| #9178, aired 2024-10-09 | PLACE THE BOOK $400: John Irving's
"The Hotel ____ ____" New Hampshire |
| #9178, aired 2024-10-09 | PLACE THE BOOK $800: By John Green: "Looking for ____" Alaska |
| #9178, aired 2024-10-09 | PLACE THE BOOK $1200: Written in the voice of Hemingway's first wife Hadley:
"The ___ Wife" Paris |
| #9178, aired 2024-10-09 | PLACE THE BOOK $1600: A Newbery Medal winner set in South America:
"Secret of the ____" Andes |
| #9178, aired 2024-10-09 | PLACE THE BOOK $2000: A collection of tales by Sherwood Anderson: "Winesburg, ____" Ohio |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | U.S. PLACE NICKNAMES $400: The "Venice of America" &, at the height of spring break, "Fort Liquor-Dale" Fort Lauderdale |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | U.S. PLACE NICKNAMES $800: "The Home of the Blues", Tennessee Memphis |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | U.S. PLACE NICKNAMES $1600: "The Spa City", Arkansas Hot Springs |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | U.S. PLACE NICKNAMES $2000: "The Town Too Tough to Die", Arizona Tombstone |
| #9148, aired 2024-07-17 | U.S. PLACE NICKNAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): "The Weather Capital of the World", Pennsylvania Punxsutawney |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $400: With dueling illegal, Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr shot it out at Weehawken, New Jersey, a quiet spot along this river the Hudson |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $800: Rosa Parks was on the Cleveland Avenue bus in this city when she sat down for her rights in 1955 Montgomery |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $1200: Mathematician Gaspard Monge was on Napoleon's 1798 expedition to this country, where he studied the physics of mirages Egypt |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Before Hannibal could cross the Alps, he had to bring his army through this other European mountain range the Pyrenees |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $2000: When it became historic in 1215, the name of this spot by the Thames meant "meadow on council island" Runnymede |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $200: This humorous poem of 5 lines takes its name from a city in Ireland a limerick |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $400: Though more closely associated with Mexico, these hot chlii peppers are named for a city across the Yucatán Channel habanero |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $600: It's not just any plaid fabric, it's woven cotton known by the former name of a city in India Madras |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $1000: Popularly used for drapery & upholstery, this lustrous fabric is named for a city in the Middle East damask |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $3,000 (Daily Double): This word meaning to ramble comes from the name of a winding river in Turkey meander |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES $200: In biblical city names, Bethel is Hebrew for "house of God" & this city big in the New Testament means "house of bread" Bethlehem |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES $400: The name of this city comes from a French word referring to the river linking Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie Detroit |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES $800: The name of this capital city derives from a Maasai expression for "cool water" Nairobi |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES $1,000 (Daily Double): A conquistador combined the name of a local people & the Spanish word for water to name this country Nicaragua |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES $1000: This port city at the southeast tip of the Korean Peninsula comes from words for "cauldron" & "mountain" Pusan |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $400: Monica Seles says the locker room for the top women players here looks like it's in Buckingham Palace Wimbledon |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $800: Women "sizes 10-40" can shop at stores bearing this name, which includes a misspelling of founder Lena's first name on a bank form Lane Bryant |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $1200: On Chartres Street in this U.S. city stands the Old Ursuline Convent, spared by a 1794 fire after ferocious prayer from the nuns New Orleans |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $1600: Open for 10 days until the cops came in 1916, the Brownsville Clinic in Brooklyn was the USA's first to offer guidance about this birth control |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | A WOMAN'S PLACE $2000: Hillary Clinton was the first student ever asked to give the commencement address at this college Wellesley |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NUMERICAL PLACE NAMES $100: This road that serves as a border between Detroit and its northern suburbs was made somewhat famous by Eminem 8 Mile |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NUMERICAL PLACE NAMES $200: Though it only has four, this Jamaican resort town's name is Spanish for eight rivers Ocho Rios |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NUMERICAL PLACE NAMES $300: This strip of land in the Susquehanna River, seen here, was the scene of a big scare in 1979 Three Mile Island |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NUMERICAL PLACE NAMES $400: This north African capital's name reflects its history as one of 3 ancient neighboring cities Tripoli |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | NUMERICAL PLACE NAMES $500: Of the states you can stand in at the Four Corners Monument, it's the one to the northwest Utah |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | FIRE PLACE $200: 1871:
The Hôtel de Ville in this city is burned during the Commune Paris |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | FIRE PLACE $400: 1871:
The "Great Fire" of this city starts in a barn on De Koven Street Chicago |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | FIRE PLACE $600: 1925:
A fire melts a whole lot of wax at this landmark London place Madame Tussaud's |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | FIRE PLACE $1,000 (Daily Double): Circa 50 B.C.:
This city's library is torched (by Julius Caesar, some say) Alexandria |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | FIRE PLACE $1000: A 1776 fire destroyed this city's Teatro Regio Ducale; La Scala was built to replace it Milan |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $400: In 1066 William the Conqueror had the first documented coronation at this site Westminster Abbey |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $800: The last major conflict of the War of 1812, the battle of this city took place in January 1815, after the war had ended Battle of New Orleans |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $1200: Pericles might have misappropriated some funds from the Delian League to pay for this Acropolis building, begun in 447 B.C. the Parthenon |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $2000: In 1309 Clement V moved the papacy to what is now this French city, using lack of security in Rome as an excuse Avignon |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $3,500 (Daily Double): After taking up on another island, the Knights of Rhodes became the Knights of this place the Knights of Malta |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | SAME 2 LETTERS, DIFFERENT PLACE $200: IN & .in Indiana & India |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | SAME 2 LETTERS, DIFFERENT PLACE $400: CA & .ca California & Canada |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | SAME 2 LETTERS, DIFFERENT PLACE $600: AR & .ar Arkansas & Argentina |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | SAME 2 LETTERS, DIFFERENT PLACE $800: DE & .de Delaware & Germany |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | SAME 2 LETTERS, DIFFERENT PLACE $1000: AL & .al Alabama & Albania |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 3-WORD PLACE NAMES $400: April 23 is an annual celebration of a local hero in this Warwickshire town--& by the way, that middle word has 4 letters Stratford-upon-Avon |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 3-WORD PLACE NAMES $800: Pétionville is a wealthy suburb of this Caribbean capital Port-au-Prince |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 3-WORD PLACE NAMES $1600: This spot northwest of Philly got its name from a tavern named for Frederick II King of Prussia |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 3-WORD PLACE NAMES $2000: This sun-dappled city of southern France is home to famed hot springs & the atelier of Paul Cézanne Aix-en-Provence |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | 3-WORD PLACE NAMES $9,200 (Daily Double): A South American cidade & estado both go by this name Rio de Janeiro |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | ISTHMUS BE THE PLACE $400: Canal get a witness? The isthmus of this is the only land bridge between the Asian & African continents the Suez |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | ISTHMUS BE THE PLACE $800: The isthmus of Tehuantepec is near this country's Tabasco Plain Mexico |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | ISTHMUS BE THE PLACE $1200: A neck of Thailand & southern Myanmar, the Isthmus of Kra connects the mainland of Asia with this peninsula the Malay Peninsula |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | ISTHMUS BE THE PLACE $1600: The Isthmus of Boothia in this newish Canadian territory connects to the northernmost tip of North America's mainland Nunavut |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | ISTHMUS BE THE PLACE $2000: The isthmus of this, also the name of both an ancient & modern city, joins the Peloponnese with the Greek mainland Corinth |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | WHAT KINDA TV PLACE YOU LIVE IN? $400: "The Jeffersons" an apartment building |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | WHAT KINDA TV PLACE YOU LIVE IN? $800: Vern Schillinger & the gang on "Oz" prison |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | WHAT KINDA TV PLACE YOU LIVE IN? $1200: Chris Farley as Matt Foley, down by the river in a van |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | WHAT KINDA TV PLACE YOU LIVE IN? $1600: Jim Rockford; he kept it parked in Malibu a trailer |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | WHAT KINDA TV PLACE YOU LIVE IN? $2000: Commander Sheridan & the gang on "Babylon 5" a space station |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $400: This Indian capital was so named to distinguish it from the older city of the same name New Delhi |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $800: He named the Bounty Islands of the South Pacific after his ship Bligh |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $1200: Seen here is a big sign for the longest place name in Europe, a 58-letter town in this country, starting with "Llanfair" Wales |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $2000: Taking its name from the Spanish for "turtledove", it's the largest of the British Virgin Islands Tortola |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): Legend says this sea is named for Theseus' father, who flung himself into the waters when he thought his son was dead the Aegean |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | RELIGION HAS ITS PLACE $400: "Kirk" is a Scottish word for church, & Greyfriar's Kirk has stood for 400 years in this capital's Old Town Edinburgh |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | RELIGION HAS ITS PLACE $800: This type of house of worship can be decorated with inscriptions of Koranic verses, but no human figures a mosque |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | RELIGION HAS ITS PLACE $1600: Jesus was a regular shulgoer--the King James Bible says, "as his custom was, he went into" this "on the Sabbath day" the synagogue |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | RELIGION HAS ITS PLACE $2000: Here's a video clue of Hanoi's Tran Quoc Buddhist temple & if we had olfactory clues, you could smell the Hoi An this incense |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | RELIGION HAS ITS PLACE $3,000 (Daily Double): The Naval Academy one is pretty grand, though the word generally means "smaller than or subordinate to a church" a chapel |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | "IN" THE RIGHT PLACE $200: Benjamin Harrison's home is now a museum in this Midwestern capital Indianapolis |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | "IN" THE RIGHT PLACE $400: In 1815 Mount Tambora on this big archipelago had a huge eruption & lost much of its height Indonesia |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | "IN" THE RIGHT PLACE $600: In the center of Scotland's Highlands region, this onetime capital of the Picts has the U.K. postal abbreviation "IV" Inverness |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | "IN" THE RIGHT PLACE $800: Southwest of Seoul lies this big port city, site of a historic U.N. troop landing in 1950 Inchon |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | "IN" THE RIGHT PLACE $3,000 (Daily Double): This European city had the good fortune to host the Olympics twice--in 1964 & in 1976 Innsbruck |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | PLACE YOUR BETS $400: You've recently heard the name of this alliterative horse racing bet in which you have to pick the winners of 2 races in a row daily double |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | PLACE YOUR BETS $800: Prop bets for this 2022 event:
How many ads will have a dog, & what color liquid will be poured on the coach the Super Bowl |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | PLACE YOUR BETS $1200: In roulette an avenue bet, as in Tropicana Avenue, cover six numbers; only three for this bet, named for a roadway such as Fremont a street |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | PLACE YOUR BETS $1600: Small & big, these 2 forced bets are placed after the ante & before players have seen their cards in hold 'em poker blinds |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | PLACE YOUR BETS $2000: A horn bet in craps pays a sizeable amount due to the fact that these 4 numbers you're betting on are quite hard to hit a 2, 3, 11 & 12 |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | WRITE PLACE $400: Colm Tóibín's "Bad Blood" documented the people & politics of this island Ireland |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | WRITE PLACE $800: This 19th century author & satirist wrote the travel book "Roughing It" about spending time out West & away from the Civil War Twain |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | WRITE PLACE $1200: In "Double Vision", writer John Knowles recounts traveling to Jordan & stumbling upon David Lean directing this epic film Lawrence of Arabia |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | WRITE PLACE $1600: This classic 1934 novel opens, "I am living at the Villa Borghese", Henry Miller's name for Paris' Villa Seurat Tropic of Cancer |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | WRITE PLACE $2000: In his travel journals, Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote of taking this hyphenated railway, which played very loud Russian music the Trans-Siberian Railway |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | WE COME TO THIS PLACE FOR... $200: ...books, with more than 25 million of them cataloged at this site founded in 1800 the Library of Congress |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | WE COME TO THIS PLACE FOR... $400: ...serenity: the Kumano Nachi Taisha shrine of this religion, with Japan's tallest waterfall behind it Shinto |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | WE COME TO THIS PLACE FOR... $600: ...otherworldly objects: this NASA space center in Houston has a large cache of Moon rocks from the Apollo missions the Johnson Space Center |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | WE COME TO THIS PLACE FOR... $800: ...laughs, at this L.A. "Store" opened in 1972 on Sunset Blvd., with notable alumni like Billy Crystal & Eddie Murphy The Comedy Store |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | WE COME TO THIS PLACE FOR... $1000: ...caves: this Kentucky attraction, the world's longest system of them, with more than 400 miles of explored passages Mammoth Cave |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | PLACE"O" $200: You gotta pay your bills in this port city about 20 miles southeast of Niagara Falls Buffalo |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | PLACE"O" $400: The seat of Lucas County in Ohio, this city lies along the southwestern tip of Lake Erie Toledo |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | PLACE"O" $800: In 1876 it was a frontier town of 600 people; today this North Dakota city has around 125,000 Fargo |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | PLACE"O" $1000: This country highlighted here formerly declared its independence in 2008 but some EU members did not recognize it Kosovo |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | PLACE"O" $1,400 (Daily Double): Only Greenland & New Guinea are larger islands in size than this one in the Pacific Borneo |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $400: