| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIKE HOT CAKES $100: Savory or sweet, this French pancake can be served rolled, folded over or folded into a triangle a crêpe |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIKE HOT CAKES $200: Cooked in oil, this potato pancake is often served during Hanukkah with applesauce & sour cream a latke |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIKE HOT CAKES $300: Not to be confused with a pannenkoek, this giant Dutch pancake is more like an oven-baked popover a Dutch baby |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIKE HOT CAKES $400: You might enjoy this small, Eastern European pancake as a canapé topped with crème fraîche & caviar blini |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIKE HOT CAKES $500: Technically a flatbread cooked on a griddle, the spongy texture of injera helps to soak up this country's many stews & sauces Ethiopia |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | VOLCANOES ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW $200: A flaming volcano is a cocktail you might order at this type of "bar decorated in a simulated Polynesian theme" a tiki bar |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | VOLCANOES ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW $400: Let it flow in the shower! It's the leading soap brand that aptly depicts a volcano on its packaging Lava |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | VOLCANOES ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW $600: On March 11, 2024, a NASA spacecraft was able to capture a panoramic photo of Olympus Mons, a massive volcano on this planet Mars |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | VOLCANOES ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW $800: The cyclists' lungs are gonna erupt! The Vittoria Etna marathon is a mountain bike race on this Italian island Sicily |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | VOLCANOES ARE SO HOT RIGHT NOW $1000: Inside the Volcano is an ecotourism company that lowers visitors into Þríhnúkagígur, a dormant volcano in this country Iceland |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | HOT GOSSIP $100: You didn't hear this from us, but that super-famous geyser in Yellowstone that spews hot water on the regs? Everyone calls it this Old Faithful |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | HOT GOSSIP $200: You're not gonna believe this, but the ambient air temp once hit 134° F. in this California locale Death Valley |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | HOT GOSSIP $300: Psst... guess what? Mercury may be closest to the Sun, but it's not the hottest planet; this planet is totes hotter Venus |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | HOT GOSSIP $400: Overheard in the steam room: a hot room heated with dry heat instead of steam isn't a steam room, it's one of these a sauna |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | HOT GOSSIP $500: Here's some dirt on the Earth's smokin' hot inner core: it's made of solid metal, mostly this one with chemical symbol Fe iron |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | THE BILLBOARD HOT 100: APRIL 9, 1983 $200: The No. 1 song was this Michael Jackson ode to denying biological parentage "Billie Jean" |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | THE BILLBOARD HOT 100: APRIL 9, 1983 $400: "We've Got Tonight", & we've got this country "Gambler" teaming with Sheena Easton Kenny Rogers |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | THE BILLBOARD HOT 100: APRIL 9, 1983 $600: They they were "Hungry Like The Wolf" to be No. 1, but fell fell 2 spots short Duran Duran |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | THE BILLBOARD HOT 100: APRIL 9, 1983 $800: Welcome Dexys Midnight Runners to the stage! They're charting with this song, & may we add, "too rah loo rah too rah loo rye ay" "Come On Eileen" |
| #9215, aired 2024-11-29 | THE BILLBOARD HOT 100: APRIL 9, 1983 $1000: "My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain IBM" in this song that included some lyrics in Japanese, No. 5 for Styx "Mr. Roboto" |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | HOT CROSS BUNNIES $200: Much to his dismay, a silly rabbit realizes over & over again that this fruit-flavored cereal "is for kids" Trix |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | HOT CROSS BUNNIES $400: Certainly some bunnies had a hare trigger after this country installed rabbit-proof fences in the early 1900s Australia |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | HOT CROSS BUNNIES $600: At a mad tea party this participant chides Alice with, "It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being invited" the March Hare |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | HOT CROSS BUNNIES $800: This third book of the Bible says rabbits, due to "divideth not the hoof", are "unclean"; first off, how dare you!? Leviticus |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | HOT CROSS BUNNIES $5,000 (Daily Double): Lepus symbolizes a hare, likely angry as he's seen by some as the prey of these 2 Latin-named constellations, Orion's hounds Canis Major & Canis Minor |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | SUPER HOT FIRE $400: Orion sells a 5-minute type of this safety product to signal distress on the side of a highway a flare |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | SUPER HOT FIRE $800: The name of this indie band was based on a story Win Butler heard about a conflagration in an amusement hall Arcade Fire |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | SUPER HOT FIRE $1200: "Tonight's The Night" was used in ads for this brand of artificial log Duraflame |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | SUPER HOT FIRE $1600: It's the explosive name of the conspiracy foiled in England, now commemorated in November with bonfires the Gunpowder Plot |
| #9162, aired 2024-09-17 | SUPER HOT FIRE $2000: Celtic for "end of summer", this pagan fire festival was a precursor to All Hallows' Eve Samhain |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | RECENTLY ON BILLBOARD'S HOT 100 $800: Britney Spears praised his recent hit "Selfish", but I wouldn't count on seeing the 2 tour together anytime soon Timberlake |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | RECENTLY ON BILLBOARD'S HOT 100 $1600: Dua Lipa sang, "I come & I go, tell me all the ways you need me, I'm not here for long, catch me or I go" this man Houdini |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | RECENTLY ON BILLBOARD'S HOT 100 $2,000 (Daily Double): Luke Combs was "kissin' on a blonde in a backyard pool" & let the wild rumpus start with this song, also a kids' book title "Where The Wild Things Are" |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | RECENTLY ON BILLBOARD'S HOT 100 $2000: In what must have been a nice week in 2024 for this rapper, "Redrum" & "Née-Nah" were 2 of his 14 tunes on the chart 21 Savage |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | GUESTS ON HOT ONES $400: Look at him! Who would have thought he'd go on "Hot Ones" & talk about "Living with Yourself"? Not me Paul Rudd |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | GUESTS ON HOT ONES $800: This boy band told host Sean Evans how Swedish songwriters insisted the line "it's gonna be me" sound like "it's gonna be may" *NSYNC |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | GUESTS ON HOT ONES $1200: In her episode she spoke on the ageless staying power of her film "13 Going on 30" Jennifer Garner |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | GUESTS ON HOT ONES $1600: JLaw teared up from the wings--or the memory of meeting this director at 18; he'd later direct her in "Don't Look Up" Adam McKay |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | GUESTS ON HOT ONES $2000: On his Adult Swim show, this host destroys his set every episode, but says he is sedated in real life--"I meditate, jog, I eat salad" Eric André |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | NO. 1 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 $400: 2018:
"God's Plan" &
"Nice For What" Drake |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | NO. 1 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 $800: 2020:
"Savage" & "WAP" Megan Thee Stallion |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | NO. 1 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 $1200: The artist formerly known with a "$", in 2010:
"We R Who We R" &
"Tik Tok" Kesha |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | NO. 1 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 $1600: One week in 1998:
"One Week" Barenaked Ladies |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | NO. 1 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 $2000: 2022:
"First Class"
with the Fergie sample Jack Harlow |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | TALKING HOT & COLD $400: In the 1930s sales guru Elmer Wheeler came up with the phrase "don't sell the steak, sell" this the sizzle |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | TALKING HOT & COLD $800: This acronym refers to the federal agency that enforces laws concerning border control & illegal trade ICE |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | TALKING HOT & COLD $1200: In 2022 Wendy's had a holiday version of this dairy dessert for the Christmas season--peppermint a Frosty |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | TALKING HOT & COLD $2000: Our planet's tropics are also called this "zone", an adjective meaning very hot the torrid zone |
