| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $200: Home to one of the USA's oldest universities, it also hosts Southern Connecticut State New Haven |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $400: Located on the shores of Tampa Bay, it was named for a railroad builder's home city in Russia St. Petersburg |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | VAN'S THE MAN $400: He was the first New York governor to be elected president Van Buren |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $600: Established by French soldiers around 1719, this "colorful" city is located about 80 miles northwest of New Orleans Baton Rouge |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $800: In 1849 it began as a military outpost to defend against Native Americans & was named for a commander of U.S. troops in Texas Fort Worth |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | VAN'S THE MAN $800: In 1824 he made his last appearance on the concert stage for the premiere of his 9th symphony Beethoven |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | 2-WORD U.S. CITIES $1000: A popular tourist destination drawing millions each year, this seat of Clark County was settled by Mormon missionaries in 1855 Las Vegas |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | VAN'S THE MAN $1200: Chris Van Allsburg wrote & illustrated this now-classic children's book about a Christmas train The Polar Express |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | VAN'S THE MAN $1600: This 15th century Flemish painter wrote his name in Latin in the wall of his Arnolfini portrait van Eyck |
| #9305, aired 2025-04-04 | VAN'S THE MAN $2000: This physicist discovered 2 radiation belts that surround the Earth & got his name on them Van Allen |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | LET'S GET PACT $200: The Allies used the Kellogg-Briand Pact as part of the legal basis for the 1945-46 war crimes trials in this German city Nuremberg |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | LET'S GET PACT $400: As a rival of NATO it preceded Pact (more formally, Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation & Mutual Assistance) Warsaw |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | LET'S GET PACT $800: Gandhi's fast until near death won rights in 1932's Poona Pact for this low-caste Hindu group the untouchables (the dalit) |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | LET'S GET PACT $1,000 (Daily Double): On New Year's Day in 1994, this Western Hemisphere trade pact came into effect NAFTA |
| #9303, aired 2025-04-02 | LET'S GET PACT $1000: In the 1878 Pact of Halepa, Turks gave Greeks some self-rule of this island to stop a rebellion, but it's Greece's largest island now Crete |
| #9301, aired 2025-03-31 | IT'S AS BIG AS A WHALE $200: Slightly larger than a blue whale, the 110-foot-long 737-700 from this company has plied the skies since 1997 Boeing |
| #9301, aired 2025-03-31 | IT'S AS BIG AS A WHALE $400: Viper, a wooden one of these at a Six Flags, boasts a first drop that's "a stomach-flipping 10 stories tall" a roller coaster |
| #9301, aired 2025-03-31 | IT'S AS BIG AS A WHALE $800: Apt name for a type of Viking vessel that once dominated the seas, it could reach more than 75 feet & replicas have gone to 100 a longboat (longship) |
| #9301, aired 2025-03-31 | IT'S AS BIG AS A WHALE $1000: A documentary series followed surfer Garrett McNamara's quest for this title item of 3-digit height a 100-foot wave |
| #9301, aired 2025-03-31 | IT'S AS BIG AS A WHALE $1,600 (Daily Double): Big in a little place, the 109-foot Gainer Memorial Dam in this state is made of earth & overflows into the Pawtuxet River Rhode Island |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: In July 2024 this park near the Mojave Desert reached at least 125 degrees on 9 consecutive days Death Valley |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | WELL, THAT'S JUST SCIENCE $400: Let's put it on the table--it's the result of Na & Cl getting together table salt (sodium chloride) |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: While there's no actual Lake Wobegon in this state, there is a Wabegon Lake Minnesota |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: Look out for Cape Lookout & Cape Fear on the coast of this state North Carolina |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | WELL, THAT'S JUST SCIENCE $800: (Melissa Peterman presents the clue.) After being on "Young Sheldon" for 30-plus episodes, I can finally say it--a subatomic particle's position & momentum can't be accurately determined at the same time, says his Uncertainty Principle. Oh, that felt good. Ungh! Heisenberg |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: This large lake on the Utah-Arizona border was created when the Glen Canyon Dam was built in the 1960s Lake Powell |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: Grab a chair & enjoy the view from these mountains that include New York's highest point, Mount Marcy the Adirondacks |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | WELL, THAT'S JUST SCIENCE $1200: Boasting a silent "G" & a bunch of feldspar & quartz, this metamorphic rock sounds perfectly pleasant gneiss |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | WELL, THAT'S JUST SCIENCE $1600: "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was examined in a 1948 bestseller by this human male Kinsey |
| #9300, aired 2025-03-28 | WELL, THAT'S JUST SCIENCE $2000: A 2018 study shows the Bajau people have an enlarged this organ that releases extra red blood cells to make diving easier spleen |
| #9299, aired 2025-03-27 | DICK'S SPORTING: GOOD $200: 7-time all-star Dick Allen said, "I'll play 1st, 3rd, left. I'll play anywhere, except" this city, home to a Phanatic Philadelphia |
| #9299, aired 2025-03-27 | DICK'S SPORTING: GOOD $400: Dick Vermeil butted heads with greatness, coaching this team to a Super Bowl win in 2000, 16 years before they moved back West the Rams |
| #9299, aired 2025-03-27 | DICK'S SPORTING: GOOD $600: Played by Tom Cruise, Cole Trickle in this movie shares his last name with real-life NASCAR legend Dick Trickle Days of Thunder |
| #9299, aired 2025-03-27 | DICK'S SPORTING: GOOD $800: Canadian swimmer & anti-doping activist Dick Pound was a 44-year member of this body that oversees some big games the IOC (the Olympic Committee) |
| #9299, aired 2025-03-27 | DICK'S SPORTING: GOOD $1000: Okay, he went 34 & 60 as the Pistons' coach before getting the axe; but he became a PTP'er as an ESPN college hoops analyst, baby Dick Vitale |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | TWIN "C"s $400: Calcium carbonate mixed with marble & glue can make this plaster-like substance that gives buildings that durable finish stucco |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | TWIN "C"s $800: This traditional Italian flatbread baked in thin squares is thought to have originated with the Etruscans focaccia |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | TWIN "C"s $1200: Eric Adams is fond of saying, "All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of" this success |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | TWIN "C"s $2000: This adjective is the F in AFM, a condition in which muscles may become suddenly limp & weak flaccid |
| #9296, aired 2025-03-24 | TWIN "C"s $3,000 (Daily Double): It's a genus of succulents, like the Spanish bayonet or the Joshua tree Yucca |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | LET'S ROLL THE DICE $200: Throw doubles 3 times in a row in Monopoly & you're off to this place, & it ain't Marvin Gardens jail |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | THAT'S A FACT $200: Time to belly up to the bar, & the drink is on me! It's the main potent potable in a Cuba libre rum |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | LET'S ROLL THE DICE $400: I used a roll of the d20 to attack in this game created in 1974; my strength isn't great, but my charisma will open doors Dungeons & Dragons |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | THAT'S A FACT $400: Established in 1947, this Major League Baseball award has never been won twice by the same player Rookie of the Year |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | LET'S ROLL THE DICE $600: In craps, you're truly playing the this if you bet on the shooter rolling 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 or 12 the field |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | THAT'S A FACT $600: Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan returned for book 19 in the series, "A Conspiracy of" these body parts bones |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | LET'S ROLL THE DICE $800: Dice rolls will lead you to getting the orange wedge after knowing your sports & leisure in this game Trivial Pursuit |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | THAT'S A FACT $800: Established in 2021, it's the next federal holiday after Memorial Day Juneteenth |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | LET'S ROLL THE DICE $1000: A Chinese game combines with a Vegas one in this 3-word casino game, but the added joker can be an ace & dice are often involved pai gow poker |
| #9294, aired 2025-03-20 | THAT'S A FACT $1000: This school whose Welsh name means "high hill" was the first women's college to offer the Ph.D. Bryn Mawr |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | NOW THAT'S ITALIAN $200: Possibly based on the uniforms of an 18th century Milanese militia, the Italian flag is made up of stripes of these 3 colors white, red & green |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | NOW THAT'S ITALIAN $400: On an Italian menu, capelli d'angelo means this type of pasta angel hair |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | NOW THAT'S ITALIAN $600: The top prize at the Venice Film Festival is a winged one of these, which also adorns that city's St. Mark's Basilica a (Golden) Lion |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | NOW THAT'S ITALIAN $800: After about 140 years of using this monetary unit, in 1999 Italy made the euro its official currency the lira |
| #9292, aired 2025-03-18 | NOW THAT'S ITALIAN $1000: Italy's 60th UNESCO World Heritage Site is this road that dates to 312 B.C. the Appian Way |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! IT'S A NEBULA! $200: The wandering species of this bird can have a wingspan of 11 feet & reach a half century in human years, not just bird years albatross |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | IT'S ALL GREEK ALPHABET TO ME $400: Break out the rhubarb--March 14 is also known as this Pi Day |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | FROM A TEEN'S BOOK REPORT $400: A cop thinks Dean & Sal might've jacked a Cadillac while driving across the country On the Road |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! IT'S A NEBULA! $400: Measurements show this nebula named for an ancient Australian weapon has a temperature barely above absolute zero the boomerang |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! IT'S A NEBULA! $600: These eagles that share a name with a derogatory word for a mean wife are monogamous for 30+ years & presumably happy harpy eagles |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | IT'S ALL GREEK ALPHABET TO ME $800: It's a positively charged subatomic union of 2 protons & 2 neutrons an alpha particle |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | FROM A TEEN'S BOOK REPORT $800: Edgar Linton reps Thrushcross Grange, has got some serious ducats & is fittin' to rizz up Cathy Wuthering Heights |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! IT'S A NEBULA! $800: The Royal Navy's carrier-based version of this fighter plane was known as the "Seafire" the Spitfire |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! IT'S A NEBULA! $1000: The Merope Nebula in this familial open cluster is a reflection nebula, interstellar dust illuminated by a nearby star the Pleiades (the Seven Sisters) |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | IT'S ALL GREEK ALPHABET TO ME $1200: In this sci-fi film based on a Richard Matheson novel, Charlton Heston is the only survivor of a deadly plague The Omega Man |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | FROM A TEEN'S BOOK REPORT $1200: During the Spanish Civil War, Robert Jordan spits some game at a loyalist named María & then faces death like a hero For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | IT'S ALL GREEK ALPHABET TO ME $1600: This elite U.S. Army unit is primarily involved with counter-terrorism operations abroad Delta Force |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | FROM A TEEN'S BOOK REPORT $1600: The sigma John "The Savage" can't stand chads like Bernard Marx since they are all so soma-pilled Brave New World |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | IT'S ALL GREEK ALPHABET TO ME $2000: St. Anthony was said to have carried one of these, also known as a crux commissa a tau cross |
| #9291, aired 2025-03-17 | FROM A TEEN'S BOOK REPORT $5,000 (Daily Double): The people of Uruk hide their kids & hide their wives whenever the title king rolls up & they start glazing Anu to create Enkidu the Epic of Gilgamesh |
| #9290, aired 2025-03-14 | YESTERDAY'S NEWS $200: Devastated by the Persians in 480 B.C., this present world capital was soon rebuilt bigger & better than ever Athens |
| #9290, aired 2025-03-14 | YESTERDAY'S NEWS $400: In 962 Pope John XII--to repeat, the pope--crowned the ruler of what would be this empire that ended about 850 years later the Holy Roman Empire |
| #9290, aired 2025-03-14 | YESTERDAY'S NEWS $800: Last name of Christopher, for whom a flag of the Revolutionary War era is named; Chris' grandson James made a big 1853 land buy Gadsden |
| #9290, aired 2025-03-14 | YESTERDAY'S NEWS $1000: Spain's king quickly began ridding the nation of the authoritarian policies of this man after his death in 1975 Franco |
| #9290, aired 2025-03-14 | YESTERDAY'S NEWS $6,800 (Daily Double): During the American revolution, one German state made about 13 years of tax revenue by renting out soldiers known as these Hessian mercenaries |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | THAT'S QUITE A 'STACHE! $400: His mustache became bushier over the years & was perhaps the most famous one in science Einstein |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | THAT'S QUITE A 'STACHE! $800: He was the last president to sport a 'stache Taft |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | THAT'S QUITE A 'STACHE! $1200: Two of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution were the mustachioed Pancho Villa & this Tiger of Morelos Zapata |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | THAT'S QUITE A 'STACHE! $1600: Perhaps it was his mustache that gave this superman philosopher his strength Nietzsche |
| #9289, aired 2025-03-13 | THAT'S QUITE A 'STACHE! $2000: This mustachioed composer was best known for his opera "Pagliacci" Leoncavallo |
| #9288, aired 2025-03-12 | IT'S FROM THE GREEK FOR... $200: "The drink of the gods"... sweet! nectar (ambrosia) |
| #9288, aired 2025-03-12 | U.S. FESTIVALS $200: Believers & skeptics alike are invited to attend the annual UFO Festival in this New Mexico City, held since 1996 Roswell |
| #9288, aired 2025-03-12 | IT'S FROM THE GREEK FOR... $400: "Origin", perhaps biblically genesis |
| #9288, aired 2025-03-12 | U.S. FESTIVALS $400: Catch 'em while you can, sheep parading down Main Street in Ketchum during the Trailing of the Sheep Festival in this state Idaho |
| #9288, aired 2025-03-12 | IT'S FROM THE GREEK FOR... $600: "First state of the universe", which was pretty much utter this chaos |
| #9288, aired 2025-03-12 | U.S. FESTIVALS $600: A festival in Hampton, Virginia named for this British pirate includes a reenactment of his last battle Blackbeard |
| #9288, aired 2025-03-12 | IT'S FROM THE GREEK FOR... $800: "Master craftsman"; some folks have designs on this job architect |
| #9288, aired 2025-03-12 | U.S. FESTIVALS $800: Fittingly, this city at the tip of Illinois hosts a multi-day extravaganza celebrating all things Superman Metropolis |
| #9288, aired 2025-03-12 | IT'S FROM THE GREEK FOR... $1000: "Conversation", or "to speak alternately" dialogue |
| #9288, aired 2025-03-12 | U.S. FESTIVALS $1000: It sounds like a marsupial but it's a music & arts festival held annually in Manchester, Tennessee Bonnaroo |
| #9287, aired 2025-03-11 | IT'S HYPHENATED $200: This word can refer to a detective who's tough & unsentimental or an egg cooked until the yolk is solid hard-boiled |
| #9287, aired 2025-03-11 | IT'S HYPHENATED $400: It describes a statue of Julius Randle that's 6'8" tall life-size |
| #9287, aired 2025-03-11 | IT'S HYPHENATED $600: In many pageants, the person finishing third is designated the second this runner-up |
| #9287, aired 2025-03-11 | IT'S HYPHENATED $800: This adjective means as deeply dark as tar or asphalt pitch-black |
| #9287, aired 2025-03-11 | IT'S HYPHENATED $1000: Hyphenated term meaning a frantic final effort made to avoid disaster, not a final long, narrow excavation last-ditch |
| #9285, aired 2025-03-07 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: Pooh's pal Eeyore a donkey |
| #9285, aired 2025-03-07 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: Olivia, in books by Ian Falconer a pig |
| #9285, aired 2025-03-07 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: Lyle, Lyle crocodile |
| #9285, aired 2025-03-07 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): Nutkin & his brother Twinkleberry squirrel |
| #9285, aired 2025-03-07 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: Mr. Nilsson, who belongs to Pippi Longstocking monkey |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? $200: The Spanish word for bread is hiding inside the name of this Latin American turnover that usually has a savory filling an empanada |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? $400: Feel like Japanese food? Try unagi, this freshwater fish, often grilled & served over rice eel |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? $600: In the mood for a sandwich? How about a po' boy or this other New Orleans favorite said to have been created at the Central Grocery muffalatta (muffaletta) |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? $800: This North African dish of poached eggs in a spicy tomato sauce isn't just for breakfast; plus its imitative Arabic name is fun to say! shakshuka |
| #9284, aired 2025-03-06 | WHAT'S FOR LUNCH? $1000: Don't get mad--try the pasta with this spicy sauce whose name is Italian for "angry" arrabbiata |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | THE HERO'S JOURNEY $200: Or the antihero's! Before "Breaking Bad", Walter White was a high school teacher of this subject, which did come in handy chemistry |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | THE HERO'S JOURNEY $400: Mahershala Ali hit the road to play some classical music in the 1960s South in this film Green Book |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | THE HERO'S JOURNEY $600: ...took this cop & family man for a spin(off), from "The Walking Dead" to "The Ones Who Live" Rick Grimes |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | THE HERO'S JOURNEY $800: Jobs of this character included deputy director of Pawnee's Parks & Rec Dept., governor of Indiana & (maybe?) the presidency Leslie Knope |
| #9282, aired 2025-03-04 | THE HERO'S JOURNEY $1000: IMDb, on this film:
A "journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel... for a series of psychedelic escapades" Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #9280, aired 2025-02-28 | EYEWITNESS U.S. HISTORY $200: An eyewitness in 1906 described "dynamite used to blow down buildings in the path of flames" just after this event the San Francisco earthquake |
| #9280, aired 2025-02-28 | EYEWITNESS U.S. HISTORY $400: A performer at this venue remembered the president's wife "was laughing at my speech when the shot was fired" Ford's Theatre |
| #9280, aired 2025-02-28 | EYEWITNESS U.S. HISTORY $600: Horace C. Porter recalled handing General Lee his pencil on April 9, 1865 in this place with a 3-word name Appomattox Court House |
| #9280, aired 2025-02-28 | EYEWITNESS U.S. HISTORY $800: Victor Weisskopf saw a "smoke ball rising with a thick stem of dark brown color" in July 1945 near this test site with a religious name Trinity |
| #9280, aired 2025-02-28 | EYEWITNESS U.S. HISTORY $1000: She recalled a 1960 event in New Orleans: "People yelled & threw things"; "I was surrounded by the marshals" (Ruby) Bridges |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | WHAT'S THE USE? $400: Alexis Fraser & Katherine Mason are known for making art using this cosmetic that comes in tubes, like oil paint does lipstick |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | WHAT'S THE USE? $800: Be patient with this famously slow-pouring condiment: it can polish copper ketchup |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | WHAT'S THE USE? $1200: A nonprofit called Good360 helps get this type of apparel never worn by Brock Purdy or Joe Mixon to the global needy Super Bowl champion gear |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | WHAT'S THE USE? $1600: This compound is toxic, causes acid rain & has a sharp odor like a struck match, so into the wine it goes, to stop yeast growth sulfur dioxide |
| #9279, aired 2025-02-27 | WHAT'S THE USE? $2000: Sildenafil--the same drug in viagra--has been approved by the FDA to give to kids with PAH, pulmonary arterial this hypertension |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | IT'S COUNTRY MUSIC, Y'ALL $200: A "Greatest Hits" album by this legend included "I Will Always Love You" & "Old Flames (Can't Hold A Candle To You)" Dolly Parton |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | IT'S COUNTRY MUSIC, Y'ALL $400: Mammas tried not to let their babies become them, but Kelsea Ballerini & Noah Kahan taught us that they "Cry Too" "Cowboys" |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | IT'S COUNTRY MUSIC, Y'ALL $600: Last names of Kix & Ronnie who provided "Boot Scootin' Boogie" & "Little Miss Honky Tonk" Brooks & Dunn |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | IT'S COUNTRY MUSIC, Y'ALL $800: Carrie Underwood sang, "She was drivin' last Friday", hit some black ice, then implored, "Jesus" do this take the wheel |
