#9182, aired 2024-10-15 | TALKING HEADS $400: (David Byrne presents the clue.) Talking Heads' biggest hit was this 1983 song about fighting fire with fire; the title came from an enthusiastic chant heard at a Parliament-Funkadelic concert "Burning Down The House" |
#9182, aired 2024-10-15 | TALKING HEADS $800: (Chris Frantz presents the clue.) "Stop Making Sense" has been widely praised for its no-nonsense focus on the band's performance by this Oscar-winning director of "The Silence of the Lambs" & "Philadelphia" (Jonathan) Demme |
#9182, aired 2024-10-15 | TALKING HEADS $1200: (David Byrne presents the clue.) The first song we wrote for Talking Heads, this signature track features an iconic pulsing bassline & the twisted thoughts of a homicidal narrator--better run, run, run, run away "Psycho Killer" |
#9182, aired 2024-10-15 | TALKING HEADS $1600: (Tina Weymouth presents the clue.) Talking Heads was still a trio in 1975 when we played our first show, opening for the Ramones at the legendary New York punk club known by this 4-letter name CBGB |
#9182, aired 2024-10-15 | TALKING HEADS $2000: (Jerry Harrison presents the clue.) Ranked No. 28 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, this polyrhythmic track about letting the days go by was crafted in collaboration with super-producer Brian Eno "Once In A Lifetime" |
#8850, aired 2023-04-14 | HEADS I WIN $200: The winner of the college football matchup between Butler & Valparaiso in this state wins the coveted Hoosier Helmet Indiana |
#8850, aired 2023-04-14 | HEADS I WIN $400: I've found some Pinellas types of these projectile points--luckily, on the ground, not embedded in my flesh arrowheads |
#8850, aired 2023-04-14 | HEADS I WIN $600: The daughter, known by this name, won the head of John the Baptist & is seen in a painting presenting it to her mom Salome |
#8850, aired 2023-04-14 | HEADS I WIN $800: This director of sometimes violent Westerns made "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia", in which Warren Oates gets a head Sam Peckinpah |
#8850, aired 2023-04-14 | HEADS I WIN $1000: In 1996 the Library of Congress acquired the "first selfie", this type of photograph named for a Frenchman a daguerreotype |
#8431, aired 2021-06-28 | TALKING HEADS $200: In an April 19, 1951 speech, he gave new life to the well-worn phrase "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away" MacArthur |
#8431, aired 2021-06-28 | TALKING HEADS $400: The first deaf & blind person to earn a bachelor of arts, this woman noted, "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement" Helen Keller |
#8431, aired 2021-06-28 | TALKING HEADS $600: This Secretary of Defense during the Iraq War offered, "There are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know" Rumsfeld |
#8431, aired 2021-06-28 | TALKING HEADS $800: This American Red Cross founder said she'd sometimes teach for free but if paid, "Never do a man's work for less than a man's pay" Clara Barton |
#8431, aired 2021-06-28 | TALKING HEADS $1000: Attributed to this leader of the Soviet Union in the 1970s: "The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win" Brezhnev |
#8251, aired 2020-10-05 | HEADS UP! & OFF! $400: After being tried for treason, this royal lost her tete on Oct. 16, 1793 Marie Antoinette |
#8251, aired 2020-10-05 | HEADS UP! & OFF! $800: After this pirate was killed on Nov. 22, 1718, his head, awesome facial hair & all, ended up on the bowsprit of a ship Blackbeard |
#8251, aired 2020-10-05 | HEADS UP! & OFF! $1200: On Feb. 12, 1554 she got way too much taken off the top; hope the near-week-&-a-half as queen was worth it Lady Jane Grey |
#8251, aired 2020-10-05 | HEADS UP! & OFF! $1600: On Aug. 23, 1305 both his life & his freedom were taken; getting beheaded was but one of many steps in the process William Wallace |
