| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Egypt's Nubian Valley is now submerged beneath the waters of this lake named for an Egyptian president Nasser |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | BODIES OF WATER $800: This part of Niagara Falls is named for its curved crest, some 2,200 feet wide Horseshoe |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: There's a bit of a debate about the largest lake in South America: is it Lake Titicaca or this Venezuelan one? Maracaibo |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: This 4-letter German canal connects the North Sea & the Baltic Sea Kiel |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Bombed in 1950 & never rebuilt, the broken bridge over this river allows a glimpse from China into North Korea Yalu |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | SALTY BODIES OF WATER $400: Iran's Lake Urmia hosts salt-tolerant species like this tall, pink wading bird, sometimes a flamboyance of about 30,000 of them a flamingo |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | SALTY BODIES OF WATER $800: Dubbed hypersaline at 40% salinity, Don Juan Pond in this continent's McMurdo Dry Valleys region is merely inches deep Antarctica |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | SALTY BODIES OF WATER $1200: High in salts of sodium & potassium, Little Manitou Lake northeast of Lake Diefenbaker is called the "Dead Sea of" this nation Canada |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | SALTY BODIES OF WATER $1600: This so-called "Sea" in a Southern California desert didn't exist until a flood filled a low basin the Salton Sea |
| #9253, aired 2025-01-22 | SALTY BODIES OF WATER $2000: The lowest point on the continent, Lake Assal in this small Horn of Africa nation is a prime source of quarried salt Djibouti |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | BODIES OF WATER $200: This stately river is formed by the confluence of the Allegheny & the Monongahela Rivers the Ohio |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Designated the fifth ocean, it surrounds Antarctica the Southern Ocean |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | BODIES OF WATER $600: This large lake formed by the building of Hoover Dam is at the center of a national recreation area Lake Mead |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | BODIES OF WATER $800: The Gulf of Corinth separates this peninsula from central Greece the Peloponnesus |
| #9234, aired 2024-12-26 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: This bay noted for its high tides separates Nova Scotia & New Brunswick the Bay of Fundy |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | WAITER $200: In a 2004 episode of this show, a waiter makes the fatal mistake of complaining to Christopher & Paulie about a tip The Sopranos |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | WAITER $400: The object of Charlie Day's & Charlie Kelly's affection, Mary Elizabeth Ellis plays the waitress on this show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | WAITER $600: Steve Buscemi makes an appearance as a waiter dressed as Buddy Holly in this Tarantino film Pulp Fiction |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | WAITER $800: She revisited a job from her pre-superstar days playing the sorely in need of flair Joanna in "Office Space" Aniston |
| #9232, aired 2024-12-24 | WAITER $1000: In this 1970 film Jack Nicholson tells a stubborn waitress to hold the chicken (between her knees!) Five Easy Pieces |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $200: 250 miles off continental Africa, this very large island nation boasts Ankaratra, a 2,000-square-mile volcanic region Madagascar |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $400: Until a 1980 change, the now-familiar pair of St. Kitts & this was a trio including Anguilla Nevis |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $600: The first lighthouse on California's coast was on this island in San Francisco Bay later more famous for something else Alcatraz |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $800: Bligh me! Named for the sailor who sighted it, this volcanic island southeast of Tahiti has fertile soil & a subtropical climate Pitcairn Island |
| #9200, aired 2024-11-08 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $1000: Near the entrance to the Bay of Naples, this isle was once the Fire Island of Europe as gay tourists flocked there Capri |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The Jordan River empties into this "Sea", Earth's lowest body of water the Dead Sea |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | BODIES OF WATER $800: The Thousand Islands lie in this river just where it leaves Lake Ontario the St. Lawrence |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: In 1482 explorer Diogo Cão of Portugal was the 1st European to see & scout the mouth of this 2nd-longest river of Africa the Congo |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Each year monsoon rains in this Asian country swell Lake Tonle Sap from 1,000 to 4,000 square miles Cambodia |
| #9194, aired 2024-10-31 | BODIES OF WATER $2,200 (Daily Double): Cities on the shore of this lake include Babushkin, a stop on the Trans-Siberian Railway Lake Baikal |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | EXTREME WEATHER $200: (Glen Powell presents the clue.) Haboob is an alternate & more fun to say word for this; in 524 B.C. a haboob is said to have buried 50,000 Persian soldiers in the Egyptian desert without leaving a trace a sandstorm |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | EXTREME WEATHER $400: (Daisy Edgar-Jones presents the clue.) A lethal combination of pollution & high pressure, the Great Smog that covered this capital for 5 days in 1952 claimed thousands of lives & led to changes in law London |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | EXTREME WEATHER $600: (Glen Powell presents the clue.) The hottest air temperature ever recorded on Earth was here in the good old U.S.A.; 134 degrees Fahrenheit in this desolately named spot near the Panamint Mountains Death Valley |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | EXTREME WEATHER $800: (Daisy Edgar-Jones presents the clue.) Never mind the usual comparison to golf balls, how about a volleyball? In South Dakota in 2010, the largest of these ever measured, came down at 8 inches across & weighed about 2 pounds a hailstone |
| #9146, aired 2024-07-15 | EXTREME WEATHER $1000: (Glen Powell presents the clue.) The Saffir-Simpson scale categorizing hurricanes is named in part for Robert Simpson, who was interested in meteorology from age 6 when this alliterative rise in sea level interrupted his dinner in Corpus Christi a storm surge |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | BODIES OF WATER $400: With an area of more than 300,000 square miles, this North American bay covers more than 3 times the area of the Great Lakes combined Hudson Bay |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Zambia's lowest point is this river that separates the country from Zimbabwe & also begins with "Z" Zambezi |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: The French call it Pas de Calais; the English call it this the Strait of Dover |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: An active volcano lies within this country's Taal Lake, which itself occupies a caldera the Philippines |
