| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $400: Kali Gandaki is a more than 3-mile-deep gorge between Mount Annapurna & Mount Dhaulagiri in this range the Himalaya |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $800: Forming part of the border between Serbia & Romania, the Iron Gate is a 2-mile-long gorge on this river the Danube |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $1200: Liechtenstein Gorge in this Alpine nation, not the principality, has a staircase for great views & is not for the vertigo-prone Austria |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $1600: Peru's Colca Canyon is home to a number of villages & is advertised as the best place to see this largest raptor the Andean condor |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $2,000 (Daily Double): This canyon sinks about 8,000 feet below the rim to the Snake River below on the Oregon-Idaho border Hells Canyon |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | BIG BANDS $200: Large groups like The Soul Rebels & Rebirth are this type of band, named for an instrument family a brass band |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | BIG BANDS $400: In 2009 Bruce Springsteen told Rolling Stone that his "deepest friendships" are with the members of this band the E Street Band |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | BIG BANDS $600: The membership of this band has shifted over the years, but currently includes Black Thought, Questlove & Tuba Gooding Jr. The Roots |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | BIG BANDS $800: This ska band from Boston with a "Mighty" number of members had a hit with "The Impression That I Get" The Mighty Mighty Bosstones |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | BIG BANDS $1000: The "Mothership Connection" between Parliament-Funkadelic & the P-Funk All Stars is this man, Doctor Funkenstein himself George Clinton |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | BIG GEO $200: Visiting this place? Remember, it's an 850-mile trek from McMurdo Station the South Pole |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | BIG GEO $400: At nearly 600,000 square miles, it's Canada's largest province, & note I said province Quebec |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | BIG GEO $600: This Alaskan peak rises 18,000' from a base just 2,000' above sea level, leading some to say it's the world's tallest mountain Denali |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | BIG GEO $800: It's a 7,900-foot plunge down this giant gorge into the Snake River below Hells Canyon |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | BIG GEO $1,000 (Daily Double): At just shy of 500,000 square miles of mountains, jungle & arid coastline, it's the third largest country in South America Peru |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | BIG SIR $200: In the Bible his "height was six cubits and a span", which some estimates peg at 9 or 10 feet tall, but the bigger they come... Goliath |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | BIG SIR $400: Here's this 7'6" ex-NBA star in 2024, taking in a session of the 14th National People's Congress of China Yao Ming |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | BIG SIR $600: Claiming to be 8'7", Clifford Thompson from Marquette Law School in this city, became the long arm of the law when sworn into the bar Milwaukee |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | BIG SIR $800: Big Ser, actually! This author wrote, "Ser Gregor Clegane, the Mountain That Rides, thundered past them like an avalanche" (George R.R.) Martin |
| #9095, aired 2024-05-03 | BIG SIR $1000: Known for his controversially casual wardrobe at work, this senator who was elected in 2022 stands 6'8" Fetterman |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $400: It's about 700 arid miles across this country from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf Saudi Arabia |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $800: Its 700,000 square miles of land area are spread across more than 17,000 islands Indonesia |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $1600: It borders Russia, China & nothing else Mongolia |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $2000: With a population of more than 100 million, it covers about 900,000 square miles in the heart of Africa DRC |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $8,600 (Daily Double): Once claimed by Italy, Cyrenaica is an historic region & former province of this 650,000-square-mile land Libya |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | WELCOME TO THE BIG LEAGUES $200: In 1992 England's top soccer clubs broke away from their historic football league to form this elite entity the Premier League |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | WELCOME TO THE BIG LEAGUES $400: In 2020 MLB gave retroactive major league status to 7 of these leagues that existed from 1920 to 1948 the Negro Leagues |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | WELCOME TO THE BIG LEAGUES $600: In 1924 the NHL added its first U.S. team, this New England squad the Boston Bruins |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | WELCOME TO THE BIG LEAGUES $800: The Indiana Pacers debuted in 1967 in this new big league; it's gone, but the team is still around the ABA |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | WELCOME TO THE BIG LEAGUES $1000: This league's 20-yard-deep end zone means Cody Fajardo has more options close to the goal line than Patrick Mahomes does the CFL (Canadian Football League) |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $200: It's said there are "three sides to every story: yours, mine" & this the truth |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $400: The spinal column, or firmness of character backbone |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $600: You don't want plaque building up in these of your arteries walls |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $800: Great material comfort, or anything you enjoy but don't need a luxury |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $1000: Hideous, or the style of art seen here grotesque |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | BIG & LITTLE GEOGRAPHY $200: Named for a hometown general, MacArthur Park in this Arkansas city contains his birthplace Little Rock |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | BIG & LITTLE GEOGRAPHY $400: Little & Big Diomede islands are found in this strait that separates the U.S. & Russia the Bering Strait |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | BIG & LITTLE GEOGRAPHY $600: Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park lies within this scenic California region that's just south of Monterey Big Sur |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | BIG & LITTLE GEOGRAPHY $800: Thought to have been used by Hannibal, Little Saint Bernard Pass lies between the Graian Alps & this 15,800-foot French-Italian peak Mont Blanc |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | BIG & LITTLE GEOGRAPHY $1000: Big Cypress National Preserve abuts this more expansive national park in Florida the Everglades |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $100: Al Pacino permanently damaged his nasal passages from snorting so much fake cocaine in this crime drama Scarface |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $200: Three Stephen King novels made it to the big screen in 1983: "The Dead Zone", "Christine", & this film about a rabid St. Bernard Cujo |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $300: In "A Christmas Story", Ralphie says the "Queen Mother of dirty words" but this other "F" word is swapped in to keep it clean fudge |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $400: Thanks to the Griswolds' pea-green Family Truckster, sales of these plummeted after the release of "Vacation" a station wagon |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $500: Meryl Streep & Nora Ephron first worked together on this film about a nuclear facility whistleblower Silkwood |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | BIG-SCREEN ELVIS $200: "King Creole", Elvis' favorite of his 31 films, was the first shot on location--the French Quarter in this city New Orleans |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | BIG-SCREEN ELVIS $400: An ad for this film said, "It's that 'go-go' guy (Elvis) and that 'bye-bye' gal (Ann-Margret) in the fun capital of the world!" Viva Las Vegas |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | BIG-SCREEN ELVIS $600: "Ku-U-I-Po" & "Island Of Love" are on the soundtrack of this "colorful" movie, a No. 1 album for 20 weeks Blue Hawaii |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | BIG-SCREEN ELVIS $800: In 1963 he was the kid who kicked Elvis in "It Happened at the World's Fair"; 16 years later, he played Elvis on TV Kurt Russell |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | BIG-SCREEN ELVIS $1000: Elvis' last feature, with Mary Tyler Moore as a nun, was called "Change of" this--get it? Habit |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | BIG DOGS AS LITTLE PUPPIES $200: Once known as the butcher's dog because they protected cattle, this dog breed is also called the Rottie a Rottweiler |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | BIG DOGS AS LITTLE PUPPIES $400: A dog de Bordeaux, like the pup seen here, was Tom Hanks' co-star in this 1989 movie Turner & Hooch |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | BIG DOGS AS LITTLE PUPPIES $600: Here's the great this, a breed named after the mountain range that separates France & Spain Pyrenees |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | BIG DOGS AS LITTLE PUPPIES $800: The puppy seen here is a Bernese Mountain Dog, named after one of this country's cantons Switzerland |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | BIG DOGS AS LITTLE PUPPIES $1000: You get a Scooby snack if you know that this large dog breed originated in Germany, not Denmark as its name might suggest a Great Dane |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BIG-SCREEN BALLADS $200: When she performed "Crazy For You" in the high school wrestling film "Vision Quest" this pop star was virtually unknown Madonna |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BIG-SCREEN BALLADS $400: Richard Gere sweeps Debra Winger off her feet to the tune of "Up Where We Belong" in the final scene of this '80s tearjerker An Officer and a Gentleman |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BIG-SCREEN BALLADS $600: In "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" she rocked a chainmail dress & she sang the film's power ballad "We Don't Need Another Hero" Tina Turner |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BIG-SCREEN BALLADS $800: A rare pop song that features an oboe solo, this cryptic ballad by Seal became a smash hit after appearing in "Batman Forever" "Kiss From A Rose" |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BIG-SCREEN BALLADS $1000: At a Hollywood Bowl concert in 2012, Peter Gabriel played this song from "Say Anything" after John Cusack took the stage with a boombox "In Your Eyes" |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BIG-SCREEN BASKETBALL $100: This former "Cheers" bartender is the white man who jumps in "White Men Can't Jump" Woody Harrelson |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BIG-SCREEN BASKETBALL $200: 1997.
Five words: state championship clinched by dog Air Bud |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BIG-SCREEN BASKETBALL $300: The title of 2020 documentary "The Last Dance" comes from words emblazoned on the front of this team's 1997-98 playbook the Chicago Bulls |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BIG-SCREEN BASKETBALL $400: Is there anything Denzel Washington can't do?! Turns out he's even good at basketball, as seen in this 1998 joint He Got Game |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BIG-SCREEN BASKETBALL $500: Roger Ebert called this 1994 doc the best film of the 1990s, & "one of the great moviegoing experiences of my lifetime" Hoop Dreams |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SOUNDS LIKE BIG BUSINESS $200: The innermost yellow rings on one in Olympic archery score 9 or 10 points target |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SOUNDS LIKE BIG BUSINESS $400: The Lone Star State's sax & violins Texas instruments |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SOUNDS LIKE BIG BUSINESS $600: Something belonging jointly to actors Bautista & Keaton Dave & Buster's |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SOUNDS LIKE BIG BUSINESS $800: For foreign workers in the states, one might be H-1B or H-2A visa |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | SOUNDS LIKE BIG BUSINESS $1000: One who is in charge of exam surveillance & make a wager proctor & gamble |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | WELCOME TO THE BIG URBAN AREA $200: This urban area of about 37 million is also home to Shinjuku Station, the world's busiest train station Tokyo |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | WELCOME TO THE BIG URBAN AREA $400: This Chinese area of about 7.5 million has seen a drop in population accompanying a political crackdown Hong Kong |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | WELCOME TO THE BIG URBAN AREA $600: The biggest urban area in its country, this city has almost 3 times the people of No. 2 Medellín Bogotá |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | WELCOME TO THE BIG URBAN AREA $1000: In the city of 9.3 million, now named for this man, the War Remnants Museum was previously the Museum of Chinese & American War Crimes Ho Chi Minh City |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | WELCOME TO THE BIG URBAN AREA $3,200 (Daily Double): Due south of Egypt, this capital with about 6 million people began as an Egyptian army camp in 1821 Khartoum |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | BIG & LIL POP CULTURE $400: Ryan Gosling & Christian Bale see bad times ahead in this 2015 movie about mortgage banking & more The Big Short |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | BIG & LIL POP CULTURE $800: Seen here, Lil Rel Howery eased the tension a bit as Daniel Kaluuya's wisecracking bud in this 2017 horror film Get Out |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | BIG & LIL POP CULTURE $1200: On "Parks & Rec" this 4-legged phenom was Pawnee's biggest star; Andy sang "5,000 Candles In The Wind" at his memorial Li'l Sebastian |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | BIG & LIL POP CULTURE $1600: Before "Everything Everywhere All at Once", Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert directed "Turn Down for What" by DJ Snake & this rapper Lil Jon |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | BIG & LIL POP CULTURE $2000: Al Capp created this comic strip set in good ol' Dogpatch Li'l Abner |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | PITCHERS HAVE BIG YEARS $200: Steve Carlton in 1980 was the last pitcher to log more than 300 of these in a season, & arms have rested easier ever since innings |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | PITCHERS HAVE BIG YEARS $400: In 1973 Nolan Ryan struck out 383 batters, breaking this lefty's 8-year-old record by one Koufax |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | PITCHERS HAVE BIG YEARS $600: Nicknamed "K-Rod", in 2008 this Rodriguez set a single-season record for saves with 62--& careful, there's no "K" Francisco Rodriguez |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | PITCHERS HAVE BIG YEARS $800: Famous for refusing to brush hitters back with his blazing fastball, this "Big Train" had a 1.14 ERA in 1913 with the Senators (Walter) Johnson |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | PITCHERS HAVE BIG YEARS $1000: With a 31-6 record in 1968, this Detroit Tiger became the last MLB pitcher to win 30 games in a season McLain |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | BIG AMERICAN LANDOWNERS $200: Owners of many farms in Idaho, the Simplot family is one of McDonald's largest suppliers of these potatoes or French fries |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | BIG AMERICAN LANDOWNERS $400: Brad Kelley's holdings include this state's Calumet Farm, source of many a Derby winner Kentucky |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | BIG AMERICAN LANDOWNERS $600: Among this Amazon founder's major holdings: the Blue Origin sub-orbital launch site in West Texas Bezos |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | BIG AMERICAN LANDOWNERS $800: The island of Niihau belongs to the Robinson family, whose ancestor bought it in the 1860s from the 4th king of this name Kamehameha |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | BIG AMERICAN LANDOWNERS $1000: This Georgia media magnate & former owner of the Atlanta Braves owns the largest private herd of bison on Earth--more than 50,000 Ted Turner |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | HEY, BIG SPENDER $200: If you've really got all that dough, why don't you buy Action Comics #1 from 1938, which saw the debut of this otherworldly hero Superman |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | HEY, BIG SPENDER $400: You've likely moved on from this company's Platinum card & onto its much-esteemed Centurion American Express |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | HEY, BIG SPENDER $600: No wonder it's the most expensive--it takes about 70,000 crocuses to produce just one pound of this spice saffron |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | HEY, BIG SPENDER $800: If you're going to splurge for the Ferrari, get a GTO; the G & T stand for this Italian phrase, also a video game Gran Turismo |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | HEY, BIG SPENDER $1000: Parking is tough in this rhyming region of China; a parking space in a luxury building there sold for $1.3 million Hong Kong |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | THE BIG BANG THEORY $200: The 1883 Krakatoa eruption was heard 3,000 miles away; that's like hearing something in L.A. when you're in this Rhode Island capital Providence |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | THE BIG BANG THEORY $400: When you wish upon an exploding star, here's Kepler's this 9-letter event--a sudden visitor to our night sky in 1604 a supernova |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | THE BIG BANG THEORY $600: In 2020 improper storage of ammonium nitrate led to an explosion equivalent to 500 tons of TNT in this Mideastern city Beirut |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | THE BIG BANG THEORY $800: Code-named Castle Bravo, the largest U.S. nuclear bomb test ever was conducted in 1954 on this atoll in the Marshall Islands the Bikini Atoll |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | THE BIG BANG THEORY $1000: In 1669 this Sicilian volcano spit out nearly a billion cubic yards of lava, the flow of which took out a dozen villages Mt. Etna |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | TIME TO GO BIG $400: The university of this Argentine city has an enrollment of more than 300,000 Buenos Aires |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | TIME TO GO BIG $800: A type of birdeater spider able to grow to a legspan of 12 inches across bears the name of this biblical guy Goliath |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | TIME TO GO BIG $1200: Dubbed "The American Dream", the world's self-proclaimed longest car is a 26-wheeled, 100-foot limousine--naturally, this type a stretch limousine |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | TIME TO GO BIG $1600: The Waco Surf Park has one of these a mile long; it takes 45 minutes for one round float a lazy river |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | TIME TO GO BIG $2000: Bearing a name from Tlingit, this spruce species of the Pacific Northwest can be 200 feet tall & 15 feet in diameter a Sitka spruce |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | BIG RIVER $400: In the "Odyssey", it's called the Aegyptus the Nile |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | BIG RIVER $1200: The Yenisei River, one of Russia's biggest, is home to the Siberian species of this big fish sturgeon |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | BIG RIVER $1600: Its drainage basin includes parts of Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Tanzania, Zambia & 2 other countries the Congo |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | BIG RIVER $2000: The name of this great river comes from words meaning "place to paddle" in the language of the Warao of Venezuela the Orinoco |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | BIG RIVER $8,000 (Daily Double): No respect! Though more than 2,300 miles long, this North American river is still just a tributary the Missouri |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | BIG BATTLES $400: This pivotal July 1863 battle is depicted here Gettysburg |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | BIG BATTLES $800: Boosting morale, Washington's troops defeated a force of these mercenaries at the Battle of Trenton in 1776 the Hessians |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | BIG BATTLES $1200: Fought from Feb. to Dec. with 700,000 casualties, the Battle of Verdun was the longest of this war World War I |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | BIG BATTLES $1600: 1709's Battle of Poltava in Ukraine saw this czar lead an army to victory over Sweden, spurring the rise of the Russian Empire Peter the Great |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | BIG BATTLES $3,000 (Daily Double): Joan of Arc's victory over the English at this French city in 1429 was a turning point in the Hundred Years' War Orleans |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | THAT'S A BIG ANIMAL $400: Forest, one