| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | GIFT OF "GAB" $200: One billion bytes a gigabyte |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | SPEECH $200: As Chief Justice, this ex-pres. spoke on legal reform & warned his talk was "dry to the point of satisfying the Anti-Saloon League" Taft |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | FRENCH-NAMED FOOD & DRINK $200: It's a pre-dinner alcoholic drink, perhaps champagne, that gets you ready for the main event an apéritif |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | OOPS! $200: A stock market technical glitch in 2024 showed this Warren Buffett company down 99% for the day Berkshire Hathaway |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | ZOOLOGY GLOSSARY $200: As their name implies, decapods like crawfish or crabs have this number of legs 10 |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | BARBIE THROUGH THE YEARS $200: The Dolls of the World include a Princess of Japan Barbie dressed in a colorful one of these robes & a pair of zori sandals a kimono |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | GIFT OF "GAB" $400: Mission ship-possible; the Congo River is this adjective between Kinshasa & Kisangani navigable |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | IT ENDS WITH "US" $400: It's a branch of math, or another word for dental tartar calculus |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | MUSIC & WAR $400: The Minneapolis Symphony's landmark 1954 recording of the "1812 Overture" used a muzzle-loaded one of these from West Point a cannon |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | AUTHORS INITIALLY $400: He was present at Utah Beach on D-Day; a year & a bit later, his first work featuring Holden Caulfield was published J.D. Salinger |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | TV TITLE TWOSOMES BY ACTORS $400: Sprouse & Sprouse The Suite Life of Zack & Cody |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | BRITISH GEOGRAPHY $400: A hazard to navigation, the Goodwin Sands are at an entrance to the strait of this town Dover |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | I TINKER $400: Tim Derk developed the cannon for these as the San Antonio Spurs' coyote mascot, with help from the Phoenix Suns' gorilla T-shirt |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | SPEECH $400: This long-time New York governor gave an impassioned 1984 convention speech sometimes known as "A Tale of Two Cities" Mario Cuomo |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | FRENCH-NAMED FOOD & DRINK $400: In New Orleans you can find crab ones of these fritters, as well as the sweet kind covered with powdered sugar a beignet |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | OOPS! $400: The "Wicked" Bible of 1631 famously omitted this word from the 10 Commandments in the one about adultery not |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | ZOOLOGY GLOSSARY $400: Derived from the Greek for "living a double life", this class of animal lives on land typically but breeds in water an amphibian |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | BARBIE THROUGH THE YEARS $400: One of Barbie's earliest careers was as one of these, like Anne Klein or Stella McCartney a fashion designer |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | GIFT OF "GAB" $600: This country's Loango National Park protects elephants & hippos Gabon |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | SPEECH $600: In 1776 this famous cousin watered down Patrick Henry with "independence... or the most ignominious & galling servitude" Samuel Adams |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | FRENCH-NAMED FOOD & DRINK $600: A cup of Joe with an equal amount of steamed or hot milk = this beverage with a rhyming name café au lait |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | OOPS! $600: In 1984 the Trail Blazers drafted Sam Bowie instead of this Tar Heel that the Bulls got; definite oops material Michael Jordan |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | ZOOLOGY GLOSSARY $600: In layman's terms a marsupial's marsupium is this its pouch |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | BARBIE THROUGH THE YEARS $600: To help kids with cancer, in 2012 Mattel created Ella, aka Chemo Barbie, who notably had this feature being bald |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | GIFT OF "GAB" $800: In "Can You Feel The Love Tonight", Elton John sings the power of love makes kings & these wandering folks "believe the very best" vagabonds |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | IT ENDS WITH "US" $800: Gulp! The name of this body part is from the Greek for "gullet" an esophagus |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | MUSIC & WAR $800: The experiences of U.S. Marine Christian Ellis, suffering from this in the aftermath of deployment, inspired the opera "Fallujah" PTSD |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | AUTHORS INITIALLY $800: This author grew up in Bexley, Ohio, though probably not on "Fear Street", which he turned into a book series in 1989 (R.L.) Stine |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | TV TITLE TWOSOMES BY ACTORS $800: Marshall & Williams Laverne & Shirley |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | BRITISH GEOGRAPHY $800: The inhabitants of this metropolis in northwest England are called Mancunians Manchester |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | I TINKER $800: In 1977 he developed the Apple II computer which, aided by Steve Jobs' marketing skills, was the first affordable home PC Wozniak |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | SPEECH $800: In 1653 Oliver Cromwell dismissed the remnant called this anatomy-named "Parliament" with abuse & "in the name of God--go!" the Rump Parliament |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | FRENCH-NAMED FOOD & DRINK $800: Mellower & with fewer tannins than Cabernet, this wine variety derives its name from the French word for "blackbird" merlot |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | OOPS! $800: For 164 years Anne of this literary family had the wrong age on her tombstone; in 2013, it was corrected Brontë |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | ZOOLOGY GLOSSARY $800: These small, cylindrical polyps build their limestone skeletons by drawing calcium out of seawater coral |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | BARBIE THROUGH THE YEARS $800: Multiple Barbies appeared in the 2023 film, including President Barbie played by this funny lady Issa Rae |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | GIFT OF "GAB" $1000: A Royal Navy battlecruiser had this name meaning tireless & "in"exhaustible Indefatigable |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | BARBIE THROUGH THE YEARS $1000: The Barbie Inspiring Women collection includes one of this NASA mathematician, no longer a "hidden figure" Katherine Johnson |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | SPEECH $1000: In 1977 he said in a speech, "We are not only a Latin-American nation; we are an Afro-American nation also" Fidel Castro |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | OOPS! $1000: Pat Maloney, as editor of the Chicago Tribune, okayed the headline this man "Defeats Truman" Dewey |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | ZOOLOGY GLOSSARY $1000: "C" is for this, the hard-shelled covering for the pupa of a butterfly chrysalis |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | IT ENDS WITH "US" $1200: Seen here is the mistletoe fig, a variety of this tree or shrub that can be grown indoors a ficus |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | MUSIC & WAR $1200: An amputee in World War I, Paul Wittgenstein commissioned several works afterward, including Ravel's concerto for this body part the left hand |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | AUTHORS INITIALLY $1200: In the early 20th c. he was only 8 when he started writing stories about a fantasy land called Boxen populated by animals (C.S.) Lewis |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | TV TITLE TWOSOMES BY ACTORS $1200: Gless & Daly Cagney & Lacey |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | BRITISH GEOGRAPHY $1200: In 2008 Sark, a part of this island group, became the last European territory to abolish feudalism the Channel Islands |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | I TINKER $1200: Later one of Richard Nixon's best friends, Robert Abplanalp invented an 80% cheaper valve for this type of spray can aerosol |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | IT ENDS WITH "US" $1600: Systemic is the most common form of this chronic autoimmune disease that affects 9 times more women than men lupus |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | MUSIC & WAR $1600: He said composers who lived during peace couldn't write good marches such as his Spanish-American War-inspired "The Man Behind The Gun" Sousa |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | TV TITLE TWOSOMES BY ACTORS $1600: Foxx & Wilson Sanford and Son |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | BRITISH GEOGRAPHY $1600: A Latin-loving clerk who'd never been there, A.E. Housman assumed the poetic persona of a farm lad from this shire bordering Wales Shropshire |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | I TINKER $1600: This musician created his solid-body electric guitar in 1941 & later developed overdubbing & multitracking (Les) Paul |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | FRENCH-NAMED FOOD & DRINK $2,000 (Daily Double): The French version of broth & a celebrated seafood stew, they both start with the same 6 letters bouillon & bouillabaisse |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | IT ENDS WITH "US" $2000: This city in what's now Turkey was the site of the original mausoleum, one of the 7 ancient wonders Halicarnassus |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | MUSIC & WAR $2000: After capturing this city in 1809, Napoleon had a guard protect Haydn's house & a French officer sang his music to him Vienna |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | AUTHORS INITIALLY $2000: This "Broken Earth" trilogy novelist called herself an "obsessed space child" growing up N.K. Jemisin |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | TV TITLE TWOSOMES BY ACTORS $2000: Based on literary characters: Fry & Laurie Jeeves and Wooster |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | BRITISH GEOGRAPHY $2000: The north face of this Scottish peak, called "The Ben" by the locals, is a rock climber's paradise Ben Nevis |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | AUTHORS INITIALLY $4,000 (Daily Double): In 2017 this author said, "I grew up in a greaser neighborhood" but got put in high school classes with Socs (S.E.) Hinton |
| #9210, aired 2024-11-22 | I TINKER $4,000 (Daily Double): By 1838 Alfred Vail & this man wired up a new communication system, but when it came to branding, ol' Al got tapped out (Samuel F.B.) Morse |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | COHAB VOCAB $200: It's good before moving in together to set these, which can also be natural features like rivers that function as borders a boundary |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | ECONOMICS $200: The Economist publishes an index named for this fast food sandwich that helps determine if national currencies are undervalued a Big Mac |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | CLASSIC TV THEME SONGS $200: "Here's the story of a lovely lady who was bringing up 3 very lovely girls" The Brady Bunch |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | OTHER NAMES FOR THE CITY $200: "The Athens of the South" & "Music City" Nashville |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | NONFICTION $200: This Southerner went nonfiction with "The Innocent Man", about 2 men wrongly convicted John Grisham |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | LEONARDO DA VINCI $200: Leonardo's 1473 rendering of Arno River Valley is considered by some the first of these artistic depictions of natural scenery a landscape |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | STORMING THE CASTLE $400: Unable to capture Osaka Castle, Tokugawa Ieyasu made peace--then filled in these, redeclared war & took the castle moats |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | HAVE FUN $400: Pirates, science & outer space are popular themes for this type of place where you solve puzzles to get out an escape room |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | A LITTLE MATH, A LITTLE SCIENCE $400: It means to express a fraction in a more basic form, like simplifying 365/730 to 1/2 reduce |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | SILENT P $400: It's another way to refer to the United States Marines Corps |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | 21st CENTURY CINEMA $400: Barry Jenkins & Mahershala Ali both won Oscars for this A24 film about Chiron, who has a tough go of it in Miami Moonlight |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | NORSE MYTH $400: This Norse god kept an eye on his wife Frigg, who herself presided over marriage Odin |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | COHAB VOCAB $400: Punning on something edible, this type of "list" comes before "... the dishes", "... the laundry", etc. honey-do |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | ECONOMICS $400: This "elemental" levy is slapped on a business that generates pollution through emissions a carbon tax |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | CLASSIC TV THEME SONGS $400: "The mate was a mighty sailing man, the skipper brave & sure" Gilligan's Island |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | OTHER NAMES FOR THE CITY $400: George Carlin called this capital of Delaware "The City that Means Well" Dover |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | NONFICTION $400: Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow" delves into "Mass" this "in the Age of Colorblindness" Incarceration |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | LEONARDO DA VINCI $400: Left-handed & not wishing to smudge the ink as he went, Leonardo used this form of writing, named for something used in reading it mirror writing |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | NONFICTION $600: "Brave New Words" is a new book about A.I. & education from this man famous for his nonprofit "Academy" Khan |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | COHAB VOCAB $600: A censorious old phrase for a boyfriend & girlfriend sharing a home, or a book about cohabitation in Victorian times living in sin |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | ECONOMICS $600: Not just for us lowly citizens, these types of ratings are issued to companies & nations by S&P global & moody's credit ratings |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | CLASSIC TV THEME SONGS $600: "Love & marriage, love & marriage, go together like a horse & carriage" Married... with Children |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | OTHER NAMES FOR THE CITY $600: You can't miss out on "The Big 'O"' aka this city just north of the Platte River Omaha |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | LEONARDO DA VINCI $600: Not to find a killer but to broaden his knowledge of anatomy, Leonardo performed many of these & drew what he discovered an autopsy |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | STORMING THE CASTLE $800: Aries was the Roman word for this device used to assault many a castle a battering ram |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | HAVE FUN $800: Have fun at this ballpark when you go see the Baltimore Orioles play home games Camden Yards |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | A LITTLE MATH, A LITTLE SCIENCE $800: Bone up! This element is alphabetically next after cadmium calcium |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | SILENT P $800: To the untrained eye it might be hard to tell the difference between eczema & this skin disease psoriasis |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | 21st CENTURY CINEMA $800: The "W" in Wall-e's name stands for this, which he's dealing with all around him on Earth waste |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | NORSE MYTH $800: Not just a hamlet in New York, it's the site of slain warriors where the same unfortunate boar is eaten & resurrected daily Valhalla |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | COHAB VOCAB $800: You may add this word to your "vv"ocabulary, as in "let's ____ up the chores" divvy |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | ECONOMICS $800: The Latin for "death" gives us this term for the lessening of the value of assets or debts over a period of time amortization |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | CLASSIC TV THEME SONGS $800: "In your satin tights, fighting for your rights and the ol' Red White and Blue" Wonder Woman |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | OTHER NAMES FOR THE CITY $800: In Michigan, it's "A2" Ann Arbor |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | LEONARDO DA VINCI $800: Starting out as an apprentice to the artist Verrocchio as a teen, Leonardo may have been a model for his statue of this biblical slayer David |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | COHAB VOCAB $1000: Before big-time success, Roger Taylor & Freddie Mercury of Queen shared an apartment, so Brit-wise, they were these flatmates |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | ECONOMICS $1000: In 1913, this British economist published "Indian Currency and Finance", then got into government work, which is so him-sian Keynes |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | CLASSIC TV THEME SONGS $1000: "'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman that made Redford such a star" The Fall Guy |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | OTHER NAMES FOR THE CITY $1000: This city on Florida's West Coast: "The Big Guava" & "Cigar City" Tampa |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | NONFICTION $1000: The arrival of birds from Polynesia to the raft of this ethnologist is a great moment in his 1950 book Thor Heyerdahl |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | LEONARDO DA VINCI $1000: In his portrait of Ginevra de' Benci, Leonardo blended tones to soften sharp outlines, a method known by this smoky Italian name sfumato |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | STORMING THE CASTLE $1200: A Jacobite force failed to take this castle in 1715, the ladder they brought turned out to be too short to scale the ramparts Edinburgh Castle |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | HAVE FUN $1200: We love this Hasbro game in which players must complete lists of words beginning with the same letter Scattergories |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | A LITTLE MATH, A LITTLE SCIENCE $1200: It's a number that represents the power to which a base is to be raised exponent |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | SILENT P $1200: In slang, these mean proof of supposed wrongdoing, usually in the form of screen caps; now "show me" them! receipts |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | 21st CENTURY CINEMA $1200: In this 2004 film Kate Winslet plays Clementine, who hires Lacuna Inc. to help her forget some things Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | NORSE MYTH $1200: Thought invincible, Balder got the kiss of death after getting hit with a sprig of this shrub, the one thing that could do the job a mistletoe |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | HAVE FUN $1600: Head to Munich & drink some suds at this festival whose origins date back to 1810 Oktoberfest |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | A LITTLE MATH, A LITTLE SCIENCE $1600: The energy an object has by virtue of its motion is this kind, from Greek for "moving" kinetic |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | SILENT P $1600: "Flat Earthism" is often grouped under this branch of not-accepted knowledge pseudoscience |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | 21st CENTURY CINEMA $1600: This Werner Herzog documentary follows activist Timothy Treadwell, who lost his life to a bear in 2003 Grizzly Man |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | STORMING THE CASTLE $2000: In the event of a surprise attack, defenders could quickly lower this heavy grate a portcullis |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | HAVE FUN $2000: A slice of Europe in the Middle East, the Louvre has a satellite location in this emirate Abu Dhabi |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | A LITTLE MATH, A LITTLE SCIENCE $2000: 2 sides of an angle meet at this 6-letter point vertex |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | SILENT P $2000: She's the mortal-born goddess of the soul & wife of Eros Psyche |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | 21st CENTURY CINEMA $2000: This dystopian film from Alfonso Cuarón follows Clive Owen as he escorts a pregnant woman through unfriendly terrain Children of Men |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | NORSE MYTH $2000: As "Watchman of the Gods", he could see 100 leagues; another skill was the ability to hear grass grow, for some reason Heimdall |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | NONFICTION $2,200 (Daily Double): "Battle of Ink & Ice" details the legendary feud between Frederick Cook & this other explorer Robert Peary |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | NORSE MYTH $5,600 (Daily Double): The 9 realms include Alfheim, home of the light elves, Nidavellir, home of the dwarves & this, home to us puny ol' mortals Midgard |
| #9209, aired 2024-11-21 | STORMING THE CASTLE $13,200 (Daily Double): Now meaning to secretly weaken, it originally meant to tunnel below a fortification in order to collapse the walls undermine |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | GLADIATORS $200: (Connie Nielsen presents the clue.) The most successful gladiator revolt began in a brutal gladiator school; the captives escaped using knives & spits from the school's kitchen & soon this man became their leader Spartacus |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | STOCK SYMBOLS $200: Get the door. It's DPZ, this chain that expanded from one location in 1960 to more than 20,000 today Domino's Pizza |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | TAROT-A-GO-GO $200: A trump card, the High Priestess is also known as the Papess, or female this Pope |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | IN THE ZEITGEIST $200: An early one of these golf devices was a nail or peg with a rubber ring attached a tee |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | ROAD TRIP $200: Visiting Germany? Remember, there actually are speed limits on about 30% of this road network the Autobahn |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | 21st CENTURY MOVIE MOMENTS $200: A street brawl between rival news teams was to be cut from the script of this comedy; it quickly escalated into an iconic scene Anchorman |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | A CAPITAL HAPPENING $400: In 1976 possession of less than 30 grams of cannabis was decriminalized & coffee shops in this city were never the same Amsterdam |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | MMM, LEFTOVERS $400: Dairy is big in this state that has a cow & a big block of cheese on its state quarter Wisconsin |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $400: "The walls were shaking, the earth was quaking" in this AC/DC Top 40 hit "You Shook Me All Night Long" |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | ANIMAL PLANET $400: Reaching two inches in length, the world's largest wasp, the Northern Giant this, is a deadly predator of honeybees a hornet |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | GLADIATORS $400: (Connie Nielsen presents the clue.) The wealthy got to see the bloodshed & bravery close up from the lowest level of the Coliseum; it had this Latin word for a platform you stand on that some use for what you're standing behind a podium |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | STOCK SYMBOLS $400: This cloud storage & file-transfer provider goes by DBX Dropbox |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | TAROT-A-GO-GO $400: The tarot suit known as wands, rods or batons equates to this suit in the modern playing card deck clubs |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | IN THE ZEITGEIST $400: It's a cousin to rigatoni but usually with a smooth surface ziti |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | ROAD TRIP $400: Crossing the continental divide at Logan Pass, Mt., Going-to-the-Sun Road is the major route through this national park Glacier |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | 21st CENTURY MOVIE MOMENTS $400: Somehow Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh made tossing a coin seem malevolent in this film No Country for Old Men |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | GLADIATORS $600: (Connie Nielsen presents the clue.) Romans won the love of the people with gladiator shows; in 46 B.C., this conqueror of Gaul put on a gory extravaganza & also introduced to Rome the giraffe, later used in the combats Julius Caesar |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | STOCK SYMBOLS $600: Grab a BUD, this hyphenated beverage giant Anheuser-Busch |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | TAROT-A-GO-GO $600: Not necessarily a bad thing, the character on this card is often portrayed riding a white horse or holding a sickle Death |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | IN THE ZEITGEIST $600: A soap brand, or hearty enjoyment, perhaps for life Zest |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | ROAD TRIP $600: No visit to Paris is complete without a stroll along this avenue that runs from the Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe the Champs-Élysées |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | 21st CENTURY MOVIE MOMENTS $600: Melissa McCarthy's memorable moments in this 2011 film include hitting on an air marshal on a flight to Vegas for a bachelorette party Bridesmaids |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | AUTHORS' EPITAPHS $800 (Daily Double): Her East Sussex grave says, "Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O death! The waves broke on the shore" Virginia Woolf |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | A CAPITAL HAPPENING $800: In 1927 the International Piano Competition named for him began in Warsaw Chopin |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | AUTHORS' EPITAPHS $800: The P. stood for Phillips & he's in the Phillips family plot in Providence under the inscription "I am Providence" H.P. Lovecraft |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | 3 OF THE SAME LETTER $800: A law enacted by a legislature a statute |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | MMM, LEFTOVERS $800: This American cook was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 2000 (Julia) Child |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $800: This singer admitted that some of the foreign-sounding words in his 1983 song "All Night Long" were gibberish Richie |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | ANIMAL PLANET $800: With a lung capacity 3 times that of domestic cattle, they come in handy on Himalayan expeditions a yak |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | GLADIATORS $800: (Connie Nielsen presents the clue.) Another "Gladiator II" cast member from the original film is Derek Jacobi, who famously starred in a miniseries as this emperor, the only one known to have been told, "Those about to die salute you" Claudius |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | STOCK SYMBOLS $800: CVS is, well, CVS; CVX is this energy giant Chevron |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | TAROT-A-GO-GO $800: If this tarot card also known as "Le Pendu" is upside down when drawn, the namesake figure on it appears upright the Hanged Man |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | IN THE ZEITGEIST $800: It can be the grounds for legal action or the main point of something, if you get the... gist |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | 21st CENTURY MOVIE MOMENTS $800: "Another Day Of Sun" was a song-and-dance number on a ramp from the 105 to 110 freeway in this 2016 film La La Land |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | ROAD TRIP $1,000 (Daily Double): The southernmost portion of U.S. Highway 1, the Overseas Highway runs about 100 miles between these two islands Key West & Key Largo |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | GLADIATORS $1000: (Connie Nielsen presents the clue.) Maybe you think, "If it was me, I'd play dead"; no, the god Mercury would enter with a branding iron to make sure you weren't faking & then this ferryman of Hades would hit you with the hammer he carried in Etruscan myth Charon |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | STOCK SYMBOLS $1000: The price of this, CRWD, dropped about $50 a share in the week after a July 2024 computer outage CrowdStrike |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | TAROT-A-GO-GO $1000: The tarot deck is divided into the Major & Minor this, a Latin plural meaning "secrets" Arcana |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | IN THE ZEITGEIST $1000: In proofreading it means to "let it stand" & ignore a previous correction stet |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | ROAD TRIP $1000: A 150-mile route known as the Pilgrims Way connects Winchester with this other English cathedral city Canterbury |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | 21st CENTURY MOVIE MOMENTS $1000: What does "I drink your milkshake" have to do with oil? Drainage, we learn from Daniel Day-Lewis in this 2007 film There Will Be Blood |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $1200: The name of this 2024 song by Post Malone & Taylor Swift sounds just like a popular video game "Fortnight" |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | A CAPITAL HAPPENING $1200: In 1944 construction of Kemal Atatürk's mausoleum began in this city & lasted 9 years Ankara |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | AUTHORS' EPITAPHS $1200: This author of "Goodnight Moon" is described on her tombstone as "writer of songs and nonsense" Brown |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | 3 OF THE SAME LETTER $1200: Blessings on these fact checkers; we heart ours! researchers |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | MMM, LEFTOVERS $1200: In 1606 Guy Fawkes went to the gallows near this building he had tried to blow up with 36 barrels of gunpowder the year before Parliament |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | ANIMAL PLANET $1200: North America's fastest land animal, it gets its name from the backward-curving projections on its head the pronghorn |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | A CAPITAL HAPPENING $1600: 2011 protests in Cairo led to the ouster of this longtime president on February 11 Mubarak |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | MMM, LEFTOVERS $1600: September 10 is St. Barloc's Day but is unlikely to have a parade, since St. Barloc was a well-known one of these recluses a hermit |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $1600: Ring in as soon as possible if you know that this rapper collabed with Skrillex on "Wild For The Night" A$AP Rocky |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | ANIMAL PLANET $1600: Manatees can weigh as much as 3,000 pounds; these Indo-Pacific relatives top out around 1,000 a dugong |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | A CAPITAL HAPPENING $2000: It was formally divided into municipalities of Thon Buri & Krung Thep in 1937 Bangkok |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | AUTHORS' EPITAPHS $2000: A quote from his "The Deer Park" about the importance of continual growth adorns the grave of this controversial American novelist Norman Mailer |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | 3 OF THE SAME LETTER $2000: Of or relating to the smallest independent units of living matter cellular |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | MMM, LEFTOVERS $2000: In 1879 in Mannheim, this inventor completed work on his 2-stroke gasoline engine Karl Benz |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC $2000: "Fight Night" was a 2014 hit for this trio of Quavo, Offset & the late Takeoff Migos |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | ANIMAL PLANET $2000: The cnidarians include jellyfish & this stinging animal named for its fancied resemblance to an old-time fighting ship a Portuguese man o' war |
| #9208, aired 2024-11-20 | 3 OF THE SAME LETTER $4,000 (Daily Double): To fail to see something, or in another sense, a spot where you can see for miles overlook |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | LANDLOCKED & LOADED $200: Though Lake Victoria is quite scenic, if you needed direct proof that this nation is landlocked, here ya go Uganda |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $200: In 2023 she got into the holiday spirit performing "All I Want For Christmas Is You" for the first time on an awards show:
"I just want you for my own / More than you could ever know / Make my wish come true / All I want for Christmas is you!" Mariah Carey |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | Y2K MEMORIES $200: Olivia Rodrigo & Hailey Bieber have "lepidopted" these retro hair clips designed to look like an insect a butterfly |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | "OVER" & "UNDER" $200: In Greek mythology it's Hades' domain the underworld |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | TIMEPIECES $200: This type of watch first gained traction in the 1970s, starting with the Pulsar W--sorry, "time computer" a digital watch |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | PEOPLE ON U.S. MONEY $200: In the late 1800s the portrait of this first first lady appeared on the $1 silver certificate Martha Washington |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | PEOPLE ON U.S. MONEY $400: Having his face on some old twenties is appropriate for Hugh McCullough who headed this U.S. government department twice after the Civil War the Treasury |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | LANDLOCKED & LOADED $400: Kid, the next time I say let's go someplace like this country on Brazil's west border & above Paraguay... Bolivia |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $400: We're a "Sucker" for this trio who performed together in 2019, their first awards show in a decade; they'd win 3 awards in 2020:
"I'm a sucker for you / You say the word and I'll go anywhere blindly / I'm a sucker for you, yeah / Any road you take, you know that you'll find me" The Jonas Brothers |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | Y2K MEMORIES $400: In a TLC song this type of guy's game is "kinda weak" & he is also "broke" & "he's looking like trash"... dang scrub |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | "OVER" & "UNDER" $400: It's the problem with the photo seen here overexposure (undersaturation) |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | TIMEPIECES $400: The Black Forest has woodpeckers & owls but its most famous bird is this one calling from clocks a cuckoo |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $400: Navicular disease is one of the most common causes of lameness in the hoof of this animal horses |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | SITCOM NEIGHBORS $400: My name is Cleveland Brown and I am proud to be a neighbor of the Griffins on Fox TV, on this show except when I moved for a bit Family Guy |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | IT'S RUINED $400: This phrase can mean to serve a boozy drink with ice or a state of disaster or ruin on the rocks |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $400: Recordings by Duke Ellington & Art Tatum featured Ben Webster's soulful solos on the tenor type of this instrument saxophone |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | PEOPLE ON U.S. MONEY $600: First elected president in 1896, he was on the $500 bill from 1928 to 1945 McKinley |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | LANDLOCKED & LOADED $600: Somalia, Djibouti & Eritrea all contribute to this nation being landlocked Ethiopia |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $600: Among his awards in 2011 were Top Male Artist, Top Rap Artist & Top Rap Song for "Love The Way You Lie" with Rihanna Eminem |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | Y2K MEMORIES $600: This type of "it" bag from Fendi won't fit a loaf of French bread but shares its name baguette |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | "OVER" & "UNDER" $600: An idiom meaning to have surgery is to "go" here under the knife |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | TIMEPIECES $600: An analemmatic one of these, where you cast the shadow, is a Scottish memorial to standard time creator Sandford Fleming a sundial |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $800: In 1995 Stevie Wonder joined Coolio & L.V. on this song that would win Single of the Year "Gangsta's Paradise" |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | Y2K MEMORIES $800: Perhaps you recall a Y.A. novel where Janie Johnson realizes "The Face on" one of these is hers; was Janie kidnapped?! a milk carton |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | "OVER" & "UNDER" $800: Hoping to change her own food behavior & that of others who needed help, Rozanne S. founded this organization Overeaters Anonymous |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | TIMEPIECES $800: Type of clock seen here named for where it sits; for some horological reason, you don't say "piece" or "shelf" mantel |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | PEOPLE ON U.S. MONEY $800: Politician & Justice Salmon P. Chase once graced the bill of this multi-zero amount the $10,000 bill |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | FRENCH CROSSWORD CLUES $800: Soft & flat visorless cap
(5 letters) beret |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $800: The Shih Tzu is one of the dog breeds most affected by renal dysplasia, a genetic disease in which these organs are prone to fail kidneys |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | SITCOM NEIGHBORS $800: In a 1995 episode of "Seinfeld", we learned that this is the first name of Jerry's neighbor Kramer Cosmo |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | IT'S RUINED $800: "A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin" is in this Bible book Proverbs |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | LITERARY LOS ANGELES $800: He spent the last years of his life in Hollywood working unsuccessfully on screenplays & on his unfinished novel "The Last Tycoon" Fitzgerald |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | PEOPLE ON U.S. MONEY $1000: This New England politician & orator appeared on the $10 bill from the 1860s to 1900 (Daniel) Webster |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | Y2K MEMORIES $1000: In June 1999 Shawn Fanning & Sean Parker launched this peer-to-peer music-sharing software program Napster |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | LANDLOCKED & LOADED $1000: Georgia is directly north of this former Soviet republic; Azerbaijan, east Armenia |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS $1000: Somewhat under wraps, this singer delivered a powerful performance of her "Courage To Change" at the 2020 awards:
"You're not alone in all this / You're not alone, I promise / Standing together we can do anything" Sia |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | "OVER" & "UNDER" $1000: In 9 letters, to divulge too much personal information overshare |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | TIMEPIECES $1000: You can check the time in 148 cities on a clock built for the 20th anniversary in East Germany on this main square of Eastern Berlin the Alexanderplatz |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | FRENCH CROSSWORD CLUES $1200: Young foreign domestic
(2 letters & 4 letters) au pair |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $1200: A common disease in dairy cattle, mastitis affects milk production but studies show this "sunshine" vitamin can help vitamin D |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | SITCOM NEIGHBORS $1200: On "Will & Grace", he played Jack McFarland, Will's best friend & neighbor Sean Hayes |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | IT'S RUINED $1200: The stock in this Houston energy co. was $90 a share in 2000 but some stuff happened to drop it under a buck in November 2001 Enron |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1200: It's a part of Irish music, American bluegrass & the Baroque concerto repertoire the mandolin |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | LITERARY LOS ANGELES $1200: Laurel Canyon, the Sunset Strip & the Whisky are among the locales mentioned in this rockin' 2019 bestseller by Taylor Jenkins Reid Daisy Jones & the Six |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | FRENCH CROSSWORD CLUES $1600: Low dress neckline (11 letters) décolletage |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $1600: As a fish anesthetic, vets may use this spice oil with species name aromaticum that humans use for a toothache cloves (clove oil) |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | SITCOM NEIGHBORS $1600: Until this Omaha native married Leonard Hofstadter in 2015, her last name was never mentioned on the air Penny |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | IT'S RUINED $1600: Brutal religious conflict not being good for trade, this Lübeck-based confederacy was destroyed by the 30 Years' War the Hanseatic League |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1600: The gambang is an Indonesian version of this percussion instrument that's struck with sticks or mallets a xylophone |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | LITERARY LOS ANGELES $1600: During a reading at L.A.'s the last bookstore, this "Neuromancer" author of course mentioned the cyberpunk movement Gibson |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $2,000 (Daily Double): "Violon" can start the name of this instrument, one of the 4 main ones in the violin family cello |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | VETERINARY MEDICINE $2000: If your dog has CPV, this canine virus, the first thing the vet will do is administer an IV containing electrolytes parvovirus |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | SITCOM NEIGHBORS $2000: He plays opinionated Calvin Butler, neighbor to white guy Dave Johnson, who moved into "The Neighborhood" from Michigan Cedric the Entertainer |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | IT'S RUINED $2000: This historian pinpointed sunset on Oct. 15, 1764, amid the ruins of the Capitol, as the moment he decided on his life's work Edward Gibbon |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $2000: Way bigger than a harmonica but with most of the same letters, it's also called a reed organ & was replaced by electronic organs a harmonium |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | LITERARY LOS ANGELES $2000: He's said to have written parts of "The Big Sleep" while sipping drinks at the legendary Musso & Frank's (Raymond) Chandler |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | LANDLOCKED & LOADED $3,000 (Daily Double): At over 10,400 feet, Mount Kinyeti is the tallest point in this recently formed nation South Sudan |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | FRENCH CROSSWORD CLUES $6,000 (Daily Double): Absolutely required by current fashion if you want to be au courant
(2 letters & 7 letters) de rigueur |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | WICKED $200: (Cynthina Erivo & Ariana Grande present the clue.) (Cynthia: When Glinda first sees Elphaba, naturally she's startled.)