| #9116, aired 2024-06-03 | BODIES OF WATER $7,600 (Daily Double): The Sinai Peninsula lies between 2 gulfs, the Gulf of Suez on the west & this one on the east the Gulf of Aqaba |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | BODIES OF WATER $200: About 16 times the height of Niagara Falls, it's also known locally as Kerepakupai Merú Angel Falls |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Rising in China, the Red River flows past Hanoi to empty into this body of water the Gulf of Tonkin |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | BODIES OF WATER $600: More than 300 rivers & streams flow into this body of water that has a maximum depth of 5,300 feet Baikal |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Some river math: this river + the Monongahela = the Ohio River the Allegheny |
| #28, aired 2024-05-10 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: This Alpine lake borders Switzerland, Austria & Germany, where it is called Bodensee Constance |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Lake Vänern, this Scandinavian country's largest lake, is part of the Gota Canal system Sweden |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Major ports on this bay include Bilbao, Spain & Brest, France the Bay of Biscay |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: Serpent's Mouth is a channel separating this island's southwestern coast from Venezuela Trinidad |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Winter temperatures along this 4-letter Siberian river that flows through Yakutsk can reach the 80s below zero the Lena |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: This canal completed in 1893 divides the Peloponnese Peninsula from mainland Greece Corinth |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $400: This strait narrows to about 50 miles between Asia & North America the Bering |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Called Östersjön in Swedish, this sea separates Scandinavia from the rest of Europe the Baltic |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: There's a Colorado River in the U.S. & another one in this South American nation where it flows across the Pampas Argentina |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: This deepest lake in Africa has a name that may come from Swahili words for "sail" & "wilderness" Lake Tanganyika |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $6,800 (Daily Double): Extending for about 135 miles, the Yucatan Channel links these 2 smaller-than-an-ocean bodies of water the Gulf of Mexico & the Caribbean Sea |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | A CITY ON THE WATER $400: Daytona Beach,
Florida:
this ocean the Atlantic |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | A CITY ON THE WATER $800: Easton,
Maryland the Chesapeake Bay |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | A CITY ON THE WATER $1200: Montreal,
Quebec the St. Lawrence River |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | A CITY ON THE WATER $1600: Pierre,
South Dakota the Missouri |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | A CITY ON THE WATER $2000: Shelburne,
Vermont Lake Champlain |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $200: 2-word title of "A Celebration of the Sesame Street Theme Song" Sunny Day |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Opened to Londoners in 2000, the Millennium Pedestrian Bridge is one of the newer ones to cross over this river the Thames |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $400: Type of evening in the title of a 1923 Frost poem snowy |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $600: It comes "on little cat feet" according to Carl Sandburg, so let up on the gas fog |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Hindus consider it the most sacred river in India the Ganges |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $800: Pirates be roaming in the novel titled this condition "in Jamaica" a high wind |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $1000: Saul Bellow's Henderson gets this appellation in Africa the Rain King |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: Manama & Bushehr are on this body that was at the center of fighting in 1991 & again in the 2000s the Persian Gulf |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: More than 300 rivers & streams flow into this deep Russian lake, but only one flows out--the Angara Lake Baikal |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Passamaquoddy Bay between Maine & New Brunswick, Canada is an inlet of this bay famous for its high tides the Bay of Fundy |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | WATER WORLD $400: It's the controlled application of water for agricultural purposes through manmade systems irrigation |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | WATER WORLD $800: This adjective for water safe to consume is from the Latin for "drink" potable |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | WATER WORLD $1200: Any smaller river or branch that's a feeder of a larger river or stream a tributary |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | WATER WORLD $1600: Using pressure & a membrane to remove particulates from seawater is called reverse osmosis, one method of this process desalinization |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | WATER WORLD $2000: Channels called these ways take water around a dam when the reservoir is full spillways |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | HIGH WATER $400: After floods in 1966, UNESCO made efforts to save this Italian city & its treasures, like the Biblioteca Marciana Venice |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | HIGH WATER $800: The Zuiderzee Flood of 1287 killed 50,000 but also connected this then-village to the sea, & the rest is Dutch history Amsterdam |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | HIGH WATER $1200: In 1887, 1931 & 1938 northern China was devastated by flooding of the Huang He, this colorful river Yellow |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | HIGH WATER $1600: A dam collapse in this state led to the deadly 1889 Johnstown Flood Pennsylvania |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | HIGH WATER $2000: 2010-11 floods in Australia were exacerbated by this Pacific Ocean weather phenomenon with a feminine name La Niña |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $200: Under the Brooklyn Bridge the East River |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $400: Beneath the Bay Bridge in Maryland:
This bay the Chesapeake |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $600: Under the Petofi Bridge in Budapest:
This river the Danube |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $800: Beneath the Rialto Bridge in Venice:
This busy waterway the Grand Canal |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $1,000 (Daily Double): Beneath the Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon:
