| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: Book about Bligh & Fletcher Christian & job pursuing criminals for reward as a gonzo journalist of note Mutiny on the Bounty Hunter S. Thompson |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: Nation's top lawyer & a poultry dish named for a mighty Chinese military man combine for some truly illegible handwriting Attorney General Tso's chicken scratch |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: "Madama Butterfly" heroine crooning in Costa Rica's capital with a glass of gold tequila from a well-known brand Cio-Cio-San Jose Cuervo |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Taylor Swift's record-breaking concert series is both a feat of skill & a French term in a contract for an act of God the Eras Tour de Force Majeure |
| #9266, aired 2025-02-10 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $5,000 (Daily Double): Timeless Tevye tune that mentions Superman's nickname & his favorite type of abrasive scouring pad "If I Were A Rich Man Of Steel Wool" |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | MOVIES AFTER YOU PRESS PLAY $400: "The End" by The Doors plays; a jungle bursts into flames & fades into Captain Willard in Saigon Apocalypse Now |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | MOVIES AFTER YOU PRESS PLAY $800: 1996:
Drew Barrymore talks on the phone to a mysterious voice while making popcorn Scream |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | MOVIES AFTER YOU PRESS PLAY $1600: 2024:
After an egg yolk births a second yolk, Demi Moore's star on the Walk of Fame begins to age The Substance |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | MOVIES AFTER YOU PRESS PLAY $2000: Animated Muses on a Grecian vase come to life & mention the title demigod before singing a gospel-tinged myth primer Hercules |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | MOVIES AFTER YOU PRESS PLAY $5,000 (Daily Double): 1981:
The Paramount Pictures mountain fades into a Peruvian peak Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PLACES $300: Named for a city near Boston, these chewy cookies dropped the word "fig" from their name in 2012 Newtons |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PLACES $600: Anyone who's ever crammed onto a train at rush hour can relate to these little fish, who take their name from an Italian island sardines |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PLACES $900: Similar to Russian dressing, this condiment is believed to be named for a region near Lake Ontario Thousand Island |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PLACES $1200: These beans are named after the capital of Peru but, just to keep things confusing, their name is pronounced differently lima beans |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PLACES $1500: John Wheeley Lea & William Henry Perrins named an early version of this tangy condiment after their British home county Worcestershire sauce |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Traditional spiced holiday cookie shaped like a person that's a musical about Don Quixote a gingerbread Man of La Mancha |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: The name of a Florida NBA team flows into a fantastical literary style employed by José Saramago Orlando Magical Realism |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: "White Lines" pioneer hip-hop DJ who appears as a sudden overflowing of water after a heavy rain Grandmaster Flash flood |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: University city southwest of Toledo, Ohio featuring Sam-I-Am & his edible offering Bowling Green eggs & ham |
| #9252, aired 2025-01-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 16th century comedy drama with Costard the Clown & the interplanetary Robinson family Love's Labour's Lost in Space |
| #9243, aired 2025-01-08 | AN EDIBLE & MUSICAL BEFORE & AFTER $400: The "Brass Monkey" rap crew becomes a little fruit on a prickly bush the Beastie Boysenberries |
| #9243, aired 2025-01-08 | AN EDIBLE & MUSICAL BEFORE & AFTER $800: A double-talk chocolate confection that doubles as the "You Give Love a Bad Name" power rockers Bon Bon Jovi |
| #9243, aired 2025-01-08 | AN EDIBLE & MUSICAL BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A Hawaiian pop star has the uptown funk as a candy item most popular in Britain a Bruno Mars Bar |
| #9243, aired 2025-01-08 | AN EDIBLE & MUSICAL BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Are we havin' fun yet? A dark German rye bread enriches the band that asks "Are we havin' fun yet?" in "How You Remind Me" Pumpernickelback |
| #9243, aired 2025-01-08 | AN EDIBLE & MUSICAL BEFORE & AFTER $2000: "Not Like Us" legend whose mystique gets a little bit fluffier with a s'more ingredient Kendrick Lamarshmallow |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: An ever-questioning monkey of literature asks how he became the actor who won an Oscar for "Syriana" Curious George Clooney |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Winter underwear worn at the university where the Peabody Institute is located long Johns Hopkins |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A phrase about a photo's value equivalent to a certain amount of prose gets into a Scrabble-like online game founded in 2009 a picture's worth a thousand Words with Friends |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A 1981 "meal" movie with Wallace Shawn tags in a huge pro wrestling legend & a co-star of Shawn's in a film 6 years later My Dinner with Andre the Giant |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | BEFORE & AFTER $3,000 (Daily Double): A proverbial admonition not to weep over mishandled dairy that turned into a caramel-&-chocolate Hershey product don't cry over spilled Milk Duds |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | AFTER ALL $200: Torta Caprese is a traditional Italian cake made with chocolate & these nuts almonds |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | AFTER ALL $400: This 2-word phrase refers to the university you went to or the anthem sung there alma mater |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | AFTER ALL $800: Someone who loses a political race is deemed one of these hyphenated finishers, a term borrowed from horse racing an also-ran |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | AFTER ALL $1000: In an airplane, this portmanteau device can help determine when you're losing or gaining elevation an altimeter |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | AFTER ALL $2,000 (Daily Double): Synonyms for this word of indifference include standoffish & distant aloof |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Spooky ghost-filled dwelling that's England's current reigning dynasty a haunted house of Windsor |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Kids' way of saying "I promise" about literary Marlow's search for Kurtz in Africa cross my Heart of Darkness |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A maybe-not-here-tomorrow business that sends a legion of zombies to attack a farmhouse fly-by-Night of the Living Dead |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A sophisticated fellow who frequents nightspots & by day, shouts the village's news to the people a man about town crier |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A truck with a trailer attached to haul the most ancient collection of Hindu sacred hymns a big Rig Veda |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: Battle of Little Bighorn aka gets some cinematic schooling from Edward James Olmos to give us a line in the Lord's Prayer Custer's Last Stand and Deliver Us from Evil |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: Darlin', can't you hear a title ABBA distress signal that gets motor oil treatment & becomes an acronym for kissing & such S.O.S.T.P.D.A. |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: Slumber-averse Beastie Boys song summoning Andy Samberg's TV cops to Dante's infernal echelons "No Sleep Till Brooklyn 99 Circles Of Hell" |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: WWII B-29 piloted by Paul Tibbets that gets a multicolored June holiday feting Elizabeth Bennet's victory over the walking dead Enola Gay Pride and Prejudice and Zombies |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $3,000 (Daily Double): Carson McCullers novel about a gonzo journalist who hits the road with bandmates to sing songs like "Hold Me Now" The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter S. Thompson Twins |
| #9103, aired 2024-05-15 | THE NEXT WORD IN THE DICTIONARY AFTER... $400: Amodiaquin (an antimalarial): this protozoan amoeba |
| #9103, aired 2024-05-15 | THE NEXT WORD IN THE DICTIONARY AFTER... $800: Beidellite (a constituent of some clays): this color beige |
| #9103, aired 2024-05-15 | THE NEXT WORD IN THE DICTIONARY AFTER... $1200: Leguleian (a pesky attorney): this type of edible veggie legume |
| #9103, aired 2024-05-15 | THE NEXT WORD IN THE DICTIONARY AFTER... $1600: Rauwolfia (a somewhat poisonous tree): this verb meaning to pillage or plunder ravage |
| #9103, aired 2024-05-15 | THE NEXT WORD IN THE DICTIONARY AFTER... $2000: Folsomoid (resembling a Folsom spear point): this, to incite a revolution foment |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | SHAKESPEARE BEFORE & AFTER $400: "I come to bury" this play, not to praise it, then send it to Vegas to become a casino Julius Caesar's Palace |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | SHAKESPEARE BEFORE & AFTER $800: Beatrice & Benedick discover a Sinead O'Connor No. 1 hit Much Ado about Nothing Compares 2 U |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | SHAKESPEARE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A 1994 royal Disney film with serious uncle/nephew issues becomes a royal tragedy with serious daddy/ daughter issues The Lion King Lear |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | SHAKESPEARE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A Puck-ish play goes top 10 in 1976 singing, "I believe you can get me through the night" A Midsummer Night's Dream Weaver |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | SHAKESPEARE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A triply alliterative comedy turns into what Gertrude Stein ended up dubbing a group of writers Love's Labour's Lost Generation |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | FORE & AFTER $200: After winning this Augusta, Georgia tournament 4 times, Arnold Palmer wrote the Encyclopedia Britannica's entry on it the Masters |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | FORE & AFTER $400: After golf swing innovator Harry Vardon died in 1937, this organization named an annual trophy for him the PGA |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | FORE & AFTER $600: After retiring at the age of 28 in 1930, golf great Bobby Jones joined the Army & landed in Normandy on this date, D-Day plus one June 7, 1944 |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | FORE & AFTER $800: After 10 straight U.S. victories, this U.S. v. Britain match was changed to U.S. v. Europe in 1979 the Ryder Cup |
| #9090, aired 2024-04-26 | FORE & AFTER $1000: In April 2023, this Spaniard shot a round of 61 at the Mexico Open; in December, he signed with LIV Golf for a reported $500 million Jon Rahm |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: A venue for volleys & lobs where violators of military law are prosecuted a tennis court-martial |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Actor lookalike who does the dangerous action scenes as an iconic red London vehicle a stunt double decker (bus) |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: A Knoxville color that's also a hit country song is served as a high grade tea from Sri Lanka & India Tennessee Orange Pekoe |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Nation's capital newspaper-caused psychological pain following an event of actual or threatened bodily harm the Washington Post traumatic stress disorder |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Siam-set musical adaptation of Asimov's book about machines that follow 3 laws The King and I, Robot |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER $400: Hollandaise-laden breakfast entree known as a traitor in the United States eggs Benedict Arnold |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER $800: "Amphibian" British sausage dish cooked in batter that's an ace on the golf course toad in the hole in one |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER $1200: "Vernal" tubular Chinese appetizer that is also a casual bit of canoodling in the barn a spring roll in the hay |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER $1600: "Pastoral" lamb & mashed potato casserole that's a fanciful dream not likely to be attained shepherd's pie in the sky |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | DELICIOUS BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Blue cheese-accompanied poultry products that are on the marquee as a Wim Wenders film Buffalo Wings of Desire |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $400: Link's video game franchise links up with the wife of writer F. Scott Legend of Zelda Fitzgerald |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $800: Ken's rhyming dream abode in the film "Barbie" hatches into a prequel of "Game of Thrones" a Mojo Dojo Casa House of the Dragon |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: The Bronx female rapper on "Boy's A Liar, Pt. 2" joins forces with a British girl group featuring Posh & Sporty Ice Spice Girls |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A certain ancient civilization that men obsess over in a TikTok trend time travels & becomes a Jay-Z song about NYC "The Roman Empire State Of Mind" |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A "Fresh Off the Boat" actress joins the rap group with members RZA, GZA & Ghostface Killah Constance Wu-Tang Clan |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $400: This George Costanza portrayer was the first U.S. Treasury Secretary Jason Alexander Hamilton |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $800: Set on controlling the vichyssoise supply, TV hosts Greg Kinnear & John Henson are vying for the role of this fascist Talk Soup Nazi |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $1200: This Wham! frontman continually barges into the apartment of the actor who plays Kramer George Michael Richards |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Avuncular Seinfeld relative who kvetched all the way through writing Russian fiction like "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" Uncle Leo Tolstoy |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | SEINFELD BEFORE & AFTER $2000: The Elaine actress was accused of treason against the French in this scandal the Julia Louis-Dreyfus Affair |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $400: 14th century European pandemic that destroyed Alderaan the Black Death Star |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $800: Han Solo's son paired with an edgy cartoon Chihuahua & cat Kylo Ren & Stimpy |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $1200: "Wake up" to this 1971 Rod Stewart song that's a perfect greeting for any Jedi "Maggie May" the force be with you |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $1600: TV's "Love Boat" who's now reached the rank of general the Pacific Princess Leia |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | STAR WARS BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Sylvia Plath novel about an annoying floppy-eared outcast from Naboo The Bell Jar Jar Binks |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $300: The Hass variety of this food traces its lineage back to a single tree planted by postman Rudolph Hass in the 1920s an avocado |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $600: Less is "S'more"? This cracker was created by a preacher who hoped that eating it would promote abstinence a graham cracker |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1200: Featuring fried chicken pieces in a sweet sauce, this Chinese takeout favorite is named after a 19th century military leader General Tso's chicken |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1,500 (Daily Double): Named after a Russian ballerina, this meringue-based dessert is nicknamed "Pav" in Australia Pavlova |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1500: A famed veal dish including shrimp & crab meat is named after this crooner, who might have asked for it to be made "My Way" Sinatra |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Last Week Tonight" host who learns the inside scoop on pickpocketing from Fagin John Oliver Twist |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $800: Ishmael & crew ready their harpoons in preparation to capture a "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" star Moby-Dick Van Dyke |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Paul Blart portrayer takes a ride on a really big piece of fruit Kevin James and the Giant Peach |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Tiny Tim says, "God bless us every one" for an iconic comedian & Eunice in "Mama's Family" A Christmas Carol Burnett |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | CELEB LIT BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Rowling's whiz kid has trouble with a certain rock & a "chilly" WWE star Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Cold Steve Austin |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $200: After writing for "In Living Color", Larry Wilmore was the "Senior Black Correspondent" on this Jon Stewart show The Daily Show |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $400: This actor-singer starred in the movies "Day Shift" & "Baby Driver" & crooned on "Slow Jamz" & "Gold Digger" (Jamie) Foxx |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $600: Her documentary "Halftime" covers the journey to her performance at the Super Bowl in 2020 Jennifer Lopez |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $800: Jim Carrey said, "Good afternoon, good evening & good night" in this 1998 film The Truman Show |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | AFTER IN LIVING COLOR $1000: Seen here, this actor won his first Tony Award for his performance in "A Soldier's Play" David Alan Grier |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: The nickname of disease spreader Ms. Mallon gets a big break on Broadway in a show about a nanny for the Banks family Typhoid Mary Poppins |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A phrase about the return of bovines that means to wait a long time gets around to founding a house improvement chain in 1978 wait until the cows come Home Depot |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A standard piece of lumber twice as wide as it is thick is also a day or time meaningful to cannabis users 2 by 4/20 |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A Vegas casino with a Roman theme changes allegiances & becomes a royal residence & private retreat of Louis XIII Caesar's Palace of Versailles |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A nation's military planes get frozen & you have to hit a combination of keys on your Mac or PC to exit them Air Force Quit |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $400: Darth Vader chops off Luke's hand, so Marty fills in on guitar at the dance The Empire Strikes Back to the Future |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $800: Gollum plummets into the crack of Doom, causing Sauron to plummet from the top of the Empire State Building The Return of the King Kong |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Michael Cera fights his girlfriend's exes as Robin Williams fights to get out of his mother's shadow Scott Pilgrim vs. the World According to Garp |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Rex Harrison teaches Audrey Hepburn how to speak proper English & vocalize like Billie Holiday My Fair Lady Day (My Fair Lady Sings the Blues) |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach fight for gold while Marlon Brando gives Yanks a bad name overseas The Good, the Bad and the Ugly American |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $400: Gunslinger William Bonney who rapped & rolled his way to hits like "Cowboy" & "Redneck Paradise" Billy the Kid Rock |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $800: Chinese-American female architect who brought Tony-winning hip-hop history to Broadway Maya Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1200: This songbird came in on a "Wrecking Ball" after inventing the mechanical reaper in the 19th century Miley Cyrus McCormick |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1600: Director Ron's actress daughter who took the Spruce Goose on a little jaunt in 1947 Bryce (Dallas) Howard Hughes |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $2000: Gritty "Get Shorty" novelist who asked folks to "Live long and prosper" on film Elmore Leonard Nimoy |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | AFTER THE FACT $200: Oslo hosted the 1952 Winter Olympics... with demonstration sports like bandy, kind of like hockey speeded up as this replaces the puck a ball |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | AFTER THE FACT $400: Chancellorsville was an 1863 battle... where the grandson of this midnight rider withdrew his troops, getting him court martialed (Paul) Revere |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | AFTER THE FACT $600: Magnesium has the atomic number 12... & is found in this digestive aid that Phillips' claims to be the No. 1 brand of Milk of Magnesia |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | AFTER THE FACT $800: Cows eat grass... but can't digest it until it's been softened into cud, making cows this type of animal ruminant |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | AFTER THE FACT $1000: John Keats described himself as "five feet high"... that's 6 inches taller than this "Rape of the Lock" poet (Alexander) Pope |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: "International" cocoa concoction for the unmarried Clue character portrayed by Colin Jost's wife Swiss