| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | & THE HOME OF THE RAVE $200: Ellie & Joel were back in their awful world in "Part II" of this video game, which Rolling Stone dubbed "an absolute (bleeping) banger" The Last of Us |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE $200: You can soar above the 11,842 lakes of 10 acres or more in this not quite accurately nicknamed state Minnesota |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | & THE HOME OF THE RAVE $400: The New York times called this Broadway show inspired by a movie musical a "natural high" with a "knockout" Karen Olivo as satine Moulin Rouge! |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE $400: We're beginning our descent into this city; out your window, you may be able to see Coit Tower & Ghirardelli Square San Francisco |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | & THE HOME OF THE RAVE $600: This 2023 film was a "Minus" in title only: IndieWire said, "The king of monsters is back--and better than ever" Godzilla Minus One |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE $600: It's about 3 hours by car from Pocatello to Sun Valley in this state, but what the heck! Let's fire up the Piper Cub! Idaho |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE $800 (Daily Double): If you fly west out of Columbia, Missouri to Denver, basically above I-70, you'll cross this state in its entirety Kansas |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | & THE HOME OF THE RAVE $800: She gets raves as Sydney on "The Bear", & gives 'em online: "Florence Pugh... can punch me in the neck. I'd die for her" (Ayo) Edebiri |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | & THE HOME OF THE RAVE $1000: Collider said this 2023 murder movie "features the best animal performance of the year" (its pooch won the Palm Dog at Cannes!) Anatomy of a Fall |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE $1000: Why just o'er? Why just land? We're going to put our seaplane down on this 730-square-mile Florida lake & do a little fishing Okeechobee |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | A PIECE OF HISTORY $400: On display at the National Museum of American History, his hat includes a mourning band for his son Willie Abraham Lincoln |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | A PIECE OF HISTORY $800: The Babylonian map of the world, the oldest known map, includes this river, but not the Tigris the Euphrates |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | A PIECE OF HISTORY $1200: Iron Age Nigerian Nok culture is known for this type of clay-based art, a term derived from Italian terracotta |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | A PIECE OF HISTORY $1600: An artifact from Mycenaean Greece is called the Mask of this king from the "Iliad" & is also known as the "Mona Lisa of prehistory" Agamemnon |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | A PIECE OF HISTORY $2000: This civilization that reached its height in the 6th century B.C. produced the Chimera of Arezzo, now on display in Florence the Etruscans |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | WORLD OF LEADERS $200: Using mass imprisonment against crime, El Salvador's Nayib Bukele has described himself as "the world's coolest" this dictator |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | RIVERS OF THE WHIRLED $400: Lewis & Clark wintered near it in 1805-1806:
CUBA LIMO the Columbia |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | WORLD OF LEADERS $400: Prime minister of the Netherlands for over a decade, Mark Rutte was appointed secretary-general of this organization in 2024 NATO |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | WORLD OF LEADERS $600: Viewed as a relative moderate, Masoud Pezeshkian, elected president of this country in 2024, still has to please its supreme leader Iran |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | RIVERS OF THE WHIRLED $800: Meaning "great river", it's part of the geography of 6 African countries: MAZE BIZ the Zambezi |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | WORLD OF LEADERS $800: He succeeded François Hollande as France's president Macron |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | WORLD OF LEADERS $1000: Moving the Labour Party more to the center helped him return it to power as Britain's new prime minister in 2024 Keir Starmer |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | RIVERS OF THE WHIRLED $1200: Mandalay & Magwe are port cities on it: DRAW DIARY the Irrawaddy |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | RIVERS OF THE WHIRLED $1600: It begins at the western end of Great Slave Lake:
ECZEMA INK the Mackenzie |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | RIVERS OF THE WHIRLED $2000: Down south, some of the flow of the Mississippi is diverted into it:
AHA CALF AT YA the Atchafalaya |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $200: 1977:
This Egyptian president, who traveled to Israel to seek peace negotiations Anwar Sadat |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $400: 1981:
This electrician & union leader Wałęsa |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $600: 1986:
This Filipina Corazon Aquino |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $800: 1936:
This twice-divorced American woman Wallis Simpson |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $1000: 1968:
The astronauts of this Apollo mission, the first manned one to orbit the Moon Apollo 8 |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | FRIENDS OF JOHN BROWN $200: Mary Ellen Pleasant, one of the richest people in this city during its Gold Rush era said she gave John $30,000 San Francisco |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | SHADES OF BLUE $400: There are shades of blue named for the Navy & this Colorado service academy the Air Force |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | FRIENDS OF JOHN BROWN $400: Osborne P. Anderson, the only Raider to write a memoir, compared Brown to this "ancient patriarch spoken of in Exodus" Moses |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | FRIENDS OF JOHN BROWN $600: They met for the 1st time in 1858 & she assisted John Brown by drawing from her geographical knowledge of the Mid-Atlantic region Harriet Tubman |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | SHADES OF BLUE $800: A shade of blue is named for this daughter of Teddy Roosevelt; her love of it sparked a fashion trend & a song Alice |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | FRIENDS OF JOHN BROWN $800: John Brown asked this orator & friend if he wanted to join the Harpers Ferry raid--he declined & called the raid a "steel trap" (Frederick) Douglass |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | FRIENDS OF JOHN BROWN $1000: John A. Copeland was captured at Harpers Ferry while trying to ford this river that shares its name with a Virginia national park the Shenandoah |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | SHADES OF BLUE $1200: This vowel-heavy sea containing islands like Kos & Patmos has a lovely shade of blue named for it the Aegean |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | SHADES OF BLUE $1600: Forefront of the CMYK color model is this one whose name comes from the Greek cyan |
| #9198, aired 2024-11-06 | SHADES OF BLUE $2000: "P" is for this shade of blue, also the name of a tiny sea snail periwinkle |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS $400: Born in 1542 in Linlithgow Palace, Mary was a member of this dynastic family that had ruled Scotland since 1371 the Stuarts |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS $800: The Penicuik Jewels, artifacts from the jewelry-loving queen, include this type of piece, a case with a memento in it a locket |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS $1200: Mary's only child, with 2nd husband Lord Darnley, was born in 1566 & became king of England under this name & number James I |
| #9197, aired 2024-11-05 | MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS $1600: It was customary for this person to ask forgiveness before doing his job; Mary forgave hers Feb. 8, 1587 an executioner |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | A QUESTION OF TIME $200: The Navy popularized this alliterative term for scheduled entertainment time; it's caught on at bars around the world happy hour |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The Jordan River empties into this "Sea", Earth's lowest body of water the Dead Sea |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | A QUESTION OF TIME $400: This area near Broadway at 7th Avenue & 42nd Street is dubbed "the Crossroads of the World" Times Square |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | A QUESTION OF TIME $600: Mr. Pickle, Mr. Egg & Mr. Hot Dog chase Chef Peter Pepper as he tries to make sandwiches in this arcade game BurgerTime |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | BODIES OF WATER $800: The Thousand Islands lie in this river just where it leaves Lake Ontario the St. Lawrence |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | A QUESTION OF TIME $1000: Florentino & Fermina are the couple at the heart of this novel by Gabriel Garcia Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | A QUESTION OF TIME $1,600 (Daily Double): In 2014 physicists sped up lithium ions to measure time dilation & gave new confirmation of this "special" theory (special) relativity |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: In 1482 explorer Diogo Cão of Portugal was the 1st European to see & scout the mouth of this 2nd-longest river of Africa the Congo |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Each year monsoon rains in this Asian country swell Lake Tonle Sap from 1,000 to 4,000 square miles Cambodia |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | BODIES OF WATER $2,200 (Daily Double): Cities on the shore of this lake include Babushkin, a stop on the Trans-Siberian Railway Lake Baikal |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | THE WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE OR WHY OF READING $400: If you're looking for these incredible title creatures, a J.K. Rowling compendium will alert you "Where to Find Them" Fantastic Beasts |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | INTERNATIONAL SPACE HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES $400: In 2012 this entrepreneur's Dragon became the first privately owned spacecraft to dock with the Intl. Space Station Musk |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | THE WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE OR WHY OF READING $800: Parents-to-be might want to take a look at Heidi Murkoff's "What to Expect When" this is happening When You're Expecting |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | INTERNATIONAL SPACE HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES $800: Two months before retiring from the U.S. Senate, this Ohioan became the oldest person to orbit the Earth, at age 77 John Glenn |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | THE WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE OR WHY OF READING $1200: Bertrand Russell's essay "Why I Am Not" this type of person does grant Jesus "a very high degree of moral goodness", just not divinity a Christian |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | INTERNATIONAL SPACE HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES $1200: This astrophysicist & Cornell professor won a Pulitzer for "The Dragons of Eden", his book on the evolution of human intelligence Carl Sagan |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | THE WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE OR WHY OF READING $1600: A deadly Cold War battle between East & West plays out in Berlin in John le Carré's thriller "The Spy Who" took this action Came in from the Cold |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | INTERNATIONAL SPACE HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES $1600: This cosmonaut went into space only once--April 12, 1961--but what a historic ride! Yuri Gagarin |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | THE WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE OR WHY OF READING $2000: Dr. Cole Hendron races to save humanity as a rogue planet hurtles towards Earth in the sci-fi epic "When" this happens Worlds Collide |
| #9190, aired 2024-10-25 | INTERNATIONAL SPACE HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES $2000: In 1960, this German-American was named Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center where he developed the Saturn V rocket Wernher von Braun |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | THAT'S JUST PART OF THE STORY $200: On the question of "Life, the Universe and Everything" in this book series, the answer is 42, "which is a little aggravating" The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | THAT'S JUST PART OF THE STORY $400: "We have real dinosaurs out there now. That's what people want to see" Jurassic Park |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | THAT'S JUST PART OF THE STORY $600: The hero of this tale thinks, "Do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one?" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | THAT'S JUST PART OF THE STORY $800: The Lady Madeline isn't the corpse we were told she was--at least not until after a family reunion--in this 1839 short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | THAT'S JUST PART OF THE STORY $1000: It's the last name of Philip Roth's character Alexander, who has at least one issue with his mom, Sophie Portnoy |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | A BIT OF CULTURE SHARK $400: A quote from this film: "So, 1,100 men went in the water, 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945" Jaws |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | A BIT OF CULTURE SHARK $800: Ian Ziering first dealt with this, dare we say, unusual weather phenomenon in 2013 but it would not be Ian's last time in the storm sharknado |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | A BIT OF CULTURE SHARK $1200: Blondie's debut album featured the song "A Shark In Jet's Clothing", a reference to this stage show West Side Story |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | A BIT OF CULTURE SHARK $1600: Bryan Gaw was the amusingly improvisational "Left Shark" during the 2015 Super Bowl halftime show of this singer Katy Perry |
| #9185, aired 2024-10-18 | A BIT OF CULTURE SHARK $2000: In this 2018 film, Jason Statham went fishing after a prehistoric shark that is said to be up to 60 feet long in real life The Meg |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | THE BOOKS OF MORMONS $400: The main character of Stephenie Meyer's "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner" is dealing with becoming one of these a vampire |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | THE BOOKS OF MORMONS $800: Brandon Mull's "Fablehaven" books feature brownies, goblins & of course these tiny winged lasses like Shiara a fairy |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | THE BOOKS OF MORMONS $1600: A book called "Unmask Alice" tells how Utah housewife Beatrice Sparks wrote this supposed teenage diary Go Ask Alice |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | THE BOOKS OF MORMONS $2000: "Uncle Orson" is the online persona of this author of "Ender's Game" & the "Pathfinder" series Orson Scott Card |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | THE BOOKS OF MORMONS $10,400 (Daily Double): One heck of a labyrinth is the only way out in this 2009 James Dashner novel The Maze Runner |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | THE ____ OF THE ____ $400: NASA says it's some 13.1 septillion pounds; if it's "on your shoulders" idiomatically, you have tons of things to worry about the weight of the world |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | THE ____ OF THE ____ $800: After his son Uncas dies, Chingachgook becomes this, as in the title of an 1826 book the last of the Mohicans |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | THE ____ OF THE ____ $1600: David Livingstone went missing searching for it in the 1860s the source of the Nile |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | THE ____ OF THE ____ $2000: Savonarola's infamous pyre of destruction the bonfire of the vanities |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | THE ____ OF THE ____ $2,600 (Daily Double): "Jesus falls the first time" & "Jesus is laid in the tomb" are parts of this reflective rite the Stations of the Cross |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | MULTIPLES OF 3 $200: The eastern terminus of this route is near Lake Shore Dr. in Chicago; the western, officially at Lincoln & Olympic in Santa Monica Route 66 |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | MULTIPLES OF 3 $400: There are this many letters in the classical Greek alphabet; guess the Greeks are more economical than we are 24 |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | MULTIPLES OF 3 $600: DiMaggio said there was no ad deal with Heinz if Joe hit in this many straight games in 1941, but Joe fell one game short anyway 57 |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | MULTIPLES OF 3 $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the number of the amendment that gave Black men the right to vote the 15th |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | MULTIPLES OF 3 $1000: A duodecennial refers to a period of this many years 12 |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $400: Tourists in this Jamaican capital may want to visit the Bob Marley Museum & Liberty Hall, a museum devoted to Marcus Garvey Kingston |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $800: The Almendares River traverses this Caribbean capital & empties into the Straits of Florida Havana |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $1200: Gustavia, capital of Saint Barts, was named for this country's King Gustav III Sweden |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $1600: This capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands was founded in 1666 as Taphus, Danish for "beer hall" Charlotte Amalie |
| #9179, aired 2024-10-10 | CAPITALS OF THE WEST INDIES $2000: In 1749 the French laid out this capital in a grid pattern around a port called L'Hopital Port-au-Prince |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | GET "OUT" OF THE CLUE $200: Don't ask the private eye what the empty bottle is for during this, a type of surveillance outside a suspect's house a stakeout |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE $400: Also called Didymus or the twin, he refused to believe his fellow Apostles after missing an important visitation (Doubting) Thomas |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | GET "OUT" OF THE CLUE $400: This box directs data between all of your devices & the wider internet a router |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | GET "OUT" OF THE CLUE $600: It's an individual who receives care at a hospital but doesn't stay overnight outpatient |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE $800: This king gave his daughter Michal as a wife to David, but later married her off to another Saul |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | GET "OUT" OF THE CLUE $800: This TV show warned, "There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture..." The Outer Limits |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | GET "OUT" OF THE CLUE $1000: A circus employee who handles the tents & equipment a roustabout |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE $1200: With a name perhaps meaning "man of the javelin", this son of Enoch lived almost 1,000 years Methuselah |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE $1600: This prophet whose name became a word for an angry rant: "They proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord" Jeremiah |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE $2000: Publius, a leader on this Mediterranean island, was kind to Paul, who was shipwrecked there, after Paul healed Publius' father Malta |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | AN OCEAN OF LOTION $200: The isopropyl type of this is used in aftershave & hand lotions alcohol |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | HISTORIC BOOKS OF SCIENCE $400: Robert Hooke devised a compound one of these that helped him look at his subjects for his 1665 book "Micrographia" a microscope |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | AN OCEAN OF LOTION $400: Sounding like a bullfighting cry, this company's super serum offers "visibly smoother lines" Olay |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | AN OCEAN OF LOTION $600: The Coasters song "Poison Ivy" says, "You're gonna need an ocean" of this pink lotion, "You'll be scratchin' like a hound" calamine lotion |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | HISTORIC BOOKS OF SCIENCE $800: His 1632 "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" got him in hot water Galileo |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | AN OCEAN OF LOTION $800: Obtained from beans, this fat that's used to make chocolate is also used in a Nivea body lotion cocoa butter |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | AN OCEAN OF LOTION $1000: "E" is for this type of chemical additive found in lotions that helps with suspension of one liquid in another an emulsifier |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | HISTORIC BOOKS OF SCIENCE $1200: Perhaps a question for his theoretical cat, "What Is Life?" by this physicist inspired Watson & Crick in their DNA research Schrödinger |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | HISTORIC BOOKS OF SCIENCE $1600: After "The Selfish Gene", this British atheist evolved enough to publish "Unweaving the Rainbow" Dawkins |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | HISTORIC BOOKS OF SCIENCE $2000: Outlining some of his philosophical ideas, this German mathematician & rival of Newton published "Discourse on Metaphysics" Leibniz |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | THE GROUP OF 7 $200: The G7 is made up of the world's 7 major industrial democracies--2 in the Americas, 4 in Europe & this member in Asia Japan |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | THE GROUP OF 7 $400: The G7 originated in the '70s in part to discuss an oil crisis brought on by this organization's embargo on Western nations OPEC |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | THE GROUP OF 7 $600: The G7 was briefly the G8 until 2014, when Russia was suspended after the annexation of this peninsula Crimea |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | THE GROUP OF 7 $800: To enhance engagement with the developing world, in 1999 the G7 helped launch this similar body with a larger membership the G20 (Group of 20) |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | THE GROUP OF 7 $1000: On January 1, 2024, Italy, led by this prime minister, assumed the G7's rotating presidency Giorgia Meloni |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | HOW 'BOUT A GAME OF CARDS? $400: In bridge, hitting one of these scores 13 tricks, not 4 runs a grand slam |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | GRAMMY ALBUM OF THE YEAR $400: Whitney Houston starred as Rachel Marron in this film whose soundtrack won the award in 1994 The Bodyguard |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | HOW 'BOUT A GAME OF CARDS? $800: Some say to always split aces or 8s when playing this game, but 5s, not so much blackjack |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | GRAMMY ALBUM OF THE YEAR $800: The first of Taylor Swift's record 4 AOTY Grammys was for this album in 2010 Fearless |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | HOW 'BOUT A GAME OF CARDS? $1200: The goal of this game with a not exactly PC name is to not be holding a queen at the end Old Maid |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | GRAMMY ALBUM OF THE YEAR $1200: The first woman to win in the category, Ms. Garland took the prize for "Judy at" this NYC venue Carnegie Hall |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | HOW 'BOUT A GAME OF CARDS? $1600: Paired cards in this game: "What made my first kiss so awkward?" & "A live studio audience" Cards Against Humanity |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | GRAMMY ALBUM OF THE YEAR $1600: "Dreamland" by Glass Animals might be the response to this album that made Billie Eilish the category's youngest winner ever When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | HOW 'BOUT A GAME OF CARDS? $2000: If you "declare out" in this 48-card game, play stops & tricks are counted; if you have 1,000 points or more, you win pinochle |
| #9168, aired 2024-09-25 | GRAMMY ALBUM OF THE YEAR $2000: Billy Joel was the "Big Shot" in 1980, winning for this album that bears the name of a thoroughfare 52nd Street |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SELF-HELPING OF BOOKS $200: Now imagine me with a mustache, less hair & Oprah-adjacent; I'm this psychologist who wrote "We've Got Issues" Dr. Phil |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SELF-HELPING OF BOOKS $400: "The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle" is in a book titled this "hot" word, a state when you're emotionally spent burnout |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SELF-HELPING OF BOOKS $600: A William McRaven title advises you to do this 3-word daily task upon waking as a little thing that could change your life making your bed |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SELF-HELPING OF BOOKS $800: Ryan Holiday proposed this 3-letter word "Is the Enemy"; put your selfishness aside! ego |
| #9159, aired 2024-09-12 | A SELF-HELPING OF BOOKS $1000: "12 Rules for Life" is from this controversial Torontonian who also has thoughts about endangered masculinity Jordan Peterson |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | 4 OF THE SAME CONSONANT $200: If you're having a little laugh, you're doing this giggling |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | 4 OF THE SAME CONSONANT $400: Whether the "old man" plays it on your thumb or not, it's a name for a trinket or curio a knickknack |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | 4 OF THE SAME CONSONANT $600: Mountain Dew once had a mascot rhymingly known as Willy the this Hillbilly |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | 4 OF THE SAME CONSONANT $800: The third Friday in October is the national day for this procedure to help detect breast cancer a mammogram |
| #9157, aired 2024-09-10 | 4 OF THE SAME CONSONANT $1000: Indiana Jones might now call an arrogant youngster one of these, which begins with his favorite weapon a whippersnapper |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | HISTORIC GROUPS OF 3 $400: On Columbus' first transatlantic voyage, this ship in the fleet of 3 made it to the New World, but not back to the old the Santa Maria |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | HISTORIC GROUPS OF 3 $800: Formed in 43 B.C., the Second Roman Triumvirate was made up of Marcus Lepidus, Mark Antony & this future emperor Augustus (Octavian) |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | HISTORIC GROUPS OF 3 $1200: As Lenin faded from power, this man formed a troika with Zinoviev & Kamenev & you'll never guess what he later did to Zin & Kam Stalin |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | HISTORIC GROUPS OF 3 $2000: 3 countries were involved in the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific & this nation lost its access to that ocean as a result Bolivia |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | HISTORIC GROUPS OF 3 $3,000 (Daily Double): The clergy, the nobility & the people were France's 3 of these representative divisions before the Revolution the estates |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | TOO MUCH OF SOMETHING $400: Oxfam thinks Taylor Swift has too much money, as "every" one of these people "is a policy failure" a billionaire |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | TOO MUCH OF SOMETHING $800: You're feeling wired, your heart is racing--you're this 15-letter word & probably should have skipped that third espresso overcaffeinated |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | TOO MUCH OF SOMETHING $1200: Hi, I'm shame. Do you know my cousin, this? He has a complex named after him, when one is awash with feelings of having done wrong guilt |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | TOO MUCH OF SOMETHING $1600: Hyperlipidemia, too much fat in the blood, is caused by an excess of this substance provided by your own liver plus pork & donuts cholesterol |
| #9155, aired 2024-07-26 | TOO MUCH OF SOMETHING $2,000 (Daily Double): To us this Greek word means excess pride; to Aristotle, it meant shaming others for one's own pleasure (perhaps out of pride) hubris |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT $200: Not learning from history & bewaring some ides, King Odoacer of Italy went to a banquet he would not survive on this date in 493 March 15th |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT $400: In Feb. 62 A.D. this city & Herculaneum were hit by a big earthquake, but that was nothing compared to what was coming up 17 years later Pompeii |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT $600: James Clark was brutally killed in a garage at 2122 North Clark with other Bugs Moran gang members in 1929 on this date the 14th of February |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT $800: After dealing with dysentery & disease-bearing mosquitoes the year before, this Virginia colony was decimated by a fire in January 1608 Jamestown |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT $1000: In Dec. 1894 this French captain was convicted of selling military secrets to Germany but after an uproar, got a pardon 5 years later Dreyfus |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | IT'S SOME KIND OF LAW $200: A 1925 Geneva protocol forbade the use of bacteriological weapons or this stuff in war (poison) gas |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | IT'S SOME KIND OF LAW $400: Newton's first law, which says a body at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an outside force, is also called the law of this inertia |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | IT'S SOME KIND OF LAW $600: The first 5 books of the Old Testament are called simply "The Law" or, in Hebrew, this the Torah |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | IT'S SOME KIND OF LAW $800: A 1968 U.N. agreement requires states to rescue & assist these people & "promptly return them to their launching state" astronauts |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | IT'S SOME KIND OF LAW $1000: The 2018 Genocide & Atrocities Prevention Act is named for this Holocaust survivor & Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | TRANSPORTED TO CHICAGO THROUGH THE MAGIC OF ENTERTAINMENT $200: As this noted citizen of Chicago in "The Untouchables", De Niro says: "Somebody messes with me, I'm gonna mess with him" Capone |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | TRANSPORTED TO CHICAGO THROUGH THE MAGIC OF ENTERTAINMENT $400: Who needs a cooking show when we have Ayo Edebiri as Sydney making a Boursin omelet on this series The Bear |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | TRANSPORTED TO CHICAGO THROUGH THE MAGIC OF ENTERTAINMENT $600: It's the occupation of Billy Flynn (Richard Gere on film) in the musical "Chicago" a lawyer |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | TRANSPORTED TO CHICAGO THROUGH THE MAGIC OF ENTERTAINMENT $800: David Eigenberg played Miranda's salt-of-the-earth husband on "Sex & the City" & now lugs a hose on this show Chicago Fire |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | TRANSPORTED TO CHICAGO THROUGH THE MAGIC OF ENTERTAINMENT $1000: The 2020 HBO series called this "Country" took place mostly in a racist & creepy 1950s Chicago Lovecraft Country |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | MOMENT OF "ZEN" $200: Toss off the cough with one of these medicinal tablets a lozenge |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | MOMENT OF "ZEN" $400: Shameless, or made of an alloy of copper & zinc brazen |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | MOMENT OF "ZEN" $600: This app calls itself "a personal safety network" Citizen |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | MOMENT OF "ZEN" $800: Widmer Brothers offers one of these beers that's made with wheat a Hefeweizen |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | MOMENT OF "ZEN" $1000: Ronald Colman was a "Prisoner of" this 1937 film title locale Zenda |
