#9181, aired 2024-10-14 | CHOOSE A NAME $400: He switched from his Hebrew name Saul to a Roman one to make it easier to convert Gentiles Paul |
#9181, aired 2024-10-14 | CHOOSE A NAME $800: Dunno what he had in mind--Buffy? Fern? But in 1952, Martin Charteris asked her what regnal name she'd use; she said, "Mine" Elizabeth II |
#9181, aired 2024-10-14 | CHOOSE A NAME $1200: This first name was chosen carefully, including the "C" spelling--unlike, say, Khloe or Kendall Caitlyn |
#9181, aired 2024-10-14 | CHOOSE A NAME $1600: Being as objectivist as possible, we'll say Alisa Rosenbaum chose this as her professional name Ayn Rand |
#9181, aired 2024-10-14 | CHOOSE A NAME $2000: Charlie Gasko, a Santa Monica, California resident from 1996 to 2011, was the chosen alias of this notorious Boston thug Whitey Bulger |
#9174, aired 2024-10-03 | ALSO A PAPAL NAME $200: It follows "salt" in the name of a gunpowder component peter |
#9174, aired 2024-10-03 | ALSO A PAPAL NAME $400: It follows "Presumed" in the title of a Scott Turow thriller Innocent |
#9174, aired 2024-10-03 | ALSO A PAPAL NAME $600: When "in" comes before this word meaning "merciful", it often describes nasty weather clement |
#9174, aired 2024-10-03 | ALSO A PAPAL NAME $800: As far as astrological signs go, this one fits the bill Leo |
#9174, aired 2024-10-03 | ALSO A PAPAL NAME $1000: From Latin for "good" & "fate", it's an old-timey word for any innkeeper boniface |
#9172, aired 2024-10-01 | NAME THE CLASSIC BAND: A READING $200: "Young man, there's a place you can go / I said, young man, when you're short on your dough" the Village People |
#9172, aired 2024-10-01 | THE NAME GAME $400: Going up to number XXIII, more popes have been of this name than any other John |
#9172, aired 2024-10-01 | NAME THE CLASSIC BAND: A READING $400: "If everybody had an ocean / Across the USA / Then everybody'd be surfin' / Like Californ-eye-ay" The Beach Boys |
#9172, aired 2024-10-01 | NAME THE CLASSIC BAND: A READING $600: "But your teacher preaches class like you're some kind of jerk / You gotta fight! / For your right! / To paaaaaar-tay!" the Beastie Boys |
#9172, aired 2024-10-01 | THE NAME GAME $800: Angus Young said this "Highway To Hell" rock band took its name from the label on a sewing machine AC/DC |
#9172, aired 2024-10-01 | NAME THE CLASSIC BAND: A READING $800: "Stop! In the name of love / Before you break my heart / Stop! In the name of love / Before you break my heart / Think it over" The Supremes |
#9172, aired 2024-10-01 | NAME THE CLASSIC BAND: A READING $1000: "Drivin' down your freeways / Midnight alleys roam / Cops in cars / The topless bars / Never saw a woman / So alone... L.A. woman" The Doors |
#9172, aired 2024-10-01 | THE NAME GAME $1200: The ancient Greek philosopher Aristocles is better known by this name possibly derived from his broad physique Plato |
#9172, aired 2024-10-01 | THE NAME GAME $1600: This middle name of President Warren Harding was also the name of a first century rabbi mentioned in the Bible Gamaliel |
#9172, aired 2024-10-01 | THE NAME GAME $2000: "Rid" is a Scandinavian root meaning "beautiful", as in Ingrid & this name of the Swedish princess seen here Astrid |
#9171, aired 2024-09-30 | PUT SOME RESPECT ON MY NAME $400: She won Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience Award & "Woman of the Year" in Sweden in 2019 Thunberg |
#9171, aired 2024-09-30 | PUT SOME RESPECT ON MY NAME $800: In 2010 he became the first chef to receive Spain's Order of Arts & Letters Medallion Andrés |
#9171, aired 2024-09-30 | PUT SOME RESPECT ON MY NAME $1200: After reading "The Cosmic Connection", Isaac Asimov told him, "You are smarter than I am. I hate that" Carl Sagan |
#9171, aired 2024-09-30 | PUT SOME RESPECT ON MY NAME $1600: Per Time magazine, "on the seventh day" he "cobbled together the World Wide Web's first (but not the last) browser" Tim Berners-Lee |
#9171, aired 2024-09-30 | PUT SOME RESPECT ON MY NAME $2000: Before she was appointed U.S. Attorney General, she received the Medal of Honor--from the Florida Bar Association Reno |
#9138, aired 2024-07-03 | THE NAME DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING $200: George Eastman said the letter K "had been a favorite with me", thus he created this name for his camera out of thin air Kodak |
#9138, aired 2024-07-03 | THE NAME DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING $400: The name of this technology that allows local area networks to operate without wiring or cables just sounds cool--that's all Wi-Fi |
#9138, aired 2024-07-03 | THE NAME DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING $600: Originally, the cartons of this luxury ice cream featured a map of Denmark although its name wasn't Danish, it was made up Häagen-Dazs |
#9138, aired 2024-07-03 | THE NAME DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING $800: In the mid-1990s Colombian Alberto Perez created this dance exercise class that uses Latin & world rhythms Zumba |
#9138, aired 2024-07-03 | THE NAME DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING $1000: Infomercials in the 1980s touted the quality of these kitchen knives with a "Japanese" name; they were actually made in Ohio Ginsu |
#9123, aired 2024-06-12 | NAME THE DISNEY PRINCESS $200: She has magical 70-foot locks Rapunzel |
#9123, aired 2024-06-12 | NAME THE DISNEY PRINCESS $400: She's the only princess based on a real person Pocahontas |
#9123, aired 2024-06-12 | NAME THE DISNEY PRINCESS $600: Her name is from Polynesian for "ocean" & the ocean chooses her for a special task Moana |
#9123, aired 2024-06-12 | NAME THE DISNEY PRINCESS $800: She's friends with a trumpet-playing alligator named Louise Tiana |
#9123, aired 2024-06-12 | NAME THE DISNEY PRINCESS $1000: She's sister to brothers Hamish, Harris & Hubert Merida |
#9114, aired 2024-05-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $200: From the world of film: Wilder & Crudup Billy |
#9114, aired 2024-05-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Providing different kinds of entertainment:
Kwan & Pfeiffer Michelle |
#9114, aired 2024-05-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $600: Both can make you dance:
Allen & Gibson Debbie |
#9114, aired 2024-05-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $800: Creative types Schumann & Ludlum Robert |
#9114, aired 2024-05-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Very different leaders Mumford & Garvey Marcus |
#9111, aired 2024-05-27 | NAME THE CELEBRITY $400: A rapper; has 2 kids with Rihanna; actor in "Dope" & 2018's "Monster" A$AP Rocky |
#9111, aired 2024-05-27 | NAME THE CELEBRITY $800: Cassie on "Euphoria"; star of "Anyone But You" Sweeney |
#9111, aired 2024-05-27 | NAME THE CELEBRITY $1200: President Coriolanus Snow in a franchise; Detective Klute in "Klute" Donald Sutherland |
#9111, aired 2024-05-27 | NAME THE CELEBRITY $1600: "Oblivion" singer; mother of Techno Mechanicus Musk Grimes |
#9111, aired 2024-05-27 | NAME THE CELEBRITY $2000: Starred in "Bio-Dome" & "Encino Man"; stand-up stage alter ego was "The Weasel" Pauly Shore |
#9110, aired 2024-05-24 | MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME $200: Maiden name of Elizabeth, who got her author son James Cooper to add it as a middle name so it would be preserved Fenimore |
#9110, aired 2024-05-24 | MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME $400: He said he used his mother's maiden name because double S names work for artists--Matisse, Poussin, Rousseau Picasso |
#9110, aired 2024-05-24 | MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME $500 (Daily Double): Maiden name of the political mom seen here Milhous |
#9110, aired 2024-05-24 | MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME $800: Born in the USSR, he was just a little woodpusher when he adopted a Russified version of his mother's maiden name, Gasparyan Gary Kasparov |
#9110, aired 2024-05-24 | MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME $1000: This Atlanta Historically Black College for women bears the maiden name of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s mother Spelman |
#9109, aired 2024-05-23 | NAME, THE EXPRESSION $400: An inadvertent remark that reveals a hidden wish is called this, after a Viennese doctor a Freudian slip |
#9109, aired 2024-05-23 | NAME, THE EXPRESSION $800: There are 2 names in this seemingly criminal phrase that means to craftily move money around to rob Peter to pay Paul |
#9109, aired 2024-05-23 | NAME, THE EXPRESSION $1600: From a 1712 allegory, a typical Englishman is known as this bovine fellow John Bull |
#9109, aired 2024-05-23 | NAME, THE EXPRESSION $2000: Meaning exceedingly wealthy, this phrase mentions the last king of Lydia rich as Croesus |
#9109, aired 2024-05-23 | NAME, THE EXPRESSION $3,000 (Daily Double): A nickname for Friedrich is in this expression used of broken electronics on the fritz |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | STATE NAME STUFF $400: The one state named for a person born in America Washington State |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | STATE NAME STUFF $800: It's the newest state with "New" in its name New Mexico |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | STATE NAME STUFF $1200: Territorial governor James Duane Doty favored spelling this Midwest state's name with the 4th letter "K" instead of "C" Wisconsin |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | STATE NAME STUFF $1600: They're the 2 states whose names contain the exact name of another state West Virginia & Arkansas |
#9105, aired 2024-05-17 | STATE NAME STUFF $2000: One of the 2 states that end with the postal abbreviation of the "Peace Garden State" Maryland or Rhode Island |
#30, aired 2024-05-13 | MIDDLE NAME, PLEASE $200: Of
James Cagney,
Jimmy Durante &
Robert Kennedy Francis |
#30, aired 2024-05-13 | MIDDLE NAME, PLEASE $400: Of President James Polk Knox |
#30, aired 2024-05-13 | MIDDLE NAME, PLEASE $600: Of author Erich Remarque & Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor Maria |
#30, aired 2024-05-13 | MIDDLE NAME, PLEASE $800: Of inventor Samuel Morse--one of the 2 (1 of) Finley & Breese |
#30, aired 2024-05-13 | MIDDLE NAME, PLEASE $1000: Of Charles Lindbergh, a name fit for a Roman emperor Augustus |
#9087, aired 2024-04-23 | NAME THAT AUTHOR $400: "Early in the spring of 1750... a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte" Haley |
#9087, aired 2024-04-23 | NAME THAT AUTHOR $800: "Oh, how he loved that smell! And oh, how he wished he could go inside the factory and see what it was like!" Roald Dahl |
#9087, aired 2024-04-23 | NAME THAT AUTHOR $1200: "The John Galt line was moving forward. The attacks on his metal had ceased" Ayn Rand |
#9087, aired 2024-04-23 | NAME THAT AUTHOR $2,000 (Daily Double): "It was porkmaking by machinery, porkmaking by applied mathematics
... but this slaughtering machine ran on" (Upton) Sinclair |
#9087, aired 2024-04-23 | NAME THAT AUTHOR $2000: "'I got in a couple of hassles at the work farm, to tell the pure truth, and the court ruled that I'm a psychopath"' Ken Kesey |
#9086, aired 2024-04-22 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $200: Of businessman Warren & singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett |
#9086, aired 2024-04-22 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Of prime minister William the Younger & actor Brad Pitt |
#9086, aired 2024-04-22 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $600: Of these two women, a first lady & an actress who has portrayed first ladies Nixon |
#9086, aired 2024-04-22 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $800: Of an accused ax murderer & her distant cousin who invented a process for condensing milk Borden |
#9086, aired 2024-04-22 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Of poets Marianne & Clement Clarke Moore |
#9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NAME THAT TOON $200: It's the fitting name of Bob & Helen Parr's eldest son in "The Incredibles" Dash |
#9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NAME THAT TOON $400: When she reveals she's pregnant, Fred promises to keep the peace with her mother Wilma Flintstone |
#9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NAME THAT TOON $600: This character who debuted in 1967 was sort of a clueless Tarzan George of the Jungle |
#9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NAME THAT TOON $800: In a 2008 film, the rotund character with this 2-letter name joins a tiger, crane, mantis, viper & monkey to defeat a snow leopard Po |
#9066, aired 2024-03-25 | NAME THAT TOON $1000: Voiced by John Mulaney in "Into the Spider-Verse", Spider Ham isn't called Peter Parker, but rather Peter this Peter Porker |
#9062, aired 2024-03-19 | NAME THE RIVER $200: Bullhead City &
Laughlin the Colorado |
#9062, aired 2024-03-19 | NAME THE RIVER $400: Aranjuez, near Madrid,
& Talavera de la Reina the Tagus |
#9062, aired 2024-03-19 | NAME THE RIVER $600: Fallujah, Iraq &
Raqqa, Syria the Euphrates |
#9062, aired 2024-03-19 | NAME THE RIVER $800: Lyon &
Avignon the Rhône |
#9062, aired 2024-03-19 | NAME THE RIVER $1000: Jeffersonville,
Louisville &
Evansville the Ohio |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | THE NAME ON THE OSCAR $400: Best Actor, 2012, for "Lincoln" Daniel Day-Lewis |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | THE NAME ON THE OSCAR $800: Best picture, 2019, starring Song Kang Ho & Cho Yeo Jeong Parasite |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | THE NAME ON THE OSCAR $1200: Best Supporting Actor, 2019, for "Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood" Brad Pitt |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | THE NAME ON THE OSCAR $1600: Best Supporting Actress, 1973, for "Paper Moon" Tatum O'Neal |
#9059, aired 2024-03-14 | THE NAME ON THE OSCAR $2000: Best Director, 2014, for "Birdman" & 2015, for "The Revenant" (González) Iñárritu |
#9050, aired 2024-03-01 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES $200: In biblical city names, Bethel is Hebrew for "house of God" & this city big in the New Testament means "house of bread" Bethlehem |
#9050, aired 2024-03-01 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES $400: The name of this city comes from a French word referring to the river linking Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie Detroit |
#9050, aired 2024-03-01 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES $800: The name of this capital city derives from a Maasai expression for "cool water" Nairobi |
#9050, aired 2024-03-01 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES $1,000 (Daily Double): A conquistador combined the name of a local people & the Spanish word for water to name this country Nicaragua |
#9050, aired 2024-03-01 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES $1000: This port city at the southeast tip of the Korean Peninsula comes from words for "cauldron" & "mountain" Pusan |
#9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS $200: It's the nickname of Alabama CB Ga'quincy McKinstry, whose smile resembled this pitch "man"; now he has an NIL deal with the drink, oh yeah Kool-Aid |
#9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME $400: By the 1910s he had adopted a last name derived from the Russian for steel Stalin |
#9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS $400: It's the big-legacy last name of Arch, who signed an NIL deal before throwing his first pass in college football Manning |
#9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS $600: Auburn QB Bo Nix made an NIL deal with Milo's, maker of this 2-word sugary drink--then transferred out of the South to Oregon sweet tea |
#9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME $800: The Apache leader given the name Goyathlay, meaning "one who yawns", took on this name, perhaps the Spanish version of Jerome Geronimo |
#9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS $800: In 2021 the first-ever NIL store opened in Lincoln Park, giving players on this "Fighting" team a cut of each jersey sold the Fighting Illini |
#9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME, IMAGE, LIKENESS $1000: Part of the NIL deal of UNC basketball star Armando Bacot Jr. was a part on this Netflix show set on a N.C. island chain Outer Banks |
#9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME $1600: This billionaire was born György Schwartz in Budapest; his family changed their surname to avoid persecution as Jews George Soros |
#9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME $2000: This 18th century French writer may have derived his mononym from an anagram of a Latinized version of his surname, Arouet Voltaire |
#9049, aired 2024-02-29 | NAME $10,000 (Daily Double): Born Tafari Makonnen, this emperor died in Addis Ababa in 1975 Haile Selassie |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | NAME THAT TOMB $400: The imperial crypt of Dom Pedro I lies on the grounds of Independence Park in this largest Brazilian city São Paulo |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | NAME THAT TOMB $800: This final resting place in Manhattan of a president & his wife is the largest mausoleum in North America Grant's Tomb |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | NAME THAT TOMB $1600: The inscription on this conquistador's tomb in Puerto Rico reads, "Here rest the bones of a valiant lion" Ponce de León |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | NAME THAT TOMB $2000: The tomb of this father of modern China lies on Purple Mountain in Nanjing Sun Yat-sen |
#9048, aired 2024-02-28 | NAME THAT TOMB $5,800 (Daily Double): Cyrus the Great's tomb still stands at Pasargadae in this country, but his gold sarcophagus is gone Iran |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $200: Writer Prawer Jhabvala, helpful Dr. Westheimer Ruth |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $400: The real-world Mr. Law, the fictional Mr. Fawley Jude |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $600: A Coen brother, a "Last of Us" father Joel |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $800: Reynolds of the visual arts, Bell of classical music Joshua |
