Monday 4/23
Category: AMERICAN HISTORY
Clue:  This state is known as the "Cockpit of the Revolution" for all the battles there, including a pivotal one in December 1776

Answer:  Where is New Jersey?




Tuesday 4/24
Category:  WOMEN'S FIRSTS
Clue:  In 1977 Juanita Kreps, the first woman on the board of the NYSE, became the first woman to head this cabinet dept.

Answer:  What is Commerce ?


Wednesday 4/25
Category:  WEBSITES
Clue:  It launched its first offer on October 22, 2008:  a two-for-one pizza deal in Chicago

Answer:  What is Groupon.com  ?


Thursday 4/26
Category: International Road Vehicle Stickers
Clue:  It's the constitutional kingdom of more than 6 million whose road vehicle sticker is seen here:




Answer:  Where is Jordan ? (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan)





Friday 4/27
Category:  CONSTELLATIONS AND MYTH
Clue:  In Greek myth he became the prey when he was killed by Scorpius; now they're both in the sky

Answer:  Who was Orion ?





Monday 4/16
Category:  2011 MEMOIRS
Clue:  He titled his 2011 memoir: "Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain"

Answer:  Who is Hal Holbrook  ?


Tuesday 4/17
Category:  MUSEUMS
Clue:  For 2010 & 2011, it's gotten more visitors than any other single museum in the U.S.

Answer:  What is the National Air and Space Museum ?


Wednesday 4/18
Category: 1920s NOVELS
Clue:  This title guy says, "Do you believe in my innocence, in the fiendishness of my accusers? Reassure me with a Hallelujah!"

Answer:  What is Elmer Gantry  ?


Thursday 4/19
Category:  WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT WHEN…
Clue:  The Jets beat the heavily favored Colts in Super Bowl III?

Answer:  Who was Lyndon Baines Johnson ? (January 12, 1969; Nixon was inaugurated on Jan 20th)


Friday 4/20
Category: WORLD CURRENCIES
Clue: 1 of the 4 small U.N. nations that use the Euro as their official currency even though they are not in the European Union


Answer:  Where are Monaco, San Marino, Andorra and Montenegro?  this is some bullshit, because vatican city is a small nation that uses the euro; and there are several other nations that use the euro unofficially, including monetenegro; and montenegro is certainly not "small" like the other three.  

shenanigans on this one.




Monday 4/9
Category:  THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME
Clue:  His widow, Maria Elena & actor Gary Busey were on hand when his star was dedicated outside Capitol Records in 2011

Answer:  Who was Buddy Holly  ?






Tuesday 4/10
Category:  AWARDS & PRIZES
Clue:  Designed by Norwegian Gustav Vigeland, it depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders

Answer:  What is the Nobel Peace Prize  ?


Wednesday 4/11
Category:  ART STYLES
Clue:  Printmaker Richard Hamilton is credited with coining the name of this style, calling it "designed for a mass audience"

Answer:  What is 'Pop Art' ?


Thursday 4/12
Category:  SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS
Clue:  The only 2 plays whose titles repeat a word, excluding articles & prepositions, are "Measure For Measure" & this

Answer:  What is "Alls Well that Ends Well"  ?


Friday 4/13
Category:  WORD ORIGINS
Clue:  An exploited part of a law, originally it meant an opening in a castle wall used to look at or shoot at an enemy

Answer:  What is a loophole  ?




Monday 4/2
Category: TRANSLATED MOVIE TITLES
Clue:  This Robert DeNiro film is know in Italian as "Il Cacciatore"

Answer:  What is The Deer Hunter?  this is this, this is not something else




Tuesday 4/3
Category:  SYMBOLIC SCULPTURE
Clue:  In 2005 a sculpture of an african elephant was installed outside this country's embassy in Washington DC

Answer:  Where is The Ivory Coast?



Wednesday 4/4
Category:  CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Clue:  A. cavaticus, the scientific name of the barn spider, inspired the middle initial & last name of a character in this book

Answer:   What is Charlotte's Web ?


Thursday 4/5
Category:  POLITICAL TERMS
Clue:  The OED traces these 2 parallel terms to an October 30, 2000 "Today" Show discussion of an electoral map

Answer:  What are 'red state' and 'blue state' ?


Friday 4/6
Category:  WORLD LEADERS
Clue:  Names of the pair seen here, who've been spending a lot of time together

Answer:  Who are Nicholas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel ?  their brajelina name is acceptable--merkozy











Monday 4/30
Category: 

Clue:

Answer:  Wh  ?