| #9141, aired 2024-07-08 | 3 OF A KIND $400: Merriam-Webster,
New Oxford American,
Scholastic Children's dictionaries |
| #9141, aired 2024-07-08 | 3 OF A KIND $800: Henry Kissinger,
Yasser Arafat,
Médecins Sans Frontières Nobel Peace Prize winners |
| #9141, aired 2024-07-08 | 3 OF A KIND $1200: Harpy,
martial,
golden eagles |
| #9141, aired 2024-07-08 | 3 OF A KIND $1600: Asher,
Judah,
Gad tribes of Israel |
| #9141, aired 2024-07-08 | 3 OF A KIND $2000: Roland,
Oliver,
Fierabras paladins (knights of Charlemagne) |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | HALLS OF FAME $400: Yee-haw! There's a national hall of fame in Fort Worth celebrating these women of the West, past & present cowgirls |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | HALLS OF FAME $800: Step inside the "Big Musky", a giant model of this fish, & the highlight of the Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame in Wisconsin a muskellunge |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | HALLS OF FAME $1200: You can purchase a combo ticket to visit the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland & the Pro Football Hall of Fame in this city Canton |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | HALLS OF FAME $1600: Honorees in the Jewish-American Hall of Fame include Barbra Streisand & this subject of the movie "Maestro" Bernstein |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | HALLS OF FAME $2000: The Country Music Hall of Fame class of 2024 includes this late singer of hits like "Red Solo Cup" & "How do You Like Me Now?!" Toby Keith |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | THE SCANDAL OF IT ALL $200: In 1995 the premier of British Columbia quit amid scandal over funds embezzled from a charity version of this game-o bingo |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | THE FAMILIAR SUM OF ITS PARTS $200: A drink like McDonald's Shamrock, a baby's handheld toy & what you proverbially do "with the punches" shake, rattle & roll |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | THE SCANDAL OF IT ALL $400: On May 29, 2004 Archibald Cox & Sam Dash, 2 key figures who probed this '70s affair, both passed away Watergate |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | THE FAMILIAR SUM OF ITS PARTS $400: Ridgway,
Rothko,
Skywalker & Steinbeck Matthew, Mark, Luke & John |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | THE SCANDAL OF IT ALL $600: 1662's "The School for Wives" was just one of the works of this comic playwright to scandalize French society Molière |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | THE FAMILIAR SUM OF ITS PARTS $600: "Spartacus" actor Douglas, pediatrician Benjamin & name following "the real" to mean the genuine article Kirk, Spock & McCoy |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | THE SCANDAL OF IT ALL $800: One lump or a lot more? Also called the Oil Reserves Scandal, this 1920s imbroglio led to prison time for the Sec. of the Interior Teapot Dome |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | THE FAMILIAR SUM OF ITS PARTS $800: Last name of Sherlock Holmes' partner in (solving) crime & a real spasmodic muscle pain in the neck Watson & Crick |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | THE SCANDAL OF IT ALL $1000: Reagan dismissed this Marine after his role in Iran-Contra; he was later convicted of obstructing Congress Oliver North |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | THE FAMILIAR SUM OF ITS PARTS $1000: A foam you "work yourself into", to wash dishes using water & to do a task over & over & over lather, rinse & repeat |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | SECRETARIES OF DEFENSE $400: The Navy's first "super" type of this ship was named for James Forrestal, the first Secretary of Defense a supercarrier (an aircraft carrier) |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | SECRETARIES OF DEFENSE $800: The youngest secretary, he was 43 when he took office under Ford; he got older & was 74 when he left office under George W. Bush Donald Rumsfeld |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | SECRETARIES OF DEFENSE $1200: In 1950 Truman had a "Plan" in selecting this military man as his Secretary of Defense; he needed help in preparing for the Korean War Marshall |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | SECRETARIES OF DEFENSE $1600: Nuclear physicist Harold Brown served as president of this Pasadena, California school just prior to becoming Carter's Defense Secretary Caltech |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | SECRETARIES OF DEFENSE $2000: His book, "Worthy Fights", documents his time as CIA Director & Secretary of Defense during Obama's presidency Leon Panetta |
| #9123, aired 2024-06-12 | THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MATHEW BRADY $200: A week after his surrender, he allowed Mathew Brady to photograph him at home Robert E. Lee |
| #9123, aired 2024-06-12 | RIVERS OF EUROPE $400: A famous brewery was founded in 1870 on the banks of this Dutch river Amstel |
| #9123, aired 2024-06-12 | THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MATHEW BRADY $400: She cared for the wounded during the Civil War & sat for a photo circa 1865 while in Washington Clara Barton |
| #9123, aired 2024-06-12 | THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MATHEW BRADY $600: In 1864, Brady sent one of his operators to Mexico, where he was able to photograph this emperor Maximilian |
| #9123, aired 2024-06-12 | RIVERS OF EUROPE $800: After flowing through this big city, the River Liffey empties into the bay named for that city Dublin |
| #9123, aired 2024-06-12 | THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MATHEW BRADY $800: Brady photographed this commodore following his stint in Japan Matthew Perry |
| #9123, aired 2024-06-12 | RIVERS OF EUROPE $1,000 (Daily Double): This river of central Germany follows Frankfurt in the city's full name the Main |
| #9123, aired 2024-06-12 | THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MATHEW BRADY $1000: Here's this publisher reading the paper, perhaps his own "New York Tribune" Horace Greeley |
| #9123, aired 2024-06-12 | RIVERS OF EUROPE $1200: Visit the valley of this French river that runs from the Massif Central to the Atlantic near Nantes the Loire |
| #9123, aired 2024-06-12 | RIVERS OF EUROPE $2000: There's a silent "D" at the beginning of this fourth-longest European river the Dnieper |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | MUSIC OF THE '60s $400: Marvin Gaye's first No. 1 hit, it got new life when it was used in a commercial for California raisins in the 1980s "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | MUSIC OF THE '60s $800: This Aretha Franklin song says, "For five long years I thought you were my man but I found out I'm just a link in your chain" "Chain Of Fools" |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | MUSIC OF THE '60s $1200: The Sherman brothers of Disney fame wrote this song of young love that mentions "peaches & cream" & "lips like strawberry wine" "You're Sixteen" |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | MUSIC OF THE '60s $1600: This top 5 hit by The Mamas & The Papas was written on a cold winter night in Manhattan "California Dreamin'" |
| #9119, aired 2024-06-06 | MUSIC OF THE '60s $2000: This folk trio had a 1969 Top 10 hit with "Leaving On A Jet Plane" Peter, Paul and Mary |
| #9118, aired 2024-06-05 | SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC $200: It's the second sign of the zodiac, & that's no bull Taurus |
| #9118, aired 2024-06-05 | SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC $400: To escape a monster, Aphrodite & Eros jumped into a river & changed into this sign's symbols Pisces |
| #9118, aired 2024-06-05 | SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC $600: Kaus Australis, or "Southern Bow", is the brightest star in this constellation Sagittarius |
| #9118, aired 2024-06-05 | SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC $800: In a case of constellation-on-constellation violence, its symbol stung Orion to death Scorpio |
| #9118, aired 2024-06-05 | SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC $1,200 (Daily Double): The symbol of this sign is sometimes identified as Ishtar or Persephone Virgo |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | BODIES OF WATER $400: With an area of more than 300,000 square miles, this North American bay covers more than 3 times the area of the Great Lakes combined Hudson Bay |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Zambia's lowest point is this river that separates the country from Zimbabwe & also begins with "Z" Zambezi |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: The French call it Pas de Calais; the English call it this the Strait of Dover |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: An active volcano lies within this country's Taal Lake, which itself occupies a caldera the Philippines |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | BODIES OF WATER $7,600 (Daily Double): The Sinai Peninsula lies between 2 gulfs, the Gulf of Suez on the west & this one on the east the Gulf of Aqaba |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE $400: In the title of a Rascal Flatts song, "Life Is" this type of road a highway |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS $400: The Isthmus of Panama appears on the coat of arms of this nation, Panama's South American neighbor Colombia |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS $500 (Daily Double): 4 red bars representing Catalonia & 2 red cows of Béarn, France adorn its coat of arms Andorra |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE $800: In one version of this song, Elton John uses the phrase "it's the wheel of fortune" "The Circle Of Life" |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS $800: This largest New World cat appears on both sides of a white shield on Guyana's coat of arms the jaguar |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE $1200: Ezra Koenig sang about "life & all its suffering" as lead singer of this band, not Dracula Workday but... Vampire Weekend |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS $1200: A sailing ship & the national motto, "The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here", appears on this African nation's coat of arms Liberia |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE $1600: This ordinal band sang about a "semi-charmed kind of life" in a song with a lot of doo doo doo, doo doo-doo doos Third Eye Blind |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE $2000: This rapper said "life is good" with Drake & repped the "Low Life" with Abel Tesfaye Future |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS $2000: Including Wallachia & Moldavia the historical provinces of this country are represented on its coat of arms Romania |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | DATE OF BIRTH $200: April 24, 1800:
Early on, only the president & vice president had borrowing privileges the Library of Congress |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $400: Local name for the "emerald isle" & one of the Great Lakes Eire & Erie |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | DATE OF BIRTH $400: Jan. 3, 2009, with the mining of the Genesis block Bitcoin (Blockchain) |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | DATE OF BIRTH $600: This force:
Nov. 10, 1775, a month after the Navy it rides with the Marines (Marine Corps) |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | DATE OF BIRTH $800: Sept. 13, 1957:
The first group meeting of this organization for those with a problem at the track or the tables Gamblers Anonymous |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | DATE OF BIRTH $1000: July 26, 1848:
This university with alumni like Bud Selig & Frank Lloyd Wright the University of Wisconsin |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $1200: The "table" city southeast of Phoenix & the seat of Iowa State University Mesa & Ames |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $1600: A river that flows through Florence & a Mediterranean port city of Algeria the Arno & Oran |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $2000: The onetime capital of New Granada & one of the southernmost Caribbean islands Bogota & Tobago |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $4,400 (Daily Double): A South American capital city founded by Pizarro & a largely desert country of western Africa Lima & Mali |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | THE REAL TAGLINES OF THE REAL HOUSEWIVES $200: These "aren't a girl's best friend, martinis are!" diamonds |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | MEN OF SCIENCE $400: A hydrostatic principle is named for this Greek who lived much of his life in Syracuse, Sicily, then a Greek city-state Archimedes |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | THE REAL TAGLINES OF THE REAL HOUSEWIVES $400: "I may be married to" this kind of doctor, "but I'm 98% real" a plastic surgeon |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | THE REAL TAGLINES OF THE REAL HOUSEWIVES $600: "A good set of lashes can fix anything... even" this police pic you never want to pose for a mug shot |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | MEN OF SCIENCE $800: James Clerk Maxwell's ideas about Saturn's rings were proved true a century later when this probe got there & looked around Voyager |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | THE REAL TAGLINES OF THE REAL HOUSEWIVES $800: "I'm not" this younger spouse--"I'm a lifetime achievement award" a trophy wife |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | THE REAL TAGLINES OF THE REAL HOUSEWIVES $1000: "I won Miss U.S.A., not Miss" this, so getting along with others, not a priority Miss Congeniality |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | MEN OF SCIENCE $1200: In a 1927 paper he wrote, "We simply cannot know the present in principle in all its parameters" Heisenberg |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | MEN OF SCIENCE $1600: Alexei Abrikosov won a 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on these resistance-less current carriers superconductors |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | MEN OF SCIENCE $2000: This Swedish naturalist's "Fundamenta Botanica" set up some rules for the naming of plants Linnaeus |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | THE DRAMA OF TELEVISION $200: Dr. Melfi asked this patient, "What line of work are you in?"; "Waste management consultant"; well... Tony Soprano |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $400: This 1985 educational computer game features the title globetrotting female antagonist Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | THE DRAMA OF TELEVISION $400: When naming the actor who played Saul Goodman, a seriously criminal lawyer, better call him Odenkirk |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | THE DRAMA OF TELEVISION $600: Here's the truth--life is murder for Madeline Martha MacKenzie & Bonnie Carlson on this drama adapted from a bestseller Big Little Lies |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $800: Edward Albee won his first Tony for this 1962 drama in which marital arguments are blood sport Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | THE DRAMA OF TELEVISION $800: Taraji P. Henson came in like a Lyon & faced the music as Terrence Howard's ex-wife Cookie on this drama Empire |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | THE DRAMA OF TELEVISION $1000: David Boreanaz led this elite title Navy unit wherever they had to go... CBS, then Paramount+, CBS & back to Paramount+ SEAL Team |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $1200: The website for the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame included this oft-asked query when discussing the Lone Ranger Who was that masked man? |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $2000: In Matthew 27 in the King James Version, Jesus cries out, "My God, my God", then this anguished question why hast thou forsaken me |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $6,000 (Daily Double): In a relatively famous play, this 4-word question precedes "Deny thy father & refuse thy name" Wherefore art thou Romeo |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | STATUE OF LIMITATIONS $400: Some of the wee & intricate 12th century pieces for this game found on the Isle of Lewis live at the British Museum chess |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | STATUE OF LIMITATIONS $800: Tiny figures of this river animal were often buried with ancient Egyptians; the Met has an 8"-long blue one nicknamed William a hippopotomus |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | STATUE OF LIMITATIONS $1200: About 22 inches tall, a whimsical fountain called the Manneken-Pis is in this capital & embodies its rebellious spirit Brussels |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | STATUE OF LIMITATIONS $1600: Less than 5 inches tall, the prehistoric "Venus" is named for this Austrian place where she was found Willendorf |
| #36, aired 2024-05-20 | STATUE OF LIMITATIONS $2000: Ceramicist Edmund de Waal wrote of inheriting 264 of these tiny intricate Japanese figurines in "The Hare with the Amber Eyes" netsuke |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | FLOATING ON A STREAM OF TV $200: On this show, Martin Short tells Steve Martin, no concertina: "You are scoring a murder mystery, not DJing a hobbit's wedding" Only Murders in the Building |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | FLOATING ON A STREAM OF TV $400: In 2024 this bear voiced by Seth MacFarlane came back to life on Peacock; somehow, a toy truck named Dennis also gained sentience Ted |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | FLOATING ON A STREAM OF TV $600: We'd watch this Netflix title character deal with life & death(s) at Nevermore Academy any day of the week Wednesday |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | FLOATING ON A STREAM OF TV $800: The pitch for this Freevee court show: "What if you (made) 'The Office' & Jim was a real person who didn't know that Dwight was an actor" Jury Duty |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | FLOATING ON A STREAM OF TV $1000: "Oh Lord, not Ekin-Su!" was Phaedra's memed reaction to a supposed murder in a Scottish castle on this competition show The Traitors |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | MEN OF MEDICINE $400: In 1915, these two physician brothers gave $1.5 million to the University of Minnesota to establish a research foundation Mayo |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | MEN OF MEDICINE $800: In the 1960s Lars Leksell invented the gamma knife for surgery on this, where precision is really, really important the brain |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | MEN OF MEDICINE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1853 this British anatomist wrote "On the Structure and Use of the Spleen"; his more famous work came 5 years later Gray |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | MEN OF MEDICINE $1200: In 1963 France's Dr. Georges Mathé announced that he had cured a leukemia patient by transplanting this spongy tissue marrow |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | MEN OF MEDICINE $2000: His name is a homophone of a childhood bone disease, but it was epidemic typhus for which he identified the micro cause (Howard) Ricketts |
| #30, aired 2024-05-13 | HAVING AN IN-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE $200: This lymphatic system organ is on the left side of the abdominal cavity under the diaphragm, & I'll vent mine if you don't know it the spleen |
| #30, aired 2024-05-13 | HAVING AN IN-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE $400: A growth hormone secreting adenoma in this gland on the brain's underside is the most common cause of gigantism the pituitary |
| #30, aired 2024-05-13 | HAVING AN IN-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE $600: If someone says you're getting long in the tooth, they're probably looking at these 8 front teeth incisors |
| #30, aired 2024-05-13 | HAVING AN IN-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE $1000: Pain in your pectineus muscle, which flexes the thigh at the hip, is a sign of this anatomically named sports strain a groin pull |
| #30, aired 2024-05-13 | HAVING AN IN-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE $1,600 (Daily Double): Alphabetically, the brain's main lobes are frontal, occipital, parietal & this one responsible for hearing & memory temporal |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | BODIES OF WATER $200: About 16 times the height of Niagara Falls, it's also known locally as Kerepakupai Merú Angel Falls |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | WORDS TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT $400: From the Hail Mary to the cast lists of "High Noon" (a first name) & the last 2 "Ghostbusters" movies (a last name) grace |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | POINTS OF VIEW $400: In 2023 Justice Thomas wrote of this "vision deficiency" Constitution; justice Jackson said saying it doesn't make it so colorblind (Constitution) |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Rising in China, the Red River flows past Hanoi to empty into this body of water the Gulf of Tonkin |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | BODIES OF WATER $600: More than 300 rivers & streams flow into this body of water that has a maximum depth of 5,300 feet Baikal |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | WORDS TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT $800: From the first verse of "This Land Is Your Land" to a material for fencing & decking available at Home Depot redwood |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | POINTS OF VIEW $800: Bernie Sanders thinks you should be working this many hours a week 32 |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Some river math: this river + the Monongahela = the Ohio River the Allegheny |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: This Alpine lake borders Switzerland, Austria & Germany, where it is called Bodensee Constance |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | WORDS TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT $1200: From a dollar bill to the first word of a novel title that replaced "Richard Diver" tender |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | POINTS OF VIEW $1200: Lenore Skenazy, who wrote of letting her 9-year-old ride the NYC subway alone, moved this term from raising chickens to raising kids free range |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | WORDS TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT $1600: From a New York City driving surcharge to a Sudafed or Afrin box congestion |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | POINTS OF VIEW $1600: A.I. "doomers", who are right, see terrifying possibilities particularly in A.G.I., short for this artificial general intelligence |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | WORDS TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT $2000: From "God Save The King" to the name of a "rot" or fungus that attacks grapes noble |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | POINTS OF VIEW $2000: Units of workers replace the state in this hyphenated -ism, the basis for the "Monty Python & the Holy Grail" peasants' commune anarcho-syndicalism |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | THE COLORS OF TELEVISION $200: Jennifer Coolidge has a slight problem while staying at this title place: "Please! These gays, they're trying to murder me" the White Lotus |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | THE COLORS OF TELEVISION $400: Rose, on this show: "Like we say in St. Olaf: Christmas without fruitcake is like St. Sigmund's Day without the headless boy" The Golden Girls |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | THE COLORS OF TELEVISION $600: The many physicians who have practiced on this drama include Holley Fain & James Pickens Jr. as Drs. Canner & Webber Grey's Anatomy |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | THE COLORS OF TELEVISION $800: In 1966 Bruce Lee fought crime as Kato on this series The Green Hornet |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | THE COLORS OF TELEVISION $1000: Dana Carvey was Clinton "Jafo" Wonderlove on this show adapted from a 1983 film about a high-tech police helicopter Blue Thunder |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | "ONE" OF THOSE BOOKS $200: Ichthyologists, take note--this Seuss book says of other fauna, "None of them is like another, don't ask us why, go ask your mother" One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | "ONE" OF THOSE BOOKS $400: Janet Evanovich preceded "Two for the Dough" with this title One for the Money |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | "ONE" OF THOSE BOOKS $600: This title is from something David Sedaris said trying to learn French; another is "I know the thing what you speak exact now" Me Talk Pretty One Day |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | "ONE" OF THOSE BOOKS $800: This John Lindqvist book about a vampire named Eli living in the Swedish suburbs got the film treatment Let the Right One In |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | "ONE" OF THOSE BOOKS $1000: This Solzhenitsyn book describes a 24-hour period of a prisoner in the gulag system One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | WEIGHT OF THE WHIRLED $200: A couple of the apothecary type of these weigh 960 grains:
USE CON ounces |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DAYS OF GUNS N' ROSES $200: "Take me down to" this Guns N' Roses song "where the grass is green & the girls are pretty, oh won't you please take me home" "Paradise City" |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | WEIGHT OF THE WHIRLED $400: It's 6.35 kilograms:
NOTES stone |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DAYS OF GUNS N' ROSES $400: A 1991 compilation album by this Sixx-shooting band looked back at a "Decade of Decadence" Mötley Crüe |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DEATH OF A WRITER $400: This Pulitzer Prize winner was hit & killed in 1949 as she tried to cross Peachtree Street in Atlanta (Margaret) Mitchell |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | WEIGHT OF THE WHIRLED $600: It's used to account for extremely small particles:
ROMAN NAG nanogram |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DAYS OF GUNS N' ROSES $600: Deadly on Billboard, this hair metal band had Top 10s with "Talk Dirty To Me" & "Unskinny Bop" Poison |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | WEIGHT OF THE WHIRLED $800: 10 Talmudic these equaled 600 minas back in the day:
LETS TAN talents |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DAYS OF GUNS N' ROSES $800: "Here I Go Again", talking about Tawny Kitaen's acrobatics on David Coverdale's Jaguar hood in a classic video by this group Whitesnake |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DEATH OF A WRITER $800: He died in 1984 at the home of Johnny Carson's ex-wife Joanne, not one of his swans but a close friend to the end Capote |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | WEIGHT OF THE WHIRLED $1000: It makes quite the system:
ADIOS OUR VIP avoirdupois |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DAYS OF GUNS N' ROSES $1000: Rolling Stone gave us an oral history of this song by Extreme, "1991's iconic ballad"; now hold me close, don't ev-ah let me go "More Than Words" |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DEATH OF A WRITER $1600: A friend of Shakespeare, this "Song: To Celia" poet & playwright was buried standing up in Westminster Abbey Ben Jonson |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DEATH OF A WRITER $2000: Legend has it that this ancient playwright died when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head Aeschylus |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | DEATH OF A WRITER $8,400 (Daily Double): This author from Sauk Centre, Minnesota died in a nursing home in Rome in 1951 Sinclair Lewis |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | A VIEW OF THE CITY $200: A center of violence during The Troubles, the Shankill Road is now a tourist attraction in this Northern Ireland city Belfast |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | A VIEW OF THE CITY $400: Here's a look from Paris' Place de la Concorde down to the Arc de Triomphe at the other end of this historic avenue the Champs-Élysées |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | THE GREATS OF HISTORY $400: He co-czarred with his half-bro Ivan V from 1682 to 1696, then got single billing until 1725 Peter the Great |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | A VIEW OF THE CITY $600: A twilight view of this Asian city includes its eponymous tower & a certain nearby mountain Tokyo |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | A VIEW OF THE CITY $800: Check out the New York City skyline aboard this free ride that runs between Manhattan & another borough a Staten Island Ferry |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | THE GREATS OF HISTORY $800: Medieval popes called the Great included Gregory I & the first pope of this name who served from 440 to 461 & suppressed heresy Leo the Great |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | A VIEW OF THE CITY $1000: Often called the world's widest avenue, the Avenida 9 de Julio & its giant topiary are in this city's downtown Buenos Aires |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | THE GREATS OF HISTORY $1200: Circa 1200, Queen Tamar the Great of this Black Sea nation presided when it dominated the Caucasus region Georgia |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | THE GREATS OF HISTORY $2000: Berengaria the Great was an advisor to her son Ferdinand III in this series of campaigns to regain Iberia from the Moors the Reconquista |
| #9094, aired 2024-05-02 | THE GREATS OF HISTORY $3,400 (Daily Double): A 3rd century B.C. leader of this Punic city, Hanno the Great opposed costly wars & even negotiated peace with Rome Carthage |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | THE KERNEL OF THE CLUE $5 (Daily Double): (1954 Sinatra song)
It's a bad idea to leave a frozen embryo unguarded, would be my major takeaway "Young At Heart" (in embryo unguarded) |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | ADVENTURES OF A BRITISH NOVEL HERO $200: At the end, the hero looks back on his adventures over a cup of builder's--this, made strong with extra cream & sugar tea |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS $200: The Library's 3 Capitol Hill buildings are named for John Adams, Thomas Jefferson & this guy, the next in line Madison |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | THE KERNEL OF THE CLUE $400: (Supplier of actors)
