#9203, aired 2024-11-13 | GREAT WOMEN IN SPORTS $200: In 2022 she laid her tennis racket down, stepping away from the sport with 23 Grand Slam singles titles to her name Serena Williams |
#9203, aired 2024-11-13 | GREAT WOMEN IN SPORTS $400: She was named Swimming World magazine's American Woman Swimmer of the Year 2013-2018, 2021 & 2022 (Katie) Ledecky |
#9203, aired 2024-11-13 | GREAT WOMEN IN SPORTS $600: (Billie Jean King presents the clue.) A star on four WNBA championship teams in Seattle, this woman became the league's winningest player in 2022 Sue Bird |
#9203, aired 2024-11-13 | GREAT WOMEN IN SPORTS $800: (Billie Jean King presents the clue.) A great all-around athlete, she excelled in many sports, but later in life, golf was her game, & in 1950 she helped found the LPGA Babe Didrikson |
#9203, aired 2024-11-13 | GREAT WOMEN IN SPORTS $1000: (Billie Jean King presents the clue.) Before I switched to tennis one of the team sports I played was softball; one of the most decorated collegiate, national & international players of the game is this UCLA alum & two-time Olympic gold medalist who became head coach of Liberty University's team in 2013 Dot Richardson |
#9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENDS IN "CH" $400: Hammer me with a rusty nail! 3/4 ounce Drambuie liqueur & a jigger of this, over ice Scotch |
#9202, aired 2024-11-12 | LET'S DABBLE IN SCIENCE $400: U-Pb dating, using these 2 elements, can determine the age of a rock whether it's in the millions or billions of years uranium & lead |
#9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENDS IN "CH" $800: It's white powder that can be made from a grain & used as a thickener starch |
#9202, aired 2024-11-12 | LET'S DABBLE IN SCIENCE $800: In taxonomy, all birds are in the same kingdom, phylum & class, but things fly off & change at this next level order |
#9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENDS IN "CH" $1200: The 6,000-seat Metropolitan Tabernacle has been called "the first-ever" of these evangelical places of worship a megachurch |
#9202, aired 2024-11-12 | LET'S DABBLE IN SCIENCE $1200: First predicted in 1930, this particle with no charge can go through miles of matter without reacting with a proton or neutron a neutrino |
#9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENDS IN "CH" $1600: This type of warrant is issued by a judge when a defendant violates the rules of the court a bench |
#9202, aired 2024-11-12 | LET'S DABBLE IN SCIENCE $1600: Lasting from 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago, this epoch was followed by the somewhat similar-sounding Pleistocene the Pliocene |
#9202, aired 2024-11-12 | ENDS IN "CH" $2000: It's a "frumious" creature mentioned in "Jabberwocky" & "The Hunting of the Snark" Bandersnatch |
#9202, aired 2024-11-12 | LET'S DABBLE IN SCIENCE $2000: Whoa, nebula, whoa! A new image from the Webb Telescope shows this nebula that's 1,300 light-years away the Horsehead Nebula |
#9201, aired 2024-11-11 | SKY ROCKETS IN FLIGHT $200: This company proudly states that its Falcon Heavy rocket can lift 64 metric tons into orbit via 5 million pounds of thrust SpaceX |
#9201, aired 2024-11-11 | IN THE ARCHIVES $400: In 2024-25, D.C.'s National Archives is exhibiting hundreds of its 1940s photos by Russell Lee of communities based on this activity coal mining |
#9201, aired 2024-11-11 | SKY ROCKETS IN FLIGHT $400: In 2003, using its Long March 2F rocket, it became the third nation to launch a man into Earth's orbit China |
#9201, aired 2024-11-11 | SKY ROCKETS IN FLIGHT $600: Not the V but the IB version of this "planetary" rocket carried crews to Skylab the Saturn IB |
#9201, aired 2024-11-11 | IN THE ARCHIVES $800: Disappointed because "I failed to die", Kiichi Kawano created an archive of fellow pilots in this type of World War II unit kamikaze |
#9201, aired 2024-11-11 | SKY ROCKETS IN FLIGHT $800: Titan series rockets like the ones that launched Viking & Voyager were originally conceived as ICBMs, short for these intercontinental ballistic missile |
#9201, aired 2024-11-11 | SKY ROCKETS IN FLIGHT $1000: Charles Lindbergh & Harry Guggenheim aided this professor's early rocketry experiments at Roswell Goddard |
#9201, aired 2024-11-11 | IN THE ARCHIVES $1200: The Vatican Apostolic (formerly "Secret") Archives has the Jan. 3, 1521 document excommunicating this German Martin Luther |
#9201, aired 2024-11-11 | IN THE ARCHIVES $1600: Russia's archives hold discoveries like proof Stalin ordered the Katyn massacre of 20,000 officers & men in this country's army Poland |
#9201, aired 2024-11-11 | IN THE ARCHIVES $2000: France's Archives nationales has documents way back to the 8th century, like one with this ruler's "K-R-L-S" signature Charlemagne |
#9199, aired 2024-11-07 | A STUDY IN SCARLET $200: A field full of scarlet these flowers caused Dorothy, Toto & the Cowardly Lion to fall asleep poppies |
#9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $400: Along with fighting for equal rights, Lucretia Mott was an abolitionist & her home was a station on this network the Underground Railroad |
#9199, aired 2024-11-07 | A STUDY IN SCARLET $400: The handsome fellow seen here is called the scarlet this, a fine example of a New World parrot a macaw |
#9199, aired 2024-11-07 | A STUDY IN SCARLET $600: Sir Henry the Scarlet Knight is the mascot of this university Rutgers |
#9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $800: Emily Warren Roebling was largely responsible for supervising the construction of this bridge built from 1869 to 1883 the Brooklyn Bridge |
#9199, aired 2024-11-07 | A STUDY IN SCARLET $800: The rash that accompanies this streptococcal disease has been described as "sunburn with goose pimples" scarlet fever |
#9199, aired 2024-11-07 | A STUDY IN SCARLET $1000: In an Orczy tale, Andrew says this is a "humble" flower & also the name of "the best & bravest man in all the world" the scarlet pimpernel |
#9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1200: In a 1998 presidential election, this world leader defeated a Yale-educated economist & a former Miss Venezuela Hugo Chavez |
#9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1600: In "Why Vietnam?" former OSS Chief of Indochina Archimedes Patti talks about his relationship with this "enigmatic revolutionary" Ho Chi Minh |
#9199, aired 2024-11-07 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $2000: 18th century B.C. man associated with quotes like "If he knock out the teeth of a freed man, he shall pay 1/3 of a gold mina" Hammurabi |
#9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ALSO FOUND IN THE BATHROOM $200: The meteor kind of this usually takes the name of a constellation that would be overhead when viewing shower |
#9198, aired 2024-11-06 | THE TV SHOW IN QUESTION $200: "Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?" is hosted by this man who's maybe more famous as a BF than as a 3-time Super Bowl champ Travis Kelce |
#9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ALSO FOUND IN THE BATHROOM $400: Some say this company's kick scooters, hoverboards & RipStiks are a cut above Razor |
#9198, aired 2024-11-06 | THE TV SHOW IN QUESTION $400: "Who's the Boss?" starred him as Tony Micelli, an ex-baseball player turned housekeeper Tony Danza |
#9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ALSO FOUND IN THE BATHROOM $600: Goldie Hawn & Warren Beatty had some fun in this 1975 Hal Ashby comedy Shampoo |
#9198, aired 2024-11-06 | THE TV SHOW IN QUESTION $600: A 2-parter called "What's My Line?" had this title character wondering about career choices if fate hadn't made her a vampire slayer Buffy |
#9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ALSO FOUND IN THE BATHROOM $800: As a verb this 4-letter word means to search everywhere comb |
#9198, aired 2024-11-06 | THE TV SHOW IN QUESTION $800: In the "Who Shaves the Barber?" episode of this FX series, Billy Bob Thornton as Lorne Malvo does some shooting in the title town Fargo |
#9198, aired 2024-11-06 | ALSO FOUND IN THE BATHROOM $1000: Southeast of Dusseldorf, it's a historical capital of the Rhineland Cologne |
#9198, aired 2024-11-06 | THE TV SHOW IN QUESTION $1000: She played an amnesiac on the 2007-2009 sitcom "Samantha Who?" Applegate |
#9195, aired 2024-11-01 | RESTING IN FOREST LAWN CEMETERY $200: The New York Times' 1966 obituary headline for this man read, in part, "Founded an empire on a mouse" Walt Disney |
#9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ONLY MURDERS IN BUILDINGS $200: In "Over My Dead Body" by Rex Stout, Percy Ludlow is killed by an epee in a studio where this sport is taught fencing |
#9195, aired 2024-11-01 | RESTING IN FOREST LAWN CEMETERY $400: Rest easy & well, comedic genius Larry Fine of this movie series trio; no one can hurt you in wildly funny ways anymore The Three Stooges |
#9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ONLY MURDERS IN BUILDINGS $400: "The Da Vinci Code" begins with a murder in the Grand Gallery of this French institution the Louvre |
#9195, aired 2024-11-01 | RESTING IN FOREST LAWN CEMETERY $600: This Rat Packer's inscription says "The Entertainer"; his father's says "Daddy Sam" Sammy Davis Jr. |
#9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ONLY MURDERS IN BUILDINGS $600: In a work by him, Jason Bourne discovers Jacqueline Lavier dead in a church confession booth Ludlum |
#9195, aired 2024-11-01 | RESTING IN FOREST LAWN CEMETERY $800: In 2009 Elizabeth Taylor (now also on-site), Lisa Marie Presley & Quincy Jones attended his Forest Lawn funeral Michael Jackson |
#9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ONLY MURDERS IN BUILDINGS $800: The mean pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna & her timid half-sister are murdered in their apartment in this 1866 work Crime and Punishment |
#9195, aired 2024-11-01 | RESTING IN FOREST LAWN CEMETERY $1000: "Frankly, my dear", his fifth wife arranged for him to be interred next to his third wife Carole Lombard Clark Gable |
#9195, aired 2024-11-01 | ONLY MURDERS IN BUILDINGS $1000: In an Agatha Christie work from 1926, this title character is killed in his home study Roger Ackroyd |
#9193, aired 2024-10-30 | "B" IN SCIENCE $400: In cetaceans it serves as an insulating layer to guard against hypothermia blubber |
#9193, aired 2024-10-30 | "B" IN SCIENCE $800: Indium is in the periodic table group named for this element boron |
#9193, aired 2024-10-30 | "B" IN SCIENCE $1200: This igneous rock often formed from lava flows is also the bedrock of most of the ocean floor basalt |
#9193, aired 2024-10-30 | "B" IN SCIENCE $1600: Not quite star material & actually appearing red, these astronomical objects can't reach stable luminosities a brown dwarf |
#9193, aired 2024-10-30 | "B" IN SCIENCE $2000: The theorem named for Daniel of this Swiss math & physics dynasty involves pressure, velocity & elevation in a moving fluid Bernoulli |
#9192, aired 2024-10-29 | AN "A" IN PSYCHOLOGY $800: The anterograde type of this disorder is marked by the inability to remember new information amnesia |
#9192, aired 2024-10-29 | AN "A" IN PSYCHOLOGY $1200: Easily confused with a verb, as a noun it means the experience of emotion or feeling affect |
#9192, aired 2024-10-29 | AN "A" IN PSYCHOLOGY $1600: It's the emotional bond that develops between infant & parent; the same-named theory says it's an evolutionary advantage attachment |
#9192, aired 2024-10-29 | AN "A" IN PSYCHOLOGY $5,400 (Daily Double): Broca's & Wernicke's are 2 types of this condition in which language use & speech are impaired aphasia |
#9189, aired 2024-10-24 | RANDOM BOOKS IN FICTION SERIES $200: "A Storm of Swords" is the third book in a series by him George R.R. Martin |
#9189, aired 2024-10-24 | RANDOM BOOKS IN FICTION SERIES $400: In Sue Grafton's alphabet book series, "U Is for" this, something pulling us away from safety the undertow |
#9189, aired 2024-10-24 | RANDOM BOOKS IN FICTION SERIES $600: 2017's "The Midnight Line" is Lee Child's 22nd book about this former military policeman who drifts across the U.S. solving crimes Jack Reacher |
#9189, aired 2024-10-24 | RANDOM BOOKS IN FICTION SERIES $1,000 (Daily Double): "The Dragon Reborn" is part 3 in this series by Robert Jordan that kept on turning The Wheel of Time |
#9189, aired 2024-10-24 | RANDOM BOOKS IN FICTION SERIES $1000: The second book in the "Outlander" series is called "Dragonfly in" this resinous substance amber |
#9186, aired 2024-10-21 | IN CONSEQUENTIAL $400: It means resembling the animal seen here, even when not going off at 150 to 1 equine |
#9186, aired 2024-10-21 | IN CONSEQUENTIAL $800: That's so high school! It's a tiny, exclusive group, like the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, wasteoids, dweebies... a clique |
#9186, aired 2024-10-21 | IN CONSEQUENTIAL $1600: Diplomatically, one of these can function like an embassy, but on a smaller scale a consulate |
#9186, aired 2024-10-21 | IN CONSEQUENTIAL $2000: I say, old chap, let's toss small, circular ropes onto a peg in a game of this quoits |
#9186, aired 2024-10-21 | IN CONSEQUENTIAL $2,500 (Daily Double): We rarely start a clue with "from the Anglo-Norman", but this legal verb is from the A-N for "to exonerate" to acquit |
#9185, aired 2024-10-18 | SOCCER IN THE USA $200: The name of this Los Angeles MLS team refers to all the stars & celebrities found there the (LA) Galaxy |
#9185, aired 2024-10-18 | SOCCER IN THE USA $400: He's the part owner of Inter Miami CF, seen here Beckham |
#9185, aired 2024-10-18 | SOCCER IN THE USA $600: One of the USA's premier soccer complexes & home to the NWSL's Courage, Wakemed Soccer Park is in Wake County in this state North Carolina |
#9185, aired 2024-10-18 | SOCCER IN THE USA $800: The U.S. women's team won 2008 & 2012 Olympic gold & the 2015 World Cup behind, or in front of, the play of this goalkeeper Hope Solo |
#9185, aired 2024-10-18 | SOCCER IN THE USA $1000: In 2024 a poor showing in this quadrennial Spanish-named tournament cost the U.S. men's national team coach his job Copa América |
#9182, aired 2024-10-15 | IN THE MOOD FOR FOOD $200: Recipes for Piedmontese bagna cauda dipping sauce call for these little fishies anchovies |
#9182, aired 2024-10-15 | IN THE MOOD FOR FOOD $400: This 2-word Italian term refers to pasta cooked not too hard or too soft, but still a little firm "to the tooth" al dente |
#9182, aired 2024-10-15 | IN THE MOOD FOR FOOD $600: Whether called a cornichon or a gherkin, it's one of these vegetables at the start a cucumber |
#9182, aired 2024-10-15 | IN THE MOOD FOR FOOD $800: This Philly sandwich can have provolone as one of its namesake ingredients a cheesesteak |
#9182, aired 2024-10-15 | IN THE MOOD FOR FOOD $1000: The name of this stew comes from the Hungarian for "herdsman" goulash |
#9181, aired 2024-10-14 | OCTOBER IN HISTORY $200: Before a revolutionary tribunal in October 1793, this queen was convicted of treason Marie Antoinette |
#9181, aired 2024-10-14 | OCTOBER IN HISTORY $400: Joining the House, a bipartisan Senate vote in October 2002 authorized the use of military force against this nation Iraq |
#9181, aired 2024-10-14 | OCTOBER IN HISTORY $600: In Boston Harbor on October 21, 1797, this 44-gun U.S. Navy frigate was launched into service the USS Constitution |
#9181, aired 2024-10-14 | OCTOBER IN HISTORY $800: In October 331 B.C. at the Battle of Gaugamela, Darius panicked & fled when this man's personal cavalry wheeled toward him Alexander the Great |
#9181, aired 2024-10-14 | OCTOBER IN HISTORY $1000: This empire declared war on Russia in October of 1853, igniting the Crimean War the Ottoman Empire |
#9169, aired 2024-09-26 | FAMOUS FATHERS-IN-LAW $400: He told Jimmy Kimmel that Chris Pratt did ask for his daughter's hand in marriage but did not invite him to the bachelor party Schwarzenegger |
#9169, aired 2024-09-26 | FAMOUS FATHERS-IN-LAW $800: In the Bible David succeeded this father-in-law as king of Israel Saul |
#9169, aired 2024-09-26 | FAMOUS FATHERS-IN-LAW $1200: He shared a close relationship with wife Elizabeth's father, Continental Congress delegate & New York Senator Philip Schuyler Alexander Hamilton |
#9169, aired 2024-09-26 | FAMOUS FATHERS-IN-LAW $1600: In 1953 Anthony Quinn won an Oscar for "Viva Zapata!" & this father-in-law won for producing "The Greatest Show on Earth" Cecil B. DeMille |
#9169, aired 2024-09-26 | FAMOUS FATHERS-IN-LAW $2000: With Wagner in exile, the premiere of "Lohengrin" took place in Weimar in 1850 under the direction of this future father-in-law Liszt |
#9167, aired 2024-09-24 | I'M LOOKING FOR A MAN IN FINANCE $200: His annual letter to the shareholders at Berkshire Hathaway is "the investment world's equivalent of a Harry Potter book release" Buffett |
#9167, aired 2024-09-24 | PEOPLE IN POEMS $400: In a commemorative poem of 1623, Ben Jonson was the first to refer to him as "the Sweet Swan of Avon" Shakespeare |
#9167, aired 2024-09-24 | A SEASON IN HELSINKI $400: Say "kippis" & enjoy lonkero, a drink made with grapefruit soda & this spirit from Finland's juniper berries gin |
#9167, aired 2024-09-24 | I'M LOOKING FOR A MAN IN FINANCE $400: In the 19-teens he established a partnership with Edmund C. Lynch Merrill |
#9167, aired 2024-09-24 | I'M LOOKING FOR A MAN IN FINANCE $600: A poster boy for the Gilded Age, this mega-rich guy founded the company that controlled most of Cleveland's refineries by 1872 Rockefeller |
#9167, aired 2024-09-24 | PEOPLE IN POEMS $800: In "Paradise Lost", Milton wrote, "As when by night the glass of" this man "observes imagined lands & regions in the moon" Galileo |
#9167, aired 2024-09-24 | A SEASON IN HELSINKI $800: Temppeliaukio, built directly into rock, is a church of this Protestant denomination, Finland's largest religious group Lutheran |
#9167, aired 2024-09-24 | I'M LOOKING FOR A MAN IN FINANCE $800: Oil & mining tycoon & multi-billionaire Mohammed Al-Amoudi was born in the Amhara region of this African country Ethiopia |
#9167, aired 2024-09-24 | I'M LOOKING FOR A MAN IN FINANCE $1000: He founded his publicly owned investment firm in Baltimore in 1937; perhaps you've seen its bighorn sheep logo? T. Rowe Price |
#9167, aired 2024-09-24 | PEOPLE IN POEMS $1200: In "Losers", Carl Sandburg mentions him: "I who have fiddled in a world on fire, I who have done so many stunts not worth doing" Nero |
#9167, aired 2024-09-24 | A SEASON IN HELSINKI $1200: Public these in Helsinki are literal hot spots; Uusi & Löyly are 2 in town that embrace the spirit of steam a sauna |
#9167, aired 2024-09-24 | PEOPLE IN POEMS $1600: Longfellow's sonnet about this poet begins, "The young Endymion sleeps Endymion's sleep" Keats |
#9167, aired 2024-09-24 | A SEASON IN HELSINKI $1600: As a young man this "Four Legends" composer studied law at what is now the University of Helsinki Sibelius |
#9167, aired 2024-09-24 | A SEASON IN HELSINKI $2000: Eero's dad, this Finnish-American architect helped design the National Museum in the National Romantic style Eliel Saarinen |
#9167, aired 2024-09-24 | PEOPLE IN POEMS $6,000 (Daily Double): Moved by an exhibit about his life & work, Linda Bierds wrote, "He was halfway between the war's last enigmas & the cyanide apple" Alan Turing |
#9166, aired 2024-09-23 | I SERVED IN 2 PRESIDENTS' CABINETS $400: A known known, he was definitely Sec Def under Republican presidents in the 20th & 21st centuries Rumsfeld |
#9166, aired 2024-09-23 | I SERVED IN 2 PRESIDENTS' CABINETS $800: Before William Rogers was Nixon's secretary of state, he was attorney general in this administration Nixon was also part of the Eisenhower administration |
#9166, aired 2024-09-23 | I SERVED IN 2 PRESIDENTS' CABINETS $1200: Seen here, she did hard labor in 2001 & motored over to Transportation in 2017 (Elaine) Chao |
#9166, aired 2024-09-23 | I SERVED IN 2 PRESIDENTS' CABINETS $1600: By George, he was Nixon's man at Treasury as well as Labor & Reagan's at State George Shultz |
#9166, aired 2024-09-23 | I SERVED IN 2 PRESIDENTS' CABINETS $2000: Or 3: James Schlesinger was Defense Secy. for Nixon & Ford & Carter named him the first secy. of this new department the Department of Energy |
#9162, aired 2024-09-17 | OUT THERE IN RADIO LAND $200: In 1975 the FCC was a good buddy to users of this radio system, reducing the license fee from $20 to $4 CB |
#9162, aired 2024-09-17 | OUT THERE IN RADIO LAND $400: Arr! in the 1960s these unlicensed stations broadcast from ships off the British coast to fans tired of the straitlaced BBC pirate radio |
#9162, aired 2024-09-17 | OUT THERE IN RADIO LAND $600: Todd Storz, owner of KOHW in Omaha, is credited with pioneering this numerical hit radio format in the 1950s Top 40 |
#9162, aired 2024-09-17 | OUT THERE IN RADIO LAND $1000: In 2008 the Justice Department approved the merger creating this satellite radio behemoth SiriusXM |
#9162, aired 2024-09-17 | OUT THERE IN RADIO LAND $3,200 (Daily Double): Robert Plant made a pledge to Portland's KBOO after hearing a DJ promise never to play this song if listeners donated "Stairway To Heaven" |
#9161, aired 2024-09-16 | STAGE DIRECTIONS IN SHAKESPEARE $400: "Giving her Desdemona's" this piece of cloth, which, as it turns out, is nothing to sneeze at a handkerchief |
#9161, aired 2024-09-16 | STAGE DIRECTIONS IN SHAKESPEARE $800: Spoiler! "Goneril and" this woman's "bodies brought out" Regan |
#9161, aired 2024-09-16 | STAGE DIRECTIONS IN SHAKESPEARE $1200: "Enter Puck, and" this character "with an ass's head" Bottom |
#9161, aired 2024-09-16 | STAGE DIRECTIONS IN SHAKESPEARE $1600: "Enter Polonius" & this doomed duo, who definitely get exeunted Rosencrantz & Guildenstern |
#9161, aired 2024-09-16 | STAGE DIRECTIONS IN SHAKESPEARE $2000: "Enter the ghost of young Prince Edward" to this title king, & not a friendly ghost Richard III |
#9160, aired 2024-09-13 | IN THE MEDICINE CABINET $400: Semaglutide, a drug for type 2 diabetes that's used for weight loss, is sold under the brand names Rybelsus, Wegovy & this Ozempic |
#9160, aired 2024-09-13 | IN THE MEDICINE CABINET $800: To use this bronchodilator medicine aka ventolin via an inhaler, you puff, puff & pass the air out of your lungs albuterol |
#9160, aired 2024-09-13 | IN THE MEDICINE CABINET $1200: In 2006 Johnson & Johnson acquired this brand that offers "red eye comfort" Visine |
#9160, aired 2024-09-13 | IN THE MEDICINE CABINET $1600: This 2-word container is used to irrigate the schnozz with salt water & hopefully remove some guck a neti pot |
#9160, aired 2024-09-13 | IN THE MEDICINE CABINET $2000: Atomic number 83, this element can be found in a little pink pill that helps prevent a traveler's dilemma bismuth |
#9159, aired 2024-09-12 | ANIMATED FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $200: 2003:
Locating the captain of the Nautilus Finding Nemo |
#9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SHORT COURSE IN CHEMISTRY $400: Blue litmus paper turns red when exposed to an acid; red paper turns blue when exposed to this type of substance a base |
#9159, aired 2024-09-12 | ANIMATED FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $400: 2012:
Destroy that thing, Mr. Nader Wreck-It Ralph |
#9159, aired 2024-09-12 | ANIMATED FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $600: 2006:
Jubilant tootsies Happy Feet |
#9159, aired 2024-09-12 | ANIMATED FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $800: 1999:
The ferrous leviathan The Iron Giant |
#9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SHORT COURSE IN CHEMISTRY $800: 2 atoms share 3 pairs of electrons in the triple type of this a (triple) bond |
#9159, aired 2024-09-12 | ANIMATED FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: 1989:
Every canine shows up in Elysium All Dogs Go to Heaven |
#9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SHORT COURSE IN CHEMISTRY $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1869 Dmitri Mendeleyev wrote that when arranged via his method, the elements showed this kind of "change of properties" periodic |
#9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SHORT COURSE IN CHEMISTRY $1600: It's the term for a substance, usually a liquid, in which other materials dissolve to create a solution the solvent |
#9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SHORT COURSE IN CHEMISTRY $2000: Shortly after he transformed chemistry into a real science, this great Frenchman lost his head during the Reign of Terror Lavoisier |
#9158, aired 2024-09-11 | NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY $200: Chip a piece of furniture, or cut yourself shaving nick |
#9158, aired 2024-09-11 | ENDS IN "EAU" $400: 90 degrees is the highest temperature ever recorded in this state capital Juneau |
#9158, aired 2024-09-11 | NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY $400: Specifically, the first light of day dawn |
#9158, aired 2024-09-11 | NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY $600: Toss out, or an inexpensive cut of beef chuck |
#9158, aired 2024-09-11 | ENDS IN "EAU" $800: The Deccan this forms most of the southern peninsula of India a plateau |
#9158, aired 2024-09-11 | NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY $800: The head of a college, or the presiding official of a cathedral a dean |
#9158, aired 2024-09-11 | NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY $1000: By definition, a bricklayer or worker in stone a mason |
#9158, aired 2024-09-11 | ENDS IN "EAU" $1200: Traditionally, a bride kept this collection of items that she was bringing into her marriage in a cedar hope chest a trousseau |
#9158, aired 2024-09-11 | ENDS IN "EAU" $1600: Inspired by a palace in France, Ben & Bernice Novack built this iconic Miami hotel the Fontainebleau |
#9158, aired 2024-09-11 | ENDS IN "EAU" $2000: At the beginning of "The Invisible Man", the stranger, walking from a railway station, was carrying a black one of these a portmanteau |
#9157, aired 2024-09-10 | ISLANDS IN THE SEA $200: St. Barthélemy, & St. George's Cay the Caribbean |
#9157, aired 2024-09-10 | ISLANDS IN THE SEA $400: Delos, Naxos & Patmos the Aegean |
