#9101, aired 2024-05-13 | THE GOLDEN AGE $200: The last dramas of "the Golden Age of" this, "Suspense" & "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar", ended their runs in 1962 radio |
#9101, aired 2024-05-13 | THE GOLDEN AGE $400: Servicemen bought homes with zero down thanks to this U.S. bill signed in June 1944, helping start the "Golden Age of Capitalism" the G.I. Bill |
#9101, aired 2024-05-13 | THE GOLDEN AGE $600: In the golden age of the Tang Dynasty the capital, Chang'an, passed this pop. milestone 1,000 years before London did around 1800 a million people |
#9101, aired 2024-05-13 | THE GOLDEN AGE $800: The pretty items being offered in a painting from Spain's Golden Age, tell you the goddess is this Roman one Flora |
#9101, aired 2024-05-13 | THE GOLDEN AGE $1000: This police rank must look over clues carefully; it was common in British golden age detective novels: Grant, French, Cockrill... an inspector |
#8816, aired 2023-02-27 | THE GOLDEN AGE $400: A golden age of literature is named for this queen who saw Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" & "Merry Wives" first run Elizabeth I |
#8816, aired 2023-02-27 | THE GOLDEN AGE $800: The 11th c. verse of Ibn Gabirol was part of a renaissance of poetry in this language in the golden age of Spanish Jewry Hebrew |
#8816, aired 2023-02-27 | THE GOLDEN AGE $1200: This nation's 17th century golden age included paintings of its maritime success; note the ship's red-, white- & blue-striped flag the Netherlands |
#8816, aired 2023-02-27 | THE GOLDEN AGE $1600: Born around 470 B.C., this figure from the golden age of Greek culture went around barefoot asking annoying questions Socrates |
#8816, aired 2023-02-27 | THE GOLDEN AGE $2000: In the 19th century Soren Kierkegaard & Hans Christian Andersen were both active in this capital city Copenhagen |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | IN THE GILDED AGE $400: Characterized by an expanding economy & political corruption, the Gilded Age takes its name from an 1873 novel by him Mark Twain |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | IN THE GILDED AGE $800: In 1879 he first publicly demonstrated his incandescent invention in Menlo Park Edison |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | IN THE GILDED AGE $1200: In 1894 Eugene Debs led members of the American Railway Union in a strike against this company over wage cutbacks (the) Pullman (Company) |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | IN THE GILDED AGE $1600: Buyouts, mergers & other means gave this man's Standard Oil Company a virtual monopoly on U.S. petroleum (John D.) Rockefeller |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | IN THE GILDED AGE $2000: Celebrating the Declaration of Independence, the USA's first world's fair, the Centennial Exposition, was held in this city Philadelphia |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | VERBI"AGE" $400: To wrap a wound bandage |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | VERBI"AGE" $800: To play a practice game against members of your own team scrimmage |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | VERBI"AGE" $1200: To roam in search of food forage |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | VERBI"AGE" $1600: To pledge property as collateral for a loan mortgage |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | VERBI"AGE" $2000: To carry a boat overland from one body of water to another portage |
#8425, aired 2021-06-18 | AGE $200: With a pass to Antonio Brown in 2021, this quarterback became the oldest to throw a postseason touchdown Tom Brady |
#8425, aired 2021-06-18 | AGE $400: One of the oldest living organisms, the pando of Utah is a grove of quaking these trees aspens |
#8425, aired 2021-06-18 | AGE $600: This infamous Boston gangster was once the oldest fugitive to make the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list at age 69 Whitey Bulger |
#8425, aired 2021-06-18 | AGE $1000: Some of the oldest paleolithic hand axes were found in this gorge near Serengeti National Park Olduvai Gorge |
#8425, aired 2021-06-18 | AGE $2,600 (Daily Double): Thanks to a 1386 treaty signed by Richard II & João I England's oldest ally is this country Portugal |
#8176, aired 2020-03-09 | YOU'RE SHOWING YOUR AGE $400: Head to the roadshow if you know that one of these artifacts is now generally defined as one that's more than 100 years old an antique |
#8176, aired 2020-03-09 | YOU'RE SHOWING YOUR AGE $800: From the Latin for "yield of grapes", it's the year in which particular wine grapes in a region were grown a vintage |
#8176, aired 2020-03-09 | YOU'RE SHOWING YOUR AGE $1200: Every year, thousands of 18-year-olds "age out" of this type of care by non-birth parents & some have trouble on their own foster care |
#8176, aired 2020-03-09 | YOU'RE SHOWING YOUR AGE $1,500 (Daily Double): There's speed dating, online dating & this method developed in 1946 that can tell archaeologists an artifact's age carbon dating |
#8176, aired 2020-03-09 | YOU'RE SHOWING YOUR AGE $2000: In 1971 this amendment to the Constitution lowered the voting age for citizens to 18 the 26th Amendment |
#8168, aired 2020-02-26 | THE DIGITAL AGE $200: This rhyming company that tracks your motion has a Versa 2 smartwatch with Alexa onboard Fitbit |
#8168, aired 2020-02-26 | THE DIGITAL AGE $400: A ghost is the logo of this photo-messaging app Snapchat |
#8168, aired 2020-02-26 | THE DIGITAL AGE $600: The Tinder app has popularized this 2-word term meaning to accept or approve of something swipe right |
#8168, aired 2020-02-26 | THE DIGITAL AGE $800: Google recently decluttered this browser by simplifying the tab menu Chrome |
#8168, aired 2020-02-26 | THE DIGITAL AGE $1000: Support your favorite streamers on this website that sounds like an involuntary spasm Twitch |
#8131, aired 2020-01-06 | THE AGE OF EXPLORATION $800: Purportedly seeking the Fountain of Youth, Ponce de Leon reached the American mainland in 1513 in what is today this state Florida |