(Ariana: Stating the obvious, she says these two words) you're green |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM $200: Created in the 15th or 16th century, the turquoise mosaic of a 2-headed serpent likely had ritual significance to this people of Mexico the Aztec |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | SIMOLEONS, MOOLAH, SCRATCH, MONEY $200: Often following "pounds", this general term for British currency comes from the name of an old silver coin sterling |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | BLACK $200: If you've got one of these in karate, it's kuro obi in Japanesee a black belt |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | A TURN OF LATIN PHRASE $200: Third rank of honors for a college degree, this phrase means "with praise" cum laude |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD $200: At 25 James headed Hiram College; in Congress he led the creation of the 1st federal dept. of this, way before the one created in 1979 the Department of Education |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | WICKED $400: (Jeff Goldblum presents the clue.) I play Oz, the Great & Terrible; learning of Elphaba's magical potential, I summon her to this colorful place where's she's accompanied by that, uh, tag-along Glinda the Emerald City |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM $400: Go head to head with a bronze head of this emperor, dating from about the time he began building his famous wall Hadrian |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | SIMOLEONS, MOOLAH, SCRATCH, MONEY $400: The International Monetary Fund calculates value from a "basket" of 4 national currencies & this multinational one the euro |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | BLACK $400: According to legend it was across the Black Sea that this guy & his Argonauts set out in search of the Golden Fleece Jason |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | A TURN OF LATIN PHRASE $400: The motto of the University of North Dakota is the snappy Lux et this, "Light & Law" Lux et Lex |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD $400: James was from this Midwest state; years after his death, his widow said to heck with winter & lived out her life in South Pasadena Ohio |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | R&B & SOUL $400: His performance at the 2024 Super Bowl warned: may cause "singing, dancing, sweating, gyrating & possible relationship issues" Usher |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | HISTORICAL "T" $400: Anthony Bourdain wrote "An Urban Historical" about Ms. Mallon, known by this nickname, who spread disease in N.Y. in the 1900s Typhoid Mary |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | TOUGH 9-LETTER WORDS $400: This adjective meaning loathsome is etymologically related to the word horror abhorrent |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $400: Telephone directories in this Nordic nation of 400,000 list everyone alphabetically by first name Iceland |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | WICKED $600: (Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande present the clue.) (Ariana: As roommates at Shiz University, who better than Galinda to teach Elphaba how to be this?) (Cynthia: She says, "Grin and bear it. You'll be" this, just not quite as much as her) popular |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM $600: The Lewis these are a fascinating window into N. European medieval leisure; the Pepperidge Farm cookies of the same name are good too Chessmen |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | SIMOLEONS, MOOLAH, SCRATCH, MONEY $600: The name of this currency used in India comes from Sanskrit for "silver" a rupee |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | BLACK $600: Hit songs by these heavy metal pioneers include "Iron Man" & "Paranoid", both from 1970 Black Sabbath |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD $600: When Democrats larded vital bills with riders curbing voting rights, JAG got Pres. Hayes to stand firm & stop the first govt. this shutdown |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | WICKED $800: (Director Jon Chu presents the clue.) When I first saw "Wicked" before it even hit Broadway I could envision it up on the big screen & now we invite the audience to step inside the magical world of Oz & enjoy this type of 9-letter experience immersive |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM $800: Inscribed with a decree about King Ptolemy V, this slab is one of the museum's most famous objects the Rosetta Stone |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | SIMOLEONS, MOOLAH, SCRATCH, MONEY $800: People mistook Lady Liberty on an old ten-cent piece for a Roman god, leading to this name for the coin the Mercury dime |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | BLACK $800: Males of this spider marked by an hourglass sign can be one-fourth the size of females & often get eaten post mating a black widow |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | A TURN OF LATIN PHRASE $800: I'm not saying I'm guilty--let's go with this legal phrase meaning "I'm not arguing with the charges" nolo contendere |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD $800: Jim traveled west to the Bitterroot Valley in this not-yet-state & used a forged signature to move the Salish to a reservation Montana |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | R&B & SOUL $800: In 1988, this queen of hip-hop soul got her start after recording an Anita Baker cover at a mall in White Plains, New York Mary J. Blige |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | HEALTHY BODY, HEALTHY MIND $800: Many found peace when the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced them to this, TM for short Transcendental Meditation |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | LITERARY SETTINGS $800: A town near Hogwarts in the "Harry Potter" franchise; it should be familiar to theme park fans Hogsmeade |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | HISTORICAL "T" $800: In 1917 he edited a left-wing tabloid in the East Village months before leading a Russian revolution Trotsky |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | TOUGH 9-LETTER WORDS $800: It means to sear with a hot iron or such in order to close a wound cauterize |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $800: This Eastern European country's 2-letter Internet code is .by Belarus |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | WICKED $1000: (Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande present the clue.) (Ariana: In "The Wizard of Oz" book & film, the character of Glinda is mentioned by name.)
(Cynthia: Elphaba, however, was invented by "Wicked" author Gregory Maguire from the initials of this Oz creator) L. Frank Baum |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM $1000: One of the oldest objects is a chopping tool from an ancient campsite found by Louis Leakey's team at this Tanzanian gorge Olduvai Gorge |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | SIMOLEONS, MOOLAH, SCRATCH, MONEY $1000: The name of this former currency of Portugal came from scutum, Latin for "shield" escudo |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | BLACK $1000: A Muslim object of veneration, the Black Stone of Mecca is built into a wall of this small shrine within the great mosque the Kaaba |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | A TURN OF LATIN PHRASE $1000: Heard in Ford's Theatre, it's "thus always to tyrants", Latinized Sic semper tyrannis |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD $1000: In 1881 James had a dream that this VP of his drowned & James couldn't save him; months later it was James dead & this man president Arthur |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | HEALTHY BODY, HEALTHY MIND $1200: Big at the bottom, small at the top, this strength type of "training" has you lifting lighter weights with more reps early pyramid |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | R&B & SOUL $1200: 2 Detroit Lions helped make the party-like noises at the start of this artist's "What's Going On" Marvin Gaye |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | HISTORICAL "T" $1200: In 11 B.C. this future emperor was forced to divorce his wife & marry the daughter of Augustus Tiberius |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | TOUGH 9-LETTER WORDS $1200: If you're friendly & agreeable, especially to eating & drinking, you're this, from the Latin for "live together" convivial |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $1200: At around 3,850 feet from base to peak, Cerro Blanca near the city of Nazca in this country is one of the world's tallest sand dunes Peru |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | HEALTHY BODY, HEALTHY MIND $1600: Something to avoid, a cycle of dwelling on negative feelings is dubbed this, also something a chewing cow is doing ruminating |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | LITERARY SETTINGS $1600: Yoknapatawpha County by this novelist, based on Lafayette County in Mississippi Faulkner |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | R&B & SOUL $1600: In 2016, he released the album "Blonde" alongside a zine called "Boys Don't Cry" Frank Ocean |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | TOUGH 9-LETTER WORDS $1600: This term for a volley from multiple rifles begins with "F" a fusillade |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $1600: 3 African nations have Guinea in their names: Guinea, Equatorial Guinea & this one that contains the name of its capital Guinea-Bissau |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | HEALTHY BODY, HEALTHY MIND $2000: "H" is for this type of psychology that looks at individuals as a whole holistic |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | LITERARY SETTINGS $2000: In a 1938 Graham Greene novel, it's followed by "Rock", referring to a type of candy served there Brighton Rock |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | R&B & SOUL $2000: A '90s collective including Questlove & D'Angelo was called this, a portmanteau of soul & a word pertaining to a zodiac sign Soulquarians |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | HISTORICAL "T" $2000: When he was born around 1162, Genghis Khan was given this name Temüjin |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | TOUGH 9-LETTER WORDS $2000: This Russian word refers to sometimes fabricated material used to discredit an opponent kompromat |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $2000: In 1974 under King Hussein, this country granted women the right to vote Jordan |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | LITERARY SETTINGS $3,000 (Daily Double): In a fantasy series:
Dorne is in the south of it & the Haunted Forest, north of the wall Westeros |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | HISTORICAL "T" $3,000 (Daily Double): This fort nestled between the Adirondacks & the Green Mountains was the site of a July 1777 siege Fort Ticonderoga |
| #9206, aired 2024-11-18 | A TURN OF LATIN PHRASE $3,400 (Daily Double): Carpe diem, yeah, yeah, we've heard it before... now, carpe vinum, meaning this, we can get behind that! seize the wine |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | LAST LINES OF BOOKS $200: "'Thank goodness!' said Bilbo laughing, and handed him the tobacco-jar" The Hobbit |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | POKE AN I OUT $200: Poke an I out of a 3-syllable figure of speech & get a grin a simile & a smile |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | PEOPLE-NAMED HIGHWAYS $200: Jimmy Buffett named an album for this state's A1A Highway; in June 2024, the state returned the favor, naming A1A for him Florida |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $200: As conservative lawyer Joe Quincy, the late & very much great Matthew Perry walked & talked with Allison Janney on this drama The West Wing |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | TOOLING UP $200: A symbol on the flag of the Soviet Union was the "hammer &" this hook-shaped metal blade with a short handle a sickle |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | THIS AMERICAN WIFE $200: Her, writing hubby John in 1776: "If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the laidies we are determined to foment a rebelion" Abigail Adams |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In Chinese slang, xue ba is a studious bookworm but with more respectful overtones than this English equivalent out of Dr. Seuss nerd |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $400: "All That Jazz" & "Razzle Dazzle" Chicago |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $400: Sparks, Nevada is located just east of this city Reno |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | "M"ISCELLANY $400: Add "steen" to the name of this tropical fruit & you get the name of another tropical fruit mango |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | SCULPTORS $400: He was born Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi in Florence & his works there include "St. Louis of Toulouse" Donatello |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | ANIMALS OF THE AMAZON $400: Locals call this sluggish tree-dwelling mammal perezoso, meaning "lazy" a sloth |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | LAST LINES OF BOOKS $400: "And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us, every one!" A Christmas Carol |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | POKE AN I OUT $400: An I gets lost in a large, flat & grassy area of land & becomes a strategy to get something done plain & plan |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | PEOPLE-NAMED HIGHWAYS $400: & The beat still goes on for this late pop star & U.S. congressman--a stretch of I-10 near Palm Springs is named for him (Sonny) Bono |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $400: In 1996 she played Gale Weathers in "Scream" & we hope she didn't feel like her career was stuck when she played Gale in "Scream" in 2022 Courteney Cox |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | TOOLING UP $400: Types of these include coping, miter & bone saws |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | THIS AMERICAN WIFE $400: Glenbach is (well, could be) shorthand for Glennon Doyle & this wife, a retired soccer star Abby Wambach |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | POKE AN I OUT $600: A Latin word for a decree drops its I & becomes a synonym for plump fiat & fat |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | PEOPLE-NAMED HIGHWAYS $600: In 2001, the Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike was renamed for this Cowboys coach; each highway sign depicts a fedora Tom Landry |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $600: Jennifer Aniston has a pleasurable experience after her boyfriend Jim Carrey finds God in this film Bruce Almighty |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | TOOLING UP $600: It's a useful tool, but as an idiom, this "simian" hindrance dates back to at least the early 1900s monkey wrench |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | THIS AMERICAN WIFE $600: After marrying Elliot in 1938, this inventor had 2 kids, Barbara & Ken, who were not thrilled being mom's inspiration Ruth Handler |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: In Yiddish a shande is this, also a TV show created by a Shonda, & a shande far di goyim is one in front of the whole world a scandal |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $800: "Good Morning Baltimore" &
"Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now" Hairspray |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | "M"ISCELLANY $800: The aptly named Samantha Bond played this personal assistant in the films "GoldenEye" & "Die Another Day" Miss Moneypenny |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | SCULPTORS $800: In 1993 this Asian-American architect crafted a sculpture celebrating women's co-education at Yale, her alma mater Maya Lin |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | ANIMALS OF THE AMAZON $800: One of 20 species of this fish found in the Amazon, the red-bellied has razor-sharp teeth & hunts in groups that sometimes exceed 100 piranhas |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | LAST LINES OF BOOKS $800: "He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning" To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | POKE AN I OUT $800: An exercise program to increase flexibility becomes less flexible when it loses an I & becomes dishes or metal sheets pilates & plates |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | PEOPLE-NAMED HIGHWAYS $800: The Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway, one of the longest toll roads in the U.S., winds 570 miles across this state New York |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $800: David Schwimmer was there for you as this late lawyer, defending O.J. Simpson in "American Crime Story" Robert Kardashian |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | TOOLING UP $800: This 3-letter tool makes small holes in wood... get our point? an awl |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | THIS AMERICAN WIFE $800: Married since 1992 & South Dakota's governor since 2019, she was mentioned as a possible choice for VP, but her past "dogged" her a bit Kristi Noem |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | SCULPTORS $1,000 (Daily Double): A sculpture Henry Moore did for this Midwestern school & called "Atom Piece" is in the form of a mushroom cloud University of Chicago |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | LAST LINES OF BOOKS $1000: A 5-word title: "In that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his bear will always be playing" The House at Pooh Corner |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | POKE AN I OUT $1000: The verb meaning made a god of loses an I (& its exalted status) to become combative as a verb meaning challenged or confronted deify & defy |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | PEOPLE-NAMED HIGHWAYS $1000: At least a half dozen West Virginia highways or sections have been named for this one-time Senate Majority Leader (Robert) Byrd |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | I DIDN'T COME HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS $1000: We cherished Lisa Kudrow as Valerie Cherish, a faded celeb desperately trying to return to the big time on this HBO comedy The Comeback |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | TOOLING UP $1000: The deep throat type of this, named for & shaped like the third letter, has extra-long jaws that let it perform its grasping task a C-clamp |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | THIS AMERICAN WIFE $1000: She wed Carl in 1947, published "The Feminine Mystique" 16 years later & died on her 85th birthday in 2006 (Betty) Friedan |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: At an office in the Netherlands, be prepared for the pleasant custom of vrijmibo, or group drinks at this point in the week Friday (afternoon) |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $1200: "Honey, Honey" & "Money, Money, Money" Mamma Mia! |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $1200: This city in Lombardy at the tip of a lake with the same name has a museum dedicated to silk Como |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | "M"ISCELLANY $1200: This landlocked country is bordered by Ukraine & Romania Moldova |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | ANIMALS OF THE AMAZON $1200: The hoatzin is also called the this music genre bird due to its crest resembling a mohawk hairstyle punk rock |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: In cycling, être en chasse-patate, "to hunt a potato", is to be lost after getting ahead of this group meaning "small ball" peloton |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $1600: "Angel Of Music" & "All I Ask Of You" The Phantom of the Opera |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $1600: This country's longest border is with the Central African Republic Chad |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | "M"ISCELLANY $1600: The state mushroom of Minnesota & a relative of the truffle, this variety has a smoky, nutty flavor the morel |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | SCULPTORS $1600: Phidias helped with the Parthenon & created a wonderful statue of Zeus for his temple here Olympia |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | ANIMALS OF THE AMAZON $1600: This piglike mammal has a prehensile snout that it uses to grab leaves while foraging & as a snorkel while swimming tapir |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): Mount Huascarán, the highest peak of this country, rises 22,205 feet above sea level in the Cordillera Blanca Peru |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: In the early 1700s the fate of Spain was decided by what its people call this word "de Sucesión Española" Guerra |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $2000: From a 2022 Best Musical Tony nominee: "Ex-Wives" & "Don't Lose Ur Head" Six |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | 4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $2000: Beside the North Sea inlet called The Wash, 15,000 square miles of reclaimed English marshland isn't the bogs, but these Fens |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | "M"ISCELLANY $2000: The name of this swift & dangerous current in the Arctic Ocean has come to be used for a large, fatal whirlpool a maelstrom |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | SCULPTORS $2000: This alliterative muse of Auguste Rodin found fame as a sculptor in her own right Camille Claudel |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | ANIMALS OF THE AMAZON $2000: The Amazon's largest predator, the black this alligator relative was hunted almost to extinction for its valuable hide a caiman |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | LAST LINES OF BOOKS $3,400 (Daily Double): "Very few castaways can claim to have survived so long at sea as Mr. Patel, and none in the company of an adult Bengal tiger" Life of Pi |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | & THE HOME OF THE RAVE $200: Ellie & Joel were back in their awful world in "Part II" of this video game, which Rolling Stone dubbed "an absolute (bleeping) banger" The Last of Us |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE $200: You can soar above the 11,842 lakes of 10 acres or more in this not quite accurately nicknamed state Minnesota |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $200: In the game of Scrabble, Qs & Zs have the highest value, this many points for each 10 |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | CATCHING SOME RAYS $200: The name of this data-storage format came from the color of the laser used to read the discs Blu-ray |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | HEY, WE MADE THAT! $200: The Trouper or Apollo rocking recliner, trying to help guys become the company name La-Z-Boy |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | WHAT'S "UP"? $200: The Cardinals beating the Cowboys 28-16 was a big one in 2023 an upset |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | WHAT'S "UP"? $400: Usually preceded by "one-", it's outdoing or keeping ahead of a friend or rival upsmanship |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | & THE HOME OF THE RAVE $400: The New York times called this Broadway show inspired by a movie musical a "natural high" with a "knockout" Karen Olivo as Satine Moulin Rouge! |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Weather-sounding process to develop creative ideas through free thinking & collaboration brainstorming |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | FASHION DESIGNERS $400: In 2008 Christian Siriano won the fashion competition on this TV series & launched his own collection that same year Project Runway |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | AVIATORS $400: Tuskegee Airmen flew under the command of Benjamin O. Davis Jr., the first Black person in the 20th century to graduate from this academy West Point |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | MUSICAL ETT(E)s $400: The Marketts kapowed their way into the Top 20 with the theme from this '60s TV series set in Gotham Batman |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $400: "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now" were Lennie's last words to George in this Steinbeck novella Of Mice and Men |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $400: The Pythian Games were held every third year of the Olympiad at this Oracle city to honor Apollo Delphi |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE $400: We're beginning our descent into this city; out your window, you may be able to see Coit Tower & Ghirardelli Square San Francisco |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $400: If spelunking is your hobby, you like to study & explore these, like Vietnam's Hang Son Doong caves |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | CATCHING SOME RAYS $400: The River Ray in Wiltshire empties into this much larger one just east of the town of Cricklade the Thames |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | HEY, WE MADE THAT! $400: The 2024 Ioniq 5, with an electric 300 miles of range Hyundai |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | AVIATORS $500 (Daily Double): According to this French author/flier, a pilot "strives to outwit the forces of nature... truth for him is what lives in the stars" Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | & THE HOME OF THE RAVE $600: This 2023 film was a "Minus" in title only: IndieWire said, "The king of monsters is back--and better than ever" Godzilla Minus One |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE $600: It's about 3 hours by car from Pocatello to Sun Valley in this state, but what the heck! Let's fire up the Piper Cub! Idaho |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $600: Imitating larval & intermediate forms, nymphs & emergers are 2 of the main types used in this variety of angling fly fishing |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | CATCHING SOME RAYS $600: Roentgenogram is another name for an image produced with the use of these X-rays |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | HEY, WE MADE THAT! $600: "Assassin's Creed" in all its many forms, but "U" knew that Ubisoft |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | WHAT'S "UP"? $600: Hurricanes do it to trees; people do it when they leave a longtime home & move away uproot |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE $800 (Daily Double): If you fly west out of Columbia, Missouri to Denver, basically above I-70, you'll cross this state in its entirety Kansas |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: Adjective for the parts of a proposed deal that are not open to discussion or modification nonnegotiable |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | FASHION DESIGNERS $800: She created the DVF Awards in 2010 to honor women who have demonstrated leadership, strength & courage in the causes they support Diane von Fürstenberg |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | AVIATORS $800: This Cold War pilot was shot down over the USSR in 1960 & now rests at Arlington Francis Gary Powers |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | MUSICAL ETT(E)s $800: Makes sense:
The Raelettes backed this late, great icon Ray Charles |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $800: In chapter 1 of this novel, the narrator says, "People are always asking, did I know about Tyler Durden" Fight Club |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $800: The Parthenon features this style of column, the oldest & simplest of the Greek orders Doric |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | & THE HOME OF THE RAVE $800: She gets raves as Sydney on "The Bear", & gives 'em online: "Florence Pugh... can punch me in the neck. I'd die for her" (Ayo) Edebiri |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $800: A Winter Olympic sport since 1998, it uses what was originally called a "snurfer" when invented in 1965 snowboarding |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | CATCHING SOME RAYS $800: Watch your step at the Cayman Islands resort city named for these animals stingray |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | HEY, WE MADE THAT! $800: Americone Dream & Boom Chocolatta! Cookie Core Ben & Jerry's |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | WHAT'S "UP"? $800: In the Bible the first line of Job explains that he was from Uz, & that he was "perfect and" this upright |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | & THE HOME OF THE RAVE $1000: Collider said this 2023 murder movie "features the best animal performance of the year" (its pooch won the Palm Dog at Cannes!) Anatomy of a Fall |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE $1000: Why just o'er? Why just land? We're going to put our seaplane down on this 730-square-mile Florida lake & do a little fishing Okeechobee |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $1000: Earn points by collecting cards of the same rank into groups called melds in this card game with a name from Spanish for "basket" Canasta |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | CATCHING SOME RAYS $1000: Emmanuel Radnitzky was the real name of this photographer, painter & filmmaker who had key roles in Dada & Surrealism Man Ray |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | HEY, WE MADE THAT! $1000: Neosporin & Paxlovid Pfizer |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | WHAT'S "UP"? $1000: The highest social class, or the topmost layer of the Earth's lithosphere the upper crust |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: Specific profession of filmmaker Errol Morris documentarian |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | FASHION DESIGNERS $1200: A body suit was the basis for this New York designer's first collection under her own name back in 1985 Donna Karan |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | AVIATORS $1200: Astronaut William Anders, who saw a gorgeous orb coming up & took a photo called this, died at 90, piloting a small plane Earthrise |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $1200: Popular books of the '40s included this novel about a girl & her family living in a tough part of NYC's Williamsburg area A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $1200: In 421 B.C. a general named Nicias negotiated an end to this war; 6 years later, Athens & Sparta were back at it the Peloponnesian War |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $1600: The palace of this Cretan city had basement rooms that served as kind of the strategic wheat reserve Knossos |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: A prisoner held this way is not allowed any contact with the outside world incommunicado |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | FASHION DESIGNERS $1600: This Italian designer became a global name after Richard Gere wore his suits in "American Gigolo" Armani |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | AVIATORS $1600: This "Wiley" one-eyed pilot published "Around the World in Eight Days" after a voyage aboard the Winnie Mae Wiley Post |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | MUSICAL ETT(E)s $1600: Robbie Montgomery was an original member of this unheralded girl group that backed Tina Turner on hits like "Proud Mary" The Ikettes |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $1600: 1969's "The House on the Strand" was one of the last novels by this "Rebecca" author du Maurier |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | MUSICAL ETT(E)s $2,000 (Daily Double): Freddie Gorman, a letter carrier by day, contributed to the lyrics of this song that delivered a No. 1 hit for The Marvelettes "Please Mr. Postman" |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: Uncapitalized, it can mean "containing coal"; capitalized, it's a geological period of many vast swamps carboniferous |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | FASHION DESIGNERS $2000: In 1980 this designer created controversy with provocative jeans ads that featured 15-year-old Brooke Shields Calvin Klein |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | MUSICAL ETT(E)s $2000: Though dark-haired, Johnette Napolitano was the lead singer of this group that in 1990 sang about Joey Concrete Blonde |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | 20th CENTURY FICTION $2000: Maxine Hong Kingston said of this 1931 classic, which she read in 9th grade, "it humanized Chinese people" The Good Earth |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | ANCIENT GREECE $2000: This Greek "Father of Tragedy" fought in the Battle of Marathon, which he included in an epitaph he wrote for himself Aeschylus |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | AFTER ALL $200: Torta Caprese is a traditional Italian cake made with chocolate & these nuts almonds |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | IT'S A SMALL WORLD $200: It's appropriate that tiny Nauru is part of this Pacific island group that has a name partly meaning small Micronesia |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | ALSO A BEVERAGE BRAND $200: A right cross or jab on Oahu Hawaiian punch |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | KEEPING WARM $200: The Consumer Product Safety Commission advises that this kind of heater needs this--at least 3' from anything flammable space heater |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | ADULT CONTEMPORARY LIT $200: "Queen Charlotte" by Julia Quinn & Shonda Rhimes is a novel prequel to events in this Netflix series Bridgerton |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | GREAT WOMEN IN SPORTS $200: In 2022 she laid her tennis racket down, stepping away from the sport with 23 Grand Slam singles titles to her name Serena Williams |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | YOU'LL LEARN TO ADAPT $400: From 2013 to 2017, Tom Mison kept his head during some rough situations as this TV character in "Sleepy Hollow" Ichabod Crane |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | NOTHING TO SEE HERE $400: Observers of the anti-consumerism buy nothing day make no purchases on the Friday following this holiday Thanksgiving |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | MINERALS $400: 200s