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    | This large black & yellow bee can often be found at higher altitudes than other bees | Bumblebee 
 
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    | The Chicago version of this Italian-American dish is made in a 2-inch-deep pan | Pizza 
 
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    | Lillian Gish described this cinema city as "an emotional Detroit" | Hollywood 
 
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    | Some states have debated removing the X-shaped design of this battle flag from their own flags | (W: What is the "Stars And Bars?") 
 Confederate Flag
 
 
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    | Ombrophobia is the fear of this; better get a big umbrella | Rain 
 
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    | Teri Hatcher & Dean Cain | "Lois & Clark" 
 
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    | One type of this insect can tell you the temperature; add 40 to the number of chirps in 15 seconds | Cricket 
 
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    | Onions preserved this way can be eaten within days; okra should mellow for a few weeks | (Alex: Obviously, you're not familiar with it!) 
 Pickling
 
 
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    | Philip Sheridan once said, "If I owned" this big state "and hell, I would rent out" the state "and live in hell" | (Wes: What is California?) (Alex: Slur, a big slap at our state!)
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 (Alex: That's a slap at [*]; he did it, not me!)
 
 Texas
 
 
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    | After a real estate boom, one of these events struck Florida in 1926, 3 years before the "great" one | (W: What is a hurricane?) (R: What is a real estate crash?)
 
 Depression
 
 
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    | If you have phasmophobia, fear of these, stay out of haunted houses | Ghosts 
 
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    | Susan Saint James & Jane Curtin | "Kate & Allie" 
 
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    | Species of this insect include ctenocephalides canis & ctenocephalides felis | Flea 
 
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    | This sandwich named for its meat & dairy filling is a Philadelphia treat | Philly Cheesesteak 
 
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    | To Ausonius it was "First among cities, home of the gods" | Rome 
 
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    | In 1982 a court struck down an Arkansas law forcing schools to teach this divine event as science | Creation 
 
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    | People with severe ichthyophobia can't eat these or even look at pictures of them | Fish 
 
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    | Jameson Parker & Gerald McRaney | (Alex: It's in reruns!) 
 "Simon & Simon"
 
 
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    | The many stag species of this insect get their name from the males' jaws, which resemble antlers | Beetles 
 
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    | Pasta Fazool is an American colloquialism for pasta e fagioli, pasta & these | Beans 
 
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    | John H. Wilson called it "At once London's highroad and its sewer" | The Thames River 
 
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    | In the Black Patch War of 1906-09 growers tried to break monopolies of this product | (M: What is cotton?) 
 Tobacco
 
 
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    | Because pteronophobics fear these, they should avoid chicken coops & fan dancers | Feathers 
 
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    | Bruce Boxleitner & Kate Jackson | "Scarecrow And Mrs. King" 
 
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    | Ants can communicate by releasing these chemicals from glands located throughout the body | pheromones 
 
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    | A NYC specialty, it's made with seltzer water, milk & syrup, not with the foods in its name | Egg Cream 
 
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    | Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed this city "Is the thinking center of the continent, and therefore of the planet" | Boston 
 
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    | This New Orleans D.A. unsuccessfully prosecuted Clay Shaw as a JFK assassination conspirator | Jim Garrison 
 
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    | Some people may have uranophobia, fear of this place, because they fear being judged there | (R: What is a courtroom?) 
 Heaven
 
 
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    | Thomas Haden Church & Debra Messing | "Ned & Stacey" 
 
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