of these at Queensland's Australia Zoo, stands almost 19 feet tall, barefoot a giraffe |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | THAT'S A BIG ANIMAL $800: Before the arrival of big cats over a new isthmus, flightless 10-foot terror birds were the apex predators of this continent South America |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | THAT'S A BIG ANIMAL $1200: Found in colossal squid, the largest these, 10-plus inches in diameter, are thought to be for detecting predators, not prey eyes (eyeballs) |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | THAT'S A BIG ANIMAL $1600: In 2014 Satao, one of Kenya's biggest elephants, was killed by poachers seeking this material ivory |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | THAT'S A BIG ANIMAL $4,000 (Daily Double): 40 feet long & weighing 11 tons or more, this largest living fish has 2 animals in its name a whale shark |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $400: This Carroll royal "had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!"' the Queen of Hearts |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $800: "The Romanov Empress" details the life of Maria, a Danish princess fated to become the mother of this last Russian czar Czar Nicholas II |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $1200: Alison Weir's "Innocent Traitor" is a historical novel of this teen who had a solid week-&-a-bit run as queen in the 1550s Lady Jane Grey |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $1600: Look for leaping flames on the cover when you seek out "The Splendor Before the Dark", Margaret George's novel about this Roman emperor Nero |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $2000: The American author of this 1889 book wrote it after reading Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" but Malory didn't include time travel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BIG ____ $100: Early in the 20th century, New York City was being recognized by this nickname; later, tourists were told to take a bite of it the Big Apple |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BIG ____ $200: Filling in for someone who is known for doing a really good job? Well, idiomatically, you've got these "to fill" big shoes |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BIG ____ $300: Step right up, ladies & gents; from acrobats to clown cars, we've got it all inside this structure the big top |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BIG ____ $400: Christian Bale & Steve Carell were in this 2015 Adam McKay movie that detailed the craziness of the 2008 financial crisis The Big Short |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | BIG ____ $500: In a 1901 speech regarding U.S. foreign policy, Teddy Roosevelt advised, "Speak softly and carry" this a big stick |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $400: Its great bell clocks in at just over 15 tons Big Ben |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $800: Though this nickname for a large American city dates to the 1920s, it really took hold after a '70s tourism campaign Big Apple |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $1200: Located across from Mexico on the Rio Grande, this national park can hit 115 degrees & beep beep! has some roadrunners Big Bend |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $1600: Carmel is the northern gateway to this California region that was home to Henry Miller Big Sur |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $2000: Actually a complex of hills, this Utah formation was named after a song about a hobo living the sweet life Big Rock Candy Mountain |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | BIG ANIMALS $400: African these have big ears shaped like the continent of Africa; Asian ones have smaller, rounder ears an elephant |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | BIG ANIMALS $800: The biggest of the big cats are these hybrids known by a portmanteau name ligers |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | BIG ANIMALS $1200: The biggest horse breed, the Shire, has been known to reach more than 21 of these horsey units high hands |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | BIG ANIMALS $1600: The green species of this snake can reach 30 feet & 550 pounds an anaconda |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | BIG ANIMALS $2000: In 2021 scientists identified a new species of this based on a 16-foot female that had been washed ashore whale |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | I'VE GOT A BIG BANK ROLE $400: In this movie, Ryan Reynolds is a bank teller; fortunately, it's a video game, as his day usually doesn't go well Free Guy |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | I'VE GOT A BIG BANK ROLE $800: Seen here, this actor used all of his Time Lord wits to rob the Bank of Karabraxos in a Doctor Who thriller Peter Capaldi |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | I'VE GOT A BIG BANK ROLE $1200: In the "Harry Potter" films, Warwick Davis played Griphook, one of the goblins working at this wizarding bank Gringotts |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | I'VE GOT A BIG BANK ROLE $1600: In "Too Big to Fail", he played Fed chair Ben Bernanke; on "Billions", he's a U.S. attorney going after Wall Street corruption Paul Giamatti |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | I'VE GOT A BIG BANK ROLE $2000: Steve Carell & Brad Pitt starred in this Adam McKay comedy that skewered the banking industry & its gambling ways The Big Short |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | ONE BIG FAMILY $400: Archie & Quentin & Ted & Alice were children of this American political family the Roosevelts |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | ONE BIG FAMILY $800: Numerous John Jacobs followed the founder of this American family dynasty the Astors |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | ONE BIG FAMILY $1600: In czarist Russia, you didn't want to start a beef with this powerful merchant family that gave its name to a recipe Stroganov |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | ONE BIG FAMILY $2,000 (Daily Double): This performing family toured the United States in the 1940s, then settled on a Vermont farm the von Trapps |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | ONE BIG FAMILY $2000: Stradivarius learned violin making from Nicolo of this great Italian family whose instruments are also highly prized today the Amatis |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | THINK "BIG" $200: This nickname was first used in connection with New York City in the 1920s the Big Apple |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | THINK "BIG" $400: Type of music & ensemble associated with Duke Ellington & Tommy Dorsey big band |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | THINK "BIG" $600: This national park in Texas has more land area than the state of Rhode Island Big Bend |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | THINK "BIG" $800: The British call this grouping the Plough the Big Dipper |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | THINK "BIG" $1000: Roger Miller wrote the music & lyrics for this musical based on "Huckleberry Finn" Big River |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | BIG CITY $200: Home to an international airport, it's New Jersey's "Gateway City" Newark |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | BIG CITY $400: The biggest city in North Carolina, it was named for the wife of King George III Charlotte |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | BIG CITY $800: Missouri's most populous city is Kansas City & Kansas' most populous is this city once part of the Chisholm Trail Wichita |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | BIG CITY $1,000 (Daily Double): This Florida city named for a president has more people than Miami & Tampa combined Jacksonville |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | BIG CITY $1000: Home to the Wernher von Braun Planetarium & the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, this city is now Alabama's most populous Huntsville |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | BIG TEN GEOGRAPHY $200: The Hawkeyes' home is this 2-word town Iowa City |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | BIG TEN GEOGRAPHY $400: This Illinois city was originally called West Urbana; here's to it, so say we all! Champaign |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | BIG TEN GEOGRAPHY $600: They're the westernmost & the easternmost Big Ten Schools; the westerners are 5-0 in the football rivalry Nebraska & Rutgers |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | BIG TEN GEOGRAPHY $800: Named for an explorer, this Big Ten capital city is at the junction of the Olentangy & Scioto rivers Columbus |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | BIG TEN GEOGRAPHY $1000: Home to a Big Ten school, this state capital was named for a president who died in the year of its founding, 1836 Madison, Wisconsin |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | LITTLE, MEDIUM OR BIG DOG ON CAMPUS $400: The AKC says the Old English this "is the archetypical shaggy dog, famous for his... peek-a-boo hairdo" a sheepdog |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | LITTLE, MEDIUM OR BIG DOG ON CAMPUS $800: This black-masked breed is pugilistic in name but great with kids a boxer |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | LITTLE, MEDIUM OR BIG DOG ON CAMPUS $1200: The silky coat of this hound, seen here, protected it from the rough climate of its Central Asian origin an Afghan |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | LITTLE, MEDIUM OR BIG DOG ON CAMPUS $1600: This type of horn is a low-pitched clarinet; this type of hound is a low-to-the-ground fellow with a sad face & long ears a basset hound |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | LITTLE, MEDIUM OR BIG DOG ON CAMPUS $2000: The hackney gait of the min Pin, short for this breed, is a high-stepping one, much like a trotting hackney horse a miniature Pinscher |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | HIS BIG PAINT SALE $400: This Spaniard's 1955 "Les Femmes d'Alger" sold for $179 million in 2015 Picasso |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | HIS BIG PAINT SALE $800: In 2015 the Dutch government pledged $90 million to bring home 2 works by this local 17th century man who needed but one name Rembrandt |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | HIS BIG PAINT SALE $1200: In 2021 this well-heeled L.A. museum paid a cool $53 million for a painting by Gustave Caillebotte the Getty |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | HIS BIG PAINT SALE $2000: In 2020 more than $100 million bought "Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump", a 1982 piece by this New York painter who died young in 1988 Basquiat |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | LITTLE THINGS IN A BIG WORLD $400: Krill differ from true shrimp in that these respiratory organs are externally visible gills |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | LITTLE THINGS IN A BIG WORLD $800: The buzz is true--the smallest hummingbird is this one named for an insect the bee hummingbird |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | LITTLE THINGS IN A BIG WORLD $1200: Also called a light quantum, this bit of radiation travels at the speed of light a photon |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | LITTLE THINGS IN A BIG WORLD $1600: Aspergillus niger, also known as black mold, is one of these organisms & may be found widely in a home a fungus |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | LITTLE THINGS IN A BIG WORLD $2000: Latin for "whips", these appendages in some protozoa help them get around flagella |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BIG NAMES ON CAMPUS $200: A Wesleyan residence is named for this African-American leader; a cultural center at Mount Holyoke, for his wife Betty Shabazz Malcolm X |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BIG NAMES ON CAMPUS $400: At Stanford, this presidential family has its name on a pavilion, a memorial building, a tower & an institute Hoover |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BIG NAMES ON CAMPUS $600: A USC cinema building is named for this director who was rejected 3 times by the school & attended Cal State Long Beach instead (Steven) Spielberg |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BIG NAMES ON CAMPUS $800: In 2021 this S.E.C. school in Alabama renamed Eagle Hall to honor Dr. Josetta Brittain Matthews, its first African-American graduate Auburn University |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | BIG NAMES ON CAMPUS $1000: The Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering goes above & beyond at this school in West Lafayette, Indiana Purdue |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | "BIG" TALK $400: He's seen here in an old illustration meeting his end the Big Bad Wolf |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | "BIG" TALK $800: In 1958 the Fresno Bee reported that this had a 50-inch stride & traveled only at night Bigfoot |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | "BIG" TALK $1200: As its name indicates, it's a retailer noted for a certain architectural style big box |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | "BIG" TALK $1600: A 1962 article said JFK's Democratic Party was like one of these, "sheltering liberals and conservatives" a big tent |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | "BIG" TALK $3,000 (Daily Double): Ironically, it was cosmologist Fred Hoyle, a leading advocate of the steady-state theory, who coined this term the big bang |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS $400: M.I.T.'s domed Maclaurin Building is where this actor works as a janitor in a 1997 film (Matt) Damon |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS $800: This 1973 film follows a first-year student's clashes with his contracts prof at Harvard Law School The Paper Chase |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS $1200: Set at a fictional Ivy League university, "Dear White People" was filmed at this school's Twin Cities campus the University of Minnesota |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS $1600: Georgia's Emory University was one of the locations for this 2016 movie about NASA's female "human computers" Hidden Figures |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS $2000: 2 films shot at Notre Dame were "Knute Rockne: All American" & this one starring Sean Astin as an unlikely football player Rudy |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THAT'S A BIG BOOK $400: If you're not a fan of long, long fiction, this 1862 Victor Hugo work will make you... what's the word... unhappy? Wretched? Les Misérables |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THAT'S A BIG BOOK $1200: Might seem that way, but it won't take a hundred years to read this 1974 James Michener bestseller about the American West Centennial |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THAT'S A BIG BOOK $1600: There's a synonym for "dreary" in the title, then 67 chapters of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce court action in this Dickens work Bleak House |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THAT'S A BIG BOOK $2000: Book 10 of this Thomas Malory work has 88 chapters, & there are 21 books--just sayin' Le Morte d'Arthur |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THAT'S A BIG BOOK $6,000 (Daily Double): "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit" is the first of this poem's more than 10,000 lines Paradise Lost |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | THEY'RE SORT OF A BIG DEAL $200: General & colonel are higher up in the army, but an informal title is this rank "of industry" captain |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | THEY'RE SORT OF A BIG DEAL $400: A Japanese word for "squad leader" gives us the alliterative term "head" this honcho |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | THEY'RE SORT OF A BIG DEAL $600: "The whole" this tortilla-&-sauce food item evolved into "the big" one for somebody in charge enchilada |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | THEY'RE SORT OF A BIG DEAL $800: Once applied to nobility, this word from Latin for "great" now means a powerful business leader magnate |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | THEY'RE SORT OF A BIG DEAL $1000: When it means a ski slope feature, this word comes from German; spelled the same & referring to an executive, it comes from Urdu mogul |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | THINK BIG! $200: With almost 2 miles of paths, Longleat is the largest of these in Britain; allow about 2 hours a maze |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | THINK BIG! $400: As part of a 2017 promotion, a pair of briefs with a 76-foot-wide waistband was made for this Dav Pilkey kids' book character Captain Underpants |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | THINK BIG! $600: With eight lanes for cars & two for trains, this Down Under city's iconic bridge seen here is one of the world's widest Sydney |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | THINK BIG! $800: Stretching almost a mile, one of the longest railway platforms is at Gorakhpur Junction in this Indian state, the U.P. Uttar Pradesh |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | THINK BIG! $1000: The tallest of these structures towers 870 feet over the Great Mosque of Algiers minaret |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | SOMETHING BIG IS COMING! $800: The wingspan of the royal species of this seabird of the South Pacific can reach more than 10 feet albatross |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | SOMETHING BIG IS COMING! $1200: 555 passengers can fly comfortably aboard the A380 from this European manufacturer Airbus |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | SOMETHING BIG IS COMING! $1600: The term "juggernaut" comes from a massive vehicle pulled by thousands of pilgrims to honor this avatar of Vishnu Jagannath (Krishna) |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | SOMETHING BIG IS COMING! $2000: 2/3 of a mile long, the world's longest passenger train, the Ghan, travels 1,850 miles coast to coast across this continent Australia |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | BASEBALL'S BIG NUMBERS $200: This legendary Braves slugger who's first on the all-time RBI list with 2,297 passed away in 2021 Hank Aaron (Hammerin' Hank) |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | BASEBALL'S BIG NUMBERS $400: During his career he had a record 14,053 official at-bats; maybe that's why he's also the career hits leader Pete Rose |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | BASEBALL'S BIG NUMBERS $600: In 1973 & 1974 this California Angels pitcher hurled a total of 750 strikeouts, the most ever in 2 straight years Nolan Ryan |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | BASEBALL'S BIG NUMBERS $800: He is the only player in MLB history to walk more than 200 times in one season; he got 232 free passes in 2004 Barry Bonds |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | BASEBALL'S BIG NUMBERS $1000: With Negro League stats now part of Major League history, this slugger may claim the title of "last .400 hitter" Josh Gibson |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | THAT'S BIG BUSINESS $200: You'll find this fast food chain's golden arches at more than 14,000 locations in the U.S. & more than 36,000 worldwide McDonald's |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | THAT'S BIG BUSINESS $400: In 2017 this shipping company celebrated the opening of its 5,000th "store" UPS |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | THAT'S BIG BUSINESS $600: In January 2020 this Texas-based convenience store chain announced the opening of its 70,000th location 7-Eleven |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | THAT'S BIG BUSINESS $800: Founded in Virginia in the 1950s, K&K 5&10 experienced some inflation while growing into this nationwide "Tree" Dollar Tree |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | THAT'S BIG BUSINESS $1000: In the mid-1800s he joined up with Luigi Rossi, & their spirits business is still going (Alessandro) Martini |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | BIG STAR $400: The closest star to our sun, Proxima this has an Earth-like planet that was discovered in 2016 & could possibly support life Proxima Centauri |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | BIG STAR $800: Castor & Pollux are the 2 brightest stars in this constellation that's also a sign of the zodiac Gemini |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | BIG STAR $1200: In the top 5 brightest stars, Arcturus is found in this constellation in the northern sky; oh, shake shake shake, shake your... Bootes |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | BIG STAR $1600: When you see this Down Under constellation for the 1st time, check out Alpha Crucis & the Coalsack molecular cloud the Southern Cross |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | BIG STAR $2,600 (Daily Double): The name of this bright red star in the constellation Scorpius denotes it as a rival of the Greek god of war Antares |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | THE BIG, LITTLE OR NO BANG $200: "The monkey thought 'twas all in fun", but the detonating critter in this kids' song may beg to differ "Pop Goes The Weasel" |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | THE BIG, LITTLE OR NO BANG $400: Mr. Phelps will not self-destruct in 5 seconds in this 1996 film; a chopper crash in a tunnel will take care of things Mission: Impossible |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | THE BIG, LITTLE OR NO BANG $600: Nearly 70,000 shells filled the air in 2019 as viewers lined NYC's FDR Drive to see July 4th fireworks over this river the East River |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | THE BIG, LITTLE OR NO BANG $800: On Dec. 6, 1917 the explosion of a munitions ship near this Nova Scotia capital was heard hundreds of miles away Halifax |
