'In 1610 the Spanish began building the Palace of the Governors in what is now this Southwest city'
Santa Fe
200
'On "Fat Actress", she poked fun at herself, playing a version of herself struggling with her weight'
Kirstie Alley
200
'The 2 symbols seen on pirate flags & bottles of poison'
skull & crossbones
200
'Writing about this author's "The Deerslayer", Twain called its pathos "funny" & "its love-scenes odious"'
(James Fenimore) Cooper
200
'In 1982 he co-anchored "NBC Nightly News" with Tom Brokaw, & you could say his name is...'
Roger Mudd
400
'In 1701 this college was founded in Conn., in part to counter the perceived liberalism of Harvard'
Yale
400
'We are "desperate" for you to name this actress seen here, who has a master's degree in psychology'
Marcia Cross
400
'Seen here is a computer emoticon used to represent this Beatle'
John Lennon
400
'(Alex reads the clue from the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.) Mark Twain made notations in the books he owned; he wrote, "Can any plausible excuse be furnished for the crime of creating the human race" in this man's "Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle"'
Darwin
400
'The "Roger" to Michael Moore's "Me", in 1990 this GM chairman handed over the job to Robert Stempel'
(Roger) Smith
600
'The Molasses Act of 1733 placed high duties on molasses & this potent potable from non-English possessions'
rum
600
'She portrays real-life research medium Allison DuBois'
(Patricia) Arquette
600
'Baby, you're going to be a star, & we're going to put you next to this symbol on Turkey's flag'
a crescent
600
'One of Twain's favorite books was the "Diary of" this Englishman; Twain credited it as the model for his book "1601"'
(Samuel) Pepys
600
'I'll have a side of this 13th century English philosopher & creator of the "Opus Majus"'
Roger Bacon
800
'His 1699 proposal for a permanent French trading post on the Detroit River didn't include a car dealership'
Cadillac
800
'On "Brothers & Sisters", she plays right-wing TV pundit Kitty Walker'
Calista Flockhart
800
'It's what this symbol means on video equipment (& maybe fighter jet control panels, we don't know)'
eject
800
'A copy of the New Testament in Arabic was given to Twain during the cruise that inspired this 1869 travel classic'
The Innocents Abroad
800
'He was to fly as lunar module pilot on the first manned Apollo mission but tragically never made it'
Roger Chaffee
1000
'In the 1620s this Dutch company founded New Netherland in what later became N.Y., N.J., Delaware & Connecticut'
the Dutch West India Company
1000
'Like her "Grey's Anatomy" character Izzie Stevens, she used to be a model'
Katherine Heigl
1000
'At her swearing-in, Speaker Pelosi wore this color (also a longtime symbol of power) as a symbol of the Suffragettes'
purple
1000
'"The only poem I have ever carried about with me", said Twain, was this classic, best enjoyed with "a jug of wine"'
the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
1000
'The fifth Chief Justice of the United States, he succeeded John Marshall in 1836'