854 this poet began writing ""The Song of Hiawatha""

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

B.C. KING | 400 | At the time Jesus was born, this man, the Great, was king of Judea

Herod

WAR! | 2000 | 1969:the Soccer War between El Salvador & this northern neighbor

Honduras

POWER AWARDS | 200 | (I'm Lara Logan of CBS News.) I earned an Edward R. Murrow Award for ""Ramadi: On the Front Line""; a report on troops under fire in this country

Iraq

WAR! | 1200 | 1904-05:Russia vs. this country

Japan

16th CENTURY WRITING | 400 | British scholar Roger Ascham's ""Schoolmaster"" shows how to teach writing in this language

Latin

THE EARLY 20th CENTURY | 600 | He was born in Wales, but this part-time archaeologist & military strategist gained fame far away

Lawrence of Arabia

FRENCH HISTORY | 1000 | In November 2016 a show by Sting reopened this Paris concert hall 1 year after a terrorist attack

Le Bataclan

BATTLES | 1000 | World War II's largest naval engagement was the 1944 battle of this Philippine gulf

Leyte

15th CENTURY NOTABLES | 1600 | This ""Magnificent"" Medici ruled Florence from 1469 to 1492 without any official title

Lorenzo

20th CENTURY NAMES | 1200 | In 1995 this Nation of Islam leader organized & led the Million Man March in Washington, D.C.

Louis Farrakhan

LOOKING GOOD! | 400 | Who made that $2,665 limited-edition fuchsia quilted denim Linda bag? Oh, I see the ""LV""-- it's this brand

Louis Vitton

KING LOUIS | 400 | During his 72-year reign as king of France, he earned many nicknames, including ""Dieudonné"", or ""God-given""

Louis XIV

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING | 400 | The sun nearly went out when this child king of France was left unsupervised & almost drowned

Louis XIV

OUR HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS | 400 | The 1803 treaty for this deal stated that France would give up all military posts in New Orleans

Louisiana Purchase

AWARDS & HONORS | 1600 | The media coined the name ""Genius Grant"" for the fellowships from this foundation named for John D. & Catherine T.

MacArthur

BACKING BANDS | 600 | Florence + the ____

Machine

BATTLE HIM | 800 | In 1794 this ""Mad"" Pennsylvania general won the Battle of Fallen Timbers

Mad Anthony Wayne

WARNER BROS | 1200 | In ""The People v. O.J. Simpson"", this former ""Cosby Show"" actor got behind the wheel as Al Cowlings

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

19th CENTURY OPERA | 1200 | In an 1893 opera, Lescaut seems to have no first name, but this sister of his does

Manon

MRS. WARREN'S PROFESION | 400 | In 2012 Elizabeth Warren was elected a senator from this state

Massachusetts

NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 2000 | Celebrating over 200 years of firearms making, the Springfield Armory National Historic Site is found in this state

Massachusetts

THE 19th CENTURY | 2000 | Active during the Civil War, he spoke of an ""obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers""

Mathew Brady

WORLD WAR I | 1200 | The Zimmerman Note encouraged this nation to ally with Germany, which promised to let it annex lost land in the U.S.

Mexico

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 1200 | In 1847 Marines stormed & secured Chapultepec Castle in this world capital

Mexico City

OHIO HISTORY | 800 | Little Turtle fought off U.S. troops as a chief of this Ohio (not Florida) tribe

Miami

AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS | 400 | He was the recipient in 2009; his dad Kirk was honored in 1991

Michael Douglas

BEAUTY QUEENS | 1600 | This movie star who appeared in 2012's ""Dark Shadows"" was a sun bunny who became Miss Orange County

Michelle Pfeiffer

19th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS | 400 | What a name! Epaphroditus Ransom quit this Wolverine State's supreme court in 1848 after getting the guv gig

Michigan

HISTORICAL NOVELS | 800 | Lew Wallace's ""The Fair God"" centers on this Aztec ruler's efforts to resist Cortes in early 16th century Mexico

Montezuma

WORLD WAR II | 1600 | Under Ike's supervision, this British field marshal commanded all Allied ground forces on D-Day

Montgomery

ALABAMA HISTORY | 200 | Rosa Parks changed history in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in this city

Montgomery (Alabama)

UNFORTUNATE HISTORY | 2000 | This Caribbean island was all but obliterated in 1997 when the Soufriere Hills volcano woke up

Montserrat

THE WAR OF ...12 | 2000 | In 1212 victory at Las Navas de Tolosa ended Alfonso VIII's 40 years of warfare against them

Moors

IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT | 1000 | King Arthur & this nephew of his kill each other in battle

Mordred

HISTORY | 2000 | In 1962 FRELIMO, the front for the liberation of this African country, began its war for independence

Mozambique

CHICAGO HISTORY | 200 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) The museum houses many relics that survived the Great Fire of 1871, including a cowbell that was allegedly worn by this woman's cow, who was once blamed for kicking over a lantern & starting the fire

Mrs. O\'Leary

SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE | 2000 | One of its characters really is a hero:""GOD BOA HATH CONTINUUM""

Much Ado About Nothing

MAKING A BEE LINE | 800 | He once said, ""Float like a butterfly & sting like a bee, George can't hit what his hands can't see""

Muhammad Ali

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

Mulan

HISTORICAL QUOTATIONS | 1600 | ""The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for its force to be renewed"", wrote this man in a 1920 editorial

Mussolini

KING ME | 800 | In 1922 King Victor Emmanuel III refused to proclaim martial law to stop this man's march on Rome

Mussolini

WORLD WAR II | 400 | After German paratroopers rescued him in 1943, he set up the Salo Republic, another fascist regime

Mussolini

AUSTRALIAN HISTORY | 1600 | In 1859 Queensland split from this state to the south

New South Wales

20th CENTURY AMERICA | 200 | The first televised presidential debate took place in 1960 between these 2 men

Nixon & Kennedy

TENNESSEE HISTORY | 1200 | In 1945 this atomic research city had a population of 75,000 but it wasn't open to walk-in visitors until 1949

Oak Ridge

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 1200 | On March 1, 1803 it became the 17th state & the first created from the Northwest Territory

Ohio

THE DAVY O'BRIEN QUARTERBACK AWARD | 1000 | 2006:Troy Smith, perfect against arch-rival Michigan

Ohio State

IT'S GETTING WARM | 800 | During an eruption, the water at the opening of this ""loyal"" Wyoming geyser is about 204 degrees

Old Faithful

THE TONY AWARDS | 1000 | Mark Rylance was a double nominee in 2014: as Richard III (he lost) & as this countess in ""Twelfth Night"" (he won)

Olivia

MOUNTAIN BIKING | 2000 | Named the USA's top trail, the 26-mile McKenzie River Trail not far from Bend in this state has many a bend itself

Oregon

THE DAVY O'BRIEN QUARTERBACK AWARD | 400 | 2014:The Duck Marcus Mariota

Oregon

THE AL FRANKEN DECADE | 400 | On May 22, 1980 Namco began gobbling up the competition by releasing this video game

Pac-Man

HISTORY | 400 | In the 8th century B.C., Phoenician traders founded this future capital of Sicily

Palermo

HISTORICAL ONLINE CHECK-INS | 1200 | December 1913: I'm in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, 'cause I'm governor now! Viva la revolucion!

Pancho Villa

THE PATRIOT ACT | 200 | Yo, Lexington! Sylvester Stallone voiced this man in ""Midnight Ride"", an episode of the animated series ""Liberty's Kids""

Paul Revere

NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 800 | A national historic site since 1964, the Allegheny Portage Railroad linked this state's canal system with the West

Pennsylvania

WARSAW PACT ALUMNI NATIONS | 400 | This member nation hosted the 1955 meeting that produced the agreement

Poland

16th CENTURY AMERICA | 800 | In 1513 he led an expedition from Puerto Rico & found what he thought was an island, which he named ""La Florida""

Ponce de Léon

HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES | 600 | In the 1977 movie ""Smokey & the Bandit"", Burt Reynolds drove a classic Trans Am from this brand

Pontiac

WARNER BROS | 400 | Glenn Warner, Cornell's 1894 football team captain, go this nickname because he was older than most students

Pop Warner

THE STORY OF THE 21st CENTURY | 400 | He resigned in 2013, saying ""due to an advanced age"", he was no longer suited to lead the Petrine ministry

Pope Benedict XVI

OSCAR-NOMINATED WARNER BROS. CARTOONS | 800 | ""Swooner Crooner"", starring th-th-this character as th-the supervisor of an egg factory

Porky Pig

20th CENTURY HISTORY | 2000 | Clement Attlee succeeded Churchill in the middle of the 1945 conference of allied leaders held in this German city

Potsdam

20th CENTURY PEOPLE | 200 | Before becoming royalty, she was a kindergarten teacher at the Young England School in Pimlico

Princess Diana

FRENCH HISTORY | 800 | After an 1870-71 war with this leading German kingdom, France lost parts of Alsace & Lorraine

Prussia

KING ME | 1600 | An attack by Frederick the Great, king of this Germanic nation, led to the war of the Austrian succession

Prussia

HISTORY 101 | 2000 | Berenice III, who became queen of Egypt in 101 B.C., was the daughter of the IX pharaoh of this name

Ptolemy

THE KOREAN WAR | 1600 | Many jet dogfights took place in ""MiG Alley"" between the Yalu River & this North Korean capital

Pyongyang

THE KOREAN WAR | 800 | ""War's End Near"" said a jubilant U.S. headline on the capture of this metropolis October 19, 1950

Pyongyang

COME AT THE KING | 400 | This king who lends his name to a costly type of victory was killed in a 272 B.C. battle to capture Argos

Pyrrhus

HISTORY | 1000 | Name of the king who after beating Rome at Asculum but taking heavy casualties, said one more such win would undo him

Pyrrhus

WORKING WITH PLATO | 800 | The followers of this philosopher & mathematician are the foils in ""Phaedo""; they don't take the right angle

Pythagoras

THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR | 800 | The British won the 1759 battle for this Canadian city & protected it from recapture 7 months later

Quebec

THE QUEEN'S EXPIRATION DATE | 1000 | March 20, 2004in Baarn, the Netherlands

Queen Juliana

HISTORIC WOMEN | 2000 | This monarch championed Hawaii's Oni Pa'a, or ""Stand Firm"", movement against U.S. annexation

Queen Lili\'uokalani

A SWEDISH KING NAMED GUS | 400 | Carl XVI Gustaf, current king of Sweden, is the great-great-grandson of this British monarch

Queen Victoria

HISTORICAL NOVELS | 2000 | Houdini & Henry Ford are among the figures who appear in this E.L. Doctorow tale of the early 1900s

Ragtime

THE ROYAL THEY | 800 | 1956 to 1982:he & Grace

Rainier

WARS | 400 | In 1973 the fourth Arab-Israeli War, sometimes called the Yom Kippur War, occurred during this Islamic month

Ramadan

A POTPOURRI OF HISTORY | 600 | A great builder, this pharaoh of Egypt's 19th dynasty sealed peace by marrying a Hittite princess

Ramses (the Great)

EX-PATRIOTS | 800 | He hauled in 47 receiving touchdowns for the Pats from 2007 to 2009

Randy Moss

THE IMAGE AWARDS | 1000 | This singer was such a ""genius"", he won the Hall of Fame Award twice, in 1983 & 2004

Ray Charles

GLASS & GLASSMAKING | 1600 | This French city sounds like a lot of paper, but its cathedral has some of the loveliest medieval stained glass

Reims

17th CENTURY PEOPLE | 400 | Painting Dr. Tulp, which means ""Dr. Tulip"", was one of this artist's first big jobs in Amsterdam

Rembrandt

THE 16th CENTURY | 1200 | Called ""the Magnificent"" in the West & ""the Lawgiver"" in the East, he was Ottoman sultan from 1520 to 1566

Suleiman

I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD | 1000 | Africa's last absolute monarch, King Mswati III of this country has 15 wives but only 13 royal palaces

Swaziland

AUSTRALIAN HISTORY | 800 | In 1803 the British established the first settlement on this Australian island at Risdon Cove on the Derwent River

Tasmania

BEST DRAMA SERIES EMMY AWARDS | 1000 | 1973: This series about a large family during the Depression

The Waltons

THE ROYAL THEY | 1600 | 1677 to 1694:they

William and Mary

NAME THAT WAR | 400 | The 3 Battles of Ypres

World War I

THE VIETNAM WAR | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Hanoi, Vietnam)Reminders of the warare everywhere in Vietnam. A small lake in a quiet Hanoi neighborhood still holds wreckage of one of these giant U.S. bombers that attacked the city in December 1972.

a B-52

MOUNTAIN BIKING | 400 | To ""bring home"" this yuletide item is to ride through plant life so dense you carry off some of it with you

a Christmas tree

SERIOUS HARDWARE | 400 | You can use this type of adjustable wrench, seen here, under the light of the moon

a Crescent wrench

STEPHEN KING | 1000 | Arnie Cunningham owns the jealous & deadly Christine, a Plymouth of this appropriate model

a Fury

THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY | 600 | On accepting the 1932 nomination for president, FDR said, ""I pledge you, I pledge myself to a"" this ""for the American people""

a New Deal

HONORS & AWARDS | 1200 | A social media account called Goats of Anarchy was a 2016 winner of one of these, honoring Internet excellence

a Webby

THE KING'S ENGLISH | 400 | Jacket potato isn't the latest British boy band sensation, it's this item in a British restaurant

a baked potato

THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG | 200 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a diagram of the Battle of Gettysburg.) The battle began when Confederate troops, searching for shoes, ran into Union cavalry.The Union forces were then pushed back into a defensive formation that became known as this, after the anglers' device it resembled.

a fishhook

LOOKING FOR ALASKA | 800 | E.H. Harriman went on an expedition that discovered a new glacier & a new one of these Norwegian-style inlets

a fjord

THINKING | 400 | Lao-Tzu wrote that ""The journey of a thousand li commenced with a single"" one of these

a footstep (or a step)

BREAKING BAD | 400 | The small bone break called a stress fracture is aka this type of ""fracture"" that's not ""receding""

a hairline fracture

WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED | 400 | This porcupine-like mammal doesn't turn into a ball to roll quickly & gain video game points, but it does eat snakes & birds

a hedgehog

THE KOREAN WAR | 800 | The Korean War was the first time that this type of aircraft was used to carry troops into combat

a helicopter

WARDROBE | 2000 | This collarless pullover shirt with a few buttons at the top was copied from English rowers

a henley

IT'S GETTING WARM | 400 | Temperatures in a traditional home this, which often uses dry rather than steam heat, range from 150 to 190

a home sauna

RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? | 400 | Darling Beatrice! The picture you sent of yourself in this 4-letter skirt! Be still my heart, you wild vixen!

a hoop skirt

HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES | 200 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) Long before global warming changed the focus of auto makers, the 1916 Owen Magnetic used both gas & electric power as one of the first of these combined-fuel vehicles

a hybrid

LOOKING FOR ALASKA | 1200 | The first people came to Alaska some 15,000 years ago across what's called a ""land"" this

a land bridge

THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH | 600 | I can't hear you! You need a loud-hailer, one of these handy amplifiers

a megaphone

WAR OF THE WORDS | 1600 | 3 E's are the only vowels you need to spell this French word for a fight

a melee

SERIOUS HARDWARE | 800 | No need to be on the firing range to use this gun, heard in action here

a nail gun

ANCIENT HISTORY | 800 | In the 1200s B.C., warring Egyptians & Hittites produced the document seen here, said to be the first of these in history

a peace treaty

MAKING SOME COIN | 200 | In 2012 a 1792 copper one of these minted in Philadelphia sold for $1.15 million at auction

a penny

POLISH HISTORY | 1600 | Ignace Jan Paderewski, used to flattery in this profession, failed as PM in 1919 & lived in exile his last 22 years

a pianist (or a musician)

THE 8th CENTURY | 400 | In 752 Stephen was elected this but died days later without being consecrated, so he's not listed as an official one

a pope

18th CENTURY PEOPLE | 400 | Dennis O'Kelly owned Eclipse, one of these, & won a bet that Eclipse would beat the field by 240 yards

a racehorse

MY NAME IS PRINCE | 400 | Of this title object, Prince sang, ""and if it was warm, she wouldn't wear much more""

a raspberry beret

ANCIENT HISTORY | 1600 | Mayan hieroglyphics often used this type of symbolic puzzle in which drawn objects represented words

a rebus

CHECKING OUT ALL THE ANGLES | 1000 | It's the reactionary name for this type of angle

a reflex

TAKING IN THE SUN | 2000 | The Sun formed from a giant, rotating cloud of gas & dust known as a solar this

a solar nebula

THE VIETNAM WAR | 1000 | The first two names inscribed on the Memorial were not combat soldiers but military these, helping the South Vietnamese

advisers

EVERYTHING'S BACKWARDS | 800 | Fitzgerald's ""Curious Case of Benjamin Button"" is about a man who does this backwards

ages

THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH | 1000 | The queen wants you to add an ""I"" (& a syllable) to the name of this metal, atomic number 13

aluminum (or aluminium)

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE TITLES | 400 | It's the highest rank of a nation's diplomatic official sent to live abroad as a representative

ambassador

BANKING | 400 | The Americans with Disabilities Act says these must have Braille, even the drive-up ones

an ATM

SPEAKING ITALIAN | 1200 | The bancomat is this 3-letter acronym to us

an ATM

PIGGYBACKING | 1000 | In the piggyback type of this hospital setup, a secondary line adds intermittent doses of a new medication

an IV line

WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED | 600 | This Aafricaan maammaal is the only living member of the order Tubulidentata, or ""tube-toothed""

an aardvark

PLANE SPEAKING | 1000 | You get an ""A"" for IDing this movable surface near the trailing edge of a wing used in maneuvers like banking

an aileron

FLYING INTO HISTORY | 400 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) The F4U Corsair's unusual bent wings helped reducethe aircraft's drag; the wings also folded to save storage space when it operated from these, as it did in the Pacific in both World War II & the Korean War

an aircraft carrier

HUGO AWARD-WINNING NOVELS | 1200 | Frederik Pohl's 1978 winner ""Gateway"" is about an abandoned alien base ""formed around"" one of these space rocks

an asteroid

THE EARLY 20th CENTURY | 200 | Using accelerated particles in 1932, John Cockcroft & Ernest Walton became the first to divide one of these

an atom

EVERYTHING'S BACKWARDS | 400 | In 1812 one of these caused a fluvial tsunami in the Mississippi River, causing it to flow backwards

an earthquake

LOOKING DOWN WITH GEOEYE | 400 | Seen here off the Australian coast, this type of countercurrent that's also a first name can last a year

an eddy

CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN | 400 | Prior to being shot by a sniper, Union general John Sedgwick said, ""They couldn't hit"" this pachyderm ""at this distance""

an elephant

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 400 | The first hotel to install one of these was a 6-story establishment in NYC in 1859; the cab had plush seats

an elevator

PLANE SPEAKING | 600 | Top floor, please, Otis! It's a hinged surface on a plane's rear stabilizer that controls pitch

an elevator

BANKING & FINANCE | 2000 | It's a contract that gives someone the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell something before a certain date

an option

YUCKY HISTORY | 2000 | As in the western ""Flesh & the Spur"", Indians used staking people to these as a torture... or at least white settlers said so

anthills

THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH | 1200 | The Brits use a different prefix, producing this word instead of ""counter-clockwise""

anticlockwise

MICHIGAN HISTORY | 2000 | FDR's 1940 phrase ""the great"" this ""of democracy"" was later applied to Detroit as it turned out jeeps, tanks & bombers

arsenal

HISTORIC JOB TITLES | 200 | Edmund Halley,1720-42:This job ""royal""

astronomer

WAR OF THE WORDS | 800 | This word for a military fight can be found in front of ""axe"" or ""cry""

battle

HAPPY HISTORY | 1200 | In 1979 a Seminole chief used Indian sovereignty to offer healthy jackpots in this game also played in churches

bingo

20th CENTURY QUOTES | 600 | To winners of a writing contest, Lorraine Hansberry said it is ""doubly dynamic--to be young, gifted"" & this

black

SPEAKING ITALIAN | 800 | Don't fiddle around; ""nero"" translates to this color

black

COMPLETE THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS LINE | 800 | ""Hokey religions & ancient weapons are no match for a good ____ at your side""

blaster

THE DEWAR'S DECIMAL SYSTEM | 1200 | Dewar's was the 1st Scotch of this type to be a royal supplier; 40 single malts go into it, an average of .025 of the whole

blend

ANCIENT HISTORY | 400 | Shihuangdi unified the Chinese empire but was paranoid & held a burning of these items in 213 B.C.

books

MOUNTAIN BIKING | 1600 | When this item that presses against a disc squeals from wear or bad adjustment, it's called a ""wild pig""

brake pad

KING ME | 800 | In a competition in 1815, this 4-letter cheese was crowned le roi des fromages, ""the king of cheeses""

brie

HOOSIER HISTORY | 1600 | A trail or ""trace"" across the state was first used by these animals it's named for, then Native Americans, then settlers

buffalo

FORWARDS & BACKWORDS | 400 | Ignore someone at a party &hot dog holders

buns & snub

ITALIAN, WITH THE SPEAKING | 1000 | Making reservations for 8 PM, an hour hence? Open with this common expression literally meaning ""good evening""

buonasera

HISTORIC JOB TITLES | 1000 | Abu Bakr,632-34:This ""successor"" title, after Muhammad's death

caliph

MOROCCAN HISTORY | 1200 | These beasts helped make Morocco a key ancient trade route & one kissed Bob Hope in ""Road to Morocco""

camels

WARDROBE | 1200 | Unless you're in the military, garments sporting this pattern can actually make you stand out

camouflage

AUSTRALIAN HISTORY | 1200 | In 2014 a new, more conservative government made Oz the world's first country to repeal a tax on emissions of this

carbon

18th CENTURY SCIENTISTS | 1600 | Scottish chemist Joseph Black identified this 2-word gas, which he called ""fixed air""

carbon dioxide

MEXICAN HISTORY | 800 | Many innocents have died in a war between the Sinaloa & Zetas, 2 of the drug gangs called by this economic term

cartels

HISTORICAL BLINDNESS | 1600 | In 1748 Jacques Daviel was the first to treat this ailment by removing the clouded lens

cataracts

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE TITLES | 800 | If Otto von Bismarck were alive, he could use this prefix he got in 1871

chancellor

HISTORIC AGREEMENT WORDS | 1200 | In a 1941 U.S.-U.K. deal, it follows ""Atlantic""; it's also found before ""school""

charter

THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH | 400 | Draughts is this kingly game

checkers

COTTON IS KING | 800 | Once used to wrap a certain dairy product, this thin cotton fabric is used in the kitchen to drain liquid

cheesecloth

SAMURAI: THE WARRIOR TRANSFORMED | 800 | (Alex presents the clue from the National Geographic Museum.) Some scabbards were decorated with blossoms of this fruit tree; they fall at their moment of greatest beauty, & so to the samurai represent an ideal death

cherry blossoms

AWARDS FOR WRITING | 800 | The Newbery Medal goes to writers in this genre; Eleanor Estes won for 1952 with ""Ginger Pye""

children\'s writing

COTTON IS KING | 2000 | Similar to khaki, this durable cotton twill was originally used for U.S. Army uniforms; now it's often used for casual pants

chino

TENNESSEE HISTORY | 1600 | An epidemic of this waterborne disease hit the state in 1849 & claimed many lives, including that of former Pres. Polk

cholera

MEXICAN HISTORY | 1200 | Political separation of this pair was achieved by the war of the reform from 1858 to 1861

church and state

HERB & SPICE HISTORY | 1200 | To show remorse after murdering his wife, Nero may have burned a year's supply of this spice that comes in quills

cinnamon

A BRIEF HISTORY OF MIME | 1200 | Mime contributed to the development of this Renaissance form, Italian for ""comedy of the profession""

commedia dell\'arte

CHECKING OUT ALL THE ANGLES | 400 | It describes these two angles that tell you how lovely & terrific you are

complementary

THINKING VERBS | 800 | To decide by reasoning; it can also mean to finish

conclude

HISTORIC AGREEMENT WORDS | 2000 | Concord is agreement; add 2 letters to get this agreement by a state & a pope

concordat

THINKING | 1600 | Let's run this 11-letter ""con""--it means to consider thoughtfully

contemplate

TAKING IN THE SUN | 1200 | This outermost zone of the solar interior is named for a process of transferring heat, as in a type of oven

convection

WORLD WAR I SLANG | 400 | When kids accuse each other of having these, they don't know that WWI sanitation popularized it as slang for lice

cooties

PREHISTORIC TIMES | 1600 | During the Chalcolithic period, 4,000-6,000 years ago, this metal became the first used for tools & weapons

copper

A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR | 1000 | This craft of stitching fabric with a hook instead of a needle developed in the 19th century

crochet

ROYAL WEDDINGS | 1200 | To marry Prince Albert of Monaco, Charlene Wittstock wore a gown with 40,000 Swarovski these

crystals

A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR | 800 | From the French for ""to cut out"", it's the craft of decorating a surface with paper shapes

decoupage

FORWARDS & BACKWORDS | 600 | Tough blue fabric &extracted ore

denim & mined

FORWARDS & BACKWORDS | 1000 | After-dinner treats &emotionally strained

desserts & stressed

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME | 2000 | Clocks flown around the Earth in 1971 diverged from stationary ones, confirming the relativity concept ""time"" this

dilation

MAKING SOME COIN | 400 | Only 2 of the 1975 ""no S"" proof Roosevelt this coin are said to exist

dimes

MAKING A BEE LINE | 1600 | In ""Henry V"" Shakespeare mentions ""the lazy yawning"" this bee that dies after mating

drone

ABBREV. BACKWARDS & FORWARDS | 2000 | For example, the company that makes the Profile dishwasher

e.g., GE

MOROCCAN HISTORY | 2000 | Morocco has battled over western Sahara & its wealth of phosphates, used as this growth aid

fertilizer

TABLEWARE INCLUDED | 200 | Often yellow or pink, the wool type of this material is used as a thermal insulator

fiberglass

SPEAKING ITALIAN | 2000 | The opera ""Pagliacci"" appropriately ends, ""La commedia è"" this word

finita

WORLD WAR II | 800 | Sword & Gold, 2 of the beaches at Normandy, were named for these creatures

fish

WAR OF THE WORDS | 2000 | This old-timey term for hand-to-hand combat starts with a hand ready to strike a blow

fisticuffs

THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS | 400 | The Tiger-Lily says these talk because the ground is hard: ""In most gardens... they make the beds too soft"" & they sleep

flowers

SPEAKING ITALIAN | 400 | When you said I was buffo, this, I'm buffo how? I mean, buffo like I'm a clown, I amuse you?

