On June 11 she was elected to a third and final term as British prime minister
Margaret Thatcher;Thatcher
Will Smith played a pilot fighting aliens in this 1996 summer movie
Independence Day
It's a creamy white color, or what white piano keys were once widely made of
Ivory
This 4-letter word for a silent street performer once referred to a type of ancient farce
Mime
"Choosy Moms Choose" this brand of peanut butter
Jif
With a tongue over a foot long (and located about 16 feet above the ground), it can lick its own ear
Giraffe
"Staphylococci" was the word that won Stephanie Petit this national contest
National Spelling Bee;Spelling Bee
As Annie, she steps in for a fallen bus driver in 1994's "Speed"
Sandra Bullock;Bullock
Appropriate shade of blue to wear at 12 A.M.
Midnight blue;midnight
The space occupied by the musicians is called this "pit"
Orchestra pit;orchestra
This company's new computer products include the Aptiva S and the Thinkpad 560 (before 2001)
IBM
It's the muscle that makes you hiccup and makes your lungs work
Diaphragm
She resigned as transportation secretary to work on her husband's presidential campaign, much as she did in 1996
Elizabeth Dole;Dole
Yoda teaches this rebel to be a Jedi in "The Empire Strikes Back"
Luke Skywalker
This Indian name for corn also refers to the color of corn
Maize
These lights at the front of the stage floor are at about the same level as the actors' pedal extremities
Footlights
This product claims it's "The Pain Reliever Hospitals Use Most"
Tylenol
These mammals almost never drink water; they get their moisture from eucalyptus leaves
Koala bears;koala;koalas
Later chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this African-American became National Security Advisor in 1987
Colin Powell;Powell
In his first film, Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, searches for one of these marine mammals
Dolphin
The 2 shades of red named for January's and July's birthstones (Separate answers with "and")
Garnet and Ruby;ruby and garnet
Often found in Shakespeare's plays, the stage direction "exeunt" means the actors do this
Leave;exit
The Parker Duofold Red Jasper, one of these, features a nib split by hand
Pen
You better buckle up, as his second law of motion shows when your car stops suddenly, you don't
Sir Isaac Newton;Newton
In "Jingle All The Way", Arnold Schwarzenegger competes to buy this toy superhero
Turbo Man
This fruity shade of orange shares its name with the Chinese officials who wore robes of that color
Mandarin
Derived from the Greek words for "dance" and "write", it's the art of creating dances, pehaps for a play
Choreography
In 1970 "Twister" inventor Reynolds Guyer created a 4" foam ball named this by Parker Bros.
Nerf
Soap makes water wetter by weakening this, the water's "skin"
Surface Tension
Wangfujing Street, this city's most famous shopping district, is located east of Tiananmen Square
Beijing
This "Messiah" composer's "Rinaldo" was the first Italian opera written for the London stage
George Frideric Handel;Handel
In older movie theaters this worker stood by to change reels every 20 minutes
Projectionist
From 1804 to 1806 this pair explored the area between the Mississippi River and the mouth of the Columbia River
Lewis and Clark
Carl Sandburg called this city a "Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler"
Chicago
Thank you very much; it's how you say "thank you very much" in French
merci beaucoup
This capital of the Czech Republic is known as the "City of 100 Spires"
Prague
After the death of his father in 1695, he went to live and study with his brother, Johann Christoph
Johann Sebastian Bach;Bach
One who loads and unloads gear for a rock band; Meat Loaf starred in a film of the same name
Roadie
On March 10, 1977, this Cesar Chavez labor group signed an agreement with the Teamsters union
United Farm Workers
This Scottish poet wrote the songs "Comin' Thro' The Rye" and "The Banks O' Doon"
Robert Burns;Burns
In Paris it's just the thing to get around underground
Metro
This Afghan city was capital of the Mogul Empire from 1504 to 1526
Kabul
After his breakup with novelist George Sand in 1847, he composed no more works
Frederic Chopin;Chopin
Willy Loman is called a drummer, a synonym for this occupation
Salesman
In 1920 this president signed legislation returning the railroads to private ownership
Woodrow Wilson;Wilson
She wrote "Some keep the sabbath going to church -- I keep it, staying at home --"
Emily Dickinson;Dickinson
She was just 15 when she moved from Vienna to Versailles in 1770 for an arranged marriage
Marie Antoinette;Antoinette
The name of this largest African city is Arabic for "The Victorious"
Cairo
"Claire de Lune", the 3rd movement of this French composer's' "Suite Bergamasque", is often played separately
Claude Debussy;Debussy
William Brennan held this job 1956-1990
Supreme Court Justice
In 1590 the first 3 books of this proposed 24-book epic poem by Edmund Spenser were published
The Faerie Queen
In 1991 he appointed Edith Cresson as the first woman prime minister of France
Francois Mitterand;Mitterand
1 of 2 capitals located on South America's Rio de la Plata estuary
Buenos Aires and Montevideo;Buenos Aires;Montevideo
"My Musical Life" was the 1909 memoir of this "Scheherazade" composer
