Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (582 results returned)
#32, aired 2024-05-15 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $400: If you crave sapu mhicha, sort of the water buffalo version of haggis, head for the Kathmandu Valley in this country Nepal |
#32, aired 2024-05-15 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $800: A valley largely submerged by Lake Nasser bears the name of this ancient region of Egypt & Sudan Nubia |
#32, aired 2024-05-15 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $1600: Chateau Kefraya is in this rich agricultural valley, the Napa of Lebanon the Beqaa |
#32, aired 2024-05-15 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $2000: Add "brücken" to this river valley to get a southwest German state capital; note there's no Ruhrbrücken Saar |
#32, aired 2024-05-15 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $3,600 (Daily Double): This valley a bit over 100 miles east of Pittsburgh gets its name from "one mountain" in a Native American language Nittany |
#9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $200: The flooding of this country's Nubian Valley in the 1960s led to an international effort to move the temples of Abu Simbel Egypt |
#9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $400: The "Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes" in this U.S. state was created by a gigantic volcanic eruption in 1912 Alaska |
#9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $800: Shared by 2 countries, the Valley of Cerdanya lies just east of Andorra high in these mountains the Pyrenees |
#9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $1000: During the Civil War North & South battled for control of this fertile valley that extends southwest from Harpers Ferry the Shenandoah |
#9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $2,600 (Daily Double): You'll find this Scots word for a valley before "Eagles", "Mor" & "Coe", among many others Glen |
#8948, aired 2023-10-11 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $200: Some of the great sights of Giza are the pyramids & my van on the bank of this river the Nile |
#8948, aired 2023-10-11 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $400: I drove on the left to park my van beside this river, right near the U.K.'s Houses of Parliament the Thames |
#8948, aired 2023-10-11 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $600: Darned van broke down for good on River Road in Baton Rouge, beside this river the Mississippi |
#8948, aired 2023-10-11 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $800: Everyone remember where we parked! The van's in Al Qurnah, Iraq, where this 1,700-mile-long river joins the Tigris! the Euphrates |
#8948, aired 2023-10-11 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $1000: Unlike Mr. Knievel, the van doesn't try to jump this river that forms part of the boundary between Idaho & Oregon the Snake River |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | LET'S GET "DOWN" $400: Square dancing is often part of this lively party a hoedown |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | LET'S GET "DOWN" $800: In a car, this action gets you into a lower gear downshift |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | LET'S GET "DOWN" $1200: After a 2011 quake, the Daiichi plant at Fukushima experienced one of these a meltdown |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | LET'S GET "DOWN" $1600: The eggs seen here are cushioned by this fluffy stuff named for a duck eiderdown |
#8905, aired 2023-06-30 | LET'S GET "DOWN" $2000: Paul Auster wrote "The New Colossus" turned the Statue of Liberty into a "symbol of hope to... outcasts &" this type of people the downtrodden |
#8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN $400: "Turtles all the way down" is an apt description for how the turtle king rules Sala-ma-Sond for a time in this Dr. Seuss story Yertle the Turtle |
#8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN $800: This group of comic book superheroes got their powers from radioactive ooze the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
#8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN $1200: Built in 1775 by David Bushnell, the Turtle was a one-man hand-cranked one of these vessels used by the military a submarine |
#8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN $1600: In 1967 The Turtles had a No. 1 hit with this song that begins, "Imagine me & you, I do" "Happy Together" |
#8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN $2000: Greek myth says Hermes invented this harp-like instrument using a turtle shell a lyre |
#8783, aired 2023-01-11 | DOWN YOUR ALLEY $400: For Truman's birthday, his friends had one of these built at the White House; on his first try, Harry got 7 out of 10 down a bowling alley |
#8783, aired 2023-01-11 | DOWN YOUR ALLEY $800: Supercells have been known to plague Dixie Alley, a southern offshoot of this region of the Great Plains Tornado Alley |
#8783, aired 2023-01-11 | DOWN YOUR ALLEY $1600: Rabat, in this North African country, features the Kasbah of the Udayas, which contains many blue & white alleys Morocco |
#8783, aired 2023-01-11 | DOWN YOUR ALLEY $2000: While visiting San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore, explore the 60-foot alley named for this road-tripping author Kerouac |
#8783, aired 2023-01-11 | DOWN YOUR ALLEY $4,000 (Daily Double): In the early 20th century, the sound of pianos being played gave this New York City area around Broadway its name Tin Pan Alley |
#8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOW DOWN $400: With Low Country ingenuity, in 1932 the Dutch built a 20-mile-long one of these to cut off the Zuider Zee & create a whole new province a dike |
#8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOW DOWN $800: The lower California peninsula also goes by this other name Baja California |
#8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOW DOWN $1600: This body of water, the lowest point on Earth, is part of a rift valley formed by lowering of the Earth's crust, not by erosion the Dead Sea |
#8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOW DOWN $2000: In Scotland, the Lowlands can refer to the valley lying in the basins between the River Forth & this other river to the south the Clyde |
#8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOW DOWN $3,000 (Daily Double): The "lower 48" refers to U.S. states that are this, a 10-letter word meaning "in contact" contiguous |
#8759, aired 2022-12-08 | LET'S GET DOWN TO CASES $400: Davis v. Beason ruled that a Mormon couldn't use this amendment as a defense for polygamy the First Amendment |
#8759, aired 2022-12-08 | LET'S GET DOWN TO CASES $800: Anderson v. Dunn gave Congress the power to punish nonmembers for this offense; Steve Bannon faced it in 2022 contempt of Congress |
#8759, aired 2022-12-08 | LET'S GET DOWN TO CASES $1200: In 1982 this man was found not guilty of shooting James Brady & Ronald Reagan by reason of insanity (John) Hinckley (Jr.) |
#8759, aired 2022-12-08 | LET'S GET DOWN TO CASES $1600: 1932's Hawaii v. Fortescue was the last big case for this legendary defense lawyer, who needed the fee in the Depression (Clarence) Darrow |
#8759, aired 2022-12-08 | LET'S GET DOWN TO CASES $2000: In 1944's Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court upheld the legality of this by a 6-3 margin Japanese internment |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $400: It calls itself "America's favorite bookstore" Barnes & Noble |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $800: In 2018, Indra Nooyi, the first woman CEO of this soft drink co. stepped down from the role after 24 years with the company PepsiCo |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $1600: One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the U.S., in 2021 it became the first to go public on NASDAQ Coinbase |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $2000: AFLAC is the American Family Life Assurance Company of this Georgia "C"ity where it's headquartered Columbus |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $3,000 (Daily Double): A New York Times article headlined "When Mac & Cheese and Ketchup Don't Mix" concerned the 2015 merger of these 2 companies Kraft & Heinz |
#8718, aired 2022-10-12 | WAIST UP, NECK DOWN $200: "Breadbasket" is slang for the midsection or specifically this digestive organ the stomach |
#8718, aired 2022-10-12 | WAIST UP, NECK DOWN $400: The cecum is part of the large intestine; animals use it to digest this kind of food, so in koalas, it's 3 times body length plants (vegetation) |
#8718, aired 2022-10-12 | WAIST UP, NECK DOWN $600: Filtering the entire contents of your blood as many as 40 times a day is the job of this pair of organs the kidneys |
#8718, aired 2022-10-12 | WAIST UP, NECK DOWN $800: As part of the body's immune response, the spleen releases these proteins such as IgM that counteract pathogens antibodies |
#8718, aired 2022-10-12 | WAIST UP, NECK DOWN $1000: The formation of solid deposits also called choleliths is a common occurrence in this organ the gallbladder |
#8655, aired 2022-06-03 | THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $400: It went up in 1936 in Friedrichshafen, Germany & went down for good in Lakehurst, New Jersey a little over a year later the Hindenburg |
#8655, aired 2022-06-03 | THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $800: Recent statue topplings by activists have included those of this explorer in St. Paul & in Richmond Columbus |
#8655, aired 2022-06-03 | THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $1200: Herod the Great died in this city whose wall came tumbling down in the book of Joshua Jericho |
#8655, aired 2022-06-03 | THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $1600: This country's flag was said to have fallen from heaven in 1219, a sign of support for Valdemar II in war with the Estonians Denmark |
#8655, aired 2022-06-03 | THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1979 the S.F. Examiner awarded $10,000 to the first person who produced a piece of this, which had just fallen from the sky Skylab |
#8589, aired 2022-03-03 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $200: Sur La Table, which offers cooking classes & kitchenware, first opened in 1972 in this city's Pike Place Market Seattle |
#8589, aired 2022-03-03 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $400: In 2021, she opened Smize Cream, a premium ice cream shop in California, with a surprise in every cup Tyra Banks |
#8589, aired 2022-03-03 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $600: In 2009 Ursula Burns became the first Black woman to head a Fortune 500 company, this one; copy that! Xerox |
#8589, aired 2022-03-03 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $800: In 2002 Elon Musk launched this company to produce more affordable rockets SpaceX |
#8589, aired 2022-03-03 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $1000: In 1837 a candlemaker & a soapmaker merged their businesses in Cincinnati to become this giant in consumer goods Procter & Gamble |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE $400: Desert & New England are species of this rabbit named for a fluffy appendage a cottontail |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE $800: Rabbits are born fur-less & blind; these close relatives are born fully developed, with fur & open eyes hares |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE $1200: Like deer, rabbit genders are divided into does & these bucks |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE $1600: In 1859 a few European rabbits were released on this continent; by the 1920s there were billions Australia |