funny

HERB & SPICE HISTORY | 800 | 19th century English pubs had containers of this spice from a root so that patrons could shake it into their ale

ginger

COTTON IS KING | 1600 | Dorothy's iconic blue & white checked pinafore in ""The Wizard of Oz"" was made from this cotton fabric

gingham

THINKING VERBS | 2000 | Also a way to collect information, it means to gather bits of grain left by reapers

glean

HISTORIC DAYS | 1000 | Jan, 24, 1848(out West)

gold discovered in California

ITALIAN, WITH THE SPEAKING | 800 | You look lovely in verde, this color

green

WORKING ON THE RAILROAD | 1200 | A go-devil is another word for one of these human-powered railroad trolleys

handcars

IT'S GETTING WARM | 1000 | Sunstroke is likely with prolonged exposure to over 105 degrees on the H.I., short for this

heat index

HISTORIC MOTTOES & SLOGANS | 1600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Kibbutz Ami'ad in Israel.) The original vision of kibbutz life focused on the collective good & the motto was, ""From each according to his ability, to each according to"" these

his needs (his need accepted)

COLORFUL HISTORY | 1200 | In 1776 Benjamin Franklin sailed to France with this dark blue dye to sell to help fund the war effort

indigo

MOUNTAIN BIKING | 800 | Ray's MTB in Cleveland is a venue to practice in this kind of environment, year-round

indoors

WAR OF WORDS | 1200 | This term that goes back to a word for ""boy"" or ""youth"" referred to those soldiers too inexperienced for the cavalry

infantry

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 800 | Rep. Daniel Sickles shot & killed his wife's lover in 1859 but was found not guilty, in the first use of this defense plea

insanity

WORLD HISTORY | 800 | A 1987 wave of violent Palestinian unrest Is known as the first this, from Arabicfor ""shaking off.""

intifada

A POTPOURRI OF HISTORY | 800 | After the British slave trade ended, this mammal product became the most important export from West Central Africa

ivory

17th CENTURY PEOPLE | 800 | A Japanese woman named Okuni began this theater for the common people in 1603

kabuki

TAKING IN THE SUN | 800 | A very stable source of energy, the Sun gives us 1.37 of these units abbreviated kW per square meter of earth

kilowatt

SERIOUS HARDWARE | 200 | You ascend the corporate one metaphorically & the extension type literally

ladder

HISTORIC MOTTOES & SLOGANS | 800 | This word precedes ""égalité, fraternité"" in a French Revolution slogan, dropped from use when royalty came back

liberté

AWARDS & HONORS | 800 | Paul Cohen's work on set theory earned him a Fields Medal, AKA the Nobel of this area of study

mathematics

HISTORIC SHIPS | 400 | Launched in 1959, the Savannah was the first American merchant ship powered by this

nuclear energy

THE 19th CENTURY | 400 | In 1805 a pharmacy assistant isolated morphine from this 10-times-weaker narcotic substance

opium

HISTORIC AGREEMENT WORDS | 400 | The 1939 Nazi-Soviet deal is usually called a nonaggression this 4-letter word

pact

THINKING | 1200 | Aristippus, the first systematic hedonist philosopher, gave this the lowest value among human experiences

pain

EVERYTHING'S BACKWARDS | 2000 | 101 is called this type of prime number because it reads the same backwards

palindromic

GLASS & GLASSMAKING | 800 | The Sabatini art gallery in Topeka is ready for Kansas winds--it has a collection of glass these for desktops

paperweights

MAKING THE GRADE | 400 | Some schools use the ""A-F"" grading system & some use ""P"" , ""F"" & ""IN"", these 3 grades

pass, fail, & incomplete

GERMAN HISTORY | 800 | In a 1520s revolt called these humble farming folks' war, 100,000 of them were killed

peasants

WAR OF WORDS | 1600 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Under Alexander the Great, the first five ranks in this military formation whose name comes from the Greek for ""finger"" held spears facing forward, while the rear rows likely held them aloft

phalanx

WORKING WOMEN | 600 | Anne Geddes & Annie Leibovitz share this profession

photography

THE 18th CENTURY | 200 | 1701 saw Captain William Kidd hanged for this crime

piracy

LITERARY AWARDS | 1600 | Awarded by Yale, the Bollingen Prize is given for achievement in this literary form

poetry

WOMEN IN HISTORY | 800 | Elizabeth Kennycame up with a method seen in use here to treat this disease

polio

WOMEN IN HISTORY | 600 | Lucrezia Borgia was the daughter of a corrupt man who got this title in 1492

pope

THE 20th CENTURY | 400 | In a 1964 address LBJ called for an ""unconditional war on"" this ""in America""

poverty

18th CENTURY PEOPLE | 800 | Robert Walpole, in power from 1721 to 1742, is regarded as the first of these British heads of government

prime minister

KICKING AROUND FOR A WHILE | 600 | Jeff Feagles lasted until 44 at this job due to his skill in downing balls (554 of them) inside the 20

punter

YUCKY HISTORY | 400 | A Samuel Pepys diary entry says, ""Went out to Charing Cross to see Major-General Harrison hanged, drawn, and"" this

quartered

17th CENTURY WORDS | 1200 | Meaning one who flees home or seeks asylum, it was first applied to Huguenots who fled France

refugees

QUEENS | 800 | Blanche of Castile was twice this temporary ruler of France, when her son was little & when he was crusading

regent

EVERYTHING'S BACKWARDS | 1600 | Neptune's moon Triton is one of the few in the solar system with this type of ""walking backwards"" orbit

retrograde

CAMBODIAN HISTORY & CULTURE | 2000 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Phnom Penh, Cambodia.) Phnom Penh's notorious gridlock is circumvented by the nimble tuk-tuk, a motorized taxi that's also known as an auto this, a similar Asian conveyance

rickshaw

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 600 | Philly pharmacist Charles Hires claimed to have invented this beverage

root beer

THINKING VERBS | 1200 | To memorize something exactly is to learn it ""by heart"" or ""by"" this, meaning as a result of repeated study

rote

WORLD WAR II: ON THE HOME FRONT | 400 | The first non-food item rationed was this; citizens were asked to turn in hoses, raincoats & bathing caps for recycling

rubber

BRITISH HISTORY | 1600 | Capturing Jamaica in 1655 allowed the English to replace the beer on ships with this, which didn't go bad

rum

THE DEWAR'S DECIMAL SYSTEM | 800 | 1.5 ounces of Dewar's product plus .5 ounces Schweppes product over ice makes this alliterative cocktail

scotch and soda

MOROCCAN HISTORY | 800 | Starting in the 1500s, Morocco was ruled by men with this title, like the one who ""don't like it"" in a clash song

sharif

A HISTORY LESSON | 800 | In 1185 Minamoto Yoritomo defeated the Taira clan in Japan & later was given this title meaning ""great general""

shogun

RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? | 800 | My taste buds have been amputated, Ida, yet I yearn for your pies with this insect name with brown sugar, molasses & butter

shoo-fly

LESSER-KNOWN HISTORIC NAMES | 1200 | Button Gwinnett died in 1777, less than a year after doing this; that combination makes his signature worth $1/2 mil.

signing the Declaration of Independence

THINKING | 2000 | Semiotics is the study of communication via these, be they the ""road"" or ""peace"" type

signs

THE 18th CENTURY | 400 | The first country to do so, Denmark decreed in 1792 it would abolish trade in these

slaves

QUEEN OF | 1600 | Irna Phillips & Agnes Nixon were each known as the Queen of this TV genre

soap operas

KICKING AROUND FOR A WHILE | 200 | Jan Stenerud, who retired at 43, was one of the first to kick field goals in the ""style"" of this other sport

soccer style

ITALIAN, WITH THE SPEAKING | 600 | That calzone will knock your calzini (these) off

socks

TALKING DIRTY | 400 | Also the hopefully fertile ground in which to grow crops, it can mean something done to damage one's good name

soil

SERIOUS HARDWARE | 600 | The ""L"" you don't say in this iron you use to join metal objects together

solder

A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR | 600 | Useful in electronics crafts, this process joins circuit components using a low melting point alloy

soldering

AWARDS & HONORS | 1600 | (I'm Senator Al Franken.) The 2003 audio version of my bestseller ""Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right"" won the Grammy in the category Best this type of album

spoken word

HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES | 400 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) To showcase its strength & durability, this 1964 Thunderbird was one of a handful of cars made with bodies of this alliterative alloy

stainless steel

HISTORY OF CARS | 1000 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California.) In 1901, 17-year-old Carl Breer attached a boiler & a crankshaft to a chassis to make an engine powered by this, which briefly challenged the combustion engine for supremacy

steam

ANCIENT HISTORY | 800 | Zeno got a parchment cut, went on without wincing & founded an Athens school promoting this philosophy

stoicism

COMPLETE THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS LINE | 2000 | ""Aren't you a little short for a ____""

stormtrooper

PREHISTORIC TIMES | 1200 | The iguanadon was named because these body parts resembled those of an iguana

teeth

STEPHEN KING | 800 | Be careful if you mess with teen misfit Carrie White, who has this ability to move things with her mind

telekinesis

CHICAGO HISTORY | 600 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) Made of wood & originally pulled by a steam locomotive, the car here, which transported passengers from the loop to the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 is the last one remaining of Chicago's first fleet of railcars to be called by this nickname

the ""El""

THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS | 400 | ""The Daily Show"" dealt with ""PSI: New England"" after the Pats won the AFC title game in 2015 against this ""luck""y team

the (Indianapolis) Colts

THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS | 600 | 2 Patriot losses in the Super Bowl came against this team, & both times near-miracle catches were involved

the (New York) Giants

OTHER GREAT DECADES | 1000 | Leonardo da Vinci paints ""The Last Supper""

the 1490s

THE DISASTER OF THE CENTURY | 1000 | The Black Death that killed at least 25 million Europeans

the 14th century

CENTURY OF THE INVENTION | 800 | Movable type (in Europe)

the 15th century

CENTURY OF THE MAN | 800 | England's Richard III

the 15th century

CENTURY OF THE MAN | 600 | Sir Francis Drake

the 16th century

NAME THAT CENTURY | 1600 | Cortez conquers the Aztecs

the 16th century

CENTURY OF THE INVENTION | 1000 | The telescope

the 17th century

CENTURY OF THE MAN | 1000 | Baruch Spinoza

the 17th century

THE CENTURY OF THE CRIME | 800 | The Salem witch trials burn into history

the 17th century

NAME THE 19th CENTURY DECADE | 1200 | General Kutuzov evacuates Moscow, which then burns

the 1810s

NAME THE 19th CENTURY DECADE | 400 | The Battle of Chattanooga

the 1860s

OTHER GREAT DECADES | 200 | The Suez Canal is opened & the Emancipation Proclamation is issued

the 1860s

OTHER GREAT DECADES | 800 | Conan Doyle introduces Sherlock Holmes

the 1880s

ERAS OF HISTORY | 400 | This decade was both ""naughty"" & ""gay""

the 1890s

HISTORICAL TIME UNITS | 400 | In the 1920s people started nostalgically calling this decade ""gay""

the 1890s

CENTURY OF THE INVENTION | 600 | The lightning rod

the 18th century

NAME THAT CENTURY | 800 | Robespierre sends many to their deaths & meets his own

the 18th century

THE CENTURY OF THE CRIME | 400 | Charlotte Corday kills Marat, is not sad

the 18th century

THE DISASTER OF THE CENTURY | 400 | The Boston Massacre

the 18th century

CRIME OF THE DECADE | 200 | The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

the 1910s

CRIME OF THE DECADE | 800 | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre takes place

the 1920s

NAME THE DECADE | 400 | The first commercial radio station in the U.S. begins broadcasting

the 1920s

CRIME OF THE DECADE | 400 | The Lindbergh baby is kidnapped

the 1930s

NAME THE DECADE | 600 | The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is created

the 1930s

20th CENTURY LITERARY DECADES | 200 | ""The Crucible"" &""On the Road""

the 1950s

NAME THE DECADE | 1000 | The first commercial nuclear plant opens

the 1950s

20th CENTURY LITERARY DECADES | 800 | ""Valley of the Dolls"" &""Silent Spring""

the 1960s

OTHER GREAT DECADES | 400 | The first successful human heart transplant & the invention of 8-track tapes

the 1960s

20th CENTURY LITERARY DECADES | 400 | ""Carrie"" &""Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders""

the 1970s

THE DISASTER OF THE CENTURY | 600 | The Chicago fire, leaving 90,000 homeless

the 19th century

NAME THAT CENTURY | 1200 | Gallipoli becomes an epic disaster for Britain's military

the 20th century

THE DISASTER OF THE CENTURY | 200 | The sinking of the Lusitania

the 20th century

THE KOREAN WAR | 2000 | A Security Council resolution issued when the war began demanded the Communists retreat to this parallel

the 38th parallel

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 2000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Fort Abraham Lincoln in Mandan, North Dakota.) In 1876, Lt. Col. George Custer left his home here at Fort Abraham Lincoln in the Dakota Territory with this regiment and led them into a battle from which they'd never return

the 7th Cavalry

NAME THAT CENTURY | 2000 | Muhammad's forces conquer Mecca

the 7th century

ANCIENT HISTORY | 200 | In the 400s B.C. Callicrates designed the temple of Athena Nike on this hill

the Acropolis

HISTORY | 2000 | The ancestors of this Aboriginal people of Hokkaido Island are thought to have reached Japan around 1000 B.C.

the Ainu

THE UNCIVIL WARS | 800 | After it fell on March 6, 1836, all of its surviving defenders were executed

the Alamo

LOOKING FOR ALASKA | 1600 | Scientist William Dall charted the coastal features of this 1,100-mile island chain

the Aleutians

WORKING ON A BUILDING | 2000 | 1238: Muhammad Ibn al-Ahmar begins work on this Moorish masterpiece

the Alhambra

18th CENTURY AMERICA | 2000 | One of these acts passed in 1798 called for the deportation of foreigners considered dangerous

the Alien & Sedition Acts

THE LATE 19th CENTURY | 400 | In 1889 this list of the 11 best college football players in the country first came out

the All-American football team

STORIES OF THE WAR | 200 | ""Founding Brothers"" &""Founding Mothers""

the American Revolution

THE CIVIL WAR | 600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) General Winfield Scott wanted to blockade the South in a siege-like fashion, control the Mississippi River & strangle the Rebels in his plan named for this South American serpent

the Anaconda Plan

NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 1200 | Fort Bowie in Arizona marks operations against this Native American people who were led by Geronimo

the Apache

THE CIVIL WAR | 600 | These mountains divided the war into 2 main theaters: east to the Atlantic & west to the Mississippi River

the Appalachians

HISTORY | 800 | This movement that spread across the Middle East began in late 2010 when protests in Tunisia led to the ouster of Pres. Ben Ali

the Arab Spring

LOWLY HISTORY | 800 | 1381's Peasants' Revolt stormed London & executed many bigwigs including Simon of Sudbury, this religious official

the Archbishop of Canterbury

THAT'S TOTALLY HISTORICAL! | 800 | In 1779 all the states except Maryland, which had some land issues, had ratified this precursor to the Constitution

the Articles of the Confederation

BATTLE NATIONS | 2000 | Home team France might rather forget this October 1415 English victory

the Battle of Agincourt (or Azincourt)

THAT'S TOTALLY HISTORICAL! | 1000 | Britannica, on the Battle of this, as the Yorkists faded: ""Richard, preferring death, was unhorsed and killed in the bog""

the Battle of Bosworth Field

HISTORIC BATTLES | 1200 | In what's known as the Battle of this town, William defeated Harold II at Senlac Hill some 7 miles away

the Battle of Hastings

HISTORIC PLACES | 800 | This 1815 battle was actually fought 3 miles south of the village, itself 9 miles south of Brussels

the Battle of Waterloo

THE COLD WARS | 800 | Lasting from December 16, 1944 to January 16, 1945, this critical WWII battle was fought in freezing mist & snow

the Battle of the Bulge

BACKING BANDS | 1600 | Billy Vera

the Beaters

HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART II | 800 | In 1962 Peter Fechter's pleas for aid went unanswered after he was shot while trying to climb over this

the Berlin Wall

THE 18th CENTURY | 800 | Amendment 8 of the 10 collectively known as this said cruel & unusual punishment was a big no-no

the Bill of Rights

BATTLESHIPS | 800 | Robert Ballard found the remains of this WWII German battleship in 1989; it appeared to have been scuttled, not sunk

the Bismarck

HISTORY | 1200 | In 1966 Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded this militant party in Oakland

the Black Panthers

THE 19th CENTURY | 800 | Paul Kruger's 1899 ultimatum provoked this South African war with the British

the Boer War

HISTORY | 400 | A war was named for them, the Dutch ancestors of the Afrikaners

the Boers

CHINESE HISTORY | 1200 | In 1901 China agreed to pay 11 nations about $330 million in damages that arose from this rebellion

the Boxer Rebellion

CNN HISTORIC REVOLUTIONS | 800 | (Here is Anna Coren.) In June 1900 threatened foreigners were trapped in Beijing's Embassy District for more than 7 weeks before international relief forces rescued them during this Chinese rebellion

the Boxer Rebellion

HISTORY | 600 | An international force seized Beijing on August 14, 1900, crushing this rebellion

the Boxer Rebellion

19th CENTURY PEOPLE | 400 | Seen here is an illustration of ""The Frog Prince"" in this duo's 1812 collection

the Brothers Grimm

NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II | 400 | Herman Wouk's book about this ship's mutiny was inspired by his experiences aboard a similar WWII vessel

the Caine

JUDEAN HISTORY | 1600 | Immediately before the Israelite conquest under Joshua, these people dominated Judea

the Canaanites

YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT | 1600 | In 1957 Ford G.M. Richard Krafve said this new model would exceed sales expectations; it failed miserably

the Edsel

D.C. HISTORY | 400 | Slaves in Washington, D.C. were freed in April 1862, 9 months before this January 1, 1863 manifesto

the Emancipation Proclamation

HISTORIC DOCUMENTS | 200 | This 1863 document allowed the Union to recruit black soldiers

the Emancipation Proclamation

HISTORY, OLD & NEW | 1000 | Despite the name, this period of American history, around 1817-1824, was marked by complacency & isolationism

the Era of Good Feelings

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 400 | The Niagara Escarpment was a challenge in the building of this canal

the Erie Canal

ANCIENT HISTORY | 1600 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of ancient Italy.) Around 300 B.C. Rome controlled the area seen here. Within about 25 years it had conquered most of the Italian peninsula, including the Umbrians and these people occupying what is now Tuscany

the Etruscans

THE 20th CENTURY | 1000 | The 1957 treaty of Rome established this, the EEC for short

the European Economic Community

WORLD HISTORY | 1200 | This organization includes countries that spent centuries fighting, but it won the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize

the European Union

BRITISH HISTORY | 800 | In 1833 the royal navy threw Argentina out of this island group; they did it again 149 years later

the Falkland Islands

BATTLES IN THE WAR | 400 | Goose Green &Darwin,in 1982

the Falkland War

HISTORY | 800 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a map of Argentina and the adjacent Atlantic Ocean including a group of islands.) In 1982, British forces made a 200-mile war zone & landed near Port San Carlos in this territory to attack its capital over land, a winning strategy

the Falklands

AMERICA THE HISTORICAL | 800 | Using the pseudonym Publius, Alexander Hamilton wrote the majority of these essays in defense of the Constitution

the Federalist Papers

2 FOR THE LITERARY TAKING | 800 | Teen detectives join forces in ""Double Crossing"" when Nancy Drew teams up with these guys, Frank & Joe

the Hardy Boys

WORLD WAR II | 2000 | The Spitfire & this lesser-known ""stormy"" fighter were the keys to the RAF's victory in the Battle of Britain

the Hawker Hurricane

BACKING BANDS | 400 | Tom Petty

the Heartbreakers

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

the Himalayas

IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT | 800 | In some versions, it's the knight Percival who succeeds in finding this vessel; Wagner told his story in ""Parsifal""

the Holy Grail

QUICK HISTORY | 800 | In German it was called ""Heiliges Romisches Reich""

the Holy Roman Empire

THAT'S HISTORY | 200 | Commoners rejoiced when the Parliament Act of 1911 took the power of absolute veto away from this house

the House of Lords

WORLD HISTORY | 2000 | On May 2, 1670 this enterprise was granted a charter to trade in furs & to colonize North America

the Hudson\'s Bay Company

FRENCH HISTORY | 1600 | Sparking the French Wars of Religion, 1,000 members of this group were massacred on March 1, 1562

the Huguenots

WORLD HISTORY | 2000 | Count de Chabrol really liked to count; he coined this term for Napoleon's brief return, March 20 - July 8, 1815

the Hundred Days

WORLD HISTORY | 200 | The 1360 Treaty of Bretigny in which France agreed to pay a ransom for King John II created a temporary peace in this war

the Hundred Years War

NAME THAT WAR | 1600 | The 1356 Battle of Poitiers

the Hundred Years\' War

THE 4th CENTURY | 2000 | Around 376 this nomadic people from central Asia defeated the Visigoths

the Huns

HISTORIC HANDSHAKES | 800 | In 2012, the Queen shook hands with Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, formerly a commander in this

the IRA

HISTORIC BATTLES | 400 | Francisco Pizarro's defeat of this empire at Cajamarca in 1532 led to the conquest of most of South America

the Inca

THE 16th CENTURY | 400 | In 1572 Spanish conquistadors captured & killed Tupac Amaru, the last native leader of these people

the Incas

HOOSIER HISTORY | 400 | This iconic track was built in 1909 as a testing facility for the local automotive industry

the Indianapolis Speedway

DECODING THE HITMAKING BAND | 200 | Samuel L.,Jesse,Reggie,Phil &Stonewall

the Jackson 5

THE '60s (19th CENTURY EDITION) | 200 | In 1866 these brothers began their criminal career with a bank robbery at Liberty, Missouri

the James brothers

PIGGYBACKING | 200 | Piggybacking on a 747, Space Shuttle Endeavour says goodbye to this, its old launch facility

the Kennedy Space Center

BRITISH KINGS NAMED EDWARD | 400 | In 1340 British King Edward III took this additional title; Philip VI must have said, ""I thought that was moi""

the King of France

NAME THAT WAR | 800 | The Inchon landing

the Korean War

THIS MEANS WAR! | 1200 | Marshal Choe Yong Gun leads his troops across a border

the Korean War

WAR NOVELS | 1200 | In James Salter's ""The Hunters"", set during this war, USAF pilots face off against MiGs above the Yalu River

the Korean War

WARS | 200 | The ROKA & the KPA were initial combatants in this 1950s war

the Korean War

HISTORY | 400 | This Moscow fortress dates back to 1156 but has had more administrative than military use since the 1600s

the Kremlin

THE WAR OF ...12 | 800 | A Russian movie is titled ""1612"", the year Polish occupation of this Moscow central fortress ended

the Kremlin

HONORS & AWARDS | 2000 | Napoleon created it in 1802 as a general military & civil order of merit

the Legion of Honor (la Légion d\'Honneur)