#8131, aired 2020-01-06 | THE AGE OF EXPLORATION $1600: In 1607, this English explorer set forth to discover a passage by the North Pole to Japan and China (Henry) Hudson |
#8131, aired 2020-01-06 | THE AGE OF EXPLORATION $2,000 (Daily Double): Stories of cannibals & courtesans, Kublai Khan & Prester John abound in this explorer's circa 1300 "Travels" Marco Polo |
#8131, aired 2020-01-06 | THE AGE OF EXPLORATION $2000: A lake that forms the boundary between Vermont & New York bears the name of this explorer who visited in 1609 Samuel de Champlain |
#8029, aired 2019-07-04 | VERBI"AGE" $400: To go on a nautical journey, perhaps to the bottom of the sea voyage |
#8029, aired 2019-07-04 | VERBI"AGE" $800: To send a text, maybe instantly message |
#8029, aired 2019-07-04 | VERBI"AGE" $1200: To save something from the trash pile & put it to use salvage |
#8029, aired 2019-07-04 | VERBI"AGE" $1600: To bleed profusely hemorrhage |
#8029, aired 2019-07-04 | VERBI"AGE" $2000: To play a practice game against another team scrimmage |
#7858, aired 2018-11-07 | COMING OF AGE $400: This age came in with Britain's new queen in 1837 Victoria or the Victorian Age |
#7858, aired 2018-11-07 | COMING OF AGE $800: The golden age of this buccaneering activity began around 1650 piracy |
#7858, aired 2018-11-07 | COMING OF AGE $1200: Wet cultivation of this crop marks the start of Japan's Yayoi Period rice |
#7858, aired 2018-11-07 | COMING OF AGE $1600: In history's stages per Karl Marx, feudalism gave way to this -ism, AKA the free market capitalism |
#7858, aired 2018-11-07 | COMING OF AGE $2,000 (Daily Double): For warships, the iron age began at the same time as the age of this type of power steam |
#7809, aired 2018-07-19 | MIDDLE "AGE" $400: A varied collection, especially of animals a menagerie |
#7809, aired 2018-07-19 | MIDDLE "AGE" $800: Keen, ardent, impatiently longing eager |
#7809, aired 2018-07-19 | MIDDLE "AGE" $1200: Donut-shaped roll a bagel |
#7809, aired 2018-07-19 | MIDDLE "AGE" $1600: Old-timey word for a basketball player a cager |
#7809, aired 2018-07-19 | MIDDLE "AGE" $2000: Romans 6 says these "of sin" are death wages |
#7804, aired 2018-07-12 | YOU'RE SHOWING YOUR AGE $200: Of course, Cervantes was part of Spain's literary Siglo de Oro, or this age the Golden Age |
#7804, aired 2018-07-12 | YOU'RE SHOWING YOUR AGE $400: This war of legend is considered the end of the Greek Heroic Age the Trojan War |
#7804, aired 2018-07-12 | YOU'RE SHOWING YOUR AGE $600: Jacobus, the Latin name for this British king, gave us the Jacobean Age of the 17th century King James I |
#7804, aired 2018-07-12 | YOU'RE SHOWING YOUR AGE $800: The 19th century Industrial Age gave us roller milling, making white this more available to the masses bread |
#7804, aired 2018-07-12 | YOU'RE SHOWING YOUR AGE $1000: In India's Gupta Age, this now-dead tongue became the court language of the empire Sanskrit |
#7694, aired 2018-02-08 | ERA OR AGE. PERIOD. $400: This astrological age believed to signal spirituality & harmony gave its name to the hippie 1960s the Age of Aquarius |
#7694, aired 2018-02-08 | ERA OR AGE. PERIOD. $800: Japan's Heisei Era began in 1989 upon the death of this man Emperor Hirohito |
#7694, aired 2018-02-08 | ERA OR AGE. PERIOD. $1200: In French, this intellectual age of the 17th & 18th centuries was "Le Siecle des Lumieres" the Enlightenment |
#7694, aired 2018-02-08 | ERA OR AGE. PERIOD. $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Country Wife" is one of the bawdy plays named for this era when the English monarchy returned the Restoration |
#7694, aired 2018-02-08 | ERA OR AGE. PERIOD. $2000: In 1925 John Dos Passos wrote of "The Excitement and Wickedness of" this age happening then the Jazz Age |
#7638, aired 2017-11-22 | THE AGE OF TREASON $400: Adolf Tolkachev gave secrets of Soviet radar to this U.S. spy agency but was betrayed & executed for treason the CIA |
#7638, aired 2017-11-22 | THE AGE OF TREASON $800: In 1815 France's monarchy shot Gen. Michel Ney for serving this man who called him "bravest of the brave" Napoleon |
#7638, aired 2017-11-22 | THE AGE OF TREASON $1,200 (Daily Double): 17 when convicted of treason in the death of this man, Vaso Cubrilovic went on to be Yugoslavia's Minister of Forests Duke Franz Ferdinand |
#7638, aired 2017-11-22 | THE AGE OF TREASON $1600: In 1844 American Thomas Dorr argued that you can't be convicted of treason against one of these, but he was a state |
#7638, aired 2017-11-22 | THE AGE OF TREASON $2000: The last man hanged for treason in England was "Lord Haw Haw", who used this as his "weapon" to help the Nazis the radio |
#7506, aired 2017-04-10 | THE GILDED AGE $400: From 1869 to 1881 3 consecutive U.S. presidents were Ohio-born former Civil War generals of this political party the Republicans |
#7506, aired 2017-04-10 | THE GILDED AGE $800: By 1892 this former fort in upper New York Bay had become the USA's main immigration reception center Ellis Island |
#7506, aired 2017-04-10 | THE GILDED AGE $1200: A champion of social welfare reform, Jane Addams founded Hull House to help the poor in this Midwest city in 1889 Chicago |
#7506, aired 2017-04-10 | THE GILDED AGE $1600: She shared her first name with England's monarch of the time, and in 1872, became the first woman to run for president Victoria Woodhull |
#7506, aired 2017-04-10 | THE GILDED AGE $2000: On the same day in 1876, these 2 men both filed papers for a patent for the telephone Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray |
#7414, aired 2016-12-01 | THE AGE OF WHALING $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut.) From the hoops high above, lookouts would keep watch, and when they spotted a whale's spout, they commonly yelled this familiar 3-word phrase thar she blows |