B.C. Chinese chemists could burn the mineral cinnabar, HgS, to get this metal, then mix that with ore to extract gold mercury |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | FROM THE GREEK $400: Many stubby little everyday words are from Anglo-Saxon, but Greek pyxos gave us this, meaning a container or to fight with fists box |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Baylor claims the title of oldest continuously operating university in this state Texas |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | A PIECE OF HISTORY $400: On display at the National Museum of American History, his hat includes a mourning band for his son Willie Abraham Lincoln |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | AFTER ALL $400: This 2-word phrase refers to the university you went to or the anthem sung there alma mater |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | IT'S A SMALL WORLD $400: In 1815 the Congress of Vienna put this principality under the protection of Sardinia; it became independent in 1861 Monaco |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | ALSO A BEVERAGE BRAND $400: This type of motor engine has an octet of cylinders a V8 |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | KEEPING WARM $400: 3-word item seen here to sleep warm on a chilly night; after 1900, people started making them out of rubber a hot water bottle |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | ADULT CONTEMPORARY LIT $400: Buzzy on BookTok, this work about a hockey player & a figure skater is fittingly titled for a joke that relieves initial tensions an Icebreaker |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | GREAT WOMEN IN SPORTS $400: She was named Swimming World magazine's American Woman Swimmer of the Year 2013-2018, 2021 & 2022 (Katie) Ledecky |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | GREAT WOMEN IN SPORTS $600: (Billie Jean King presents the clue.) A star on four WNBA championship teams in Seattle, this woman became the league's winningest player in 2022 Sue Bird |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | IT'S A SMALL WORLD $600: Falls Church, an independent city in this state, is a whopping 2 square miles Virginia |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | ALSO A BEVERAGE BRAND $600: It's another term for an elf or a pixie sprite |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | KEEPING WARM $600: The 1911 Boy Scout manual says 2 things "are essential in the building of a fire"--this (bits of wood or paper) "& air" kindling |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | ADULT CONTEMPORARY LIT $600: Robinne Lee wrote this novel about a 39-year-old who falls for a boy band singer; it's now a film with Anne Hathaway The Idea of You |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | GREAT WOMEN IN SPORTS $800: (Billie Jean King presents the clue.) A great all-around athlete, she excelled in many sports, but later in life, golf was her game, & in 1950 she helped found the LPGA Babe Didrikson |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | NOTHING TO SEE HERE $800: This Shakespeare play begins as Don Pedro's victorious army returns to Messina Much Ado About Nothing |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | MINERALS $800: This mineral whose crystals can be used to keep accurate time precedes "crisis" in the history of 1970s Swiss watchmaking quartz |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | FROM THE GREEK $800: In the early 1900s the makers of a new vacuum flask with a metal casing held a competition to name it & this won thermos |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: During WWII this New England school ran the Radiation Lab, the nation's leading center for radar development MIT |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | A PIECE OF HISTORY $800: The Babylonian map of the world, the oldest known map, includes this river, but not the Tigris the Euphrates |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | AFTER ALL $800: Someone who loses a political race is deemed one of these hyphenated finishers, a term borrowed from horse racing an also-ran |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | IT'S A SMALL WORLD $800: The tiny island of San Michele has served as this Italian city's cemetery for the past two centuries Venice |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | ALSO A BEVERAGE BRAND $800: No booze in Ontario or Winnipeg? Canada dry |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | KEEPING WARM $800: A sweater from this 6th-generation family-owned Oregon woolen mills co. will keep you warm Pendleton |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | ADULT CONTEMPORARY LIT $800: Known for another series with Anastasia Steele, this author began her "Mister & Missus" series in 2019 E.L. James |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | AFTER ALL $1000: In an airplane, this portmanteau device can help determine when you're losing or gaining elevation an altimeter |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | IT'S A SMALL WORLD $1000: Chicken Rock, a rock just big enough for a lighthouse, belongs to this much bigger isle in the Irish Sea the Isle of Man |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | ALSO A BEVERAGE BRAND $1000: This rhyming hyphenated phrase is used to get someone's attention yoo-hoo |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | KEEPING WARM $1000: In the '60s, British store chain Habitat popularized this cozy bed item, the French word for "down" (the feathery kind) duvet |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | ADULT CONTEMPORARY LIT $1000: Fans of this bestselling author of "Slammed" & "Point of Retreat" are known as CoHorts Colleen Hoover |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | GREAT WOMEN IN SPORTS $1000: (Billie Jean King presents the clue.) Before I switched to tennis one of the team sports I played was softball; one of the most decorated collegiate, national & international players of the game is this UCLA alum & two-time Olympic gold medalist who became head coach of Liberty University's team in 2013 Dot Richardson |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | YOU'LL LEARN TO ADAPT $1200: We're brainwashed to believe this Richard Condon novel was adapted starring Sinatra in 1962 & Denzel in 2004 The Manchurian Candidate |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | NOTHING TO SEE HERE $1200: Subtract "ism" from a skeptical philosophical attitude to get this, Latin for nothing nihil |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | MINERALS $1200: A mineral-rich area called the Ring of Fire may have enough chromite to make Canada a century's worth of this alliterative alloy stainless steel |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1200: Creator of "The Sex Lives of College Girls", Mindy Kaling loved shooting in "beautiful" Poughkeepsie at this college Vassar |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | A PIECE OF HISTORY $1200: Iron Age Nigerian Nok culture is known for this type of clay-based art, a term derived from Italian terracotta |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | A PIECE OF HISTORY $1600: An artifact from Mycenaean Greece is called the Mask of this king from the "Iliad" & is also known as the "Mona Lisa of prehistory" Agamemnon |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | YOU'LL LEARN TO ADAPT $1600: Big stars like Marlon Brando didn't help the famously doomed shoot of the 1996 adaptation of this island-set H.G. Wells work The Island of Dr. Moreau |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | NOTHING TO SEE HERE $1600: In federal court, witnesses are asked to "solemnly swear" their testimony "will be" these 10 words the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | MINERALS $1600: Chemical compound that makes up limestone & is found in mineral water calcium carbonate |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | FROM THE GREEK $1600: When Oedipus vows to find his father's killer, who in fact is himself, that's the situational type of this word irony |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: In 1853 T.S. Eliot's grandfather led the founding of Washington University in this city St. Louis |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | FROM THE GREEK $2,000 (Daily Double): Greek for "art" originated part of the name of this process that made movies like "Gone with the Wind" glow Technicolor |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | AFTER ALL $2,000 (Daily Double): Synonyms for this word of indifference include standoffish & distant aloof |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | YOU'LL LEARN TO ADAPT $2000: Notes from James Baldwin on how to make this novel into a film helped Barry Jenkins do just that If Beale Street Could Talk |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | NOTHING TO SEE HERE $2000: In math, it's the set with no elements represented by the symbol here null (the empty set) |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | MINERALS $2000: The second-hardest natural material is this gemstone producer, a form of aluminum oxide corundum |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | FROM THE GREEK $2000: Anthony Burgess wrote, "The words slide into the slots ordained by" this, the set of rules for constructing sentences syntax |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: Before spreading joy around New England, Bill Belichick played tight end at this religious-named school in Middletown, Conn. Wesleyan |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | A PIECE OF HISTORY $2000: This civilization that reached its height in the 6th century B.C. produced the Chimera of Arezzo, now on display in Florence the Etruscans |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | YOU'LL LEARN TO ADAPT $2,400 (Daily Double): Accepting the Oscar for writing "Sense & Sensibility", she said she'd gone to Jane Austen's grave for respect & to tell her the grosses Emma Thompson |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | RHYME TIME $200: An everlasting doorway immortal portal |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | WE'RE SALUTIN' GLUTEN $200: The lactobacillus bacterium is pivotal to making this bread whose fermentation process decreases its gluten content sourdough |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | MUSIC MISCELLANEA $200: 2 of Rihanna's 14 No. 1 hits, "What's My Name?" & "Work", featured this Canadian rapper Drake |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | NICE WHEELS $200: "Giraffes" are what some call these one-wheeled vehicles; they're more for stunts than speed a unicycle |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $200: He wrote a sequel, "Paradise Regained", published 4 years after "Paradise Lost" Milton |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | WORLD OF LEADERS $200: Using mass imprisonment against crime, El Salvador's Nayib Bukele has described himself as "the world's coolest" this dictator |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENDS IN "CH" $400: Hammer me with a rusty nail! 3/4 ounce Drambuie liqueur & a jigger of this, over ice Scotch |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | HEIST FILMS $400: In this 2001 film a group robs 3 Vegas casinos on the night of a Lennox Lewis-Wladimir Klitschko boxing match Ocean's Eleven |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | TRANSPORTATION $400: Advances in braking technology have all but eliminated this traditional last car on a freight train the caboose |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | LET'S DABBLE IN SCIENCE $400: U-Pb dating, using these 2 elements, can determine the age of a rock whether it's in the millions or billions of years uranium & lead |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | RIVERS OF THE WHIRLED $400: Lewis & Clark wintered near it in 1805-1806:
CUBA LIMO the Columbia |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $400: The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act established the first federal this; it's been increased more than 20 times, but not since 2009 the minimum wage |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | RHYME TIME $400: An outspoken native resident a vocal local |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | WE'RE SALUTIN' GLUTEN $400: Wheat is typically an ingredient in this condiment, so yeah, it's got gluten; tamari is its gluten-free cousin soy sauce |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | MUSIC MISCELLANEA $400: Billboard called this Australian singer's "Somebody Like You" the No. 1 country song of the first decade of the 21st century Keith Urban |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | NICE WHEELS $400: One of the basic machines pairs wheel with this 4-letter item an axle |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: Due to obscenity charges, this last D.H. Lawrence novel wasn't published in full in London until 1960 Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | WORLD OF LEADERS $400: Prime minister of the Netherlands for over a decade, Mark Rutte was appointed secretary-general of this organization in 2024 NATO |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | RHYME TIME $600: A more prudent Hohenzollern emperor a wiser kaiser |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | WE'RE SALUTIN' GLUTEN $600: This Italian-named cookie is made by first preparing a loaf, then slicing the loaf & baking the slices biscotti |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | MUSIC MISCELLANEA $600: Robert Van Winkle is the real name of this rapper who was "cool" in the early 1990s Vanilla Ice |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | NICE WHEELS $600: See the sights all at once aboard the London Eye, the world's tallest cantilevered one of these a Ferris wheel |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: The title of this Ian Fleming story for kids about a magical car may have been inspired by the name of an Eton schoolmaster Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | WORLD OF LEADERS $600: Viewed as a relative moderate, Masoud Pezeshkian, elected president of this country in 2024, still has to please its supreme leader Iran |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800 (Daily Double): In the first chapter of this E.M. Forster book, Lucy comments, "I want so to see the Arno" A Room with a View |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENDS IN "CH" $800: It's white powder that can be made from a grain & used as a thickener starch |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | HEIST FILMS $800: In the final scene of this film, Keanu tells Swayze, "Vaya con dios" Point Break |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | TRANSPORTATION $800: With seating for 28 downstairs & 36 up above, the AEC Routemaster bus began service in this city in 1956 London |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | LET'S DABBLE IN SCIENCE $800: In taxonomy, all birds are in the same kingdom, phylum & class, but things fly off & change at this next level order |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | RIVERS OF THE WHIRLED $800: Meaning "great river", it's part of the geography of 6 African countries: MAZE BIZ the Zambezi |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $800: Before it was annexed by the U.S. in 1845, it claimed a panhandle that extended up into Wyoming Texas |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | RHYME TIME $800: A Lakota evaluation of a past performance a Sioux review |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | WE'RE SALUTIN' GLUTEN $800: Your typical dried pasta is made from this 5-letter type of wheat that's high in protein & gluten durum |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | MUSIC MISCELLANEA $800: He topped the charts in 1976 duetting with Kiki Dee on "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" Elton John |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | NICE WHEELS $800: The tale of Rumpelstiltskin involved one of these machines to turn straw into gold a spinning wheel |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Matthew Arnold wrote the poem "Calais Sands" before his more famous one about this "Beach" across the Channel Dover (Beach) |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | WORLD OF LEADERS $800: He succeeded François Hollande as France's president Macron |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | RHYME TIME $1000: Philanthropy transparency charity clarity |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | WE'RE SALUTIN' GLUTEN $1000: These noodles, from Japanese for buckwheat, are often served cold on a slatted bamboo mat soba |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | MUSIC MISCELLANEA $1000: In 1957 this jazz trumpeter released the album "Miles Ahead", which had him playing the flügelhorn on all the tracks Miles Davis |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | NICE WHEELS $1000: Tibetan Buddhists use this device as an aid to meditation a prayer wheel |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | WORLD OF LEADERS $1000: Moving the Labour Party more to the center helped him return it to power as Britain's new prime minister in 2024 Keir Starmer |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENDS IN "CH" $1200: The 6,000-seat Metropolitan Tabernacle has been called "the first-ever" of these evangelical places of worship a megachurch |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | HEIST FILMS $1200: This 2003 remake with Mark Wahlberg & Charlize Theron fittingly begins with a heist in Venice The Italian Job |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | LET'S DABBLE IN SCIENCE $1200: First predicted in 1930, this particle with no charge can go through miles of matter without reacting with a proton or neutron a neutrino |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | RIVERS OF THE WHIRLED $1200: Mandalay & Magwe are port cities on it: DRAW DIARY the Irrawaddy |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $1200: In 1974 the U.S. repealed a Depression-era ban on private ownership of this that had been meant to prevent hoarding gold |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | RIVERS OF THE WHIRLED $1600: It begins at the western end of Great Slave Lake:
ECZEMA INK the Mackenzie |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENDS IN "CH" $1600: This type of warrant is issued by a judge when a defendant violates the rules of the court a bench |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | HEIST FILMS $1600: Christopher Nolan said this 2010 film is "something of a heist movie, it's something of a science fiction film" Inception |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | TRANSPORTATION $1600: The name of this early form of bicycle is from Latin for "swift foot" a velocipede |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | LET'S DABBLE IN SCIENCE $1600: Lasting from 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago, this epoch was followed by the somewhat similar-sounding Pleistocene the Pliocene |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $1600: In 1899, New York City newsboys went on strike, refusing to distribute papers published by Joseph Pulitzer & this rival magnate Hearst |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENDS IN "CH" $2000: It's a "frumious" creature mentioned in "Jabberwocky" & "The Hunting of the Snark" Bandersnatch |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | HEIST FILMS $2000: Boston Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla has admitted to watching this heist film directed by Ben Affleck several times a week The Town |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | TRANSPORTATION $2000: Introduced in 1935, this legendary alphanumeric airplane built by the Douglas company, helped revolutionize passenger travel the DC-3 |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | LET'S DABBLE IN SCIENCE $2000: Whoa, nebula, whoa! A new image from the Webb Telescope shows this nebula that's 1,300 light-years away the Horsehead Nebula |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | RIVERS OF THE WHIRLED $2000: Down south, some of the flow of the Mississippi is diverted into it:
AHA CALF AT YA the Atchafalaya |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): A December 2, 1954 resolution said the conduct of this man "is contrary to senatorial traditions and is hereby condemned" (Joseph) McCarthy |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | TRANSPORTATION $5,000 (Daily Double): Disneyland opened one of these in 1959;
Seattle, in 1962 &
Las Vegas, in 1995 a monorail |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | ALL A BOARD! $200: It's the delicious advertising item in use here a sandwich board |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | ALLITERATIVE PHRASES $200: When a job is not a chore but a passion, it's a this of this, like hosting "Jeopardy!" a labor of love |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $200: As you might guess, hall of fame goalie Martin Brodeur, known as "Satan's Wallpaper", played 21 years with this NHL team the Devils |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | LAWN & GARDEN $200: It sounds like a grassy roof covering, but this rooty lawn layer should be kept relatively thin thatch |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | SKY ROCKETS IN FLIGHT $200: This company proudly states that its Falcon Heavy rocket can lift 64 metric tons into orbit via 5 million pounds of thrust SpaceX |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $200: 1977:
This Egyptian president, who traveled to Israel to seek peace negotiations Anwar Sadat |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $400: 1981:
This electrician & union leader Wałęsa |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | ETYMOLOGY $400: Helpful in cooking, this word derived from the Latin for "take" originally referred to how much medicine one should mix together a recipe |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | BEASTIE BOYS $400: In "Hotel Transylvania 4", Dennis is part this type of creature; his granddad who runs the place is simply batty a vampire |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | IN THE ARCHIVES $400: In 2024-25, D.C.'s National Archives is exhibiting hundreds of its 1940s photos by Russell Lee of communities based on this activity coal mining |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | 3-LETTER RESPONSES $400: The figure seen in silhouette on its logo was modeled after Jerry West the NBA |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | A NO. 1 BESTSELLER THAT YEAR $400: 1969, fiction:
No one could refuse this Mario Puzo novel The Godfather |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | MEXICAN STATE CAPITALS $400: Like the "J" in its capital Guadalajara, this state's first letter "J" is also pronounced like an "H" Jalisco |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | ALLITERATIVE PHRASES $400: To achieve the ultimate triumph after failure is to have this the last laugh |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $400: This late Lakers superstar gave himself the nickname "Black Mamba", the code name of an assassin in the film "Kill Bill" (Kobe) Bryant |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | LAWN & GARDEN $400: A fairy ring is a naturally occurring circle of these fungi on a lawn mushrooms |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | SKY ROCKETS IN FLIGHT $400: In 2003, using its Long March 2F rocket, it became the third nation to launch a man into Earth's orbit China |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | ALL A BOARD! $400: Death Star II is one of the 2 dark blue properties in the "Return of the Jedi" version of this board game & will cost, yes, 400 Monopoly |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | SKY ROCKETS IN FLIGHT $600: Not the V but the IB version of this "planetary" rocket carried crews to Skylab the Saturn IB |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | ALLITERATIVE PHRASES $600: This person who is not fun at parties was popularized by a Rachel Dratch "SNL" character a Debbie Downer |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $600: This Yankee shortstop hit the game-winning homer in Game 4 of the 2001 World Series on November 1st, earning the nickname "Mr. November" Jeter |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | LAWN & GARDEN $600: Miracle-Gro suggests surrounding your plants with 2 to 3 inches of this 5-letter weed-inhibiting substance mulch |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | ALL A BOARD! $600: This Ivy League school dates its founding to 1740 with Ben Franklin being an early member of its board of trustees the University of Pennsylvania |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $600: 1986:
This Filipina Corazon Aquino |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | 3-LETTER RESPONSES $800: The RAV4 or the Rogue SUV |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | IN THE ARCHIVES $800: Disappointed because "I failed to die", Kiichi Kawano created an archive of fellow pilots in this type of World War II unit kamikaze |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | ETYMOLOGY $800: Hebrew for "lampstand" is the source of this, regularly seen at the end of the year a menorah |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | BEASTIE BOYS $800: With uncontrollable cravings in his past, this friend of Elmo & Abby teaches kids about healthy eats with his foodie truck the Cookie Monster |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | A NO. 1 BESTSELLER THAT YEAR $800: 2019, fiction:
This story of "Marsh Girl" had everyone humming along Where the Crawdads Sing |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | MEXICAN STATE CAPITALS $800: The beautiful city of Villahermosa is the capital of this saucy state down south Tabasco |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | ALLITERATIVE PHRASES $800: This 2-word phrase derives from a Latin way of saying "the position being reversed" vice versa |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | LAWN & GARDEN $800: This alliterative type of vegetation is named for how it protects & fortifies soil when your garden would otherwise be bare a cover crop |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | SKY ROCKETS IN FLIGHT $800: Titan series rockets like the ones that launched Viking & Voyager were originally conceived as ICBMs, short for these intercontinental ballistic missile |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | ALL A BOARD! $800: In building a sanctuary in Exodus, "the length of a board was ten" of these common biblical units cubits |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $800: 1936:
This twice-divorced American woman Wallis Simpson |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | MEXICAN STATE CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): Mérida is the capital of this southeastern peninsular state Yucatán |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | ALLITERATIVE PHRASES $1000: On a road trip in my big old whip, we had to stop for fuel every couple of hours--the car is definitely one of these a gas guzzler |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $1000: As a young tennis player, this Spanish phenom was nicknamed "El Niño" Rafael Nadal |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | LAWN & GARDEN $1000: Ladybugs are beneficial garden insects; they can consume dozens per day of these, also known as plant lice aphids |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | SKY ROCKETS IN FLIGHT $1000: Charles Lindbergh & Harry Guggenheim aided this professor's early rocketry experiments at Roswell Goddard |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | ALL A BOARD! $1000: A 1954 Supreme Court case that banned racial segregation in public schools involved the Board of Education of this city Topeka, Kansas |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $1000: 1968:
The astronauts of this Apollo mission, the first manned one to orbit the Moon Apollo 8 |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | ETYMOLOGY $1200: The name for this sort of place you might visit for fun & knowledge comes to us from a group of sister goddesses a museum |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | BEASTIE BOYS $1200: With just 3 eyes between them, these 2 beasties in "Monsters, Inc." were voiced by Billy Crystal & John Goodman Mike & Sulley |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | IN THE ARCHIVES $1200: The Vatican Apostolic (formerly "Secret") Archives has the Jan. 3, 1521 document excommunicating this German Martin Luther |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | 3-LETTER RESPONSES $1200: Lou Gehrig's disease is also known by this initialism ALS |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | A NO. 1 BESTSELLER THAT YEAR $1200: 1989, nonfiction: "My Turn: The Memoirs of" this ex-first lady turned heads & pages Nancy Reagan |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | IN THE ARCHIVES $1600: Russia's archives hold discoveries like proof Stalin ordered the Katyn massacre of 20,000 officers & men in this country's army Poland |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | 3-LETTER RESPONSES $1600: Tuition is half off for Latter-Day Saints at this 3-letter school BYU |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | ETYMOLOGY $1600: A centuries-old fair held outside a Dublin suburb gave its name to this type of free-for-all melee a donnybrook |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | BEASTIE BOYS $1600: This post-apocalyptic Netflix series follows Gus, who is part deer, part human & a big fan of candy Sweet Tooth |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | MEXICAN STATE CAPITALS $1600: Capital of the same-named state but sometimes followed by "de Zaragoza", it's the site of the 1862 battle on Cinco de Mayo Puebla |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | BEASTIE BOYS $2000: Plucked from the Amazon, the amphibian man in this Guillermo del Toro flick falls for mute Elisa The Shape of Water |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | IN THE ARCHIVES $2000: France's Archives nationales has documents way back to the 8th century, like one with this ruler's "K-R-L-S" signature Charlemagne |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | ETYMOLOGY $2000: You need 2 U's to spell this, with a Chinese name meaning "gold citrus fruit" kumquat |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | 3-LETTER RESPONSES $2000: Allen Dulles & President Eisenhower laid the cornerstone for its original headquarters building in 1959 the CIA |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | A NO. 1 BESTSELLER THAT YEAR $2000: 1973, nonfiction:
This book by Alex Comfort was in the bedrooms of many curious couples The Joy of Sex |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | MEXICAN STATE CAPITALS $2000: Mexicali is the capital of this northwestern peninsular state Baja California |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): A world record-holding sprinter recently trademarked this famous victory pose, also his nickname Lightning Bolt |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | A NO. 1 BESTSELLER THAT YEAR $3,200 (Daily Double): 1974, fiction:
This book about espionage with 4 professions in the title worked its way to No. 1 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | MAY I HAVE YOUR HOMOGRAPH? $200: To make someone burn with rage, &
a substance burned for a good scent incense & incense |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | HISTORICAL FICTION $200: A Bolshevik tribunal puts an aristocrat under house arrest & Russian history unfolds in "A Gentleman in" this city Moscow |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | THROWBACK TECHNOLOGY $200: On its first day in North America August 14, 1989, it was said, "Let there be Sega", & this console was released, & it was good the Genesis |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | "I"-FAN $200: In 1998, this city's faithful rejoiced when their team took Peyton Manning with the first pick in the NFL draft Indianapolis |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | SHOE BIZ $200: Yee-haw! In the 1940s Frye introduced its first pair of these, the Rancher cowboy boots |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $200: 250 miles off continental Africa, this very large island nation boasts Ankaratra, a 2,000-square-mile volcanic region Madagascar |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | SHOE BIZ $400: Crikey! At last count its classic resin clogs came in 35 colors including Kiwi & Orange Zing Crocs |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | "I"-FAN $400: An Albuquerque minor league team took this name in 2002 after a "Simpsons" episode; its fans must love science the Isotopes |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | THE BODY ELECTRIC $400: Spinal cord stimulators are electrodes that are surgically implanted between the spinal cord & these, of which there are 33 vertebrae |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | I SING... $400: "Flesh For Fantasy" & "Eyes Without A Face" Billy Idol |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | LEGAL BRIEFS $400: The nearly 2 dozen people who listen to prosecutorial evidence & decide on indictment make up this group the grand jury |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: After this date listed on the bratwurst, don't eat it! Throw it out! expiration |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | BALLET & OPERA $400: In 2015 Misty Copeland took flight in the dual role of Odette & Odile in this ballet Swan Lake |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | MAY I HAVE YOUR HOMOGRAPH? $400: A game fish, &
a kick drum a bass & a bass |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | HISTORICAL FICTION $400: The wind cries Mary to Henry VIII in "The Other" this "Girl" & suffice to say, things get complicated Boleyn |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | THROWBACK TECHNOLOGY $400: Also called a "diskette", this 2-word thingamajig got its nickname since its first varieties were put in bendable jackets a floppy disk |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $400: Until a 1980 change, the now-familiar pair of St. Kitts & this was a trio including Anguilla Nevis |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | HISTORICAL FICTION $600: Nancy Horan's "Loving Frank" is the story of the relationship between this architect & Mamah Borthwick, from her viewpoint Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | MAY I HAVE YOUR HOMOGRAPH? $600: Brooded, &
