| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | THEY DRIVE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD $200: It's the southernmost nation in which traffic on the left side is standard New Zealand |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | GIMME SOME BACKUP $200: Him &
the Heartbreakers Tom Petty |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | THE VICE PRESIDENCY: AMERICA DECIDES $200: He was still walking jauntily in 1920 when he lost the vice presidency to Calvin Coolidge FDR |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | "IME" ON IT $200: A diversion, perhaps "the national" one pastime |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | NEWSPAPER TERMS $200: It's a short explanation beneath a picture or other graphic a caption |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR'S NAME $200: Sounds like Angelina's ex:
Pumpernickel or sourdough + a golf stroke done on the green bread putt |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | GIMME SOME BACKUP $400: Her &
the Supremes (Diana) Ross |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE $400: Roman boss in Judaea:
ALE PIT Pilate |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SPORTS MOVIES $400: Denzel Washington starred as the dad of a hoops phenom in "He Got Game", written & directed by this man Spike Lee |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | LET'S TALK ABOUT 6 $400: It's the Greek-derived name for a 6-sided polygon a hexagon |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $400: His lawyer characters Jake Brigance, Adam Hall & Reggie Love could start a firm Grisham |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | BIRD "E"s $400: They soar as Boston College's sports teams the Eagles |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | CONVERSATIONAL ESPERANTO $400: Relatively speaking, these 2 are frato & fratino brother & sister |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | THE VICE PRESIDENCY: AMERICA DECIDES $400: In 1980 George Bush (he didn't need "H.W." yet) decisively defeated this Minnesotan Mondale |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR'S NAME $400: Sounds like a son of West African U.K. immigrants:
A Lincolnesque formal speech + where your arm bends address elbow |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | "IME" ON IT $400: 3-word term for a misdeed committed in the heat of the moment a crime of passion |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | NEWSPAPER TERMS $400: A bad location for your ball in bowling, or the white space between facing newspaper pages the gutter |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | THEY DRIVE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD $400: One of the few non-British colony left-side nations, it shares a border with right-traffic Laos, Myanmar & Cambodia Thailand |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | THE VICE PRESIDENCY: AMERICA DECIDES $600: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Nixon's running mate in 1960, was defeated by this man on the ticket with JFK LBJ |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | NEWSPAPER TERMS $600: In October 2024 the publisher of The Washington Post wrote that the paper "will not be making" one of these in the presidential race an endorsement |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | GIMME SOME BACKUP $600: Her +
the Machine Florence |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | "IME" ON IT $600: womenshealth.gov mentions fatigue, morning sickness, mood swings & heartburn as features of this 12-week period the first trimester |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | THEY DRIVE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD $600: From Donegal down to Waterford, it's driving on the left you'll be in this country Ireland |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | GIMME SOME BACKUP $800: Him &
the Revolution Prince |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE $800: Extremely senior citizen:
HULA THEMES Methuselah |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $800: Thidwick, the Dr. Seuss "Big-Hearted Moose", barely survives his decisions to let a multitude of animals do this live on him (living in his antlers) |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | THEY DRIVE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD $800: As part of Indonesia this "East"ern Asian country switched from right to left in 1976 & has remained that way in independence East Timor |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | LET'S TALK ABOUT 6 $800: One of the 6 classic weapons in Clue is this, usually more for tightening a bolt than killing a professor a wrench |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SPORTS MOVIES $800: Sam Wood directed the Marx Brothers in "A Night at the Opera" & Gary Cooper as this ballplayer in "The Pride of the Yankees" Gehrig |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | BIRD "E"s $800: "We send our" these wading birds, a type of heron egret(s) |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | CONVERSATIONAL ESPERANTO $800: "Felican Novan Jaron!" is likely more often said this way at the Rose Parade Happy New Year |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | THE VICE PRESIDENCY: AMERICA DECIDES $800: Dick Cheney narrowly won the office, meaning this man did not become the first Jewish veep Lieberman |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | "IME" ON IT $800: British equivalent of gadzooks! blimey |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | NEWSPAPER TERMS $800: A mock-up page indicating story, picture & headline position, it's also a ventriloquist's pal a dummy |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR'S NAME $800: Sounds like a "Strange" Marvel actor:
A brand of allergy & itch relief medicine + a tuxedo's waist sash Benadryl cummerbund |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR'S NAME $1,000 (Daily Double): Sounds like a Batman:
3-letter term meaning to prohibit + a company with a duck symbol ban Aflac |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | "IME" ON IT $1000: Unseasonably or inopportunely; Macduff was from his mother's womb that way ripped untimely |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | THE VICE PRESIDENCY: AMERICA DECIDES $1000: The 1996 race to be a heartbeat away was between Al Gore & this ex-football pro (Jack) Kemp |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | GIMME SOME BACKUP $1000: Her &
the Banshees Siouxsie |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | NEWSPAPER TERMS $1000: The place where back issues & clippings are stored, it sounds like a spot where cadavers are kept the morgue |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | THEY DRIVE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD $1000: It's the only "stan" country with left-side traffic Pakistan |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR'S NAME $1000: Sounds like "Bad Santa":
A kid who prays on weaker ones + a plastic cover for eating lobster + an unlucky number bully bib thirteen |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE $1200: Wasteful wastrel welcomed back:
DROOLING SAP Prodigal Son |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | CONVERSATIONAL ESPERANTO $1200: Saluton & adiau are these 2 words that take people in different directions hello & goodbye |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | LET'S TALK ABOUT 6 $1200: He created a successful sextet when in the late '70s, he gathered 5 musicians to be the News Huey Lewis |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SPORTS MOVIES $1200: In a 1962 movie this singer/actor joins boxing trainer Charles Bronson & becomes "Kid Galahad" Elvis |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $1200: His "Gift" was Saul Bellow's 1975 gift to readers Humboldt |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE $1600: King in the first verse of the book of Daniel:
ACNE HEN BUZZARD Nebuchadnezzar |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | CONVERSATIONAL ESPERANTO $1600: You gotta have koro, 'cause you can't live without it heart |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SPORTS MOVIES $1600: If you've seen the movie with Luke Perry as Lane Frost, you know this is the minimum ride time per the Professional Bull Riders 8 seconds |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | LET'S TALK ABOUT 6 $1600: When the musical "Six" about Henry VIII's wives opened on Broadway, Abby Mueller played this third wife, aka "Died" (Jane) Seymour |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | BIRD "E"s $1600: Often nesting in cactus, the world's tiniest owl is not a dwarf owl or fairy owl, but this diminutive species elf |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | ANAGRAMMED BIBLE PEOPLE $2000: Prophetess & military leader of pre-monarchic Israel:
ORB HEAD Deborah |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | LET'S TALK ABOUT 6 $2000: This city is the capital of Western Australia, one of Oz' 6 states Perth |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SPORTS MOVIES $2000: In "American Underdog", Zachary Levi plays this man who went from stocking grocery shelves to star Rams quarterback (Kurt) Warner |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $2000: She's the youngest & possibly the most annoying of Jane Austin's Bennet sisters Lydia |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | BIRD "E"s $2000: What a dad! The male of this penguin that can weigh around 90 pounds stands guard & warms a single egg for about 65 days emperor |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | CONVERSATIONAL ESPERANTO $2000: Esperi, related to the word Esperanto, is to do this hope |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): In a 1973 book by her, Deenie has to deal with scoliosis as well as regular 7th grade issues Judy Blume |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | BIRD "E"s $8,400 (Daily Double): In the 1930s Australia declared a war of sorts on these large flightless birds emus |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | MATHEMATICAL OVERLAPS $200: It's the distance across the center of that round glass enclosure where you raise indoor plants & animals diameterrarium |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | RECENT HORROR MOVIES $200: Leaning into the trope, the "Terrifier" films have a killer character named Art the this Clown |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | 20th CENTURY BOOKSHELF $200: In "Tarzan of the Apes", we learn that Professor Archimedes Q. Porter is the father of this woman, the hero's beloved Jane |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | YOUR STOCK IS CLIMBING $200: If you bought this stock at its initial price of $18 a share on May 15, 1997, congratulations! You made a prime investment Amazon |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | 2-WORD CITIES $200: Czar Peter I intended to make this city his "window to Europe" St. Petersburg |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | THAT HAPPENED IN 2024 $200: Hitting the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history in Game One & driving in 12 runs in 5 games, earned this Dodger the MVP (Freddie) Freeman |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | CIVIL WAR PLACES $400: A July 1863 Union victory at Honey Springs was the decisive battle in Indian Territory, now this state Oklahoma |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | 20th CENTURY BOOKSHELF $400: A new steel alloy called Rearden Metal threatens to shake up the railroad industry in this Ayn Rand novel Atlas Shrugged |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | RECENT HORROR MOVIES $400: "The Last Exorcism" & "Paranormal Activity" use this alliterative technique involving prerecorded events found footage |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | 2-WORD CITIES $400: The U.S. Air Force Academy is found north of this city that includes its state in its name Colorado Springs |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | WORDS WITH INTEREST $400: A guided excursion gains 6 letters of interest to become this word for a tight strip of cloth used after an injury tourniquet |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | POP CULTURE JEOPARDY! $400: During the 2024 Olympics, Stephen Nedoroscik took off his glasses & helped clinch a bronze for his gymnastics team during this event pommel horse |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | FURNISHING SOME FURNITURE $400: The same-named form of music developed in 17th century Europe, along with the furniture style known for ornate designs seen here Baroque |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | ADDRESSES $400: Her birth name was Jacqueline Lee Bouvier; her grandpa James Lee was the developer of 740 Park Avenue, her childhood home Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $400: Not now but someday, check out the Andrei Sheptytskyi Museum collection of art with these religious images in Lviv, Ukraine icon |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | MATHEMATICAL OVERLAPS $400: Standing at a point right on the edge of a circle is someone who's not Jewish tangentile |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | YOUR STOCK IS CLIMBING $400: This "selling" is betting against the price of a stock; in 2008 the same kind of "squeezing" caused VW shares to jump 500% in 2 days short(-selling) |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | THAT HAPPENED IN 2024 $400: Attention, this discount store shoppers! Opened in 1962, the last full-size one in the mainland U.S. closed in October Kmart |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | 2-WORD CITIES $600: There are some big buildings in this Asian metropolis that just put a "Lump" in your throat Kuala Lumpur |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | MATHEMATICAL OVERLAPS $600: Look below the line in a fraction! It's a whirlwind! denominatornado |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | RECENT HORROR MOVIES $600: No stranger to horror, Ethan Hawke starred in the first film in this franchise about a lawless time in a future America The Purge |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | 20th CENTURY BOOKSHELF $600: On Audible fellow Canadian Rachel McAdams narrates this 1908 classic about an orphan girl Anne of Green Gables |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | YOUR STOCK IS CLIMBING $600: Though the stock market crashed in 1929, IBM continued to pay investors these at the rate of $1.50 per share all through the 1930s dividends |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | THAT HAPPENED IN 2024 $600: Trump was the first GOP presidential candidate since 1988 to win this 2-named Florida county, the "Gateway to Latin America" Miami-Dade |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | ADDRESSES $800: Life is very different for this kids' book bear at 32 Windsor Gardens than it was in Darkest Peru Paddington |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $800: Also called "Vampire", "Love and Pain" is an 1893 work by this Scandinavian artist Munch |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | CIVIL WAR PLACES $800: A Union victory in the 1864 Battle of this city on the Cumberland River ended Southern resistance in Tennessee Nashville |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | THAT HAPPENED IN 2024 $800: In October, NASA launched a mission to this icy moon of Jupiter, despite a warning in "2010: Odyssey Two" to never land there Europa |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | WORDS WITH INTEREST $800: An ear of corn doubles its size & is now this abandoned arachnid abode cobweb |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | POP CULTURE JEOPARDY! $800: Gloria Hallelujah Woods is the government name of this Memphis rapper who spits bars on hits like "Yeah Glo!" & "TGIF" GloRilla |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | FURNISHING SOME FURNITURE $800: Usually adorned with a mirror, this bedroom table has a name meaning self-adoration vanity |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | RECENT HORROR MOVIES $800: Director Ari Aster followed up "Hereditary" with another shocker: this film in which Florence Pugh goes Swedish Midsommar |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | 20th CENTURY BOOKSHELF $800: This graphic novel about the Holocaust by Art Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize Maus |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | YOUR STOCK IS CLIMBING $800: Since 1995, this energy drink company's stock has generated an appropriately freakish return of more than 160,000% Monster |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | 2-WORD CITIES $800: This Israeli metropolis was founded as a suburb of the ancient port of Yafo, or Jaffa Tel Aviv |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | MATHEMATICAL OVERLAPS $1000: It's a constant that multiplies a variable & gets into the study of bugs coefficientomologist (coefficientomology accepted) |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | RECENT HORROR MOVIES $1000: Before the horror of "Longlegs", Maika Monroe was on the run in this 2014 hit involving a sexually-transmitted curse It Follows |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | 20th CENTURY BOOKSHELF $1000: OBOS is short for this title of a women's health book published starting in the '70s Our Bodies, Ourselves |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | YOUR STOCK IS CLIMBING $1000: Over a 1-week span in January 2021, shares of GME, this retailer, briefly rose from less than $10 to more than $120 GameStop |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | 2-WORD CITIES $1000: This Chilean city, the largest on the Strait of Magellan, has been enriched by nearby oil fields Punta Arenas |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | THAT HAPPENED IN 2024 $1000: The garment makers that fast fashion relies on in this Asian country were back up days after a 2024 revolt toppled Sheikh Hasina Bangladesh |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | MATHEMATICAL OVERLAPS $1,200 (Daily Double): Rehoboth Beach, Wilmington & all the rest of the state cover a total of 2,489 square miles (the) Delawarea |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | FURNISHING SOME FURNITURE $1200: In 2004, this cabinet, named for a duke's house & not the birdie racket sport, went for $36 million at auction Badminton (Cabinet) |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | WORDS WITH INTEREST $1200: A rude fellow careless of women's feelings adds 4 letters to become this metal next to silver on the periodic table cadmium |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | POP CULTURE JEOPARDY! $1200: CHD for short, this podcast hosted by Alex Cooper was bought by SiriusXM for $125 million Call Her Daddy |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $1200: Installing a doorway in the wall that holds this famous fresco in 1652, workers chopped off Jesus' feet The Last Supper |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | CIVIL WAR PLACES $1200: Shortly after the Confederacy's surrender, this leader was captured by federal troops in Irwin County, Ga. May 10, 1865 Davis |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | POP CULTURE JEOPARDY! $1600: She was the mother on "How I Met Your Mother" & the daughter of Carmine Falcone on the HBO show "The Penguin" (Cristin) Milioti |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | WORDS WITH INTEREST $1600: One whose company is tedious gains 2 letters to become this adjective for a climatic zone near the Arctic boreal |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | ADDRESSES $1600: If you want to see this 1949 architectural landmark, or see through it, head for 199 Elm Street in New Canaan, Connecticut The Glass House |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $1600: Seen in a selfie, Jacopo Robusti was the real name of the 16th century Mannerist better known by this name, meaning "little dyer" Tintoretto |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | CIVIL WAR PLACES $1600: Where the Potomac & Shenandoah Rivers meet, this city that entered history just before the war was attacked by both North & South Harpers Ferry |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | WORDS WITH INTEREST $2000: The masculine form of Spanish for "the" increases its length by 2 letters to become this Frenchy word for vigor & flair élan |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | POP CULTURE JEOPARDY! $2000: Joshua Jackson & Phillipa Soo star in this ABC medical drama aboard a luxury cruise ship with a mythic name Doctor Odyssey |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | FURNISHING SOME FURNITURE $2000: This style of furniture is named for an 18th century queen & mostly used walnut Queen Anne |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | ADDRESSES $2000: This series of 10 books by Armistead Maupin chronicles the lives of San Franciscans who resided at 28 Barbary Lane Tales of the City |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $2000: Borrowed from French, it's the term for Louise Nevelson's form of sculpture in joining everyday objects in unusual combinations assemblage |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | CIVIL WAR PLACES $2000: The promontory known as this "Ridge" at the Battle of Gettysburg was the objective of Pickett's Charge Cemetery Ridge |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | FURNISHING SOME FURNITURE $4,000 (Daily Double): In the 1860s the New Lebanon community in New York became a hub for ladder-back chairs named for this religious group Shaker |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | ADDRESSES $5,000 (Daily Double): The New Mexico State Capitol is at 490 Old this route blazed in 1821 Santa Fe Trail |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | LOUNGE WEAR $200: You can find this material, perfect for lounging, in the piped pajamas from Derek Rose of London for $880 silk |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | DIFFERS BY A LETTER $200: To fly high & to box soar, spar |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | MONOGRAM MADNESS $200: He succeeded Scalia:
NG Neil Gorsuch |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | THE NEW YORKER AT 100 $200: (David Remnick presents the clue.) Our critics have included Edmund Wilson, Pauline Kael & on the theater beat, John Lahr, the son of the man who played this character in "The Wizard of Oz", which, by the way, we called "a stinkeroo" in 1939, so, we're not perfect The Cowardly Lion |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | BANGERS $200: In 2020 he was on a "watermelon sugar, high, watermelon sugar, high" Harry Styles |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | 17th CENTURY FACTS $200: Sadly, the drama became all too real in 1613 when this theatre burned down after cannon fire set off its thatch during "Henry VIII" Globe |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | UNESCO's INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE $400: Ska & rock steady were contributors to this style of music that made the list for Jamaica in 2018 reggae |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | 17th CENTURY FACTS $400: Not yet known as le Roi Soleil, in 1643 this new ruler of 19 million subjects was a few months shy of his 5th birthday Louis XIV |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | BANGERS $400: Sorry, this state! The wind may come sweeping down the Plain there, but per Luke Combs, there "Ain't No Love in" it Oklahoma |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | 4, 4 $400: The use of celluloid balls began around 1900 in this game once also called "whiff-whaff" ping-pong |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | MONOGRAM MADNESS $400: 4-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet:
RF Robert Frost |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | DIFFERS BY A LETTER $400: Speak softly &
whine softly to whisper & to whimper |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | ON THE RUN $400: Formerly Jimmy McGill, Saul Goodman uses the name Gene as he's laying low managing one of these mall eateries a Cinnabon |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | JUST A LITTLE ASTROPHYSICS $400: Pre-20th century, it was thought that stars were powered by the heat generated from their own collapse caused by this force gravity |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | NONFICTION $400: Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of" these includes some of his own, one where he's drinking from an Etruscan funerary urn Dreams |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | HILLS I DON'T WANT TO DIE ON $400: Big on cattle & sheep ranching until 1906, this city is known for the Polo Lounge, Rodeo Drive & money... lots & lots of money Beverly Hills |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | LOUNGE WEAR $400: Although this company sells Nulu fabric casual wear in lichen lime, it has another citrus fruit in its name Lululemon |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | THE NEW YORKER AT 100 $400: (David Remnick presents the clue.) A classic cover that gave us a rare light moment in 2001 shows the city like a "National Geographic" map; after 90 years in Khouks, The New Yorker is now down in Moolahs, in this building, One WTC for short One World Trade Center |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | 17th CENTURY FACTS $600: In 1676 this colonist led a rebellion against Gov. William Berkeley but didn't live to see the end of the year Bacon |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | THE NEW YORKER AT 100 $600: (David Remnick presents the clue.) We know people look at the cartoons first & no artist made a bigger name than Charles Addams; his more than 1,100 cartoons include one from 1939, where this servant first becomes recognizable Lurch |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | BANGERS $600: Chappell Roan wasn't horsing around--or was she?--"on the stage in my heels", dancing at this title place Pink Pony Club |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | MONOGRAM MADNESS $600: One of his nicknames was "Old Kinderhook":
MVB Martin Van Buren |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | LOUNGE WEAR $600: You can keep your waves from rippling away with this hair protector; Merriam-Webster says the word comes from "hairdo" a durag |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | DIFFERS BY A LETTER $600: A witty remark &
a British pound sterling quip quid |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | ON THE RUN $800: Trying to put some crime behind him, in 2019 Ice-T rapped about seeing the "Feds in My" this part of the car rearview |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | NONFICTION $800: In this treatise Sun Tzu says, "The impact of your army may be like a grindstone dashed against an egg" The Art of War |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | UNESCO's INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE $800: It's not just pizza, but the culinary practice of the pizzaiuolo, as originated & still regulated by this Italian city Naples |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | DIFFERS BY A LETTER $800: A TV show with a limited number of episodes &
the duties of members of the clergy miniseries & ministries |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | MONOGRAM MADNESS $800: In 1921 she founded the American Birth Control League:
MS Margaret Sanger |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | JUST A LITTLE ASTROPHYSICS $800: The space between stars isn't a total vacuum; it contains matter called the interstellar medium, 98% made up of these 2 starry elements hydrogen & helium |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | HILLS I DON'T WANT TO DIE ON $800: Tune up in this 2008 Olympic city at the Hall of Supreme Harmony & smell you later at its Fragrant Hills Park Beijing |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | BANGERS $800: A headbanger, to be specific, 1991's "Enter Sandman" by this band advises, "Sleep with one eye open gripping your pillow tight" Metallica |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | LOUNGE WEAR $800: Many a robe is made with this kind of "cloth" whose name may come from the French for "drawn" terrycloth |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | 17th CENTURY FACTS $800: This dynasty may have come to an end in 1644, but one of its vases was doing just fine in 2011, selling for $21.6 million the Ming |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | THE NEW YORKER AT 100 $800: (David Remnick presents the clue.) The New Yorker profile is an art form & it can be celebratory or less so, as in 1957 when Truman Capote visited this actor on location for "Sayonara" & reported on his meal of soup, steak, fries, three vegetables, spaghetti, salad, sake & apple pie with ice cream Brando |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | 17th CENTURY FACTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1626 this Dutch colonial governor got big into the Manhattan real estate market, paying 60 guilders for, well, Manhattan (Peter) Minuit |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | LOUNGE WEAR $1000: The 3-letter name of this company that sells yoga & active apparel is an abbreviation of other words for wind, earth & water Alo |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | BANGERS $1000: "I can't stand it, I know you planned it"; listen, all y'all, it's this Beastie Boys song, "classical music" in "Star Trek Beyond" "Sabotage" |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | MONOGRAM MADNESS $1000: At his death in 1848, he had an estimated $20 million fortune:
JJA John Jacob Astor |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | DIFFERS BY A LETTER $1000: Expressed in words &
relating to spring vernal & verbal |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | THE NEW YORKER AT 100 $1000: (David Remnick presents the clue.) Sports writing has always had a place in the magazine; one classic is the 1960 piece about Ted Williams's last game by this literary giant whose sole ambition in small town Pennsylvania was to make The New Yorker John Updike |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | HILLS I DON'T WANT TO DIE ON $1200: I found my thrill on Strawberry Hill, an island in Stow Lake, in this large San Francisco park Golden Gate Park |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | JUST A LITTLE ASTROPHYSICS $1200: A 2024 study found that the Milky Way acted like a giant hair dryer blowing gas off the nearby dwarf galaxy LMC, the "Large" this Magellanic Cloud |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | ON THE RUN $1200: In "Venom: The Last Dance", this actor plays two characters on the run together, & that's all I know about Venom & Eddie (Tom) Hardy |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | UNESCO's INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE $1200: This country has a national day honoring its windmills every May; the craft of their millers was recognized by UNESCO the Netherlands |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | NONFICTION $1200: This Brit covered M-theory & the like in "The Universe in a Nutshell" Hawking |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | 4, 4 $1200: Rosemont & Radnor are 2 of this collection of suburbs named for a stretch of railroad outside Philly the Main Line |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | 4, 4 $1600: Tofu sounds less appealing when you call it by this alternate name bean curd |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | ON THE RUN $1600: Jeff Bridges packs up his passports & his Rottweilers, trying to stay one step ahead of his fate in this FX spy thriller The Old Man |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | UNESCO's INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE $1600: The 2023 list included this national dish of Peru: raw fish marinated in lime juice ceviche |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | JUST A LITTLE ASTROPHYSICS $1600: Think economically about the theory of cosmic this, which says the early universe expanded faster than the speed of light inflation |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | NONFICTION $1600: In this essay, Virginia Woolf created the hypothetical example of Shakespeare's sister, gifted but uneducated A Room of One's Own |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | HILLS I DON'T WANT TO DIE ON $1600: Sacred to the Western Sioux, this region in South Dakota is largely within the same-named national forest the Black Hills |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | 4, 4 $2000: A union suit may have this feature on the rear end, a flap on the back, so to speak the drop seat |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | UNESCO's INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE $2000: The Cracovia Danza Ballet specializes in traditional court dances of its country, including this one enshrined by UNESCO in 2023 a polonaise |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | ON THE RUN $2000: Billy Joe & Bobby Sue were the young lovers on the lam after a hassle in El Paso in this Steve Miller Band tune "Take The Money And Run" |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | JUST A LITTLE ASTROPHYSICS $2000: The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram is a graph of stars' temperatures versus their absolute this, meaning their intrinsic brightness magnitude |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | NONFICTION $2000: Chapters in this pre-"Silent Spring" book by Rachel Carson include "The Moving Tides" & "Wind & Water" The Sea Around Us |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | 4, 4 $4,000 (Daily Double): The ancient Egyptians were expert users of thin metal sheets called this to adorn mummy cases in a process called gilding gold leaf |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | HILLS I DON'T WANT TO DIE ON $6,000 (Daily Double): Alphabetically first of the fabled 7 hills of Rome, it boasts the Basilica of Santa Sabina, which dates to the 5th century the Aventine |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | SCI-"FI" $100: The aptly-named Theodore Gill was a noted ichthyologist, a person who studies these aquatic creatures fish |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS: THE SEQUEL $100: If an authority figure is not around, mischief will ensue:
W.T.C.A.T.M.W.P. when the cat's away, the mice will play |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | THE SONG TITLE COMPLETES THE LYRIC (BILLY JOEL EDITION) $100: "And it seems such a waste of time, if that's what it's all about, mama if that's movin' up then I'm..." "Movin' Out" |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT'S IN THE BOARD GAME BOX? $100: 32 green houses,
12 red hotels,
lots of play money Monopoly |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | PUNNY BUSINESS $100: As its punny name implies, Vinyl Resting Place in Portland, Oregon is a small business that sells these collectibles records |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WE CAN WORK IT OUT $100: The bench press & chest fly are popular exercises for working out these muscles, also called "pecs" the pectoral muscles |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | RESPOND LIKE A LOCAL $200: 1 word, 1 syllable: if you don't speak Russian, it's your curt reply to a Russian who asks whether you speak Russian Nyet |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | NOTHIN' BUT "NET" $200: Anita Loos followed up her novel "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" with the sequel "But Gentlemen Marry" these brunettes |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL $200: In a 1965 hit, James Brown opens with the exclamation "Wow!" before singing "I feel" this good |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | MMM, CHOCOLATE $200: Marketing itself in its own chocolate, this brand has imprinted #mybreak on its wafer bars KitKat |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | 2-PART RESPONSES $200: These are the 2 continents elephants are native to Africa & Asia |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | PLAYING THE POLITICIAN $200: This South African leader once said he wanted Morgan Freeman to play him in a movie--he got his wish in 2009 thanks to "Invictus" Mandela |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS: THE SEQUEL $200: Sometimes folks get set in their ways & it's difficult to change their habits:
Y.C.T.A.O.D.N.T. you can't teach an old dog new tricks |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | THE SONG TITLE COMPLETES THE LYRIC (BILLY JOEL EDITION) $200: "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, the sinners are much more fun... You know that..." "Only The Good Die Young" |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT'S IN THE BOARD GAME BOX? $200: Lots of red pegs,
even more white pegs,
10 plastic vessels,
including 2 aircraft carriers Battleship |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | SCI-"FI" $200: Not to be confused with fusion, this process creates energy by splitting an atom's nucleus into fragments fission |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | PUNNY BUSINESS $200: A yarn store in Amherst, New York, Have Ewe Any Wool is a delightful pun that features the female name for this animal a sheep |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WE CAN WORK IT OUT $200: A low-impact alternative to a treadmill, this exercise machine is named after the oval-like path its pedals move in an elliptical |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | GO TELL IT ON THE FOUNTAIN $300: According to legend, tossing one of these into Rome's storied Trevi Fountain means you'll someday return to the city a coin |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT THE $%*@#&?! $300: It's the $%*@#&?! symbol seen here that Italians refer to as chiocciola, meaning "snail" the at symbol (or at sign) |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | "F" IS FOR FASHION $300: Footwear for a beachgoer, it's often used as a verb meaning "to reverse a stand or position" a flip-flop |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | MAKE IT HAPPEN, CAPTAIN $300: Named after an explorer who tried to travel around the world, the Strait of Magellan is a key passageway between these 2 oceans the Pacific & Atlantic |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | VANITY PLATES $300: Does Guillermo know?! Decades before his late night gig on ABC, this TV host had vanity plates that read "L8 NITE" Jimmy Kimmel |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | SUCKERS $300: With a name meaning "8-footed", this aquatic creature's arms are covered with rows of suckers used to move & catch prey an octopus |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS: THE SEQUEL $300: People with similar interests tend to gravitate toward each other:
B.O.A.F.F.T. birds of a feather flock together |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | THE SONG TITLE COMPLETES THE LYRIC (BILLY JOEL EDITION) $300: "Next phase,
New Wave,
dance craze,
anyways..." "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me" |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT'S IN THE BOARD GAME BOX? $300: 4 racks,
100 tiles
(98 tiles have letters, 2 are blank) Scrabble |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | SCI-"FI" $300: Used in solving crimes, dactyloscopy is the science of studying these identifying marks made by your hands fingerprints |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | PUNNY BUSINESS $300: Seattle's Spex in the City has this type of doctor ready to assist you an optometrist |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WE CAN WORK IT OUT $300: To perform this exercise, do a push-up & then leap in the air--oh, & if you need to belch, please do it beforehand burpees |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | NOTHIN' BUT "NET" $400: Seen here, it's literally a puppet on a string a marionette |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL $400: In the musical "West Side Story", Maria, freshly smitten, sings a song titled "I Feel" this pretty |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | MMM, CHOCOLATE $400: Introduced in 1912, this brand of chocolatey cookies can be spelled using letters in "chocolatier" Oreo |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | 2-PART RESPONSES $400: In the animated film "Frozen", these 2 sisters call the Kingdom of Arendelle home Elsa & Anna |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | PLAYING THE POLITICIAN $400: Sarah Palin never actually said, "I can see Russia from my house!"--it was said by this actress doing a Palin impression on "SNL" Tina Fey |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS: THE SEQUEL $400: You're running around in a frenzied, distracted manner:
L.A.C.W.I.H.C.O. like a chicken with its head cut off |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | THE SONG TITLE COMPLETES THE LYRIC (BILLY JOEL EDITION) $400: "Fool them all but baby I can tell, you're no stranger to the street, don't ask for favors, don't talk to strangers..." "Don't Ask Me Why" |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT'S IN THE BOARD GAME BOX? $400: Color-coded plastic armies,
42 territory cards,
5 dice Risk |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | SCI-"FI" $400: In humans, the 2 bones of the lower leg are the tibia & this, the third-longest bone in the body the fibula |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | PUNNY BUSINESS $400: Olive or Twist is a martini bar in Pittsburgh whose name is a play on the title of a classic novel by this author Charles Dickens |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WE CAN WORK IT OUT $400: Yes, you do have time to hit the gym for some HIIT, this type of "interval training" with short bursts of vigorous workouts high-intensity interval training |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | PUNNY BUSINESS $500 (Daily Double): Get a cup of joe at Rimsky-Korsakoffee House, named for the Russian composer who wrote a famous interlude about this insect's "Flight" bumblebees |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | ANIMAL IDIOM BRAINTEASERS: THE SEQUEL $500: Trying to solve a problem, you accidentally made it even more complicated:
O.A.C.O.W. opened a can of worms |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | THE SONG TITLE COMPLETES THE LYRIC (BILLY JOEL EDITION) $500: "Now here you are with your faith & your Peter Pan advice, you have no scars on your face & you cannot handle..." "Pressure" |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT'S IN THE BOARD GAME BOX? $500: 19 terrain hexes,
60 roads,
1 robber (Settlers of) Catan |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | SCI-"FI" $500: This technology transmits information as tiny pulses of light through thin transparent wires fiber optics |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WE CAN WORK IT OUT $500: This form of yoga is more than just hot--it's performed for 90 minutes in a room kept at 105 degrees Fahrenheit Bikram yoga |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | GO TELL IT ON THE FOUNTAIN $600: Behold the dancing fountains outside the Bellagio, or the myriad slot machines inside the Bellagio, on your next trip to this city of sin Las Vegas |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT THE $%*@#&?! $600: It's the $%"@#&?! symbol seen here that pop star Kesha removed from her name in 2014 the dollar sign |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | "F" IS FOR FASHION $600: In 2015, the Smithsonian was gifted 2 items Don Draper wore on "Mad Men": a gray suit & this type of hat a fedora |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | MAKE IT HAPPEN, CAPTAIN $600: African-American explorer Matthew Henson joined Robert Peary on a historic attempt to reach this point in the center of the Arctic the North Pole |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | VANITY PLATES $600: He often travels in a vehicle with a personalized plate that reads "SCV1"; the letters stand for "Status Civitatis Vaticanae" the Pope |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | SUCKERS $600: Hirudotherapy is the practice of using these blood-sucking worms to treat circulatory issues a leech |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | NOTHIN' BUT "NET" $600: Your assets -
your liabilities =
this