#7414, aired 2016-12-01 | THE AGE OF WHALING $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut.) In the seventeen and eighteen-hundreds, whale oil was in high demand for use in lamps and candles and to lubricate machinery parts; after a whale was killed, chunks of this thick layer of fat would be boiled in tri-pots like these to produce the oil blubber |
#7414, aired 2016-12-01 | THE AGE OF WHALING $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut.) After a whale was spotted, the crew pursued it in a boat like this; in 1820, sailors spent 3 harrowing months on their boats after the Essex was sunk by an 85-foot whale, inspiring this classic 1851 novel Moby Dick |
#7414, aired 2016-12-01 | THE AGE OF WHALING $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Mystic Seaport, Connecticut.) At the recreated 19th century seafaring village, see how these craftsmen made casks to store whale oil at sea coopers |
#7386, aired 2016-10-24 | THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $400: This period drama had Maggie Smith say, "Don't be defeatist, dear. It's very middle class" Downton Abbey |
#7386, aired 2016-10-24 | THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $800: Characters on this series included Sally Draper & office manager Joan Holloway Mad Men |
#7386, aired 2016-10-24 | THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $1200: The cast of this gritty show included Idris Elba as drug kingpin Stringer Bell The Wire |
#7386, aired 2016-10-24 | THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $1600: Nicholas Brody gave intel that led to the death of terrorist leader Abu Nazir on this drama Homeland |
#7386, aired 2016-10-24 | THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $2000: She's breaking boundaries as Litchfield prisoner Sophia Burset on "Orange Is the New Black" Laverne Cox |
#7210, aired 2016-01-08 | WHAT AN "AGE" $400: Position of an actor towards the front of the performing area downstage |
#7210, aired 2016-01-08 | WHAT AN "AGE" $800: 6-letter word meaning to make someone angry enrage |
#7210, aired 2016-01-08 | WHAT AN "AGE" $1200: 3-word phrase meaning to make someone angry, as if he were a zoo animal rattle his cage |
#7210, aired 2016-01-08 | WHAT AN "AGE" $1600: This aromatic favorite is native to Southern Europe and the Mediterranean region sage |
#7210, aired 2016-01-08 | WHAT AN "AGE" $2000: To calm someone's fears assuage |
#7194, aired 2015-12-17 | THAT DARN LITTLE ICE AGE $400: The little ice age of 1300 to 1850 followed the MWP, this historical era "warm period" Medieval |
#7194, aired 2015-12-17 | THE AGE OF MANN $400: Lubeck, Germany's Buddenbrookhaus is named after this German author's "Buddenbrooks" Thomas Mann |
#7194, aired 2015-12-17 | THAT DARN LITTLE ICE AGE $800: During the coldest part of the LIA, this river that flows from the Cotswolds to London would freeze in winter the Thames |
#7194, aired 2015-12-17 | THE AGE OF MANN $800: AKA the White Slave Traffic Act, 1910's Mann Act dealt with the transport of women for immoral purposes across these state lines |
#7194, aired 2015-12-17 | THE AGE OF MANN $1200: She's appeared in several of the comedies directed by her husband Judd Apatow Leslie Mann |
#7194, aired 2015-12-17 | THAT DARN LITTLE ICE AGE $1600: Temps fell in the 17th century, hurting the North Atlantic fisheries based on this food fish of the genus Gadus cod |
#7194, aired 2015-12-17 | THAT DARN LITTLE ICE AGE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Some scientists think the little ice age in Europe was because of a change in the jet stream, which was caused by the NAO, the North Atlantic this oscillation |
#7194, aired 2015-12-17 | THE AGE OF MANN $2000: A giant in the field of American public education, he took the congressional seat of John Quincy Adams in 1848 Horace Mann |
#6949, aired 2014-11-27 | THE DAWN OF THE ATOMIC AGE $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Los Alamos, NM.) The project that produced the first atomic bombs got this name after a New York City district of the Army Corps of Engineers, but it came to completion across the country here in Los Alamos The Manhattan Project |
#6949, aired 2014-11-27 | THE DAWN OF THE ATOMIC AGE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Los Alamos, NM.) In 1945, the Quonset hut here was used to assemble the implosion type atomic device called "Fat Man" that would explode over this city days after Hiroshima was bombed Nagasaki |
#6949, aired 2014-11-27 | THE DAWN OF THE ATOMIC AGE $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Los Alamos NM.) The area called V-Site was where the device known as the "Gadget" was assembled. The first nuclear device in the world, it had a core of the 239 isotope of this element plutonium |
#6949, aired 2014-11-27 | THE DAWN OF THE ATOMIC AGE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Los Alamos, NM.) The stress of running the administrative & scientific size of the project of producing the bomb wore this Los Alamos lab director down to 116 pounds by July 1945 Robert Oppenheimer |
#6949, aired 2014-11-27 | THE DAWN OF THE ATOMIC AGE $1000: Surely you're joking! Not yet 28, he was a group leader in the theoretical division of the A-bomb push Richard Feynman |
#6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE "IRON" AGE $200: 666 was "the number of the beast" in a hit song for this heavy metal band Iron Maiden |
#6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE IRON AGE $400: Iron Age literature includes this epic poem that begins, "Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles" the Iliad |
#6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE "IRON" AGE $400: We guarantee it's a metal-plated wooden warship like the Monitor an ironclad |
#6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE "IRON" AGE $600: This triangular NYC building is found at 5th Avenue & 22nd street the Flatiron Building |
#6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE IRON AGE $800: The Iron Age was characterized by advanced uses of the metal, aided by this heating & forging process smelting |
