| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $200: Elected governor in 1868, John T. Hoffman was the last to go from this job to higher office; Rudy, Bloomberg & de Blasio all tried mayor of New York |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $400: On June 29, 1795 this first chief justice resigned from the Supreme Court to become New York's second governor (John) Jay |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $600: Known as the "Father of the Erie Canal", he served 2 terms as governor of New York DeWitt Clinton |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $800: George Pataki's governorship 1995-2007 included environmental protection for this body of water, shared with Connecticut Long Island Sound |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $1000: This governor resigned from politics 2 months after losing the 1876 presidential election to Rutherford B. Hayes Samuel Tilden |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $200: Lindbergh is mentioned in the first paragraph of her 1937 obit Amelia Earhart |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $600: This surrealist's 1989 obit noted when he "hallucinated in the late 1920s, the whole world hallucinated with him" Dalí |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $800: His 2018 obit described him as a physicist and author "who roamed the cosmos from a wheelchair" Hawking |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $1000: This actor's 2016 obit mentioned he had outlived by about 34 years an erroneous report of his death that made him a cult figure Abe Vigoda |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $8,200 (Daily Double): Aretha Franklin's 2018 obit cited this song as "a harbinger of feminism, carried by a voice that would accept nothing less" "Respect" |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | DINING OUT IN NEW YORK $200: There are likely fewer sheep there nowadays, but Sheep Meadow is in this 843-acre area, not far from Tavern on the Green Central Park |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | DINING OUT IN NEW YORK $400: We suspect vodka lovers more than tea aficionados gravitate to this restaurant dating back to 1927 the Russian Tea Room |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | DINING OUT IN NEW YORK $600: Enjoy the raw bar at the Oyster Bar, an institution at this transportation hub since 1913 Grand Central Station |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | DINING OUT IN NEW YORK $800: Robert De Niro co-owns this grill named for the neighborhood it's in Tribeca |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | DINING OUT IN NEW YORK $1000: Per Se is a NYC restaurant where this chef of the French Laundry has augmented his reputation (Thomas) Keller |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE NEW YORK KNOCKS $200: Anyone from Boston will tell you the New England type of this, with milk, tops Manhattan's, with tomatoes chowder |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE NEW YORK KNOCKS $400: The title of this Broadway musical that opened on May 5, 1955 makes its feelings about the local baseball team quite apparent Damn Yankees |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE NEW YORK KNOCKS $600: Tough times at this arena, the "Mecca of Basketball", as even Pixar dunked on the Knicks in "Soul", explaining decades of futility Madison Square Garden |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE NEW YORK KNOCKS $800: In their 1979 Top 40 hit "Shattered", this group sang, "Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don't mind the maggots"... shadoobie The Rolling Stones |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE NEW YORK KNOCKS $1000: A Yelper on this landmark connecting Canal St. & Jersey City: a "traffic jam tunnel. If you have a small bladder like me, good luck" the Holland Tunnel |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | NEW YORK NICKS $200: Nicholas Murray Butler, who shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, ran this New York City Ivy League school for 44 years Columbia |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | NEW YORK NICKS $400: Last name of hotel chain founder Conrad & Nicky, one of his New York-born great-granddaughters Hilton |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | NEW YORK NICKS $600: Reagan hired New York-born Nicholas Brady to investigate the 1987 stock market crash & later appointed him to this Cabinet post Secretary of the Treasury |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | NEW YORK NICKS $800: This funny man starred on Broadway with John Mulaney as old New Yorkers in "Oh, Hello" Nick Kroll |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | NEW YORK NICKS $1000: Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times shared a 1990 Pulitzer with his wife for reporting on the events in this Chinese plaza Tiananmen Square |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | WHICH NEW YORK CITY BOROUGH? $200: Is home to the New York Stock Exchange Manhattan |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | WHICH NEW YORK CITY BOROUGH? $400: Is the most populous of the 5 boroughs Brooklyn |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | WHICH NEW YORK CITY BOROUGH? $600: Is where you can see the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, built for the 1964 World's Fair Queens |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | WHICH NEW YORK CITY BOROUGH? $800: Is 14 miles long & has only about 5% of New York City's population Staten Island |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | WHICH NEW YORK CITY BOROUGH? $1000: Is the location of Pelham Bay Park, which is more than 3 times larger than Central Park the Bronx |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $200: This capital was founded as Fort Nassau in the early 1600s Albany |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $400: In 1906 Willis Carrier of the Buffalo Forge Company patented an "apparatus for treating air", now known as this the air conditioner |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $600: Said to be the USA's oldest state park is the one encompassing this natural wonder formed about 12,000 years ago Niagara Falls |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $800: Making his name as a prosecutor, he was elected governor in 1942, 1946 & 1950 but lost twice for president in that time (Thomas) Dewey |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | NEW YORK STATE HISTORY $1000: He was the governor of New Netherland before surrendering the region to the British in 1664 Peter Stuyvesant |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $400: In 1976 James Baldwin reviewed this book that "begins in Gambia West Africa in 1750 with the birth of... Kunta Kinte" Roots |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $800: In 1911 this author made news when he attended a birthday party for a dog named Fluffy Ruffles, not White Fang (Jack) London |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $1200: Begun as a Saturday supplement in 1896, the first review included an update on this writer, incarcerated in Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $1600: Offering "very good advice on bad assumptions" is what the reviewer had to say about "How to Win Friends and" do this Influence People |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $2000: In an interview, this author said he prepared for writing "The Lincoln Highway" by reading many works set in the 1950s Amor Towles |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | NEW YORK-SET FICTION $200: From this novella: "Holly Golightly had been a tenant in the old brownstone; she'd occupied the apartment below mine" Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | NEW YORK-SET FICTION $400: Chaim Potok's classic "The Chosen" tells of 2 Jewish young men growing up in the Williamsburg area of this borough Brooklyn |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | NEW YORK-SET FICTION $800: This "Sex and the City" author also gave us "Lipstick Jungle" & "One Fifth Avenue" (Candace) Bushnell |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | NEW YORK-SET FICTION $1000: Edith Wharton wrote of upper-class New York society during the Gilded Age in this Pulitzer Prize winner The Age of Innocence |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | NEW YORK-SET FICTION $4,000 (Daily Double): There are sinister goings on at the Bramford apartment building, including Mrs. Woodhouse's pregnancy, in this Ira Levin classic Rosemary's Baby |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | NEW YORK CITY $200: Gary Muhrcke, winner of the 1st race up 1,576 stairs of the Empire State Bldg. in 1978, was also the 1st to win this NYC event in 1970 the New York City Marathon |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | NEW YORK CITY $400: Take a selfie with the Statue of Liberty aboard this 25-minute ride to the St. George Terminal across New York Harbor the Staten Island Ferry |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | NEW YORK CITY $600: thrillist.com named this Brooklyn "burg" the world's No. 1 hipster neighborhood Williamsburg |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | NEW YORK CITY $800: Keens Steakhouse displays thousands of clay pipes used by patrons like Buffalo Bill, Babe Ruth & this Rough Rider & N.Y. native Teddy Roosevelt |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | NEW YORK CITY $1000: You can hitch a ride or just take a bus to this Queens beach, New York City's only legal surfing spot Rockaway |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | NEW YORK: NEWS CLUES $200: (Hi, I'm Bill Ritter.) You know, it's always hard to find parking around Manhattan, but on January 15, 2009, Captain "Sully" Sullenberger saved 155 lives with an emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in this river on the West Side Hudson |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | NEW YORK: NEWS CLUES $400: (Hi, I'm Lee Goldberg.) Literally stepping up to home plate after a grim medical diagnosis, on July 4, 1939, this Yankee said the following--"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.” (Lou) Gehrig |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | NEW YORK: NEWS CLUES $600: (Hi, I'm Sade Baderinwa.) As part of a New York City tradition that began in 1962, many movie stars, including James Earl Jones as Othello, & Meryl Streep in "Henry V", have interpreted the Bard as part of this project Shakespeare in the Park |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | NEW YORK: NEWS CLUES $800: (Hi, I'm Ryan Field.) Extending from Manhattan's southern tip up Broadway to City Hall, the Canyon of Heroes has hosted many ticker tape parades, including one for the U.S. National Women's Team's huge win in this sport in 2019 soccer |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | NEW YORK: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Hi, I'm Liz Cho.) In 1879, critics wondered if New Yorkers would go all the way up Fifth Avenue to the near wilderness of 50th Street after the May 25 formal opening of this Catholic church; turns out, New Yorkers would St. Patrick's |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | THE FICTIONAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK $400: The Tree of Heaven grows in this borough where Katie & Johnny Nolan raise their daughter Francie in 1912 Brooklyn |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | THE FICTIONAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK $800: In a 1945 E.B. White kids' book, Eleanor is the mom of this tiny title character who can crawl inside a piano to fix keys Stuart Little |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | THE FICTIONAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK $1200: Elizabeth has a tough life in Harlem as her son challenges her husband in this author's "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (James) Baldwin |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | THE FICTIONAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK $1600: Judy McCoy is wed to a Wall Street "Master of the Universe" in "The Bonfire of the Vanities" by him (Tom) Wolfe |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | THE FICTIONAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK $2000: In this woman's "The House of Mirth", Bertha Dorset not only has an affair with Ned but also says Lily had one with Mr. Dorset Edith Wharton |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NEW YORK SOCIETY $200: The National Society of Colonial Dames in the state of New York manages Van Cortlandt House, the oldest home in this most N. borough the Bronx |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NEW YORK SOCIETY $400: Verses written in transit vehicles in NYC & other cities are courtesy of the Poetry Society of America & are called "Poetry in" this motion |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NEW YORK SOCIETY $600: Head to the Hispanic Society of America for a dazzling art collection, like Martín Gómez's 16th century retablo, also known as this type of piece an altarpiece |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NEW YORK SOCIETY $800: Located at 680 Park Avenue, the Americas Society was founded by David of this wealthy family to build understanding in our hemisphere Rockefeller |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NEW YORK SOCIETY $1000: Crusading against "obscene" literature from the 1870s to the 1950s, the NYSSV was the New York Society for the Suppression of this vice |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | NEW YORK CITIES' NICKNAMES $200: This nickname for New York City was used by Washington Irving; Bruce Wayne put it before "City" Gotham |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | NEW YORK CITIES' NICKNAMES $400: Poughkeepsie is "The Queen City of" this river the Hudson |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | NEW YORK CITIES' NICKNAMES $600: Slowly I turned... to this "Honeymoon Capital of the World" Niagara Falls |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | NEW YORK CITIES' NICKNAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Second only to New York City in population, this western port is the "Nickel City" Buffalo |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | NEW YORK CITIES' NICKNAMES $1000: Sharing its name with a European capital, it was known as "Copper City" for its production of that metal Rome |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $400: December 31, 1999: "Little fallout from" this "glitch" Y2K |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $800: April 19, 1923: "74,200 see Yankees open new stadium"; he "hits home run" Babe Ruth |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $1200: April 19, 1978: "Senate votes to give up" this waterway the Panama Canal |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $1600: From April 1955: this man's "polio vaccine proves success; millions will be immunized soon" Jonas Salk |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $2000: April 20, 1993: "Death in" this Texas city; "scores die as cult compound is set afire" Waco |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | ALL AROUND NEW YORK $400: From its resemblance to a certain game, the skyscraper seen here is nicknamed this Building Jenga |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | ALL AROUND NEW YORK $800: It opened in 1899 with 843 animals; today, it has over 6,000 the Bronx Zoo |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | ALL AROUND NEW YORK $1200: You'll be tickled pink to know that at the Plaza Hotel, you can book a really pink suite named for this literary girl Eloise |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | ALL AROUND NEW YORK $1600: To visit the Statue of Liberty, hop on a ferry at this site named for the line of cannons that once defended it Battery Park |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | ALL AROUND NEW YORK $2000: At one time or another, this famous apartment building was home to Leonard Bernstein, Lauren Bacall & John Lennon the Dakota |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | HEAR HERE, NEW YORK! $200: How do you get to this building? Have your tone poem premiere there, like Gershwin in 1928... or just hop off the Q at 57th & 7th Carnegie Hall |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | HEAR HERE, NEW YORK! $400: Now stepping to the collection plate & leading mass in 2008 at Yankee Stadium, this pope, No. XVI, this pope Benedict |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | HEAR HERE, NEW YORK! $600: It's Showtime at this venue on 125th Street for its comedy club & amateur night the Apollo |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | HEAR HERE, NEW YORK! $800: After performing there in 1965, Paul McCartney got back to this large N.Y. venue in 2008 to help Billy Joel play its last show Shea Stadium |
| #8184, aired 2020-03-19 | HEAR HERE, NEW YORK! $1000: BAM for short, it opened with a bam in 1861; the New York Times said it had the finest exterior of all the public buildings of its kind in America Brooklyn Academy of Music |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | NEW YORK CITY MUSEUMS $200: At the 9/11 Memorial Museum, you can see part of a retaining wall and a column now covered with mementos from this complex the World Trade Center |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | NEW YORK CITY MUSEUMS $400: A National Museum of Immigration at this site is housed in the original main building restored to its 1918-to-1924 appearance Ellis Island |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | NEW YORK CITY MUSEUMS $600: Fun house mirrors & vintage bumper cars are part of the collection celebrating this iconic amusement area in Brooklyn Coney Island |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | NEW YORK CITY MUSEUMS $800: Frank Lloyd Wright was in his 90s when he supervised construction of his final masterpiece, this museum the Guggenheim |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | NEW YORK CITY MUSEUMS $1000: This last name is paired with Cooper in the name of a national design museum Hewitt |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | NEW YORK-SET NOVELS $200: When the Book-of-the-Month Club asked about changing this novel's title, its author said, "Holden Caulfield wouldn't like that" Catcher in the Rye |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | NEW YORK-SET NOVELS $400: 9-year-old Oskar Schell searches for clues about his father who died on 9/11 in the novel "Extremely Loud &" this Incredibly Close |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | NEW YORK-SET NOVELS $600: It begins, "Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York criminal court ...and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who... hurt his daughter" The Godfather |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | NEW YORK-SET NOVELS $800: In this classic, Francie Nolan lives with her family in the poorer part of the Williamsburg neighborhood A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | NEW YORK-SET NOVELS $1,600 (Daily Double): Psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler & his team track down a brutal serial killer in this bestseller set in 1896 The Alienist |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2018 $400: A young woman decides hibernation may be the answer in Ottessa Moshfegh's "My Year of" this, R&R for short rest and relaxation |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2018 $800: "The Coddling of the American Mind" is dubious about these "spaces" that make college students feel sheltered safe spaces |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2018 $1200: Lawrence Osborne put this classic Raymond Chandler P.I. back to work in "Only to Sleep" Philip Marlowe |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2018 $1600: Imani Perry went "Looking for Lorraine", this African-American playwright & activist who died all too young at 34 Lorraine Hansberry |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2018 $4,000 (Daily Double): "Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of" this Midwest capital city includes "Its Chaotic Founding" on April 22, 1889 & much more Oklahoma City |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | NEW YORK STATE OF MIND $200: Resort village on Otsego Lake that's home to the Baseball Hall of Fame Cooperstown |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | NEW YORK STATE OF MIND $400: It was a capital idea to found Albany on the banks of this river the Hudson |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | NEW YORK STATE OF MIND $600: The atrium seen here is in the New York City building named for this man--because of his finance news service, not his mayordom Bloomberg |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | NEW YORK STATE OF MIND $800: Some say this word applies to anything north of the Bronx; it's the name of a medical college in Syracuse upstate |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | NEW YORK STATE OF MIND $1000: This Finger Lakes city shares a name with the home of Odysseus Ithaca |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | 75 YEARS AT THE NEW YORK CITY CENTER $200: A new staging of this Kander & Ebb musical at City Center moved to Broadway, where it's still going 9,000 shows later Chicago |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | 75 YEARS AT THE NEW YORK CITY CENTER $400: In 1954 George Balanchine mounted this ballet for Christmas at the City Center & a new tradition began The Nutcracker |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | 75 YEARS AT THE NEW YORK CITY CENTER $600: This actress is joined by puppets on the midway as Lili in a 2002 City Center production of "Carnival" Anne Hathaway |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | 75 YEARS AT THE NEW YORK CITY CENTER $800: In 1971 this African American's dance company moved downtown to City Center where they still perform today Alvin Ailey |
| #7886, aired 2018-12-17 | 75 YEARS AT THE NEW YORK CITY CENTER $1000: In "Little Shop of Horrors", Taran Killam is the dentist, & Jake Gyllenhaal is "suddenly" this lead character Seymour |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | NEW YORK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Its school mascot is Otto the Orange Syracuse |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | NEW YORK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: On the seal of this school in Hamilton, there's a Latin motto & a hand holding a torch, not a tube of toothpaste Colgate |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | NEW YORK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1600: Fordham has 2 main campuses: one in da Bronx & the other at this performing arts complex in Manhattan Lincoln Center |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | NEW YORK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1917 it awarded the first Pulitzer Prizes Columbia |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | NEW YORK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: RIT for short, it was one of the first schools to offer an undergraduate degree in software engineering Rochester Institute of Technology |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | CLUES ACROSS NEW YORK CITY $200: (I'm Lee Goldberg from New York's ABC7.) In the 1800s Brooklyn's Plymouth Church became known as the "the Grand Central depot" of this secretive network that helped slaves escape to the North the Underground Railroad |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | CLUES ACROSS NEW YORK CITY $400: (I'm Bill Ritter from New York's ABC7.) I'm in Flushing Meadows in Queens & the towers behind me were part of the New York State pavilion at this 1964 celebration the World's Fair |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | CLUES ACROSS NEW YORK CITY $600: (I'm Sade Baderinwa from New York's ABC7.) On the way to Staten Island from Manhattan you can see this island where the American lives of many U.S. families began Ellis Island |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | CLUES ACROSS NEW YORK CITY $800: (I'm Liz Cho from New York's ABC7.) Ulysses S. Grant & his wife Julia lie together in Grant's Tomb in upper Manhattan; it is said their desire to be interred side by side stemmed from a visit to the tomb of this Spanish royal couple Ferdinand and Isabella |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | CLUES ACROSS NEW YORK CITY $1000: (I'm Ryan Field from New York's ABC7.) The High Line Park runs from the Meatpacking District through Chelsea to New York City's convention center, named for this late senator Jacob Javits |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $400: May 22, 1927:
He "Does It! To Paris in 33 1/2 Hours" Lindbergh |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $800: May 3, 1986:
"A Top Soviet Aide Details Situation at Stricken Plant", this nuclear power station Chernobyl |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $1200: June 9, 1987:
"North's Secretary Describes Effort to Hide Evidence" referred to this political scandal Iran-Contra |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $1600: May 7, 1937:
It "Burns in Lakehurst Crash; 21 Known Dead, 12 Missing; 64 Escape" the Hindenburg |
| #7489, aired 2017-03-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $2000: January 21, 1945:
"Roosevelt Sworn in for Fourth Term; Extends" this "Policy to World" the Good Neighbor policy |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $200: Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling star in this charming musical whose title is "a quaint old name for Los Angeles" La La Land |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $400: "Innocence is the central idea...of 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk'", about a soldier deployed in this country in 2004 Iraq |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $600: This sci-fi film "has ideas & hope, as well as eerie extraterrestrials who face off with" linguist Amy Adams Arrival |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $800: "There is a blazing light at the center of the interplanetary romance 'Passengers', and its name is" her Jennifer Lawrence |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $1000: The Times said the visuals in this Marvel film starring Benedict Cumberbatch "evoke the work of M.C. Escher" Doctor Strange |
| #7429, aired 2016-12-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 2016 BESTSELLERS $400: In the title of a No. 1 bestseller by this author, Sebastian Rudd was a "Rogue Lawyer" John Grisham |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | WE RECOGNIZE THE SENATOR FROM NEW YORK $200 (Daily Double): This Dutch man flew into his seat on March 4, 1821 but that wasn't his last stop, politically Van Buren |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | WE RECOGNIZE THE SENATOR FROM NEW YORK $200: Last name of Charles, who served from 1968 to 1971; you may be familiar with his son Roger, the NFL Commissioner Goodell |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | WE RECOGNIZE THE SENATOR FROM NEW YORK $400: In 2015 Harry Reid said, "I think" this man "should be able to succeed me" as leader of the Senate Democrats (Chuck) Schumer |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | WE RECOGNIZE THE SENATOR FROM NEW YORK $600: It was pure folly for this senator to run against Lincoln in 1860 but he did end up in Abe's cabinet Seward |
| #7321, aired 2016-06-13 | WE RECOGNIZE THE SENATOR FROM NEW YORK $1000: His appointment in 1949 lasted only 4 months but he did enough other stuff to get an airport in D.C. named for him (John Foster) Dulles |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | A VISIT TO NEW YORK STATE $200: Prospect Point provides excellent views of this attraction; Queen Victoria Park does the same from the Canadian side Niagara Falls |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | A VISIT TO NEW YORK STATE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sleepy Hollow, NY.) I'm at Sunnyside, near Sleepy Hollow, New York, home of this "Rip Van Winkle" author; he designed the home & grounds himself & wrote, "It is a beautiful spot, capable of being made a little paradise" Washington Irving |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | A VISIT TO NEW YORK STATE $600: Want to see the National Baseball Hall of Fame? Head to this village in Otsego County Cooperstown |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | A VISIT TO NEW YORK STATE $800: (I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson.) I got my first taste of stargazing as a 9-year-old kid in New York City when I took a trip to this facility at the American Museum of Natural History; later I took classes there & today I'm its director the Hayden Planetarium |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | A VISIT TO NEW YORK STATE $1000: What could be more serene than a visit to this resort in the Adirondacks, the USA's first Winter Olympics host? Lake Placid |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | LITERARY NEW YORK CITY $400: In this novel we see the city through the eyes of young Holden Caulfield The Catcher in the Rye |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | LITERARY NEW YORK CITY $800: E.L. Doctorow's "The Waterworks" is a Gothic thriller set during this man's corrupt 19th century rule of the city Boss Tweed |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | LITERARY NEW YORK CITY $1200: Suze Rotolo's "A Freewheelin' Time" is a memoir of her life in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene with this boyfriend Bob Dylan |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | LITERARY NEW YORK CITY $1600: The New York Times called "One Fifth Avenue" a "glossy new offering" from this "Sex and the City" scribe Candace Bushnell |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | LITERARY NEW YORK CITY $2000: This Jay McInerney novel evoked the yuppie party scene of 1980s New York City Bright Lights, Big City |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: MOVIES $200: (New York Times film critic A.O. Scott delivers the clue.) When I reviewed "Despicable Me", I referred to these supporting characters as "industrious little doodads" that look like "extra-strength pain-reliever capsules with eyes and limbs" minions |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: MOVIES $400: "The Walk", which recreated Philippe Petit's high-wire crossing of this landmark, was "meticulous and dazzling" the World Trade Center |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: MOVIES $600: (New York Times film critic A.O. Scott delivers the clue.) David Oyelowo played Martin Luther King with "grace and dignity" in this 2014 film that ends in 1965 in Montgomery, Alabama Selma |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: MOVIES $800: The New York Times said of this 2015 sequel starring Channing Tatum: "The plot is as flimsy as a G-string" Magic Mike XXL |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: MOVIES $1000: (New York Times film critic A.O. Scott delivers the clue.) My review of this film starring Oscar winner J.K. Simmons & Miles Teller was titled "Drill Sergeant in the Music Room" Whiplash |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $400: (I'm David Barstow.) My Pulitzer-winning story about retired generals co-opted as analysts to sell the Iraq War was headlined this building's "Hidden Hand" the Pentagon |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $800: (I'm Hiroko Tabuchi.) As part of the Times staff, I won a Pulitzer Prize for our "iEconomy" series, which led to Apple improving working conditions for over 1 million people in this country China |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $1000: (I'm Carolyn Ryan.) In 2009 I was part of the team that won the Pulitzer for breaking news coverage of this New York governor & his stunning fall from grace (Eliot) Spitzer |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD $200: (Will Shortz delivers the clue.) Monday had a presidential theme; one clue was to this "supply-side fiscal policy popularized in the 1980s" Reaganomics |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD $400: (Will Shortz delivers the clue.) On Tuesday we had some hidden Bobs; you'll find Dylan in this "classic board game with a peppermint forest" Candy Land |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD $600: (Will Shortz delivers the clue.) On Wednesday you had to know compound words where each half could also have "dead" before it--there was airline, seahorse & this response to "top on official stationery" letterhead |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD $800: (Will Shortz delivers the clue.) On Thursday we rolled the D-I-C-E, as in these, "racy books named after a Victorian garment" bodice ripper |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD $1000: (Will Shortz delivers the clue.) On Friday there's no theme, so you just have to know this 10-letter "TV host who followed Jimmy Fallon on late night" Seth Meyers |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: OBITUARIES $200: Obituary subjects are real people, but this Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie merited a Page 1 obit in 1975 (Hercule) Poirot |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: OBITUARIES $400: The Times writes advance obits for some stars, but, like us, was caught off-guard by the suicide of this comic actor in 2014 Robin Williams |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: OBITUARIES $600: As it happened, the day before Thanksgiving 2005 the Times honored Ruth Siems, an inventor of this stuffing brand Stove Top Stuffing |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: OBITUARIES $800: Memorializing this comedian in 2014, the Times quoted her line "A Peeping Tom looked in my window & pulled down the shade" Joan Rivers |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: OBITUARIES $1000: The unsung may be hailed, like NASA's Jack Kinzler, who designed a parasol that saved this imperiled space station in 1973 Skylab |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES $400: At the daily Page 1 meeting, 1 decision is the prime spot, top right; on 7/14/15 it was this E.U. country's new austerity deal Greece |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES $800: In 2014 the Times got less legalistic & began using this word instead of terms like "harsh interrogation techniques" torture |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES $1200: The web feature "Watching", which began in 2014, gives running updates of news like this National Zoo arrival in Aug. 2015 a panda |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES $1600: The Times has covered same-sex marriages since 2002; weddings are in a section named for these solemn promises vows |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES $6,000 (Daily Double): In 2015 the Intl. NYT debuted a monthly digest of Times content in Chinese for these 2 administrative regions Hong Kong & Macau |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | WHAT'S COOKING AT THE NEW YORK TIMES $200: Mark Bittman cooks up salmon using a four-spice rub of cumin, coriander, ground cloves, & this eggnog spice nutmeg |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | WHAT'S COOKING AT THE NEW YORK TIMES $400: One video shows how to do this to onions, browning them until tender & sweet but not actually turning them into candy caramelize |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | WHAT'S COOKING AT THE NEW YORK TIMES $600: Using radishes instead of cabbage, Melissa Clark puts her own spin on this spicy pickled Korean dish kimchi |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | WHAT'S COOKING AT THE NEW YORK TIMES $800: You should learn how to do this to your pie crust to seal it before baking crimping |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | WHAT'S COOKING AT THE NEW YORK TIMES $1000: It sounds jarring, but it's putting blanched or steamed veggies in ice water to halt cooking & to enhance color shocking |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | NEW YORK POLITICIANS $200: As senator, she was appointed to the Armed Services panel, the first New Yorker to serve on the committee Hillary Clinton |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | NEW YORK POLITICIANS $400: Charles is his given name, but come on--who calls him "Charles"? Chuck Schumer (Charles Schumer accepted) |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | NEW YORK POLITICIANS $600: This 19th century man's "ring" plundered NYC of sums estimated between $30 & $200 million ("Boss") Tweed |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | NEW YORK POLITICIANS $800: A philosophy of Republicans, or the party of Senator James L. Buckley & his brother, losing mayoral candidate William F. Buckley conservative |
| #7097, aired 2015-06-23 | NEW YORK POLITICIANS $1000: Nixon offered this ex-gov. who didn't defeat Truman the chief justice job in 1968, but he passed, saying he was too old Dewey |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | NEW YORK TIMES $200: Its 86th floor observatory is open 8 A.M. to 2 A.M., 365 days a year the Empire State Building |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | NEW YORK TIMES $400: It rings at 9:30 a.m & 4:00 p.m. each trading day the NASDAQ bell (or the New York Stock Exchange bell) |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | NEW YORK TIMES $600: On weekdays, this iconic Herald Square department store at 151 West 34th street opens at 9 a.m. Macy's |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | NEW YORK TIMES $800: The last ferry from Battery Park to these 2 harbor attractions leaves at 3:30 p.m. daily Ellis Island & the Statue of Liberty |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | NEW YORK TIMES $1000: Early risers can nosh on matzoh brei or corned beef & eggs at this spot on 7th Avenue & 55th Street; it opens at 6:30 a.m. the Carnegie Deli |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS LISTS $400: The first weekly list, Aug. 9, 1942, was topped by "The Last Time I Saw" this city, about living on the rue de la Huchette Paris |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS LISTS $700 (Daily Double): In 2014, 20 years after it was published, this book about the origins of Ebola was back on the nonfiction list The Hot Zone |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS LISTS $800: Some felt this series clogged the fiction list, so in 2000, as the 4th book came out, the Times created a children's list the Harry Potter series |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS LISTS $1600: In the 21st century, graphic novels & this Japanese genre each got their own list in the New York Times manga |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS LISTS $2000: First published in 1984, this "pregnancy bible" has spent more than 675 weeks on the New York Times best sellers list What to Expect When You're Expecting |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $400: When he left office after the 1994 election, he had served as New York governor longer than any Democrat in history Mario Cuomo |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $800: He took New York into the 21st century George Pataki |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $1600: Like his uncle George Clinton, he was elected New York governor multiple times DeWitt Clinton |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $200: The "I'll have what she's having" scene in this romantic comedy took place at NYC's Katz's Deli When Harry Met Sally... |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $400: (Hi. I'm Quvenzhané Wallis.) In an updated version of a beloved musical, I play this title girl as a foster kid--it's the hard knock life with Miss Hannigan in Harlem Annie |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $600: In the 1933 film, King Kong climbs this skyscraper & bats down a biplane with his bare hand the Empire State Building |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $800: "Greed, for a lack of a better word, is good" is a line from this 1987 film Wall Street |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $1000: This Al Pacino movie was based on a botched bank robbery in Brooklyn in August 1972 Dog Day Afternoon |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES $200: Home to the Orange:
RACY USES Syracuse |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES $400: On the Hudson River:
ANY LAB Albany |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES $600: Great Lakes port:
FLUB OAF Buffalo |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES $800: Very near Canada:
ALL AFAR GAINS Niagara Falls |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | ANAGRAMMED NEW YORK CITIES $1000: "Colorful" town possibly named for its abundant heavy fogs:
WHISTLE PAIN White Plains |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: POLITICS $400: (I'm Ross Douthat.) I started as a Times op-ed columnist in 2009 with a provocative argument that the 2008 race would have been a clearer choice if this man from Wyoming had been the GOP nominee for president Dick Cheney |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: POLITICS $800: David Brooks said a scandal like Bridgegate makes this governor "look unpleasant, but not unelectable" Chris Christie |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: POLITICS $1200: (I'm Frank Bruni.) When I was New York Times Rome Bureau Chief in 2003 this man was the definition of "good copy"--like the week he went on trial while complaining that saving Italy was keeping him away from his house in Bermuda Berlusconi |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: POLITICS $1600: The Times' tragic Nov. 23, 1963 headline: "Kennedy Is Killed by Sniper"; a sub-headline: this gov. "Shot, Mrs. Kennedy Safe" Connally |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: POLITICS $2000: (I'm Linda Greenhouse.) In 1969 my first Times article was about the municipal election that saw this Republican, soon to turn Democrat, re-elected mayor John Lindsay |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COOKING $200: (Melissa Clark of The New York Times presents the clue.) You can make it from other herbs & nuts but this sauce traditionally calls for pine nuts & fresh basil, pureed with olive oil & garlic pesto |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COOKING $400: (Melissa Clark of The New York Times presents the clue.) For Valentine's Day or any other day, you can take chocolate ganache, roll it into balls, then coat the balls in cocoa powder, & you'll have these fancy candies truffles |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COOKING $600: (Melissa Clark of The New York Times presents the clue.) In my "A Good Appetite" column I shared that the trick to making this basic sauce & condiment at home is to add a little bit of water to the egg yolks before dripping in the oil; I find it makes for a stronger emulsion mayonnaise |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COOKING $800: (Melissa Clark of The New York Times presents the clue.) In the Times' Diner's Journal, I told readers to get real & get this gadget that sounds like a musical instrument; you can evenly slice up potatoes, cucumbers, whatever in just a couple of minutes and it's so easy a mandoline |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COOKING $1000: (Melissa Clark of The New York Times presents the clue.) To add flavor to soups & stews & for easy removal from the pot, try tying your herbs together or wrap them up--you're making a bundle commonly known by this 2-word French name bouquet garni |
| #6827, aired 2014-04-29 | THE NEW YORK TIMES YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST $200: (I'm Ben Brantley.) The first show I reviewed for The New York Times was an ill-fated 1993 sequel to this beloved musical; there wasn't much to like--even the dog who played Sandy was rather wooden Annie |
| #6827, aired 2014-04-29 | THE NEW YORK TIMES YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST $400: (I'm Mark Bittman.) Today locally grown food is the rage, but in 1991 my first Times article was about how overnight mail brings fresh food from far off, like these crustaceans sent from Maine lobsters |
| #6827, aired 2014-04-29 | THE NEW YORK TIMES YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST $600: (I'm Andrew R. Sorkin.) I wrote my first article for the Times in 1995 when I was still in high school about "Why You Still Can't Buy a Flaming Pink Computer"; this Apple model came along 3 years later the iMac |
| #6827, aired 2014-04-29 | THE NEW YORK TIMES YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST $800: (I'm Amy Harmon.) My first Times byline was in 1997, about the 50th anniversary of a mysterious event in this New Mexico city; "The X-Files" & Art Bell's radio show were other signs of the '90s interest in UFOs Roswell |
| #6827, aired 2014-04-29 | THE NEW YORK TIMES YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST $1000: (I'm Frank Bruni.) In June 2004 I started a pretty good gig as the Times restaurant critic with a review of the squab liver & buttered breadcrumb pasta topping at Babbo, run by this exuberant master of Italian food Mario Batali |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: THE 1990s $200: "Guilty at Last", said the Times when this don was convicted of the murder of Paul Castellano John Gotti |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: THE 1990s $400: (The New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse gives the clue.) In a 1991 case I covered, the Supreme Court overturned a New York law aimed at preventing criminals from profiting by selling their stories--a law informally named for this 1970s killer the Son of Sam |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: THE 1990s $600: The 1996 crash of this airline's Flight 800 "broke the calm of a sultry summer evening... along the Long Island shore" TWA |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: THE 1990s $800: (The New York Times reporter James Risen gives the clue.) In 1998 I reported on the deadly al-Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in these 2 neighboring African countries, a prelude to the worse attacks to follow Kenya & Tanzania |