#9157, aired 2024-09-10 | ISLANDS IN THE SEA $600: Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, ravaged by Vikings in the 8th century the North Sea |
#9157, aired 2024-09-10 | ISLANDS IN THE SEA $800: Nunivak Island & the Pribilof Islands the Bering Sea |
#9157, aired 2024-09-10 | ISLANDS IN THE SEA $1000: Bulgaria's St. Anastasia Island & Turkey's Giresun Island the Black Sea |
#9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A DATE IN HISTORY $200: After this couple's first date in 1894, she went home to Poland while he wrote her letters about his "dream for science" Marie Curie & Pierre Curie |
#9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A DATE IN HISTORY $400: In Tarsus in 41 B.C. Cleopatra wooed this beefy Roman by arriving to a date dressed as Venus Marc Antony |
#9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A DATE IN HISTORY $800: On one of this duo's early dates in 1930, he crashed on her couch & in the morning, the Dallas police arrested him Bonnie & Clyde |
#9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A DATE IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In the summer of 1989, this not-yet-famous couple went on a movie date in Chicago & saw a Spike Lee film the Obamas |
#9155, aired 2024-07-26 | A DATE IN HISTORY $1000: A tale of a medieval hookup: this pair met in Paris around 1115, had a son, but lived on separated as monk & nun Abelard & Héloïse |
#9154, aired 2024-07-25 | PUTTING THE "T" IN TV $200: Emeril Lagasse & Wolfgang Puck have served as judges on this competition that's been cooking since 2006 Top Chef |
#9154, aired 2024-07-25 | WORDS IN A DICKENS TITLE $200: To wrench an ankle; ouch! twist |
#9154, aired 2024-07-25 | THEY COME IN PAIRS $200: Before these were tiny headphones, the term referred to little shoots of young corn earbuds |
#9154, aired 2024-07-25 | PUTTING THE "T" IN TV $400: From 1993 to 2001, Chuck Norris was Walker, this Texas Ranger |
#9154, aired 2024-07-25 | WORDS IN A DICKENS TITLE $400: It's said to have finished off the nosy feline curiosity |
#9154, aired 2024-07-25 | THEY COME IN PAIRS $400: A 90-pack--that's 45 pairs!--of these from Bausch & Lomb should keep things clear for awhile contact lenses |
#9154, aired 2024-07-25 | PUTTING THE "T" IN TV $600: Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa & Po were the big 4 on this BBC kids' show that opened with a creepy baby face in the rising sun Teletubbies |
#9154, aired 2024-07-25 | THEY COME IN PAIRS $600: Before cellphones, every kid wanted a pair of these rhyming handheld communication devices walkie talkies |
#9154, aired 2024-07-25 | PUTTING THE "T" IN TV $800: It preceded "The Sarah Connor Chronicles" in the title of a sci-fi series Terminator |
#9154, aired 2024-07-25 | WORDS IN A DICKENS TITLE $800: As a verb it can mean to sing joyously, perhaps at holiday time carol |
#9154, aired 2024-07-25 | THEY COME IN PAIRS $800: Galileo made a table of probabilities based on a set of 3 of these, but today we more often see them in pairs dice |
#9154, aired 2024-07-25 | WORDS IN A DICKENS TITLE $1,000 (Daily Double): Type of fund that invests in diversified securities mutual |
#9154, aired 2024-07-25 | PUTTING THE "T" IN TV $1000: Its 8th & last season finale ended with its characters ringing in January 1, 1980 That '70s Show |
#9154, aired 2024-07-25 | WORDS IN A DICKENS TITLE $1000: This type of secret cult religion in the ancient Greco-Roman world offered unique experiences unlike those in the standard faiths a mystery |
#9154, aired 2024-07-25 | THEY COME IN PAIRS $1000: Up to 7 feet long, the traditional Alaskan type of these are great for walking on deep, dry powder in open country snowshoes |
#9153, aired 2024-07-24 | MEDALISTS IN PARIS $200: Richard Norris Williams won Olympic gold in 1924, 12 years after jumping off this ship into icy water & almost losing his legs the Titanic |
#9153, aired 2024-07-24 | MEDALISTS IN PARIS $400: Chemist Jean-Marie Tarascon won a 2022 gold medal for work on the lithium-ion type of these battery |
#9153, aired 2024-07-24 | MEDALISTS IN PARIS $600: The Institut de France houses 5 of these scholarly bodies & the medals of the one of sciences are awarded under its dome academies |
#9153, aired 2024-07-24 | MEDALISTS IN PARIS $800: Born during the French Open in 1986, he grew up to dominate the event & receive the Grand Vermeil Medal of the City of Paris Nadal |
#9153, aired 2024-07-24 | MEDALISTS IN PARIS $1000: Military medal ceremonies are often held in the courtyard of this complex that was begun to serve injured veterans Les Invalides |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | SPRING IN YOUR STEP $200: An order from Gimbels department store helped elevate sales of these sticks, a 1920s fad pogo sticks |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | DROP IN $400: Drop "in" from the end of a synonym for start & get this verb that goes with "borrow or steal" beg (from begin) |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | SPRING IN YOUR STEP $400: A nursery rhyme concerns nimble, quick Jack & this feat of his jump over the candlestick |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | SPRING IN YOUR STEP $600: The reptile Phrynocephalus guttatus can jump 8 inches, so a group would qualify for this Little Orphan Annie catchphrase leapin' lizards! |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | DROP IN $800: Steal "in" from a Hood who stole to get this synonym for steal rob (from Robin) |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | SPRING IN YOUR STEP $800: Call it puma, cougar or by this 2-word name, it has a 40-foot horizontal & 20-foot vertical leap mountain lion |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | SPRING IN YOUR STEP $1000: There's bouncing & leaping aplenty in "Alegría", called this troupe's most iconic show Cirque du Soleil |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | DROP IN $1200: A word meaning added together subtracts its "in" to get this word for what you did to your hair combed (from combined) |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | DROP IN $1600: Lose "in" from a small statuette to get this shape of the human body figure (from figurine) |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | DROP IN $2,000 (Daily Double): Kick both "in"s out of a 2-word principal route of a railroad to get this gendered 4-letter word male (from main line) |
#9149, aired 2024-07-18 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $400: "Moby-Dick" begins with one of the most famous first lines in literature--these 3 words Call me Ishmael |
#9149, aired 2024-07-18 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $800: This Stephen King novel about a world blasted by plague was reissued in 1990, restoring some 150,000 deleted words The Stand |
#9149, aired 2024-07-18 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1200: His "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" takes place nearly a century before the events of "A Game of Thrones" Martin |
#9149, aired 2024-07-18 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $1600: The cruel Mrs. Reed loathes this niece, the title character of a Brontë novel, & deprives her of an inheritance Jane Eyre |
#9149, aired 2024-07-18 | IN THE BOOKSTORE $2000: In 1993 this African-American sci-fi writer published "The Parable of the Sower", about chaos in 2020s California (Octavia) Butler |
#9146, aired 2024-07-15 | COLLEGE IN NEW ENGLAND $200: Getting into this New Hampshire Ivy? Plausible but difficult, as the acceptance rate for the 2027 class was 6.2% Dartmouth |
#9146, aired 2024-07-15 | COLLEGE IN NEW ENGLAND $400: Perhaps the Dominican Friars who founded this college in the same-named state capital in 1917 were inspired by divine... Providence |
#9146, aired 2024-07-15 | FASHION IN BOOKS $400: This ghost wore a chain "clasped about his middle" that was made of "cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, & heavy purses" Marley |
#9146, aired 2024-07-15 | THE WORLD IN 1776 $400: In a hymn written during the year, this title precedes "cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee" "Rock Of Ages" |
#9146, aired 2024-07-15 | COLLEGE IN NEW ENGLAND $600: In 1800 7 students enrolled at Middlebury College in this state; in 2024, 2,800 undergrads were roaming around Vermont |
#9146, aired 2024-07-15 | COLLEGE IN NEW ENGLAND $800: This college for women in Northampton, Mass. opened in 1875 but didn't get its first female pres. until 100 years later Smith |
#9146, aired 2024-07-15 | THE WORLD IN 1776 $800: The Revolution was struggling when the Brits took Fort Lee in this state, future home of Dr. Joyce Brothers & Mr. Richard Feder New Jersey |
#9146, aired 2024-07-15 | FASHION IN BOOKS $1200: A "kilt skirt & a big white hat" is one outfit that made this "Little" title boy a byword for fancy dressing Little Lord Fauntleroy |
#9146, aired 2024-07-15 | THE WORLD IN 1776 $1200: Pedro de Cevallos was named the first viceroy of this South American region that shares its name with an estuary the Rio de la Plata region |
#9146, aired 2024-07-15 | COLLEGE IN NEW ENGLAND $1,400 (Daily Double): Founded in 1948, this university was named for this first Jewish justice on the U.S. Supreme Court Brandeis |
#9146, aired 2024-07-15 | FASHION IN BOOKS $1600: We're told this character "always wears a single white Hermes scarf" &, we can assume from the title, she also wears Prada Miranda Priestly |
#9146, aired 2024-07-15 | THE WORLD IN 1776 $1600: November 1, 1776 is observed as the founding date of this 7th mission in California; no word as to exactly when the swallows came (San Juan) Capistrano |
#9146, aired 2024-07-15 | FASHION IN BOOKS $2000: This "American Psycho" outlines his morning routine & puts on a suit from Alan Flusser, "an eighties drape suit" (Patrick) Bateman |
#9146, aired 2024-07-15 | FASHION IN BOOKS $3,000 (Daily Double): Aunt Alexandra & Atticus Finch get into an argument about this narrator wearing overalls Scout |
#9146, aired 2024-07-15 | THE WORLD IN 1776 $3,000 (Daily Double): Alessandro Volta noted bubbles rising from marshy water & identified this gas methane |
#9145, aired 2024-07-12 | WHO'S SPEAKING IN THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS $200: "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed--or worse, expelled" Hermione Granger |
#9145, aired 2024-07-12 | WHO'S SPEAKING IN THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS $400: "You have permitted your friends to die for you rather than face me yourself. I shall wait for one hour in the Forbidden Forest" Voldemort |
#9145, aired 2024-07-12 | WHO'S SPEAKING IN THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS $600: "Tiny little bloke, my dad was. By the time I was six I could lift him up an' put him on top o' the dresser" Hagrid |
#9145, aired 2024-07-12 | WHO'S SPEAKING IN THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS $800: "You are here to learn the subtle science & exact art of potion-making" Snape |
#9145, aired 2024-07-12 | WHO'S SPEAKING IN THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS $1000: "I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for" Sirius Black |
#9144, aired 2024-07-11 | STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE $200: In 1765 this future capital got its name to show that a boundary dispute with Massachusetts had ended peacefully Concord |
#9144, aired 2024-07-11 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $200: Her resume includes governor of Alaska, vice presidential candidate & Bear on "The Masked Singer" Palin |
#9144, aired 2024-07-11 | STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE $400: Derry, New Hampshire, has a peak named for a longtime resident family, including this first American in space & the fifth to walk on the Moon Shepard |
#9144, aired 2024-07-11 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $400: Japanese-born Mazie Hirono became a naturalized citizen of this state in 1959 & a senator in 2013 Hawaii |
#9144, aired 2024-07-11 | STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE $600: The first (& only) U.S. president from New Hampshire, he was also the youngest to serve at the time, age 48 at inauguration Pierce |
#9144, aired 2024-07-11 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $600: Condoleezza Rice's successor as Secretary of State, she visited more than 100 countries during her tenure Hillary Clinton |
#9144, aired 2024-07-11 | STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE $800: In 1934 it got a bit breezy at this N.H. mountain, the highest peak of the White Mountains, with winds clocking in at 231 mph Mount Washington |
#9144, aired 2024-07-11 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $800: South Carolina's first female governor, she had bigger plans for 2024 but they didn't work out Haley |
#9144, aired 2024-07-11 | STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE $1000: It'll be a notch in your belt if you know this town, as always, voted right after midnight on Election Day 1984; Reagan won, 29-1 Dixville Notch, New Hampshire |
#9144, aired 2024-07-11 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $1000: In 1941 this congresswoman said, "As a woman I can't go to war, & I refuse to send anyone else" Jeannette Rankin |
#9143, aired 2024-07-10 | ROUGH TIMES IN THE CITY $200: In 1871 Patrick & Catherine O'Leary owned a cow in this city; a bovine pyromaniac? History is unsure, but the fire was devastating Chicago |
#9143, aired 2024-07-10 | ENDS IN "GH" $400: In golf it's the area of grass bordering a fairway that's deliberately kept longer than the fairway grass the rough |
#9143, aired 2024-07-10 | ROUGH TIMES IN THE CITY $400: In 1812 a 7.7 earthquake pretty much destroyed this Venezuelan capital Caracas |
#9143, aired 2024-07-10 | ROUGH TIMES IN THE CITY $600: Of death & presidents: Grover Cleveland was "The Hangman of" it & William McKinley was assassinated there Buffalo |
#9143, aired 2024-07-10 | ENDS IN "GH" $800: A sad WWI poem is about a rifleman with his name carved "on the willow-tree" this a bough |
#9143, aired 2024-07-10 | ROUGH TIMES IN THE CITY $800: The Beer Hall Putsch in this city was a 1923 coup attempt that led to Hitler's all-too-brief imprisonment Munich |
#9143, aired 2024-07-10 | ENDS IN "GH" $1200: The Bible says, "Every man hath his sword upon" this part of the leg the thigh |
#9143, aired 2024-07-10 | ROUGH TIMES IN THE CITY $1,400 (Daily Double): On Dec. 14, 1825 the Decembrist revolt in this port city sought to end serfdom; harshly, forcefully, serfdom did not end St. Petersburg |
#9143, aired 2024-07-10 | ENDS IN "GH" $2,000 (Daily Double): Fittingly, since the audience is about to go home, it's the last word spoken by Macbeth enough |
#9143, aired 2024-07-10 | ENDS IN "GH" $2000: This verb means to protest vehemently or to vent angry disapproval to inveigh |
#9139, aired 2024-07-04 | SAME ROLE IN THE FRANCHISE $200: "Star Wars":
Billy Dee Williams & Donald Glover, both so smooth in any galaxy Lando |
#9139, aired 2024-07-04 | SAME ROLE IN THE FRANCHISE $400: "Mission: Impossible", which better be possible now:
Jon Voight &
Peter Graves Jim Phelps |
#9139, aired 2024-07-04 | SEE YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPYRUS $400: In a papyrus from the Christian era, Bast, a goddess in the form of this animal, debates a canine on matters of the universe a cat |
#9139, aired 2024-07-04 | SAME ROLE IN THE FRANCHISE $600: "Batman":
Andy Serkis & Michael Caine, on the home front Alfred |
#9139, aired 2024-07-04 | SEE YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPYRUS $800: In "The Satire of the Trades", a man with this ancient writing job speaks on the cons of physical work out in the cold a scribe |
#9139, aired 2024-07-04 | SAME ROLE IN THE FRANCHISE $800: "X-Men":
Jennifer Lawrence & Rebecca Romijn worked blue Mystique |
#9139, aired 2024-07-04 | SAME ROLE IN THE FRANCHISE $1000: "Dune":
Jason Momoa & Richard Jordan, on team Atreides Duncan Idaho |
#9139, aired 2024-07-04 | SEE YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPYRUS $1200: A pretty mangled piece of papyrus contains part of the Tithonus poem, a work attributed to this poet of Lesbos Sappho |
#9139, aired 2024-07-04 | SEE YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPYRUS $2000: The Westcar Papyrus contains stories about the royal court of this pharaoh of the Old Kingdom, aka Cheops Khufu |
#9139, aired 2024-07-04 | SEE YOU IN THE FUNNY PAPYRUS $3,000 (Daily Double): Written more than 4,000 years ago, the Diary of Merer found near the Suez Gulf is called this, rhyming with mss. from around Qumran the Red Sea Scrolls |
#9133, aired 2024-06-26 | IN YOUR DREAMS! $200: Greaves were part of a suit of this armor |
#9133, aired 2024-06-26 | IN YOUR DREAMS! $400: This 5-letter verb means to wake someone up from sleep & get 'em moving rouse |
#9133, aired 2024-06-26 | IN YOUR DREAMS! $600: The "truth"? This lifesaver is from the Latin for "watery fluid" serum |
#9133, aired 2024-06-26 | IN YOUR DREAMS! $800: While you ponder, weak & weary, its synonyms include dismal & gloomy dreary |
#9133, aired 2024-06-26 | IN YOUR DREAMS! $1000: I'm filled with this, the heat of desire or passion, from Latin for "burn" ardor |
#9132, aired 2024-06-25 | STARS IN THE MAKING $200: Michael Peña had a small role on "Moesha" before his career grew to include aiding this tiny title Marvel guy in 2015 Ant Man |
#9132, aired 2024-06-25 | WE PUT IT IN SPACE $400: 25 years ago, NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory was launched into space aboard the Columbia, this type of craft a space shuttle |
#9132, aired 2024-06-25 | STARS IN THE MAKING $400: In 2013, she was Hayley in an episode of "Days of Our Lives", but by 2022, she'd learned how to "Scream" in movies Jenna Ortega |
#9132, aired 2024-06-25 | STARS IN THE MAKING $600: Her tale of a handmaid still in the future, she played President Bartlet's daughter Zoey on "The West Wing" Elisabeth Moss |
#9132, aired 2024-06-25 | WE PUT IT IN SPACE $800: Navstar 1 was the first satellite equipped with this technology; it's now in smartphones & dog collars GPS |
#9132, aired 2024-06-25 | STARS IN THE MAKING $800: About 2 decades before being a "True Detective", he was part of the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation" in 1995 Matthew McConaughey |
#9132, aired 2024-06-25 | STARS IN THE MAKING $1000: Before somehow making tennis steamy in 2024, this single-named star guested on Disney Channel's "Good Luck Charlie" Zendaya |
#9132, aired 2024-06-25 | WE PUT IT IN SPACE $1200: In 2018 a Falcon rocket with a dummy payload put a Roadster from this company up in space Tesla |
#9132, aired 2024-06-25 | WE PUT IT IN SPACE $1600: The weather satellite GOES-16 was launched in 2016 by NOAA, short for this administration the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration |
#9132, aired 2024-06-25 | WE PUT IT IN SPACE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2022 this new telescope captured an image of Maisie's Galaxy, formed just 390 million years after the Big Bang the James Webb Space Telescope |
#9130, aired 2024-06-21 | ENDS IN DOUBLE "E" $400: It's an embankment raised alongside a river, perhaps the Mississippi, to prevent it from overflowing a levee |
#9130, aired 2024-06-21 | ENDS IN DOUBLE "E" $800: From the French for "retort", it's witty conversation marked by quick responses repartee |
#9130, aired 2024-06-21 | ENDS IN DOUBLE "E" $1200: Paridae is a family of smallish birds such as the titmouse & this one a chickadee |
#9130, aired 2024-06-21 | ENDS IN DOUBLE "E" $1600: This word for a wild close-quarter brawl can also mean a confused jumble of people in a crowd a melee |
#9130, aired 2024-06-21 | ENDS IN DOUBLE "E" $2000: Fisherman father of the Apostles James & John in the Bible Zebedee |
#9128, aired 2024-06-19 | ROPED IN $200: It's the "national" name for the kids' game with 2 jump ropes turning in opposite directions Double Dutch |
#9128, aired 2024-06-19 | ROPED IN $400: This synonym for "lasso" comes from the Spanish reata, meaning rope lariat |
#9128, aired 2024-06-19 | ROPED IN $600: Boxing legend Archie Moore called a defense "the turtle shell"; Muhammad Ali adapted it to what he called this the rope-a-dope |
#9128, aired 2024-06-19 | ROPED IN $800: Clove & half are 2 of these knots used to tie a rope to a post or other support a hitch |
#9128, aired 2024-06-19 | ROPED IN $1000: Tensions between rope makers & British soldiers helped lead to a March 1770 shooting of civilians in this city Boston |
#9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $400: With dueling illegal, Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr shot it out at Weehawken, New Jersey, a quiet spot along this river the Hudson |
#9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $800: Rosa Parks was on the Cleveland Avenue bus in this city when she sat down for her rights in 1955 Montgomery |
#9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $1200: Mathematician Gaspard Monge was on Napoleon's 1798 expedition to this country, where he studied the physics of mirages Egypt |
#9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Before Hannibal could cross the Alps, he had to bring his army through this other European mountain range the Pyrenees |
#9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $2000: When it became historic in 1215, the name of this spot by the Thames meant "meadow on council island" Runnymede |
#9125, aired 2024-06-14 | ANOTHER DAY IN PARASITES $400: In truly a hairy situation, these parasitic insects have biting types & sucking types, all of which sound just delightful lice |
#9125, aired 2024-06-14 | ANOTHER DAY IN PARASITES $800: That ain't your house! Cuckoos practice brood parasitism, putting an egg in this place, so other birds rear the young a different nest |
#9125, aired 2024-06-14 | ANOTHER DAY IN PARASITES $1600: You give me fever, the hard type of this parasite--
Texas cattle fever, hemorrhagic fever,
Q fever... ticks |
#9125, aired 2024-06-14 | ANOTHER DAY IN PARASITES $2,000 (Daily Double): Anopheles mosquitoes transmit one-celled parasites of the genus Plasmodium to humans, causing this sometimes-fatal disease malaria |
#9125, aired 2024-06-14 | ANOTHER DAY IN PARASITES $2000: Parasitic worms in undercooked pork can cause this disease, so cook those BBQ ribs to at least 137 degrees trichinosis |
#9121, aired 2024-06-10 | THERE'S GOLD IN YOUR FUTURE $400: From Canada to your supermarket, the Yukon Gold is a variety of this with smooth skin & yellow flesh a potato |
#9121, aired 2024-06-10 | THERE'S GOLD IN YOUR FUTURE $800: On January 7, 2024 Emma Stone won one of these awards for her performance in "Poor Things" a Golden Globe |
#9121, aired 2024-06-10 | THERE'S GOLD IN YOUR FUTURE $1200: The 2024 Gold Wing motorcycle from this Japanese manufacturer features an 1833cc liquid-cooled engine a Honda |
#9121, aired 2024-06-10 | THERE'S GOLD IN YOUR FUTURE $1600: A poem by Carol Ann Duffy about "the woman who married the fool who wished for gold" is titled "Mrs." this mythic king Midas |
#9121, aired 2024-06-10 | THERE'S GOLD IN YOUR FUTURE $2000: Today in a temple of this capital city on the Chao Praya River, the Golden Buddha contains 5 1/2 tons of pure gold Bangkok |
#9119, aired 2024-06-06 | WOMEN IN THE BIBLE $400: This widow with a Bible book named after her remarries but remains devoted to her first mother-in-law Naomi Ruth |
#9119, aired 2024-06-06 | WOMEN IN THE BIBLE $800: In Acts 17 a woman named Damaris was receptive to a sermon in Athens by this apostle of Tarsus Paul |
#9119, aired 2024-06-06 | WOMEN IN THE BIBLE $1200: The daughter of Herodias requested this gruesome gift from King Herod the head of John the Baptist |
#9119, aired 2024-06-06 | WOMEN IN THE BIBLE $1600: This queen states, "If I perish, I perish" after agreeing to find a way to derail a murderous decree instigated by Haman Esther |
#9119, aired 2024-06-06 | WOMEN IN THE BIBLE $2000: Jacob marries Leah after 7 years of hard labor for her dad; after 7 more years of work, he marries this sister of Leah Rachel |
#9117, aired 2024-06-04 | IN A STORM $400: In a 2014 film Russell Crowe as this title character sees storms on the biblical horizon & goes to see his granddad Methuselah Noah |
#9117, aired 2024-06-04 | IN A STORM $800: accuweather.com debunked the premise of this 2013 TV movie, saying marine life could not be swept up by the title storm Sharknado |
#9117, aired 2024-06-04 | IN A STORM $1200: Dennis Quaid sounded the alarm on climate change in this 2004 movie that saw the world plunged into a new ice age The Day After Tomorrow |
#9117, aired 2024-06-04 | IN A STORM $1600: Bogie attests, "One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for" in this tempest-tossed John Huston thriller Key Largo |
#9117, aired 2024-06-04 | IN A STORM $2000: This Tarantino Western finds its title characters taking refuge from a nasty blizzard in a Wyoming cabin The Hateful Eight |
#9115, aired 2024-05-31 | IN THE FRUIT BASKET $200: Lima,
Cara Cara,
Navel oranges |
#9115, aired 2024-05-31 | IN THE FRUIT BASKET $400: Ribston Pippin,
Golden Delicious, Empire apples |
#9115, aired 2024-05-31 | IN THE FRUIT BASKET $600: Rainier,
Montmorency, Maraschino cherries |
#9115, aired 2024-05-31 | IN THE FRUIT BASKET $800: Adriatic,
Calimyrna,
Black Mission figs |
#9115, aired 2024-05-31 | IN THE FRUIT BASKET $1000: Moon Drop,
Muscat,
Catawba grapes |
#9114, aired 2024-05-30 | SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE $400: In the title of a Rascal Flatts song, "Life Is" this type of road a highway |
#9114, aired 2024-05-30 | SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE $800: In one version of this song, Elton John uses the phrase "it's the wheel of fortune" "The Circle Of Life" |
#9114, aired 2024-05-30 | SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE $1200: Ezra Koenig sang about "life & all its suffering" as lead singer of this band, not Dracula Workday but... Vampire Weekend |