#6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE "IRON" AGE $800: Churchill warned of the creation of this barrier the Iron Curtain |
#6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE "IRON" AGE $1000: An Old West "rawhide artist" was someone skilled with this implement a branding iron |
#6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE IRON AGE $1200: Our alphabet goes back 3,000 years to the phonetic one used in the Iron Age by these great sailors who founded Carthage the Phoenicians |
#6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE IRON AGE $1600: Hallstatt, Austria is home to the earliest evidence of this Iron Age people who gave us the languages Gaelic & Breton the Celts |
#6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE IRON AGE $2000: Iron expertise was spread after the c. 1200 B.C. defeat of this Anatolian empire the Hittites |
#6810, aired 2014-04-04 | THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS $400: Henry Frick made a fortune supplying the Pittsburgh steel industry with this product made from heating pulverized coal coke |
#6810, aired 2014-04-04 | THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS $1200: The "P." in the name of this preeminent banker of the Gilded Age stood for Pierpont, his mother's family (J.P.) Morgan |
#6810, aired 2014-04-04 | THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS $1600: 5 years after this act was passed, the Supreme Court gutted it in 1895's United States v. E.C. Knight the Sherman Antitrust Act |
#6810, aired 2014-04-04 | THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS $2000: Montana's Marcus Daly owned this, the USA's richest copper mine, as well as the town named for it Anaconda |
#6810, aired 2014-04-04 | THE AGE OF THE ROBBER BARONS $7,100 (Daily Double): In 1890 he became president of the American Tobacco Company in Durham, North Carolina (James Buchanan) Duke |
#6696, aired 2013-10-28 | MIDDLE AGE MEN $400: In the 1280s this Venetian served as an official for Kublai Khan in the city of Yangzhou Marco Polo |
#6696, aired 2013-10-28 | MIDDLE AGE MEN $800: This poet had mooned over Beatrice Portinari for 9 years before she even spoke to him in 1283 Dante |
#6696, aired 2013-10-28 | MIDDLE AGE MEN $1600: In 1057 he was killed in battle at Lumphanan in Aberdeenshire, not at Dunsinane Castle Macbeth |
#6696, aired 2013-10-28 | MIDDLE AGE MEN $2000: At the battle for Jaffa in 1192, Richard the Lionheart's mount was killed, so this Muslim foe sent him 2 to replace it Saladin |
#6696, aired 2013-10-28 | MIDDLE AGE MEN $3,200 (Daily Double): Al-Razi gave the first description of acquired immunitv in a discussion of this disease that disfigured & killed smallpox |
#6656, aired 2013-07-22 | AGE AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A NUMBER $200: This ex-brat packer who plays Chris Traeger on "Parks & Rec" is 49 but literally looks better than men half his age Rob Lowe |
#6656, aired 2013-07-22 | AGE AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A NUMBER $400: This action star turned 73 in March 2013, or would have, but the calendar turned backward out of fear of him Chuck Norris |
#6656, aired 2013-07-22 | AGE AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A NUMBER $600: In 2012 this "Inside the Actors Studio" host turned an amazing 86 years old... how marvelous! (James) Lipton |
#6656, aired 2013-07-22 | AGE AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A NUMBER $800: She has spent 14 of her 49 years busting bad guys as Olivia Benson on "Law & Order: SVU" (& looks the same as when she began) Mariska Hargitay |
#6656, aired 2013-07-22 | AGE AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A NUMBER $1000: Perhaps this "Big Bang theory" character played by Jim Parsons could explain how Jim looks 25 but is actually 40 Dr. Sheldon Cooper |
#6573, aired 2013-03-27 | THE AGE OF MAN $200: Regrettably, on September 22, 1776 this 21-year-old gave up his one life for his country (Nathan) Hale |
#6573, aired 2013-03-27 | THE AGE OF MAN $400: He was 68 when he defended the right of John T. Scopes to teach the theory of evolution Clarence Darrow |
#6573, aired 2013-03-27 | THE AGE OF MAN $600: He was young (26) when he wrote the movie "Forever Young"; he's since brought us "Lost", "Fringe" & "Star Trek" J.J. Abrams |
#6573, aired 2013-03-27 | THE AGE OF MAN $800: Sadly this pointillism pioneer was only 31 when he died of a sudden illness in Paris Georges Seurat |
#6573, aired 2013-03-27 | THE AGE OF MAN $1000: This German composer was just 17 when he wrote his overture for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1826 (Felix) Mendelssohn |
#6553, aired 2013-02-27 | THE BRONZE AGE $200: Gymnast & native son Dimitrios Loundras was only 10 years old when he won a bronze in this city in 1896 Athens |
#6553, aired 2013-02-27 | THE BRONZE AGE $400: Leonel Suarez of Cuba is the world's third-greatest all-around athlete: he got bronze in this event in 2012 decathlon |
#6553, aired 2013-02-27 | THE BRONZE AGE $600: In men's Olympic basketball, this Baltic team won bronze in 1992, 1996 & 2000 Lithuania |
#6553, aired 2013-02-27 | THE BRONZE AGE $800: On the medal stand, 200-meter bronze medalist John Carlos raised his fist in a black power salute in this year 1968 |
#6553, aired 2013-02-27 | THE BRONZE AGE $1000: The first African American to win a winter Olympic medal was Debi Thomas with a 1988 bronze in this sport figure skating |
#6389, aired 2012-05-31 | THE GILDED AGE $200: The era known as "The Gilded Age" got its name from an 1873 novel by Charles Dudley Warner & this humorist Mark Twain |
#6389, aired 2012-05-31 | THE GILDED AGE $400: An 1874 congressional report on Vanderbilt railroad interests used this word before baron robber |
#6389, aired 2012-05-31 | THE GILDED AGE $600: Financial crises in Vienna & New York precipitated the 1873 economic downturn known by this "fearful" term panic |