#8251, aired 2020-10-05 | HEADS UP! & OFF! $2,600 (Daily Double): After his death in 43 B.C., this Roman orator made a final appearance on the speakers' platform at the Forum--well, his head & hands did Cicero |
#7290, aired 2016-04-29 | OUT OF THEIR HEADS! $400: A newspaper banner item becomes one of these, like "So, do you come here often?" a line |
#7290, aired 2016-04-29 | OUT OF THEIR HEADS! $800: Earphones & a mouthpiece become this part of a tennis match a set |
#7290, aired 2016-04-29 | OUT OF THEIR HEADS! $1200: A woman in charge of a school changes into this rival of a wife a mistress |
#7290, aired 2016-04-29 | OUT OF THEIR HEADS! $1600: An executive recruiter becomes this shade of green hunter |
#7290, aired 2016-04-29 | OUT OF THEIR HEADS! $2000: A heavy metal fan becomes this British sausage a banger |
#6901, aired 2014-09-22 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS $1200: In 1718 Lieutenant Robert Maynard of the Royal Navy killed this pirate & hung his head, which had a handy grip, off a ship's bow Blackbeard |
#6901, aired 2014-09-22 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS $1600: This 5th wife of Henry VIII practiced laying her head on a block in her jail cell so as not to do the wrong thing on the scaffold Catherine Howard |
#6901, aired 2014-09-22 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS $2000: In 1970 author Yukio Mishima committed this act of ritual suicide accompanied by beheading, aka hara-kiri seppuku |
#6412, aired 2012-07-03 | LETTER-HEADS $200: Back when the company was launched in 1945, you could rent one of these do-it-yourself movers for $2 per day U-Haul |
#6412, aired 2012-07-03 | LETTER-HEADS $400: From 2001 to 2005 the rapper & businessman seen here went by this name P. Diddy |
#6412, aired 2012-07-03 | LETTER-HEADS $600: Reasons for having one of these: the baby's too big: it's in distress; it's not in a head-down position a C-section |
#6412, aired 2012-07-03 | LETTER-HEADS $800: Sue, who resides at the Field Museum in Chicago, was a 42-foot-long one of these T. rex |
#6412, aired 2012-07-03 | LETTER-HEADS $1000: Adopted by the army in 1942, these individual meals in a box were first used by paratroopers K rations |
#6263, aired 2011-12-07 | HEADS IN THE HEAVENS $200: The star Algol in the constellation Perseus represents the severed head of this Gorgon Medusa |
#6263, aired 2011-12-07 | HEADS IN THE HEAVENS $400: The head of this "hunter" is marked by the binary star Meissa Orion |
#6263, aired 2011-12-07 | HEADS IN THE HEAVENS $600: They represent the heads of Gemini, but these 2 stars are not twins; one is a giant, the other a triple binary Castor & Pollux |
#6263, aired 2011-12-07 | HEADS IN THE HEAVENS $800: Hamal, the alpha star in this constellation, is from the Arabic al ras al hamal, "head of the sheep" Aries |
#6263, aired 2011-12-07 | HEADS IN THE HEAVENS $1000: M15, one of the brightest globular clusters in the sky, is near the head of this winged stallion Pegasus |
#6232, aired 2011-10-25 | HEADS OR TAILS $200: The tail of the death-stalker type of this arachnid delivers poison that can cause paralysis & heart failure a scorpion |
#6232, aired 2011-10-25 | HEADS OR TAILS $400: This 2nd-largest land mammal has its eyes & ears on top of its head so it can keep track of things from underwater a hippopotamus |
#6232, aired 2011-10-25 | HEADS OR TAILS $600: Seen here, the satanic leaf-tailed this won't save you 15% on your car insurance gecko |
#6232, aired 2011-10-25 | HEADS OR TAILS $800: In Madagascar, the male ring-tailed this slashes a tree trunk with a spur to mark his troop's territory a lemur |