Your criticism of my use of ayahuasca stings because I take it in moderation central casting (in ayahuasca stings) |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | ADVENTURES OF A BRITISH NOVEL HERO $400: In Chapter 7 our hero gets nicked; in Chapter 8 he's at His Majesty's pleasure, which means he's here jail |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS $400: The Library's oldest written material is in this writing system, on clay tablets from the 3rd millennium B.C. cuneiform |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | ADVENTURES OF A BRITISH NOVEL HERO $600: The Brits shorten 2 words to get this equivalent of GPS; our hero relies on it to get to Sheffield for a daring rescue satnav |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS $600: The Library theater is named for this silent star & studio founder who gave her catalogue to the fledgling motion picture division Mary Pickford |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | THE KERNEL OF THE CLUE $800: (Including your abs)
If you really try you can graduate from USC less knowledgeable than before core muscles (in from USC less) |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | ADVENTURES OF A BRITISH NOVEL HERO $800: Kicked out by his wife, he moves to this small apartment whose 6-letter name includes a piece of furniture a bedsit |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | ADVENTURES OF A BRITISH NOVEL HERO $1000: There's an important event as the barman ends the night at the pub by saying this, also a Booker prize-winning novel by Graham Swift last orders |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS $1000: Its Librarians have included this modernist poet whose "Ars Poetica" declares, "A poem should not mean / But be" Archibald MacLeish |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | THE KERNEL OF THE CLUE $1600: (Founded 1849)
The neighbor says he was made part mental by our kids' street hockey game the Department of the Interior (or Interior Department) (in made part mental) |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | THE KERNEL OF THE CLUE $2000: (Where rays join)
She obstinately insisted there was no typo in the letter that she sent out focal point (in typo in the) |
| #22, aired 2024-05-01 | THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS $2,800 (Daily Double): Ioc.gov gives access to a huge collection of this, printed documents of transitory value intended to be thrown away ephemera |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY $400: Edmund Burke took on aesthetics with an aptly titled "Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and" this Beautiful |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY $800: In Tokugawa Japan of the 17th to 19th c., the dominant thought was neo-this philosophy of a guy from across the Sea of Japan neo-Confucianism |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY $1200: Thomas Kuhn is known for his talk of these frameworks whose "shifts" can change our worldview paradigms |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY $1600: This Scot who died in 1776 was a leader in empiricism, the belief that all knowledge is from experience Hume |
| #21, aired 2024-05-01 | DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY $2000: Aristotle was known to stroll while teaching, giving us this word for his followers or walking in general peripatetic |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | LITERATURE: THE SOMETHING OF SOMETHING $200: The Joad more traveled; spoiler! Grampa & Granma don't finish the trip; life ain't peachy The Grapes of Wrath |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | LITERATURE: THE SOMETHING OF SOMETHING $400: Y'know, I think that portrait's crooked; man, you look great! What's your secret?; what's Wilde is that it's Oscar's only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | LITERATURE: THE SOMETHING OF SOMETHING $600: An island prison, an island treasure; the main guy loses his Mercédès; revenge is served extremely cold The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | LITERATURE: THE SOMETHING OF SOMETHING $800: Get your Wharton MBA; Newland Archer aims for a new romance; well, that certainly was a time &/or era The Age of Innocence |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | LITERATURE: THE SOMETHING OF SOMETHING $1,000 (Daily Double): Colorful in so many ways; Civil War is hell; Henry, don't be a hero The Red Badge of Courage |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $200: Glossophobia:
This, especially in public speaking |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | THE PICTURE OF SOMEONE NAMED GREY $400: This woman, who had a short reign in England, was executed in 1553, along with her husband of less than a year Jane Grey |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $400: Coulrophobia:
These performers & please don't send them in clowns |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $600: Chorophobia:
This activity dancing |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | THE PICTURE OF SOMEONE NAMED GREY $800: Joel Grey did a wonderful job as this character when "Wicked" premiered on Broadway in 2003 the Wizard of Oz |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $800: Samhainophobia:
This holiday Halloween |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF? $1000: Porphyrophobia:
This, literally, also the title of a 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel the color purple |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | THE PICTURE OF SOMEONE NAMED GREY $1200: In 1919, Sir Edward Grey came from England to try to get the U.S. to join this new world organization, didn't work the League of Nations |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | THE PICTURE OF SOMEONE NAMED GREY $1600: Like many of his bestsellers, 1921's "The Mysterious Rider" concerns cowboys & gunslingers in the Old West Zane Grey |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | THE PICTURE OF SOMEONE NAMED GREY $2000: As prime minister, the Second Earl Grey, a leader of the liberal party called this, passed the democratizing 1832 Reform Bill the Whigs |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS $400: An octopus bearing the name of this ocean can grow from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a bus, measured arm tip to arm tip the Pacific octopus |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS $800: A species of octopus is named for this fruit; it used the shell as a hiding place coconut |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS $1200: An octopus can change the pigment of its skin in one fifth of a second, despite the fact that all octopuses have this vision deficiency color blindness |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS $1600: The day octopus can shape shift & blend into the rough & smooth surfaces of coral in this site off northeastern Australia the Great Barrier Reef |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS $2000: A species of octopus is named for this trait, it can make itself resemble other animals, like a sea snake or lionfish mimicry |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | POETS OF LOVE $400: "Love Song" by this Algonquin Round Table member goes full vicious circle: "He is all my heart, & I wish somebody'd shoot him" (Dorothy) Parker |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | POETS OF LOVE $800: This poet who died young in Rome wrote, "Hither, hither, hither / Love this boon has sent-- / If I die & wither / I shall die content" Keats |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | POETS OF LOVE $1600: This Roman poet got sappy with it in "Eclogues"; "Love conquers all: let us too yield to love" Virgil |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | POETS OF LOVE $2000: The final stanza of this poem by Matthew Arnold begins, "Ah, love, let us be true to one another!" "Dover Beach" |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | POETS OF LOVE $4,500 (Daily Double): Percy Shelley wrote, "Nothing in the world is single; / All things by a law divine / In one spirit meet &" this, like at a mixer mingle |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | AT THE START OF THE SPORT $200: Nomi-No-Sukune, considered the founder of this form of wrestling, is said to have won its first bout in 23 B.C. sumo wrestling |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | AT THE START OF THE SPORT $400: In 1883 an Englishman patented equipment for playing a form of this "indoors, say upon a billiard or dining table" table tennis |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | AT THE START OF THE SPORT $600: Discovered in a pond in Scotland, the oldest known stone for this sport is inscribed with the date 1511 curling |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | AT THE START OF THE SPORT $800: Long said to have invented baseball, this military man didn't, but he was definitely at Fort Sumter when the first shots were fired Doubleday |
| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | AT THE START OF THE SPORT $1000: These landmark boxing rules are named for the British nobleman who sponsored their 1867 publication the Queensberry rules |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | HISTORY OF YOSEMITE $200: In the early 1900s the park put up bleachers for folks to watch these cuddly carnivores eat from leftover picnic baskets bears |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | HISTORY OF YOSEMITE $400: In 1919, the Sierra Club installed cables for climbers to get to the views of this landmark at 8,800 feet above sea level Half Dome |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | HISTORY OF YOSEMITE $600: A Native American village in Yosemite has one of these dwellings named for their circular shape; it's still used by local tribes a roundhouse |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | HISTORY OF YOSEMITE $800: As seen in an Oscar-winning documentary, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo this monolith El Capitan |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | HISTORY OF YOSEMITE $1000: This man wrote of his ecological findings with a quill made from an eagle's feather found on Yosemite's Mount Hoffmann John Muir |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $200: This country on Hispaniola has 2 official languages--French & Creole Haiti |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LAND OF MILK & HONEY $400: Montbéliarde cows are part of the herds in this nation's milk-loving la Gruyère region Switzerland |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $400: The Strait of Gibraltar separates the mainlands of these 2 countries by about 8 miles Spain & Morocco |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LAND OF MILK & HONEY $800: Known for healthy honey, the Greek isle Ikaria is this type of "colorful" place named for its population's longevity a blue zone |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $800: In 1960, this island country elected the world's first female prime minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike Sri Lanka |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $1000: Tikal National Park is part of this country's Maya Biosphere Reserve Guatemala |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LAND OF MILK & HONEY $1200: Not far from the skyscrapers of this emirate metropolis is Camelicious, a company that provides camel milk, ghee & chocolate Dubai |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LAND OF MILK & HONEY $1600: From Australia & New Zealand, this honey with a Maori name is said to have antibacterial properties Manuka honey |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): The king of this country gets the official title "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques" Saudi Arabia |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | LAND OF MILK & HONEY $2000: India, the leading milk producer in the world, gets almost half of it from this beast not considered cattle a water buffalo |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $200: Billy Dee Williams voiced Fudge Turnover as well as himself on this "mechanized poultry" show that debuted on TV in 2005 Robot Chicken |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $400: After Cheryl, voiced by Judy Greer on this spy cartoon series, is reminded she hates babies, she replies, "Just baby people" Archer |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $600: Paul F. Tompkins gave voice to Mr. Peanutbutter, a dog with gubernatorial aspirations on this Netflix show BoJack Horseman |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $800: Jeff Fischer got the role he was born to play: Jeff Fischer, Hayley Smith's hubby & pal to a talking fish & an alien on this TBS cartoon American Dad! |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THE VOICE OF TELEVISION $1000: Seen here, but not heard from 2015 to 2021, he learned "F is for Family" & if you don't know him, "I'm gonna put you through a wall" (Bill) Burr |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | THE 6 MOTHERS-IN-LAW OF HENRY VIII $1,600 (Daily Double): Not the Cromwells but this family lived in Wolf Hall; when Henry visited in 1535, Margery no doubt pointed out lovely daughter Jane the Seymours |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | THE 6 MOTHERS-IN-LAW OF HENRY VIII $1600: The mother of Anne of Cleves was Maria of Jülich, a duchy of this thousand-year empire of West & Central Europe the Holy Roman Empire |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | THE 6 MOTHERS-IN-LAW OF HENRY VIII $2000: Inspired by the ideas of this doomed lord chancellor, Katherine Parr's mom Maud educated her daughter like her son Sir Thomas More |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN $400: Measuring electricity? In the U.S., we use this unit that honors an Italian count a volt |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN $800: A degree on this other temperature scale has the same magnitude as a Celsius degree Kelvin |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN $1200: This device used to measure your feet at the shoe store is named for its inventor Charles a Brannock Device |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN $2000: Radioactivity amounts in a sample have been measured in units called the curie & this, after a different French physicist becquerel |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | THE MEASURE OF A MAN $6,000 (Daily Double): You only need letters on the left side of the keyboard to type this unit of capacitance that's named for an English chap the farad |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A CATEGORY MADE OF STEEL $200: The steelhead, a variety of the rainbow type of this fish, can reach a weight of 55 pounds a trout |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A CATEGORY MADE OF STEEL $400: Using modified oil barrels as instruments, steel bands of Trinidad are particularly associated with this pre-Lent celebration Carnival |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A CATEGORY MADE OF STEEL $600: In 1983 this 7-foot wrestler defeated Big John Studd in a thrilling steel cage match in the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland André the Giant |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A CATEGORY MADE OF STEEL $800: Using an old steel saw in 1837, he created one of the 1st successful steel plows & his company was soon making 1,000 plows a year (John) Deere |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | A CATEGORY MADE OF STEEL $1000: Charles M. Schwab was the 1st pres. of this Pennsylvania-based steel corp. founded in 1904 & one of the world's largest in its time Bethlehem Steel |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Lake Vänern, this Scandinavian country's largest lake, is part of the Gota Canal system Sweden |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Major ports on this bay include Bilbao, Spain & Brest, France the Bay of Biscay |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: Serpent's Mouth is a channel separating this island's southwestern coast from Venezuela Trinidad |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Winter temperatures along this 4-letter Siberian river that flows through Yakutsk can reach the 80s below zero the Lena |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: This canal completed in 1893 divides the Peloponnese Peninsula from mainland Greece Corinth |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | PORTS OF CALL $200: No stop at this Mexican port is complete without watching the cliff divers do their thing off La Quebrada Acapulco |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | PORTS OF CALL $400: Cruises in this country will likely begin at the port city of Piraeus, just 7 miles from the capital Greece |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | PORTS OF CALL $600: Many cruising to the Western Caribbean will set sail from this Texas city, the largest U.S. cruise port outside of Florida Galveston |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | PORTS OF CALL $800: The light over this river's estuary at Le Havre was one reason the city calls itself the cradle of Impressionism the Seine River |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | PORTS OF CALL $1000: Once you arrive at this Jamaican port whose name means "8 rivers", you can swim with dolphins or visit Margaritaville Ocho Rios |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $200: "I'm that bad type make your mama sad type, make your girlfriend mad tight might seduce your dad type... I'm the bad guy" Billie Eilish |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $400: "When I'm out walking, I strut my stuff, and I'm so strung out, I'm high as a kite, I just might stop to check you out" Violent Femmes |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $400: This first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | "HOUSE" OF ENTERTAINMENT $400: Candace Cameron Bure & Jodie Sweetin got some yuks on the Netflix reboot with this title Fuller House |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $600: "If you want my body, & you think I'm sexy, come on sugar, let me know, if you really need me, just reach out & touch me" Rod Stewart |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $800: This lawyer, feminist, activist & TV commentator Allred |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | "HOUSE" OF ENTERTAINMENT $800: After dozens of movies, this TV series took Robin Wright to a new level of stardom House of Cards |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $800: "Say it ain't so, I will not go, turn the lights off, carry me home, na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na na" Blink-182 |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE LYRICAL STYLINGS OF JOHNNY GILBERT $1000: "I got a woman, way over town, that's good to me, oh yeah. Say, I got a woman way over town that's good to me, oh yeah" Ray Charles |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $1200: This Swiss-born psychiatrist known for identifying 5 stages of grief Kübler-Ross |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | "HOUSE" OF ENTERTAINMENT $1200: The Talking Heads were "fighting fire with fire" in this song that may result in a call to your insurance guy "Burning Down The House" |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $1600: This photographer with a hyphenated name, one of the first photojournalists hired by Life magazine Bourke-White |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | "HOUSE" OF ENTERTAINMENT $1600: Called America's defining Celtic hip-hop group, they hit the Top 5 with a 1990s party anthem House of Pain |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | IN THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME $2000: Among the class of 2024, this civil rights icon, who at age 6 made history when she integrated one of New Orleans' all white schools (Ruby) Bridges |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | "HOUSE" OF ENTERTAINMENT $2000: Ben Kingsley got an Oscar nomination for playing an Iranian immigrant with dreams of home ownership in this drama House of Sand and Fog |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | THE VOCABULARY OF ICE ICE BABY $200: Mayhem is classified as this type of crime, which kinda rhymes with "dope melody" a felony |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | THE VOCABULARY OF ICE ICE BABY $400: "Check out the" this attention-getter in a song the hook |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | THE VOCABULARY OF ICE ICE BABY $600: Time to rock a mic, like a this, perhaps Gaiseric, a 5th century king of that Germanic people a vandal |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | THE VOCABULARY OF ICE ICE BABY $800: Slang for a convertible car with a soft cover a ragtop |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | THE VOCABULARY OF ICE ICE BABY $1000: Vanilla Ice mysteriously can "flow like" one; it's also wielded by Tashtego a harpoon |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | STATUES OF THE WORLD $400: Any statue substantially larger than life-size is one of these, like the Daibutsu or Great Buddha a colossus |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | THE BOOK OF MORMONS $400: Alan, Wayne, Merrill & Jay were some of the other members of this singing family, with hits like "One Bad Apple" The Osmonds |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | STATUES OF THE WORLD $800: Atop Massachusetts' Captain's Hill is a statue of this Pilgrim whose "Courtship" is the subject of a famous poem Miles Standish |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | THE BOOK OF MORMONS $800: Though she no longer practices, this star of "27 Dresses" was raised in the Mormon faith & lives in Utah Heigl |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | STATUES OF THE WORLD $1200: A monument to this Canadian Legend known for his Marathon of Hope event stands in Burnaby, British Columbia (Terry) Fox |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | THE BOOK OF MORMONS $1200: Raised in the LDS Church, Paul Walker gained worldwide fame in this movie series before dying in a car accident in 2013 Fast & Furious (The Fast & the Furious) |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | STATUES OF THE WORLD $1600: In 1600 Tycho Brahe asked this German astronomer to join him in Prague; a statue there honors the pair Kepler |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | THE BOOK OF MORMONS $1600: Dubbed the "Empress of Soul", this singer has won 7 competitive Grammys--4 solo & 3 with the Pips Knight |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | STATUES OF THE WORLD $2000: One of the 7 Ancient Wonders was the statue of Zeus by this great Greek sculptor Phidias |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | THE BOOK OF MORMONS $2000: In 2011 this lead singer of the Killers was part of the "I'm a Mormon" campaign Flowers |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TYPES OF POEMS $200: Pindar was famed for these poems; Alexander Pope wrote one "On Solitude" odes |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TYPES OF POEMS $400: Haiku masters Buson & Issa had to master this many syllables to craft their works 17 |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TYPES OF POEMS $800: Famous in the sonnet-verse, Petrarch devoted hundreds of poems in his "Canzoniere" to this woman, his love Laura |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TYPES OF POEMS $1,000 (Daily Double): A villanelle is a 19-line poem consisting of 5 tercets & a concluding (do the math) one of these a quatrain |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TYPES OF POEMS $1000: For this grave work, Yeats chose words he had already written: "Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman, pass by" his epitaph |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | SONGS OF YOUTH $200: In 2004 Natasha Bedingfield sang, "Today is where your book begins, the rest is still" this title word unwritten |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | SONGS OF YOUTH $400: Inspired by her bestie, Tay Tay sang when "somebody tells you they love you" at this title age "you're gonna believe them" 15 |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | SONGS OF YOUTH $600: "No regrets, just love, we can dance until we die", sang Katy Perry, who was "livin"' one of these, also her album title Teenage Dream |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | SONGS OF YOUTH $800: Nate Ruess & this band implored, "We are young so let's set the world on fire" fun. |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | SONGS OF YOUTH $1000: Fresh out of high school, this R&B singer's smash debut album "American Teen", had songs like "Young Dumb & Broke" Khalid |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE $200: Archie's pal Forsythe P. Jones III goes by this unflattering name Jughead |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE $400: Horatio Magellan are the first & middle names of this cereal seller & man of the sea Captain Crunch |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE $600: Robert Underdunk Terwilliger is the real name of this vengeful "Simpsons" character Sideshow Bob |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE $800: On "Gotham" Robin Lord Taylor walked the walk as this villain, aka Oswald Cobblepot The Penguin |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | REAL NAMES OF UNREAL PEOPLE $1000: Please, Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs is so formal! Just call the character this the Wizard of Oz |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | WORLD OF LIT $400: This commander of the Nautilus in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" also appears in "The Mysterious Island" Nemo |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | WORLD OF LIT $800: He served several years of hard labor in Siberia before writing about someone else's "Crime and Punishment" Dostoevsky |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | WORLD OF LIT $1200: Following the publication of this controversial 1988 novel, the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | WORLD OF LIT $1600: In Hermann Hesse's futuristic final novel, Josef Knecht has long been consumed with mastering this title competition the Glass Bead Game |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | WORLD OF LIT $2000: The short story collection "Face to Face" was the first book by this South African woman who won a 1991 Nobel Prize Nadine Gordimer |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 150 YEARS OF THE 92nd STREET Y $400: In 1883 it was still the 42nd St. Y & at a further downtown branch, this poet taught immigrants the year she wrote "The New Colossus" (Emma) Lazarus |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $400: Durban, South Africa was once named Port Natal; Natal is Portuguese for this holiday Christmas |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SHADES OF BLUE $400: In shades of blue, it follows ultra & aqua marine |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 150 YEARS OF THE 92nd STREET Y $800: Elie Wiesel's more than 180 lectures at the Y began in the mid-'60s, reporting on Jews unable to leave here the Soviet Union |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $800: One activity if, you're in Gurue in northern Mozambique is a hike to the Cascata, this feature, a good place to cool off a waterfall |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SHADES OF BLUE $800: A lovely shade of blue is named for these objects seen here robin's eggs |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $1200: Named for an earl, not a duke, this major New Zealand port has the country's largest concentration of Maori Auckland |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SHADES OF BLUE $1200: Some call it a bachelor's button, others call it this, also a shade of blue a cornflower |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 150 YEARS OF THE 92nd STREET Y $1600: In 1948 this actor-singer of Caribbean heritage made his Off-Broadway debut at the Y in a play about Sojourner Truth Belafonte |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $1600: Ready for some golf? Head to this very remote South Atlantic island & its 9-hole Longwood golf course St. Helena |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 150 YEARS OF THE 92nd STREET Y $2000: "Revelations", a signature work that this choreographer set to spirituals had its world premiere at the Y in 1960 Alvin Ailey |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $2000: New Britain is the largest island in this German-named archipelago in the southwest Pacific the Bismarck Archipelago |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SHADES OF BLUE $2000: In 1999 Pantone named this peaceful 8-letter shade of sky blue its first color of the year & of the millennium cerulean |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | 150 YEARS OF THE 92nd STREET Y $2,800 (Daily Double): In his U.S. reading debut, in June 1966, this S. Amer. poet said his country was in full winter but his welcome was like spring (Pablo) Neruda |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SHADES OF BLUE $7,600 (Daily Double): In his "Great Waves" print, Hokusai used this imported blue pigment first made in Germany Prussian blue |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COLORS OF THE RAINBOW $200: Featured in multiple Icelandic sagas, he was exiled from Iceland in the 10th century & set up camp in Greenland Erik the Red |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COLORS OF THE RAINBOW $400: In 2023, Xolo Maridueña played Jaime Reyes, also known as this multi-limbed DC superhero the Blue Beetle |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COLORS OF THE RAINBOW $600: It was coined in the 1890s to describe the sensational tactics used by NYC newspapers the World & the Journal yellow journalism |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COLORS OF THE RAINBOW $1000: In the 1740s growers of this dye plant in South Carolina benefited from government subsidies indigo |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COLORS OF THE RAINBOW $4,000 (Daily Double): Judo practitioners should know this term for land where building is prohibited & nature flourishes a green belt |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A WORLD OF DEPRESSIONS $400: The Turpan Depression in the Uyghur Autonomous Region is this country's lowest point at 505 feet below sea level China |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A WORLD OF DEPRESSIONS $800: In 1964 astronauts spent a few days honing their survival skills in this state's Carson Sink Nevada |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A WORLD OF DEPRESSIONS $1200: The name of this depression on the southern side of Haiti sounds like a dead end street Cul-de-Sac |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A WORLD OF DEPRESSIONS $1600: The Afar Depression in the Horn of Africa is part of this "Great" fault system the Great Rift Valley |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A WORLD OF DEPRESSIONS $2000: Egypt's Gattara Depression formed a natural barrier to protect this northwestern city from Rommel's advance in WWII El Alamein |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | SPEECH! PARTS OF SPEECH! $200: Fred Flintstone,
Sweden,
Roomba nouns |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | SPEECH! PARTS OF SPEECH! $400: Neither,
&,
nor conjunctions |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | SPEECH! PARTS OF SPEECH! $600: Xem,
xyrs,
xemself (neo)pronouns |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | SPEECH! PARTS OF SPEECH! $800: Betwixt,
between,
beyond preposition |
| #9046, aired 2024-02-26 | SPEECH! PARTS OF SPEECH! $1000: Yowza!