#9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $1000: Digital media titan Peretti, actor Hill Jonah |
#9027, aired 2024-01-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $400: TV hosts
Kressley &
Daly Carson |
#9027, aired 2024-01-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $800: French guys Mitterrand & Truffaut François |
#9027, aired 2024-01-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $1200: Ex-P.M. Eden & ex-Supreme Court justice Kennedy Anthony |
#9027, aired 2024-01-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $1600: Gangster Cohen & pulp writer Spillane Mickey |
#9027, aired 2024-01-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $2000: Harlem renaissance writer McKay & French anthropologist Lévi-Strauss Claude |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $400: A bestseller across the ages, this book gets its name from the Phoenician port city where paper used to make it was traded Bible |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $800: Put this letter at the beginning of "organization" to get a monopolization technique named for a turn of the 20th century financier M |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $1200: After Romeo y Julieta cigars made a splash, in 1935 a competing brand was named this, after a Dumas character Monte Cristo |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $2000: The Comtesse du Cayla rose, seen here, was named for a mistress of this king who survived Napoleon's Hundred Days Louis XVIII |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | WHAT'S IN A NAME $4,500 (Daily Double): The name of this ocean liner was a Roman province that included what is now Portugal & western Spain Lusitania |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $400: "How often did" this Sleepy Hollow schoolmaster "shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps" (Ichabod) Crane |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $800: Billy Halleck is literally wasting away after being cursed in this tale by Richard Bachman, aka Stephen King Thinner |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $1200: Lying about in bed all day, this 96-year-old was "delicate & weak", but spry enough to glom on to a Wonka tour Grandpa Joe |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $1600: At one point in this novel, Ignatius Reilly regales his mom with an anecdote about his carsickness A Confederacy of Dunces |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $11,600 (Daily Double): In a Robert Graves novel, this emperor introduces himself with some of his nicknames, like "The Idiot" Claudius |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | NAME THAT '90s HIT $300: Alanis Morissette: "It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife" "Ironic" |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | NAME THAT '90s HIT $600: Coolio: "I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like, on my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight" "Gangsta's Paradise" |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | NAME THAT '90s HIT $900: Beck: "Baby's in Reno with the vitamin D, got a couple of couches, sleep on the love seat" "Loser" |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | NAME THAT '90s HIT $1200: Red Hot Chili Peppers: "I don't ever wanna feel like I did that day, but take me to the place I love, take me all the way" "Under The Bridge" |
#25, aired 2024-01-16 | NAME THAT '90s HIT $1500: Biggie Smalls: "It was all a dream, I used to read Word Up! Magazine, Salt-n-Pepa and Heavy D up in the limousine" "Juicy" |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | NAME THAT CARMAKER $200: You can truck in its Tacoma all the way to Yakima Toyota |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | NAME THAT CARMAKER $400: There's one U in Outback & 2 in its name Subaru |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | NAME THAT CARMAKER $600: Its C40 Recharge is less boxy than some of its Swedish predecessors Volvo |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | NAME THAT CARMAKER $800: Its Cayenne puts some pepper in your step Porsche |
#8993, aired 2023-12-13 | NAME THAT CARMAKER $1000: Its name implies you'll drive the QX55 forever Infiniti |
#8991, aired 2023-12-11 | GOT YOUR NAME TAG? $200: Here you go, Mr. Winner of this decisive 1805 naval battle the Battle of Trafalgar |
#8991, aired 2023-12-11 | GOT YOUR NAME TAG? $400: May I just say you're an inspiration to millions & richly deserve this 2014 award the Nobel Peace Prize |
#8991, aired 2023-12-11 | GOT YOUR NAME TAG? $600: We hope you'll be signing copies of this work, your fullest description of the ideal state the Republic |
#8991, aired 2023-12-11 | GOT YOUR NAME TAG? $800: You might not want to wear your tag if there's anyone here from this land you ruled from 1971 to 1986 Haiti |
#8991, aired 2023-12-11 | GOT YOUR NAME TAG? $1000: Oops, they left off your last name; that's okay, Mr. 10th President, everyone knows it's this Tyler |
#8982, aired 2023-11-28 | NAME THAT 1990s YEAR $400: Bob Dole loses the presidential election 1996 |
#8982, aired 2023-11-28 | NAME THAT 1990s YEAR $800: Michael Jordan is named MVP of the NBA Finals 1993 ('91, '92, '96, '97 or '98) |
#8982, aired 2023-11-28 | NAME THAT 1990s YEAR $1200: Iraq invades Kuwait 1990 |
#8982, aired 2023-11-28 | NAME THAT 1990s YEAR $1600: An earthquake levels buildings & overpasses in L.A. on January 17 1994 |
#8982, aired 2023-11-28 | NAME THAT 1990s YEAR $2000: The euro currency is officially introduced into financial markets 1999 |
#8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NAME THAT REBELLION $400: China, 1900:
"Fighters" versus foreigners & Christians the Boxer Rebellion |
#8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NAME THAT REBELLION $1200: Ulster & Wexford, 1798: One of many called by this national adjective the Irish Rebellion |
#8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NAME THAT REBELLION $1600: Virginia, 1676:
A "hammy" colonist & his followers versus Native Americans & the governor Bacon's Rebellion |
#8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NAME THAT REBELLION $2000: Virginia, 1831:
Led by this man, it was the bloodiest in the history of American slavery Nat Turner's Rebellion |
#8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NAME THAT REBELLION $4,000 (Daily Double): Pennsylvania, 1794:
The Feds versus farmers over a tax on liquor the Whiskey Rebellion |
#8978, aired 2023-11-22 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $400: Jeff Bezos settled on this name because it started with the first letter of the alphabet & implied something really large Amazon |
#8978, aired 2023-11-22 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $800: Benjamin Holt created a tractor that an onlooker said crawled like this worm-like larva a caterpillar |
#8978, aired 2023-11-22 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $1200: In 1936 this company started as Government Employees Insurance Company, hence the name GEICO |
#8978, aired 2023-11-22 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $2000: The "Aerial Services" of this state & this territory of Australia gave Qantas its name Queensland & Northern Territory |
#8978, aired 2023-11-22 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $4,000 (Daily Double): James Church chose this name for his product because the symbols of the god Vulcan represented power Arm & Hammer |
#8975, aired 2023-11-17 | NAME THE JAMES $400: Reported final resting places of this man, who disappeared in 1975, include Giants Stadium & under Pulaski Skyway James Hoffa |
#8975, aired 2023-11-17 | NAME THE JAMES $800: In the 1820s, this author introduced his character Leatherstocking as an old man, depicting his youth in later novels James Fenimore Cooper |
#8975, aired 2023-11-17 | NAME THE JAMES $1200: After this author's death on January 13th, 1941, the wake wasn't for Finnegan, but for him Joyce |
#8975, aired 2023-11-17 | NAME THE JAMES $1600: This inventor of a sport was chairman of the phys-ed department at the University of Kansas for decades James Naismith |
#8975, aired 2023-11-17 | NAME THE JAMES $2000: This businessman, born in New York City in 1856, got his "Diamond" nickname from the bling he was seldom without Diamond Jim Brady |
#8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $400: The handgun act named for this man was signed into law in 1993 (James) Brady |
#8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $800: 1998's Copyright Term Extension Act was named for this late congressman who penned a 1965 No. 1 pop hit Sonny Bono |
#8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $1200: A tariff act named for Smoot & this congressman raised import duties to protect U.S. businesses Hawley |
#8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $1600: The Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 was named for James Byrd Jr. & this Casper, Wyoming man Matthew Shepard |
#8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $2000: Named for an Illinois representative, 1910's White Slave Traffic Act is better known as this "Act" the Mann Act |
#8973, aired 2023-11-15 | STAGE NAME'S THE SAME $400: Funnyman director Melvin Kaminsky & funnyman director Albert Einstein Brooks |
#8973, aired 2023-11-15 | STAGE NAME'S THE SAME $800: '70s TV star John Sanford & "Beat Shazam" host Eric Bishop Foxx |
#8973, aired 2023-11-15 | STAGE NAME'S THE SAME $1200: "Mrs. Soffel" Diane Hall & "Mr. Mom" Michael Douglas Keaton |
#8973, aired 2023-11-15 | STAGE NAME'S THE SAME $1600: Tall comedian Brad Gerstenfeld & '70s teen idol Leif Per Nervik Garrett |
#8973, aired 2023-11-15 | STAGE NAME'S THE SAME $2000: Screen legend Lucille LeSueur & Broadway legend Michael Dumbell-Smith Crawford |
#8963, aired 2023-11-01 | NAME THAT TUNESTER $200: "I came in like a wrecking ball, I never hit so hard in love, all I wanted was to break your walls" Miley Cyrus |
#8963, aired 2023-11-01 | NAME THAT TUNESTER $400: "I got my first real six string, bought it at the 5 & dime, played it till my fingers bled, was the summer of '69" Bryan Adams |
#8963, aired 2023-11-01 | NAME THAT TUNESTER $600: "But I set fire to the rain, watched it pour as I touched your face, well, it burned while I cried" Adele |
#8963, aired 2023-11-01 | NAME THAT TUNESTER $800: "Give it away, give it away, give it away now, give it away, give it away, give it away now, awwww, aw yeah!" the Red Hot Chili Peppers |
#8963, aired 2023-11-01 | NAME THAT TUNESTER $1000: "She's up all night to the sun, I'm up all night to get some, she's up all night for good fun, I'm up all night to get lucky" Pharrell (Daft Punk) |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | NAME DROPPERS $100: Time to make the... oh, never mind. This chain officially dropped "Donuts" from its name in 2019 Dunkin' |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | NAME DROPPERS $200: France caught a sick burn in 2003, when D.C. cafeterias dropped the name "French fries" and started serving these Freedom fries |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | NAME DROPPERS $300: A little ditty 'bout... John Mellencamp, who axed this word from his stage name in 1991 Cougar |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | NAME DROPPERS $400: Partly to distance themselves from J.K. Rowling, athletes are now replacing this name for their sport with "quadball" quidditch |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | NAME DROPPERS $500: Turns out, trimming 17 nonessential letters from your name will increase sales. Just ask retailer RH, formerly called this Restoration Hardware |
#8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $200: Also a fireplace implement poker |
#8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $400: A war vessel of the most heavily armed class battleship |
#8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $600: A hand weapon made of leather-covered metal blackjack |
#8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $800: To overwhelm with wonder to boggle |
#8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $1000: The art of negotiation between nations diplomacy |
#15, aired 2023-10-04 | NAME GAME $200: First name + R&B singer who married Whitney Houston = this "Stranger Things" actress Millie Bobby Brown |
#15, aired 2023-10-04 | NAME GAME $400: Rock drummer who married Pamela Anderson + last name = this "Men in Black" actor Tommy Lee Jones |
#15, aired 2023-10-04 | NAME GAME $600: Theologian born in Saxony in 1483 + last name = this theologian born in Atlanta, GA in 1929 Martin Luther King |
#15, aired 2023-10-04 | NAME GAME $800: First name + longtime CNN anchor = this "Pygmalion" playwright George Bernard Shaw |
#15, aired 2023-10-04 | NAME GAME $1000: 16th century queen of Scotland + last name = this actress who plays Joon in 1993's "Benny & Joon" Mary Stuart Masterson |
#8942, aired 2023-10-03 | NAME: THE CLASSIC SONG $200: "I wish that I had" his "girl... where can I find a woman like that?" Jessie |
#8942, aired 2023-10-03 | NAME: THE CLASSIC SONG $400: "What's The Frequency", this guy? "Is your Benzedrine, uh huh, I was brain-dead, locked out, numb, not up to speed" Kenneth |
#8942, aired 2023-10-03 | NAME: THE CLASSIC SONG $600: "You in that dress, my thoughts I confess, verge on dirty, come on", her; may we add, "Toora loora toora loo-rye-ay" Eileen |
#8942, aired 2023-10-03 | NAME: THE CLASSIC SONG $800: "Help Me", this woman whose name repeats 13 times in the chorus, "Help me... get her out of my heart" Rhonda |
#8942, aired 2023-10-03 | NAME: THE CLASSIC SONG $1000: "Ooh my little pretty one, pretty one, when you gonna give me some time", this woman? "M-m-m-my" this woman Sharona |
#8933, aired 2023-09-20 | NAME THAT PLAY $200: "You have invented a very useful younger brother called Ernest, in order that you may be able to come up to town" The Importance of Being Earnest |
#8933, aired 2023-09-20 | NAME THAT PLAY $400: "I gotta show some of those pompous, self-important executives over there that Hap Loman can make the grade" Death of a Salesman |
#8933, aired 2023-09-20 | NAME THAT PLAY $600: "I ain't done nothing wrong by speaking to the gentleman. I've a right to sell flowers if I keep off the kerb" Pygmalion |
#8933, aired 2023-09-20 | NAME THAT PLAY $800: "It's terrible, dreadful, disgraceful that poor little sister has never received a single gentleman caller" The Glass Menagerie |
#8933, aired 2023-09-20 | NAME THAT PLAY $1000: "Begin thine incantations, and try if devils will obey thy hest, seeing thou hast pray'd and sacrific'd to them" Doctor Faustus |
#8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT TV SHOW? $200: Seattle's Café Nervosa was a hangout for the title psychiatrist on this TV series Frasier |
#8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT TV SHOW? $400: Ms. Weissman is the maiden name of the title character of this show that ran for 5 seasons on Amazon Prime The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel |
#8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT TV SHOW? $600: The Great Cornholio is an alter ego of one of this animated title pair Beavis & Butt-Head |
#8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT TV SHOW? $800: From 2004 to 2012 Hugh Laurie played this crusty but skillful title M.D. House |
#8916, aired 2023-07-17 | WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT TV SHOW? $1000: Adrian Zmed was the rookie partner of the title character on this '80s police drama T.J. Hooker |
#8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FIRST NAME VERBS $200: To honor, as with one's presence grace |
#8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FIRST NAME VERBS $400: To put on clothes don |
#8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FIRST NAME VERBS $600: To pry open jimmy |
#8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FIRST NAME VERBS $800: To kid around josh |
#8912, aired 2023-07-11 | FIRST NAME VERBS $1,000 (Daily Double): To give, like a wish grant |
#8903, aired 2023-06-28 | THE NAME OF THE DAME $200: Her house was alive with the sound of music; as a child, she possessed a 4-octave range & could sing notes only dogs could hear Julie Andrews |
#8903, aired 2023-06-28 | THE NAME OF THE DAME $400: This classy dame was nominated for 12 acting Emmys for "Murder, She Wrote" but never won; she did nab an honorary Oscar & some Tonys Angela Lansbury |
#8903, aired 2023-06-28 | THE NAME OF THE DAME $600: In 2005 her title was nanny, as in "Nanny McPhee"; she upgraded to dame 13 years later & wore sneakers to the ceremony Emma Thompson |
#8903, aired 2023-06-28 | THE NAME OF THE DAME $800: For her 81st birthday, this Bond woman got a "carpe diem" tattoo on her right wrist Dame Judi Dench |
#8903, aired 2023-06-28 | THE NAME OF THE DAME $1000: In 2019 the queen said, "You're the one that I want" to be a dame, "you" being this British-born & Australian-raised singer Olivia Newton-John |
#8886, aired 2023-06-05 | FIRST & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Mrs. Shakespeare & the portrayer of Viola in "Twelfth Night" in Shakespeare in the Park in 2009 Anne Hathaway |
#8886, aired 2023-06-05 | FIRST & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $800: All 3 names the same: U.S. naval hero awarded a Congressional Gold Medal & Led Zeppelin bassist/Kennedy Center honoree John Paul Jones |
#8886, aired 2023-06-05 | FIRST & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $1200: Commanding officer of one of the first U.S. steamships in the 1830s & could he be more of a star of "Friends"? Matthew Perry |