| #9275, aired 2025-02-21 | IT'S COUNTRY MUSIC, Y'ALL $1000: A Scotty McCreery country megahit puts together a cussword & the last name of singer George for this title "Damn Strait" |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | THAT'S MY SISTER $400: This sister of the princess of Wales has three kids, just like Kate Pippa Middleton |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | THAT'S MY SISTER $800: Soldiers crave dry these; enter F.P. Nightingale, sis of Florence, who said a batch of knitted ones was "nearly the death of me" socks |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | THAT'S MY SISTER $1200: Marie Curie's sister Bronia co-founded a Warsaw institute for this medical -ology that used Marie's radiation discoveries oncology |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | THAT'S MY SISTER $1600: Lucy Payne, sister of this beloved first lady, married George Washington--not the first pres. but his out-of-control nephew Dolley Madison |
| #9274, aired 2025-02-20 | THAT'S MY SISTER $2000: This French family produced more than one skilled female artist; here's Edma's portrait of her sister, Berthe (Berthe) Morisot |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | LET'S PLAY SPORTS $200: If you hit for the cycle in baseball, you've gotten all of these hits in one game, & congrats! a single, a double, a triple & a home run |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | LET'S PLAY SPORTS $400: A soccer team facing a free kick may form this architecturally named blocking formation & ouch a wall |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | LET'S PLAY SPORTS $600: A classic volleyball sequence goes bump (stop the shot), set (tee up a teammate), this powerful attacking hit that may yield a kill spike |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | LET'S PLAY SPORTS $800: Also a place to store fishing gear, in football it's the area of the offensive backfield seen here a tackle box |
| #9273, aired 2025-02-19 | LET'S PLAY SPORTS $1000: Named for a tough hockey HOFer, a Gordie Howe hat trick is scoring a goal, earning an assist & doing this getting in a fight |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | THAT'S NOT A THING ANYMORE $200: A design defect left this car co.'s Pinto open to exploding & its slogan "Pinto leaves you with that warm feeling"... problematic Ford |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | "ISM"s $200: Seen in some workplaces, it's discrimination based on how old someone is ageism |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | THAT'S NOT A THING ANYMORE $400: I don't wanna wait for you to name this '90s TV drama; I want to know right now: what will it be? Dawson's Creek |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | "ISM"s $400: It's the art or sport of climbing high mountains & not necessarily the ones that gave it its name alpinism |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | THAT'S NOT A THING ANYMORE $600: In 1947 the Navy Department merged with this other Cabinet department to be led by the secretary of defense the War Department |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | "ISM"s $600: Sounds deadly, but it's the belief that events in life are predetermined & people are powerless to change them fatalism |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | THAT'S NOT A THING ANYMORE $800: No, Lucy, you can't be in the show at this Vegas casino, as it got leveled in 2024 to, perhaps, be a new home for baseball's A's the Tropicana |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | "ISM"s $800: Author Jean-Paul Sartre was a leader of this literary & philosophical movement existentialism |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | THAT'S NOT A THING ANYMORE $1000: Sickle-clawed & quick, this 40-pound dinosaur ran wild about 80 million years ago & again on film in 1993 a Velociraptor |
| #9272, aired 2025-02-18 | "ISM"s $1000: This movement in the arts & literature that began in the late 1700s emphasized passion, emotion & imagination Romanticism |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR'S NAME $200: Sounds like Angelina's ex:
Pumpernickel or sourdough + a golf stroke done on the green bread putt |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | LET'S TALK ABOUT 6 $400: It's the Greek-derived name for a 6-sided polygon a hexagon |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | BIRD "E"s $400: They soar as Boston College's sports teams the Eagles |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR'S NAME $400: Sounds like a son of West African U.K. immigrants:
A Lincolnesque formal speech + where your arm bends address elbow |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | LET'S TALK ABOUT 6 $800: One of the 6 classic weapons in Clue is this, usually more for tightening a bolt than killing a professor a wrench |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | BIRD "E"s $800: "We send our" these wading birds, a type of heron egret(s) |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR'S NAME $800: Sounds like a "Strange" Marvel actor:
A brand of allergy & itch relief medicine + a tuxedo's waist sash Benadryl cummerbund |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR'S NAME $1,000 (Daily Double): Sounds like a Batman:
3-letter term meaning to prohibit + a company with a duck symbol ban Aflac |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | SOUNDS LIKE AN ACTOR'S NAME $1000: Sounds like "Bad Santa":
A kid who preys on weaker ones + a plastic cover for eating lobster + an unlucky number bully bib thirteen |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | LET'S TALK ABOUT 6 $1200: He created a successful sextet when in the late '70s, he gathered 5 musicians to be the News Huey Lewis |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | LET'S TALK ABOUT 6 $1600: When the musical "Six" about Henry VIII's wives opened on Broadway, Abby Mueller played this third wife, aka "Died" (Jane) Seymour |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | BIRD "E"s $1600: Often nesting in cactus, the world's tiniest owl is not a dwarf owl or fairy owl, but this diminutive species elf |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | LET'S TALK ABOUT 6 $2000: This city is the capital of Western Australia, one of Oz' 6 states Perth |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | BIRD "E"s $2000: What a dad! The male of this penguin that can weigh around 90 pounds stands guard & warms a single egg for about 65 days emperor |
| #9270, aired 2025-02-14 | BIRD "E"s $8,400 (Daily Double): In the 1930s Australia declared a war of sorts on these large flightless birds emus |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $400: Not now but someday, check out the Andrei Sheptytskyi Museum collection of art with these religious images in Lviv, Ukraine icon |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $800: Also called "Vampire", "Love and Pain" is an 1893 work by this Scandinavian artist Munch |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $1200: Installing a doorway in the wall that holds this famous fresco in 1652, workers chopped off Jesus' feet The Last Supper |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $1600: Seen in a selfie, Jacopo Robusti was the real name of the 16th century Mannerist better known by this name, meaning "little dyer" Tintoretto |
| #9269, aired 2025-02-13 | ART FOR ART'S SAKE $2000: Borrowed from French, it's the term for Louise Nevelson's form of sculpture in joining everyday objects in unusual combinations assemblage |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | UNESCO's INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE $400: Ska & rock steady were contributors to this style of music that made the list for Jamaica in 2018 reggae |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | UNESCO's INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE $800: It's not just pizza, but the culinary practice of the pizzaiuolo, as originated & still regulated by this Italian city Naples |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | UNESCO's INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE $1200: This country has a national day honoring its windmills every May; the craft of their millers was recognized by UNESCO the Netherlands |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | UNESCO's INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE $1600: The 2023 list included this national dish of Peru: raw fish marinated in lime juice ceviche |
| #9268, aired 2025-02-12 | UNESCO's INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE $2000: The Cracovia Danza Ballet specializes in traditional court dances of its country, including this one enshrined by UNESCO in 2023 a polonaise |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT'S IN THE BOARD GAME BOX? $100: 32 green houses,
12 red hotels,
lots of play money Monopoly |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT'S IN THE BOARD GAME BOX? $200: Lots of red pegs,
even more white pegs,
10 plastic vessels,
including 2 aircraft carriers Battleship |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT'S IN THE BOARD GAME BOX? $300: 4 racks,
100 tiles
(98 tiles have letters, 2 are blank) Scrabble |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT'S IN THE BOARD GAME BOX? $400: Color-coded plastic armies,
42 territory cards,
5 dice Risk |
| #32, aired 2025-02-12 | WHAT'S IN THE BOARD GAME BOX? $500: 19 terrain hexes,
60 roads,
1 robber (Settlers of) Catan |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | THEM'S FIGHTING WORDS $400: Relating to a time between ancient & modern--Weird Al warned he'd "get" this "on your heinie" in "Amish Paradise" medieval |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | THEM'S FIGHTING WORDS $800: An avian term for a person who thirsts for a scrap, it was used of congressmen elected before the Scrap of 1812 a war hawk |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | THEM'S FIGHTING WORDS $1200: This 9-letter adjective for someone itching to fight comes from Latin for "of war" bellicose |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | THEM'S FIGHTING WORDS $1600: Throwing hands & then eating together? That's not friendly fire but the alliterative friendly this slang word for a fight (the friendly) fade |
| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | THEM'S FIGHTING WORDS $2000: A snack & a body part are in this idiom about someone always ready to take offense a chip on their shoulder |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S GET QUI"ZZ"ICAL $400: It can mean to impress or to embellish a piece of clothing with sequins or rhinestones bedazzle |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S GET QUI"ZZ"ICAL $800: An informal way to address a male judge or mayor hizzoner |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S GET QUI"ZZ"ICAL $1200: These European show horses are noted for their iconic white coats & Roman noses Lipizzaners |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S GET QUI"ZZ"ICAL $1600: Malcolm X adopted the name el-Hajj Malik el-this, in part for the name of a tribe from which Black Americans were said to descend Shabazz |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S GET QUI"ZZ"ICAL $2000: In the Bible, during this king's great feast, he sees writing on the wall & Daniel is brought in to interpret Belshazzar |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE'S A BEACH $200: Known for its boardwalk, this Southern California beach is named after an Italian city known for its canals Venice |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S KEEP THIS SHORT $200: The supermarket owner: "You can get a sandwich at the deli--don't make me explain that 'deli' is short for" this word delicatessen |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE OF "E"s $300: In 2008, she won her fourth consecutive Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show host; her full name has 6 nonconsecutive E's Ellen Degeneres |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE'S A BEACH $400: The site of many shipwrecks, the waters along the Outer Banks are nicknamed "the Graveyard of" this ocean the Atlantic Ocean |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S KEEP THIS SHORT $400: The NYC taxi driver: "I'll drop you off at 86th & Lex--don't make me explain that 'Lex' is short for" this avenue Lexington |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE OF "E"s $600: Her stats: 4 Oscar noms, 2 Oscar wins (for her roles in "Cold Mountain" & "Judy"), 3 E's in her first name, 3 E's in her last name Renée Zellweger |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE'S A BEACH $600: After catching some waves & hanging ten at Waikiki Beach, see the statue of Duke Kahanamoku, "the Father of Modern" this surfing |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S KEEP THIS SHORT $600: The gardener: "I call them mums--don't make me explain that 'mum' is short for" this flower chrysanthemum |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE'S A BEACH $800: These flightless birds don't just live in Antarctica--you can see many of them hanging out on South Africa's Boulders Beach a penguin |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S KEEP THIS SHORT $800: The dog owner: "This is my Pom--don't make me explain that 'Pom' is short for" this dog breed Pomeranian |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE OF "E"s $900: You might know this actor from "The Office" or "The Hangover"... or because he has no vowels in his name except for "E" Ed Helms |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE'S A BEACH $1000: See the stunning sands of Pink Beach in this country's Komodo National Park Indonesia |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LET'S KEEP THIS SHORT $1000: The music conductor: "Let's play Rach 1 & Rach 2--don't make me explain that 'Rach' is short for" this composer's name Rachmaninoff |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE OF "E"s $1200: This Yankee was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2021 with 99.7% of the vote; 100% of the vowels in his name are "E" Derek Jeter |
| #31, aired 2025-02-05 | LIFE OF "E"s $1500: Inspector Clouseau, his role in the "Pink Panther" movies, has a variety of vowels; his own name just features E's Peter Sellers |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | IT'S HYPHENATED $200: A synonym for distant begins this hyphenated adjective meaning improbable far-fetched |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | IT'S HYPHENATED $400: Mark Cuban & Sara Blakely both worked early on in this hyphenated type of sales that declined once fewer women were home all day door-to-door |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $400: Albert Einstein once said, "I never think of" this, "it comes soon enough" the future |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | IT'S HYPHENATED $600: A 2023 change in Oregon law left New Jersey as the only state without this type of gas station self-service |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | IT'S HYPHENATED $800: A warning or telltale sign, or the jump ball that starts a basketball game a tip-off |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $800: Played on a 9x9 grid, it's been called the "Rubik's Cube of the 21st Century" Sudoku |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | IT'S HYPHENATED $1000: Jacob Grimm coined this hyphenated name for a Balkan language; now with Bosnia & Montenegro in the mix, it's known as BCMS Serbo-Croatian |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $1200: Brought over from Asia, this fast-growing plant that easily overtakes trees & shrubs is known as "the vine that ate the South" kudzu |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $1600: This flap of tissue that hangs in the back of your throat prevents food & fluids from going up your nose when you swallow the uvula |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $2000: As a noun, it's a prophet or soothsayer; as a verb, it means to foretell from omens to augur |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | LET'S PUT 2 THINGS TOGETHER $200: First name of Koufax or Duncan + a frozen waffle brand once owned by Kellogg's = this not quite a Southern California city Sandy Eggo |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | U.S. CITIES $200: More than 30% of its approximately 105,000 residents are students at the University of Colorado Boulder |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | U.S. CITIES $400: "There's no place like" this Alaskan Gold Rush town located on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula Nome |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | LET'S PUT 2 THINGS TOGETHER $400: 1st name of the guy "who lives in a pineapple under the sea" + activity with "star promenade" & "arm turns" = this dude with new moves SpongeBob SquareDance |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | LET'S PUT 2 THINGS TOGETHER $600: The state where you'll find Sleepy Hollow & New Paltz + shortened plural for a cloth used to blow the nose the New York Hankies |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | U.S. CITIES $600: Incorporated in 1961, this Florida city lives up to its name today around 7 a.m. Sunrise |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | LET'S PUT 2 THINGS TOGETHER $800: A word preceding "punishment" when that's applied to a body + married name of Ark. Gov. Sarah = this demoted fried chicken magnate Corporal Sanders |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | U.S. CITIES $800: Named for a city in France, this state capital lies along the Winooski River Montpelier, Vermont |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | LET'S PUT 2 THINGS TOGETHER $1000: 5-letter synonym for terrible that also describes the "Truth" in a film title + the Willis one in Illinois = this European eyesore the Awful Tower |
| #9259, aired 2025-01-30 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Take a load off in this third-largest Iowa city that hosts a famous jazz festival honoring native son Bix Beiderbecke Davenport |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | UNCLE KEN'S CASA DE PRE-OWNED VEHICLES $200: Go ahead, kick the tires on a 1953 Eldorado convertible one of these, six figures in the right condition, which mine is not a Cadillac |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | POP MUSIC'S MISSING LINKS $200: Almost ____
By The Dashboard Light Paradise |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | UNCLE KEN'S CASA DE PRE-OWNED VEHICLES $400: This automaker may have stopped production on its Celica in 2006, but I've got a 1994 one that gets 26 MPG ready to go Toyota |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | POP MUSIC'S MISSING LINKS $400: A country mash-up: Should've Been
A ____
Take Me Away Cowboy |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | LET'S KEEP IT ABOVE THE WAIST $400: The left & right hilum anchor these organs in place & are where the bronchi enter lungs |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | UNCLE KEN'S CASA DE PRE-OWNED VEHICLES $600: That convertible? A 1990 Mazda MX-5 one of these from when it first hit the U.S.--I see you appreciate a sweet ride, my friend a Miata |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | POP MUSIC'S MISSING LINKS $600: Truth ____
So Good Hurts |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | UNCLE KEN'S CASA DE PRE-OWNED VEHICLES $800: Okay, okay, Ralph Nader called this model that debuted in 1960 a one-car accident, but ain't it cute the Corvair |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | POP MUSIC'S MISSING LINKS $800: Tell It To ____ ____ Will Go On My Heart |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | LET'S KEEP IT ABOVE THE WAIST $800: In humans, it's the roof of the mouth; in some whales, baleen hangs from it the palate |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | UNCLE KEN'S CASA DE PRE-OWNED VEHICLES $1000: Ah, this '76 AMC ride--remember the one Dana Carvey drove in "Wayne's World"? 71 grand at auction; the one on my lot is a steal a Pacer |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | POP MUSIC'S MISSING LINKS $1000: Shut up And ____
The Night Away Dance |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | LET'S KEEP IT ABOVE THE WAIST $1200: A deficiency of iodine is the most common cause of this, an enlargement of the thyroid gland goiter |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | LET'S KEEP IT ABOVE THE WAIST $2000: The C2 vertebra is also called this; it allows you to rotate your head the axis |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | LET'S KEEP IT ABOVE THE WAIST $3,000 (Daily Double): Blood that's depleted of oxygen returns to the heart via this, either superior or inferior the vena cava |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | HELL'S KITCHEN, THE MUSICAL $200: (Alicia Keys presents the clue.) Practically a character itself, the setting of much of the show is Manhattan Plaza, the real-life building where I grew up among many artists hoping to make it, just a block east to Eighth Ave, the edge of this district the Theater District |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | IT'S GOT A MOTOR $400: A 2.2-horsepower motor drives the Vitamix 750, one of these with pre-programmed settings for smoothies & more a blender |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | HELL'S KITCHEN, THE MUSICAL $400: (Alicia Keys presents the clue.) In Hell's Kitchen, you don't need a Steinway or a Stradi to make music; Ali's love interest plays drums on buckets, & she joins in for this song that says, "She's a flame"
"You can try, but you'll never forget her name, she's on top of the world, hottest of the hottest girls say, oh-oh" "Girl On Fire" |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | HELL'S KITCHEN, THE MUSICAL $600: (Alicia Keys presents the clue.) "Kaleido-leido-leido-leido-leidoscope, everyone looking high and low"
A new song about opening up the world, "Kaleidoscope" was the theme song of this sporting event in 2024, & in late August, Shoshana Bean made the trip from Hell's Kitchen to Queens to sing at the opening night U.S. Open of tennis |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | HELL'S KITCHEN, THE MUSICAL $800: (Alicia Keys presents the clue.) Along with new songs, the show reimagines some of my classics, like this breakout hit from 2001, about a love that's so much pleasure & so much pain; it has new instrumentation & a new seductive tone, & is sung by a dude
"Lovin' you darlin, makes me so confused" "Fallin'" |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | IT'S GOT A MOTOR $800: A small motor drives the turntable in one of these, whether countertop or over-the-range a microwave |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | HELL'S KITCHEN, THE MUSICAL $1000: (Alicia Keys presents the clue.)
