| #9236, aired 2024-12-30 | MERMAN $200: Maine lighthouse keeper Thomas Curry is the father of this DC comic book hero Aquaman |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | NICKNAMES OF HISTORIC WOMEN $2000: For helping advance women in the Navy, this 4-term, 3-name Maine senator was the "Mother of the Waves" Margaret Chase Smith |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | GEORGIA ON OUR MINDS $400: Georgia's Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest contains the southern end of this trail that goes way up to Maine the Appalachian Trail |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | U.S. CITIES $1200: Bar Harbor, Maine is located on Mount Desert Island, where the majority of this national park is also located Acadia |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | LOSE A LETTER $400: A member of the Corps loses a letter & becomes a New England state Maine & Marine |
| #9178, aired 2024-10-09 | 41 $1200: During the '80s Bush's daughter Doro worked for the tourism office of this state her dad loved & found peace in Maine |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | LIT-POURRI $200: In 1938 he moved to a Maine farm where he kept animals, some of which got into his book "Charlotte's Web" E.B. White |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS $1200: In 1912 he pleaded to Maine residents, "You cannot expect success hunting deer or moose if your feet are not properly dressed" L.L. Bean |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | HISTORIC TELEGRAMS $200: A telegram to Washington in 1898 announced this "blown up in Havana Harbor at nine forty tonight and destroyed" the Maine |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | THE HILL YOU SAY $400: Todt Hill in this island borough is the highest on the Atlantic coast s. of Maine; area houses were film locations for Corleone homes Staten Island |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | GIVING YOU THE THIRD DEGREE $1000: Get it on, sound a gong for this third-most populous city in Maine Bangor |
| #9111, aired 2024-05-27 | YOU CAN'T GET ANY FURTHER NORTH $800: In this New England state:
A town called Estcourt Station, specifically Rue de la Frontière or "Border Street" Maine |
| #9103, aired 2024-05-15 | UNION MEN $200: Joshua Chamberlain & the 20th Maine's counterattack at Little Round Top is said to have saved this pivotal battle for the Union Gettysburg |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | PREPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES $400: This Stephen King novel has Chester's Mill, Maine suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field Under the Dome |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | STATE MOTTOES $800: L'etoile du Nord, or "star of the north", isn't the motto of Alaska but this state that's the northernmost of the lower 48 Minnesota |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | THE STATE I'M IN $800: This hah-bah on Mount Desert Island in Maine is called "the Gateway to Acadia National Park" Bar Harbor |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | AUTHORS' FICTIONAL PLACES $400: Castle Rock, Maine King |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $1000: ...Maine / Speaker of the House, to be plain / Cleveland beat him for prez / So history says / & his last name, it rhymes, as it's... Blaine |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | STATE CAPITAL RIVERS $2000: The Kennebec River Augusta, Maine |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BEFORE THEY WERE CONGRESSWOMEN $800: She recalled meeting Maine senator Margaret Chase Smith as a senior in high school & now holds her seat Susan Collins |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: The international museum for this in Maine has exhibits on Bigfoot & the Loch Ness Monster cryptozoology |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $1600: 2 friends leave a Mexican paradise & make their separate ways into a Maine prison The Shawshank Redemption |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ALSO A GOOD STARTER WORD FOR WORDLE $900: Hey Maine-iacs! Should I boil my lobstah or do this to it in a basket, which I've heard gets the meat more tendah steam |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | ON THE MAP $400: This state has 17 million acres of forests & about 44 people per square mile Maine |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | COLLEGE PREP $400: Bates, Beal & Bowdoin are colleges in this state that does not begin with B Maine |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | THERE'S AN "APP" FOR THAT $9,000 (Daily Double): A "2,000 miler" is someone who has hiked this entire route from Maine to Georgia the Appalachian Trail |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | MAINE ATTRACTIONS $200: For wildlife lovers, Maine offers safaris to spot this large mammal featured on its flag moose |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | MAINE ATTRACTIONS $400: If you're in Bangor & don't scare easy, stop by this prolific writer's house, seen here Stephen King |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | MAINE ATTRACTIONS $600: In Maine, the 4th Sunday of March is devoted to a celebration of this tree & its products the maple |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | MAINE ATTRACTIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Portland's historic Abyssinian Meeting House was a hub for this secret 19th century network the Underground Railroad |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | MAINE ATTRACTIONS $1000: Maine boasts this first national park established in the East which also happens to be first alphabetically Acadia National Park |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Passamaquoddy Bay between Maine & New Brunswick, Canada is an inlet of this bay famous for its high tides the Bay of Fundy |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | POSTAL ABBREVIATION COMBOS $1000: "The Pelican State" + "The Pine Tree State" = this word for someone with an injured leg lame |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | STATE OF THE COLLEGE $1000: The Campbell Fighting Camels are from near the Cape Fear River in this state North Carolina |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | FEEDBACK: SANDWICH $200: The Connecticut, not the Maine, version of the sandwich called this roll gets my vote but why use a hot dog bun? a lobster roll |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $800: This wind in Maine's a gust (in Augusta) |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | PENINSULAS $400: New England's very own gun show is this Massachusetts peninsula, often said to resemble an arm flexing its bicep Cape Cod |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | LET'S GO LOBSTERING $2000: A legal Maine lobster must measure at least 3 1/4 inches along this, the bony back shell the carapace |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | TITLE WOMEN $400: Coming from Maine to the prairie:
her "Plain and Tall" Sarah |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | HERE COMES THE SUMMER $600: Head to Rockland in this state for the August Lobster Fest & Coronation of the Sea Goddess Maine |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | TRAVEL USA $800: Take a ride on a vintage trolley at the Seashore Trolley Museum in this Maine "Port" city Kennebunkport |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | FACE THE POLITICIAN $1200: We're concerned you may not know this woman from Maine was the first ever Republican woman to win a fifth term in the U.S. Senate Susan Collins |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | MOOSE-ELLANEOUS $600: Maine's flag has a moose at the foot of this kind of tree that's in the state's nickname pine |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SHIP OUT $400: In January of 1898 the USS Maine was sent to this city's harbor; it would not see another new year Havana |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | STUDY: GUIDES $1600: Take the very scenic route with "The A.T. Guide", a handbook for hiking this 2,200-mile path from Maine to Georgia the Appalachian Trail |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: The Hawthorne-Longfellow Library is at this private college in Brunswick, Maine Bowdoin |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | EXPLORATION $1600: At the age of 67 Emma Gatewood became the first woman to solo hike all 2,000+ miles of this trail, from Georgia to Maine the Appalachian Trail |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | STATE CAPITALS $7,000 (Daily Double): The Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce is found in this New England state capital Augusta |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $700 (Daily Double): This New England state that produces a lot of them has the lobster as its official state crustacean Maine |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | ON YOUR STATE'S LEFT $400: The Maine way to the left is into this state; head to the right & you've left the country New Hampshire |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | WHO LIVES IN... $200: This state? Stephen King, who's turning one of his properties into a writers' retreat Maine |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | THAT WAS QUITE A YEAR $2000: Zola "J'Accuse"s; the Curies discover radium; remember... the Maine goes down 1898 |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The destruction of the battleship Maine in 1898 was a precursor to this war the Spanish-American War |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | OFF TO NEW ENGLAND $400: Originally incorporated as Harrington, this city got its name in 1797 & 30 years later, became Maine's capital Augusta |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | CATS & DOGS $1000: This big long-haired breed is the official cat of the state in its name the Maine Coon |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | GOVERNORS $800: In 1994 Angus King ran as an independent & won the governorship of this state, defeating Susan Collins Maine |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | 4,4 $600: This term for Maine is also the name of a magazine about that state Down East |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | A DIP IN THE BAY $1200: Extending about 35 miles inland, Penobscot Bay is an inlet of the North Atlantic on the coast of this state Maine |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | SHOE KNOW IT! $800: This Maine company offers men's wicked good moccasins L.L. Bean |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | SUMMER'S HERE $400: A Maine festival celebrating this creature has lasted 75 summers after a money-losing start with an "all you can eat for $1" deal lobster |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $600: The biggest cities of these 2 states on opposite sides of the nation have the same name Maine & Oregon |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | POTPOURRI $1600: Aroostook Valley Country Club has a golf course in this Canadian province, but a stray shot may fly into Maine New Brunswick |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | NATIONAL PARKS $1600: Located in Maine, it's alphabetically first of U.S. national parks & it's also the easternmost in the 50 states Acadia |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | OR TAKE THE "M" CATS $1200: It's the stately breed of long-haired domesticat seen here a Maine coon |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | FLORAL GEOGRAPHY $400: Lily Bay State Park is on Moosehead Lake, the largest in this largest New England state Maine |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE $400: Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state & this New England state as a non-slave addition Maine |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | ELBOW PATCHES $200: Elbow & the neck were early names for this main Maine city Portland |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $1600: Lyme disease derives its name from the town of Lyme in this state, where cases were first observed in the 1970s Connecticut |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | STATE YOUR HEADQUARTERS $600: Let's play dress-up with L.L. Bean Maine |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | 4-LETTER BOOK TITLES $200: This 1981 novel is named for a sick 200-pound St. Bernard in Maine Cujo |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | ELECTORAL COLLEGE COLLAGE $2000: Maine & this Midwestern state are the 2 that don't have winner-take-all electoral vote policies Nebraska |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | PEAK $200: See the Sun earlier than most hiking the Cadillac Mountain North Ridge Trail in this state's Acadia National Park Maine |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | ACROSS THE USA $800: Clingmans Dome, the highest point in Tennessee, is also the highest point on this trail that goes from Georgia to Maine the Appalachian Trail |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | DO YOU REMEMBER? $6,400 (Daily Double): It became a battle cry after it appeared in a cartoon caption in the Washington Post April 3, 1898 Remember the Maine |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | N.E. PORT $800: Portsmouth was this state's first Colonial capital & is its only seaport New Hampshire |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | N.E. PORT $1200: George H.W. Bush had a summer home at this Maine city whose name ends with "port" Kennebunkport |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | STATE LICENSE PLATES $400: A speciality lobster plate lets drivers in this state show support for its signature product Maine |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | ODD STATE FACTS $400: The only state with a one-syllable name, it's also the closest to Africa Maine |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | FAILED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS $400: After a Kentucky congressman shot & killed a rep. from Maine in 1838, an amendment against this practice was proposed dueling |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | TRANSPORTATION $600: This 1,900-mile-long interstate travels by Jacksonville, Florida, Washington, D.C. & Portland, Maine I-95 |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | STEPHEN KING TITLE REFERENCES $200: A makeshift graveyard in the woods near Ludlow, Maine pet sematary |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | LIGHTHOUSES $400: West Quoddy Head Lighthouse, with its red & white candy stripes, shines from this state & is the furthest east in the continental USA Maine |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | MOUNTAIN $1200: This "sweet" mountain in Maine's Carrabassett Valley is one of New England's premier ski resorts Sugarloaf |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | ROAD TRIP TO THE SAME-NAMED PLACE $200: You'll spend a lot of time on I-95 going from Maine to Georgia, maybe to see a major golf tournament Augusta |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | ROAD TRIP TO THE SAME-NAMED PLACE $400: Interstate stops in Cleveland & Cheyenne may await on a trek from Maine's largest city to Oregon's Portland |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | A PLACE LIKE RIVER HILL $1600: Mount Desert Island, Maine is where you'll find this national park Acadia National Park |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | MARITIME DISASTERS $800: Sadly the SS Portland went down in a storm with all 200 or so on board in this same year that the Maine blew up 1898 |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | DON'T YOU (FORGET ABOUT ME) $1000: A precursor to war in the late 19th century was "Remember the Maine, to hell with" this country Spain |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | 2-LETTER LIT $200: This scary book mostly takes place in Derry, Maine It |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | FICTIONAL SCHOOLS $4,000 (Daily Double): Chamberlain, Maine's Thomas Ewen Consolidated High School hosts a memorable prom in this 1974 novel Carrie |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | IT'S LIKE MAINE $200: The metro area of this city in Maine has 66,000 people; the same-named city in Oregon has 2.2 million Portland |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | IT'S LIKE MAINE $400: In 2012 one of these critters caught off Rockland was 27 pounds with "all the weight... in the claws"... mmmm a lobster |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | IT'S LIKE MAINE $600: "B" aware that Maine's tiny international airport in this city handles hundreds of unexpected flight diversions Bangor |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | IT'S LIKE MAINE $800: A Maine-stay in the clothing business, he said, "Outdoor recreation, such as hunting & camping, has added years to my life" of 94 years L.L. Bean |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | IT'S LIKE MAINE $1000: Cape Porpoise & Goose Rocks Beach are part of this town that George Bush's family called (summer) home Kennebunkport |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | AROUND THE USA $1,000 (Daily Double): Major cities that share this name lie on the Kennebec River in Maine & on the Savannah River in Georgia Augusta |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | HISTORIC OBJECTS $800: At Arlington National Cemetery, a mast from this battleship overlooks the graves of those killed when it exploded in 1898 the Maine |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: Perry, Maine has a marker for this latitudinal line signifying the halfway point between the equator & North Pole the 45th parallel |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | THESE UNITED STATES $800: Cobblestones are part of the charm of Wharf Street in this Maine city with a name that suggests it's water-adjacent Portland |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | THIS AMERICAN CITY $1200: Its central location helped make it the capital of Maine in 1832 Augusta |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | STATES BY BORDERS $400: New Hampshire Maine |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS & CITIES $800: If you write about "Murder, She Wrote", include that it took place in Cabot Cove in this New England state Maine |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | STATE THE STATE $400: Also called "Sunrise County", Washington County is in this state that sees the sun before the rest of us Maine |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | E-COLLEGE-Y $800: This college in Waterville, Maine has used 100% renewable electricity sources since way back in 2003 Colby College |