THE STORY OF THE 21st CENTURY | 1000 | The over 150-year-old investment bank named for these brothers went under in the 2008 financial crisis

the Lehman Brothers

JAPANESE HISTORY | 2000 | Holding power for the majority of time since 1955, the dominant political party in Japan is this one, the LDP

the Liberal Democratic Party

SPEAKING OF TONGUES | 200 | After a trip to San Francisco's Panama Pacific Exposition in 1915, this bell's tongue, or clapper, was immobilized

the Liberty Bell

HORRIBLE HISTORY | 1600 | In 48 B.C. Caesar looted scrolls from this Egyptian institution, later destroyed

the Library at Alexandria

FRENCH HISTORY | 1600 | In 1929 France began to build this ""line"" of heavy defensive fortifications against Germany

the Maginot Line

A POTPOURRI OF HISTORY | 200 | After some changes were made, King John accepted this document on June 19, 1215

the Magna Carta

BATTLESHIPS | 400 | On February 15, 1898, just hours after the photo seen here was taken, this battleship exploded

the Maine

CENTURY 19 | 800 | In January 1898 this U.S. Battleship went to Havana Harbor in part to protect U.S. citizens, but it would never leave

the Maine

HISTORIC OBJECTS | 1600 | Today thought of as a bejeweled statue, it was the Knights of Malta's annual tribute to the Holy Roman Emperor

the Maltese Falcon

LITERARY AWARDS | 2000 | First awarded in 1969, it's Britain's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

the Man Booker Prize

WORLD HISTORY | 800 | Enduring into the 20th Century, this last Chinese Imperial Dynasty is also called the Qing

the Manchu Dynasty

THAT'S TOTALLY HISTORICAL! | 400 | The full name of this 1963 event in U.S. history included the concluding part, ""for Jobs and Freedom""

the March on Washington

WAR NOVELS | 800 | ""The Short-Timers"" by Gustav Hasford follows a member of this military branch, from basic training to war in Vietnam

the Marines

AWARDS & HONORS | 400 | In 1998 the Kennedy Center created this prize for American humor

the Mark Twain Prize

BATTLE CREEK | 1000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a video & map on the monitor.) 600 taxis rushed troops to the front in the opening weeks of World War I to turn back a German drive on Paris, an event that came to be known as the Miracle of this battleground river

the Marne

ANCIENT HISTORY | 1600 | The city of Tikal became an important ceremonial center for this civilization prior to 100 A.D.

the Maya

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

the Medal of Honor

THE 17th CENTURY | 400 | In 1647 astronomer Johannes Hevelius published ""Selenographia"", an atlas of the surface of this

the Moon

WORLD HISTORY | 400 | In 1969 Apollo 11 landed humans here for the first time ever

the Moon

NEAR THE END OF THE CENTURY | 200 | In 1499 Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros began forced mass conversions of these Iberian Muslims

the Moors

THE IMAGE AWARDS | 200 | Honoring African Americans in the arts, the Image Awards were established in 1967 by this organization

the NAACP

POWER AWARDS | 1000 | Tobias Wolff & Sally Field have won the National Medal of Arts from this ""National"" government agency

the National Endowment for the Arts

WAR | 1600 | Going quite a few leagues under the sea, it was the first sub powered by a nuclear reactor

the Nautilus

AWARDS FOR WRITING | 1600 | This science fiction award is named for an interstellar gas cloud

the Nebula Award

A HISTORY LESSON | 600 | The FSA & NYA were part of the ""alphabet soup"" of this 1930s U.S. government program

the New Deal

KICKING AROUND FOR A WHILE | 400 | Adam Vinatieri, who turned 40 in 2012, has 1 Super Bowl ring with the Colts & 3 with this other AFC team

the New England Patriots

AWARDS & HONORS | 400 | Since 1922 this medal has been awarded for excellence in American writing for children

the Newbery

BACKING BANDS | 1200 | Huey Lewis

the News

BACKING BANDS | 2000 | Grace Potter

the Nocturnals

THE CIVIL WAR | 200 | Lincoln made George Meade the leader of the ""Army of"" this river in 1863

the Potomac

HISTORY'S ODDS & ENDS | 400 | In May 1936 the Hindenburg crossed the Atlantic for the first time & in June, this largest ocean liner did

the Queen Mary

UNFORTUNATE HISTORY | 800 | Pressed into service during WWII, this ""royal"" luxury liner rammed a navy cruiser in 1942, cutting it in half

the Queen Mary

QUEENS | 1200 | According to Jewish & Islamic traditions, she was the monarch of an ancient kingdom believed to be in Ethiopia or Yemen

the Queen of Sheba

THE QUEEN | 1600 | Also known as Makeda, in the Bible she visited King Solomon

the Queen of Sheba

MOROCCAN HISTORY | 1600 | In 429 the Vandals ended 400 years of control by this empire

the Roman Empire

WHO WON THE WAR ANYWAY? | 400 | This empire was victorious in wars Gallic & Punic

the Roman Empire

HISTORIC OBJECTS | 1000 | This slab of black rock now in the British Museum was used as building material by the Ottomans for Fort Julien, Egypt

the Rosetta Stone

FLYING INTO HISTORY | 1000 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) Most of the more than 3,000 Bell P-63 Kingcobra fighters built during World War II were delivered as part of the lend-lease program to this country for use in what was called the Great Patriotic War

the Soviet Union

HISTORIC OOPSIES | 1000 | It wasn't a great decision to anchor this mighty fleet in an exposed position off Calais in July 1588

the Spanish Armada

WOMEN IN HISTORY | 800 | Dolores Ibárurri, a heroine of the losing side in this 1930s war, remained honorary president of the Communist Party until 1989

the Spanish Civil War

BATTLES IN THE WAR | 600 | Las Guasimas &San Juan Hill

the Spanish-American War

PUERTO RICAN HISTORY | 400 | Puerto Rico became part of the U.S. as part of the terms ending this 19th century conflict

the Spanish-American War

THERE'S A WAR ON | 800 | April-December 1898

the Spanish-American War

THE MONARCHS OF ENGLAND | 1200 | The restoration of King Charles II in 1660 also restored this royal house

the Stuarts

THE 20th CENTURY | 400 | A 1956 international crisis revolved around control of this canal

the Suez Canal

WORLD WAR II | 1600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a naval animation on the monitor.) At the 1942 Battle of Cape Esperance, a line of Japanese ships received deadly raking fire from American Admiral Scott's fleet in a classic naval maneuver called ""crossing"" this

the T

WORLD HISTORY | 2000 | In 2009 Sri Lanka's government defeated the insurgent group called these ""Tigers"" after a 25-year civil war

the Tamil Tigers

THERE'S A WAR ON | 600 | 1618 to 1648:Duh

the Thirty Years\' War

WORLD HISTORY | 800 | ""Finlandization"" entered the language to mean official neutrality under the influence of this country

the USSR

THE KOREAN WAR | 600 | The forces of this organization were Korean & American, supplemented by troops from 15 other countries

the United Nations

THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY | 400 | Eleanor's triumph, passage of the UDHR, got her the first standing ovation for a single delegate in this organization's history

the United Nations

THE DAVY O'BRIEN QUARTERBACK AWARD | 200 | 1986:Vinny Testaverde of the Hurricanes

the University of Miami

WAR STORIES | 2000 | ""Fields of Fire"" &""Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder""

the Vietnam War

WAR STORIES | 600 | ""In Country"" is Bobbie Ann Mason's novel of a young woman coming to terms with her father's death in this war

the Vietnam War

WARS BY BATTLE | 600 | Lake Erie &New Orleans

the War of 1812

LOOKING DOWN WITH GEOEYE | 200 | From the heavens, this East Coast structure looks like part of an enormous sun dial

the Washington Monument

HISTORICAL HAIKU | 1600 | Loveless French ""affair"" /1797 /Letter-perfect mess

the XYZ Affair

CHINESE HISTORY | 1600 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a portrait and a map on the monitor.) Huangdi won a great battle that consolidated his power among the tribes of the Huang He River, so it's fitting that he is referred to in English as the this emperor

the Yellow Emperor

THIS MEANS WAR! | 1600 | Egypt & Syria simultaneously attack Israel on 2 fronts, on a holy day

the Yom Kippur War

THE WAR OF 1912 | 1200 | An armistice ended when Turkey's government was overthrown by this ""youthful"" nationalist group

the Young Turks

DECADES OF DANCE | 800 | The Charleston

the \'20s

THE 15th CENTURY | 400 | This religious suppression began in earnest in 1481 with its first auto-da-fe punishments

the inquisition

THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH | 2000 | To New Yorkers it's a type of subway train; to Brits, it's the pub near home you usually frequent

the local

HISTORIC OOPSIES | 200 | During WWII the British sent known Communist Klaus Fuchs to the U.S. to work on this; soon he introduced the USSR to a fat man

the nuclear bomb (the atomic bomb)

LOWLY HISTORY | 1600 | The cliche ""You'll drive me into"" this place refers to a real home for the indigent; young Annie Oakley lived in one

the poorhouse

THE WAR OF ...12 | 400 | In the War of the Holy League, a big deal in 1512, the man in this post assembled an alliance against France

the pope

HISTORIC DAYS | 2000 | December 15, 1791

the ratification of the Bill of Rights

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING | 1200 | When his father was out of the country, teenage Philip II of Spain served as this, from Latin for ""rule""

the regent

BANKING | 600 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a check on the monitor.) A check contains lots of numbers: the number of the check itself, an account number & this 9-digit number that identifies the bank involved in the transaction

the routing number

HISTORY OF CARS | 400 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California.) The 1930 Nash 482R had 2 spark plugs per cylinder, a top speed of 75 miles per hour, & one of these features, which was also known as the ""mother-in-law seat""

the rumble seat

SCRAMBLED 20th CENTURY DECADES | 800 | A decade for me, me, me:""TEEN VISES""

the seventies

SEEKING ASYLUM | 400 | Iranian-Egyptian relations were frosted over by Cairo's grant of asylum to this man in 1979

the shah

PLANE SPEAKING | 800 | This alert! Ground & flight are types of this flap on top of the wing that rises to reduce lift & increase drag

the spoiler

WORKING ON THE RAILROAD | 600 | In the 19th century it was a railroad laborer who fed the furnace on a coal-fired train

the stoker

THE '60s (19th CENTURY EDITION) | 400 | On Oct. 24, 1861 Western Union completed this coast-to-coast line

the telegraph line

THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH | 400 | It's the 5-letter British slang term for what they've watched ""Eastenders"" on since 1985

the telly

SCRAMBLED 20th CENTURY DECADES | 600 | High unemployment:""I HIT REST""

the thirties

SCRAMBLED 20th CENTURY DECADES | 1000 | Roar away:""WINE TEST""

the twenties

MOUNTAIN BIKING | 1200 | Pirelliology is the art of identifying different ones of these from the tracks they've left in dirt or mud

tire treads

THE KING'S ENGLISH | 1000 | ""To earth"" is the term British electricians use in place of this verb

to ground

THINKING VERBS | 1600 | To join different ideas together into a coherent whole; chemists do it to create new compounds

to synthesize

BANKING & FINANCE | 800 | The Fed says bigger banks can risk more because Uncle Sam won't let them go under, this 4-word principle

too big to fail

COMPUTER HISTORY | 600 | A big hit with 1960s scientists, the CDC 1604 was one of the first computers with these instead of vacuum tubes

transistors

WARTHOGS | 200 | A young warthog's canine teeth eventually grow into a pair of these formidable defensive weapons

tusks

YUCKY HISTORY | 800 | At Valley Forge, 12 men crowded into tiny huts, & diseases including this ""ty"" pair killed 2,000 over the winter

typhoid and typhus

THE CIVIL WAR | 1000 | U.S. Grant's initials came to stand for this after giving extremely limited capitulation terms to Gen. Buckner

unconditional surrender

WEIRD HISTORY | 200 | A 1954 act of Congress added these 2 words to the Pledge of Allegiance

under God

LOWLY HISTORY | 2000 | Burakumin, Japan's version of this often-shunned low Indian caste, officially got equality in 1871

untouchables

JAPANESE HISTORY | 400 | Article 9 of the 1947 constitution says ""The Japanese people forever renounce"" this

war

FORWARDS & BACKWORDS | 200 | Married &nightly condensation

wed & dew

THINKING VERBS | 400 | To consider evidence carefully in the mind, or to put it on a scale

weigh

THE KING'S ENGLISH | 800 | Someone on the dole in England isn't eating up your pineapple, he's on this American equivalent

welfare

18th CENTURY AMERICA | 1200 | It's Philadelphia in the 1750s & what has Ben Franklin foisted on us now? Street lamps powered by this animal product

whale oil

STORIES OF THE WAR | 600 | ""A Bridge Too Far"" &""Eye of the Needle""

World War II

WAR STORIES | 400 | ""Mister Roberts"" &""The Naked and the Dead""

World War II

WARS BY BATTLE | 200 | Anzio &Bataan

World War II

WORRIER PRINCESS | 400 | In a 1980 movie she says, ""You're not actually going into an asteroid field""

Princess Leia

MAKING SOME COIN | 600 | In 2000 this Shoshone woman first graced our golden dollar coin

Sacagawea

QUEENS | 2000 | In 1654 this nation's queen Christina stunned Europe when she abdicated & became a Catholic

Sweden

FRENCH HISTORY | 800 | It's the facility represented here during a 1789 event

the Bastille

THE 15th CENTURY | 800 | This 1450s tome changed the course of culture & history

the Gutenberg Bible

WORLD WAR I | 1600 | On July 4, 1917 this AEF leader marched his troops through Paris to lay a wreath on the tomb of Lafayette

(Jon J.) Pershing

20th CENTURY HISTORY | 800 | This doctor's vaccine was declared safe & effective on April 12, 1955, the 10th anniversary of FDR's death

(Jonas) Salk

THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS | 2000 | December 25, 1944: The U.S. 101st Airborne repels a German attack on this town at the heart of the ""Bulge""

Bastogne

WORLD WAR II | 800 | The ""Death March"" from this Philippine peninsula cost the lives of thousands of Allied prisoners of war

Bataan

SOUTHERN HISTORY | 1000 | A red post that marked a border between 2 tribes is long gone, but this state capital named for it is there

Baton Rouge

RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? | 600 | Ima, I fear we may be lost! We are in Encino in this state & it is eerily quiet

California

THE WORKING DEAD | 200 | Surprisingly busy since her 1962 death, she had a good financial report in 2014: $17 million

Marilyn Monroe

WARNER BROS | 1600 | This Virginia politician gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 2008

Mark Warner

THE 18th CENTURY | 600 | In 1765 he gave a rousing speech in the House of Burgesses to support his legislation against the Stamp Act

Patrick Henry

HISTORY SINCE 1950 | 200 | After months on the run, he was captured December 13, 2003 after he was found hiding in a hole near Tikrit

Saddam Hussein

THE 16th CENTURY | 800 | Commissioned by Gustav Vasa, the entire Bible was officially translated into this language for the first time

Swedish

WORLD HISTORY | 800 | On Sept. 3, 1939 Great Britain & then France declared war on Germany, & this war was on

World War II

20th CENTURY SENATORS | 800 | Shortly after the 1954 elections, the Senate voted 67-22 to condemn him for conduct ""contrary to Senate traditions""

(Joseph) McCarthy

HISTORY: HIRED & FIRED | 800 | You found paths for the pathfinder John C. Fremont. You're hired! & we'll name Nevada's capital for you!

(Kit) Carson

A HISTORY LESSON | 400 | Under the leadership of this Polish electrician, some 17,000 workers went on strike in 1980 at the Lenin shipyard

(Lech) Walesa

BATTLE HIM | 2000 | British general William Howe probably passed a flask to celebrate his victory in this Penn. battle September 11, 1777

Battle of Brandywine Creek

WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR | 200 | In the Austro-Prussian war, ""Austro"" won a few battles, but this prime minister won the war

Bismarck

NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 800 | A D.C. site is where Dr. Carter G. Woodson came up with Negro History Week, now expanded & renamed this

Black History Month

LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY | 800 | In the 1990s divers off the Carolina coast found the wreck of the Queen Anne's Revenge, captained by this pirate

Blackbeard (Edward Teach)

OSCAR-NOMINATED WARNER BROS. CARTOONS | 200 | ""Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt"", starring this long-eared fellow

Bugs Bunny

LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY | 1600 | In 38 A.D. this ""little boot"" emperor executed the Praetorian Guard prefect to whose support he owed his accession

Caligula

HISTORY IS HAPPENING | 800 | On Sept. 21, 1931 Herbert Hoover faces the obvious & says, ""The world is passing through a Great"" one of these

Depression

YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT | 800 | In April 1633 Chief Inquisitor Father Vincenzo da Firenzuola told this astronomer that the Sun orbited the Earth

Galileo

BATTLE NATIONS | 800 | Ancient Callipolis is now this Turkish site of a World War I clash

Gallipoli

OTTOMAN HISTORY | 2000 | In 1354 Suleyman turned this peninsula on the Dardanelles into a strategic base; in 1915 it played a key role in WWI

Gallipoli

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 800 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated map on the monitor.) While attacking Stonewall Jackson, Union General John Pope got outflanked by James Longstreet & lost the 1862 second battle of this

Bull Run

WORLD WAR I | 1200 | British general Sir Ian Hamilton's amphibious assault on this peninsula in April of 1915 ended in a bloody 8-month stalemate

Gallipoli

HISTORY REPEATS | 600 | Like Abraham Lincoln, this president was also born in a log cabin & died from wounds inflicted by an assassin, in 1881

Garfield

PORTRAITS IN HISTORY | 1000 | He's the Italian hero pictured here--you might recognize him by the color of his attire

Garibaldi

HISTORIC NAMES | 1600 | After helping to bring Catherine the Great to power, this military leader & statesman became her lover

Grigory Potemkin

BEARD AWARD-WINNING CHEFS | 800 | French food isn't moist inside & crunchy outside, so Michel Richard ""discovered texture"" at this fast food place

KFC

HISTORICAL TITLES | 400 | Wilhelm I,1871-1888

Kaiser

OUR HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS | 1600 | This 1854 act introduced by Stephen Douglas created 2 new territories west of Missouri

Kansas-Nebraska Act

A HISTORY LESSON | 1600 | In 1608 this captain & a few other colonists left Jamestown & explored the Chesapeake Bay & its tributaries

(John) Smith

HISTORICAL NOVELS | 400 | In ""Telegraph Days"", Nellie Courtright interviews this dentist for the Tombstone paper

(Doc) Holliday

EX-PATRIOTS | 600 | This diminutive 1984 Heisman winner for Boston College played his last NFL season as a Patriot

(Doug) Flutie

THE KOREAN WAR | 400 | In September 1950 this general led the amphibious landing on Inchon; 7 months later, he was removed from command

(Douglas) MacArthur

REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) Even before the U.S. entry into the war, Americans were volunteering to drive Red Cross ambulances; one such adventurer was this 18-year-old, who was badly wounded in a mortar attack in Italy, nearly costing the U.S. a future Nobel Prize in Literature

(Ernest) Hemingway

HISTORY, ON THE MOVE | 1600 | The 2nd offensive by this offensive German lasted from January to July, 1942, with stops in Tobruk & Benghazi

(Erwin) Rommel

HISTORY | 400 | Protests in the Philippines in 1986 drove this longtime leader into exile

(Ferdinand) Marcos

REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIGURES | 1600 | After the revolution this ""Swamp Fox"" became a state senator in South Carolina

(Francis) Marion

20th CENTURY NAMES | 1600 | This director of ""M"" left Germany after Joseph Goebbels suggested that he make films for the Nazi government

(Fritz) Lang

THE 20th CENTURY | 800 | From 1986 to 1997, he was number one in the world, and from 1997 to 2000, only number one among humans

(Garry) Kasparov

THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WARS | 400 | This military man with a famous plan bested Albert Schweitzer, among others, to win the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize

(George C.) Marshall

HISTORIC NICKNAMES | 200 | African-American scientist:""The Sweet Potato Man""

(George Washington) Carver

CIVIL WAR PEOPLE | 400 | Known for his Gettysburg ""Charge"", after the War he sold insurance in Richmond

(George) Pickett

INVENTIVE THINKING | 800 | The National Inventors Hall of Fame said his 1863 sleeping car was ""a parlor by day and a first-class hotel room at night""

(George) Pullman

19th CENTURY PEOPLE | 800 | Puttering about with peas, this monk laid the foundation for modern genetics

(Gregor) Mendel

HISTORICAL NICKNAMES | 600 | France's ""Magician of Iron""

(Gustave) Eiffel

20th CENTURY QUOTES | 800 | In a 1916 interview this Michigan businessman said that ""history is more or less bunk""

(Henry) Ford

HISTORY | 1200 | Ignoring a fleet signal at an 1801 battle, this Brit claimed, ""I have only one eye. I have a right to be blind sometimes""

(Horatio) Nelson

PO PRESENTS UNCONVENTIONAL WARRIORS | 200 | (Po delivers the clue.) This British admiral, killed during his greatest victory at Trafalgar, was blind in one eye but didn't wear an eyepatch. You know I would have. Nobody messes with you when you wear an eyepatch

(Horatio) Nelson

PRINCELY NICKNAMES | 800 | Youthful thievery earned this ""White Fang"" author the nickname ""Prince of the Oyster Pirates""

(Jack) London

DRUNK HISTORY | 1600 | This U.S. artist's 1945 marriage to Lee Krasner was a stabilizing factor he needed against his drinking

(Jackson) Pollock

HAWAIIAN HISTORY | 800 | Fresh out of Harvard's School of Horticulture & Agriculture, he founded the Hawaiian Pineapple Company in 1901

(James) Dole

HISTORICAL BLINDNESS | 2000 | On his failing eyesight, this New Yorker cartoonist said, ""Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!""