a low-powered bike moped & moped |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | THROWBACK TECHNOLOGY $600: The app Lapse makes your phone act like this type of single-use camera; photos are a mystery until they "develop" later in the day disposable camera |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | "I"-FAN $600: The twin cities of Champaign & Urbana are home to cheering throngs who root for NCAA sports teams known as the "Fighting" this Illini |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | SHOE BIZ $600: This online shoe retailer whose name derives from the Spanish word for "shoe" was acquired by Amazon in 2009 Zappos |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $600: The first lighthouse on California's coast was on this island in San Francisco Bay later more famous for something else Alcatraz |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | BALLET & OPERA $800: Tobias Picker composed a ballet & an opera based on this Oliver Sacks book about patients with a mysterious sleeping sickness Awakenings |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | THE BODY ELECTRIC $800: This type of implant that improves hearing is named for a tube in the ear that's shaped like a snail shell a cochlear implant |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | I SING... $800: "Girl On Fire" & "Empire State Of Mind" Alicia Keys |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | THE HISTORIC 1950s $800: Prior to winning the 1952 election, Eisenhower promised if elected, "I shall go to" this place; he did & war ended soon after Korea |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | LEGAL BRIEFS $800: A preliminary this court order stops a party from taking action; after more facts are uncovered, a permanent one may be granted an injunction |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: Thanks, I'll stay to dinner, sleep in your bed & borrow your car if you're sure it's no this, from Latin for "to put upon" imposition |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | MAY I HAVE YOUR HOMOGRAPH? $800: Satisfied, &
a bean counter's word for movies & TV shows content & content |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | HISTORICAL FICTION $800: In Jeff Shaara's "The Eagle's Claw", the U.S. breaks the Japanese naval code & the battle for this island NW of Hawaii is on Midway |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | THROWBACK TECHNOLOGY $800: Thanks to GPS-enabled phones, it's no longer necessary to print out your route using this site acquired by AOL in 1999 MapQuest |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | "I"-FAN $800: Philly fans love to cheer for this spark plug hoops guard seen here Allen Iverson |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $800: Bligh me! Named for the sailor who sighted it, this volcanic island southeast of Tahiti has fertile soil & a subtropical climate Pitcairn Island |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | SHOE BIZ $1,000 (Daily Double): In "Snoe Dog", he wrote, "I liked that Nike was the goddess of victory. What's more important... than victory?" Phil Knight |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | MAY I HAVE YOUR HOMOGRAPH? $1000: An abridgement of a piece of written material, & to mentally assimilate what you've just read a digest & digest |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | HISTORICAL FICTION $1000: James Michener covers 400 years of history & Edmund Steed's family in this novel set along the eastern shore of a bay Chesapeake |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | THROWBACK TECHNOLOGY $1000: In 1999 Research in Motion released this device, calling it "a breakthrough wireless email solution for mobile professionals" a BlackBerry |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | "I"-FAN $1000: In the 1980s fans celebrated as this East Coast NHL team made it to 5 straight Stanley Cup Finals the Islanders |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | SHOE BIZ $1000: At $2,050, the Sacaria Platform 120 from the co. of this Malaysian-born designer comes with a nearly 5" heel & pearl embellishments Jimmy Choo |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $1000: Near the entrance to the Bay of Naples, this isle was once the Fire Island of Europe as gay tourists flocked there Capri |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: We imagine that if the performer seen here hands out a business card, it lists this profession a funambulist (aerialist) |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | THE BODY ELECTRIC $1200: Neuralink aims to link machines & minds: first for injuries like this loss of blood in the brain, then to alter humanity a stroke |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | I SING... $1200: "Hold Me Closer" & "Toxic" Britney Spears |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | THE HISTORIC 1950s $1200: In 1959 Pope John XXIII announced a council of spiritual renewal known as this the Vatican II |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | LEGAL BRIEFS $1200: Alec Baldwin's "Rust" manslaughter trial ended because the prosecution botched this process of showing evidence to the other side discovery |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | THE BODY ELECTRIC $1600: A cardiac resynchronization therapy device is also known as a biventricular one of these, which stimulates the heart a pacemaker |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | I SING... $1600: "Cartoon & Cereal" & "Not Like Us" Kendrick Lamar |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | LEGAL BRIEFS $1600: When the defendant fails to appear in court or respond to the complaint, the plaintiff wins with this type of judgment a default judgment |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: Helium was named for the Sun; this element, atomic number 34, for the Moon selenium |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | BALLET & OPERA $1600: Called the first great American opera, it premiered in 1935 with Todd Duncan & Anne Wiggins Brown in the lead roles Porgy and Bess |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | THE BODY ELECTRIC $2000: Insulin pumps are small electronic devices that mimic the way this organ works in the body the pancreas |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | I SING... $2000: "Lust For Life" & "Candy" Iggy Pop |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | THE HISTORIC 1950s $2000: During the decade, Kwame Nkrumah led the fight to turn the Gold Coast into this country Ghana |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | LEGAL BRIEFS $2000: It's the act of inciting rebellion against lawful authority; it's considered less serious than treason sedition |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: It's the percentage of red cells in your blood; the Red Cross won't let you donate if it's below 38 your hematocrit |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | BALLET & OPERA $2000: This Balanchine ballet fittingly features parts called "Emeralds", "Rubies" & "Diamonds" Jewels |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | BALLET & OPERA $4,000 (Daily Double): In this 1787 opera, a famous seducer is said to have had 1,003 lovers in Spain alone Don Giovanni |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | THE HISTORIC 1950s $6,400 (Daily Double): In 1958 Charles de Gaulle was elected the first president of the French government known by this ordinal name the Fifth Republic |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | STARTS WITH "Z" $200: This type of lens is designed for variable changes in focal length zoom |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | SOUTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $200: The Tropic of Capricorn passes through several deserts, including this one on Chile's coast the Atacama |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | A STUDY IN SCARLET $200: A field full of scarlet these flowers caused Dorothy, Toto & the Cowardly Lion to fall asleep poppies |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | TV SPIN-OFFS $200: "Better Call Saul" Breaking Bad |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | BASIC MATH TERMS $200: Adjective for an angle of less than 90 degrees acute |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | SOME PAINS, SOME GAINS $200: The long-term type of these gains are taxed at a lower rate than regular income--0% for the first $63,000 for heads of households capital gains |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PURE BED-LAM $400: Words of wisdom say this pair of 3-word phrases will make you "healthy, wealthy & wise" early to bed & early to rise |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | EVERYONE'S LOST THEIR MARBLES $400: Once having the name of a British ambassador, the Elgin Marbles are now named for this temple they were taken from the Parthenon |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | THINGS HAVE GONE OFF THE RAILS $400: The last movie in this series finds Christopher Lloyd flying off on a hoverboard with Mary Steenburgen before a train crash Back to the Future |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | "M"INENT WRITERS $400: In 1999 this Arizona senator took time away from his day job to co-write "Faith of My Fathers" John McCain |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | TOUGH RHYMING PAIRS $400: "Equine" bean variety
&
a Japanese religion pinto & Shinto |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: Along with fighting for equal rights, Lucretia Mott was an abolitionist & her home was a station on this network the Underground Railroad |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | STARTS WITH "Z" $400: This landlocked country borders 8 others, including Tanzania & Namibia Zambia |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | SOUTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $400: Though its name means "river of silver", some geographers like to call it a sea or gulf Rio de la Plata |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | A STUDY IN SCARLET $400: The handsome fellow seen here is called the scarlet this, a fine example of a New World parrot a macaw |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | TV SPIN-OFFS $400: "Frasier" Cheers |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | BASIC MATH TERMS $400: Though this vertical line is a basis of the Cartesian coordinate system, Descartes never heard of it the y-axis |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | SOME PAINS, SOME GAINS $400: You could've bought this stock at $22 a share when it went public December 12, 1980, & why didn't you, mom & dad? Apple |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | STARTS WITH "Z" $600: The son of Berechiah, this biblical prophet with his own book predicted the rebuilding of the temple Zechariah |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | SOUTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $600: The Gran Chaco is an alluvial plain bordered by the Andes on the west & on the east by the Paraná & this other "Par" river the Paraguay |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | A STUDY IN SCARLET $600: Sir Henry the Scarlet Knight is the mascot of this university Rutgers |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | TV SPIN-OFFS $600: "The Book of Boba Fett" The Mandalorian |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | BASIC MATH TERMS $600: It's a mathematical expression consisting of 2 parts, as in 2b + 3a a binomial |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | SOME PAINS, SOME GAINS $600: The same virus that causes this common childhood disease can cause painful shingles later in life chickenpox |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | SOUTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $800: The man-made floating islands of the Uros people can be found on this big lake between Peru & Bolivia Lake Titicaca |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PURE BED-LAM $800: In Japan, this type of bed, basically a mattress without springs, was traditionally placed on a tatami mat a futon |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | EVERYONE'S LOST THEIR MARBLES $800: This statue was found in pieces on a Greek island in 1820; a hand holding an apple found nearby was carved from the same marble the Venus de Milo |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | THINGS HAVE GONE OFF THE RAILS $800: Sandra Bullock & Keanu Reeves switch transports & end up making a subway train go off the rails in this 1994 flick Speed |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | "M"INENT WRITERS $800: An actor, playwright, banjoist & much more, he called his autobiography "Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life" Steve Martin |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | TOUGH RHYMING PAIRS $800: Mandible-mauling hard candy
&
one who falls afoul of the justice system jawbreaker & lawbreaker |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: Emily Warren Roebling was largely responsible for supervising the construction of this bridge built from 1869 to 1883 the Brooklyn Bridge |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | STARTS WITH "Z" $800: False silver was what the ancient Greeks called this metal, an ingredient of the alloy brass zinc |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | A STUDY IN SCARLET $800: The rash that accompanies this streptococcal disease has been described as "sunburn with goose pimples" scarlet fever |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | TV SPIN-OFFS $800: "The Colbert Report" The Daily Show |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | SOME PAINS, SOME GAINS $800: A Delaware senator gave his name to this type of individual retirement account that can reduce an investor's taxes Roth (IRA) |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | BASIC MATH TERMS $1,000 (Daily Double): The result of a basic operation, it's from the Latin for "how many times" a quotient |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | STARTS WITH "Z" $1000: This Native American people with a pueblo west of Albuquerque are known for their turquoise jewelry the Zuni |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | SOUTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $1000: At the southern tip of the continent you'll find this promontory named for the birthplace of a Dutch navigator Cape Horn |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | A STUDY IN SCARLET $1000: In an Orczy tale, Andrew says this is a "humble" flower & also the name of "the best & bravest man in all the world" the scarlet pimpernel |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | TV SPIN-OFFS $1000: "Private Practice", starring Kate Walsh Grey's Anatomy |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | BASIC MATH TERMS $1000: From the Greek for "four-sided", it's a geometric solid made up of 4 triangular plane faces a tetrahedron |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | SOME PAINS, SOME GAINS $1000: Burning or shooting pain is often associated with this condition, from Greek for "nerve" neuralgia (neuropathy) |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | EVERYONE'S LOST THEIR MARBLES $1200: A marble bull head on display at the Met was found to be taken from Lebanon & was returned this way, from the Latin for "fatherland" repatriation |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | THINGS HAVE GONE OFF THE RAILS $1200: After a bus & train collide, Sam Gerard wants a search of every "warehouse, farmhouse... outhouse and dog-house" in this film The Fugitive |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | "M"INENT WRITERS $1200: In 1994 this Chicago playwright known for unflinching language got novel for the first time with "The Village" David Mamet |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1200: In a 1998 presidential election, this world leader defeated a Yale-educated economist & a former Miss Venezuela Hugo Chavez |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PURE BED-LAM $1600: Meaning "to cause to roll", it's also a type of bed that stows under another bed a trundle bed |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | EVERYONE'S LOST THEIR MARBLES $1600: Sometimes you find your marbles! An eagle-eyed student spied this French sculptor's signature on a "Lost" marble bust of Napoleon Rodin |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | THINGS HAVE GONE OFF THE RAILS $1600: In this J.J. Abrams film, kids filming a zombie movie are interrupted by a fiery train crash, & then the military shows up Super 8 |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | "M"INENT WRITERS $1600: A 2013 article for "The Economist" about this novelist was titled "His Bleak Road", which--hat tip--really was an on-the-money title Cormac McCarthy |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | TOUGH RHYMING PAIRS $1600: Deceptive or cunning
&
the one before devious & previous |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1600: In "Why Vietnam?" former OSS Chief of Indochina Archimedes Patti talks about his relationship with this "enigmatic revolutionary" Ho Chi Minh |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | TOUGH RHYMING PAIRS $2,000 (Daily Double): Someone who contacts departed spirits
&
that feeling of boredom medium & tedium |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PURE BED-LAM $2000: The sleep foundation says using blue-light devices before bed may suppress production of this hormone the body makes naturally melatonin |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | EVERYONE'S LOST THEIR MARBLES $2000: The Bruges Madonna, a marble of Mary & baby Jesus by this renaissance master, was stolen twice Michelangelo |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | THINGS HAVE GONE OFF THE RAILS $2000: In this 2012 WWII flick, David Oyelowo & crew prove they are top guns taking out an enemy train Red Tails |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | "M"INENT WRITERS $2000: In 1997, this author who frequently used his native Texas a setting, published "Comanche Moon" McMurtry |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | TOUGH RHYMING PAIRS $2000: Your rate of inclination
&
shining brightly gradient & radiant |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $2000: 18th century B.C. man associated with quotes like "If he knock out the teeth of a freed man, he shall pay 1/3 of a gold mina" Hammurabi |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PURE BED-LAM $3,000 (Daily Double): You can use this cozy 5-letter couch as a bed; it's also found in the name of a chicken & broccoli dish topped with Hollandaise a divan |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | COMPOUND WORDS $200: It sounds like a bath for a pig, but it means nonsense hogwash |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ALSO FOUND IN THE BATHROOM $200: The meteor kind of this usually takes the name of a constellation that would be overhead when viewing shower |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | MY CHERRY AMOUR $200: In 1966 federal law banned these fireworks because of the amount of explosives they contained cherry bombs |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | DIRECTIONS TO THE LANDMARK $200: From Abbey Road Studios, swing by the Dorchester Hotel & Buckingham Palace on your way to this 320' tower on the Thames the Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | THE TV SHOW IN QUESTION $200: "Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?" is hosted by this man who's maybe more famous as a BF than as a 3-time Super Bowl champ Travis Kelce |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | FRIENDS OF JOHN BROWN $200: Mary Ellen Pleasant, one of the richest people in this city during its Gold Rush era said she gave John $30,000 San Francisco |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | CATCH, 22 $400: The Vikings haven't retired the No. 22 worn by Paul Krause, the NFL's all-time leader in these, catching a pass from the opposing QB interceptions |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ALL THE LIGHT WE CAN SEE $400: Superman might know that this element used in fluorescent lights is No. 36 on the periodic table krypton |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | WORLD WAR II FICTION $400: A twist on history, Harry Turtledove's "Days of Infamy" imagines Japan occupying Hawaii after the attack here Pearl Harbor |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ORDINAL PHRASES $400: Also the title of an Oscar-nominated film, this alliterative power is sometimes defined as intuition the sixth sense |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | SHADES OF BLUE $400: There are shades of blue named for the Navy & this Colorado service academy the Air Force |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | A SERIOUS BEATITUDE $400: "Blessed are they that" do this, perhaps for a relative who has passed: "for they shall be comforted" mourn |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | COMPOUND WORDS $400: This word originally meant the happy time at the start of a marriage, perhaps lasting for just one lunar cycle honeymoon |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ALSO FOUND IN THE BATHROOM $400: Some say this company's kick scooters, hoverboards & RipStiks are a cut above Razor |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | MY CHERRY AMOUR $400: Ben & Jerry's says it's the "first ice cream named for a rock legend and the most famous of our fan-suggested flavors" Cherry Garcia |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | DIRECTIONS TO THE LANDMARK $400: At Columbus Circle, hop on the 1 Train downtown to Rector St., walk 5 min. to Trinity Churchyard & the 1804 grave of this treasury sec. Hamilton |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | THE TV SHOW IN QUESTION $400: "Who's the Boss?" starred him as Tony Micelli, an ex-baseball player turned housekeeper Tony Danza |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | FRIENDS OF JOHN BROWN $400: Osborne P. Anderson, the only Raider to write a memoir, compared Brown to this "ancient patriarch spoken of in Exodus" Moses |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | DIRECTIONS TO THE LANDMARK $600: Go over the Qasr El Nil Bridge, head south past the Giza Zoo & the 3 Pyramids View Inn, look for its 50-foot-long front legs the Sphinx |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | COMPOUND WORDS $600: In song this person with a large, wide maw or a lack of discretion "Strikes Again" a Bigmouth |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ALSO FOUND IN THE BATHROOM $600: Goldie Hawn & Warren Beatty had some fun in this 1975 Hal Ashby comedy Shampoo |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | MY CHERRY AMOUR $600: This nanny comes to work for the Banks family at No. 17 Cherry-Tree Lane in London Mary Poppins |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | THE TV SHOW IN QUESTION $600: A 2-parter called "What's My Line?" had this title character wondering about career choices if fate hadn't made her a vampire slayer Buffy |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | FRIENDS OF JOHN BROWN $600: They met for the 1st time in 1858 & she assisted John Brown by drawing from her geographical knowledge of the Mid-Atlantic region Harriet Tubman |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | DIRECTIONS TO THE LANDMARK $800: Up from Pike Place Market, take a left on 1st Avenue, then a right on Broad Street... this 600-foot landmark is hard to miss the Space Needle |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | CATCH, 22 $800: Longtime Pirates No. 22 Andrew McCutchen won a 2012 Gold Glove for catching & throwing in this widest-ranging outfield position center field |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ALL THE LIGHT WE CAN SEE $800: Not a surprise based on their names, glowworms & fireflies exhibit this, a chemical reaction that produces light bioluminescence |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | WORLD WAR II FICTION $800: In a 2006 John Boyne novel, a 9-year-old German kid named Bruno sees a boy in these title clothes & makes friends with him the striped pajamas |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ORDINAL PHRASES $800: Seattle Seahawks fans are considered this at football games, one more than are allowed to be fielded at a time the 12th man |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | SHADES OF BLUE $800: A shade of blue is named for this daughter of Teddy Roosevelt; her love of it sparked a fashion trend & a song Alice |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | A SERIOUS BEATITUDE $800: Referencing 2 basic appetites, "Blessed are they which do" this & this "after righteousness: for they shall be filled" hunger & thirst |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: This owner of a rental property maximizes profits while allowing the property to deteriorate a slumlord |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ALSO FOUND IN THE BATHROOM $800: As a verb this 4-letter word means to search everywhere comb |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | MY CHERRY AMOUR $800: This dry brandy from the Black Forest of Germany is made from the fermented juice of the black morello cherry kirsch |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | THE TV SHOW IN QUESTION $800: In the "Who Shaves the Barber?" episode of this FX series, Billy Bob Thornton as Lorne Malvo does some shooting in the title town Fargo |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | FRIENDS OF JOHN BROWN $800: John Brown asked this orator & friend if he wanted to join the Harpers Ferry raid--he declined & called the raid a "steel trap" (Frederick) Douglass |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | FRIENDS OF JOHN BROWN $1000: John A. Copeland was captured at Harpers Ferry while trying to ford this river that shares its name with a Virginia national park the Shenandoah |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | COMPOUND WORDS $1000: A synonym for applaud begins this slang word for a well-timed retort clapback |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ALSO FOUND IN THE BATHROOM $1000: Southeast of Dusseldorf, it's a historical capital of the Rhineland Cologne |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | DIRECTIONS TO THE LANDMARK $1000: Hop over the Harbour Bridge & soon, hit Macquarie St. to sing the praises of this architectural marvel on Bennelong Point the Sydney Opera House |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | THE TV SHOW IN QUESTION $1000: She played an amnesiac on the 2007-2009 sitcom "Samantha Who?" Applegate |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | CATCH, 22 $1200: In 1970 Willie Jackson Sr. wore 22 as the first Black player in a game for this U.'s football Gators; his grandson now wears it there Florida |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ALL THE LIGHT WE CAN SEE $1200: The pencil appears to bend due to this property of physics as light waves move from one medium to another refraction |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | WORLD WAR II FICTION $1200: The bird in the title of this Kristin Hannah bestseller is young Isabelle Rossignol's code name in the French Resistance The Nightingale |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | SHADES OF BLUE $1200: This vowel-heavy sea containing islands like Kos & Patmos has a lovely shade of blue named for it the Aegean |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | A SERIOUS BEATITUDE $1200: Batting third in the lineup is the star beatitude "Blessed are" they: "for they shall inherit the earth" the meek |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ORDINAL PHRASES $1600: An ordinal number is found 3 times in this phrase referring to the time the armistice ending WWI was enacted the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | CATCH, 22 $1600: Fresh from 1964 Olympic gold in the 100-meter dash in this city, Bob Hayes became No. 22 as a Cowboys receiver & then a Hall of Famer Tokyo |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | WORLD WAR II FICTION $1600: In this Markus Zusak novel, Liesel steals something belonging to a gravedigger & is seen doing so by the book's narrator, Death The Book Thief |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | SHADES OF BLUE $1600: Forefront of the CMYK color model is this one whose name comes from the Greek cyan |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | A SERIOUS BEATITUDE $1600: "Blessed are" these soothers of troubled waters: "for they shall be called the children of god" the peacemakers |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ALL THE LIGHT WE CAN SEE $2,000 (Daily Double): Auroras happen as atoms react with electrons & protons brought to the upper atmosphere by this flux of particles from our sun the solar wind |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | CATCH, 22 $2000: In 1939 catcher Moe Berg retired from wearing No. 22 for the Red Sox; a few years later his team was this WWII-era intelligence agency the OSS |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ALL THE LIGHT WE CAN SEE $2000: Here's a city created by this process that uses lasers to make everything look futuristic holography |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | WORLD WAR II FICTION $2000: In this J.G. Ballard classic made into a 1987 film, young Jim is separated from his parents in 1941 Shanghai Empire of the Sun |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ORDINAL PHRASES $2000: After the clergy, the nobility & the public, the press became known as this the Fourth Estate |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | SHADES OF BLUE $2000: "P" is for this shade of blue, also the name of a tiny sea snail periwinkle |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | A SERIOUS BEATITUDE $2000: "Blessed are the poor in" this: "for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" spirit |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | MY CHERRY AMOUR $3,400 (Daily Double): As this 1904 play opens, Mrs. Ranevsky & her daughter Anya arrive home from Paris The Cherry Orchard |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ORDINAL PHRASES $4,000 (Daily Double): Like King Kong, the Astrodome & the Taj Mahal have been billed as this the Eighth Wonder of the World |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | SCIENCE $200: Whether a substance sinks or floats depends on this, symbol D; if tried by ordeal in the Middle Ages, hope you have high D density |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | THE LAWYERS' NOTES ON MY NEW MEMOIR $200: Rather than naming this city, please call it "a major seaway port in Cuyahoga County" Cleveland |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | PLAYING GAMES $200: A newer version of this board game allows you to solve the murder either at the mansion of the millionaire victim or on the boardwalk Clue |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | CANONIZED SHOTS $200: Said to have rescued a princess from a dragon he then slew, he was canonized in 494 & became England's patron saint much later St. George |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | HYPHENATED WORDS $200: Designed to prevent pilferage, like devices attached to some merchandise anti-theft |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | A NIGHT AT THE THEATER $200: Cole Escola wrote & starred in "Oh, Mary!", which portrayed this 19th century first lady as a frustrated cabaret singer Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | "OON" DOGGLE $400: Perhaps from French for "let's drink", it means to satirize or poke fun at lampoon |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $400: Known as the "River of No Return", the Salmon River in Idaho is the largest tributary of this other animal-named river the Snake |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | ESSAYS $400: This actor drew both support & backlash for his 2024 N.Y. Times guest essay calling for a new Democratic presidential nominee George Clooney |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | SHORT MOVIE TITLES $400: Shanghai stands in for a futuristic Los Angeles in this 2013 film directed by Spike Jonze Her |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | A TAXING CATEGORY $400: Taxes can be regressive, hitting lower incomes harder, or this type that asks the wealthy to pay relatively more progressive |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS $400: Born in 1542 in Linlithgow Palace, Mary was a member of this dynastic family that had ruled Scotland since 1371 the Stuarts |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | THE LAWYERS' NOTES ON MY NEW MEMOIR $400: An iconic type of apple discovered in the 1870s & named for its color & sweet taste will please replace these two words Red Delicious |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | SCIENCE $400: Dying in a Pasadena hospital in 1985, he followed reports of a terrible earthquake off the coast of Mexico (Charles) Richter |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | PLAYING GAMES $400: The winner of the auto race card game Mille Bornes is the first to complete a journey of this many miles 1,000 |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | CANONIZED SHOTS $400: Made a saint in 1228, Francesco di Pietro di Bernardone is better known by this name that includes a place St. Francis of Assisi |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | HYPHENATED WORDS $400: There are 2 hyphens in this word for someone who pretends to omniscience, & I better not hear you call me one know-it-all |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | A NIGHT AT THE THEATER $400: His "Passion" earned him a Tony for Best Original Score & so did "Into the Woods" & "Sweeney Todd" Stephen Sondheim |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | HYPHENATED WORDS $600: A life-like depiction of a character, or more literally, having length, breadth & depth three-dimensional |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | THE LAWYERS' NOTES ON MY NEW MEMOIR $600: Do not name this university--"a purple-proud school north of the Windy City" will work Northwestern |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | SCIENCE $600: Both discovered in 1610, Callisto & Io are 2 of its satellites Jupiter |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | PLAYING GAMES $600: Sega