#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 | 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 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: Specific profession of filmmaker Errol Morris documentarian |
#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 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: Uncapitalized, it can mean "containing coal"; capitalized, it's a geological period of many vast swamps carboniferous |
#9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: From the Latin for "ask", it's the formal & systematic questioning of a suspect interrogation |
#9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the type of photo seen here; what do we gotta do, put it on a silver plate for you a daguerreotype |
#9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: In this type of democracy, the political party with the most legislative seats forms a government parliamentary |
#9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: This "-ism" describes the ongoing habit of judging foreign groups by the standards of one's own culture ethnocentrism |
#9070, aired 2024-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: From the Latin for "to take away secretly", it means secret or sneaky surreptitious |
#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: You might have to perform with some real dummies if you seek this stage job perfected by Edgar Bergen ventriloquist |
#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: It's what you're doing when you're speaking aloud to no one else in particular on stage soliloquizing |
#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's another name for a bachelor's degree a baccalaureate |
#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: If you register a domain name solely with the intention of selling it for profit, sit down, you're this type of intruder a cybersquatter |
#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: The international museum for this in Maine has exhibits on Bigfoot & the Loch Ness Monster cryptozoology |
#9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE 13 COLONIES $200: With its oldest settlement at Jamestown, it was the first of the 13 colonies to be founded Virginia |
#9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE 13 COLONIES $400: Its city of Pawtucket was founded in 1671, in time to come in for some burning during King Philip's War Rhode Island |
#9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE 13 COLONIES $600: George Calvert was instrumental in the founding of this colony in 1632 Maryland |
#9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE 13 COLONIES $800: Originally a single province, they became 2 distinct southern colonies after separating beginning in 1712 North & South Carolina |
#9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE 13 COLONIES $1000: Saybrook was its own colony until 1644, when it joined this one Connecticut |
#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: This division in men's professional boxing has an upper limit of 126 pounds featherweight |
#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: I went down to this type of public protest to get my fair share of abuse demonstration |
#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: If you know what a hungry Liz is, thank Jesse Sheidlower & colleagues in this job for the "Historical Dict. of American Slang" lexicographer |
#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: In the Army it's an officer whose job is to provide clothing & sustenance to a body of troops a quartermaster |
#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's part of the full name of JFK, but not of LGA International |
#8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the fear of spiders... multi-legged, creeping, sometimes venomous spiders arachnophobia |
#8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: In geometry this distance has been called a special case of perimeter circumference |
#8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: This kind of doctor treats diseases of the hair & nails as well as skin a dermatologist |
#8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: This adjective means having only one color monochromatic |
#8817, aired 2023-02-28 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: From Latin, it's the science or philosophy of law jurisprudence |
#8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Professional description of Edgar Degas in one way & Jay Pharoah in another impressionist |
#8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: A place where sweet treats like chocolate are prepared or sold confectionary |
#8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: This word meaning the male head of a household is borrowed from Latin paterfamilias |
#8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the fear of old people gerontophobia |