#9114, aired 2024-05-30 | SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE $1600: This ordinal band sang about a "semi-charmed kind of life" in a song with a lot of doo doo doo, doo doo-doo doos Third Eye Blind |
#9114, aired 2024-05-30 | SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE $2000: This rapper said "life is good" with Drake & repped the "Low Life" with Abel Tesfaye Future |
#9111, aired 2024-05-27 | "Y" IN THE MIDDLE $400: Labored breathing & damaged alveoli may be aspects of this lung condition emphysema |
#9111, aired 2024-05-27 | "Y" IN THE MIDDLE $800: Synonyms for this word from French include vestibule & lobby foyer |
#9111, aired 2024-05-27 | "Y" IN THE MIDDLE $1200: This pastime was a Victorian craze, & later, a favorite game of Prince Philip Tiddlywinks |
#9111, aired 2024-05-27 | "Y" IN THE MIDDLE $1600: This highly flammable gas, C2H2, is employed for welding, cutting & illumination acetylene |
#9111, aired 2024-05-27 | "Y" IN THE MIDDLE $2000: Equipped with sturdy teeth, one of these is used for grooming Arabians & Appaloosas a currycomb |
#9110, aired 2024-05-24 | UP IN THE AIR $400: Armed forces are eager to get their hands on the Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicle, more commonly called this drone |
#9110, aired 2024-05-24 | UP IN THE AIR $800: Paper wasps are often mistaken for these colorful wasps, but the paper wasps dangle their legs in flight instead of tucking them under a yellowjacket |
#9110, aired 2024-05-24 | UP IN THE AIR $1200: In tennis a drop shot & this lofted shot make a lethal combination, as practiced by Carlos Alcaraz a lob |
#9110, aired 2024-05-24 | UP IN THE AIR $1600: The G650 & G650ER are business jets from this manufacturer Gulfstream |
#9110, aired 2024-05-24 | UP IN THE AIR $2000: Known for stealing food from other birds in midair, this type of bird shares a name with a speedy 3-mast ship of yore a frigate bird |
#9109, aired 2024-05-23 | WHERE IN "THE" WORLD? $400: A group of resort communities on the eastern end of Long Island the Hamptons |
#9109, aired 2024-05-23 | WHERE IN "THE" WORLD? $800: A coveted border region of Western Europe remilitarized in 1936 in a precursor to World War II the Rhineland |
#9109, aired 2024-05-23 | WHERE IN "THE" WORLD? $1200: As part of an Angeleno freeway-naming quirk, the L.A. part of the single-digit freeway shown here is known as this the 5 |
#9109, aired 2024-05-23 | WHERE IN "THE" WORLD? $1600: A narrow strait connecting the Aegean Sea & the Sea of Marmara the Dardanelles |
#9109, aired 2024-05-23 | WHERE IN "THE" WORLD? $2000: A coastal region of North Africa between the Sahara Desert & the Mediterranean Sea the Maghreb |
#9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IN THE WEEDS $200: The flowers of this yard weed, also known as wild endive & puffball, can be used to produce a pale yellow dye a dandelion |
#9108, aired 2024-05-22 | ENDS IN "ITE" $200: Watch your head! The largest one of these space rocks discovered on Earth was 9 feet long & weighed an estimated 60 tons a meteorite |
#9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $400: This 1985 educational computer game features the title globetrotting female antagonist Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? |
#9108, aired 2024-05-22 | ENDS IN "ITE" $400: In math this type of set has a countable number of elements finite |
#9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IN THE WEEDS $400: The world record for number of leaves on a stem of this, Trifolium repens, is 56 found in Japan in 2009; that's 14 times the luck! a shamrock (clover) |
#9108, aired 2024-05-22 | ENDS IN "ITE" $600: Plumbago is another name for this form of carbon graphite |
#9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IN THE WEEDS $600: A brown Crayola color is named for this plant that blows down the streets of Western towns a tumbleweed |
#9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $800: Edward Albee won his first Tony for this 1962 drama in which marital arguments are blood sport Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
#9108, aired 2024-05-22 | ENDS IN "ITE" $800: A famous slogan found in the "Communist Manifesto" & on Karl Marx' gravestone ends with this word unite |
#9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IN THE WEEDS $800: The common type of this weed, genus ambrosia, can set off hay fever symptoms ragweed |
#9108, aired 2024-05-22 | ENDS IN "ITE" $1000: It's a follower of Islam's second-largest branch a Shiite |
#9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IN THE WEEDS $1000: Milk, Russian & bull are types of this prickly stemmed weed thistles |
#9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $1200: The website for the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame included this oft-asked query when discussing the Lone Ranger Who was that masked man? |
#9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $2000: In Matthew 27 in the King James Version, Jesus cries out, "My God, my God", then this anguished question why hast thou forsaken me |
#9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $6,000 (Daily Double): In a relatively famous play, this 4-word question precedes "Deny thy father & refuse thy name" Wherefore art thou Romeo |
#38, aired 2024-05-22 | NAMES IN FASHION $200: In the TV series "The New Look" about fashion emerging from WWII, Ben Mendelsohn is Dior & Juliette Binoche is this rival Chanel |
#38, aired 2024-05-22 | WOMEN IN POEMS $400: "Highborn kinsmen" separated her from her love & "shut her up in a sepulchre" in a "kingdom by the sea" Annabel Lee |
#38, aired 2024-05-22 | NAMES IN FASHION $400: Hervé Léger made his name with this figure-hugging dress; Kim Kardashian was an avowed fan the bandage dress |
#38, aired 2024-05-22 | NAMES IN FASHION $600: Learning to sew in Auschwitz, Martin Greenfield went on to dress presidents, Sinatra & this mobster who wore a 40-short Meyer Lansky |
#38, aired 2024-05-22 | NAMES IN FASHION $800: This fashion house founded by a Spaniard was the first to partner with Fortnite, creating luxury skins for players Balenciaga |
#38, aired 2024-05-22 | NAMES IN FASHION $1000: In 2024 the fashion world was stunned as this Belgian designer announced plans for his retirement van Noten |
#38, aired 2024-05-22 | WOMEN IN POEMS $1200: Sylvia Plath titled a poem "Lady" this biblical figure; "Out of the ash I rise with my red hair" Lazarus |
#38, aired 2024-05-22 | WOMEN IN POEMS $1600: The title ruler of this long Shelley poem drives a time chariot; the spirit of Shelley's first child is her passenger Queen Mab |
#38, aired 2024-05-22 | WOMEN IN POEMS $2000: In 1862 this sister of a painter/poet introduced us to Lizzie & Laura, both tempted by the wares of "the Goblin Market" Christina Rossetti |
#38, aired 2024-05-22 | WOMEN IN POEMS $13,600 (Daily Double): This lass was the daughter of Benedict Bellefontaine, "the wealthiest farmer of Grand-Pre" Evangeline |
#37, aired 2024-05-22 | WAY BACK IN '23 $200: Newspapers used this euphemistic & alliterative 2-word term to describe a 1923 attack by a white mob on a Black Florida town race riot |
#37, aired 2024-05-22 | WAY BACK IN '23 $400: In 1823 this eponymous man was elevated to superintendent of the Survey of India Everest |
#37, aired 2024-05-22 | WAY BACK IN '23 $600: In 1523 the Spanish fought a bloody battle in this C. American country & soon founded the city of Granada on a lake there Nicaragua |
#37, aired 2024-05-22 | WAY BACK IN '23 $800: For signing a treaty with the rebellious Scots, in 1323 the earl of Carlisle met with this grisly 3-part (or un-part) punishment hanging, drawing & quartering |
#37, aired 2024-05-22 | WAY BACK IN '23 $1000: Shakespeare left these 2 men a little something in his will; they repaid him by collecting his plays in the 1623 First Folio Heminges & Condell |
#36, aired 2024-05-20 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The unusual first name of this preacher born in 1639 to the Mathers of Massachusetts was a Puritan virtue/command Increase |
#36, aired 2024-05-20 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1883 she added the words "With Key to the Scriptures" to the title of her book "Science and Health" Eddy |
#36, aired 2024-05-20 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: In 1791 he sent Thomas Jefferson a copy of his almanac & a letter asking for better conditions for Black people Banneker |
#36, aired 2024-05-20 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1869 this explorer noted that the walls of the Grand Canyon were "2,500 feet tall" & of "vermilion gleams & rosy hues" Powell |
#36, aired 2024-05-20 | PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY $14,000 (Daily Double): In 1805 a tributary of Montana's Musselshell River was named in her honor Sacagawea |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | CHAPTERS IN BIOGRAPHIES $400: In a 2009 bio of this star: "Norma Jeane is Born", "How to Marry a Millionaire" Monroe |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | CAST MEMBERS IN THE REBOOT $400: No Lone Star on this show: Jordana Brewster as Elena & Josh Henderson as John Ross Ewing III Dallas |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | CAST MEMBERS IN THE REBOOT $800: From a Norman Lear sitcom: Isabella Gomez & Rita Moreno One Day at a Time |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | CHAPTERS IN BIOGRAPHIES $1200: In "The Mayor of Castro Street" about this man: "Gay Main Street", "Media Star" (Harvey) Milk |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | CAST MEMBERS IN THE REBOOT $1200: A princely reboot: Jabari Banks as Will & Cassandra Freeman as Aunt Viv Bel-Air |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | CHAPTERS IN BIOGRAPHIES $1600: "The Life and Times" of this author--"The South Side of Chicago", "Grappling with Bigger" Richard Wright |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | CAST MEMBERS IN THE REBOOT $1600: Chisme on the Upper East Side: Whitney Peak & Savannah Lee Smith Gossip Girl |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | CHAPTERS IN BIOGRAPHIES $2000: From a bio of this female biochemist: "Seine v. Strand", "The Acid Next Door" (Rosalind) Franklin |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | CAST MEMBERS IN THE REBOOT $2000: Set in L.A. during the Great Depression: Chris Chalk as Paul Drake & Matthew Rhys as the title lawyer Perry Mason |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | CHAPTERS IN BIOGRAPHIES $7,000 (Daily Double): In "Prairie Fires" about this author: "Pioneer Girl", "As a Farm Woman Thinks" Laura Ingalls Wilder |
#34, aired 2024-05-17 | SAY IT "IN" LATIN $400: It means "before birth" & is the title of a 1993 No. 1 album In Utero |
#34, aired 2024-05-17 | SAY IT "IN" LATIN $800: A sculpture of King Decebalus is 180' high & carved into a Danube cliff, so you need to see it this way, Latin for "where it is" in situ |
#34, aired 2024-05-17 | SAY IT "IN" LATIN $1600: Penitents can feel relieved when they hear this phrase that comes right after the Latin for "I absolve you from your sins" in nomine patris |
#34, aired 2024-05-17 | SAY IT "IN" LATIN $2000: It means for oneself, especially when going to court without a lawyer in propria persona |
#34, aired 2024-05-17 | SAY IT "IN" LATIN $6,000 (Daily Double): This narrative device is in contrast to beginning a story ab ovo ("from the egg") in medias res |
#9104, aired 2024-05-16 | CLOSE STATES IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION $200: In 1916 Woodrow Wilson could not take this northeastern state for granite, beating Charles Evans Hughes by just 56 votes New Hampshire |
#9104, aired 2024-05-16 | MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE $200: Lots of kids get otitis media, an inflammation of the lining of the middle this the middle ear |
#9104, aired 2024-05-16 | COUNTRIES WITH ONE THING IN COMMON $400: The Aarhus Theatre is an Art Nouveau icon of East Jutland in this country Denmark |
#9104, aired 2024-05-16 | CLOSE STATES IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION $400: Coming up 537 votes short in this state ended up losing the entire ball game for the Democratic candidate in 2000 Florida |
#9104, aired 2024-05-16 | MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE $400: The madhyama-pratipada or Middle Way of this religion promotes a middle path between extremes Buddhism |
#9104, aired 2024-05-16 | CLOSE STATES IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION $600: John Bell beat John Breckinridge by 156 to win Virginia in 1860; not so surprisingly, this guy got only 1.1% of the state's vote Lincoln |
#9104, aired 2024-05-16 | MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE $600: Everything will be just fine for this band that had an early 2000s hit with the upbeat song "The Middle" Jimmy Eat World |
#9104, aired 2024-05-16 | COUNTRIES WITH ONE THING IN COMMON $800: By 2050 this African nation is projected to be the third-most populous country in the world, ahead of the United States Nigeria |
#9104, aired 2024-05-16 | CLOSE STATES IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION $800: This Republican took Maryland over Alton Parker by 51 votes (Bully!) & over Eugene Debs by... a lot more (even more bully!) Teddy Roosevelt |
#9104, aired 2024-05-16 | MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE $800: Soccer coach Viktor Maslov pioneered the 4-4-2 formation with this position having the further up four on each side midfield |
#9104, aired 2024-05-16 | CLOSE STATES IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION $1000: Winning a battle in 1832, this "Great Compromiser" took Maryland by 4 votes, but Andrew Jackson won the war Clay |
#9104, aired 2024-05-16 | MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE $1000: This country sits directly between Yemen & Iraq Saudi Arabia |
#9104, aired 2024-05-16 | COUNTRIES WITH ONE THING IN COMMON $1200: Between Chile, five letters, & Brazil, six, is this country where at times the Uyuni Salt Flat turns into a giant mirror Bolivia |
#9104, aired 2024-05-16 | COUNTRIES WITH ONE THING IN COMMON $1600: Known for coffee cultivation & rising to 7,400 feet, the Blue Mountains are the highest in this country Jamaica |
#9104, aired 2024-05-16 | COUNTRIES WITH ONE THING IN COMMON $6,000 (Daily Double): It's the country that surrounds the Gambia Senegal |
#9103, aired 2024-05-15 | THE NEXT WORD IN THE DICTIONARY AFTER... $400: Amodiaquin (an antimalarial): this protozoan amoeba |
#9103, aired 2024-05-15 | IN THE PERIOD FILM $400: It's the role Nicole Kidman played in "Being the Ricardos" Lucille Ball (Lucy Arnaz) |
#9103, aired 2024-05-15 | THE NEXT WORD IN THE DICTIONARY AFTER... $800: Beidellite (a constituent of some clays): this color beige |
#9103, aired 2024-05-15 | IN THE PERIOD FILM $800: This funny guy directed, wrote & starred as a 1930s nightclub owner named Quick in 1989's "Harlem Nights" Eddie Murphy |
#9103, aired 2024-05-15 | THE NEXT WORD IN THE DICTIONARY AFTER... $1200: Leguleian (a pesky attorney): this type of edible veggie legume |
#9103, aired 2024-05-15 | IN THE PERIOD FILM $1200: In "Atonement", set partly during World War II, she played Cecilia Tallis; she's also been to the 1790s as Elizabeth Bennet Keira Knightley |
#9103, aired 2024-05-15 | THE NEXT WORD IN THE DICTIONARY AFTER... $1600: Rauwolfia (a somewhat poisonous tree): this verb meaning to pillage or plunder ravage |
#9103, aired 2024-05-15 | IN THE PERIOD FILM $1600: In 1996 Liam Neeson played this Irish freedom fighter who was killed in an ambush in 1922 Michael Collins |
#9103, aired 2024-05-15 | THE NEXT WORD IN THE DICTIONARY AFTER... $2000: Folsomoid (resembling a Folsom spear point): this, to incite a revolution foment |
#9103, aired 2024-05-15 | IN THE PERIOD FILM $2000: In 2020, this actor played a duke over on Netflix & in the period movie "Sylvie's Love", he played a jazz cat named Chico Regé-Jean Page |
#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 |
#31, aired 2024-05-15 | IN CONCEIVABLE $400: Usually said with a satisfying flourish, this French word is proclaimed when something appears as if by magic voilà |
#31, aired 2024-05-15 | MUSIC IN BOOKS $400: At the start of this Ralph Ellison novel, the nameless narrator listens to Louis Armstrong in an underground room Invisible Man |
#31, aired 2024-05-15 | OUT IN THE WORLD $400: The Basilica di Santa Croce in this city contains the tombs of Galileo, Machiavelli & other great Italians Florence |
#31, aired 2024-05-15 | MUSIC IN BOOKS $800: In this Nick Hornby novel, Rob puts Chuck Berry's "Back In The USA" & "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye in his top 5 High Fidelity |
#31, aired 2024-05-15 | IN CONCEIVABLE $1200: In "Foundation " Isaac Asimov pithily wrote that this "is the last refuge of the incompetent" violence |
#31, aired 2024-05-15 | MUSIC IN BOOKS $1200: In "Misery" Paul Sheldon thinks about this Cyndi Lauper song after Annie Wilkes goes wild with an axe "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" |
#31, aired 2024-05-15 | OUT IN THE WORLD $1200: Visit Gibraltar & you're sure to see this tailless primate, actually a species of macaque Barbary ape |
#31, aired 2024-05-15 | IN CONCEIVABLE $1600: Are you terse, concise or taciturn like the Spartans? Then this adjective describes you (but maybe not the clue) laconic |
#31, aired 2024-05-15 | MUSIC IN BOOKS $1600: This Londoner has her narrator watch "Top of the Pops" & dance to "Thriller" in her 2016 novel "Swing Time" Zadie Smith |
#31, aired 2024-05-15 | OUT IN THE WORLD $1600: This "Grand" palace was where Napoleon lived at Versailles (guess the "Petit" one was too petit) the Grand Trianon |
#31, aired 2024-05-15 | IN CONCEIVABLE $2000: 81.8% as long as "conceivable", in chemistry it's the term for the number of electron pairs an atom has to share with another atom covalence |
#31, aired 2024-05-15 | MUSIC IN BOOKS $2000: The Sinfonietta by Czech composer Leos Janacek features prominently in this Murakami book partly set in a world with 2 moons 1Q84 |
#31, aired 2024-05-15 | OUT IN THE WORLD $2000: Mexico is home to many of these underground pools with a name from the Mayan language cenote |
#31, aired 2024-05-15 | OUT IN THE WORLD $4,600 (Daily Double): This golden object was stolen by the Persians from India; Pahlavi shahs used reproductions for their coronations Peacock Throne |
#31, aired 2024-05-15 | IN CONCEIVABLE $6,800 (Daily Double): Rejoice, sinners! The Latin for "indulgence" or "grace" gives us this adjective meaning easily pardoned venial |
#30, aired 2024-05-13 | HAVING AN IN-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE $200: This lymphatic system organ is on the left side of the abdominal cavity under the diaphragm, & I'll vent mine if you don't know it the spleen |
#30, aired 2024-05-13 | NAMES IN SONGS $400: In a viral song, Drake was caught in his feelings & asked this name, "Do you love me? Are you riding?" Kiki |
#30, aired 2024-05-13 | HAVING AN IN-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE $400: A growth hormone secreting adenoma in this gland on the brain's underside is the most common cause of gigantism the pituitary |
#30, aired 2024-05-13 | HAVING AN IN-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE $600: If someone says you're getting long in the tooth, they're probably looking at these 8 front teeth incisors |
#30, aired 2024-05-13 | NAMES IN SONGS $800: An Erykah Badu song says, "I think ya better call" this title guy--"but you can't use my phone" Tyrone |
#30, aired 2024-05-13 | HAVING AN IN-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE $1000: Pain in your pectineus muscle, which flexes the thigh at the hip, is a sign of this anatomically named sports strain a groin pull |
#30, aired 2024-05-13 | NAMES IN SONGS $1200: This blues musician named an album & song "Lucille" B.B. King |
#30, aired 2024-05-13 | HAVING AN IN-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE $1,600 (Daily Double): Alphabetically, the brain's main lobes are frontal, occipital, parietal & this one responsible for hearing & memory temporal |
#30, aired 2024-05-13 | NAMES IN SONGS $1600: In a song by the Beatles, we're told this alliterative man likes to yell obscenities at the Queen Mean Mr. Mustard |
#30, aired 2024-05-13 | NAMES IN SONGS $2000: In this Red Hot Chili Peppers song, the title anti-heroine robs banks & steals hearts Dani California |
#27, aired 2024-05-10 | TRAILBLAZING WOMEN IN SPORTS $200: (Billie Jean King delivers the clue.) One of the best female soccer players in history, she was only 15 when she became a member of the U.S. women's national team & when she retired in 2004 she held a then-record of 158 international goals Mia Hamm |
#27, aired 2024-05-10 | IN THIS CORNER... $400: This state's extreme northwest is one of the four corners New Mexico |
#27, aired 2024-05-10 | TRAILBLAZING WOMEN IN SPORTS $400: (Billie Jean King delivers the clue.) Breaking barriers & setting records, in 2008 she became the first woman to win an Indy car series race & in 2009 she raced to a historic 3rd-place finish in the Indianapolis 500 Patrick |
#27, aired 2024-05-10 | TRAILBLAZING WOMEN IN SPORTS $600: (Billie Jean King delivers the clue.) Considered by many to be the greatest female athlete ever, in 1992 she became the first woman to win the heptathlon at consecutive Olympic games Jackie Joyner-Kersee |
#27, aired 2024-05-10 | IN THIS CORNER... $800: Part of this stretch with a colorful French name, Menton is the last town in southeast France before you reach Italy the Côte d'Azur |
#27, aired 2024-05-10 | TRAILBLAZING WOMEN IN SPORTS $800: (Billie Jean King delivers the clue.) Told she'd never walk again, this athlete overcame polio to become the first American woman to win 3 gold medals in track & field at a single Olympics (Wilma) Rudolph |
#27, aired 2024-05-10 | TRAILBLAZING WOMEN IN SPORTS $1000: (Billie Jean King delivers the clue.) The "Divine Miss M" of tennis, this trailblazer dominated the game in the 1930s, won the Triple Crown at Wimbledon in 1939, including the mixed doubles with, um... Bobby Riggs, & she was also one of my early coaches Alice Marble |
#27, aired 2024-05-10 | IN THIS CORNER... $1200: St. Sophia Church shows the strong historic links to Russia in Harbin, a city near the northeast corner of this country China |
#27, aired 2024-05-10 | IN THIS CORNER... $1600: On a cape in the southwest corner of Portugal, this 15th c. prince set up a place for explorers & geographers to share skills Henry the Navigator |
#27, aired 2024-05-10 | IN THIS CORNER... $2000: To go from southeast Angola to northwest Botswana you cross this Namibian strip named for a 19th century German leader the Caprivi Strip |
#9098, aired 2024-05-08 | THE FOLKS IN "I.T." $200: Before he partnered with Tina, he had what some call rock's first hit with "Rocket 88" Ike Turner |
#9098, aired 2024-05-08 | THE FOLKS IN "I.T." $400: She had a cameo as herself in the 1996 film "The First Wives Club" saying, "Don't get mad, get everything" Ivana Trump |
#9098, aired 2024-05-08 | THE FOLKS IN "I.T." $600: The Detroit Pistons retired this great point guard's number 11 jersey Isiah Thomas |
#9098, aired 2024-05-08 | THE FOLKS IN "I.T." $800: Married to actress Norma Shearer, this producer & boy wonder of Hollywood died at age 37 Irving Thalberg |
#9098, aired 2024-05-08 | THE FOLKS IN "I.T." $1000: This Russian author depicted "A Month in the Country" Ivan Turgenev |
#26, aired 2024-05-08 | CHEESING IN PUBLIC $200: Conrad Veidt, cheesing in "The Man Who Laughs", has been called an inspiration for this comic book character the Joker |
#26, aired 2024-05-08 | FIND THE GREEK LETTER IN... $400: ...a word describing a young woman in a sweet, innocent & sympathetic theatrical role nu (in ingenue) |
#26, aired 2024-05-08 | CLASSICAL IS IN $400: Early in life, Richard Strauss completed dozens of these, from the German for "song" lieder |
#26, aired 2024-05-08 | CHEESING IN PUBLIC $400: Back in the 1840s a British photographer instructed folks to "say" these dried fruits so people's mouths wouldn't move much prunes |
#26, aired 2024-05-08 | CHEESING IN PUBLIC $600: Pope for around 30 days in 1978, he was known as "The Smiling Pope" & was the first to choose a double name John Paul I |
#26, aired 2024-05-08 | FIND THE GREEK LETTER IN... $800: ...the species of mushrooms that produce a hallucinogenic experience psi (in psilocybin) |
#26, aired 2024-05-08 | CLASSICAL IS IN $800: His 1875 opera caused quite the stir with depictions of women smoking cigarettes, somewhat taboo at the time Bizet |
#26, aired 2024-05-08 | CHEESING IN PUBLIC $800: The smiling subject of "The Laughing Cavalier" by this artist is thought to be an unmarried Dutch merchant Hals |
#26, aired 2024-05-08 | CHEESING IN PUBLIC $1000: This ancient philosopher who developed atomic theory emphasized cheeriness; many paintings show him cheesing it up Democritus |
#26, aired 2024-05-08 | FIND THE GREEK LETTER IN... $1200: ...another Greek letter; what we're going for is 3 of the 5 letters eta (in theta) |
#26, aired 2024-05-08 | CLASSICAL IS IN $1200: Mendelssohn used sections from Psalms & 1 Kings for his oratorio about this biblical prophet Elijah |
#26, aired 2024-05-08 | FIND THE GREEK LETTER IN... $1600: ...the name of a wise Centaur who mentored Achilles in Greek myth chi (in Chiron) |
#26, aired 2024-05-08 | CLASSICAL IS IN $1600: At age 19 this virtuoso pianist won a gold medal with a one-act opera based on a poem by his countryman Pushkin Rachmaninoff |
#26, aired 2024-05-08 | FIND THE GREEK LETTER IN... $2000: ...the word for a building like the former Tewksbury one in Massachusetts or where excess spending puts you rho (in poorhouse) |
#26, aired 2024-05-08 | CLASSICAL IS IN $2000: After writing his only opera, "Duke Bluebeard's Castle", he served in the Hungarian Soviet Republic's music directorate Bartók |
#25, aired 2024-05-08 | IN THE PAST $400: Home to about 16 million, this nation aka the GDR ceased to be in October 1990 East Germany |
