This British prime minister gave a famous speech in Fulton, Missouri March 5, 1946 Winston Churchill;Churchill Mabel is Paul and Jamie Buchman's baby on this series Mad About You It flows from the Cotswold Hills to its mouth on the North Sea Thames River;Thames This bird-&-feline pair "sailed away, for a year and a day, to the land where the bong-tree grows" The Owl and the Pussycat;owl and pussycat This media mogul and owner of the Atlanta Braves is the USA's largest private bison rancher Ted Turner;Turner 'Make a word from this': "Pore" Rope This site of the Great Mosque and the Kaaba was the capital of the kingdom of Hejaz Mecca Over the years many got "the chop" at this historic London stronghold Tower of London "The dead tree gives no shelter", he observed in "The Waste Land" T.S. Eliot;Eliot The youngest American billionaire ever at age 31, he now owns the Bettman Archive of photo images Bill Gates;Gates 'Make a word from this': "To Zap" Topaz California city where Father Junipero Serra is buried and Clint Eastwood once served as mayor Carmel (Hi, I'm Jane Leeves) I played Marla, the virgin who stumbled onto a contest and ended up with JFK Jr. on an episode of this sitcom Seinfeld This square is located at the north end of Whitehall, not on the southwest coast of Spain Trafalgar Square;Trafalgar "So was I once myself a swinger of birches; and so I dream of going back to be", wrote this New England poet Robert Frost;Frost The female lead in "Basic Instinct", she's definitely not a dumb blonde; her IQ is said to be 154 Sharon Stone;Stone 'Make a word from this': "Zen Fry" Frenzy When Marco Polo reached this city in 1275 it was called Cambaluc Beijing;Peking She replaced James Callaghan May 4, 1979 Margaret Thatcher;Thatcher "Ah, droop not, my oak!" wrote this lord in "To an Oak at Newstead" Lord Byron;Byron She wore bulky trench coats in episodes of "The X-Files" to hide her real-life pregnancy Gillian Anderson;Anderson 'Make a word from this': "Pound Bells" Spellbound Edmund Halley had an observatory on this island 145 years before Napoleon was observed there Saint Helena;helena In 1907 Great Britain, France and Russia completed this defensive "Entente" Triple Entente;Triple In 1987 this director of "Taxi Driver" directed Michael Jackson's "Bad" video Martin Scorsese;Scorsese 'Make a word from this': "Boil Fate" Lifeboat Examples of this explosive phenomena on Mars include Ascraeus Mons and Pavonis Mons Volcanoes;volcano It's the largest peninsula jutting into the Black Sea Crimean Peninsula;crimean This "experienced" left-hander recorded haunting blues songs like "Red House" and "Voodoo Chile" Jimi Hendrix;Hendrix Bibb and butterhead are not an MTV cartoon duo, but varieties of this vegetable Lettucec It's the name of Charles Schulz' friend who inspired his classic comic strip everyman Charlie Brown Examples include leatherback, loggerhead and mutant ninja Turtle Once thought to be the work of an advanced civilization, these features are now known to be an optical illusion Canals The only nation on the Black Sea that shares its name with a U.S. state Georgia "Royal" guitarist whose early recording "Three O' Clock Blues" was a hit in 1952 B.B. King Small versions of this common garden vegetable used for pickling are often called gherkins Cucumbers This man's execution on December 2, 1859 made him a martyr to the anti-slavery cause John Brown;brown Jaleel White played this heroic nerd for 9 years on "Family Matters" Steve Urkel;Urkel The 2 planets in our solar system that are smaller than Mars (before 2006... I just freaking gave one of the answers away) Mercury and Pluto (shut the hell up about pluto);Mercury and Pluto;Pluto and Mercury Sailing south from the Black Sea via the Bosporus, you'll pass through this sea before reaching the Mediterranean Sea of Marmara;Marmara With albums like "Texas Flood" and "Soul to Soul", this guitarist was the leading figure in the 1980s blues-rock revival Stevie Ray Vaughn These vegetables with a flavor like mild cabbage include the name of a city Brussels sprouts To congeal, as milk does when it spoils Curdle Pathfinder