#8736, aired 2022-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: This plural noun is a French word for a set of clothes or accessories accoutrements |
#8322, aired 2021-01-26 | 3- OR 13-LETTER WORDS $200: A solemn promise, like one for marriage a vow |
#8322, aired 2021-01-26 | 3- OR 13-LETTER WORDS $400: In the U.S., it's the anniversary to be celebrated in 2076 a tricentennial |
#8322, aired 2021-01-26 | 3- OR 13-LETTER WORDS $600: Really throwing her voice around, Darci Lynne won "America's Got Talent" performing as one of these ventriloquist |
#8322, aired 2021-01-26 | 3- OR 13-LETTER WORDS $800: It's Latin for "road" or "way" via |
#8322, aired 2021-01-26 | 3- OR 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: A Buddhist temple in Cambodia, like Angkor wat |
#8145, aired 2020-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Bodybuilding includes a fair amount of this activity, using barbells & other resistance training devices weightlifting |
#8145, aired 2020-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: The formula for this measure of a circle is pi times the diameter circumference |
#8145, aired 2020-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the term for repetitive echoing reverberation |
#8145, aired 2020-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: 13-letter adjective for the fluid that surrounds the brain & other parts of the nervous system cerebrospinal |
#8145, aired 2020-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: This adjective with a meaning similar to "rebellious" refers to one who won't accept the authority of a superior insubordinate |
#7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a fancy word for rain, snow or sleet precipitation |
#7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: One-word job description of a broadcasting preacher, such as Oral Roberts televangelist |
#7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: A place to total up your money; "the king was" there in "Sing A Song Of Sixpence" the countinghouse |
#7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's named for its composition of smaller bits of wood particleboard |
#7929, aired 2019-02-14 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1,700 (Daily Double): Grandstanding verbally & dogmatically, almost as if you were the pope pontification |
#7892, aired 2018-12-25 | 13-LETTER PHRASES $400: Someone who's not up to the job can't do this condiment phrase cut the mustard |
#7892, aired 2018-12-25 | 13-LETTER PHRASES $800: Don't forget it's always the shortened version of "them" in this statement made on showing a winning hand read 'em and weep |
#7892, aired 2018-12-25 | 13-LETTER PHRASES $2000: In a saying about self-reliance, these 5 words precede "& you feed him for a day" give a man a fish |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $400: 16 letters:
Adjective for a novel based on the author's life, like Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" autobiographical |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $800: 13 letters:
Adjective for a scream that will make the fluid in your veins coagulate bloodcurdling |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $1200: 14 letters:
This sauce, gluten free & made by Lea & Perrins since 1835 Worcestershire sauce |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $1600: 13 letters:
Means by which assassin Leon Czolgosz was killed electrocution |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $2000: 15 letters:
One who doesn't eat meat but whose diet includes dairy products a lactovegetarian |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Don't wait until tomorrow to tell me it means to postpone habitually rather than act procrastinate |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: Yummy! This adjective means "saliva-inducing" mouthwatering |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: This quality isn't just shown in being a good loser but in being a good (non-gloating) winner sportsmanlike (or sportsmanship) |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: Term for a musician who plays the cymbals, drums or xylophone percussionist |
#7729, aired 2018-03-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the large-scale removal of trees from a wooded area, often with detrimental effect deforestation |
#7567, aired 2017-07-04 | CHAPTER 13 $200: "The young Lord Greystoke was indeed a strange and warlike figure" Tarzan |
#7567, aired 2017-07-04 | CHAPTER 13 $400: "There are five-and-twenty guineas in this bag. Give it to your master, Pip" Great Expectations |
#7567, aired 2017-07-04 | CHAPTER 13 $600: "Thorin! Balin! Oin! Gloin! Fili! Kili!...The light's gone out!" The Hobbit |
#7567, aired 2017-07-04 | CHAPTER 13 $800: "Ma said, 'You won't be no burden. Each'll help each, an' we'll all git to California'" The Grapes of Wrath |