This island seen here is about 30 miles south of Cape Cod Nantucket |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $1200: This city, B'gosh, is located where the Upper Fox River enters Lake Winnebago Oshkosh |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $1600: For a romantic getaway, some couples head to Hawley or Lakeville in these mountains within northeastern Pennsylvania the Poconos |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $2000: Located near the Oregon border, this Washington city with a double-talk name is famous for its wines & vineyards Walla Walla |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $4,000 (Daily Double): It's the capital of a state & the seat of Laramie County Cheyenne |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $200: O say can you see--OK, just say--the name of this fort that defended Baltimore from the Brits on Sept. 13 & 14, 1814 Fort McHenry |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $400: Yo, this Philly building dating back to 1732 hosted the adopting of the Articles of Confederation Independence Hall |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $600: In the 17th century Cardinal Richelieu began using this as a state prison; in the 18th, it drew a big crowd outside the Bastille |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $800: Excavations showed that this English site begun around 3000 B.C. was connected to the Avon River by a paved avenue Stonehenge |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $1000: & that's the ballgame for the Yorkists here at the 1485 Battle of this; Tudor's your winner, as Plantagenet takes a tough loss the Battle of Bosworth Field |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $400: Its great bell clocks in at just over 15 tons Big Ben |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $800: Though this nickname for a large American city dates to the 1920s, it really took hold after a '70s tourism campaign Big Apple |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $1200: Located across from Mexico on the Rio Grande, this national park can hit 115 degrees & beep beep! has some roadrunners Big Bend |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $1600: Carmel is the northern gateway to this California region that was home to Henry Miller Big Sur |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | IT'S A "BIG" PLACE $2000: Actually a complex of hills, this Utah formation was named after a song about a hobo living the sweet life Big Rock Candy Mountain |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | I CREATED THAT FICTIONAL PLACE! $400: Take me down to the Emerald City where the streets are green & the girls are pretty Baum |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | I CREATED THAT FICTIONAL PLACE! $800: The Shire,
Mount Doom,
then back again Tolkien |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | I CREATED THAT FICTIONAL PLACE! $1200: Llareggub, which is "bugger all", backwards, in his native country Dylan Thomas |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | I CREATED THAT FICTIONAL PLACE! $1600: Brobdingnag, in a 1726 satire Swift |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | I CREATED THAT FICTIONAL PLACE! $2000: Erewhon, in an 1872 satire Samuel Butler |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS? $400: April 22, 1889 is the birthdate of this "City", capital of the Sooner State Oklahoma City |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS? $800: Faulkner titled a novel after this type of little town such as Pottersville, New York a hamlet |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS? $1600: A larger geographic division + "town" = this town on Cape Cod known for its "players" Provincetown |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS? $2,000 (Daily Double): Smaller than it sounds, this Illinois place was designated "Home of Superman" in 1972 Metropolis |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS? $2000: Virginia "burg"s include Peters-, Williams- & this one also with a man's name, site of an 1862 battle Fredericksburg |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | THE PLACE TO "B" $200: It's the right borough to be in if you want to watch Kevin Durant win a home game for the Nets Brooklyn |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | THE PLACE TO "B" $400: Visit the Reichstag & Charlottenburg Palace in between steins in this city Berlin |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | THE PLACE TO "B" $600: This "colorful" mountainous region is a site to see between South Dakota & Wyoming the Black Hills |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | THE PLACE TO "B" $800: During the ice age what's now this strait was a land bridge linking Asia to North America the Bering Strait |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | THE PLACE TO "B" $1000: Cruise down to Irkutsk region to take a dip in this deep, deep lake Baikal |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | A PLACE WITH DIRECTION $200: It's about 450 miles away from Greenland, & the magnetic one is on the move, heading toward Russia the North Pole |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | A PLACE WITH DIRECTION $400: The Greater & Lesser Antilles are major divisions of this group of islands the West Indies |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | A PLACE WITH DIRECTION $600: Michigan State University leads a Spartan lifestyle in this city on the Red Cedar River East Lansing |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | A PLACE WITH DIRECTION $800: Aberdeen is one of only 5 cities in this Midwest state to have more than 20,000 people South Dakota |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | A PLACE WITH DIRECTION $1000: The Devil's Hole off Edinburgh is an over 750-foot trench in this arm of the Atlantic the North Sea |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | A PLACE IN THE SUN $400: The colossus is long gone, but on this sunny island of Greece you can visit the Acropolis of Lindos Rhodes |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | A PLACE IN THE SUN $800: After flying over the Nazca Lines in this country, get away to Huacachina, an oasis in the middle of the desert Peru |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | A PLACE IN THE SUN $1200: Take the 3:10 to this city at the southwestern tip of Arizona that frequently ranks as the sunniest city in the United States Yuma |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | A PLACE IN THE SUN $1600: With over 300 sunny days each year, this tourist destination in the south of Spain has a name meaning "sun coast" the Costa del Sol |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | A PLACE IN THE SUN $2000: It looks like a different planet, but one of the hottest places on Earth is Dallol, in this largest Horn of Africa country Ethiopia |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $200: California's Badwater Basin sounds as enticing as this equally offputtingly named valley where it's located Death Valley |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $400: About an hour's drive from major theme parks, you'll find the city of Frostproof in this state Florida |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $600: George Vancouver named this inlet off Washington State for a lieutenant on his expedition Puget Sound |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $800: This city in Westchester County, New York gets its name from a Dutch title basically meaning "squire" Yonkers |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1000: 2 1/2 hours south of Indianapolis is this town named for an ethnicity & for the salt deposits that deer & buffalo once enjoyed French Lick, Indiana |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | PLACE YOUR FAST FOOD ORDER $200: A Mocha Frappé & a Filet-O-Fish McDonald's |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | PLACE YOUR FAST FOOD ORDER $400: A drumstick & thigh Fill Up Meal & some Extra Crispy tenders KFC |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | PLACE YOUR FAST FOOD ORDER $600: A Meatball Marinara footlong & an Italian B.M.T. Melt Subway |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | PLACE YOUR FAST FOOD ORDER $800: Black Pepper Angus Steak & some Beijing Beef Panda Express |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | PLACE YOUR FAST FOOD ORDER $1000: A Chalupa Supreme & Nachos Bellgrande Taco Bell |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $400: Mmm, I do love this type of pastry, & I don't even have to go to Europe to get one a danish |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $800: Named for an atoll, the site of nuclear testing, this then-daring 2-piece swimsuit exploded onto the scene in Paris in 1946 bikini |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1898 the Curies discovered this radioactive element & named it for Marie's country of birth polonium |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $1200: From a city in Morocco, it's the traditional hat seen here Fez |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $1600: Lyme disease derives its name from the town of Lyme in this state, where cases were first observed in the 1970s Connecticut |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | A PERSON, PLACE OR RING $200: Dating back to the 13th century, the Fisherman's Ring is a papal seal depicting this saint as said fisherman St. Peter |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | A PERSON, PLACE OR RING $400: 25,000 miles long & horseshoe-shaped, it burns burns burns in part due to eruptions of Mount Ruiz & Novarupta the Ring of Fire |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | A PERSON, PLACE OR RING $600: "I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic", this lawyer said at the Scopes trial Darrow |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | A PERSON, PLACE OR RING $800: Tybee Island, Georgia is 20 minutes from the historic graciousness of this city Savannah |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | A PERSON, PLACE OR RING $1,000 (Daily Double): When water is low, minerals leave a so-called bathtub ring in lakes like this manmade one in Utah & Arizona named for an explorer Lake Powell |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | A PLACE IN THE BIBLE $200: "And the Lord came down upon" this place, "on the top of" it... "and Moses went up" Mount Sinai |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | A PLACE IN THE BIBLE $400: "Hath not the scripture said, that Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of" this, "where David was?" Bethlehem |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | A PLACE IN THE BIBLE $600: "Therefore is the name of it called" this; "because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth" Babel |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | A PLACE IN THE BIBLE $800: "Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into" this region, now in northern Israel Galilee |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | A PLACE IN THE BIBLE $1000: "... And sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into" this country Egypt |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | "A" PLACE IN HISTORY $400: During the Peloponnesian War, a plague killed 1/5 of this city; Thucydides survived it to write the war's history Athens |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | "A" PLACE IN HISTORY $800: Named for British Major James Abbott, this Pakistani city was in the news in 2011 as the last residence of Osama bin Laden Abbottabad |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | "A" PLACE IN HISTORY $1200: Cleopatra & Mark Antony fought a doomed naval battle against Octavian at this Greek promontory Actium |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | "A" PLACE IN HISTORY $1600: Legend says Charlemagne caught a fatal fever aafter bathing in the hot springs aat this city in 814 Aachen |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | "A" PLACE IN HISTORY $2000: Au jus is a way to serve meat; this is a similar-sounding region won by France from England in the early 1200s Anjou |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | ROAD TRIP TO THE SAME-NAMED PLACE $200: You'll spend a lot of time on I-95 going from Maine to Georgia, maybe to see a major golf tournament Augusta |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | ROAD TRIP TO THE SAME-NAMED PLACE $400: Interstate stops in Cleveland & Cheyenne may await on a trek from Maine's largest city to Oregon's Portland |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | ROAD TRIP TO THE SAME-NAMED PLACE $600: Interstate stops in Cleveland & Cheyenne may await on a trek from Essex County, Mass. to Marion County, Oregon Salem |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | ROAD TRIP TO THE SAME-NAMED PLACE $800: You'll head south on I-65--& remember I said south--when you go from Miami University to the University of Mississippi Oxford |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | ROAD TRIP TO THE SAME-NAMED PLACE $2,000 (Daily Double): You start on Interstate 91 out of the one in Massachusetts & you end up on I-55 to reach the one in Illinois Springfield |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | A PLACE LIKE RIVER HILL $400: With hiking & golf, Cave Creek in the Sonoran Desert is a tourist draw just north of this state capital Phoenix, Arizona |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | A PLACE LIKE RIVER HILL $800 (Daily Double): Valley Stream, New York is on Long Island, in this county whose name brings the West Indies to mind Nassau County |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | A PLACE LIKE RIVER HILL $800: Lake Forest, Calif. was once known as "El" this, for the bulls of a nearby ranch; a Marine air base in the area had the same name (El) Toro |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | A PLACE LIKE RIVER HILL $1200: The Gulf Prairie Cemetery was his 1st resting place when he died in 1836; fittingly, he was moved to the capital of Texas in 1910 (Stephen) Austin |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | A PLACE LIKE RIVER HILL $1600: Mount Desert Island, Maine is where you'll find this national park Acadia National Park |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | A PLACE TO PARK YOUR YACHT $400: Your big, big yacht is welcome at Yacht Haven Grande on St. Thomas, an island in this U.S. chain the Virgin Islands |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | A PLACE TO PARK YOUR YACHT $800: Yas Marina is full of yachts in Abu Dhabi, one of these "E"s in the U.A.E. the Emirates |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | A PLACE TO PARK YOUR YACHT $1600: Port de Saint-Tropez, on what's known as the "French" this, has berths for hundreds of boats the Riviera |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | A PLACE TO PARK YOUR YACHT $2,000 (Daily Double): Yachts are welcome at the Marina Grande on the Isle of Capri, situated in the bay named for this southern Italian city Naples |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | A PLACE TO PARK YOUR YACHT $2000: After you've disembarked from Spain, swing your super yacht over to this party island's marina Ibiza |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | A QUIET PLACE $200: The Valley one at Oregon State & the Ablah one at Wichita State have special quiet zones--shouldn't the whole place be one? a library |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | A QUIET PLACE $400: Fountains, this type of place in Britain, was founded in 1132 by 13 Benedictines tired of the rowdy monks at St. Mary's in York a monastery (abbey) |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | A QUIET PLACE $600: Microsoft tests the noise of electronics in a room where you can hear your joints creak; it's measured at negative 20 of these units decibels |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | A QUIET PLACE $1000: One square inch of silence is a project for maintaining the quiet of the Hoh Rain Forest in this state's Olympic national park Washington |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | A QUIET PLACE $3,200 (Daily Double): The phrase "silent running" originated with this type of vessel going quiet to avoid detection a submarine |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $200: We're bullish on this Spanish city that tradition says was founded by & named for Pompey Pamplona |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $400: One of Simon Bolivar's last wishes was vengeance for the murder of a "sweet" friend for whom this Bolivian city is named Sucre |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $600: These islands that include New Georgia & Guadalcanal were named for a biblical king the Solomon Islands |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $800: The name of this national park & wildlife refuge in Tanzania roughly translates to "great open place" Serengeti |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $1000: These islands in the West Indies are so named because they're sheltered from the trade winds the Leeward Islands |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | PLACE-NAME NAMES $400: In a 2019 film he starred as Arthur Fleck, who becomes the villainous Joker Joaquin Phoenix |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | PLACE-NAME NAMES $800: This