| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | NEVER CEASE $200: Dried beans & canned goods are deemed "non-" this, as they stick around on the shelf for a while & don't spoil nonperishable |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | WONDERS $200: The Colossus of this city was a huge statue that stood near its harbor until an earthquake knocked it down Rhodes |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | TELEVISION $200: Revisiting material cut from the script of "The American President" inspired Aaron Sorkin to create this series The West Wing |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | THE "CO" CO. $200: This car care chain is known for the "beep beep" heard in its brand signature AAMCO |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | HOLDING SPACE $200: It's the traditional enclosure (cage seems a bit harsh, but also applicable) to pen your pet rabbit a hutch |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | QUOTABLE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $200: "I meant what I said and I said what I meant... an elephant's faithful one hundred per cent!" declares this Seussian creation Horton |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | "MB", EH? $400: The stump from this cord usually falls off a newborn in 5 to 15 days an umbilical cord |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | DRINKING SONGS $400: Jimmy Buffett's signature song, it had him forever searching for his lost shaker of salt "Margaritaville" |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | A COMPLETE UNKNOWN $400: In Virginia in November 1921, the first burial took place at what was then called this the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | SCIENCE & NATURE $400: The isolation of this hormone in the 1920s led to the first effective treatment for diabetes insulin |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | AMERICAN LAKES & RIVERS $400: On its 2,300-mile course from its source in Minnesota, this river flows through or borders 10 states the Mississippi |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | THE 1970s $400: Embracing a new energy trend, Jimmy Carter added these to the roof of the White House; Reagan took them down solar collectors (panels) |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | NEVER CEASE $400: From the Latin meaning can't be destroyed, this 4-syllable word found before "ink" refers to permanence indelible |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | WONDERS $400: This one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World was probably built around 600 B.C. near today's city of Al Hillah the Hanging Gardens (of Babylon) |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | TELEVISION $400: In 2024 this "Queen of Country" music opened up a new bar--"Happy's Place" Reba (McEntire) |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | THE "CO" CO. $400: Science was unaware that salty & buttery could coexist until the geniuses here introduced Ritz crackers in 1934 Nabisco |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | HOLDING SPACE $400: This accessory has many names--waist bag, hip sack & OK, chaos pouch is pretty cool--but we prefer this other "body part" one a fanny pack |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | NEVER CEASE $600: Adjective for a Wonka Gobstopper or the magical Tuck family of literature Everlasting |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | WONDERS $600: The Lighthouse of Alexandria is sometimes called the this "of Alexandria" for an island in the city's harbor Pharos |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | TELEVISION $600: After toiling for a decade in the ER on "ER", Noah Wyle returned to a different ER on this series that debuted in 2025 The Pitt |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | THE "CO" CO. $600: Many of its 1,500 locations offer services like a dog wash along with crates, treats, etc. Petco |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | HOLDING SPACE $600: Very specific contracting details from the client are given in Genesis for this: make it 300 by 50 by 30 (in cubits) Noah's Ark |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | QUOTABLE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $600: "Your native language is the language of Shakespeare & Milton & the Bible", scolds this professor of phonetics Henry Higgins |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | "MB", EH? $800: It's a buzzy dating app founded in 2014 where "women make the first move" Bumble |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | DRINKING SONGS $800: Little Big Town sings, "Don't wanna wait 'til the sun's sinking... why don't we do a little" this day drinking |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | A COMPLETE UNKNOWN $800: You don't want a diagnosis of CUP, this of unknown primary; fortunately, it's rare cancer |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | SCIENCE & NATURE $800: Kalium is the old name for this element potassium |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | AMERICAN LAKES & RIVERS $800: Named for the color of its sediment, it forms much of the border between Oklahoma & Texas the Red River |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | THE 1970s $800: In 1978 this process, IVF for short, produced the baby Louise Brown in vitro fertilization |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | NEVER CEASE $800: This long-lived word precedes jellyfish in the name of a hydrozoan that evades death by cycling between polyp & medusa forms immortal |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | WONDERS $800: The Temple of Artemis stood near this now-Turkish city; the New Testament contains a letter to its residents Ephesus |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | TELEVISION $800: Alan Ball created the shows "True Blood" & this one set at a family funeral home Six Feet Under |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | THE "CO" CO. $800: The As-Seen-on-TV catchphrase has helped sell products like the Pocket Fisherman from this five-letter company of Mr. Popeil Ronco |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | HOLDING SPACE $800: A common type of wine barrel, a barrique holds about 60 gallons & originated in this wine region of southwest France Bordeaux |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | QUOTABLE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $800: This Kafka guy asks himself, "Should I now show them I learned nothing from facing trial for a year?" Josef K. |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | NEVER CEASE $1000: Also meaning "unvarying", it's math talk for a variable that can assume only one value a constant |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | WONDERS $1000: The statue of Zeus at Olympia was a masterpiece from this Greek sculptor whom Pericles chose to improve Athens Phidias |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | TELEVISION $1000: In 2024, Aldis Hodge got into criminal minds--but not on "Criminal Minds"--as this detective forensic psychologist Alex Cross |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | THE "CO" CO. $1000: A food distributor on the NYSE & a tech company on the NASDAQ, they have homophonic names; know which one you're investing in Sysco/Cisco |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | HOLDING SPACE $1000: If you & 14 friends need to get somewhere, this Mercedes passenger van with a "racy" name may be the choice a Sprinter |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | QUOTABLE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1000: "We might have made the tour of the world in only 78 days", says this valet to his employer Passepartout |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | "MB", EH? $1200: The Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America includes a replica of these underground places in Rome catacombs |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | DRINKING SONGS $1200: Oasis sang, "I'm feeling supersonic, give me" this cocktail gin & tonic |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | A COMPLETE UNKNOWN $1200: To conceal their identities, members of this hacktivist collective wore Guy Fawkes masks like the ones in the film "V for Vendetta" Anonymous |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | THE 1970s $1200: Founded in 1971 in British Columbia, this organization aimed to stop nuclear testing on nearby Amchitka Island Greenpeace |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | "MB", EH? $1600: In the "Iliad", Athena gives "distilled nectar &" this food to a hero before battle ambrosia |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | DRINKING SONGS $1600: In 2004, he & Alison Krauss won CMA Awards for their heartbreaking "Whiskey Lullaby" Brad Paisley |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | A COMPLETE UNKNOWN $1600: Errol Morris' 2013 documentary "The Unknown Known" focused on this man Donald Rumsfeld |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1600: As well as a unit of work, this 3-letter word is also a large area of desert covered by wind-blown sand an erg |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | AMERICAN LAKES & RIVERS $1600: Restored as a museum, historic Fort Ticonderoga is on the shores of this lake that's named for an explorer Lake Champlain |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | THE 1970s $1600: Students protesting compulsory Afrikaans in this township now part of Johannesburg led to a broader uprising in 1976 Soweto |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | QUOTABLE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): "Just think lovely wonderful thoughts... and they lift you up in the air", explains this eternal youth Peter Pan |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | "MB", EH? $2000: Georgia's state historical song, its first known recording featured H. Wylie singing "Come By Here" in a Gullah accent "Kumbaya" |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | DRINKING SONGS $2000: This '90s hit mentions drinking whiskey, vodka, lager & a cider drink; no wonder "I get knocked down, but I get up again" "Tubthumping" |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | A COMPLETE UNKNOWN $2000: Truly one of his lesser-known novels is 1933's "To a God Unknown", set in California & informed by the Bible Steinbeck |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | SCIENCE & NATURE $2000: Bats use this method of detecting objects by bouncing high-frequency sound waves off them echolocation |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | AMERICAN LAKES & RIVERS $2000: It flows nearly 2,000 miles from British Columbia & through Alaska before emptying into the Bering Sea the Yukon |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | THE 1970s $2000: After leading a bloody coup, he took as Chile's president in 1974 Pinochet |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | SCIENCE & NATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): This hard, dark-colored volcanic rock is the most common type found in the Earth's crust basalt |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | AMERICAN LAKES & RIVERS $9,600 (Daily Double): This river that flows through a valley of the same name is the main tributary of the Potomac the Shenandoah |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | HOMOPHONES $200: Financial gain &
the biblical Amos or Jeremiah, for example profit/prophet |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THE IMPATIENT 19th CENTURY READER $200: Should've known I was in for the long haul when this novel began with an etymology section discussing "Cetus" & "Baleine" Moby-Dick |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | NOW YOU'RE COOKING $200: A traditional condiment served with lamb is this fragrant herb of the family Lamiaceae made into a jelly sauce mint (jelly) |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | ABSOLUTE POWER $200: P.O.A. is short for this, which enables someone to act on your behalf; durable & springing are 2 types of it power of attorney |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | OCCUPATIONAL SONG TITLES $200: "You've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em" "The Gambler" |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | EXPLORERS $200: His conquest of Mexico beginning in 1519 brought an end to the Aztec Empire Cortés |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | HOMOPHONES $400: Ruins &
Latin for "king" wrecks/rex |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THE IMPATIENT 19th CENTURY READER $400: Did this author really need nearly 500 pages to work out the drama on Egdon Heath in "The Return of the Native"? Thomas Hardy |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE "HOME" $400: In 2011 a Colorado high school kid asked skiing golden girl Lindsey Vonn to this dance at his school--& she said yes homecoming |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN $400: Despite its name, the brain type of invertebrate seen here has no brain; seems like reef madness to us coral |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | & YOUR LITTLE DOG TOO $400: In a Fragonard work, a dog is present at the reading of "Le Billet Doux", called this in English The Love Letter |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | WE'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE $400: Add an "H" to a historic Kansas coal & zinc city to get this iron & steel spot Pittsburgh |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | RUBY SLIPPERS $400: This fast food mascot wears size 29EEE red boots with yellow laces Ronald McDonald |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THE WIZARD OF OZ $400: Most of the 120+ actors who played these stayed at the Culver Hotel just down the street, & tales of their rowdy parties persist the Munchkins |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | NOW YOU'RE COOKING $400: The name of this dish of rice cooked in stock with other ingredients comes from the Italian for "rice" risotto |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | ABSOLUTE POWER $400: Used in most homes, this type of electric power regularly reverses its flow & is easier to boost to higher voltages alternating current |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | OCCUPATIONAL SONG TITLES $400: "I'm your biggest fan, I'll follow you until you love me" "Paparazzi" |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | EXPLORERS $400: On his way back to Montreal after his expedition with Marquette, his canoe capsized & he lost all of his journals & notes Joliet |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | HOMOPHONES $600: To kill &
a winter vehicle slay/sleigh |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THE IMPATIENT 19th CENTURY READER $600: Whew! Waded through 86 chapters of "Middlemarch" & I'm at the last section titled this, like the closing part of a symphony Finale |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | NOW YOU'RE COOKING $600: Aka bain-marie, it's used to protect delicate dishes like custard from overcooking; you can buy one or just put one pot on another a double boiler |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | ABSOLUTE POWER $600: A hard rock guitar specialty, they combine a low note & its fifth & are heard in songs like "Iron Man" & "Smells Like Teen Spirit" a power chord |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | OCCUPATIONAL SONG TITLES $600: "But I didn't shoot no deputy, oh no!" "I Shot The Sheriff" |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | EXPLORERS $600: Kentucky was part of Virginia when this man explored it in the 1760s & '70s; he later served in the Virginia House of Delegates (Daniel) Boone |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | WE'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE $800: A Kansas city is named for this native people, but you're probably more familiar with the national capital 1,100 miles away Ottawa |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | HOMOPHONES $800: To sup &
a unit of force dine/dyne |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THE IMPATIENT 19th CENTURY READER $800: Yes, I want to know how things work out for Jean Cosette in "Les Misérables", but a 19-chapter digression about this battle? C'mon! Waterloo |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE "HOME" $800: This type of burglary means you are in your dwelling when the break-in occurs a home invasion |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN $800: Typically sporting 5 arms, these marine animals of class Asteroidea have no blood as well as no brain starfish |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | & YOUR LITTLE DOG TOO $800: A butterfly is not a great pet, unlike this dog whose name means "butterfly", seen in the Titian portrait here a Papillon |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | RUBY SLIPPERS $800: You can get this brand's iconic red Chuck Taylor All-Stars as high tops or low tops Converse |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THE WIZARD OF OZ $800: Terry was the real name of the 5-year-old who played this character; she'd previously starred with Shirley Temple Toto |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | NOW YOU'RE COOKING $800: A blend of garlic, peppers & spices, this seasoning from Jamaica is used on meals like chicken jerk |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | OCCUPATIONAL SONG TITLES $800: Lady A sang, "Pour that thing up to the top, I'm coming in hot, hey" this hospitality professional "Bartender" |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | EXPLORERS $800: This man who died in 1873 left his heart in Africa--literally--though his body was buried in Westminster Abbey Livingstone |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN $1,000 (Daily Double): This jelly-like creature named for its resemblance to a fighting ship is made up of many brainless polyps a (Portuguese) man o' war |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | EXPLORERS $1000: "The Lusiads", the national epic of Portugal, celebrates this explorer & his discovery of a sea route to India Vasco da Gama |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | HOMOPHONES $1000: A piece of land &
followed the footsteps tract/tracked |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THE IMPATIENT 19th CENTURY READER $1000: Been hooked on the "Varney the Vampyre" serial since 1845; it's 1847, & I'm ready for him to (spoiler!) jump into this Italian hotspot Mount Vesuvius |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | OCCUPATIONAL SONG TITLES $1000: The title means "killer" in this Spanish-language anthem by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs "Matador" |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | NOW YOU'RE COOKING $1000: This cooking school with a name meaning "blue ribbon" was begun by French journalist Marthe Distel in 1895 Cordon Bleu |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | ABSOLUTE POWER $1000: A list of Barack Obama's favorite books includes this "power"-ful 1940 Graham Greene novel The Power and the Glory |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE "HOME" $1200: This system of medicine that uses only the smallest doses is based on the idea that "like cures like" homeopathy |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN $1200: You could while away the hours looking for brains in the Malpeque or Fanny Bay types of these, but you won't get far oysters |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | & YOUR LITTLE DOG TOO $1200: For his painting of a wealthy family & pup, Renoir ditched the Impressionist exhibition for the 1879 version of this more official show the Salon |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | WE'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE $1200: A North Dakota city called this was laid out in 1914, a little too late for cattle drives & shootouts in the streets Dodge |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | RUBY SLIPPERS $1200: The title footwear of this Broadway musical based on both a true story & a film is a pair of red thigh-highs Kinky Boots |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THE WIZARD OF OZ $1200: A deleted scene had Dorothy & friends singing a tune named for this dance with erratic bouncing movements the jitterbug |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE "HOME" $1600: "Never underestimate the power of a woman" was the slogan of this magazine, LHJ for short Ladies' Home Journal |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | IF I ONLY HAD A BRAIN $1600: You might say the reason that clownfish like to make homes in these flowery cnidarians is a no-brainer a sea anemone |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | & YOUR LITTLE DOG TOO $1600: In a 19th century work, a young man has been imprisoned & his dog sticks with him, giving the painting this 8-letter quality as its title fidelity |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | WE'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE $1600: Known for its Bavarian village & alpine sports, Leavenworth, Washington, is in these mountains, not on the Kansas plains the Cascades |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | RUBY SLIPPERS $1600: MGM's Adrian created the ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in the film; a pair is on display at this Smithsonian museum the National Museum of American History |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THE WIZARD OF OZ $1600: Harold Arlen wrote this tune in a fit of inspiration, telling his wife to pull over on Sunset Blvd. so he could jot the melody down "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | & YOUR LITTLE DOG TOO $2000: This 18th century British satirical artist depicted himself with Trump, a pup dog, alluding to his own pugnacious character William Hogarth |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE "HOME" $2000: Charles Stewart Parnell almost achieved this for Ireland in the 1880s, until personal scandal ruined him home rule |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | RUBY SLIPPERS $2000: This French designer offers shoes for ladies & gents with his signature red sole (Christian) Louboutin |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | THE WIZARD OF OZ $2000: Victor Fleming was credited, but "The Wizard of Oz" also has scenes directed by this silent movie legend with a truly royal name King Vidor |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | ABSOLUTE POWER $3,000 (Daily Double): A true power behind the throne, this church official helped make France the strongest nation in Europe on behalf of Louis XIII Cardinal Richelieu |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | WE'RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE $6,000 (Daily Double): Topeka, Illinois lies about 100 miles north of this metro area with a population of 2.8 million the St. Louis metro area |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | "OK", BOOMER $200: You're still wearing this brand's Freestyle aerobics sneakers from the '80s... let me take you shopping for some Dunks Reebok |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | FROM WHENCE THEY CAME $200: In 1736 the studley Patrick Henry got his initial liberty from mom in Studley in present-day this state Virginia |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | IN THE CARDS $200: In October 1965 22-year-old David Miller became the first person to be arrested for publicly burning one of these a draft card |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | TV TITLE REFERENCES $200: Department that Ron Swanson was the director of when the series started Parks and Recreation |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $200: His name is this & he teamed up with James Madison & John Jay to write the Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | ANATOMICAL PHRASES $200: An item such as a piece of clothing that has been passed on from a previous owner a hand-me-down |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | "OK", BOOMER $400: I've already seen your collection of gum-wrapper comics from this brand that launched in 1947--no need to show me again Bazooka |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | FANTASTIC $400: This phrase, which includes the sound a feline makes, means you're truly fantastic the cat's meow |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | THE LIGHT $400: This theory from 1905 is based on Einstein's insight that the speed of light does not change the (special) theory of relativity |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | TRIPPING $400: Take a trip to this country's Sanctuary Olonana; named for a Maasai warrior, it has suites set in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve Kenya |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | OBJECTION, YOUR HONOR! $400: Opposing counsel just asked one of these during direct examination; he's putting words in the witness' mouth! a leading question |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | MOVIE GENRES $400: Columbia made the Ranown series of these, the "Ran" for Randolph Scott, who ended his career starring in 35 of them in a row Westerns |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | BLANK VERSE $400: "What is so rare as a day in ____ ?" June |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | FROM WHENCE THEY CAME $400: The mystic who came in from the extreme cold, Rasputin was born a peasant in this vast region & was illiterate all his life Siberia |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | IN THE CARDS $400: These cards were first issued in November 1936 at post offices around the country Social Security cards |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | TV TITLE REFERENCES $400: The town in Washington State where Laura Palmer was murdered Twin Peaks |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $400: In 1793, in the century's worst epidemic to hit a U.S. city, 5,000 died of this insect-borne virus in Philadelphia yellow fever |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | ANATOMICAL PHRASES $400: To get one of these is to gain an initial opportunity or introduction; don't get it caught in there a foot in the door |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | "OK", BOOMER $600: Why do you insist on using this old-fashioned word for handbag? It's so much faster to just say "purse" pocketbook |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | TV TITLE REFERENCES $600: The clientele of veterinarians James Herriot & Siegfried Farnon All Creatures Great and Small |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | FROM WHENCE THEY CAME $600: Oh, what an artist is born in me! "Me", being this Mediterranean port city, & the artist, Joan Miró Barcelona |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | IN THE CARDS $600: The first 4 letters of this card company's name are the family name of its founder, who liked the link with a stamp of quality Hallmark |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $600: In the 1700s a group of Native Americans separated from the Creek of Georgia, moved to Florida & became part of this tribe the Seminoles |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | ANATOMICAL PHRASES $600: To be rubbing these is to mingle; to bend them is to drink booze elbows |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | "OK", BOOMER $800: I know you prefer this billiards game with 15 red balls that you learned while studying abroad, but I much prefer regular pool snooker |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | FANTASTIC $800: As 2 words, it's a sweet treat mentioned in "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"; as one word, it's an adjective meaning superb Cracker Jack |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | THE LIGHT $800: Your cat video reached me thanks to this 2-word tech, plastic or glass that allows for the passage of data-transmitting light fiber optics |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | TRIPPING $800: At the Four Seasons on this double-talk Pacific island, an over-the-water bungalow may set you back $4,000 a day Bora Bora |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | OBJECTION, YOUR HONOR! $800: The witness said, "Clyde told me Bonnie did it", but Clyde's not here, so that testimony isn't admissible because it's this hearsay |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | MOVIE GENRES $800: "This Is Spinal Tap" has been called "The Grandaddy of" this portmanteau faux-reality genre the mockumentary |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | BLANK VERSE $800: "Once upon a ____ ____ , while I pondered, weak and weary" midnight dreary |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | FROM WHENCE THEY CAME $800: Born working class in South London, Michael Caine said this accent was a bit of a hurdle getting started in British theater a Cockney accent |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | IN THE CARDS $800: A Sears subsidiary issued the first credit cards of this brand that pioneered cash-back rewards in 1985 Discover |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | TV TITLE REFERENCES $800: Where Judge Abby Stone presides in Manhattan Night Court |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $800: "The Father of American Drama", William Dunlap wrote a 1798 play about this British major who was hanged as a spy Major André |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | ANATOMICAL PHRASES $800: Quick-sounding term for a sudden feeling of euphoria, or a feeling of dizziness when you get up too fast a head rush |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | "OK", BOOMER $1000: I realize your work wear was this, a fancy word for a custom-made suit, but I work from home, so I'm sticking with jeans bespoke |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | IN THE CARDS $1000: In classic Monopoly, you draw a card if you land on Chance or this other space depicting money bags in a strongbox Community Chest |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | TV TITLE REFERENCES $1000: How the orphan adopted by the Cuthberts spells her first name Anne with an E |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $1000: Jonathan Edwards was an important thinker of the New England religious revival called the first great one of these Great Awakening |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | ANATOMICAL PHRASES $1000: As a noun, it's a bony covering for a joint; as a verb, it means to disable that joint, or to really mess someone or something up a kneecap |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | FANTASTIC $1200: Completing an alliterative phrase, to be in "fine" this 6-letter word means you're in great condition fettle |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | THE LIGHT $1200: Only allowing vertical light to pass through, sunglasses with these lenses help prevent glare off flat surfaces polarized lenses |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | TRIPPING $1200: Take a trip to this South Carolina resort island famed for its golf & home to the Harbour Town Lighthouse Hilton Head Island |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | OBJECTION, YOUR HONOR! $1200: The witness can't possibly know why my client wanted a haircut on the day of the murder; that question calls for this speculation |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | MOVIE GENRES $1200: Like buddy movies? Don't miss this sports-centric 1992 comedy that features some hot "Jeopardy!" action White Men Can't Jump |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | BLANK VERSE $1200: "The fog comes on little ____ ____ .
