| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | IT'S A FAKE! $200: In 1933 baseballer Clarence "Climax" Blethen bit himself in the butt sliding into a base with these in his pocket dentures (false teeth) |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | IT'S A FAKE! $400: Matthew 7:15 warns, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in" this 2-word attire, "but inwardly they are ravening wolves" sheep's clothing |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | THAT'S A FACT $400: Used in coal mining, a BWE is a bucket-wheel this machine an excavator |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | IT'S A FAKE! $600: In humans "false" these don't connect to the sternum directly & are attached to the 7th pair by cartilage ribs |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | IT'S A FAKE! $800: Time to raise this alliterative term for an attack planned to look like it was done by someone other than the perpetrators a false flag |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | THAT'S A FACT $800: Oil still bubbles to the surface of Pearl Harbor from this battleship, now a part of a national memorial the USS Arizona |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | IT'S A FAKE! $1000: In 1605, false him became czar; in 1606 false him suddenly became ex-him, courtesy of a boyar & pals Dmitry |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | THAT'S A FACT $1200: In 1610, Galileo discovered this 2-letter moon of Jupiter, which is about 5 percent wider than ours Io |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | THAT'S A FACT $1600: This language is celebrated every July 26--in 1887, that was the publication day for "Unua Libro", or "First Book" Esperanto |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | THAT'S A FACT $2000: Winston Churchill was born at this Oxfordshire palace; a nice example of baroque architecture in England Blenheim Palace |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | TIME FOR A COCKTAIL? $200: Coextensive with New York County, it was acquired for trade goods worth about 60 guilders Manhattan |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | I'M ON A U.S. STAMP $200: In 1965, a five-cent stamp honored the 700th birthday of this poet--how divine Dante |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | MAKING A GOOD IMPRESSIONIST $400: 2024 marks 150 years since the first Impressionist exhibition, by a group calling itself by this word for nameless or unknown Anonymous |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | TIME FOR A COCKTAIL? $400: The one dubbed Andrew ravaged the Bahamas & South Florida in 1992 a hurricane |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | I'M ON A U.S. STAMP $400: A labor organizer & co-founder of the National Farm Workers association, he got the honor in 2003 Chavez |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | TIME FOR A COCKTAIL? $600: Helen Gurley Brown became this publication's first female editor in the 1960s Cosmopolitan |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | I'M ON A U.S. STAMP $600: This "Wizard of Westwood" was honored with the Medal of Freedom in 2003 & a U.S. stamp in 2024 (John) Wooden |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | MAKING A GOOD IMPRESSIONIST $800: An Impressionist masterpiece is Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party", in French, this meal "des canotiers" déjeuner |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | TIME FOR A COCKTAIL? $800: Celebrated Cardinals pitcher Bob or Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | I'M ON A U.S. STAMP $800: If you want my 3 cents, a 1948 stamp had her picture as well as stating "founder of the American Red Cross" (Clara) Barton |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | TIME FOR A COCKTAIL? $1,000 (Daily Double): Byname of the 1550s British queen who imposed Catholicism on her subjects with a lethal fervor Bloody Mary |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | I'M ON A U.S. STAMP $1000: Fannie Lou Hamer & this fellow civil rights icon, assassinated at his home in 1963, were honored together in 2009 Medgar Evers |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | MAKING A GOOD IMPRESSIONIST $1200: This Impressionist's wife, Camille, was a frequent subject of his paintings, including "Woman with a Parasol" Monet |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | MAKING A GOOD IMPRESSIONIST $1600: Degas & this American had an artistic bond; there are even a few of his brushstrokes in her "Little Girl in a Blue Armchair" Cassatt |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | MAKING A GOOD IMPRESSIONIST $2000: Alfred Sisley liked to give his impression of places around Paris, like this island that Georges Seurat more famously painted La Grande Jatte |
| #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 | A LITTLE MATH, A LITTLE SCIENCE $800: Bone up! This element is alphabetically next after cadmium calcium |
| #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 | 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 | A LITTLE MATH, A LITTLE SCIENCE $2000: 2 sides of an angle meet at this 6-letter point vertex |
| #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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | A CAPITAL HAPPENING $800: In 1927 the International Piano Competition named for him began in Warsaw Chopin |
| #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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | A CAPITAL HAPPENING $2000: It was formally divided into municipalities of Thon Buri & Krung Thep in 1937 Bangkok |
| #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 |
| #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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| #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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| #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 | A NO. 1 BESTSELLER THAT YEAR $400: 1969, fiction:
No one could refuse this Mario Puzo novel The Godfather |
| #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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| #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 | 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 | A STUDY IN SCARLET $600: Sir Henry the Scarlet Knight is the mascot of this university Rutgers |
| #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 | 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 |
| #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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | A SERIOUS BEATITUDE $2000: "Blessed are the poor in" this: "for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" spirit |
| #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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | A TAXING CATEGORY $800: In 1943 Congress mandated this process via which employers deduct taxes from workers' paychecks withholding |
| #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 | 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 | 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 | A TAXING CATEGORY $2000: Property & sales taxes are often this type, from Latin for "in proportion to value" ad valorem |
| #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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| #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 | 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 | ALSO A COOKING VERB $600: Also 4 letters for to flay or to beat to whip |
| #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 | ALSO A COOKING VERB $2,000 (Daily Double): To become pale or white with fear blanch |
| #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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $400: Kali Gandaki is a more than 3-mile-deep gorge between Mount Annapurna & Mount Dhaulagiri in this range the Himalaya |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $800: Forming part of the border between Serbia & Romania, the Iron Gate is a 2-mile-long gorge on this river the Danube |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $1200: Liechtenstein Gorge in this Alpine nation, not the principality, has a staircase for great views & is not for the vertigo-prone Austria |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $1600: Peru's Colca Canyon is home to a number of villages & is advertised as the best place to see this largest raptor the Andean condor |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $2,000 (Daily Double): This canyon sinks about 8,000 feet below the rim to the Snake River below on the Oregon-Idaho border Hells Canyon |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | AN "A" IN PSYCHOLOGY $800: The anterograde type of this disorder is marked by the inability to remember new information amnesia |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | AN "A" IN PSYCHOLOGY $1200: Easily confused with a verb, as a noun it means the experience of emotion or feeling affect |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | AN "A" IN PSYCHOLOGY $1600: It's the emotional bond that develops between infant & parent; the same-named theory says it's an evolutionary advantage attachment |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | AN "A" IN PSYCHOLOGY $5,400 (Daily Double): Broca's & Wernicke's are 2 types of this condition in which language use & speech are impaired aphasia |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | 3 WORDS & A COMMA OR 2 $200: Abbreviated S.D.R., it's the 3-step fire safety technique that can be used if your clothing catches fire stop, drop & roll |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | A QUARTER FOR YOUR THOUGHTS $200: This district is bounded by Esplanade Avenue to the northeast & North Rampart Street to the northwest, cher the French Quarter |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | 3 WORDS & A COMMA OR 2 $400: The title of Johann Strauss' 1869 waltz "Wein, Weib und Gesang" translates into this trio in English wine, women & song |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | AN "ODE" TO A CATEGORY $400: An early variety of movie theater that charged 5 cents for admission a nickelodeon |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | A QUARTER FOR YOUR THOUGHTS $400: The U.S. Army's QMS is a school for these logistics experts quartermasters |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | 3 WORDS & A COMMA OR 2 $600: Introducing environmental legislation, Senator Jeff Merkley said, "Many of us know & live by" these 3 R's reduce, reuse, recycle |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | A QUARTER FOR YOUR THOUGHTS $600: Not buyin' his significant other's sob story at all, Travis Tritt sang, "Here's a quarter, call someone who" does this cares |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | 3 WORDS & A COMMA OR 2 $800: In "Julius Caesar", Mark Antony requests that this trio of listeners "lend me your ears" friends, Romans, countrymen |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | AN "ODE" TO A CATEGORY $800: Kerry Christensen is a master of this style of singing changing from natural voice to falsetto & then back again yodeling |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | A QUARTER FOR YOUR THOUGHTS $800: The Moon goes through these stages of visibility; oddly the half moon one is called both last quarter & third quarter phases |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | 3 WORDS & A COMMA OR 2 $1000: It's the 3-word motto of the United States Military Academy Duty, honor, country |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | A QUARTER FOR YOUR THOUGHTS $1000: In Genesis 19, men of Sodom & "all the people from every quarter... called unto" this famous nephew about to become a widower Lot |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | AN "ODE" TO A CATEGORY $1200: It's an early form of manuscript, like the pictographic Maya one seen here a codex |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | AN "ODE" TO A CATEGORY $1600: It's a rock consisting of magnetite, thus naturally magnetic & used as a primitive compass a lodestone |
| #9188, aired 2024-10-23 | AN "ODE" TO A CATEGORY $2000: Phylum of marine invertebrates that includes sea urchins & starfish the Echinoderms |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | IT'S A PENINSULA $200: The Strait of Gibraltar separates the southern tip of this peninsula from Africa the Iberian Peninsula |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | SHE'S A SAINT! $400: Tradition says that St. Priscilla allowed this New Testament figure also called Simon to use her home as his HQ while in Rome Peter |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | IT'S A PENINSULA $400: Though it looks like it should be part of Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula was ceded to this state after a border war with, of course, Ohio Michigan |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | IT'S A PENINSULA $600: Yalta see Livadiya Palace or Sevastopol on this peninsula the Crimean |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | SHE'S A SAINT! $800: This Nobel Prize winner reached the ranks of the blessed in the church's then shortest time & was canonized in 2016 Mother Teresa |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | IT'S A PENINSULA $800: The Western-most point of the North American continent is at the tip of this Alaskan peninsula named for a man crucial to the state's history Seward |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | SHE'S A SAINT! $1200: On May 30, 1431 the English threw her ashes into the Seine River Joan of Arc |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | SHE'S A SAINT! $1600: The sixth station of the cross is this saint "wipes the face of Jesus"; tradition says she used her veil St. Veronica |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | SHE'S A SAINT! $2000: This Italian-born patron saint of immigrants came to New York City in 1889 to help immigrants Mother Cabrini |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | IT'S A PENINSULA $2,400 (Daily Double): At the tip of Pinellas Peninsula, it's nicknamed "The Sunshine City" & has a major sister city in Russia St. Petersburg |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | A PUP QUIZ $200: It's this breed, Charlie Brown, that one study showed could detect lung cancer in humans with astonishing accuracy a beagle |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | LOSE A LETTER $200: A product's cost loses a letter & becomes a starchy staple price & rice |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | A PUP QUIZ $400: Bred in ancient China, this dog (or dog dog) is known for its unusual blue-black tongue a Chow |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | LOSE A LETTER $400: A member of the Corps loses a letter & becomes a New England state Maine & Marine |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | A PUP QUIZ $600: A descendant of the English one, the American breed of this dog was brought to the States by 19th century immigrants a bull dog |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | LOSE A LETTER $600: Lose a letter from a word meaning a sorceress to become a preposition witch & with |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | A PUP QUIZ $800: The Australian stumpy tail cattle dog traces back to a crossing of an English Smithfield with this local wild dog a dingo |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | LOSE A LETTER $800: A word for an abundant banquet loses a letter & becomes a compass direction feast & east |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | A PUP QUIZ $1000: Despite a fluffy white coat, the Bichon Frisé is considered this 14-letter adjective, making it easy on the sneezy hypoallergenic |
| #9186, aired 2024-10-21 | LOSE A LETTER $1,200 (Daily Double): Lose a letter from a word meaning to declare allegiance & get a projection from a wall of rock a pledge & ledge |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | A BIT OF CULTURE SHARK $400: A quote from this film: "So, 1,100 men went in the water, 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945" Jaws |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | A BIT OF CULTURE SHARK $800: Ian Ziering first dealt with this, dare we say, unusual weather phenomenon in 2013 but it would not be Ian's last time in the storm sharknado |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | A BIT OF CULTURE SHARK $1200: Blondie's debut album featured the song "A Shark In Jet's Clothing", a reference to this stage show West Side Story |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | A BIT OF CULTURE SHARK $1600: Bryan Gaw was the amusingly improvisational "Left Shark" during the 2015 Super Bowl halftime show of this singer Katy Perry |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | A BIT OF CULTURE SHARK $2000: In this 2018 film, Jason Statham went fishing after a prehistoric shark that is said to be up to 60 feet long in real life The Meg |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | ENJOY A CONCERTO $200: Handel's Concerti Opus 4 are for this instrument, but the smaller chamber, not the church kind an organ |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | A WORLD TOUR $200: Look up from the waters of the "Boiling Pot" in Zambia below this landmark & you can see folks in Zimbabwe Victoria Falls |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | THAT'S SUCH A CLICHÉ! $400: Reportedly, for physicist Richard Feynman & this 3-word cliché was "this dying is boring" his famous last words |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | ENJOY A CONCERTO $400: Always a jokester, he wrote on a horn concerto manuscript that he "has taken pity on (soloist Joseph) Leutgeb--ass, ox & idiot" Mozart |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | A WORLD TOUR $400: Linking the Firth & Clyde Canal to the Union Canal 115 above, the Falkirk Wheel takes boats for a spin in this country Scotland |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | ENJOY A CONCERTO $600: Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto has this royal name, though earlier, Ludwig was upset when Napoleon gave himself that title the Emperor Concerto |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | A WORLD TOUR $600: The Electric City Trolley Museum delights visitors in this U.S. city, as did a fictional "Office" Scranton |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | THAT'S SUCH A CLICHÉ! $800: Do me a favor & I'll do you one--tell us that in Latin it's "manus manum lavat" one hand washes the other |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | A WORLD TOUR $800: These twin buildings in Asia rise to 1,483 feet & are connected by a double-decker skybridge on levels 41 & 42 the Petronas Towers |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | ENJOY A CONCERTO $1,000 (Daily Double): Alberto Ginastera's concerto for it, Opus 25, is loaded with swooping glissandi, called the instrument's stock-in-trade the harp |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | ENJOY A CONCERTO $1000: This Russian's 1881 Violin Concerto was inspired by Iosif Kotek, a young musician with whom he was infatuated Tchaikovsky |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | A WORLD TOUR $1000: Each side of El Castillo, a pyramid in this ancient Maya city in Mexico, has 91 stairs; add the step on the top, & whoa, that's 365 Chichén Itzá |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | THAT'S SUCH A CLICHÉ! $1200: To a friend who has betrayed you, you might use this Latin phrase from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Et tu, Brute |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | THAT'S SUCH A CLICHÉ! $1600: Going back to Galatians 5:4, this expression means to lose favor or lapse into sin to fall from grace |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | THAT'S SUCH A CLICHÉ! $2000: It's the same idea as "15 minutes of fame" & can be applied, literally, to Lady Jane Grey a nine-days wonder |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | LET'S GO FOR A SPIN $200: It's the type of spin being done here, or a bakery treat--mmm, bakery treat donut |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | CHOOSE A NAME $400: He switched from his Hebrew name Saul to a Roman one to make it easier to convert Gentiles Paul |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | LET'S GO FOR A SPIN $400: Switzerland's Denise Biellmann put her name on a move in this sport where the athlete extends their leg above the head as they spin figure skating |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | LET'S GO FOR A SPIN $600: Dead or Alive sang, "You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round, like a" this, "baby, right 'round, 'round 'round" like a record, baby |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | CHOOSE A NAME $800: Dunno what he had in mind--Buffy? Fern? But in 1952, Martin Charteris asked her what regnal name she'd use; she said, "Mine" Elizabeth II |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | LET'S GO FOR A SPIN $800: In 1967 scientists at Cambridge Univ. discovered the first known one of these, a rapidly spinning neutron star a pulsar |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | LET'S GO FOR A SPIN $1000: Here's a spinning this, patented in 1770; it uses many spindles to do its textile business a spinning jenny |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | CHOOSE A NAME $1200: This first name was chosen carefully, including the "C" spelling--unlike, say, Khloe or Kendall Caitlyn |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | CHOOSE A NAME $1600: Being as objectivist as possible, we'll say Alisa Rosenbaum chose