| #8193, aired 2020-04-01 | GIFTS FOR ANIMAL LOVERS $1200: You'll find animal-themed slippers at this retailer founded in Maine in 1912 L.L. Bean |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | STATE OF THE BRIDGE $800: Penobscot Narrows Bridge Maine |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | CUBA BEFORE FIDEL $2,500 (Daily Double): On Jan, 25, 1898 this U.S. Battleship arrived in Havana Harbor for a friendly visit; 3 weeks later, it blew up the Maine |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | 2020 ANNIVERSARIES $1600: Once part of Massachusetts, this state is celebrating its bicentennial Maine |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | THE ROLES OF MORGAN FREEMAN $400: 1994:
Red Redding, a lifer at a Maine prison The Shawshank Redemption |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | THERE ONCE WAS THIS MAN FROM... $600: ...Maine / Who made shoes to fight off the rain / His catalog mailed / & clothing detailed / Outdoors would be his domain L.L. Bean |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | UNDER THE... $400: Stephen King novel in which Chester's Mill, Maine is sealed off from the rest of the world Under the Dome |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | COASTLINES $400: Cities along this U.S. state's ocean coast include Astoria & Brookings Oregon |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | AROUND THE USA $400: Eastport in this state is fittingly the easternmost city in the lower 48 states Maine |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | ESSAYS $1600: This "Infinite Jest" author used the Maine lobster festival to discuss the morality of killing lobsters for eating pleasure David Foster Wallace |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | THE EDGARS $200: Part of "The Bazaar of Bad Dreams", "Obits" won the 2016 Short Story Edgar Award for my Maine man, this horror master Stephen King |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | RED, DELICIOUS $200: The shells of the Maine type of this crustacean turn bright red only after cooking lobster |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | 16-LETTER WORDS $2000: Look at a map of the contiguous U.S. & you'll see that this 16-letter superlative adjective applies to Maine northeasternmost |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | INITIALLY YOURS $800: This guy started out with a 3-page flyer advertising his Maine hunting shoe; the catalog is bigger now L.L. Bean |
| #7979, aired 2019-04-25 | LAKE NAME-IS-MEMORABLE $200: Mooselookmeguntic Lake is about 85 miles northwest of this capital of Maine Augusta |
| #7977, aired 2019-04-23 | POTPOURRI $1000: Maine's state flower is actually a cone from this tree a pine |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | THE CIVIL WAR $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of a battle on the monitor.) Here's the Little Round Top location of the 20th Maine regiment; out of ammo & exhausted, the 20th led a bayonet charge to secure Meade's left flank & saved the day during this battle Gettysburg |
| #7951, aired 2019-03-18 | MISSOURI HISTORY $400: Under the terms of this 1820 legislation, Maine entered the Union as a free state & Missouri as a slave state the Missouri Compromise |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $3,000 (Daily Double): This Maine senator who became Lincoln's veep was named for an uncle who was named for a Carthaginian general Hannibal Hamlin |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | TO THE LIGHTHOUSE $1200: The Portland Head Light in this state is said to be the most photographed lighthouse in the United States Maine |
| #7931, aired 2019-02-18 | ANTEBELLUM $1200: Riots in Havana in 1898 led to this doomed U.S. ship being sent there the Maine |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | A STATE OF RELAXATION $2000: In New England, Moose Point State Park Maine |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | SHARK TANK 10 $400: (Hi, I'm Barbara Corcoran.) One of my favorite deals was investing $55,000 with 2 cousins from Maine who ran food trucks specializing in this shellfish; their passion & my guidance have made us all millions lobster |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | STATE STUFF $600: John Kerry summers there, sometimes on Naushon Island Massachusetts |
| #7892, aired 2018-12-25 | BLAME CANADA $400: In a dispute over these rights between Maine & Canada, one man said, "Canadians are like Vikings! they... pillage" fishing rights |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | LET'S PUT ON A SHOW $1600: In the play "Almost, Maine", people fall in & out of love while watching this celestial display the Northern Lights |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | THAT HAPPENED! $1200: This 3-word phrase preceded "To hell with Spain!" as a Spanish-American war rallying cry remember the Maine |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | IT'S A DATE $1200: February 15, 1898:
This is sunk by an explosion the U.S.S. Maine |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | STATE FACTS $1200: The largest New England state in area, it's the least densely populated east of the Mississippi Maine |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | SISTER CITIES $200: This city in Maine--not the Oregon one--is sisters with Shinagawa, Japan, a city of 350,000 inside the borough of Tokyo Portland |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MALL $1200: Maine outdoor clothing company that moonlights as a number cruncher L.L. Bean-counter |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | NEW ENGLAND $1000: This state's House of Representatives includes seats for 3 nonvoting members, including 1 representing the Penobscot nation Maine |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | LARGEST CITIES $400: The largest cities in Maine & Oregon share this name Portland |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | SENATORS IN THE 115th CONGRESS $1200: The 2 independents in the current Senate are Angus King Jr. of Maine & this guy from a nearby state (Bernie) Sanders |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | SENATORS IN THE 115th CONGRESS $2000: She's the main (well, senior) senator from Maine (Susan) Collins |
| #7812, aired 2018-07-24 | WRITERS OF COLONIAL AMERICA $800: Thomas Morton so mocked the "piety" of his Mass. neighbors, he was exiled to this future "Pine Tree State" up north Maine |
| #7801, aired 2018-07-09 | UNFURL THE STATE FLAG $1600: On Maine's flag this type of deer sits quietly under a tree a moose |
| #7800, aired 2018-07-06 | ADJECTIVES FOR YOUR CAT $800: Get out the brush--the Persian & Maine coon cat are this type of breed, not the best for allergy sufferers long-haired |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | APPALACHIAN APPELLATION $1600: Baxter Peak on Mount Katahdin is the highest point in this New England state Maine |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | TRIBAL STATES $1600: Passamaquoddy tribe Maine |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | THE SCHOOL YEAR $400: In 1825 this author graduated from Maine's Bowdoin College, where he gambled, partied & didn't get scarlet As (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: West Quoddy Head in this state is the easternmost point of land in the contiguous United States Maine |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | NATIONAL PARKS $400: Alphabetically, our national parks run from Acadia in Maine to this one in Utah Zion |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | THESE ARE DAYS $600: A state holiday in Massachusetts & Maine, Patriots' Day is the third Monday in April, in honor of these 2 battles Lexington and Concord |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | THE NAME OF THE JAMES $2000: This former Maine senator & Secretary of State narrowly lost the 1884 presidential election to Grover Cleveland James G. Blaine |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | STATE CONSUMABLES $800: You've still got a little right here after eating this pie, Maine's state dessert blueberry pie |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $600: You'll shout with joy the name of this pie, Maine's state treat a whoopie pie |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | COLLEGE VOCABULARY $800: In Wisconsin, it's a yellow cheese; in Maine, it's a 2,000-student college Colby |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | THE POSTMAN'S 4-LETTER WORDS $800: Venison & rabbit are this kind of meat game |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | SING A SONG OF $1200: In "Song Of Home" this Belfast bluesman is sailing home from Maine, then sailing home from Spain--did he get lost? Van Morrison |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | A YEAR ENDING IN 8 $1600: The battleship Maine blows up in Havana harbor 1898 |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-NAME THE AUTHOR $1600: "The Maine Woods", published posthumously in 1864 Henry David Thoreau |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | TAKE ME "DOWN" $1000: A native of Maine a Down Easter |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | DOCUMENTS $800: All about lumber, the Aroostook War between New Brunswick & this state was settled by 1842's Webster-Ashburton treaty Maine |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | IT WAS SO COLD... $600: In Maine these critters, Homarus americanus, were throwing themselves into pots lobsters |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | NEW ENGLAND $800: In 1883 he settled at Prouts Neck, on the coast of Maine, where he would paint many of his seascapes (Winslow) Homer |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | LITERATURE $2000: Elizabeth Strout won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her book of stories, set in coastal Maine, about this title woman Olive Kitteridge |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | STATE BY COUNTIES $600: Where's Waldo? & Androscoggin & Kennebec, too! Maine |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | TAKE A HIKE! $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) For those who like a challenge, it takes about six months to hike the nearly 2,200 miles from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mt. Katahdin in Maine to complete this trail in its entirety the Appalachian Trail |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | REMEMBER THE... $400: Havana wreck, left in the harbor for 13 years--
"Remember the ____" the Maine |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | LET'S SAVE THE PLANET $600: npca.org aims to protect these, like Acadia in Maine & Kings Canyon in California national parks |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | WHERE ARE YOU WEARING? $400: This state precedes "hunting shoe" in the name of the first product introduced by L.L. Bean Maine |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | LESSER-KNOWN MUSEUMS $2000: The International Museum of this -ology in Maine has exhibits for the Montauk Monster & the Jersey Devil cryptozoology |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | STATE FLAGS $200: This star is on the flags of both Alaska & Maine the North Star |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | ANAGRAM OF A STATE $800: A Japanese cartoon genre anime (anagram of Maine) |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | HOUSE FULL OF LIT $600: "Good night--you princes of Maine!" is a line from this John Irving work that takes place in part in an orphanage The Cider House Rules |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | THE 50 STATES $2000: The first woman to serve in both houses of Congress, Margaret Chase Smith represented this NE state Maine |
| #7536, aired 2017-05-22 | 19th CENTURY CONGRESSMEN $1200: James G. Blaine, former co-owner of the Kennebec Journal, repped this state Maine |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | TV DRAMAS $400: "Once Upon a Time" is set in this fictional New England town Storybrooke (Maine) |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | ALMOST THERE TO THE STATE CAPITAL $5,000 (Daily Double): The 2 capitals with the complete names of months within their names Juneau, Alaska and Augusta, Maine |
| #7505, aired 2017-04-07 | LIGHTHOUSES $800: Built in 1764, the USA's oldest surviving light is Sandy Hook, where the Atlantic meets New York Bay in this state New Jersey |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | WHERE IS IT? $1600: Bar Harbor, near Acadia National Park:
this state Maine |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | NIXON'S ENEMIES LIST $2000: Several senators took up spots, including Walter Mondale, William Proxmire & this man from Maine Edmund Muskie |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: In 1986 he & wife Tabitha created a foundation to provide support for Maine communities (Stephen) King |
| #7478, aired 2017-03-01 | A SMALL COLLEGE $600: The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at this school in Brunswick, Maine features Peary's sled used at the North Pole Bowdoin |
| #7465, aired 2017-02-10 | STATE SCHOOL ALUMNI $400: Stephen King,
Olympia Snowe Maine |
| #7460, aired 2017-02-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: The unexplained sinking of the USS Maine led the U.S. to declare war on this country on April 25, 1898 Spain |
| #7447, aired 2017-01-17 | STATE PARKS $2000: Quoddy Head State Park Maine |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | FORT-ITUDE $2000: In July 1864, while he was V.P., he served on active duty as a private at Fort McClary in Maine where he became camp cook (Hannibal) Hamlin |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | ART & ARTISTS $1200: Winslow Homer often depicted the coast of Maine in this type of painting, also the title of an Edward Albee play seascape |
| #7429, aired 2016-12-22 | SPELL IT WITH STATE ABBREVIATIONS $1600: Marcel Marceau's profession Michigan & Maine (MI & ME) |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | IT BORDERS BOTH $200: Maine & Vermont: this state New Hampshire |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | LOOKING AT COLLEGES $1000: I've read up on the university's campus in Orono, which boasts the largest library in this state Maine |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | STUFF THAT EXPLODES $1200: The unexplained explosion of this ship in Havana's harbor in 1898 led to war the Maine |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | ENTERTAINING ANIMALS $1000: On film a Maine harbormaster & his family have their hands full with "Andre", one of these aquatic mammals a seal |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: "High Cliff, Coast of Maine" is a typical work by this American (Winslow) Homer |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | U.S. STATES' LARGEST ISLANDS $2000: Home to the town of Bar Harbor, Maine is Mount this island (Mount) Desert |
| #7372, aired 2016-10-04 | RHYMES WITH A STATE $400: It's the word for someone from Copenhagen Dane |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | BATTLESHIPS $400: On February 15, 1898, just hours after the photo seen here was taken, this battleship exploded the Maine |
| #7341, aired 2016-07-11 | ROADS SCHOLAR $1600: When this U.S. highway was extended to Key West in 1938, it completed a road all the way back to Maine U.S. 1 |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | DOING BUSINESS ONLINE $400: "Favorites" from this Maine-based retailer include women's hiking boots & flannel sheets L.L.Bean |
| #7316, aired 2016-06-06 | NATIONAL PARKS $1000: State where you'll find (the non-southern) Acadia Maine |
| #7306, aired 2016-05-23 | THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $1600: In 2009 winner "Olive Kitteridge", 13 connected stories in this New England state pack a collective emotional wallop Maine |
| #7289, aired 2016-04-28 | STATELY MUSEUMS $1000: Penobscot Marine Museum &
Wadsworth-Longfellow House Maine |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | NO-FLY ZONE $800: The Bush family compound in this Maine resort Kennebunkport |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | AROUND THE USA $200: Aroostook County in this New England state borders Quebec & New Brunswick Maine |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: This mountain system stretches about 1,500 miles from Maine to Alabama the Appalachians |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | STATE FISH $1200: Maine's state fish, the landlocked this, migrates to various lakes & rivers to spawn, laying eggs in nests called redds salmon |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | HISTORY ON FILM $1000: This senator from Maine announced her run for the presidency in 1964 Margaret Chase Smith |
| #7147, aired 2015-10-13 | NEW ENGLAND $1000: The roads of this Maine national park on the Atlantic coast travel over 17 unique stone-faced bridges Acadia National Park |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $800: It's "the Pine Tree State" Maine |