It sits looking over harbor and city" cat feet |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | FANTASTIC $1600: Anyone would be proud to be called this fantastic adjective that comes from the Latin for "star" stellar |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | TRIPPING $1600: The hills are alive with skiing at this Vermont resort where you can stay at the Trapp Family Lodge Stowe |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | OBJECTION, YOUR HONOR! $1600: This alliterative 3-word objection means "the witness has responded & now you're just repeating yourself--let's move on" asked and answered |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | BLANK VERSE $1600: "I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not ____ more" honor |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | MOVIE GENRES $2,000 (Daily Double): This term is said to date to a 1940s French article about "Double Indemnity",
"Laura" &
"Murder My Sweet" (film) noir |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | FANTASTIC $2000: It can mean either fantastic or lurid, like yellow journalism sensational |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | THE LIGHT $2000: This international standard unit of luminous intensity sounds like a taper with an extra A the candela |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | TRIPPING $2000: Called the "Pearl of Lake Geneva", this resort is home to an annual jazz festival; mystical Chillon Castle is nearby Montreux |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | OBJECTION, YOUR HONOR! $2000: My client's shoplifting arrest from 20 years ago has nothing to do with this tax fraud case! I object on grounds of this relevance |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | MOVIE GENRES $2000: Classics of Surrealism include this black-&-white 1977 David Lynch film that stars a man with really big hair Eraserhead |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | BLANK VERSE $2000: "Do not go gentle into that good night.
____, ____ against the dying of the light" rage, rage |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | FROM WHENCE THEY CAME $2,600 (Daily Double): In 1820 this British medical worker was herself delivered in the Italian city that became her name Florence Nightingale |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | THE LIGHT $4,000 (Daily Double): Converting light to electrical signals, rods & cones are the 2 main types of these cells, partly from Greek for "light" photo receptors |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | MAKING SOME POUR DECISIONS $200: Ooo, a Havana cocktail... that's pineapple juice, lemon juice & this potent potable... sounds perfect rum |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | 2024 IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR $200: He was part of national news from early August to early November Walz |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | DIFFICULT BUT FUNNY TV CHARACTERS $200: This "Simpsons" kids' host: "Here's the deal. Every time you watch my show, I will send you $40!" ("Checks will not be honored") Krusty the Clown |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | ALSO A CAR PART $200: Word for the torso of a human or the main stem of a tree a trunk |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | COMPOUND WORDS $200: Bring a towel if your seats high up in a venue are called these, involving a body part nosebleeds |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | BACK WHEN THE ANIMALS WERE YOUNG $200: While young rabbits are called kits, this slightly larger animal's babies are called leverets hares |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | MAKING SOME POUR DECISIONS $400: How 'bout a round of this Mexican beer with 2 red X's on the label that was actually created by a German man, Wilhelm Hasse Dos Equis |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | ENDS WITH "A-G-E" $400: It comes before "point" to mean a position from which something is considered or viewed vantage |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | BOATS & SHIPS $400: In the 1600s, the Baltic Sea had a toll based on the size of this, so the Dutch built the fluyt, narrower on top than in the hold the deck |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | 19th CENTURY LIT $400: This William Makepeace Thackeray novel opens with Rebecca & Amelia leaving Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies Vanity Fair |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | ACTORS BY THE FILMS THEY DIRECTED $400: "Rush" &
"Apollo 13" Ron Howard |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: Created in the 16th century by a Mughal emperor, the Bagh-e Babur Gardens are found in this largest Afghan city Kabul |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | A PREMIERE MUSICAL EVENT $400: Prague's Estates Theatre was home to the 1787 world premiere of "Don Giovanni" by this man who conducted that night as well Mozart |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | 2024 IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR $400: On December 7 the word "Merci" was projected above the portal of the Last Judgment along the west facade of this Notre Dame |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | DIFFICULT BUT FUNNY TV CHARACTERS $400: "I'm not fat, I'm festively plump", said this "South Park" kid, & we will respect his authoritah (Eric) Cartman |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | ALSO A CAR PART $400: They make Stratocasters with all the fixins Fender |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | COMPOUND WORDS $400: Bring your tissues for this lachrymose type of 10-letter movie; it's a real... a tearjerker |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | BACK WHEN THE ANIMALS WERE YOUNG $400: Newborn calves from the Alaska Yukon type of this deer can weigh up to 35 pounds moose |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | MAKING SOME POUR DECISIONS $600: This "Old No. 7" whiskey is "mellowed ... through 10 feet of sugar maple charcoal", but mellow feelings may or may not follow Jack Daniels |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | 2024 IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR $600: Entertainment obituaries included "The Death of Slim Shady", an album by him that knocked Taylor Swift out of No. 1 Eminem |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | DIFFICULT BUT FUNNY TV CHARACTERS $600: (Susie Essman presents the clue.) As Susie Greene, I screamed horrible and I do mean horrible things that popped into my head for 24 years on this show, including at its creator, and I got paid to do it Curb Your Enthusiasm |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | ALSO A CAR PART $600: A series of medical tests as a whole, or the pitcher & catcher in baseball considered as a single unit battery |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | COMPOUND WORDS $600: A sporty Corvette, or an aquatic animal you want to avoid due to its venomous spines the Stingray |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | BACK WHEN THE ANIMALS WERE YOUNG $600: A young kangaroo, called this, is 1" long & less than a gram at birth; then it heads for mom's pouch a joey |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | MAKING SOME POUR DECISIONS $800: Toast Mr. Henderson with a Gin Rickey or this often non-alcoholic version; the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel orders one in a deli a Lime Rickey |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | ENDS WITH "A-G-E" $800: The area of a plot of land, or more generally, a synonym for territory acreage |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | 19th CENTURY LIT $800: The years have brought a sex change to the original 1844 poem about going here "& through the wood, to grandfather's house" over the river |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | ACTORS BY THE FILMS THEY DIRECTED $800: "The Boys in the Boat" &
"The Ides of March" George Clooney |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: Like Patagonia, New Zealand's Central Otago region claims the most southerly of these planted areas that bring joy to oenophiles a vineyard |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | A PREMIERE MUSICAL EVENT $800: Originally titled "Fandango", this Ravel piece premiered in November 1928 Boléro |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | 2024 IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR $800: On Sept. 17 hundreds of pagers belonging to members of this Lebanese organization exploded Hezbollah |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | DIFFICULT BUT FUNNY TV CHARACTERS $800: Speaking to grad students, he says he was one at 14, & had already done more than most could have hoped to "despite my 9 o'clock bedtime" Sheldon Cooper |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | ALSO A CAR PART $800: Forsaking the -lum at the end, it's slang for a criminal a hood |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: A TV episode combining plots from 2 shows, or music from a band in a different genre from its usual one a crossover |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | BACK WHEN THE ANIMALS WERE YOUNG $800: This sea creature is flat & transparent during the leptocephalus or larval stage an (a baby) eel |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | MAKING SOME POUR DECISIONS $1000: Chablis is a region in the north of this wine-growing area, with Beaujolais farthest south Burgundy |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | 2024 IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR $1000: In 1943, this name referred to a massive tank battle won by the USSR; in 2024, to a Russian region invaded by Ukraine Kursk |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | DIFFICULT BUT FUNNY TV CHARACTERS $1000: Sweet Dee, facing a tough choice on this show:
"I'm gonna have a really hard time if we're both cannibals & we're racists" It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | COMPOUND WORDS $1000: F in the F major scale, for example; it also means a major speech at a political convention a keynote |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | BACK WHEN THE ANIMALS WERE YOUNG $1000: On a trumpeter swan lake, these babies hatch in May & June, then follow mom & dad to their first wintering area cygnets |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | ENDS WITH "A-G-E" $1200: The way a rock splits, or something revealed by low-cut décolletage cleavage |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | BOATS & SHIPS $1200: A speedy Steamer called Syren made a record 33 runs as a "runner" of this union barrier to Confederate trade blockade |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1200: In "The Brothers Karamazov", he wrote, "Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it" Dostoevsky |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | ACTORS BY THE FILMS THEY DIRECTED $1200: "Cocaine Bear" &
"Pitch Perfect 2" Elizabeth Banks |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1200: A multi-island nation of the Lesser Antilles pairs this former patron saint of Lisbon with "& the Grenadines" St. Vincent |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | A PREMIERE MUSICAL EVENT $1200: You could say the May 29, 1913 premiere of "Rite of Spring" by this Russian composer was a total riot, as one did happen Stravinsky |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | ENDS WITH "A-G-E" $1600: As a verb it's a synonym for pledge; as a noun, it's a financial conveyance mortgage |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | BOATS & SHIPS $1600: Type of vessel used in the U.S. Navy's early 20th century Yangtze Patrol, or a type of diplomacy with the threat of force behind it a gunboat |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | 19th CENTURY LIT $1600: A poem by Hoffmann von Fallersleben begins with these 4 words (one repeated); a later verse is now the German anthem Deutschland, Deutschland über alles |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | ACTORS BY THE FILMS THEY DIRECTED $1600: "A Journal for Jordan" &
"The Great Debaters" Denzel Washington |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | A PREMIERE MUSICAL EVENT $1600: In 1843 this Wagner opera reached port in Dresden but sailed into troubled waters in public reception The Flying Dutchman |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | ENDS WITH "A-G-E" $2000: There's a synonym for "face" in this word meaning to have a mental picture of something envisage |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | BOATS & SHIPS $2000: Change the last syllable in monorail to get this kind of sailing boat whose advantages vs. a catamaran are debated a monohull |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | 19th CENTURY LIT $2000: Vivian is an ambitious politician in "Vivian Grey", the first novel by this future prime minister of England Disraeli |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | ACTORS BY THE FILMS THEY DIRECTED $2000: "Mid90s" Jonah Hill |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $2000: Guatemala's farming region of Jutiapa borders this nation on the Pacific to the south El Salvador |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | A PREMIERE MUSICAL EVENT $2000: Drunk conductor Alexander Glazunov helped wreck the 1897 premiere of the 1st symphony by this Russian composer & piano virtuoso Rachmaninoff |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | BOATS & SHIPS $4,000 (Daily Double): On July 24, 1857 Henry David Thoreau & others set off on Moosehead Lake in an 18-foot one of these a canoe |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $4,600 (Daily Double): The northernmost Summer Olympics were held in this European city in 1952 Helsinki |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | ALSO A CAR PART $7,800 (Daily Double): Something broadcast by a television network, for example a transmission |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | SECRETS OF THE PENGUINS $200: At 22 miles per hour, gentoo penguins are the fastest birds in the water, largely thanks to these appendages being short, flat & dense flippers (their wings) |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | FAST FOOD SLOGANS $200: "Eat mor chikin" Chick-fil-A |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | "RTH" DAY $200: In other words, lack of, scarcity, an inadequate amount a dearth |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | SPORTS $200: A penalty kick shootout decided the 2022 men's World Cup soccer final, with this country led by Lionel Messi coming out on top Argentina |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | QUITE A HEIST $200: The "Great Gold Robbery" of 1855 took place aboard one of these, giving rise to a novel title 120 years later a train |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | CHAT, GPS $200: Traffic ahead on the 5 South as you approach Disneyland in this city; would you like a faster alternate route through Wyoming? Anaheim |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | SECRETS OF THE PENGUINS $400: Galápagos penguins lie in wait for this water bird to gather up food before stealing fish from their beaks a pelican |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | FAST FOOD SLOGANS $400: "We have the meats" Arby's |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: A list of exceptional students exclaims a University of Alabama rallying cry honor Roll Tide |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS $400: "The Way of the Farmer" & "The Buck Stops Here" are chapters in David McCullough's biography of him Harry S. Truman |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | I'LL TAKE THAT ACTION $400: Zach Braff's payout for an on-set bet: an outgoing message recorded by this fellow actor known as the "Voice of God" Morgan Freeman |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | ANCIENT SYMBOLS $400: A wise bird in other cultures, it's the negative counterpart to the Phoenix in Chinese lore an owl |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | MUSIC ON TV $400: Written for NBC, the opera "Amahl & the Night Visitors" debuted on this day, 1951; the visitors are the 3 kings, Bethlehem-bound Christmas Eve |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | HOT SPOTS $400: It's atmosphere is 96% carbon dioxide; no wonder surface temperatures there exceed 800 degrees Venus |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | "RTH" DAY $400: This middle name of Henry Longfellow came from his mother's side of the family Wadsworth |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | SPORTS $400: Nice rookie season for him with the Philadelphia Warriors in 1959-60: 37.6 points & 27 rebounds a game & an NBA MVP award Wilt Chamberlain |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | QUITE A HEIST $400: On July 16, 1976 a French gang took advantage of a long weekend for this holiday to pull a multi-million-franc heist in Nice Bastille Day |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | CHAT, GPS $400: Take US-75 N. to get from Nebraska City to this Nebraska city; eta, about 45 minutes, but I won't direct you to Warren Buffett's house Omaha |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | SECRETS OF THE PENGUINS $600: These penguins huddle together in the thousands for warmth during -48 Fahrenheit storms; the middle can reach 98 degrees emperor penguins |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | FAST FOOD SLOGANS $600: "Louisiana fast" Popeyes |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | "RTH" DAY $600: It's the width or thickness of a body girth |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | SPORTS $600: With music by Mahler & a move called "The Goose", Canadians Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir skated to gold in this event at the Vancouver Olympics ice dancing |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | QUITE A HEIST $600: Reportedly inspired by a Sherlock Holmes story, in 1971 thieves tunneled into a Lloyd's Bank vault at 185 this London street Baker Street |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | CHAT, GPS $600: Here is your route from Hollywood to this New Mexico city, formerly known as Hot Springs & named after a game show in 1950 Truth or Consequences |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | SECRETS OF THE PENGUINS $800: For the first time documented, hundreds of chicks took their first plunge from a 50-ft. cliff into this directional ocean around Antarctica the Southern Ocean |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS $800: Dying of lung cancer, Paul Kalanithi attempted to answer what makes life worth living in "When Breath Becomes" this Air |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | SPORTS $800: He had quite the 2024, a Masters win, Olympic gold medal, an arrest & a hand injury making ravioli (Scottie) Scheffler |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | FAST FOOD SLOGANS $800: "Better ingredients. Better pizza" Papa John's |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A difficult spot for a square peg turns into an eagle on a par 3 a round hole in one |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | I'LL TAKE THAT ACTION $800: Stephen Hawking waited 15 years--until he was sure--before conceding a bet about whether Cygnus X-1 is one of these (it is) a black hole |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | ANCIENT SYMBOLS $800: Symbolizing abundance, it is linked to the horn of Zeus' nurse, which could be filled with any desire a cornucopia |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | MUSIC ON TV $800: "Ashokan Farewell", heard over a soldier's letter in this PBS series, is not 19th c.