#8515, aired 2021-11-19 | DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE $2000: An area where rabbits breed goes by this male first name Warren |
#8485, aired 2021-10-08 | WE LOOK DOWN ON THAT STATE $200: Utah sits directly atop this state Arizona |
#8485, aired 2021-10-08 | WE LOOK DOWN ON THAT STATE $400: Vermont is north of the western part of this state Massachusetts |
#8485, aired 2021-10-08 | WE LOOK DOWN ON THAT STATE $600: A big chunk of South Dakota is upstairs from it Nebraska |
#8485, aired 2021-10-08 | WE LOOK DOWN ON THAT STATE $800: Most of Virginia's southern border lies along this state North Carolina |
#8485, aired 2021-10-08 | WE LOOK DOWN ON THAT STATE $1000: Kansas is directly north of this state Oklahoma |
#8449, aired 2021-07-22 | DOWN TO "RTH" $200: It precedes Pole, Sea & Star North |
#8449, aired 2021-07-22 | DOWN TO "RTH" $400: Once upon a time home was where this fireplace area was, providing heat & light at night, & fire for cooking a hearth |
#8449, aired 2021-07-22 | DOWN TO "RTH" $600: Time to go to sleep on the train? Do you want the upper one or the lower one? a berth |
#8449, aired 2021-07-22 | DOWN TO "RTH" $800: It's the distance around something, like a middle-aged waist girth |
#8449, aired 2021-07-22 | DOWN TO "RTH" $1000: In Scotland it's an inlet like Moray or of Clyde firth |
#8395, aired 2021-05-07 | LAYING DOWN THE SCIENTIFIC LAW $400: He got some laws moving--well, on moving--in 1687's "Principia Mathematica" Newton |
#8395, aired 2021-05-07 | LAYING DOWN THE SCIENTIFIC LAW $800: Ohm's law, about the relationship between current, resistance & this, can be expressed as V=IR, with V standing for this voltage |
#8395, aired 2021-05-07 | LAYING DOWN THE SCIENTIFIC LAW $1200: This Italian's 17th century law of falling bodies relates the distance fallen by a body to the elapsed time Galileo |
#8395, aired 2021-05-07 | LAYING DOWN THE SCIENTIFIC LAW $1600: This Frenchman who came up with a law on paramagnetic bodies & temperature may not have been the best scientist in his family Pierre Curie |
#8395, aired 2021-05-07 | LAYING DOWN THE SCIENTIFIC LAW $2000: Let's take a long, "constant" look at this man's law that states the greater the distance to a galaxy, the faster it recedes (Edwin) Hubble |
#8366, aired 2021-03-29 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $200: In 2014 this aerospace company said it was moving 400 jobs from Washington to Alabama to save $100 million Boeing |
#8366, aired 2021-03-29 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $400: We'll pledge $400 to you if you can name this site that went live on April 28, 2009 & takes 5% of successfully funded projects Kickstarter |
#8366, aired 2021-03-29 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $600: LiMu is an insurance-selling emu for this company that's very, very, very unafraid to repeat its name at the end of its ads Liberty Mutual |
#8366, aired 2021-03-29 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $1000: In 2020 our Sec. of State danced around banning this app from Beijing; the problem? It had been downloaded more than 2 billion times TikTok |
#8366, aired 2021-03-29 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $3,600 (Daily Double): As tires weren't colored black until 1912, Bibendum, the now-123-year-old mascot of this company, is white Michelin |
#8112, aired 2019-12-10 | ALL FALL DOWN $400: The Leaning Tower of Pisa stands on, yet St Mark's Campanile in this city, seen here, collapsed in 1902 & had to be rebuilt Venice |
#8112, aired 2019-12-10 | ALL FALL DOWN $800: In the 1860s the poles used in creating this communications link fell down when Buffalo used them as scratching posts the telegraph |
#8112, aired 2019-12-10 | ALL FALL DOWN $1200: In 1871, Communards brought down a famous column in this city, but it's been rebuilt Paris |
#8112, aired 2019-12-10 | ALL FALL DOWN $1600: In 1969 & 2017 famous trees of this type with a Native Amer. name fell in Calif.; it's bad to cut a driving tunnel through a tree sequoia |
#8112, aired 2019-12-10 | ALL FALL DOWN $2000: Archaeologists debate whether this city's walls fell due to an earthquake or siege tactics, as in Joshua 6 Jericho |
#8078, aired 2019-10-23 | DOWN IN AFRICA $200: This capital of Kenya lies at an elevation of 5,500 feet, making it a natural sister city to Denver Nairobi |
#8078, aired 2019-10-23 | DOWN IN AFRICA $400: Species that need protection include this animal--Africa has fewer of them than their shorter pal the elephant the giraffe |
#8078, aired 2019-10-23 | DOWN IN AFRICA $600: This North African country belonged to France for about 130 years, until 1962 Algeria |
#8078, aired 2019-10-23 | DOWN IN AFRICA $800: "C" starts the name of this nation, highlighted here on the Gulf of Guinea Cameroon |
#8078, aired 2019-10-23 | DOWN IN AFRICA $1000: The San, formerly called Bushmen, mainly in this desert, are the oldest population group of Southern Africa the Kalahari |
#8057, aired 2019-09-24 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $200: Down under Suriname Brazil |
#8057, aired 2019-09-24 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $400: Down under Estonia Latvia |
#8057, aired 2019-09-24 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $600: Down under Botswana South Africa |
#8057, aired 2019-09-24 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $800: Down under Mexico Guatemala |
#8057, aired 2019-09-24 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $1000: Down under Slovakia Hungary |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | LAYING DOWN SOME R&B & HIP-HOP VOCALS $200: He crooned, "'Cause you're a good girl & you know it, you act so different around me" Drake |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | LAYING DOWN SOME R&B & HIP-HOP VOCALS $400: Hip-hoppers liked "I Like It", provided by Bad Bunny, J Balvin & this woman who also warned us to "Be Careful" Cardi B |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | LAYING DOWN SOME R&B & HIP-HOP VOCALS $600: "Shopping sprees in Paris, everything 24 karats, take a look in that mirror, now tell" this singer "who's the fairest" Bruno Mars |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | LAYING DOWN SOME R&B & HIP-HOP VOCALS $800: In 2018 "Pray For Me" ascended the Billboard chart for The Weeknd & this Pulitzer Prize winner Kendrick Lamar |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | LAYING DOWN SOME R&B & HIP-HOP VOCALS $1000: GPS on your phone? Don't put it on silent--"ride the vibrations"--this young man "don't need nothin' else but you" Khalid |
#7768, aired 2018-05-23 | AS YOU GO DOWN $200: Guess Nike wasn't taking calls when the 413-404 B.C. Ionian War did not go the way of this city-state Athens |
#7768, aired 2018-05-23 | AS YOU GO DOWN $400: He lost a power battle to fellow Communists & dealt with the wrong side of an ice axe in Mexico Leon Trotsky |
#7755, aired 2018-05-04 | DOWN BY THE WATER $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm on board the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, just yards from the spot where Captain "Sully" Sullenberger safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on this river the Hudson |
#7755, aired 2018-05-04 | DOWN BY THE WATER $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm on this southeast Asian river that flows through or borders half a dozen countries & has just as many names, including Song Chau Doc the Mekong |
#7755, aired 2018-05-04 | DOWN BY THE WATER $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm at Mystic Seaport, the nation's leading maritime museum, located on 19 acres in this New England state Connecticut |
#7755, aired 2018-05-04 | DOWN BY THE WATER $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm in this Oregon city, named for the fur merchant who established a trading post here around 1811 Astoria |
#7755, aired 2018-05-04 | DOWN BY THE WATER $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm in this Virginia city that's named for an English county; the 887-foot battleship Wisconsin is a small part of its enormous naval & harbor complex Norfolk |
#7739, aired 2018-04-12 | DOWN FOR THE COUNTY $400: It's not the state capital but it is the seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota Minneapolis |
#7739, aired 2018-04-12 | DOWN FOR THE COUNTY $800: Big Horn County, Wyoming borders another Big Horn County in this state Montana |
#7739, aired 2018-04-12 | DOWN FOR THE COUNTY $1200: This state's 99 counties include Decatur & Dubuque Iowa |
#7739, aired 2018-04-12 | DOWN FOR THE COUNTY $1600: Brewster is west of the Pecos (County) in this state; Crockett is east Texas |
#7739, aired 2018-04-12 | DOWN FOR THE COUNTY $2000: It's Detroit's county & is on the name of a state university there Wayne |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | DOWN IN SOUTH AMERICA $400: In this year our Civil War ended, South America was just beginning the War of the Triple Alliance 1865 |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | DOWN IN SOUTH AMERICA $800: This country's Tiradentes Day honors Joaquim Xavier, who plotted against Portuguese hegemony Brazil |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | DOWN IN SOUTH AMERICA $1600: Once capital of an empire, Cuzco in this country is now a city of more than 300,000 Peru |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | DOWN IN SOUTH AMERICA $2000: In 1830 Ecuador became independent of Gran Colombia & established its capital in this city Quito |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | DOWN IN SOUTH AMERICA $3,000 (Daily Double): Chile had to pay millions after officials failed to warn coastal cities about this after a deadly 2010 earthquake a tsunami |
#7710, aired 2018-03-02 | STROLLING DOWN THE AVENUE $200: Its name honoring Argentinian independence, Avenida 9 de Julio in this city is 150 yards & 12 lanes wide Buenos Aires |
#7710, aired 2018-03-02 | STROLLING DOWN THE AVENUE $400: Trump Tower in Manhattan is located on this avenue Fifth Avenue |
#7710, aired 2018-03-02 | STROLLING DOWN THE AVENUE $600: Kalakaua Avenue is a famed shopping street in this city Honolulu |
#7710, aired 2018-03-02 | STROLLING DOWN THE AVENUE $800: As you approach Vt. & Ct. avenues on the Monopoly board, you pass through this other light blue avenue Oriental Avenue |
#7710, aired 2018-03-02 | STROLLING DOWN THE AVENUE $1000: If you walked down this avenue from Oakland to U.C. Berkeley in the 1960s, you would spot many hippies Telegraph |
#7670, aired 2018-01-05 | TAKE ME "DOWN" $200: 15,406... 15,405... 15,404... man, this is going to take a while a countdown |
#7670, aired 2018-01-05 | TAKE ME "DOWN" $400: To put in a lower gear downshift |
#7670, aired 2018-01-05 | TAKE ME "DOWN" $600: A blackmail scheme, or a Grateful Dead "Street" shakedown |
#7670, aired 2018-01-05 | TAKE ME "DOWN" $800: Term for when a spacecraft lands successfully in the sea splashdown |
#7670, aired 2018-01-05 | TAKE ME "DOWN" $1000: A native of Maine a Down Easter |