Monday 3/26
Category: ISLANDS
Clue:  At 22 square miles, it's the world's smallest island with a population exceeding 1 million, a figure it reached by 1880

Answer:  Where is Manhattan, New York, NY?


Tuesday 3/27
Category: 20th CENTURY NOVELS
Clue:  "Books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers" is a line from this novel

Answer:  What is Fahrenheit 451?


Wednesday 3/28
Category: LATIN PHRASES
Clue:  Though often associates with Machiavelli, this phrase "exitus acta probat" first appears in a work by Ovid

Answer:  What is 'the ends justify the means'?


Thursday 3/29
Category: SPACE EXPLORATION
Clue:  On March 17, 2011, a probe called Messenger became the first spacecraft to orbit this planet

Answer:  Where is Mercury?


Friday 3/30
Category:  U.S. VICE PRESIDENTS
Clue:  More VPs have been from this state than any other, including 2 20th Century VPs who were its governor

Answer:  Where is New York?  (theodore roosevelt and nelson rockefeller.  they didn't say elected VP)







Monday 3/19
Category: MOVIE DIRECTORS
Clue:  On visiting RKO in 1939, he described the studio as the biggest electric train set any boy ever had

Answer:  Who was Orson Welles?


Tuesday 3/20
Category: HISTORICAL FACTS & FIGURES
Clue:  This site was active from 1892 to 1954; it's busiest day was April 17, 1907 when 11,717 were processed

Answer:  Where is Ellis Island?


Wednesday 3/21
Category: FAMOUS NAMES
Clue: At his death in January 2010, he was called "the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous"

Answer:  Who was Jerome David Salinger? (The Catcher in the Rye)


Thursday 3/22
Category: STATE NICKNAMES
Clue:  Its nickname is said to come from a line in an 1899 speech that followed "frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me"

Answer:  Where is Missouri?  (The 'Show Me' State)



Friday 3/23
Category: TOYS & GAMES
Clue:  In 1953 the maker of this board game was flooded with letters with ideas for timing devices, turntables & bags to hold game pieces

Answer:  What is Scrabble?







Monday 3/12
Category: PEOPLE OF EUROPE
Clue:  These people who ruled large parts of Spain before Celtic and Roman dominance left their name on the land

Answer:  Who are the Iberians?


Tuesday 3/13
Category: FICTIONAL WOMEN
Clue:  After dying, she's described as having "too much of water", & her brother says, "therefore, I forbid my tears"

Answer:  Who is Ophelia?


Wednesday 3/14
Category: 20th CENTURY NAMES
Clue:  Chapters in his autobiography include "Outcaste", "First Day in Pretoria" & "Fasting as Pennance"

Answer:  Who was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi?


Thursday 3/15
Category: LITERATURE
Clue:  This 1928 novel was partly based on the author's wife Frieda & her affair with Angelo Ravagli

Answer:  What is Lady Chatterly's Lover?


Friday 3/16
Category: '70s BLOCKBUSTERS
Clue:  A direction in this film:  "Start with the tone…up a full tone.  Down a major third. Now drop an octave.  Up a perfect fifth."

Answer:  What is Close Encounters of the Third Kind?








Thursday 3/1
Category:  SCIENTISTS
Clue:In 1711 Newton led the Royal Society in London & his greatest rival led the Academy of Sciences in this capital city

Answer:  Where is Berlin ? (his name was Gottfried Leibnitz.  you mean you don't watch The Big Bang Theory?)


Friday 3/2
Category: BOOK VILLANS
Clue:  The first time we meet this man in a 1981 novel, he's in his cell holding "Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine"

Answer:  Who is Dr. Hannibal Lecter?


Monday 3/5
Category: CIVILIZATIONS
Clue:  Starting in the 300s B.C., Hellenistic civilization was spread from this land, where a new country was declared in 1991

Answer:  Where is Macedonia?


Tuesday 3/6
Category: AMERICAN WRITERS
Clue:  A fellow author called him "a very unique cat…a French Canadian Hinayana Buddhist beat Catholic savant"

Answer:  Who was Jack Kerouac?


Wednesday 3/7
Category: CURRENT AMERICAN COMPANIES
Clue:  The name of a Kansas City-based consumer product company, it's also a term goldsmiths use to denote quality

Answer:  What is Hallmark?