"New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of (oh, come on), there's nothin' you can't do"
The closing number's this song that I performed on the Tony Awards in 2024, with of course, a guest vocal by Jay-Z "Empire State of Mind" |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | IT'S GOT A MOTOR $1200: A clicking noise when you turn the ignition can mean a bad this, the motor that gets your combustion-engine car going a starter |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | IT'S GOT A MOTOR $1600: The fan that cools the CPU, short for this part of your computer, is essentially a little brushless motor a central processing unit |
| #9256, aired 2025-01-27 | IT'S GOT A MOTOR $2000: An electric motor powers this part of a refrigerator that condenses low-pressure coolant into high-pressure gas the compressor |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | IT'S A VERB! IT'S A NOUN! $200: To gather animals into a group, or the group that results herd |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | IT'S A VERB! IT'S A NOUN! $400: To entertain guests, or Communion bread host |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | IT'S A VERB! IT'S A NOUN! $600: To turn around & around, or a Scottish dance reel |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | IT'S A VERB! IT'S A NOUN! $800: To tremble, or a container for pointed projectiles quiver |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | IT'S A VERB! IT'S A NOUN! $1000: To gather crops, or the season for doing it harvest |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | VOWEL-LESS U.S. STATES $100: "Famous potatoes" appears on its standard license plates:
DH Idaho |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | VOWEL-LESS U.S. STATES $200: One of the "Four Corners" states:
RZN Arizona |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THE PERIODIC TABLE? $300 (Daily Double): It has the symbol K, but it starts with P & there's not even a "K" in its name!
That's bananas! potassium |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THE PERIODIC TABLE? $300: What's with those noble gases? They all end in "O-N" except for this one, He--& what's so "noble" about filling up balloons? helium |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | LET'S GET SAUCY $300: Invented in Rome during the 20th century, this cheesy sauce is often served with fettuccine alfredo |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | VOWEL-LESS U.S. STATES $300: Where "Roll Tide!" & "War Eagle!" are often shouted:
LBM Alabama |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | VOWEL-LESS U.S. STATES $400: In 1973 it became the first state to decriminalize marijuana possession:
RGN Oregon |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | VOWEL-LESS U.S. STATES $500: The only state that touches the Arctic Ocean:
LSK Alaska |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THE PERIODIC TABLE? $600: Since it's in table salt, shouldn't we put this element, Na, in the center of the periodic table so everyone can reach it? sodium |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | LET'S GET SAUCY $600: This traditional Oaxacan chile sauce comes in a variety of colors & flavors mole |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THE PERIODIC TABLE? $900: This is a metal, but it's liquid at room temperature--you shouldn't be able to pour yourself a cup of metal!
What's the deal?! mercury |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | LET'S GET SAUCY $900: A meat sauce you might find in a lasagna, it gets its name from a city in northern Italy Bolognese |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THE PERIODIC TABLE? $1500: This metal has a 3-letter name, yet they gave it a 2-letter symbol, Sn--why not just "T"?! "T" was available! What's the deal?! tin |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | LET'S GET SAUCY $1500: This herby green sauce is often served alongside grilled meats in Argentina chimichurri |
| #29, aired 2025-01-22 | LET'S GET SAUCY $9,600 (Daily Double): Originally called sauce isigny, this creamy yellow sauce is a key ingredient for eggs Benedict Hollandaise sauce |
| #9251, aired 2025-01-20 | LET'S TALK ABOUT POLITICS $400: The Free Soil Party didn't want to give away dirt; it was opposed to the expansion of this slavery |
| #9251, aired 2025-01-20 | LET'S TALK ABOUT POLITICS $800: Woodrow Wilson won the White House in 1912 after this former prez threw his hat in the ring, weakening incumbent William Howard Taft Teddy Roosevelt |
| #9251, aired 2025-01-20 | LET'S TALK ABOUT POLITICS $1200: A 2015 article in the Atlantic gave us this alliterative term for a young male supporter of Senator Sanders a Bernie Bro |
| #9251, aired 2025-01-20 | LET'S TALK ABOUT POLITICS $1600: "We are the 99%" was the rallying cry of this movement that took over part of Lower Manhattan in 2011 Occupy Wall Street |
| #9251, aired 2025-01-20 | LET'S TALK ABOUT POLITICS $2000: With a brain tumor & unable to speak, Clair Engle pointed to his eye to vote "aye" & end a Senate filibuster against this 1964 act the Civil Rights Act |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | WHERE'S THE BEEF? $200: In 2023 this fast food chain tweaked its famous slogan, introducing "Square's the Beef" Wendy's |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | WHERE'S THE BEEF? $400: This huge steak that includes a ribeye is named after a Native American weapon a tomahawk |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | WHERE'S THE BEEF? $600: Actually, there's no beef at all in the beefsteak variety of this (& no boy in the big boy) a tomato |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | WHERE'S THE BEEF? $800: Wrapped in pastry, it makes an elegant dish at Christmas beef Wellington |
| #9249, aired 2025-01-16 | WHERE'S THE BEEF? $1000: Including the Spanish word for meat in its 2-word name, it's spicy marinated strips of steak served with rice & beans carne asada |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | PARTY LIKE IT'S 1899 $200: If party equals hangover, don't worry: on March 6, the German company Bayer registered a patent for this aspirin |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | PARTY LIKE IT'S 1899 $400: Let's hear it for William Pickering, who studied some photos of Saturn & stumbled upon its ninth one of these satellites moon |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | PARTY LIKE IT'S 1899 $600: Grab a broom handle & hit the street for this popular game--a variation of baseball using neighborhood objects as bases stickball |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | PARTY LIKE IT'S 1899 $800: Crank up the ragtime! Songs from that pre-jazz genre were all the rage, like Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" for this instrument piano |
| #28, aired 2025-01-15 | PARTY LIKE IT'S 1899 $1000: Dress for a day of leisure in these eponymous billowing pants, the traditional attire of women riding bicycles bloomers |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | THE PRESIDENT'S SIBLING $200: Neil Bush George W. Bush |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | THE PRESIDENT'S SIBLING $400: Prescott Bush George H.W. Bush |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | THE PRESIDENT'S SIBLING $600: Sam Houston Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | THE PRESIDENT'S SIBLING $800: Elliott Roosevelt Teddy Roosevelt |
| #9245, aired 2025-01-10 | THE PRESIDENT'S SIBLING $1000: Charles Adams John Quincy Adams |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | ALL AROUND THE U.S. $200: Most of Willamette National Forest is covered with the Douglas this, the state tree of Oregon a (Douglas) fir |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | ALL AROUND THE U.S. $400: Borealis Basecamp in Alaska is a prime place to view this "directional" atmospheric display (& don't talk your Latin to us!) northern lights |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | ALL AROUND THE U.S. $600: Called "America's Dead Sea", in Nov. 2022 it hit its lowest recorded water level at 4,188 feet above sea level the Great Salt Lake |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | ALL AROUND THE U.S. $1000: A passageway called the Rigolets helps connect the Gulf of Mexico with this large 13-letter lake Pontchartrain |
| #9244, aired 2025-01-09 | ALL AROUND THE U.S. $3,800 (Daily Double): Colorado Springs' website for this nearby attraction dubs it "America's Mountain" Pikes Peak |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | DARWIN'S BOOBIES $100: During an 1832 expedition, Charles Darwin noted in his diary he had seen the booby & the noddy, 2 types of these birds |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | DARWIN'S BOOBIES $200: Charles Darwin had to sail the world to see boobies in their natural habitat; none were native here, Darwin's country of origin England |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN MY BOOK TITLE! $300: In a Dr. Seuss book, this animal "in Socks" likes to create tongue twisters for Mr. Knox Fox |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | DARWIN'S BOOBIES $300: Charles Darwin visited these islands, a popular spot for boobies, for the first time in 1835 the Galapagos Islands |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | DARWIN'S BOOBIES $400: When Charles Darwin first noted his observations of the booby, it was aboard a ship named after this breed of dog beagle |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN MY BOOK TITLE! $500 (Daily Double): "Something That Happened" was John Steinbeck's working title for this 1937 novella about farm workers George & Lennie Of Mice and Men |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | DARWIN'S BOOBIES $500: Piqueros patas azules is Spanish for boobies with feet of this color, named taxonomically in 1882, the year Charles Darwin died blue |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN MY BOOK TITLE! $600: The title of this C.S. Lewis classic mentions a feline named Aslan, an evil woman & a piece of furniture The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN MY BOOK TITLE! $1200: Nature writer Delia Owens branched out into fiction with her bestselling murder mystery "Where" these crustaceans "Sing" the crawdads |
| #27, aired 2025-01-08 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN MY BOOK TITLE! $1500: This Kurt Vonnegut satire about global destruction shares its title with a game that involves making shapes with a loop of string Cat's Cradle |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | THAT'S SHOWBIZ $400: Minor studios like Republic specialized in the low-budget productions familiarly graded as these B-movies |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | THAT'S SHOWBIZ $800: A Broadway show is usually considered successful if it hits $1 million in GWBOR, gross weekly these receipts box office |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | THAT'S SHOWBIZ $1200: Your server will bring tap beer & more to your seat at this Texas-based theater chain acquired by Sony Pictures in 2024 Alamo Drafthouse |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | THAT'S SHOWBIZ $1600: In 1929 Paramount tried to merge with this sibling-owned studio, but the Justice Department said no Warner Bros. |
| #9242, aired 2025-01-07 | THAT'S SHOWBIZ $2000: RKO Radio Pictures went down the tubes, following its 1948 purchase by this increasingly reclusive magnate Howard Hughes |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | THAT'S SOME OPENING ACT $400: This singer/rapper/flautist's first big tour was as an opener for Har Mar Superstar in 2013 Lizzo |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | THAT'S SOME OPENING ACT $800: She opened for *NSYNC on their 1998 tour, before her first album was released & before she & Justin were she & Justin Britney Spears |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | THAT'S SOME OPENING ACT $1200: The San Francisco venue "was packed with... real spacy, high white people", wrote Miles Davis of opening for this band in 1970 the Grateful Dead |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | THAT'S SOME OPENING ACT $1600: One critic said that newcomer Lady Gaga outsang, outshone & outsexed these headliners, on their 2009 Doll Domination Tour the Pussycat Dolls |
| #9239, aired 2025-01-02 | THAT'S SOME OPENING ACT $2000: Robert Plant recalled that when this band played its first U.S. gig in 1968, the marquee read "Vanilla Fudge, Taj Mahal & Support" Led Zeppelin |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | HAPPY NEW YEAR'S DAY! $200: 1877:
She is proclaimed Empress of India Queen Victoria |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | HAPPY NEW YEAR'S DAY! $400: 1962:
This U.S. Navy special forces unit is established the SEALs |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | HAPPY NEW YEAR'S DAY! $600: 1927:
This football game is broadcast coast to coast on radio for the first time the Rose Bowl |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | HAPPY NEW YEAR'S DAY! $800: 1660: Recording that his wife burned her hand preparing a meal & other events of that day, this man makes his first diary entry (Samuel) Pepys |
| #9238, aired 2025-01-01 | HAPPY NEW YEAR'S DAY! $1000: 1990: He's sworn in as the first Black mayor of New York City (David) Dinkins |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | DESTINY'S OTHER CHILDREN $200: Hardeen, whose exploits are advertised here, had this more famous brother in the same line of work Houdini |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | DESTINY'S OTHER CHILDREN $400: Last name of Katharine, seen here; an educator & suffragist, she became a celebrity like her two brothers Wright |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | IT'S A NICE DAY FOR... $400: Visiting one of these 3-letter dry gardens also called karesansui; you can feel your state of mind relaxing zen |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | DESTINY'S OTHER CHILDREN $800: Last name of Ed, a Western lawman with his brother Bat; Ed was killed by a drunken cowboy at age 25 Masterson |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | IT'S A NICE DAY FOR... $800: Snowboarding, maybe in Jackson Hole in this state where the views are awesome Wyoming |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | DESTINY'S OTHER CHILDREN $1000: The career of this actor was going great guns until April 14, 1865, when his brother took center stage; he'd retire temporarily Edwin Booth |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | IT'S A NICE DAY FOR... $1200: Playing this game that you can enjoy on the lawn; it evolved from a French one called paille-maille croquet |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | IT'S A NICE DAY FOR... $1600: Seeing a NASCAR race; we're gonna head out to this Alabama superspeedway & hope for a little shake & bake Talladega |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | IT'S A NICE DAY FOR... $2000: A picnic in Rome, perhaps at this villa named for an Italian family that boasted Pope Paul V as a member the Villa Borghese |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | DESTINY'S OTHER CHILDREN $2,400 (Daily Double): There's a reason you don't hear much about the 5th century ruler Bleda; this meaner brother & co-ruler offed him in 445 Attila the Hun |
| #9233, aired 2024-12-25 | LET'S GO TO THE PARK $400: Visit Tokyo in the spring & you can see more than a dozen varieties of these trees blossoming in Shinjuku Gyoen cherry trees |
| #9233, aired 2024-12-25 | LET'S GO TO THE PARK $800: Kings Park in Perth features a viewing tower with this 3-letter name, structured after a scientific discovery of 1953 DNA |
| #9233, aired 2024-12-25 | LET'S GO TO THE PARK $1600: This famed spot in London's Hyde Park has been an epicenter of free speech since the 19th century the Speakers' Corner |
| #9233, aired 2024-12-25 | LET'S GO TO THE PARK $2000: Much of "Les Misérables" is set in these Paris gardens with the name of a small neighboring country the Jardin du Luxembourg |
| #9233, aired 2024-12-25 | LET'S GO TO THE PARK $3,000 (Daily Double): Built over abandoned railroad tracks, this Chicago park opened in 2004, just a few years behind schedule Millennium Park |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | WHEN IT'S TIME TO RHYME $400: A 1784 version of "Roses are red, violets are blue" also rhymes "thine" with this amorous saint Valentine |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | WHEN IT'S TIME TO RHYME $800: Reduplicative rhyming words include this "H" word meaning acting all high & mighty hoity-toity |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | WHEN IT'S TIME TO RHYME $1200: Rhyming mnemonics include this exception-riddled one that does help you spell "receive" I before E except after C |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | WHEN IT'S TIME TO RHYME $1600: "Freak with / ...keep a secret" & "to the precinct / ...nothing' recent" are in "Turn It Up Remix" by this rapper perfect for the category Busta Rhymes |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | WHEN IT'S TIME TO RHYME $2000: My name is Ken / I am the host / Don't take my job, now, / Colin Jost... this "Roll Call" with roots in Prince & Spike Lee the "Shabooya Roll Call" |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | U.S. HISTORY $200: In 1839 it replaced Vandalia as Illinois' capital Springfield |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | U.S. HISTORY $400: The 20th Amendment, which moved the presidential inauguration up from March to January, has this "avian" nickname Lame Duck |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | U.S. HISTORY $600: Located in Wyoming & of volcanic origin, it was the first U.S. national monument to be established Devils Tower |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | U.S. HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): During his tenure as chief justice of the United States, he swore in 5 presidents, including Andrew Jackson John Marshall |
| #9229, aired 2024-12-19 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: On October 10, 1973, he resigned as vice president & pleaded no contest to one count of income tax evasion Spiro Agnew |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | THAT'S WEIRD $200: A Mattel doll is based on this Kate McKinnon character from a 2023 movie Weird Barbie |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | IN D.C.'s STATUARY HALL $400: Colorado honors Jack Swigert, who flew aboard this successful failure of a Moon mission & was elected to Congress in 1982 Apollo 13 |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | THAT'S WEIRD $400: In cognitive science, the acronym "WEIRD" stands for "Western, Educated, Industrialized", this financial state "and Democratic" Rich |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | THAT'S WEIRD $600: Weird Tales magazine published his story "The Black Ferris", which formed the basis for "Something Wicked This Way Comes" Ray Bradbury |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | IN D.C.'s STATUARY HALL $800: Alabama is represented by this woman, depicted as a young girl astonished by the discovery of her first word--"water" Helen Keller |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | THAT'S WEIRD $800: The Weird U.S. travel guide includes such sites as the Fall River, Massachusetts house of this accused murderess Lizzie Borden |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | THAT'S WEIRD $1000: It's the formal & familial though maybe not terribly polite way to address the trio of witches in "Macbeth" the Weird Sisters |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | IN D.C.'s STATUARY HALL $1200: Vermont has a statue of him, despite or maybe in part because of the fact he was run out of towns in Massachusetts & Connecticut Ethan Allen |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | IN D.C.'s STATUARY HALL $1600: Rhode Island honors Nathanael Greene & this man, which seems the least the state could do, as he founded the original colony Roger Williams |
| #9228, aired 2024-12-18 | IN D.C.'s STATUARY HALL $2000: There is a Georgia statue for Alexander Stephens, though the man did hold this job from 1861 to 1865 vice president of the Confederacy |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | IT'S SMALL, WHIRLED $200: Word found in front of a type of golf:
UM INERTIA miniature |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | IT'S SMALL, WHIRLED $400: A prefix for "one-billionth" gives these uber-tiny machines their name:
NOT A SNOB nanobots |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | IT'S SMALL, WHIRLED $600: This subatomic particle is made of quarks:
ONE RUNT a neutron |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | IT'S SMALL, WHIRLED $800: This type of organism has but a lowly single cell:
ZOO PATRON a protozoan |
| #9225, aired 2024-12-13 | IT'S SMALL, WHIRLED $1000: Gulliver put out a fire at their royal palace in a unique way:
NAUTILI SPILL Lilliputians |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | TRIPLE "T"s ME $200: It can mean a new colony, or a business agreement negotiated to resolve a dispute a settlement |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | TRIPLE "T"s ME $400: For decades consumers have complained about this persistence in the diet soda drinking experience an aftertaste |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | TRIPLE "T"s ME $600: Oscar Wilde quipped that he could resist anything but this temptation |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $800: A Penn. town sounds like it's named for a country singer, but "Glen" is the Glenwood Coal Co. & this last name was a superintendent there Campbell |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | TRIPLE "T"s ME $800: A woman's undergarment often trimmed with ruffles or lace a petticoat |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | TRIPLE "T"s ME $1000: The author of the text of an opera the librettist |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1200: The town of Volcano lies on the slopes of this active volcano on the island of Hawaii Kilauea |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $1600: Electric City, Washington began as a community to house personnel working on the construction of this huge project the Grand Coulee Dam |
| #9223, aired 2024-12-11 | U.S. PLACE NAMES $2000: This barrier island off Texas was once named Wild Horse for the wild horses that roamed there Mustang Island |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | KING ARTHUR'S VERY PUNNY KNIGHTS $200: This knight was so plump his belly was equal to pi times his diameter Sir Cumference |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | HOW'S YOUR LEGALESE? $400: Prison terms for multiple sentences are often this type, meaning they run at the same time rather than consecutively concurrent |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | KING ARTHUR'S VERY PUNNY KNIGHTS $400: He told everyone of his skills for when Britain became even more anarchic, like finding food & shelter & making fires in the wild Sir Vivalist |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | KING ARTHUR'S VERY PUNNY KNIGHTS $600: For a boundary dispute with a rival king, King Arthur called on this knight equipped to settle the issue Sir Veyor |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | HOW'S YOUR LEGALESE? $800: A real 4-letter word in some courtrooms, it's a temporary pause in a judicial proceeding until another issue is resolved a stay |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | KING ARTHUR'S VERY PUNNY KNIGHTS $800: This knight had rhythm! Though sadly more to do with 24-hour time periods than with music Sir Cadian |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | KING ARTHUR'S VERY PUNNY KNIGHTS $1000: He always took the kind of route named for him--6 hours of twists & turns for what should be a 2-hour ride back to Camelot Sir Pentine (Sir Cuitous) |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | HOW'S YOUR LEGALESE? $1200: 1983's Illinois v. Gates modified a 1969 precedent on what constitutes this, reasonable grounds for police action probable cause |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | HOW'S YOUR LEGALESE? $1600: This Latin-named brief is advice offered to the court from an entity that's not a party to the case but has a friendly interest amicus |