#7645, aired 2017-12-01 | DOWN HOME TALK $400: In song it's "wild blue"; down home, it means over there or at a distance yonder |
#7645, aired 2017-12-01 | DOWN HOME TALK $800: The word vermin got altered to this word for a troublesome wild animal varmint |
#7645, aired 2017-12-01 | DOWN HOME TALK $1200: A Trace Adkins hit is called this type of country music bar "Badonkadonk" a honky tonk |
#7645, aired 2017-12-01 | DOWN HOME TALK $1600: This 4-word phrase for "bad plan" could literally mean "your collie will not sniff out a quail" that dog don't hunt (or won't hunt) |
#7645, aired 2017-12-01 | DOWN HOME TALK $2000: Part of the Interior Dept. from 1849 to 1946 to aid settlement; if you're doing this type of "business", business is good land office |
#7641, aired 2017-11-27 | KEEP IT DOWN $200: "Rosebud" is whispered by this character shortly before his death in a 1941 movie Citizen Kane (or Charles Foster Kane) |
#7641, aired 2017-11-27 | KEEP IT DOWN $400: On "Seinfeld" Jerry is compelled to wear one of these after an encounter with a "low talker" the puffy shirt |
#7641, aired 2017-11-27 | KEEP IT DOWN $600: On "The Middle" Atticus Shaffer plays this kid in the Heck family known to whisper into his shirt Brick Heck |
#7641, aired 2017-11-27 | KEEP IT DOWN $800: Roger Maltbie's hushed golf commentary voice earned him the punning nickname this "Whisperer" the Course Whisperer |
#7641, aired 2017-11-27 | KEEP IT DOWN $1000: In "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", Garry Shandling whispers "hail" this to a conspirator hail Hydra |
#7578, aired 2017-07-19 | DOWN TO A "SCIENCE" $200: Heinlein, Ellison & Pohl were masters of this genre science fiction |
#7578, aired 2017-07-19 | DOWN TO A "SCIENCE" $400: College major shared by Barack Obama & Chris Christie--makes sense political science |
#7578, aired 2017-07-19 | DOWN TO A "SCIENCE" $600: Everyone could see Thomas Dolby was poetry in motion with this 1983 Top 10 hit "She Blinded Me With Science" |
#7578, aired 2017-07-19 | DOWN TO A "SCIENCE" $800: C'mon, we're only talking the Titan II & Saturn V! It's not this! Wait! It totally is! rocket science |
#7578, aired 2017-07-19 | DOWN TO A "SCIENCE" $1000: Gloomily, Thomas Carlyle coined this phrase describing economics the dismal science |
#7543, aired 2017-05-31 | GOING DOWN IN HISTORY $400: The first invasion with a main role for these troops was when the Nazi Fallschirmjäger descended from the sky on Crete the paratroopers |
#7543, aired 2017-05-31 | GOING DOWN IN HISTORY $800: In Jan. 2016 in Cortina, Italy, she was fastest down the hill for the 37th time, breaking the women's World Cup record Lindsey Vonn |
#7543, aired 2017-05-31 | GOING DOWN IN HISTORY $1200: From 1940 to 1944 this rate in the U.S. went down from 14.6 to 1.2% the unemployment rate |
#7543, aired 2017-05-31 | GOING DOWN IN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1858 British & American ships laid the first of these, as much as 2 miles down transatlantic cables |
#7543, aired 2017-05-31 | GOING DOWN IN HISTORY $2000: The 1683 siege of Vienna was one example of gaining this lofty 2-word spot so you can sweep downhill on the enemy the high ground |
#7438, aired 2017-01-04 | DUMB DOWN THE SAYING $200: "Arising in the morning from an incorrect mattress section" "waking up on the wrong side of the bed" |
#7438, aired 2017-01-04 | DUMB DOWN THE SAYING $400: "Anchoring position at the bottom of a wooden sculpture carved by Native Americans of the Northwest" "the low man on the totem pole" |
#7438, aired 2017-01-04 | DUMB DOWN THE SAYING $600: "There has been a widespread successful germination of American Beauties" "everything's coming up roses" |
#7438, aired 2017-01-04 | DUMB DOWN THE SAYING $800: "Obviously protruding in a way similar to one injured pollex" "sticking out like a sore thumb" |
#7438, aired 2017-01-04 | DUMB DOWN THE SAYING $1000: "Flying mammals occupy that fellow's church bell tower" "he's got bats in his belfry" |
#7310, aired 2016-05-27 | LAND DOWN UNDER ADJACENT-ISH $200: The North Island of this Kiwi country boasts its largest lake, Lake Taupo, which covers 230 square miles New Zealand |
#7310, aired 2016-05-27 | LAND DOWN UNDER ADJACENT-ISH $400: Off Mindanao, the 34,580' deep trench named for this country is one of the deepest spots in all the oceans the Philippines |
#7310, aired 2016-05-27 | LAND DOWN UNDER ADJACENT-ISH $600: The sultan of this ex-British protectorate is said to be worth $20 billion, including 600 Rolls-Royces Brunei |
#7310, aired 2016-05-27 | LAND DOWN UNDER ADJACENT-ISH $800: Its same-named sea lies to the north of this island, the Indian Ocean to the south; why do I suddenly want a cup of coffee? Java |
#7310, aired 2016-05-27 | LAND DOWN UNDER ADJACENT-ISH $1000: The main campus of the U. of the South Pacific is in Suva, the capital of this country since 1882 Fiji |
#7228, aired 2016-02-03 | LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $400: These 2 politically active billionaire brothers share the No. 5 spot on the 2015 Forbes 400 the Koch brothers |
#7228, aired 2016-02-03 | LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $800: The P in Provera & Prevnar isn't silent, but the one in this drug company that makes them is Pfizer |
#7228, aired 2016-02-03 | LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $1200: This Apple co-founder said he never read the "Steve Jobs" book--"I was there" (Steve) Wozniak |
#7228, aired 2016-02-03 | LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $1600: Its website says, "Since 1945" this company "has been serving do-it-yourself movers and their households" U-Haul |
#7228, aired 2016-02-03 | LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $2000: In 2015 Jack Dorsey became "permanent CEO" of this online co. & immediately posted about slashing 8% of its work force Twitter |
#7076, aired 2015-05-25 | LOOK DOWN $400: Here's a Space-Shuttle view of this U.S. landmark that began to be carved out millions of years ago the Grand Canyon |
#7076, aired 2015-05-25 | LOOK DOWN $800: An image of part of Algeria shows areas of what's called "desert varnish" & these formations sand dunes |
#7076, aired 2015-05-25 | LOOK DOWN $1200: This bay is the largest estuary on the Pacific Coast of the United States the San Francisco Bay |
#7076, aired 2015-05-25 | LOOK DOWN $2000: The name of this desert peninsula may be derived from the name of an ancient moon god Sinai |
#6985, aired 2015-01-16 | "DOWN" & "OUT" $200: Hyphenated term used to describe someone practical & realistic down-to-earth |
#6985, aired 2015-01-16 | "DOWN" & "OUT" $400: A temporary loss of consciousness, or utter darkness caused by a massive power outage a blackout |
#6985, aired 2015-01-16 | "DOWN" & "OUT" $600: One of Syfy's most watched shows is the WWE's Friday Night this SmackDown |
#6985, aired 2015-01-16 | "DOWN" & "OUT" $800: For Butch Cassidy, Hole in the Wall in Wyoming was one of these a hideout |
#6985, aired 2015-01-16 | "DOWN" & "OUT" $1000: In 1920 H.G. Wells turned to nonfiction & published one of these "of History" an outline |
#6856, aired 2014-06-09 | EVERYBODY LOOK WHAT'S GOING "DOWN" $200: ...3, 2, 1 is an example of this; so is "American Top 40" a countdown |
#6856, aired 2014-06-09 | EVERYBODY LOOK WHAT'S GOING "DOWN" $400: A division into parts or categories; you don't want a "nervous" one a breakdown |
#6856, aired 2014-06-09 | EVERYBODY LOOK WHAT'S GOING "DOWN" $600: A "pickle" in baseball, or a brief summary of main points a rundown |
#6856, aired 2014-06-09 | EVERYBODY LOOK WHAT'S GOING "DOWN" $800: A community party featuring square dancing a hoedown |
#6856, aired 2014-06-09 | EVERYBODY LOOK WHAT'S GOING "DOWN" $1000: The confining of prisoners to their cells after a riot lockdown |
#6720, aired 2013-11-29 | GET "DOWN"! $200: Torrential rain a downpour |
#6720, aired 2013-11-29 | GET "DOWN"! $400: Direction to the end zone downfield |
#6720, aired 2013-11-29 | GET "DOWN"! $600: To change to a lower gear downshift |
#6720, aired 2013-11-29 | GET "DOWN"! $800: Cracker Barrel promises this type of simple rural cooking down-home |
#6720, aired 2013-11-29 | GET "DOWN"! $1000: An opening in a ship gives us this phrase said before gulping a drink down the hatch |
#6579, aired 2013-04-04 | DRESSED-DOWN FIRST NAMES $200: Maggie, as in actress Maggie Smith Margaret |
#6579, aired 2013-04-04 | DRESSED-DOWN FIRST NAMES $400: Drew, as in quarterback Drew Brees Andrew |
#6579, aired 2013-04-04 | DRESSED-DOWN FIRST NAMES $600: Mandy, as in singer Mandy Moore Amanda |
#6579, aired 2013-04-04 | DRESSED-DOWN FIRST NAMES $800: Harry, as in England's Prince Harry Henry |
#6579, aired 2013-04-04 | DRESSED-DOWN FIRST NAMES $1000: Topher, as in actor Topher Grace Christopher |
#6547, aired 2013-02-19 | EASEL DOWN THE ROAD $400: Robert Lebron's painting of this New York City thoroughfare shares its title with an Oliver Stone film Wall Street |
#6547, aired 2013-02-19 | EASEL DOWN THE ROAD $800: Camille Pissarro showed this city in his painting detailing the Avenue de l'Opéra Paris |
#6547, aired 2013-02-19 | EASEL DOWN THE ROAD $1200: His conversion seen here took place on the road to Damascus St. Paul |
#6547, aired 2013-02-19 | EASEL DOWN THE ROAD $1600: Seen here is John Linton Chapman's depiction of this ancient Roman road the Appian Way |
#6547, aired 2013-02-19 | EASEL DOWN THE ROAD $2000: This 20th century Swiss artist's painting "Highways and Byways" really gives me Wanderlust Paul Klee |
#6454, aired 2012-10-11 | LOOKING DOWN WITH GEOEYE $200: From the heavens, this East Coast structure looks like part of an enormous sun dial the Washington Monument |
#6454, aired 2012-10-11 | LOOKING DOWN WITH GEOEYE $400: Seen here off the Australian coast, this type of countercurrent that's also a first name can last a year an eddy |
#6454, aired 2012-10-11 | LOOKING DOWN WITH GEOEYE $600: Spreading four miles into the Persian Gulf, manmade Palm Jumeirah in this nation was built to hold more than 2,000 villas the UAE (United Arab Emirates) |
#6454, aired 2012-10-11 | LOOKING DOWN WITH GEOEYE $800: You can see why this Down Under landmark was revered by aboriginal people Ayers Rock |
#6454, aired 2012-10-11 | LOOKING DOWN WITH GEOEYE $1000: Odds are you'll recognize this location named for a former Nevada senator McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $200: Some of the great sights of Giza are the pyramids & my van on the bank of this river the Nile |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $400: I drove on the left to park my van beside this river, right near the U.K.'s Houses of Parliament the Thames |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $600: Darned van broke down for good on River Road in Baton Rouge, beside this river the Mississippi |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $800: Everyone remember where we parked! The van's in Al Qurnah, Iraq, where this 1,700-mile-long river joins the Tigris! the Euphrates |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER $1000: Unlike Mr. Knievel, the van doesn't try to jump this river that forms part of the boundary between Idaho & Oregon the Snake |
#6085, aired 2011-02-11 | DOWN SOUTH IN SOUTH GEORGIA $400: (Lindblad Expeditions naturalist Tom Ritchie delivers the clue from South Georgia.) Unlike the larger emperor, this second biggest species of penguin prefers the sub-Antarctic islands, like South Georgia, better than ice for forming its vast colonies king penguins |