Thursday 3/8
Category: TONY-WINNING MUSICALS
Clue:  These 2 back-to-back Tony winners for Best Musical (1987 & 1988) were both set in Paris

Answer:  What are Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera?


Friday 3/9
Category:  MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Clue:  An entertainer born in 1888 whose original first name was Adolph was one of the best-known players of this instrument

Answer:  Who was Harpo Marx?

12:05

adapted from a nice column from Mish:  

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/02/cost-for-doing-gods-work-declines-from.html
what is the job of a CEO of a publicly held company? most books that i have read say 'to maximize shareholder value'. here is the chart of the weekly stock price for a large publicly held company, over the year 2011:



rough year. ex dividends, shareholder value was nearly cut in half. (to be fair, the dividend has held steady at 1.2%. about what you can get risk-free from a 5-year treasury bond.) the board of directors must've been out for blood. if the ceo wasn't dumped, surely he would be on notice. and he could forget about that big bonus, right?

the ceo did have his base salary more than triple, from $600,000 to $2 million, 2010 to 2011. but his bonus was cut. 2010--$12.6 million. his penalty for chopping shareholder value in half in 2011? a bonus of only $7 million.

2010--company performance is basically flat, ceo is paid $13.2 million. 2011--company loses half its value, ceo is paid $9 million.

it gets worse.

this is by far the most well connected, most dominant company in its industry. it is hard to imagine a firm with a more advantageous structure and position to make a profit. yet, if you were a pension fund or mutual fund that invested in this company's stock at the beginning of last year, you lost nearly half your money.

but the ceo doesn't have to worry about being responsive to the shareholders. he gets paid anyway. after all, he is doing god's work.



i'm sure lloyd blankfein earned every penny of that $9 million.  in fact, he was heard to mutter, "now i know how the greeks feel!"

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/02/cost-for-doing-gods-work-declines-from.html

the disconnect between the interests of the top executives of firms from the interests of the shareholders is the single biggest problem in the long-term structure of american capitalism. tightly coupled with that is the focus upon short-term 90 day goals and horizons.

both of these deep, horrific departures from the way business has been done in the usa for decades until recently is ultimately the fault of the shareholders--for allowing the lack of accountability to grow worse, in return for the prospect of chasing near term stock price growth.

ultimately, i blame not the leaders but the voters. in politics, and in finance. if i was lloyd blankfein, and the board of directors/shareholders aren't gonna say shit, i'd pay myself a bundle for failure too. (well, i wouldn't; but i can't blame him for being human.)

Monday2/27
Category:  U.S. MEMORIALS
Clue:  "No day shall erase you from the memory of time" from Virgil's "Aeneid" is inscribed on a wall at this memorial

Answer:  What is the 9-11 memorial in New York?  bullshit question.


Tuesday 2/28
Category: THE 1960s
Clue:  On nominating this man in 1967, LBJ said "(I)t is the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man & the right place"

Answer:  Who was Thurgood Marshall ? first African-American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court


Wednesday 2/29
Category: THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
Clue:  The Catholic & Eastern Churches separated in 1054, when the Pope & Pariarch did this to each other; it was undone in 1965

Answer:  What is excommunicated ?




Monday2/20
Category:  FRENCH PAINTERS
Clue:  This French painter wrote, "I am good for nothing except painting and gardening"

Answer:  Who was Claude Monet ?


Tuesday 2/21
Category: ASIAN BORDERS
Clue: In 1893 the British established the Durand line, now the boundary, much in the news since 2001, between these two countries

Answer:  Where are Pakistan and Afghanistan?


Wednesday 2/22
Category: THE NEW TESTAMENT
Clue:  In Chapter 1 of the Acts of the Apostles, Matthias is chosen to replace him

Answer:  Who is Judas Iscariot ?


Thursday 2/23
Category:  SINGERS
Clue:  On the eve of Earth Day, 2011, he became the first performer inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame

Answer:  Who was John Denver ?  what a dumb-ass clue.


Friday 2/24
Category: LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES
Clue:  Quoting a famous line of his, a 2011 biography of this man was titled "And So It Goes"

Answer:  Who was Kurt Vonnegut Jr ?








Monday2/13
Category:  ANNIVERSARIES
Clue:  In 2011 Elizabeth II marked the 400th anniversary of this, assembled by 47 translators in Oxford, London & Cambridge

Answer:  What was the King James Bible ?