--it came out of sadness a music camp was over Civil War |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | HOT SPOTS $800: In 1942 the U.S. moved 60 Japanese-American internees from Manzanar to this Calif. national park & put them to work with rangers Death Valley |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | "RTH" DAY $800: In mythology Vesta was goddess of the home & of this, found in the home the hearth |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | QUITE A HEIST $800: In 2022 thieves lifted a fortune in jewelry from one of this security service's trucks--in California, not Boston Brink's |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | CHAT, GPS $800: After leaving Richmond, take I-95 north, then head east & pick up DE-8 to reach this other capital, 3 1/2 hours away Dover |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | SECRETS OF THE PENGUINS $1000: Known for their crafty yellow crest, this type of penguin that shares its name with a pasta is the world's most numerous at 12 million macaroni |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | FAST FOOD SLOGANS $1000: "Think outside the bun" Taco Bell |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | "RTH" DAY $1000: Parturition is a synonym for this 10-letter word childbirth |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | SPORTS $1000: The Yankees have won the most World Series with 27; this NL team is next with 11, the latest in 2011 the St. Louis Cardinals |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | CHAT, GPS $1000: Take AZ-80 to N. 4th Street; E. Allen St. & your destination is ahead at this landmark that gained fame in 1881; enjoy your holliday! the O.K. Corral |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Mjolnir of myth becomes part of a Communist symbol for workers in factories & farms Thor's hammer & sickle |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | I'LL TAKE THAT ACTION $1200: A bet with the rival team's mayor is now a Super Bowl tradition for Mayor Quinton Lucas of this city; his fave wager? Barbecue Kansas City |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | ANCIENT SYMBOLS $1200: This 4-letter wading bird was sacred to ancient Egyptians an ibis |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | MUSIC ON TV $1200: On "Star Trek: The Next Generation", this Vulcan, Spock's father, is brought to tears by a Brahms chamber piece Sarek |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Top job at the U.N. that makes Bisquick & Cheerios for our tables the Secretary General Mills |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS $1600: Spike Lee called "The Autobiography of" this civil rights leader "the most important book I'll ever read" Malcolm X |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | I'LL TAKE THAT ACTION $1600: Ancient writers say Cleopatra won a bet with Mark Antony by dissolving this gem in vinegar, then drinking it; must be nice, Cleo! a pearl |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | ANCIENT SYMBOLS $1600: Said to be borne by Constantine's army, the Labarum was a royal flag of Rome consisting of these 2 Greek letters, Christ's monogram Chi & Rho |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | MUSIC ON TV $1600: The heroine of this streaming series played the oboe & a certain composer's oboe concerto in C major was heard in it Mozart in the Jungle |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | HOT SPOTS $1600: It's a mystery why this part of the Sun that stretches far out into space is millions of degrees hotter than the Sun's surface the corona |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS $2,000 (Daily Double): The title of his 2024 memoir "Sonny Boy" refers to his mother's childhood nickname for him, not his character in "Dog Day Afternoon" Al Pacino |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | HOT SPOTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Pity these big mammals for which a bay near Key Largo is named; in summer 2023, water temps there hit 101.1 degrees manatees |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A phrase to introduce a piece of advice from an expert is here, right where you can't quite remember it the pro tip of your tongue |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS $2000: "Véra" is a Pulitzer Prize-winning bio of this Russian-born author's wife, muse, reader, secretary, editor & translator Nabokov |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | I'LL TAKE THAT ACTION $2000: This German director "eats his shoe" is a 1980 documentary in which a bet is lost & as payment, a shoe is indeed eaten Werner Herzog |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | ANCIENT SYMBOLS $2000: The tree of life has long been a symbol of this, Jewish mysticism with origins in the 12th century Kabbalah |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | MUSIC ON TV $2000: As "Hannibal", this actor plays a bit of the "Goldberg" variations, also heard in "The Silence of the Lambs" Mads Mikkelsen |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | HOT SPOTS $2000: Once called French Somaliland, this country gained independence in 1977 & the French might not have missed the 115-degree days Djibouti |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | QUITE A HEIST $3,000 (Daily Double): Most of the $100 million in loot stolen from this Belgian city's diamond center in 2003 is still missing Antwerp |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | CELEBRITY GODPARENTS $5 (Daily Double): He & TV co-star Bryan Cranston had more than a chemical bond & he made Bryan Godfather to his son Rydin Aaron Paul |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | "WA", "WA"! $200: To flip-flop, or a big breakfast staple waffle |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | MAKEUP THROUGH HISTORY $200: What's been called the oldest type of this makeup is a 4,000-year-old "tube" in Iran that contains bright red hematite lipstick |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | DISNEY DWARF ROLL CALL $200: Coach Rivers in the NBA or young Ms. McStuffins in animation Doc |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | STATE NICKNAMES $200: Admitted to the union in 1876, it's appropriately "the Centennial state" Colorado |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | CELEBRITY GODPARENTS $200: The "circle of life" is expansive for this superstar, Godfather to 2 Beckhams, Sean Lennon & Elizabeth Hurley's son Damian Elton John |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | SCIENCE FICTION $200: Mark Watney in this novel says, "I don't want to come off as arrogant here, but I'm the best botanist on the planet" The Martian |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | THAT'S SO GANGSTER (MOVIE) $400: In "Scarface", Tony Montana rises to wealth dealing this drug but goes down in a hail of bullets cocaine |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | "WA", "WA"! $400: You need strong legs & lungs to live in the type of building called, say, a fifth floor this a walk-up |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | CELEBRITY GODPARENTS $400: Tyler Perry's wait, I'm a Godfather? premiered as this couple chose Mr. P. for daughter Lilibet Mountbatten-Windsor Prince Harry & Meghan Markle |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | AFRICAN HISTORY $400: In 1952 Oliver Tambo & this man created South Africa's first Black law practice Nelson Mandela |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | "X" MEN $400: Regarding his performance of the national anthem at Woodstock, he told Dick Cavett, "I'm American, so I played it" (Jimi) Hendrix |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | DEAR DIARY $400: Appointments in his handwritten engagement diary for June 5, 1940 include "12:30 cabinet" & "6:30 the king" Churchill |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | ANAGRAMS $400: Prosperity, or government aid:
FREE LAW welfare |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | SCIENCE FACTS $400: It's a structure made of DNA found in the cell nucleus; the hermit crab has 254, we have 46 chromosomes |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | MAKEUP THROUGH HISTORY $400: Also called blush, this type of makeup with a French name was made using red beet juice in the Victorian era rouge |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | DISNEY DWARF ROLL CALL $400: It preceded Cat for a meme-orable feline who had the "Worst Christmas ever" Grumpy |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | STATE NICKNAMES $400: Meant to distinguish Alabama from the rest of the South, it went on the state's license plates in 1955 the Heart of Dixie |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | SCIENCE FICTION $400: The title refers to cataclysms that can last for years in N.K. Jemisin's Hugo Award winner "The Fifth" this (4 is more standard) Season |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | "WA", "WA"! $600: It can be a gentle way to transmit an odor, or the odor itself waft |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | MAKEUP THROUGH HISTORY $600: Lead was originally an ingredient in the white foundation called oshiroi used by these women whose apprentices are called maiko geishas |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | DISNEY DWARF ROLL CALL $600: Having rhinitis or taking snuff will make you this Sneezy |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | STATE NICKNAMES $600: "The Panhandle State", it has 2--the eastern one is home to Harpers Ferry & in the northern one, you'll find a huge teapot West Virginia |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | CELEBRITY GODPARENTS $600: Perhaps this country music legend gave goddaughter Miley Cyrus a "Coat Of Many Colors" Dolly Parton |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | SCIENCE FICTION $600: Also known as Melange, this mystical substance created by Arrakis' sandworms helps in space navigation Spice |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | CELEBRITY GODPARENTS $800: Kieran Culkin's plan of succession was to make this woman, who played his sister Shiv, godmother to son Wilder Wolf Sarah Snook |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | THAT'S SO GANGSTER (MOVIE) $800: As Ray Liotta explains, the title of this Martin Scorsese film is mob slang for fellow gangsters Goodfellas |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | "WA", "WA"! $800: Once a way to protect walls, today it's used to give a room more eye appeal wainscoting |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | AFRICAN HISTORY $800: The Zulu & the Swahili came from this proto-ethnic group that began emigrating from West Africa to the south & east the Bantu |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | "X" MEN $800: George Washington really dug this guy, making him chief of artillery in the Continental Army & later, the first Secretary of War Knox |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | DEAR DIARY $800: A 1906 entry by her: "Pierre is sleeping his last sleep beneath the earth... I am working in the laboratory... it is all I can do" Marie Curie |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | ANAGRAMS $800: A rat poison:
CHINS ENTRY strychnine |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | SCIENCE FACTS $800: In late 2024 this Spanish-named weather event brought colder-than-normal waters to the central equatorial Pacific La Niña |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | MAKEUP THROUGH HISTORY $800: During the time of Marie Antoinette, faux beauty marks concealed blemishes caused by this disease aka Variola major smallpox |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | DISNEY DWARF ROLL CALL $800: Aw shucks, I don't want to draw any attention to myself, but I'll tell you it's the longest dwarf name Bashful |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | STATE NICKNAMES $800: Florida is "The Sunshine State"; Oregon is this, also starting with "Sun"--it's often amazing at Ecola State Park (the) Sunset (State) |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | SCIENCE FICTION $800: "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" & "The Minority Report" are works from this writer whose middle name was Kindred Philip K. Dick |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | "WA", "WA"! $1000: A Polynesian woman, or a female surfer a wahine |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | MAKEUP THROUGH HISTORY $1000: Used in ancient Egypt, this 4-letter makeup that darkens the edges of the eyes comes to English from Arabic kohl |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | DISNEY DWARF ROLL CALL $1000: In a Hemingway short story title, it described the short life of Francis Macomber Happy |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | STATE NICKNAMES $1000: "The Beef State", it's home to more cattle than people, with its 6 million cows outnumbering humans 3 to 1 Nebraska |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | SCIENCE FICTION $1000: After the "bugs" attack Buenos Aires, Johnnie Rico is off to Klendathu for revenge in this classic Starship Troopers |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | DEAR DIARY $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1922 Virginia Woolf recorded being bored by this new novel her friend "Tom" Eliot thought was "on a par with 'War and Peace"' Ulysses |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | THAT'S SO GANGSTER (MOVIE) $1200: This 1991 film about gang violence in South Central L.A. helped popularize a slang contraction for an inner-city area Boyz n the Hood |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | "X" MEN $1200: His last novel "Island" envisions a Pacific island utopia--a far cry from the dystopian novel for which he's best known (Aldous) Huxley |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | DEAR DIARY $1200: Ronald Reagan's presidential diary records a 2-minute meeting with this Iran-Contra Lt. Col. Nov. 25, 1986, the day he was fired Ollie North |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | ANAGRAMS $1200: Big monkey with a pink & blue butt:
RIND MALL a mandrill |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | SCIENCE FACTS $1200: A fingerprint scan is one form of this automated tech that measures physiological characteristics biometrics |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | "X" MEN $1600: This Spanish missionary & saint, also an O.G. Jesuit, was instrumental in bringing Christianity to Asia (Francis) Xavier |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | THAT'S SO GANGSTER (MOVIE) $1600: In "The Godfather", Robert Duvall plays a savvy Corleone family member with this title, Italian for "counselor" consigliere |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1600: An effort with help from Jimmy Carter reduced African cases of the disease named for this parasite from 840,000 to 14 the Guinea worm |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | ANAGRAMS $1600: One who amorally takes advantage of what comes along:
POOP IN TRUST an opportunist |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | SCIENCE FACTS $1600: Entanglement of magnetic fluids on the Sun can lead to solar these that can knock out satellites flares |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | DEAR DIARY $2000: His final diary entry, March 29, 1912, says, "Outside the door of the tent, it remains a scene of whirling drift" Robert Scott |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | ANAGRAMS $2000: Guess his name:
IMP TURNS SKILLET Rumpelstiltskin |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | THAT'S SO GANGSTER (MOVIE) $2000: This Japanese word for gangsters is the title of a 1974 Robert Mitchum movie yakuza |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | AFRICAN HISTORY $2000: Anti-govt. protests known as the Arab Spring began in this North African country in 2010 & soon swept across the region Tunisia |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | "X" MEN $2000: He wrote "Parade's End", informed by his own experience in World War I, where he fought in the Battle of the Somme Ford Madox Ford |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | SCIENCE FACTS $2000: In 1774 chemist Johan Gahn was working with the mineral pyrolusite & found himself speaking this new element, No. 25 manganese |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | AFRICAN HISTORY $3,395 (Daily Double): In 1970 Biafra, a breakaway land of the Igbo people, capitulated to this country's central government, ending a Civil War Nigeria |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | THE LIVER $200: Boxers know anatomy, as when Bernard Hopkins "operated" on Oscar De La Hoya's liver with a punch under this bony enclosure the rib cage |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | STAND $200: When playing blackjack, you may decide to "stand" this 3-letter way, which means you don't want any more cards pat |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | "G" IN THE MIDDLE $200: A good deal at a low price; The Who sang of "the best I ever had" bargain |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | ROUGHLY TURN OF THE CENTURY MUSIC $200: "I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want!", say this line after "If you wanna be my lover..." you gotta get with my friends |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | FOOD BRANDS $200: Beginning in the '60s, it was "Choosy mothers choose" this brand of peanut butter; in the '80s, "Choosy moms" Jif |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT $200: June 17, 1972:
5 burglary suspects were arrested in the early morning at 2600 Virginia Ave.