star who made a comeback with "Stranger Things" was named for a city in her birthplace of Minnesota Winona Ryder |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | PLACE-NAME NAMES $1200: The "TODAY" show is anchored by Hoda Kotb & this woman who is also NBC news chief legal correspondent Savannah Guthrie |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | PLACE-NAME NAMES $1600: She defeated Serena Williams to win the women's title at the 2018 U.S. Open (Naomi) Osaka |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | PLACE-NAME NAMES $2000: Just go with it--Andy Roddick is married to this model Brooklyn Decker |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | LET'S JAZZ UP THIS PLACE $400: Thelonious Monk really gets going "'Round" this title hour midnight |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | LET'S JAZZ UP THIS PLACE $800: A song called this fruit "Man" became a classic for Herbie Hancock & a movie title for Melvin Van Peebles Watermelon |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | LET'S JAZZ UP THIS PLACE $1200: This man's quartet experiments with time: "Take Five" is in 5/4 meter & "Blue Rondo A La Turk" is in 9/8 Dave Brubeck |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | LET'S JAZZ UP THIS PLACE $2000: When he wasn't scoring TV's "Peanuts" specials, this man recorded favorites like "Cast Your Fate To The Wind" (Vince) Guaraldi |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | LET'S JAZZ UP THIS PLACE $3,800 (Daily Double): Born in New Orleans, Louis Armstrong performed songs named for these 2 local "B" streets Bourbon & Basin |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | PLACE ON EARTH $200: A 40-foot Paris sculpture is called Le Pouce, French for thumb and ironically also for this small measure inch |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | PLACE ON EARTH $400: Check out the 130-foot Rain Vortex at Changi Airport in this city state island country directly below Malaysia Singapore |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | PLACE ON EARTH $600: Here's a building in UNAM in Mexico City that is the school's Institute of this Chemistry |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | PLACE ON EARTH $800: You can snorkel through Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park at this island the U.S. invaded in 1983 Grenada |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | PLACE ON EARTH $1000: You can't get higher in the lower 48 than the top of this mountain in the Sierra Nevada Mount Whitney |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGY $400: In German place names, bad means "bath" & a spa town got its name from this plural word for bath baden |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGY $800: Xian means "county" in this language Mandarin |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGY $1600: The Spanish word "Baja" in Baja California means this below (lower) |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGY $2000: This word that follows Andhra & Uttar comes from Sanskrit for "province" Pradesh |
| #8115, aired 2019-12-13 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGY $2,200 (Daily Double): From Indo-Iranian for "place", these 4 letters at the end of a place name mean "land of" stan |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | THAT PLACE USED TO BE CALLED... $400: Until 1784 music out of this city had the Fort Nashborough sound Nashville |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | THAT PLACE USED TO BE CALLED... $800: The Portuguese name for this island was Ilha Formosa, "Beautiful Island" Taiwan |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | THAT PLACE USED TO BE CALLED... $1600: Much of what makes up the Czech Republic today was once this kingdom, which was, oddly, once ruled by the Luxembourg Dynasty Bohemia |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | THAT PLACE USED TO BE CALLED... $2000: Until 1855 this Western Hemisphere capital city was known as Bytown Ottawa |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | THAT PLACE USED TO BE CALLED... $6,000 (Daily Double): St. Petersburg was once called Leningrad; similarly, Volgograd was once called by this name Stalingrad |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | THAT PLACE SOUNDS LEGENDARY $400: Casinos in Reno & Shreveport named for this lost city seem like the perfect place to pick up some gold El Dorado |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | THAT PLACE SOUNDS LEGENDARY $800: Danny Kaye & Ayn Rand went to this Norse hall of heroes, or at least a cemetery in a New York hamlet named for it Valhalla |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | THAT PLACE SOUNDS LEGENDARY $1200: This realm of legend has resurfaced in the Bahamas Atlantis |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | THAT PLACE SOUNDS LEGENDARY $1600: In 1942 FDR gave this name to what's now called Camp David; the old moniker is lost over the horizon Shangri-La |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | THAT PLACE SOUNDS LEGENDARY $2000: This 1972 book is named for an actual hill in Hampshire, England; in the novel it's a utopia sought by rabbits Watership Down |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THERE'S A TIME & A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING $200: East Pittsburgh,
Nov. 2, 1920:
Election returns are the first commercial broadcast in this medium radio |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THERE'S A TIME & A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING $400: Philly,
July 12, 1776:
John Dickinson asks the Continental Congress, hey, did you read these Articles I sent you? the Articles of Confederation |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THERE'S A TIME & A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING $800: London, 1854:
Dr. John Snow identifies the Broad Street pump as the cause of an epidemic of this disease cholera |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THERE'S A TIME & A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING $1,000 (Daily Double): 1541, Lima:
This conquistador is murdered at dinner in his palace Pizarro |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | THERE'S A TIME & A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING $1000: 1862,
this Tokyo castle:
Iemochi marries Princess Kazu in a shogun wedding Edo Castle |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | A PLACE ON THE LAKE $400: It's the most populous city on Lake Michigan Chicago |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | A PLACE ON THE LAKE $800: The second-largest city in Tanzania is the port of Mwanza on this African lake Victoria |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | A PLACE ON THE LAKE $1200: This spa town, a big name in bottled water, is on the French shore of Lake Geneva Evian |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | A PLACE ON THE LAKE $2,000 (Daily Double): Abu Simbel is on the shore of this body of water that didn't exist before 1970 Lake Nasser |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | A PLACE ON THE LAKE $2000: Come visit Goryachinsk, located on the shore of this oldest & deepest freshwater lake Lake Baikal |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | THAT'S A NOVEL PLACE $200: A Ngaio Marsh mystery is called "When in" this city Rome |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | THAT'S A NOVEL PLACE $400: A rum drink, or a 1998 Elmore Leonard novel Cuba Libre |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | THAT'S A NOVEL PLACE $600: E.M. Forster novel set against the backdrop of the British Raj A Passage to India |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | THAT'S A NOVEL PLACE $800: These title "Boys" in an Ira Levin novel are clones of Hitler The Boys from Brazil |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | THAT'S A NOVEL PLACE $1000: This Michael Crichton novel features a gorilla named Amy Congo |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | FILL IN THE FULL PLACE NAME $200: "The State of ___ ___ & Providence Plantations" Rhode Island |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | FILL IN THE FULL PLACE NAME $400: Founded in 963: "Grand Duchy of ___" Luxembourg |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | FILL IN THE FULL PLACE NAME $800: The province of "___ and Labrador " Newfoundland |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | FILL IN THE FULL PLACE NAME $1,000 (Daily Double): "___-Mesa-Scottsdale Metropolitan Statistical Area" Phoenix |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | FILL IN THE FULL PLACE NAME $1000: "Federated States of ___" Micronesia |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | PLACE HOLDERS $400: 169-foot-tall Nelson's column:
In this square Trafalgar Square |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | PLACE HOLDERS $800: Herald Square:
In this borough Manhattan |
| #7819, aired 2018-09-13 | PLACE HOLDERS $1200: Via Monte Napoleone:
In this fashionable city Milan |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | PLACE IT $200: The 1976 Democratic National Convention:
this New York City arena Madison Square Garden |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | PLACE IT $400: The Battle of Leyte Gulf:
this ocean the Pacific Ocean |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | PLACE IT $600: The 2010 World Expo:
this Chinese city Shanghai |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | PLACE IT $800: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre:
this Illinois county Cook County |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | PLACE IT $1000: The Choson dynasty beginning in 1392:
this unified country Korea |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | THIS IS "TH" PLACE $400: Head southwest out of central London to the borough of Kingston upon this Thames |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | THIS IS "TH" PLACE $800: Let's be thick as this ancient Egyptian capital that lay on both banks of the Nile Thebes |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | THIS IS "TH" PLACE $1200: From 1970 to 2000 this stadium on the Allegheny was the place for MLB fans Three Rivers Stadium |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | THIS IS "TH" PLACE $1600: This historic narrow pass runs between the Kallidhromon Massif & the Gulf of Maliakos Thermopylae |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | THIS IS "TH" PLACE $2000: In old lit, "ultima" this meant the furthest possible place Thule |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | FOUND MY PLACE IN THE BOOK $200: Jhumpa Lahiri's novel "The Namesake" follows a family moving from Calcutta to this collegey Boston-area city Cambridge |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | FOUND MY PLACE IN THE BOOK $400: This author left her familiar prairie settings for New Mexico in "Death Comes for the Archbishop" Willa Cather |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | FOUND MY PLACE IN THE BOOK $600: "Snow Falling in Spring" is Moying Li's memoir of growing up in China during this late 1960s tumult the Cultural Revolution |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | FOUND MY PLACE IN THE BOOK $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A Patricia Highsmith novel takes us all around Rome--here's where Freddie Miles is killed, & here, at the Europa hotel, is where this "Talented" title character hides out as Dickie Greenleaf the talented Mr. Ripley |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | FOUND MY PLACE IN THE BOOK $1000: "Even Silence Has an End" by Ingrid Betancourt tells of 6 years as a captive of the FARC organization in this country Colombia |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | VINYL RESTING PLACE $400: One of the first LP records pressed in 1931 was of the Philadelphia Orchestra playing this work Beethoven's Fifth |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | VINYL RESTING PLACE $800: In the '50s the Dukes of Dixieland were one of the first to record their albums with this new dual audio process stereo |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | VINYL RESTING PLACE $1200: A recent vinyl resurgence has been aided by this musician, who built a pressing plant in his Detroit hometown Jack White |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | PLACE "MAT"S $400: This word for a bullfighter is also a town in northwest Texas a matador |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | PLACE "MAT"S $800: This Bay Area hometown of Tom Brady was named for Spanish explorers for a Gospel writer San Mateo |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | PLACE "MAT"S $1200: John Sayles titled a movie about a violent labor dispute after this coal-mining town Matewan |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | PLACE "MAT"S $2000: The name of this state of central Brazil is Portuguese for "thick forest" Mato Grosso |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | PLACE "MAT"S $4,800 (Daily Double): Olive you should know that this capital of the Greek department of Messenia is a major fruit market Kalamata |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $400: Places on the map named for her include a land in Antarctica & a state in Australia Victoria |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $800: These two islands get their names from their sizes relative to each other Majorca and Minorca |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $1200: Under the name Batavia, this world capital was once the capital of the Dutch East Indies Jakarta |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $1600: Perhaps from an explorer named Fernandes, this Canadian Atlantic region means "farm worker" in Spanish Labrador |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $8,000 (Daily Double): This African capital is said to take its name from the mammal seen here Kampala |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | A PLACE FOR YOURSELF $200: It can refer to a small dwelling in the outdoors or a private room on a ship cabin |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | A PLACE FOR YOURSELF $400: Humidor, recliner & pool table are on a list of essentials for this 2-word male retreat; the TV goes without saying man cave |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | A PLACE FOR YOURSELF $600: A small church or a special room within a church for prayer or worship, it's from the Latin for "cape" a chapel |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | A PLACE FOR YOURSELF $1000: It sounds like having a baby, but it's really a fixed sleeping compartment on a train a berth |
| #7608, aired 2017-10-11 | A PLACE FOR YOURSELF $4,200 (Daily Double): Undershaw, home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, included this writing room, perhaps decorated in scarlet? a study |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | I USED TO RUN THE PLACE $200: Vicente Fox of the National Action Party Mexico |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | I USED TO RUN THE PLACE $400: 47-year ruler Hussein I Jordan |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | I USED TO RUN THE PLACE $600: From 1989 to 1994, F.W. de Klerk South Africa |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | I USED TO RUN THE PLACE $800: Later president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic Serbia |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | I USED TO RUN THE PLACE $1000: Gustav I Vasa, elected king in 1523 Sweden |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $400: This state capital was named for the fourth president of the United States Madison |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $800: This birthplace of FDR wasn't named for the place in London but for a colonial governor of New York Hyde Park |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1600: The name of this Pennsylvania borough is from Algonquian for "town of gnats", not groundhogs Punxsutawney |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $2000: Twin cities on the border of the "Lone Star State" & the "Natural State" share this name Texarkana |
