This PBS children's program has been sponsored by letters of the alphabet since 1969
Sesame Street
Solid water is ice; solid carbon dioxide has this 2-word name
dry ice
The Old Testament says she visited King Solomon in order to test him by asking him to solve several riddles
Queen of Sheba;Queen Sheba
At his home at Berggasse 19 in Vienna you can see where the ancestor of all psychiatrists' couches stood
Sigmund Freud;Freud
This avuncular nickname for the government was coined by those against the War of 1812
Uncle Sam
Steven Hill's D.A. Adam Schiff was the only original still on this drama in 1999, in its ninth season
Law and Order
Also called zymosis, this action involving enzymes produces beer and cheese
fermentation
Of the 6 British kings who bore this name, the first 4 were of the German house of Hanover
George
Saponification is the making of this, an anagram of "sapo"
soap
A phonon is a tiny packet of sound; change 1 letter to get this unit of electromagnetic energy
photon
In 1953 he officially succeeded his father Talal as king of Jordan
Hussein I
This Asian nation whose name ends in "rain" only gets 3 inches of rain a year
Bahrain
"Bag" (answer has "bag" in it): It's a Middle East capital
Baghdad
In 1851 Stonewall Jackson became an instructor at VMI, this school
Virginia Military Institute
By the time this sitcom ended, Fred MacMurray's character had become a grandfather to triplet boys
My Three Sons
This synonym for "burning" is the name of a "chamber" where rockets burn fuel
combustion
This Hawaiian king whose name means "the very lonely one" conquered Maui in 1790
King Kamehameha;Kamehameha
Derived from the Italian for "little stick", it's a long, narrow loaf of French bread
baguette
As a boy, this current host of "Meet the Press" watched the show with his father (before 2008)
Tim Russert;Russert
A millimeter of this element is a common unit for measuring pressure, including blood pressure
mercury
This king of Castile and Aragon was known as "The Catholic"
Ferdinand
"Bag" (answer has "bag" in it):A trifle, or a short piece of music
a bagatelle
He used his middle name Ulysses as a first name; a mistake at West Point gave him the middle name Simpson
Ulysses S. Grant
Like another famous painter, William-Adolphe Bouguereau shows her nude on a shell for her "birth"
Venus
Who owns the territory: Martinique
France
Who owns the territory: Greenland
Denmark
Who owns the territory: Wake Island
United States 
Who owns the territory: Cayman Islands
United Kingdom
Who owns the territory: Svalbard
Norway
"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons", this poet wrote in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
T.S. Eliot;Eliot
The seated nude in his "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" shows the beginnings of his Cubism
Pablo Picasso;Picasso
His writings include the Narnia books and "The Screwtape Letters"
C.S. Lewis;Lewis
Of Red, Green, or Puce, the one who's a servant to Shakespeare's King Richard II
Green
When Durer painted this pair in 1507, he had them hold tree branches whose leaves blocked out certain parts
Adam and Eve
Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro starred in the movie adaptation of his book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
Hunter S. Thompson;Thompson
"Fate", the title of a song in this classic musical, is also a synonym for the musical's title
Kismet
People said his male nude "The Age of Bronze" was so lifelike, he must have made casts from live models
Auguste Rodin;Rodin
People Magazine's 1989 and 1998 Sexiest Men Alive, they played father and son in a blockbuster 1989 film (separate answers with "and")
Sean Connery and Harrison Ford;Harrison Ford and Sean Connery;Ford and Connery;Connery and Ford
"East of Eden" and "The Grapes of Wrath" both involve treks to this state
California
In 1871 this man was President of the United States
Ulysses S. Grant;Grant
At Lewiston in this state, the Snake River turns west and heads for the Columbia
Idaho
The son of a surgeon, this director brought some gore to the screen in "Carrie" and "Scarface"
Brian De Palma;De Palma
In 1952 the New York Yankees retired Joe DiMaggio's jersey with this number on it (spell the answer)
five
This work, Jules Verne's first novel, surveys Africa from the air
Five Weeks in a Balloon
In 1871 Leopold II began his seventh year as king of this country
Belgium
Title number of habits of "Highly Effective People" in a Stephen Covey bestseller (spell the answer)
seven
This advertising man makes a 1-day pilgrimage through Dublin in Joyce's "Ulysses"
Leopold Bloom;Bloom
Abd-Ul Aziz was this Empire's sultan
Ottoman Empire;ottoman
In mythology, the Ouroboros is a snake or dragon with this in its mouth
tail
His "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" is referred to as a tone poem
Claude Debussy;Debussy
Number of lost tribes of Israel after the defeat by the Assyrians in 721 B.C. (spell the answer)
ten
The ninth Pope with this name was the pontiff
Pius
This fire-breathing monster had the head of a lion, the body of a she-goat and the hindquarters of a snake
Chimera
It's the number that followed the last king of England named William (spell the answer)
four
Our world is basically made of the up and down types of these subatomic particles
quarks
Mealie is the name for this cereal plant that is used to make mush and batters
corn
Meaning "have the body", a write of this 2-word phrase is the common means of obtaining release on bail
habeas corpus
Bah! Humbug! It's Scrooge's first name
Ebenezer
C.T.R. Wilson won the 1927 Nobel Prize for inventing this gas-filled compartment to detect charged particles
cloud chamber
The large yellow circle on the flag of Palau represents this heavenly body
moon
The "M.O." on this phrase is that it applies to criminals' past behavior
modus operandi
Passages from Deuteronomy are inscribed on the small scrolls in these, found on the doorposts of Jewish homes
mezuzah
This tropical fruit is the chief cash crop of Palau