#7567, aired 2017-07-04 | CHAPTER 13 $1000: "The Hispaniola was rolling scuppers under in the ocean swell" Treasure Island |
#7548, aired 2017-06-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: A 300th anniversary a tricentennial |
#7548, aired 2017-06-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: This person maintains the field of a ballpark the groundskeeper |
#7548, aired 2017-06-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: This Latin word means "father of the family" paterfamilias |
#7548, aired 2017-06-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: The equipment used in a particular activity; the "drug" type, such as pipes, are illegal as are the drugs paraphernalia |
#7548, aired 2017-06-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: This branch of medicine deals with diseases of such glands as the thyroid & pancreas endocrinology |
#7175, aired 2015-11-20 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: This adjective means having one color monochromatic |
#7175, aired 2015-11-20 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: I'm taking a survey--please fill out this list of queries questionnaire |
#7175, aired 2015-11-20 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: This process gives rubber greater strength & durability vulcanization |
#7175, aired 2015-11-20 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: Existing in the space between, say, the Milky Way & Andromeda intergalactic |
#7175, aired 2015-11-20 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: The name of the muse of dancing spins & twists into adjective form as this word terpsichorean |
#7091, aired 2015-06-15 | LUCKY 13 $200: In April 1970, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert & Jim Lovell embarked on this mission Apollo 13 |
#7091, aired 2015-06-15 | LUCKY 13 $400: There were 13 original colonies, of course, including this last one alphabetically Virginia |
#7091, aired 2015-06-15 | LUCKY 13 $600: When England, New Zealand or Fiji fields a team in the league version of this sport, it has 13 players rugby |
#7091, aired 2015-06-15 | LUCKY 13 $800: In Wicca, these basic groupings of members ideally have 13 participants a coven |
#7091, aired 2015-06-15 | LUCKY 13 $1000: The apparitions of the Virgin in this town in 1917 were said to occur on the 13th of each month for 6 months Fátima |
#6983, aired 2015-01-14 | LUCKY '13 $400: Carole Middleton served as his nanny in the days immediately following his July 2013 birth (Prince) George |
#6983, aired 2015-01-14 | LUCKY '13 $800: She was lucky enough to win an Oscar (for "Silver Linings Playbook") but unlucky when she tripped on her way to the stage Jennifer Lawrence |
#6983, aired 2015-01-14 | LUCKY '13 $1200: "You Give Love A Bad Name" was on the set list of this group's 2013 tour, the year's highest grossing Bon Jovi |
#6983, aired 2015-01-14 | LUCKY '13 $1600: Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis became global superstars when this video featuring a vulpine query went viral "What Does The Fox Say?" |
#6983, aired 2015-01-14 | LUCKY '13 $2000: On July 13, 2013 she tied the knot with actor Olivier Martinez; 3 months later, at the age of 47, she gave birth to their son Halle Berry |
#6847, aired 2014-05-27 | LUCKY 13 $200: Signifying his new manhood, a 13-year-old male reads from the Torah at this occasion a bar mitzvah |
#6847, aired 2014-05-27 | LUCKY 13 $400: In 2013 it was lucky 13 for tennis' Mike & Bob Bryan, winners of their 13th doubles title at this type of event, a record Grand Slam (a major accepted) |
#6847, aired 2014-05-27 | LUCKY 13 $600: No. 13 in R.L. Stine's "Classic" this kids' book series is "Welcome to Dead House" Goosebumps |
#6847, aired 2014-05-27 | LUCKY 13 $800: Colgate University in this state was said to be founded by 13 men "with 13 dollars, 13 prayers & 13 articles" New York |
#6847, aired 2014-05-27 | LUCKY 13 $1000: In 1781 the original 13 states established a federal government under this agreement the Articles of Confederation |
#6738, aired 2013-12-25 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: The snatch & the clean & jerk are events in this sport weightlifting |
#6738, aired 2013-12-25 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: Cymbals, triangles & tambourines are among the instruments played by this musician in an orchestra a percussionist |
#6738, aired 2013-12-25 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: He's dead, Jim. --not for long; I'm going to perform this process of restoring breath & heartbeat resuscitation |
#6738, aired 2013-12-25 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: In 2004 Paraguay protected its trees by passing the Zero this Law Deforestation |
#6738, aired 2013-12-25 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: Explained by Einstein in 1905, this "effect" of light on subatomic particles is fundamental to modern physics photoelectric |
