| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | IT'S A SMALL WORLD $200: It's appropriate that tiny Nauru is part of this Pacific island group that has a name partly meaning small Micronesia |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | IT'S A SMALL WORLD $400: In 1815 the Congress of Vienna put this principality under the protection of Sardinia; it became independent in 1861 Monaco |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | IT'S A SMALL WORLD $600: Falls Church, an independent city in this state, is a whopping 2 square miles Virginia |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | IT'S A SMALL WORLD $800: The tiny island of San Michele has served as this Italian city's cemetery for the past two centuries Venice |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | IT'S A SMALL WORLD $1000: Chicken Rock, a rock just big enough for a lighthouse, belongs to this much bigger isle in the Irish Sea the Isle of Man |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | IT'S A PENINSULA $200: The Strait of Gibraltar separates the southern tip of this peninsula from Africa the Iberian Peninsula |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | IT'S A PENINSULA $400: Though it looks like it should be part of Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula was ceded to this state after a border war with, of course, Ohio Michigan |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | IT'S A PENINSULA $600: Yalta see Livadiya Palace or Sevastopol on this peninsula the Crimean |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | IT'S A PENINSULA $800: The Western-most point of the North American continent is at the tip of this Alaskan peninsula named for a man crucial to the state's history Seward |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | IT'S A PENINSULA $2,400 (Daily Double): At the tip of Pinellas Peninsula, it's nicknamed "The Sunshine City" & has a major sister city in Russia St. Petersburg |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | "OUT" WITH IT $200: The cutthroat type of this fish gets its name from the red-orange slash on each side of the lower jaw a trout |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | "OUT" WITH IT $400: To a cop, issuing a "BOLO" has nothing to do with a thin tie; it means to keep your eyes open & stands for "be on the" this the lookout |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | "OUT" WITH IT $600: The agency NOAA calls it a whirling column of air & water mist a waterspout |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | "OUT" WITH IT $800: A TV show with obstacle courses & a song by The Surfaris both have this title Wipeout ("Wipe Out") |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | "OUT" WITH IT $1000: Also known as a rotary, it's a circular traffic intersection a roundabout |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | IT STANDS TO TREASON $200: In 1780 he asked the Brits for 20,000 pounds to betray his command post at West Point; that's almost $4 million today Arnold |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | IT STANDS TO TREASON $400: For acts of terror in trying to keep this African country from independence, French officer Raoul Salan was convicted of treason in 1962 Algeria |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | IT STANDS TO TREASON $800: In 1542 Parliament said it was treason for an unchaste woman to wed the king; that can't be good, said her, Henry VIII's wife V Catherine Howard |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | IT STANDS TO TREASON $1000: Pedrarias, governor of Darién in what's now Panama, had this explorer beheaded in 1519 for treason Vasco Núñez de Balboa |
| #9182, aired 2024-10-15 | IT STANDS TO TREASON $2,400 (Daily Double): This future world leader was on trial for treason from 1956 to 1961; he'd be acquitted but was soon jailed anyway Nelson Mandela |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | LET'S HEAR IT FOR ANIMAL MOMS $200: Dad must be relieved when mom of the Emperor species of this returns from a long trek to the ocean & regurgitates fish for the chick a penguin |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | MAKE IT SINGULAR $200: Alumni
(7 letters) alumnus |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | LET'S HEAR IT FOR ANIMAL MOMS $400: This time period, from the Latin for "carrying", can test any mom's patience: for an elephant, it can be 22 months & an octopus, 53 gestation |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | MAKE IT SINGULAR $400: Bison bison |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | LET'S HEAR IT FOR ANIMAL MOMS $600: Talk about a passel of kids--this North American marsupial can give birth to as many as 20 babies at a time, each no larger than a bee an opossum |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | MAKE IT SINGULAR $600: Strata stratum |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | LET'S HEAR IT FOR ANIMAL MOMS $800: Hens dissolve their own bones if needed to get this element to make shells for their young calcium |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | MAKE IT SINGULAR $800: Codices codex |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | LET'S HEAR IT FOR ANIMAL MOMS $1000: Aphids can produce young through this "virgin birth" method with no mating & produce pregnant babies holding more young parthenogenesis |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | MAKE IT SINGULAR $1000: Graffiti:
graffiti or this graffito |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | IT'S TECHNICAL $200: A technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer is used in this process; in 1996, it resulted in a sheep named Dolly cloning |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | IT'S TECHNICAL $400: Einstein patented an innovative refrigerator but couldn't sell it after DuPont came up with this "Fr"eezing stuff Freon |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | IT'S TECHNICAL $600: William Harvey attempted this process in 1628, but it wasn't safe until the advent of donor compatibility tests in the early 1900s a blood transfusion |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | IT'S TECHNICAL $1,000 (Daily Double): The drum in a clothes dryer is an example of the basket type of this spinning device seen in many a lab a centrifuge |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | IT'S TECHNICAL $1000: From Greek for "beyond" & "heavy", it's a type of chamber used to treat decompression sickness hyperbaric |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | IT'S A THEORY $400: A widely accepted cosmological theory is named for this primordial event 13.8 billion years ago the Big Bang |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | IT'S A THEORY $800: The theory of general relativity is concerned with this one of the universe's 4 fundamental forces gravity |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | IT'S A THEORY $1200: Melanie Klein's object relations theory emerged from this Freudian method, which she tried on patients as young as 3 psychoanalysis |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | IT'S A THEORY $2000: The usual example of this, the classic game theory problem, is you & a pal are both accused of a crime; do you confess? the prisoner's dilemma |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | IT'S A THEORY $5,600 (Daily Double): Relating an object's worth to the hours needed to make it, the labor theory of value was a pillar of this 3-volume work by Karl Marx Das Kapital |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | IT HAPPENED ON SEPTEMBER 30 $400: 2005:
Provoking an angry reaction, cartoons of this religious figure are published in a Danish newspaper Mohammed |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | IT HAPPENED ON SEPTEMBER 30 $800: 1935:
This source of electricity astride the Nevada/Arizona border is officially dedicated the Hoover Dam |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | IT HAPPENED ON SEPTEMBER 30 $1200: 1968:
This wide-body Boeing airliner is shown to the public for the first time 747 |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | IT HAPPENED ON SEPTEMBER 30 $1600: 1991:
This ex-priest who came after the Duvalier era is forced from office as Haiti's president Jean-Bertrand Aristide |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | IT HAPPENED ON SEPTEMBER 30 $2000: 1787:
This ship for which a Pacific Northwest river is named sets off on the first round-the-world voyage by a U.S. vessel the Columbia |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | IT'S A CRISIS! $400: In the 1898 Fashoda Crisis, the British squared off with this country's Major Marchand over rights to the Sudanese Nile France |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | IT'S A CRISIS! $800: A Japanese financial crisis was sparked in 1927 when a govt. minister mistakenly said that the Tokyo Watanabe one of these had gone bust a bank |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | IT'S A CRISIS! $1200: One crisis that jump-started the Intl. Crisis Group: famine in this land where clans fought after Mohammed Siad Barre's dictatorship Somalia |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | IT'S A CRISIS! $1600: A crisis was sparked by this leader's 1958 demand that the U.S. & its allies pull their troops out of West Berlin Khrushchev |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | IT'S A CRISIS! $2000: A 21st century humanitarian crisis was caused by the Islamist insurgency of this group also called the Nigerian Taliban Boko Haram |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | GIVING IT YOUR "ALL" $400: A network security device that can block incoming data traffic a firewall |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | GIVING IT YOUR "ALL" $800: A comedy genre; "His Girl Friday" & "Bringing Up Baby", for example screwball |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | GIVING IT YOUR "ALL" $1600: In 1972 routine vaccinations against this disease were discontinued in the United States smallpox |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | GIVING IT YOUR "ALL" $2000: 9-letter word meaning to anticipate & prevent forestall |
| #9167, aired 2024-09-24 | GIVING IT YOUR "ALL" $10,000 (Daily Double): A government's often one-time tax on a company's excessive profits a windfall tax |
| #9163, aired 2024-09-18 | SAY IT "AINT" SO $200: "Dignity" comes from the same Latin word as this synonym for delicate dainty |
| #9163, aired 2024-09-18 | SAY IT "AINT" SO $400: In 1857's Dred Scott v. Sanford before the U.S. Supreme Court, Dred Scott was this litigant the plaintiff |
| #9163, aired 2024-09-18 | SAY IT "AINT" SO $600: It's what the "M" stands for in HMO maintenance |
| #9163, aired 2024-09-18 | SAY IT "AINT" SO $800: Aka corposant, it's a visible electrical discharge on a ship's mast or a plane's wing during a storm Saint Elmo's fire |
| #9163, aired 2024-09-18 | SAY IT "AINT" SO $1000: Handcuffs & zip ties, for example restraints |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | SCIENCE: MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH $200: "How Deep Is" this, asks a song standard--a 2010 estimate says 12,080' mean depth so John Murray in 1888 was pretty close at 12,480' "The Ocean" |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | SCIENCE: MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH $400: In the 1860s John Newlands arranged the 56 known these according to a soon-discredited "Law of Octaves" elements |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | SCIENCE: MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH $600: At this 7/16/1945 "Site", Fermi's guess on bomb yield was off by half--not bad for tossing paper in the air as the blast wave came the Trinity Site |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | SCIENCE: MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH $800: Hipparchus of Bithynia calculated this distance at a bit under 2 million miles; 93 million is more like it the distance from the Earth to the Sun |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | SCIENCE: MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH $1000: The "Top 10 Erroneous Results" from Science News include a 2011 finding that these chargeless particles can outrace light neutrinos |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | IT BORDERS BOTH COUNTRIES $200: Norway &
Mongolia Russia |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | IT BORDERS BOTH COUNTRIES $400: Luxembourg &
Andorra France |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | IT BORDERS BOTH COUNTRIES $600: Kenya &
Eritrea Ethiopia |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | IT BORDERS BOTH COUNTRIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Ecuador &
Bolivia Peru |
| #9153, aired 2024-07-24 | IT BORDERS BOTH COUNTRIES $1000: Guatemala &
Nicaragua Honduras |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $400: Oceanus & Thea are among these gods who are the children of primordial earth & heaven Titan |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $800: Using his chops on the lyre to charm this canine guard of Hades, Orpheus was able to enter & attempt to rescue Eurydice Cerberus |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $1600: With a little help from Apollo during the Trojan War, this prince shot an arrow into Achilles' heel, killing him Paris |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $2000: A skilled yet boastful artisan, she was transformed into a spider after challenging Athena to a weaving contest Arachne |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $3,000 (Daily Double): This name applied to a sea monster with 12 feet & 6 heads, each head containing 3 rows of sharklike teeth, or just a rock Scylla |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | IT'S SOME KIND OF LAW $200: A 1925 Geneva protocol forbade the use of bacteriological weapons or this stuff in war (poison) gas |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | IT'S SOME KIND OF LAW $400: Newton's first law, which says a body at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an outside force, is also called the law of this inertia |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | IT'S SOME KIND OF LAW $600: The first 5 books of the Old Testament are called simply "The Law" or, in Hebrew, this the Torah |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | IT'S SOME KIND OF LAW $800: A 1968 U.N. agreement requires states to rescue & assist these people & "promptly return them to their launching state" astronauts |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | IT'S SOME KIND OF LAW $1000: The 2018 Genocide & Atrocities Prevention Act is named for this Holocaust survivor & Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | IT'S ALIVE $400: Scientists think some dolphins use these creatures to protect their snouts while foraging along the ocean floor, not for cleaning it a sponge |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | IT'S ALIVE $800: It's the 4-letter word for some 30 genera of brown algae that grow big in cold sea water kelp |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | IT'S ALIVE $1200: That's not moss, but a species of usnea, the beard type of this lichen |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | IT'S ALIVE $1,400 (Daily Double): The "B" in B. cereus, which causes food poisoning, stands for this nasty type of bacteria Bacillus |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | IT'S ALIVE $2000: Many protozoans get around using these, aka false feet pseudopods |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | IT STARTS WITH "Y" $200: One of a Jonathan Swift-created group of vicious people, or a Yang & Filo-created website Yahoo |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | IT STARTS WITH "Y" $400: Talking in 2024, this 10-letter word can mean 2023 or any nostalgically remembered time in the past yesteryear |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | IT STARTS WITH "Y" $600: Seen here is this Japanese dish of skewered meat yakitori |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | IT STARTS WITH "Y" $800: Seen here, it's the state bird of Alabama a yellowhammer |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | IT STARTS WITH "Y" $1000: Paraguay tea is another name for this 2-word drink made from a South American holly yerba-maté |
| #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 | 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 | 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 |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | IT WAS ALL ORANGE $200: This root veggie was first domesticated in Asia around the 10th c.; in the 17th c., Dutch painters popularized the orange variety carrots |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | IT WAS ALL ORANGE $400: This Chinese-American fast food restaurant says it served over 100 million pounds of orange chicken in 2021 Panda Express |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | IT WAS ALL ORANGE $600: The color international orange can be seen on the Tokyo Tower & this California bridge completed in 1937 the Golden Gate Bridge |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | IT WAS ALL ORANGE $800: The use of these orange flowers to adorn altars called ofrendas during Day of the Dead festivals dates from Aztec times marigolds |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | IT WAS ALL ORANGE $1000: A shade of orange bears the name of this Ivy League university where "The Orange & The Black" is a traditional song Princeton |
| #9128, aired 2024-06-19 | IT WAS ONCE THE CAPITAL $400: Kandahar (1747-1773) Afghanistan |
| #9128, aired 2024-06-19 | IT WAS ONCE THE CAPITAL $800: Yangon, sometimes called Rangoon
(1948-2005) Myanmar |
| #9128, aired 2024-06-19 | IT WAS ONCE THE CAPITAL $1200: Entebbe
(1894-1962) Uganda |
| #9128, aired 2024-06-19 | IT WAS ONCE THE CAPITAL $1600: Quezon City
(1948-1976) the Philippines |
| #9128, aired 2024-06-19 | IT WAS ONCE THE CAPITAL $2000: Turku
(1809-1812) Finland |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | THE SCANDAL OF IT ALL $200: In 1995 the premier of British Columbia quit amid scandal over funds embezzled from a charity version of this game-o bingo |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | THE SCANDAL OF IT ALL $400: On May 29, 2004 Archibald Cox & Sam Dash, 2 key figures who probed this '70s affair, both passed away Watergate |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | THE SCANDAL OF IT ALL $600: 1662's "The School for Wives" was just one of the works of this comic playwright to scandalize French society Molière |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | THE SCANDAL OF IT ALL $800: One lump or a lot more? Also called the Oil Reserves Scandal, this 1920s imbroglio led to prison time for the Sec. of the Interior Teapot Dome |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | THE SCANDAL OF IT ALL $1000: Reagan dismissed this Marine after his role in Iran-Contra; he was later convicted of obstructing Congress Oliver North |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | ONE LETTER SAYS IT ALL $200: Monetarily, a Ben Franklin in hand means you have a this-note a C-note |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | ONE LETTER SAYS IT ALL $400: Europeans get weird toward the end of the alphabet:
There's "zed" & this letter that's "I grec" in French Y |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | ONE LETTER SAYS IT ALL $600: Two traditional letter-named football formations are the T & this one that can also have "power" before it an I formation (the power I) |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | ONE LETTER SAYS IT ALL $800: 50 degrees F. equals 283.15 degrees this K |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | ONE LETTER SAYS IT ALL $1000: To a guy like Julius Caesar, it was 500 D |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | WHAT "IZ" IT? $200: NOAA calls it "precipitation... of water less than 0.5 mm in diameter" drizzle |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | WHAT "IZ" IT? $400: A magical sorcerer; it was also slang for "excellent" in the 1920s wizard |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | WHAT "IZ" IT? $600: A wisp of hair curling askew; Garnier sells an "anti"-this serum frizz |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | WHAT "IZ" IT? $800: This seasoned pork sausage is popular in Mexico chorizo |
| #9117, aired 2024-06-04 | WHAT "IZ" IT? $1000: It's Sid Meier's video game series where you start at the dawn of history & can get to the Space Age Civilization |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | IT WAS THE '60s, MAN $200: This year saw the first Super Bowl, the premiere of Rolling Stone magazine & the Summer of Love 1967 |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | IT WAS THE '60s, MAN $400: The Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 was a failed attempt to remove him from power Castro |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | IT WAS THE '60s, MAN $800: Timothy Leary urged his followers to "Turn on, tune in" & this drop out |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | IT WAS THE '60s, MAN $1000: These civil rights activists traveled throughout the South to protest segregation on buses & in terminals the Freedom Riders |