this as her professional name Ayn Rand |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | CHOOSE A NAME $2000: Charlie Gasko, a Santa Monica, California resident from 1996 to 2011, was the chosen alias of this notorious Boston thug Whitey Bulger |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | A LITTLE DAY MUSIC $200: The name of this Bay Area pop punk band is slang for "sunlit hours given over to smoking pot" Green Day |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | A LITTLE DAY MUSIC $400: Real name Scott Mescudi, this rapper was just 24 when he released his hit debut single "Day 'N' Nite" Kid Cudi |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | A LITTLE DAY MUSIC $600: Ice Cube said he was inspired to write this hit "in a state of euphoria"; "I gotta say..." "It Was A Good Day" |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | A LITTLE DAY MUSIC $800: "Thursday I don't care about you, it's" this Cure title "Friday I'm In Love" |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | A LITTLE DAY MUSIC $1000: "Six o'clock already I was just in the middle of a dream", begins this Bangles hit that Prince wrote "Manic Monday" |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS $400: To the British this fearmongering fowl in children's literature is known as Henny Penny Chicken Little |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS $800: When going to a hardware store, it might be helpful to know that these are usually sold in penny lengths nails |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS $1200: This director was the onetime daughter-in-law of Carl Reiner Penny Marshall |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS $1600: This musical drama was first produced in Germany in 1928 as "Die Dreigroschenoper" The Threepenny Opera |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS $2000: The world's first adhesive postage stamp, it was issued on May 6, 1840 but is not rare; over 68 million were printed & a million survive a Penny Black |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | ALSO A PAPAL NAME $200: It follows "salt" in the name of a gunpowder component peter |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | ALSO A PAPAL NAME $400: It follows "Presumed" in the title of a Scott Turow thriller Innocent |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST $400: Early baseball star Harry Wright stands with his English-born dad Sam, a star in this sport cricket |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | ALSO A PAPAL NAME $600: When "in" comes before this word meaning "merciful", it often describes nasty weather clement |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | ALSO A PAPAL NAME $800: As far as astrological signs go, this one fits the bill Leo |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST $800: This great Sioux leader often wore tinted-glass goggles, as in the 1881 portrait seen here Sitting Bull |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | ALSO A PAPAL NAME $1000: From Latin for "good" & "fate", it's an old-timey word for any innkeeper boniface |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST $1200: To show Columbus wasn't first across the Atlantic, in 1893, a Viking ship replica sailed from Norway to a big party in this city Chicago |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST $1600: The Place Vendôme was the site of many street barricades set up during the 1871 revolt known as the Paris this Commune |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST $2000: In the 1880s, daring New Yorkers rode of these early cycles named for the resemblance of the wheels to two old British coins a penny-farthing |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | IT'S A THEORY $400: A widely accepted cosmological theory is named for this primordial event 13.8 billion years ago the Big Bang |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | IT'S A THEORY $800: The theory of general relativity is concerned with this one of the universe's 4 fundamental forces gravity |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | IT'S A THEORY $1200: Melanie Klein's object relations theory emerged from this Freudian method, which she tried on patients as young as 3 psychoanalysis |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | IT'S A THEORY $2000: The usual example of this, the classic game theory problem, is you & a pal are both accused of a crime; do you confess? the prisoner's dilemma |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | IT'S A THEORY $5,600 (Daily Double): Relating an object's worth to the hours needed to make it, the labor theory of value was a pillar of this 3-volume work by Karl Marx Das Kapital |
| #9172, aired 2024-10-01 | NAME THE CLASSIC BAND: A READING $200: "Young man, there's a place you can go / I said, young man, when you're short on your dough" the Village People |
| #9172, aired 2024-10-01 | NAME THE CLASSIC BAND: A READING $400: "If everybody had an ocean / Across the USA / Then everybody'd be surfin' / Like Californ-eye-ay" The Beach Boys |
| #9172, aired 2024-10-01 | NAME THE CLASSIC BAND: A READING $600: "But your teacher preaches class like you're some kind of jerk / You gotta fight! / For your right! / To paaaaaar-tay!" the Beastie Boys |
| #9172, aired 2024-10-01 | NAME THE CLASSIC BAND: A READING $800: "Stop! In the name of love / Before you break my heart / Stop! In the name of love / Before you break my heart / Think it over" The Supremes |
| #9172, aired 2024-10-01 | NAME THE CLASSIC BAND: A READING $1000: "Drivin' down your freeways / Midnight alleys roam / Cops in cars / The topless bars / Never saw a woman / So alone... L.A. woman" The Doors |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | IT'S A CRISIS! $400: In the 1898 Fashoda Crisis, the British squared off with this country's Major Marchand over rights to the Sudanese Nile France |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | IT'S A CRISIS! $800: A Japanese financial crisis was sparked in 1927 when a govt. minister mistakenly said that the Tokyo Watanabe one of these had gone bust a bank |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | IT'S A CRISIS! $1200: One crisis that jump-started the Intl. Crisis Group: famine in this land where clans fought after Mohammed Siad Barre's dictatorship Somalia |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | IT'S A CRISIS! $1600: A crisis was sparked by this leader's 1958 demand that the U.S. & its allies pull their troops out of West Berlin Khrushchev |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | IT'S A CRISIS! $2000: A 21st century humanitarian crisis was caused by the Islamist insurgency of this group also called the Nigerian Taliban Boko Haram |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | HOW 'BOUT A GAME OF CARDS? $400: In bridge, hitting one of these scores 13 tricks, not 4 runs a grand slam |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | HOW 'BOUT A GAME OF CARDS? $800: Some say to always split aces or 8s when playing this game, but 5s, not so much blackjack |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | HOW 'BOUT A GAME OF CARDS? $1200: The goal of this game with a not exactly PC name is to not be holding a queen at the end Old Maid |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | HOW 'BOUT A GAME OF CARDS? $1600: Paired cards in this game: "What made my first kiss so awkward?" & "A live studio audience" Cards Against Humanity |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | HOW 'BOUT A GAME OF CARDS? $2000: If you "declare out" in this 48-card game, play stops & tricks are counted; if you have 1,000 points or more, you win pinochle |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | I'M LOOKING FOR A MAN IN FINANCE $200: His annual letter to the shareholders at Berkshire Hathaway is "the investment world's equivalent of a Harry Potter book release" Buffett |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | A SEASON IN HELSINKI $400: Say "kippis" & enjoy lonkero, a drink made with grapefruit soda & this spirit from Finland's juniper berries gin |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | I'M LOOKING FOR A MAN IN FINANCE $400: In the 19-teens he established a partnership with Edmund C. Lynch Merrill |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | I'M LOOKING FOR A MAN IN FINANCE $600: A poster boy for the Gilded Age, this mega-rich guy founded the company that controlled most of Cleveland's refineries by 1872 Rockefeller |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | A SEASON IN HELSINKI $800: Temppeliaukio, built directly into rock, is a church of this Protestant denomination, Finland's largest religious group Lutheran |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | I'M LOOKING FOR A MAN IN FINANCE $800: Oil & mining tycoon & multi-billionaire Mohammed Al-Amoudi was born in the Amhara region of this African country Ethiopia |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | I'M LOOKING FOR A MAN IN FINANCE $1000: He founded his publicly owned investment firm in Baltimore in 1937; perhaps you've seen its bighorn sheep logo? T. Rowe Price |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | A SEASON IN HELSINKI $1200: Public these in Helsinki are literal hot spots; Uusi & Löyly are 2 in town that embrace the spirit of steam a sauna |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | A SEASON IN HELSINKI $1600: As a young man this "Four Legends" composer studied law at what is now the University of Helsinki Sibelius |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | A SEASON IN HELSINKI $2000: Eero's dad, this Finnish-American architect helped design the National Museum in the National Romantic style Eliel Saarinen |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | A LITTLE FOOD, A LITTLE WINE $200: Can't say I know for sure, but I'll bet this airy chocolate dish tastes better than the same-named hair product mousse |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | A LITTLE FOOD, A LITTLE WINE $400: Wines classed as this "fruity" color are made from white grapes with the skins left on orange wines |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | A LITTLE FOOD, A LITTLE WINE $600: South Africa's Indian community love bunny chow, a hallowed half loaf of bread filled with this spiced sauce dish curry |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | A LITTLE FOOD, A LITTLE WINE $800: A popular full-bodied style of red wine has 2 names: Syrah, when it's from France, & when it's from Australia, this Shiraz |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | A LITTLE FOOD, A LITTLE WINE $1000: Traditionally served on a board, this mix of cold cuts & cheeses is French for "pork-butcher's shop" charcuterie |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SELF-HELPING OF BOOKS $200: Now imagine me with a mustache, less hair & Oprah-adjacent; I'm this psychologist who wrote "We've Got Issues" Dr. Phil |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SELF-HELPING OF BOOKS $400: "The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle" is in a book titled this "hot" word, a state when you're emotionally spent burnout |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SHORT COURSE IN CHEMISTRY $400: Blue litmus paper turns red when exposed to an acid; red paper turns blue when exposed to this type of substance a base |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SELF-HELPING OF BOOKS $600: A William McRaven title advises you to do this 3-word daily task upon waking as a little thing that could change your life making your bed |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SELF-HELPING OF BOOKS $800: Ryan Holiday proposed this 3-letter word "Is the Enemy"; put your selfishness aside! ego |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SHORT COURSE IN CHEMISTRY $800: 2 atoms share 3 pairs of electrons in the triple type of this a (triple) bond |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SELF-HELPING OF BOOKS $1000: "12 Rules for Life" is from this controversial Torontonian who also has thoughts about endangered masculinity Jordan Peterson |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SHORT COURSE IN CHEMISTRY $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1869 Dmitri Mendeleyev wrote that when arranged via his method, the elements showed this kind of "change of properties" periodic |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SHORT COURSE IN CHEMISTRY $1600: It's the term for a substance, usually a liquid, in which other materials dissolve to create a solution the solvent |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SHORT COURSE IN CHEMISTRY $2000: Shortly after he transformed chemistry into a real science, this great Frenchman lost his head during the Reign of Terror Lavoisier |
| #9158, aired 2024-09-11 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $400: Also the name of a 2000 Vin Diesel flick, this 2-word color describes something dark as tar pitch black |
| #9158, aired 2024-09-11 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $800: A brownish excretion of the cuttlefish gave us this word familiar to photographers sepia |
| #9158, aired 2024-09-11 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $1200: A Southern university shares its name with this reddish color often used of hair auburn |
| #9158, aired 2024-09-11 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $1600: This 10-letter adjective describing a kaleidoscope of colors can be traced to a goddess of the rainbow iridescent |
| #9158, aired 2024-09-11 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $2000: "A" is for this gypsum mineral well-known in Milan & Florence & used metaphorically to describe any smooth white color alabaster |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | HAVE A DAY! $200: January 18 honors, celebrates, appreciates, observes National this reference book Day Thesaurus |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | HAVE A DAY! $400: Since 2002 September 19 has been International this Day, ya scurvy scalawag Talk Like a Pirate Day |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | HAVE A DAY! $600: National Tater Tot Day & Day of the Crêpe both fall on this date, but we didn't find Live the Day Over & Over Day February 2nd (Groundhog Day) |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | HAVE A DAY! $800: People online can yell non-stop on both June 28 & October 22 as they celebrate this keyboard key right under tab Caps Lock |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | HAVE A DAY! $1000: Celebrating April 11 as this old-timey singing foursome day dates back to 1938 when 26 men gathered for a songfest; wait... not 24 or 28? a barbershop quartet |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A THING FOR FEATS $200: It took Russ Cook 352 days to run the length of this continent, from Cape Agulhas to the Mediterranean Africa |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | ALSO A FISHING TERM $200: Just scoop ice cream on root beer for this type of beverage float |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A WORD FROM YOUR DOCTOR $200: When I ask if you have this kind of pain, I mean is it sharp or sudden, not from an angle of less than 90 degrees acute |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A DATE IN HISTORY $200: After this couple's first date in 1894, she went home to Poland while he wrote her letters about his "dream for science" Marie Curie & Pierre Curie |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A THING FOR FEATS $400: In 2024 Anouk Garnier beat a record by rope climbing 361 feet to the second floor of this French landmark the Eiffel Tower |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | ALSO A FISHING TERM $400: Serling or Steiger Rod |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A WORD FROM YOUR DOCTOR $400: I'm afraid you've broken a brachial bone, brachial meaning a part of this body part your arm |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A DATE IN HISTORY $400: In Tarsus in 41 B.C. Cleopatra wooed this beefy Roman by arriving to a date dressed as Venus Marc Antony |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A THING FOR FEATS $600: In 2007 Alain Robert climbed an 88-story building with only his hands & feet while wearing this superhero costume, naturally Spider-Man |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | ALSO A FISHING TERM $600: Per the OED, "a well-known conjecture is that" this friendly word "was a familiar abbreviation of chamber-fellow" chum |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A WORD FROM YOUR DOCTOR $600: I've got one of these forecasts for you, from Greek for "prediction" prognosis |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A THING FOR FEATS $800: In 1955 Tex Johnston did this "roll"-ing aerial maneuver in a big Boeing plane & later wrote, "The airplane never knows it's inverted" a barrel roll |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | ALSO A FISHING TERM $800: This baseball pitch gets batters to hit a lot of ground balls a sinker |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A WORD FROM YOUR DOCTOR $800: When I say this is "thready", I mean it's barely perceptible & feels kind of like a thin fiber moving under my finger a pulse |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A DATE IN HISTORY $800: On one of this duo's early dates in 1930, he crashed on her couch & in the morning, the Dallas police arrested him Bonnie & Clyde |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A DATE IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In the summer of 1989, this not-yet-famous couple went on a movie date in Chicago & saw a Spike Lee film the Obamas |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A THING FOR FEATS $1000: Jeanne Baret in the 1700s is credited with being the first woman to do this; she had to transfer ships to accomplish it circumnavigate the globe |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | ALSO A FISHING TERM $1000: In computing, it's an acronym for a transfer of data to a temporary storage area a spool(ing) |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A WORD FROM YOUR DOCTOR $1000: I need to examine your ear--hold on while I grab this doohickey with a handle & a light that lets me look inside an otoscope |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A DATE IN HISTORY $1000: A tale of a medieval hookup: this pair met in Paris around 1115, had a son, but lived on separated as monk & nun Abelard & Héloïse |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | WORDS IN A DICKENS TITLE $200: To wrench an ankle; ouch! twist |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | I'M GIVING A PARTY $400: A Rishi Sunakolyte, tycoon Mohamed Mansour gave this U.K. party millions of pounds in 2023 the Tories (Conservatives) |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | WORDS IN A DICKENS TITLE $400: It's said to have finished off the nosy feline curiosity |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | I'M GIVING A PARTY $800: In 2023 James Cameron & Lucy Lawless each gave the New Zealand version of this nature-protecting party NZ$50,000 the Green Party |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | WORDS IN A DICKENS TITLE $800: As a verb it can mean to sing joyously, perhaps at holiday time carol |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | WORDS IN A DICKENS TITLE $1,000 (Daily Double): Type of fund that invests in diversified securities mutual |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | WORDS IN A DICKENS TITLE $1000: This type of secret cult religion in the ancient Greco-Roman world offered unique experiences unlike those in the standard faiths a mystery |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | I'M GIVING A PARTY $1200: This ex-NYC mayor gave the Dems big bucks after ending his 2020 campaign & in 2024 got the Presidential Medal of Freedom Bloomberg |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | I'M GIVING A PARTY $1600: Mining company Vedanta has given this current Indian prime minister's BJP Party billions of rupees Modi |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | NOVEL CHANGE A LETTER $400: Ranch hands George & Lennie embrace a Buddhist state of calm Of Mice and Zen |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | NOVEL CHANGE A LETTER $800: Upton Sinclair's magnum opus about one man's attempt to write the perfect catchy advertising tune The Jingle |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | NOVEL CHANGE A LETTER $1200: H.G. Wells' sordid tale of a man who creates a device capable of making a distressing number of clones of Marcel Marceau The Mime Machine |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | NOVEL CHANGE A LETTER $1600: Simon & Piggy, in desperate need of cooking supplies, render some fat from winged insects Lard of the Flies |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | NOVEL CHANGE A LETTER $2000: Cormac McCarthy's saga of an aged, female chicken caught up in a world of drugs & killers No Country for Old Hen |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | TAKING A FALL $200: In 2024 he stepped into some Majors shoes as stunt man Colt Seavers in "The Fall Guy" Ryan Gosling |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | ALSO A BIRD $200: Pharoah or Leno Jay |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | TAKING A FALL $400: This "Commando" actor, holding a guy by his leg over a cliff: "Remember... when I promised to kill you last?" (lets go) "I lied" Schwarzenegger |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | ALSO A BIRD $400: A jolly escapade, or a prank a lark |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | TAKING A FALL $600: On "SNL", Chevy Chase took many clumsy pratfalls while playing this president who, ironically, was a great athlete Gerald Ford |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | ALSO A BIRD $600: Any New Zealander Kiwi |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | TAKING A FALL $800: This cop falls down the stairs with--& breaks the neck of--a terrorist, but it's still gonna be a long night for him at Nakatomi Plaza John McClane |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | ALSO A BIRD $800: A poke in the buttocks goose |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | TAKING A FALL $1000: Here's this silent movie star, taking a fall as only he could Buster Keaton |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | ALSO A BIRD $1000: Type of number like 1 or 7 cardinal |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | A LITTLE WORD MATH $400: The opposite of out