(James) Thurber

THE 17th CENTURY | 2000 | In the painting seen here, this Dutch artist portrayed another girl with a pearl earring--possibly his daughter

(Jan) Vermeer

CIVIL WAR GENERALS | 1600 | A Texas fort is named for this confederate general who led the Texas Brigade of the army of northern Virginia

(John B.) Hood

FACES IN HISTORY | 1000 | The Sherman Antitrust Act was designed in part to thwart this oil man

(John D.) Rockefeller

HISTORY | 600 | Joan the Mad, this woman's daughter, became Queen of Castile in 1504 but in 1509 was imprisoned for the rest of her life

(Queen) Isabella

HISTORIC AUTOMOBILES | 800 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, OH.) Though most of the problems were worked out by the 1964 version, the Chevy Corvair was one of the main cars covered unfavorably in this man's book ""Unsafe at Any Speed""

(Ralph) Nader

CIVIL WAR PEOPLE | 800 | It was at a victory that this CSA Gen. reportedly said, ""It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it""

(Robert E.) Lee

17th CENTURY AMERICA | 1000 | This founder of Providence, Rhode Island published the first Native American language dictionary in 1643

(Roger) Williams

HISTORY IS HAPPENING | 1200 | The statue of this man topples just as he does, along with his regime in April, 2003

(Saddam) Hussein

FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES | 200 | Even when you were el dictador of Peru in 1825, we still said viva el libertador!

(Simón) BolÃvar

FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES | 400 | Sir, your 1704 book ""Opticks"" laid the foundation for the science of spectrum analysis! You totally rock!

(Sir Isaac) Newton

IRISH HISTORY | 1600 | Perhaps an opportunistic co-opting of a Pagan goddess, she is the second-most prominent Irish saint

(St.) Bridget

THEY'RE HISTORY! | 800 | In 1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton & this woman formed the national woman suffrage association

(Susan B.) Anthony

LITERARY AWARDS | 1000 | Though dead almost 20 years, she won a 1982 Pulitzer for her ""Collected Poems""

(Sylvia) Plath

RECENT HISTORY | 1600 | In September 2013 this Texas senator held the floor for 21 hours in an effort to derail Obamacare

(Ted) Cruz

OHIO HISTORY | 200 | What's today known as this was established near Columbus in 1870 as an agricultural & mechanical college

(The) Ohio State (University)

INVENTIVE THINKING | 1000 | More than Bell's sidekick, he came up with a ringer that let a telephone caller alert the recipient

(Thomas) Watson

HISTORICAL QUOTATIONS | 800 | At Fort Donelson, Tennessee, in 1862, he uttered his demand for unconditional & immediate surrender

(Ulysses) Grant

LOOKING FOR ALASKA | 2000 | In 1728 this Dane in Russia's navy made the first of 2 voyages to the North Pacific

(Vitus) Bering

PRINCELY NICKNAMES | 1200 | ""Cowboy Philosopher"" & ""Prince of Wit & Wisdom"" were nicknames of this 1930s humorist

(Will) Rogers

HISTORY, ON THE MOVE | 800 | This Union general swung north in February 1865 through the Carolinas toward Virginia

(William T.) Sherman

CIVIL WAR GENERALS | 800 | Known for his scorched earth policy, this union general worked as a banker & lawyer before the war

(William Tecumseh) Sherman

HISTORY | 400 | In 1684 this Quaker said, ""I have led the greatest colony into America that ever any man did upon a private credit""

(William) Penn

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME | 800 | This 18th century German's ""critique"" of time? It's ""phenomenally real"" but ""noumenally unreal""

Kant

THE 19th CENTURY | 1600 | Exiled from Prussia in 1849, this newspaper editor printed his final issue in red

Karl Marx

ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS | 400 | MTV's Video of the Year for 2011 was this California gurl's ""Firework""

Katy Perry

WAR STARS | 200 | Cottage cheese was part of Michael Fassbender's Spartan diet to prep for this movie set at Thermopylae

300

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S DIAMOND JUBILEE | 200 | Jubilee festivities kicked off with a this many gun salute from the Tower of London, 41 more than a normal salute

62

THE STORY OF THE 21st CENTURY | 600 | Mike Piazza & this son of a Major Leaguer are the 2 sluggers joining the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2016

Ken Griffey, Jr.

HISTORY AS THEATER | 2000 | Not compromising with Henry VIII proves fatal for Sir Thomas More in this Robert Bolt drama

A Man for All Seasons

SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE | 800 | It is a fairy tale:""RUMMAGE MASTERMIND DISH""

A Midsummer Night\'s Dream

WORST PICTURE OF THE YEAR RAZZIE AWARDS | 1600 | ""I Know Who Killed Me"" starred this former child star & current bad girl as twins

Lindsay Lohan

MOROCCAN HISTORY | 400 | The opening of the film ""Casablanca"" tells us during World War II the city was full of people trying to get to this European capital

Lisbon

THE WORLD AT WAR | 2000 | This Japanese admiral planned and led the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor

Admiral Yamamoto

THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WARS | 800 | Nobody won the Peace Prize in 1939, but both Neville Chamberlain & this Munich Pact partner were nominated

Adolf Hitler

BATTLES | 800 | In Shakespeare, before this battle Henry V rallies his troops, calling them ""We few, we happy few, we band of brothers""

Agincourt

EARLY 21st CENTURY CINEMA | 400 | In the documentary ""An Inconvenient Truth"", he mentions the South Atlantic had its first hurricane in 2004

Al Gore

THEY'RE HISTORY! | 400 | In 2007 this former VP won the Nobel Peace Prize, sharing it with the intergovernmental panel on climate change

Al Gore

A HISTORY LESSON | 800 | Czar Alexander II signed the 1867 Treaty of Cession that gave this territory to the United States

Alaska

THE WAR OF 1912 | 1600 | At war's end in 1913, this country on the Adriatic achieved independence from Turkey after 4 centuries

Albania

BRITISH HISTORY | 1600 | Perhaps referring to the White Cliffs of Dover, this earliest-known name for Britain was used as far back as 300 B.C.

Albion

19th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS | 800 | In 1882 this ex-vice president of the Confederacy was elected gov. of Georgia but died shortly after taking office

Alexander Stephens

THE CIVIL WAR | 2000 | In February 1865 Lincoln met with this Confederate vice president aboard the River Queen at Hampton Roads, Virginia

Alexander Stephens

HISTORICAL QUOTES | 400 | When told of a new theory, this Macedonian wept, ""When the number of worlds is infinite, I have not conquered one""

Alexander the Great

WORLD HISTORY | 400 | He's depicted here dealing with a tough knot In one of the storied moments of his career.

Alexander the Great

HISTORIC NAMES | 600 | She didn't see the revolution coming, resulting in her death at age 46 in 1918

Alexandra (of Russia)

D.C. HISTORY | 1600 | Washington originally included 2 port cities within its boundaries: Georgetown & this city that returned to Virginia in 1846

Alexandria

THE BRITISH MONARCH WHO... | 2000 | defeated the Danes at the Battle of Edington in 878

Alfred the Great

20th CENTURY EUROPE | 1200 | After this North African nation was given independence in 1962, some army officers accused de Gaulle of betraying France

Algeria

THE TONY AWARDS | 800 | This ""Murder, She Wrote"" actress has hosted or co-hosted a record 5 Tony telecasts

Angela Lansbury

WORLD HISTORY | 2000 | In 1961 Algerians began training rebels from this West African colony who wanted independence from the Portuguese

Angola

TEXAS HISTORY | 1000 | We miss this outspoken woman with white hair who became the governor of Texas in 1991

Ann Richards

HISTORICAL TITLES | 1600 | Book of Common Prayerauthor Thomas Cranmer,1533-1556

Archbishop of Canterbury

WORKING WOMEN | 400 | She's the author, commentator & media mogul seen here

Arianna Huffington

THE CIVIL WAR YEARS | 400 | In 1861 Army Surgeon Bernard Irwin earned the 1st Medal of Honor in Hostilities vs. Chiricahua Apaches in this future state

Arizona

WORLD HISTORY | 1200 | Named for a mythic king, this brother of Henry VIII married Catherine of Aragon first before dying at age 15

Arthur (Prince of Wales)

LITERARY AWARDS | 1600 | A British sci-fi award named for this ""Childhood's End"" author consists of an engraved bookend

Arthur C. Clarke

SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE | 400 | With a happy ending:""YOU SAIL KITE""

As You Like It

HISTORY SINCE 1950 | 1000 | This country's first female leader, Khaleda Zia was prime minister in the 1990s & again from 2001 to 2006

Bangladesh

SEEKING ASYLUM | 800 | Known as Misha, he got asylum from Canada before joining the American Ballet Theatre

Baryshnikov

THE CIVIL WAR | 1200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) On May 2, 1863 Stonewall Jackson led his men on a 12-mile march to get into position for an attack on the unsuspecting federal troops. Lee remained behind for a frontal assault. This battle is considered Lee's greatest victory

Battle of Chancellorsville

WAR STARS | 600 | Agu is a child soldier in an African Civil War in this film that earned Idris Elba a Golden Globe nomination

Beasts of No Nation

JUDEAN HISTORY | 2000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Biblical Palestine was divided into two kingdoms--Israel in the north & Judea in the south, with this city that's still the main community of the Negev region as its southernmost town

Beersheba

EURO-MONARCHY | 1600 | Philippe, seen here, took over as this country's king in 2013

Belgium

SPOKEN WORD GRAMMY AWARDS | 600 | ""The Words of Gandhi"" won an 1984 Grammy for this actor who spoke them

Ben Kingsley

HISTORIC NAMES | 2000 | In 1861, 4 years after being selected to preside over Mexico's supreme court, he was elected president

Benito Juárez

THE 19TH CENTURY | 1000 | A 20th century Italian dictator was named for this 1860s president of Mexico

Benito Juárez

18th CENTURY SCIENTISTS | 400 | He wrote, ""In September 1752, I erected an iron rod to draw the lightning down into my house""

Benjamin Franklin

THAT IS LIKE SO LATE 20th CENTURY | 600 | ""It's all about"" these first names, aka C-notes

Benjamins

THE 18th CENTURY | 1000 | Working with Peter the Great's navy, this explorer went ""strait"" to the water routes between Siberia & North America

Bering

NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICALLY | 1600 | North Carolina's second-oldest town was named ""New"" this by Swiss settlers; a capital idea!

Bern

THE 12th CENTURY | 1200 | Berthold V founded this future Swiss capital in 1191 as a military post on the Aare river

Bern

HISTORICAL HAIKU | 400 | Seamstress for the band /Pennsylvania Navy job /1830s death

Betsy Ross

WORLD WAR I SLANG | 800 | The German gun ""Long Max"" was not as famous as this alliterative Krupp product

Big Bertha

20th CENTURY AMERICA | 400 | In 1975, it was the first monster truck & shared its name with an American legend

Bigfoot

ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS | 800 | This British musical about a coal miner's young son danced away with 10 Tony Awards in 2009

Billy Elliot

GERMAN HISTORY | 1600 | Jealous of this chancellor's fame, Wilhelm II forced him to resign on March 18, 1890

Bismarck

HISTORICAL QUOTES | 2000 | This 19th century ""Iron Chancellor"" predicted a European war started by some ""foolish thing in the Balkans""

Bismarck

A POTPOURRI OF HISTORY | 400 | Vlad III (that's the impaler) built the fortress of this Romanian city to try to hold back the Turks

Bucharest

A HISTORY LESSON | 800 | In 1703, John Sheffield, Duke of this, built a palatial estate on the former site of London's Arlington House

Buckingham

HISTORIC PLACES | 2000 | On Aug. 31,1901 Leon Czolgosz arrived in this city, where he would shoot Pres. McKinley

Buffalo

HISTORICAL TO-DO LISTS | 800 | July 20, 1969:Become second guy to walk on Moon; celebrate communion there

Buzz Aldrin

QUICK HISTORY | 400 | In 1756 this city's ""black hole"" made news

Calcutta

FORTUNE 500 THROUGH THE DECADES | 600 | In 1974 it was ""Good Times"" for this network, the top media company at No. 14

CBS

20th CENTURY AMERICA | 800 | These items that caused a 1983 holiday season frenzy were later immortalized on a stamp

Cabbage Patch Kids

BEST DRAMA SERIES EMMY AWARDS | 600 | 1985 & '86: This series about a female cop duo

Cagney & Lacey

CHINESE HISTORY | 400 | Begun in 486 B.C., China's ""Grand"" this is the world's longest manmade waterway

Canal

BRITISH HISTORY | 1000 | In 598 St. Augustine built a monastery near this settlement, which became the main religious center of England

Canterbury

NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 400 | Men, after visiting the Pro Football H.O.F. in this Ohio city, take your own first lady to the nearby First Ladies Historic Site

Canton

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 400 | In an 1875 ceremony at St. Patrick's, Archbishop John McCloskey became the first in the U.S. to achieve this position

Cardinal

KINGS & QUEENS | 1600 | King at 4, Louis XIV was advised by his mother, Anne of Austria, & Jules Mazarin, a minister with this religious title

Cardinal

16th CENTURY WRITING | 1200 | John Skelton's satire ""Collyn Clout"" was directed against this cardinal & adviser to Henry VIII

Cardinal Wolsey

THE EMMY AWARDS 1995 | 1200 | Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series:This sitcom legend as Alan Brady on ""Mad About You""

Carl Reiner

HISTORY | 600 | Her temperance newspapers included ""The Smasher's Mail"" & ""The Hatchet""

Carrie Nation

ANCIENT HISTORY | 2000 | In 439 A.D. Genseric the Vandal captured this North African city, which became the Vandal capital

Carthage

BORN DURING THE CIVIL WAR | 400 | The story of this brave engineer began in Missouri in 1863

Casey Jones

THEY'RE HISTORY! | 2000 | Brutus called this man, his co-conspirator, ""the last of the Romans""

Cassius

BRITISH HISTORY | 800 | Still negotiating for peace, this prime minister met with Mussolini in Rome in January 1939

Chamberlain

HISTORIC JOB TITLES | 800 | Charles Townshend,1766:This taxing position under Pitt

Chancellor of the Exchequer

KING OF THE HILL | 1200 | Chaberton in France,800 A.D.

Charlemagne

WORLD HISTORY | 2000 | In 1429 Joan of Arc escorted the soon-to-be VIIth king of this name to Reims & stood by his side as he was crowned

Charles

A ROYAL BRITISH LOCKUP | 800 | This doomed king tried to break out of Carisbrooke Castle in 1648 but got stuck in the bars on his window

Charles I

KINGS OF ENGLAND NOT BORN IN ENGLAND | 800 | Dunfermline, Scotland was his birthplace in 1600; a chopping block was his final destination in 1649

Charles I

WHICH BRITISH MONARCH'S REIGN? | 1200 | Oliver Cromwell enters Parliament

Charles I

WHO WON THE WAR ANYWAY? | 1600 | The English Civil War was Parliament vs. this king, who surrendered in 1646

Charles I

MONARCHS OF ENGLAND | 1000 | This restored king ruled during the great plague of 1665 & the Great Fire of London the following year

Charles II

HISTORICAL ONLINE CHECK-INS | 1600 | 1949: I'm in Taiwan, setting up a government with other nationalist Chinese leaders

Chiang Kai-shek

WHO WON THE WAR ANYWAY? | 2000 | South America's War of the Pacific ended in 1883 with this winning nation cutting off Bolivia from the sea

Chile

WORLD HISTORY | 1200 | In August 2008 the Summer Olympics took place in this Asian country

China

HISTORIC HANDSHAKES | 1200 | The 2015 shake by Xi Jinping & Ma Ying-jeou marked the first top-level contact between these two countries in 66 years

China & Taiwan

A STUDENT OF HISTORY | 1200 | After this Brown University history major worked as a college sports commentator, he would. Go. All. The. Way to ESPN

Chris Berman

HISTORICAL TO-DO LISTS | 1200 | Sept. 5, 1666:Begin plan to rebuild post-Great Fire London; hand in to King in a week or so

Christopher Wren

IT HAPPENED IN THE 20th CENTURY | 600 | In May 1940 he became prime minister & began inspiring the British people

Churchill

HISTORIC NAMES | 2000 | Rome's greatest orator, he was invited to join the triumvirate of Caesar, Crassus & Pompey but declined

Cicero

QUEEN OF | 1200 | It was a while ago, so we'll give Longfellow a pass when he called this Ohio city ""Queen of the West""

Cincinnati

ANCIENT HISTORY | 1000 | The first Roman emperor born outside Italy, this slightly deaf & limping man took power in 41 A.D.

Claudius

THE DAVY O'BRIEN QUARTERBACK AWARD | 800 | 2015:The Tiger Deshaun Watson

Clemson

A PAGEANT OF ROYALTY | 600 | She had a Caesar on the side while she was married to her brother Ptolemy XIV

Cleopatra

ANCIENT HISTORY | 400 | After this queen died in 30 B.C., Egypt fell under Roman domination

Cleopatra

HISTORICAL NICKNAMES | 400 | ""The Serpent of the Nile""

Cleopatra

KINGS & QUEENS | 400 | She became queen in 51 B.C. when her father the pharaoh died

Cleopatra

THE QUEEN'S EXPIRATION DATE | 200 | August 30 B.C.in Alexandria

Cleopatra

YOU'RE HISTORY! | 800 | The name of this ancient queen is from the Greek for ""glory of her father""

Cleopatra

THE 19th CENTURY | 1600 | In 1893 his daughter Esther became the first child of a president to be born in the White House

Cleveland

HISTORIC HANDSHAKES | 200 | While attending Boys Nation in Washington, D.C., on July 24, 1963, this future president shook hands with JFK

Clinton

BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES | 2000 | Brunswick-Luneburg was an earlier name for the Hanovers; Saxe-this & Gotha was what they became

Coburg

STEPHEN KING | 400 | Like ""The Shining"", ""Misery"" deals with a writer stuck in this U.S. state during winter

Colorado

HISTORICAL QUOTATIONS | 400 | In a 1500 letter, he wrote, ""I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people""

Columbus

REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIGURES | 400 | On April 18, 1775, Massachusetts Governor Gage ordered British troops to destroy military stores in this town near Lexington

Concord

ANCIENT HISTORY | 1000 | Born in China in 551 B.C., this teacher & philosopher is also referred to as Kongfuzi, or ""Master Kong""

Confucius

HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE | 400 | In the 400s B.C. this Chinese philosopher went into exile for 12 years

Confucius

THE 4th CENTURY | 1600 | In 330 he dedicated the city of New Rome as his capital on the Bosporus; soon it was named for him

Constantine

THE WAR OF 1912 | 800 | The Greeks captured Salonika under this future king who shared his name with the namesake of ancient Istanbul

Constantine

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

Cornelius Vanderbilt

WORLD WAR II | 1600 | On May 6, 1942 U.S. troops on this fortress island in Manila Bay surrendered to the Japanese

Corregidor

HISTORIC OOPSIES | 800 | In 1519 Montezuma let forces led by this Spanish explorer enter Tenochtitlan--oops

Cortés

WORLD HISTORY | 1600 | In the mid-1400s this Medici, grandfather of Lorenzo the Magnificent, headed the largest bank in Europe

Cosimo

WORLD HISTORY | 2000 | The legendary wealth of this king in what's now Turkey didn't help in 546 B.C. when the Persians defeated him

Croesus

BATTLE HIM | 1200 | He was killed in battle in June 1876, along with all of his approximately 210 soldiers

Custer

THE CIVIL WAR | 400 | More famous for a Montana battle, he & his men kept Jeb Stuart from attacking the Union rear at Gettysburg

Custer

BREAKING BAD | 800 | Germany broke the Munich Agreement of 1938 in march of 1939 by seizing the rest of this country that no longer exists

Czechoslovakia

WARSAW PACT ALUMNI NATIONS | 1200 | This onetime Warsaw Pact member has since split into 2 countries

Czechoslovakia

HISTORY | 1600 | In 1973 U.S. officials misread a Soviet message & went to level 3 in this system, 1 below the Cuban Missile Crisis

DEFCON

FACES IN HISTORY | 400 | This Tennessean is one of those we remember from the Alamo

Davy Crockett

HISTORIC HANDSHAKES | 1600 | They're the two men seen here in 1990

De Klerk & Mandela

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 800 | In the 1812 election, President Madison defeated this man, the nephew of his first Veep George Clinton

DeWitt Clinton

IT'S GETTING WARM | 600 | In 1913 this California low point had 5 straight days of at least 129 degrees

Death Valley

THE 17th CENTURY | 800 | In the Kalmar War these 2 countries fought over a region that is now part of northern Norway

Denmark & Sweden

20th CENTURY | 800 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virginia.) As war gave way to peace & then to war again, the battleship Wisconsin was mothballed three times & recommissioned twice; her latest return to service was in 1988, & three years later, she became the last U.S. battleship to actively participate in a foreign war when she took part in this operation

Desert Storm

CHECKING IN ON MARCH 26 | 200 | We are ""supreme""ly aware of March 26's significance to this singer--happy 71st

Diana Ross

BEAUTY QUEENS | 400 | Currently the anchor of ""ABC World News"", she served as America's Junior Miss of 1963

Diane Sawyer

WORLD HISTORY | 2000 | On May 7, 1954 a French outpost at this location fell to Communist Vietnamese forces

Dien Bien Phu

HISTORY | 600 | In 2013 this Brazilian president was not happy that the U.S. was listening in on her phone calls

Dilma Rousseff

DISNEY'S 7 DWARFS | 600 | Byname of sometime dentist John Henry Holliday

Doc

THE WAR OF 1812 | 800 | She had the frame of Gilbert Stuart's Washington portrait broken so that the canvas could be taken for safekeeping

Dolley Madison

HISTORIC NAMES | 2000 | Cixi, who ruled China in the late 19th & early 20th centuries, was known as the ""Empress"" this type of widow

Dowager

19th CENTURY NOVELS BY QUOTE | 200 | ""I shall fix some things she like not--garlic and a crucifix--and so seal up the door of the tomb""

Dracula

IN THE ____ OF BATTLE | 800 | 1658 on a beach near Dunkirk, named for the sand formations on which it was fought:Battle of the ____

Dunes

HAWAIIAN HISTORY | 600 | In 1898 a camera crew from this inventor's company filmed scenes in the Hawaiian Islands

Edison

A ROYAL BRITISH LOCKUP | 2000 | Captured by barons, Henry III was freed in 1265 by his son, the future first king of this name

Edward

KINGS OF ENGLAND NOT BORN IN ENGLAND | 2000 | Born in Rouen in 1442, the fourth king of this name was a prominent figure in the Wars of the Roses

Edward

UNCROWNED ENGLISH MONARCHS | 1600 | His unpopular intention to marry twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson led to his abdication & non-crowning

Edward VIII

PRINCELY NICKNAMES | 1600 | This 19th c. actor known as the ""Prince of Players"" was the brother of a presidential assassin

Edwin Booth

THE SECRETARY OF WAR | 2000 | Secretary during the Civil War, he died 4 days after Grant appointed him to the Supreme Court

Edwin Stanton

NEAR THE END OF THE CENTURY | 800 | In 1799 the Rosetta Stone was found in this country

Egypt

A PAGEANT OF ROYALTY | 800 | In 1137 she was but a teenager, & not only did she inherit Aquitaine but also wed the future king of France!