| #7135, aired 2015-09-25 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS $2000: Collinsport, Maine Dark Shadows |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | LET IT SNOW $1000: This state's 24-hour record for snowfall is 40 inches in Orono on Dec. 30, 1962 Maine |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $1600: Artist who painted the 1948 work seen here that features a Maine neighbor who suffered from polio Andrew Wyeth |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART $800: Among this New Englander's works in the Gallery is "Incoming Tide, Scarboro, Maine" Winslow Homer |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | MY NAME IS A TITLE $600: Frances McDormand played this title Maine woman in a 2014 HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | WHICH STATE? $400: Is the only one with a one-syllable name Maine |
| #7030, aired 2015-03-20 | STATE THE SENATOR $600: In 1955:
Prescott Bush Connecticut |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | REMEMBER MAINE! $200: Remember that it's the capital! Augusta |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | REMEMBER MAINE! $400: Remember that Maine's chief products include this critter, Homarus americanus--yum! a lobster |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | REMEMBER MAINE! $600: Remember that the northern portion of this trail runs through Maine from New Hampshire to Mount Katahdin! the Appalachian Trail |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | REMEMBER MAINE! $800: Remember that in 1959 Maine's 190-mile mountain range was named for this "Evangeline" poet & native son! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #7004, aired 2015-02-12 | REMEMBER MAINE! $1000: Remember that Maine was admitted to the Union in 1820 to balance the admission of this slave state! Missouri |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $200: Fitzhugh Lee, U.S. Consul General in Havana, advised President McKinley not to send this ship to the city; he was ignored the Maine |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | BRR, BABY, BRR $3,000 (Daily Double): This New England state's record low of -50 F. was recorded in Aroostook County on January 16, 2009 Maine |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $600: The sailing ship Bowdoin is this state's state vessel Maine |
| #6955, aired 2014-12-05 | STATES' LONGEST BORDERS $1600: This state only borders one other U.S. state, New Hampshire Maine |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | STATE LICENSE PLATES $600: In Maine this "specialty plate" isn't on your table but on your car, aiding research on Maine's signature product lobsters |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | THE ALL-WRITERS BASKETBALL TEAM $400: 6'4'' from the University of Maine, this "Dead Zone" author Stephen King |
| #6894, aired 2014-07-31 | STATE'S LEFTS $400: To the left of Maine New Hampshire |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): The campus of the University of this state is in Orono, named for a Penobscot chief Maine |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | LAKES & RIVERS $2000: This Canadian province shares the Chiputneticook Lakes with Maine New Brunswick |
| #6863, aired 2014-06-18 | "BAN" $800: In "King Of The Road", Roger Miller sang, "third boxcar midnight train, destination" this Maine city Bangor |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $1200: Portland
(1820) Maine |
| #6842, aired 2014-05-20 | U.S. PLACES $1200: This Maine national park shares its name with a historic region of French Canada Acadia |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | COHEN-CIDENTALLY $1000: This senator from Maine ran the Defense Department as the only Republican in Bill Clinton's Cabinet William Cohen |
| #6827, aired 2014-04-29 | THE NEW YORK TIMES YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST $400: (I'm Mark Bittman.) Today locally grown food is the rage, but in 1991 my first Times article was about how overnight mail brings fresh food from far off, like these crustaceans sent from Maine lobsters |
| #6821, aired 2014-04-21 | THE SALE MAKER $600: In 1912 he was the Maine (& only) man in his new clothing business; today, the company has annual sales of $1.5 billion L.L. Bean |
| #6820, aired 2014-04-18 | HOME, SWEET HOME $800: Though you won't find a bride & groom atop it, the house seen here in Kennebunk, Maine has this "tasty" nickname wedding cake |
| #6819, aired 2014-04-17 | THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands next to a map of the eastern U.S.) Truly earning its interstate name, this highway stretches from Maine to Florida, passing through 15 states I-95 |
| #6809, aired 2014-04-03 | small state capitals $1000: This capital on the Kennebec River traces its founding to 1628 Augusta (Maine) |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | "SNOW" JOB $1600: This Maine senator is only the fourth woman in history to serve in both houses of Congress Olympia Snowe |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | THE WORLD WIDE "WEB" $1000: 19th century treaty that settled the northern boundaries of Maine & Wisconsin the Webster-Ashburton Treaty |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | LIKE IT'S 1998 $1000: This former Maine senator helped broker a peace deal in Northern Ireland (George) Mitchell |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | THE SONNET $1200: Some of this Maine-born poet's finest verse appears in her 1931 collection "Fatal Interview", a group of love sonnets Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #6786, aired 2014-03-03 | STEPHEN KING $400: Like "The Shining", "Misery" deals with a writer stuck in this U.S. state during winter Colorado |
| #6786, aired 2014-03-03 | ON THE "GO" $800: This one-word Latin motto of the state of Maine means "I lead" Dirigo |
| #6777, aired 2014-02-18 | OTHER LONE STAR FLAGS $400: On this state's flag, note the pine tree under one star, the North Star Maine |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | I'M HEADING TO... $800: Mount Katahdin in this New England state Maine |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | CENTURY 19 $1,000 (Daily Double): In January 1898 this U.S. Battleship went to Havana Harbor in part to protect U.S. citizens, but it would never leave the Maine |
| #6749, aired 2014-01-09 | PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS $1000: This VP under Lincoln was born in Paris--Paris, Maine Hannibal Hamlin |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | MAINE STAYS $400: "41" is HBO's documentary about him & his life in Kennebunkport, his "anchor to windward" George H.W. Bush |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | MAINE STAYS $800: A year after he retired to Walden Pond, he headed for the backwoods of Maine & wrote 3 essays about his trip there Thoreau |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | MAINE STAYS $1200: This future president left N.H. for Bowdoin College, where he was friends with Nathaniel Hawthorne Franklin Pierce |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | MAINE STAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): This historian went to Colby College in Waterville; she later met & married Richard Goodwin, adviser to JFK & LBJ Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | MAINE STAYS $2000: This artist immortalized Prouts Neck, the Maine village that became his home in the 1880s Winslow Homer |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: With the consent of Massachusetts, this state was admitted to the union as part of the Missouri compromise in 1820 Maine |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | "M" STATE $200: More than 100 million pounds of lobster were harvested there in 2011 Maine |
| #6709, aired 2013-11-14 | U.S. HISTORY: THE FIRST 100 YEARS $1000: The Webster-Ashburton treaty of 1842 settled the boundary between New Brunswick & this state Maine |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | EXTREME GEOGRAPHY $800: It's the easternmost U.S. state capital Augusta(, Maine) |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | STATE OF the ONION $800: "The people... can be found on pages 12-187 of the quarterly L.L. Bean catalog" Maine |
| #6619, aired 2013-05-30 | TREES THE CHARM $1000: A Yarmouth, Maine tree called Herbie, a majestic American type of this tree, had to be cut down in 2010 at age 217 elm |
| #6608, aired 2013-05-15 | NOVELLAS $400: His novella "The Body" centers on 4 Maine youths who deal with death in the woods (Stephen) King |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | STATES THAT BORDER CANADA $200: At 1,538 miles, it has the longest border with Canada of any U.S. state Alaska |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | STATES THAT BORDER CANADA $800: Presque Isle in this eastern state is less than 10 miles from our neighbors Maine |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | GEOGRAPHY: DROP A LETTER $800: ...From a New England state & you'll dig deep in this place mine (from Maine) |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | RETIRED $1000: Senate partisanship was the reason this Maine Republican said she was quitting in 2012 (Olympia) Snowe |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | STEPHEN KING $200: Many of Stephen King's stories & novels are set in this state, his birthplace Maine |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1600: On Nov. 6, 2012 voters in Maine & Maryland said yes, Adam & Steve can do this marry |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | THIS MEANS WAR! $800: The explosion of the USS Maine the Spanish-American War |
| #6523, aired 2013-01-16 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $1000: Maine:
about 66,000 Portland |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | THE NEAREST CANADIAN PROVINCE TO... $2000: Eastport,
Maine New Brunswick |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | THE 6 NEW ENGLAND STATES $200: The largest in area of the 6 Maine |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | CEMETERIES $400: The mast from the USS Maine is part of the memorial to the ship & crew at this national cemetery Arlington |
| #6495, aired 2012-12-07 | STATE HAIKUS?? $800: Borders just one state / That's wicked good lobstah, right? / Hey, it's Stephen King! Maine |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | CITY NICKNAMES $600: Rockland, Maine:
This aquatic creature "Capital of the World" lobster |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | U.S. MEMORIALS $2,000 (Daily Double): Davenport Park in the city of Bangor is home to a memorial remembering this battleship the Maine |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | STATE THE NATIONAL PARK $800: Acadia Maine |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | THE NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY $800: Disney animators studied real animals & photos of the forests of Maine to portray nature in this 1942 film Bambi |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | ANAGRAMMED U.S. CITIES $600: NO BRAG,
Maine Bangor |
| #6462, aired 2012-10-23 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $800: This wind in Maine's gust (in Augusta) |
| #6451, aired 2012-10-08 | NEW ENGLAND FOLIAGE $800: Maine's forest service says this tree's bark "separates freely and easily into thin, papery sheets" birch |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | BOOK REPORT $2000: In "Skylark", a sequel to this novel, Anna & Caleb leave the prairie for a visit to Maine with their stepmom Sarah, Plain and Tall |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | THE 50 STATES $1200: West Quoddy Head in this state is the easternmost piece of land in the continental United States Maine |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | THE MAINE COURSE $400: In 1839 Maine's governor declared war on England over a boundary dispute between Maine & what's now this "New" province New Brunswick |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | THE MAINE COURSE $800: It was a rags to wood pulp to riches story, as Maine became at one time the USA's leading producer of this paper |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | THE MAINE COURSE $1200: Maine joined the Union as a free state under this congressional act of 1820 the Missouri Compromise |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | THE MAINE COURSE $1600: Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in Maine & was the spouse of a professor at this college Bowdoin |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | THE MAINE COURSE $2000: The first woman to serve in both houses of Congress, this Skowhegan native was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1948 Margaret Chase Smith |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | WHOLE SALE $600: The first state to do so, Maine banned the sale of this in 1851 & didn't rescind the law until 1934 alcohol |
| #6389, aired 2012-05-31 | TV SHOW HAIKU $800: Mystery writer /
A bunch of small town killings /
Maine-ly, whodunit? Murder, She Wrote |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | CITY SEALS (& SEA LIONS) $1000: A life-sized statue of Andre the cinematic harbor seal stands in Rockport in this state Maine |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | PAUL REVERE $800: At his own request Revere was court-martialed & acquitted over the 1779 Penobscot expedition into this present state Maine |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | HOME $1600: From an upstairs studio in the Olson House in Cushing, Maine, this artist made Christina Olson & the house famous Andrew Wyeth |
| #6340, aired 2012-03-23 | NATIONAL PARKS $800: Alphabetically first among the National Parks, this park in Maine was originally named for Lafayette Acadia |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | SHIP OUT $200: On February 15, 1898 the USS Maine mysteriously sank in this city's harbor Havana |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | LOOK OUT BELOW $400: You can see the fall colors around this largest city in Maine Portland |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | STATE FARM $1000: Fairwinds Farm in Bowdoinham Maine |
| #6305, aired 2012-02-03 | THE WRITER'S COLLEGE $2000: Nathaniel Hawthorne:
This oldest Maine college Bowdoin |
| #6304, aired 2012-02-02 | SENIORITIS $2000: Let's take a road trip to Freeport, Maine to see the flagship store of this outdoorsy retailer, on Main Street since 1912 L.L. Bean |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | OCCASION $6,000 (Daily Double): September 21, 1897:
It seems 3 months early, but the N.Y. Sun publishes an editorial famous for this 7-word phrase "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" |
| #6277, aired 2011-12-27 | DECADES OF DISASTER $2,000 (Daily Double): The USS Maine goes down, killing 260 the 1890s |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | VICE PRESIDENTS $1600: In 1864, while serving as Lincoln's Vice President, he served 2 months as a cook in the Maine Coast Guard (Hannibal) Hamlin |
| #6259, aired 2011-12-01 | ABOUT THE STATES $200: It's the only state that borders Maine New Hampshire |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | STATE OF THE NOVEL $1,000 (Daily Double): "Needful Things" &
"Salem's Lot" Maine |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | PROHIBITION $400: After alcohol was made illegal in Maine, vendors offered swigs from concealed pints in their pants & got this nickname bootleggers |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | DAMN YANKEES $2000: This Maine seascape painter traveled with the Army of the Potomac, sending sketches back to Harper's Weekly Winslow Homer |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | U.S. COUNTIES $400: Washington county in this state is the easternmost county in the contiguous 48 states Maine |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | SWEET SPOTS $1600: Two Fat Cats Bakery in Maine is famous for makin' these regional "pies", a creamy filling between 2 cake-like cookies whoopee pies |
| #6176, aired 2011-06-20 | ROUND & ROUND WE GO $1000: The Old Sow one of these off Maine is the largest in the Americas; one vortex has been measured at 250 feet across a whirlpool |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | STEPHEN KING NOVEL PLOTS $2000: Losers Club reunites to rid Derry, Maine of its sewer-dwelling, child-killing monster once & for all It |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | AUTHORS $200: While attending Lisbon Falls High School in Maine, this horror author published a newspaper, The Village Vomit Stephen King |
| #6159, aired 2011-05-26 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1,500 (Daily Double): A monument dedicated to the men who lost their lives on the USS Maine stands in this capital's Parque del Maine Havana |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | SHIP NAMES $600: A pro-war slogan of 1898 was "Remember" this ship, "to hell with Spain!" the Maine |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | STATE PARKS $1000: Tippecanoe River State Park Indiana |
| #6137, aired 2011-04-26 | DOUBLE MEANINGS $2000: I hope Naval History ____ runs my expose about what really caused the explosion of the USS Maine's ____ magazine |
| #6129, aired 2011-04-14 | THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS $200: In "On Writing" this horror author wrote about his early life in Maine & gave advice to aspiring novelists Stephen King |
| #6109, aired 2011-03-17 | OR THE HIGHWAY $1200: 2,400-mile U.S. Highway 1 runs from Fort Kent in this state all the way down to Florida Maine |
| #6107, aired 2011-03-15 | THE IDES OF MARCH $1000: In 1819 residents in this part of Massachusetts voted for separation; on March 15, 1820 it became a state Maine |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | NEW ENGLANDERS $800: A wing at the Maine Medical Center bears the name of this Freeport retailer & outdoorsman L.L. Bean |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | FOLK STORIES $600: It took 5 giant storks to deliver this folk hero to his parents in Maine; later he moved to Minnesota Paul Bunyan |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | THE PLACE TO "B" $400: A resort town in Northern Ireland shares its name with this third-largest city in Maine Bangor |
| #6092, aired 2011-02-22 | COMBINED STATE ABBREV. $800: Has a white face:
Michigan + Maine mime |