designers initially considered making this speedy blue video game character an armadillo or a porcupine Sonic the Hedgehog |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | CANONIZED SHOTS $600: He was canonized in 1173, a little more than 2 years after he was slain in Canterbury Cathedral Becket |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | A NIGHT AT THE THEATER $600: (Scarlett Johansson presents the clue.) In 2010, I made my Broadway debut as Catherine opposite Liev Schreiber in "A View from the Bridge", written in 1955 by this Pulitzer-winning American playwright Arthur Miller |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | "OON" DOGGLE $800: From a Tagalog word for "mountain", this word refers to a remote, rural area boondocks |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | ESSAYS $800: Lars Eighner's classic memoir of homelessness includes an essay on this alliterative act of scavenging in trash receptacles dumpster diving |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | SHORT MOVIE TITLES $800: Will Ferrell & Zooey Deschanel duetted on "Baby, It's Cold Outside" in this film Elf |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | A TAXING CATEGORY $800: In 1943 Congress mandated this process via which employers deduct taxes from workers' paychecks withholding |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS $800: The Penicuik Jewels, artifacts from the jewelry-loving queen, include this type of piece, a case with a memento in it a locket |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | THE LAWYERS' NOTES ON MY NEW MEMOIR $800: This national park in Texas may be identified only as "a 1,200-square-mile site named for a river feature" Big Bend |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | PLAYING GAMES $800: In "The Game of" this, just like the real thing, the goal is to manage your money & get to retirement wealthy Life |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | CANONIZED SHOTS $800: Born in this town in France, 14-year-old Bernadette had visions of the Virgin Mary, leading to her canonization by Pope Pius XI Lourdes |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | HYPHENATED WORDS $800: A minor role for a stage actor, or an unrecruited athlete who tries out for a college team a walk-on |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | A NIGHT AT THE THEATER $800: In a 2024 production of "101 Dalmatians: The Musical" at the New Wimbledon Theatre, Kym Marsh had this role, not an ASPCA fave Cruella de Vil |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | A TAXING CATEGORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Most of the proceeds from the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (or FICA) tax go to this program Social Security |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | THE LAWYERS' NOTES ON MY NEW MEMOIR $1000: You may refer to this company only as "an Indianapolis-based provider of medicines founded in the year of our nation's centennial" Eli Lilly |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | SCIENCE $1000: Beetles, crabs & spiders are all members of this largest animal phylum whose name is from Greek words for "joint" & "foot" arthropod |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | PLAYING GAMES $1000: Abe Nathanson, the son of a fruit seller, created this a-peel-ing word game with his family Bananagrams |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | CANONIZED SHOTS $1000: For his work with lepers in Hawaii, work that would lead to his own death, he was canonized on October 11, 2009 Father Damien |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | HYPHENATED WORDS $1000: It originally meant a race contestant who performed best while in the lead; now it just means the current leader front-runner |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | A NIGHT AT THE THEATER $1000: Songs in this 1960s musical that's not afraid to get naked include "Hashish" & "Good Morning Starshine" Hair |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | "OON" DOGGLE $1200: In 1883 settlers from Ontario founded this city 2 provinces over Saskatoon |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $1200: Just two hours from Los Angeles, this large lake in the San Bernardino Mountains is a popular resort for skiers Big Bear |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | ESSAYS $1200: This "Joy Luck Club" author shared her observations on the English language in an essay called "Mother Tongue" Amy Tan |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | SHORT MOVIE TITLES $1200: The appearance of grumpy old Carl Fredricksen in this 2009 animated film was partially modeled after Spencer Tracy Up |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | A TAXING CATEGORY $1200: A homonym of a word meaning to cut out, they're taxes on specific goods, services or activities excise |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS $1200: Mary's only child, with 2nd husband Lord Darnley, was born in 1566 & became king of England under this name & number James I |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | "OON" DOGGLE $1600: In European armies of old, it was a mounted soldier armed with a musket a dragoon |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $1600: Bradenton is the seat of this Florida county named for an aquatic mammal Manatee |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | ESSAYS $1600: His move to Paris & attempts to learn French inspired this humorist's book of essays "Me Talk Pretty One Day" Sedaris |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | SHORT MOVIE TITLES $1600: 2024 film in which Ryan Reynolds endeavors to reunite imaginary friends with the now-grown kids who forgot them IF |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS $1600: It was customary for this person to ask forgiveness before doing his job; Mary forgave hers Feb. 8, 1587 an executioner |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | ESSAYS $2000: She wrote about race & identity in her 1928 essay "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (Zora Neale) Hurston |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | "OON" DOGGLE $2000: These close-fitting trousers bear the name of a buffoonish commedia dell'arte character who wore something similar pantaloons |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $2000: Founded during the Klondike gold rush, this city in the Yukon swelled in population to 8,000 during construction of the Alaska Hwy. Whitehorse |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | SHORT MOVIE TITLES $2000: It's Kurosawa's take on "King Lear" Ran |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | A TAXING CATEGORY $2000: Property & sales taxes are often this type, from Latin for "in proportion to value" ad valorem |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | SCIENCE $3,000 (Daily Double): The 2 chemical elements bearing the names of U.S. states are tennessine & this one californium |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $10,000 (Daily Double): This city in Erie County is home to the Nickel City Opera Buffalo |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | 5, 5 $200: Like slaphappy, this adjective originally referred to a boxer who was dazed from taking too many blows to the head punch drunk |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | THE QUOTABLE OSCAR WILDE $200: In "Lady Windermere's Fan", Wilde wrote, "I can resist everything except" this temptation |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | ALL SAINTS $200: Its state's second-most populous city, this capital is built on bluffs along a curve in the Mississippi River St. Paul |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | HER FIRST NO. 1 POP HIT $200: 2006:
"Hips Don't Lie" Shakira |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | A VERY VANILLA CATEGORY $200: The difference between regular vanilla ice cream & French vanilla is the addition of these, which also makes it yellower egg yolks |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | DEAD LIKE ME $200: Shortly after her husband fell on his sword in 30 B.C., this royal got snakebit & was buried with her beloved Cleopatra |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | HER FIRST NO. 1 POP HIT $400: 2008:
"I Kissed A Girl" (& she liked it) Katy Perry |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | THE "NE" ADD $400: Put "NE" before a word for a buddy & climb up to this mountainous Asian country Nepal (from Nepal) |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | THE ODYSSEY $400: In 2012 he became the first person to reach Challenger Deep solo James Cameron |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | EPICS $400: This FX epic's 18 Emmy awards in 2024 included one for Hiroyuki Sanada as Lord Toranaga Shōgun |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $400: If siblings are monozygous, it means they are these identical twins |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | DON'T DO THE MATH $400: If a car can go from 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds, be careful, that's pretty fast, & also the car is an SF90 Spider from this company a Ferrari |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | WORLD FLAGS $400: Emblems representing the Islamic Revolution were part of the new flag this country adopted on July 29, 1980 Iran |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | 5, 5 $400: About 230 of the Shakespeare collections called this still exist; a good-quality one can fetch over $5 million First Folio |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | THE QUOTABLE OSCAR WILDE $400: In this novel Lord Henry says, "I like men who have a future and women who have a past" The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | ALL SAINTS $400: Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens' last major work was his monument honoring this Civil War hero on the march Sherman |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | A VERY VANILLA CATEGORY $400: Dolly Parton's mom's recipe for this dessert, a southern specialty, of course includes a box of vanilla wafers banana pudding |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | DEAD LIKE ME $400: Like many others on that 79 A.D. day, Pliny got no elder after succumbing to fumes from this volcano above the Bay of Naples Vesuvius |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | 5, 5 $600: An Egyptian style of this is called raqs sharqi & is now performed by both men & women, often as wedding entertainment a belly dance |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | THE QUOTABLE OSCAR WILDE $600: Wilde called this British activity with a pack of hounds "the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable" fox hunting |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | ALL SAINTS $600: In the early 1800s Barry, a dog of this breed, reportedly saved over 40 people in the Alps St. Bernard |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | HER FIRST NO. 1 POP HIT $600: 1985:
"Saving All My Love For You" Whitney Houston |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | A VERY VANILLA CATEGORY $600: Vanilla comes from the beans or pods of certain varieties of this flowering plant an orchid |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | DEAD LIKE ME $600: On Feb. 24, 1836 William B. Travis wrote the "Victory or Death" memo from this landmark, but Travis & his men did not find victory the Alamo |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | 5, 5 $800: It's the only U.S. state capital that fits the category Baton Rouge (or Boise, Idaho) |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | THE "NE" ADD $800: Add an "NE" to the end of a genre of music & give us the last name of this Notre Dame football coach Rockne (from Rockne) |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | THE ODYSSEY $800: Plutarch describes this conqueror meeting the naked gymnosophists during his attempt to conquer India Alexander the Great |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | EPICS $800: In a 1985 epic Edward Woodward plays Saul & Richard Gere is this title king David |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: As many as 10% of U.S. pregnancies may be affected by the gestational type of this condition diabetes |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | DON'T DO THE MATH $800: If horse 1 is 8 inches tall, that's equal to 2 of these units of length, & enjoy your stay in Lilliput hands |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | WORLD FLAGS $800: The royal standard of Willem-Alexander, king of this country, has a blue Nassau cross on an orange background the Netherlands |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | ALL SAINTS $800: St. Catherine's Greek Orthodox Monastery in Egypt is situated at the foot of this mount found on a peninsula Sinai |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | HER FIRST NO. 1 POP HIT $800: 1989:
"Straight Up" Paula Abdul |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | A VERY VANILLA CATEGORY $800: Vanilla is one of the scented essential oils that are the basis of this practice to help you feel calmer & boost your mood aromatherapy |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | DEAD LIKE ME $800: On Oct. 16, 1946 Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel & 8 others were executed in this city Nuremberg |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | 5, 5 $1000: This 10-limbed invertebrate lives up to its name, with eyes the size of dinner plates the giant squid |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | THE QUOTABLE OSCAR WILDE $1000: A character in "A Woman of No Importance" claims, "Moderation is a fatal thing... nothing succeeds like" this excess |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | ALL SAINTS $1000: 1919's Treaty of Saint-Germain recognized the independence of several countries & the end of this family's empire the Habsburgs |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | HER FIRST NO. 1 POP HIT $1000: 1989:
"Wind Beneath My Wings" Bette Midler |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | A VERY VANILLA CATEGORY $1000: This conquistador gets the credit for bringing vanilla back to Europe from Mexico, to be used as a flavoring Cortés |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | DEAD LIKE ME $1000: She & 3 Lincoln conspirators would be hanged in 1865 but 2 years later, only the jury was hung in her son's trial (Mary) Surratt |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | THE "NE" ADD $1200: Take an adjective for sinewy & insert "NE" to get this business that might make a pinot noir winery (from winery) |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | THE ODYSSEY $1200: A blurb on the back of his 1999 memoir says he "jetboated up the Ganges from the ocean to the sky" Sir Edmund Hillary |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | EPICS $1200: Morfydd Clark is Galadriel & Sauron is the usual Sauron in this epic prequel series set in J.R.R. Tolkien's world Rings of Power |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1200: (Maria Menounos presents the clue.) Research on early detection of pancreatic cancer is vital; most patients are still diagnosed at this numerical stage that's also called advanced or metastatic stage 4 |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | DON'T DO THE MATH $1200: If Pete eats 7/8 of this state's classic "mud pie" with a pecan, Graham cracker & melted butter crust, Pete better hit the gym Mississippi |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | THE "NE" ADD $1600: A Russian mountain range gets more cerebral when you put "NE" at the start & make this word neural (from neural) |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | THE ODYSSEY $1600: Guided by his buddy Kit Carson, this "Pathfinder" explored & mapped the Oregon Trail in the 1840s John Frémont |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $1600: A disease of great concern earlier in 2022 saw a drop in U.S. cases late in the year & also got this new 4-letter animal-free name mpox |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | DON'T DO THE MATH $1600: It's 1883; if train A leaves Paris at 9 A.M. & train B exits Bucharest at 20 mph, this line with those stops is in its 1st year of operation the Orient Express |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | WORLD FLAGS $1600: The lines across the sun on the flag Kyrgyzstan represent the top of this traditional nomadic dwelling a yurt |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | THE "NE" ADD $2000: Give "NE" help you can as you insert those 2 letters in a word that precedes "off course" & get this word for a facade veneer (from veer) |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | THE ODYSSEY $2000: The 1609 shipwreck of the Sea Venture & the adventures of its castaways are said to have inspired this play The Tempest |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | EPICS $2000: With Mark Hamill, "Knightfall" on the History Channel focused on these knights whose red crosses didn't mean first aid the Knights Templar |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: The name of this painful mosquito-borne fever may come from Swahili for "cramp", but there's definitely a vaccine for it dengue |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | DON'T DO THE MATH $2000: If Mary earns 85% of what John earns for the same job, the Fair Pay Act named for this woman was the first law Barack Obama signed (Lilly) Ledbetter |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | WORLD FLAGS $2000: The 4 small stars on China's flag were originally said to represent workers, peasants, capitalists & petty these bourgeoisie |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | WORLD FLAGS $3,000 (Daily Double): The four stars on Tokelau's flag represent this constellation & the role of Christianity in the country's culture the Southern Cross |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | THE QUOTABLE OSCAR WILDE $3,000 (Daily Double): This watery site "must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life" Niagara Falls |
| #9196, aired 2024-11-04 | EPICS $5,000 (Daily Double): No one-trick pony, Finder, who starred in "Seabiscuit", also played Joey in this World War I epic War Horse |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | RESTING IN FOREST LAWN CEMETERY $200: The New York Times' 1966 obituary headline for this man read, in part, "Founded an empire on a mouse" Walt Disney |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | STYLING HAIR $200: Jazz artist Sonny Rollins had this haircut in the '60s to pay homage to Native Americans; a decade later, it was a spiky punk hairdo a mohawk |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | LOGOS $200: A medal designed by Tiffany & Co. is said to have inspired the logo for this New York sports team the Yankees |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ONLY MURDERS IN BUILDINGS $200: In "Over My Dead Body" by Rex Stout, Percy Ludlow is killed by an epee in a studio where this sport is taught fencing |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ALSO A COOKING VERB $200: The giant swallowtail one can have a wingspan of up to 5 inches a butterfly |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | THAT'S SO 19th CENTURY $200: Boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase were vague, but by 1818, the Stony Mountains, now called these, became the western limit the Rockies |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | 6-LETTER SYNONYM PAIRS $400: A position in basketball
&
a word before English center & middle |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | PRIME NUMBERS ON TV $400: Based on a hit Chinese sci-fi novel, this Netflix series sees aliens called the San-Ti looking Earthward 3 Body Problem |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | AMONG THE TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES $400: For boys the top 2 names are Noah & this Muslim one, with its various spellings Muhammad |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $400: In 1962, at age 7, this cellist played for President Kennedy, accompanied by sister Yeou-Cheng on the piano Yo-Yo Ma |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | REPTILES $400: The North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher has these animals at the north end of their natural range, including a popular albino one an alligator |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ON THE MAP $400: This inner autonomous region arcs for 1,500 miles across the north of China Inner Mongolia |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | RESTING IN FOREST LAWN CEMETERY $400: Rest easy & well, comedic genius Larry Fine of this movie series trio; no one can hurt you in wildly funny ways anymore The Three Stooges |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | STYLING HAIR $400: Popular in Mexican-American Pachuco culture, this slicked-back hairstyle has a fowl name a ducktail |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | LOGOS $400: The logo of this brand of scotch is a London dandy, mid-stride Johnnie Walker |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ONLY MURDERS IN BUILDINGS $400: "The Da Vinci Code" begins with a murder in the Grand Gallery of this French institution the Louvre |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ALSO A COOKING VERB $400: It once meant to brighten; now it means to make something easier to understand to clarify |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | THAT'S SO 19th CENTURY $400: In 1859 she provided "Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not", & here's what the book is--still available today Florence Nightingale |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | RESTING IN FOREST LAWN CEMETERY $600: This Rat Packer's inscription says "The Entertainer"; his father's says "Daddy Sam" Sammy Davis Jr. |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | STYLING HAIR $600: Sometimes called a shape-up or edge-up, this hyphenated styling creates a crisp boundary between the hair & forehead a line-up |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | LOGOS $600: Since its name includes an abbreviation for "next vision", it makes sense this AI innovator's logo is a green eye Nvidia |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ONLY MURDERS IN BUILDINGS $600: In a work by him, Jason Bourne discovers Jacqueline Lavier dead in a church confession booth Ludlum |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ALSO A COOKING VERB $600: Also 4 letters for to flay or to beat to whip |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | THAT'S SO 19th CENTURY $600: 3 glasses of whiskey are said to have made his 1865 VP inaugural address a bit of an adventure; a stunned Lincoln couldn't even look Andrew Johnson |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | 6-LETTER SYNONYM PAIRS $800: A tasting sampler, as of wines or whiskeys
&
the second book of the Bible flight & Exodus |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | PRIME NUMBERS ON TV $800: Episodes of this police comedy include "Dangle's Moving Day" & "Beige Lives Matter?" Reno 911! |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | AMONG THE TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES $800: It's the name shared by British-born actresses James & Collins Lily |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $800: John Williams (not the composer) put out an album of greatest hits on this instrument with works by Albeniz, Granados & Tárrega a guitar |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | REPTILES $800: Adwaita, the oldest recorded land animal at about 250 when he died, was one of these critters a tortoise |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ON THE MAP $800: It's a 90-minute ferry ride from Port Angeles, Washington to this Canadian provincial capital Victoria |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | RESTING IN FOREST LAWN CEMETERY $800: In 2009 Elizabeth Taylor (now also on-site), Lisa Marie Presley & Quincy Jones attended his Forest Lawn funeral Michael Jackson |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | STYLING HAIR $800: A mistress of King Louis XV gave her name to this hairstyle that's all high & mighty up top a pompadour |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | LOGOS $800: This maker of cookies & crackers uses a white oval surmounted by a double-barred cross on a red triangular corner seal Nabisco |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ONLY MURDERS IN BUILDINGS $800: The mean pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna & her timid half-sister are murdered in their apartment in this 1866 work Crime and Punishment |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ALSO A COOKING VERB $800: This machine equipped with a suction or scooping device is used to deepen harbors & waterways a dredge |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | THAT'S SO 19th CENTURY $800: The Oct. 25, 1854 Battle of Balaklava in this war was immortalized in "The Charge of the Light Brigade" later that year the Crimean War |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | RESTING IN FOREST LAWN CEMETERY $1000: "Frankly, my dear", his fifth wife arranged for him to be interred next to his third wife Carole Lombard Clark Gable |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | STYLING HAIR $1000: Named for hairdresser Redding, this 1980s & 1990s style requires a 2-part process: 1st to soften the hair & 2nd to set the waves a Jheri curl |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | LOGOS $1000: The shape of Yosemite's Half Dome inspired the logo of this outdoor clothing company The North Face |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ONLY MURDERS IN BUILDINGS $1000: In an Agatha Christie work from 1926, this title character is killed in his home study Roger Ackroyd |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | THAT'S SO 19th CENTURY $1000: Napoleon re-premiered at Cannes on March 1, 1815, returning from an extended, unwanted engagement on this island Elba |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | 6-LETTER SYNONYM PAIRS $1200: One in the final year of classes
&
what the "M" stands for in the TV-MA rating senior & mature |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | REPTILES $1200: This snake of the desert Southwest, named for its unusual locomotion, can hit speeds of 18 miles per hour a sidewinder |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | AMONG THE TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES $1200: Drop 2 letters from a piece of land surrounded by water to get this popular girl's name, recently No. 3 Isla |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $1200: Emmanuel Pahud plays a 14 karat gold one of these woodwinds; Sir James Galway's is platinum a flute |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ON THE MAP $1200: This island territory is roughly 900 miles east of Charleston, South Carolina Bermuda |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | 6-LETTER SYNONYM PAIRS $1600: Flannel-forward paper towel brand
&
a type of nuclear force Brawny & strong |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | PRIME NUMBERS ON TV $1600: Fittingly, one episode of this CBS comedy finds Caroline embracing Kickstarter to raise funds 2 Broke Girls |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | AMONG THE TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES $1600: It's from Greek for "bright" or "radiant", like Ms. Waller-Bridge Phoebe |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $1600: Soon after this American pianist won the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958, a major intl. piano competition was named for him Cliburn |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | REPTILES $1600: From service in the Southwest, the U.S. Army's 9th Engineer Battalion has as its crest this scary-sounding lizard a Gila monster |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ALSO A COOKING VERB $2,000 (Daily Double): To become pale or white with fear blanch |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | 6-LETTER SYNONYM PAIRS $2000: A Quaker
&
one of 10 divisions of a Roman legion Friend & cohort |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | PRIME NUMBERS ON TV $2000: Proxima III is the site of a big battle for Captain Sheridan & his space station on this show Babylon 5 |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | AMONG THE TOP BRITISH BABY NAMES $2000: This name that's in the top 20 belongs to a boy born in 2019 who's sixth in line to the British throne Archie |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | CLASSICAL MUSICIANS $2000: L.A.'s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion opened in 1964 with a performance by this Lithuanian-born violinist & longtime USC teacher Jascha Heifetz |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | REPTILES $2000: This fossil of New Zealand looks like a lizard, but unlike lizards it has no external ears a tuatara |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ON THE MAP $2000: On the map as an independent country since 2006, it lies between Serbia & the Adriatic Montenegro |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | PRIME NUMBERS ON TV $5,000 (Daily Double): Her real name turns out to be Jane Ives, & she developed powers due to involvement in the government's MK-Ultra program Eleven |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ON THE MAP $6,000 (Daily Double): This country at the southwest tip of the Arabian Peninsula borders Saudi Arabia & Oman Yemen |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THE KING'S MEN $200: In 1599, Shakespeare paid 12.5% towards the cost of building this, which would go onto host many King's Men plays the Globe |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | MANNERS MAKETH... $200: Some rub these together to get rid of splinters; OK with the ones in the takeout bag, but rude if you're being served in a home chopsticks |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | SALUTATIONS! $200: A Spanish magazine covering celebrity life has this greeting as its title hola |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | I'VE GOT THE MOVIE TITLE MUNCHIES! $200: In 2023 angry customer Pete Davidson joined Kenan & Kel, back for seconds in this "2" Good Burger |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | A QUESTION OF TIME $200: The Navy popularized this alliterative term for scheduled entertainment time; it's caught on at bars around the world happy hour |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THEY THROW SERIOUS SHADE $200: When a koala is getting its 20 or so hours of shut-eye it's likely to be in this type of tree eucalyptus |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THE OED SAYS H-I $400: "The biological genus that comprises modern man" Homo |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | RAP GENRES $400: Rapper Pac Man gets credit for creating drill, a genre associated with this city that's in the state of "Drillinois" Chicago |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: In most states only the governor has the power to do this, not drive to work & back, but reduce a sentence commute |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | HATE-FUL QUOTES $400: Among the quotations engraved in the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial is "Hate cannot drive out hate, only" this "can do that" love |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The Jordan River empties into this "Sea", Earth's lowest body of water the Dead Sea |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | OCTOBER 31 $400: In 1941, after 14 years of construction, this landmark in the Black Hills was declared completed Mount Rushmore |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THE KING'S MEN $400: Son of theater manager James Burbage, Richard Burbage originated many Shakespeare roles, including this Moor Othello |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | MANNERS MAKETH... $400: Be cool on the highways--don't unnecessarily honk or engage in this alliterative anger some drivers are prone to road rage |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | SALUTATIONS! $400: It's a common Jewish greeting as well as a farewell shalom |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | I'VE GOT THE MOVIE TITLE MUNCHIES! $400: This 2009 cartoon starring Anna Faris is a very unusual prediction of the weather Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | A QUESTION OF TIME $400: This area near Broadway at 7th Avenue & 42nd Street is dubbed "the Crossroads of the World" Times Square |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THEY THROW SERIOUS SHADE $400: Devastated by a deadly "Dutch" disease, this tree is now often planted in resistant varieties elm |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THE KING'S MEN $600: Prior to being named the King's Men, the troupe was known as this lord's Men, also a word for a bedroom attendant Chamberlain |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | MANNERS MAKETH... $600: Guys, this 12-letter intrusive action while sitting on the subway is duly frowned upon manspreading |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | SALUTATIONS! $600: It's a 3-letter mashup of a 2-word question, & I dunno, this 3-letter mashup of a 2-word question with you? sup |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | I'VE GOT THE MOVIE TITLE MUNCHIES! $600: This raunchy 1999 comedy led to a 2005 movie called "Band Camp", where stuff happened at least one time American Pie |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | A QUESTION OF TIME $600: Mr. Pickle, Mr. Egg & Mr. Hot Dog chase Chef Peter Pepper as he tries to make sandwiches in this arcade game BurgerTime |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THEY THROW SERIOUS SHADE $600: The state tree of New Hampshire is the paper this birch |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THE OED SAYS H-I $800: The body or frame of a ship, apart from the mast, sails & rigging hull |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | RAP GENRES $800: The name of this genre associated with Memphis may be a mix of "crazy" & "drunk"' crunk |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $800: The federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction over this, covered in title 11 of the U.S. code; chapter 7 is good reading bankruptcy |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | HATE-FUL QUOTES $800: In his preface to this 