| #9115, aired 2024-05-31 | IT WAS THE '60s, MAN $3,200 (Daily Double): In 1965 it became a criminal offense to burn, destroy or mutilate one of these a draft card |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | IT'S A PLANE $200: It's the call sign of the Air Force's C-32, used to carry the vice president, the first lady, & Congress & Cabinet members Air Force Two |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | IT'S A PLANE $400: In an F-15, Doug Pearson hit a target orbiting at 345 miles to become the only fighter pilot to shoot down one of these a satellite |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | IT'S A PLANE $600: Described as a flying gas tank, in December 1986, the Ruttan Voyager managed to do this in 9 days without refueling circumnavigate the globe |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | IT'S A PLANE $800: In October 1960 pianist Byron Janis was greeted in a Moscow concert hall by angry shouts of the name of this spy plane U-2 |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | IT'S A PLANE $1000: The Sopwith Wallaby was built to win a £10,000 prize for the first plane to fly from Britain to here; but it crashed on Bali Australia |
| #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 | 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 | 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 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $200: A man with seriously load-bearing legs, he turned to stone via Gorgon head & became part of a mountain range Atlas |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $400: A 2018 medical paper was titled "Prometheus and" this body organ "Regeneration: the Dissection of a Myth" liver |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $600: This 50-oared ship had a rather unique non-factory feature: wood donated by Athena that could tell the future the Argo |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $800: Guarded by a dragon (it didn't end well for the dragon), these were the fruits of a herculean labor the golden apples (of the Hesperides) |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $1000: In the "Odyssey", this god is sent by Zeus to I.M. Odysseus: I'm voting you off Calypso's island Hermes |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | IT'S A DATE $400: Last New Year's Eve was a popular wedding date because you can say it this way, as if counting steps for a waltz 1-2-3, 1-2-3 (12/31/23) |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | IT'S A DATE $1200: It's Devil's Night in Michigan, Mischief Night in New Jersey & Cabbage Night in New England October 30th |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | IT'S A DATE $1600: John Adams believed this date on which Congress actually declared independence would become a national holiday July 2nd |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | IT'S A DATE $2000: Stephen King wrote the novel "11/22/63"; Michael Eric Dyson wrote a nonfiction book about this date that "Changed America" April 4, 1968 |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | IT'S A DATE $6,000 (Daily Double): Leon is Noel backwards & Leon Day is this date at the start of summer June 25 |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | MAKE IT FLIRTY $400: Pull the last letter off a single Doc Martens to get this flirty term of endearment boo |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | MAKE IT FLIRTY $800: Remove an "R" from a deep-fried French finger food & you get this word for a flirty lady coquette |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | MAKE IT FLIRTY $1200: Drop the last 2 syllables from a sub-zero number to get this, a put-down meant to pick up neg |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | MAKE IT FLIRTY $2000: Add 3 letters to the end of a musical art form & get this word for an adept flirter operator |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | MAKE IT FLIRTY $12,000 (Daily Double): The evolution of English dropped 3 letters from an imaginary creature to get this type of exotic seductress vamp |
| #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 |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | PARTY LIKE IT'S 1884 $400: In December a metal tip brought it to a total height of 555 feet, 5.125 inches--the tallest human-built structure in the world the Washington Monument |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | PARTY LIKE IT'S 1884 $800: In June 1884 he arrived in America with 4 cents in his pocket & a letter of introduction to Thomas Edison Nikola Tesla |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | PARTY LIKE IT'S 1884 $1200: In October he received a patent for photographic film; his camera would come a few years later Eastman |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | PARTY LIKE IT'S 1884 $1600: Independent Republicans who backed Democrat Grover Cleveland in the 1884 election were called these, from Algonquian Mugwumps |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | PARTY LIKE IT'S 1884 $2000: In January this composer's opéra-comique "Manon" premiered in Paris Massenet |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | MOVIE MEMES: WHO SAID IT $400: 1993:
"Life finds a way" Dr. Ian Malcolm |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | MOVIE MEMES: WHO SAID IT $800: 1997:
"It's been 84 years..." Rose |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | MOVIE MEMES: WHO SAID IT $1200: 2002:
"I don't like sand" Anakin |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | MOVIE MEMES: WHO SAID IT $1600: 1994:
"So, you're telling me there's a chance" Lloyd Christmas |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | MOVIE MEMES: WHO SAID IT $2000: 2001:
"One does not simply walk into Mordor" Boromir |
| #30, aired 2024-05-13 | WHAT MONTH IS IT? $200: A growing trend started in 2011 when a British woman named Emily Robinson stopped drinking for this month January |
| #30, aired 2024-05-13 | WHAT MONTH IS IT? $400: Winston Churchill & his Cabinet are seen celebrating victory in this month May (1945) |
| #30, aired 2024-05-13 | WHAT MONTH IS IT? $600: On a cool day in this month, Jackie Robinson broke the MLB color line; his wife got a hot dog vendor to warm Jackie Jr.'s formula April |
| #30, aired 2024-05-13 | WHAT MONTH IS IT? $800: A set of early 1500s tapestries in a Milan castle has one for each month; the old man represents Saturn, whose -alia was in this month December |
| #30, aired 2024-05-13 | WHAT MONTH IS IT? $1000: We didn't promise only the Western calendar: it begins the Islamic year Muharram |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | IF YOU BUILD IT $400: If one of these structures is formed by 2 symmetrical double curves ending in a point at the top, its called an ogee an arch |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | IF YOU BUILD IT $800: Around 1175 William of Sens copied elements from Notre Dame in the rebuilding of this English cathedral after a fire Canterbury Cathedral |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | IF YOU BUILD IT $1600: Buildings designed by this Chicago "Father of Skyscrapers" include one at State & Madison that now bears his name Sullivan |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | IF YOU BUILD IT $2000: With a name from a village in Greece, it's a supporting column sculpted in the form of a draped female figure a caryatid |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | IF YOU BUILD IT $20,800 (Daily Double): Trained in the Georgian style, James Hoban won a contest & the commission to build this, beginning construction in 1792 the White House |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | MADE YOU SAY IT $200: More than 350 years after the trial of this man, John Paul II apologized, noting "a sad misunderstanding" Galileo |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | MADE YOU SAY IT $400: After an inquiry into this event during the Troubles, David Cameron was forced to admit it was "unjustified & unjustifiable" Bloody Sunday |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | MADE YOU SAY IT $800: The coerced confession of this enslaved woman in the Parris household set the Salem witch trials afoot Tituba |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | MADE YOU SAY IT $1000: Compelled by his people's naiveté, this Trojan said, "Don't trust the horse... even when they bring gifts, I fear the Greeks" Laocoön |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | MADE YOU SAY IT $5,200 (Daily Double): Irony was likely not lost on Ike in 1961 when he warned of "grave implications" due to the rise of "this combination" the military-industrial complex |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | CHANGING IT UP $200: This FX show with Paper Boi & Earn took a break from the hip-hop world to showcase a mock doc on the making of "A Goofy Movie" Atlanta |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | CHANGING IT UP $400: Here I was thinking the 2nd epilogue of this Tolstoy tome would have more Pierre & Natasha, not a critique of the great man theory War and Peace |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | CHANGING IT UP $600: The Guardian says this song switches styles from "ballad, to operatic excess, to hard-rock, to reflective coda" "Bohemian Rhapsody" |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | CHANGING IT UP $800: Chapter 40 of this novel sails into a play format, beginning with the stage direction "Midnight, forecastle" Moby-Dick |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | CHANGING IT UP $1000: This author's "White Jazz" breaks from the hardboiled narrative to feature excerpts from Hush-Hush, a Tinseltown tabloid James Ellroy |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | IT'S A NOUN, IT'S A VERB $200: A burial cloth &
to obscure or conceal shroud |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | LITERATURE: WHO SAID IT? $400: "What's taters, precious, eh, what's taters?" Gollum |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | IT'S A NOUN, IT'S A VERB $400: A part of the upper body &
to bear the blame or responsibility shoulder |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | IT'S A NOUN, IT'S A VERB $600: A field of study &
to teach a child appropriate behavior discipline |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | LITERATURE: WHO SAID IT? $800: "If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs" Charlotte |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | IT'S A NOUN, IT'S A VERB $800: A list of passengers
& to make something happen by imagining it manifest |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | IT'S A NOUN, IT'S A VERB $1000: A very tiny amount &
to discover the causes or origins of something trace |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | LITERATURE: WHO SAID IT? $1600: "For if he is still with the quick un-dead, your death would make you even as he is. No, you must live!" Van Helsing |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | LITERATURE: WHO SAID IT? $2000: "I freewheel a lot... I reckon I'll become president of the galaxy, and it just happens, it's easy" Beeblebrox |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | LITERATURE: WHO SAID IT? $15,400 (Daily Double): "She betrayed you, Winston. Immediately--unreservedly. I have seldom seen anyone come over to us so promptly" O'Brien |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $200: One reputed origin of this national symbol is a beef supplier to the Army who stamped his barrels "U.S." Uncle Sam |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $400: It's the title of the head nun at a convent; for the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, it's Anne Francis Ng'ang'a mother superior |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $600: Felix Silla played the robot Twiki on "Buck Rogers", a "Planet of the Apes" gorilla child & this hairy character on "The Addams Family" Cousin Itt |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $800: Also known as a harvestman, this spiderlike arachnid is nonvenomous & first appeared more than 400 million years ago the daddy long-legs |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $1000: In literature, Tom Sawyer's guardian was this relative who was based in part on Mark Twain's own mom Aunt Polly |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | SPELL IT! $200: Referring to non-canonical Bible books, this adjective describes anything of dubious authenticity A-P-O-C-R-Y-P-H-A-L |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | SPELL IT! $400: You know, that Lea & Perrins sauce that has way too many letters for 3 syllables? Yeah, spell that W-O-R-C-E-S-T-E-R-S-H-I-R-E |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | SPELL IT! $600: The last name of botanist Leonhard gave us this word for a type of flower & a shade of reddish purple F-U-C-H-S-I-A |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | SPELL IT! $800: In "Shishkabugs" Bugs Bunny was in some danger of becoming an ingredient in this German stew H-A-S-E-N-P-F-E-F-F-E-R |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | SPELL IT! $1000: How about this dwarven race of "Ring Cycle" fame whose name begins & ends with the same letter N-I-B-E-L-U-N-G-E-N |
| #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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $200: From Latin for "twice" & "cut", it means to divide a line or figure into 2 equal parts bisect |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $400: "Like fractions" have the same this, making it easy to add & subtract them denominators |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $600: In a Tom Lehrer song, a movie called "The Eternal Triangle" stars Ingrid Bergman as this longest side of a right triangle a hypotenuse |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $800: It's a constant that multiplies a variable; in physics, there's a well-known one "of friction" a coefficient |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $1000: These coordinates named for a 17th c. man describe the position of points in space in relation to an x-axis & y-axis Cartesian |
| #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 | SAY IT IN SPANISH $800: Meaning "aunt", it precedes Maria in a liqueur order Tia |
| #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 | 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 | 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 |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | IT'S A FACT $400: This organization's New York City HQ was built on land bought in 1946 with an $8.5 million gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr. the U.N. |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | IT'S A FACT $800: Groundhogs are called these type of "pigs" due to the high-pitched sound they make when alarmed whistle pigs |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | IT'S A FACT $1200: In poker some wonder if this hand beats 2 pair; with a 2.87% chance of it in a 52-card deck vs. 2 pair's 7.62%, yes 3 of a kind |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | IT'S A FACT $1600: The CIA's forested complex in this Virginia place has a Starbucks, but names are not put on cups Langley |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | IT'S A FACT $1,800 (Daily Double): 9 of the 10 highest mountains in the world are in the Himalayas, while the other is part of this nearby range the Karakoram |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | IT PLEASED THE LORD $400: Lord Denning was pleased to report no security risk in a scandal of this decade, involving a government minister & Christine Keeler the 1960s |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | IT PLEASED THE LORD $800: It pleased the 18th c. philosopher Lord Monboddo to think that these Asian creatures, the largest apes then known, are human orangutans |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | IT PLEASED THE LORD $1200: As the year 2001 neared, Lord Falconer was happy when Tony Blair put him in charge of the huge structure then called this the Millennium Dome |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | IT PLEASED THE LORD $1600: This Lord was no doubt delighted by the birth of his son Winston in 1874 Randolph Churchill |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | IT PLEASED THE LORD $2000: This lord was pleased to be the husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, but not to be mysteriously killed in 1567 Lord Darnley |
| #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 |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $400: It's about 700 arid miles across this country from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf Saudi Arabia |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $800: Its 700,000 square miles of land area are spread across more than 17,000 islands Indonesia |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $1600: It borders Russia, China & nothing else Mongolia |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $2000: With a population of more than 100 million, it covers about 900,000 square miles in the heart of Africa DRC |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $8,600 (Daily Double): Once claimed by Italy, Cyrenaica is an historic region & former province of this 650,000-square-mile land Libya |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | KHAN YOU DIG IT? $200: To improve London's natural biodiversity Mayor Sadiq Khan released a family of these dam rodents into a wetland in West London beavers |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | IT'S A FACT! $400: As of January 1, 2024, California has a new state this, a golden chanterelle a mushroom |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | KHAN YOU DIG IT? $400: In 2021 Lina Khan began serving as chair of this agency, FTC for short the Federal Trade Commission |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | KHAN YOU DIG IT? $600: This singer lent her voice to the band Rufus in the 1970s; as a solo performer, she had a hit with "I'm Every Woman" Chaka Khan |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | IT'S A FACT! $800: Unlike other cats, this fastest one doesn't have fully retractable claws a cheetah |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | KHAN YOU DIG IT? $800: According to a 13th century "Secret History", this leader was born clutching "a clot of blood the size of a knucklebone" Genghis Khan |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | IT'S A FACT! $1200: Belize, in Central America, was formerly a colony called this British Honduras |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | IT'S A FACT! $1600: In the U.S. a quadrillion has this many zeros 15 |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | IT'S A FACT! $2000: Stepping down in 2024 after 52 years on the throne, she had the longest reign of any Danish monarch Margrethe (II) |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | KHAN YOU DIG IT? $2,600 (Daily Double): The Aga Khans hold this title as leaders of the Shiite Nizari Ismaili sect imams |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | IT'S CURTAINS $400: While Europe had its Iron Curtain, this curtain was a political barrier between China & the noncommunist countries of Asia the Bamboo Curtain |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | IT'S CURTAINS $800: Tiffany made a curtain of glass featuring the peaks of Iztaccíhuatl & Popocatépetl for this capital's national theatre Mexico City |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | IT'S CURTAINS $1200: Thinking it was Claudius, Hamlet takes his sword & pierces through a curtain, killing this father of Ophelia Polonius |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | IT'S CURTAINS $1600: In 1972 at the Met this Italian opera singer, later one of The Three Tenors, received 17 curtain calls Pavarotti |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | IT'S CURTAINS $2000: Her first short story collection, "A Curtain of Green", contains her most famous story, "Why I Live at the P.O." Welty |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IT'S A PARTY! $400: This president was gifted with a 1,400-pound block of cheese; on Feb. 22, 1837 he threw a party for the public to chow down Jackson |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IT'S A PARTY! $800: The North Side Skull & Bone Gang has been waking people up to party for 200+ years on this day down in New Orleans Mardi Gras |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IT'S A PARTY! $1200: On October 24, 2022 it was a real lituation when Joe Biden celebrated this Hindu festival at the White House with 200+ guests Diwali |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IT'S A PARTY! $1600: This Brit writer of "Private Lives" sang of a marvelous party where Elsie, age 74, swung upside down from a glass chandelier Noël Coward |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | IT'S A PARTY! $2000: In May 1664 this French king held a days-long party with ballet in honor of his mom & wife & (possibly) his mistress Louis XIV |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $200: In a job that does not seem short of perks, the king of this nation hands each Nobel laureate a diploma & a medal annually Sweden |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $400: The I didn't even rule Egypt for a year & a half, but this pharaoh II of the 19th dynasty clocked in for 66, 1279-1213 B.C. Ramses |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $600: A 1920 sovereign ordinance of this nation had the future Rainier III receive his mother's family name of Grimaldi Monaco |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $800: Ivan the Terrible's murder of his son in 1581 led to this family's dynasty that began in 1613 & would have the last czarring role the Romanovs |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $1000: In his royal.uk bio: "mentally unfit to rule during the last decade of his reign"; "most attractive of the Hanoverian monarchs" George III |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | IT'S ALL "SMALL" STUFF $200: Despite the name, it can be 25 feet long in the abdominal cavity the small intestine |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | IT'S ALL "SMALL" STUFF $400: This type of special tribunal is set up for simplified litigation of damages below a certain amount of money small claims court |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | IT'S ALL "SMALL" STUFF $600: A group of young fish, or a dismissive term for the young or insignificant small fry |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | IT'S ALL "SMALL" STUFF $800: In July 2004 in Thailand, Angelina Jolie had a tiger tattooed here the small of her back |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | IT'S ALL "SMALL" STUFF $1000: Established in 1953, this government agency provides support to start-ups & existing companies with programs & loans the Small Business Administration |