| #6790, aired 2014-03-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: THE 1990s $1,500 (Daily Double): "Accord Reached to End the War in Bosnia" in a 1995 story datelined this Midwest U.S. city Dayton |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $400: (I'm Gretchen Morgenson.) I've written a lot about shareholders trying to get greater accountability for this group of people, including one story headlined "Daring to Knock on the Boardroom Door" boards of directors |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $800: Sam Grobart said that this app from Intuit was better than his accountant & got him $2,000 in refunds TurboTax |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $1200: (I'm Andrew Ross Sorkin.) In 2000 I broke the news of the acquisition of J.P. Morgan by this banking company Chase |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $1600: An Oct, 3, 2011 TimesCast covered White House emails about this solar energy co. that got huge govt. loans & went bust Solyndra |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $2000: (I'm Eric Lichtblau.) In 2012, as this group celebrated its centennial, I wrote that as the longtime leading business voice in Washington, it was competing to be heard in fiscal debates the Chamber of Commerce |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES FOOD $200: (Mark Bittman delivers the clue.) In one of my Opinionator pieces, I talked about the dangers of pesticide exposure & a move toward this type of food grown without the use of chemicals organic |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES FOOD $400: (Mark Bittman delivers the clue.) At nytimes.com you'll find videos on how to cook a variety of dishes, American & international, like dal tarka, a lentil dish from this country India |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES FOOD $600: (Mark Bittman delivers the clue.) In the Diner's Journal blog, I shared a recipe for this meat "under a brick", a favorite in Italy chicken |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATRE $400: (Ben Brantley gives the clue.) Based on a movie, this musical about an Irish guy & a Czech girl uses song & dance in a way I've never experienced in an American musical: to convey a beautiful shimmer of might-have-been regret Once |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATRE $800: (Ben Brantley gives the clue.) In 1996 I reviewed the revival of this Kander & Ebb musical whose jaded take on celebrity worship & a fractured justice system were timely then; I said I hoped it would run for a long time--little did I know it would still be playing today Chicago |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATRE $1200: (Ben Brantley gives the clue.) When it comes to Shakespeare, I must have seen at least a dozen productions of this tragedy, with everyone from Liev Schreiber to Jude Law as the prince Hamlet |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATRE $1600: (Ben Brantley gives the clue.) Tom Hanks made his Broadway debut playing tabloid columnist Mike McAlary in "Lucky Guy", written by this late woman, a close friend of Hanks; unlike some of the movies she wrote & directed, her play feels only newsprint deep Nora Ephron |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATRE $2000: (Ben Brantley gives the clue.) A 1997 revival of this Ibsen classic made me remember why I love the theatre; the play is more than a century old but it felt like the part of Nora had only just been written, & written specifically for Janet McTeer A Doll's House |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $200: (I'm Gretchen Morgenson.) Stories like "How Did They Value Stocks? Count The Absurd Ways" won me a 2002 Pulitzer for beat reporting. My beat is this street Wall Street |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $400: (I'm James Risen.) With my Times colleague Eric Lichtblau, I won a Pulitzer in 2006 for our disclosure of the Bush administration's use of domestic electronic eavesdropping without these legal documents issued by a judge a warrant |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $600: (I'm Amy Harmon.) I won my second Pulitzer in 2008 for a series about the new information that can be gleaned about a person's genetic profile with this kind of test which some people welcome & others prefer not to know a DNA test |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $800: (I'm Linda Greenhouse.) I won a 1998 Pulitzer for covering the Supreme Court with articles like "Why" this name of a failed nominee "Is Still a Verb in Politics 10 Years Later" Bork |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $1000: (Andrea Elliott delivers the clue.) Chronicling the life of an immigrant in Brooklyn who is one of these Muslim leaders of a mosque earned me a 2007 Pulitzer Prize an imam |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $400: (A.O. Scott presents the clue.) This nearly flawless 2007 Pixar film featured a French rodent who had a passion for fine cooking. I called him a "rat for all seasonings" Ratatouille |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $800: (A.O. Scott presents the clue.) I raved about this first-time actress in "Dreamgirls" who upstaged an Oscar winner, a pop diva & a movie star of long standing. She's "not going anywhere, she has arrived" Jennifer Hudson |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $1200: (A.O. Scott presents the clue.) This film about a "Southern fried demagogue and his lurid downfall" featured several miscast actors including Sean Penn "stepping into one of Broderick Crawford's blowhard roles" All the King's Men |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $1600: (A.O. Scott presents the clue.) I can sum up this animated Disney delight, one of my Critics' Picks of 2010, by saying, "Back to the castle, where it's all about the hair" Tangled |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $2000: (A.O. Scott presents the clue.) When I reviewed this 2004 Denzel Washington remake of a Frank Sinatra Cold War thriller, I called it "Remembrance of Things Planted" The Manchurian Candidate |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK $400: (I'm Frank Bruni.) My 2013 blog post titles "'I Do' & the ACLU" points out that the number of states allowing this doubled from 6 to 12 in about a year gay marriage |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK $800: (I'm David Carr.) On the "Media Decoder" blog I've been following this Netflix series that shows Washington officials & yes, even a few journalists, in a harsh light House of Cards |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK $1200: (I'm Andrew Ross Sorkin.) I founded DealBook, a Times Financial blog that covers stories like this company's aquisition of Tumblr, which we called "putting the exclamation point back in the company name" Yahoo! |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK $2000: (I'm legal columnist Linda Greenhouse.) In a multimedia feature, I gave a tour of the papers of this Supreme Court Justice who wrote the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade & about whom I've also written a book Harry Blackmun |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | NEW YORK PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS $400: Completed in 1883, this bridge over the East River was built at a cost of $15 million (but I'll sell it to you for a cool 10) the Brooklyn Bridge |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | NEW YORK PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS $800: The programs of this mayor of NYC from 1934 to 1945 included slum clearance & airport construction La Guardia |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | NEW YORK PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS $1200: James & Franklin, sons of this First Lady & native New Yorker, both served in the House of Representatives Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | NEW YORK PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS $1600: He was born Henry McCarty in New York City; some 22 years later, Pat Garrett put an end to him Billy the Kid |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | NEW YORK PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS $2000: 38 miles long & 3 miles wide at its broadest point, Seneca is the largest of this "body part" group of lakes the Finger Lakes |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | I READ IT IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $400: This organization "Vows to Develop a Plan to Train and Arm Security Guards at Every School in the Nation" The N.R.A. |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | I READ IT IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $800: "Video Game Review: In New Tomb Raider", she "Shows a Vulnerable Side" Lara Croft |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | I READ IT IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $1200: "Key Moments From the Supreme Court Hearing on the Defense of" this "Act" Marriage |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | I READ IT IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $1600: This school "Fires Basketball Coach Mike Rice After Video Goes Public" Rutgers |
| #6658, aired 2013-07-24 | I READ IT IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $2000: This country "Orders Arrest of Satirist for Skits on Islam and Morsi" Egypt |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | UNIQUE NEW YORK $200: The first of 4 arenas to bear this name opened on May 31,1879 at 26th street & Madison Ave. Madison Square Garden |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | UNIQUE NEW YORK $400: What is this place, Grand Central? no, but its 21 tracks can handle more than 1,000 people every 90 seconds Penn Station |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | UNIQUE NEW YORK $600: (Former President Bill Clinton presents the clue.) Duke Ellington & Cab Calloway were the 2 bandleaders most associated with this Harlem cabaret once found on 142nd & Lenox The Cotton Club |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | UNIQUE NEW YORK $800: This "theatrical" deli served its last Mel Brooks sandwich & closed in 2012 after 75 years The Stage Deli |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | UNIQUE NEW YORK $1000: Funeral masses for Babe Ruth & Toscanini were held at this building at 50th & 5th St. Patrick's |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | LISTED ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE $200: It owns theme parks & water parks:
SIX Six Flags |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | LISTED ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE $400: Company with armored cars for CIT (cash in transit):
BCO Brink's |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | LISTED ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE $600: A retailer of casual apparel:
ANF Abercrombie & Fitch |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | LISTED ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE $800: The name didn't die with the telegraph:
WU Western Union |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | LISTED ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE $1000: Providing antivirus & firewall technology:
MFE McAfee |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY $200: The library's Manhattan location is at 42nd Street & this famous thoroughfare 5th Avenue |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY $400: To enter the main branch, you can pass between 2 statues of these named patience & fortitude lions |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY $600: Among portraits on display is one of John Jacob Astor IV, probably the richest victim of this early 20th century disaster the Titanic |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY $800: In 1901 this steel baron donated millions to the library to help establish 39 branches around the city (Andrew) Carnegie |
| #6614, aired 2013-05-23 | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY $1000: The library's holdings include this female author's walking stick; do they keep it in "A Room of One's Own"? Virginia Woolf |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | NEW YORK SENATORS $400: Later president, he was a New York senator from 1821 to 1828 Van Buren |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | NEW YORK SENATORS $800: In 1861 William Seward left the Senate to take on this post in the Cabinet Secretary of State |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | NEW YORK SENATORS $1600: When she replaced Hillary Clinton in 2009, she was the youngest senator, at age 42 (Kirsten) Gillibrand |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | NEW YORK SENATORS $2,000 (Daily Double): A New York senator from 1791 to 1797, he later presided over the Senate as vice president (Aaron) Burr |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | NEW YORK SENATORS $2000: "Power, Pasta, and Politics" was this Brooklyn-born senator's account of his almost 20 years representing the Empire State Alfonse D'Amato |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | DINING OUT IN NEW YORK $200: You'll find Wo Hop & Hop Kee on Mott Street, the heart of this area Chinatown |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | DINING OUT IN NEW YORK $400: We suspect vodka lovers more than tea aficionados gravitate to this restaurant dating back to 1927 the Russian Tea Room |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | DINING OUT IN NEW YORK $600: Enjoy the Raw Bar at the Oyster Bar, an institution at this transportation hub since 1913 Grand Central Station |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | DINING OUT IN NEW YORK $800: Sammy's Roumanian Steakhouse has pitchers of this liquid fat; the word can also mean "sentimentality" schmaltz |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | DINING OUT IN NEW YORK $1000: Robert De Niro co-owns this grill named for the neighborhood it's in the Tribeca Grill |
| #6430, aired 2012-07-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HISTORIC HEADLINES $200: April 19, 1906: "Over 500 dead, $200,000 lost in" this disaster-- "nearly half the city is in ruins" the San Francisco earthquake |
| #6430, aired 2012-07-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HISTORIC HEADLINES $400: June 29, 1914: "Heir to" this country's "throne is slain with his wife by a Bosnian youth" (leading to World War I) Austria-Hungary |
| #6430, aired 2012-07-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HISTORIC HEADLINES $600: The tragic headline for April 20, 1995: A deadly "car bomb attack in" this city "wrecks 9-story federal office building" Oklahoma City |
| #6430, aired 2012-07-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HISTORIC HEADLINES $800: February 14, 1935: this man "guilty, sentenced to death for the murder of the LIndbergh baby" Bruno Richard Hauptmann |
| #6430, aired 2012-07-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HISTORIC HEADLINES $1000: A medical milestone December 4, 1967: "Heart transplant keeps man alive in" this country South Africa |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | THE NEW YORK TIMES DINING $1200: A times recipe for this cake calls for unsweetened cocoa powder, vanilla extract & 2 bottles of red food coloring a red velvet cake |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | THE NEW YORK TIMES DINING $1600: An article about this popular wine brand from Oz called it "the wallaby that roared across the wine industry" Yellow Tail |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | THE NEW YORK TIMES DINING $2000: Mark Bittman puts a twist on this dish of raw seafood marinated in lime juice by adding ripe plums ceviche |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $400: nytimes.com velcomes you to the list of "The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made", vich includes this 1931 Bela Lugosi film Dracula |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $800: nytimes.com links to reviews of the top 10 DVD rentals: this Brad Pitt film about "baseball in the digital age" hit No. 1 in 2012 Moneyball |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $1200: The nytimes.com movie archive has year-by-year "Critics' Picks": 1960 includes this mother of an Anthony Perkins pic Psycho |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $1600: Stephen Holden noted this 17th c. title trio's return to the big screen in 2011 with "All for one, and then maybe a sequel" the Three Musketeers |
| #6379, aired 2012-05-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $2000: Manohla Dargis titled the review of this 2011 drama "Finding the Humanity in the F.B.I.'s Feared Enforcer" J. Edgar |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THE ARTS $400: A review of a 2012 show at this place, the Met for short, informed us that Degas looked like Jerry Seinfeld the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THE ARTS $800: Arts Beat reported on the craze for "Zou Bisou Bisou", a song featured in this TV show about advertising Mad Men |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THE ARTS $1200: nytimes.com posted an architectural rendering of this school's 2.5-mil.-square-foot expansion in Greenwich Village NYU |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THE ARTS $1600: Times reviewers sigh & musicians' unions fume over dance companies like Paul Taylor's using music presented this way on tape (or recorded) |
| #6378, aired 2012-05-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THE ARTS $2000: A 2011 review said the acoustics of this famous NYC hall turned a chorale's words into whooshes Carnegie Hall |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 21st CENTURY HEADLINES $200: In 2003 the headline read, "Davis Is Out, Schwarzenegger Is In by Big Margins in California" in this type of vote a recall |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 21st CENTURY HEADLINES $400: Howard Stern made the front page in 2004 after his "Rich Deal in Jump to" this type of radio satellite radio |
| #6376, aired 2012-05-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES "E" $200: "At ____, soldier!"
(4) ease |
| #6376, aired 2012-05-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES "E" $1000: Hard, glossy finish
(6) enamel |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | NEW YORK MUSEUMS $400: Alfred Barr Jr., the founding director of this museum, intended it to help people enjoy the visual arts of our time MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art) |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | NEW YORK MUSEUMS $1200: The collection of industrialist Henry Clay Frick is on view in a mansion at East 70th St. & this avenue 5th Avenue |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | NEW YORK MUSEUMS $1600: This borough's museum of art upset folks with a 1999 exhibit featuring maggots, dung & formaldehyde Brooklyn |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | NEW YORK MUSEUMS $2000: This planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History has a 10,000-volume library on astronomy the Hayden Planetarium |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | NEW YORK MUSEUMS $3,000 (Daily Double): The Whitney Museum has 187 works by this artist, including a mobile called "Big Red" (Alexander) Calder |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | NEW YORK CITY $200: Robert Wagner was the mayor when work began on this 16-acre performing arts center Lincoln Center |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | NEW YORK CITY $400: When companies first list on the NYSE, the CEO is typically invited to do this, which starts trading on the floor ring the bell |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | NEW YORK CITY $600: (I'm Geoffrey Canada.) I'm president of a unique organization providing not just education, but health care & social services to the children of 97 blocks in this Manhattan neighborhood, from 116th St. up to 143rd St. Harlem |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | NEW YORK CITY $800: This museum, established in the late 1920s, began with 8 prints & one drawing the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) |
| #6334, aired 2012-03-15 | NEW YORK CITY $1000: In 1942 Fiorello La Guardia became the first mayor to reside in this home built in 1799 by a New York City merchant Gracie Mansion |
| #6271, aired 2011-12-19 | CHRISTMASTIME IN NEW YORK $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from New York City.) It may not be crowded right now, but come New Year's Eve, there'll be more revelers gathered in this festive New York City location where the ball has dropped for more than 100 years Times Square |
| #6271, aired 2011-12-19 | CHRISTMASTIME IN NEW YORK $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from New York City.) Take someone special to Radio City Music Hall's Christmas spectacular to see a lineup of 36 of these performers the Rockettes |
| #6271, aired 2011-12-19 | CHRISTMASTIME IN NEW YORK $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from New York City.) Fight the crowds on this famous avenue for quality gifts from the likes of Tiffany, Bergdorf Goodman, & Louis Vuitton 5th Avenue |
| #6271, aired 2011-12-19 | CHRISTMASTIME IN NEW YORK $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from New York City.) Here's a Christmas cocktail that's sure to warm your heart: made with melon-flavored Midori liqueur, it's named for this Dr. Seuss character the Grinch |
| #6271, aired 2011-12-19 | CHRISTMASTIME IN NEW YORK $5,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from New York City.) Gingerbread men & handmade ornaments are but a few of the items offered at the holiday market at this famous circle named for an Italian explorer Columbus Circle |
| #6241, aired 2011-11-07 | TREASURES OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY $400: This man slept here--no, really--during the Revolutionary War Washington |
| #6241, aired 2011-11-07 | TREASURES OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY $800: John J. Audubon never made it to California; he painted this vulture species from a dead specimen a California condor |
| #6241, aired 2011-11-07 | TREASURES OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY $1200: John Jay's "In Relation to Foreign Nations" is one of just four extant manuscripts in the series known as these "Papers" The Federalist Papers |
| #6241, aired 2011-11-07 | TREASURES OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY $1600: New York City is the finish line of the 73-step board game called "Round the World with" this adventuress Nellie Bly |
| #6241, aired 2011-11-07 | TREASURES OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY $2000: In November of 1776 more than 700 New Yorkers loyal to Britain signed what's known as the "Declaration of" this Dependence |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST 1,000 MOVIES EVER MADE $200: The Times' review of this film said "Miss Wray goes through her ordeal with great courage" King Kong |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST 1,000 MOVIES EVER MADE $400: "We wouldn't know how closely--if at all--" this film "parallels the life of an eminent publisher, as has been...alleged" Citizen Kane |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST 1,000 MOVIES EVER MADE $600: "John Hughes lets the (5) kids challenge, taunt and confront each other as if this (film was) 'Twelve Angry Men'" The Breakfast Club |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST 1,000 MOVIES EVER MADE $800: "Mr. Rains is properly slippery and crafty as a minion of Vichy perfidy" in this drama Casablanca |
| #6201, aired 2011-07-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST 1,000 MOVIES EVER MADE $1000: This pic shows "the social changes taking place in the south between 1948 and 1973, and (a) remarkable 25-year friendship Driving Miss Daisy |
| #6194, aired 2011-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER $400: The New York Times headlined a review of this show "Pulling Heartstrings, Racy Puppets Return" Avenue Q |
| #6194, aired 2011-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER $800: The Times said of a 2011 production of his "Cymbeline", "the comedy, poignancy & unlikely magic... surface gently" Shakespeare |
| #6194, aired 2011-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER $1200: The Artsbeat blog talked of how this "360" CNN anchor landed the gig as the "book voice" in "How to Succeed in Business..." Anderson Cooper |
| #6194, aired 2011-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER $1600: The Times said Brian Bedford as Lady Bracknell is "the highlight" of the "effervescent" 2011 revival of this Wilde comedy The Importance of Being Earnest |
| #6194, aired 2011-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER $2000: Bucking tradition, critics, including the Times', reviewed this oft-delayed show ahead of its scheduled 2011 opening Spider-Man |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | NEW YORK CITIES & TOWNS $200: It's known as "the birthplace of baseball" Cooperstown |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | NEW YORK CITIES & TOWNS $400: The George Eastman House in this city is home to the International Museum of Photography & Film Rochester |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | NEW YORK CITIES & TOWNS $800: This small town in Wyoming county boasts a large annual rodeo & a rather well-known maximum security prison Attica |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | NEW YORK CITIES & TOWNS $1,000 (Daily Double): It's no myth, this city was named because of its location within the town of Ulysses Ithaca |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | NEW YORK CITIES & TOWNS $1000: Take note--the fort in this town was once considered the "Gibraltar of the North" Ticonderoga |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $200: In December 2010 the "In Transit" blog reported that his boyhood home in Hope, Ark. was named a national historic site Bill Clinton |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $400: Looking for a hotel in this city? Times picks included Les Ottomans & Four Seasons the Bosphorus Istanbul |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $600: A "Weekend in New York" piece talks about visiting some permanent New Yorkers at these peaceful places, like Woodlawn cemeteries |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $800: At nytimes.com access articles on over 1,000 destinations--for this country "36 hours in Kuala Lumpur" came up Malaysia |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $1000: Among the "41 places to go in 2011" is this town near Vancouver: "The Olympians are gone. Now it's your turn" Whistler |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY $400: The iconic lions at the entrance were named "Patience" and "Fortitude" by this 1930s mayor after needed qualities during the Depression LaGuardia |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY $500 (Daily Double): Among books that don't circulate is an 1866 volume inscribed by this British author to the little girl who inspired his work Lewis Carroll |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY $800: They changed a bit in illustrations & movies, but the library has this author's son's original animals, including a bear A.A. Milne |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY $1200: The library has a loveletter to Fanny Brawne by this poet, from August of 1820; he died the following February Keats |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY $1600: The circa 1510 Hunt-Lenox globe bears the Latin inscription "hc svnt dracones" which translates to this 3-word phrase here be dragons |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $200: Manohla Dargis reviewed this 2009 Pixar film under the headline "The House that Soared" Up |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $400: A.O. Scott said this film about Aron Ralston "pins you down, shakes you up, and leaves you glad to be alive" 127 Hours |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $600: Reviews at nytimes. com include Renata Adler's look at this 1968 Kubrick film: the special F/X "are the best I have ever seen" 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $800: In 1991 Vincent Canby said this character, "grandly played by Mr. Hopkins, is a most seductive psychopath" Hannibal Lecter |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $1000: The 1st rule of this film is, you do not talk about it, but Janet Maslin said "Mr. Pitt struts through (it) with rekindled brio" Fight Club |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES IN THE 21st CENTURY $400: A local news blog that debuted in 2007 is called this "room", conjuring up visions of fedoras & copy boys city room |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES IN THE 21st CENTURY $800: Between 2001 & 2010 the Times won 26 Pulitzers, including one in 2009 for covering the stunning downfall of this governor Eliot Spitzer |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES IN THE 21st CENTURY $1200: The 1st Timescast of newsroom video aired in 2010 & 1 story discussed was this tech co.'s rocky relationship with China Google |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES IN THE 21st CENTURY $1600: Around this event in the fall of 2010, nytimes.com ran a "word train" to gauge readers' moods--no. 1 was "disgusted" the mid-term election |