coconut
In 2000 the tau neutrino was first observed at this Illinois lab named for a foreign-born physicist
Fermilab
Angola's cuisine is influenced by this European country that brought ingredients from its Brazilian colony
Portugal
An episode of "The Brady Bunch" educated us about this ancient maxim for "let the buyer beware"
caveat emptor
One of Thomas Edison's first-ever film shorts showed his assistant Fred Ott doing this
sneezing
When you arrive on the Island of Palau, you'll find out that it has 2 official languages:  Palauan and this
English
Doro Wat, stewed chicken over injera bread, is a national dish of this East African country
Ethiopia
3-word phrase for "a person not acceptable" to the host country as the head of a diplomatic mission
persona non grata
It's where in the world you can see the spectacular Angel Falls
Venezuela
The study of collisions that create new particles is this physics branch, HEP for short
high energy particle physics;high energy particle
Granular semolina goes by this name which is also the name of a stew made in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia
couscous
You don't adopt a child but assume obligations incident to the natural parent relationship "in" this phrase
in loco parentis
In 1901 this inventor received the first radio signal across the Atlantic
Guglielmo Marconi;Marconi
Utrillo's "White Period" lasted circa 1908-1914, longer than this artist's "Rose Period" from 1904-1906
Pablo Picasso;Picasso
A shade of grayish blue is named for this Danish capital
Copenhagen
In 1996 People Magazine named this "Courage Under Fire" star "The Sexiest Man Alive"
Denzel Washington;Washington
The value of this Greek coin was originally equivalent to that of a handful of arrows
Drachma
Keith Richards and this singer once used the pseudonyms Wanker, Phelge when composing songs
Mick Jagger
In 1301 Edward I applied this title to the heir to the British throne
Prince of Wales
In 1892 he painted "Vahine No Te Vi.  Woman With Mango"
Paul Gauguin;Gauguin
This nationality precedes onyx, hairless, and jumping bean
Mexican
This 1969 event was featured on the reverse of the Eisenhower dollar coin
Moon Landing;landing on the moon
While a "Tracey Ullman Show" choreographer, she had 4 No. 1 hits, including "Forever Your Girl"
Paula Abdul;Abdul
In 1401 Tamerlane sacked this city that's now the capital of Iraq
Baghdad
It's the common English term for the type of painting the French call une nature morte
Still Life
This nationality precedes uncle, treat, and elm disease
Dutch
In 1959 the Vatican's 20-lire coin featured this pontiff
Pope John XXIII
Spanish explorer Rodrigo de Bastidas discovered this isthmus in 1501
Panama
He leaped to the occasion at the '96 Summer Olympics, winning his fourth consecutive gold in the long jump
Carl Lewis;Lewis
The West Indies island of Guadeloupe uses this as its basic unit of currency
French Franc;franc
This "Vision of Love" singer's mother, Patricia, once sang with the New York City Opera
Mariah Carey;Carey
In an 1801 sea battle, he put a telescope in his blind eye to avoid seeing the signal to withdraw
Lord Nelson;nelson
This high quality black tea is named for a district in West Bengal
Darjeeling
Hats off to this Belgian whose 1926 painting "The Menaced Assassin" features men in bowler hats
Rene Magritte;Magritte
In 1961, this bronze coin, the lowest value in British currency at 1/4 of a penny, was withdrawn from circulation
Farthing
After Led Zeppelin disbanded, Jimmy Page and this lead singer founded the Honeydrippers
Robert Plant;Plant
This president's middle initial, "S", honored both of his grandfathers
Harry S. Truman;Truman
John Feinstein called his 1995 bestseller about this sport "A Good Walk Spoiled"
Golf
Generally yellow or orange, it's transferred from flower to flower by wind, birds and insects
Pollen
Pollen
Powdered milk has had most of its moisture removed and this type of milk has had 60% of the water removed
Evaporated Milk;evaporated
O' Neill disowned his daughter Oona before she married this silent screen comedian at age 18
Charlie Chaplin;Chaplin
The ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound is known as this type of number
Mach Number;mach
Dubonnet is an aperitif flavored with herbs and a form of this malaria medicine
Quinine
In December 1995 this Detroit-based union ended a 17-month strike at Caterpillar, Inc.
United Auto Workers;UAW
He was nicknamed "The Sage of Montpelier"
James Madison;Madison
This senator and former basketball player reflects on his life in "Time Present, Time Past"
Bill Bradley;Bradley
The Haber process is a method for manufacturing this toxic gas from nitrogen
Ammonia
Term for herrings that were split and cured by salting, drying and smoking
Kippers
When their union struck in August 1994 these workers' average salary was $1.2 million
Major League Baseball Players;baseball players; MLB players
O' Neill won his second Pulitzer Prize for this work about a prostitute and her Swedish seaman father
Anna Christie
Not only the first president to marry in the White House, he was also the first to have a child born there
Grover Cleveland;Cleveland
A horse's hooves are made up of this protein, the same protein found in your fingernails
Keratin
A Rusty Nail combines this potent potable and Drambuie
Scotch
When he took office in 1853 at age 48, this New Englander was the youngest president to that time
Franklin Pierce;Pierce
This John Gray book about the differences between the sexes has been a bestseller for more than 3 years
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
Quarks are bound together by hypothetical force particles called these
Gluons
In Russia these buckwheat pancakes may be topped with smoked oysters and melted butter
Blini or Blintzes;blini;blintzes
The alcoholics in "The Iceman Cometh" await the arrival of Theodore Hickman, better known as this
Hickey
Since the Norman Conquest, this royal house has supplied the most rulers, beginning with Henry II
Plantagenet