| #6070, aired 2011-01-21 | PRESIDENT TYLER $1000: With 1842's Webster-Ashburton treaty, Tyler set the boundary between New Brunswick & this state Maine |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | BE "APP"Y $1200: A hiking route that goes from Maine to Georgia the Appalachian Trail |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE $1200: She gently drifted down from Maine to D.C. in 1979; she's in the Senate now (Olympia) Snowe |
| #6039, aired 2010-12-09 | CASUAL & SPORTY FASHION $800: This company's Maine Hunting Shoe was born when the owner had leather uppers stitched to rubber boots L.L. Bean |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | YOU SANK MY BATTLESHIP! $800: Adm. Rickover said this ship's 1898 explosion was due to heat from fire in a coal bin that set off ammunition... remember? the Maine |
| #5993, aired 2010-10-06 | ALL HAIL $600: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Margaret Chase Smith Maine |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | I PITY DA FOOD! $200: Maine & spiny are types of this; its shell turns vivid red only affer it's been cooked lobster |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | U.S. BIZ $1000: On its website this Freeport, Maine company offers rod & reel outfits & insect shield apparel L.L.Bean |
| #5923, aired 2010-05-19 | HIDDEN STATES $800: Let's visit my grandma in Exeter in this state--it's a quaint little place Maine (in grandma in Exeter) |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | POETS $2000: This Maine poetess wrote a group of love sonnets that were published in the collection "Fatal Interview" Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: Colby College in Waterville in this state was originally a literary & theological institution Maine |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | LITTLE LANDS $1000: It's about the size of Maine, & it's right across the river from Israel Jordan |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | "B" FORE "N" AFTER $800: Maine college that was Nat Hawthorne's alma mater Bowdoin |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | STATE FACTS $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the only U.S. state with a 1-syllable name Maine |
| #5804, aired 2009-12-03 | ALSO A U.S. STATE $200: It was destroyed in Havana Harbor on Feb. 15, 1898 the USS Maine |
| #5787, aired 2009-11-10 | TOURING USA $800: This state's Seashore Trolley Museum near Kennebunkport is one of the world's largest electric railway museums Maine |
| #5770, aired 2009-10-16 | OFFICIAL STATE THINGS $800: It's the state animal of Maine & the state land mammal of Alaska moose |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | CATS $1200: The coon cat, which has large snowshoe feet, has this state in its full name Maine |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | STATELY RIVERS $1000: Kennebunk River,
Penobscot River Maine |
| #5758, aired 2009-09-30 | MADAM SENATOR $400: Olympia Snowe & Susan Collins represent this state that elected Margaret Chase Smith to both houses Maine |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | THE GREAT STATE OF... $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of the Northeast on the monitor.) The combined area of all the other New England states would fit inside this largest New England state Maine |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | SHELLFISH $800: Some McDonald's restaurants in Maine & eastern Canada sell a tasty shellfish roll called this a McLobster |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | OBSCURE AMERICA $1000: The Norumbega Fault Zone runs from Penobscot Bay in this state through Massachusetts Maine |
| #5698, aired 2009-05-20 | ROAD TEST $800: John D. Rockefeller Jr. financed miles & miles of beautiful carriage roads in this state's Acadia National Park Maine |
| #5671, aired 2009-04-13 | GUINNESS $400: To benefit a children's camp, Ed Jarrett built the tallest one of these, 31 feet 6 inches, at a beach resort in Maine a sand castle |
| #5649, aired 2009-03-12 | NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES $1200: The Penobscot are represented in the legislature of this state where you'll find Penobscot Bay Maine |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $1,000 (Daily Double): On January 24, 1898 Captain Sigsbee was told to sail this battleship from Key West to Cuba to protect American interests the (USS) Maine |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | STATE THE SENATOR $1200: George McGovern South Dakota |
| #5578, aired 2008-12-03 | WHICH CAME FIRST? $400: In U.S. statehood:
Indiana,
Pennsylvania,
Maine Pennsylvania |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $400: He wrote "Carrie" while teaching high school English at Hampden Academy in Maine (Stephen) King |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | THE MAINE THING $400: In 1797 it was incorporated as the town of Harrington; it became the capital in 1831 Augusta |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | THE MAINE THING $800: Notable spots in this coastal town are the seashore trolley museum & George H.W. Bush's summer home Kennebunkport |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | THE MAINE THING $1200: This seaport on Casco Bay is the seat of Cumberland County Portland |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | THE MAINE THING $1600: This city's name came from the title of a hymn--how does that strike you? Bangor |
| #5553, aired 2008-10-29 | THE MAINE THING $2000: L.L. Bean's company headquarters are in this city, just down the road from the original store Freeport |
| #5538, aired 2008-10-08 | SMALL STATE CAPITALS $2000: It's the seat of Kennebec County Augusta (Maine) |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: Long before it empties into the Bay of Fundy, the Saint John River divides Maine from this province New Brunswick |
| #5525, aired 2008-09-19 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: "The Lobster Chronicles" is Linda Greenlaw's book about life on a small island off the coast of this state Maine |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | NEBRASKA: THE GOOD LIFE $1000: It's not such a good life in this "corny" tale that Stephen King set in Nebraska, not Maine Children of the Corn |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | I NEED A FARM VACATION! $400: We'll learn how to groom llamas if we stay at Hidden Acres Llama Farm in Jefferson in this Down East state Maine |
| #5496, aired 2008-06-30 | AMERICANA $400: Legend says a Bangor, Maine woman invented these by cutting a collapsed chocolate cake into squares brownies |
| #5487, aired 2008-06-17 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $400: After this exploded in 1898, Clara Barton wrote, "The air was filled with a blaze of light" the U.S.S. Maine |
| #5469, aired 2008-05-22 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: On February 15, we remember this ship that was sunk in 1898 the Maine |
| #5430, aired 2008-03-28 | MAY I HAVE A WORD WITH "U"? $200: On Feb. 15, 1898 it famously sank in Havana harbor the U.S.S. Maine |
| #5424, aired 2008-03-20 | BATTLE CRIES $2,000 (Daily Double): This battle cry may have come from a cartoon that appeared in the Washington Post on April 3, 1898 Remember the Maine |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | THE CAT $1000: This breed of domestic feline from Maine is the first truly American show breed a Maine coon |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | STATE NICKNAMES $1000: "The Pine Tree State" Maine |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | VETERAN-ARY MEDICINE $200: The oldest operating V.A. hospital opened in this first post-Civil War year in Maine 1866 |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | SENATE MAJORITY LEADERS $2000: 1989 to 1995: from southern Maine, he went on to negotiate a landmark peace treaty for Northern Ireland George Mitchell |
| #5361, aired 2007-12-24 | STATE YOUR CASE $800: One of this state's nicknames is "Lobsterland" Maine |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | IT AIN'T ROCKET SCIENCE $400: In 1912 he opened his eponymous clothing & shoe store in Freeport, Maine L.L. Bean |
| #5335, aired 2007-11-16 | NATIONAL PARKS $1000: This national park on Maine's rugged coast was the first one east of the Mississippi Acadia National Park |
| #5309, aired 2007-10-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1898 Americans were urged to "remember" this battleship that sank in Havana harbor, leading to war with Spain the Maine |
| #5277, aired 2007-07-17 | U.S. SENATORS $2000: Former Homeland Security Committee Chairperson Susan Collins represents this New England state Maine |
| #5264, aired 2007-06-28 | FEELING "BLUE"? $800: Go wild & gorge on these "wild" items at their annual festival in Machias, Maine blueberries |
| #5217, aired 2007-04-24 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $400: As this state goes so goes Olympia Snowe, who has been a senator from the state since 1995 Maine |
| #5207, aired 2007-04-10 | VICE PRESIDENTS $1600: In 1864, while serving as vice-president, he spent 2 months in the Maine Coast Guard as a cook Hannibal Hamlin |
| #5188, aired 2007-03-14 | AMERICAN PAINTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): He spent much of his later years doing seascaping in Prouts Neck, Maine Winslow Homer |
| #5179, aired 2007-03-01 | MY MAINE MAN! $200: In 1966 this Portland-born author published his first short story, "I Was a Teenage Grave Robber" Stephen King |
| #5179, aired 2007-03-01 | MY MAINE MAN! $400: Listen, my children, & you shall hear, he was born Feb. 27, 1807 in Portland (hey, he was the poet, not me) Longfellow |
| #5179, aired 2007-03-01 | MY MAINE MAN! $600: Born in Bar Harbor on July 8, 1908, he succeeded Gerald Ford as VP Rockefeller |
| #5179, aired 2007-03-01 | MY MAINE MAN! $1000: The 1st Democrat elected to the Senate by Maine voters, he was Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter Edmund Muskie |
| #5179, aired 2007-03-01 | MY MAINE MAN! $1,200 (Daily Double): Raised in Maine, this Bowdoin alumnus hired Matthew Henson in 1887 to assist a Nicaraguan survey (Admiral) Peary |
| #5174, aired 2007-02-22 | THAT'S NOT KOSHER! $800: A Food Network recipe for this Maine specialty says to remove the meat from the claws & calls for hot dog buns a lobster roll |
| #5158, aired 2007-01-31 | MINNESOTANS $2000: Oh, this man from Maine, Minnesota, with the middle initial "O", was the longest-serving Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas |
| #5147, aired 2007-01-16 | U.S. STATE NAMES $1600: This state's name is a homophone for a word that means "principal" Maine |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | U.S. PORT CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Among the top 40 busiest ports in the U.S. are these Northeast & Northwest cities with the same name Portland |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | R.C. $1200: The sea around this author & naturalist was Sheepscot Bay, which her Maine summer home overlooked Rachel Carson |
| #5084, aired 2006-10-19 | SHIPS $1200: The 1st ship built in the colonies by English settlers was built in 1607 on the Kennebec River in what is now this state Maine |
| #5060, aired 2006-09-15 | COLD PLAY $400: For 1923's "Icebound", about Maine, Owen Davis was the fifth winner of this prize for drama the Pulitzer |
| #5053, aired 2006-07-26 | TREE POTPOURRI $400: This symbol of Maine stands tall & green on the state's flag a pine tree |
| #5052, aired 2006-07-25 | DO YOU HAVE A RESERVATION? $3,000 (Daily Double): Passamaquoddy & Penobscot Maine |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | HIDDEN U.S. STATES $1000: Mama inexplicably burned the family dinner Maine (in Mama inexplicably) |
| #5037, aired 2006-07-04 | LET'S GRAB SOME SEAFOOD $200: The rock type of this is easily distinguishable from the Maine; all 10 of its legs are about the same size a lobster |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | TRAIL MIX $800: This National Scenic Trail passes through 14 states, including Maine & Georgia the Appalachian Trail |
| #5022, aired 2006-06-13 | SEE FOR YOURSELF $400: Oh, the horror of this 1966 Lisbon Falls, Maine high school graduate seen here Stephen King |
| #5016, aired 2006-06-05 | POSSESSIVE LIT $1,200 (Daily Double): 1952:
On a farm in Maine, 2 animals with a total of 12 legs strike up an unusual friendship Charlotte's Web |
| #5014, aired 2006-06-01 | WOMEN IN POLITICS $800: In January 1964 this Maine senator announced that she would seek the Republican nomination for president Margaret Chase Smith |
| #4998, aired 2006-05-10 | POLITICIANS $2000: This Republican "from the State of Maine" served as Secretary of State under Garfield, Arthur & Benjamin Harrison James G. Blaine |
| #4995, aired 2006-05-05 | CAT $1600: America's only natural breed of domestic feline is the large "coon cat" from this New England state Maine |
| #4990, aired 2006-04-28 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $2000: A 1950 obit of this female poet said, "Greenwich Village & Vassar plus a gypsy childhood on the rocky coast of Maine" Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | MYSTERY HISTORY $400: This actress played Jessica Fletcher, a writer in Cabot Cove, Maine who wrote & solved mysteries Angela Lansbury |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | ON THE MENU $200: The meaty-clawed Maine type of this crustacean is also called the American type a lobster |
| #4939, aired 2006-02-16 | THE LARGEST U.S. STATE $800: Massachusetts,
Maine,
Maryland Maine |
| #4921, aired 2006-01-23 | HE WAS PRESIDENT WHEN... $1000: The U.S. Battleship Maine exploded in Havana Harbor McKinley |
| #4920, aired 2006-01-20 | U.S. COUNTIES $400: It's the largest state that has counties, & its Brewster County is bigger than 3 other states Texas |
| #4904, aired 2005-12-29 | BETTER HOMES & GARDENS $1000: The former home of Speaker of the House James G. Blaine is now this state's governor's mansion Maine |
| #4895, aired 2005-12-16 | MR. AND MRS. SMITH $2,000 (Daily Double): When her husband Clyde died in 1940, she took over his seat as a House Representative from Maine Margaret Chase Smith |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | NATIVE AMERICA $400: Native American tribes that call this state home include the Penobscot & the Passamaquoddy Maine |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | U.S. HISTORY: THE EARLY 1800s $800: In the Missouri Compromise, Massachusetts gave up its northern territory to form this state Maine |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | HISTORY CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $200: "Memorable" battleship of 1898
(5) the USS Maine |
| #4863, aired 2005-11-02 | MOOSE-PODGE $2000: 120-square-mile Moosehead Lake, Maine's largest, is the source for this river that's pretty familiar to George H.W. Bush Kennebec |
| #4859, aired 2005-10-27 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $200: In January 1898 this ship was sent to Havana to protect American interests in case of war the Maine |
| #4852, aired 2005-10-18 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $200: Augusta Georgia |
| #4852, aired 2005-10-18 | CAPITALS AT STATEHOOD $400: Portland Maine |
| #4849, aired 2005-10-13 | STATE OF INTEREST $600: It's the only state that shares its border with only one other state Maine |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: Wheaton College in Illinois recently ranked No. 1 in college food, followed by this school in Brunswick, Maine Bowdoin College |
| #4838, aired 2005-09-28 | ROADSIDE AMERICA $800: In the city park in Reading, Pa., take a gander at the anchor of this ship sunk in 1898 by a mysterious explosion the Maine |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | OFFICIAL STATE SEALS $400: Symbols on its seal include the North Star, a moose & a pine tree Maine |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | NATIONAL PARKS $2000: This park covers much of Maine's Mount Desert Island Acadia |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | BE A POTATO HEAD $1000: Most of this state's potatoes are produced in Aroostook County Maine |
| #4737, aired 2005-03-22 | YANKEE MAGAZINE $1200: A frequent Yankee advertiser is this business based in Freeport, Maine since 1912 L.L. Bean |
| #4737, aired 2005-03-22 | YANKEE MAGAZINE $2000: The May 2004 issue visited the lobstermen of Stonington on this Maine bay Penobscot Bay |
| #4732, aired 2005-03-15 | FROM THE CIA WORLD FACTBOOK $4,000 (Daily Double): The center of power of an empire until 1918, this country is a bit smaller than Maine Austria |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $200: Determined by a coin toss, this Oregon city's name honors the one in Maine Portland |
| #4713, aired 2005-02-16 | CATS $800: The largest domestic cat, it originated in New England & resembles a raccoon a Maine Coon |
| #4713, aired 2005-02-16 | WE MAKE MONEY THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY $2000: In 2003 this "Maine hunting shoe" company took more than 56,000 orders at its website in a single day L.L. Bean |
| #4700, aired 2005-01-28 | THE 50 STATES $600: New Englanders refer to this state as "Down East" Maine |
| #4699, aired 2005-01-27 | FINE DINING $1600: A company at Union Wharf in Portland ships all kinds of seafood, but is called "Maine" this creature "Direct" Lobster |
| #4690, aired 2005-01-14 | A IS FOR... $800: ...Arlington National Cemetery, which is home to the mast of this ship that blew up in 1898 the Maine |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES $200: The Library of the first President Bush, in Texas, has a film of his first steps, in this state where the family vacations Maine |
| #4663, aired 2004-12-08 | BRICK HOUSE $400: A brick house in Portland, Maine that dates to 1785 was built by General Peleg Wadsworth, grandfather of this famed poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #4655, aired 2004-11-26 | THE 50 STATES $1000: This state's Kennebec River meets with its main tributary, the Androscoggin, northeast of Brunswick Maine |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | AIRPORT CODES $1000: It's in the Northeast:
BGR Bangor, Maine |