(Warren Buffett's is reportedly more than $140 billion) net worth |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL $600: In a 1971 hit, Carole King sings, "I feel" this "move under my feet" the earth |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | MMM, CHOCOLATE $600: A conveyor belt of chocolates hilariously overwhelms 2 characters in a classic 1952 episode of this sitcom I Love Lucy |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | 2-PART RESPONSES $600: These are the 2 parts of the legislative branch; you know... U.S. Congress the Senate & the House of Representatives |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | PLAYING THE POLITICIAN $600: Years before playing fictional president Jed Bartlet on "The West Wing", he played John F. Kennedy in a 1983 miniseries Martin Sheen |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | RESPOND LIKE A LOCAL $600: 2 words, 4 syllables: time for your first lager of the day! It's how you say "good morning" at a beer hall in Munich Guten Morgen |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | NOTHIN' BUT "NET" $800: Although she urged listeners to "Stand By Your Man", this country singer had 5 husbands Tammy Wynette |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL $800: In a 1964 hit, The Beatles sing, "She's in love with me and I feel" this fine |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | MMM, CHOCOLATE $800: It's a 10-letter word that describes someone who is incredibly fond of eating chocolate chocoholic |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | PLAYING THE POLITICIAN $800: When playing this WWII-era prime minister in "Darkest Hour", Gary Oldman smoked so many cigars that he got nicotine poisoning Churchill |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | RESPOND LIKE A LOCAL $800: 3 words, 5 syllables: as you regard him blankly, it's how your waiter in Nice politely asks if you speak the native language Parlez-vous francais ? |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | GO TELL IT ON THE FOUNTAIN $900: Prometheus Fountain is a highlight of this New York City landmark also known for its tourist-clogged ice rink Rockefeller Center |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT THE $%*@#&?! $900: It's the $%*@#&?! symbol seen here that, with the exclamation point, forms a punctuation mark known as an interrobang a question mark |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | "F" IS FOR FASHION $900: In 2019, Rihanna launched Fenty; change the last 2 letters & you get this Italian luxury brand founded in 1925 Fendi |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | MAKE IT HAPPEN, CAPTAIN $900: Forming part of the border between New York & New Jersey, this river is named after the explorer who navigated its waters in 1609 Hudson |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | VANITY PLATES $900: Because another motorist had them first, Dr. Seuss waited years to get vanity plates that bore the name of this green meanie the Grinch |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | SUCKERS $900: Only females of this insect, whose name is Spanish for "little fly", suck humans' blood--the males feed on plant nectar mosquitoes |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | 2-PART RESPONSES $1,000 (Daily Double): These are the 2 bands inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame that have had Dave Grohl as a band member Nirvana & the Foo Fighters |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | RESPOND LIKE A LOCAL $1000: 1 word, 4 syllables: it's how you say "good afternoon" in Kyoto--or if it's not the afternoon, it's simply how you might say "hello" Konnichiwa |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | NOTHIN' BUT "NET" $1000: Traditional flamenco dancers move to the clickety-clack of these handheld musical instruments castanets |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL $1000: In 1977, Donna Summer kept everyone on the dance floor with her hit "I Feel" this love |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | MMM, CHOCOLATE $1000: As a nod to its cuisine's origins, this restaurant chain offers a dessert called "The Great Wall of Chocolate" P.F. Chang's |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | 2-PART RESPONSES $1000: These are the 2 elements that make up a molecule of CO2 carbon & oxygen |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | PLAYING THE POLITICIAN $1000: In the miniseries "Mrs. America", Uzo Aduba plays this "Unbought and Unbossed" pioneer Shirley Chisholm |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | GO TELL IT ON THE FOUNTAIN $1200: Chicago's massive Buckingham Fountain features 4 sets of bronze seahorses, one for each state bordering this Great Lake Lake Michigan |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT THE $%*@#&?! $1200: It's the $%"@#&?! symbol seen here whose first word is derived from a Latin term meaning "by the 100" the percentage (the percent sign) |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | MAKE IT HAPPEN, CAPTAIN $1200: Arriving in 1519, Hernán Cortés & his forces invaded central Mexico & took control of this empire led by Montezuma II the Aztecs |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | SUCKERS $1200: Sagittarius A* is this type of heavenly body that sucks everything, including light, into its dark abyss a black hole |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | RESPOND LIKE A LOCAL $1,500 (Daily Double): 1 word, 5 syllables: it's how you say "Goodbye" to that handsome stranger you met in Florence Arrivederci |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | GO TELL IT ON THE FOUNTAIN $1500: The famous Jet d'Eau shoots a plume of water 460 feet into the air, sometimes drenching visitors to this large Swiss city Geneva |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT THE $%*@#&?! $1500: It's the $%"@#&?! symbol seen here that stands for the word spelled out by the last 3 letters in its name an ampersand |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | "F" IS FOR FASHION $1500: Founded in 1992, FUBU is a hip-hop apparel company whose name stands for this for us, by us |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | VANITY PLATES $1500: It's the first name of the Oscar-winning actor who had vanity plates that read "BORG 9" Ernest (Borgnine) |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | SUCKERS $1500: The title role in 1931's "Dracula" was played by this Hungarian-born actor, but he never really said "I want to suck your blood" Bela Lugosi |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | "F" IS FOR FASHION $2,900 (Daily Double): It's the "soft woven cloth" mentioned several times on the Wikipedia page for "Grunge fashion" flannel |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | VANITY PLATES $3,000 (Daily Double): What's up with that, doc?! Mel Blanc had the vanity plate "KMIT"; "kish mir in tuchas" means "kiss my behind" in this language Yiddish |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | MAKE IT HAPPEN, CAPTAIN $12,000 (Daily Double): Son of Erik the Red, this Norse explorer is believed to have been one of the first Europeans to reach the shores of North America Leif Erikson |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | HODGEPODGE $200: In 2024 a zoo in China was accused of deceiving visitors by dying dogs black & white & trying to pass them off as these pandas |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | COMPETITION SHOWS $200: After making a very early exit off this show, political commentator Jon Lovett titled a podcast ep "Outwit, Outplay, Out First" Survivor |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | LET ME TELL YOU A STORY $200: A traveling salesman wakes to find he has a carapace & numerous legs, alarming his family The Metamorphosis |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | FILL OUT THE "NDA" $200: You don't want to be in the coils of the green type of this Amazon dweller, the world's heaviest snake at up to 550 lbs. & 30 feet long anaconda |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | UTENSILS $200: In Japan you use the broad end of these utensils to pick up food from a communal dish chopsticks |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | 20th CENTURY NOTABLES $200: Credited with saving more than 1,000 lives in the 1940s, this man was buried at a Catholic cemetery on Mount Zion Schindler |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | UNDER THE MICROSCOPE $400: Grain, cheese & dust are types of these tiny (really, really tiny!) arthropods mite |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT $400: Until 1935 this body didn't have its own building; it met in the Old Senate Chamber, & members ate lunch in the Robing Room the Supreme Court |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | THEM'S FIGHTING WORDS $400: Relating to a time between ancient & modern--Weird Al warned he'd "get" this "on your heinie" in "Amish Paradise" medieval |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | MEYER SCHUSSER, IRASCIBLE REFUGEE COMPOSER OF GOLDEN AGE HOLLYWOOD $400: MGM sent a man they call an arranger--I could do as well with any bricklayer from this city of Schubert, Strauss & Schusser Vienna |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | HODGEPODGE $400: An advocate for LGBTQ rights & pay equity, in 2022 she became the first soccer player to score a Presidential Medal of Freedom Rapinoe |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | LET ME TELL YOU A STORY $400: Birth rates drop, a theocracy takes over the United States, & fertile women are forced into servitude The Handmaid's Tale |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: He's seen here with his musician fiancée of almost six years as of late 2024 Bloom |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | BRIDGES $400: Trajan's Bridge, which spans the Danube, is found in this country named for the people Trajan ruled Romania |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | FILL OUT THE "NDA" $400: A police officer in Paris, it's from French for "men-at-arms" gendarme |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | COMPETITION SHOWS $400: Episodes of this series that began in 2009 include "Glamazon Prime", "Snatch Game" & "Good God Girl, Get Out" RuPaul's Drag Race |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | UTENSILS $400: As a noun, it's a wire utensil for beating eggs; as a verb, it means to move quickly whisk |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | 20th CENTURY NOTABLES $400: He said his "greatest blunder" was the insertion of the cosmological constant into his theory of general relativity Einstein |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | COMPETITION SHOWS $600: Previously wed for 32 years, Joan Vassos took this title role, nay, responsibility, choosing among 24 suitors in 2024 the Golden Bachelorette |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | LET ME TELL YOU A STORY $600: 2 young men get summer jobs tending sheep on the slopes of a Wyoming peak, grow close & meet up over the years "Brokeback Mountain" |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | FILL OUT THE "NDA" $600: Term for the authorization given by the League of Nations for a country to govern a former German or Turkish territory mandate |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | HODGEPODGE $600: The American Lung Association was founded in 1904 to combat this disease tuberculosis |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | UTENSILS $600: A taste of home cookbook of "Soups, Stews & More" mentions this utensil & 300+ recipes on its cover ladle |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | HODGEPODGE $800: This term for an animal that mostly eats meat is also the name of a diet where humans mostly eat meat & animal products & no carbs carnivore |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | UNDER THE MICROSCOPE $800: SCN is short for this crop's "cyst nematode", a roundworm that may be kept in check by rotating the crop with corn (the) soybean |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | MEYER SCHUSSER, IRASCIBLE REFUGEE COMPOSER OF GOLDEN AGE HOLLYWOOD $800: So, young man, you studied with that Schoenberg fellow at this university in Westwood? Better to learn in a honky tonk on Central Ave. UCLA |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | 20th CENTURY NOTABLES $800: In 1947 nationalist hero Aung San was assassinated at the Secretariat Building in this city Yangon |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | LET ME TELL YOU A STORY $800: A title Greek girl insists on burying her rebel brother & gets entombed in a cave; the gods avenge her Antigone |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | THEM'S FIGHTING WORDS $800: An avian term for a person who thirsts for a scrap, it was used of congressmen elected before the Scrap of 1812 a war hawk |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $800: This "Avatar" actress recently added back the tilde to her last name, missing since a kindergarten teacher refused to use it Saldaña |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | BRIDGES $800: This longest suspension bridge in the U.S. connects scenic Staten Island to Brooklyn Verrazzano-Narrows |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | FILL OUT THE "NDA" $800: Used as an aid to meditation, it's a symbolic representation of the spiritual universe a mandala |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | COMPETITION SHOWS $800: Some viewers agreed with a judge on this tattooing skill competition that a season 4 cat was "nothing other than an atrocity" Ink Master |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | UTENSILS $800: A sieve is good for getting the clumps out of flour; you can use this hole-y bowl-shaped utensil for straining pasta or rinsing lettuce colander |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | 20th CENTURY NOTABLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Gloria Steinem said this 1972 Democratic candidate for pres. "first took the 'white-male-only' sign off the White House" (Shirley) Chisholm |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | FILL OUT THE "NDA" $1000: It's a synonym for dilemma or predicament a quandary |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | LET ME TELL YOU A STORY $1000: A president is grief-stricken when his son dies of typhoid fever; the son's spirit lingers in a purgatory before moving on Lincoln in the Bardo |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | COMPETITION SHOWS $1000: If you wanted to see folks eat live beetles or get lowered into a pit of rats, this early 2000s Joe Rogan show was for you Fear Factor |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | HODGEPODGE $1000: This -ology kind of sounds like the study of a fun summer place but it's actually the art of bell ringing campanology |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | UTENSILS $1000: Pizza cutters are for more than just pizza! Chop herbs & make strips of pastry for this fancy top for a pie crust a lattice |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | 20th CENTURY NOTABLES $1000: In 1993, this South African was president of the African National Congress Women's League Winnie Mandela |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | UNDER THE MICROSCOPE $1200: Many rotifers have regal tufts of cilia that draw water into their mouths; the structure goes by this name, like a layer of the Sun corona |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | MEYER SCHUSSER, IRASCIBLE REFUGEE COMPOSER OF GOLDEN AGE HOLLYWOOD $1200: Ach! I belch better than you play this single-reed woodwind that evolved from the chalumeau; out with you! a clarinet |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | THEM'S FIGHTING WORDS $1200: This 9-letter adjective for someone itching to fight comes from Latin for "of war" bellicose |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT $1200: The mission statement of this Cabinet department begins, "With honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people" Homeland Security |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1200: The role of Aaron Burr won him a Tony & a Grammy Leslie Odom Jr. |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | BRIDGES $1200: The Dongjak Bridge was built to span the Han River in this capital city Seoul |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT $1600: Created in 1939, the Executive Office of the President is overseen by this person, a position created in 1946 the (White House) chief of staff |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | THEM'S FIGHTING WORDS $1600: Throwing hands & then eating together? That's not friendly fire but the alliterative friendly this slang word for a fight (the friendly) fade |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | MEYER SCHUSSER, IRASCIBLE REFUGEE COMPOSER OF GOLDEN AGE HOLLYWOOD $1600: I am scoring a historical drama set at the French court of Louis XV of this royal house; we will not have a "catchy swing number" Bourbon |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $1600: In a line from the always impression-able Al Pacino, these 5 words follow "Just when I thought I was out" They pull me back in |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | BRIDGES $1600: You could cross the Pons Neronianus over this river; its remnants have emerged during a drought 2,000 years later Tiber |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | BRIDGES $2000: Now a World Heritage Site, the perhaps unimaginatively named Ironbridge spans this river, Britain's longest the Severn River |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | MEYER SCHUSSER, IRASCIBLE REFUGEE COMPOSER OF GOLDEN AGE HOLLYWOOD $2000: On the screen, the children frolic; in the studio, the violins play this way, plucking their strings! That is the magic of Schusser pizzicato |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | UNDER THE MICROSCOPE $2000: AKA a water bear or moss piglet, this poster child of charismatic microfauna has survived exposure to the vacuum of space tardigrade |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | THEM'S FIGHTING WORDS $2000: A snack & a body part are in this idiom about someone always ready to take offense a chip on their shoulder |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT $2000: Until 1967 & the 25th Amendment, VP succession to the presidency was based on precedent named for this man, the first to do it Tyler |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $2000: This New Zealand-born actress has won raves as Shauna, one of the grown-up crash survivors in "Yellowjackets" (Melanie) Lynskey |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT $6,400 (Daily Double): The oldest committee in the House, it's been charting revenue policy since 1789 Ways and Means |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | UNDER THE MICROSCOPE $14,800 (Daily Double): Some mini cnidarians that can regenerate parts of their bodies have this mythic name, like a creature fought by Hercules hydra |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | INTERNATIONALLY SCHOOLING YOU $200: Aye, Scottish ethnology is a full undergraduate program at the University of this capital Edinburgh |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | CLINKY DRINKS $200: If you like piña coladas, you'd better lay in a supply of light this, the base liquor rum |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | COLONIAL AMERICA $200: Containing a baker's dozen of stars in a circle, the colonial flag has been dubbed the flag of this Philadelphian (Betsy) Ross |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | TV SHOW CHANGE A LETTER $200: Magic, schmagic! The Russo kids must deal with hordes of geckos & skinks Lizards of Waverly Place |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | FROM "C" TO "Y" $200: It can mean volume or space, but also mental ability capacity |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | LITERARY QUOTATIONS $200: To Alexander Pope this "springs eternal in the human breast: man never is, but always to be blessed" hope |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | CLINKY DRINKS $400: Add a shot of Grand Marnier to a margarita & you're having it this high-end style, & hopefully not driving one Cadillac (style) |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: Book about Bligh & Fletcher Christian & job pursuing criminals for reward as a gonzo journalist of note Mutiny on the Bounty Hunter S. Thompson |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | THE NOT-A-COMMA DESERT $400: The only constitutional amendment with no comma is the 19th from 1920, seen here with this single word missing
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of ____.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. sex |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | LITERARY QUOTATIONS $400: To Horace, "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori", it is lovely & honorable to die for this; WWI poet Wilfred Owen called that a lie one's country |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | TV SHOW CHANGE A LETTER $400: Hugh Laurie goes full rodent at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital & he's addicted to all the cheese Mouse |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | INTERNATIONALLY SCHOOLING YOU $400: Australia's oldest university was founded in the 19th century in this city, on land of the Gadigal people Sydney |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | COLONIAL AMERICA $400: Some candles were made from tallow, but the good ones were made with spermaceti, a substance from these mammals whales |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | FROM "C" TO "Y" $400: ethereum.org can help you design & issue your own one of these; you might need to write code in Python cryptocurrency |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | THE ANDYs $400: In 2024 Andy Samberg returned to "Saturday Night Live" to play this political spouse, who approved of the portrayal (Doug) Emhoff |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | SOUTH AMERICA $400: Covering his rise from poverty to greatness, a kids' book about this late Brazilian is subtitled "The King of Soccer" Pelé |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | BACH TO THE FUTURE $400: Welcome to the (future) party, pal! The "Die Hard" soundtrack includes No. 3 of this set of concertos the Brandenburg Concertos |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | LIFE SCIENCE $400: In ecology this 5-letter word refers to an area such as a desert or forest with its unique variety of life biome |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | TV SHOW CHANGE A LETTER $600: Richie, Fonzie, Potsie & Ralph Malph gather to sing the opening word of the "Banana Boat Song" Happy Day-O |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | COLONIAL AMERICA $600: The growth of colonial governments was aided by the British policy of lax oversight called "salutary" this neglect |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | INTERNATIONALLY SCHOOLING YOU $600: College football coach Duffy Daugherty: "I could have been a" this, (getting a free ride to Oxford) "except for my grades" a Rhodes Scholar |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | FROM "C" TO "Y" $600: The opposite of voluntary, it's from the Latin for "to force" compulsory |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | LITERARY QUOTATIONS $600: Carroll critter who said, "The time has come... to talk of many things: of shoes--& ships--& sealing wax--of cabbages & kings" the Walrus |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | CLINKY DRINKS $600: A Manhattan uses vermouth & whiskey; a Bronx, vermouth & this booze, plus some OJ so it's not just a martini gin |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: Nation's top lawyer & a poultry dish named for a mighty Chinese military man combine for some truly illegible handwriting Attorney General Tso's chicken scratch |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | INTERNATIONALLY SCHOOLING YOU $800: Justin Trudeau went way out West & was a snowboard bum while getting a B. Ed. degree from the University of this province British Columbia |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | LITERARY QUOTATIONS $800: "Her hair was long, her foot was light, and her eyes were wild" is Keats on this belle dame who is without pity, not without thanks sans merci |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | TV SHOW CHANGE A LETTER $800: Murderous blood-splatter specialist Michael C. Hall is addicted to his cell phone & can't stop messaging Texter |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | FROM "C" TO "Y" $800: In one sense the opposite of union, it's actually a synonym for union confederacy |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | CLINKY DRINKS $800: In 1883 a bartender told the Chicago Tribune his patrons preferred this American whiskey to bourbon in their old-fashioneds rye |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | THE NOT-A-COMMA DESERT $800: The National Archives translation of this document starts with a comma-free clause about the freedom of the English Church the Magna Carta |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | THE ANDYs $800: He's the multiple Super Bowl winning head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs Reid |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | SOUTH AMERICA $800: The westernmost point of mainland South America is Punta Pariñas in this country's Piura region Peru |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | BACH TO THE FUTURE $800: The cantata tune these title Bach animals "may safely graze" was heard in "Little Women" in 2019 sheep |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | LIFE SCIENCE $800: This fibrous protein that makes up your hair & nails is also a major component of an animal's claws, hooves & feathers keratin |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | INTERNATIONALLY SCHOOLING YOU $1000: In 1589 Galileo became Chair of Mathematics at the University of this but soon found himself in motion to Padua Pisa |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | CLINKY DRINKS $1000: A classic Aperol spritz gets its spritziness from club soda & this Italian sparkling wine Prosecco |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | TV SHOW CHANGE A LETTER $1000: Ben Bailey is back in the taxi-based game show biz; no money though--your prize is an itchy skin condition Rash Cab |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | COLONIAL AMERICA $1000: Led by this founder, the British first settled Georgia in 1733 Oglethorpe |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | FROM "C" TO "Y" $1000: In a candle the melted wax is carried upward via this type of "action" in the wick capillary |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | LITERARY QUOTATIONS $1000: In "Tropic of Cancer", he wrote, "I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive" Miller |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | THE NOT-A-COMMA DESERT $1200: Some longed for a comma in the title of this film directed by Olivia Wilde & set in a creepy 1950s planned community Don't Worry Darling |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | THE ANDYs $1200: In 2011, this actor & director co-founded the Imaginarium, a performance capture studio (Andy) Serkis |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | BACH TO THE FUTURE $1200: Enjoy the residual check, J.S.! In "Before Sunset" & "Before Sunrise" you can hear No. 25 in this eponymous set of piano pieces the Goldberg Variations |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | LIFE SCIENCE $1200: Fish, mammals & even spiders secrete these chemicals that allow them to communicate with members of their own species pheromone |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | THE ANDYs $1600: He was the title dad of a Cuban-American family in a 2022 version of "Father of the Bride" (Andy) García |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: "Madama Butterfly" heroine crooning in Costa Rica's capital with a glass of gold tequila from a well-known brand Cio-Cio-San Jose Cuervo |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | BACH TO THE FUTURE $1600: Always up for a musical adventure, he joined Chris Thile on mandolin & Edgar Meyer on double bass for the "Trio Sonata No. 6" Yo-Yo Ma |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | THE NOT-A-COMMA DESERT $1600: "It was red & yellow & green & brown & scarlet & black & ochre" is a lyric in this long-titled biblical musical by Lloyd Webber & Rice Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | SOUTH AMERICA $1600: Not Sesame Street but South America is home to this flightless big bird that can reach 5 feet in height rhea |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | LIFE SCIENCE $1600: A neuron is made up of 3 basic parts: a cell body, an axon & these treelike filaments dendrites |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Taylor Swift's record-breaking concert series is both a feat of skill & a French term in a contract for an act of God the Eras Tour de Force Majeure |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | THE NOT-A-COMMA DESERT $2000: "What was the use of not leaving it there where it would hang what was the use" is in a book she wrote around 1912 after moving to Europe Stein |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | THE ANDYs $2000: Following an appearance at the Paris Olympics in the men's doubles, this Scot retired from pro tennis Andy Murray |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | SOUTH AMERICA $2000: Native languages of South America include Quechua, Aymara & this, the only language of 1/3 of Paraguayans Guarani |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | BACH TO THE FUTURE $2000: "Thirty Two Short Films about" this Canadian pianist ends with his recording of Bach heading off into space Glenn Gould |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | LIFE SCIENCE $2000: DNA consists of these smaller units that bond together in long chains called poly-these nucleotide |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | COLONIAL AMERICA $2,400 (Daily Double): The Jamestown colony was on land in the territory of this leader whose empire spanned more than a dozen tribes Powhatan |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $5,000 (Daily Double): Timeless Tevye tune that mentions Superman's nickname & his favorite type of abrasive scouring pad "If I Were A Rich Man Of Steel Wool" |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | SOUTH AMERICA $14,600 (Daily Double): Located on the lower slopes of the volcano Pichincha, this city is the South American capital closest to the equator Quito |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | FLIGHTS OF FANCY $200: No, the Titanic's fate wasn't due to a curse involving a priestess of Amen-Ra or any of these tightly wrapped types a mummy |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | POSITION $200: "Dig if you will the picture" of the top spot in 1984: this Prince hit "When Doves Cry" |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | POLE $200: A national historic park has a collection of these from Tlingit history, including the Cormorant Memorial one totem |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | LANDMARKS $200: The Taj Mahal features one large & 4 smaller these in the "onion" style dome |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | 12-LETTER WORDS $200: This adjective means complicated & difficult to find your way through, like confronting an ancient Cretan maze labyrinthine |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE $200: The second paragraph declares that the creator endows people with certain unalienable rights & then lists these 3 life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $400: Where cheese is made &
where thoughts are jotted dairy & diary |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | 12-LETTER WORDS $400: From Greek for "making of words", this, meaning imitative of sound, might make you hiss onomatopoeia |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | 10/10 WINDS $400: The Arabic word for "season" gives us this seasonal rain & wind pattern that occurs over South Asia monsoon |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | INTO AFRICA $400: Sporting a 355-foot maximum drop, this landmark named by Livingstone has a mean flow of about 35,000 cubic feet per second Victoria Falls |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | POETRY-POURRI $400: In the late 19th century, Masaoka Shiki revived the 2 classic Japanese traditional poetic forms of tanka & this haiku |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | CEOs $400: Right before CEO-ing at Starbucks, Brian Niccol ran this company where his go-to was the bowl, not the burrito Chipotle |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | HEART WORM-ING MOVIES $400: To celebrate the release of "Dune: Part Two", AMC concession stands sold these in the shape of a sandworm popcorn bucket |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | POSITION $400: We can see why The Weeknd wears shades so often with this 2020 chart-topper "Blinding Lights" |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | POLE $400: Their poles are thought to relate to the ancient practice of bloodletting, with red symbolizing blood & white, bandages barbers |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | LANDMARKS $400: Greek for "high city", it rises some 500 feet above Athens the Acropolis |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | FLIGHTS OF FANCY $400: Despite what you've heard, the traditional throwing of this at the end of a wedding will not harm birds or their tummies rice |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE $400: Language condemning the British practice of this "execrable commerce" was removed despite objections slavery |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | POSITION $600: At 35th in 2008 was this banger from M.I.A. that featured gunshots & taking "your money" "Paper Planes" |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | POLE $600: Part of George Costanza's heritage, it's symbolized by an aluminum pole Festivus |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | LANDMARKS $600: The dining room at this home of a president is serviced by a dumbwaiter & a revolving door for presenting food Monticello |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | 12-LETTER WORDS $600: A copy of an ancient Grecian urn, or how a species propagates a reproduction |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | FLIGHTS OF FANCY $600: Science has never substantiated the existence of this fanciful beast that attacks livestock & has a name meaning "goat sucker" a chupacabra |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE $600: About 2 weeks after Pearl Harbor, the Declaration was hidden away at this Kentucky facility, where it remained until late 1944 Fort Knox |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $800: A real test of character, perhaps by fire, &
to put in more ammo ordeal & reload |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | CEOs $800: Mary Dillon is the CEO of this store for sneakerheads that has a black-&-white logo Foot Locker |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | 10/10 WINDS $800: It's the alliterative name for a small whirlwind made up of dirt & debris a dust devil |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | INTO AFRICA $800: The snows of this Tanzanian mountain include the Dome of Kibo, which has a 1.2-mile-wide crater Kilimanjaro |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | POETRY-POURRI $800: Unrhymed iambic pentameter, this type of "verse" was embraced by Milton & Frost blank |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | HEART WORM-ING MOVIES $800: This 2006 film based on a Y.A. book by Thomas Rockwell has Billy "Wormboy" Forrester agreeing to ingest 10 squiggly wigglies How to Eat Fried Worms |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | POSITION $800: We're off to hear this artist's "See You Again", which checked in at third in 2015 Wiz Khalifa |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | POLE $800: Term for a type of TV programming where a strong show "supports" a weaker preceding or following show tentpole |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | 12-LETTER WORDS $800: A Northerner in the South during Reconstruction might be labeled this, for the satchel he carried a carpetbagger |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | FLIGHTS OF FANCY $800: This Ukrainian president wasn't seen on video in a strange costume doing a belly dance; that rumor's been debunked Zelenskyy |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE $800: The Declaration drew direct inspiration from ideas in this colony's Declaration of Rights Virginia |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | POSITION $1000: In 2000 he had the 2nd & 3rd spots with "Smooth" (with Rob Thomas) & "Maria Maria" (with The Product G&B) Santana |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | POLE $1000: This legendary Ukrainian pole vaulter was the first to clear 20 feet Sergey Bubka |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | LANDMARKS $1000: Built in the 17th & 18th centuries, the Schönbrunn Palace was the summer home of this dynasty for nearly two centuries Habsburg |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1000: This 12-letter synonym for sleepwalker sounds a lot fancier somnambulist |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | FLIGHTS OF FANCY $1000: This Baltimore Sun writer's completely fictitious history of the bathtub from 1917 was believed by many, much to his mischievous delight Mencken |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE $1000: The document was influenced by this English thinker's tenet that govt. gets its powers from "the consent of the people" John Locke |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $1200: To support &
a marine creature with edible claws bolster & lobster |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | 10/10 WINDS $1200: Here's an Earth-sized storm on this planet, an ice giant that has the strongest winds in the Solar System Neptune |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | POETRY-POURRI $1200: From the Latin for "song", it's a major section of an epic poem a canto |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | CEOs $1200: O say can you see, Gail Boudreaux took over as CEO of this health insurance provider in 2017; it's now called Elevance Health Anthem |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | HEART WORM-ING MOVIES $1200: Worms called Graboids are on the hunt for some Kevin Bacon in this 1990 film Tremors |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | HEART WORM-ING MOVIES $1600: A wormy pal named Maggot lives inside the head of the title character in this Tim Burton tale of man meets decaying flesh the Corpse Bride |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | 10/10 WINDS $1600: According to Raymond Chandler, these desert SoCal winds make "wives feel the edge of the carving knife & study their husbands' necks" the Santa Ana winds |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | INTO AFRICA $1600: This country has a modest but beach-bum-friendly 35-mile coastline on the Gulf of Guinea Togo |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | POETRY-POURRI $1600: Horace's odes use a poetic style named for this woman Sappho |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | CEOs $1600: This pork producer from Virginia had CEOs with the same name: Joseph Luter Jr. & the 3rd; even J.L. the 4th got into some ham hawking Smithfield |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | LANDMARKS $1,800 (Daily Double): Its name is Quechua for "old peak" Machu Picchu |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $2,000 (Daily Double): A physical reaction to a substance &
a place to hang art gallery & allergy |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | INTO AFRICA $2000: In December 2024 Joe Biden became the first U.S. president to visit this African country & its National Museum of Slavery Angola |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | 10/10 WINDS $2000: This wind scale named for a hydrographer ranges from calm to hurricane Beaufort |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $2000: 3 responses:
showy fall flower, shocking weapon & fixed gaze taser, aster & stare |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | POETRY-POURRI $2000: Sounding like a female antagonist from TV, it's a 19-line poem with 2 refrains villanelle |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | CEOs $2000: In 2015 Larry Page handed over the reins of Google to this CEO born in Tamil Nadu, India Sundar Pichai |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | HEART WORM-ING MOVIES $2000: "Would you still love me if I was a worm?" takes on a whole new meaning in "Slither", the first film directed by this DC Studios CEO (James) Gunn |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | INTO AFRICA $3,000 (Daily Double): This capital on the Congo River shoreline was the site of Ali & Foreman's "Rumble in the Jungle" Kinshasa |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | KIND OF BLUE POP CULTURE $200: This team flies the coop from Rogers Centre for spring training at TD Ballpark in Florida the Blue Jays |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | LIBRARY GLOSSARY $200: 2 essential types of call numbers are Dewey Decimal & this classification system abbreviated L.C. the Library of Congress |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | STOCKING THE CABINET $200: This chief justice of the U.S. moonlighted at his old secretary of state gig for John Adams (John) Marshall |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ENDS IN "FF" $200: This type of tax on imports goes back to Arabic for "notification" a tariff |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | LEGENDARY TWEETS $200: "Contrary to popular belief, me don't only eat cookies. Me eat three square meals a day... with lots of circular desserts" Cookie Monster |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $200: The canals of Xochimilco are in the southern part of this national capital built on an ancient lake bed Mexico City |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | YOU NEED TO SEE A SPECIALIST $400: A maternal-fetal medicine doctor can judge the wisdom of VBAC, giving birth naturally when you've previously delivered this way caesarean section |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | WELL, WELL $400: A holy well in this U.K. country is named for Saint Winifred, whose head ended up in it; her name sometimes starts with "G" Wales |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ENDS IN "FF" $400: It can mean to mock someone, or to eat voraciously to scoff |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | LIBRARY GLOSSARY $400: I.L.L., short for this, won't make you sick; it's just a way of borrowing books from other repositories interlibrary loan |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | KIND OF BLUE POP CULTURE $400: In this frat comedy, Will Ferrell sings a riveting rendition of "Dust In The Wind" at the funeral of his pal Blue Old School |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | LEGENDARY TWEETS $400: "I rewatched 'Office Space' tonight for the 5th time to prepare for @doge!" Elon Musk |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $400: Found in Guyana's national dish, pepperpot, cassareep is a thick syrup extracted from this plant cassava |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | STOCKING THE CABINET $400: Herbert Hoover handled merch in this Cabinet post under Warren Harding & Calvin Coolidge Commerce |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | FUNNY BOY IS AN ACTOR NOW $400: He left "City Slickers" & Oscar hosting behind for roles like writer with dementia ("Here Today") & widower therapist ("Before") Billy Crystal |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | NEWISH WORDS & PHRASES $400: Pink outfits are central to this "-core" that got some pop culture heat from a 2023 flick with some real dolls Barbiecore |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | THE ARTS $400: A 1912 review of this ballet based on Russian folklore said ornithologists would be interested in a new discovery that flew on stage The Firebird |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ENGLISH LIT $400: This book begins, "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy" The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | STOCKING THE CABINET $600: An ex-presidential candidate himself, he diplomatically followed Hillary Clinton as Obama's secretary of state Kerry |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ENDS IN "FF" $600: It's the Hogwarts house that fits the category Hufflepuff |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | LIBRARY GLOSSARY $600: Another name for the loan desk is this 4-syllable word, a reference to how the books move around circulation |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | KIND OF BLUE POP CULTURE $600: From 1996 to 2002 Steve Burns hosted this children's show, solving puzzles with a pup Blue's Clues |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | LEGENDARY TWEETS $600: "I have to dress Kim every day so she doesn't embarrass me" Kanye |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $600: The Grande St. Lucian is one of more than 15 of these Caribbean resorts for couples in love Sandals |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | THE ARTS $800: This painter is a character in the animated film "Coco", still creating art in the Land of the Dead Kahlo |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | YOU NEED TO SEE A SPECIALIST $800: It's thalassemia, so you're short on this protein that carries oxygen in the blood--here's a referral to the hematologist hemoglobin |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ENDS IN "FF" $800: In ancient Rome, an ancestor of the English type of this dog breed fought bears, lions & even gladiators in the arena a mastiff |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | LIBRARY GLOSSARY $800: Also a Triple Crown racehorse, it's a reference to a book or magazine including publication date, author & so on citation |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | KIND OF BLUE POP CULTURE $800: James Cameron said he chose blue for this alien species because "green was taken" the Na'vi |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | LEGENDARY TWEETS $800: "Oh. My. God. I spend my day cleaning & vacuuming & sanitizing everything in the house. I have become Danny Tanner" Bob Saget |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | STOCKING THE CABINET $800: Treasury Sec. Salmon P. Chase raised revenue & inflation by printing the U.S. government's first currency, known by this colorful name greenback |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | FUNNY BOY IS AN ACTOR NOW $800: Albert Brooks of likable schlub roles was chilling as mobster Bernie in this Ryan Gosling movie Drive |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | WELL, WELL $800: At a well in Genesis 24, this biblical matriarch helps out some thirsty camels & soon is Isaac's wife Rebekah |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | NEWISH WORDS & PHRASES $800: Involving a paper container, this phrase refers to what someone is after not selling that bad investment, now even worse a bag holder |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ENGLISH LIT $800: "Catriona", a sequel to this novel, recounts "The Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad" Kidnapped |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1,000 (Daily Double): The name of this territory means "our land" in an Inuit language Nunavut |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | STOCKING THE CABINET $1000: Robert Todd Lincoln, who saw his share of bad stuff, was in this president's Cabinet & witnessed his fatal shooting in Washington Garfield |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ENDS IN "FF" $1000: This word meant any bishop, but now it's specifically the bishop of Rome pontiff |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | LIBRARY GLOSSARY $1000: Your library may have a reader for this type of film, with reproductions of newspapers & a name from French microfiche |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | KIND OF BLUE POP CULTURE $1000: "Hollywood Sadcore" has been used to describe this artist, as well as her music video for "Blue Jeans" Lana Del Rey |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | LEGENDARY TWEETS $1000: "And of course, the film 'Gravity' (2013) should instead have been named 'Zero Gravity"' deGrasse Tyson |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1000: Pacific port cities of this smallest Central American nation include La Unión & Acajutla El Salvador |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | NEWISH WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Meaning perfectly acceptable, this word from "Simpsons" fame made it into Merriam-Webster in 2023 cromulent |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | FUNNY BOY IS AN ACTOR NOW $1200: Snubbed by the Academy for "Daddy Day Care", he earned an Oscar nomination for an edgy role in "Dreamgirls" Eddie Murphy |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | YOU NEED TO SEE A SPECIALIST $1200: Meaning related to the elderly, it precedes "medicine" for a specialist who sees a lot of falls & dementia geriatric |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | WELL, WELL $1200: The man seen here is deciding where to dig a well; he's divining or doing this, which sounds like soaking someone with water dowsing |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | THE ARTS $1200: This architect captured the horizontal sweep