| #7544, aired 2017-06-01 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): The German statesman seen here gave his name to this Midwestern capital Bismarck |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $200: Homer's "Iliad" takes its name from Ilium, Latin for this city Troy |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $600: We're talking Turkey & this long-haired breed of rabbit Angora |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $800: The word palace comes from the name of this hill where many Roman emperors resided the Palatine |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $1000: For contributions from Oak Ridge Lab & Vanderbilt Univ., element No. 117, a superheavy halogen, has been named this tennessine |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $1,400 (Daily Double): Any place that attracts a lot of visitors can be called this, even if it's not in Saudi Arabia a mecca |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | IN THE FIRST PLACE $400: For 12 days, in early 1924, Chamonix, France hosted the first of these sporting events the Winter Olympics |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | IN THE FIRST PLACE $800: He staged his first Wild West show in North Platte, Nebraska on July 4, 1882 Buffalo Bill Cody |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | IN THE FIRST PLACE $1600: The complete "Ring" cycle was first performed in 1876 at Wagner's own theater in this city Bayreuth |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | IN THE FIRST PLACE $2,000 (Daily Double): This area in the title of perhaps the most famous WWI novel saw the war's first major gas attack on April 22, 1915 the western front |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | IN THE FIRST PLACE $2000: This small Asian nation's independence day on May 20, 2002 made it the first new country of the 21st century East Timor |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | THIS IS "D" PLACE $200: This island off the northeastern coast of South America is known as Ile du Diable to the French Devil's Island |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | THIS IS "D" PLACE $400: In 2015 Lars Rasmussen became prime minister of this small European kingdom for the second time Denmark |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | THIS IS "D" PLACE $600: Sailors named this crater on an Oahu cape believing that the glimmering calcite crystals were precious gems Diamond Head |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | THIS IS "D" PLACE $1000: The Nieuwe Kerk in this Dutch city contains the tombs of William I & other rulers from the House of Orange Delft |
| #7248, aired 2016-03-02 | THIS IS "D" PLACE $1,200 (Daily Double): This Mideastern place is home to the world's richest horse race & the Desert Classic, a stop on the PGA Tour Dubai |
| #7219, aired 2016-01-21 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $200: From Jan. through March, enjoy a cool experience in Quebec at the Hotel de Glace, which is made of this ice |
| #7219, aired 2016-01-21 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $400: She does double duty covering sports & co-hosting "Dancing with the Stars" Erin Andrews |
| #7219, aired 2016-01-21 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $600: The names of these 2 South American countries end in the same 4 letters Paraguay & Uruguay |
| #7219, aired 2016-01-21 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $800: Term for the type of tall, tapering pillar seen here an obelisk |
| #7219, aired 2016-01-21 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $1000: The rambutan from Asia is a type of this a fruit |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME $200: Steel titan Andrew Carnegie helped transform American industry but was born in this country Scotland |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME $400: Architect Julia Morgan designed a home with 61 bathrooms for William Randolph Hearst at this Calif. town San Simeon |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME $600: The Vandals conquered parts of Italy, Spain & Africa but their first home may have been this Danish peninsula Jutland |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME $800: In 1926 Zane Grey built an elaborate home on this island off Los Angeles, where he spent most of the rest of his life Catalina |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME $1000: Henry Flagler's Palm Beach, Florida estate was named this, also the name of a "pale" London palace Whitehall |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | NEW PLACE NAME RHYME TIME $400: Sheep fabric from Constantinople Istanbul wool |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | NEW PLACE NAME RHYME TIME $800: A hypnotic state in Gaul a France trance |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | NEW PLACE NAME RHYME TIME $1200: A short romance in Peking Beijing fling |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | NEW PLACE NAME RHYME TIME $1600: A Formosa hairdressing shop a Taiwan salon |
| #7212, aired 2016-01-12 | NEW PLACE NAME RHYME TIME $2000: Costs in British Honduras Belize fees |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $200: This state name originally honored the queen whom Sir Walter Raleigh served Virginia |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $400: It's the only Great Lake whose name is not derived from a Native American language Superior |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $600: This state's Motley County was named for a physician killed in the Battle of San Jacinto Texas |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1000: This Ohio city is named for the Prussian who trained soldiers during the Revolutionary War Steubenville |
| #7171, aired 2015-11-16 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1,200 (Daily Double): The name of this Minn. waterfall is Dakota for "waterfall"; Longfellow named a Native American woman for it Minnehaha |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | PLACE YOUR "BET" $400: Your present spouse is your this 2-word phrase better half |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | PLACE YOUR "BET" $800: Your future spouse is your this word betrothed |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | PLACE YOUR "BET" $1200: To hurt someone who trusts you betrayal |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | PLACE YOUR "BET" $1600: It designates any constellation's second-brightest star beta |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | PLACE YOUR "BET" $2000: Pair it with "between" to mean in an awkward middle position betwixt |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | THE PLACE TO "B" $400: This European capital city was divided in 2 for almost 3 decades Berlin |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | THE PLACE TO "B" $1200: King Jigme reigns in this constitutional monarchy that borders China & India Bhutan |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | THE PLACE TO "B" $1600: Originally inhabited by Pygmies, it's last alphabetically of countries that begin with "B" Burundi |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | THE PLACE TO "B" $2000: Separating Wales & England, this channel bears the name of a port city Bristol |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | THE PLACE TO "B" $6,000 (Daily Double): This U.S. state capital was founded by the French in 1719 Baton Rouge |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | U.S. PLACE NAME CHANGES $400: The name of this largest New Mexico city once had a second "R", but it was hard to pronounce that way Albuquerque |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | U.S. PLACE NAME CHANGES $800: In 2005 Clark, Texas renamed itself for this satellite TV provider in exchange for 10 years free service Dish |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | U.S. PLACE NAME CHANGES $1200: In 1954 Mauch Chunk, Penn. changed its name to honor this Native American athlete buried there Jim Thorpe |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | U.S. PLACE NAME CHANGES $1600: New Archangel, Alaska's name was "spruced" up in 1867 when it was changed to this Sitka |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | U.S. PLACE NAME CHANGES $2,000 (Daily Double): This current state capital was once Beverwijck Albany |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | A PLACE TO STAY $400: Generally, prisons are run by the state or feds & hold felons; these are local lockups for misdemeanants jails |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | A PLACE TO STAY $800: This service lets you "rent unique places to stay from local hosts in 190+ countries" Airbnb |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | A PLACE TO STAY $1200: MHP stands for this type of community a mobile home park |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | A PLACE TO STAY $1600: Around 1900 the organization Volunteers of America pioneered these houses for those leaving incarceration halfway houses |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | A PLACE TO STAY $2000: Mi amigo, some hotels in Mexico & the Southwest offer these comfy cottages, Spanish for "little houses" casitas |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | PLACE NAMES $400: Mountains named for this color include Weissenstein, Dent-Blanche & Pizzo Bianco white |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | PLACE NAMES $800: 8 U.S. counties are named for this tribe, including one in Oklahoma, where they were relocated in the 1830s the Cherokee |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | PLACE NAMES $1600: This Southeast Asian island nation was named for a 16th century Spanish king the Philippines |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | PLACE NAMES $2000: This largest New Zealand city is named for a First Lord of the Admiralty, not a diving bird Auckland |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | PLACE NAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): Originally, the Atlantic referred to the sea near this mountain range but was later applied to the entire ocean the Atlas Mountains |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | TV: A NICE PLACE TO START $200: He's seen here as he looked playing Buffy Wilson on "Bosom Buddies" Tom Hanks |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | TV: A NICE PLACE TO START $400: "Big Daddy" & "Little Nicky" were both in the future when he was playing Theo's friend Smitty on "The Cosby Show" Adam Sandler |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | TV: A NICE PLACE TO START $600: This future "Men in Black" agent spent much of the '70s emoting as Dr. Mark Toland on "One Life to Live" Tommy Lee Jones |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | TV: A NICE PLACE TO START $800: In the 1960s he was assistant cattle drive boss Rowdy Yates on "Rawhide" Clint Eastwood |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | TV: A NICE PLACE TO START $1000: On "Family Ties", Michael J. Fox played this politically conservative character Alex P. Keaton |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | SORRY THE PLACE IS A MESS $400: I'm King Minos--welcome to my palace on this Greek island; haven't picked up much in the last 3,500 years Crete |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | SORRY THE PLACE IS A MESS $800: The temple at Tollan, Mexico was once the religious center of thousands of these "Tol" people Toltec |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | SORRY THE PLACE IS A MESS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows ruins and a map on the monitor.) 13th-century Whitby Abbey has been left a ruin by storms, neglect, the suppression of the monasteries &, of course, the German navy's shelling of this historic British county in 1914 Yorkshire |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | SORRY THE PLACE IS A MESS $1600: Add two letters to a Roman title to get the name of this Israeli city of Roman ruins Caesarea |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | SORRY THE PLACE IS A MESS $2000: Pueblo Bonito is one of the ruins of the ancestral Pueblo culture also known by this Navajo word Anasazi |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | THAT PLACE IS "GRAND"! $400: This city about 25 miles east of Lake Michigan, was founded by a fur trader in 1826 Grand Rapids |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | THAT PLACE IS "GRAND"! $800: The John D. Rockefeller Jr. memorial parkway links Yellowstone to this national park in Wyoming Grand Teton |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | THAT PLACE IS "GRAND"! $1200: George Town serves as a world capital on this Caribbean island, the largest in its group Grand Cayman |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | THAT PLACE IS "GRAND"! $1600: Hold your water! This city on the Columbia River is about 80 miles from Spokane & comprises 3 former towns Grand Coulee |
| #6914, aired 2014-10-09 | THAT PLACE IS "GRAND"! $2000: Let's dine at this N.D. city on the Red River; yah, it's not far from Fargo & has an Air Force base nearby, dontcha know Grand Forks |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | A PLACE FIT FOR A KING $400: In Pennsylvania you'll find the city called "King of" this former German state Prussia |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | A PLACE FIT FOR A KING $800: West of Seward Peninsula, King Island is a rocky isle in this strait the Bering Strait |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | A PLACE FIT FOR A KING $1200: Kings Canyon National Park in this mountain range is adjacent to Sequoia National Park the Sierra Nevada |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | A PLACE FIT FOR A KING $2,000 (Daily Double): This Theban area includes Luxor & Karnak the Valley of the Kings |
| #6901, aired 2014-09-22 | A PLACE FIT FOR A KING $2000: The seat of Ulster County, it was New York's first state capital Kingston |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FIRE PLACE $200: 586 B.C.:
Nebuchadnezzar burns this city's first temple Jerusalem |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FIRE PLACE $400: 1871:
The "Great Fire" of this city starts in a barn on De Koven Street Chicago |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FIRE PLACE $600: 1613:
It's fire burn & cauldron bubble for this city's Globe Theatre London |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FIRE PLACE $800: Circa 50 B.C.:
This city's library is torched (by Julius Caesar, some say) Alexandria |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | FIRE PLACE $1000: 1871:
The Hotel de Ville in this city is burned during the commune Paris |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $200: This city northwest of Denver gets its name from the large rock formations in the area Boulder |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $400: This inlet on Oahu was named for the gems once harvested there Pearl Harbor |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $600: 3 states are named for British kings: North Carolina, South Carolina & this other southern state Georgia |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $800: Named for Ralph Edwards' old radio show, this New Mexico city is called "T or C" for short Truth or Consequences |
| #6815, aired 2014-04-11 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1000: Grant County, Kansas is named for President Grant, as is this county seat Ulysses |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE DOME $400: In 1978 Ali beat Spinks & Dallas won the Super Bowl at this New Orleans venue, but not on the same night! the Superdome |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE DOME $800: In 2010 snow on the inflatable Teflon roof of this NFL team's Metrodome left the structure less-inflated the Minnesota Vikings |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE DOME $1600: Boasting the first fully retractable roof, which can close in 20 mins., the dome formerly known as Sky is in this city, eh Toronto |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE DOME $2000: Built in 1975 for $55.7 million, the Pontiac Silverdome, home to this NFL team, was sold in 2009 for $583,000 the Detroit Lions |
| #6727, aired 2013-12-10 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE DOME $5,000 (Daily Double): In an April 9, 1965 exhibition game, Mickey Mantle hit the first home run in this "8th Wonder of the World" the Houston Astrodome |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | A PLACE IN THE SUN $200: There's a 71% chance of sun in this city's neighborhoods, like Makiki & Waikiki Honolulu |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | A PLACE IN THE SUN $400: Almost all your days will be sunny in San Pedro de this Chilean desert Atacama |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | A PLACE IN THE SUN $600: Take the 3:10 to this Arizona town where there's a 90% chance of sunshine, tops in the country Yuma |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | A PLACE IN THE SUN $800: Torremolinos in Málaga province in this country is a good place to look for sun; it's part of the Costa del Sol Spain |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | A PLACE IN THE SUN $1000: There's a 76% chance of sun in this Colorado town that's Spanish for, um, "town" Pueblo |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | A PERSON, PLACE & THING $200: A "Solo" actor,
a good spot to cross a river,
a car company Ford |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | A PERSON, PLACE & THING $400: An L.A. Laker,
a city in Japan,
a type of beef Kobe |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | A PERSON, PLACE & THING $600: A "Fresh Prince",
a Kansas county,
a women's college Smith |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | A PERSON, PLACE & THING $800: A modern rock piano-playing chanteuse,
a "Valley" north of San Bernardino,
a fruit apple |
| #6575, aired 2013-03-29 | A PERSON, PLACE & THING $1000: A "Big Bang Theory" actor,
a city in Kansas,