| #9100, aired 2024-05-10 | TALKING HOT & COLD $4,800 (Daily Double): This military policy is described as a tactic in which you destroy everything that an enemy can use to wage war scorched earth |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HOT FOR CREATURE $200: Elementary, dromedary! This mammal can hoof it through 120-degree desert temps & then spit on you for making it do that a camel |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HOT FOR CREATURE $400: Part of this mammalian group, the greater bilby survives 157-degree days in Queensland using elaborate burrow systems marsupial |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HOT FOR CREATURE $600: Birds don't have these glands, so they take heat out of their bodies using a version of panting sweat glands |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HOT FOR CREATURE $800: The warming Atlantic is driving the tiger type of this apex predator farther & farther north, altering the food chain a (tiger) shark |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | HOT FOR CREATURE $1000: 100° spring water is no problem for the Ash Meadows Amargosa pupfish in this morbid Western U.S. national park Death Valley |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | A RED-HOT LATIN LAWYER $200: Testis is Latin for this participant in a trial; can I get a testis?! a witness |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | A RED-HOT LATIN LAWYER $400: Meaning "under the penalty", you've been served! (with this word from Latin, right now) subpoena |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | A RED-HOT LATIN LAWYER $600: If you're "not of sound mind" to stand trial, you're this 3-word Latin phrase non compos mentis |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | A RED-HOT LATIN LAWYER $1,000 (Daily Double): This Latin word, still used today, originally meant "he pledged"; today, it's a sworn written statement affidavit |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | A RED-HOT LATIN LAWYER $1000: If the movie title had some Latin, Paul Newman would've starred in "The Iudicium", or this The Verdict |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ONE HOT MoMA $400: Jeff Koons' version of this colorful feline made famous by Peter Sellers on film is on floor 2 the Pink Panther |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ONE HOT MoMA $800: Her 1977 oil on canvas "From a Day with Juan II" was a bequest of this painter from New Mexico O'Keeffe |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ONE HOT MoMA $1200: Gordon Parks' "Excerpt from" this film about a "Black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks" is at MoMA & we can dig it Shaft |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ONE HOT MoMA $1600: Mais oui, you can take a trip back in time to 1899 & survey his "Tahitian landscape" Gauguin |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ONE HOT MoMA $5,000 (Daily Double): His "Number 1A, 1948", which includes some of his handprints, has been on exhibit in the David Geffen Galleries Pollock |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | A LOT OF HOT AIR $200: 1,875 watts of electricity power the Revlon Frizz Fighter, one of these a hair dryer |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | A LOT OF HOT AIR $400: There's a chill in the name of this device that blows heated air across the inside of a car's windshield (the) defrost(er) |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | A LOT OF HOT AIR $600: In one of these, a propane-powered burner carried in the basket propels hot air into a nylon bag called the envelope a hot air balloon |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | A LOT OF HOT AIR $800: In 1742 this Founding Father invented the "stove" that bears his name, a metal-lined fireplace that radiates heat Franklin |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | A LOT OF HOT AIR $1000: These popular kitchen appliances that cook crispy food without oil are basically small convection ovens air fryers |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | HOT TUNES $400: This 1985 Top 10 hit by The Power Station shares its name with a 1959 Marilyn Monroe film "Some Like It Hot" |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | HOT TUNES $800: He noted, "It's getting hot in herre" & followed with the helpful "so take off all your clothes" Nelly |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | HOT TUNES $1200: In 2022 this Glass Animals song spent a record 91st week on the aptly named Hot 100 "Heat Waves" |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | HOT TUNES $1600: This Billy Joel song /history lesson references the Rosenbergs, Dien Bien Phu, the Edsel & of course, "Wheel of Fortune" "We Didn't Start The Fire" |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | HOT TUNES $2000: Moving forward using all my breath, Modern English sang, "I'll stop the world &" do this melt with you |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RUNS "HOT" & "COLD" $200: It ended with the Berlin Wall coming down & the Soviet Union breaking apart the Cold War |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RUNS "HOT" & "COLD" $400: Ectothermic means this, a term describing animals like snakes & fish & some murderers cold-blooded |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RUNS "HOT" & "COLD" $600: They were the Daisy Dukes of the mid-1970s & a big fad hot pants |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RUNS "HOT" & "COLD" $800: Frequently free, it's a place in public where you can connect to Wi-Fi & access the Internet a hot spot |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | RUNS "HOT" & "COLD" $1000: Named for a hotel, an iconic open-faced turkey sandwich with Mornay sauce & bacon is called a Kentucky or Louisville this a hot brown |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | HOT STUFF $200: Magma surfacing as liquid, this can get up to 2,200 degrees lava |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | HOT STUFF $400: In song, these are "roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose" chestnuts |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | HOT STUFF $600: chilipeppermadness.com says the phaal type of this dish is the world's hottest, beating vindaloo curry |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | HOT STUFF $800: About every 90 minutes, you can count on this geyser erupting with 200-degree water Old Faithful |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | HOT STUFF $1000: Stefano Ferrara is a famous maker of these, which can reach a temperature of 800 degrees inside ovens |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | HOT STUFF! $400: In the 1930s Solomon Harper invented the electric curlers now called "hot" these rollers |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | HOT STUFF! $800: A massive atmosphere produces an enormous greenhouse effect, making this second planet the hottest in the solar system Venus |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | HOT STUFF! $1200: Regarded as one of the hottest of these, the Carolina reaper is rated at more than 1.6 million Scovilles a pepper |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | HOT STUFF! $1600: In this book of the Bible, Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego are thrown into a furnace, but the intense heat does not harm them the book of Daniel |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | HOT STUFF! $2000: Scientists at CERN using this device have created perhaps the highest recorded temperature ever, 9.9 trillion degrees Fahrenheit the Large Hadron Collider |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | THAT'S HOT STUFF $200: Though closest to the Earth in size, this planet's average surface temperature is 860 degrees Fahrenheit Venus |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | THAT'S HOT STUFF $400: If you're gonna try this activity AKA anastenaria, use cherry or maple embers so as not to burn your feet walking on coals |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | THAT'S HOT STUFF $600: The steam is about 350 degrees during an eruption of this famously predictable geyser at Yellowstone National Park Old Faithful |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | THAT'S HOT STUFF $800: The hottest part of the flame of this lab device actually designed by Peter Desaga reaches 2,700 degrees a Bunsen burner |
| #8040, aired 2019-07-19 | THAT'S HOT STUFF $1000: This synonym for scorching is in the name of a zone that's also called the tropics torrid |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | BILLBOARD'S GREATEST HOT 100 SINGLES $200: This Police song sounds like a love song, but Sting admits it's really about jealousy & obsessiveness "Every Breath You Take" |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | BILLBOARD'S GREATEST HOT 100 SINGLES $400: She found a hit with Calvin Harris with "We Found Love" Rihanna |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | BILLBOARD'S GREATEST HOT 100 SINGLES $600: Masochists know "Sometimes love don't feel like it should" & are down with this John Mellencamp tune "Hurts So Good" |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | BILLBOARD'S GREATEST HOT 100 SINGLES $800: This hit begins, "This hit, that ice cold, Michelle Pfeiffer, that white gold" "Uptown Funk!" |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | BILLBOARD'S GREATEST HOT 100 SINGLES $1000: This song from "Rocky III" mentions "the thrill of the fight" "Eye Of The Tiger" |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HOT, COLD OR IN BETWEEN $200: Heard at this event "honoring" Charlie Sheen:
"You're the black sheep of a family responsible for 3 'Mighty Ducks' movies" a (Comedy Central) roast |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HOT, COLD OR IN BETWEEN $400: Said one way, it means not extreme; another, to preside over a debate moderate |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HOT, COLD OR IN BETWEEN $600: A non-abominable snowman, or a dessert at Wendy's a Frosty |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HOT, COLD OR IN BETWEEN $800: This 5-letter word is both lukewarm & apathetic tepid |
| #7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HOT, COLD OR IN BETWEEN $1000: We give the mild weather you might find in Florida a "B"-plus, this adjective balmy |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | HOT, CROSS NUNS $400: Jake & Elwood call Sister Mary Stigmata "the penguin" in this 1980 film; she beats them with a stick Blues Brothers |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | HOT, CROSS NUNS $800: As Mother Superior in this film, Maggie Smith tells Whoopi, "People wish to kill you. Anyone who's met you, I imagine" Sister Act |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | HOT, CROSS NUNS $1200: Being grilled by this Oscar winner in "Doubt", Philip Seymour Hoffman says, "I object to your tone" Meryl Streep |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | HOT, CROSS NUNS $1600: In "Change of Habit", Mary Tyler Moore clashes with a local priest & falls for this rocker Elvis |
| #7823, aired 2018-09-19 | HOT, CROSS NUNS $2000: Jack Black is sweet on Sister Encarnacion in this 2006 movie; she's mad that kids are "wrestling in a sacred place" Nacho Libre |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | IT'S GETTING "HOT" $400: A phone number for people to call for more information during an emergency a hotline |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | IT'S GETTING "HOT" $800: Designers Mary Quant & Mariuccia Mandelli are credited with popularizing these in the early 1970s hot pants |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | IT'S GETTING "HOT" $1200: Westinghouse once made an electric frying pan that doubled as this when turned upside down a hot plate |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | IT'S GETTING "HOT" $1600: Nickname of impetuous Sir Henry Percy, killed at the 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury Hotspur |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | IT'S GETTING "HOT" $2000: Many a politician has told the public more than he wanted to because he didn't know he was on one of these a hot mike |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | IT'S NATIONAL HOT DOG MONTH $200: This Germany city usually gets the credit for originating the hot dog in the 1480s Frankfurt |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | IT'S NATIONAL HOT DOG MONTH $400: In 1929's "The Karnival Kid", "Hot dogs!" were the first words ever uttered onscreen by this rodent Mickey Mouse |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | IT'S NATIONAL HOT DOG MONTH $600: Pick up a hot dog in Chicago & the locals will be adamant about "absolutely, positively, no" this condiment! ketchup |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | IT'S NATIONAL HOT DOG MONTH $800: This Hollywood legend's favorite meal was reportedly champagne & hot dogs Marlene Dietrich |
| #7578, aired 2017-07-19 | IT'S NATIONAL HOT DOG MONTH $1000: FDR served hot dogs to this British king & his queen King George VI |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | THE IRON IS HOT $400: We're not pulling it over your eyes--set the iron for 300 degrees for this, which has lanolin as a byproduct wool |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | THE IRON IS HOT $800: It should be at 400 degrees for this, a crop declared "king" in 1858 by a South Carolina senator cotton |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | THE IRON IS HOT $1200: Get the iron hot but not too hot--275 degrees--for this stretchy stuff AKA elastane spandex |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | THE IRON IS HOT $1600: This flax product likes it really hot--around 445 degrees linen |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | THE IRON IS HOT $2000: This manmade fiber that starts with a male first name likes the iron around 375 degrees rayon |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | HOT PLACES $200: In 1967, the town of Wadi Halfa in this country had a reported high temperature of 127 degrees Sudan |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | HOT PLACES $400: In 1994 Lake Havasu City in this state reached 128, the highest temp. ever recorded in the U.S. outside Death Valley Arizona |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | HOT PLACES $600: In this northernmost part of the Indian Ocean, surface temperatures can reach 90 degrees in July the Persian Gulf (or the Arabian Gulf) |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | HOT PLACES $800: Records show Tirat Tsvi, one of these small collective farms in Israel, hitting 129 in 1942 a kibbutz |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | HOT PLACES $1000: With temperatures near 120, the Gobi Desert is perfect for this ruminant, named for an area also in Asia a Bactrian camel |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | THE BILLBOARD ALL-TIME HOT 100 $400: No. 1:
C'mon baby, let's do this Chubby Checker dance sensation that topped the chart in both 1960 & 1962 "The Twist" |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | THE BILLBOARD ALL-TIME HOT 100 $800: No. 74:
"Just The Way You Are"--by him, not Billy Joel Bruno Mars |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | THE BILLBOARD ALL-TIME HOT 100 $1200: No. 68:
The Stones didn't make the list, but this Maroon 5/Christina Aguilera pairing did "Moves Like Jagger" |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | THE BILLBOARD ALL-TIME HOT 100 $1600: No. 100:
He just got in the door with 1997's "You Make Me Wanna..." Usher |
| #7326, aired 2016-06-20 | THE BILLBOARD ALL-TIME HOT 100 $2000: At No. 83, "Play That" 1970s Wild Cherry hit, which began as an actual command from the drummer "Play That Funky Music" |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | THE HOT SEAT $200: On March 5, 1861 Simon Cameron was appointed U.S. Secretary of this; he'd soon have quite a bit to do Secretary of War |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | THE HOT SEAT $400: Paul Volcker was named chairman of the Fed in 1979 with the mandate to control this, then at a whopping 13% inflation |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | THE HOT SEAT $600: Fortune's list of CEOs on the hot seat in 2016 included the bosses of this Mexican casual dining chain Chipotle |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | THE HOT SEAT $800: This Russki's seat got hotter after the Cuban Missile Crisis, & he was out of power in 2 years Khrushchev |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | THE HOT SEAT $1000: In 1941 Abe Reles took a witness seat & testified against this "Inc."; Abe then fell from a window while in police custody Murder, Inc. |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | HOT POTATO $400: McDonald's Big Breakfast includes biscuits & these hot potatoes hash browns |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | HOT POTATO $800: Shepherd's pie has a traditional crust of this on top whipped potatoes |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | HOT POTATO $1200: The dough for this dish, Italian for "dumplings", is often made with potatoes gnocchi |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | HOT POTATO $1600: A mollusk is in the name of this dish, sliced potatoes layered with a creamy sauce scalloped potatoes |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | HOT POTATO $2000: Yee-ha! I've struck it rich with these potatoes that were developed in Canada and are perfect for boiling Yukon Gold |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | 3 "HOT"s & 2 "COT"s $400: Tender plants & flowers are cultivated in one a hothouse |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | 3 "HOT"s & 2 "COT"s $800: Proverbial food item you want no part of & get rid of quickly a hot potato |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | 3 "HOT"s & 2 "COT"s $1200: It's the old gag of putting a lighted match in someone's shoe a hot foot |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | 3 "HOT"s & 2 "COT"s $1600: If you've done this fabric "to" someone, you've come to gradually like him take a cotton to |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | 3 "HOT"s & 2 "COT"s $2000: This hilly region in the Midlands is one of the most peaceful & picturesque areas of England the Cotswolds |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | RUNNING HOT & COLD $400: Term for a hot spring that spews intermittent plumes of water & steam a geysor |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | RUNNING HOT & COLD $800: Orwell coined this term when talking of a hypothetical nuclear stalemate between "monstrous super-states" Cold War |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | RUNNING HOT & COLD $1200: Associated with menopause, a hot flash is a symptom of a decline in this hormone estrogen |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | RUNNING HOT & COLD $1600: In 2013 this alliterative NYPD squad solved the 1991 Baby Hope murder Cold Case |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | RUNNING HOT & COLD $2000: This retail chain says that for 25 years, it has offered "Music- & pop culture-inspired clothing" Hot Topic |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE $200: Hot place in an Italian Dante title the inferno |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE $400: Amazon's e-reader the Kindle |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE $600: A comedy tribute that's more putdown than praise a roast |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE $800: Signals that are fired off, or another word for bell-bottoms flares |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE $1000: British flashlight a torch |