#6232, aired 2011-10-25 | HEADS OR TAILS $1000: Follow your nose to go pro & name this type of monkey seen here, a surprisingly good swimmer proboscis |
#5737, aired 2009-07-14 | HEADS OF STATE $200: Shimon Peres, elected by the Knesset as the 9th president in 2007 Israel |
#5737, aired 2009-07-14 | HEADS OF STATE $400: Akihito, the emperor whose reign is designated "Heisei", or "achieving peace" Japan |
#5737, aired 2009-07-14 | HEADS OF STATE $600: In Scandinavia, King Carl XVI Gustaf Sweden |
#5737, aired 2009-07-14 | HEADS OF STATE $800: Hamid Karzai--we're fighting a war in his country Afghanistan |
#5737, aired 2009-07-14 | HEADS OF STATE $1000: Hugo Chavez--from Caracas he rules an oil-rich land Venezuela |
#5556, aired 2008-11-03 | LETTER-HEADS $200: In a car, you missed your street--now this is the maneuver you'll make to head in the opposite direction a U-turn |
#5556, aired 2008-11-03 | LETTER-HEADS $400: 22nd-letter style of sweater a V-neck |
#5556, aired 2008-11-03 | LETTER-HEADS $600: This term for an FBI agent dates back to before the 1920s a G-man |
#5556, aired 2008-11-03 | LETTER-HEADS $800: Originally made to accompany the main feature on a double bill, today it's any quickly made low-budget film a B movie |
#5556, aired 2008-11-03 | LETTER-HEADS $1000: Leo Gerstenzang created this product in the 1920s after observing his wife applying cotton to toothpicks the Q-tip |
#5357, aired 2007-12-18 | SOVIET BLOC HEADS $400: Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski was military dictator of Poland when Lech Walesa headed this organization Solidarity |
#5357, aired 2007-12-18 | SOVIET BLOC HEADS $800: The Russians replaced Alexander Dubcek as leader of this country when it tried to go democratic in 1968 Czechoslovakia |
#5357, aired 2007-12-18 | SOVIET BLOC HEADS $1200: For 35 years, Todor Zhivkov ruled this eastern Balkan nation that borders the Black Sea Bulgaria |
#5357, aired 2007-12-18 | SOVIET BLOC HEADS $2,000 (Daily Double): Leader Volodymyr Shcherbytsky suppressed press coverage of a 1986 disaster in this Soviet republic Ukraine |
#5357, aired 2007-12-18 | SOVIET BLOC HEADS $2000: Before becoming foreign minister of the Soviet Union, Eduard Shevardnadze led this Soviet republic Georgia |
#5180, aired 2007-03-02 | HEADS UP! $200: On May 2, 1536, she was sent to the Tower of London on adultery charges; on May 19, head rolled Anne Boleyn |
#5180, aired 2007-03-02 | HEADS UP! $400: It would have been ironic if the guillotine used for her Oct. 16, 1793 execution was also used to cut some cake Marie Antoinette |
#5180, aired 2007-03-02 | HEADS UP! $600: If this mythster was into Dylan, she'd have sung "Everybody Must Get Stoned" (until Perseus beheaded her) Medusa |
#5180, aired 2007-03-02 | HEADS UP! $800: On July 28, 1794 this French leader's "Reign of Terror" was cut short (Maximilien) Robespierre |
#5180, aired 2007-03-02 | HEADS UP! $1000: On Jan. 12, 1519 this Spanish explorer & Pacific Ocean sighter lost a few crucial lbs. in the public square of Acla (Vasco Núñez de) Balboa |
#4709, aired 2005-02-10 | TALKING HEADS $400: Today she interviews stars; she met many as the daughter of a New York City nightclub owner Barbara Walters |
#4709, aired 2005-02-10 | TALKING HEADS $800: He's the best-selling Limbaugh nemesis seen here Al Franken |
#4709, aired 2005-02-10 | TALKING HEADS $1200: He's the hard-hitting news honcho seen here Chris Matthews |
#4709, aired 2005-02-10 | TALKING HEADS $1600: Bow ties & bold talk characterize this newscaster & commentator Tucker Carlson |
#4709, aired 2005-02-10 | TALKING HEADS $2000: This former deputy director of the Peace Corps has won more than 30 Emmy awards Bill Moyers |
#3804, aired 2001-03-01 | HEADS UP $200: He's the "childish" 19th century outlaw & New York City native seen here Billy the Kid |