#6389, aired 2012-05-31 | THE GILDED AGE $800: "Let Us Prey", an 1871 cartoon by this man, depicted Boss Tweed & his associates as vultures (Thomas) Nast |
#6389, aired 2012-05-31 | THE GILDED AGE $1,800 (Daily Double): Gilded Age advocates of the theory called "Social" this -ism applauded the "survival of the fittest" Darwinism |
#6297, aired 2012-01-24 | NEW AGE THINKING $200: "Hair" fans know this current "Age" is a 2,000-year period of evolution toward world peace & enlightenment Aquarius |
#6297, aired 2012-01-24 | NEW AGE THINKING $400: This term for receiving energy & info from other levels of reality sounds like redirecting water along a passage channeling |
#6297, aired 2012-01-24 | NEW AGE THINKING $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows on the monitor a diagram of a person in lotus position with seven colored dots along its vertical midline.) Referring to its inner vision, the sixth chakra at the center of the forehead is also known by this other ordinal name the third eye |
#6297, aired 2012-01-24 | NEW AGE THINKING $800: On Aug. 16, 1987 followers of Jose Arguelles gathered in various spiritual centers for the harmonic this convergence |
#6297, aired 2012-01-24 | NEW AGE THINKING $1000: Seen here is an example of one of these graphic mystical meditation aids whose name is from the Sanskrit for circle mandala |
#6108, aired 2011-03-16 | THE AGE OF AQUARIUMS $400: This fish, Carassius auratus, usually lives about 5 years in home aquariums, but some may go for 20 goldfish |
#6108, aired 2011-03-16 | THE AGE OF AQUARIUMS $800: Bottom-feeding fish can't get to food in this common form, so don't feed them Wheaties flakes |
#6108, aired 2011-03-16 | THE AGE OF AQUARIUMS $1200: Types of this small tropical fish include neon, bleeding-heart & diamond the tetra |
#6108, aired 2011-03-16 | THE AGE OF AQUARIUMS $1600: It's the fish seen here doin' its thing a pufferfish (or blowfish) |
#6085, aired 2011-02-11 | ACT YOUR "AGE" $400: Ace or tourniquet a bandage |
#6085, aired 2011-02-11 | ACT YOUR "AGE" $800: The carrying capacity of a large ship is measured in this 7-letter word tonnage |
#6085, aired 2011-02-11 | ACT YOUR "AGE" $1200: A heavy bombardment of artillery a barrage |
#6085, aired 2011-02-11 | ACT YOUR "AGE" $1600: From the French for "training", it's an equestrian event dressage |
#6085, aired 2011-02-11 | ACT YOUR "AGE" $2,000 (Daily Double): Within a circuit, it's calculated by the amount of current flow of 1 coulomb per second past a given point the amperage |
#6024, aired 2010-11-18 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $1200: A peasant might play his cards close to his jerkin, a type of this a vest |
#6024, aired 2010-11-18 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $1600: To become skilled using this long spear, a squire would practice against a wooden dummy called a quintain a lance |
#6024, aired 2010-11-18 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $2000: The term "chivalry" comes from this French word meaning "one who rides a horse" chevalier |
#5962, aired 2010-07-13 | THE AGE OF ASPARAGUS $200: The Ica, Lima & La Libertad regions are asparagus hotbeds in this country, the world's top exporter Peru |
#5962, aired 2010-07-13 | THE AGE OF ASPARAGUS $400: Asparagus plants can tolerate this table condiment better than most, so it's sometimes used in beds for weed control salt |
#5962, aired 2010-07-13 | THE AGE OF ASPARAGUS $600: Argenteuil in northern France is renowned for its delicate asparagus of this color white |
#5962, aired 2010-07-13 | THE AGE OF ASPARAGUS $800: Steamed asparagus makes a classic pairing with this "national" sauce made with egg yolks & butter hollandaise |
#5962, aired 2010-07-13 | THE AGE OF ASPARAGUS $1000: The root system of an asparagus is known by this "royal" name--odd, since it's underground, not on the head a crown |
#5853, aired 2010-02-10 | THE AGE OF THE AQUARIUS $400: On February 11 happy 163rd birthday to this great American inventor Edison |
#5853, aired 2010-02-10 | THE AGE OF THE AQUARIUS $800: This French writer knew the future included turning 182 on February 8 Jules Verne |
#5853, aired 2010-02-10 | THE AGE OF THE AQUARIUS $1200: Send diamonds to this founder of a jewelry retailer--he'll be 198 Charles Louis Tiffany |
#5853, aired 2010-02-10 | THE AGE OF THE AQUARIUS $1600: Felix-itations to this composer, 201 on Feb. 3 Mendelssohn |
#5853, aired 2010-02-10 | THE AGE OF THE AQUARIUS $2000: It mathers to us that this theologian is having his 347th Cotton Mather |
#5756, aired 2009-09-28 | THE AGE OF NATIONALISM $400: In 1822 this South American country won its freedom from Portugal in a revolution by petition Brazil |
#5756, aired 2009-09-28 | THE AGE OF NATIONALISM $800: In 1893 Nathan Birnbaum coined this term for the Jewish desire for a national home Zionism |
#5756, aired 2009-09-28 | THE AGE OF NATIONALISM $1600: The Grossdeutschland solution was part of the 19th century movement called pan-this-ism Pan-Germanism |
#5756, aired 2009-09-28 | THE AGE OF NATIONALISM $2,000 (Daily Double): Lajos Kossuth was representing the county of Pest when he led this country's nationalist revolt in 1848 Hungary |
#5756, aired 2009-09-28 | THE AGE OF NATIONALISM $2000: Scenes of popular fury in the opera "La muette de Portici" fueled this nation's 1830 revolt against Dutch rule Belgium |
#5297, aired 2007-09-25 | SPIN-AGE $200: After years of skeptical reports this largest U.S. oil co. recently agreed emissions may contribute to global warming Exxon(Mobil) |
#5297, aired 2007-09-25 | SPIN-AGE $400: This largest U.S. cigarette maker spent $115 million on charity & $150 million advertising that it gave to charity Philip Morris |
#5297, aired 2007-09-25 | SPIN-AGE $600: To counter bad press this retailer claims 90% of its employees have health insurance; only 47% get it from the company Wal-Mart |