N.W.,
this complex Watergate |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | AROUND THE PACIFIC $400: A historic Russian Orthodox church dominates the town of Saint Paul on an island in the middle of this Pacific sea the Bering |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | 6-LETTER VOCAB $400: The backwards jerk after a gun is fired, or to jerk back in revulsion recoil |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | MOVIE LOCALES $400: The Hook & Ladder 8 building at 14 North Moore Street in Manhattan plays a memorable role in this 1984 film Ghostbusters |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | NOTABLE WOMEN $400: In 2022 Twitter called this tennis great "the most tweeted about female athlete ever" Serena Williams |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | THE ARTS $400: Thick varnish was the reason for this byname of Rembrandt's 1642 painting of a militia company The Night Watch |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | PREPOSITIONS IN BOOK TITLES $400: "By the Shores of Silver Lake" is the fifth book in this series about pioneer life Little House on the Prairie |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | THE LIVER $400: In 2020 the government said most U.S. adults should be screened for this dangerous, often symptomless letter of hepatitis C |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | STAND $400: An imbalance between positive & negative charges as electrons move gives us this type of electricity that can make your hair stand on end static electricity |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | "G" IN THE MIDDLE $400: The herring type is a common species of this beach-combing, chip-stealing, flying fellow a seagull |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | ROUGHLY TURN OF THE CENTURY MUSIC $400: In 1999 this Spanglish-titled tune topped the charts for 5 weeks "Livin' La Vida Loca" |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | FOOD BRANDS $400: Products from Udi's famously lack this, per its logo gluten |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT $400: June 11, 1963:
Governor George Wallace stood in a doorway of this university in an effort to exclude Black students the University of Alabama |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | THE LIVER $600: Many of this band's concerts featured Phil Lesh urging the audience to be organ donors, like the man whose liver gave Phil 26 years the Grateful Dead |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | STAND $600: Stephen King said "The Stand" was inspired by Tolkien & that this city where the action climaxes was a sort of Mordor Las Vegas |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | "G" IN THE MIDDLE $600: This adjective describes the production of very low temperatures, perhaps to create a chamber cryogenic |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | ROUGHLY TURN OF THE CENTURY MUSIC $600: "Wah-haw, it was good, livin' with you", sang this New Orleans alt-rock trio Better than Ezra |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | FOOD BRANDS $600: Introduced in the 1920s, this Japanese mayo brand was named for a novelty doll popular around the world Kewpie |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT $600: June 25, 1950:
Earlier today Communist troops from the north attacked South Korea across this numeric frontier the 38th parallel |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | 6-LETTER VOCAB $800: The strangulated type of this rupture cuts off the blood supply to body tissue & can lead to gangrene a strangulated hernia |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | MOVIE LOCALES $800: Opened in 1896, the Ohio State Reformatory closed in 1990, a few years before this Best Picture nominee was filmed there The Shawshank Redemption |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | NOTABLE WOMEN $800: After designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial & a civil rights memorial, she pursued other forms of art & architecture Maya Lin |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | THE ARTS $800: In this opera based on a fairy tale, the witch sings, "Nibble, nibble, little mouse, who's nibbling at my little house?" Hansel and Gretel |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | PREPOSITIONS IN BOOK TITLES $800: "Before Night Falls" is Reinaldo Arenas' memoir describing his life as a gay man persecuted in this country Cuba |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | AROUND THE PACIFIC $800: Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei & Yap are the 4 Federated States of this Micronesia |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | THE LIVER $800: Oil from this fish's liver, a good source of vitamins A & D, was given out to British kids 5 & under starting in 1940 cod |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | STAND $800: A hit in 1968, this song standard begins, "Sometimes it's hard to be a woman" "Stand By Your Man" |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | "G" IN THE MIDDLE $800: 5 letters but just one vowel?! That causes me a great deal of this feeling of anxiety angst |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | ROUGHLY TURN OF THE CENTURY MUSIC $800: This Digital Underground rapper would "shoot an arrow like Cupid, I'll use a word that don't mean nothin', like 'looptid"' Shock G (Humpty Hump) |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | FOOD BRANDS $800: To honor its co-founder, Dreyer's ice cream goes by this name east of the Rockies Edy's |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT $800: March 25, 2003:
Rebels in this country's Darfur province attacked govt. forces to protest treatment of non-Arabs Sudan |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT $1000: October 16, 1995:
Today, thousands of Black males converged on the nation's capital for a rally known by this triply alliterative name the Million Man March |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | "G" IN THE MIDDLE $1000: Twyla Tharp was credited as this person on Broadway shows like "Singin' in the Rain" & "Movin' Out" the choreographer |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | THE LIVER $1000: If your liver isn't adequately processing this pigment, leading to Gilbert syndrome, just know it's utterly harmless bilirubin |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | ROUGHLY TURN OF THE CENTURY MUSIC $1000: "Creepin' with the girl next door"? "Caught me on camera"? No problem for Shaggy & RikRok, with this laughingly untrue title alibi "It Wasn't Me" |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | FOOD BRANDS $1000: This flour brand got its name in 1896 & a new logo, a wheat crown, in 2020 King Arthur |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | 6-LETTER VOCAB $1200: Also called a belvedere, this roofed garden structure is said to have gotten its name from an 18th century joke gazebo |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | MOVIE LOCALES $1200: Onlookers sang "Louie, Louie" at the 1986 razing of dilapidated 755 E. 11th St. in Eugene, Ore., a location in this 1978 comedy Animal House |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1200: To anyone who criticized this "Coming of Age" anthropologist or her work, she had a word--"piffle!" Margaret Mead |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | THE ARTS $1200: Frank Gehry was the architect behind Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles & this museum in Bilbao, Spain the Guggenheim |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | AROUND THE PACIFIC $1200: A name that literally translates to "northern sea route" is fitting for this most northerly of Japan's main islands Hokkaido |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | 6-LETTER VOCAB $1600: It's a German noun referring to a trashy work of art, yet one that some can't help but love kitsch |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | MOVIE LOCALES $1600: The Café des Deux Moulins is where this winsome Parisienne waits tables while awaiting her fabulous destiny Amélie |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1600: The headquarters building for the U.S. Department of Labor is named for her, the first woman to head a Cabinet department (Frances) Perkins |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | PREPOSITIONS IN BOOK TITLES $1600: Charlaine Harris' "From Dead to Worse" finds this Louisiana waitress caught between weres & vamps again as her boyfriend disappears Sookie Stackhouse |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | AROUND THE PACIFIC $1600: The largest island of Mexico, Tiburón island is an uninhabited desert & nature reserve on this arm of the Pacific the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortés) |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | STAND $1,800 (Daily Double): Around 1675 he said:
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" (Isaac) Newton |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | 6-LETTER VOCAB $2000: Brazilian star Anitta recalled "playing in the streets" in this type of informal settlement in Rio a favela |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | MOVIE LOCALES $2000: In "Die Hard", the Century City Fox Plaza plays this plaza where I'm definitely not attending any parties Nakatomi (Plaza) |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | NOTABLE WOMEN $2000: Even before Watson & Crick, she described DNA as a big helix, but the men got all the credit Rosalind Franklin |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | THE ARTS $2000: When this Stravinsky ballet premiered in 1911, Nijinsky played the title puppet Petrushka |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | PREPOSITIONS IN BOOK TITLES $2000: Skiing & getting married are new activities for James Bond in this 1963 novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | AROUND THE PACIFIC $2000: The shallow Arafura Sea of the Western Pacific lies between Australia & this 300,000-square-mile island to the north New Guinea |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | PREPOSITIONS IN BOOK TITLES $4,000 (Daily Double): It's the title of Demi Moore's memoir; Bruce Willis & Ashton Kutcher are characters, but not Joy, Anger, Sadness or Bing Bong Inside Out |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | THE ARTS $6,000 (Daily Double): Grand Rapids, Michigan has a public sculpture by this man--a 42-ton stabile (Alexander) Calder |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | OFF THE SHELVES $200: The title of this wildly popular 1991 John Grisham thriller refers to Memphis-based Bendini, Lambert & Locke The Firm |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | FLY $200: Assassin flies plague these beekeeping structures, harrying workers around them hives |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | COLLEGE ATHLETES $200: The ability to toss 72 mph underhand helped Jennie Finch win 60 straight games at Arizona playing this sport softball |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | WORDS ENDING IN "B" $200: A pithy truth such as "actions speak louder than words" a proverb |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | SILVER $200: In a classic Spanish novel, this squire tells his wife Teresa, "Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth" Sancho Panza |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | GAME OVER, MAN! IT'S GAME OVER! $200: You made quote marks in the air to indicate "phrase" & successfully mimed "I'm a little teapot short & stout" in the fastest time charades |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | WORDS ENDING IN "B" $400: The name of this plant can also mean a heated discussion rhubarb |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | GIVE US 2 WORDS $400: In 1888 Grover Cleveland won this by more than 100,000 but lost the all-important Electoral College & the presidency the popular vote |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | TV ABBREVIATIONS & ACRONYMS $400: The "H" in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. stands for this, a word in the name of a Cabinet dept. founded in 2002 Homeland |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $400: One kWh, this unit of energy, equals 3.6 million joules a kilowatt-hour |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | MYTHOLOGY $400: According to one story, after he was killed by a scorpion, this hunter ended up as a constellation in the heavens Orion |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | CANADIAN LAKES $400: The Chronicles of Sarnia: It's an Ontario city on this lake named for local Indians, the first great lake seen by Europeans Lake Huron |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO... $400: Previously served in the house & led the vice presidential search committee that eventually chose, well, him Dick Cheney |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | OFF THE SHELVES $400: James Jones' "From Here to Eternity" tells of peacetime military members serving in what's now this state Hawaii |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | FLY $400: The lanky-limbed crane fly is also known by this paternal nickname it shares with an arachnid a daddy longlegs |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | COLLEGE ATHLETES $400: Though he only golfed for Stanford for 2 years, he won 11 tourneys & was the NCAA's 1996 individual champ; did OK as a pro, too Tiger Woods |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | SILVER $400: In 2024 this restaurant offered a free piece of fish or chicken on Talk Like a Pirate Day Long John Silver's |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | GAME OVER, MAN! IT'S GAME OVER! $400: You placed a bet on the pass line & rolled a 3; that was quick, better luck next time craps |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | OFF THE SHELVES $600: "The Case of the Perjured Parrot" is one of Erle Stanley Gardner's many books featuring this heroic defense attorney Perry Mason |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | FLY $600: A type of midge is the primary pollinator of this tree that gives us chocolate the cacao |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | COLLEGE ATHLETES $600: After rugby at Eton, memorably named Memorable Factor crossed the pond to play football for this school's Blue Devils in 2023 Duke |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | WORDS ENDING IN "B" $600: Exceptionally fantastic, from the Latin for "arrogant" superb |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | SILVER $600: This character introduced in a Fantastic Four comic can hang ten while traveling faster than light the Silver Surfer |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | TV ABBREVIATIONS & ACRONYMS $800: A smellier version of Anderson Cooper, Oscar on "Sesame Street" irritably hosts GNN, short for this the Grouch News Network |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | GIVE US 2 WORDS $800: A top 5 adult pop airplay hit of 1998; for some bars in New York, it's 4 a.m. "Closing Time" |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $800: To a surveyor, one township equals 36 sections; one section equals 640 these acres |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | MYTHOLOGY $800: Stronger than dirt, this great warrior eventually went mad & killed himself Ajax |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | CANADIAN LAKES $800: Nettilling Lake on this largest Canadian island is the world's largest lake on an island Baffin Island |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | OFF THE SHELVES $800: In this Anthony Doerr bestseller, Marie-Laure escapes to the walled Citadel of Saint-Malo after the Nazis invade Paris All the Light We Cannot See |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | FLY $800: Seen here are the wings of the golden flange tail that help make this type of creature the strongest flyer in the insect world a dragonfly |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | COLLEGE ATHLETES $800: (Jason Kelce presents the clue.) At 4.89 seconds, I had the fastest 40-yard dash of all the offensive linemen at the 2011 Combine; in 2024, Xavier Worthy set a record with 4.21 seconds, getting shout-outs from alums of this school, like Matthew McConaughey the University of Texas |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | WORDS ENDING IN "B" $800: A symbol of rebirth, this variety of beetle was sacred to the ancient Egyptians the scarab |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | SILVER $800: Reign as a monarch for 25 years & you too can celebrate this special anniversary the Silver Jubilee |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | GAME OVER, MAN! IT'S GAME OVER! $800: I say! The side has scored 24 wicket points & staked out both balls! Well done, side! croquet |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | GAME OVER, MAN! IT'S GAME OVER! $1000: After using resource cards like grain, wool & ore, you got 10 victory points during your turn, settler! This game is over! Catan |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | OFF THE SHELVES $1000: A New York court ruled that his "Tropic of Cancer" was "flagrantly obscene" & "dirt for dirt's sake"; ouch! (Henry) Miller |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | FLY $1000: Aka the pomace fly or small fruit fly, this fly is named for its strong attraction to fermented juices the vinegar fly |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | COLLEGE ATHLETES $1000: This redheaded basketball legend who died in 2024 led UCLA to an 86-4 record in the early '70s (Bill) Walton |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | WORDS ENDING IN "B" $1000: It can be a low kickoff on a football field, or a short, humorous piece used as a filler in a newspaper squib |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | SILVER $1000: In 1859 the discovery of this rich deposit of silver caused the appearance of boomtowns like Virginia City the Comstock Lode |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | GIVE US 2 WORDS $1200: In "The Outsiders" they are the 2 words Johnny tells Ponyboy right before he dies stay gold |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | TV ABBREVIATIONS & ACRONYMS $1200: On "24" Jack Bauer worked for this 3-letter group whose goal was to thwart evildoers CTU |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $1200: A micromort is a unit of risk defined as a one-in-a-million chance of this death |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | MYTHOLOGY $1200: In Egyptian myth, after he was murdered by his brother Set, he was brought back to life & became ruler of the underworld Osiris |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | CANADIAN LAKES $1200: Frozen water contributes to many careers in this job, like Williamson Lake in Nunavut did for Jordin Tootoo's a hockey player |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO... $1200: As a senator, he was the only one from the South to remain in office after the 1860 secession; he'd be rewarded Andrew Johnson |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | GIVE US 2 WORDS $1600: calm.com lists decadent dessert or binge-watching TV as examples of these, fun with a bit of a bad conscience guilty pleasures |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | TV ABBREVIATIONS & ACRONYMS $1600: "JAG", short for this, followed lawyers in that Navy division Judge Advocate General |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | MYTHOLOGY $1600: Galatea was the name later given to the statue-turned-real woman whom this king sculpted, fell in love with & married Pygmalion |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | CANADIAN LAKES $1600: Connected to the Atlantic by channels, saltwater Bras d'Or Lake is in the center of this province's Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO... $1600: Was the first South Carolinian to win the office, but unfortunately, was big on slavery Calhoun |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | MYTHOLOGY $2000: This beautiful & beloved but doomed Norse god was the son of Odin & Frigg Balder |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | GIVE US 2 WORDS $2000: Recently on TikTok, you get "A.P." credit for these, given for good vibes & used to measure how cool someone is aura points |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | TV ABBREVIATIONS & ACRONYMS $2000: Alison Brie was a bad mama jama in the ring as one of these women, GLOW for short the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $2000: The base unit of temperature in the international system of units is this, & strictly speaking, you don't say "degrees" this kelvin |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | CANADIAN LAKES $2000: First called Emerald Lake because of its blue-green color, this lake in Alberta's Rockies is fed by Victoria Glacier Lake Louise |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO... $2000: Was previously New York governor & before that, on the board of Creole Petroleum Nelson Rockefeller |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | GAME OVER, MAN! IT'S GAME OVER! $3,000 (Daily Double): An 11th point is won in a table tennis video game with the best graphics Atari could imagine in 1972 Pong |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $5,000 (Daily Double): This system of weight used for gold is named for a city in medieval France, not ancient Turkey troy |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO... $6,000 (Daily Double): Had Seattle's county named for him, though it was later renamed (with the same name) for a civil rights leader (William Rufus DeVane) King |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | EARN $200: A lot of people needed a lift in fiscal 2023, as CEO Dara Khosrowshahi of this company got enough stars to make $24 million Uber |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | ODE ON A GRECIAN $200: For he oft waxed philosophical / But not much in making serum / Ionia-born, 'tis he we mourn! / For he gave us his big theorem Pythagoras |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BIRD WORDS $200: A domesticated fowl, or in bowling, 3 strikes in a row a turkey |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BASEBALL $200: In 2024, the jersey he wore for his called-shot home run in the 1932 World Series sold for $24 million Babe Ruth |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BITE ME $200: If you are ungrateful to one who has been kind to you, you do this, something that a pup can do to its owner at mealtime bite the hand that feeds you |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | THE BOOK OF THE DECADE $200: "On the Road" keeps the beat the 1950s |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | PIMP MY ACTINIDE $400: Only a few actinides occur naturally; the others are typically created in this artificial way, from Greek for "put together" synthesis (synthetic) |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | SAME VOWEL PAIR TWICE $400: What a stethoscope is typically used to hear a heartbeat |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BOOKS & WAR $400: Howard Fast's Revolutionary War novels include this month "Morning", about a 15-year-old in the battle of Lexington April |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | GEOVERLAPS $400: Please capital-ize: For the Netherlands
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for Syria Amsterdamascus |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | DUAL ROLES $400: Yeah, baby! He's played Austin Powers & Dr. Evil on more than one occasion Mike Myers |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | IRISH FIRST NAMES $400: It doesn't get more Irish than this name that means Ireland & precedes "go Bragh" in a famous phrase Erin |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | EARN $400: Yahoo Finance reported this delivery man made nearly $8 million in 2023...hold on, my bad, I meant $8 million per hour (Jeff) Bezos |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | ODE ON A GRECIAN $400: She walks in beauty / Praised Aphrodite / Ancient lit's sweet siren / To sing this poetess' praise / We had to steal from Byron Sappho |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BIRD WORDS $400: A bird of the genus Corvus, or to exult or brag crow |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BASEBALL $400: This team went a memorably bad 41-121 in 2024 though unlike in 1919, they did try their best the Chicago White Sox |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BITE ME $400: Pass the ammunition with this alliterative phrase that refers to getting on with an unpleasant task bite the bullet |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | THE BOOK OF THE DECADE $400: "The Bridges of Madison County" romances readers the 1990s |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | EARN $600: Moderna's board pulled the ripcord on this proverbial 2-word item for Stéphane Bancel--a $926 million one at the end of 2021 a golden parachute |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | ODE ON A GRECIAN $600: The master who was Sophocles / Left us lovely plays / Like him "the king" / A wondrous thing / But that family? Yeesh, better days Oedipus |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BIRD WORDS $600: A mainly ground-dwelling bird, or to complain, perhaps if served a tough one for dinner grouse |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BASEBALL $600: "The Catch" refers to a September 29, 1954 play made by this center fielder who passed away in June 2024 Willie Mays |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BITE ME $600: The website of this fictional pooch advises on how to "Take a bite out of crime" McGruff the Crime Dog |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | THE BOOK OF THE DECADE $600: "Red Storm Rising" rises on the bestseller list the '80s |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | PIMP MY ACTINIDE $800: Actinium, the first metal element of the actinide series, was discovered in 1899 by André Debierne, a friend of this science couple the (Pierre & Marie) Curies |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | SAME VOWEL PAIR TWICE $800: A wandering minstrel of the Middle Ages a troubadour |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BOOKS & WAR $800: "The Charterhouse of Parma" begins as this general enters Milan in 1796: "Caesar & Alexander had found a successor at last" Napoleon |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | GEOVERLAPS $800: Nobel's homeland