Miss Scarlet Johansson |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: Kermit's colorful theme song about the group that nominated Ralph Nader & always spoiled the fun at festivities "It's Not Easy Being Green" Party pooper |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: Last 4 words of our national anthem, as sung by an animated kitchen appliance & his german-style Pillsbury product home of the brave little toaster strudel |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: "Stacy's Mom" warblers put an actor in the band; once a TV postman, he wandered seeking chivalry & adventure Fountains of Wayne Knight errant |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Numeric sci-fi book about a metaverse, a singular evening of passion & the controversial right to use deadly force as self-defense Ready Player One-night stand your ground |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK $400: Throwing unlikely people together, various situations including adversity & politics have been said to "make strange" these bedfellows |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK $800: You wouldn't let your kids see a movie rated this nickname of 1930s baseball star Jimmie Foxx double X |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK $1200: Meaning made impure by additions, it's in the full name of the 1906 Pure Food & Drug Act adulterated |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK $1600: Nuta was the given first name of the creator of the dazzling country & Western style worn here, but he was better known as this Nudie |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK $2000: This name for a Beethoven symphony is the sexy section of the bookstore with one letter removed Eroica |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | AFTER SCHOOL $200: One of the 2 main traditional components of the "Jolly Roger" symbol a skull |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | AFTER SCHOOL $400: Ingredient in a classic two-part cocktail favored by Princess Margaret tonic |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | AFTER SCHOOL $600: Disney canine character who shares on-screen pasta the Tramp |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | AFTER SCHOOL $800: Inevitable certainty, according to Ben Franklin taxes |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | AFTER SCHOOL $1000: Item needed for the classic kids' runnng race that combines speed & balancing a spoon |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $400: While evading Scar, Simba happens upon 2 other devious foes: Goneril & Regan Lion King Lear |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $800: "76 trombones led the big parade" celebrating "The Impossible Dream" Music Man of La Mancha |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Wannabe music star Dewey Finn gets his prep students in tune at the Sunset Strip's Bourbon Room, so "Don't Stop Believin'" School of Rock of Ages |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Stella & Stanley forego the magnolias & head on over to Eugene O'Neill's play for some "arboreal" passion A Streetcar Named Desire Under the Elms |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THEATER BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Sam Shepard's play about 2 brothers who get caught up in a turf war with the Jets & Sharks True West Side Story |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $400: Oddly, the Colonel's recipes are overseen by this agency along with Americans' TVs & cell phones the KFCC |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $800: A January 1 texting abbreviation for students at an institution around Manhattan's Washington Square Park HNYU |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $1200: An American truck & SUV maker becomes a world of entertainment that got started with "Iron Man" GMCU |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Look--they took a plastic for making pipes & built a device to record TV shows in the 1980s PVCR |
| #8859, aired 2023-04-27 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $2000: This report, very important to boss Bill Lumbergh in "Office Space", is also a commercial broadcast for the audience's benefit TPSA |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $400: A Time Lord from Gallifrey might want to phone a friend on the way to winning a huge sum of money Doctor Who Wants to Be a Millionaire |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $800: Brenda Walsh & Donna Martin join Dorit, Kyle & the other wealthy women on a Bravo reality show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, 90210 |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Harry Hamlin & Susan Dey leave the courtroom to investigate sex crimes in New York with Mariska Hargitay L.A. Law & Order: SVU |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The Tanners move to Washington, D.C., where they become ruthless & vengeful politicians Full House of Cards |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Annalise Keating & Jessica Fletcher solve crimes or possibly cover them up & then tell about them in books How to Get Away with Murder, She Wrote |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $400: Prolific British mystery author & supermodel who's mom to Alexa Agatha Christie Brinkley |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $800: Historical early 20th century disease carrier & our 16th president's spouse Typhoid Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $1200: "GLOW" wrestler & Captain Marvel portrayer Alison Brie Larson |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $1600: "Queen's Gambit" star & co-host of "The View" Anya Taylor-Joy Behar |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS $2000: Charlie Brown's "spicy" gal pal & newly chosen President Pro Tempore of the Senate from Washington Peppermint Patty Murray |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $200: April 16, 1912 morning editions of some newspapers reported that this had been saved; later editions had worse news the Titanic |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $400: On this date, John Adams wrote to a friend, "A declaration passed Congress yesterday, and this morning will be printed" July 5, 1776 |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $600: The sign here was put up in California on this date in 1941 December 8th |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $1000: She was arrested the evening of Dec. 1, 1955; next morning, fliers calling for a boycott were all over town Rosa Parks |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | THE MORNING AFTER $1,500 (Daily Double): An October 9, 1871 headline declared this city was "utterly destroyed... both North and South Sides smoking ruins" Chicago |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $400: "The Tommyknockers" author who's a deadly venomous snake Stephen King cobra |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $800: Century-plus conflict between England & France involving a sci-fi invasion of Martians in towering tripods The Hundred Years' War of the Worlds |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $1600: "The Lost Symbol" author who can often be quite grizzly a Dan Brown bear |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $2000: James Joyce's last book becomes a WHAM! song whose first word is "Jitterbug" Finnegans Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $3,000 (Daily Double): Prussian monarch military genius whose Jazz Age story plays out on Long Island Frederick the Great Gatsby |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Snickers that must be passed to practice law candy bar exam |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Peter Pan's enemy is the way you were fooled into completely believing a story Captain Hook, line & sinker |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A period of need to save up for that falls on the Mexican holiday just after Halloween the rainy Day of the Dead |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A hidden feature in a video game becomes evidence of public embarrassment Easter egg on your face |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 3 of a kind plus a pair for the family that lost England's Wars of the Roses full House of York |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $200: ...in a title for a Russian hereditary ruler Z |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $400: ...in a goat-bodied, flame-spewing monster of Greek myth H |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $600: ...in the Roman numeral for 400 D |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $800: ...in the 8-letter "arts" relating to cooking or the kitchen U (for culinary) |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $1000: ...in the poison whose rapid, fatal effects can be countered with sodium nitrite Y (for cyanide) |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | BOATING AFTER MEALS $200: After a meal of legumes with friends it might be best to strategically position yourself alee, meaning away from this the wind |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | BOATING AFTER MEALS $400: After a lovely meal, time for drinks on this place where the controls are; the captain calls it the cockpit the bridge |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | BOATING AFTER MEALS $600: To slow things down after dinner, find this type of place to stop the boat, also the name of a big Alaskan city anchorage |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | BOATING AFTER MEALS $800: Everyone had a cocktail with dinner, so while up top on deck, it's a good idea to wear one of these, PFD for short personal flotation device |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | BOATING AFTER MEALS $1000: Once a word for a sailing boat off India's coast, this little vessel will shuttle you to shore after breakfast a dinghy |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $200: When this Houston U. opened in 1912, its founder was dead via chloroform (his killers having failed with mercury pills) Rice University |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $400: This university was chartered in 1821 after a bequest from Montreal merchant James, not "Slippin' Jimmy" of "Better Call Saul" fame McGill (University) |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $800: "Hairy" last name of Medford, Massachusetts' Charles, benefactor of a university there Tufts |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1000: In 1927, the year after the woman it's named for had died, this college became officially affiliated with Vassar Sarah Lawrence |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | COLLEGES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $4,000 (Daily Double): This D.C. university is named for the educator who opened a school for deaf students in 1817 Gallaudet |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: Dyed object hunted for on resurrection Sunday, with fried Chinese appetizers becoming an Alabama football rally cry Easter egg roll Tide |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: Ping-Pong a.k.a. that gives you an arm joint ache treatable with a curved pasta table tennis elbow macaroni |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: Telepathic Patrick Stewart character shows you the exact place he hid the treasure, a bit of Earl Grey Professor X marks the spot of tea |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: Tart "tot" candy for a sketch comedy group in charge of making sure those in school don't run in the corridors Sour Patch Kids in the Hall monitor |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Cincinnati Red with 4,256 hits who sits in the White House flower beds, admiring a Hieronymus Bosch painting Pete Rose Garden of Earthly Delights |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | WE'LL ALL NEED A DRINK AFTER THIS $200: Traditional "white" beer is always brewed with this grain in addition to barley wheat |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | WE'LL ALL NEED A DRINK AFTER THIS $400: Vodka, rum, tequila, gin & triple sec go in this cocktail, & you must be from a certain part of New York if you think that's a good idea Long Island Iced Tea |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | WE'LL ALL NEED A DRINK AFTER THIS $600: February 22 is national this day, but you don't have to wait--salt on the rim? a margarita |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | WE'LL ALL NEED A DRINK AFTER THIS $800: The name of this Spanish version of champagne literally means a wine cellar cava |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | WE'LL ALL NEED A DRINK AFTER THIS $1000: An Italian count is likely the namesake of this gin, vermouth & Campari cocktail Negroni |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: A parent who supervises a Cub Scout group & is also a Nobel Prize-winning nun a den Mother Teresa |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Lewis Carroll feline once used to flog sailors onboard a ship a Cheshire Cat of nine tails |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: To prepare to do something unpleasant by chomping down on a 200-mph rail transport bite the bullet train |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The seafood seasoning from the abortive 1961 invasion of Cuba Old Bay of Pigs |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Police booking photo that becomes a historic moment as in Ralph Waldo Emerson's line a mug shot heard around the world |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | AFTER SCHOOL $400: A reporter's exclusive scoop |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | AFTER SCHOOL $800: Sail the 7 seas of suds in one of these big beer glasses a schooner |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | AFTER SCHOOL $1200: The OED includes this alliterative cartoon-derived term for a bite of food given as a reward Scooby snacks |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | AFTER SCHOOL $1600: An upside-down lowercase E is used to represent this vowel sound schwa |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | AFTER SCHOOL $2000: This word for a tiny trace, perhaps of doubt or evidence, is Latin for "spark" scintilla |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | THE AFTER PARTY $100: Okay, how about this highly seasoned smoked beef on rye, with cole slaw & fries on the side pastrami |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | THE AFTER PARTY $200: You are... not the father! Or maybe you are! Time to take this "test" that determines biological dad-ness paternity |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | THE AFTER PARTY $300: Mongo only this least valuable chess piece in game of life a pawn |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | THE AFTER PARTY $400: Black's Law Dictionary says a "crime of" this is "committed in the heat of an emotionally charged moment" passion |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | THE AFTER PARTY $500: Idiomatically, when you "put someone out to" this, you're making them retire but not forcing them to graze there for food pasture |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $400: "Hunger Games" actress who helped in a Middle Eastern revolt against the Ottoman Empire Jennifer Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $800: Iconic 1950s movie "Rebel" who was a member of the Rat Pack James Dean Martin |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1200: "Karma Chameleon" singer who turned down an Oscar for his performance in "Patton" Boy George C. Scott |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1600: Los Angeles Clippers all-star forward who composed the music for "West Side Story" Kawhi Leonard Bernstein |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $2000: "Good Vibrations" songwriter who also had a No. 1 R&B hit with "In The Midnight Hour" Brian Wilson Pickett |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | KNIGHT AFTER KNIGHT $200: In 2014 Prince William knighted this Oscar winner's "left foot", & the rest of him, too Daniel Day-Lewis |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | KNIGHT AFTER KNIGHT $400: To honor his father, this star here was knighted in his birth name, so he's Sir Maurice Micklewhite Michael Caine |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | KNIGHT AFTER KNIGHT $600: After captaining the Enterprise on TV in the '90s, this actor would get called "Sir" for another reason in 2010 Patrick Stewart |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | KNIGHT AFTER KNIGHT $800: In 1998 Queen Elizabeth knighted this piano-playing singer, though his first & last names got reversed when he was introduced (Sir) Elton John |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | KNIGHT AFTER KNIGHT $1000: Though too frail to kneel, this 85-year-old silent film star was tapped in 1975, just a few miles from where he grew up in poverty Chaplin |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $400: George Clooney travels around firing people while flying with U.S. President Harrison Ford Up in the Air Force One |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $800: Drew Barrymore & the rest of her crime-fighting undercover trio win baseball games with some heavenly assistance Charlie's Angels in the Outfield |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: George Romero's original zombies from 1968 recruit a wisecracking superhero to add to the mayhem Night of the Living Deadpool |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Steve Martin is alarmed that his daughter has gotten very big hair & is betrothed to Boris Karloff as a monster Father of the Bride of Frankenstein |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Allied prisoners tunnel out of a German P.O.W. camp in a Disney movie about kids with magical powers The Great Escape to Witch Mountain |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | AFTER THE WAR $400: In the mid-1950s this country trailed its neighbor in development, but the '60s "Miracle on the Han River" changed that South Korea |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | AFTER THE WAR $800: The Republican-led laws guiding seceded states' return to the Union are known as these acts of 1867 & 1868 Reconstruction |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | AFTER THE WAR $1600: In 1992 the U.N. gave this country that had been occupied in the first Gulf War more land with more oil wells Kuwait |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | AFTER THE WAR $2000: The "Long Walls" of Athens were destroyed at this war's end to the accompaniment of flute music, but rebuilt in 393 B.C. the Peloponnesian War |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | AFTER THE WAR $6,000 (Daily Double): This war ended England's major claims in France & would have lasted longer but in 1475, an invading army was bribed to go home the Hundred Years' War |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | PART LATIN BEFORE & AFTER $400: I think, therefore I am. The redundant-sounding result of having counted cogito ergo sum total |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | PART LATIN BEFORE & AFTER $800: Really cheap poker stakes "before noon" penny ante meridiem |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | PART LATIN BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Crockett & Tubbs, or is it Tubbs & Crockett? Either way is fine Miami Vice versa |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | PART LATIN BEFORE & AFTER $1600: "Body of Jesus" & an "Uptown Girl", onetime wife of Billy Joel Corpus Christi Brinkley |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | PART LATIN BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Initial-surnamed female percussionist & protege of Prince on our national currency, "out of many, one" Sheila E pluribus unum |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: Macedonian conqueror of Persia who is a large breed of canine like Scooby Doo Alexander the Great Dane |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | AFTER & BEFORE $400: It's Latin for "after" but comes before "-mortem" post |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Doctor's office holding area feature that allows you to order food & drink to be delivered to you waiting room service |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: "Great Bear" constellation with teams like the L.A. Galaxy in it Ursa Major League Soccer |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | AFTER & BEFORE $800: It's the adverb in the acronym FKA formerly |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: That bold end-of-a-performance action is still very small compared to all the water it's in a mic drop in the bucket |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: A regimen of liquefied carrots & grapefruit that's a freeway space where many drive 75 the juice fast lane |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | AFTER & BEFORE $1200: The order of who is next on the throne is the line of this 10-letter word succession |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | AFTER & BEFORE $1600: This pluralized word means past grievances; we say "let" them "be" them bygones |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | AFTER & BEFORE $2000: French suivre, "to follow", is related to this 5-letter word that means the same ensue |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $400: Prince tune that turns into a sudsy song that you sing on a long car ride "1999 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall" |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $800: The iPhone is introduced & a marital temptation arises 2007 year itch |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Fateful year for the Titanic & a movie in which Henry Fonda plays a juror 1912 Angry Men |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $2000: The year of the Battle of Waterloo leads to Andy Warhol's suggested period of notoriety 1815 minutes of fame |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $4,000 (Daily Double): William Henry Harrison wins an election; a short nap ensues 1840 winks |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | BEFORE & AFTER TV $400: Survey says: it's the Pritchetts vs. the Dunphys on a Steve Harvey game show Modern Family Feud |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | BEFORE & AFTER TV $800: Fred MacMurray & his trio of kids join an outlaw motorcycle gang My Three Sons of Anarchy |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | BEFORE & AFTER TV $1200: Women's prison dramedy in which Rowan Atkinson plays a period royal Orange Is the New Blackadder |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | BEFORE & AFTER TV $1600: William & Virginia give bedroom advice to Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte & Miranda Masters of Sex and the City |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | BEFORE & AFTER TV $2000: Spooky HBO show with references to H.P.'s works, with Katharine McPhee along as the singing nanny Lovecraft Country Comfort |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: A proverbial phrase regarding a bit of sewing done now to save work later merges with a numerical brand of cat food a stitch in time saves Nine Lives |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: An "international" phrase used after swearing tunes in as a valved, circular brass instrument pardon my French horn |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: An ominous 5-word warning to Caesar looms over an alliterative description of the NCAA basketball tournament beware the Ides of March Madness |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A Tony Bennett song about a California city takes over as a Spanish conquistador I Left My Heart In San Francisco Pizarro |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Paul Revere's lantern signal system (according to Longfellow) gets interpreted by a species of eared seal one if by land, two if by sea lion |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: Angling necessity that's a high-flying track & field event fishing pole vault |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Protective glove used to handle hot items on the stove that was the 2012 Republican nominee for president oven Mitt Romney |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: A frankfurter within Canis Major hot Dog Star |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Experimental James Joyce novel requested from the hotel front desk to rouse you from sleep in the morning Finnegans Wake-up call |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Billionaire superhero & inventor of a miniature Arc Reactor/jellyfish relative of the gulf stream Iron Man of war |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $400: Boat's going down? Try a plea to a WWII organization that was a forerunner of the CIA SOSS |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $800: The congresswoman who introduced the Green New Deal--I must say her initials repetitively because I have my condition AOCD |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Someone who gives urgent lifesaving care on the New York City subway system EMTA |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Mikhail Baryshnikov was its director & also a member of the Seoul-based singing group ABTS |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Inscription on the tombstone of a failed attempt to sell a new stock to the mass of investors RIPO |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $400: This word meaning really old is in the full name of St. Andrews Golf Club, open for 18-hole play since 1764 Ancient |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $800: One of the letters in a BSEE degree Science |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $1200: It can be a type of small apartment or a measure of results versus costs efficiency |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $1600: Term for someone like J.P. Morgan who invests in businesses on a large scale a financier |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $2000: Drop the last letter from a biological term to get this word meaning "coined money" specie |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Top equestrian trio of races that are next in line to be the reigning monarch Triple Crown prince |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Southern state capital confection that's made of crystallized sugar Little Rock candy |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Geographic latitude separating the 2 Koreas that's a gymnastics apparatus 38th parallel bars |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Artistic Left Bank region of Paris that's a meaty McDonald's burger Latin Quarter Pounder |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Late summer arts festival in the desert that's a basement hangout with TV & beer Burning Man cave |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | THE LETTER AFTER M $200: ...to make an abbreviation for the "Bay State" A |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | THE LETTER AFTER M $400: ...to make the opening moniker of performers Hammer, Lyte & Skat Kat C |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | THE LETTER AFTER M $600: ...to make the word for a diatonic scale's third tone I |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | THE LETTER AFTER M $800: ...to make a Greek letter U |
| #8461, aired 2021-08-09 | THE LETTER AFTER M $1000: ...to abbreviate a unit of capacity equal to 0.03381 fluid ounce L |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | AFTER ALL $400: Bronze & copper-nickel, for example an alloy |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | AFTER ALL $800: The edible seed of Prunus dulcis almond |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | AFTER ALL $1200: A story that uses symbolism to convey hidden meaning allegory |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | AFTER ALL $1600: To calm someone's fears alleviate (allay) |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | AFTER ALL $2000: An alternative form of a gene occurring at a particular locus on a chromosome an allele |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $400: 12th U.S. president who topped the pop charts with "Shake It Off" Zachary Taylor Swift |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $800: Talented singer & pianist who can do a mash-up of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" & "All Of Me" Elton John Legend |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Movie where the monstrous Lester Burnham locks up Belle, who finds an enchanted rose American Beauty and the Beast |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Han Solo's freighter is a 1980s primetime soap set at a vineyard & starring Jane Wyman Millennium Falcon Crest |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Film in which a kid in a Welsh coal-mining family like totally falls for a 1980s Southern California chick How Green Was My Valley Girl |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $200: Ned Stark faces a trio of women & asks them questions in order to select one for a night out The Dating Game of Thrones |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $400: Sofia Vergara dumps Ed O'Neill for Michael J. Fox & forms a new home Modern Family Ties |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $600: Like sands through the hourglass, Richie & Fonzie get caught up in the soap opera set in the fictional town of Salem Happy Days of Our Lives |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $800: The Robinson family can't find the way home in the cosmos but are helped by a galactic cartoon hero & his sidekicks Jan & Jayce Lost in Space Ghost |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Stories of Huey, Dewey & Louie as they enter a horrifying world on HBO with a decomposing host DuckTales from the Crypt |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Simple wooden furniture for lunch in a park that outlines what's contained in a book a picnic table of contents |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: The "IT" in finance's REIT tips over backward, believing that it'll be caught investment trust fall |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: We'll see "The Friendly Confines" & lots of ivy on this group school outing in Chicago Wrigley Field trip |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: It's "your old" home turf where you really put your foot down about having that hamburger meat stomping ground beef |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Free 2-day shipping for $12.99 a month from Aristotle's entity that causes all motion Amazon Prime Mover |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | AFTER THE SUPREME COURT $400: Not long after her 2006 retirement, this justice founded the iCivics website that teaches about government Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | AFTER THE SUPREME COURT $800: Georgian John Archibald Campbell quit in 1861 & this man named him the Confederacy's Assistant Secretary of War Jefferson Davis |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | AFTER THE SUPREME COURT $1200: John Jay left the bench to become governor of this state New York |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | AFTER THE SUPREME COURT $1600: Benjamin Curtis quit the court over the Dred Scott decision & later defended this president in his impeachment trial Andrew Johnson |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | AFTER THE SUPREME COURT $2000: In the 1870s David Davis left the court for the Senate, where he even had this job running things when the VP is away president pro tempore |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $400: Renee Zellweger's original journal entry meets up with a film about Greg Heffley based on a popular children's book series Bridget Jones's Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $800: A 2020 adventure based on a Jack London classic gets, well, a lot weirder as a 1990 David Lynch film about Sailor Ripley The Call of the Wild at Heart |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $1200: Hilary Swank's boxer starts a career in crime with Ansel Elgort's youthful master wheelman Million Dollar Baby Driver |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $1600: A Cooper/Gaga saga goes Tom Cruise-ing into a 1989 film about a Vietnam vet A Star is Born on the Fourth of July |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $2000: A 2014 movie with Peter Quill & his pals meets up with Tim Allen & his sci-fi TV cast to be a film we'd very much like to see Guardians of the Galaxy Quest |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $400: It's when you email someone the alphabet & include a second recipient secretly ABCC |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $800: At the office that gives out driver's licenses, the star performer who brings the team to the top DMVP |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $1200: The squeal of a teenage girl when she sees Leo the Lion & realizes "Mrs. Miniver" or "Ben-Hur" is on OMGM |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The weird things you like to do at the bank machine--I don't want to hear about them! ATMI |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | 4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A standardized test for those wishing to do advanced study on the work of Michael Stipe & Peter Buck GREM |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Ice cream with chocolate, marshmallows & nuts that's a journey, perhaps along Route 66 a Rocky Road trip |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Ordinal synonym for E.S.P. that's also a healthy ability to appreciate a joke sixth sense of humor |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Harry Potter novel involving Arizona's NBA squad Order of the Phoenix Suns |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Folk trio behind "Puff The Magic Dragon" who worked with Lou Grant & Ted Baxter on TV Peter, Paul & Mary Tyler Moore |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Office supply item made by Alliance that was a World War II TV miniseries about the U.S. Army's Easy Company rubber band of Brothers |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | GOOD AFTER NOUN $400: Completes the dealer's common statement "The game is seven card stud, deuces..." wild |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | GOOD AFTER NOUN $800: From the French, this 14-letter adjective means "outstanding" & comes after the noun, as in "Pat Sajak, host ____" extraordinaire |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | GOOD AFTER NOUN $1200: In succession to property or a crown, the heir presumptive is not as secure as this heir the heir apparent |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | GOOD AFTER NOUN $2000: John Updike's second book about Harry Angstrom is "Rabbit" this, meaning "brought back" Rabbit Redux |
| #8309, aired 2021-01-07 | GOOD AFTER NOUN $3,000 (Daily Double): From Latin for "made flesh", it often comes after "the devil" incarnate |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | AFTER EFFECT $400: To expel, like an ump sometimes does to an MLB manager eject |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | AFTER EFFECT $800: The pile of assets that allows a college to keep operating endowment |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | AFTER EFFECT $1200: The belief in the equality of all people egalitarian (equalitarian) |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | AFTER EFFECT $1600: It means vivacious or giving off bubbles effervescent |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | AFTER EFFECT $2000: 9-letter description of a flagrantly offensive error or omission egregious |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: Russian empress who covers 95,000 square miles of water as a North American quintet Catherine the Great Lakes |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Central Florida NBA team used by Prince Husain in "One Thousand & One Nights" the Orlando Magic carpet |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: Symbol on the Israeli flag that sang "Let's Dance" Star of David Bowie |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Spielberg movie about an effort to save a World War II soldier who's also a 12-medal-winning U.S. Olympic swimmer Saving Private Ryan Lochte |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: An NPR station's push for donations has this window for motorists at Burger King pledge drive-thru |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | MODERN WORLD BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Eternal" slogan for the homeland of Marvel's Black Panther & his favorite mall retail clothier Wakanda Forever 21 |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | MODERN WORLD BEFORE & AFTER $800: Harley Quinn, Deadshot & crew & those aspirational things they want to accomplish together Suicide Squad goals |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | MODERN WORLD BEFORE & AFTER $1200: It's the term for when Skeletor's enemy, you know, that Masters of the Universe guy, condescendingly clarifies to women He-Mansplaining |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | MODERN WORLD BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Numerical phrase for unflinchingly honest, especially with regard to the British/French conflict that lasted from 1337 to 1453 Keeping it One Hundred Years' War |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | MODERN WORLD BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Put your hands together & make noise for this term for a shade-filled retort to Nick Carter & his '90s band Clap Backstreet Boys |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | AFTER MATH $200: An afternoon entertainment at the theater a matinée |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | AFTER MATH $400: A community's female leader a matron (matriarch) |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | AFTER MATH $600: Ripeness maturity |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | AFTER MATH $800: To enroll in a university matriculate |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | AFTER MATH $1000: A rectangular numeric array in math a matrix |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: U.S. executive mansion that's a legal confinement to one's own residence instead of prison White House arrest |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Historic New York City sports arena where Adam & Eve lived in the Bible Madison Square Garden of Eden |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Paul McCartney's Bond theme plays as Bruce Willis fights off bad guys at the Nakatomi Building "Live And Let Die Hard" |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: 2012 male stripper cinematic saga that went on to be our 70th Secretary of State Magic Mike Pompeo |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 1873 Jules Verne adventure novel that's an NBC soap opera on the air since 1965 Around the World in Eighty Days of Our Lives |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | AFTER LIFE $400: Able to read & write literate |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | AFTER LIFE $800: One's direct descent from an ancestor lineage |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | AFTER LIFE $1200: Named for a New York bay, a young quahog clam, usually eaten raw a Littleneck |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | AFTER LIFE $1600: A city in France world famous for its porcelain Limoges |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | AFTER LIFE $2000: Ancient author of "From the Foundation of the City", a history of Rome in 142 volumes Livy |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Horse racing's biggest trio of events that the queen only wears on special occasions the Triple Crown Jewels |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Night sack for a snoozing Boy Scout that's the set of skills available to someone like a magician a sleeping bag of tricks |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Snoopy's owner who's a large forest-dwelling ursine creature Charlie Brown bear |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Celestial body of extremely intense gravity that scores an ace in golf a black hole in one |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 18th century Prussian king & military genius who is a large body of water in northern Utah Frederick the Great Salt Lake |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | C BEFORE E, AFTER I $400: Proverbially, it "makes perfect" practice |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | C BEFORE E, AFTER I $800: A 200th anniversary a bicentennial |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | C BEFORE E, AFTER I $1200: Pain-controlling care facility for the terminally ill a hospice |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | C BEFORE E, AFTER I $1600: It's a narrow opening in a cliff a crevice |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | C BEFORE E, AFTER I $2000: Decorative molding along the top of a wall or building a cornice |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $400: Savant Doctor Shaun Murphy hangs up his white coat to become a Time Lord The Good Doctor Who |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $800: Eric McCormack & Debra Messing pal around with new friend Lily Tomlin Will & Grace and Frankie |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Sarah Manning & her sister clones enter sort of a techie "Twilight Zone" on a Netflix anthology show Orphan Black Mirror |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Generations of Big Apple cops join forces as Det. Andy Sipowicz reports to police commissioner Tom Selleck NYPD Blue Bloods |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Crockett & Tubbs vie with Gamby & Russell for a new school position Miami Vice Principals |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: He famously said, "Give me liberty or give me death" before wearing leather as the Fonz on "Happy Days" Patrick Henry Winkler |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Shakespeare comedy that's cooked until all the red in the steak is gone & the meat is 170 degrees internally All's Well That Ends Well Done |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Current slang term for a scornful glance at the optometrist's test for visual acuity a side eye exam |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: An Ancient Egyptian collection of funerary texts that is a Robin Williams film with the message "Carpe diem" the Book of the Dead Poets Society |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A historic "Cross of Gold" orator decides to make a meth of things as a "Breaking Bad" star William Jennings Bryan Cranston |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | AFTER ALL THESE YEARS $200: Nearly 30 years passed between the end of Jerry Brown's 2nd term as governor of this state & the beginning of his 3rd one California |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | AFTER ALL THESE YEARS $400: After nearly a decade of waiting, this author assures us "The Winds of Winter" is coming--there's an excerpt on his website George R.R. Martin |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | AFTER ALL THESE YEARS $600: "The Other Side of the Wind", made by this "Citizen Kane" legend who died in 1985, was finally completed & shown in 2018 (Orson) Welles |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | AFTER ALL THESE YEARS $800: Named for a nearby performance hall, this Manhattan deli served its last pastrami & closed in 2016 after 79 years of business Carnegie Deli |