#6691, aired 2013-10-21 | THE 13 COLONIES $400: The Chesapeake colonies consisted of Virginia & this one Maryland |
#6691, aired 2013-10-21 | THE 13 COLONIES $800: The founder of this colony called it a "holy experiment" where Quaker beliefs could be applied to government Pennsylvania |
#6691, aired 2013-10-21 | THE 13 COLONIES $1200: In 1665 New Haven colony merged with this colony Connecticut |
#6691, aired 2013-10-21 | THE 13 COLONIES $1600: This colony was founded as a buffer area to protect the Carolinas from the Spanish in Florida Georgia |
#6691, aired 2013-10-21 | THE 13 COLONIES $2000: The original deed granted to Carteret & Berkeley for this colony called it Nova Caesarea New Jersey |
#6489, aired 2012-11-29 | CHAPTER 13 $400: " 'Never mind that,' Spade said. 'Let's talk about the black bird"' The Maltese Falcon |
#6489, aired 2012-11-29 | CHAPTER 13 $800: "Her breast, with its badge of shame, was but the softer pillow for the head that needed one" The Scarlet Letter |
#6489, aired 2012-11-29 | CHAPTER 13 $1600: "Overcome by melancholy, Jesus lay down on the ancient marble" The Last Temptation of Christ |
#6489, aired 2012-11-29 | CHAPTER 13 $2000: "Anyone who did not want to settle in the Salinas Valley was crazy. Adam did not rush at his purchase" East of Eden |
#6489, aired 2012-11-29 | CHAPTER 13 $2,600 (Daily Double): "The route taken by Hawk-eye lay across those sandy plains" The Last of the Mohicans |
#6448, aired 2012-10-03 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Shakespeare is credited with the first use of this term for political murder assassination |
#6448, aired 2012-10-03 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: A fighter between 122 & 126 pounds is in this boxing class featherweight |
#6448, aired 2012-10-03 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: Advertisers use this word to indicate that their yummy product will make you drool mouthwatering |
#6448, aired 2012-10-03 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's the kind of race Chris Christie won in 2009 gubernatorial |
#6448, aired 2012-10-03 | 13-LETTER WORDS $3,200 (Daily Double): The process of treating rubber with sulfur & heat to improve its elasticity & strength vulcanization |
#6387, aired 2012-05-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stirs packing peanuts into a clear liquid.) Packing peanuts made from corn & potato starch could one day replace Styrofoam & reduce landfill waste, because unlike Styrofoam, these peanuts are this, meaning they are readily decomposable biodegradable |
#6387, aired 2012-05-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: Worldly wise, like the "Lady" in a Duke Ellington song sophisticated |
#6387, aired 2012-05-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: This oily liquid explosive is used in the production of blasting gel nitroglycerin |
#6387, aired 2012-05-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: A domesticated cat with black & red markings is referred to by this "turtle" name a tortoiseshell |
#6387, aired 2012-05-29 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: Meaning "immeasurably small", it comes from a word meaning "immeasurably large" infinitesimal |
#6316, aired 2012-02-20 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: A follower of L. Ron Hubbard scientologist |
#6316, aired 2012-02-20 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: This type of stamp should be easy to remember a commemorative |
#6316, aired 2012-02-20 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: "Lower" term for a freshman or sophomore underclassman |
#6316, aired 2012-02-20 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: An army officer who supplies food, clothing & equipment the quartermaster |
#6316, aired 2012-02-20 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: Magical noun for the changing of lesser metals into gold by alchemists transmutation |
#6093, aired 2011-02-23 | THE 13 COLONIES $400: Under the Treaty of Breda, the Dutch gave up New Netherland to the British, who renamed it this in 1664 New York |
#6093, aired 2011-02-23 | THE 13 COLONIES $800: In 1635 William Blackstone became the first European to settle in this colony, one year before Roger Williams Rhode Island |
#6093, aired 2011-02-23 | THE 13 COLONIES $1600: In 1741 King George II set this colony's southern border with Massachusetts New Hampshire |
#6093, aired 2011-02-23 | THE 13 COLONIES $2,000 (Daily Double): It was the last colony founded & the only one established in the 18th century Georgia |
#6093, aired 2011-02-23 | THE 13 COLONIES $2000: Last name of the family that regained control of Maryland from the Crown in 1715 Calvert |
#5899, aired 2010-04-15 | THE 13 COLONIES' NAME ORIGINS $400: The name of this little colony may come from a Greek isle Rhode Island |