| #8301, aired 2020-12-14 | THE BIG, LITTLE OR NO BANG $1000: In 1605 this York man did not get the "Wham, bam!" he wanted from more than a ton of gunpowder placed under Parliament Guy Fawkes |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | BIG ADJECTIVES $400: It comes before "Mouse" in the name of an animated character of great strength & courage Mighty |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | BIG ADJECTIVES $800: This adjective was used to designate the head inquisitor in 15th century Spain grand |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | BIG ADJECTIVES $1200: This big adjective can also be the military rank below lt. colonel major |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | BIG ADJECTIVES $1600: This adjective was also the name of an elephant owned by P.T. Barnum jumbo |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | BIG ADJECTIVES $2000: This adjective comes from ancient statues, like the one depicting the sun god Helios & said to be more than 100 feet high colossal |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | BIG BUSINESS NEWS OF THE 2010s $200: In June 2017 this online retailer agreed to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion Amazon |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | BIG BUSINESS NEWS OF THE 2010s $400: For the first time ever, in 2011 the credit rating for the U.S. was downgraded from AAA to AA+ by this financial info. co. Standard and Poor's |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | BIG BUSINESS NEWS OF THE 2010s $600: In the longest strike there in half a century, 48,000 UAW workers walked off in 2019 at this company General Motors |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | BIG BUSINESS NEWS OF THE 2010s $800: In 2012 this iconic 244-year-old reference company announced that its 2010 32-volume edition would be its last in print Encyclopaedia Britannica |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | BIG BUSINESS NEWS OF THE 2010s $1000: CEO John Stumpf said bye in 2016 after a fake accounts scam was uncovered at this bank Wells Fargo |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | BIG PLAY IN THE TEAM'S SUPER BOWL WIN $200: 2012: Mario Manningham makes an amazing 38-yard tiptoeing catch & beats the Pats the New York Giants |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | BIG PLAY IN THE TEAM'S SUPER BOWL WIN $600: 1986: William "The Refrigerator" Perry ices the win with a 1-yard TD rumble the Bears |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | STATES' BIG EMPLOYERS $600: About 3 million people live in this state--51,000 work for MGM Resorts International Nevada |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | STATES' BIG EMPLOYERS $800: More than 35,000 folks in New Jersey work at Wakefern, a co-op with about 350 of these including ShopRite supermarkets (grocery stores) |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | STATES' BIG EMPLOYERS $1000: The hospital system of this university known for its school of medicine employs 31,000 Marylanders Johns Hopkins |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $400: This belief is the denial & rejection of the existence of God or gods atheism |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $800: The capacity for analytical thought; its "Age" began around the 18th century Reason |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $1200: It's the dialectical combining of 2 seemingly opposing ideas into a new one synthesis |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $1600: Some say this 2-word power of personal choice is an illusion; C.S. Lewis said it "makes evil possible" but also goodness free will |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $2000: From the Greek for "moral character", this discipline is concerned with right & wrong ethics |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | BIG WORDS $400: Designed to carry over 400 passengers, the first one of these jets took flight in 1970 a jumbo jet |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | BIG WORDS $800: This synonym for big & strong is also a brand of trash bags & paper plates hefty |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | BIG WORDS $1600: Older than humongous, this 9-letter blended word for shockingly big goes back to WWII ginormous |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | BIG WORDS $2000: This word for something monstrous in size comes from the name of a powerful grass-eating beast in Job behemoth |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | BIG WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Of the 7 Ancient Wonders, the name of this one from the 200s B.C. reflected its huge size the Colossus of Rhodes |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | BIG BODIES OF WATER $200: Approximately 60 million square miles: this largest ocean the Pacific |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | BIG BODIES OF WATER $400: More than 950,000 square miles: this sea that touches Africa & Asia, among others the Mediterranean |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | BIG BODIES OF WATER $600: 5.4 million square miles: this ocean that touches the U.S., Canada & Russia, among others the Arctic |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | BIG BODIES OF WATER $800: About 378,000 square miles: also called the East Sea, it borders Sakhalin Island the Sea of Japan |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | BIG BODIES OF WATER $1,200 (Daily Double): Around 900,000 square miles: this sea that touches North America & Asia the Bering Sea |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | BIG & SMALL SCREEN CLASSICS $400: Gwen Verdon said she helped dub in the tapping & splashing in the title number in this 1952 film Singin' in the Rain |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | BIG & SMALL SCREEN CLASSICS $800: It's 10 years later as Al Swearengen & friends celebrate South Dakota statehood on the 2019 movie based on this HBO series Deadwood |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | BIG & SMALL SCREEN CLASSICS $1200: Charlie Chaplin faces the perils of technology in this 1936 film that was also the last appearance of "The Tramp" Modern Times |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | BIG & SMALL SCREEN CLASSICS $1600: Howie Mandel & Denzel Washington were on staff at this '80s show set at St. Eligius Hospital St. Elsewhere |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | BIG & SMALL SCREEN CLASSICS $2000: In this Alexander Payne film, Paul Giamatti is asked, "Why are you so into Pinot?" Sideways |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | A BIG STATISTIC $400: Drowning is the most common death for those doing this, the most dangerous job in the U.S. as per a 2019 newspaper report fishing |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | A BIG STATISTIC $600: Logitech did a survey that found that almost half the time the remote control was lost, it was found here under the sofa cushion |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | A BIG STATISTIC $800: The haze that gives it its 3-word name doesn't keep visitors from making it our most visited national park Great Smoky Mountains |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | A BIG STATISTIC $1000: BLK on the NYSE, it has more than 6 trillion dollars in assets under management, more than any other firm BlackRock |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | FROM THE BIG-BOX STORE $400: This superstore's Redcard can be a debit or a credit card Target |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | FROM THE BIG-BOX STORE $800: This warehouse store got its start as Price Club Costco |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | FROM THE BIG-BOX STORE $1200: Best Buy offers this "Squad" to help you install your latest gadget the Geek Squad |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | FROM THE BIG-BOX STORE $1600: In 2018 Lowe's began selling this tool brand once owned by Sears Craftsman |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | FROM THE BIG-BOX STORE $2000: Don't let the logo for this 5-letter store fool you--it sells products for other animals as well Petco |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | BIG RIVERS $400: The longest river that only flows through one country is this 3,900-mile river AKA the Chang Jiang the Yangtze |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | BIG RIVERS $800: At 3,000 miles, the Parana River is only the second-longest river on this continent South America |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | BIG RIVERS $1200: These two rivers that form parts of the USA's borders are each more than 750 miles long the Rio Grande and St. Lawrence |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | BIG RIVERS $1600: Capital cities on the banks of the Nile River include Cairo & this capital of Sudan Khartoum |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | BIG RIVERS $2,500 (Daily Double): Giving its name to a different country, this ancient river flows 2,000 miles mostly through Pakistan the Indus |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | BIG TOP JOBS $200: This job title comes from akros, Greek for "highest" acrobat |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | BIG TOP JOBS $400: Tramp & Auguste are 2 different types of these performers clowns |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | BIG TOP JOBS $600: People, not dogs, had this loud job of calling out attractions on the midway a barker |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | BIG TOP JOBS $800: Desultor is an old term for someone who does this while 2 horses are running jump from one horse to the other |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | BIG TOP JOBS $1000: Dangerous skills include fire-eating & this, requiring the ability to relax your esophageal sphincter sword swallowing |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | BIG 4 SPORTS TEAM NAMES IRL $200: In 2015 Iran's city of Bandar Mahshahr hit a near-record 165 on this index the heat index |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | BIG 4 SPORTS TEAM NAMES IRL $400: Vermilion,
burgundy,
scarlet reds |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | BIG 4 SPORTS TEAM NAMES IRL $600: Canada has 105 of these lawmakers senators |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | BIG 4 SPORTS TEAM NAMES IRL $800: In song Gene Autry had these "that jingle jangle jingle" spurs |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | BIG 4 SPORTS TEAM NAMES IRL $1000: Moyers,
Nye,
Pecos the Bills |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $400: Developed by 2 17th century thinkers & rivals, it's used to calculate rates of change & to torment high school students calculus |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $800: "We are all Daffy Ducks... and Coyotes inside", wrote this animator in "Chuck Amuck" Chuck Jones |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $1200: Chapter 1 of the U.N. Charter mentions self-this, a people's right to form a state & govern itself self-determination |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $2000: This French "father of modern philosophy" fathered the idea that the mind & body are different kinds of substance Descartes |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $9,812 (Daily Double): Atomistic is the opposite of this -istic view that an event or condition must be studied in its entirety holistic |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | ONE BIG SWAMP $400: Africa's giant Al-Sudd Swamp is drained by the headwaters of this river the Nile |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | ONE BIG SWAMP $800: Florida's Big Cypress Swamp borders this marshy national park on the southeast the Everglades |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | ONE BIG SWAMP $1200: Take a little R & R in this "T & T" country & visit the mangrove channels of its Caroni Swamp Trinidad and Tobago |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | ONE BIG SWAMP $2000: The name of this big swamp on the Florida-Georgia border is thought to come from a Seminole word for "trembling earth" Okefenokee |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | ONE BIG SWAMP $11,914 (Daily Double): It comes between "Great" & "Swamp" in the name of a part of Virginia & North Carolina that doesn't sound like a tourist spot dismal |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | THE BIG UNIT OF MEASURE $200: The distance a photon travels in a vacuum in 365 days, this unit is often hyphenated a light-year |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | THE BIG UNIT OF MEASURE $600: In terms of radiation intensity, one crab equals the output of the Crab one of these celestial masses a nebula |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | THE BIG UNIT OF MEASURE $800: This number is 10 to the power of a googol a googolplex |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | THE BIG UNIT OF MEASURE $1000: In geologic time it's smaller than an eon or era, but the Eocene one still lasted about 20 million years an epoch |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | THE BIG UNIT OF MEASURE $11,600 (Daily Double): This unit of explosive power is equivalent to detonating 2 billion pounds of TNT a megaton |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | BUILDING BIG $400: New York City's Twin Towers were briefly the tallest in the world until this U.S. building surpassed them in 1973 the Sears Tower |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | BUILDING BIG $1,000 (Daily Double): With the Burj Kahlifa, the world's tallest building is in the Mideast for the 1st time since this was surpassed in 1311 the Great Pyramid |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | BUILDING BIG $1200: L.A.'s oldest jazz festival is held annually near these 100-foot towers bearing the name of an L.A. area the Watts Towers |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | BUILDING BIG $1600: Almost 2,000 feet tall, the Makkah Royal Clock Tower in this country is right next to the Great Mosque Saudi Arabia |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | BUILDING BIG $2000: At China's Tianze Hotel, you can stay inside 14-story replicas of 3 traditional gods from this dynasty that ended in 1644 the Ming dynasty |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | THE BIG BATTALIONS $200: Russia leads the world with more than 20,000 of these, like the new T-14 with an automated turret & 125mm cannon tanks |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | HEY, BIG BUY $400: "The sun's getting real low" is the phrase the Avengers use to turn this angry guy back into Bruce Banner the Hulk |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | THE BIG BATTALIONS $400: The U.S. rules the seas with 11 of these mighty ships, more than the rest of the world's fleets combined aircraft carriers |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | THE BIG BATTALIONS $600: North Korea has one of the largest fleets of these craft, including the Yono class midget type submarines |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | HEY, BIG BUY $800: Big Brother addressed his subjects in an ominous 1984 commercial for this tech company Apple |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | THE BIG BATTALIONS $1000: Together, these 2 countries that fought a late 1940s war over Kashmir now deploy about 2 million active troops India and Pakistan |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | HEY, BIG BUY $1200: Under this name J.P. Richardson had a hit with "Chantilly Lace" the Big Bopper |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | HEY, BIG BUY $1600: Adam Sandler & Burl Ives played characters known by this 2-word paternal name in 2 very different films Big Daddy |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | HEY, BIG BUY $2000: Alliterative nickname of tennis player Tilden; it seems natural for Pres. Taft, but he was "Lub" Big Bill |
| #7882, aired 2018-12-11 | THE BIG BATTALIONS $2,400 (Daily Double): This country's nearly 2.2 million active military personnel is by far the world's largest standing force China |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | THE BIG LEAGUES $400: England, Spain & the Holy Roman Empire joined the pope's 1511 Holy League to fight this country's Louis XII France |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | THE BIG LEAGUES $1,000 (Daily Double): It was formally dissolved in April 1946 the League of Nations |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | THE BIG LEAGUES $1200: From the 13th to the 15th centuries, the Hanseatic League controlled trade in this sea the North Sea (or the Baltic) |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | THE BIG LEAGUES $1600: By the 2nd century B.C., the Achaean League controlled most of this 8,000-square mile peninsula the Peloponnesian Peninsula |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | THE BIG LEAGUES $2000: Founded to help racial minorities adjust to city life, the National this League has 90 affiliates serving 300 communities the Urban League |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | REALLY BIG SPORTS STARS $200: This 7'1" All-Star for the Magic, Lakers & Heat tipped the scales at 325 pounds (Shaquille) O'Neal |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | REALLY BIG SPORTS STARS $400: The Chicago Bears' 335-pound William Perry had this ultra-cool nickname Refrigerator |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | REALLY BIG SPORTS STARS $600: This 6'7" Yankees rookie swung a mighty gavel to win the 2017 MLB All-Star Home Run Derby (Aaron) Judge |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | REALLY BIG SPORTS STARS $800: 6'10" baseball Hall of Famer Randy Johnson was nicknamed the "Big" this Unit |
| #7842, aired 2018-10-16 | REALLY BIG SPORTS STARS $1000: 6'9" Dallas Cowboys defensive end Ed Jones was better known by this alliterative nickname Too Tall |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | BIG PHARMA $200: Pfounded in 1849, this pharma giant was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 2004 Pfizer |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | BIG FARMER $400: Around 1900 strongman Louis Cyr held 2 of these pulling in opposite directions; one later came to work on his farm horses |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | BIG PHARMA $400: TV hasn't been the same since this government agency relaxed its rules on prescription drug marketing in 1997 the FDA |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | BIG PHARMA $600: The Eli who founded this big pharma biggie in 1876 was a former Union army colonel Lilly |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | BIG FARMER $800: Imposing farmer Lee Jones promotes sustainability clad in red bow tie & of course, this classic farmer's garment overalls |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | BIG PHARMA $800: A drug in development from big pharma is "in" this word that's also an object used by big oil in the pipeline |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | BIG FARMER $1,000 (Daily Double): He was known as "Long Tom" & also as "The Worst Farmer in Virginia" for his constant failed efforts to grow new crops Thomas Jefferson |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | BIG PHARMA $1000: Biotech giant Amgen was founded in 1980 as Applied Molecular this genetics |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | BIG FARMER $1200: 6'3", 320-lb. Jason Brown made news in 2012 when he quit this lucrative career to farm sweet potatoes football player |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | BIG FARMER $2000: This tall Army sergeant who became a WWI hero was presented with a farm by the state of Tennessee (Alvin) York |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | BIG MOUTH $400: The Dragon's Mouth is the name of a strait that separates the island of Trinidad from this continent South America |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | BIG MOUTH $800: The French surely love 1967's "The Big Mouth", with goofy antics involving this actor chased by gangsters Jerry Lewis |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | BIG MOUTH $1200: The basking variety of this creature can grow to 50 feet long & open its mouth a yard wide the basking shark |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | BIG MOUTH $1600: This song by The Smiths says, "Sweetness, I was only joking when I said / I'd like to smash every tooth in your head" "Bigmouth Strikes Again" |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | BIG MOUTH $2000: The frog-mouth helmet was primarily used by knights in these events, not on the battlefield jousts |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | ON THE BIG MONEY $200: His old legal foe Mr. Marbury might have fought this president being put on the $5,000 in 1918...but would have lost Madison |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | ON THE BIG MONEY $400: In 1918, for his 34 years as chief justice, he was put on the $500 bill John Marshall |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | ON THE BIG MONEY $600: In 1928, 27 years after his assassination, he was put on the $500 McKinley |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | ON THE BIG MONEY $1000: The $10,000 note features this chief justice appointed in 1864 Salmon P. Chase |