| #8167, aired 2020-02-25 | AFTER ALL THESE YEARS $1000: In 2006, after 15 years of construction, this city's "Big Dig" of roads & tunnels was completed Boston |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $400: Cameron Diaz sings & dances as the magical British nanny of Ben Stiller's desire There's Something About Mary Poppins |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1200: Edward Norton tries to convince his brother Edward Furlong not to hate or join up with mutants like Wolverine American History X Men |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1600: Struggling in Hollywood, Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling time travel with paleontologist Will Ferrell & befriend a primate named Chaka La La Land of the Lost |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $2000: George Clooney & Will Smith team up & hunt Nazi art thieves & alien bugs The Monuments Men in Black |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $3,000 (Daily Double): A holiday classic where an angel gets his wings & Roberto Benigni gets an Oscar It's a Wonderful Life Is Beautiful |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: South African host of "The Daily Show" who came up with an American dictionary of the English language Trevor Noah Webster |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Long-lasting storm system on Jupiter that's a British expression for a sip of Lipton or Twinings the Great Red Spot of tea |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: No. 1 duet by Sonny & Cher nicknamed the Sultan of Swat "I Got You Babe Ruth" |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Brazilian dance that's the Canadian province where Halifax is the capital the bossa Nova Scotia |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: American poet of "The Red Wheelbarrow" who's also a store selling gourmet cookware William Carlos Williams-Sonoma |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL: AFTER THE GAME $200: In 2004 an NCAA award was established in the name of this center on the 1933 Michigan team & future politician Gerald Ford |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL: AFTER THE GAME $400: Before starring on a 4-letter TV drama, Mark Harmon starred for this 4-letter school as a QB, averaging 7.2 yards a carry in '73 UCLA |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL: AFTER THE GAME $600: Nickname of the team that was led to an undefeated 1958 season by future brigadier general Pete Dawkins Black Knights |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL: AFTER THE GAME $800: In 1998 football fans debated who was the NCAA's best QB: Peyton Manning or this WSU Cougar; their pro careers went opposite ways Ryan Leaf |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | COLLEGE FOOTBALL: AFTER THE GAME $1000: Steve Largent went on from this university to a HOF pro career, then returned home to represent the area in Congress the University of Tulsa |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: Oscar-nominated "South Park" song that soars in a V formation, with a 1970s Yankee closer "Blame Canada" Goose Gossage |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: Margaret Wise Brown's bunny bids adieu to Ray Charles' "Sunshine State" song & the only NFL team with a perfect season Goodnight Moon "Over Miami" Dolphins |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: Tootie, Blair, Jo & Natalie show up in the third "Hitchhiker's Guide" book with boiled & baked Jewish rolls with all the fixins The Facts of Life, the Universe and Everything Bagel |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poems to an "Iberian" jellyfish relative, now heroic in Don Cheadle's supersuit Sonnets from the Portuguese Man o' War Machine |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $8,600 (Daily Double): Louisiana Purchase explorers, joined by LBJ's secretary of defense & a "Golden Boy" dramatist Lewis & Clark Clifford Odets |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | "AFTER" $400: The placenta, post-main event afterbirth |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | "AFTER" $600: Adjective for a car's replacement parts aftermarket |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | "AFTER" $800: I "sense" you know it's the remaining sensation about an experience, often a bad one aftertaste (*after effects) |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | "AFTER" $1000: Proverbially, you "turn on" these devices in a jet engine when you really want to get moving fast the afterburners |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | THE NEXT WORD AFTER $400: After Uto-Aztecan: an ideal place utopia |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | THE NEXT WORD AFTER $800: After quatorze: a very short poem with a fixed amount of lines a quatrain |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | THE NEXT WORD AFTER $1200: After kowliang: to show extreme submission kowtow |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | THE NEXT WORD AFTER $1600: After picas: petty, or a former Louisiana currency picayune |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | THE NEXT WORD AFTER $2000: After Schachtism: deriving happiness at the expense of another's woes schadenfreude |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: Giant bell in the London clock tower that published "Poor Richard's Almanack" Big Ben Franklin |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Golf short game practice area served up in the title of a Dr. Seuss book a putting Green Eggs and Ham |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: Grinning enigmatic acquaintance of Alice in Wonderland seen in cross section by doctors the Cheshire Cat scan |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: If they used a well-known brand of kosher hot dogs instead of bats, the Dodgers & Phillies would be in this baseball group the Hebrew National League |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Condition of being unable to think of anything to pen for a long time that becomes a neighborhood celebration a writer's block party |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | AFTER WINNING THE HEISMAN $200: 10 years after bagging a trophy, this ex-Florida QB hit .231 with 5 home runs for a Mets Minor League team in 2017 (Tim) Tebow |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | AFTER WINNING THE HEISMAN $400: In '93 Charlie Ward was the QB for coach Bobby Bowden at this U.; in '94 Ward was the PG for coach Pat Riley & the Knicks FSU (Florida State) |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | AFTER WINNING THE HEISMAN $600: This Bo knows he crushed a 448' leadoff HR to dead center in the 1989 All-Star Game in which he was also the MVP Bo Jackson |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | AFTER WINNING THE HEISMAN $800: This 6'5", 245-lb. QB followed up his 2010 Heisman by being rookie of the year in 2011 for the Carolina Panthers Cam Newton |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | AFTER WINNING THE HEISMAN $1000: This Texas A&M QB did not follow up his 2012 Heisman by being rookie of the year in 2014 for the Cleveland Browns Johnny Manziel |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: AMC zombie spin-off about the last thing Wild Bill was dealt, an antiseptic cleansing agent Fear the Walking Dead Man's Hand Sanitizer |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: 2011 NYC protest movement composed of the Jets or Sharks & Mao's elite quartet Occupy Wall Street Gang of Four |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: "Rug-cutting" 1984 Bruce Springsteen tune about Sophie Turner's title X-Men character who plays NBA hoops in Arizona "Dancing In The Dark" Phoenix Suns |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: The singer who voiced the Ape King in "The Jungle Book" was a leading female opera soloist & the "Queen of Disco" Louis Prima Donna Summer |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Andrew Lloyd Webber collaborator whose flooded Asian crop field won an Oscar for writing "Network" Tim Rice Paddy Chayefsky |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | MUNICIPAL BEFORE & AFTER $800: E.B. White mouselike boy in a southern state capital Stuart Little Rock |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | MUNICIPAL BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Wisconsin city of "clear water" that has portrayed Temple Grandin & Shakespeare's Juliet Eau Claire Danes |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | MUNICIPAL BEFORE & AFTER $2,000 (Daily Double): "Small" piano that is the Michigan burial place for Gerald Ford Baby Grand Rapids |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | MUNICIPAL BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Alliterative Virginia city that is one period of current events reporting Newport News cycle |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | BEFORE & AFTER: SINGERS & WRITERS $200: "The Heart Of Rock & Roll" lead singer who also wrote "Alice in Wonderland" Huey Lewis Carroll |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | BEFORE & AFTER: SINGERS & WRITERS $600: Folk trio that was "Blowin' In The Wind" with the writer of "Frankenstein" Peter, Paul and Mary Shelley |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | BEFORE & AFTER: SINGERS & WRITERS $800: "Super Freak" singer who also told "Tales of the South Pacific" Rick James Michener |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | BEFORE & AFTER: SINGERS & WRITERS $1,000 (Daily Double): "Hit The Road Jack" with the singer & pianist who also came up with the theory of evolution by natural selection Ray Charles Darwin |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | BEFORE & AFTER: SINGERS & WRITERS $1000: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" singer who takes up a pen & creates "The Mayor of Casterbridge" B.J. Thomas Hardy |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BEFORE & AFTER ON THE TUBE $400: On an Alec Baldwin-hosted game show, Tyrion Lannister & Jon Snow try to fill in the blanks Match Game of Thrones |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BEFORE & AFTER ON THE TUBE $800: Freddie Highmore enters the TARDIS as the first Time Lord with autism on this drama The Good Doctor Who |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BEFORE & AFTER ON THE TUBE $1200: On a really zany sitcom, Uncle Fester & Lurch don't see politics the way Alex Keaton does Addams Family Ties |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BEFORE & AFTER ON THE TUBE $1600: Benedict Cumberbatch moves from a Showtime miniseries to a 1990s apartment complex with Heather Locklear & Grant Show Patrick Melrose Place |
| #8029, aired 2019-07-04 | BEFORE & AFTER ON THE TUBE $2000: An outdoor fishing competition show with 4-letter catches that snares researchers Lizzy Caplan & Michael Sheen Bass Masters of Sex |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Nature Valley Crunchy Oats 'N Honey Snack that's a rite of passage for a Jewish 13-year-old granola bar mitzvah |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Musical based on "Pygmalion" in which a gentlewoman rides through Coventry naked My Fair Lady Godiva |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Phrase describing how raw oysters are served that's an old synonym for battle fatigue on the half shell shock |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Madeleine L'Engle's Newbery-winning novel that's also a vacation home A Wrinkle in Timeshare |
| #7983, aired 2019-05-01 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: The site in Rome where Anita Ekberg waded in "La Dolce Vita" gets a nib & an ink cartridge for letter writing Trevi Fountain pen |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Nickname for Britain's flag that's also a type of cheddar Union Jack cheese |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: "24K Magic" singer who is a type of robotic vehicle that explored the surface of the red planet Bruno Mars rover |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Akron-born NBA great who wrote "Shooting Stars" while hosting & creating "Inside the Actors Studio" LeBron James Lipton |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Quilted item under bedsheets that's an Asian dish of rice noodles, bean sprouts & chopped peanuts mattress pad thai |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Late 19th century circus siblings who are the subject of Dostoyevsky's last, & some say greatest, novel Ringling Brothers Karamazov |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $200: One doing this hotel desk job might procure guests some show tickets a concierge |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $400: Knowing all things, like God omniscient |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $600: The Quakers are one "of Friends" a society |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $800: It's an Italian lawn bowling game boccie |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $1000: Spanish word for a farming estate; some are now luxury destinations a hacienda |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | I NAMED IT AFTER YOU $200: Dave Thomas tried all 5 of his kids' names for this fast food brand, but chose this nickname of daughter Melinda Wendy |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | I NAMED IT AFTER YOU $400: Jim Davis used this middle name of his grandfather to name his comic strip cat Garfield |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | I NAMED IT AFTER YOU $600: The creator of this hyperactivity drug named it for his wife Marguerite Ritalin |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | I NAMED IT AFTER YOU $800: In 1919 Isaac Carasso used Parisian cultures to create this yogurt company named for his son Daniel Dannon |
| #7914, aired 2019-01-24 | I NAMED IT AFTER YOU $1000: Mississippi magnate William Hardy had 3 wives: he didn't name a city for Sallie or Ida, but did name this one for Hattie Hattiesburg |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | AFTER THE CIVIL WAR $400: This theatre owner was jailed for 39 days following Lincoln's death & forced to sell his building (John T.) Ford |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | AFTER THE CIVIL WAR $800: Capt. Tom Custer, who won 2 medals of honor during the war, joined his brother's unit & died with him at this 1876 battle Little Big Horn |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | AFTER THE CIVIL WAR $1200: The grandson of a president, he served with Sherman & in 1888 was elected president himself Benjamin Harrison |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | AFTER THE CIVIL WAR $1600: Clara Barton traveled to this Confederate prison to help gather evidence of missing & deceased soldiers Andersonville |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | AFTER THE CIVIL WAR $6,000 (Daily Double): This Union general who lost the 1864 presidential race was later governor of New Jersey McClellan |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Hasbro's game of knowledge where you collect wedges & a key phrase from the Declaration of Independence Trivial Pursuit of happiness |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: 6, relating to 36, goes to the dentist for a less-than-enjoyable pulp procedure square root canal |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Purposely sending the batter to first base & to the stars in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard intentional Walk of Fame |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A vodka cocktail with Russia's capital in its name hits the road to be a wagon line led by a beast of burden a Moscow Mule train |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A proverb about using your generosity for those around you becomes a mega-hardware store chain charity begins at Home Depot |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | CONQUERED AFTER EVEREST $400: The central tower of Paine has caused pain to many climbers in the Patagonian part of this long mountain range the Andes |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | CONQUERED AFTER EVEREST $800: Heinrich Harrer, played on film by Brad Pitt, conquered Puncak Jaya, this "New" island's top peak New Guinea |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | CONQUERED AFTER EVEREST $1200: Second only to Everest in height, it was conquered by an Italian expedition 14 months after the Big E K2 |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | CONQUERED AFTER EVEREST $1600: In Canada's these territories sits Mt. Proboscis, summited in 1960 despite being one of the "Circle of the Unclimbables" the Northwest Territories |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | CONQUERED AFTER EVEREST $2000: It's less than 500 feet, but the Old Man of Hoy in these Scottish "O" islands wasn't scaled until 1966 the Orkney Islands |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MALL $400: A lingerie chain known for its "Angels" that picks names at random to give Christmas presents Victoria's Secret Santa |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MALL $800: Bookseller made up of argon, neon, xenon, helium or radon Barnes & Noble gases |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MALL $1200: Maine outdoor clothing company that moonlights as a number cruncher L.L. Bean-counter |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MALL $1600: Colorful painter of boxing matches & 5 Olympiads who is also an upscale department store founded in Dallas, Texas Leroy Neiman Marcus |
| #7837, aired 2018-10-09 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MALL $2000: The 20% off coupons an alliterative home store mails out include the lyrics "My love stands on golden sand" Bed Bath & "Beyond The Sea" |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | AFTER THE ZOO $400: It's packed with Vitamin A & is low in calories a zucchini |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | AFTER THE ZOO $800: About 400,000 live in this Swiss city, a major international financial center Zurich |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | AFTER THE ZOO $1600: Unlike other nearby groups, they built their pueblos from stones & plaster, not adobe brick the Zuni |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | AFTER THE ZOO $2000: A traditional Japanese sandal much like a flip-flop a zori |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | AFTER THE ZOO $3,000 (Daily Double): A fertilized egg before it becomes an embryo a zygote |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $400: Chicago Bulls legend & longtime comedy partner of Keegan-Michael Key Michael Jordan Peele |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $800: Voice of Mr. Incredible who shared a Nobel Peace Prize with F.W. De Klerk Craig T. Nelson Mandela |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1200: Sophocles drama about the king of Thebes becoming CEO of Exxon Mobil & Secretary of State Oedipus Rex Tillerson |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $1600: Female rapper with the album "The Naked Truth" who became the leader of North Korea in 2011 Lil' Kim Jong-Un |
| #7811, aired 2018-07-23 | BEFORE & AFTER PEOPLE $2000: Star of the "Hunger Games" films who wrote Beat poetry & founded City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco Jennifer Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | AFTER NOON $200: Yep, this 4-letter negative made its print debut in 1888 nope |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | AFTER NOON $400: This adjective applies to the type of skiing seen here Nordic |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | AFTER NOON $600: Hey, this standard of social behavior, sit down & have a beer a norm |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | AFTER NOON $800: 5-letter acronym for an air-defense organization established in 1957 NORAD |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | AFTER NOON $1000: An edible type of prickly pear cactus nopales |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | OUR NATION'S CAPITAL BEFORE & AFTER $400: Our nation's top judicial body employs this professional fool Supreme Court jester |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | OUR NATION'S CAPITAL BEFORE & AFTER $800: Government body that protects the great outdoors & brings color & fabric swatches for the indoors Department of Interior designers |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | OUR NATION'S CAPITAL BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A 2-time Oscar-winning actor is honored by a 554-foot obelisk the Denzel Washington Monument |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | OUR NATION'S CAPITAL BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Coffee maker with a plunger that holds briefings for journalists the French press secretary (or the French press room) |
| #7803, aired 2018-07-11 | OUR NATION'S CAPITAL BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A disaster-defying breakfast chain that serves pancake alternatives to 435 members the Waffle House of Representatives |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | EDIBLE BEFORE & AFTER $400: Choral singing group that's got 3 slices of toasted bread, turkey, bacon, lettuce & tomato a glee club sandwich |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | EDIBLE BEFORE & AFTER $800: Deep-fried circles from a Vidalia go into a set of 4 operas by Richard Wagner the onion Ring cycle |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | EDIBLE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Transformer leader of the Autobots who is really good with horseradish as a meat entree Optimus Prime rib |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | EDIBLE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Jewish soup dumpling also called a knaidel that's the title of Jim Bouton's baseball memoir matzo Ball Four |