| #9222, aired 2024-12-10 | HOW'S YOUR LEGALESE? $2000: Part of the discovery process, they're written questions from one party in a lawsuit to the other, & reply is mandatory interrogatories |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | THAT'S ALL HISTORY $400: The auto-da-fé, or act of faith, was the ceremony in which the sentences of this were pronounced & carried out the Inquisition |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | THAT'S ALL HISTORY $800: In business around 1070, Hereward the Wake was an Anglo-Saxon hero who rebelled against this other "the" guy William the Conqueror |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | THAT'S ALL HISTORY $1200: French army officer Hippolyte Charles, this woman's lover after her 1796 marriage, somehow lived until 1837 Josephine |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | THAT'S ALL HISTORY $1600: The ruins of the Iron Age city called "Great" this lie south of Harare in the country of the same name Zimbabwe |
| #9221, aired 2024-12-09 | THAT'S ALL HISTORY $2000: Pushed out of Dacia by the Huns in 376, they moved in to Roman land, did some attacking of their own & went on west the Visigoths |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | "ISM"s $400: It's what being performed here a baptism |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | "ISM"s $800: This term for opposition to war & violence to settle disputes can be traced back to an international conference in 1901 pacifism |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | "ISM"s $1200: Simple-living duo Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus are proponents of this, where less is more minimalism |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | "ISM"s $1600: Leonora Carrington, whose work is seen here, was one of the leading women painters of this art movement surrealism |
| #9218, aired 2024-12-04 | "ISM"s $2000: It's a relapse into criminal behavior, especially after serving time for a crime recidivism |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | THAT CHAPTER'S NAMED FOR ME! $200: This kid who deals with Olympians is the "I" in chapter 1: "I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher" Percy Jackson |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | THAT CHAPTER'S NAMED FOR ME! $400: "Live and Let Die", chapter 2, is an "Interview with" this letter-perfect head honcho M |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | THAT CHAPTER'S NAMED FOR ME! $600: Chapter 10 of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is an "Extract from the Diary of" this man Watson |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | THAT CHAPTER'S NAMED FOR ME! $800: A charming Chapter 4 is entitled "In Which" this animal "Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One" Eeyore |
| #9216, aired 2024-12-02 | THAT CHAPTER'S NAMED FOR ME! $1000: Chapter 6 of "The Wind in the Willows" is named for this character, who gets hustled away from taking a wild ride in a car Mr. Toad |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | IT'S A FAKE! $200: In 1933 baseballer Clarence "Climax" Blethen bit himself in the butt sliding into a base with these in his pocket dentures (false teeth) |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | IT'S A FAKE! $400: Matthew 7:15 warns, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in" this 2-word attire, "but inwardly they are ravening wolves" sheep's clothing |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | THAT'S A FACT $400: Used in coal mining, a BWE is a bucket-wheel this machine an excavator |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | IT'S PHYSICS! $400: When you're on a plane, it's the 4-letter opposing force of thrust drag |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | U.S. CITIES $400: We have a problem if you don't know that it's the fourth-largest U.S. city in population Houston |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | IT'S A FAKE! $600: In humans "false" these don't connect to the sternum directly & are attached to the 7th pair by cartilage ribs |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | IT'S A FAKE! $800: Time to raise this alliterative term for an attack planned to look like it was done by someone other than the perpetrators a false flag |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | THAT'S A FACT $800: Oil still bubbles to the surface of Pearl Harbor from this battleship, now a part of a national memorial the USS Arizona |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | IT'S PHYSICS! $800: This one of the simple machines, an adaptation of the inclined plane, can be used to split a log a wedge |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | U.S. CITIES $800: In Colonial times Burlington & Perth Amboy served as twin capitals of what is now this state New Jersey |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | IT'S A FAKE! $1000: In 1605, false him became czar; in 1606 false him suddenly became ex-him, courtesy of a boyar & pals Dmitry |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | THAT'S A FACT $1200: In 1610, Galileo discovered this 2-letter moon of Jupiter, which is about 5 percent wider than ours Io |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | IT'S PHYSICS! $1200: It's the type of acceleration of a body traveling in a circular motion; the same-named "force" is directed towards the circle's center centripetal |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | U.S. CITIES $1200: Bar Harbor, Maine is located on Mount Desert Island, where the majority of this national park is also located Acadia |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | THAT'S A FACT $1600: This language is celebrated every July 26--in 1887, that was the publication day for "Unua Libro", or "First Book" Esperanto |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | IT'S PHYSICS! $1600: Quarks are grouped in 3 pairs: up & down, top & bottom & let's call them this "rizzy" & "odd" pair strange & charm |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | THAT'S A FACT $2000: Winston Churchill was born at this Oxfordshire palace; a nice example of baroque architecture in England Blenheim Palace |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | IT'S PHYSICS! $2000: A CERN document calls it a material "composed of electrically neutral particles that can... flow without friction" a superfluid |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | U.S. CITIES $2000: It's home to Indiana University & the little 500 bike race that inspired the movie "Breaking Away" Bloomington |
| #9212, aired 2024-11-26 | U.S. CITIES $2,200 (Daily Double): The name of this Iowa city across the river from Omaha honors the site where Lewis & Clark met with tribesmen in 1804 Council Bluffs, Iowa |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | I'M ON A U.S. STAMP $200: In 1965, a five-cent stamp honored the 700th birthday of this poet--how divine Dante |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | HERE'S MY WRITING SAMPLE $200: "'Don't be afraid. He hasn't come for you.' And to Javert he said: 'I know what you're here for"' Hugo |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | I'M ON A U.S. STAMP $400: A labor organizer & co-founder of the National Farm Workers association, he got the honor in 2003 Chavez |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | HERE'S MY WRITING SAMPLE $400: "My biggest problem is my brother, Farley Drexel Hatcher. He's two-and-a-half years old. Everybody calls him Fudge" Judy Blume |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | I'M ON A U.S. STAMP $600: This "Wizard of Westwood" was honored with the Medal of Freedom in 2003 & a U.S. stamp in 2024 (John) Wooden |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | HERE'S MY WRITING SAMPLE $600: "The self-same moment I could pray; and from my neck so free / The albatross fell off, and sank like lead into the sea" Coleridge |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | I'M ON A U.S. STAMP $800: If you want my 3 cents, a 1948 stamp had her picture as well as stating "founder of the American Red Cross" (Clara) Barton |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | HERE'S MY WRITING SAMPLE $800: "There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word--man" George Orwell |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | I'M ON A U.S. STAMP $1000: Fannie Lou Hamer & this fellow civil rights icon, assassinated at his home in 1963, were honored together in 2009 Medgar Evers |
| #9211, aired 2024-11-25 | HERE'S MY WRITING SAMPLE $1000: "Yeager was standing erect with his parachute rolled up... and staring at them quite levelly out of what was left of his face" Tom Wolfe |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | PEOPLE ON U.S. MONEY $200: In the late 1800s the portrait of this first first lady appeared on the $1 silver certificate Martha Washington |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | PEOPLE ON U.S. MONEY $400: Having his face on some old twenties is appropriate for Hugh McCullough who headed this U.S. government department twice after the Civil War the Treasury |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | IT'S RUINED $400: This phrase can mean to serve a boozy drink with ice or a state of disaster or ruin on the rocks |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | PEOPLE ON U.S. MONEY $600: First elected president in 1896, he was on the $500 bill from 1928 to 1945 McKinley |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | PEOPLE ON U.S. MONEY $800: Politician & Justice Salmon P. Chase once graced the bill of this multi-zero amount the $10,000 bill |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | IT'S RUINED $800: "A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin" is in this Bible book Proverbs |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | PEOPLE ON U.S. MONEY $1000: This New England politician & orator appeared on the $10 bill from the 1860s to 1900 (Daniel) Webster |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | IT'S RUINED $1200: The stock in this Houston energy co. was $90 a share in 2000 but some stuff happened to drop it under a buck in November 2001 Enron |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | IT'S RUINED $1600: Brutal religious conflict not being good for trade, this Lübeck-based confederacy was destroyed by the 30 Years' War the Hanseatic League |
| #9207, aired 2024-11-19 | IT'S RUINED $2000: This historian pinpointed sunset on Oct. 15, 1764, amid the ruins of the Capitol, as the moment he decided on his life's work Edward Gibbon |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | WHAT'S "UP"? $200: The Cardinals beating the Cowboys 28-16 was a big one in 2023 an upset |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | WHAT'S "UP"? $400: Usually preceded by "one-", it's outdoing or keeping ahead of a friend or rival upsmanship |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | MUSICAL ETT(E)s $400: The Marketts kapowed their way into the Top 20 with the theme from this '60s TV series set in Gotham Batman |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | WHAT'S "UP"? $600: Hurricanes do it to trees; people do it when they leave a longtime home & move away uproot |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | MUSICAL ETT(E)s $800: Makes sense:
The Raelettes backed this late, great icon Ray Charles |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | WHAT'S "UP"? $800: In the Bible the first line of Job explains that he was from Uz, & that he was "perfect and" this upright |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | WHAT'S "UP"? $1000: The highest social class, or the topmost layer of the Earth's lithosphere the upper crust |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | MUSICAL ETT(E)s $1600: Robbie Montgomery was an original member of this unheralded girl group that backed Tina Turner on hits like "Proud Mary" The Ikettes |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | MUSICAL ETT(E)s $2,000 (Daily Double): Freddie Gorman, a letter carrier by day, contributed to the lyrics of this song that delivered a No. 1 hit for The Marvelettes "Please Mr. Postman" |
| #9204, aired 2024-11-14 | MUSICAL ETT(E)s $2000: Though dark-haired, Johnette Napolitano was the lead singer of this group that in 1990 sang about Joey Concrete Blonde |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | IT'S A SMALL WORLD $200: It's appropriate that tiny Nauru is part of this Pacific island group that has a name partly meaning small Micronesia |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | IT'S A SMALL WORLD $400: In 1815 the Congress of Vienna put this principality under the protection of Sardinia; it became independent in 1861 Monaco |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | IT'S A SMALL WORLD $600: Falls Church, an independent city in this state, is a whopping 2 square miles Virginia |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | IT'S A SMALL WORLD $800: The tiny island of San Michele has served as this Italian city's cemetery for the past two centuries Venice |
| #9203, aired 2024-11-13 | IT'S A SMALL WORLD $1000: Chicken Rock, a rock just big enough for a lighthouse, belongs to this much bigger isle in the Irish Sea the Isle of Man |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | LET'S DABBLE IN SCIENCE $400: U-Pb dating, using these 2 elements, can determine the age of a rock whether it's in the millions or billions of years uranium & lead |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $400: The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act established the first federal this; it's been increased more than 20 times, but not since 2009 the minimum wage |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | LET'S DABBLE IN SCIENCE $800: In taxonomy, all birds are in the same kingdom, phylum & class, but things fly off & change at this next level order |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $800: Before it was annexed by the U.S. in 1845, it claimed a panhandle that extended up into Wyoming Texas |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | LET'S DABBLE IN SCIENCE $1200: First predicted in 1930, this particle with no charge can go through miles of matter without reacting with a proton or neutron a neutrino |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $1200: In 1974 the U.S. repealed a Depression-era ban on private ownership of this that had been meant to prevent hoarding gold |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | LET'S DABBLE IN SCIENCE $1600: Lasting from 5.3 to 2.6 million years ago, this epoch was followed by the somewhat similar-sounding Pleistocene the Pliocene |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $1600: In 1899, New York City newsboys went on strike, refusing to distribute papers published by Joseph Pulitzer & this rival magnate Hearst |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | LET'S DABBLE IN SCIENCE $2000: Whoa, nebula, whoa! A new image from the Webb Telescope shows this nebula that's 1,300 light-years away the Horsehead Nebula |
| #9202, aired 2024-11-12 | U.S. HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): A December 2, 1954 resolution said the conduct of this man "is contrary to senatorial traditions and is hereby condemned" (Joseph) McCarthy |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $200: 1977:
This Egyptian president, who traveled to Israel to seek peace negotiations Anwar Sadat |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $400: 1981:
This electrician & union leader Wałęsa |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $600: 1986:
This Filipina Corazon Aquino |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $800: 1936:
This twice-divorced American woman Wallis Simpson |
| #9201, aired 2024-11-11 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $1000: 1968:
The astronauts of this Apollo mission, the first manned one to orbit the Moon Apollo 8 |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | EVERYONE'S LOST THEIR MARBLES $400: Once having the name of a British ambassador, the Elgin Marbles are now named for this temple they were taken from the Parthenon |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | EVERYONE'S LOST THEIR MARBLES $800: This statue was found in pieces on a Greek island in 1820; a hand holding an apple found nearby was carved from the same marble the Venus de Milo |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | EVERYONE'S LOST THEIR MARBLES $1200: A marble bull head on display at the Met was found to be taken from Lebanon & was returned this way, from the Latin for "fatherland" repatriation |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | EVERYONE'S LOST THEIR MARBLES $1600: Sometimes you find your marbles! An eagle-eyed student spied this French sculptor's signature on a "Lost" marble bust of Napoleon Rodin |
| #9199, aired 2024-11-07 | EVERYONE'S LOST THEIR MARBLES $2000: The Bruges Madonna, a marble of Mary & baby Jesus by this renaissance master, was stolen twice Michelangelo |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | THAT'S SO 19th CENTURY $200: Boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase were vague, but by 1818, the Stony Mountains, now called these, became the western limit the Rockies |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | THAT'S SO 19th CENTURY $400: In 1859 she provided "Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not", & here's what the book is--still available today Florence Nightingale |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | THAT'S SO 19th CENTURY $600: 3 glasses of whiskey are said to have made his 1865 VP inaugural address a bit of an adventure; a stunned Lincoln couldn't even look Andrew Johnson |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | THAT'S SO 19th CENTURY $800: The Oct. 25, 1854 Battle of Balaklava in this war was immortalized in "The Charge of the Light Brigade" later that year the Crimean War |
| #9195, aired 2024-11-01 | THAT'S SO 19th CENTURY $1000: Napoleon re-premiered at Cannes on March 1, 1815, returning from an extended, unwanted engagement on this island Elba |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THE KING'S MEN $200: In 1599, Shakespeare paid 12.5% towards the cost of building this, which would go onto host many King's Men plays the Globe |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: In most states only the governor has the power to do this, not drive to work & back, but reduce a sentence commute |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THE KING'S MEN $400: Son of theater manager James Burbage, Richard Burbage originated many Shakespeare roles, including this Moor Othello |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THE KING'S MEN $600: Prior to being named the King's Men, the troupe was known as this lord's Men, also a word for a bedroom attendant Chamberlain |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $800: The federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction over this, covered in title 11 of the U.S. code; chapter 7 is good reading bankruptcy |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THE KING'S MEN $800: "All that glisters is not gold", says this play, but extra gold was made when the king asked the troupe for a rare repeat performance The Merchant of Venice |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | THE KING'S MEN $1000: In 1605 the King's Men performed "Volpone" by this dramatist who once killed another actor in a duel Ben Jonson |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $1200: Treasury writes checks; for balances, go to the Office of Weights & Measures within this trade-&-tech cabinet department Commerce |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $2000: Until 1975 it took this many senators to end a filibuster, 7 more than now 67 |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $3,400 (Daily Double): In the 1930s this state eliminated a house of its legislature & the salaries of 90 out of 133 lawmakers Nebraska |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | SHE'S GOT THE POWER $200: In 2024, for the first time in its 200-year history, this nation elected a female president, Claudia Sheinbaum Mexico |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $400: Kali Gandaki is a more than 3-mile-deep gorge between Mount Annapurna & Mount Dhaulagiri in this range the Himalaya |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | SHE'S GOT THE POWER $400: Karen Lynch is CEO of this 3-letter pharmacy chain that has a red heart as a symbol CVS |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | SHE'S GOT THE POWER $600: In 2024 Mary Barra, CEO of this company, said the plan to pivot its fleet to all electric cars will take decades General Motors |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $800: Forming part of the border between Serbia & Romania, the Iron Gate is a 2-mile-long gorge on this river the Danube |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | SHE'S GOT THE POWER $800: Maura Healey, a Democratic governor from this state, is the first openly lesbian governor in history Massachusetts |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | SHE'S GOT THE POWER $1000: Born in the Bronx in 1954, she wrote in a 2024 dissent, "The president is now a king above the law" Sotomayor |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $1200: Liechtenstein Gorge in this Alpine nation, not the principality, has a staircase for great views & is not for the vertigo-prone Austria |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $1600: Peru's Colca Canyon is home to a number of villages & is advertised as the best place to see this largest raptor the Andean condor |
| #9193, aired 2024-10-30 | THAT'S A REALLY BIG DITCH! $2,000 (Daily Double): This canyon sinks about 8,000 feet below the rim to the Snake River below on the Oregon-Idaho border Hells Canyon |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | THE MACHINE'S BROKEN $200: Plenty of rockers have destroyed a guitar; in a 2022 frenzy, Pearl Jam's Mike McCready took out his Marshall these too amps |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | THE MACHINE'S BROKEN $400: In 2024 in Capalaba, Australia, this type of machine was out of order as a toddler crawled in for direct access to the Hello Kittys a claw machine |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | THE MACHINE'S BROKEN $600: As a young man this comedian fixed cars in Boston--if, say, the Kennedys' Rolls was in the shop, he'd drive it on dates Jay Leno |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | THE MACHINE'S BROKEN $800: In 1816 these tech-averse craftsmen destroyed John Heathcoat's lace-making machines in Loughborough, England Luddites |