a "New School for Design" Parsons |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $400: The "K" in the name of this over 28,000-foot peak stands for the Karakoram range K2 |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $800: Welcoming freed slaves to the land of their ancestors, this country's name is from the Latin word for "free" Liberia |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $1200: Famous for its Running of the Bulls, this city was founded by & named for Roman general Pompey Pamplona |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $1600: As you might guess, India derives its name from this river the Indus River |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $5,000 (Daily Double): The Arabic name of this biblical town means "house of meat"; the Hebrew name--"house of bread" Bethlehem |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $200: There's a canal named this in Mesa County, Colorado, a long way from the famous one in New York State Erie |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $400: The U.S. has 110 hospitals named for this helpful New Testament fella from Luke 10 the Good Samaritan |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $600: No shortage of U.S. islands called this; there are 162 besides the one that's home to Queens & Massapequa Long Island |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Idaho.) This Idaho ski resort was developed by the Union Pacific Railroad & named by a press agent who brought Hollywood stars to popularize the area Sun Valley |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $4,000 (Daily Double): Warm Springs, Georgia's airport is named for him Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | SPELLED LIKE A PLACE $400: Describing a climate that's more damp, it's spelled like a peak in Washington Rainier |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | SPELLED LIKE A PLACE $800: On the page, these annelids look just like a German city Worms |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | SPELLED LIKE A PLACE $1200: Pleasant, like the same-spelled city on the Cote d'Azur Nice |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | SPELLED LIKE A PLACE $1600: Information from a gauge, spelled like a Pennsylvania city Reading |
| #6427, aired 2012-07-24 | SPELLED LIKE A PLACE $2000: 4-letter adjective for XY chromosomers, looking just like the capital of the Maldives Male |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | THIS PLACE IS DUELSVILLE $400: In 1781 Emperor Joseph II staged a piano duel between Mozart & Muzio Clementi in this city Vienna |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | THIS PLACE IS DUELSVILLE $800: Green Park & Covent Garden were once favored dueling spots in this city London |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | THIS PLACE IS DUELSVILLE $1200: Pushkin fought his fatal duel in this city, just 34 years after it was founded Saint Petersburg |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | THIS PLACE IS DUELSVILLE $1600: In 2008 Bobby Fischer died in this island city, site of his 1972 chess duel with Boris Spassky Reykjavik |
| #6338, aired 2012-03-21 | THIS PLACE IS DUELSVILLE $2000: The book "War of the Rats" tells of a sniper duel during the winter 1942-43 battle for this Russian city Stalingrad |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $400: This North Carolina fort likes to "boast" that it's named for a Confederate general who was born in the state Fort Bragg |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $800: This river, part of the Oregon-Washington border, was named in 1792 for Robert Gray's ship the Columbia |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1600: This New Mexico city on old Route 66 was named for a paymaster on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, not a pollster Gallup |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): The name of this suburb of Washington, D.C. is from the Hebrew for "house of grace" Bethesda |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | PLACE $400: It's Australia's second-most populous city Melbourne |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | PLACE $1200: Once part of Yugoslavia, this country consists of a Muslim-Croat federation & a Serbian-led republic Bosnia-Herzegovina |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | PLACE $1600: Pico Mogoton, Nicaragua's highest point, lies on its northern border with this country Honduras |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | PLACE $2000: This "Great" depression stretches about 4,500 miles, from Syria to Mozambique the Great Rift Valley |
| #6301, aired 2012-01-30 | PLACE $5,000 (Daily Double): Cape Dezhnev, the easternmost point on mainland Asia, juts into this strait the Bering Strait |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $400: No big surprise--this hook-shaped peninsula of Massachusetts was named for the fish caught off its shores Cape Cod |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $800: This New York City borough was named for Catherine of Braganza, Charles II's wife Queens |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1200: Manila, Utah receieved its name in 1898 to commemorate a victory by Admiral Dewey during this war the Spanish American War |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1600: One of Texas' barrier islands, this island was named for its wild horses, not its Ford coupes Mustang |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $2000: "Sew" what you're saying is this California city, on the edge of the Mojave Desert, is named for some really sharp peaks Needles |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $400: The name of this river that flows past Mount Vernon may mean "place where people trade" the Potomac |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $800: This capital city of Florida got its name from Creek words meaning "old town" Tallahassee |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1200: Merle Haggard sang, "I'm proud to be an Okie from" this place Muskogee |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1600: In 1863 a Civil War battle took place around Chickamauga Creek in this state Georgia |
| #6157, aired 2011-05-24 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): Massai Point in this state's Cochise County was named for an Apache warrior Arizona |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | A PLACE I'VE NEVER BEEN $400: The Air Massif, rising from this desert in Niger the Sahara |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | A PLACE I'VE NEVER BEEN $800: Skyros Island in this sea the Aegean |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | A PLACE I'VE NEVER BEEN $1600: Wapusk National Park, in this province one east of Saskatchewan Manitoba |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | A PLACE I'VE NEVER BEEN $2000: This temple complex 4 miles north of Siem Reap, Cambodia Angkor Wat |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | A PLACE I'VE NEVER BEEN $2,600 (Daily Double): The Parana Valley in this country with the same first 4 letters Paraguay |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | THE PLACE TO "B" $200: Flatbush & Flatlands are neighborhoods in this NYC borough Brooklyn |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | THE PLACE TO "B" $400: A resort town in Northern Ireland shares its name with this third-largest city in Maine Bangor |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | THE PLACE TO "B" $600: It's the westernmost & third largest of Canada's provinces British Columbia |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | THE PLACE TO "B" $800: This city's ruins lie on the Euphrates River about 50 miles south of Baghdad Babylon |
| #6093, aired 2011-02-23 | THE PLACE TO "B" $1000: In the 1990s the sultan of this country was the world's richest man Brunei |
| #6082, aired 2011-02-08 | A PLACE CALLED CARSON $400: Carson, California is home base for "Spirit of America", one of this company's blimps Goodyear |
| #6082, aired 2011-02-08 | A PLACE CALLED CARSON $800: Carson, Wash. is just above the Columbia River, less than a mile from a highway named for these explorers Lewis & Clark |
| #6082, aired 2011-02-08 | A PLACE CALLED CARSON $1200: Kit Carson Peak is one of this mountainous state's many 14ers Colorado |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | "STAN" IN THE PLACE WHERE YOU LIVE $400: Karachi is this country's chief port Pakistan |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | "STAN" IN THE PLACE WHERE YOU LIVE $800: Mazar-e Sharif, Ghazni & Kandahar are cities in this country Afghanistan |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | "STAN" IN THE PLACE WHERE YOU LIVE $1,000 (Daily Double): If you don't count the 2 Ys, the A in this "stan" is the only vowel in its 10-letter name Kyrgyzstan |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | "STAN" IN THE PLACE WHERE YOU LIVE $1200: Aralsk, Shu & (Good Lord!) Almaty are cities in this country Kazakhstan |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | "STAN" IN THE PLACE WHERE YOU LIVE $2000: You'll find Uchkuduck & the Ustyurt Plateau in this country Uzbekistan |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE $400: In 1983 Barbara Boxer punched in as a congresswoman from this state California |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE $800: In 1978 she was elected to the house from N.Y.'s Ninth District; in 1984 she was not elected vice president Geraldine Ferraro |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE $1200: She gently drifted down from Maine to D.C. in 1979; she's in the Senate now (Olympia) Snowe |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE $1600: In 2002 this Florida Secretary of State published "Center of the Storm" & was elected to Congress Katherine Harris |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE $2000: Former Rep. Debbie Stabenow took a stab & is now a U.S. senator from this state Michigan |
| #6006, aired 2010-10-25 | ODD PLACE NAMES $200: Donna Summer could be the "queen of" this Illinois farming community with a musical name Disco |
| #6006, aired 2010-10-25 | ODD PLACE NAMES $400: Meaning 2-shelled, the name of this New Jersey town goes back to its oyster industry days Bivalve |
| #6006, aired 2010-10-25 | ODD PLACE NAMES $600: The ghost town of Adaven is in this state; holding "Adaven" up to a mirror might help Nevada |
| #6006, aired 2010-10-25 | ODD PLACE NAMES $800: You can cash in if you know there's a town in Texas with this name, the Spanish word for money Dinero |
| #6006, aired 2010-10-25 | ODD PLACE NAMES $1000: Drop the "Old" from Zachary Taylor's nickname & you'll have the name of this town in Northern California Rough & Ready |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | A PLACE TO CALL HOME $400: James Buchanan was one of several presidents born in this 2-word type of dwelling a log cabin |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | A PLACE TO CALL HOME $800: From Greek words for "living alone", it's the place a monk calls home a monastery |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | A PLACE TO CALL HOME $1200: A structure where soldiers are quartered; it follows "Schofield" in the name of a U.S. army post a barracks |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | A PLACE TO CALL HOME $1600: In "The Song of Hiawatha", one of these Indian dwellings stood "by the shores of Gitche Gumee" a wigwam |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | A PLACE TO CALL HOME $2000: One of these Alpine houses with a Swiss name is a nice place to call home a chalet |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | IS THIS PLACE FOR REAL? $200: Peter Pan was from this imaginary place Never Never Land |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | IS THIS PLACE FOR REAL? $400: This heralded city was home to the court of King Arthur & his knights of the round table Camelot |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | IS THIS PLACE FOR REAL? $600: It's the city that Batman calls home (Bruce Wayne too) Gotham City |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | IS THIS PLACE FOR REAL? $800: Scarlett's father Gerald O'Hara won this plantation in a card game Tara |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | IS THIS PLACE FOR REAL? $1,000 (Daily Double): Spanish conquistadors long sought this mythical city of gold in the Americas El Dorado |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $200: Like its lengthy river, this state's name is Algonquian for "great water" Mississippi |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $400: Laugh all you like but Hiawatha's wife in a poem by Longfellow was named for this Minnesota waterfall Minnehaha |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $800: Although its name means "place of sandflies", we associate this Pennsylvania borough with groundhogs Punxsutawney |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Moving right along--this large Alabama city, as well as a river & bay, was named for an Indian tribe in the region Mobile |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1000: An RV maker based in Iowa shares its name with this large Wisconsin lake Winnebago |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | PLACE NAME PARTNERS $200: Bosnia & ____ Herzegovina |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | PLACE NAME PARTNERS $400: ____ & Tobago Trinidad |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | PLACE NAME PARTNERS $600: ____ & Nevis St. Kitts |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | PLACE NAME PARTNERS $800: Saint Vincent & ____ the Grenadines |
| #5689, aired 2009-05-07 | PLACE NAME PARTNERS $1000: Antigua & ____ Barbuda |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | A PLACE FOR MY STUFF $200: This word for a food-storage closet comes from a word meaning "bread room" pantry |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | A PLACE FOR MY STUFF $400: The French name of this piece of furniture indicates it should be used to store weapons, not clothes & TVs an armoire |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | A PLACE FOR MY STUFF $600: The first chapter of a C.S. Lewis novel is called "Lucy Looks Into" one of these a Wardrobe |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | A PLACE FOR MY STUFF $800: In many preschools, kids keep their things in these cozy "holes" a cubbyhole |
| #5620, aired 2009-01-30 | A PLACE FOR MY STUFF $1000: This 3-letter word can be a coal scuttle or a trough for carrying bricks a hod |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME $200: This style that's popular in San Francisco was named for a British monarch Victorian |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME $400: The Hollyhock House was this architect's first California commission (Frank Lloyd) Wright |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME $600: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from New York.) From the Strawberry Fields area of Central Park, you can look up at this building where John Lennon lived the Dakota |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME $800: It was originally built as a comfortable family home; a few rooms have been added since the 1700s Buckingham Palace |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME $1,000 (Daily Double): The White House Green Room is decorated in this style at its most popular between 1790 & 1820 Federal |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $200: Ah, can you smell it? The name of this former British colony is Chinese for "fragrant harbor" Hong Kong |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $400: Mountain ranges in the U.S., Mexico & the Philippines all have this name meaning "mother mountain" Sierra Madre |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $600: (Jon of the Clue Crew points to a spot on the globe.) Appropriately, Australia--located here near the bottom of the globe--gets its name from a Latin word meaning this south |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $800: The name of this Indonesian island is believed to come from a word for barley, not coffee Java |
| #5607, aired 2009-01-13 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $1000: This 5,700-square-mile national park in Tanzania means "great open place" Serengeti |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $400: The name of this state capital & port city is French for "red stick" Baton Rouge |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $800: One of the world's largest steel plants can be found in this Indiana city named for a chairman of U.S. Steel Gary |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1200: Bartholomew Gosnold may have named this Mass. island for his daughter & for the plants he found there Martha's Vineyard |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1600: Haakon County, South Dakota was named for a king of this country Norway |
| #5463, aired 2008-05-14 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $2000: He wrote the poem from which Pippa Passes, Kentucky took its name Robert Browning |
| #5447, aired 2008-04-22 | MELROSE PLACE $200: The cunning Amanda on "M.P.", this actress divorced Richie Sambora in 2007 Heather Locklear |
| #5447, aired 2008-04-22 | MELROSE PLACE $400: Hey, nice to meet this actress who played Jennifer Mancini in 1997; "Charmed", I'm sure Alyssa Milano |
