#8453, aired 2021-07-28 | GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $400: Though the name Holland is frequently used for this country, technically, it applies to just one part of it Netherlands |
#8453, aired 2021-07-28 | GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $800: Jerusalem is sometimes referred to as the "City of" this king David |
#8453, aired 2021-07-28 | GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $1600: In German this country is Lettland Latvia |
#8453, aired 2021-07-28 | GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $2,000 (Daily Double): Monte Cervino is what the Italians call this mountain that they share with the Swiss the Matterhorn |
#8453, aired 2021-07-28 | GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $2000: Named for a Russian navigator, this Alaskan island group in the Bering Sea is also known as the Fur Seal Islands Pribilof |
#8212, aired 2020-04-28 | BODY PART AKAs $200: Womb the uterus |
#8212, aired 2020-04-28 | BODY PART AKAs $400: Voice box larynx |
#8212, aired 2020-04-28 | BODY PART AKAs $600: The carpus the wrist |
#8212, aired 2020-04-28 | BODY PART AKAs $800: Tympanum or tympanic membrane eardrum |
#8212, aired 2020-04-28 | BODY PART AKAs $1000: Pollex the thumb |
#8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ACT OF CONGRESS AKAs $400: 1790: "an act providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States" the Census |
#8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ACT OF CONGRESS AKAs $800: 1790: "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors" Copyright |
#8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ACT OF CONGRESS AKAs $1200: 2001: "an act to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world" the Patriot Act |
#8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ACT OF CONGRESS AKAs $1600: 1965: "an act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes" the Voting Rights Act |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $400: As it flows through Oxford, it's called the Isis the Thames |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $800: Mount Godwin-Austen K2 |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $1200: Dutch Guiana Suriname |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $1600: Danzig Gdansk |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $2000: Van Diemen's Land Tasmania |
#7875, aired 2018-11-30 | MEDICAL AKAs $200: 3-letter AKA of Lou Gehrig's disease ALS |
#7875, aired 2018-11-30 | MEDICAL AKAs $600: Otitis externa is this athlete's ear swimmer's ear |
#7875, aired 2018-11-30 | MEDICAL AKAs $800 (Daily Double): Decompression sickness the bends |
#7875, aired 2018-11-30 | MEDICAL AKAs $800: Systemic exertion intolerance disease is an AKA for this syndrome chronic fatigue syndrome |
#7875, aired 2018-11-30 | MEDICAL AKAs $1000: Pertussis whooping cough |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | AKAs $400: It's the less formal name for table tennis ping-pong |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | AKAs $800: "My Country 'Tis Of Thee" is alternately known by this one-word title "America" |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | AKAs $1200: Persian, the official language of Iran, is also known by this 5-letter name Farsi |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | AKAs $1600: Varicella is another name for this childhood disease chickenpox |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | AKAs $2000: From the Greek for "wolf man", it's another term for werewolf lycanthrope |
#7141, aired 2015-10-05 | MEDICAL AKAs $200: Pertussis is more familiar as this cough, for the sound it makes whooping cough |
#7141, aired 2015-10-05 | MEDICAL AKAs $400: Rubeola is the measles; this similar word refers to German measles rubella |
#7141, aired 2015-10-05 | MEDICAL AKAs $600: Herpes zoster is another name for this disease that's caused by the same virus as chickenpox shingles |
#7141, aired 2015-10-05 | MEDICAL AKAs $800: This disease that infected dogs can transmit to humans is also called lyssa rabies |
#7141, aired 2015-10-05 | MEDICAL AKAs $2,800 (Daily Double): Tetanus is also called this, typically the first sign of the disease lockjaw |
#7039, aired 2015-04-02 | TEAM AKAs $200: Da "Monsters of the Midway" were dis NFL team the (Chicago) Bears |
#7039, aired 2015-04-02 | TEAM AKAs $400: It was "America's Team" in the 1970s NFL the Dallas Cowboys |
#7039, aired 2015-04-02 | TEAM AKAs $600: "Les Habitants", appropriate for this team that skates through life the (Montreal) Canadiens |
#7039, aired 2015-04-02 | TEAM AKAs $800: In 1950 this youthful MLB team was "The Whiz Kids"; in 1983, the not-so-youthful "Wheeze Kids" the Philadelphia Phillies |
#7039, aired 2015-04-02 | TEAM AKAs $1000: Blake Griffin helped turn this NBA team into "Lob City" the L.A. Clippers |
#6585, aired 2013-04-12 | HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $200: Aquincum was the Roman name for this place that's now the capital of Hungary Budapest |
#6585, aired 2013-04-12 | HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $400: Old maps showed Mysore & other regions in this modern country as parts of "Hindoostan" India |
#6585, aired 2013-04-12 | HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $600: 19th century Europeans called this Pacific chain the Sandwich Islands Hawaiian Islands |
#6585, aired 2013-04-12 | HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $1,000 (Daily Double): Old maps used "Natolia" to denote the eastern part of what's now this country Turkey |
#6585, aired 2013-04-12 | HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $1000: This former Soviet Republic between Ukraine & Latvia was once known as White Russia Byelorussia |