#8886, aired 2023-06-05 | FIRST & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $1600: No. 2 in U.S. government to James Madison & No. 1 in U.S. funksmanship in Parliament (& Funkadelic) George Clinton |
#8886, aired 2023-06-05 | FIRST & LAST NAME'S THE SAME $2000: 17th century essayist who was Lord Chancellor of England & 20th century painter of "Head of a Woman (Lisa Sainsbury)" Francis Bacon |
#8877, aired 2023-05-23 | A COUNTRY BY ANY OTHER NAME $800: In 1927 the U.K. changed from the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain & this Northern Ireland |
#8877, aired 2023-05-23 | A COUNTRY BY ANY OTHER NAME $1200: In 1932 the kingdom of Hejaz & Nejd became this kingdom named for a peninsula & its ruling house Saudi Arabia |
#8877, aired 2023-05-23 | A COUNTRY BY ANY OTHER NAME $2000: The former Ellice Islands are now this country that derives a substantial part of its revenue from leasing the .tv domain name Tuvalu |
#8877, aired 2023-05-23 | A COUNTRY BY ANY OTHER NAME $3,000 (Daily Double): In 2022 it changed its official name, adding 2 dots over the "U" & changing the final "ey" to "iye" Turkey |
#8875, aired 2023-05-19 | ON A FIRST-NAME BASIS WITH BOOZE $200: A bourbon:
Mr. Beam Jim |
#8875, aired 2023-05-19 | ON A FIRST-NAME BASIS WITH BOOZE $400: A scotch:
Mr. Walker Johnnie |
#8875, aired 2023-05-19 | ON A FIRST-NAME BASIS WITH BOOZE $600: A tequila:
Señor Cuervo Jose |
#8875, aired 2023-05-19 | ON A FIRST-NAME BASIS WITH BOOZE $800: A fine cognac:
Monsieur Martin Rémy |
#8875, aired 2023-05-19 | ON A FIRST-NAME BASIS WITH BOOZE $1000: Essentially a screwdriver with a little Galliano:
Mr. Wallbanger Harvey |
#13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS $400: The man with a "Plan" that earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 & Eminem's name at birth George Marshall Mathers |
#13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS $1200: The 19th century man honored in name by Nevada's capital & the fashion expert/TV star of "Queer Eye" & "How to Look Good Naked" Kit Carson Kressley |
#13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS $1600: The Founding Father with a university named for him in Fairfax, Va. & the biographer of newly deceased George Washington in 1800 George Mason Weems |
#13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS $2000: An early 20th c. female modern dance pioneer & a 19th century male master of cabinetmaking & neo-classical furniture Isadora Duncan Phyfe |
#13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS NAME OVERLAPS $5,000 (Daily Double): The 3-named British P.M. from 1916 to 1922 & the 3-named American scientist granted a 1925 patent for cosmetics made from peanuts David Lloyd George Washington Carver |
#5, aired 2023-05-10 | GOOD NAME FOR A BREAKFAST CEREAL? $400: These exercises are similar to sit-ups, but you don't lift up as far crunches |
#5, aired 2023-05-10 | GOOD NAME FOR A BREAKFAST CEREAL? $800: It means fancy food & is literally French for "high cooking" haute cuisine |
#5, aired 2023-05-10 | GOOD NAME FOR A BREAKFAST CEREAL? $1200: "Thank your" these, an expression used after narrow escapes, was the title of a 1943 movie musical with Dinah Shore lucky stars |
#5, aired 2023-05-10 | GOOD NAME FOR A BREAKFAST CEREAL? $1600: They're also called crow blackbirds & their name is one letter off from a sound some cereal makes grackle |
#5, aired 2023-05-10 | GOOD NAME FOR A BREAKFAST CEREAL? $2000: His name became legendary from the bed he built that he forced people to fit into Procrustes |
#8847, aired 2023-04-11 | A PRESIDENTIAL LAST NAME $200: Dam, it's a vacuum, too! a Hoover |
#8847, aired 2023-04-11 | A PRESIDENTIAL LAST NAME $400: Baseball's Mookie & Hack (who had 191 RBIs in 1930--you should know his last name!) Wilson |
#8847, aired 2023-04-11 | A PRESIDENTIAL LAST NAME $600: A place where a river is shallow enough to be crossed by wading ford |
#8847, aired 2023-04-11 | A PRESIDENTIAL LAST NAME $800: An animated "Show" formerly on Fox, or an Ohio city Cleveland |
#8847, aired 2023-04-11 | A PRESIDENTIAL LAST NAME $1000: Synonyms for this include prick, perforate & puncture pierce |
#8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THERE'S A NAME IN THE TITLE $400: This 1815 Jane Austen title is just the heroine's first name Emma |
#8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THERE'S A NAME IN THE TITLE $800: Annie is the real name of this Henry James title character who goes by a flowery nickname Daisy Miller |
#8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THERE'S A NAME IN THE TITLE $1200: The names of 2 lovers are in the title of this Shakespeare tragedy set during the Trojan War Troilus and Cressida |
#8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THERE'S A NAME IN THE TITLE $1600: Chaim Potok's "My Name is" this traces the inner struggle of a young Jew whose artistry conflicts with his Orthodox faith Asher Lev |
#8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THERE'S A NAME IN THE TITLE $2000: This Aristophanes play is named for the character who inspires the women of Athens & Sparta to end a war between the cities Lysistrata |
#8791, aired 2023-01-23 | CITY NAME CHANGES $200: This Arizona city might've been named for Stonewall Jackson, but residents decided that was for the mythical birds Phoenix |
#8791, aired 2023-01-23 | CITY NAME CHANGES $400: When it was founded in the 1600s, New York City was known by this 2-word name, reflecting its early colonial heritage New Amsterdam |
#8791, aired 2023-01-23 | CITY NAME CHANGES $800: Residents of this University of Oregon city are probably happy it didn't stick with Skinner's Mudhole Eugene |
#8791, aired 2023-01-23 | CITY NAME CHANGES $1000: An Irish town once home to a famed medieval book has been known as both Ceanannus Mór & this Kells |
#8791, aired 2023-01-23 | CITY NAME CHANGES $3,200 (Daily Double): This Moroccan port city was built over a villa named Anfa, but that wouldn't have looked as good on a movie marquee Casablanca |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | THE NAME AS A PAST TENSE VERB $400: Our relationship didn't crash, it just actor Fonda-ed out Peter (petered out) |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ANOTHER NAME FOR THAT CONDITION $400: Characterized by a distinctive hacking & catching of the breath, pertussis is also known as this whooping cough |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | THE NAME AS A PAST TENSE VERB $800: The intruder must have host Kimmel-ed open the door jimmied |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ANOTHER NAME FOR THAT CONDITION $800: Also known as tinea pedis, this fungal infection might get picked up in locker rooms athlete's foot |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | THE NAME AS A PAST TENSE VERB $1200: After a swim, the dog's fur was all TV creator Stone-d matted |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ANOTHER NAME FOR THAT CONDITION $1200: Hydrophobia is another name for this viral disease that can affect humans as well as other mammals rabies |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | THE NAME AS A PAST TENSE VERB $1600: The press hounded & Justice Blackmun-ed him unjustifiably harried |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | THE NAME AS A PAST TENSE VERB $2000: Ready for adventure, we actress Hawkins-ed forth from the castle Sally |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ANOTHER NAME FOR THAT CONDITION $2000: Called Sao Paulo fever in Brazil, the disease caused by the tick-borne rickettsia pathogen is this geological fever in the USA Rocky Mountain spotted fever |
#8764, aired 2022-12-15 | ANOTHER NAME FOR THAT CONDITION $7,000 (Daily Double): A form of pneumonia that can be spread by air conditioning got this name from a 1976 convention where it was first identified Legionnaires' disease |
#8760, aired 2022-12-09 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $400: This company that offers tax preparation services is named for its founders, brothers Henry & Richard H&R Block |
#8760, aired 2022-12-09 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $800: Its name goes back to its founding in 1920 as the Queensland & Northern Territory Aerial Services Qantas |
#8760, aired 2022-12-09 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $1600: The name of this tech company is a shortening of the metropolis where it was founded by 2 Stanford computer scientists in 1984 Cisco Systems |
#8760, aired 2022-12-09 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $2,000 (Daily Double): Truth be told, the first part of this telecommunications company's name comes from the Latin word for truth or certainty Verizon |
#8760, aired 2022-12-09 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $2000: GEICO's name goes back to its original customer base, military personnel & these people, the G-E government employees |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | NAME THAT BALKAN NATION $400: Nicolae Ciuca, its prime minister, ministers from Bucharest Romania |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | NAME THAT BALKAN NATION $800: Pristina is its capital, though Serbia disagrees Kosovo |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | NAME THAT BALKAN NATION $1200: Lake Bled is in the scenic Julian Alps of this republic Slovenia |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | NAME THAT BALKAN NATION $1600: Greece & Turkey are on its southern border Bulgaria |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | NAME THAT BALKAN NATION $8,000 (Daily Double): To resolve a spat with Greece, in 2019 it added a direction to its name North Macedonia |
#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 |
#8694, aired 2022-07-28 | WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT SONG? $400: ABBA:
"Can you hear the drums" "Fernando" |
#8694, aired 2022-07-28 | WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT SONG? $800: Dolly Parton:
"I'm begging of you, please don't take my man" "Jolene" |
#8694, aired 2022-07-28 | WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT SONG? $1200: Lady Gaga:
"But I just can't be with you like this anymore" "Alejandro" |
#8694, aired 2022-07-28 | WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT SONG? $1600: Looking Glass:
"You're a fine girl, what a good wife you would be" "Brandy" |
#8694, aired 2022-07-28 | WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT SONG? $2000: Simon & Garfunkel: "You're breaking my heart, you're shaking my confidence daily" "Cecilia" |
#8689, aired 2022-07-21 | NAME THAT HITMAKER $400: "In My Feelings" &
"Nice For What" Drake |
#8689, aired 2022-07-21 | NAME THAT HITMAKER $800: "Stayin' Alive" &
"Too Much Heaven" the Bee Gees |
#8689, aired 2022-07-21 | NAME THAT HITMAKER $1200: "Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" & "Positions" Ariana Grande |
#8689, aired 2022-07-21 | NAME THAT HITMAKER $1600: "Eyes Without A Face" & "White Wedding" Billy Idol |
#8689, aired 2022-07-21 | NAME THAT HITMAKER $2000: "Dark Horse" &
"Wide Awake" Katy Perry |
#8676, aired 2022-07-04 | NAME THE AUTOMAKER $200: The Camry Toyota |
#8676, aired 2022-07-04 | NAME THE AUTOMAKER $400: The classic Firebird Trans Am Pontiac |
#8676, aired 2022-07-04 | NAME THE AUTOMAKER $600: Soul &
Sportage Kia |
#8676, aired 2022-07-04 | NAME THE AUTOMAKER $800: Phantom &
Silver Shadow Rolls-Royce |
#8676, aired 2022-07-04 | NAME THE AUTOMAKER $1000: The Rabbit &
Cabriolet Volkswagen |
#8668, aired 2022-06-22 | THE SENATOR'S FIRST NAME $200: When it comes to Louisiana's Cassidy, he's just a this, & he's sitting here on Capitol Hill Bill |
#8668, aired 2022-06-22 | THE SENATOR'S FIRST NAME $400: A gentle hand gesture of affection by Pennsylvania's Toomey Pat |
#8668, aired 2022-06-22 | THE SENATOR'S FIRST NAME $600: Let's toss in 2 ex-senators with Ohio's Portman to make this phrase: Portman Fitzgerald "to pay" Wellstone rob Peter to pay Paul |
#8668, aired 2022-06-22 | THE SENATOR'S FIRST NAME $800: Time to throw out this informal first name of Iowa's Grassley Chuck |
#8668, aired 2022-06-22 | THE SENATOR'S FIRST NAME $1000: This first name of a Republican senator is a homophone for the German word for "with" Mitt |
#8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE $200: A princess of Wales & a portrayer of Annie Hall Diana & Diane |
#8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE $400: A 1980s New York governor & a 2000s first lady of California Mario & Maria |
#8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE $600: A scat-singing jazz legend of the 1940s & an Aussie supermodel who had "The Body" of the 1980s Ella & Elle |
#8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE $800: Patterson's fictional homicide investigator & the real-life voice of "The Boss Baby" Alex & Alec |
#8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE $1000: "Old Hickory" & Soviet nuclear physicist & peace activist Sakharov Andrew & Andrei |
#8657, aired 2022-06-07 | A WRITER BY ANY OTHER NAME... $200: "The Tales of Melpomene", by Antosha Chekhonte; clearly this guy didn't put in a lot of time coming up with a new name (Anton) Chekhov |
#8657, aired 2022-06-07 | A WRITER BY ANY OTHER NAME... $400: Daniel Handler made up this pen name to avoid the unfortunate event of being put on a mailing list (Lemony) Snicket |
#8657, aired 2022-06-07 | A WRITER BY ANY OTHER NAME... $600: Magizoologist Newt Scamander & British wizard Kennilworthy Whisp have stood in for this author (J.K.) Rowling |
#8657, aired 2022-06-07 | A WRITER BY ANY OTHER NAME... $800: Ahead of his time in going by one cool name, 17th century actor-playwright Jean-Baptiste Poquelin went by this, professionally Molière |
#8657, aired 2022-06-07 | A WRITER BY ANY OTHER NAME... $1000: The father of Chilean poet Neftalí Reyes Basoalto didn't like his writing, so Neftalí published under this name (Pablo) Neruda |
#8648, aired 2022-05-25 | MY NAME IS STEPHEN $400: A university in Nacogdoches as well as a state capital bear the name of this Texan (Stephen F.) Austin |
#8648, aired 2022-05-25 | MY NAME IS STEPHEN $800: This physicist guest starred as himself in the form of a hologram on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Hawking |
#8648, aired 2022-05-25 | MY NAME IS STEPHEN $1200: This Washington Nationals pitcher was the MVP of the 2019 World Series Strasburg |
#8648, aired 2022-05-25 | MY NAME IS STEPHEN $1600: This Toronto-born economist served from 2006 to 2015 as prime minister of Canada Harper |
#8648, aired 2022-05-25 | MY NAME IS STEPHEN $2000: Born a pagan, Stephen I, the first king of this Central European country, brought Christianity to the masses & was canonized in 1083 Hungary |
#8646, aired 2022-05-23 | WHAT'S IN A NAME? $200: From its use by certain movie folks, it's the style of seat seen here a director's chair |
#8646, aired 2022-05-23 | WHAT'S IN A NAME? $400: The name of this classic Chevy introduced in 1966 was supposed to suggest a camaraderie between a car & its owner a Camaro |
#8646, aired 2022-05-23 | WHAT'S IN A NAME? $600: This piece of exercise equipment gets its name from the somewhat oval motion of the pedals an elliptical |
#8646, aired 2022-05-23 | WHAT'S IN A NAME? $800: This beverage brand was named for 2 of its ingredients, one of which was removed early last century Coca-Cola |
#8646, aired 2022-05-23 | WHAT'S IN A NAME? $1000: Among the most intelligent of monkeys, it's named for the patch of hair on its head that resembles a monk's cowl a Capuchin |
#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 |
#8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MY NAME IS A PALINDROME $200: Funny guys with this palindromic first name include Newhart & Einstein (also known as Super Dave Osborne) Bob |
#8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MY NAME IS A PALINDROME $400: Dakota's younger sister uses this name that means "she" in French Elle |
#8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MY NAME IS A PALINDROME $600: Silver screen siren Gardner Ava |
#8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MY NAME IS A PALINDROME $800: Bart's school bus driver on "The Simpsons" Otto |
#8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MY NAME IS A PALINDROME $1000: It's the first name of the funny Aussie seen here Hannah |
#8641, aired 2022-05-16 | A HORSE WITH A NAME $200: In mythology, this winged horse became the bearer of Zeus' lightning & thunderbolts Pegasus |
#8641, aired 2022-05-16 | A HORSE WITH A NAME $400: After winning an Olympic medal, she got congratulations from her rock-star dad who didn't even mention Don Juan van de Donkhoeve Jessica Springsteen |
#8641, aired 2022-05-16 | A HORSE WITH A NAME $600: The only survivor the U.S. Cavalry retrieved from this 1876 battle was a wounded horse named Comanche (the Battle of) Little Bighorn |
#8641, aired 2022-05-16 | A HORSE WITH A NAME $800: In 1938, in one of the great races of the century, this grandson of Man o' War beat War Admiral in a one-on-one match Seabiscuit |
#8641, aired 2022-05-16 | A HORSE WITH A NAME $1000: In "War Horse", the novel & film, he's the brave equine forced to fight on the Western Front during World War I Joey |
#8634, aired 2022-05-05 | NAME THAT SPORT $200: Kickoff,
bubble screen,
option route football |
#8634, aired 2022-05-05 | NAME THAT SPORT $400: Kickoff,
marking,
nutmeg soccer |
#8634, aired 2022-05-05 | NAME THAT SPORT $600: Duck,
over,
googly cricket |
#8634, aired 2022-05-05 | NAME THAT SPORT $800: Time trial,
SPDS,
brain bucket cycling |
#8634, aired 2022-05-05 | NAME THAT SPORT $1000: Poach,
approach,
eastern grip tennis |
#8633, aired 2022-05-04 | "A" MY NAME IS... $200: Minnesota's Senator Klobuchar Amy |
#8633, aired 2022-05-04 | "A" MY NAME IS... $400: Davis Cup U.S. team captain from 1981 to 1985 Mr. Ashe Arthur |
#8633, aired 2022-05-04 | "A" MY NAME IS... $600: Come on, Vogue!