Rimsky-Korsakov;Korsakov
The Sacre-Couer Basilica stands atop a hill in this area of Paris
Montmartre
Just before its 1897 publication, its title was changed from "The Un-Dead" to this
Dracula
A recent book by Edward Humes covers "A Year In The Life Of" this court for young offenders
Juvenile
According to census data, the average time for this trip in metropolitan areas is 23.2 minutes
Trip to work;work;commute
Skippy was the Keatons' neighbor on "Family Ties" and Urkel fills the role for the Winslows on this show
Family Matters
Taking 40 years to build, the Mormon Temple was dedicated in this capital in 1893
Salt Lake City
This intramural game is also called ping-pong
Table tennis
It's the value of r when 1/5 = 9/r (spell the answer, there are no hypens)
forty five
One of history's most famous diaries was written by this Jewish girl in hiding during WWII
Anne Frank
The basket beneath a balloon is called this, like a Venetian boat
Gondola
As Kramer, Michael Richards lives across the hall from him
Jerry Seinfeld;Seinfeld
The California gold rush helped put this state capital on the map
Sacramento
In this football variation, a play ends when a cloth is pulled from the back pocket of the ball carrier
Flag football;flag
The coefficient of the term n is understood to be this number (spell the answer) 
one 
Mary Pipher's bestseller about troubled teen girls is called "Reviving" this Hamlet heroine
Ophelia
Term for a bus, elevator or NYC subway train that makes few stops
Express
In 1996 Olivia d' Abo moved into the same building as Jonathan Silverman on this series
The Single Guy
It's located on the Kentucky River, about 50 miles east of Louisville
Frankfort
This fast-paced game can be played 3-on-3 on a half-court
Basketball
It's the lowest positive number with prime factors of 2, 3 and 5 (spell the answer)
thirty
In the 19th century Gustavus Swift developed this type of railway car to preserve his packed meat
Refrigerator Car;refrigerator
It's nicknamed "The Roger Williams City"
Providence
In this type of tournament all participants play each other at least once
Round Robin
The commutative property of addition tells us that x plus y is equal to this
y plus x; y+x; y + x
Some surfing techniques were adapted to concrete by devotees of this device
Skateboard
He also plays Sheneneh Jenkins, the loud mouthed lady who lives across the hall from him
Martin Lawrence;Lawrence
In 1624 Dutch settlers founded Fort Orange on the site of this present-day capital
Albany
Played on a racquetball court, wallyball follows the rules of this net sport
Volleyball
On a graph this ordered pair represents the origin
0,0; zero,zero;0 , 0
April Glaspie, ambassador to this nation, held a controversial meeting with Saddam Hussein July 25, 1990
Iraq
Most people have 12 pairs of these bones, all attached to the spine
Ribs
In a Verdi opera, Odabella saves this famous Hun from being poisoned so she can kill him herself
Attila
In 1792 this silversmith cast the first church bell made in Boston
Paul Revere;Revere
A widely used book classification system is named for this major Washington, D.C. library
Library of Congress
Bush sent 14,000 troops into Panama in 1989 and 4,500 into this U.S. city in 1992 to quell riots
Los Angeles
It's the term for a narrow tube in the body, like the alimentary or haversian
Canal
This Austrian was just 14 when he composed his 1770 opera "Mitridate, Re Di Ponto"
Mozart
In 1971 he took another giant leap, becoming professor of aerospace engineering at the Univ. of Cincinnati
Neil Armstrong;Armstrong
Which shuttle carried Armstrong to the moon?
Apollo 13; apollo thirteen
His 1892 painting "Manao Tupapau" depicts a young Tahitian girl and a scary-looking spirit
Paul Gauguin;Gauguin
Library photocopying that's "systematic" infringes on this legal protection
Copyright
Bush's first major foreign policy move was a deal with Congress on aid to these Nicaraguan rebels
Contras
It's the shorter of the 2 bones of the forearm, or a term used in geometry
Radius
The "Dying Slave", sculpted by this Italian master in the early 1500s, is in the Louvre
Michelangelo
Novelist Nicholson Baker has criticized libraries for destroying these and replacing them with databases
Card catalogs
Sufferers of Graves' Disease are often given radioactive iodine to destroy all or part of this gland
Thyroid Gland;thyroid
"The Witches", the 1st opera by this composer of "Madama Butterfly", may be based on the ballet "Giselle"
Giacomo Puccini;Puccini
As the sixth ruler of Babylon's first dynasty, he laid down the laws
Hammurabi
Not surprisingly, his 1872 painting "Musicians Of The Orchestra" shows ballet dancers in the background
Edgar Degas;Degas
The kinder, gentler Bush proposed increased funds for this HHS preschool program
Head Start
From the Latin for "hard mother", it's the toughest and outermost of the membranes that cover the brain
Dura Mater
This composer of the "New World Symphony" wrote the operas "The Cunning Peasant" and "The Pigheaded Peasants"
Antonin Dvorak;Dvorak
After completing "The Prince" in 1513, he turned to "Discourses On The First 10 Books of Livy"
Niccolo Machiavelli;Machiavelli
Unlike microfilm, these sheets used on machines let the reader start at any point in a printed record
Microfiche