| #7748, aired 2018-04-25 | ON THE BIG MONEY $3,600 (Daily Double): We'd take a couple of $1,000 bills from 1928 featuring this president, even if they were in nonconsecutive order Grover Cleveland |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | I'M KIND OF A "BIG" DEAL $400: Equations seen on the big white dry erase board on this sitcom are checked for accuracy by a UCLA physicist The Big Bang Theory |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | I'M KIND OF A "BIG" DEAL $800: Christian Bale bailed on the subprime housing market in this 2015 film The Big Short |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | I'M KIND OF A "BIG" DEAL $1200: Contestants on this show vie for "Head of Household" & "Power of Veto" Big Brother |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | I'M KIND OF A "BIG" DEAL $1600: Groups of 10 or more musicians were popular in the 1930s, this musical era the Big Band era |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | I'M KIND OF A "BIG" DEAL $2000: Seen here, this Detroit rapper's album "I Decided" went platinum in 2017 Big Sean (Anderson) |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | BIG 12 SCHOOLS $200: Located in Lawrence, it has produced 27 Rhodes scholars Kansas |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | BIG 12 SCHOOLS $400: In 1966 a student holiday at this Waco school was named Dia Del Oso, or "The Day of the Bear" Baylor |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | BIG 12 SCHOOLS $600: Though its name connotes more engineering than soft rock tunes, this Lubbock U. boasts John Denver as an alum Texas Tech |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | BIG 12 SCHOOLS $800: This university Ames to please with murals by Grant Wood in its library Iowa State |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | BIG 12 SCHOOLS $1000: Well, we're livin' here in Morgantown /
At this Big 12 land-grant school of renown West Virginia |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE NOT-SO-BIG CATS $400: This rare Indian cat is named for the activity it's engaging in here a fisher cat (or fishing) |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE NOT-SO-BIG CATS $800: Smaller than a house cat, the black-footed cat is native to the Kalahari on this continent Africa |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE NOT-SO-BIG CATS $1200: Name in common to the two beings seen here bobcat |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE NOT-SO-BIG CATS $1600: This little cat gets its name from the flat, grassy plains of South America, to which it's native a Pampas cat |
| #7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE NOT-SO-BIG CATS $2000: Seen here, the marbled cat of southeast Asia is often called the miniature version of this clouded big cat a leopard |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | I AM BIG! $400: Seen here, the giant this earns its name by growing to 45 feet in length & tipping the scales at 600 pounds a squid |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | I AM BIG! $800: Here are some numbers on this flightless bird: 30 mph running speed, 5 feet tall, 3 letters the emu |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | I AM BIG! $1200: Whiskers shrink with age on the Mekong giant this fish, up to 9' long, 650 lbs. &, in Laos, now illegal to catch a catfish |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | I AM BIG! $1600: With a wingspan of almost 40 feet, the largest creature to ever fly was the Quetzalcoatlus, a type of this "winged lizard" a pterosaur |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | I AM BIG! $2000: What's gnu? I dunno, I'd say the blue this animal living in southern Africa & weighing 600 lbs.; what's gnu with you? a wildebeest |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | BIG BEN $400: In 1978 Ben Abruzzo & 2 companions made the first transatlantic flight in one of these full of gas, not hot air a balloon |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | BIG BEN $800: Ben Rich used the security alias Ben Dover when he helped design the F-117 Nighthawk, the first of these hard-to-spot craft stealth craft |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | BIG BEN $1200: This Ben, no longer head of the Fed, became an advisor to investment management firm Pimco Ben Bernanke |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | BIG BEN $1600: Ben Shahn rose to fame in the 1930s with a series of paintings based on the trial of these two Italian-American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | BIG BEN $2000: In 1598 this dramatist killed an actor in a duel, no doubt putting him out of his humour Ben Jonson |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | BIG & SMALL SCREEN DOCTORS $200: Advised to make a change in his life, this Mark Ruffalo character says, "That's my secret, Captain. I'm always angry" the Hulk or Bruce Banner |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | BIG & SMALL SCREEN DOCTORS $400: This title guy played by Peter Sellers notes, "The whole point of the doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret!" Dr. Strangelove |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | BIG & SMALL SCREEN DOCTORS $600: This Golden Globe winner plays Rainbow Johnson, wife, mom & doctor on ABC's "Black-ish" Tracee Ellis Ross |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | BIG & SMALL SCREEN DOCTORS $800: This Mike Myers man had "one simple request, & that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads" Dr. Evil |
| #7573, aired 2017-07-12 | BIG & SMALL SCREEN DOCTORS $1000: On this Adult Swim series, Nate Corddry was Dr. Jason Mantzoukas & Jason Mantzoukas was Mole Man Childrens Hospital |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | BIG TEN SCHOOLS $200: Gopher it! This university was established in 1851 in 2 neighboring cities the University of Minnesota |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | BIG TEN SCHOOLS $400: In 1864 this school became New Jersey's land-grant college; 60 years later, it assumed university status Rutgers |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | BIG TEN SCHOOLS $600: Rahm Emanuel, George R.R. Martin & Seth Meyers found "direction" at this university Northwestern University |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | BIG TEN SCHOOLS $800: The Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory & the Center for Paralysis Research are at this U. in West Lafayette Purdue |
| #7552, aired 2017-06-13 | BIG TEN SCHOOLS $1000: Founded in 1820, this university boasts the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender & Reproduction Indiana |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | MY BIG FAT ANCIENT GREEK LIBRARY $400: In the "Iliad" Achilles slays this eldest son of the Trojan king Priam & drags his body behind a chariot Hector |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | MY BIG FAT ANCIENT GREEK LIBRARY $800: Trouble ensues in Euripides' tragedy about this enchantress abandoned by her husband for another woman Medea |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | MY BIG FAT ANCIENT GREEK LIBRARY $1200: Around 700 B.C., Hesiod wrote "Works & Days", one of these handbooks for farmers to know when to plant an almanac |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | MY BIG FAT ANCIENT GREEK LIBRARY $2000: This playwright wrote 2 tragedies about Oedipus & one about Oedipus' daughter Antigone as well Sophocles |
| #7550, aired 2017-06-09 | MY BIG FAT ANCIENT GREEK LIBRARY $2,500 (Daily Double): Aeschylus "Bound" up this troublesome god in the title of a drama Prometheus |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | BIG SCREEN LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $400: "Easy A" reimagined this Hawthorne tale in a modern high school The Scarlet Letter |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | BIG SCREEN LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $800: "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" adapted this ancient classic to the American South The Odyssey |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | BIG SCREEN LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $1200: "Apocalypse Now" adapted this novella to the Vietnam War Heart of Darkness |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | BIG SCREEN LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $1600: The 1913 play "Pygmalion" walked the streets of Los Angeles as this 1990 Garry Marshall film Pretty Woman |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | BIG SCREEN LITERARY ADAPTATIONS $2000: Loosely based on Shakespeare's "Henry IV" plays, this 1991 film starred Keanu Reeves & River Phoenix My Own Private Idaho |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | BIG ISLANDS $400: This is New Zealand's largest island the South Island |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | BIG ISLANDS $800: Part of the Malay Archipelago, this island is exceeded in size only by Greenland New Guinea |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | BIG ISLANDS $1200: It's the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea that's also an independent nation Cyprus |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | BIG ISLANDS $2000: You'll find Manila & the Bataan Peninsula on this island of the Philippines Luzon |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | BIG ISLANDS $4,400 (Daily Double): This "fiery" island divided between Chile & Argentina is the largest in South America Tierra del Fuego |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | THE BIG 3-0 $200: The daily price average of 30 selected blue chip stocks, it's abbreviated DJIA the Dow Jones Industrial Average |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | THE BIG 3-0 $400: Starting as a celebration of its 30th anniversary, "30 for 30" is a series of sports documentaries on this TV network ESPN |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | THE BIG 3-0 $600: This woman gained fame by preparing tasty meals in just 30 minutes Rachael Ray |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | THE BIG 3-0 $800: For his efforts, the Sanhedrin paid him 30 pieces of silver Judas |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | THE BIG 3-0 $1000: The 30 Tyrants were appointed to administer Athens after its defeat by this city in 404 B.C. Sparta |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | BIBLICAL BIG SCREEN $200: Yul Brynner played this vain pharaoh in 1956's "The Ten Commandments" Ramses |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | BIBLICAL BIG SCREEN $400: Hollywood hotties Hedy Lamarr & Victor Mature were this lusty biblical couple in a 1949 epic Samson and Delilah |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | BIBLICAL BIG SCREEN $600: As King Herod in this musical film, Josh Mostel challenged Jesus to "walk across my swimming pool" Jesus Christ Superstar |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | BIBLICAL BIG SCREEN $800: Rita Hayworth was the wicked title character trying to get a head in this 1953 Bible pic Salome |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | BIBLICAL BIG SCREEN $1000: In 2014 Anthony Hopkins was Methuselah, grandfather of this title man chosen by God for a big job Noah |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | WHAT'S THE BIG RUSH? $200: He's been a provocative figure on U.S. airwaves for decades Rush Limbaugh |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | WHAT'S THE BIG RUSH? $400: Freshman rush at college doesn't refer to football but recruitment into these fraternities & sororities |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | WHAT'S THE BIG RUSH? $600: Rushes, aka this "timely" term, referred to the latest printed footage from a film set a daily |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | WHAT'S THE BIG RUSH? $800: Mining cos. are rushing to MOMA--not an art museum but a Mozambique mine for this silvery metal used in planes titanium |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | WHAT'S THE BIG RUSH? $1000: Geoffrey Rush played tormented pianist David Helfgott in this 1996 film Shine |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | BIG SCREEN COPS $400: Lieutenant Frank Drebin was on the case in this series of police comedies Naked Gun |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | BIG SCREEN COPS $800: He won an Oscar for his powerful performance as rogue detective Alonzo Harris in "Training Day" Denzel Washington |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | BIG SCREEN COPS $1200: Title tour that security guard Kevin Hart got to take with a cop played by Ice Cube Ride Along |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | BIG SCREEN COPS $1600: Last names of the 2 cops played by Mel Gibson & Danny Glover in the "Lethal Weapon" movies Riggs & Murtaugh |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | BIG SCREEN COPS $2000: Harvey Keitel plays an unnamed, unhinged cop with serious drug & gambling addictions in this film Bad Lieutenant |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | BUILDING BIG $400: The mortar used to bind the stones of this 5,500-mile-long structure was made with rice flour the Great Wall of China |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | BUILDING BIG $800: In 2011 Cornell researchers concluded that this NYC building is the most photographed in the world the Empire State Building |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | BUILDING BIG $1200: Going from Virginia Beach to Wilmington, Delaware is 95 miles shorter via this 17.6 mile bridge tunnel the Chesapeake Bay Bridge |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | BUILDING BIG $1600: This home of the Toronto Blue Jays has an 11,000-ton roof that can fully retract in less than 20 minutes the Rogers Centre |
| #7414, aired 2016-12-01 | BUILDING BIG $2000: The floor plan of each of these towers in Kuala Lumpur forms an 8-pointed star inspired by Islamic patterns the Petronas Towers |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | I LIKE BIG BUCKS $400: Need a lift? Apparently so, as in 2016, this 7-year-old app was valued at nearly $70 billion Uber |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | I LIKE BIG BUCKS $800: In 2016 this car company said orders for its new Model 3 electric sedan topped $10 billion in 36 hours Tesla |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | I LIKE BIG BUCKS $1200: This ex-Microsoft man has fun with his billions, owning 3 pro sports teams & giving away $2 billion to charity (Paul) Allen |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | I LIKE BIG BUCKS $2,000 (Daily Double): An article about this app was titled "How 3 guys turned renting an air mattress in their apartment into a $25 bil. company" Airbnb |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | I LIKE BIG BUCKS $2000: (I'm Lara Logan of CBS News.) I conducted a rare interview with Jack Ma, founder of this Chinese Internet company that made a big splash in 2014 by finishing its first day of trading with a market value of $231 billion dollars Alibaba |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | BIG CITY NEWSPAPERS $200: This heavenly body in Baltimore the Sun |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | BIG CITY NEWSPAPERS $400: This heavenly body in Kansas City the Star |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | BIG CITY NEWSPAPERS $600: This heavenly body News in San Jose the San Jose Mercury News |
| #7370, aired 2016-09-30 | BIG CITY NEWSPAPERS $800: This Murdoch tabloid in New York City the New York Post |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | BIG SCREEN CHARACTER MASHUPS $400: Truman Ventura Jim Carrey |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | BIG SCREEN CHARACTER MASHUPS $800: Jor-El Kowalski Marlon Brando |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | BIG SCREEN CHARACTER MASHUPS $1200: Philip Spade Bogart |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | BIG SCREEN CHARACTER MASHUPS $1600: Ethan Reacher Tom Cruise |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | BIG SCREEN CHARACTER MASHUPS $2000: Bonnie Mulwray Faye Dunaway |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | YOU USED TO BE "BIG" $400: Ali Vincent dropped 112 pounds to be the first female winner of this TV show The Biggest Loser |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | YOU USED TO BE "BIG" $800: In this 1983 film Kevin Kline & his pals from the University of Michigan go Blue as they gather for a funeral The Big Chill |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | YOU USED TO BE "BIG" $1200: Mid 2000s TV show about multiple family man Bill Henrickson Big Love |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | YOU USED TO BE "BIG" $1600: Alias of artist Ed Roth, known for his car customizing & his "Rat Fink" creation Big Daddy |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | YOU USED TO BE "BIG" $2000: Nickname of tennis' Mr. Tilden, the first athlete to make it into "Who's Who" in America "Big Bill" |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | BIG BATS OF BASEBALL $200: In 2015 this "Big Papi" with 500+ homers & a .455 World Series batting average said 2016 would be his final season (David) Ortiz |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | BIG BATS OF BASEBALL $400: A San Diego Padre from 1982 to 2001, this outfielder won 8 batting titles Tony Gwynn |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | BIG BATS OF BASEBALL $600: This Yankee outfielder hit 52 home runs in 1956 & 54 in 1961 Mickey Mantle |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | BIG BATS OF BASEBALL $800: In 1980 this Kansas City Royal batted .390 George Brett |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | BIG BATS OF BASEBALL $1000: In the '50s and '60s, he was a true giant, becoming one of the greatest players of all time Willie Mays |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | BIG-SCREEN ELVIS $200: "King Creole", Elvis' favorite of his 31 films, was the first shot on location--the French Quarter in this city New Orleans |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | BIG-SCREEN ELVIS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Elvis Presley home in Tupelo, MS.) Elvis Presley's Tupelo, Mississippi birthplace park & a local youth center were created with proceeds from a Tupelo concert Elvis played in September 1957, right before the release of this movie in which he goes from prisoner to star Jailhouse Rock |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | BIG-SCREEN ELVIS $600: It's the sport Elvis takes up in "Kid Galahad" boxing |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | BIG-SCREEN ELVIS $800: "Ku-U-I-Po" & "Island of Love" are on the soundtrack of this "colorful" movie, a No. 1 album for 20 weeks Blue Hawaii |
| #7245, aired 2016-02-26 | BIG-SCREEN ELVIS $1000: Elvis' last feature, with Mary Tyler Moore as a nun, was called "Change of" this--get it? Habit |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | BIG IDEAS $1200: The development of this, a 2-word term coined by John McCarthy, is empowering humanoid robots artificial intelligence |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | BIG IDEAS $1600: The "cultural" type of this "‑ism" says don't judge other societies by our standards because each has its own valid codes relativism |
| #7199, aired 2015-12-24 | BIG IDEAS $2000: Cosmologist Sir Martin Rees wrote, "Countless other universes may exist" & for that idea he uses this 10-letter word multiverse |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | BIG TIME RUSH $200: In 1858 a discovery along the Fraser River in British Columbia led to a gold rush in this country Canada |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | BIG TIME RUSH $400: An oil boom using modern techniques in this prairie state has made it second in crude production in the U.S. behind Texas North Dakota |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | BIG TIME RUSH $1000: Discovery of the "Eureka" diamond began the 1870s rush to this South African mining town bearing a feminine name the Kimberley diamond mine |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | BIG BUSINESS $400: In 2009 this company had orders for 263 commercial planes; in 2013, for 1,531 Boeing |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | BIG BUSINESS $800: Caterpillar makes the 20,000-pound D5K2 type of this, something it hopes to use on the competition a bulldozer |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | BIG BUSINESS $1600: In September 2014, in the largest IPO in history, investors said open sesame to this new stock from China Alibaba |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | BIG BUSINESS $2000: Gaming company SJM Holdings has billions in assets, including 17 casinos it operates in this Asian territory Macau |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | BIG BUSINESS $3,200 (Daily Double): With assets of more than $1.6 trillion, there's no more traveling by coach for this U.S. banking leader Wells Fargo |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | BIG WORDS $400: Yale University Library classifies books in excess of 27 cm in height or 19 cm in width as this big "O" oversized |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | BIG WORDS $800: When it comes before "esque", this outdoorsman's name means fantastically large Paul Bunyan |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | BIG WORDS $1200: Webster says this word may be an "alteration of huge + monstrous" humongous |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | BIG WORDS $1600: From the Greek, it's a much larger than life-size statue, such as an Ancient Wonder a colossus |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | BIG WORDS $7,000 (Daily Double): This synonym for "gigantic" was in use more than 200 years before a 1912 event put a new spin on it titanic |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | THEY FOUGHT IN THE BIG ONE $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.)