| #9192, aired 2024-10-29 | THE MACHINE'S BROKEN $1000: In 1962, software that lacked a bar over "R" in a radius symbol doomed this oceanic spacecraft 1, NASA's first effort to reach Venus Mariner (1) |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | THAT'S JUST PART OF THE STORY $200: On the question of "Life, the Universe and Everything" in this book series, the answer is 42, "which is a little aggravating" The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | IT'S A PENINSULA $200: The Strait of Gibraltar separates the southern tip of this peninsula from Africa the Iberian Peninsula |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | SHE'S A SAINT! $400: Tradition says that St. Priscilla allowed this New Testament figure also called Simon to use her home as his HQ while in Rome Peter |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | IT'S A PENINSULA $400: Though it looks like it should be part of Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula was ceded to this state after a border war with, of course, Ohio Michigan |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | THAT'S JUST PART OF THE STORY $400: "We have real dinosaurs out there now. That's what people want to see" Jurassic Park |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | IT'S A PENINSULA $600: Yalta see Livadiya Palace or Sevastopol on this peninsula the Crimean |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | THAT'S JUST PART OF THE STORY $600: The hero of this tale thinks, "Do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one?" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | SHE'S A SAINT! $800: This Nobel Prize winner reached the ranks of the blessed in the church's then shortest time & was canonized in 2016 Mother Teresa |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | IT'S A PENINSULA $800: The Western-most point of the North American continent is at the tip of this Alaskan peninsula named for a man crucial to the state's history Seward |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | THAT'S JUST PART OF THE STORY $800: The Lady Madeline isn't the corpse we were told she was--at least not until after a family reunion--in this 1839 short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | THAT'S JUST PART OF THE STORY $1000: It's the last name of Philip Roth's character Alexander, who has at least one issue with his mom, Sophie Portnoy |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | SHE'S A SAINT! $1200: On May 30, 1431 the English threw her ashes into the Seine River Joan of Arc |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | SHE'S A SAINT! $1600: The sixth station of the cross is this saint "wipes the face of Jesus"; tradition says she used her veil St. Veronica |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | SHE'S A SAINT! $2000: This Italian-born patron saint of immigrants came to New York City in 1889 to help immigrants Mother Cabrini |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | IT'S A PENINSULA $2,400 (Daily Double): At the tip of Pinellas Peninsula, it's nicknamed "The Sunshine City" & has a major sister city in Russia St. Petersburg |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | AROUND THE U.S. $200: Head to Lake Itasca in Minnesota if you want to see the source of this river the Mississippi |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS $400: Queens are the chapter leaders of this society named for the colorful chapeaux worn by its members the Red Hat Society |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | AROUND THE U.S. $400: This, actually a volcano, is Oregon's highest point Mount Hood |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | AROUND THE U.S. $600: Harry Truman made it the official presidential retreat in 1945 Camp David |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS $800: Betty Friedan was a founder of this feminist organization & served as its first president NOW (National Organization for Women) |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | AROUND THE U.S. $800: Since 1990 the Black Rock Desert has been home to this annual event Burning Man |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | AROUND THE U.S. $1000: Head to this Texas city to visit the Dr Pepper Museum--you might get a free beverage Waco |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS $1600: This nonpartisan group sponsored the televised presidential debates between Ford & Carter the League of Women Voters |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): Founded in 1929 to promote the values of Hellenism, the Daughters of her is named for the patient wife of Odysseus Penelope |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS $2000: A motto of this Jewish women's organization is "Aruchat Bat Ami", or "the healing of the daughter of my people" Hadassah |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | WHAT'S ON TV? $400: Amandla Stenberg doubles the fun playing OSHA & Mae on this "Star Wars" series set during the High Republic The Acolyte |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | THAT'S SUCH A CLICHÉ! $400: Reportedly, for physicist Richard Feynman this 3-word cliché was "this dying is boring" his famous last words |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | THAT'S SUCH A CLICHÉ! $800: Do me a favor & I'll do you one--tell us that in Latin it's "manus manum lavat" one hand washes the other |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | WHAT'S ON TV? $800: The empire is in danger in "Foundation" based on the classic sci-fi series by this author Asimov |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | THAT'S SUCH A CLICHÉ! $1200: To a friend who has betrayed you, you might use this Latin phrase from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Et tu, Brute |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | WHAT'S ON TV? $1200: In 2024 Netflix released this limited series based on a tearjerker by David Nicholls about a couple's July 15s over the years One Day |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | THAT'S SUCH A CLICHÉ! $1600: Going back to Galatians 5:4, this expression means to lose favor or lapse into sin to fall from grace |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | WHAT'S ON TV? $1600: Thomas Brodie-Sangster plays this Dickens character pulled back into a life of crime by Fagin the Artful Dodger |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | THAT'S SUCH A CLICHÉ! $2000: It's the same idea as "15 minutes of fame" & can be applied, literally, to Lady Jane Grey a nine-days wonder |
| #9183, aired 2024-10-16 | WHAT'S ON TV? $2000: "The Big Cigar" is a dramatization of an escape to Cuba by this Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SAYS... $200: This danger, the subject of some thoughts by Stevie Nicks, can move downhill at double digit mph, faster than you a landslide |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | LET'S GO FOR A SPIN $200: It's the type of spin being done here, or a bakery treat--mmm, bakery treat donut |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SAYS... $400: Symbol Ti, it's one of the critical minerals to the U.S. economy & most of it is used in white pigments titanium |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | LET'S GO FOR A SPIN $400: Switzerland's Denise Biellmann put her name on a move in this sport where the athlete extends their leg above the head as they spin figure skating |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SAYS... $600: The survey keeps an eye on this fish &, with a webcam near Hyder, Alaska, on the river named for it salmon |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | LET'S GO FOR A SPIN $600: Dead or Alive sang, "You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round, like a" this, "baby, right 'round, 'round 'round" like a record, baby |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SAYS... $800: Earthquake data is crowdsourced via a program called DYFI, short for this question we often ask each other here in California did you feel it |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | LET'S GO FOR A SPIN $800: In 1967 scientists at Cambridge Univ. discovered the first known one of these, a rapidly spinning neutron star a pulsar |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SAYS... $1000: The 'Vey is working to protect water flow changes that may affect the plant called wild this grain, sacred to Great Lakes tribes wild rice |
| #9181, aired 2024-10-14 | LET'S GO FOR A SPIN $1000: Here's a spinning this, patented in 1770; it uses many spindles to do its textile business a spinning jenny |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | LET'S HEAR IT FOR ANIMAL MOMS $200: Dad must be relieved when mom of the Emperor species of this returns from a long trek to the ocean & regurgitates fish for the chick a penguin |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | LET'S HEAR IT FOR ANIMAL MOMS $400: This time period, from the Latin for "carrying", can test any mom's patience: for an elephant, it can be 22 months & an octopus, 53 gestation |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | LET'S HEAR IT FOR ANIMAL MOMS $600: Talk about a passel of kids--this North American marsupial can give birth to as many as 20 babies at a time, each no larger than a bee an opossum |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | LET'S HEAR IT FOR ANIMAL MOMS $800: Hens dissolve their own bones if needed to get this element to make shells for their young calcium |
| #9180, aired 2024-10-11 | LET'S HEAR IT FOR ANIMAL MOMS $1000: Aphids can produce young through this "virgin birth" method with no mating & produce pregnant babies holding more young parthenogenesis |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | WHAT'S MY MOTIVATION? $200: ...Why, to be the world's biggest corporation, of course! These 2 oil companies got closer with an $81 billion merger in 1999 Exxon & Mobil |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | WHAT'S MY MOTIVATION? $400: A synonym for motivation, it can mean a financial reward for an athlete with, say, 10 sacks or 200 innings pitched incentive |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | WHAT'S MY MOTIVATION? $600: I'm not neutral or in reverse--I'm motivated by this basic type of need, the title of a Daniel H. Pink bestseller drive |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | WHAT'S MY MOTIVATION? $800: In Genesis
God warns Adam that he may eat of every tree except for this one; you'd think that would have been enough motivation, but no the tree of knowledge (of good and evil) |
| #9177, aired 2024-10-08 | WHAT'S MY MOTIVATION? $1000: I'm a highly motivated seeker for a nice, easy job on this alliterative level, below the C-suite but above the factory floor middle management |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | U.S. MUSEUMS $400: You can learn all about this company & even do some tastings at its museum on Chocolate Avenue in Pennsylvania Hershey |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | U.S. MUSEUMS $800: Boarding his Air Force One plane is a highlight of his library & museum in Simi Valley, California Ronald Reagan |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | U.S. MUSEUMS $1600: At Hawaii's Bishop Museum, you can see the still vivid yellow feathered cloak of this great warrior king Kamehameha |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | U.S. MUSEUMS $2000: In 2023 the National Museum of African American History & Culture acquired a major collection relating to this 18th c. female poet Phillis Wheatley |
| #9175, aired 2024-10-04 | U.S. MUSEUMS $3,000 (Daily Double): Her story is told in 9 galleries through photos, drawings, paintings & personal possessions at her museum in downtown Santa Fe (Georgia) O'Keeffe |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | IT'S TECHNICAL $200: A technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer is used in this process; in 1996, it resulted in a sheep named Dolly cloning |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | PEOPLE'S SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $200: 2016's cover duly reported this part-time pro wrestler was "sweet, smart--and sculpted!", if you smelllll... what the Ken... is cookin' Johnson |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | IT'S TECHNICAL $400: Einstein patented an innovative refrigerator but couldn't sell it after DuPont came up with this "Fr"eezing stuff Freon |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | PEOPLE'S SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $400: He's got the EGOT, he's a master musician, he's married to Chrissy Teigen, so why not also be the S.M.A. in 2019? John Legend |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | IT'S TECHNICAL $600: William Harvey attempted this process in 1628, but it wasn't safe until the advent of donor compatibility tests in the early 1900s a blood transfusion |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | PEOPLE'S SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $600: Great Scot! In 1989 this actor was "older, balder... and better!"; we only wish he'd really played "Celebrity Jeopardy!" Sean Connery |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | PEOPLE'S SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $800: 2 years after "Creed II", this actor was sexy man No. 1 in 2020 Michael B. Jordan |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | IT'S TECHNICAL $1,000 (Daily Double): The drum in a clothes dryer is an example of the basket type of this spinning device seen in many a lab a centrifuge |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | IT'S TECHNICAL $1000: From Greek for "beyond" & "heavy", it's a type of chamber used to treat decompression sickness hyperbaric |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | PEOPLE'S SEXIEST MAN ALIVE $1000: He was hunking up "L.A. Law" when chosen in 1987; now he's even sexier on "In the Kitchen with" him, am I right? Harry Hamlin |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | IT'S A THEORY $400: A widely accepted cosmological theory is named for this primordial event 13.8 billion years ago the Big Bang |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | IT'S A THEORY $800: The theory of general relativity is concerned with this one of the universe's 4 fundamental forces gravity |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | IT'S A THEORY $1200: Melanie Klein's object relations theory emerged from this Freudian method, which she tried on patients as young as 3 psychoanalysis |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | IT'S A THEORY $2000: The usual example of this, the classic game theory problem, is you & a pal are both accused of a crime; do you confess? the prisoner's dilemma |
| #9173, aired 2024-10-02 | IT'S A THEORY $5,600 (Daily Double): Relating an object's worth to the hours needed to make it, the labor theory of value was a pillar of this 3-volume work by Karl Marx Das Kapital |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | LET'S PLAY SOME MUSIC $200: The general drift of the clue is that it's the next-to-lowest voice part in a 4-part harmony tenor |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | LET'S PLAY SOME MUSIC $400: It's the loud dynamic music instruction seen here forte |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | LET'S PLAY SOME MUSIC $600: This woodwind is not only a double reed instrument, but it's also got 2 sets of double letters a bassoon |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | LET'S PLAY SOME MUSIC $800: Regarding a piece of music, this is the end, from the Italian for "tail", my friend coda |
| #9171, aired 2024-09-30 | LET'S PLAY SOME MUSIC $1000: Similar to a portamento, it's the glide between notes heard here glissando |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | IT'S A CRISIS! $400: In the 1898 Fashoda Crisis, the British squared off with this country's Major Marchand over rights to the Sudanese Nile France |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | IT'S A CRISIS! $800: A Japanese financial crisis was sparked in 1927 when a govt. minister mistakenly said that the Tokyo Watanabe one of these had gone bust a bank |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | IT'S A CRISIS! $1200: One crisis that jump-started the Intl. Crisis Group: famine in this land where clans fought after Mohammed Siad Barre's dictatorship Somalia |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | IT'S A CRISIS! $1600: A crisis was sparked by this leader's 1958 demand that the U.S. & its allies pull their troops out of West Berlin Khrushchev |
| #9170, aired 2024-09-27 | IT'S A CRISIS! $2000: A 21st century humanitarian crisis was caused by the Islamist insurgency of this group also called the Nigerian Taliban Boko Haram |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | THAT'S ON BRAND $200: When it comes to bed frames, who else but this company would make the Tufjord or the Björksnäs IKEA |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | THAT'S ON BRAND $400: This company's LaserJet pro 4001n only has to print 2 letters to finish its name HP |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | THAT'S ON BRAND $600: To be brief, you can get a 3-pack of boxer briefs from this "edible" company's men's getaway collection Fruit of the Loom |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | THAT'S ON BRAND $800: You could say this brand has a monopoly on Scrabble & Furby Hasbro |
| #9169, aired 2024-09-26 | THAT'S ON BRAND $1000: The blue label of this whisky brand had an "Elusive Umami" limited edition; its red seems less elusive as its best seller Johnnie Walker |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | FROM THE TV SHOW'S THEME SONG $400: "From the town of Bedrock, they're a page right out of history" The Flintstones |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY $400: Barack Obama & John Boehner, who held this post from 2011 to 2015, nearly reached a grand bargain on taxes & spending the Speaker of the House |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY $800: George Washington set a precedent in 1796 when he decided not to do this; FDR broke with the precedent in 1940 by saying, I'm doing it run for a third term |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | FROM THE TV SHOW'S THEME SONG $800: "Yeah, it might be all that you get, yeah, I guess this might well be it, but heaven knows I've tried" Ted Lasso |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | FROM THE TV SHOW'S THEME SONG $1200: "She was working in a bridal shop in Flushing, Queens, 'til her boyfriend kicked her out in one of those crushing scenes" The Nanny |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY $1200: Many think Arthur Burns, chair of this body, cut interest rates under pressure from Richard Nixon, permitting inflation the Federal Reserve |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | FROM THE TV SHOW'S THEME SONG $1600: "Now your hope & compassion is gone, you've sold out your dream to the world, stay dead, stay dead, stay dead... & out of this world" What We Do in the Shadows |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY $1600: "Ignorant" nickname for the American Party, anthmmigrant, anti-Catholic & active in the 1850s the Know-Nothing Party |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | FROM THE TV SHOW'S THEME SONG $2000: "Sing me a song of a lass that is gone; say, could that lass be I?" Outlander |
| #9164, aired 2024-09-19 | U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY $2000: Thomas Dewey was elected governor of this state 3 times New York |
| #9161, aired 2024-09-16 | FUN WITH U.S. STATE CAPITAL NAMES $200: These 2 capitals are named for a man who crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1492 Columbus & Columbia |
| #9161, aired 2024-09-16 | FUN WITH U.S. STATE CAPITAL NAMES $400: With the name of the state in the name of the capital, this city's 1910 founding makes it the newbie of U.S. capitals Oklahoma City |
| #9161, aired 2024-09-16 | FUN WITH U.S. STATE CAPITAL NAMES $800: A red post that marked the border between the Houma & Bayougoula tribes gave us the name of this state capital Baton Rouge |
| #9161, aired 2024-09-16 | FUN WITH U.S. STATE CAPITAL NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): The only capital with 3 sets of double letters in its name, it was visited by de Soto in the 16th century Tallahassee |
| #9161, aired 2024-09-16 | FUN WITH U.S. STATE CAPITAL NAMES $1000: The name of Germany's fifth-largest city differs by one letter from the name of this capital Frankfort |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | NEW YORK'S HOTTEST CLUB IS... $200: The 2007-08 Giants, who made sure in the Super Bowl this team didn't finish the season 19-0 (but it did trademark "19-0") the New England Patriots |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | SENDING OUT AN "S" TO "S" $200: It's the small telescope seen here a spyglass |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | NEW YORK'S HOTTEST CLUB IS... $400: The 1977 Cosmos, NASL champs led by this Brazilian; his last game as a pro would be about a month later Pelé |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | SENDING OUT AN "S" TO "S" $400: The paranasal these are air-filled spaces near the smeller sinuses |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | NEW YORK'S HOTTEST CLUB IS... $600: The 1998 Yankees, winners of 114 regular season games & a Series sweep of the Padres with this superstar reliever saving three Rivera |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | SENDING OUT AN "S" TO "S" $600: In 2021 Fiat Chrysler merged with PSA Group to become this multinational corporation Stellantis |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | NEW YORK'S HOTTEST CLUB IS... $800: The 1968-69 Jets; Joe Namath backed up "We're gonna win the game" on Super Bowl Sunday with this 3-word boast I guarantee it |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | SENDING OUT AN "S" TO "S" $800: It precedes "chef" or is used by itself to refer to the kitchen's second in command sous |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | NEW YORK'S HOTTEST CLUB IS... $1000: This team; in 1994 it broke 54 years of title futility & 30 years later, won the Presidents' Trophy with the best reg. season record the Rangers |
| #9160, aired 2024-09-13 | SENDING OUT AN "S" TO "S" $1000: From the Latin for "to leap", it means lustful or lecherous salacious |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | LET'S HIT HIGHWAY 101 $200: A Civil War fortress & the Bay Area Discovery Museum are on either side of this landmark with a main span of 4,200' that carries the 101 Golden Gate Bridge |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | LET'S HIT HIGHWAY 101 $400: Just off the 101 is this filmmaking theme park, where tourists saw George the fisherman become shark food from 1976 to 2001 Universal Studios |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | LET'S HIT HIGHWAY 101 $600: An hour north of Eureka, a different drive-through awaits you in Klamath near the national park named for this large type of tree Redwood |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | LET'S HIT HIGHWAY 101 $1,000 (Daily Double): Knowing this state capital is at the south end of Puget Sound is geography 101 Olympia |