Zoinks!
Shazbot! interjections |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $400: This strait narrows to about 50 miles between Asia & North America the Bering |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Called Östersjön in Swedish, this sea separates Scandinavia from the rest of Europe the Baltic |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: There's a Colorado River in the U.S. & another one in this South American nation where it flows across the Pampas Argentina |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: This deepest lake in Africa has a name that may come from Swahili words for "sail" & "wilderness" Lake Tanganyika |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $6,800 (Daily Double): Extending for about 135 miles, the Yucatan Channel links these 2 smaller-than-an-ocean bodies of water the Gulf of Mexico & the Caribbean Sea |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $200: She invited us to "Come Into My House" & also deal with the "Wrath Of My Madness"; we bow down before this Queen Queen Latifah |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | SIBLINGS OF NOTE $400: Last name of Joseph, publisher of the New York World, & of brother Albert, who ran the less well-known New York Morning Journal Pulitzer |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $400: In 1986 it was "6 'N The Mornin"' for him in the studio but in 2000 it was "SVU" for him on TV Ice-T |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $600: Billboard said he is "often cited as hip-hop's GOAT behind the boards... a lead rapper on... 1988's 'Straight Outta Compton"' Dr. Dre |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | SIBLINGS OF NOTE $800: A dynamic trio in this game, the Polgar sisters are Susan, Sofia & Judit, who beat Boris Spassky chess |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $800: Some numbers: 3 years after taking 9 bullets, he had a Billboard 200 No. 1 debut with "Get Rich Or Die Tryin"' in 2003 50 Cent |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | 50 GREATEST RAPPERS OF ALL TIME $1000: "Backed by rap's archetypal hype man in Flavor Flav", this Public Enemy leader was a "Rebel Without A Pause" in 1987 Chuck D |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | SIBLINGS OF NOTE $1200: In the 1930s John of this last name was a senator, his brother William was House speaker & William's daughter Tallulah was a stage star Bankhead |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | SIBLINGS OF NOTE $2000: A new method of prostate surgery was pioneered by & punningly nicknamed for Robert, brother of this 20th century French novelist Proust |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | SIBLINGS OF NOTE $11,000 (Daily Double): Marcel's kid sister Suzanne Duchamp caught the bug for this movement with artworks like "Accordion Masterpiece" Dada |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $200: Booted out of Iceland, set foot in Vinland:
L.E. Leif Erikson |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | MUSICIANS OF THE 1960s $400: "Butch" Snipes in Seattle & "Baby Boo" Young in Tennessee are thought to have inspired this star to play guitar with his teeth Jimi Hendrix |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $400: P.M. of Israel in the 1970s:
G.M. Golda Meir |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $600: Pseudonym of an intrepid early 20th century newspaperwoman:
N.B. Nellie Bly |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | MUSICIANS OF THE 1960s $800: Pete Townshend admits that he "made a huge leap into the absurd" when he decided this title album guy "would play pinball" Tommy |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: Slid into being Russia's P.M. from 2012-2020:
D.M. Dmitry Medvedev |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $1000: 5th wife of Henry VIII & possibly Thomas Culpeper's sneaky link: C.H. Catherine Howard |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | MUSICIANS OF THE 1960s $1200: Dave Davies of this British band claims he cut the speaker cone of his amp with a razor blade to get a distorted sound on "You Really Got Me" The Kinks |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | MUSICIANS OF THE 1960s $1600: The horrific 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963 inspired this singer to write "Mississippi Goddam" Nina Simone |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | MUSICIANS OF THE 1960s $2000: In 1967, this folk singer released the song "Children Of Darkness", written by Richard Fariña, her late brother-in-law Joan Baez |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ____ OF ____ $400: So the story goes, Ponce de León was searching for this legendary spring when he landed in Florida in 1513 the Fountain of Youth |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ____ OF ____ $800: While native to South Africa, this flower is a common sight in Southern California bird-of-paradise |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ____ OF ____ $1200: This narrative writing style allows a character's thoughts & feelings to flow freely stream of consciousness |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ____ OF ____ $2000: Yom Kippur is also known by this name because it's set aside to repent & ask for forgiveness the Day of Atonement |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ____ OF ____ $4,000 (Daily Double): A member of the House of Lords, Arthur Charles Valerian Wellesley holds the title 9th this the Duke of Wellington |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $400: By Steinbeck: "Curley and Carlson looked after them. And Carlson said, 'Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?"' Of Mice and Men |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $800: A monster hit from 1818: "He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance" Frankenstein |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $1200: "'It isn't fair, it isn't right', Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her" is the scary end of this Shirley Jackson tale "The Lottery" |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $1600: A dystopian first-person tale: "But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen. And all that cal" A Clockwork Orange |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $2000: "I'll pray, and then I'll sleep" is the balm at the end of this Pulitzer-winning Marilynne Robinson novel Gilead |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TRICKS OF THE SHOW BIZ TRADE $400: For an acting scene where you find out your grandma, dog & dreams are all dead, menthol applied under the eye will help you do this cry |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TRICKS OF THE SHOW BIZ TRADE $800: Post-pandemic, these have moved from in person with casting directors to self-tapes; always shoot yourself horizontally auditions |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TRICKS OF THE SHOW BIZ TRADE $1200: To learn this basic circus skill, remember: if you start to lose your balance, lifting one leg can actually help tightrope walking |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TRICKS OF THE SHOW BIZ TRADE $1600: Film composers sync their scores using this measurement that's also big in EDM; 60 goes well with a slow scene, 140 is more pumped BPM (beats per minute) |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TRICKS OF THE SHOW BIZ TRADE $2000: The tracks this producer lays down with help from Team Timbo often start with him simply makings sounds with his mouth Timbaland |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | THE GAME OF LIFE $200: Life can be like putting together one of these, invented in the 1760s though the tool didn't exist for another century a jigsaw puzzle |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A LONG SESSION OF MONOPOLY $200: In the early 1890s President Cleveland wasn't "sweet" on one company controlling 98% of American refining of this sugar |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | THE GAME OF LIFE $400: Ancient playwright Terence compared life to playing with tesserae, Roman these; you have to work with the throw you get dice |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A LONG SESSION OF MONOPOLY $400: Both the English & Dutch companies with this name began around 1600 with their minds on monopoly & monopoly on their minds East India Company |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | THE GAME OF LIFE $600: The first Saturday in August is a national day for these, which get washed away despite our work, so go build another one! sandcastles |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A LONG SESSION OF MONOPOLY $600: Having gotten a 20-year monopoly for steamboat navigation in New York, Robert Livingston paired with him to, y'know, build a boat in 1802 Fulton |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | THE GAME OF LIFE $800: With its ups & downs, life has often been compared to one of these, such as Steel Vengeance or the Twisted Colossus a roller coaster |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A LONG SESSION OF MONOPOLY $800: In the 1400s the Germans led the league in having a near monopoly in the Baltic's long-distance trade; this league, specifically the Hanseatic League |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | THE GAME OF LIFE $1000: In a commencement address, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger noted "You can't climb" this with your hands in your pockets the ladder of success |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A LONG SESSION OF MONOPOLY $1000: Founded in 1851 stop this company dominated the telegraph biz in the early 1900s stop but the telephone changed things stop Western Union |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | I LIKE THE CUT OF YOUR JOB $200: Shotcut is free, open-source software for this sort of video professional an editor |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | BONDS OF COMMONALITY $200: Crankshaft,
camshaft &
cylinder head gasket (just to not totally give you the shaft) parts of a car engine |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | BONDS OF COMMONALITY $400: Slippery Rock,
Case Western Reserve,
Austin Peay universities |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | I LIKE THE CUT OF YOUR JOB $400: It comes before saw & shears in the name of a gardening tool that cuts off undesired twigs & branches pruning |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | I LIKE THE CUT OF YOUR JOB $600: This word for a type of cut used by chefs is from French for round a rondelle |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | BONDS OF COMMONALITY $600: Cleaning up cow manure for a king, collecting golden fruit, swiping a girdle... sounds like scenes in "Animal House", but no the labors of Hercules |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | I LIKE THE CUT OF YOUR JOB $800: Subcutaneous & purse-string are types of these used by your sawbones to stitch cuts they've made sutures |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | BONDS OF COMMONALITY $800: Anacondas,
gavials,
skinks reptiles |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | I LIKE THE CUT OF YOUR JOB $1000: Cutting fabric for hats is all part of the job for this worker whose name derives from an Italian city a milliner |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | BONDS OF COMMONALITY $1000: Well-marbled beef,
the 0 degree line of longitude,
the number 5 prime |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $400: Peter Matthiessen climbed mountains in Nepal to see the snow type of this creature, the title of his National Book Award winner a leopard |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $800: After accepting a drink of liquor in a Washington Irving tale, Rip Van Winkle falls asleep for 20 years in these mountains the Catskills |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $1200: In the novel "Lost Horizon", the Kunlun Range is thought to be home to this lamasery whose name has become a synonym for utopia Shangri-La |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $1600: "Der Zauberberg" in German, this Thomas Mann novel tells the story of a man who stays in a TB clinic for 7 years Magic Mountain |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $2000: A Miskatonic Univ. team uncovers horrific artifacts in Antarctica in this author's "At the Mountains of Madness" Lovecraft |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | FEAST DAYS OF CHRISTIANITY $400: October 2 honors these heavenly beings said by St. Jerome to protect us from harm guardian angels |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | MOMENTS OF INSPIRATION $400: Traveling to Italy on business, Henri Dunant found himself helping the wounded at an 1859 battle & came up with this international aid organization the Red Cross |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | FEAST DAYS OF CHRISTIANITY $800: January 6 is this feast day with a name from Greek that also means a sudden intuitive insight Epiphany |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | MOMENTS OF INSPIRATION $800: Late one night in her lab in 1981, Patricia Bath had the aha! that led to a method of eye surgery using not scalpels but these lasers |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | FEAST DAYS OF CHRISTIANITY $1200: The nativity of this son of Zechariah & precursor of Jesus gets its own day, June 24 John the Baptist |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | MOMENTS OF INSPIRATION $1200: Marvin Gaye realized, "I'd been singing too loud"; hence the groove of his 1971 hit that said, "Talk to me, so you can see" this "What's Going On" |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | FEAST DAYS OF CHRISTIANITY $1600: Depicted here by Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, & told of in Acts 9, "The Conversion of" this man has its own feast day on January 25 Saul (Saint Paul) |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | MOMENTS OF INSPIRATION $1600: Walking through a Budapest park, he had the idea that became the basis for alternating current & began drawing in the dirt with a stick Nikola Tesla |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | FEAST DAYS OF CHRISTIANITY $2,000 (Daily Double): Corpus Christi & Whitsunday are examples of this type of feast that can fall on different dates in different years a movable feast |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | MOMENTS OF INSPIRATION $2000: Kary Mullis had to pull off the road when he got his Nobel-winning idea to copy DNA via PCR or polymerase this process a chain reaction |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | SQUEAKER OF THE HOUSE $200: An official WD-40 website says a squeaking one of these makes you feel like you're in a creepy horror movie door |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | SQUEAKER OF THE HOUSE $400: The standing chicken & smiley face round ball are squeaky these made by Chiwava--okay, I'll throw it just one more time dog toys |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | SQUEAKER OF THE HOUSE $600: Snap & glue are 2 main types of this device used to rid your house of little squeakers mousetraps |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | SQUEAKER OF THE HOUSE $800: If these lose their characteristic squeak when bitten, try microwaving them for a few seconds cheese curds |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | SQUEAKER OF THE HOUSE $1000: One chirp from this device means the battery is low, not to be confused with the continuous noise that means CO is present so get out a carbon monoxide detector |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | LETTERS OF THE LAW $200: F:
A serious crime, like murder or kidnapping felony |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | LETTERS OF THE LAW $400: T: This defense, first used in the case of Dan White, relating to his sugar consumption & mental state Twinkie |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | LETTERS OF THE LAW $600: L:
The unlawful taking of personal property with the intent of keeping it larceny |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | LETTERS OF THE LAW $800: R:
The self-removal of a judge or prosecutor from a case due to a conflict of interest recusal |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | LETTERS OF THE LAW $1000: C:
A supplementary document that modifies or amends a will a codicil |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $200: Making the best of a bad past situation, this ex-heavyweight champ from Brooklyn put out edibles in the shape of ears in 2022 Mike Tyson |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $400: Goalie Patrick Roy said he couldn't hear what Jeremy Roenick said, due to "my 2" rings for winning this trophy plugging my ears the Stanley Cup |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $600: In 1900 the U.S. beat the Brits in the first match for this international team tennis "Cup" the Davis Cup |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $800: In 2022 Chloe Kim was golden--again--defending her women's halfpipe Olympic title in this sport snowboarding |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | WHAT IN THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS...? $1000: Deferred payments in a 2000 MLB contract had this 53-year-old "Jr." making $3.6 million as the Reds' 4th-highest paid player in 2023 Ken Griffey Jr. |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT $400: In summer 1947 a strike by these workers in Yorkshire was costing Britain thousands of tons of daily production coal miners |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | IF FOOD BE THE LOVE OF MUSIC $400: Rihanna sang of this title treat, "can't wait to blow my candles out" birthday cake |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | IF FOOD BE THE LOVE OF MUSIC $800: Formed in Seattle, not Atlanta, The Presidents of the United States of America nevertheless desired "Millions Of" these Peaches |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT $1200: On the gallows for witchery in August 1692, George Burroughs recited this, thought to be impossible for one such accused the Lord's Prayer |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | IF FOOD BE THE LOVE OF MUSIC $1200: On "Check Mr. Popeye", seminal Jersey rocker Southside Johnny asks, is this "running low" spinach |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT $1600: After some summer troubles in 1917, Lenin fled to Finland & this Bolshevik leader was in jail in August Trotsky |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | IF FOOD BE THE LOVE OF MUSIC $1600: Warrant had a Top 10 hit with this song about a dessert (really), "put a smile on your face, ten miles wide" "Cherry Pie" |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT $2000: The largest of the Solomon Islands, it was the scene of an August 1942 U.S. offensive against Japan during World War II Guadalcanal |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | IF FOOD BE THE LOVE OF MUSIC $2000: Kendrick Lamar quoted a folk saying when he sang, "The blacker the berry", then this result the sweeter the juice |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT $3,200 (Daily Double): In August 1957 Strom Thurmond filibustered for over 24 hours railing against this, signed into law the next month the Civil Rights Act |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | A MATTER OF LAW $200: From Latin for "to let in", it describes evidence that may be considered by a judge or jury admissible |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | A MATTER OF LAW $400: It's the kinetic term for a litigant's request to a judge for a decision on an issue a motion |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | A MATTER OF LAW $600: Chapter 12 of this federal code covers its application to family farmers & family fishermen the Bankruptcy Code |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | A MATTER OF LAW $800: A lawsuit that's dismissed "without" this can be refiled; "with" this means it can't prejudice |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | A MATTER OF LAW $1000: A 1968 ruling said this amendment's unreasonable search & seizure clause doesn't prohibit frisking of suspected criminals the Fourth Amendment |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF... $200: Will Ferrell films: "Old School", "Anchorman", "Step Brothers" & this comedy set in the Big Apple & the North Pole Elf |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | 3-WORD SUMMARIES OF 3-WORD FILMS $300: 1994:
Simba defeats Scar The Lion King |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF... $400: U.S. gymnasts: Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Kerri Strug & this gold medalist who became America's Sweetheart in 1984 Mary Lou Retton |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | 3-WORD SUMMARIES OF 3-WORD FILMS $600: 1997:
Wicked smart janitor Good Will Hunting |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF... $600: Celebrity chefs: Wolfgang Puck, Julia Child, Anthony Bourdain & this N'awlins legend known for his catchphrase "Bam!" Emeril Lagasse |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF... $800: Masterpieces: "Mona Lisa", "The Last Supper", "the starry night" & this Botticelli work of a goddess standing in a scallop shell (The) Birth of Venus |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF... $1000: Rock drummers: Neil Peart, Ginger Baker, Keith Moon & this legendary Led Zeppelin beat keeper John Bonham |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | 3-WORD SUMMARIES OF 3-WORD FILMS $1200: 1985:
Emilio in detention The Breakfast Club |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | 3-WORD SUMMARIES OF 3-WORD FILMS $1500: 2001:
John Nash hallucinates A Beautiful Mind |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | 3-WORD SUMMARIES OF 3-WORD FILMS $3,000 (Daily Double): 1998:
Two Lindsay Lohans The Parent Trap |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD $400: During the first millennium A.D. Brahma lost importance in the Trimurti of this religion & doesn't have tons of temples Hinduism |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD $800: With a name meaning "right opinion", this Christian faith is practiced mainly in the Balkans, the Middle East & former Soviet countries Orthodox |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD $1600: The original manuscripts of this religion's "Avesta" were said to have been destroyed when Alexander the Great conquered Persia Zoroastrianism |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD $2000: The Jewish holiday of Sukkot includes gathering four plants, three types of branch & this lemon relative the citron (etrog) |
| #9016, aired 2024-01-15 | RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD $5,000 (Daily Double): The Hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, is one of this "architectural" quintet of religious obligations the Five Pillars of Islam |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | THE COLORS OF MUSIC $200: Van Morrison:
"____ Eyed Girl" Brown |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE $200: This legendary animator was grand marshal in 1966; he died later that year Disney |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $400: Although it sounds like it has to do with a Southern peanut, it really pertains to the job held by Newsom & DeSantis gubernatorial |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | THE COLORS OF MUSIC $400: John Mellencamp:
"____ Houses" Pink |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE $400: This beloved voice of the Dodgers did the honors in 2014 (Vin) Scully |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | THE COLORS OF MUSIC $600: Chris de Burgh:
"The Lady In ____" Red |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $800: Though it sounds like a laughing beer, it's really a hubbub, maybe in a pub, bub brouhaha |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | THE COLORS OF MUSIC $800: R.E.M.:
"____ Crush" Orange |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE $800: She was grand marshal as a child star in 1939 & also got the call in 1989 & '99 Shirley Temple |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | THE COLORS OF MUSIC $1000: Sting:
"Fields Of ____" Gold |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE $1000: In 1955, shortly after becoming chief justice of the U.S., he served as grand marshal Earl Warren |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $1200: Meaning to throw out of a window, this term gained fame after a 1618 incident in Prague where 2 officials were so thrown defenestration |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $1600: Meaning a silly or flighty person, this word with 2 sets of double "B"s was mentioned in "King Lear" as a demon's name flibbertigibbet |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | GRAND MARSHALS OF THE ROSE PARADE $3,000 (Daily Double): He got the nod in 1953 as a senator from California; he rode again in 1960 Richard Nixon |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $5,400 (Daily Double): Sigmund knows that this is from the German for "damage" & "joy" & I'm getting a certain amount of it right now schadenfreude |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $200: Jacket,
spine,
leaves a book |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | EPISODES OF THE SITCOM $400: "Pawnee Rangers" & "Swing Vote" Parks and Rec |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $400: Under the Moors this European capital was called Olissibona Lisbon |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $400: Bridge,
temple tip,
lens eyeglasses |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $600: Safety glass,
blue line,
face-off circle a hockey arena or ice rink |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | EPISODES OF THE SITCOM $800: "The Hofstadter Isotope" &
"The Wedding Gift Wormhole" The Big Bang Theory |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $800: 4th century A.D. Roman emperor Jovian was born in Singidunum, now this Serbian capital Belgrade |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $800: Belts,
sidewall,
tread a tire |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $1000: Lhotse Face,
the Death Zone,
Khumbu Icefall Mount Everest |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $1200: This former name of Kinshasa reflects its nation's history as a colony of the Belgian monarchy Leopoldville |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | EPISODES OF THE SITCOM $1600: "Will Gets a Job" &
"The Philadelphia Story" The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $1600: Dushanbe, capital of this landlocked "stan", was called Stalinabad until 1961 Tajikistan |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | EPISODES OF THE SITCOM $2000: "Blanche and the Younger Man" & "Dateline: Miami" The Golden Girls |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | FORMER NAMES OF CAPITAL CITIES $2000: Called Ciudad Trujillo from 1936 to 1961 in honor of its dictator, this city returned to its old name after his assassination Santo Domingo |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | EPISODES OF THE SITCOM $5,000 (Daily Double): "The Two Mrs. Sheffields" &