Flying a TBM Avenger in 1944, this 20 year old naval aviator bailed out after his plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire over the island of Chichi-jima, making him the only U.S. president to have literally been shot down in combat George H. W. Bush |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | THEY FOUGHT IN THE BIG ONE $400: Though he opposed U.S. entry into the war, as a civilian adviser this "Lone Eagle" flew combat missions in the Pacific Charles Lindbergh |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | THEY FOUGHT IN THE BIG ONE $600: For this navy man and future Yankee catcher, D-Day wasn't over 'til his boat shelled Omaha Beach Yogi Berra |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | THEY FOUGHT IN THE BIG ONE $800: There was just one springtime left for Hitler after this decisive December 1944 battle in which Mel Brooks fought Battle of the Bulge |
| #7025, aired 2015-03-13 | THEY FOUGHT IN THE BIG ONE $1000: Hitler reportedly offered a reward for the capture of this actor who'd joined the Army Air Force after Carole Lombard's death Clark Gable |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | "BIG" WORDS $400: An intolerant person a bigot |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | "BIG" WORDS $800: A hoofed mountain mammal, or a Montana river Bighorn |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | "BIG" WORDS $1200: Morrissey wasn't thinking of fish when he sang that he "Strikes Again" "Bigmouth" |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | "BIG" WORDS $1600: Roger Patterson allegedly filmed one in 1967 Bigfoot |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | "BIG" WORDS $2000: Ruth of this last name began blending her own tea in 1945 Bigelow |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | THE BIG PICTURE $200: More than 130 feasters feast in "Wedding Feast at Cana"; no wonder it takes up 22 X 82 1/2' in this Paris museum the Louvre |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | THE BIG PICTURE $400: This 1495-98 work is 29 feet wide--that's more than 2 feet of elbow room for Jesus & each disciple The Last Supper |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | THE BIG PICTURE $600: 3 is blue, 7,100 is Etruscan puce: the largest painting of this type, 40,000 square feet, was done at a 2013 youth festival paint by number |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | THE BIG PICTURE $800: This Picasso work is 11 1/2 X 25 1/2', big enough to make viewers feel the horrors of war Guernica |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | THE BIG PICTURE $1000: This 17th century work originally 13x16 feet has been cut down to a much more manageable 12x15 The Night Watch |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | THE BIG RED WON $400: Soviet troops captured this capital in December 1979 (things still didn't turn out well) Kabul |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | THE BIG RED WON $800: In the struggle for the nascent USSR, the Bolshevik Reds bested the anticommunists known as this color Whites |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | THE BIG RED WON $1200: At the end of this 1942-1943 siege, field marshal Paulus surrendered 2 German armies to the Soviets (the Battle of) Stalingrad |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | THE BIG RED WON $1600: In February 1940 a Soviet barrage finally broke the Mannerheim Line of this plucky northeastern neighbor Finland |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | THE BIG BLANK THEORY $200: Big ____:
London attraction since 1859 Ben |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | THE BIG BLANK THEORY $400: Big ____:
Alcor & Mizar are in its handle Dipper |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | THE BIG BLANK THEORY $600: Big ____:
To Philip Marlowe, it was death Sleep |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | THE BIG BLANK THEORY $800: Big ____:
A Callaway club Bertha |
| #6925, aired 2014-10-24 | THE BIG BLANK THEORY $1000: Big ____:
Nazi coinage for propaganda so outrageous it gets believed Lie |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | BIG STUFF $200: This continent covers about 30% of the world's land area & has about 60% of its people Asia |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | BIG STUFF $400: The USA's longest thermometer stretches 134 feet high, matching the record 134 degrees set in this California location Death Valley |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | BIG STUFF $600: This huge museum made up of 5 buildings, including the Czars' Winter Palace, became public property after 1917 the Hermitage |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | BIG STUFF $800: Oklahoma's Winstar World this establishment has 500,000 square feet & 88 tables Casino |
| #6912, aired 2014-10-07 | BIG STUFF $1000: 2024 is the target date to complete the Square Kilometer Array, which will be the world's largest of these a radio telescope |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | BIG ROADIES $400: In 1993 bass tech Stuart Morgan played a gig for this Irish band when Adam Clayton couldn't make it U2 |
| #6902, aired 2014-09-23 | BIG ROADIES $800: Shock G of Digital Underground said, "Of all the roadies we ever had", this rapper killed in Vegas in '96 "was the best" Tupac (Shakur) |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | BIG BUILDING OF THE CITY $400: 191 Peachtree Tower Atlanta |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | BIG BUILDING OF THE CITY $800: Rainier Tower Seattle |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | BIG BUILDING OF THE CITY $1600: 111 S. Wacker Drive Chicago |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | BIG BUILDING OF THE CITY $2,000 (Daily Double): Heritage Plaza (formerly Texaco Heritage Plaza) Houston |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | THOSE ARE SOME BIG SHOES $200: In 1990 John Major was no longer minor as he succeeded this towering British prime minister Margaret Thatcher |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | THOSE ARE SOME BIG SHOES $400: Isabel Peron, 3rd wife of Juan, surely cried after his death... until succeeding him as president of this country Argentina |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | THOSE ARE SOME BIG SHOES $600: In 1997 Sister Nirmala succeeded this woman as the head of the Missionaries of Charity Mother Teresa |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | THOSE ARE SOME BIG SHOES $800: David Muir was named to replace her as the regular anchor of "World News Tonight" Diane Sawyer |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | THOSE ARE SOME BIG SHOES $1000: After filling Ted Kennedy's shoes in Mass., this man decided to try out Jeanne Shaheen's senatorial ones in New Hampshire Scott Brown |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | NONFICTION BOOKS ON THE BIG SCREEN $400: This 2005 film about Johnny Cash comes from his autobiography "Man in Black" Walk the Line |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | NONFICTION BOOKS ON THE BIG SCREEN $800: "See No Evil", about the CIA in the Middle East, became "Syriana", which won an Oscar for this actor (George) Clooney |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | NONFICTION BOOKS ON THE BIG SCREEN $1200: "Lost Moon" followed this ill-fated space mission Apollo 13 |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | NONFICTION BOOKS ON THE BIG SCREEN $1600: "A Mighty Heart" was the story of Daniel Pearl, a reporter for this newspaper who was killed in Pakistan The Wall Street Journal |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | NONFICTION BOOKS ON THE BIG SCREEN $2000: Tina Fey used "Queen Bees and Wannabes" as fodder to write this Lindsay Lohan film Mean Girls |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | THE BIG BUKOWSKI $400: In the 1950s Charles Bukowski worked sorting mail in one of these, the title of his 1971 novel post office |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | THE BIG BUKOWSKI $800: From 1978's "Women": "A man gets paranoid when he has 300" of these after-drinking episodes "a year" a hangover |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | THE BIG BUKOWSKI $1200: "We're all of us going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us" this "each other but it doesn't" love |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | THE BIG BUKOWSKI $1600: Bukowski wrote the screenplay for this boozy 1987 film starring Mickey Rourke as Bukowski's alter ego Barfly |
| #6862, aired 2014-06-17 | THE BIG BUKOWSKI $2000: Bukowski's first published work was the 1944 story "Aftermath of a Lengthy" this kind of "slip"--he'd gotten his share rejection |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | BIG STUFF $200: This planet is so big that more than 1,000 Earths would fit inside it Jupiter |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | BIG STUFF $400: This country's King Fahd Airport covers 300 square miles, more than all of Bahrain, which has 3 airports of its own Saudi Arabia |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | BIG STUFF $600: Dedicated in 80 A.D., it covered 5 acres, was 4 stories high & originally sat 50,000 spectators the Colosseum |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | BIG STUFF $800: Cawker City, Kansas claims the world's biggest ball of this 5-letter item, with around 8 million feet twine |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | BIG STUFF $2,400 (Daily Double): The world's largest building by volume is this company's 472 million-cubic-foot factory in Everett, Wash. Boeing |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | BIG CITY MAYORS $200: Rahm Emanuel Chicago |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | BIG CITY MAYORS $400: Marty Walsh, succeeding Thomas Menino in 2014 Boston |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | BIG CITY MAYORS $600: Havana-born Tomas Regalado Miami |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | BIG CITY MAYORS $800: Overseas--Boris Johnson, who has been promoting one mode of transport London |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | BIG CITY MAYORS $1000: Mitch Landrieu New Orleans |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | BIG 5 $400: Of the 5 permanent member nations of the U.N. Security Council, the one with the largest population China |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | BIG 5 $800: The Olympic modern pentathlon is riding, running, swimming, shooting & duels in this sport fencing |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | BIG 5 $1200: Students of first aid learn the 5 types of wounds are abrasion, cut, laceration, puncture & this; it's just a... scratch |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | BIG 5 $1600: In taxonomy the traditional 5 of these divisions are plants, animals, fungi, protists & bacteria kingdoms |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | BIG 5 $2000: The 5 classes of taste include this Japanese-named one that a dish of beef with soy sauce has lots of umami |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | BIG-SCREEN GENDER BENDERS $400: Brandon Teena in "Boys Don't Cry" Hilary Swank |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | BIG-SCREEN GENDER BENDERS $800: Josephine & Daphne in "Some Like It Hot" Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | BIG-SCREEN GENDER BENDERS $1200: Jill Sadelstein in "Jack and Jill" (Adam) Sandler |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | BIG-SCREEN GENDER BENDERS $1600: Billy Kwan in "The Year of Living Dangerously" Linda Hunt |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | BIG-SCREEN GENDER BENDERS $2000: Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There" Cate Blanchett |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | WHAT GREAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE! $200: Check out the choppers on this "royal" dinosaur; some could be 6 inches long T. rex |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | WHAT GREAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE! $400: Looking at those teeth I'm glad to report that actual attacks on people by this fish are rare a piranha |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | WHAT GREAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE! $600: Only about half the tooth sticks out above the gum line in the 2-foot canines of this largest amphibious mammal a hippopotamus |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | WHAT GREAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE! $800: The 8-inch teeth of this animal extinct for 10,000 years were shaped like curved swords a saber-tooth tiger |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | WHAT GREAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE! $1000: The spiny ray above the snout of this fish, a fisherman itself, is its rod; a baitlike piece of flesh is its lure an anglerfish |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | THE BIG BAND THEORY $200: It won't mean a thing if you can't name this big band era that began around 1935 swing |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | THE BIG BAND THEORY $400: Typical big bands of the '30s & '40s featured a wind section made up of 4 trumpets, 5 reed instruments & 4 of these sliders trombones |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | THE BIG BAND THEORY $600: Fletcher Henderson's band pioneered these short, repeated musical phrases, also a term for a comic's improvs riffs |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | THE BIG BAND THEORY $800: Lionel Hampton said this clarinet "King" "opened the door for Jackie Robinson" by integrating his popular band Benny Goodman |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | THE BIG BAND THEORY $1000: Ava Gardner said this clarinetist and band leader "dumped me one week after our first anniversary."
Here they are in happier times Artie Shaw |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | & THE FISH WAS THIS BIG! $200: Up to 15 feet long, this fish has no teeth as an adult but does have a weapon for a nose a swordfish |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | & THE FISH WAS THIS BIG! $400: Don't struggle clumsily; identify the summer type of this, which can grow to almost three feet long a flounder |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | & THE FISH WAS THIS BIG! $600: Gail Choy-Kaleiki wasn't an old man but she pulled an 1,800-pound blue one of these out of the sea in 1970 a marlin |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | & THE FISH WAS THIS BIG! $800: A general term for a small fish; most American ones are less than 6 inches, but one in the Colorado River can run 6 feet minnow |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | & THE FISH WAS THIS BIG! $1000: If you're doing this type of "Fishing in America", remember that New Jersey's record for a lake one is over 32 pounds trout |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | NO BIG "E" $200: When referring to our planet, this word takes a capital E; when referring to soil & dirt, not Earth |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | NO BIG "E" $400: When this word is in a Wilde play title, it's upper case; not when it's just a word meaning "sincere" Earnest |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | NO BIG "E" $600: Capitalize this as the progenitor of the human race, but not when meaning "the night before" Eve |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | NO BIG "E" $800: As a member of a "benevolent & protective order", big E; as an antlered ruminant, little e Elk |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | NO BIG "E" $1000: Capitalize this word if it precedes "Guinea", but not if it precedes "plane" or "tide" Equatorial |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | IT'S A BIG WORLD $200: The saguaro is an often 5-story-tall type of this plant a cactus |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | IT'S A BIG WORLD $400: In 2010 Guinness said a Turkish man sported the longest this body part, 3.46 inches from bridge to tip the nose |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | IT'S A BIG WORLD $600: This "tyrant lizard" could take his 5-foot skull & rear up to a height of 18 feet Tyrannosaurus rex |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | IT'S A BIG WORLD $800: 23,000 people in its 6.6 million square feet keep Americans safe the Pentagon |
| #6645, aired 2013-07-05 | IT'S A BIG WORLD $1000: East to west, the greatest distance across this country is 6,000 miles; north to south, 2,800 Russia |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | IN THE BIG INNING $200: Fernando Tatis had a big inning at Dodger Stadium in 1999: 2 of these home runs for 8 RBIs grand slams |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | IN THE BIG INNING $400: In the course of pitching one of these gems in 1996, Al Leiter hurled a 3-pitch inning--beat that! a no-hit game (or no-hitter) |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | IN THE BIG INNING $600: The most runs scored by both teams in 1 inning:
19, when Cleveland came to this park in Boston in 1977 Fenway Park |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | IN THE BIG INNING $1000: George Burns (not the comedian) turned one of these in 1923, the first ever unassisted by a first baseman a triple play |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | THE BIG "BOARD" $200: A promenade along a beach or shore, perhaps fashionably near Park Place boardwalk |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | THE BIG "BOARD" $400: This name for a side of the boat is related to the word "steer"; Teutonic ships were steered on that side starboard |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | THE BIG "BOARD" $600: Examples of these include Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut & Phillips Academy in Massachusetts boarding school |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | THE BIG "BOARD" $800: Frank Sinatra's nickname; it was all business, baby Chairman of the Board |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | THE BIG "BOARD" $1,400 (Daily Double): In the 1950s the Brown family took on this Topeka organization in the Supreme Court the Board of Education |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | BIG CITY SUBURBS $200: Concord,
Lowell Boston (Massachusetts) |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | BIG CITY SUBURBS $400: Scottsdale,
Mesa Phoenix |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | BIG CITY SUBURBS $600: Livonia,
Dearborn Detroit |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | BIG CITY SUBURBS $1,000 (Daily Double): Coral Gables,
Hialeah Miami |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | BIG CITY SUBURBS $1000: Coronado,
Chula Vista San Diego |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | DIRECTORS' BIG SCREEN FAREWELLS $400: The epic "A Passage to India" David Lean |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | DIRECTORS' BIG SCREEN FAREWELLS $800: 1990's "La Voce Della Luna" (Federico) Fellini |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | DIRECTORS' BIG SCREEN FAREWELLS $1200: A gangster saga, not a spaghetti western: "Once Upon a Time in America" Sergio Leone |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | DIRECTORS' BIG SCREEN FAREWELLS $2000: Filmed in the '40s about a fellow Russian, "Ivan the Terrible: part two" (Sergei) Eisenstein |
| #6549, aired 2013-02-21 | DIRECTORS' BIG SCREEN FAREWELLS $2,600 (Daily Double): His second & last talkie, 1931's "The Struggle" (D.W.) Griffith |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | BIG $400: Barnum & Bailey elephant whose name is also found before "jet" Jumbo |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | BIG $800: 2-word maternal term for a big supply of ore mother lode |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | BIG $1200: Meaning "omnipresent", it's the name of a big movie studio Universal |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | BIG $1600: Isaiah says, "the Lord... shall punish" this sea monster leviathan |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | BIG $2000: This word meaning massive or slow-moving starts with a verb meaning "to think" ponderous |
| #6443, aired 2012-09-26 | BIG CHECKS $200: A 2012 million-dollar donation to a pro-Obama super-PAC came courtesy of this man Bill Maher |
| #6443, aired 2012-09-26 | BIG CHECKS $400: Arnold Palmer is seen here checking in during the early years of this tour, now called the Champions Tour the Seniors Tour |
| #6443, aired 2012-09-26 | BIG CHECKS $600: The sweepstakes to promote this company's discount subscriptions has given away over $227 million, some of it here Publishers Clearing House |
| #6443, aired 2012-09-26 | BIG CHECKS $800: Youth Education Towns are getting a cool million thanks to this NFL honcho. Roger Goodell |