#5899, aired 2010-04-15 | THE 13 COLONIES' NAME ORIGINS $800: What's now this "Granite State" was named for a county in South Central England New Hampshire |
#5899, aired 2010-04-15 | THE 13 COLONIES' NAME ORIGINS $1200: This southern colony was named for a king of England, the II of that name Georgia |
#5899, aired 2010-04-15 | THE 13 COLONIES' NAME ORIGINS $1600: Virginia was named for this "Virgin Queen", maybe at the suggestion of Sir Walter Raleigh Elizabeth I |
#5899, aired 2010-04-15 | THE 13 COLONIES' NAME ORIGINS $2000: The wife of King Charles I gave her name to this colony Maryland |
#5650, aired 2009-03-13 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Calling HAZMAT! It's the act of making something impure or polluted contamination |
#5650, aired 2009-03-13 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: This word means to put off until another day or time procrastinate |
#5650, aired 2009-03-13 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's known as both glandular fever & the kissing disease mononucleosis |
#5650, aired 2009-03-13 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: Indelibly impressed on the memory, like Nat King Cole unforgettable |
#5650, aired 2009-03-13 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: This military officer is charged with providing shelter, clothing & transportation for troops the quartermaster |
#5521, aired 2008-09-15 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the "R" of CPR resuscitation |
#5521, aired 2008-09-15 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: From the Latin for "to speak", this type of performer tries to keep a stiff upper (& lower) lip a ventriloquist |
#5521, aired 2008-09-15 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: Usually the highest academically ranked student in a graduating class a valedictorian |
#5521, aired 2008-09-15 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: Formerly dementia praecox, this term does not mean a patient has more than one personality schizophrenia |
#5521, aired 2008-09-15 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew zaps instantly across the room.) I'm simulating this futuristic method of conveying a person from place to place teleportation |
#5380, aired 2008-01-18 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: From a Washington Irving character, it's a nickname for a New Yorker, Dutch-descended or otherwise a knickerbocker |
#5380, aired 2008-01-18 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: On completing law school, you're likely to receive a J.D., a doctor of this degree jurisprudence |
#5380, aired 2008-01-18 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew plop, plops 2 tablets in a glass; they fizz, fizz.) When you drop Alka-Seltzer in water, a series of reactions, including the release of carbon dioxide, creates this bubbly effect, from the Latin for "begin to boil" effervescence |
#5380, aired 2008-01-18 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's one who compiles a dictionary lexicographer |
#5380, aired 2008-01-18 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: From the Greek word for "scale", it's the term for a butterfly or moth expert a lepidopterist |
#5257, aired 2007-06-19 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: The female offspring of one of your own children a granddaughter |
#5257, aired 2007-06-19 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: The dietary practice of not eating meat or meat products vegetarianism |
#5257, aired 2007-06-19 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: Adjective describing any organism that eats its own kind cannibalistic |
#5257, aired 2007-06-19 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: A doctor who specializes in the elderly gerontologist |
#5257, aired 2007-06-19 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands in front of a board with numbers.) The string of values seen here is increasing this way, from the Latin for "to declare" exponentially |
#5212, aired 2007-04-17 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: In the arts, it's the profession of Cunningham, Robbins & Tharp choreographer |
#5212, aired 2007-04-17 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: If you weighed up to 126 pounds, you'd be as light as this class of boxer featherweight |
#5212, aired 2007-04-17 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: A rubber-treatment process, or turning into Mr. Spock's kin vulcanization |
#5212, aired 2007-04-17 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: En francais, s'il vous plait! This thick slice of tenderloin is broiled & served with potatoes & a bernaise sauce chateaubriand |
#5212, aired 2007-04-17 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: From the Latin, it literally means "father of the household" paterfamilias |