| #6138, aired 2011-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES IN THE 21st CENTURY $2000: In 2011 the Dealbook feature reported on this Wall St. bank's failed plan to let U.S. clients invest early in Facebook Goldman Sachs |
| #6124, aired 2011-04-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED $400: On Nov. 27, 2000 this man who conceded early in 1996 wrote "Why Gore Should Concede" Bob Dole |
| #6124, aired 2011-04-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED $800: In November of 2010 Nicholas Kristof advocated this economic practice, such as lending a small sum to buy a rickshaw microlending (or microfinance) |
| #6124, aired 2011-04-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED $1200: "Fight the Philistines" was Anthony Lewis' 1990 column defending federal funding of this aesthetic body the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) |
| #6124, aired 2011-04-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED $2000: In a 1976 piece this former prime minister of her country stated simply, "We Dispossessed No Arabs" Golda Meir |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | THE NEW YORK TIMES DINING & WINE $200: On Dec. 23, 2009 The Pour, a blog about wine on nytimes.com, focused on this bubbly beverage champagne |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | THE NEW YORK TIMES DINING & WINE $400: The Bitten blog discussed how these salty little fish "turn up on traditional & not-so-traditional English menus" anchovies |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | THE NEW YORK TIMES DINING & WINE $600: A 2010 article reported on the hard times that have fallen on wineries in this California valley Napa Valley |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | THE NEW YORK TIMES DINING & WINE $800: A tasty but tongue-twisting recipe from Mark Bittman paired the bay type of this bivalve mollusk with scallions a scallop |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | THE NEW YORK TIMES DINING & WINE $1000: A recipe for Mediterranean citrus chicken skewers had this Mid-Eastern sauce made of ground sesame seeds tahini |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES LETTERS TO THE EDITOR $200: This Conn. senator wants to spread Homeland Security funds, as the enemy "will strike wherever there is a... target" (Joseph) Lieberman |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES LETTERS TO THE EDITOR $400: This author of "Push" wrote a letter to the editor saying "Silence will not save African Americans" Sapphire |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES LETTERS TO THE EDITOR $600: In a lighter vein, Ogden Nash wrote to complain that these won't stick unless he uses Scotch tape stamps |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES LETTERS TO THE EDITOR $800: A 1998 letter from this longtime head of the Motion Picture Association of America praised China's crackdown on piracy (Jack) Valenti |
| #5922, aired 2010-05-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES LETTERS TO THE EDITOR $1000: In a 1934 letter this economist said a U.S. recovery would be helped by low interest rates, like in Britain John Maynard Keynes |
| #5919, aired 2010-05-13 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $400: nytimes.com calls these insects "the angels of agriculture" bees |
| #5919, aired 2010-05-13 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $800: A Times headline said Beelzebufo ampinga, at 10 pounds the largest of these ever, "hopped with dinosaurs" a frog |
| #5919, aired 2010-05-13 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $1200: In February 2010 the Times reported on the decoding of the genomes of 5 South Africans, including this Bantu clergyman Desmond Tutu |
| #5919, aired 2010-05-13 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $2000: nytimes.com/health has a handy primer on the PSA blood test done on older gents, PSA standing for this prostate-specific antigen |
| #5919, aired 2010-05-13 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $3,000 (Daily Double): The Dot Earth blog had an interview with the maker of this documentary about dolphin slaughter that just won an Oscar The Cove |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CONTRIBUTORS $200: (I'm Nicholas Kristof.) As a journalist, I visited 140 nations & every one of this country's more than 30 provinces, even Hainan China |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CONTRIBUTORS $400: (I'm personal technology columnist David Pogue and...) I write about the latest in amazing gadgets in Pogue's Posts, one of the New York Times' most popular one of these; Scotty Reston never had one a blog |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CONTRIBUTORS $600: (I'm Gail Collins.) I was the New York Times' first female editorial page editor & wrote a book called "America's Women", which begins with "The Extremely Brief Story of" the first English child born in the Americas Virginia Dare |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CONTRIBUTORS $800: (I'm Roger Cohen.) In the 1990s, based in Zagreb, I was the New York Times' chief of the bureau named for this peninsular region; I've written many books & columns about conflict there the Balkan Peninsula |
| #5918, aired 2010-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CONTRIBUTORS $1000: (I'm New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.) The title of my book "Are Men Necessary?", exploring the implications of feminism, puts a twist on "Is Sex Necessary?", by E.B. White & this humorist James Thurber |
| #5917, aired 2010-05-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HOME & GARDEN $400: The Times reports that with their bright color, "Oriental" these & "American antiques go together like peas & carrots" rugs |
| #5917, aired 2010-05-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HOME & GARDEN $800: A report from Hong Kong covered a wealthy widow's $3 billion bequest to her adviser on this study of placing objects feng shui |
| #5917, aired 2010-05-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HOME & GARDEN $1200: A Times piece told readers about dogs trained to sniff out these insect infesters of the boudoir bedbugs |
| #5917, aired 2010-05-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HOME & GARDEN $1600: A story on this type of garden defined as growing food for the home had a link to an org. that can help with yours a kitchen garden |
| #5917, aired 2010-05-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HOME & GARDEN $2000: One Q&A column says that hand-shredded leaf mold is the Cadillac of this stuff added to flower beds; top with compost mulch |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $400: A.O. Scott says he's not entirely joking calling this 2010 John Cusack comedy a "poignant story of 3 men, adrift in their 40s" Hot Tub Time Machine |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $800: The Times liked the "smoky, greasy, steam-punk rendering of Victorian London" in this 2009 Robert Downey Jr. caper Sherlock Holmes |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $1200: The Times said that this director tackled "Alice In Wonderland" with "his customary mix of torpor and frenzy" Tim Burton |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $1600: "Looking every inch a heavy-metal god, with a tangle of beard and power shoulder pads", Liam Neeson is Zeus in this 2010 flick Clash of the Titans |
| #5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $2000: Reviewing "The Last Song", the Times noted, "It is likely that we can look forward to more movies starring" this teen singer Miley Cyrus |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER $400: Frank Rich wrote you could feel Broadway history being made in this musical about a black female singing group Dreamgirls |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER $800: Times multimedia features include snapshots taken at this exit, the proverbial spot to have a moment with a theater star the stage door |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER $1200: The Times found audience participation having a heyday in shows like "The 25th Annual Putnam County" this Spelling Bee |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER $1600: As a critics' pick in 2008, this Lin-Manuel Miranda musical was called "a salsa-flavored soap opera" In the Heights |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER $2000: Ben Brantley says "injustice has been very good" to this musical writing duo; see "Chicago" & their new "The Scottsboro Boys" Kander & Ebb |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES FRUGAL TRAVELER $400: The subtitle for the frugal traveler blog is "seeing the world on" one of these, from the Latin for "money bag" a budget |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES FRUGAL TRAVELER $800: To the frugal traveler, staying overnight with friends is known as this kind of furniture "surfing" couch |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES FRUGAL TRAVELER $1200: The F.T.'s new year's resolutions include "learn to like" these accommodations that often house youth hostels |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES FRUGAL TRAVELER $1600: Rather than simple postcards, the frugal traveler says to collect these as mementos (perhaps the kyat or the baht?) currencies |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES FRUGAL TRAVELER $2000: The frugal traveler suggests saving in this city by getting around on its metro or its Velib bike rental system Paris |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT $400: The topics pages of nytimes.com say Texas leads the U.S. in producing power from this, especially out on the high plains wind |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT $800: The times said "Bla, bla, bla, act now!" was a protest slogan at the 2009 climate change talks in this city Copenhagen |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT $1200: In a 2009 editorial the Times called it disgraceful that this agency has never set limits on arsenic in water the EPA |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT $1600: To the Times, XOM's plan to buy XTO Energy for $31 bil. shows it expects rising demand for this fuel that's cleaner than coal natural gas |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT $2000: The Times obit on Harold Bell said he drew the original sketches of this "Give a hoot, don't pollute" bird Woodsy Owl |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from New York with a bell ringer.) A familiar sight on New York City streets is the holiday appeal of this organization that each year provides 3 million meals & 900,000 nights of lodging to those in need the Salvation Army |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a festive shopping display in New York.) During the holiday season, more than a quarter of a million people visit Santaland at this famous store on Herald Square Macy's |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK $1200: Since 1933 this hall has dazzled NYC with its Christmas Spectacular, featuring precision choreography & a living nativity Radio City Music Hall |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew rides up an escalator at a toy store in New York.) Part of many New York City holiday memories, this store opened in Manhattan in 1870, calling itself a toy bazaar & has been a wonderland for kids at Christmastime ever since FAO Schwarz |
| #5818, aired 2009-12-23 | CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gets a whiff of a holiday treat sold at a hot dog vendor's sidewalk stand in New York.) The aroma reminds me of one of the most popular holiday songs; written in 1946, it's simply called "The Christmas Song", but is better known by this first line "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire" |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 2009 FICTION BESTSELLERS $400: Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling an autopsy in Kathy Reichs' "206" these body parts Bones |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 2009 FICTION BESTSELLERS $800: Hey, y'all, this CNN legal analyst made the list with her novel "The Eleventh Victim" Nancy Grace |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 2009 FICTION BESTSELLERS $1200: In "Dead and Gone" by Charlaine Harris, this "True Blood" waitress searches for the killer of a werepanther Sookie Stackhouse |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 2009 FICTION BESTSELLERS $1600: "Homer & Langley" by this author of "Ragtime" details the lives of the reclusive Collyer Brothers (E.L.) Doctorow |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 2009 FICTION BESTSELLERS $2000: Richard DiLallo & this author teamed to write "Alex Cross's 'Trial"', a novel about the detective's great-uncle (James) Patterson |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES STYLE $200: An nytimes.com slide show on this woman's style included the red & black number from Election Night 2008 Michelle Obama |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES STYLE $400: Disco hoops & other styles of extravagant these "suggest you are taking the party with you" earrings |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES STYLE $600: A blog post notes that Junya Watanabe's Spring '09 collection continues to rely on this basic type of working pants jeans |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES STYLE $800: In May 2008 the times reported on a more modest look in this wear, including boy shorts & halter tops swimwear |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES STYLE $1000: The times said this "NY" designer became "a Seventh Avenue original" using tights as a foundation for skirts & shirts Donna Karan |
| #5727, aired 2009-06-30 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $200: This Toni Morrison novel won a 2006 Times survey of prominent literary types looking for the best fiction in the last 25 years Beloved |
| #5727, aired 2009-06-30 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $400: This Bernhard Schlink novel about Hanna Schmitz was "ultimately hopeful"; it became a 2008 film The Reader |
| #5727, aired 2009-06-30 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $600: The Times noted that this "Russia House" author left the Cold War behind for his new novel "A Most Wanted Man" John le Carré |
| #5727, aired 2009-06-30 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $800: In 2009 the Times liked "The Women", which dealt with this man's loves, like Mamah, who was murdered at Taliesin Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #5727, aired 2009-06-30 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2008 the Times called this author's "The Widows of Eastwick" a "predictably ingenious sequel" John Updike |
| #5700, aired 2009-05-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TECHNOLOGY $200: (Mr. Pogue points a handheld projector at a screen.) Micro projectors are tiny, but at short range they give you a nearly cinematic experience; they use the same type of DLP technology that's replacing film in movie theaters; DLP stands for this type of light processing digital |
| #5700, aired 2009-05-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TECHNOLOGY $400: (David Pogue reads the clue.) You can track your car, your dog or even your teenager with a Zoombak, which pinpoints their location courtesy of this space-based system GPS |
| #5700, aired 2009-05-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TECHNOLOGY $600: (David Pogue reads the clue.) A truly green product, the prototype Sony Ericsson Greenheart phone is made of recycled plastic & bioplastic from this most commonly grown U.S. grain corn |
| #5700, aired 2009-05-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TECHNOLOGY $800: (David Pogue reads the clue.) I'm holding a Blu-ray DVD player that can also download movies & TV shows from this service that's now living up to its name; its CEO has said, "There's a reason we didn't call the company DVD By Mail" Netflix |
| #5700, aired 2009-05-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TECHNOLOGY $1000: (David Pogue reads the clue.) OLED technology delivers such an incredible picture in such a thin screen because there's no backlight needed; each of these 518,400 units making up the image generates its own light a pixel |
| #5698, aired 2009-05-20 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER REVIEWS $400: (Frank Rich delivers the clue.) In 1982 I said this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is "likely to lurk around Broadway for a long time" & it did, closing 18 years later Cats |
| #5698, aired 2009-05-20 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER REVIEWS $800: (Frank Rich delivers the clue.) In this 1980s play, playwright Tony Kushner sent a spindly gay character deep into the audience's heart to ask who we are Angels in America |
| #5698, aired 2009-05-20 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER REVIEWS $1200: (Frank Rich delivers the clue.) Though its heroine is a "cockeyed optimist", the 2008 revival of this WWII-set Rodgers & Hammerstein show makes you think about the costs of war South Pacific |
| #5698, aired 2009-05-20 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER REVIEWS $1600: (Frank Rich delivers the clue.) I wrote that Tommy Tune never met a costume he didn't like when he directed the theatrical follies named for this humorist Will Rogers |
| #5698, aired 2009-05-20 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THEATER REVIEWS $2000: (Frank Rich delivers the clue.) In the 1990 production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", Kathleen Turner was radiant but the most memorable performance was by Charles Durning as this dying volcano of a patriarch Big Daddy |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNISTS $400: (I'm Roger Cohen.) In November 2008 I urged the new president-elect to close this place where to date out of 770 detained, only 23 have been charged Guantanamo |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNISTS $800: (I'm Frank Rich.) I transitioned from theater critic to critic of the Bush Admin., as in my book subtitled "The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to" this 2005 natural disaster Hurricane Katrina |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNISTS $1200: (I'm Gail Collins.) In 2008 I wrote that Dean Barkley did well in this state's Senate race with a basic platform of "1) Not crazy 2) Not Norm Coleman and 3) Not Al Franken" Minnesota |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNISTS $1600: (I'm Charles Blow.) As the Time's visual op-ed columnist I used a U.S. oil production graph showing that McCain's plan to do this, baby, this wouldn't help us much drill |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNISTS $2000: (I'm Nicholas Kristof.) In 2008 I wrote that Obama's most difficult international test could be this Asian "country with 170 million people and up to 60 nuclear weapons (which) may be collapsing" Pakistan |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $200: The N.Y. Times questioned where the $123 billion the Federal Reserve loaned to this insurer actually went A.I.G. |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $400: This 185-nation agency agreed to lend $100 billion to healthy countries that are having trouble borrowing money IMF (the International Monetary Fund) |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $600: The Times said that with stocks, the price-to-this ratio should average about 16; it was at 27 as of 2007 earnings |
| #5679, aired 2009-04-23 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $1,000 (Daily Double): This N.Y. attorney general, son of a former governor, warned against bonuses for bankers who took federal funds Andrew Cuomo |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TIMES MACHINE $200: Try to remember a day in September of this year 1964 |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TIMES MACHINE $400: It's the year of the futile effort headlined here 1938 |
| #5678, aired 2009-04-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TIMES MACHINE $2,000 (Daily Double): The high hopes of this year are indicated here 1919 |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $400: A 1993 award cited John F. Burns' "courageous", coverage of the destruction of" this Bosnian capital Sarajevo |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $800: (I'm Nicholas Kristof.) In 2006 I won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary that raised public awareness of the genocide in this region of Sudan Darfur |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $1200: Andrea Elliot won in 2007 for articles on a Brooklyn Muslim leader with this title, Arabic for "leader" Imam |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $1600: (I'm Maureen Dowd.) In my Pulitzer-winning commentary on the Clinton scandals, I wrote that this prosecutor was playing Captains Ahab & Queeg in pursuit of the president (Kenneth) Starr |
| #5677, aired 2009-04-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER WINNERS $2000: Anthony Lewis won in 1963 for supreme court coverage & wrote this book about the Clarence Gideon case Gideon's Trumpet |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: ARTS & LEISURE $200: The Times said of these thin young twins, "It isn't the cover of Vogue they seem to seek as much as the cover of Fortune" the Olsen Twins |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: ARTS & LEISURE $400: nytimes.com's "Find a Show" section tells how to get tickets to "Avenue Q" or this masked man musical The Phantom of the Opera |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: ARTS & LEISURE $600: From an artsbeat blog: The Vivian Girls, rockers from this NYC borough, are "really, really, really cute" Brooklyn |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: ARTS & LEISURE $1,000 (Daily Double): The times headlined its 2007 review of this series' first episode "smoking, drinking, cheating and selling" Mad Men |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: ARTS & LEISURE $1000: nytimes.com has up-to-date info on this NYC museum of American art, like its exhibition on "artists making photographs" the Whitney |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: TRAVEL $400: With its economy ailing, in 2008 this country offered $559 packages including air & 3 nights at a Reykjavik hotel Iceland |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: TRAVEL $800: A "36 Hours" column showcased this city, with Molly Brown's Victorian Mansion & the mile high flea market Denver |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: TRAVEL $1200: At nytimes.com you can see a slide show of some of the hot spots to visit in this largest city in the UAE Dubai |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: TRAVEL $2000: For a cheaper stay on this Caribbean island nytimes.com says head to Pointe du Bout instead of Fort-de-France Martinique |