| #9156, aired 2024-09-09 | LET'S HIT HIGHWAY 101 $1000: Hop off the 101 onto the Pacific Coast Highway to see this landmark owned by a newspaper biz giant; it even had its own airport, built in the 1920s Hearst Castle |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | RECENTLY ON BILLBOARD'S HOT 100 $800: Britney Spears praised his recent hit "Selfish", but I wouldn't count on seeing the 2 tour together anytime soon Timberlake |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | RECENTLY ON BILLBOARD'S HOT 100 $1600: Dua Lipa sang, "I come & I go, tell me all the ways you need me, I'm not here for long, catch me or I go" this man Houdini |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | RECENTLY ON BILLBOARD'S HOT 100 $2,000 (Daily Double): Luke Combs was "kissin' on a blonde in a backyard pool" & let the wild rumpus start with this song, also a kids' book title "Where The Wild Things Are" |
| #9154, aired 2024-07-25 | RECENTLY ON BILLBOARD'S HOT 100 $2000: In what must have been a nice week in 2024 for this rapper, "Redrum" & "Née-Nah" were 2 of his 14 tunes on the chart 21 Savage |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $400: Oceanus & Thea are among these gods who are the children of primordial earth & heaven Titan |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | U.S. AREAS & TERRITORIES $400: The flag of the Northern Mariana Islands features a latte stone surrounded by a Carolinian mwáár, this floral garland a lei |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $800: Using his chops on the lyre to charm this canine guard of Hades, Orpheus was able to enter & attempt to rescue Eurydice Cerberus |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | U.S. AREAS & TERRITORIES $800: Though the olive branch does rep peace, the arrows of this Antillean territory are for its three large land masses the U.S. Virgin Islands |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | U.S. AREAS & TERRITORIES $1200: The Latin phrase "Joannes est nomen ejus", meaning "Juan is its name", is on this commonwealth's seal Puerto Rico |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $1600: With a little help from Apollo during the Trojan War, this prince shot an arrow into Achilles' heel, killing him Paris |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | U.S. AREAS & TERRITORIES $1600: Despite the name, these birds aren't dumb--the masked & brown types make their homes on Johnston Atoll, a Nat. Wildlife Refuge boobies |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $2000: A skilled yet boastful artisan, she was transformed into a spider after challenging Athena to a weaving contest Arachne |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | U.S. AREAS & TERRITORIES $2000: Swains Island, part of this territory south of the equator, was claimed by Eli Jennings in 1856 & has remained in the family since American Samoa |
| #9152, aired 2024-07-23 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $3,000 (Daily Double): This name applied to a sea monster with 12 feet & 6 heads, each head containing 3 rows of sharklike teeth, or just a rock Scylla |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | 3 "O"s $400: Here's an actual one of these at a space center in Houston Moon rock |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | THAT'S AN EXECUTIVE ORDER $400: President Biden's Oct. 30, 2023 order on the development & use of this noted its "extraordinary potential for both promise and peril" artificial intelligence |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | 3 "O"s $800: These performers can bend over backwards, literally, & twist their bodies in all kinds of unusual ways contortionist |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | THAT'S AN EXECUTIVE ORDER $800: Lincoln's order of Sept. 3, 1864 gave thanks to General Sherman & his "gallant" troops for their capture of this city Atlanta |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | 3 "O"s $1200: Seen here in full bloom, it's the state tree of Virginia as well as its state flower dogwood |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | THAT'S AN EXECUTIVE ORDER $1200: During the Korean War, Harry Truman ordered a takeover of the industry making this vital alloy; the Supreme Court said no steel |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | 3 "O"s $1600: The name of a biblical king gives us this adjective meaning "wise" Solomonic |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | 3 "O"s $2000: Mohammed VI became king of it in 1999 Morocco |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | THAT'S AN EXECUTIVE ORDER $2000: In 1964 LBJ made this soon-to-be 70-year-old exempt from impending compulsory retirement under federal law J. Edgar Hoover |
| #9151, aired 2024-07-22 | THAT'S AN EXECUTIVE ORDER $2,500 (Daily Double): Martin Van Buren's first order, March 7, 1837, commanded the surgeon general to accompany this ailing man headed home to Tennessee Andrew Jackson |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | IT'S SOME KIND OF LAW $200: A 1925 Geneva protocol forbade the use of bacteriological weapons or this stuff in war (poison) gas |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | IT'S SOME KIND OF LAW $400: Newton's first law, which says a body at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an outside force, is also called the law of this inertia |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | IT'S SOME KIND OF LAW $600: The first 5 books of the Old Testament are called simply "The Law" or, in Hebrew, this the Torah |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | IT'S SOME KIND OF LAW $800: A 1968 U.N. agreement requires states to rescue & assist these people & "promptly return them to their launching state" astronauts |
| #9150, aired 2024-07-19 | IT'S SOME KIND OF LAW $1000: The 2018 Genocide & Atrocities Prevention Act is named for this Holocaust survivor & Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel |
| #9149, aired 2024-07-18 | THAT'S "AA"WESOME $200: Mr. Judge or Mr. Sorkin Aaron |
| #9149, aired 2024-07-18 | THAT'S "AA"WESOME $400: The animated star of his own show on PBS, Arthur Read is just an average 8-year-old one of these insectivores an aardvark |
| #9149, aired 2024-07-18 | THAT'S "AA"WESOME $600: Cape Dutch is another name for this language Afrikaans |
| #9149, aired 2024-07-18 | THAT'S "AA"WESOME $800: You can take your Saab to this transmission service center co-founded by Robert Morgan AAMCO |
| #9149, aired 2024-07-18 | THAT'S "AA"WESOME $1000: This region is mentioned in Phoenician writings from about 1500 B.C. as a land west of the Jordan River Canaan |
| #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 |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: This state capital is known as the "Home of Abraham Lincoln" Springfield |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: The Mystic & the Charles Rivers meet at this harbor whose waters have tasted some history Boston Harbor |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1200: From Cheyenne, Wyoming, it's less than an hour south on I-25 to Fort Collins & this university, CSU Colorado State Universtity |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1600: This bay, an inlet of Lake Huron, separates Michigan's "thumb" from the rest of the mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula Saginaw Bay |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2000: During winter, it's possible in theory but a bad idea to walk across the ice from this "Little" Alaskan island to a nearby Russian isle Little Diomede |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | U.S. COINS $200: From 1909 to 1958 the Lincoln penny depicted 2 sheaves of this on the reverse ears of wheat |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | WHO'S SPEAKING IN THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS $200: "I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed--or worse, expelled" Hermione Granger |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | U.S. COINS $400: Due to a minting error, this beast appears to have just 3 legs on some 1937 nickels the buffalo (bison) |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | WHO'S SPEAKING IN THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS $400: "You have permitted your friends to die for you rather than face me yourself. I shall wait for one hour in the Forbidden Forest" Voldemort |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | U.S. COINS $600: This Latin phrase has appeared on U.S. coinage since 1795 & must do so by law since 1873 E pluribus unum |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | WHO'S SPEAKING IN THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS $600: "Tiny little bloke, my dad was. By the time I was six I could lift him up an' put him on top o' the dresser" Hagrid |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | U.S. COINS $800: In 1979 she replaced Eisenhower on the $1 coin, but just as women earn less on the dollar than men, her coin was slightly smaller Anthony |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | WHO'S SPEAKING IN THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS $800: "You are here to learn the subtle science & exact art of potion-making" Snape |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | U.S. COINS $1000: A quarter released in 2023 features this Native American prima ballerina along with her Osage name, which means "two standards" Maria Tallchief |
| #9145, aired 2024-07-12 | WHO'S SPEAKING IN THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS $1000: "I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for" Sirius Black |
| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | LET'S GO TO THE CONCERT HALL $200: It's a rule not to clap at this point during a symphony, but conductor Pierre Monteux called that "artificial restraint" between movements |
| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | LET'S GO TO THE CONCERT HALL $400: Don't leave a piano recital too soon--you might miss Prokofiev's showy "Precipitato" as one of these, not on the program an encore |
| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | LET'S GO TO THE CONCERT HALL $600: A popular design for concert halls has sloped terraces & is named after this type of area where a certain fruit is grown a vineyard |
| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | LET'S GO TO THE CONCERT HALL $1000: The first violinist also has this title & gets a handshake from the conductor to show the maestro's respect for the orchestra the concertmaster |
| #9144, aired 2024-07-11 | LET'S GO TO THE CONCERT HALL $1,200 (Daily Double): It's a daytime concert, so the program will include accessible stuff for the kids like "Mars, the Bringer of War" from this suite The Planets |
| #9143, aired 2024-07-10 | WHAT'S THAT MOVIE AGAIN? $400: You know, the one where Neo has to disarm a bomb on a bus that's got that lady from "The Blind Side" on it Speed |
| #9143, aired 2024-07-10 | WHAT'S THAT MOVIE AGAIN? $800: That "Taken" guy has a son--stepson?... something like that--who drums along to "All I Want For Christmas Is You" Love Actually |
| #9143, aired 2024-07-10 | WHAT'S THAT MOVIE AGAIN? $1200: I think that "High School Musical" fella smooches all over MJ & what's his face--Jackson Hughes?--plays P.T. Barnum The Greatest Showman |
| #9143, aired 2024-07-10 | WHAT'S THAT MOVIE AGAIN? $1600: I love that one where Scarface is a cop & Travis Bickle is a thief--I think Batman is in it too? Heat |
| #9143, aired 2024-07-10 | WHAT'S THAT MOVIE AGAIN? $2000: The one where Clarice Starling & Bella Swan get their home invaded by that Thirty Seconds to Mars dude, who's rocking cornrows Panic Room |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL $400: The film of "A Raisin in the Sun" sounds like it could be the sequel to this 1940 film starring Henry Fonda The Grapes of Wrath |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL $800: Though the titles imply causality, "Knives Out" didn't cause this 2007 film about turn-of-the-century oil prospecting There Will Be Blood |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL $1200: Sounds plausible, but this 1958 Hitchcock film set in San Francisco is not the sequel to "Wuthering Heights" Vertigo |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL $2,000 (Daily Double): The animated "Bee Movie" didn't precede this 1973 movie that conned its way into winning 7 Oscars The Sting |
| #9142, aired 2024-07-09 | SOUNDS LIKE THE MOVIE'S SEQUEL $2000: A 1985 dystopian film with a country as its title was not a prequel to this 1978 film with Gregory Peck as Josef Mengele The Boys from Brazil |
| #9140, aired 2024-07-05 | LET'S TALK ABOUT CAKE $200: A classic New York one of these uses cream cheese & Graham cracker crust; it should be cooked in a water bath too cheesecake |
| #9140, aired 2024-07-05 | LET'S TALK ABOUT CAKE $400: The name of this ring-shaped cake pan is a trademark of Nordic Ware, which added a "T" to a German word Bundt |
| #9140, aired 2024-07-05 | LET'S TALK ABOUT CAKE $600: King cake is a tradition of this holiday & is often decorated in purple, gold & green, the holiday's traditional colors Mardi Gras |
| #9140, aired 2024-07-05 | LET'S TALK ABOUT CAKE $800: This cake became a little cheaper & a lot more vivid when Adams Extract suggested using its red food color in the recipe red velvet cake |
| #9140, aired 2024-07-05 | LET'S TALK ABOUT CAKE $1000: Literally French for "melting", it's a creamy, sugary paste used in cake- & candy-making fondant |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | 3 E's ONLY $400: As a noun, it's a wooly covering; as a verb, it means to swindle fleece |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | 3 E's ONLY $800: This verb means to go beyond what is allowed, like a speed limit; you can also do it to expectations exceed |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | 3 E's ONLY $1200: Half of this 6-letter word meaning harsh or critical is its 3 Es severe |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | 3 E's ONLY $1600: This synonym of facade is equally at home when used in woodworking or dentistry veneer |
| #9139, aired 2024-07-04 | 3 E's ONLY $2000: Though it could suggest vision problems, this "effect" in photos happens when a flash bounces off the retinas red-eye |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | THAT'S OLD NEWS $400: By the early 1200s Genghis Khan & his Mongol horde were attacking northern China, taking this current capital city in 1215 Beijing |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | THAT'S OLD NEWS $800: Several of the Ancient Wonders of the World, like the Colossus of Rhodes, were destroyed by this type of natural calamity an earthquake |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | THAT'S OLD NEWS $1200: From about 400 to 800 A.D., 16 kings ruled from this empire's city of Copán in Central America the Mayan |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | THAT'S OLD NEWS $1600: In 218 B.C. Hannibal crossed the Alps with tens of thousands of infantry & cavalry during the second of these wars the Punic Wars |
| #9137, aired 2024-07-02 | THAT'S OLD NEWS $2000: Shown here with a ram's head, this deity combined the names of a creator god & the sun god Amun-Ra |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | IT'S ALIVE $400: Scientists think some dolphins use these creatures to protect their snouts while foraging along the ocean floor, not for cleaning it a sponge |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | IT'S ALIVE $800: It's the 4-letter word for some 30 genera of brown algae that grow big in cold sea water kelp |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | IT'S ALIVE $1200: That's not moss, but a species of usnea, the beard type of this lichen |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | IT'S ALIVE $1,400 (Daily Double): The "B" in B. cereus, which causes food poisoning, stands for this nasty type of bacteria Bacillus |
| #9136, aired 2024-07-01 | IT'S ALIVE $2000: Many protozoans get around using these, aka false feet pseudopods |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | AFI's GREATEST VILLAINS $400: No. 1:
Trained psychiatrist who's a cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | AFI's GREATEST VILLAINS $800: No. 4:
Evil crone who hates dogs but loves colorful footwear the Wicked Witch of the West |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | AFI's GREATEST VILLAINS $1200: No. 2:
Terrifying mama's boy who "wouldn't even harm a fly" Norman Bates |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | AFI's GREATEST VILLAINS $1600: No. 41:
The only real-life actress on the list, she was played by Faye Dunaway in a 1981 biopic Joan Crawford |
| #9135, aired 2024-06-28 | AFI's GREATEST VILLAINS $2000: No. 30:
He was a taxi driver Travis Bickle |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | THE U.S. SENATE $400: The U.S. Senate has 4 special or select committees, 4 joint committees & 16 of these permanent committees standing committees |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | THE U.S. SENATE $800: 7 senators have been awarded the Medal of Honor, including this Hawaiian who lost his right arm in Italy in WWII Inouye |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | THE U.S. SENATE $1200: The recipe for this soup, which has been on the Senate cafeteria menu for over 120 years, once included mashed potatoes navy bean soup |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | THE U.S. SENATE $1600: Among the items in the Vice President's Room is a rosewood cabinet that this first veep of FDR reportedly stocked with adult beverages (John Nance) Garner |
| #9134, aired 2024-06-27 | THE U.S. SENATE $2000: Duties of this chief law enforcement officer include escorting heads of state into the chamber & keeping the Senate gavel the sergeant at arms |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | THE DIRECTOR'S CUT $200: Peter Jackson's extended versions of this trilogy included Saruman's death & Gandalf fighting the Witch King Lord of the Rings |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | WHERE'S THE MEETING? $400: In 1918 at Gray's Inn in London, FDR first met this man & thought he acted like a stinker; they worked well together later Churchill |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | THE DIRECTOR'S CUT $400: Ridley Scott's Final Cut of this 1982 film drops Harrison Ford's narration & suggests that his character Deckard is a replicant Blade Runner |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | THE DIRECTOR'S CUT $600: In Steven Spielberg's 1980 "Special Edition" cut of this film, moviegoers get to see Richard Dreyfuss inside the UFO Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | WHERE'S THE MEETING? $800: Kaiser Wilhelm I watches over the Deutsches Eck, or German Corner, in Koblenz, where the Mosel & this river meet the Rhine |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | THE DIRECTOR'S CUT $800: The director's cut of this 1986 film restored Frank Oz' original vision: Audrey II devours Seymour & Audrey Little Shop of Horrors |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | THE DIRECTOR'S CUT $1000: He has created the director's cut for "Watchmen", as well as "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice" Zack Snyder |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | WHERE'S THE MEETING? $1200: Indigenous Australians' first meeting with Europeans was with the crew of the Duyfken from this country in 1606 the Netherlands |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | WHERE'S THE MEETING? $1600: Logan County, Ky. in 1800 is credited as the birthplace of the fervent religious gatherings called these 4-letter meetings Camp Meetings |
| #9131, aired 2024-06-24 | WHERE'S THE MEETING? $2000: Meetings in the book "First Encounters" include an awkward one between Orson Welles & this mogul in a San Francisco elevator William Randolph Hearst |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | THAT COMPANY'S HISTORY $200: AuctionWeb was an early name for this company founded by Pierre Omidyar eBay |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | THAT COMPANY'S HISTORY $400: This brand's LV monogram was designed by the son of its founder in 1896 Louis Vuitton |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | THAT COMPANY'S HISTORY $600: In 1953 it took this company more than 3 dozen tries to create a formula for rust prevention, now a popular lubricant WD-40 |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | THAT COMPANY'S HISTORY $800: Take a Walkman down memory lane to 1946 when this company was founded in Tokyo by 2 engineers Sony |
| #9130, aired 2024-06-21 | THAT COMPANY'S HISTORY $3,400 (Daily Double): Originally an aerial crop-dusting company, it's named for the southern U.S. region it originally served Delta (Airlines) |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | LET'S RUN THE NUMBERS $200: There are this many officially recognized constellations, same as the number of keys on a standard piano 88 |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | LET'S RUN THE NUMBERS $400: In 2024 West Conshohocken Borough in Pennsylvania celebrated its sesquicentennial, this many years 150 |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | BROADWAY'S OPENING NIGHT CASTS $400: Art Carney & Walter Matthau were the original Felix & Oscar in this comedy The Odd Couple |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | LET'S RUN THE NUMBERS $600: 4,189 (hits) & 2,130 (consecutive games) fell, but this hitting streak by Joe DiMaggio endures 56 |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | BROADWAY'S OPENING NIGHT CASTS $800: When this groovy "tribal love rock musical" hit Broadway in 1968, its cast included Paul Jabara, Melba Moore & Diane Keaton Hair |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | LET'S RUN THE NUMBERS $800: General Sherman's special field orders, No. 15 reserved land for freed families in tracts of up to this many acres 40 |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | LET'S RUN THE NUMBERS $1000: As the word for this number sounds like it means "certainly death", Cantonese speakers have a collective case of tetrakaidekaphobia 14 |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | BROADWAY'S OPENING NIGHT CASTS $1200: These two actresses were wickedly good when their show opened in October of 2003 Kristin Chenoweth & Idina Menzel |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | BROADWAY'S OPENING NIGHT CASTS $1600: This musical set at the turn of the century opened with Audra McDonald as Sarah & Brian Stokes Mitchell as Coalhouse Walker Jr. Ragtime |
| #9129, aired 2024-06-20 | BROADWAY'S OPENING NIGHT CASTS $2000: In 1988 I spied BD Wong in his Broadway debut as the mysterious Chinese opera singer whom John Lithgow fell for in this play M. Butterfly |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $200: In 1966 the Supreme Court ruled that these taxes in local & state elections were prohibited poll taxes |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: The Constitution says the president "shall have power to grant reprieves &" these "for offences against the United States" pardons |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $600: On June 2, 1986 this network began regular live telecasts from the Senate chamber C-SPAN |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $1000: The chief officer of the Government Accountability Office is given this "General" title Comptroller (General) |
