'After he toiled on his first work, "Cromwell", friends told this "Comedie Humane" man to give up literature'
Honore de Balzac
200
'She starred in "Shirley's World" in 1971; must seem like a lifetime ago to her'
Shirley MacLaine
200
'On June 28, 1914 Bosnian Serb terrorist Gavrilo Princip jumped on this archduke's car & killed him & his wife Sophie'
Franz Ferdinand
200
'He was named "Golfer of the Century" in 1988 & "Golf Course Architect of the Year" in 1993'
Jack Nicklaus
200
'These people gave the letter Q its present form around the first or second century'
Romans
400
'Sartre's "L' Idiot de la Famille" was a large-scale study of this "Madame Bovary" author'
Gustave Flaubert
400
'This brother & sister's variety show ran from 1976 to 1979; their talk show debuted in 1998'
Donny & Marie Osmond
400
'Accused JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was himself killed by this nightclub owner'
Jack Ruby
400
'In 1991 he published "Prescription Medicide: The Goodness of Planned Death"'
Dr. Jack Kevorkian
400
'Q is being communicated here in this code (two flags)'
Semaphore
600
'An Algerian named Mersault is the narrator of his 1942 novel "L' Etranger"'
Albert Camus
600
'Anne Meara was Kate McShane & this Kate was Kate Columbo'
Kate Mulgrew
600
'In 1984 2 of her Sikh bodyguards killed her as revenge for her order to attack the Golden Temple of Amritsar'
Indira Gandhi
600
'Jack McCall is best remembered for shooting this frontiersman while he was playing poker'
Wild Bill Hickok
600
'Sergeant Rock could tell you that the QMC is this "supply side" branch of the Army'
the Quartermaster (Corps)
800
'Author-aviator who created "Le Petit Prince"'
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
800
'In 1962 this pair was together at Carnegie Hall; 10 years later both had variety shows'
Carol Burnett & Julie Andrews
800
'At a reception in the palace for Muhammad's birthday in 1975, this Saudi king was assassinated by his nephew'
King Faisal
800
'This 1996 vice-presidential candidate was once a quarterback for the Buffalo Bills'
Jack Kemp
800
'In footnotes, it's what "q.v." means'
quod vide (which see)
1000
'For over 100 years the publishing house he founded has been the leader in French dictionaries'
Pierre Larousse
1000
'Way before Buffy, there was this 1974-75 Darrin McGavin series'
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1000
'On February 28, 1986 this Swedish prime minister was shot by an unknown gunman on the streets of Stockholm'
Olof Palme
1000
'(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE): "(Hi, I'm Jack Ford, chief legal correspondent for NBC News) Before joining NBC, I was an anchor for this cable network from its debut in 1991 to 1994"'
Court TV
1000
'Umm Said & Dukhan are cities in this country, the only one in the world that begins with the letter Q'