#5297, aired 2007-09-25 | SPIN-AGE $800: Utah's A.G. got letters to drop an antitrust case against this software company, but the mail was from dead people Microsoft |
#5297, aired 2007-09-25 | SPIN-AGE $1000: The Pentagon later admitted this system named for a film worked because a guide beacon was put on the target Star Wars |
#5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THE "SPACE" AGE $400: Computer key at the top right of the main keyboard grid backspace |
#5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THE "SPACE" AGE $800: 2-word term for someone out of touch with reality, or what Tom Corbett was in a 1950s TV show title space cadet |
#5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THE "SPACE" AGE $1200: Low area under the floor of a building for access to plumbing or wiring crawlspace |
#5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THE "SPACE" AGE $1600: Atmospheric region above a state or nation airspace |
#5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THE "SPACE" AGE $2000: In graphic design, it's the unprinted or empty area on a page & can actually be any color white space |
#5199, aired 2007-03-29 | THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $200: In the 1950s, Sgt. Friday's partners on this show included Sgt. Ben Romero, Sgt. Ed Jacobs & Officer Frank Smith Dragnet |
#5199, aired 2007-03-29 | THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $400: The opening of his anthology series showed the silhouette of this director filling a line drawing of his profile Alfred Hitchcock |
#5199, aired 2007-03-29 | THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $600: For the 1958-59 season, 7 of the top 10 series were Westerns, with this one set in Kansas ranked No. 1 Gunsmoke |
#5199, aired 2007-03-29 | THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $800: Shows named for & starring these 2 movie pooches debuted in the fall of 1954 Lassie & Rin Tin Tin |
#5199, aired 2007-03-29 | THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $1000: In 1959 Barbara Hale won an Emmy for playing secretary Della Street on this long-running courtroom drama Perry Mason |
#4588, aired 2004-07-14 | LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE $400: This Sinclair Lewis character is a brazen ex-football player who enters the ministry Elmer Gantry |
#4588, aired 2004-07-14 | LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE $800: Erich Maria Remarque was working as a sportswriter in Germany when he wrote this novel about WWI All Quiet on the Western Front |
#4588, aired 2004-07-14 | LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE $1200: This bestselling Western author's 1920s novels included "The Call of the Canyon" & "The Mysterious Rider" Zane Grey |
#4588, aired 2004-07-14 | LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE $1600: This "huge" 1924 Edna Ferber novel is about a widowed truck farmer & her struggles So Big |
#4588, aired 2004-07-14 | LITERATURE IN THE JAZZ AGE $2000: This 1927 Thornton Wilder novel begins, "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke" The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
#4483, aired 2004-02-18 | WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE... $200: People went out & bought records; why, in 1956, this man sold 10 million singles, proving he was "The King" Elvis (Presley) |
#4483, aired 2004-02-18 | WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE... $400: These devices, like the Univac, took up whole rooms computers |
#4483, aired 2004-02-18 | WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE... $600: Baseball players didn't go on strike; they pulled off feats like this one by pitcher Don Larsen in the 1956 World Series throwing a perfect game |
#4483, aired 2004-02-18 | WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE... $800: We didn't have SUVs, we had cars like this company's Edsel Ford |
#4483, aired 2004-02-18 | WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE... $1000: The Russians weren't sending tourists into space, they were sending this first manmade satellite to orbit the Earth Sputnik |
#4079, aired 2002-05-02 | MIDDLE AGE FOLKS $400: In the late 1300s Margaret of this European country took control of Sweden and Norway Denmark |
#4079, aired 2002-05-02 | MIDDLE AGE FOLKS $1200: This noted theologian was born in the Italian town of Aquino around 1225 Thomas Aquinas |
#4079, aired 2002-05-02 | MIDDLE AGE FOLKS $1600: In 1129 she set up a convent in the building that once housed the monastery of Abelard, her ex Heloise |
#4079, aired 2002-05-02 | MIDDLE AGE FOLKS $2,000 (Daily Double): His brothers Thorvald & Thorstein & his half-sister Freydis also traveled to Vinland Leif Ericson |
#4079, aired 2002-05-02 | MIDDLE AGE FOLKS $2000: In addition to being an historian & poet, Snorri Sturluson headed this Icelandic legislative body several times the Althing |
#3921, aired 2001-09-24 | THE AGE OF AQUARIUMS $100: The Great Lake Aquarium featured fish that live in this kind of water, as opposed to saltwater freshwater |
#3921, aired 2001-09-24 | THE AGE OF AQUARIUMS $200: It's fun to ride the riverboat from the Audubon Zoo to the Aquarium of the Americas in this Louisiana city New Orleans |
#3921, aired 2001-09-24 | THE AGE OF AQUARIUMS $300: These "tuxedoed" birds are a highlight of the Splash Zone at the Monterey Bay Aquarium penguins |
#3921, aired 2001-09-24 | THE AGE OF AQUARIUMS $400: Seen here, the beluga type of this mammal is one of the main attractions at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium a whale |
#3921, aired 2001-09-24 | THE AGE OF AQUARIUMS $500: On April 13, 2001 a bottlenose one of these mammals was born at the National Aquarium in Baltimore a dolphin |
#3895, aired 2001-07-06 | SO YOU'VE REACHED LEGAL DRINKING AGE $200: You'll sound classy specifying the brand of this liqueur in your martini, like Tanqueray or Bombay Sapphire gin |
#3895, aired 2001-07-06 | SO YOU'VE REACHED LEGAL DRINKING AGE $400: These, which make you sneeze, are smaller in champagne than in cheap sparkling wine bubbles |