Tuesday 2/14
Category: COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
Clue:  The 14 countries that border China run alphabetically from this to Vietnam

Answer:  Where is Afghanistan ?


Wednesday 2/15
Category: U.S. STATES
Clue:  This third-smallest state in area is home to the USA's third-oldest college

Answer:  What is Connecticut ?



Thursday 2/16
Category: PEOPLE IN HISTORY
Clue:  The name of this assassin is Latin for heavy, dull, insensitive, oafish

Answer:  Et Tu Brute ?


Friday 2/17
Category: LITERARY CHARACTERS
Clue:  The only title character in her creator's 6 major novels, she was portrayed in a 1996 film & a 2009 miniseries

Answer:  Who is Emma (Woodhouse) ?  first name is sufficient, according to alex






Monday2/6
Category:  COLONIAL HISTORY
Clue:  A 1763 letter said that these 2 men were equipped with "instruments…to look at the posts in the line for ten or twelve miles"

Answer:  Who were Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon ?


Tuesday 2/7
Category: MEDICAL DISCOVERIES
Clue:  Nicolas Paulescu isolated a substance he called 'pancrein', now known as this

Answer:  What is insulin ?


Wednesday 2/8
Category:  COMIC BOOKS
Clue:  An inspiration for this character introduced in 1929 was 15-year-old Palle Huld's 44-day voyage around the world

Answer:  Who is Tintin ?  What is 'the fuck is that'?


Thursday 2/9
Category: CHARACTERS IN POETRY
Clue:  The name of this title heroine of an 1847 poem is from the Greek for "good news

Answer:  Who is Evangeline?  that's almost Anabel Lee, right? half-credit?


Friday 2/10
Category: ANCIENT QUOTATIONS
Clue:  When Byzantine Emperor Justinian completed Hagia Sophia, he declared, this king, "I have surpassed thee"

Answer:  Who was Solomon ?






Wednesday 2/1
Category: WORD ORIGINS
Clue:  From the Arabic for "storehouse", in 1731 it was first used to refer to a monthly storehouse of information

Answer:  What is 'magazine' ?


 Thursday2/2
Category: 19th CENTURY AUTHORS
Clue:  One of this author's greatest successes came after remarking, "i want to write about a fellow who was two fellows"

Answer:  Who was Robert Louis Stevenson ?


Friday 2/3
Category: NATIONAL PARKS
Clue:  A biosphere reserve,, this southern national park is the largest in the lower 48 completely within one state

Answer:  What is Everglades National Park ?

So, it is utterly despicable to piss on dead bodies in war.

how about despicable to be there in the first place.  despicable to kill these strangers, with no rhyme or reason as to what we are fighting for. 

the wars, the borrowing and spending, the suppression of legal speech and protest, the lies and constant bullshit in which our nation chooses to wallow astonishes me more every single day.

i just can't take it seriously any longer.  so i won't.

no more reasoned responses to the unreasonable from me.  disdain, ridicule, snark, satire, sarcasm, insult and invective.  that is all the current discourse in this country is worthy. 

maybe the occasional Big Lebowski quote.

gonna sit back and enjoy the show.  george carlin described americans as having a front row seat at the insane carnival that is our world.  and described himself as a note taker. that's what i do to.  watch, laugh, jot down the unfuckingbelievable thing i just saw or heard. 

there is an old bedouin saying:  a few dogs bark. and the caravan moves on.

Monday 1/30
Category:  1960S TV CHARACTERS
Clue:  One of her first spoken lines is translated as "you have the face of a wise and fearless Caliph"

Answer:  Who is 'Jeannie' ?


Tuesday 1/31
Category:  1870s PEOPLE
Clue:  Preserved in the West Point library, his last message reads, "Benteen.  Come on.  Big Village. Be Quick. Bring Packs.


Answer:  Who was George Armstrong Custer ? those packs wouldn't have helped unless they were shoulder-launched rockets.





Monday 1/23
Category: AMERICAN HISTORY
Clue:  This volunteer group was born in May 1898 near the bar in San Antonio's Menger Hotel; it existed for just 133 days

Answer:  Who were the Rough Riders ?


Tuesday 1/24
Category:  ISLANDS
Clue:  The Carabelli & Durazzo families are considered the Hatfields & McCoys of this island

Answer:  Where is Corsica ?