| #7785, aired 2018-06-15 | EDIBLE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: French-named toasted sandwich with ham, cheese & a fried egg that's a London museum of wax figures croque Madame Tussauds |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | SORTA BEFORE & AFTER $400: Action star known as "The Muscles from Brussels" who's a Broadway musical with the song "Whatever Lola Wants" Jean Claude Van Damn Yankees |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | SORTA BEFORE & AFTER $800: Lead singer of the Four Seasons who is Jacqueline Susann's novel about pill-popping starlets Frankie Valley of the Dolls |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | SORTA BEFORE & AFTER $1200: "Only you can prevent wildfires", says the Forest Service spokesfigure who's a song from "The Jungle Book" Smokey "The Bear Necessities" |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | SORTA BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Prairie style architect who had a No. 1 hit singing "I'm too sexy for my shirt... so sexy it hurts" Frank Lloyd Right Said Fred |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | SORTA BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Russian president who's an Irving Berlin song that says, "Come let's mix where Rockefellers walk with sticks" Vladimir "Puttin' On The Ritz" |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Mouselike boy in an E.B. White story traveling through the heavens as Ursa Minor Stuart Little Dipper |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Period of rest in Genesis where working parents leave toddlers seventh day care centers |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Middle Eastern entertainment with rapid gyrations of the hips that's a reality TV show judged by Len, Bruno & Carrie Ann belly Dancing with the Stars |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Top U.N. official designed to cause loss of consciousness & of sensation in your whole body Secreatry General anesthesia |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: American daisy with dark center that was a leading U.S. suffragette black-eyed Susan B. Anthony |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFTER THE VICE PRESIDENCY $400: Following his vice presidency under Carter, he served as ambassador to Japan Mondale |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFTER THE VICE PRESIDENCY $800: He returned for another 7 years as a U.S. senator from Minnesota after his 1960s veeping Hubert H. Humphrey |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFTER THE VICE PRESIDENCY $1200: Falling out with President Jackson, Veep John C. Calhoun resigned & returned to being a senator for this Southern state South Carolina |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | AFTER THE VICE PRESIDENCY $1600: A supporter of westward expansion as vice-president, this big "D" later went east as minister to Great Britain George Dallas |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: The group assigned to protect the president proceeds through this door meant for delivery people & other help Secret Service entrance |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A landmark Louisiana area featuring Bourbon Street gets a classic burger from McDonald's the French Quarter Pounder |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: The cruise line whose ships include the Rotterdam manages to sail to "purple mountain majesties" Holland "America The Beautiful" |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A 1940 way to say "carrying a gun" becomes "carrying a measurement of temperature & humidity" packing heat index |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: An Asia-set musical merges with an Isaac Asimov tale known for its 3 laws The King and I, Robot |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $400: She sang "Summer Nights" with Travolta before becoming an author of legal thrillers & "Calico Joe" Olivia Newton-John Grisham |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $800: A "warlike" Pat Benatar hit meshes with an L. Ron Hubbard novel "Love Is A Battlefield Earth" |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A Black Eyed Peas man meets up with a Shakespearean style of writing will.i.ambic pentameter |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A song by Coolio from "Dangerous Minds" goes back in time to become a 1667 John Milton classic "Gangsta's Paradise Lost" |
| #7666, aired 2018-01-01 | MUSIC & LITERATURE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A John le Carre espionage novel hits the "Speed Of Sound" with a British band The Spy Who Came in From the Coldplay |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | LITERARY TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $400: A shipwrecked clan from a neutral country meets up with a shipwrecked 18th century character The Swiss Family Robinson Crusoe |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | LITERARY TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel meets another harsh situation with Max Brooks' tale of a zombie apocalypse Brave New World War Z |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | LITERARY TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $3,000 (Daily Double): E.B. White's diminutive rodent visits Dickens' friend William in Marshalsea Prison Stuart Little Dorrit |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | AFTER WORDS $200: Another term for trailers in the cinema are these "attractions" coming attractions |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | AFTER WORDS $400: Get fancy & use this French word for "after", especially if you've just gone skiing après |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | AFTER WORDS $600: urbandictionary.com defines this 4-letter word meaning "in the near future" as "when we feel like it" soon |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | AFTER WORDS $800: This 2-word Latin phrase translates as "after this" but is generally used to mean "done with hindsight" post hoc |
| #7622, aired 2017-10-31 | AFTER WORDS $1000: Without a direct object, this verb can mean "to win"; with one, it can mean "to replace someone in a position" succeed |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | AFTER DINNER $400: These extinct reptiles dinosaurs |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | AFTER DINNER $800: This bailiwick of a bishop a diocese |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | AFTER DINNER $1200: This union of 2 vowels a diphthong |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | AFTER DINNER $1600: This 2-terminal electrical device a diode |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | AFTER DINNER $2000: A full peasant skirt worn at Tyrolean festivals a dirndl |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICE BEFORE & AFTER $400: First chief justice ever who, despite "99 Problems", was always "Big Pimpin" John Jay-Z |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICE BEFORE & AFTER $800: He replaced Thurgood Marshall & chugged his way around the island of Sodor Clarence Thomas the Tank Engine |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: This Heisman runner-up jurist, now the home of "The Original Slider" Byron White Castle |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: HBO's "Last Week Tonight" host who went on to become "The Great Dissenter" John Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | SUPREME COURT JUSTICE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Current justice who's been known to launch a rocket or 2 Anthony Kennedy Space Center |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: The oldest pro baseball association merges with Woodrow Wilson's pet project the National League of Nations |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Margaret Mitchell's magnum opus soars with a Bette Midler smash "Gone With the Wind Beneath My Wings" |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Original "Hawaii Five-O" actor who is Tolkien's follow-up to "The Hobbit" Jack Lord of the Rings |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Woody Guthrie's American anthem salutes a Minnesota butter & cheese supplier "This Land Is Your Land" o' Lakes |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Bob Woodward's Capital newspaper hitches up to an old type of fast horse-drawn carriage a Washington Post-chaise |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | BIBLICAL BEFORE & AFTER $400: Wayward offspring who in a parable marries your daughter the Prodigal Son-in-law |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | BIBLICAL BEFORE & AFTER $800: Betrayal payment in Matthew 26 that's a term for the medium of film 30 pieces of silver screen |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | BIBLICAL BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Visitors to Jesus' birthplace who sang "Who Can It Be Now?" the three wise Men at Work |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | BIBLICAL BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Roman-installed monarch stretching from Liaoning province to Jiayu Pass Herod the Great Wall of China |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | BIBLICAL BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Amazing shrub seen by Moses that says the U.S. has the right to preemptive action to stop terror the burning Bush Doctrine |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | AFTER "ALL" $200: This unproved assertion or accusation an allegation |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | AFTER "ALL" $400: This 8-letter irritant, like pollen an allergen |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | AFTER "ALL" $600: This indirect reference allusion |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | AFTER "ALL" $800: This verb meaning to reduce in severity alleviate (or allay) |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | AFTER "ALL" $1000: This small metal item essential for assembling Ikea products an Allen wrench |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | DISEASES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $400: Meniere's disease is a disorder of this body part affecting balance, & linked to a surplus of fluid the inner ear |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | DISEASES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $800: It can include a compulsion to utter obscenities & was named for a French doctor who called it "maladie des tics" Tourette's |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | DISEASES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1200: Graves' disease results in the thyroid's over-production of these & strikes women more often than men hormones |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | DISEASES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $2000: This inflammatory digestive disease was named after one of the 3 men who published a paper on it in the 1930s Crohn's disease |
| #7559, aired 2017-06-22 | DISEASES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $2,500 (Daily Double): In Wilson's disease, this metallic element collects in tissues & can be detected by a brownish ring around the cornea copper |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | AFTER BURNER $400: He's in Spain, so he's called this a burro |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | AFTER BURNER $800: 4 pecks = 1 of these a bushel |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | AFTER BURNER $1200: Something you're made to do that takes up time but doesn't achieve a lot busywork |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | AFTER BURNER $1600: To make smooth by rubbing burnish |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | AFTER BURNER $2000: Samurai lived by this code the Bushido code |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: Cabinet department established in 2002 that becomes a bedding item carried by a kid for reassurance Department of Homeland Security blanket |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | "BEFORE", NO AFTER $400: These are the 5 words that begin the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" "Twas the night before Christmas" |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: NYC nickname that refers to the most special person ever Big Apple of my eye |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: The atom bomb partner of Little Boy become a fabric-related term for a clergyman Fat Man of the cloth |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | "BEFORE", NO AFTER $800: It completes the title "1001 Books You Must Read...", of which "The Big Sleep" is one Before You Die |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Luxury auto from the Ford Motor Company that also served as Washington's fighting force Lincoln Continental Army |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: A "Little House" actress & sister of Sara gets operatic merging with a 19th century show-writing duo Melissa Gilbert and Sullivan |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | "BEFORE", NO AFTER $1200: Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy share one night in Vienna in this 1995 film Before Sunrise |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | "BEFORE", NO AFTER $1600: A wronged-in-song Carrie Underwood: "Slashed a hole in all 4 tires, maybe next time he'll think" this title "Before He Cheats" |
| #7503, aired 2017-04-05 | "BEFORE", NO AFTER $2000: To the victor goes this "morbid" 2015 miniseries starring Kristen Wiig & an Orson Welles-like Will Ferrell The Spoils Before Dying |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | MOVIE BEFORE, TV AFTER $400: John Belushi & the other Deltas help make Frank Underwood the president Animal House of Cards |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | MOVIE BEFORE, TV AFTER $800: Plantation-set Disney film about Kyle, Cartman & their animated friends Song of the South Park |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | MOVIE BEFORE, TV AFTER $1200: Actress Julia Roberts flirts with Hugh Grant in a Steven Bochco cop series, & let's be careful out there Notting Hill Street Blues |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | MOVIE BEFORE, TV AFTER $1600: Arthur Miller play adaptation about a violent biker gang in a drug war All My Sons of Anarchy |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | MOVIE BEFORE, TV AFTER $2000: Hubert Selby Jr. novel adaptation about comical cop Andy Samberg Last Exit to Brooklyn 9-9 |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | SEMILITERATE BEFORE & AFTER $400: Team rope-pulling contest that becomes a Tolstoy novel tug-of-War and Peace |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | SEMILITERATE BEFORE & AFTER $800: A novel about a dog named Buck that can vary its value from 2 through ace Call of the Wild card |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | SEMILITERATE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Tony Stark creation who becomes Don Quixote in a musical Iron Man of La Mancha |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | SEMILITERATE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Instead of ending so the ballgame can start, the national anthem leads into a 1932 novel of the future the home of the Brave New World |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | SEMILITERATE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 9th century English king who lived in West Egg, New York in a 1920s novel Alfred the Great Gatsby |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | TOP 40 BEFORE & AFTER $400: Britney Spears' debut single pleases with a Cyndi Lauper No. 1 to "Hit" it over & over "...Baby One More Time After Time" |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | TOP 40 BEFORE & AFTER $800: A Macklemore & Ryan Lewis smash is told what "you better" do by the Miracles "Thrift Shop Around" |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | TOP 40 BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A 2012 Carly Rae Jepsen chart-topper hooks up with a 1977 Wings hit, to everyone's astonishment "Call Me Maybe I'm Amazed" |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | TOP 40 BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A 1977 Debby Boone No. 1 revs it up with a 1977 Eagles hit "You Light Up My Life In The Fast Lane" |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | TOP 40 BEFORE & AFTER $2000: The hooligan in a Coolio title gets illuminated by a Meat Loaf hit "Gangsta's Paradise By The Dashboard Light" |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | AFTER THE CABINET $200: After his fifth heart attack, he co-wrote a book with his doctor called "Heart: An American Medical Odyssey" Dick Cheney |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | AFTER THE CABERNET $400: The Stag's Leap cab was awesome; now it's time for this course--I'll start with the Roncal & then some chevre the cheese course |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | AFTER THE CABINET $400: In 1945 ex-Attorney General Robert Jackson served as chief U.S. prosecutor in this German city Nuremberg |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | AFTER THE CABINET $600: Ex-Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers had a stormy tenure as president of this university Harvard |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | AFTER THE CABERNET $800: Like our cultured European brethren, we choose to have this roughage course after the entree & red wines salad |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | AFTER THE CABINET $800: (Presidential daughter Jenna Bush Hager delivers the clue.) Secretary of War under Garfield & Arthur, this son of Abraham Lincoln was also minister to Britain & ran the Pullman Company after the founder's death Robert Todd Lincoln |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | AFTER THE CABINET $1,000 (Daily Double): Her 2012 memoir details her family's experiences in Europe during World War II & the Holocaust Madeleine Albright |
| #7437, aired 2017-01-03 | AFTER THE CABERNET $1600: To cleanse the palate after the filet & silver oak, it's this black currant sorbet, also found after "Creme de" cassis |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER $400: A bad kid's Christmas stocking will contain the object that composed "I've Got You Under My Skin" a lump of Cole Porter |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER $800: Gerry & the Pacemakers river song invoked when one team is winning by a huge margin "Ferry Cross The Mersey" rule |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Chicken & noodle dish from L.A.'s Chao Krung restaurant served when a tennis set goes to 6-all pad Thai-breaker |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A Lexington college hoops squad joins Hans & Fritz in the comics; their goal-- confounding der Captain the Wild Katzenjammer Kids |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Part of NYC's Waldorf where Barack Obama stayed while singing a Guns N' Roses No. 1 ballad the Presidential "Sweet Child O' Mine" |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: A French landmark becomes a Biblical spot where language comprehension breaks down the Eiffel Tower of Babel |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A New Jersey governor tries a modeling career & marries Billy Joel (for a while) Chris Christie Brinkley |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Laughing Green Giant exclamation to the first president of Vietnam Ho, ho, Ho Chi Minh |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: James Joyce's last novel goes back to school at a university in Winston-Salem Finnegans Wake Forest |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Founding father Patrick Henry's "choice" quote leads into the 1949 Tony-winning Best Play "Give me liberty or give me Death of a Salesman" |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | I JUST GOT OUT OF PRISON AFTER 30 YEARS $400: Well, since my Mamiya is outdated now, can I just use the 12-megapixel one of these on your iPhone? a camera |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | I JUST GOT OUT OF PRISON AFTER 30 YEARS $800: I still have my blue & gold video card from this store, I'm just gonna go rent a new release... What? No way! Blockbuster |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | I JUST GOT OUT OF PRISON AFTER 30 YEARS $1200: All the songs on the radio with this hyphenated pitch correction are making me rethink being on the outside Auto-Tune |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | I JUST GOT OUT OF PRISON AFTER 30 YEARS $1600: Wee! I enjoyed riding on this type of bus that's hinged, or more formally does this, meaning it formed a joint an articulated bus |
| #7332, aired 2016-06-28 | I JUST GOT OUT OF PRISON AFTER 30 YEARS $2000: I think I'll head to this European city of about 1.2 million... Huh? There's no place called that anymore? East Berlin |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: The Caped Crusader gets a "Blurred Lines" singer as a new sidekick & they tour as this duo Batman & Robin Thicke |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Chris Pratt trains velociraptors & makes loans to countries with an organization founded in 1944 Jurassic World Bank |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: "Bridesmaids" & "SNL" star who guided Santa's sleigh Maya Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Black Rock, Nevada annual festival that's used as a football strategy where one player matches up with another Burning Man-to-Man |