of the Plains in the Prairie style, as seen in his Robie House (Frank Lloyd) Wright |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ENGLISH LIT $1200: Published in 1853, "Villette", her last completed novel, tells of a young woman who teaches at a boarding school in the title town Charlotte Brontë |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ENGLISH LIT $1600: This James Joyce novel ends, "The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the" Finnegans Wake |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | FUNNY BOY IS AN ACTOR NOW $1600: On film in the '70s this stand-up legend made comedies like "Silver Streak" but also the Marxist auto worker drama "Blue Collar" Richard Pryor |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | WELL, WELL $1600: In a soul music classic, it's when you miss your water; it happens faster in a water table aquifer than in a confined aquifer your well runs dry |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | THE ARTS $1600: Bernini sculpted this goddess struggling helplessly as she is dragged to the underworld Persephone |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | YOU NEED TO SEE A SPECIALIST $2000: An endocrinologist can treat this insufficiency--the glands of the same name are under-producing hormones like cortisol adrenal |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | WELL, WELL $2000: Giving oil since 1861, McClintock Well #1 in Northwest Pennsylvania was long-owned by this motor oil company with a Pennsylvania name Quaker State |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | FUNNY BOY IS AN ACTOR NOW $2000: Sacha Baron Cohen gets all upset on "Disclaimer", with this blonde actress as documentarian Catherine Ravenscroft Cate Blanchett |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | NEWISH WORDS & PHRASES $2000: E.H.E. is short for this type of steamy meteorological happening, all too common now with climate change an extreme heat event |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | THE ARTS $2000: This pioneering photographer titled his iconic photo of garment worker Ella Watson "American Gothic" Gordon Parks |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ENGLISH LIT $2000: This Irish poet & 1995 Nobel laureate won monster praise for his modern translation of "Beowulf" (Seamus) Heaney |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | NEWISH WORDS & PHRASES $3,600 (Daily Double): This online activity of anxiously poring over the sad state of affairs was in full swing in 2024 doomscrolling |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | YOU NEED TO SEE A SPECIALIST $7,200 (Daily Double): An epileptologist will know how to treat tonic-clonic seizures, the bad kind also known by this French name grand mal |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS $200: Some truck drivers battle sleepiness with this chemical, the mainstay of NoDoz, Vivarin & 5-hour Energy caffeine |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU $200: Dug up in France, in 2019 one of these from WWI was mistaken for a potato & sent to a chip factory before police detonated it a grenade |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ENGLISH CLASS $200: OK, one more time: with an apostrophe, this 3-letter word is a contraction; without, a possessive it's |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | A HALF HOUR OF TELEVISION $200: Selina Meyer, on this HBO sitcom: "I will destroy you in ways that are so creative, they will honor me for it at the Kennedy Center" Veep |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ELEMENTAL NAMES $200: Hey there, the song "Delilah" off Queen's album "Innuendo" was named after this man's cat Freddie Mercury |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $200: This 4-letter word that ends with 3 vowels can mean "see you later" ciao |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S GET QUI"ZZ"ICAL $400: It can mean to impress or to embellish a piece of clothing with sequins or rhinestones bedazzle |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM $400: Adopted in 1917, the flag of this state sports a white buffalo on a dark blue field along with the words, "Equal Rights" Wyoming |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: The Rat Islands & the Fox Islands are part of this volcanic chain that separates the Bering Sea from the Pacific Ocean the Aleutian Islands |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | LIT-POURRI $400: First name of Pushkin's hero Mr. Onegin; in Russian, he's Yevgeny Eugene |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | MOVIES AFTER YOU PRESS PLAY $400: "The End" by The Doors plays; a jungle bursts into flames & fades into Captain Willard in Saigon Apocalypse Now |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | U.N. SECRETARIES-GENERAL $400: In 2010, Ban Ki-moon visited U.N. HQ in this Caribbean nation, where victims of a quake included Ban's special representative Haiti |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ENGLISH CLASS $400: Confused by these 2 adverbs? Use the one with an "A" when you mean more distance, the one with a "U" when you just mean more farther & further |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | A HALF HOUR OF TELEVISION $400: On the next "Arrested Development"... Jeffrey Tambor was dad to this actor; he, in turn, was dad to Michael Cera Bateman |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS $400: Compounds of this element, atomic number 17, can give lifeguards respiratory problems chlorine |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ELEMENTAL NAMES $400: In a 1900 story a motley crew stumbles upon this character, frozen in position for more than a year the Tin Man |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU $400: Researchers in England say a 14th c. woman faked her death to flee life in one of these institutions & pursue "carnal lust" a nunnery (a convent) |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Also a style of pasta with sautéed vegetables, this word means "spring" in Italian primavera |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ENGLISH CLASS $600: This "voice" should be avoided when possible--wait, let me make that active! Avoid this "voice" when possible passive |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | A HALF HOUR OF TELEVISION $600: Ilana Glazer, reacting to a man who wants to get married on this comedy: "I'm only 27. What am I, a child bride?" Broad City |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS $600: Sylvia Mackey is the mother of the 88 Plan, which provides aid to retirees who had this job & suffer from dementia football player |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ELEMENTAL NAMES $600: This gym was founded in Venice Beach by a bodybuilder & Navy veteran; I saw it in "Pumping Iron" Gold's Gym |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU $600: In 2019, Britain's Coastguard detained a replica of this 70-meter--sorry, 150-cubit vessel, saying it wasn't seaworthy Noah's Ark |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $600: Italian for "20 miles", it's the name of a town in Italy & of actor Milo, of Italian heritage ventimiglia |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | A HALF HOUR OF TELEVISION $800: Benjamin Arthur tagged in as Jake "The Snake" Roberts while Bradley Constant played a "Young" him The Rock |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ENGLISH CLASS $800: (Brian Jordan Alvarez presents the clue.) Want to write a good term paper? You need to nail this introductory statement that sets forth your argument & provides a road map for the rest of your essay; it's from Greek for "proposition" thesis |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S GET QUI"ZZ"ICAL $800: An informal way to address a male judge or mayor hizzoner |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM $800: This organization gives adult volunteers the Silver Buffalo Award; the first went to Robert Baden-Powell Boy Scouts |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: There once was a clue from Limerick, a port city of West Central Ireland, on this river's Atlantic estuary the Shannon |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | LIT-POURRI $800: Elwood Curtis is sentenced to a reform school in this Colson Whitehead novel The Nickel Boys |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | MOVIES AFTER YOU PRESS PLAY $800: 1996:
Drew Barrymore talks on the phone to a mysterious voice while making popcorn Scream |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | U.N. SECRETARIES-GENERAL $800: Dag Hammarskjöld died on a 1961 mission to bring peace to this formerly Belgian region of Africa the Congo |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS $800: Falls are always a concern for a shingler, a subspecialty of this job a roofer |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU $800: This Down Under airline apologized after accidentally showing a sexually explicit film to all passengers on a Sydney-Tokyo flight Qantas |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Denominazione means "designation" & is the D in this 3-letter designation on good bottles of Nebbiolo DOC |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: The middle of this word for a song played between the acts of an opera sports a pair of Z's an intermezzo |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS $1000: That Siamese in for a checkup may have an asymptomatic Bartonella infection & give the vet this febrile disease cat scratch fever |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU $1000: In 2020 a man asked an Iowa court to let him settle a dispute with his wife via a duel using this Japanese-named sword a katana |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ENGLISH CLASS $1000: In "speaking is easy", "speaking" is one of these, a verb form acting as a noun a gerund |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | A HALF HOUR OF TELEVISION $1000: As Revolutionary War soldier Nigel Chessum, John Hartman falls in love with the man who killed him on this CBS comedy Ghosts |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ELEMENTAL NAMES $1000: This guy behind FiveThirtyEight.com only missed one state in the 2008 presidential election: Indiana Nate Silver |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM $1200: Joining as an expansion team in 1970, this franchise has featured stars like left winger Rick Martin & goalie Dominik Hasek the Sabres |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S GET QUI"ZZ"ICAL $1200: These European show horses are noted for their iconic white coats & Roman noses Lipizzaners |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $1200: The northernmost capital city in Africa, it's home to the Al-Zaytunah Mosque, which dates from the 8th century Tunis |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | LIT-POURRI $1200: This ordinal-named novella by Graham Greene was published after the release of its 1949 film adaptation The Third Man |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | U.N. SECRETARIES-GENERAL $1200: The first UNSG from Asia, he had a background in journalism & was a devout Buddhist U Thant |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM $1600: This David Mamet play is set on a Friday at Don's Resale Shop; the title refers to a valuable nickel American Buffalo |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S GET QUI"ZZ"ICAL $1600: Malcolm X adopted the name el-Hajj Malik el-this, in part for the name of a tribe from which Black Americans were said to descend Shabazz |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | LIT-POURRI $1600: A crime fiction magazine published continuously since 1941 bears the name of this fictional author/detective Ellery Queen |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | MOVIES AFTER YOU PRESS PLAY $1600: 2024:
After an egg yolk births a second yolk, Demi Moore's star on the Walk of Fame begins to age The Substance |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | U.N. SECRETARIES-GENERAL $1600: Running afoul of her, the Clinton administration's top diplomat, cost Boutros Boutros-Ghali a chance for a second term Albright |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | U.N. SECRETARIES-GENERAL $2000: A former European prime minister & U.N. secretary-general since 2017, he's led efforts to address climate change & its impact on prosperity Guterres |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM $2000: The Cape buffalo thrives in Africa in part because it's immune to nagana, the bovine form of sleeping sickness caused by this fly tsetse |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: This southernmost Mexican state was linked with Guatemala in colonial times; it was more recently a center of unrest Chiapas |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S GET QUI"ZZ"ICAL $2000: In the Bible, during this king's great feast, he sees writing on the wall & Daniel is brought in to interpret Belshazzar |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | LIT-POURRI $2000: John Ford said his film "Stagecoach" was inspired by "Boule de Suif" by this French short story writer Guy de Maupassant |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | MOVIES AFTER YOU PRESS PLAY $2000: Animated Muses on a Grecian vase come to life & mention the title demigod before singing a gospel-tinged myth primer Hercules |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ELEMENTAL NAMES $3,200 (Daily Double): According to a study published in 2016, this venomous pit viper was responsible for 39% of snake bites on U.S. kids a copperhead |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $4,400 (Daily Double): The Genghis Khan Statue Complex is found about 35 miles west of this city of 1.5 million Ulan Bator |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | MOVIES AFTER YOU PRESS PLAY $5,000 (Daily Double): 1981:
The Paramount Pictures mountain fades into a Peruvian peak Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | SEAT CHANGE $100: Do this, brown a meat's exterior at a high temperature, to give steak a nice crust & seal in its juices sear |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE STATE WHERE IT HAPPENED $100: 1969:
Three... two... one... liftoff! Neil Armstrong & co. depart Cape Kennedy for the Moon Florida |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIKE HOT CAKES $100: Savory or sweet, this French pancake can be served rolled, folded over or folded into a triangle a crêpe |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | PODCASTS ABOUT TV SHOWS A $100: Sean Hayes & Eric McCormack co-host "Just Jack & Will", a look back at this groundbreaking sitcom featuring a gay lead character Will & Grace |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | "GENERAL" KNOWLEDGE $100: '80s pop hunk Rick Springfield played Dr. Noah Drake on this ABC soap opera set in Port Charles General Hospital |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THANKSGIVING $100: Predating Plymouth's by over 40 years, the first Thanksgiving held by Europeans in North America was in this country Canada |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | WHO POSTED IT? $200: In April of 2024:
"Only a fortnight til The Tortured Poets Department" Taylor Swift |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE BATHROOM $200: The Toftan soap dispenser is one of several bathroom products this retail giant has named after Swedish bodies of water IKEA |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE'S A BEACH $200: Known for its boardwalk, this Southern California beach is named after an Italian city known for its canals Venice |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | DEATH LOOKS GOOD ON YOU $200: His burial marker in Gotha, Florida has an engraving of him rocking a sweet afro; it also reads "television artist" Bob Ross |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | CRYPTOZOOLOGY $200: Passengers might hope to spot a legendary monster while riding a "Beastie Boat" on this Scottish lake Loch Ness |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S KEEP THIS SHORT $200: The supermarket owner: "You can get a sandwich at the deli--don't make me explain that 'deli' is short for" this word delicatessen |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | SEAT CHANGE $200: This 1995 cop drama features the first time that Al Pacino & Robert De Niro appear together in the same movie scene Heat |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE STATE WHERE IT HAPPENED $200: 1789:
George Washington is inaugurated as the first U.S. president New York |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIKE HOT CAKES $200: Cooked in oil, this potato pancake is often served during Hanukkah with applesauce & sour cream a latke |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | PODCASTS ABOUT TV SHOWS A $200: "Pod Yourself a Gun" is a rewatch podcast whose title references a lyric in the theme song of this acclaimed HBO drama The Sopranos |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | "GENERAL" KNOWLEDGE $200: This corporation teamed with NASA to put an electric car on the Moon 45 years before selling a mass-market version here on Earth General Motors |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THANKSGIVING $200: A show of gratitude for workers, Japan's modern tradition of Labor Thanksgiving Day began in 1948, 3 years after this conflict ended World War II |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE OF "E"s $300: In 2008, she won her fourth consecutive Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show host; her full name has 6 nonconsecutive E's Ellen Degeneres |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | BOND VILLAINS $300: In the very first Bond film in 1962, Joseph Wiseman portrayed this mad scientist & title villain (yes, yes he did) Dr. No |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | FASHIONABLE LOGOS $300: Really emphasizing the whole "Guess" aesthetic, labels on Guess jeans fittingly feature this punctuation mark a question mark |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE COW GOES MU $300: In France, you'll find this cocky animal on soccer jerseys as well as on farms, where it might awaken you with a "cocorico" a rooster |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | FINISH THE JINGLE $300: From a leprechaun who's been evading cereal theft for decades:
"I love me Lucky Charms..." they're magically delicious |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | GLOBAL MARKERS $300: The top level of this famed Paris pylon once held a private penthouse used by its engineer & namesake the Eiffel Tower |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | SEAT CHANGE $300: On ESPN, this word means a piece of sports data--but in the E.R., it means "right now!" stat |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE STATE WHERE IT HAPPENED $300: 1881:
The Tuskegee institute is founded by Booker T. Washington Alabama |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIKE HOT CAKES $300: Not to be confused with a pannenkoek, this giant Dutch pancake is more like an oven-baked popover a Dutch baby |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | PODCASTS ABOUT TV SHOWS A $300: "That Was Us", a podcast about "This Is Us", is co-hosted by this actor who played Randall Pearson Sterling K. Brown |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | "GENERAL" KNOWLEDGE $300: With a focus on inclusivity, in 2018 this food giant updated the slogan of Kix cereal to "Kid tested parent approved" General Mills |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | WHO POSTED IT? $400: In 2020, almost 30 years after the release of "Home Alone":
"Hey guys, wanna feel old? I'm 40. You're welcome" Macaulay Culkin |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE'S A BEACH $400: The site of many shipwrecks, the waters along the Outer Banks are nicknamed "the Graveyard of" this ocean the Atlantic Ocean |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | DEATH LOOKS GOOD ON YOU $400: Love the braided hair he's seen wearing on his tombstone in Buffalo, New York; very "Super Freak" Rick James |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | CRYPTOZOOLOGY $400: In 2019, the Indian army released photos allegedly showing this creature's footprints in the Himalayan snow the abominable snowman (or the yeti) |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S KEEP THIS SHORT $400: The NYC taxi driver: "I'll drop you off at 86th & Lex--don't make me explain that 'Lex' is short for" this avenue Lexington |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | SEAT CHANGE $400: In journalism, this word refers to a specific topic a reporter covers, like politics or entertainment a beat |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE STATE WHERE IT HAPPENED $400: 1861:
The first shots of the Civil War are fired near Fort Sumter South Carolina |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIKE HOT CAKES $400: You might enjoy this small, Eastern European pancake as a canapé topped with crème fraîche & caviar blini |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | PODCASTS ABOUT TV SHOWS A $400: "Fake Doctors, Real Friends" features Zach Braff & Donald Faison, co-stars of this medically minded sitcom Scrubs |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | "GENERAL" KNOWLEDGE $400: This illuminating conglomerate was incorporated in 1892 after a merger with Thomas Edison's company General Electric |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THANKSGIVING $400: Fall is the season of Erntedankfest, which means "harvest festival of thanks", in countries that speak this language German |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | SEAT CHANGE $500: Ella Fitzgerald was a master of this singing style that utilizes syllables rather than words scat |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE STATE WHERE IT HAPPENED $500: 1860:
The first westbound Pony Express rider leaves St. Joseph Missouri |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIKE HOT CAKES $500: Technically a flatbread cooked on a griddle, the spongy texture of injera helps to soak up this country's many stews & sauces Ethiopia |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | PODCASTS ABOUT TV SHOWS A $500: Decades after starring in "Saved by the Bell", this actor rewatches his performance for the podcast series "Zack to the Future" Mark-Paul Gosselaar |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | "GENERAL" KNOWLEDGE $500: Known for their epic losing streak & endless gullibility, this rival team last beat the Harlem Globetrotters in 1971 the Washington Generals |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THANKSGIVING $500: Founded in the 1800s by freed slaves, it's one of the few African countries to recognize Thanksgiving as an official holiday Liberia |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE OF "E"s $600: Her stats: 4 Oscar noms, 2 Oscar wins (for her roles in "Cold Mountain" & "Judy"), 3 E's in her first name, 3 E's in her last name Renée Zellweger |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | BOND VILLAINS $600: One of Bond's deadliest female foes, Rosa Klebb appears in the movie "From" this country "with Love" Russia |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | FASHIONABLE LOGOS $600: The logo of Lucky brand features this botanical item, a rare mutation of a shamrock said to bring good fortune a four-leaf clover |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE COW GOES MU $600: In the Netherlands, when this animal says "waf waf" it might be begging for a trip to a losloopgebied to play off-leash a dog |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | FINISH THE JINGLE $600: The soundtrack to a bygone, pre-inflation sandwich era:
"5... 5 dollar..." 5 dollar footlong |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | GLOBAL MARKERS $600: Legend has it that Galileo perched atop this "tilted" Italian column to drop various-sized objects while theorizing gravity the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | WHO POSTED IT? $600: After reaching a 2022 deal to acquire Twitter:
"Next I'm buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in" Elon Musk |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE BATHROOM $600: Playing Lillian, Maya Rudolph delivers the line "Oh, no, no, no, oh no, I need a bathroom" in this 2011 film comedy Bridesmaids |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE'S A BEACH $600: After catching some waves & hanging ten at Waikiki Beach, see the statue of Duke Kahanamoku, "the Father of Modern" this surfing |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | DEATH LOOKS GOOD ON YOU $600: Cool tombstone! This escape artist is buried in Queens, New York & his grave depicts the emblem for the Society of American Magicians Harry Houdini |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | CRYPTOZOOLOGY $600: This mythological bird that emerged from flames inspired the name of a U.S. state capital the phoenix |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S KEEP THIS SHORT $600: The gardener: "I call them mums--don't make me explain that 'mum' is short for" this flower chrysanthemum |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | WHO POSTED IT? $800: In 2024, this athlete with over a billion social media followers:
"Proud to make history as the first top scorer in 4 countries" Cristiano Ronaldo |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE BATHROOM $800: The Baltimore Museum of Art has all-gender restrooms named after this "Hairspray" film director John Waters |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE'S A BEACH $800: These flightless birds don't just live in Antarctica--you can see many of them hanging out on South Africa's Boulders Beach a penguin |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | CRYPTOZOOLOGY $800: Alleged to drink the blood of livestock, this creature's name means "goat-sucker" in Spanish chupacabra |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S KEEP THIS SHORT $800: The dog owner: "This is my Pom--don't make me explain that 'Pom' is short for" this dog breed Pomeranian |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE OF "E"s $900: You might know this actor from "The Office" or "The Hangover"... or because he has no vowels in his name except for "E" Ed Helms |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | BOND VILLAINS $900: 007 seals Le Chiffre's fate during a high stakes poker game in this 2006 film, the first to star Daniel Craig Casino Royale |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | FASHIONABLE LOGOS $900: This fashion house's logo features the interlocking letters YSL Yves Saint Laurent |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE COW GOES MU $900: In Poland, these barnyard creatures are called "swinia" & they say "chrum chrum" a pig |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | FINISH THE JINGLE $900: It's what khaki-wearing Jake has been telling us for years:
"Like a good neighbor..." State Farm is there |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | GLOBAL MARKERS $900: This imperial palace complex in Beijing was so named because most of the realm's subjects were barred from entering its walls the Forbidden City |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | DEATH LOOKS GOOD ON YOU $1,000 (Daily Double): On Election Day, this suffragette's gravestone in Rochester, NY gets covered in "I voted" stickers Susan B. Anthony |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | WHO POSTED IT? $1000: Pictured riding a bike hands-free, curly hair flowing behind him:
"My hands are for one thing only: playing sax" Kenny G |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE BATHROOM $1000: It's the popular restaurant chain whose restrooms are labeled "Blokes" & "Sheilas" Outback Steakhouse |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE'S A BEACH $1000: See the stunning sands of Pink Beach in this country's Komodo National Park Indonesia |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | DEATH LOOKS GOOD ON YOU $1000: Silly even in death, Don Adams has a plaque at his grave that shows the "Get Smart" actor using this as a phone a shoe |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | CRYPTOZOOLOGY $1000: A dinosaur-like cryptid, the mokele-mbembe is said to live in the basin of this second-longest African river the Congo |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S KEEP THIS SHORT $1000: The music conductor: "Let's play Rach 1 & Rach 2--don't make me explain that 'Rach' is short for" this composer's name Rachmaninoff |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE OF "E"s $1200: This Yankee was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2021 with 99.7% of the vote; 100% of the vowels in his name are "E" Derek Jeter |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | FASHIONABLE LOGOS $1200: Officially called a "wave design", some think the logo of this athleisure brand resembles the Greek letter omega Lululemon |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE COW GOES MU $1200: Since they represent rain & renewal, it's considered good luck in Japan to hear these little amphibians singing "kero kero" a frog |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | FINISH THE JINGLE $1200: Motivation for aspiring toilet users since 1991:
"Mommy, wow!..." I'm a big kid now |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE OF "E"s $1500: Inspector Clouseau, his role in the "Pink Panther" movies, has a variety of vowels; his own name just features E's Peter Sellers |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | BOND VILLAINS $1500: To embody his role as Raoul Silva, this actor took parts of the "Skyfall" script & translated them to Spanish Javier Bardem |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE COW GOES MU $1500: It doesn't matter if it lives in the city or in the country, if it lives in Italy this animal says "squitt-squitt" a mouse |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | FINISH THE JINGLE $1500: A single word with alphorn accompaniment, it's the jingle for a product first made in 1940 from organic Swiss herbs Ricola |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | GLOBAL MARKERS $1500: This massive, Nile-adjacent tomb of Khufu has baffled observers with its almost perfect cardinal direction alignment the Great Pyramid of Giza |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | BOND VILLAINS $2,000 (Daily Double): The theme song of this 1964 Bond film fittingly refers to the title villain as "the man with the Midas touch" Goldfinger |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | GLOBAL MARKERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1982, an intruder entered this royal home & tourist site, navigated its 775 rooms & ended up in the bedroom of the sovereign Buckingham Palace |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THANKSGIVING $2,700 (Daily Double): In Puerto Rico, a Thanksgiving turkey might be stuffed with mofongo, a mashed dish made from this cousin of the banana the plantain |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | FASHIONABLE LOGOS $4,500 (Daily Double): The North Face logo has a symbol inspired by Half Dome, a noted rock formation in this California national park Yosemite |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | THE BATHROOM $4,600 (Daily Double): No toilet paper needed for your derriere when using this bathroom fixture that's French for "small horse" a bidet |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | BLACK MYSTERY MONTH $200: A back-to-Africa movement scam artist is part of Chester Himes' hard-boiled novel "Cotton Comes to" this New York City area Harlem |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | BIG "C"ITIES $200: Move over Hollywood--this resort city on the Côte d'Azur has its own Walk of Fame Cannes |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | ANY DAY OF THE WEEK $200: A 2007 Time article apologized for confusing "LOLcats" with this feline-posting tradition, a day of the week portmanteau Caturday |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | SENATORS $200: In 2024 he won a fourth term representing Vermont Sanders |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | CELEBRITY PODCASTS $200: Bonding over their M.S., Jamie-Lynn Sigler & this "Dead to Me" actress launched "MeSsy", featuring candid conversation Applegate |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | IT'S HYPHENATED $200: A synonym for distant begins this hyphenated adjective meaning improbable far-fetched |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | CELEBRITY PODCASTS $400: In 2022 she launched "Now What?" to talk about life's challenges & setbacks & how people deal with them (Brooke) Shields |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | BIG "C"ITIES $400: This city on New Zealand's South Island was fittingly given its divine name by J.R. Godley Christchurch |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | ANY DAY OF THE WEEK $400: McDonald's & Wendy's observed this day on July 12, 2024, which fell on the day of the week it sounds like Fry Day |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | SENATORS $400: The son of Cuban immigrants, he began representing Florida in the Senate in 2011 Rubio |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | IT'S HYPHENATED $400: Mark Cuban & Sara Blakely both worked early on in this hyphenated type of sales that declined once fewer women were home all day door-to-door |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | BLACK MYSTERY MONTH $400: A writer-producer of TV's "Empire", Attica Locke wrote the Highway 59 trilogy about a Black one of these Lone Star lawmen a Texas Ranger |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $400: Albert Einstein once said, "I never think of" this, "it comes soon enough" the future |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | ONCE UPON A FEBRUARY $400: He made 3 orbits of the Earth in Friendship 7, launched on February 20, 1962 John Glenn |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | MOVIE & SONG TITLE $400: A 1961 song by Ben E. King & a coming-of-age film based on a work by Stephen King "Stand By Me" |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | SCIENTISTS $400: The space telescope named for this astronomer helped give a measurement of the constant named for him Hubble |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | POETS & POETRY $400: Published in 1965, 2 years after her death, her "Lady Lazarus" says, "Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair" Plath |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | MY CONDIMENTS TO THE CHEF! $400: No, I don't want maple syrup on my pancakes; tell chef I must have this brownish syrup made in the sugar refining process molasses |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | ANY DAY OF THE WEEK $600: October 24, 1929, this "dark" day on Wall Street, kicked off the stock market crash Black Thursday |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | BIG "C"ITIES $600: Its nicknames include "Queen City" & "Hornet's Nest" Charlotte |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | SENATORS $600: In 2012 Tammy Baldwin of this state became the first openly gay person elected to the Senate Wisconsin |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | CELEBRITY PODCASTS $600: He's the "Armchair Expert" who has in-depth conversations with people from all fields Dax Shepard |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | IT'S HYPHENATED $600: A 2023 change in Oregon law left New Jersey as the only state without this type of gas station self-service |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | BLACK MYSTERY MONTH $600: A Georgia politician & voting rights activist, she puts some civics in her mystery with novels like "Rogue Justice" (Stacey) Abrams |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | POETS & POETRY $800: Langston Hughes' "Harlem" asks, "What happens to a dream deferred?... Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it" do this? explode |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | MOVIE & SONG TITLE $800: With an "03" in front of it, a Jay-Z/Beyoncé song & a 1967 Beatty/Dunaway crime film "Bonnie & Clyde" |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | BIG "C"ITIES $800: Straight outta its city website: it's called "Hub City" due to its proximity to the center of Los Angeles County Compton |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | ANY DAY OF THE WEEK $800: Founded by a University of Tennessee student, this restaurant chain shares its name with a song by The Rolling Stones Ruby Tuesday |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | SENATORS $800: Hailing from Caribou, Maine, she's currently one of the longest-serving women in the Senate Collins |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | CELEBRITY PODCASTS $800: This British-born pop sensation will "Blow Your Mind" with her "At Your Service" podcast, talking to people who blow her mind Dua Lipa |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | IT'S HYPHENATED $800: A warning or telltale sign, or the jump ball that starts a basketball game a tip-off |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | BLACK MYSTERY MONTH $800: One entry in the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series is about an attack on this annual Detroit display that puts the moto in Motown the Detroit Auto Show |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $800: Played on a 9x9 grid, it's been called the "Rubik's Cube of the 21st Century" Sudoku |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | ONCE UPON A FEBRUARY $800: 2 states joined the Union on February 14--Oregon in 1859 & this state in 1912, the last of the lower 48 Arizona |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | SCIENTISTS $800: Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier went halfsies on the 2020 Nobel in Chemistry, winning for this gene-editing tech CRISPR |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | MY CONDIMENTS TO THE CHEF! $800: I want this simple Italian sauce of basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil & Parmesan on my pasta; accept no substitutes! pesto |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | ANY DAY OF THE WEEK $1,000 (Daily Double): On "American Gods", Ian McShane was Odin, also known as Mr. this guy Wednesday |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | BLACK MYSTERY MONTH $1000: Black heroine Bree is caught up in the disappearance of a blonde in a novel called this, a "syndrome" Gwen Ifill popularized Missing White Woman |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | SENATORS $1000: A grad of Stanford, Oxford & Yale, he was the mayor of Newark in 2013 when he was elected to represent New Jersey in the Senate Booker |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | BIG "C"ITIES $1000: The French settlers of this African city called it "Maison Blanche" Casablanca |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | CELEBRITY PODCASTS $1000: This "Seriously Funny" comic has his own "Laugh Out Loud" channel on SiriusXM & a podcast called "Gold Minds" Kevin Hart |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | IT'S HYPHENATED $1000: Jacob Grimm coined this hyphenated name for a Balkan language; now with Bosnia & Montenegro in the mix, it's known as BCMS Serbo-Croatian |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | ONCE UPON A FEBRUARY $1200: This piece premiered in New York City on Feb. 12, 1924, with composer George Gershwin at the piano Rhapsody in Blue |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $1200: Brought over from Asia, this fast-growing plant that easily overtakes trees & shrubs is known as "the vine that ate the South" kudzu |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | POETS & POETRY $1200: "I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way", says this title robber of the road in an Alfred Noyes poem the Highwayman |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | MY CONDIMENTS TO THE CHEF! $1200: This animal on the label of Huy Fong sriracha sauce honors the year its creator David Tran was born; put the sauce on my table a rooster |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | POETS & POETRY $1600: William Carlos Williams' "The Red" this was inspired by the sight of one surrounded by white chickens in a backyard "Wheelbarrow" |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | ONCE UPON A FEBRUARY $1600: Andrew Johnson's feud with this sec. of war escalated in Feb. 1868, when the prez tried to fire the man, who refused to leave office Stanton |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $1600: This flap of tissue that hangs in the back of your throat prevents food & fluids from going up your nose when you swallow the uvula |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | MOVIE & SONG TITLE $1600: A song on "Let It Be" & a 2007 jukebox musical with Evan Rachel Wood "Across The Universe" |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | SCIENTISTS $1600: The 1903 Nobel for Physics was shared by Pierre & Marie Curie & this other physicist Henri Becquerel |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | MY CONDIMENTS TO THE CHEF! $1600: Chef made Swedish meatballs so serve them with jam made from these tart red berries; buy a jar of the preserves at IKEA if you must lingonberries |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | MOVIE & SONG TITLE $2,000 (Daily Double): A Nicki Minaj hit that samples Sir Mix-a-Lot & a J.Lo movie set in the jungle "Anaconda" |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | POETS & POETRY $2000: "Sexual Water" & "Ode to a Large Tuna in a Market" are among the works by this Chilean who won a Nobel Prize in Literature Neruda |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | ONCE UPON A FEBRUARY $2000: February 25, 1948 saw a bloodless coup in this country, with the Communists taking over; Pres. Benes was allowed to stay in office Czechoslovakia |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $2000: As a noun, it's a prophet or soothsayer; as a verb, it means to foretell from omens to augur |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | MOVIE & SONG TITLE $2000: An ethereal rom-com with Reese Witherspoon & a Top 40 hit by The Cure Just Like Heaven |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | SCIENTISTS $2000: She "left Germany with the bomb in my purse" & was crucial to understanding fission (Lise) Meitner |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | MY CONDIMENTS TO THE CHEF! $2000: The name of this cucumber, mustard & vinegar relish might be a variation on "pickle"; tell chef to use my English gran's recipe piccalilli |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | SCIENTISTS $4,000 (Daily Double): "A strength of mind almost divine", says some of the Latin inscription on this 17th century genius' grave at Westminster Abbey (Isaac) Newton |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME $200: A favorite in this 10-event event for the 1992 Olympics, Dan O'Brien failed to make the U.S. team; in 1996 he did & got the gold the decathlon |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | NICKNAMES $200: In 1999 this academy officially adopted "Black Knights" as the nickname of its sports teams, though "Cadets" is still used too West Point (Army) |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | VOYAGING THROUGH HISTORY $200: Like Sinbad, Zheng He, a Ming-era admiral, scoured the world during this many voyages seven |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | JUST TAKE THE W $200: ...from the start of a word meaning to flog to get this word meaning cool hip |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | KID STUFF $200: These alliterative items for tots can be chewed on as well as read & their sales grew from 17 million in 2000 to 31 million in 2015 board books |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND $200: Walking with an animal pal, he's "credited" with creating Minnesota's 10,000 lakes with his deep footprints Paul Bunyan |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | WETLANDS $400: The size of North Dakota, Llanos de Moxos in Bolivia is part of this river's basin the Amazon |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES $400: MGM's 1953 epic "Julius Caesar" featured Marlon Brando as Mark Antony & James Mason as this betrayer Brutus |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME $400: In 1955, after 5 previous losses, this NL team finally beat the hated Yankees in the World Series the Brooklyn Dodgers |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | SUBTITLES OF BOOKS $400: This bestseller by Max Brooks bills itself as "An Oral History of the Zombie War" World War Z |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: A list of all the books & articles used when writing a particular work bibliography |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | BRAND NAMES $400: This luxury car brand's logo of 4 interlocking rings symbolizes the 4 automakers that formed the company Audi |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANAGRAMMED NUCLEAR PHYSICS $400: Colorful name for a processed oxide of uranium:
WEEKLY COAL yellowcake |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | NICKNAMES $400: No one's sure how Charlemagne's grandson Charles II got this nickname, but contemporary illustrations show him with hair the Bald |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | VOYAGING THROUGH HISTORY $400: By reaching the Viscount Melville Sound, an arm of the Arctic, Sir Robert McClure helped prove the viability of this route the Northwest Passage |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | JUST TAKE THE W $400: ...from one of journalism's 5 Ws to get this avian hen |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | KID STUFF $400: One who plays or frolics, or a one-piece kids' garment similar to a jumpsuit a romper |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND $400: Caught napping, this character finds "it's twenty years since he went away from home... and never has been heard of since" Rip Van Winkle |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME $600: Carli Lloyd had 3 goals, this apparel-named feat, as the U.S. avenged a 2011 loss to Japan in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup final a hat trick |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | NICKNAMES $600: This blues legend nicknamed many of his guitars Lucille, after a woman who caused a nightclub fight B.B. King |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | VOYAGING THROUGH HISTORY $600: Aotea Harbor in New Zealand is named for this type of 5-letter craft that Turi of Maori legend navigated canoe |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | JUST TAKE THE W $600: ...out of a grassy area to get this acronym for a small computer network LAN |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | KID STUFF $600: Kids & the authors of a 2023 analysis in the journal "Physical Review E" know this word for height-maximizing action on a swing pumping |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND $600: Covering wealth & agriculture as well as the underworld, this Roman god would have been displeased at a certain 2006 scientific decision Pluto |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND $800: In another world, perhaps he's Washita William, but in ours he's this Texas legend who dined on nitroglycerin & barbed wire... once Pecos Bill |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | BRAND NAMES $800: In 2023 this "Especial" import surpassed Bud Light to become the bestselling beer in America Modelo |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES $800: Paul Mescal is the fighter Lucius in "Gladiator II"; Russell Crowe is this super-sized fighter in the original Maximus |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: It's the process when your dead skin is actually a-peeling exfoliation |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | WETLANDS $800: Cold & oxygen-poor, this 3-letter type of swamp preserves folks like Denmark's Grauballe Man, who had his throat cut around 300 B.C. a bog |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME $800: Muhammad Ali lost the 1971 "Fight of the Century" to this archrival, but won the 1974 & 1975 rematches (Joe) Frazier |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | NICKNAMES $800: Does Las Vegas deserve this 2-word nickname? Well, a 2024 survey of vice in U.S. urban areas ranked it No. 1 Sin City |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | JUST TAKE THE W $800: ...from the front of a word meaning to get smaller like the Moon, move it to the end & get this synonym for again anew |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | KID STUFF $800: Schaper Toys, creator of Cootie, also gave us this tap-tap-darn it! game of small blocks in a grid Don't Break the Ice |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | VOYAGING THROUGH HISTORY $1000: In 1802 this German climbed Mount Chimborazo & his study of currents off South America led to one being named for him Alexander von Humboldt |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME $1000: After losing the 2023 WNBA Finals, in 2024 the New York Liberty won it all, with this star's free throws sealing the deciding game Breanna ("Stewie") Stewart |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | NICKNAMES $1000: The Democratic Party's donkey symbol traces back to this synonymous but less-flattering nickname given to Andrew Jackson "Jackass" |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | JUST TAKE THE W $1000: ...out of the middle of a subterranean drainage conduit to get this visionary seer |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | KID STUFF $1000: In General Mills iconography, Chef Wendell is the creator of CTC, this cereal Cinnamon Toast Crunch |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND $1000: Legend said after this mythic figure headed east on a raft, he'd be back; that story about the Aztecs mistaking Cortes for him: bunk Quetzalcoatl |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | WETLANDS $1200: Zambia's Bangweulu Wetlands are home to the black lechwe, a relative of this antelope that fittingly has "water" in its name a waterbuck |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES $1200: Emil Jannings & Peter Ustinov both burned up the screen as this emperor in films based on Henryk Sienkiewicz' "Quo Vadis" Nero |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | SUBTITLES OF BOOKS $1200: In "Dead Wake" Erik Larson wrote of the "Last Crossing of" this British ship, sunk by a U-boat in 1915 the Lusitania |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: Adjective for an often metaphorical type of expression seemingly designed to confuse non-native speakers idiomatic |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | BRAND NAMES $1200: Jennifer Aniston has been a spokesperson for this drugstore brand of moisturizer, saying she's used it since she was a teen Aveeno |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANAGRAMMED NUCLEAR PHYSICS $1200: A nucleus formed by the radioactive decay of a parent nuclide:
HATED RUG a daughter |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | VOYAGING THROUGH HISTORY $1,400 (Daily Double): Magellan's flagship on his epic journey had this Spanish name that honored the Father, Son & Holy Spirit Trinidad |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | BRAND NAMES $1600: The largest branded marketer of baby apparel in North America, it also owns OshKosh B'gosh Carter's |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANAGRAMMED NUCLEAR PHYSICS $1600: This type of particle can be produced during reactions such as beta decay:
TIRE NOUN neutrino |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES $1600: In "Centurion", the ninth of these army units is on a mission to Scotland to wipe out the Picts; it doesn't go well legion |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | SUBTITLES OF BOOKS $1600: "The Children's Crusade" is the subtitle of this classic by Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: It describes the nature of dancing, or a dancer, occupationally terpsichorean |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | WETLANDS $1600: Birds heading south for the winter are grateful for the estuary of this river, on Lisbon's doorstep the Tagus |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES $2000: Who can forget Jack Palance as this invader whose army threatened Rome in the 5th century & in 1954's "Sign of the Pagan"? Attila the Hun |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | SUBTITLES OF BOOKS $2000: With a title from an 1890s song, this 1980s book is subtitled "Politics, People, & the AIDS Epidemic" And the Band Played On |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: It's the specific scientific profession of the man seen here herpetologist |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | WETLANDS $2000: A haven for saltwater crocodiles is the Corroboree, one of these wet places in the lyrics of "Waltzing Matilda" a billabong |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | BRAND NAMES $2000: In the 1930s 2 golfers came up with this leading brand of ball after an X-ray proved another ball's core was off-center Titleist |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANAGRAMMED NUCLEAR PHYSICS $2000: The changing of one element into another through a nuclear reaction:
MOUNTAIN TARTS transmutation |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | SUBTITLES OF BOOKS $2,800 (Daily Double): The subtitle of "Frankenstein" was "The Modern" this, no mythtake Prometheus |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | ANAGRAMMED NUCLEAR PHYSICS $5,400 (Daily Double): Process of increasing the proportion of U-235 compared to U-238:
NINTH CREME enrichment |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | OF EQUAL MEASURE $200: Currently, we're talking DC: 10 amps x 120 volts equals 1,200 of these watts |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | PLAYING SPORTSBALL $200: In 2004, LeBron James welcomed his son Bronny into the world; in 2024, Mr. J took his son to work as both hooped for this team the Lakers |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | THE THEATER $200: When "The Seagull" bombed in St. Petersburg in 1896, this dramatist vowed to give up playwriting Chekhov |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | LUCKY 13 $200: "The best feeling in my life, to finally come back & hit that water", said this commander of the Apollo 13 mission Lovell |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | "H.R." $200: The United Nations' Universal Declaration of these has been called the most translated document in the world Human Rights |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | WORLD FACTS $200: It's the only continent whose mainland lies in all 4 hemispheres Africa |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | NATURE $400: Despite its name, it also enjoys beetles, arachnids, grasshoppers a Venus flytrap |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | WORLD FACTS $400: In its constitution this country is also referred to as Bharat India |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | PLAYING NON-SPORTS"BALL" $400: Larry Sabato has one for predicting political races, but also has the motto "he who lives by" this "ends up eating ground glass!" a crystal ball |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | ON THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK $400: 2022:
"Suspicious Minds",
"Can't Help Falling In Love" Elvis |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | WAY, WAY BACK IN THE DAY $400: Founded c. 800 B.C., this great city of antiquity on the north coast of Africa has a name meaning "new town" Carthage |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | ETYMOLOGY $400: Business stays all in the family with this word derived from Latin for nephew nepotism |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | WHAT AN ARTIST DIES IN ME $400: After making his mother immortal (metaphorically, as the woman died in 1881), this American painter passed on July 17, 1903 Whistler |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | PLAYING SPORTSBALL $400: In 2019 Novak Djokovic & this Swiss mister couldn't get enough of Wimbledon, matching up for 4 hours & 57 minutes Federer |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | OF EQUAL MEASURE $400: Please don't sing your response, but one (non-leap) year has 525,600 of these minutes |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | THE THEATER $400: In 2024 he traded in his Iron Man suit & made his Broadway debut as the title character in the play "McNeal" Robert Downey Jr. |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | LUCKY 13 $400: Atomic number 13, it's the most common metallic element in the Earth's crust, does not rust & resists weathering aluminum |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | "H.R." $400: Despite cell phones & the internet, this is still a popular hobby & can be useful in times of emergency ham radio |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | "H.R." $600: Gamblers who wager lots of money at a casino, or, before "Jeopardy!", a game show hosted by Alex Trebek, featuring Ruta Lee & some dice high rollers |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | PLAYING SPORTSBALL $600: For women, the playing area of this sport is roughly 27 yards x 22 yards & 6 feet deep water polo |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | OF EQUAL MEASURE $600: Let's get deep--5,280 feet is 880 of these fathoms |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | THE THEATER $600: In a Euripides play, after she exacts revenge on Jason, she escapes in a chariot provided by her grandpa, the sun god Helios Medea |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | LUCKY 13 $600: From Greek, it's an abnormal fear of the number 13 triskaidekaphobia |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | WORLD FACTS $600: Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain in Europe, is in this range that forms a boundary between Europe & Asia the Caucasus |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | WHAT AN ARTIST DIES IN ME $800: Cousin to a noted gunmaker, this sculptor of "The Rattlesnake" died at 48 from complications after an appendectomy Remington |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | LUCKY 13 $800: The 15th century's "Thirteen Years' War" was between Poland & this order of Germanic knights that began as a Crusader army the Teutonic Knights |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | THE THEATER $800: For its Canadian debut, this play by Heidi Schreck used Canada's Charter of Rights & Freedoms rather than the title U.S. document What the Constitution Means to Me |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | PLAYING NON-SPORTS"BALL" $800: Knaidel is another name for this item that you hope turns out light & airy for your chicken soup a matzo ball |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | NATURE $800: Used in herbal medicine, there's a fungus among us, named for its resemblance to this fowl's tail turkey |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | ON THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK $800: 1994:
"Son Of A Preacher Man",
"Surf Rider" Pulp Fiction |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | WAY, WAY BACK IN THE DAY $800: According to tradition, this ruler hid inside a rolled-up carpet to smuggle herself into Julius Caesar's quarters Cleopatra |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | ETYMOLOGY $800: It gets its name from originally being the seventh month of the Roman calendar September |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | PLAYING SPORTSBALL $800: We get a kick out of this Argentinean who in 2012 became the first player to score 5 goals in a Champions League match Messi |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | OF EQUAL MEASURE $800: You want 500 pecks, or 125 of these? a bushel |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | "H.R." $800: This type of surgery involves removing a damaged femoral head & frequently the socket it fits into a hip replacement |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | WORLD FACTS $800: The largest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere extends over 180 miles along the entire coast of this Central American country Belize |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | OF EQUAL MEASURE $1000: In December 2024 200 British pounds got you $253 but 200 U.S. pounds was a constant 14.29 these the stone |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | PLAYING SPORTSBALL $1000: In 2024 the only Jewish starting QB in college football was Jake Retzlaff of this Provo school, one of 3 M.O.T.s on the whole campus BYU |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | THE THEATER $1000: The title guys of this Shakespeare play leave home & head to Milan; various love plots ensue The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | LUCKY 13 $1000: This Japanese musical instrument has 13 strings made of silk & is plucked with an ivory plectrum called a tsume the koto |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | "H.R." $1000: It's the official name for Greece the Hellenic Republic |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | ON THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK $1200: Animated in 2009:
"Down In New Orleans",
"When We're Human" The Princess and the Frog |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | PLAYING NON-SPORTS"BALL" $1200: She starred as the title character on TV's No. 1-rated show from October 1952 to April 1955 Lucille Ball |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | NATURE $1200: No cows are born during this process by which icebergs break off from glaciers calving |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | WAY, WAY BACK IN THE DAY $1200: In the 490s B.C. he left the state of Lu along with his disciples after having been minister of crime Confucius |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | ETYMOLOGY $1200: It means "to walk before"; a famous one begins, "We the People" a preamble |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | WHAT AN ARTIST DIES IN ME $1200: This American expat who drew--OK, painted--"The Child's Bath" would die at 82 near her beloved Paris in 1926 Mary Cassatt |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | ON THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK $1600: A 2014 mix tape:
"Hooked On A Feeling",
"Come And Get Your Love" Guardians of the Galaxy |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | PLAYING NON-SPORTS"BALL" $1600: The seller of the house you want needs to move fast; let's make this kind of offer, way under the asking price lowball |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | NATURE $1600: Scientists have identified more than 20,000 species of these prehistoric arthropods named for three of a certain part trilobites |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | WAY, WAY BACK IN THE DAY $1600: Britannica calls this Roman's "Natural History" an "encyclopaedic scientific work of dubious accuracy" Pliny (the Elder) |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | ETYMOLOGY $1600: Not just found in Hawaiian waters, this fishy has a name that you could say means "strong-strong" mahi-mahi |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | WORLD FACTS $1,800 (Daily Double): Central Asia is made up of 5 countries, all former Soviet republics, including these 2 "T" ones Tajikistan & Turkmenistan |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | PLAYING NON-SPORTS"BALL" $2000: Belly up to the bar & get this drink of strong + fizzy, such as whiskey & soda or gin & tonic highballs |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | NATURE $2000: Agate, carnelian & even onyx are all varieties of this 10-letter quartz mineral chalcedony |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | ON THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK $2000: 1968:
"Lux Aeterna" &
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | WAY, WAY BACK IN THE DAY $2000: The ruler Ur-Nammu is credited with building the Great one of these pyramidal structures of Ur around 2100 B.C. a ziggurat |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | WHAT AN ARTIST DIES IN ME $2000: In 1614 in Toledo it was time for the burial of this "Burial of the Count of Orgaz" painter El Greco |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | ETYMOLOGY $3,000 (Daily Double): Aristotle believed there was a "fifth element", which gives us this word for the purest form of something quintessence |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | WHAT AN ARTIST DIES IN ME $5,000 (Daily Double): If this Northern Renaissance painter of wild imagery was alive, he'd ask, "A TV cop has my name? & What's TV?" Bosch |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | AUTHORS $100 (Daily Double): Sinclair Lewis created this guy, a symbol of materialist conformity; Matthew Broderick played him on stage in 2024 Babbitt |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | LET'S PUT 2 THINGS TOGETHER $200: First name of Koufax or Duncan + a frozen waffle brand once owned by Kellogg's = this not quite a Southern California city Sandy Eggo |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | PRE-BOOTS $200: "They're not saints" was a tagline for this 2011 show with Minka Kelly as one of the title trio; Jaclyn Smith was heavenly in 1976 Charlie's Angels |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | IN THE AIR $200: In 1961 an airplane looking for bugs in the atmosphere found one of these wood eaters flying at 19,000 feet a termite |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | FITNESS $200: Sets of these to elevate you & raise your heart rate include L.A.'s Prospect ones & D.C.'s Exorcist ones stairs |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | HOMONYMBLE ON YOUR FEET $200: To scoop water out of a boat, or to leave suddenly to avoid a bad situation bail |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | U.S. CITIES $200: More than 30% of its approximately 105,000 residents are students at the University of Colorado Boulder |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL $400: It's the collective term for all the people in an area eligible to vote electorate |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | AUTHORS $400: Andrew Neiderman has written 60+ books under the name of this "Flowers in the Attic" author plus her bio, "The Woman Beyond the Attic" V.C. Andrews |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | COMMUNICATION $400: Rhyming synonym for a namecheck a shout-out |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | ASIAN HISTORY $400: West Papua became a part of this country in 1969 as its Irian Jaya province Indonesia |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | FILMMAKERS $400: The 2020 movie On the Rocks reunited Bill Murray & this director who Murray says was a child when they made "Lost in Translation" Sofia Coppola |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | COUNTS & COUNTESSES $400: Before her contemporary Charles Perrault, Countess d'Aulnoy used this name for a type of story, conte de fées in French fairy tales |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | LET'S PUT 2 THINGS TOGETHER $400: 1st name of the guy "who lives in a pineapple under the sea" + activity with "star promenade" & "arm turns" = this dude with new moves SpongeBob SquareDance |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | PRE-BOOTS $400: Nicollette Sheridan & Elaine Hendrix both played Alexis in 2019 on this nighttime soap, but Joan Collins was enough in 1981 Dynasty |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | IN THE AIR $400: These 2 elements make up more than 90% of the air you breathe oxygen & nitrogen |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | FITNESS $400: Get fit with this fighting sport whose name indicates it uses hands & feet; MMA adds other moves like grappling kickboxing |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | HOMONYMBLE ON YOUR FEET $400: To follow stealthily during a hunt, or the main stem of a plant a stalk |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | U.S. CITIES $400: "There's no place like" this Alaskan gold rush town located on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula Nome |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | LET'S PUT 2 THINGS TOGETHER $600: The state where you'll find Sleepy Hollow & New Paltz + shortened plural for a cloth used to blow the nose the New York Hankies |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | PRE-BOOTS $600: There was a time, 2013, when Chris Hardwick hosted "After Midnight", but today, it's this comedian who's on "After Midnight" (Taylor) Tomlinson |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | FITNESS $600: This company's star instructors for member workouts have included Kristin McGee for yoga & Cody Rigsby on the bike Peloton |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | HOMONYMBLE ON YOUR FEET $600: Extremely sensitive to the touch, or a smaller ship used to assist a larger one... any "Below Deck" fans playing now? a tender |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | U.S. CITIES $600: Incorporated in 1961, this Florida city lives up to its name today around 7 a.m. Sunrise |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL $800: Shapely name for President's Park South, a 52-acre location near the White House used for gatherings & other activities The Ellipse |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | AUTHORS $800: This author of "The Right Stuff" defined the new journalism as using fiction techniques in reporting Wolfe |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | COMMUNICATION $800: In a 2017 movie one of these title objects in Missouri reads, "And Still No Arrests?" billboards (a billbord) |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | ASIAN HISTORY $800: During the Vietnam War, this Asian city was the headquarters of American military operations Saigon |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | FILMMAKERS $800: Fresh out of film school, he insisted on directing his screenplay of Boyz n the Hood, which starred Ice Cube & Cuba Gooding Jr. John Singleton |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | COUNTS & COUNTESSES $800: Countess Jacqueline des Ribes was one of the original women Truman Capote compared to these birds swans |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | LET'S PUT 2 THINGS TOGETHER $800: A word preceding "punishment" when that's applied to a body + married name of Ark. gov. Sarah = this demoted fried chicken magnate Corporal Sanders |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | PRE-BOOTS $800: In 2018 Juliet Higgins helped solve mysteries in Hawaii on this show, but back in 1980, it was Jonathan Higgins on the case Magnum, P.I. |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | IN THE AIR $800: These delicate, high-level clouds are made entirely of ice crystals cirrus |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | FITNESS $800: Seen more often at senior swim than a Katie Ledecky workout, it does help work your obliques sidestroke |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | HOMONYMBLE ON YOUR FEET $800: A part of the body, or a pro wrestler who purposely antagonizes fans; c'mon, ref! How did you not see that?! a heel |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | U.S. CITIES $800: Named for a city in France, this state capital lies along the Winooski River Montpelier, Vermont |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | IN THE AIR $1,000 (Daily Double): These avians can rotate their wings to generate lift while flapping both up & down, enabling them to hover in the air hummingbirds |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | LET'S PUT 2 THINGS TOGETHER $1000: 5-letter synonym for terrible that also describes the "Truth" in a film title + the Willis one in Illinois = this European eyesore the Awful Tower |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | PRE-BOOTS $1000: Whether it was Roselyn Sánchez in 2021 or Ricardo Montalbán in 1977, your "Fantasy Island" host had this last name Roarke |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | IN THE AIR $1000: Look out! We're surrounded by this, the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere the troposphere |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | FITNESS $1000: As a model of the universe opposed to the Big Bang, it's in trouble; as a low-intensity type of cardio training, it's still popular steady state |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | HOMONYMBLE ON YOUR FEET $1000: Prey, or an excavation to remove stone quarry |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Take a load off in this third-largest Iowa city that hosts a famous jazz festival honoring native son Bix Beiderbecke Davenport |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | FILMMAKERS $1200: He directed "Frances Ha" & "Mistress America", both co-written with star Greta Gerwig Baumbach |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL $1200: A region of ancient Greece, it was the pastoral home of the god Pan Arcadia |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | AUTHORS $1200: Early novelists often titled books after a character; see Henry Fielding's "Joseph Andrews", "Jonathan Wild" & this 1749 tale Tom Jones |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | COMMUNICATION $1200: Since 1991, this 3-letter abbreviation has referred to familiar text messaging technology SMS |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | ASIAN HISTORY $1200: Öz Beg was both great & powerful as khan of this group whose territory ranged from the Carpathians to Siberia the Golden Horde |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | COUNTS & COUNTESSES $1200: The Count of Cavour helped unify this European nation & became its first prime minister in 1861, inspired by his youthful love for the radical Nina Italy |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL $1600: In "War and Peace" Pierre is criticized for preaching the doctrines of this secret group the Illuminati |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | ASIAN HISTORY $1600: The Killing Fields of Cambodia got their name due to the brutality of this French-named Communist group Khmer Rouge |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | FILMMAKERS $1600: In the '30s, he directed upbeat films like "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town", with Gary Cooper in the title role Capra |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | COUNTS & COUNTESSES $1600: 18th c. charlatan Count Cagliostro posed as this, a transmuter of base metal, if you can pose as a job that's already a scam an alchemist |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL $2000: Ismat Chughtai, a writer in this South Asian language, shocked some with her 1942 story "The Quilt" about female-female intimacy Urdu |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | AUTHORS $2000: In 2023 an amateur scholar found a creepy story by this Irish novelist, "Gibbet Hill", from an 1890 newspaper & unpublished since Bram Stoker |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | COMMUNICATION $2000: It's alternation of types of speech, common among Black employees moving in & out of African-American vernacular English code-switching |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | ASIAN HISTORY $2000: This Sri Lankan Guerrilla force attacked Colombo's airport in 2001, destroying many of the country's commercial planes the Tamil Tigers |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | FILMMAKERS $2000: "12 Years a Slave" was the first film to win the Best Picture Oscar that was directed & produced by a Black filmmaker, this Brit McQueen |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | COUNTS & COUNTESSES $2000: Found in The Hague, one of Holland's great museums was the House Orhuis of this man & there's a portrait of him inside Count Maurits |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | COMMUNICATION $7,400 (Daily Double): The Baltic-Finnic languages include Finnish & this national language spoken due south across the Viro Strait Estonian |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK $200: Often served in a bowl with rice, this dish from Hawaii has a name meaning "to cut or slice into pieces" poke |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | THE REST IS HISTORY $200: (Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook present the clue.)
(Tom: The 1948 Costa Rican Civil War had a twist ending; José Figueres emerged at the head of this type of group, Spanish for "meeting".)
(Dominic: But surprise, he abolished the army, sex discrimination in voting rights & his own government & went back to democratic elections) junta |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES $200: Start your engines:
"The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" Talladega Nights |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | ERNEST HEMINGWAY $200: Hemingway lived for over 20 years at the hilltop estate known as Finca Vigia, or "Lookout Farm", outside this Caribbean capital Havana |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | 3 OF A KIND $200: Hosea,
Philemon,
Colossians books of the Bible |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | PARTS OF SPEECH $200: Leaving the seat up is 100% contemptible: contemptible adjective |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | PARTS OF SPEECH $400: We will repair the submarine ourselves if you will just stop your frenzied yammering:
ourselves pronoun |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | THE REST IS HISTORY $400: (Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook present the clue.)
(Dominic: Our listeners have to deal with some Britishisms--in 1790, jailers were gobsmacked to find that Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette had scarpered.)
(Tom: They were trying to get to the protection of Marie's brother, Leopold II, of this country; but they were captured & really copped it) Austria |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Egypt's Nubian Valley is now submerged beneath the waters of this lake named for an Egyptian president Nasser |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK $400: They're the 2 beverages that when added together make an Arnold Palmer iced tea, lemonade |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | PIANO LESSON $400: French for "study", these piano pieces were originally designed to improve certain techniques étude |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | CHEMISTRY $400: A 2008 study did God's honest work & found out how the structure of this "Freshmaker" candy causes Diet Coke to effervesce Mentos |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $400: Nicole Scherzinger's 2024 performance as Norma Desmond in this musical garnered a 6-minute standing ovation on opening night Sunset Boulevard |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | RELIGIOUS WORDS & PHRASES $400: This word precedes many exclamations, some indecent, but also "terror" to refer to a wild child holy |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | HOW FAR IS IT? $400: All the way around a Major League Baseball diamond, from home to 1st to 2nd to 3rd to home again: this many feet 360 |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES $400: Sea what happens:
"The Curse of the Black Pearl" Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | ERNEST HEMINGWAY $400: Hemingway, an avid angler, caught many of these large sport fish; his "Old Man" character only managed one blue one marlin |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | 3 OF A KIND $400: Incus,
hyoid,
vomer bone |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES $600: Rebels on the run: "Catching Fire" The Hunger Games |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | THE REST IS HISTORY $600: (Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook present the clue.)
(Dominic: The French went their own way with the passengers on their early rockets, including the first catstronaut.)
(Tom: She was dubbed Félicette in honor of this star of early cartoons & had the distinction of actually surviving her sub-orbital flight) Felix the Cat |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | PARTS OF SPEECH $600: Joe versus the volcano:
versus preposition |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK $600: If you're "makin'" the classic version of this state treat of Maine, you'll need some Marshmallow Fluff for the filling whoopie pie |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | ERNEST HEMINGWAY $600: Titled "Fiesta" in England, this novel told of Lost Generation Yanks & Brits in France & Spain in the 1920s The Sun Also Rises |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | 3 OF A KIND $600: Charmander,
Rattata,
Jigglypuff Pokémon |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $800: In 2022 Greg Kinnear made his debut in "To Kill a Mockingbird" when he took over this role from Jeff Daniels Atticus (Finch) |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | THE REST IS HISTORY $800: (Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook present the clue.)
(Dominic: Despite her stature on the political & the Broadway stage, Eva Perón's career in public life only lasted six years.)
(Tom: Her first world exposure came when she made a rockstar-like rainbow tour in 1947, starting with a visit to this Spanish leader) Franco |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | CHEMISTRY $800: Remember your Greek roots--glycogen is a polymer, but glucose is this type of -mer a monomer |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | RELIGIOUS WORDS & PHRASES $800: This Jewish dietary word is used in other contexts, like "Father O'Leary says miniskirts at mass are not..." kosher |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | HOW FAR IS IT? $800: From the Woodrow Wilson Service Area in Hamilton Township to the Joyce Kilmer Service Area in East Brunswick on this turnpike: 4 exits the New Jersey Turnpike |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | BODIES OF WATER $800: This part of Niagara Falls is named for its curved crest, some 2,200 feet wide Horseshoe |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES $800: Institutionalized:
"Battle of the Smithsonian" Night at the Museum |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | ERNEST HEMINGWAY $800: Hemingway looked back on his life as a young writer in 1920s Paris in this memoir A Moveable Feast |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | 3 OF A KIND $800: Butterhead,
cress,
escarole lettuce |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK $800: This rum cocktail with a rhyming name borrowed from Tahitian was created stateside by the owner of Trader Vic's Mai Tai |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | PARTS OF SPEECH $800: Sarah chose to go to the meditation tent, whereas I went to Vegas:
whereas conjunction |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | ERNEST HEMINGWAY $1,000 (Daily Double): Ernest was an ambulance driver in World War I, just like his hero Frederic Henry in this novel A Farewell to Arms |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | 3 OF A KIND $1000: Alef,
samekh,
gimel Hebrew letters (letters of the Hebrew alphabet) |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK $1000: This seafood stew was created by Italian immigrants in San Francisco from the day's catch off the Wharf cioppino |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | THE REST IS HISTORY $1000: (Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook present the clue.)
(Tom: The women of this city-state, the most powerful in Greece around 400 B.C., were as tough as the men.)
(Dominic: Plutarch reports that her mother would tell her son to come back from war carrying his shield or dead on top of it) Sparta |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | MOVIES WITH SUBTITLES $1000: Could spell trouble:
"The Secrets of Dumbledore" Fantastic Beasts |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | PARTS OF SPEECH $1000: After climbing the mountain, Antoine thought that never in his 26 vampiric lifetimes had he been so tired:
so adverb |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | PIANO LESSON $1200: The piece heard here may have been named for a club in Missouri where this composer played piano Scott Joplin |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | CHEMISTRY $1200: A theory has it that the heat & pressure on Neptune & Uranus can produce rain made of this form of carbon diamond |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $1200: This Brit made his debut opposite Glenn Close in "The Real Thing" before starring with her in the movie "Reversal of Fortune" (Jeremy) Irons |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | RELIGIOUS WORDS & PHRASES $1200: First name of the man seen here & of his character on "The Office" Creed |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | HOW FAR IS IT? $1200: From Q to T on a standard keyboard: across this many intervening keys 3 |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: There's a bit of a debate about the largest lake in South America: is it Lake Titicaca or this Venezuelan one? Maracaibo |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | RELIGIOUS WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Louis XIV was christened "Dieudonné", meaning this, so he really thought he was this alliterative phrase God's gift |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | PIANO LESSON $1600: Bartolomeo Cristofori, a well-known maker of this instrument, adapted it to invent the piano the harpsichord |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | CHEMISTRY $1600: Give a clock using this element at the Natl. Institute of Standards & Tech. 300 million years & it will gain or lose one second cesium |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $1600: In his first 2 Broadway roles, he played Eugene Jerome in the premieres of "Brighton Beach Memoirs" & "Biloxi Blues" Matthew Broderick |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | HOW FAR IS IT? $1600: From Launch Complex 14 at this site to the Moon: roughly 240,000 miles Canaveral |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: This 4-letter German canal connects the North Sea & the Baltic Sea Kiel |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | PIANO LESSON $2,000 (Daily Double): Of the 4 main instrument families in an orchestra, the piano actually belongs to both of these percussion & strings |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | PIANO LESSON $2000: "Chiarina", one of the 21 pieces in his piano composition called "Carnaval", was inspired by his future wife Clara Wieck Schumann |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | CHEMISTRY $2000: Fluorine is part of this group of elements on the periodic table named for their salt-forming ability halogen |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | BROADWAY DEBUTS $2000: Bette Midler made her Broadway debut, first in the chorus, then as daughter Tzeitel, in this musical Fiddler on the Roof |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | RELIGIOUS WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The 11th, 12th & 13th holes at Augusta National, or an area of a church for parishioners giving often fervent responses Amen Corner |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Bombed in 1950 & never rebuilt, the broken bridge over this river allows a glimpse from China into North Korea Yalu |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | HOW FAR IS IT? $3,800 (Daily Double): From L.A. to this atoll, about 3,500 miles; from there to Shanghai, about 3,500 more Midway Island |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | FERN BABY FERN $100: Ferns are plants that reproduce using spores, which means they don't grow flowers & they don't produce or spread these seeds |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | ALLITERATIVE ANATOMY $100: Estimates show that, among humans, 10% of these umbilici are "outies" bellybuttons |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | WE DON'T DESERVE DOGS $100: According to the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council, topping a wiener with this tomato-y condiment after you turn 18 is a no-no ketchup |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | TEXTING ABBREVIATIONS $100: SMH:
I'm showing disapproval by moving my skull from side to side shaking my head |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | RECENT TV $100: There's no sign of Batman, but we'll settle for a latex-laden Colin Farrell as the titular villain of this 2024 series The Penguin |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | ALL I SEE IS Y-O-U $100: This food is made by letting warm, bacteria-laden milk sit out for hours; sounds delicious
YO_U__ yogurt |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | OVER, UNDER, OR EXACTLY 100 $200: Members of the U.S. Senate, at full capacity exactly 100 |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | A CLUE TOO "FAR" $200: It's a journey you might take to observe animals in the wild--or the web browser you might use to book the tickets Safari |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | SAT VOCABULARY FLASHCARDS $200: Fraught with danger:
puerile,
precocious,
precarious precarious |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | THE GREATEST YEAR IN MOVIE HISTORY? $200: 1994?
"Pulp Fiction", "The Shawshank Redemption" & this comedy about 2 numbskulls who drive a mini-bike to Aspen Dumb and Dumber |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | CHESS $200: Using this word is the chess version of a mic drop; it means escape for your opponent's king has become impossible checkmate |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | HBCUs $200: Showcased in the doc "Homecoming", her epic 2018 Coachella gig was a loving tribute to HBCU culture Beyoncé |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | FERN BABY FERN $200: A little canary told us... decayed ferns from the Carboniferous Period helped create this fossil fuel; we still use it today coal |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | ALLITERATIVE ANATOMY $200: Your entire sole is resting on the ground? It's likely you have this condition flat feet |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | WE DON'T DESERVE DOGS $200: In the U.S., we officially celebrate hot dogs in this month, as nothing says independence like grabbing onto a plump foot-long July |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | TEXTING ABBREVIATIONS $200: NVM:
Actually, disregard what I just said (like how much I love that 1991 Nirvana album) nevermind |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | RECENT TV $200: This rock boss memorably appears in the final season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm"; he blames Larry for giving him COVID Bruce Springsteen |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | ALL I SEE IS Y-O-U $200: John Fogerty sang that he was born on this type of waterway, but he's actually from Northern California
__YOU a bayou |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | PHOTOGRAPHY $300: To Paul Simon's chagrin, Kodak took away those nice, bright colors in 2009 when it discontinued this brand of film Kodachrome |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | THE SAME WORD TWICE $300: It's an implement typically used to swat at baseballs, only you're using it to swat at flying mammals a bat bat |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | LONGER VERSIONS OF HIT SONG TITLES $300: Rihanna, 2012:
"Sparkly Minerals Composed Of Pure Carbon" "Diamonds" |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | 5 SLICES OF PI $300: Princeton U. has celebrated Pi Day in recent years by inviting kids to participate in a look-alike contest of this scientist Einstein |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | WHICH BILL SAID IT? $300: "Early on, Paul Allen & I set the goal of a computer on every desk & in every home" Bill Gates |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PLACES $300: Named for a city near Boston, these chewy cookies dropped the word "fig" from their name in 2012 Newtons |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | TEXTING ABBREVIATIONS $300: TLDR:
Dude, you need an editor--that is overly verbose & I'm not looking at it too long; didn't read (too long; don't read accepted) |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | FERN BABY FERN $300: This "F" word refers to the leaves of a fern, which are often featherlike in shape; it can apply to palm leaves, too a frond |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | ALLITERATIVE ANATOMY $300: The layman's term for a fontanelle, an area on a newborn baby's head; it's also used to mean "a sentimental weakness" a soft spot |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | WE DON'T DESERVE DOGS $300: Put an all-beef wienie on a poppy seed bun & "drag it through the garden" to make a hot dog in the style of this Midwestern city Chicago |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | RECENT TV $300: According to one journalist, this catchphrase from "The Bear" denotes "a collective thirst now felt toward Jeremy Allen White" Yes, Chef |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | ALL I SEE IS Y-O-U $300: This nimble dog breed can reach top speeds of up to 45 mph
___Y_OU__ a greyhound |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | OVER, UNDER, OR EXACTLY 100 $400: Total number of elements on the periodic table over 100 |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | WE DON'T DESERVE DOGS $400: A man with a dream, Kevin Malone says, "I just wanna lie on the beach & eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted" on this sitcom The Office |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | A CLUE TOO "FAR" $400: Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors" is one of these works with a highly improbable plot; so are "Zoolander" & "Blazing Saddles" farce |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | SAT VOCABULARY FLASHCARDS $400: Capable of being molded or changed:
mellifluous,
maudlin,
malleable malleable |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | THE GREATEST YEAR IN MOVIE HISTORY? $400: 1999?