| #5668, aired 2009-04-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: TRAVEL $2,600 (Daily Double): For a weekend getaway, the Frugal Traveler recommends this city of "O'Keefe, folk art & Frito pies" Santa Fe |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE $200: Let's start off with 30 across... "French auto race" Grand Prix |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE $400: We'll make 11 down... "Levy at an Exxon or BP station" gasoline tax |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE $600: 61 across is a bit tricky... "Vaudeville brother born Milton" Gummo Marx |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE $800: For 39 across, let's see if they get... "Trademarked brand or waterproof fabric" Gore-Tex |
| #5663, aired 2009-04-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE $1000: For 47 across, I'll hit them with... "Palate-raising response" gag reflex |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | NEW YORK CITY SONGS $200: This duo's "59th Street Bridge Song" is subtitled "Feelin' Groovy" Simon & Garfunkel |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | NEW YORK CITY SONGS $400: A show tune says, "Come and meet those dancing feet, on the avenue I'm taking you to"--this title one "42nd Street" |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | NEW YORK CITY SONGS $600: This title line precedes "Remember me to Herald Square!" "Give My Regards to Broadway" |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | NEW YORK CITY SONGS $800: Christopher Cross sang, "If you get caught between" this & NYC, "the best that you can do is fall in love" the Moon |
| #5576, aired 2008-12-01 | NEW YORK CITY SONGS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in a park.) In the song "Danke Schoen", you'll find the lyric "I recall" this 4-word phrase, & that's what I'm experiencing now "Central Park in fall" |
| #5538, aired 2008-10-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ELECTION COVERAGE $200: The Nov. 10, 1960 front page noted this first about President-elect JFK's background his Catholicism |
| #5538, aired 2008-10-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ELECTION COVERAGE $400: The report on the 1992 returns included a "jubilant bear hug" between these 2 men Clinton & Gore |
| #5538, aired 2008-10-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ELECTION COVERAGE $600: On Nov. 3, 2004 the Times headlined, "With echoes of 2000 vote," this state's "count is at issue" Ohio |
| #5538, aired 2008-10-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ELECTION COVERAGE $1,000 (Daily Double): "Forecasts upset", read the front page in this year; at least the Times knew who defeats whom 1948 |
| #5538, aired 2008-10-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ELECTION COVERAGE $1000: On Nov. 5, 1924 page one said this man "wins, 357 to Davis's 136"; what will it say on Nov. 5, 2008? (Calvin) Coolidge |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 2008 NEWS $200: Trouble in this former kingdom now part of China captured headlines in March Tibet |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 2008 NEWS $400: The Times reported this New Yorker was quitting the presidential race following his defeat in the Florida primary Rudy Giuliani |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 2008 NEWS $600: Upcoming trials for 9/11 suspects held at this facility were reported in 2008 Guantanamo Bay |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 2008 NEWS $800: A tentative deal with producers reported on February 10 proved to be the end of this labor action the Writers Guild strike |
| #5515, aired 2008-07-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES 2008 NEWS $1000: In 2008 the Times covered clashes following this Serbian territory's declaration of independence Kosovo |
| #5512, aired 2008-07-22 | NEBRASKA, NEW YORK OR NORTH DAKOTA $200: The least populous North Dakota |
| #5512, aired 2008-07-22 | NEBRASKA, NEW YORK OR NORTH DAKOTA $400: Its name does not have a Native American origin New York |
| #5512, aired 2008-07-22 | NEBRASKA, NEW YORK OR NORTH DAKOTA $600: The Oregon Trail crossed it Nebraska |
| #5512, aired 2008-07-22 | NEBRASKA, NEW YORK OR NORTH DAKOTA $800: The largest in area Nebraska |
| #5512, aired 2008-07-22 | NEBRASKA, NEW YORK OR NORTH DAKOTA $1000: Its cities include Minot, Jamestown & Grand Forks North Dakota |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEALTH $200: The N.Y. Times said of the benefits of doing this before or after exercise: "The answer is elastic"; warming up might be better stretching |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEALTH $400: The Well blog on nytimes.com noted "even pop stars have a right to medical privacy" after docs peeked at her UCLA files Britney Spears |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEALTH $600: Researchers think they know why a blood disorder in the tropics protects against this mosquito-borne disease malaria |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEALTH $800: The N.Y. Times scrutinized the wisdom of TV ads for drugs, like the ones with this artificial heart inventor Jarvik |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEALTH $1000: The bacterium Oxalobacter formigenes may reduce the risk of these, aka renal calculi kidney stones |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $200: Tony boutiques in Buckhead are hoping to change the dowdy "Crown Jewel of the South" moniker of this city Atlanta |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $400: While the natural wonders clear your mind, this "least affordable" state will clear your wallet Hawaii |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $600: nytimes.com says the Belle Epoque architecture & late-night cafes of this capital lure expat artists & tango lovers Buenos Aires |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $800: Anyone born on this southern U.S. island is called a conch, also a delicacy there, like stone crab claws Key West |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $1000: Because it's hidden, the hitou is the most prized type of natural hot spring in the mountains of this country Japan |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES $200: In April 1861 the Times began Sunday issues for all the crucial up-to-date news on this the Civil War |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES $400: Of 6, 12, or 18 pounds, it's the record for a Sunday Times paper, spread over 1,612 pages in 1987 12 |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES $600: Blogs found at nytimes.com include one by this TV personality & talk show host seen here (Dick) Cavett |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES $800: Among its dozens of Pulitzer prizes is one for coverage of this 1986 tragedy, citing "serious design flaws" the Challenger (explosion) |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK TIMES $1000: While he gave up his political column, he still shares his love of words in his "On Language" column (William) Safire |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TECH BIZ $400: The Times exposed memos from this company's execs who had trouble upgrading to its Vista operating system Microsoft |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TECH BIZ $800: Hoping to regain its luster, this Time Warner online service is buying the no. 3 social networking site, Bebo AOL |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TECH BIZ $1600: The Times reported Best Buy is giving $50 gift cards to buyers of this format that is on the losing end of the video battle HD-DVD |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TECH BIZ $2000: The David Pogue blog says the iPhone with push email is gunning for this most popular smartphone the BlackBerry |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TECH BIZ $3,300 (Daily Double): The Times cites an estimate that in 2007, its 3rd year, this site used as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000 YouTube |
| #5462, aired 2008-05-13 | THE NEW YORK TIMES FASHION $200: 2008 brought a season of "intolerably high, architectonic", even "misogynistic" these heels on women's shoes |
| #5462, aired 2008-05-13 | THE NEW YORK TIMES FASHION $400: An nytimes.com slide show has colorful remakes of the "classic voluminous" this coat of spies & reporters a trenchcoat |
| #5462, aired 2008-05-13 | THE NEW YORK TIMES FASHION $600: This French-named line of polo shirts is not just for tennis but "Palm Beach retirees, preppy college students" Lacoste |
| #5462, aired 2008-05-13 | THE NEW YORK TIMES FASHION $800: Nytimes.com reported on the "terrifying schmaltz" of the Gucci show at this Italian city's fashion week Milan |
| #5462, aired 2008-05-13 | THE NEW YORK TIMES FASHION $1000: The nytimes.com "On the Runway" blog says of this house's 2008 collection,
"YSL: The Chic Is Real" Yves Saint Laurent |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ENTERTAINMENT $200: The New York Times wondered if the death of this actor, who plays the Joker, will make "The Dark Knight" darker Heath Ledger |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ENTERTAINMENT $400: Nytimes.com lauded Hamish Linklater, who plays Julia Louis-Dreyfus' brother Matthew on this sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ENTERTAINMENT $600: In 2008 this Moscow ballet company announced that Yuri Burlakau had been approved its artistic director The Bolshoi Ballet |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ENTERTAINMENT $800: Nytimes.com blogged on the New York Philharmonic's Asian tour, which included a stop in this North Korean capital Pyongyang |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ENTERTAINMENT $1000: "Oil!", a 1927 novel by this muckraker, was on the New York Times Best Seller List in 2008 Upton Sinclair |
| #5330, aired 2007-11-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $200: The Times reported on Mattel's 2007 apology to this country for harming its reputation with recalls China |
| #5330, aired 2007-11-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $400: The Times noted the first of these shops to open in Moscow, in 2007; a venti mocha went for 230 rubles, or $8.96 Starbucks Coffee |
| #5330, aired 2007-11-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $600: The Times said in 2007 that August's ugly job market turn could be signaling one of these, the first since 2001 a recession |
| #5330, aired 2007-11-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $800: Times Business viewed skeptically Rep. John Dingell's proposed anti-global warming tax on this element carbon |
| #5330, aired 2007-11-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $1000: In Oct. 2007 Times Business reported this British band would let fans name their price to download the new album Radiohead |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $200: Visit Stanley Park, one of the largest urban parks in North America, while in this British Columbia city Vancouver |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $400: Several articles on Bonaire focus on diving beneath the blue waters of this sea the Caribbean |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $600: You can book a trip right on the website with a link to this site whose logo shows a plane & a globe Expedia(.com) |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $800: The Times reports that war-torn countries are reviving tourism, like this African nation ravaged by genocide in 1994 Rwanda |
| #5329, aired 2007-11-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $1000: On this island just east of Java, Seminyak Beach is a quieter alternative to touristy Kuta Bali |
| #5328, aired 2007-11-07 | BLOGS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES $200: You old school gamers, check out "The Gambit", a blog about this ancient game chess |
| #5328, aired 2007-11-07 | BLOGS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES $400: A blog about baseball is named for these--pieces of equipment, not mammals bats |
| #5328, aired 2007-11-07 | BLOGS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES $600: If you want to be in the front row of fashion, you'll walk (but not take off) "on" this Times blog The Runway |
| #5328, aired 2007-11-07 | BLOGS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES $800: "Bits", a technology blog, discusses "blundits", a combination of "blogger" & this word pundits |
| #5328, aired 2007-11-07 | BLOGS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES $1000: Like his book, rogue economist Steven Levitt explores the hidden side of everything in this blog Freakonomics |
| #5327, aired 2007-11-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNISTS $200: An astronomical viewing facility, or Henry Fountain's column in Tuesday's Science Times Observatory |
| #5327, aired 2007-11-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNISTS $400: After the death of Red Smith, George Vecsey became a columnist on this subject sports |
| #5327, aired 2007-11-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNISTS $600: CCNY grad Clyde Haberman writes the NYC column for this section that doesn't have "-politan" after it Metro |
| #5327, aired 2007-11-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNISTS $800: "Our Towns" columnist Peter Applebome has come far since his career began at this state's Ypsilanti Press Michigan |
| #5327, aired 2007-11-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNISTS $1000: For those who blend materialism & counterculture, David Brooks coined "BoBo"-- bourgeois these bohemians |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED $400: He did not go gentle into that good "Nightline", ripping ABC in an op-ed for trying to replace him with Letterman Ted Koppel |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED $800: In 2006 Roger Mahoney, high up in this organization, said he would disobey a bill & keep helping illegal immigrants the Catholic Church |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED $1200: In 1995 Don Hewitt, then executive producer of this TV show, wrote that some trials shouldn't be televised 60 Minutes |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED $1600: This Russian eulogized Reagan as "a president who listened" though "we had to overcome mistrust" Gorbachev |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED $2000: This free market-loving economist praised vouchers in 2002's "The Market Can Transform Our Schools" (Milton) Friedman |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $200: Completed in 1931, this structure required 10 million bricks; a true stairmaster would climb its 1,860 steps the Empire State Building |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $400: Fuhgedaboudit! Now a borough, it was incorporated as a village in 1816 with roughly 4,000 residents Brooklyn |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $600: In 1754 King's College was founded in New York City; today it's known as this Ivy League university Columbia |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $800: In 1776, after the Battle of this area shown here, the British retook New York City and held the city until the war's end in 1783 Long Island |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $1000: In 1765 Congress met in New York to protest unfair taxes levied under this act the Stamp Act |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | AROUND NEW YORK STATE $200: Though it's 150 miles from the Atlantic, this capital of New York has an active port Albany |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | AROUND NEW YORK STATE $400: This northernmost New York City borough boasts the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University the Bronx |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | AROUND NEW YORK STATE $600: The Maid of the Mist is a fixture at this natural wonder located about 20 miles north of Buffalo Niagara Falls |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | AROUND NEW YORK STATE $800: The museum for a N.Y. prison known by this double-talk name includes a replica electric chair made by prisoners Sing Sing |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | AROUND NEW YORK STATE $1000: This liberal arts college that went co-ed in 1969 is located in Poughkeepsie Vassar (College) |
| #5275, aired 2007-07-13 | THE NEW YORK TIMES WEEK IN REVIEW $400: In Mon., Oct. 23, 2006's Times you may have read of Panamanians' vote to modernize this at a cost of $5.25 billion the Panama Canal |
| #5275, aired 2007-07-13 | THE NEW YORK TIMES WEEK IN REVIEW $800: On Tues., Dec. 9, 2006 the Times said the U.S. would now sell nuclear fuel to this Asia country India |
| #5275, aired 2007-07-13 | THE NEW YORK TIMES WEEK IN REVIEW $1200: Wed., Dec. 21, 2005's Times said a judge stopped a Penn. district from teaching this as an alternative to evolution intelligent design |
| #5275, aired 2007-07-13 | THE NEW YORK TIMES WEEK IN REVIEW $2000: Fri., April 13, 2007 had unlucky news for Don Imus: "off the air" for remarks about female athletes from this school Rutgers |
| #5275, aired 2007-07-13 | THE NEW YORK TIMES WEEK IN REVIEW $4,000 (Daily Double): On Thurs., Jan. 11, 2007 the Times reported the first public U.S. Military action in this African nation since 1994 Somalia |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE $200: Robin Marantz Henig's recent masterful essay on evolutionary biology was titled this 19th century scientist's "God" Charles Darwin |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE $400: Feb. 2007's "From 0 to 60 to World Domination" explored this Japanese auto company's rise to prominence Toyota |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE $600: In March 2007's "Choosing a Sect", Noah Feldman studied the USA's feelings with these 2 main Iraqi Muslim sects Shi'ite and Sunni |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE $800: Dec. 2006's "The Lives They Lived" covered the 2006 passings of such notables as this founder & namer of Pink Floyd Syd Barrett |
| #5274, aired 2007-07-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE $1000: A new one of these "super" nuclear physics accelerators was the subject of Jim Holt's "Where Protons Will Play" supercollider |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES DINING $200: Want to get this part of a pie perfect? The secret is leaf lard, rendered for 8 hours the crust |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES DINING $400: Naturally, this list came in for praise at a restaurant called Varietal the wine list |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES DINING $600: A restaurant of this African cuisine got high marks for its shiro wett & its not-too-spongy injera bread Ethiopian |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES DINING $800: The times had info on Surinam cherry, the ingredient that helped crown the champion cook of this Bravo TV reality show Top Chef |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES DINING $2,400 (Daily Double): The Times critic loved the lamb at an Indian joint that uses this 700-degree oven a tandoori oven |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALISTS $200: As Michelle Higgins is the "Practical" this, she'll tell you how to cut the high cost of flying to Africa Traveler |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALISTS $400: Frank Bruni, whose yearly entertainment budget is $350,000, is on this beat restaurants (food critic) |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALISTS $600: In 1990 Nicholas Kristof & his wife Sheryl WuDunn won a Pulitzer covering China's democracy movement in this place Tiananmen Square |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALISTS $800: We bet the first Monday in Oct. is always circled on Linda Greenhouse's calendar; she started on this Times beat in 1978 the Supreme Court |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES JOURNALISTS $1000: Pulitzer-winning op-ed columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote "A Brief History of the 21st Century" in "The World is" this Flat |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOGRAPHY $200: Location in North Carolina forever associated with the 1903 event seen here Kitty Hawk |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOGRAPHY $400: Open wide, Pete! It's treat time for you on your 44th birthday at this New York City borough's zoo The Bronx |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOGRAPHY $600: This famed labor leader is seen demonstrating in 1969 César Chávez |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOGRAPHY $800: Seen here is a dramatic 1937 photo of a tragedy in this New Jersey town Lakehurst |
| #5271, aired 2007-07-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOGRAPHY $1000: Seen here is landmark in 1920; the dedication would not come until 2 years later the Lincoln Memorial |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $200: The "Practical Traveler" reports on budget types of these small, trendy hotels with the name of a kind of shop boutiques |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $400: The New York Times website's "Where to Stay" feature suggests the Pensione Maria Luisa De' Medici in this Tuscan city Florence |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $600: The Times' "36 Hours" tour of this capital begins at a plaza where people look like extras in an Almodovar film Madrid |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $800: "What to do" at this Greek site is to visit the Museum of the History of the... games in antiquity Olympia |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TRAVEL $1000: "When to go" to Australia? If it's summer (Dec.), try southern (cooler) states, like this one named for a queen Victoria |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $200: The Times told us the Stratford-on-Avon church where he was buried in 1616 needed $2 million in repairs William Shakespeare |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $400: Of a biopic on this author: "Once upon a time, Flopsy & Mopsy, there was a plucky proto-feminist..." Beatrix Potter |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $600: In 2006 Donald Hall, known for poems about his wife, Jane Kenyon, was lauded after his appointment as this (United States) Poet Laureate |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $800: The Times noted that "Office at Night", seen here, was one of many works by this artist on display at the Whitney (Edward) Hopper |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $1000: This one-time defector's Hell's Kitchen Dance company got rave reviews as it started a world tour (Mikhail) Baryshnikov |
| #5219, aired 2007-04-26 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HOUSE & HOME $200: Bemz sells covers in bright decorator colors for the furniture of this other Swedish company IKEA |
| #5219, aired 2007-04-26 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HOUSE & HOME $600 (Daily Double): The Dec. 28, 2006 edition suggested recycling this object into garden mulch Christmas tree |
| #5219, aired 2007-04-26 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HOUSE & HOME $600: A company called California these benefits from the notion that organized these "are the key to... a freer life" closets |
| #5219, aired 2007-04-26 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HOUSE & HOME $800: Rupert Murdoch & wife Wendy Deng's apartment re-do included hiring a master of this Asian practice feng shui |
| #5219, aired 2007-04-26 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HOUSE & HOME $1000: This type of "house", built to hold coaches, is a frequent candidate for renovation carriage house |