| #7325, aired 2016-06-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Collective name for the small group that picks the president, vice president & pope the Electoral College of Cardinals |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | GOVERNMENTAL BEFORE & AFTER $200: Hillary Clinton's former job that's an annual piece of presidential oratory Secretary of the State of the Union |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | GOVERNMENTAL BEFORE & AFTER $400: John Roberts' job that's a team of comic book superheroes Chief Justice League |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | GOVERNMENTAL BEFORE & AFTER $600: The president's mansion that also serves as the elected British parliamentary body the White House of Commons |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | GOVERNMENTAL BEFORE & AFTER $800: Conflict between the U.S. & the Soviet Union from the 1940s to the 1990s that's a science fiction novel by H.G. Wells the Cold War of the Worlds |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | GOVERNMENTAL BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Capitol Hill newspaper that's also a Jack London novel about a dog Roll Call of the Wild |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | AFTER IMAGE $400: Large-screen movie format IMAX |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | AFTER IMAGE $800: To drink imbibe |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | AFTER IMAGE $1200: Mosque man imam |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | AFTER IMAGE $1600: Let's not get into one of these complicated disputes, Italian for "entanglement" imbroglio |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | AFTER IMAGE $2000: Ancient Egyptian who's the first physician known by name Imhotep |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | AFTER & BEFORE $1200: Defined as the next in order, it was also the title of a Fox TV show about a serial killer & his cult The Following |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $400: A steamy E.L. James book becomes Canadian football's biggest team prize Fifty Shades of Grey Cup |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $800: The woman who gave King Arthur his sword moves to Garrison Keillor's fictitious town the Lady of the Lake Wobegon |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Asimov's 1950 classic tale that gave us the 3 laws becomes a poultry-titled animated show on Adult Swim I, Robot Chicken |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Milan Kundera's "Unbearable" novel turns into a 1999 film about literally getting into a real-life movie star's head The Unbearable Lightness of Being John Malkovich |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $2000: The Supreme Court justice known for not speaking becomes the reclusive "Lot 49" novelist known for not speaking Clarence Thomas Pynchon |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | AFTER GLOW $200: We're sticking with the fact that it's obtained by boiling hooves glue |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | AFTER GLOW $400: Morose glum |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | AFTER GLOW $600: A massive surplus glut |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | AFTER GLOW $800: Onomatopoeia for imbibing glug |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | AFTER GLOW $1000: Adjective meaning pertaining to the buttocks gluteal |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEFORE & AFTER $400: American general who became a traitor & a great golfer, winning the Masters 4 times beginning in 1958 Benedict Arnold Palmer |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEFORE & AFTER $800: "Drag Race" host who had a dramatic horseback ride on the night of April 18, 1775 RuPaul Revere |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Formal agreement ending the Revolutionary War that's a hotel heiress & reality TV star the Treaty of Paris Hilton |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Leader of the Green Mountain Boys who was a 76ers player nicknamed "The Answer" Ethan Allen Iverson |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEFORE & AFTER $2000: British military officer executed as a spy who was half of the music duo OutKast John André 3000 |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AFTER & BEFORE $400: As a poker term, it's a word on its own; as a prefix, it means "before" ante |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AFTER & BEFORE $800: Another word for your rump, this word also means subsequent posterior |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AFTER & BEFORE $1200: Adverb heard often in viewing scenes from the last episode of a show, as in this "on AMC's 'The Walking Dead'..." previously |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AFTER & BEFORE $1600: As well as ensuing, it can mean accomplishing a goal succeeding |
| #7042, aired 2015-04-07 | AFTER & BEFORE $2000: This Shakespearean 3-letter word means before ere |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Basic Instinct" & "Traffic" actor who got wacky & wrote "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" Michael Douglas Adams |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER $800: "Marathon Man" novelist/screenwriter & investment bank whose stock symbol is GS William Goldman Sachs |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER $1200: "Paradise Lost" poet who won who the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1976 John Milton Friedman |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER $1600: George Harrison song that says, "I really want to see you" & is the titled poet who was mad, bad & dangerous to know "My Sweet Lord Byron" |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | AUTHORS BEFORE & AFTER $2000: "The Cantos" poet who is a dessert made with flour, butter, sugar & eggs Ezra Pound Cake |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: I'll have a vodka & tomato juice drink with a Julie Andrews movie chaser Bloody Mary Poppins |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Mao's 1934 walkabout goes Hollywood as a film about waddling birds the Long March of the Penguins |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A clever cat from "Shrek" puts combat troops in the fight overseas Puss in Boots on the ground |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: An "Enthusiasm"-challenged TV actor/writer is pretty, pretty, pretty good as a Dickens title guy Larry David Copperfield |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Dwyane Wade's team turns into "Mr. Hundred & One" degrees in a Christmas TV special the Miami Heat Miser |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Pugilist's equipment for storing your maps in the car boxing glove compartment |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A woman who gets married in the sixth month to a 1935 movie monster a June bride of Frankenstein |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Emergency medical bundle containing a crispy Hershey's product a first aid Kit Kat |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Show hosted by Ira Glass that will sell you a 20-year-term policy This American Life insurance |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Novel about Wang Lung's love of warm, rich, brownish hues The Good Earth tones (The Good Earth colors accepted) |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | BEFORE, DURING OR AFTER $200: The death of the prophet Muhammad,
BDA 1095 A.D. before |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | BEFORE, DURING OR AFTER $400: The publication of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight",
BDA 2001 after |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | BEFORE, DURING OR AFTER $600: The Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway,
BDA 1996 before |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | BEFORE, DURING OR AFTER $800: The real charge of the light brigade,
BDA 1854 during |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | BEFORE, DURING OR AFTER $1000: The Lewis & Clark expedition hits the trail,
BDA 1801 after |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $400: Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert hitchhike across George Romero's original apocalypse It Happened One Night of the Living Dead |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $800: Jimmy Stewart meets an angel & a Monty Python member is mistaken for the Messiah It's a Wonderful Life of Brian |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1200: "Wolverines!" shout the American teens who resist an invasion of Soviet primates Red Dawn of the Planet of the Apes |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $2000: Patrick Swayze gets a job as a bouncer at Vincent Price's unique museum Road House of Wax |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | AFTER-SCHOOL CLUBS $200: Listen up & you can hear a member of this club practicing now the bowling club |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | AFTER-SCHOOL CLUBS $400: Hey Mr. Schue! Let's sing the praises of this choral club; the one at Yale is more than 150 years old a glee club |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | AFTER-SCHOOL CLUBS $600: The pair of masks seen here are symbolic of this club; come try out! drama club |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | AFTER-SCHOOL CLUBS $800: Future CEOs & entrepreneurs come together for meetings of the FBLA, BL standing for this business leaders |
| #6887, aired 2014-07-22 | AFTER-SCHOOL CLUBS $1000: It's Greek to me, but you math whizzes might recognize the logo for this national honor society Mu Alpha Theta |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | LETTER AFTER P $200: In a message that's appended to a letter after the writer's signature S |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | LETTER AFTER P $400: In a rating that suggests some material in a movie may not be suited for children G |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | LETTER AFTER P $600: In the postal code of a U.S. commonwealth in the Caribbean R |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | LETTER AFTER P $800: To indicate the chemical symbol for lead b |
| #6880, aired 2014-07-11 | LETTER AFTER P $1000: In the name of the store on a military base X |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: The 3 colors of the U.S. flag that are a sure bet for market investors red, white & blue chip |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Contact sport that allows striking, kicking, grappling, pottery & needlework martial arts & crafts |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Pro-free market movement that emerged in 2009 as a hit with the line "The Jay-Z song was on" Tea Party in the USA |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Alaska fishing TV show that tries to create popular expressions like "it's not rocket science" Deadliest Catch Phrase |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Piscine term for someone not in his element, that being beneath the Verrazano-Narrows fish out of water under the bridge |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Columbia University journalism award that boxes in a ring Pulitzer Prizefighter (Pulitzer Prizefight accepted) |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A stopped flow of automobiles in which jazz musicians play freestyle a traffic jam session |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $1,000 (Daily Double): Morning phone reminder from the front desk that's on the spine of a library book a wake-up call number |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Dessert made from citrus fruit named for its Florida origin becomes an informative circle divided into sectors key lime pie chart |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A term for a female pageant winner is used in the honorary title for a British barrister a beauty Queen's Counsel |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $400: Bob Eubanks is beheaded after asking recently married Edmure Tully & Roslin Frey about whoopee preferences The Newlywed Game of Thrones |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $800: Tom Selleck gets the Ferrari out of the garage & heads to Rome for a miniseries about an emperor Magnum, P.I. Claudius |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1200: It's the Pritchetts vs. the Dunphys for some cold hard cash, & Richard Dawson's kissing all the ladies Modern Family Feud |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The fisher family & their burial biz find themselves trapped beneath Stephen King's oppressive bubble Six Feet Under the Dome |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | TV BEFORE & AFTER $2000: An Indian-American doctor enters a fashion design reality competition The Mindy Project Runway |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $200: In 1965 LBJ invited this former president to witness the signing of the Medicare Act in Missouri (Harry) Truman |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $400: Since 1982 he's been a distinguished professor at Emory University (Jimmy) Carter |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $600: In 1878, a year after leaving office, he admitted, "The truth is I am more of a farmer than a soldier" (Ulysses) Grant |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $800: In 1841 he successfully argued for the freedom of the slave mutineers of the Amistad before the Supreme Court John Quincy Adams |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE $1000: After leaving office, this 19th century prez was elected a U.S. senator from Tennessee (Andrew) Johnson |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $400: A "Norma Rae" Oscar winner heads into the corn to play baseball with Kevin Costner & Shoeless Joe Sally Field of Dreams |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $800: Tom Hanks & his soldiers storm the beaches of Normandy & rescue the guy who played Oliver in "Love Story" Saving Private Ryan O'Neal |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1200: The prince's kiss awakens her with a "Grease" song that says, "No graduation day for you... flunked shampoo" Sleeping Beauty-School Dropout |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1600: The Edsels' 1961 doo-wop hit is a song by Dorothy & the Munchkins celebrating a notable demise in "The Wizard of Oz" Rama Lama Ding-Dong! The Wicked Witch Is Dead |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $2000: The film for which Sandra Bullock won an Oscar is an unintended consequence of taking a medication The Blind Side Effect |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Nursery rhyme waterspout crawler who's a Marvel crime fighter Itsy Bitsy Spider-Man |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A motion indicating a Christian symbol that also allows the other lawyer to discredit the witness sign of the cross examination |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Rope-pulling contest whose proceeds are set aside for a political campaign tug-of-war chest |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Heavy-duty tool that can cut through crashed cars & Twain River memoirs jaws of Life on the Mississippi |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Egyptian queen's obelisk that should be pretty easy to locate in that big clump of dried grass Cleopatra's needle in a haystack |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | AFTER I LOST THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION $400: I helped form the Alliance for Climate Protection & appeared as myself on "Futurama" Al Gore |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | AFTER I LOST THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION $800: I practiced law in Los Angeles, then lost a run for statewide office; I wasn't done with politics, though Richard Nixon |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | AFTER I LOST THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION $1200: I stayed on as gov. of N.Y. & turned down an offer to be Chief Justice of the U.S.; I also learned not to believe newspapers (Thomas) Dewey |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | AFTER I LOST THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION $1600: Having lost control of my newspaper as well as the vote, I died Nov. 29, 1872, before the electors even met Horace Greeley |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | AFTER I LOST THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION $2,400 (Daily Double): I helped my wife run for president & later, successfully, for the Senate (Robert) Dole |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: CBS sitcom about Ted Mosby's search for the nun who founded the order of the Missionaries of Charity in India How I Met Your Mother Teresa |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: The fifth wife of Henry VIII raises eyebrows as a shock jock & the "King of All Media" Catherine Howard Stern |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Movie in which Morgan Freeman chauffeurs Catherine Bach in her short shorts, perhaps in the General Lee Driving Miss Daisy Duke |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Tony Stark builds an armored suit to help Thomas More stand up to the king in Robert Bolt's play Iron Man for All Seasons |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: C.S. Lewis' Narnia book that showed off a little too much skin at the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Malfunction |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | POLITICAL BEFORE & AFTER $400: An actress who starred in "Grease" becomes the one Republicans want as Speaker of the House Olivia Newton-John Boehner |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | POLITICAL BEFORE & AFTER $800: California's governor gets delicious as a "feminine" dessert made with apples & bread crumbs Jerry Brown Betty |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | POLITICAL BEFORE & AFTER $1200: An "Atlas Shrugged" author turns into a Kentucky senator who loves him some "Atlas Shrugged" Ayn Rand Paul |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | POLITICAL BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A South Carolina senator becomes an integral part of a s'more Lindsey Graham cracker |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | POLITICAL BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A Will Ferrell racer who liked to go fast speeds in as governor of Louisiana Ricky Bobby Jindal |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | AFTER-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES $200: Get your kicks (& punches) learning Shotokan, a Japanese system of this martial art karate |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | AFTER-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES $400: Make some pottery & shape the clay on this revolving device seen here a potter's wheel |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | AFTER-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES $600: This art of decorative handwriting is from the Greek for "beautiful writing" calligraphy |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | AFTER-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES $800: If you're learning to read music, you'll recognize this symbol, a stylized form of the letter "G" treble clef |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | AFTER-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES $1000: The USA's governing body for this sport has a girls' program called TOPs; skills include handstand & leg flexibility gymnastics |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | CURRENT U.S. SENATOR BEFORE & AFTER $400: A title cop played by Clint Eastwood, of all people, becomes the democratic Senate majority leader Dirty Harry Reid |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | CURRENT U.S. SENATOR BEFORE & AFTER $800: A Massachusetts female senator gets to the bottom of the JFK assassination as a group appointed on Nov. 29, 1963 Elizabeth Warren Commission |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | CURRENT U.S. SENATOR BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A 1970s pitcher whose name precedes a type of arm surgery takes a Senate seat for Arizona Tommy John McCain |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | CURRENT U.S. SENATOR BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A "saintly" Southern California city becomes a senator who "fights" for the entire state Santa Barbara Boxer |
| #6649, aired 2013-07-11 | CURRENT U.S. SENATOR BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A 1986 song that Paul Simon performed on "SNL" becomes a senator who used to work on the show "You Can Call Me Al" Franken |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | LANDS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $200: This South American country is named for an Italian navigator (don't think too much) Colombia |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | LANDS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $400: This South American country that became independent in 1825 is named for its liberator Bolivia |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | LANDS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $600: This country on the Rhine River is named for an Austrian prince; his descendants still rule the country Liechtenstein |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | LANDS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $800: This Indian Ocean island is named after a former governor, Maurice of Nassau Mauritius |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | LANDS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1000: A British territory, this island group about 700 miles east of the Carolinas is named for its discoverer Bermuda |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Williamsport, Penn. organization for kids' baseball & international cooperation, established by the Allies after WWI the Little League of Nations |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Site of the U.S. Military Academy from which a shot is fired at very close range West Point blank |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Animated film about a video game villain who designs polo shirts Wreck-It Ralph Lauren |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Current governor of New Jersey who was also the first female governor of New Jersey Chris Christie Todd Whitman |
| #6643, aired 2013-07-03 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Founder of the Girl Scouts in America who is a collective name for Belgium, the Netherlands & Luxembourg Juliette Gordon Low Countries |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | SHAKESPEAREAN BEFORE & AFTER $400: Ding dong! Shakespeare's hometown gets house visits from a cosmetics saleslady using a familiar slogan Stratford-on-Avon calling |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | SHAKESPEAREAN BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A "Bird" who habitually stays up late watching the story of Viola & Orsino A Twelfth Night Owl |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | SHAKESPEAREAN BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Will combines one of his comedy classics with what Mr. Blandings is trying to put up in a Cary Grant film A Midsummer Night's Dream House |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | THEY'RE AFTER THE "CHEE"s $200: A puffed cornmeal snack created in 1948 Cheetos |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | THEY'RE AFTER THE "CHEE"s $400: "Up in Smoke" comedy duo Cheech & Chong |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | THEY'RE AFTER THE "CHEE"s $600: Hip hip oh no!