#3804, aired 2001-03-01 | HEADS UP $400: In 1897 this man seen here began a 3-year exile in Siberia Lenin |
#3804, aired 2001-03-01 | HEADS UP $600: She was launched for a second time in 1984 Sally Ride |
#3804, aired 2001-03-01 | HEADS UP $800: Controversial American evangelist of the 1920s seen here Aimee Semple McPherson |
#3804, aired 2001-03-01 | HEADS UP $1000: This actress seen here dominated French theater for more than half a century Sarah Bernhardt |
#3389, aired 1999-05-06 | TALKING HEADS $100: Her talk show features tips from the healthy-living Chub Club Rosie O'Donnell |
#3389, aired 1999-05-06 | TALKING HEADS $200: Dan Rather & Bob Simon are correspondents for the new Wednesday night version of this newsmagazine 60 Minutes |
#3389, aired 1999-05-06 | TALKING HEADS $400: This ESPN college basketball analyst is known for catchphrases like "Awesome Baby!" Dick Vitale |
#3389, aired 1999-05-06 | TALKING HEADS $500: This former lead singer for the Talking Heads is now the host of "Sessions at West 54th" on PBS David Byrne |
#3389, aired 1999-05-06 | TALKING HEADS $1,200 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Jodi Applegate) I was an anchor of the launch of this cable news network backed in part by a software company MSNBC |
#3380, aired 1999-04-23 | RUSSIAN HEADS OF STATE $100: 1985-1991 Mikhail Gorbachev |
#3380, aired 1999-04-23 | RUSSIAN HEADS OF STATE $200: 1894-1917 Czar Nicholas II |
#3380, aired 1999-04-23 | RUSSIAN HEADS OF STATE $300: 1917-1924 Vladimir Lenin |
#3380, aired 1999-04-23 | RUSSIAN HEADS OF STATE $400: 1958-1964 Nikita Khrushchev |
#3380, aired 1999-04-23 | RUSSIAN HEADS OF STATE $500: 1547-1584 Ivan the Terrible |
#3362, aired 1999-03-30 | HEADS OF STATE $200: In July 1994 this Jordanian king signed a peace agreement with Israel's prime minister Yitzhak Rabin King Hussein |
#3362, aired 1999-03-30 | HEADS OF STATE $400: In 1976 this current president of France founded the Rally for the Republic Party Jacques Chirac |
#3362, aired 1999-03-30 | HEADS OF STATE $800: On August 29, 1995 Eduard Shevardnadze, president of this country, was wounded by a car bomb Georgia |
#3362, aired 1999-03-30 | HEADS OF STATE $1000: In 1964 Luxembourg's grand duchess abdicated in favor of this man, her son Grand Duke Jean |
#3362, aired 1999-03-30 | HEADS OF STATE $1,200 (Daily Double): He was born in 1921 on the island of Java; he left office in 1998 Suharto |
#3350, aired 1999-03-12 | HEADS $200: This president was wounded during army action in Algeria in the 1950s Jacques Chirac |
#3350, aired 1999-03-12 | HEADS $400: This prime minister earned his law degree from Laval University in Quebec City Jean Chretien |
#3350, aired 1999-03-12 | HEADS $600: This president took power after the 1981 assassination of his predecessor Hosni Mubarak (of Egypt) |
#3350, aired 1999-03-12 | HEADS $800: This president joined the Baath political party at an early age Hafez al-Assad (of Syria) |
#3350, aired 1999-03-12 | HEADS $1000: This president visited the United States October 26 to November 3, 1997 Jiang Zemin |
#3331, aired 1999-02-15 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! $200: The first wife of Henry VIII to get the axe Anne Boleyn |
#3331, aired 1999-02-15 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! $400: 1980's "Death Of A Princess" dramatized the execution of a princess from this country & her lover's beheading Saudi Arabia |
#3331, aired 1999-02-15 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! $600: After Charles II was restored to England's throne, he had this lord protector's body dug up & beheaded Oliver Cromwell |
#3331, aired 1999-02-15 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! $800: This principal leader of the Reign of Terror faced the guillotine himself on July 28, 1794 Robespierre |