| #5218, aired 2007-04-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $200: Inspired by this "30-Minute" chef, compaines are now using cooking classes as a management team building exercise Rachael Ray |
| #5218, aired 2007-04-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $400: U.S. Airways is now selling advertising space on these "bags"; let's hope there are no cutout coupons barf bags (or airsickness bags) |
| #5218, aired 2007-04-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $600: Recycled paper became billions of dollars for "The Queen of Trash", Zhang Yin, from this country China |
| #5218, aired 2007-04-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $800: This auto company will be the first foreign brand to compete in stock car racing's top series since Jaguar in the '50s Toyota |
| #5218, aired 2007-04-25 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $1000: Her book imprint is being closed after the debacle & cancellation of O.J.'s "If I Did It" book Judith Regan |
| #5217, aired 2007-04-24 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $400: A November 2006 issue reported a higher risk of recurrent strep throat in kids who haven't had this operation a tonsillectomy |
| #5217, aired 2007-04-24 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $800: A 2004 conference on ways to detect when a country is making these included ideas like robot spy butterflies nuclear weapons |
| #5217, aired 2007-04-24 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $1600: At age 100, the internal organs of these shelled reptiles look just like those of teenage ones turtles |
| #5217, aired 2007-04-24 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $2000: This second fiddle among nucleic acids may be linked to types of leukemia & mental retardation ribonucleic acid (RNA) |
| #5217, aired 2007-04-24 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $3,000 (Daily Double): Scholars can't read a 10-word column found in Guatemala but know it means these people had writing in 2300 B.C. the Mayans |
| #5216, aired 2007-04-23 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $400: The Times felt "Grand Illusion" failed to be the definitive, nuanced portrait of this man, "America's Mayor" Rudolph Giuliani |
| #5216, aired 2007-04-23 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $800: In "Lisey's Story" he "brings on his most fearsome monster of all, that quivering mass of ego...the writer" Stephen King |
| #5216, aired 2007-04-23 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $1,200 (Daily Double): In "State of Denial", this Wash. Post scribe "takes a mulligan and attempts to correct for past obsequiousness" Bob Woodward |
| #5216, aired 2007-04-23 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $1200: Reviewing a 2006 prequel, the Times noted this fictional shrink's grisly gallantry & "avenging-angel impulse" Hannibal Lecter |
| #5216, aired 2007-04-23 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $2000: "A Great Unravelling" was the Times' headline when it reviewed 2 books about this theory in physics string theory |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $200: September 15, 1950:
"U.N. Forces Land Behind Communists in" this peninsula, "Seize Inchon" Korea |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $400: February 11, 1913:
"Scott Finds" this location, "Then Perishes" the South Pole |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $600: August 17, 1935:
"Will Rogers" & this aviator "Die in Airplane Crash in Alaska; Nation Shocked by Tragedy" (Wiley) Post |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $800 (Daily Double): October 7, 1981:
This world leader "Assassinated at Army Parade as Men Amid Ranks Fire into Stands" Anwar Sadat |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $1000: August 21, 1968:
This nation "Invaded by Russians and Four Other Warsaw Pact Forces" Czechoslovakia |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY & CONNECTICUT $400: (Sarah reports from the Plasma Physics Lab in New Jersey)
A record level of fusion power was produced at the Plasma Physics Lab of this New Jersey Ivy League university Princeton |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY & CONNECTICUT $800: The year the Empire State Building opened, this bridge opened to help you get to it from New Jersey George Washington Bridge |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY & CONNECTICUT $1200: (John reports from Radio City Music Hall in New York)
The stock market crash ended this man's dream of putting an opera house here; he ended up building Radio City Music Hall on the land he controlled John D. Rockefeller, Jr. |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY & CONNECTICUT $1600: The USA's last wooden whaling ship, the Charles W. Morgan, is docked in the harbor of this Conn. seaport Mystic |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY & CONNECTICUT $2000: This submarine building Connecticut town was the site of a 1781 massacre of U.S. troops by the British; a memorial is shown Groton |
| #5104, aired 2006-11-16 | IT'LL PLAY IN NEW YORK $400: In this show, Manhattan is the playground for Riff, Tony, Bernardo & a girl named Maria West Side Story |
| #5104, aired 2006-11-16 | IT'LL PLAY IN NEW YORK $800: A floating craps game goes bust at the Bowery's Save-A-Soul Mission in this play Guys and Dolls |
| #5104, aired 2006-11-16 | IT'LL PLAY IN NEW YORK $1200: The laughter ends when Fanny Brice & Nick Arnstein break up in this musical Funny Girl |
| #5104, aired 2006-11-16 | IT'LL PLAY IN NEW YORK $1600: "Bet Your Bottom Dollar" that you can name this musical about a girl in the New York Municipal Orphanage Annie |
| #5104, aired 2006-11-16 | IT'LL PLAY IN NEW YORK $2000: Gabey, Chip & Ozzie are 3 sailors on shore leave in New York lusting for a good time in this play On the Town |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $400: As this title superhero, Tobey Maguire spun his web across New York Spider-Man |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $1,000 (Daily Double): On a Manhattan morning, Audrey Hepburn admires the gems in a shop window while eating a roll in this film's opening Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $1200: A classic Christmas movie is called "Miracle on" this Manhattan street 34th Street |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $1600: This writer/director's New York-set films include "Manhattan" & "Manhattan Murder Mystery" Woody Allen |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $2000: Who ya gonna call when spirits haunt the Big Apple? The title group of this 1984 comedy, of course Ghostbusters |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | "NEW" YORK $200: Someone recently married a newlywed |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | STUPID ANSWERS: THE NEW YORK EDITION $400: This museum was founded by Amy, Eleanor & Sarah Hewitt, granddaughters of industrialist Peter Cooper Cooper-Hewitt |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | "NEW" YORK $400: 1980s bands like The B-52's are classified as this style of music New Wave |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | "NEW" YORK $600: It starts with the Book of Matthew & ends with the Book of Revelation the New Testament |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | STUPID ANSWERS: THE NEW YORK EDITION $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Gershwin Theatre in New York.) I've just made my entrance on the set of this Broadway musical that opens with the song, "No One Mourns The Wicked" Wicked |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | "NEW" YORK $800: The largest city in New Jersey Newark |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | "NEW" YORK $1000: St. John's is the capital city of this Canadian province Newfoundland |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | STUPID ANSWERS: THE NEW YORK EDITION $1200: JFK often stayed at this hotel at 76th & Madison, & Bobby Short entertained there for decades in its Cafe Carlyle The Hotel Carlyle |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | STUPID ANSWERS: THE NEW YORK EDITION $1600: (Jimmy, Cheryl, & Sarah of the Clue Crew walk into a New York restaurant.) We're getting ready to have a fabulous meal here at this world-famous New York restaurant at 21 West 52nd St. 21 |
| #5102, aired 2006-11-14 | STUPID ANSWERS: THE NEW YORK EDITION $2000: When this acting couple lived on West 22nd St. in Chelsea, they nicknamed their home the Torn Page Rip Torn & Geraldine Page |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE $200: The skating rink was an experiment, as the space had been a failure for retailers within this building complex Rockefeller Center |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE $400: The 1924 Democratic National Convention went on for 14 days in the second incarnation of this building Madison Square Garden |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE $600: This 1920s art deco skyscraper is decorated with chrome & radiator cap designs the Chrysler Building |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE $800: Frank Lloyd Wright intended for visitors to begin at the top & move downward through this art museum the Guggenheim |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE $1000: Daniel Burnham had to work with a triangular plot where Broadway, 5th & 23rd meet, & he came up with this building the Flatiron Building |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $200: William Laurence won a Prize in 1946 for his eyewitness account of the atomic bombing of this city, after Hiroshima Nagasaki |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $400: The Times won its first Pulitzer in 1918 for its coverage of this World War I |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $600: Max Frankel won a 1973 Prize for his reporting on President Nixon's trip to this country China |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $800: In 1972 The Times won for meritorious public service for publishing these documents leaked by Daniel Ellsberg the Pentagon Papers |
| #5045, aired 2006-07-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS $1000: Wonder if he mentioned his 1979 win for his "Observer" column in his memoir "Growing Up"? Russell Baker |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | THE NEW YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT THROUGH THE YEARS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands next to a fire engine in the NYC Fire Museum.) The 1970s were one of the New York City Fire Department’s most challenging times; Howard Cosell said on TV, this borough "is burning", & firemen were often called there daily the Bronx |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | THE NEW YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT THROUGH THE YEARS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew walks next to an antique pump engine in the NY City Fire Museum.) This double-decker engine was part of the festivities when this opened in New York Harbor on October 28, 1886 the Statue of Liberty |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | THE NEW YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT THROUGH THE YEARS $1200: (Kelly holds a tiny fire helmet in the NY City Fire Museum.) The 343 doesn't represent a fire company; it represents this number from the New York City Fire Department's saddest day the number of dead from 9/11 |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | THE NEW YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT THROUGH THE YEARS $1600: (Sarah walks next to another antique pump engine at the NY City Fire Museum.) A 19th century fire chief worried engines powered by this were so mighty that the water would cause more damage than the fires steam |
| #5038, aired 2006-07-05 | THE NEW YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT THROUGH THE YEARS $2000: (Sarah walks around a decorated antique hose reel in the NY City Fire Museum.) The infamous Boss Tweed began his public career as a volunteer fireman & this hose reel from his era had the tiger symbol of this organization Tammany Hall |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $400: In 2006 The New York Times said that this animated monkey movie "is an unexpected delight" Curious George |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $800: Vincent Canby felt "fondly towards this "race of small, teddy bear-like creatures" in "Return of the Jedi" the Ewoks |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $1200: Steve Carell raised "the comedy bar with an excruciatingly funny" body-waxing scene in this 2005 film The 40-Year-Old Virgin |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $1600: Vincent Canby said it's Woody Allen's "homage to Tolstoy, Kierkegaard, Einstein, Groucho Marx..." Love and Death |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $2000: The spacemen in this 1951 film are so peaceful "you'd hardly expect them to split an infinitive, let alone an atom" The Day the Earth Stood Still |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | CITY OF THE DAY: NEW YORK $400: When NYC was a Dutch settlement, this street got its name because it was a wide thoroughfare for wagons Broadway |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | CITY OF THE DAY: NEW YORK $800: One of the best-preserved colonial buildings is the Onderdonk Farmhouse of 1731 in this borough, the largest Queens |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | CITY OF THE DAY: NEW YORK $1200: Russell Simmons & Rick Rubin began this seminal hip-hop record company out of an NYU dorm room Def Jam |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | CITY OF THE DAY: NEW YORK $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in Yankee Stadium.) If you recall a famous nickname for the Yankees, you should know this is the borough they play in the Bronx |
| #5023, aired 2006-06-14 | CITY OF THE DAY: NEW YORK $2000: Prospect, Riverside, Morningside as well as a more famous park were designed by this landscape architect (Frederick Law) Olmsted |
| #5000, aired 2006-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $200: At age 82 in 2005 this "Cat's Cradle" author had his first nonfiction bestseller, "A Man Without a Country" Kurt Vonnegut |
| #5000, aired 2006-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $400: Julie Powell's "Julie & Julia", a blog-turned-book about mastering this chef's recipes, "has too much blog in its DNA" Julia Child |
| #5000, aired 2006-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $600: "The Year of Magical Thinking", her memoir of life after the death of husband John Gregory Dunne, "is not a downer" Joan Didion |
| #5000, aired 2006-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $800: This late, great actor "had a heap of fun cranking out" "Fan-Tan" "while throwing back a few hundred martinis" Marlon Brando |
| #5000, aired 2006-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $1000: His "A Man in Full" "contains passages as powerful and as beautiful as anything written... by any American novelist" Tom Wolfe |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $200: Union Pacific, HP & this Atlanta-based beverage company voted to impose limits on executive severance packages Coca-Cola |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $400: This retailer's stock went up when it merged with Kmart, but it has room to improve operationally Sears |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $600: Wal-Mart has been compared to this early grocery chain whose name goes back to 2 oceans A&P |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $800: This oil company with record profits of $36 billion in 2005 appears to have a gradual liquidity strategy ExxonMobil |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $1000: A Times writer's "Scandalot" featured Maurice Greenberg, who resigned as CEO of this insurance giant AIG |
| #4998, aired 2006-05-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $400: Computer analysis of newly found paintings said the drip patterns weren't consistent with this artist's previous works Pollock |
| #4998, aired 2006-05-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $800: The Times called this Fox sitcom, a critical darling, "an alliance between 'The Royal Tenenbaums' & 'The Simpsons'" Arrested Development |
| #4998, aired 2006-05-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $1200: The Times said a 2005 production of this Shaw play about a career woman was "intriguingly nuanced drama" Mrs. Warren's Profession |
| #4998, aired 2006-05-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $1600: In 2006 Angela Gheorghiu had a "supercharged star turn" as Violetta in this Verdi opera La Traviata |
| #4998, aired 2006-05-10 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS $2000: "The Seven", a hip-hop reworking of his "Seven Against Thebes", is a "risky adventure in aesthetic cross-pollination" Aeschylus |
| #4997, aired 2006-05-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $400: A researcher has shown that this feared Amazon fish may gather in packs for safety, not to hunt a piranha |
| #4997, aired 2006-05-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $800: This 8-letter particle named for its lack of charge is being studied by beaming it 450 miles in .0025 seconds the neutrino |
| #4997, aired 2006-05-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $1200: Glen Canyon, inundated by the formation of this man-made Utah lake, is becoming visible again as the lake dries up Lake Powell |
| #4997, aired 2006-05-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $1600: No, that's fine. Of course you're right. Science Times says "hostile cooperation" is part of this behavior pattern passive-aggressiveness |
| #4997, aired 2006-05-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $2000: 28 years after its 1977 launch, it passed through a sort of space sound barrier called the termination shock Voyager |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS $200: This "most primal sport... has been condemned since Cain & Abel, but it's still here... on barges or in barrooms" boxing |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS $400: Dave Anderson lamented that Jerry Kramer, Rich Jackson & Charley Conerly were not inducted into this sport's Hall of Fame professional football |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS $600: On April 10, 2006 The New York Times said he "works magic for second Masters" (Phil) Mickelson |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS $800: Not typically thought of as a contact sport, it's "athletic ballet... a brutal sport played by large and powerful men" basketball |
| #4996, aired 2006-05-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS $1000: It's "a brief blur of colors between the pate and the brie" for fans attending the major event in this sport the Tour de France |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWS OF 2006 $200: There was gold in the hills of this host city as the Times noted the start of the Winter Olympics there on Feb. 10 Turin |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWS OF 2006 $400: On Feb. 13, the Times reported Dick Cheney shot a man hunting, the first shooting by a sitting veep since this man Aaron Burr |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWS OF 2006 $600: "G.O.P. UNREST OVER PORTS" read a headline when this emirate's control of some U.S. ports was opposed by Congress in March Dubai |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWS OF 2006 $800: Riots in this Ugandan capital city were reported in the Times on Feb. 26 following presidential elections there Kampala |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWS OF 2006 $1000: "A DRAMA STRAIGHT FROM THE TABLOIDS" blared the Times in a story on her appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court in March Anna Nicole Smith |
| #4990, aired 2006-04-28 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $400: The Nov. 1, 1984 obituary for this woman noted that she "presided over the world's most populous democracy" Indira Gandhi |
| #4990, aired 2006-04-28 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $800: His 1870 obit noted his 1861 resignation from the army & that he "immediately betook himself to Richmond" Robert E. Lee |
| #4990, aired 2006-04-28 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $1200: Part of this Egyptian's 1981 obit included, "...he was willing to ignore past Arab-Israeli hatreds" Sadat |
| #4990, aired 2006-04-28 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $2,000 (Daily Double): In a 1936 obit, a pupil said of her, "I pray for strength to endure the silent dark until she smiles upon me again" Anne Sullivan |
| #4990, aired 2006-04-28 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $2000: A 1950 obit of this female poet said, "Greenwich Village & Vassar plus a gypsy childhood on the rocky coast of Maine" Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOGRAPHY $200: The ship seen here is moving through this artificial waterway completed in 1869 the Suez Canal |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOGRAPHY $400: From the Latin for "to hold in front", it's the period epitomized here Prohibition |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOGRAPHY $600: The Times photo of this man dates from sometime around 1870; he was dead by 1876 Custer |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOGRAPHY $800: A famous trio is seen here at this Ukranian resort city in 1945 Yalta |
| #4981, aired 2006-04-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES PHOTOGRAPHY $1000: Seen here are these two artists who were married in 1929 in Coyocan Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED PAGE $400: In 1986 this U.S. attorney & future mayor wrote on "How to Return Ethics to New York" Giuliani |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED PAGE $800: Lambasting Tom Cruise, Brooke Shields defended her use of drugs to treat this ailment of new mothers postpartum depression |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED PAGE $1200: His July 6, 2003 op-ed doubted Iraq's uranium purchase; 8 days later his wife was outed as a CIA agent (Joseph) Wilson |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED PAGE $1600: In political & journalistic circles, this op-edder's fame is such that she's simply called MoDo Maureen Dowd |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED PAGE $2000: His 2005 farewell column said, "Never retire!"; he kept his Sunday magazine language column William Safire |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HISTORIC HEADLINES $200: This country is the invadee in the 1990 headline seen here Kuwait |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HISTORIC HEADLINES $400: It's the capital city on the losing end of a 1971 headline Taipei |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HISTORIC HEADLINES $600: This man's 1986 travel itinerary made the front page Ferdinand Marcos |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HISTORIC HEADLINES $800: Last name of the 1953 headline pair seen here Rosenberg |
| #4974, aired 2006-04-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HISTORIC HEADLINES $1000: In headlines from 1912 & '13, respectively, very different fates befall these two men Scott & Amundsen |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | NEW YORK STATE $200: You can buy a Vitameatavegamin TV night light at the Jamestown museum honoring her Lucille Ball |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | NEW YORK STATE $400: This New York metropolis is nicknamed "The Bison City" Buffalo |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | NEW YORK STATE $600: Chittenango holds an annual 4-day OZFest for this man born there in 1856 & no, Ozzy isn't that old L. Frank Baum |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | NEW YORK STATE $800: 10 feet plus of hoax, "The Cardiff Giant" has been on display at the Farmers' Museum in this Hall of Fame city since 1948 Cooperstown |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | NEW YORK STATE $1000: While living in these New York mountains, Robert Louis Stevenson began writing "The Master of Ballantrae" the Adirondacks |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | AROUND NEW YORK $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Herald Square, New York.) The title of a classic Christmas film refers to Macy's location on Herald Square at the intersection of Broadway & this street 34th |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | AROUND NEW YORK $400: Painter John F. Kensett helped found it in the 1870s & his works launched its American Paintings Collection the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | AROUND NEW YORK $600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Times Square, New York.) The Times Square subway station is between Broadway & 7th Avenue on this road, also the name of a hit Broadway musical 42nd Street |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | AROUND NEW YORK $800: You'll hear some cutting remarks in the 47th St. "district" named for these brilliant items diamonds |