| #4640, aired 2004-11-06 | LAND O' LAKES $1200: About 116 square miles in area, Moosehead is the largest lake in this "Pine Tree State" Maine |
| #4634, aired 2004-10-28 | STATE-LY HOMES $2000: This northerly New England state is where you'll find Robert Peary's summer home, Eagle Island Maine |
| #4597, aired 2004-09-07 | THE LARGEST IN AREA $200: Maine,
Maryland,
Montana Montana |
| #4594, aired 2004-07-22 | FORMER CAPITALS $2000: Portland used to be a capital of Maine & Augusta used to be a capital of this state Georgia |
| #4588, aired 2004-07-14 | THE UNIVERSITY OF... $1000: It has an Eastern Shore campus in the town of Princess Anne the University of Maryland |
| #4586, aired 2004-07-12 | STATE FACTS $600: It contains the easternmost point in the continental U.S.: West Quoddy Head Maine |
| #4581, aired 2004-07-05 | INITIALLY YOURS $400: After developing his Maine hunting shoe in 1911, he opened a mail order business Bean |
| #4561, aired 2004-06-07 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $2000: In 1842 this silver-tongued orator negotiated a treaty with Lord Ashburton which settled the Maine boundary dispute (Daniel) Webster |
| #4549, aired 2004-05-20 | THE LARGEST IN AREA $400: Connecticut,
New Hampshire,
Maine Maine |
| #4547, aired 2004-05-18 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: It lies about 50 miles northeast of Portland on the Kennebec river Augusta(, Maine) |
| #4538, aired 2004-05-05 | THINGS TO DO WITH CARROTS $600: In February 1999 people in Bethel, Maine made one 113 feet tall with an 8-foot-long "carrot" nose a snowman |
| #4535, aired 2004-04-30 | LITTLE FEAT $800: It's the smallest of the U.S. states that were not part of the original 13 colonies Hawaii |
| #4505, aired 2004-03-19 | SPELL THAT GOVERNOR $2000: Of Maine, a distant relative of bestselling thriller author David, he's John... B-A-L-D-A-C-C-I |
| #4492, aired 2004-03-02 | LET'S TALK INTERNAL ORGANS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Portland, Maine) Real lobster lovers will look right in here to find the tamale, this green organ the liver |
| #4487, aired 2004-02-24 | THE PRODUCERS $800: This state produces more lobsters than any other Maine |
| #4486, aired 2004-02-23 | POSTAL ABBREVIATION SPELLING $600: Michigan,
Maine mime |
| #4484, aired 2004-02-19 | 3 LETTERS LONG $800: Between April & October, the hour of the day in Maine may be followed by these 3 letters E.D.T. |
| #4482, aired 2004-02-17 | ANIMALS $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew presents the clue from a fishing boat in Portland, Maine.) Lobsters are called bugs, or spiders, because they belong to this phylum along with insects & arachnids arthropods |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $600: As a child George W. Bush spent summers with his family at their home in this Maine town Kennebunkport |
| #4469, aired 2004-01-29 | STATE YOUR NAME $1,000 (Daily Double): Maine's name came from this longer English word used to distinguish it from the nearby isles the mainland |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | QUE SARAH, SARAH $2000: "The Country of the Pointed Firs", about life in a Maine seaport, is her masterpiece Sarah Orne Jewett |
| #4461, aired 2004-01-19 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $200: A headline in Pulitzer's "The World" newspaper asked, was this ship's "Explosion Caused by Bomb or Torpedo?" the Maine |
| #4460, aired 2004-01-16 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: This capital is also the seat of Kennebec County Augusta, Maine |
| #4422, aired 2003-11-25 | STATES BY COUNTY $2000: Waldo,
Aroostook,
Penobscot Maine |
| #4409, aired 2003-11-06 | WHERE AM I? $2000: (Video of Sofia in a boat.) I'm just off this New England city, looking at its Head Light, one of the USA's oldest operating lighthouses Portland, Maine |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: On February 15, 1898 the U.S. battleship Maine blew up in this Cuban capital's harbor Havana |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA $1600: "Natural care" is the mantra of personal products company Tom's of this state Maine |
| #4381, aired 2003-09-29 | LET'S GO LOBSTERING $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from a boat in Portland, Maine.) To determine this on a lobster, check whether the first pair of swimmerets are hard or feathery the sex |
| #4381, aired 2003-09-29 | LET'S GO LOBSTERING $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from a boat in Portland, Maine.) In a standard trap, a lobster finds the bait in this aptly named room, moves on to the parlor, & can't leave the kitchen |
| #4381, aired 2003-09-29 | LET'S GO LOBSTERING $2000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew presents from a boat in Portland, Maine.) A legal Maine lobster must measure at least 3-1/4 inches along this, the bony back shell the carapace |
| #4370, aired 2003-09-12 | DISCOVERY CHANNEL UNSOLVED HISTORY $1200: It's the vessel whose fate is investigated here
"The century-old debate still raged between two possibilities: an exterior mine or a tragic accident." the Maine |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | NICKNAMES GIVEN BY PRESIDENT BUSH $1600: Senator Olympia Snowe of this state got to have "The Big O" as a nickname Maine |
| #4362, aired 2003-07-15 | STUPID ANSWERS $1000: It's the state song of the state of Maine "The State of Maine Song" |
| #4358, aired 2003-07-09 | "M"MMMMM GOOD! $400: It's the only U.S. state whose name consists of only one syllable Maine |
| #4344, aired 2003-06-19 | FLORIDA $1200: It's the interstate highway that runs from Maine to Florida I-95 |
| #4342, aired 2003-06-17 | THE SHIELD $800: By law, this state's seal "shall be a shield argent charged with a pine tree with a moose at the foot of it" Maine |
| #4329, aired 2003-05-29 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1200: This Freeport, Maine retail outlet's first product was the Maine Hunting Shoe, first sold in 1912 L.L. Bean |
| #4324, aired 2003-05-22 | STATE LAKES $800: Lobster Lake Maine |
| #4306, aired 2003-04-28 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: On September 29, 1910, this painter known for his seascapes died in his studio in Prouts Neck, Maine Winslow Homer |
| #4281, aired 2003-03-24 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $2000: This Maine senator was reportedly proud that Khrushchev called her "The devil in the disguise of a woman" Margaret Chase Smith |
| #4279, aired 2003-03-20 | YOU SAY POTATO $400: Following in the footsteps of mail order book sellers, Wood Prairie Farm in Maine offers this subscription potato of the month |
| #4256, aired 2003-02-17 | U.S. CITIES $2000: It's the state where you'll find Scarborough, Waterville & Kittery Maine |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | THE MAINE EVENT $200: Don't tell Idaho, but this is Maine's leading agricultural crop also potatoes |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | THE MAINE EVENT $400: Vikings led by this man may have visited what's now Maine around 1000 A.D. Leif Ericson |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | THE MAINE EVENT $600: Wear sensible shoes if you attempt walking the entire 2,100 miles of this trail that runs from Georgia to Maine Appalachian Trail |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | THE MAINE EVENT $800: In 1820 Maine separated from this state to become the USA's 23rd state Massachusetts |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | THE MAINE EVENT $1000: This Maine college was the alma mater of both Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & Nathaniel Hawthorne Bowdoin College |
| #4201, aired 2002-12-02 | LIGHTHOUSES $1600: Maine's West Quoddy Lighthouse, noted for its distinct red & white candy strips, overlooks this Canadian bay Bay of Fundy |
| #4196, aired 2002-11-25 | CANADIAN HISTORY $200: The 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty fixed Maine's border with this "New" province New Brunswick |
| #4194, aired 2002-11-21 | TRAVEL USA $1200: A midnight trip to this Freeport, Maine retailer founded in 1912 is a tradition for college students in New England L.L.Bean |
| #4189, aired 2002-11-14 | GROVER CLEVELAND $2000: In the popular vote of the 1884 election, Cleveland beat this man from Maine by fewer than 30,000 votes James Blaine |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | THE CIVIL WAR $800: It was the easternmost of the 23 Union states Maine |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | STATE GOVERNMENT $400: Maine's only publicly elected executive officer; if he dies the state senate president succeeds him governor |
| #4176, aired 2002-10-28 | THE 1890s $1200: In 1898, when this battleship blew up, Llewellyn Powers was governing the state of the same name Maine |
| #4163, aired 2002-10-09 | RUNNING MATES $1000: Hubert Humphrey chose this Maine man as his running mate Edmund Muskie |
| #4146, aired 2002-09-16 | GUINNESS RECORDS $200: In February 1999 Maine residents built a 10-story one of these named Angus; he melted 15 weeks later snowman |
| #4144, aired 2002-09-12 | '90s MOVIE LINES $600: 1999:
"Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England" The Cider House Rules |
| #4138, aired 2002-09-04 | PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA $600: This "Pine Tree State" was the first to pass a prohibition law, way back in 1846 Maine |
| #4131, aired 2002-07-15 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1000: On February 15 we remember this ship that was sunk in 1898 Maine |
| #4126, aired 2002-07-08 | 3-NAMED AUTHORS $400: When this "Paul Revere's Ride" author was born in what's now Portland, Maine, the city was part of Massachusetts Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #4114, aired 2002-06-20 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $1600: Harley College, the setting for Hawthorne's novel "Fanshawe", is based on this Maine college, his alma mater Bowdoin |
| #4111, aired 2002-06-17 | ON THE INTERSTATE $2000: It runs 1,900 miles from Miami to Houlton, Maine I-95 |
| #4103, aired 2002-06-05 | STEPHEN KING $2000: "Needful Things" was King's last story set in this fictional town, also the name of an entertainment company Castle Rock, Maine |
| #4101, aired 2002-06-03 | PUFFIN $400: This easternmost U.S. state is home to puffin breeding grounds that were once almost wiped out Maine |
| #4090, aired 2002-05-17 | NEW ENGLAND $800: Nicknamed "The Pine Tree State", it became the 23rd state in 1820 after separating from Massachusetts Maine |
| #4084, aired 2002-05-09 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $600: This state is home to Penobscot Bay, Penobscot Lake & Penobscot River Maine |
| #4074, aired 2002-04-25 | THE 50 STATES $1200: In the contiguous states, you can't get farther east than this state that touches just one other Maine |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | WRITERS' RELATIVES $400: This poet's grandfather, Gen. Peleg Wadsworth, built the first brick home in Portland, Maine (Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | THE MAINE INGREDIENTS $800: Maine is bordered by Quebec & these 2 "New" lands New Hampshire & New Brunswick |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | THE MAINE INGREDIENTS $1200: As this state nickname indicates, Maine is a leading manufacturer of wood products Pine Tree State |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | THE MAINE INGREDIENTS $1600: Its flagship store in Freeport, Maine is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year L. L. Bean |
| #4069, aired 2002-04-18 | THE MAINE INGREDIENTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Maine entered the Union as a free state in a compromise that allowed this one in as a slave state Missouri |
| #4065, aired 2002-04-12 | AMERICANA $800: The Burnham & morrill company of Portland, Maine bakes these New England faves in huge brick ovens baked beans |
| #4057, aired 2002-04-02 | STATES' FORMER CAPITALS $1200: Augusta
(1786-1795) Georgia |
| #4054, aired 2002-03-28 | TRAVEL THE U.S.A. $400: Interstate 95 runs through this state from the Canadian border at New Brunswick to Portsmouth, New Hampshire Maine |
| #4048, aired 2002-03-20 | PENINSULAS $400: The tip of Schoodic Peninsula is the only mainland part of this state's Acadia National Park Maine |
| #4045, aired 2002-03-15 | STATE SUPERLATIVES $400: In the continental U.S., people in this U.S. state see the sun rise before anyone else Maine |
| #4036, aired 2002-03-04 | IN '80 $2000: In April this Maine Democrat succeeded Cyrus Vance as Secretary of State Edmund Muskie |
| #4025, aired 2002-02-15 | 17th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: In 1607 the Popham Colony was founded on the Kennebec River in what is now this state; it lasted 1 winter Maine |
| #3997, aired 2002-01-08 | BAD LITERARY TRIPS $800: Taste the tranquility of small-town Maine with a week at Jerusalem's Lot, called this for short Salem's Lot |
| #3988, aired 2001-12-26 | MUSEUMS $1200: A museum at Cape Elizabeth, Maine devoted to one of these structures is housed in the former keeper's quarters lighthouse |
| #3987, aired 2001-12-25 | A GOOD READ $400: After leaving Maine for the prairie, this woman "Plain and Tall" finds love with the Witting family Sarah |
| #3933, aired 2001-10-10 | DO YOU LIKE ME.? $200: Tired of this largest city in Maine? You can take a ferry from there to Nova Scotia Portland |
| #3921, aired 2001-09-24 | U.S. POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS $600: ME Maine |
| #3918, aired 2001-09-19 | STATE CAPITALS $600: While Portland is Maine's main city, this is the capital Augusta |
| #3908, aired 2001-09-05 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $100: After mobs attacked several Havana newspapers in January 1898, the U.S. sent this battleship in the Maine |
| #3889, aired 2001-06-28 | THIS & THAT $800: This state is the traditional home of the Passamaquoddy & Penobscot Indians Maine |
| #3880, aired 2001-06-15 | MOTTOES & SLOGANS $200: Dirigo, meaning "I" do this, is the motto of Maine, not of James Cameron or Oliver Stone Direct |
| #3874, aired 2001-06-07 | DECODE THE POSTAL CODES $300: Lame Louisiana & Maine |
| #3831, aired 2001-04-09 | STATE BORDERS $500: Vermont &
Maine New Hampshire |
| #3827, aired 2001-04-03 | STATES' LOWEST POINTS $300: 710 feet above sea level at the Snake River near Lewiston Idaho |
| #3811, aired 2001-03-12 | A WATERY GRAVE $300: The U.S.S. Maine Havana Harbor |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | THE CHERRY BOWL $200: They wrote, "A couple Deadheads in Maine sent us a postcard with a name for a new flavor" -- Cherry Garcia Ben & Jerry |
| #3724, aired 2000-11-09 | RHYMES WITH RAIN $200: State where you'll find the lighthouse seen here Maine |
| #3711, aired 2000-10-23 | STATE CAPITALS $200: Capitals named for women include the capital of Maryland & this Maine capital Augusta |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | UNUSUAL PETS $400: The Maine coon cat is named for its resemblance to this ring-tailed critter raccoon |
| #3672, aired 2000-07-18 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Longfellow read his poem "Morituri Salutamus" at the 50th reunion of this Maine school's Class of 1825 Bowdoin College |
| #3666, aired 2000-07-10 | FUN WITH AREA CODES $400: With 207, it's all about -- the state abbreviated this way ME (Maine) |
| #3665, aired 2000-07-07 | "OO"! "OO"! $500: A Maine river, or an 1838-1839 war that set the Maine-New Brunswick border Aroostook |
| #3654, aired 2000-06-22 | THE BIG "BANG" $300: This U.S. city lies north of Belfast on the Penobscot River Bangor, Maine |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | MY MAINE MAN $200: A huge baseball fan, this author built a ballpark in Bangor that's been dubbed the "Field of Screams" Stephen King |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | MY MAINE MAN $400: After moving to a farm in North Brooklyn, Maine, he spun such tales as "Charlotte's Web" E.B. White |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | MY MAINE MAN $600: Michelle Pfeiffer's main man is this Maine-born TV producer & writer David E. Kelley |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | MY MAINE MAN $800: The first person from Maine to become VP, he served under Abraham Lincoln Hannibal Hamlin |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | MY MAINE MAN $1000: In 1998 Bill Gates paid a record $30 million for this Maine artist's seascape "Lost on the Grand Banks" Winslow Homer |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | AROUND THE USA $200: The Portland Headlight Lighthouse is in this state, the first one to see the morning sun Maine |
| #3622, aired 2000-05-09 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: This painter of Maine seascapes says "D'oh!" when tormented by his son Bart Winslow Homer Simpson |
| #3593, aired 2000-03-29 | AMERICAN HISTORY $300: The political slogan "As" this state "goes, so goes the nation" dates back to the 1880s Maine |
| #3590, aired 2000-03-24 | GOING POSTAL $500: It's the official 2-letter U.S. postal abbreviation for the Pine Tree State ME (Maine) |
| #3589, aired 2000-03-23 | SMALL-TOWN CINEMA $800: A Ted Hughes tale was the basis for this 1999 animated film about a metal man who befriends a boy in a small Maine town The Iron Giant |
| #3567, aired 2000-02-22 | CELEBS $200: This author was a high school English teacher in Maine when his first book was published in 1974 Stephen King |
| #3552, aired 2000-02-01 | HANNIBAL-ISM $800: He was a U.S. representative, a U.S. senator & a governor of Maine before becoming veep Hannibal Hamlin |
| #3551, aired 2000-01-31 | POLITICIANS $1000: From 1869 to 1875, this Maine Republican was Speaker of the House James G. Blaine |
| #3548, aired 2000-01-26 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $400: British breakfast of same-named cities in Maine, California & Michigan & an Alan Alda series Bangors & M*A*S*H |
| #3540, aired 2000-01-14 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: The Webster-Ashburton Treaty set parts of the St. Francis & St. John rivers as the border for this state & Canada Maine |