#3331, aired 1999-02-15 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! $1000: The last wife of Henry VIII to get the axe Catherine Howard |
#2993, aired 1997-09-10 | HEADS OF STATE HEADLINES $100: March 14, 1997:
His handicap goes way up after taking a spill down Greg Norman's stairs Bill Clinton |
#2993, aired 1997-09-10 | HEADS OF STATE HEADLINES $200: November 5, 1996:
This country gives Benazir Bhutto the boot for a second time Pakistan |
#2993, aired 1997-09-10 | HEADS OF STATE HEADLINES $300: April 19, 1956:
He takes a gamble in Monte Carlo; makes American movie star his bride Prince Rainier |
#2993, aired 1997-09-10 | HEADS OF STATE HEADLINES $400: January 1, 1946:
This Japanese emperor tells his people he is not a god Hirohito |
#2993, aired 1997-09-10 | HEADS OF STATE HEADLINES $500: December 9, 1990:
Poland shows its solidarity, voting this man president in a runoff election Lech Wałęsa |
#2761, aired 1996-09-09 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! $200: Matthew 14:3-11 deals with the beheading of this man St. John the Baptist |
#2761, aired 1996-09-09 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! $400: Henry VIII became betrothed to Jane Seymour the day after her decapitation Anne Boleyn |
#2761, aired 1996-09-09 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! $600: Marino Faliero was beheaded in 1355 for trying to make this Venetian office despotic the doge |
#2761, aired 1996-09-09 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! $800: Balboa was beheaded in 1519 at Acla near Darien in what's now this country Panama |
#2761, aired 1996-09-09 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! $1000: This "Impaler", a prince of Walachia, was beheaded by the Turks around 1476 Vlad Tepes |
#2736, aired 1996-06-24 | HEADS OF STATE $100: Prince Rainier III Monaco |
#2736, aired 1996-06-24 | HEADS OF STATE $200: President Aleksander Kwasniewski Poland |
#2736, aired 1996-06-24 | HEADS OF STATE $300: President Suharto Indonesia |
#2736, aired 1996-06-24 | HEADS OF STATE $400: President Ernesto Perez Balladares Panama |
#2736, aired 1996-06-24 | HEADS OF STATE $500: President Leonid D. Kuchma the Ukraine |
#2654, aired 1996-02-29 | HEADS $200: This former superstar's reign as head coach of the Lakers lasted for less than 2 months in 1994 Magic Johnson |
#2654, aired 1996-02-29 | HEADS $400: Around 240 B.C. Eratosthenes of Cyrene was summoned by Ptolemy III to head the library in this city Alexandria |
#2654, aired 1996-02-29 | HEADS $600: In 1935 FDR appointed this future president head of the National Youth Administration in Texas Lyndon Baines Johnson |
#2654, aired 1996-02-29 | HEADS $800: In 1995 John Deutch succeeded James Woolsey as head of this agency The CIA |
#2654, aired 1996-02-29 | HEADS $1000: Architect Walter Gropius founded this school of design in 1919 & headed it until 1928 Bauhaus |
#2256, aired 1994-05-30 | HEADS OF STATE $200: President Kim Young Sam South Korea |
#2256, aired 1994-05-30 | HEADS OF STATE $400: President Ezer Weizman Israel |
#2256, aired 1994-05-30 | HEADS OF STATE $600: President Le Duc Anh Vietnam |
#2256, aired 1994-05-30 | HEADS OF STATE $800: President Richard von Weizsacker Germany |
#2256, aired 1994-05-30 | HEADS OF STATE $1000: President Levon Ter-Petrosyan Armenia |
#2158, aired 1994-01-12 | HEADS OF STATE $200: King Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz as-Saud Saudi Arabia |
#2158, aired 1994-01-12 | HEADS OF STATE $400: President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro Italy |
#2158, aired 1994-01-12 | HEADS OF STATE $600: President Fidel V. Ramos the Philippines |