| #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 |
| #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 | AVENGERS, WHO SAID IT? $200: Him: "If my aunt finds out I left my class trip, she's going to kill me" Spider-Man |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AVENGERS, WHO SAID IT? $400: Smugly:
"Genius,
billionaire,
playboy,
philanthropist" Iron Man |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $400: The F-16 has the alliterative name "Fighting" this speedy type of raptor Falcon |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AVENGERS, WHO SAID IT? $600: Stepping up in "Endgame":
"The radiation's mostly gamma, it's like... I was made for this" the Incredible Hulk |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AVENGERS, WHO SAID IT? $800: Asked if he knows what he's doing:
"Yeah. I've knocked out Adolf Hitler over 200 times" Captain America |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $800: This Grumman & amphibious plane, essential to the defenders of Bataan, is not named for an amphibian, but for a water bird the Duck |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | AVENGERS, WHO SAID IT? $1000: Keeping it real in "Age of Ultron":
"Well, I was born yesterday" Vision |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $1200: In a Shrike Commander, Bob Hoover perfected a routine of aerobatics, landing & taxiing all deadstick, i.e. this he had no engine power at all |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $1600: 70 years after Louis Blériot first did it, the human-powered Gossamer Albatross flew across this body of water in 1979 the English Channel |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $4,000 (Daily Double): During World War II, one job of the Howard DGA-15 was as a Navy air ambulance with this bird name that's associated with nursing Nightingale |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | IT'S GIVING... $200: In 1997 Kofi Annan thanked Ted Turner for the $1 billion given to this org., which was meant to invite other individual donations the United Nations |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | IT'S GIVING... $400: A New York Times headline read this oil man's "gifts total $530,853,632", remarkably specific on the day after his death in 1937 (John D.) Rockefeller |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | IT'S GIVING... $600: 2022's Red Kettle campaign from this charity brought in more than $100 million, & its name should ring a bell the Salvation Army |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | IT'S GIVING... $800: Apparently really into science, Ross Brown, the founder of Cryogenic Industries, pledged $400 million to this Pasadena college Caltech |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | IT'S GIVING... $1000: Named for an athlete whose brother was a doctor, this Seattle cancer center has gotten gifts, like $700 million from Jeff Bezos' parents the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | IT ENDS WITH "U" $200: The name of this swampy section of a river is from the Choctaw for "small stream" a bayou |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | IT ENDS WITH "U" $400: Kenji Kita is credited with giving this car brand its name meaning "to unite" Subaru |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | IT ENDS WITH "U" $600: In 1999 the Asian edition of Time ranked this pocket monster the second-best person of the year, behind Ricky Martin Pikachu |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | IT ENDS WITH "U" $800: It's a-pear-antly true that this pear has Belgian roots, despite its French name an Anjou |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | IT ENDS WITH "U" $1000: In 1932 members of the Australian army fought "The Great" this "War" against a flightless feathered foe the emu |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | SHAKE IT OFF $200: Shake "it" off a word for a number or a finger to exhume this verb that makes a hole in the ground dig (from digit) |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | SHAKE IT OFF $400: Shake "it" off a fundamental force & it's all this, sauce for turkey & mashed potatoes gravy (from gravity) |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | SHAKE IT OFF $600: Drop "it" from a person who drops by your house to get this front part of a helmet a visor (from visitor) |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | SHAKE IT OFF $1000: Shake "it" off from something more important than other things to get this type of religious house a priory (from priority) |
| #9023, aired 2024-01-24 | SHAKE IT OFF $1,200 (Daily Double): Drop "it" from a word for a hollow space to get this South American rodent a cavy (from cavity) |
| #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 |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | TAKE IT BACK! $200: The slogan "Take Back Control" is credited with helping this event get approved in a 2016 U.K. referendum Brexit |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | TAKE IT BACK! $400: The campaign Reclaim Your Vote can tell you the deadline to do this in each state (Alabama: Oct. 21, 2024) register to vote |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | TAKE IT BACK! $600: Campaigns called Take Back the Tap, aiming to reduce Americans' passion for this, say it's not specially safe & bad for the planet bottled water |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | TAKE IT BACK! $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2008 the Hindu American Foundation launched "Take Back" this practice that's much more than the physical postures of asana yoga |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | TAKE IT BACK! $1000: TBTN for short, this movement against sexual violence has been marching since the 1970s Take Back the Night |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | YUP, IT'S A PORT-A-POTTY $200: A family-owned port-a-potty business since 2003, its name is "yes yes" in French Oui Oui |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | YUP, IT'S A PORT-A-POTTY $400: A port-a-potty business for over 30 years, it's also a poker hand consisting of the five highest cards of one suit Royal Flush |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | YUP, IT'S A PORT-A-POTTY $600: Finally, I've been holding it in forever; it's what the WC stands for on this port-a-potty water closet |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | YUP, IT'S A PORT-A-POTTY $800: A break at the Indy 500, it's also the name of public toilets used in San Francisco since 2014 Pit Stop |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | YUP, IT'S A PORT-A-POTTY $1000: Based in Eau Claire, WI, this port-a-potty company shares its name with the target where a skydiver lands Drop Zone |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $400: Julie Taymor directed the 2006 opera "Grendel", which retold this classic tale from the monster's point of view Beowulf |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $800: Andre Gretry, "the Moliere of music", composed a 1784 opera about this crusading king Richard I |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $1200: Rossini's opera about this tragic title character is subtitled "Il Moro di Venezia" Otello |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $1600: The name of this Italian opera house means "theater at the stairway" La Scala |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $2000: The full title of this Wagner opera includes the words "and the Singer's Contest on the Wartburg" Tannhäuser |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | IT'S UP 2 U $200: Will & shall form this verb tense future |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | IT'S UP 2 U $400: Iowa uses this type of local party meeting to select presidential candidates a caucus |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | IT'S UP 2 U $600: Derived from French, it's a small, specialized retail store a boutique |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | IT'S UP 2 U $800: You should know this swinging item like clockwork a pendulum |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | IT'S UP 2 U $1000: Time to drink in this hearty reddish color... ohhhh yes... bold, with a hint of je ne sais quoi burgundy |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $200: As señor Bill Murray can tell you, it's the English name for El Día de la Marmota Groundhog Day |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $400: It was romantic of Salma Hayek to mention it on Instagram in 2023; El Día de San Valentín falls in this month February (Febrero) |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $800: He's the U.S. president whose cumpleaños is celebrated ten days after El Cumpleaños de Lincoln Washington |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $1000: In 2021, it became a U.S. federal holiday; in Spanish, it falls on 19 de Junio Juneteenth |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | IT'S A DATE, AMIGO! $2,600 (Daily Double): In Spanish, it's El Día de Acción de Gracias; in English, it's this Thanksgiving |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | IT'S CORN $400: A 2023 survey by the National Confectioners Association found 18% of folks eat the wide yellow end of this sweet first candy corn |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | IT'S CORN $800: The Dept. of Energy notes that more than 98% of U.S. gasoline contains this product primarily made from corn ethanol |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | IT'S CORN $1200: The Missouri Meerschaum Company is the world's oldest manufacturer of this item made from a corn's core corncob pipes |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | IT'S CORN $1600: The murals at the Mitchell Corn Palace in this state are designed by students at a nearby university South Dakota |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | IT'S CORN $2000: In "The Omnivore's Dilemma", this author writes, "You are what you eat... & if this is true, then what we mostly are is corn" (Michael) Pollan |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | IT'S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON $200: The Corvair from this make that also gave us the Corvette got bad PR from being declared "unsafe at any speed" Chevrolet (Chevy) |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | IT'S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON $400: This company's underpowered energy crisis-era Mustang II is, per Motor Trend, "the Mustang everyone loves to hate" Ford |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | IT'S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON $600: J.D. Power: "Even budget buyers have their standards, so as 2021 dawns", this "Grand" Dodge "is finally going to the last roundup" the Grand Caravan |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | IT'S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON $800: An auto writer found the Aztek from this GM brand looked "like a Transformer figure based on a Dust Buster" Pontiac |
| #9006, aired 2024-01-01 | IT'S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON $1000: Road & Track said this 3-letter brand's Gremlin, launched on April Fools' Day 1970, "stretched the definition of car" AMC (American Motors) |
| #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 |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | JUST "E"AT IT $200: In the U.S., this French word signifies the main course, but in France it means the first course the entrée |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | JUST "E"AT IT $400: This member of the nightshade family is technically a fruit the eggplant |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | JUST "E"AT IT $600: This type of milk has had its water content reduced by 60%, giving a creamy taste when used in desserts evaporated milk |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | JUST "E"AT IT $800: This round yellow Dutch cheese is partly made from skimmed milk & coated in red paraffin Edam |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | JUST "E"AT IT $1000: These can be purple to black in color, sour right off the tree, but good in a jam or pie elderberries |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | LET ME PHRASE IT THIS WAY $200: If you "paint the town" this color, you're out having a good time red |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | LET ME PHRASE IT THIS WAY $400: A person you're having obsessive thoughts about is "living" this cost-related way "in your head" rent free |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | LET ME PHRASE IT THIS WAY $600: This heavily memed phrase of dismissive farewell was uttered by Ice Cube in "Friday" "Bye, Felicia" |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | LET ME PHRASE IT THIS WAY $800: The pleasure of not being part of a trend can be expressed as JOMO, short for this the joy of missing out |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | LET ME PHRASE IT THIS WAY $1000: In England, you stay on your best behavior by "minding your" these 2 letters Ps & Qs |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | IT'S A VISION BOARD $200: 3 children in Fatima, Portugal in 1917 are among those who have had visions of this place of much fire & groaning hell |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | IT'S A VISION BOARD $400: St. Catherine of Siena had many visions of Jesus; in one he removed this from her body & in another, replaced it with his own heart |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | IT'S A VISION BOARD $600: In the first book in English by a woman, Julian of Norwich lists visions including the universe as the size of this a hazelnut |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | IT'S A VISION BOARD $800: The prophet Zechariah envisions 4 of these, pulled by horses of different colors, but they don't race each other chariots |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | IT'S A VISION BOARD $1000: In his "First Vision", in New York State in 1820, he asked Jesus which church had the truth & Jesus said none of them Joseph Smith |
| #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 | 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 | 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 |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $200: It's a pendular timepiece with a case as tall as or taller than a person a grandfather clock |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $400: In 1917 he founded Boys Town in Omaha, open to boys of all races & religions Father Flanagan |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $600: Seen riding a flying gander, this character is usually traced back to a 1697 book by Charles Perrault Mother Goose |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $800: Covered in hair from head to foot, this member of "The Addams Family" spoke in a language all his own Cousin Itt |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $1000: This first novel by Theodore Dreiser tells of a young woman's rise to become a successful Broadway actress Sister Carrie |
| #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 | IT WAS AN OLYMPIC YEAR! $400: The Liberty Bell moves to a pavilion north of Independence Hall; Israeli commandos take on hijackers at Entebbe 1976 |
| #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 | IT WAS AN OLYMPIC YEAR! $800: Hillary Clinton elected to Senate; first full-time crew arrives at International Space Station 2000 |
| #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 | IT WAS AN OLYMPIC YEAR! $1,200 (Daily Double): McKinley wins term one; the Supreme Court rules on Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | IT WAS AN OLYMPIC YEAR! $1600: Mahatma Gandhi assassinated; Alger Hiss accused of passing secrets to the Soviets 1948 |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | IT WAS AN OLYMPIC YEAR! $2000: The U-2 incident; incidentally, U2's Bono is born 1960 |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | IT'S THE GENEVA CONVENTION $200: Article 1 of the 1864 first convention called for protection of military hospitals & these vehicles ambulances |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | IT'S THE GENEVA CONVENTION $400: When Geneva is cited on "Hogan's Heroes", it's usually the 1929 convention devoted to protection of them prisoners (POWs) |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | IT'S THE GENEVA CONVENTION $600: This country signed in 1949 with the reservation that it could use the red shield of David as a symbol Israel |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | IT'S THE GENEVA CONVENTION $800: The 1906 convention called for ratifications to be filed in this nearby national capital Bern |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | IT'S THE GENEVA CONVENTION $1000: A 1977 protocol covers peoples fighting "against racist regimes in the exercise of their right of" this hyphenated choice self-determination |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | IT'S RAINING MENSA $400: Nolan Gould played less than Mensa-esque Luke Dunphy on this sitcom but Nolan's 150 IQ made the grade Modern Family |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | IT'S RAINING MENSA $800: Before he passed away in 2012, this general who led the Persian Gulf War went "stormin'" to a Mensa membership Schwarzkopf |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | IT'S RAINING MENSA $1200: Part of the "Foundation" of the life of this prolific sci-fi author was being honorary vice president of Mensa Isaac Asimov |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | IT'S RAINING MENSA $1600: Come up with the geodesic dome like this engineer & you can be president of Mensa like he was Fuller |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | IT'S RAINING MENSA $2000: Leslie Charteris had the smarts for Mensa & also to come up with the character of Simon Templar, star of this book series The Saint |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHOUT IT OUT! $100: In 1978's "Animal House", this word is an epic call-to-party from John Belushi; it's also the party's dress code toga |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THE EYES HAVE IT $200: An inflammation of the eyelid's lining, conjunctivitis is more commonly known by this colorful name pinkeye |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHOUT IT OUT! $200: Though it costs him his head, Mel Gibson in "Braveheart" refuses to beg for mercy... & yells this word instead freedom |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHOUT IT OUT! $300: Try yelling out "O-H!" in a crowded place; chances are, any Buckeyes fan within earshot will yell these two letters in return I-O |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHOUT IT OUT! $400: This online game spawned a battle cry that's now synonymous with idiocy gone rogue: "Leeroy Jenkins!" World of Warcraft |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | SHOUT IT OUT! $500: Of this school's iconic fight cheer, ESPN once wrote, "'Hotty Toddy' has no real meaning, but it means everything in Oxford" Ole Miss (Mississippi) |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THE EYES HAVE IT $600: Surgically removing these cloudy areas on the lens of the eye is one of the most common medical procedures in the world a cataract |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THE EYES HAVE IT $800: The most common form of color blindness affects a person's ability to see shades of red & this color green |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THE EYES HAVE IT $1,000 (Daily Double): Get to a doctor pronto if this layer of tissue that processes light detaches from the back of your eye the retina |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | THE EYES HAVE IT $1000: Lasik surgery corrects vision problems by using a laser to alter this dome-shaped tissue at the front of the eye the cornea |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | CHECK IT & SEE $200: This hairstyle used to have serious buzz beehive |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | IF IT AIN'T BAROQUE… $400: Degas often worked with these chalk-like sticks of powdered pigment whose name also means delicate in color pastels |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | CHECK IT & SEE $400: MADAM, I'M ADAM is one palindrome |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | CHECK IT & SEE $600: This San Francisco street gets all the press, but technically, Vermont St. is more crooked Lombard St. |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | IF IT AIN'T BAROQUE… $800: 1947's "Lucifer" was one of the first "poured" paintings by this