This River the Tagus |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WEEDER'S DIGEST $400: This member of the parsley family that grows wild in Europe & the U.S. is a main flavoring agent in pickles dill |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WEEDER'S DIGEST $800: Its name is from the French for "lion's tooth" dents-de-lion (dandelion) |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WEEDER'S DIGEST $1200: Of the genus Digitaria, this common weed has a crustacean name crabgrass |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WEEDER'S DIGEST $1600: In 2018 Monsanto was found liable for damages caused by this weed killer containing glyphosate Roundup |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | WEEDER'S DIGEST $2000: Orange hawkweed is also called the devil's type of this artistic tool paintbrush |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | BODIES OF WATER $400: An inlet of the Caribbean Sea, this lake is actually a lagoon & considered by some to be South America's largest natural lake Maracaibo |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Alan Jackson showed off his waterskiing talents in the video for his song named for this river the Chattahoochee |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft is said to have coined the name of this American lake from Latin for "truth" & "head" Lake Itasca (in Minnesota) |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Mentioned in the Bible, the King's Highway joined Syria to this gulf at the north of the Red Sea Gulf of Aqaba |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: It flows 2,300 miles from the Altai Mountains to the Arctic Ocean the Ob River |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER $200: The vernal equinox now lies in this zodiac constellation Pisces |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $400: On encountering Tower Bridge, this new coaching hire says, "I got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore" Ted Lasso |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER $400: "Mega size mega flavor", boasts the megabites version of this Pepperidge Farms snack cracker Goldfish |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $800: Lily Collins stars as this title Chicago marketing exec & by the way, she doesn't speak a lick of French Emily in Paris |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER $800: In the alliterative Mattel game called this "Panic", players must avoid a feeding frenzy to claim victory Piranha Panic |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER $1000: As Chief Justice, he presided over the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson (Salmon P.) Chase |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $1200: On "Futurama" he's the former pizza boy who has to adjust to things once he's unfrozen after a thousand years Fry |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $1600: In "Two Weeks to Live", this actress plays Kim Noakes who rejects her survivalist mother to experience the world Maisie Williams |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER ON TV $2000: After getting rich off of some "bubblin' crude", he is told by his kinfolk, "Californy is the place you oughta be" Jed Clampett |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | FISH OUT OF WATER $3,400 (Daily Double): They're the southernmost Major League baseball team the (Miami) Marlins |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | WATER ON THE EARTH $400: Eschewing the traditional barrel, skydivers began leaping from 14,000 feet over this international border landmark in 2021 Niagara Falls |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | WATER ON THE EARTH $800: Nine stone posts mark the footprint of Thoreau's 1840s cabin at this body of water Walden Pond |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | WATER ON THE EARTH $1200: Construction of this seaway to the Atlantic began in 1954 & used enough cement to build a 1,000-mile-long highway the St. Lawrence Seaway |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | WATER ON THE EARTH $2000: The name of this swamp on the Florida-Georgia line is said to derive from an indigenous word for "trembling earth" Okefenokee |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | WATER ON THE EARTH $4,200 (Daily Double): Switzerland claims about 134 square miles of this Alpine lake; France, about 90 Lake Geneva |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | BIRDS NEAR WATER $200: This big-billed coastal native is featured on the flag of Louisiana a pelican |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | BIRDS NEAR WATER $400: Once a symbol of the Great Northern Wilderness, it's now happy in parks & municipal ponds a Canada goose |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | BIRDS NEAR WATER $600: Also the name of a Marine Corps aircraft, this raptor is alternately known as a fish eagle an osprey |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | BIRDS NEAR WATER $800: This species of African wading birds seen here shares its name with a similar-looking shark a hammerhead |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | BIRDS NEAR WATER $1000: This bird of the genus Actitis gets its name from running along seashores making short, high-pitched noises the sandpiper |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $200: In the acronym HOMES, it's the "H" Huron |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $600: You'll find the United Arab Emirates at the south end of this body of water the Persian Gulf |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Under an agreement first drawn up in 1903, the U.S. maintains a strategically important naval base on this Cuban bay Guantanamo |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: In ancient times the Dardanelles Strait was called this & was associated with the story of Hero & Leander the Hellespont |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1,800 (Daily Double): Differing by a letter, these 2 rivers both rise in Switzerland; one is about 830 miles long & the other, more than 500 the Rhône & Rhine |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | WATER MUSIC $400: Ike & Tina Turner were "rollin' on the river" with this song "Proud Mary" |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | WATER MUSIC $800: Carly Simon wrote "Let The River Run" for this film starring Melanie Griffith & Harrison Ford Working Girl |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | WATER MUSIC $1200: This composer's "Water Music" from 1717 is heard here