| #5447, aired 2008-04-22 | MELROSE PLACE $600: Prior to "According to Jim", she spent several seasons on "Melrose" as Alison Parker Courtney Thorne-Smith |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | PARK PLACE $200: Longhorn Cavern State Park Texas |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | PARK PLACE $400: San Simeon State Park California |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | PARK PLACE $600: Manatee Springs State Park Florida |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | PARK PLACE $800: Cumberland Falls State Resort Park Kentucky |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | PARK PLACE $1000: Crater of Diamonds State Park Arkansas |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | FORMER PLACE NAMES $400: From 1793 to 1834, this now-largest Canadian city was known as York Toronto |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | FORMER PLACE NAMES $800: What was once East Pakistan is today this country Bangladesh |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | FORMER PLACE NAMES $1200: This country was formerly called Abyssinia Ethiopia |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | FORMER PLACE NAMES $1600: Miss Saigon? It's still around, it just goes by this name Ho Chi Minh City |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | FORMER PLACE NAMES $2000: In 1966 Leopoldville, the capital of Congo, was renamed this Kinshasa |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | SPANISH PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $400: A state capital:
"Holy Faith" Santa Fe |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | SPANISH PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $800: A state:
"Flowery" Florida |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | SPANISH PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $1200: A border city:
"The Passage" El Paso |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | SPANISH PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $1600: A California city:
"The Cats" Los Gatos |
| #5182, aired 2007-03-06 | SPANISH PLACE NAMES IN THE U.S. $2000: A western state:
"Snow Covered" Nevada |
| #5170, aired 2007-02-16 | CLEAN THIS PLACE UP! $200: A bundle on a stick used for cleaning floors, or a similar-looking mass of hair a mop |
| #5170, aired 2007-02-16 | CLEAN THIS PLACE UP! $400: Holystone, which may get its name from being used while kneeling, was used to clean these "floors" of ships decks |
| #5170, aired 2007-02-16 | CLEAN THIS PLACE UP! $600: In a common appliance, a suction fan creates this, which outside air tries to fill, drawing in dirt a vacuum |
| #5170, aired 2007-02-16 | CLEAN THIS PLACE UP! $800: It can mean to polish something to a shine, or be an adjective for a guy who lifts a lot of weights buff |
| #5170, aired 2007-02-16 | CLEAN THIS PLACE UP! $1000: This name of doctors' green suits comes from the cleaning action usually done while wearing them scrubs |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NOME $400: Read all about it! The Nome Nugget, founded in 1900, is Nome's & Alaska's oldest one of these a newspaper |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NOME $800: "The Golden Beaches of Nome" is a chapter title in the novel "Alaska" by this author James Michener |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NOME $1,200 (Daily Double): Nome is situated on the south shore of a wide peninsula bearing the name of this cabinet member Seward |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NOME $1600: The subject of a 1995 animated movie, this sled dog led the team that brought medicine to save Nome in 1925 Balto |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NOME $2000: As part of a voyage through the Northwest Passage, this Norwegian reached Nome in September 1906 Amundsen |
| #5017, aired 2006-06-06 | BIBLICAL PERSON, PLACE OR THING $400: Cana place |
| #5017, aired 2006-06-06 | BIBLICAL PERSON, PLACE OR THING $800: Shadrach person |
| #5017, aired 2006-06-06 | BIBLICAL PERSON, PLACE OR THING $1200: Timbrel thing |
| #5017, aired 2006-06-06 | BIBLICAL PERSON, PLACE OR THING $1600: Beryl thing |
| #5017, aired 2006-06-06 | BIBLICAL PERSON, PLACE OR THING $2000: Ulam person |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | NO PLACE TO GO $400: This fictional character carves a post with the words "I came on shore here on the 30th of Sept. 1659" Robinson Crusoe |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | NO PLACE TO GO $800: Listen! Up in the attic! It must be Mr. Rochester's first wife!--in this 1847 novel Jane Eyre |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | NO PLACE TO GO $1200: In one version of the story, Nimiane, also known as Nimue, imprisons this magician in a tower of air Merlin |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | NO PLACE TO GO $1600: In an adventurous 1894 novel, the king of Ruritania is "The Prisoner of" this place Zenda |
| #5008, aired 2006-05-24 | NO PLACE TO GO $2000: An infernal drawing room is the sole setting of this existential 1944 play No Exit |
| #4964, aired 2006-03-23 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ANCIENT ROME $400: This "Great" king of the New Testament became King of Judea with Rome's help in 37 B.C. Herod |
| #4964, aired 2006-03-23 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ANCIENT ROME $800: Led by Bleda & his brother, this group attacked Rome in the 5th century A.D. the Huns |
| #4964, aired 2006-03-23 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ANCIENT ROME $1600: In Cicero's day, this December Roman festival of unrestrained merrymaking lasted for 7 days Saturnalia |
| #4964, aired 2006-03-23 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ANCIENT ROME $2,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "offspring", they were the lowest class of ancient Roman citizens the proletariat |
| #4964, aired 2006-03-23 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ANCIENT ROME $2000: The most central of Rome's 7 hills; Nero & Augustus lived on it the Palatine |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | "O", WHAT A PLACE! $400: A saltwater lake, Lake Merritt, lies in the heart of the downtown of this city on San Francisco Bay Oakland |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | "O", WHAT A PLACE! $800: Because of its many canals & rivers, this city is known as the "Venice of Japan" Osaka |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | "O", WHAT A PLACE! $1600: Akershus Castle, overlooking a fjord, is a popular tourist attraction in this capital Oslo |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | "O", WHAT A PLACE! $2000: A spectacular stairway called the Potemkin Steps slopes down to this Ukraine seaport's harbor on the Black Sea Odessa |
| #4790, aired 2005-06-03 | "O", WHAT A PLACE! $3,000 (Daily Double): This state capital is home to Evergreen State College Olympia |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $400: Immigrants from this country named a South Dakota county Haakon, in honor of King Haakon VII Norway |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $800: This Los Angeles suburb was named for a New Hampshire-born dentist, not the potato guy Burbank |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1200: George Vancouver named this volcano for the baronial title of Alleyne Fitzherbert, a British diplomat Mount St. Helens |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1600: This city's name is from the French for "strait"; it lies on a strait between Lake Erie & Lake St. Clair Detroit |
| #4730, aired 2005-03-11 | AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $7,000 (Daily Double): This Penn. city was named for 2 members of the British parliament who were sympathetic to the American Colonies Wilkes-Barre |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $200: Determined by a coin toss, this Oregon city's name honors the one in Maine Portland |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $400: With a little "faith", you'll find this state capital in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountains Santa Fe |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $600: Named for an Indian tribe, this Washington city hosted Expo '74 Spokane |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $800: See this town, see it run along the only road in Hickman County, Tennessee Spot |
| #4715, aired 2005-02-18 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Popular with shoppers, this Pa. town was named for a tavern that was named after Frederick the Great King of Prussia |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | THERE'S A PLACE FOR US $200: It's a place for unknown bands to rehearse or a place to store a car a garage |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | THERE'S A PLACE FOR US $400: It's a small booth for a farmer's market merchant, or a place to store your horse a stall |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | THERE'S A PLACE FOR US $600: These may be small, but they are beach front property, and a place to change your suits a cabana |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | THERE'S A PLACE FOR US $800: Soldiers on an army base bunk in these, from the Spanish for "hut" barracks |
| #4685, aired 2005-01-07 | THERE'S A PLACE FOR US $1000: "There is" one of these "in the town, in the town, and there my dear love sits him down, sits him down" a tavern |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | A NOUN IS A PERSON, PLACE OR THING $200: Thing:
Tin-y silverware a fork |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | A NOUN IS A PERSON, PLACE OR THING $400: Person:
The controversial Supreme Court nominee seen here (Robert) Bork |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | A NOUN IS A PERSON, PLACE OR THING $600: Place:
The Irish county where you'll find Kinsale Harbor Cork |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | A NOUN IS A PERSON, PLACE OR THING $800: Thing:
Tolkien's evil version of a goblin an orc |
| #4675, aired 2004-12-24 | A NOUN IS A PERSON, PLACE OR THING $1000: Place:
The Pennsylvania city where the Articles of Confederation were adopted York |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | DATE & PLACE $200: April 9, 1865, Appomattox Court House:
These 2 leaders Lee & Grant |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | DATE & PLACE $400: July 29, 1981, St. Paul's Cathedral:
This couple (& 2,700 of their guests) Charles & Diana |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | DAYTON PLACE $400: This famous brother, the younger of the two, flew into the world in Dayton, Ohio on August 19, 1871 Orville Wright |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | DATE & PLACE $600: July 20, 1969, Mare Tranquillitatus:
These 2 men Armstrong & Aldrin |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | DATE & PLACE $800: June 25, 1876, the Montana Territory:
This lt. col., under Gen. Alfred Terry, & his 200-man unit Custer |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | DAYTON PLACE $800: Floridians might be surprised to find Dayton is on a low floodplain of this "Great" river the (Great) Miami (River) |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | DATE & PLACE $1000: November 20, 1975, Madrid:
This head of state becomes dead; he still is Francisco Franco |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | DAYTON PLACE $1200: Life was "A Bowl of Cherries" for this Dayton-born author, who also penned a column called "At Wit's End" Erma Bombeck |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | DAYTON PLACE $1600: In 1879 Dayton's James Ritty made a "mechanical drawer" that was developed into NCR products; NCR, "National" this Cash Register |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | DAYTON PLACE $2000: 1995's Dayton Accords aimed to end the conflict in this double-named country Bosnia-Herzegovina |
| #4593, aired 2004-07-21 | THERE'S A PLACE FOR US $400: You can check Shabbat start times on jpost.com, a website for a newspaper in this city Jerusalem |
| #4593, aired 2004-07-21 | THERE'S A PLACE FOR US $800: George H.W. Bush has a home in Tanglewood, a neighborhood of this Texas city Houston |
| #4593, aired 2004-07-21 | THERE'S A PLACE FOR US $1200: You'll discover this city is home to the main campus of the Ohio State University Columbus |
| #4593, aired 2004-07-21 | THERE'S A PLACE FOR US $1600: Belgium has 3 federal regions, Wallonia, Flanders & this one, which includes the capital Brussels |
| #4593, aired 2004-07-21 | THERE'S A PLACE FOR US $2000: St. Paul was born as Saul in this city Tarsus |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | HOLY PLACE NAMES $400: You'll find Bethel College & Seminary in this "holy" Minnesota city St. Paul |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | HOLY PLACE NAMES $800: French for "God", it follows "La Chaise" in the name of a French abbey town Dieu |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | HOLY PLACE NAMES $1200: This New Zealand city was named for a college at Oxford Christchurch |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | HOLY PLACE NAMES $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Alaska) Michael, pictured in The Bishop's House, holds this title, which was also what the Russians called Sitka Archangel |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | HOLY PLACE NAMES $2000: Islamabad, Pakistan is northwest of this Indian city that bears the name of Islam's god Allahabad |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $200: This Kansas capital derives its name from the Siouan for "A good place to dig potatoes"; can you dig it? Topeka |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $400: "Buffalo Fish & Tyler Too" doesn't sound quite as poetic as this Indian name for the river Tippecanoe |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $600: As a child George W. Bush spent summers with his family at their home in this Maine town Kennebunkport |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $800: You'd have a whale of a good time visiting this Massachusetts island whose name may mean "the faraway land" Nantucket |
| #4475, aired 2004-02-06 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1000: Appropriately, this lake near the Everglades has a Seminole name meaning "big water" Okeechobee |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $400: Named for the place in England, the name of this New Hampshire city means "the mouth of the port" Portsmouth |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $800: This Hawaiian site got its name in the 1800s with the discovery of what turned out to be worthless calcite crystals Diamond Head |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1200: This New Jersey city is named for the man who invented the carbon telephone transmitter in 1877 Edison |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1600: This city in Orange County, North Carolina was named for the location of a church building Chapel Hill |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $2000: Our county, right or wrong; it's the seat of Macon County, Illinois Decatur |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | PLACE THAT TUNE $400: "Summertime" Porgy & Bess |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | PLACE THAT TUNE $700 (Daily Double): "Colonel Buffalo Bill" Annie Get Your Gun |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | PLACE THAT TUNE $800: "Sunrise, Sunset" Fiddler on the Roof |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | PLACE THAT TUNE $1200: "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" Carousel |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | PLACE THAT TUNE $2000: "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" Showboat |
| #4353, aired 2003-07-02 | UNUSUAL PLACE NAMES $200: While there's no Mama in this state, there is a Papa & a Papaaloa Hawaii |
| #4353, aired 2003-07-02 | UNUSUAL PLACE NAMES $400: It's the state where you'll find Tumtum, Nooksack & Walla Walla Washington |
| #4353, aired 2003-07-02 | UNUSUAL PLACE NAMES $800: An Alaskan town bears the name of this type of bread, a staple of miners during the Gold Rush Sourdough |
| #4353, aired 2003-07-02 | UNUSUAL PLACE NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): This town, 10 miles south of Boston, sounds like it grows cerebrums & cerebellums on its branches Braintree |
| #4353, aired 2003-07-02 | UNUSUAL PLACE NAMES $1000: In the 1950s this Texas town considered changing its name, so as not to be associated with the Nabokov novel Lolita |
| #4335, aired 2003-06-06 | MY PLACE? $200: A Norman could say, "I'm the king of the motte-and-bailey style of" this castle |
| #4335, aired 2003-06-06 | MY PLACE? $400: As he often said, Chris Farley's character Matt Foley lived in one of these down by the river van |
| #4335, aired 2003-06-06 | MY PLACE? $600: The introduction to "The Song of Hiawatha" mentions "the curling smoke of" these dwellings wigwams |
| #4335, aired 2003-06-06 | MY PLACE? $800: A book subtitled "Architecture in the Colombian Countryside" showcases the estates called these in Spanish haciendas |
| #4335, aired 2003-06-06 | MY PLACE? $1000: A western camper pitches a tent; a central Asian nomad pitches this yurt |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $400: When Arabs are first mentioned, in an Assyrian inscription of the 800s B.C., they are associated with these animals camels |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $800: The tarsier, the pygmy marmoset & the baboon all belong to this order of mammals primates |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $1200: The 2 types of alligator are the American alligator & a rare variety that makes its home in this Asian country China |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $1600: It's the colorful state bird of Delaware blue hen chicken |