| #4818, aired 2005-07-13 | AROUND NEW YORK $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Tribeca, New York.) The name Tribeca was adopted in the mid-1970s; it stands for "Triangle below" this street Canal Street |
| #4803, aired 2005-06-22 | 2004 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS $200: This "Simple Life"r's "Confessions of an Heiress" made the list Paris Hilton |
| #4803, aired 2005-06-22 | 2004 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS $400: Lots of people forked over $35 to read this autobiography of Bill Clinton My Life |
| #4803, aired 2005-06-22 | 2004 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS $600: In book 10, "The Slippery Slope", this author's Baudelaire siblings are at it again Lemony Snicket |
| #4803, aired 2005-06-22 | 2004 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS $800: "Today" we'll tell you this in "Skywriting" this TV personality told of her struggle with bipolar disorder Jane Pauley |
| #4803, aired 2005-06-22 | 2004 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS $1000: This former presidential candidate & TV commentator made the list with "Where the Right Went Wrong" Patrick Buchanan |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | NICKNAMES OF NEW YORK CITIES $400: "The Camera City" Rochester |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | NICKNAMES OF NEW YORK CITIES $800: "The Summer Vacationland & Winter Wonderland" Lake Placid |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | NICKNAMES OF NEW YORK CITIES $1600: "The Crystal City" Corning |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | NICKNAMES OF NEW YORK CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Nickel City" Buffalo |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | NICKNAMES OF NEW YORK CITIES $2000: "The Birthplace of the Union" Albany |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | NEW YORK CITY MAYORS $400: On Dec. 30, 2002 this billionaire mayor signed a law banning smoking in most working-class bars Bloomberg |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | NEW YORK CITY MAYORS $800: Mayor Dinkins fought to divest the city of funds invested in companies that did business with this country South Africa |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | NEW YORK CITY MAYORS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Umbertos in New York City.) As part of a civil lawsuit, in 1987, the Feds took over Umbertos at the request of this U.S. attorney & future mayor, but couldn't make a go of it Giuliani |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | NEW YORK CITY MAYORS $1600: This flamboyant pol has the distinction of being the only mayor to later host "The People's Court" Ed Koch |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | NEW YORK CITY MAYORS $2000: Mayor George McClellan was subjected to scathing newspaper attacks when running against this mogul William Randolph Hearst |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | NEW YORK ON FILM $200: Robert De Niro played a Vietnam vet turned N.Y. cabbie in this 1976 film--"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?" Taxi Driver |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | NEW YORK ON FILM $400: Meg Ryan visited Katz's Deli to film one of the most famous scenes of recent years, in this 1989 movie When Harry Met Sally... |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | NEW YORK ON FILM $600: Henry Winkler & Sly Stallone played leather-clad greasers of the '50s in this 1974 flick The Lords of Flatbush |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | NEW YORK ON FILM $800: All of Manhattan has become a maximum-security prison in this futuristic Kurt Russell thriller Escape from New York |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | NEW YORK ON FILM $1000: 3 sailors on shore leave see the sights of New York in this musical, one of the first shot on location On the Town |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE $400: (Hi, I'm Maria Bartiromo.) Heard every day to end trading, it's also the title of an afternoon show I host on CNBC closing bell |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE $800: This piece of trading floor technology arrived in 1867 but is now a bit out of date the ticker |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE $1200: (Maria Bartiromo reads the clue.) The first specific security the NYSE recommended buying was these, a symbol of "freedom", during World War I (Liberty) war bonds |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE $1600: This company, symbol XOM, makes up about 20% of the weight of the NYSE energy stock index ExxonMobil |
| #4636, aired 2004-11-01 | THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE $2000: (Maria Bartiromo reads the clue.) One standard for NYSE listing includes this, market cap to us pros, of a least half a billion dollars market capitalization |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | NEW YORK CITY $200: Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond were contemporaries at Erasmus Hall High in this borough Brooklyn |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | NEW YORK CITY $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew skates on the ice rink at Rockefeller Center, New York.) Though there was a depression on, Rockefeller Rink opened on this festive day in 1936 Christmas Day |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | NEW YORK CITY $800: In honor of NYC's blaze-battlers, these 4 letters appeared on a lot of caps in 2001 FDNY |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | NEW YORK CITY $1000: This mental hospital is the primary teaching hospital for NYU's medical school Bellevue |
| #4602, aired 2004-09-14 | NEW YORK CITY $1,400 (Daily Double): The heart of Little Italy is this street also found in a Dr. Seuss book title Mulberry Street |
| #4580, aired 2004-07-02 | AROUND NEW YORK $400: Visit the boardwalk & ride the over 80-year-old Wonder Wheel at this nostalgic amusement resort Coney Island |
| #4580, aired 2004-07-02 | AROUND NEW YORK $800: This New York neighborhood is home to the National Black Theater as well as the famed Apollo Harlem |
| #4580, aired 2004-07-02 | AROUND NEW YORK $1200: Built in 1902, this distinctive-looking building is one of New York's oldest & most famous skyscrapers the Flatiron Building |
| #4580, aired 2004-07-02 | AROUND NEW YORK $1600: Popular name for the area along Seventh Avenue, south of 42nd Street, with stores full of notions & fabrics the Garment District |
| #4580, aired 2004-07-02 | AROUND NEW YORK $2,000 (Daily Double): You don't have to be a monk to visit this branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that's devoted to Medieval art the Cloisters |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $400: You're in the money if you know that he was elected governor 4 times between 1958 & 1970 (Nelson) Rockefeller |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew hangs out on the Brooklyn Bridge.) The Brooklyn Bridge was dedicated in 1883 by President Arthur & this future president, then governor of New York (Grover) Cleveland |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $1600: Lincoln's Secretary of State, he served as New York governor between William Marcy & William Bouck (William) Seward |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $1,801 (Daily Double): While governor from 1943 to 1954, this Republican ran for president twice (& lost) Thomas Dewey |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | NEW YORK GOVERNORS $2000: While in England negotiating a 1794 treaty, this Chief Justice was elected New York's second governor John Jay |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | NEW YORK CITY HISTORY $200: Opened in 1871, the first rail depot called this didn't function too well; trains could only exit in reverse Grand Central Station |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | NEW YORK CITY HISTORY $400: On Dec. 5, 1783 the British left the city for good, from this island borough Staten Island |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | NEW YORK CITY HISTORY $600: This geometric area is seen here in the 1890s, when it got its name after a gift from New York City's Italians Columbus Circle |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | NEW YORK CITY HISTORY $800: Anger about the first one of these established by federal law spurred riots in July 1863 a draft |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | NEW YORK CITY HISTORY $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew) In 1940 this mayor established Arthur Avenue Market to eliminate the pushcarts he found a nuisance Fiorello LaGuardia |
| #4438, aired 2003-12-17 | THE NEW YORK YANKEES $200: On June 2, 1925 first baseman Wally Pipp had a headache; this man filled in & didn't miss a game until 1939 Lou Gehrig |
| #4438, aired 2003-12-17 | THE NEW YORK YANKEES $400: He's seen here predicting his team's future Casey Stengel |
| #4438, aired 2003-12-17 | THE NEW YORK YANKEES $600: The Yankees' 2 big home run hitters in 1961 had this combined candy nickname the M&M boys |
| #4438, aired 2003-12-17 | THE NEW YORK YANKEES $800: Since 1995 this shortstop has worn No. 2 & been No. 1 in many fans' hearts Derek Jeter |
| #4438, aired 2003-12-17 | THE NEW YORK YANKEES $1000: (Yankees manager, Joe Torre.) This previous Yankee manager named Joe ran the team from 1931 to 1946, winning 8 pennants Joe McCarthy |
| #4372, aired 2003-09-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $200: On April 1, 2003 this "mystery ailment" seen in Hong Kong made the front page of Science Times SARS |
| #4372, aired 2003-09-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $400: Worldwide, people dream of these Freudian reptiles more often than of any other animal snakes |
| #4372, aired 2003-09-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $600: The "spokes" that Percival Lowell insisted he saw on Venus were actually shadows of blood vessels here his eye |
| #4372, aired 2003-09-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $800: New evidence suggests the British didn't sink this supership May 27, 1941; the Germans scuttled it the Bismarck |
| #4372, aired 2003-09-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $1000: A Dutch mathematician figured out how one could fill in the holes seen here, in a work by this artist M.C. Escher |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from in front of New York's Rockefeller Center.) Kevin & his mom were reunited here at Rockefeller Center in a sequel to this Macaulay Culkin film Home Alone |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $800: Director Merian Cooper disliked the noisy EL trains, so he had this beast tear one down in 1933 King Kong |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from New York's Times Square.) Times Square looked pretty seedy when Jon Voight hung out here in this 1969 film Midnight Cowboy |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $2,000 (Daily Double): It begins with a voice over: "Chapter One. He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion" Manhattan |
| #4318, aired 2003-05-14 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from New York's Central Park.) Fred Astaire & Cyd Charisse visit Central Park in this transportation-named movie musical The Bandwagon |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | I LOVE NEW YORK $200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew in New York's Times Square) It's not too crowded today, but around, oh, 11:30 on this day of the year, Times Square holds about 500,000 people New Year's Eve |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | I LOVE NEW YORK $400: (New York Yankees manager Joe Torre) You'll find collections of roses & tulips in the New York Botanical Garden in this borough where I work Bronx |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | I LOVE NEW YORK $600: You get the item seen here on entering this palace of culture Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | I LOVE NEW YORK $800: This area precedes "Vanguard" in the name of a NYC jazz club that's been swinging since 1935 Village |
| #4282, aired 2003-03-25 | I LOVE NEW YORK $1000: This neighborhood is bounded on the south by 110th St. & on the north by the small river of the same name Harlem |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | THE NEW YORK YANKEES $200: (With the clue here's Yankee manager Joe Torre) The White Construction Company put up Yankee Stadium, but it's called "The House That" this man "Built" (Babe) Ruth |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | THE NEW YORK YANKEES $400: In 1973 he said he wouldn't interfere with the Yankees' management & he'd stick to building ships -- uh-huh George Steinbrenner |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | THE NEW YORK YANKEES $600: (Joe Torre) As seen in a well-known clip, July 4, 1939 was appreciation day for this ailing man at Yankee Stadium Lou Gehrig |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | THE NEW YORK YANKEES $800: When robbed by Al Gionfriddo's famous catch in 1947, this Yankee went crazy -- he actually kicked the dirt Joe DiMaggio |
| #4237, aired 2003-01-21 | THE NEW YORK YANKEES $1000: (Joe Torre) In my first World Series in 1996, I managed the Yankees to victory against this team I once played for Atlanta Braves |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES $200: 55 down:
Flying mammals
(4) bats |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES $400: 47 down:
Indian prince
(5) rajah |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES $600: 64 across:
Gardener's need
(4) hose |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES $800: 43 down:
Big citrus fruit
(6) pomelo |
| #4082, aired 2002-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES $1000: 52 across:
What the queasy rodeo rider didn't feel like
(1,7,5) a million bucks |
| #4081, aired 2002-05-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS $200: "The Universe in a Nutshell" is his bestselling follow-up to "A Brief History of Time" Stephen Hawking |
| #4081, aired 2002-05-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS $600: If you know that this was Herman Wouk's first No. 1 novel, back in 1951, we salute you! The Caine Mutiny |
| #4081, aired 2002-05-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS $800: A best seller in 1980, this Jeffrey Archer novel sounds like the saga of biblical siblings Kane and Abel |
| #4081, aired 2002-05-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS $1,000 (Daily Double): This sequel by Alexandria Ripley, published 55 years after the original novel, entered the list at No. 1 in 1991 Scarlett |
| #4081, aired 2002-05-06 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS $1000: This seductive novel landed John Fowles on the best-seller list in 1969 The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $200: In 1988, yes, 1988, the Times reported, "For computers" this year "may prove a bit traumatic" 2000 |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $400: Its split-up in 1982 was noted with the headline seen here AT&T |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $600: In the January 11, 1946 headline "UNO Opened", UNO was short for these 3 words the United Nations Organization |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $800: The end to this man's trial was noted with the January 22, 1950 headline seen here Alger Hiss |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $1000: A November 9, 1917 story said this Russian "in exile lived in the Bronx"; "real name is Braunstein" Trotsky |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE $400: The date on the first issue of the magazine, Sept. 6, 1896, was this day of the week Sunday |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE $800: Regular use of this began in the magazine in 1933, but didn't hit the Times' front page photos until 1997 color |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE $1200: This New Jersey-based bra company with a "girlish" name has been one of the magazine's advertising mainstays Maidenform |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE $1600: Nan Robertson won a 1983 Pulitzer for her writing on this "syndrome" abbreviated TSS toxic shock |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE $2000: He coined the phrase "nattering nabobs of negativism" & now writes the magazine's language column Safire |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS & LEISURE $400: The Times' article "Architecture's Dust-Up in the Desert" analyzed the school of architecture named for him Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS & LEISURE $800: The Times' review of this 2001 French film was "Little Miss Sunshine as Urban Sprite" Amelie |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS & LEISURE $1,500 (Daily Double): The Met's 2002 production of this opera "calls for 346 people onstage along with a horse (Napoleon's)" War and Peace |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS & LEISURE $1600: The Times marked the Centennial of this poet who wrote, "I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother" Langston Hughes |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTS & LEISURE $2000: This "famed... company from St. Petersburg is now at the mercy of... ballet masters of the world", the Times lamented the Kirov |
| #4032, aired 2002-02-26 | NEW YORK SCHOOLS $400: NYC-born novelist Joseph Heller went to P.S. 188, P.S. standing for this Public School |
| #4032, aired 2002-02-26 | NEW YORK SCHOOLS $800: Nicholas Murray Butler was president of this Manhatfan Ivy League school from 1902 to 1945 Columbia |
| #4032, aired 2002-02-26 | NEW YORK SCHOOLS $1600: Now named for a benefactor, it opened in 1905 as the Institute of Musical Art Juilliard |
| #4032, aired 2002-02-26 | NEW YORK SCHOOLS $2,000 (Daily Double): William Van Duzer Lawrence named a college for his wife, her Sarah Lawrence |
| #4032, aired 2002-02-26 | NEW YORK SCHOOLS $2000: This NYC college named for its founder sounds like it teaches you to shoot game Hunter (College) |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | NEW YORK STORIES $400: This musical "Story" about gangs in New York won 10 Oscars when it made it to the big screen in 1961 West Side Story |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | NEW YORK STORIES $800: His Catskills-based story "Rip Van Winkle" was inspired by a popular folk tale Washington Irving |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | NEW YORK STORIES $1,200 (Daily Double): In this mythic novel, Bernard Malamud wrote about Roy Hobbs, a player on the New York Knights baseball team The Natural |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | NEW YORK STORIES $1200: In a F. Scott Fitzgerald work, this title character lived at West Egg on New York's Long Island The Great Gatsby |
| #4015, aired 2002-02-01 | NEW YORK STORIES $1600: (Sofia of the Clue Crew stands outside the Plaza Hotel.) The Plaza Hotel is the home
of this fictional little girl,
invented in the 1940s
by the singer Kay Thompson. Eloise |
| #3950, aired 2001-11-02 | NEW YORK CITY $100: (Alright, let's hear from Cheryl on this clue):
These days, one of Harlem's most prominent figures is this man, whose office is at 55 West 125th St. Bill Clinton |
| #3950, aired 2001-11-02 | NEW YORK CITY $200: In winter, the Sea Grill boasts fine views of the skaters at this landmark's ice rink Rockefeller Center |
| #3950, aired 2001-11-02 | NEW YORK CITY $300: (Alright, here comes Sofia):
I'm standing outside the Waldorf-Astoria, on this New York City street mentioned in the theme of "Green Acres" Park Avenue |
| #3950, aired 2001-11-02 | NEW YORK CITY $400: Opened in 1736 as a 6-bed infirmary, a pavilion for the insane was added to this place in 1879 Bellevue Hospital |
| #3950, aired 2001-11-02 | NEW YORK CITY $500: (We'll wrap it up with Sofia in New York):
You can ride the subway for 31 miles without changing trains from 207th St. to this area in the far reaches of Queens Far Rockaway |
| #3929, aired 2001-10-04 | NEW YORK POST HEADLINES $100: About his entry into the "Monday Night Football" booth in 2000, the Post asked, "Are You Ready for Some Goofball?" Dennis Miller |
| #3929, aired 2001-10-04 | NEW YORK POST HEADLINES $200: In 1999 a possible strike by this group, baseball's "men in blue", led to "Go Ahead and Walk, You Porky Chumps" the umpires |
| #3929, aired 2001-10-04 | NEW YORK POST HEADLINES $300: After a refusal to help NYC in a 1975 fiscal crisis, a Post banner trumpeted, this president "To City: Drop Dead" Gerald Ford |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS $100: A 1995 review said that her "prose has vastly improved since the Baroque excesses of 'Interview With The Vampire"' Anne Rice |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS $200: Margaret Atwood reviewed this woman's "Beloved" for the New York Times & called it "another triumph" Toni Morrison |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS $400: This author's "One L ", about the first year of law school, read "as if it were the most absorbing of thrillers" Scott Turow |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS $500: Reviewing "Beowulf", the Times called this Irish poet "arguably the finest poet now writing in English" Seamus Heaney |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS $1,000 (Daily Double): In a 1999 review Stephen King called this title character a Count Dracula for the computer age Hannibal Lecter |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | A BANNER YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $200: Year of the fateful headline seen here 1914 |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | A BANNER YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $400: Think back to this year of "Clinton Acquitted Decisively: No Majority for Either Charge" 1999 |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | A BANNER YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $600: November of this year brought the headline seen here 1984 |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | A BANNER YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $800: It was the roaring year of "Lindbergh Does It!" & "Sacco & Vanzetti Put to Death" 1927 |
| #3919, aired 2001-09-20 | A BANNER YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $1000: Post World War II-year of the headline seen here 1948 |
| #3918, aired 2001-09-19 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $100: 56 down:
Woodwind
(4) oboe |
| #3918, aired 2001-09-19 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $200: 58 down:
Spoken
(4) oral |
| #3918, aired 2001-09-19 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $300: 45 across:
___ Navy (store)
(3) Old |
| #3918, aired 2001-09-19 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $400: 10 down:
A must-do
(10) obligation |
| #3918, aired 2001-09-19 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES "O" $500: 33 across:
Electrician's mantra
