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    | In 1959 the USSR's Luna 3 provided the first photos of this body's far side | the Moon 
 
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    | This gulf is often considered the westernmost extension of the Atlantic Ocean | the Gulf of Mexico 
 
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    | "Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace", wrote this aviatrix in 1927 | Amelia Earhart 
 
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    | This Bram Stoker character is described as having pointed ears & "peculiarly sharp white teeth" | Dracula 
 
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    | A clarinet uses a single one; an oboe, a double | a reed 
 
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    | In 332 B.C. Alexander founded a city called Alexandria on the delta of this river | the Nile 
 
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    | The stars that once formed Scorpio's claws now "balance" out this constellation | Libra 
 
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    | This narrow strait separates Spain from Morocco | Gibraltar (the Strait of Gibraltar) 
 
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    | In 1948 this ex-first lady wrote to Harry Truman, "No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war" | Eleanor Roosevelt 
 
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    | Tales featuring this master sleuth include "The Red-Headed League" & "The Final Problem" | (Sherlock) Holmes 
 
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    | Of a piccolo, bass tuba or French horn, the one for which middle C is out of range | (Jeff: What is bass tuba?) 
 piccolo
 
 
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    | This man taught Alexander rhetoric, literature, science & philosophy | Aristotle 
 
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    | In August 1993 the Observer probe sent to study this planet was lost in space | Mars 
 
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    | Fittingly, this Oregon lake was once known as Deep Blue Lake | Crater Lake 
 
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    | In a letter to John Adams, this president wrote, "I cannot live without books" | Jefferson 
 
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    | It's the first name of William Dean Howells' "Lapham" & George Eliot's "Marner" | Silas 
 
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    | This drum with a double-talk name is tuned by moving rings up & down the lacing | a tom-tom 
 
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    | Alexander succeeded this man, his father, as king of Macedon in 336 B.C. | Philip 
 
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    | Similar to Jupiter's Great Red Spot, this bluish planet has a Great Dark Spot | Neptune 
 
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    | Blackpool & Liverpool are 2 of the ports on this sea | (Jeff: What's the North Sea?) (Brian: What is the Atlantic Ocean?)
 
 the Irish Sea
 
 
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    | This orator said before the Continental Congress, "I am not a Virginian, but an American." | (Brian: Who is Madison?) 
 Patrick Henry
 
 
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    | CIA analyst Jack Ryan appears in several bestselling novels by this author | (Tom) Clancy 
 
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    | A trumpet's air path starts at the mouthpiece & ends at this part | the bell 
 
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    | The city of Bucephala in India was named after Bucephalus, which was this | his horse 
 
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    | The one found in the center of the Crab Nebula flashes about 30 times each second | a pulsar 
 
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    | The name of this river between Uruguay & Argentina means "river of silver" | (Brian: What is the Rio de Platte?) 
 Rio de la Plata
 
 
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    | "I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too", she said in 1588 | Elizabeth I 
 
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    | In "Lord of the Flies", he's Ralph's overweight, bespectacled sidekick | Piggy 
 
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    | This accordion-type instrument is usually hexagonal | a concertina 
 
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    | A popular story depicts Alexander solving this problem with a slash of his sword | the Gordian Knot 
 
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