| #9127, aired 2024-06-18 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $2,200 (Daily Double): While the National Park Service is a bureau of the Department of the Interior, the Forest Service is an agency of this department the Department of Agriculture |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | THAT'S A FACT $200: Toss a standard pair of dice & your odds of rolling the total known by this serpentine name are 1 in 36 snake eyes |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | THAT'S A FACT $400: Once upon a midday weary, researchers in Sweden found these birds were better at planning ahead than apes or 4-year-olds a raven |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | THAT'S A FACT $600: The trail named for this pair winds 4,900 miles through 16 states Lewis & Clark |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | THAT'S A FACT $800: Supreme Court Justice John Campbell wrote a concurring opinion in the 1857 decision about this enslaved man Dred Scott |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | THAT'S A FACT $1000: This 5-letter word can stand by itself or precede Mennonite to refer to a Christian group in America Amish |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | SAINTLY U.S. CITIES $200: You can enjoy some fun in the sun all year long on this Southern California city's beach & pier Santa Monica |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | SAINTLY U.S. CITIES $600: This capital is nicknamed "The City of Holy Faith" Santa Fe |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | SAINTLY U.S. CITIES $800: In the 1860s this Missouri city was the eastern terminus of the Pony Express St. Joseph |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | SAINTLY U.S. CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): A famous battle occurred in this city from February 23 to March 3, 1836 San Antonio |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | SAINTLY U.S. CITIES $1000: About 65 miles from the Twin Cities, this Minnesota city completes the title of the Trisha Yearwood sob song "On A Bus To..." St. Cloud |
| #9121, aired 2024-06-10 | THERE'S GOLD IN YOUR FUTURE $400: From Canada to your supermarket, the Yukon Gold is a variety of this with smooth skin & yellow flesh a potato |
| #9121, aired 2024-06-10 | THERE'S GOLD IN YOUR FUTURE $800: On January 7, 2024 Emma Stone won one of these awards for her performance in "Poor Things" a Golden Globe |
| #9121, aired 2024-06-10 | THERE'S GOLD IN YOUR FUTURE $1200: The 2024 Gold Wing motorcycle from this Japanese manufacturer features an 1833cc liquid-cooled engine a Honda |
| #9121, aired 2024-06-10 | THERE'S GOLD IN YOUR FUTURE $1600: A poem by Carol Ann Duffy about "the woman who married the fool who wished for gold" is titled "Mrs." this mythic king Midas |
| #9121, aired 2024-06-10 | THERE'S GOLD IN YOUR FUTURE $2000: Today in a temple of this capital city on the Chao Praya River, the Golden Buddha contains 5 1/2 tons of pure gold Bangkok |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | THAT'S SO 1990s $200: A 1991 Senate resolution decried this country's "illegal occupation of & brutal aggression against Kuwait" Iraq |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | THAT'S SO 1990s $400: The July 1997 "Cool Britannia" party, with rockers & designers as guests, was hosted by this new prime minister Tony Blair |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | THAT'S SO 1990s $600: It was checkmate for Garry Kasparov, who lost to Deep Blue, made by this company; Garry, I can totally relate IBM |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | THAT'S SO 1990s $800: Atlanta hosted the 1996 Summer Olympics & built the facility called this Olympic Park as part of the festivities Centennial Olympic Park |
| #9120, aired 2024-06-07 | THAT'S SO 1990s $1000: This Texas city was in the news in 1993 for a raid on a nearby compound; in 2023 Donald Trump held his first campaign rally there Waco |
| #9118, aired 2024-06-05 | U.S. REP. & PREZ $400: He represented Virginia in Congress from 1789 to 1797; as president from 1809 to 1817, he had what was called his war James Madison |
| #9118, aired 2024-06-05 | U.S. REP. & PREZ $800: President Andrew Johnson had been a senator & a representative from this state Tennessee |
| #9118, aired 2024-06-05 | U.S. REP. & PREZ $1600: The last former U.S. representative to become president was this man who had represented Texas' 7th district George H.W. Bush |
| #9118, aired 2024-06-05 | U.S. REP. & PREZ $2,000 (Daily Double): Rep. Franklin Pierce was such a devoted supporter of Andrew Jackson, he got this nickname alluding to his age (29) Young Hickory |
| #9118, aired 2024-06-05 | U.S. REP. & PREZ $2000: He was a rep. from New York before becoming veep & then became our 13th president with the sudden death of Zachary Taylor Fillmore |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $200: From the world of film: Wilder & Crudup Billy |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | ...BUT WHO'S COUNTYING? $200: Named in 1877, a Montana county honors this man who did not exactly enjoy himself in the territory the year before Custer |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Providing different kinds of entertainment:
Kwan & Pfeiffer Michelle |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | ...BUT WHO'S COUNTYING? $400: At about 400,000, Pulaski is the Arkansas county with the most folks; stands to reason, with this city as the county seat Little Rock |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $600: Both can make you dance:
Allen & Gibson Debbie |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $800: Creative types Schumann & Ludlum Robert |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | ...BUT WHO'S COUNTYING? $800: This Kansas county is known for its federal pen that was home to the Birdman of Alcatraz (before he was the Birdman of Alcatraz) Leavenworth |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Very different leaders Mumford & Garvey Marcus |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | ...BUT WHO'S COUNTYING? $1000: The "WOW" counties of this Midwest state are Washington, Ozaukee & Waukesha Wisconsin |
| #9114, aired 2024-05-30 | ...BUT WHO'S COUNTYING? $2,000 (Daily Double): Lyon, Sac & Sioux are 3 of the 99 counties that presidential candidates try to visit in this state Iowa |
| #9113, aired 2024-05-29 | CHANGE THE S TO AN N $200: A wind-catching canvas on a ship loses its S & tacks on an N to be this hardware item a sail & a nail |
| #9113, aired 2024-05-29 | CHANGE THE S TO AN N $400: A word meaning not as much drops an S & subs in the N to be an eye part less & lens |
| #9113, aired 2024-05-29 | CHANGE THE S TO AN N $600: The bottom of an object used as support subs in N for S to be someone who makes a nightmare "of my existence" base & bane |
| #9113, aired 2024-05-29 | CHANGE THE S TO AN N $800: The S bows out of a word meaning to replace an actor in a role & N is the new star in a word meaning to disavow testimony recast & recant |
| #9113, aired 2024-05-29 | CHANGE THE S TO AN N $1000: A tricky plan intended to deceive switches the S for an N to be a character in a Viking alphabet ruse & rune |
| #9111, aired 2024-05-27 | HEY BABY, WHAT'S YOUR SCIENCE? $400: Ancient sites can be found without digging when using radar & lidar; NASA calls the practice space this "-ology" archaeology |
| #9111, aired 2024-05-27 | HEY BABY, WHAT'S YOUR SCIENCE? $800: This "art of fire" deals with the science & deployment of flash pots & mortar hits pyrotechnics |
| #9111, aired 2024-05-27 | HEY BABY, WHAT'S YOUR SCIENCE? $1200: In pteridology, the study of these plants, you learn the difference "between two" sporophytes ferns |
| #9111, aired 2024-05-27 | HEY BABY, WHAT'S YOUR SCIENCE? $1600: Baby, do you work for the IRS? Because your way of classifying animals & plants is really putting a... this taxonomy |
| #9111, aired 2024-05-27 | HEY BABY, WHAT'S YOUR SCIENCE? $2,000 (Daily Double): The scientific paper "Soil Animals and Pedogenesis" focuses on the role of this creature in transforming organic matter earthworms |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME $200: Maiden name of Elizabeth, who got her author son James Cooper to add it as a middle name so it would be preserved Fenimore |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME $400: He said he used his mother's maiden name because double S names work for artists--Matisse, Poussin, Rousseau Picasso |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME $500 (Daily Double): Maiden name of the political mom seen here Milhous |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME $800: Born in the USSR, he was just a little woodpusher when he adopted a Russified version of his mother's maiden name, Gasparyan Gary Kasparov |
| #9110, aired 2024-05-24 | MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME $1000: This Atlanta Historically Black College for women bears the maiden name of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s mother Spelman |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | IT'S A PLANE $200: It's the call sign of the Air Force's C-32, used to carry the vice president, the first lady, & Congress & Cabinet members Air Force Two |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | IT'S A PLANE $400: In an F-15, Doug Pearson hit a target orbiting at 345 miles to become the only fighter pilot to shoot down one of these a satellite |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | IT'S A PLANE $600: Described as a flying gas tank, in December 1986, the Ruttan Voyager managed to do this in 9 days without refueling circumnavigate the globe |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | IT'S A PLANE $800: In October 1960 pianist Byron Janis was greeted in a Moscow concert hall by angry shouts of the name of this spy plane U-2 |
| #9109, aired 2024-05-23 | IT'S A PLANE $1000: The Sopwith Wallaby was built to win a £10,000 prize for the first plane to fly from Britain to here; but it crashed on Bali Australia |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $400: This 1985 educational computer game features the title globetrotting female antagonist Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $800: Edward Albee won his first Tony for this 1962 drama in which marital arguments are blood sport Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $1200: The website for the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame included this oft-asked query when discussing the Lone Ranger Who was that masked man? |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $2000: In Matthew 27 in the King James Version, Jesus cries out, "My God, my God", then this anguished question why hast thou forsaken me |
| #9108, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALREADY IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION! $6,000 (Daily Double): In a relatively famous play, this 4-word question precedes "Deny thy father & refuse thy name" Wherefore art thou Romeo |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $200: A man with seriously load-bearing legs, he turned to stone via Gorgon head & became part of a mountain range Atlas |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $400: A 2018 medical paper was titled "Prometheus and" this body organ "Regeneration: the Dissection of a Myth" liver |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $600: This 50-oared ship had a rather unique non-factory feature: wood donated by Athena that could tell the future the Argo |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $800: Guarded by a dragon (it didn't end well for the dragon), these were the fruits of a herculean labor the golden apples (of the Hesperides) |
| #38, aired 2024-05-22 | IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME $1000: In the "Odyssey", this god is sent by Zeus to I.M. Odysseus: I'm voting you off Calypso's island Hermes |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | IT'S A DATE $400: Last New Year's Eve was a popular wedding date because you can say it this way, as if counting steps for a waltz 1-2-3, 1-2-3 (12/31/23) |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | IT'S A DATE $1200: It's Devil's Night in Michigan, Mischief Night in New Jersey & Cabbage Night in New England October 30th |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | IT'S A DATE $1600: John Adams believed this date on which Congress actually declared independence would become a national holiday July 2nd |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | IT'S A DATE $2000: Stephen King wrote the novel "11/22/63"; Michael Eric Dyson wrote a nonfiction book about this date that "Changed America" April 4, 1968 |
| #9106, aired 2024-05-20 | IT'S A DATE $6,000 (Daily Double): Leon is Noel backwards & Leon Day is this date at the start of summer June 25 |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | MASTERING THE PLANET'S FUTURE $200: (Bill Nye delivers the clue.) As CEO of the nonprofit Planetary Society, I advocate for space exploration, following in the footsteps of this first Society president who introduced me to the wonders of astronomy as my professor at Cornell University Sagan |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | LET'S PLAY BINGO! $200: This Oscar winner for "Chicago" credits bingo for her start after her family won enough money to send her to dance lessons Catherine Zeta-Jones |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | THERE'S "A" NOUN FOR THAT $200: A person or thing that's out of place in time an anachronism |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | MASTERING THE PLANET'S FUTURE $400: (Bill Nye delivers the clue.) Don't believe that a species can change the whole world? You wouldn't have been able to breath Earth's atmosphere until some 2 billion years ago after newly evolved organisms like blue-green algae started creating oxygen as a by-product of this process photosynthesis |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | LET'S PLAY BINGO! $400: In the bingo lingo of game callers, this 2-digit number is sometimes called an "Adele" after that singer's third studio album 25 |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | THERE'S "A" NOUN FOR THAT $400: It's a furniture covering originally meant to protect against an old type of hair oil antimacassar |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | MASTERING THE PLANET'S FUTURE $600: (Bill Nye delivers the clue.) In a 2021 appearance before Congress, I encouraged bold investment in this energy technology that hasn't yet been proven practical but might one day provide virtually limitless clean, safe power fusion |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | LET'S PLAY BINGO! $600: Bingo, the large orange gorilla on this TV show, played drums in their band & was voiced by Daws Butler The Banana Splits |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | THERE'S "A" NOUN FOR THAT $600: It's an old-timey word for a balloonist an aeronaut |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | MASTERING THE PLANET'S FUTURE $800: (Bill Nye delivers the clue.) My book "Undeniable" explains that because the Earth is not a closed system, but is constantly receiving energy from the Sun, the process of evolution does not violate the second law of this, as some doubters have argued thermodynamics |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | LET'S PLAY BINGO! $800: Playing the game in this movie, Johnny Knoxville suggests making it "strip bingo" & that's just the beginning Bad Grandpa |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | THERE'S "A" NOUN FOR THAT $800: From Latin for to wander or stray, it's something that deviates from the norm an aberrance (or abberation) |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | MASTERING THE PLANET'S FUTURE $1000: (Bill Nye delivers the clue.) On my podcast "Science Rules" my guests & I discuss such diverse topics as racism in science, Neanderthal sex & the mass extinction that ended this geologic period some 66 million years ago Cretaceous |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | LET'S PLAY BINGO! $1000: He beat out Shecky Greene for the role of Larry David's dad in episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" like "Kamikaze Bingo" Shelley Berman |
| #35, aired 2024-05-20 | THERE'S "A" NOUN FOR THAT $1000: It's the grammatical case that marks the direct object of a verb (the) accusative |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | BASEBALL'S 25-GAME WINNERS $200: Bob Welch's 27 wins in 1990 are the all-time record for the A's franchise in this city & sadly, may always be Oakland |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | BASEBALL'S 25-GAME WINNERS $400: In 1961 this team's Whitey Ford won 25 games in the regular season & 2 more as the World Series MVP the New York Yankees |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | BASEBALL'S 25-GAME WINNERS $600: Seen here with Pedro Martinez, 3-timer 25er Juan Marichal was the first baseball Hall of Famer from this country the Dominican Republic |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | BASEBALL'S 25-GAME WINNERS $800: In 1972 this lefty was a Phillie phanatic on the mound; he led the NL in wins (27), ERA (1.97) & strikeouts (310) Steve Carlton |
| #9105, aired 2024-05-17 | BASEBALL'S 25-GAME WINNERS $1000: He won 25 games with the Miracle Mets in 1969 & surpassed 20 wins four times in the 1970s Seaver |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | THAT'S JUST LAWFUL $400: The 4th Amendment enforces the right of people to be secure in their houses "against unreasonable" these 2 pluralized things searches & seizures |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | PARTY LIKE IT'S 1884 $400: In December a metal tip brought it to a total height of 555 feet, 5.125 inches--the tallest human-built structure in the world the Washington Monument |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | THAT'S JUST LAWFUL $800: It's not hard, it's an interest granted by deed to use land owned by another for a specific limited purpose, like a right-of-way an easement |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | PARTY LIKE IT'S 1884 $800: In June 1884 he arrived in America with 4 cents in his pocket & a letter of introduction to Thomas Edison Nikola Tesla |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | THAT'S JUST LAWFUL $1200: Note the year in "Black's Law Dictionary" for a hanging this: "(2000)... attached to the ballot by a single point" a chad |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | PARTY LIKE IT'S 1884 $1200: In October he received a patent for photographic film; his camera would come a few years later Eastman |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | THAT'S JUST LAWFUL $1600: The Supreme Court often pulls a GVR: grant certiorari; vacate the prior decision; this "R" returning the case to a lower court remand |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | PARTY LIKE IT'S 1884 $1600: Independent Republicans who backed Democrat Grover Cleveland in the 1884 election were called these, from Algonquian Mugwumps |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | THAT'S JUST LAWFUL $2000: CJS is shorthand for this widely used legal encyclopedia with a Latin name Corpus Juris Secundum |
| #33, aired 2024-05-17 | PARTY LIKE IT'S 1884 $2000: In January this composer's opéra-comique "Manon" premiered in Paris Massenet |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | LET'S GET COOKING $200: Just like pasta, grilled vegetables can be made crisp yet tender this way, meaning "to the tooth" in Italian al dente |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | LET'S GET COOKING $400: Yeast is one of these agents added to dough to make it rise a leavening agent |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | LET'S GET COOKING $600: This verb can mean to bring up (like painful memories) or to coat food with flour or crumbs before frying dredge |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | LET'S GET COOKING $800: Seems straightforward: Latin for "to soak" gives us this verb that means to soak, usually fruit in liquid to soften it macerate |
| #32, aired 2024-05-15 | LET'S GET COOKING $1000: Want to sound fancy? Instead of saying "double boiler" or "water bath", use this French term; it's used for making custards a bain-marie |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | LET'S APARTMENT-SIT FOR ANNA $200: Accidentally opened her laptop--aww, wallpaper of I'm guessing a nephew with a suitcase & bush hat, dressed as this bear Paddington |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | LET'S APARTMENT-SIT FOR ANNA $400: That cap means she's a Trump supporter--oh no, I missed a word; she must take classes in this Israeli self-defense system Krav Maga |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | LET'S APARTMENT-SIT FOR ANNA $600: Anna's closet has a denim jacket on a hanger with jeans--this north-of-the-border ensemble, ready to go a Canadian tuxedo |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | LET'S APARTMENT-SIT FOR ANNA $800: What's in the fridge? This parsley & tarragon salad dressing invented in Calif., homemade, not the Seven Seas version green goddess |
| #31, aired 2024-05-15 | LET'S APARTMENT-SIT FOR ANNA $1000: What's on the fridge? A photo of her & her girls at this Vermont ski resort, "the Beast of the East" Killington |
| #9102, aired 2024-05-14 | THE "BURG"s $200: Florida's Sunshine Skyway Bridge links this city & Terra Ceia St. Petersburg |
| #9102, aired 2024-05-14 | THE "BURG"s $400: In 1985 Desmond Tutu became this city's first Black Anglican bishop Johannesburg |
| #9102, aired 2024-05-14 | THE "BURG"s $600: For its numerous canals, this German city is often called "the Venice of the north" Hamburg |
| #9102, aired 2024-05-14 | THE "BURG"s $800: It's the only state capital that fits the category Harrisburg |
| #9102, aired 2024-05-14 | THE "BURG"s $1000: It's the unofficial "gateway to Great Smoky Mountains National Park" Gatlinburg |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | TV'S FANTASTICAL PLACES $400: Mystic Falls is the locale for blood-sucking brothers Damon & Stefan on this long-running CW show The Vampire Diaries |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | TV'S FANTASTICAL PLACES $800: This castle was the ancestral home of Ned Stark & family on "Game of Thrones" Winterfell |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | TV'S FANTASTICAL PLACES $1200: This undersea abode of cartoon fame is based on an actual atoll used for atomic testing between 1946 & 1958 Bikini Bottom |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | TV'S FANTASTICAL PLACES $1600: "Veronica Mars" was set in this town that also has a planetary name Neptune, California |
| #9101, aired 2024-05-13 | TV'S FANTASTICAL PLACES $2000: First seen in 1969, this planet on "Doctor Who" was caught up in a time war with the Daleks Gallifrey |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S A DATED REFERENCE $200: On Jan. 4, 1958 this 184-pound man-made object burned up in Earth's atmosphere Sputnik |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S RIGHT, 16-LETTER WORDS $400: An M.D. who specializes in putting you under anesthesiologist |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S A DATED REFERENCE $400: Centuries after her death, she was canonized on May 16, 1920, & a French national holiday for her is on the 2nd Sunday in May Joan of Arc |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S A DATED REFERENCE $600: On Oct. 15, 1858 he debated his opponent for the 7th & last time; on Jan. 5, 1859 he was named the winner in the Illinois Senate race Douglas |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S RIGHT, 16-LETTER WORDS $800: It's how you're speaking when you talk on the spur of the moment extemporaneously |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S A DATED REFERENCE $800: On June 22, 1611 mutineers put him, his son & 7 others off the discovery & onto a small boat in what would be named his bay Hudson |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S A DATED REFERENCE $1000: On August 15, 1947 he became the first prime minister of India, a job he held until his death 17 years later Nehru |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S RIGHT, 16-LETTER WORDS $1200: A military attack undertaken in response to a prior attack by a foe counteroffensive |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S RIGHT, 16-LETTER WORDS $1600: Stalin-era policy that forced peasants onto big farms collectivization |