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a U.S. city with a mint Swedenver |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | DUAL ROLES $800: On Netflix, she stars as Wednesday & as a distant ancestor named Goody Addams (Jenna) Ortega |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | IRISH FIRST NAMES $800: The author of "All the Pretty Horses" had the given name Charles but used this name instead Cormac |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | EARN $800: $199 mil was the 2023 CEO pay of Jon Winkelried at TPG, a big player in this 2-word space of investing in non-public companies private equity |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | ODE ON A GRECIAN $800: "A line is a length without breadth" / Truly a statement worthwhile! / with axioms & postulates / His "Elements" had style Euclid |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BASEBALL $800: An alien named Orbit is the mascot of this AL team the Astros |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BITE ME $800: Ben Stiller's first feature as a director, this 1994 film also starred Ethan Hawke & Winona Ryder Reality Bites |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | THE BOOK OF THE DECADE $800: "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" flies high the 1970s |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | EARN $1000: Down from 2021's $246 mil., in 2023 David Zaslav made $50 mil. guarding the legacy of these movie men--Jack, Harry, Albert & Sam the Warner Brothers |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | ODE ON A GRECIAN $1000: Reason desires truth / "The Republic", ne'er forgot / A tome that stands the test of time / That this author, sadly, could not Plato |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BIRD WORDS $1000: A bird with a mute type, or to wander "about" or "around" a place a swan |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BASEBALL $1000: The carousel at Comerica Park features not horses but these animals Tigers |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BITE ME $1000: It's a biting insect, or a person who annoys & challenges those in authority a gadfly |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | THE BOOK OF THE DECADE $1000: "The Bell Jar" rings the 1960s |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | PIMP MY ACTINIDE $1200: Small quantities of these 2 elements named for planets are found in ore deposits of uranium plutonium & neptunium |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | SAME VOWEL PAIR TWICE $1200: Strategic & scheming like a particular Florentine writer Machiavellian |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BOOKS & WAR $1200: The "this & that" title format of the great Russian novels continued with Vasily Grossman's "Life & Fate", about this 1942-43 battle Stalingrad |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | GEOVERLAPS $1200: The world's largest island
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a 4,300-mile South American mountain range Greenlandes |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | DUAL ROLES $1200: On "Friends" Lisa Kudrow not only played Phoebe but also this twin sister Ursula |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | PIMP MY ACTINIDE $1600: The discovery of "element 95", later given this patriotic name, was announced on a 1945 radio episode of "Quiz Kids" americium |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | SAME VOWEL PAIR TWICE $1600: The outlook or spirit of a particular time period or generation zeitgeist |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BOOKS & WAR $1600: In a 2008 novel a "Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society" is born as a made-up alibi during the German occupation of this island Guernsey |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | DUAL ROLES $1600: In his talkie "The Great Dictator", he played 2 roles: a Jewish barber & the dictator of Tomania Chaplin |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | IRISH FIRST NAMES $1600: It's the real first name of Elvis Costello, who is of Irish ancestry Declan |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BIRD WORDS $1,800 (Daily Double): A small American game bird, or to cower in fear to quail |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | GEOVERLAPS $2,000 (Daily Double): A nation on Afghanistan's eastern border
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a big port city in northern Morocco Pakistangier |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | PIMP MY ACTINIDE $2000: This Nobel Prize winner who enunciated the organizing principles for actinides has an element named for him--symbol Sg Seaborg |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | SAME VOWEL PAIR TWICE $2000: Process by which atoms may become electrically charged ionization |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | BOOKS & WAR $2000: 30 years after "Ragtime", this author tackled grimmer American history, depicting General Sherman in "The March" Doctorow |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | GEOVERLAPS $2000: Newfoundland's partner
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a German harbor city in the Ruhr Valley Labradortmund |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | DUAL ROLES $2000: Including the title role, he actually played 3 roles in 1964's "Dr. Strangelove" Sellers |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | IRISH FIRST NAMES $2000: Meaning "wealthy protector", it was the first name of the three-time Irish prime minister who led his during World War II Éamon |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | IRISH FIRST NAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): It can be spelled with a "K", or with a "C" as in the name of the Best Actor Oscar winner for 2023 Cillian |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | OOPS! I ACCIDENTALLY TOOK THE SPANISH CROSSWORD $200: Apellido de actor Pedro y
matemático Blaise
(6 letras) Pascal |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | BONDS OF CRIMINALITY $200: Handy with the steel, the Lincoln County regulators included Frank Coe & this outlaw who died at 21 in 1881 Billy the Kid |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $200: Ted Tally wrote screenplays based on Thomas Harris' novels "Red Dragon" & this one that became a hit 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET? $200: The familiar 4-image strip produced by one of these structures had 8 images (& took 8 minutes) when it had a vogue in the 1920s a photo booth |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | ALL THE AUGHTS $200: Byzantine ruler Alexius IV Angelus was installed as emperor in 1203 by the fourth of these military expeditions the Fourth Crusade |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | BODIES OF WATER $200: Denmark & Latvia both border this sea sharing its name with a people who lived on its shores in ancient times the Baltic |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | FAMOUS LAST LYRICS $400: 1993:
"All in all is all we are" "All Apologies" |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | GOVERNMENT JOBS $400: In the 19th century this job largely of running papers for senators was held by kids as young as 9; today you can still do it at 16 a page |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | OOPS! I ACCIDENTALLY TOOK THE SPANISH CROSSWORD $400: Potable potente, Sauza y Cuervo por ejemplo
(7 letras) tequila |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | SPACEY TALK $400: The cloud of gas, ice & dust around the nucleus of a comet is called this, also a term for a serious medical condition the coma |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2025 $400: Not new info for 2025, but nice to have handy: this metric measure for liquid equals 4.2 cups a liter |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | AUTHORS' REAL HOUSEWIVES TAGLINES $400: My heroine Jane Eyre is called "an underhand little thing"; I also figure out how to get my way Charlotte Brontë |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | STARTS WITH "SC" $400: We'll get to the point--it's a sword with a curved blade that was mostly used in the Middle East a scimitar |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $400: (Margaret Cho presents the clue.) I played Erin, the den mother to a group of queer men in the 2022 rom-com "Fire Island", which was loosely based on this Jane Austen novel Pride and Prejudice |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET? $400: This organization provides cards to help you use its roadside assistance program, which began as 5 motorcyclists in St. Louis AAA |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | BONDS OF CRIMINALITY $400: Fabio Ochoa Vásquez & Roberto Escobar were members of the cartel named for this Colombian city Medellín |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | ALL THE AUGHTS $400: The official announcement of the Louisiana Purchase came on this date in 1803, apt for doubling the size of U.S. territory the 4th of July |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Barrie Devenport in 1962 was the 1st man known to swim this strait named for an explorer, Cape Terawhiti to the coast of Wellington Cook Strait |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | OOPS! I ACCIDENTALLY TOOK THE SPANISH CROSSWORD $600: Dormir un poquito
(6 letras) una siesta |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $600: This bestseller set at a fashion magazine spawned a hit movie & a stage musical with Vanessa Williams as the terrifying editor The Devil Wears Prada |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | BONDS OF CRIMINALITY $600: Jesse & Frank James ran with Cole, Jim, John & Bob--not the world's deadliest boy band but a gang of brothers with this last name Younger |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | ALL THE AUGHTS $600: In 1506 Julius II merged Bologna into this group,
aka
the Stati Pontifici the Papal States |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | BODIES OF WATER $600: Myanmar's principal river, the Irrawaddy drains into this bay the Bay of Bengal |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | OOPS! I ACCIDENTALLY TOOK THE SPANISH CROSSWORD $800: En francés es "demain";
en español es esta palabra
(6 letras) mañana |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | FAMOUS LAST LYRICS $800: 2021:
"You said forever, now I drive alone past your street" "drivers license" |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | GOVERNMENT JOBS $800: The Interior Dept. says people with this job "excel at fostering curiosity" for visitors to places like Arches in Utah a park ranger |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | SPACEY TALK $800: An apoapsis is the farthest point in an orbit; an apojove is the farthest orbital point from this planet Jupiter |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2025 $800: In "International News of 2024", this man was allowed to return to his native Australia after years on confinement in Britain Assange |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | AUTHORS' REAL HOUSEWIVES TAGLINES $800: I may use a man's name in a man's world, but trust me ... I may be Victorian but I'm no run of "The Mill On The Floss"! (George) Eliot |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | STARTS WITH "SC" $800: From stinger to pincers, this arachnid glows blue-green under UV light but scientists aren't sure to what purpose a scorpion |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $800: The "Codename Villanelle" thriller series by Luke Jennings became this TV series Killing Eve |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET? $800: Why do I have one of these bills that even the Bureau of Engraving & Printing says "for most of their history... have been unpopular" a $2 bill |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | BONDS OF CRIMINALITY $800: Some of the members of his "Ring" of callous corruption were Richard B. Connolly & A. Oakley Hall, mayor of New York City Boss Tweed |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | ALL THE AUGHTS $800: In 1706 a popular revolt in Astrakhan got an emphatic & cruel nyet from this czar, then in the midst of modernizing Russia Peter the Great |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Lake Turkana, the world's largest alkaline lake, lies in Kenya & this country on its northern border Ethiopia |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET? $1,000 (Daily Double): Sept. is the natl. month to get this item; Octavia Butler & David McCullough were among those to reminisce about their first, as kids library card |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | OOPS! I ACCIDENTALLY TOOK THE SPANISH CROSSWORD $1000: Presidenta de México Claudia
(9 letras) Sheinbaum |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $1000: This graphic novel about a train circling a frozen earth has been made into a film & a TV series Snowpiercer |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | WHAT'S IN YOUR WALLET? $1000: An allergy info card may list this one of the "Big 9", preventing a potentially deadly administration of tahini sesame |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | BONDS OF CRIMINALITY $1000: When Howie Winter went to prison, this criminal took over control of the Winter Hill Gang in Somerville, Mass. Bulger |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | ALL THE AUGHTS $1000: This company set forth to New England under the auspices of a charter in 1606 the Plymouth Company |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: In October 1944 the U.S. Navy turned back Japan's last major naval offensive in the battle of this Philippine gulf Leyte |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | FAMOUS LAST LYRICS $1200: 1999:
"All that glitters is gold, only shootin' stars break the mold" "All Star" |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2025 $1200: You might put some crema on the cob for this 3-word phrase found under "New Words in English" Mexican street corn |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | AUTHORS' REAL HOUSEWIVES TAGLINES $1200: I worked "Night and Day" on that 1919 novel, so my husband Leonard & my friend E.M. Forster can think what they want Virginia Woolf |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | STARTS WITH "SC" $1200: A dish of large shrimp cooked Italian style with butter & garlic scampi |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | FAMOUS LAST LYRICS $1600: 2002:
"I better have you naked by the end of this song" "Rock Your Body" |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | GOVERNMENT JOBS $1600: He said he "won in overtime" when a 2025 tie-breaking vote made him Secretary of Defense Hegseth |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | SPACEY TALK $1600: A planet that moves west to east relative to the stars is in prograde motion; one going east-west is in this kind retrograde |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2025 $1600: The farewell pages include this actress best known for her work with her director husband, John Cassavetes (Gena) Rowlands |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | AUTHORS' REAL HOUSEWIVES TAGLINES $1600: With novels like "Death Kit" & critical works like "On Photography", I'm an intellectual & anything but a lazy Susan Sontag |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | STARTS WITH "SC" $1600: This monster was on the shore opposite the whirlpool Charybdis Scylla |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | SPACEY TALK $2,000 (Daily Double): 2 moons around Saturn's F ring are called these, for the way they tend to the ring's flock of particles shepherd moons |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | FAMOUS LAST LYRICS $2000: 1984:
"I am human & I need to be loved, just like everybody else does" "How Soon Is Now?" |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | GOVERNMENT JOBS $2000: In 1881 William Walter Phelps got the job this assassin wanted as envoy to Austria Guiteau |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | SPACEY TALK $2000: From Latin for "almost shadow", it's a partly darkened area at the edge of an eclipse a penumbra |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | THE WORLD ALMANAC 2025 $2000: The 2024 Tony Awards for Book of a Musical & Original Score went to this show whose title is from women trying to get the vote Suffs |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | AUTHORS' REAL HOUSEWIVES TAGLINES $2000: My man explored the mean streets with crime mysteries like "The Glass Key"; I prefer Broadway & got there with "The Children's Hour" Hellman |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | STARTS WITH "SC" $2000: The name of this mineral with a tendency to split into layers comes from the Greek for "divided" schist |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | GOVERNMENT JOBS $2,400 (Daily Double): This IRS job from the Latin for "hearing" is more formally a revenue agent or tax compliance officer an auditor |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | OH, MARY! $200: (Cole Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln presents the clue.) On October 3, 1863, Abe put out a proclamation--I'll admit, the man is good at those--to observe the last Thursday of November as a day of this, but as my brother & three half brothers fought for the Confederacy, dinner might be awkward Thanksgiving |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | QUOTING THE TARANTINO FILM $200: "That should do it. Here are your names. Mr. Brown. Mr. White. Mr. Blonde. Mr. Blue. Mr. Orange. Mr. Pink" Reservoir Dogs |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | SHAKIN' DAT AX $200: Where Wisconsin & Minn. footballers once competed for the Slab of Bacon Trophy, now this tall tale legend's axe is up for grabs Paul Bunyan |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | ELEMENTAL PHRASES $200: This phrase that means lifting weights is also the title of an early Arnold Schwarzenegger film pumping iron |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | CLASSIC NOVELS $200: "Wrecked on a Desert Island" is chapter III of this novel by Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | IT ENDS WITH "US" $200: This type of package is an effort by the government to goose the economy stimulus |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | TV TITLE CHANGE A LETTER $400: Offred is cleaning out the garage & putting tags on stuff to offer out in the driveway, so let's check out... The Handmaid's Sale |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | OH, MARY! $400: (Cole Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln presents the clue.) Dated April 2, 1865, Abe's last known letter to me included word from this top general that Sheridan, with his cavalry & the Fifth Corps, had captured three brigades of infantry; oh, Abe, always the romantic Grant |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | QUOTING THE TARANTINO FILM $400: "Each & every man under my command owes me 100 Nazi scalps! & I want my scalps! & all y'all will get me 100 Nazi scalps" Inglourious Basterds |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | SHAKIN' DAT AX $400: The blade was originally wood or stone on this Native American hand hatchet; Europeans brought metal a tomahawk |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | ELEMENTAL PHRASES $400: This idiom that mentions 2 coins can mean to make petty financial demands in a negotiation nickel and dime |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | CLASSIC NOVELS $400: The narrator of this Ralph Ellison novel isn't just a member of a group called the brotherhood--he becomes a spokesman Invisible Man |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | IT ENDS WITH "US" $400: Once used by telegraphers to save letters, it's now a common term for the bunch seen here SCOTUS |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | OH! THESE WORLD CITIES END IN "O" $400: This Bosnian city boasts many mosques & the Bascarsija, an ancient Ottoman marketplace Sarajevo |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | CENTENARIANS $400: This speech problem tormented Annie Glenn when she became a national celebrity; she later became an advocate for those with it stutter |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICA $400: The Maya are known for developing & using the "long count" one of these based on a 5,125-year cycle a calendar |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | IN THE DICTIONARY $400: Latin for "to draw around" gives us this word that can mean to draw a circle that touches all a square's corners circumscribe |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | GO FISH! $400: In Alaska, this fish is "King" as the official state fish salmon |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | SHAKIN' DAT AX $600: Video gamers, exhale: Guardian Scouts wield an ancient battle axe in "Breath of the Wild", part of this franchise The Legend of Zelda |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | OH, MARY! $600: (Cole Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln presents the clue.) My reluctant defense attorney at an 1875 trial to determine my insanity let 17 witnesses testify against me & called none; oh, this last surviving son of mine who arranged the trial is in such trouble Robert Todd Lincoln |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | ELEMENTAL PHRASES $600: This alliterative phrase can refer to movies as a whole silver screen |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | CLASSIC NOVELS $600: This Edith Wharton novel about the doings of New York society families won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize The Age of Innocence |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | IT ENDS WITH "US" $600: As a verb it can mean to concentrate effort or to give sharp definition to an image focus |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | OH, MARY! $800: (Cole Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln presents the clue.) In 1839, I went to live with my sister Elizabeth & her husband in this Illinois city & met Abe; sure, we broke up once before we got married there, but everything worked out great for us--right? Springfield |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | GO FISH! $800: Encountering them on a trip to South America, Theodore Roosevelt called them "the most ferocious fish in the world" a piranha |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | QUOTING THE TARANTINO FILM $800: "Oh, I know you... Spahn Ranch, yeah, woo! I don't know your name... nah, it was dumber'n that. Somethin' like Rex... Tex!" Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | SHAKIN' DAT AX $800: Hephaestus had the wisdom to ax a question of Zeus, splitting Z's head open to release this goddess, fully armored (double ow) Athena |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | ELEMENTAL PHRASES $800: In the U.S. this type of family has a relative who has died while in active military service a Gold Star Family |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | CLASSIC NOVELS $800: This book sees Sydney Carton make a courageous but fatal substitution A Tale of Two Cities |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | IT ENDS WITH "US" $800: Be it lateral or medial, this structure in your knee helps absorb shock & prevent arthritis the meniscus |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | OH! THESE WORLD CITIES END IN "O" $800: This San Joaquin Valley city, Spanish for "ash tree", is historically a center for Armenian immigrants Fresno |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | CENTENARIANS $800: Frangzoise Gilot (1921-2023) was the mother of this man's daughter Paloma & her own painting of Paloma with a guitar brought $1.3 million Picasso |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | TV TITLE CHANGE A LETTER $800: Donald Glover's superspy on Amazon is replaced on the wedding cake by Jimmy of "NYPD Blue" Mr. & Mrs. Smits |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICA $800: Ancient "Clovis" spear points have been found in New Mexico among the bones of these pachyderms mammoths |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | QUOTING THE TARANTINO FILM $1000: "When John Ruth the hangman catches you, you don't die with no bullet in your back... when the hangman catches you, you hang" The Hateful Eight |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | OH, MARY! $1000: (Cole Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln presents the clue.) It's April 14, 1865 & I'm bored; I know... Abe & I will go to Ford's Theater & see this comedy about a man abroad. It's not "Cabaret", but what the heck; I'll give it a shot Our American Cousin |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | SHAKIN' DAT AX $1000: Always ready to bury the hatchet as well as read some Bible passages in early 1900s saloons, she published "The Smasher's Mail" Carrie A. Nation |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | ELEMENTAL PHRASES $1000: This region around the southern shores of San Francisco Bay stands in for the tech industry Silicon Valley |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | CLASSIC NOVELS $1000: Ben Gunn is a marooned sailor rescued as part of the rip-roaring action in this 1883 novel Treasure Island |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | IT ENDS WITH "US" $1000: This poem ends, "I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul" "Invictus" |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | OH! THESE WORLD CITIES END IN "O" $1200: Halab is the Arabic name for this city of northern Syria that became a major trading center of the Ottoman Empire by the 16th century Aleppo |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | CENTENARIANS $1200: In 2023, Virginia Halas McCaskey celebrated her 100th birthday & her 40th anniversary as principal owner of this NFL team the Bears |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | TV TITLE CHANGE A LETTER $1200: Bob Odenkirk's spinoff gets a new partner at the firm ... the super-nimble Darth with a double-bladed lightsaber who had to split Better Call Maul |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICA $1200: This civilization that flourished from 1200 to 400 B.C. carved colossal stone heads & was first to use writing in the Americas the Olmecs |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | IN THE DICTIONARY $1200: An Old English word for "insane" gave us this milder word meaning dizzy, perhaps "with excitement" giddy |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | GO FISH! $1200: From its beak-like snout & colorful appearance, it's the name of the tropical fish seen here a parrotfish |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | TV TITLE CHANGE A LETTER $1600: Billy Bob Thornton & Jon Hamm are hard at work in the wide-open Texas rendered pig fat business in this Taylor Sheridan hit Lardman |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | OH! THESE WORLD CITIES END IN "O" $1600: Founded in the 16th century, this seaport city of Central Chile has been home to the country's national congress since 1990 Valparaiso |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | CENTENARIANS $1600: Faith leaders who beat 3score & 10 include President Russell Nelson of this church; his 100th bday party was on Temple Square the Church of Latter-day Saints |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICA $1600: This largest feline of Central & South America was worshiped as a goddess under the name Ixchel a jaguar |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | IN THE DICTIONARY $1600: New York City kept using this word for one who rides the subway long after they were holding onto metal bars instead a straphanger |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | GO FISH! $1600: The beluga whale is a mammal, of course; the beluga this is a fish prized for its caviar the sturgeon |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | CENTENARIANS $2,000 (Daily Double): Lawrence Walsh, independent counsel in this 1980s scandal, called it "a cover-up engineered in the White House" the Iran-Contra scandal |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | OH! THESE WORLD CITIES END IN "O" $2000: Just one more thing: the name of this Sri Lankan city on the Indian Ocean likely comes from the Sinhalese for "port" or "ferry" Colombo |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | TV TITLE CHANGE A LETTER $2000: Time is a flat circle on this HBO show, but those cops are about to spend theirs in the arboretum unit Tree Detective |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICA $2000: The Iroquois called themselves the Haudenosaunee, meaning people of these extended communal dwellings longhouses |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | IN THE DICTIONARY $2000: Audiences see a matador at work in this Spanish word for a bullfight, from a word meaning "running" a corrida |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | GO FISH! $2000: From March to September these small silvery fish run out of the water & onto California beaches to lay their eggs grunions |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | IN THE DICTIONARY $4,000 (Daily Double): As a noun, it's a comfy place to sleep courtesy of our bird buddies; as a verb, it's to hire more workers than needed, by union demand to featherbed |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | QUOTING THE TARANTINO FILM $4,200 (Daily Double): "The 'D' is silent, hillbilly!" Django Unchained |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | HERE'S HUDSON NEWS $200: In 1611 this type of rebellion cast Henry Hudson adrift in his own bay; leader Henry Greene was soon killed by an Inuit arrow a mutiny |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | I'LL GRAB A MAGAZINE $200: In 2023 at age 81, Martha Stewart became its oldest cover model when she appeared on its Swimsuit Issue Sports Illustrated |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | TAKING A FLIGHT $200: Aloha & youkoso! This U.S. airline flies to 4 different Japanese airports Hawaiian Air |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | GARDEN VARIETY IDIOMS $200: Avoiding talking about the pressing situation is this phrase involving shrubbery beating around the bush |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | CELEBRITY MOMS $200: She's the "Momager" who's mom to 6 kids, including Kim, Kourtney & Kendall Kris Jenner |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | LET ME PAINT YOU A PICTURE $200: John Singer Sargent captured this fellow artist "Painting by the Edge of a Wood", not in his Japanese garden Monet |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $400: After he was barred from contributing to Dartmouth's humor magazine, Ted Geisel began submitting pieces under this middle name Seuss |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | "M"ISCELLANY $400: This haircut is described as business in the front, party in the back the mullet |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | TIME TRAVEL IS POSSIBLE! $400: (Ncuti Gatwa presents the clue.) Craig Robinson says to John Cusack & gang, "It must be some kinda..." this title device from a 2010 film a hot tub time machine |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT: WORLD CAPITAL EDITION $400: Through Rome the Tiber |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | FOREIGN WORDS $400: Spanish & Italian both took this Latin ablative form as the way to say wine vino |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | BRITISH HISTORY $400: Economist Arnold Toynbee popularized this term for Britain's transformative economic progress from 1760 to 1840 the Industrial Revolution |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | HERE'S HUDSON NEWS $400: Delayed by a veto from gov. FDR, a bridge named for this guy who napped through the Rev. War opened on the Hudson River in 1935 Rip Van Winkle |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | I'LL GRAB A MAGAZINE $400: Since 1994 this magazine has thrown an after-party following the Academy Awards Vanity Fair |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | TAKING A FLIGHT $400: This airline has announced 4 new weekly flights from its Atlanta hub to Naples, Italy, or you can go intra-state to Valdosta Delta |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | GARDEN VARIETY IDIOMS $400: If you're "down in" or "lost in" these, you're caught up in the minutiae & missing the bigger picture the weeds |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | CELEBRITY MOMS $400: She's the supermodel pictured here with her lookalike supermodel daughter, Kaia Gerber Cindy Crawford |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | LET ME PAINT YOU A PICTURE $400: This 4-letter last name of 20th century Swiss-born painter Paul is a homophone for a material used by sculptors Klee |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | TAKING A FLIGHT $600: Going E-W between these 2 major cities, American Airlines 1 has had that flight No. for decades, even after it crashed in 1962 New York & L.A. |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | HERE'S HUDSON NEWS $600: Long before he became focused on health policy, he was a lawyer fighting to clean up the Hudson River RFK Jr. |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | I'LL GRAB A MAGAZINE $600: The name of this mag for auto enthusiasts mentions 2 different driving surfaces Road & Track |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | GARDEN VARIETY IDIOMS $600: A flower part is central to this expression meaning to stamp out a problem early to nip it in the bud |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | CELEBRITY MOMS $600: Mom to 3 girls & a boy with Ryan Reynolds, she says family is "where my heart is" Blake Lively |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | LET ME PAINT YOU A PICTURE $600: In 1937 Picasso responded to the killing of thousands in a Basque town by painting this mural Guernica |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | "M"ISCELLANY $800: On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, it's raining not men but this flammable gas methane |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | TIME TRAVEL IS POSSIBLE! $800: (Ncuti Gatwa presents the clue.) Villains are thorny pests for time travelers, none worse than this foe of Marty McFly in "Back to the Future Part II"; formerly a mere bully, now he's married to Marty's mom Biff |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT: WORLD CAPITAL EDITION $800: Through (okay, along the south side of) Brazzaville the Congo |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $800: He wrote for the University of Maine school newspaper & sold his first short story, "The Glass Floor", before he graduated Stephen King |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | FOREIGN WORDS $800: In German, weight put on from emotional eating is Kummerspeck, literally "grief" this (sausage would be Kummerwurst) bacon |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | BRITISH HISTORY $800: Admiral Charles Howard was in command of the Royal Navy when it defeated this large force in 1588 the Spanish Armada |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | HERE'S HUDSON NEWS $800: By the bay, on June 3, 1769, astronomers in Canada observed this planet's transit of the Sun; Cook watched it in Tahiti the same day Venus |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | I'LL GRAB A MAGAZINE $800: Started back in 1896, this magazine got its title from an essay a preacher wrote about keeping a simple home (or home simple?) House Beautiful |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | TAKING A FLIGHT $800: The founder of JetBlue also founded an airline whose name is this Spanish & Portuguese word for "blue", & it's taking me to Rio Azul |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | CELEBRITY MOMS $800: Very sadly, Debbie Reynolds passed away just a day after this famous daughter Carrie Fisher |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | LET ME PAINT YOU A PICTURE $800: This German guy, the Younger, painted many portraits, including one of Erasmus, seen here Holbein |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | HERE'S HUDSON NEWS $1000: Hudson Bay borders 3 provinces; Fort Severn on the bay is the northernmost community in this middle of the 3 Ontario |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | I'LL GRAB A MAGAZINE $1000: The intrinsic nature of something, or a magazine whose 1970 first issue had the cover line "Sensual Black man, do you love me?" essence |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | TAKING A FLIGHT $1000: No passport needed as I'm flying out of a domestic airport--this Utah one, code OGD, headed for Santa Ana, California Ogden |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | GARDEN VARIETY IDIOMS $1000: Shakespeare wrote of this "path"; colloquially, it ensures an easy time the primrose path |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | CELEBRITY MOMS $1000: Seen on the right, Lenny Kravitz's mom, Roxie Roker, is best remembered for playing Helen Willis, neighbor to this sitcom family the Jeffersons |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | LET ME PAINT YOU A PICTURE $1000: Jacques-Louis David's depiction of this man, murdered in his bathtub, has been called the "Pietà of the Revolution" Marat |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | GARDEN VARIETY IDIOMS $1,200 (Daily Double): If your talents take a while to develop, you may be one of these; gentian is one in the garden a late bloomer |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | FOREIGN WORDS $1200: A song in "Moana 2" introduced many haoles to this Hawaiian expression of heartfelt support chee hoo |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | "M"ISCELLANY $1200: It's no illusion: In 2024 this hotel on the Las Vegas Strip shut its doors for good to make way for a new Hard Rock Hotel the Mirage |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | TIME TRAVEL IS POSSIBLE! $1200: (Ncuti Gatwa presents the clue.) I would love to try the positively nifty Pym particle central to the time travel engaged by the heroic Avengers in this film, the last in an impressive series Avengers: Endgame |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT: WORLD CAPITAL EDITION $1200: The Vistula river:
Through this capital Warsaw |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $1200: A library room at the University of Mississippi is named for this mega-bestselling author & graduate of the class of 1977 John Grisham |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | BRITISH HISTORY $1200: From 1810 to 1820 productions of "King Lear" were banned in England due to this monarch's infirmity King George III |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | BRITISH HISTORY $1,500 (Daily Double): This daughter was the firstborn of Henry VIII's legitimate children (Queen) Mary |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | "M"ISCELLANY $1600: The leading cause of vision loss in people over 50 is degeneration of this central part of the retina the macula |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | TIME TRAVEL IS POSSIBLE! $1600: (Ncuti Gatwa presents the clue.) In "Looper", partly set just 20 years off in 2044, this actor is the younger self of Bruce Willis Joseph Gordon-Levitt |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT: WORLD CAPITAL EDITION $1600: Celebrated in music by Smetana, the Vltava or Moldau River:
Through this city Prague |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $1600: This "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" author attended the University of Oregon, partly on a wrestling scholarship Kesey |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | FOREIGN WORDS $1600: Japan, where employees take only half the time off they're entitled to, gave us karoshi, or "death from" this overwork |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | "M"ISCELLANY $2000: Latin for "to send" contributed to this word meaning to emancipate someone from slavery manumit |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | TIME TRAVEL IS POSSIBLE! $2000: (Ncuti Gatwa presents the clue.) Let's face it--black holes suck, literally; a giant one-named gargantua causes a nearby planet to be warped by time dilation, making problems for a ship's crew in this Christopher Nolan film Interstellar |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT: WORLD CAPITAL EDITION $2000: The Rímac River: Through this city with which it shares 3 letters Lima, Peru |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | AUTHORS' ALMA MATERS $2000: Notable alums of Smith College include Margaret Mitchell & this author of "A Wrinkle in Time" Madeleine L'Engle |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | BRITISH HISTORY $2000: During the 17th c. English Civil War, the two opposing sides were the Roundheads & these royalist supporters the Cavaliers |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | FOREIGN WORDS $7,600 (Daily Double): Lenin was not a fan of the "bourgeois" this group, a Russian word for the egghead segment of society the intelligentsia |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | GOING TO PIECES $200: Cut pieces are assembled in a pattern to create this type of art stained glass |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | GAMES $200: Run in & bust your pals out of jail; dash back into your territory with your enemy's symbolic property to win this outdoor game Capture the Flag |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | RHYME TIME $200: A traditional woman's cloth hat worn to recite a 14-line poem a sonnet bonnet |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | MYSTERY LOVES COMPANY $200: A passage from this Gillian Flynn novel, living up to its title: "'Amy, you home?' I ran straight upstairs. no Amy" Gone Girl |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | MY SPORT IS MY NICKNAME $200: Towering over foes of 1950 at 6'10", George Mikan was Mr. this sport Basketball |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | CALIFORNIA HISTORY $200: In summer 1963, a religious crusade led by Reverend Graham at this L.A. venue drew nearly one million attendees the Coliseum |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | GAMES $400: Released in 1996, the "64" version of this video game series gave its star new abilities like backflips & triple jumps Super Mario Bros. (Super Mario accepted) |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | CALIFORNIA HISTORY $400: In the early 20th c. the state got more than half its revenue from these, later to be limited by the 1978 yes vote on Proposition 13 property taxes |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | THERE'S NO A IN COUNTRY $400: Part of its eastern coast is on the Gulf of Aqaba Egypt |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | "WITH" OR "WITHOUT" $400: Social media star Charli D'Amelio put her moves to the test to win Season 31 of this competition Dancing with the Stars |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | ECONOMICS $400: The total market value of all goods & services that a country produces is this overall measure of annual economic output GNP (GDP) |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | LATIN CLASS $400: "Pax et Amor", part of the motto of Miles College, means this, which Ringo Starr can get behind peace & love (love & peace) |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | THE SINGLE LIFE $400: Despite a parade of suitors both foreign & domestic, she was the only English queen upon whom a ring was never put Elizabeth I |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | A BRIEF MEDICAL TALK $400: Before -globin or -philia,
it means "blood" hemo |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | GOING TO PIECES $400: Take stock as pieces of paper rain down from buildings in New York during this type of parade a ticker-tape parade |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | RHYME TIME $400: A less risky thin cracker a safer wafer |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | MYSTERY LOVES COMPANY $400: In "Black Betty" it's not so easy for this Walter Mosley detective when his friend mouse shows up after getting out of the slammer "Easy" Rawlins |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | MY SPORT IS MY NICKNAME $400: Netflix' "Untold" anthology includes an episode about Johnny Manziel, titled "Johnny" this Football |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | GOING TO PIECES $600: "All The King's Men" are not up to the task of reassembling him from his pieces Humpty Dumpty |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | GAMES $600: The name of this game comes from Chinese for "sparrows" or "little birds", which you may see on some of the tiles mahjong |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | RHYME TIME $600: A sturdy nightstand a stable table |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | MYSTERY LOVES COMPANY $600: "Poodle Springs", an unfinished Philip Marlowe novel by this author, was completed 30 years later by Robert B. Parker Chandler |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | MY SPORT IS MY NICKNAME $600: In 2024 the sports world was shocked by the death of the Columbus Blue Jackets' Johnny Gaudreau, aka Johnny this Hockey |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | CALIFORNIA HISTORY $600: Known as Roosevelt Highway when it opened in 1929, it's now both State Route 1 & this "oceanic" road the Pacific Coast Highway |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | THERE'S NO A IN COUNTRY $800: Luzon & Mindoro are 2 of the more than 7,000 islands & islets in this republic the Philippines |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | "WITH" OR "WITHOUT" $800: It was Peg & Al Bundy's title status married with children |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | ECONOMICS $800: Countries like Panama have established FTZs, these "zones" that are exempt from certain tariffs & customs duties free trade zones |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | LATIN CLASS $800: A bumpy ride in an airplane might have you grateful to be back on this, solid ground terra firma |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | THE SINGLE LIFE $800: This 5th century author of "Confessions" chose the unmarried life of a priest, though not before fathering an illegitimate son St. Augustine |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | A BRIEF MEDICAL TALK $800: 4 letters long, it can refer to a child or a foot pedo (pedi) |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | GOING TO PIECES $800: Reese's Pieces got a big boost in sales after appearing in this film; the script had specified M&Ms, Spielberg's favorite candy E.T. |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | GAMES $800: In 1982 an Oregon man was acquitted of gambling charges when a judge ruled this stones & dice game was one of skill, not chance backgammon |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | RHYME TIME $800: An edible crustacean gangster a lobster mobster |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | MYSTERY LOVES COMPANY $800: In a 2005 book a woman who's been missing for 40 years is tracked by another sporting this title piece of body art the dragon tattoo |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | MY SPORT IS MY NICKNAME $800: A recipient of a CBE & the Order of the Rising Sun, George Kerr is "Mr." this martial art of throws & pins Judo |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | CALIFORNIA HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Midwest transplants included Robert Stroud, known as this--inaccurately, as he couldn't bring his canaries from Leavenworth the Birdman of Alcatraz |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | GOING TO PIECES $1000: Going 18,000 mph, defunct satellites, missile fragments & parts of rockets are among the space junk termed this, O.D. for short orbital debris |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | GAMES $1000: Like square pizza, a popular system of chess defense gets its name from this Mediterranean island Sicily |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | RHYME TIME $1000: A slothful Shasta lazy daisy |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | MYSTERY LOVES COMPANY $1000: 8 paragraphs in on "The Thin Man", he narrates, "My glass was empty. I asked ... what she (wanted) to drink, she said scotch and soda" Nick Charles |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | MY SPORT IS MY NICKNAME $1000: Ken Watson skipped his rink to 3 Brier titles & was on 32 major bonspiel winners, so you know he was "Mr." this Curling |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | CALIFORNIA HISTORY $1000: Strengthening Spain's control of California, this Franciscan monk founded his first mission in San Diego in 1769 Junipero Serra |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | THERE'S NO A IN COUNTRY $1200: Its embassy in Washington, D.C. notes that this principality is roughly the geographic size of Washington, D.C. Liechtenstein |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | "WITH" OR "WITHOUT" $1200: It's what Justin Timberlake & Mila Kunis are in a 2011 film friends with benefits |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | ECONOMICS $1200: Alfred E. Kahn wrote a classic work on the economics of this, government rule-making that Elon Musk & Neil Gorsuch don't like regulation |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | THE SINGLE LIFE $1200: Life imitated art for this never-married screen icon, famous for insisting, "I want to be alone" Garbo |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | A BRIEF MEDICAL TALK $1200: Coming before -protein & -suction, it means "fat" lipo |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | "WITH" OR "WITHOUT" $1600: For seven seasons, Anthony LaPaglia & Poppy Montgomery played FBI agents seeking those who had vanished this title way without a trace |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | ECONOMICS $1600: Central banks set this "policy" using interest rates; in 2024 fed head Powell said "our restrictive" one eased inflation monetary policy |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | LATIN CLASS $1600: Some philosophers think there's no such thing as this Latin-named type of knowledge that's independent of experience a priori knowledge |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | THE SINGLE LIFE $1600: The decline & fall of this historian's engagement to Suzanne Curchod came at the urging of his father; he never did marry Edward Gibbon |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | A BRIEF MEDICAL TALK $1600: Let's not gloss over the fact that gloss-pertains to this body part the tongue |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | THERE'S NO A IN COUNTRY $2000: Benin is the only country without an a that borders this 5-letter nation; Mali, Chad & 4 others fail the test Niger |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | "WITH" OR "WITHOUT" $2000: Sadly, all 3 stars who played the leads in this film--Sal Mineo, Natalie Wood & James Dean--would meet tragic ends Rebel Without a Cause |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | ECONOMICS $2000: Unemployment figures omit people no longer job-hunting, called not dejected or disheartened but these workers discouraged workers |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | LATIN CLASS $2000: It sounds like 12 guilt-deciders, but it means "by legal right" de jure |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | THE SINGLE LIFE $2000: After ending his engagement to Regine Olsen, this Danish thinker never married; in his will, he left her everything Kierkegaard |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | A BRIEF MEDICAL TALK $2000: Before -sis, these 7 letters refer to a blood clot T-H-R-O-M-B-O (thrombo) |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | THERE'S NO A IN COUNTRY $3,000 (Daily Double): North of the Arctic Circle, Mount Kebne rises nearly 7,000 feet as the tallest peak in this nation Sweden |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | LATIN CLASS $4,200 (Daily Double): On Daniel Day-Lewis' Latin filmography: "Novem" ("Nine"),