+
to serve drinks at a bar
= this, to have in mind intend (in + tend = intend) |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | A LITTLE WORD MATH $800: An individual edition of a periodical
-
a form to be =
this litigious verb sue (issue - is = sue) |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | A LITTLE WORD MATH $1200: A fixture with a shade +
Spanish for "king"
=
this aquatic sucker lamprey (lamp + rey = lamprey) |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | A LITTLE WORD MATH $1600: A no-fooling state of mind you might be "in"
-
an external organ =
this animal abode nest (earnest - ear = nest) |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | A LITTLE WORD MATH $2000: A religious residence
+
a charged atom =
this big assembly convention (convent + ion = convention) |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | A NOVEL INTRODUCTION $200: "You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter" Huckleberry Finn |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | A SHAPELY CATEGORY $400: This room installed under President Taft was inspired by a similar one in George Washington's house in Philadelphia the Oval Office |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | A NOVEL INTRODUCTION $400: Going full Hunter S. Thompson: "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold" Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | A NOVEL INTRODUCTION $600: Ralph Ellison puts this title right out there with "I am an..." Invisible Man |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | A SHAPELY CATEGORY $800: Now part of Nestlé, this pet food brand is headquartered at Checkerboard Square in St. Louis, on a campus with 3 dog parks Purina |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | A NOVEL INTRODUCTION $1,000 (Daily Double): This novel opens on a rather bleak note with "Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don't know" The Stranger |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | A NOVEL INTRODUCTION $1000: Sylvia Plath: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, & I didn't know what I was doing in" N.Y. The Bell Jar |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | A SHAPELY CATEGORY $1200: Karpman's drama triangle describes a dysfunctional trio of roles: mean persecutor, noble rescuer & helpless this one victim |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | A SHAPELY CATEGORY $1600: The story goes that Southwest Airlines began when Roland King grabbed a napkin & drew a triangle of Dallas, Houston & this city San Antonio |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | A SHAPELY CATEGORY $2000: The numbers in any direction total the same number in the arrangement called this a magic square (a magic triangle) |
| #9141, aired 2024-07-08 | 3 OF A KIND $400: Merriam-Webster,
New Oxford American,
Scholastic Children's dictionaries |
| #9141, aired 2024-07-08 | 3 OF A KIND $800: Henry Kissinger,
Yasser Arafat,
Médecins Sans Frontières Nobel Peace Prize winners |
| #9141, aired 2024-07-08 | 3 OF A KIND $1200: Harpy,
martial,
golden eagles |
| #9141, aired 2024-07-08 | 3 OF A KIND $1600: Asher,
Judah,
Gad tribes of Israel |
| #9141, aired 2024-07-08 | 3 OF A KIND $2000: Roland,
Oliver,
Fierabras paladins (knights of Charlemagne) |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | A LONELY WORD $200: A monastery courtyard is in this word meaning "shut in alone" cloistered |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | A LONELY WORD $400: Seclusion, maybe "One Hundred Years of" it solitude |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | A LONELY WORD $600: Delta's program for this type of "minor" offers a trackable wristband for the youngster traveling solo unaccompanied |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | A LONELY WORD $800: This word for a person who lives away from others is in the name of the creature here a hermit |
| #9138, aired 2024-07-03 | A LONELY WORD $1000: Meaning grief or sadness, it precedes "Row" in a song by Bob Dylan & "Angels" in a book by Jack Kerouac Desolation |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | BASED ON A TRUE STORY $200: Caitlin Carver played Nancy Kerrigan when Margot Robbie starred as this rival in a 2017 film Tonya Harding |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | BASED ON A TRUE STORY $400: In "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral", Kirk Douglas played Doc Holliday & Burt Lancaster played this lawman Wyatt Earp |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | BASED ON A TRUE STORY $600: An excerpt from "The Master of Disguise" & the article "Escape from Tehran" were the basis for the screenplay of this 2012 film Argo |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | BASED ON A TRUE STORY $800: Jack O'Connell played Olympic runner & World War II P.O.W. Louis Zamperini in this film based on a nonfiction bestseller Unbroken |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | BASED ON A TRUE STORY $1000: Mark Rylance won an Oscar for playing spy Rudolf Abel in this Spielberg film Bridge of Spies |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | SOUNDS LIKE A ROMAN NUMERAL QUANTITY $200: A host who runs an event from the stage & introduces others an emcee (MC) |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | A-TATTOOED $200: In the late 1990s a version of this doll was released sporting a butterfly tattoo; due to parental uproar, it was discontinued Barbie |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | SOUNDS LIKE A ROMAN NUMERAL QUANTITY $400: Amiable Borden bovine Elsie (LC) |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | A-TATTOOED $400: Drake's "416" tattoo is the area code of this north of the border city, his hometown Toronto |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | SOUNDS LIKE A ROMAN NUMERAL QUANTITY $600: Describes a ripe pomegranate or an unappealing, run-down hotel seedy (CD) |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | A-TATTOOED $600: In 1769 this British captain wrote in his journal about the Polynesians, "Both sexes paint their bodies, tattow as it is called" (Captain) Cook |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | SOUNDS LIKE A ROMAN NUMERAL QUANTITY $800: To perform better than others excel (XL) |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | A-TATTOOED $800: David Beckham has 2 full these; the left arm includes his wife & some Hebrew, while the right features cherubs & Latin sleeves (sleeve tattoos) |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | SOUNDS LIKE A ROMAN NUMERAL QUANTITY $1000: A climbing member of the genus Hedera ivy (IV) |
| #9132, aired 2024-06-25 | A-TATTOOED $3,000 (Daily Double): The title of a Tennessee Williams play alludes to this, tattooed on the chest of a character's deceased husband the rose tattoo (a rose) |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | A ONE E & A 2 E $200: Short form of a job that keeps order on the court, & a chain of rocks near the water's surface ref & reef |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | A ONE E & A 2 E $400: French for "very" (has an accent over the E), & a bunch of saplings (no accent over either E) très & trees |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | A ONE E & A 2 E $600: According to, & a person who's another's equal per & peer |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | A ONE E & A 2 E $800: I'll be very disappointed if you don't get these: Understanding or knowledge, & sharp like an animal's senses ken & keen |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | A ONE E & A 2 E $1000: Gusto! Verve! Vivacity!, & to take a quick look pep & peep |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | WHAT A LOVELY SMILE! $200: Her famous grin is not really a "Mona Lisa Smile", though she played an art history professor in that movie Julia Roberts |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | WHAT A LOVELY SMILE! $400: This sport is known for its special smiles, like the one flashed by Bobby Clarke ice hockey |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | WHAT A LOVELY MILE! $400: The Neue Galerie & the Cooper Hewitt are 2 of the institutions that give a stretch of Fifth Ave. this alliterative name the Museum Mile |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | WHAT A LOVELY SMILE! $600: This top model & reality TV host coined the term smize, meaning to smile with your eyes Tyra Banks |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | WHAT A LOVELY MILE! $800: Chicago developer Arthur Rubloff dubbed a stretch of this street "The Magnificent Mile" Michigan Avenue |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | WHAT A LOVELY SMILE! $800: She posted an Instagram tip, "Open your mouth when you smile, like you're having the time of your life" Blake Lively |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | WHAT A LOVELY SMILE! $1000: Celebrity dentist Dr. Catrise Austin was in demand after working on the smile of this woman who rapped, "Got a bag & fixed my teeth" Cardi B |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | WHAT A LOVELY MILE! $1200: As well as a Music Row, this city has a Music Mile, where you'll find a Walk of Fame with stars from Trace Adkins to Trisha Yearwood Nashville |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | WHAT A LOVELY MILE! $1600: A scenic stretch of highway near Coulee City, Wash. named for its 1940s cost, or a 2019 competition series hosted by Tim Tebow Million Dollar Mile |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | WHAT A LOVELY MILE! $2000: The tacos & chili con queso at Polvos on South First Street make it a staple of this city's "Mexican Mile" Austin |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $400: With dueling illegal, Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr shot it out at Weehawken, New Jersey, a quiet spot along this river the Hudson |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $800: Rosa Parks was on the Cleveland Avenue bus in this city when she sat down for her rights in 1955 Montgomery |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $1200: Mathematician Gaspard Monge was on Napoleon's 1798 expedition to this country, where he studied the physics of mirages Egypt |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Before Hannibal could cross the Alps, he had to bring his army through this other European mountain range the Pyrenees |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $2000: When it became historic in 1215, the name of this spot by the Thames meant "meadow on council island" Runnymede |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | A HISTORY LESSON $400: In 1886, after 3 wars with the British, Upper Burma was made a province of this colony India |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | A HISTORY LESSON $800: In 1649 this English king's disagreements with the Roundheads led to his little ol' round head rolling off the chopping block Charles I |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | A HISTORY LESSON $1200: When founded in 1922, the USSR consisted of Russia, Belorussia, the Transcaucasian Federation & this Black Sea nation Ukraine |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | A HISTORY LESSON $1600: A 1960s Florida society lady in the TV series "Palm Royale" is raising money for loyalists to this exiled Cuban dictator Batista |
| #9126, aired 2024-06-17 | A HISTORY LESSON $2000: An emperor of this Chinese dynasty at its height in the early 1400s took the reign name Yongle, "perpetual happiness" the Ming Dynasty |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | THAT'S A FACT $200: Toss a standard pair of dice & your odds of rolling the total known by this serpentine name are 1 in 36 snake eyes |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | THAT'S A FACT $400: Once upon a midday weary, researchers in Sweden found these birds were better at planning ahead than apes or 4-year-olds a raven |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | THAT'S A FACT $600: The trail named for this pair winds 4,900 miles through 16 states Lewis & Clark |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | THAT'S A FACT $800: Supreme Court Justice John Campbell wrote a concurring opinion in the 1857 decision about this enslaved man Dred Scott |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | THAT'S A FACT $1000: This 5-letter word can stand by itself or precede Mennonite to refer to a Christian group in America Amish |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | FROM A TO Z $200: This synonym for "vibrant" perfectly describes an active hornet nest abuzz |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | FROM A TO Z $400: In a dessert, it's paired with "leche" arroz |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | FROM A TO Z $600: Jamiroquai passes the litmus test for this type of music that infuses funk & hip-hop with another genre acid jazz |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | FROM A TO Z $800: Once home to a Civil War fortress & now a bird sanctuary, it's located in San Francisco Bay Alcatraz |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | FROM A TO Z $1000: A train station in Paris' 13th Arrondissement bears the name of this 1805 battle won by Napoleon Austerlitz |
| #9122, aired 2024-06-11 | A "K-A" $400: Forced to abdicate in 1918, Wilhelm II was the last German emperor with this title kaiser |
| #9122, aired 2024-06-11 | A "K-A" $800: Not to be confused with a prayer over wine, this is the Jewish prayer for the dead, which basically praises God the kaddish |
| #9122, aired 2024-06-11 | A "K-A" $1200: This 10-letter adjective is used to mean frightening or confusing, like situations in works by "The Trial" author Kafkaesque |
| #9122, aired 2024-06-11 | A "K-A" $1600: The "K" in K2 stands for this great mountain system the Karakoram Range |
| #9122, aired 2024-06-11 | A "K-A" $2000: During his Munich period, this Russian painter co-founded Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider") art movement Kandinsky |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | A DANGEROUS THING $400: E. coli & salmonella, types of these, can propagate when food is exposed to the "danger zone" of 40-140 degrees Fahrenheit bacteria |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE $400: Online, T.I.L. is short for this phrase reflecting something new you found out about today I learned |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | A DANGEROUS THING $800: With infrared pits between its eyes & nostrils, the venomous bushmaster is a potentially deadly type of this snake a viper |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE $800: This adjective refers to the nature of a certain reference book, or wide-ranging knowledge in general encyclopedic |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | A DANGEROUS THING $1200: Downbursts can cause this turbulent flying condition in which winds of different speeds & directions buffet planes a wind shear |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE $1200: If your knowledge has come to you through repetition or routine, you've learned "by" this 4-letter way that also starts with "R" rote |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | A DANGEROUS THING $1600: The 1951 court case Dennis v. United States modified this paired type of "danger" as a test for suppressing speech clear & present |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE $1600: Idiomatically, "becoming well" this sounds like you've mastered stanzas, but it really means you're mastering any subject versed |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | A DANGEROUS THING $2000: Many American soldiers needed prosthetics due to these 3-letter devices called the signature weapon of the Iraq War IEDs |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE $2000: Another word for a storehouse or burial place, one of these "of knowledge" is someone who is full of useful info a repository |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | I GOT A BEEF WITH YOU $200: I want to be a part of it, this steak, this steak, confusingly also called Kansas City New York (strip steak) |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | I GOT A BEEF WITH YOU $400: A porterhouse has a larger amount of the tenderloin than this smaller, letter-perfect steak a T-bone |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | I GOT A BEEF WITH YOU $600: Some wagyu cattle are fed beer & grain & given regular massages & sold as this type of prized, well-marbled beef Kobe |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | I GOT A BEEF WITH YOU $800: Amarillo's Big Texan restaurant is famed for a 72-ounce steak--that's 4 1/2 pounds of "top" this, y'all! sirloin |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | I GOT A BEEF WITH YOU $1000: I say, do be a love & prepare my flank steak this "British" way; tenderize the meat by marinating, then thinly slice across the grain a London broil |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | IN A STORM $400: In a 2014 film Russell Crowe as this title character sees storms on the biblical horizon & goes to see his granddad Methuselah Noah |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | FEELING A LITTLE ART "C" $400: Having no added binder, this drawing material made of burnt vines or twigs is easily manipulated with the artist's finger charcoal |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | IN A STORM $800: accuweather.com debunked the premise of this 2013 TV movie, saying marine life could not be swept up by the title storm Sharknado |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | FEELING A LITTLE ART "C" $1,000 (Daily Double): Picasso called this Post-Impressionist known for his "Bathers" series the "father of us all" Cézanne |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | IN A STORM $1200: Dennis Quaid sounded the alarm on climate change in this 2004 movie that saw the world plunged into a new ice age The Day After Tomorrow |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | FEELING A LITTLE ART "C" $1200: This American expatriate modeled for Edgar Degas, including his painting "At the Milliner's" Mary Cassatt |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | IN A STORM $1600: Bogie attests, "One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for" in this tempest-tossed John Huston thriller Key Largo |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | FEELING A LITTLE ART "C" $1600: This 1948 painting depicts a young woman trying to crawl up a hill to her farmhouse Christina's World |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | IN A STORM $2000: This Tarantino Western finds its title characters taking refuge from a nasty blizzard in a Wyoming cabin The Hateful Eight |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | FEELING A LITTLE ART "C" $2000: Head of a Bandit is one of the surviving sculptures by this double "C" Frenchwoman who destroyed much of her own work Camille Claudel |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | STARTS WITH A COLOR $400: These elves help with household chores; you can leave them milk, which is delish with the same-named dessert brownies |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | STARTS WITH A COLOR $800: This loss of visibility can happen in fog but is more common with snowy conditions a whiteout |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | STARTS WITH A COLOR $1200: Botanically, a sequoia is a type of this a redwood |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | STARTS WITH A COLOR $1600: Paper for these engineering drawings is treated with ferric ammonium citrate & potassium ferricyanide blueprints |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | STARTS WITH A COLOR $2000: Found in front of "sapsucker" in a woodpecker's name, this hyphenated word is an insult when used on its own yellow-bellied |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | THANKS A "MILL"-ION! $400: There are 1,609,344 of these in a mile, but who's counting? millimeters |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | THANKS A "MILL"-ION! $800: A river in Princeton University's backyard, or a proverbial burden around one's neck a millstone |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | THANKS A "MILL"-ION! $1200: To make bajra roti like your Nani's, you need to start with this grain millet |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | THANKS A "MILL"-ION! $1600: Expressed in the Book of Revelation, this -ism foresees 1,000 years of peace & prosperity heralded by the 2nd Coming of Christ millennialism (millenarianism) |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | THANKS A "MILL"-ION! $2000: Consisting of many small flowers & plants, it was a popular style of background for tapestries in the 15th century millefleur |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | SOUNDS LIKE A BOY BAND $200: As Nick Lachey surely knows, it's sorta kinda around the normal body temperature 98 degrees |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | DOING A NUMBER ON YOU $200: The right spot to smack on a Heinz bottle is this number to get the ketchup flowing at a brisk .028 mph 57 |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | SOUNDS LIKE A BOY BAND $400: Is it this abbreviation for filming people filming people, or a K-pop band with Jin & Suga? BTS |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | DOING A NUMBER ON YOU $400: A 42-foot rocking chair in Missouri & the original McDonald's site in California are not far off this route Route 66 |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | SOUNDS LIKE A BOY BAND $600: It's an idiom for working well together, like Chris Kirkpatrick on a tandem bicycle with Justin Timberlake in sync |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | DOING A NUMBER ON YOU $600: You can just do the math to get this number of batters faced by a Major League Baseball pitcher who threw a perfect game 27 |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | SOUNDS LIKE A BOY BAND $800: Donnie Wahlberg & Joey McIntyre are these children who just came to the neighborhood & now we gotta show them the ropes the new kids on the block |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | SOUNDS LIKE A BOY BAND $1000: A bar mitzvah marks this transition from childhood to adulthood; I wonder if Nathan Morris & Shawn Stockman had one boys to men |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | DOING A NUMBER ON YOU $1000: "Paradise Lost" & the "Aeneid" are divided into this many "books" 12 |