and its rover Sojourner touched down on Mars on this date in 1997 July 4th Any 1 of the 4 large rivers beginning with the letter D that drain into the Black Sea Danube;Dnieper;Dniester;Don It's the nickname of legendary Texas bluesman Sam Hopkins Lightnin' The name of this herb that is used mainly as a decoration on meat dishes comes from the Greek for "rock celery" Parsley From the Old French for "excess", it's an amount or quantity beyond what is needed Surplus Named for the attendants of Ares, the Greek god of war, they are the 2 moons of Mars Phobos and Deimos;Deimos and Phobos This Ukranian Black Sea port was the site of a Russian naval victory in 1905 Odessa Also called roquette, this peppery salad green is very popular with Italian palates Arugula Not an army officer, but an individual grain of a cereal grass like corn Kernel When a girl got "pinned" in college, it was one of these pins that she received Fraternity pin;Fraternity This device that tests drivers to see if they're sober came into use around 1960 Breathalyzer "Popcorn":This country produces most of the popcorn consumed in the world United States That's the president in the fur in this world capital
(standing in front of Saint Basil's Cathedral) Moscow The British call these bulletin board items drawing pins Thumbtacks This word for a white wine and soda drink first appeared in Webster's in 1961 Spritzer "Popcorn": In 1995 some Boy Scouts in Wisconsin produced a Guinness-record 2,377-pound one of these Popcorn ball;ball You'll need over 360 needles to insert one in every meridian point on your body in this medical art Acupuncture Mary Pickersgill's house in this city is known as "The Star-Spangled Banner House"; she made the famous flag Baltimore Kodak coined this word for its self-loading camera in the early '60s Instamatic "Popcorn": In Disneyland vendors sell this man's gourmet popping corn Orville Redenbacher;Redenbacher The president's on holiday on this island about 5 miles from Cape Cod Martha's Vineyard At the 1996 Olympics, it was the first official event at which "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played Opening Ceremonies "Popcorn": Popcorn pops because this inside the kernel expands when heated Moisture Clinton's in this country embracing one of its legendary athletes
(Pele) Brazil It can hold a wheel on an axle or act as the piece that holds everything together Lynchpin A harsh expression substituted for a more neutral one is a dysphemism and this is the opposite Euphemism His November 18, 1998 "Double Line" NBC special was performed live 3 times to accommodate time zone differences Garth Brooks;Brooks Indications you may have one include a rash, sneezing and itching Allergy Let us pause to reflect upon this vain youth who was fatally attracted to his own reflection Narcissus Pius IX convened the "First Vatican" one of these and it declared him infallible Council In Genesis 11 this structure of bricks and mortar is meant to reach heaven Tower of Babel Unstable thorium-230 breaks down into the 226 isotope of this Curie-ous element Radium Oops! This famous "Heel" fell for Penthesilia the Amazon a little too late -- he'd already killed her Achilles Little is known of the second pope who bore this name, but we doubt he sucked his thumb and carried a blanket Linus In 1960 the wavelength of light from krypton-86 was used to define this measurement, also 39.37" Meter;metre A really big birdcage Aviary We often wax nostalgic about this young man who flew too close to the sun Icarus If you're too optimistic, you're "dreaming in" this process introduced on film around 1915 Technicolor Isotopes are 2 forms of an element with the same number of protons but different numbers of these particles Neutrons Info on the Aurora Australis and eclipses are included in this section of the World Almanac Astronomy Jason's new wife Creusa shouldn't have tried on the gown this sorceress sent her: it was poisoned Medea Paul VI's anti-birth control encyclical was called "Humanae Vitae", or "on" this Human Life The Roman auspices, divination by the flight of birds, gave us this adjective