"The Sixth Sense", "The Matrix" & this rom-com about a movie star who falls for a floppy-haired bookstore owner Notting Hill |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | CHESS $400: This chess piece often looks like a horse but it's named after the chivalrous guy who might ride one a knight |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | HBCUs $400: Founded mostly at HBCUs, the so-called "Divine 9" includes 4 of these groups; Kamala Harris is in Alpha Kappa Alpha, which is one of them sororities |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | FERN BABY FERN $400: Some ferns are epiphytic, meaning they grow on plant surfaces like tree trunks; others are epipetric, meaning they grow on these rocks |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | ALLITERATIVE ANATOMY $400: Also called a laryngeal prominence, it's more prominent in males than females a Adam's apple |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | TEXTING ABBREVIATIONS $400: NGL:
I shall tell you the truth, the whole truth & nothing but the truth not gonna lie |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | MYTHOLOGY: On an early book of Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator's maps, an image of this Titan holding the world was used Atlas |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | GREEK MYTH: Panoptes, meaning all-seeing, was the byname of this legendary figure, slain by Hermes while standing guard over Io Argus (Argos) |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | 1980s MOVIE THEMES: This song was inspired by an ad in the film itself, which sounded like TV commercials for pest control services "Ghostbusters" |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | EUROPEAN ARTWORK: A rope around their leader's neck, the men depicted in this late 19th c. piece seem resigned to death, but in the end they survived The Burghers of Calais |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: Asked by a student about the Loch Ness Monster, she said a time portal below could allow a prehistoric creature to pass through (Diana) Gabaldon |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | MEN OF WAR: Robert E. Lee's victory at Chancellorsville has been likened to this Greek's victory at Asculum in 279 B.C. Pyrrhus |
| #9265, aired 2025-02-07 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: At his trial, revolutionaries referred to the deposed Louis XVI with this last name, one used previously for a dynasty Capet |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY: Wadi al-Malekat in Arabic, this site near a similar & better known location was the burial place of Nefertari & others the Valley of the Queens |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | MILLION-DOLLAR IDEAS: Art Fry co-invented this product as a bookmark for his choir hymnal; only later did he realize it was "a whole new way to communicate" Post-it notes |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | SCIENTISTS' NAMES: The first man to observe bacteria & protozoa had a name containing the Dutch word for this much bigger creature a lion |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: About 80 miles from Vladivostok, its 11-mile land border with Russia is the shortest of that country's 14 neighbors North Korea |
| #9261, aired 2025-02-03 | PLACES OF DISASTER: In 1883 an old sailor didn't know what its name meant but believed the natives "named it from the sound" Krakatoa |
| #9260, aired 2025-01-31 | U.S. PLACE NAMES: Before 1867, this city that lends its name to a type of tree was known as Novo Arkhangelsk Sitka |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | LATIN PHRASES: After Camillagate, a fire at Windsor castle & marriage problems in her family, Queen Elizabeth II dubbed 1992 this annus horribilis |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | GAMES PEOPLE PLAY: Unable to lift the ball as a toddler, Jason Belmonte devised a 2-handed throw that made him an outcast, then a champ, in this sport bowling |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: Part II of this 17th century work says, "I see myself now at the end of my journey; my toilsome days are ended" The Pilgrim's Progress |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | PALINDROMIC DATES: This 7-digit date saw the premiere of Handel's "Water Music" 7/17/1717 |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | WORLD CAPITALS: Home to more than 400,000, it's the only world capital in the "Roaring Forties" latitudes Wellington, New Zealand |
| #9255, aired 2025-01-24 | COMPOSERS: "Troll Hill" is the name of his country home, the grounds of which include a concert hall & a lakeside cabin where he worked Edvard Grieg |
| #9254, aired 2025-01-23 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: In the Orenburg Oblast, a bridge over this 1,500-mile river has monuments labeled "Asia" & "Europe" the Ural River |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | COMING ATTRACTIONS: Dubbed "The Voice of God", Don LaFontaine was best known for this 3-word phrase that set the stage for many a movie trailer In a world |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | FROM REAL LIFE TO FICTION: These 2 British authors based characters--Dikko Henderson & Old Craw--on Richard Hughes, journalist & double agent Ian Fleming & John le Carré |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | MYTHOLOGY: Some myths say the treasure of the Nibelung was hidden under a promontory called this, on the Rhine near St. Goarshausen Lorelei |
| #9251, aired 2025-01-20 | COLD WAR CRAFT: A U.S. Navy website says its journey from New London to Norway in 1957 opened up Arctic waters previously ruled by the Soviets the Nautilus |
| #9250, aired 2025-01-17 | HISTORIC STATEMENTS: He wrote of his intent "to reserve & throw away my first fire, & I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire" (Alexander) Hamilton |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | TREES: Order Arecales, this tree gets its name from Roman times; a leaf from one was placed in a victor's hands after a contest was won a palm tree |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | THE MUPPETS: 3 crates are shipped abroad in 1981's "The Great Muppet Caper": "Frog" holds Kermit, "Bear" holds Fozzie & "Whatever" holds this Muppet Gonzo the Great |
| #9248, aired 2025-01-15 | BOOKS OF THE 1960s: In 1962 the New York Times said the release of this controversial book "presages a noisy fall" Silent Spring |
| #9247, aired 2025-01-14 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: "Bilady, Bilady, Bilady", its national anthem, replaced a more militaristic one following a 1979 peace treaty Egypt |
| #9246, aired 2025-01-13 | HISTORIC CURRENCY: Henry VII minted the first pound coin in 1489, which was called this, also a term for what Henry was a sovereign (coin) |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | NOTABLE AMERICANS: Saying he fell in love with his country while a prisoner in someone else's, he dedicated the rest of his life to public service (Senator) John McCain |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | ANIMALS IN SCIENCE: The first mammal species sent on a rocket to space, it's perhaps more famous for an antigen in its blood a rhesus monkey (rhesus macaque) |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | HAWAII: Introduced in 1881 to grow ornamental trees, these seeds became one of Hawaii's most valuable crops macadamia nuts |
| #9243, aired 2025-01-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The last claim awarded under this act was in 1988, 126 years after it passed, for a parcel of land in Alaska the Homestead Act |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES: It has 40,000 people & a workforce of 42,000, more than half commuting from nearby, including Vorarlberg state in a neighbor country Liechtenstein |
| #9241, aired 2025-01-06 | 21st CENTURY BUSINESS: An early version of this app was called Matchbox but that name was too similar to another company that offered the same service Tinder |
| #9240, aired 2025-01-03 | 19th CENTURY FICTION: In Chapter 9 of an 1851 work, a preacher in a New England port city delivers a sermon about this Old Testament prophet Jonah |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | SCIENCE: THE ____ OF ____: 4 of these discovered in the early 1600s were given the names of lovers of a mythological deity the moons of Jupiter |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: According to his son Fred, this man first tried smoking just because it was against the rules at West Point Ulysses S. Grant |
| #9237, aired 2024-12-31 | THEATER ETYMOLOGY: A centuries-old type of performance, this word includes Greek roots meaning "imitator of all" pantomime |
| #9236, aired 2024-12-30 | GEOGRAPHIC NAMES: In 1492 Columbus visited this island that he named for the country whose flag he flew Hispaniola (Hispañola) |
| #9235, aired 2024-12-27 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: In his very first appearance by name, this character comes downstairs "bump-bump-bump on the back of his head" Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Bear) |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | MOVIES & THEIR SOUNDTRACKS: "Catch It" was a tagline for this 1970s film whose iconic soundtrack became one of the bestselling albums of all time Saturday Night Fever |
| #9233, aired 2024-12-25 | U.S. PLACE NAMES: A trio including Andrew Jackson founded this city with a name that evokes a great city of the ancient world Memphis |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC AWARENESS: As individuals, only Santa Claus & this public service ad icon introduced in 1944 have their own ZIP codes Smokey Bear |
| #9231, aired 2024-12-23 | WORLD LEADERS: In 2009 this leader gave Barack Obama the book "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" Hugo Chávez |
| #9230, aired 2024-12-20 | MOVIES & THE LAW: "Drafters... have to have a little fun sometimes", said the author of this law when asked if he was inspired by 1931's "Little Caesar" the RICO Act |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | SUPER BOWL HISTORY: It's the only team to play in the Super Bowl before Neil Armstrong's Moon walk that has not been back to the Big Game since the Jets |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | ANTHEMS: The unofficial anthem of this U.K. territory mentions kelp, penguins & "the wind from the Horn" the Falkland Islands (the Falklands) |
| #9227, aired 2024-12-17 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Dressed in white in her first scene, this play character says her name means "white woods" Blanche DuBois |
| #9226, aired 2024-12-16 | GEOGRAPHY: Jebel Musa in Morocco & Mount Hacho near Ceuta are candidates for the southern half of this pair the Pillars of Hercules |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | AUTHORS: Following his unexpected death in 2001, he was referred to as the "Monty Python of science fiction" Douglas Adams |
| #9224, aired 2024-12-12 | TV PROPS: A prop central to the title character on this '60s sitcom began as a special Christmas edition whiskey decanter I Dream of Jeannie |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: nobelprize.org says some papers of this scientist "are stored in lead boxes", a "legacy that is literally untouchable" Marie Curie |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: The running mates of this candidate included John Kern, Arthur Sewall & Adlai Stevenson I William Jennings Bryan |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | ISLANDS OF EUROPE: In February 1793 the French were repulsed in an attack on this island from one just north that they controlled Sardinia |
| #9220, aired 2024-12-06 | TV CHARACTERS: On TV in the 1960s & the 2020s, this character has a first name that's partly from Latin for "death" Morticia Addams |
| #9219, aired 2024-12-05 | BRAND NAMES: They've been described as having the unique scent of "slightly earthy soap with pungent, leather-like clay undertones" Crayola (Crayons) |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | THE 20th CENTURY: This country's national radio launched in 1925; 14 years later, it fell into a long silence following a piano nocturne Poland |
| #9217, aired 2024-12-03 | 19th CENTURY EUROPEAN LITERATURE: An early version of this novel was first published as a serial under the title "The Year 1805" War and Peace |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | POETIC CHARACTERS: In an 1842 poem, it is said of this legendary character that his "quaint attire" is much admired the Pied Piper (of Hamelin) |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | WORLD AIRPORTS: This city's international airport opened in 1942, just in time to be the destination of a flight at the end of a movie Lisbon |
| #9214, aired 2024-11-28 | U.S. BUSINESSES: In 2024 this company said only 4 of its 400+ locations will let Mr. Munch, Helen Henny, Jasper T. Jowls & its namesake still perform Chuck E. Cheese |
| #9213, aired 2024-11-27 | STATE SONGS: Its 15 official state songs include 2 that mention moonshine & 3 played in 3/4 time Tennessee |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICES: Born to immigrant parents, in 1916 he was the 1st Supreme Court nominee to undergo public Senate confirmation hearings Louis Brandeis |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: The mention of a new railway section between Rothal & Allahabad in India leads to an argument & then a bet in this novel Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | MOVIES & PSYCHOLOGY: In this film Paula Alquist tells Gregory Anton, "Have you gone mad, my husband? Or is it I who am mad?" Gaslight |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES: Following student unrest in 1968, in 1970 the University of this city was divided into 13 smaller ones Paris |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | FIGURES OF MYTH: Ovid says he "toppled, beating wild with naked arms the unsustaining air... shrieking for succour from his sire" Icarus |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | SPORTS & THE CITY: At 800 West Main & 700 Central in this city are a company & a venue both involved in Triple Crowns Louisville, Kentucky |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN: In 1900 she told a Mr. Dobson, "Get out of the way. I don't want to strike you, but I am going to break up this den of vice" Carrie Nation |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | 20th CENTURY TRANSPORTATION: A 1947 article read, its "wings were not clipped by the Senate fishermen & ghost hunters after all" the Spruce Goose |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | SPORTS TEAMS: Fittingly, this team was born on November 1, 1966, the day the franchise was awarded New Orleans Saints |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | POETRY & PLACES: It's the geographic word in the title of a Robert Burns poem about "the mountains... covered with snow... the straths & green valleys below" Highlands |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | LITERARY MONUMENTS: A 112-foot-tall monument in a Madrid plaza depicts a writer seated above bronze statues of these 2 characters Don Quixote & Sancho Panza |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: It caused rich amusement that the name of this president, whose wife didn't allow dancing, was similar to that of a dance James K. Polk |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | RENAISSANCE MEN: In a letter he wrote, "On August 7, 1501... we determined that the new land was not an island but a continent" Amerigo Vespucci |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | 1960s INVENTIONS: Poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide was 1st intended to reinforce radial tires but the lifesaving polymer aka this would have many uses Kevlar |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | COUNTRIES: This country has the most time zones in the world, including its territories in South America & off the coast of Africa France |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | PHRASE ORIGINS: In 1935 an article popularized this term for the part of the U.S. where residents were "depending on rain" the Dust Bowl |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | 19th CENTURY LIT: All introduced in the same chapter of a novel, Grimaud, Mousqueton & Bazin are the servants of these men the Three Musketeers (Porthos, Athos & Aramis) |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | HISTORY & THE MOVIES: This 1935 Best Picture Oscar winner tells of a 1789 event near the isolated Pacific volcano of Tofua Mutiny on the Bounty |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | ANIMALS: The Aztecs called this animal ayotochtli, meaning a "turtle rabbit" for its rabbit-like ears & its turtle-like shell an armadillo |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | ARTIFACTS: Roughly, 180 of these were made & 50 remain; the man who created them was given a pension by the Archbishop of Mainz in 1465 Gutenberg Bibles |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | NEWS FROM THE STORK: One of the 10 or so babies born at Argentina's Esperanza Base in this place was fittingly named Marisa de las Nieves Antarctica |
| #9191, aired 2024-10-28 | STAGE MUSICAL SETTINGS: Turned into a Nazi headquarters in 1933, the nightspot Eldorado is said to have inspired this fictional place the Kit Kat Club |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | U.S. HISTORY: The largest land deal in U.S. history was formalized in a building at this spot, now named for a military hero & president Jackson Square |
| #9189, aired 2024-10-24 | ON THE U.K. MUSIC CHARTS: "Candle In The Wind 1997" knocked this song that asked a title question from the top spot as the U.K.'s all-time bestselling song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: This day involving the Holy Spirit & the Apostles is sometimes described as the "birthday" of the Church Pentecost |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | DETECTIVE AUTHORS: For much of the 1920s, he lived on Eddy Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin District (Dashiell) Hammett |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES: This theme tackled in art by Bellini & Michelangelo isn't explicitly mentioned in the Bible, but is part of the "Seven Sorrows of Mary" the Pietà |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY: A N.Y. Times article recognized Sands Point & Kings Point as the real "old-money" & "nouveau riche" settings in this novel The Great Gatsby |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | LETTERS OF THE ARTIST: In 1896 he wrote, "My prices are 2000, 3000 & 4000 dollars for head & shoulders, 3/4 length & full-length respectively" John Singer Sargent |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | COLLEGE TOWNS: 2 schools in the Southeastern Conference are located in cities with this same name but in different states Columbia |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES: He talked of a "new Attorney General" 4 times, the end of a "long dark night for America" & "a gentle, Quaker mother" Richard Nixon |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | CORPORATE MASCOTS: A 2014 tweet said that this mascot was the "embodiment of a milkshake or taste bud" Grimace |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | WORLD POLITICAL HISTORY: William Whitelaw & John Peyton were also-rans in a 1975 leadership vote with this victor (Margaret) Thatcher |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | MOVIES: More than 25 cast members from this 1990 film drama would later appear on an HBO series with a similar theme Goodfellas |
| #9178, aired 2024-10-09 | WORD ORIGINS: This word for one who cuts a trail comes from a name of a character in an 1840 novel pathfinder |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | WORLD FLAGS: The 12 stars on its flag symbolize perfection, not geographic or political units the European Union |
| #9176, aired 2024-10-07 | BRAND NAMES: In 1886 this brand's bookkeeper came up with its name & flowing script logo, saying, "the two Cs would look well in advertising" Coca-Cola |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: A fragment from a nautical tool found on a Chilean island in 2005 was likely left by the Scot who partly inspired this character Robinson Crusoe |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | 19th CENTURY NAMES: Shrunken auditory nerves were seen in his autopsy after his 1827 death in Vienna (Ludwig van) Beethoven |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | SCIENCE: Physicist John Wheeler said he coined this term as a faster way to say "completely collapsed objects" black holes |
| #9172, aired 2024-10-01 | SITCOMS: The first British sitcom to win a Best Comedy Golden Globe, it was remade in a U.S. version that had almost 15 times as many episodes The Office |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | BIBLICAL PLACES: The name of this, actually a not very tall hill, became a symbol of Jewish national aspiration & was used in spirituals & reggae Mount Zion |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | LANDMARKS: At its dedication, Senator John Sherman said, "Simple in form... it rises into the skies higher than any other work of human art" the Washington Monument |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | STARS OF THE 20th CENTURY: A 1927 N.Y. Times headline: "Witness testifies" this woman "rewrote play and insisted on the spicy scenes because city liked them" Mae West |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | SHAKESPEARE: "Blood will have blood", says this title character, who is later told, "Be bloody, bold, & resolute" Macbeth |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA: In a state of shock, on November 27, 1978, she announced that "both Mayor Moscone & Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot & killed" (Dianne) Feinstein |
| #9166, aired 2024-09-23 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: Among those who attended his 1864 funeral were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott & Franklin Pierce Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| #9165, aired 2024-09-20 | ISLAND CHAINS: Named for a Spanish queen, this Pacific island chain was a starting point for famous explorations of 1960 & 2012 the Mariana Islands |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | NEW YORK MOVIES: Frank Sinatra got upset that a photo of him caught fire in a Brooklyn pizzeria in this film Do the Right Thing |
| #9163, aired 2024-09-18 | THE MOVIES: Hewlett-Packard's first big customer was Walt Disney, who purchased special sound equipment for the making & showing of this film Fantasia |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES: This 12-year-old began his first book saying, "Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood" Percy Jackson (Perseus Jackson) |
| #9161, aired 2024-09-16 | HISTORY: A 1976 report initiated by Admiral Rickover found it was an internal, not external, explosion that caused the destruction of this the (USS) Maine |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | BRITISH KNIGHTS: A sir since 2018, he contracted TB as a teen in 1953 & spent years in a sanatorium, where he learned to play the drums Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | HISTORIC NAMES: In 1824, President Monroe invited him back to the adopted country of his youth, which has always cherished his "important services" the Marquis de Lafayette |
| #9158, aired 2024-09-11 | WORLD BORDERS: After Canada & the U.S., these 2 countries share the longest land border at more than 4,700 miles Russia & Kazakhstan |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS: Via a diplomatic conference in 2005, a diamond was added to supplement these 2 symbols, thought by some to have religious meaning a (red) cross & a (red) crescent |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | FAMOUS WOMEN: Before her death in 2022, she pledged her collection of more than 200 pins to the National Museum of American Diplomacy (Madeleine) Albright |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | ANCIENT ANIMALS: The first fossils of these creatures with an elongated 4th digit were described in 1784 by naturalist Cosimo Collini pterodactyls |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | FAMOUS WOMEN: Adding to her nickname, one legend claimed that earlier in life, she was saved from drowning by family friend Mark Twain Molly Brown |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | U.S. PLACE NAMES: This name of a national forest means "fool" & may be one Apache group's name for another group; it's also a problematic TV character Tonto |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | HISTORIC SPOTS: Known for a fabled event of 1881, it housed an auto repair shop after the disappearance of the horse & buggy the O.K. Corral |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | AUTHORS: "Love" is within the titles of 3 of his most famous books; a fourth, "The Rainbow", calls love "the flower of life" (D.H.) Lawrence |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | 19th CENTURY WOMEN: The National Park Service says there are more statues of her, often with her infant son, than any other American woman Sacagawea |
| #9149, aired 2024-07-18 | SHOW BIZ MARRIAGES: Married since 1977, the year of this band's 1st album, 2 members referenced another album with their 2023 "Remain in Love" tour Talking Heads |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: In a 1980 National Book Award winner, we learn this title character gets his name from the rank of his late dad--technical sergeant (T.S.) Garp |
| #9147, aired 2024-07-16 | 1960s PEOPLE: He said that California prison psych tests he took were ones he had designed, so he made himself look docile & unlikely to escape; then he did Dr. Timothy Leary |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | NEWER WORDS: Philosophers use it for language that accompanies an action, like "I dub thee knight"; it also means done for show or signal performative |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | NAMES IN MEDICINE: He got a special presidential citation in 1955, passed away in 1995 & was dubbed "the man who saved the children" (Dr. Jonas) Salk |
| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Until 1991 this country named for a river had a capital whose name means "lakes" in Portuguese Nigeria |
| #9143, aired 2024-07-10 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: In his 1999 memoir he wrote, "I had been shot down a short walk's distance from the French-built prison, Hoa Lo" (Senator John) McCain |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | LITERATURE: In one story he is enslaved by the Old Man of the Sea & uses apes to pick fruit so he can afford his fare back to Baghdad Sinbad (the Sailor) |
| #9141, aired 2024-07-08 | OPERA: The melody of a traditional piece for the koto called "Echigo-Jishi" is used in Act 1 of this opera Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly) |
| #9140, aired 2024-07-05 | WORLD LANGUAGES: The flag of Aruba features a 4-pointed star symbolizing its 4 major languages: the local Papiamento & these 3 imported ones Dutch, English & Spanish |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | TECH TALK: In 1992 Jean Polly told new web users to do this & later explained they "need some skill... never know if there are going to be sharks" surf the web |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | HISTORIC WOMEN: In the 16th century, she changed the "EW" in her family name to a "U" to help her new French in-laws spell it more easily Mary, Queen of Scots (Mary Stuart) |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | STAGE & MOVIE CHARACTERS: Acquitted of shooting her lover in 1924, Beulah Annan was the inspiration for this character in a play, film & musical Roxie Hart |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | GERMAN BOOKS: First published in 1812, this anthology included "The Water Nymph" & "The Booted Tom Cat" Grimms' Fairy Tales |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN: In her autobiography she tells of a rather "singular coincidence", that one of her Swiss ancestors was a teacher of the deaf Helen Keller |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | BUSINESSMEN: After joining the Army at 16 in 1906 for a brief stint, he received a much higher honorary rank from the governor of his state 29 years later Colonel Sanders |
| #9133, aired 2024-06-26 | LITERATURE: The British Library says of this 19th c. man, "One of his most famous poems... is a warning about the arrogance of great leaders" (Percy Bysshe) Shelley |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | NATIONAL MONUMENTS: From its ramparts, you can see the mouth of the Patapsco River as it flows into Chesapeake Bay Fort McHenry |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | NAMES IN THE HEAVENS: When this body was discovered in 1978, Persephone was suggested as its name Charon |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | SPORTS: 50 years ago Vin Scully announced he got "a standing ovation in the Deep South" for breaking a longtime record Hank Aaron |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | AUTHORS' WIVES: When asked if she was the inspiration for the wife in a 1922 novel, this woman replied, "No. She was much fatter" Nora Joyce |
| #9128, aired 2024-06-19 | BRANDS: In 1978 a new cologne for men came out called this, what's being played in the company's iconic logo Polo |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | GEOGRAPHIC NAME'S ALMOST THE SAME: Legend says in 1876 a dragon built for the first "Ring" cycle had its neck sent to this Mideast capital, not the right German city Beirut |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | 2 LAST NAMES, SAME FIRST LETTER: Born 344 years apart, they are the 2 real people mentioned by name in the titles of 1990s Best Picture Oscar winners Shakespeare & Schindler |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | 1960s AMERICA: Helping draft an executive order in 1961, Hobart Taylor Jr. almost used the word "positive", but instead chose this alliterative phrase affirmative action |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | 1960s BRITISH NOVELS: The author of this novel said of the last chapter left off U.S. editions, "My young thuggish protagonist grows up" A Clockwork Orange |
| #9123, aired 2024-06-12 | FAMOUS NAMES: Vying with Eiffel, this engineer wanted to create big; an admiring account said the obelisk of Luxor is too short to be a spoke (George) Ferris |
| #9122, aired 2024-06-11 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Of the 10 U.S. states with 2-word names, this one stretches the farthest south New Mexico |
| #9121, aired 2024-06-10 | NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS: In 1958 a review of this book now considered a classic called it repulsive, disgusting & "highbrow pornography" Lolita |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | WORLD LEADERS: During a 1972 presidential visit, Richard Nixon discussed a poem by this leader called "Ode to the Plum Blossom" Chairman Mao Zedong |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | U.S. HISTORY: Challenged in a courtroom that same year, 1925's Butler Act in Tennessee outlawed this activity & wasn't repealed until 1967 teaching evolution |
| #9118, aired 2024-06-05 | BRITISH PLACES: This city owes much of its early history to a temple dedicated to Sulis Minerva & a "sacred spring" found there Bath |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: This character in a series of popular books begun in 1934 promises, "I'll stay till the wind changes" Mary Poppins |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | COLLEGES: Of the Seven Sisters colleges, this one located in a place of the same name is the farthest south Bryn Mawr |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: An island near Cebu City has a statue of Lapulapu & a monument to this man that Lapulapu is said to have killed in 1521 Magellan |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | AMERICAN BANKING: Around 1930 a bank named for this NYC area known as a slum was the USA's largest savings bank by total deposits the Bowery |
| #9113, aired 2024-05-29 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY: This city attracted thousands of visitors even before a new shrine to a murder victim was dedicated there July 7, 1220 Canterbury |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | EUROPEAN SCIENTISTS: On the 2022 Bicentennial of his birth, the body of this man was exhumed & DNA used to determine his genetic afflictions Gregor Mendel |
| #9111, aired 2024-05-27 | FEMALE SINGERS: In December 2023 she became the oldest solo artist, at 78, to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with a song she recorded in 1958 Brenda Lee |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | LITERATURE: Preserved in a single manuscript called Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, this epic begins with the word "Hwæt", often translated as listen Beowulf |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | ARTWORK: Rembrandt's only seascape is set here, where the main figure once said, "Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?" the Sea of Galilee |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | AMERICAN WOMEN: The New York Times wrote of this woman who had died in 1951, "Though she was forgotten at the time, part of her remained alive" Henrietta Lacks |
| #37, aired 2024-05-22 | POLITICIANS: This man was the 1st to be governor of one state & then senator from another; 173 years later, Mitt Romney became the second Sam Houston |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | COUNTRIES' LANGUAGES: About 70% of its people can speak Portuguese; about 20% can speak Umbundu, 8% Kikongo & 8% Kimbundu Angola |
| #9107, aired 2024-05-21 | THE MOVIES: Louise & Lisa Burns, twins featured in this 1980 film, told a magazine, "We're naturally spooky!" The Shining |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | 21st CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: The last name adopted by Damon Fields, the title character of this novel, refers to his red hair Demon Copperhead |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | METALLIC ELEMENTS: As it's rarely found in pure form, one explanation of its name is that it comes from Greek for "not alone" or "not one" antimony |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | THE THEATER: Of the 14 roles in a production of this play that opened on Broadway on October 28, 2004, none were played by females 12 Angry Men |
| #34, aired 2024-05-17 | ALSO SEEN AT THE CIRCUS: FDR gets credit for implementing this as a concept in the U.S. & the metaphor was used by FDR Jr., running for office in 1966 safety net |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE: In 1612 John Smith published a Powhatan word list including these 2 words familiar to us today, one worn in pairs & one wielded moccasins & tomahawk |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | BOOK & MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES: The title of this 2001 book, also a 2003 film, forms a partial border between Boston, Chelsea, Medford & Everett Mystic River |
| #9104, aired 2024-05-16 | THE EARLY 20th CENTURY: Before entering history, this man visited the grave of Bogdan Zerajic, who had died just a few years earlier Princip |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | SHORT STORIES: "Down--steadily down it crept... downward with its lateral velocity. To the right--to the left" is in this 1842 tale "The Pit and the Pendulum" |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | MILITARY PEOPLE: In April 2020 Chief Master Sergeant Roger Towberman became the first enlisted member of this Space Force |
| #9103, aired 2024-05-15 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: John Elwes, a millionaire Member of Parliament who would go to bed before dusk to save on candles, inspired this character (Ebenezer) Scrooge |
| #9102, aired 2024-05-14 | BUSINESS LOGOS: Early 1900s labels for this beverage brand featured a beaver sitting on a log at the top of a map Canada Dry |
| #30, aired 2024-05-13 | ANAGRAMS: One is a procedure foundational to computer science; the other was made in large part obsolete by computers algorithm & logarithm |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | AROUND THE WORLD: Almost twice the size of Texas but with the population of Lubbock, this part of Australia rejected statehood in a 1998 referendum the Northern Territory |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | CINEMA HISTORY: Films made outside the U.S. in the '50s like "3 Coins in the Fountain" & "Quo Vadis" led to an era dubbed "Hollywood on" this river the Tiber |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | THE AMERICAN THEATER: Director & author, their 1960 rift over a new play set in the South ended "the most important... collaboration" of 20th century U.S. theater Elia Kazan & Tennessee Williams |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | THE 20th CENTURY: Hearing about the speech that launched this eponymous process, the head of the CIA wondered if Nikita Khrushchev had been drunk destalinization |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: A review said this 1966 book about real events "will cause a good deal of myopic squabbling about just what a novel is" In Cold Blood |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | 1980s FADS: A November 29, 1983 N.Y. Times article about these used "near-riot", "adoptable", "waiting for 8 hours" & "my life (is) in danger" Cabbage Patch Kids |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS: In 1530 he made his last confession & wished that "I had served God as diligently as I have done the king" Cardinal Wolsey |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | THE THEATER: This show debuted December 30, 1879 in a theater on the Devon coast, with the cast in costumes from a related show The Pirates of Penzance |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | RHYME TIME: OPERA VERSION: Telling the story of a duke, a jester & the jester's daughter, it was written by poet Francesco Maria Piave the Rigoletto libretto |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | FAMOUS CHARACTERS: She's introduced in an 1845 novella in which she wears a short skirt with her mantilla thrown back to show her shoulders Carmen |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS: Becoming a British subject in 1927, he described himself as a classicist in literature, royalist in politics & Anglo-Catholic in religion T.S. Eliot |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: 1 of the "Big Four" at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference & a former journalist, he'd supported the Impressionists & Alfred Dreyfus Clemenceau |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | HISTORIC GROUPS: Like their uniform, the flag of this group created in 1506 has stripes of red, blue & yellow, the colors of the Medici family the Swiss Guard |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | 1990s NO. 1 SONGS: This title character of the top song from 1996 can't stand her boyfriend Vitorino & spurns him to be with his 2 friends Macarena |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | COUNTRIES WITH SPACE PROGRAMS: It launched its first satellite, Asterix, in 1965 France |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | WORLD HERITAGE SITES: This entire capital is a World Heritage Site "linked to the history of the Military & Charitable Order of St. John of Jerusalem" Valletta |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | LATIN SCIENCE TERMS: In 1694 the latest in bio-knowledge was Tournefort's "Elements of Botany" listing 698 of these, like Ambrosia & Chrysanthemum genera |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | EXECUTIVE ORDERS: On Nov. 15, 1961 JFK suspended the 8-hour workday at this agency, saying its work needed to proceed "with all possible speed" NASA |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | FICTIONAL GROUPS: Maybe because he was too Baroque, Bernini was rejected as a name for a member of this group created in 1983 the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | NICKNAMES: Surfing legend Duke Kahanamoku has been called by this 2-word nickname that describes any dominant person or expert Big Kahuna |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY: At 14,410', it's one of North America's highest volcanoes; a Puyallup name for it can be translated to "bring the water" Mount Rainier |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | STATUES: The 42-foot-high statue of Athena in this state capital is the tallest indoor statue in the United States Nashville |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | HISTORIC TRANSPORTS: Decorated with an illustration of the Montgolfiers' craft, the smoking room aboard this could be accessed only via an airlock the Hindenburg |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | BUSINESS: In the 1850s the .925 sterling silver standard was instituted by this company, the first American one to do so Tiffany |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Best known for a novel, she wrote at least 6 full-length plays & collaborated with Moms Mabley on a 1931 Broadway revue Zora Neale Hurston |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS: Featured in a 2020 film, she gets her name from a 16th c. Italian stock character who often wore diamond-patterned outfits Harley Quinn |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ALPHABETICAL AMERICA: Until Alabama became the 22nd state, this one was first alphabetically Connecticut |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | ORGANIZATIONS: The press called the donations received after this org.'s 1938 founding "a silver tide which actually swamped the White House" the March of Dimes |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS: Churchill gave a word a new meaning when he called for a "talk with Soviet Russia upon the highest level... a parley at" this the summit |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | GREAT BRITS: From 1689 to 1690 & 1701 to 1702, he served as a Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Cambridge University (Isaac) Newton |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | AUTHORS' AFTERLIVES: After his death his son Michel reworked & published manuscripts like one about a meteor made of gold heading for Earth Jules Verne |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | SPACE SHUTTLES: 2 space shuttles were named for craft commanded by this man who died far from home in 1779 (Captain) Cook |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | ANIMATED FILM CHARACTERS: In this 2017 film Dante is a hairless breed known as a Xolo dog Coco |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | BODIES OF WATER: The smallest inland sea in the world, it's completely within the territory of a single country & connects 2 other larger seas the Sea of Marmara |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | MYTHOLOGY: A peasant who became the king of Phrygia created this intricate problem that was solved in 333 B.C. the Gordian Knot |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | U.S. GOVERNMENT: The formation of the Brownell Committee out of concern over U.S. communications intelligence led to the 1952 creation of this body the NSA |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | STATE CAPITALS: It was named for a nearby river that explorer Gabriel Moraga named for one of a religious grouping of 7 Sacramento |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | PHYSICISTS: This man with a force named after him published an 1835 scientific treatise on the physics of billiard balls (Gaspard-Gustave de) Coriolis |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | HISTORIC GROUPS: The Kipchak Khanate is another name for this group that was eventually defeated by Tamerlane in 1395 the Golden Horde |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | NOVEL TITLE OBJECTS: A girl in a 1950 novel walks into this & "got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them" a wardrobe |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | U.S.S.R.I.P.: Of the 15 countries formed by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, this one is alphabetically last Uzbekistan |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: TIME mentioned "cruelty & enforced conformity" when summing up this novel with a "stonily silent narrator" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | OLD WORDS: First appearing in an English dictionary in 1623, mesonoxian means pertaining to this word midnight |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | ELEMENTS: In his "Natural History" Pliny described it as "argentum vivum" mercury |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NOTORIOUS FIGURES: Never even a soldier, this man lied that his nickname came from a shrapnel wound while fighting in the Argonne Al Capone |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD: "Captured in Egypt by the British Army 1801" is painted on the side of this artifact named for the city where it was found the Rosetta Stone |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Virginia Woolf disliked this book that was "cutting out the explanations and putting in the thoughts between dashes" Ulysses |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | TRAILBLAZERS: The foremost member of the "Sochi Six", which was similar to a previous U.S. group, he died in a plane crash in 1968 (Yuri) Gagarin |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | THE HUMAN BODY: This glandular organ that starts to shrink at puberty is known for being where the cells key to adaptive immunity develop the thymus |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | EURASIA: Zvartnots International Airport serves this capital & has the code EVN, all letters found in the city's name Yerevan, Armenia |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: Near Kirkbean on Solway Firth, U.S. Vice Admiral Jerauld Wright presented a memorial plaque honoring this man John Paul Jones |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | THE UNITED NATIONS: Of the 9 countries that have produced a U.N. Secretary-General, this nation is the only one from its hemisphere Peru |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: This book is named for a tribe of Israel that carried out judgment of the idolaters of the golden calf Leviticus |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | WORLD THEATER: This 1867 play has a reindeer hunt & a king dwelling in snowy mountains but its title character also spends time in Morocco & Egypt Peer Gynt |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | WORD ORIGINS: A radical in an 1833 failed uprising in Germany, Ludwig von Rochau coined this term for acts taken for practical reasons not ethics Realpolitik |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LITERATURE & RELIGION: This city now in Turkey is the addressee of one of the New Testament epistles & the setting for "The Comedy of Errors" Ephesus |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | ANCIENT DRAMA: From the 470s B.C., Aeschylus' earliest surviving work has this title; he'd fought them repeatedly in the preceding years The Persians |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY: "The country is celebrating 100 years of freedom 100 years too soon", says "The Fire Next Time", published in this year 1963 |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | CHEMICAL ELEMENTS: Isolated in 1945 during uranium fission research, it was named for an ancient deity to suggest humans gaining a new power promethium |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | POETS OF ANCIENT ROME: Far from Rome, this first century poet wrote, "The leader's anger done, grant me the right to die in my native country" Ovid |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Fearful of independence in 1975, around 120,000 of this country's people, a third of the population, fled to the Netherlands Suriname |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | WORLD TRAVEL: The name of this service that began Nov. 14, 1994 echoes the Étoile du Nord, which linked Paris, Brussels & Amsterdam from 1927 Eurostar |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | 1950s POLITICS: In 1959 Bob Bartlett & Hiram Fong each won a coin flip to gain this alliterative title senior senator |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | MILITARY HISTORY: A prototype of this craft was deployed in August 1955; it made headlines in May 1960 the U-2 |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | ART HISTORY: The Royal Academy of Arts has this man's "La Fornarina" & in the 1800s the RAA's love of him made some artists retreat to an earlier style Raphael |
| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | FRENCH AUTHORS: Trained as a priest & a physician, in 1532 he published his first novel under the pen name Alcofribas Nasier (François) Rabelais |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | ON VACATION IN ITALY: About 30 miles from Florence, a little hill gives this tiny Tuscan town its name, familiar to American visitors Monticello |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1896, 15 years after a famous showdown, this man was accused of fixing a championship boxing match Wyatt Earp |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: He's the most recent presidential candidate to have officially declared his opponent in that campaign the victor Al Gore |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | CANADIAN MEDICINE: Nova Scotian William Knapp Buckley devised a widely used antitussive, meaning a drug used against this cough(ing) |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | THEATER: A 1955 play review noted "restless Delta folk" & "lives as uncomfortable & insecure as the proverbial" this title Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | LANDMARKS: The distance between its 2 legs at ground level is 630 feet, making it as wide as it is tall the Gateway Arch |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | BROADWAY PLAYS: Rita Moreno & Sally Struthers were the first to star in the female version of this comedy, their characters becoming Olive & Florence The Odd Couple |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | SOUTHERN POLITICIANS: An article written after his 1935 death asked, "Will some crown prince arise to take his place?" Huey Long |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | U.S. STAMPS: This Roman numeral appeared on stamps in a 2022 series for the 50th anniversary of an anti-discrimination law IX |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | NOVEL CHARACTERS: It's this character who's spoken of in the line "Reader, I forgave him at the moment & on the spot" Mr. Rochester |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | COUNTRY MUSIC: "It was kind of a prodding to myself to play it straight", said Johnny Cash of this 1956 hit "I Walk The Line" |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD: Achilles Tatius wrote that it "was like a mountain... at the top of this mountain rose a second sun" the Lighthouse at Alexandria |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: A 1902 work says an enigmatic character has a half-English mom & a half-French dad, but this name of his is German for "short" Kurtz |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | WORLD FLAGS: The flag of this Asian nation features part of a World Heritage Site built in the 12th century Cambodia |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | LANDMARKS: Then 71, a reluctant Michelangelo took on the design of this building "only for the love of God and in honor of the Apostle" St. Peter's Basilica |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | ARMY TECHNOLOGY: Bearing the name of a man who died in Iowa in 1838, these began service in 1979 & today number in the thousands Black Hawk helicopters |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | GEOGRAPHY: The first city in Australia with a municipal government, this state capital bears the name of a queen Adelaide |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | AMERICAN MUSICIANS: Also an author, this singer who had 5 Top 40 hits in the 1970s was called the "Pirate Laureate" Jimmy Buffett |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | NAMES IN HISTORY: The scientific name of Jamaica's ackee fruit honors this captain who brought it to England in 1793 Captain Bligh |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | HISTORICAL FICTION: Stan Lee said the alias-using title character of this novel set during the French Revolution "was the 1st superhero I... read about" The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | LEADING LADIES: NEXT IN LINE: Janet Gaynor,
Judy Garland,
Barbra Streisand,
her Lady Gaga |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | CLASSIC LITERATURE: An intended sequel to this 1869 work centered on the Decembrists, a group of veterans who largely served in the Napoleonic Wars War and Peace |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | 1980s MOVIE CHARACTERS: Oliver Stone, screenwriter of this 1983 movie, named its main character to honor the Super Bowl-winning QB from 1982 Scarface |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | U.S. BUSINESS FOUNDERS: A 1934 note to him: "Received hunting clothes... and thank you for those wonderful shoes they fit perfect... your friend, Babe Ruth" L.L. Bean |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | LITERARY CLICHÉS: Many mystery fans blame "The Door", a 1930 Mary Roberts Rinehart novel in which a servant kills a nurse, for this 4-word cliché the butler did it |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS: The first vice president & the first president not born in one of the original 13 states were both born in this state Kentucky |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | AMERICAN ARTISTS: In the 1920s he used wire, string & other materials to fabricate "models in motion" for a miniature circus scene (Alexander) Calder |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: After the Vietnam War, Vietnam got bogged down in a campaign against this leader whom it managed to overthrow in 1979 Pol Pot |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: An 1884 article calls this newly completed structure "the highest work of man" & disagrees with those who call it "a great chimney" the Washington Monument |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | ICONIC DESIGNERS: Once married to a publishing heir who owned citrus groves, her brightly printed dresses were originally designed to hide juice stains Lilly Pulitzer |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | NEW NATIONS: In September 2023 the U.S. recognized 2 new nations in free association with New Zealand: Niue & this archipelago the Cook Islands |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | ON THE STAGE: Paul Robeson said that even as this character "kills, his honor is at stake... the honor of his whole culture is involved" Othello |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | TOURIST SPOTS: Originally known as Longacre, it got its name after a newspaper moved its offices there in 1904 Times Square |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | LITERARY INSPIRATION: A book by historian Thomas Carlyle that Dickens said he'd read 500 times has this title subject that Charles would write about himself the French Revolution |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | RIVERS: A European capital got its name as a consequence of flooding on this river the Amstel River |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | BRAND NAMES: Originally called Fruit Scones, the name of this food brand introduced in 1964 was influenced by an art movement of that time Pop-Tarts |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | SPACE: Since it has caused spacecraft to malfunction, a region called the South Atlantic Anomaly is known as this area "of space" Bermuda Triangle |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | THE ANCIENT WORLD: This text helped the soul, or ka, navigate a journey into a region called Amenti the Book of the Dead |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | TELEVISION HISTORY: According to the BBC, this 1953 event "did more than any other to make television a mainstream medium" the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | STATE CAPITALS: The 2 closest state capitals, at about 40 miles apart, one was founded by someone no longer allowed in the other Providence & Boston |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: A 2020 edition of this beloved 1911 novel came with a glossary of horticultural terms & a location guide The Secret Garden |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: They went their separate ways in 1806 & both became territorial governors: one of Upper Louisiana, the other of Missouri Lewis & Clark |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | FROM THE FRENCH: With murder, shadows, a nosy reporter & Peter Lorre, 1940's "Stranger on the Third Floor" is the first example of this, some say film noir |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | AWARD-WINNING ACTRESSES: Her 2019 Oscar win & 2021 Emmy win were both for portraying a British queen Olivia Colman |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | LANDMARKS: During Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to Los Angeles, pranksters covered up this letter in a local landmark L |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | LANDMARKS: 213 feet wide, this late 18th c. European structure has 5 portals, the middle of which was--at first--for royals only the Brandenburg Gate |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 2023, shortly after his death, his name was added to a Brazilian dictionary to describe one who's superior or out of the ordinary Pelé |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | THOSE ZANY ANCIENT ROMANS: In the 20s B.C. the emperor's sister Octavia had a sitcom-worthy home including the boy & girl twin children of this man & woman Antony & Cleopatra |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | AMERICANA: After "Black Monday" in 1987, sculptor Arturo Di Modica put a statue of one of these in Manhattan to symbolize strength & power a bull |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BOOK CHARACTERS: Early on in a 1966 novel, this title character beats the protagonist in maze races; later on he bites him Algernon |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | FAMOUS NAMES IN AMERICA: The name of this animal that died in 1885 after being struck by a train that subsequently derailed lives on as an adjective Jumbo |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | THE 20th CENTURY: On July 19, 1940 Hitler called this man a warmonger & wrongly predicted he would flee to Canada Winston Churchill |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FROM PAGE TO STAGE: The opera based on this 1993 memoir was staged at a prison for the first time in 2023, at Sing Sing with a chorus of 14 inmates Dead Man Walking |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | COUNTRIES: Of the 14 countries that border China, it's the only monarchy & the only one with a population under 1 million Bhutan |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | INVENTIONS: Invented in 1816, it takes its name from Greek for "chest" & "observe" a stethoscope |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | NATIONAL MONUMENTS: Designated in 2016, a New York City monument named for this place of business includes nearby Christopher Park (the) Stonewall (Inn) |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | THE WILD WEST: In 1888's "Ranch Life & the Hunting-Trail" Teddy Roosevelt wrote his 2 ranch hands were "able to travel" like this animal a bull moose |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | BUSINESS: Of the Big 4 U.S. airlines, the 4 that each have over 15% of the domestic market, it's the youngest Southwest |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | MOVIE MUSICALS: Of the musicals to win an Oscar for Best Picture, 1 of the 2 with one-word titles based on & named for literary characters (1 of) Gigi or Oliver! |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Chapter 100 of this novel introduces the one-armed Captain Boomer of the Samuel Enderby Moby-Dick |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | 20th CENTURY LITERATURE: Thomas Pynchon wrote that this novelist "in 1948 understood that despite the Axis defeat... fascism had not gone away" Orwell |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | ANCIENT HISTORY: Before visiting Achilles' tomb, this man threw his spear onto the ground in Asia & declared the continent "spear-won" Alexander the Great |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | LANGUAGES: Since it can make someone "Japanese laugh as heartily as a Dane", Lillian Gish saw film as an aesthetic this, the name of a language Esperanto |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | FAMOUS NAMES: Subject of a 2003 film, his 1947 obituary said he fathered at least 100 & died of a heart attack at 14, at a California ranch Seabiscuit |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | APPLIED GEOMETRY: Thomas Hales proved hexagonal structures are the most compact way to fill a plane, a centuries-old theory based on the behavior of these honeybees |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | 2020s TELEVISION: The title locale of this series is really the Belnord, dating to 1908 & located at 86th & Broadway on NYC's Upper West Side Only Murders in the Building |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: The Atlanta History Center says this novel was "both beloved & condemned from almost the moment of its publication" in 1936 Gone with the Wind |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | BODIES OF WATER: The Goshute, a Western people, called this vast body of water Teittse Paa, meaning "bad water" the Great Salt Lake |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Established in 1963, this group had its conclusions questioned in books, reports & a special 1970s congressional committee the Warren Commission |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | UNIQUE BUILDINGS: Despite 17.5 miles of hallways, you can walk anywhere in this Virginia building within about five minutes, due to its concentric layout the Pentagon |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A BIT OF BRITAIN: In disarray, it was sold at auction in 1915 to a local Wiltshire man, who would donate it to the British government 3 years later Stonehenge |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHY: This state university's Writers' Workshop has had famous alumni who wrote about the state, like Jane Smiley & W.P. Kinsella the University of Iowa |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | BRITISH CITIES: Over the motto "Fortis est Veritas", the coat of arms of this city features a beast of burden crossing over some water Oxford |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | BUSINESS: This company announced, "On September 29th, 2023, we will send out the last red envelope" Netflix |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | SCIENCE ETYMOLOGY: First detected in the Sun's atmosphere in 1868, it got its name from an old word for sun helium |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | MUSICIANS: An Esquire profile said, "The most distinguishing thing" about the face of this singer "are his eyes, clear blue & alert" Frank Sinatra |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | TELEVISION: This series grew out of a screenplay titled "Murdoch" Succession |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: 7 U.S. presidents were born in the state of Ohio, beginning with this man who entered West Point in 1839 Ulysses Grant |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: In his first appearance in 1902, he was described as "betwixt-and-between" a boy & a bird Peter Pan |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | POETS: 1793 reports of the killing of Hector Munro by a wild animal in India may have inspired one of this man's best-known poems William Blake |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ARTISTS: Exhumed in 2017 to settle a paternity suit, his mustache had "preserved its classic 10-past-10 position" according to the Spanish press Salvador Dalí |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | WASHINGTON, D.C.: It was proposed in Congress in 1926 in honor of a big 150th anniversary; it opened 17 years later the Jefferson Memorial |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | HISTORIC OBJECTS: The inscription on this, made in 1753, concludes, "unto all the inhabitants thereof" the Liberty Bell |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | ICONIC BRANDS: In 1916 it began packaging its flagship product in a variety of glass called Georgia green Coca-Cola |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: The 1456 posthumous annulment of this woman's sentence by the Church was witnessed by her mother Isabelle Joan of Arc (Joan, Jeanne) |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In 1950 the Swedish Academy said this Nobel Prize winner "is a regional writer" but called "his regionalism universal" William Faulkner |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | EXPLORERS: Perhaps inspiring a line 2 centuries later, in 1774 he wrote that he was headed "farther than any other man has been before me" Captain James Cook |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | WORLD HISTORY: This African capital renamed an area Mexico Square to honor Mexico's WWII-era support of its sovereignty during Italian occupation Addis Ababa |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | MUSIC & LITERATURE: John Steinbeck called this "one of the great songs of the world" & wanted the music & lyrics printed in one of his novels "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic" |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | BRITISH HISTORY: At Leicester Cathedral in March 2015, the Archbishop of Canterbury led a religious ceremony for this deceased English monarch Richard III |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY: Britain became an island less than 10,000 years ago, as warming weather & melting ice filled in this sea the North Sea |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | PLAY TITLES: This 1959 play's title was taken from a Langston Hughes poem that begins, "What happens to a dream deferred?" A Raisin in the Sun (by Lorraine Hansberry) |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | 21st CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: It was the first election since 1952 in which neither the incumbent president nor the incumbent vice president was a candidate 2008 (Barack Obama & John McCain) |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | NAME'S THE SAME: This first name is shared by a character introduced in 1941 & a member of royalty who is sixth in line to the British throne Archie |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | DRIVING THE USA: It's the state with the most miles of Interstate Highway, more than 3,200; one Interstate accounts for 1/4 of that mileage Texas |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: On March 23, 1779 he became the first U.S. diplomat to serve overseas by presenting his credentials to a foreign government Benjamin Franklin |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | FAMOUS FAMILIES: In 2020 a former U.S. ambassador to Ireland, the last of 9 siblings in this dynastic family, died at 92 Kennedy |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | TWEEN LIT: Referring to the lengthy title of her much-discussed novel, this author lamented that she didn't just call the book "Margaret" Judy Blume |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | HISTORIC LETTERS: A letter from him begins, "On the thirty-third day after I had left Cadiz, I reached the Indian Ocean" (Christopher) Columbus |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | AWARDS & HONORS: As of 2023 the only 2 to win a Nobel Prize in Literature & an Academy Award were George Bernard Shaw & this singer-songwriter Bob Dylan |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | MUSIC MEN: Before creating this record label in 1959, its founder worked on a Lincoln-Mercury assembly line Motown |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | LANGUAGES OF ASIA: Meaning "palace", this word in the name of a UNESCO World Heritage Site follows Jal & Lal in the names of other historic structures Mahal |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | NAMES: The name Jennifer is an alteration of this name that in early Welsh literature belonged to the "first lady of the island" Guinevere |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | FAMOUS WOMEN: She joined the Sisters of Loreto at age 18, then took her good works to Calcutta, where she was called this Mother Teresa |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | NATURAL LANDMARKS: The Washburn-Langford-Doane expedition happened upon it in 1870 & named it for the regularity of its activity Old Faithful |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | MILITARY HISTORY: A 1918 article titled "Do Not Shoot at" these said hunters were interfering with the U.S. Signal Corps' training of them (carrier or homing) pigeons |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS: Barry Barish, who shared the 2017 Prize for detecting gravitational waves, called his award "a win for" this predecessor (Albert) Einstein |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | ROYALTY: Before his death in 2005, he said he was "probably the last head of state to be able to recognize all his compatriots in the street" Prince Rainier (III of Monaco) |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | WORD ORIGINS: Though it meant "seasickness" in Latin, this 6-letter word now refers to a more general feeling of sickness nausea |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | RALLYING CRIES: Don't mess with Texas: Sam Houston's troops shouted this 3-word battle cry while attacking Santa Anna's army at San Jacinto Remember the Alamo! |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | FINE ART: An early owner of this 1889 painting full of blue & green noted how well the artist "understood the exquisite nature of flowers!" Irises |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | NEW ZEALAND: Christchurch is the largest city in this New Zealand region that shares its name with an English city known for a church begun in the 6th century Canterbury |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | WOMEN AUTHORS: In "A Room of One’s Own", the "four famous names" are Austen, 2 Brontës & this author who died closest to Virginia Woolf’s own time George Eliot |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | COMPOSERS: He was given piano lessons by Madame Mauté de Fleurville, the mother-in-law of Paul Verlaine, whose poetry he would later set to music (Claude) Debussy |
| #8944, aired 2023-10-05 | GLOBAL GEOLOGY: In this nation of 360,000 people, you can walk along the boundaries of the Eurasian & North American tectonic plates Iceland |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WORLD LANDMARKS: Also famously cracked like the Liberty Bell, this 14-ton landmark still sounds its distinctive bong every hour Big Ben |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS: His 1904 will stipulated that "all the sums hereinbefore specified for prizes shall be used for prizes only" Joseph Pulitzer |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | THE 1500s: In the early 1500s he produced a codex in words & pictures on the flight of birds, one of many subjects that interested him Leonardo da Vinci |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATIONS: Both issued in April, 80 years apart, the first proclamations by these 2 presidents each declared national days of mourning Andrew Johnson & Harry Truman |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | U.S. SENATE HISTORY: In 1805, after 4 years presiding over the Senate, he left the chamber, calling it "a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order" Aaron Burr |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | SYMPHONIES: Debuting at Carnegie Hall in 1893, it was written by a European living in New York & partly inspired by "The Song of Hiawatha" the New World Symphony |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ASTRONOMY: Discovered in the '60s and '70s, Cygnus X-1 was the first of these light-trapping gravitational bodies to be identified black holes |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | MYTHOLOGY: Chrysomallus was the name of the creature that was the source of this sought-after item, vellus aureum in Latin the Golden Fleece |
| #8937, aired 2023-09-26 | PUBLICATIONS: A collection of achievements bearing this name was established in the early 1950s to help resolve pub disputes The Guinness Book of World Records (The Guinness Book of Records) |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | SCIENTISTS: A 1953 article by this pair says, "The specific pairing we have postulated... suggests a... copying mechanism for the genetic material" (James) Watson & (Francis) Crick |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | COMPOSERS: A fireworks display followed the April 27, 1749 premiere of a work by this man that had been commissioned by George II (George Frideric) Handel |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | FIRST NAMES IN SCIENCE: First name of the paleontologist who in 1990 noticed some large vertebrae jutting from an eroding bluff in South Dakota Sue |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: In 2022 the Dept. of Energy noted "a flawed process" & vacated a 1954 commission's decision "in the matter of" this man (J. Robert) Oppenheimer |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY: Of Spain's colonial possessions in the Americas, this 3,400 square mile one in the Antilles never gained independence, but did change hands Puerto Rico |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | AUTHORS: He dedicated books to each of his 4 wives, including Hadley Richardson & Martha Gellhorn Ernest (Papa) Hemingway |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | ASTRONOMY: The only dwarf planet located in the inner Solar System, it's named for an ancient deity of planting & harvests Ceres |
| #8929, aired 2023-09-14 | WORLD CAPITALS: In English, name of 1 of the 2 4-letter capitals with the same first & last letter, one in the N. & one in the S. Hemisphere Apia or Oslo |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | ARTISTS: On October 26, 1886 he said, "The dream of my life is accomplished... I see the symbol of unity & friendship between 2 nations" Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | MYTHOLOGICAL PLACES: "Paradise Lost" says it's "abhorred" & "the flood of deadly hate" & in Dante's "Inferno" it's fed by a "gloomy brook" the River Styx |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | BRITISH MONARCHS: The most recent British monarch not to succeed a parent or a sibling was this ruler who succeeded an uncle Queen Victoria |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | WORD ORIGINS: Theories on the origin of this, a style of journalism, include Cajun slang for unhinged jazz & Boston slang for a person on a bender gonzo |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | FIGHTING FORCES: Formed in 1831 to help with the conquest of Algeria, its ranks have included Germans, Turks & Chinese the French Foreign Legion |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | OPERA SOURCE MATERIAL: Henri Murger, who was broke & lived in a freezing attic apartment in Paris, wrote the source material for this 1896 opera La bohème |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | COMPOUND WORD ORIGINS: This compound word meant an astronomical object of exceptional brightness in 1910; it was soon applied to actors & athletes superstar |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY: The only country in Africa with Spanish as an official language, it lies mostly between 1 & 2 degrees north latitude Equatorial Guinea |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | NUMBERS OLD & NEW: Expressed in today's numbers, it's the sum total if you add the 7 Roman numerals together 1,666 |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH POEMS: The author of this unfinished epic poem was unsure if he wanted the title character to "end in Hell--or in an unhappy marriage" Don Juan |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | FAMOUS PAINTINGS: A German guidebook to a 1937 World's Fair dismissed it as a "hodgepodge of body parts that any four-year-old could have painted" Guernica |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | MAN-MADE OBJECTS: Around since 1998, it's now roughly the length of a football field & travels at about 5 miles per second the International Space Station (the ISS) |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS: In 1867 he wrote to General Rousseau, "on arriving at Sitka... you will receive from the Russian commissioner the formal transfer" (William) Seward |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: In 1930 this author wrote "Murder at Full Moon", a horror-mystery novel set in a fictional town in Central California (John) Steinbeck |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FAMOUS SHIPS: This first U.S. battleship ever built was launched in 1889 but lasted less than 9 years the Maine |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | NAME'S THE SAME: A 1931 Charlie Chaplin film & a West Coast bookstore open since 1953 both bear this name City Lights |
| #8912, aired 2023-07-11 | OLYMPIC TEAMS: A city of about 2.5 million people, since 1984 for political reasons it has been in the name of an Olympic team Taipei |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | ART HISTORY: At the 1865 Paris Art Salon, the elder of these 2 men said if the younger were successful, it would be "because his name sounds like mine" Manet & Monet |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORY & NATURE: In March 1519, these were again seen in mainland North America for the first time in 10,000 years with the arrival of 16 of them horses |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | 20th CENTURY LIT: Squashing the allegory theory, the daughters of the author of this novel say it's "just a story about rabbits" Watership Down |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | AFRICAN COUNTRIES: Nicknamed "the Kingdom in the Sky", this landlocked nation is the only country in the world to lie entirely above 4,000 feet Lesotho |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: Composed around 1720, this group of instrumental works was dedicated to a younger brother of Prussian king Frederick I the Brandenburg Concertos |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | FASHION: The name of these items that became a 1940s fad derives in part from a word meaning "to cut short" bobby socks |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS: The name of this country's national anthem translates as "His Majesty's Reign" & its lyrics come from a 1,000-year-old poem Japan |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | THE MOVIES: Centenarian ceramic artist Beatrice Wood helped inspire one of the main characters & the narrator of this film from the 1990s Titanic |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | THE MEDICAL WORLD: He created a chest drain valve that aided breathing in wounded soldiers in Vietnam but is better known for a lifesaving measure (Henry) Heimlich |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: In 1896 new spider species were named for a wolf, a panther & a snake from a work published 2 years earlier by this man (Rudyard) Kipling |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 20th CENTURY EVENTS: It was immediately reported, "The flames are still leaping maybe 30, 40 feet from the ground the entire 811 feet length of" this the Hindenburg |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | FEMALE AUTHORS: At age 9 in 1883 she moved west, where she met Annie Pavelka, a young pioneer on whom she would later model a title character Willa Cather |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | THE 19th CENTURY: In 1823 he wrote, "In the war between those new governments and Spain we declared our neutrality" (James) Monroe |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | WORLD OF WATER: The Bass Strait divides Tasmania & mainland Australia & hydrographers have disputed which of these 2 larger bodies it's part of the Indian & Pacific Oceans |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THE OLYMPICS: This sport that made its Olympic debut in 1988 has a playing surface of only about 45 square feet table tennis |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | ENTERTAINERS: In 2022 Jeff Bezos awarded her $100 million to give to charitable causes because "she gives with her heart" Dolly Parton |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY: Native Americans called it Okwa-ta, or "wide water"; Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville would rename it for a countryman Lake Pontchartrain |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: Established in 1938, this congressional group was still issuing subpoenas in 1969 & finally ceased to exist 6 years later the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | TV & FILM CHARACTERS: He debuted on TV in 1967; the show's creator wanted someone from behind the Iron Curtain to be on "our side" Chekov |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | ACTORS: He starred in the 2 films whose soundtracks were the top 2 bestselling albums of 1978 John Travolta |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | WOMEN IN MYTHOLOGY: The name of this woman, the product of an incestuous union, means "against birth" Antigone |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | BRITISH NOVELS: Midway through this 1928 novel, the title character briefly takes "their" instead of his or her Orlando |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | BUSINESS HISTORY: What is dubbed "the world's first initial public offering" took place in 1602 in this current European capital Amsterdam |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: Of all the nations that border Italy, the one that didn't exist in 1990 Slovenia |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | HISTORIC ORGANIZATIONS: A senator called the 1949 pact that formed this a "fraternity of peace" that "makes the obligation plain... for us & others" NATO |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | ACRONYMS: It was originally a code word used by telegraph operators; Barack Obama used it in his Twitter handle POTUS |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA: In bold letters, it was the 2-word historic N.Y. Times headline for August 9, 1974, followed by "He urges a time of 'healing"' "Nixon Resigns" |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | COUNTRY NAMES: The first current country to include its particular religion in its full name, it also has that religion in the name of its capital Pakistan |
| #8883, aired 2023-05-31 | SPORTS & THE MOVIES: A Geena Davis Institute study found shortly after a 2012 franchise film's release, women's participation in this sport rose 105% archery |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | LITERARY GROUPS: Windermere, Thirlmere & Grasmere are 3 of the sites that helped give a 19th century literary group this name the Lake Poets |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | MEMORIALS: The Vietnam War crypt at this memorial has been empty since the remains once there were identified & moved to St. Louis the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | GROUPS IN HISTORY: The third-most famous group that invaded Britain in the 5th century, they gave their name to the continental part of Denmark the Jutes |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | ASIA: Trained as an engineer, premier Li Peng championed this in 1992; it would ultimately displace over a million people the Three Gorges Dam |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | AFRICA: A major seaport & formerly a world capital, this city has a name from Arabic for "house of peace" Dar es Salaam |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | LATIN IN LITERATURE: A work by this 15th century English writer quotes the phrase "rex quondam rexque futurus" Thomas Malory |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: When the opera "Lohengrin" premiered in 1850, this man, a future in-law of the composer, was the conductor Franz Liszt |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | OPERA & HISTORY: Appropriately, the last performance at the Vienna State Opera before it was destroyed in 1945 by Allied bombs was this opera from 1876 Götterdämmerung |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | REAL PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE: In Shakespeare this man is a rival of Prince Hal; in real life he was older than Hal's father Hotspur |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS: Both of the names of these 2 lovers in a Shakespeare play come from Latin words for "blessed" Beatrice & Benedick |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | HISTORIC SHIPS: This 16th century ship got its name from the crest of patron Christopher Hatton, which featured a deer the Golden Hind |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | LITERATURE: In reviewing this novel, Carl Jung said it took place in one single & senseless day "on which, in all truth, nothing happens" Ulysses |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: The original 1900 printing of this book was in a pale green dust jacket stamped in a vivid jewel tone of green The Wizard of Oz (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | THE USA: People going north on this route say they're traveling "GAME", an acronym regarding their beginning & ending points the Appalachian Trail |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | BILLBOARD NO. 1 HITS: Billy Joel said, "I think the one time I didn't write the music" before the lyrics was for this 1989 hit, "and I think it shows" "We Didn't Start The Fire" |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | U.S. NATIONAL MEMORIALS: Efforts recently began to reintroduce 2 species of oyster to help restore the contaminated waters of this, a national memorial Pearl Harbor |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | 20th CENTURY FRENCH AUTHORS: He said a famous book of his was inspired by a visit to the zoo, where he observed the gorillas' humanlike expressions Pierre Boulle (author of Planet of the Apes) |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | THE LAKE SHOW: 12 years before meeting Stanley at Lake Tanganyika, David Livingstone reached this national body of water in 1859 Lake Malawi |
| #12, aired 2023-05-16 | LANDMARKS: For more than a millennium, a huge embroidered work known as the Kiswa has been used to adorn & protect this structure the Kaaba |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | WORLD CITIES: This capital city founded in 1567 was where the founding statute of OPEC was adopted in 1961 Caracas |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | AUTHORS: In 1960 Jean-Paul Sartre wrote of this man's "victorious attempt... to snatch every instant of his existence from his future death" (Albert) Camus |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 19th CENTURY FIRST LADIES: After her husband left office, a minister wrote the White House was "purer because" this first lady "has been its mistress" Lucy Hayes ("Lemonade Lucy") |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: Not a department head but of Cabinet rank, the person in this post has had an official residence in a 42nd floor Park Avenue penthouse ambassador to the United Nations |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | PUBLICATIONS: The co-founder of this magazine that began in 1967 said its name comes primarily from a song title but noted a band name as well Rolling Stone |
| #8, aired 2023-05-12 | FICTIONAL PLACES: The dominions of this land "extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference)" Lilliput |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | NEW ENGLAND WOMEN: At her funeral in 1936, it was said that "The touch of her hand... literally emancipated a soul" Annie Sullivan |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | NEW WORDS IN THE 18th CENTURY: Describing these, Captain Cook wrote, "The manner in which" they're done "must certainly cause intollerable pain" tattoos |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | HISTORY: His epitaph, in a church in England, reads, "Sometime general in the army of George Washington" Benedict Arnold |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | HISTORIC HOMES: This residence is part of an estate that includes Ballochbuie Forest, a remnant of the ancient Caledonian pine forest Balmoral |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | THE FIRST MILLENNIUM: In 303, to celebrate 20 years of his reign, the emperor Diocletian visited this city for the first time Rome |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: In 1901 6 colonies joined together to form this nation, today the sixth largest in area Australia |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | 21st CENTURY AUTHORS: Once a journalist himself, he began his first novel with his hero being fined 150,000 kronor for aggravated libel Stieg Larsson |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | ACTRESSES & THEIR ROLES: She made her big screen debut as a teen named Laurie in a 1978 film & in 2022 she played that role for the 7th & last time Jamie Lee Curtis |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE HISTORY: In 1915 the assassination of President Sam brought Uncle Sam to this country, beginning a 19-year military occupation Haiti |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | USA: Opened in 1909 & less famous than an older neighbor, it connects Brooklyn & Chinatown the Manhattan Bridge |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES: This 2007 bestselling novel takes its title from a line in the poem "Kabul" by the 17th century Persian poet Saib A Thousand Splendid Suns |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | POETRY: A colossal head of Ramses II brought to the British Museum inspired this 1818 poem "Ozymandias" |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | TEAM NAMES: An MLB team got this name in 1902 after some of its players defected to a new crosstown rival, leaving young replacements the (Chicago) Cubs |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | BODIES OF WATER: Formed some 10,000-15,000 years ago & with an average depth of only about 150 feet, it's named for a man who sailed through it in 1728 the Bering Strait |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | BUSINESS & SOCIAL MEDIA: On Twitter in 2023, this food franchise followed an exact total of 11 accounts that included Victoria Beckham, Mel B & Herb Alpert KFC |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | MEDICAL HISTORY: A vaccine against this respiratory illness came out in the U.S. in 1914 & eventually combined with 2 other vaccines whooping cough (pertussis) |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 18th CENTURY LITERATURE: The first name of this title character is from Hebrew for "devoted to God"; his last name suggests he can be easily duped (Lemuel) Gulliver |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | U.S. LANDMARKS: In April 1975, to symbolize the start of America's Bicentennial, President Ford lit a third lantern at this landmark the Old North Church |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | HISTORIC FIGURES: Dante gives him, born to a Kurdish family in the 12th century, a place of honor in limbo along with the war heroes of Rome & Troy Saladin |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY: Last name of 3 men who missed the 1927 premiere of "The Jazz Singer" because a 4th of that name had died hours before Warner |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | TV HISTORY: The 1980s "Magnum, P.I." used a soundstage of this long-running drama that had just ended, & even referred to its lead character Hawaii Five-O |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY: Interstate 25 connects these 2 state capitals, 1st & 2nd in elevation, & in between runs through No. 3, Denver Cheyenne & Santa Fe |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | HISTORIC GROUPS: Originally a term for security escorts for commanders, in 27 B.C. this group was designated an official imperial force the Praetorian Guard |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | MODERN WORDS: Neal Stephenson coined this word in his 1992 novel "Snow Crash"; it was later shortened by a company to become its new name metaverse |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | LIVES OF THE POETS: At a seminary that classified students' degree of faith, Emily Dickinson was "without" this, which she compares to a bird in a poem hope |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THE OSCARS: Born in 1932 & the son of a percussionist in the CBS Radio Orchestra, he's been nominated for 53 Oscars John Williams |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ENGLISH LITERATURE: It says, "The mind is its own place, & in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same" Paradise Lost |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | WRITERS' LESSER-KNOWN WORKS: Known for more philosophical works, he wrote the play "La Mandragola", in which Florentines are rewarded for immoral actions (Niccolò) Machiavelli |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | EXPLORATION: James Cook's account of a 1774 visit here records an object "near 27 feet long, and upwards of 8 feet over the breast or shoulders" Easter Island |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | THE BILL OF RIGHTS: England's "Bloody Assizes" & a 1685 life sentence for perjury were 2 main origins of this amendment to the U.S. Constitution the 8th Amendment |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS: At times they each lived on Vilakazi St. in Soweto, so it claims to be the world's only street home to 2 Nobel Peace Prize winners Nelson Mandela & Archbishop Desmond Tutu |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 1966, the year of his death, he shared plans for an experimental prototype community in Florida Walt Disney |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | GEOGRAPHY: Of the 13 nations through which the equator passes, it's the only one whose coastline borders the Caribbean Sea Colombia |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | FASHION HISTORY: These decorative items get their name from their origin in the port city of Strasbourg, on the border of France & Germany rhinestones |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | MOVIES OF THE '80s: Based on an off-Broadway play with just 3 characters, it won the Best Picture Oscar & the actors in all 3 roles were nominated Driving Miss Daisy |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | NOVELISTS: A 2012 book review noted subjects that "sparked his ire": capital punishment, big tobacco & "the plight of the unjustly convicted" John Grisham |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | 20th CENTURY EPONYMS: A 1940 headline about this included "failure", "liability when it came to offense" & "stout hearts no match for tanks" the Maginot Line |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | CITY HISTORY: Over 700 years after its traditional 1252 founding date, this port city became associated with a psychological response Stockholm |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | BRAND NAMES: The success of this brand has its roots with a hydrotherapy pump its cofounder created for his son, who had arthritis Jacuzzi |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: In a periodical in 1807, he called New York City "Gotham, Gotham! most enlightened of cities" Washington Irving |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | TRANSPORTATION USA: This public agency runs the USA's busiest bus terminal, opened in 1950 for commuters awed by its polished steel & stone the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | CHEMICAL NAMES: The name of this pungent gaseous compound is ultimately derived from the top god of the ancient Egyptians ammonia |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | SYMBOLS: In math, it's a rotated V; in society, it's a feeling of some marginalized or underrepresented people less than |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | MOVIE THEME SONGS: Monty Norman, the composer of this character's theme, said the staccato riff conveyed sexiness, mystery & ruthlessness (James) Bond |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS: He served with an airman named Yohannan in World War II & despite what readers might think, he said he enjoyed his service (Joseph) Heller |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | MEDIEVAL PLACES: One of the participants in an 1170 event at this place said, "Let us away, knights; he will rise no more" Canterbury Cathedral |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | COUNTRIES OF AFRICA: At one time a province of the Roman Empire, this kingdom is known to Arabic scholars as Al-Maghrib Al-Aqsa, "the far west" Morocco |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | STATEHOOD: Congress relented in 1890 after this prospective state said it would wait 100 years rather than come in without the women Wyoming |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | 1980s MOVIES: A writer & producer of this movie said he wanted it to be like a Western or James Bond film, "only it takes place in the '30s" Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | ART EXHIBITIONS: In 1898 what's been called the first blockbuster art show was devoted to him & put on for Queen Wilhelmina's coronation Rembrandt |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Part of the largest contiguous land empire during the 1200s & 1300s, today it's the world's second-largest landlocked country Mongolia |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | LITERATURE: A 2006 book was titled "The Poem That Changed America:" this "Fifty Years Later" "Howl" |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | INVASIONS: Backed by 14,000 troops, he invaded England to restore, in his words, its "religion, laws, and liberties" William of Orange |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | LANDMARKS: After its completion in the late 19th c., it was called a "truly tragic street lamp" & a "high & skinny pyramid of iron ladders" the Eiffel Tower |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | GEOGRAPHIC NAME'S THE SAME: The busiest passenger port in the U.K., it shares its name with a capital of one of the original 13 states Dover |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | NAMES IN THE BOOKSTORE: This man made lists, perhaps to cope with depression; a set of lists he published in 1852 made his name synonymous with a type of book (Peter Mark) Roget |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | U.S. HISTORY: An 1869 presidential pardon was granted to this man, due in part to a plea by the Medical Society of Harford County, Maryland Dr. Samuel Mudd |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: Letters, pocket knives, C rations & steel helmets are among the tangible items referred to in the title of this modern war classic The Things They Carried |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | NONFICTION: It has the line, "The discovery of America... opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie" The Communist Manifesto |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | LAWS IN U.S. HISTORY: A Radical Republican championed this 1875 act but the Supreme Court struck it down in 1883; a new version was passed 81 years later the Civil Rights Act |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | NAMES OF MYTH: Her brothers, Castor & Pollux, saved her after Theseus stole her away as a kid; a larger force would seek her later in life Helen of Troy |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | AFRICAN COUNTRIES: Once Africa's largest country in area, it dropped to third in 2011 when a portion of it declared independence Sudan |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | THE ANCIENT WORLD: The ancient writer Galen said books on ships arriving to this city's port were seized, originals kept & copies returned Alexandria |