#25, aired 2024-05-08 | IN THE PAST $800: Before Waterloo, an allied army under this commander decisively defeated the French at the Battle of Vitoria in Spain in 1813 Wellington |
#25, aired 2024-05-08 | IN THE PAST $1200: An indigenous soldier in British India; a rebellion named for them is also called India's first war of independence sepoy |
#25, aired 2024-05-08 | IN THE PAST $1600: The first tomb meant for Tut was taken by a guy named Ay who served Tut as this 6-letter chief minister & later became pharaoh, too vizier |
#25, aired 2024-05-08 | IN THE PAST $2000: This once thriving indigenous group survives in smallish numbers in South America; those in the Caribbean are called Taíno the Arawak |
#9097, aired 2024-05-07 | WORDS IN JEOPARDY $200: This word for a container of jam or pickles comes from the Arabic for a water vessel jar |
#9097, aired 2024-05-07 | DEATH IN THE CAPITAL $200: Journalist John Reed died in this city & was buried with other Bolshevik heroes Moscow |
#9097, aired 2024-05-07 | WORDS IN JEOPARDY $400: This verb meaning to love & worship is found in the lyrics of "O Come, All Ye Faithful" adore |
#9097, aired 2024-05-07 | DEATH IN THE CAPITAL $400: This Doors frontman reportedly died in a Paris bathtub July 3, 1971; others believe he faked his death Jim Morrison |
#9097, aired 2024-05-07 | WORDS IN JEOPARDY $600: In 2023 Manny Machado agreed to a $350 million deal to remain one a Padre |
#9097, aired 2024-05-07 | DEATH IN THE CAPITAL $600: Prime ministers John A. MacDonald & Lester Pearson both died in this city Ottawa |
#9097, aired 2024-05-07 | WORDS IN JEOPARDY $800: The ancient poet Pindar was an early master of this type of lyric poem an ode |
#9097, aired 2024-05-07 | WORDS IN JEOPARDY $1000: A wagon, especially one without sides, used to haul heavy loads a dray |
#9097, aired 2024-05-07 | DEATH IN THE CAPITAL $1000: This Merry Monarch wasn't so merry when he died in London in 1685 Charles II |
#9097, aired 2024-05-07 | DEATH IN THE CAPITAL $2,000 (Daily Double): Pope Julius II called him to Rome to do his art thing; he died there in 1564 Michelangelo |
#9096, aired 2024-05-06 | IN THE 19th CENTURY $200: It traces its roots to the founding of the International Committee for the Relief of the Wounded in 1863 the Red Cross |
#9096, aired 2024-05-06 | IN THE 19th CENTURY $400: In 1873 this shipping magnate donated $1 million to endow a Nashville university; guess who the university is named for Vanderbilt |
#9096, aired 2024-05-06 | IN THE 19th CENTURY $600: At this 1805 naval battle, Lord Nelson gave his famous signal, "England expects that every man will do his duty" Trafalgar |
#9096, aired 2024-05-06 | IN THE 19th CENTURY $1,000 (Daily Double): Spain's second queen of this name ruled from 1833 until 1868, when a revolution forced her into exile Isabel (Isabella II) |
#9096, aired 2024-05-06 | IN THE 19th CENTURY $1000: The Treaty of Nanjing in 1842 ended the first of these wars instigated by British drug dealers the Opium Wars |
#24, aired 2024-05-06 | YOU'RE IN THE RED $400: Separating Africa from Arabia, the Red Sea is a long, narrow arm of this ocean the Indian Ocean |
#24, aired 2024-05-06 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $400: Busted! In 1912 her bust was discovered in what had once been the studio of the sculptor Thutmose Nefertiti |
#24, aired 2024-05-06 | YOU'RE IN THE RED $800: The Red Raiders are the athletic teams at this university Texas Tech |
#24, aired 2024-05-06 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $800: In 1822 Mary Ludwig Hays, known by this nickname, was awarded a yearly pension for her services during the Battle of Monmouth "Molly Pitcher" |
#24, aired 2024-05-06 | YOU'RE IN THE RED $1200: Arcturus, the 4th-brightest star in the night sky, is classified as one of these that's used up all the hydrogen in its core a red giant |
#24, aired 2024-05-06 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1200: Women still didn't have the right to vote nationally when this Montana woman was elected to Congress in 1916 (Jeannette) Rankin |
#24, aired 2024-05-06 | YOU'RE IN THE RED $1600: Mahpiya Luta was the Lakota name of this leader who resisted U.S. government expansion of the Bozeman Trail Red Cloud |
#24, aired 2024-05-06 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $1600: With $1.50 & using elderberry ink, in 1904 this "Great Educator" & activist started what's now a university in Daytona Beach Bethune |
#24, aired 2024-05-06 | YOU'RE IN THE RED $2000: This antioxidant is the one most responsible for the redness of tomatoes & ruby red grapefruit lycopene |
#24, aired 2024-05-06 | WOMEN IN HISTORY $2000: Around 60 A.D. this British warrior queen led a revolt against Roman rule, sacking & burning cities including London Boudica |
#23, aired 2024-05-06 | THE STATE I'M IN $200: Terlingua has been called one of Texas' most famous one of these 2-word sites, a specter of its heyday as a hub for mining cinnabar a ghost town |
#23, aired 2024-05-06 | THE STATE I'M IN $400: Daniel Boone National Forest & the International Museum of the Horse can be found in this state Kentucky |
#23, aired 2024-05-06 | THE STATE I'M IN $600: This lake in Idaho comes from French for "heart of an awl" Coeur d'Alene |
#23, aired 2024-05-06 | THE STATE I'M IN $800: This hah-bah on Mount Desert Island in Maine is called "the Gateway to Acadia National Park" Bar Harbor |
#23, aired 2024-05-06 | THE STATE I'M IN $1000: This state is not famous as a source of jazz talent, but Bix Beiderbecke was born there Iowa |
#9094, aired 2024-05-02 | THE GIRL IN THE SONG $800: "Born To Run"--"I wanna die with you... on the streets tonight in an everlasting kiss" Wendy |
#9094, aired 2024-05-02 | THE GIRL IN THE SONG $1200: "Church Bells"--she "slipped something in" hubby's "Tennessee whiskey no lawman was ever gonna find" Jenny |
#9094, aired 2024-05-02 | THE GIRL IN THE SONG $1600: "Mambo No. 5"--"a little bit of" her "in my life, a little bit of Erica by my side" Monica |
#9094, aired 2024-05-02 | THE GIRL IN THE SONG $2000: "Pretty In Pink"--she "laughs and it's raining all day" Caroline |
#9093, aired 2024-05-01 | IN THE BLACK $200: The usher of the Black Rod acts as a sergeant at arms for this part of Britain's Parliament the House of Lords |
#9093, aired 2024-05-01 | IN THE BLACK $400: These 2 words can precede cake (meaning chocolate with cherries) or ham (originally produced in that German region) Black Forest |
#9093, aired 2024-05-01 | IN THE BLACK $600: The black species of this tree provides nuts for squirrels & prized black wood for furniture black walnut |
#9093, aired 2024-05-01 | IN THE BLACK $800: Muslim tradition says this, set in a wall of the Kaaba, was white but grew dark from the sins of the pilgrims who've touched it the Black Stone of Mecca |
#9093, aired 2024-05-01 | IN THE BLACK $2,400 (Daily Double): In 1974 this physicist proposed a theory on how black holes die--a type of radiation now named for him Hawking |
#21, aired 2024-05-01 | DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY $400: Edmund Burke took on aesthetics with an aptly titled "Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and" this Beautiful |
#21, aired 2024-05-01 | DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY $800: In Tokugawa Japan of the 17th to 19th c., the dominant thought was neo-this philosophy of a guy from across the Sea of Japan neo-Confucianism |
#21, aired 2024-05-01 | DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY $1200: Thomas Kuhn is known for his talk of these frameworks whose "shifts" can change our worldview paradigms |
#21, aired 2024-05-01 | DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY $1600: This Scot who died in 1776 was a leader in empiricism, the belief that all knowledge is from experience Hume |
#21, aired 2024-05-01 | DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY $2000: Aristotle was known to stroll while teaching, giving us this word for his followers or walking in general peripatetic |
#9091, aired 2024-04-29 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Brazil's emperor Pedro II was on hand when he demonstrated his telephone at the Philadelphia exhibition in 1876 Bell |
#9091, aired 2024-04-29 | PUT IT IN THE LOUVRE! $400: Not this Italian Renaissance man's most famous work in the museum, "Saint Anne" is in the Grande Galerie da Vinci |
#9091, aired 2024-04-29 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $800: He escaped on a British ship, leaving John André to be hanged; unpopular in America & Britain, he'd die in London in 1801 Benedict Arnold |
#9091, aired 2024-04-29 | PUT IT IN THE LOUVRE! $800: Louvre visitors might jog over to "The Winged Victory of Samothrace", honoring this Greek goddess Nike |
#9091, aired 2024-04-29 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: In 1895 this Black educator said, "We can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" Booker T. Washington |
#9091, aired 2024-04-29 | PUT IT IN THE LOUVRE! $1200: 16th century tastemaker Isabella d'Este commissioned "The Combat of Love and" this restrained virtue; but which did Isabella favor Chastity |
#9091, aired 2024-04-29 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: Starting in 1758 Francis Lightfoot Lee served in this assembly in Colonial Virginia the House of Burgesses |
#9091, aired 2024-04-29 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Did he sell the item that is his first name in his Georgia mercantile store? No idea, but he did sign the Declaration of Independence Button Gwinnett |
#9091, aired 2024-04-29 | PUT IT IN THE LOUVRE! $2000: Watteau's portrait of this sad clown from commedia dell'arte once had the title "Gilles" Pierrot |
#9091, aired 2024-04-29 | PUT IT IN THE LOUVRE! $4,000 (Daily Double): A fresco featuring Venus by this 15th century Italian--not the only time he painted her--was rediscovered in 1873 Botticelli |
#9086, aired 2024-04-22 | BOOKED IN BOOKS $200: In an 1862 work he is chained by the neck & taken to a prison in Toulon after stealing some bread Jean Valjean |
#9086, aired 2024-04-22 | BOOKED IN BOOKS $400: In this nonfiction book, Helen Prejean writes to "Elmo Patrick Sonnier... death row, Louisiana State Penitentiary" Dead Man Walking |
#9086, aired 2024-04-22 | BOOKED IN BOOKS $600: In this Dickens work Abel Magwitch tells Pip he was sentenced to 14 years in prison Great Expectations |
#9086, aired 2024-04-22 | BOOKED IN BOOKS $800: In this Donn Pearce novel, later turned into a Paul Newman film, the title convict bets Society Red he can eat 50 eggs Cool Hand Luke |
#9086, aired 2024-04-22 | BOOKED IN BOOKS $1000: His confession to 2 murders & his good deeds help limit this 19th century Russian character's prison term to just 8 years Raskolnikov |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS $200: It's the company that made the 717 for mass passengers as well as the F-22 Raptor for very, very specific passengers Boeing |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BOOKS IN HISTORY $400: Intellectuals change society in "What Is to Be Done?", an 1863 novel by Chernyshevsky that planted the seeds of this 1917 event the Russian Revolution |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS $400: Told, "Take it to the house" in an ad for this co. that "knows home improvement", Christian McCaffrey says, "I will, that's where I live" Lowe's |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS $600: The split-adjusted share price of the 1986 IPO of this graphics software co. was 17 cents but here's an update; in 2023 it hit $634 Adobe |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BOOKS IN HISTORY $800: Alfred Thayer Mahan changed military thinking with his 1890 work on this type of power that he said had made Britain dominant sea power (the Navy) |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS $800: After the investment bank of these brothers went Chapter 11 in 2008, retirement plans & investment funds took a $700 bil. hit the Lehman Brothers |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | ALL UP IN YOUR BUSINESS $1000: This massive holding co. was not named for a single crowbar but from the 1929 merger of a Dutch co. with one run by British brothers Unilever |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BOOKS IN HISTORY $1600: This 5-word phrase about people in a different income bracket from you is the title of an 1890 Jacob Riis expose of NYC's slums how the other half lives |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BOOKS IN HISTORY $2000: This Dutch scholar put out a 1516 translation of the Bible that made it more accessible & helped lead to the Reformation Erasmus |
#9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BOOKS IN HISTORY $2,900 (Daily Double): Economist F.A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" came out in 1944 when this woman was at Oxford & was a huge influence on her later policies (Margaret) Thatcher |
#9083, aired 2024-04-17 | PUTTING THE GORY IN A MOVIE CATEGORY $200: David Arquette & Courteney Cox starred in this 1996 film about a killer named Ghostface Scream |
#9083, aired 2024-04-17 | THINGS TO DO IN THE CITY $400: Laze poolside on a yacht, enjoy the Gulf of Napoule, hit the Palais des Festivals for its film fest, re-laze at the yacht pool Cannes |
#9083, aired 2024-04-17 | PUTTING THE GORY IN A MOVIE CATEGORY $400: Tim Curry played this demon that appears as a clown in a miniseries of "It"; Bill Skarsgård had the role in the 2017 film Pennywise |
#9083, aired 2024-04-17 | PUTTING THE GORY IN A MOVIE CATEGORY $600: Subtitles of this slasher series include "Dream Warriors",
"The Dream Master" & "Freddy's Revenge" A Nightmare on Elm Street |
#9083, aired 2024-04-17 | THINGS TO DO IN THE CITY $800: Deal with 77º temps in its cold season & get your kicks above the waistline, sunshine, with a mussel omelet at Daeng Racha Hoi Tod Bangkok |
#9083, aired 2024-04-17 | PUTTING THE GORY IN A MOVIE CATEGORY $800: This 1974 film set in the Lone Star State was loosely inspired by serial killers Ed Gein & Elmer Henley The Texas Chainsaw Massacre |
#9083, aired 2024-04-17 | PUTTING THE GORY IN A MOVIE CATEGORY $1000: As Dr. Gordon, Cary Elwes was not in an "as you wish" kind of mood in this 2004 film, cutting through some serious issues Saw |
#9083, aired 2024-04-17 | THINGS TO DO IN THE CITY $1200: Disembark at this city's stop on the Shinkansen, then find your way to the museum & monuments at Peace Memorial Park Hiroshima |
#9083, aired 2024-04-17 | THINGS TO DO IN THE CITY $2000: Ride one of Africa's first metros or visit the Casbah & feel like Charles Boyer in the movie named for this city Algiers |
#9083, aired 2024-04-17 | THINGS TO DO IN THE CITY $4,800 (Daily Double): In June, take in the "white nights" of this city; after 19 hours of daylight, bridges across the Neva are raised at night so boats pass St. Petersburg |
#9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SAY IT IN SPANISH $400: Orange is anaranjado & red is this word also containing J rojo |
#9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SIBLINGS IN POP CULTURE $400: These twin TV actresses & entrepreneurs were born June 13, 1986 Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen |
#9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SAY IT IN SPANISH $800: Meaning "aunt", it precedes Maria in a liqueur order Tia |
#9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SIBLINGS IN POP CULTURE $800: They set the film "A Serious Man" in their native Minnesota the Coen brothers |
#9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SAY IT IN SPANISH $1200: The name of this dish literally means "rice with chicken" arroz con pollo |
#9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SIBLINGS IN POP CULTURE $1200: The Duffer brothers created this TV series that debuted in 2016 Stranger Things |
#9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SIBLINGS IN POP CULTURE $1600: In a 2001 film, these siblings played siblings Elizabeth & Donnie Darko Jake & Maggie Gyllenhaal |
#9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SAY IT IN SPANISH $2000: This beloved indie rock band took its name in 1984 from the way a Spanish-speaking outfielder says, "I got it" Yo La Tengo |
#9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SIBLINGS IN POP CULTURE $2000: Sid & Marty Krofft produced '70s Saturday morning TV like "H.R. Pufnstuf" & this one where a family ends up in a time with dinosaurs Land of the Lost |
#9082, aired 2024-04-16 | SAY IT IN SPANISH $4,000 (Daily Double): A song often heard in Spanish-speaking countries at Christmastime is this "Sabanero", meaning "My Little Savannah Donkey" Burrito |
#9081, aired 2024-04-15 | IN THE DICTIONARY $400: This word meaning "to quarrel" rhymes with flicker & to flicker is an older meaning bicker |
#9081, aired 2024-04-15 | IN THE DICTIONARY $800: On the sign, "impasse" doesn't mean a stalemate in negotiations, but this other French word for a street with no exit cul-de-sac |
#9081, aired 2024-04-15 | IN THE DICTIONARY $1200: Two meanings of this word are a serving of meat in a circular shape & a permit needed by taxi drivers medallion |
#9081, aired 2024-04-15 | IN THE DICTIONARY $2000: It's the type of item seen here; government-funded arts & crafts in the '30s led to the newer meaning, wasteful project a boondoggle |
#9081, aired 2024-04-15 | IN THE DICTIONARY $5,000 (Daily Double): In the singular it's shame; in the irregular plural, wounds like those of Jesus stigma & stigmata |
#9080, aired 2024-04-12 | DROP IN... $400: From a word for a bug to get this often small but enthusiastic type of religious group sect |
#9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $400: Forgotten by his family, young Kevin watches the film "Angels with Filthy Souls" on VHS in this movie Home Alone |
#9080, aired 2024-04-12 | DROP IN... $800: From a word meaning certainly to get this legal contract "of trust" or "of sale" a deed |
#9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $800: This actor is the star of "Last Action Hero" & plays Jack Slater in "Jack Slater IV", the movie within it Arnold Schwarzenegger |
#9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $1200: Gene Kelly dances up a storm in this musical about folks working on the film "The Dueling Cavalier" in the new talking pictures era Singin' in the Rain |
#9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $1600: A woman on death row is the focus of "Habeas Corpus", a project within this film about a movie exec played by Tim Robbins The Player |
#9080, aired 2024-04-12 | DROP IN... $1600: From a word meaning penniless to get this word for a liquid in chemistry like an ester or ketone solvent |
#9080, aired 2024-04-12 | DROP IN... $2,000 (Daily Double): From a word involving respiration to get this word meaning healthy hale |
#9080, aired 2024-04-12 | DROP IN... $2000: From a legal word compelling one to cease activities to get this word where choo-choos meet junction |
#9080, aired 2024-04-12 | FAKE MOVIES IN MOVIES $2000: Fake previews for "Werewolf Women of the SS" & "Hobo with a Shotgun" are within this Tarantino-Rodriguez double feature Grindhouse |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | DOUBLE LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE $200: Misquoting Shakespeare, a wise proverb tells us, "All that" does this "is not gold" glitters |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $200: Apple introduced its Macintosh computer 1984 |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $400: Mark Zuckerberg launched what was then called TheFacebook 2004 |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | DOUBLE LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE $400: A jolly good guy, or a grad student who has been awarded for special study fellow |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | WOMEN IN ANCIENT TIMES $400: In the 4th century Constantine's mother Helena traveled to this city where she had the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher built Jerusalem |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | DOUBLE LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE $600: One of these in economics refers to an unsustainable period in investments or property a bubble |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $600: The Continental Congress met for the first time 1774 |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | DOUBLE LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE $800: Poetic word for the day after today morrow |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | WOMEN IN ANCIENT TIMES $800: A papyrus dated to 35 B.C. calls her Philopatris, "she who loves her country", the country being Egypt Cleopatra |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $800: In the case of Brown v. Board of Education, racial segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional 1954 |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | DOUBLE LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE $1000: No soaring weapon, it's a term for a Catholic prayer book missal |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | A YEAR ENDING IN 4 $1000: Shakespeare turned 50 & the Globe Theatre reopened after it burned down a year earlier 1614 |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | WOMEN IN ANCIENT TIMES $1200: For obvious reasons these Roman priestesses faced dire consequences if found unchaste, like Aemilia, Licinia & Marcia in 114 B.C. the Vestal Virgins |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | WOMEN IN ANCIENT TIMES $2,000 (Daily Double): Of this lyric poet's works, almost none have been found complete, one being the 28-line "Ode to Aphrodite" Sappho |
#9079, aired 2024-04-11 | WOMEN IN ANCIENT TIMES $2000: During his reign over Rome, he had a coin minted with the depictions of his 3 sisters:
Drusilla, Livilla & Agrippina Caligula |
#9078, aired 2024-04-10 | THE 6 MOTHERS-IN-LAW OF HENRY VIII $1,600 (Daily Double): Not the Cromwells but this family lived in Wolf Hall; when Henry visited in 1535, Margery no doubt pointed out lovely daughter Jane the Seymours |
#9078, aired 2024-04-10 | THE 6 MOTHERS-IN-LAW OF HENRY VIII $1600: The mother of Anne of Cleves was Maria of Jülich, a duchy of this thousand-year empire of West & Central Europe the Holy Roman Empire |
#9078, aired 2024-04-10 | THE 6 MOTHERS-IN-LAW OF HENRY VIII $2000: Inspired by the ideas of this doomed lord chancellor, Katherine Parr's mom Maud educated her daughter like her son Sir Thomas More |
#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LOOKS LIKE WE'RE IN BUSINESS $200: In July 2023 this company averted a strike by agreeing to a new deal with more than 300,000 Teamsters UPS |
#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LOOKS LIKE WE'RE IN BUSINESS $400: An 8-year-old girl was the namesake of this frozen dessert brand known for pound cake, cheesecake & more Sara Lee |
#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LOOKS LIKE WE'RE IN BUSINESS $600: Founded in 1965 as a mail-order veterinary supply company in San Diego, it now has its name on a stadium there Petco |
#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LOOKS LIKE WE'RE IN BUSINESS $800: In 2016 this sporting goods retailer got possessive & bought the assets of its bankrupt rival the Sports Authority Dick's |
#9077, aired 2024-04-09 | LOOKS LIKE WE'RE IN BUSINESS $1000: William W. of this last name founded his eponymous "for the ones who get it done" industrial supply company in Chicago in 1927 Grainger |
#9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THE PAST $200: All your favorite medieval travel influencers went through South India, like Ibn Battuta, Zheng He & this Venetian guy Marco Polo |
#9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THE PAST $400: A city in Mexico that borders El Paso bears the name of this man, often called the first indigenous president of Mexico Juárez |
#9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THIS ECONOMY?! $400: We are "at liberty" to say capitalism is also known as this 2-word economy, an unregulated system of economic exchange free market |
#9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THE PAST $600: Her son Jean Baptiste served as a military guide in the American West before his 1866 death Sacagawea |
#9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THIS ECONOMY?! $800: Why use money or credit cards when there's this system where a mechanic might trade a tuneup to a farmer for some apples barter |
#9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THE PAST $1000: Dwight Eisenhower & John Diefenbaker were there for the opening of this North American waterway in 1959 the St. Lawrence Seaway |
#9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THIS ECONOMY?! $1600: 2 individuals deal with each other directly vs. using a 3rd party in buying goods & services in this economy, P2P for short peer-to-peer |
#9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THIS ECONOMY?! $2000: Dostoyevsky gave up on the French utopian this type of economy, becoming more reactionary socialism |
#9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THE PAST $4,200 (Daily Double): In ancient Rome the conflict of the orders refers to the struggle between these 2 social classes with names that start with "P" patricians & plebeians |
#9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THIS ECONOMY?! $13,400 (Daily Double): Adam Smith called this system of semi-free labor that ended about 500 years before his time "barbarous" feudalism |
#9074, aired 2024-04-04 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $200: Frankie Valli, of course, is a character in this musical about the Four Seasons Jersey Boys |
#9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $400: Dating from the first century, the tower of this mythical strongman in Spain is said to be the oldest working lighthouse Hercules |
#9074, aired 2024-04-04 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $400: In 2004 Michael McKean donned a dress to play Edna Turnblad in this show Hairspray |