artist Pollock |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | CHECK IT & SEE $800: As a cloth is wrung out in space, check the results of this property that makes water act like a stretched membrane surface tension |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | CHECK IT & SEE $1000: Music is the most powerful connector says this Biden administration Secretary of State, seen performing "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Antony) Blinken |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | IF IT AIN'T BAROQUE… $1600: Georges Seurat painted "A Sunday on" this island, literally "the big platter" La Grande Jatte |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | IF IT AIN'T BAROQUE… $2000: This late graffiti artist's paintings are paired with Maya Angelou's poems in the children's book "Life Doesn't Frighten Me" Basquiat |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | IF IT AIN'T BAROQUE… $3,000 (Daily Double): A 1912 work by Marc Chagall is titled after this musician found in the title of a Broadway show The Fiddler |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | IT'S THE COCKATIEL HOUR $200: Cockatiels are members of this large & raucous bird order parrots |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | IT'S THE COCKATIEL HOUR $400: Discovered there around 1770, cockatiels are native to this continent Australia |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | IT'S THE COCKATIEL HOUR $600: Like dogs, cockatiels like to nibble on this untanned leather, also the title of an old TV Western rawhide |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | IT'S THE COCKATIEL HOUR $800: The difference between males & females becomes apparent after the first of these shedding periods at 6-9 months molting |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | IT'S THE COCKATIEL HOUR $1000: Though cockatiels are mainly seed eaters, the hard internal shells of these squid relatives provide needed calcium cuttlefish |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | "TAG", YOU'RE IT $400: Magical geometric figure pictured here a pentagram |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | "TAG", YOU'RE IT $800: This brand is now part of Whirlpool & makes ranges & refrigerators as well as washing machines Maytag |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | "TAG", YOU'RE IT $1200: To make someone angry or even make him your enemy antagonize |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | "TAG", YOU'RE IT $1600: Aquaracer & Carrera are models of this glamorous Swiss watch brand TAG Heuer |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | "TAG", YOU'RE IT $2000: It's the lower house in the German legislative systeme the Bundestag |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | DAD, GUM IT $200: Nicorette is a gum designed to help your dad stop doing this smoking |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | DAD, GUM IT $400: Born Frances Gumm, she made her singing debut at age 2 in her dad's theater & then went on to visit Oz Judy Garland |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | DAD, GUM IT $600: When a man with this last name offered gum with his dad's baking powder, it started a chewing gum empire Wrigley |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | DAD, GUM IT $800: This "colorful" gum-chewing girl has a golden ticket that gets her & her dad in to see Willy Wonka Violet Beauregarde |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | DAD, GUM IT $1000: Gumby's father has this name, from a Bantu word for "okra" Gumbo |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $400: In "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", she inquires, "Is this the way to Europe, France?" Marilyn Monroe |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $800: 1939:
"That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed, and often and by someone who knows how" Clark Gable |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $1200: At the end of "Little Caesar", this actor cries, "Mother of Mercy. Is this the end of Rico?" Edward G. Robinson |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $2000: In "My Favorite Year" he wails, "I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!" Peter O'Toole |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $5,000 (Daily Double): "A boy's best friend is his mother" Anthony Perkins |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | IT'S GONNA BLOW! $200: This wind instrument evolved from the aura & the symphonium of the 1820s the harmonica |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | IT'S GONNA BLOW! $400: In first position this instrument's slide is fully retracted; in 7th position, fully extended trombone |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | IT'S GONNA BLOW! $600: A thin membrane helps this instrument produce its distinctive sound a kazoo |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | IT'S GONNA BLOW! $800: There are bass & alto versions of this popular orchestra instrument heard here a flute |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | IT'S GONNA BLOW! $1000: Heard here, its name is from the German for "flank horn", from its use in battle a flugelhorn |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | IT JUST SOUNDS QUESTIONABLE $400: This 4-letter word can mean "stop"; while pouring you a drink someone might ask you to "say" it when |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | IT JUST SOUNDS QUESTIONABLE $800: "Going to the fair", Simple Simon asked the pieman, "Let me taste your" this ware |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | IT JUST SOUNDS QUESTIONABLE $1200: This letter means "and" in Spanish Y |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | IT JUST SOUNDS QUESTIONABLE $1600: Term for a Buddhist temple, there's a big one in Angkor wat |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | IT JUST SOUNDS QUESTIONABLE $2000: In the American Revolution, last name of British admiral Richard & his brother, general William Howe |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | "E"ASY DOES IT $200: These are found at the duller end of a pencil erasers |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | "E"ASY DOES IT $400: The obelisk in St. Peter's Square was brought to Rome by Caligula from Heliopolis in this country Egypt |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | "E"ASY DOES IT $600: One of the 2 official languages of the Pacific island kingdom of Tonga English |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | "E"ASY DOES IT $800: Despite an investment of over $250 million this car model seen here did not sell well in the U.S. the Edsel |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | "E"ASY DOES IT $1000: As a verb it means to consider valuable or regard with admiration; as a noun, it often follows "high" in a positive sense esteem |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | IT'S IN YOUR MIND $200: From the Greek for "forgetfulness", it's partial or complete memory loss amnesia |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | LET'S FACE IT $200: International Nurses Day is on May 12, honoring the birthday of this woman Florence Nightingale |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | IT'S IN YOUR MIND $400: A first shot in golf, or a psychological term for a strong motivating instinct drive |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | LET'S FACE IT $400: In 1881, the governor of Missouri offered $5,000 for the capture of this man & his brother Jesse James |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | IT'S IN YOUR MIND $600: Bipolar disorder was once known as this type of "depression" manic |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | LET'S FACE IT $600: Da, comrade, he's the traveler seen here Yuri Gagarin |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | IT'S IN YOUR MIND $800: In 1907 this Swiss mister used the term "complex" to describe clusters of mental associations Carl Jung |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | LET'S FACE IT $800: He was a world leader from 1983 to 1989; then he began to be led around Noriega |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | IT'S IN YOUR MIND $1000: I love Dr. Freud for using this term for strong feelings of attachment by a patient toward an analyst transference |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | LET'S FACE IT $1000: Ohio-born Nobel Prize winner seen here Toni Morrison |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | THE "LONG" & "SHORT" OF IT $200: At 29 feet, 4 1/2 inches, Mike Powell holds the world record for this the long jump |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | THE "LONG" & "SHORT" OF IT $400: "The Lottery" or "The Gold-Bug" short stories (short fiction) |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | THE "LONG" & "SHORT" OF IT $600: Traditionally, the main ingredients in these Scottish cookies are flour, sugar & an ample amount of butter shortbread |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | THE "LONG" & "SHORT" OF IT $800: Tinker, of "Tinker to Evers to Chance", was one of these a shortstop |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | THE "LONG" & "SHORT" OF IT $1000: This California port city is home to an aquarium & the Queen Mary Long Beach |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | A RIVER RUNS TO IT $400: The Yakima:
To this larger Pacific Northwest river the Columbia |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | A RIVER RUNS TO IT $800: The Platte:
This river that runs to another river the Missouri |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | A RIVER RUNS TO IT $1200: The Indus River flows 1,900 miles before emptying into this sea that shares its name with an adjacent peninsula the Arabian Sea |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | A RIVER RUNS TO IT $1,500 (Daily Double): The Vistula:
This sea the Baltic Sea |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | A RIVER RUNS TO IT $1600: The Hudson:
"Upper" this bay Upper New York Bay |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | WE MADE IT $200: Joop Sinjou & Toshitada Doi played a role in changing the music industry when this product debuted in 1982 the compact disc |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | WE MADE IT $400: In the 1960s Robert Moog became a household name for the invention of one of these instruments that bears his name a synthesizer |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | WE MADE IT $600: He substituted mercury for alcohol in a tube around 1714, creating the modern thermometer Fahrenheit |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | WE MADE IT $800: This amusement park claims the invention of the hot dog & the roller coaster Coney Island |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | WE MADE IT $1000: In the 1830s Samuel Colt got cocky with the invention of this type of handgun the revolver |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $200: 390 B.C.:
These people usually associated with ancient France sack Rome the Gauls |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $400: 410 A.D.:
Under Alaric, these "Westerners" sack Rome Visigoths |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $600: 455 A.D.:
These people, whose name is now synonymous with pillage & destruction, sack Rome the Vandals |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $800: 1084 A.D.:
Having successfully invaded England 18 years before, they then sack Rome the Normans |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | IT'S OUR TURN TO SACK ROME!!! $1000: 1527 A.D.:
Spanish & German troops working for this "Empire" end the High Renaissance by sacking Rome the Holy Roman Empire |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $200: In a simpler time, this phrase meant "hang out & watch a movie"; it's evolved to mean "hang out, watch a movie &... you know" Netflix & chill |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $400: Austin Powers may be pop culture's greatest champion of this randy British verb; it even made the title of his sequel shag |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $600: For absurd innuendo, nothing beats "nudge, nudge" or this other matching word pair, from a classic Monty Python sketch wink, wink |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $800: There might be no dopier word for "have sex with" than this 1-syllable verb ending in "K", likely meant to evoke bouncing boink (or bonk) |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $1000: We can thank "Jersey Shore" for the popularity of this hookup verb--which certainly evokes compression, if not romance smush |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT? $400: The objects seen here are made mainly from this super expensive metal platinum |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT? $800: The prototype of his "Cube" was made of 27 wooden blocks; it took him a month to solve it Rubik |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT? $1200: The soft ones are made from high-water-content polymers like hydroxyethyl-methacrylate contact lenses |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT? $1600: "In the Big Rock Candy Mountain, the jails are made of" this; "you can slip right out again as soon as they put you in" tin |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT? $2000: Gumboots are traditionally made mainly of this (do not say gum) rubber |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | HOW'S THE KING TAKING IT? $400: His diary for July 14, 1789, the day the Bastille was stormed, read, "Rien", meaning "nothing" Louis XVI |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | HOW'S THE KING TAKING IT? $1200: As quoted in "Die Hard", when this ancient guy "saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer" Alexander the Great |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | HOW'S THE KING TAKING IT? $1600: The work seen here depicts this Trojan king pleading with Achilles to return his son's body King Priam |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | HOW'S THE KING TAKING IT? $2000: In this event that brought Mussolini to power, King Victor Emmanuel III refused to bring in the army to stop him his March on Rome |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | HOW'S THE KING TAKING IT? $5,000 (Daily Double): On March 7, 1774 George III complained of "outrageous proceedings at" this city, especially in its harbor Boston |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | IT "IS" WHAT IT "IS" $300: It's thought that about 40% of Americans can trace their ancestry through this immigration station, seen here Ellis Island |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | IT "IS" WHAT IT "IS" $600: Uncle Dan turned 50, got a Corvette, got hair plugs, got a tattoo... I think he's having a "midlife" this crisis |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | IT "IS" WHAT IT "IS" $1200: Like a mythological character who loved his own reflection, people with this personality style are in love with themselves narcissism |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | IT "IS" WHAT IT "IS" $1500: Used to make comparisons, this hyphenated phrase literally means "face-to-face" in French vis-à-vis |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | IT "IS" WHAT IT "IS" $7,000 (Daily Double): The birthplaces of B.B. King, Muddy Waters & Robert Johnson are markers on this state's "Blues Trail" Mississippi |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | YOU BETTER BELIZE IT $200: 1981's constitution set up a bicameral national assembly of these 2 familiar-sounding bodies, but members of each serve 5-year terms the Senate & the House of Representatives |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | YOU BETTER BELIZE IT $400: Discovered in 1937, Caracol, Spanish for "snail" was a city of this Mesoamerican people & flourished in the 600s the Mayans |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | WHAT COULD IT "B"? $400: This annual event falls on the feast day of St. Stephen Boxing Day |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAILED IT! $400: In 1958, Harry Winston mailed this 45.52-carat item to the Smithsonian for $2.44 first class, plus $142.85 for $1 million in insurance the Hope Diamond |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | YOU BETTER BELIZE IT $600: Belizeans call this animal a red tiger; we call it a mountain lion & everyone can agree it's also a German sneaker company puma |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | YOU BETTER BELIZE IT $800: Belize's Great Blue Hole was featured in a 1970s episode of "The Undersea World of" him who called it one of Earth's best diving sites Jacques Cousteau |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | WHAT COULD IT "B"? $800: The name of this street & area in Lower Manhattan comes from Dutch for "farm"; the area was a 19th century skid row the Bowery |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAILED IT! $800: Oops... on a stamp in 2010--& 3 billion stamps, eventually--the USPS used a replica in Vegas instead of this New York landmark the Statue of Liberty |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | YOU BETTER BELIZE IT $1000: After a hurricane & a tidal wave hit Belize City in 1961, the capital was moved 50 miles inland to this city to avoid flooding Belmopan |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | WHAT COULD IT "B"? $1200: This 70-room palazzo, built in the style of the Italian Renaissance, is in Newport, Rhode Island the Breakers |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | WHAT COULD IT "B"? $1600: These trees of Africa & Madagascar are often called upside-down trees baobab trees |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAILED IT! $1600: The U.S. Postal Inspection Service warns of scams by fake sweepstakes purporting to be from this company founded in 1953 Publishers Clearing House |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | WHAT COULD IT "B"? $2000: He's the 18th century author of the farce "The Barber of Seville" & the comedy "The Marriage of Figaro" Beaumarchais |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAILED IT! $2000: Lawrence O'Brien was appointed to this government job by LBJ in 1965; in '75 Larry did a nifty crossover & got the NBA commissioner gig Postmaster General |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | MAILED IT! $5,000 (Daily Double): RFD, short for this, began in 1896; previously, about 65% of Americans lived in the "R" area & had to pick up mail at the P.O. Rural Free Delivery |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | IT BELONGS IN THIS MUSEUM $200: The painting "Watson & the Shark" swims around in this Washington, D.C. museum the National Gallery of Art |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | IT BELONGS IN THIS MUSEUM $400: Prince Potemkin once owned the elaborate mechanical Peacock Clock, now in this museum the Hermitage |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | IT BELONGS IN THIS MUSEUM $800: It is where Ferris Bueller's friend Cameron stood in front of "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" the Art Institute of Chicago |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | IT BELONGS IN THIS MUSEUM $1000: "Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889" by James Ensor parades through this L.A. museum named for an oil magnate the Getty |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | IT BELONGS IN THIS MUSEUM $3,000 (Daily Double): On Museumstraat, "The Night Watch" & "The Milkmaid" the Rijksmuseum |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IT GETS OLD $200: The ship Old Ironsides has bolts & sheathing made by this patriot & metalworker Paul Revere |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IT GETS OLD $400: In the classic children's song, she "ain't what she used to be, many long years ago" the old gray mare |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IT GETS OLD $600: Buchanan, in this state, is a beautiful storybook town per Matthew Ramsay of the band Old Dominion who grew up there Virginia |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IT GETS OLD $800: V.S.O.P., standing for very superior old pale, is a premium grade of this liquor aged at least 4 years cognac |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | IT GETS OLD $1000: An unfulfilled claimant to the British throne, in the 18th century James Edward Stuart was known as the "Old" one of these the Old Pretender |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | JUST GOOGLY IT $200: You could put googly eyes on each end of the name of this province here, & you're welcome for the logo idea, northern neighbors Ontario |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | JUST GOOGLY IT $400: Check out this planet checking you out; it was once known as Hermes, but times & beliefs changed Mercury |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | JUST GOOGLY IT $600: Here's the brilliant Marty Feldman who played Igor in this 1974 classic film comedy & we haven't done a thing to the picture Young Frankenstein |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | JUST GOOGLY IT $800: It's an equilateral parallelogram, & it's 7 letters; one thing it's not--a type of public transport a rhombus |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | JUST GOOGLY IT $1000: All eyes were on him when he gave his first presidential inaugural address in 1885 Grover Cleveland |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | EAT IT! WEAR IT! OR SIT ON IT! $200: With nearly 30-inch legs, IKEA's Yngvar is this type of seat that's perfect for