[Orchestra plays Water Music: Suite No. 2 in D major] Handel |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | WATER MUSIC $1600: Linda Ronstadt sang of "going back someday" to this colorful body of water "Blue Bayou" |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | WATER MUSIC $2000: This watery Henry Mancini composition was a huge hit for Andy Williams "Moon River" |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | WHETHER YOU'RE A BROTHER OR WHETHER YOU'RE A MOTHER $200: Rumer, Scout & Tallulah Willis are daughters to this "G.I. Jane" (Demi) Moore |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | WHETHER YOU'RE A BROTHER OR WHETHER YOU'RE A MOTHER $400: Last name of acting bros Chris & Liam; Woody Harrelson only realized they were brothers while being interviewed with Liam Hemsworth |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | WHETHER YOU'RE A BROTHER OR WHETHER YOU'RE A MOTHER $600: In 2019 this trio of sibs topped the Billboard 200 with "Happiness Begins" the Jonas Brothers |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | WHETHER YOU'RE A BROTHER OR WHETHER YOU'RE A MOTHER $800: Billie Eilish & her brother & collaborator have both dropped the last name O'Connell; he just goes by this name now Finneas |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | WHETHER YOU'RE A BROTHER OR WHETHER YOU'RE A MOTHER $1000: On the Netflix show "Maid" Andie MacDowell plays the mom of this real-life actress daughter Margaret Qualley |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | BODIES OF WATER $400: In the first map of the new U.S.A. by an American, Pennsylvania doesn't have access to this lake which it got in a 1792 purchase Lake Erie |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Formed in Chihuahua, the Fuerte River of Mexico flows southwestward 180 miles into this gulf the Gulf of California |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: This strait west of Malaysia is the shortest sea route from India to China the Strait of Malacca |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | BODIES OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): The Komandorski Islands are part of a 1,200-mile arc separating this sea from the Pacific Ocean to the south the Bering Sea |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: The island nation of Sao Tome & Principe is found in this gulf near the equator the Gulf of Guinea |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Scoresby Sound, home to the world's longest one of these narrow inlets, lies in Greenland, not Norway a fjord |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Divided from the Baltic Sea by the Muhu archipelago, this gulf bears the name of one of the 3 Baltic national capitals the Gulf of Riga |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: The beauty of Lake Kachura in Pakistan has earned it this name, popularized by novelist James Hilton to mean "heaven on earth" Shangrila |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: This sea of the Arctic Ocean is named for a British rear admiral who also devised a scale for measuring wind force Beaufort |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BODIES OF WATER $7,000 (Daily Double): The Bay of Tangier makes up part of the western end of this strait the Strait of Gibraltar |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $200: Johnny Mercer wrote the lyric "I'm gonna love you like nobody's loved you, come" these 2 opposites rain & shine |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $400: Starbucks sells a tea drink called London this Fog |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $800: A book about the underworld says Al Capone's rival Joe Aiello died in this type of storm "of lead" a hail |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): A Joyce story ends with this falling "upon all the living and the dead" the snow |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $1000: The EPA says keep this below 60% to prevent mold humidity |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The Churn & the Leach are among its headstreams in the Cotswolds the Thames |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: At its widest, it's about 180 miles as you sail east-west from Ontario to Michigan Lake Huron |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: The Conchos River, the longest in the state of Chihuahua, is a tributary of this one the Rio Grande |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Tanzania & Mozambique are on the eastern shore of this lake Lake Malawi |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | BODIES OF WATER $3,000 (Daily Double): When not hampered by monsoons, the dhow was the traditional trading vessel of this ocean the Indian Ocean |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $200: This river flows under the Arlington Memorial Bridge the Potomac |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $400: In this U.S. state the Mackinac Bridge spans the straits of the same name Michigan |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $600: The bridge & train seen here are crossing this Thai river made famous by a 1952 novel & a 1957 movie the River Kwai |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $800: Venezuela's Angostura Bridge crosses this vital river the Orinoco |
| #8647, aired 2022-05-24 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $1000: Germany's Magdeburg Water Bridge helps boats cross this river that begins & ends with the same vowel the Elbe River |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $400: In 2012 Curiosity found an ancient streambed here Mars |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $800: Saturn's moon Titan is thought to have a subsurface ocean as salty as this terrestrial "Salt Sea" the Dead Sea |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $1200: The ice on comets stays frozen beyond the solar system's "frost line", which lies close to the orbit of this 5th planet Jupiter |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $2000: This U.S. telescope named for a German astronomer looked for extrasolar planets that might contain water Kepler |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $2,200 (Daily Double): This dwarf planet is about 25% water, which could be handy for the goddess of crops it's named for Ceres |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $200: Flying over Utah, you might get a glimpse of this body of water the Great Salt Lake |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $400: This "stately" lake connects to Lake Huron via the Straits of Mackinac Lake Michigan |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $600: If you're sittin' on the dock of this 200-mile-long bay, you're either in Maryland or Virginia Chesapeake Bay |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1,000 (Daily Double): Seneca & Cayuga are the largest of the 11 lakes in New York State collectively called these the Finger Lakes |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1000: As indicated by its name, this large lake formed by Denison Dam is shared by Texas & its neighbor to the north Texoma |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | WATER, WATER $200: The Chukchi & Laptev are among the seas in this ocean the Arctic |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | WATER, WATER $400: The Pacific's Yap Trench is this kind of trench that shares a name with a deep sea vessel submarine |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | WATER, WATER $600: As well as a neighborhood of Queens & the subject of an old joke, it's a river there & the bay it flows into Flushing |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | WATER, WATER $1000: The Humboldt Current is sometimes called this South American country's current the Peru Current (the Chilean) |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | WATER, WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): The