Q1: To improve a skill or sharpen a knife?

The crrect Answer is: hone

Q2: This "royal" phrase denotes a huge amount of money, perhaps to get your monarch back
from those kidnappers?

The crrect Answer is: a king\'s ransom

Q3: In 1999 this "treat" sponsored the annual San Francisco cable car bell-ringing contest?

The crrect Answer is: Rice-A-Roni

Q4: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a ship and a map on the monitor.) In 1869, the end of the
glamorous tea clipper era was at hand; steamships could economically bring tea from China
because they needed less coal with the opening of this waterway?

The crrect Answer is: the Suez Canal

Q5: Mooselookmeguntic Lake is about 85 miles northwest of this capital of Maine?

The crrect Answer is: Augusta

Q6: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.) On the red list of
threatened species, the Humboldt penguin undergoes severe population fluctuations caused
by this recurring oceanic event that brings unwanted warm air to its home on the West
Coast of South America?

The crrect Answer is: El Nià ±o

Q7: (Hi, I"m Joshua Morrow from The Young and the Restless.) "North to the Future" is the
official motto of this state, my birthplace?

The crrect Answer is: Alaska

Q8: This type of restaurant has specialized cuts of meat?

 The crrect Answer is: chophouse

Q9: Their pods are so tender & crisp they're cooked & eaten with the peas inside?

The crrect Answer is: Chinese peas (snow peas)