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| Robert Engle & Clive Granger earned this prize for their new statistical models for financial data |
Economics
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| Welsh singer Thomas John Woodward became this after his boss compared him to a Henry Fielding character |
Tom Jones
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| Ashcroft, Colorado & Jerome, Arizona are 2 examples of these "spiritual" communities |
ghost towns
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| (Sarah of the Clue Crew) According to legend this star of "Citizen Kane" set a record by eating 18 of Pink's famous hot dogs at one sitting |
Orson Welles
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| At 1,864 square miles, it's much bigger than its neighbor Tobago |
Trinidad
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| $1.99 for a box of Uncle Ben's |
rice price
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| Of both Boer & English descent, J.M. Coetzee of this country won the Nobel for Literature |
South Africa
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| This techno musician got his name from a book about a big ocean mammal |
Moby
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| The well-known Drury Lane Theatre in this capital city is equally well-known for its ghosts |
London
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| (Cheryl of the Clue Crew) It's the alliterative name for this stretch of boulevard featuring clubs like the Whiskey-A-Go-Go |
the Sunset Strip
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| His term as U.S. president was just 1,036 days |
John F. Kennedy
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| A chilly swimming basin |
cool pool
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| Abriskosov, Ginzburg & Leggett fielded this award for their work with quantum superconductivity |
Physics
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| The band Veruca Salt took its name from the spoiled rich girl in this Roald Dahl children's book |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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| The ghost of the first Duke of Buckingham has been seen at this royal residence, burial place of Henry VIII |
(John: What is Buckingham Palace?)
Windsor Castle
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| (Sofia of the Clue Crew) Edgar Rice Burroughs bought 550 acres in what's now Tarzana, California, the year after this first "Tarzan" movie came out |
Tarzan of the Apes
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| There are mille six cent soixante-cinq steps to the top of this famous landmark |
the Eiffel Tower
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| A large, noisy group of people |
loud crowd
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| John Paul II was the favorite, but Shirin Ebadi, a female Muslim from this country, took home the Peace Prize |
Iran
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| This band was born to be wild enough to take its name from a Herman Hesse novel |
Steppenwolf
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| The first ghost to appear to Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" is of this dead partner of his |
(Jacob) Marley
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| (Sofia) Very busy as it moves through L.A., the 405 freeway is named for this big city to the south |
San Diego
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| To travel at a speed of 1,037 miles per hour just stand on the Earth anywhere along this |
the Equator
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| Where to hide your sodium chloride |
salt vault
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| For their work leading to the MRI, American Paul Lauterbur & Briton Sir Peter Mansfield scanned this Nobel |
(Chris: What is the Nobel in Chemistry?)
Medicine
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| These mega-cool rockers took their band name from an Aldous Huxley book about using mescaline |
The Doors
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| In the first book of Samuel, Samuel's ghost appears to this king of Israel & predicts his military defeat |
Saul
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| (Sarah) Mulholland Drive overlooks L.A. from these mountains that share their name with a beachside community |
(Chris: What is Malibu?)
the Santa Monica Mountains
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| It's the number inscribed on Plymouth Rock |
1620
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| Smooched with the composer of "Hungarian Rhapsodies" |
kissed Liszt
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