| #3533, aired 2000-01-05 | HAVE A (COUNTY) SEAT $200: Third boxcar, midnight train, destination this seat of Penobscot County Bangor, Maine |
| #3529, aired 1999-12-30 | STUCK IN THE MIDDLE $1,000 (Daily Double): Staying in the U.S. & going by land, you can't go from Massachusetts to Maine without going through this state New Hampshire |
| #3522, aired 1999-12-21 | U.S. TRAVEL $300: The Kennebunk area, including Kennebunk Beach, is one of this state's most popular resort destinations Maine |
| #3507, aired 1999-11-30 | U.S.A. $600: Shoppers love Freeport, the "Birthplace of" this state; it has more than 100 stores, including L.L. Bean Maine |
| #3503, aired 1999-11-24 | TV DETECTIVES $400: Mystery author Jessica Fletcher solved crimes in Cabot Cove, Maine on this show Murder, She Wrote |
| #3498, aired 1999-11-17 | THE BIG APPLE $600: Hawkeye Pierce of "M*A*S*H" hailed from a Maine "cove" that shared its name with this type of small wild apple a crabapple |
| #3464, aired 1999-09-30 | NATIONAL PARKS $600: Acadia National Park in this state has the highest point on the USA's Atlantic coast Maine |
| #3456, aired 1999-09-20 | SANK-A $200: 260 seamen perished when this battleship was sunk by an explosion in 1898 Maine |
| #3434, aired 1999-07-08 | KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS $200: Maine retailer Leon Leonwood... L.L. Bean |
| #3415, aired 1999-06-11 | NAME THE DECADE $500: The Maine mysteriously blows up in Havana Harbor 1890s |
| #3406, aired 1999-05-31 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Although known for his Maine seascapes, he often traveled to the Adirondacks & Florida to paint Winslow Homer |
| #3376, aired 1999-04-19 | STATE CAPITALS $500: This capital's executive mansion was once the home of James G. Blaine Augusta, Maine |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | LIBRARIES $400: The life & career of this female senator from Maine is on display at a library in Skowhegan Margaret Chase Smith |
| #3345, aired 1999-03-05 | STATE LICENSE PLATES $400: SAMPLE
Vacationland Maine |
| #3333, aired 1999-02-17 | STATUES $100: A 31-foot-high statue of this mythical lumberjack stands on Bangor, Maine's main street; alas, no Babe the Ox Paul Bunyan |
| #3323, aired 1999-02-03 | STATE NICKNAMES $300: The "Down East State" Maine |
| #3292, aired 1998-12-22 | THE U.S. $100: West Quoddy Head in this state is the easternmost point in the U.S.; East Quoddy Head is in Canada Maine |
| #3271, aired 1998-11-23 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $200: Clara Barton, who had lunch on this ship a few days earlier, was in her Red Cross office when it exploded The Maine |
| #3271, aired 1998-11-23 | FOR HE'S A JOLLY LONGFELLOW $1000: Longfellow was 15 when he began attending this college in Brunswick, Maine Bowdoin College |
| #3264, aired 1998-11-12 | 1820s AMERICA $100: Once a part of Massachusetts, it became the 23rd state in 1820 with Portland as its capital Maine |
| #3264, aired 1998-11-12 | "NEW" ENGLAND $1,400 (Daily Double): Edward Lear could tell you this small Maine town bears the name of an Irish seaport on the Shannon River New Limerick |
| #3256, aired 1998-11-02 | AUTHORS' HOME STATES $100: Stephen King Maine |
| #3250, aired 1998-10-23 | WAR TRIGGERS $100: The sinking of the U.S. battleship Maine Spanish-American War |
| #3246, aired 1998-10-19 | TV NICKNAMES $800: It's the nickname of the "M*A*S*H" character from Crabapple Cove, Maine Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce |
| #3242, aired 1998-10-13 | LANGUAGES $300: Among the many dialects of this language are Maine, Gallo & Bourbonnais French |
| #3230, aired 1998-09-25 | BETTE DAVIS FILMS $600: This 1987 film set in Maine featured Lillian Gish as Bette's sister "The Whales of August" |
| #3211, aired 1998-07-13 | THE END OF THE LINE $1000: "As Maine goes..." "So goes the nation" |
| #3209, aired 1998-07-09 | TOUGH HODGEPODGE $200: You can visit the boyhood home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in this city, Maine's largest Portland |
| #3208, aired 1998-07-08 | 1898 $200: On January 25, 1898, this U.S. battleship arrived in Havana for a friendly visit the Maine |
| #3206, aired 1998-07-06 | POLITICIANS $1000: Represented by Olympia Snowe & Susan Collins, it's the only state with 2 female GOP senators Maine |
| #3202, aired 1998-06-30 | AMERICAN HODGEPODGE $1000: Its state flower is the white pine cone and tassel Maine |
| #3189, aired 1998-06-11 | WHEN STATES FIGHT $300: Maine split from this state in 1819 in protest of high taxes, poor roads & the distance to the capital Massachusetts |
| #3182, aired 1998-06-02 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $800: Known for his watercolors, many of his famous seascapes were set at his home in Prout's Neck, Maine Winslow Homer |
| #3169, aired 1998-05-14 | SCHOOL'S OUT! $100: This summer I might try to hike this scenic trail that runs about 2,100 miles from Maine to Georgia Appalachian Trail |
| #3150, aired 1998-04-17 | THE EAST COAST $300: This largest Maine city has been destroyed by the Abnaki Indians, the French, the British & by a fire Portland |
| #3125, aired 1998-03-13 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $500: The Calendar Islands of this "Pine Tree State" are so named because there are 365 of them Maine |
| #3124, aired 1998-03-12 | BATTLE CRIES $500: It's said this slogan came from a cartoon that appeared in the Washington Post on April 3, 1898 "Remember the Maine" |
| #3113, aired 1998-02-25 | THE MAINE ATTRACTION $200: Summer is the time for Whatever Week, a celebration of the Kennebec River in this state capital Augusta |
| #3113, aired 1998-02-25 | THE MAINE ATTRACTION $400: Parson's Way, a scenic walkway in Kennebunkport, passes near this former president's home, Walker's Point (George Herbert Walker) Bush |
| #3113, aired 1998-02-25 | THE MAINE ATTRACTION $600: Maine is so famous for these berries that the town of Machias honors them with a festival blueberries |
| #3113, aired 1998-02-25 | THE MAINE ATTRACTION $800: A national wildlife refuge near Kittery is named for this biologist who wrote "Silent Spring" Rachel Carson |
| #3113, aired 1998-02-25 | THE MAINE ATTRACTION $1000: It's the only National Park in all of New England Acadia |
| #3107, aired 1998-02-17 | U.S. CAPITALS OF THE WORLD $300: Down-Easters know that Farmington in this state was once the "Earmuff Capital Of The World" Maine |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | NOTABLE AMERICANS $600: This first lady graduated from Chicago's Maine South High School in 1965, in the top 50% of her class Hillary Rodham Clinton |
| #3057, aired 1997-12-09 | HODGEPODGE $900 (Daily Double): The Roosevelt Memorial Bridge connects Lubec, Maine to this island in New Brunswick, Canada Campobello Island |
| #3043, aired 1997-11-19 | MRS. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON $600: The first woman elected to both houses, she represented this state for 32 years Maine |
| #3019, aired 1997-10-16 | U.S.A. $400: "Rusticators" are city folk with a summer address in this Pine Tree State Maine |
| #3013, aired 1997-10-08 | 1940S TV $400: A commercial from the '40s featured the "men from" this oil company who worked "from Maine to Mexico" Texaco |
| #3012, aired 1997-10-07 | BLASTS FROM THE PAST $200: Havana Harbor February 15, 1898 the blowing up of the Maine |
| #3005, aired 1997-09-26 | FUN FACTS $1000: It's the only U.S. state whose name has one syllable Maine |
| #2996, aired 1997-09-15 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: In mid-July this Maine capital celebrates its Franco-American heritage with Le Festival de la Bastille Augusta |
| #2993, aired 1997-09-10 | BAY WATCHING $400: This Atlantic seaboard state is home to the popular resort area of Buzzards Bay Massachusetts |
| #2977, aired 1997-07-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: Founded in 1607, the Popham colony on the Kennebec River was this state's first English settlement Maine |
| #2976, aired 1997-07-07 | CHILDRENS LITERATURE $400: While living on a Maine farm, he wrote "Charlotte's Web", which is set on a farm E.B. White |
| #2970, aired 1997-06-27 | ANNUAL EVENTS $600: On or about April 19, Maine & this other New England state celebrate Patriot's Day Massachusetts |
| #2961, aired 1997-06-16 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $800: He remembered the Maine; it blew up during his time in office William McKinley |
| #2952, aired 1997-06-03 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $500: Cadillac Mountain, the highest peak on the Eastern Seaboard, lies in this Maine national park Acadia National Park |
| #2946, aired 1997-05-26 | HISTORIC HOMES $200: The first brick home in Portland, Maine was built by Gen. Peleg Wadsworth, this author's grandfather Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | POLITICS $400: On January 22, 1997 the U.S. Senate confirmed this former Maine senator as Secretary of Defense William Cohen |
| #2929, aired 1997-05-01 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: In area, this New England state roughly equals Vermont, N.H., Connecticut & Massachusetts combined Maine |
| #2921, aired 1997-04-21 | AUTHORS $200: In the early '70s, this master of horror taught English at Maine's Hampden Academy Stephen King |
| #2910, aired 1997-04-04 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: A compromise allowed Maine's admission to the union in 1820 as a free state & this as a slave state in 1821 Missouri |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | THEY ALMOST STARRED IN... $1,100 (Daily Double): James Mason won the role of Norman Maine in this Judy Garland film after Cary Grant turned it down A Star Is Born |
| #2904, aired 1997-03-27 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $200: Dearborn, Mich. was named for Gen. Henry Dearborn & this Maine capital was probably named for his daughter Augusta |
| #2900, aired 1997-03-21 | AMERICAN MUSEUMS $200: You can ride a real trolley at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport in this state Maine |
| #2896, aired 1997-03-17 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $500: The university of this state at Machias is the easternmost 4-year college in the U.S. Maine |
| #2883, aired 1997-02-26 | U.S. FESTIVALS $100: On the first weekend in August, a festival in Rockland, Maine honors this crustacean Lobster |
| #2866, aired 1997-02-03 | U.S. STATES $500: The first French settlers in this Pine Tree State brought their own wood to build houses Maine |
| #2858, aired 1997-01-22 | U.S.A. $500 (Daily Double): Appropriately, this Pine Tree State has a pine tree on its state flag Maine |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | COLONIAL AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): The Penobscot Indians, whose homeland is in this state, first encountered Europeans in the early 1500s Maine |
| #2842, aired 1996-12-31 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $800: With Lord Ashburton he negotiated the 1842 treaty that set the border for Maine Daniel Webster |
| #2842, aired 1996-12-31 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $1000: This man from Maine served James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur & Benjamin Harrison James G. Blaine |
| #2836, aired 1996-12-23 | POLITICIANS $1,200 (Daily Double): Jimmy Carter attended the 1996 funeral of this Maine senator, once his secretary of state Edmund Muskie |
| #2835, aired 1996-12-20 | PARKS $400: Acadia National Park in this state is the easternmost national park in the continental U.S. Maine |
| #2806, aired 1996-11-11 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: Chester Greenwood Day in Farmington, Maine honors the man said to have invented these ear coverings earmuffs |
| #2802, aired 1996-11-05 | CATS $800: This large cat from the "Down East" region has 3 tufted paws for easy snow travel the Maine Coon cat |
| #2787, aired 1996-10-15 | LIGHTHOUSES $200: The oldest lighthouse on the coast of this state is Portland Head Light, built in 1791 Maine |
| #2780, aired 1996-10-04 | FAMOUS SHIPS $100: Remember this ship that blew up in 1898? One inquiry said the cause of the explosion was a submarine mine the Maine |
| #2776, aired 1996-09-30 | COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): The Museum of Art at Bowdoin College in this state has works by Winslow Homer & related memorabilia Maine |
| #2770, aired 1996-09-20 | U.S. LANDMARKS $200: Name shared by the largest fort in Maine & the home of the U.S. gold depository in Kentucky Fort Knox |
| #2764, aired 1996-09-12 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): An 1842 treaty finalized this state's acquisition of Isle Royale & the Keweenaw Peninsula Michigan |
| #2756, aired 1996-09-02 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: The name of this state's Kennebec River is Algonquian for "long reach" Maine |
| #2748, aired 1996-07-10 | AMERICAN POTPOURRI $400: In 1898 his New York Journal offered a $50,000 reward for detection of the "Maine Outrage" perpetrator (William Randolph) Hearst |
| #2745, aired 1996-07-05 | 19th CENTURY CINEMA $400: This February 1898 Havana event was recreated by Georges Melies the sinking of the Maine |
| #2729, aired 1996-06-13 | QUOTATIONS $400: An often heard political maxim is "As" this state "goes, so goes the nation" Maine |
| #2728, aired 1996-06-12 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: The boundary between Maine & this state passes through the Isles of Shoals New Hampshire |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: Bates College, located in Lewiston in this state, was the 1st coeducational college in New England Maine |
| #2711, aired 1996-05-20 | MAINE $100: A waterspout can be seen at Cape Arundel, near this former president's summer home, Walker's Point President Bush |
| #2711, aired 1996-05-20 | MAINE $200: This city, Maine's capital since 1832, is at the head of navigation on the Kennebec River Augusta |
| #2711, aired 1996-05-20 | MAINE $300: Longfellow called this largest Maine city "the beautiful town that is seated by the sea" Portland |
| #2711, aired 1996-05-20 | MAINE $400: This clothing & sporting goods store in Freeport is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year L.L. Bean |
| #2711, aired 1996-05-20 | MAINE $500: A bridge across the St. John River links Van Buren, Maine with St.-Leonard in this province New Brunswick |
| #2688, aired 1996-04-17 | NEWSPAPERS $300: State capital in which you'd find the Kennebec Journal Augusta, (Maine) |
| #2684, aired 1996-04-11 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $300: Aroostook County in this state borders Quebec & New Brunswick Maine |
| #2675, aired 1996-03-29 | ODDS & ENDS $200: In 1846 Maine banned the sale of this except for medicinal or industrial purposes alcohol |
| #2673, aired 1996-03-27 | MUSEUMS $600: NYC's Cooper-Hewitt Museum has the world's largest collection of drawings by this Maine artist Winslow Homer |
| #2672, aired 1996-03-26 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: Located in Brunswick, it's Maine's oldest institution of higher learning Bowdoin College |
| #2669, aired 1996-03-21 | MUSICAL THEATRE $400: "King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running" is a musical revue set in the Outer Banks of this state North Carolina |
| #2666, aired 1996-03-18 | STATE MOTTOES $300: Its motto is "Dirigo", not "Downeaster" Maine |
| #2666, aired 1996-03-18 | THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $800: This Maine senator who passed away in 1995 is in the Hall Margaret Chase Smith |
| #2659, aired 1996-03-07 | NEWSPAPERS $2,000 (Daily Double): L'Acadie Nouvelle is the only French daily newspaper in this Canadian province bordering Maine New Brunswick |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | THE 1820s $800: After voting to separate from Massachusetts, it became a state in 1820 under the Missouri Compromise Maine |
| #2632, aired 1996-01-30 | ART $1000: "Northeaster", an 1895 painting by this American artist, depicts the ocean striking the Maine shore Winslow Homer |
| #2629, aired 1996-01-25 | GEORGE BUSH $500: Bush's father, Prescott, represented this state in the U.S. Senate from 1952 to 1963 Connecticut |
| #2628, aired 1996-01-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $500 (Daily Double): This state's Acadia National Park includes parts of Isle Au Haut & the Schoodic Peninsula Maine |
| #2623, aired 1996-01-17 | U.S. CITIES $500 (Daily Double): In 1799 this city became the seat of Kennebec County; 33 years later, it became a state capital Augusta, Maine |
| #2620, aired 1996-01-12 | U.S. HISTORY $200: Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee was in command of this ship when it blew up February 15, 1898 the Maine |
| #2617, aired 1996-01-09 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $500: In 1995 this first woman elected to both houses of Congress died in Skowhegan, Maine Margaret Chase Smith |
| #2614, aired 1996-01-04 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: Maine entered the Union in 1820 as a part of this compromise the Missouri Compromise |
| #2608, aired 1995-12-27 | STATE CAPITALS $800: Since 1919 Blaine House in this Maine capital has been home to the state's governors Augusta |
| #2587, aired 1995-11-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1898 the New York Journal offered a $50,000 reward for the capture of those thought to have sunk this ship the Maine |
| #2582, aired 1995-11-21 | U.S. STATES $400: This New England state is about as large as the other five New England states combined Maine |
| #2581, aired 1995-11-20 | ART & ARTISTS $300: "Inside the Bar, Tynemouth" shows this Maine-based artist's mastery of the watercolor medium Winslow Homer |
| #2578, aired 1995-11-15 | POLITICS $1000: In 1958 he became the first Democrat elected by popular vote to the U.S. Senate from Maine Edmund Muskie |
| #2577, aired 1995-11-14 | ARCHITECTURE $400: Though this Maine city's state house has been remodeled, it retains its original Charles Bulfinch facade Augusta |
| #2554, aired 1995-10-12 | VICE PRESIDENTS $200: Nicknamed "Rocky", he was born in Bar Harbor, Maine in 1908 Nelson Rockefeller |