It's been called the most dangerous female sport in high school & college cheerleading |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | THEY'RE AFTER THE "CHEE"s $800: Wapshot chronicler who published his first short story at age 18 John Cheever |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | THEY'RE AFTER THE "CHEE"s $1000: How close were we? This body part "by jowl" cheek |
| #6609, aired 2013-05-16 | USING ALGEBRA AFTER HIGH SCHOOL $400: 5/4 = 30/x;
x = this 24 |
| #6609, aired 2013-05-16 | USING ALGEBRA AFTER HIGH SCHOOL $800: Solve for x:
5x + 2x = 14 2 |
| #6609, aired 2013-05-16 | USING ALGEBRA AFTER HIGH SCHOOL $1200: Solve for x in the math problem seen here 1/3 |
| #6609, aired 2013-05-16 | USING ALGEBRA AFTER HIGH SCHOOL $1600: The stadium holds 4,500 seats;
80%, this many, are filled 3600 |
| #6609, aired 2013-05-16 | USING ALGEBRA AFTER HIGH SCHOOL $2000: 3x - y = 8
2x + y = 7;
solve for
x & y x = 3; y = 1 |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | AMERICA AFTER THE REVOLUTION $400: In July 1789 Congress created this first cabinet department; Thomas Jefferson was selected to head it the State Department |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | AMERICA AFTER THE REVOLUTION $800: In 1795 in Chapel Hill it became the first state university to admit students the University of North Carolina |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | AMERICA AFTER THE REVOLUTION $1200: In 1790 Dobson's Encyclopaedia, the American version of this, began printing, taking 7 years to complete the Encyclopedia Britannica |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | AMERICA AFTER THE REVOLUTION $2,000 (Daily Double): In this 1797 affair French agents demanded the U.S. loan France $10 million before our diplomats could meet Talleyrand the XYZ Affair |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | AMERICA AFTER THE REVOLUTION $2000: This 1786-1787 rebellion of debtor farmers in Massachusetts was named for its leader Shays' Rebellion |
| #6588, aired 2013-04-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Pat Sajak's show joins an after-Chinese dinner treat Wheel of Fortune cookie |
| #6588, aired 2013-04-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: I'll score 3 goals in a game if you don't give me some Halloween candy hat trick-or-treat |
| #6588, aired 2013-04-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: One of the Twin Cities puts out a single, singing "Loves Me Like A Rock" Saint Paul Simon |
| #6588, aired 2013-04-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A type of sports overtime becomes more serious as a document that sets an execution date sudden death warrant |
| #6588, aired 2013-04-17 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Legendary 19th c. Missouri outlaw who went straight into politics & married Mary Matalin Jesse James Carville |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | EDIBLE BEFORE & AFTER $400: Boy George's group that's a double-decker creation with bacon, lettuce, tomato & turkey on 3 slices of bread Culture Club sandwich |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | EDIBLE BEFORE & AFTER $800: Dairy-filled pastry that frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee cream Puff the Magic dragon |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | EDIBLE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A fried Asian appetizer that you use for personal grooming like Ban or Dry Idea egg roll-on deodorant |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | EDIBLE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Charlie Brown's gal pal is a hamburger with Swiss cheese & onions served on grilled rye Peppermint Patty melt |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | EDIBLE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Bourbon-&-peach liqueur that's a cozy dish from childhood, like meatloaf or macaroni & cheese Southern Comfort food |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Indestructible" airplane recorder that spawned a 1900 Asian revolt vs. foreigners the Black Boxer Rebellion |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER $800: Fromage-topped potage served at the NFL's championship game French Onion Super Bowl |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Capote's tale of jewelry window shopping starring a "Beverly Hills 90210" actress Breakfast at Tiffani Amber Thiessen |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Legendary, perverse French nobleman who uses the surface of the ground to make his old-timey dwelling Marquis de Sod House |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | ALMOST BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Satisfaction over the misfortune that came from someone revealing a truth through a verbal miscue Schadenfreudian Slip |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | C BEFORE I, AFTER E $400: To repeat a piece of poetry before an audience recite |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | C BEFORE I, AFTER E $800: Falling products of condensation in the atmosphere precipitation |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | C BEFORE I, AFTER E $1200: A car starts to do this--lower in value due to wear & tear--the second it leaves the lot depreciate |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | C BEFORE I, AFTER E $1600: To make a return as for something given, like a favor reciprocate |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | C BEFORE I, AFTER E $2000: Superficially pleasing or plausible; it describes some arguments specious |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | AFTER SCHOOL $400: At Katy (Texas) High School, Renee Zellweger was big into this club, a preview of her career choice drama |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | AFTER SCHOOL $800: These competitions involve a resolution that each team makes speeches for or against debate |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | AFTER SCHOOL $1200: You might learn the exchange variation on the French defense in this club chess club |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | AFTER SCHOOL $1600: This student club is an extension of the Kiwanis Club & provides community service Key Club |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | AFTER SCHOOL $2000: The objective of this association, the FEA, is to help students find out if being a teacher is in their "future" Future Educators Association |
| #6498, aired 2012-12-12 | POP MUSIC BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Nasty" &
"Running On Empty" Janet Jackson Browne |
| #6498, aired 2012-12-12 | POP MUSIC BEFORE & AFTER $800: "The Crying Game" &
"Got My Mind Set On You" Boy George Harrison |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | WE'RE AFTER SOME CONSISTENCY $400: This name of late comedian Sales can refer to the consistency of some liquids Soupy |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | WE'RE AFTER SOME CONSISTENCY $800: Similar to "gritty", it's the adjective used of old-time film from the clumping together of particles in the emulsion grainy |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | WE'RE AFTER SOME CONSISTENCY $1200: Sticky stuff to catch birds was once made from mistletoe, viscum in Latin; hence this adjective viscous |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | WE'RE AFTER SOME CONSISTENCY $1600: This adjective describes the slippery texture of okra or a despicable person slimy |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | WE'RE AFTER SOME CONSISTENCY $2000: Many plants are afflicted by this type of mildew named for feeling like soft feathers downy |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: The silver & black football team is cast in the first Indiana Jones movie the Oakland Raiders of the Lost Ark |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A heavy-browed archaic human unearthed in 1856 does Don Quixote on Broadway Neanderthal Man of La Mancha |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A newspaper cartoon disrobes to play a card game comic strip poker |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Ethical sayings of Jesus found in Matthew 5-7, read atop Zeus' home the Sermon on the Mount Olympus |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Type of union at the hip between bones with a round end fitting into a cup that advises the president on military matters a ball-and-socket Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $400: Surely you know the "Airplane!" co-star who's a system of measuring the audience of TV shows Leslie Nielsen ratings |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $800: TV drama set at an advertising agency that had the No. 1 hits "Down Under" & "Who Can It Be Now?" Mad Men at Work |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: "Teenage Dream" singer who also had hits with "Catch A Falling Star" & "Round And Round" Katy Perry Como |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: TV show in which Fred MacMurray raises Chip, Robbie & Ernie, who are part of Ron Perlman's biker gang My Three Sons of Anarchy |
| #6453, aired 2012-10-10 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: "Party Rock Anthem" group that is a renowned toy store on Fifth Avenue in New York City LMFAO Schwarz |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | ELECTION YEAR BEFORE & AFTER $200: Spokesclown for the Golden Arches who flirts with running for president & hosts "The Celebrity Apprentice" Ronald McDonald Trump |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | ELECTION YEAR BEFORE & AFTER $600: Paul Reubens' childlike (& childish) alter ego who once ran Godfather's Pizza Pee-wee Herman Cain |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | ELECTION YEAR BEFORE & AFTER $800: "Macbeth" witches' potion ingredient that drafted the "Contract with America" eye of Newt Gingrich |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | ELECTION YEAR BEFORE & AFTER $1000: National Wildlife Federation's magazine for kids that's a conservative ex-senator from Pennsylvania Ranger Rick Santorum |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: The mall store with the very sexy seduction line of bras is also a spy Victoria's Secret agent |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Ronald Reagan's favorite candy brand hits the pool with an awkward dive Jelly Belly flop |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: 3 or more people talk on the phone to play a first-person shooter game subtitled "Black Ops" conference call of duty |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Henry James' 1881 novel about an American girl who heads to Europe & shows you her "p-p-p-poker face" Portrait of a Lady Gaga |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: The nervous system's response to a threat is either battle or flee the songs of Bret & Jemaine fight or flight of the conchords |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | ABBREVIATIONS AFTER YOUR NAME $200: B.A., after 4 years of hard work & beer drinking Bachelor of Arts |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | ABBREVIATIONS AFTER YOUR NAME $400: D.V.M., a doctor of this medicine veterinary medicine |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | ABBREVIATIONS AFTER YOUR NAME $600: M.S.W., Master of this helping profession Master of Social Work |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | ABBREVIATIONS AFTER YOUR NAME $800: L.P.N.-- he or she is "licensed " a Licensed Practical Nurse |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | ABBREVIATIONS AFTER YOUR NAME $1000: F.R.S., a fellow of this British scientific body a Fellow of the Royal Society |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $400: A 1997 movie with Tommy Lee Jones policing aliens puts on a tutu to jete into a Natalie Portman film Men in Black Swan |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $800: 1988 Dustin Hoffman film that definitely, definitely became the musical film version of "Don Quixote" Rain Man of La Mancha |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $1600: Roger Moore 007 film that turns into another action pic with Uma Thurman as a killer bride View to a Kill Bill |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Mia Farrow taking a pregnant pause in a horror pic segues into Tina Fey's ticking biological clock in a 2008 comedy Rosemary's Baby Mama |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $2000: The horror, the horror at seeing a Coppola war film turn into a 1942 film where Bette Davis overcomes her domineering ma Apocalypse Now, Voyager |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Early 18th century Russian czar for whom Linus waits on Halloween night Peter the Great Pumpkin |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Pair of Disney chipmunks, one of whom is a popular NASCAR driver Chip & Dale Earnhardt, Jr. |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Retired longtime CNN talk show host who's the world's largest venomous snake Larry King Cobra |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" battle site is the setting for a 1980s ensemble cop drama Bunker Hill Street Blues |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A 7-time women's singles Wimbledon champion takes to the skies as a German rigid airship Steffi Graf Zeppelin |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $400: It precedes "Bay" in a national park in Alaska & "National Park" in a national park in Montana Glacier |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $800: "The origin of" this word meaning a distinct sort or kind? The Latin for "form" species |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $1200: This word that can mean an association often follows "honor" or "high" society |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $1600: Adjective meaning time long past, especially before the end of the Western Roman Empire ancient |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $2000: Here's the evidence:
this 2-word Latin term means "at first view" prima facie |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | COLLEGE BEFORE & AFTER $400: The U.S. Military Academy has an interface where you indicate an object on a screen, then use your mouse West Point & click |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | COLLEGE BEFORE & AFTER $800: An Ohio school that sounds like a place you'd pick up a spare serves long, thin legumes Bowling Green beans |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | COLLEGE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Rick Perry's alma mater adds the name of an Indian-American movie director Texas A & M. Night Shyamalan |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | COLLEGE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The pirates of a Catholic school in New Jersey may need one to get to the bathroom during class hours Seton Hall pass |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | COLLEGE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: These break out at the home of North Carolina's Demon Deacons, horrifying Smokey the Bear Wake Forest fires |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | THE NUMBER AFTER 1: LITERARY EDITION $200: The storming of the Bastille & death carts filled with human cargo are features of this Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | THE NUMBER AFTER 1: LITERARY EDITION $600: This Belgian detective doesn't buy suicide as the cause of a dentist's death in "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" (Hercule) Poirot |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | THE NUMBER AFTER 1: LITERARY EDITION $800: Proteus loves Julia, but another woman catches his eye in this Shakespeare play The Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | THE NUMBER AFTER 1: LITERARY EDITION $1000: Dominick Dunne wrote about a pair of women in a navy ensign's life in "The Two Mrs." these Grenvilles |
| #6282, aired 2012-01-03 | THE NUMBER AFTER 1: LITERARY EDITION $2,400 (Daily Double): "Helm's Deep" & "The Taming of Smeagol" are chapters in this "Two"-titled book The Two Towers |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $400: Han Solo meets up with Lando Calrissian while time-traveling with Marty McFly The Empire Strikes Back to the Future |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $800: James Bond fights the Soviets while trying to romance Ali MacGraw before she dies From Russia with Love Story |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1200: The president's plane is hijacked by terrorists & taken to a mental institution run by Nurse Ratched Air Force One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1600: Gene Kelly croons & dances while taking his brother Dustin Hoffman on a road trip Singin' in the Rain Man |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $2000: John Belushi & the boys set up their fraternity in the museum where crazy Vincent Price turns people into figurines Animal House of Wax |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: "The pipes, the pipes are calling" for a Culture Club lad & late Yankees owner "Oh, Danny Boy" George Steinbrenner |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: The governmental right to seize property & an Internet address can compel you to guess a song title after a few notes eminent domain Name That Tune |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: In a deceptive Greek "equine" of an ancient war lies a bloodsucking winged insect content to be an unseen observer a Trojan Horse-fly on the wall |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: Early Beatles drummer who wins Westminster Kennel Club top honors by yelling Cuba Gooding Jr.'s most famous line Pete Best in Show me the money |
| #6243, aired 2011-11-09 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Nebraska-named D-Day landing area whose album "Pet Sounds" clones Nazis in South America Omaha Beach Boys from Brazil |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Arkansas capital that's a big stone between Spain & Morocco Little Rock of Gibraltar |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: The type of letter telling the second president of the United States you're not his girlfriend anymore Dear John Adams |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: What a vampire on an HBO show might have to know to get a transfusion, such as O or AB True Blood type |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The stage where you're making enough to cover the cost of the basketball player who runs the offense the break-even point guard |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: The higher tract where heartburn originates gets a law helping servicemen go to college the upper G.I. Bill |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK AFTER... $400: Genesis Exodus |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK AFTER... $600 (Daily Double): Joshua Judges |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK AFTER... $800: Mark Luke |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK AFTER... $1200: Numbers Deuteronomy |
| #6193, aired 2011-07-13 | THE NEXT BIBLE BOOK AFTER... $1600: Psalms Proverbs |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | & AFTER $400: After the 1979 electoral defeat of the Labour Party, she took over for Prime Minister James Callaghan Margaret Thatcher |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | & AFTER $800: After Aug. 15, 1947 India & Pakistan emerged as 2 independent countries & he became India's first Prime Minister Nehru |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | & AFTER $1600: After leading a 1969 coup that deposed King Idris, he was named Commander in Chief of Libya's Armed Forces Gadhafi |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | & AFTER $2,000 (Daily Double): After a psy-ops team blasted Van Halen for 10 days at this general, hiding in Panama's Vatican Embassy, he said no mas (Manuel) Noriega |