| #6455, aired 2012-10-12 | A HOT LATIN NUMBER $600: It's the new 30:
quadraginta 40 |
| #6455, aired 2012-10-12 | A HOT LATIN NUMBER $800: I'm sorry, Dave:
duo milia et unum 2001 |
| #6455, aired 2012-10-12 | A HOT LATIN NUMBER $1000: You're accountable for your actions now:
duodeviginti 18 |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | THAT'S TOTALLY HOT! $400: In January 2012 scientists using an X-ray one of these beams heated metal to 3.6 million degrees (for an instant) a laser |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | THAT'S TOTALLY HOT! $800: These features, like one at Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland, can reach more than 2,000 degrees internally a volcano |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | THAT'S TOTALLY HOT! $1200: This state of matter was created when atoms in a gas are ionized has reached over 2 billion Kelvin in an Albuquerque lab plasma |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | THAT'S TOTALLY HOT! $1600: The metal with the highest melting point, over 6,000 degrees, is this one sometimes called wolfram tungsten |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | THAT'S TOTALLY HOT! $2000: These sudden intense eruptions out of the sun's corona can reach a temperature of 180 million degrees a solar flare |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | A RED-HOT LATIN LAWYER $400: Testis is Latin for this participant in a trial; can I get a testis?! a witness |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | A RED-HOT LATIN LAWYER $800: Meaning "under the penalty", you've been served! (with this word from Latin, right now) subpoena |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | A RED-HOT LATIN LAWYER $1600: This Latin word, still used today, originally meant "he pledged"; today, it's a sworn written statement an affidavit |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | A RED-HOT LATIN LAWYER $2000: If you're "not of sound mind" to stand trial, you're this 3-word Latin phrase non compos mentis |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? $400: In 1960 it got up to 129 at curiously named Greenland Ranch in this grim California valley Death Valley |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? $800: This second planet's surface temperature is a toasty 860 degrees Fahrenheit Venus |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew measures the temperature of an iron.) You can use a non-contact thermometer to gauge the temperature of something that's too hot to touch; it works by measuring the amount of this colorful thermal radiation emitted by a heat source infrared |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? $1600: Europe's highest recorded temperature was 122 in 1881 in this Spanish city; it cooled down in time for Expo 1992 Seville |
| #6150, aired 2011-05-13 | HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? $2000: To convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, multiply by 1.8 & add 32; if it's 50 Celsius, it's this Fahrenheit 122 |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | ONE HOT TOWN $400: On June 29, 1994 no one was laughin' in Laughlin in this state; 125° temps had everyone rollin' snake eyes Nevada |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | ONE HOT TOWN $800: On Aug. 2, 1975 it was wicked hot in New Bedford in this state--1070! I nearly keeled ovah in the yahd! Massachusetts |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | ONE HOT TOWN $1200: If it's July, "by the time you get to" this state capital founded in 1870, you'll be sweatin'; it averages 930 Phoenix |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | ONE HOT TOWN $1600: It was a balmy 1230 in this California desert resort city in 1995; 40 years earlier, Lucy Ricardo met Rock Hudson there Palm Springs |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | ONE HOT TOWN $2000: We're not sure it was a happy 4th of July in 1911 in Nashua in this state; 1060 tempers a celebration New Hampshire |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | THAT'S HOT! $400: This country's record high is 114 at Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan in 1937 Canada |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | THAT'S HOT! $800: In 1974 the temp reached a balmy 59 at Vanda Station on this continent (hey, that's hot for there) Antarctica |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | THAT'S HOT! $1200: The water in Frying Pan Lake in this country near Australia gets up to about 130 degrees New Zealand |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | THAT'S HOT! $1600: Tirat Tsvi in what's now this country hit 129 in 1942 Israel |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | THAT'S HOT! $2000: The Pacific islands' top temp was a 1912 reading of 108 at Tuguegarao in this island nation the Philippines |
| #5741, aired 2009-07-20 | "HOT" STUFF $200: Tomatoes are frequently grown in one of these where the temperature can be controlled a hothouse |
| #5741, aired 2009-07-20 | "HOT" STUFF $400: I prefer to use my key, but you can start a car this way, by short-circuiting the ignition hot-wiring |
| #5741, aired 2009-07-20 | "HOT" STUFF $600: Flapjacks, come & get 'em under this name! hotcakes |
| #5741, aired 2009-07-20 | "HOT" STUFF $1000: Launched by Wired magazine in 1996, this early search engine was later acquired by Lycos HotBot |
| #5741, aired 2009-07-20 | "HOT" STUFF $4,000 (Daily Double): This Arkansas city has been called the "Baden-Baden of America" Hot Springs |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | I'M SO HOT $400: In this language, Fra Diavolo means "brother devil"; you'll know why when you eat it Italian |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | I'M SO HOT $800: There's a yearly festival for this piquant chicken dish in the western New York city that gave the dish its name Buffalo wings |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | I'M SO HOT $1200: This Chinese region has a spicy rep because of its use of the native fagara peppercorn Szechuan |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | I'M SO HOT $2000: The name of this salsa means "beak of the rooster" pico de gallo |
| #5563, aired 2008-11-12 | I'M SO HOT $5,000 (Daily Double): Though it bears the name of a state in Mexico, this pepper sauce was invented in Louisiana Tabasco |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | HOT CROSS PUNS $400: It's what happened to the people on the dark purplish-red boats when they crashed near a deserted island They were marooned |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | HOT CROSS PUNS $800: It's why it's tough to locate clarinetist Benny or Roseanne's co-star John A Goodman [good man] is hard to find |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | HOT CROSS PUNS $1200: For the groom, a shotgun wedding is literally a case of this "or death" wife |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | HOT CROSS PUNS $1600: Much like front-page news, corduroy pillows are making these headlines |