Hollands Diep River flows into the Haring Estuary, which ultimately discharges into this sea the North Sea |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Lake Victoria is the largest source of this African river the Nile |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Built in the early 1960s, the Bridge of the Americas spans this waterway the Panama Canal |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Miami is a port on this bay Biscayne Bay |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Surt is the main port on this Libyan gulf the Gulf of Sidra |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | BODIES OF WATER $6,200 (Daily Double): Formations like the Great Barrier Reef gave this body of water its name the Coral Sea |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | WHITHER THE WEATHER? $400: It sounds like a computer game about an island, but in weather lore it's very fine water droplets at ground level mist |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | WHITHER THE WEATHER? $800: This discharge can be spider, forked or sheet lightning |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | WHITHER THE WEATHER? $1200: I'm sick of the same weather again, the result of a stationary one of these where neither of the adjoining air masses can move a front |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | WHITHER THE WEATHER? $1,500 (Daily Double): Matey, batten down the hatches! It be this 4-letter warning from the National Weather Service of sustained winds of 39-54 mph gale |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | WHITHER THE WEATHER? $1600: Big fluffy snowflakes result from relative humidity of over 100%, this condition of water in the atmosphere supersaturation |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $400: This Great Lake takes a little bite out of Indiana's northwest corner (Lake) Michigan |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $800: A 24-mile-long causeway across this lake connects New Orleans to the northern shore Lake Pontchartrain |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1200: This distinct-looking river forms much of the Texas-Oklahoma boundary the Red River |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1600: Admiral David Farragut saw his greatest victory in the August 1864 Battle of this body of water Mobile Bay |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $2000: The Cumberland River rises in this state, flows through a portion of Tennessee & then back into this state Kentucky |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | SINGING ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: In a holiday favorite, "The fire is so delightful and since we've no place to go", this title, this title, this title "Let It Snow" |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | SINGING ABOUT THE WEATHER $800: The Scorpions sang, "Here I am, rock you like" one of these a hurricane |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | SINGING ABOUT THE WEATHER $1200: In this disco classic by The Weather Girls, the forecast was very unusual precipitation; "hallelujah!" "It's Raining Men" |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | SINGING ABOUT THE WEATHER $1600: Making some big noise, AC/DC "Got Some Rock & Roll" this, while Kiss staked a claim with "God Of" it Thunder |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | SINGING ABOUT THE WEATHER $2000: Bill Withers passed away in 2020 & as he sang, "Ain't No" this when he's gone Sunshine |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Croatia's border rivers the Sava & Drava are both tributaries of this one the Danube |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | BODIES OF WATER $800: 20 miles wide at its narrowest, the Strait of Dover connects the English Channel to this body of water the North Sea |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: This vast Canadian lake attracts anglers but you're competing for the fish with the animals the lake is named for Great Bear Lake |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: In 1903 Cuba gave the U.S. a lease on 45 square miles of land & water on this bay Guantanamo |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: An arm of the Mediterranean, this gulf indents Libya for about 275 miles the Gulf of Sidra |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | WEATHER $400: Guinness noted that a 15-inch one of these fluttered down at Fort Keogh, Montana in 1887 a snowflake |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | WEATHER $800: A hygrometer measures this, the moisture content in the atmosphere humidity |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | WEATHER $1200: Pellets of ice have a diameter of less than 5mm; if the ice's diameter is between 5mm & 15cm, it's called this hail |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | WEATHER $1600: Most weather occurs in this 5-to-9-mile-thick layer of the atmosphere that's closest to Earth the troposphere |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | WEATHER $2000: Flooding in Venice has been aggravated by these Italian-named winds that originate in northern Africa scirocco |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE $200: 2018:
"Ant-Man and
the ____ " Wasp |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE $400: 2018:
"The Girl in
____ ____ ____" the Spider's Web |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE $600: 1938,
a Disney
"Silly Symphony":
"____ and the Flame" Moth |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE $800: 2002,
desert battles in the ancient world:
"The ____ King" Scorpion |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE $1000: 1958,
remade in 1986:
"The ____" Fly |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | TALK ABOUT THAT WEATHER $400: Water moving at 9 feet per second is typical in this alliterative & sudden fast-moving event a flash flood |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | TALK ABOUT THAT WEATHER $800: Heads up! According to the Natl. Severe Storms Laboratory, hail with a diameter of 4 1/2 inches is comparable in size to this fruit grapefruit |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | TALK ABOUT THAT WEATHER $1200: Scientists still don't fully understand this rare phenomenon that has reportedly even made its way inside of houses ball lightning |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | TALK ABOUT THAT WEATHER $1600: It's the 10-letter term for a column of rapidly swirling air occurring over a lake or ocean waterspout |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | TALK ABOUT THAT WEATHER $2000: In 1985 this western state saw record low & high temperatures: -69 degrees at Peter Sinks & 117 in St. George Utah |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WEATHER SONGS $400: There's clearly inclement weather in Rihanna's song about this title object, which she offers shelter under an umbrella |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WEATHER SONGS $800: The Beatles rejoiced, "Good Day" this & then rested "beneath a shady tree" Sunshine |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WEATHER SONGS $1200: The Bangles noted, "Look around, leaves