| #9112, aired 2024-05-28 | DOING A NUMBER ON YOU $3,000 (Daily Double): In the presidential election of 1956, Eisenhower carried 41 states & Stevenson, this many 7 |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | IT'S A PLANE $200: It's the call sign of the Air Force's C-32, used to carry the vice president, the first lady, & Congress & Cabinet members Air Force Two |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | IT'S A PLANE $400: In an F-15, Doug Pearson hit a target orbiting at 345 miles to become the only fighter pilot to shoot down one of these a satellite |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | IT'S A PLANE $600: Described as a flying gas tank, in December 1986, the Ruttan Voyager managed to do this in 9 days without refueling circumnavigate the globe |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | IT'S A PLANE $800: In October 1960 pianist Byron Janis was greeted in a Moscow concert hall by angry shouts of the name of this spy plane U-2 |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | IT'S A PLANE $1000: The Sopwith Wallaby was built to win a £10,000 prize for the first plane to fly from Britain to here; but it crashed on Bali Australia |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | BEGINS WITH A SILENT LETTER $400: Boxers' records list wins, losses & how many of the former were by this knockout |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $400: This 1985 educational computer game features the title globetrotting female antagonist Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | BEGINS WITH A SILENT LETTER $800: Gina McCarthy, Biden's first climate advisor, was also called his climate this, meaning one who has great authority czar |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $800: Edward Albee won his first Tony for this 1962 drama in which marital arguments are blood sport Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | BEGINS WITH A SILENT LETTER $1200: Johann Zoffany must have felt his time running out when he painted a circa 1776 "Self-Portrait with" this timekeeping item "& Skull" Hourglass |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $1200: The website for the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame included this oft-asked query when discussing the Lone Ranger Who was that masked man? |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | BEGINS WITH A SILENT LETTER $1600: The white-tailed type of this animal was nearly hunted to extinction in the 1800s, but has slowly recovered a gnu |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $2000: In Matthew 27 in the King James Version, Jesus cries out, "My God, my God", then this anguished question why hast thou forsaken me |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | BEGINS WITH A SILENT LETTER $2000: Poet Emma Lazarus used this adjective in describing the "refuse of your teeming shore" wretched |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $6,000 (Daily Double): In a relatively famous play, this 4-word question precedes "Deny thy father & refuse thy name" Wherefore art thou Romeo |
| #37, aired 2024-05-22 | A DOMINATING PERFORMANCE $200: Instructions to this Hasbro game make things pretty clear... "Your goal is simple: to take over the world" Risk |
| #37, aired 2024-05-22 | A DOMINATING PERFORMANCE $400: Hoops coach Geno Auriemma has led this university to 6 undefeated seasons; one was 40-0, & the 2nd of 4 straight national titles UConn |
| #37, aired 2024-05-22 | A DOMINATING PERFORMANCE $600: He eked out a win in a 2007 presidential referendum in Syria, taking 97.6% of the vote, raising the question... who dared vote against him? Bashar al-Assad |
| #37, aired 2024-05-22 | A DOMINATING PERFORMANCE $800: You can trust us, by 1880 this company controlled the refining of at least 90% of U.S.-produced oil Standard Oil |
| #37, aired 2024-05-22 | A DOMINATING PERFORMANCE $1000: Though common, this totally epoch term for the time when human activity came to dominate Earth was denied official adoption in 2024 Anthropocene |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | IT'S A DATE $400: Last New Year's Eve was a popular wedding date because you can say it this way, as if counting steps for a waltz 1-2-3, 1-2-3 (12/31/23) |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | IT'S A DATE $1200: It's Devil's Night in Michigan, Mischief Night in New Jersey & Cabbage Night in New England October 30th |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | IT'S A DATE $1600: John Adams believed this date on which Congress actually declared independence would become a national holiday July 2nd |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | IT'S A DATE $2000: Stephen King wrote the novel "11/22/63"; Michael Eric Dyson wrote a nonfiction book about this date that "Changed America" April 4, 1968 |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | IT'S A DATE $6,000 (Daily Double): Leon is Noel backwards & Leon Day is this date at the start of summer June 25 |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | A STATE CAPITAL WORD $200: Celebrating an explorer, a big event of 1893 was the World's this Exposition Columbian |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | THERE'S "A" NOUN FOR THAT $200: A person or thing that's out of place in time an anachronism |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | MOVIE CHANGE A LETTER $400: It's 1935 in spooky Cold Mountain Penitentiary & a horse-donkey hybrid is headed to the electric chair The Green Mule |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | A STATE CAPITAL WORD $400: The type of book that tells you where to find a certain word in another book concordance |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | THERE'S "A" NOUN FOR THAT $400: It's a furniture covering originally meant to protect against an old type of hair oil antimacassar |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | A STATE CAPITAL WORD $600: This Middle Eastern capital city has the Lion of Judah on its city seal Jerusalem |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | THERE'S "A" NOUN FOR THAT $600: It's an old-timey word for a balloonist an aeronaut |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | MOVIE CHANGE A LETTER $800: In this cult classic, young Bud Cort falls in love with a purplish hue Harold and Mauve |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | A STATE CAPITAL WORD $800: Using up all one's resources is doing this to them, also a word for an experience like a marathon exhausting |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | THERE'S "A" NOUN FOR THAT $800: From Latin for to wander or stray, it's something that deviates from the norm an aberrance (or abberation) |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | A STATE CAPITAL WORD $1000: The act of yielding control of territory, like of Hong Kong handover |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | THERE'S "A" NOUN FOR THAT $1000: It's the grammatical case that marks the direct object of a verb (the) accusative |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | MOVIE CHANGE A LETTER $1600: Noted Big Apple criminals Leo DiCaprio & Daniel Day-Lewis get matching coifs leaving much hair on the forehead Bangs of New York |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | MOVIE CHANGE A LETTER $2000: Huckster preacher Burt Lancaster heads into that little kitchen food closet to get a snack Elmer Pantry |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | MOVIE CHANGE A LETTER $5,000 (Daily Double): The Axel Foley theme goes classical as a legendary soprano fights crime in Southern California Beverly Sills Cop |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | I'M A FUN GUY $200: I sunk the island & was able to take 2 of my opponent's cups in this 2-word game played with buds & suds in college dorms beer pong |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | I'M A FUN GUY $400: There's nothing more fun than getting all sudsy & going down this "original backyard water slide" from Wham-O a Slip 'N Slide |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | I'M A FUN GUY $600: A 1928 article says "the life of the party" should don one of these on his head & tell a joke "not meant for mixed company" a lampshade |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | I'M A FUN GUY $800: Many fun guys own a VHS copy of this 1993 film about 4 Jamaican athletes in the Winter Olympics Cool Runnings |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | I'M A FUN GUY $1000: In 2025 fun guys can go to the 70th annual F.U.N. convention, very F.U.N. for "Florida United" these coin collectors numismatists |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | LIKE A "G"6 $200: It's an attic, like a small Parisian one where an artist might stay a garret |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | LIKE A "G"6 $400: Juan Moreira was a famous one around the Rio de la Plata a gaucho |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | LIKE A "G"6 $600: Terry Butler, born in Birmingham, England in 1949, is better known as this Geezer |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | LIKE A "G"6 $800: Meriones unguiculatus, it's a popular childhood pet a gerbil |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | LIKE A "G"6 $1000: This Chinese tree is known to drop all of its leaves on the same day a ginkgo |
| #9104, aired 2024-05-16 | ADD A LETTER $400: A slice of pie or cake to eat in the Sahara dessert & desert |
| #9104, aired 2024-05-16 | ADD A LETTER $800: A jeering insult about your mom's sister an aunt taunt |
| #9104, aired 2024-05-16 | ADD A LETTER $1200: Near Arizona State University, a synagogue Tempe temple |
| #9104, aired 2024-05-16 | ADD A LETTER $1600: A tidier scouring agent for the kitchen or bathroom a cleaner cleanser |
| #9104, aired 2024-05-16 | ADD A LETTER $2000: Down at the intersection of Haight & Ashbury Streets, the public official who certifies the cause of death corner & coroner |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | FLOATING ON A STREAM OF TV $200: On this show, Martin Short tells Steve Martin, no concertina: "You are scoring a murder mystery, not DJing a hobbit's wedding" Only Murders in the Building |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | A STANDING ORATION $200: An 1863 article in a Pennsylvania newspaper gave 10 paragraphs to an Edward Everett oration, but only one to this speech the Gettysburg Address |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | A TOTAL BANGER $400: On April 19, 1775 the first shots of the American Revolution were fired in these 2 towns Lexington & Concord |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | FLOATING ON A STREAM OF TV $400: In 2024 this bear voiced by Seth MacFarlane came back to life on Peacock; somehow, a toy truck named Dennis also gained sentience Ted |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | A STANDING ORATION $400: This defense attorney quoted A.E. Housman & Omar Khayyam in his defense for Leopold & Loeb Darrow |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | FLOATING ON A STREAM OF TV $600: We'd watch this Netflix title character deal with life & death(s) at Nevermore Academy any day of the week Wednesday |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | A STANDING ORATION $600: This gospel singer gets the credit for getting MLK to go off-script and "tell them about the dream" in 1963 (Mahalia) Jackson |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | A TOTAL BANGER $800: After "a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet... the wall of the city shall fall" in this Bible book Joshua |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | FLOATING ON A STREAM OF TV $800: The pitch for this Freevee court show: "What if you (made) 'The Office' & Jim was a real person who didn't know that Dwight was an actor" Jury Duty |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | A STANDING ORATION $800: This master orator of the Roman Republic convinced the Senate that his rival Catiline was up to no good Cicero |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | FLOATING ON A STREAM OF TV $1000: "Oh Lord, not Ekin-Su!" was Phaedra's memed reaction to a supposed murder in a Scottish castle on this competition show The Traitors |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | A STANDING ORATION $1000: Don't confuse Ocala, Florida with this Native American leader who in 1834 stood up there & said, "I love my home, & will not go from it" Osceola |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | A TOTAL BANGER $1200: Providing fusion fuel in thermonuclear bombs, lithium-6 deuteride then transforms into this hydrogen isotope tritium |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | A TOTAL BANGER $1600: The sea can be scary! A pistol type of this snaps its claws to create a 218 dB water pulse that's louder than a gunshot a (pistol) shrimp |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | A TOTAL BANGER $2000: In quite the event, a 1908 explosion on the Podkamennaya or Stony this River was estimated to have the force of 15 megatons of TNT Tunguska |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | A WORD FROM THE BIBLICAL WOMAN $200: "They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, & we know not where they have laid him" Mary Magdalene |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | A WORD FROM THE BIBLICAL WOMAN $400: "Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth" Delilah |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | A WORD FROM THE BIBLICAL WOMAN $800: "Take this child away, & nurse it for me, & I will give thee thy wages... I drew him out of the water" Pharaoh's daughter |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | A WORD FROM THE BIBLICAL WOMAN $1000: "Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Curse God, & die" Job's wife |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | A WORD FROM THE BIBLICAL WOMAN $1,600 (Daily Double): "It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts & of thy wisdom" the Queen of Sheba |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | ALSO A COLLECTIVE NOUN $200: An academy for the chub or tilapia a school |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | ALSO A COLLECTIVE NOUN $400: A series of links for Dominica & St. Lucia a chain |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | ALSO A COLLECTIVE NOUN $600: A swift adjective for the Caine or the Bounty a fleet |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | ALSO A COLLECTIVE NOUN $800: A circle of an Old-Fashioned & a Mojito a round |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | ALSO A COLLECTIVE NOUN $1000: A church area with singers for Zachariel & Selaphiel a choir |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S A DATED REFERENCE $200: On Jan. 4, 1958 this 184-pound man-made object burned up in Earth's atmosphere Sputnik |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S A DATED REFERENCE $400: Centuries after her death, she was canonized on May 16, 1920, & a French national holiday for her is on the 2nd Sunday in May Joan of Arc |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S A DATED REFERENCE $600: On Oct. 15, 1858 he debated his opponent for the 7th & last time; on Jan. 5, 1859 he was named the winner in the Illinois Senate race Douglas |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S A DATED REFERENCE $800: On June 22, 1611 mutineers put him, his son & 7 others off the discovery & onto a small boat in what would be named his bay Hudson |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S A DATED REFERENCE $1000: On August 15, 1947 he became the first prime minister of India, a job he held until his death 17 years later Nehru |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | ADD A LETTER $200: A contract to rent property, s'il vous plaît lease & please |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | A LITERARY TIPPLE $200: There are many cocktails with the name of a 1951 Salinger novel; you'll find this whiskey in all of them rye |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | ADD A LETTER $400: A type of scoundrel gets an Irish accent rogue & brogue |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | A LITERARY TIPPLE $400: Perhaps Edward Bulwer-Lytton was sipping this rum, ginger beer & lime juice cocktail when he wrote it was that kind of night dark and stormy |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | ADD A LETTER $600: Painful inflammation of joints acts up--could the cause be the thin mortar used making bathroom repairs? gout & grout |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | A LITERARY TIPPLE $600: It takes a lot of flowers (weeds, some say) to make a batch of this stuff, the title of a Ray Bradbury novel dandelion wine |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | ADD A LETTER $800: A new spouse & what she does in irritation when I ask her to do something she doesn't like bride & bridle |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | A LITERARY TIPPLE $800: In this novel Robert Jordan says absinthe "cures everything" For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | ADD A LETTER $1000: Related to the latest events & related to the warm, sunny middle of the world topical & tropical |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | A LITERARY TIPPLE $1000: This word for a beer & lemonade concoction appears in a Laurence Sterne title shandy |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | A RAPPER'S DELIGHT $200: In 2023 this former member of OutKast released the album "New Blue Sun" that contained no rap bars, but a lot of his passion: flutes André 3000 |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | A LITTLE WORLD LIT $400: In novels like "Sjalfstaett Folk", Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness examined life on this island Iceland |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | A RAPPER'S DELIGHT $400: In a video for ESPN, Lil Wayne states his love for this sport & says he feels amped after doing a "flat ground trick off of a 50-50" skateboarding |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | A RAPPER'S DELIGHT $600: Will Smith trained in this pastime with Grandmaster Maurice Ashley chess |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | A LITTLE WORLD LIT $800: Khaled Hosseini looked back on his childhood in this country of his birth for his novel "The Kite Runner" Afghanistan |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | A RAPPER'S DELIGHT $800: The rapper Twista has an affinity for magic & also can make his puppet Tiny Twista rap as one of these voice-throwing performers ventriloquist |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | A RAPPER'S DELIGHT $1000: In 2023 this rapper & Lando Calrissian actor opened a boba tea shop in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles Donald Glover |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | A LITTLE WORLD LIT $1200: The devil in disguise exposes Soviet hypocrisy in Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and" her Margarita |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | A LITTLE WORLD LIT $1600: A famed pilot, this author of "The Little Prince", was killed on a 1944 reconnaissance flight over France Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | A LITTLE WORLD LIT $2000: In the epic named for him, this Mesopotamian hero turns down a marriage proposal from Ishtar, goddess of love Gilgamesh |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | IT'S A NOUN, IT'S A VERB $200: A burial cloth &
to obscure or conceal shroud |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | "A" THEN "Z" $400: It's the action Egypt's government took to gain control over the Suez Canal in 1956 nationalize |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | IT'S A NOUN, IT'S A VERB $400: A part of the upper body &
to bear the blame or responsibility shoulder |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | IT'S A NOUN, IT'S A VERB $600: A field of study &