#9074, aired 2024-04-04 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $600: The name of this "Wicked" character comes from the initials of "The Wizard of Oz" author Elphaba |
#9074, aired 2024-04-04 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $800: She's the faded glamour cat who sings "Memory" in "Cats" Grizabella |
#9074, aired 2024-04-04 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $1000: In the eyes of Don Quixote, peasant girl Aldonza becomes this lovely lady, whom he has sought & dreamed of Dulcinea |
#9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $1200: The Bell Rock Lighthouse outside the Firth of Forth warns ships of navigation dangers in this sea the North Sea |
#9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $1600: Barnegat Lighthouse on Long Beach Island in this state's Ocean County was designed by future hero of Gettysburg George Meade New Jersey |
#9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $2000: Old Baldy, protecting the entrance to this river since 1817, is North Carolina's oldest standing lighthouse the Cape Fear River |
#9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A BEACON IN THE NIGHT $9,000 (Daily Double): The Lanterna of this Italian port is the Mediterranean's tallest lighthouse; Antonio Columbo was a keeper in 1449 of the first ones there Genoa |
#9073, aired 2024-04-03 | ENDS IN A BODY PART $200: An object said to bring good luck, or a type of bracelet with meaningful trinkets attached charm |
#9073, aired 2024-04-03 | ENDS IN A BODY PART $400: Once a cask of drinking water on a ship's deck, today it refers to rumors or gossip scuttlebutt |
#9073, aired 2024-04-03 | ENDS IN A BODY PART $600: A handspring rotated sideways a cartwheel |
#9073, aired 2024-04-03 | ENDS IN A BODY PART $800: "If You Could Read My Mind", you'd know this last name of the Canadian hitmaker seen here (Gordon) Lightfoot |
#9073, aired 2024-04-03 | ENDS IN A BODY PART $1000: This geographical term refers to a spring that's the source of a stream, or any main source the fountainhead |
#9071, aired 2024-04-01 | IN MY FEELINGS $400: 4-letter delight; in the 17th century it was first used for a sung musical work glee |
#9071, aired 2024-04-01 | IN MY FEELINGS $800: This bloody period of the French Revolution ended with the execution of its leader Robespierre & his associates The Terror |
#9071, aired 2024-04-01 | IN MY FEELINGS $1200: It was "Primal" in the title of a Richard Gere & Edward Norton film Fear |
#9071, aired 2024-04-01 | IN MY FEELINGS $1600: It's the second word of "The Tell-Tale Heart"; the narrator admits that he was dreadfully so nervous |
#9071, aired 2024-04-01 | IN MY FEELINGS $5,000 (Daily Double): Freud's works helped popularize this loanword for a general sense of dread or unease angst |
#9066, aired 2024-03-25 | SAY IT IN LATIN $400: You know, in good faith or the real deal, like a rock star; with an "S" at the end, it means your credentials bona fides |
#9066, aired 2024-03-25 | SAY IT IN LATIN $800: This cool Latin phrase means "intrinsically" or "by itself" per se |
#9066, aired 2024-03-25 | SAY IT IN LATIN $1200: As a legal term, this 3-word phrase can be a status prohibiting a diplomat to enter a foreign country persona non grata |
#9066, aired 2024-03-25 | SAY IT IN LATIN $1600: Literally "without which not", this phrase means "a necessity" sine qua non |
#9066, aired 2024-03-25 | SAY IT IN LATIN $2000: Q.E.D. is short for this, meaning "which was to be demonstrated" quod erat demonstrandum |
#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | WORDS IN INVITATIONAL $200: It can mean of utmost importance or essential to life vital |
#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TURNING 60 IN 2024 $200: Back in 1964 apple-currant was in the original flavor lineup of these toaster pastries Pop-Tarts |
#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | WORDS IN INVITATIONAL $400: It's an adjective meaning of or related to one's birth natal |
#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TURNING 60 IN 2024 $400: This computer language whose full name tells you it's for beginners was introduced at 4 a.m. on May 1, 1964 BASIC |
#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $400: This first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor |
#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TURNING 60 IN 2024 $600: A perfect line from this satiric film: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room" Dr. Strangelove |
#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | WORDS IN INVITATIONAL $600: Anne-Sophie Mutter is an acclaimed player of this the violin |
#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | WORDS IN INVITATIONAL $800: French inventor & engineer Louis Bleriot was a pioneer in this field aviation |
#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TURNING 60 IN 2024 $800: This 1964 novel by Louise Fitzhugh introduced readers to the title girl sleuth who made observations in her notebook Harriet the Spy |
#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $800: This lawyer, feminist, activist & TV commentator Allred |
#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | WORDS IN INVITATIONAL $1000: The seeds of this tropical tree yield a yellowish-red dye that's used as a food coloring, especially for cheese & margarine annatto |
#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TURNING 60 IN 2024 $1000: The First Ladies' Hall was one of its original galleries when it opened to the public on January 23, 1964 the Museum of American History |
#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $1200: This Swiss-born psychiatrist known for identifying 5 stages of grief Kübler-Ross |
#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $1600: This photographer with a hyphenated name, one of the first photojournalists hired by Life magazine Bourke-White |
#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $2000: Among the class of 2024, this civil rights icon, who at age 6 made history when she integrated one of New Orleans' all white schools (Ruby) Bridges |
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE CINEMA IN 2023 $200: One of the new songs for the live-action remake of this 1989 animated film was "Wild Uncharted Waters", sung by Prince Eric The Little Mermaid |
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES $200: Glamorous Jessica & good-natured Elizabeth are the teenage twins in this Y.A. series set at a suburban California school Sweet Valley High |
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | IN YOUR ELEMENT $400: Br:
A possessive adjective mine (in bromine) |
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE CINEMA IN 2023 $400: In "Dumb Money", Paul Dano plays an investor who led a surge in value for this stock, & Anthony Ramos plays an employee there GameStop |
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES $400: Ian Fleming introduced James Bond in "Casino Royale", then had him "Live" on in Jamaica in this next book Live and Let Die |
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE CINEMA IN 2023 $600: In "The Color Purple", the role of Mary Agnes, known as Squeak was played the singer who goes by this name H.E.R. |
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES $600: At different times across more than 80 books, this quizzical simian "Takes a Train" & "Visits the Zoo" Curious George |
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | IN YOUR ELEMENT $800: K:
This Russian news agency TASS (in poTASSium) |
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE CINEMA IN 2023 $800: In a 2023 film Jacob Elordi invites Barry Keoghan to his family estate called this; the visit is... unusual Saltburn |
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES $800: "Allegiant" is the third & final book in this Veronica Roth series as Tris discovers new truths about her dystopian world Divergent |
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE CINEMA IN 2023 $1000: Adam Driver stars as this title automaker who tries to save his company via the Mille Miglia, a 1,000-mile race across Italy Ferrari |
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES $1000: The first Sherlock Holmes novel was this one involving a message written in blood A Study in Scarlet |
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | IN YOUR ELEMENT $1200: Mg:
This Roman martyr, patron saint of young girls Agnes (in mAgnesium) |
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | IN YOUR ELEMENT $2000: Sb:
A title name from Shakespeare Timon (in AnTimony) |
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | IN YOUR ELEMENT $2,400 (Daily Double): P:
This solar deity Horus (in phospHorus) |
#9062, aired 2024-03-19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC IS IN SESSION $400: This 18th century group of violin concerti is "Le quattro stagioni" in Italian The Four Seasons |
#9062, aired 2024-03-19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC IS IN SESSION $800: Premiering in 1749, "Music for the Royal" these got set off to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession fireworks |
#9062, aired 2024-03-19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC IS IN SESSION $1200: In 1991 his "Liverpool Oratorio" premiered in the city's Anglican Cathedral, which once said no to his choirboy services Paul McCartney |
#9062, aired 2024-03-19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC IS IN SESSION $1600: The New York Times called this piece with a name in the title "Beethoven's trifle... featured on Baby Einstein albums" "Für Elise" |
#9062, aired 2024-03-19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC IS IN SESSION $2000: There is a sense of foreboding in the overture to his 1862 opera "La forza del destino", or "The Force of Destiny" Verdi |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ENDS IN "IX" $400: To make a new version of something, like The Chemical Brothers' adaptation of "Voodoo People" by The Prodigy a remix |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ENDS IN "IX" $800: This 2-syllable word means to attach, like a postscript to a letter or a label to a package affix |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ENDS IN "IX" $1600: This comic book hero who battles the Romans with his pal Obelix was introduced in 1959 Asterix |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ENDS IN "IX" $2000: It means verbose or redundant prolix |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | ENDS IN "IX" $12,200 (Daily Double): This town at the foot of Mont Blanc hosted the first Winter Olympics in 1924 Chamonix |
#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 |
#9054, aired 2024-03-07 | ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS $400: In the 1850s a familiar quotation of his may have been "I have a notebook full of famous things people said. Wanna see?" Bartlett |
#9054, aired 2024-03-07 | ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS $800: This type of heart surgery involves taking a blood vessel from elsewhere & creating a new pathway around a blockage bypass |
#9054, aired 2024-03-07 | ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS $1200: Eden, New York has a museum devoted to this mouth-blown musical toy a kazoo |
#9054, aired 2024-03-07 | ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS $2000: This line on the hull of a ship that indicates the depth to which it can be loaded is named for a 19th century British merchant the Plimsoll |
#9054, aired 2024-03-07 | ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS $8,600 (Daily Double): Originally a stick or spindle used in spinning, it also came to mean women's work or the female side of a family distaff |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $200: It's said there are "three sides to every story: yours, mine" & this the truth |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | TV IN THE AUGHTIES $200: Ben McKenzie played Ryan Atwood, a tough kid from Chino taken in by a wealthy Newport Beach family on this show The O.C. |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | NAMES IN FASHION $200: Some of the clothing from this designer features a cute polo bear instead of a pony Ralph Lauren |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | JAZZ' GREAT DAY IN HARLEM $400: Both Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins, masters of spontaneity on this instrument, blew into Harlem that day the (tenor) saxophone |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $400: The spinal column, or firmness of character backbone |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | TV IN THE AUGHTIES $400: Frankie Muniz would often break the 4th wall as a precocious middle schooler on this show Malcolm in the Middle |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | NAMES IN FASHION $400: A longtime vegetarian like parents Paul & Linda, she doesn't use any leather or fur in her designs Stella McCartney |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $600: You don't want plaque building up in these of your arteries walls |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | TV IN THE AUGHTIES $600: This actress was the title star of "Lizzie McGuire" on the Disney Channel (Hilary) Duff |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | NAMES IN FASHION $600: In 1990 this designer opened her flagship bridal salon at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City (Vera) Wang |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | JAZZ' GREAT DAY IN HARLEM $800: Classics from Thelonious Monk include "Straight, No Chaser" & "'Round" this time, when jazz musicians are just warming up Midnight |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $800: Great material comfort, or anything you enjoy but don't need a luxury |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | TV IN THE AUGHTIES $800: The title of this Miami-set spy show co-starring Bruce Campbell refers to an official statement that blacklists a spy Burn Notice |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | NAMES IN FASHION $800: Sure to please your little girl is a pair of kids' sneakers for $2,400, with rhinestones & a red rubber sole from this designer (Christian) Louboutin |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $1000: Hideous, or the style of art seen here grotesque |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | TV IN THE AUGHTIES $1000: Regina King voiced brothers Huey & Riley Freeman on this Adult Swim satire created by Aaron McGruder The Boondocks |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | NAMES IN FASHION $1000: Fashion royalty--here's this Belgian-born designer & icon & Talita, her princess granddaughter, a designer in her own right Diane von Furstenberg |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | JAZZ' GREAT DAY IN HARLEM $1200: Charles Mingus got low on this instrument on "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat", which he wrote about Lester Young, also in the picture the bass |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | JAZZ' GREAT DAY IN HARLEM $1600: Gene, Gene the drumming machine, he was one quarter of an amazing quartet with Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson & Benny Goodman (Gene) Krupa |
#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | JAZZ' GREAT DAY IN HARLEM $2000: A Jazz Messenger, but with a touch of "Flash Dance", this Pittsburgh drummer once worked in steel mills by day, jazz clubs by night Art Blakey |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | THAT'S IN ASIA $200: Col. H.H. Godwin Austen is a bit of a mouthful for a name, so a 28,000-foot mountain keeps it alphanumeric with this K2 |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | IN THE DICTIONARY $400: Aputiak is another name for this snowy domed dwelling whose name means "house" an igloo |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | WOMEN IN LIT $400: At one point in "Vanity Fair", her 'do is said to be "in perfect order"; look at her with the good hair! Becky Sharp |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | THAT'S IN ASIA $400: Dating back to 4000 B.C. fortified settlements, it's the largest city in Jordan & the residence of the king Amman |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | THAT'S IN ASIA $600: The infinity pool is 57 levels up at Marina Bay Sands Hotel in this island city-state Singapore |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | IN THE DICTIONARY $800: Alex Trebek said he worked behind one of these, from the Latin for "to read" a lectern |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | WOMEN IN LIT $800: The Widow Steavens helps care for the newborn baby of this Willa Cather title heroine Ántonia |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | THAT'S IN ASIA $800: The Krishna River is one of many that flow into this 839,000-square-mile bay, as it is, after all, an 839,000-square-mile bay the Bay of Bengal |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | THAT'S IN ASIA $1000: Lake Tengiz is in this large -stan that's on the northern border of 3 other -stans Kazakhstan |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | IN THE DICTIONARY $1200: A single member of the second order of angels, or any angelic baby a cherub |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | WOMEN IN LIT $1200: The Swedish title of the first book about this heroine translates as "men who hate women" Lisbeth Salander |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | WOMEN IN LIT $1600: In an interview upon the release of this sequel, Margaret Atwood asked about Aunt Lydia, "How do you get to be such a person?" The Testaments |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | IN THE DICTIONARY $2000: Head to the end of the alphabet, past yarmulke, for this skullcap worn by Roman Catholic clergy; the pope wears a white one zucchetto |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | WOMEN IN LIT $2000: "It was naturally of the essence that the young woman should be herself complex", wrote Henry James of this "Portrait of a Lady" heroine Isabel Archer |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | IN THE DICTIONARY $10,000 (Daily Double): Spur-of-the-moment, or a piano piece that's meant to sound spontaneous, like Chopin's Opus 29 an impromptu |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE $200: Colorful in 1877:
"Horse" Black Beauty |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BLOWIN' IN THE WIND $400: Whether the wind is blowing off or toward Lake Michigan can decide whether pitchers or hitters will have the edge at this NL ballpark Wrigley Field |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE $600: A Vonnegut novel much about mortality:
"Death" Slaughterhouse-Five |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BLOWIN' IN THE WIND $800: A tower in Athens shows the 8 winds in an ancient Greek systemization; Boreas is the strong wind from this compass direction north |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE $800: Challenging to pre-Civil War Americans:
"Lowly" Uncle Tom's Cabin |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE $1000: Evelyn Waugh, re-evaluated... wait, that's not the right word:
"Ryder" Brideshead Revisited |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BLOWIN' IN THE WIND $1200: Antarctic downslope winds, which can average nearly 50 mph, get their speed from this force, rather than the atmosphere gravity |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BLOWIN' IN THE WIND $1600: In 1944, this specific type of tropical storm that damaged dozens of Navy ships was named for Admiral Halsey a typhoon |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BLOWIN' IN THE WIND $2000: The Tehuantepecer is named for the gulf just south of the same-named isthmus, this country's narrowest point Mexico |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | THE KEY WORD IN THE LITERARY SUBTITLE $2,500 (Daily Double): An 1854 series of essays:
"Woods" Walden |
#9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ENDS IN "IR" $400: It's a tchotchke or doodad, perhaps the "Virginia is for lovers" key chain picked up on a vacation souvenir |
#9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ENDS IN "IR" $800: According to National Geographic, the world's largest man-made one by surface area is Lake Volta in Ghana a reservoir |
#9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ENDS IN "IR" $1200: Gurez & Changthangi are sheep breeds from this disputed place on the Indian subcontinent Kashmir |
#9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ENDS IN "IR" $1600: This word for a slaughterhouse is borrowed from French abattoir |
#9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ENDS IN "IR" $2000: This word can refer to a pirate in the Mediterranean Sea from the 16th to 19th century a corsair |
#9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $400: To tempt Eve in this 17th century epic poem, Satan takes the form of a serpent (he sneaks into its mouth as it sleeps) Paradise Lost |
#9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $800: On his third voyage, this hero of "The Arabian Nights" lands on an island home to a man-eating snake as big as a palm tree Sinbad |
#9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $1200: In the 4,000-year-old epic of him, this hero finds a plant that grants immortality, but a snake snatches it away & eats it Gilgamesh |
#9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $1600: In Kipling's "The Jungle Book", this old python is a friend & savior to Mowgli Kaa |
#9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $2000: The Green Witch turns into a snake to attack Prince Rilian in this Narnia book whose title refers to what Rilian sits in The Silver Chair |
#9037, aired 2024-02-13 | IT HAPPENED IN CONGRESS $200: In 1870 Congress censured Tennessee's Roderick Butler for selling an appointment to this academy West Point |
#9037, aired 2024-02-13 | IT HAPPENED IN CONGRESS $400: In 1789 Congress hotly debated "a day of public" this for the new Constitution; a November day was eventually chosen Thanksgiving |
#9037, aired 2024-02-13 | IT HAPPENED IN CONGRESS $600: A 1958 congressional act established this agency, making a giant leap possible 11 years later NASA |
#9037, aired 2024-02-13 | IT HAPPENED IN CONGRESS $800: Congress first did this March 3, 1845 in the waning hours of John Tyler's presidency, by votes of 41-1 & 127-30 to override a veto |
#9037, aired 2024-02-13 | IT HAPPENED IN CONGRESS $1000: After the close Nixon-Humphrey race, the House passed a resolution to abolish this system, 338-70, but the Senate didn't the electoral college |
#9036, aired 2024-02-12 | LIFE IN THE 1920s $200: This canine companion first appeared in newspapers in January 1925 Sandy |
#9036, aired 2024-02-12 | LIFE IN THE 1920s $400: Referring to a new kind of music & popularized by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it was a nickname for the decade the Jazz Age |
#9036, aired 2024-02-12 | LIFE IN THE 1920s $600: This Chinese tile game became a craze in the U.S., especially among women, even in the pool mahjong |
#9036, aired 2024-02-12 | LIFE IN THE 1920s $800: This "sweet" song was introduced in the '20s & so were the Harlem Globetrotters, who would later make it their theme "Sweet Georgia Brown" |
#9036, aired 2024-02-12 | LIFE IN THE 1920s $2,500 (Daily Double): In a 1925 speech she said, "We have got to free women from enforced, enslaved maternity" Margaret Sanger |
#9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ENDS IN "X" $200: This secretion is slang for a person's unwanted concern, as in "none of your..." beeswax |
#9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ENDS IN "X" $400: Adjective meaning curved or bowed outward convex |
#9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ENDS IN "X" $600: This 4-letter gemstone is often used to make cameos, like the one seen here onyx |
#9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ENDS IN "X" $800: The little hat worn by French words like hôtel & hôpital is called this a circumflex |
#9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ENDS IN "X" $1000: It's the collective name for a flower's sepals calyx |
#9033, aired 2024-02-07 | IT HAPPENED IN FEBRUARY $400: In February 1991 Iraqi forces began a retreat from this nation, ending the Persian Gulf War Kuwait |
#9033, aired 2024-02-07 | IT HAPPENED IN FEBRUARY $800: Following a referendum, the strongly Catholic nation of Ireland made this action legal February 27, 1997 divorce |
#9033, aired 2024-02-07 | IT HAPPENED IN FEBRUARY $1200: Following a conference, these 3 leaders signed the Yalta agreement in February 1945 Churchill, FDR & Stalin |
#9033, aired 2024-02-07 | IT HAPPENED IN FEBRUARY $1600: Calling for the abolition of private property & for workers of the world to unite, it was published in February 1848 The Communist Manifesto |
#9033, aired 2024-02-07 | IT HAPPENED IN FEBRUARY $2000: This amendment to the Constitution was ratified in February 1951, limiting a president to 2 terms or a maximum of 10 years total the 22nd |
#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $200: "'Salem's Sematary" Pet Sematary & 'Salem's Lot |
#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $400: "In Cold Tiffany's" In Cold Blood & Breakfast at Tiffany's |
#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $600: "A Room to India" A Room with a View & A Passage to India |
#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $800: "A Farewell to the Sea" A Farewell to Arms & The Old Man and the Sea |