Eleanor (of Aquitaine)

A ROYAL BRITISH LOCKUP | 1600 | After attempting to help her rebellious sons in 1173, she was imprisoned by her husband Henry II

Eleanor of Aquitaine

THE 12th CENTURY | 2000 | This queen of France was divorced from Louis VII in March 1152 & married Henry Plantagenet 2 months later

Eleanor of Aquitaine

BRITISH HISTORY | 800 | Thomas Bruce, earl of this, went east to Greece to get some marbles; his son James went west & was gov.-gen. of Canada

Elgin

COTTON IS KING | 400 | In 1794 this man patented his cotton gin

Eli Whitney

A ROYAL BRITISH LOCKUP | 1200 | In 1554 she spent 2 months in captivity after her sister Queen Mary suspected her of complicity in the Wyatt rebellion

Elizabeth I

MONARCHS OF ENGLAND | 600 | The one with the second-longest reign

Elizabeth II

WORKING WITH A BEATLE | 2000 | On Thanksgiving 1974, John joined this man at Madison Square Garden to perform ""Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds""

Elton John

WHEN I'M KING... | 400 | Japan, 1926-1989

Emperor Hirohito

A BRIEF TIME OF HISTORY | 800 | In Rome, 69 A.D. was ""The Year of the Four"" these, including Galba & Otho

Emperors

A SWEDISH KING NAMED GUS | 2000 | A patron of the arts, Gustav III reigned over an intellectual & cultural period of the 18th c. called Sweden's this

Enlightenment

THINKING | 800 | Flick the switch; the Age of Reason was also known as this

Enlightenment

20th CENTURY EUROPE | 1600 | By 1921 Romania, Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia formed a defense alliance called the Little this, French for ""understanding""

Entente

HISTORIC AGREEMENT WORDS | 1600 | In 1907 Britain, France & Russia formed the Triple this French word

Entente

PRINCELY NICKNAMES | 2000 | This 16th century Dutch scholar & author of ""Praise of Folly"" was known as the ""Prince of Humanists""

Erasmus

WOMEN IN HISTORY | 200 | In 1860 she established a school for nurses at St. Thomas' hospital

Florence Nightingale

WOMEN IN HISTORY | 400 | She declined burial in Westminster Abbey; her pallbearers were from Army units whose wounded she had tended

Florence Nightingale

THE VIETNAM WAR ERA | 1600 | In 1968 this anti-war candidate vied with fellow Minnesotan Hubert Humphrey for the Democratic nomination

Eugene McCarthy

20th CENTURY PLAYWRIGHTS | 400 | In 1959 NYC's Coronet Theatre was renamed to honor this ""Iceman Cometh"" dramatist

Eugene O\'Neill

'80s TONY AWARDS | 400 | In 1980 Mandy Patinkin took home a Tony for his role as Che in this musical

Evita

IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT | 600 | Arthur proves to be the rightful king of England by pulling this sword from the stone

Excalibur

FIRST, QUEENS | 600 | Parts of Queens were once marshland, including these ""Meadows"" that have hosted 2 World's Fairs

Flushing Meadows

CHINESE HISTORY | 2000 | After a massive demonstration in Beijing in 1999, China banned this spiritual movement, calling it a heretical cult

Falun Gong

FIRST, QUEENS | 1000 | A nature preserve makes up part of this Queens peninsula that juts ""Far"" into the Atlantic

Far Rockaway

CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN | 1600 | In the spring of 1862, this naval hero & his fleet captured New Orleans

Farragut

MICHIGAN HISTORY | 1600 | A city up north is named for this French priest who founded Michigan's first permanent Eur. settlement c. 1668

Father Marquette

OSCAR-NOMINATED WARNER BROS. CARTOONS | 600 | ""Walky Talky Hawky"", starring this, I say, this rooster

Foghorn Leghorn

CIVIL WAR SLANG | 1600 | A Union soldier could be called this, now found before ""Trade Commission""

Federal

THE 18th CENTURY | 600 | 1780s Americans who advocated a strong central government used this name, today associated with states' rights

Federalists

THE TONY AWARDS | 800 | This drama by August Wilson won for best revival of a play in 2010; stars Denzel Washington & Viola Davis also won

Fences

THE 8th CENTURY | 1600 | A tip of the hat to Idris I, who founded this Moroccan city in 789

Fez

THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS | 1600 | December 25, 1939:The Battle of Jelja commences in the ""Winter War"" between these 2 foes

Finland & Russia

WORRIER PRINCESS | 800 | This animated princess says to her rescuer, ""This is all wrong. You're not supposed to be an ogre""

Fiona

MICHIGAN HISTORY | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a graph on the monitor.) In 2016, the Washington Post showed lead in parts-per-billion in Michigan; with the normal level of cause for concern being 5, in Troy, it was 1.1, in Detroit, it was 2.3, & in this city, a staggering 27

Flint

THE 16th CENTURY | 400 | In 1501 Michelangelo returned to this city, his hometown, & began work on ""David""

Florence

HISTORIC NAMES | 400 | An 1855 London Times article called this wartime nurse ""a ministering angel without any exaggeration""

Florence Nightingale

CAMBODIAN HISTORY & CULTURE | 400 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh.) The Royal Palace grounds feature a statue of King Norodom, who in the late 1800s was compelled to first put his country under the control of this European power; of course, it was sculpted in that country

France

THE WAR OF 1812 | 1600 | This Washington attorney was held prisoner aboard a British ship in mid-September 1814

Francis Scott Key

13th CENTURY HIGHLIGHTS | 1600 | This patron saint of Italy died in 1226 & was swiftly canonized in 1228

Francis of Assisi

SPANISH HISTORY | 400 | Hitler said that he'd rather have teeth pulled than negotiate with this Spanish generalissimo

Franco

WHO WON THE WAR ANYWAY? | 1200 | In the 1930s Fascist forces led by this general won the Spanish Civil War

Franco

OF THE NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS | 1000 | For works like the one seen here, this Canadian-born architect won the first Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000

Frank Gehry

UNFORTUNATE HISTORY | 1200 | This president from N.H. began his inaugural address in ""bitter sorrow"", his son having recently died in a train wreck

Franklin Pierce

THE LATE 19th CENTURY | 400 | After the death of his cousin in 1889, this man became heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne

Franz Ferdinand

THE WALKING DEAD | 200 | Robert Englund once again sank his claws into this role in ""A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master""

Freddy Krueger

19th CENTURY NOTABLES | 800 | The Rochester, N.Y. home of this orator & former slave was a station on the Underground Railroad

Frederick Douglass

LITERARY AWARDS | 1600 | An award at Yale for the most outstanding nonfiction book on slavery &/or abolition is named for this man

Frederick Douglass

THE CIVIL WAR | 400 | In 1863 he published the article ""Men of Color, to Arms!"", urging black enlistment in the army

Frederick Douglass

I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD | 800 | In 1747 this Prussian king presented a musical theme to Bach, who used it to develop his ""Musical Offering""

Frederick the Great

ROYALTY | 800 | Under his rule from 1740 to 1786, Prussia became one of the great military powers & intellectual centers of Europe

Frederick the Great

WAR STARS | 800 | As the first female trainee in the Navy's elite SEAL program, Demi Moore is determined to succeed in this film

G.I. Jane

WARDROBE | 1600 | In 2012 this jeans & apparel company founded by Georges Marciano & Brothers celebrated 30 years in retail

GUESS

13th CENTURY HIGHLIGHTS | 400 | In 1215 Beijing was captured by this nomadic warrior-ruler

Genghis Khan

ITALIAN HISTORY | 2000 | This city-state & republic on the Ligurian Sea lasted from the 11th century until 1797

Genoa

MONARCHS OF ENGLAND | 400 | He was king not only during the American war of independence but during the War of 1812 as well

George III

PRE-'80s HISTORY | 200 | The U.K. was formed with the 1801 addition of Ireland to the realm of this king

George III

WHICH BRITISH MONARCH'S REIGN? | 1600 | The Battle of Trafalgar

George III

THE CIVIL WAR | 1000 | In November 1861 this Union man became general in chief of all armies; by March 1862, he lost the gig

George McClellan

RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? | 200 | Petunia my lovely, this Pennsylvania battle goes on & we are to assault Culp's Hill! My life insurance policy is in the chifforobe

Gettysburg

QUEEN VICTORIA | 800 | Not always stuffy, Vicki saw this duo's ""The Gondoliers"" & beat time to the song ""Then One Of Us Will Be A Queen""

Gilbert & Sullivan

B.C. KING | 1000 | This legendary king of uruk ruled in the third millennium B.C.; the ""epic"" thought to be about him would come later

Gilgamesh

20th CENTURY PEOPLE | 1000 | After her 1978 death, it was revealed that this ex-prime minister of Israel had leukemia for 12 years

Golda Meir

I AM HISTORY! | 2000 | Ukraine-born, she moved to the U.S. in 1906 & eventually became a world leader for Israel

Golda Meir

NEAR THE END OF THE CENTURY | 600 | 1998 brought the ""agreement"" named for this holiday to Northern Ireland; just in time for Easter!

Good Friday

THE MARCH OF HISTORY | 200 | In March 1985 this man who would make big changes became general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party

Gorbachev

19th CENTURY OPERA | 1600 | One of the many composers to write a ""Faust"" opera, he was buddies with Bizet

Gounod

18th CENTURY AMERICA | 1600 | In the 1780s this ""Gouverneur"" proposed the decimal monetary system & devised the name ""cent"" for the basic coin

Gouverneur Morris

HISTORICAL TITLES | 1200 | Pontius Pilate in Judea,26-36

Governor

19th CENTURY NOVEL QUOTES | 1200 | ""Miss Havisham was alone. 'Well?' said she, fixing her eyes upon me. 'I hope you want nothing? You'll get nothing""'

Great Expectations

THE WORLD AT WAR | 400 | In October 1940 Italy launched an invasion of this country only to get routed by the gyros of General Papagos

Greece

QEII IS THEIR QUEEN TOO | 800 | A Crown colony in 1877, it became independent in 1974 & was invaded by the U.S. in 1983

Grenada

THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS | 800 | Not to be confused with ""I am Groot"", this exuberant tight end could declare, ""I am Gronk""

Gronkowski

HISTORIC BATTLES | 2000 | The U.S. Marines' 6-month battle for this island in the Solomons helped secure American air superiority in the Pacific

Guadalcanal

FORTUNE 500 THROUGH THE DECADES | 800 | In 1964 the top 10 had 4 oil companies, including this one named for a body of water

Gulf

A SWEDISH KING NAMED GUS | 1200 | Deposed in 1809, Gustav IV Adolf went into exile using this last name, which makes sense as his father was Gustav III

Gustafsson

THE 2nd CENTURY | 800 | This Roman emperor visited Britain in 122 A.D. & had some ideas for military construction

Hadrian

19th CENTURY PEOPLE | 600 | A former slave, Emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines was assassinated in what's now this Caribbean nation in 1806

Haiti

HISTORY | 1000 | Henri Christophe helped Toussaint L'Ouverture liberate this country, then tyrannically ruled its northern part

Haiti

ANCIENT HISTORY: 1986 | 400 | This object reached its closest point to Earth in April 1986, its second visit to our skies in the 20th century

Halley\'s Comet

BRITISH KINGS NAMED EDWARD | 800 | King Edward I was known as this carpentry tool ""Of The Scotts""

Hammer

ANCIENT HISTORY | 400 | Much of what is known about Babylonian society comes from this 18th century B.C. king's code

Hammurabi

ANCIENT HISTORY | 400 | Under this Babylonian king's code, receiving stolen property was punishable by death

Hammurabi

SPEAKING IN CODE | 800 | If your wife got sick, it was cool to re-wed, but you had to take care of your sick wife until she passed, said his 1700s B.C. code

Hammurabi

CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE | 2000 | The Battle of the Monitor & the Merrimack is also called the Battle of this Virginia channel

Hampton Roads

ANCIENT BATTLES | 1600 | Defeat at the 207 B.C. Battle of the Metaurus River ended this man's efforts to conquer Italy

Hannibal

HISTORIC BATTLES | 800 | At Zama in 202 B.C., he sent 80 elephants charging into Roman ranks but lost the battle

Hannibal

WORLD HISTORY | 600 | In 219 B.C. this Carthaginian attacked the Roman ally of Saguntum in Spain, & Rome soon declared war.

Hannibal

WHICH DISNEY DWARF? | 400 | Jocund

Happy

THE LATE 19th CENTURY | 2000 | In 1890 a mercenary force organized by Cecil Rhodes founded Fort Salisbury, today this national capital

Harare (Zimbabwe)

HISTORICAL QUOTES | 1200 | This former slave once told Frederick Douglass that in all her journeys she ""never lost a single passenger""

Harriet Tubman

HUGO AWARD-WINNING NOVELS | 400 | J.K. Rowling won in 2001 for this novel partly about an object full of flames

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

THE TONY AWARDS | 1600 | 2 have won Tonys for playing the opposite sex: Mary Martin as Peter Pan & this actor as Edna Turnblad in ""Hairspray""

Harvey Fierstein

POLISH HISTORY | 2000 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1569, a jointly elected sovereign was a feature of the Union of Lublin, which merged Poland with this country, whose modern borders are seen here

Lithuania

BATTLE CREEK | 400 | A tributary of the largest tributary of the Yellowstone, it became famous in 1876

Little Big Horn

19th CENTURY BRIT LIT | 2000 | Amy is the real name of this Dickens title character who was born in the Marshalsea debtor's prison

Little Dorrit

WAR STORIES | 1000 | ""The Winds of War"" in the title of this man's 1971 bestseller blow the U.S. into World War II

Herman Wouk

FLYING INTO HISTORY | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) In the P-51 Mustang, the Allies finally had a fighter with the range to fly from England into the heart of Germany & back; when he saw mustangs over Berlin, this Luftwaffe chief reportedly said he knew that World War II was lost

Hermann Goering

HISTORIC NAMES | 800 | In a Jan. 1, 1946 broadcast, he repudiated his semi-divine status as emperor

Hirohito

KING OF THE HILL | 800 | Mount Fuji,1944

Hirohito

THE 15th CENTURY | 800 | Already king of Hungary & Bohemia, Sigismund ascended to this imperial title in 1433

Holy Roman Emperor

HISTORY 101 | 800 | Around 101 A.D., an invasion began to drive the indigenous Ainu from this largest Japanese island

Honshu

19th CENTURY LITERARY MARRIAGES | 2000 | Charles, a simple widower, marries Emma, this title Frenchwoman; things go...poorly

Madame Bovary

I AM HISTORY! | 1600 | In the 1940s he needed 2 tries to become mayor of Minneapolis; 20 years later, he was vice president

Hubert Humphrey

THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS | 800 | When Alice first meets this character, he's sitting on top of a high wall ""with his legs crossed, like a Turk""

Humpty Dumpty

WARSAW PACT ALUMNI NATIONS | 800 | In November 1956 it said it was leaving the pact; enter Soviet tanks

Hungary

I KINGS | 1200 | This Jordanian king who died in 1999 was known to his people as Al-Malik Al-Insan or ""The Humane King""

Hussein

HISTORIC NICKNAMES | 1000 | U.S. admiral:""Father of the Atomic Submarine""

Hyman Rickover

ALABAMA HISTORY | 400 | Alabama claims the USA's oldest of these pre-Lenten celebrations, & moon pies are more typical than beads on the floats

Mardi Gras

COMPUTER HISTORY | 1600 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California)Punch-card tabulators vastly reduced the time needed to conduct the 1890 census and save taxpayers millions; They were created by Herman Hollerith, the father of modern automatic computation, who founded what is, today, this three-letter business giant

IBM

WORKING OVERTIME AT THE COMPANY | 1600 | I'm not leaving my office at this company until I finish putting together a set of our Klubbo nesting tables

IKEA

ABBREV. BACKWARDS & FORWARDS | 1600 | A heart attack suffered by a member of Jim Phelps' force

IM MI

HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE | 1000 | It was the peninsula fought over in the peninsular war of 1808 to 1814

Iberian peninsula

TRUCKING | 800 | Episodes of this History Channel series have taken place on Alaska's Dalton Highway & the frozen lakes of Canada

Ice Road Truckers

THE 8th CENTURY | 800 | The Irish probably discovered this island in the 8th century; the Vikings settled it in 874

Iceland

WEIRD HISTORY | 600 | Part of this former dictator of Uganda's official title was ""lord of all the beasts of the Earth & fishes of the sea""

Idi Amin

PRINCE ALBERT | 2000 | Though Albert was only a prince, Alfred, Lord Tennyson dedicated this epic poetic work to him in the 1862 edition

Idylls of the King

PICK YOUR BATTLE | 1000 | Starring Napoleon:Marathon,Marengo,Megiddo

Marengo

WOMEN IN HISTORY | 1000 | In 1914 she began distributing a pamphlet called ""Family Limitation"" that outlined her views

Margaret Sanger

DECODING THE HITMAKING BAND | 800 | Form a mental image of Puff & Drogon

Imagine Dragons

18th CENTURY PEOPLE | 2000 | In 1781 he ""critique""d Leibniz' idea that the mind can grasp truths about entities like God

Immanuel Kant

FASHION HISTORY | 1200 | Worn in the 1870s, a full sleeve tied at intervals was named for this wife of Louis XVI

Marie Antoinette

HISTORIC WOMEN | 800 | In June 1984 she ordered an army attack on a Sikh shrine at Amritsar that killed hundreds

Indira Gandhi

HISTORICAL TIME UNITS | 2000 | Brutal repression of Communists made 1965 this Asian country's ""Year of Living Dangerously""

Indonesia

HISTORIC WOMEN | 400 | Lavish spending & an extravagant lifestyle led her countrymen to call this 18th c. French queen ""Madame Deficit""

Marie Antoinette

THE UNCIVIL WARS | 400 | Casualty estimates for the bitter 1980s war between Iran & this country range from 1 to 2 million

Iraq

HISTORY | 400 | The Normans invaded England in 1066, & the Anglo-Normans invaded this large nearby isle in 1169

Ireland

THE 18th CENTURY | 400 | The problem with the story of this queen saying, ""Let them eat cake"" after being told Parisians had no bread? It's false

Marie Antoinette

THE QUEEN'S EXPIRATION DATE | 600 | November 26, 1504inMedina del Campo, Spain

Isabella

WOMEN IN HISTORY | 600 | In 1770, at age 14, she married Louis XVI by proxy in Vienna; the 2 had never met

Marie Antoinette

UNCROWNED ENGLISH MONARCHS | 1200 | This third wife of Henry VIII had her coronation postponed due to plague & then died after childbirth

Jane Seymour

EX-PATRIOTS | 1000 | The family of this former Patriot linebacker allowed his brain to be studied after his untimely death in 2012

Junior Seau

THE LATE 19th CENTURY | 1200 | In 1892 astronomer E.E. Barnard discovered Amalthea, the 5th moon of this planet; the first 4 were found in 1610

Jupiter

WORLD WAR II | 400 | The Allies blew up an abbey en route to capturing Monte Cassino in this country

Italy

WORLD HISTORY | 1600 | It's believed no public statue has ever been made of this czar & folks in Oryol City said in 2016 we don't want one either

Ivan the Terrible

THE QUEENS ENGLISH | 400 | This airport in Queens used to be called Idlewild

JFK

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY | 400 | A tour of his infamous trail of murder starts at the Aldgate East Tube station

Jack the Ripper

2 FOR THE LITERARY TAKING | 2000 | First names of the fairy tale-collecting Grimm Brothers

Jacob & Wilhelm

FRENCH HISTORY | 1200 | France enjoyed a round of ""Frere Jacques"" in 1995 when he went from being mayor of Paris to the presidency

Jacques Chirac

QEII IS THEIR QUEEN TOO | 2000 | Don't dread this English-speaking country 90 miles south of Cuba

Jamaica

THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND | 2000 | ...who wasn't also king of England was the V of this name, reigning from 1513 to 1542

James

THE BRITISH MONARCH WHO... | 400 | became king of Scotland in 1567 & of England in 1603

James I

WHICH BRITISH MONARCH'S REIGN? | 2000 | Shakespeare dies

James I

THE SECRETARY OF WAR | 1600 | Nice balancing act! This future prez was Madison's Secretary of State & War at the same time

James Monroe

15th CENTURY NOTABLES | 2000 | In 1411 the pope excommunicated this Czech reformer for espousing the tenets of John Wycliffe

Jan Hus

THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WARS | 1600 | Columbia University president Nicholas Murray butler & this Hull House founder tied for first for the 1931 Peace Prize

Jane Addams

HISTORICAL HAIKU | 2000 | 10 days, that's too much /I don't want the crown, she said /16 & headless

Jane Grey

'80s TONY AWARDS | 800 | In 1989 ""Jerome Robbins' Broadway"" won 6 Tonys, including one for this ""Seinfeld"" co-star

Jason Alexander

THE SECRETARY OF WAR | 800 | Pierce's War Secretary, he soon ended up in a war, all right... with the United States

Jefferson Davis

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY | 200 | Trace Jesus' steps in this city as he walked down the Via Dolorosa towards Golgotha

Jerusalem

STEPHEN KING | 800 | It's the full name of the town visited by vampires in ""'Salem's Lot""

Jerusalem\'s Lot

A SWEDISH KING NAMED GUS | 800 | At the 1912 Olympic games, Gustav V told this American, ""Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world""

Jim Thorpe

FACES IN HISTORY | 600 | Here's this 15th century French woman in happier times, at the coronation of Charles VII

Joan of Arc

FRENCH HISTORY | 800 | In Domremy around 1425, she began to hear voices encouraging her to lead the French army

Joan of Arc

YAS QUEEN | 1000 | A 16th century queen of Castile was known as Juana La Loca, which translates to this in English

Joan the Mad (or Crazy)

GOD SAVE THE ENGLISH KING! | 400 | Under threat of civil war, this king set his seal to the Magna Carta in 1215

John

MONARCHS OF ENGLAND | 800 | This king, brother of Richard the Lionheart has a bad reputation; even his title, Count of Mortain, sounds evil

John

PORTRAITS IN HISTORY | 400 | His wife, Abigail, called the portrait of him painted by Samuel Morse ""a stern, unpleasing likeness""

John Adams

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 400 | He's the abolitionist pictured here a few years before his raid on an arsenal & his hanging

John Brown

QUEEN VICTORIA | 1600 | Queen Victoria was buried with a picture of this devoted personal servant & a lock of his hair

John Brown

YOU'RE HISTORY! | 1600 | This man who died in Geneva in 1564 carried on the Reformation after Luther

John Calvin

MAKING SOME COIN | 800 | In 1948 Ben Franklin was on our half-dollar piece; 1964 saw the first minting with this man's face

John F. Kennedy

LITERARY AWARDS | 2000 | Arthur Schlesinger Jr. won 2 National Book Awards for nonfiction for books about each of these 2 brothers

John F. Kennedy and R. F. Kennedy

FACES IN HISTORY | 800 | This first Chief Justice affirmed the federal government's power over states

John Jay

THE QUEENS ENGLISH | 800 | Dis guy, dis guy grew up in Queens and won de big event in de borough four times

John McEnroe

YOU'RE HISTORY! | 400 | After the Revolutionary War, this ""Father of the American Navy"" served as a rear admiral in Russia's fleet

John Paul Jones

HISTORY | 400 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A stop at Dr. Samuel Mudd's home, landing mistakenly in Maryland, & dying a few days later near Bowling Green were part of his ill-fated 1865 escape route

John Wilkes Booth

THE 19th CENTURY | 1200 | Not a fan of abolitionists, he was a volunteer in the militia at the hanging of John Brown

John Wilkes Booth

CIVIL WAR SLANG | 1200 | A Confederate soldier could be called by this first name whether he was ""marching home"" or not

Johnny

WORLD WAR II: ON THE HOME FRONT | 1600 | In 1943 kids were enjoying Esther Forbes' novel about this title Johnny & the Revolutionary War

Johnny Tremain

AMERICA THE HISTORICAL | 1000 | On May 31, 1889 a dam collapse led to this Pennsylvania city's flood, killing 2,200 people

Johnstown

HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE | 800 | The Ammonites held sway in this Mideast country in the 1200s B.C. & the capital is named for them

Jordan

QUEENS | 1600 | Lisa Halaby took the name Noor al-Hussein in 1978 when she became queen consort of this country

Jordan

SPANISH HISTORY | 1600 | In 1808 Napoleon gained control of Spain & named this brother as king

Joseph Bonaparte

THE MARCH OF HISTORY | 400 | She married Napoleon March 9, 1796; 2 days later, her groom left for the army

Josephine

BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERS | 1600 | 2012, Screenplay:""The Cabin in the Woods"" by Drew Goddard & this ""Buffy"" biggie

Joss Whedon

BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERS | 2000 | Novel, 1995:""Zombie"" by this prolific woman

Joyce Carol Oates

I KINGS | 800 | In 1975, after a lapse of 44 years, he restored the Bourbon monarchy to Spain

Juan Carlos

KING OF THE HILL | 2000 | Pico Del Teide in the Canary Islands,since 1975

Juan Carlos

WORLD HISTORY | 1200 | Devised in 46 B.C. & named for a Roman leader, it marked time for more than 1,500 years before being replaced

Julian calendar

THE EMMY AWARDS 1995 | 800 | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series:This actress as nurse Carol Hathaway on ""ER""

Julianna Margulies

ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS | 1200 | Ty Burrell & this TV wife on ""Modern Family"" both won Best Supporting Comedy Emmys in 2011

Julie Bowen

HISTORY | 800 | This dictator's last battle was the defeat of Pompey's sons at Munda in 45 B.C.