| #6443, aired 2012-09-26 | BIG CHECKS $1000: Elizabeth Taylor is seen here with a check for her favorite cause, research to cure this AIDS |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | BIG STUFF $200: How about a hand for Nathan Sawaya, who created a big hand out of these toy bricks? Legos |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | BIG STUFF $300 (Daily Double): In 1934 a giant clam yielded one of these gems weighing more than 14 pounds a pearl |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | BIG STUFF $400: Some of these Halloween gourds have tipped the scales at a thousand pounds or more jack o'lanterns (or pumpkins) |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | BIG STUFF $800: It could take weeks to finish one of these made by Ravensburger; it's over 17' by 6' & contains more than 32,000 pieces a jigsaw puzzle |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | BIG STUFF $1000: This prehistoric giant was formerly called a Brontosaurus an Apatosaurus |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | MY BIG FAT GREEK LIT CATEGORY $400: This Ancient Greek wrote, "Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, so you would state home to your own land at once?" Homer |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | MY BIG FAT GREEK LIT CATEGORY $800: His "Apology" is seen as a reliable representation of the trial of Socrates Plato |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | MY BIG FAT GREEK LIT CATEGORY $1200: Known for her 600s B.C. lyric poetry, she was married & had a daughter named Cleis Sappho |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | MY BIG FAT GREEK LIT CATEGORY $1600: Shakespeare used Sir Thomas North's translation of this Greek's "Lives" for some material in his plays Plutarch |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | MY BIG FAT GREEK LIT CATEGORY $2000: To refute a claim that he was senile, this playwright read in court from his own play "Oedipus at Colonus" Sophocles |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | BIG PLAYS IN THE BIBLE $200: A huge upset as he "prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone"; I can't believe what I just saw! David |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | BIG PLAYS IN THE BIBLE $400: He "stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind"; what a play! Moses |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | BIG PLAYS IN THE BIBLE $600: His "wisdom excelled... the wisdom of Egypt", which is why he's been coach of the year so many times Solomon |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | BIG PLAYS IN THE BIBLE $800: It's not the 1924 Notre Dame backfield, this is the real McCoy from Revelation 6, & that means the game is truly over the Four Horsemen |
| #6391, aired 2012-06-04 | BIG PLAYS IN THE BIBLE $1000: What an amazing comeback! John 11 reported he "hath been dead 4 days", but now he's up & going back onto the field! Lazarus |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | "BIG" MOVIE QUOTES $400: 1998:
"The Dude abides" The Big Lebowski |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | "BIG" MOVIE QUOTES $800: 1985:
"Be sure and tell 'em Large Marge sent ya" Pee-wee's Big Adventure |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | "BIG" MOVIE QUOTES $1200: 1983: "I feel terrible, the last time I spoke with Alex, we had a fight..." "That's probably why he killed himself" The Big Chill |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | "BIG" MOVIE QUOTES $1600: 1986, Kurt Russell:
"You know what ol' Jack Burton always says in a time like this?" "Who?" "Jack Burton, me" Big Trouble in Little China |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | "BIG" MOVIE QUOTES $2000: 1996, Stanley Tucci:
"That is a risotto; is a special recipe that my brother and I bring from Italy" Big Night |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | BIG (& NOT-SO-BIG) BIRD $200: Adult gobblers of this bird type can have a wingspan of 4 feet & weigh 50 lbs.; some say they're tryptophan-tastic a turkey |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | BIG (& NOT-SO-BIG) BIRD $400: This 3- to 5-foot-tall pink bird uses hair-like combs along the edges of its bill to strain food from mud & sand a flamingo |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | BIG (& NOT-SO-BIG) BIRD $600: 2 feet in length, the great horned type of this preys on tough customers like porcupines & skunks an owl |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | BIG (& NOT-SO-BIG) BIRD $800: It's not crazy, it's not nuts, but the common one, about 30 inches long, is the state bird of Minnesota a loon |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | BIG (& NOT-SO-BIG) BIRD $1000: This biggest penguin can be 4 feet tall & dive close to 2,000 feet down the Emperor |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | BIG WORDS $400: The world's longest known cave system is in Kentucky & has this name that describes its size Mammoth |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | BIG WORDS $800: This word means any statue that is larger than life, not just the one of Helios at Rhodes colossus |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | BIG WORDS $1200: Some New Yorkers pronounce this big 4-letter word as if the first letter was "Y", not "H" huge |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | BIG WORDS $1600: A book about Senator Joe McCarthy is called "A Conspiracy So" this word literally meaning not measurable immense |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | BIG WORDS $2000: In a John Cheever title, this adjective precedes "Radio"; E.E. Cummings used it before "Room" enormous |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | IN A BIG COUNTY $400: 3 of the 6 most populous U.S. counties, including Orange, are in this state California |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | IN A BIG COUNTY $800: This Illinois county of more than 5 million people is named for a pioneer lawyer, not a sea captain Cook County |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | IN A BIG COUNTY $1200: Don't mess with the city of Kirby or the rest of this state's Bexar county Texas |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | IN A BIG COUNTY $1600: This large New York county shares its name with the capital of the Bahamas Nassau |
| #6327, aired 2012-03-06 | IN A BIG COUNTY $2000: Wayne County has more people than any other in this state but lost 12% of them from 2000 to 2010 Michigan |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | GO "BIG" $200: An intolerant person a bigot |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | GO "BIG" $400: 2-word slang term for a place crooks get sent the big house |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | GO "BIG" $600: In 1958 the Sacramento Union reported that "if" this "is humanoid" it would weigh 450 to 550 pounds Bigfoot |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | GO "BIG" $800: Ovis canadensis is this mountain dweller the bighorn sheep |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | GO "BIG" $1000: Feminine nickname for a huge German artillery piece of World War I Big Bertha |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | BIG BIRTHER $400: Maureen Boyle gave birth to quadruplets known as the "Four on the Fourth" in this month, 1990 July |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | BIG BIRTHER $800: Number of babies (boys & girls, not cephalopods) birthed by Nadya Suleman in January 2009 eight |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | BIG BIRTHER $1200: How lucky--in 1997 Bobbi McCaughey of Des Moines, Iowa gave birth to the first surviving set of these septuplets |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | BIG BIRTHER $1600: In Canada Elzire Dionne gave birth to this many babies May 28, 1934 five |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | BIG BIRTHER $2000: On Jan. 11, 1974 mother Susan gave birth to the Rosenkowitz sextuplets via this method caesarean section |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | THE BIG "TEN" $400: It's a broad-brimmed hat with a high crown, pardner a ten-gallon hat |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | THE BIG "TEN" $800: This cut of meat terminates before the ribs tenderloin |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | THE BIG "TEN" $1200: Ex-CIA head George, or a dogma held as true by members of a movement a tenet |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | THE BIG "TEN" $1600: An invertebrate's flexible appendage that serves as an organ of touch a tentacle |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | THE BIG "TEN" $2000: 1-word term for the inflammation of the fibrous structure that joins muscle to bone tendinitis |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $400: The idea that additional input yields smaller & smaller increases in output is called "the law of diminishing" these returns |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $800: The 21st century doctrine named for this man allows the U.S. to wage preventive war if an attack on us is coming George W. Bush |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $1600: "How Philosophy Can Save Your Life" says this Greek suggested, "opt for the good life" & "thrive on... simple pleasures" Epicurus |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $2,000 (Daily Double): The political philosophy of "minimum government, maximum freedom", or a party whose motto is just that libertarian |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? $2000: Kant's moral law, act according to principles you wish would be universally used, is called the categorical this the imperative |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | "BIG" STUFF $400: Jazz musicians & jockeys helped give New York City this nickname the Big Apple |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | "BIG" STUFF $800: If you're under this, you're at the circus the big top |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | "BIG" STUFF $1200: Digit also known as the hallux the big toe |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | "BIG" STUFF $1600: In France this feature of the night sky is known as "le casserole" the Big Dipper |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | "BIG" STUFF $2000: Rhyming nickname of Boston's Interstate 93 construction project the Big Dig |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | REALLY BIG COUNTRIES $400: Nearly twice as large as Canada, it covers 11% of the Earth's land surface Russia |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | REALLY BIG COUNTRIES $800: Laos, Nepal & North Korea are among the 14 nations that border it China |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | REALLY BIG COUNTRIES $1200: The people of this country, home to the world's largest tropical rain forest, speak Portuguese Brazil |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | REALLY BIG COUNTRIES $1600: This country's highest point, Mount Kosciuszko, lies in the state of New South Wales Australia |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | REALLY BIG COUNTRIES $2000: The territory of this largest U.N. member country situated only on islands includes Bali & the Molucca islands Indonesia |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | REALLY BIG SHOW $200: War alternated between hell & hijinks on this show whose 1983 finale got a 60.2 rating M*A*S*H |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | REALLY BIG SHOW $400: Nearly 80% of all viewers watching TV on Nov. 21, 1980 were tuned in to this show to learn that Kristin had shot J.R. Dallas |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | REALLY BIG SHOW $600: On May 14, 1998, 41% of the U.S. saw the 4 main characters on this show get a year in jail for doing nothing to stop a crime Seinfeld |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | REALLY BIG SHOW $800: On Aug. 29, 1967 nearly half of the U.S. saw the running end for Dr. Richard Kimble on this show The Fugitive |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | REALLY BIG SHOW $1000: The high-rated "Cheers" finale had this character muse on the point of life: "comfortable shoes" Cliff Clavin |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | BIG-SCREEN EDUCATORS $200: 1990: Arnold Schwarzenegger as undercover police detective John Kimble, teaching little kids Kindergarten Cop |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | BIG-SCREEN EDUCATORS $400: 1995: Michelle Pfeiffer as ex-Marine & inner city high school teacher Louanne Johnson Dangerous Minds |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | BIG-SCREEN EDUCATORS $600: 1980: Debbie Allen as dance instructor Lydia Grant Fame |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | BIG-SCREEN EDUCATORS $800: 1986: William Hurt as James Leeds, a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf Children of a Lesser God |
| #6141, aired 2011-05-02 | BIG-SCREEN EDUCATORS $1000: 1989: Morgan Freeman as baseball bat-wielding principal Joe Clark Lean on Me |
| #6119, aired 2011-03-31 | BIG DEAL $600: In 1997 a $16.7 billion deal by Pacific Telesis & SBC was the first merger of these "infantile" companies the Baby Bells |
| #6119, aired 2011-03-31 | BIG DEAL $800: In 1987 UAL, Inc. sold off Westin, Hertz & Hilton to focus on this main subsidiary United Airlines |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | BIG WORLD $400: This largest island is 50 times the size of Denmark, the country to which it belongs Greenland |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | BIG WORLD $800: Almost 10 times the size of the Everglades, the largest swamp is the Pantanal of Mato Grosso in this country Brazil |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | BIG WORLD $1200: When measured by shoreline, this North American bay is the world's largest Hudson Bay |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | BIG WORLD $1600: By volume, this deep Siberian lake is the world's largest body of fresh water Lake Baikal |
| #6081, aired 2011-02-07 | BIG WORLD $2000: Covering half of the island of Hawaii, it's the largest volcano on Earth Mauna Loa |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | THE BIG "C" $200: The world's largest of these religious symbols soars 198 feet high over Effingham, Illinois & weighs 180 tons a cross |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | THE BIG "C" $400: A water tower in Stanton, Iowa has been painted like a giant one of these: at over 35,000 gal., that's a lot of java! a cup of coffee |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | THE BIG "C" $600: A Guinness record holder, one of these is 7' x 7' & contains 28,000 clues a crossword |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | THE BIG "C" $800: The world's largest wheel of this food is 6' wide & weighs 1,300 pounds; when's the world's largest fondue party? cheese |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | THE BIG "C" $1000: Dewberry, Alberta claims the world's largest of these, whose main purpose is serving food to cowboys a chuckwagon |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY $200: This city is the brightest area along the East Coast New York |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY $400: You can see the shore of this Asian capital's bay has orange sodium lamps, while the city uses green mercury lamps Tokyo |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY $600: This Great Lakes city has 3 million people, but the surrounding suburbs increase the population to almost 10 million Chicago |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY $800: The amazing variety of light colors must belong to this U.S. desert city Las Vegas |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY $1000: This Capital gleams on the southern shore of the Rio de la Plata Buenos Aires |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | BIG "BROTHER" $200: Zeppo or Gummo Marx Brothers |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | BIG "BROTHER" $400: A sibling by marriage, not genetics a brother-in-law (or step-brother) |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | BIG "BROTHER" $600: 5-word nickname of Philadelphia "The City of Brotherly Love" |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | BIG "BROTHER" $800: Sanguine term for a steadfast friend a blood brother |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | BIG "BROTHER" $1000: The title of this WWII-set miniseries is also a phrase from Shakespeare's "Henry V" Band of Brothers |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | BIG APPLE CIRCUS $200: All the circus' dogs are pound and shelter rescues; Ben & Jerry here are this breed, from the German for "to splash" a poodle |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | BIG APPLE CIRCUS $400: The equestrian, Sultan, is seen here riding in this style that also describes the city of emperor Nero Roman |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | THE BIG UNIT $200: ADC makes units that handle 460 pounds of this; not sure how many sheets of Bounce you need to add laundry |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | THE BIG UNIT $400: Mugnaini is a company specializing in wood fired ovens, including one over 4' wide by 6' deep, for this food pizza |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | THE BIG UNIT $600: Carrier's Weathermaster HVAC unit, with capacity up to 100 tons, goes here on a building the roof |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | THE BIG UNIT $800: Monster car audio components from MTX are named for this concrete-breaking (& eardrum-hurting) device a jackhammer |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | THE BIG UNIT $1000: In 1926 the queen of Romania flipped on the new 100,000-horsepower generator of New York this, now Consolidated this Edison |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | FAMOUS NAMES IN THE BIG BROTHER HOUSE $200: As he did after the 1962 Calif. governor's race, on eviction he says the house won't have him to kick around anymore Nixon |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | FAMOUS NAMES IN THE BIG BROTHER HOUSE $400: The houseguests boot this American general who took over command of Philadelphia in 1778 for his dastardly double dealing (Benedict) Arnold |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | FAMOUS NAMES IN THE BIG BROTHER HOUSE $600: In 1947 his fasting stopped riots in Calcutta & his sunny attitude takes him far in the game; everyone likes Mo Gandhi |
| #5883, aired 2010-03-24 | FAMOUS NAMES IN THE BIG BROTHER HOUSE $1000: Also pushed out by Castro in 1959, he tells Julie Chen, "I just didn't see the backdoor coming" (Fulgencio) Batista |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | BIG ACTORS, SMALL ROLES $400: Seth Rogen voiced a mantis & Dustin Hoffman a small red panda in this 2008 movie Kung Fu Panda |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | BIG ACTORS, SMALL ROLES $800: Voiced by John Cleese, King Harold of "Shrek" fame was originally one of these small creatures a frog |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | BIG ACTORS, SMALL ROLES $1200: Chemicals turn Lily Tomlin into this title "Woman" in a 1981 Joel Schumacher film The Incredible Shrinking Woman |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | BIG ACTORS, SMALL ROLES $1600: The return of 2 kidnapped fairies played by Emi & Yumi Ito caused this winged creature to stop destroying Tokyo Mothra |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | BIG ACTORS, SMALL ROLES $2000: This 1987 film finds Dennis Quaid as a shrunken test pilot mistakenly injected into Martin Short's body Innerspace |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | BIBLICAL BIG SCREEN $400: Richard Harris played this murderous character from Genesis in 1966's "The Bible: In the Beginning" Cain |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | BIBLICAL BIG SCREEN $800: Pop singer Yvonne Elliman played Mary Magdalene in this 1973 musical film Jesus Christ Superstar |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | BIBLICAL BIG SCREEN $1200: One of the "Greatest" Bible epics, it has Max von Sydow as Jesus & David McCallum as Judas The Greatest Story Ever Told |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | BIBLICAL BIG SCREEN $1600: More known for his gangster roles, this actor played the weaselly Dathan in "The Ten Commandments" Edward G. Robinson |
| #5867, aired 2010-03-02 | BIBLICAL BIG SCREEN $2,000 (Daily Double): Harvey Keitel played the role of Judas Iscariot in this controversial 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10 $200: The first 10 of these are known as the Bill of Rights the Amendments |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Relatively speaking, it's your mom's husband by a later marriage a stepfather |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10 $400: In Israel Tevet is the tenth of these month |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10 $600: In L.A., the western tip of Interstate 10 is called this "freeway", after the beach community it passes through Santa Monica |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $800: From the late Latin for "word", this book is the last word on words dictionary |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10 $800: The title of this Boccaccio work means "10 Days" Decameron |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10 $1000: (Alex stands in front of an exhibit at the Newseum.) The exhibit "G-men and Journalists" contains the very first ledger in which this list was kept; it began when a reporter asked the FBI, "Who are the toughest guys you're looking for?" the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: Don't lose your head: this French device shares its name with an instrument for surgically removing tonsils guillotine |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): The report's back from the lab; it's the science dealing with the detection of poisons toxicology |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: Something that's the first son's due; Esau sold his birthright |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | THEY'RE BIG $400: Historically, Detroit's big 3:
GM,
Chrysler,