to teach a child appropriate behavior discipline |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | "A" THEN "Z" $800: There are miniature, standard & giant breeds of this blunt-muzzled dog a schnauzer |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | IT'S A NOUN, IT'S A VERB $800: A list of passengers
& to make something happen by imagining it manifest |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | IT'S A NOUN, IT'S A VERB $1000: A very tiny amount &
to discover the causes or origins of something trace |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | "A" THEN "Z" $1200: Also a bone in the wrist, its a quadrilateral with no parallel sides trapezoid (or trapezium) |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | "A" THEN "Z" $1600: Reconstructing prehistoric environments & ecosystems is part of this science, the study of fossil animals paleozoology |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | "A" THEN "Z" $2000: This region of central Italy includes Mount Corno, the highest peak in the Apennines Abruzzi |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | A FLORAL CATEGORY $200: Van Gogh painted 5 large canvases of these flowers using 3 chrome yellows & yellow ochre sunflowers |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | A FLORAL CATEGORY $400: Types of this flower include tiger, stargazer & Easter a lily |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | A FLORAL CATEGORY $600: The first U.S. envoy to Mexico introduced the U.S. to this flowering plant, now a favorite at Christmas poinsettia |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | A FLORAL CATEGORY $800: Head to the end of the alphabet for these flowers that come in shapes called beehive, button & cactus zinnia |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | A FLORAL CATEGORY $1000: The name of this can mean an overly sympathetic person a bleeding heart |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | A STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL $200: In 1985 a 2.5-acre area dubbed Strawberry Fields was dedicated here in memory of John Lennon, who once lived nearby Central Park |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | OH, THAT'S GONNA BE A FLAG $200: Honestly, not having the English lion in shorts on the flag of this island nation in the Atlantic seems like a lost opportunity Bermuda |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | A STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL $400: This character created by Barbi Sargent was first used on greeting cards before expanding to dolls, cartoons & more Strawberry Shortcake |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | OH, THAT'S GONNA BE A FLAG $400: Italy magazine says the flag symbol here is "Trinacria", or three-pointed, which is the shape of this densely-populated Mediterranean island Sicily |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | A STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL $600: In the original language, this film about an aging professor is called "Smultronstället" Wild Strawberries |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | OH, THAT'S GONNA BE A FLAG $600: The flag of this state bears the arms of the Calvert & Crossland families Maryland |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | A STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL $800: In "The Caine Mutiny", a supposed theft of some strawberries aboard ship pushes this Bogie character over the brink Captain Queeg |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | OH, THAT'S GONNA BE A FLAG $800: Yes, that's an AK-47 on the flag adopted after independence from Portugal & flying over this African nation Mozambique |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | A STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL $1000: Bands who recorded at the UK's Strawberry Studios include the Smiths, the Buzzcocks & this group fronted by Ian Curtis Joy Division |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | OH, THAT'S GONNA BE A FLAG $1000: Those are pompeblêden, water lily leaves, not hearts, in the flag of Friesland, a province of this European country the Netherlands |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DEATH OF A WRITER $400: This Pulitzer Prize winner was hit & killed in 1949 as she tried to cross Peachtree Street in Atlanta (Margaret) Mitchell |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DEATH OF A WRITER $800: He died in 1984 at the home of Johnny Carson's ex-wife Joanne, not one of his swans but a close friend to the end Capote |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DEATH OF A WRITER $1600: A friend of Shakespeare, this "Song: To Celia" poet & playwright was buried standing up in Westminster Abbey Ben Jonson |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DEATH OF A WRITER $2000: Legend has it that this ancient playwright died when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head Aeschylus |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DEATH OF A WRITER $8,400 (Daily Double): This author from Sauk Centre, Minnesota died in a nursing home in Rome in 1951 Sinclair Lewis |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10 $200: In a children's tale, the Big Bad Wolf could not blow down the final construction of this group the Three Little Pigs |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10 $400: It's Rishi Sunak's official office & address 10 Downing Street |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10 $600: They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 for hits including "Baby, I Need Your Loving" & "It's The Same Old Song" the Four Tops |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10 $800: Coco's scent-sational creation of 1921 Chanel No. 5 |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10 $1000: Eveready & Energizer offer PP3s, a common size of this type of power source a 9-volt battery |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | A VIEW OF THE CITY $200: A center of violence during The Troubles, the Shankill Road is now a tourist attraction in this Northern Ireland city Belfast |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | A VIEW OF THE CITY $400: Here's a look from Paris' Place de la Concorde down to the Arc de Triomphe at the other end of this historic avenue the Champs-Élysées |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | A VIEW OF THE CITY $600: A twilight view of this Asian city includes its eponymous tower & a certain nearby mountain Tokyo |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | A VIEW OF THE CITY $800: Check out the New York City skyline aboard this free ride that runs between Manhattan & another borough a Staten Island Ferry |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | A VIEW OF THE CITY $1000: Often called the world's widest avenue, the Avenida 9 de Julio & its giant topiary are in this city's downtown Buenos Aires |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | ADVENTURES OF A BRITISH NOVEL HERO $200: At the end, the hero looks back on his adventures over a cup of builder's--this, made strong with extra cream & sugar tea |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | ADVENTURES OF A BRITISH NOVEL HERO $400: In Chapter 7 our hero gets nicked; in Chapter 8 he's at His Majesty's pleasure, which means he's here jail |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | ADVENTURES OF A BRITISH NOVEL HERO $600: The Brits shorten 2 words to get this equivalent of GPS; our hero relies on it to get to Sheffield for a daring rescue satnav |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | ADVENTURES OF A BRITISH NOVEL HERO $800: Kicked out by his wife, he moves to this small apartment whose 6-letter name includes a piece of furniture a bedsit |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | ADVENTURES OF A BRITISH NOVEL HERO $1000: There's an important event as the barman ends the night at the pub by saying this, also a Booker prize-winning novel by Graham Swift last orders |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | A GAP ON THEIR RÉSUMÉS $200: Signore Marco Polo, I understand travel is arduous in the 1200s, but you have no work history in this city of ours for 1/4 century Venice |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | A GAP ON THEIR RÉSUMÉS $400: In a Germanic text from around 1200, Odin taunts this cunning guy about having spent 8 years underground milking cows Loki |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | A GAP ON THEIR RÉSUMÉS $600: The 2 cities where there are references to Will Shakespeare in 1585 & 1592; in between come the "Lost Years" Stratford-upon-Avon & London |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | A GAP ON THEIR RÉSUMÉS $800: On his C.V., this subject of a Bible parable probably would skip the time he "wasted his substance with riotous living" the Prodigal Son |
| #9092, aired 2024-04-30 | A GAP ON THEIR RÉSUMÉS $1000: In 1966 this future politician left college for 2 1/2 years for a mostly unsuccessful mission to make French people Mormon Mitt Romney |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | "A.C." $200: When it comes to electricity in our homes, the AC in AC/DC stands for this alternating current |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | "A.C." $400: In college John Legend was a director of this kind of singing group without musical accompaniment a cappella |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | "A.C." $600: One of these with hidden pictures or treats typically begins on December 1 & helps kids count down to Christmas an Advent calendar |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | "A.C." $800: The Gerald R. Ford one of these cost $13 billion to build & is more than 3 football fields long an aircraft carrier |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | "A.C." $1000: Shirley Temple sang about these in her "soup, monkeys & rabbits loop the loop" animal crackers |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | ALSO A BASKETBALL TERM $200: A group of notes on which a musical composition is based, such as C major & F-sharp minor key |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | ALSO A BASKETBALL TERM $400: The ghost of Hamlet's father tells Hamlet he was murdered, "murder most" this, "as in the best it is" foul |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | ALSO A BASKETBALL TERM $600: "Expedition Bigfoot" & "Destination Fear" are TV shows on this channel Travel |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | ALSO A BASKETBALL TERM $800: This word can follow twilight, buffer or comfort zone |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | ALSO A BASKETBALL TERM $1000: Type of grant in which the federal government gives an annual sum of money to a state or local government to aid in a project a block grant |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | ANATOMY A TO Z $200: L:
Sprains of them range from grade 1 to grade 3 ligaments |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | ANATOMY A TO Z $400: J:
The upper one is also known as the maxilla your jaw |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | ANATOMY A TO Z $600: O:
They're the major source of estrogen ovaries |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | ANATOMY A TO Z $800: T:
Adenoids are a type of these tonsils |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | ANATOMY A TO Z $1000: P:
Part of the alimentary canal, this passageway is between the esophagus & mouth the pharynx |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER $200: This character who married Melanie instead of Scarlett O'Hara was said to have been based on Doc Holliday Ashley (Wilkes) |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER $400: A 2023 movie was titled "The Three Musketeers--Part I:" this newcomer to Paris in the original 1844 novel D'Artagnan |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER $600: A handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, she lives in the home of the commander & his bitter wife Serena Joy Offred |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER $800: This fairy in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" causes no end of trouble with his mischievous deeds Puck |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER $1000: In "1984", Julia meets with this man secretly, bringing him contraband chocolate & stirring forgotten memories Winston Smith |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | PUTTING THE GORY IN A MOVIE CATEGORY $200: David Arquette & Courteney Cox starred in this 1996 film about a killer named Ghostface Scream |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | PUTTING THE GORY IN A MOVIE CATEGORY $400: Tim Curry played this demon that appears as a clown in a miniseries of "It"; Bill Skarsgård had the role in the 2017 film Pennywise |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | PUTTING THE GORY IN A MOVIE CATEGORY $600: Subtitles of this slasher series include "Dream Warriors",
"The Dream Master" & "Freddy's Revenge" A Nightmare on Elm Street |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | PUTTING THE GORY IN A MOVIE CATEGORY $800: This 1974 film set in the Lone Star State was loosely inspired by serial killers Ed Gein & Elmer Henley The Texas Chainsaw Massacre |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | PUTTING THE GORY IN A MOVIE CATEGORY $1000: As Dr. Gordon, Cary Elwes was not in an "as you wish" kind of mood in this 2004 film, cutting through some serious issues Saw |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | A "M"EDICAL DICTIONARY $400: The dilation of blood vessels is associated with this type of recurring vascular headache migraine |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | A "M"EDICAL DICTIONARY $1200: This type of neuron conveys impulses from the brain or nervous system to a muscle, organ or gland to trigger an action a motor neuron |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | A "M"EDICAL DICTIONARY $1600: Found in the ear, this small bone connects the tympanic membrane to the incus bone the malleus |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | A "M"EDICAL DICTIONARY $2000: Term for a type of large white blood cell that digests invading micro-organisms & also "eats" cell debris a macrophage |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | A "M"EDICAL DICTIONARY $2,400 (Daily Double): Swelling of the parotid glands is a symptom of this acute viral disease the mumps |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | A LOVE FOR BOOKS $400: The Hazard & Main families are divided by this conflict in "Love & War", part of John Jakes' "North & South" trilogy the Civil War |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | A LOVE FOR BOOKS $800: A shy librarian's quiet passion for a researcher shines through in Sophie Divry's "The Library of" this kind of not reciprocated "Love" unrequited |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | A LOVE FOR BOOKS $1200: An outbreak of a certain disease features in this 1985 novel by Gabriel García Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | A LOVE FOR BOOKS $2000: His novel "Women in Love" recounts the lives & romances of the Brangwen sisters D.H. Lawrence |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | A LOVE FOR BOOKS $5,000 (Daily Double): Roddy Doyle's novel "Love" finds 2 old friends reconnecting in this world capital for a revealing evening of drinking Dublin |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $200: Apple introduced its Macintosh computer 1984 |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $400: Mark Zuckerberg launched what was then called TheFacebook 2004 |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $600: The Continental Congress met for the first time 1774 |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $800: In the case of Brown v. Board of Education, racial segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional 1954 |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $1000: Shakespeare turned 50 & the Globe Theatre reopened after it burned down a year earlier 1614 |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | DOES THAT RING A "BELL"? $400: This word means to dress up a story with fictional information to make it more interesting, or to beautify with ornamentation embellish |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | IT'S A FACT $400: This organization's New York City HQ was built on land bought in 1946 with an $8.5 million gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr. the U.N. |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | DOES THAT RING A "BELL"? $800: Named for its bulging middle, this cast-iron stove was developed in the 19th century for heat & cooking the potbellied stove |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | IT'S A FACT $800: Groundhogs are called these type of "pigs" due to the high-pitched sound they make when alarmed whistle pigs |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | DOES THAT RING A "BELL"? $1200: This equipment originated in Russia & was popularized in the U.S. by former Soviet special forces instructor Pavel Tsatsouline a kettlebell |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | IT'S A FACT $1200: In poker some wonder if this hand beats 2 pair; with a 2.87% chance of it in a 52-card deck vs. 2 pair's 7.62%, yes 3 of a kind |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | DOES THAT RING A "BELL"? $1600: In a Longfellow poem, the children "love to see the flaming forge, and hear" these "roar" the bellows |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | IT'S A FACT $1600: The CIA's forested complex in this Virginia place has a Starbucks, but names are not put on cups Langley |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | IT'S A FACT $1,800 (Daily Double): 9 of the 10 highest mountains in the world are in the Himalayas, while the other is part of this nearby range the Karakoram |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | DOES THAT RING A "BELL"? $2000: Originally meaning the lead sheep of a flock, it now usually refers to an indicator of trends a bellwether |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN $400: Measuring electricity? In the U.S., we use this unit that honors an Italian count a volt |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN $800: A degree on this other temperature scale has the same magnitude as a Celsius degree Kelvin |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN $1200: This device used to measure your feet at the shoe store is named for its inventor Charles a Brannock Device |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN $2000: Radioactivity amounts in a sample have been measured in units called the curie & this, after a different French physicist becquerel |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN $6,000 (Daily Double): You only need letters on the left side of the keyboard to type this unit of capacitance that's named for an English chap the farad |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | "A" TO "A" COUNTRIES $200: The official language of this small country is Catalan Andorra |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | A SECRET CHORD $400: Wagner shook up people's ideas of harmony with the chord named for this lover of Isolde Tristan |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | "A" TO "A" COUNTRIES $400: First millennium monk Mesrop Mashtots is credited with creating this nation's alphabet, seen here Armenia |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | "A" TO "A" COUNTRIES $600: In 1967 this Balkan nation was declared the world's first atheist state Albania |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | A SECRET CHORD $800: He lived until 1827 but his last time as soloist with an orchestra was in 1808, opening his 4th piano concerto with a gentle chord Beethoven |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | "A" TO "A" COUNTRIES $800: Not soccer, but pato, a combination of polo & basketball, was declared the national sport there in 1953 Argentina |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | "A" TO "A" COUNTRIES $1000: The desert-dwelling fennec fox is its national animal Algeria |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | A SECRET CHORD $1200: This 1959 Miles Davis album begins with Bill Evans' piano, including a famous pair of chords Kind of Blue |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | A SECRET CHORD $1600: A mighty, anguished chord in his 10th symphony might have something to do with his wife Alma's affair with Walter Gropius Mahler |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | A SECRET CHORD $2000: Something called a tritone substitution is found in the chords of "Lush Life", a classic by this Duke Ellington collaborator Strayhorn |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | YOU'RE A FINAL"IST" $200: By definition it's a person who does not believe in the existence of God an atheist |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | YOU'RE A FINAL"IST" $400: For skillfully combining ingredients, a bartender is sometimes called this a mixologist |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | YOU'RE A FINAL"IST" $600: In the Middle Ages, this person tried to turn ordinary metals into gold an alchemist |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | YOU'RE A FINAL"IST" $800: A synonym for beautician that's 3 letters longer cosmetologist |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | YOU'RE A FINAL"IST" $1000: A bumposopher was another word for one of these head-examining pseudoscientists a phrenologist |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A CATEGORY MADE OF STEEL $200: The steelhead, a variety of the rainbow type of this fish, can reach a weight of 55 pounds a trout |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $400: Dating from the first century, the tower of this mythical strongman in Spain is said to be the oldest working lighthouse Hercules |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A CATEGORY MADE OF STEEL $400: Using modified oil barrels as instruments, steel bands of Trinidad are particularly associated with this pre-Lent celebration Carnival |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A CATEGORY MADE OF STEEL $600: In 1983 this 7-foot wrestler defeated Big John Studd in a thrilling steel cage match in the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland André the Giant |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A CATEGORY MADE OF STEEL $800: Using an old steel saw in 1837, he created one of the 1st successful steel plows & his company was soon making 1,000 plows a year (John) Deere |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A CATEGORY MADE OF STEEL $1000: Charles M. Schwab was the 1st pres. of this Pennsylvania-based steel corp. founded in 1904 & one of the world's largest in its time Bethlehem Steel |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $1200: The Bell Rock Lighthouse outside the Firth of Forth warns ships of navigation dangers in this sea the North Sea |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $1600: Barnegat Lighthouse on Long Beach Island in this state's Ocean County was designed by future hero of Gettysburg George Meade New Jersey |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $2000: Old Baldy, protecting the entrance to this river since 1817, is North Carolina's oldest standing lighthouse the Cape Fear River |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $9,000 (Daily Double): The Lanterna of this Italian port is the Mediterranean's tallest lighthouse; Antonio Columbo was a keeper in 1449 of the first ones there Genoa |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | ENDS IN A BODY PART $200: An object said to bring good luck, or a type of bracelet with meaningful trinkets attached charm |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | ENDS IN A BODY PART $400: Once a cask of drinking water on a ship's deck, today it refers to rumors or gossip scuttlebutt |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | ENDS IN A BODY PART $600: A handspring rotated sideways a cartwheel |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | ENDS IN A BODY PART $800: "If You Could Read My Mind", you'd know this last name of the Canadian hitmaker seen here (Gordon) Lightfoot |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | ENDS IN A BODY PART $1000: This geographical term refers to a spring that's the source of a stream, or any main source the fountainhead |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $200: This humorous poem of 5 lines takes its name from a city in Ireland a limerick |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $400: Though more closely associated with Mexico, these hot chlii peppers are named for a city across the Yucatán Channel habanero |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $600: It's not just any plaid fabric, it's woven cotton known by the former name of a city in India Madras |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $1000: Popularly used for drapery & upholstery, this lustrous fabric is named for a city in the Middle East damask |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $3,000 (Daily Double): This word meaning to ramble comes from the name of a winding river in Turkey meander |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A STANDOUT STAND-UP $200: Roy Wood Jr.: "If they can make a documentary about your time" in this post held by Spiro Agnew, you did the job "incorrectly" vice president |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A WARMING TREND $400: Consider your heart (but really, these) warmed in song via "roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose" chestnuts |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $400: "A":
This clear fluid surrounds a baby in its mother's womb amniotic fluid |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A STANDOUT STAND-UP $400: What to do with Wanda Sykes' ashes? "Spread 'em over" this actress, Storm in "X-Men"; "she don't even have to be at the funeral" Halle Berry |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A STANDOUT STAND-UP $600: His early stand-up bits like the over-chatty ventriloquist are part of what made him a legend Albert Brooks |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A WARMING TREND $800: After deep torpor, a Rivoli's this, known for wing speed, can see its body temperature rise 50 degrees up to 100-plus a hummingbird |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A STANDOUT STAND-UP $800: On "Rolling Stone's 500 Worst Albums", from Blaine Capatch: "2 Foot 2 Loose" by Kenny Loggins & "Idahoication" by this bunch of Flea's the Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A STANDOUT STAND-UP $1000: A chapter in Laurie Kilmartin's "Dead People Suck" is "Home Hospice: Die Surrounded by Stuff You Meant to Take to" this charity Goodwill |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A WARMING TREND $1200: This "official blanket with sleeves" sold 4 million in the 2008 holiday season after its fall introduction a Snuggie |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $1200: "A":
You get one set of these alternative forms of genes from mom & one from dad alleles |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A WARMING TREND $1600: One recipe from the Russian Tea Room for hot this soup includes 5 ounces of beets as well as short ribs & pork butt borscht |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $1600: "B":
This pigment gives bile its yellowish color & can lead to gallstones bilirubin |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | A WARMING TREND $2000: In this Bible book once alluded to by Samuel L. Jackson, "Another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the Lord" Ezekiel |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $2000: "C" "C":
2-word term for the multistage process via which the basic unit of life reproduces itself the cell cycle |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $6,400 (Daily Double): "C":
In myth, it's a fire-breathing hybrid monster, in genetics, it's an organism with 2 distinct sets of DNA chimera |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | I'VE GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU $400: A twisting injury can cause this type of bone fracture characterized by a helical break a spiral fracture |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | I'VE GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU $800: It's the outer & narrower bone of the lower leg the fibula |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | I'VE GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU $1200: 2 regions of this bone are the manubrium, which joins with the first ribs, & the xiphoid process, which is just fun to say the sternum |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | I'VE GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU $1600: This bone extends from the scapula to the ulna the humerus |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | I'VE GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU $2000: Overproduction of the hormone somatotropin causes this form of gigantism marked by increased bone size acromegaly |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | PICK A CARD, ANY CARD $200: On "SNL" as Stefon, Bill Hader often broke into on-air laughter reading John Mulaney's late script changes written on these cue cards |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | PICK A CARD, ANY CARD $400: On your special day, know that this company got away from selling postcards & into greeting cards after a 1915 office fire Hallmark |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | PICK A CARD, ANY CARD $600: One of 31 known to exist & the only one listed gem mint, a 1995 card featuring Charizard from this game went for $493,000 in 2021 Pokémon |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | PICK A CARD, ANY CARD $800: Jeopardy! isn't a card in this deck but Wheel of Fortune is; Judgement & Temperance also await a tarot deck |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | PICK A CARD, ANY CARD $1000: Not in many wallets today but still a brand of Discover, in 1950 it was the first universal credit card Diners Club |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | LET'S GET A DRINK $200: A regular B & B is Bénédictine & brandy; if you're drinking a Kentucky B & B, this other "B" is an ingredient bourbon |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | IAMB A POET $400: Bill Shakespeare here! Prithee complete my line, "Shall I compare thee to" this? a summer's day |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | LET'S GET A DRINK $400: This potent potable is not just the star ingredient of a Caruso; it's also a winning declaration in a card game gin |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | LET'S GET A DRINK $600: Real Madagascar vanilla is one of the spices in this "original spiced rum" brand, & I totally mean to pull rank here Captain Morgan |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | IAMB A POET $800: In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken", "I took the one" that was this less traveled by |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | LET'S GET A DRINK $800: Motorcyclists know this name for the cocktail of Cognac, triple sec & lemon juice a Sidecar |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | IAMB A POET $1200: Iam the "I" in "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain", & what do you mean I'm obsessed with death? Dickinson |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | LET'S GET A DRINK $1,600 (Daily Double): One origin story of this cocktail involves the early morning hours after a long night in Sausalito a Tequila Sunrise |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | IAMB A POET $1600: I, William Wordsworth, wrote this iambic line that precedes "that floats on high o'er vales and hills" I wandered lonely as a cloud |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | IAMB A POET $2000: Aye, I did write "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" & many another bonny iambic work, & ye needn't call me sir! (Walter) Scott |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THERE WILL BE A TEST ON THIS $200: This standardized test widely used in college admissions since 1926 is introducing a digital version in March 2024 the SAT |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THERE WILL BE A TEST ON THIS $400: An evasive maneuver test for cars in Sweden bears the name of these deer you would definitely want to avoid when driving moose |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THERE WILL BE A TEST ON THIS $600: The NCAA's drug testing program covers stimulants, masking agents & these, such as androstenedione steroids |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THERE WILL BE A TEST ON THIS $1000: In 1915 Emil Truog developed a test to measure the level of this property in soil, leading to restored fields & increased yields pH (acidity) |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THERE WILL BE A TEST ON THIS $4,600 (Daily Double): Used to determine if a computer can "think", the Turing test was originally known as this, also the name of a 2014 movie about Turing the imitation game |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $400: It's about 700 arid miles across this country from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf Saudi Arabia |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $800: Its 700,000 square miles of land area are spread across more than 17,000 islands Indonesia |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $1600: It borders Russia, China & nothing else Mongolia |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $2000: With a population of more than 100 million, it covers about 900,000 square miles in the heart of Africa DRC |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $8,600 (Daily Double): Once claimed by Italy, Cyrenaica is an historic region & former province of this 650,000-square-mile land Libya |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | CHOOSE A PROTEIN $200: This cone-shaped body organ produces blood proteins & stores glycogen for you, so easy on the Lagavulin the liver |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | CHOOSE A PROTEIN $400: The Murchison meteorite that hit Earth in 1969 was found to contain organic compounds like these building blocks of proteins amino acids |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | CHOOSE A PROTEIN $600: Rhinos don't have true horns; they're primarily composed of this fibrous protein found in hair keratin |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | CHOOSE A PROTEIN $800: In 1921 Banting & Best first isolated this hormone, a protein composed of 2 chains linked by sulfur atoms insulin |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | CHOOSE A PROTEIN $1000: It's high in proline so we're giving this most abundant protein in the body that's in tendons, bones & skin some lip service collagen |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MAKING A PASS $400: Winter storms sometimes close the over-8,000' Sylvan Pass located in the Wyoming part of this national park Yellowstone |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MAKING A PASS $1200: A group of ill-fated pioneers gave this pass near Truckee in California its name the Donner Pass |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MAKING A PASS $1600: Located near the foot of Mount Kallidromo, this Greek mountain pass has a name that means "hot gates" Thermopylae |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MAKING A PASS $2000: Rudyard Kipling referred to this Asian pass as a "narrow sword-cut in the hills" the Khyber Pass |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MAKING A PASS $14,000 (Daily Double): The first major U.S.-German battle of World War II took place in February 1943 at Kasserine Pass on this continent Africa |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | IT'S A FACT! $400: As of January 1, 2024, California has a new state this, a golden chanterelle a mushroom |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | IT'S A FACT! $800: Unlike other cats, this fastest one doesn't have fully retractable claws a cheetah |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | IT'S A FACT! $1200: Belize, in Central America, was formerly a colony called this British Honduras |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | IT'S A FACT! $1600: In the U.S. a quadrillion has this many zeros 15 |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | IT'S A FACT! $2000: Stepping down in 2024 after 52 years on the throne, she had the longest reign of any Danish monarch Margrethe (II) |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | I HEARD A RUMOR $200: It can mean a rumor, or testimony in court based upon what she said she said hearsay |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $400: Premiering in Russia in 1890 & also known as "La belle au bois dormant", this ballet features Princess Aurora Sleeping Beauty |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | I HEARD A RUMOR $400: Sans accent, it means to reveal a secret; with one, it's a scandal-revealing newspaper story an exposé |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | I HEARD A RUMOR $600: Merriam-Webster "spills" the story that using this word to mean a secret truth first gained prominence in Black drag culture the tea |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $800: In 1967 this man joined the Kirov as a soloist but 8 years later, decided to stop Russian around & defected in Canada Baryshnikov |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | I HEARD A RUMOR $800: In a Klymaxx song a woman says if you want to be sure about your man, go powder your nose & have a "meeting in" this title place "Meeting In The Ladies Room" |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | I HEARD A RUMOR $1000: It's a shortened version of a word for info; in a web article, "Jennifer Lopez Drops" them on "Achieving Celebrity Status" deets |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $1200: It's the 1-letter title of Anthony Davis' bio-opera that made its Metropolitan Opera debut in 2023 X |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $1600: In Philip Glass' opera "Akhnaten", the title king & this queen spend quality music time with their 6 kids Nefertiti |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | A LI'L BALLET, A LI'L OPERA $2000: A word for a slender woman sometimes followed by "like", or an air-dwelling being that Scotland is full of, per a classic ballet a sylph |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | THAT'S A LONG STORY $400: Serialized from 1845 to 1847, the seminal & alliterative horror tale "Varney the" this runs to more than 200 chapters Vampire |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | THAT'S A LONG STORY $800: Ralph Ellison's posthumous second novel was culled from more than 1,500 pages of writing & titled after this now-federal holiday Juneteenth |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | THAT'S A LONG STORY $1200: This 1996 David Foster Wallace novel isn't quite as long as its title suggests but does run 1,000+ pages Infinite Jest |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | THAT'S A LONG STORY $2000: A Nobel Prize winner, in 1962 she published "The Golden Notebook", which runs to nearly 700 masterful pages Doris Lessing |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | THAT'S A LONG STORY $3,200 (Daily Double): "Yes I said yes I will yes" are the last of this 1922 story's many, many words Ulysses |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IT'S A PARTY! $400: This president was gifted with a 1,400-pound block of cheese; on Feb. 22, 1837 he threw a party for the public to chow down Jackson |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IT'S A PARTY! $800: The North Side Skull & Bone Gang has been waking people up to party for 200+ years on this day down in New Orleans Mardi Gras |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IT'S A PARTY! $1200: On October 24, 2022 it was a real lituation when Joe Biden celebrated this Hindu festival at the White House with 200+ guests Diwali |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IT'S A PARTY! $1600: This Brit writer of "Private Lives" sang of a marvelous party where Elsie, age 74, swung upside down from a glass chandelier Noël Coward |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IT'S A PARTY! $2000: In May 1664 this French king held a days-long party with ballet in honor of his mom & wife & (possibly) his mistress Louis XIV |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | A LITTLE HISTOR"E" $200: The U.S. sent 10,000 troops to Lebanon in 1958 as part of the anti-Soviet doctrine named for him Eisenhower |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | A LITTLE HISTOR"E" $400: In French this 17th & 18th century "Age" is the Siècle des Lumières Enlightenment |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | A LITTLE HISTOR"E" $600: This armed "rising" began April 24, 1916 in Dublin the Easter Rising |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | A LITTLE HISTOR"E" $800: This 1807 act restricted U.S. trade with Britain & France the Embargo Act |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | A LITTLE HISTOR"E" $1000: This ancient people inhabited an area between the Arno & Tiber rivers & west & south of the Apennines the Etruscans |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED $400: After a long, unplanned but very restful nap away from the fam in an 1819 tale, he finds he just likes being single again Rip Van Winkle |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A WORLD OF DEPRESSIONS $400: The Turpan Depression in the Uyghur Autonomous Region is this country's lowest point at 505 feet below sea level China |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED $800: Take the rest of the day off, Columbo--the murderer gives himself up in this Poe story by offering up a body part "The Tell-Tale Heart" |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A WORLD OF DEPRESSIONS $800: In 1964 astronauts spent a few days honing their survival skills in this state's Carson Sink Nevada |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED $1200: Why, this "Celebrated" amphibian "weigh five pound" & "belched out a double handful of shot" the jumping frog of Calaveras County |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A WORLD OF DEPRESSIONS $1200: The name of this depression on the southern side of Haiti sounds like a dead end street Cul-de-Sac |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED $1600: In this John Cheever story, Neddy makes his way pool by pool to his own home but like his life, it's dark & empty "The Swimmer" |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A WORLD OF DEPRESSIONS $1600: The Afar Depression in the Horn of Africa is part of this "Great" fault system the Great Rift Valley |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A NICE SHORT STORY SPOILED $2000: Turns out O. Henry's "Ransom of" him ends up costing the kidnappers $250 just to get the dad to take the kid off their hands "The Ransom of Red Chief" |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A WORLD OF DEPRESSIONS $2000: Egypt's Gattara Depression formed a natural barrier to protect this northwestern city from Rommel's advance in WWII El Alamein |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE $200: It was a safe bet that this state U. offered gaming management I & also TCA 471, practicum in hotel education UNLV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE $400: Math 0407, linear algebra & matrix theory, does not sound like an easy A at this HBCU founded by Booker T. Washington Tuskegee |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE $600: Taking 340.612.01, epidemiologic basis for tuberculosis control at this U. in Baltimore? Thank you, as that sounds kinda important Johns Hopkins |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE $800: Is anyone here a marine biologist?! Here, being this Jesuit university in Spokane, & you could be after learning about it in bio 403 Gonzaga |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | LET'S AUDIT A COLLEGE COURSE $1000: History 383 at this military college of South Carolina examined patterns of war to 1763 the Citadel |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BUILDING A NEW WORD $200: Poet Robert stops by the woods on a snowy evening to chomp on a synonym for chomp & develops this chilly condition frostbite |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BUILDING A NEW WORD $400: An auto picks up golfer Nicklaus to become this crime carjack |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BUILDING A NEW WORD $600: To bound or leap drinks Macallan to play this kids' playground game hopscotch |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BUILDING A NEW WORD $800: A set of squares like our game board adds a fastener to get nothing done politically gridlock |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BUILDING A NEW WORD $1000: A harbor for a ship docks with a loose coat or robe to be this type of word, like spork or mockumentary portmanteau |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $200: Writer Prawer Jhabvala, helpful Dr. Westheimer Ruth |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $400: The real-world Mr. Law, the fictional Mr. Fawley Jude |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $600: A Coen brother, a "Last of Us" father Joel |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $800: Reynolds of the visual arts, Bell of classical music Joshua |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $1000: Digital media titan Peretti, actor Hill Jonah |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | A DOG'S LIFE $200: To avoid confusion & possible danger, train your dog on the standard type of this before getting the retractable kind a leash |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | A DOG'S LIFE $400: Theobromine in this substance is toxic to dogs; the darker & more bitter kinds are more dangerous for the pooch chocolate |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | A DOG'S LIFE $600: This word for pellets of dry dog food comes from a verb meaning "to grind coarsely" kibble |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | A DOG'S LIFE $800: Dogs are especially vulnerable to this deadly airborne viral "dis"ease transmitted from wildlife; get your pup vaccinated! distemper |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | A DOG'S LIFE $1000: If your dog paces & whines before you leave, it may be suffering from this 2-word issue; exercise & crate training can help separation anxiety |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | ALSO A MAGAZINE TITLE $200: Lizzo sang, "It's About Damn" this Time |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $400: To tempt Eve in this 17th century epic poem, Satan takes the form of a serpent (he sneaks into its mouth as it sleeps) Paradise Lost |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | ALSO A MAGAZINE TITLE $400: Lawyers use it as a courtesy title esquire |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | ALSO A MAGAZINE TITLE $600: From the French, it basically means "enjoy your food!" bon appétit |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $800: On his third voyage, this hero of "The Arabian Nights" lands on an island home to a man-eating snake as big as a palm tree Sinbad |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | ALSO A MAGAZINE TITLE $800: It's now also a verb meaning to strike poses like a model vogue |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | ALSO A MAGAZINE TITLE $1000: Irish playwright J.M. Synge wrote of this "of the Western World" Playboy |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $1200: In the 4,000-year-old epic of him, this hero finds a plant that grants immortality, but a snake snatches it away & eats it Gilgamesh |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $1600: In Kipling's "The Jungle Book", this old python is a friend & savior to Mowgli Kaa |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $2000: The Green Witch turns into a snake to attack Prince Rilian in this Narnia book whose title refers to what Rilian sits in The Silver Chair |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | LENDING YOU A POKER HAND $200: The Bicycle cards website points out 5 of a kind is only possible with these as part of the game, something "most poker purists" shun a joker (wild cards) |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | THERE'S A VACCINE FOR THAT $400: Biothrax protects against this disease that's transmitted to humans from farm animals anthrax |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | LENDING YOU A POKER HAND $400: Paul Newman uses more than luck & skill to get the 4 jacks that beat Robert Shaw in this 1973 movie about a big con The Sting |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | LENDING YOU A POKER HAND $600: Edward G. Robinson wins a poker duel with this hand in "The Cincinnati Kid"; poker & movie fans debate the realism of the game a straight flush |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | LENDING YOU A POKER HAND $800: The "dead man's hand" of 2 pair, black aces & 8s, was reportedly held by him when he was shot dead in 1876 Hickok |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | LENDING YOU A POKER HAND $1000: This late legendary player won the World Series of Poker two years in a row by having his 10-2 become a full house (Doyle) Brunson |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | THERE'S A VACCINE FOR THAT $1200: Breathe easy! We'll only make you identify the "R" in RSV, this syncytial virus, & let you know there's a vaccine available respiratory |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | THERE'S A VACCINE FOR THAT $1600: There are vaccines to protect against this inflammation of the lining of the brain & spinal cord meningitis |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | THERE'S A VACCINE FOR THAT $2000: A vaccine by any other name: both DTaP & Tdap offer sweet protection against tetanus, pertussis & this diphtheria |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | THERE'S A VACCINE FOR THAT $7,000 (Daily Double): The CDC wants you to know that the 4 vaccine shots for this are fairly painless & now given in the arm, not the stomach rabies |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ADD A LETTER: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $400: Italian city with some history, about 15 miles inland from the Tyrrhenian Sea & wherefore art thou, village? Near Pontiac, Michigan Rome & Romeo |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | LET'S HAVE A WORD $400: The New Testament is full of these stories told to convey a lesson, like the one of the lamp a parable |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ADD A LETTER: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $800: Present country stretching across Europe & Asia at 6.6 mil. sq. miles & ex-German land stretching from that country to Belgium Russia & Prussia |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | LET'S HAVE A WORD $800: Want the perk of being respected for your vocabulary? Then show us you know that "perk" is short for this small privilege perquisite |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ADD A LETTER: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $1200: Ohio city where Wright-Patterson Air Force Base takes off not far away & Florida beach where NASCAR takes off differently Dayton & Daytona |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | LET'S HAVE A WORD $1200: Natation is the act of doing this, & a natatorium is a place to do it swimming |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ADD A LETTER: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $1600: Virginia county home to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier & South Carolina home to a museum commemorating NASCAR history Arlington & Darlington |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | LET'S HAVE A WORD $1600: Cicatrix is a fancy word for one of these souvenirs of something you may not want to remember a scar |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ADD A LETTER: GEOGRAPHY EDITION $2000: The Midwest's 29th state & a Colorado county, both named after Native American peoples the Iowa & Kiowa |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | LET'S HAVE A WORD $6,000 (Daily Double): An armored glove, or a double file of armed men you'd rather not have to "run" a gauntlet |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | A WILD MOOSE CHASE $200: Moose are ungulates, meaning they have these; specifically, splayed ones helpful in snowy & boggy conditions hooves |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | A REGIONAL TREASURE $200: Seen here is the magnificent Potala Palace in this autonomous region of China Tibet |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T $400: Anne Hathaway is tortured, but not in that way, by a nonetheless vicious Meryl Streep in this 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | A WILD MOOSE CHASE $400: It's said this city 45 miles from Regina, Saskatchewan got its name from a nearby river whose contours looked like... guess what Moose Jaw |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | A REGIONAL TREASURE $400: You'll find Gravensteen, the Castle of the Counts, in this region, the northern half of Belgium Flanders |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | A WILD MOOSE CHASE $600: In this film Chevy Chase is politely told, "Sorry, folks. Park's closed. The moose out front shoulda told ya" National Lampoon's Vacation |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | A REGIONAL TREASURE $600: Care to tour Moët & Chandon? Veuve Clicquot? Mais oui, drink 'em in when you get to this appropriate region of France Champagne |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T $800: There's not haunting in "Ghosts of the Abyss", a documentary by this director James Cameron |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | A WILD MOOSE CHASE $800: In 2014 this preppy specialty store chain said, "A&F!" (aloha & farewell!) to its moose logo in the United States Abercrombie & Fitch |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | A REGIONAL TREASURE $800: A commission for this 13-state region that gave us Joe Manchin & Loretta Lynn uses the map seen here Appalachia |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | A WILD MOOSE CHASE $1000: Formally the Progressive Party, it got 27% in the 1912 presidential election & even won California by 174 votes the Bull Moose Party |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | A REGIONAL TREASURE $1000: Want to get to the BMW Museum? Get your motor running, head out on the Autobahn & go looking for adventure in this region Bavaria |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T $1200: Grisly ghost? No, this Bond title from 2015 refers to the criminal organization that's vexing him Spectre |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T $1600: Jane Fonda had no bolts in her neck as the title family relation in this 2005 flick, but J. Lo wanted to scream anyway Monster-in-Law |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T $2000: Daniel Day-Lewis dealt with frocks, not frights, in this 2017 Paul Thomas Anderson period piece Phantom Thread |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | DO ME A FLAVOR $400: Jelly Belly makes a jelly bean that tastes like this candy--the black kind, not the red licorice |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | DO ME A FLAVOR $800: Thomas Jefferson was an early fan of this ice cream flavor, making his own with bean pods from France vanilla |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | DO ME A FLAVOR $1200: It's the 2-word registered name for Cheetos' super spicy, tongue-scorching snacks Flamin' Hot |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | DO ME A FLAVOR $1600: In 2018 Coca-Cola launched 2 fruity local flavors, California Raspberry & this, from the company's home state Georgia Peach |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | DO ME A FLAVOR $2000: For baking, you can buy a purple extract that tastes like this purple yam from the Philippines ube |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $400: The F-16 has the alliterative name "Fighting" this speedy type of raptor Falcon |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $800: This Grumman & amphibious plane, essential to the defenders of Bataan, is not named for an amphibian, but for a water bird the Duck |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $1200: In a Shrike Commander, Bob Hoover perfected a routine of aerobatics, landing & taxiing all deadstick, i.e. this he had no engine power at all |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $1600: 70 years after Louis Blériot first did it, the human-powered Gossamer Albatross flew across this body of water in 1979 the English Channel |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $4,000 (Daily Double): During World War II, one job of the Howard DGA-15 was as a Navy air ambulance with this bird name that's associated with nursing Nightingale |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A SUCCESSFUL OPERATION $200: Pliny the Elder mentions Scipio Africanus was born through this surgical delivery method a Caesarean section |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A LONG SESSION OF MONOPOLY $200: In the early 1890s President Cleveland wasn't "sweet" on one company controlling 98% of American refining of this sugar |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A SUCCESSFUL OPERATION $400: For nerve injuries, a transplant surgery uses this technique that shares its name with a horticultural one grafting |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A LONG SESSION OF MONOPOLY $400: Both the English & Dutch companies with this name began around 1600 with their minds on monopoly & monopoly on their minds East India Company |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A SUCCESSFUL OPERATION $600: Swann-Morton notes that the No. 10 size of this surgical tool is used "for making varying sizes of incision in skin" a scalpel |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A LONG SESSION OF MONOPOLY $600: Having gotten a 20-year monopoly for steamboat navigation in New York, Robert Livingston paired with him to, y'know, build a boat in 1802 Fulton |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A SUCCESSFUL OPERATION $800: While a mastectomy removes the whole breast, this surgery takes out the cancerous cells & conserves part of the breast a lumpectomy |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A LONG SESSION OF MONOPOLY $800: In the 1400s the Germans led the league in having a near monopoly in the Baltic's long-distance trade; this league, specifically the Hanseatic League |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A SUCCESSFUL OPERATION $1,000 (Daily Double): Part of biliary surgery, the operation to remove this, now one of the most common, was first done by Dr. Langenbuch in 1882 the gallbladder |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A LONG SESSION OF MONOPOLY $1000: Founded in 1851 stop this company dominated the telegraph biz in the early 1900s stop but the telephone changed things stop Western Union |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | A SQUARE MEAL $200: The "original" flavor of this century-old woven cracker brand has 3 ingredients: whole grain wheat, canola oil & sea salt Triscuit |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | A SQUARE MEAL $400: This brand's ubiquitous singles now come in Swiss & pepper jack Kraft |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | A SQUARE MEAL $600: This alliterative Japanese food container suggests your fare is going to be delivered within 4 sides a bento box |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | A SQUARE MEAL $800: These little French teacakes whose name means "little oven" are often square petit fours |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | A SQUARE MEAL $1000: This revered San Francisco chocolatier sells squares of the sweet with peppermint bark or raspberry filling Ghirardelli |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL $200: Not very frugal, but romantic: Jack Benny left provisions for the delivery of one of these flowers to his widow every day (one long-stemmed) rose |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL $400: Snack container inventor Fredric Baur requested that some of his ashes be buried in a can from this brand of potato crisps Pringles |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL $600: Princess Diana left the bulk of her assets to her sons, but also a 50,000-pound bequest to Paul Burrell, this manservant of hers her butler |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL $800: This actress who died young left her estate to friends, family, her psychiatrist & her acting coach, Lee Strasberg (Marilyn) Monroe |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WHERE THERE'S A WILL $1000: This diarist & naval official left his model ships to William Hewer & his library to Cambridge U., where it's still more or less intact Samuel Pepys |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $400: A bestseller across the ages, this book gets its name from the Phoenician port city where paper used to make it was traded Bible |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $800: Put this letter at the beginning of "organization" to get a monopolization technique named for a turn of the 20th century financier M |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $1200: After Romeo y Julieta cigars made a splash, in 1935 a competing brand was named this, after a Dumas character Monte Cristo |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $2000: The Comtesse du Cayla rose, seen here, was named for a mistress of this king who survived Napoleon's Hundred Days Louis XVIII |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $4,500 (Daily Double): The name of this ocean liner was a Roman province that included what is now Portugal & western Spain Lusitania |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | A "FAST" CATEGORY $200: Reggie Jackson said, "Every hitter likes" these pitches "just like everybody likes ice cream" fastballs |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | A "FAST" CATEGORY $400: Founded in 1995, this media brand says it's "written for & about the most progressive business leaders" Fast Company |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | A "FAST" CATEGORY $600: This phrase precedes "more powerful than a locomotive!" in a 1941 cartoon where our hero fights "The Mad Scientist" faster than a speeding bullet |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | A "FAST" CATEGORY $800: This nonfiction work by Eric Schlosser is subtitled "The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" Fast Food Nation |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | A "FAST" CATEGORY $1000: Epithets for the 16th century sultan Selim I included "the Grim" from his haters & "the" this word for loyal by his day ones the Steadfast |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ALSO A GOOD STARTER WORD FOR WORDLE $300: Dim the lights before asking this "talking board" questions at a sleepover; Hasbro says it's just a game... or is it? Ouija |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ALSO A GOOD STARTER WORD FOR WORDLE $600: The metaphorical divide between political parties; savvy lawmakers learn to reach across it aisle |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ALSO A GOOD STARTER WORD FOR WORDLE $900: Hey Maine-iacs! Should I boil my lobstah or do this to it in a basket, which I've heard gets the meat more tendah steam |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ALSO A GOOD STARTER WORD FOR WORDLE $1200: Emily Dickinson,
Pablo Neruda &
T.S. Eliot,