#6085, aired 2011-02-11 | DOWN SOUTH IN SOUTH GEORGIA $800: (Tom Ritchie of Lindblad Expeditions delivers the clue from South Georgia.) The island of South Georgia has no indigenous mammals, but reindeer were introduced here in 1911 to provide meat by Captain C.A. Larsen from this country Norway |
#6085, aired 2011-02-11 | DOWN SOUTH IN SOUTH GEORGIA $1200: (Tom Ritchie of Lindblad Expeditions delivers the clue from South Georgia.) South Georgia is the breeding ground for close to half the world's population of the largest pinniped--the Southern type of this seal now protected from hunting elephant seals |
#6085, aired 2011-02-11 | DOWN SOUTH IN SOUTH GEORGIA $1600: The area around the island has some commercial fishing for the Patagonian this, aka Chilean sea bass toothfish |
#6085, aired 2011-02-11 | DOWN SOUTH IN SOUTH GEORGIA $2000: (Tom Ritchie of Lindblad Expeditions delivers the clue from South Georgia.) South Georgia is the burial site for this explorer who made a grueling journey across the island after his ship, the Endurance, was trapped in pack ice Sir Ernest Shackleton |
#6079, aired 2011-02-03 | DOWN IN THE "VALLEY" $400: Established as part of the New Deal, it's the TVA for short the Tennessee Valley Authority |
#6079, aired 2011-02-03 | DOWN IN THE "VALLEY" $800: In the King James Bible, the Book of Psalms says, "Yea, though I walk through" this, "I will fear no evil" the valley of the shadow of death |
#6079, aired 2011-02-03 | DOWN IN THE "VALLEY" $1,200 (Daily Double): Where Tut rested undisturbed until 1922 the Valley of the Kings (the Valley of Kings accepted) |
#6079, aired 2011-02-03 | DOWN IN THE "VALLEY" $1600: Fragrant perennial with a 4-word name seen here lily of the valley |
#6079, aired 2011-02-03 | DOWN IN THE "VALLEY" $2000: Spencer Johnson of "Who Moved My Cheese?" fame wrote a book about life's ups & downs titled these opposites Peaks and Valleys |
#6055, aired 2010-12-31 | COUNTING DOWN TO "MIDNIGHT" $200: According to Eric Clapton, it's when "we're gonna let it all hang down" "After Midnight" |
#6055, aired 2010-12-31 | COUNTING DOWN TO "MIDNIGHT" $400: Wilson Pickett's Top 40 hits include "I'm A Midnight Mover" & this one "In The Midnight Hour" |
#6055, aired 2010-12-31 | COUNTING DOWN TO "MIDNIGHT" $600: It's the "swift" '80s band that gave us "Come On Eileen" Dexys Midnight Runners |
#6055, aired 2010-12-31 | COUNTING DOWN TO "MIDNIGHT" $800: Maria Muldaur sang us this desert tune "Midnight At The Oasis" |
#6055, aired 2010-12-31 | COUNTING DOWN TO "MIDNIGHT" $1000: This Australian band broke up in 2002 after 25 years of politically charged rocking Midnight Oil |
#6032, aired 2010-11-30 | DOWN ON THE FARM $200: Polyface Farm is "beyond organic"; cows & chickens are "put out to" this, to graze & develop naturally pasture |
#6032, aired 2010-11-30 | DOWN ON THE FARM $400: At the Irish National one of these 4-letter farms, you can introduce your mare to Invincible Spirit for 45,000 euros a stud farm |
#6032, aired 2010-11-30 | DOWN ON THE FARM $600: Ash Lawn - Highland, the home of Pres. Monroe, is a 535-acre farm operated by this college, Monroe's alma mater the College of William & Mary |
#6032, aired 2010-11-30 | DOWN ON THE FARM $800: The first of these farms, which do a big seasonal business, was started with the planting of 25,000 spruce in 1901 a Christmas tree farm |
#6032, aired 2010-11-30 | DOWN ON THE FARM $1000: In a 2009 flu outbreak, fingers pointed at a farm for these called Granjas Carroll de Mexico pig farm |
#5877, aired 2010-03-16 | BROKE-DOWN WORDS $200: My 1-2-3 letter is the stone of a fruit & my 4-5-6-7 is a season pitfall |
#5877, aired 2010-03-16 | BROKE-DOWN WORDS $400: My 1-2-3 is a basenji or borzoi and my 4-5-6-7-8-9-10 was Mike Piazza's position dogcatcher |
#5877, aired 2010-03-16 | BROKE-DOWN WORDS $600: My 1-2-3-4-5 was British host David & my 6-7-8-9 means "to wound with the teeth" frostbite |
#5877, aired 2010-03-16 | BROKE-DOWN WORDS $800: My 1-2-3-4 is what a bad golfer yells & my 5-6-7-8-9-10 follows him on a sunny day foreshadow |
#5877, aired 2010-03-16 | BROKE-DOWN WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): My 1-2-3 is active hostility between nations & my 4-5-6-7 is a gated chamber in a canal or dam warlock |
#5833, aired 2010-01-13 | DUMB DOWN THE CLICHE $200: Retrieve a hare hidden within your beret pull a rabbit out of your hat |
#5833, aired 2010-01-13 | DUMB DOWN THE CLICHE $400: My nostrils detect the aroma of a gnawing rodent I smell a rat |
#5833, aired 2010-01-13 | DUMB DOWN THE CLICHE $600: Spending an interlude anticipating the descent of the additional slipper waiting for the other shoe to drop |
#5833, aired 2010-01-13 | DUMB DOWN THE CLICHE $800: Seize a male bovine with grips to its forehead protuberances grab the bull by the horns |
#5833, aired 2010-01-13 | DUMB DOWN THE CLICHE $1000: Pilfer from Mr. Pan in order to enrich Mr. Bunyan steal from Peter to pay Paul |
#5832, aired 2010-01-12 | MAKE A "DOWN" PAYMENT $200: 6 points on the gridiron a touchdown |
#5832, aired 2010-01-12 | MAKE A "DOWN" PAYMENT $400: Street where you'll find Prime Minister Gordon Brown at home Downing |
#5832, aired 2010-01-12 | MAKE A "DOWN" PAYMENT $600: To transfer a file or program from the Internet to your home computer download |
#5832, aired 2010-01-12 | MAKE A "DOWN" PAYMENT $800: A hostile face-to-face confrontation, like a gunfight at high noon in the Old West a showdown |
#5832, aired 2010-01-12 | MAKE A "DOWN" PAYMENT $1000: Yeehaw! It's a boisterous social gathering featuring square dancing a hoedown |
#5749, aired 2009-09-17 | WOLF IT DOWN! $400: This exclusive grade of beef comes from cattle raised in a Japanese seaport of the same name Kobe |
#5749, aired 2009-09-17 | WOLF IT DOWN! $800: A frankfurter on a stick that's dipped in batter & fried, it's a kissing cousin to pigs in a blanket a corn dog |
#5749, aired 2009-09-17 | WOLF IT DOWN! $1200: This Mexican dish is meat & veggies coated with masa dough & wrapped in a corn husk a tamale |
#5749, aired 2009-09-17 | WOLF IT DOWN! $1600: The name of this pasta, similar to penne, means "little mustaches"--doesn't sound so tasty now mostaccioli |
#5749, aired 2009-09-17 | WOLF IT DOWN! $2000: Try some of the chicken cooked in this charcoal-fired oven that's used throughout India a tandoor (oven) |
#5714, aired 2009-06-11 | LET ME TAKE YOU DOWN $200: In 1959 this Cuban led the overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista Fidel Castro |
#5714, aired 2009-06-11 | LET ME TAKE YOU DOWN $400: Grolier says this man "contributed directly to the collapse of the Romanov dynasty shortly after his own death" Rasputin |
#5714, aired 2009-06-11 | LET ME TAKE YOU DOWN $600: Under this nickname, W. Mark Felt leaked info to Woodward & Bernstein that toppled a president "Deep Throat" |
#5714, aired 2009-06-11 | LET ME TAKE YOU DOWN $800: In 1996 this Russian chess champ bested an IBM computer in a 6-game tourney; in '97, Deep Blue returned the favor Kasparov |
#5714, aired 2009-06-11 | LET ME TAKE YOU DOWN $1000: On June 20, 1947 this gangster found out exactly how displeased Meyer Lansky was about the cost of the Flamingo Hotel Bugsy Siegel |
#5680, aired 2009-04-24 | LANDS DOWN UNDER $400: The St. Bernard tunnel connects Switzerland southward down under the Alps to this country Italy |
#5680, aired 2009-04-24 | LANDS DOWN UNDER $800: The third-highest mountain in the world, Kanchenjunga, is shared by Nepal & this nation to its south India |
#5680, aired 2009-04-24 | LANDS DOWN UNDER $1200: Head south on the causeway linking Malaysia to this island nation that was once a part of it Singapore |
#5680, aired 2009-04-24 | LANDS DOWN UNDER $1600: Botswana shares the Kalahari desert with this country directly to its south South Africa |
#5680, aired 2009-04-24 | LANDS DOWN UNDER $3,000 (Daily Double): Mexico's southern border is with these two nations Belize & Guatemala |
#5530, aired 2008-09-26 | DOWN AT THE OLD FACTORY $200: Havana's Real Fabrica de Tabacos Partagas has been turning these out since 1845 cigars |
#5530, aired 2008-09-26 | DOWN AT THE OLFACTORY $400: The perfume Quelques Fleurs, whose name means "some" these, supposedly has the fragrances of 313 of them flowers |
#5530, aired 2008-09-26 | DOWN AT THE OLD FACTORY $400: Charlie Bucket might like to visit this type of factory that opened in 1884 in Voiron, France a chocolate factory |
#5530, aired 2008-09-26 | DOWN AT THE OLD FACTORY $600: In 2004 "Mustang Sally" played on the P.A. as an 86-year-old factory of this company ended production Ford |
#5530, aired 2008-09-26 | DOWN AT THE OLFACTORY $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the Sensoji Temple in Tokyo, Japan.) At many Japanese temples like the very impressive Sensoji Temple, clouds of this, used for purification, fill the air incense |
#5530, aired 2008-09-26 | DOWN AT THE OLD FACTORY $800: The Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock, Penn. filled its first orders for this industrial material in 1875 steel |
#5530, aired 2008-09-26 | DOWN AT THE OLD FACTORY $1,200 (Daily Double): Company that ran the Hawk-Eye Works in Rochester, N.Y. (Eastman) Kodak |
#5530, aired 2008-09-26 | DOWN AT THE OLFACTORY $1200: You quickly get used to the eggy smell at the Colorado resort called "Hot" this type of "Springs" Sulfur |
#5530, aired 2008-09-26 | DOWN AT THE OLFACTORY $1600: Introduced in 1890, this product for little backsides advertises its "clean, classic scent" baby powder |
#5530, aired 2008-09-26 | DOWN AT THE OLFACTORY $2000: The wood of the Eastern red this tree (actually a juniper) has a distinct aroma familiar from closets a cedar |
#5495, aired 2008-06-27 | DOWN ECUADOR WAY $200: It's the capital city of 1.8 million Quito |
#5495, aired 2008-06-27 | DOWN ECUADOR WAY $400: These islands made famous by Darwin became a part of Ecuador in the 19th century Galapagos |
#5495, aired 2008-06-27 | DOWN ECUADOR WAY $600: In March 2008 Ecuador mobilized its troops in response to anti-rebel actions by this neighbor Colombia |
#5495, aired 2008-06-27 | DOWN ECUADOR WAY $800: In July 1822 the city of Guayaquil was the site of an historic meeting between Jose de San Martin & this liberation leader Simon Bolivar |
#5495, aired 2008-06-27 | DOWN ECUADOR WAY $1000: Ecuador's longest border is with this country to the south & east Peru |
#5284, aired 2007-07-26 | DOWN SOUTH $200: For authentic Cajun & Creole dishes, head down south to this "Bayou State" Louisiana |
#5284, aired 2007-07-26 | DOWN SOUTH $400: The 1862 Civil War battle of these 2 ironclads ended when one had to withdraw because of the tides the Monitor and the Merrimack |
#5284, aired 2007-07-26 | DOWN SOUTH $600: Opryland, once a popular theme park in this city, was demolished to make way for a shopping mall Nashville |
#5284, aired 2007-07-26 | DOWN SOUTH $800: In 2004 this hyphenated North Carolina city was named one of the most livable cities in America Winston-Salem |
#5284, aired 2007-07-26 | DOWN SOUTH $1000: Home to a famous naval hospital, this unincorporated Maryland city was named for a church Bethesda |
#5243, aired 2007-05-30 | DOWN MEXICO WAY $400: In 1986 Mexico scored as the first country to host this international sports competition twice the World Cup |
#5243, aired 2007-05-30 | DOWN MEXICO WAY $800: This resort city about 200 miles southwest of Mexico City is famous for its cliff divers Acapulco |
#5243, aired 2007-05-30 | DOWN MEXICO WAY $1200: Founded in the 1530s, this capital of Jalisco state is the second-largest in Mexico Guadalajara |