"Where's Fran?" The Nanny |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $400: From a Kikuyu word for "white mountain", it's an east African country & the first name of TV's Barris, creator of "black-ish" Kenya |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $800: Many boys in Latin America have names of the big archangels: Gabriel, Rafael & this Spanish name Miguel |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $1200: The Ukrainian-American dancer & TV star seen here has this first name that means "greatest" Maksim |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $1600: Malik is Arabic for this high title, but don't call yourself Malik al-Amlak, or this of these--vainglory makes Allah angry king |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | WORLD OF FIRST NAMES $2000: This French version of a girls' name important in the New Testament is also given to boys, like the Marquis de Lafayette Marie |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | 3 OF THE SAME LETTER $200: To thumb a ride hitchhike |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $400: In 2023 friends including Kelsea Ballerini helped her complete the Judds farewell tour Wynonna Judd |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | 3 OF THE SAME LETTER $400: Creepy, like an unsettling coincidence eerie |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | 3 OF THE SAME LETTER $600: Less common, or less well-done rarer |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $800: In 2020 Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer & Martie Maguire dropped the first part of their trio's name & now go simply as this The Chicks |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | 3 OF THE SAME LETTER $800: Derived from an initialism, it means to act as host for an entertainment emcee |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | 3 OF THE SAME LETTER $1000: A 7-letter cure for everything panacea |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $1200: Selling more than 10 million copies each, her "Up!", "The Woman In Me" & "Come on Over" albums have all been certified diamond Shania Twain |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $1600: In 2023 this queen of country took to the chair as a new coach on "The Voice" Reba McEntire |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WOMEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC $2000: 13 in 1972 when she had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", she continues to put out music, including her recent album, "Sweet Western Sound" Tanya Tucker |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | OPPOSITES OF NOVEL TITLES $300: Ernest Hemingway's "The Moon Also Sets" The Sun Also Rises |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | OPPOSITES OF NOVEL TITLES $600: Hunter S. Thompson's "Courage and Fondness in Las Vegas" Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | OPPOSITES OF NOVEL TITLES $900: Salman Rushdie's "Noon's Adults" Midnight's Children |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | OPPOSITES OF NOVEL TITLES $1200: Kurt Vonnegut's "Dinner of Losers" Breakfast of Champions |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | OPPOSITES OF NOVEL TITLES $1500: Jane Austen's "Shame and Impartiality" Pride and Prejudice |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $400: These "States" ruled by His Holiness were created in 756 & lasted about 1,100 years Papal States |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $1200: Known as an "enlightened despot", Joseph II ruled as a member of this dynastic family aka the House of Austria the Habsburgs |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $1600: In the 10th century this kingdom "roared" as it allied with Castile to become a daunting force on the Iberian Peninsula León |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $2000: To link the Yangtze & Yellow Rivers, this was rebuilt during the Sui Dynasty Grand Canal |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | THE ANNALS OF HISTORY $13,200 (Daily Double): Around 1,000 years ago, this island's parliament, the Althing, said everyone is getting baptized Iceland |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | OF THRONES $200: Howard Carter wrote, "The throne" of this king "was the most beautiful thing that has yet been found in Egypt" Tutankhamun |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA $400: The most populous city in India, this capital of Maharashtra state is also home to the country's leading stock exchange Mumbai |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | OF THRONES $400: It's said the statue of this deity at Olympia sat upon a royal throne while holding a scepter & the goddess of victory in his hands Zeus |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | OF THRONES $600: The Byzantine throne named for this wise biblical king had lion & singing bird automata & may have even levitated Solomon |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA $800: Formerly Calcutta, Kolkata is capital of "West" this state; the "East" part became its own country in 1971 Bengal |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | OF THRONES $800: A marble throne in the Palatine Chapel of Aachen bears the name of this king of the Franks who died in 814 Charlemagne |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | OF THRONES $1000: A fancy-looking bird is in the name of this golden throne that was built for the emperor Shah Jahan in the 17th century a Peacock (Throne) |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA $1200: You've probably talked to a call center in Karnataka's capital, this city known as the "Silicon Valley of India" Bangalore |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA $1600: This capital of Madhya Pradesh state is known as the City of Lakes, but sadly also as the site of a Union Carbide disaster Bhopal |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | STATE CAPITALS OF INDIA $2000: Panaji is the capital of this 3-letter state, one of India's smallest & a possession of Portugal for more than 4 centuries Goa |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $400: This empire of the Andes had some 25,000 miles of roads & a relay system that was like the Pony Express but on foot the Inca |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $800: Canada's biggest city, Toronto once had this name, in honor of the same noble title as the USA's biggest city York |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $1200: In 1590 one of the only traces of the "Lost Colony" on this island off North Carolina was the word "Croatoan" carved on wood Roanoke |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $2000: El Pípila is the nickname of a Mexican folk hero who was said to have aided this revolutionary priest in 1810 Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS $3,600 (Daily Double): In 1899 an intl. ruling gave the oil-rich Essequibo region to Britain; now it's part of this country & some Venezuelans covet it Guyana |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | FEATURES OF THE PLANET $200: Gale Crater, found to have evidence of past water Mars |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | FEATURES OF THE PLANET $600: Aphrodite Terra, a highland area the size of a continent along the equator Venus |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | FEATURES OF THE PLANET $800: Loxahatchee River Battlefield Park... hold on, that's in Florida; the planet? A slightly oval 10,000-mile-wide reddish storm system Jupiter |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | FEATURES OF THE PLANET $1000: Its unique tilt ensures 21-year winters for each pole; we'll throw in that Cupid is an inner moon Uranus |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | FEATURES OF THE PLANET $5,200 (Daily Double): The remains of the MESSENGER probe, as of April 30, 2015 Mercury |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Opened to Londoners in 2000, the Millennium Pedestrian Bridge is one of the newer ones to cross over this river the Thames |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Hindus consider it the most sacred river in India the Ganges |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: Manama & Bushehr are on this body that was at the center of fighting in 1991 & again in the 2000s the Persian Gulf |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: More than 300 rivers & streams flow into this deep Russian lake, but only one flows out--the Angara Lake Baikal |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Passamaquoddy Bay between Maine & New Brunswick, Canada is an inlet of this bay famous for its high tides the Bay of Fundy |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | AN "L" OF A TEAM $400: They "bolt"ed into the NHL in 1992 the (Tampa Bay) Lightning |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | AN "L" OF A TEAM $800: They were still based in the Midwest when they won the first NBA title in 1950 the Lakers |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | AN "L" OF A TEAM $1200: They chop down opponents for Cal Poly Humboldt, & they're okay the Lumberjacks |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | AN "L" OF A TEAM $1600: It's the gender-specific name of the University of Tennessee's women's basketball team the Lady Volunteers |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | AN "L" OF A TEAM $2000: They howl for the University of New Mexico, entiende? the Lobos |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | STATE OF THE COLLEGE $200: Weber State is near a "Great" lake in this state Utah |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $200: Trace Jesus' steps in this city as he walked down the Via Dolorosa toward Golgotha Jerusalem |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $400: A tour of his infamous trail of murder starts at the Aldgate East tube station Jack the Ripper |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $400: Bread, as the mainstay of the human diet, is known as this the staff of life |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | STATE OF THE COLLEGE $400: It's the state of Wayne State University, attended by Jack White, Lily Tomlin & Steven Dorfman Michigan |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | STATE OF THE COLLEGE $600: Muncie in this state is home to Ball State University Indiana |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $800: A source of rescue in a crisis; phone a friend is one example a lifeline |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | STATE OF THE COLLEGE $800: Tufts is a centerpiece of Medford in this state Massachusetts |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $800: Hike in the footsteps of settlers & Native Americans on the Natchez Trace, starting in Natchez in this state Mississippi |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $1000: Retracing this 1930s journey will take you thousands of miles from Ruijin to Yan'an the Long March |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | STATE OF THE COLLEGE $1000: The Campbell Fighting Camels are from near the Cape Fear River in this state North Carolina |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $1200: Alliterative term used to publicize a circus performer who puts himself at great risk death-defying |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $1600: Though they sound like they sit on the beach, they're the senior British army regiment & first saw action in the 1600s the Life Guards |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $1,800 (Daily Double): Starting at the Boston Common & ending at the Bunker Hill Monument is this 2-word path the Freedom Trail |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A MATTER OF "LIFE" OR "DEATH" $2000: One of the Arabian Nights begins with a proud king who's not so proud when this heavenly being appears to him the Angel of Death |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | WORDS OF PEACE $400: This peaceful word is also a lack of wind, making sailors feel unpeaceful calm |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | WORDS OF PEACE $800: Be this peaceful word, also the name of a famous lake in Essex County, New York placid |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | WORDS OF PEACE $1200: Although they meant it in another sense, Three Dog Night sang of "an old fashioned love song comin' down in three-part" this harmony |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | WORDS OF PEACE $1600: The spaceship on "Firefly", or a state of peace Serenity |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | WORDS OF PEACE $3,000 (Daily Double): When the Eagle landed in 1969, this 11-letter word of peace was mentioned tranquility |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | THE MUSIC OF CANADA $200: You oughta know Flea & Dave Navarro played on this Ottawa singer's "You Oughta Know" Alanis Morissette |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | THE MUSIC OF CANADA $400: We'll give you more than 5 cents if you know this Alberta band hit No. 1 in 2001 with "How You Remind Me" Nickelback |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | THE MUSIC OF CANADA $600: It was all about "Love" as this crooner from British Columbia was on top of the jazz albums chart in 2019 Michael Bublé |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | THE MUSIC OF CANADA $800: This Ontario rocker ruled the '80s with hits like "Cuts Like A Knife" Bryan Adams |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | THE MUSIC OF CANADA $1000: This "Fly By Night" power trio formed in Toronto in 1968; Neil Peart joined in '74 (cue the drum solo) Rush |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | OUT OF CON TEXT $200: A memoir:
"On Feb. 4, 2004... Larry drove me to the women's prison in Danbury, Connecticut" Orange Is the New Black |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $200: These small glass or plastic dishes used to culture microorganisms are named for a German bacteriologist Petri |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | OUT OF CON TEXT $400: By Stephen King: "The inmates made jokes about the chair... they called it Old Sparky, or the Big Juicy" The Green Mile |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $400: 373.15 is the boiling point of water on the scale named for this Scottish scientist (Lord) Kelvin |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $600: Galileo used a supernova in 1604 to disprove this ancient Greek's theory that the universe never changes Ptolemy (Aristotle) |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | OUT OF CON TEXT $800: "Dantes crossed the awful threshold and the door closed noisily behind him... he was in prison" The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $800: Christiaan Huygens was an early telescope developer & found the moon Titan when he looked at this planet Saturn |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | OUT OF CON TEXT $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1849 work says, "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is... prison" Civil Disobedience |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | OUT OF CON TEXT $1000: "At last news arrived... that Raskolnikov shunned everybody and that in prison he was unpopular with the convicts" Crime and Punishment |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $1000: Introduced in 1855, his process using blasts of air to remove impurities made the mass production of steel possible Bessemer |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | HAIRSTYLES OF THE RICH & FAMOUS $100: This actress once said "The Rachel" was "not my best look" & "the ugliest haircut I've ever seen" Jennifer Aniston |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | HAIRSTYLES OF THE RICH & FAMOUS $200: After this Canadian pop star cut his signature swoop in 2011, locks of his hair sold on eBay for more than $40,000 Justin Bieber |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | A CHANGE OF "PACE" $300: The Daytona 500 is also known as "The Great American" this Race |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | HAIRSTYLES OF THE RICH & FAMOUS $300: "Cinnamon Buns" was Carrie Fisher's nickname for this character's iconic hairstyle Princess Leia |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | HAIRSTYLES OF THE RICH & FAMOUS $400: Seen here, this former British prime minister once claimed that unruly hair is "impossible to imitate" Boris Johnson |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | HAIRSTYLES OF THE RICH & FAMOUS $500: This Olympic gold medalist's name became synonymous with the wedge haircut she sported in Innsbruck Dorothy Hamill |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | A CHANGE OF "PACE" $600: The "Rat" one featured Frank, Dean & Sammy; the "Brat" one featured Emilio, Demi & Molly Pack |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | A CHANGE OF "PACE" $900: In a hit song, the Weeknd sang, "I can't feel my" this "when I'm with you, but I love it" face |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | A CHANGE OF "PACE" $1200: Often used in wedding gowns, chantilly is a popular type of this fabric lace |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | A CHANGE OF "PACE" $1500: This word can refer to a single sheet of postage stamps or a single sheet of glass pane |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | ONE OF THESE KINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS $400: Henry VII,
Louis XIV,
Richard III Louis XIV |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | ONE OF THESE KINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS $800: Frederick the Great,
Ivan the Terrible,
Peter the Great Frederick the Great |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | ONE OF THESE KINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS $1200: Edward I,
Oskar I,
Gustav I Edward |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | ONE OF THESE KINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS $1600: Frederick III,
Nicholas II,
Wilhelm II Nicholas II |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | ONE OF THESE KINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS $2000: Carloman II,
Ferdinand VII,
Juan Carlos I Carloman |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA? $200: Like Ptolemy, about whom he wrote, Theon placed this body in the center of the cosmos the Earth |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA? $400: Theon's home of Smyrna is now called Izmir & is one of the chief seaports of this country of Asia Minor Turkey |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA? $600: Theon's greatest work, available online, has mathematics useful for understanding this founder of the Academy Plato |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA? $800: Writing on these, Theon covers, among others, the circular, oblong, prime & even ones numbers |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | WHO IS THEON OF SMYRNA? $1000: Theon seems to have lived at the same time that this Roman emperor was building his famous wall Hadrian |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | LUCK OF THE DRAW $200: From the Latin for "instill with life", it's the creation of a motion picture from a series of still images animation |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | LUCK OF THE DRAW $400: A prehistoric drawing on stone can be called a petroglyph or this, like art sometimes seen as an urban nuisance graffiti |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | LUCK OF THE DRAW $600: To draw in this liberated style means without support or the guidance of instruments freehand |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | LUCK OF THE DRAW $800: From the name of an 18th century man, it's a profile portrait drawn in black a silhouette |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | LUCK OF THE DRAW $1000: From the Italian for "exaggerate", it's a drawing of a person in which certain aspects are magnified for comic effect a caricature |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | RULES OF THE GAME $100: If you touch the metal edge of the cavity, you'll set off the buzzer & make Sam's nose light up! Operation |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | RULES OF THE GAME $200: On one foot, jump through the squares, skipping the square with the marker in it hopscotch |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHISTLING HALL OF FAME $300: In a 1988 a cappella chart-topper, Bobby McFerrin serves up whistling & this titular advice "Don't Worry, Be Happy" |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | RULES OF THE GAME $300: Blocks may be tapped or knocked in order to find a loose one that is safe to move Jenga |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | RULES OF THE GAME $400: Any bag which comes to rest anywhere on top of the board is worth 1 point cornhole |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | RULES OF THE GAME $500: Be the first player to go from "onesies" to "tensies" & you win the game jacks |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHISTLING HALL OF FAME $600: This 2011 Maroon 5 hit kicks off with an infectious whistling hook--something Mick could really dance to "Moves Like Jagger" |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHISTLING HALL OF FAME $1200: Death by crucifixion has never been faced more cheerfully than in this comic troupe's sing-along, "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" Monty Python |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHISTLING HALL OF FAME $1500: "The Fishin' Hole" was written especially for this beloved sitcom, long before Ron Howard met the Fonz The Andy Griffith Show |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHISTLING HALL OF FAME $2,000 (Daily Double): Along with "wastin' time", add whistling to the list of things Otis Redding was doing in a 1968 hit about "Sittin"' here "On The Dock Of The Bay" |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY $200: The agency FAMS puts these people on planes; they rank among those with the highest handgun accuracy air marshals |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY $400: In 2003 this federal agency that protects national VIPs was absorbed into the department the Secret Service |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY $600: You may be able to keep your shoes on in airport security with this agency's precheck program the TSA |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY $800: You'll find this branch of the military under the DHS umbrella the Coast Guard |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY $1000: The Customs & Border Protection website has updated wait times at crossings, like this U.S. city's Windsor Tunnel Detroit |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | ____ OF ____ $400: In football, it's the boundary between the teams prior to the snap of the ball the line of scrimmage |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | ____ OF ____ $800: Had Julius Caesar heeded the warning about this day, he might have survived it the Ides of March |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | ____ OF ____ $1600: Made from gypsum, this white powder mixed with water is used in sculpture to make molds & casts plaster of Paris |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | ____ OF ____ $2000: As seen on the map, this island lies between England & Ireland, & about 20 miles south of Scotland the Isle of Man |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | ____ OF ____ $9,000 (Daily Double): Similes, metaphors
& personification, for example figures of speech |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $200: In 1793 Jean-Paul Marat was retired in the bath with one of these a knife |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $400: In 1914 Franz Ferdinand didn't say "take me out" but was anyway, via this a gun |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $600: In 1880 outlaw Ned Kelly was doing this around Melbourne hanging |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $800: In 1946, in order to avoid execution, Hermann Goering picked his this poison (cyanide) |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | THE INSTRUMENT OF DEATH $1000: In 1861 Victoria's consort Prince Albert: this fever typhoid |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $200: This Conan Doyle hero called gemstones "the devil's pet baits" Sherlock Holmes |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $400: Baudelaire:
"The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not" this exist |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $800: The Book of Common Prayer: "From all the deceits of the world," this "and the devil, good Lord, deliver us" the flesh |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $1000: John Donne:
"In best understandings, sin began, / angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then" him man |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $2,600 (Daily Double): This 17th c. work says, "Abashed the devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is... saw, and pined his loss" Paradise Lost |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | A MATTER OF TASTE $400: The item seen here or the taste it might have if made with lemons a tart |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | A MATTER OF TASTE $800: Cacao beans, the source of chocolate, aren't sweet; they contain this bitter popular stimulant caffeine |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | A MATTER OF TASTE $1200: 1 of the 3 zesty ingredients of the original Tabasco brand sauce (1 of) red pepper, salt or vinegar |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | A MATTER OF TASTE $1600: Don't bring the "May" type of this to your teacher; Webster's says it tastes "insipid" apple |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | A MATTER OF TASTE $3,400 (Daily Double): Wine-tasting term for the final impression left on the palate--it's supposed to be "long" the aftertaste (the finish) |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LIFE OF PI $400: Dating to circa 1650 B.C., the Rhind Papyrus, a scroll from this civilization, put the value of pi at about 3.16 the Egyptians |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LIFE OF PI $1200: Eureka! Around 250 B.C., this sage of Syracuse estimated pi at around 22/7 Archimedes |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LIFE OF PI $1600: In the 100s A.D. this Alexandrian astronomer calculated a more precise value of pi, the equivalent of about 3.14167 Ptolemy |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LIFE OF PI $2000: Johann Lambert wasn't delusional in 1761 when he showed that pi is one of these numbers irrational |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | LIFE OF PI $5,000 (Daily Double): I Kings 7:23 implies that pi equals 3, describing a round object 10 of these ancient units wide & 30 in circumference a cubit |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $400: The handgun act named for this man was signed into law in 1993 (James) Brady |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $800: 1998's Copyright Term Extension Act was named for this late congressman who penned a 1965 No. 1 pop hit Sonny Bono |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $1200: A tariff act named for Smoot & this congressman raised import duties to protect U.S. businesses Hawley |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $1600: The Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 was named for James Byrd Jr. & this Casper, Wyoming man Matthew Shepard |