to name a few poets |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ALSO A GOOD STARTER WORD FOR WORDLE $1500: It's the edible lining of an animal's stomach, or slang for a worthless piece of writing tripe |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | WHAT A "DAY" $200: In 1976, this was June 8, when California, New Jersey & Ohio primary voters went to the polls Super Tuesday |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | WHAT A "DAY" $400: Reporting on this event, the Chicago Tribune said the victims "paid the penalty for being followers of George Moran" the St. Valentine's Day Massacre |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | WHAT A "DAY" $600: A CBS news special that aired on April 22, 1970 was titled this: "A Question of Survival" Earth Day |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | WHAT A "DAY" $800: The U.S. Army first used this term in 1918 to designate September 12 for the launch of a big attack in France D-Day |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | WHAT A "DAY" $1000: 14 people were killed after British troops fired on Derry protesters on Jan. 30, 1972, known as this Bloody Sunday |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | LET'S PLAY A GAME $200: OK, so we're actually going to play D&D--guess it's time to select the DM, this person Dungeon Master |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | LET'S PLAY A GAME $400: On a Monopoly board, a question mark marks the 3 spaces labeled this Chance |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | LET'S PLAY A GAME $600: If you lose your last territory in this game, you're eliminated, & the player who did it gets your cards Risk |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | LET'S PLAY A GAME $800: In Stratego, the pieces that don't move are the bombs & this, & the object of the game is to capture your opponent's flag |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | LET'S PLAY A GAME $1000: You get 60 seconds to guess your teammate's sketch in this game that spawned a TV version Pictionary |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $400: Monica Seles says the locker room for the top women players here looks like it's in Buckingham Palace Wimbledon |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $800: Women "sizes 10-40" can shop at stores bearing this name, which includes a misspelling of founder Lena's first name on a bank form Lane Bryant |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $1200: On Chartres Street in this U.S. city stands the Old Ursuline Convent, spared by a 1794 fire after ferocious prayer from the nuns New Orleans |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $1600: Open for 10 days until the cops came in 1916, the Brownsville Clinic in Brooklyn was the USA's first to offer guidance about this birth control |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $2000: Hillary Clinton was the first student ever asked to give the commencement address at this college Wellesley |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | A MATTER OF LAW $200: From Latin for "to let in", it describes evidence that may be considered by a judge or jury admissible |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HALF A CATEGORY $400: During this "Show" seen by many on February 3, 2002, U2's Bono flashed his jacket's American flag lining the Super Bowl Halftime Show |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | A MATTER OF LAW $400: It's the kinetic term for a litigant's request to a judge for a decision on an issue a motion |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | A MATTER OF LAW $600: Chapter 12 of this federal code covers its application to family farmers & family fishermen the Bankruptcy Code |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HALF A CATEGORY $800: Eng was half of the conjoined twosome who in the 19th century were billed as this pair Siamese Twins |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | A MATTER OF LAW $800: A lawsuit that's dismissed "without" this can be refiled; "with" this means it can't prejudice |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | A MATTER OF LAW $1000: A 1968 ruling said this amendment's unreasonable search & seizure clause doesn't prohibit frisking of suspected criminals the Fourth Amendment |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HALF A CATEGORY $1200: Abe Lincoln once declared that the U.S. government "cannot endure, permanently half" this & "half" this half slave & half free |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HALF A CATEGORY $1600: This armored military vehicle looks like a tank with front wheels a half-track |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HALF A CATEGORY $2000: Thomas Hardy rhymed war is odd: "You shoot a fellow down / You'd treat if met where any bar is, / Or help to" this fractional coin half a crown |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | YUP, IT'S A PORT-A-POTTY $200: A family-owned port-a-potty business since 2003, its name is "yes yes" in French Oui Oui |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | YUP, IT'S A PORT-A-POTTY $400: A port-a-potty business for over 30 years, it's also a poker hand consisting of the five highest cards of one suit Royal Flush |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | YUP, IT'S A PORT-A-POTTY $600: Finally, I've been holding it in forever; it's what the WC stands for on this port-a-potty water closet |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | YUP, IT'S A PORT-A-POTTY $800: A break at the Indy 500, it's also the name of public toilets used in San Francisco since 2014 Pit Stop |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | YUP, IT'S A PORT-A-POTTY $1000: Based in Eau Claire, WI, this port-a-potty company shares its name with the target where a skydiver lands Drop Zone |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $200: This oxymoronic dress code for the office usually means dressier than jeans but less formal than a suit & tie business casual |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | AN "A" IN SCIENCE $200: The primary risk factor for mesothelioma, a rare cancer, is thought to be exposure to this tough fiber asbestos |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | A SEASONED FILM $400: Anthony Mackie's character Sam Wilson was introduced to the MCU in this 2014 "Captain America" sequel The Winter Soldier |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $400: This 3-named French fashion designer popularized a trouser suit for women, appropriate for days & "Yves" Yves Saint Laurent |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | AN "A" IN SCIENCE $400: Pectoris can follow this word for a type of chest pain that can be a symptom of coronary artery disease angina |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $600: A fashion house that qualifies for this French designation must design made-to-order clothes for private clients haute couture |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | AN "A" IN SCIENCE $600: Surname of U.S. physician Virginia who developed a method that scored the health of newborns Apgar |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | A SEASONED FILM $800: In this film Joseph Gordon-Levitt picks the right "day" for an impromptu dance to a Hall & Oates song 500 Days of Summer |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $800: Meow! The feline name of this style alluded to it being a training heel for girls not ready for an adult woman's high heels a kitten heel |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | AN "A" IN SCIENCE $800: John F. Kennedy suffered from Addison's disease, a condition that affects these glands that secrete steroids the adrenal glands |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $1000: An English duke is honored in the name of this style of knotting a tie; the thicker knot shows off the pattern of the tie a Windsor knot |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | A SEASONED FILM $1200: Mel Brooks said that in Sweden "The Producers" was released with this title, the name of Bialystock Bloom's musical Springtime for Hitler |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | AN "A" IN SCIENCE $1,400 (Daily Double): This tiny unit of measurement is named for a Swedish physicist an angstrom |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | A SEASONED FILM $1600: This Spike Lee film set in 1977 NYC has everything: a serial killer, Adrien Brody as a stripper, a talking dog, Reggie Jackson Summer of Sam |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | A SEASONED FILM $2000: Vanessa Hudgens & Selena Gomez are college girls headed to sunny Florida in this 2013 film Spring Breakers |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | A GENRE CATEGORY $400: Sitcom is short for this situational comedy |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | A GENRE CATEGORY $800: Mecha is a genre of anime typically featuring giant these resembling people robots |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | A GENRE CATEGORY $1200: Some people describe a sentimental film as a "three-" this accessory picture handkerchief |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | A GENRE CATEGORY $1600: This 2000 film is the most recent Best Picture Oscar winner in the sword-&-sandal genre Gladiator |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | A GENRE CATEGORY $2000: Video games with wide-open worlds & roles are named for this playground spot a sandbox |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | A CITY ON THE WATER $400: Daytona Beach,
Florida:
this ocean the Atlantic |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | A CITY ON THE WATER $800: Easton,
Maryland the Chesapeake Bay |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | A CITY ON THE WATER $1200: Montreal,
Quebec the St. Lawrence River |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | A CITY ON THE WATER $1600: Pierre,
South Dakota the Missouri |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | A CITY ON THE WATER $2000: Shelburne,
Vermont Lake Champlain |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | A RECIPE FOR... $200: The recipe for canard à la presse requires a special press to extract juices from this fowl duck |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | A RECIPE FOR... $400: The 2 main ingredients for the pasta dish cacio e pepe are cheese & this, pepe nero in Italian black pepper |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | A RECIPE FOR... $600: To make this traditional one-word Mexican breakfast, combine fried tortillas with salsa & top with queso fresco chilaquiles |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | A RECIPE FOR... $800: A traditional recipe for collard greens calls for cooking the greens with this alliterative pig product, also called the pork knuckle a ham hock |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | A RECIPE FOR... $1000: 2 shallots & quarter cup of grated Parmesan are part of Tyler Florence's recipe for oysters this Rockefeller |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $100: He appeared in every episode of "M*A*S*H"; he also directed its last episode in 1983 Alan Alda |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $200: As señor Bill Murray can tell you, it's the English name for El Día de la Marmota Groundhog Day |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $200: Andre Agassi won the U.S. Open twice in the '90s; this tennis icon won it in 1968 and has a stadium there named after him Arthur Ashe |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $300: These dancers are performing his work, "Revelations"; he's also the subject of the book, "Dancing Revelations" Alvin Ailey |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $400: It was romantic of Salma Hayek to mention it on Instagram in 2023; El Día de San Valentín falls in this month February (Febrero) |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $400: Referring to a type of aperture in large-format view cameras, group f/64 was cofounded in 1932 by this man Ansel Adams |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $500: They're all A's on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: actor Alan Arkin, singer Antonio Aguilar and this "Black-ish" star Anthony Anderson |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $800: He's the U.S. president whose cumpleaños is celebrated ten days after El Cumpleaños de Lincoln Washington |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $1000: In 2021, it became a U.S. federal holiday; in Spanish, it falls on 19 de Junio Juneteenth |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $2,600 (Daily Double): In Spanish, it's El Día de Acción de Gracias; in English, it's this Thanksgiving |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A LETTER $200: For what possible cause or reason! (Asking for a friend) why |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A LETTER $400: An affirmative preference when an issue is put up for a referendum aye |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A LETTER $600: Nickname for Philadelphia's Market-Frankford Line, above the city's streets for much of its route El |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A LETTER $800: The Tethys one separated Laurasia from Gondwana during the Mesozoic Era a sea |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A LETTER $1000: A gathering or contest of many types, one of which is seen here a bee |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $400: This city of "Hamlet" is on the northeast tip of a Danish island just a few miles across the water from Sweden Elsinore |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $800: In Act I of this ordinal play, a ship captain informs Viola, "This is Illyria", which is in the Balkans Twelfth Night |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $1200: "Pericles" is partly set in a palace in this ancient Phoenician seaport, now a World Heritage Site in Lebanon Tyre |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $1,400 (Daily Double): "The Winter's Tale" alternates between Sicily & this Czech region that gave us a word for an unorthodox, often arty person Bohemia |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | ALL THE WORLD'S A SHAKESPEARE STAGE $2000: This wood in eastern Scotland is about 12 miles from the peak of Dunsinane, to which it "comes" in "Macbeth" Birnam Wood |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY & A LITTLE MATH $200: "P" + a country that uses the ruble as its currency = this historic German realm Prussia |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY & A LITTLE MATH $400: Central U.S. state + "polis" = this capital city of that same state Indianapolis |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY & A LITTLE MATH $600: A West African country + "IA" = this other West African country Nigeria |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY & A LITTLE MATH $800: "Ar" + a central U.S. state = this other central U.S. state Arkansas |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | GEOGRAPHY & A LITTLE MATH $1000: "As" + a Middle Eastern country = this ancient empire Assyria |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | IT'S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON $200: The Corvair from this make that also gave us the Corvette got bad PR from being declared "unsafe at any speed" Chevrolet (Chevy) |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | IT'S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON $400: This company's underpowered energy crisis-era Mustang II is, per Motor Trend, "the Mustang everyone loves to hate" Ford |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | IT'S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON $600: J.D. Power: "Even budget buyers have their standards, so as 2021 dawns", this "Grand" Dodge "is finally going to the last roundup" the Grand Caravan |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | IT'S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON $800: An auto writer found the Aztek from this GM brand looked "like a Transformer figure based on a Dust Buster" Pontiac |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | IT'S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON $1000: Road & Track said this 3-letter brand's Gremlin, launched on April Fools' Day 1970, "stretched the definition of car" AMC (American Motors) |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | A MASTER-FUL CATEGORY $400: A playing card begins this idiom that ends "master of none" jack of all trades |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | A MASTER-FUL CATEGORY $800: The "father of" this type of dance is Wm. Henry Lane, aka Master Juba, who used African-derived rhythms & elements of the Irish jig tap dance |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | A MASTER-FUL CATEGORY $1200: The classic anti-drug song "White Lines" by Grandmaster Melle Mel was fittingly remixed for this 2023 film Cocaine Bear |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | A MASTER-FUL CATEGORY $2,000 (Daily Double): A room in this museum is home to many works by the anonymous 15th century artist called "The Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet" the Rijksmuseum |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | A MASTER-FUL CATEGORY $2000: A 2009 biography about this pair was subtitled "The Couple Who Taught America How to Love" Masters & Johnson |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | I'D LIKE TO CHANGE A VOWEL, PAT $400: Let's change gears & give you a passage through a mine shift & shaft |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | I'D LIKE TO CHANGE A VOWEL, PAT $800: A sport where you might hit a ball into a partially landlocked sea that can be larger than a bay golf & gulf |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | I'D LIKE TO CHANGE A VOWEL, PAT $1200: A food often paired with "circuses" & to propagate animals breed & bread |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | I'D LIKE TO CHANGE A VOWEL, PAT $1600: It precedes "favor" when you ingratiate yourself to one in authority, perhaps when you tote or lug something for them curry & carry |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | I'D LIKE TO CHANGE A VOWEL, PAT $2000: Kermit the Frog's group & cute young children who might enjoy Kermit the Frog's group Muppets & moppets |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | VÁMONOS A MEXICO! $200: Around Tulum, visit the water-filled sinkholes called cenotes & explore the pre-Columbian ruins of this people the Mayans |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | VÁMONOS A MEXICO! $400: Take in the beautiful blue agave fields near this town in Jalisco that gave its name to a potent potable Tequila |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | VÁMONOS A MEXICO! $600: Won't you have another glass of Mexican wine at a vineyard in the Valle de Guadalupe on this peninsula the Baja Peninsula |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | VÁMONOS A MEXICO! $800: The origins of this taco filling seen here that means "shepherd style" is linked to Lebanese immigrants in Mexico al pastor |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | VÁMONOS A MEXICO! $1000: To some experts, the chirping echo you hear when you clap next to a pyramid in Chichen Itza mirrors the sound of this "Q"ute bird a quetzal |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $200: Danica McKellar is a big-city event planner who goes home to Tenn. to work a "Christmas at" this theme park... & maybe find love Dollywood |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $400: A woman falls for the son of the man out to close her toy store in the alliteratively titled this Mass. island "Noel" Nantucket |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $600: Writer of many a Christmas film, Anna White got down to business in 2021 with "Christmas" this 3-letter top job at a company CEO |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $800: A bit after going on a bender in "The Breakfast Club", this actor met Santa Jr. in 2002; don't you forget about him Judd Nelson |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $1000: It's not the Magi--nor Selleck, Danson & Guttenberg--but a trio of brothers who find themselves caring for a tot in this 2022 film Three Wise Men and a Baby |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | IT'S A VISION BOARD $200: 3 children in Fatima, Portugal in 1917 are among those who have had visions of this place of much fire & groaning hell |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | A LOOK BACK $200: Antitrust suits led to the 1984 breakup of the Bell system, which had long monopolized this service across the United States telephone service |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | QUITE A SITE $200: Dynamite was used for 90% of the carving of this South Dakota landmark named for a New York lawyer in 1885 Mount Rushmore |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | LET'S TAKE A PEEK $200: The grouping of peacock feathers is called this, like the part of a bride's dress that follows behind her a train |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | A REAL SOB STORY $400: In a 1594 play he tells his brother Marcus Andronicus that a woman's tears are like "honey-dew upon a gather'd lily" Titus Andronicus |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | IT'S A VISION BOARD $400: St. Catherine of Siena had many visions of Jesus; in one he removed this from her body & in another, replaced it with his own heart |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | A LOOK BACK $400: In the 1630s a bulb of Semper Augustus, a type of this, is said to have sold for 13,000 florins, or about the price of a house a tulip |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | QUITE A SITE $400: Peace be with you in this French royal residence; originally used as a hunting lodge, it began getting super fancy in 1661 Versailles |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | LET'S TAKE A PEEK $400: In 1994, this vaunted race ventured across La Manche for a bit, taking an excursion through Dover the Tour de France |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | LET'S TAKE A PEEK $600: Hagia Sophia has four of these tapered structures that stretch into the sky; the red one is thought to be the oldest minarets |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | IT'S A VISION BOARD $600: In the first book in English by a woman, Julian of Norwich lists visions including the universe as the size of this a hazelnut |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | A LOOK BACK $600: Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton signed the 1866 "Petition for Universal" this, addressed to Congress Suffrage |