| #5375, aired 2008-01-11 | HOT CROSS PUNS $2000: It's what the pessimist's blood type was O-negative (A-negative, B-negative, AB-negative also acceptable) |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | HOT "ROD"s $200: It's the state flower of both Kentucky & Nebraska the goldenrod |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | HOT "ROD"s $400: Then-last name of the current U.S. senator who graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 Rodham |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | HOT "ROD"s $600: A humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature a parody |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | HOT "ROD"s $800: His 5th century B.C. writings traced the struggles between the Greeks & the Persian Empire Herodotus |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | HOT "ROD"s $1000: Noah's great-grandson, he was remembered as a mighty hunter Nimrod |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | HOT MOVIES $400: Norman Jewison asked Rod Steiger to chew gum, eventually 263 packs, as Police Chief Bill Gillespie in this 1967 film In the Heat of the Night |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | HOT MOVIES $800: Hedy Lamarr sued Mel Brooks over the "use" of her name in this 1974 comedy & eventually settled out of court Blazing Saddles |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | HOT MOVIES $1200: Steve McQueen & Paul Newman did some of their own stunts in this 1974 special-effects extravaganza The Towering Inferno |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | HOT MOVIES $1600: This 1977 movie produced the second-best-selling soundtrack in movie history Saturday Night Fever |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | HOT MOVIES $2000: This 1981 dramatic film about Stone Age man won the Academy Award for Best Makeup Quest for Fire |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | HOT TUNES $200: In 1972 he was "a hunk, a hunk of burning love"; thank you, thank you very much Elvis Presley |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | HOT TUNES $400: In 1957 this man hit the charts with "Great Balls of Fire" Jerry Lee Lewis |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | HOT TUNES $600: He's recorded "Burn Down the Mission", "Flames of Paradise" & a big hit about a candle Elton John |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | HOT TUNES $800: "Fire and Rain" was the first Top 40 hit for this singer/songwriter James Taylor |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | HOT TUNES $1000: "Wheel of Fortune', Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide" is a line from this hot Billy Joel tune "We Didn't Start the Fire" |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | RUNNING "HOT" & "COLD" $200: This brand of toy cars roared into the world in 1968 Hot Wheels |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | RUNNING "HOT" & "COLD" $400: These very tight short shorts were popular in the early 1970s hot pants |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | RUNNING "HOT" & "COLD" $600: "Liquid" expression meaning "to dampen the enthusiasm of" to throw cold water on |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | RUNNING "HOT" & "COLD" $800: Alec Leamas is the title character of this novel, John le Carre's first masterpiece The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | RUNNING "HOT" & "COLD" $1000: A nursery rhyme says, "If your daughters do not like" these, "give them to your sons" hot cross buns |
| #5013, aired 2006-05-31 | HOT "BUN"s $200: This folklore hero was so big, as a child he rocked in his cradle & caused a 75-foot tide in the Bay of Fundy Paul Bunyan |
| #5013, aired 2006-05-31 | HOT "BUN"s $400: A con game, or the police squad that breaks it up bunko |
| #5013, aired 2006-05-31 | HOT "BUN"s $600: In this early American courting custom, a couple lay fully clothed on a bed & exchanged endearments bundling |
| #5013, aired 2006-05-31 | HOT "BUN"s $800: 2-word term for the 30,000-pound precision-guided bombs used to destroy underground command centers bunker busters |
| #5013, aired 2006-05-31 | HOT "BUN"s $1000: Born Edward Z.C. Judson, he was the originator of the 19th century dime novels, many featuring Buffalo Bill Cody Ned Buntline |
| #4961, aired 2006-03-20 | HOT TRAVEL SPOTS $200: If you want to climb the tallest mountain in North Africa, go to Jebel Toubkal near Marrakech in this country Morocco |
| #4961, aired 2006-03-20 | HOT TRAVEL SPOTS $400: Tourism in tropic Seychelles has become a major employer since the opening of the 1st major one of these, SEZ, in 1971 airport |
| #4961, aired 2006-03-20 | HOT TRAVEL SPOTS $600: Cut a rug with locals on this island retreat found between Java & Lombok in Southern Indonesia Bali |
| #4961, aired 2006-03-20 | HOT TRAVEL SPOTS $800: Formerly Britain's colony, this archipelago in the NW West Indies once sheltered Blackbeard & Henry Morgan the Bahamas |
| #4961, aired 2006-03-20 | HOT TRAVEL SPOTS $1000: Fancy dress & gaudy floats are the order of the day at a carnival in Valletta, this island nation's capital Malta |
| #4748, aired 2005-04-06 | HOT "ROD"s $200: There's the signpost up ahead... it says "He was a WWII paratrooper, a boxer & a 1960 Emmy winner"; your next stop: him Rod Serling |
| #4748, aired 2005-04-06 | HOT "ROD"s $400: This construction worker seen here was in the news in 1991 Rodney King |
| #4748, aired 2005-04-06 | HOT "ROD"s $600: It may be shocking to know you can act as one of these to divert attention from other targets of inquiry a lightning rod |
| #4748, aired 2005-04-06 | HOT "ROD"s $800: The 1967 book "Listen to the Warm" featured song lyrics by this American poet Rod McKuen |
| #4748, aired 2005-04-06 | HOT "ROD"s $1000: Entombing his still-living sister Madeline, always a social faux pas, wasn't this Poe boy's best move Roderick Usher |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | HOT BABES $400: After President Nixon resigned in 1974, this daughter of his reacted with the line "Now I can wear hot pants" Julie Nixon |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | HOT BABES $800: This alcoholic beverage that'll warm you up was also the nickname of 1930s actress Thelma Todd Hot Toddy |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | HOT BABES $1200: A woman who studies Pelee & Pinatubo would have this specific occupation a volcanologist |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | HOT BABES $2000: In an 1876 work her death by fire is soon followed by the burning of Valhalla Brunhilde |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | HOT BABES $4,000 (Daily Double): This club founded for girls in 1910 first admitted boys in 1975 the Camp Fire Girls |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | HOT DRINKS $400: "House rules" for this fermented fruity potable include using it in hot buttered rum cider |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | HOT DRINKS $800: Americans at a military base in Limerick help popularize this "national" drink that can be made with Jameson Irish coffee |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | HOT DRINKS $1200: This "hot" drink was derived from the sap of a Palmyra palm; today it's often made with bourbon & cloves a hot toddy |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | HOT DRINKS $1600: This warm frothy beverage made with rum & brandy shares its name with a Hanna-Barbera animated pair a Tom and Jerry |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | HOT DRINKS $2000: The angel in "It's a Wonderful Life" asks for this type of wine, "heavy on the cinammon & light on the cloves" mulled wine |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | YOU ARE SO HOT! $200: The 1987 gov't safety guidelines for these 2-word backyard items included a max temperature of 104 degrees hot tubs |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | YOU ARE SO HOT! $400: Some scientists think this "hot Earth" phenomenon is natural; others think it's caused by human activity global warming |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | YOU ARE SO HOT! $600: The temperature in Tirat Tsvi in this country reached 129 in 1942 (& you thought the West Bank was a hot spot) Israel |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | YOU ARE SO HOT! $1000: Also a type of salmon, it's a strong, hot & dry wind that comes from the Rocky Mountains the Chinook |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | YOU ARE SO HOT! $2,000 (Daily Double): Temperatures on this planet can range from -280 degrees to 800 degrees in a single day Mercury |
| #4545, aired 2004-05-14 | THE "HOT" SEAT $400: Sexy nickname of Major Margaret Houlihan on "M*A*S*H" "Hot Lips" |
| #4545, aired 2004-05-14 | THE "HOT" SEAT $800: When business is good, things are "selling like" these pan-fried foods hotcakes |
| #4545, aired 2004-05-14 | THE "HOT" SEAT $1200: As a verb, it means to perform difficult stunts; as a noun, it's something you eat at the ballpark hot dog |
| #4545, aired 2004-05-14 | THE "HOT" SEAT $1600: To start a car by short-circuiting the ignition hotwire |
| #4545, aired 2004-05-14 | THE "HOT" SEAT $2000: A heated building usually with glass walls where delicate plants are raised the hot house |
| #4514, aired 2004-04-01 | HOT SPOTS $200: Cloncurry in this country's state of Queensland hit 128 degrees Fahrenheit in 1889 Australia |
| #4514, aired 2004-04-01 | HOT SPOTS $400: 122 degrees must have melted the stripes off the barber poles in this Spanish city August 4, 1881 Seville |
| #4514, aired 2004-04-01 | HOT SPOTS $800: When it hit 120 on Dec. 11, 1905 in Rivadavia in this country the gauchos must have stayed in the sombra Argentina |
| #4514, aired 2004-04-01 | HOT SPOTS $1000: Greenland Ranch Station was the odd name of the spot in this U.S. area where a thermometer hit 134 on July 10, 1913 Death Valley |