| #8974, aired 2023-11-16 | THE NAME OF THE LAW $2000: Named for an Illinois representative, 1910's White Slave Traffic Act is better known as this "Act" the Mann Act |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | GOBS OF GODS $200: Egyptian myth resembles "Rumpelstiltskin" when Isis learns the secret name of this sun god to equal his power Ra |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | GOBS OF GODS $400: Traditionally, the Roman god Janus is depicted with this many noses 2 |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | GOBS OF GODS $600: A son of Uranus, this Greek god was the personification of the water that surrounded the world Oceanus |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | GOBS OF GODS $800: A crater on the big island of Hawaii is said to be the home of this goddess, she, who devours the land Pele |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | GOBS OF GODS $1000: This chief defender of Asgard had a big cult following in Uppsala Thor |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | FOR THE LOVE OF PETE $100: His first kiss with future ex Kim Kardashian was in a 2021 "SNL" sketch--& he was dressed as Aladdin Pete Davidson |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SIX DEGREES OF ACTUAL BACON $200: Mozzarella is in caprese salad with tomato, & tomato is with bacon in this 3-initial sandwich a BLT |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | FOR THE LOVE OF PETE $200: This Cincinnati baseball great once said he'd "walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play"; now he's banned for life Pete Rose |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | FOR THE LOVE OF PETE $300: Depending on whom you ask, he is either a guitarist for The Who, or the writer of the "CSI" theme songs, or both Pete Townshend |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SIX DEGREES OF ACTUAL BACON $400: Mayo is in egg salad with hard-boiled eggs, which are with bacon atop this salad, first served at LA's Brown Derby Cobb salad |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | FOR THE LOVE OF PETE $400: Back in South Bend, this former presidential hopeful went by "Mayor Pete"; now he goes by "Secretary of Transportation" Pete Buttigieg |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | FOR THE LOVE OF PETE $500: He's the wholesome comic known for his HBO series "Crashing" & the podcast "You Made It Weird" Pete Holmes |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SIX DEGREES OF ACTUAL BACON $600: Milk is in custard with eggs, & eggs are with bacon in this quiche, named for a region of France (Quiche) Lorraine |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SIX DEGREES OF ACTUAL BACON $800: Tomato sauce is in Sloppy Joes with beef, & beef is with bacon in this beloved Wendy's burger, introduced in 2007 the Baconator |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | SIX DEGREES OF ACTUAL BACON $1000: Sugar is in jam with fruit, & fruit is with pancakes & bacon in this classic IHOP dish with a kooky name Rooty Tooty Fresh 'N Fruity |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $200: The name of this art form means folding paper, which is how the crane seen here was made origami |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | OF "STAR"s $400: The movable barrier where a horse race begins a starting gate |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $400: Useful in electronics crafts, this process similar to welding joins circuit components using a low melting point alloy soldering |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $600: A simple method of printing and duplicating uses these cutouts; paint is sprayed through the removed areas a stencil |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | OF "STAR"s $800: Luminous celestial object in Matthew that led the magi to the baby Jesus the Star of Bethlehem |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $800: From the French for "to cut out", it's the craft of decorating a surface with paper shapes découpage |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | A WORLD OF CRAFTS, NO WAR $1000: This craft of stitching fabric with a hook instead of a needle developed in the 19th century crochet |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | OF "STAR"s $1200: Any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea a starfish |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | OF "STAR"s $1600: In 1985 this Jefferson-less Grace Slick group had a No. 1 hit with "We Built This City" Starship |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | OF "STAR"s $2000: It's estimated that during WWII, the European edition of this U.S. military newspaper topped a million in circulation Stars and Stripes |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $200: In 1925 this American anthropologist first visited Samoa; she wrote a book about it three years later Margaret Mead |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $400: In the 1870s this French chemist demonstrated that anthrax was caused by a particular bacillus Louis Pasteur |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $600: In 1667 the U.K.'s Margaret Cavendish was the first woman to attend a meeting at this science society the Royal Society |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $800: In the 1930s this California transplant posthumously received plant patents No. 12-16 Luther Burbank |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $1000: The "Hans"-on work of this biochemist born in 1900 unraveled the mystery of the citric acid cycle Hans Krebs |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | SOURCE OF THE LATE NIGHT BIT $200: "Jaywalking" Jay Leno |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN $200: The Capricorn Highway lies on the Tropic of Capricorn in the state of Queensland in this country Australia |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TOPIC OF CAPRICORNS $400: Aptly, this author of "Tropic of Capricorn" was, in fact, a Capricorn Henry Miller |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | SOURCE OF THE LATE NIGHT BIT $400: "Freestylin' with The Roots" Jimmy Fallon |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN $400: This South American behemoth is the only country crossed by both the Tropic of Capricorn & the equator Brazil |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | SOURCE OF THE LATE NIGHT BIT $600: "Celebrities Read Mean Tweets" Jimmy Kimmel |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN $600: The largest island through which the Tropic of Capricorn passes is this one off Africa's eastern coast Madagascar |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TOPIC OF CAPRICORNS $800: Capricorn is a goat who scales mountains, like this Capricorn who said in 1968, "I've been to the mountaintop" MLK (Martin Luther King) |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | SOURCE OF THE LATE NIGHT BIT $800: "Will It Float?" David Letterman |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN $800: The Tropic of Capricorn separates two climatic zones--the tropical one & this zone that extends south to the Antarctic Circle a temperate zone (the southern temperate zone) |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | SOURCE OF THE LATE NIGHT BIT $1000: "This Week in Numbers" Seth Meyers |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN $1000: In 2000 a monument marking the Tropic of Capricorn was built in this Chilean desert Atacama |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TOPIC OF CAPRICORNS $1200: In emergencies, Capricorns are resourceful, like this woman who nursed the wounded in the 1st Battle of Bull Run Clara Barton |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TOPIC OF CAPRICORNS $1600: Capricorns like privacy, but this ultra-rich man born Dec. 24, 1905 took that love of privacy to an unhealthy extreme Howard Hughes |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TOPIC OF CAPRICORNS $2000: John C. Fremont was glad to have this sure-footed Capricorn guiding him along the Oregon Trail in 1842 Kit Carson |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $400: The third one of these existed in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945 the Third Reich |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $800: In 1789 the third of these representative groups covered about 26 million of France's 28 million people the (Third) Estate |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $1600: The last time a U.S. third party finished ahead of a major party in a pres. election was in this year of Teddy's bully bid 1912 |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $2000: The Third International was better known as this, an organ of Soviet control over other lands' Communist parties the Communist International (the Comintern) |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND $4,600 (Daily Double): Waged from 149 to 146 B.C., the Third Punic War resulted in the final destruction of this city & its people's enslavement Carthage |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | THE "LONG" & "SHORT" OF IT $200: At 29 feet, 4 1/2 inches, Mike Powell holds the world record for this the long jump |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | THE "LONG" & "SHORT" OF IT $400: "The Lottery" or "The Gold-Bug" short stories (short fiction) |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | THE "LONG" & "SHORT" OF IT $600: Traditionally, the main ingredients in these Scottish cookies are flour, sugar & an ample amount of butter shortbread |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | THE "LONG" & "SHORT" OF IT $800: Tinker, of "Tinker to Evers to Chance", was one of these a shortstop |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | THE "LONG" & "SHORT" OF IT $1000: This California port city is home to an aquarium & the Queen Mary Long Beach |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | OF REPRESENTATIVES $400: Formed in 1995, it's a "canine" coalition of fiscally conservative Democrats in the House Blue Dogs |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | JACQUES OF ALL TRADES $400: In 1973 he founded a nonprofit society dedicated to marine conservation Cousteau |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | HALL OF FAMER BY POSITION $400: Joe Namath,
Joe Montana quarterback |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | OF REPRESENTATIVES $800: You must be 30 to be a U.S. senator & this minimum age to be a member of the House of Representatives 25 |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | JACQUES OF ALL TRADES $800: He was president of France from 1995 to 2007 Jacques Chirac |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | HALL OF FAMER BY POSITION $800: Bill Russell,
Bill Walton basketball centers |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | OF REPRESENTATIVES $1200: The states with only one representative are Wyoming, Vermont, the Dakotas, Delaware & this state Alaska |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | JACQUES OF ALL TRADES $1200: A statue of this French missionary who hooked up with Jolliet represents Wisconsin in the U.S. Capitol Jacques Marquette |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | HALL OF FAMER BY POSITION $1200: Bob Feller,
Bob Lemon,
Bob Gibson baseball pitchers |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | JACQUES OF ALL TRADES $1600: Last name of French papermaking brothers Jacques & Joseph, who pioneered the hot air balloon Montgolfier |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | HALL OF FAMER BY POSITION $1600: Jerry Rice,
Randy Moss,
John Stallworth wide receiver |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | OF REPRESENTATIVES $2000: Upset about taxes? Take it up with this committee, the House's main one for writing tax bills the Ways & Means Committee |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | HALL OF FAMER BY POSITION $2000: Gump Worsley,
Shrimp Worters,
Rat Westwick (ice) hockey goalies |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | JACQUES OF ALL TRADES $2000: A musical review of this singer-songwriter's works is called this man "is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" Jacques Brel |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | OF REPRESENTATIVES $6,000 (Daily Double): The only Speaker of the House to become president was this Tennessee representative & 11th president James K. Polk |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS $400: President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992, she used the nickname Cory Corazon Aquino |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS $800: In February 2019, this New Jersey Democratic senator announced for president & hoped to "channel our common pain back into our common purpose" Cory Booker |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS $1200: Cory Doctorow's somewhat Orwellian look at the near future isn't called "Big" this but "Little" this Brother |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS $1600: Corey Hawkins played Dr. Dre in this hip-hop biopic Straight Outta Compton |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS $2000: Edwin Arlington Robinson wrote a poem about this rich, enviable gentleman who yet kills himself Richard Cory |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $200: Also a fireplace implement poker |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | A WOMAN OF THE WORLD $200: She was in Kenya when she learned she had become queen on February 6, 1952 Queen Elizabeth II |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $400: A war vessel of the most heavily armed class battleship |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | A WOMAN OF THE WORLD $400: An Asian prime minister for 15 years, she was called "Indu" for short Indira Gandhi |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $600: A hand weapon made of leather-covered metal blackjack |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | A WOMAN OF THE WORLD $600: In 1767 this "Great" empress called a commission on legal reform Catherine the Great |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $800: To overwhelm with wonder to boggle |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | THE NAME OF THE GAME $1000: The art of negotiation between nations diplomacy |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | A WOMAN OF THE WORLD $1000: An exotic Dutch dancer & courtesan, she was executed by the French in 1917 on charges of spying for the Germans Mata Hari |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | A WOMAN OF THE WORLD $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1993, True Path Party leader Tansu Ciller became the first female prime minister of this large Muslim country Turkey |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | POPULAR BABY NAMES OF THE 2010s $100: #1 for boys: a boatload of kids share their name with this biblical ark builder Noah |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | POPULAR BABY NAMES OF THE 2010s $200: #1 for girls: it's also the first name of actresses Watson, Roberts & Thompson Emma |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | POPULAR BABY NAMES OF THE 2010s $300: #5 for boys: a term for a worker who lays bricks or stone Mason |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | POPULAR BABY NAMES OF THE 2010s $400: #2 for girls: it refers to a type of tree whose branches are symbols of peace Olivia |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | POPULAR BABY NAMES OF THE 2010s $500: #10 for girls: you'll see this name on a map of Wisconsin Madison |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT? $400: The objects seen here are made mainly from this super expensive metal platinum |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT? $800: The prototype of his "Cube" was made of 27 wooden blocks; it took him a month to solve it Rubik |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT? $1200: The soft ones are made from high-water-content polymers like hydroxyethyl-methacrylate contact lenses |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT? $1600: "In the Big Rock Candy Mountain, the jails are made of" this; "you can slip right out again as soon as they put you in" tin |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT? $2000: Gumboots are traditionally made mainly of this (do not say gum) rubber |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $200: While "pandemic" was the word for 2020, 2021 was more optimistic with this entry, thanks to Pfizer, Moderna, and others vaccine |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $400: In 2015, the word was the suffix "-ism" and 2 years later it was this "-ism" associated with Betty Friedan feminism |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $600: The lady seen here is a representation of this selection for 2018 justice |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $1000: In 2003, the first Merriam-Webster "Word of the Year" was this form of government by the people democracy |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $2,000 (Daily Double): A 1944 Ingrid Bergman film popularized this 11-letter word of 2022, an act of psychological manipulation gaslighting |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD $200: A wild day for this ex-champ in 1997: "I lost my last professional boxing match, but I received a check for $1 million for the grill" George Foreman |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $200: Thyme honey from the Iblei Mountains on this large Mediterranean isle has been a delicacy for centuries Sicily |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | CIRCLE OF LIFE $400: Enchantress who made Odysseus' men pig-headed Circe |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $400: On Dec. 31, 2005 a this second (not a this year) was added at 23:59:60, the first extra second in 7 years a leap second |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD $400: Some stats from a 1966 title bout: Over three rounds, he threw 100-plus punches, took less than 10, & knocked down his foe four times Muhammad Ali |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $400: Thyme is part of this plant family the mint family |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD $600: The champ for an amazing 12 years, this "Brown Bomber" joined the Army in 1942 & served in a segregated unit with Jackie Robinson Joe Louis |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $600: This "Elder" Roman encyclopedist referred to thyme as a fumigant Pliny |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | CIRCLE OF LIFE $800: Last name of the lyricist who worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber Rice |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $800: In 1687 this Brit differentiated "absolute, true, and mathematical time" & "relative, apparent, and common time" Newton |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD $800: In 1990, this man here knocked out Buster Douglas to become the undefeated, undisputed heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $800: Monks know that thyme is an ingredient in this popular upscale French liquor, one of the "B"s in B&B Bénédictine |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD $1000: Rocky before "Rocky", this 1950s legend retired as the sole undefeated heavyweight champ in history, going 49-0 with 43 KOs Rocky Marciano |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME $1000: Thyme contains about 1% this type of "oil" used in fragrances & pharmaceuticals essential |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | CIRCLE OF LIFE $1200: Its name is from the Middle English for "an object of religious veneration" a relic |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | CIRCLE OF LIFE $1600: To cause annoyance or ire to rile |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $1600: TAI, the French abbreviation for "international" this "time", was introduced in 1955 atomic time (Temps Atomique International) |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $1,990 (Daily Double): An 1884 conference chose the meridian of this facility's transit instrument as the "prime" starting point for time zones the Observatory of Greenwich |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | CIRCLE OF LIFE $2000: In many fantasy role-playing games, it's a healing class a Cleric |
| #8946, aired 2023-10-09 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $2000: Clocks flown around the Earth in 1971 diverged from stationary ones, confirming the relativity concept "time" this dilation |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | STATE OF THE ESTATE $200: Bill Gates' Xanadu 2.0 Washington |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | STATE OF THE ESTATE $400: James Madison's Montpelier Virginia |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | STATE OF THE ESTATE $600: W.K. Kellogg Manor House Michigan |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | STATE OF THE ESTATE $800: The Biltmore Estate on 8,000 acres North Carolina |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | STATE OF THE ESTATE $1000: The Asa Packer Mansion, home of the railroad magnate & founder of Lehigh University Pennsylvania |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | A BUNDLE OF "FUN" $100: Seen here, this fried fairground favorite is named after the device used to drizzle batter into hot oil the funnel cake |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $100: A bald housekeeper with a hoop earring and the biceps of a Greek god Mr. Clean |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | A BUNDLE OF "FUN" $200: After splitting with Paul Simon in the early seventies, he briefly left music and taught math Art Garfunkel |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $200: A bird, once plagued by anger management issues, who never stops quacking about insurance the AFLAC duck |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $200: Eat my shorts, Jay Gatsby! He was the only fictional character on Time's list of the most influential people of the 20th century Bart Simpson |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | A BUNDLE OF "FUN" $300: Impatient tax filers expecting some extra cash can use a tool on irs.gov called "Where's my" this refund |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $300: A giant beverage pitcher with legs who often causes property damage the Kool-Aid Man |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | A BUNDLE OF "FUN" $400: It's what the "F" stands for in the digital asset abbreviated NFT fungible |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $400: A mustachioed cartoon man, currently lacking a mouth to eat the potato crisps he sells (the) Pringles (guy) (Julius Pringle) |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $400: Sticky Fingers and Bone Suckin' are two brands that make this type of condiment barbecue sauce |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | A BUNDLE OF "FUN" $500: The world's highest tides, reaching over 50 ft., are found in this bay between Nova Scotia & New Brunswick the Bay of Fundy |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $500: A puffy French creature made of tires who bears an unsettling resemblance to a mummy the Michelin Man |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $600: No more "European Pink" for Misty Copeland; in 2017, Gaynor Minden began making this footwear with darker skin tones ballet shoes (or ballet slippers) |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $800: "I gets high off your love / I don't know how to behave"; it's the title track on D'Angelo's 1995 album "Brown Sugar" |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | WHAT A LOAD OF B.S. $1000: This slow-moving creature is common in the Pacific Northwest; its name is apt considering its yellow color a banana slug |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $400: Hi, my name is (what?) My name is (who?) My name is this Detroit rapper who has his own hip-hop channel Eminem (Slim Shady) |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $800: He won an NCAA hoops title at Michigan State in 1979, then presto! He was the first overall NBA pick & it was Showtime Magic Johnson |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $1200: Born in Flint, this prolific documentarian wrote the book "Dude, Where's My Country?" Michael Moore |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $1600: Long before becoming New York's governor, & not beating Truman, this Owosso-born man graduated from the University of Michigan in 1923 Dewey |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $2000: Tragically, this Grand Rapids man lost his life in an Apollo 1 training exercise along with Gus Grissom & Ed White Roger Chaffee |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | THE SHIP OF STATE $200: Designated SSN-780, the current USS Missouri isn't a battleship but a nuclear-powered one of these a submarine |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | THE SHIP OF STATE $400: 2 schooners called the Oregon Fir & the Oregon this carried lumber from the U.S. to Australia in the 1920s the Oregon Pine |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | THE SHIP OF STATE $600: The Pearl Harbor Memorial to this ship reminds visitors it was the scene of great loss & asks them to dress appropriately the Arizona |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | THE SHIP OF STATE $1000: In 1862, the captured & rebuilt USS Merrimack was relaunched as the CSS this state the Virginia |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | THE SHIP OF STATE $2,200 (Daily Double): In the 1860s a paddle-wheeler named this plied the waters of the same-named river around Fort Yuma Colorado |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | RIVERS OF AFRICA $400: The Nile has 3 main sections: the Atbara & the ones known by these 2 colors Blue & White |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | RIVERS OF AFRICA $800: The Congo River was renamed this from 1971 to 1997; the Democratic Republic also had that name Zaire |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | RIVERS OF AFRICA $1600: The Draa River in Morocco is also called this 4-letter Arabic word for an intermittent stream Wadi |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | RIVERS OF AFRICA $2000: Rivers called the Black, Red & White this flow through Burkina Faso, which used to be called Upper this Volta |
| #8938, aired 2023-09-27 | RIVERS OF AFRICA $3,800 (Daily Double): The mighty Okavango River stretches from Angola to this desert in Botswana, where it becomes a swamp the Kalahari Desert |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OUT OF BREATH $200: In a typical human body, this organ beats about 100,000 times per day heart |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | THE DNA OF MUSIC $300: In her song "Can't Be Tamed", she sings "it's set in my DNA"; her dad, Billy Ray, passed down to her some of that genetic code Miley Cyrus |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OUT OF BREATH $400: It's the only planet in our solar system whose name is not derived from Greek or Roman mythology Earth |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | THE DNA OF MUSIC $600: A Kidz Bop version of her 2017 song opens "I just took a DNA test, turns out I'm 100% that kid" Lizzo |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OUT OF BREATH $600: According to a 2006 song, when they tried to make Amy Winehouse go here, she said "no, no, no" "Rehab" |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OUT OF BREATH $800: During World War I, Germany deployed a massive, fort-demolishing howitzer nicknamed Big this Bertha |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | THE DNA OF MUSIC $900: This boy band kicked off their DNA World Tour in 2022; they sang "I Want It That Way" & other hits the Backstreet Boys |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | THE DNA OF MUSIC $1200: For their hit song "DNA", this K-pop band released a video in which they dance and form a double helix BTS |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | THE DNA OF MUSIC $1500: "I got, I got, I got, I got loyalty, got royalty,
