Q1: This comic was silenced by obscenity charges in the '60s; in 2003 Gov.

Pataki gave him a

posthumous pardon?

The crrect Answer is: Lenny Bruce

Q2: To comprehend?

The crrect Answer is: understand

Q3: 1853's Gadsden Purchase contained the southern portion of what became these 2
states?

The crrect Answer is: Arizona & New Mexico

Q4: (Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) Born in 1809 into a frontier family, young
Abe Lincoln had only one year of schooling, but read the Bible, Shakespeare, & learned logic
from "The Elements" of this ancient Greek mathematician?

The crrect Answer is: Euclid

Q5: One story says that the 3 vines on its flag represent Windsor, Wethersfield & Hartford?

The crrect Answer is: Connecticut

Q6: Paris Las Vegas has a $100,000 chip used in this French-named casino card game?

The crrect Answer is: Baccarat

Q7: 1940's "The Grapes of Wrath" starred this actor as Tom Joad?

The crrect Answer is: Henry Fonda

Q8: This royal breed of Japan is commonly used there as a police & guard dog?

The crrect Answer is: the Akita

Q9: "Ten-Cent Jimmy", as well as "Old Buck"?

The crrect Answer is: James Buchanan

Q10: It's the book in which Pharaoh says, "Every son that is born ye shall cast into the
river"?

The crrect Answer is: Exodus

Q11: Cairo is at the bottom of the fan formed by this delta?

The crrect Answer is: the Nile

Q12: Steamboat whiz Fulton?

The crrect Answer is: Robert

Q13: In this Orwell novel, the Ministry of Peace, also known as Minipax, concerns itself with
war?

The crrect Answer is: <i>1984</i>

Q14: (Sofia delivers the clue from Salem, Massachusetts.) In the era of the witch trials a
male witch was called this, a far cry from L. Frank Baum?

The crrect Answer is: wizard

Q15: For Sputnik 1, it lasted slightly more than 96 minutes?

The crrect Answer is: orbit