| #29, aired 2024-05-13 | THAT'S RIGHT, 16-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the science of charges & their associated fields & forces electromagnetism |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | "M" & "M"s $200: Newspapers, radio & television, & now the internet, collectively mass media |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | "M" & "M"s $400: Cash carried for impulse purchases or for emergency use, like when a date goes bad mad money |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | "M" & "M"s $600: Lactation from a female equine mare's milk |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | "M" & "M"s $800: An identifying symbol stamped into a product by its creator a maker's mark |
| #27, aired 2024-05-10 | "M" & "M"s $1000: This Whittier poem says, "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: It might have been!" "Maud Muller" |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | WHAT'S THAT SONG? $200: George Michael:
"I know not everybody has got a body like you" "Faith" |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | LET'S GO TO THE GEOPARK $200: Interested in these? Check out Ecuador's Imbabura Geopark, which has 13 of them--3 potentially active, the rest dormant or extinct volcanoes |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | MORE THAN 2 I's $400: It's been called the most era-defining look of the 1960s a miniskirt |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $400: Physician William Gull & artist Walter Sickert have been accused of being this London killer Jack the Ripper |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | WHAT'S THAT SONG? $400: TLC:
"Please stick to the rivers & the lakes that you're used to" "Waterfalls" |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | LET'S GO TO THE GEOPARK $400: The Black Country Geopark in this country includes coal mines & other sites at the heart of the Industrial Revolution England |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | WHAT'S THAT SONG? $600: Eminem:
"Hit me back, just to chat, truly yours, your biggest fan" "Stan" |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | LET'S GO TO THE GEOPARK $600: In Austria, you can visit historic mines in the geopark called Ore of these mountains the Alps |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | MORE THAN 2 I's $800: With 4, it leads the pack in the multiple I category in words in the Pledge of Allegiance indivisible |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $800: It's said when this leader died in 1227, those who carried his body to a hidden tomb were killed, & later those killers were also killed Genghis Khan |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | WHAT'S THAT SONG? $800: Hall & Oates:
"She'll only come out at night, the lean & hungry type" "Maneater" |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | LET'S GO TO THE GEOPARK $800: Learn about the Canadian this, the huge rock formation that underlies much of northeast North America, at Quebec's Percé Geopark the Canadian Shield |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | WHAT'S THAT SONG? $1000: Fleetwood Mac:
"Rings like a bell through the night" "Rhiannon" |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | MORE THAN 2 I's $1200: The Grolier Club & the Sociétés des amis des livres are designed for these tome geeks bibliophiles |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $1200: Spanish for "the gilded one", it was imagined to be a city, a lake or a king El Dorado |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | MORE THAN 2 I's $1600: The name of this chemical element is derived from Greek for "rainbow" iridium |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $1600: In 1959 Igor Dyatlov & 8 others were killed by a "compelling natural force" while camping in these Eurasian mountains in Russia the Ural Mountains |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $2,000 (Daily Double): Menelik, a son of Solomon, is said to have brought this lost artifact to Aksum in Ethiopia; tradition maintains it's still there the Ark of the Covenant |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | MORE THAN 2 I's $2000: A quartet of I's is present & accounted for in this word for a strict drill sergeant or school principal a disciplinarian |
| #9099, aired 2024-05-09 | LET'S GO TO THE GEOPARK $8,000 (Daily Double): A geopark named for these people is located on the north coast of Spain near the French border the Basques |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | A RAPPER'S DELIGHT $200: In 2023 this former member of OutKast released the album "New Blue Sun" that contained no rap bars, but a lot of his passion: flutes André 3000 |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | THAT'S BANANAS $200: Bananas are a healthy source of fiber, antioxidants, vitamins & this indispensable chemical element with the symbol K potassium |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | A RAPPER'S DELIGHT $400: In a video for ESPN, Lil Wayne states his love for this sport & says he feels amped after doing a "flat ground trick off of a 50-50" skateboarding |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | THAT'S BANANAS $400: Banana is a word in the language of these animated yellow sidekicks, whose banana song was in a trailer for "Despicable Me 2" Minions |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | A RAPPER'S DELIGHT $600: Will Smith trained in this pastime with Grandmaster Maurice Ashley chess |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | THAT'S BANANAS $600: Banana is one of the many fine flavors of this cocktail, & it's what Fredo Corleone orders in Cuba a daiquiri |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | A RAPPER'S DELIGHT $800: The rapper Twista has an affinity for magic & also can make his puppet Tiny Twista rap as one of these voice-throwing performers ventriloquist |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | THAT'S BANANAS $800: "Travel & Safari Clothing Co." were part of its name when it began in California in 1978 Banana Republic |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | A RAPPER'S DELIGHT $1000: In 2023 this rapper & Lando Calrissian actor opened a boba tea shop in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles Donald Glover |
| #9098, aired 2024-05-08 | THAT'S BANANAS $1000: Bananas were introduced to the U.S. at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in this year 1876 |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | ON THE DIRECTOR'S RÉSUMÉ $400: He gave us the 1979 short "Last Hustle in Brooklyn" & the 1994 semi-autobiographical "Crooklyn" Spike Lee |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | ON THE DIRECTOR'S RÉSUMÉ $800: She starred in 2008's "Nights and Weekends", her directorial debut; she's had some bigger hits since Gerwig |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | ON THE DIRECTOR'S RÉSUMÉ $1200: "The Sound Barrier" is not as famous as some of his later efforts, like "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (David) Lean |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | ON THE DIRECTOR'S RÉSUMÉ $1600: "Duck, You Sucker!", starring Rod Steiger & James Coburn & set in revolutionary Mexico, is one of this European's lesser-known works Leone |
| #26, aired 2024-05-08 | ON THE DIRECTOR'S RÉSUMÉ $2000: He spoke the silent language of horror in 1922's "Nosferatu" Murnau |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | IT'S A NOUN, IT'S A VERB $200: A burial cloth &
to obscure or conceal shroud |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | IT'S A NOUN, IT'S A VERB $400: A part of the upper body &
to bear the blame or responsibility shoulder |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | IT'S A NOUN, IT'S A VERB $600: A field of study &
to teach a child appropriate behavior discipline |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | IT'S A NOUN, IT'S A VERB $800: A list of passengers
& to make something happen by imagining it manifest |
| #25, aired 2024-05-08 | IT'S A NOUN, IT'S A VERB $1000: A very tiny amount &
to discover the causes or origins of something trace |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $200: One reputed origin of this national symbol is a beef supplier to the Army who stamped his barrels "U.S." Uncle Sam |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $400: It's the title of the head nun at a convent; for the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, it's Anne Francis Ng'ang'a mother superior |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $600: Felix Silla played the robot Twiki on "Buck Rogers", a "Planet of the Apes" gorilla child & this hairy character on "The Addams Family" Cousin Itt |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | TEAR U-S APART $800: With 6 letters:
Place you're "kicked" to if you're moved to a more prestigious, less effective job upstairs |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $800: Also known as a harvestman, this spiderlike arachnid is nonvenomous & first appeared more than 400 million years ago the daddy long-legs |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | IT'S ALL RELATIVE $1000: In literature, Tom Sawyer's guardian was this relative who was based in part on Mark Twain's own mom Aunt Polly |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | TEAR U-S APART $1200: With 5 letters:
The hero of the "Odyssey" in Alexander Pope's translation Ulysses |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | TEAR U-S APART $1600: With 2 letters:
The novelist who wrote big books like "Exodus" & "The Haj" (Leon) Uris |
| #9097, aired 2024-05-07 | TEAR U-S APART $2000: With 5 letters:
John Wilkes Booth's despairing last word useless |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | TIME FOR SOME TV "AD"s $400: "Maidenform" & "Guy Walks into an Advertising Agency" were episodes of this Emmy-winning drama Mad Men |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | U.S. COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: In 2024 this university in Durham, North Carolina celebrated its centennial Duke |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | TIME FOR SOME TV "AD"s $800: Rowan Atkinson starred in 4 BBC alternate history comedy series as title characters with this colorfully reptilian name Black Adder |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | U.S. COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: In the early 17th c. plans to build this Virginia school were disrupted by the Powhatan uprising; it wasn't founded until 1693 William & Mary |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | TIME FOR SOME TV "AD"s $1200: The evil Dr. Claw is the perennial foe of this bumbling animated detective Inspector Gadget |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | U.S. COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1200: Called one of the first HBCUs, Storer College was in this town, the site of a failed 1859 revolt Harpers Ferry |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | TIME FOR SOME TV "AD"s $1600: From 2014 to 2019 Téa Leoni starred as State Department Chief Elizabeth McCord, addressed by this title title Madam Secretary |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | U.S. COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): This university was founded in Philadelphia, after "night owls" studied in founder Russell Conwell's church Temple |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | TIME FOR SOME TV "AD"s $2000: As the title indicated, Mr. Conover wrecked stuff as the host & title character of this investigative comedy series Adam Ruins Everything |
| #9096, aired 2024-05-06 | U.S. COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $2000: Chartered in 1901, this college in Southern California was named for a Quaker poet Whittier |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | OH, THAT'S GONNA BE A FLAG $200: Honestly, not having the English lion in shorts on the flag of this island nation in the Atlantic seems like a lost opportunity Bermuda |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | OH, THAT'S GONNA BE A FLAG $400: Italy magazine says the flag symbol here is "Trinacria", or three-pointed, which is the shape of this densely-populated Mediterranean island Sicily |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | OH, THAT'S GONNA BE A FLAG $600: The flag of this state bears the arms of the Calvert & Crossland families Maryland |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | OH, THAT'S GONNA BE A FLAG $800: Yes, that's an AK-47 on the flag adopted after independence from Portugal & flying over this African nation Mozambique |
| #24, aired 2024-05-06 | OH, THAT'S GONNA BE A FLAG $1000: Those are pompeblêden, water lily leaves, not hearts, in the flag of Friesland, a province of this European country the Netherlands |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | THE RESPONSE'S GPA $400: 2.0:
Lazarus Naturals makes creams & gummies out of it CBD |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | THE RESPONSE'S GPA $800: 3.0:
It's on a blackboard in "Glengarry Glen Ross" A-B-C |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | THE RESPONSE'S GPA $1200: 2.75:
Immigration policy program announced June 15, 2012 DACA |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | THE RESPONSE'S GPA $2000: 1.75:
This body wants to win back the House of Representatives DCCC (the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) |
| #23, aired 2024-05-06 | THE RESPONSE'S GPA $20,000 (Daily Double): 3.6:
Limerick rhyme scheme A-A-B-B-A |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | BATMAN'S ALTER EGOS $200: Edward Cullen (Robert) Pattinson |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | BATMAN'S ALTER EGOS $400: "American Psycho" Christian Bale |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | BATMAN'S ALTER EGOS $600: "Mr. Mom" Michael Keaton |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | BATMAN'S ALTER EGOS $800: "The Accountant" Ben Affleck |
| #9093, aired 2024-05-01 | BATMAN'S ALTER EGOS $1000: Fred Friendly George Clooney |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | LET'S ROCK & ROLL! $800: The title of this, Chuck Berry's first hit, reportedly came from a mascara box left on a windowsill in a recording studio "Maybellene" |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | LET'S ROCK & ROLL! $1200: Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna was an early icon of this grrreat 1990s movement, using feminism & punk rock a riot grrrl |
| #9089, aired 2024-04-25 | LET'S ROCK & ROLL! $1600: These guys led by Booker T. Jones backed Stax Records stars like Otis Redding & had hits of their own like "Time Is Tight" the M.G.'s |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | U.S. MILITARY ACTIONS $200: In 1816 U.S. forces invaded the Spanish part of what's now this U.S. state & destroyed a fort on the Apalachicola River Florida |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | U.S. MILITARY ACTIONS $400: 1960s space heroes Neil Armstrong & John Glenn ("The MiG-Mad Marine") had both been combat flyers in this war Korea |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | U.S. MILITARY ACTIONS $600: The 1847 storming of Chapultepec Castle near Mexico City inspired these first 5 words of the Marine Corps' famous hymn From the halls of Montezuma |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | U.S. MILITARY ACTIONS $800: In 1974 the U.S. Navy evacuated Americans from this island after war broke out between Greek & Turkish factions Cyprus |
| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | U.S. MILITARY ACTIONS $1000: In January 2024 the U.S. began striking targets of this rebel group in Yemen who were attacking Red Sea shipping the Houthis |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $200: From Latin for "twice" & "cut", it means to divide a line or figure into 2 equal parts bisect |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $400: "Like fractions" have the same this, making it easy to add & subtract them denominators |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $600: In a Tom Lehrer song, a movie called "The Eternal Triangle" stars Ingrid Bergman as this longest side of a right triangle a hypotenuse |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $800: It's a constant that multiplies a variable; in physics, there's a well-known one "of friction" a coefficient |
| #9087, aired 2024-04-23 | RELAX, IT'S MATH $1000: These coordinates named for a 17th c. man describe the position of points in space in relation to an x-axis & y-axis Cartesian |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $200: Of businessman Warren & singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $400: Of prime minister William the Younger & actor Brad Pitt |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $600: Of these two women, a first lady & an actress who has portrayed first ladies Nixon |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $800: Of an accused ax murderer & her distant cousin who invented a process for condensing milk Borden |
| #9086, aired 2024-04-22 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $1000: Of poets Marianne & Clement Clarke Moore |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: It's the "Boomer State" as well as the "Sooner State" Oklahoma |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: This state capital is located at the confluence of two rivers, one of which shares its name Des Moines |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: The Catskill Mountains in New York are part of this much larger mountain system the Appalachians |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): Leapin' lizards! This river flows 630 miles before joining the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona the Gila River |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: Located in a caldera in the Cascade Mountains, it's the USA's deepest lake Crater Lake |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | JUST FOR FUN "Z"s $200: At the Fremont St. Experience, take a thrill ride on one of these, 7 stories high & 2 blocks long; the zoom one is even bigger a zip line |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $400: Trying to go to 1492 but ending up in 1429, Val watches this peasant girl set out for the siege of Orléans--& glory--on April 27 Joan of Arc |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | JUST FOR FUN "Z"s $400: As a 5-year-old hockey fan, Ariana Grande got hit twice with a puck & got to ride on one of these at a Florida Panthers game a Zamboni |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | JUST FOR FUN "Z"s $600: Shigeru Miyamoto designed a video game in which players try to defeat the evil Ganon & rescue this princess Zelda |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $800: Val wanted to visit the Moorish city in Spain in the 1400s but one misspelled letter has him on this isle of spice & a 1983 U.S. invasion Grenada |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | JUST FOR FUN "Z"s $800: This rum cocktail was created in the 1930s for a tiki bar called Don the Beachcomber; it might be less fun after too many the Zombie |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | JUST FOR FUN "Z"s $1000: Down South, cher, this traditional music heard here is also known as chanky-chank zydeco |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $1200: Val's not at the 1922 discovery of Tut's tomb in this 4-word area but 100 later, sees Rüfüs Du Sol win a Grammy for "Alive" the Valley of the Kings |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $1600: Not great with numbers, Val doesn't end up in 1966 watching the launch of Gemini 10 but in London, in this year of the Great Fire 1666 |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | VAL, HISTORY'S CLUMSIEST TIME TRAVELER $2000: "Where's the president?" a blundering Val asks this senator from Louisiana with a different middle name, church & party John Kennedy |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THAT BAND'S AN INSTITUTION $400: The "Celebration" continues with Robert Bell, better known as this; he & The Gang still tour after 26 studio albums Kool |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THAT BAND'S AN INSTITUTION $800: Formed in 1976, they're turning the Venetian in Vegas into a love shack with a 2024 residency The B-52s |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THAT BAND'S AN INSTITUTION $1200: Their 2024 "Hackney Diamonds" tour is sponsored by the AARP--no, really The Rolling Stones |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THAT BAND'S AN INSTITUTION $1600: In 2024 this band set a record with its 59th Top 40 album, a 1985 live performance featuring "Truckin"' the Grateful Dead |
| #9081, aired 2024-04-15 | THAT BAND'S AN INSTITUTION $2000: This, I call it this, that this "One Step Beyond" & "Our House" band formed in 1976 is still touring with its original members Madness |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THAT'S SO CRINGE $200: It can mean to lack dexterity but it doesn't lack for Ws, with 2; well, this is... awkward |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WE'VE GOT TODAY'S HITS $200: Tim McGraw hit the Hot 100 wanting to "live a life so when I die, there's" this crowd situation, SRO for short standing room only |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THAT'S SO CRINGE $400: If you're sensitive to a certain touch, you'll giggle, but this adjective also describes a tricky situation that needs a sensitive touch (a) ticklish (situation) |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WE'VE GOT TODAY'S HITS $400: With a Bananarama-riffic title, this Taylor Swift song dominated the fall in 2023, staying at No. 1 for weeks "Cruel Summer" |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THAT'S SO CRINGE $600: From the Latin for "death", it can indeed mean to render necrotic but it's more associated as a word meaning to embarrass mortify |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WE'VE GOT TODAY'S HITS $600: "Now & then, I miss you, oh, now & then, I want you to be there for me", sang this band in a 2023 song written in the '70s The Beatles |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THAT'S SO CRINGE $800: Spelled differently, one of the Moon's is waxing crescent, but for category purposes, it means to dismay or confuse to faze |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WE'VE GOT TODAY'S HITS $800: This woman knew how to "Paint The Town Red" purrfectly in 2023 Doja Cat |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | THAT'S SO CRINGE $1000: Anxious? Uncomfortable? You're this 3-word phrase that sounds like a sick military command ill at ease |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | WE'VE GOT TODAY'S HITS $1000: People were "lovin on me"... well, not me, but him when he took that tune to No. 1 Jack Harlow |