1855 work, Walt Whitman urged us to "stand up for the stupid and crazy" & "hate tyrants" Leaves of Grass |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | BODIES OF WATER $800: The Thousand Islands lie in this river just where it leaves Lake Ontario the St. Lawrence |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | OCTOBER 31 $800: Tradition says Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on a Wittenberg church door in 1517, launching this religious revolution the Reformation |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THE KING'S MEN $800: "All that glisters is not gold", says this play, but extra gold was made when the king asked the troupe for a rare repeat performance The Merchant of Venice |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | MANNERS MAKETH... $800: Yelling this, "boy" in French, across the dining room to attract your waiter is indeed gauche garçon |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | SALUTATIONS! $800: Hey pardner, this informal greeting rhymes with "apple pan dowdy" in a song from the 1940s howdy |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | I'VE GOT THE MOVIE TITLE MUNCHIES! $800: It's a dessert with levels of filling like jam or cream; it's also a cocaine caper movie with Daniel Craig & Sienna Miller Layer Cake |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THEY THROW SERIOUS SHADE $800: Bald truly is beautiful! Shedding its needles in autumn got the bald this, a deciduous conifer, its name cypress |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THE KING'S MEN $1000: In 1605 the King's Men performed "Volpone" by this dramatist who once killed another actor in a duel Ben Jonson |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | MANNERS MAKETH... $1000: Supreme Court justices, federal judges, the president & vice president should all be introduced with this title the Honorable |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | SALUTATIONS! $1000: This 2-word German expression covers good day, good afternoon & hello Guten Tag |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | I'VE GOT THE MOVIE TITLE MUNCHIES! $1000: It's on the menu at Thai restaurants & on the program at Marx Brothers film retrospectives duck soup |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | A QUESTION OF TIME $1000: Florentino & Fermina are the couple at the heart of this novel by Gabriel Garcia Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THEY THROW SERIOUS SHADE $1000: Found in China, the dawn type of this tree is smaller than California's but still grows as tall as 160 feet redwood |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THE OED SAYS H-I $1200: "Veneration of any image or object... regarded as the embodiment of a god" idolatry |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | RAP GENRES $1200: "Billboard" says the album "Trap Muzik" by this rapper & actor introduced trap to the masses T.I. |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $1200: Treasury writes checks; for balances, go to the Office of Weights & Measures within this trade-&-tech cabinet department Commerce |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | HATE-FUL QUOTES $1200: A pearl of wisdom from Al Pacino in this role: "Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment" Michael Corleone |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | OCTOBER 31 $1200: This Silver State officially joined the U.S. in 1864 as its 36th state Nevada |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | A QUESTION OF TIME $1,600 (Daily Double): In 2014 physicists sped up lithium ions to measure time dilation & gave new confirmation of this "special" theory (special) relativity |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THE OED SAYS H-I $1600: The OED, really living up to the word: "that does not cease; unceasing, ceaseless... either in duration or repetition" incessant |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | POP STARS: In 2022 she became the first woman to have a Billboard Top 10 album in 5 decades starting with the 1980s Madonna |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | CLASSIC TALE CHARACTERS: In one 19th century translation, she "perceived the dawn of day and ceased" speaking nearly 1,000 times Scheherazade |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | USA: Ironically, though this company founded in the 1860s is Moore county, Tennessee's largest employer, Moore is a dry county Jack Daniel's |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | HISTORIC PEOPLE: After a 1789 event, he wrote, "My first determination was to seek a supply of... water at Tofoa, & afterwards to sail for Tongataboo" (Captain) Bligh |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: Calling him "the embodiment of pure intellect", in December 1999 Time magazine named him Person of the Century Albert Einstein |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE MOVIES: Laurence Olivier & Ernest Borgnine were considered for the lead role & Sergio Leone to direct for this film that turned 50 in 2022 The Godfather |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | CONTINENTAL GEOGRAPHY: Until a 1903 secession, this country's contiguous territory spanned 2 continents Colombia |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | FOREIGN-BORN AUTHORS: Early in her career she translated romance novels into Spanish, often changing the dialogue to make the heroines smarter (Isabel) Allende |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORIC CRIMES: Saying it was stolen by Napoleon, self-styled Italian patriot Vincenzo Peruggia took it in 1911 the Mona Lisa |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER: Continuing a downward trend, in July 2022 it was at 27% capacity, its lowest level since 1937 when it was first being filled Lake Mead |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | GODS & GODDESSES: Each morning she began her ride in her chariot across the sky ahead of her brother Sol, or Helios Eos (Aurora) |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | AMERICA AT WAR: Until the Civil War, the January 8 date of this battle of dubious military importance but big morale value was a national holiday the Battle of New Orleans |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: Its title character is told "By the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off... your eyes drop out & you get... shabby" The Velveteen Rabbit |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | TV FINALES: In a reunion over 40 years in the making, Dolly Parton appeared as an angel named Agnes in the final episode of this comedy in 2022 Grace and Frankie |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | AMERICAN POEMS: In an 1847 poem this character sees her town of Grand-Pré burned, but finally reunites with her beau for a kiss before his death Evangeline |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | FAMOUS NAMES: In 2001 he published a book called "Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall"; in 2002, "Existencilism" Banksy |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | CHILDREN'S LIT: The title object of this book "never looked more beautiful... each strand held dozens of bright drops of early morning dew" Charlotte's Web |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | CLASSIC SONGS: The shouts of excited children at a 1946 holiday parade are said to have inspired this perennial favorite "Here Comes Santa Claus" |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | BRAND NAMES: Unable to make these candies perfectly round, the confectioner embraced this flawed name for the product Milk Duds |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: It's home to 58 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, more than any other country; the sites include a volcano & a lagoon Italy |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ACTION MOVIES: Its last line is "If this is their idea of Christmas, I gotta be here for New Year's" Die Hard |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | PRESIDENTIAL FACTS: Only 3 presidents have married while in office--John Tyler was the first & he was the last (Woodrow) Wilson |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: Demonstrating the dignity & humanity of Black Americans, he sat for 160 known photographs, the most of any American in the 19th century Frederick Douglass |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LATIN PHRASES: Originally, this 3-word phrase referred to when a doctor or apothecary substituted one medicine for another quid pro quo |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | 1970s MOVIES: A 1975 premiere of this comedy advertised free coconuts for the first thousand in the audience Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| #8759, aired 2022-12-08 | NAME'S THE SAME: A cocktail, an island & a WWII venture originally called "Development of Substitute Materials" all bear this name Manhattan |
| #8758, aired 2022-12-07 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: He was sworn in twice as president within 2 years, first by his father & then later by a former U.S. President (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | PLAYS: A 1609 story in which an exiled king of Bulgaria creates a sea palace with his magic may have inspired the plot of this play The Tempest |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | LANDMARKS: In 2009, during a 20th anniversary celebration, it was called "an edifice of fear. On November 9, it became a place of joy" the Berlin Wall |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | WORLD CAPITALS: Among its nicknames are the "City of Classical Music" &, possibly in honor of a famous resident from 1860 to 1938, the "City of Dreams" Vienna |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | LANGUAGE & ITS MEANINGS: Now meaning someone with nocturnal habits, it catches a sleeping dove in Shakespeare's "The Rape of Lucrece" a night owl |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | FLAGS OF OUR HEMISPHERE: The stars on this country's flag represent states, 26 of them; unlike the USA's, its "federal district" gets its own 27th star Brazil |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NAMES IN U.S. HISTORY: This father was the only man among the 13 plaintiffs in a class-action case filed in 1951 Brown |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | CHILDREN'S AUTHORS: Reversing the story of this heroine she created, Patricia MacLachlan was born on the prairie but spent much of her life in New England Sarah (Wheaton) |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | STATES & THE CENSUS: The 2020 Census gave Montana a second U.S. House seat; its most populous county, this one that attracts tourists, grew 11% Yellowstone |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | SOUTHERN COLLEGES: To aid transport in poorer nations, in the 1920s grads of this college built makeshift buggies celebrated in their fight song Georgia Tech |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | SECONDS IN HISTORY: The Fortune, the 2nd ship to land at this harbor, disappointed those already there, carrying 35 new residents & "not so much as bisket-cake" Plymouth |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | MUSICAL THEATER: The pair at the center of tumult in this long-running show were originally to be a Jewish girl & a Catholic boy West Side Story |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | PLAYS: The January 12, 1864 Washington Evening Star reported on a performance of this "dashing comedy" to "a full and delighted house" Our American Cousin |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | ENGLISH CITIES: William the Conqueror's son built a fortress on a key northern river in 1080, giving this city its name Newcastle (upon Tyne) |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | MOVIES & LITERATURE: Ridley Scott's first feature film, "The Duellists", was based on a story by this author to whom Scott's film "Alien" also pays tribute Joseph Conrad |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | THE NEW TESTAMENT: Paul's letter to them is the New Testament epistle with the most Old Testament quotations Hebrews |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | NAME'S THE SAME: Name shared by a Victorian novelist & an 1805 flagship captain whose name is heard in a famous phrase (Thomas) Hardy |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | GEOGRA-FLEE: In July 2022 the ousted president of this country fled west across the Indian Ocean to the Maldives Sri Lanka |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | ADVENTURE NOVELS: The villainess in this French novel kind of undercuts the title when she says, "among these four men two only are to be feared" The Three Musketeers |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | LONDON LOCALES: To fight malaria, this former royal estate helped move quinine-producing cinchona plants from South America to India Kew Gardens |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | GEOGRAPHIC PAIRS: By ferry, the distance between these 2 paired Mediterranean islands is about 40 miles from Alcudia to Ciutadella Mallorca (Majorca) & Menorca (Minorca) |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: A trip to El Paso with his young son & wondering what the city might look like years in the future inspired a novel by this author Cormac McCarthy |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | CHEMICAL ELEMENT NAMES: The 3 elements whose names begin with 2 vowels are iodine & these 2, one synthetic & one natural einsteinium & europium |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | PHRASES FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD: Cicero wrote that a tyrant ordered this to be hung from the ceiling "by a horse-hair"; his guest begged to leave the sword of Damocles |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BRANDS: With wood becoming more difficult to source, this company turned to plastic for its automatic binding bricks, introduced in 1949 Lego |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | WORLD CITIES: The name of this city may come from "dur", meaning water, a reference to the Helvetian people's settlement on a lake Zurich |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | NOVEL LOCALES: This place from a 1933 novel lies in the Valley of Blue Moon, below a peak called Karakal Shangri-La |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | PHRASES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill that gave reparations to formerly enslaved people, hence this phrase for an unfulfilled promise forty acres and a mule |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | POETS: Inspired by stories from his grandfather, his "Battle of Lovell's Pond" appeared in the Portland Gazette in 1820 when he was 13 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | PLACES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: A Native American story says this creek got its name from an injury suffered by a Sioux warrior in a fight with the Crow Wounded Knee |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE: In 1863 Walt Whitman wrote that this politician "has a face like a Hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes beautiful" Lincoln |
| #8730, aired 2022-10-28 | ARTISTS: Sabena Airlines commissioned a painting by this artist, "L'Oiseau de Ciel", a bird whose body is filled with clouds in a blue sky René Magritte |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS: He turned to opera with the 1903 work "Guest of Honor", likely inspired by Booker T. Washington's dinner at the White House (Scott) Joplin |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | CHARITY: A Catholic charity called Caritas Rome is the beneficiary of money collected from here, over the years averaging about $3,500 daily the Trevi Fountain |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | BODIES OF WATER: The Kattegat & Skagerrak Straits separate these 2 seas the Baltic & North Seas |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | AUTHORS: When Esquire began as a men's lifestyle magazine in the 1930s, he was asked for manly content & wrote in 28 of the first 33 issues (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | WORLD LANDMARKS: Built of more than 18,000 metal parts & 2.5 million rivets, it was the world's tallest manmade structure from 1889 to 1930 the Eiffel Tower |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS: This character from an 1859 novel symbolizes the Fates, who in mythology spin the web of life, measure it & cut it off Madame Defarge |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | INTERNATIONAL BORDERS: 2 of the 3 countries that share land borders with Russia & China (2 of) Kazakhstan, Mongolia, or North Korea |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY: Ben Franklin, John Adams & John Jay succeeded as a trio in this city, though Adams wrote of fearing the other 2 would gang up on him Paris |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | LANDMARKS OF SCIENCE: Clones of an original one of these grow outside the math faculty at Cambridge University & in the President's Garden at M.I.T. an apple tree |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | FAMOUS ANIMALS: In September 1964 the New York Times announced the passing of this pet, a gift, "used as symbol of honesty in 1952" Checkers |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | ANNUAL EVENTS: In 1986 Larry Harvey called a friend & said, let's do this, no one knows exactly why; it evolved into an annual festival in the desert Burning Man |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | AUTHORS: Featuring a statue of a man escaping his grave, his tomb in Amiens contrasts with the title of his 1864 adventure novel (Jules) Verne |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | DOCUMENTARIES: In this 1970 film, Max Yasgur says, "I'm a farmer... I don't know how to speak to 20 people... let alone a crowd like this" Woodstock |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: In a September 3, 1939 speech, he said, "Everything that I have worked for... has crashed into ruins" Neville Chamberlain |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | FAMOUS SHIPS: Its wreck was discovered in 1989, 48 years after it had been sunk & 91 years after the man it was named for had died the Bismarck |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | BRAND NAMES: A neighbor's charcoal drawing of Ann Turner Cook at age 4 or 5 months won a 1928 contest to appear in ads for this brand Gerber |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | NEWSPAPER HEADLINES: A New York Times headline about this disaster included "866 rescued" & "noted names missing" the Titanic |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: It has the most water area of any country, nearly 350,000 square miles, about 9% of its total area Canada |
| #8714, aired 2022-10-06 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS: He served as Bishop of Lesotho from 1976 to 1978 (Archbishop Desmond) Tutu |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | TRAVEL: The 1948 edition of this publication said, "There will be a day... in the near future when this guide will not have to be published" the Green Book |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | ASIAN COUNTRY NAMES: Like the T-U-V in Tuvalu, this landlocked country has 3 consecutive letters in its English name in alphabetic sequence Afghanistan |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | 20th CENTURY POEM ENDINGS: These 5 words that end a poem are also a proverb; one citation across the centuries includes a reminder not to make the wall too high Good fences make good neighbors |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: William Brodie, an upstanding Scottish tradesman by day & leader of a gang of burglars by night, helped inspire these 2 title characters Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BEFORE THEY WERE AUTHORS: While working for British naval intelligence during World War II, he was code-named 17F Ian Fleming |
| #8709, aired 2022-09-29 | INNOVATIONS: Seen by a worldwide audience in 1970, black pentagons were added to these to help viewers follow them better on TV soccer balls |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | WORLD RIVERS: These 2 rivers share the names of countries, end with the same 4 letters & both join up with the Paraná River Paraguay & Uruguay |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | WORLD AIRPORTS: Africa's 2 busiest passenger airports are in these 2 countries; it's an 8-hour flight between them Egypt & South Africa |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | MAGAZINES: A now-annual issue of this magazine was inspired by the high society parties of Caroline Astor, whose ballroom fit about 400 people Forbes |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES: It's the world's smallest landlocked country in both area & population Vatican City |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: In a later part of the epic named for him, this character becomes king after his cousin Heardred dies in battle Beowulf |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | POP CULTURE: In 2011 Leland, Mississippi, where Jim Henson grew up, honored Henson & his Muppets by renaming a bridge this, also a song title Rainbow Connection |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | FAMOUS NAMES: Perhaps the most famous picture of him was taken in New Jersey in 1951 as he was annoyed by paparazzi on his 72nd birthday (Albert) Einstein |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: Delivered on January 8, 1790, the first of these was also the shortest, at 1,089 words the State of Union Address |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS: The governor of Massachusetts wrote, it "is a poor document, but a mighty act... wrong in its delay till January, but grand & sublime after all" the Emancipation Proclamation |
| #8700, aired 2022-09-16 | DISNEY SONGS: "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from "Encanto" is the first song from an animated Disney film to hit No. 1 since this duet in 1993 "A Whole New World" |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | U.S. COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: Founded as a technical institute in 1900, its sports teams are the Tartans & its official mascot is a Scottish Terrier Carnegie Mellon |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | ARTISTS: He said, "The Seine! I have painted it all my life, at all hours, in all seasons, from Paris to the sea" (Claude) Monet |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY: Prince Philip's titles included Baron Greenwich & Duke of Edinburgh, but not Prince Consort, last used by this royal Prince Albert |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 19th CENTURY NOVELS: "This bell was named Marie... alone in the southern tower, with her sister Jacqueline, a bell of lesser size", says this novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | TECH HISTORY: For about 20 years after its invention, it had few practical uses; then suddenly it revolutionized grocery checkouts & home audio the laser |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | COUNTRIES OF EUROPE: It's the only independent survivor of the Spanish March, buffer states created to protect Christian Europe from the Moors Andorra |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | REAL PEOPLE IN POETRY: Milton wrote of this contemporary: "When by night the glass of" him "observes imagined lands and regions in the Moon" Galileo |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | LITERARY ANIMALS: This children's book character, introduced in 1926 & a friend of the title creature, gets his name from the sound he might make Eeyore |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME: Honored in 1998 as part of a rock group & in 2019 as a solo artist, this singer was the first woman to be inducted into the Hall twice Stevie Nicks |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | INAUGURAL BALLS: At the 1993 Tennessee Inaugural Ball, Paul Simon performed this song, his most recent Top 40 hit "You Can Call Me Al" |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | CONSTELLATIONS: The brightest star of this constellation is Deneb Algedi, or "Kid's Tail" Capricorn |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HISTORIC AMERICAN ROADS: Originally a Native American trail, the Dutch made it a main road & today it runs 33 miles from State Street to Sleepy Hollow Broadway |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | OPERA: An aria from this opera says, "Put on your costume & apply make-up to your face. The people pay & they want to laugh" Pagliacci |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | ART & THEATRE: Asked to design a new set for a restaging of this 1952 play, Alberto Giacometti came up with one scraggly plaster tree Waiting for Godot |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING: Its definitions include containing the metallic element No. 22, pertaining to a group of Greek gods & having great strength or size titanic |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | THE 20th CENTURY: Maybe surprisingly, in 1918 this new leader was the first to recognize the independence of Finland Lenin |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | STATE MOTTOS: This motto is the name of a city in that state & is a famous quote by an ancient Greek from the 3rd century B.C. Eureka |
| #8682, aired 2022-07-12 | PAIRS IN ASTRONOMY: Discovered in 1877, they were named for siblings of the Greek god of love Phobos & Deimos |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | MUSICAL THEATER: It's one of the most revived shows in Broadway history & in 2001 it was designated the state opera of South Carolina Porgy and Bess |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | SCIENCE & THE BIBLE: A 2021 study suggested that an asteroid that struck the Jordan Valley c. 1650 B.C. gave rise to the story of this city in Genesis 19 Sodom |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | LITERARY CHARACTERS ON SCREEN: Per Guinness, this character who debuted in 1887 is the most portrayed human literary character in film & television Sherlock Holmes |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | AGRICULTURE: Being brought to the U.S. by a ship docking at San Francisco in 1851 helped lead to it now being a major crop in the Midwest soybeans |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES: Less than 100 yards north of the J. Edgar Hoover Building is this notorious location Ford's Theater |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | THE EASTERN U.S.: At its peak, this state had 6 seats in the House of Representatives; since the 1930s, it has had just 1 Vermont |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Mont Bellevue de l'Inini is the highest point in this European possession largely covered by the Amazon rainforest French Guiana |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | U.S. CITIES: This U.S. city now has 10 times the population of the other U.S. city for which it was named in 1845 Portland, Oregon |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | TELEVISION HISTORY: In the opening scene of its July 21, 1969 pilot episode, a man carves the letter D into wet cement Sesame Street |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | POETS' CORNER AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY: At his 1892 burial, fit for a baron, the organist put music to his words, "I hope to see my Pilot face to face, when I have crost the bar" Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | THE WORLD OF TODAY: Partly because it was a monosyllable, this word was chosen as "a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission" meme |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | OSCAR-WINNING ACTORS: Each of the 3 films for which he won an Oscar, from 1975, 1983 & 1997, also garnered a Best Lead Actress Oscar Jack Nicholson |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | CLASSIC ALBUMS: This classic album by a Southern rocker gets its title from a Civil War quote by a Union admiral Damn the Torpedoes |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird "equally capable of speech" Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | GEOGRAPHY WORDS: From Greek for "chief" & "sea", this word originally referred to the Aegean, known for its many island groups archipelago |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | BRITISH HISTORY: From the Greek for "alone", it was nixed by Parliament in 1649 after being deemed "unnecessary, burdensome & dangerous" the monarchy |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | 19th CENTURY CONTEMPORARIES: Congratulating her on the 1869 release of her biography, Frederick Douglass wrote, "I have wrought in the day--you in the night" Harriet Tubman |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | DEBUT NOVELS: Published in 1991, this novel, the first in a series, has been described as "historical fiction with a Moebius twist" Outlander |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | BRANDS: Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Evan Strong & Roy Campanella broke barriers representing this brand Wheaties |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | 1972: In June he said, "Don't lie to them to the extent to say there is no involvement, but just say this is... a comedy of errors" Richard Nixon |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | TV LEGENDS: Buster Keaton considered her the tops in her field &, in fact, was one of her early mentors Lucille Ball |
| #8660, aired 2022-06-10 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: Brazil stretches 2,700 miles from the Atlantic in the east to Serra do Divisor National Park on the border with this country in the west Peru |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: First published in French in 1943, this book has been called the most translated non-religious work, rendered into more than 300 languages The Little Prince |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY: A participant in this 1773 event recalled, "Some of our numbers jumped into the hold... I never labored harder in my life" the Boston Tea Party |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | WRITING OLD & NEW: This 2013 bestseller shares its title with the first section of a poem from 7 centuries before Inferno |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Of the Argonauts seeking the Golden Fleece, these 2 from the same family were from Sparta according to Homer Castor & Pollux |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | TECHNOLOGY: Upon the first use of this in 1844, the Baltimore Sun declared that time & space had been annihilated the telegraph |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES: Known as the female Lawrence of Arabia, Gertrude Bell called this place "a fairy tale city, all pink & wonderful" Petra |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | THE EARLY 19th CENTURY: Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve signaled "engage the enemy" around noon & surrendered at 1:45 PM during this battle the Battle of Trafalgar |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | NOVEL QUOTES: Referring to the book's title, this character says, "I know it's a poem by Robert Burns" Holden Caulfield |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | IN MEMORIAM 2022: On the death of this trailblazing man, friend & mentor, Oprah said, "For me, the greatest of the 'great trees' has fallen" Sidney Poitier |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT: In 2021 this Hall of Fame athlete launched Omaha Productions Peyton Manning |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY: A 1946 speech declared the terminuses of the Iron Curtain to be port cities serving these 2 seas the Baltic & Adriatic Seas |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | FAMOUS SPEECHES: In a draft of FDR's speech of December 8, 1941, the words "world history" were changed to this one word infamy |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | THE MIDDLE AGES: It was the surname of the 2 Scottish brothers who claimed monarchies of 2 different countries in the 13-teens Bruce |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | MEDICINE: Post-this disease syndrome affects many survivors, of which the U.S. is estimated to have 300,000, the vast majority over 65 polio |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | ON THE MAP: It's referred to as "the blue eye of Siberia" Lake Baikal |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | THE ANCIENT WORLD: New research suggests a device now called the Archimedes screw helped maintain this one of the 7 Wonders of the World the Hanging Gardens (of Babylon) |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | OSCAR-WINNING SONGS: Johnny Mercer's lyrics to this 1961 Oscar-winning song once began, "I'm Holly" "Moon River" |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | LITERATURE: A contemporary review of a novel by this man said he "commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean" (Jack) Kerouac |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: The USA's smallest national park is a 91-acre site on the Mississippi River, home to this 630-foot landmark the St. Louis Arch (the Gateway Arch) |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | STATE NAMES: This state was named for a man born in Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover in 1683 Georgia |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | CONSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD: Amendments to its 1901 constitution require approval of at least 4 states before receiving royal assent Australia |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | SAY IT IN ITALIAN: It's an Italian word for "mercy", but also the name of a movie character who kills Stracci & Carlo clemenza |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | LIVE MUSIC: These 2 events held 2 1/2 months & 2,500 miles apart in 1999 were the last of one major music happening & the first of another Woodstock ('99 or 1999) & Coachella |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | NOVEL TITLES: A 1590 poem written for the retirement of Queen Elizabeth's champion knight shares its title with this 1929 novel by an American A Farewell to Arms |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | USA: These 2 mayors gave their names to a facility built on the site of an old racetrack owned by Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler William Hartsfield & Maynard Jackson |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | 20th CENTURY CINEMA: A black & white newsreel in this film begins: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree" Citizen Kane |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THE CIVIL WAR: A Union soldiers' song said General McClellan, who let a Confederate Army escape after this battle, "was too slow to beat 'em" Antietam |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS: "Terre de nos aïeux" follows the title in the French version of this anthem "O Canada" |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | THEATER: In November 1864 John Wilkes Booth & his brothers were fittingly part of a performance of this Shakespeare play Julius Caesar |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS: "Tuileries" & "The Great Gate of Kiev" were 2 of the artworks that inspired this classical work completed in 1874 Pictures at an Exhibition |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BOOKS OF THE 1970s: Aptly, members of a Black family in this novel have biblical names: Pilate, Hagar & the title one, an ancestor of the protagonist Song of Solomon |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | POETS: In 1939 he was buried near his last residence in France, but his body arrived in Galway en route to final burial on September 17, 1948 William Butler Yeats |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | AFRICAN SURNAMES: Adetokunbo, "the crown has returned from overseas", is fitting for the Adetokunbo family who left Nigeria for this country in 1991 Greece |