#5037, aired 2006-07-04 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: An attention-seeking person prone to taking off his or her clothes in public an exhibitionist |
#5037, aired 2006-07-04 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: A person from Harrisburg or Philadelphia a Pennsylvanian |
#5037, aired 2006-07-04 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: Fancy name for a drummer a percussionist |
#5037, aired 2006-07-04 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: From the Latin for "mask", it's a single act of mimicking the voice or manners of another impersonation |
#5037, aired 2006-07-04 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: The technical term for a scientist who studies snakes & other reptiles herpetologist |
#4935, aired 2006-02-10 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: In TV, it's the VC in VCR (you do remember those, don't you?) videocassette |
#4935, aired 2006-02-10 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: The enrichment of soil; Dad uses a spreader on the lawn fertilization |
#4935, aired 2006-02-10 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: Don't delay; it's from the Latin for "to put off til the morrow" procrastinate |
#4935, aired 2006-02-10 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1600: A polygon with 4 sides quadrilateral |
#4935, aired 2006-02-10 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: It means having one color monochromatic |
#4906, aired 2006-01-02 | 13-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): The 1993 Elvis stamp is the U.S. Postal Service's most popular ever of this type, honoring an event or a person commemorative |
#4211, aired 2002-12-16 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: It's someone who worries constantly about his health & often suffers from imaginary illnesses hypochondriac |
#4211, aired 2002-12-16 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Term for a college student who hasn't yet earned a degree undergraduate |
#4211, aired 2002-12-16 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600 (Daily Double): On your auto insurance policy this coverage pays for damage caused by fire, theft or vandalism comprehensive |
#4211, aired 2002-12-16 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: Worldly & refined, like Duke Ellington's "Lady" sophisticated |
#4211, aired 2002-12-16 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the science or philosophy of law jurisprudence |
#3953, aired 2001-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: It's what the VC stands for in VCR videocassette |
#3953, aired 2001-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: A 300th anniversary tricentennial |
#3953, aired 2001-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: It's a drug that minimizes symptoms of allergies; Benadryl is an over-the-counter one antihistamine |
#3953, aired 2001-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: To exclude from the sacraments of the church by ecclesiastical sentence excommunicate |
#3953, aired 2001-11-07 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the flowering vine seen here bougainvillea |
#3943, aired 2001-10-24 | THE 13 COLONIES $100: Of the original 13 colonies, this one had the first permanent European settlement Virginia |
#3943, aired 2001-10-24 | THE 13 COLONIES $200: In early 1665 New Haven Colony merged with this one Connecticut |
#3943, aired 2001-10-24 | THE 13 COLONIES $300: This colony began with a 1704 meeting of the general assembly for New Castle, Kent & Sussex Counties Delaware |
#3943, aired 2001-10-24 | THE 13 COLONIES $400: In the early 1700s, plantation owners in this colony developed a breed of horse called the Narragansett Pacer Rhode Island |
#3943, aired 2001-10-24 | THE 13 COLONIES $500: The Calvert family governed this colony for much of the time between 1632 & the Revolutionary War Maryland |
#3918, aired 2001-09-19 | THE 13 COLONIES $100: On April 12, 1776, this future "Tar Heel State" became the first colony to instruct its delegates to vote for independence North Carolina |
#3918, aired 2001-09-19 | THE 13 COLONIES $200: Its colonial governors included Thomas Lee, Robert Dinwiddie & Nathaniel Bacon Virginia |
#3918, aired 2001-09-19 | THE 13 COLONIES $300: In 1732, the area between the Altamaha & Savannah Rivers was granted to 21 men who founded this colony Georgia |
#3918, aired 2001-09-19 | THE 13 COLONIES $400: Dominated by Quakers, its legislature was reluctant to get involved in its Western Indian wars Pennsylvania |
#3918, aired 2001-09-19 | THE 13 COLONIES $500: This colony was granted to Sir George Carteret who had been lt. governor of one of the Channel Islands New Jersey |
#3852, aired 2001-05-08 | IT'S PG-13 $200: In it, Kirsten Dunst finds her cheerleader routines were stolen from East Compton Bring It On |