this company Ford |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | THEY'RE BIG $800: The big 5 food allergens:
soy, wheat, milk, eggs, these legumes peanuts |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | THEY'RE BIG $1200: The Big 12:
a dozen athletic powerhouses, 4 of them in this state Texas |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | THEY'RE BIG $1600: The Big 2 of comic book publishing:
these 2 Marvel & DC |
| #5800, aired 2009-11-27 | THEY'RE BIG $2000: The Big 4 transcontinental railroad barons:
Hopkins,
Huntington,
Crocker,
him Leland Stanford |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | WHAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE! $200: This "eager" animal's 20 teeth, include 4 strong, curved front ones that never wear out, as they grow through its life a beaver |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | WHAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE! $400: "I am" this animal that uses its 39" tusks both to defend itself against polar bears & as hooks to climb on ice the walrus |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | WHAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE! $600: This long, pointy type of tooth comes before "tooth" in the name of a fish living at depths down to 16,000 feet a fang |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | WHAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE! $800: This pit viper seen here injects venom through two long, hollow teeth in its upper jaw a rattlesnake |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | WHAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE! $1,500 (Daily Double): The mouth of this African ungulate can open 150 degrees to show its teeth; its lower canines may be more than 12" long a hippopotamus |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | BIG BOTTOM $400: Seabed samples suggest that this 970,000-square-mile sea between Europe & Africa was once largely dry the Mediterranean Sea |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | BIG BOTTOM $800: The bottom of this ocean has a ridge that rises to form islands like Iceland & St. Helena the Atlantic Ocean |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | BIG BOTTOM $1200: A lowlife opportunist, or a fish like the lake sturgeon, which takes sustenance from the bed of big lakes a bottom-feeder |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | BIG BOTTOM $1600: The 600,000-square-mile bottom of this gulf off the southern U.S. includes the Sigsbee Abyssal Plain the Gulf of Mexico |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | BIG BOTTOM $2000: In 2008, over 65 years after it was sunk, HMAS Sydney was found 11/2 miles down in this ocean off Western Australia the Indian Ocean |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | THE BIG BANG THEORY $400: This telescope namesake's discovery of an expanding universe underpins the Big Bang theory (Edwin) Hubble |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | THE BIG BANG THEORY $800: The 1965 discovery of this form of cosmic background radiation helped validate the theory--& make popcorn microwave (radiation) |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | THE BIG BANG THEORY $1200: This British astronomer who coined the phrase "Big Bang" didn't buy the theory--he didn't think it was according to... Hoyle |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | THE BIG BANG THEORY $1600: The first 10-43 seconds after the bang are known as this German physicist's era, after which things "maxed" out the Planck era |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | THE BIG BANG THEORY $2000: Big Bang theory predicts that the universe is filled with these "little neutral" fundamental particles neutrinos |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | LIKE A BIG PIECE OF PIE? $200: Pillsbury has a recipe for a "magically fast" one of these; proverbially, it's "American as" one apple pie |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | LIKE A BIG PIECE OF PIE? $400: This French term has been americanized to refer to pie topped with ice cream à la mode |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | LIKE A BIG PIECE OF PIE? $600: The band Warrant sang that this dish would "put a smile on your face 10 miles wide" cherry pie |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | LIKE A BIG PIECE OF PIE? $800: When publicly admitting to a mistake, eat this 17th c. English dish of deer innards; it's delicious! humble pie |
| #5756, aired 2009-09-28 | LIKE A BIG PIECE OF PIE? $1000: Seen here are this edible item & the headgear named for it porkpie |
| #5730, aired 2009-07-03 | BIG CITY MAYORS $400: Havana-born Manny Diaz Miami |
| #5730, aired 2009-07-03 | BIG CITY MAYORS $800: Richard M. Daley Chicago |
| #5730, aired 2009-07-03 | BIG CITY MAYORS $1200: Thomas Menino, who followed Ray Flynn Boston |
| #5730, aired 2009-07-03 | BIG CITY MAYORS $1600: Gavin Newsom San Francisco |
| #5730, aired 2009-07-03 | BIG CITY MAYORS $2000: The South's Shirley Franklin Atlanta |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | BIG FAN $200: Idolizers of this singer:
claymates Clay Aiken |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | BIG FAN $400: Fans of this radio host:
Dittoheads Rush Limbaugh |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | BIG FAN $600: Nothing against Trekkies but Leonard Nimoy says true believers prefer this term Trekkers |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | BIG FAN $800: Cheeseheads eat up this NFL team (love the hats) the Green Bay Packers |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | BIG FAN $1000: Change one letter in Barry Manilow's last name to get this term for one of his fans a fanilow |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | KINGS OF THE BIG SCREEN $400: 1956:
Yul Brynner as this Asian the King of Siam |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | KINGS OF THE BIG SCREEN $800: 1989:
Kenneth Branagh Henry V |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | KINGS OF THE BIG SCREEN $1200: 2008:
Eric Bana Henry VIII |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | KINGS OF THE BIG SCREEN $1600: 1994:
Nigel Hawthorne George III |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | KINGS OF THE BIG SCREEN $2000: 1985:
Richard Gere King David |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | HE PLAYED IT ON THE BIG SCREEN $800: Danny Ocean,
2001, 2004, 2007 George Clooney |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | HE PLAYED IT ON THE BIG SCREEN $1200: Danny Ocean,
1960 Frank Sinatra |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | HE PLAYED IT ON THE BIG SCREEN $1600: Batman,
1989 Michael Keaton |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | HE PLAYED IT ON THE BIG SCREEN $2000: The Hunchback of Notre Dame,
1923 Lon Chaney |
| #5490, aired 2008-06-20 | BIG BROTHERS $400: (Julie Chen of CBS' Big Brother reads the clue.) Charlie Sheen's films with this big brother include "Men At Work" & "Young Guns" Emilio Estevez |
| #5490, aired 2008-06-20 | BIG BROTHERS $800: In 2008 quarterback Jordan Palmer signed with the Cincinnati Bengals to back up this big brother Carson Palmer |
| #5490, aired 2008-06-20 | BIG BROTHERS $1200: Dave Davies of this band hasn't always looked up to big brother Ray as they're known for fighting on stage The Kinks |
| #5490, aired 2008-06-20 | BIG BROTHERS $1600: The 8th of 9 Wahlberg children, he was the "new kid" until he became big brother to Mark Donnie Wahlberg |
| #5490, aired 2008-06-20 | BIG BROTHERS $2000: Siblings Elisabeth & Andrew in this family made the 2007 film "Gracie", a tribute to their late older brother William the Shues |
| #5487, aired 2008-06-17 | FROM BOOK TO BIG SCREEN $200: Zhang Ziyi played Chiyo-Sen in the film version of Arthur S. Golden's "Memoirs of" one of these A Geisha |
| #5487, aired 2008-06-17 | FROM BOOK TO BIG SCREEN $400: This 2005 film in which aliens use tripod machines is based on a novel by H.G. Wells War of the Worlds |
| #5487, aired 2008-06-17 | FROM BOOK TO BIG SCREEN $600: This novel and its 2006 film version both start with a museum curator staggering through the Louvre The Da Vinci Code |
| #5487, aired 2008-06-17 | FROM BOOK TO BIG SCREEN $800: Hayden Christensen can teleport himself anywhere in this 2008 film based on a novel by Steven Gould Jumper |
| #5487, aired 2008-06-17 | FROM BOOK TO BIG SCREEN $1000: This 1962 novel by Ken Kesey was adapted for the big screen in 1975 & won 5 Academy Awards One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | "BIG" LOVE $400: In a classic children's story, he tries to get the 3 little pigs & instead ends up in a pot of boiling water the Big Bad Wolf |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | "BIG" LOVE $800: Rooseveltian partner of "speak softly" big stick |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | "BIG" LOVE $1200: Bogey played Philip Marlowe in this 1946 big screener The Big Sleep |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | "BIG" LOVE $1600: The state animal of Colorado is a breed of this a bighorn sheep |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | "BIG" LOVE $2000: In the hobo song, it's the mountain "where you sleep all day" & "where they hung that jerk who invented work" the Big Rock Candy Mountain |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | ON THE BIG SCREEN $400: Get some McLovin from this 2007 comedy that Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg began writing as 13-year-olds Superbad |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | ON THE BIG SCREEN $800: Mais oui! In 2007 Chris Tucker & Jackie Chan headed to Paris, giving this film series trilogy status Rush Hour |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | ON THE BIG SCREEN $1200: (Hey, I'm Mark McGrath.) My band & I sang the song "Words To Me" in this 2002 movie about a hungry hyphenated Hanna-Barbera hound Scooby-Doo |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | ON THE BIG SCREEN $1600: Kevin Costner's funeral kicks off this "big" 1983 film but sadly, Kevin couldn't make it; he got cut from the film in editing The Big Chill |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | ON THE BIG SCREEN $2000: Heard here, the "Wilhelm Scream" debuted in a 1951 film but has been used in over 120 others, notably in this 1977 sci fi pic Star Wars |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | YE OLDE BIG APPLE $200: In 1967 New York City ordered all officially licensed taxis painted this color yellow |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | YE OLDE BIG APPLE $400: Facing Boston, he fittingly hit the first home run in Yankee Stadium in 1923 Babe Ruth |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | YE OLDE BIG APPLE $500 (Daily Double): Construction of the Empire State Building began in 1930 on the site of this hyphenated hotel that moved to Park Avenue Waldorf-Astoria |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | YE OLDE BIG APPLE $600: Into the 1840s, sanitation on Wall Street was handled by thousands of these porcine wanderers pigs |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | YE OLDE BIG APPLE $1000: Workplace safety was reformed after the March 1911 fire at this garment factory the Triangle factory |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | THE BIG APPLE $200: There's an annual footrace up its 86 flights of stairs the Empire State Building |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | THE BIG APPLE $400: On the NYC subway this train will also take you to Harlem, but then it splits off & heads for Yankee Stadium the B train |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | THE BIG APPLE $600: In 1865 NYC, already home to 800,000, finally abandoned this type of fire department volunteer |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | THE BIG APPLE $800: One of NYC's most famous seafood joints is the bar for these bivalves in Grand Central oysters |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | THE BIG APPLE $1000: Artsy types like Maya Lin & Art Spiegelman find inspiration in this area that gets its name from its northern border SoHo (South of Houston) |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | BIG MEN ON CAMPUS $400: Strom Thurmond has a wellness & fitness center named for him at this school, the other USC the University of South Carolina |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | BIG MEN ON CAMPUS $800: As a midshipman, Ross Perot was elected president--not of the U.S., but of his class at this school the Naval Academy |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | BIG MEN ON CAMPUS $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from a college campus.) Luckily, spelling the name of this school's Coach Krzyzewski isn't a requirement for admission Duke |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | BIG MEN ON CAMPUS $1600: A 7-foot statue of this colonial statesman overlooks the campus of GMU, the university named for him George Mason University |
| #5225, aired 2007-05-04 | BIG MEN ON CAMPUS $2000: This Quebecois began teaching law at the University of Montreal in 1961 & became Canada's P.M. 7 years later Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | BIG "STAR" $200: As soon as corn is picked, its sugar begins to turn into this, so get it into the pot fast! starch |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | BIG "STAR" $400: In 1990 this company expanded its Seattle HQ & built a new roasting plant Starbucks |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | BIG "STAR" $600: This hotel & casino at 3000 Las Vegas Blvd. South cashed out in 2006 the Stardust |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | BIG "STAR" $800: In WWI Germany introduced this chemical weapon, C4H8Cl2S mustard gas |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | BIG "STAR" $1000: It's a dessert made of eggs, sugar & milk, either baked, boiled or frozen custard |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $200: 1980:
She was a "coal miner's daughter" Loretta Lynn |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $400: 1989:
This comedian was "wired" (John) Belushi |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $600: 1993:
Enter this "dragon" Bruce Lee |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $800: 2004:
He sang "Beyond The Sea" Bobby Darin |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $1000: 1998:
He ran "without limits" Steven Prefontaine |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | BIG BUSINESS $400: In 1988, this FedEx rival got its own airline, now among the USA's 10 largest UPS |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | BIG BUSINESS $800: In 1947 this tinfoil brand was Reynolds Aluminum's first consumer product Reynolds Wrap |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | BIG BUSINESS $1200: In 1983 this company introduced its 1-2-3 program for managing business spreadsheets Lotus |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | BIG BUSINESS $1600: This company's first retail store opened on February 2, 1925 at Homan Avenue & Arthington Street in Chicago Sears |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | BIG BUSINESS $2000: In 1995 Kimberly-Clark purchased this company known for its Viva paper towels, among other products Scott |
| #5128, aired 2006-12-20 | TOO BIG FOR YOUR BRIDGES $400: This body of water covers about 64 million square miles, more than all the land on Earth the Pacific Ocean |
| #5128, aired 2006-12-20 | TOO BIG FOR YOUR BRIDGES $800 (Daily Double): The airline flight from Sydney to Johannesburg lasts 14 hours, most of it over this body of water the Indian Ocean |
| #5128, aired 2006-12-20 | TOO BIG FOR YOUR BRIDGES $800: This freshwater body stretches about 350 miles from Duluth in the west to Whitefish Bay in the east Lake Superior |
| #5128, aired 2006-12-20 | TOO BIG FOR YOUR BRIDGES $1600: In its middle, the bulge of the Crimean Peninsula narrows it to about 150 miles north to south the Black Sea |
| #5128, aired 2006-12-20 | TOO BIG FOR YOUR BRIDGES $2000: This strait that opens into the Chukchi Sea once had a land bridge, but there's no bridge now the Bering (Strait) |
| #5121, aired 2006-12-11 | THE BIG "O" $400: This branch of medicine deals with women during pregnancy & labor & after childbirth obstetrics |
| #5121, aired 2006-12-11 | THE BIG "O" $800: As opposed to oriental, this 10-letter word refers to the West occidental |
| #5121, aired 2006-12-11 | THE BIG "O" $1200: Captain Beefheart is said to have a range of 4.5 of these octaves |
| #5121, aired 2006-12-11 | THE BIG "O" $1600: Some "languish in" this word that means "darkness" or "indistinctness" obscurity |
| #5121, aired 2006-12-11 | THE BIG "O" $2000: A long vehicle for passengers, or an anthology of articles related to a subject omnibus |
| #5113, aired 2006-11-29 | BIG MOUTH $200: Proceed down to the mouth of the Congo & you wind up on this ocean the Atlantic |
| #5113, aired 2006-11-29 | BIG MOUTH $400: The Rio Grande, aka the Rio Bravo, lands in this body of water the Gulf of Mexico |
| #5113, aired 2006-11-29 | BIG MOUTH $600: The Yangtze flows into the "East" this "Sea"; the Mekong into the "South" this "Sea" China |
| #5113, aired 2006-11-29 | BIG MOUTH $800: Yukon see this sea at the mouth of the Yukon the Bering Sea |
| #5113, aired 2006-11-29 | BIG MOUTH $1000: The port city of Kismaayo sits on the mouth of the Juba River on this ocean the Indian |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | THE BIG BOARD $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the NY Stock Exchange floor.) The person who buys & sells stocks on the floor is known as this, from an old word for "middle-man" a broker |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | THE BIG BOARD $800: (Sarah reports from the NY Stock Exchange floor.) The floor location where buying & selling occurs is called this, like the early American sites where furs were sold a trading post |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | THE BIG BOARD $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the NY Stock Exchange floor.) In 1996 when Wall Street loved high tech, Lucent Technologies set a New York Stock Exchange $3 billion record for one of these an IPO |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | THE BIG BOARD $1600: (Jimmy on the NY Stock Exchange floor.) The floor is tidier since the price reporting system went electronic, however the readout is still known by this old name the ticker |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | THE BIG BOARD $2000: (Jimmy reports above the market floor of the NY Stock Exchange.) These two terms for the market condition may come from the ways the creatures attacked their opponents the bear & the bull |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | THE BIG SLEEP $200: When the airway narrows, the soft palate or uvula may vibrate; the old man is doing this snoring |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | THE BIG SLEEP $400: Lady Macbeth has a famous scene where she experiences this, aka somnambulism; things don't work out well for her sleepwalking |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | THE BIG SLEEP $600: Anxiety over business or domestic affairs may cause predormital this; enjoy the 4 A.M. movie insomnia |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | THE BIG SLEEP $800: Michael Stipe knows this type of sleep occurs about every 90 minutes & lasts from 5 to 30 minutes REM sleep |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | THE BIG SLEEP $1,800 (Daily Double): Alpha waves occur when you're relaxed with eyes closed; beta, when alert; these waves, when in deep sleep delta waves |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | BIG-SCREEN ARTISTS $400: 1965:
Charlton Heston Michelangelo |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | BIG-SCREEN ARTISTS $800: 1956:
Kirk Douglas Vincent van Gogh |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | BIG-SCREEN ARTISTS $1200: 2001:
John Leguizamo (in a musical) Toulouse-Lautrec |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | BIG-SCREEN ARTISTS $1600: 2000:
Ed Harris Jackson Pollock |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | BIG-SCREEN ARTISTS $2000: 1996:
Anthony Hopkins Picasso |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | BIG FISH $400: You're gonna need a bigger boat to top the record catch of 2,664 lbs. for one of these sharks caught off Australia in 1959 a great white |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | BIG FISH $800: Just for the heck of it, identify this flatfish, one of which weighed in at 459 lbs. off Alaska in 1996 a halibut |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | BIG FISH $1600: Fish sandwiches were all the rage when a 1,496-lb. tuna of this colorful type was landed off Nova Scotia a bluefin |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | BIG FISH $2,000 (Daily Double): One of these freshwater pond fish was anything but "koi" when weighing in at 75 lbs., 11oz. in France in 1987 a carp |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | BIG FISH $2000: A 55-lb., 1-oz. specimen of the "Northern" type of this long, sharp-toothed fish was pulled ashore in Germany in 1986 a pike |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | BIG "ROCK" $200: When you hit the lowest possible level, you're said to "hit" this rock bottom |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | BIG "ROCK" $400: It's a "canine" term for a gemstone collector a rock hound |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | BIG "ROCK" $600: "Money is good if you know how to use it", said the patriarch of this famous family the Rockefellers |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | BIG "ROCK" $800: Socks the cat, once America's First Feline, was born in this city Little Rock |