#5243, aired 2007-05-30 | DOWN MEXICO WAY $1600: This gritty 1961 Tennessee Williams play unfolds in a seedy Mexican hotel Night of the Iguana |
#5243, aired 2007-05-30 | DOWN MEXICO WAY $2000: This popular resort island lies north of Cozumel off the coast of the state of Quintana Roo Cancun |
#5195, aired 2007-03-23 | DUMB DOWN THE SIMILE $200: Robust as a violin fit as a fiddle |
#5195, aired 2007-03-23 | DUMB DOWN THE SIMILE $400: Weightless as a plume light as a feather |
#5195, aired 2007-03-23 | DUMB DOWN THE SIMILE $600: Adorable as a blouse fastener cute as a button |
#5195, aired 2007-03-23 | DUMB DOWN THE SIMILE $800: As horizontal & thin as a crepe flat as a pancake |
#5195, aired 2007-03-23 | DUMB DOWN THE SIMILE $1000: Abstemious as an adjudicator sober as a judge |
#5060, aired 2006-09-15 | SYSTEM OF A "DOWN" $400: 2-word slang for the smallest continent Down Under |
#5060, aired 2006-09-15 | SYSTEM OF A "DOWN" $800: When you descend a steep grade, it helps to do this instead of braking to save wear on your car's brakes downshift |
#5060, aired 2006-09-15 | SYSTEM OF A "DOWN" $1200: Olympic event mastered by Jean-Claude Killy & Franz Klammer downhill skiing |
#5060, aired 2006-09-15 | SYSTEM OF A "DOWN" $1600: Where the actors are during a theater performance when they're closest to the audience downstage |
#5060, aired 2006-09-15 | SYSTEM OF A "DOWN" $2000: This group was responsible for the accolade seen here the Downtown Athletic Club |
#4989, aired 2006-04-27 | SLOW DOWN $200: I'm not going to adopt the same diet as this hungry animal chameleon |
#4989, aired 2006-04-27 | SLOW DOWN $400: Here are the interior workings of this instrument piano |
#4989, aired 2006-04-27 | SLOW DOWN $600: This gas is causing the explosive reaction seen here CO2 (carbon dioxide) |
#4989, aired 2006-04-27 | SLOW DOWN $800: The animal seen here is loaded up with this saccharine secretion nectar |
#4989, aired 2006-04-27 | SLOW DOWN $1000: This royal bird is seen here performing the action that gives it part of its name the kingfisher |
#4980, aired 2006-04-14 | GOING DOWN IN HISTORY $400: In 1904's election Alton B. Parker & 80-year-old running mate Henry Davis went down to defeat against this pres. Teddy Roosevelt |
#4980, aired 2006-04-14 | GOING DOWN IN HISTORY $800: In 1941 Abe Reles, an informer on this homicidal "corporation", went down in history--6 stories straight down Murder, Inc. |
#4980, aired 2006-04-14 | GOING DOWN IN HISTORY $1200: In 1886 PM Gladstone suffered defeat when he tried to get home rule for this island Ireland |
#4980, aired 2006-04-14 | GOING DOWN IN HISTORY $1600: This country was beaten by Soviet invaders in a 1956 uprising, but got revenge in Olympic water polo that same year Hungary |
#4980, aired 2006-04-14 | GOING DOWN IN HISTORY $2000: The documentary "The Battle of Chile" chronicles events leading to this politician's downfall (Salvador) Allende |
#4953, aired 2006-03-08 | GOING DOWN TO LOUISVILLE $200: Kaelin's Restaurant claims to have originated this all-American meat-&-dairy item the cheeseburger |
#4953, aired 2006-03-08 | GOING DOWN TO LOUISVILLE $400: The Filson Club's Kentuckiana collection includes a tree stump inscribed by this 18th century pioneer Daniel Boone |
#4953, aired 2006-03-08 | GOING DOWN TO LOUISVILLE $600: Don't dive for the Olympic gold medal Muhammad Ali said he threw into this river--it's listed as "impaired" for swimming Ohio River |
#4953, aired 2006-03-08 | GOING DOWN TO LOUISVILLE $800: This symbol on Louisville's official seal represents French aid during the Revolutionary War the fleur-de-lis |
#4953, aired 2006-03-08 | GOING DOWN TO LOUISVILLE $1000: Knowing that Zachary Taylor was a soldier should tell you this Cabinet Dept. maintains the cemetery he's in Veterans Affairs |
#4938, aired 2006-02-15 | I'M DOWN WITH HOMEWORK $400: History: This man wouldn't give props to the pope, so he got booted from the Church in January, 1521 Martin Luther |
#4938, aired 2006-02-15 | I'M DOWN WITH HOMEWORK $800: Spanish: This basic word for friend--you know, your buddy, your dawg, your boo amigo |
#4938, aired 2006-02-15 | I'M DOWN WITH HOMEWORK $1200: Geography: It's called a sea, but it's also the world's biggest lake. 143,000 square miles, that's hella big the Caspian Sea |
#4938, aired 2006-02-15 | I'M DOWN WITH HOMEWORK $1600: Literature: In this book, Emma's sick of her husband; next thing, she's macking with Leon, Rodolphe & a crucifix Madame Bovary |
#4938, aired 2006-02-15 | I'M DOWN WITH HOMEWORK $2000: Biology: Types of protozoans include ciliates, sarcodines & this one named for its freaky whip tail a flagellate |
#4931, aired 2006-02-06 | FLAG 'EM DOWN $200: The Alamo is located in this city & is depicted on its flag San Antonio |
#4931, aired 2006-02-06 | FLAG 'EM DOWN $400: This descriptive nickname of the U.S. flag was coined by Francis Scott Key the Star-Spangled Banner |
#4931, aired 2006-02-06 | FLAG 'EM DOWN $600: The 2 colors found on all 3 national flags of the U.S., Mexico & Canada red & white |
#4931, aired 2006-02-06 | FLAG 'EM DOWN $800: The flag of this U.S. possession is almost the same as the flag of Cuba Puerto Rico |
#4931, aired 2006-02-06 | FLAG 'EM DOWN $1000: The first 50-star U.S. flag was officially raised on July 4 of this year 1960 |
#4901, aired 2005-12-26 | FALL DOWN GO BOOM! $200: This sandy Vegas hotel is seen here going bust in 1993 the Dunes |
#4901, aired 2005-12-26 | FALL DOWN GO BOOM! $400: Built in 1975 but never formally occupied, the Hilton in this capital of Lebanon is seen coming down in July 2002 Beirut |
#4901, aired 2005-12-26 | FALL DOWN GO BOOM! $600: In 2004, Greg "The Bull" Luzinski set off the final bull blast at Veterans Stadium in this city Philadelphia |
#4901, aired 2005-12-26 | FALL DOWN GO BOOM! $800: The most buildings shot in a single-implosion sequence record, shown here, was set in this Puerto Rican city in 1998 San Juan |
#4901, aired 2005-12-26 | FALL DOWN GO BOOM! $1000: In 1998, the 2.2-million-square-foot Hudson's Department Store was taken down in this Midwest U.S. city Detroit |
#4880, aired 2005-11-25 | DOWN TO EARTH $400: When it's closest to the Earth, this planet with a 687-day year is about 33 million miles away Mars |
#4880, aired 2005-11-25 | DOWN TO EARTH $800: Eratosthenes calculated this c. 230 B.C. using the difference between the sun's angles at 2 places during June the Earth's circumference |
#4880, aired 2005-11-25 | DOWN TO EARTH $1200: The Lambert one of these formations in the Antarctic is over 250 miles long a glacier |
#4880, aired 2005-11-25 | DOWN TO EARTH $2000: A clue for alien astronomers looking for life on Earth is the large amount of this gas, CH4, in the atmosphere methane |
#4880, aired 2005-11-25 | DOWN TO EARTH $9,000 (Daily Double): "Cast" in the role of the fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, its atomic number is 26 iron |
#4841, aired 2005-10-03 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $400: Australia is home to 2 egg-laying mammals, or monotremes: the spiny anteater & this one the platypus |
#4841, aired 2005-10-03 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $800: In 1983 the Yacht Club of Perth became the first outside the U.S. to house this trophy the America’s Cup |
#4841, aired 2005-10-03 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $1200: Australia's tallest building is the 823-foot high Rialto Towers in this former capital Melbourne |
#4841, aired 2005-10-03 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $1600: The title of this popular song refers to wandering with a blanket roll, not a dance or a lady "Waltzing Matilda" |
#4841, aired 2005-10-03 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $5,500 (Daily Double): Located in a national park, it's about 1 1/2 miles long & rises 1,142 feet above the desert floor Ayers Rock |
#4723, aired 2005-03-02 | FLAG ME DOWN $200: The green triangle on Sudan's flag represents this religion Islam |
#4723, aired 2005-03-02 | FLAG ME DOWN $400: This amusement park chain is named for the multiple banners that once flew over Texas Six Flags |
#4723, aired 2005-03-02 | FLAG ME DOWN $800: This grizzly-bannered nation was declared in California in 1846 the Bear Flag Republic |
#4723, aired 2005-03-02 | FLAG ME DOWN $1,000 (Daily Double): This geographic feature on Nebraska's state flag bears the name of another state Missouri |
#4723, aired 2005-03-02 | FLAG ME DOWN $1000: The colors on this Low Country's flag came from the coat of arms of the province of Brabant Belgium |
#4704, aired 2005-02-03 | DOWN ON THE FARM $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew speaks from a farm.) At least once a year, my little friend here needs to have her fleece cut in a process called this shearing |
#4704, aired 2005-02-03 | DOWN ON THE FARM $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew speaks from a field.) In a boat, it means "getting rid of water"; on a farm, it's "tying up hay in a neat package" bailing |
#4704, aired 2005-02-03 | DOWN ON THE FARM $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from a dairy barn.) Enhancing the body's absorption of calcium, this vitamin is added to processed milk; it's not significant in raw milk Vitamin D |
#4704, aired 2005-02-03 | DOWN ON THE FARM $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from a grain field.) This machine gets its name from consolidating the operations of cutting, threshing & cleaning combine |
#4704, aired 2005-02-03 | DOWN ON THE FARM $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew rides a green tractor.) This here is a 3020--a classic tractor from this company named for the man who founded it in 1837 John Deere |
#4703, aired 2005-02-02 | CALM DOWN, YOU'RE HISTORICAL! $400: Yang Kaihui, the first wife of this leader of China, was executed by Chinese Nationalists in 1930 Mao |
#4703, aired 2005-02-02 | CALM DOWN, YOU'RE HISTORICAL! $800: Don't cry for her; in 1951, she was nominated for vice president of Argentina Evita (Peron) |
#4703, aired 2005-02-02 | CALM DOWN, YOU'RE HISTORICAL! $1200: On April 27, 1945 Italians captured this fascist leader trying to escape to Switzerland Benito Mussolini |
#4703, aired 2005-02-02 | CALM DOWN, YOU'RE HISTORICAL! $1600: The last leader of the USSR, he resigned his post on Dec. 25, 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev |
#4703, aired 2005-02-02 | CALM DOWN, YOU'RE HISTORICAL! $2000: In 1982 this "Iron Lady" prime minister ordered an attack to stop Argentina from claiming the Falkland Islands Margaret Thatcher |
#4654, aired 2004-11-25 | DOUBLE DOWN $200: This constitutional provision protects you from self-incrimination & double jeopardy the Fifth Amendment |
#4654, aired 2004-11-25 | DOUBLE DOWN $400: To reach 2-digit totals in points, rebounds & assists in one basketball game is to achieve this kind of "double" a triple double |
#4654, aired 2004-11-25 | DOUBLE DOWN $600: "Double Date with the Sarge" is a classic episode of this 1960s sitcom Gomer Pyle |
#4654, aired 2004-11-25 | DOUBLE DOWN $800: Linus Pauling lost the race against Watson & Crick to determine the structure of this; it turned out to be a double helix DNA |
#4654, aired 2004-11-25 | DOUBLE DOWN $1000: In the "Niebelunglied" this hero defeats the dwarf Alberich twice & takes his cloak of invisibility Siegfried |
#4584, aired 2004-07-08 | NEIL DOWN $200: Neil Patrick Harris will always be remembered for playing this title teen on TV Doogie Howser |