| #4514, aired 2004-04-01 | HOT SPOTS $1,600 (Daily Double): On December 27, 1978 this spot on Earth reached a balmy record high of 7.5 degrees the South Pole |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | HOT SAX $200: This prime-time animated girl is a saxophone prodigy & even plays one during the opening credits of her show Lisa Simpson |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | HOT SAX $400: Jazz giants John Coltrane & Sonny Rollins were famous for playing this type of saxophone tenor |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | HOT SAX $600: This multi-Platinum-selling saxophonist's real last name is Gorelick Kenny G |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | HOT SAX $800: Hang on to your knickers! It's the TV show whose saxy theme is heard here The Benny Hill Show |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | HOT SAX $1000: Bill Clinton played "Heartbreak Hotel" on the sax when he appeared on this talk show in June of 1992 The Arsenio Hall Show |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE $400: This phenomenon can heat the air in its path to over 45,000 degrees Fahrenheit bolt of lightning |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE $800: It's a hand-operated, flexible-sided wind-making device that a blacksmith uses to heat up his fire bellows |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE $1200: From the Greek for "earth heat", it's the term for the energy that comes from the natural heat of the Earth geothermal energy |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE $1600: The 3 methods by which heat can be transferred are this method, conduction & radiation convection |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE $2000: The name of this large & often ornate Russian urn used to heat water for tea is from the Russian for "self-boil" samovar |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | WHEW! IT'S HOT! $200: 100 degrees on June 27, 1915 in Fort Yukon Alaska |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | WHEW! IT'S HOT! $400: 125 degrees on July 29, 1994 in Laughlin Nevada |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | WHEW! IT'S HOT! $600: 118 degrees on June 20, 1934 in Keokuk Iowa |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | WHEW! IT'S HOT! $800: 109 degrees on July 10, 1936 in Cumberland & Frederick Maryland |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | WHEW! IT'S HOT! $1000: 119 degrees on July 10, 1898 in Pendleton Oregon |
| #4115, aired 2002-06-21 | "HOT" STUFF $200: Hormonal changes during menopause can cause women to experience these bursts of warmth hot flashes |
| #4115, aired 2002-06-21 | "HOT" STUFF $400: It's what you'd call a souped-up auto hot rod |
| #4115, aired 2002-06-21 | "HOT" STUFF $600: During an annual fiesta in October, you'll see hundreds of these in the skies over Albuquerque hot air balloons |
| #4115, aired 2002-06-21 | "HOT" STUFF $800: Charlie Sheen played fighter pilot Topper Harley in this comedy spoof & its sequel "Part Deux" Hot Shots |
| #4115, aired 2002-06-21 | "HOT" STUFF $1000: On a cold day warm up at Panda Express with a bowl of this spicy & vinegary soup hot & sour soup |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | IT'S TOO DARN HOT! $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue) Protect yourself from the heat by wearing a kepi, like the ones worn by this military corps founded in 1831 the French Foreign Legion |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | IT'S TOO DARN HOT! $400: You shouldn't take these heat tablets named for a seasoning unless your physician recommends them salt tablets |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | IT'S TOO DARN HOT! $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue) It's believed the folding fan was created when the inventor noticed the way this mammal folds its wings a bat |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | IT'S TOO DARN HOT! $800: You may not want to visit this national park in July, when the average high is about 115 degrees--what a "killer"! Death Valley |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | IT'S TOO DARN HOT! $1000: It's a 6-letter term for a heated enclosure for growing plants in cold weather; you also might have one "of crime" a hotbed |
| #4071, aired 2002-04-22 | HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? $200: In a traditional 160 to 190° sauna, these are heated over a furnace & water is poured over them to produce vapor rocks (stones) |
| #4071, aired 2002-04-22 | HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? $400: With a temperature of about 27,000° at its core & 10,000° on the surface, better go at night the Sun |
| #4071, aired 2002-04-22 | HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? $600: In 1994 the Laughlin Weather Station in this state reported a temperature of 125 degrees Nevada |
| #4071, aired 2002-04-22 | HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? $800: The spa town in Garland County, Arkansas features waters with an average temperature of 143 degrees Hot Springs |
| #4071, aired 2002-04-22 | HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? $1000: In this art the gaffer dips his pipe in the mix that's heated to over 900 degrees to get a gather glass blowing |
| #4055, aired 2002-03-29 | I'M GETTING "HOT" $400: These very brief & close-fitting shorts for women first became fashionable in the 1970s hot pants |
| #4055, aired 2002-03-29 | I'M GETTING "HOT" $800: A direct telephone link between world leaders a hot line |
| #4055, aired 2002-03-29 | I'M GETTING "HOT" $1200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew plays a prank on Jimmy.) It's the practical joke I'm about to perform on Jimmy a hot-foot |
| #4055, aired 2002-03-29 | I'M GETTING "HOT" $1600: It's the derogatory term that whites called the Khoikhoi of southern Africa the Hottentots |
| #4055, aired 2002-03-29 | I'M GETTING "HOT" $2000: An Internet search engine that's a part of the Terra Lycos Network HotBot |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | HOT "BUN"s $100: In a 1969 Sam Peckinpah film, William Holden & Ernest Borgnine were part of a "Wild" one Bunch |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | HOT "BUN"s $200: This German chemist was co-discoverer of the element rubidium (we don't know if he used his burner) (Robert) Bunsen |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | HOT "BUN"s $300: In 1975 Jethro Tull had a hit with this "In The Jungle" Bungle |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | HOT "BUN"s $400: 2 or more computer software programs packaged together are said to be this bundled |
| #3892, aired 2001-07-03 | HOT "BUN"s $500: A 221-foot-high obelisk commemorating this battle stands on Breed's Hill Bunker Hill |
| #3826, aired 2001-04-02 | HOT JOBS $200: Employee relations manager is a job in this field abbreviated HR Human resources |
| #3826, aired 2001-04-02 | HOT JOBS $400: In the medical field, you can be a phlebotomist & draw a salary for drawing this Blood |
| #3826, aired 2001-04-02 | HOT JOBS $800: In this "sector" you'll find jobs with government & with nonprofit organizations Public sector |
| #3826, aired 2001-04-02 | HOT JOBS $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "fellow slave", this worker in the hospitality field makes arrangements for hotel guests a concierge |
| #3826, aired 2001-04-02 | HOT JOBS $1000: This job of collecting & analyzing numerical data applies to baseball as well as biology Statistician |
| #3779, aired 2001-01-25 | WHILE THE "IRON" IS HOT $100: Slang for a steam-powered railroad locomotive Iron horse |
| #3779, aired 2001-01-25 | WHILE THE "IRON" IS HOT $200: It began about 1500 B.C., period Iron Age |
| #3779, aired 2001-01-25 | WHILE THE "IRON" IS HOT $300: A 19th century warship armored with metal plates Ironclad |
| #3779, aired 2001-01-25 | WHILE THE "IRON" IS HOT $400: A medieval torture device shaped like a human body Iron maiden |
| #3779, aired 2001-01-25 | WHILE THE "IRON" IS HOT $500: Bismarck's moniker "The Iron Chancellor" |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | THEY'RE HOT! $100: To distinguish between its Mels, this singing group labeled them B. & C. the Spice Girls |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | THEY'RE HOT! $200: He played the Big Daddy in "Big Daddy" Adam Sandler |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | THEY'RE HOT! $300: Katherine Heigl & Jason Behr play aliens on this WB series Roswell |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | THEY'RE HOT! $400: This pop group created for British TV has had TV shows here set in Miami & L.A. S Club 7 |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | THEY'RE HOT! $500: The rainbow from her 1999 "Rainbow" CD was plastered on T-shirts & sold via the Internet Mariah Carey |
| #3688, aired 2000-09-20 | AFRICAN HOT SPOTS $200: This north African country is widely suspected in the Pan Am 103 bombing Libya |
| #3688, aired 2000-09-20 | AFRICAN HOT SPOTS $400: In 1998 U.S. missiles hit a suspected chemical weapons plant in this Sudanese capital Khartoum |
| #3688, aired 2000-09-20 | AFRICAN HOT SPOTS $600: Violence has resulted from the land reform policy of this longtime president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe |
| #3688, aired 2000-09-20 | AFRICAN HOT SPOTS $800: In 2000 Foday Sankoh's forces in this west African country took U.N. peacekeepers hostage Sierra Leone |
| #3688, aired 2000-09-20 | AFRICAN HOT SPOTS $1000: In the Congo he's battled rebels himself since overthrowing Mobutu in 1997 Laurent Kabila |
| #3568, aired 2000-02-23 | HOT WHEELS $100: Until 1984 Volkswagen's Golf hopped down the trail under this name in the U.S. Rabbit |
| #3568, aired 2000-02-23 | HOT WHEELS $200: Upstanding citizens have been driving this make of Honda around the city since 1972 Civic |