are brown and the sky is" this "shade of winter" hazy |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WEATHER SONGS $1600: Guns N' Roses sang that "It's hard to hold a candle" in this type of cold autumn deluge November Rain |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WEATHER SONGS $2000: In a Jimi Hendrix song, first the wind whispers, then cries, then screams her name Mary |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | BODIES OF WATER $200: This largest lake in Africa is named for a British queen Victoria |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | BODIES OF WATER $400: This body of water is centered on the North Pole the Arctic Ocean |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Catumbo lightning is a phenomenon regularly seen over this huge Venezuelan lake Lake Maracaibo |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: Saudi Arabia lies between the Red Sea & this 93,000-square-mile gulf the Gulf of Persia (the Persian Gulf) |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | BODIES OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): Accessible only by ferry, Vashon Island is in this body of water, between Seattle & Tacoma Puget Sound |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | WATER $200: Hydrolysis uses water to destroy these that hold a compound together bonds |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | WATER $400: In 2020 NASA announced that its Sofia Observatory detected water in this heavenly body's Clavius crater the Moon |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | WATER $800: Sometimes water molecules contain deuterium or tritium, isotopes of this element hydrogen |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | WATER $1000: Water has low this "V" property, meaning it's quick to flow or change shape viscosity |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | WATER $1,500 (Daily Double): In ROWPU, a system that purifies any water source, the "R" stands for "reverse" & the "O" stands for this process osmosis |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THICKER THAN WATER $200: As the proverb says, this is "thicker than water", normally by at least 3 to 4 times blood |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THICKER THAN WATER $400: Some people refer to this element as quicksilver mercury |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THICKER THAN WATER $600: Products from this brand include school glue, glow in the dark glue & pre-made slime called "Gue" Elmer's |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THICKER THAN WATER $800: Nearly 80 years later, this sunken battleship is still leaking oil in Pearl Harbor the USS Arizona |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | THICKER THAN WATER $1000: While this substance is the chief source of natural rubber, the kind used in certain paints is synthetic latex |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | BOOKS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL $400: I was "struck by" the plot twists in Dean Koontz' book about Laura Shane with this 1-word title Lightning |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | BOOKS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL $800: The infamous Red Wedding takes place in this author's "A Storm of Swords" (George R.R.) Martin |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | BOOKS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL $1200: "Smilla's Sense of" this helps her solve a murder in Copenhagen the Snow |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | BOOKS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL $1600: Dennis Lehane's "Prayers for Rain" is about a P.I. based in this East Coast city Boston |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | BOOKS FOR THE WEATHER CHANNEL $2000: In this tale by Marion Zimmer Bradley, the King Arthur legend is retold through the eyes of women The Mists of Avalon |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | BODIES OF WATER FILED UNDER B $400: The Bab el-Mandeb Strait connects the Red Sea with this ocean the Indian Ocean |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | BODIES OF WATER FILED UNDER B $800: The Bristol Channel separates the southern part of this U.K. country from England Wales |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | BODIES OF WATER FILED UNDER B $1200: The mighty MacKenzie flows into this sea that's north of Alaska & Canada & part of the Arctic Ocean the Beaufort |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | BODIES OF WATER FILED UNDER B $1600: Blommestein Lake is the largest reservoir in this South American nation Suriname |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | BODIES OF WATER FILED UNDER B $2000: This "large animal" lake is a center of skiing, fishing & more in California's San Bernardino National Forest Big Bear Lake |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | WATER WE DOING $200: Just 50 miles separates the U.S. & Russia across this strait the Bering Strait |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | WATER WE DOING $400: A Great Lake indeed, it stretches from Duluth to Ontario to Sault Ste. Marie Lake Superior |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | WATER WE DOING $600: Appropriately, this 160-mile-long river in Canada flows past London; it passes Woodstock & Chatham as well the Thames |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | WATER WE DOING $800: The northwest corner of the Indian Ocean is this grade-"A" sea the Arabian Sea |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | WATER WE DOING $1000: Lakes Maggiore & Garda empty into tributaries of this 400-mile-long Italian river the Po |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: It was so cold in London in 1814 that a frost fair was held on this river that had frozen over the Thames |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $800: In Southern California, morning low clouds & fog during the sixth month are part of this near-rhyming phenomenon June gloom |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1200: It's the "colorful" term for a thin frozen film on the road that can lead to hazardous driving conditions black ice |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1600: It's the type of cloud seen here before it touches the ground & becomes a tornado a funnel cloud |