#3852, aired 2001-05-08 | IT'S PG-13 $400: As FBI agent Gracie Hart, she became Gracie Lou Freebush & was voted "Miss Congeniality" Sandra Bullock |
#3852, aired 2001-05-08 | IT'S PG-13 $600: Sigourney Weaver & this actress form a party of two "Heartbreakers" Jennifer Love Hewitt |
#3852, aired 2001-05-08 | IT'S PG-13 $800: In this 2000 film Jackie Chan was in the Old West; what could be funnier? Shanghai Noon |
#3852, aired 2001-05-08 | IT'S PG-13 $1000: In this Dennis Quaid film, a ham radio links a father & son across time Frequency |
#3716, aired 2000-10-30 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: In the 1930s both Chiang Kai-shek & Francisco Franco assumed this "military" title generalissimo |
#3716, aired 2000-10-30 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: This adjective means forming right angles perpendicular (complementary accepted) |
#3716, aired 2000-10-30 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: The name of a Florentine writer gave us this adjective meaning cunning & duplicitous Machiavellian |
#3716, aired 2000-10-30 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: Developed in the 1830s, it's a photographic image made on a copper plate coated with polished silver a daguerreotype |
#3716, aired 2000-10-30 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): This division of the Paleozoic era was characterized by the deposits of plant remains that later hardened into coal Carboniferous |
#3546, aired 2000-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: Profession of Edgar Bergen or Shari Lewis Ventriloquist |
#3546, aired 2000-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: This state's Middlesex County is its largest with a population of over 1.3 million Massachusetts |
#3546, aired 2000-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: A vertical line, it's from the Latin for "to hang a plumb line" Perpendicular |
#3546, aired 2000-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: This medical specialty encompasses the anatomy, function, pathology & treatment of the eye Ophthalmology |
#3546, aired 2000-01-24 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: In professional boxing, it's the class between bantamweight & lightweight Featherweight |
#3464, aired 1999-09-30 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: This Asian therapist will have you on pins & needles (well, needles for sure) Acupuncturist |
#3464, aired 1999-09-30 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Adjective applied to some plastics because they disintegrate in nature Biodegradable |
#3464, aired 1999-09-30 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: Geographically speaking, the phone cable that stretches from Newfoundland to Ireland is this Transatlantic |
#3464, aired 1999-09-30 | 13-LETTER WORDS $700 (Daily Double): Kafka's title "Die Verwandlung" was changed to this The Metamorphosis |
#3464, aired 1999-09-30 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: 1 of the 2 13-letter words for a plain figure with 4 sides & 4 angles quadrilateral (or parallelogram) |
#3263, aired 1998-11-11 | 13 $100: The 13 people at his final dinner included James, Andrew, John & Judas Jesus |
#3263, aired 1998-11-11 | THE 13 COLONIES $200: Under the Treaty of Breda, the Dutch gave up New Netherland, which the British renamed this New York |
#3263, aired 1998-11-11 | 13 $200: The TV cops of New York's 13th precinct included this Greek-American title lieutenant Kojak |
#3263, aired 1998-11-11 | 13 $300: It's the term for a spellbound assembly of 13 witches Coven |
#3263, aired 1998-11-11 | THE 13 COLONIES $400: In 1676 Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion in this colony, capturing & burning Jamestown Virginia |
#3263, aired 1998-11-11 | 13 $400: Prepared by Maimonides, the "13 Articles of Faith" is a summary of the basic tenets of this religion Judaism |
#3263, aired 1998-11-11 | 13 $500: The unluckiness of Friday the 13th may date from the suppression of this order of knights on Fri., Oct. 13, 1307 the Knights Templar |
#3263, aired 1998-11-11 | THE 13 COLONIES $600 (Daily Double): This colony's western boundary with Maryland was surveyed by Mason & Dixon in 1764 Delaware |
#3263, aired 1998-11-11 | THE 13 COLONIES $600: The last of the 13 colonies, it was founded by James Oglethorpe as a haven for debtors Georgia |
#3263, aired 1998-11-11 | THE 13 COLONIES $1000: In 1634 William Blackstone, not Roger Williams, became the first Englishman to settle in this colony Rhode Island |
#3049, aired 1997-11-27 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: Astonished, as if suddenly smacked by lightning's partner thunderstruck |
#3049, aired 1997-11-27 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the adjective for someone who irrationally fears black cats or a category like 13-letter words superstitious |