#2158, aired 1994-01-12 | HEADS OF STATE $800: President Ion Iliescu Romania |
#2158, aired 1994-01-12 | HEADS OF STATE $1,000 (Daily Double): Emir Shaikh Jabir al-Ahmad as-Sabah Kuwait |
#1933, aired 1993-01-20 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS $200: The first European to see the Pacific, this explorer went on to lose his head Balboa |
#1933, aired 1993-01-20 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS $400: A tiff with the Roundheads caused this king to lose his Charles I |
#1933, aired 1993-01-20 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS $600: Tradition says Nero had this biblical letter writer beheaded in the 60s A.D. Paul |
#1933, aired 1993-01-20 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS $800: This "incorruptible" Reign of Terror leader was upset the first time he had to give out a death penalty Robespierre |
#1933, aired 1993-01-20 | OFF WITH THEIR HEADS $1000: This prince of Walachia with a penchant for impaling was beheaded by the Turks Vlad the Impaler |
#1731, aired 1992-02-24 | HEADS $100: The head of a high school, its name is from the same root as the titles of Charles & Diana principal |
#1731, aired 1992-02-24 | HEADS $200: Talking about heads, he was the head of Talking Heads David Byrne |
#1731, aired 1992-02-24 | HEADS $300: In offices they're usually assistants, but in the president's cabinet they're heads of departments secretaries |
#1731, aired 1992-02-24 | HEADS $400: The head of a jury of 12, or the head of a group of factory workers foreman |
#1731, aired 1992-02-24 | HEADS $500: From Turkish for "ruler", it was a title given to the head of a Mongol tribe Khan |
#1322, aired 1990-05-08 | HEADS OF GOVERNMENT $200: Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney Canada |
#1322, aired 1990-05-08 | HEADS OF GOVERNMENT $400: Chancellor
Helmut Kohl West Germany |
#1322, aired 1990-05-08 | HEADS OF GOVERNMENT $600: President
Hashemi Rafsanjani Iran |
#1322, aired 1990-05-08 | HEADS OF GOVERNMENT $800: Prime Minister
Robert Hawke Australia |
#1322, aired 1990-05-08 | HEADS OF GOVERNMENT $1000: Marshal
Kim Il-sung North Korea |
#1034, aired 1989-02-16 | HEADS OF GOVERNMENT $100: Chancellor Helmut Kohl West Germany |
#1034, aired 1989-02-16 | HEADS OF GOVERNMENT $200: President Hosni Mubarak Egypt |
#1034, aired 1989-02-16 | HEADS OF GOVERNMENT $300: State President Pieter Willem Botha South Africa |
#1034, aired 1989-02-16 | HEADS OF GOVERNMENT $400: President Carlos Salinas de Gotari Mexico |
#1034, aired 1989-02-16 | HEADS OF GOVERNMENT $500: King Fahd Saudi Arabia |
#823, aired 1988-03-16 | HEADS OF GOVERNMENT $100: Jacques Chirac France |
#823, aired 1988-03-16 | HEADS OF GOVERNMENT $200: Pieter Willem Botha South Africa |
#823, aired 1988-03-16 | HEADS OF GOVERNMENT $300: Daniel Ortega Saavedra Nicaragua |
#823, aired 1988-03-16 | HEADS OF GOVERNMENT $400: Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti Iraq |
#823, aired 1988-03-16 | HEADS OF GOVERNMENT $500: Willi Stoph head of the East German government |
#687, aired 1987-09-08 | HEADS $100: If you take a head count, you'll find only 2 of this king's 6 wives lost theirs King Henry VIII |
#687, aired 1987-09-08 | HEADS $200: On this Disneyland ride, a headhunter offers 2 of his heads for 1 of yours the Jungle River Cruise |
#687, aired 1987-09-08 | HEADS $300: It's said this man's wife would pull his head out of a bag & ask, "Have you met Sir Walter?" Sir Walter Raleigh |
#687, aired 1987-09-08 | HEADS $400: Some said her prince came to claim her from Copenhagen Harbor, but only got away with her head the Little Mermaid |
#687, aired 1987-09-08 | HEADS $500: To "Teach" this pirate named Edward a lesson, his head was stuck on the bowsprit of a ship Blackbeard |