| #8317, aired 2021-01-19 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $2000: A weathervane measures wind direction; one of these "meters" measures wind speed an anemometer |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | BODIES OF WATER $400: It cost the U.S. about $380 million to build this canal that opened to traffic in 1914 the Panama Canal |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | BODIES OF WATER $800: This river is navigable from its mouth on the North Sea to a spot near Basel on the Swiss-German border the Rhine |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Back when it was known as the Hellespont, this strait was where the mythic lovers Hero & Leander perished the Dardanelles |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | BODIES OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): Blooms of the algae of Trichodesmium erythraeum give this body of water its color & perhaps its name the Red Sea |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Sugar Loaf Mountain overlooks this bay of the Atlantic Ocean Guanabara Bay |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE $400: An AC/DC tune, or a word meaning flabbergasted; you've been...! "Thunderstruck" |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE $800: One who never, ever gives up hope is an "eternal" this 8-letter word an optimist |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE $1200: Adjective for the nationality of a citizen living in Kharkiv or Donetsk a Ukrainian |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE $1600: This bird is famous for its lovely song heard after dark a nightingale (a nightin-gale) |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE $2000: Late 19th century entertainers often toured the country this way, doing one-night shows in makeshift theaters barnstorming |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Sri Lanka's northernmost point, Point Pedro lies where Palk Strait meets this large bay the Bay of Bengal |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BODIES OF WATER $600: The people in John Mellencamp's "Pink Houses" vacation "down at" this body of water, perhaps in Fort Morgan, Alabama the Gulf of Mexico |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BODIES OF WATER $800: To reach this much larger sea from the Sea of Azov, you must sail through the Kerch Strait the Black Sea |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1,000 (Daily Double): This mighty river rises in the Tibetan Plateau & empties into the South China Sea near Ho Chi Minh City the Mekong |
| #8287, aired 2020-11-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: This 700-mile-long river formed part of the boundary between East Germany & West Germany the Elbe |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The Straits of Florida connect this body of water to the Atlantic Ocean the Gulf of Mexico |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: The Cayman Islands are in this sea Caribbean Sea |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Named for an Englishman, it connects the Atlantic & the Pacific between Cape Horn & the South Shetland Islands Drake's Passage |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: In French it's known as Le Golfe de Gascogne the Bay of Biscay |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BODIES OF WATER $5,000 (Daily Double): This river flows into Lake Constance, which borders Switzerland, Germany & Austria the Rhine |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | HIGH WATER $200: A lake high on Mount Kenya shares its name with this main character in "The Lion King" Simba |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | HIGH WATER $400: One of the highest rivers in the world, the Yarlung Tsangpo starts in this autonomous region of China Tibet |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | HIGH WATER $600: Scuba diving in lakes at high altitudes is more dangerous, as this 5-letter decompression sickness is worse the bends |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | HIGH WATER $800: A 425-mile river originating in Idaho's Sawtooth mountains is named for this fish known for its upriver journeys the salmon |
| #8173, aired 2020-03-04 | HIGH WATER $1000: Tradition says that Zoroaster meditated for years at the lake at the summit of Mount Sabalan in this country Iran |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $400: Beneath the Mark Twain Memorial Bridge in Hannibal, Missouri the Mississippi |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $800: Below New York City's George Washington Bridge the Hudson |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $1,200 (Daily Double): Beneath the Ponte Sant'Angelo, commissioned by Hadrian the Tiber |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $1600: Below the Newport Pell Bridge, featured on the Rhode Island state quarter Narragansett Bay |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $2000: Beneath the Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon the Tagus |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | WEATHER $200: In 1937 a search party was sent for one of the goalies when a soccer game was stopped in England due to this weather condition fog |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | WEATHER $600: Non-fluid aneroid barometers use a partial one of these instead of mercury to measure air pressure vacuum |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | WEATHER $1,000 (Daily Double): In a 2-week period in 2018, the East Coast was walloped by 3 of these storms named for the direction from which they came nor'easters |
| #8139, aired 2020-01-16 | WEATHER $1000: Doppler weather systems use this type of technology to detect weather patterns radar |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | WATER MUSIC $400: This song by Otis Redding mentions "the Frisco Bay" & "Watchin' the tide roll away" "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay" |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | WATER MUSIC $800: In 2016 this British woman had a hit with "Water Under The Bridge" Adele |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | WATER MUSIC $1200: Joe Jonas of this 4-letter group described "Cake By The Ocean" as a party anthem DNCE |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | WATER MUSIC $1600: This duo's biggest hit was 1970's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" Simon and Garfunkel |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | WATER MUSIC $2000: John Fogerty sounds like he crawled out of the swamp on CCR's song "Born On" this marshy inlet a Bayou |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | WE SHARE THAT WATER $400: Long Island Sound New York & Connecticut |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | WE SHARE THAT WATER $800: Lake Tahoe Nevada & California |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | WE SHARE THAT WATER $1200: Green Bay Wisconsin & Michigan |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | WE SHARE THAT WATER $2000: The Savannah River Georgia & South Carolina |