inside my DNA" is a lyric in a 2017 rap hit by this Pulitzer winner Kendrick Lamar |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OUT OF BREATH $2,500 (Daily Double): As Taylor Swift knows all too well, this type of person has an intense dislike of something hater |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | THINKING OF UKRAINE $400: Ukraine produces much of the world's oil from these big yellow flowers, a national symbol sunflowers |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | THINKING OF UKRAINE $1200: The seminal work of modern Ukrainian literature, "Eneïda" transmutes this ancient writer's Trojans into Cossacks Virgil |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | THINKING OF UKRAINE $1600: The Seven Wonders of Ukraine include the 11th century Kiev cathedral named St. this built to rival a same-named "Hagia" in Constantinople Sophia |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | THINKING OF UKRAINE $2000: Ukraine's longest river, it bisects the country before emptying into the Black Sea the Dnieper |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | THINKING OF UKRAINE $4,000 (Daily Double): This major Ukrainian port city was named for an ancient Greek colony thought to have existed nearby Odessa |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $400: In 2020 she topped John Waters & the Beastie Boys to win a Grammy for her spoken word album, an audio book of her memoir Michelle Obama |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $800: At Wellesley's 1990 commencement, this Texan said, "Someone in the crowd could also become a presidential spouse and I wish him well" Barbara Bush |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $1200: She met the future president in 1938 when they both tried out for a local play in Whittier, California Pat Nixon |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $1600: Half-brothers of this southern-born first lady fought for the Confederacy, which could have led to really awkward Thanksgiving dinners Mary Todd Lincoln |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $3,000 (Daily Double): A year before her death in 1962, she began chairing JFK's Commission on the Status of Women Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | THE STATE OF CONGRESS $200: Karen Shepherd,
Mitt Romney,
David King Utah |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | THE STATE OF CONGRESS $400: Solomon Foot,
Bernie Sanders,
the Anti-Jacksonian Party's Dudley Chase Vermont |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | THE STATE OF CONGRESS $600: Dick Cheney,
Malcolm Wallop,
Milward Simpson (the only Milward to serve the state... so far) Wyoming |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | THE STATE OF CONGRESS $800: Benjamin Bourne in the 1790s, Lincoln Chafee, Ambrose Burnside Rhode Island |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | THE STATE OF CONGRESS $1000: Thomas Hart Benton, Xenophon P. Wilfley, Sempronius H. Boyd Missouri |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | WORLD OF BARBIE $200: In 2023 she & Ryan Gosling were the leads for a big-screen live-action "Barbie" adventure Margot Robbie |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | WORLD OF BARBIE $400: Creators Ruth & Elliot Handler named Barbie & Ken for their children & also co-founded this company that still makes the dolls Mattel |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | WORLD OF BARBIE $600: In an immersive & interactive experience, you can enter the World of Barbie & visit this iconic home of hers, brought to life her Dreamhouse |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | WORLD OF BARBIE $800: In 2016 Barbie got 3 new & diverse body types in addition to her original: tall, petite & this 5-letter adjective curvy |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | WORLD OF BARBIE $1000: In 1989 Barbie became an ambassador for this U.N. agency that helps children around the world UNICEF |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BREEDS OF SHEEP $200: With a white face mostly free of wool, the Columbia was developed by this Cabinet department in the early 1900s Agriculture |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BREEDS OF SHEEP $400: Suffolk is popular both for lamb & this, meat from a sheep that's a yearling or older mutton |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | BREEDS OF SHEEP $600: The North Ronaldsay, the Blackface & the Border Cheviot (with a black muzzle) are breeds first developed in this U.K. country Scotland |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | LETTERS OF THE ARTIST: In 1896 he wrote, "My prices are 2000, 3000 & 4000 dollars for head & shoulders, 3/4 length & full-length respectively" John Singer Sargent |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | STARS OF THE 20th CENTURY: A 1927 N.Y. Times headline: "Witness testifies" this woman "rewrote play and insisted on the spicy scenes because city liked them" Mae West |
| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Until 1991 this country named for a river had a capital whose name means "lakes" in Portuguese Nigeria |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | BODIES OF WATER: The smallest inland sea in the world, it's completely within the territory of a single country & connects 2 other larger seas the Sea of Marmara |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: This book is named for a tribe of Israel that carried out judgment of the idolaters of the golden calf Leviticus |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | POETS OF ANCIENT ROME: Far from Rome, this first century poet wrote, "The leader's anger done, grant me the right to die in my native country" Ovid |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Fearful of independence in 1975, around 120,000 of this country's people, a third of the population, fled to the Netherlands Suriname |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD: Achilles Tatius wrote that it "was like a mountain... at the top of this mountain rose a second sun" the Lighthouse at Alexandria |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | BODIES OF WATER: The Goshute, a Western people, called this vast body of water Teittse Paa, meaning "bad water" the Great Salt Lake |
| #8983, aired 2023-11-29 | A BIT OF BRITAIN: In disarray, it was sold at auction in 1915 to a local Wiltshire man, who would donate it to the British government 3 years later Stonehenge |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | LANGUAGES OF ASIA: Meaning "palace", this word in the name of a UNESCO World Heritage Site follows Jal & Lal in the names of other historic structures Mahal |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | WORLD OF WATER: The Bass Strait divides Tasmania & mainland Australia & hydrographers have disputed which of these 2 larger bodies it's part of the Indian & Pacific Oceans |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | BODIES OF WATER: Formed some 10,000-15,000 years ago & with an average depth of only about 150 feet, it's named for a man who sailed through it in 1728 the Bering Strait |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | LIVES OF THE POETS: At a seminary that classified students' degree of faith, Emily Dickinson was "without" this, which she compares to a bird in a poem hope |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | THE BILL OF RIGHTS: England's "Bloody Assizes" & a 1685 life sentence for perjury were 2 main origins of this amendment to the U.S. Constitution the 8th Amendment |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | MOVIES OF THE '80s: Based on an off-Broadway play with just 3 characters, it won the Best Picture Oscar & the actors in all 3 roles were nominated Driving Miss Daisy |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | COUNTRIES OF AFRICA: At one time a province of the Roman Empire, this kingdom is known to Arabic scholars as Al-Maghrib Al-Aqsa, "the far west" Morocco |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Part of the largest contiguous land empire during the 1200s & 1300s, today it's the world's second-largest landlocked country Mongolia |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | NAMES OF MYTH: Her brothers, Castor & Pollux, saved her after Theseus stole her away as a kid; a larger force would seek her later in life Helen of Troy |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER: Continuing a downward trend, in July 2022 it was at 27% capacity, its lowest level since 1937 when it was first being filled Lake Mead |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: It's home to 58 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, more than any other country; the sites include a volcano & a lagoon Italy |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | FLAGS OF OUR HEMISPHERE: The stars on this country's flag represent states, 26 of them; unlike the USA's, its "federal district" gets its own 27th star Brazil |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | BODIES OF WATER: The Kattegat & Skagerrak Straits separate these 2 seas the Baltic & North Seas |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | LANDMARKS OF SCIENCE: Clones of an original one of these grow outside the math faculty at Cambridge University & in the President's Garden at M.I.T. an apple tree |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: It has the most water area of any country, nearly 350,000 square miles, about 9% of its total area Canada |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | COUNTRIES OF EUROPE: It's the only independent survivor of the Spanish March, buffer states created to protect Christian Europe from the Moors Andorra |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME: Honored in 1998 as part of a rock group & in 2019 as a solo artist, this singer was the first woman to be inducted into the Hall twice Stevie Nicks |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | THE WORLD OF TODAY: Partly because it was a monosyllable, this word was chosen as "a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission" meme |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | CONSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD: Amendments to its 1901 constitution require approval of at least 4 states before receiving royal assent Australia |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BOOKS OF THE 1970s: Aptly, members of a Black family in this novel have biblical names: Pilate, Hagar & the title one, an ancestor of the protagonist Song of Solomon |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | FILMS OF THE 1950s: The title character of this film has the same name as the Roman goddess of the dawn Sleeping Beauty |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | COUNTRIES OF AFRICA: Old maps depicting what's now this 125,000-square-mile country labeled the area with the French word for "teeth" Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | WORDS OF THE YEAR: Oxford's word of the year for 2021 was this 3-letter one, short for a word that goes back to the Latin for "cow" vax |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Some of this country's indigenous people want its name officially changed from its Dutch-based name to Aotearoa New Zealand |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: The only nation in the world whose name in English ends in an H, it's also one of the 10 most populous Bangladesh |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | FILMS OF THE 2000s: One of the screenwriters of this 2001 film described it as "'Clueless' meets 'The Paper Chase"' Legally Blonde |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | THE WORDS OF VICTOR HUGO: This object "is the ultimate expression of law, & its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral" the guillotine |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Nazi Germany annexed this nation & divided it into regions of the Alps & the Danube; the Allies later divided it into 4 sectors Austria |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | HISTORY OF THE 19-TEENS: Saying he ignored warnings of enemy vessels, the British admiralty sought to blame William Turner, this ship's last captain in 1915 the Lusitania |
| #8458, aired 2021-08-04 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: The first published announcement of the Declaration was by a Philadelphia paper that reported it in this foreign language German |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: On this country's National Day, August 15, all 39,000 residents are invited to Vaduz Castle for festivities & drinks Liechtenstein |
| #8411, aired 2021-05-31 | THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION: The day it debuted in 1980, this network with an Italian name aired a Carnegie Hall celebration of Aaron Copland's 80th birthday Bravo |
| #8397, aired 2021-05-11 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: Its last chapter includes wisdom from King Lemuel, taught to him by his mother, as well as the famous "Virtuous Woman" passage Proverbs |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | THE BUSINESS OF TRAVEL: Adjusted for inflation, the nightly rate this company put in its name in 1962 is now $51 Motel 6 |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | LITERARY CHARACTERS OF THE 1600s: When the title character tells him that a great adventure may win him an island he can govern, he leaves his family Sancho Panza |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | SECRETARIES OF STATE: Dirk Stikker, Dutch foreign minister 1948-1952, wrote, "Churchill's words won the war"; this American's "words won the peace" (George) Marshall |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE: 2020 marks the 55th birthday of the first piece of equipment dedicated to this process, now used for regular screenings mammogram |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | PHRASES OF THE 1950s: A 1954 book review said of this colorful 2-word term, also applied to the post-WWI era, "the underlying hysteria lives on" Red Scare |
| #8255, aired 2020-10-09 | BOOKS OF THE 1950s: A special edition of this 1953 novel came with an asbestos binding Fahrenheit 451 |
| #8215, aired 2020-05-01 | NATIONS OF THE WORLD: On the English-language list of member states at un.org, it's the only nation with a Spanish-language article in its name El Salvador |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | WONDERS OF THE MODERN WORLD: Nicknamed "The Big Ditch", in 2014 this modern wonder celebrated its 100th anniversary the Panama Canal |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | FROM THE DESK OF THE POPE: A 1919 letter quotes Jesus, "Go into the whole world and preach the gospel" & notes the vigilance, energy & hardships of these workers missionaries |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | CONSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD: This country's 1979 constitution forbids amendments altering its official ideology or religion Iran |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | THE HISTORY OF FRANCE: This modern regime that lasted 4 years changed the national motto to "Travail, Famille, Patrie"--"Work, Family, Fatherland" Vichy France |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | PLACES OF LORE: The first mention of this locale is in Chretien de Troyes' 12th century poem "Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart" Camelot |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | WORDS OF THE 2000s: In 2008 Time magazine described this new practice as "one part social networking and one part capital accumulation" crowdfunding |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER: The Jordan, Bear & Weber Rivers deposit over a million tons of minerals into it annually, much of that chloride & sodium the Great Salt Lake |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Because its overseas empire was dwindling, Spain declared war on this much closer country across the water on October 22, 1859 Morocco |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | STATE CAPITALS EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI: The last 2 letters of this city's name are the U.S. postal abbreviation for the state that it's the capital of Albany |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | THE WORKS OF MOZART: Composed in 1791, the year he died, & last in the Kochel catalog of all his works, K. 626 is this work Requiem |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | SPORTS HALLS OF FAME: Posthumously, Axel Paulsen was among the first group of inductees into the World Hall of Fame for this in 1976 figure skating |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | FILMS OF THE 1990s: Tommy Lee Jones won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for this movie based on a TV series that premiered in 1963 The Fugitive |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | FILMS OF THE 1960s: Bernard Herrmann scored this 1960 black & white thriller using only the string section of an orchestra Psycho |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | COUNTRIES OF THE U.N.: The 3 U.N. member states that begin with the letter "J"; 2 are island nations & one is nearly landlocked Jamaica, Japan, and Jordan |
| #7698, aired 2018-02-14 | HIT SONGS OF THE '90s: The title of this dance hit, No. 1 for 14 weeks in the '90s, can refer to a Seville, Spain neighborhood or a woman from there "Macarena" |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | NOVELS OF THE 1960s: The line "Once when you are born & once when you look death in the face" follows this title of a 1964 novel & an action-packed 1967 film You Only Live Twice |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR: Since "Man of the Year" became "Person of the Year" in 1999, only 1 individual woman has won: this European for 2015 Angela Merkel |
| #7610, aired 2017-10-13 | FLAGS OF THE WORLD: The flag of Laos shows the white circle of the moon over the blue band, representing this river the Mekong River |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: They begin with the same 3 letters: the most densely populated country in Europe & the least densely populated in Asia Monaco and Mongolia |
| #7570, aired 2017-07-07 | PEOPLES OF THE WORLD: Living from Norway to Russia, they've been called the only indigenous people of the European Union the Laplanders (or Lapps or Sami) |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | NATIONS OF THE WORLD: Its contiguous territory covers 36 degrees of latitude, the longest stretch of any country not in the top 10 in area Chile |
| #7560, aired 2017-06-23 | BOOKS OF THE 1960s: "Wherever I sat...I would be sitting under the same glass" this, the title of the author's only novel The Bell Jar |
| #7526, aired 2017-05-08 | A YEAR OF FIRSTS: Year in which the Department of Energy was created, the Indy 500 had its first female driver & the 1st president was sworn in under a nickname 1977 |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: A 2010 study of this country is subtitled "Inside the Land of Milk and Money" Switzerland |
| #7501, aired 2017-04-03 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: In 1947 these 2 nations became the first new members of the British Commonwealth since the original group in 1931 India and Pakistan |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | NATIONS OF THE WORLD: A 2011 report said the citizenry of this country included a total of 32 women the Vatican |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | SIGNERS OF THE CONSTITUTION: The name of this first Maryland signer is also on a national monument completed in 1803 James McHenry |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE: It begins with God saying, "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel" Numbers |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | MEN OF SCIENCE: Him vs. him: "The Life-Long Feud That Electrified the World" is a book about these 2 men Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Of the 5 countries with the lowest population density, this U.N. member is the only one named for a desert Namibia |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | MEN OF SCIENCE: The symbols for 6 chemical elements spell out his name, beginning with cobalt, phosphorus & erbium Copernicus |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | SECRETARIES OF STATE: The 2 Secretaries of State who received B.A.s in political science from Wellesley, 10 years apart Madeleine Albright & Hillary Clinton |
| #7345, aired 2016-07-15 | THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME: A quartet inducted in 2010 & a trio inducted in 2004, they’re the first & last inductees alphabetically ABBA & ZZ Top |
| #7304, aired 2016-05-19 | THE PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE: In 2013 President Obama was sworn in on 2 Bibles--one was Lincoln’s & one belonged to this man who died 103 years after Lincoln Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #7302, aired 2016-05-17 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: This country's 2 main ethnic groups are Punjabi (who are also found in India) & Pashtun (also living in Afghanistan) Pakistan |
| #7178, aired 2015-11-25 | DAYS OF THE WEEK: To the ancient Greeks, this day of the week was Hemera Aphrodites Friday |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | CITIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: A Hanseatic city, this port of 1.8 million is the largest European Union city that's not a capital Hamburg, Germany |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | WORLD OF BOOKS: Mussolini considered this book written during the Renaissance "the statesman's supreme guide" The Prince (by Machiavelli) |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION: This live-action TV show about a family debuted in 1965 & was set in 1997 Lost in Space |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | BODIES OF WATER: The Finnish call it Itameri & the Germans call it Ostsee the Baltic Sea |
| #7020, aired 2015-03-06 | ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION SPEECHES: Springsteen said David Sancious was "the only member of the group who ever actually lived" there E Street |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM WINNERS: She was called a "Trailblazer for America's daughters" when she won in 2012, a century after founding an organization Juliette Gordon Low |
| #6949, aired 2014-11-27 | BODIES OF WATER: First encountered in 1648 by a man born in Russia, it was eventually named after a man born in Denmark the Bering Strait |
| #6946, aired 2014-11-24 | BRITISH MUSICMAKERS OF THE '90s: One critic called them "a social phenomenon", "the most widely recognised group... since John, Paul, George & Ringo" the Spice Girls |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLOBE: This capital city, which at 12,330 miles is farthest from Madrid, is named for a soldier who spent time in Madrid Wellington |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | MONARCHS OF ENGLAND: The fifth king & the eighth king of this name share the distinction of both having been proclaimed king but never crowned Edward |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | COATS OF ARMS: This country's coat of arms features a palm tree & a 19th century American sailing ship Liberia |
| #6915, aired 2014-10-10 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: It became a colony of the U.S. in 1898, a commonwealth in 1935 & an independent country in 1946 the Philippines |
| #6892, aired 2014-07-29 | DAYS OF THE WEEK: In Spanish & French, the word for Friday comes from Latin for "day of" this goddess Venus |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: The first official use of this 4-word term is at The Declaration's beginning, immediately after "The thirteen" "United States of America" |
| #6840, aired 2014-05-16 | SECRETARIES OF STATE: Serving 160 years apart, these 2 Secretaries of State are the only ones who never married Condoleezza Rice & James Buchanan |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | BODIES OF WATER: More than 1/5 of all the world's people live in countries bordering this, the world's biggest bay the Bay of Bengal |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Once a poor British protectorate, in 2012 this peninsular country ranked as the world's richest per capita Qatar |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: It's the largest country in area completely south of the equator that has a female president Argentina |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | NATIONS OF THE WORLD: The only 2 countries in the Americas that border each other & begin with the same letter Brazil & Bolivia |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: By population, it's the largest country in the world without nuclear weapons Indonesia |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | BODIES OF WATER: This body of water bearing the name of a country borders 5 U.S. states the Gulf of Mexico |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | THE WORLD OF TV: In 2013 Britain marked this show's 50th anniversary with a series of stamps of the 11 actors who have played the lead role Doctor Who |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | THE NEW 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD: On the new list chosen in 2007, this wonder designed by Heitor da Silva Costa is the only statue Christ the Redeemer |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: 2 of the 3 countries that are completely encircled by one other country (2 of) San Marino, Vatican City & Lesotho |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | EARLY FILMS OF OSCAR WINNERS: The 1995, 2003 & 2006 winners for Best Actor all appeared in this 1982 teen comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME: His widow Maria Elena & actor Gary Busey were on hand when his star was dedicated outside Capitol Records in 2011 Buddy Holly |
| #6331, aired 2012-03-12 | PEOPLE OF EUROPE: These people who ruled large parts of Spain before Celtic & Roman dominance left their name on the land the Iberians |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: The Catholic & Eastern churches separated in 1054, when the Pope & Patriarch did this to each other; it was undone in 1965 excommunicated |
| #6312, aired 2012-02-14 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: The 14 countries that border China run alphabetically from this to Vietnam Afghanistan |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS: The only Roman Catholic signer represented this state Maryland |
| #6233, aired 2011-10-26 | DEATH OF AN AUTHOR: In 1940 at age 44 he died of a heart attack at his Hollywood home while reading his Princeton Alumni Weekly F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | TOP OF THE POP CHARTS: In 1978 he replaced his brothers at No. 1, who then replaced him; one of the brothers was a writer on all 3 songs Andy Gibb |
