The fleet-footed Atalanta once lost a race to Hippomenes when she stopped to pick up these golden fruits
apples;apple
This boxer with an 'earing problem tops the list of ESPN's most outrageous sports characters
Mike Tyson;Tyson
A Lerner and Lowe song lyric goes, "Thank heaven for" these people, "they grow up in the most delightful way"
little girls
If you've lost weight, Mom might say you're nothing but these 2 anatomical items (separate answers by "and")
skin and bones
This Roman goddess of wisdom is said to have leaped forth from the brain of Jupiter, fully mature and in armor
Minerva
He retired from the NHL for the final time in 1980, at age 52
Gordie Howe;Howe
"Green Gables" girl of Prince Edward Island
Anne
The Indian game moksha-patamu (heaven and hell) gave us this Milton Bradley game that has its ups and downs
Chutes and Ladders;snakes and ladders
The first First Lady to be elected to public office
Hillary Clinton;Clinton
The ingredients of this basic salad dressing might be the olive and balsamic types, respectively
oil and vinegar;vinegar and oil
Hera punished this nymph by saying that she shall have the last word but no power to speak first
Echo
Once part of Alcoa, this Canadian company with a 5-letter name is a giant in world aluminum manufacturing
Alcan
The first First Lady to be older than her husband
Martha Washington;Washington
Hamadryads were nymphs who lived in these; when they died, so did the hamadryads
trees;tree
Michael "The Albatross" Gross won gold medals in this sport using an arm span far exceeding his height
swimming
Quebec's Shickshock Mountains are part of this system that runs to Alabama
Appalachians
In Genesis 1, God gave the name Heaven to this, from the Latin for "support"
firmament
In 2002 Scotland's Inverness Prison reenacted its 1st inmate's arrival 100 years earlier, complete with this apparatus
ball and chain
Heracles' seventh labor was to bring Eurystheus this savage Cretan animal
bull
This ice skater (and boxer) helped lift a night of Winter Olympics coverage to one of the highest rated TV shows ever
Tonya Harding;Harding
Centered in Nova Scotia, it was the name applied by France to its Atlantic coastal possessions in North America
Acadia
This element known to the ancients is liquid at room temperature
mercury
"Mamma Mia" takes place on one of this country's islands; the plot concerns a big fat wedding
Greece
This type of peach is so named because its flesh does not cling to the pit
freestone peach
The vehicle in which the deceased travels to the cemetery
hearse
The 2 radioactive elements named for planets that follow uranium on the periodic table
neptunium and plutonium;plutonium and neptunium
It's a corn tortilla rolled around a filling in a flute-like shape, so its name is Spanish for "flute"
flauta
A round solid geometric figure, or a field of knowledge
sphere
2 of the ores for this yellowish-green gas are rock salt and horn silver
chlorine
Shubert Alley is the setting for both the opening and closing scenes of this smash hit that debuted in 2001
The Producers
If you make half of your 16 pigs run to get their slop, you'll hear the sound of this many feet on the ground
32
A Mexican poncho without the hole
serape
This element, symbol Ti, was first called menachite after the cornish town of its discovery, Manaccan
titanium
If it takes 50 pounds of seed to grow an acre of wheat, a ton of seed will get you this many acres
40
It's often described as bow tie pasta, but its name comes from the Italian for "butterflies"
farfalle
All elements except this one have neutrons in the nucleus
hydrogen
Ga. and N.C., each producing $3 million of grapes a year, combine to total this percentage of New York's $50 million
12 percent;12%;12
This custom is not observed in Japan; if you leave change behind, it may be returned to you
Tipping
In 1960, the year of his Army discharge, he had 3 no. 1 hits including "It's Now or Never"
Elvis Presley;Elvis
The Pharmacy Museum in this city's French Quarter has an enormous leech jar on display
New Orleans
Because not even 10 good people could be found in this wicked city, the Lord destroyed it
Sodom
This is a game of guessing words or phrases acted out, sometimes syllable by syllable
Charades
This author of "The Color Purple" won a 1986 O. Henry Prize for her story "Kindred Spirits"
Alice Walker
The name of this monetary unit in Japan comes from the word for "round"; earlier coins were often oval
Yen
His 1983 hit "Beat It" featured Eddie Van Halen on gutiar
Michael Jackson;Jackson
This Philistine asked David, "Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves?"