throwing back some cold ones a bar stool |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | EAT IT! WEAR IT! OR SIT ON IT! $400: The dried chilies in this spicy Szechwan chicken dish might have a little too much "pao" for some kung pao chicken |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | EAT IT! WEAR IT! OR SIT ON IT! $600: As a verb, it means to move busily; as a noun, it was an 1880s piece of undergarment that held out the back of a skirt a bustle |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | EAT IT! WEAR IT! OR SIT ON IT! $800: To wear, it's a comfy piece of around-the-house footwear; to sit on, it's a short-legged, armless chair a slipper |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | EAT IT! WEAR IT! OR SIT ON IT! $1000: Use a pound of the Bing variety & don't set yourself on fire when you ignite the liquor in this 2-word dessert cherries jubilee |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | TAKE IT "E-Z" $200: Oui, oui! The "Z" is silent in this type of liaison a rendezvous |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | TAKE IT "E-Z" $400: For "Pulp Fiction", Quentin Tarantino actually rewrote the Bible for Jules Winnfield's quotation of this Old Testament book Ezekiel |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | TAKE IT "E-Z" $600: Hyphenated French name for the type of eyewear you are eyeing here pince-nez |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | TAKE IT "E-Z" $800: The one-act opera "Cavalleria rusticana" features one of these orchestral interludes an intermezzo |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | TAKE IT "E-Z" $1000: This type of music that has its roots with Ashkenazi Jews features the clarinet & violin, among other instruments klezmer |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | IT CAME FROM NEW JERSEY $200: We rule that Samuel Alito & Antonin Scalia came from this state capital Trenton |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | IT CAME FROM NEW JERSEY $400: Songs in this Broadway show include "Walk Like A Man" & "Big Girls Don't Cry" Jersey Boys |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | IT CAME FROM NEW JERSEY $600: An origin story of this candy involves the sweets in an Atlantic City shop being flooded by the ocean saltwater taffy |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | IT CAME FROM NEW JERSEY $800: It was actually a trio of brothers who founded this New Brunswick-based healthcare company in 1886, but it goes by this & this Johnson & Johnson |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | IT CAME FROM NEW JERSEY $1000: James Madison attended the College of New Jersey; Jeff Bezos went to the same school, by then called this Princeton |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | I LEARNED IT ON SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $200: "Rubbin' a comb with wool or fur... strokin' a cat to make it purr, you're building up" this static electricity |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | I LEARNED IT ON SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $400: "You mean even if the whole Congress says you should be a law, the president can still say no?"; "Yes, that's called" this; go Bill go! a veto |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | I LEARNED IT ON SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $600: These parts of speech
"(Hey!) show excitement! (Yow!) or emotion! (Ouch!)" interjections |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | I LEARNED IT ON SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $800: This begins--& sadly, I can't sing it--"We the people, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice" the Preamble to the United States Constitution |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | I LEARNED IT ON SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK $1000: This man "made a deal with Napoleon: how'd you like to sell a mile or 2 (or 3, or a hundred, or a thousand)"? (Thomas) Jefferson |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | IT'S A SPECIAL DAY $200: Made a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, it's also known as Black Independence Day Juneteenth |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | IT'S A SPECIAL DAY $400: Every March brings a holiday in Iran on the date in 1951 when the country nationalized this industry the oil industry |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | IT'S A SPECIAL DAY $600: This U.S. territory celebrates Flag Day on April 17, the day in 1900 that Old Glory was raised in Fagatogo on Tutuila Island American Samoa |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | IT'S A SPECIAL DAY $800: Jerusalem's November 29 Street is named for the day in 1947 the U.N. voted to partition this British-controlled land Palestine |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | IT'S A SPECIAL DAY $1000: If you're in Peru in June, head to Cuzco on the 24th for Inti Raymi, "Sun Festival" in this language Quechuan |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | GO TELL IT ON THE FOUNTAIN $400: In this Swiss city for Red Cross meetings check out the Jet d'Eau; it can shoot 7 tons of water about 450 feet high Geneva |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | GO TELL IT ON THE FOUNTAIN $800: Here's the Fountain of Wealth, representing oneness in spirit in this city-state at the tip of the Malay Peninsula Singapore |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | GO TELL IT ON THE FOUNTAIN $1200: Versailles' statue of this Roman god rising symbolically at dawn on his chariot to light the world is seen here Apollo |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | GO TELL IT ON THE FOUNTAIN $1600: Fed by an aqueduct built in 19 B.C., this fountain in Italy got its name from its location at the convergence of 3 roads the Trevi |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | GO TELL IT ON THE FOUNTAIN $2000: The world's longest bridge fountain at 3,740 feet, Seoul's Moonlight Rainbow shoots water recycled from this river below the Han |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | CROP TO IT $400: Shucks--covering 90 million acres, it's the most commonly grown feed crop in the United States corn |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | CROP TO IT $800: Green manure is a crop or plant that's plowed beneath soil to help give it nutrients, especially this gas nitrogen |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | CROP TO IT $1200: This crop is the largest source of animal protein feed in the world & second in the vegetable oil race soybean(s) |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | CROP TO IT $1600: This first name of American farmer Hanson was given to a type of grass often used for hay Timothy |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | CROP TO IT $2000: Some crops have been genetically altered to be herbicide resistant, especially to Roundup, first made by this company Monsanto |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | TV: WHO SAID IT $400: On a '70s sitcom: "Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!" Jan Brady |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | TV: WHO SAID IT $800: On an '80s sitcom: "Women, you can't live with 'em. Pass the beer nuts" Norm |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | TV: WHO SAID IT $1200: "I've been involved in a number of cults... you have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader" Creed |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | TV: WHO SAID IT $1600: "Carl's dead... Carl went out to help someone & he got bit" Rick (Grimes) |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | TV: WHO SAID IT $2000: "We've had vicious kings & we've had idiot kings, but I don't know if we've ever been cursed with a vicious idiot boy king" Tyrion Lannister |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | IT COMES IN "WAVE"s $400: Using a magnetron, this machine generates its heat as a form of radiation a microwave |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | IT COMES IN "WAVE"s $800: Also meaning a severe reaction to a sudden development, it's produced by a blast shock wave |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | IT COMES IN "WAVE"s $1200: This old term for what's now called a tsunami just means fluctuation caused by the gravity of the Sun & Moon a tidal wave |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | IT COMES IN "WAVE"s $1600: Detected on an E.E.G., gamma & delta are types of these brain waves |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | IT COMES IN "WAVE"s $2000: During pregnancy, heartburn can result from the body slowing down these, making food stay in the stomach longer peristaltic waves |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | IT'S ALSO A BOAT $200: It's the graceful & majestic item in use here a clipper |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | IT'S ALSO A BOAT $400: Back in my day, Sonny, we enjoyed these "notes" that could appear on one of the inner sleeves of a phonograph record liner notes |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | IT'S ALSO A BOAT $600: It's a "cool" activity to get people in a new group to know each other better & feel more at ease an icebreaker |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | IT'S ALSO A BOAT $800: Some hot air balloons can fit up to 30 people in this basket suspended below & carried aloft a gondola |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | IT'S ALSO A BOAT $1000: As well as a kind of vessel, it's the kitchen area aboard one a galley |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | SPORTS STARS CALLING IT QUITS $200: Jackie Robinson spent his entire major league career with this team; when traded to the Giants, he retired the (Brooklyn) Dodgers |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | IT'S A FACT $400: The city of Baltimore is on the Patapsco River, which runs into this large bay Chesapeake Bay |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | SPORTS STARS CALLING IT QUITS $400: Formerly the all-time leading goal scorer in women's soccer, she retired as a player in 2004 Mia Hamm |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | SPORTS STARS CALLING IT QUITS $600: The most decorated Olympian, he announced his retirement in 2016 Michael Phelps |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | IT'S A FACT $800: Catholicism has 7; confirmation is one "of initiation" sacraments |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | SPORTS STARS CALLING IT QUITS $800: In 2019, after numerous injuries, this Alpine racer with over 80 World Cup wins announced she was leaving the slopes Lindsey Vonn |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | SPORTS STARS CALLING IT QUITS $1000: In August 2003, both Pete Sampras & this other tennis champ hung up their rackets from tournament play Michael Chang |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | IT'S A FACT $1200: He came up with the name Kodak (George) Eastman |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | IT'S A FACT $1600: The 2 most common conditions making up COPD are emphysema & this inflammation bronchitis |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | IT'S A FACT $2000: The Nazis' advance into Russia was stopped in this city where 2 of their armies surrendered Feb. 2, 1943 Stalingrad |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | CZECH IT OUT! $400: Czech scientist Jan Purkyne discovered in 1823 that these could be used for identification--time to get gloves! fingerprints |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | CZECH IT OUT! $800: Gregor Mendel, Franz Kafka & this star of the courts are internationally renowned Czechs Navratilova |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | CZECH IT OUT! $1200: From the 19th century until 1918, the Czech lands were part of this empire the Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | CZECH IT OUT! $1600: This decades-long war in Europe began in 1618 when Czech nobles rebelled against the future Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II Thirty Years' War |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | CZECH IT OUT! $2000: The 3 regions named in the preamble to the Czech Constitution are Bohemia, this one & Silesia Moravia |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | YOU KNOW IT'S NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS $400: Lovers of the game like Ken Burns & Bill "Spaceman" Lee have observed there's no this in baseball, but as of 2023 there is a clock |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | IT'S JUST US $400: She's the female lead & basically the whole female cast in 1980's "The Blue Lagoon" Brooke Shields |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | YOU KNOW IT'S NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS $800: In 2023 a longtime Wash. Post editor wrote, "truth-seeking news media must move beyond" this idea of giving facts without bias objectivity |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | IT'S JUST US $800: In a 20-teens FOX comedy, at one point Carol doesn't have many romantic options as it seems Phil is this, the show's title The Last Man on Earth |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | YOU KNOW IT'S NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS $1200: The Democratic National Committee has taken the first presidential primary away from New Hampshire & given it to this state South Carolina |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | IT'S JUST US $1200: In this 2013 movie it's pretty much just Nicholas Hoult as a zombie & Teresa Palmer as a girl he decides not to eat Warm Bodies |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | YOU KNOW IT'S NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS $1600: Recent movies like "Lady Chatterley's Lover" & TV like "The Affair" credit this type of coordinator of romantic scenes an intimacy coordinator |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | IT'S JUST US $1600: This late singer and songwriter gave us the classic songs of friendship "Lean On Me" & "Just the Two of Us" (Bill) Withers |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | YOU KNOW IT'S NOT THE SAME AS IT WAS $2000: Bacteria, parasites & viruses inside you sound bad, but they're now seen as this 10-letter realm essential to gut & overall health microbiome |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | IT'S JUST US $2000: Paul Williams, Helen Reddy & Johnny Mathis have all recorded the song that says, "Sometimes it feels like" this mismatch "You And Me Against The World" |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | IT'S THE SILENT CONSONANT $200: Beginning another word for a jack in a deck of playing cards K (knave) |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | IT'S THE SILENT CONSONANT $400: In a word for the side post of a doorway B (jamb) |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | IT'S THE SILENT CONSONANT $600: Penultimate in a synonym for mucus; let me clear my throat! G (phlegm) |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | IT'S THE SILENT CONSONANT $800: In an old word for a compound produced in food by bacteria; it used to be found before "poisoning" P (ptomaine) |
| #18, aired 2023-05-23 | IT'S THE SILENT CONSONANT $1000: Starting a word from Arabic for "demon" D (djinn) |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | "YO", I'LL SOLVE IT $200: To sing like a Swiss mountaineer... wanna become a legend & give it a shot? yodel |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | "YO", I'LL SOLVE IT $400: It's the weapon seen here if you get our point a bayonet |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | "YO", I'LL SOLVE IT $600: This type of carnivorous canine is found in all states but Hawaii a coyote |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | "YO", I'LL SOLVE IT $800: It's the less-than-flattering 5-letter term for a naïve, rural locale a yokel |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | "YO", I'LL SOLVE IT $1000: From Spanish, it's a water-carved gully found primarily in the U.S. Southwest an arroyo |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $400: Your sunscreen should provide protection from UVA & UVB rays, with UV short for this type of light ultraviolet |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $800: Even-toed these include camels ungulates |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $1200: This Japanese word for a savory flavor is sometimes defined as a fifth taste umami |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $1600: To howl like a wolf or a widow ululate |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $2000: In economics, it's a period during which business is at a high point; to be green, it means to use goods to make a better product upcycle |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT $200: Luxor the Nile |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT $400: Brazzaville the Congo |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT $600: Mosul the Tigris |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT $800: Kyiv the Dnieper |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT $1000: Dresden the Elbe |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BELIEVE IT OR NOT... $400: Octopuses have 3 of these: 2 send blood to the gills, one sends blood to the rest of the body hearts |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BELIEVE IT OR NOT... $800: In 2023 British police foiled a plan by thieves to poach 200,000 Creme Eggs from this chocolatier Cadbury |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BELIEVE IT OR NOT... $1200: Noodling, a sport involving catching these barehanded, officially became legal in Louisiana in 2022 catfish |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BELIEVE IT OR NOT... $1600: A house known as "The One" sold for $126 million (down from $295 mil.) in this area of "lovely atmosphere" next to Beverly Hills Bel Air |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BELIEVE IT OR NOT... $2000: The Apollo 11 astronauts had to declare Moon rocks to this government service upon returning to Earth Customs |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | IT'S A TV MYSTERY $200: "O.M.I.T.B." is short for this, a show & the podcast within it Only Murders in the Building |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | IT'S A TV MYSTERY $400: Season one of this series ended with the title teen sleuth solving the murder of her best friend Lilly Kane Veronica Mars |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | IT'S A TV MYSTERY $600: (I'm Zoë Chao.) I just murdered it on Apple TV+ in "The Afterparty", or did I? Either way, my character of Zoe was a suspect as well as the ex-wife of Brett, played by this man who was a "Celebrity Jeopardy!" champion in 2022 (Ike) Barinholtz |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | IT'S A TV MYSTERY $800: Nicole Kidman played Celeste, whose abusive husband Perry was pushed to his death in this series based on a Liane Moriarty novel Big Little Lies |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | IT'S A TV MYSTERY $1000: On the BBC's "Sherlock", this acting pair are the modern day Holmes & Watson Cumberbatch & Freeman |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | IT'S GONNA BE MAY! $200: On May 17, 1792, 24 brokers signed an agreement under a tree on this street, leading to the formation of the N.Y. Stock Exchange Wall Street |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | IT'S GONNA BE MAY! $400: The 1862 victory by forces under the command of General Ignacio Zaragoza is celebrated annually in Mexico on this date cinco de Mayo |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | IT'S GONNA BE MAY! $800: Founded by Clara Barton on May 21,1881, this organization got its first congressional charter 19 years later the Red Cross |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | IT'S GONNA BE MAY! $1000: With proud daughters Elizabeth & Margaret, this king is seen at the time of his coronation--May 12, 1937 George VI |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | IT'S GONNA BE MAY! $2,400 (Daily Double): On May 10-11, 1927 he flew from San Diego to New York City, with an overnight stop in St. Louis Lindbergh |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S A COOKBOOK! $200: We hope this Cordon Bleu alum didn't cut the Dickens out of her finger as she was "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" in 1961 Julia Child |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S GERMAN FOR... $400: Christmas tree
(or just fir tree), as in a beloved song Tannenbaum |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S A COOKBOOK! $400: "Over 300 recipes for plant-based eating all through the year" are found in the bestselling "Forks Over" these Knives |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S A COOKBOOK! $600: You could sip on gin & juice as you make some soul food recipes found in "From Crook to Cook" by this rapper Snoop Dogg |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S GERMAN FOR... $800: Boat--
spelling please; it's just one letter different B-O-O-T |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S A COOKBOOK! $800: Enjoy "Uncommon Recipes from" this Brooklyn pie shop; its 4-word name is what was "baked in a pie" in a nursery rhyme Four & Twenty Blackbirds |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S A COOKBOOK! $1000: This, "Fat, Acid, Heat" by Samin Nosrat is subtitled "Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking" Salt |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S GERMAN FOR... $1200: Yes, sir!