#3049, aired 1997-11-27 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: Fowl is foul but pears are fair & peas should please a follower of this dietary practice vegetarianism |
#3049, aired 1997-11-27 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: It's a more general term for an algebraist; that just about sums it up a mathematician |
#3049, aired 1997-11-27 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: From Lower Latin for “killing”, it's the kind of shame that's so humiliating you could just die mortification |
#2812, aired 1996-11-19 | MORE THAN 13-LETTER WORDS $200: Process of making something smaller miniaturization |
#2812, aired 1996-11-19 | MORE THAN 13-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the ceremony that starts a construction project groundbreaking |
#2812, aired 1996-11-19 | MORE THAN 13-LETTER WORDS $600: Go around the world, like Sir Francis Drake circumnavigate (circumnavigation accepted) |
#2812, aired 1996-11-19 | MORE THAN 13-LETTER WORDS $800: Term for the activities performed outside the space capsule extravehicular |
#2812, aired 1996-11-19 | MORE THAN 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: Need to know the age of a tree? Give this guy a ring dendrochronologist |
#2779, aired 1996-10-03 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: LAX is classified as this type of airport international |
#2779, aired 1996-10-03 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: Asian doctor who will needle you back into good health acupuncturist |
#2779, aired 1996-10-03 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the process of planting new trees over an old area reforestation |
#2779, aired 1996-10-03 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: In math it means at a right angle to the horizontal perpendicular |
#2779, aired 1996-10-03 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: Title for the first violinist who also acts as an assistant conductor concertmaster |
#1196, aired 1989-11-13 | 13-LETTER WORDS $100: Any ability or accomplishment that makes a person suitable for a particular position or task qualification |
#1196, aired 1989-11-13 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: Vaduz is the capital of this 62 square mile principality nestled between Switzerland & Austria Liechtenstein |
#1196, aired 1989-11-13 | 13-LETTER WORDS $300: To be of a contemplative form of mind, like Hume or Whitehead philosophical |
#1196, aired 1989-11-13 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: The Book of Common Prayer says the peace of God "passeth all" of this understanding |
#1196, aired 1989-11-13 | 13-LETTER WORDS $500: The loss of water vapor from the surface of a plant, usually through open stomata transpiration |
#1092, aired 1989-05-09 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: The "rex", or king, of this dinosaur genus walked erect on its hind feet Tyrannosaurus |
#1092, aired 1989-05-09 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: What you regain when you wake up from a faint consciousness |
#1092, aired 1989-05-09 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: It's believed the Greek oracles used this art more recently employed by Shari Lewis ventriloquism |
#1092, aired 1989-05-09 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: It's twice the radius of a circle times 3.1415926 circumference |
#1092, aired 1989-05-09 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1,200 (Daily Double): It's advised that you try not to talk, swallow, cough, cry or sing for 1 week after this surgery tonsillectomy |
#736, aired 1987-11-16 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: A "dynamite" medicine for hearts nitroglycerin |
#736, aired 1987-11-16 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: To set the record straight, Thucydides wrote a history of this war the Peloponnesian War |
#736, aired 1987-11-16 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: As Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant, Fred Astaire & Nanette Fabray could tell you, "That's" it entertainment |
#736, aired 1987-11-16 | 13-LETTER WORDS $800: A sin, for example transgression |
#736, aired 1987-11-16 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: Only state that fits the category Massachusetts |
#106, aired 1985-02-04 | 13-LETTER WORDS $200: Duke Ellington's "Ladies" Sophisticated |
#106, aired 1985-02-04 | 13-LETTER WORDS $400: The "R" in CPR resuscitation |
#106, aired 1985-02-04 | 13-LETTER WORDS $600: Descriptive of a line at a right angle to the plane perpendicular |
#106, aired 1985-02-04 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: Gear, or a married woman's personal property exclusive of her dowry paraphernalia |
#106, aired 1985-02-04 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2,500 (Daily Double): The philosophy or science of law jurisprudence |