Julius Caesar

HAPPY HISTORY | 400 | Venezuela declared independence on this date, 35 years & 1 day after ours

July 5, 1811

THE LATE 19th CENTURY | 1600 | When P.T. Barnum purchased this animal from the London Zoo in 1882, the queen demanded the sale be stopped

Jumbo

LOOKING FOR ALASKA | 400 | In 1880 gold was found near this city that would later become Alaska's capital

Juneau

WARM | 600 | Because it's located near the equator, Mombasa in this country enjoys good weather all year

Kenya

CAMBODIAN HISTORY & CULTURE | 800 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Cambodia.) Not to be confused with karma, krama is a popular accessory sold in cambodia; the word means ""scarf"" in this national language of Cambodia

Khmer

WORKING OVERTIME AT THE COMPANY | 2000 | It's 2 A.M. & I'm going over the specs for a Sedona from this car company; lucky I'm not behind the wheel of one

Kia

NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICALLY | 1200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Wright Brothers Nat'l Memorial in North Carolina.) In 1902, the Wright Brothers made over 1,000 glider flights from the slopes of this 90-foot hill that was then a massive sand dune

Kill Devil Hill

20th CENTURY PEOPLE | 600 | North Korea's press said this leader played his very 1st round of golf in 1994 & did okay--a nifty 38 under, with 5 aces

Kim Jong-il

KINGS & QUEENS | 1200 | Under Roman control, this monarch became king of Judea in 37 B.C. & later of all of Palestine

King Herod

ROYALTY | 1200 | Under this king, Jordan expelled the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1971

King Hussein

COME AT THE KING | 1600 | In 336 B.C. a young Macedonian noble named Pausanias killed this king but was killed on the spot himself

King Philip

A PLACE FIT FOR A KING | 2000 | The seat of Ulster County, it was New York's first state capital

Kingston

HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE | 200 | This member of the Nixon & Ford cabinets was born in Furth, Germany in 1923

Kissinger

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 2000 | In 1882 Father Michael McGivney founded this Catholic fraternal organization

Knights of Columbus

HOOSIER HISTORY | 1200 | From 1918 to 1931, he coached football in Indiana, racking up 105 wins, 12 losses & 5 ties

Knute Rockne

INVENTIVE THINKING | 400 | In 1888 George Eastman offered this small box camera for $25; that's about $600 in today's dollars

Kodak

1990s HISTORY | 800 | In 1997 he became the U.N.'s first secretary-general from sub-Saharan Africa; in 2012 he tried to make peace in Syria

Kofi Annan

THE 15th CENTURY | 2000 | Hangul was developed and made the official writing system of this peninsula

Korea

WAR STORIES | 1000 | ""The Manchurian Candidate"" by Richard Condon

Korean War

A HISTORY LESSON | 1200 | In support of this Yugoslav province, NATO launched a 78-day air-strike campaign on Serbian targets in March 1999

Kosovo

THE 20th CENTURY | 1000 | Called the Night of Broken Glass in English, it's the German name for the terrible night of November 9-10, 1938

Kristallnacht

HISTORIC OBJECTS | 800 | To reconstruct the original Hollywood sign, you'd have to add these 4 letters

L-A-N-D

LOOKING GOOD! | 800 | That Dermablend face makeup is magnifique! This company that makes the stuff was right: you're worth it!

L\'Oreal

ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS | 1600 | In 2008 this trio composed of Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott & Dave Haywood was named CMA New Artist of the Year

Lady Antebellum

SPOKEN WORD GRAMMY AWARDS | 400 | Garrison Keillor earned a Grammy for telling tales about the ""Days"" of this spot

Lake Wobegon

RECENTLY UNEARTHED CIVIL WAR LETTERS? | 1000 | O fair Lulubelle, my pancreas lies somewhere in S.C. but its islets of this, whose beta cells make insulin, live in my mem'ry

Langerhans

THE 19th CENTURY | 400 | In the 1870s cowboy Frank Maynard turned an old ballad into the mournful song about ""The Streets Of"" this city

Laredo

THE 20th CENTURY | 2000 | From April to October 1980, a flotilla of Cubans seeking freedom in the U.S. fled this Cuban port

Mariel

I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD | 400 | This Shakespeare king says he's ""a very foolish fond old man"" & asks his daughter to ""forget and forgive""

Lear

TEXAS HISTORY | 400 | On Nov. 22, 1963 around 1:45 PM, he was arrested at the Texas Theatre, about an hour & 15 minutes after his crime

Lee Harvey Oswald

THE 11th CENTURY | 800 | In 1001 Norway's King Olaf commissioned this explorer to spread Christianity across Greenland; he got sidetracked

Leif Erikson

HISTORICAL QUOTES | 800 | One quote from him is ""We must now set about building a proletarian socialist state in Russia""

Lenin

WORLD WAR II | 2000 | Scientists at a seed bank starved rather than eat the seeds in the siege of what was then this Soviet city

Leningrad

NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II | 1600 | His 1961 novel ""Mila 18"" tells of the 1943 Jewish uprising in the Warsaw ghetto

Leon Uris

ROYALTY | 1600 | Let's see if you know that Letsie III has been king of this African country since the 1990s

Lesotho

WAR STARS | 1000 | As General Kuribayashi, Ken Watanabe led the defense of an isolated Pacific island in this 2006 movie

Letters from Iwo Jima

'80s TONY AWARDS | 1600 | This funny lady's ""Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"" yielded her a Tony in 1986

Lily Tomlin

WORKING WITH A BEATLE | 800 | ""Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey"", a 1971 No. 1, is credited to Paul and this woman

Linda Eastman (McCartney)

HISTORIC DAYS | 800 | 10003

Lindbergh flight across Atlantic

THE ROYAL THEY | 400 | 1660 to 1683: this radiant royal & Marie-Therese

Louis XIV

COME AT THE KING | 800 | Talk about wanting a recount! On Jan. 19, 1793, this king was condemned to death by 380 votes to 310

Louis XVI

1812: THE WAR & MORE | 400 | Formerly the Orleans Territory, it became the 18th state

Louisiana

19th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS | 200 | Pierre Auguste Bourguignon Derbigny, Henry Thibodaux & Andre Bienvenu Roman governed this state

Louisiana

YOU'RE HISTORY! | 800 | This Borgia died in 1519 from childbirth complications, leaving behind at least 5 other kids

Lucretia

HORRIBLE HISTORY | 1200 | Barely 20 minutes after a torpedo struck in 1915, it disappeared beneath the waves taking more than 1,000 souls with it

Lusitania

20th CENTURY SENATORS | 400 | In 1951 this Texan became the Democratic whip; 10 years later he presided over the Senate as vice president

Lyndon B. Johnson

'80s TONY AWARDS | 1200 | In 1988 this drama by David Henry Hwang flew off with the Tony for Best Play

M. Butterfly

HISTORIC CARS | 1000 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a smooth car at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Las Angeles.) Containing no sharp edges, the aesthetic & technical achievements of the 1947 Cisitalia 202 GT were enough for this progressive New York City museum to consider it a work of art & put it on display

MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art

KING LOUIS | 800 | On June 13, 1886 this Bavarian king aka Louis II drowned in a lake, as did his psychiatrist who tried to save him

Mad King Ludwig

BACKING BANDS | 1000 | Edward Sharpe and the ____ ____

Magnetic Zeros

STEPHEN KING | 200 | Many of Stephen King's stories & novels are set in this state, his birthplace

Maine

WORLD HISTORY | 1600 | Treaties in 1858 & 1860 handed over to Russia large sections of this northeast Chinese region

Manchuria

A HISTORY LESSON | 1200 | He led the 6,000-mile Long March from 1934 to 1935 & had to abandon 2 of his kids along the way

Mao

HISTORY SINCE 1950 | 800 | In China his Great Leap Forward program took a great leap back, contributing to a famine & millions of deaths

Mao

THEY'RE HISTORY! | 1200 | In 1959, he gave up the title of chairman of the People's Republic of China but kept control of the country

Mao Tse-Tung

IT HAPPENED IN THE 20th CENTURY | 1000 | In 1949 mainland China became a Communist state with this man as its leader

Mao Zedong

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 600 | In 1857 the celebration of this day with a parade & floats became an annual New Orleans tradition

Mardi Gras

HISTORIC OOPSIES | 600 | In 1999 NASA used the metric system for the $125 million orbiter of this planet; Lockheed Martin did not... bye bye, orbiter

Mars

THE 20th CENTURY | 400 | A day after touching down on this planet in 1976, Viking 1 took the first color photos of its surface

Mars

18th CENTURY PEOPLE | 1200 | She disliked living in New York City; living in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1797 suited her a bit better

Martha Washington

HISTORIC HOMES | 200 | His birth home on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta is not far from Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he & his dad preached

Martin Luther King

20th CENTURY AMERICA | 200 | On April 16, 1963 he wrote, ""I am in Birmingham because injustice is here""

Martin Luther King Jr.

20th CENTURY PEOPLE | 400 | He was arrested in February of 1956 for organizing a bus boycott; his $500 fine was suspended on appeal

Martin Luther King, Jr.

THE 20th CENTURY | 1600 | On April 3, 1968 he said, ""So I'm happy tonight, I'm not worried about anything, I'm not fearing any man""

Martin Luther King, Jr.

HISTORIC PLACES | 1600 | Tradition says a door of the Schlosskirche, aka Castle Church, is the site where these were posted in 1517

Martin Luther\'s (95) theses

CHECKING IN ON MARCH 26 | 800 | By Jiminy! This actor attended his very first premiere on March 26, 1950 in Ontario, Canada

Martin Short

THE MONARCHS OF ENGLAND | 1600 | She married the future king of Spain in Winchester Cathedral in 1554

Mary

19th CENTURY NOTABLES | 1200 | In 1875 she published the main text of her movement, ""Science and Health with a Key to the Scriptures""

Mary Baker Eddy

THE 16th CENTURY | 600 | In 1558 Elizabeth I succeeded this half-sister on the throne of England

Mary I (or Mary Tudor)

STATE OF THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE | 600 | The Battle of Antietam

Maryland

ITALIAN, WITH THE SPEAKING | 200 | The merry month of maggio is this

May

HISTORY | 1600 | In 1954 Joseph Nye Welch, special council for the Army, asked him, ""Have you no sense of decency?""

McCarthy

QUEEN OF | 400 | Both comedienne Lisa Lampanelli & hotelieuse Leona Helmsley have been rhymingly called ""Queen of"" this

Mean

THE 19TH CENTURY | 400 | In 1853 Sir Richard Burton made a dangerous journey in disguise to this city, now in Saudi Arabia

Mecca

WORLD HISTORY | 1200 | In 622 Muhammad fled from Mecca to this city, from which Islam spread across the region

Medina

HISTORY | 1000 | In 1867 Mutsuhito, known as this ""M""peror, came to the throne & the modernization of Japan began

Meiji

BACKING BANDS | 400 | Ziggy Marley & the ____ Makers

Melody

AWARDS & HONORS | 400 | His 1861 textbook on organic chemistry won the Demidov Prize from the Russian Academy of Sciences

Mendeleev

IT'S GETTING WARM | 200 | It can reach 800 degrees during the day on this planet (Venus is a little hotter), but the night's a bit brisk at -275

Mercury

THE 20th CENTURY | 1200 | In May 1963 L. Gordon Cooper became the last of 6 astronauts to fly in this project

Mercury

ANCIENT HISTORY | 600 | Babylonia & Sumer were civilizations in this ancient region that gave us a little something called civilization

Mesopotamia

19th CENTURY LITERARY MARRIAGES | 1600 | Dorothea & Tertius each get married in this really long George Eliot ""Study of Provincial Life""; things go...poorly

Middlemarch

PICK YOUR BATTLE | 200 | On the high seas:Ankara,Puebla,Midway

Midway

HISTORICAL BLINDNESS | 1200 | This Englishman was completely blind by the time he penned ""Paradise Lost""

Milton

20th CENTURY QUOTES | 1000 | In the 1970s, this Nobel Prize-winning economist popularized the phrase ""There's no such thing as a free lunch""

Milton Friedman

THE VIETNAM WAR | 400 | A key U.S. aim was winning Vietnamese ""Hearts and"" these, the title of an Oscar-winning documentary opposing the war

Minds

NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 1600 | In South Dakota, you can visit a launch facility for these cold war missiles with a Revolutionary War name

Minuteman

TENNESSEE HISTORY | 400 | Barbara Jo Walker from Memphis won this distinction in 1947 & was the last to be crowned in a swimsuit

Miss America

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY | 800 | Hike in the footsteps of settlers & Native Americans on the Natchez Trace, starting in Natchez in this state

Mississippi

STATE OF THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE | 800 | The Battle of Independence

Missouri

THE CIVIL WAR | 2000 | Both neighbors of Illinois, these 2 border states did not secede but groups there sent delegates to the CSA Congress

Missouri and Kentucky

SOUTHERN HISTORY | 400 | In 1711 this Alabama city fittingly ""moved"" from 27 Mile Bluff to its current location

Mobile

19th CENTURY NOVEL QUOTES | 400 | ""The least chip or crumb of the boats touched his skin, his tail swiftly drew back, and came sideways smiting the sea""

Moby-Dick

REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIGURES | 1200 | This heroine of the Battle of Monmouth began receiving a $40 annual pension in 1822 for her war efforts

Molly Pitcher

HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART II | 200 | The 1928 eruption of this Sicilian volcano buried the village of Mascali

Mount Etna

IN THE ____ OF BATTLE | 1200 | Tennessee, 1863:Battle of Lookout ____

Mountain

17th CENTURY PEOPLE | 2000 | Made famous in a Longfellow poem, in 1621 this man was named military leader of Plymouth Colony

Myles Standish

RECENT HISTORY | 800 | In April 2009 Croatia & Albania became the most recent additions to this alliance that includes the U.S. & the United Kingdom

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

JAPANESE HISTORY | 2000 | From the 1630s to 1850s, this port on Kyushu served as Japan's only window to the Western World

Nagasaki

THE MARCH OF HISTORY | 800 | This country once known as South West Africa gained full independence in March 1990

Namibia

EARLY 21st CENTURY CINEMA | 1200 | In 2005 moviegoers met Emma Thompson in the guise of this magical nanny

Nanny McPhee

FRENCH HISTORY | 2000 | In 1685 Louis XIV revoked the Edict of this, which had guaranteed freedom of worship to French Protestants

Nantes

FACES IN HISTORY | 200 | Here's this little big man in his study at Tuileries

Napoleon

HISTORIC OOPSIES | 200 | In 1812 this world leader learned a hard lesson--don't wage war in Russia in winter

Napoleon

OTTOMAN HISTORY | 800 | The expedition of this European into Egypt from 1798 to 1801 forced Sultan Selim III to ally with Great Britain

Napoleon

THE TONY AWARDS | 200 | In 2001 he beat out Matthew Broderick, his co-star in ""The Producers"", to win the Tony for best actor in a musical

Nathan Lane

20th CENTURY | 2000 | This 1935 act, a New Deal program, guaranteed workers the right to organize unions

National Labor Relations Act

SPEAKING IN CODE | 400 | In 1942 the Marines recruited 29 men from this Native American tribe to develop a code, one the Japanese never broke

Navajo

PREHISTORIC TIMES | 800 | These early humans of Europe are the first known to bury their dead & may have placed flowers on their graves

Neanderthal

THE DAVY O'BRIEN QUARTERBACK AWARD | 600 | 2001:Eric Crouch, flingin' in Lincoln

Nebraska

WORLD HISTORY | 1600 | In 597 B.C., this Babylonian king captured Jerusalem & took 18-year-old King Jehoaichin back to Babylon as a captive

Nebuchadnezzar

HISTORY | 1600 | In 1912 an expedition found a painted bust of this Egyptian queen whose name means ""the beautiful one has come""

Nefertiti

THE LAST CENTURY | 2000 | In 1924 Wyoming made her the first woman elected governor of a U.S. state

Nellie Tayloe Ross

WORKING OVERTIME AT THE COMPANY | 800 | I'd go home from this company, but I've eaten 10 of our 100 Grand bars & 5 boxes of our Goobers...OMG, I'm totally wired!

Nestlé

MEXICAN HISTORY | 1600 | Appointed in 1535, Antonio de Mendoza governed Mexico as the first viceroy of this 2-word place

New Spain

A STATE OF WAR | 600 | The Battle of White Plains,1776

New York

QEII IS THEIR QUEEN TOO | 1200 | The 2 countries farthest south that recognize Elizabeth as queen

New Zealand & Australia

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME | 400 | In 1687 this Brit differentiated ""absolute, true, and mathematical time"" & ""relative, apparent, and common time""

Newton

WORLD WAR I | 400 | The Russian people suffered greatly during the war & blamed this czar who was forced off the throne in early 1917

Nicholas II

THE ROYAL THEY | 2000 | 1894 to 1918: ____ II & ____

Nicholas and Alexandra

THE PATRIOT ACT | 800 | Thandie Newton co-starred when this actor was ""Jefferson in Paris""

Nick Nolte

THE LATE 19th CENTURY | 2000 | In 1898 gold was discovered on Anvil Creek near this future port on Alaska's Seward Peninsula

Nome, Alaska

THE AL FRANKEN DECADE | 800 | A commander of Panama's National Guard, he promoted himself to general in 1983 & life was good for him... for a while

Noriega

BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES | 400 | By right of conquest in 1066 came the house with this geographic name

Norman

FRENCH HISTORY | 200 | On D-Day during WWII, Allied forces landed on the beaches of this French region

Normandy

RECENT HISTORY | 1000 | In August 2009 Bill Clinton traveled to this country & helped win the release of 2 American journalists

North Korea

EURO-MONARCHY | 1200 | This country no longer crowns its king; the royal regalia is on display in Trondheim

Norway

HISTORIC OBJECTS | 200 | In 1790 the Marquis de Lafayette gifted George Washington with the main key to this prison, & it's still on display at Mount Vernon

the Bastille

THE 12th CENTURY | 400 | Tradition has it that the first stone for this Paris cathedral was laid in 1163 by Pope Alexander III

Notre Dame

WORKING ON A BUILDING | 800 | 1163: Pope Alexander III lays the foundation stone for this Paris cathedral; bells & bell-ringers come later

Notre Dame

NON-BRITISH ROYALS | 400 | Overshadowed by Kate & William, the nuptials of this Monaco monarch were termed ""The Other Wedding""

Prince Albert (of Monaco)

THE IMAGE AWARDS | 400 | She won for Outstanding News, Talk or Information Show in 1993--& '94, '96, '98...

Oprah Winfrey

HUGO AWARD-WINNING NOVELS | 1600 | This author won twice in a row in the 1980s, for ""Speaker for the Dead"" & ""Ender's Game""

Orson Scott Card

THE VIKINGS | 800 | The Vikings may have been named for Viken, located in a fjord of this future Scandinavian capital

Oslo

DURING THE REIGN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I | 800 | Incorporating earlier collections of books, the Bodleian Library opened at this university in 1602

Oxford

MY NAME IS PRINCE | 800 | It's the alliterative name of Prince's label, as well as his home & studios outside Minneapolis

Paisley Park

THE CENTURY'S FIRST YEAR | 800 | In 1501 Rodrigo de Bastidas sailed west from Colombia & became the first European to reach this isthmus

Panama

DECODING THE HITMAKING BAND | 400 | The U.K.'s central lawmaking body

Parliament

THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS | 800 | Executing the king was authorized in 1649 by the legislative body called the ""Long"" this, which had sat since 1640

Parliament

16th CENTURY AMERICA | 1000 | Hundreds of years before the Marines got there, this South Carolina island was settled by French Huguenots in 1562

Parris Island

REVOLUTIONARY WAR FIGURES | 2000 | In March 1775 he told the Second Virginia Convention, ""We have done everything that could be done to avert the storm""

Patrick Henry

THE WORLD AT WAR | 1200 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated map on the monitor.) In July 1943, this U.S. general's Seventh Army swept through western Sicily, then turned east to help Montgomery's British Eighth

Patton

PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA | 1200 | It precedes ""Gazette"" in the name of the newspaper that Ben Franklin bought in 1729 & made into a leading paper

Pennsylvania

MRS. WARREN'S PROFESION | 800 | Mrs. Warren is on the Senate committee known as HELP: Health, Eduction, Labor & these retirement benefits

Pensions

OSCAR-NOMINATED WARNER BROS. CARTOONS | 1000 | ""For Scent-imental Reasons"", starring this early example of Eurotrash

Pepe LePew

PEOPLE IN HISTORY | 2000 | A golden age of culture, the Age of him in Greece lasted from about 460 B.C. to 430 B.C.

Pericles

KING ARTHUR | 2000 | A chair at the Round Table reserved for the Grail finder but deadly to anyone else is called the ""Siege"" this word

Perilous

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 1600 | The 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa opening Japanese ports to U.S. ships is also known as this commodore's convention

Perry

HISTORY 101 | 1600 | Around 101 the Moche began a great civilization on the west coast of South America in this country

Peru

18th CENTURY PEOPLE | 1600 | This Russian's achievements included the founding of cities

Peter the Great

KING OF THE HILL | 1600 | Mount Narodnaya in Russia,1682-1725

Peter the Great

THE 11th CENTURY | 1000 | While traveling to Constantinople in 1096, this French hermit sacked Belgrade

Peter the Hermit

PRE-'80s HISTORY | 1000 | In 1914 the once & future St. Petersburg got this new name; 10 years later it became Leningrad

Petrograd

THE WAR OF 1812 | 1600 | In October 1814 Congress proposed moving the capital back to this city but the house rejected the bill, 83-74

Philadelphia

WHEN I'M KING... | 1600 | Spain, 1556-1598

Philip II

B.C. KING | 800 | This father of Alexander the Great wasn't so bad himself, extending his dominion over all of Greece

Phillip

HISTORIC OOPSIES | 600 | Civil War historian Shelby Foote described this attack at Gettysburg as ""an incredible mistake""

Pickett\'s Charge

THEY'RE HISTORY! | 1600 | Singular last name of Zebulon, who got a Colorado peak named for him without ever reaching the top

Pike

JUDEAN HISTORY | 1200 | He was the Roman prefect or governor of Judea from 26 to 36 A.D.