Ms. Wintour Anna |
#8633, aired 2022-05-04 | "A" MY NAME IS... $800: Choreographer
Ms. de Mille Agnes |
#8633, aired 2022-05-04 | "A" MY NAME IS... $1000: "Cities of the Interior" author
Ms. Nin Anais |
#8612, aired 2022-04-05 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $200: Purported drink inventor Tom & Irish independence fighter Michael Collins |
#8612, aired 2022-04-05 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Movie auteur Wes & book author Sherwood Anderson |
#8612, aired 2022-04-05 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $600: Sci-fi scribe William & "Laugh-In" poet Henry Gibson |
#8612, aired 2022-04-05 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $800: U.K. Labour prime minister Harold & rocker Nancy Wilson |
#8612, aired 2022-04-05 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Accused conspirator Clay & producer Run Run Shaw |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | BUSINESS NAME ORIGINS $200: The name of this Akron-based company honors the man who invented the vulcanization process for rubber Goodyear |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | WHERE THE STREETS HAVE A NAME $400: A military parade for Bastille Day is traditionally held on this famed Parisian boulevard the Champs-Élysées |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | BUSINESS NAME ORIGINS $400: This stolen vehicle recovery system's name is a pun on a word meaning "to steal a vehicle" LoJack |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | BUSINESS NAME ORIGINS $600: This music company was named after its founders Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss A&M Records |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | WHERE THE STREETS HAVE A NAME $800: In 1960s San Francisco, flower power blossomed in the neighborhood named for these 2 streets Haight-Ashbury |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | BUSINESS NAME ORIGINS $800: This software company sounds like a type of clay brick but is actually named for a creek Adobe |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | BUSINESS NAME ORIGINS $1000: In Korean this electronics company's name means "three stars" Samsung |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | WHERE THE STREETS HAVE A NAME $1200: The name of Springsteen's backing band honors this real thoroughfare in Belmar, New Jersey E Street |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | WHERE THE STREETS HAVE A NAME $2,000 (Daily Double): The name of this street in Jerusalem is Latin for "sorrowful way" Via Dolorosa |
#8609, aired 2022-03-31 | WHERE THE STREETS HAVE A NAME $2000: A mosaic by artist Joan Miró is at about the halfway point of this Barcelona street Las Ramblas |
#8608, aired 2022-03-30 | THE NAME IN THE MIDDLE $200: Hopping
____
doe John |
#8608, aired 2022-03-30 | THE NAME IN THE MIDDLE $400: Uncontested
____
wonders never cease will |
#8608, aired 2022-03-30 | GOOD LINE, FAMOUS NAME! $400: Will Rogers said the only way to stop bootlegging "is to make them pay" this annual levy. It "has stopped every other industry" income tax |
#8608, aired 2022-03-30 | THE NAME IN THE MIDDLE $600: Cup of
____
blow joe |
#8608, aired 2022-03-30 | GOOD LINE, FAMOUS NAME! $600: In 1971 this female Asian prime minister observed, "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist" Indira Gandhi |
#8608, aired 2022-03-30 | THE NAME IN THE MIDDLE $800: Stand
____
on the back pat |
#8608, aired 2022-03-30 | GOOD LINE, FAMOUS NAME! $800: George Bernard Shaw defined this negative thinker as "a man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it" a pessimist |
#8608, aired 2022-03-30 | THE NAME IN THE MIDDLE $1000: Off the
____
my words mark |
#8608, aired 2022-03-30 | GOOD LINE, FAMOUS NAME! $1000: Karl Marx stated that history appears twice, "the 1st time as tragedy, the 2nd time as" this ludicrous form of comedy farce |
#8599, aired 2022-03-17 | IRISH NAME DERIVATIONS $200: "Water" is one suggested original meaning for this first name of swimming's Mr. Lochte Ryan |
#8599, aired 2022-03-17 | IRISH NAME DERIVATIONS $400: One of the most common family names in Ireland & a shade of green, it once meant "bright-headed" Kelly |
#8599, aired 2022-03-17 | IRISH NAME DERIVATIONS $800: "The real" this last name means the genuine article; the real derivation is one of "fire" McCoy |
#8599, aired 2022-03-17 | IRISH NAME DERIVATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Also a type of foldaway bed, it derives from Gaelic for "sea warrior" Murphy |
#8599, aired 2022-03-17 | IRISH NAME DERIVATIONS $1000: This last name means "lover of foreigners"--but sadly for the brothers in the band Oasis, not "lover of people in my family" Gallagher |
#8589, aired 2022-03-03 | WHAT'S MY NAME? $200: Basically a cheeseburger on rye bread:
____ melt a patty melt |
#8589, aired 2022-03-03 | WHAT'S MY NAME? $400: A policeman's nightstick: ____ club a billy club |
#8589, aired 2022-03-03 | WHAT'S MY NAME? $600: Popular in the 1920s, it weighed almost 10 pounds empty:
____ gun a tommy gun |
#8589, aired 2022-03-03 | WHAT'S MY NAME? $800: Often used for pot roast: ____ roast a chuck roast |
#8589, aired 2022-03-03 | WHAT'S MY NAME? $1000: In the Marine Corps, it's also called an E-3:
____ corporal a lance corporal |
#15, aired 2022-02-18 | GEOGRAPHIC NAME CHANGES $400: Batmania & Bearbrass were old names for this second-most populous city in Australia Melbourne |
#15, aired 2022-02-18 | GEOGRAPHIC NAME CHANGES $800: In 1739 Willingtown in Delaware, named for Thomas Willing, made a small change & became this, named after an earl Wilmington |
#15, aired 2022-02-18 | GEOGRAPHIC NAME CHANGES $1200: The former Northern Rhodesia & Southern Rhodesia are now these 2 countries Zambia & Zimbabwe |
#15, aired 2022-02-18 | GEOGRAPHIC NAME CHANGES $1600: In 1972 Sri Lanka dropped this British colonial name Ceylon |
#15, aired 2022-02-18 | GEOGRAPHIC NAME CHANGES $2000: In 1916 an Ontario city named for this foreign capital renamed itself for British field marshal Horatio Kitchener Berlin |
#8576, aired 2022-02-14 | BEHIND THE OLD TESTAMENT NAME $400: Appropriately, his name means "man" or "man of the red earth" Adam |
#8576, aired 2022-02-14 | BEHIND THE OLD TESTAMENT NAME $800: "Oh" this name, "don't you cry for me", it comes from a word meaning "lily" Susanna |
#8576, aired 2022-02-14 | BEHIND THE OLD TESTAMENT NAME $1600: Here's the buzz--the name of this prophetess who appears in Judges comes from the Hebrew for "bee" Deborah |
#8576, aired 2022-02-14 | BEHIND THE OLD TESTAMENT NAME $2000: This son, this son of David had a name meaning "father of peace" Absalom |
#8576, aired 2022-02-14 | BEHIND THE OLD TESTAMENT NAME $5,000 (Daily Double): This youngest son of Jacob had a name meaning "son of my right hand" Benjamin |
#3, aired 2022-02-09 | LITERARY NAME DROPPERS $400: A tragicomedy in 2 acts:
"Waiting for ____" Godot |
#3, aired 2022-02-09 | LITERARY NAME DROPPERS $800: Melville's
"____, the Scrivener" Bartleby |
#3, aired 2022-02-09 | LITERARY NAME DROPPERS $1200: Partly narrated by his college roommate:
"The Brief Wondrous Life of ____ ____" Oscar Wao |
#3, aired 2022-02-09 | LITERARY NAME DROPPERS $1600: Famous first line of "Atlas Shrugged":
"Who is ____ ____?" John Galt |
#3, aired 2022-02-09 | LITERARY NAME DROPPERS $2000: From a Percy Shelley poem:
"My name is ____, king of kings" Ozymandias |
#8557, aired 2022-01-18 | THE MUPPET NAME $200: Architect of lyrics Hammerstein & man of architecture Niemeyer Oscar |
#8557, aired 2022-01-18 | THE MUPPET NAME $400: Hello, Cleveland! & Hello, anti-tax activist Norquist too! Grover |
#8557, aired 2022-01-18 | THE MUPPET NAME $600: Saldana & Kazan, acting the parts Zoe |
#8557, aired 2022-01-18 | THE MUPPET NAME $800: Blyleven & Campaneris, because our writers absolutely love old-school baseball Bert |
#8557, aired 2022-01-18 | THE MUPPET NAME $1000: World War II journalist Pyle & "Ghostbuster" Hudson Ernie |
#8544, aired 2021-12-30 | FEMALE NAME WORDS $400: A traditional tune sung around the end of December a carol |
#8544, aired 2021-12-30 | FEMALE NAME WORDS $800: A disk of meat soon to become a hamburger a patty |
#8544, aired 2021-12-30 | FEMALE NAME WORDS $1200: As a verb, this first name of Tony Stark's lady love means to ask a rapid series of questions Pepper |
#8544, aired 2021-12-30 | FEMALE NAME WORDS $1600: The pot of money to be won in a card game kitty |
#8544, aired 2021-12-30 | FEMALE NAME WORDS $2000: Grand Harbour, a vast one of these in Malta, will take good care of your yacht marina |
#8538, aired 2021-12-22 | I KNOW THAT NAME $400: This genial, longtime NBC personality (Carson) Daly |
#8538, aired 2021-12-22 | I KNOW THAT NAME $800: Brunette Tony winner as Elphaba in "Wicked" Menzel |
#8538, aired 2021-12-22 | I KNOW THAT NAME $1200: This actress took up with John Mulaney in 2021 (Olivia) Munn |
#8538, aired 2021-12-22 | I KNOW THAT NAME $1600: This single-named songbird tugged at our heartstrings with "You Should Be Sad" Halsey |
#8538, aired 2021-12-22 | I KNOW THAT NAME $2000: They joke about being mistaken for one another Regina King & Regina Hall |
#8527, aired 2021-12-07 | NAME THE MUSICAL $400: "I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwin' away my shot" Hamilton |
#8527, aired 2021-12-07 | NAME THE MUSICAL $800: "Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you" Annie Get Your Gun |
#8527, aired 2021-12-07 | NAME THE MUSICAL $1200: "I could have danced all night, and still have begged for more" My Fair Lady |
#8527, aired 2021-12-07 | NAME THE MUSICAL $1600: "This needs to be perfect, these emails have to prove that we were actually friends" Dear Evan Hansen |
#8527, aired 2021-12-07 | NAME THE MUSICAL $2000: "I'm reporting live from Gander Airport where the 19th plane has just touched down" Come From Away |
#8501, aired 2021-11-01 | THE MAN'S PEN NAME $200: "I am a young girl of about thirty-five", penned this Founding Father in a 1732 letter to the Penn. Gazette as "Alice Addertongue" Ben Franklin |
#8501, aired 2021-11-01 | THE MAN'S PEN NAME $400: Mathematician & photographer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is better known to readers young & old by this pen name Lewis Carroll |
#8501, aired 2021-11-01 | THE MAN'S PEN NAME $600: Edith Van Dyne, author of the "Aunt Jane's Nieces" series, wasn't in Kansas anymore, as she didn't exist--"she" was this man L. Frank Baum |
#8501, aired 2021-11-01 | THE MAN'S PEN NAME $800: N.W. Clerk--a play on Old English for "I know not what scholar"--was a pen name for this creator of Aslan C.S. Lewis |
#8501, aired 2021-11-01 | THE MAN'S PEN NAME $1000: A rip-ping storyteller, he covered "A History of New York" in 1809 under the name Diedrich Knickerbocker Washington Irving |
#8499, aired 2021-10-28 | DOCTOR IS NOT MY FIRST NAME $400: Baker Street regular Dr. Watson John |
#8499, aired 2021-10-28 | DOCTOR IS NOT MY FIRST NAME $800: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's different kind of animator Victor |
#8499, aired 2021-10-28 | DOCTOR IS NOT MY FIRST NAME $1200: Surgeon/sorcerer
Dr. Strange Stephen |
#8499, aired 2021-10-28 | DOCTOR IS NOT MY FIRST NAME $1600: Dr. Jekyll,
created in 1886 Henry |
#8499, aired 2021-10-28 | DOCTOR IS NOT MY FIRST NAME $2000: M.D. & Ph.D., vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing Abraham |
#8495, aired 2021-10-22 | WHAT'S IN A GEOGRAPHIC NAME $200: Belgium & 2 neighbors make up this 7-letter region, also a customs union begun in 1948 Benelux |
#8495, aired 2021-10-22 | WHAT'S IN A GEOGRAPHIC NAME $400: A star can become one of these, also the name of a 4-letter region that includes places like Arlington & Alexandria nova |
#8495, aired 2021-10-22 | WHAT'S IN A GEOGRAPHIC NAME $600: Tribeca in the Big Apple stands for the "triangle below" this street Canal Street |
#8495, aired 2021-10-22 | WHAT'S IN A GEOGRAPHIC NAME $800: Named for a trapper who once lived there, this "Hole" is a fertile valley mostly in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park Jackson Hole |
#8495, aired 2021-10-22 | WHAT'S IN A GEOGRAPHIC NAME $1,000 (Daily Double): The "P" in Pakistan comes from this region, the name of a Pakistani province & a state of India Punjab |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NAME $400: The Italian phrase "che" this feminine name means "how beautiful!" Bella |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NAME $800: Change the 2 middle letters of "Carrie" to get this name from the Greek for "beautiful" Callie |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NAME $1200: It's a first name & a synonym for "beautiful" often heard before "Scotland" Bonnie |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NAME $1600: This last name of the actor seen here is a Spanish word for “beautiful” Delroy Lindo |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | WHAT A BEAUTIFUL NAME $2000: Checking multiple cultural boxes, this name signifying beauty in Japanese also belonged to a Muslim mystic poet Rumi |
#8490, aired 2021-10-15 | STATE YOUR NAME $200: Virginia Wade won 55 tennis singles titles, including this major in 1977, the last Englishwoman to do so Wimbledon |
#8490, aired 2021-10-15 | STATE YOUR NAME $400: Appearing in the novel "The Hustler", Minnesota Fats was a legendary player of this game pool |
#8490, aired 2021-10-15 | STATE YOUR NAME $600: 1920s nightclub hostess Texas Guinan was arrested several times for operating these illegal "quiet" establishments speakeasies |
#8490, aired 2021-10-15 | STATE YOUR NAME $800: Stately first name of Mr. Tuxedo, a cartoon penguin voiced by Don Adams Tennessee |
#8490, aired 2021-10-15 | STATE YOUR NAME $1000: This state comes before the names of blues musicians John Hurt & Fred McDowell Mississippi |
#8489, aired 2021-10-14 | MY FIRST NAME IS A TV SHOW TITLE $200: Dr. Crane, on the radio Frasier |
#8489, aired 2021-10-14 | MY FIRST NAME IS A TV SHOW TITLE $400: Mr. Payne, played by the funny Mr. Lawrence Martin |
#8489, aired 2021-10-14 | MY FIRST NAME IS A TV SHOW TITLE $600: Mr. Berkman, a hit man who becomes Mr. Block, an actor Barry |
#8489, aired 2021-10-14 | MY FIRST NAME IS A TV SHOW TITLE $800: Mr. Read, an 8-year-old aardvark Arthur |
#8489, aired 2021-10-14 | MY FIRST NAME IS A TV SHOW TITLE $1000: Ms. Findlay, Edith Bunker's cousin Maude |
#8480, aired 2021-10-01 | NAME CALLING $400: This man adapted Charles Barbier's night writing code into a writing system for the blind Braille |
#8480, aired 2021-10-01 | NAME CALLING $800: This large Howitzer was named for the woman who once owned the Krupp Armaments Company Big Bertha |
#8480, aired 2021-10-01 | NAME CALLING $1200: Creator of TV's "Fargo", Noah Hawley won this mystery award named for a certain Poe-et Edgar |
#8480, aired 2021-10-01 | NAME CALLING $2000: Disraeli was among those who called this man's carriages "the gondolas of London" (Joseph) Hansom |
#8480, aired 2021-10-01 | NAME CALLING $5,000 (Daily Double): Around 1860 this man blazed a trail from Kansas & established a trading post in Oklahoma Territory Jesse Chisholm |
#8479, aired 2021-09-30 | THAT ANIMAL HAD A NAME $200: Launched into space in 1961, Ham was one of these primates a chimp |
#8479, aired 2021-09-30 | THAT ANIMAL HAD A NAME $400: Hotfoot Teddy, a cub that survived a fire, was renamed this for a character who promoted fire safety & became his living symbol Smokey Bear |
#8479, aired 2021-09-30 | THAT ANIMAL HAD A NAME $600: Orangey seen here signing a contract in 1951, later played this simply named role in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Cat |
#8479, aired 2021-09-30 | THAT ANIMAL HAD A NAME $800: Dr. Penny Patterson taught Koko the gorilla this method of communication sign language |
#8479, aired 2021-09-30 | THAT ANIMAL HAD A NAME $1000: Bucephalus carried this man on many of his 4th century B.C. conquests Alexander the Great |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I CAN NAME THAT NO. 1 '80s HIT $200: "Here's a little song I wrote, you might want to sing it note for note" "Don't Worry, Be Happy" |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I CAN NAME THAT NO. 1 '80s HIT $400: "It's the thrill of the fight, rising up to the challenge of our rival" "Eye Of The Tiger" |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I CAN NAME THAT NO. 1 '80s HIT $600: "You know I feel so dirty when they start talking cute, I wanna tell her that I love her but the point is probably moot" "Jessie's Girl" |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I CAN NAME THAT NO. 1 '80s HIT $800: "There's a choice we're making, we're saving our own lives, it's true we'll make a better day, just you and me" "We Are The World" |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I CAN NAME THAT NO. 1 '80s HIT $1000: "Did you ever know that you're my hero? & everything I would like to be, I can fly higher than an eagle, for you are the... " "Wind Beneath My Wings" |
#8477, aired 2021-09-28 | MIDDLE NAME, PLEASE $400: Of senator & former governor Willard Romney Mitt |
#8477, aired 2021-09-28 | MIDDLE NAME, PLEASE $800: Of sisters Hannah & Mary Fanning (2 names please) Dakota & Elle |
#8477, aired 2021-09-28 | MIDDLE NAME, PLEASE $1200: Of the sixth U.S. president Quincy |
#8477, aired 2021-09-28 | MIDDLE NAME, PLEASE $1600: Of the composer of the 1720s "St. John Passion" Sebastian |
#8477, aired 2021-09-28 | MIDDLE NAME, PLEASE $2000: Of Kobe Bryant; it's a shortening of his father's nickname Bean |
#8469, aired 2021-09-16 | THE FIRST NAME THEIR MOM CHOSE $400: Al Sharpton,
& also
Alf Landon Alfred |
#8469, aired 2021-09-16 | THE FIRST NAME THEIR MOM CHOSE $800: Ronnie Spector, of the girl group The Ronettes Veronica |
#8469, aired 2021-09-16 | THE FIRST NAME THEIR MOM CHOSE $1200: First Lady Bess Truman Elizabeth |
#8469, aired 2021-09-16 | THE FIRST NAME THEIR MOM CHOSE $2,000 (Daily Double): Frontiersman Kit Carson & actor Kit Harington Christopher |
#8469, aired 2021-09-16 | THE FIRST NAME THEIR MOM CHOSE $2000: Skater
Sasha Cohen Alexandra |
#8463, aired 2021-08-11 | NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY $400: A literal fairy tale that gets to the bottom of things with a triple wedding A Midsummer Night's Dream |
#8463, aired 2021-08-11 | NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY $800: Laertes gets the short end of the (poisoned) stick Hamlet |
#8463, aired 2021-08-11 | NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY $1200: Mercutio says, "If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark" Romeo and Juliet |
#8463, aired 2021-08-11 | NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY $1600: Tragically, not giving a guy a promotion at work ends up inflaming a non-affair to remember Othello |
#8463, aired 2021-08-11 | NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY $2000: Demetrius is among the many, many casualties by the end & oh yeah... there's cannibalism! Titus Andronicus |
#8459, aired 2021-08-05 | NAME THE MOVIE KING $400: "The Other Boleyn Girl" Henry VIII |
#8459, aired 2021-08-05 | NAME THE MOVIE KING $800: "First Knight" King Arthur |
#8459, aired 2021-08-05 | NAME THE MOVIE KING $1200: Patrick Stewart in "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" King Richard the Lion-Hearted |
#8459, aired 2021-08-05 | NAME THE MOVIE KING $1600: "The Man in the Iron Mask" Louis XIV |
#8459, aired 2021-08-05 | NAME THE MOVIE KING $2000: "Braveheart":
the bad guy Edward I |
#8454, aired 2021-07-29 | NAME THAT BEATLES TUNE $200: "Well, the Ukraine girls really knock me out; they leave the West behind, & Moscow girls make me sing & shout" "Back In The U.S.S.R." |
#8454, aired 2021-07-29 | NAME THAT BEATLES TUNE $400: "All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong?" "Eleanor Rigby" |
#8454, aired 2021-07-29 | NAME THAT BEATLES TUNE $600: "They've been going in & out of style, but they're guaranteed to raise a smile" "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" |
#8454, aired 2021-07-29 | NAME THAT BEATLES TUNE $800: "I think I'm gonna be sad; I think it's today, yeah; the girl that's driving me mad is going away" "Ticket To Ride" |
#8454, aired 2021-07-29 | NAME THAT BEATLES TUNE $1000: "I read the news today, oh boy, about a lucky man who made the grade" "A Day In The Life" |
#8423, aired 2021-06-16 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $400: Via French & Greek from Hut-ka-Ptah, "temple of the soul of Ptah" Egypt |
#8423, aired 2021-06-16 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $800: From the Chinese pronunciation of characters meaning "sun" & "origin" Japan |
#8423, aired 2021-06-16 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $1600: In South America, from the name of a man born in 1783 Bolivia |
#8423, aired 2021-06-16 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $2000: In central Europe, from Latin for "eastern borderland" Austria |
#8423, aired 2021-06-16 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $4,000 (Daily Double): In Central America, thought to be from the name of a local leader & the Spanish word for water Nicaragua |
#8420, aired 2021-06-11 | NAME CALLING $200: Due to his New Deal spending, some called the president Franklin Deficit Roosevelt instead of using this middle name Delano |
#8420, aired 2021-06-11 | NAME CALLING $400: This Roman emperor was called "Biberius" due to his noted love of drinking Tiberius |
#8420, aired 2021-06-11 | NAME CALLING $600: France's fifth king with this name, the last Carolingian monarch, was "The Do-Nothing", & that's saying something Louis |
#8420, aired 2021-06-11 | NAME CALLING $800: Using the old family name, Winston Churchill referred to this world leader as "Herr Schicklgruber" Hitler |
#8420, aired 2021-06-11 | NAME CALLING $1000: Mystic & royal companion Grigori Novykh received this nickname, Russian for "debauched one" Rasputin |
#8409, aired 2021-05-27 | CELEB NAME IN THE MIDDLE $400: Hank
____ ____
Giamatti Aaron Paul |
#8409, aired 2021-05-27 | CELEB NAME IN THE MIDDLE $800: Philip K.