(per "Hogan's Heroes: Behind the Scenes at Stalag 13") jawohl |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S GERMAN FOR... $1600: Superman,
to Goethe & Nietzsche Übermensch |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | IT'S GERMAN FOR... $2000: Sunday,
hence the last name of cultural critic Susan Sontag |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | WHERE IS IT, DOC? $200: An alias of functional dyspepsia is non-ulcer this organ pain the stomach |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | WHERE IS IT, DOC? $400: It's a torn acromioclavicular joint, also called separated this shoulder |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | WHERE IS IT, DOC? $600: Chronic heartburn? Might be Barrett's this tube esophagus |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | WHERE IS IT, DOC? $800: Subungual hematoma, I'm afraid--blood collecting under this a nail |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | WHERE IS IT, DOC? $1000: It's glioblastoma, a tumor here the brain |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT $400: Adjective for sports played between students at the same school intramural (Ural) |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT $800: Someone who writes computer programs a coder (Oder) |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT $1200: It's misleading to put this word before "dementia" because dementia is not a necessary part of getting old senile (Nile) |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT $2,000 (Daily Double): Domesticated fowl, collectively poultry (Po) |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT $2000: Any business activity, or manufacturing in general industry (Indus) |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | NOT MAKING IT TO THE END OF THE MOVIE $200: Tina Fey said "Gravity" was about how this actor would rather float away & die in space than spend time with a woman his own age George Clooney |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | NOT MAKING IT TO THE END OF THE MOVIE $400: Bad puddy tat! This evil uncle admits fratricide when he whispers, "I killed Mufasa" to Simba Scar |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | NOT MAKING IT TO THE END OF THE MOVIE $600: Gwyneth Paltrow returns to the U.S. from Hong Kong, sickens & dies & this 2011 pandemic thriller is off & running Contagion |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | NOT MAKING IT TO THE END OF THE MOVIE $800: Look how they massacred my boy; James Caan wore 100-plus squibs to pay a heavy price at the tollbooth in this 1972 film The Godfather |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | NOT MAKING IT TO THE END OF THE MOVIE $1000: Sometimes, you get older, adamantium in your body poisons you & a clone of your younger self up & kills you, like this 2017 guy Logan |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | IT'S "NATIONAL" $200: For Japan, it's "Kimigayo" (the emperor's reign) the national anthem |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | IT'S "NATIONAL" $400: In 2022 it surpassed $31 trillion the national debt |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | IT'S "NATIONAL" $600: A volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands & wild Asian elephants mingling with cattle in Sri Lanka are among its top photos of 2022 the National Geographic |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | IT'S "NATIONAL" $800: In 2001 Condoleezza Rice became the first woman to hold this vital coordinating post National Security Advisor |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | IT'S "NATIONAL" $1000: Headquartered in Indianapolis, it's what the NCAA stands for the National Collegiate Athletic Association |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | HOW DOES IT FASTEN? $200: The fly on Levi's 501 jeans in 1873 buttons |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | HOW DOES IT FASTEN? $400: The Western shirt created by Jack A. Weil of Rockmount Ranch Wear snaps |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | HOW DOES IT FASTEN? $600: Veja V-lock sneakers Velcro |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | HOW DOES IT FASTEN? $800: Many backpacks since Gerry Cunningham's innovative 1938 design a zipper |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | HOW DOES IT FASTEN? $1000: Necklaces--a 5-letter fastener that may be box, barrel or lobster a clasp |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | WHAT'LL IT "B"? $200: The vanilla cinnamon variety of this Irish cream liqueur Baileys |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | WHAT'LL IT "B"? $400: Dragonberry, a tropical flavor from this rum brand Bacardi |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | WHAT'LL IT "B"? $600: Praise the Lord & pass me a snifter of Christian Brothers VS this brandy |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | WHAT'LL IT "B"? $800: A cocktail flavored with angostura aromatic these; they're more pleasant than they sound bitters |
| #8835, aired 2023-03-24 | WHAT'LL IT "B"? $1000: A shot of this, & I don't care whether it's Booker's or Blanton's bourbon |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | IT'S A JOKE $200: Mitch Hedberg:
I had this type of "route when I was younger... I was supposed to go to 2,000 houses, or 2 dumpsters" a paper route |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | IT'S A JOKE $400: Norm MacDonald:
"Why do" these "always race to the door... when the doorbell rings? It's almost never for them" dogs |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | IT'S A JOKE $600: Hosting those very awards, this cheeky Brit said the Golden Globes are "like the Oscars, but without all that esteem" Ricky Gervais |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | IT'S A JOKE $800: Jon Stewart noted that while Lent is 40 days, Jews have this one day of atonement: "Even in sin you're paying retail" Yom Kippur |
| #8832, aired 2023-03-21 | IT'S A JOKE $1000: Ben Stiller, guessing Zach Galifianakis' breakfast diet, suggested it's "egg" these yellows |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SHOE KNOW IT $200: You're just getting by if you're on a budget that mentions this footwear fastener shoestring |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SHOE KNOW IT $400: Casinos use multiple-deck cardholders called shoes to combat card counters at this game blackjack |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SHOE KNOW IT $600: Pressing a certain car pedal pushes these shoes against the inside of the drum brake shoes |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SHOE KNOW IT $800: This dreamy style of British indie rock got its name from the way performers stared at their effects pedals shoegaze |
| #8830, aired 2023-03-17 | SHOE KNOW IT $1000: Eyewitnesses differ as to whether this Soviet premier actually banged his shoe on a desk at a 1960 U.N. meeting Khrushchev |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | SHAKE IT OFF $400: Beignets are usually covered with piles of this stuff, so you may want to shake a little off if you don't want a mess powdered sugar |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | IT HAPPENED IN ASIA $400: In 2000 a period of freedom in Syria upon the death of Pres. Assad I was called the Damascus this & lasted about as long as a season Spring |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | SHAKE IT OFF $800: "The Private Investigator's Handbook" talks about shaking this 4-letter follower a tail |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | IT HAPPENED IN ASIA $800: This star of many Hollywood Westerns, a supporter of the Vietnam War, visited the troops in 1966 John Wayne |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | SHAKE IT OFF $1200: Here's this breed of herding dog shake, shake, shaking it off a Border Collie |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | SHAKE IT OFF $1600: If you're "anti-" allergies, you can shake off symptoms with one of these drugs like Zyrtec an antihistamine |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | IT HAPPENED IN ASIA $1600: Seen here in late 1979 is this building in Tehran that was at the center of news for the next year plus the U.S. Embassy |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | SHAKE IT OFF $2000: As testosterone rises, male moose shake off the soft covering on their antlers known by the name of this plush fabric velvet |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | IT HAPPENED IN ASIA $2000: Xi Zhongxun, father of current Chinese leader Xi Jinping, was persecuted during this brutal process of "renewal" that started in 1966 the Cultural Revolution |
| #8823, aired 2023-03-08 | IT HAPPENED IN ASIA $3,001 (Daily Double): On Aug. 30, 1999 almost 80% of the people of East Timor voted for independence from this country Indonesia |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HOW OFTEN DOES IT HAPPEN? $200: A U.S. representative's re-election bid every 2 years |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HOW OFTEN DOES IT HAPPEN? $400: The Commonwealth Games are held every 4 years |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HOW OFTEN DOES IT HAPPEN? $600: The same animal year returns in the Chinese calendar every 12 years |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HOW OFTEN DOES IT HAPPEN? $800: The appearance of the title Highland village in the musical "Brigadoon" every 100 years |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HOW OFTEN DOES IT HAPPEN? $1000: A jubilee year as recounted in the book of Leviticus in the Bible every 50 years |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | IT'S GREAT TO "CU" $200: No joke, Whoopi Goldberg considered using the stage name Whoopi this Cushion |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | IT'S GREAT TO "CU" $400: Meaning "with distinction", it follows summa & magna in college honors cum laude |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | IT'S GREAT TO "CU" $600: Grab a broom--it's the [Mayim laughs] sport being played here curling |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | IT'S GREAT TO "CU" $800: From the French, it's a quiet dead end street a cul-de-sac |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | IT'S GREAT TO "CU" $1000: Sumerian & Akkadian were 2 of the main languages to be written in this ancient wedge-shaped script cuneiform |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | THEY MAKE IT $200: Now in the 2nd generation, AirPods Pro Apple |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | THEY MAKE IT $400: LeBron Witness 7 basketball shoes Nike |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | THEY MAKE IT $600: The Butterfinger Blizzard & the Peanut Buster Parfait Dairy Queen |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | THEY MAKE IT $800: The K-Mini coffee maker, perfect for dorm rooms Keurig |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | THEY MAKE IT $1000: The Les Paul electric guitar, since 1952 Gibson |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | IT HAPPENED ON VALENTINE'S DAY $200: 1946: This city is "Vacuum Tube Valley" when ENIAC, the 1st general purpose digital computer, is demonstrated at U. Penn there Philadelphia |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | IT HAPPENED ON VALENTINE'S DAY $400: 1876: Lawyer Marcellus Bailey files a patent on behalf of his client for "improvement in telegraphy", this invention the telephone |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | IT HAPPENED ON VALENTINE'S DAY $600: 1967: Aretha Franklin enters a NYC studio to record this Otis Redding song, adding the "sock it to me"s & other elements "Respect" |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | IT HAPPENED ON VALENTINE'S DAY $800: 1778: The U.S.S. Ranger, captained by this man, receives the first official salute to the stars & stripes flag, by the French fleet John Paul Jones |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | IT HAPPENED ON VALENTINE'S DAY $1000: 1835: Formation of the first Latter-day Saints leadership group known as the "Quorum of the Twelve" these Apostles |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | IT'S ALSO A GREEK LETTER $200: Letter No. 1 on your Greek hit parade, it precedes male, dog & Centauri alpha |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | IT'S ALSO A GREEK LETTER $400: In 1941 this airline with a Greek letter for a name moved its headquarters to Atlanta Delta |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | IT'S ALSO A GREEK LETTER $600: This letter got some bad publicity when it became a COVID variant first detected in South Africa in 2021 omicron |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | IT'S ALSO A GREEK LETTER $800: It's letter No. 3 in the Greek alphabet; the same-named "rays" hulked out Bruce Banner gamma |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | IT'S ALSO A GREEK LETTER $1000: It comes before 3 in a term for healthful fatty acids found in fish (the 6 type is found in meat, the 9 in almonds) omega |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | IT GROWS ON TREES $300: Popularly ground & used in baking, this spice comes from the inner bark of a certain tree cinnamon |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | IT GROWS ON TREES $600: Dates & coconuts grow on varieties of this tree a palm |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | IT GROWS ON TREES $900: Looks like this fruit is about ready for picking a pomegranate |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | IT GROWS ON TREES $1200: Like a major comb-over, Spanish moss is frequently found hanging from the "bald" type of this tree cypress |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | IT GROWS ON TREES $1500: As seen here, this invasive, fast-growing vine brought from Asia to the U.S. has overtaken trees in the South kudzu |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | SAY IT WITH ADVERTISING $200: This chain has rolled out a new "You rule" slogan but the commercials still say you can "have it your way" Burger King |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | WHAT SEASON IS IT? $200: Mother's Day in the U.S. spring |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | SAY IT WITH ADVERTISING $400: Over the years this product has ad-monished us to "drink smarter" & "drink your vegetables" V8 |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | WHAT SEASON IS IT? $400: Olympic Peninsula Apple & Cider Festival the fall |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | SAY IT WITH ADVERTISING $600: This short-term rental company used the slogan "belong anywhere" Airbnb |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | WHAT SEASON IS IT? $600: Precedes "blues" in another term for seasonal affective disorder, often featuring hypersomnia winter |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | SAY IT WITH ADVERTISING $800: In a famous slogan these 4 words precede "State Farm is there" like a good neighbor |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | WHAT SEASON IS IT? $800: Not with its own holiday like the end has, the beginning of World War I is solemnly commemorated summer |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | SAY IT WITH ADVERTISING $1000: This credit card has long lured you to be a "member" not a mere cardholder, as in the slogan "Membership has its privileges" American Express |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | WHAT SEASON IS IT? $1000: Duck hunting season (not wabbit season) starts in Louisiana & Minnesota fall (the autumn) |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $200: Jainism views time as one of these, with 12 spokes corresponding to eras a wheel |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $400: The Piraha people of the Amazon have limited conjugation of verbs, which as a result lack these time-indicating properties tenses |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $600: "Time is a measure of motion and of being moved", said this student of Plato Aristotle |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $800: In "The Tempest", Antonio says, "What's past is" this, also a word meaning preface prologue |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $1000: This word follows "space-time" to describe the 4-dimensional universe suggested by relativity theory continuum |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | & EVERYTHING THAT GOES WITH IT $200: Starting in 1883 this name went with Gamble on Ivory soap labels Procter |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | & EVERYTHING THAT GOES WITH IT $400: Since the 1950s this family status has gone before apple pie to signify the traditional American values motherhood |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | & EVERYTHING THAT GOES WITH IT $600: This kind of sauce or dressing has gone with Buffalo wings dating back to their 1964 origin story blue cheese |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | & EVERYTHING THAT GOES WITH IT $800: In the world of nutritional supplements, G&T isn't a refreshing cocktail but this plant & turmeric, its relative ginger |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | & EVERYTHING THAT GOES WITH IT $1000: In "Grease" & Billy Joel's "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant", this outerwear goes with blue jeans leather jacket |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | BRING IT! $200: You "bring home" this meat idiomatically when you earn income, but pick some up for real for our breakfast tomorrow bacon |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | BRING IT! $400: Let's go to the park & bring Bonkers, this dog breed here that can vocalize three different ways--a bark, a yodel-like bay & a howl a Beagle |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | BRING IT! $600: In Exodus 25 the Lord tells him, "Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering" Moses |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | BRING IT! $800: For our potluck, please bring the chicken dish named for this capital, famed for emitting a stream of butter when you cut into it Kiev |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | BRING IT! $1000: "The Untouchables" popularized a new expression for ill-preparedness as Sean Connery talks about bringing "a knife to" this a gunfight |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER DEFINES IT AS... $100: "To make four times as much", like one's money in an investment... a really, really good investment quadruple |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER DEFINES IT AS... $200: "A lower room in the keep of a castle... a close dark prison... commonly underground" a dungeon |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER DEFINES IT AS... $300: Near the end of the alphabet: "any of various large raptorial birds... that subsist...on carrion" or a "predatory person" a vulture |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER DEFINES IT AS... $400: "A unit of fineness... for gold equal to 1/24 part of pure gold in an alloy" a karat |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER DEFINES IT AS... $500: "Favoritism shown to... relatives (as by giving them positions because of their relationship rather than on their merits)" nepotism |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | IT HAD TO BE HUGH $400: To bulk up for his Wolverine roles, he did a lot of weightlifting & consumed 6,000 calories a day Jackman |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | IT HAD TO BE HUGH $800: In 1953 he informed newsstands that "Stag Party--a brand new magazine for men--will be out this fall" Hugh Hefner |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | IT HAD TO BE HUGH $1200: Claire Danes is married to this British actor who recently played Jack Barber in the movie "Downton Abbey: A New Era" Hugh Dancy |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | IT HAD TO BE HUGH $1600: Hugh Downs was the longtime host of this game show; Alex Trebek later hosted a Classic version Concentration |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | IT HAD TO BE HUGH $2000: This Brit was out of the house as Ryan Clark on "Avenue 5" episodes like "He's Only There to Stop His Skeleton From Falling Over" Hugh Laurie |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $200: "'Please, sir,' replied Oliver,
'I want ____ ____'" some more |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $400: "Honour the charge they made! Honour the ____ ____, noble six hundred!" Light Brigade |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $600: "Stay ____,
Ponyboy.