#4584, aired 2004-07-08 | NEIL DOWN $400: He's been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo performer & as a member of Buffalo Springfield Neil Young |
#4584, aired 2004-07-08 | NEIL DOWN $600: In 1983 a Broadway theater was renamed for this man, the first time a living playwright was so honored Neil Simon |
#4584, aired 2004-07-08 | NEIL DOWN $800: Neil Tennant is half of this British duo whose '80s hits include "West End Girls" Pet Shop Boys |
#4584, aired 2004-07-08 | NEIL DOWN $1000: He had a No. 1 hit with "Laughter In The Rain" Neil Sedaka |
#4474, aired 2004-02-05 | A TIME TO BREAK DOWN $200: Break down "fish in Nile" & get this end point of a race finish line |
#4474, aired 2004-02-05 | A TIME TO BREAK DOWN $400: Break down "Germany" & get this Sally whom Harry met on film Meg Ryan |
#4474, aired 2004-02-05 | A TIME TO BREAK DOWN $600: Break down "dosage" & get this, someone like Poseidon sea god |
#4474, aired 2004-02-05 | A TIME TO BREAK DOWN $800: Break down "electron motor" & get this device that can operate it from a distance remote control |
#4411, aired 2003-11-10 | THE J. LO DOWN $200: Rich guy Ralph Fiennes falls in love with hotel employee Jennifer Lopez in this Cinderella story Maid in Manhattan |
#4411, aired 2003-11-10 | THE J. LO DOWN $400: When asked what she got on this standardized college placement exam, Jen quipped, "Nail polish" the SAT |
#4411, aired 2003-11-10 | THE J. LO DOWN $600: Ben Affleck plays a lowly thug who falls for female gangster J. Lo in this 2003 romantic comedy Gigli |
#4411, aired 2003-11-10 | THE J. LO DOWN $800: When Jen wore that now-infamous green Versace dress to the 2000 Grammys, he was her date Puff Daddy |
#4411, aired 2003-11-10 | THE J. LO DOWN $1000: The video for this song pays homage to the movie "Flashdance", with Jen as the welder/dancer "I'm Glad" |
#4347, aired 2003-06-24 | SLOW DOWN!!!! $200: Arriba! Arriba! Tell me the name of this cartoon character who is "The Fastest Mouse in all Mexico" Speedy Gonzales |
#4347, aired 2003-06-24 | SLOW DOWN!!!! $400: In this pro sport, a standard gauge of speed is whether a player can cover 40 yards in under 4.5 seconds football |
#4347, aired 2003-06-24 | SLOW DOWN!!!! $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew) Though the plane will go faster, the top speed the Blue Angels reach is about 700 MPH, just short of this speed of sound |
#4347, aired 2003-06-24 | SLOW DOWN!!!! $800: A 50 km event in this sport, not the marathon, is the longest event in the Olympic Games walking |
#4347, aired 2003-06-24 | SLOW DOWN!!!! $1000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew) In Einstein's elegant equation, energy equals mass times this squared speed of light |
#4318, aired 2003-05-14 | DOWN TO EARTH $400: 100 million years ago this continent was connected to Antarctica; in 50 million more years, it'll hit Asia Australia |
#4318, aired 2003-05-14 | DOWN TO EARTH $800: Metamorphic rocks are divided into 2 main types depending on how they were formed: by heat or by this pressure |
#4318, aired 2003-05-14 | DOWN TO EARTH $1200: A bergschrund is a crevasse in one of these glacier |
#4318, aired 2003-05-14 | DOWN TO EARTH $1600: The noctilucent type of these form at about 50 miles up & only between dusk & dawn clouds (luminous) |
#4318, aired 2003-05-14 | DOWN TO EARTH $2000: Convection currents in this layer of the Earth generate the Earth's magnetic field core |
#4272, aired 2003-03-11 | FALL DOWN, GO BOOM $400: In the familiar nursery rhyme, she went boom right after Jack Jill |
#4272, aired 2003-03-11 | FALL DOWN, GO BOOM $800: If you think about it, you've really got to wonder what he saw in Fay Wray in 1933...I mean, think about it King Kong |
#4272, aired 2003-03-11 | FALL DOWN, GO BOOM $1200: "Yeah, sure...I'm a 10-foot Philistine warrior & he's a little punk shepherd twerp named Dave -- Ow!" (boom) Goliath |
#4272, aired 2003-03-11 | FALL DOWN, GO BOOM $1600: If Rhett & Scarlett hadn't bought this girl that damn pony, Rhett might never have said that famous last line Bonnie Blue |
#4272, aired 2003-03-11 | FALL DOWN, GO BOOM $7,800 (Daily Double): Son of Daedalus, his first flying lesson is generally considered something of a failure Icarus |
#4180, aired 2002-11-01 | MUSICAL "UP"s & "DOWN"s $200: She's the type of girl Billy Joel was "in love with" in a 1983 hit "Uptown Girl" |
#4180, aired 2002-11-01 | MUSICAL "UP"s & "DOWN"s $400: It's the classic heard here "Early in the ev'nin', just about suppertime / Over by the courthouse, they're startin' to unwind..." "Down On The Corner" |
#4180, aired 2002-11-01 | MUSICAL "UP"s & "DOWN"s $600: It begins, "When this old world starts getting me down and people are just too much for me to face" "Up On The Roof" |
#4180, aired 2002-11-01 | MUSICAL "UP"s & "DOWN"s $800: (Hi, I'm KC of KC and the Sunshine Band.) My band's first No. 1 hit was this song that's been featured in a Budweiser ad & in Eddie Murphy's "Dr. Dolittle" "Get Down Tonight" |
#4180, aired 2002-11-01 | MUSICAL "UP"s & "DOWN"s $1000: In 1991 Elton John re-recorded this song live with George Michael "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" |
#4175, aired 2002-10-25 | DOWN UNDER $400: The reverse of the Australian one-dollar coin shows 5 of these animals kangaroos |
#4175, aired 2002-10-25 | DOWN UNDER $800: In 1912 Aussie explorer Douglas Mawson led an expedition south to explore the east coast of this continent Antarctica |
#4175, aired 2002-10-25 | DOWN UNDER $1200: In 1954 John Landy became the 1st Australian & the 2nd person in the world to break this mark; Roger Bannister was 1st the four-minute mile |
#4175, aired 2002-10-25 | DOWN UNDER $1600: All U.S. states are using the Australian type of this item, first used in an Aussie election in 1856 ballot |
#4175, aired 2002-10-25 | DOWN UNDER $2000: This capital of Queensland was home to the 1988 World's Fair Brisbane |
#4101, aired 2002-06-03 | DOWN FOR THE LESSER-KNOWN COUNT $400: Egmont, Count of Lamoral was the subject of a Goethe tragedy with music by this great German composer Ludwig van Beethoven |
#4101, aired 2002-06-03 | DOWN FOR THE LESSER-KNOWN COUNT $800: Count Sergey Witte had the wit to put this country on the gold standard in the late 1800s Russia |
#4101, aired 2002-06-03 | DOWN FOR THE LESSER-KNOWN COUNT $1200: With Queen Caroline Matilda's help, Count Struensee took over this country from Christian VII in 1770 Denmark |
#4101, aired 2002-06-03 | DOWN FOR THE LESSER-KNOWN COUNT $1600: In 1921 Count Andrassy tried to place Austria's ex-emperor Charles I on this country's throne Hungary |
#4101, aired 2002-06-03 | DOWN FOR THE LESSER-KNOWN COUNT $2000: In 1060 Count Conrad ruled this country that's now a grand duchy Luxembourg |
#4099, aired 2002-05-30 | IT'S FALLING "DOWN" $400: To transfer computer data download |
#4099, aired 2002-05-30 | IT'S FALLING "DOWN" $800: This Eric Clapton song says, "No need to leave so soon, I've been trying all night long just to talk to you" Lay Down Sally |
#4099, aired 2002-05-30 | IT'S FALLING "DOWN" $1200: In business, it's a euphemism for layoffs downsizing |
#4099, aired 2002-05-30 | IT'S FALLING "DOWN" $1600: 11-letter adjective meaning oppressed by constant harsh treatment downtrodden |
#4099, aired 2002-05-30 | IT'S FALLING "DOWN" $2000: To lower the status or value of something, like a company's credit rating downgrade |
#4075, aired 2002-04-26 | DOWN TO EARTH $400: Study plate tectonics & you'll see the Earth has more main plates than the number of these large land masses continents |
#4075, aired 2002-04-26 | DOWN TO EARTH $800: Marble is classified as a metamorphic rock; before that it was limestone, a type of rock classified as this sedimentary |
#4075, aired 2002-04-26 | DOWN TO EARTH $1200: The neap one of these occurs when the Moon & Sun form a right angle to the Earth a tide |
#4075, aired 2002-04-26 | DOWN TO EARTH $1600: The great circles drawn through the poles of the Earth are known as lines of these longitude |
#4075, aired 2002-04-26 | DOWN TO EARTH $2000: The places in space around the Earth where the magnetosphere is the densest are known as these belts Van Allen |
#4060, aired 2002-04-05 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $200: This Los Angeles valley named for a mission includes the neighborhoods of Encino, Sherman Oaks & Northridge San Fernando Valley |
#4060, aired 2002-04-05 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $400: Ernest Hemingway's grave lies near this Idaho valley, a year-round resort developed by the Union Pacific Sun Valley |
#4060, aired 2002-04-05 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $600: Located near Lake Tahoe, it was the site of the 1960 Winter Olympic Games Squaw Valley |
#4060, aired 2002-04-05 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $800: Lake Tanganyika lies within the western branch of this valley that's thousands of miles long the Great Rift Valley |
#4060, aired 2002-04-05 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $1000: The U.S. Military Academy at West Point overlooks this river valley the Hudson River Valley |
#4040, aired 2002-03-08 | DOWN THE VIDEO TUBE $400: In August 2001, after 33 years, he took off his loafers for his last new show Mister Rogers (or Fred Rogers) |
#4040, aired 2002-03-08 | DOWN THE VIDEO TUBE $800: William Shatner starred in the classic episode "Nightmare on 20,000 Feet" on this classic sci-fi anthology series The Twilight Zone |
#4040, aired 2002-03-08 | DOWN THE VIDEO TUBE $1600: Seen here, this comedian & game show regular occupied the Center Square for many an episode Paul Lynde |
#4040, aired 2002-03-08 | DOWN THE VIDEO TUBE $2000: John Cleese ran the title hotel with help from Manuel & Polly on this popular British TV import Fawlty Towers |
#4040, aired 2002-03-08 | DOWN THE VIDEO TUBE $9,000 (Daily Double): One version of this 1950's TV character had 48 freckles; one for each state in the Union at the time Howdy Doody |
#4035, aired 2002-03-01 | DOWN MEXICO WAY $200: Mexico City's Olympic Stadium was built to resemble the crater of one of these volcano |
#4035, aired 2002-03-01 | DOWN MEXICO WAY $400: The pyramids named for these 2 heavenly bodies stand within Teotihuacan sun & moon |
#4035, aired 2002-03-01 | DOWN MEXICO WAY $600: Villahermosa in this "saucy" state was a major center for the Olmecs Tabasco |
#4030, aired 2002-02-22 | "SIT" DOWN $400: It's the act of occupying a building as a form of protest sit-in |
#4030, aired 2002-02-22 | "SIT" DOWN $800: After the Battle of the Little Bighorn, this leader stood up & escaped to Canada Sitting Bull |
#4030, aired 2002-02-22 | "SIT" DOWN $1200: The name of this instrument is from the Hindi for "3-stringed", though it has more sitar |
#4030, aired 2002-02-22 | "SIT" DOWN $1600: Last name of Dame Edith, known for her poem "Still Falls the Rain" Sitwell |
#4030, aired 2002-02-22 | "SIT" DOWN $2000: It's not the larch, it's the variety of spruce seen here Sitka |
#4029, aired 2002-02-21 | COME ON DOWN! $400: In a nursery rhyme, he tumbled from a wall with dire consequences Humpty-Dumpty |
#4029, aired 2002-02-21 | COME ON DOWN! $800: In the King James Version, "The Lord is my shepherd... he maketh me to lie down in" these green pastures |
#4029, aired 2002-02-21 | COME ON DOWN! $1200: This alliterative term is defined as a descending motion subject only to gravity free fall |