Pilate

WORKING WITH PLATO | 2000 | This work is about an ideal city where justice is complete & imitative poets are exiled

Plato\'s Republic

HISTORY 101 | 400 | Written around 101 A.D., this author's ""Parallel Lives"" includes Pericles

Plutarch

LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY | 400 | 1 1/2 million Cambodians perished under the rule of this Khmer Rouge leader who came to power in 1975

Pol Pot

PRINCE ALBERT | 1200 | Prince Albert didn't get to be officially called the ""Prince"" this until 17 years after marrying Queen Victoria

Prince Consort

HISTORICAL TIME UNITS | 1600 | The House of Tomorrow was in the innovation-focused 1930s Chicago World's Fair called ""Century of"" this

Progress

COLORFUL HISTORY | 400 | Since the late 1700s orange has symbolized this religious group in Ireland & Northern Ireland

Protestants

HISTORICAL NOVELS | 1200 | ""Across the Endless River"" is a fictional account of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, son of this Shoshone

Sacagawea

13th CENTURY HIGHLIGHTS | 1200 | In 1296 the Scottish coronation stone was moved to Westminster from here

Scone

BATTLE OF BRITAIN | 800 | Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat in the 1746 Battle of Culloden Moor in this country ended hopes of a Stuart restoration

Scotland

FIRST, QUEENS | 400 | Queens is the site of Citi Field & this predecessor, seen here

Shea Stadium

BATTLE CREEK | 600 | Pittsburg Landing, Grant's base on the Tennessee River, is a less biblical name for this 1862 battle

Shiloh

MY NAME IS PRINCE | 600 | This Irish lass' No. 1 hit ""Nothing Compares 2 U"" was written by Prince

Sinead O\'Connor

IRISH HISTORY | 800 | A printer by trade, Arthur Griffith negotiated a 1921 treaty with the British & founded this Irish-named political party

Sinn Fein

16th CENTURY AMERICA | 600 | While in California in 1579, this circumnavigator held the first Protestant religious service in the New World

Sir Francis Drake

WORLD HISTORY | 400 | This English captain called his 1587 raid on Cadiz, destroying much of the Armada, ""singeing the King of Spain's Beard""

Sir Francis Drake

PO PRESENTS UNCONVENTIONAL WARRIORS | 800 | (Po delivers the clue.) I'm a big fan of this Shakespeare knight but Prince Hal ends up telling him, ""the grave doth gape for thee thrice wider""--c'mon, that's not what you say to an old buddy

Sir John Falstaff

HISTORY: HIRED & FIRED | 1200 | Yeah, you could always charm Elizabeth I, but disobeying James I & attacking the Spanish in 1618? Bad move. You're fired

Sir Walter Raleigh

19th CENTURY BRIT LIT | 800 | ""Ivanhoe"" was an immediate success when released in 1819, & this author soon became a baronet

Sir Walter Scott

HISTORIC NAMES | 1200 | The last pope named this was V, in 1585--it'll sound cool when someone takes VI

Sixtus

SNOW WHITE'S LESSER-KNOWN DWARFS | 800 | He was named for his mom's favorite brand of peanut butter that's been around since the 1930s

Skippy

NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II | 1200 | Billy Pilgrim witnesses the firebombing of Dresden & subsequent killing of 135,000 in this Vonnegut novel

Slaughterhouse-Five

TALKING DIRTY | 800 | A chimney sweep business named ""Dr."" this claims, ""We treat the flue""

Soot

A HISTORY LESSON | 2000 | In 1910 Louis Botha became this country's first prime minister, a post he held until 1919

South Africa

THE 11th CENTURY | 200 | Made king of a reunited Leon & Castile in 1072, Alfonso the Brave declared himself ""Emperor of all"" this land

Spain

17th CENTURY THINKERS | 2000 | This seminal Dutch thinker of the Enlightenment was the son of parents who fled the Inquisition in Portugal

Spinoza

HISTORIC OBJECTS | 1200 | This 23-inch beeping metal sphere galvanized America in the 1950s

Sputnik

BRITISH HISTORY | 1200 | In December 1947 Parliament passed the law granting independence to this Asian island

Sri Lanka

SPANISH HISTORY | 1200 | In the 1520s this founder of the Jesuits was twice imprisoned by the Spanish Inquisition

St. Ignatius of Loyola

THE 4th CENTURY | 800 | This Rome basilica built in the mid-4th century lasted until the 16th century, when it was torn down & replaced

St. Peter\'s

THE 11th CENTURY | 600 | In 1083 during canonization, this 1st Hungarian king was exhumed & his right arm was found preserved as if by a miracle

St. Stephen

THAT'S HISTORY | 1000 | The battle of this city raged from July 1942 to February 1943; when it was over, the German 6th Army was kaput

Stalingrad

BOX OFFICE CHAMPS OF THE DECADE | 400 | The 1970s:starring Mark Hamill, Alec Guinness

Star Wars

FORTUNE 500 THROUGH THE DECADES | 200 | On the first list, in 1955, this word followed ""U.S."", ""Bethlehem"" & ""Republic"" in the top 30

Steel

SPOKEN WORD GRAMMY AWARDS | 200 | This late night TV host won in 2013 for ""America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't""

Stephen Colbert

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 2000 | This American naval hero wasn't killed in the Illinois city that bears his surname, but rather in a duel in Maryland

Stephen Decatur

MEMOIRS OF THE WORKING LIFE | 1200 | ""Born Standing Up"" is this man's story of bursting onto the comedy scene in the 1970s, white suit & all

Steve Martin

CIVIL WAR NAMES | 1200 | Gen. Bee's comment about this man may not have been a compliment of steadfastness but a complaint about a lack of support

Stonewall Jackson

THE CIVIL WAR | 800 | A favorite of Lee, this general actually favored preservation of the Union but went with Virginia after secession

Stonewall Jackson

20th CENTURY SENATORS | 1200 | South Carolina sent him to the Senate as a write-in candidate; he served almost 50 years

Strom Thurmond

KINGS & QUEENS | 2000 | King Sobhuza II of this southern African kingdom reigned 1899-1982, enough time for 70 wives & 600 kids

Swaziland

19th CENTURY OPERA | 400 | We're not neutral about ""Un ballo in maschera"", about the assassination of a king of this Scandinavian country

Sweden

20th CENTURY EUROPE | 800 | In the 1950s Basel became the first city in this country to allow women to vote in local elections

Switzerland

MRS. WARREN'S PROFESION | 1200 | Elizabeth chaired the Congressional Oversight Panel for this program whose 4-letter abbrev. sounds like a canvas cover

TARP

WORLD HISTORY | 800 | The Olmecs flourished form around 1200 to 400 B.C. along Mexico's Gulf Coast in what became Veracruz & this ""hot"" state

Tabasco

HISTORY | 800 | Born in 1746, this Polish patriot fought in America's war for independence & is called the ""Hero of Two Worlds""

Tadeusz Kosciuszko

OTTOMAN HISTORY | 1600 | The 1402 Battle of Ankara saw Turkish forces overwhelmed by this man aka Timur

Tamerlane (Timur the Lame)

THE 15th CENTURY | 1000 | Around 1401 Baghdad fell to this lame conqueror

Tamerlane (Timur the Lame)

THE LATE 19th CENTURY | 1200 | This notorious political organization ran New York City from its headquarters at 141 East 14th St.

Tammany Hall

1812: THE WAR & MORE | 2000 | This Shawnee chief fought for the British & led Native American allies but was killed in battle the next year

Tecumseh

ALABAMA HISTORY | 1000 | In 1812 this Shawnee leader came to Alabama to convince the Creek tribes to join the British against the Americans

Tecumseh

CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE | 800 | This middle name of Civil War general Sherman honored a Shawnee chief

Tecumseh

BATTLE HIM | 400 | ""Oh, but we had a bully fight"", he said, referring to the 1898 Battle of San Juan Hill

Teddy Roosevelt

A STATE OF WAR | 400 | The Battle of Stones River, aka the Battle of Murfreesboro,1862-63

Tennessee

A STATE OF WAR | 1000 | The Battle of San Patricio,1836

Texas

IN THE ____ OF BATTLE | 1600 | 1813 fight in which Tecumseh was killed near a river in Ontario, not central London:Battle of the ____

Thames

HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART II | 2000 | This WWII battle was named for the area of water between Australia & New Caledonia

the Battle of the Coral Sea

CHINESE HISTORY | 2000 | ""Know the enemy & know yourself"" is a lesson from this treatise, tactics from which were later used by Mao

The Art of War

THE WAR OF 1812 | 400 | In this last battle of the War, about 2,000 British were killed, wounded or captured; fewer than 50 Americans were killed

The Battle Of New Orleans

NEAR THE END OF THE CENTURY | 1000 | In 1899 the Bloemfontein conference didn't prevent this South African war

The Boer War

NOVELS OF WORLD WAR II | 800 | In this young adult novel set during the war, ""The Grave Digger's Handbook"" is the first item Liesel Meminger steals

The Book Thief

HISTORY IS HAPPENING | 2000 | Around 11 A.M. on Oct. 25, 1854 Lord Cardigan leads this attack that's less successful than a poem it inspired

The Charge Of The Light Brigade

HISTORICAL QUOTES | 200 | Concerning this failed operation, JFK said, ""the Cuban people have not yet spoken their final piece""

the Bay of Pigs

SCHWARZENEGGER | 800 | The indispensable Arnold has played Trench in the first 3 films in this recent series

The Expendables

18th CENTURY AMERICA | 800 | In 1792 Robert Thomas first published this almanac about New England life &, of course, the weather

The Farmer\'s Almanac

KICKING AROUND FOR A WHILE | 1000 | Morten Andersen kicked until age 48, becoming the NFL's all-time leading scorer & earning this nickname, a dog breed

The Great Dane

THE CINEMA OF STEVE McQUEEN | 400 | The first Steve McQueen played a P.O.W. in this 1963 film in which he led the Nazis on a motorcycle chase

The Great Escape

PRINCE ALBERT | 1600 | Albert successfully organized & ran this ""Great"" event held at London's Crystal Palace in 1851

The Great Exhibition

STEPHEN KING | 600 | This nickname for death row at Cold Mountain penitentiary is also the title of a serial novel by King

The Green Mile

THE IMAGE AWARDS | 800 | Denzel Washington blew through the competition to win an Outstanding Actor award for this boxing biopic

The Hurricane

HISTORIC OBJECTS | 600 | More than 70 scenes are depicted on it with the last, chronologically, showing the English retreating at Hastings in 1066

the Bayeux Tapestry

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

The Naked and the Dead

THE LAST CENTURY | 800 | In 1989 Ayatollah Khomeini called this book blasphemous & condemned Salman Rushdie, its author, to death

The Satanic Verses

RECENT HISTORY | 1200 | In May 2012 a pastel version of this Edvard Munch work set a record by selling for almost $120 million at auction

The Scream

MAKING A BEE LINE | 1200 | Sue Monk Kidd said in this book that women make the best beekeepers because they can ""love creatures that sting""

The Secret Life of Bees

CHECKING IN ON MARCH 26 | 400 | Many happy returns to Michael Imperioli, known for his role as Chris-tu-fuh Moltisanti on this HBO drama

The Sopranos

A PLACE FIT FOR A KING | 800 | West of Seward Peninsula, King Island is a rocky isle in this strait

the Bering Strait

STEPHEN KING | 1000 | These spirits of dead miners who try to warn the living of cave-ins may have inspired King's 1987 novel of the same name

The Tommyknockers

HUGO AWARD-WINNING NOVELS | 2000 | A new planet's appearance wreaks havoc on Earth in this 1965 winner named for what ""planet"" means in Greek

The Wanderer

AWARDS | 800 | From 2000 through 2003 this fast-moving, fast-talking political drama won the Drama Series Emmy

The West Wing

WORKING ON A BUILDING | 1600 | 1902: Daniel Burnham completes NYC's Fuller Building, now known by this household appliance name

the Flatiron

HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART II | 400 | Transparency & openness in diplomacy was No. 1 on this 1918 declaration by President Wilson

the Fourteen Points

THE LATE 19th CENTURY | 1600 | Author Guy de Maupassant got some good story material as an army private during this 1870 war

the Franco-Prussian War

BRITISH HISTORY | 400 | The site of many coronations, this religious edifice was dedicated December 28, 1065

Westminster Abbey

THIS MEANS WAR! | 2000 | Bismarck publishes the Ems telegram, royally peeving Napoleon III

the Franco-Prussian War

A BRIEF HISTORY OF MIME | 1600 | The first Greek mime is said to have been Telestes, a dancer in ""Seven Against"" this city

Thebes

WORLD HISTORY | 2000 | This early Germanic people in Gaul were split into 2 major branches, the Salians & the Ripuarians

the Franks

DRUNK HISTORY | 1200 | Many a patriot hoisted a mug at the Warren Tavern, today a nice break from the red line of this Boston urban trail

the Freedom Trail

ERAS OF HISTORY | 800 | The Ancien Regime, or ""old order"", refers to the period up to this event

the French Revolution

HISTORICAL QUOTATIONS | 1200 | In 1170 Henry II asked, ""Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"", the priest being this man

Thomas Becket

19th CENTURY BRIT LIT | 400 | He set many of his works, beginning with ""Far From the Madding Crowd"", in an area of England called Wessex

Thomas Hardy

THE 18th CENTURY | 1600 | In 1790 he became our first Secretary of State; he got a big promotion a little over a decade later

Thomas Jefferson

HISTORY AS THEATER | 800 | ""Murder in the Cathedral"" by T.S. Eliot is about this man's slaying in 1170

Thomas à Becket

SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE | 1600 | It's got murders, rape & heads baked in a pie:""CUSTODIAN NUT SIR""

Titus Andronicus

FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES | 800 | Will you sign my copy of the ""Domesday Book"" you commissioned, my king? It's a first edition from 1086!

William the Conqueror

THE AL FRANKEN DECADE | 600 | A historic 1989 event in this Asian plaza is also called the June 4th Incident

Tiananmen Square

BATTLE CREEK | 800 | Site of a Nov. 7, 1811 battle, this Indiana river got additional notoriety in an 1840 campaign of a different sort

Tippecanoe

BOX OFFICE CHAMPS OF THE DECADE | 200 | The 1990s:starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet

Titanic

FLYING INTO HISTORY | 200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) Used in every theater of World War II, the B-25 Mitchell is best known as the plane used by Doolittle's Raiders in the dramatic 1942 attack immortalized on film as ""Thirty Seconds Over"" this city

Tokyo

JAPANESE HISTORY | 800 | On March 20, 1995 a cult released sarin gas in this city's subway system, killing a dozen people

Tokyo

THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS | 200 | A sixth-round pick in the 2000 draft, this QB told owner Robert Kraft, ""I'm the best decision"" the team ""ever made""

Tom Brady

AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS | 800 | This 2-time best actor Oscar winner of the '90s is the youngest honoree ever

Tom Hanks

BEARD AWARD-WINNING CHEFS | 200 | Tom Colicchio turned down the job of judge on this Bravo show 3 times before saying yes

Top Chef

THE WAR OF 1812 | 800 | On April 27, 1813 American forces captured York, the capital of upper Canada; today York is known by this name

Toronto

HISTORY 101 | 1200 | Famous for his triumphal column, this emperor began an expansion of the Roman Empire in 101 A.D.

Trajan

I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD | 600 | He's Poseidon's son; in a Disney movie, he's the undersea king

Triton

THE EARLY 20th CENTURY | 1000 | In the USSR the '20s saw the start of Stalin's rule, the collectivization of farms & the expulsion of this Stalin rival

Trotsky

THE WALKING DEAD | 400 | Russell, a vampire on this HBO show, took over a TV newscast, said he'd eat us all, then threw it to Tiffany for the weather

True Blood

THE KOREAN WAR | 200 | General Douglas MacArthur led the forces in support of South Korea until this president fired him in April 1951

Truman

BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES | 1200 | Henry VII's father was known as Edmund this, hence this house's moniker

Tudor

NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES | 1200 | In 1998 the Alabama airfield where these black pilots received their training in WWII became a National Historic Site

Tuskegee

TRUCKING | 400 | If you're ""On The Road Again"", you might stop for BioWillie diesel, an alternative fuel named for this country star

Willie Nelson

HORRIBLE HISTORY | 800 | This woman worked as a cook in New York, spreading deadly disease to more than 50 people between 1900 & 1915

Typhoid Mary

BEST DRAMA SERIES EMMY AWARDS | 400 | 1974 & '75: This class-conscious PBS show that wasn't even about Americans

Upstairs, Downstairs

KING ARTHUR | 800 | In some versions the ""sword in the stone"" that Arthur pulls free to become king was the sword of this man, his dad

Uther Pendragon

HISTORIC DAYS | 800 | 16664

V-J Day

HISTORIC DAYS | 400 | 16565

VE day

ABBREV. BACKWARDS & FORWARDS | 400 | A Jetta or a Golf in Wheeling

VW and WV

THE COLD WARS | 400 | The title of the painting seen here is ""Washington at"" this place

Valley Forge

19th CENTURY BRIT LIT | 1200 | ""A Novel Without a Hero"" is the subtitle of this Thackeray work

Vanity Fair

POWER AWARDS | 800 | The ""Election Night"" episode of this HBO show won the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Emmy in 2015

Veep

OTTOMAN HISTORY | 1200 | 1423 marked the first war with this Italian city-state that had a strong navy but struggled on the ground

Venice

PICK YOUR BATTLE | 400 | During World War I:Culloden,Sedan,Verdun

Verdun

NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICALLY | 800 | In 1524 this Italian made it to the mouth of the Cape Fear River; there was no bridge named for him there, though

Verrazzano

THE BRITISH MONARCH WHO... | 800 | helped organize relief efforts & visited hospitals during the Crimean War

Victoria

THE MONARCHS OF ENGLAND | 400 | In 1842 she survived an assassination attempt by a dwarf

Victoria

YAS QUEEN | 400 | The last of the Hanover Dynasty, she was around long enough to have an entire ""Age"" named for her

Victoria

A HISTORY LESSON | 800 | Under the Congress of this city, 1814-15, Denmark was forced to give Norway to Sweden

Vienna

STORIES OF THE WAR | 1000 | ""The 13th Valley"" &""The Short-Timers""

Vietnam

BATTLE CREEK | 200 | An Old English poem records a 991 event in which a Saxon earl let a band of these warriors cross a stream--oops

Vikings

19th CENTURY STATE GOVERNORS | 600 | At the turn of the 19th century, James Monroe was this state's leader; he'd leave the job but get re-elected in 1811

Virginia

A STATE OF WAR | 800 | The Battle of Chancellorsville,1863

Virginia

STATE OF THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE | 1000 | The Battle of Petersburg

Virginia

WHEN I'M KING... | 1200 | Italy, 1861-1878, the second with this double name

Vittorio Emanuele (or Victor Emmanuel)

15th CENTURY NOTABLES | 1200 | 4-letter name of the ruler of Walachia whom the Turks referred to as ""the impaler prince""

Vlad

THE 15th CENTURY | 1200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of the Ottoman Empire.) In 1462 the mighty Ottoman army retreated after a large massacre by this Wallachian prince and his forces

Vlad (Tepes, Count Dracula)

PORTRAITS IN HISTORY | 600 | He's the French author & philosopher seen here, book in hand

Voltaire

1990s HISTORY | 1000 | A 51-day standoff between the feds & Branch Davidians took place in 1993 near this seat of McLennan County, Texas

Waco

HISTORY | 2000 | The discovery of gold near this double-talk Washington city made it a hotbed of activity in the 1860s

Walla Walla

BRITISH KINGS NAMED EDWARD | 2000 | In 1936 King Edward VIII gave it all up for the woman he loved, this twice-divorced American

Wallis Simpson

FORTUNE 500 THROUGH THE DECADES | 1000 | In 2004, busy cash registers at this retailer made it No. 1

Walmart

HISTORIC NAMES | 800 | Born around 1552 in Devon, he lost a colony in 1590 & lost his head in 1618

Walter Raleigh

THE TONY AWARDS | 1200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shares the stage with a life-size puppet horse and its handler.) The extraordinary journey of Joey here through the events of 1914 & after is magnificently portrayed in this 2011 Tony Award-winning Best Play

War Horse

COMPUTER HISTORY | 200 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew clicks the signaling device from behind a familiar lectern at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California; Jimmy is her sole human competitor.) The museum has an homage to this ""Jeopardy!"" cyber contestant, whose brilliance is now being put to work diagnosing illnesses, recommending better investments & helping researchers around the world find information faster

Watson

HISTORY | 1600 | This infamous quartet implemented Mao Zedong's harsh policies during the Cultural Revolution

the Gang of Four

LOOKING GOOD! | 200 | You've lost 60 pounds! What's your secret? Oh, this alliterative group founded in the '70s by Jean Nidetch

Weight Watchers

GERMAN HISTORY | 2000 | In 1919 the National Assembly met in this city to write a new constitution & establish a federal republic

Weimar

LITERARY AWARDS | 400 | Since 1953, the Spur Awards have been presented annually to writers of this genre

Western

CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE | 400 | The second sentence of this speech begins, ""Now we are engaged in a great civil war""

the Gettysburg Address

HISTORICAL NOVELS | 400 | Pete Dexter's ""Deadwood"" tells the tale of this aging gunfighter who just wanted to be left alone to drink & play cards

Wild Bill Hickok

19th CENTURY PEOPLE | 1000 | On a roll, this king of Prussia became the first kaiser of Germany in 1871

Wilhelm (I)

GOD SAVE THE ENGLISH KING! | 1600 | Daniel Defoe wrote ""The True-Born Englishman"" in support of this Dutch prince who became king in 1689

William (of Orange)

WORLD HISTORY | 1600 | On Jan. 26, 1808 George Johnston of Australia's New South Wales Corps led a mutiny vs. this governor & arrested him

William Bligh

MAKING A BEE LINE | 2000 | He wrote, ""I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree... and live alone in the bee-loud glade""

William Butler Yeats

19th CENTURY PEOPLE | 200 | The worse speller of a famous duo, in November 1805 he wrote in his journal, ""Ocian in view! O! the joy""

William Clark

19th CENTURY NOTABLES | 1600 | Seen here,he was the last presidentborn under British rule

William Henry Harrison

FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES | 600 | Loved your Mar. 4, 1841 speech, despite the weather! 1 hour, 45 minutes of awesome! Now it's clear skies for your presidency!