meaning "promising" Auspicious As in planetary sequence, neptunium-239 emits a beta particle and becomes isotope 239 of this element Plutonium Until he was 11 years old, he wasn't aware that Mets pitcher Tug was his father Tim McGraw;McGraw The Pierides were turned into magpies after they challenged these "artsy" sisters to a singing contest and lost Muses It's a pattern of runaway financial speculation, like the "South Sea" one that "burst" in 1720 Bubble The hydrogen isotope called this was discovered in 1932, 2 years before tritium Deuterium In 1608 Hans Lippershey offered it exclusively to the Dutch government for military use Telescope The prime time spellcaster wasn't Sabrina, but Samantha in this series Bewitched The May beetle is also called this, perhaps when it shows up a few weeks late Junebug It includes the postcentral gyrus, the precentral gyrus, the parietal lobe and the occipital lobe Brain The Los Angeles Lakers retired his No. 32 jersey Earvin "Magic" Johnson;Earvin Johnson; Magic Johnson Disgruntled Disney dwarf
(6) Grumpy In Old West talk, "fit" was the past tense of this Fight Alphabetically, he's Santa's first reindeer Blitzen The katydid is also called the long-horned (meaning long-antennaed) one of these Grasshopper Thank You, in Tampico
(7) Gracias The Span. abbrev. for one of these is ovni (objecto volador no identificado) UFO Its shape allows it to hide among twigs Walking stick Before a crowd of almost 70,000, this team won Super Bowl XXXII January 25, 1998 Denver Broncos;Broncos A source of rumors, or of Riesling
(9) Grapevine He tried to help the town of Dolores, N.M. in 1900 by using static electricity to extract gold out of gravel Thomas Edison;Edison Over 14 times the mass of the Earth, this planet is seventh from the sun Uranus This fly that you might find "in distress" resembles a dragonfly but folds its wings back at rest Damselfly On May 11, 1858 this "North Star" state became U.S. state No. 32 Minnesota You throw it down, or run it
(8) Gauntlet Ogden, now this state's sixth-largest city, was named for an Old West fur trapper Utah A patron of wisdom and good fortune, the Hindu god Ganesha bears the head of this animal Elephant Because of its colors the butterfly seen here is named after this beast
(orange and black colors) Tiger butterfly;tiger "Cheesy" Dutch city
(5) Gouda On July 4, 1803 Thomas Jefferson supplied this pair with a general letter of credit to use on their trip Lewis and Clark We'll never tire of telling you its symbol is GR, not B.F. Goodrich Mythic Sumerian hero Utnapishtim built a big boat and survived this catastrophe The flood;flood 1997's "Calling All Stations" was their first album since Phil Collins left the group Genesis Grover Cleveland Alexander was inducted into this sport's Hall of Fame in 1938 and interred in Nebraska in 1950 Baseball "Starts with a": It refers to the behavior of teenagers, or of immature adults Adolescent Speke stopped speaking to Burton after their trip to find the source of this river Nile The annual report of this company, PRD, is as pretty as an instant picture Polaroid Hammurabi was famous for his, but Ur-Nammu enforced one of these centuries earlier Code of law In 1990 Roger Waters of this group gave a performance of "The Wall" at the former site of the Berlin Wall Pink Floyd Add "YBOY" to this 3-letter symbol to get the full name of a big media company PLA Sumerians scratched this writing system into stone and wax in addition to clay tablets Cuneiform "Starts with a": It means "sufficient or good enough" and can imply "but just barely" Adequate In the mall you may fall into this store, GPS The Gap;gap These Sumerian pyramids were topped by temples Ziggurats "starts with a": Unfavorable, like some circumstances, or the last name of Anthony in a 1933 novel Adverse In 1828 Rene Caille reached this remote African city, "an object of curiosity" to Europeans Timbuktu Latin term for a type of argument based on emotion or on another person's character Ad hominem Today meaning a self-employed person, this term derives from medieval knights who sold their skills Freelancer