"Per Sinister Meus" ("My Left Foot") &
"In Nomine Patris" (this) In the Name of the Father |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | CLICKBAIT GOES TO THE MOVIES $200: "See what happens when Brad unboxes a gift from John Doe!" Se7en |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | SPECIFIC POTPOURRI $200: Appropriately, the height of New York City's Freedom Tower is this many feet 1,776 |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | IN THE 3 "G" NETWORK $200: Flavored with grated nutmeg, this Christmas fave can also have rum, which keeps it a Christmas fave eggnog |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | BIBLICAL ART $200: Here's Pieter Bruegel the Elder's depiction of this structure built in Genesis 11 the Tower of Babel |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | A 2000-ERA MALL RAT $200: Kids nowadays don't know the pain of rewinding a VHS tape before returning it to this store--unless they live in Bend, Oregon Blockbuster |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | STATE FACTS $200: It's home to the 10 highest mountains in the United States Alaska |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE $400: Ciselier is known for left-handed these, with reversed finger grips & reversed blade connection scissors |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | PAST, THE DUCHY $400: Adalemode of Limoges was duchess of this area centered on Bordeaux that Eleanor would later be in charge of Aquitaine |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | 11-LETTER WORDS $400: If your bank account has 10 figures, you're in the 3-comma club as this a billionaire |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | OUR GREEN PLANET $400: In the 1800s the Tasmanian blue gum species of this tree was brought from Down Under to California & used as a windbreak eucalyptus |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | LONG SONG TITLES $400: This Pete Wentz band came back from a 3-year hiatus with the 2013 hit "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light 'Em Up)" Fall Out Boy |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | AUTHORS' APPEARANCES $400: James Joyce wore the round style of these called "Windsor", like his slightly older contemporary Mahatma Gandhi glasses |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | CLICKBAIT GOES TO THE MOVIES $400: "ABBA daddas? Find out the crazy reason why Amanda Seyfried has 3 fathers!" Mamma Mia! |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | SPECIFIC POTPOURRI $400: In 1959 Clark Kent was out in the cold when 22 California college students crammed into one of these in a Life magazine picture a phone booth |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | IN THE 3 "G" NETWORK $400: It's what's going on here... come on, spit it out! gurgling (gargling) |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | BIBLICAL ART $400: Gerard David's "The Marriage at Cana" depicts this, Jesus' first miracle the transformation of water into wine |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | A 2000-ERA MALL RAT $400: Indonesia has lost 25% of old-growth this type of area since 1990 & in 2025 we are down to just 23 of the same-named "Cafe" worldwide a rainforest |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | STATE FACTS $400: Instead of counties, Louisiana has these parishes |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | CLICKBAIT GOES TO THE MOVIES $600: "Fan outraged that Paul Sheldon killed off this character from famed romance series" Misery |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | SPECIFIC POTPOURRI $600: When the Celtics won their 18th NBA title in 2024, they broke a tie with this team at 17 the Lakers |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | IN THE 3 "G" NETWORK $600: It means given with reluctance, like a type of admission or admiration begrudging (grudging) |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | BIBLICAL ART $600: William Blake did a series of engravings of the book of this man, his family & his misfortunes Job |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | A 2000-ERA MALL RAT $600: I spent all allowance at Payless on a BOGO half off deal, BOGO being short for this buy one, get one |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | STATE FACTS $600: Nebraska is the birthplace of this tree-planting holiday & celebrates it on the last Friday in April Arbor Day |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | CLICKBAIT GOES TO THE MOVIES $800: "'They grow up so fast!' Dad filmed daughter Lorelei Linklater & Ellar Coltrane every year for 12 years" Boyhood |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | SPECIFIC POTPOURRI $800: When Hosni Mubarak stepped down on Feb. 11, 2011, it was exactly 32 years after this other regional world leader did the same the Shah of Iran |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | LONG SONG TITLES $800: The Bellamy Brothers topped the country charts with the T-shirt ready title "If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You" do this "Hold It Against Me" |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE $800: On April 1, 1998 Burger King had an ad for its new "left-handed" one of these burgers, with condiments rotated 180 degrees the Whopper |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | PAST, THE DUCHY $800: Both a ham & a cheese come from & are named for this Italian place once combined in a duchy with Piacenza Parma |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | 11-LETTER WORDS $800: A tonometer & a retinoscope are tools that this kind of professional might use optometrist |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | OUR GREEN PLANET $800: About 30 minutes from Columbia, Congaree National Park in this state is an intact example of old growth forest in the South South Carolina |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | AUTHORS' APPEARANCES $800: A 1927 newspaper said Edna St. Vincent Millay has been called the greatest poetess since Sappho & noted this coif color a redhead |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | IN THE 3 "G" NETWORK $800: Officer, can you help me? I was just the victim of this, a street robbery a mugging |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | BIBLICAL ART $800: Solomon welcomes her in the painting seen here the Queen of Sheba |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | A 2000-ERA MALL RAT $800: Maybe dad will finally say, "I love you son" after I buy him a talking meat thermometer from this picture-perfect store Sharper Image |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | STATE FACTS $800: In 1916 it elected the first woman to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin from Missoula Montana |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | OUR GREEN PLANET $1,000 (Daily Double): With stumps 10 feet across, these trees were "the redwoods of the East" until a fungus nearly eradicated them in the 1900s (American) chestnuts |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | CLICKBAIT GOES TO THE MOVIES $1000: "You'll never believe what Robert Redford said to Woody Harrelson about his wife!" Indecent Proposal |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | SPECIFIC POTPOURRI $1000: This 3-letter airline began traveling about the Earth in 1930 but left the planet 71 years later TWA |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | IN THE 3 "G" NETWORK $1000: Taken as a whole, as in "The soccer teams each won a game but the one with the most goals in" this "got to advance" aggregate |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | BIBLICAL ART $1000: One of Marc Chagall's "illustrations for the Bible" is of this concubine of Abraham "in the Desert" Hagar |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | A 2000-ERA MALL RAT $1000: Waldenbooks was a subsidiary of this bookstore that went the way of the dodo in 2011 Borders |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE $1200: The USPA, the association for players of this sport, insists for safety that lefties carry mallets in their right hands polo |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | PAST, THE DUCHY $1200: At just 6 years old in 1337, Edward the Black Prince became the first duke of this duchy in southwestern England Cornwall |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: Abandonment, paired with "of duty" in American military law dereliction |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | OUR GREEN PLANET $1200: The title of a Michelle Pfeiffer movie, this toxic plant belonging to the genus Nerium is native to the Mediterranean region white oleander |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | LONG SONG TITLES $1200: This alt-rock classic by R.E.M. gets even longer with the subtitle "(And I Feel Fine)" "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | AUTHORS' APPEARANCES $1200: "I fit easily into airplane seats" says this five-foot five humorist who does lots of traveling as a popular performer of his own work Sedaris |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE $1600: A tip to alleviate RSIs, short for these injuries: use a right-handed mouse at work during the day & a left-handed mouse at home a repetitive stress injury |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | PAST, THE DUCHY $1600: The founding of this duchy in a region of northern France goes back to a 10th century Viking named Rollo Normandy |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: This adjective meaning discouraged or dispirited alludes to a gamecock with a drooping head crestfallen |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | OUR GREEN PLANET $1600: It's thought that this tree also called a maidenhair tree was first cultivated in China 1,000 years ago a ginkgo |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | LONG SONG TITLES $1600: A couple-wrecking, ennui-plagued Ariana Grande made this title command/declaration in a 2019 smash "Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | AUTHORS' APPEARANCES $1600: On his 2014 centenary, this Welsh poet's grand-daughter wrote she sees him in her own rebellious curly hair Dylan Thomas |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): A term for Nicaraguan rebels led Stephen Fried to coin this word for a couture designer or a supermodel superfan a fashionista |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE $2000: Her novel, "The Left Hand of Darkness", is set in fictional Gethen, a land whose populace is gender-neutral, most of the time Le Guin |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | PAST, THE DUCHY $2000: The Baltic duchy of Estonia was sold to this order of German knights by the king of Denmark in 1346 for 19,000 marks the Teutonic Order (the Teutonic Knights) |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | LONG SONG TITLES $2000: "Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand" samples this bluesman's line "I've been downhearted, baby" B.B. King |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | AUTHORS' APPEARANCES $2000: This elfin Southern novelist whose books include "The Little Friend" says she's "the same size as Lolita" (5 feet even) Donna Tartt |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | STATE FACTS $4,400 (Daily Double): During the Civil War more battles were fought in these 2 neighboring states than in any other Virginia & Tennessee |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | VERSE $200: Charli xcx agrees that this "don't fall far from the tree, coz I've been looking at you so long, now I only see me" the apple |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | CHAPTER $200: The first chapter in this book is "Mowgli's Brothers" The Jungle Book |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN $200: Specifically, back in this saddle used in show jumping, as opposed to the Western one used more for work an English saddle |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | WATERFALLS $200: The Canadian part of these falls is separated from the American by Goat Island, where you can enjoy the Cave of the Winds Niagara Falls |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | BEGINNING WORDS $200: Also meaning to cooperate, this 2-word phrase is the subtitle of MLB rule 5.01, "starting the game" play ball |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | TALK O' TUESDAY $200: With 4 times the usual number of shares traded, the U.S. stock market crashed on "Black Tuesday" in this year 1929 |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | TV ROLES $400: On "Stranger Things", Millie Bobby Brown has our number as this character Eleven |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | DITCH THE X $400: X-tract the X from a type of fisticuffs to get this sound of a rebounding spring boing (boxing) |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: This second king of Israel conquered Jerusalem from the Jebusites around 1000 B.C. & made it the capital of his people David |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | THE NATIONAL ROAD $400: In 1806 this president, big on pushing west, signed the bill authorizing the USA's first federally funded road Jefferson |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | NOT GOING ANYWHERE $400: Near Zagan, Poland, you can visit the partly preserved one of these facilities, made famous in "The Great Escape" a POW camp |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | SCIENTIFIC LAW REVIEW $400: Ohm's law describes the relationship between current, resistance & this, noted as V voltage |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | VERSE $400: Neil Young sang, "My my, hey hey, rock & roll is here to stay, it's better to burn out than to" do this fade away |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | CHAPTER $400: Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 5 is "Quasimodo"; Chapter 6, of course, is her Esmeralda |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN $400: Uh-oh, I think I left these on my horse! They're leather screens attached to the bridle to stop it from seeing sideways blinders (blinkers) |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | WATERFALLS $400: Vatnajökull, said to be the largest glacier in Europe, feeds the gorgeous Dettifoss in this island nation Iceland |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | BEGINNING WORDS $400: An opening musical piece, it can also mean an opening move in a negotiation overture |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | TALK O' TUESDAY $400: After Thanksgiving, there's Black Friday, Shop Small Saturday, Cyber Monday & then this day to be generous to others Giving Tuesday |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | TALK O' TUESDAY $600: This redundantly titled Taylor Swift breakup song begins, "Once upon a time, I believe it was a Tuesday when I caught your eye" "Forever And Always" |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | VERSE $600: In "Poker Face" Lady Gaga predictably tells us, "I wanna hold 'em like they do in" this state, "please. Woo!" Texas |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | CHAPTER $600: Chapter 83 of "Moby-Dick" is this biblical prophet "Historically Regarded" Jonah |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN $600: This heavy draft horse was bred in Lanarkshire, Scotland, through which its namesake river flows Clydesdale |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | WATERFALLS $600: During the rainy season, 300,000 gallons of water per second flows over the edge of this landmark along the Zambezi Victoria Falls |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | BEGINNING WORDS $600: Meaning "arrival", in religious contexts it often precedes "calendar" advent |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | DITCH THE X $800: Drop the X from the milky substance of certain plants to get this synonym for delayed late (latex) |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: One of the great empires of its age, Assyria ruled from its capital of Nineveh on the upper reaches of this river the Tigris |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | THE NATIONAL ROAD $800: About every mile, the road had one of these convivial establishments; many raised a glass at Penn.'s Mount Washington one a tavern |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | TV ROLES $800: He played Robert California on "The Office" & Raymond Reddington on "The Blacklist" James Spader |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | NOT GOING ANYWHERE $800: In a memorable children's book scene, Rabbit tells him, "You're stuck" Winnie the Pooh |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | SCIENTIFIC LAW REVIEW $800: Jacques Charles formulated the law saying the volume of a fixed amount of gas under constant pressure is directly proportional to this its temperature |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | VERSE $800: "Watching through windows, you're wondering if I'm okay", sang Cyndi Lauper in this hit "Time After Time" |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN $800: If a horse is back in the snaffle again, it has this metal piece in its mouth to give the rider control; hope it isn't "spit" the bit |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | WATERFALLS $800: You can get up close & personal by these in Switzerland, located on the same-named large river the Rhine Falls |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | BEGINNING WORDS $800: This very early time of day precedes "of Civilization" in the title of a classic work on early human cultures Dawn |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | TALK O' TUESDAY $800: This author's "Tuesdays with Morrie" includes flashbacks to its characters back in college as student & professor Mitch Albom |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | CHAPTER $1,000 (Daily Double): In this novel Chapter 10 is "The Shell and the Glasses"
& 12,
"Cry of the Hunters" Lord of the Flies |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | VERSE $1000: "When did it end? All the enjoyment / I'm sad again, don't tell my boyfriend", laments this song from a blockbuster film "What Was I Made For?" |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | BEGINNING WORDS $1000: Latin gave us this beginning word, the title of a Best Picture nominee from 2010 with Leonardo DiCaprio inception |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | CHAPTER $1000: "The River Bank" & "Mr. Badger" are titles in a book by him Kenneth Grahame |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN $1000: At the 1912 Olympics Sweden swept the medals for individual equestrian this, a French term for the discipline dressage |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | WATERFALLS $1000: Falls falls falls... near the city of Twin Falls, Idaho, Shoshone Falls is a cataract on this river the Snake |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | TALK O' TUESDAY $1000: 2017's Tuesday Night Massacre occurred when Donald Trump fired this FBI head for his handling of the Hillary Clinton email controversy Comey |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | DITCH THE X $1200: Disable the X in a shaft beneath your car & have a refreshing glass of this ale (axle) |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: The Norte Chico civilization built pyramids in what's now this S. Amer. nation c. 2600 B.C., around the time of the ones in Egypt Peru |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | TV ROLES $1200: In 2023 Norman Reedus in this role got his own "Walking Dead" spin-off Daryl |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | NOT GOING ANYWHERE $1200: To immobilize the fellow here by binding the feet together hog-tie |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | SCIENTIFIC LAW REVIEW $1200: No. 1 of Kepler's 3 laws of planetary motion stated the planets got in their workout via orbits of this shape an ellipse |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | DITCH THE X $1600: Strip the X from a building added on to a larger one & hail this 18th century English monarch Anne (annex) |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: This Bronze Age culture on Crete was the first high civilization of the Aegean & reached its peak somewhere around 1600 B.C. the Minoan civilization |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | THE NATIONAL ROAD $1600: One of the 2 most common vehicles seen on the road in its heyday was this covered wagon called "the ship of inland commerce" the Conestoga |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | TV ROLES $1600: This Oscar winner played multiple roles on "American Horror Story" & portrayed Joan Crawford in "Feud" Jessica Lange |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | NOT GOING ANYWHERE $1600: On the BBC since 1942, people have chosen these "Discs" for a place you can't leave; Colin Firth wants Mahler & Curtis Mayfield Desert Island (Discs) |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | SCIENTIFIC LAW REVIEW $1600: His equation specifies how probability waves are altered by external influences; his cat just asks, am I alive or not?! Schrödinger |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: King Tut's father was this religious reformer who abandoned & attacked the old religion of Egypt Akhenaten |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | THE NATIONAL ROAD $2000: When built in 1849, the suspension bridge on the National Road over the Ohio River at this West Virginia city was the world's longest Wheeling |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | TV ROLES $2000: Recently winning the first major acting awards in her 45-year career, in the '80s she played Jackie Templeton on "General Hospital" Demi Moore |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | NOT GOING ANYWHERE $2000: 2-word term for a group with no choice but to hear what's being said to them; it's used for mandatory anti-union meetings a captive audience |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | SCIENTIFIC LAW REVIEW $2000: We're standing on principle--this Swiss mister's principle on how a fluid's speed relates to the fluid's pressure Bernoulli |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | DITCH THE X $2,500 (Daily Double): Remove the X from within a statement of a basic principle & you do this, inflict a severe injury maim (maxim) |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | THE NATIONAL ROAD $6,000 (Daily Double): The National Road was also called this for the Maryland city where construction began in 1811 heading west the Cumberland Road |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | DANDY $200: Sir, saying I look like Mr. Monopoly, the mascot from the game, because I don this headwear--I demand satisfaction! a top hat |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | FINE $200: Legally coerced to be a good neighbor, in 2024 this company was there to pay $2 million over unfair claims practices in Montana State Farm |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | MOVIE TITLE FILL IN THE BLANK $200: 1968:
"The ____ Berets"
& 2021:
"The ____ Knight" Green |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | EAR, EAR $200: Tympanoplasty is a surgery to fix this part of your ear if it becomes perforated your eardrum |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | GANG "WAY" $200: Dutch painter Willem de Kooning came to America aboard a steamship in 1926 as one of these gratis wayfarers a stowaway |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | NAMELESS IN SHAKESPEARE $200: This irreverent character tells King Lear "Thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown when thou gav'st thy golden one away" the Fool |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | MALICE IN WONDERLAND $400: Not a happy Valentine's Day, 1779 for Captain James Cook, killed by locals in what is now this state Hawaii |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | HER MOM'S A SINGER $400: Tracee Ellis Ross, who played Rainbow Johnson on "black-ish", has this singer as a mom Diana Ross |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | ON THE "M"AP $400: This body of water gets a little saltier as the Suez Canal sends seawater in from the Red Sea the Mediterranean |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | HABITATS FOR HUMANITY $400: San Francisco's Steiner Street is home to "Postcard Row", an array of houses built in this style named for a queen Queen Anne (Victorian) |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | SCRABBLE SCORES $400: A 2-letter, 11-point Scrabble killer, "za" is accepted as a slangy shortening of this pizza |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | MEDIEVAL HISTORIES $400: Guglielmo Cortusi of Padua is among many European chroniclers who left mournful accounts of this outbreak of 1347-1351 the Black Plague |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | DANDY $400: A gentleman always enjoys a good accessory; this two-word beauty accents any blazer & demonstrates good breeding a pocket square |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | FINE $400: In 2022, massive mismanagement of auto loans & mortgages had this bank circling its wagons after a $3.7 billion penalty Wells Fargo |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | MOVIE TITLE FILL IN THE BLANK $400: "____ Day Care"