| #2550, aired 1995-10-06 | STATE CAPITALS $500: The Governor's Mansion in this city, the seat of Kennebec County, was the home of James G. Blaine Augusta, Maine |
| #2548, aired 1995-10-04 | U.S. STATES $600: Of the 6 New England states, it's the one farthest east Maine |
| #2546, aired 1995-10-02 | THE CIVIL WAR $1000: With little to do as Lincoln's VP, this man enlisted in the Maine Coast Guard while in office Hannibal Hamlin |
| #2545, aired 1995-09-29 | SEAFOOD $100: This expensive "Maine" crustacean was once so plentiful it was used as bait lobster |
| #2542, aired 1995-09-26 | BIRTHPLACES $1,500 (Daily Double): Stephen King is a native of this state where many of his novels are set Maine |
| #2527, aired 1995-09-05 | CONGRESS $500 (Daily Double): This Maine senator was the first of her party to denounce Senator McCarthy on the Senate floor Margaret Chase Smith |
| #2526, aired 1995-09-04 | NEW ENGLAND HODGEPODGE $800: Rockland, the "Schooner Capital of" this state, celebrates Schooner Days once a year Maine |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | POLITICIANS $800: This senator who represented Maine from 1959 to 1980 was later a member of the Tower Commission Edmund Muskie |
| #2512, aired 1995-07-04 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1000: From 1917 to 1919 this poet from Maine was an actress & playwright with the Provincetown Players Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #2510, aired 1995-06-30 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $400: Waterfalls along this state's Kennebec River are used to generate power Maine |
| #2506, aired 1995-06-26 | NEW ENGLAND TRIVIA $500: This state produces 99% of the USA's wild blueberries Maine |
| #2505, aired 1995-06-23 | WOMEN'S LANDMARKS $200: The Brunswick, Maine home in which she wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is now a restaurant & inn Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #2493, aired 1995-06-07 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1851, nearly 70 years before U.S. Prohibition, Maine passed a law banning the sale of this alcohol |
| #2470, aired 1995-05-05 | U.S. STATES $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the only state that borders only 1 other state Maine |
| #2465, aired 1995-04-28 | VICE PRESIDENTS $1000: Lincoln's first vice president, he died on July 4, 1891 in Bangor, Maine Hannibal Hamlin |
| #2463, aired 1995-04-26 | NATIONAL PARKS $500: Somes Sound, the only fjord in the lower 48 states, is in Acadia National Park in this state Maine |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | FIRE! $400: In 1947 fire destroyed most of Bar Harbor on this state's Mount Desert Island Maine |
| #2438, aired 1995-03-22 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $800: An Acadian village of 16 reconstructed buildings can be seen in Van Buren in this New England state Maine |
| #2427, aired 1995-03-07 | U.S. STATES $100: This state produces about 20 million pounds of lobster annually Maine |
| #2395, aired 1995-01-20 | MUSEUMS $800: Electric railroad equipment is exhibited at the Seashore Trolley Museum near Kennebunkport in this state Maine |
| #2388, aired 1995-01-11 | U.S. STATES $400: The city of Bangor had this state's first radio station in 1922 & its first TV station in 1953 Maine |
| #2387, aired 1995-01-10 | FINAL RESTING PLACES $300: The mast of this battleship marks the Arlington grave of 229 who died on it at Havana in 1898 the Maine |
| #2375, aired 1994-12-23 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: The town of Bar Harbor lies on Mount Desert island, this state's largest island Maine |
| #2373, aired 1994-12-21 | THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART $800: New Englander who painted the rugged 1883 seascape "Incoming Tide, Scarboro, Maine" Winslow Homer |
| #2356, aired 1994-11-28 | 1980 $800: Cyrus Vance resigned as Secretary of State in April & was replaced by this Maine senator Muskie |
| #2345, aired 1994-11-11 | TRANSPORTATION $300: February 15 is remembered as the day this battleship blew up in Havana Harbor the Maine |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | TELEVISION DRAMA $1000: From 1984 to 1988, Tom Bosley played Sheriff Amos Tupper on this series set in Cabot Cove, Maine Murder, She Wrote |
| #2330, aired 1994-10-21 | U.S. EXTREMES $200: The points farthest apart in the 50 states are Kure Island, Hawaii & Elliot Key in this state Florida |
| #2314, aired 1994-09-29 | MARINE DISASTERS $100: Ammunition set off by heat from a coal bin fire probably caused the 1898 sinking of this U.S. ship the Maine |
| #2313, aired 1994-09-28 | BODIES OF WATER $500: State in which you'd find Lobster Lake & the Penobscot River Maine |
| #2311, aired 1994-09-26 | CANADIAN PROVINCES $1000: This Atlantic province that borders Maine is so picturesque that it's Canada's "Picture Province" New Brunswick |
| #2305, aired 1994-09-16 | ABOLITIONISM $1000: By means of the Missouri Compromise, this New England state was admitted as a free state Maine |
| #2296, aired 1994-09-05 | AMERICANA $1000: The Skowhegan State Fair, held in this state since 1818, is said to be the nation's oldest continuing fair Maine |
| #2278, aired 1994-06-29 | STATE CAPITALS $300: This capital of Maine stands on the site of an Indian village called Cushnoc Augusta |
| #2256, aired 1994-05-30 | TELEVISION $400: Mystery writer Jessica Fletcher lives in Cabot Cove on the coast of this state Maine |
| #2256, aired 1994-05-30 | MUSEUMS $600: Longfellow & Wadsworth family memorabilia are on display at a museum in this largest Maine city Portland |
| #2255, aired 1994-05-27 | 1890s AMERICA $200: Of 350 crewmen, 260 were killed in the explosion of this battleship Feb. 15, 1898 the Maine |
| #2249, aired 1994-05-19 | U.S. CITIES $800: This city's Daily News is Maine's largest daily newspaper Bangor |
| #2247, aired 1994-05-17 | AMERICANA $400: Farmington in this "Down East" state was once the "Earmuff Capital of the World" Maine |
| #2245, aired 1994-05-13 | STATE ANIMALS $500: It's the state insect of New Jersey, Maine & Utah the honeybee |
| #2234, aired 1994-04-28 | VICE PRESIDENTS $400: Vice Presidents George Bush, Elbridge Gerry & John Adams were all born in this state Massachusetts |
| #2228, aired 1994-04-20 | 1794 $800: Bowdoin College was established in Brunswick in this state Maine |
| #2213, aired 1994-03-30 | FORTS $400: In 1898 this ship sailed to her fate from Fort Jefferson in Florida The Maine |
| #2203, aired 1994-03-16 | NEW HAMPSHIRE $500: You can see parts of Maine, Quebec & Vermont from the fop of this, the state's highest mountain Mount Washington |
| #2193, aired 1994-03-02 | ARTISTS $800: This 19th century artist painted many seascapes near his home at Prouts Neck on the Maine coast Winslow Homer |
| #2189, aired 1994-02-24 | AMERICANA $500: The first English colony in what's now this state was the Popham Settlement near the mouth of the Kennebec River Maine |
| #2163, aired 1994-01-19 | HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS $300: Interstate 95 runs through this state from the province of New Brunswick to New Hampshire Maine |
| #2135, aired 1993-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: This battleship was launched from the New York Navy Yard in 1890; it blew up in 1898 the Maine |
| #2127, aired 1993-11-30 | CANADIAN PROVINCES $1000: This province bordering Maine is 90% forest New Brunswick |
| #2124, aired 1993-11-25 | NATIONAL PARKS $1000: This national park occupies several small islands & part of Maine's coast Acadia |
| #2121, aired 1993-11-22 | VICE PRESIDENTS $1000: This man who served under Lincoln was also the second Republican governor of Maine Hannibal Hamlin |
| #2114, aired 1993-11-11 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: It's the only state bordering Maine New Hampshire |
| #2104, aired 1993-10-28 | NEW ENGLAND $500: Mount Desert Island off the coast of this state is home to New England's only nat'l park, Acadia Maine |
| #2103, aired 1993-10-27 | WORDS $600: The "Norway" in Norway pine isn't the country but a town in this "down east" state Maine |
| #2094, aired 1993-10-14 | YANKEES $100: This Maine-born author of "Evangeline" was the 1st American poet honored with a bust in Westminster Abbey Longfellow |
| #2094, aired 1993-10-14 | YANKEES $500: The dispute over Maine's border was resolved by an 1842 treaty signed by Lord Ashburton & this orator Daniel Webster |
| #2092, aired 1993-10-12 | WOMEN POLITICIANS $400: Rep. Olympia J. Snowe of this "Down East" state is married to its governor, John McKernan Maine |
| #2081, aired 1993-09-27 | JEOPARDY! STATE NICKNAMES $400: Maine's nickname is the "Pine Tree State", so this might be called the "Sitka Spruce State" Alaska |
| #2069, aired 1993-09-09 | CATS $1000: This state's coon cat is America's oldest breed Maine |
| #2062, aired 1993-07-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1774 patriots in York, Maine destroyed a supply of this, as Bostonians had in 1773 tea |
| #2052, aired 1993-07-06 | FORESTS $800: White Mountain National Forest is shared by Maine & this state New Hampshire |
| #2050, aired 1993-07-02 | HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 settled the boundary dispute between New Brunswick & this state Maine |
| #2048, aired 1993-06-30 | DOWN EASTERS $400: Explorers who came in from the cold to summer in Maine include Robert Peary & this South Pole visitor (Richard) Byrd |
| #2048, aired 1993-06-30 | DOWN EASTERS $3,700 (Daily Double): In 1980 & 1981 this man from the State of Maine was U.S. Secretary of State Muskie |
| #2043, aired 1993-06-23 | PAUL REVERE $500: In 1779 Revere served in the failed Penobscot expedition that tried to regain land in this future NE state Maine |
| #2031, aired 1993-06-07 | PARKS $1000: The highest point on North America's Atlantic coast is Cadillac Mountain in this Maine nat'l park Acadia National Park |
| #2025, aired 1993-05-28 | HEADLINES $200: February 16, 1898:
"Blown up", read the headline on its fate the Maine |
| #2012, aired 1993-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1838 a border conflict erupted between New Brunswick & this state over the Aroostook Valley Maine |
| #2006, aired 1993-05-03 | STATE CAPITALS $500: Middle name of Pamela Dearborn, the general's daughter for whom Maine's capital was named Augusta |
| #1994, aired 1993-04-15 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $700 (Daily Double): This mail-order firm has retail stores only in Freeport, Maine & Japan L.L. Bean |
| #1985, aired 1993-04-02 | STATE CAPITALS $200: This capital city of Maine lies on both sides of the Kennebec River Augusta |
| #1979, aired 1993-03-25 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $100: Colby College in Waterville, Maine has an organ designed by this African missionary & humanitarian (Albert) Schweitzer |
| #1977, aired 1993-03-23 | HISTORIC NAMES $1000: He represented Maine in the Senate before & after serving as Lincoln's first vice president Hannibal Hamlin |
| #1972, aired 1993-03-16 | NAME THE DECADE $200: The battleship Maine is destroyed in Havana harbor, killing 260 of the crew the 1890s |
| #1972, aired 1993-03-16 | NATIONAL PARKS $1000: Located about 50 miles from Bangor, Maine, it's the only national park in the northeastern U.S. Acadia |
| #1958, aired 1993-02-24 | RHYME TIME $500: Precipitation "Down East" Maine rain |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | THE CIVIL WAR $300: Though awarded for gallantry, this medal was offered to a Maine regiment to postpone its 1863 discharge Medal of Honor |
| #1948, aired 1993-02-10 | LIBRARIES $100: This state maintains a free library for the public & the legislature in the capital of Augusta Maine |
| #1946, aired 1993-02-08 | POLITICIANS $1000: In November 1988 this Maine senator was elected Senate majority leader, succeeding Robert Byrd George Mitchell |
| #1939, aired 1993-01-28 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $200: 260 of its crew of about 350 were killed February 15, 1898 the Maine |
| #1933, aired 1993-01-20 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1000: The pivotal reunion in Anne Rivers Siddons' "Outer Banks" is set in the Outer Banks of this state North Carolina |
| #1921, aired 1993-01-04 | POTPOURRI $200: Portland Head Light, Maine's oldest lighthouse, was commissioned by this president in 1791 Washington |
| #1913, aired 1992-12-23 | U.S. HISTORY $800: In 1820 it separated from Massachusetts to become the 23rd state Maine |
| #1911, aired 1992-12-21 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS $200: He's set several of his works in Castle Rock, Maine but "Needful Things" is reportedly the last Stephen King |
| #1903, aired 1992-12-09 | POLITICIANS $800: In 1952 this Maine senator was picked as the most charming woman in government Margaret Chase Smith |
| #1900, aired 1992-12-04 | LIBRARIES $200: This state's largest public libraries are in Bangor & Portland Maine |
| #1897, aired 1992-12-01 | HISTORIC HOMES $1000: A house that belonged to U.S. Sec'y of State James G. Blaine has been home to this state's govs. since 1919 Maine |
| #1897, aired 1992-12-01 | PRESIDENTS' FATHERS $2,000 (Daily Double): George Bush's father Prescott Bush represented this New England State in the U.S. Senate Connecticut |
| #1881, aired 1992-11-09 | THE 1890s $100: In February 1898, this battleship sent to protect U.S. citizens & property in Cuba mysteriously blew up the Maine |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | MAINE $100: About 90% of Maine's over 2-billion-pound crop of this is grown in Aroostook County potatoes |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | MAINE $200: About half of state residents who were not born in the U.S. were born in this country Canada |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | MAINE $300: In 1991 President Bush's vacation house in this town was damaged by an extra- tropical storm Kennebunkport |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | MAINE $400: Vikings led by this man probably visited Maine about 1000 A.D. Leif Ericson |
| #1877, aired 1992-11-03 | MAINE $500: Mount Desert is not a desert but Maine's largest one of these an island |
| #1871, aired 1992-10-26 | U.S. STATES $400: This "Down East" state is bordered by only 1 state & 2 provinces Maine |
| #1860, aired 1992-10-09 | SHOPPING $500: In 1992, this Freeport, Maine mail order company celebrated its 80th year in business L.L. Bean |
| #1839, aired 1992-09-10 | THE 50 STATES $400: The top half of this state separates Quebec, Canada on the west from New Brunswick on the east Maine |
| #1793, aired 1992-05-20 | HISTORIC AMERICA $1000: Built in 1791, Portland Head Light in Maine was one of the first of these authorized by the U.S. a lighthouse |
| #1792, aired 1992-05-19 | NEWSPAPERS $600: The Bangor Daily News & the Portland Press Herald are this state's largest dailies Maine |
| #1756, aired 1992-03-30 | MAINE $100: As it is in Idaho, this is Maine's most valuable crop potatoes |
| #1756, aired 1992-03-30 | MAINE $200: This tree is represented in the state's seal, flag, flower & song (white) pine |
| #1756, aired 1992-03-30 | MAINE $300: Maine's largest city, it's been called "Forest City" because of its many tree-line avenues Portland |
| #1756, aired 1992-03-30 | MAINE $400 (Daily Double): Until 1820 Maine was a district of this state Massachusetts |
| #1756, aired 1992-03-30 | MAINE $500: Kittery, where the U.S.S. Ranger was launched in 1777, has a memorial named for this naval commander John Paul Jones |
| #1750, aired 1992-03-20 | POP MUSIC $100: Roger Miller sang, "Third boxcar, midnight train, destination" this city Bangor, Maine |
| #1725, aired 1992-02-14 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1,500 (Daily Double): This state's university at Machias is the easternmost 4-year school in the U.S. Maine |
| #1721, aired 1992-02-10 | ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY $200: The mast of this battleship sunk in 1898 is part of a military memorial the Maine |
| #1700, aired 1992-01-10 | SONNETS $1000: This female poet from Maine won a 1923 Pulitzer for several works, including 8 sonnets in "American Poetry" Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #1694, aired 1992-01-02 | U.S. HISTORY $400: Francis W. Pettygrove was from this Maine city & named the Oregon city he co-owned after it Portland |
| #1692, aired 1991-12-31 | NEW ENGLAND $400: In 1846 Maine became the first state to outlaw the sale of this; the law lasted until 1934 liquor |
| #1692, aired 1991-12-31 | NEW ENGLAND $1000: The first Democrat ever elected to the U.S. Senate by Maine voters, he ran with Humphrey in 1968 (Edmund) Muskie |
| #1665, aired 1991-11-22 | QUOTES $1000: After the 1936 election James Farley said, "as" this state "goes, so goes Vermont" Maine |
| #1658, aired 1991-11-13 | POLITICS $3,100 (Daily Double): When he ran for president in 1884, the Democrats called him the "Continental Liar From the State of Maine" James G. Blaine |
| #1643, aired 1991-10-23 | U.S.A. $100: It's the largest city in Maine & in Oregon Portland |
| #1640, aired 1991-10-18 | U.S.A. $400: After English it's the second-most-spoken major language in Maine & Louisiana French |
| #1629, aired 1991-10-03 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: Harley College in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel "Fanshawe" was modeled on his alma mater Bowdoin College in this state Maine |
| #1627, aired 1991-10-01 | ISLANDS $700 (Daily Double): The Roosevelt Memorial Bridge connects this New Brunswick island to Maine Campobello |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | U.S. STATES $400: A U.S. battleship named after this state was sunk February 15, 1898 Maine |
| #1620, aired 1991-09-20 | ARTISTS $1000: Andrew Wyeth lives in these 2 states & paints many rural scenes near his homes Pennsylvania & Maine |
| #1619, aired 1991-09-19 | NATIONAL FORESTS $1000: These 2 New England states share White Mountain National Forest Maine and New Hampshire |
| #1613, aired 1991-09-11 | STATE SEALS $800: Because he once had a colony in Newfoundland, George Calvert put the fisherman on this state seal Maryland |