| #4314, aired 2003-05-08 | THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $2000: Believed to bring good luck, the korat is a rare, short-haired breed of this animal from Thailand cat |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | U.S. SPANISH PLACE NAMES $400: This city's name means "The Meadows", though "The Slot Machines" is more descriptive Las Vegas |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | U.S. SPANISH PLACE NAMES $800: It's nicknamed the "Alamo City" San Antonio |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | U.S. SPANISH PLACE NAMES $1200: The name of this state is Spanish for "colored red" Colorado |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | U.S. SPANISH PLACE NAMES $1600: California's Mount Whitmey, the highest peak in the lower 48, is located in this mountain range Sierra Nevadas |
| #4252, aired 2003-02-11 | U.S. SPANISH PLACE NAMES $2000: These "Dry" islands off Florida were named for the many turtles found there Dry Tortugas |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | NATIONAL PARK PLACE $400: A mile-deep expanse of multicolored layered rock can be found at Grand Canyon National Park in this state Arizona |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | NATIONAL PARK PLACE $800: The largest national park outside Alaska, Death Valley National Park in this state is over 3 million acres California |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | NATIONAL PARK PLACE $1200: Established in 1944, Big Bend National Park is found on the Rio Grande River in this large state Texas |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | NATIONAL PARK PLACE $1600: Olympic National Park in this northwest state offers mountains, glaciers & the occasional elk Washington |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | NATIONAL PARK PLACE $2000: Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah N.P. overlooks the Shenandoah Valley in this state Virginia |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $200: This New York island is named for the Indians who sold it to Peter Minuit in 1626 Manhattan |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $400: Possibly meaning "great salt water" or "on the big bay", it's the big bay that divides Maryland Chesapeake Bay |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $600: Oh, b'gosh! This Wisconsin city bears the name of a Menominee chief who died in 1858 Oshkosh |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $800: Referring to its Platte River, this state's name is from an Indian word meaning "flat water" Nebraska |
| #4188, aired 2002-11-13 | NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): This Pennsylvania valley gave its name to the transport seen here Conestoga (Conestoga wagon) |
| #4051, aired 2002-03-25 | A HARD PLACE $400: East Lothian is on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth in this country Scotland |
| #4051, aired 2002-03-25 | A HARD PLACE $800: Where the Liao River Valley meets the Qian Shan Mountains, you'll find the city of Haicheng in this country China |
| #4051, aired 2002-03-25 | A HARD PLACE $1200: Yannina, everybody knows, is the administrative center of this country's Epirus region Greece |
| #4051, aired 2002-03-25 | A HARD PLACE $1600: Masan, a port city in this country, isn't far from Pusan South Korea |
| #4051, aired 2002-03-25 | A HARD PLACE $2000: Pforzheim is a city at the confluence of the Enz & Nagold Rivers in this country Germany |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | PLACE $400: In the 1920s African American artists & writers had a "Renaissance" in this New York City neighborhood Harlem |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | PLACE $800: Its nicknames include "The Golf Capital of the Pennsylvania", & "The Chocolate Crossroads of the World" Hershey |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | PLACE $1200: Nobel Prize-winning novelist & short story writer Nadine Gordimer was born in this country South Africa |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | PLACE $1600: Slightly smaller than Connecticut, this nation is bordered by Saudi Arabia & the United Arab Emirates Qatar |
| #4011, aired 2002-01-28 | PLACE $2000: Yerevan is the capital of this country Armenia |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $400: This landmark undergoing a big restoration was home in 2001 to the historical exhibit "Blood and Arena" the Colosseum |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $800: A podium & 3 columns remain from the temple he built to Venus for granting his win over Pompey Julius Caesar |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $1200: Of Keats, Shelley or Byron, the British poet whose remains are not buried in Rome Byron |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $1600: If you're Rome for the holidays, check out the Pope's balcony speech "Urbi et Orbi" at noon on this day Christmas |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $2000: You might stay at Le Grand Hotel, founded in 1894 by Cesar Ritz with this top chef in charge of the opening banquet Escoffier |
| #3902, aired 2001-07-17 | JEOPARDY! PLACE THE FINAL EPISODE $100: (Johnny Gilbert reads the clue, with organ music in the background.) Emily tells Drake the baby's his & she named it Sarah, after this pair's song "Sarah Smile" Hall & Oates |
| #3902, aired 2001-07-17 | JEOPARDY! PLACE THE FINAL EPISODE $200: (Gilbert reads, with organ music.) FBI agent Malone arrests Teri's ex, Benny, & tosses him into this, a nickname for jail from the Spanish for "courtroom" hoosegow |
| #3902, aired 2001-07-17 | JEOPARDY! PLACE THE FINAL EPISODE $300: (Gilbert reads, with organ music.) Benny's murder of Malone's father by a mine wasn't this, meaning "planned beforehand" premeditated |
| #3902, aired 2001-07-17 | JEOPARDY! PLACE THE FINAL EPISODE $400: (Gilbert reads, with organ music.) Agent Malone, Drake & Trent find out they're brothers & that they were this, a popular feature of Spy Magazine Separated at Birth |
| #3902, aired 2001-07-17 | JEOPARDY! PLACE THE FINAL EPISODE $500: (Gilbert reads, with organ music.) At Emily and Drake's wedding, Trent meets Brad; they hit it off & take a "fun" cruise on this Kathie Lee advertised line Carnival |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | LIKE WHAT YOU'VE DONE WITH THE PLACE $100: We're into hydrotherapy--can we try out your whirlpool one of these? Jacuzzi (spa) |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | LIKE WHAT YOU'VE DONE WITH THE PLACE $200: Look, Honey! It's the old bonnet type of this, like Grandma sat under to get her bouffant a hair dryer |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | LIKE WHAT YOU'VE DONE WITH THE PLACE $300: So they're still making these chairs whose sidepanels give them this "avian" name wingback (wing chair) |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | LIKE WHAT YOU'VE DONE WITH THE PLACE $400: What flexibility you have with this type of lighting, named for what the lights move along track |
| #3890, aired 2001-06-29 | LIKE WHAT YOU'VE DONE WITH THE PLACE $500: Love the Polynesian feeling you got with these images of deities, like the one seen here a Tiki god |
| #3885, aired 2001-06-22 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $100: (Johnny Gilbert reads.) Teri was seen at the airport by Misou, who was on her way to a shoot in this capital of Iran Tehran |
| #3885, aired 2001-06-22 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $200: (Johnny Gilbert reads.) Drake revealing Emily didn't kill Carson, got her out of jail in time to see this team win the 2000 World Series the New York Yankees |
| #3885, aired 2001-06-22 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $500: (Johnny Gilbert reads.) While Benny's out, Carson cuts his bindings with one of these knives that attach to the front of a rifle a bayonet |
| #3868, aired 2001-05-30 | MUST BE "D" PLACE $100: On a clear day you can see Molokai from the crest of this Oahu landmark Diamond Head |
| #3868, aired 2001-05-30 | MUST BE "D" PLACE $200: In 1911 the name of Palmerston, Australia evolved into this Darwin |
| #3868, aired 2001-05-30 | MUST BE "D" PLACE $400: A long siege at this military base in 1954 marked the end of French power in Indochina Dien Bien Phu |
| #3868, aired 2001-05-30 | MUST BE "D" PLACE $500 (Daily Double): The Dail Eireann meets in this city Dublin (Irish Legislature) |
| #3868, aired 2001-05-30 | MUST BE "D" PLACE $500: This seat of Macon County, Illinois is saturated with Lincoln-associated sites Decatur |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $200: The place is the hometown of the Backstreet Boys; the person is the hero of "As You Like It" Orlando |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $400: The thing is what's cut from the object seen here; the person is the woman who sang "Foolish Games" Jewel |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $600: The place is another word for Australia's outback; the person is the most powerful man in the world Bush |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $800: The thing is what a lumberjack leaves behind; the place is where a politician speaks stump |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $1000: The place is a partly enclosed body of water; the thing is a laurel tree bay |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $100: The snitch knows who bought the Claymore mine & he can get Jonas some AK-47s, first created in this country Russia |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $200: Drake tells Trent he, like this book's Homer Wells, was taught medicine in an orphanage "The Cider House Rules" |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $300: As Dr. Malone tells her son he has 2 brothers & their father was last seen on this holiday knights 1st celebrated in 1882 Labor Day |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $400: Malone hears his dad vanished the day Carson was killed & was wearing a raincoat named for this Scot Macintosh |
| #3841, aired 2001-04-23 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $500: Carson is alive! He's being held by Benny, Teri's ex, one of these mercenaries, also a magazine title Soldier of Fortune |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $100: Emily, sobbing, tells Jonas Teri wants her to plead guilty; Jonas starts singing this 1988 Bobby McFerrin hit "Don't Worry, Be Happy" |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $200: Jonas slips Emily a fake passport & a plane ticket to this city, Brazil's most populous São Paulo |
| #3796, aired 2001-02-19 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $300: FBI agent Malone comes into town to find out how a claymore mine got there & see his mom, one of these blood doctors Hematologist |
| #3795, aired 2001-02-16 | GOING TO A BETTER PLACE $200: If Arthur Miller had written "Before the Fall", it would be set in this garden Eden |
| #3795, aired 2001-02-16 | GOING TO A BETTER PLACE $400: Aztec warriors who died in battle served the Sun for 4 years, then were reborn as this tiny bird a hummingbird |
| #3795, aired 2001-02-16 | GOING TO A BETTER PLACE $600: In this, the top level of Islam's levels of heaven, you'll find the Most High 7th Level |
| #3795, aired 2001-02-16 | GOING TO A BETTER PLACE $800: Xena's son & Hercules' family are dead & residing in this wonderful afterlife area Elysian Fields |
| #3795, aired 2001-02-16 | GOING TO A BETTER PLACE $1000: The land of heroes to King Arthur, it was the Island of the Blessed in Celtic myth Avalon |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $100: A type of treeless plain, or the oldest city in Georgia Savannah |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $200: The man seen here shares his name with this Maryland suburb Chevy Chase |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $300 (Daily Double): Appropriately, this Pennsylvania city that was founded in 1741 was named at Christmastime Bethlehem |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $400: Mark Twain's brother Orion owned this Missouri city's Journal, for which Twain set type & wrote Hannibal |
| #3772, aired 2001-01-16 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $500: This town, site of the Scopes Trial, plays host to the annual East Tennessee Strawberry Festival Dayton, Tennessee |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $100: Found in northwest Rome, it's Europe's largest Christian church St. Peter's Basilica |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $200: Examples of these in Rome include Il Messaggero, Il Tempo & La Repubblica Newspapers |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $300: It's the river that flows through the city Tiber |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $400: Built in celebration of military victories, it's the emperor's arch seen here Arch of Constantine |
| #3762, aired 2001-01-02 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ROME $500: The seat of the Italian senate since 1871, Rome's Madama Palace was once owned by this powerful family Medici |
| #3756, aired 2000-12-25 | THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $200: Casa de Campo, a big park in this capital of Spain, boasts a zoo-aquarium complex with a dolphinarium Madrid |
| #3756, aired 2000-12-25 | THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $400: Visitors once saw a mama hippo giving birth underwater in the Hippoquarium at the Toledo Zoo in this U.S. state Ohio |
| #3756, aired 2000-12-25 | THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $600: In March 2000 twin golden lion tamarins became a big attraction at this city's zoo, nicknamed the OKC Zoo Oklahoma City |
| #3756, aired 2000-12-25 | THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $800: This country is known for yodeling, cheese & the Zoologischer Garten in Basel Switzerland |
| #3756, aired 2000-12-25 | THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $1000: Famous for its koala encounters, the Taronga Zoo is on the harbor in this Australian city known for its opera house Sydney |
| #3753, aired 2000-12-20 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $100: Teri calls Emily & says she'll bring the baby back if Emily pleads guilty, which would be this, lying under oath Perjury |
| #3753, aired 2000-12-20 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $200: Emily's murder trial began on October 9, 2000, this holiday in Canada Thanksgiving |
| #3753, aired 2000-12-20 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $300: Trent tells Drake he came to find his father & that he has a twin he never met (of this type, not identical) Fraternal |
| #3753, aired 2000-12-20 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $400: Jonas gets a call; a man wants to meet him in the garage, like Deep Throat did with this Post reporter Bob Woodward |
| #3753, aired 2000-12-20 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $500: Teri, in Mexico with Emily's baby, hears on a gossip report Trent was at this TV "Friend"'s wedding July 29, 2000 Jennifer Aniston |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $100: Teri, still on the run with Emily's baby, crossed the border into this country which elected Vicente Fox in 2000 Mexico |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $200: Billionaire Trent Bishop hit town after seeing Misou on the cover of this mag known for a quiz, edited by Kate White Cosmopolitan |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $300: Dr. Drake proved Emily didn't kill Carson Pike, after performing this, Greek for "See for yourself" an autopsy |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $400: Drake, walking through a field to Emily's, jumps to avoid a sidewinder, one of these, falls & cuts his head a rattlesnake |
| #3718, aired 2000-11-01 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $500: Trent happens on the hurt Drake & offers to donate his blood, this type, the universal recipient, the same as Drake's! AB |
| #3700, aired 2000-10-06 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $200: The thing is a cut of beef near the neck; the person is TV host Woolery Chuck |
| #3700, aired 2000-10-06 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $400: The place is an Asian country; the thing is cups & plates made from ceramic materials China |
| #3700, aired 2000-10-06 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $600: The place is part of a city enclosed by 4 streets; the thing is a small cube kids use in building block |
| #3700, aired 2000-10-06 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $1000: The person is a policeman in slang; the thing is a reddish-brown metal copper |
| #3700, aired 2000-10-06 | PERSON, PLACE OR THING $2,600 (Daily Double): The person is a famous car manufacturer; the place is a spot shallow enough to cross a river Ford |
| #3677, aired 2000-09-05 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $100: Drake returned to Jeopardy! Place from this capital of Hungary not knowing Emily had had his child Budapest |
| #3677, aired 2000-09-05 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $200: The Post, the paper Emily's boyfriend Jonas works for, is being bought, like the L.A. Times, by this company Tribune Company |
| #3677, aired 2000-09-05 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $300: Jealous, Teri took the baby & framed Emily for Carson's murder; Teri had killed him with a claymore, a big one of these a mine |
| #3677, aired 2000-09-05 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $400: Emily's sister, top model Misou, saw Teri & the baby at the diner eating this cheese, salsa, lettuce, tortilla & poached egg dish Huevos Rancheros |