#9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $1000: "A Prayer for Garp" A Prayer for Owen Meany & The World According to Garp |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BUILDING IN LAGOS $200: With collections of art & archaeology, the Nigerian National this was founded by Kenneth Murray, grandson of the OED's 1st editor a museum |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BUILDING IN LAGOS $400: Nigeria's tallest building is NECOM House, the "COM" for this industry telecom |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BUILDING IN LAGOS $600: Odion Ighalo got a Lagos mansion by playing this goal-scoring position in soccer; enjoy your studio apartments, midfielders striker |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BUILDING IN LAGOS $800: Two front doors are separated by a narrow hall in Face-Me-I-Face-You buildings, a phrase from this blended language Nigerian Pidgin English |
#9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BUILDING IN LAGOS $1000: A palace said to have 34 entrances is the residence of the Oba of Lagos; Oba, a title of this late-in-the-alphabet ethnic group the Yoruba |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $200: In May 1970 aboard a longshot named Fathom, Diane Crump became the first female jockey in this horse race the Kentucky Derby |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | LOST IN SPACE $400: During 1965's Gemini 4 mission, Ed White lost a glove while conducting the first American one of these excursions a spacewalk |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $400: In 2019 FIFA named her Women's Player of the Year; in 2020 she proposed to girlfriend Sue Bird Megan Rapinoe |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $600: With a lap of 196.434 mph, she was the fastest qualifier at the 2013 Daytona 500 Danica Patrick |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | LOST IN SPACE $800: Working on one of these space station power providers, astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper lost a tool bag & it floated away a solar panel |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $800: As an impact player for this Phoenix WNBA team, Brittney Griner led the league in blocks per game in 2021 & was second in scoring the Mercury |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $1000: In 2001 it was love all when Andre Agassi married this German tennis star Graf |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | LOST IN SPACE $1200: In Nov. 2023 this company's Starship, launched by the most powerful rocket ever, reached the edge of space before exploding SpaceX |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | LOST IN SPACE $2,000 (Daily Double): This astronaut who remained in orbit during a 1969 Moon landing, lost a camera during an earlier mission in 1966 (Michael) Collins |
#9026, aired 2024-01-29 | LOST IN SPACE $2000: A 2007 Chinese missile test to destroy one of these in orbit added more than 3,000 pieces of trackable debris an artificial satellite (a weather satellite) |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | "C" IN THE MIDDLE $200: An advantage kept in reserve is this "up your sleeve" an ace |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $400: A bestseller across the ages, this book gets its name from the Phoenician port city where paper used to make it was traded Bible |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | "C" IN THE MIDDLE $400: You want this to work when you exit a Skyvan at 10,000 feet a parachute |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | "C" IN THE MIDDLE $600: You get to stick people with 1-inch needles & for their own good too if you become this specialist an acupuncturist |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $800: Put this letter at the beginning of "organization" to get a monopolization technique named for a turn of the 20th century financier M |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | "C" IN THE MIDDLE $800: A peptic one of these is an erosion in the lining of the stomach or intestine an ulcer |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | "C" IN THE MIDDLE $1000: Spanish for a place to board a ship; San Francisco has one on its eastern shore embarcadero |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $1200: After Romeo y Julieta cigars made a splash, in 1935 a competing brand was named this, after a Dumas character Monte Cristo |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $2000: The Comtesse du Cayla rose, seen here, was named for a mistress of this king who survived Napoleon's Hundred Days Louis XVIII |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $4,500 (Daily Double): The name of this ocean liner was a Roman province that included what is now Portugal & western Spain Lusitania |
#9024, aired 2024-01-25 | QUESTIONABLE SCIENCE IN POP SONGS $200: Poison sang, "Every rose has its" this, but "smooth touch" varieties do exist thorn |
#9024, aired 2024-01-25 | QUESTIONABLE SCIENCE IN POP SONGS $400: In "It's Hot (Some Like It Hot)", Jay-Z gets it wrong with the lyric "thirty-eight revolve like a sun 'round" this Earth |
#9024, aired 2024-01-25 | QUESTIONABLE SCIENCE IN POP SONGS $600: Their 1977 song "Dreams" claims, "thunder only happens when it's raining"; that's not always the case Fleetwood Mac |
#9024, aired 2024-01-25 | QUESTIONABLE SCIENCE IN POP SONGS $800: This group's "Speed Of Sound" says, "Planets are moving at the speed of light"; even hyper-velocity planets aren't that fast Coldplay |
#9024, aired 2024-01-25 | QUESTIONABLE SCIENCE IN POP SONGS $1000: We're not sure how Adele pulled off this title trick in a 2011 song, but she definitely wanted to "let it burn" "Set Fire To The Rain" |
#9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $400: A young couple lost at sea miraculously piece an ocean liner together & head for Europe, where they separate as she gets engaged to another Titanic |
#9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $800: A government worker flies to Iran with some folks & tries desperately against long odds to get them to a Canadian's house Argo |
#9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $1200: In 1954 a big new guy in town strolls around a world capital, rebuilding entire structures & repairing broken power stations Godzilla |
#9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $1600: 2 friends leave a Mexican paradise & make their separate ways into a Maine prison The Shawshank Redemption |
#9022, aired 2024-01-23 | MOVIES IN REWIND $2000: A slave entertains ancient Rome & rises to become an army general, an advisor to the emperor & a happy family man Gladiator |
#9021, aired 2024-01-22 | IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERRE $200: In Norwegian, this local town's name means "luck", but for us, it sounds like it can literally freeze over Hel |
#9021, aired 2024-01-22 | IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERRE $600: In 1991 this island that's 3 times the size of Texas hit -93 at a weather station Greenland |
#9021, aired 2024-01-22 | IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERRE $800: In 2014 the average summer temperature--again, summer temperature--in Cold Bay in this state was 54.1 degrees Alaska |
#9021, aired 2024-01-22 | IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERRE $1000: In 2022 this world capital hit -9, its lowest temperature since 1918; well, it is an Iceland Reykjavik |
#9021, aired 2024-01-22 | IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERRE $3,000 (Daily Double): On Feb. 3, 1996 the Star Tribune & the Pioneer Press headlined a big stat for these 2 adjoining cities: -60 degrees Minneapolis & St. Paul |
#9020, aired 2024-01-19 | MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS $200: Major League Baseball's Cardinals play their home games at this sudsy arena Busch Stadium |
#9020, aired 2024-01-19 | MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS $400: When Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic in 1927, this was the name of his plane the Spirit of St. Louis |
#9020, aired 2024-01-19 | MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS $600: The oldest bridge still spanning the Mississippi connects St. Louis with this Illinois city that has a logical name East St. Louis |
#9020, aired 2024-01-19 | MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS $800: The classic 1944 Judy Garland film "Meet Me in St. Louis" was directed by this man, her soon-to-be husband (Vincente) Minnelli |
#9020, aired 2024-01-19 | MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS $1000: In 1673 these 2 French explorers passed through the region that became St. Louis Joliet & Marquette |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $200: Making the best of a bad past situation, this ex-heavyweight champ from Brooklyn put out edibles in the shape of ears in 2022 Mike Tyson |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $400: The producers of "Tak3n" had a very particular set of skills to get this man back for time 3 in the role of Bryan Mills Liam Neeson |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $400: Goalie Patrick Roy said he couldn't hear what Jeremy Roenick said, due to "my 2" rings for winning this trophy plugging my ears the Stanley Cup |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $600: In 1900 the U.S. beat the Brits in the first match for this international team tennis "Cup" the Davis Cup |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $800: "Se7en" had this actor demanding, "what's in the box?!" & very much not liking what is in the box Brad Pitt |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $800: In 2022 Chloe Kim was golden--again--defending her women's halfpipe Olympic title in this sport snowboarding |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $1000: Deferred payments in a 2000 MLB contract had this 53-year-old "Jr." making $3.6 million as the Reds' 4th-highest paid player in 2023 Ken Griffey Jr. |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $1200: In 2001 he was on film in "Thir13en Ghosts" as Arthur Kriticos & a year later, began an Emmy-winning life on TV as a "Monk" Tony Shalhoub |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $1600: You might say this Oscar winner became a godfather in 2002 playing a movie director who (virtually) created "S1m0ne" Al Pacino |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | MOVIE TITLES WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $2000: In 2022 she played Gemma, a robotics engineer who brought "M3GAN" to life; maybe some "Girls" are more fun to hang out with Allison Williams |
#9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HATS IN OTHER WORDS $200: A vaquero is a type of one a cowboy hat |
#9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HATS IN OTHER WORDS $400: Boil an egg this way if you want a solid inside hard boiled |
#9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HATS IN OTHER WORDS $600: A type of quark or kind of toy tops |
#9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HATS IN OTHER WORDS $800: The country with Volcán Barú as its highest point Panama |
#9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HATS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: A tin or container for tablets or lozenges a pill box |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $300: February 18, 1930: self-taught astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers this distant heavenly body Pluto |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $600: July 11, 1804: Aaron Burr mortally wounds this Founding Father during a pistol duel in Weehawken, New Jersey Alexander Hamilton |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $900: May 21, 1927: Charles Lindbergh & this airplane complete the first nonstop, solo flight across the Atlantic ocean The Spirit of St. Louis |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $1200: August 30, 1967: this civil rights lawyer is confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | IMPORTANT DATES IN U.S. HISTORY $1500: November 11, 1620: before going ashore, Pilgrim leaders sign this agreement outlining self-rule in the New World the Mayflower Compact |
#9015, aired 2024-01-12 | AN "A" IN SCIENCE $200: The primary risk factor for mesothelioma, a rare cancer, is thought to be exposure to this tough fiber asbestos |
#9015, aired 2024-01-12 | AN "A" IN SCIENCE $400: Pectoris can follow this word for a type of chest pain that can be a symptom of coronary artery disease angina |
#9015, aired 2024-01-12 | AN "A" IN SCIENCE $600: Surname of U.S. physician Virginia who developed a method that scored the health of newborns Apgar |
#9015, aired 2024-01-12 | AN "A" IN SCIENCE $800: John F. Kennedy suffered from Addison's disease, a condition that affects these glands that secrete steroids the adrenal glands |
#9015, aired 2024-01-12 | AN "A" IN SCIENCE $1,400 (Daily Double): This tiny unit of measurement is named for a Swedish physicist an angstrom |
#1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $400: The all-too-simple premise of the game show in this 2012 film--kids murder each other The Hunger Games |
#1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $800: The all-too-simple premise of the game show hosted by Richard Dawson in this 1987 film--criminals are murdered The Running Man |
#1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $1200: Dev Patel wins big on a game show in this 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire |
#1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $1600: In "Quiz Show" this Brit had all the answers on "Twenty One" as Charles Van Doren; do you have the question? Ralph Fiennes |
#1, aired 2024-01-12 | GAME SHOWS IN THE MOVIES $2000: In "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind", a woman has the choice of Brad Pitt, Matt Damon or Bachelor No. 3 on this classic show The Dating Game |
#9012, aired 2024-01-09 | "F" IN GEOGRAPHY $200: This state capital is near the western edge of the Inner Bluegrass Region Frankfort |
#9012, aired 2024-01-09 | IN MY ART DECO ERA $400: The Petersen Automotive Museum has a Phantom from this car company that "epitomizes the prewar Art Deco school of design" a Rolls-Royce |
#9012, aired 2024-01-09 | "F" IN GEOGRAPHY $400: Espoo & Lappeenranta are cities in this nation Finland |
#9012, aired 2024-01-09 | IN MY ART DECO ERA $800: Before this music hall opened in 1932, a N.Y. newspaper glowed, "The whole theatre interior lends itself to effect of sunrise" Radio City Music Hall |
#9012, aired 2024-01-09 | "F" IN GEOGRAPHY $800: Although it shares its name with a type of headwear, the name of this city may come from Arabic for a kind of axe Fez |
#9012, aired 2024-01-09 | "F" IN GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): This city in Alaska has hosted the Midnight Sun Festival for more than 40 years Fairbanks |
#9012, aired 2024-01-09 | "F" IN GEOGRAPHY $1000: An island in the Persian Gulf shares its name with this language Farsi |
#9012, aired 2024-01-09 | IN MY ART DECO ERA $1200: Union Terminal is a great example of Art Deco architecture in this Ohio city, as is the Taft Theater Cincinnati |
#9012, aired 2024-01-09 | IN MY ART DECO ERA $1600: Atop Telegraph Hill in San Francisco stands this 210-foot Art Deco tower Coit Tower |
#9012, aired 2024-01-09 | IN MY ART DECO ERA $2000: The top of Los Angeles City Hall was inspired by the look of this ancient wonder of Halicarnassus a mausoleum |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $200: In this book you'll find "I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall drive a stake through her body" Dracula |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR WOMAN IN THE FIELD $400: The first woman to win this prize for criticism, Emily Genauer took it (& $1,000!) in 1974 for her writing on art a Pulitzer |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $400: In a 17th century classic, he tells the title character, "What we see there are not giants but windmills" Sancho Panza |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $600: It includes, "I had only just gone to my room, when my Mary told me a lady had thrown herself under the train" Anna Karenina |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR WOMAN IN THE FIELD $800: Pretty big in the legal field, she got judicial appointments from Bush I, Clinton & finally Obama in 2009 Sotomayor |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $1000: This Sinclair Lewis guy hears "Preacher... damned if I'm going to watch you seducing the first girl you get your big sweaty hands on" Elmer Gantry |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR WOMAN IN THE FIELD $1200: In 1965 Cambridge awarded her a Ph.D. in ethology, the study of animal behavior, 5 years after she began a major chimp study Jane Goodall |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $1,600 (Daily Double): The very long opening line of this novel includes the phrase "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair" A Tale of Two Cities |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR WOMAN IN THE FIELD $1600: In 1977 Sally Ride wrote to NASA, "I am a PhD candidate in" this type of physics & "interested in the Space Shuttle program" astrophysics |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | OUR WOMAN IN THE FIELD $2000: This American woman went pro in 1916, founded a dance company in 1926, retired at 70 but choreographed until her death in 1991 Martha Graham |
#9008, aired 2024-01-03 | WILLIAM BLAKE IN POP CULTURE $400: The title of this band's album, "Songs of Innocence", references a Blake poetry collection U2 |
#9008, aired 2024-01-03 | WILLIAM BLAKE IN POP CULTURE $800: The name of this band fronted by Jim Morrison comes from a Blake passage via Aldous Huxley The Doors |
#9008, aired 2024-01-03 | WILLIAM BLAKE IN POP CULTURE $1200: Replicant Roy Batty adapts a passage from Blake's book "America, a Prophecy" in this futuristic film set in 2019 Los Angeles Blade Runner |
#9008, aired 2024-01-03 | WILLIAM BLAKE IN POP CULTURE $1600: A chapter that follows Rorschach in this graphic novel draws inspiration from William Blake's poem "The Tyger" the Watchmen |
#9008, aired 2024-01-03 | WILLIAM BLAKE IN POP CULTURE $2000: Francis Dolarhyde is obsessed with a Blake painting in "Red Dragon" by this author Thomas Harris |
#23, aired 2024-01-02 | BOOKS IN THE SERIES $100: Stephenie Meyer:
"New Moon";
"Eclipse";
"Breaking Dawn" Twilight |
#23, aired 2024-01-02 | BOOKS IN THE SERIES $200: R.L. Stine:
"The Ghost Next Door";
"Vampire Breath";
"Say Cheese & Die!" Goosebumps |
#23, aired 2024-01-02 | BOOKS IN THE SERIES $300: C.S. Lewis:
"The Magician's Nephew";
"Prince Caspian";
"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" The Chronicles of Narnia |
#23, aired 2024-01-02 | BOOKS IN THE SERIES $400: George R.R. Martin:
"A Dance with Dragons";
"A Storm of Swords";
"A Game of Thrones" A Song of Ice and Fire |
#23, aired 2024-01-02 | BOOKS IN THE SERIES $500: Philip Pullman:
"The Golden Compass";
"The Subtle Knife";
"The Amber Spyglass" His Dark Materials |
#9005, aired 2023-12-29 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $400: The prizes bearing his name were first awarded on December 10, 1901, the fifth anniversary of his death Nobel |
#9005, aired 2023-12-29 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $800: The Mayflower spent several weeks at Provincetown before arriving in Plymouth Harbor in December of this year 1620 |
#9005, aired 2023-12-29 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $1200: Full of humor, weather predictions & practical advice, it was first published in December 1732 under a pseudonym Poor Richard's Almanack |
#9005, aired 2023-12-29 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $1600: Far from home, Pedro I became the first emperor of this country on December 1, 1822 Brazil |
#9005, aired 2023-12-29 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $2000: 4 murderous knights came calling on him in Canterbury Cathedral December 29, 1170 Thomas à Becket |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | IN MY CEILINGS $200: In 2023 this was suspended at $31.4 trillion; it's a 2-word term for the cap that limits the money the govt. is allowed to borrow the debt ceiling |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | IN MY CEILINGS $400: Two food names for the type of ceiling seen here are popcorn & this dairy one cottage cheese |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | IN MY CEILINGS $800: In 1508 Pope Julius II commissioned some frescoes for the ceiling of this place; took 5 years to paint, but yeah... worth it the Sistine Chapel |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | IN MY CEILINGS $1000: A vaulted ceiling that follows the sloping sides of a roof is this type, like a grand building of Chartres or Cologne a cathedral |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | IN MY CEILINGS $1,800 (Daily Double): In 2016 Hillary Clinton said, "We have still not shattered that highest & hardest" this, "but someday someone will" the glass ceiling |
#9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $200: 2-word title of "A Celebration of the Sesame Street Theme Song" Sunny Day |
#9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $400: Type of evening in the title of a 1923 Frost poem snowy |
#9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $600: It comes "on little cat feet" according to Carl Sandburg, so let up on the gas fog |
#9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $800: Pirates be roaming in the novel titled this condition "in Jamaica" a high wind |
#9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $1000: Saul Bellow's Henderson gets this appellation in Africa the Rain King |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | ALWAYS IN FASHION $200: This animal pattern is found in a variety of colors on everything from clothing & fashion accessories to furniture leopard (print) |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | MAMMALS IN LATIN $200: Porcus a pig |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | IT HAPPENED IN 2023 $400: Tragedy struck this island in August as wildfires ravaged the historic town of Lahaina Maui |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | ALWAYS IN FASHION $400: In 2023 Levi Strauss & Co. celebrated the 150th anniversary of these numeric jeans 501s |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | MAMMALS IN LATIN $400: Ursus a bear |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | ALWAYS IN FASHION $600: Always in fashion is this type of coat; the name referring to the color & the hair it's traditionally made from camel |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | MAMMALS IN LATIN $600: Cetus a whale |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | IT HAPPENED IN 2023 $800: In February, one of these, reportedly carrying spy tech from China, was shot down off the coast of South Carolina a balloon |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | ALWAYS IN FASHION $800: Popularly associated with Ray-Ban, these were originally created to protect military pilots' eyes from glare Aviator sunglasses |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | MAMMALS IN LATIN $800: Vacca a cow |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | ALWAYS IN FASHION $1000: This French couture designer's New Look included A-line skirts & dresses in his 1955 spring collection Christian Dior |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | MAMMALS IN LATIN $1000: Cervus a deer |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | IT HAPPENED IN 2023 $1200: On September 15, some 13,000 members of this union went on strike against Ford, G.M. & Stellantis the United Auto Workers |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | IT HAPPENED IN 2023 $1600: When park rangers in Queensland found Toadzilla, a nearly 6-pound one of these invasive amphibians, they had first thought it was fake a cane toad |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | IT HAPPENED IN 2023 $2000: On January 8, government buildings in Brazil's capital were stormed by supporters of this ousted president Jair Bolsonaro |
#8996, aired 2023-12-18 | "P" IN FASHION $200: It's the spritely name for a very short hairstyle that's worn close to the head & combed in points around the face a pixie |
#8996, aired 2023-12-18 | "P" IN FASHION $400: This type of leather is traditionally processed on the grain side & coated with paint & linseed oil patent leather |
#8996, aired 2023-12-18 | IN YOUR FACE! $400: It's the 8-letter top part of your face, from your eyebrows to your hairline the forehead |
#8996, aired 2023-12-18 | "P" IN FASHION $600: J. Crew offers this classic skirt in a style appropriately called "No. 2" pencil |
#8996, aired 2023-12-18 | IN YOUR FACE! $800: The vermilion border defines these your lips |
#8996, aired 2023-12-18 | "P" IN FASHION $800: This type of folkloric blouse is usually white with puffed sleeves & has a square embroidered neckline a peasant blouse |
#8996, aired 2023-12-18 | "P" IN FASHION $1000: A Latin word for "sun" ends this word for a stylish item that protects you from the rain as well as the Sun a parasol |
#8996, aired 2023-12-18 | IN YOUR FACE! $1200: This part of your face can also mean impudence; the "Barefoot Boy" had one "of tan" cheek |
#8996, aired 2023-12-18 | IN YOUR FACE! $1600: Your ciliary processes are in these your eye |
#8996, aired 2023-12-18 | IN YOUR FACE! $2000: It's that indentation in the middle of your upper lip, just below your nose a Cupid's bow (or the philtrum) |
#8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $200: Trace Jesus' steps in this city as he walked down the Via Dolorosa toward Golgotha Jerusalem |
#8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $400: A tour of his infamous trail of murder starts at the Aldgate East tube station Jack the Ripper |
#8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $800: Hike in the footsteps of settlers & Native Americans on the Natchez Trace, starting in Natchez in this state Mississippi |
#8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $1000: Retracing this 1930s journey will take you thousands of miles from Ruijin to Yan'an the Long March |