____ ____
Gable Dick Clark |
#8409, aired 2021-05-27 | CELEB NAME IN THE MIDDLE $1200: James
____ ____
Scorsese Dean Martin |
#8409, aired 2021-05-27 | CELEB NAME IN THE MIDDLE $1600: Lenny
____ ____
Greenwood Bruce Lee |
#8409, aired 2021-05-27 | CELEB NAME IN THE MIDDLE $2000: David Foster
____ ____
Mendes Wallace Shawn |
#8404, aired 2021-05-20 | SAME FIRST NAME $200: Olsen of "WandaVision" & "Big" actress Perkins Elizabeth |
#8404, aired 2021-05-20 | SAME FIRST NAME $400: Composer Stravinsky & aircraft designer Sikorsky Igor |
#8404, aired 2021-05-20 | SAME FIRST NAME $600: Photographer Arbus & fashion designer von Furstenberg Diane |
#8404, aired 2021-05-20 | SAME FIRST NAME $800: Race car driver Hamilton & singer Capaldi Lewis |
#8404, aired 2021-05-20 | SAME FIRST NAME $1000: "Baby Driver" director Wright & rocker Winter Edgar |
#8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BIBLICAL FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $200: Zoe &
McAdams Rachel |
#8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BIBLICAL FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Morse &
Alito Samuel |
#8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BIBLICAL FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $600: Wyle &
Webster Noah |
#8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BIBLICAL FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $800: Shelley &
Higgins Clark Mary |
#8372, aired 2021-04-06 | BIBLICAL FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Literary characters Marner &
Lapham Silas |
#8360, aired 2021-03-19 | ENDS IN A FEMALE FIRST NAME $400: A preliminary election, such as New Hampshire's famous presidential one a primary |
#8360, aired 2021-03-19 | ENDS IN A FEMALE FIRST NAME $800: A landlocked nation of South America Bolivia |
#8360, aired 2021-03-19 | ENDS IN A FEMALE FIRST NAME $1200: A condition of extreme dishonor applied to a date in a speech by FDR infamy |
#8360, aired 2021-03-19 | ENDS IN A FEMALE FIRST NAME $1600: Desire to harm; the Supreme Court has said it's necessary for libel malice |
#8360, aired 2021-03-19 | ENDS IN A FEMALE FIRST NAME $2000: Spanish word for a saloon of the southwestern United States a cantina |
#8344, aired 2021-02-25 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $200: Singer Pop & rapper Azalea Iggy |
#8344, aired 2021-02-25 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Crowe & Diaz (he has directed her) Cameron |
#8344, aired 2021-02-25 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $600: Country singer Lambert & actress Cosgrove Miranda |
#8344, aired 2021-02-25 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $800: Singer Simpson & actress Chastain Jessica |
#8344, aired 2021-02-25 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Actresses Kazan & Saldana Zoe |
#8321, aired 2021-01-25 | NAME THAT MALE AUTHOR $200: " 'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be... but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic"' (Lewis) Carroll |
#8321, aired 2021-01-25 | NAME THAT MALE AUTHOR $400: "Didn't firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up & get them going?" Bradbury |
#8321, aired 2021-01-25 | NAME THAT MALE AUTHOR $800: Named "after Alexander Portnoy... symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship" (Philip) Roth |
#8321, aired 2021-01-25 | NAME THAT MALE AUTHOR $1000: "They give guys the ax quite frequently at Pencey. It has a very good academic rating, Pencey" Salinger |
#8321, aired 2021-01-25 | NAME THAT MALE AUTHOR $3,600 (Daily Double): "Far off, the lofty jet of the whale might be seen" Melville |
#8317, aired 2021-01-19 | ANAGRAM THE FIRST NAME $400: A video game plumber & a native people of New Zealand Mario & Maori |
#8317, aired 2021-01-19 | ANAGRAM THE FIRST NAME $800: A nickname for Henry & a hieroglyph of Ancient Egyptian religion Hank & ankh |
#8317, aired 2021-01-19 | ANAGRAM THE FIRST NAME $1200: A first name made up by a rock & roll frontman & a California airport code Axl & LAX |
#8317, aired 2021-01-19 | ANAGRAM THE FIRST NAME $1600: Ms. Bassett & the ore that's the main source of lead Angela & galena |
#8317, aired 2021-01-19 | ANAGRAM THE FIRST NAME $2000: A name meaning "polite" & an adjective meaning typical of the countryside Curtis & rustic |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | THE NAME IS THE TV TITLE $200: An insecure psychiatrist moves back to Seattle & lives with his dad Frasier |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | THE NAME IS THE TV TITLE $400: Billionaire playboy Oliver Queen leads a double life as a hooded vigilante Arrow |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | THE NAME IS THE TV TITLE $600: A redheaded country superstar plays a single mom of 3 Reba |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | THE NAME IS THE TV TITLE $800: It's not set in fairy tale Germany but in Portland & the lead character is Burkhardt Grimm |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | THE NAME IS THE TV TITLE $1000: American football coach Jason Sudeikis manages a London soccer team Ted Lasso |
#8313, aired 2021-01-13 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $400: This Model S car company wouldn't be possible without the inventions of the electrical engineer for whom it is named Tesla |
#8313, aired 2021-01-13 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $800: Prada is named for Mario Prada, who founded the brand in 1913 in this Italian city of fashion Milan |
#8313, aired 2021-01-13 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $1600: Lancosme, this type of French dwelling, inspired the name of Armand Petitjean's cosmetic company Lancôme a château |
#8313, aired 2021-01-13 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $2000: Here's the enviable headquarters of this 3D graphics chip company that put "nv" in its name to mean "next version" Nvidia |
#8313, aired 2021-01-13 | COMPANY NAME ORIGINS $4,000 (Daily Double): This 70 proof German herbal liqueur company's name comes from the German for "hunt master" Jägermeister |
#8253, aired 2020-10-07 | "WAT"s IN A NAME $400: William E. Miller was this Republican's 1964 running mate Barry Goldwater |
#8253, aired 2020-10-07 | "WAT"s IN A NAME $800: It's a little south of Brussels & a little north of Cedar Rapids Waterloo |
#8253, aired 2020-10-07 | "WAT"s IN A NAME $1200: It preceded "Horizon" in the name of a now-infamous oil rig Deepwater |
#8253, aired 2020-10-07 | "WAT"s IN A NAME $1600: On March 10, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell rang him up & said, "Come here--I want to see you" (Thomas) Watson |
#8253, aired 2020-10-07 | "WAT"s IN A NAME $2000: His followers captured the Tower of London on June 14, 1381, but he really lost his head the next day Wat Tyler |
#8243, aired 2020-09-23 | NAME THAT PART OF SPEECH $200: Remember a verb |
#8243, aired 2020-09-23 | NAME THAT PART OF SPEECH $400: Thou pronoun |
#8243, aired 2020-09-23 | NAME THAT PART OF SPEECH $600: Splendiferous an adjective |
#8243, aired 2020-09-23 | NAME THAT PART OF SPEECH $800: Already adverb |
#8243, aired 2020-09-23 | NAME THAT PART OF SPEECH $1000: Although conjunction |
#8237, aired 2020-09-15 | NAME THE DIRECTOR $200: 2016: "Fences", in which he also starred Denzel Washington |
#8237, aired 2020-09-15 | NAME THE DIRECTOR $400: 1997: rediscovering "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" Spielberg |
#8237, aired 2020-09-15 | NAME THE DIRECTOR $600: 1935: taking "The 39 Steps" Hitchcock |
#8237, aired 2020-09-15 | NAME THE DIRECTOR $800: In 2017, a man unafraid of explosions: "Transformers: The Last Knight" Michael Bay |
#8237, aired 2020-09-15 | NAME THE DIRECTOR $1000: 1991: "Point Break" (she'd win a directing Oscar for a later film) (Kathryn) Bigelow |
#8233, aired 2020-06-10 | NAME THE SEASON $200: Earth Day spring |
#8233, aired 2020-06-10 | NAME THE SEASON $400: Daylight saving time ends (in 2020) autumn |
#8233, aired 2020-06-10 | NAME THE SEASON $600: National Hangover Day (think about it a half-sec, you'll get it) winter |
#8233, aired 2020-06-10 | NAME THE SEASON $800: Burning Man summer |
#8233, aired 2020-06-10 | NAME THE SEASON $1000: Ash Wednesday winter |
#8232, aired 2020-06-09 | MIDDLE NAME, PLEASE $200: Of actress Angelina Voight Jolie |
#8232, aired 2020-06-09 | MIDDLE NAME, PLEASE $800: Of country singer Troyal Brooks Garth |
#8232, aired 2020-06-09 | MIDDLE NAME, PLEASE $1000: Of financier J.P. Morgan Pierpont |
#8231, aired 2020-06-08 | NAME, RANK, NO SERIAL NUMBER $200: William Bligh officially got this rank one year after his 1789 misadventure captain |
#8231, aired 2020-06-08 | NAME, RANK, NO SERIAL NUMBER $400: Alvin York is famed as this, but he was a rank below it at the time of his noted World War I actions sergeant |
#8231, aired 2020-06-08 | NAME, RANK, NO SERIAL NUMBER $1000: Robert Gould Shaw, who found "Glory" leading the 54th infantry of this state, was a colonel when he died in battle in 1863 Massachusetts |
#8222, aired 2020-05-26 | THE PROPER NAME IS THE VERB $200: To follow in pursuit, perhaps to the bank of the same name chase |
#8222, aired 2020-05-26 | THE PROPER NAME IS THE VERB $400: To sing Christmas songs to carol |
#8222, aired 2020-05-26 | THE PROPER NAME IS THE VERB $600: To tap gently with affection; you can also "stand" there by staying firm on a choice pat |
#8222, aired 2020-05-26 | THE PROPER NAME IS THE VERB $800: To make a visible impression, like the one on Cain mark |
#8222, aired 2020-05-26 | THE PROPER NAME IS THE VERB $1000: To bestow something formally, like a charter or money for college students grant |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $200: Artists Klee & Gauguin Paul |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $400: British P.M. Eden & "black-ish" star Anderson Anthony |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $600: Writer Swift & preacher Edwards Jonathan |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $800: First Lady Harding & singer Welch Florence |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Philosophers Buber & Heidegger Martin |
#8197, aired 2020-04-07 | NAME THE SPEAKER $200: 2013: "Women in the church are more important than bishops and priests" Pope Francis |
#8197, aired 2020-04-07 | NAME THE SPEAKER $400: In Shakespeare: "Lay on, Macduff, and damn'd be him that first cries, 'hold, enough!"' Macbeth |
#8197, aired 2020-04-07 | NAME THE SPEAKER $800 (Daily Double): 1968: "I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man" Martin Luther King |
#8197, aired 2020-04-07 | NAME THE SPEAKER $800: 1940: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat" Winston Churchill |
#8197, aired 2020-04-07 | NAME THE SPEAKER $1000: A mysterious Melville creation: "I would prefer not to" Bartleby the Scrivener |
#8178, aired 2020-03-11 | PUT THAT SINGER'S NAME ON A POST OFFICE! $200: This pianist may have had "Georgia On My Mind" but the post office named for him is in Los Angeles (Ray) Charles |
#8178, aired 2020-03-11 | NAME THAT INSECT $400: Poets write of the evening "song" of this grasshopper relative, as in Archibald Lampman's "The homely" this "gossips at my feet" a cricket |
#8178, aired 2020-03-11 | PUT THAT SINGER'S NAME ON A POST OFFICE! $400: It's not New York, New York but Hoboken, Hoboken that has a P.O. named for this native son & crooning legend Sinatra |
#8178, aired 2020-03-11 | PUT THAT SINGER'S NAME ON A POST OFFICE! $600: Buck Owens got P.O.ed in 2007 after 17 years hosting this country music show in which an animated donkey brayed the title Hee Haw |
#8178, aired 2020-03-11 | NAME THAT INSECT $800: In French this insect is a "coccinelle" & usually rouge avec points noirs (red with black spots) a ladybug |
#8178, aired 2020-03-11 | NAME THAT INSECT $1200: One variety of this insect from Australia can grow up to 2 feet long a stick bug |
#8162, aired 2020-02-18 | "V" END OF THE RUSSIAN NAME $400: Name of the family that had a 300-year run of royal rule starting in 1613 with Czar Michael Romanov |
#8162, aired 2020-02-18 | "V" END OF THE RUSSIAN NAME $800: Due to the TB that would eventually kill him, this "Sea Gull" playwright moved to the resort of Yalta in 1899 Chekhov |
#8162, aired 2020-02-18 | "V" END OF THE RUSSIAN NAME $1600: You remember his brilliant pawn sacrifice on the 14th move of the 10th game of the 1995 match against Anand Kasparov |
#8162, aired 2020-02-18 | "V" END OF THE RUSSIAN NAME $3,000 (Daily Double): This scientist who worked with dogs also showed how the flow of the stomach's digestive juices is controlled by the vagus nerve Pavlov |
#8154, aired 2020-02-06 | FIRST NAME $200: Steamboat whiz Fulton Robert |
#8154, aired 2020-02-06 | FIRST NAME $400: 19th century "Pathfinder" & politician Fremont John |
#8154, aired 2020-02-06 | FIRST NAME $600: Novelist & sometime Iowa resident Smiley Jane |
#8154, aired 2020-02-06 | FIRST NAME $800: Socialist candidate Debs, middle initial V. Eugene |
#8154, aired 2020-02-06 | FIRST NAME $1000: Lorenzo de Medici's paternal grandfather Cosimo |
#8153, aired 2020-02-05 | AUTHORS' NAME CHANGES $400: Joanne is her first name; she has no middle name but Kathleen was added for literary purposes in honor of her grandmother J.K. Rowling |
#8153, aired 2020-02-05 | AUTHORS' NAME CHANGES $800: Perhaps in an act of "Civil Disobedience", this transcendentalist reversed the order of his first & middle names Thoreau |
#8153, aired 2020-02-05 | AUTHORS' NAME CHANGES $1200: This author who grew up in Oxford, Mississippi added the letter "U" to his last name Faulkner |
#8153, aired 2020-02-05 | AUTHORS' NAME CHANGES $1600: Marguerite Johnson was a singer when she took this stage name & used it when she wrote poems like "Still I Rise" Maya Angelou |
#8153, aired 2020-02-05 | AUTHORS' NAME CHANGES $2000: New Yorker Nathan Weinstein fittingly changed his name to this & eventually moved out to Hollywood Nathanael West |
#8149, aired 2020-01-30 | AUTHOR LAST NAME IN COMMON $200: Novelist Henry & playwright Arthur, both Brooklyn boys Miller |
#8149, aired 2020-01-30 | AUTHOR LAST NAME IN COMMON $400: Journalist Tom & novelist Thomas, both southern boys Wolfe |
#8149, aired 2020-01-30 | AUTHOR LAST NAME IN COMMON $600: Jackie, Suzanne, Wilkie Collins |
#8149, aired 2020-01-30 | AUTHOR LAST NAME IN COMMON $800: E.B., T.H. & Australian Nobelist Patrick White |
#8149, aired 2020-01-30 | AUTHOR LAST NAME IN COMMON $1000: Henry & Helen, who both wrote about title characters with the last name Jones Fielding |
#8144, aired 2020-01-23 | PLACE-NAME NAMES $400: In a 2019 film he starred as Arthur Fleck, who becomes the villainous Joker Joaquin Phoenix |
#8144, aired 2020-01-23 | PLACE-NAME NAMES $800: This star who made a comeback with "Stranger Things" was named for a city in her birthplace of Minnesota Winona Ryder |
#8144, aired 2020-01-23 | PLACE-NAME NAMES $1200: The "TODAY" show is anchored by Hoda Kotb & this woman who is also NBC news chief legal correspondent Savannah Guthrie |
#8144, aired 2020-01-23 | PLACE-NAME NAMES $1600: She defeated Serena Williams to win the women's title at the 2018 U.S. Open (Naomi) Osaka |
#8144, aired 2020-01-23 | PLACE-NAME NAMES $2000: Just go with it--Andy Roddick is married to this model Brooklyn Decker |
#4, aired 2020-01-08 | NAME THE DECADE $200: Christopher Columbus makes his last transatlantic trip: the first decade of this century the 1500s (or the 16th) |
#4, aired 2020-01-08 | NAME THE DECADE $400: The Erie Canal is completed & opens for business the 1820s |
#4, aired 2020-01-08 | NAME THE DECADE $600: The Salem witch trials the 1690s |
#4, aired 2020-01-08 | NAME THE DECADE $800: The Black Death starts;
the Battle of Crécy the 1340s |
#4, aired 2020-01-08 | NAME THE DECADE $1,000 (Daily Double): The Tudor line begins its 5-monarch rule of England the 1480s |
#8127, aired 2019-12-31 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $200: A bit of evidence clue |
#8127, aired 2019-12-31 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $400: The Rialto or Ponte Vecchio a bridge |
#8127, aired 2019-12-31 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $600: A dog that gave its name to a Richard Nixon speech Checkers |
#8127, aired 2019-12-31 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $800: Overlord or Desert Storm Operation |
#8127, aired 2019-12-31 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $1000: A single gem set alone a solitaire |
#8120, aired 2019-12-20 | ON A FIRST NAME BASIS WITH THAT SHOW $200: About Mr. Tribbiani, who spins off to Los Angeles to continue his acting dreams Joey |
#8120, aired 2019-12-20 | ON A FIRST NAME BASIS WITH THAT SHOW $400: About Miss Russo, who gets through adolescence with her single father & her best friend Six Blossom |
#8120, aired 2019-12-20 | ON A FIRST NAME BASIS WITH THAT SHOW $600: About Ms. Morgenstern, who leaves Minneapolis to give New York one last chance Rhoda |