| #3568, aired 2000-02-23 | HOT WHEELS $300: To get somewhere quickly in an emergency, you might call upon this most popular model of Porsche 911 |
| #3568, aired 2000-02-23 | HOT WHEELS $400: A line of Ford Explorers & Expeditions sports the logo of this sporty company from Seattle Eddie Bauer |
| #3568, aired 2000-02-23 | HOT WHEELS $500: This South Korean company has been driving up business with its Sportage & Sephia Kia |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? $200: The Union of Concerned Scientists says thermal expansion has raised this level 4-10 inches in the last century Sea level |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? $400: If the temperature is 90 degrees & this figure is 80 percent, the heat index rises to 113 degrees Humidity |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? $600: This innovation that makes summer bearable was named by engineer Stuart Cramer in 1906 Air conditioner |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? $800: For this cliche to be true, the sidewalk must reach at least 130 degrees to permit coagulation Fry an egg on the sidewalk |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? $1000: Sweating doesn't cool the body -- the perspiration has to leave the skin by this process Evaporation |
| #3544, aired 2000-01-20 | THE HOT "ROCK" $200: As well as the Saturday Evening Post, he created covers for Ladies' Home Journal & Look Norman Rockwell |
| #3544, aired 2000-01-20 | THE HOT "ROCK" $400: "Bigger and Blacker" was the title of a 1999 TV special by this comedian Chris Rock |
| #3544, aired 2000-01-20 | THE HOT "ROCK" $600: This northern Illinois city of 140,000 is the seat of Winnebago County Rockford |
| #3544, aired 2000-01-20 | THE HOT "ROCK" $800: Hakeem Olajuwon has led this team to 2 NBA championship titles Houston Rockets |
| #3544, aired 2000-01-20 | THE HOT "ROCK" $1000: In 1985 Australia's Aborigines regained ownership of this monolith they call Uluru Ayers Rock |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | HOT FILMS, COOL FILMS $200: George Kennedy won an Oscar in part for beating the heck out of Paul Newman in this movie Cool Hand Luke |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | HOT FILMS, COOL FILMS $400: A brutal murder is solved in this 1967 Oscar winner In the Heat of the Night |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | HOT FILMS, COOL FILMS $600 (Daily Double): After "Body Heat" steamed up the screen, Lawrence Kasdan cooled down & directed this movie next The Big Chill |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | HOT FILMS, COOL FILMS $600: Judith Anderson played Big Mama Pollitt, the matriarch of a greedy Southern family, in this film Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| #3352, aired 1999-03-16 | HOT FILMS, COOL FILMS $1000: As Rev. Clayton Brooks, Dick Van Dyke led a townwide effort to quit smoking in this 1971 film Cold Turkey |
| #3209, aired 1998-07-09 | HOT TOPICS $200: Literally a "hot" topic, it's partly caused by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide global warming |
| #3209, aired 1998-07-09 | HOT TOPICS $600: Wisconsin studies have found higher crime near these fun palaces on tribal lands casinos |
| #3209, aired 1998-07-09 | HOT TOPICS $800: In 1998 Richard Seed planted doubts when he announced he would open a clinic for this procedure cloning |
| #3209, aired 1998-07-09 | HOT TOPICS $1000: This word comes from Greek for good or easy death euthanasia |
| #3209, aired 1998-07-09 | HOT TOPICS $1,500 (Daily Double): On Jan. 22, 1998 demonstrators on both sides marked the 25th anniversary of this Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | TOO "HOT" TO HANDLE $100: It's another name for a frankfurter Hot dog |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | TOO "HOT" TO HANDLE $200: A controversial problem, or a flaming tuber Hot potato |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | TOO "HOT" TO HANDLE $300: This category's doing so well, it's "selling like" these pan-fried foods hotcakes |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | TOO "HOT" TO HANDLE $400: Be nice, or I'll light the match that's stuck in your shoe in this classic practical joke Hot foot |
| #3186, aired 1998-06-08 | TOO "HOT" TO HANDLE $500: Not Don Juan's mattress, but an environment conducive to the growth of something undesirable a hotbed |
| #3175, aired 1998-05-22 | HOT SPOTS OF THE '80s $100: On April 12, 1982 Great Britain imposed a blockade on this island group Falkland Islands (or Malvinas) |
| #3175, aired 1998-05-22 | HOT SPOTS OF THE '80s $200: Students who met in this square April 18, 1989 to mourn Hu Yaobang's death stayed to demonstrate Tiananmen Square |
| #3175, aired 1998-05-22 | HOT SPOTS OF THE '80s $300: The Achille Lauro was in this sea when it was hijacked October 7, 1985 Mediterranean Sea |
| #3175, aired 1998-05-22 | HOT SPOTS OF THE '80s $400: Accusing this nation of backing terrorism, the U.S. ordered its embassy in D.C. closed May 6, 1981 Libya |
| #3175, aired 1998-05-22 | HOT SPOTS OF THE '80s $500: This newly independent country's first prime minister, Marxist Robert Mugabe, took office in 1980 Zimbabwe |
| #3173, aired 1998-05-20 | HOT STUFF $200: Blacksmiths were the original opportunists who "struck while" this was hot iron |
| #3173, aired 1998-05-20 | HOT STUFF $400: 15 seconds at 160° F. kills this bacterium that in 1997 caused the USA's biggest beef recall E. coli |
| #3173, aired 1998-05-20 | HOT STUFF $600: A second after this hypothesized explosion, the temperature was 10 billion degrees kelvin the Big Bang |
| #3173, aired 1998-05-20 | HOT STUFF $800: Plain old water is a common coolant for this part of a nuclear reactor you might call the "fission hole" the core |
| #3173, aired 1998-05-20 | HOT STUFF $1000: Forecasts on this planet called for highs of 800° F. & black skies due to lack of significant atmosphere Mercury |
| #3154, aired 1998-04-23 | HOT DATES $100: Then the world's longest suspension bridge, it opened over the East River May 24, 1883 Brooklyn Bridge |
| #3154, aired 1998-04-23 | HOT DATES $200: Delivered November 19, 1863, it lasted only 2 minutes Gettysburg Address |
| #3154, aired 1998-04-23 | HOT DATES $300: This Al Capp comic strip made its last appearance November 13, 1977 "Li'l Abner" |
| #3154, aired 1998-04-23 | HOT DATES $400: Referring to the stock market crash on October 30, 1929, Variety ran the headline: "Wall St." does this Lays an Egg |
| #3154, aired 1998-04-23 | HOT DATES $500: He was last reported alive July 30, 1975 outside a Bloomfield Township, Mich. restaurant Jimmy Hoffa |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | HOT WATER $100: It's the word for a burn of any degree caused by hot water Scald |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | HOT WATER $200: If you never run out of hot water, you might lower the setting of this household device to save energy Water heater |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | HOT WATER $300: The water variety of this Jewish roll is simmered before it's popped in the oven Bagel |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | HOT WATER $400: From old Norse for "gush", these erupting springs are found in Iceland, New Zealand & Yellowstone Geysers |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | HOT WATER $500: Last name of twin brothers Francis & Freelan who manufactured steam-driven cars Stanley |
| #3042, aired 1997-11-18 | "HOT" AIR $200: A line in Rabelais' "Gargantua and Pantagruel" says to "strike" under this condition While the iron is hot |
| #3042, aired 1997-11-18 | "HOT" AIR $400: Small cinnamon-flavored candy, or slang for ballpark franks Red Hots |
| #3042, aired 1997-11-18 | "HOT" AIR $800: Recorded in 1979 by Donna Summer, it's the "hot"test hit to reach No. 1, with a 3-week stay at the top "Hot Stuff" |
| #3042, aired 1997-11-18 | "HOT" AIR $1,000 (Daily Double): For this 1959 film, a female impersonator taught actors Jack Lemmon & Tony Curtis how to be girls Some Like It Hot |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | HOT WHEELS $100: In 1964 this movie spy was driving an Aston Martin DB5; in 1995, a BMW Z3 James Bond |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | HOT WHEELS $200: It promotes its wide track Grand Prix as "wider is better" Pontiac |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | HOT WHEELS $300: Country in which Toyota builds most of its Camrys USA |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | HOT WHEELS $400: In the same class are the Ford Contour SVT, the Saab 900S & this company's Jetta GLX Volkswagen |
| #2990, aired 1997-09-05 | HOT WHEELS $500: The 1997 Boxster was the first new sports car from this 911 maker in 19 years Porsche |
| #2941, aired 1997-05-19 | WHAT'S HOT $100: The most popular toy of the '96 Christmas season was this Sesame Street doll Tickle Me Elmo |
| #2941, aired 1997-05-19 | WHAT'S HOT $200: This designer's cK be is "The New Fragrance for People", male or female Calvin Klein |
| #2941, aired 1997-05-19 | WHAT'S HOT $300: This company created the Virtual Boy, a 3-D game system Nintendo |
| #2941, aired 1997-05-19 | WHAT'S HOT $400: After The Sugarcubes dissolved in 1992, this Icelandic lead singer went solo Bjork |
| #2941, aired 1997-05-19 | WHAT'S HOT $500: The introduction of Dolly the Sheep to the world kicked off a debate on the ethics of this in February 1997 Cloning |