William Henry Harrison

THE BRITISH MONARCH WHO... | 1600 | introduced England to a form of Norman feudalism

William I (William the Conqueror)

HISTORIC NAMES | 200 | In 1984 this 17th c. Quaker who governed a colony was made an honorary U.S. citizen

William Penn

YOU'RE HISTORY! | 600 | Known as the father of the Keystone State, he also fathered 14 children

William Penn

CIVIL WAR HODGEPODGE | 1600 | In August 1863 he & his guerrilla band irregularly attached to the Confederate army sacked Lawrence, Kansas

William Quantrill

HISTORICAL ROMANCES | 2000 | In 1297 an English sheriff hanged Marion, the bride of this Scottish outlaw--big mistake

William Wallace

HISTORY | 1200 | This Scottish hero was defeated by Edward I at the 1298 Battle of Falkirk

William Wallace

BATTLE OF BRITAIN | 400 | This invader's army defeated Harold II on the Sussex coast in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings

William the Conqueror

CHINESE HISTORY | 800 | A folk tale tells of Meng Jiangnu, who searches for her husband along this public works project

the Great Wall of China

BRITISH HISTORY | 400 | In 1917 the royal family took this new name, also a castle

Windsor

BRITISH ROYAL HOUSES | 800 | Even after marrying a Mountbatten, Queen Elizabeth II said this house would remain

Windsor

19th CENTURY AMERICA | 1000 | A hero of the War of 1812 and the Mexican War, this general and Whig candidate lost the 1852 presidential election

Winfield Scott

MAKING A BEE LINE | 400 | This kid lit bear said, ""When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is not to let the bees know you're coming""

Winnie the Pooh

COMPLETE THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS LINE | 1200 | ""Let the ____ win""

Wookiee

STORIES OF THE WAR | 400 | ""All Quiet on the Western Front"" &""Parade's End""

World War I

WAR OF THE GENERALS | 1600 | Falkenhayn,Foch,French

World War I

WAR STORIES | 200 | In ""Khaki Wings"" a young British man courts danger by joining the fledgling Royal Flying Corps during this war

World War I

WAR STORIES | 800 | ""A Farewell to Arms"" by Ernest Hemingway

World War I

WARS BY BATTLE | 400 | Amiens &Belleau Wood

World War I

NAME THAT WAR | 2000 | The Battle of Tarawa

World War II

19th CENTURY NOVEL QUOTES | 1600 | ""Mr. Earnshaw was sitting by the fire, deadly sick; his evil genius, almost as...ghastly, leant against the chimney""

Wuthering Heights

WORKING WOMEN | 200 | The first African-American woman to head a Fortune 500 company, Ursula Burns became its CEO in 2009; copy that!

Xerox

GREEK HISTORY | 1600 | In 480 B.C. this son of Darius invaded Greece but the Greek navy defeated him at the Bay of Salamis & he returned to Persia

Xerxes

HISTORICAL ONLINE CHECK-INS | 2000 | 480 B.C.: Crossing the Hellespont, supported by 700 ships; it's good to be the Persian king!

Xerxes

A STUDENT OF HISTORY | 800 | George W. Bush graduated from this Ivy League university with a B.A. in history

Yale

HISTORIC CARS | 400 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a car at Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.) This specially made armored limousine was made for Franklin Delano Roosevelt & used as he hammered out issues at this Crimean conference in 1945

Yalta

OUR HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS | 2000 | The 1872 act establishing this called it a ""tract of land in the territories of Montana and Wyoming""

Yellowstone National Park

BRITISH KINGS NAMED EDWARD | 1600 | King Edward IV, a participant in the Wars of the Roses, was the son of Richard, Duke of this side in the wars

York

THE COLD WARS | 1200 | On March 29, 1461 this side beat the Lancastrians in a blizzard in the bloodiest battle of the Wars of the Roses

York

HISTORIC CARS | 800 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us another car at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.) Inspired by the '56 Packard, the 1962 Chaika was a favorite of Nikita Khrushchev, who owned one himself & gave one as a present to this first cosmonaut

Yuri Gagarin

THE 2nd CENTURY | 400 | After more than 600 years, the temple of this Olympian ruler of the gods was finally completed in Athens

Zeus

SNOW WHITE'S LESSER-KNOWN DWARFS | 1200 | This lively guy shares his name with a comic strip pinhead

Zippy

THE WALKING DEAD | 1000 | Woody Harrelson loves Twinkies & killing the undead in this 2009 film

Zombieland

WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED | 200 | In 2007 this bird was removed from the U.S. threatened & endangered species list; nice, with it being a natl. symbol & all

a bald eagle

WAR | 1200 | AKA the M9A1 rocket launcher, this shoulder-held weapon could pierce 5 inches of armor plate, Joe

a bazooka

THE KOREAN WAR | 400 | U.S. General ""Rosie"" O'Donnell commanded operations of B-29s, this type of plane

a bomber

WORKING ON THE RAILROAD | 400 | One single rolling railroad freight unit; 2 of them are a roll of 12 in dice

a boxcar

THINKING | 400 | A bunch of people all thinking & giving ideas is this kind of anatomically named session

a brainstorming session

20th CENTURY AMERICA | 1000 | A sign at the 1912 Progressive party convention read, ""I want to be"" one of these ""with antlers on my forehead""

a bull moose

CIVIL WAR SLANG | 2000 | Now it's slang for any bad situation; back then it was a foraging soldier

a bummer

BANKING | 800 | This type of check is accepted without question & is signed by the banker it's named for

a cashier\'s check

IT HAPPENED IN THE 20th CENTURY | 400 | In 1981 Ananda Chakrabarty received a patent for a life form made of just 1 this

a cell

WARNER BROS | 800 | This Vermont regiment led by Seth Warner was crucial in the 1777 Battle of Bennington

the Green Mountain Boys

THE 18th CENTURY | 200 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Easter Island.) When Captain Cook reached Easter Island in 1774, he found many of the great statues toppled & the Polynesian population decimated by this type of localized conflict

a civil war

WARDROBE | 800 | Varying in length & color, the name of this semi-formal dress suggests it's perfect for happy hour

a cocktail dress

PUERTO RICAN HISTORY | 1000 | In 1951 Puerto Rico voted to become one of these as part of the U.S.; in 1967 & 1993, it voted to stay one

a commonwealth

MAKING THE GRADE | 1000 | Factors such as amnesia & loss of consciousness help grade this injury as mild, moderate or severe

a concussion

WAR OF THE WORDS | 400 | A public official might have this war word ""of interest"" & have to recuse himself

a conflict

THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH | 800 | Zebra crossing isn't an African road sign, it's one of these found on the street

a crosswalk

THE 16th CENTURY | 800 | A 1531 writer gave this word a new meaning, saying Martin Luther was making this big kind of change to the whole world

a reformation

CHECKING OUT ALL THE ANGLES | 200 | Correct, it's the name given to this type of angle

a right angle

SERIOUS HARDWARE | 1000 | A computer tool used to connect networks, or a hardware tool that cuts below the main surface

a router

NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICALLY | 400 | At a Greensboro lunch counter in 1960, 4 students began this hyphenated type of protest & it lasted for 6 months

a sit-in

THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH | 800 | If Dennis the Menace hailed from Denston, he'd call this kid's weapon a catapult

a slingshot

WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED | 800 | The ai... a type of this mammal... has 3 toes... on each front foot

a sloth

WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED | 1000 | Melospiza melodia is the song type of this small, common brown bird

a sparrow

17th CENTURY WORDS | 800 | In Newton's day this word was first used to mean the band of colors produced when light passes through a prism

a spectrum

A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR | 400 | A simple method of printing & duplicating uses these cutouts; paint is sprayed through the removed areas

a stencil

FASHION HISTORY | 800 | Chimney-pot is another name for this high silk top hat big in the 19th century

a stove pipe

CNN HISTORIC REVOLUTIONS | 1600 | (Ivan Watson has the clue this time.) Here in Istanbul in 1908 the original ""Young Turks"" occupied the city as part of a revolution against a dictatorial one of these Ottoman Rulers

a sultan

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE TITLES | 600 | A nice job title if you can get it; in 2016 Brunei was on its 29th

a sultan

THE 12th CENTURY | 800 | In 1181 this type of exploding star lit up the nighttime sky in Cassiopeia & remained visible for 185 days

a supernova

THE KING'S ENGLISH | 200 | Get on the blower & ask the queen if she knows a blower is this in the States

a telephone

FASHION HISTORY | 2000 | This 18th century variation on the cocked hat had an upturned brim forming 3 equidistant peaks

a tricorn hat

HISTORY OF CARS | 200 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California.) Fred Astaire's elegant 1927 Rolls town car has many luxurious features, like a means of speaking to the chauffeur &, in the rear... a Louis Vuitton one of these, later a term for a car's built-in storage compartment

a trunk

MEMOIRS OF THE WORKING LIFE | 800 | ""All Creatures Great and Small launched a series on James Herriot's many year in this profession

a veterinarian

THAT'S HISTORY | 400 | A 1968 pandemic of H3N2, aka ""Hong Kong"" this, caused more than a million deaths

a virus (or flu)

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE TITLES | 200 | The lowest grade of nobility; the ""Red"" one became an international figure in his own right

baron

HISTORY | 800 | On Aug. 7, 1964 this resolution passed in the House, 414 to zero

the Gulf of Tonkin resolution

CIVIL WAR SLANG | 400 | From the Latin for ""life"", vittles meant this

food

EX-PATRIOTS | 400 | Adam Vinatieri used his right one as time expired on Feb. 3, 2002 to give the Patriots their first Super Bowl victory

foot

TALKING DIRTY | 200 | A swing & a drive, curving out of play--it's this, a term meaning disgustingly loathsome

foul

BRITISH HISTORY | 1200 | Robert Catesby, an extremist Catholic, masterminded this 1605 plot to blow up Parliament

the Gunpowder Treason and Plot

GLASS & GLASSMAKING | 400 | Nature-produced glass includes fulgurites, slender tubes made by this discharge

lightning

WARTHOGS | 400 | A warthog's enemies include these 2 predators that begin with the same ""L""etter

lions and leopards

THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS | 1600 | Captured royalist leader Rowland Laugharne was spared execution by the drawing of these--bad luck, John Poyer

lots

WAR OF WORDS | 400 | This 4-letter word is a weapon in 2 senses: a club with a spiked head & a nonlethal spray

mace

18th CENTURY SCIENTISTS | 800 | In 1759 Braun & Lomonosov used snow & acid to freeze this liquid metal

mercury

INVENTIVE THINKING | 200 | Gail Borden Jr.'s process for condensing this preserved it with no refrigeration & enabled transport over long distance

milk

HISTORIC DAYS | 200 | 25404

moon landing

CHICAGO HISTORY | 400 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Chicago History Museum.) During Prohibition, which saw a rise in criminal activity, copper stills & buckets like these were used at home to make illegal high-proof whiskey known by this lunar name

moonshine

THE 15th CENTURY | 600 | In 1451 Nicholas of Cusa prescribed concave lenses to remedy this

nearsightedness (myopia)

MEXICAN HISTORY | 400 | The serendipitous sighting of seepage helped Weetman Pearson become the pioneer of this industry in Mexico

oil

TEXAS HISTORY | 200 | In 1901 Beaumont, Texas saw the birth of this industry at Spindletop & the fortunes of the state were changed forever

oil & gas

PRE-'80s HISTORY | 600 | In the 1930s Franco abolished the use of Euskara, the language of this ethnic group

the Basques

FASHION HISTORY | 1600 | A clog of French peasants; add ""-age"" to get a type of destruction the peasants did by putting the shoes in machinery

sabot

PUERTO RICAN HISTORY | 600 | To improve its financial situation, on July 1, 2015 Puerto Rico raised this to 11.5%, the highest in the U.S.

sales tax

TRUCKING | 600 | In the 1920s the Fruehauf Company introduced the refrigerated trailer using ice & this compound

salt

CHECKING OUT ALL THE ANGLES | 800 | Additionally, it describes the angles here

supplementary

HAWAIIAN HISTORY | 200 | Missionaries preached against this ocean pastime, but it was designated the state individual sport in 1998

surfing

THE 12th CENTURY | 1600 | One of the first books on this branch of medicine also practiced by barbers advocated molten lard

surgery

THE VIETNAM WAR ERA | 1200 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Mekong River in Vietnam.) The muddy waters of the Mekong were the site of many actions involving small U.S. Navy vessels formerly called patrol fast craft, but better known by this nickname made famous during the 2004 presidential election

swift boats

WORKING ON THE RAILROAD | 1000 | A ""tank town"" was a spot on a railroad route often stopped in only to do this

take on water

YUCKY HISTORY | 1200 | These stinky hide-processing plants were represented by a 19th C. Australian ""Noxious Traders Association""

tanneries

TALKING DIRTY | 1000 | Discoloration formed when silver reacts with sulfur compounds in the air

tarnish

QUEEN OF | 800 | Depicting a woman sitting on a throne by a shore, the Queen of Cups can be found in a set of these

tarot cards

CRIME OF THE DECADE | 1000 | The Achille Lauro cruise ship is hijacked, Leon Klinghoffer is killed

the 1980s

NAME THE DECADE | 200 | Sally Ride rides in space

the 1980s (1980 accepted)

WOMEN IN HISTORY | 1000 | In Susan B, Anthony's centennial year, the U.S. passed this number amendment that achieved her goal

the 19th

A HISTORY LESSON | 2000 | No. 47 of these from 1517 reads, ""Christians are to be taught that the buying of pardons is a matter of free will""

the 95 Theses (of Martin Luther)

AUSTRALIAN HISTORY | 400 | In 1967 Australians approved a referendum to allow the census to count these people

the Aborigines

WORKING WITH PLATO | 1600 | In 529 A.D. almost 1,000 years after it was created by Plato, this school was closed by Justinian I

the Academy

WORLD WAR II | 400 | This name for the group of countries that lost the war dates to a 1936 German-Italian pact

the Axis

HISTORICAL QUOTES | 400 | As reported by Hernan Cortes in a 1522 dispatch, these people said that ""by no means would they give themselves up""

the Aztecs

JUDEAN HISTORY | 800 | Around 587 B.C. this empire conquered Judea & exiled most of the Jews

the Babylonian Empire

THE 19th CENTURY | 800 | The French capture of Algiers in 1830 ended a long run of preying on shipping by these Barbary-an guys

the Barbary pirates

FRENCH HISTORY | 1200 | The French epic ""Song of Roland"" depicts a battle against Saracens, but it was actually vs. these people of the Pyrenees

the Basques

FLYING INTO HISTORY | 600 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) C-54 Skymasters carried most of the 2.3 million tons of cargo delivered between June 1948 & October 1949 as part of this Cold War program, nicknamed ""Operation Vittles""

the Berlin Airlift

COLORFUL HISTORY | 1600 | Founded in Munich in 1921, this paramilitary group intimidated & assaulted Nazi opponents

the Brownshirts

WARM | 1000 | Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik was born in these Spanish islands in the Atlantic that enjoy year-round springlike temps

the Canaries

THE 16th CENTURY | 1000 | Matteo da Bascio wasn't monkeying around when he founded this order of friars in 1525

the Capuchins

20th CENTURY HISTORY | 1600 | By 9 A.M. on April 15, 1912, this ship had rescued about 705 survivors of the Titanic disaster

the Carpathia

AWARDS FOR WRITING | 1200 | Named for a 16th century luminary, this prize is awarded by the Spanish ministry of culture

the Cervantes Award

FROM THE BRITISH MONARCHY'S WEBSITE | 800 | These islands are grouped into the 2 main bailiwicks of Jersey & Guernsey

the Channel Islands

HISTORY, ON THE MOVE | 1200 | After its futile appeal to the Supreme Court, this tribe lost 4,000 members along the 1830s ""Trail of Tears""

the Cherokee

NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICALLY | 2000 | In 1776 this N.C. tribe supported the British & led by Chief Dragging Canoe attacked the colonists

the Cherokee

HISTORIC DOCUMENTS | 200 | The 1534 Act of Supremacy established this church with Henry VIII at its head

the Church of England

NAME THAT WAR | 1200 | The Battle of Lookout Mountain

the Civil War

WAR STORIES | 800 | ""Gods and Generals"" by Jeff Shaara

the Civil War

WARS BY BATTLE | 1000 | Kennesaw Mountain &Poison Spring

the Civil War

KICKING AROUND FOR A WHILE | 800 | Lou ""The Toe"" Groza split the uprights until he was past 40 for this storied Ohio franchise

the Cleveland Browns

AWARDS & HONORS | 1600 | Oddly, this award for excellence in advertising is named for the muse of history

the Clio

WORKING ON A BUILDING | 400 | 82 A.D.: Domitian adds a level of nosebleed seats to this amphitheater so more Romans can watch gladiatorbleeds

the Colosseum

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

the Commodores

ERAS OF HISTORY | 1000 | Instead of B.C. some prefer the less religious B.C.E., for ""before"" this ""Era""

the Common Era

WHO WON THE WAR ANYWAY? | 800 | In 1949 this group won the Chinese Civil War

the Communists

HISTORY | 200 | 70 delegates were chosen for this 1787 gathering; 55 attended & 39 ended up signing

the Constitutional Convention

OHIO HISTORY | 1000 | During the Civil War, Ohio rep. Clement Vallandigham was a leader of these ""snaky"" antiwar northerners

the Copperheads

LESSER-KNOWN HISTORIC NAMES | 1600 | Stenka Razin, who led an uprising of these horsemen of the steppes, was the subject of the 1st Russian feature film, from 1908

the Cossacks

THE 11th CENTURY | 400 | A supernova lit up the sky in 1054; its remnants are this nebula that resembles a certain crustacean

the Crab Nebula

BATTLES IN THE WAR | 800 | Balaklava &Sevastopol

the Crimean War

OTTOMAN HISTORY | 400 | In 1853 the Ottoman Turks declared war on Russia, igniting this conflict

the Crimean War

WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR | 400 | Russia 1, Turkey 0at Sinope;Allies 1, Russia 0in this 1853 to 1856 war

the Crimean War

THE 2nd CENTURY | 1200 | A half-mile bridge over this river in what's now Romania had the longest span built for the next 1,000 years

the Danube

WORLD WAR I | 2000 | The Allies suffered around 250,000 casualties trying unsuccessfully to reopen this strait also known as the Hellespont

the Dardanelles

THE 19th CENTURY | 1600 | These ""monthly"" rebels of 1825 Russia rose up in protest over Nicholas I's assumption of the throne

the Decembrists

JAPANESE HISTORY | 1600 | The Meiji Constitution of 1889 created this 4-letter legislature with 2 houses

the Diet

HISTORY'S ODDS & ENDS | 1000 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In Wyoming on July 18, as many turned right to the familiar route west, this 20-wagon party went left toward Fort Bridger & Hastings Cutoff; that did not end well

the Donner party

FIRST, QUEENS | 200 | Between the boroughs of Queens & Manhattan flows this ""directional"" river

the East River

THE QUEENS ENGLISH | 1200 | It's a little weird to say, but Queens is bounded on the west by this river

the East River

LITERARY AWARDS | 400 | These awards presented by the Mystery Writers of America are named for Mr. Poe

the Edgars

BANKING | 200 | U.S. banks earn money by giving loans at interest rates regulated by this body created in 1913

the Federal Reserve

BEASTLY BACKING BANDS | 1600 | Country Joe &these swimmers

the Fish

ANCIENT HISTORY | 600 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Covering 120,000 square miles from Mexico into Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador & the Honduras, this civilization peaked from 250 to 900 A.D.

the Mayans

A HISTORY LESSON | 1200 | In 1513 Machiavelli was accused of conspiracy against this Florentine family & was tortured on the rack

the Medicis

THE VIETNAM WAR | 400 | (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Vietnam)For more than a decade, U.S. and South Vietnameseforces fought Vietcong guerrillas for control of Vietnam's rice bowl, this fertile region near the Mekong River's mouth.

the Mekong Delta

HISTORIC SHIPS | 1200 | Once the flagship of the USA's Pacific Squadron, it was salvaged by the Confederates & recommissioned as the Virginia

the Merrimack

THERE'S A WAR ON | 400 | 1846 to 1848:Starring Zachary Taylor

the Mexican-American War

NEW ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS? | 1600 | Given for cutest boy in an ad, it's named for the 4-year-old in a Life cereal commercial

the Mikey

THE 17th CENTURY | 1200 | The peasants uprising led by Li Zicheng ended this Chinese dynasty in 1644

the Ming

THE CIVIL WAR | 400 | By June 1862 the Union held this river as far south as Memphis

the Mississippi

WORLD HISTORY | 1600 | In 1368 the Chinese told this dynasty, also called the Yuan, you Khan go now

the Mongol

WORLD HISTORY | 800 | In 1240 Batu Khan, leader of these people, sacked & burned Kiev

the Mongols

WORKING WITH A BEATLE | 400 | In a 1995 Pizza Hut ad, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork & Davy Jones welcomed Ringo as this band's new drummer

the Monkees

WORLD HISTORY | 2000 | In 1805 & 1806 Mungo Park traced most of this river, from above Timbuktu to Kainji Lake

the Niger

AWARDS FOR WRITING | 400 | Won in 2015 by Svetlana Alexievich, it's handed out annually by the Swedish Academy

the Nobel Prize in Literature

KING ME | 400 | Greece's George I supported a movement to revive this sporting event abolished in 393 A.D.

the Olympics

THE 4th CENTURY | 400 | Emperor Theodosius banned these athletic events begun 12 centuries before, calling them a pagan cult

the Olympics

THE WAR OF ...12 | 1600 | In 1912 Serbia was fighting this empire in the First Balkan War

the Ottoman

HISTORIC PLACES | 1200 | This temple was intact until the 5th century when Phidias' giant statue of Athena was removed

the Parthenon

D.C. HISTORY | 800 | When D.C. burned in 1814, this office important to inventors was spared after its head pleaded with the British

the Patent Office

RECENT HISTORY | 2000 | In October 2001 Congress passed this act to deter & punish terrorism

the Patriot Act

AWARDS & HONORS | 2000 | In 2008 NPR's ""Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!"" was among the winners of this award administered by the University of Georgia

the Peabody

HONORS & AWARDS | 1600 | The Natl. Assoc. of Broadcasters came up with these radio awards in 1938 as the equivalent of a Pulitzer

the Peabody Awards

ANCIENT HISTORY | 2000 | After the defeat at Leuctra in 371 B.C., Spartan power declined & this league went out of existence

the Peleponnesian League

WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR | 600 | Around 428 B.C. Athens kept control of Lesbos but by 404 things had swung Sparta's way in this war

the Peloponnesian War

WORKING ON A BUILDING | 1200 | 1941-43: 13,000 American workers Labor Day & night to turn swampland into this federal office complex

the Pentagon

B.C. KING | 600 | After his father died, Artaxerxes I became king of this empire

the Persian Empire

YAS QUEEN | 600 | Who do you think you are, this royal who visited King Solomon's court at the head of a camel caravan in the Bible?

the Queen of Sheba

FRENCH HISTORY | 600 | Robespierre ruled as a virtual dictator during this troubled period from 1793 to 1794

the Reign of Terror

BRITISH HISTORY | 400 | The return in 1660 of the monarchy & King Charles II isn't called the Reinstallation or the Redemption but this

the Restoration

BATTLES IN THE WAR | 200 | Cowpens &Trenton

the Revolutionary War

GERMAN HISTORY | 400 | In the 1806 Confederation of this river, Napoleon united all the states of Germany except for Austria & Prussia

the Rhine

THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY | 800 | Referring to this volunteer regiment & their victorious charge in Cuba, Teddy called it ""the great day of my life""

the Rough Riders

THE ENGLISH CIVIL WARS | 2000 | The royalist cavaliers, with flowing locks, battled these forces named for their close-cropped hair

the Roundheads

HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART II | 1000 | The Lex Cornelia Majestatis was the ancient Roman & a Ghostbuster-ish way of saying ""Don't cross this stream!""

the Rubicon

PRE-'80s HISTORY | 400 | (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) By law, Roman generals couldn't lead forces out of their assigned province; Caesar's 49 B.C. crossing of this stream separating Cisalpine Gaul from Italy acted as a war declaration

the Rubicon

KING LOUIS | 1000 | One legend about this potato soup is that king Louis XV had so many food testers that it was always cold when it got to him

vichyssoise

WORLD WAR II: ON THE HOME FRONT | 2000 | To reduce demand for commercial produce during the war, millions of people did their part by planting these gardens

victory gardens

DRUNK HISTORY | 800 | Peter the Great's 51st birthday party included mandatory drinking of this from a barrel; Peter died at 52

vodka

NOEL, COWARD | 1000 | Noel freaks when it comes to Yb, this element; it's the most volatile rare-earth metal, & Noel can't stand volatility!

ytterbium

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