&
"Big ____" Daddy |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | EAR, EAR $400: This century-old cotton swab brand should not be used to clear out ear wax--it can damage your ears & push the wax in deeper a Q-tip |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | GANG "WAY" $400: An important element of giving CPR is to "establish" this in the afflicted person an airway |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | NAMELESS IN SHAKESPEARE $400: A companion for Juliet's whole life, she's known by her occupation, but gets to tell us her dead daughter was named Susan the nurse |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | MOVIE TITLE FILL IN THE BLANK $600: "____ Can Wait"
&
"My Blue ____" Heaven |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | DANDY $600: Though named for a foreign university & not my beloved Mississippi city of the same name, these shoes are simply a must Oxfords |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | FINE $600: "Credit" where credit is due--this big-on-secrecy European bank took a $2.5 billion hit for helping Americans evade taxes Credit Suisse |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | EAR, EAR $600: Low frequencies stimulate the top of the spiral in this inner ear organ that's coiled 2 1/2 times around a central pillar the cochlea |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | GANG "WAY" $600: Emma is 8--OK, 7 3/4--a bit clingy, so another summer at day camp? But will this opposite type help her confidence? Parenting is hard! sleepaway camp |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | NAMELESS IN SHAKESPEARE $600: The boatswain appears in the first scene of this play & again, surprised not to be drowned, in the last The Tempest |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | HER MOM'S A SINGER $800: Lourdes Leon, who released music under the name Lolahol, is the daughter & "ray of light" of this singer Madonna |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | ON THE "M"AP $800: This Midwestern capital was named for a president who died in 1836 Madison |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | HABITATS FOR HUMANITY $800: A condo means you have a unit in a shared building; this similar common-interest development makes you a shareholder a co-op |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | SCRABBLE SCORES $800: No vowels? No problem! You can score 15 points with phpht, & if anyone objects, tell 'em it's this part of speech an interjection |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | MEDIEVAL HISTORIES $800: The "Heimskringla" traces Norwegian kings from this god to Magnus Erlingsson Odin |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | MALICE IN WONDERLAND $800: In 2007 the 3rd wife of the Earl of Shaftesbury was put on trial for his murder near this cinephile haven on the French Riviera Cannes |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | DANDY $800: A dandy must dress up down to his eyewear, this style of frame reminiscent of a carapace tortoiseshell |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | FINE $800: The company that's now just GSK still had this longer name when it got a $3 billion fine in part for promoting drugs for unapproved uses GlaxoSmithKline |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | MOVIE TITLE FILL IN THE BLANK $800: 2017:
"The ____ Artist"
& 1996:
"Flirting with ____" Disaster |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | EAR, EAR $800: The external part of the ear is called the pinna or this, a homophone of a tech company the auricle |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | GANG "WAY" $800: This herb of the parsley family is widely grown for its seeds used in flavoring & seasoning caraway |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | NAMELESS IN SHAKESPEARE $800: In "Henry V" the guy with this job of announcing & proclaiming has a name, Montjoy; in "Othello" he's nameless a herald |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | NAMELESS IN SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): All 5 words of it, it's the most famous line spoken by the soothsayer in "Julius Caesar" beware the Ides of March |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | DANDY $1000: This puckered cloth makes for an inimitable summer suit, as worn by the groom in the classic story "Delta Wedding" seersucker |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | FINE $1000: In 2013 this energy co. once run by a pre-veep Dick Cheney paid $200,000 for destroying Deepwater Horizon oil spill evidence Halliburton |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | MOVIE TITLE FILL IN THE BLANK $1000: "Antwone ____"
&
"The ____ King " Fisher |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | EAR, EAR $1000: Also called the anvil, this middle ear bone transmits vibrations from the malleus to the stapes the incus |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | GANG "WAY" $1000: NASCAR's biggest & baddest racetrack, Talladega, Alabama's venue, surely earns its moniker as this type of 13-letter oval superspeedway |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | HER MOM'S A SINGER $1200: She set a Guinness world record for youngest individual credited with a Grammy for her work on Beyoncé's "Brown Skin Girl" Blue Ivy Carter |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | ON THE "M"AP $1200: This country occupies 0.75 square miles Monaco |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | HABITATS FOR HUMANITY $1200: Saltbox is a variation on this style of house that's common in New England & named for a coastal region there Cape Cod |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | SCRABBLE SCORES $1200: You need just 5 letters to score 18 points with this Japanese dumpling gyoza |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | MALICE IN WONDERLAND $1200: The "Monte Carlo Trunk Murder" got an 1879 Wimbledon finalist sentenced to this "diabolical" place off South America Devil's Island |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | HABITATS FOR HUMANITY $1600: The terms "granny flat" & "in-law suite" have given way to ADU, short for this unit an accessory dwelling unit (or additional dwelling unit) (alternative dwelling unit accepted) |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | HER MOM'S A SINGER $1600: In 2023 her daughter Frances Bean Cobain married Riley Hawk, son of Tony (Courtney) Love |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | ON THE "M"AP $1600: This Balkan nation is named for the peak seen here Montenegro |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | SCRABBLE SCORES $1600: The single most played word in Scrabble tournaments consists of these 2 letters pronounced with a "ch" sound Q & I |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | MEDIEVAL HISTORIES $1600: A 12th century history of this country includes Boleslaw III's wars with the Pomeranians Poland |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | MALICE IN WONDERLAND $1600: On June 20, 1947 this gangster who helped develop Las Vegas crapped out, killed in a hail of bullets in Beverly Hills Bugsy Siegel |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | HER MOM'S A SINGER $2000: Lola Lennox is a singer just like mom Annie, who sang "sweet dreams are made of this" as part of this duo the Eurythmics |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | HABITATS FOR HUMANITY $2000: Alexander Hamilton's home, The Grange, is in this architectural style popular in the U.S. from the 1780s to the 1820s Federalist (the Federal style) |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | SCRABBLE SCORES $2000: It takes 9 letters, but if you can play this end-of-the-alphabet wine, score 22 points & pour yourself a glass zinfandel |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | MEDIEVAL HISTORIES $2000: Andrew of Wyntoun's "Orygynale Cronykil" of this land includes the tale of "Thre Werd Systrys" Scotland |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | MALICE IN WONDERLAND $2000: In 1929 this notorious man from the Midwest skipped a Miami warrant, claiming pneumonia, but agents found he enjoyed a boat trip Al Capone |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | ON THE "M"AP $3,000 (Daily Double): Southwest of Sri Lanka is this archipelago of some 1,200 islands, of which 200 are inhabited the Maldives |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | MEDIEVAL HISTORIES $3,000 (Daily Double): The "Chronicon Regum Legionensium" is the "Chronicle of" them--Spanish rulers, not a 21st century rock band the Kings of León |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $200: Home to one of the USA's oldest universities, it also hosts Southern Connecticut State New Haven |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | POTPOURRI $200: The "Star Trek" gestured called the Vulcan salute is accompanies by this four-word phrase Live long and prosper |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | MOVIE & TV ROLES $200: Stevens (Anthony Hopkins in "The Remains of the Day") & Carson (Jim Carter on "Downton Abbey") had this household job title a butler |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | AVIATION HISTORY $200: In 1996 this aircraft set the commercial record flying time from New York to London in about 2 hours, 52 minutes the Concorde |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | THIS MEANS "WAR" $200: A typical auto one is 3 years/36,000 miles a warranty |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: The highlight of the Al Dhafra Festival in Abu Dhabi, which celebrates Bedouin life & culture, is a beauty pageant of these animals camels |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $400: Located on the shores of Tampa Bay, it was named for a railroad builder's home city in Russia St. Petersburg |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | POTPOURRI $400: This mogul acquired the British newspaper, "The Sun", in 1969 Rupert Murdoch |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | MOVIE & TV ROLES $400: Lee Majors was this title stuntman in the TV version; Ryan Gosling stepped into the dangerous role in a 2024 movie the Fall Guy |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | AVIATION HISTORY $400: She received FCC approval in 1934 to install a 2-way radio in her Lockheed Vega, the first in a civilian aircraft Earhart |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | YOUR VERB FORM IS MOST IRREGULAR $400: This past participle is a noun meaning a basic condition; you must phrase your response as a question--that's one of these a given |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | SKILL SET $400: Cooking schools teach you to julienne & brunoise with classes in these "skills"; speed contests, you may want to avoid knife skills |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | ALBUMS $400: In 2025 this record earned Beyoncé her first Grammy for Album of the Year & also the trophy for Best Country Album Cowboy Carter |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | VAN'S THE MAN $400: He was the first New York governor to be elected president Van Buren |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | LITERATURE $400: "The Strike" was Ayn Rand's original title for this novel, her longest at over 1,000 pages Atlas Shrugged |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY $400: Voortrekkers were these migrating South Africans whose name means "farmer" in Dutch Boers |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | THIS MEANS "WAR" $400: This "mistress" is an old term for the person in a theater company who keeps Hamlet's doublet pressed (the wardrobe) mistress |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | ANNUAL EVENTS $400: On Groundhog Day this furry guy who has more than 25,000 Instagram followers comes out of hiding to make his annual prediction Punxsutawney Phil |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | POTPOURRI $600: Responsible for facial hair & deepening the voice, this sex hormone was first isolated in 1935 testosterone |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | MOVIE & TV ROLES $600: After a career in film, he got his first TV starring role in "Tulsa King", as a 75-year-old gangster just out of prison Stallone |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | AVIATION HISTORY $600: At the 1955 Rose Bowl, one of these dirigibles was the first to provide live aerial coverage of a major sporting event a Goodyear blimp |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | THIS MEANS "WAR" $600: A male sorcerer a warlock |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $600: Established by French soldiers around 1719, this "colorful" city is located about 80 miles northwest of New Orleans Baton Rouge |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | POTPOURRI $800: Basically just almond paste, egg whites & sugar go into this confection used to make candies & decorate cakes marzipan |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | MOVIE & TV ROLES $800: Her career includes starring in films like "Fatal Attraction" & TV shows like "Damages" Glenn Close |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | AVIATION HISTORY $800: Named for this strong guy, the C-130 transport has had mission-specific variants like a ski-equipped one (the C-130) Hercules |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | YOUR VERB FORM IS MOST IRREGULAR $800: This hyphenated adjective meaning "prized & hard to find" contains the past form of "seek" sought-after |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | SKILL SET $800: It's the skill of playing a piece of music you're seeing for the first time sight reading |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | ALBUMS $800: Their greatest hits album, with "Wheel In The Sky" & "Don't Stop Believin"', has spent more than 800 weeks on the Billboard 200 Journey |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | VAN'S THE MAN $800: In 1824 he made his last appearance on the concert stage for the premiere of his 9th symphony Beethoven |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | LITERATURE $800: In "Bring Up the Bodies", Hilary Mantel wrote about Thomas Cromwell's role in this woman's downfall Anne Boleyn |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY $800: The airport of this South African city is named for Oliver Tambo, the president of the ANC from 1967 to 1991 Johannesburg |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | THIS MEANS "WAR" $800: The blackcap & the whitethroat are varieties of these singing birds warblers |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | ANNUAL EVENTS $800: World Book & Copyright Day, April 23, commemorates the 1616 deaths of Shakespeare in England & this other guy in Spain Cervantes |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $800: In 1849 it began as a military outpost to defend against Native Americans & was named for a commander of U.S. troops in Texas Fort Worth |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | POTPOURRI $1000: Pioneers in a covered wagon & Chimney Rock are on the reverse of this Midwest state's quarter Nebraska |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | MOVIE & TV ROLES $1000: Mike Brady & Ted Mosby are TV characters with this profession; same for Tom Hanks, sleeplessly in Seattle an architect |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | AVIATION HISTORY $1000: In 1933 this "Wiley" guy became the first aviator to fly solo around the world; it took him about 8 days Wiley Post |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | THIS MEANS "WAR" $1000: This anticoagulant medication is used in the treatment of embolisms warfarin |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | ANNUAL EVENTS $1000: Throwing colored powder is part of the celebration of this spring Hindu festival with a name that sounds sacred Holi |
| #9321, aired 2025-04-28 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: At the start of his writing career, his wife told him, if it didn't work out, at 6'4", he could be a reacher in a supermarket Lee Child |
| #9320, aired 2025-04-25 | 1990s BESTSELLERS: In this 1995 book, Pilgrim is taken to Tom, whose job it is to utter secrets "softly into pricked and troubled ears" The Horse Whisperer |
| #9319, aired 2025-04-24 | HISTORIC NAMES: He was riding back from the conquest of Granada when he was summoned to a royal meeting that would change history (Christopher) Columbus |
| #9318, aired 2025-04-23 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY: A 1919 Punch cartoon titled "The Gap in the Bridge" showed Uncle Sam sleeping on the missing keystone of this the League of Nations |
| #9317, aired 2025-04-22 | IMAGES OF 2024: Item in common to a January 1889 self-portrait & several of those attending the 2024 Republican National Convention an ear bandage (ear bandages) |
| #9316, aired 2025-04-21 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: This country has 2 capitals, is bounded by 5 other countries & has 37 official languages Bolivia |
| #9315, aired 2025-04-18 | PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES: The year the Democratic nominee gave his "Cross of Gold" speech, the GOP nominee was this man who backed the gold standard (William) McKinley |
| #9314, aired 2025-04-17 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: This character's efforts in Africa to end an epidemic killing monkeys inspired Jane Goodall to do something similar Doctor Dolittle |
| #9313, aired 2025-04-16 | PLACES IN THE AMERICAN PAST: It's the building where the Stax Records classic "knock On Wood" was written but it's remembered for other reasons the Lorraine Motel |
| #9312, aired 2025-04-15 | CITY NICKNAMES: The poet Albius Tibullus called a city this in the late 1st century B.C., some 700 years after its traditional founding the Eternal City |
| #9311, aired 2025-04-14 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Like a character in one of his novels, this author hid in a meat locker during an Allied bombing Kurt Vonnegut |
| #9310, aired 2025-04-11 | SIBLINGS: They used some of their $65 million settlement to stockpile bitcoin & in 2014 they founded their own cryptocurrency exchange the Winklevoss twins (Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss) |
| #9309, aired 2025-04-10 | WORLD MUSEUMS: Located on Cromwell Road & home to more than 2.8 million objects, it bears in part the name of a cousin of a British queen the Victoria and Albert Museum (the V & A) |
| #9308, aired 2025-04-09 | AROUND THE WORLD: An online article about this landmark said, "The stones themselves look like they are crying" & mentioned "tears of ... pain, hope & joy" the Wailing Wall (the Western Wall) |
| #9307, aired 2025-04-08 | HONORS: Burt Lancaster & Joanne Woodward were among the first 8 honored at a 1958 ceremony held on this street Hollywood Boulevard |
| #9306, aired 2025-04-07 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: His 1821 novel was inspired by stories told to him by John Jay of Jay's experiences with spies during the Revolution James Fenimore Cooper |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | THE NOBEL PRIZES: Only one man & one woman have won Nobel Prizes in 2 different categories, with this category in common Chemistry |
| #9304, aired 2025-04-03 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Boq is one of these fictional people, "not as big as the grown folk... but neither were they very small" a Munchkin |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION: The creator of this series that premiered in 2018 pitched it as "'The Godfather' in Montana" Yellowstone |
| #9302, aired 2025-04-01 | ITALIAN HISTORY: 3 mighty city-states roughly forming an equilateral triangle were Venice, Florence & this one where the Viscontis & Sforzas ruled Milan |
| #9301, aired 2025-03-31 | COMMUNICATION: Invented by a student in 1824, this system has a total of 64 combinations Braille |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | GEOGRAPHIC NEIGHBORS: The "Hermit Nation" & the "Land of the Morning Calm" are nicknames for these 2 neighbors North Korea & South Korea |
| #9299, aired 2025-03-27 | LANDMARKS: This landmark features a relief of Agrippa approving the design of an aqueduct as well as Pietro Bracci's statue of Oceanus the Trevi Fountain |
| #9298, aired 2025-03-26 | SEAFARING BRITS: In 1804 an officer of HMS Warrior formally charged this captain with "calling me rascal, scoundrel & shaking his fist in my face" Captain Bligh |
| #9297, aired 2025-03-25 | MIGRATIONS: A biosphere reserve in Michoacán is named for these creatures that turn the forests orange & black every November monarch butterflies |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | ACTING FAMILIES: After leaving a religious group, John & Arlyn Bottom changed their family's last name to this, to signify a rebirth Phoenix |
| #9295, aired 2025-03-21 | BESTSELLERS: It begins in the village of Juffure & ends in Arkansas more than 200 years & 7 generations later Roots |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | U.S. CITIES: Named for a 1775 battle, this city contains the graves of John Breckinridge & Henry Clay Lexington, Kentucky |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | HISTORICAL HORSES: Named for an 1807 battle & valiant in one 8 years later, Copenhagen was this man's steed; society ladies donned strands of his hair the Duke of Wellington |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | CLASSIC TV SHOWS: Posted over the door of this show's setting was a notice reading, "Maximum room capacity 75 persons" Cheers |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | TOYS & GAMES: Preparing for a course on descriptive geometry & researching the 5 Platonic solids led a professor to invent this Rubik's Cube |
| #9290, aired 2025-03-14 | 21st CENTURY BROADWAY: A review of this musical noted "sacrilege" & said it was "blasphemous" but "its heart is as pure as... a Rodgers & Hammerstein show" The Book of Mormon |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | GAMES: This game inaugurated a craze that "scandalized the puritanical and drove chiropractors wild with delight" Twister |
| #9288, aired 2025-03-12 | AUTHORS' OTHER WORKS: In an 1833 story by her, an alchemist's assistant drinks a potion giving eternal life but ends up seeing all he loves die Mary Shelley |
| #9287, aired 2025-03-11 | EXPLORERS: Traveling in 1811 to an elevation of about 12,000 feet, Thomas Manning was the first Englishman to meet this figure the Dalai Lama |
| #9286, aired 2025-03-10 | WORLD FLAGS: A dark blue square in the upper left corner of the flag of this country represents the continent of Africa Liberia |
| #9285, aired 2025-03-07 | SCIENCE FICTION: Name shared by a groundbreaking magazine launched in April 1926 & a TV anthology series that premiered in September 1985 Amazing Stories |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | BRITISH ROYALTY: In the 12th c. after walking barefoot, this man stripped down & allowed himself to be flogged by dozens of monks Henry II |
| #9283, aired 2025-03-05 | MEDIEVAL EUROPEANS: This mathematician of Pisa studied in Algeria & later wrote a book introducing Arabic numerals to a larger audience Fibonacci (Leonardo of Pisa) |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | HISTORIC SCIENTISTS: A pair of discoveries by him in 1787 are named for stage characters, a new practice in his field (William) Herschel |
| #9281, aired 2025-03-03 | CABINET MEMBERS: In order of fame, the first Cabinet was Jefferson (later prez), Hamilton ("my shot" guy), Knox (of fort fame), this attorney general (Edmund) Randolph |
| #9280, aired 2025-02-28 | FAMOUS NAMES: As a young reporter in Appleton, Wisconsin, Edna Ferber interviewed this hometown celebrity originally from Hungary Houdini |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | ART & ARTISTS: Born in Amersfoort in 1872, he helped found an art movement noted for the use of straight lines & primary colors (Piet) Mondrian |
| #9278, aired 2025-02-26 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: The only 2 Democrats to be elected president between James Buchanan in 1856 & FDR in 1932 Grover Cleveland & Woodrow Wilson |
| #9277, aired 2025-02-25 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Located on an island, in 2016 this world capital began following 2 different time zones Nicosia, Cyprus |
| #9276, aired 2025-02-24 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Enlisting in the Army in 1917, he was sent to Camp Sheridan in Montgomery, where he met the woman who became his wife (F.) Scott Fitzgerald |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | COMPOSERS: Yale takes credit for starting a commencement tradition when it gave this composer an honorary doctorate in 1905 (Edward) Elgar |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | THE SOUTHWEST: The 4-syllable name of this city is almost identical to its namesake town in Spain, except that the Spanish one has an extra "R" Albuquerque |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK: He wrote, "I must make the founder of lovely & famous Athens the counterpart... to the father of... glorious Rome" Plutarch |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: This landmark case was reported in the N.Y. Times not on the front page but in "News of the Railroads" Plessy v. Ferguson |
| #9271, aired 2025-02-17 | LITERATURE & SICKNESS: Still around today, this strep infection that causes a rash has terrible effects in "Little Women" & the "Little House on the Prairie" books scarlet fever |
| #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 |