| #4930, aired 2006-02-03 | BIG "ROCK" $1000: This disease is transmitted by the bite of a wood tick or a dog tick Rocky Mountain spotted fever |
| #4912, aired 2006-01-10 | THE BIG ORANGE CATEGORY $200: The first time this event was held at the Orange Bowl was on January 14, 1968 the Super Bowl |
| #4912, aired 2006-01-10 | THE BIG ORANGE CATEGORY $400: Orange you glad to know that celery is part of this orange vegetable's family a carrot |
| #4912, aired 2006-01-10 | THE BIG ORANGE CATEGORY $600: Orange Savings & the Orange Mortgage are offered by the online bank called this "Direct" ING |
| #4912, aired 2006-01-10 | THE BIG ORANGE CATEGORY $800: The Black Maria was this inventor's West Orange, New Jersey movie studio Edison |
| #4912, aired 2006-01-10 | THE BIG ORANGE CATEGORY $1000: The orange pekoe grade of this has some of the smallest leaves tea |
| #4885, aired 2005-12-02 | BIG WORDS $400: A top-of-the-beanstalk-livin' guy, or a pro pigskin-totin' one a giant |
| #4885, aired 2005-12-02 | BIG WORDS $800: In 1985 it was found in 2 sections about 400 miles SE of Newfoundland, at a depth of about 12,500 feet the Titanic |
| #4885, aired 2005-12-02 | BIG WORDS $1200: It describes the "skies" in "America The Beautiful" spacious |
| #4885, aired 2005-12-02 | BIG WORDS $1600: This word famously preceded "wasteland" in a 1961 speech about TV; we'll try not to take it personally vast |
| #4885, aired 2005-12-02 | BIG WORDS $2000: This title adjective describes the "room" in the title of the 1922 e.e. cummings novel of WWI enormous |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | YOUR LIFE ON THE BIG SCREEN $400: 1942:
"Pride of the Yankees" Lou Gehrig |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | YOUR LIFE ON THE BIG SCREEN $800: 1974:
"Lenny" Lenny Bruce |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | YOUR LIFE ON THE BIG SCREEN $1200: 1999:
"The Hurricane" Rubin "Hurricane" Carter |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | YOUR LIFE ON THE BIG SCREEN $1600: 2005:
"Cinderella Man" Jim Braddock |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | YOUR LIFE ON THE BIG SCREEN $2000: 1973:
"Papillon" Henri Charriere |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | UP ON THE "BIG" SCREEN $400: Grandmotherly drag is just the thing for FBI agent Martin Lawrence in this 2000 film Big Momma's House |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | UP ON THE "BIG" SCREEN $800: In this "of 1938" Bob Hope introduced "Thanks For The Memory" The Big Broadcast |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | UP ON THE "BIG" SCREEN $1200: Paul Reubens' 2 big movies of 1985 & 1988 Pee-wee's Big Adventure & Big Top Pee-wee |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | UP ON THE "BIG" SCREEN $1600: 1989 gave us 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon as a Hollywood wannabe in this film The Big Picture |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | UP ON THE "BIG" SCREEN $2000: In 1958 Gregory Peck took on Burl Ives over water rights in the Old West in this oater The Big Country |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | THE BIG BAND ERA $400: In a Duke Ellington hit song title, it's the line that follows "It don't mean a thing" "if it ain't got that swing" |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | THE BIG BAND ERA $800: Title transport in the big band classic heard here the Chattanooga Choo Choo |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | THE BIG BAND ERA $1200: A 1941 hit for the Andrews Sisters, the song about this "boy" was also nominated for an Academy Award the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | THE BIG BAND ERA $1600: Glenn Miller's version of this song with a 3-word title was his biggest hit "In The Mood" |
| #4759, aired 2005-04-21 | THE BIG BAND ERA $2000: "Sing, Sing, Sing" was a smash hit for this clarinetist & his big band Benny Goodman |
| #4731, aired 2005-03-14 | "BIG" DEAL $200: It's the hairy humanoid aka Sasquatch Bigfoot |
| #4731, aired 2005-03-14 | "BIG" DEAL $400: In this sweet mountain of song, hobos will find "a land that's fair and bright" "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" |
| #4731, aired 2005-03-14 | "BIG" DEAL $600: A large wild sheep of North America a bighorn sheep |
| #4731, aired 2005-03-14 | "BIG" DEAL $800: Technically, this digit is the hallux the big toe |
| #4731, aired 2005-03-14 | "BIG" DEAL $1000: Nick goes fishing in this 2-part story from Hemingway's "In Our Time" "The Big Two-Hearted River" |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | BIG BROTHERS $400: This duo had 4 No. 1 hits, including "Cathy's Clown" & "Bird Dog" The Everly Brothers |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | BIG BROTHERS $800: Dennis' big bro, he played a pilot who saved the world in 1996's "Independence Day" Randy Quaid |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | BIG BROTHERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Only family in the musical sense, this group gave us "China Grove" & "Black Water" The Doobie Brothers |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | BIG BROTHERS $1600: The Coen Brothers co-wrote this 1987 comedy set in the American Southwest Raising Arizona |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | BIG BROTHERS $2000: Look for Aretha, Ray, James Brown, Cab Calloway &, of course, Twiggy & Frank Oz in this 1980 film comedy The Blues Brothers |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | YOU'RE A BIG SCREEN MONSTER! $200: 1931:
Boris Karloff as his monster Dr. Frankenstein |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | YOU'RE A BIG SCREEN MONSTER! $400: 1986:
Jeff Goldblum the Fly |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | YOU'RE A BIG SCREEN MONSTER! $600: 1933:
Claude Raines The Invisible Man |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | YOU'RE A BIG SCREEN MONSTER! $800: 1979:
Frank Langella Dracula |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | YOU'RE A BIG SCREEN MONSTER! $1000: 1951:
James Arness the Thing from Another World |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $400: "Lenny" Lenny Bruce |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $800: "Immortal Beloved" Beethoven |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $1200: "Born on the Fourth of July" Ron Kovic |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $1600: "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo" Doolittle |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $2000: "A Beautiful Mind" (John) Nash |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | BIG SCREEN BIOS $400: "Great Balls of Fire!" Jerry Lee Lewis |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | BIG SCREEN BIOS $800: "Your Cheatin' Heart" Hank Williams, Sr. |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | BIG SCREEN BIOS $1200: "Bananas Is My Business" (Carmen) Miranda |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | BIG SCREEN BIOS $1600: "Man of a Thousand Faces" Lon Chaney, Sr. |
| #4607, aired 2004-09-21 | BIG SCREEN BIOS $2000: "Monster" Aileen Wuornos |
| #4598, aired 2004-09-08 | BIG WORDS $400: A person who fought against slavery, like John Brown, was termed this 12-letter word abolitionist |
| #4598, aired 2004-09-08 | BIG WORDS $800: This instrument, often attached to an inflatable cuff, is used to measure blood pressure a sphygmomanometer |
| #4598, aired 2004-09-08 | BIG WORDS $1200: This 11-letter word for "sleight of hand" is from the French for "light of hand" legerdemain |
| #4598, aired 2004-09-08 | BIG WORDS $1600: This adjective refers to a 150th anniversary sesquicentennial |
| #4598, aired 2004-09-08 | BIG WORDS $5,600 (Daily Double): 28-letter term for opposition to the withdrawal of state support, as for the Anglican church antidisestablishmentarianism |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | THE BIG BANGLADESH $200: Over 80% of those in Bangladesh follow this religion Islam |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | THE BIG BANGLADESH $400: About two-thirds of all Bangladeshis work in agriculture, mostly farming this product rice |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | THE BIG BANGLADESH $600: The green on the flag of Bangladesh represents its lush vegetation; the red circle in the middle is this the Sun |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | THE BIG BANGLADESH $800: After India was partitioned in 1947, what would later become Bangladesh was the "East" part of this country Pakistan |
| #4595, aired 2004-07-23 | THE BIG BANGLADESH $1000: In the 1960s, Louis Kahn designed the Parliament building seen here in this capital Dhaka |
| #4556, aired 2004-05-31 | BIG DAYS ON THE COURT $200: (Hi, I'm Bill Walton.) On March 26, 1973 I helped this school to the NCAA championship by making 21 of 22 shots against Memphis State UCLA |
| #4556, aired 2004-05-31 | BIG DAYS ON THE COURT $400: (Hi, I'm Becky Hammon.) In game 1 of the 2002 WNBA finals, I was 4 for 6 on these shots--"beyond the arc", as we say 3-point shots |
| #4556, aired 2004-05-31 | BIG DAYS ON THE COURT $600: (Hi, I'm Julius Erving.) With under 3 minutes left, I scored 7 straight points to rally this team in the game that won us the 1983 NBA title the Philadelphia 76ers |
| #4556, aired 2004-05-31 | BIG DAYS ON THE COURT $800: (I'm Jalen Rose.) In a 2003 game I had 21 points, 11 assists & 14 rebounds for my first career one of these a triple-double |
| #4556, aired 2004-05-31 | BIG DAYS ON THE COURT $1000: (I'm NBA Hall of Famer Walt Frazier.) On May 8, 1970 I scored 36 points to lead this team to their first championship the New York Knicks |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | BIG, REALLY BIG! $200: Built on 200 acres, this Washington, D.C. train station was once the world's largest Union Station |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | BIG, REALLY BIG! $400: The 120-foot big bat being transported here is now at the Kentucky museum named for this 2-word brand Louisville Slugger |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | BIG, REALLY BIG! $600: In 1956 a 12,000-square-mile one of these was seen floating off Antarctica; you might call it titanic an iceberg |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | BIG, REALLY BIG! $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) In 1996 a 505 x 255-foot flag decorated this structure seen here in the West the Hoover Dam |
| #4541, aired 2004-05-10 | BIG, REALLY BIG! $1000: Lady Hamilton could tell you the name of this 185-foot column that went up in the early 1840s (Lord) Nelson's Column |
| #4509, aired 2004-03-25 | BIG SCREEN TITLE PAIRS $400: 1989:
"...and Misdemeanors" Crimes |
| #4509, aired 2004-03-25 | BIG SCREEN TITLE PAIRS $800: 1971:
"...and Broomsticks" Bedknobs |
| #4509, aired 2004-03-25 | BIG SCREEN TITLE PAIRS $1200: 1989:
"...and Sheba" Solomon |
| #4509, aired 2004-03-25 | BIG SCREEN TITLE PAIRS $1600: 1992:
"...and Away" Far |
| #4509, aired 2004-03-25 | BIG SCREEN TITLE PAIRS $2000: 1982:
"...and Treacle" Brimstone |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | IN THE BIG INNING $400: In 1999 St. Louis' Fernando Tatis became the first player ever to hit 2 of these in one inning, earning 8 RBIs total grand slams |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | IN THE BIG INNING $800: In the 8th inning of a 1941 game, a play by shortstop Lou Boudreau ended this Yankee's 56-game hitting streak Joe DiMaggio |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | IN THE BIG INNING $1200: Coming to bat in the 4th inning of a game against the L.A. Dodgers in 1974, this Atlanta Brave hit his 715th home run Hank Aaron |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | IN THE BIG INNING $1600: In the 3rd inning of a 1982 game, this Oakland player set a record with his 119th stolen base of the season Rickey Henderson |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | IN THE BIG INNING $2000: Up 5-3 in the 10th, this team lost game 6 & later the '86 Series after a ball went through Bill Buckner's legs the Boston Red Sox |
| #4453, aired 2004-01-07 | BIG JOHNS $400: His 1992 novel "The Pelican Brief" was a national bestseller John Grisham |
| #4453, aired 2004-01-07 | BIG JOHNS $800: The first pope to visit a president in the White House was this man who met Jimmy Carter in 1979 Pope John Paul II |
| #4453, aired 2004-01-07 | BIG JOHNS $1200: He was the tenth president & the second Whig president John Tyler |
| #4453, aired 2004-01-07 | BIG JOHNS $1600: "The Salinas Valley" was the original title of this man's 1952 novel "East of Eden" John Steinbeck |
| #4453, aired 2004-01-07 | BIG JOHNS $2000: He served as Chief Justice of the U.S. from 1789 to 1795 John Jay |
| #4442, aired 2003-12-23 | OTHER ROLES OF BIG SCREEN BONDS $200: You're the man now, dog, if you know he's also played the father of Indiana Jones Sean Connery |
| #4442, aired 2003-12-23 | OTHER ROLES OF BIG SCREEN BONDS $400: His commitment to play TV's Remington Steele cost him the James Bond job for several years Pierce Brosnan |
| #4442, aired 2003-12-23 | OTHER ROLES OF BIG SCREEN BONDS $600: Before he was Bond 007 times, he played Beau Maverick, the cousin of James Garner's Bret Maverick Roger Moore |
| #4442, aired 2003-12-23 | OTHER ROLES OF BIG SCREEN BONDS $800: A more chaste James Bond, his film debut came in 1968's "The Lion in Winter" Timothy Dalton |
| #4442, aired 2003-12-23 | OTHER ROLES OF BIG SCREEN BONDS $1000: This one-shot Bond also appeared in "The Kentucky Fried Movie" & "The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E." George Lazenby |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | BIG SCREEN TITLE ROLES $200: 2002:
"The Pianist" Adrien Brody |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | BIG SCREEN TITLE ROLES $400: 1978:
"Superman" Christopher Reeve |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | BIG SCREEN TITLE ROLES $600: 1982:
"Blade Runner" Harrison Ford |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | BIG SCREEN TITLE ROLES $800: 1967:
"The Graduate" Dustin Hoffman |
| #4388, aired 2003-10-08 | BIG SCREEN TITLE ROLES $1000: 1982:
"Gandhi" Ben Kingsley |
| #4377, aired 2003-09-23 | NOW THAT'S BIG! $400: This largest land animal also has the largest ears at 5 feet across each an elephant |
| #4377, aired 2003-09-23 | NOW THAT'S BIG! $800: With an audience of more than 2 billion, the final match in this sport's World Cup is the most watched TV event soccer |
| #4377, aired 2003-09-23 | NOW THAT'S BIG! $1200: Making up to 85 percent of the total weight, the cerebrum is the largest part of this organ the brain |
| #4377, aired 2003-09-23 | NOW THAT'S BIG! $4,000 (Daily Double): With a wingspan up to one foot, the world's largest of these insects is the Queen Alexandra's Birdwing a butterfly |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | "BIG" & "LITTLE" $200: At 8'2", he's over a foot taller than his best friend Snuffleupagus Big Bird |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | "BIG" & "LITTLE" $400: "I think I can -- I think I can -- I think I can" name this classic children's tale by Watty Piper The Little Engine That Could |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | "BIG" & "LITTLE" $600: Your kids might enjoy a visit to S. Williamsport, PA. where there's a museum devoted to this sports program Little League |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | "BIG" & "LITTLE" $1000: (Hi, I'm Brenda Lee) The title of one of my first records gave me this "explosive" nickname "Little Miss Dynamite" |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | "BIG" & "LITTLE" $1,500 (Daily Double): British lawyer & horologist Edmund Beckett had a hand in designing this famous attraction Big Ben |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $400: "Mommie Dearest" Joan Crawford |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $800: "Amadeus" Wolfgang A. Mozart |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $1200: "I Dream of Jeannie" & "Swanee River" Stephen Foster |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $1600: "A Man for All Seasons" Sir Thomas More |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | BIG SCREEN BIO SUBJECTS $2000: "Bound for Glory" Woody Guthrie |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | BIG BUSINESS $400: Minneapolis has flour power as the headquarters of Pillsbury & this "General" company General Mills |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | BIG BUSINESS $800: This carrier formed a subsidiardy called American Hotels in 1963 American Airlines |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | BIG BUSINESS $1200: Known as ADM, this agribusiness was one of the first to sell food to the Cuban government since the 1960 embargo Archer Daniels Midland |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | BIG BUSINESS $1,500 (Daily Double): A real shell company, Shell Petroleum is a subsidiary of this petroleum company based in the Netherlands Royal Dutch/Shell |
| #4317, aired 2003-05-13 | BIG BUSINESS $2000: This former head of Time Warner quit as CEO of AOL Time Warner saying, "I want the poetry back in my life" Gerald Levin |
| #4289, aired 2003-04-03 | BIG SCREEN COMPASS BEARINGS $400: Cary Grant's 1959 cross-country adventure North by Northwest |
| #4289, aired 2003-04-03 | BIG SCREEN COMPASS BEARINGS $800: James Dean's starring debut East of Eden |
| #4289, aired 2003-04-03 | BIG SCREEN COMPASS BEARINGS $1200: Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! Uncle Remus tells his tales in this 1946 Disney classic Song of the South |
| #4289, aired 2003-04-03 | BIG SCREEN COMPASS BEARINGS $2000: "Spellbound" 1987 big screener featuring Susan, Michelle, Jack & Cher The Witches of Eastwick |
| #4289, aired 2003-04-03 | BIG SCREEN COMPASS BEARINGS $4,000 (Daily Double): Eloquent pacifist World War I film about German boys in the trenches All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | THE "BIG" PICTURE $400: 1999:
Adam Sandler takes on fatherhood Big Daddy |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | THE "BIG" PICTURE $800: 1970:
Dustin Hoffman as Jack Crabb, aged 121 Little Big Man |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | THE "BIG" PICTURE $1200: 1987:
Dennis Quaid & Ellen Barkin have a steamy romance in New Orleans The Big Easy |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | THE "BIG" PICTURE $1600: 2002:
Frankie Muniz' stolen school essay becomes a big Hollywood movie Big Fat Liar |
| #4263, aired 2003-02-26 | THE "BIG" PICTURE $2000: 1998:
Jeff Bridges is an L.A. slacker who bowls The Big Lebowski |
| #4227, aired 2003-01-07 | A REALLY BIG CATEGORY $200: In 1934, a giant clam had yielded one of these gems with a diameter of 5 1/2 inches, weighing over 14 pounds pearl |
| #4227, aired 2003-01-07 | A REALLY BIG CATEGORY $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reads from the Chicago Field Museum.) My friend Sue here is the largest, most complete & best preserved one of these dinosaurs ever discovered a Tyrannosaurus rex |
| #4227, aired 2003-01-07 | A REALLY BIG CATEGORY $600: The Great Red Spot is a great big storm on this great big planet Jupiter |
| #4227, aired 2003-01-07 | A REALLY BIG CATEGORY $800: At 3 1/2 million square miles, this largest desert could just about cover the United States Sahara |
| #4227, aired 2003-01-07 | A REALLY BIG CATEGORY $1000: Until it met disaster in 1912, it was the largest & most luxurious passenger ship afloat Titanic |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | THE BIG DAY $200: This Neb. city's Henry Doorly Zoo has the largest glazed geodesic dome, housing the world's largest indoor desert Omaha |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | THE BIG DAY $400: With nearly 590,000 square miles of land, this state is about 487 times larger than Rhode Island Alaska |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | THE BIG DAY $600: During an 1887 snowstorm in Montana, one of these was measured at 15 inches wide & 8 inches thick snowflake |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | THE BIG DAY $800: This 10-armed giant cephalopod is not only the biggest invertebrate, but has the biggest eyes, the size of a volleyball giant squid |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | THE BIG DAY $1000: The biggest constellation is this one, "the sea serpent", which covers 3.16% of the sky & contains 68 visible stars Hydra |
| #4159, aired 2002-10-03 | BIG SCREEN BIOS $400: 1993's "Dragon" Bruce Lee |
| #4159, aired 2002-10-03 | BIG SCREEN BIOS $800: "Man on the Moon" Andy Kaufman |
| #4159, aired 2002-10-03 | BIG SCREEN BIOS $1200: "The Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel |
| #4159, aired 2002-10-03 | BIG SCREEN BIOS $1600: "Coal Miner's Daughter" Loretta Lynn |
| #4159, aired 2002-10-03 | BIG SCREEN BIOS $2000: "To Hell and Back" Audie Murphy |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | BIG NAMES IN SPORTS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Bank One Ballpark in Phoenix.) In 2001 the Diamondbacks were going for their first world championship; this team was going for its 27th the Yankees |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | BIG NAMES IN SPORTS $800: At Wimbledon 1969, aged 41, this Mexican-American saved 7 match points to beat Charlie Pasarell Pancho Gonzales |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | BIG NAMES IN SPORTS $1200: His last-minute field goal won Super Bowl XXXVI for the Patriots Adam Vinatieri |