#8120, aired 2019-12-20 | ON A FIRST NAME BASIS WITH THAT SHOW $800: About Mr. Bartowski, a computer repairman dragged into the spy life in the CIA Chuck |
#8120, aired 2019-12-20 | ON A FIRST NAME BASIS WITH THAT SHOW $1000: About Ms. Porter, who impulsively goes to college in New York City to be with high school crush Ben Felicity |
#8115, aired 2019-12-13 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGY $400: In German place names, bad means "bath" & a spa town got its name from this plural word for bath baden |
#8115, aired 2019-12-13 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGY $800: Xian means "county" in this language Mandarin |
#8115, aired 2019-12-13 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGY $1600: The Spanish word "Baja" in Baja California means this below (lower) |
#8115, aired 2019-12-13 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGY $2000: This word that follows Andhra & Uttar comes from Sanskrit for "province" Pradesh |
#8115, aired 2019-12-13 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGY $2,200 (Daily Double): From Indo-Iranian for "place", these 4 letters at the end of a place name mean "land of" stan |
#8098, aired 2019-11-20 | FIRST NAME SONG TITLES $400: Stop! Police! This title woman, "you don't have to put on the red light" Roxanne |
#8098, aired 2019-11-20 | FIRST NAME SONG TITLES $800: Lady Gaga titled this song the Spanish version of late designer McQueen's first name "Alejandro" |
#8098, aired 2019-11-20 | FIRST NAME SONG TITLES $1200: "I'm begging darling, please"! Eric Clapton wrote this love song for Pattie Harrison, then wed to Eric's good pal George "Layla" |
#8098, aired 2019-11-20 | FIRST NAME SONG TITLES $1600: This British singer-songwriter introduced us to both "Veronica" & "Alison" Elvis Costello |
#8098, aired 2019-11-20 | FIRST NAME SONG TITLES $2000: Kiss got all ballad-y singing this woman, "I hear you callin', but I can't come home right now" Beth |
#8089, aired 2019-11-07 | NAME & NUMBER $200: He married Marie-Antoinette in 1770 Louis XVI |
#8089, aired 2019-11-07 | NAME & NUMBER $400: In 1521 he was named "Defender of the Faith"--oh, the irony! Henry VIII |
#8089, aired 2019-11-07 | NAME & NUMBER $600: From 1963 to 1978 he was Bishop of Rome Paul VI |
#8089, aired 2019-11-07 | NAME & NUMBER $1,000 (Daily Double): At least 11 wounds from sharp weapons were found on his skeleton after it was dug up from a Leicestershire parking lot in 2012 Richard III |
#8089, aired 2019-11-07 | NAME & NUMBER $1000: He's better known as Frederick the Great Frederick II |
#8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $200: Free Parking,
Just Visiting Monopoly |
#8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $400: Contract,
discard,
no trump bridge |
#8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $600: Don't come,
easy way,
proposition bet craps |
#8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $800: Bag o' nuts,
breakfast,
bull & cork darts |
#8088, aired 2019-11-06 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $1000: Armor class,
wisdom,
forgotten realms Dungeons & Dragons |
#8063, aired 2019-10-02 | A NAME LIES WITHIN THE WORD $400: To seize a plane by force, perhaps while greeting Mr. Nicholson hijack |
#8063, aired 2019-10-02 | A NAME LIES WITHIN THE WORD $800: Singing that's done sans band or any instruments a cappella |
#8063, aired 2019-10-02 | A NAME LIES WITHIN THE WORD $1200: This 8-letter money-holder is thin, flat & bendable a billfold |
#8063, aired 2019-10-02 | A NAME LIES WITHIN THE WORD $1600: A longshoreman or a dockworker could tell you this word for the job of one who loads a ship a stevedore |
#8063, aired 2019-10-02 | A NAME LIES WITHIN THE WORD $2000: Opaque & grayish, this substance from whale guts has long been used in perfumery ambergris |
#8056, aired 2019-09-23 | THEIR NAME IS LEGION $400: DC Comics had the super-villain group called the Legion of Doom; the Seattle Seahawks had a defensive secondary called this Legion of Boom |
#8056, aired 2019-09-23 | THEIR NAME IS LEGION $600: Any nationality can now join this 8,000-strong military unit, but one does so using a pseudonym called an "anonymat" French (Foreign) Legion |
#8056, aired 2019-09-23 | THEIR NAME IS LEGION $800: On April 26, 1937 the Condor Legion, a unit of the Luftwaffe, devastated this Basque city Guernica |
#8056, aired 2019-09-23 | THEIR NAME IS LEGION $1000: In 1923 Mitt Romney (not that one) intercepted 6 passes in a single game for this state's Racine Legion Wisconsin |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NAME-LETTER PEOPLE $400: From his 1952 parole to his 1964 hajj, Malcolm Little went by this name Malcolm X |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NAME-LETTER PEOPLE $800: Kat Von D rose to TV fame on "Miami Ink" & "L.A. Ink" in this profession a tattoo artist |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NAME-LETTER PEOPLE $1200: This British pop singer revealed she survived a stroke at 18 & "there's no real reason for the J" Jessie J |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NAME-LETTER PEOPLE $1600: In the '80s she was New York City club kid Lisa E; she grew up to be the lead actress in "Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce" Edelstein |
#8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NAME-LETTER PEOPLE $2000: In 2014 the Queen signed her first tweet "Elizabeth R.", the R. short for this Latin word Regina |
#8047, aired 2019-09-10 | NAME-CALLING IN POLITICS $400: Critics call GOP members who have gotten too liberal RINOs, short for this Republican In Name Only |
#8047, aired 2019-09-10 | NAME-CALLING IN POLITICS $600: Paintings by George Rodrigue help provide this colorful nickname for conservative Democrats Blue Dog |
#8047, aired 2019-09-10 | NAME-CALLING IN POLITICS $800: The Progressive Party was also called this male deer Bull Moose |
#8047, aired 2019-09-10 | NAME-CALLING IN POLITICS $1000: Northerners against the Civil War embraced this beastly nickname & cut the heads out of Liberty pennies to wear as badges Copperhead |
#8046, aired 2019-09-09 | LAST NAME FLOW-TOGETHERS $400: Leonard, a conductor & piano player "on the town" in 1944, & Henry, who made his first grand piano in 1856 Bernsteinway |
#8046, aired 2019-09-09 | LAST NAME FLOW-TOGETHERS $800: Lena, one of TV's "Girls", & Dashiell, who wrote about hard-boiled men Dunhammett |
#8046, aired 2019-09-09 | LAST NAME FLOW-TOGETHERS $1200: Journalist Ted, who brought us the news late at night, & politician Nancy, who makes news on many days Koppelosi |
#8046, aired 2019-09-09 | LAST NAME FLOW-TOGETHERS $1600: Edwin, husband of Caroline Kennedy, & Ingrid, wife of Roberto Rossellini Schlossberg & Bergman |
#8046, aired 2019-09-09 | LAST NAME FLOW-TOGETHERS $2000: Jesse, who created a Rainbow Coalition, & Barry, who directed "Addams Family Values" Jacksonnenfeld |
#8034, aired 2019-07-11 | A WAR BY ANY OTHER NAME $400: In the South, the American Civil War is sometimes called the War of Northern this 10-letter word aggression |
#8034, aired 2019-07-11 | A WAR BY ANY OTHER NAME $800: The Beaver Wars in Canada were also known as the French & this Native American league wars the Iroquois wars |
#8034, aired 2019-07-11 | A WAR BY ANY OTHER NAME $1200: This country's 17th century civil wars are also known as "The Great Rebellion" England |
#8034, aired 2019-07-11 | A WAR BY ANY OTHER NAME $2000: The Great Narragansett War is another name for this king's war King Philip |
#8034, aired 2019-07-11 | A WAR BY ANY OTHER NAME $6,000 (Daily Double): The Ramadan War of 1973 is also called this, after a holiday of a different religion the Yom Kippur War |
#8026, aired 2019-07-01 | NAME THAT "OON" $200: It's a synonym for mogul or magnate a tycoon |
#8026, aired 2019-07-01 | NAME THAT "OON" $400: A popular tourist spot, here's Iceland's Blue this lagoon |
#8026, aired 2019-07-01 | NAME THAT "OON" $600: Various forms of this word appear more than 250 times in the novel "Moby-Dick" harpoon |
#8026, aired 2019-07-01 | NAME THAT "OON" $800: This country flies the flag seen here Cameroon |
#8026, aired 2019-07-01 | NAME THAT "OON" $1000: If you insist on chewin' that tobacco, make sure to expel it into this bowl a spittoon |
#8022, aired 2019-06-25 | NAME THE GAME $200: Use all 7 of your tiles on one turn & get a 50-point bonus Scrabble |
#8022, aired 2019-06-25 | NAME THE GAME $400: The classic version incorporates real streets in Atlantic City Monopoly |
#8022, aired 2019-06-25 | NAME THE GAME $600: Water on the knee is one challenge Operation |
#8022, aired 2019-06-25 | NAME THE GAME $800: Use letter tiles to build words in this a-peeling game with a fruit in its name Bananagrams |
#8022, aired 2019-06-25 | NAME THE GAME $1000: It takes some math skills & strategy to win in this ancient African family of games mancala |
#7979, aired 2019-04-25 | LAKE NAME-IS-MEMORABLE $200: Mooselookmeguntic Lake is about 85 miles northwest of this capital of Maine Augusta |
#7979, aired 2019-04-25 | LAKE NAME-IS-MEMORABLE $400: In this "Bay State" some call it Webster Lake; others, Chargoggagogg-manchauggagogg-chaubunagunga-maugg Massachusetts |
#7979, aired 2019-04-25 | LAKE NAME-IS-MEMORABLE $600: Hello, Wisconsin! Take the motorhome brand of the same name to Lake this Winnebago |
#7979, aired 2019-04-25 | LAKE NAME-IS-MEMORABLE $800: In "What About Bob?" this actor tracks down therapist Richard Dreyfuss at a vacation home at N.H.'s Lake Winnipesaukee Bill Murray |
#7979, aired 2019-04-25 | LAKE NAME-IS-MEMORABLE $1000: Those imaginative Canadians! Okanagan Lake's Ogopogo & Lake Memphremagog's Memphre are these lake monsters |
#7972, aired 2019-04-16 | ALSO A FIRST NAME $200: It's a statement of how much you owe bill |
#7972, aired 2019-04-16 | ALSO A FIRST NAME $400: In a familiar phrase the spoils belong to this guy victor |
#7972, aired 2019-04-16 | ALSO A FIRST NAME $600: When this 3-letter word follows "down", the phrase means "know perfectly"; before "down", it's a synonym for frisk pat |
#7972, aired 2019-04-16 | ALSO A FIRST NAME $800: It's the type of haircut seen here a bob |
#7972, aired 2019-04-16 | ALSO A FIRST NAME $1000: If you lower someone's high opinion of himself, you take him down one of these, a wooden fastener a peg |
#7971, aired 2019-04-15 | NAME IN COMMON $200: A national anthem writer & an area on a basketball court Key |
#7971, aired 2019-04-15 | NAME IN COMMON $400: A Bach concerto & a Berlin gate Brandenburg |
#7971, aired 2019-04-15 | NAME IN COMMON $600: A presidential birthplace in Arkansas & a really big diamond Hope |
#7971, aired 2019-04-15 | NAME IN COMMON $800: A London palace & a New York kennel club Westminster |
#7971, aired 2019-04-15 | NAME IN COMMON $1000: Leander's girlfriend & a very large type of sandwich Hero |
#7963, aired 2019-04-03 | DUMPLINGS BY ANY OTHER NAME $200: These Chinese dumplings are typically served fried as an appetizer or boiled & served in a soup of the same name wontons |
#7963, aired 2019-04-03 | DUMPLINGS BY ANY OTHER NAME $400: Chef Boyardee's mini micro beef ones of these cases of pasta are a kid favorite ravioli |
#7963, aired 2019-04-03 | DUMPLINGS BY ANY OTHER NAME $600: The "talk" of Tibet are momos, dumplings filled with the meat of this wild Asian ox a yak |
#7963, aired 2019-04-03 | DUMPLINGS BY ANY OTHER NAME $800: Knaidlach are matzo balls & these similarly named items are Jewish noodle dumplings kreplach |
#7963, aired 2019-04-03 | DUMPLINGS BY ANY OTHER NAME $1000: These dumplings, the Japanese equivalent of potstickers, start with the letter "G" & end up in a dipping sauce--& my mouth gyoza |
#7959, aired 2019-03-28 | NAME THAT NOVELIST! $200: "When one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that" (Oscar) Wilde |
#7959, aired 2019-03-28 | NAME THAT NOVELIST! $400: "'There's not been a direwolf sighted south of the wall in two hundred years" (George R.R.) Martin |
#7959, aired 2019-03-28 | NAME THAT NOVELIST! $600: "Much as I liked Antonia, I hated a superior tone that she sometimes took with me" (Willa) Cather |
#7959, aired 2019-03-28 | NAME THAT NOVELIST! $800: "Once a Garp, then an Arp, now only an Ar; she knew he was dying. He had just one vowel and one consonant left" John Irving |
#7959, aired 2019-03-28 | NAME THAT NOVELIST! $1,000 (Daily Double): "Tonight's lecture--a slide show about pagan symbolism hidden in the stones of Chartres Cathedral" Dan Brown |
#7940, aired 2019-03-01 | NAME THAT TUNA $200: This tuna character first appeared in a Starkist commercial in 1961 Charlie |
#7940, aired 2019-03-01 | NAME THAT TUNA $400: It's bigger than the yellowfin & in 2013 a 490-pound one of these colorful tuna sold at auction in Tokyo for $1.8 million bluefin |
#7940, aired 2019-03-01 | NAME THAT TUNA $600: "Join the Crew" & "Fishin' Friction" are episode titles of this TV show on the National Geographic Channel Wicked Tuna |
#7940, aired 2019-03-01 | NAME THAT TUNA $800: AKA the aku, it's named for the way it launches itself out of the water a skipjack |
#7940, aired 2019-03-01 | NAME THAT TUNA $1000: The FDA's not involved in rating, so tuna rated sushi grade or this raw fish grade is just what the seller thinks is good sashimi |
#7931, aired 2019-02-18 | NAME THE VENUE $400: A Judy Garland show that wins 4 Grammys--this classy NYC hall, 1961 Carnegie Hall |
#7931, aired 2019-02-18 | NAME THE VENUE $800: The "Aquaman" premier in Hollywood, Dec. 12, 2018 Grauman's Chinese Theatre |
#7931, aired 2019-02-18 | NAME THE VENUE $1200: Johnny Cash's musical memorial service--this Nashville auditorium & former home of the Grand Ole Opry the Ryman |
#7931, aired 2019-02-18 | NAME THE VENUE $1600: Frank Sinatra's Las Vegas debut--this "Inn", 1951 the Desert Inn |
#7931, aired 2019-02-18 | NAME THE VENUE $2000: The world premiere of the drama "The Widow Lincoln"--this D.C. venue, January 2015 Ford's Theater |
#7923, aired 2019-02-06 | NAME THE COMPOSER $400: With Tim Rice, "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" (Andrew Lloyd) Webber |
#7923, aired 2019-02-06 | NAME THE COMPOSER $800: Of the score for "Jurassic Park" (John) Williams |
#7923, aired 2019-02-06 | NAME THE COMPOSER $1200: Of "Fig Leaf Rag" & "The Ragtime Dance" Scott Joplin |
#7923, aired 2019-02-06 | NAME THE COMPOSER $1600: Of "If I Could Turn Back Time" & "Because You Loved Me", this woman Diane Warren |
#7923, aired 2019-02-06 | NAME THE COMPOSER $2000: Of the song "Weird Science" & the music for the "Fifty Shades" movies Danny Elfman |
#7911, aired 2019-01-21 | FILL IN THE FULL PLACE NAME $200: "The State of ___ ___ & Providence Plantations" Rhode Island |
#7911, aired 2019-01-21 | ONE-NAME TV TITLES $200: After "Cheers" ended, this title name lived on for an additional 11 seasons Frasier |
#7911, aired 2019-01-21 | FILL IN THE FULL PLACE NAME $400: Founded in 963: "Grand Duchy of ___" Luxembourg |
#7911, aired 2019-01-21 | ONE-NAME TV TITLES $400: For its ninth season, the title guy of this animated FXX show was a hard-drinking pilot, not a hard-drinking spy Archer |
#7911, aired 2019-01-21 | ONE-NAME TV TITLES $600: "The Bubble Boy" & "The Cheever Letters" were consecutive episodes in Season 4 of this Seinfeld |
#7911, aired 2019-01-21 | FILL IN THE FULL PLACE NAME $800: The province of "___ and Labrador " Newfoundland |
#7911, aired 2019-01-21 | ONE-NAME TV TITLES $800: From 2006 to 2013 Showtime killed it with this show about a crime lab worker with a very different night job Dexter |
#7911, aired 2019-01-21 | FILL IN THE FULL PLACE NAME $1,000 (Daily Double): "___-Mesa-Scottsdale Metropolitan Statistical Area" Phoenix |
#7911, aired 2019-01-21 | FILL IN THE FULL PLACE NAME $1000: "Federated States of ___" Micronesia |
#7911, aired 2019-01-21 | ONE-NAME TV TITLES $1000: Just one more thing--name this trench-coated detective whose show originally ran from 1971 to 1978 Columbo |
#7891, aired 2018-12-24 | MY NAME IS MY NAME! $200: Chicago, Collins, Garland Judy |
#7891, aired 2018-12-24 | MY NAME IS MY NAME! $400: Jackson, Temple, Chisholm Shirley |
#7891, aired 2018-12-24 | MY NAME IS MY NAME! $600: Gandhi, Braga, Sotomayor Sonia |
#7891, aired 2018-12-24 | MY NAME IS MY NAME! $800: Stiles, Dent Grant, Ward Howe Julia |
#7891, aired 2018-12-24 | MY NAME IS MY NAME! $1000: Ederle, Lawrence, Stein Gertrude |
#7886, aired 2018-12-17 | SPORTY BRAND NAME MEANINGS $600: This outdoor clothing brand is named for the coldest side of the mountain North Face |
#7886, aired 2018-12-17 | SPORTY BRAND NAME MEANINGS $800: This Portland, Oregon-based sportswear company is named for a river that flows through the city Columbia |
#7886, aired 2018-12-17 | SPORTY BRAND NAME MEANINGS $1000: Twin brothers Bob & Bill Meistrell named this brand for how its wetsuit fit one's figure Body Glove |
#7886, aired 2018-12-17 | SPORTY BRAND NAME MEANINGS $3,000 (Daily Double): This brand started as a catalog in 1983 & was meant to evoke preppy things like rowing--its original logo was an oarsman J. Crew |
#7872, aired 2018-11-27 | THAT'S THE NAME $400: Deborah in Hebrew & Melissa in Greek both translate as this insect important to farming the bee |