| #6140, aired 2011-04-29 | & AFTER $2000: After finishing second to Lincoln in the 1860 popular vote for president, this senator died on June 3, 1861 (Stephen) Douglas |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER $400: The outdoorsy home of British Merry Men becomes the new pad for a "Last King of Scotland" winner Sherwood Forest Whitaker |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER $800: Uh oh... it's "Misery" when this actress checks into a "Psycho" lodging Kathy Bates Motel |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A 1953 musical based on a Shakespeare play becomes an actress who won as a literature-loving Nazi Kiss Me Kate Winslet |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER $1600: This best actor winner for "Stalag 17" has no time for Hollywood phonies as the "Catcher in the Rye" kid William Holden Caulfield |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A "timely" London landmark turns into an actor who won for a 1982 biopic Big Ben Kingsley |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | ON THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS $200: In 1982 Time magazine named this machine its "man of the year" the computer |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | ON THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS $400: In Los Angeles in 1966, this African-American holiday was celebrated for the first time Kwanzaa |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | ON THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS $800: In 1792 this man's trial began in Paris Louis XVI |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | ON THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS $1000: In 1776 George Washington & the continental army defeated the Hessians at the battle of this New Jersey city Trenton |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | ON THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1944 this man's Third Army tanks broke through the German lines surrounding Allied forces at Bastogne General Patton |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | AFTER ALASKA... $200: The largest state in area Texas |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | AFTER ALASKA... $400: The next state, alphabetically Arizona |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | AFTER ALASKA... $600: 1 of 3 states with a smaller population Wyoming (or Vermont or North Dakota) |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | AFTER ALASKA... $1,000 (Daily Double): The state with the highest mountain California |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | AFTER ALASKA... $1000: The state with the longest coastline Florida |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | COLLEGE BEFORE & AFTER $400: The second oldest U.S. college breaks out the flying umbrella & disciplines the Banks kids William & Mary Poppins |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | COLLEGE BEFORE & AFTER $800: A Utah school stages a black & white Mel Brooks classic Brigham Young Frankenstein |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | COLLEGE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Paterno sends his "Happy Valley" boys to get some "neighbor"ly life insurance Penn State Farm |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | COLLEGE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Tulsa university named for a preacher who was very skilled in parliamentary procedure Oral Robert's Rules of Order |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | COLLEGE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A Jesuit school in Worcester competes in running that's off-track Holy Cross country |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | COMPANIES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $400: During WWI the U.S. government confiscated the assets of this German aspirin company & sold off the name Bayer |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | COMPANIES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $800: The name of this toy company that began by selling frames & doll furniture is a combination of the owners' names Mattel |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | COMPANIES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1200: In 2002 the company named for this moviemaker spun off its THX division George Lucas |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | COMPANIES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $2000: In 1917 the son of an Illinois bookseller joined with a New York store & started this company Barnes & Noble |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | COMPANIES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $2,700 (Daily Double): A New York bank was named for this Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln (Salmon P.) Chase |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $400: Simba climbs to the top of the Empire State Building with Fay Wray in his arms The Lion King Kong |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $800: A mouse-like boy runs afoul of a carnivorous plant Stuart Little Shop of Horrors |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1200: A schoolteacher travels to Siam & finds herself the only living person left in New York City The King and I Am Legend |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $1600: Fanny Brice takes over for Diana Ross in a biopic Funny Lady Sings the Blues |
| #5997, aired 2010-10-12 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $2000: Julia Roberts escapes from getting married to an evil doll boy Runaway Bride of Chucky |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: A vodka & tomato juice drink turns into a Texas-based cosmetics giant Bloody Mary Kay |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: "Tainted Love" band's pocket communicator Soft Cell phone |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: Bonus work in school that nets you a piece of plastic from Visa extra credit card |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: This leader of the Autobots' factors are itself & one Optimus Prime number |
| #5972, aired 2010-07-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Any carbonated beverage that's "all around the mulberry bush" soda Pop Goes the Weasel |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $400: Florida NBA team that's central to a lofty Thomas Mann work about a soft drink Orlando Magic Mountain Dew |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $800: John Milton epic about Gertrude Stein's Parisian expatriate Yanks who were born starting in 1965 Paradise Lost Generation X |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: Poker hand of 3 aces & 2 kings with a British royal family name adopted in 1917 that's a great way to tie a tie a full house of Windsor knot |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: Possible 51st state that's part of a set of anti-crime laws & a penitential Catholic prayer Puerto Rico Act of contrition |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: "Don't Cry Out Loud" singer & Beckham's 1992-2003 team remind us that "a mind is a terrible thing to waste" Melissa Manchester United Negro College Fund |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | BEFORE & AFTER: SINGERS & PRESIDENTS $400: I'm the "Tutti Frutti" singer who also made a historic visit to China Little Richard Nixon |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | BEFORE & AFTER: SINGERS & PRESIDENTS $800: I sang "Atomic" as part of Blondie & also made the decision to use the atomic bomb Debbie Harry Truman |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | BEFORE & AFTER: SINGERS & PRESIDENTS $1200: "B-B-B-B-Bennie!" Bennie Franklin! You & I negotiated peace with Britain in the 1780s Elton John Adams |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | BEFORE & AFTER: SINGERS & PRESIDENTS $1600: Helping win the Mexican War was nothing compared to being CMA Entertainer of the Year as a teenager Zachary Taylor Swift |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | BEFORE & AFTER: SINGERS & PRESIDENTS $2000: Despite meeting "Mary Jane" & a "Super Freak", I never married; I'm... Rick James Buchanan |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: '50s sitcom dad to Ricky & David who became president of South Africa in 1994 Ozzie Nelson Mandela |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: The eighth U.N. secretary-general who's an Oscar-winning song from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Ban Ki-Moon River |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Ms. Sheindlin's legal TV show stars in "Meet Me in St. Louis" & "Summer Stock" Judge Judy Garland |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: "Happy Days" spin-off that was the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. congress Laverne & Shirley Chisholm |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A nickname for Alaska & Sweden about perpetual daylight becomes the father of modern China the Land of the Midnight Sun Yat-sen |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | A MOVIE BEFORE, THEN DINNER AFTER $400: Brat Pack detention in a 1985 film leads to a meal with 3 slices of toast, turkey, bacon & mayo The Breakfast Club Sandwich |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | A MOVIE BEFORE, THEN DINNER AFTER $800: Charlton Heston goes crazy when he finds out a revolutionary new foodstuff is "haricots verts" in French Soylent Green Beans |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | A MOVIE BEFORE, THEN DINNER AFTER $1200: War is afoot in this Marx Brothers classic about the daily changing of broth at a restaurant Duck Soup du Jour |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | A MOVIE BEFORE, THEN DINNER AFTER $1600: Stephen King's tale of Nebraska young 'uns who go homicidal when a frankfurter is battered & put on a stick Children of the Corn Dog |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | A MOVIE BEFORE, THEN DINNER AFTER $2000: "Larger" than life animated tale from Roald Dahl served as a dessert that sounds like it should be for shoe menders James and the Giant Peach Cobbler |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Poker hand of 3 Jacks, 2 sevens & the upper chamber of Britain's bicameral legislature full House of Lords |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Excitement reigned when Adventureland & Tomorrowland vied for the MLB crown Disney World Series |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Fruit juice company that became a nickname for Joan of Arc Minute Maid of Orleans |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A pageant first held in 1921 "for amber waves of grain" Miss America the Beautiful |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Name for the group that picks the president, vice president & pope the Electoral College of Cardinals |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | AN ALL-EDDIE BEFORE & AFTER $400: A "Beverly Hills Cop" star folds up into this piece of furniture an Eddie Murphy bed |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | AN ALL-EDDIE BEFORE & AFTER $800: An '80s rocker who sang "Take Me Home Tonight" becomes a biblical cliche about the all-corrupting dollar Eddie Money is the root of all evil |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | AN ALL-EDDIE BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Grambling State's football coach from 1941 to 1997 becomes a Defoe title character Eddie Robinson Crusoe |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | AN ALL-EDDIE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A hall of fame Baltimore Oriole first baseman becomes the music man who gave us "One Night in Bangkok" Eddie Murray Head |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | AN ALL-EDDIE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A "Green Acres" star goes existential (& French) as the author of "The Fall" Eddie Albert Camus |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | B.C. & AFTER $400: Son of Philip II of Macedonia who became the world's largest coral system Alexander the Great Barrier Reef |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | B.C. & AFTER $800: Period of time named for an alloy of copper & tin & the new water-bearing Zodiacal era the Bronze Age of Aquarius |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | B.C. & AFTER $1200: "Wonder"-ful giant statue of Helios that brings financial aid to study at Oxford The Colossus of Rhodes Scholarship |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | B.C. & AFTER $1600: Sophoclean tragedy about the killing of a father & his friend, the actor who portrayed Henry Higgins on film Oedipus Rex Harrison |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | B.C. & AFTER $2000: Homo erectus archaeological find on Jakarta's island by an expatriate U.S. photographer Java Man Ray |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | "B" FORE "N" AFTER $200: A legume, maybe a green one a bean |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Classic candy bar that's a female Supreme Court justice Baby Ruth Ginsburg |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | "B" FORE "N" AFTER $400: A prohibition ban |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | "B" FORE "N" AFTER $600: Ship's officer who summons the crew with a whistle a boatswain |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Woody Allen romantic comedy about a student who patrols the corridors of a school Annie Hall Monitor |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | "B" FORE "N" AFTER $800: Maine college that was Nat Hawthorne's alma mater Bowdoin |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | "B" FORE "N" AFTER $1000: Seaside Sussex town where the pinball wizard played Brighton (England) |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: This president made a "clean sweep" of the White House from 1929 to 1933 (including the carpets) Herbert Hoover Vacuum Cleaner |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: John Donne poem that's "rolling, rolling, rolling on the river" "Death Be Not Proud Mary" |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Ingredient in the witches' potion in "Macbeth" that's a body part of a 1990s House speaker eye of Newt Gingrich |
| #5811, aired 2009-12-14 | CLINTON AFTER THE PRESIDENCY $200: (Former President Clinton delivers the clue.) Launched in 2006, the Clinton Climate Initiative is working with cities to improve energy efficiency & reduce these emissions like CO2 that contribute to global warming greenhouse gases |
| #5811, aired 2009-12-14 | CLINTON AFTER THE PRESIDENCY $400: (Former President Clinton delivers the clue.) I'm the chairman of the national center devoted to this document; I spoke at the groundbreaking ceremony on September 17, 2000--213 years to the day it was signed the Constitution |
| #5811, aired 2009-12-14 | CLINTON AFTER THE PRESIDENCY $600: (Former President Clinton delivers the clue.) For our narration of "Peter and the Wolf: Wolf Tracks", I shared a 2003 Grammy Award with Sophia Loren & this former Soviet President Gorbachev |
| #5811, aired 2009-12-14 | CLINTON AFTER THE PRESIDENCY $800: (Former President Clinton delivers the clue.) In May 2009 I was named special envoy to this impoverished Caribbean nation; on my visit in July, I spoke of the hope of accelerated aid & job creation Haiti |
| #5811, aired 2009-12-14 | CLINTON AFTER THE PRESIDENCY $1000: (Former President Clinton delivers the clue.) The Clinton Hunter Development Initiative has planted several million fruit trees in Malawi & Rwanda to reverse this, caused by activities like clear-cutting which lead to land erosion deforestation |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: "King" of the dinosaurs who starred in "My Fair Lady" Tyrannosaurus rex harrison |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A recently surpassed all-time home run king turns into a "killer" vice president of the early 1800s Hank Aaron Burr |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Teddy Roosevelt's policy that promises fairness & a chance to win cash on a game show hosted by Howie Mandel Square Deal or No Deal |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The first Mickey Mouse cartoon with sound is baseball's "Say Hey Kid" Steamboat Willie Mays |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 2008 comedy with Ben Stiller & Jack Black playing soldiers that's a Springsteen song with the line "Sit tight take hold" Tropic Thunder Road |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: What the bombs were doing in "The Star-Spangled Banner" & a scent-sible product from Febreze bursting in air freshener |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A California cheddar-like cheese becomes a small terrier dog breed a Monterey Jack Russell terrier |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: A poetic numerical lantern request by Paul Revere morphs into a shelled animal like the loggerhead one if by land, two if by sea turtle |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A 1987 Paul Simon hit turns into an environmentalist ex-vice president "You Can Call Me Al Gore" |
| #5715, aired 2009-06-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Poet who may lose a finger or toe to a bitter cold condition (after stopping by woods on a snowy evening) Robert Frostbite |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | SCHOOLS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $200: A merchant's 1919 bequest for music education resulted in this NYC academy's graduate school the Juilliard School |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | SCHOOLS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $400: This religious leader bought a building from the Univ. of Deseret, founded a school & named it for himself Brigham Young |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | SCHOOLS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $600: N.C.'s Trinity College changed its name to this after a tobacco family that gave the school millions Duke |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | SCHOOLS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $800: It's no surprise that a New Hampshire university is named for this 14th president Franklin Pierce |
| #5687, aired 2009-05-05 | SCHOOLS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $1000: James Bayley founded this N.J. university & named it for his aunt, the first American-born saint Seton Hall |
| #5682, aired 2009-04-28 | "B" FORE & AFTER $200: William Howard Taft got stuck in one bathtub |
| #5682, aired 2009-04-28 | "B" FORE & AFTER $400: An amorphous globule blob |
| #5682, aired 2009-04-28 | "B" FORE & AFTER $600: Place to enjoy a pint of the local brewpub |
| #5682, aired 2009-04-28 | "B" FORE & AFTER $800: Prospective tulip bulb |
| #5682, aired 2009-04-28 | "B" FORE & AFTER $1000: Prince of the devils Beelzebub |
| #5667, aired 2009-04-07 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $400: Lorraine Hansberry's African-American family now visits Jake Barnes in Spain for some bullfighting Raisin in the Sun Also Rises |
| #5667, aired 2009-04-07 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $800: H.G. Wells sci-fi novel about Sir Thomas More & his ability to not be seen The Invisible Man for All Seasons |
| #5667, aired 2009-04-07 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Norman Mailer's true story of Gary Gilmore, a key player in Toni Morrison's "biblical" novel The Executioner's Song of Solomon |
| #5667, aired 2009-04-07 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A clue to Umberto Eco's murdered monks--they have the same indelible skin pattern, a flower from Tennessee Williams The Name of the Rose Tattoo |
| #5667, aired 2009-04-07 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $2,800 (Daily Double): Sun Tzu meets Tolstoy on the battlefield in this classic strategy meets storytelling merger The Art of War and Peace |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: Al Gore's environmental film that's a drug administered to get a subject to spill the beans in interrogation An Inconvenient Truth serum |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | BEFORE AN "AFTER" $400: This 3-word fairy tale ending tells us how the main characters lived from that point onward Happily Ever After |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Star of 2008's "Incredible Hulk" who is a software program that gives spyware protection Edward Norton AntiVirus |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: Houston Rockets center who ruled over China from 1368 to 1644 Yao Ming Dynasty |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | BEFORE AN "AFTER" $800: Many religions believe in this time yet to come, post-death the hereafter |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Coldplay singer known for portraying Jiminy Glick Chris Martin Short |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Jack London story about the dog Buck who joins a Nick cartoon about Eliza, who can talk to animals The Call of the Wild Thornberrys |
| #5658, aired 2009-03-25 | BEFORE AN "AFTER" $1200: In 1973 Maureen McGovern sang, "There's got to be" one of these "if we can hold on through the night" a morning after |