Stay ____" gold |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $800: "The deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the 'House of ____!'" Usher |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | LITERATURE: BLANK IT & BANK IT $1000: "When ____ last in the dooryard bloom'd, and the great star early droop'd in the western sky" lilacs |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | FOOD AS YOU MIGHT SAY IT $200: It's got buns, hon:
The untidy Jose a sloppy joe |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | FOOD AS YOU MIGHT SAY IT $400: In the ice cream aisle: Lithic lane rocky road |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | FOOD AS YOU MIGHT SAY IT $600: Southern fried fun: Silence, curs! hush puppies |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | FOOD AS YOU MIGHT SAY IT $800: A hero in the south: Destitute lad a po' boy |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | FOOD AS YOU MIGHT SAY IT $1000: Tiramisu turf:
Dame digits ladyfingers |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | WOULDN'T IT BE RUBBERY $200: Before the floating version was invented & became the subject of a "Sesame Street" song, this toy sank in the tub a rubber duckie |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | WOULDN'T IT BE RUBBERY $400: James Caldwell came up with this snappy "rubber" name that is still on step stools, dishracks... Rubbermaid |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | WOULDN'T IT BE RUBBERY $600: This civilization of Mexico created an early version of rubber & has a name from the Aztec language meaning "rubber people" the Olmec |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | WOULDN'T IT BE RUBBERY $800: Cultivated rubber trees are "tapped" about once every 2 days, yielding around a cup of this sap each time latex |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | WOULDN'T IT BE RUBBERY $1000: This process of treating rubber to make it stronger & more resistant involves heating it with sulfur vulcanization |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | IT'S EPIC $400: The action of this epic work begins in the 10th year of the Greek siege of Troy the Iliad |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | IT'S EPIC $800: This monster finds his strength is no match for Beowulf's grip & his arm is mortally ripped off as he tries to get away Grendel |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | IT'S EPIC $1200: Compiled from old folklore, songs & oral poems, the Kalevala is the national epic of this country Finland |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | IT'S EPIC $1600: Spenser only got around to writing 6 of the planned 12 books of this epic poem that he dedicated to Elizabeth I The Faerie Queene |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | IT'S EPIC $2000: Dante's one true love, she guides him through paradise in "The Divine Comedy" Beatrice |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | SELLIN' IT! $400: These crackers are "the snack that smiles back" Goldfish |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | SELLIN' IT! $800: Meow Mix says that it's "the only one cats" do this for ask for by name |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | SELLIN' IT! $1200: In 2014 Arby's launched this slogan we have the meats |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | SELLIN' IT! $1600: This store is "how doers get more done" Home Depot |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | SELLIN' IT! $2000: "Quality never goes out of style" for this clothing brand Levi's |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | IT'S A THANKSGIVING MIRACLE! $200: Cousin Eddie didn't eat all of this turkey day fave, though Bon Appétit's "classic herb & fennel" recipe turned out mwah! stuffing |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | IT'S A THANKSGIVING MIRACLE! $400: We got through our annual viewing of this 1990 film even with a contrarian uncle rooting for "Wet Bandits" Joe Pesci & Daniel Stern Home Alone |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | IT'S A THANKSGIVING MIRACLE! $600: Grandma made it in time even after missing her connecting flight at George Bush Intercontinental in this city Houston |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | IT'S A THANKSGIVING MIRACLE! $800: Sorry to say it's a miracle, fans of this NFL team, but they won! That's big, what with their 37-43-2 all-time record on the day the Lions |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | IT'S A THANKSGIVING MIRACLE! $1000: We somehow avoided politics, except dad ranting about this president; we get it, dad, he blew it letting South Carolina secede Buchanan |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | WE'RE IN IT $400: Desk jockeys:
Jenna Fischer,
Kate Flannery The Office |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | WE'RE IN IT $800: Part of a '70s trio: Suzanne Somers,
Joyce DeWitt Three's Company |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | WE'RE IN IT $1200: Sent to scrutinize:
French Stewart,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt 3rd Rock from the Sun |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | WE'RE IN IT $1600: The doctor is in:
Mads Mikkelsen,
Laurence Fishburne Hannibal |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | WE'RE IN IT $2000: Choo-choo!
Daveed Diggs,
Sean Bean Snowpiercer |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | I'M "EN" IT! $200: Headed that way now en route |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | I'M "EN" IT! $400: Term for what the dancer seen here is en pointe |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | I'M "EN" IT! $600: Type of bathroom that can only be accessed through a bedroom en suite |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | I'M "EN" IT! $800: It's how the food seen here is being prepared en brochette |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | I'M "EN" IT! $1000: Charles-Francois Daubigny was one of the first painters to work this way, meaning outside en plein air |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | YOU SIT ON IT $200: Hot cross bread items buns |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | YOU SIT ON IT $400: Shake this term for pirate treasure booty |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | YOU SIT ON IT $600: Jupiter has dozens of these including Europa & Io moon |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | YOU SIT ON IT $800: First name of Ms. Hill, heroine of a racy 18th century novel Fanny |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | YOU SIT ON IT $1000: Nickname of late Texas football coaching legend Oail Phillips Bum |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | GET A HANDLE ON IT $200: Get a good grip on this boating device that sounds like a farmer but is used to steer the rudder a tiller |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | GET A HANDLE ON IT $400: Sometimes used by theatergoers, a lorgnette is a pair of these on a handle eyeglasses |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | GET A HANDLE ON IT $600: Some say it's tacky, but baseball sluggers regularly use this 2-word tree product to improve their grip pine tar |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | GET A HANDLE ON IT $800: New students at Stephen F. Austin University decorate axe handles in honor of this nickname for both its students & sports teams Lumberjacks |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | GET A HANDLE ON IT $1000: This gymnastics apparatus gets its name from the handles pommel horse |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $100: He gets the credit for "In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes" Andy Warhol |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $200: On making history:
"It has taken 232 years & 115 prior appointments for a black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court" Ketanji Jackson |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $400 (Daily Double): On defeating Bobby Riggs in tennis' 1973 Battle of the Sexes:
"I think he just... underestimated me" Billie Jean King |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $400: Declared a saint in 2016; her motto:
"Let us do something beautiful for God" Mother Teresa |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $500: This South African leader:
"The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall" Mandela |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $400: Published in 2021: "The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of..." (Angela) Merkel |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | SO YOU BLEW IT THE FIRST TIME $400: In 1974 he lost his race for an Arkansas House seat but 2 years later was elected the state's Attorney General & soon was governor Clinton |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $800: "The Matriarch", this late mother of six Barbara Bush |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | SO YOU BLEW IT THE FIRST TIME $800: A rejection letter to this writer said, "You just don't know how to use the English language", but "The Jungle Book" lay ahead Kipling |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $1200: "Out of the Corner" (because nobody puts Baby there) Jennifer Grey |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | SO YOU BLEW IT THE FIRST TIME $1600: Legend has it that in Dec. 1916, Prince Felix Yusupov & friends poisoned this guy... shot this guy... & finally had to drown this guy Rasputin |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $2000: "I Put a Spell on You": this "High Priestess of Soul" & civil rights activist Nina Simone |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | SO YOU BLEW IT THE FIRST TIME $2000: After getting KO'd by Max Schmeling in 1936, this African-American heavyweight took just 2 minutes & 4 seconds to win the rematch Joe Louis |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $3,500 (Daily Double): Subtitled "Coming of Age in America": this anthropologist (Margaret) Mead |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | SO YOU BLEW IT THE FIRST TIME $6,800 (Daily Double): Last name of Milton, who moved to Philadelphia in 1876 to start a candy company; that one ended in bankruptcy but another did not Hershey |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | IT HAS A NAME $400: The girth goes under a horse's belly to keep this on its back a saddle |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | IT HAS A NAME $800: A feature of the bottle gives this party-size amount of liquor, 1.75 liters, its name a handle |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | IT HAS A NAME $1200: In pickleball a drop shot is a soft, short shot from the back of the court; this other 4-letter "D" shot is hit from closer in a dink |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | IT HAS A NAME $1600: That funny-shaped plate below the strings is called this guard & keeps that item from damaging the finish pick |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | IT HAS A NAME $2000: A calotte is a skullcap & also means the circles used for the north & south poles on these globes |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $200: So you saw an E.T.? Then it must have been piloting this, also called a flying saucer a UFO |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $400: A '90s dance was named for this "Family Matters" character whose catchphrase was "Did I do that?" Urkel |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $600: Everything is perfect in this type of imaginary land Utopia |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $800: This 4-stringed guitar has a Hawaiian name that means "jumping flea" the ukulele |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $1000: Soba noodles are made from buckwheat; this other 4-letter type is made from wheat udon |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S JUST A GEOMETRIC FIGURE OF SPEECH $200: It's what the guys & gals are doing here square dancing |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $400: Its great bell clocks in at just over 15 tons Big Ben |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S JUST A GEOMETRIC FIGURE OF SPEECH $400: A literary example of this 3-sided romantic problem: Mr. Darcy,
Elizabeth Bennet,
George Wickham a love triangle |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S JUST A GEOMETRIC FIGURE OF SPEECH $600: On "Get Smart" the agents of CONTROL used this anti-bugging device the Cone of Silence |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $800: Though this nickname for a large American city dates to the 1920s, it really took hold after a '70s tourism campaign Big Apple |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S JUST A GEOMETRIC FIGURE OF SPEECH $800: In 1992 the U.S. Department of Agriculture gave us this shapely guideline; MyPlate was introduced in 2011 the food pyramid |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S JUST A GEOMETRIC FIGURE OF SPEECH $1000: Agrarian term for the office setup seen here a cube farm |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $1200: Located across from Mexico on the Rio Grande, this national park can hit 115 degrees & beep beep! has some roadrunners Big Bend |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $1600: Carmel is the northern gateway to this California region that was home to Henry Miller Big Sur |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $2000: Actually a complex of hills, this Utah formation was named after a song about a hobo living the sweet life Big Rock Candy Mountain |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | IT'S A VERB & A NOUN $200: To alter, & loose coins in your pocket change |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | IT'S A VERB & A NOUN $400: To attack with repeated blows, & an untanned animal hide pelt |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | IT'S A VERB & A NOUN $600: To glance over, & the 7-letter body part you use to do it to eyeball |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | IT'S A VERB & A NOUN $800: To refute, & a kitchen surface for food prep a counter |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | IT'S A VERB & A NOUN $1000: To set up a tent, & a tarry substance used in roofing pitch |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | IT'S A MYSTERY $200: Kept hidden from others, perhaps like the same-named antiperspirant for women secret |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | THE "IZE" HAVE IT $400: This verb containing the edge of a page means to put a group in a powerless position in society marginalize |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | IT'S A MYSTERY $400: A verb meaning to bewilder, or an exercise such as a logic grid a puzzle |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | IT'S A MYSTERY $600: Not looking much like the Egyptian one, this creature from Greece posed a riddle that was insoluble for a while Sphinx |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | THE "IZE" HAVE IT $800: To introduce opinion into what's supposed to be a factual account editorialize |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | IT'S A MYSTERY $800: "I am lying" is an example of the liar type of this statement a (liar's) paradox |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | IT'S A MYSTERY $1000: A musical instrument is found at the end of this word that describes a hard-to-solve problem conundrum |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | THE "IZE" HAVE IT $1200: To brown a food with a high sugar content, such as carrots caramelize |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | THE "IZE" HAVE IT $1600: To absorb the values or attitudes of a group as one's own internalize |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | THE "IZE" HAVE IT $2000: To pass light through a filter to align its waves, or to split people into groups of opposing views polarize |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | IT'S "OVER" $200: In both the Old & New Testaments, it's referred to as "The Feast of Unleavened Bread" Passover |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | IT'S "OVER" $400: By definition hyperthyroidism is a condition in which the thyroid is this overactive |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | IT'S "OVER" $600: This hairstyle used to cover up a bald spot often just draws more attention to it a comb over |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | IT'S "OVER" $800: Nearly cut from the film, this classic ballad won the Oscar for Best Song of 1939 "Over The Rainbow" |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | IT'S "OVER" $1000: The Allied invasion that began June 6, 1944 was codenamed Operation this Overlord |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | IT'S ONLY "A" COUNTRY $400: Teddy Roosevelt helped bring about independence for this Central American country in 1903 Panama |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | IT'S ONLY "A" COUNTRY $800: Located on the Gulf of Guinea, it takes its name from a great medieval trading empire Ghana |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | IT'S ONLY "A" COUNTRY $1600: Situated between Sicily & Libya, it was a major strategic base for the Allies during World War II Malta |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | IT'S ONLY "A" COUNTRY $2000: Home to great mineral wealth, it's the largest country in Central Asia Kazakhstan |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | IT'S ONLY "A" COUNTRY $3,000 (Daily Double): The Tropic of Capricorn passes through this Indian Ocean island nation about 300 mi. south of the capital, Antananarivo Madagascar |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | IF IT QUACKS LIKE A DOC $200: You freaked me out by saying I had sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia instead of just calling it a this treat "headache"! a ice cream headache |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | IF IT QUACKS LIKE A DOC $400: Somniloquy is talking while doing this, & while I'm not a doctor like you, I don't think it requires an EEG sleeping |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | IF IT QUACKS LIKE A DOC $600: Uh, doc, my heart's fine; paronychia is just an infection around this condition of loose or torn skin in the cuticle area a hangnail |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | IF IT QUACKS LIKE A DOC $800: All due respect, Dr., I don't have leprosy! Ephelides sounds bad but they're these flat patches of pigment under the skin freckles |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | IF IT QUACKS LIKE A DOC $1000: It's true my eructation has lasted more than 4 hours, but it only means I'm doing this; I did have a lot of beer & soda belching |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | IT'S A BUST! $400: Here's a bust of this Founding Father who sat for the great French sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon Jefferson |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | IT'S A BUST! $800: In 2007 a bust of this physicist was unveiled at the newly opened Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge Stephen Hawking |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | IT'S A BUST! $1600: You'll find a bust of this composer near his piano at a small museum on Mallorca, where he wintered with George Sand Chopin |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | IT'S A BUST! $2000: Here's a bust of this French premier by fellow countryman Rodin Georges Clemenceau |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | IT'S A BUST! $2,500 (Daily Double): In the painting seen here, Rembrandt depicted Aristotle contemplating a bust of this poet Homer |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | IT'S A BUG $200: Types include red, black & fire & their job titles include scouts, who lay down a chemical trail to new food sources ants |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | IT'S A BUG $400: Farmers burning fields after harvest would chant this creature, "fly away home, your house is on fire, and your children will burn" ladybug |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | IT'S A BUG $600: Deer ones cause Lyme disease in the U.S.; the chillingly named Australian paralysis ones, anaphylactic shock ticks |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | IT'S A BUG $800: Pillbugs are also called tiggy-hogs & more familiarly, by this rhyming name roly-polies |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | IT'S A BUG $1000: Papaya & European cherry precede this alliterative term, a nuisance in the fields & in the kitchen fruit flies |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | IT HAPPENED IN JULY $200: On July 20, 1969 he famously declared:
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" Armstrong |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | IT HAPPENED IN JULY $400: Killed while making bread on July 3, 1863, Jennie Wade was the only civilian to perish in this battle (the Battle of) Gettysburg |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | IT HAPPENED IN JULY $600: Escaping from prison days before he was to be hanged, he was tracked down & killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett July 14, 1881 Billy the Kid |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | IT HAPPENED IN JULY $800: On July 17, 2020 America lost 2 civil rights icons, Rev. C.T. Vivian & this beloved congressman from Georgia John Lewis |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | IT HAPPENED IN JULY $1000: The NHS for short, it got started July 5, 1948 & has been making it easier for British people to see doctors ever since the National Health Service |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY $400: In "Why Not Me?", this actress "freely" admits that her relationship with "Office" mate "B.J. Novak is weird as hell" Mindy Kaling |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY $800: Firoozeh Dumas recounts "Growing Up Iranian in America" in the memoir "Funny in" this language Farsi |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY $1200: Sloan Crosley's collection of humorous narratives of life in NYC has the tasty title "I was Told There'd be" this treat Cake |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY $1600: There's a lot more humor in her story "Charles" than in her most famous one, "The Lottery" Shirley Jackson |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY $2000: Written by Laurence Sterne, "The Life & Opinions of" this gentleman has been called the greatest shaggy dog story Tristram Shandy |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | IT'S A PROCESS $400: After wheat is processed via milling, about 72% of the original grain ends up in sacks of this flour |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | IT'S A PROCESS $800: The Haber-Bosch process combines nitrogen & hydrogen to produce this strong-smelling gas that's liquefied into fertilizer ammonia |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | IT'S A PROCESS $1200: It's the elegant term for the process by which crude oil is distilled & purified into useful forms of petroleum refining |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | IT'S A PROCESS $1600: Here's a vitriolic clue--the lead-chamber process produces this acid that doesn't react with lead sulfuric acid |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | IT'S A PROCESS $2000: This process reduces fat globules in milk into small particles that are evenly distributed, so the cream doesn't rise to the top homogenization |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | SHOE KNOW IT! $200: The LeBron James Innovation Center is the home of the Sport Research Lab of this company Nike |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | SHOE KNOW IT! $400: On April 1, 1960, this Dr. was in with its 8-holed 1460 boot, 1/4/60 being the European date Dr. Martens |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | SHOE KNOW IT! $600: A red lacquer sole is a hallmark of the shoes designed by this Frenchman; so is an $800 price tag Louboutin |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | SHOE KNOW IT! $800: This Maine company offers men's wicked good moccasins L.L. Bean |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | SHOE KNOW IT! $1000: & Just like that, you learned TV's Carrie Bradshaw got married in blue Hangisi heels by this Spanish designer Manolo Blahnik |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL $400: Last name of gunslinging title hero Wynonna, who partnered with Doc Holliday on a Syfy show Earp |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT'S ANARCHY $400: This country's repressive King Umberto I was assassinated by an anarchist in 1900 Italy |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL $800: A-Train & Homelander leave a bit to be desired as superheroes on this Amazon show based on Garth Ennis' work The Boys |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT'S ANARCHY $800: Matthew Arnold's 1869 "Culture and Anarchy" took the side of culture & popularized the phrase "sweetness and" this light |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL $1200: Matthew Goode played Ozymandias in the film version of this graphic novel; Jeremy Irons played the role on HBO Watchmen |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT'S ANARCHY $1200: In 1872 anarchism pioneer Mikhail Bakunin quarreled with this man, splitting Europe's revolutionary movement (Karl) Marx |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL $1600: Adaptations of the "Kick-Ass" series gave this 3-named actress her breakout role as a spunky character named "Hit-Girl" Chloë Grace Moretz |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT'S ANARCHY $1600: Anarchists helped spark the antiglobalization movement at the 1999 WTO protests in this U.S. city Seattle |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL $2000: This 2017 movie with Charlize Theron as a badass spy was based on the graphic novel "The Coldest City" Atomic Blonde |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | IT'S ANARCHY $2000: In July 1917 Emma Goldman got 2 years in prison for opposing this wartime measure, authorized by Congress in May the draft |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | THE "IT" DEPARTMENT $400: This restraining item from which Houdini used to escape can also mean anything that confines you a straitjacket |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | THE "IT" DEPARTMENT $800: Passports: check; tickets: check; kids: check; & this, a schedule of your journey & planned activities itinerary |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | THE "IT" DEPARTMENT $1200: This split of the Korean Peninsula took place in August 1945 the partition |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | THE "IT" DEPARTMENT $1600: Methuselah had more of it than anyone else in the Bible longevity |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | THE "IT" DEPARTMENT $2000: Having a right to something, or acting like you have a right to just about anything entitlement |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | IT'S ALL RELATIVITY $400: In 1916 astronomer Karl Schwarzschild used relativistic equations to predict the existence of these inescapable bodies a black hole |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | IT'S ALL RELATIVITY $800: On Dec. 24, 2021 this physicist tweeted, "Maybe Santa's reindeer are stationary, & it is we who fly past them" Neil deGrasse Tyson |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | IT'S ALL RELATIVITY $1200: Einstein first stated the concept now summed up in this formula, just 5 symbols, in a short paper often called an afterthought E=MC2 |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | IT'S ALL RELATIVITY $2000: This hyphenated term linking 3 dimensions with a fourth is a key concept in relativistic theory the space-time continuum |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | IT'S ALL RELATIVITY $4,000 (Daily Double): Nobel winner Kip Thorne made sure the science was right in "Interstellar", about a trip through one of these relativistic tunnels a wormhole |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | WELL, IT'S 5 FOR THE MONEY $200: This British monetary term dates back to around 775, when 240 coins were minted from this much weight in silver the pound |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | WELL, IT'S 5 FOR THE MONEY $400: Ben Franklin was in profile, not facing forward, on the 1st Federal Reserve note for this amount of money when it was issued in 1914 the $100 bill |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | WELL, IT'S 5 FOR THE MONEY $600: In 1897 Russia went to a gold standard in switching this monetary unit from silver to gold the ruble |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | WELL, IT'S 5 FOR THE MONEY $800: Long after telling "The Tale of Genji" in one of the world's oldest novels, Murasaki Shikibu graced the 2,000-this note yen |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | WELL, IT'S 5 FOR THE MONEY $1,000 (Daily Double): Oklahoma's Wilma Mankiller, the 1st female principal chief of this Native American nation, appeared on a U.S. quarter in 2022 the Cherokee |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | BOOK IT! $200: 2 very different novels are "The Murmur of" these & "The Secret Life of" these Bees |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | BOOK IT! $400: In 2022, he put out a nonfiction book called "Life Force" (Tony) Robbins |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | BOOK IT! $600: This book comes between "Twilight" & "Eclipse" New Moon |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | BOOK IT! $800: He set "Harlem Shuffle" in the 1960s (Colson) Whitehead |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | BOOK IT! $1000: Her bestsellers include "Big Little Lies" & "Apples Never Fall" Moriarty |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | PUT IT ON WHAT? $200: Food to keep it chilled, or plans that have to be delayed ice |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | PUT IT ON WHAT? $400: 10 bucks to win at Laurel Park a horse |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | PUT IT ON WHAT? $600: A Kurt Adler star or angel finial a Christmas tree |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | PUT IT ON WHAT? $800: Decca F.11940, released 1964 a turntable |
| #8658, aired 2022-06-08 | PUT IT ON WHAT? $1000: A kepi your head |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | IT'S RHYMING DAY $200: A burro's bellow a bray |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | IT'S RHYMING DAY $400: "At the home of" en Francais chez |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | IT'S RHYMING DAY $600: To wander off topic or to have an extramarital affair stray |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | IT'S RHYMING DAY $800: To consider options weigh |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | IT'S RHYMING DAY $1000: A heated dispute or competition a fray |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | IT'S A "SYN" $200: It's an abstract or summary of a film or novel synopsis |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | IT'S A "SYN" $400: It created the music heard here a synthesizer |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | IT'S A "SYN" $600: It can be an agency that sells the same columns to many newspapers, or an illegal cartel a syndicate |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | IT'S A "SYN" $800: What a coincidence, all these things coming together now, it's this 13-letter word synchronicity |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | IT'S A "SYN" $1000: "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" is one way of explaining it synergy |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | IT'S A FLAT-OUT FACT $400: All babies have flat feet, but if you develop the condition later in life, it's called fallen these arches |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | IT ONLY BORDERS ONE COUNTRY $400: If it wasn't for its access to this ocean, the Gambia would be completely surrounded by Senegal the Atlantic |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | IT'S A FLAT-OUT FACT $800: Please pass over this bread in unleavened form or now that I think of it, as a ball in some delicious soup matzah |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | IT ONLY BORDERS ONE COUNTRY $800: This European nation has been nicknamed "The Land of the 3 F's: Fado, Fatima & Futebol" Portugal |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | IT ONLY BORDERS ONE COUNTRY $1,200 (Daily Double): Technically an ecclesiastical state, it's found west of the Tiber Vatican City |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | IT'S A FLAT-OUT FACT $1200: "Tortilla Flat", a 1935 novel set in Monterey, established him as a successful author Steinbeck |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | IT'S A FLAT-OUT FACT $1600: In 2021 a vehicle aptly named Speed Demon hit 466 mph at these salt flats in Utah Bonneville |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | IT ONLY BORDERS ONE COUNTRY $1600: The Islamic Sultanate of Brunei is in 2 parts, each of which borders only this nation, on the island of Borneo Malaysia |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | IT'S A FLAT-OUT FACT $2000: Some Native Americans practiced skull binding for a rounded look; Lewis & Clark called the Salish this because they didn't the Flathead |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | IT ONLY BORDERS ONE COUNTRY $2000: One of the world's newest countries, its "West"ern counterpart is administered by Indonesia East Timor |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | IT'S THE JURASSIC PERIOD $400: Jurassic volcanic activity may have spiked temperatures, causing this colorful "effect" that would lead to extinctions a greenhouse effect |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | IT'S THE JURASSIC PERIOD $800: From Jurassic times, the Smackover Formation takes its name from an Arkansas town that had a 1920s boom due to this resource oil |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | IT'S THE JURASSIC PERIOD $1200: Jurassic National Monument, southeast of Provo in this state, is the site of a noted dinosaur quarry, home to over 12,000 fossils Utah |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | IT'S THE JURASSIC PERIOD $1600: Plates lined with blood vessels likely helped cool this Jurassic herbivore; beware the spiky tail, too Stegosaurus |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | IT'S THE JURASSIC PERIOD $2000: Gee, this supercontinent broke apart in the Jurassic, & began to drift Gondwana |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | IT'S MAY 23rd! $200: While leading an army to relieve the siege of Compiegne, she was captured on May 23, 1430 Joan of Arc |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | IT'S AN "AD", "AD", "AD", "AD" WORLD $400: The name of this national park in South Dakota tells you its rough terrain is almost devoid of vegetation the Badlands |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | IT'S MAY 23rd! $400: The annulment of Henry VIII's marriage to her came through May 23, 1533, 4 months after he married Anne Boleyn Catherine of Aragon |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | IT'S MAY 23rd! $600: The North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of this force, was established May 23, 1873 the Canadian Mounties |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | IT'S AN "AD", "AD", "AD", "AD" WORLD $800: In the 1880s the empress of Ethiopia gave this capital a name meaning "new flower" Addis Ababa |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | IT'S MAY 23rd! $800: On May 23, 1618 3 guys were thrown out of a castle window in what is called this incident "of Prague" defenestration |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | IT'S MAY 23rd! $1000: This former head of the SS committed suicide May 23, 1945 in Allied custody Heinrich Himmler |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | IT'S AN "AD", "AD", "AD", "AD" WORLD $1600: Dating to the 13th century, the Mosque of Fakr-Ad-Din was built for the first sultan of this Somali city Mogadishu |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | IT'S AN "AD", "AD", "AD", "AD" WORLD $1,800 (Daily Double): This large historic city is 400 miles southwest of Tehran & 500 east of Beirut Baghdad |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | IT'S AN "AD", "AD", "AD", "AD" WORLD $2000: This South Australian city lies at the base of the Mount Lofty Ranges Adelaide |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | IT'S A WORD! IT'S A NAME! $200: Baedeker became a generic word for this kind of book; publisher Karl was one of the first to use stars in his a (travel) guide |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | IT'S A WORD! IT'S A NAME! $400: British printer John Baskerville gave his last name to a popular one of these that uses serifs fonts |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | IT'S A WORD! IT'S A NAME! $600: This "Thousand and One Nights" character gave his name to a type of paraffin lamp Aladdin |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | IT'S A WORD! IT'S A NAME! $800: If a character in a British novel says, "I've dropped my Biro", she means one of these, after its inventor a ballpoint pen |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | IT'S A WORD! IT'S A NAME! $1000: A 17th century British hangman lent his name first to a gallows & then to this oil well structure used to hoist pipes Derrick |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | IT'S GETTING WINDY $200: Some of the strongest of these events were 1969's Camille, with 175-mph winds & 1980's Allen, which hit 190 a hurricane |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | IT'S GETTING WINDY $400: In 2020 Rugby star Liam Squire said, "I sort of feel refreshed again, like I've got my" this ordinal 2-word phrase second wind |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | IT'S GETTING WINDY $600: "The Cyclone", Chapter One of a beloved book, begins, this girl "lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies" Dorothy (Gale) |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | IT'S GETTING WINDY $800: A windmill generates mechanical energy but not electricity; a wind this, which suits us to a "T", does, as it converts kinetic energy a turbine |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | IT'S GETTING WINDY $1000: On April 5, 1936 an F5 tornado hit this Mississippi city; one survivor was very young Elvis Presley, born there the year before Tupelo |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | MAKE IT SINGULAR $400: Dice die |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | MAKE IT SINGULAR $800: Apices apex |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | YOU SAID IT! $800: This 19th century showman: "The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived" (P.T.) Barnum |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | MAKE IT SINGULAR $1200: Criteria criterion |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | YOU SAID IT! $1200: This Big Mac entrepreneur: "Work is the meat in the hamburger of life" (Ray) Kroc |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | MAKE IT SINGULAR $1600: Errata erratum |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | YOU SAID IT! $1600: This recently sainted woman: "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty" Mother Teresa |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | MAKE IT SINGULAR $2000: Corpora corpus |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | YOU SAID IT! $2000: To the Inquisition: "I have been judged vehemently suspected of heresy... of having held... the Sun is the center of the universe" Galileo |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | COME TO "IT" $400: The IRS generally has 3 years to initiate this proceeding an audit |