Goliath
His sci-fi novel, "The Invisible Man" is sometimes subtitled "a fantastic sensation"
H.G. Wells;Wells
Tokyo is served by two of these:  Narita and Haneda
Airports
This band adapted its name from Leonard Skinner, a gym teacher who loathed their long hair
Lynrd Skynrd
The cover, or mercy seat, of this box represented the throne of God
Ark of the Covenant
You take an opponent's checker after you do this to it
Jump It;jump over it
After being rebuilt in 1855, the Imperial Palace in this former capital was home to just 2 emperors
Kyoto
Her 1985 hit "Crazy For You" reached the top 5 in the U.K., as did its 1991 remixed version
Madonna
The Enid A. Haupt garden sits atop this institution's underground museum, education, and research complex
Smithsonian Institution;Smithsonian
The Old Testament refers to it as Mount Horeb and the mountain of God
Mount Sinai;Sinai
"August 1914" is a novel about the first days of WWI by this author of "The Gulag Archipelago"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn;Solzhenitsyn
Edward Kemeys designed the bronze lions guarding the main entrance to the art institute of this Midwest city
Chicago
This biblical patriarch was the son of Lamech and the grandson of Methuselah
Noah
In gin rummy, a hand ends when one player calls "Gin" or does this
Knock
This Voltaire title character is thrown out of the baron's castle with several kicks to his backside
Candide
This bell was first hung in 1753 in the Pennsylvania state house
Liberty Bell
From 1899-1904 Claude Monet created a series of paintings of this English river
Thames
The Gibson desert lies between the Great Sandy and Great Victoria deserts on this continent
Australia
Lavender is often included in herbes de Provence, an herb mixture from the south of this country
France
Recent DNA studies indicate that cockroaches and these wood eaters evolved from a common ancestor
Termites
In 1755, at age 23, he was appointed Commander-In-Chief of all the Virginia forces
George Washington
Samuel Morse's 1825 painting of this marquis is one of the finest American romantic portraits
Lafayette
The central part of this desert is crossed by the Jining-Ulan Bator Railway
Gobi
A wax bean is a variety of green bean that's this color
Yellow
The firefly is not a true fly but one of these insects like a junebug
Beetle
Great Britain and its colonies adapted this calendar in 1752
Gregorian Calendar;gregorian
Mel Gibson charges into battle as Scottish avenger William Wallace in this 1995 epic
Braveheart
Manfredi, Saraceni, and other followers of this artist were known as the Caravaggisti
Caravaggio
This Calif. desert extends from the San Jacinto and San Bernardino mountains east to the Colorado river
Mojave
The Oriental and Mediterranean types of this insect are serious agricultural pests
Fruitflies; fruit flies; fruit fly; fruitfly
Cecil B. De Mille directed this biblical epic twice, once as a silent, the other in 1956 as a talkie
The Ten Commandments
In 1756 this Prussian leader invaded neighboring Saxony, sparking the Seven Years War
Frederick the Great
In 1482 Leonardo Da Vinci moved to this city to become its court artist to Ludovico Sforza
Milan
The southern part of this desert extends into South Africa's Cape province
Kalahari
This starchy variety of banana is also called the cooking banana
Plantain
Introduced circa 1868 in New England, this destructive moth has been found in the western U.S.
Gypsy Moth;gypsy
Robert Clive recaptured this city from the Nawab of Bengal in 1757
Calcutta
This Italian painted a characteristically elongated self-portrait in 1919, shortly before his death
Modigliani
This Chilean desert's main source of revenue is copper mining
Atacama
Legend says this ice cream treat was created as a "dry" ice cream soda for consumption on the Sabbath
Ice Cream Sundae;sundae
Leaf cutter ants cut this, which they grow on masticated green leaves
Fungi
It's the more common name for sodium chloride
Salt
Michael Corleone of "The Godfather" also appears in this author's novel "The Sicilian"
Mario Puzo;Puzo
Roger Sperry's studies of how this organ's halves split up processes won him a 1981 Nobel Prize
Brain
He's appeared on 5 of TV Guide's 14 Star Trek covers
William Shatner;Shatner
In 1858 he published the first edition of his "Anatomy" book; it's still a medical standard
Gray
His father, John, like his creation Mr. Pickwick, served time in debtor's prison
Charles Dickens;Dickens
After the sun and moon, this planet is the brightest object in the sky
Venus
Tim Russ' character of Tuvok on "Voyager" is a full-blooded one of these pointy-eared aliens
Vulcan
We wonder if Polish physician Ludwik Zamenhof wrote prescriptions in this language he invented in 1887
Esperanto
In 1519 this leader of the Aztecs was taken prisoner without resistance
Montezuma
The pH in pH scale stands for the "potential of " this element
Hydrogen
In an 1891 novel Basil Hallward is the painter of this man's mysterious portrait
Dorian Gray;Dorian Grey
Star Fleet is the exploratory branch of this organization of planets
The Federation;Federation
Popular in the 1860s, crinolines were a type of this womens' fashion
Hoop Skirts
Ahmed Ben Bella, first president of this country, was imprisoned in France from 1956-1962
Algeria
In geometry it's a quadrilateral with 2 parallel sides; in anatomy, it's the smallest wrist bone
Trapezoid
In 1943 Dr. Willem Kolff was the first to use an artificial one of these organs on humans
Kidneys
The "marriage" of this character to Susanna takes place in Count Almaviva's chateau
Figaro
This Arizona capital lies in the Salt River Valley and is bordered by mountains and the Sonoran desert
Phoenix
An estimated record crowd of 800,000 attended a 1986 classical music concert in this NYC park
Central Park;central
In 447 he and his band of huns devastated the area between the Mediterranean and Black Seas
Attila
Shakespeare lived for awhile with the Mountjoys, a Huguenot family, in this capital city
London
Robert Gray discovered this river that forms much of the border between Washington and Oregon
Columbia
This state's largest desert basins are Jornada del Muerto and Tularosa, where White Sands is
New Mexico
The lowest settlement in the world is Israel's Ein Bokek on the shore of this sea
Dead Sea;dead
In 1971 this country's constitution set up 3 cultural regions:  Flanders, Wallonia, and Brussels
Belgium
In the last scene of a tragedy, Malcolm speaks of "This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen"
Macbeth
Act I of this 1875 opera takes place in a Seville square near a cigarette factory
Carmen
This French leader was the target of a record 31 unsuccessful assassination plots
Charles De Gaulle;de gaulle
In 1910 this British scholar and army officer explored Syria on foot
Lawrence
"Diana", a story in Spanish by Jorge de Montemayer, is a source for this comedy about a Veronese duo
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The world's largest known invertebrate is the giant species of this cephalopod
Giant Squid
Rising 33,480 feet from its underwater base makes this Hawaiian volcano the world's tallest peak
Mauna Kea
The shortest-reigning king was Dom Luis III, king of this country for about 20 minutes in 1908
Portugal
Shakespeare's theatrical company became known as The King's Men in honor of this king's patronage
James I