| #8626, aired 2022-04-25 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Capable of freighting about 180 tons of cargo, in 1624 it was in disrepair & appraised at a total value of 128 pounds the Mayflower |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | HISTORIC NAMES: DNA from 2 living descendants of Anne of York was used to identify the remains of this man Richard III |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | FILMS OF THE 1950s: The title character of this film has the same name as the Roman goddess of the dawn Sleeping Beauty |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | ON THE INTERNET: This website launched in 2015 with 3 offerings, from James Patterson, Dustin Hoffman & Serena Williams MasterClass |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | COUNTRIES OF AFRICA: Old maps depicting what's now this 125,000-square-mile country labeled the area with the French word for "teeth" Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | WORLD LITERATURE: Befitting the title, Antoine Galland, the first Western translator of this collection, worked on it only "after dinner" Arabian Nights (the One Thousand and One Nights) |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS: In 2019 he won his first competitive Oscar, 36 years after a Student Academy Award for a film about a Brooklyn barbershop Spike Lee |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WOMEN IN BRITISH HISTORY: The orphaned future Queen Elizabeth I was devoted to this stepmother who died 2 days before Elizabeth's 15th birthday Catherine Parr |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | HISTORY: Intimately familiar with World War I, Churchill considered this war from some 150 years before the "first world war" the Seven Years' War |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS: The 1964 article that gave this term its current use noted the "menace that haunts the Atlantic off our southeastern coast" the Bermuda Triangle |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | WORDS OF THE YEAR: Oxford's word of the year for 2021 was this 3-letter one, short for a word that goes back to the Latin for "cow" vax |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: The Strand Union Workhouse, whose rules prohibited second helpings of food, inspired a setting in this 1838 novel Oliver Twist |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | INVENTIONS: Patented in 1955, it did not go over well in the high-end fashion world but the then-new aerospace industry found it very useful Velcro |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | SMALL COUNTRIES: French, Italian & Swiss nationals make up about half of its population of 38,000 Monaco |
| #8612, aired 2022-04-05 | CLASSIC GAMES: Reuben Klamer, who passed away in 2021 at age 99, developed this game relatable to "literally everyone on Earth" The Game of Life |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | CURRENT TELEVISION: Fittingly, the last name of the family at the center of this drama is from French for "king" Succession |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Some of this country's indigenous people want its name officially changed from its Dutch-based name to Aotearoa New Zealand |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | HISTORIC PLACES: Following a raid at this establishment in 1969, protesters confronted police by forming a Rockette-style kickline the Stonewall Inn |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | AMERICANS IN PARIS: In 2021 she became the sixth woman & the first Black woman to be inducted into the Pantheon in Paris Josephine Baker |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN: It is said of her, "Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets: more needs she the divine than the physician" Lady Macbeth |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | SPORTS HISTORY: Taking the mound for Cleveland in 1948, he was the first African American to pitch in a World Series Satchel Paige |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | U.S. CITY NAMES: Adopted in 1845, the name of this state capital is a feminized form of a big body of water Atlanta, Georgia |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | DISNEY CHARACTERS: In the source material from more than 3 centuries ago, her name was badr al-budur, "full moon of full moons" (Princess) Jasmine |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | POEMS: The title of this poem comes from a 1920 book that refers to its possible "restoration to fruitfulness" The Waste Land |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | HISTORIC NICKNAMES: Napoleon's troops gave him this nickname not to mock him but for showing the courage of an infantryman in battle "The Little Corporal" |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | SINGERS: In 2021 at age 95, this singer achieved a Guinness World Record for the oldest person to release an album of new material Tony Bennett |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | NEWSPAPER TALK: Meaning an important part of a story, this distinctive spelling helped distinguish the word from a substance used in typesetting the lede |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | NONFICTION: This 1962 classic was dedicated to Albert Schweitzer, who predicted that man "will end by destroying the earth" Silent Spring |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | MOVIE STARS: Matthew McConaughey said, "'Dazed & Confused', the first words I ever said on film were" these "Alright, alright, alright" |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | METEOROLOGY: It was feared this word caused panic, but in 1950 the U.S. Weather Bureau ended a ban on it in forecasts, saying prediction wasn't impossible tornado |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | WORLD WAR I: Suvla Bay & Cape Helles were major landing sites along this peninsula Gallipoli |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | SYMBOLS: This U.S. politician asked for a multicolored pennant for a parade; demand increased after his death in 1978 Harvey Milk |
| #8594, aired 2022-03-10 | FAMOUS TRIALS: On her acquittal in 1893, a reporter cited nearby events 2 centuries earlier, saying the days of witch trials are over Lizzie Borden |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | EPITAPHS: Her epitaph, from a 1925 poem by her, ends, "She knows that her dust is very pretty"; "dust" was in another she wrote for herself Dorothy Parker |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: Characters Mark, Roger & Maureen in this musical were inspired by Marcello, Rodolfo & Musetta in another work Rent |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | CENTRAL AMERICA: A small river connects these 2 lakes that combined form close to 10% of their country's area Lake Nicaragua & Lake Managua |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: Dostoyevsky wrote that this title man in an earlier European novel is "beautiful only because he is ridiculous" Don Quixote |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | EUROPEAN CITIES: Pizzo means protection money; the Addiopizzo movement was founded in this city in 2004 Palermo, Sicily |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | ART MUSEUMS: Before its 1959 opening, 21 artists protested its design, saying it would make paintings look tilted & askew the Guggenheim |
| #8587, aired 2022-03-01 | THE SILVER SCREEN: He was the first actor to star in 3 films that won the Oscar for Best Picture: those of 1934, 1935 & 1939 Clark Gable |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | MODERN WAR: Called the longest siege of a capital in modern history, the assault on this city lasted from 1992 to 1996 Sarajevo |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | AWARDS: These awards have a retro version & winners include the novel "The Sword in the Stone" & "The War of the Worlds" radio broadcast the Hugo Awards |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | FICTIONAL FAMILIES: Introduced in the 1930s in The New Yorker, they've appeared on TV & Broadway & in live action & animated films the Addams Family |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | PLAY CHARACTERS: A 1949 review noted the "wrong formulas for success" of this character & "fatal misconceptions about his place in the scheme of things" Willy Loman |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | THE 19th CENTURY: An 1873 book title gave us this phrase for the period in the late 1800s of growth & prosperity & also greed & corruption the Gilded Age |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | THE PERIODIC TABLE: By 1890, discoveries of 3 "nationalist elements" filled table gaps: scandium in Sweden, germanium in Germany, this in France gallium |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | AMERICAN WOMEN: In 1914 she received a patent on a trefoil emblem, which she would transfer to an organization a few years later Juliette Gordon Low |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | HISTORIC EUROPEAN FAMILIES: This family has been traced to the Mugello valley around the year 1200 & the name suggests the trade of physician the Medici |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | CHARACTERS IN BANNED BOOKS: Introduced in 1928, this character has a disappointing affair with a writer before she begins a more satisfying relationship Lady Chatterley |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | PLAYS: First published in 1602, its title characters are Margaret & Alice The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC STRUCTURES: In 1100 the Bishop of Durham became the first prisoner here &, after plying his guards with wine, became the first to escape the Tower of London |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE COUNTRIES: In 1882, when these 2 countries' border was settled, a minister in the southern one quit in protest out of loyalty to Central America Mexico & Guatemala |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY: A 1525 textbook on anatomy says this, being "so different of colours", could also be called "rain bowys" iris |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | LONG-RUNNING TV SHOW CHARACTERS: This character who has been on the air for more than 50 years is only 6 1/2 years old Big Bird |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | COMPOUND WORDS: The OED says this 9-letter word is literary & poetic, & it appears 11 times in an 1845 American poem, including as the last word nevermore |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES: The first national observance of Memorial Day was held May 30, 1868 at this site, on land that had belonged to Robert E. Lee's wife Arlington National Cemetery |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY: The stated aim of this period was using violence to achieve political goals; its success aided in its demise in under a year the Reign of Terror |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | RECENT BIOGRAPHIES: A 2021 book about his "Misunderstood Reign" argues that he hated slavery & actually suffered from bipolar disorder George III |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | PHYSICISTS: A 1927 principle by this Nobel Prize winner says that some knowledge is inaccessible Werner Heisenberg |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: Early in his career he worked for a newspaper whose style guide said, "use short sentences" & "use vigorous English" (Ernest) Hemingway |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | THE MIDWEST: At about 90,000 it's the most populous U.S. city on North America's biggest lake Duluth, Minnesota |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY: This country, the largest in area entirely within Europe, borders the largest country in the world Ukraine |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS: A piece of writing advice from this man who died in 1904 concludes, "Otherwise don't put it there" (Anton) Chekhov |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | WORD ORIGINS: In 1793 a French clergyman called the destruction of libraries & sculptures this, using the name of a 5th century tribe vandalism |
| #6, aired 2022-02-10 | POETRY: It contains the line "whereat In either hand the hastening Angel caught Our lingering parents, & to the eastern gate Led them direct" Paradise Lost |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: In 1946 she was aboard a train to Darjeeling when she heard what she later described as "the call within a call" Mother Teresa |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: About 200 miles of the Tyrrhenian Sea separates the cities of Cagliari & Trapani in these 2 "regioni autonome" of Italy Sardinia & Sicily |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | 20th CENTURY LEADERS: He's called "a flame of inspiration in freedom's darkest hour" in the proclamation making him an honorary U.S. citizen Winston Churchill |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | AMERICAN CITIES: Recorded on a visit to this California city, YouTube's first video featured a man saying, "They have really, really, really long trunks" San Diego |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | USA: In 2012 these 2 neighboring states celebrated the centennial of their admission to the Union Arizona & New Mexico |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | 20th CENTURY FICTION: The author's foreword to this novel says, "When I read it now I feel myself back again on the steamer from Aswan to Wadi Halfa" Death on the Nile |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | BIOLOGICAL ETYMOLOGY: Dionaea, the genus of this plant, is a reference to the Greek goddess Aphrodite, the daughter of Dione the Venus flytrap |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY: One theory says Charles T. Torrey, a worker on this, coined its name, which appeared in The Liberator on October 14, 1842 the Underground Railroad |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | TOYS & GAMES: Its co-creator said adding an "L" to the end of the 1st word in the original title of this board game invented in 1979 "made it" Trivial Pursuit |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | BEHIND THE DISNEY ATTRACTION: The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror utilizes technology developed by this company founded in 1853 the Otis (Company) |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | FAMOUS AMERICANS: He was buried in 1969 in one of the World War II uniform jackets named for him Dwight Eisenhower |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | RECENT TV: The credits on "The Queen’s Gambit" included this man as "special consultant" (Garry) Kasparov |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY: This city on the Rhone River that is partly a World Heritage Site was papal property until the French Revolution Avignon |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | WOMEN WHO WRITE: Mimicking her style, a 1912 rejection note read: "Only one look, only one look is enough. Hardly one copy would sell here. Hardly one" Gertrude Stein |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | 1970s SINGER-SONGWRITERS: While speaking to Congress in 1985, he explained that his 1973 hit, now a state song, wasn't about drugs John Denver |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | 18th CENTURY NAMES: In 1793 he left Dublin for the United States, saying, "I expect to make a fortune" off George Washington, & he did Gilbert Stuart |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: The only nation in the world whose name in English ends in an H, it's also one of the 10 most populous Bangladesh |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | SEA LIFE: In 2018 National Geographic reported that half of this was dead, "akin to a forest after a devastating fire" the Great Barrier Reef |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | U.S. MUSEUMS: Named for a benefactor, it was established in 1893 to house artifacts from the nearby World's Columbian Exposition the Field Museum |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | MOUNTAINS: First scaled in 1829, this 17,000-foot mountain has caused excitement by the supposed discovery of wood high up on it Mount Ararat |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | WORDS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: The 1890 Census reported that "the unsettled area has been so broken into... that there can hardly be said to be a" this frontier |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | FILMS OF THE 2000s: One of the screenwriters of this 2001 film described it as "'Clueless' meets 'The Paper Chase"' Legally Blonde |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | AWARDS AROUND THE WORLD: France's national theater award, it's named for a man who died in Paris in 1673 the Molière Award |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | SCIENTIFIC NAMES: The 1905 paper that gave this its name also referred to it as "Dynamosaurus imperiosus" Tyrannosaurus rex |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | CEMETERIES & MEMORIALS: 60,000 are at rest in a National Memorial Cemetery opened in 1949 in the crater of an extinct volcano in this state Hawaii |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | THE WORDS OF VICTOR HUGO: This object "is the ultimate expression of law, & its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral" the guillotine |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | HISTORIC AMERICANS: In 1838 he took a new last name, of a family in Walter Scott's "The Lady of the Lake"; for distinction he added a 2nd "S" to the end (Frederick) Douglass |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | BROADWAY MUSICALS: Each in a show that ran more than 2 years, Ethel Merman & Sarah Jessica Parker played 2 different characters with this first name Annie |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | 19th CENTURY NOTABLES: On his deathbed in France in 1890, he told his brother, "The sadness will last forever" Vincent van Gogh |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | 20th CENTURY NONFICTION: "Norwegian Independence Day" & "a vast blue sea" are mentioned in Chapter 1 of a 1948 book by this man (Thor) Heyerdahl |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | HISTORIC BUILDINGS: Begun in the 1070s with stone from Caen, it was meant to dominate both a skyline & the hearts & minds of a conquered populace the Tower of London |
| #8548, aired 2022-01-05 | THE 1950s: The first TV debate between presidential candidates of the same party involved him & future running mate Estes Kefauver Adlai Stevenson |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | WORD ORIGINS: From the Greek for "ring", the first ones were built by the Romans, including one that could hold 250,000 circus |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | SCULPTORS: Los Angeles artist George Stanley sculpted this, first handed out at a private banquet on May 16, 1929 the Oscar |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | MUSIC LEGENDS: Of their July 1957 first meeting at a church fair, one of this pair recalled: "I was a fat schoolboy and… he was drunk" John Lennon & Paul McCartney |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | EXPLORERS: Confirming a theory, fossils found with this explorer in 1912 included a plant from more than 250 million years ago (Robert Falcon) Scott |
| #8543, aired 2021-12-29 | THE 20th CENTURY: In the morning of April 15, 1912 officer Charles Lightoller became the last of about 700 people to board this ship the Carpathia |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | EUROPEAN RIVERS: The flooding of this river in 1966 destroyed or damaged some 14,000 works of art, many of them priceless the Arno |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | 20th CENTURY THEATER: In 1955 Peter Hall directed the first production of this play in English without having "the foggiest idea what some of it means" Waiting for Godot |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | INTERNATIONAL LANDMARKS: In December 2020 an international agreement added nearly 3 feet to this; one surveyor lost half a toe in the effort Mount Everest |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | THE EARLY UNITED STATES: The final piece in this series points out "the analogy of the proposed government to your own state constitution" The Federalist Papers |
| #8538, aired 2021-12-22 | SPORTING EVENTS: In 1752 one of the first races in this sport was run--4 miles from Buttevant Church to St. Mary's Doneraile steeplechase |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | 3-NAMED WOMEN: Not primarily known as a suffragist, in 1879 she became the first female resident of Concord, Mass. to register to vote in local elections Louisa May Alcott |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: Introduced in 1938 & inspired by movie character Torchy Blane of the Morning Herald, she has since gone on to win a fictional Pulitzer Lois Lane |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | FRENCH ARTISTS: The catalog of MoMA's first exhibition called this artist who died in 1891 a "man of science" & "inventor of a method" (Georges) Seurat |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | WORLD WAR II GEOGRAPHY: Body-of-water battles included the Coral Sea, Philippine Sea & this one that allowed Japan to seize Jakarta the Java Sea |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | AWARDS: The Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award honors influential people from this state, including Western author Louis L'Amour North Dakota |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | 20th CENTURY PHYSICS: Puzzlingly heavy & long-lived particles discovered in the 1940s were dubbed this adjective later applied to even smaller particles strange |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | KINGS & QUEENS: Due to legislative action of 1707, she was officially the last monarch of independent Scotland Queen Anne |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | 19th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS: She called herself "the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity" in an introduction to one of her novels (Mary) Shelley |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | 1950s PUBLIC WORKS: Dubbed "The Greatest Construction Show on Earth", when completed it connected Minnesota to Montreal the St. Lawrence Seaway |
| #8528, aired 2021-12-08 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE: Gen. MacArthur said this man's death by "violence is one of those bitter anachronisms that seems to refute all logic" "Mahatma" Gandhi |
| #8527, aired 2021-12-07 | OLD GEOGRAPHIC NAMES: This term once used for western North Africa is still used today in the name of a primate from that region Barbary |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AESTHETIC MOVEMENTS: This turn-of-the-century movement was alternately known around the world as Nieuwe Kunst & Modernista Art Nouveau |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | ORGANIZATIONS: In the U.S. & its territories, this nonprofit whose roots trace to 1980 fulfills a word in its name every 34 minutes the Make-A-Wish Foundation |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | JOURNALISTS IN HISTORY: Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg died June 25, 1876 while on a field assignment covering this man (General George) Custer |
| #8523, aired 2021-12-01 | PLANNED CITIES: A recent immigrant, Lady Denman, wife of the governor-general, announced the name of this new national capital at a 1913 ceremony Canberra, Australia |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP: The organization these International was founded in 1956; they’re Partnerstädte in Germany & villes jumelées in France Sister Cities |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE: Its first line says, "The good people of Paris were awakened by a grand peal from all the bells in the three districts of the city" The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | FICTIONAL LANGUAGES: Lapine is the name of the language created for this 1972 book beloved by children Watership Down |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | FAMOUS DO'S & DON'TS: In 1964 Berkeley alum Jack Weinberg, age 24, told a San Francisco chronicle reporter this now-famous "Don't" "Don't trust anyone over 30" |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | AWARDS & HONORS: First awarded in 1731 to electricity pioneer Stephen Gray, the Copley Medal is awarded annually by this organization the Royal Society |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | WORLD CAPITALS: An annual event called Winterlude includes skating on the Rideau Canal, a UNESCO world heritage site in this city Ottawa, Canada |
| #8516, aired 2021-11-22 | 20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS: He won an election in which both he & his Democratic opponent were from Ohio & both were wealthy newspaper publishers (Warren G.) Harding |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS: The Old Courthouse Museum in Monroeville, Alabama has exhibits devoted to these 2 authors & childhood friends (Harper) Lee & (Truman) Capote |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | HISTORY: In 1985 the mayor of Rome went to a suburb of Tunis to sign a treaty ending this after more than 2,100 years the (Third) Punic War(s) (Carthaginian Wars) |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | FINAL RESTING PLACES: A cemetery on this island has the graves of Robert Fulton & 2 of the first 4 Treasury Secretaries Manhattan |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | MOVIE QUOTES: This 3-word phrase was the protagonist's second line of dialogue in a 1962 movie, the first in a 25-film series "Bond, James Bond" |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | MYTHS & LEGENDS: This legendary place has been identified as being in Caerleon, Wales & in Winchester, England Camelot |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | CONTEMPORARY PLAYWRIGHTS: "The Murder of Gonzago" is used as a play within a 1966 play by this man who was inspired by Shakespeare (Tom) Stoppard |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | PRICELESS OBJECTS: It dates back to the "French Blue", which was set in gold & suspended from a neck ribbon when Louis XIV wore it on ceremonial occasions the Hope Diamond |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | WORLD POPULATION: This Asian nation is the world's most populous country that lies mostly in the Southern Hemisphere Indonesia |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | 1970s SONGS: In 1976 "Bohemian Rhapsody" was replaced at No. 1 on the U.K. charts by this Europop song whose title is heard in Queen's lyrics "Mamma Mia" |
| #8506, aired 2021-11-08 | NAMES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: He was Virginia's 1st African-American congressman, whose grandnephew, a famous poet, used his last name as a first name (John Mercer) Langston |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | TOYS: Introduced in 1964, he fell out of favor in changing times & in 1970 was marketed as a "Land Adventurer" G.I. Joe |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: It's the only U.N. member state outside Europe with Dutch as an official language Suriname |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | PAINTINGS: In 2021 experts in Oslo concluded that it was the artist who wrote on this painting, "Could only have been painted by a madman" The Scream |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | SCIENTISTS: Galileo thanked this astronomer "because you were... practically the only one, to have complete faith in my assertions" (Johannes) Kepler |
| #8501, aired 2021-11-01 | 1960s HISTORY: After around 8 PM EDT on July 21, 1969 a major part of a transport known by this 1-word name was never seen again Eagle |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | SONGS & U.S. HISTORY: Victory in 1805's Battle of Derna on the coast of North Africa inspired a lyric in this song made official in 1929 the "Marines' Hymn" |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | WORLD CITIES: From Sydney, Australia go 7,000 miles east & less than 1/2 degree of latitude north to this capital also near the Pacific Santiago, Chile |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | LITERARY MOVIE ROLES: Among the actresses who have portrayed her are Greta Garbo twice, Vivien Leigh, Tatiana Samoilova & Keira Knightley Anna Karenina |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | AUTHORS: These 2 men who both died in Boston in the mid-20th century each won 4 Pulitzers, one man for Poetry & the other for Drama (Robert) Frost & (Eugene) O'Neill |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | NOTABLE WOMEN: Of the 3 pioneering women in their field to be dubbed the "Trimates", this one got her PhD from Cambridge in 1966 (Jane) Goodall |
| #8495, aired 2021-10-22 | 1970s TOP 40 HITS: Seeing a poster for a production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" in a seedy Paris hotel & ladies of the evening nearby inspired this hit "Roxanne" |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: This country of 16,600 square miles has a possession that's more than 50 times as large Denmark |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | 19th CENTURY SUPREME COURT DECISIONS: The first "self-evident" truth in the Declaration of Independence was quoted & found not to apply to this plaintiff (Dred) Scott |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS: He has studied Cordon Bleu cooking, but is known for his 1981 creation of a character with unconventional taste in cuisine Thomas Harris |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | NAMES ON THE MAP: From 1824 to 1825 this hero toured all 24 states & an Indiana city was named for him (the Marquis de) Lafayette |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN: These stories got their collective title because little Josephine Kipling insisted they be told exactly the same way each time Just So Stories |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | U.S. HISTORY: On Sept. 30, 1788 William Maclay & Robert Morris, both of Pennsylvania, were chosen as the first 2 these (U.S.) senators |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | SPORTS LEGENDS: When Johnny Bench broke his record, this man wrote, "I always thought the record would stand until it was broken" Yogi Berra |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | PUBLISHING: Last name of brothers James, John, Joseph & Fletcher, whose company published magazines with their name as well as books Harper |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Nazi Germany annexed this nation & divided it into regions of the Alps & the Danube; the Allies later divided it into 4 sectors Austria |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE: British zoologist George Shaw looked for stitches when he first saw this mammal in 1799, thinking he was being tricked (the) duck-bill(ed) platypus |
| #8484, aired 2021-10-07 | WINTER OLYMPIC SPORTS: The official Olympic website says this event "has its roots in survival skills" practiced in the snowy forests of Scandinavia biathlon |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | HISTORIC CALENDARS: Following Messidor, this summer month in the 18th century French Revolutionary calendar had a name meaning "heat gift" Thermidor |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | POPULAR PHRASES: This phrase relating nutrition & health was popularized by fruit scientist J.T. Stinson at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair an apple a day keeps the doctor away |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | RENAISSANCE MEN: 10 years before a more famous work, he wrote in 1503 that the way to deal with rebels is to placate them or eliminate them (Niccolò) Machiavelli |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | AMERICAN HISTORY: The April 26, 1906 edition of The Call, a newspaper in this city, reported on the heroic death of hoseman James O'Neil San Francisco |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: A 2000 Library of Congress exhibit called this 1900 work "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale" The Wizard of Oz |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | MYTHOLOGY: The Hippocrene Spring, sacred to the Muses, was so named because this offspring of Medusa brought it into being Pegasus |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | THE CONTINENTS: It's the only continent with its mainland lying in all 4 hemispheres as defined by the equator & the prime meridian Africa |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | ROCK LEGENDS: A new studio album in 2020 gave him a Top 5 album in 6 consecutive decades, his first in 1975 (Bruce) Springsteen |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | HISTORY OF THE 19-TEENS: Saying he ignored warnings of enemy vessels, the British admiralty sought to blame William Turner, this ship's last captain in 1915 the Lusitania |