#7872, aired 2018-11-27 | THAT'S THE NAME $800: A Hemsworth brother & a Gallagher brother know this Gaelic form is the last 4 letters of the name in English Liam |
#7872, aired 2018-11-27 | THAT'S THE NAME $1600: A patron saint of Italy has this first name that means someone from a country next to Italy Francis |
#7872, aired 2018-11-27 | THAT'S THE NAME $2000: This first name shared by several popes & 3 Russian emperors comes from the Greek for "defender of men" Alexander |
#7872, aired 2018-11-27 | THAT'S THE NAME $2,200 (Daily Double): From Greek, this male first name means "Messiah-bearer" Christopher |
#7854, aired 2018-11-01 | BRAND NAME VARIATIONS $200: Hellmann's on the east coast & Best Foods out west are different brand names for this same product, around since 1920 mayonnaise |
#7854, aired 2018-11-01 | BRAND NAME VARIATIONS $400: In Australia, Hungry Jack's is home to the Whopper, found at this chain in America Burger King |
#7854, aired 2018-11-01 | BRAND NAME VARIATIONS $600: In Canada, "It's not delivery, it's Delissio", what we know better in the U.S. as this frozen pizza brand DiGiorno |
#7854, aired 2018-11-01 | BRAND NAME VARIATIONS $800: Part of the U.S. has Edy's & part has this brand name that honors Edy's ice cream-making partner Dreyer's |
#7854, aired 2018-11-01 | BRAND NAME VARIATIONS $1000: Around the world, what we call Diet Coke is known as Coca-Cola this 5-letter word light |
#7848, aired 2018-10-24 | NAME GAME $200: Start spreading the news--in the 2010s this name of a NYC borough was among the top 30 names for girls Brooklyn |
#7848, aired 2018-10-24 | NAME GAME $400: Enjoying a big comeback is this girl's name, also the title of an Eric Clapton / Derek & the Dominoes hit Layla |
#7848, aired 2018-10-24 | NAME GAME $600: The name of this character in "Moby Dick" is Hebrew for "father's brother" Ahab |
#7848, aired 2018-10-24 | NAME GAME $800: Would it "Wreck-It" if we told you that this name for boys, not as popular as it used to be, means "wolf counsel"? Ralph |
#7848, aired 2018-10-24 | NAME GAME $1000: This first name of painters Bellini & Canaletto is an Italian form of "John" Giovanni |
#7828, aired 2018-09-26 | NAME THE NOVEL $200: "If the picture was to alter, it was to alter. That was all...not one blossom of his loveliness would ever fade" The Picture of Dorian Gray |
#7828, aired 2018-09-26 | NAME THE NOVEL $400: "Oh, fiddle-dee-dee! But look at Mrs. Merriwether. She's selling pies to Yankees and that's worse than running a sawmill" Gone With the Wind |
#7828, aired 2018-09-26 | NAME THE NOVEL $600: "Lecter shut Boyle up with a shot of the mace and as he wheezed...it was easy, with five judicious blows, to beat him to death" Silence of the Lambs |
#7828, aired 2018-09-26 | NAME THE NOVEL $800: "'He must be a very nice animal,' observed the Mole, as he got into the boat and took the sculls" The Wind in the Willows |
#7828, aired 2018-09-26 | NAME THE NOVEL $1000: "Bog murder you, you vonny stinking bratchnies. Where are the others? Where are my stinking traitorous droogs?" Clockwork Orange |
#7813, aired 2018-07-25 | CELEBRITY PARTIAL NAME CHANGES $400: William Claude Dukenfield kept his first 2 initials for his movie career under this name W.C. Fields |
#7813, aired 2018-07-25 | CELEBRITY PARTIAL NAME CHANGES $800: Jonathan Leibowitz' moment of Zen told him to try this as his last name Stewart |
#7813, aired 2018-07-25 | CELEBRITY PARTIAL NAME CHANGES $1200: This country crooner was born Randy Traywick Randy Travis |
#7813, aired 2018-07-25 | CELEBRITY PARTIAL NAME CHANGES $1600: His first stunt was being born in Hong Kong as Chan Kong-Sang Jackie Chan |
#7813, aired 2018-07-25 | CELEBRITY PARTIAL NAME CHANGES $2000: Natalie Hershlag & Winona Horowitz are better known by these last names they used as movie co-stars Natalie Portman and Winona Ryder |
#7808, aired 2018-07-18 | FILM & HIT SONG SAME NAME $200: Taraji P. Henson &
Ike and Tina Turner "Proud Mary" |
#7808, aired 2018-07-18 | FILM & HIT SONG SAME NAME $800: Patrick Dempsey &
The Beatles "Can't Buy Me Love" |
#7808, aired 2018-07-18 | FILM & HIT SONG SAME NAME $2,000 (Daily Double): Nicolas Cage &
Sheryl Crow "Leaving Las Vegas" |
#7805, aired 2018-07-13 | NAME DESIRED $200: This name won a 1966 contest in the New Orleans States-Item newspaper for the city's new NFL team the Saints |
#7805, aired 2018-07-13 | NAME DESIRED $400: This "colorful" conservation group asked the internet to name a humpback whale & we got Mr. Splashy Pants Greenpeace |
#7805, aired 2018-07-13 | NAME DESIRED $600: After a NASA naming contest, the COLBERT, named for late night host Stephen, was a treadmill usable aboard this the International Space Station |
#7805, aired 2018-07-13 | NAME DESIRED $800: After letting the internet vote on the name of 2 moons circling Pluto, SETI chose Kerberos & this river Styx |
#7805, aired 2018-07-13 | NAME DESIRED $1000: Boaty McBoatface won a poll for the name of a big polar ship, but instead, the name chosen honors this British naturalist (David) Attenborough |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | I CAN NAME THAT PERSON IN 2 WORDS $200: Bachelor president James Buchanan |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | I CAN NAME THAT PERSON IN 2 WORDS $400: Tibetan Nobelist the Dalai Lama |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | I CAN NAME THAT PERSON IN 2 WORDS $600: Escapology king Harry Houdini |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | I CAN NAME THAT PERSON IN 2 WORDS $800: Bavarian pope Pope Benedict XVI |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | I CAN NAME THAT PERSON IN 2 WORDS $1000: Centenarian senator Strom Thurmond |
#7787, aired 2018-06-19 | KNOWN BY ONE NAME $400: He's often called the "Father of Geometry" Euclid |
#7787, aired 2018-06-19 | KNOWN BY ONE NAME $800: Before he could exact his revenge, he was taken prisoner by Cortes & died after an attack Montezuma |
#7787, aired 2018-06-19 | KNOWN BY ONE NAME $1200: He recently announced that he plans to step down as Japan's emperor in April 2019 Akihito |
#7787, aired 2018-06-19 | KNOWN BY ONE NAME $1600: After her baptism & marriage, she went by the name Lady Rebecca Rolfe Pocahontas |
#7787, aired 2018-06-19 | KNOWN BY ONE NAME $2000: The Venus in his "Venus of Urbino" painting has hair of the red-gold color for which his art was known Titian |
#7778, aired 2018-06-06 | CALL ME BY YOUR NAME $200: That's neat-o keen:
____-dandy jim-dandy |
#7778, aired 2018-06-06 | CALL ME BY YOUR NAME $400: Policeman's nightstick:
____ club billy |
#7778, aired 2018-06-06 | CALL ME BY YOUR NAME $600: Called kirby grips by Brits:
____ pins bobby pins |
#7778, aired 2018-06-06 | CALL ME BY YOUR NAME $800: Good in an emergency:
____ on the spot Johnny |
#7778, aired 2018-06-06 | CALL ME BY YOUR NAME $1000: Utter nonsense!:
____rot tommyrot |
#7765, aired 2018-05-18 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER'S LAST NAME $400: Dickens' title Nicholas Nickleby |
#7765, aired 2018-05-18 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER'S LAST NAME $800: Dahl's Charlie Bucket |
#7765, aired 2018-05-18 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER'S LAST NAME $1200: Nabokov's Dolores Haze |
#7765, aired 2018-05-18 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER'S LAST NAME $1600: King's Carrie White |
#7765, aired 2018-05-18 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER'S LAST NAME $2000: Du Maurier's Rebecca (her married name) de Winter |
#7754, aired 2018-05-03 | IT BEARS MY NAME $200: This one of the 13 colonies Pennsylvania |
#7754, aired 2018-05-03 | IT BEARS MY NAME $400: This landlocked South American country Bolivia |
#7754, aired 2018-05-03 | IT BEARS MY NAME $600: This home of the main campus of the University of Arkansas Fayetteville |
#7754, aired 2018-05-03 | IT BEARS MY NAME $800: This kingdom Saudi Arabia |
#7754, aired 2018-05-03 | IT BEARS MY NAME $1000: These 2 states of Australia Victoria and Queensland |
#7752, aired 2018-05-01 | NAME THE MOVIE SPORT $200: "Cool Runnings" bobsledding |
#7752, aired 2018-05-01 | NAME THE MOVIE SPORT $400: Starring Will Ferrell:
"Blades of Glory" figure skating |
#7752, aired 2018-05-01 | THE NAME OF THE JAMES $400: In 1881 circus impresario James A. Bailey merged his operation with this former competitor's P.T. Barnum |
#7752, aired 2018-05-01 | NAME THE MOVIE SPORT $600: Featuring Ellen Page:
"Whip It" roller derby |
#7752, aired 2018-05-01 | NAME THE MOVIE SPORT $800: With Will Ferrell:
"Kicking & Screaming" soccer |
#7752, aired 2018-05-01 | THE NAME OF THE JAMES $800: James Lovell dealt with an oxygen tank explosion as commander of this 1970 mission Apollo 13 |
#7752, aired 2018-05-01 | NAME THE MOVIE SPORT $1000: "Blue Crush" surfing |
#7752, aired 2018-05-01 | THE NAME OF THE JAMES $1200: Chess Records' first major female star, this R&B singer hit the charts with "At Last" & "Tell Mama" Etta James |
#7752, aired 2018-05-01 | THE NAME OF THE JAMES $1600: Deposed in 1688 in the "Glorious Revolution", King James II was the last British king of this house Stuart |
#7752, aired 2018-05-01 | THE NAME OF THE JAMES $2000: This former Maine senator & Secretary of State narrowly lost the 1884 presidential election to Grover Cleveland James G. Blaine |
#7727, aired 2018-03-27 | FRENCH FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $200: Explorers Cartier & Cousteau Jacques |
#7727, aired 2018-03-27 | FRENCH FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Composer Debussy & painter Monet Claude |
#7727, aired 2018-03-27 | FRENCH FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $600: Political radical Marat & philosopher Sartre (it's hyphenated) Jean-Paul |
#7727, aired 2018-03-27 | FRENCH FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $800: Painter Pissarro & composer Saint-Saens Camille |
#7727, aired 2018-03-27 | FRENCH FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Actress Signoret & writer de Beauvoir Simone |
#7712, aired 2018-03-06 | NAME THAT POET! $200: "Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led" (Rabbie) Burns |
#7712, aired 2018-03-06 | NAME THAT POET! $400: "'Restore the lock!' she cries; and all around 'Restore the lock!' the vaulted roofs rebound" (Alexander) Pope |
#7712, aired 2018-03-06 | NAME THAT POET! $600: "If you can dream--and not make dreams your master; if you can think--and not make thoughts your aim" Rudyard Kipling |
#7712, aired 2018-03-06 | NAME THAT POET! $800: "The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there" Clement Clark Moore |
#7712, aired 2018-03-06 | NAME THAT POET! $1000: "I love thee freely, as men strive for right; I love thee purely, as they turn from praise" Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
#7703, aired 2018-02-21 | YOU KNOW MY NAME $200: Washington told doctors, "Treat him as if he were my son" after this Frenchman was wounded in a 1777 battle Lafayette |
#7703, aired 2018-02-21 | YOU KNOW MY NAME $600: Really, Empress Alexandra? This Siberian's name is Russian for "debauched one"! No warning signal there! Rasputin |
#7703, aired 2018-02-21 | YOU KNOW MY NAME $800: Even after the White House, she continued her campaign to teach children to "Just Say No" to drugs Nancy Reagan |
#7703, aired 2018-02-21 | YOU KNOW MY NAME $1000: Compiled by his widow Myrlie, the autobiography of this slain civil rights leader was published 43 years after his death Medgar Evers |
#7703, aired 2018-02-21 | YOU KNOW MY NAME $2,600 (Daily Double): World Book puts the dates on the life of this labor union leader as (1913-1975?) Jimmy Hoffa |
#7701, aired 2018-02-19 | REGION NAME'S THE SAME $400: Ecuador & Colombia both have regions named for this man Simon Bolivar |
#7701, aired 2018-02-19 | REGION NAME'S THE SAME $1600: Regions in Bolivia & Argentina & a University of California city share this name for a holy object Santa Cruz |
#7701, aired 2018-02-19 | REGION NAME'S THE SAME $2000: Areas in Morocco & this Mediterranean island country were named Rabat by Arabs Malta |
#7701, aired 2018-02-19 | REGION NAME'S THE SAME $4,000 (Daily Double): This body of water pops up in region names in Egypt, Eritrea & Sudan the Red Sea |
#7699, aired 2018-02-15 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $400: This Caribbean nation takes its name from a word meaning "bearded ones" Barbados |
#7699, aired 2018-02-15 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $800: Al-Jazeera means "the peninsula"; Algeria gets its name from this type of landmass, a cut-off peninsula an island |
#7699, aired 2018-02-15 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $1200: Dark woods on the peaks give Montenegro its name, meaning this black mountain |
#7699, aired 2018-02-15 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $1600: Referring to its location 500 miles south of Samoa, this monarchy's name means "south" Tonga |
#7699, aired 2018-02-15 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $5,600 (Daily Double): The first Spanish explorers in the region noticed silver ornaments worn by natives & this country's name was born Argentina |
#7698, aired 2018-02-14 | NAME GAME $400: This Disney character, seen here back in the 1930s, was at one time known as Dippy Dog Goofy |
#7698, aired 2018-02-14 | NAME GAME $800: Famous for its August 6, 1945 mission, this B-29 bomber was named after the mother of pilot Paul Tibbets the Enola Gay |
#7698, aired 2018-02-14 | NAME GAME $1200: A Shakespeare sprite & a recent Israeli PM had this first name that means "lion of God" Ariel |
#7698, aired 2018-02-14 | NAME GAME $1600: This middle name of President Warren G. Harding is the name of a teacher of Paul in the Bible Gamaliel |
#7698, aired 2018-02-14 | NAME GAME $2000: This U.S. politician who backed exploration lent his last name to a massif that's Antarctica's highest point Mount Vinson |
#7694, aired 2018-02-08 | FIRST NAME VERBS $400: To make a symbol on something Mark |
#7694, aired 2018-02-08 | FIRST NAME VERBS $800: To move up & down as if in a boxing ring Bob |
#7694, aired 2018-02-08 | FIRST NAME VERBS $1200: To make your way through not-so-deep water Wade |
#7694, aired 2018-02-08 | FIRST NAME VERBS $1600: To touch all the bags in baseball (to) Homer |
#7694, aired 2018-02-08 | FIRST NAME VERBS $2000: To throw something, or to strike gently under the chin Chuck |
#7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-NAME THE AUTHOR $400: "Kidnapped" Robert Louis Stevenson |
#7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-NAME THE AUTHOR $800: "The Deerslayer" James Fenimore Cooper |
#7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-NAME THE AUTHOR $1600: "The Maine Woods", published posthumously in 1864 Henry David Thoreau |
#7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-NAME THE AUTHOR $2000: "The Magician of Lublin" Isaac Bashevis Singer |
#7684, aired 2018-01-25 | 3-NAME THE AUTHOR $3,000 (Daily Double): "Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out" Louisa May Alcott |
#7677, aired 2018-01-16 | NAME THAT WORLD LEADER $200: Canada:
Beginning in 2015 (Justin) Trudeau |
#7677, aired 2018-01-16 | NAME THAT WORLD LEADER $400: France:
General-ly in charge from 1958 to 1969 General de Gaulle |
#7677, aired 2018-01-16 | NAME THAT WORLD LEADER $600: India:
Teaching & leading from 1947 to 1964 Nehru |
#7677, aired 2018-01-16 | NAME THAT WORLD LEADER $800: Venezuela:
Leading a Bolivarian revolution from 1998 to 2013 Chávez |
#7677, aired 2018-01-16 | NAME THAT WORLD LEADER $1000: China:
X Marked the spot from the late 1970s into the '90s (Deng) Xiaoping |
#7650, aired 2017-12-08 | STAGE NAME'S THE SAME $400: Funnyman directory Melvin Kaminsky & funnyman director Albert Einstein Brooks |
#7650, aired 2017-12-08 | STAGE NAME'S THE SAME $800: '70s TV star John Sanford & "Beat Shazam" host Eric Bishop Foxx |
#7650, aired 2017-12-08 | STAGE NAME'S THE SAME $1200: Guitar whiz Lester Polfuss & (acting) meth whiz Aaron Sturtevant Paul |
#7650, aired 2017-12-08 | STAGE NAME'S THE SAME $1600: Tall comedian Brad Gerstenfeld & '70s teen idol Leif Per Nervik Garrett |
#7650, aired 2017-12-08 | STAGE NAME'S THE SAME $2000: Screen legend Lucille LeSueur & Broadway legend Michael Dumbell-Smith Crawford |
#7634, aired 2017-11-16 | CHEESY NAME ORIGINS $200: It's often made from ewe's milk:
from the Modern Greek for "slice" feta |
#7634, aired 2017-11-16 | CHEESY NAME ORIGINS $400: It's made from goat's milk:
French for "goat" chevre |
#7634, aired 2017-11-16 | CHEESY NAME ORIGINS $600: This yellow cheddar:
the Oregon county where it is produced Tillamook |
#7634, aired 2017-11-16 | CHEESY NAME ORIGINS $800: A soft, creamy cheese:
Italian for "beautiful country" Bel Paese |
#7634, aired 2017-11-16 | CHEESY NAME ORIGINS $1000: This one similar to cheddar:
the town in Wisconsin where the Steinwand family created it colby cheese |
#7592, aired 2017-09-19 | BRAND NAME MEANINGS $200: The name of this fresh fruit brand is Spanish for "little girl" Chiquita |