Wednesday 1/25
Category:  INTERNATIONAL SPORTS STARS
Clue:  In 2002, his No. 10 jersey from the 1970 World Cup finals sold at auction for a record $220,850

Answer:  Who is Edson Arantes do Naciemento ?  give us a break, alex. everyone knows Pelé


Thursday 1/26
Category:  HEALTH MATTERS
Clue:  This term for sudden severe head pain that typically lasts only a few minutes was trademarked by 7-Eleven in 1994

Answer:  What is 'brain freeze' ?


Friday 1/27
Category:  WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS
Clue:  After living in Honduras, O. Henry coined this term for a small country dependent on a single export

Answer:  What is a 'banana republic' ?





Monday 1/16
Category:  ENGLISH MONARCHS
Clue:  Since 1066, the longest the monarch had the same name was 116 years with this given name

Answer:  What is 'George' ?


Tuesday 1/17
Category:  U.S. POPULATION
Clue:  Between 2000 and 2010 these 2 states that border each other led the nation in highest percentage of population increase, 35% and 25%

Answer:  Where are Nevada and Arizona ?

Wednesday 1/18
Category:  FATHERS & SONS
Clue:  The island where this man's son washed ashore was later named Ikaria

Answer:  Who was Daedalus ? flew too high.

Thursday 1/19
Category:  SPORTS AND THE MOVIES
Clue:  When asked for a home address in "The Blues Brothers", Elwood gives 1060 Addison St., the home of this facility

Answer:  What is Wiggly Field ?


Friday 1/20
Category: ENGLISH LITERATURE
Clue:  This title character of an 18th century novel was the son of a man named Kreutznaer, but his name gets anglicized

Answer:  Who is Robinson Crusoe ?



Monday 1/9
Category:  RECENT FILMS
Clue:  An early scene in this 2011 film is set in Tonsberg, Norway in the year 965 A.D.

Answer:  What is Thor ?

Tuesday 1/10
Category: RULERS IN HISTORY
Clue:  Born in 1672 & named for a saint, in 1703 he founded a city whose name represents both of them

Answer:  Who was Peter the Great ? (of russia; St. Petersburg is the city, but we used to call it Leningrad)


Wednesday 1/11
Category:  FOOD ETYMOLOGY
Clue:  Keith Downey developed rapeseed into this cooking product, now a huge cash crop for farmers in Saskatchewan

Answer:  What is canola oil ?  (CANola CANada)

Thursday 1/12
Category:  WOMEN AUTHORS
Clue:  1 of the 2 American women authors nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938

Answer:  Who was Margaret Mitchell or Pearl Buck ?

Friday 1/13
Category:  PRESIDENTIAL RUNNING MATES
Clue:  The traditional Inaugural Lunch for this President and V.P. featured boiled stuffed lobster & prime ribs of beef au jus

Answer:  Who were Kennedy and Johnson ?



Monday 1/2
Category:  '70s OSCARS
Clue: This film whose title refers to an establishment holds the record for most wins, 8, without winning best picture

Answer:  What is Cabaret ?  i thought surely it was Network.

Tuesday 1/3
Category:  ASTRONOMY
Clue:  In July 2011 it completed its first orbit around the sun since its discovery in 1846

Answer:  What is Neptune ?

Wednesday 1/4
Category:  1930s NOVELS
Clue:  An audio version by this anti-war novel by a once blacklisted authro has introductions from
Cindy Sheehan and Ron Kovic

Answer:  What is Johnny Got his Gun ? (by Dalton Trumbull)  at least i knew erich maria remarque, a german national, was not blacklisted by american authorities.


Thursday 1/5
Category:  CALIFORNIA HISTORY
Clue:  Surname of the employer of James W. Marshall, who found gold in a stream near the Sacramento River in 1848

Answer:  Who was Sutter ?

Friday 1/6
Category:   ANCIENT WEIGHTS & MEASURES
Clue: The Hebrew word for this Biblical unit of measurement is Ammah, aptly meaning "elbow" or "forearm"

Answer:  as bill cosby once queried, What's a cubit ?

Thursday 12/1
Category: HIT SONGS
Clue:  Inspired by a Meher Baba saying, this 1980s Grammy winner was the first a cappella recording to top the Billboard 100

Answer:  What is Don't Worry, Be Happy ?

Friday 12/2
Category:  WORD ORIGINS
Clue: This word for a friend comes from the Latin for "with whom you would eat bread"

Answer:  What is "companion" ?