| #8474, aired 2021-09-23 | FOOD & DRINK IN THE BIBLE: In the King James Version, these creatures are a plague in Exodus 10, but deemed okay to eat in Leviticus 11 locusts |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | LANDMARKS: 96 miles in total during its 3-decade existence, the most well-known part of this was about the same length as an Olympic marathon the Berlin Wall |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: A book by her says, "It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'... but then I am not a rabbit" (Beatrix) Potter |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | 1980s MOVIES: The Dip used to kill characters in this 1988 film consisted of acetone, benzene & turpentine, ingredients of paint thinner Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | 19th CENTURY U.S. POLITICS: Named after a U.K. political party that helped depose a king, the U.S. Whig Party was formed to oppose this man (Andrew) Jackson |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | THE 21st CENTURY: In 2009 this 11-year-old started posting on BBC's Urdu language website under the screen name Gul Makai Malala (Yousafzai) |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | AUTHORS: In addition to knowing many languages & making up his own, he also taught language at the universities of Leeds & Oxford J.R.R. Tolkien |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | SCIENTIFIC ETYMOLOGY: 2 of the 3 men for whom armalcolite, a dark gray mineral discovered in 1969, is named (2 of) (Neil) Armstrong, (Buzz) Aldrin or (Michael) Collins |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | THE 13 COLONIES: Founded by an advocate of religious freedom, it was the site of America's first Baptist church & oldest synagogue Rhode Island |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN: 2 of the 3 women depicted on the first statue of real women in Central Park, unveiled in August 2020 (2 of) (Sojourner) Truth, (Susan B.) Anthony, or (Elizabeth Cady) Stanton |
| #8464, aired 2021-08-12 | BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES: Based on a 1974 novel, this film has been described as combining "An Enemy of the People" & "Moby Dick" Jaws |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | WORLD FLAGS: The use of red, yellow & green as Pan-African colors began with the flag of this nation, the continent's oldest independent country Ethiopia |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | FICTIONAL PLACES: A savage people called Zapoletes are contrasted with the inhabitants of the title place of this 16th century work Utopia |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | BEASTLY EPONYMS: A penguin species found in southern South America is named for this 16th century man whose crew were the first from Europe to see them (Ferdinand) Magellan |
| #8460, aired 2021-08-06 | LITERATURE & THE ANIMAL KINGDOM: In 2020 scientists named Trimeresurus salazar, a new species of this, after a character in a book series a snake |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | 1930s AMERICA: Unpopular at the time, the man for whom it is named wasn't invited to the September 30, 1935 dedication of this landmark Hoover Dam |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: The first published announcement of the Declaration was by a Philadelphia paper that reported it in this foreign language German |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | ASIA: This country became independent in 1946; in 1964 it officially switched its independence day from July 4 to June 12 the Philippines |
| #8456, aired 2021-08-02 | HISTORIC BUSINESSMEN: Born in the village of Waldorf, Germany in 1763, he arrived in the U.S. in 1784 (John Jacob) Astor |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | COMEDY & SPORTS: These are the 2 of a reporter's 5 W's that are not on the baseball team in Abbott & Costello's "Who's on First?" Where & When |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | WORLD CITIES: This Colombian port of 1 million people gets its name from Phoenician for "new town" Cartagena |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS: "Let's all sink with the king" is a line from the opening scene of this play The Tempest |
| #8452, aired 2021-07-27 | MYTHOLOGICAL ANIMALS: After being born this creature would bring the remains of its forebear to Heliopolis & put them on the altar of the sun god the phoenix |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | NOTABLE NAMES: Following his death in 2018, his ashes were interred at Westminster Abbey between the remains of fellow scientists Darwin & Newton Stephen Hawking |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | LITERARY CHARACTERS: This owner of a large estate in Derbyshire is described as "proud" at least half a dozen times (Mr. Fitzwilliam) Darcy |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | 1970s MOVIE SCENES: Writer Dan O'Bannon based a scene in this film on his own Crohn's disease, which felt like things inside him fighting to get out Alien |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | AFRICAN MONARCHS: Some devotees of this emperor who died in 1975 trace his lineage to King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba Haile Selassie |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | THE 20th CENTURY: The code name for a historic meeting at this city was Argonaut, after the heroes who searched for the Golden Fleece on the Black Sea Yalta |
| #8446, aired 2021-07-19 | THE 50 STATES: Both in the Pacific, they are the 50 states' 2 biggest islands in area; one is about 40 degrees colder in winter than the other Hawaii & Kodiak |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | HISTORY: Completed around 1455, it sometimes gets another name because a famous copy was found in the library of Cardinal Mazarin the Gutenberg Bible |
| #8444, aired 2021-07-15 | BOOK CHARACTERS: Trying to emulate the title character, he fails & is told "You lack a set of spinnerets, & you lack know-how" Wilbur |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | ANIMATION: These characters first seen onscreen in a 1938 film are known in Spain as Juanito, Jorgito & Jaimito Huey, Dewey & Louie |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS: In 1899 James Atkinson patented his new & improved one of these, including its spring-powered snapping action a mousetrap |
| #8441, aired 2021-07-12 | COLLEGE LIFE: This dish associated with Harvard goes back to the start of the school; the wife of the first headmaster made an awful version hasty pudding |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | 1980s BESTSELLERS: The title of this 1985 novel by a Canadian author partly alludes to the similarly named stories in a 14th century work The Handmaid's Tale |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | MUSICAL LANDMARKS: A cleft in limestone in England sheltered Reverend Augustus Toplady from a storm & inspired this popular hymn "Rock Of Ages" |
| #8438, aired 2021-07-07 | ROCK BANDS: In 2017 this band whose singer goes by a nickname became the first to have No. 1 albums in the U.S. in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s & 2010s U2 |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES: In 2019 this public university attempted to trademark the word "the" for use on clothing & hats (the) Ohio State University |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: On either side of Indochina are these 2 gulfs that start with the same letter the Gulf of Tonkin & the Gulf of Thailand |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | HIT SONGS: Written in 1930, this song was a No. 1 hit in 1960 & was covered by The Band to support a 1976 presidential candidate "Georgia On My Mind" |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | RIVERS: In "Notes on the State of Virginia", Thomas Jefferson said the most beautiful river on Earth is this one no longer in Virginia the Ohio |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS: British biochemist J.B.S. Haldane's essay on ectogenesis, birth outside the womb, helped inspire this 1932 novel Brave New World |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | COLORS & HISTORY: A blue pigment & a shade of blue popular in shirts are named for these, the 2 opposing nations in an 1870-71 war France & Prussia |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | MONARCHIES: The future Charles I suddenly became next in line to the throne of Austria in this year 1914 |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | NEW YORK CITY: Bright new lighting installed in 1880 on a street that crosses Manhattan diagonally led to this 3-word nickname the Great White Way |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: "Camelot", "The Pilgrims" & "A Postscript by Clarence" are chapters in a classic novel by this author Mark Twain |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | FAMOUS WOMEN: In 1983, 20 years after her famous first, she was honored on a one-ruble coin Valentina Tereshkova |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY CREATURES: The author said the name of this 10-letter creature in his poem meant "the result of much excited discussion" the Jabberwock |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | REFERENCE BOOKS: Emily Dickinson made frequent use of a work by this family friend & said that for several years, it was "my only companion" (Noah) Webster |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | FICTION: In a 1915 story by this European, a woman finds a corpse & says, "It's gone & croaked--just lying there, dead as a doornail!" (Franz) Kafka |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: On this country's National Day, August 15, all 39,000 residents are invited to Vaduz Castle for festivities & drinks Liechtenstein |
| #8423, aired 2021-06-16 | MOVIE CHARACTERS: A character who was going to be called Lunar Larry became him, inspired by the name of a real person Buzz Lightyear |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | AMERICAN WOMEN: During her second marriage, she split her time among homes in New York, New Jersey, Paris & Greece & a yacht Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA: 2-word term for the statement saying U.S. policy is "to leave the parties to themselves, in the hope... other powers will (do) the same" the Monroe Doctrine |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | GEOGRAPHY WORDS: From the Latin for "key", this word for a type of isolated country applies to Vatican City, which has keys on its flag an enclave |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | THE SUPREME COURT: The 1st justice directly succeeded by his former clerk was Rehnquist by Roberts; the 2nd time was this other alliterative pair (Anthony) Kennedy & (Brett) Kavanaugh |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | 1960s SINGERS: In 2002 Macon, Georgia, where he grew up, unveiled a statue of this man who sits overlooking the water, a nod to his posthumous No. 1 hit Otis Redding |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | FOOD & DRINK PHRASES: A 1951 Time article said, "Since the war," this 2-word term for a period of time "has been written into union contracts" coffee break |
| #8416, aired 2021-06-07 | GOLDEN AGE ACTRESSES: In 2013 the Victoria & Albert Museum acquired her archives, including letters from Laurence Olivier & Tennessee Williams Vivien Leigh |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | 17th CENTURY WRITING: This 17th century work quotes the Book of Job, "Behold the giants groan under water, and they that dwell with them" Leviathan |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | 17th CENTURY FRENCHMEN: Pope Urban VIII once said, "if there is a God," this French minister "will have much to answer for. If not, he had a successful life" (Cardinal) Richelieu |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | NEWSPAPER NAMES: Used as a newspaper name from New York to San Diego, it was an ancient Roman official who represented the people's interests Tribune |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AROUND THE WORLD: In the 1860s a zoologist proposed that this island was once part of a lost continent he dubbed Lemuria Madagascar |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION: The day it debuted in 1980, this network with an Italian name aired a Carnegie Hall celebration of Aaron Copland's 80th birthday Bravo |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | EUROPEAN BORDERS: It's still there, but none of the countries that bordered this country at the beginning of 1990 exist anymore Poland |
| #8409, aired 2021-05-27 | MUSIC & GEOGRAPHY: In a British folk tune, the title lass Maggie May is sentenced to go way down south to this penal colony that rhymes with her name Botany Bay |
| #8408, aired 2021-05-26 | CLASSICAL COMPOSERS: Monsieur Crescendo & Signor Vaccarmini ("Mr. Racket") were derisive nicknames for this composer whose last opera dates from 1829 (Gioachino) Rossini |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | NOBEL-WINNING NOVELISTS: Falsely accused of murder, a character in his 1948 novel becomes "tyrant over the whole county's white conscience" (William) Faulkner |
| #8406, aired 2021-05-24 | 20th CENTURY ARTWORK: The artist's wife described the scene of this 1942 painting as "brilliant interior of cheap restaurant" Nighthawks |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: The year before his 1809 birth, his parents acted in "King Lear", leading scholars to believe he was named for a "Lear" character Edgar Allan Poe |
| #8404, aired 2021-05-20 | COLONIAL AMERICA: Milestones along the eastern end of the Mason-Dixon line were marked on either side with the crests of these 2 men Lord Baltimore & William Penn |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | MIDDLE EASTERN GEOGRAPHY: Of the 6 countries that border the Red Sea, it's last alphabetically Yemen |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | ANIMALS: German settlers in Texas called this animal "Panzerschwein" armadillo |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | ANCIENT GREEKS: Plutarch quotes this man who sentenced many to death: "Small ones deserve that, and I have no higher for the greater crimes" Draco |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | WORLD CAPITALS: A national capital for less than 100 years, it's the westernmost capital in mainland Asia Ankara, Turkey |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: The last book Dr. Seuss published in his lifetime, it climbs bestseller lists every spring Oh, the Places You'll Go! |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | WORLD'S FAIRS: The theme of Seattle's 1962 World's Fair was "Man in the" this era Space Age |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: Its last chapter includes wisdom from King Lemuel, taught to him by his mother, as well as the famous "Virtuous Woman" passage Proverbs |
| #8396, aired 2021-05-10 | U.S. HISTORY: On April 7, 1789 Charles Thomson & Sylvanus Bourne left New York City to tell these 2 men the results of a vote taken the day before George Washington & John Adams |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | SHAKESPEARE & HISTORY: Macbeth has a vision of a line of 8 Scottish kings, the 8th holding a mirror to reflect this 9th in line who may have been in the audience James I of England (James VI of Scotland) |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | COUNTRIES' NATIONAL ANTHEMS: With words written by a Bishop of Urgell, its anthem praises Charlemagne & says it "was born a princess... between two nations" Andorra |
| #8393, aired 2021-05-05 | CLASSIC ALBUMS: The title of this huge hit 1977 album was the idea of the bass player, who specified it should be spelled the British way Rumours |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | WORLD LITERATURE: This 1970s memoir told of harsh places that metaphorically were like an island chain "from the Bering Strait almost to the Bosporus" The Gulag Archipelago |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: His book "An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859" shows he heeded his own famous advice Horace Greeley |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | BOOKS & AUTHORS: In books by him, the Kingdom of Noland, ruled by an orphan named Bud, borders a country called Ix, where Queen Zixi reigns (Lyman Frank) Baum |
| #8389, aired 2021-04-29 | ODD WORDS: A homophone of a letter in the alphabet, this 5-letter word sounds the same if you remove its last 4 vowels queue |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS: This director was quoted as saying, "I believe I can take any 60 pages of the Bible and make a great picture" Cecil B. DeMille |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | U.S. NATIONAL PARKS: This subtropical region is a biosphere reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, &, as of 1947, a National Park the Everglades |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | CITY ORIGIN STORIES: The mythical founder Byzas consulted the Oracle of Delphi before establishing what's now known as this city Istanbul |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | MOVIE TITLE CHARACTERS: In this 2012 film set just before the Civil War, a German dentist declares that the title character's surname is Freeman Django Unchained |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | CONTINENTAL GEOGRAPHY: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea & Somalia make up this region named for its resemblance to a part of a native animal the Horn of Africa |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | AMERICAN BUSINESS: In 2004, after a century as a household name, its last model rolled off the assembly line in Lansing, Michigan Oldsmobile |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | EUROPEAN TOURIST ATTRACTIONS: Opened in 1843, it was frequented by Hans Christian Andersen & Walt Disney, who both found inspiration there Tivoli (Gardens) |
| #8381, aired 2021-04-19 | PAINTINGS: The New York Times noted "balls of orange-yellow light" & "the town off in the distance" from the artist's window in this piece Starry Night |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | AMERICAN NAMES: One of the luminaries who drove in the "Golden Spike" in Utah in 1869 was this man who later founded a university (Leland) Stanford |
| #8379, aired 2021-04-15 | PHYSICS: Modern formulations of Newton's 2 most famous equations both begin with this quantity that's measured in newtons force |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | SHAKESPEARE: With 4,042 lines, it's Shakespeare's longest play & it's also the one that's been filmed the most Hamlet |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | ASTRONOMY: As Huygens observed in 1656, a weapon in this constellation contains a nebula, one of a few that can be seen with the naked eye Orion |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | OLYMPIC HOSTS: Aside from the United States, one of the 2 countries with 2 different cities that have hosted the Summer Olympics (1 of) Australia or Germany |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: One edition of this 1930s novella shows a farm within the silhouette of a rabbit Of Mice and Men |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | SOUTH AMERICA: 2 of the 3 national capitals on the continent whose metro areas have more than 10 million people (2 of) Buenos Aires, Bogotá, or Lima |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | NOTORIOUS: In 1897 she was accused of a much lesser crime, shoplifting in Rhode Island Lizzie Borden |
| #8372, aired 2021-04-06 | 20th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY: A biography of him: "In a sweltering, dimly lit cabin, its window shades closed... his first presidential decisions were made" Lyndon Johnson |
| #8371, aired 2021-04-05 | DAYTIME TV PERSONALITIES: Accepting a Lifetime Achievement Emmy, he said, "Just take... 10 seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are" Mr. (Fred) Rogers |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | EPONYMOUS LANDMARKS: In 1960 the ashes of this aviator were spread over the Venezuela natural wonder he famously sighted decades earlier (James) Angel |
| #8369, aired 2021-04-01 | ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM: A real-life antidisestablishmentarian, William Bridgeman opposed the 1920 disestablishment of this in Wales church |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | LOGOS: After 9/11, designer Milton Glaser modified this iconic logo of his, adding a bruise & the words "More Than Ever" I Heart New York (I Love New York) |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | AMERICAN HISTORY: While performing in Philadelphia, the future father of this man sent a letter threatening to slit Andrew Jackson's throat (John Wilkes) Booth |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | AUTHORS: BOOK TO SCREEN: Horrified by the 1964 movie musical from her work, she okayed a U.K. stage version as long as "no Americans" were involved (P.L.) Travers |
| #8365, aired 2021-03-26 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS: In 1869 he moved to Yosemite Valley & was the first to say the area was formed by glacial erosion, a theory generally accepted today (John) Muir |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | LITERARY INSPIRATIONS: The now-debunked theories of Luigi Galvani influenced the science in this 1818 novel Frankenstein |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: The "effect" named for this company founded in 1943 refers to increased value of a product to a consumer whose own labor is needed IKEA |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | THE OLYMPICS: The "City of Angels" hosted the Olympics twice, the second time this many years after the first 52 |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | SHAKESPEAREAN REFERENCES: This name given to U.K. labor strife in December 1978 & January 1979 was taken from the first line of a Shakespeare history play the Winter of (our) Discontent |
| #8360, aired 2021-03-19 | ARTISTS: The February 17, 1901 death of his friend Carles Casagemas made this grief-stricken artist change his color palette (Pablo) Picasso |
| #8359, aired 2021-03-18 | BROADWAY ROLES: Of the more than 15 actors to play the lead in this musical, Howard McGillin holds the record with over 2,500 performances The Phantom of the Opera |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: In the 1912 election these 2 parties on the left of the political spectrum finished 2nd & 4th, totaling 1/3 of the votes Bull Moose Progressive & Socialist |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | TRIPLE-"A" GEOGRAPHY: Home to the Piazza Alberica, this Italian city is better known for what it supplied to works by Henry Moore & Michelangelo Carrara |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | FICTIONAL PLACES: Introduced to readers in 2008, its name comes from a Latin phrase for "bread & circuses", offerings used to appease the masses Panem |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | HISTORIC PLACES: 8 presidents have visited this battle site with an Algonquian name about 50 miles from Washington; for McKinley, it was a return visit Antietam |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS: Representing its outspoken tone, this newspaper founded in the 19th century has the name of a free-spirited opera character Le Figaro |
| #8353, aired 2021-03-10 | LITERARY THRILLERS: The only Ian Fleming James Bond novel not told in the third person, it's narrated by one of 007's paramours The Spy Who Loved Me |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | SCIENCE FICTION: In a 1952 sci-fi story, a time traveler returning to the present finds a dead one of these insects on his shoe a butterfly |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | RADIO HISTORY: A 1949 broadcast in Spanish of this drama from 11 years before caused mass panic in Ecuador & the destruction of the radio station "The War of the Worlds" |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | AMERICAN ROCK BANDS: In 2020 their Greatest Hits, with an optimistic '80s anthem, became only the third album to spend 600 weeks on the Billboard 200 Journey |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | U.S. MILITARY EQUIPMENT: The U.S. Army's tradition of naming these began with the Sioux, used in the Korean War helicopters |
| #8348, aired 2021-03-03 | EUROPEAN LANDMARKS: Of the principal architects working on it from the mid-1500s to the 1980s, like Pierre Lescot & Hector Lefuel, none were foreigners the Louvre |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | WORLD LEADERS ADDRESS CONGRESS: The 2 to address 3 joint sessions are Churchill & this leader, his non-European country's longest-serving PM, in 1996, 2011 & 2015 Benjamin Netanyahu |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS: In "Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes" Charles de Brosses coined this term for the many islands of the region Polynesia |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | EARLY U.S. HISTORY: Elbridge Gerry, Charles Pinckney & John Marshall were the diplomats in this 1797 incident that led to a quasi-war with France the XYZ Affair |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES: Losing its ocean access in 1993, this African Union member is the most populous landlocked nation, with 110 million people Ethiopia |
| #8343, aired 2021-02-24 | BUSINESS HISTORY: David McConnell's cosmetics & perfume co. was rebranded in 1939 with this name, honoring the home of his favorite playwright Avon |
| #8342, aired 2021-02-23 | MOVIE DIRECTORS: Along with his writing partner, this director is the only person to win screenwriting Oscars for both a film & its sequel Francis Ford Coppola |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | MUSIC: Just 24 notes, this piece is nicknamed "Butterfield's Lullaby" for the U.S. Army general who arranged it "Taps" |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | WORLD SURNAMES: In 2019, for the first time, this nation allowed for non-gendered last names with the suffix -bur Iceland |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | 19th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS: The first campaign of this man, who at 36 was the youngest major party nominee ever, was supported by the silver mining industry William Jennings Bryan |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | WINTER SPORTS: The specific skill that gave this sport its name was eliminated from international competition after the 1990 World Championships figure skating |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | GEOGRAPHIC NAMESAKES: In 1857 the former Surveyor-General of India objected to giving his name to this landmark as "the natives could not pronounce" it Mount Everest |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | PLAYWRIGHTS: This late writer has had 10 plays on Broadway, most of them set in Pittsburgh like "Jitney", which premiered in 2017 August Wilson |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHERS: Asked to describe this 4th century B.C. member of the Cynics, Plato called him "a Socrates gone mad" Diogenes |
| #8334, aired 2021-02-11 | THE OSCARS: The first time an individual won 4 awards at a single ceremony was in 1954, when his wins included Best 2-Reel Short Subject Walt Disney |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | HISTORIC NAMESAKES: This aircraft was named for the second president of the Weimar Republic Hindenburg |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | THE 50 STATES: While it has only 31 miles of coastline on the Atlantic, its shoreline is almost 3,200 miles thanks to a large estuary & its tributaries Maryland |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | WORLD LITERATURE: In a classic novel from 1866, the murders of 2 women take place in this city St. Petersburg |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | POPES & HISTORY: Late 16th century Pope Sixtus V regarded this invasion force as a crusade & promised indulgences to all who participated the Spanish Armada |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | CABLE NETWORKS: In March 1979 Tip O'Neill & then-Representative Al Gore were the first politicians to speak on this new cable channel C-SPAN |
| #8328, aired 2021-02-03 | EUROPEAN ROYALTY: In 1653 King Louis XIV performed as this Greco-Roman god in the ballet "de la Nuit" Apollo |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | WRITERS FOR CHILDREN: The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine gave "rejoice" as a rhyme for the correct pronunciation of his name Dr. Seuss |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | SCIENCE WORDS: This word used to denote an irreversible dispersion of energy was coined in the 1860s to sound a bit like "energy" entropy |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | BRITISH ARMY HISTORY: The Army's longest continuous campaign, 1969-2007, began in this Northern Ireland city known by either of 2 different names Londonderry/Derry |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS: In a 1959 article he wrote, "People began to call themselves beatniks, beats... bugniks &... I was called the 'avatar' of all this" Jack Kerouac |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | THE WILD WEST: These 2 legends both known for buckskin clothes & long, flowing hair met violent ends 38 days apart, in Montana & South Dakota (George Armstrong) Custer & (Wild Bill) Hickok |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | POP MUSIC: First released as a single in 1982, this song was re-released & charted again 17 years later & 17 years after that "1999" |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Of the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, these 2 on opposite sides of it are the smallest & largest in area Algeria & Monaco |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | STATUES: Statues honoring this man who was killed in 1779 can be found in Waimea, Kauai & in Whitby, England (Captain) Cook |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | BRITISH WRITERS: When Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days in 1926, this British fellow writer tried to find her with the help of a spiritual medium Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | THE WESTERN U.S.: About 100 miles apart, they were made state capitals 10 years apart in 1854 & 1864 & both grew rapidly due to precious metals Sacramento & Carson City |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | THE BUSINESS OF TRAVEL: Adjusted for inflation, the nightly rate this company put in its name in 1962 is now $51 Motel 6 |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | MOVIE SETTINGS: In 2017 this New York City luxury store opened its first cafe, with truffle eggs, waffles & croissants on the menu Tiffany & Co. (Tiffany's) |
| #8315, aired 2021-01-15 | QUEEN ELIZABETH II: Of the last 12 sitting U.S. presidents, the only one Elizabeth never met; she had her youngest child 3 months into his presidency Lyndon Johnson |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: This 1969 book was first printed in Japan because no U.S. company would then make a book with so many holes in the pages The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY: The Oyapock River forms part of Brazil's 400-mile border with the territory of this European country France |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | FAMOUS ANIMALS: When she first came to the world's attention in 1957, she was dubbed "Muttnik" by U.S. journalists Laika |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | 1960s SONGS: The name of this title song from a 1964 movie can be translated from Spanish as "Long Live The Meadows" "Viva Las Vegas" |
| #8310, aired 2021-01-08 | WOMEN & SCIENCE: Dr. Margaret Todd gave science this word for different forms of one basic substance; it's from the Greek for "equal" & "place" isotope |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | MUSICALS: 4 songs from this 1968 musical made the Billboard Top 10, including one with an astrological theme that was No. 1 for 6 weeks Hair |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES: Released in 2017, this movie is the highest-grossing film in the U.S. that's set during World War I Wonder Woman |
| #8307, aired 2021-01-05 | STATE NAME ORIGINS: The names of these 2 states honor a king & his father, who was executed in 1649 North & South Carolina |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | LITERARY CHARACTERS OF THE 1600s: When the title character tells him that a great adventure may win him an island he can govern, he leaves his family Sancho Panza |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | INNOVATIONS: This company takes credit for inventing modern gift wrap, dating to its sale of fancy decorated envelope linings at Christmas in 1917 Hallmark |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | PLAY CHARACTERS: This title character says, "Who find my visage's center ornament a thing to jest at--it is my wont... to let him taste my steel" Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | ROYALTY: In 1521 this monarch published the theological treatise "Defense of the Seven Sacraments" Henry VIII |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | MAGAZINES: This magazine had the same person on its cover since its founding 20 years ago until it chose Breonna Taylor as its September 2020 cover O, The Oprah Magazine (O) |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | FAMOUS PLACES: Opened in 1973, it includes the Joan Sutherland Theatre, named for the singer, & the Utzon Room, named for the architect the Sydney Opera House |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | BROADWAY REVIVALS: Ads for the 2020 revival of this musical said, "Something's coming. Something good"; a new movie version is also coming West Side Story |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY: Once a residence of rulers of Austria, this city on the Danube less than 20 miles from Vienna became a national capital in 1993 Bratislava |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | AMERICAN LIT: A book by him says, "From the forest came the call…distinct and definite as never before--a long-drawn howl" Jack London |
| #8297, aired 2020-12-08 | THE ANCIENT WORLD: He got to propose his own sentence & joked that since he was actually a benefactor of the state, he should get free meals! Socrates |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | FANTASTIC BEASTS: Symbols of strength in the Bible include behemoth & this horned creature, perhaps an extinct wild ox, which the King James Version mentions 9 times a unicorn |