| #2755, aired 1996-07-19 | "HOT" & "COLD" $100: This drink consists of brandy or other liquor mixed with sugar, spices & heated water a hot toddy |
| #2755, aired 1996-07-19 | "HOT" & "COLD" $200: Any auto thief can tell you that you do this by short-circuiting the ignition system hot-wiring |
| #2755, aired 1996-07-19 | "HOT" & "COLD" $300: A deliberate snub a cold shoulder |
| #2755, aired 1996-07-19 | "HOT" & "COLD" $400: In 1969 Sly & the Family Stone had a hit with this "seasonal" song "Hot Fun In The Summertime" |
| #2755, aired 1996-07-19 | "HOT" & "COLD" $500: John le Carre wrote this 1963 novel while an officer in the British foreign service The Spy Who Came in From the Cold |
| #2744, aired 1996-07-04 | "HOT" $100: Malcolm Forbes was the 1st person to fly the U.S. coast-to-coast in one of these a hot air balloon |
| #2744, aired 1996-07-04 | "HOT" $200: It was Major Houlihan's nickname on "M*A*S*H" Hot Lips |
| #2744, aired 1996-07-04 | "HOT" $300: A nursery rhyme says, "If you have no daughters, give them to your sons" hot cross buns |
| #2744, aired 1996-07-04 | "HOT" $400: It's Richard Preston's nonfiction bestseller about an outbreak of a deadly African virus The Hot Zone |
| #2744, aired 1996-07-04 | "HOT" $500: The Rough Riders adopted this musical standard as their anthem "A Hot Time In The Old Town" |
| #2533, aired 1995-09-13 | "HOT" & "COLD" $100: Popular term for a variety of deli meats & cheeses, often served on a platter cold cuts |
| #2533, aired 1995-09-13 | "HOT" & "COLD" $200: It's what a reluctant bride or groom might get before the wedding cold feet |
| #2533, aired 1995-09-13 | "HOT" & "COLD" $300: One of the 1970s' big fashion fads was these short shorts for women hot pants |
| #2533, aired 1995-09-13 | "HOT" & "COLD" $400: The Miss Arkansas pageant is held in this city that also boasts a national park Hot Springs |
| #2533, aired 1995-09-13 | "HOT" & "COLD" $500: It's a spicy Chinese soup made with chicken, pork, bamboo shoots & vinegar hot & sour soup |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | "HOT" STUFF $100: This term for a phone linkup between superpowers implies that it's for heated exchanges a hotline |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | "HOT" STUFF $200: When you're "on a roll", you may "relish" expressing you're delight with this tasty interjection hot dog (hot diggity dog accepted) |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | "HOT" STUFF $300: In other words, this play could be "Tabby atop one Steamy Metal Housetop" Cat on a hot tin Roof |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | "HOT" STUFF $400: Tuber term for a problem so sensitive that handling it is risky a hot potato |
| #2445, aired 1995-03-31 | "HOT" STUFF $500: In the film "The Wizard of Oz", the Cowardly Lion asks, "What makes" these African people "so hot" the Hottentot |
| #2113, aired 1993-11-10 | WHEN YOU'RE "HOT" $100: It's slang for the electric chair the hot seat |
| #2113, aired 1993-11-10 | WHEN YOU'RE "HOT" $200: Empty, exaggerated talk is just a lot of this hot air |
| #2113, aired 1993-11-10 | WHEN YOU'RE "HOT" $300: A little horse sense will tell you it means eager to race hot to trot |
| #2113, aired 1993-11-10 | WHEN YOU'RE "HOT" $400: Hotheads know this phrase for "angry" comes from the blush of red they get around the neck hot under the collar |
| #2113, aired 1993-11-10 | WHEN YOU'RE "HOT" $500: Their hit "Give It Away" won this alternative rock band a 1993 Grammy Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| #2034, aired 1993-06-10 | "HOT" STUFF $100: A person who performs tricky ski maneuvers, perhaps while eating a frankfurter hot dog |
| #2034, aired 1993-06-10 | "HOT" STUFF $200: A passionate man is described as this, which implies that his hemoglobin is overheated hot-blooded |
| #2034, aired 1993-06-10 | "HOT" STUFF $300: Sophie Tucker was known as "The Last of" these the Red Hot Mamas |
| #2034, aired 1993-06-10 | "HOT" STUFF $400: This Paul Newman film was based in part on William Faulkner's story "Barn Burning" The Long Hot Summer |
| #2034, aired 1993-06-10 | "HOT" STUFF $500: The rhyme about these baked treats says, "If you have no daughters, give them to your sons" hot cross buns |
| #1718, aired 1992-02-05 | "HOT" $100: Items that sell as soon as you put them on the shelf "go like" these hotcakes |
| #1718, aired 1992-02-05 | "HOT" $200: To start an engine by short-circuiting the ignition hot-wire |
| #1718, aired 1992-02-05 | "HOT" $300: A controversial issue you'd rather not touch; tuber or not tuber, that's the question hot potato |
| #1718, aired 1992-02-05 | "HOT" $400: To show off by performing risky maneuvers on a surfboard hot dog |
| #1718, aired 1992-02-05 | "HOT" $500: The building in which fruit is forced to grow out of its normal season hothouse |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | "HOT" STUFF $100: Fast-moving merchandise "sells like" these hotcakes |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | "HOT" STUFF $200: Served on Good Friday, these baked treats are decorated with a religious symbol hot cross buns |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | "HOT" STUFF $300: Sexy nickname of 1930s comedienne Thelma Todd, or an alcoholic beverage that warms you up a "Hot Toddy" |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | "HOT" STUFF $400: A line from the poem that begins, "Pease porridge hot", or a film that was a "drag" for Jack Lemmon some like it hot |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | "HOT" STUFF $500: Famous nickname of Sir Henry Percy, whom Shakespeare immortalized in "Henry IV, Part I" Hotspur |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | HOT CUISINE $100: Spicy southwestern cuisine named for a U.S. state & the country that borders it Tex-Mex |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | HOT CUISINE $200: To cook steak au poivre, you first cover it with this pepper |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | HOT CUISINE $300: It's the name of both a thick soup & a regional dialect in Louisiana gumbo |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | HOT CUISINE $400: Produced by the McIlhenny family since Civil War times, it's traditional in a Bloody Mary Tabasco |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | HOT CUISINE $500: The fowl dish accompanied by hot sauce & blue cheese dressing, named for the city that originated it Buffalo chicken wings |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | HOT DOG! $100: The 1st ever hot dog stand in the U.S., it's said, opened over 70 years ago at this NYC beach Coney Island |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | HOT DOG! $200: At 55%, an average dog is mostly this liquid, not meat water |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | HOT DOG! $300: Beatrice gives us Wesson Oil, Fisher Nuts & these "Premium" hot dogs Swifts |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | HOT DOG! $400: The 2 common names for hot dogs derived from the names of a German & an Austrian city frankfurter & weiner (Frankfurt & Vienna) |
| #784, aired 1988-01-21 | HOT DOG! $500: This brand of hot dogs says they "have to answer to a higher authority" Hebrew National |
| #593, aired 1987-03-18 | HOT DOG! $100: Stripped off most hot dogs before packaging, this is now usually made from cellulose skin (casing) |
| #593, aired 1987-03-18 | HOT DOG! $200: Of cardamom, nutmeg & sage, the one not a popular hot dog spice sage |
| #593, aired 1987-03-18 | HOT DOG! $300: One name for hot dogs before they were called "hot dogs", it's now more common for cinnamon candy red hots |
| #593, aired 1987-03-18 | HOT DOG! $400: As a promotion in the '50s & '60s, this hot dog company gave out weiner whistles Oscar Mayer |
| #593, aired 1987-03-18 | HOT DOG! $500: Hormel's Wrangler Smoked Franks package says "Don't you dare" do this to 'em boil them |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | HOT SPOTS $200: Hottest temperature ever recorded was on this "dark" continent Africa |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | HOT SPOTS $400: 43 consecutive days of 120º heat were recorded in this appropriately named Calif. valley Death Valley |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | HOT SPOTS $600: National seashore resort that's been "burning" off Long Island for years Fire Island |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | HOT SPOTS $800: Named by Magellan for fires blazing on shore, it's South America's stormy southern tip Tierra del Fuego |
| #57, aired 1984-11-27 | HOT SPOTS $1000: Its foundation for polio victims was founded by FDR, who died here Warm Springs, Georgia |
| #14, aired 1984-09-27 | HOT MOVIES $100: Irwin Allen's tall tale that went up in smoke The Towering Inferno |
| #14, aired 1984-09-27 | HOT MOVIES $200: Poitier & Steiger made sparks fly in this '67 Oscar winner In the Heat of the Night |
| #14, aired 1984-09-27 | HOT MOVIES $300: The male stars tested their disguises for this '59 film by visiting studio ladies' room Some Like it Hot |
| #14, aired 1984-09-27 | HOT MOVIES $400: Words were heated when Truffaut filmed this Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 |
| #14, aired 1984-09-27 | HOT MOVIES $500: 1st movie that newlyweds Newman & Woodward made together The Long, Hot Summer |