#3895, aired 2001-07-06 | SO YOU'VE REACHED LEGAL DRINKING AGE $600: For a 170-pound man who has 4 beers on an empty stomach, this figure is .08 blood-alcohol level |
#3895, aired 2001-07-06 | SO YOU'VE REACHED LEGAL DRINKING AGE $800: It's the 2-letter word you use when you want your drink without ice up |
#3895, aired 2001-07-06 | SO YOU'VE REACHED LEGAL DRINKING AGE $1000: Don't use French pronunciation for this, a restaurant's fee for serving wine that you bring in corkage |
#3853, aired 2001-05-09 | WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE $200: We didn't download music, we listened to the radio to hear this "Mr. Tambourine Man", Jakob's father Bob Dylan |
#3853, aired 2001-05-09 | WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE $400: Today you have your raps & your raves; in the '60s, this Asian country had a real cultural revolution China |
#3853, aired 2001-05-09 | WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE $600: Not any artist could sell for millions like today; he had to be a master like this "Night Watch" Dutchman Rembrandt |
#3853, aired 2001-05-09 | WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE $800: They didn't make crazy movies into Broadway shows, they took books like this Artful Dodger Dickens classic "Oliver Twist" |
#3853, aired 2001-05-09 | WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE $1000: We didn't have the Springer show, but we watched this leader seen here have a "kitchen debate" with Nixon Nikita Khrushchev |
#3784, aired 2001-02-01 | THE COMPUTER AGE $100: According to Moore's Law, named for a founder of Intel, these double in power roughly every 18 months computer chips |
#3784, aired 2001-02-01 | THE COMPUTER AGE $200: Dan Bricklin developed VISICALC, the first of these programs, similar to an accounting ledger spreadsheet |
#3784, aired 2001-02-01 | THE COMPUTER AGE $300: Coherent & Xenix are 2 of these, part of the abbreviation in the better-known MS-DOS operating systems |
#3784, aired 2001-02-01 | THE COMPUTER AGE $400: This programming language was named for calculating-machine inventor Blaise PASCAL |
#3784, aired 2001-02-01 | THE COMPUTER AGE $500: Among Internet users, the World Wide Web has surpassed the system named for this burrowing rodent gopher |
#3764, aired 2001-01-04 | THE AGE OF REASON $100: In 1773 this ex-printer & inventor published "Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced to A Small One" Benjamin Franklin |
#3764, aired 2001-01-04 | THE AGE OF RAISIN $200: The logo of this raisin brand is seen here Sun-Maid |
#3764, aired 2001-01-04 | THE AGE OF REASON $200: Pioneering economist Francois Quesnay saw some spending in this opulent palace city where he lived & died Versailles |
#3764, aired 2001-01-04 | THE AGE OF REASON $300: Montesquieu's doctrine of the separation of these influenced our system of separate branches of govt. Powers |
#3764, aired 2001-01-04 | THE AGE OF RAISIN $400: Raisin is the French word for this Grape |
#3764, aired 2001-01-04 | THE AGE OF REASON $400: The ideas of deism are usually represented by God making one of these & then just letting it run Watch |
#3764, aired 2001-01-04 | THE AGE OF REASON $500 (Daily Double): Thomas Paine wrote, "I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and" this title "Common Sense" |
#3764, aired 2001-01-04 | THE AGE OF RAISIN $600: A classic raisin cookie is made with & named for this rolled grain Oatmeal |
#3764, aired 2001-01-04 | THE AGE OF RAISIN $800: This California city is the "Raisin Center of the World" Fresno |
#3764, aired 2001-01-04 | THE AGE OF RAISIN $1000: Similar to raisins, this dried fruit is named for Corinth, where it was produced in ancient times Currants |
#3605, aired 2000-04-14 | THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT $200: Contributors to the age from America included Ben Franklin & this third president Thomas Jefferson |
#3605, aired 2000-04-14 | THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT $400: His discovery of universal gravitation weighed heavily on minds of the great thinkers of the age Sir Isaac Newton |
#3605, aired 2000-04-14 | THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT $600: Under her rule in 1783, Russia licensed private publishing houses Catherine the Great |
#3605, aired 2000-04-14 | THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT $800: The Age of Enlightenment in Europe is said to have ended with this country's revolution France |
#3605, aired 2000-04-14 | THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT $1000: In a 1784 essay, this German philosopher, who critiqued pure reason, asked, "What is enlightenment?" Immanuel Kant |
#3592, aired 2000-03-28 | THE BRONZE AGE $100: Winning a bronze medal at the Olympics means you came in this position Third |
#3592, aired 2000-03-28 | THE BRONZE AGE $200: Oliver Stone has one of these medals first created by executive order on February 4, 1944 Bronze Star |
#3592, aired 2000-03-28 | THE BRONZE AGE $300: The dupondius was an old one of these made of bronze coin |
#3592, aired 2000-03-28 | THE BRONZE AGE $400: The baldacchino, a 95' high bronze canopy designed by Bernini, stands in this basilica St. Peter's Basilica |
#3592, aired 2000-03-28 | THE BRONZE AGE $500: Pulp hero Doc who was "The Man of Bronze" Doc Savage |
#3564, aired 2000-02-17 | NEW AGE STUFF $200: Defined by their orderly structure, these, like the one seen here, are reputed to hold special powers: Crystals |
#3564, aired 2000-02-17 | NEW AGE STUFF $400: "Circles" of people making a racket on these instruments are said to relieve stress & improve health Drums |
#3564, aired 2000-02-17 | NEW AGE STUFF $600: A popular incense comes from this word, we hope not after it's been worn on someone's feet Sandalwood |
#3564, aired 2000-02-17 | NEW AGE STUFF $800: In the '60s your parents might have imitated the Beatles & visited one of these Hindu religious retreats Ashram |