#8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $1,800 (Daily Double): Starting at the Boston Common & ending at the Bunker Hill Monument is this 2-word path the Freedom Trail |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT'S... $200: This dazzling phenomenon, as seen from Alaska aurora borealis (the northern lights) |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | YOUR DAY IN "C"OURT $400: An assertion to a legal right to something; you can also make a "counter-" one a claim |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT'S... $400: One of these that streaked across the sky over Russia in February 2013, then exploded with the force of 30 nuclear bombs a meteor |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT'S... $600: A flock of these birds in motion, they're like little stars of the sky starlings |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | YOUR DAY IN "C"OURT $800: "Cross-" this is security for one debt that also serves as security for another collateral |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT'S... $800: This constellation, the "chained maiden" Andromeda |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT'S... $1000: A 350-feet A35-1000 from this aircraft company with another type of transport in its name Airbus |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | YOUR DAY IN "C"OURT $1600: A judge other than a chief judge at one of the U.S. courts of appeals a circuit judge |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | YOUR DAY IN "C"OURT $2000: Executive clemency can lead to this, reducing the severity of a punishment commutation |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | YOUR DAY IN "C"OURT $6,000 (Daily Double): This effort to boot a juror can be peremptory or for cause a challenge |
#8987, aired 2023-12-05 | THEY COME IN THREES $400: This Kellogg's trio look pretty spry, considering they turned 90 in 2023 Snap, Crackle & Pop |
#8987, aired 2023-12-05 | A SONG IN THAT MOVIE $400: "Over The Rainbow" (1939) The Wizard of Oz |
#8987, aired 2023-12-05 | THEY COME IN THREES $800: Through WWII, this candy bar had 3 pieces in one package, flavored chocolate, vanilla & strawberry; now it's all chocolate 3 Musketeers |
#8987, aired 2023-12-05 | A SONG IN THAT MOVIE $800: "Lose Yourself"
(2002) 8 Mile |
#8987, aired 2023-12-05 | THEY COME IN THREES $1200: In 1882 Germany, Italy & Austria-Hungary formed this, renewing it periodically until World War I the Triple Alliance |
#8987, aired 2023-12-05 | A SONG IN THAT MOVIE $1200: Heard here is a song from this 1979 film Hair |
#8987, aired 2023-12-05 | THEY COME IN THREES $1600: This name for 3 wars between Rome & Carthage comes from the Greek for "Phoenician" Punic |
#8987, aired 2023-12-05 | A SONG IN THAT MOVIE $1600: "When You Wish Upon A Star"
(1940) Pinocchio |
#8987, aired 2023-12-05 | THEY COME IN THREES $2000: In Greek & Roman myth, 3 goddesses who determined human destinies were called these, a synonym for destinies the Fates |
#8987, aired 2023-12-05 | A SONG IN THAT MOVIE $2000: "Puttin' On The Ritz" (1974) Young Frankenstein |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $400: This crime is in Nevada's capital arson (in Carson City) |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | 2 IN THE BUSH $400: The 2 Presidents Bush were both graduates of Yale University, attending in these 2 decades the '40s & the '60s |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | A BIRD IN THE HAND $400: It's the bird in the hands here; Hans Christian Andersen wrote of an "Ugly" one a duckling |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MASSAGE IN A BOTTLE $400: Your massage oil may contain this vitamin, aka alpha-tocopherol; it's thought to promote wound healing vitamin E |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $800: This wind in Maine's a gust (in Augusta) |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | 2 IN THE BUSH $800: In the names of both the Presidents Bush, "W" is short for this Walker |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | A BIRD IN THE HAND $800: That's not a chick in the hand but this bird with a longer name a chickadee |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MASSAGE IN A BOTTLE $800: It's the fat extracted from the beans used to make chocolate; turns out it softens & lubricates the skin cocoa butter |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MASSAGE IN A BOTTLE $1200: Many massage oils have the scent of this purplish plant "the herb of love" that's a member of the mint family lavender |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | 2 IN THE BUSH $1200: The 2 daughters of the last President Bush Jenna & Barbara |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | A BIRD IN THE HAND $1200: It's perhaps the most fitting bird to hold the symbol of peace in its beak a dove |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | 2 IN THE BUSH $1600: 2 sons of George H.W. Bush have been governors, of these 2 states Florida & Texas |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | A BIRD IN THE HAND $1600: On its leg, the bird is undergoing this zoological process, also called ringing banding |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MASSAGE IN A BOTTLE $1600: If your massage oil is scented, it may also be used for this, the use of fragrance to help with mood or behavior aromatherapy |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $1600: This tree in Tennessee's ash (in Nashville) |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $1,800 (Daily Double): This noodle in California's ramen (in Sacramento) |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | 2 IN THE BUSH $2000: The 2 Democratic opponents George W. Bush beat in presidential elections Gore & Kerry |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $2000: This Roman poet in Rhode Island's Ovid (from Providence) |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MASSAGE IN A BOTTLE $2000: Essence of this, which Thomas More called "the herb sacred to remembrance", is used as a scent in massage oils rosemary |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | A BIRD IN THE HAND $3,000 (Daily Double): The type of hawk seen here is found in the name of this olden occupation of the guy holding it falconer |
#8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS $200: We don't see what was so good about this 2-word term for the worldwide 1930s economic disaster the Great Depression |
#8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS $400: Both pleasant & painful, as in a memory bittersweet |
#8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS $600: Alliterative 2-word term for action by one's own forces causing casualties to one's own troops friendly fire |
#8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS $800: 2-word term for something supposedly confidential but actually known quite generally open secret |
#8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS $1000: This computer language gets oxymoronic when it follows "advanced" BASIC |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $100: January 9, 1863: London opens the world's first underground railway, now commonly known as this the Tube |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $200: October 4, 1957:
The Soviet Union launches this beach-ball-sized satellite into orbit, kicking off the Space Race Sputnik |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $300: February 22, 1997:
Scientists in Scotland introduce the first clone of an adult mammal, a sheep named after this country singer Dolly Parton |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $400: November 17, 1869:
After ten years of grueling construction, this country officially opens the Suez Canal Egypt |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY $500 (Daily Double): April 21, 1918:
World War I flying ace Manfred von Richthofen, best known by this nickname, is shot down & killed the Red Baron |
#8981, aired 2023-11-27 | WOMEN IN SCIENCE $200: Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon developed a system of classifying stars & discovered 5 of these exploding ones a nova |
#8981, aired 2023-11-27 | WOMEN IN SCIENCE $400: This process in milk is now routine because Alice Evans found that brucellosis could be passed from cows to humans pasteurization |
#8981, aired 2023-11-27 | WOMEN IN SCIENCE $600: Using triethylene melamine on tumors, Dr. Jane Cooke Wright pioneered research on this, the use of drugs to treat cancer chemotherapy |
#8981, aired 2023-11-27 | WOMEN IN SCIENCE $800: As a mycologist, this author's studies included spore germination; Jemima Puddle-Duck would have to wait a few years Beatrix Potter |
#8981, aired 2023-11-27 | WOMEN IN SCIENCE $1,000 (Daily Double): With her husband George, Gladys Dick found the cause of this childhood disease named for its red skin rash & came up with a cure scarlet fever |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | IN EXPLICABLE $200: A proverb says "look before you" do this leap |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | AN AMERICAN IN PARIS $400: In 1984, this Yank received the French Legion of Honor award for his work with muscular dystrophy Jerry Lewis |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | IN EXPLICABLE $400: A man wears a boutonniere on this part of his jacket lapel |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | IN EXPLICABLE $600: A color or the fragrant flower seen here lilac |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | AN AMERICAN IN PARIS $800: This first Chief Justice of the U.S. negotiated the Treaty of Paris in 1782 (John) Jay |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | IN EXPLICABLE $800: Another word for vertex or summit apex |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | IN EXPLICABLE $1000: This wild goat sports quite a pair of horns an ibex |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | AN AMERICAN IN PARIS $1200: His surname sounds French, but this Yank ended up in Paris by winning the Tour de France in 1986, 1989 & 1990 LeMond |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | AN AMERICAN IN PARIS $1600: Nadia Boulanger's American students included this one who came home to compose all-American works like "Lincoln Portrait" & "Rodeo" Aaron Copland |
#8980, aired 2023-11-24 | AN AMERICAN IN PARIS $2000: This companion of Gertrude Stein raised some eyebrows with her 1954 cookbook Alice B. Toklas |
#8979, aired 2023-11-23 | PUT ME IN $200: Put me, this nut, into a milk chocolate bar & you have the "Joy" I've provided since 1946 an almond |
#8979, aired 2023-11-23 | THEY COME IN SEVENS $200: The only one of the Seven Wonders of the World that still remains is the Pyramids of this city Giza |
#8979, aired 2023-11-23 | PUT ME IN $400: You can't use plain old rice if you're going to make sushi; it's got to be treated with me, the "rice" type of this vinegar |
#8979, aired 2023-11-23 | THEY COME IN SEVENS $400: Can I get an amen for Pope Gregory, who thankfully reduced the list of these to 7 deadly sins |
#8979, aired 2023-11-23 | PUT ME IN $600: Any cowboy knows a Roy Rogers requires me, this pomegranate-flavored syrup grenadine |
#8979, aired 2023-11-23 | THEY COME IN SEVENS $600: Steve McQueen's "Magnificent" movie was actually a remake of a film about 7 of these guys Seven Samurai |
#8979, aired 2023-11-23 | PUT ME IN $800: Sure, put mozz & parm in lasagna--as long as you have me, this spreadable wonder Bon Appetit calls "fluffiest cheese in the land" ricotta |
#8979, aired 2023-11-23 | THEY COME IN SEVENS $800: Tolkien should have consulted with the Brothers Grimm before having 13 of these accompany Bilbo in "The Hobbit" Dwarves |
#8979, aired 2023-11-23 | PUT ME IN $1000: Is it a fruit or is it a vegetable? Who cares? It's also called a Mexican green tomato & I put it in your salad a tomatillo |
#8979, aired 2023-11-23 | THEY COME IN SEVENS $1000: This group of defendants included Abbie Hoffman & Tom Hayden, who were convicted in 1970 the Chicago Seven |
#8977, aired 2023-11-21 | A DROP IN WHICH OCEAN? $200: Hanauma Bay, east of Waikiki the Pacific Ocean |
#8977, aired 2023-11-21 | A PAIN IN THE "R"s $400: Any mammal, including people, can contract this rhabdovirus disease affecting the nervous system & salivary glands rabies |
#8977, aired 2023-11-21 | A DROP IN WHICH OCEAN? $400: The Gulf of Honduras the Atlantic |
#8977, aired 2023-11-21 | A DROP IN WHICH OCEAN? $600: The Sulu Sea the Pacific |
#8977, aired 2023-11-21 | A PAIN IN THE "R"s $800: A lack of phosphate, vitamin D or calcium can cause this bone disease in children rickets |
#8977, aired 2023-11-21 | A DROP IN WHICH OCEAN? $800: The Laptev Sea the Arctic Ocean |
#8977, aired 2023-11-21 | A DROP IN WHICH OCEAN? $1000: The Mozambique Channel the Indian Ocean |
#8977, aired 2023-11-21 | A PAIN IN THE "R"s $1200: It's what the R in the MMR vaccine stands for rubella |
#8977, aired 2023-11-21 | A PAIN IN THE "R"s $1600: Parents are advised not to give children aspirin because of its link to this potentially fatal syndrome Reye syndrome |
#8977, aired 2023-11-21 | A PAIN IN THE "R"s $2000: These viruses responsible for many respiratory infections share part of their name with a pachyderm rhinoviruses |
#8976, aired 2023-11-20 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $400: Last name of the husband & wife with an atomic weight of 247 Curie |
#8976, aired 2023-11-20 | ETCHED IN STONE $400: The inscription on the London statue of this man seen here reads, "There is no darkness but ignorance" William Shakespeare |
#8976, aired 2023-11-20 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $800: There is just the value of this clue, no prize, for knowing this man for whom element 102 was named Nobel |
#8976, aired 2023-11-20 | ETCHED IN STONE $800: Outside the building where this group meets is a statue with a tablet that reads "Lex", Latin for "law" the Supreme Court |
#8976, aired 2023-11-20 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $1200: Johan Gadolin wonders will you still need him, will you still feed him now that he's element number this 64 |
#8976, aired 2023-11-20 | ETCHED IN STONE $1200: Underneath the sculpture of Ramses II & his falcon god friend is an example of this type of writing hieroglyphics |
#8976, aired 2023-11-20 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $1600: This physicist born in Ulm, Bavaria just made it into the top 100 elements by a hair; he's No. 99 Einstein |
#8976, aired 2023-11-20 | ETCHED IN STONE $1600: When the Nabateans ruled Jordan from about 400 B.C. to 106 A.D., their capital was this city, carved from stone Petra |
#8976, aired 2023-11-20 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $2000: The element with atomic number 107 was named for this scientist played by Kenneth Branagh in "Oppenheimer" Niels Bohr |
#8976, aired 2023-11-20 | ETCHED IN STONE $2000: A 4th century statue of this emperor once held a cross that said, "Through this sign of salvation, I rescued your city" Constantine the Great |
#8973, aired 2023-11-15 | IN COGNITO $200: Gimme a gin & this mixer, light on the mixer tonic |
#8973, aired 2023-11-15 | IN COGNITO $400: In sum it precedes "ergo" cogito |
#8973, aired 2023-11-15 | SAINTS GO MARCHING IN $400: 5th century pope Celestine I sent this man & future saint to Ireland, where he is said to have established 300 churches Patrick |
#8973, aired 2023-11-15 | IN COGNITO $600: This hockey heavy a goon |
#9162, aired 2024-09-17 | CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES: This 12-year-old began his first book saying, "Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood" Percy Jackson (Perseus Jackson) |
#9145, aired 2024-07-12 | NAMES IN MEDICINE: He got a special presidential citation in 1955, passed away in 1995 & was dubbed "the man who saved the children" (Dr. Jonas) Salk |
#9131, aired 2024-06-24 | NAMES IN THE HEAVENS: When this body was discovered in 1978, Persephone was suggested as its name Charon |
#9044, aired 2024-02-22 | ON VACATION IN ITALY: About 30 miles from Florence, a little hill gives this tiny Tuscan town its name, familiar to American visitors Monticello |
#9027, aired 2024-01-30 | NAMES IN HISTORY: The scientific name of Jamaica's ackee fruit honors this captain who brought it to England in 1793 Captain Bligh |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | LEADING LADIES: NEXT IN LINE: Janet Gaynor,
Judy Garland,
Barbra Streisand,
her Lady Gaga |
#9001, aired 2023-12-25 | FAMOUS NAMES IN AMERICA: The name of this animal that died in 1885 after being struck by a train that subsequently derailed lives on as an adjective Jumbo |
#8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS: Barry Barish, who shared the 2017 Prize for detecting gravitational waves, called his award "a win for" this predecessor (Albert) Einstein |
#8934, aired 2023-09-21 | FIRST NAMES IN SCIENCE: First name of the paleontologist who in 1990 noticed some large vertebrae jutting from an eroding bluff in South Dakota Sue |
#8891, aired 2023-06-12 | WOMEN IN MYTHOLOGY: The name of this woman, the product of an incestuous union, means "against birth" Antigone |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | GROUPS IN HISTORY: The third-most famous group that invaded Britain in the 5th century, they gave their name to the continental part of Denmark the Jutes |
#20, aired 2023-05-24 | LATIN IN LITERATURE: A work by this 15th century English writer quotes the phrase "rex quondam rexque futurus" Thomas Malory |
#17, aired 2023-05-23 | REAL PEOPLE IN SHAKESPEARE: In Shakespeare this man is a rival of Prince Hal; in real life he was older than Hal's father Hotspur |
#8870, aired 2023-05-12 | NEW WORDS IN THE 18th CENTURY: Describing these, Captain Cook wrote, "The manner in which" they're done "must certainly cause intollerable pain" tattoos |
#8822, aired 2023-03-07 | NAMES IN THE BOOKSTORE: This man made lists, perhaps to cope with depression; a set of lists he published in 1852 made his name synonymous with a type of book (Peter Mark) Roget |
#8818, aired 2023-03-01 | LAWS IN U.S. HISTORY: A Radical Republican championed this 1875 act but the Supreme Court struck it down in 1883; a new version was passed 81 years later the Civil Rights Act |
#8785, aired 2023-01-13 | IN THE BOOKSTORE: The name of this author dead since 2013 now appears on books written by a former U.S. marshal & a former Apache helicopter pilot Tom Clancy |
#8752, aired 2022-11-29 | NAMES IN U.S. HISTORY: This father was the only man among the 13 plaintiffs in a class-action case filed in 1951 Brown |
#8748, aired 2022-11-23 | SECONDS IN HISTORY: The Fortune, the 2nd ship to land at this harbor, disappointed those already there, carrying 35 new residents & "not so much as bisket-cake" Plymouth |
#8733, aired 2022-11-02 | PHRASES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill that gave reparations to formerly enslaved people, hence this phrase for an unfulfilled promise forty acres and a mule |
#8731, aired 2022-10-31 | PLACES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: A Native American story says this creek got its name from an injury suffered by a Sioux warrior in a fight with the Crow Wounded Knee |
#8693, aired 2022-07-27 | REAL PEOPLE IN POETRY: Milton wrote of this contemporary: "When by night the glass of" him "observes imagined lands and regions in the Moon" Galileo |
#8682, aired 2022-07-12 | PAIRS IN ASTRONOMY: Discovered in 1877, they were named for siblings of the Greek god of love Phobos & Deimos |
#8651, aired 2022-05-30 | IN MEMORIAM 2022: On the death of this trailblazing man, friend & mentor, Oprah said, "For me, the greatest of the 'great trees' has fallen" Sidney Poitier |
#8638, aired 2022-05-11 | SAY IT IN ITALIAN: It's an Italian word for "mercy", but also the name of a movie character who kills Stracci & Carlo clemenza |
#8626, aired 2022-04-25 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Capable of freighting about 180 tons of cargo, in 1624 it was in disrepair & appraised at a total value of 128 pounds the Mayflower |
#8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WOMEN IN BRITISH HISTORY: The orphaned future Queen Elizabeth I was devoted to this stepmother who died 2 days before Elizabeth's 15th birthday Catherine Parr |
#8608, aired 2022-03-30 | AMERICANS IN PARIS: In 2021 she became the sixth woman & the first Black woman to be inducted into the Pantheon in Paris Josephine Baker |
#16, aired 2022-02-18 | CHARACTERS IN BANNED BOOKS: Introduced in 1928, this character has a disappointing affair with a writer before she begins a more satisfying relationship Lady Chatterley |
#8559, aired 2022-01-20 | WORDS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: The 1890 Census reported that "the unsettled area has been so broken into... that there can hardly be said to be a" this frontier |
#8524, aired 2021-12-02 | JOURNALISTS IN HISTORY: Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg died June 25, 1876 while on a field assignment covering this man (General George) Custer |
#8506, aired 2021-11-08 | NAMES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY: He was Virginia's 1st African-American congressman, whose grandnephew, a famous poet, used his last name as a first name (John Mercer) Langston |
#8474, aired 2021-09-23 | FOOD & DRINK IN THE BIBLE: In the King James Version, these creatures are a plague in Exodus 10, but deemed okay to eat in Leviticus 11 locusts |
#8277, aired 2020-11-10 | HISTORY IN THE MOVIES: Vehicles in "2001: A Space Odyssey" featured this airline's logo, but the company went bankrupt in 1991 Pan Am |
#8274, aired 2020-11-05 | FOREIGN WORDS IN ENGLISH: The first use of this Spanish term in English was by Wellington referring to partisans in the Peninsular Wars guerrillas |
#8253, aired 2020-10-07 | WHO SAID IT IN THE BIBLE?: He tells his son not to worry about the lamb for the burnt offering--God will provide it Abraham |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | AMERICA IN THE 1700s: "Every state shall always keep up a well regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutred" is in No. 6 of these the Articles of Confederation |
#8200, aired 2020-04-10 | WORDS IN THE NEWS: On September 25, 2019, searches on merriam-webster.com for the definition of this 3-word Latin term increased by 5,500% quid pro quo |
#8117, aired 2019-12-17 | MILESTONES IN U.S. HISTORY: Congress declared September 6, 2008 Louisa Swain Day because Louisa did this in Wyoming on that date in 1870 voted |
#7935, aired 2019-02-22 | WOMEN IN U.S. HISTORY: In 1901 this activist was jailed for inspiring the assassination of William McKinley, but the charge was later dropped Emma Goldman |
#7878, aired 2018-12-05 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1999 the U.S. government was ordered to pay his family $16 million for less than 30 seconds of film Abraham Zapruder |
#7856, aired 2018-11-05 | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LIT: Memories of refugees in British train stations before & after WWII helped inspire the creation of this character Paddington Bear |
#7846, aired 2018-10-22 | PLACES IN THE NEWS: In a hint of the future, in 1973 Marjorie Post gave it to the U.S. govt. as a warm-weather presidential retreat, but it was returned Mar-a-Lago |
#7844, aired 2018-10-18 | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LIT: This winged character from an early 20th century work is so named "because she mends the pots and kettles" Tinker Bell |
#7841, aired 2018-10-15 | AMERICA IN THE 1930s: In March 1933 CBS Radio's Robert Trout said, "The president wants to come into your home... for a little" this a fireside chat |
#7833, aired 2018-10-03 | CITIES IN HISTORY: The Cathedral of St. Pierre was the center of the Calvinist Reformation in this lakeside city Geneva |
#7761, aired 2018-05-14 | CITIES IN LITERATURE: In "Gone With the Wind", Rhett Butler says this city named for a monarch "is the South, only intensified" Charleston |
#7749, aired 2018-04-26 | SPORTS IN COURT: This athlete lost a 1931 lawsuit against the Curtiss Candy Company Babe Ruth |
#7708, aired 2018-02-28 | WOMEN IN MYTHOLOGY: Poet & translator Anne Carson addresses her: "Your name in Greek means something like 'against birth'" Antigone |
#7666, aired 2018-01-01 | PLACES IN 1950s NEWS: Pravda reported that Khrushchev, on his way to lunch, announced his decision to give this region to Ukraine Crimea |
#7533, aired 2017-05-17 | ERAS IN U.S. HISTORY: On April 11, 1865 Abraham Lincoln spoke of "the mode, manner, and means of" this, which he would not live to see Reconstruction |
#7498, aired 2017-03-29 | WORDS IN THE NEWS 2016: NASA wished John Glenn this 8-letter word when he made the 1st U.S. manned orbital flight in 1962 & again upon his passing in 2016 godspeed |
#7482, aired 2017-03-07 | YEARS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY: The representative body called the Estates-General met in 1614 & didn't meet again until this year 1789 |
#7456, aired 2017-01-30 | NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: He headed a British committee on prison reform, which gave him the idea for founding a colony in America in 1732 James Oglethorpe |
#7408, aired 2016-11-23 | NAMES IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A newspaper announcing his death in 1801 said he died in England & was "notorious throughout the world" Benedict Arnold |
#7387, aired 2016-10-25 | WORDS IN THE NEWS 2016: The Centre for European Reform is one of the sources credited with coining this new 6-letter portmanteau word Brexit |
#7372, aired 2016-10-04 | IN THE NOVEL: The 1st scene in this book: "With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene" Fahrenheit 451 |
#7354, aired 2016-07-28 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: This 52-year-old went through a temporary growth spurt, growing 2 inches in less than a year, as revealed by a 2016 physical Scott Kelly |
#7325, aired 2016-06-17 | GEOGRAPHY IN THE NEWS: Mexico's Programa Frontera Sur aims to secure its 600-mile-long border with this country Guatemala |
