| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | SCIENTIFIC LAWS & THEOREMS $400: The Brønsted-Lowry theory states that any compound that can transfer a proton is an acid & any that can accept a proton is a this a base |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | SCIENTIFIC LAWS & THEOREMS $800: The first law of thermodynamics, per Flanders & Swann: this 4-letter word "is work and work is" this 4-letter word heat |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | SCIENTIFIC LAWS & THEOREMS $1200: P is for this in Bayes' theorem, which can be used to judge how likely rain is today or your chances of getting mumps probability |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | SCIENTIFIC LAWS & THEOREMS $1600: Whether it's dealing with a gas or liquid, Bernoulli's law is a part of this 5-letter type of dynamics fluid |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | SCIENTIFIC LAWS & THEOREMS $2000: Mathematician Sophie Germain gained fame working on number theory & a partial solution for this Frenchman's "last theorem" Fermat |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | SCIENTIFIC LAWS & THEORIES $400: The theory of general relativity has been verified through experiments involving this innermost planet Mercury |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | SCIENTIFIC LAWS & THEORIES $800: John Von Neumann pioneered game theory, starting by analyzing this game where bluffing is commonplace poker |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | SCIENTIFIC LAWS & THEORIES $1600: This British doc who developed germ theory was the son of a microscope pioneer also named Joseph (Joseph) Lister |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | SCIENTIFIC LAWS & THEORIES $2000: Legend says this Greek ran naked through Syracuse after discovering his buoyancy principle Archimedes |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | SCIENTIFIC LAWS & THEORIES $2,800 (Daily Double): The third law of thermodynamics says entropy tends to reduce as the temperature approaches this 2-word state absolute zero |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | A COUNTRY OF LAWS $200: In the 1990s Germany modified the Reinheitsgebot, a law dating to 1516 that said this could be made only of barley, hops & water beer |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | A COUNTRY OF LAWS $400: In Australia, this is compulsory but easy, & done on Saturdays voting |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | A COUNTRY OF LAWS $600: In 2012 Bolivia adopted a law to protect La Madre Tierra, translated as this personification Mother Earth |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | A COUNTRY OF LAWS $800: Vietnam grants female workers up to 6 months of this at 100% salary maternity leave |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | A COUNTRY OF LAWS $1000: The promotion not of GDP but GNH, this measure of quality of life, is enshrined in Bhutan's constitution Gross National Happiness |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | OUTLAWS & IN-LAWS $200: JFK's brother-in-law Sargent Shriver was president of this intl. sports program for people with intellectual disabilities the Special Olympics |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | OUTLAWS & IN-LAWS $400: "Woman in Red" Anna Sage actually wore an orange skirt as this gangster was killed in 1934; hope going to that movie was worth it! John Dillinger |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | OUTLAWS & IN-LAWS $600: Maria Clemm was this poet's aunt &, after he married Maria's daughter Virginia, his mom-in-law; quoth the host... uuuuugh Poe |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | OUTLAWS & IN-LAWS $800: In 1791 he built a coalition against Alexander Hamilton's father-in-law to win a Senate seat; that did not end well Aaron Burr |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | OUTLAWS & IN-LAWS $1000: Some rough ends for this 1930s crime family--Arthur was killed trying to escape prison; Lloyd by his wife & Fred & Ma by the FBI the Barkers |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | THE LAWS OF PHYSICS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) The lightweight plastic rocket flies far above the drop point, while the more massive launcher barely bounces--a textbook example of this man's second & third laws of motion Newton |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | THE LAWS OF PHYSICS $800: P stands for pressure & V for this in the ideal gas law, PV=nRT volume |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | THE LAWS OF PHYSICS $1200: To double the stretch of a spring, you have to double the strength of the pull per "Hooke's Law of" this property elasticity |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | THE LAWS OF PHYSICS $1600: The First Law of Thermodynamics is AKA the principle of conservation of this energy |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | THE LAWS OF PHYSICS $6,000 (Daily Double): Snell's Law, or the law of refraction, is a major law of this branch of physics optics |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | NOT-SO-SERIOUS LAWS $200: Betteridge's law states that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered safely by this word no |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | NOT-SO-SERIOUS LAWS $400: According to Muphry's law, any written criticism of proofreading will contain these errors (or mistakes, typos) |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | NOT-SO-SERIOUS LAWS $600: Hanlon's (not Occam's) this:
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity" razor |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | NOT-SO-SERIOUS LAWS $800: This alliterative principle says, "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence" the Peter principle |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | NOT-SO-SERIOUS LAWS $1000: His law tells us work always expands to fill the available time Parkinson |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | IN-LAWS $200: It would be natural for her, Prince Charles' second wife, to be intimidated by her mother-in-law (Queen Elizabeth) Camilla |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | IN-LAWS $400: This handbag designer, sister-in-law to comedian & actor David, recently changed her last name to Valentine Kate Spade |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | IN-LAWS $600: For a brief time, Janet Jackson was sister-in-law to this daughter of "the King" Lisa Marie Presley |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | IN-LAWS $800: Frederic Joliot, winner of a Nobel with wife Irene, could hold his own at the dinner table with her, his mother-in-law Marie Curie |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | IN-LAWS $1000: As Henry IV of France was married to Margaret of Valois, this influential Medici was his mother-in-law Catherine Medici |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | WE HAVE LAWS $200: Massachusetts law largely bans the sale of booze on Sundays, legal holidays & this day of democracy in action voting day (or Election Day) |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | WE HAVE LAWS $400: Rhode Island warns that biting off someone's leg will get you 1 to 20 as this offense, a variation of the word "maim" mayhem |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | WE HAVE LAWS $600: Vancouver, Canada bans these in new housing; levers are easier on the arthritic hands of an aging populace doorknobs |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | WE HAVE LAWS $800: Louisiana law bans cursing these people, volunteer or not, in the performance of their duties firemen |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | WE HAVE LAWS $1000: N.Y. penal law, Section 255.17, says this act, spousal infidelity, is a Class B misdemeanor adultery |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | IN-LAWS $400: Oregon State basketball coach Craig Robinson, an MBA from the U. of Chicago, has this very famous brother-in-law Barack Obama |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | IN-LAWS $800: Agamemnon & Menelaus were both brothers & brothers-in-law: they wed sisters Clytemnestra & this Trojan beauty Helen |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | IN-LAWS $1200: This Scot, the winner of the 2012 Indy 500, is the son-in-law of country superstar Naomi Judd (Dario) Franchitti |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | IN-LAWS $1600: Social philosopher William Godwin was dad-in-law to this romantic poet Shelley |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | IN-LAWS $2000: Charlie Chaplin's last father-in-law was this dramatist Eugene O'Neill |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | LAWS $400: There's a law of supply & a law of this partner, namely: the higher the price, the less people want to buy an item demand |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | LAWS $800: Grimm's Law of consonant shifts says the Indo-European "P" sound became an "F", so piscis became this English word fish |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | LAWS $1600: Many of us have felt the effects of Parkinson's law: this expands to fill the time allotted for it work |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | LAWS $2000: Dalton's law says that the total amount of this exerted by a mix of gases is the sum of what each gas would exert alone pressure |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | LAWS $4,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew pours water into a bowl of polymer powder.) There's a law of conservation of mass, but when I add water to this super absorbent polymer used to make artificial snow, you can see there's no law of conservation of this, mass divided by density volume |
| #2944, aired 1997-05-22 | LAWS $200: In 1977 Quebec passed a law forcing immigrants to educate their children in this language French |
| #2944, aired 1997-05-22 | LAWS $400: In 1996 this country's new rulers, the Taliban, forced Kabul's women to cover up from head to toe Afghanistan |
| #2944, aired 1997-05-22 | LAWS $600: The Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959 extended this 1947 act's restrictions on unions Taft-Hartley |
| #2944, aired 1997-05-22 | LAWS $800: In 1996 Clinton & Dole argued about the 1993 act with these 2 types of "leave" in its name Family & Medical Leave |
| #2944, aired 1997-05-22 | LAWS $1000: A law requiring disclosure of sex offenders' whereabouts is called this, after a murdered girl Megan's Law |
| #1799, aired 1992-05-28 | HISTORIC IN-LAWS $200: King Manuel of Portugal married not 1 but 2 daughters of this famous Spanish pair Ferdinand & Isabella |
| #1799, aired 1992-05-28 | HISTORIC IN-LAWS $400: This dictator had his son-in-law Galeazzo Ciano shot for treason in 1944 Mussolini |
| #1799, aired 1992-05-28 | HISTORIC IN-LAWS $600: This member of the Medici family was the mother-in-law of England's King Charles I Marie de Medici |
| #1799, aired 1992-05-28 | HISTORIC IN-LAWS $800: This Roman emperor forced his daughter to marry Tiberius, his eventual successor, in 11 B.C. Augustus |
| #1799, aired 1992-05-28 | HISTORIC IN-LAWS $1000: In April 1614 he became John Rolfe's "chief" father-in-law Powhatan |
| #337, aired 1985-12-24 | LAWS & RULES $100: He systematized the rules for whist, then backgammon, then chess... Hoyle |
| #337, aired 1985-12-24 | LAWS & RULES $200: Under the laws of physics, when raised to 100° C. at sea level, water will do this boil |
| #337, aired 1985-12-24 | LAWS & RULES $300: His detective Holmes scrupulously followed the rules of deductive reasoning Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #337, aired 1985-12-24 | LAWS & RULES $400: According to the rules of fencing, this sword's target area is only the torso foil |
| #337, aired 1985-12-24 | LAWS & RULES $500: Under Jewish law, he is the person who performs the circumcision ritual mohel |
| #83, aired 1985-01-02 | LAWS & PRINCIPLES $200: The Bible says this "is more blessed than to receive" to give |
| #83, aired 1985-01-02 | LAWS & PRINCIPLES $1000: Parkinson's 2nd law says expenditures rise to meet this income |