#4029, aired 2002-02-21 | COME ON DOWN! $1600: What goes up must come down & in 1979 this first U.S. space station broke apart over Australia & the Indian Ocean Skylab |
#4029, aired 2002-02-21 | COME ON DOWN! $2000: These 2 were first partnered in the 1933 film "Flying Down to Rio" Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire |
#4006, aired 2002-01-21 | "MARK"DOWN $200: Introduced in 1939, the Mother's Day pansy became this company's bestselling card Hallmark |
#4006, aired 2002-01-21 | "MARK"DOWN $400: This "against" one's name is an indication of failure a black mark |
#4006, aired 2002-01-21 | "MARK"DOWN $600: Literary character heard here "Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch / Of the ranged empire fall. Here is my space." Mark Antony |
#4006, aired 2002-01-21 | "MARK"DOWN $800: In Genesis it's sign of divine protection, but it has come to imply punishment the mark of Cain |
#4006, aired 2002-01-21 | "MARK"DOWN $1000: To move your feet in a march step without moving, or to suspend progress generally mark time |
#3998, aired 2002-01-09 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $200: It's not only Australia's largest city, it's the oldest as well Sydney |
#3998, aired 2002-01-09 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $400: Australia's name comes from the Latin "australis", which means this south (southern) |
#3998, aired 2002-01-09 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $600: Until 1852 this island state served as a penal colony for the British Tasmania |
#3998, aired 2002-01-09 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $800: This capital of the Northern Territory named for a naturalist, lies near the Beagle Gulf Darwin |
#3998, aired 2002-01-09 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $1000: Cape York on Cape York Peninsula in this state is the Australian mainland's northern-most point Queensland |
#3991, aired 2001-12-31 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $200: At first this "familial" company rejected Monopoly due to "52 design errors" Parker Brothers |
#3991, aired 2001-12-31 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $400: A commercial that ran just once for this computer company helped make Chiat/Day Advertising Age's Agency of the Decade Apple |
#3991, aired 2001-12-31 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $600: "Constructive" term for a physical store, as opposed to an online one bricks and mortar |
#3991, aired 2001-12-31 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $800: In 2000 Jeffrey Immelt was named to succeed this man nicknamed "Neutron Jack" as General Electric's CEO Welch |
#3991, aired 2001-12-31 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $1000: In 1997 brewer Guinness PLC merged with Grand Metropolitan PLC, PLC standing for this type of "company" a public limited company |
#3975, aired 2001-12-07 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $200: In 2001 this aerospace giant grew sleepless in Seattle & decided to move its headquarters to Chicago Boeing |
#3975, aired 2001-12-07 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $400: It's the auto parts chain whose logo is seen here Pep Boys |
#3975, aired 2001-12-07 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $600: He's CEO of both Apple Computer & Pixar Animation Studios Steve Jobs |
#3975, aired 2001-12-07 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $800: This company has cleaned up with such products as its Dustbuster & yes, its Scumbuster Black & Decker |
#3975, aired 2001-12-07 | GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS $1000: As America's top supplier of ATMs, the company known by these 3 initials has really cashed in NCR (formerly known as National Cash Register) |
#3920, aired 2001-09-21 | THE "LOW" DOWN $100: In a children's game, it precedes "the-leader" follow |
#3920, aired 2001-09-21 | THE "LOW" DOWN $200: Nobody can deny, "He's a jolly, good" one fellow |
#3920, aired 2001-09-21 | THE "LOW" DOWN $300: It describes farmland that's left unseeded for a growing season or two fallow |
#3920, aired 2001-09-21 | THE "LOW" DOWN $400: This hard animal fat is used in candles & soap tallow |
#3920, aired 2001-09-21 | THE "LOW" DOWN $500: Donovan only made it to No. 2 with this song, his second-biggest hit "Mellow Yellow" |
#3889, aired 2001-06-28 | FROM THE LAND DOWN UNDER $200: G'day mate! He's the actor who plays "Crocodile Dundee" Paul Hogan |
#3889, aired 2001-06-28 | FROM THE LAND DOWN UNDER $400: In 1973 this media mogul made his first U.S. acquisition, the San Antonio Express & News Rupert Murdoch |
#3889, aired 2001-06-28 | FROM THE LAND DOWN UNDER $600: Look out for this "Great White Shark" seen here Norman |
#3889, aired 2001-06-28 | FROM THE LAND DOWN UNDER $800: A little thorn bird told us that before she took up writing, she was a neurophysiologist (Colleen) McCullough |
#3889, aired 2001-06-28 | FROM THE LAND DOWN UNDER $1000: This character seen here is played by Barry Humphries Dame Edna (Everage) |
#3850, aired 2001-05-04 | SLOW DOWN! $100: In driver's training you learn this light means to slow down & be prepared to stop, not hurry up to beat the red yellow |
#3850, aired 2001-05-04 | SLOW DOWN! $200: In some classes, time goes as slowly as this sweet liquid "in January" molasses |
#3850, aired 2001-05-04 | SLOW DOWN! $300: Mimic this gastropod's "pace" when walking to school & you may get there by sixth period snail |
#3850, aired 2001-05-04 | SLOW DOWN! $400: As a verb, the name of this golf club means "to occupy yourself in a leisurely way" putter |
#3850, aired 2001-05-04 | SLOW DOWN! $500: As a verb, it's followed by "away" to mean slowly waste your money; as a noun, it's a deep-fried battered cake fritter |
#3809, aired 2001-03-08 | LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $100: This company first introduced its MSN Network as part of Windows 95 Microsoft |
#3809, aired 2001-03-08 | LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $200: Here's the "scoop": this chain began operating in 1978 out of a renovated gas station in Vermont Ben & Jerry's |
#3809, aired 2001-03-08 | LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $300: With its "Softer Side" ads aside, this retailer now offers "The Good Life at a Great Price. Guaranteed." Sears |
#3809, aired 2001-03-08 | LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $400: This airline first took to the skies in 1924 as a crop-dusting service based in Macon, Georgia Delta Airlines |
#3809, aired 2001-03-08 | LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS $500: I can get it for you wholesale at this warehouse chain that merged with Price Club in 1993 Costco |
#3640, aired 2000-06-02 | WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN $100: If you can't make any of your programs run, you can take out a deck of cards & play this game, aka patience solitaire |
#3640, aired 2000-06-02 | WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN $200: Downloading off the net may have infected your system with one of these programs, Latin for "poison" Virus |
#3640, aired 2000-06-02 | WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN $300: One of the signs that things aren't working correctly is when you get one of these "exceptions" a fatal exception (or a Windows exception) |
#3640, aired 2000-06-02 | WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN $400: If your E-mail crashes, you may have to use this rhyming 2-word term for letters delivered the old way Snail mail |
#3640, aired 2000-06-02 | WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN $500: Difficulty clicking on icons to enter commands might indicate trouble with your GUI, this kind of interface Graphical User Interface |
#3629, aired 2000-05-18 | WAAAY DOWN SOUTH $100: This imaginary line lies at about 66 degrees 30 minutes south latitude Antarctic Circle |
#3629, aired 2000-05-18 | WAAAY DOWN SOUTH $200: Antarctica's largest human community, McMurdo Station, is maintained by this country United States |
#3629, aired 2000-05-18 | WAAAY DOWN SOUTH $300: This big city lies just 30 miles north of the Cape of Good Hope Cape Town |
#3629, aired 2000-05-18 | WAAAY DOWN SOUTH $400: Stewart Island extends south of South Island in this nation New Zealand |
#3629, aired 2000-05-18 | WAAAY DOWN SOUTH $500: In Antarctica, Mount Erebus occupies an island at the edge of this ice shelf Ross Ice Shelf |
#3595, aired 2000-03-31 | DOWN TO EARTH $100: It's the next line north of the Equator that has been named as well as numbered Tropic of Cancer |
#3595, aired 2000-03-31 | DOWN TO EARTH $200: The Earth has water & oxygen cycles in addition to one for this element, the basis of organic life Carbon |
#3595, aired 2000-03-31 | DOWN TO EARTH $300: This desert is home to the hottest place in North America Mojave |
#3595, aired 2000-03-31 | DOWN TO EARTH $500: Stretching from Syria to Mozambique, this big valley divides east Africa in two The Great Rift Valley |
#3595, aired 2000-03-31 | DOWN TO EARTH $600 (Daily Double): One of these produces 3 types of waves: P, S & surface Earthquake |
#3357, aired 1999-03-23 | DOWN WITH THE SHIP $200: On Columbus' first voyage, this flagship was wrecked while a cabin boy was at the helm Santa Maria |
#3357, aired 1999-03-23 | DOWN WITH THE SHIP $400: After this captain began to fight, he won the Serapis but lost his own ship, the Bonhomme Richard John Paul Jones |
#3357, aired 1999-03-23 | DOWN WITH THE SHIP $500 (Daily Double): (Alex: I'm at the Titanic Artifacts Exhibit at the World Trade Center, Boston.) A megaphone like this one might have been used during the sinking by this captain to shout commands Captain Edward Smith |
#3357, aired 1999-03-23 | DOWN WITH THE SHIP $600: In 1997 one of Benedict Arnold's gunboats was found on the floor of this Vermont-New York lake Lake Champlain |
#3357, aired 1999-03-23 | DOWN WITH THE SHIP $800: This book by Sebastian Junger details the loss of a fishing boat, the Andrea Gail, to bad weather The Perfect Storm |
#3231, aired 1998-09-28 | "DOWN" THE HATCH $100: This highly undesirable event can occur when a nuclear reactor's core overheats Meltdown |
#3231, aired 1998-09-28 | "DOWN" THE HATCH $200: If you're hunting by scent, it's where you want to be, relative to your prey Downwind |
#3231, aired 1998-09-28 | "DOWN" THE HATCH $300: The New England Primer popularized the bedtime prayer beginning with this line "Now I lay me down to sleep..." |
#3231, aired 1998-09-28 | "DOWN" THE HATCH $400: It describes the "trampled" masses Downtrodden |
#3231, aired 1998-09-28 | "DOWN" THE HATCH $500: In 1902 Battling Nelson inflicted 42 of these on Christy Williams, who finally stayed on the canvas Knockdowns |
#3211, aired 1998-07-13 | DOWN UNDER $100: The ABA, Inc. in Sydney is an Australian association that gives lessons in how to throw these boomerangs |
#3211, aired 1998-07-13 | DOWN UNDER $200: It has webbed feet, no teeth or external ears, brown fur & a rubbery, duckbill-shaped muzzle the platypus |
#3211, aired 1998-07-13 | DOWN UNDER $300: Walter Burley Griffin, an architect from Chicago, designed this capital city, site unseen Canberra |
#3211, aired 1998-07-13 | DOWN UNDER $400: This now popular tourist attraction almost wrecked the Endeavour, Captain Cook's ship the Great Barrier Reef |
#3211, aired 1998-07-13 | DOWN UNDER $500: Over 309 of these are operating in the Barossa Valley, the Aussie equivalent of our Napa wineries |