| #3677, aired 2000-09-05 | JEOPARDY! PLACE $500: Spotting Misou, Teri grabbed the baby & hit the road in her Lincoln LS, this magazine's 2000 Car of the Year Motor Trend |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | PLACE $100: The north end of the Adriatic Sea is a gulf that shares its name with this watery Italian city Venice |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | PLACE $200: This country's oil-refining Kharg Island was often bombed during its long 1980s war with Iraq Iran |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | PLACE $400: Brisbane is the capital of this "royal" Australian state Queensland |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | PLACE $500 (Daily Double): This Dutch city is home to St. Bavo's Church; the NYC area of the same name is home to Abyssinian Baptist Church Haarlem/Harlem |
| #3671, aired 2000-07-17 | PLACE $500: In the '90s Americans learned more about this African country highlighted here Somalia |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $200: Zoo Atlanta has won its stripes by exhibiting 2 of the endangered Sumatran species of this animal tigers |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $400: This city's Zoologischer Garten had under 100 animals after WWII; it grew to lead the world in number of species Berlin |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $600: The St. Louis Zoo uses this autumnal German celebration to honor its otters Oktoberfest |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $800: This Columbus Zoo Director Emeritus is known to TV audiences across the U.S. "Jungle Jack" Hanna |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $1,000 (Daily Double): The Singapore Zoo advertises this monkey, seen in its conservation centre, as "The Big Nose Beauty" Proboscis monkey |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | A "HARD" PLACE $100: A keyboard, CD-ROM drive & modem Hardware |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | A "HARD" PLACE $200: Actor Bruce Willis has played maverick cop John McClane 3 times in this movie series Die Hard |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | A "HARD" PLACE $300: Song that tells us, "When I get home to you, I find the things that you do will make me feel alright" "A Hard Day's Night" |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | A "HARD" PLACE $400: 3-word term that means inflexible or strongly binding, such as rules Hard and fast |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | A "HARD" PLACE $500: Cable talk show hosted by Chris Matthews Hardball |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE NEBRASKA $100: The USA's emergency 911 system was developed & first used in this "presidential" city Lincoln |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE NEBRASKA $200: This man organized his famous "Wild West Show" in 1883 at his ranch near North Platte Buffalo Bill Cody |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE NEBRASKA $300: In 1948 Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base became home to SAC, which stood for this Strategic Air Command |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE NEBRASKA $400: The U. of N. College of Agriculture helped develop the technology for this McDonald's McPork sandwich McRib |
| #3476, aired 1999-10-18 | THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE NEBRASKA $500: The childhood home of Willa Cather, this colorfully named town inspired the setting for her 6 Nebraska novels Red Cloud |
| #3475, aired 1999-10-15 | PLACE NAME PEOPLE $100: Michigan's capital city bears the name of this man who was chief justice & chancellor of New York John Lansing |
| #3475, aired 1999-10-15 | PLACE NAME PEOPLE $200: Not John or Bob but territorial governor James lent his name to this "elevated" western city Denver |
| #3475, aired 1999-10-15 | PLACE NAME PEOPLE $300: This early settler of Charlestown, Massachusetts got a hill named for him; a June 1775 battle was fought there George Bunker |
| #3475, aired 1999-10-15 | PLACE NAME PEOPLE $400: The seat of Montana State University is named for this "man", a brave &/or foolhardy pioneer guide John Bozeman |
| #3475, aired 1999-10-15 | PLACE NAME PEOPLE $500: A Pennsylvania city is named for John Wilkes & this other British friend of the colonists Isaac Barre |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | SECOND PLACE $100: It's the second place award in an Olympic event Silver medal |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | SECOND PLACE $200: It was the second nation to put a man in space USA |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | SECOND PLACE $400: He had the second highest vote total in the 1944 U.S. presidential balloting Thomas E. Dewey |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | SECOND PLACE $500: This man wasn't knighted after being the second man to stand on top of Mt. Everest Tenzing Norgay (the man who was with Hillary) |
| #3234, aired 1998-10-01 | SECOND PLACE $600 (Daily Double): South America's second largest country in area, it borders the largest Argentina |
| #3227, aired 1998-09-22 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $100: John Smith recorded the name of this river as Patawomeck, but it is now called this Potomac |
| #3227, aired 1998-09-22 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $200: Mark Twain could have told you this town of his youth was named for a Carthaginian Hannibal, Missouri |
| #3227, aired 1998-09-22 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $300: Appropriately, the name of this big Florida lake is a Seminole word for "big water" Okeechobee |
| #3227, aired 1998-09-22 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $500 (Daily Double): Sailors once thought they'd found gems at this extinct volcanic crater, hence its gem of a name Diamond Head |
| #3227, aired 1998-09-22 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $500: This city that grew up around Northwestern University is named for one of the university's founders Evanston |
| #3222, aired 1998-09-15 | CAN'T QUITE PLACE YOU $200: In 1997 Slobodan Milosevic left the presidency of Serbia for that of this larger country Yugoslavia |
| #3222, aired 1998-09-15 | CAN'T QUITE PLACE YOU $400: F.W. De Klerk became president of this country in 1989, shared the Nobel Prize in 1993 & quit politics in 1997 South Africa |
| #3222, aired 1998-09-15 | CAN'T QUITE PLACE YOU $600: Carlos Fuentes, author of "The Old Gringo", is one of this country's leading novelists Mexico |
| #3222, aired 1998-09-15 | CAN'T QUITE PLACE YOU $800: Native country of the man seen here Poland (Lech Walesa) |
| #3222, aired 1998-09-15 | CAN'T QUITE PLACE YOU $1000: When King Charles II of this country died in 1700, a "War of" its "Succession" ensued Spain |
| #3085, aired 1998-01-16 | U.S PLACE NAMES $100: Anne Arundel County in this state is named for the wife of the second Lord Baltimore Maryland |
| #3085, aired 1998-01-16 | U.S PLACE NAMES $200: A city near L.A. is named for this novelist from New England; wonder how many "scarlet" women live there (Nathaniel) Hawthorne |
| #3085, aired 1998-01-16 | U.S PLACE NAMES $300: This New Mexico city was named for a railroad paymaster, not for a pollster Gallup |
| #3085, aired 1998-01-16 | U.S PLACE NAMES $400: Motley County in this state wasn't named for Motley Crue but for a man wounded in the Battle of San Jacinto Texas |
| #3085, aired 1998-01-16 | U.S PLACE NAMES $500: A dozen U.S. counties are named for this 19th century politician, a "Little Giant" indeed (Stephen) Douglas |
| #2904, aired 1997-03-27 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $200: Dearborn, Mich. was named for Gen. Henry Dearborn & this Maine capital was probably named for his daughter Augusta |
| #2904, aired 1997-03-27 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $400: This Washington peak was named for a British minister to Spain, not for a saint Mount Saint Helens |
| #2904, aired 1997-03-27 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $600: It's the only state capital named for a German chancellor Bismarck, North Dakota |
| #2904, aired 1997-03-27 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $800: The name of this Maryland suburb is Hebrew for "house of mercy" Bethesda |
| #2904, aired 1997-03-27 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1000: Named for an iron foundry, it's the home of Dollywood Pigeon Forge |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | LAST PLACE $100: It's the least populous state, though you may ask WY Wyoming |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | LAST PLACE $200: Of the 33 cars in this race, May 26, 1996, Johnny Unser's came in last, as he didn't complete one lap The Indianapolis 500 |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | LAST PLACE $300: In 1999 it will pass Neptune to become the last planet in our solar system Pluto |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | LAST PLACE $400: This island was Napoleon's last place of exile St. Helena |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | LAST PLACE $500: According to the song, these musicians are the present for the 12th & last day of Christmas 12 Drummers Drumming |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | FORMER PLACE NAMES $100: Siam Thailand |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | FORMER PLACE NAMES $200: Leningrad St. Petersburg (Russia) |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | FORMER PLACE NAMES $300: East Pakistan Bangladesh |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | FORMER PLACE NAMES $400: Burma Myanmar |
| #2713, aired 1996-05-22 | FORMER PLACE NAMES $500: British Honduras Belize |
| #2671, aired 1996-03-25 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $200: This Minnesota "Twin City" derives its name from a chapel built there in 1841 St. Paul |
| #2671, aired 1996-03-25 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $400: Home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, it was settled & named by the father of a famous author Cooperstown |
| #2671, aired 1996-03-25 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $800: Haakon, a county in South Dakota, was named by immigrants from this country, in honor of their king Norway |
| #2671, aired 1996-03-25 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): This Arizona city's name, Spanish for "table", refers to its location on flat land Mesa |
| #2671, aired 1996-03-25 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1000: The name of this Iowa city refers to a meeting in 1804 between Indians & Lewis & Clark Council Bluffs |
| #2512, aired 1995-07-04 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $200: The name of this former capital of West Germany is a Celtic word for "town" Bonn |
| #2512, aired 1995-07-04 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $400: The names Donegal & Dundee refer to these structures, one "on the Dee", one "of the foreigners" forts |
| #2512, aired 1995-07-04 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $800: This Belgian port's name may mean "against the dike" Antwerp |
| #2512, aired 1995-07-04 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $1000: This northern sea was named for a British admiral who was famous for a wind scale Beaufort |
| #2512, aired 1995-07-04 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $2,000 (Daily Double): The name of this large Russian lake is from Altaic for "rich take", referring to its rich take of fish Lake Baikal |
| #2366, aired 1994-12-12 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $200: Ponce de Leon discovered this state during Easter, the Feast of Flowers, & named it accordingly Florida |
| #2366, aired 1994-12-12 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $400: Moravian missionaries founded this Pennsylvania city in 1741 & named it for Jesus' birthplace Bethlehem |
| #2366, aired 1994-12-12 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $600: This Colorado city was named for its abundance of large rocks Boulder |
| #2366, aired 1994-12-12 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $800: The name of this largest N.H. city was taken from one in England; they're both centers of industry Manchester |
| #2366, aired 1994-12-12 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): The site of an 1820s skirmish between 2 surveyors & 2 Indians gave this Michigan city its name Battle Creek |
| #2159, aired 1994-01-13 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $200: Mazatlan, which means "place of deer" in the Nahuatl language, is a resort city in this country Mexico |
| #2159, aired 1994-01-13 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $400: This English county's name was derived from Old English for "South Saxons", Suth Seaxe Sussex |
| #2159, aired 1994-01-13 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $600: Durban, a city in this country, was named for Sir Benjamin D'Urban, a governor of the Cape Colony South Africa |
| #2159, aired 1994-01-13 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $800: Chilean seaport whose name is Spanish for "valley of paradise" Valparaiso |
| #2159, aired 1994-01-13 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $1000: The name of this grand duchy comes from a Germanic word for "little fortress" Luxembourg |
| #2132, aired 1993-12-07 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $200: Pabst Peak, Wyoming was so named because climbers of it drank a bottle of this made by Pabst beer |
| #2132, aired 1993-12-07 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $400: Both an Iowa county & its county seat are named for this daughter of Chief Powhatan Pocahontas |
| #2132, aired 1993-12-07 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $600: Elizabeth in this state is named for Sir George Carteret's wife New Jersey |
| #2132, aired 1993-12-07 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $800: Enid, Oklahoma may have been named for a character in this author's "Idylls of the King" Tennyson |
| #2132, aired 1993-12-07 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $3,000 (Daily Double): 10 states have counties named for this Massachusetts signer of the Declaration of Independence John Hancock |
| #1991, aired 1993-04-12 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $100: This Missouri city was named after a famous Carthaginian general Hannibal |
| #1991, aired 1993-04-12 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $200: Japanese for "main island", it's the main island of Japan Honshu |
| #1991, aired 1993-04-12 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $300: The name of this country goes back to Kampu, the mythical founder of the Khmer Race Kampuchea |
| #1991, aired 1993-04-12 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $400: The name of this capital of Nepal is from the words for "wood temple" Katmandu |
| #1991, aired 1993-04-12 | PLACE NAME ORIGINS $500: The name of this Westchester co., N.Y. prison is Indian dialect for "Stone Upon Stone" Sing Sing |
| #1540, aired 1991-04-19 | SECOND PLACE $100: Although this TV series was #1 for 4 straight years, it was edged out by "Roseanne" last season The Cosby Show |
| #1540, aired 1991-04-19 | SECOND PLACE $200: Florida's second largest city, it's the southernmost major city in the continental U.S. Miami |
| #1540, aired 1991-04-19 | SECOND PLACE $300: As a college football player, this Supreme Court justice was 2nd in the 1937 Heisman Trophy balloting Byron White |
| #1540, aired 1991-04-19 | SECOND PLACE $400: Dallas-based firm that follows Motorola as America's largest producer of semiconductors Texas Instruments |
| #1540, aired 1991-04-19 | SECOND PLACE $500: In 1988 his "Patriot Games" was the New York Times' 2nd best-selling paperback fiction book Tom Clancy |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | PLACE NAMES $200: Canadian province whose name is Latin for "New Scotland" Nova Scotia |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | PLACE NAMES $400: Despite its name, this South American body of water is an estuary, not a river of silver Rio de la Plata |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | PLACE NAMES $600: The Atlantic Ocean isn't named for a lost continent but for these Moroccan mountains Atlas Mountains |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | PLACE NAMES $800: Britannica says this city got its name from the Greek phrase "Eis ten Polin", meaning "in the city" Istanbul |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | PLACE NAMES $1000: South Sea island group which Captain Cook named for the "royal" group that sponsored his voyage there Society Islands |
| #766, aired 1987-12-28 | PLACE NAMES $200: Long before it was a borough, people visiting the family of Jonas Bronck said they were going here Bronx |
| #766, aired 1987-12-28 | PLACE NAMES $400: From Latin "Canus", these islands were named for wild dogs there; the birds were named for the islands Canary Islands |
| #766, aired 1987-12-28 | PLACE NAMES $600: Before receiving current name, this S. African cape was more accurately called "Cape of Storms" Cape of Good Hope |
| #766, aired 1987-12-28 | PLACE NAMES $800 (Daily Double): This city, which the Romans called "Lutetia" was later renamed for the Gallic tribe that lives there Paris |
| #766, aired 1987-12-28 | PLACE NAMES $1000: Tho it seems to mean dry area, this state's name is actually from a Papago Indian word meaning "little spring" Arizona |