(3) ohm |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THE NEW YORK TIMES $200: This was the price of Volume I, No. 1 on Sept. 18, 1851; subscribers probably wanted a discount anyway a penny |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THE NEW YORK TIMES $400: In 1904, the paper moved to this area now named for it & later cleaned up by Disney & Rudy Times Square |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THE NEW YORK TIMES $600: 2-word name for the section with headlines about "Clues to the Cosmos" & "Plants as Pollution Sponges" "Science Times" |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THE NEW YORK TIMES $800: The Times' 1946 coverage of its first session added an "O" to the initials familar today the U.N. (United Nations) |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THE NEW YORK TIMES $1000: This New York Times editor married to Margaret Truman had a biblical last name Clifton Daniel |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | THEATRE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $200: The Times thinks it's fitting that the musical revue "newyorkers" features this statue singing a torch song the Statue of Liberty |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | THEATRE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $400: According to the Times, this show is "Ireland's answer to the Rockettes" Riverdance |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | THEATRE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $600: Reba McEntire said that this musical show she joined in 2001 felt like her life story because she's so similar to Annie Oakley Annie Get Your Gun |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | THEATRE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $800: Ben Brantley said the Jetsons-style Egyptian outfits in this opera-inspired show "should top every drag queen's must-have list" Aida |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | THEATRE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES $1000: Maxmillan Schell talked to the Times about his new role in the 2001 stage version of this film that won him an Oscar Judgment at Nuremberg |
| #3879, aired 2001-06-14 | THEY WROTE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES $100: Trying to protect his sources, in 1978 reporter Myron Farber spent 38 days here Jail |
| #3879, aired 2001-06-14 | THEY WROTE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES $200: In 1962 the Times sent David Halberstam to this country, where he often challenged the official version of events Vietnam |
| #3879, aired 2001-06-14 | THEY WROTE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES $300: Born in Clydebank, political writer James Reston had this nickname, like a "Star Trek" engineer "Scotty" |
| #3879, aired 2001-06-14 | THEY WROTE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES $400: Colorful nickname of Times sportswriter Walter Smith "Red" |
| #3879, aired 2001-06-14 | THEY WROTE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES $500: The Times' longtime movie critic, he shifted to theater criticism in 1993 Vincent Canby |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $100: The New York Stock Exchange has been called the heart of this street (we can hear the ticker ticking) Wall Street |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $200: The main area of Vegas' New York-New York casino is made to look like this park, without the pigeons Central Park |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $300: To celebrate the new millennium, this huge 5th Ave. art museum presented a special exhibit on the year one the Metropolitan |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $400: Music lovers Iove to take guided tours of this famous concert hall on 57th Street at 7th Avenue Carnegie Hall |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $500: Dorothy Parker & Robert Benchley once traded quips at the famous "Round Table" at this hotel on West 44th Street the Algonquin |
| #3859, aired 2001-05-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TIMELINE $100: The Times put the entire text of this November 20, 1863 speech on its front page the Gettysburg Address |
| #3859, aired 2001-05-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TIMELINE $200: First word in the Times scoop headline on April 16, 1912; the second word was "sinks" Titanic |
| #3859, aired 2001-05-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TIMELINE $300: In 1993 the New York Times Company bought this city's Globe for deep pocket change, $1.1 billion Boston |
| #3859, aired 2001-05-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TIMELINE $500: In 1851 2 staffers from this New York paper, later merged with the Herald, founded the Times the New-York Tribune |
| #3859, aired 2001-05-17 | THE NEW YORK TIMES TIMELINE $600 (Daily Double): The Times won a Pulitzer for its publication of these purloined documents in 1972 the Pentagon Papers |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $200: He's the subject of the September 7, 1901 headline seen here:
[President Shot At Buffalo Fair] William McKinley |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $400: July 5, 1986 reported "A Very Special Day: Millions Watch Festive Harbor Salute To" this Statue of Liberty |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $800: Losers reported on Oct. 16, 1964 included the Yankees in the World Series & this ousted Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $1000: In a 1983 headline this man "Dies On 112th Day With Permanent Artificial Heart" Dr. Barney Clark |
| #3838, aired 2001-04-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $2,000 (Daily Double): Month & year of the historic headline seen here:
[Stocks Collapse in 16,410,030-Share Day But Rally At Close Cheers Brokers Bankers Optimistic, To Continue...] October, 1929 |
| #3800, aired 2001-02-23 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $200: In April 1976 the Times said this billionaire died "as mysteriously as he had lived" Howard Hughes |
| #3800, aired 2001-02-23 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $400: This college coach's obit said his nickname came from a high school bear-wrestling incident Paul "Bear" Bryant |
| #3800, aired 2001-02-23 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $600: When he died at 88, the Times reported that Watergate made him "The Best-Known Judge in America" John Sirica |
| #3800, aired 2001-02-23 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $800: The report of his death at Miami's Mount Sinai Hospital called him the "Financial Wizard of Organized Crime" Meyer Lansky |
| #3800, aired 2001-02-23 | THE NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARIES $1000: This Prague Spring leader who died in 1992 "had been mentioned" as a possible president of Slovakia Alexander Dubcek |
| #3799, aired 2001-02-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $200: A computer programmed by Dr. David Fogel taught itself this game that includes jumping & crowning checkers |
| #3799, aired 2001-02-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $400: These hunting birds have made a comeback in New York City, where they feast on pigeons peregrine falcons |
| #3799, aired 2001-02-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $600: This virus named for an African area killed 7 people in New York state in 1999 West Nile Virus |
| #3799, aired 2001-02-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $800: This eel-like fish seen here is the biggest threat among species invading the Great Lakes the lamprey eel |
| #3799, aired 2001-02-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $1000: Asperger's syndrome is a high-IQ form of this condition that isolates kids from the world autism |
| #3798, aired 2001-02-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS $200: Not surprisingly, in 2000 his newest Jack Ryan techno-thriller, "The Bear and the Dragon", debuted at No. 1 Tom Clancy |
| #3798, aired 2001-02-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS $400: "Millie's Book", as dictated to this first lady, was a nonfiction bestseller in 1990 Barbara Bush |
| #3798, aired 2001-02-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS $600: 1 of 2 No. 1 bestsellers by Jacqueline Susann after "Valley of the Dolls" "The Love Machine" or "Once is Not Enough" |
| #3798, aired 2001-02-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS $800: His "Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet" was still high on the list when he was shot & killed in 1980 Herman Tarnower |
| #3798, aired 2001-02-21 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS $900 (Daily Double): This Katherine Anne Porter novel "sailed" up the list in 1962 "Ship of Fools" |
| #3797, aired 2001-02-20 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES "S" $200: 23 across:
Visible
(4) seen |
| #3797, aired 2001-02-20 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES "S" $400: 58 down:
Dispatched
(4) sent |
| #3797, aired 2001-02-20 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES "S" $600: 24 across:
Berth place
(4) slip |
| #3797, aired 2001-02-20 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES "S" $800: 18 down:
Math groups
(4) sets |
| #3797, aired 2001-02-20 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES "S" $1000: 23 down:
Homo sapiens, for example
(7) species |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | THE ARTS THE NEW YORK TIMES $100: Hooray! Dan Castellaneta's wild 1-man stage show named for this artist doesn't have "a single ear reference" Vincent Van Gogh |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | THE ARTS THE NEW YORK TIMES $200: The 100th birthday of this New England city's Symphony Hall inspired the line "A plain home with a sense of place" Boston |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | THE ARTS THE NEW YORK TIMES $300: "As if St. Thomas Church were not making enough good music with its own choir", this abbey's choir visited in Oct. 2000 Westminster Abbey |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | THE ARTS THE NEW YORK TIMES $400: The Chamber Music Society of this "Center" put the Times "in a millennial mood" with a "Thousand Years of Love" Lincoln Center |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | THE ARTS THE NEW YORK TIMES $500: Gore Vidal told the Times that JFK gave him one of the lines he used in this 1960 play, revived on Broadway in 2000 "The Best Man" |
| #3769, aired 2001-01-11 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $100: If you're in town in April, put on your bonnet & join the parade down Fifth Avenue for this holiday Easter |
| #3769, aired 2001-01-11 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $200: Alliterative name commonly used of the Yankees-Mets clash in October 2000 "Subway Series" |
| #3769, aired 2001-01-11 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $300: (Here's my good buddy Regis.) This man who died in Tucson in 1960 was largely responsible for this area
(which includes a skating rink) John D. Rockefeller |
| #3769, aired 2001-01-11 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $400: This publication's classic headlines include "Headless Body in Topless Bar" New York Post |
| #3769, aired 2001-01-11 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $500: Opened in 1922 at 142nd & Lenox, this club generally banned black customers but welcomed black musicians Cotton Club |
| #3696, aired 2000-10-02 | NEW YORK CITY $100: It's the home stadium of the team that's won 25 World Series Yankee Stadium |
| #3696, aired 2000-10-02 | NEW YORK CITY $200: The Hayden, one of these attractions, features views like the one seen here planetarium |
| #3696, aired 2000-10-02 | NEW YORK CITY $300: You can get into the city from New Jersey by the George Washington Bridge or the Lincoln one of these tunnel |
| #3696, aired 2000-10-02 | NEW YORK CITY $400: The name of this street that cuts diagonally through Manhattan is synonymous with big-time theater Broadway |
| #3696, aired 2000-10-02 | NEW YORK CITY $500: New York's 5 boroughs are Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island & these 2 that start with "B" Brooklyn & the Bronx |
| #3668, aired 2000-07-12 | CITIES OF NEW YORK $100: It's "The Capital of the Empire State" & "The Edinburgh of America" Albany |
| #3668, aired 2000-07-12 | CITIES OF NEW YORK $200: It's "The Bison City" Buffalo |
| #3668, aired 2000-07-12 | CITIES OF NEW YORK $300: "The Birthplace of Baseball" Cooperstown |
| #3668, aired 2000-07-12 | CITIES OF NEW YORK $400: "The Honeymoon City" Niagara Falls |
| #3668, aired 2000-07-12 | CITIES OF NEW YORK $500: It's "The Kodak City" & "The Photo Capital of the World" Rochester |
| #3575, aired 2000-03-03 | NEW YORK LANDMARKS $200: This 8th Ave. building's facade is engraved "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night..." New York Post Office |
| #3575, aired 2000-03-03 | NEW YORK LANDMARKS $400: Cheers! This tavern has been a favorite spot in Central Park for 6 decades Tavern on the Green |
| #3575, aired 2000-03-03 | NEW YORK LANDMARKS $600: Recently renovated, it's the most famous room in the building seen here [New York Public Library] Rose Room |
| #3575, aired 2000-03-03 | NEW YORK LANDMARKS $700 (Daily Double): This club's brief, glamorous life began in 1977 at 254 West 54th Street Studio 54 |
| #3575, aired 2000-03-03 | NEW YORK LANDMARKS $1000: Manhattan's oldest church, this chapel shares its name with a famous London cathedral St. Paul's |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | NEW YORK CINEMA $100: He played New York cop James Edwards who became MIB Agent J Will Smith |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | NEW YORK CINEMA $200: According to the title of a 1984 movie musical, they "Take Manhattan" The Muppets |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | NEW YORK CINEMA $300: "Lost in New York" is the subtitle of the 1992 sequel to this film Home Alone |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | NEW YORK CINEMA $400: She played a New York photographer who's a stepmom-to-be in 1998's "Stepmom" Julia Roberts |
| #3557, aired 2000-02-08 | NEW YORK CINEMA $500: Tea Leoni & the Big Apple are destroyed by a tidal wave when a meteor hits the Earth in this 1998 disaster film Deep Impact |
| #3500, aired 1999-11-19 | I LOVE NEW YORK $100: All aboard! There are over 700 miles of this underground transportation system in the city subway |
| #3500, aired 1999-11-19 | I LOVE NEW YORK $200: It's how you make the sound of a Bronx cheer "Pffft!" (or any other reasonable response) |
| #3500, aired 1999-11-19 | I LOVE NEW YORK $400: NYC is home to Queens which is home to Shea Stadium which is home to this pro baseball team New York Mets |
| #3500, aired 1999-11-19 | I LOVE NEW YORK $500 (Daily Double): This theatrical thoroughfare is the longest street in New York City Broadway |
| #3500, aired 1999-11-19 | I LOVE NEW YORK $500: NYC's biggest ticker-tape parade occurred March 1, 1962 when over 3,000 tons were dumped on this astronaut John Glenn |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | NEW YORK FOR THE KIDS $100: Kids get a kick out of these high-kicking dancers at Radio City Music Hall (dads like them, too) the Rockettes |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | NEW YORK POST HEADLINES $200: The Post calls this entertainer "Wacko Jacko", as in "Wacko Jacko Backo" Michael Jackson |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | NEW YORK FOR THE KIDS $200: If your kids want to know who's buried in this tomb, take them to see it at Riverside Drive & 122nd Street Grant's Tomb |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | NEW YORK FOR THE KIDS $300: Make Sunday a fun day by visiting the Congo Gorilla Forest at this world-famous zoo Bronx Zoo |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | NEW YORK POST HEADLINES $400: In 1977 the Post sold 1 million papers instead of the usual 600,000 when this NYC serial killer was "Caught!" "Son of Sam" (David Berkowitz) |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | NEW YORK FOR THE KIDS $400: Take its famous ferry to this island, which has a children's museum Staten Island |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | NEW YORK FOR THE KIDS $500: Even landlubbers love to climb aboard historic ships like the schooner Pioneer at this street's "seaport" South Street |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | NEW YORK POST HEADLINES $600: Reporting a scandal, the Post put "Dis-" before this name of the NYC mayor's residence Gracie Mansion |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | NEW YORK POST HEADLINES $800: The Post smelled the blood of this tabloid rival with August 7, 1992's "Save-the-News Talks in Chaos" New York Daily News |
| #3499, aired 1999-11-18 | NEW YORK POST HEADLINES $1000: The Post created this alliterative appellation for escort service boss Sydney Biddle Barrows "Mayflower Madam" |
| #3498, aired 1999-11-17 | NEW YORK CITY TELEVISION $100: Ross has worked for NYC's Museum of Natural History on this show about 6 Manhattanites Friends |
| #3498, aired 1999-11-17 | NEW YORK CITY TELEVISION $200: Issued in November of '99, the stamp seen here honors a classic sitcom set in this NYC borough Queens |
| #3498, aired 1999-11-17 | NEW YORK CITY TELEVISION $300: Louie, Latka & Elaine all worked for the Sunshine Cab Co. on this NYC sitcom Taxi |
| #3498, aired 1999-11-17 | NEW YORK CITY TELEVISION $400: His preppy character Alex P. Keaton might have prepared him for his yuppie NYC character Michael Flaherty Michael J. Fox |
| #3498, aired 1999-11-17 | NEW YORK CITY TELEVISION $500: He's the veteran actor seen here who played a NYC cop on "Barney Miller" Abe Vigoda |
| #3497, aired 1999-11-16 | AROUND NEW YORK STATE $100: Legend says that "The love of those who honeymoon here will last as long as the falls themselves" Niagara Falls |
| #3497, aired 1999-11-16 | AROUND NEW YORK STATE $200: Just 25 miles N. of Manhattan, this "Sleepy" village is the place "where the Headless Horseman rode" Sleepy Hollow |
| #3497, aired 1999-11-16 | AROUND NEW YORK STATE $300: It's believed that blazes lit to lure ships gave this resort island its name Fire Island |
| #3497, aired 1999-11-16 | AROUND NEW YORK STATE $500: Now at Elmira College, this author's study was made to look like a Mississippi riverboat's pilothouse Mark Twain |
| #3497, aired 1999-11-16 | AROUND NEW YORK STATE $1,000 (Daily Double): The Bisons of baseball's International League play their home games in this city Buffalo |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | NEW YORK CITY SONGS $100: A 1941 song asked, "I like New York in" this month, "how about you?" June |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | NEW YORK CITY SONGS $300: Simon & Garfunkel's "59th Street Bridge Song" is also known as this "Feeling Groovy" |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | OLD NEW YORK $400: The transit system called the EL, which was short for this, was largely demolished in the 1940s Elevated train |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | NEW YORK CITY SONGS $400: "Come and meet those dancing feet on the avenue I'm taking you to..." this one 42nd Street |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | NEW YORK CITY SONGS $500: They're the first 4 words of the "Theme from 'New York, New York'" "Start spreading the news..." |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | OLD NEW YORK $600: This newspaper that had a square named for it merged with the Tribune in 1924 New York Herald |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | OLD NEW YORK $800: (Hi, I'm Vanna White at the Empire State Building) The previous building that stood here was this hyphenated hotel (Old) Waldorf-Astoria |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | NEW YORK CITY SONGS $1,000 (Daily Double): In "I Am...I Said", he sang, "I'm New York City born and raised" Neil Diamond |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | OLD NEW YORK $1000: This Broadway hangout with delicious cheesecake was named for proprietor Leo Lindemann Lindy's |
| #3491, aired 1999-11-08 | ALL AROUND NEW YORK $200: While Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx is NYC's largest park, this 840-acre one in Manhattan is more famous Central Park |
| #3491, aired 1999-11-08 | ALL AROUND NEW YORK $400: This jewelry store has added sparkle & pizzazz to NYC since 1853; breakfast, anyone? Tiffany's |
| #3491, aired 1999-11-08 | ALL AROUND NEW YORK $600: The names of over 500,000 immigrants appear on a wall of honor at the Immigration Museum on this island Ellis Island |
| #3491, aired 1999-11-08 | ALL AROUND NEW YORK $800: Across the way from Columbia University, you'll find this famous college for women Barnard |
| #3491, aired 1999-11-08 | ALL AROUND NEW YORK $1000: While SoHo is south of Houston Street, this fashionable district occupies a "triangle below Canal" Street Tribeca |
| #3418, aired 1999-06-16 | NEW YORK BUILDINGS $200: Its architect, William Van Allen, was "driven" to create the world's tallest building at that time Chrysler Building |
| #3418, aired 1999-06-16 | NEW YORK BUILDINGS $400: This building, John Lennon's last residence, was so named because 72nd St. seemed like the Far West the Dakota |
| #3418, aired 1999-06-16 | NEW YORK BUILDINGS $600: The old RCA building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza is now called this "building", one initial shorter GE Building |
| #3418, aired 1999-06-16 | NEW YORK BUILDINGS $1,000 (Daily Double): The building named for this retailer includes a sculpture of him counting nickels & dimes F.W. Woolworth |
| #3418, aired 1999-06-16 | NEW YORK BUILDINGS $1000: Named for its developer, this Midtown tower has an atrium with a waterfall instead of a mere lobby Trump Tower |
| #3277, aired 1998-12-01 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $100: This span over the East River was once dubbed "The Eighth Wonder of the World" Brooklyn Bridge |
| #3277, aired 1998-12-01 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $200: This building seen here is a work of art in itself Guggenheim Museum |
| #3277, aired 1998-12-01 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $300: It's home to the Cyclone Roller Coaster, the Wonder Wheel, & the first Nathan's hot dog stand Coney Island |
| #3277, aired 1998-12-01 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $500: The Bowery district was once the site of the "Bouwerie" or farm of this Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant |
| #3277, aired 1998-12-01 | NEW YORK, NEW YORK $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the section of Central Park where you'd see the mosaic seen here Strawberry Fields |
| #3254, aired 1998-10-29 | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $100: The November 25, 1963 front page read, this man "Shot To Death In Jail Corridor By A Dallas Citizen" Lee Harvey Oswald |
| #3254, aired 1998-10-29 | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $200: The revelation of "Undreamed Of Splendors" was reported with the 1923 opening of his inner tomb King Tut |
| #3254, aired 1998-10-29 | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $300: On Sept. 9, 1974 news fit to print included the pardon of this man & "Knievel Safe As Rocket Falls" Richard Nixon |
| #3254, aired 1998-10-29 | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $400: The 1945 headline "Bomber Hits" this skyscraper meant a plane, not a person Empire State Building |
| #3254, aired 1998-10-29 | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $500: "Berlin Reported Him Missing And Insane" when he "Flies To Scotland" in May 1941 Rudolf Hess |
| #3108, aired 1998-02-18 | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $100: An exclamation point was warranted for the "End Of" This! in 1918 World War I |
| #3108, aired 1998-02-18 | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $200: "Shot Dead By Federal Men In Front Of Movie Theatre" read his 1934 front-page obituary John Dillinger |
| #3108, aired 1998-02-18 | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $300: "Thousands Trapped In The Subways; Looters And Vandals Hit" were banners when this hit NYC in July 1977 the blackout |
| #3108, aired 1998-02-18 | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $400: Oct. 2, 1962: "3,000 Troops Put Down... Rioting And Seize 200 As Negro Attends" this school the University of Mississippi |
| #3108, aired 1998-02-18 | NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $500: The Times made its own front page in 1971 when the Supreme Court upheld its publication of these documents the Pentagon Papers |
| #3088, aired 1998-01-21 | NEW YORK CITIES $100: Of Rye, White or Pumpernickel, it's the city where chief justice John Jay is buried Rye |
| #3088, aired 1998-01-21 | NEW YORK CITIES $200: Appropriately, it was once known as "The Cataract City" Niagara Falls |
| #3088, aired 1998-01-21 | NEW YORK CITIES $300: Once the site of a Utopian community, today it's famous for its flatware Oneida |
| #3088, aired 1998-01-21 | NEW YORK CITIES $400: It's home to the Rockwell Museum of Western Art, as well as to a famous glass works Corning |
| #3088, aired 1998-01-21 | NEW YORK CITIES $500: Ulysses could tell you it's where Cornell University is located Ithaca |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | NEW YORK $100: This building in Albany is bounded by Washington Avenue & Swan, State & Eagle Streets Capital building |