| #1608, aired 1991-09-04 | NAME THE DECADE $800: The battleship Maine blows up the 1890s |
| #1606, aired 1991-09-02 | "PORT" CITIES $200: This Maine city is the closest major U.S. harbor to Europe Portland |
| #1595, aired 1991-07-05 | STATE FLAGS $400: Type of tree you'll find on Maine's state flag a pine tree |
| #1583, aired 1991-06-19 | STATE LICENSE PLATES $500: You'll spot a lobster in the center of its plate Maine |
| #1575, aired 1991-06-07 | GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): 2 of the 4 U.S. states that border Quebec (2 of) New Hampshire, Vermont (New York or Maine) |
| #1545, aired 1991-04-26 | DARK SHADOWS $100: The story is set in Collinsport in this state & in it, people were always going to Bangor Maine |
| #1538, aired 1991-04-17 | COLONIAL AMERICA $1000: The Penobscot were an Algonquian speaking tribe found in what is now this US state Maine |
| #1522, aired 1991-03-26 | STATE TREES $200: The color that describes Maryland's oak, Maine's pine, & New Hampshire's birch white |
| #1512, aired 1991-03-12 | RIVERS $800: The St. Croix & St. John Rivers form part of the border between New Brunswick, Canada & this state Maine |
| #1500, aired 1991-02-22 | STATE TREES $1,000 (Daily Double): 1 of 4 states whose state tree is the sugar maple (1 of) Vermont, New York, Wisconsin & West Virginia |
| #1498, aired 1991-02-20 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: It's now thought that an internal explosion, not a mine, caused this ship to sink in Havana Harbor in 1898 the U.S. Maine |
| #1489, aired 1991-02-07 | STATE SEALS $1000: The 14 branches of the pine tree on this state's seal represent its desire to become the 14th state Vermont |
| #1479, aired 1991-01-24 | U.S. CITIES $300: A city named Augusta is now Maine's capital; 200 years ago a city named Augusta was this state's capital Georgia |
| #1473, aired 1991-01-16 | "M"s ON THE MAP $300: It's the state Downeasters call home Maine |
| #1443, aired 1990-12-05 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $600: These words were usually followed by the now forgotten line, "To hell with Spain" "Remember the Maine" |
| #1433, aired 1990-11-21 | NATIONAL MONUMENTS $800: This state's St. Croix Island, near the Canadian border, commemorates a 1604 French settlement there Maine |
| #1416, aired 1990-10-29 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: "Patriots' Day", observed in Maine & Mass., commemorates these 2 early battles of the Revolution Lexington & Concord |
| #1390, aired 1990-09-21 | U.S. CITIES $600: This largest city in Maine was formerly called The Neck Portland |
| #1389, aired 1990-09-20 | ARCHITECTURE $1000: He designed statehouses for Maine, Massachusetts & Connecticut, while his son is famous for stories from mythology (Charles) Bulfinch |
| #1367, aired 1990-07-10 | ARTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): He painted "Fog Warning" & other seascapes after moving to a lonely point on the Maine coast Winslow Homer |
| #4, aired 1990-07-07 | STATE CAPITALS $400: It's named for a Maine general's daughter Augusta |
| #1364, aired 1990-07-05 | NEW ENGLAND $600: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in this city, now Maine's largest Portland |
| #1358, aired 1990-06-27 | SECRETARIES OF STATE $800: In April 1980 Pres. Carter selected this Maine senator to succeed Cyrus Vance as Sec'y of State (Edmund) Muskie |
| #2, aired 1990-06-23 | U.S. STATES $4,000 (Daily Double): Mount Adams, Mount Jefferson & Mount Madison are in this New England state New Hampshire |
| #1341, aired 1990-06-04 | STATE NICKNAMES $400: "Lobsterland" Maine |
| #1337, aired 1990-05-29 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: The largest & northernmost New England state Maine |
| #1332, aired 1990-05-22 | NEW HAMPSHIRE $800: Though it's New Hampshire's largest port city, the naval shipyard of the same name is in Maine Portsmouth |
| #1326, aired 1990-05-14 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $500: The 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty fixed this state's border with New Brunswick Maine |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | NOVA SCOTIA $600: You can take a ferry ride from Nova Scotia to this U.S. state Maine |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | AMERICAN ISLANDS $500: This state's Mount Desert Island is the site of the Bar Harbor Resort Maine |
| #1299, aired 1990-04-05 | HERSTORY $1,500 (Daily Double): Though a staunch anti-communist, this Maine sen. led early Senate opposition to McCarthyism Margaret Chase Smith |
| #1261, aired 1990-02-12 | PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA $600: Remember the Maine? It was blown up during his administration McKinley |
| #1239, aired 1990-01-11 | LAST LINES FROM MOVIES $800: Janet Gaynor closed this film saying, "Hello, everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine." "A Star is Born" |
| #1225, aired 1989-12-22 | ARCHITECTURE $400: 2 of 3 New England states whose statehouses were designed by Charles Bulfinch (2 of) Connecticut, Massachusetts or Maine |
| #1207, aired 1989-11-28 | U.S. HISTORY $200: If you remember the Maine, you'd know it was blown up in this city's harbor Havana |
| #1203, aired 1989-11-22 | U.S. RIVERS $400: Called the "Rhine of America", the St. John River links Canada's New Brunswick province & this state Maine |
| #1198, aired 1989-11-15 | U.S. HISTORY $300: The 1st English settlement in Maine occured in this same year as the settlement of Jamestown 1607 |
| #1188, aired 1989-11-01 | U.S. STATES $500: Acadia National Park, the oldest one east of the Mississippi, is in this state Maine |
| #1170, aired 1989-10-06 | U.S.A. $200: World Book says Maine's St. John River & this major N.Y. river have both been called "The Rhine of America" Hudson River |
| #1168, aired 1989-10-04 | U.S. STATES $200: While Maine borders only 1 state, these 2 don't border any Alaska & Hawaii |
| #1125, aired 1989-06-23 | U.S.A. $1,000 (Daily Double): This northeast state is the only state whose name is a homophone of a common word Maine |
| #1117, aired 1989-06-13 | U.S. STATES $300: Largest of the 6 New England states, it's the most sparsely populated state east of the Mississippi Maine |
| #1094, aired 1989-05-11 | U.S. STATES $500: George Mitchell, the Senate Majority Leader, represents this state (the state of) Maine |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | MAINE $200: The L. L. in the name of this store in Freeport stands for Leon Leonwood L.L. Bean |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | MAINE $400: In terms of seafood, this is Maine's most profitable catch lobster |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | MAINE $800: In 1860 Maine's Hannibal Hamlin became the 1st Republican elected this vice president |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | MAINE $1000: Town where George Bush has his summer home Kennebunkport |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | MAINE $1,600 (Daily Double): Maine's largest immigrant population comes from this country Canada |
| #1066, aired 1989-04-03 | CATS $1000: Bred in New England, this large cat looks something like the nocturnal animal for which it's named Maine coon |
| #1050, aired 1989-03-10 | THE 50 STATES $400: Acadia National Park, the oldest one east of the Mississippi, is in this state Maine |
| #1046, aired 1989-03-06 | STATE FLOWERS $400: The state "flower" of this Pine Tree State is the white pine cone & tasssel Maine |
| #1033, aired 1989-02-15 | STATE NAMES $500: It's not certain from where this New England state got its name, but it wasn't from the Indians Maine |
| #1025, aired 1989-02-03 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: City that's the easternmost state capital Augusta, (Maine) |
| #1023, aired 1989-02-01 | IN THE OCEAN $400: An abundance of this shrimplike crustacean may account for large numbers of dead water fish near Maine krill |
| #1022, aired 1989-01-31 | WATER $100: This French water co. has acquired springs in Oasis, Tex., Calistoga, Calif. & Poland Spring, Maine Perrier |
| #1006, aired 1989-01-09 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: Moosehead Lake is one of this state's most popular attractions for hunters & fishermen Maine |
| #1005, aired 1989-01-06 | HOMOPHONES $300: "Remember" this, it's a major feature of a male lion Maine/mane |
| #997, aired 1988-12-27 | 5-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): 2 of the 3 U.S. states which fit this category (2 of) Maine, Idaho & Texas |
| #995, aired 1988-12-23 | HISTORIC DATES $200: On February 15, 1898 this happened in Havana Harbor a little before 10 P.M. the blowing up of the battleship Maine |
| #991, aired 1988-12-19 | STATE CAPITALS $200: In 1832 Augusta replaced Portland as this state's capital Maine |
| #971, aired 1988-11-21 | FAMOUS WOMEN $300: She played on a championship high school basketball team before becoming a senator from Maine Margaret Chase Smith |
| #967, aired 1988-11-15 | ISLANDS $800: There are islands with this name in Massachusetts, Washington state, Wisconsin, and Maine, but the biggest is in New York Long Island |
| #964, aired 1988-11-10 | POETS $500: This Maine poetess sometimes wrote under the shorter pen name Nancy Boyd Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #963, aired 1988-11-09 | STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS $1000: It's the only state whose postal abbreviation is a pronoun Maine (ME) |
| #935, aired 1988-09-30 | U.S. CITIES $200: Almost named for Boston, this Oregon city was named for a city in Maine instead Portland |
| #913, aired 1988-07-20 | PEN NAMES $500: Sometimes this Maine poetess wrote under the name Nancy Boyd, 2 words shorter than her real name Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #900, aired 1988-07-01 | STATE OBJECTS $400: Of an official dog, cat, or bird, the one that Maine has that no other state does a cat |
| #893, aired 1988-06-22 | DOWN EASTERS $200: Born in Conn. she wrote her most famous work in Maine; though not in a cabin, not even Uncle Tom's Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #893, aired 1988-06-22 | DOWN EASTERS $600: He was the 1st Democrat ever elected to the U.S. Senate by Maine voters Edmund Muskie |
| #893, aired 1988-06-22 | DOWN EASTERS $4,300 (Daily Double): Though this poet's house in Portland is no "Wayside Inn", it's Maine's best-known historic site Longfellow |
| #874, aired 1988-05-26 | AMERICAN WARS $200: We don't know what caused this ship to sink, but we remember it helped cause the Spaish-American War The Maine |
| #870, aired 1988-05-20 | U.S. STATES $200: 80-90% of this New England state, more than any other, is covered by forests, with lots of pine trees Maine |
| #868, aired 1988-05-18 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $500: Funk & Wagnalls says the farthest east you'll find U.S desert land is in this state east of the Rockies Texas |
| #863, aired 1988-05-11 | FERRIES $600 (Daily Double): The oldest operating ferry boat run by this state is named the "Governor Muskie" Maine |
| #851, aired 1988-04-25 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In the 1839 Aroostook War, this New England state called out the militia to fight England Maine |
| #838, aired 1988-04-06 | SEE THE USA $500: The Appalachian National Scenic Trail runs all the way from Maine to this state Georgia |
| #815, aired 1988-03-04 | THE 50 STATES $400: It's the only state to border only 1 other state Maine |
| #814, aired 1988-03-03 | TRIVIAL TOURISM $200: The folks in Kennebunkport, Maine, celebrated Nat'l Dump Week with dump art made from this garbage |
| #801, aired 1988-02-15 | ONLYS $800: The only U.S. state with a 1-syllable name Maine |
| #786, aired 1988-01-25 | COLONIAL AMERICA $600: In colonial times, this state, which doesn't touch Massachusetts, was part of it Maine |
| #765, aired 1987-12-25 | MAINE $200: Maine's state flower & tree have the words "white" & this in common pine |
| #765, aired 1987-12-25 | MAINE $400: 1 of 2 Canadian provinces that border Maine (1 of) New Brunswick or (Quebec) |
| #765, aired 1987-12-25 | MAINE $800: 1 of only 2 Democratic presidential candidates since WWII who have won Maine's electoral votes Lyndon Johnson (or Hubert Humphrey) |
| #765, aired 1987-12-25 | MAINE $1,100 (Daily Double): U.S. geographical distinction of West Quoddy Head, a small peninsula easternmost point in the United States |
| #764, aired 1987-12-24 | ELECTION SLOGANS $400: An 1884 Democratic rhyme called James G. Blaine "the continental liar from" here Maine |
| #720, aired 1987-10-23 | U.S. STATES $400: It leads the world in producing sardine cans, but it's called the Pine Tree State Maine |
| #695, aired 1987-09-18 | ANIMALS $400: Lyndon, Maine was renamed for this North American reindeer once found in the area caribou |
| #688, aired 1987-09-09 | EARLY AMERICA $600: The Compromise of 1820 said Maine would be admitted as a free state & this as a slave state Missouri |
| #664, aired 1987-06-25 | LAST LINES $800: "Hello everybody. This is Mrs. Norman Maine." A Star is Born |
| #658, aired 1987-06-17 | U.S. STATES $200: The only U.S. state which borders Maine New Hampshire |
| #623, aired 1987-04-29 | POLITICAL QUOTES $500 (Daily Double): 2nd part of this slogan was "to hell with Spain" Remember the Maine |
| #617, aired 1987-04-21 | COLONIAL AMERICA $400: Anthropologists have stated these peoples were at a Neolithic stage when colonists landed the Indians |
| #610, aired 1987-04-10 | CATS $500 (Daily Double): 2 of the 9 long-haired cat breeds now commonly recognized in the U.S. Persian, Himalayan, Birman, Balinese, Somali, Angora, Maine Coon, Cymric, Norwegian Forest |
| #566, aired 1987-02-09 | U.S. CITIES $500 (Daily Double): Only city that's mentioned in this song: "Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents / No phone, no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes..." Bangor, Maine |
| #551, aired 1987-01-19 | NEW ENGLAND $100: Maine's most popular historic site is the home of this "Hiawatha" poet (Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow |
| #539, aired 1987-01-01 | MARCH $400: Almost 2 years older than Girl Scouts, this youth group was started in South Casco, Maine on March 17,1910 Campfire Girls |
| #521, aired 1986-12-08 | U.S. STATES $1,000 (Daily Double): The states that make up New England Connecticut, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island |
| #516, aired 1986-12-01 | CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION $800: This northern state was the only one that chose not to be represented Rhode Island |
| #505, aired 1986-11-14 | ELECTIONS $600: "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont" refers to only 2 states won by him in 1936 election Alf Landon |
| #489, aired 1986-10-23 | ROADSIDE AMERICA $400: Oxford, Maine, displays the world's largest trap for this culinary prize a lobster |
| #470, aired 1986-09-26 | "B" IN GEOGRAPHY $300: The "King of the Road"s Maine destination Bangor |
| #420, aired 1986-04-18 | U.S.A. $500: Longest north-south Interstate highway, it runs through 15 states from Maine to Florida I-95 |
| #405, aired 1986-03-28 | ANCIENT AMERICA $100: The "Red Paint People" were Paleolithic inhabitants of this state, now home of red lobsters Maine |
| #401, aired 1986-03-24 | STATE CAPITALS $400: Though Augusta, Georgia is much larger, the only Augusta that's a state capital is here Maine |
| #395, aired 1986-03-14 | SPORTS TRIVIA $500: Their 1965 heavyweight championship rematch in Lewiston, Maine drew only 4,280 spectators Cassius Clay & Sonny Liston |
| #352, aired 1986-01-14 | U.S. HISTORY $600: It was in this city's harbor that we "remember the Maine" blowing up Havana |
| #343, aired 1986-01-01 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: Outdoorsman-oriented mail order company operating out of Freeport, Maine L. L. Bean |
| #335, aired 1985-12-20 | ILLINOIS $500: In latitude, Illinois reaches from that of Portsmouth, Va. to Portsmouth in this northern state New Hampshire |
| #324, aired 1985-12-05 | OREGON $400: By winning a coin toss in 1845, F. Pettygrove got this city named after his hometown in Maine Portland |
| #274, aired 1985-09-26 | '60s SONGS $200: He rode the "3rd boxcar, midnight train, destination, Bangor, Maine" Roger Miller |
| #272, aired 1985-09-24 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $400: New England's only national park, Acadia is in this "Pine Tree" state Maine |
| #261, aired 1985-09-09 | NEW ENGLAND $200: This New England state is about the same size as the other 5 combined Maine |
| #189, aired 1985-05-30 | U.S. CITIES $400: It's the largest city in both Maine & Oregon Portland |
| #188, aired 1985-05-29 | RELIGION $600: America's oldest synagogue is in this New England state Rhode Island |
| #181, aired 1985-05-20 | TV FAMILIES $300: Though we never met his father, this doctor from Maine read dad's letters to B.J. & us Hawkeye Pierce |
| #162, aired 1985-04-23 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $600: First woman elected to both houses of Congress, she represented Maine in Senate for 24 years Margaret Chase Smith |
| #139, aired 1985-03-21 | AMERICAN HISTORY $100: Sunken battleship "remembered" by those clamoring for the Spanish-American War the Maine |
| #133, aired 1985-03-13 | STATE CAPITALS $1000: America's easternmost state capital Augusta (Maine) |
| #125, aired 1985-03-01 | FASHION $500: Headgear invented by Chester Greenwood in 1877 for his frigid home state of Maine earmuffs |
| #110, aired 1985-02-08 | POLITICS $200: Traditionally speaking, as this state goes, "so goes the nation" Maine |
| #109, aired 1985-02-07 | TOUGH TRIVIA $800: The 2 U.S. states that have no snakes naturally Alaska & Hawaii |
| #58, aired 1984-11-28 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: In return for Missouri's admittance as a slave state, this N.E. state was brought in as a free state Maine |
| #11, aired 1984-09-24 | GAY '90S $200: It sank in Havana Harbor & set off a war the Maine |
| #6, aired 1984-09-17 | U.S. STATES $600: Part of Massachusetts until it became our 23rd state Maine |
| #2, aired 1984-01-01 | STATE NAMES $800 (Daily Double): The only state with a one-syllable name Maine |