| #8814, aired 2023-02-23 | FAMOUS NAMES: For a special 1970s cookbook, he provided one simple recipe--a can of Campbell's tomato soup & 2 cans of milk Andy Warhol |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | PEOPLE & PLACES: Thought to descend from people of Southeast Asia, the Chamorro make up this U.S. territory's largest ethnic group Guam |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | CURRENT WORLD LEADERS: In office from 2022, the president of this country has taken so many foreign trips a play on his name is "Ferdinand Magellan Jr." the Philippines |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | WRITERS & THE SOUTH: In 1939 he lived on Toulouse Street in the French Quarter & chose the professional name that bonded him to the South Tennessee Williams |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | NATIONAL PARKS: It's named for a river indigenous people called Mi tse a-da-zi, translated by French-speaking trappers as "Pierre Jaune" Yellowstone |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | SPORTS: In 2010 they introduced the 4-point shot, 35 feet from the basket the Harlem Globetrotters |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | THE U.S. MILITARY: Losses over Asia in the 1960s led to the establishment of the program known as this at a San Diego naval base in 1969 Top Gun |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | ART & SCIENCE: A craft that visited it was named for Giotto, based on the story that 680 years earlier, the painter depicted it as the Star of Bethlehem Halley's Comet |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | WORDS FROM WORLD WAR I: "Cistern" & "reservoir" were suggested names for a secret invention, but the British preferred this less clumsy monosyllable a tank |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | EUROPEAN HISTORY: Until 1806, some German nobles included among their honors the title of "Elector" for their role in selecting this personage Holy Roman Emperor |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | THEATER HISTORY: In 1904, wearing a harness, actress Nina Boucicault became the first to play this character onstage Peter Pan |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | EUROPEAN CITIES: Alphabetically the first German city in encyclopedias, it was also the first one taken by the Allies in World War II Aachen |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WORD ORIGINS: This Sanskrit word referring to a spoken word or phrase comes from a word for "to think" mantra |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | INVENTIONS: 1917's "Elements of Trench Warfare" said this Old West item was "difficult to destroy" & "difficult to get through" barbed wire |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | WORLD WAR II: Mimi Reinhard, who never learned to type using more than 2 fingers, produced this with 1,100 names, including hers Schindler's List |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | ARTISTS: Despite how he's known, he was probably actually born in Anchiano, near Florence Leonardo da Vinci |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | MYTHOLOGY: Poseidon carried off the maiden Theophane & turned her into a ewe; their offspring was the source of this mythical object the Golden Fleece |
| #8798, aired 2023-02-01 | LITERATURE: Published in 2011, P.D. James' final novel, "Death Comes to Pemberley", was a sequel to this novel from 200 years earlier Pride and Prejudice |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | U.S. STATE NAMES: 5 U.S. states have 6-letter names; only these 2 west of the Mississippi River border each other Oregon & Nevada |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | WORD ORIGINS: Originally relating to a story of suffering, this word now more commonly refers to strong emotion of any kind passion |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | WORLD CINEMA: The 2007 biopic called "La Môme" in France, meaning "The Kid", was released in the U.S. under this other French title La Vie en rose |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | NOVELS: "Breeders, Wives and Unwomen" was the headline of the New York Times' 1986 review of this novel The Handmaid's Tale |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | HISTORY: Returning home in 1493, Columbus stopped in the Azores at an island with this name, also something he'd lost off the Haiti coast Santa Maria |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | LANDMARKS: Pskov & Nizhny Novgorod are 2 of the cities that have a fortress called this the Kremlin |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | FOREIGN-BORN AUTHORS: In the 1950s the New York Times said this author "is writing about all lust" & his lecherous narrator "is all of us" (Vladimir) Nabokov |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | ASTRONOMY & GEOGRAPHY: At the winter solstice, the Sun is in Sagittarius; it once appeared in this constellation, giving a geographic feature its name Capricorn |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | TELEVISION: Mike Post combined the sound of a slamming jail door, an anvil & 100 men stomping on a floor for this series that debuted in 1990 Law & Order |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | NOTORIOUS PLACES: Al Capone played banjo in a band called the Rock Islanders at this notorious spot Alcatraz |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | BRITISH LANDMARKS: Like Sir Thomas More, 3 16th century English queens are buried at this location the Tower of London |
| #8788, aired 2023-01-18 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1692 Increase Mather wrote, "It were better that ten suspected" these "escape, than that one innocent person... be condemned" witches |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | GEOGRAPHY MNEMONICS: MIMAL, sometimes said to be the silhouette of a chef or elf, stands for Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, these 2 states Arkansas & Louisiana |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | BUSINESS MILESTONES: These were first sold in 1908, at a price equivalent to about $27,000 today Ford Model T |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | IN THE BOOKSTORE: The name of this author dead since 2013 now appears on books written by a former U.S. marshal & a former Apache helicopter pilot Tom Clancy |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | HISTORIC ART: The artwork once known in France as "la tapisserie de la reine Mathilde" is better known as this the Bayeux Tapestry |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | CORPORATE MASCOTS: Born on an island in a sea of milk, this pitchman was jokingly disavowed by the U.S. Navy by saying he is not in personnel records Cap'n Crunch |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | POP STARS: In 2022 she became the first woman to have a Billboard Top 10 album in 5 decades starting with the 1980s Madonna |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | CLASSIC TALE CHARACTERS: In one 19th century translation, she "perceived the dawn of day and ceased" speaking nearly 1,000 times Scheherazade |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | USA: Ironically, though this company founded in the 1860s is Moore county, Tennessee's largest employer, Moore is a dry county Jack Daniel's |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: After a 1789 event, he wrote, "My first determination was to seek a supply of... water at Tofoa, & afterwards to sail for Tongataboo" (Captain) Bligh |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: Calling him "the embodiment of pure intellect", in December 1999 Time magazine named him Person of the Century Albert Einstein |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE MOVIES: Laurence Olivier & Ernest Borgnine were considered for the lead role & Sergio Leone to direct for this film that turned 50 in 2022 The Godfather |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | CONTINENTAL GEOGRAPHY: Until a 1903 secession, this country's contiguous territory spanned 2 continents Colombia |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | FOREIGN-BORN AUTHORS: Early in her career she translated romance novels into Spanish, often changing the dialogue to make the heroines smarter (Isabel) Allende |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORIC CRIMES: Saying it was stolen by Napoleon, self-styled Italian patriot Vincenzo Peruggia took it in 1911 the Mona Lisa |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER: Continuing a downward trend, in July 2022 it was at 27% capacity, its lowest level since 1937 when it was first being filled Lake Mead |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | GODS & GODDESSES: Each morning she began her ride in her chariot across the sky ahead of her brother Sol, or Helios Eos (Aurora) |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | AMERICA AT WAR: Until the Civil War, the January 8 date of this battle of dubious military importance but big morale value was a national holiday the Battle of New Orleans |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: Its title character is told "By the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off... your eyes drop out & you get... shabby" The Velveteen Rabbit |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | TV FINALES: In a reunion over 40 years in the making, Dolly Parton appeared as an angel named Agnes in the final episode of this comedy in 2022 Grace and Frankie |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | AMERICAN POEMS: In an 1847 poem this character sees her town of Grand-Pré burned, but finally reunites with her beau for a kiss before his death Evangeline |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 2001 he published a book called "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall"; in 2002, "Existencilism" Banksy |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | CHILDREN'S LIT: The title object of this book "never looked more beautiful... each strand held dozens of bright drops of early morning dew" Charlotte's Web |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | CLASSIC SONGS: The shouts of excited children at a 1946 holiday parade are said to have inspired this perennial favorite "Here Comes Santa Claus" |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | BRAND NAMES: Unable to make these candies perfectly round, the confectioner embraced this flawed name for the product Milk Duds |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: It's home to 58 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, more than any other country; the sites include a volcano & a lagoon Italy |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ACTION MOVIES: Its last line is "If this is their idea of Christmas, I gotta be here for New Year's" Die Hard |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | PRESIDENTIAL FACTS: Only 3 presidents have married while in office--John Tyler was the first & he was the last (Woodrow) Wilson |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: Demonstrating the dignity & humanity of Black Americans, he sat for 160 known photographs, the most of any American in the 19th century Frederick Douglass |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LATIN PHRASES: Originally, this 3-word phrase referred to when a doctor or apothecary substituted one medicine for another quid pro quo |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | 1970s MOVIES: A 1975 premiere of this comedy advertised free coconuts for the first thousand in the audience Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | NAME'S THE SAME: A cocktail, an island & a WWII venture originally called "Development of Substitute Materials" all bear this name Manhattan |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was sworn in twice as president within 2 years, first by his father & then later by a former U.S. President (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | PLAYS: A 1609 story in which an exiled king of Bulgaria creates a sea palace with his magic may have inspired the plot of this play The Tempest |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | LANDMARKS: In 2009, during a 20th anniversary celebration, it was called "an edifice of fear. On November 9, it became a place of joy" the Berlin Wall |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | WORLD CAPITALS: Among its nicknames are the "City of Classical Music" &, possibly in honor of a famous resident from 1860 to 1938, the "City of Dreams" Vienna |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | LANGUAGE & ITS MEANINGS: Now meaning someone with nocturnal habits, it catches a sleeping dove in Shakespeare's "The Rape of Lucrece" a night owl |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | FLAGS OF OUR HEMISPHERE: The stars on this country's flag represent states, 26 of them; unlike the USA's, its "federal district" gets its own 27th star Brazil |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NAMES IN U.S. HISTORY: This father was the only man among the 13 plaintiffs in a class-action case filed in 1951 Brown |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: Reversing the story of this heroine she created, Patricia MacLachlan was born on the prairie but spent much of her life in New England Sarah (Wheaton) |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | STATES & THE CENSUS: The 2020 Census gave Montana a second U.S. House seat; its most populous county, this one that attracts tourists, grew 11% Yellowstone |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | SOUTHERN COLLEGES: To aid transport in poorer nations, in the 1920s grads of this college built makeshift buggies celebrated in their fight song Georgia Tech |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | SECONDS IN HISTORY: The Fortune, the 2nd ship to land at this harbor, disappointed those already there, carrying 35 new residents & "not so much as bisket-cake" Plymouth |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | MUSICAL THEATER: The pair at the center of tumult in this long-running show were originally to be a Jewish girl & a Catholic boy West Side Story |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | PLAYS: The January 12, 1864 Washington Evening Star reported on a performance of this "dashing comedy" to "a full and delighted house" Our American Cousin |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | ENGLISH CITIES: William the Conqueror's son built a fortress on a key northern river in 1080, giving this city its name Newcastle (upon Tyne) |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | MOVIES & LITERATURE: Ridley Scott's first feature film, "The Duellists", was based on a story by this author to whom Scott's film "Alien" also pays tribute Joseph Conrad |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | THE NEW TESTAMENT: Paul's letter to them is the New Testament epistle with the most Old Testament quotations Hebrews |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | NAME'S THE SAME: Name shared by a Victorian novelist & an 1805 flagship captain whose name is heard in a famous phrase (Thomas) Hardy |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | GEOGRA-FLEE: In July 2022 the ousted president of this country fled west across the Indian Ocean to the Maldives Sri Lanka |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | ADVENTURE NOVELS: The villainess in this French novel kind of undercuts the title when she says, "among these four men two only are to be feared" The Three Musketeers |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | LONDON LOCALES: To fight malaria, this former royal estate helped move quinine-producing cinchona plants from South America to India Kew Gardens |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | GEOGRAPHIC PAIRS: By ferry, the distance between these 2 paired Mediterranean islands is about 40 miles from Alcudia to Ciutadella Mallorca (Majorca) & Menorca (Minorca) |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: A trip to El Paso with his young son & wondering what the city might look like years in the future inspired a novel by this author Cormac McCarthy |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | CHEMICAL ELEMENT NAMES: The 3 elements whose names begin with 2 vowels are iodine & these 2, one synthetic & one natural einsteinium & europium |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | PHRASES FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD: Cicero wrote that a tyrant ordered this to be hung from the ceiling "by a horse-hair"; his guest begged to leave the sword of Damocles |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BRANDS: With wood becoming more difficult to source, this company turned to plastic for its automatic binding bricks, introduced in 1949 Lego |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | WORLD CITIES: The name of this city may come from "dur", meaning water, a reference to the Helvetian people's settlement on a lake Zurich |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | NOVEL LOCALES: This place from a 1933 novel lies in the Valley of Blue Moon, below a peak called Karakal Shangri-La |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | PHRASES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill that gave reparations to formerly enslaved people, hence this phrase for an unfulfilled promise forty acres and a mule |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | POETS: Inspired by stories from his grandfather, his "Battle of Lovell's Pond" appeared in the Portland Gazette in 1820 when he was 13 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | PLACES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: A Native American story says this creek got its name from an injury suffered by a Sioux warrior in a fight with the Crow Wounded Knee |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE: In 1863 Walt Whitman wrote that this politician "has a face like a Hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes beautiful" Lincoln |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | ARTISTS: Sabena Airlines commissioned a painting by this artist, "L'Oiseau de Ciel", a bird whose body is filled with clouds in a blue sky René Magritte |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS: He turned to opera with the 1903 work "Guest of Honor", likely inspired by Booker T. Washington's dinner at the White House (Scott) Joplin |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | CHARITY: A Catholic charity called Caritas Rome is the beneficiary of money collected from here, over the years averaging about $3,500 daily the Trevi Fountain |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | BODIES OF WATER: The Kattegat & Skagerrak Straits separate these 2 seas the Baltic & North Seas |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | AUTHORS: When Esquire began as a men's lifestyle magazine in the 1930s, he was asked for manly content & wrote in 28 of the first 33 issues Ernest Hemingway |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | WORLD LANDMARKS: Built of more than 18,000 metal parts & 2.5 million rivets, it was the world's tallest manmade structure from 1889 to 1930 the Eiffel Tower |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: This character from an 1859 novel symbolizes the Fates, who in mythology spin the web of life, measure it & cut it off Madame Defarge |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | INTERNATIONAL BORDERS: 2 of the 3 countries that share land borders with Russia & China (2 of) Kazakhstan, Mongolia, or North Korea |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Ben Franklin, John Adams & John Jay succeeded as a trio in this city, though Adams wrote of fearing the other 2 would gang up on him Paris |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | LANDMARKS OF SCIENCE: Clones of an original one of these grow outside the math faculty at Cambridge University & in the President's Garden at M.I.T. an apple tree |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | FAMOUS ANIMALS: In September 1964 the New York Times announced the passing of this pet, a gift, "used as symbol of honesty in 1952" Checkers |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | ANNUAL EVENTS: In 1986 Larry Harvey called a friend & said, let's do this, no one knows exactly why; it evolved into an annual festival in the desert Burning Man |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | AUTHORS: Featuring a statue of a man escaping his grave, his tomb in Amiens contrasts with the title of his 1864 adventure novel (Jules) Verne |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | DOCUMENTARIES: In this 1970 film, Max Yasgur says, "I'm a farmer... I don't know how to speak to 20 people... let alone a crowd like this" Woodstock |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: In a September 3, 1939 speech, he said, "Everything that I have worked for... has crashed into ruins" Neville Chamberlain |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | FAMOUS SHIPS: Its wreck was discovered in 1989, 48 years after it had been sunk & 91 years after the man it was named for had died the Bismarck |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | BRAND NAMES: A neighbor's charcoal drawing of Ann Turner Cook at age 4 or 5 months won a 1928 contest to appear in ads for this brand Gerber |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | NEWSPAPER HEADLINES: A New York Times headline about this disaster included "866 rescued" & "noted names missing" the Titanic |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: It has the most water area of any country, nearly 350,000 square miles, about 9% of its total area Canada |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS: He served as Bishop of Lesotho from 1976 to 1978 (Archbishop Desmond) Tutu |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | TRAVEL: The 1948 edition of this publication said, "There will be a day... in the near future when this guide will not have to be published" the Green Book |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | ASIAN COUNTRY NAMES: Like the T-U-V in Tuvalu, this landlocked country has 3 consecutive letters in its English name in alphabetic sequence Afghanistan |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | 20th CENTURY POEM ENDINGS: These 5 words that end a poem are also a proverb; one citation across the centuries includes a reminder not to make the wall too high Good fences make good neighbors |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: William Brodie, an upstanding Scottish tradesman by day & leader of a gang of burglars by night, helped inspire these 2 title characters Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BEFORE THEY WERE AUTHORS: While working for British naval intelligence during World War II, he was code-named 17F Ian Fleming |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | INNOVATIONS: Seen by a worldwide audience in 1970, black pentagons were added to these to help viewers follow them better on TV soccer balls |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | WORLD RIVERS: These 2 rivers share the names of countries, end with the same 4 letters & both join up with the Paraná River Paraguay & Uruguay |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | WORLD AIRPORTS: Africa's 2 busiest passenger airports are in these 2 countries; it's an 8-hour flight between them Egypt & South Africa |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | MAGAZINES: A now-annual issue of this magazine was inspired by the high society parties of Caroline Astor, whose ballroom fit about 400 people Forbes |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES: It's the world's smallest landlocked country in both area & population Vatican City |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: In a later part of the epic named for him, this character becomes king after his cousin Heardred dies in battle Beowulf |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | POP CULTURE: In 2011 Leland, Mississippi, where Jim Henson grew up, honored Henson & his Muppets by renaming a bridge this, also a song title Rainbow Connection |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | FAMOUS NAMES: Perhaps the most famous picture of him was taken in New Jersey in 1951 as he was annoyed by paparazzi on his 72nd birthday (Albert) Einstein |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: Delivered on January 8, 1790, the first of these was also the shortest, at 1,089 words the State of Union Address |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS: The governor of Massachusetts wrote, it "is a poor document, but a mighty act... wrong in its delay till January, but grand & sublime after all" the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | DISNEY SONGS: "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from "Encanto" is the first song from an animated Disney film to hit No. 1 since this duet in 1993 "A Whole New World" |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | U.S. COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: Founded as a technical institute in 1900, its sports teams are the Tartans & its official mascot is a Scottish Terrier Carnegie Mellon |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | ARTISTS: He said, "The Seine! I have painted it all my life, at all hours, in all seasons, from Paris to the sea" (Claude) Monet |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY: Prince Philip's titles included Baron Greenwich & Duke of Edinburgh, but not Prince Consort, last used by this royal Prince Albert |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: "This bell was named Marie... alone in the southern tower, with her sister Jacqueline, a bell of lesser size", says this novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | TECH HISTORY: For about 20 years after its invention, it had few practical uses; then suddenly it revolutionized grocery checkouts & home audio the laser |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | COUNTRIES OF EUROPE: It's the only independent survivor of the Spanish March, buffer states created to protect Christian Europe from the Moors Andorra |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | REAL PEOPLE IN POETRY: Milton wrote of this contemporary: "When by night the glass of" him "observes imagined lands and regions in the Moon" Galileo |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | LITERARY ANIMALS: This children's book character, introduced in 1926 & a friend of the title creature, gets his name from the sound he might make Eeyore |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME: Honored in 1998 as part of a rock group & in 2019 as a solo artist, this singer was the first woman to be inducted into the Hall twice Stevie Nicks |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | INAUGURAL BALLS: At the 1993 Tennessee Inaugural Ball, Paul Simon performed this song, his most recent Top 40 hit "You Can Call Me Al" |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | CONSTELLATIONS: The brightest star of this constellation is Deneb Algedi, or "Kid's Tail" Capricorn |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HISTORIC AMERICAN ROADS: Originally a Native American trail, the Dutch made it a main road & today it runs 33 miles from State Street to Sleepy Hollow Broadway |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | OPERA: An aria from this opera says, "Put on your costume & apply make-up to your face. The people pay & they want to laugh" Pagliacci |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | ART & THEATRE: Asked to design a new set for a restaging of this 1952 play, Alberto Giacometti came up with one scraggly plaster tree Waiting for Godot |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING: Its definitions include containing the metallic element No. 22, pertaining to a group of Greek gods & having great strength or size titanic |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | THE 20th CENTURY: Maybe surprisingly, in 1918 this new leader was the first to recognize the independence of Finland Lenin |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | STATE MOTTOS: This motto is the name of a city in that state & is a famous quote by an ancient Greek from the 3rd century B.C. Eureka |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | PAIRS IN ASTRONOMY: Discovered in 1877, they were named for siblings of the Greek god of love Phobos & Deimos |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | MUSICAL THEATER: It's one of the most revived shows in Broadway history & in 2001 it was designated the state opera of South Carolina Porgy and Bess |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | SCIENCE & THE BIBLE: A 2021 study suggested that an asteroid that struck the Jordan Valley c. 1650 B.C. gave rise to the story of this city in Genesis 19 Sodom |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | LITERARY CHARACTERS ON SCREEN: Per Guinness, this character who debuted in 1887 is the most portrayed human literary character in film & television Sherlock Holmes |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | AGRICULTURE: Being brought to the U.S. by a ship docking at San Francisco in 1851 helped lead to it now being a major crop in the Midwest soybeans |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES: Less than 100 yards north of the J. Edgar Hoover Building is this notorious location Ford's Theater |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | THE EASTERN U.S.: At its peak, this state had 6 seats in the House of Representatives; since the 1930s, it has had just 1 Vermont |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Mont Bellevue de l'Inini is the highest point in this European possession largely covered by the Amazon rainforest French Guiana |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | U.S. CITIES: This U.S. city now has 10 times the population of the other U.S. city for which it was named in 1845 Portland, Oregon |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | TELEVISION HISTORY: In the opening scene of its July 21, 1969 pilot episode, a man carves the letter D into wet cement Sesame Street |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | POETS' CORNER AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY: At his 1892 burial, fit for a baron, the organist put music to his words, "I hope to see my Pilot face to face, when I have crost the bar" Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | THE WORLD OF TODAY: Partly because it was a monosyllable, this word was chosen as "a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission" meme |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTORS: Each of the 3 films for which he won an Oscar, from 1975, 1983 & 1997, also garnered a Best Lead Actress Oscar Jack Nicholson |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | CLASSIC ALBUMS: This classic album by a Southern rocker gets its title from a Civil War quote by a Union admiral Damn the Torpedoes |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird "equally capable of speech" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | GEOGRAPHY WORDS: From Greek for "chief" & "sea", this word originally referred to the Aegean, known for its many island groups archipelago |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | BRITISH HISTORY: From the Greek for "alone", it was nixed by Parliament in 1649 after being deemed "unnecessary, burdensome & dangerous" the monarchy |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | 19th CENTURY CONTEMPORARIES: Congratulating her on the 1869 release of her biography, Frederick Douglass wrote, "I have wrought in the day--you in the night" Harriet Tubman |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | DEBUT NOVELS: Published in 1991, this novel, the first in a series, has been described as "historical fiction with a Moebius twist" Outlander |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | BRANDS: Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Evan Strong & Roy Campanella broke barriers representing this brand Wheaties |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | 1972: In June he said, "Don't lie to them to the extent to say there is no involvement, but just say this is... a comedy of errors" Richard Nixon |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | TV LEGENDS: Buster Keaton considered her the tops in her field &, in fact, was one of her early mentors Lucille Ball |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: Brazil stretches 2,700 miles from the Atlantic in the east to Serra do Divisor National Park on the border with this country in the west Peru |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: First published in French in 1943, this book has been called the most translated non-religious work, rendered into more than 300 languages The Little Prince |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY: A participant in this 1773 event recalled, "Some of our numbers jumped into the hold... I never labored harder in my life" the Boston Tea Party |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | WRITING OLD & NEW: This 2013 bestseller shares its title with the first section of a poem from 7 centuries before Inferno |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Of the Argonauts seeking the Golden Fleece, these 2 from the same family were from Sparta according to Homer Castor & Pollux |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | TECHNOLOGY: Upon the first use of this in 1844, the Baltimore Sun declared that time & space had been annihilated the telegraph |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES: Known as the female Lawrence of Arabia, Gertrude Bell called this place "a fairy tale city, all pink & wonderful" Petra |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | THE EARLY 19th CENTURY: Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve signaled "engage the enemy" around noon & surrendered at 1:45 PM during this battle the Battle of Trafalgar |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | NOVEL QUOTES: Referring to the book's title, this character says, "I know it's a poem by Robert Burns" Holden Caulfield |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | IN MEMORIAM 2022: On the death of this trailblazing man, friend & mentor, Oprah said, "For me, the greatest of the 'great trees' has fallen" Sidney Poitier |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT: In 2021 this Hall of Fame athlete launched Omaha Productions Peyton Manning |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY: A 1946 speech declared the terminuses of the Iron Curtain to be port cities serving these 2 seas the Baltic & Adriatic Seas |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | FAMOUS SPEECHES: In a draft of FDR's speech of December 8, 1941, the words "world history" were changed to this one word infamy |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | THE MIDDLE AGES: It was the surname of the 2 Scottish brothers who claimed monarchies of 2 different countries in the 13-teens Bruce |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | MEDICINE: Post-this disease syndrome affects many survivors, of which the U.S. is estimated to have 300,000, the vast majority over 65 polio |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | ON THE MAP: It's referred to as "the blue eye of Siberia" Lake Baikal |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | THE ANCIENT WORLD: New research suggests a device now called the Archimedes screw helped maintain this one of the 7 Wonders of the World the Hanging Gardens (of Babylon) |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS: Johnny Mercer's lyrics to this 1961 Oscar-winning song once began, "I'm Holly" "Moon River" |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | LITERATURE: A contemporary review of a novel by this man said he "commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean" (Jack) Kerouac |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: The USA's smallest national park is a 91-acre site on the Mississippi River, home to this 630-foot landmark the St. Louis Arch (the Gateway Arch) |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | STATE NAMES: This state was named for a man born in Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover in 1683 Georgia |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | CONSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD: Amendments to its 1901 constitution require approval of at least 4 states before receiving royal assent Australia |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | SAY IT IN ITALIAN: It's an Italian word for "mercy", but also the name of a movie character who kills Stracci & Carlo clemenza |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | LIVE MUSIC: These 2 events held 2 1/2 months & 2,500 miles apart in 1999 were the last of one major music happening & the first of another Woodstock ('99 or 1999) & Coachella |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | NOVEL TITLES: A 1590 poem written for the retirement of Queen Elizabeth's champion knight shares its title with this 1929 novel by an American A Farewell to Arms |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | USA: These 2 mayors gave their names to a facility built on the site of an old racetrack owned by Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler William Hartsfield & Maynard Jackson |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | 20th CENTURY CINEMA: A black & white newsreel in this film begins: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree" Citizen Kane |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THE CIVIL WAR: A Union soldiers' song said General McClellan, who let a Confederate Army escape after this battle, "was too slow to beat 'em" Antietam |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS: "Terre de nos aïeux" follows the title in the French version of this anthem "O Canada" |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | THEATER: In November 1864 John Wilkes Booth & his brothers were fittingly part of a performance of this Shakespeare play Julius Caesar |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS: "Tuileries" & "The Great Gate of Kiev" were 2 of the artworks that inspired this classical work completed in 1874 Pictures at an Exhibition |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BOOKS OF THE 1970s: Aptly, members of a Black family in this novel have biblical names: Pilate, Hagar & the title one, an ancestor of the protagonist Song of Solomon |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | POETS: In 1939 he was buried near his last residence in France, but his body arrived in Galway en route to final burial on September 17, 1948 William Butler Yeats |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | AFRICAN SURNAMES: Adetokunbo, "the crown has returned from overseas", is fitting for the Adetokunbo family who left Nigeria for this country in 1991 Greece |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Capable of freighting about 180 tons of cargo, in 1624 it was in disrepair & appraised at a total value of 128 pounds the Mayflower |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | HISTORIC NAMES: DNA from 2 living descendants of Anne of York was used to identify the remains of this man Richard III |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | FILMS OF THE 1950s: The title character of this film has the same name as the Roman goddess of the dawn Sleeping Beauty |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | ON THE INTERNET: This website launched in 2015 with 3 offerings, from James Patterson, Dustin Hoffman & Serena Williams MasterClass |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | COUNTRIES OF AFRICA: Old maps depicting what's now this 125,000-square-mile country labeled the area with the French word for "teeth" Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WORLD LITERATURE: Befitting the title, Antoine Galland, the first Western translator of this collection, worked on it only "after dinner" Arabian Nights (the One Thousand and One Nights) |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS: In 2019 he won his first competitive Oscar, 36 years after a Student Academy Award for a film about a Brooklyn barbershop Spike Lee |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WOMEN IN BRITISH HISTORY: The orphaned future Queen Elizabeth I was devoted to this stepmother who died 2 days before Elizabeth's 15th birthday Catherine Parr |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | HISTORY: Intimately familiar with World War I, Churchill considered this war from some 150 years before the "first world war" the Seven Years' War |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS: The 1964 article that gave this term its current use noted the "menace that haunts the Atlantic off our southeastern coast" the Bermuda Triangle |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | WORDS OF THE YEAR: Oxford's word of the year for 2021 was this 3-letter one, short for a word that goes back to the Latin for "cow" vax |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: The Strand Union Workhouse, whose rules prohibited second helpings of food, inspired a setting in this 1838 novel Oliver Twist |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | INVENTIONS: Patented in 1955, it did not go over well in the high-end fashion world but the then-new aerospace industry found it very useful Velcro |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | SMALL COUNTRIES: French, Italian & Swiss nationals make up about half of its population of 38,000 Monaco |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | CLASSIC GAMES: Reuben Klamer, who passed away in 2021 at age 99, developed this game relatable to "literally everyone on Earth" The Game of Life |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | CURRENT TELEVISION: Fittingly, the last name of the family at the center of this drama is from French for "king" Succession |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Some of this country's indigenous people want its name officially changed from its Dutch-based name to Aotearoa New Zealand |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | HISTORIC PLACES: Following a raid at this establishment in 1969, protesters confronted police by forming a Rockette-style kickline the Stonewall Inn |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | AMERICANS IN PARIS: In 2021 she became the sixth woman & the first Black woman to be inducted into the Pantheon in Paris Josephine Baker |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN: It is said of her, "Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets: more needs she the divine than the physician" Lady Macbeth |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | SPORTS HISTORY: Taking the mound for Cleveland in 1948, he was the first African American to pitch in a World Series Satchel Paige |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | U.S. CITY NAMES: Adopted in 1845, the name of this state capital is a feminized form of a big body of water Atlanta, Georgia |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | DISNEY CHARACTERS: In the source material from more than 3 centuries ago, her name was badr al-budur, "full moon of full moons" (Princess) Jasmine |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | POEMS: The title of this poem comes from a 1920 book that refers to its possible "restoration to fruitfulness" The Waste Land |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES: Napoleon's troops gave him this nickname not to mock him but for showing the courage of an infantryman in battle "The Little Corporal" |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | SINGERS: In 2021 at age 95, this singer achieved a Guinness World Record for the oldest person to release an album of new material Tony Bennett |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | NEWSPAPER TALK: Meaning an important part of a story, this distinctive spelling helped distinguish the word from a substance used in typesetting the lede |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | NONFICTION: This 1962 classic was dedicated to Albert Schweitzer, who predicted that man "will end by destroying the earth" Silent Spring |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | MOVIE STARS: Matthew McConaughey said, "'Dazed & Confused', the first words I ever said on film were" these "Alright, alright, alright" |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | METEOROLOGY: It was feared this word caused panic, but in 1950 the U.S. Weather Bureau ended a ban on it in forecasts, saying prediction wasn't impossible tornado |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | WORLD WAR I: Suvla Bay & Cape Helles were major landing sites along this peninsula Gallipoli |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | SYMBOLS: This U.S. politician asked for a multicolored pennant for a parade; demand increased after his death in 1978 Harvey Milk |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | FAMOUS TRIALS: On her acquittal in 1893, a reporter cited nearby events 2 centuries earlier, saying the days of witch trials are over Lizzie Borden |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | EPITAPHS: Her epitaph, from a 1925 poem by her, ends, "She knows that her dust is