#3564, aired 2000-02-17 | NEW AGE STUFF $1000: This 13th century Sufi mystic has become the bestselling poet in the U.S. Jalaluddin Rumi |
#3432, aired 1999-07-06 | THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO $100: All-American boy Jack Armstrong never tired of this "Breakfast of Champions" Wheaties |
#3432, aired 1999-07-06 | THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO $200: He's the answer to the question posed in the following:
"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" the Shadow |
#3432, aired 1999-07-06 | THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO $300: "Lux Radio Theatre" was brought to you by Lever Brothers, makers of the Lux brand of this product Soap |
#3432, aired 1999-07-06 | THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO $400: "Sorry Wrong Number", a popular episode of "Suspense", starred this "Bewitched" actress Agnes Moorehead |
#3432, aired 1999-07-06 | THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO $500: Robert Ripley hosted the 1930s radio adaptation of this newspaper feature "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" |
#3349, aired 1999-03-11 | AD AGE $100: Bob Dylan, Pablo Picasso & Albert Einstein "Think different" according to ads for this computer company Apple |
#3349, aired 1999-03-11 | AD AGE $200: Comic Carlos Alazraqui is the voice of the chihuahua that's the voice of this fast-food chain Taco Bell |
#3349, aired 1999-03-11 | AD AGE $300: In a commercial for this company, 2 guys aimlessly drive around in a Golf while listening to the song "Da Da Da" Volkswagen |
#3349, aired 1999-03-11 | AD AGE $400: Commercials for this video chain featured that computer-generated dancing baby Blockbuster |
#3349, aired 1999-03-11 | AD AGE $500: Superman can't pay for Lois Lane's groceries, so this comedian offers his American Express card Jerry Seinfeld |
#3313, aired 1999-01-20 | MIDDLE AGE MEN $200: This founder of the Franciscans was canonized in 1228, only 2 years after his death St. Francis of Assisi |
#3313, aired 1999-01-20 | MIDDLE AGE MEN $400: His name is on none of his print jobs, so if you have one of his famous bibles from 1456, stop looking Johannes Gutenberg |
#3313, aired 1999-01-20 | MIDDLE AGE MEN $600: England's throne went from Ethelwulf to Ethelbald to Ethelbert to Ethelred to this "great" man Alfred |
#3313, aired 1999-01-20 | MIDDLE AGE MEN $800: He was born in 1265, & the love of his life, Beatrice, was born the next year Dante Alighieri |
#3313, aired 1999-01-20 | MIDDLE AGE MEN $1000: In 1381 John Ball & he led the English peasants in a rebellion against new taxes Wat Tyler |
#1966, aired 1993-03-08 | COMING OF AGE $200: At 22, Nellie Bly set out around the world & this naturalist set sail on the Beagle Charles Darwin |
#1966, aired 1993-03-08 | COMING OF AGE $400: She was only 20 when she published her famous tale "Frankenstein" Mary Shelley |
#1966, aired 1993-03-08 | COMING OF AGE $600: At 7, this "A Chorus Line" composer became the youngest student ever to attend Juilliard Marvin Hamlisch |
#1966, aired 1993-03-08 | COMING OF AGE $1,500 (Daily Double): A child prodigy, he composed his first published piece, a "Polonaise in G minor," at age 7 Chopin |
#1848, aired 1992-09-23 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $100: In 1155, Wace, a Norman poet, became the first author to write about this legendary table the Round Table |
#1848, aired 1992-09-23 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $200: Count Baldwin of Flanders won the Byzantine throne during the fourth one of these expeditions the Crusades |
#1848, aired 1992-09-23 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $300: Pages learned the rules of this sport that uses trained birds of prey for hunting falconry |
#1848, aired 1992-09-23 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $400: Minnesingers were the German equivalent of these French minstrels troubadours |
#1848, aired 1992-09-23 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $500: In Gothic churches, these floral windows were often built at the west end of the nave rose windows |
#1765, aired 1992-04-10 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $200: The Knights of St. John captured this island centuries after its colossal statue collapsed Rhodes |
#1765, aired 1992-04-10 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $400: A knight carried a light wooded one of these covered with hide & painted with his coat of arms shield |
#1765, aired 1992-04-10 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $600: King Philip IV of this country coveted the wealth of the Knights Templars, so he persecuted them France |
#1765, aired 1992-04-10 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $800: Oliver was the sworn friend of this paladin who's celebrated in a famous "song" Roland |
#1765, aired 1992-04-10 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $1000: Albert, the first bishop of this large Latvian city, founded the Knights of the Sword about 1200 Riga |
#1681, aired 1991-12-16 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $100: The Teutonic Knights originated during the third one of these military expeditions the Crusades |
#1681, aired 1991-12-16 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $200: The idealization of women stemmed from the increasing devotion to this biblical woman the Virgin Mary |
#1681, aired 1991-12-16 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $300: Chretien de Troyes wrote the earliest extant literary work about the quest for this holy object the Holy Grail |
#1681, aired 1991-12-16 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $400: The medieval institution of knighthood spread to England with this conquest the Norman Conquest |
#1681, aired 1991-12-16 | THE AGE OF CHIVALRY $500: Add 3 letters to the French word for "horse" to get this French word for a knight chevalier |