#3163, aired 1998-05-06 | SLOW DOWN $100: If you try pouring the blackstrap type of this syrup in January, you may have to wait until February to eat it Molasses |
#3163, aired 1998-05-06 | SLOW DOWN $200: Cinematic effect achieved by filming at faster than projection speed Slow motion |
#3163, aired 1998-05-06 | SLOW DOWN $300: As its name indicates, it's a slow pitch thrown after a fastball to upset the batter's timing Changeup |
#3163, aired 1998-05-06 | SLOW DOWN $400: If you had only 1 foot & moved by contracting it, you'd also go at this gastropod's pace Snail |
#3163, aired 1998-05-06 | SLOW DOWN $500: A plant like ivy, that spreads across a surface, or a person who crawls slowly & stealthily Creepers |
#3066, aired 1997-12-22 | DOWN UNDER $200: Due to its curved shape, the coastal strip where most Australians live is named for this weapon Boomerang |
#3066, aired 1997-12-22 | DOWN UNDER $400: The Aussie doubles team of Woodbridge & Woodforde, AKA The Woodies, have twice won this Melbourne event Australian Open |
#3066, aired 1997-12-22 | DOWN UNDER $600: Japanese bombs & a 1974 cyclone have slowed the "evolution" of this city on the north coast Darwin |
#2942, aired 1997-05-20 | "UP" & "DOWN" $100: It's the type of comedy Jerry Seinfeld performs on stage Stand-up |
#2942, aired 1997-05-20 | "UP" & "DOWN" $200: This traditional term for ending a phone call doesn't apply literally to cellular phones Hanging up |
#2942, aired 1997-05-20 | "UP" & "DOWN" $300: According to the can, it has no caffeine, no artificial colors or flavors, & no protein Seven-Up |
#2942, aired 1997-05-20 | "UP" & "DOWN" $400: It's the reason you should be nice to people on your way up Because you'll meet them on your way down |
#2942, aired 1997-05-20 | "UP" & "DOWN" $500: Corporate process that may include closing plants & firing workers Downsizing |
#2685, aired 1996-04-12 | DOWN FOR THE COUNT $200: This literary count was born in 1828 at Yasnaya Polyana, the estate where he lived most of his life Leo Tolstoy |
#2685, aired 1996-04-12 | DOWN FOR THE COUNT $400: Count Andrassy helped arrange the Compromise of 1867, which created this dual monarchy Austria-Hungary |
#2685, aired 1996-04-12 | DOWN FOR THE COUNT $600: Count Bernadotte, a diplomat & nephew of this country's King Gustav V, was assassinated in 1948 Sweden |
#2685, aired 1996-04-12 | DOWN FOR THE COUNT $800: This inventor of the first electric battery also discovered & isolated methane gas Alessandro Volta |
#2685, aired 1996-04-12 | DOWN FOR THE COUNT $1000: This Polish count distinguished himself at the 1777 Battle of Brandywine Casimir Pulaski |
#2620, aired 1996-01-12 | DOWN TO RIO $100: Yachting & horse racing are popular pastimes in Rio but this sport rules supreme futbol (soccer) |
#2620, aired 1996-01-12 | DOWN TO RIO $200: With all of the festivities, the most exciting time to visit Rio is during this, their Mardi Gras Carnaval |
#2620, aired 1996-01-12 | DOWN TO RIO $300: A Rio museum honors this entertainer known for her lavish gowns & fruity headgear Carmen Miranda |
#2620, aired 1996-01-12 | DOWN TO RIO $400: Less than 20 minutes from downtown, you'll find this famous beach, followed by Ipanema & Leblon Copacabana |
#2620, aired 1996-01-12 | DOWN TO RIO $500: This rocky landmark that rises above Guanabara Bay is known as Pao de Acucar in Portuguese the Sugarloaf |
#2435, aired 1995-03-17 | CAN I PUT THIS DOWN? $100: She's been carrying a torch since 1886 the Statue of Liberty |
#2435, aired 1995-03-17 | CAN I PUT THIS DOWN? $200: It's what Diogenes was carrying during his search for an honest man a lamp |
#2435, aired 1995-03-17 | CAN I PUT THIS DOWN? $300: This constellation is holding a shield & a club Orion |
#2435, aired 1995-03-17 | CAN I PUT THIS DOWN? $400: Among corporate symbols, Mr. Peanut & Johnnie Walker both carry one a cane |
#2435, aired 1995-03-17 | CAN I PUT THIS DOWN? $500: The Oscar, of Academy Awards fame, holds one of these weapons a sword |
#2189, aired 1994-02-24 | "UP"s & "DOWN"s $100: It's most often a nickname for Australia Down Under |
#2189, aired 1994-02-24 | "UP"s & "DOWN"s $200: It's another term for a square dance a hoedown |
#2189, aired 1994-02-24 | "UP"s & "DOWN"s $300: Any article of clothing you might pass on to a younger sibling a hand-me-down |
#2189, aired 1994-02-24 | "UP"s & "DOWN"s $400: The Apache & Paiute Indians used brush & matting to make this simple hut wickiup |
#2189, aired 1994-02-24 | "UP"s & "DOWN"s $500: "Beacon Hill" was similar to this British TV series about a wealthy family & its servants Upstairs, Downstairs |
#2048, aired 1993-06-30 | DOWN EASTERS $200: The governor's mansion in this capital city was formerly the home of James G. Blaine Augusta |
#2048, aired 1993-06-30 | DOWN EASTERS $400: Explorers who came in from the cold to summer in Maine include Robert Peary & this South Pole visitor (Richard) Byrd |
#2048, aired 1993-06-30 | DOWN EASTERS $600: This poet who wrote "I shot an arrow in the air..." was born in Portland Longfellow |
#2048, aired 1993-06-30 | DOWN EASTERS $1000: This woman born in Hampden helped open hospitals for the mentally ill in over 15 states Dorothea Dix |
#2048, aired 1993-06-30 | DOWN EASTERS $3,700 (Daily Double): In 1980 & 1981 this man from the State of Maine was U.S. Secretary of State Muskie |
#1938, aired 1993-01-27 | "UP"S & "DOWN"S $100: This continuing drama on "Masterpiece Theatre" told the story of the Bellamys & their servants Upstairs, Downstairs |
#1938, aired 1993-01-27 | "UP"S & "DOWN"S $200: He hosted the daytime version of the game show "Concentration" from 1958 to 1969 Hugh Downs |
#1938, aired 1993-01-27 | "UP"S & "DOWN"S $300: Ogden Nash said, "Only the gamefish swims" here, "but the sensible fish swims down" upstream |
#1938, aired 1993-01-27 | "UP"S & "DOWN"S $400: In the early 1950s, this author of "The Centaur" edited the Harvard Lampoon John Updike |
#1938, aired 1993-01-27 | "UP"S & "DOWN"S $500: It's the former name of Burkina Faso Upper Volta |
#1815, aired 1992-06-19 | "DOWN" $100: This narrow London street runs from Whitehall to St. James Park Downing Street |
#1815, aired 1992-06-19 | "DOWN" $200: A sensible, practical person is said to be this down-to-earth |
#1815, aired 1992-06-19 | "DOWN" $300: According to the title of a 1986 film, Nick Nolte was this "in Beverly Hills" Down and Out |
#1815, aired 1992-06-19 | "DOWN" $400: A transmission path for data from a communications satellite to an Earth station a downlink |
#1815, aired 1992-06-19 | "DOWN" $500: This Chicago-based music magazine was founded in 1934 Downbeat |
#998, aired 1988-12-28 | "DOWN" WORDS $100: Othello's was jealousy his fatal downfall |
#998, aired 1988-12-28 | "DOWN" WORDS $200: According to Petula Clark, "The lights are much brighter there" "Downtown" |
#998, aired 1988-12-28 | "DOWN" WORDS $300: Word describing a period when computers can't compute downtime |
#998, aired 1988-12-28 | "DOWN" WORDS $400: On a PBS series, Hudson, Rose & Mrs. Bridges resided there Downstairs |
#998, aired 1988-12-28 | "DOWN" WORDS $500: Description of someone who is practical down-to-earth |
#917, aired 1988-09-06 | "UP" & "DOWN" $400: A torrential rain a downpour |
#917, aired 1988-09-06 | "UP" & "DOWN" $600: This short London street was named for a 17th- century diplomat who built houses there Downing Street |
#917, aired 1988-09-06 | "UP" & "DOWN" $800: Sandy Dennis movie based on Bel Kaufman's best seller set in a New York City school Up the Down Staircase |
#917, aired 1988-09-06 | "UP" & "DOWN" $1,000 (Daily Double): Title of the following that went up to No. 7 in 1967: "Would you like to ride in my beautiful balloon / Would you like to ride in my..." "Up, Up And Away" |
#917, aired 1988-09-06 | "UP" & "DOWN" $1000: Sweden's capital in Viking times, it's also home to the country's oldest university Uppsala |
#893, aired 1988-06-22 | DOWN EASTERS $200: Born in Conn. she wrote her most famous work in Maine; though not in a cabin, not even Uncle Tom's Harriet Beecher Stowe |
#893, aired 1988-06-22 | DOWN EASTERS $600: He was the 1st Democrat ever elected to the U.S. Senate by Maine voters Edmund Muskie |
#893, aired 1988-06-22 | DOWN EASTERS $800: In 1950, in a "Declaration of Conscience", she was 1 of the 1st Republicans to oppose Joseph McCarthy Margaret Chase Smith |
#893, aired 1988-06-22 | DOWN EASTERS $1000: In the 1840s, she led the drive in U.S. to build state hospitals for the mentally ill Dorothea Dix |
#893, aired 1988-06-22 | DOWN EASTERS $4,300 (Daily Double): Though this poet's house in Portland is no "Wayside Inn", it's Maine's best-known historic site Longfellow |
#766, aired 1987-12-28 | ALL FALL DOWN $100: "Saturday Night Live" comic known for pratfalls he took imitating Gerald Ford Chevy Chase |
#766, aired 1987-12-28 | ALL FALL DOWN $200: The World Book calls them "generally more clumsy" than frogs toads |
#766, aired 1987-12-28 | ALL FALL DOWN $300: Popular comic strip with a character known as Clumsy Carp B.C. |
#766, aired 1987-12-28 | ALL FALL DOWN $400: Familiar nursery rhyme from which this category's title is taken "Ring Around the Roses (Rosies)" |
#766, aired 1987-12-28 | ALL FALL DOWN $500: Kim Zimmer fell down on her way to pick up one of these awards in 1986, Kathleen Noone in 1987 Daytime Emmy |
#669, aired 1987-07-02 | "UP" & "DOWN" $200: Command given by a submarine skipper when he wants to peek at what's on the surface up periscope |
#669, aired 1987-07-02 | "UP" & "DOWN" $400: In music it's the accented "thump" in a measure downbeat |
#669, aired 1987-07-02 | "UP" & "DOWN" $600: The north side of this short street has only 3 houses, one of which is residence of prime minister Downing Street |
#669, aired 1987-07-02 | "UP" & "DOWN" $800: According to an old blues song, "Nobody knows you when you're" this Down and Out |
#669, aired 1987-07-02 | "UP" & "DOWN" $1000: "Up" term for a king's downfall in a revolution, or a town's downfall in an earthquake upheaval |
#346, aired 1986-01-06 | DOWN ON THE FARM $200: Used as feed & the 4-H symbol clover |
#346, aired 1986-01-06 | DOWN ON THE FARM $400: Hens are often kept in windowless rooms with twilight lighting for this reason to lay (more) eggs |
#331, aired 1985-12-16 | "UP"s & "DOWN"s $100: A fried egg served with its yolk showing sunny side up |
#331, aired 1985-12-16 | "UP"s & "DOWN"s $200: A musical question asks, "How you gonna keep 'em" there "after they've seen Paree?" down on the farm |
#331, aired 1985-12-16 | "UP"s & "DOWN"s $300: In a traditional theater, where the actors are when they're closest to the audience downstage |
#331, aired 1985-12-16 | "UP"s & "DOWN"s $400: Phrase that also refers to New Zealand Down Under |
#331, aired 1985-12-16 | "UP"s & "DOWN"s $500: Not very "grand" pianos, or what you kick your football through uprights |
#329, aired 1985-12-12 | "DOWN" SONGS $200: It's "where I first met you, with your eyes so blue" "Down By The Old Mill Stream" |
#329, aired 1985-12-12 | "DOWN" SONGS $600: One of the year's Top 40 songs, it's where "poor" B.J. Royal was in 1965 "Down In The Boondocks" |
#329, aired 1985-12-12 | "DOWN" SONGS $700 (Daily Double): Title of the following Elton John song: "I can't find..." "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" |
#329, aired 1985-12-12 | "DOWN" SONGS $800: The story of impending divorce, it's what Cher told the children to do in 1967 "You Better Sit Down Kids" |
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