very pretty"; "dust" was in another she wrote for herself Dorothy Parker |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: Characters Mark, Roger & Maureen in this musical were inspired by Marcello, Rodolfo & Musetta in another work Rent |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | CENTRAL AMERICA: A small river connects these 2 lakes that combined form close to 10% of their country's area Lake Nicaragua & Lake Managua |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: Dostoyevsky wrote that this title man in an earlier European novel is "beautiful only because he is ridiculous" Don Quixote |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | EUROPEAN CITIES: Pizzo means protection money; the Addiopizzo movement was founded in this city in 2004 Palermo, Sicily |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ART MUSEUMS: Before its 1959 opening, 21 artists protested its design, saying it would make paintings look tilted & askew the Guggenheim |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | THE SILVER SCREEN: He was the first actor to star in 3 films that won the Oscar for Best Picture: those of 1934, 1935 & 1939 Clark Gable |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | MODERN WAR: Called the longest siege of a capital in modern history, the assault on this city lasted from 1992 to 1996 Sarajevo |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | AWARDS: These awards have a retro version & winners include the novel "The Sword in the Stone" & "The War of the Worlds" radio broadcast the Hugo Awards |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | FICTIONAL FAMILIES: Introduced in the 1930s in The New Yorker, they've appeared on TV & Broadway & in live action & animated films the Addams Family |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | PLAY CHARACTERS: A 1949 review noted the "wrong formulas for success" of this character & "fatal misconceptions about his place in the scheme of things" Willy Loman |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | THE 19th CENTURY: An 1873 book title gave us this phrase for the period in the late 1800s of growth & prosperity & also greed & corruption the Gilded Age |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | THE PERIODIC TABLE: By 1890, discoveries of 3 "nationalist elements" filled table gaps: scandium in Sweden, germanium in Germany, this in France gallium |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | AMERICAN WOMEN: In 1914 she received a patent on a trefoil emblem, which she would transfer to an organization a few years later Juliette Gordon Low |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | HISTORIC EUROPEAN FAMILIES: This family has been traced to the Mugello valley around the year 1200 & the name suggests the trade of physician the Medici |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | CHARACTERS IN BANNED BOOKS: Introduced in 1928, this character has a disappointing affair with a writer before she begins a more satisfying relationship Lady Chatterley |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | PLAYS: First published in 1602, its title characters are Margaret & Alice The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC STRUCTURES: In 1100 the Bishop of Durham became the first prisoner here &, after plying his guards with wine, became the first to escape the Tower of London |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE COUNTRIES: In 1882, when these 2 countries' border was settled, a minister in the southern one quit in protest out of loyalty to Central America Mexico & Guatemala |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY: A 1525 textbook on anatomy says this, being "so different of colours", could also be called "rain bowys" iris |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | LONG-RUNNING TV SHOW CHARACTERS: This character who has been on the air for more than 50 years is only 6 1/2 years old Big Bird |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | COMPOUND WORDS: The OED says this 9-letter word is literary & poetic, & it appears 11 times in an 1845 American poem, including as the last word nevermore |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: The first national observance of Memorial Day was held May 30, 1868 at this site, on land that had belonged to Robert E. Lee's wife Arlington National Cemetery |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY: The stated aim of this period was using violence to achieve political goals; its success aided in its demise in under a year the Reign of Terror |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | RECENT BIOGRAPHIES: A 2021 book about his "Misunderstood Reign" argues that he hated slavery & actually suffered from bipolar disorder George III |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | PHYSICISTS: A 1927 principle by this Nobel Prize winner says that some knowledge is inaccessible Werner Heisenberg |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Early in his career he worked for a newspaper whose style guide said, "use short sentences" & "use vigorous English" (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | THE MIDWEST: At about 90,000 it's the most populous U.S. city on North America's biggest lake Duluth, Minnesota |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY: This country, the largest in area entirely within Europe, borders the largest country in the world Ukraine |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS: A piece of writing advice from this man who died in 1904 concludes, "Otherwise don't put it there" (Anton) Chekhov |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | WORD ORIGINS: In 1793 a French clergyman called the destruction of libraries & sculptures this, using the name of a 5th century tribe vandalism |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | POETRY: It contains the line "whereat In either hand the hastening Angel caught Our lingering parents, & to the eastern gate Led them direct" Paradise Lost |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: In 1946 she was aboard a train to Darjeeling when she heard what she later described as "the call within a call" Mother Teresa |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: About 200 miles of the Tyrrhenian Sea separates the cities of Cagliari & Trapani in these 2 "regioni autonome" of Italy Sardinia & Sicily |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: He's called "a flame of inspiration in freedom's darkest hour" in the proclamation making him an honorary U.S. citizen Winston Churchill |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | AMERICAN CITIES: Recorded on a visit to this California city, YouTube's first video featured a man saying, "They have really, really, really long trunks" San Diego |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | USA: In 2012 these 2 neighboring states celebrated the centennial of their admission to the Union Arizona & New Mexico |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | 20th CENTURY FICTION: The author's foreword to this novel says, "When I read it now I feel myself back again on the steamer from Aswan to Wadi Halfa" Death on the Nile |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | BIOLOGICAL ETYMOLOGY: Dionaea, the genus of this plant, is a reference to the Greek goddess Aphrodite, the daughter of Dione the Venus flytrap |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY: One theory says Charles T. Torrey, a worker on this, coined its name, which appeared in The Liberator on October 14, 1842 the Underground Railroad |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | TOYS & GAMES: Its co-creator said adding an "L" to the end of the 1st word in the original title of this board game invented in 1979 "made it" Trivial Pursuit |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | BEHIND THE DISNEY ATTRACTION: The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror utilizes technology developed by this company founded in 1853 the Otis (Company) |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: He was buried in 1969 in one of the World War II uniform jackets named for him Dwight Eisenhower |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | RECENT TV: The credits on "The Queen’s Gambit" included this man as "special consultant" (Garry) Kasparov |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY: This city on the Rhone River that is partly a World Heritage Site was papal property until the French Revolution Avignon |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | WOMEN WHO WRITE: Mimicking her style, a 1912 rejection note read: "Only one look, only one look is enough. Hardly one copy would sell here. Hardly one" Gertrude Stein |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | 1970s SINGER-SONGWRITERS: While speaking to Congress in 1985, he explained that his 1973 hit, now a state song, wasn't about drugs John Denver |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | 18th CENTURY NAMES: In 1793 he left Dublin for the United States, saying, "I expect to make a fortune" off George Washington, & he did Gilbert Stuart |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: The only nation in the world whose name in English ends in an H, it's also one of the 10 most populous Bangladesh |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | SEA LIFE: In 2018 National Geographic reported that half of this was dead, "akin to a forest after a devastating fire" the Great Barrier Reef |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | U.S. MUSEUMS: Named for a benefactor, it was established in 1893 to house artifacts from the nearby World's Columbian Exposition the Field Museum |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | MOUNTAINS: First scaled in 1829, this 17,000-foot mountain has caused excitement by the supposed discovery of wood high up on it Mount Ararat |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | WORDS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: The 1890 Census reported that "the unsettled area has been so broken into... that there can hardly be said to be a" this frontier |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | FILMS OF THE 2000s: One of the screenwriters of this 2001 film described it as "'Clueless' meets 'The Paper Chase"' Legally Blonde |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | AWARDS AROUND THE WORLD: France's national theater award, it's named for a man who died in Paris in 1673 the Molière Award |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | SCIENTIFIC NAMES: The 1905 paper that gave this its name also referred to it as "Dynamosaurus imperiosus" Tyrannosaurus rex |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CEMETERIES & MEMORIALS: 60,000 are at rest in a National Memorial Cemetery opened in 1949 in the crater of an extinct volcano in this state Hawaii |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | THE WORDS OF VICTOR HUGO: This object "is the ultimate expression of law, & its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral" the guillotine |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: In 1838 he took a new last name, of a family in Walter Scott's "The Lady of the Lake"; for distinction he added a 2nd "S" to the end (Frederick) Douglass |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: Each in a show that ran more than 2 years, Ethel Merman & Sarah Jessica Parker played 2 different characters with this first name Annie |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | 19th CENTURY NOTABLES: On his deathbed in France in 1890, he told his brother, "The sadness will last forever" Vincent van Gogh |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | 20th CENTURY NONFICTION: "Norwegian Independence Day" & "a vast blue sea" are mentioned in Chapter 1 of a 1948 book by this man (Thor) Heyerdahl |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | HISTORIC BUILDINGS: Begun in the 1070s with stone from Caen, it was meant to dominate both a skyline & the hearts & minds of a conquered populace the Tower of London |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | THE 1950s: The first TV debate between presidential candidates of the same party involved him & future running mate Estes Kefauver Adlai Stevenson |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | WORD ORIGINS: From the Greek for "ring", the first ones were built by the Romans, including one that could hold 250,000 circus |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | SCULPTORS: Los Angeles artist George Stanley sculpted this, first handed out at a private banquet on May 16, 1929 the Oscar |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | MUSIC LEGENDS: Of their July 1957 first meeting at a church fair, one of this pair recalled: "I was a fat schoolboy and… he was drunk" John Lennon & Paul McCartney |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | EXPLORERS: Confirming a theory, fossils found with this explorer in 1912 included a plant from more than 250 million years ago (Robert Falcon) Scott |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | THE 20th CENTURY: In the morning of April 15, 1912 officer Charles Lightoller became the last of about 700 people to board this ship the Carpathia |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | EUROPEAN RIVERS: The flooding of this river in 1966 destroyed or damaged some 14,000 works of art, many of them priceless the Arno |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | 20th CENTURY THEATER: In 1955 Peter Hall directed the first production of this play in English without having "the foggiest idea what some of it means" Waiting for Godot |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | INTERNATIONAL LANDMARKS: In December 2020 an international agreement added nearly 3 feet to this; one surveyor lost half a toe in the effort Mount Everest |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | THE EARLY UNITED STATES: The final piece in this series points out "the analogy of the proposed government to your own state constitution" The Federalist Papers |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | SPORTING EVENTS: In 1752 one of the first races in this sport was run--4 miles from Buttevant Church to St. Mary's Doneraile steeplechase |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | 3-NAMED WOMEN: Not primarily known as a suffragist, in 1879 she became the first female resident of Concord, Mass. to register to vote in local elections Louisa May Alcott |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Introduced in 1938 & inspired by movie character Torchy Blane of the Morning Herald, she has since gone on to win a fictional Pulitzer Lois Lane |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | FRENCH ARTISTS: The catalog of MoMA's first exhibition called this artist who died in 1891 a "man of science" & "inventor of a method" (Georges) Seurat |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | WORLD WAR II GEOGRAPHY: Body-of-water battles included the Coral Sea, Philippine Sea & this one that allowed Japan to seize Jakarta the Java Sea |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | AWARDS: The Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award honors influential people from this state, including Western author Louis L'Amour North Dakota |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | 20th CENTURY PHYSICS: Puzzlingly heavy & long-lived particles discovered in the 1940s were dubbed this adjective later applied to even smaller particles strange |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | KINGS & QUEENS: Due to legislative action of 1707, she was officially the last monarch of independent Scotland Queen Anne |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS: She called herself "the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity" in an introduction to one of her novels (Mary) Shelley |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | 1950s PUBLIC WORKS: Dubbed "The Greatest Construction Show on Earth", when completed it connected Minnesota to Montreal the St. Lawrence Seaway |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: Gen. MacArthur said this man's death by "violence is one of those bitter anachronisms that seems to refute all logic" "Mahatma" Gandhi |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | OLD GEOGRAPHIC NAMES: This term once used for western North Africa is still used today in the name of a primate from that region Barbary |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AESTHETIC MOVEMENTS: This turn-of-the-century movement was alternately known around the world as Nieuwe Kunst & Modernista Art Nouveau |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | ORGANIZATIONS: In the U.S. & its territories, this nonprofit whose roots trace to 1980 fulfills a word in its name every 34 minutes the Make-A-Wish Foundation |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | JOURNALISTS IN HISTORY: Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg died June 25, 1876 while on a field assignment covering this man (General George) Custer |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PLANNED CITIES: A recent immigrant, Lady Denman, wife of the governor-general, announced the name of this new national capital at a 1913 ceremony Canberra, Australia |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP: The organization these International was founded in 1956; they’re Partnerstädte in Germany & villes jumelées in France Sister Cities |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: Its first line says, "The good people of Paris were awakened by a grand peal from all the bells in the three districts of the city" The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | FICTIONAL LANGUAGES: Lapine is the name of the language created for this 1972 book beloved by children Watership Down |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | FAMOUS DO'S & DON'TS: In 1964 Berkeley alum Jack Weinberg, age 24, told a San Francisco chronicle reporter this now-famous "Don't" "Don't trust anyone over 30" |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | AWARDS & HONORS: First awarded in 1731 to electricity pioneer Stephen Gray, the Copley Medal is awarded annually by this organization the Royal Society |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | WORLD CAPITALS: An annual event called Winterlude includes skating on the Rideau Canal, a UNESCO world heritage site in this city Ottawa, Canada |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: He won an election in which both he & his Democratic opponent were from Ohio & both were wealthy newspaper publishers (Warren G.) Harding |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS: The Old Courthouse Museum in Monroeville, Alabama has exhibits devoted to these 2 authors & childhood friends (Harper) Lee & (Truman) Capote |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | HISTORY: In 1985 the mayor of Rome went to a suburb of Tunis to sign a treaty ending this after more than 2,100 years the (Third) Punic War(s) (Carthaginian Wars) |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | FINAL RESTING PLACES: A cemetery on this island has the graves of Robert Fulton & 2 of the first 4 Treasury Secretaries Manhattan |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | MOVIE QUOTES: This 3-word phrase was the protagonist's second line of dialogue in a 1962 movie, the first in a 25-film series "Bond, James Bond" |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | MYTHS & LEGENDS: This legendary place has been identified as being in Caerleon, Wales & in Winchester, England Camelot |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | CONTEMPORARY PLAYWRIGHTS: "The Murder of Gonzago" is used as a play within a 1966 play by this man who was inspired by Shakespeare (Tom) Stoppard |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | PRICELESS OBJECTS: It dates back to the "French Blue", which was set in gold & suspended from a neck ribbon when Louis XIV wore it on ceremonial occasions the Hope Diamond |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | WORLD POPULATION: This Asian nation is the world's most populous country that lies mostly in the Southern Hemisphere Indonesia |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | 1970s SONGS: In 1976 "Bohemian Rhapsody" was replaced at No. 1 on the U.K. charts by this Europop song whose title is heard in Queen's lyrics "Mamma Mia" |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | NAMES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: He was Virginia's 1st African-American congressman, whose grandnephew, a famous poet, used his last name as a first name (John Mercer) Langston |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | TOYS: Introduced in 1964, he fell out of favor in changing times & in 1970 was marketed as a "Land Adventurer" G.I. Joe |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: It's the only U.N. member state outside Europe with Dutch as an official language Suriname |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | PAINTINGS: In 2021 experts in Oslo concluded that it was the artist who wrote on this painting, "Could only have been painted by a madman" The Scream |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | SCIENTISTS: Galileo thanked this astronomer "because you were... practically the only one, to have complete faith in my assertions" (Johannes) Kepler |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | 1960s HISTORY: After around 8 PM EDT on July 21, 1969 a major part of a transport known by this 1-word name was never seen again Eagle |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | SONGS & U.S. HISTORY: Victory in 1805's Battle of Derna on the coast of North Africa inspired a lyric in this song made official in 1929 the "Marines' Hymn" |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | WORLD CITIES: From Sydney, Australia go 7,000 miles east & less than 1/2 degree of latitude north to this capital also near the Pacific Santiago, Chile |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | LITERARY MOVIE ROLES: Among the actresses who have portrayed her are Greta Garbo twice, Vivien Leigh, Tatiana Samoilova & Keira Knightley Anna Karenina |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | AUTHORS: These 2 men who both died in Boston in the mid-20th century each won 4 Pulitzers, one man for Poetry & the other for Drama (Robert) Frost & (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | NOTABLE WOMEN: Of the 3 pioneering women in their field to be dubbed the "Trimates", this one got her PhD from Cambridge in 1966 (Jane) Goodall |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | 1970s TOP 40 HITS: Seeing a poster for a production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" in a seedy Paris hotel & ladies of the evening nearby inspired this hit "Roxanne" |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country of 16,600 square miles has a possession that's more than 50 times as large Denmark |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | 19th CENTURY SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: The first "self-evident" truth in the Declaration of Independence was quoted & found not to apply to this plaintiff (Dred) Scott |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: He has studied Cordon Bleu cooking, but is known for his 1981 creation of a character with unconventional taste in cuisine Thomas Harris |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | NAMES ON THE MAP: From 1824 to 1825 this hero toured all 24 states & an Indiana city was named for him (the Marquis de) Lafayette |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN: These stories got their collective title because little Josephine Kipling insisted they be told exactly the same way each time Just So Stories |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | U.S. HISTORY: On Sept. 30, 1788 William Maclay & Robert Morris, both of Pennsylvania, were chosen as the first 2 these (U.S.) senators |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | SPORTS LEGENDS: When Johnny Bench broke his record, this man wrote, "I always thought the record would stand until it was broken" Yogi Berra |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | PUBLISHING: Last name of brothers James, John, Joseph & Fletcher, whose company published magazines with their name as well as books Harper |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Nazi Germany annexed this nation & divided it into regions of the Alps & the Danube; the Allies later divided it into 4 sectors Austria |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE: British zoologist George Shaw looked for stitches when he first saw this mammal in 1799, thinking he was being tricked (the) duck-bill(ed) platypus |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | WINTER OLYMPIC SPORTS: The official Olympic website says this event "has its roots in survival skills" practiced in the snowy forests of Scandinavia biathlon |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | HISTORIC CALENDARS: Following Messidor, this summer month in the 18th century French Revolutionary calendar had a name meaning "heat gift" Thermidor |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | POPULAR PHRASES: This phrase relating nutrition & health was popularized by fruit scientist J.T. Stinson at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair an apple a day keeps the doctor away |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | RENAISSANCE MEN: 10 years before a more famous work, he wrote in 1503 that the way to deal with rebels is to placate them or eliminate them (Niccolò) Machiavelli |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The April 26, 1906 edition of The Call, a newspaper in this city, reported on the heroic death of hoseman James O'Neil San Francisco |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: A 2000 Library of Congress exhibit called this 1900 work "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale" The Wizard of Oz |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | MYTHOLOGY: The Hippocrene Spring, sacred to the Muses, was so named because this offspring of Medusa brought it into being Pegasus |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | THE CONTINENTS: It's the only continent with its mainland lying in all 4 hemispheres as defined by the equator & the prime meridian Africa |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | ROCK LEGENDS: A new studio album in 2020 gave him a Top 5 album in 6 consecutive decades, his first in 1975 (Bruce) Springsteen |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | HISTORY OF THE 19-TEENS: Saying he ignored warnings of enemy vessels, the British admiralty sought to blame William Turner, this ship's last captain in 1915 the Lusitania |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | FOOD & DRINK IN THE BIBLE: In the King James Version, these creatures are a plague in Exodus 10, but deemed okay to eat in Leviticus 11 locusts |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | LANDMARKS: 96 miles in total during its 3-decade existence, the most well-known part of this was about the same length as an Olympic marathon the Berlin Wall |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: A book by her says, "It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'... but then I am not a rabbit" (Beatrix) Potter |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | 1980s MOVIES: The Dip used to kill characters in this 1988 film consisted of acetone, benzene & turpentine, ingredients of paint thinner Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | 19th CENTURY U.S. POLITICS: Named after a U.K. political party that helped depose a king, the U.S. Whig Party was formed to oppose this man (Andrew) Jackson |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | THE 21st CENTURY: In 2009 this 11-year-old started posting on BBC's Urdu language website under the screen name Gul Makai Malala (Yousafzai) |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | AUTHORS: In addition to knowing many languages & making up his own, he also taught language at the universities of Leeds & Oxford J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | SCIENTIFIC ETYMOLOGY: 2 of the 3 men for whom armalcolite, a dark gray mineral discovered in 1969, is named (2 of) (Neil) Armstrong, (Buzz) Aldrin or (Michael) Collins |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | THE 13 COLONIES: Founded by an advocate of religious freedom, it was the site of America's first Baptist church & oldest synagogue Rhode Island |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN: 2 of the 3 women depicted on the first statue of real women in Central Park, unveiled in August 2020 (2 of) (Sojourner) Truth, (Susan B.) Anthony, or (Elizabeth Cady) Stanton |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES: Based on a 1974 novel, this film has been described as combining "An Enemy of the People" & "Moby Dick" Jaws |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | WORLD FLAGS: The use of red, yellow & green as Pan-African colors began with the flag of this nation, the continent's oldest independent country Ethiopia |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | FICTIONAL PLACES: A savage people called Zapoletes are contrasted with the inhabitants of the title place of this 16th century work Utopia |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | BEASTLY EPONYMS: A penguin species found in southern South America is named for this 16th century man whose crew were the first from Europe to see them (Ferdinand) Magellan |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | LITERATURE & THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: In 2020 scientists named Trimeresurus salazar, a new species of this, after a character in a book series a snake |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | 1930s AMERICA: Unpopular at the time, the man for whom it is named wasn't invited to the September 30, 1935 dedication of this landmark Hoover Dam |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: The first published announcement of the Declaration was by a Philadelphia paper that reported it in this foreign language German |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | ASIA: This country became independent in 1946; in 1964 it officially switched its independence day from July 4 to June 12 the Philippines |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | HISTORIC BUSINESSMEN: Born in the village of Waldorf, Germany in 1763, he arrived in the U.S. in 1784 (John Jacob) Astor |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | COMEDY & SPORTS: These are the 2 of a reporter's 5 W's that are not on the baseball team in Abbott & Costello's "Who's on First?" Where & When |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | WORLD CITIES: This Colombian port of 1 million people gets its name from Phoenician for "new town" Cartagena |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS: "Let's all sink with the king" is a line from the opening scene of this play The Tempest |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | MYTHOLOGICAL ANIMALS: After being born this creature would bring the remains of its forebear to Heliopolis & put them on the altar of the sun god the phoenix |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | NOTABLE NAMES: Following his death in 2018, his ashes were interred at Westminster Abbey between the remains of fellow scientists Darwin & Newton Stephen Hawking |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: This owner of a large estate in Derbyshire is described as "proud" at least half a dozen times (Mr. Fitzwilliam) Darcy |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | 1970s MOVIE SCENES: Writer Dan O'Bannon based a scene in this film on his own Crohn's disease, which felt like things inside him fighting to get out Alien |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | AFRICAN MONARCHS: Some devotees of this emperor who died in 1975 trace his lineage to King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba Haile Selassie |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | THE 20th CENTURY: The code name for a historic meeting at this city was Argonaut, after the heroes who searched for the Golden Fleece on the Black Sea Yalta |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | THE 50 STATES: Both in the Pacific, they are the 50 states' 2 biggest islands in area; one is about 40 degrees colder in winter than the other Hawaii & Kodiak |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | HISTORY: Completed around 1455, it sometimes gets another name because a famous copy was found in the library of Cardinal Mazarin the Gutenberg Bible |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BOOK CHARACTERS: Trying to emulate the title character, he fails & is told "You lack a set of spinnerets, & you lack know-how" Wilbur |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | ANIMATION: These characters first seen onscreen in a 1938 film are known in Spain as Juanito, Jorgito & Jaimito Huey, Dewey & Louie |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS: In 1899 James Atkinson patented his new & improved one of these, including its spring-powered snapping action a mousetrap |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | COLLEGE LIFE: This dish associated with Harvard goes back to the start of the school; the wife of the first headmaster made an awful version hasty pudding |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | 1980s BESTSELLERS: The title of this 1985 novel by a Canadian author partly alludes to the similarly named stories in a 14th century work The Handmaid's Tale |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | MUSICAL LANDMARKS: A cleft in limestone in England sheltered Reverend Augustus Toplady from a storm & inspired this popular hymn "Rock Of Ages" |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | ROCK BANDS: In 2017 this band whose singer goes by a nickname became the first to have No. 1 albums in the U.S. in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s & 2010s U2 |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: In 2019 this public university attempted to trademark the word "the" for use on clothing & hats (the) Ohio State University |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: On either side of Indochina are these 2 gulfs that start with the same letter the Gulf of Tonkin & the Gulf of Thailand |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | HIT SONGS: Written in 1930, this song was a No. 1 hit in 1960 & was covered by The Band to support a 1976 presidential candidate "Georgia On My Mind" |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | RIVERS: In "Notes on the State of Virginia", Thomas Jefferson said the most beautiful river on Earth is this one no longer in Virginia the Ohio |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: British biochemist J.B.S. Haldane's essay on ectogenesis, birth outside the womb, helped inspire this 1932 novel Brave New World |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | COLORS & HISTORY: A blue pigment & a shade of blue popular in shirts are named for these, the 2 opposing nations in an 1870-71 war France & Prussia |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | MONARCHIES: The future Charles I suddenly became next in line to the throne of Austria in this year 1914 |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | NEW YORK CITY: Bright new lighting installed in 1880 on a street that crosses Manhattan diagonally led to this 3-word nickname the Great White Way |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: "Camelot", "The Pilgrims" & "A Postscript by Clarence" are chapters in a classic novel by this author Mark Twain |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | FAMOUS WOMEN: In 1983, 20 years after her famous first, she was honored on a one-ruble coin Valentina Tereshkova |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY CREATURES: The author said the name of this 10-letter creature in his poem meant "the result of much excited discussion" the Jabberwock |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | REFERENCE BOOKS: Emily Dickinson made frequent use of a work by this family friend & said that for several years, it was "my only companion" (Noah) Webster |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | FICTION: In a 1915 story by this European, a woman finds a corpse & says, "It's gone & croaked--just lying there, dead as a doornail!" (Franz) Kafka |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: On this country's National Day, August 15, all 39,000 residents are invited to Vaduz Castle for festivities & drinks Liechtenstein |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | MOVIE CHARACTERS: A character who was going to be called Lunar Larry became him, inspired by the name of a real person Buzz Lightyear |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | AMERICAN WOMEN: During her second marriage, she split her time among homes in New York, New Jersey, Paris & Greece & a yacht Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: 2-word term for the statement saying U.S. policy is "to leave the parties to themselves, in the hope... other powers will (do) the same" the Monroe Doctrine |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | GEOGRAPHY WORDS: From the Latin for "key", this word for a type of isolated country applies to Vatican City, which has keys on its flag an enclave |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | THE SUPREME COURT: The 1st justice directly succeeded by his former clerk was Rehnquist by Roberts; the 2nd time was this other alliterative pair (Anthony) Kennedy & (Brett) Kavanaugh |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | 1960s SINGERS: In 2002 Macon, Georgia, where he grew up, unveiled a statue of this man who sits overlooking the water, a nod to his posthumous No. 1 hit Otis Redding |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | FOOD & DRINK PHRASES: A 1951 Time article said, "Since the war," this 2-word term for a period of time "has been written into union contracts" coffee break |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | GOLDEN AGE ACTRESSES: In 2013 the Victoria & Albert Museum acquired her archives, including letters from Laurence Olivier & Tennessee Williams Vivien Leigh |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | 17th CENTURY WRITING: This 17th century work quotes the Book of Job, "Behold the giants groan under water, and they that dwell with them" Leviathan |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 17th CENTURY FRENCHMEN: Pope Urban VIII once said, "if there is a God," this French minister "will have much to answer for. If not, he had a successful life" (Cardinal) Richelieu |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | NEWSPAPER NAMES: Used as a newspaper name from New York to San Diego, it was an ancient Roman official who represented the people's interests Tribune |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AROUND THE WORLD: In the 1860s a zoologist proposed that this island was once part of a lost continent he dubbed Lemuria Madagascar |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION: The day it debuted in 1980, this network with an Italian name aired a Carnegie Hall celebration of Aaron Copland's 80th birthday Bravo |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | EUROPEAN BORDERS: It's still there, but none of the countries that bordered this country at the beginning of 1990 exist anymore Poland |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | MUSIC & GEOGRAPHY: In a British folk tune, the title lass Maggie May is sentenced to go way down south to this penal colony that rhymes with her name Botany Bay |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS: Monsieur Crescendo & Signor Vaccarmini ("Mr. Racket") were derisive nicknames for this composer whose last opera dates from 1829 (Gioachino) Rossini |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | NOBEL-WINNING NOVELISTS: Falsely accused of murder, a character in his 1948 novel becomes "tyrant over the whole county's white conscience" (William) Faulkner |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | 20th CENTURY ARTWORK: The artist's wife described the scene of this 1942 painting as "brilliant interior of cheap restaurant" Nighthawks |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: The year before his 1809 birth, his parents acted in "King Lear", leading scholars to believe he was named for a "Lear" character Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | COLONIAL AMERICA: Milestones along the eastern end of the Mason-Dixon line were marked on either side with the crests of these 2 men Lord Baltimore & William Penn |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | MIDDLE EASTERN GEOGRAPHY: Of the 6 countries that border the Red Sea, it's last alphabetically Yemen |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | ANIMALS: German settlers in Texas called this animal "Panzerschwein" armadillo |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | ANCIENT GREEKS: Plutarch quotes this man who sentenced many to death: "Small ones deserve that, and I have no higher for the greater crimes" Draco |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | WORLD CAPITALS: A national capital for less than 100 years, it's the westernmost capital in mainland Asia Ankara, Turkey |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: The last book Dr. Seuss published in his lifetime, it climbs bestseller lists every spring Oh, the Places You'll Go! |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | WORLD'S FAIRS: The theme of Seattle's 1962 World's Fair was "Man in the" this era Space Age |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: Its last chapter includes wisdom from King Lemuel, taught to him by his mother, as well as the famous "Virtuous Woman" passage Proverbs |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | U.S. HISTORY: On April 7, 1789 Charles Thomson & Sylvanus Bourne left New York City to tell these 2 men the results of a vote taken the day before George Washington & John Adams |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | SHAKESPEARE & HISTORY: Macbeth has a vision of a line of 8 Scottish kings, the 8th holding a mirror to reflect this 9th in line who may have been in the audience James I of England (James VI of Scotland) |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | COUNTRIES' NATIONAL ANTHEMS: With words written by a Bishop of Urgell, its anthem praises Charlemagne & says it "was born a princess... between two nations" Andorra |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | CLASSIC ALBUMS: The title of this huge hit 1977 album was the idea of the bass player, who specified it should be spelled the British way Rumours |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | WORLD LITERATURE: This 1970s memoir told of harsh places that metaphorically were like an island chain "from the Bering Strait almost to the Bosporus" The Gulag Archipelago |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: His book "An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859" shows he heeded his own famous advice Horace Greeley |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: In books by him, the Kingdom of Noland, ruled by an orphan named Bud, borders a country called Ix, where Queen Zixi reigns (Lyman Frank) Baum |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | ODD WORDS: A homophone of a letter in the alphabet, this 5-letter word sounds the same if you remove its last 4 vowels queue |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS: This director was quoted as saying, "I believe I can take any 60 pages of the Bible and make a great picture" Cecil B. DeMille |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | U.S. NATIONAL PARKS: This subtropical region is a biosphere reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, &, as of 1947, a National Park the Everglades |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | CITY ORIGIN STORIES: The mythical founder Byzas consulted the Oracle of Delphi before establishing what's now known as this city Istanbul |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | MOVIE TITLE CHARACTERS: In this 2012 film set just before the Civil War, a German dentist declares that the title character's surname is Freeman Django Unchained |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | CONTINENTAL GEOGRAPHY: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea & Somalia make up this region named for its resemblance to a part of a native animal the Horn of Africa |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | AMERICAN BUSINESS: In 2004, after a century as a household name, its last model rolled off the assembly line in Lansing, Michigan Oldsmobile |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | EUROPEAN TOURIST ATTRACTIONS: Opened in 1843, it was frequented by Hans Christian Andersen & Walt Disney, who both found inspiration there Tivoli (Gardens) |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | PAINTINGS: The New York Times noted "balls of orange-yellow light" & "the town off in the distance" from the artist's window in this piece Starry Night |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | AMERICAN NAMES: One of the luminaries who drove in the "Golden Spike" in Utah in 1869 was this man who later founded a university (Leland) Stanford |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | PHYSICS: Modern formulations of Newton's 2 most famous equations both begin with this quantity that's measured in newtons force |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | SHAKESPEARE: With 4,042 lines, it's Shakespeare's longest play & it's also the one that's been filmed the most Hamlet |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | ASTRONOMY: As Huygens observed in 1656, a weapon in this constellation contains a nebula, one of a few that can be seen with the naked eye Orion |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | OLYMPIC HOSTS: Aside from the United States, one of the 2 countries with 2 different cities that have hosted the Summer Olympics (1 of) Australia or Germany |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: One edition of this 1930s novella shows a farm within the silhouette of a rabbit Of Mice and Men |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | SOUTH AMERICA: 2 of the 3 national capitals on the continent whose metro areas have more than 10 million people (2 of) Buenos Aires, Bogotá, or Lima |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | NOTORIOUS: In 1897 she was accused of a much lesser crime, shoplifting in Rhode Island Lizzie Borden |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: A biography of him: "In a sweltering, dimly lit cabin, its window shades closed... his first presidential decisions were made" Lyndon Johnson |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | DAYTIME TV PERSONALITIES: Accepting a Lifetime Achievement Emmy, he said, "Just take... 10 seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are" Mr. (Fred) Rogers |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | EPONYMOUS LANDMARKS: In 1960 the ashes of this aviator were spread over the Venezuela natural wonder he famously sighted decades earlier (James) Angel |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM: A real-life antidisestablishmentarian, William Bridgeman opposed the 1920 disestablishment of this in Wales church |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | LOGOS: After 9/11, designer Milton Glaser modified this iconic logo of his, adding a bruise & the words "More Than Ever" I Heart New York (I Love New York) |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY: While performing in Philadelphia, the future father of this man sent a letter threatening to slit Andrew Jackson's throat (John Wilkes) Booth |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | AUTHORS: BOOK TO SCREEN: Horrified by the 1964 movie musical from her work, she okayed a U.K. stage version as long as "no Americans" were involved (P.L.) Travers |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1869 he moved to Yosemite Valley & was the first to say the area was formed by glacial erosion, a theory generally accepted today (John) Muir |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: The now-debunked theories of Luigi Galvani influenced the science in this 1818 novel Frankenstein |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: The "effect" named for this company founded in 1943 refers to increased value of a product to a consumer whose own labor is needed IKEA |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | THE OLYMPICS: The "City of Angels" hosted the Olympics twice, the second time this many years after the first 52 |