#7234, aired 2016-02-11 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: When this man joined Twitter in September 2015, his first follow was the National Security Agency's account Edward Snowden |
#7228, aired 2016-02-03 | MOMENTS IN HISTORY: This word follows January (China, 1967); March (Germany, 1848); July (France, 1830) & famously, October Revolution |
#7206, aired 2016-01-04 | MILESTONES IN U.S. HISTORY: This president began a State of the Union Address by congratulating the historic 100th Congress Ronald Reagan |
#7185, aired 2015-12-04 | RELIGION IN AMERICA: The Dakotas & Minnesota are the 3 states with the largest % of residents identifying as this denomination Lutherans |
#7125, aired 2015-07-31 | CELEBRITIES IN SONG LYRICS: In a song, Weird Al says, "I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows" him Kevin Bacon |
#7122, aired 2015-07-28 | TELEVISION IN THE 2000s: Blanco is the last name of the main character in "Metástasis", a Colombia-set version of this show Breaking Bad |
#7098, aired 2015-06-24 | WORLD LEADERS IN THE NEWS: In 2014 CNN declared Zambia's Guy Scott the first white president in Sub-Saharan Africa since this man in 1994 F.W. de Klerk |
#7090, aired 2015-06-12 | SHIPS IN THE NEWS: In 2012 Nature magazine ran an obituary for this ship, which "died after a long struggle with bad publicity" the Exxon Valdez |
#7058, aired 2015-04-29 | CHAIN STORE NAMES IN THE NEWS: The 1917 first use of what became its name said this 2-word small room "called up the tube that the steamer... was torpedoed" Radio Shack |
#7054, aired 2015-04-23 | ART IN THE CITY: German city where you'll find the statue seen here Hamelin |
#6947, aired 2014-11-25 | PEOPLE IN THE ARTS: He once said, "It is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things" Maurice Sendak |
#6910, aired 2014-10-03 | TV IN THE 2000s: A key scene of this sitcom's 2014 finale after 9 seasons was actually filmed in Season 2 How I Met Your Mother |
#6893, aired 2014-07-30 | GREAT MOMENTS IN 19th CENTURY SCIENCE: Matthias Schleiden found plants are made up of these; at dinner he told Theodor Schwann who said, hey, so are animals cells |
#6883, aired 2014-07-16 | 20 YEARS AGO IN ENTERTAINMENT: In 1994 this comedian starred in a No. 1 sitcom, the No. 1 Christmas movie & had a No. 1 non-fiction bestseller Tim Allen |
#6879, aired 2014-07-10 | IN THE DICTIONARY: This adjective can mean "delicate", "heavenly" or, in chemistry, "related to C4H10O" ethereal |
#6863, aired 2014-06-18 | MUSIC IN AMERICA: Established by Congress in 1798, it's the oldest continuously active U.S. professional music ensemble the Marine Corps Band |
#6823, aired 2014-04-23 | HOLIDAYS IN OTHER COUNTRIES: William Tubman's nearly 3 decades of leadership is celebrated on his birthday, November 29, in this country Liberia |
#6820, aired 2014-04-18 | CHARACTERS IN NOVELS: One of this man's "most priceless memories" is of "a delicately nurtured Southern belle with her Irish up" Rhett Butler |
#6775, aired 2014-02-14 | GETTING A "D" IN COLLEGE: The USA's oldest endowed chair is a Harvard chair of this subject, given in 1721 when that was largely what Harvard taught divinity |
#6694, aired 2013-10-24 | ART IN THE U.S. CAPITOL: Members of the Hungarian, Swedish & Israeli parliaments spoke when a bust of this foreign diplomat was unveiled Raoul Wallenberg |
#6661, aired 2013-07-29 | IN THE DICTIONARY: The last entry in the Random House Webster's unabridged dictionary is used to represent this annoying sound snoring |
#6631, aired 2013-06-17 | IN THE NEWSPAPER: Her pen name honored a wise woman from the Old Testament & a 19th century U.S. president Abigail Van Buren (or Dear Abby) |
#6606, aired 2013-05-13 | AUTHORS IN THE NEWS: When Curiosity touched down on Mars in 2012, its landing site was named in honor of this author who died weeks before Ray Bradbury |
#6605, aired 2013-05-10 | FAMOUS NAMES IN TRANSPORTATION: In 1928, a year after making international headlines, it reached its final destination, the Smithsonian the Spirit of St. Louis |
#6602, aired 2013-05-07 | CHARACTERS IN SHAKESPEARE: This character said to represent Shakespeare's philosophy has a name that means "fortunate" in Latin Prospero |
#6502, aired 2012-12-18 | PEOPLE IN BRITISH HISTORY: In 1805 the second in command to this hero said, "I wish (he) would stop signaling. We all know what we have to do" (Horatio) Nelson |
#6396, aired 2012-06-11 | EVENTS IN THE BIBLE: Acts 1:13 says this event occurred in "an upper room" the Last Supper |
#6392, aired 2012-06-05 | WOMEN IN ENTERTAINMENT: 1 of the first 2 women in Hollywood to own a studio (according to the official bio of No. 3, Oprah) (1 of) Mary Pickford or Lucille Ball |
#6314, aired 2012-02-16 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY: The name of this assassin is Latin for heavy, dull, insensitive, oafish Brutus |
#6309, aired 2012-02-09 | CHARACTERS IN POETRY: The name of this title heroine of an 1847 poem is from the Greek for "good news" Evangeline |
#6287, aired 2012-01-10 | RULERS IN HISTORY: Born in 1672 & named for a saint, in 1703 he founded a city whose name represents both of them Peter the Great |
#6116, aired 2011-03-28 | SPORTS IN AMERICA: Founded in 1795, this city that hosts a popular annual sporting event has "sport" in its name Williamsport |
#6021, aired 2010-11-15 | SPORTS IN AMERICA: Seen with a piece of equipment, Bryn Mawr's 1st physical education director brought this sport to the U.S.; it shares part of its name with another sport field hockey |
#6017, aired 2010-11-09 | WORDS IN 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Words found in this 1945 fable include brood, baying, bleating, comrade, tyranny & rebellion Animal Farm |
#6012, aired 2010-11-02 | CHARACTERS IN NOVELS: Debuting in a 1960 novel, this character dies following a heart attack on a basketball court in a 1990 book Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom |
#5917, aired 2010-05-11 | WORDS IN THE BIBLE: In Genesis 2:24 these 2 words are what a man shall do to his parents & then to his wife; add a letter to 1 to get the other leave & cleave |
#5873, aired 2010-03-10 | U.S. PLACES IN LITERATURE: This fishing port is the setting for Kipling's "Captains Courageous" & the wreck of the Hesperus was nearby Gloucester, Massachusetts |
#5838, aired 2010-01-20 | CITIES IN ENGLAND: The Roman name for this city was Aquae Sulis Bath |
#5756, aired 2009-09-28 | OLD NAMES IN THE NEWS: After running pyramid schemes & spending time in federal prison, he was deported back to Italy in 1934 Carlo Ponzi |
#5720, aired 2009-06-19 | WORDS IN PHYSICS: Also found before "pack" & "team", it's defined as increase in volume resulting from increase in temperature expansion |
#5647, aired 2009-03-10 | WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS: Much of this 2001 movie remake was filmed at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas Ocean's Eleven |
#5608, aired 2009-01-14 | CHARACTERS IN PLAYS: This woman wished to be taken to "Bucknam Pellis... don't you know where it is? In the Green Park, where the king lives" Eliza Doolittle |
#5601, aired 2009-01-05 | CHARACTERS IN NOVELS: Molly, the wife in this 1922 novel, represents a modern-day Penelope Ulysses |
#5572, aired 2008-11-25 | IN THE NEWS 1952: Her final testament, read in public after her death, asked for protection of the poor workers she called grasitas Eva Peron |
#5510, aired 2008-07-18 | CHARACTERS IN SHAKESPEARE: This character is described as "a howling monster", "a most scurvy monster" & "some monster of the isle" Caliban |
#5430, aired 2008-03-28 | PROS & CONS IN HISTORY: The two 3-letter words applied to those for & against the 18th Amendment, & states with differing laws on the issue dry & wet |
#5397, aired 2008-02-12 | CHARACTERS IN BOOKS: This character says, "It's Christmas Day! I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night" Ebenezer Scrooge |
#5362, aired 2007-12-25 | FRENCHMEN IN HISTORY: He was nicknamed "The Robespierre of the Brush", but unlike his friend Robespierre, he was jailed but not guillotined Jacques-Louis David |
#5341, aired 2007-11-26 | WOMEN IN HISTORY: Born an infanta in 1485, she died at Kimbolton Castle in England in 1536 with the official title Princess Dowager of Wales Catherine of Aragon |
#5289, aired 2007-09-13 | GREAT MOMENTS IN THE 20th CENTURY: On 9/20/1904, about 9 months after making a great advance, these 2 made another advance by going in a circle Orville and Wilbur Wright |
#5261, aired 2007-06-25 | RELIGION IN AMERICA: This Protestant movement got its name from an early 20th century text that listed 5 basic elements Fundamentalism |
#5157, aired 2007-01-30 | IT HAPPENED IN NEW YORK CITY: On August 10, 2004, 2 days after her death at the age of 96, the Empire State Building dimmed its lights for 15 minutes in her memory Fay Wray |
#5098, aired 2006-11-08 | WOMEN IN SPORTS: In 2006 the National Tennis Center in New York was renamed in her honor Billie Jean King |
#5093, aired 2006-11-01 | PHRASES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: This phrase linking 2 entities was in Jefferson's 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists, elaborating on the 1st Amendment separation of church and state |
#5078, aired 2006-10-11 | CHARACTERS IN SHAKESPEARE: In Act I he says, "The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables" Hamlet |
#5063, aired 2006-09-20 | IN THE NEWS 2006: Justice Peter Smith embedded a secret code into a 2006 ruling that said this author hadn’t violated a copyright Dan Brown (author of The Da Vinci Code) |
#5016, aired 2006-06-05 | WORDS IN THE NEWS: This word for one who hangs around the corridors of power refers back to the corridors themselves lobbyist |
#4998, aired 2006-05-10 | CHARACTERS IN SHAKESPEARE: Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge referred to the "motiveless malignity" of this character Iago |
#4993, aired 2006-05-03 | PEOPLE IN SPACE: In 2005, as the shuttle Discovery prepared for landing, NASA played a Dexys Midnight Runners song in her honor Eileen Collins |
#4989, aired 2006-04-27 | WOMEN IN HISTORY: In an 1863 essay Harriet Beecher Stowe called this woman whom she had met with "The Libyan Sibyl" Sojourner Truth |
#4929, aired 2006-02-02 | CHARACTERS IN 18th CENTURY PLAYS: This Englishwoman's name comes from the French for "badly suited to the purpose" Mrs. Malaprop |
#4883, aired 2005-11-30 | IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA: The last full 2005 Micropedia article about a person is on the Russian-born man famed as an inventor of this in the 1920s television |
#4858, aired 2005-10-26 | WOMEN IN POLITICS: Elected in 1916, she was the subject of a 1995 biography called "Bright Star in the Big Sky" Jeannette Rankin |
#4822, aired 2005-07-19 | WORDS IN LITERATURE: In Webster's, it means either a soldier using a certain muzzle-loading weapon, or a boon companion musketeer |
#4813, aired 2005-07-06 | PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT: Now in his job over 17 years, he's the longest-serving pres. appointee other than Supreme Court members Alan Greenspan (Chairman of the Federal Reserve) |
#4811, aired 2005-07-04 | TERMS IN SCIENCE: Sky & Telescope magazine's contest to replace this term for a single event got 13,000 entries, but chose none the Big Bang |
#4762, aired 2005-04-26 | IN THE DICTIONARY: Much in the news of the world at the end of June 2004, it's the only English word to contain "GNT" consecutively sovereignty |
#4703, aired 2005-02-02 | IN THE NEWS: Launched in 2004, a spacecraft named MESSENGER is on a mission to study this planet Mercury |
#4688, aired 2005-01-12 | DATES IN AMERICAN HISTORY: On this date Philadelphia partied with fireworks & music from a Hessian band captured 6 months earlier July 4, 1777 |
#4608, aired 2004-09-22 | GEOGRAPHY IN LITERATURE: Leo Tolstoy's story about Hadji Murat, "who slew the Russian swine", opens in this present-day Russian republic Chechnya |
#4586, aired 2004-07-12 | NAMES IN THE BIBLE: Daniel means "God is my judge", Ezekiel, "God strengthens"; & this name in Genesis 32, "he strives with God" Israel |
#4447, aired 2003-12-30 | CHARACTERS IN CLASSIC LIT: The first person mentioned by name in "The Man in the Iron Mask" is this hero of a previous book by the same author D'Artagnan |
#4421, aired 2003-11-24 | WOMEN IN BUSINESS: In 1963 she founded her company with a sales force of 9; today that number is over 950,000 Mary Kay |
#4412, aired 2003-11-11 | BIG IN THE USA: This state is home to the USA's largest portrait busts South Dakota |
#4397, aired 2003-10-21 | IN THE MEDICINE CABINET: This product's website features chemistry experiments like "The Effect of Temperature on Rate of Reaction" Alka-Seltzer |
#4390, aired 2003-10-10 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY: The spear that killed him in 1779 sold at auction in 2003 for over $400,000 Captain James Cook |
#4372, aired 2003-09-16 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY: About the islands he discovered, he wrote, "To the first of these I give the name of the Blessed Savior" Christopher Columbus |
#4365, aired 2003-07-18 | PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT: Her first name comes from an Italian musical term meaning to play "with sweetness" Condoleezza Rice |
#4285, aired 2003-03-28 | IN THE NEWS: In 1951 Elizabeth II attended one of these in Canada; she attended her next one, also in Canada, on October 6, 2002 hockey game |
#4272, aired 2003-03-11 | ACTRESSES IN HISTORY: She was born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton on the island of Jersey in 1853 Lillie Langtry |
#4220, aired 2002-12-27 | IN THE DICTIONARY: This 5-letter word can refer to one type of work by a composer, or to several works of different types opera |
#4192, aired 2002-11-19 | IN THE NEWS: So far some of its major components are Zarya, Unity, Zvezda & Canadarm2 International Space Station (ISS) |
#4083, aired 2002-05-08 | IN THE DICTIONARY: In his dictionary, Samuel Johnson self-effacingly defined this job title in part as "a harmless drudge" lexicographer |
#4053, aired 2002-03-27 | IN THE BOOKSTORE: Editor Otto Penzler dubbed his 2001 lineup of baseball mysteries this after a nickname given a 1927 lineup Murderers' Row |
#3948, aired 2001-10-31 | WORDS IN POETRY: The 2 "oo" 4-letter words in the poem inscribed in the base of the Statue of Liberty poor & door |
#3887, aired 2001-06-26 | PEOPLE IN SONG: A statue of her, seated on a bench in Liverpool, is dedicated "to All the lonely people" Eleanor Rigby |
#3880, aired 2001-06-15 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: On December 16, 2000, the day after his graduation, LSU retired his No. 33 jersey Shaquille O'Neal |
#3824, aired 2001-03-29 | BORN IN THE 1960s: She was on the April 22, 1974 cover of People magazine, holding an Oscar Tatum O'Neal (for Paper Moon) |
#3769, aired 2001-01-11 | WOMEN IN SPORTS: She won America's only gold medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France Peggy Fleming |
#3716, aired 2000-10-30 | IN THE NEWS 2000: 40 years after a famous incident, he was awarded a DFC, POW Medal & Natl. Defense Service Medal posthumously Francis Gary Powers |
#3643, aired 2000-06-07 | WOMEN IN POEMS: Poe wrote "To" her, "Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home..." Helen |
#3542, aired 2000-01-18 | IN THE NEWS: The U.N. designated October 12, 1999 as the date the Earth's population reached this figure 6 billion |
#3436, aired 1999-07-12 | IN THE BOOKSTORE: Bestselling author seen here Sue Grafton |
#3363, aired 1999-03-31 | IN THE NEWS: In use from January 1, 1999, it's represented by the symbol seen here the euro |
#3323, aired 1999-02-03 | NAMES IN PLAYS: The name of the Montecchi, a noble family of the 13th century, was anglicized to this Montague (from Romeo and Juliet) |
#3314, aired 1999-01-21 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: In 1998 America's second-largest federal building was named in his honor Ronald Reagan |
#3230, aired 1998-09-25 | PEOPLE IN POLITICS: A former gov. & presidential candidate & now mayor-elect, in 1998 he quit the "corrupted" Democratic party Jerry Brown |
#3167, aired 1998-05-12 | PLACES IN CANADA: Renamed in the 1830s, this city of 28,000 & its river were both originally called Little Thames Stratford, Ontario |
#3145, aired 1998-04-10 | IN THE KITCHEN: Now in over 44 million U.S. kitchens, this type of product was illegal in NYC until 1997 Garbage disposal |
#3138, aired 1998-04-01 | APRIL 1 IN HISTORY: April 1 is the anniversary of the Battle of Five Forks, the last decisive battle of this war the Civil War |
#3092, aired 1998-01-27 | MAN IN SPACE: Mission that put the third man on the Moon Apollo 12 |
#3085, aired 1998-01-16 | IN THE NEWS: Colin Powell & Jimmy Carter were among those who attended its dedication Nov. 6, 1997 at Texas A&M University George Bush Presidential Library and Museum |
#3075, aired 1998-01-02 | IN THE NEWS 1997: 50 years after a famous incident, this city got a new flag, seen here, featuring a mysterious dot in the sky: Roswell, New Mexico |
#3071, aired 1997-12-29 | WOMEN IN POLITICS: In 1995 she became the first sitting governor to give the rebuttal to a State of the Union address Christine Todd Whitman |
#3068, aired 1997-12-24 | IN THE NEWS 1882: Queen Victoria was not amused when this animal ridden by kids at the London Zoo was sold to a U.S. showman Jumbo the elephant |
#3037, aired 1997-11-11 | 18th CENTURY IN THE NEWS: On Dec. 17, 1773 342 chests of this were in the news Tea (the Boston Tea Party took place) |
#3004, aired 1997-09-25 | IN THE NEWS: Requested by Ulysses S. Grant in the 1870s, it was first used by Bill Clinton August 11, 1997 Line-Item Veto |
#2837, aired 1996-12-24 | WOMEN IN SCIENCE: This British scientist titled her 1984 autobiography "Disclosing The Past" Mary Leakey |
#2786, aired 1996-10-14 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: In June 1996 Rev. Njongonkulu Ndungane was named his successor Desmond Tutu |
#2614, aired 1996-01-04 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: He was born Newton Leroy McPherson in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on June 17, 1943 Newt Gingrich |
#2574, aired 1995-11-09 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: He's the co-founder & editor-in-chief of a new magazine that hit the stands on September 26, 1995 John F. Kennedy, Jr. |
#2541, aired 1995-09-25 | NEXT IN LINE: Jacqueline, Claudia, Thelma, … Elizabeth "Betty" (Ford) |
#2349, aired 1994-11-17 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: This former U.N. ambassador is a co-chairman of the host city's committee for the 1996 Olympic Games Andrew Young |
#2307, aired 1994-09-20 | WOMEN IN SPORTS: With 5, she's won more Olympic gold medals than any other U.S. female athlete Bonnie Blair |
#2282, aired 1994-07-05 | WOMEN IN SPORTS: Charmayne Rodman, the only woman to earn $1 million in the rodeo, did it in this event barrel racing |
#2279, aired 1994-06-30 | IN THE NEWS: In 1994 the Navy named a new class of cargo ships after this entertainer Bob Hope |
#2253, aired 1994-05-25 | WOMEN IN TELEVISION: Joan Ganz Cooney was president of this company 1970-1990 the Children's Television Workshop |
#2243, aired 1994-05-11 | IN THE NEWS: His daughter Alina Fernandez Revuelta, was granted political asylum by the U.S. in 1993 Fidel Castro |
#2147, aired 1993-12-28 | WOMEN IN BUSINESS: This woman who began selling her products in the 1930s is estimated to be America's richest self-made woman Estée Lauder |
#2112, aired 1993-11-09 | IN THE NEWS: AP says about half its clients used the Ron Edmonds photo of these 2 men shaking hands 9/13/93 Yasser Arafat & Yitzhak Rabin |
#2080, aired 1993-09-24 | IN THE NEWS: On St. Patrick's Day in 1993, she was appointed ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith |
#2073, aired 1993-09-15 | IN THE NEWS: Pres. Mitterand & Bishop Alanis signed a new constitution giving this country sovereignty in '93 Andorra |
#2022, aired 1993-05-25 | IN THE NEWS: In 1992 he opened his own Institute for Architecture near Regent's Park Prince Charles |
#2013, aired 1993-05-12 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: For his unconventional but effective use of the media, Advertising Age named him its 1992 Adman of the Year Ross Perot |
#2008, aired 1993-05-05 | IN THE NEWS: In January 1993 he was elected president of a country 2/3 the size of the one he led 7 months earlier Vaclav Havel |
#1953, aired 1993-02-17 | IN THE NEWS: Tennessee governor Ned McWherter chose Harlan Mathews to fill this man's Senate seat until 1994 Al Gore |
#1936, aired 1993-01-25 | IN THE NEWS: In 1992 it missed its 1st Monday Night Football opener in 23 yrs.; it was in Miami transmitting relief messages the Goodyear Blimp |
#1927, aired 1993-01-12 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: He was born William Jefferson Blythe IV on August 19, 1946 Bill Clinton |
#1860, aired 1992-10-09 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: Famous nickname of the woman who was born Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson Tipper Gore |
#1815, aired 1992-06-19 | IN THE NEWS: In an unannounced December 1991 speech at Columbia Univ., this author said, "Free speech is life itself" Salman Rushdie |
#1735, aired 1992-02-28 | IN THE NEWS: In November 1991, 2 people from this country were indicted for the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing Libya |
#1684, aired 1991-12-19 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: In 1952 he set up a law practice with partner Oliver Tambo Nelson Mandela |
#1621, aired 1991-09-23 | WOMEN IN HISTORY: In 1909 she became the 1st woman pres. of what later became the National Conference of Social Work Jane Addams |
#1525, aired 1991-03-29 | WOMEN IN HISTORY: Her 1st husband, Alexandre de Beauharnais, fought in both the American & French Revolutions Empress Josephine |
#1460, aired 1990-12-28 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: This World Chess champ is Deputy Chairman of the new Democratic Party of Russia (Garry) Kasparov |
#1443, aired 1990-12-05 | MAN IN SPACE: He was the only Mercury astronaut to walk on the Moon Alan Shepard |
#1270, aired 1990-02-23 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: Simultaneously on the covers of Time, Newsweek & S.I. in 1973, he was buried in 1989 in a 6' X 6' casket Secretariat |
#1233, aired 1990-01-03 | WOMEN IN SPORTS: The last 2 U.S. women to win Olympic gold medals in individual figure skating Peggy Fleming & Dorothy Hamill |
#1205, aired 1989-11-24 | MAN IN SPACE: America's 1st civilian in space Neil Armstrong |
#1188, aired 1989-11-01 | IN THE NEWS: In June 1989 this country changed its name to the Union of Myanmar & its capital to Yangon Burma |
#1139, aired 1989-07-13 | IN THE NEWS: The European Community's target year for lifting all economic barriers among its 12 members 1992 |
#1125, aired 1989-06-23 | MAN IN SPACE: On May 25, 1973 it took the crew in an Apollo capsule 9 tries to dock with this craft Skylab |
#1090, aired 1989-05-05 | WOMEN IN POLITICS: In 1974 she became the 1st woman head of state anywhere in the Americas Isabel Peron (of Argentina) |
#994, aired 1988-12-22 | WOMEN IN SPORTS: This California teenager was the 1st American to win a regular gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics Janet Evans |
#968, aired 1988-11-16 | MAN IN SPACE: 3 months after John Glenn, he became the second American to orbit the Earth (Malcolm) Scott Carpenter |
#948, aired 1988-10-19 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: By June 30, 1988 every U.S. residence should have received a gov't booklet w/this man's photo on the cover C. Everett Koop |
#846, aired 1988-04-18 | MAN IN SPACE: The names of the 1st two Space Shuttle orbiters actually launched into space Columbia & Challenger |
#811, aired 1988-02-29 | WOMEN IN HISTORY: Famous woman depicted on the Crimean monument in Waterloo Place, London Florence Nightingale |
#744, aired 1987-11-26 | IN THE NEWS: In August 1987, Lynne Cox made headlines by going from the U.S. to the U.S.S.R. in this manner swimming |
#613, aired 1987-04-15 | IN THE NEWS: FDR was named this 3 times, Ike, Truman & Churchill twice; but for 1966 it was the 25 & under generation Time Man of the Year |
#519, aired 1986-12-04 | WOMEN IN BUSINESS: The largest publicly-held U.S. firm headed by a woman publishes this major daily newspaper The Washington Post |
#508, aired 1986-11-19 | MAN IN SPACE: Now seen as a TV spokesman, he was only astronaut to orbit Earth in Mercury, Gemini, & Apollo craft Wally Schirra |
#489, aired 1986-10-23 | MAN IN SPACE: President who signed the bill which created NASA Dwight Eisenhower |
#432, aired 1986-05-06 | IN THE NEWS: Although Mt. St. Helens provided the big bang that year, everyone asked, "Who shot J.R.?" 1980 |
#425, aired 1986-04-25 | MAN IN SPACE: With the new Vandenberg spaceport, total number of manned-flight launch sites in the world 3 |
#396, aired 1986-03-17 | MAN IN SPACE: This Space Shuttle, the only 1 named for a spaceship, is the only 1 not to have flown in space the Enterprise |
#341, aired 1985-12-30 | WOMEN IN SPORTS: In 1975, 11-year-old Karen Stead coasted to victory as 1st female winner of this racing event Soap Box Derby |
#329, aired 1985-12-12 | IN THE NEWS: Year when 1st test-tube baby was born, Oscar turned 50, & John Paul II became pope 1978 |
#273, aired 1985-09-25 | IN THE NEWS: A mid-August 1980 strike in the Lenin Shipyard led to the formation of this now famous group Solidarity |
#261, aired 1985-09-09 | WOMEN IN SPORTS: Among the women prominent in this sport are Rachel McLish, Lori Bowen, & Cory Everson bodybuilding |
#168, aired 1985-05-01 | NAMES IN THE NEWS: This U.S. president made the cover of "Time" magazine 64 times, almost twice as much as anyone else Richard Nixon |
#147, aired 1985-04-02 | WOMEN IN SPORTS: Only Olympic events in which women compete directly with men equestrian |
#67, aired 1984-12-11 | WOMEN IN HISTORY: Arrested for voting in 1872 election, she died 14 years before the 19th Amendment Susan B. Anthony |