#9230, aired 2024-12-20 | SMOOTH AS SILK $200: Scientifically Bombyx mori, these larvae, are only 1/12 an inch long at birth & fed mulberry leaves silkworms |
#9182, aired 2024-10-15 | AGRICULTURAL HISTORY $1200: He developed the cotton gin at Savannah's Mulberry Plantation & got a patent on March 14, 1794 Eli Whitney |
#9081, aired 2024-04-15 | "P"EOPLE $800: When this man laid out Philadelphia, he gave the E-W streets tree names like Walnut & Spruce; back then, Arch Street was Mulberry (William) Penn |
#8700, aired 2022-09-16 | HERSTORY $200: In 1774 North Carolina's Penelope Barker led a protest against this British product, making a mulberry version instead tea |
#13, aired 2022-02-17 | FROM "M" TO "Y" $1200: This tree produces a reddish brown wood mahogany |
#8565, aired 2022-01-28 | SCIENCE & NATURE $600: These insects, Bombyx mori, like to munch on mulberry leaves silkworms |
#8513, aired 2021-11-17 | IT'S A NEW MACHINE $800: Before his partner Eli Whitney even got a patent, Phineas Miller was de-seeding with this machine in Mulberry Grove, Georgia the cotton gin |
#8028, aired 2019-07-03 | AMERICAN WRITERS $200: The pen name he used for "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" was a wink to his unfinished doctorate Dr. Seuss |
#7986, aired 2019-05-06 | DOOMED TO REPEAT "IT" $1600: Restaurants like Da Nico & Il Cortile line Mulberry Street in this section of Manhattan Little Italy |
#7611, aired 2017-10-16 | AT THE "M"PORIUM $600: Got a lovely shrubbery for you--this evergreen, whose name is on a famous beach the myrtle |
#7261, aired 2016-03-21 | POP QUIZ $400: This kids' song mentions a monkey & a mulberry bush "Pop Goes The Weasel" |
#7193, aired 2015-12-16 | FABRICS & TEXTILES $800: 200 pounds of mulberry leaves fed to worms can be used to produce one pound of this fabric silk |
#6269, aired 2011-12-15 | FABRICS $400: South Pacific islanders make tapa cloth from this part of the paper mulberry or breadfruit tree the bark |
#6225, aired 2011-10-14 | AT 33 $1000: And to think he was 33 when he published his first book, "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" Dr. Seuss |
#5972, aired 2010-07-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Any carbonated beverage that's "all around the mulberry bush" soda Pop Goes the Weasel |
#5516, aired 2008-09-08 | PEEKABOO, "ICU"! $1200: Here we go 'round the mulberry family for this tree, vine & shrub genus Ficus |
#5174, aired 2007-02-22 | THE SUPREME COURTSHIP $2000: These lovers in mythology have a big misunderstanding involving a lion, a scarf & a mulberry tree Pyramus & Thisbe |
#4913, aired 2006-01-11 | "BUSH"-ISMS $200: The young kids go wild for this song that takes place "so early in the morning" "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush" |
#4827, aired 2005-09-13 | MEDITERRANEAN GEOGRAPHY $1000: This southern Greek peninsula was once called Morea, or "mulberry", for its mulberry-leaf shape the Peloponnesus |
#4706, aired 2005-02-07 | BOTANY $200: Growers of this pitted red pie fruit plant mulberry trees near their orchards to entice birds away cherries |
#4625, aired 2004-10-15 | THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE $1600: A prosperous business was this trade which required the growing of mulberry trees the silk trade |
#4440, aired 2003-12-19 | AROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH $400: In Japan the inner bark fibers of the Broussonetia papyrifera are used to make this, as its name suggests paper |
#4440, aired 2003-12-19 | AROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH $800: The Morus multicaulis species of mulberry is fed to these insects important to China's textile industry silkworms |
#4440, aired 2003-12-19 | AROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH $1200: In 1787 William Bligh was commissioned to transport this type of mulberry tree from Tahiti to the West Indies breadfruit |
#4440, aired 2003-12-19 | AROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH $1600: Black mulberries are used in winemaking; female flowers of this mulberry plant are used to brew beer hops |
#4440, aired 2003-12-19 | AROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH $2,000 (Daily Double): This plant, Ficus elastica, was once the most popular of house plants; in the jungle it can grow to a height of 100 feet the rubber tree plant |
#3823, aired 2001-03-28 | MACON WHOOPEE $100: Macon's Cannonball House at 856 Mulberry Street was hit by a cannonball during this war Civil War |
#3821, aired 2001-03-26 | THEY'RE STILL MYTHING $1000: The mulberry fruit, once white, was stained red by the blood of Pyramus & her Thisbe |
#3298, aired 1998-12-30 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $200: Sir Mulberry Hawk is a vicious crony of Ralph Nickleby in this Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby |
#3123, aired 1998-03-11 | KIDDY LIT $400: In 1937 Tolkien published "The Hobbit" & this author put out "And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street" Dr. Seuss |
#2338, aired 1994-11-02 | IN OTHER WORDS... $500: In this place you & I circumnavigate a small tree with reddish-purple fruit here we go 'round the mulberry bush |
#2244, aired 1994-05-12 | COLLEGE POTPOURRI $1000: A mulberry tree at this university is associated with one of its famous alumnl, John Milton Cambridge |
#1957, aired 1993-02-23 | GEOGRAPHY $200: This London royal palace stands on the site of a mulberry garden Buckingham Palace |
#1854, aired 1992-10-01 | A MULBERRY POTPOURRI $100: The leaves of the white mulberry are food for these thread producers silkworms |
#1854, aired 1992-10-01 | A MULBERRY POTPOURRI $200: Grown around the Mediterranean, most of this fruit is dried before marketing figs |
#1854, aired 1992-10-01 | A MULBERRY POTPOURRI $300: The fibers of this member of the mulberry family are commonly woven to make rope hemp |
#1854, aired 1992-10-01 | A MULBERRY POTPOURRI $400: The beer company could be called Mulberry Busch since the flowers of this are used in brewing hops |
#1854, aired 1992-10-01 | A MULBERRY POTPOURRI $500: This tropical tree was the bounty the HMS Bounty carried a breadfruit tree |
#1564, aired 1991-05-23 | KIDDIE LITERATURE $300: He first enchanted children with 1937's "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" Dr. Seuss |
#1561, aired 1991-05-20 | SILLY SONGS $500: This song about collecting hard-shelled fruit in spring is sung to the same tune as "Mulberry Bush" "Here We Go Gathering Nuts In May" |
#1233, aired 1990-01-03 | OLD TESTAMENT $200: As a lad, this king had to wait by the mulberry tree for the signal to go smite the dreaded Philistines David |
#1107, aired 1989-05-30 | DR. SEUSS $200: "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street", which was rejected 28 times Dr. Seuss's first book |
#180, aired 1985-05-17 | WORLD HISTORY $1000: To start a new industry, 6th c. missionaries smuggled mulberry seeds & these eggs out of China the silk industry (silkworm eggs) |