#7592, aired 2017-09-19 | BRAND NAME MEANINGS $400: This music app is named for the mythological woman to whom Apollo gave the gift of music Pandora |
#7592, aired 2017-09-19 | BRAND NAME MEANINGS $600: The name of this shampoo brand means "smoothly agreeable" Suave |
#7592, aired 2017-09-19 | BRAND NAME MEANINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): This gas brand gets its name from a badge used in heraldry Chevron |
#7592, aired 2017-09-19 | BRAND NAME MEANINGS $1000: Latin for "snow" gives us the name of this snow white skin cream Nivea |
#7586, aired 2017-09-11 | NAME HER SPORT $600: Sue Bird basketball |
#7586, aired 2017-09-11 | NAME HER SPORT $800: Gabrielle Reece volleyball |
#7586, aired 2017-09-11 | NAME HER SPORT $1000: Simona Halep tennis |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | THE NAME OF THE WIND $400: Spanish for "devil", it's northern California's version of a Santa Ana wind diablo |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | THE NAME OF THE WIND $800: These winds that blow west get their name from an old word for a regular course, not from helping commerce trade winds |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | THE NAME OF THE WIND $1600: One of these "fishy" winds in the Rockies once hit 134 miles per hour near Boulder, Colorado the Chinook |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | THE NAME OF THE WIND $2,000 (Daily Double): Whether found in the Pennine or Ligurian sections, Foehns are winds first studied in these mountains the Alps |
#7577, aired 2017-07-18 | THE NAME OF THE WIND $2000: All the French poets know it's an up-to-60-mph wind that blows in from the Rhone Valley the mistral |
#7548, aired 2017-06-07 | NAME THE CAPITAL $200: Alabama Montgomery |
#7548, aired 2017-06-07 | NAME THE CAPITAL $400: Mongolia Ulaanbaatar |
#7548, aired 2017-06-07 | NAME THE CAPITAL $600: Nova Scotia Halifax |
#7548, aired 2017-06-07 | NAME THE CAPITAL $800: Estonia Tallinn |
#7548, aired 2017-06-07 | NAME THE CAPITAL $1000: Bermuda Hamilton |
#7542, aired 2017-05-30 | BEHIND THE BIBLICAL NAME $200: As you might guess, this king's name is derived from the Hebrew word for "peace" Solomon |
#7542, aired 2017-05-30 | BEHIND THE BIBLICAL NAME $400: Call me this name & "God will hear" Ishmael |
#7542, aired 2017-05-30 | BEHIND THE BIBLICAL NAME $800: Sound the trumpets! Both Isaiah & this Old Testament name mean "the Lord is salvation" Joshua |
#7542, aired 2017-05-30 | BEHIND THE BIBLICAL NAME $1000: One of the Kennedy sisters had this New Testament name that means "good victory" Eunice |
#7542, aired 2017-05-30 | BEHIND THE BIBLICAL NAME $2,000 (Daily Double): A character on "Friends" & a woman mentioned in Romans share this name meaning "pure" & "bright" Phoebe |
#7524, aired 2017-05-04 | STARTS WITH AN NBA TEAM NAME $400: In an animated film Jasmine & Aladdin go flying on this type of remarkable rug a magic carpet |
#7524, aired 2017-05-04 | STARTS WITH AN NBA TEAM NAME $800: Thelonious Monk would have loved this musical workout created by Judi Sheppard Missett Jazzercise |
#7524, aired 2017-05-04 | STARTS WITH AN NBA TEAM NAME $1600: The University of the West Indies is located on the outskirts of this capital city Kingston |
#7524, aired 2017-05-04 | STARTS WITH AN NBA TEAM NAME $2,000 (Daily Double): This lucrative British lottery is also a 1960s James Bond movie title Thunderball |
#7524, aired 2017-05-04 | STARTS WITH AN NBA TEAM NAME $2000: The Sidewinder missile is this type that uses infrared technology heat-seeking |
#7523, aired 2017-05-03 | NAME'S EXACTLY THE SAME $200: Shakespeare's wife & an actress who has won both a Emmy & an Academy Award Anne Hathaway |
#7523, aired 2017-05-03 | NAME'S EXACTLY THE SAME $400: Henry VIII's wife No. 3 & "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" Jane Seymour |
#7523, aired 2017-05-03 | NAME'S EXACTLY THE SAME $600: The star of "Bullitt" (1968) & the director of "12 Years a Slave" (2013) Steve McQueen |
#7523, aired 2017-05-03 | NAME'S EXACTLY THE SAME $800: A chief speechwriter for Obama & the director of "Iron Man" who also starred in "Swingers" Jon Favreau |
#7523, aired 2017-05-03 | NAME'S EXACTLY THE SAME $1000: Please "R.T."! The drummer for Duran Duran & the drummer for Queen Roger Taylor |
#7504, aired 2017-04-06 | RHYMES WITH A BEATLE'S FIRST NAME $200: To create an illegal imitation of official papers forge |
#7504, aired 2017-04-06 | RHYMES WITH A BEATLE'S FIRST NAME $400: It can precede tennis or mower lawn |
#7504, aired 2017-04-06 | RHYMES WITH A BEATLE'S FIRST NAME $600: An early American form of this game was called Beano bingo |
#7504, aired 2017-04-06 | RHYMES WITH A BEATLE'S FIRST NAME $800: Worshippers show love for the Torah by touching it with the prayer type of this, which they then kiss a shawl |
#7504, aired 2017-04-06 | RHYMES WITH A BEATLE'S FIRST NAME $1000: You could be wading in an east African lake as this, Phoeniconaias minor a flamingo |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | HIS REAL FIRST NAME $200: Jay Z Shawn |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | HIS REAL FIRST NAME $400: Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill Thomas |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | HIS REAL FIRST NAME $600: Charlie Sheen Carlos |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | HIS REAL FIRST NAME $800: Calvin Coolidge John |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | HIS REAL FIRST NAME $1000: Elvis Costello Declan |
#7455, aired 2017-01-27 | THE NAME ON THE AIRPORT $400: The airport code for Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport is SPI, which stands for this state capital Springfield |
#7455, aired 2017-01-27 | THE NAME ON THE AIRPORT $800: Tributes to this woman of Albanian heritage include renaming Tirana International for her & in 2016, sainthood Mother Teresa |
#7455, aired 2017-01-27 | THE NAME ON THE AIRPORT $1200: The Red Baron Flyer is a publication of the Sonoma County, California airport named for this cartoonist Charles Schulz |
#7455, aired 2017-01-27 | THE NAME ON THE AIRPORT $1600: The airport of this Mideast city was renamed after Prime Minister Rafik Hariri following his 2005 assassination Beirut |
#7455, aired 2017-01-27 | THE NAME ON THE AIRPORT $2000: The Milwaukee International Airport is named for this air power advocate who was later court-martialed General Billy Mitchell |
#7454, aired 2017-01-26 | THAT'S MY SCIENTIFIC NAME $200: Equus caballus a horse |
#7454, aired 2017-01-26 | THAT'S MY SCIENTIFIC NAME $400: Cygnus atratus a swan |
#7454, aired 2017-01-26 | THAT'S MY SCIENTIFIC NAME $600: Vulpes chama a fox |
#7454, aired 2017-01-26 | THAT'S MY SCIENTIFIC NAME $800: Apis mellifera a bee |
#7454, aired 2017-01-26 | THAT'S MY SCIENTIFIC NAME $2,000 (Daily Double): Balaenoptera musculus a blue whale |
#7446, aired 2017-01-16 | GOT YOUR NAME TAG? $200: Here you go, Mr. winner of this decisive 1805 naval battle Trafalgar |
#7446, aired 2017-01-16 | GOT YOUR NAME TAG? $400: May I just say you're an inspiration to millions & richly deserve this 2014 award the Nobel Peace Prize |
#7446, aired 2017-01-16 | GOT YOUR NAME TAG? $600: We hope you'll be signing copies of this work, your fullest description of the ideal state The Republic |
#7446, aired 2017-01-16 | GOT YOUR NAME TAG? $800: You might not want to wear your tag if there's anyone here from this island you ruled from 1971 to 1986 Haiti |
#7446, aired 2017-01-16 | GOT YOUR NAME TAG? $1000: Sorry, Attila, I know you wanted it to say "Flagellum Dei", Latin for this, but they said no nicknames Scourge of God |
#7426, aired 2016-12-19 | DOUBLE-NAME NEWSPAPERS $200: The St. Louis Post-... Dispatch |
#7426, aired 2016-12-19 | DOUBLE-NAME NEWSPAPERS $400: The Omaha World-... Herald |
#7426, aired 2016-12-19 | DOUBLE-NAME NEWSPAPERS $600: The Atlanta Journal-... Constitution |
#7426, aired 2016-12-19 | DOUBLE-NAME NEWSPAPERS $800: The San Diego Union- or the Minneapolis Star... Tribune |
#7426, aired 2016-12-19 | DOUBLE-NAME NEWSPAPERS $1000: The Louisville Courier- or the Akron Beacon... Journal |
#7422, aired 2016-12-13 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $200: "Dilbert" creator Scott &
First Lady Abigail Adams |
#7422, aired 2016-12-13 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Rivers of Weezer &
Mario of New York Cuomo |
#7422, aired 2016-12-13 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $600: "Lost Horizon" novelist James &
heiress Nicky Hilton |
#7422, aired 2016-12-13 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $800: Actor Jeffrey Dean &
rich guy John Pierpont Morgan |
#7422, aired 2016-12-13 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Glass House architect Philip &
wrestler Dwayne Johnson |
#7416, aired 2016-12-05 | NAME THAT NOUN $200: R:
a long, narrow crest of ground ridge |
#7416, aired 2016-12-05 | NAME THAT NOUN $400: T:
a synonym for poisonous mushroom toadstool |
#7416, aired 2016-12-05 | NAME THAT NOUN $600: B:
large terrestrial monkey of the genus Papio baboon |
#7416, aired 2016-12-05 | NAME THAT NOUN $800: Z:
African-American dance music of Louisiana zydeco |
#7416, aired 2016-12-05 | NAME THAT NOUN $1000: G:
a triangular roof end a gable |
#7399, aired 2016-11-10 | NAME THE DISNEY MOVIE $200: "That's no blizzard. That's my sister" Frozen |
#7399, aired 2016-11-10 | NAME THE DISNEY MOVIE $400: "We are all connected in the great circle of life" The Lion King |
#7399, aired 2016-11-10 | NAME THE DISNEY MOVIE $600: "A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face" Pinocchio |
#7399, aired 2016-11-10 | NAME THE DISNEY MOVIE $800: "I shall call him Squishy & he shall be mine. & he shall be my Squishy. Come here, Squishy" Finding Nemo |
#7399, aired 2016-11-10 | NAME THE DISNEY MOVIE $1000: "Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind" Lilo & Stitch |
#7387, aired 2016-10-25 | NAME THE CAPITAL $200: Kentucky Frankfort |
#7387, aired 2016-10-25 | NAME THE CAPITAL $400: Australia Canberra |
#7387, aired 2016-10-25 | NAME THE CAPITAL $600: South Dakota Pierre |
#7387, aired 2016-10-25 | NAME THE CAPITAL $800: The Dominican Republic Santo Domingo |
#7387, aired 2016-10-25 | NAME THE CAPITAL $1000: Saskatchewan Regina |
#7377, aired 2016-10-11 | RUSSIAN FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $200: Baryshnikov &
Gorbachev Mikhail |
#7377, aired 2016-10-11 | RUSSIAN FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Shostakovich &
Mendeleyev Dmitri |
#7377, aired 2016-10-11 | RUSSIAN FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $600: Gromyko &
Sakharov Andrei |
#7377, aired 2016-10-11 | RUSSIAN FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $800: Gogol &
Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai |
#7377, aired 2016-10-11 | RUSSIAN FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Shcharansky &
Karpov Anatoly |
#7371, aired 2016-10-03 | WHAT THE CITY NAME MEANS $200: God's Guidance & Care, Rhode Island Providence |
#7371, aired 2016-10-03 | WHAT THE CITY NAME MEANS $400: Grassy Plain, Georgia Savannah |
#7371, aired 2016-10-03 | WHAT THE CITY NAME MEANS $600: Clear Water, Wisconsin Eau Claire |
#7371, aired 2016-10-03 | WHAT THE CITY NAME MEANS $800: Mr. Skinner, Oregon Eugene |
#7371, aired 2016-10-03 | WHAT THE CITY NAME MEANS $1000: Ottawa Chief, Michigan Pontiac |
#7360, aired 2016-09-16 | MY NAME IS PRINCE $200: During a downpour in Florida in 2007, Prince closed the Super Bowl halftime show with this aptly titled tune "Purple Rain" |
#7360, aired 2016-09-16 | MY NAME IS PRINCE $400: Of this title object, Prince sang, "and if it was warm, she wouldn't wear much more" a raspberry beret |
#7360, aired 2016-09-16 | MY NAME IS PRINCE $600: This Irish lass' No. 1 hit "Nothing Compares 2 U" was written by Prince Sinead O'Connor |
#7360, aired 2016-09-16 | MY NAME IS PRINCE $800: It's the alliterative name of Prince's label, as well as his home & studios outside Minneapolis Paisley Park |
#7360, aired 2016-09-16 | MY NAME IS PRINCE $1000: Prince converted to this religion in 2001 & went door-to-door to discuss his faith, surprising many a homeowner Jehovah's Witness |
#7355, aired 2016-07-29 | SPELL THE FIRST NAME $400: Supreme Court judge Sotomayor S-O-N-I-A |
#7355, aired 2016-07-29 | SPELL THE FIRST NAME $800: The recent Oscars host known as NPH N-E-I-L |
#7355, aired 2016-07-29 | SPELL THE FIRST NAME $1200: Donald Trump's current wife M-E-L-A-N-I-A |
#7355, aired 2016-07-29 | SPELL THE FIRST NAME $1600: Tom Cruise's daughter with Katie Holmes S-U-R-I |
#7355, aired 2016-07-29 | SPELL THE FIRST NAME $2000: Secretary of Homeland Security Mr. Johnson J-E-H |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | THE FIRST NAME GAME $400: Ted is often short for this, as in late senator Ted Stevens Theodore |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | THE FIRST NAME GAME $800: The first name of theatrical set designer Walton, or what he won for his work on "Pippin" a Tony |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | THE FIRST NAME GAME $1200: This name of a 20th century princess is part of the correct way to address a duchess Grace |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | THE FIRST NAME GAME $1600: This name given the 1974 discovery seen here was taken from a Beatles song Lucy |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | THE FIRST NAME GAME $2000: This Italian male first name also means a vivid red Carmine |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | MY NAME IS SYMBOLIC $200: For awhile, this musician went by the symbol seen here Prince |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | MY NAME IS SYMBOLIC $400: Let's "Get The Party Started" by saying this singer uses an exclamation point to replace the "I" in her name P!nk |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | MY NAME IS SYMBOLIC $600: In 2014 time ran out for the dollar sign in this "Tik Tok" singer's name Kesha |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | MY NAME IS SYMBOLIC $800: The Roots of the issue? Q or an actual question mark have both been used in the name of this drummer Questlove |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | MY NAME IS SYMBOLIC $1000: Clams Casino & Danger Mouse helped produce the rap album that featured "Goldie" by A$AP him Rocky |
#7337, aired 2016-07-05 | A NAME IN THE TITLE $400: Off on another adventure, this boy is paired with "The Great Glass Elevator" in a Roald Dahl tale Charlie |
#7337, aired 2016-07-05 | A NAME IN THE TITLE $800: Based on her years as a governess, "Agnes Grey" is an 1847 novel by this lesser known literary sister Anne Brontë |
#7337, aired 2016-07-05 | A NAME IN THE TITLE $1200: In a story of 19th century Wall Street, this title clerk famously replies, "I would prefer not to" Bartleby, the scrivener |
#7337, aired 2016-07-05 | A NAME IN THE TITLE $1600: Jean Anouilh's play about this doomed daughter of Oedipus was first performed in occupied Paris during WWII Antigone |
#7337, aired 2016-07-05 | A NAME IN THE TITLE $2000: In a Saul Bellow novel, his title "Gift" is a screenplay bequeathed to Charlie Citrine Humboldt |
#7332, aired 2016-06-28 | NAME THEIR SPORT $200: Abby Wambach women's soccer |
#7332, aired 2016-06-28 | NAME THEIR SPORT $400: Julian Edelman football |
#7332, aired 2016-06-28 | NAME THEIR SPORT $600: Michelle Kwan figure skating |
#7332, aired 2016-06-28 | NAME THEIR SPORT $800: Jason Day golfing |
#7332, aired 2016-06-28 | NAME THEIR SPORT $1000: Missy Franklin swimming |
#7329, aired 2016-06-23 | PRODUCE THE CELEBRITY NAME $400: This redheaded prop comedian has a long-term gig at the Luxor in Las Vegas Carrot Top |
#7329, aired 2016-06-23 | PRODUCE THE CELEBRITY NAME $800: This New York Mets outfielder was Rookie of the Year in 1983 & led the league in home runs 5 years later (Darryl) Strawberry |
#7329, aired 2016-06-23 | PRODUCE THE CELEBRITY NAME $1200: As Jan Brady on "The Brady Bunch", she uttered the line "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia" (Eve) Plumb |
#7329, aired 2016-06-23 | PRODUCE THE CELEBRITY NAME $1600: Her debut album "Tidal" went triple platinum & included the hit song "Criminal" (Fiona) Apple |
#7329, aired 2016-06-23 | PRODUCE THE CELEBRITY NAME $2000: Once a writer for TV's "The Golden Girls", he later created "Desperate Housewives" Marc Cherry |
#7316, aired 2016-06-06 | PRO SPORTS TEAM NAME CHANGES $200: In 1932 the Brooklyn Robins changed their name back to this the Brooklyn Dodgers |
#7316, aired 2016-06-06 | PRO SPORTS TEAM NAME CHANGES $400: In 2014 these Charlotte NBA felines became the Hornets the Bobcats |
#7316, aired 2016-06-06 | PRO SPORTS TEAM NAME CHANGES $600: A move from Texas to Tennessee earned an NFL team this new name the Titans |
#7316, aired 2016-06-06 | PRO SPORTS TEAM NAME CHANGES $800: "Stockings" was once part of the name of this oldest team in the NL Central Division the Cincinnati Reds |