Monday 12/5
Category:  PLAYWRIGHTS
Clue:  For a 1953 play, he spent time in Salem doing research at the courthouse and at the witch house

Answer:  Who was Arthur Miller  ?


Tuesday 12/6
U.S. STRUCTURES
Clue:  On Dec. 6, 1884 this was capped with a 100oz., 9-inch-high pyramid shaped block of aluminum, a metal that was rare at the time

Answer:  What is the Washington Monument?

Wednesday 12/7
Category:  SPORTING EVENTS
Clue: The cup presented since 1887 to the man who wins this is inscribed "Single Handed Champion of the World"

Answer:  What is Wimbledon ?

Thursday 12/8
Category:  DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS
Clue:  The only Roman Catholic signer represented this state
Answer:  Where is Maryland  ?

Friday 12/9
Category:  "FIRST" PHRASES
Clue:  The earliest known use of this term was in an Indianapolis Star opinion piece of September 20, 1914

Answer:  What is the "First World War" ?

Monday 12/12
Category:BILLBOARD TOP 40
Clue: Prviously done by the Trapp Family, this song wbout an instrumentalist was a Top 40 hit every December from 1958 to 1962
Answer:  What is The Little Drummer Boy ?

Tuesday 12/13
Category:  20th CENTURY LITERATURE
Clue:A 50th anniversary edition of this fictionalized biography featured the painting seen here on its cover

Answer:  What is Lust for Life  ?  i saw the movie, didn't even know it was a book.


Wednesday 12/14
Category:  POPULAR BABY NAMES
Clue:  Character names in a book & movie series, the top names for 2009 & 2010 were Isabella for girls & this biblical one for boys

Answer:  What is Jacob ?

Thursday 12/15
Category:  AMERICAN AUTHORS
Clue: He was born in NYC on April 3, 1783, toward the end of the Revolutionary War, & named for one of the war's heroes

Answer:  Who was Washington Irving?  not nathaniel hawthorne.

Friday 12/16
Category:  WORD HISTORY
Clue:  A Roman legal term for a debtor sentenced to servitude is the origin of this term for a slave to a vice

Answer:  What is an "addict"  ?

Monday 12/19
Category:  FAMOUS BUILDINGS
Clue: Recent evidence suggests that, despite its name, this 1599 building was a 20-sided icosagon

Answer:  What is the Globe Theater?

Tuesday 12/20
Category:  POETS
Clue:  While north of his homeland, he was inspired to write perhaps his greatest work, "Alturas de Macchu Picchu"

Answer:  Who is Pablo Neruda ?

Wednesday 12/21
Category:   The NFL
Clue: This team that joined the NFL in the mid-1970s is the only one whose name starts with the same 3 letters as its city's name

Answer:  What are the Seattle Seahawks  ?


Thursday 12/22
Category:  ISLANDS
Clue: 1 of the 2 islands exceeding 100 million; each one is part of an asian country

Answer:  What are Honshu (Japan) or Java (Indonesia)  ?


Friday 12/23
Category:  POLITICAL WORDS
Clue:  16th century British farmers notching their livestock for identification led to this term for an item set aside for a specific purpose

Answer:  What is an 'earmark'  ?


Monday 12/26
Category:  JOLLY OLD ENGLAND
Clue:  Queen Anne liked the Marquess of Normanby, gave him permission to build a huge home in London and made him Duke of this

Answer:  What is the Duke of Buckingham?

Tuesday 12/27
Category:  PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS
Clue:  His second inauguration marked the first time that women officially participated in the inaugural parade

Answer:  Who is Woodrow Wilson?
 dumbass clue.  what the hell does 'officially participated' mean?  what if clara barton marched in march 1865? why not just say the first inauguration after female suffrage was embraced by the sitting president?  dumbass. but i got it anyway.

Wednesday 12/28
Category:  BUSINESS HISTORY
Clue: Crosby, Sinatra & Hope starred in the October 13, 1957 CBS-TV special that launched this short-lived product

Answer:  What is the Edsel Automobile  ?


Thursday 12/29
Category:  CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN WRITERS
Clue: Concluding a 4-book series, his 2004 novel "Folly and Glory" features Kit Carson, William Clark & Jim Bowie

Answer:  Who is Larry McMurtry ?

Friday 12/30
Category:  ROCK ICONS
Clue:  While he's had 12 top 10 hits on billboard, including 7 from a 1984 album, he;s never had a no. 1 single

Answer:  Who is Bruce Springsteen ?