| #6184, aired 2011-06-30 | COINS OF THE WORLD: 50 Cent pieces issued in 2003 by this country depict Frodo, Gandalf, Gollum, Sauron & Aragorn New Zealand |
| #6172, aired 2011-06-14 | FLAGS OF THE WORLD: "L'Unifolié" is one of the names popularly given to the new flag unveiled in 1965 by this country Canada |
| #6125, aired 2011-04-08 | THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: 64 paintings from the Met's founding purchase are still in its collection; over 1/3 of them are from this current European nation the Netherlands |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | GARMENTS OF THE WORLD: The custom of hijab, Arabic for "veiling", can include this garment, mentioned by Kipling the burqa |
| #6094, aired 2011-02-24 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD: The smallest Ancient Wonder, it was the only one ever moved, having been transported to Constantinople around 391 A.D. the Statue of Zeus at Olympia |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | EVENTS OF 2010: A piece of custom-made equipment called the Phoenix played a key role in an October event in this country Chile |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | THE HALL OF PRESIDENTS: Of the 9 presidents whose images have a beard or mustache, this late 19th century man is the only Democrat Grover Cleveland |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | LANGUAGES OF EUROPE: A mixture of English & Spanish, Llanito is the language of this territory's 30,000 residents Gibraltar |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | FLAGS OF THE WORLD: In use from 1844 to 1905, a flag representing the union of these 2 countries was nicknamed the "herring salad" Norway and Sweden |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | MEN OF PARIS: When the body of this man who died in 1870 was moved in 2002, a cloth with the motto "Un pour tous, tous pour un" was used Alexandre Dumas |
| #5902, aired 2010-04-20 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY: Joining such pop culture icons as Dorothy's ruby slippers, this was donated to the museum by Jerry Seinfeld in 2004 the puffy shirt |
| #5833, aired 2010-01-13 | RECORD OF THE YEAR GRAMMY WINNERS: This song's recording session occurred right after the 1985 American Music Awards & lasted all night long "We Are The World" |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | THE PARTS OF SPEECH: Of the traditional 8 parts of speech, it's the only one that doesn't end in the same 4 letters as 1 of the other parts of speech adjective |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | LITERATURE OF THE 1800s: This character said, "I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me" Ebenezer Scrooge |
| #5775, aired 2009-10-23 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: This Asian nation is the only nation with the same name as its capital & the island on which it's located Singapore |
| #5757, aired 2009-09-29 | MUSIC HALLS OF FAME: 2 of the 4 Country Music Hall of Fame acts who are also in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as performers (2 of) Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Brenda Lee & The Everly Brothers |
| #5712, aired 2009-06-09 | SIGNS OF THE TIMES: First turned on in 1989 in Times Square, the "clock" measuring this ran out of digits in October 2008 the national debt |
| #5696, aired 2009-05-18 | NO. 1 HITS OF THE 1970s: In 2008 doctors said that, aptly, this Bee Gees song provides an ideal beat to follow "Stayin' Alive" |
| #5693, aired 2009-05-13 | THE HISTORY OF FLIGHT: In 1784 these 2 future presidents saw an early manned balloon flight in Paris &, in 1793, America's 1st, in Philadelphia John Adams & Thomas Jefferson |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | WORDS OF INSPIRATION: A professor's 2007 address at Carnegie Mellon on "really achieving your childhood dreams" inspired millions under this title The Last Lecture |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | GODS OF ANCIENT EGYPT: Appropriately, the center of cult worship for this ancient Egyptian god was in Cynopolis, "City of the Dog" Anubis |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR II: This nickname given a bomber at a 1935 test flight reflected the early belief that it wouldn't need fighter protection the Flying Fortress |
| #5613, aired 2009-01-21 | PLAYS OF THE 1980s: This Pulitzer Prize-winning play was inspired by the writer's own experiences selling real estate in Chicago Glengarry Glen Ross |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | GEOGRAPHIC PROCESS OF ELIMINATION: This country borders the most "stan"s:
Afghanistan,
Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan &
Turkmenistan Uzbekistan |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | PEOPLES OF THE WORLD: Numbering about 25 million, they're the largest ethnic group in the world with no home nation the Kurds |
| #5504, aired 2008-07-10 | SECRETARIES OF STATE: In 1947 he said Europe's food needs require "substantial additional help" to prevent social deterioration George C. Marshall |
| #5501, aired 2008-07-07 | THE QUOTE OF THE MONTH CLUB: In a poem, these 5 words precede "breeding Lilacs out of the dead land... stirring Dull roots with spring rain" April is the cruellest month |
| #5479, aired 2008-06-05 | THE GREAT CHEFS OF EUROPE: Living from 1846 to 1935, this celebrated Frenchman was known as "the king of chefs and the chef of kings" Georges Auguste Escoffier |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | FILMS OF THE 1950s: The action in this film begins at 10:30 A.M. & plays out in almost-real time until 12:15 High Noon |
| #5457, aired 2008-05-06 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD: Philo of Byzantium called it a ploughed field "above the heads of those who walk between the columns below" the Hanging Gardens of Babylon |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | LICENSE PLATES OF THE FAMOUS: In 2006 his car was auctioned for charity, along with its personalized Nebraska plate reading "thrifty" Warren Buffett |
| #5299, aired 2007-09-27 | MEN OF MEDICINE: After giving birth in Paris, American Marjorie Karmel wrote "Thank You" him & co-founded an organization now named for him Dr. Fernand Lamaze |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | THE WORLD OF CINEMA: In 2006 "The Nativity Story" became the first film to have its world premiere in this country, in Paul VI Hall Vatican City |
| #5262, aired 2007-06-26 | FILMS OF THE '60s: Parts of this 1961 rock & roll movie were filmed on location in Oahu & Kauai Blue Hawaii |
| #5251, aired 2007-06-11 | ENTERTAINERS OF THE '60s: He won 3 straight Emmys for dramatic acting & a record 6 straight Grammys for comedy albums Bill Cosby |
| #5248, aired 2007-06-06 | BODIES OF WATER: This sea hundreds of miles east of Florida has no land boundaries the Sargasso Sea |
| #5221, aired 2007-04-30 | STATES OF MEXICO: It's Mexico's northernmost state, but part of its name means "low" Baja California |
| #5202, aired 2007-04-03 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: In 1839 Thomas Buchanan, cousin of a U.S. president, became the first governor of this future country Liberia |
| #5194, aired 2007-03-22 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER: These 2 Great Lakes each border 4 U.S. states Lake Michigan & Lake Erie |
| #5190, aired 2007-03-16 | WOMEN OF THE 1930s: 1 of the men who shot her realized when he saw her body that she'd often waited on him at a cafe in Dallas Bonnie Parker |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | FILMS OF THE 1950s: In 2006 Albert II of Monaco attended the Newport Jazz Festival's 50th anniv. celebration of this film that's set during the festival High Society |
| #5032, aired 2006-06-27 | FILMS OF THE '60s: Peter O'Toole was Oscar-nominated for playing the same king in these 2 movies Becket & The Lion in Winter |
| #5012, aired 2006-05-30 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: For over a decade starting from 1807, this nation's capital was moved to a city in South America Portugal |
| #4911, aired 2006-01-09 | BODIES OF WATER: This sea's south boundary is a line from the southern tip of India to the eastern tip of Africa the Arabian Sea |
| #4887, aired 2005-12-06 | NAMES OF THE 1930s: A famous 1936 speech by this man began, "At long last, I am able to say a few words of my own" King Edward VIII |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | THE MAP OF NORTH AMERICA: Number of Canadian provinces that border the Great Lakes 1 |
| #4825, aired 2005-07-22 | LEADING MEN OF THE MOVIES: This actor who turned down the role of Dirty Harry played 142 leading roles, a Guinness record John Wayne |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | BODIES OF WATER: The Latin name of this waterway is Fretum Herculeum the Strait of Gibraltar |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | IMAGES OF AMERICA: Citing John Winthrop, who said, "The eyes of all people are on us", Ronald Reagan liked to compare the U.S. to this a shining city on a hill |
| #4751, aired 2005-04-11 | ARLINGTON'S TOMB OF UNKNOWNS: Sentinels at the tomb walk exactly this many steps at a time before they stop & turn 21 |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | THE U.S. CENSUS OF 1790: It was the only state in the 1790 census to claim a slave population of zero Massachusetts |
| #4700, aired 2005-01-28 | THE WORLD OF ART: It's the room where you'll find the masterpiece that includes "The Flood" & "The Creation of Eve" the Sistine Chapel |
| #4676, aired 2004-12-27 | BODIES OF WATER: This sea that extends about 1,200 miles was referred to in ancient times as the Erythraean Sea the Red Sea |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | FILMS OF THE '70s: "The Babysitter Murders" was the working title for this 1978 thriller Halloween |
| #4620, aired 2004-10-08 | MEN OF SCIENCE: "Somnium", an early work of science fiction, was written by this German & published posthumously in 1634 Johannes Kepler |
| #4587, aired 2004-07-13 | HEADLINES OF THE LAST 40 YEARS: The first 2 New York Times headlines set in 96-point type were in these 2 years, 5 years apart 1969 & 1974 |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | FILMS OF THE '70s: This 1973 thriller was re-released in 2000 with extra footage, including a scene in which Ritalin is prescribed The Exorcist |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | TIME MAGAZINE'S MAN OF THE YEAR: The cover story about this 1930 Man of the Year described him as a "little half-naked brown man" Mohandas Gandhi |
| #4496, aired 2004-03-08 | BODIES OF WATER: The Rush-Bagot Agreement of 1817 between the U.S. & Great Britain limited naval power on these bodies of water the Great Lakes or Lake Champlain |
| #4443, aired 2003-12-24 | THE WORLD OF DISNEY: In 2003 Disney released this film, its first ever movie under the Disney banner rated PG-13 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl |
| #4407, aired 2003-11-04 | FILMS OF THE '50s: This film featuring Glenn Ford & Sidney Poitier was the first major film to use rock & roll music on the soundtrack Blackboard Jungle |
| #4336, aired 2003-06-09 | TIME'S MAN OF THE YEAR: The only man named Time's Man of the Year 2 straight years, he shared the distinction with Kissinger in 1972 Richard M. Nixon |
| #4322, aired 2003-05-20 | MEN OF MEDICINE: In 1891 he helped found & became the first chairman of the British Institute of Preventive Medicine Joseph Lister ("Father of Antiseptic Surgery") |
| #4320, aired 2003-05-16 | DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS: On the list of the signers, 2 of the 3 last names that appear twice (2 of) Adams, Lee & Morris |
| #4307, aired 2003-04-29 | FILMS OF THE '60s: In the top films of 2 consecutive years in the 1960s, she played a nanny & a governess Julie Andrews |
| #4281, aired 2003-03-24 | THE 7 WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD: Of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, this one was the smallest Statue of Zeus at Olympia |
| #4256, aired 2003-02-17 | FILMS OF THE '70s: This '71 film opens on the words "To the police officers of San Francisco who gave their lives in the line of duty" Dirty Harry |
| #4250, aired 2003-02-07 | THE HISTORY OF CLIFFS NOTES: In 1985 Cliffs Notes' "The Scarlet Letter" retook the top-selling spot; this book had briefly replaced it "1984" |
| #4241, aired 2003-01-27 | THE TOWER OF LONDON: Only prisoners of high rank were executed here on Tower Green, & this woman was the first queen beheaded here Anne Boleyn |
| #4186, aired 2002-11-11 | THEORIES OF SCIENCE: Physicist John Wheeler compared possible passages through space & time to the work of this creature a worm |
| #4167, aired 2002-10-15 | FIELDS OF SCIENCE: Ludwig Prandtl, an expert in wind tunnel & wing design, is called "The Father of" this aviation-related field aerodynamics |
| #4121, aired 2002-07-01 | FILMS OF THE 1930s: Parts of "I Pagliacci" & "Il trovatore" are performed in this 1935 comedy A Night at the Opera |
| #4074, aired 2002-04-25 | THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME: One of the 2 birds honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame (1 of) Big Bird or Woody Woodpecker |
| #4070, aired 2002-04-19 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Alphabetically, it's the first country on the alphabetically first continent Algeria |
| #4009, aired 2002-01-24 | WORLD OF SPORTS: Events using this item include maximum time aloft & William Tell, where you knock an apple off your own head boomerang |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: This independent nation is the only Hindu kingdom in the world Nepal |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: 2 of the 4 smallest non-island nations in area (2 of) The Vatican, Monaco, San Marino & Liechtenstein |
| #3859, aired 2001-05-17 | THE WORLD OF TRANSPORTATION: The world's highest airport is found in this Asian political region of 472,000 square miles Tibet |
| #3857, aired 2001-05-15 | AUTHORS OF THE 1920s: Lawrence Durrell said that in a 1928 novel this man used 4-letter words to canonize & celebrate raw sensuality D.H. Lawrence ("Lady Chatterley's Lover") |
| #3844, aired 2001-04-26 | THE MOONS OF URANUS: Pixie Chasma & Sprite Vallis are features on this moon of Uranus named for a character in "The Tempest" Ariel |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS: A Red Sox pitcher, later a Yankee, he held the World Series record for consecutive scoreless innings from 1918 to 1961 Babe Ruth |
| #3673, aired 2000-07-19 | THE MAP OF EUROPE: Bordering Italy, Austria, Hungary & Croatia, it's one of the world's newest independent countries Slovenia |
| #3629, aired 2000-05-18 | CHIEF JUSTICES OF THE U.S.: He administered the presidential oath of office more times than any other chief justice -- 9 times John Marshall |
| #3586, aired 2000-03-20 | ARMIES OF THE WORLD: The national orchestra of this nation on the Mediterranean Sea is larger than its army Monaco |
| #3555, aired 2000-02-04 | FILMS OF THE '80s: The one-word title of this 1985 film refers to Samuel Lapp, a Penn. farm boy who makes his first visit to a city Witness |
| #3548, aired 2000-01-26 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: In area, it's the largest country that does not belong to the United Nations Switzerland |
| #3467, aired 1999-10-05 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: In 1958 this country's army overthrew its govt. & set up a council with a Kurd, a Shiite & a Sunni Arab Iraq |
| #3439, aired 1999-07-15 | FILMS OF THE '70s: 1976 film that contains the line: "...The only truth you know is what you get over this tube!" Network |
| #3426, aired 1999-06-28 | WORLD OF TELEVISION: This current U.S. TV show is shown in France as "Aux Frontieres du Reel" ("At the Borders of Reality") The X-Files |
| #3425, aired 1999-06-25 | BANDS OF THE '70s: In billing order, this quartet's members were born in Los Angeles, Dallas, Blackpool & Toronto Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young |
| #3410, aired 1999-06-04 | FAMOUS NAMES OF THE 1950s: The lyricist of the song "That's America to Me" adopted the 2 brothers with this last name, orphaned in 1953 Rosenberg |
| #3179, aired 1998-05-28 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: The 3 most populous countries, they added up to an estimated 2.42 billion people in 1996 China, India, & the USA |
| #3159, aired 1998-04-30 | THE 1998 TOURNAMENT OF ROSES PARADE: In the parade line-up, this company's float was 57th H.J. Heinz |
| #3141, aired 1998-04-06 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: This island nation is the only country in the world named for a biblical king the Solomon Islands |
| #3120, aired 1998-03-06 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: On July 1, 1997 its population suddenly increased by over 6 million China (because on that day they got Hong Kong back) |
| #3117, aired 1998-03-03 | WORLD OF BUSINESS: According to McDonald's, it's the only country where their outlets do not sell beef hamburgers India |
| #3091, aired 1998-01-26 | ANIMALS OF THE NEW WORLD: Explorer Cabeza de Vaca wrote about this "animal with a pocket on its belly, in which it carries its young" the opossum |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | HALLS OF FAME: Inductees into the Hall of Fame for these include Bob Keeshan, Oleg Popov & Red Skelton Clowns |
| #2961, aired 1997-06-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Before its independence, this country was known as the Netherlands East Indies Indonesia |
| #2921, aired 1997-04-21 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: It's the only country whose name is the same as an American state's Georgia |
| #2919, aired 1997-04-17 | THE WORLD OF MATHEMATICS: Of ancient people, only the Hindus, Babylonians & Mayans invented a symbol for this; the Mayans' is seen here: Zero |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | SECRETARIES OF STATE: This man who died in 1994 once said, "We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked" Dean Rusk |
| #2905, aired 1997-03-28 | FILMS OF THE '30s: 1933 film inspired by William Burden's 1926 Dutch East Indies trip & capture of the world's largest lizard King Kong |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: The name of this country derives from an Iroquoian term meaning "village" or "community" Canada |
| #2827, aired 1996-12-10 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: With 930 million people, it's the world's second-most populous country & its most populous democracy India |
| #2602, aired 1995-12-19 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: The name of this country in the Southern Hemisphere comes from a Latin word for "southern" Australia |
| #2592, aired 1995-12-05 | WOMEN OF SCIENCE: With 32, Carolyn Shoemaker has discovered more of these than any other living person comets |
| #2564, aired 1995-10-26 | SECRETARIES OF STATE: He said, "Looking far off into the northwest, I see the Russian as he busily occupies himself..." (William) Seward |
| #2526, aired 1995-09-04 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Other than in Germany, the U.S. has more military personnel stationed in this foreign country than in any other Japan |
| #2523, aired 1995-07-19 | FAMOUS NAMES OF THE '50s: It turned out to be the name of a childhood neighbor of hypnosis subject Virginia Tighe Bridey Murphy |
| #2512, aired 1995-07-04 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: 1 of the 3 things "we mutually pledge to each other" at the end of the Declaration (1 of) our lives, our fortunes, & our sacred honor |
| #2463, aired 1995-04-26 | BODIES OF WATER: The meridian of Cape Agulhas, Portuguese for "needles", is the boundary between these 2 oceans the Atlantic & the Indian Oceans |
| #2446, aired 1995-04-03 | MEN OF MEDICINE: This British physician introduced the term "vaccine" in a 1798 report Edward Jenner |
| #2444, aired 1995-03-30 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Part of the largest archipelago, it consists of more than 13,600 islands & is 3,200 miles long Indonesia |
| #2416, aired 1995-02-20 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: At 70, he was the oldest signer of the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Franklin |
| #2408, aired 1995-02-08 | BODIES OF WATER: When Jim Bridger discovered this body of water in 1824, he mistook it for an arm of the Pacific the Great Salt Lake |
| #2374, aired 1994-12-22 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: With over 55 million visitors, this country is the world's most popular tourist destination France |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: Alphabetically, he was the first signer of the Declaration of Independence John Adams |
| #2305, aired 1994-09-16 | BODIES OF WATER: In the time of the Roman Republic, this river separated Cisalpine Gaul from Italy the Rubicon |
| #2283, aired 1994-07-06 | THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: Established in 1795, this committee has jurisdiction over social security, tariffs & all revenue measures Ways & Means |
| #2252, aired 1994-05-24 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: The people of this kingdom call it Druk Yul, meaning the realm or land of the dragon Bhutan |
| #2141, aired 1993-12-20 | THE BILL OF RIGHTS: As president of the Senate, he signed the Bill of Rights John Adams |
| #2075, aired 1993-09-17 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Its population center is farther north than any other country's Iceland |
| #2064, aired 1993-07-22 | QUOTES OF THE 1960s: He once told Newsweek, "I have no country. For me a country is just a place to dance" Nureyev |
| #2024, aired 1993-05-27 | MEN OF SCIENCE: In addition to a pendulum, Jean Foucault made a simple one of these to prove the Earth rotated gyroscope |
| #2004, aired 1993-04-29 | THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: This was a separate city within the district until joined with Washington in 1878 Georgetown |
| #1999, aired 1993-04-22 | FORMS OF ADDRESS: The first form of address transmitted by telephone Mr. |
| #1990, aired 1993-04-09 | NEWS OF THE '30s: In 1935 Ontario made this group wards of the crown the Dionne quintuplets |
| #1901, aired 1992-12-07 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: This island nation has the world's largest Muslim population Indonesia |
| #1867, aired 1992-10-20 | MEN OF SCIENCE: In 1927, a year after his death, his autobiography "Harvest of the Years" was published Luther Burbank |
| #1851, aired 1992-09-28 | ENTERTAINERS OF THE PAST: This Missouri-born expatriate starred in the 1935 French film "Princess Tam-Tam" Josephine Baker |
| #1845, aired 1992-09-18 | FILMS OF THE '40s: In the 1940s this star made 8 films with Bing Crosby, more than any other actress Dorothy Lamour |
| #1840, aired 1992-09-11 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: The name of this country is New Latin for "place of freedom" Liberia |
| #1834, aired 1992-07-16 | FILMS OF THE '50s: One of the 1st lines in this William Holden film is "The poor dope. He always wanted a pool." Sunset Boulevard |
| #1828, aired 1992-07-08 | NATIONS OF THE WORLD: In one of its official languages, this country is called Repiblik Dayti Haiti |
| #1786, aired 1992-05-11 | SECRETARIES OF STATE: This Secretary of State's original first name was Heinz Henry Kissinger |
| #1715, aired 1992-01-31 | ACTORS OF THE PAST: Born in 1895, 2 of his greatest film roles were Julio Desnoyers & Ahmed Ben Hassan Rudolph Valentino |
| #1706, aired 1992-01-20 | THE STATUE OF LIBERTY: At her feet is a broken one of these chain |
| #1627, aired 1991-10-01 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: Last name of the 2 brothers from Virginia who signed the Declaration of Independence Lee |
| #1572, aired 1991-06-04 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: By its calendar this country became independent on the 5th day of Iyar, 5708 Israel |
| #1530, aired 1991-04-05 | FILMS OF THE '40s: Still making money in re-release, the 4 top-grossing films made in the '40s are by this studio Disney |
| #1513, aired 1991-03-13 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: This country in the Southern Hemisphere was named for a province of the Netherlands New Zealand |
| #1477, aired 1991-01-22 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: In 1935 this country officially changed its name to one that means "Land of the Aryans" Persia (or Iran) |
| #1441, aired 1990-12-03 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: Of the South American countries, the one that comes last alphabetically Venezuela |
| #10, aired 1990-08-18 | THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: A member of this famous family proposed it and he and his brother signed it for Virginia Lee |
| #1291, aired 1990-03-26 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: The world's most populous democracy India |
| #1213, aired 1989-12-06 | THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS: In terms of area it's the largest country in the British Commonwealth Canada |
| #1185, aired 1989-10-27 | FILMS OF THE '50s: The 2 "High" films in which Grace Kelly starred High Noon (1952) & High Society (1955) |
| #1181, aired 1989-10-23 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: After Haiti, it's the oldest independent black republic in the world Liberia |
| #1095, aired 1989-05-12 | BODIES OF WATER: Covering more than half a million square miles, it's the world's largest gulf the Gulf of Mexico |
| #1085, aired 1989-04-28 | FILMS OF THE '50s: The 1st part of this classic 1959 comedy is set in Chicago in February 1929 Some Like It Hot |
| #1062, aired 1989-03-28 | BODIES OF WATER: The only U.S. state whose coastline touches a body of water called a sea Alaska |
| #1031, aired 1989-02-13 | FILMS OF THE '80s: Oscar-winning film whose title character was played at age 3 by Richard Vuu & as an adult by John Lone The Last Emperor |
| #1017, aired 1989-01-24 | FILMS OF THE '40s: This 1941 film is the only one with a color in its title to win the "Best Picture" Oscar How Green Was My Valley |
| #971, aired 1988-11-21 | MUSICALS OF THE '80s: The hero of this Tony Award-winning "Best Musical" is sometimes known by a number, 24601 Les Misérables |
| #891, aired 1988-06-20 | BODIES OF WATER: This African river carries more water than any in the world except the Amazon the Congo River |
| #860, aired 1988-05-06 | BODIES OF WATER: It has the largest surface area of any lake south of the equator Lake Victoria |
| #843, aired 1988-04-13 | NAMES OF STATES: This U.S. state was named for a king, the grandson of Henry of Navarre Louisiana |
| #816, aired 1988-03-07 | JOAN OF ARC: Joan of Arc's battles against the English were part of this war Hundred Years' War |
| #762, aired 1987-12-22 | HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: The last time the Republicans had a majority in the House of Representatives was during this decade the 1950s |
| #714, aired 1987-10-15 | BODIES OF WATER: Country in which you'd have to be to build a bridge on the River Kwai Thailand |
| #687, aired 1987-09-08 | DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: Of the 56 people to sign the Declaration, the greatest number, 9, represented this state Pennsylvania |
| #621, aired 1987-04-27 | CODES OF HONOR: As bushido was to 16th century samurai, this was to 12th century knights chivalry |
| #571, aired 1987-02-16 | BODIES OF WATER: Bordering on Mich. & N.Y., these 2 Great Lakes are the only ones to border on 1 state each Lake Huron & Lake Ontario |
| #127, aired 1985-03-05 | BODIES OF WATER: Only Great Lake not forming part of Michigan's borders Lake Ontario |