| #8103, aired 2019-11-27 | WE SHARE THAT WATER $4,800 (Daily Double): Lake Powell--2 of the Four Corners states Utah & Arizona |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | BIG BODIES OF WATER $200: Approximately 60 million square miles: this largest ocean the Pacific |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | BIG BODIES OF WATER $400: More than 950,000 square miles: this sea that touches Africa & Asia, among others the Mediterranean |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | BIG BODIES OF WATER $600: 5.4 million square miles: this ocean that touches the U.S., Canada & Russia, among others the Arctic |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | BIG BODIES OF WATER $800: About 378,000 square miles: also called the East Sea, it borders Sakhalin Island the Sea of Japan |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | BIG BODIES OF WATER $1,200 (Daily Double): Around 900,000 square miles: this sea that touches North America & Asia the Bering Sea |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The coastline of the state of Western Australia is mainly on this ocean the Indian |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: From the Sea of Galilee, the Jordan River flows into this body of water that's about 300 square miles & shrinking the Dead Sea |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Kiev is on this river that rhymes with "deeper" the Dnieper |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: The Loire & the Garonne rivers flow into this large bay that's noted for its rough waves & heavy storms the Bay of Biscay |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | BODIES OF WATER $8,000 (Daily Double): This sea is fairly straight on Italy's shores, but dented by coves & islands on the Balkan side the Adriatic Sea |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | "WATER" YOU SAYING? $200: Scorpio or Pisces, for example a water sign |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | "WATER" YOU SAYING? $400: This was one of the sports Henry Winkler could do, so it's how Fonzie jumped the shark water skiing |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | "WATER" YOU SAYING? $600: Peppery salad vegetable watercress |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | "WATER" YOU SAYING? $800: Irish city famous for its crystal Waterford |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | "WATER" YOU SAYING? $1000: Type of plain in Spain from which the rain mainly drains to one main vein a watershed |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WATER $400: Major ports on this lake include Mwanza & Entebbe Victoria |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WATER $800: This strait named for an explorer who passed through it in 1520 separates mainland South America from Tierra del Fuego Island the Strait of Magellan |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WATER $1600: Term for a section of treacherous rapids on a river; the Nile's sixth one is a bit north of Khartoum cataracts |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WATER $2000: The longest river in this country, the Murray runs 1,570 miles Australia |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WATER $3,000 (Daily Double): A painting depicts this river that, in Switzerland, plummets over the Schaffhausen waterfall the Rhine |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $400: This "monstrous" Scottish lake contains an island that in the 15th century was home to a castle Loch Ness |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $800: Sri Lanka, India & Myanmar all border this bay the Bay of Bengal |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $1200: It's the gulf seen here--that's Prince Edward Island near the south end the Gulf of St. Lawrence |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $1600: Built in the 1970s, a bridge over this strait connects the Asian & European sections of Istanbul the Bosporous |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $2000: Much of Venezuela's oil has come from the basin of this lake, the country's largest Lake Maracaibo |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | CRAZY WEATHER WE'RE HAVING! $400: In early 2017 an unlikely tornado struck this southeastern state in Germany called Bayern by locals Bavaria |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | CRAZY WEATHER WE'RE HAVING! $600: A S.C. man said this experience "cooks you from the inside out like being in a microwave" & says it's happened to him 11 times being struck by lightning |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | CRAZY WEATHER WE'RE HAVING! $800: Traveling at 35 miles per hour, here's a 2000' high dust storm over this southwestern capital city in the year 2012 Phoenix |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | CRAZY WEATHER WE'RE HAVING! $1000: In 2013 there were 114-degree temps in La Rioja, the wine belt of this South American country Argentina |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BODIES OF WATER $200: The Gulf of Taranto makes up the arch in this country's "boot" Italy |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Chesapeake Bay is natural; Druid Lake & all other lakes in this state are man-made Maryland |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BODIES OF WATER $600: Seen here is a marker at Cape Agulhas at the tip of this continent Africa |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Old unfaithful! Steamboat Geyser in this national park went 50 years without a major eruption & erupted 29 times in one year Yellowstone |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: Canada's Spotted Lake is found over the border from Washington in this province British Columbia |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | RUSSIAN BODIES OF WATER $400: Unrestricted intl. commercial navigation through this sea was affirmed by a Russian-Turkish treaty in 1829 the Black Sea |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | RUSSIAN BODIES OF WATER $800: This largest Russian lake is home to the nerpa, a freshwater seal, & a 16-inch flatworm that hunts fish Lake Baikal |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | RUSSIAN BODIES OF WATER $1200: This river & the mountains with which it shares its name form a traditional border between Europe & Asia the Urals |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | RUSSIAN BODIES OF WATER $1600: Some of Russia's most important ports lie on this body of water named for another country the Gulf of Finland |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | RUSSIAN BODIES OF WATER $2000: The Tatar Strait separates the Russian mainland from this huge island that lies just north of Japan Sakhalin |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $200: More than 1,300' below sea level, the shore of this body of water is the Earth's lowest point on land the Dead Sea |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $400: The Scandinavian peninsula is separated from the rest of continental Europe by this arm of the north Atlantic the Baltic Sea |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $800: This body of water could say to the nation of Bahrain, "We've got you completely surrounded" the Persian Gulf |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $1000: Victor Hugo once penned a travel guide to this river that forms part of France's border with Germany the Rhine |
| #7902, aired 2019-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): Water for this European capital city was historically provided by the Marathon reservoir Athens |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | BODIES OF WATER $200: This term for a quintet of bodies of water in North America is also used for a group in Africa the Great Lakes |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Around 1633 Rembrandt painted the Biblical scene "Storm on the Sea of" this Galilee |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Italy is surrounded by seas of the Mediterranean, including the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Ionian Sea & this one the Adriatic Sea |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | BODIES OF WATER $1,000 (Daily Double): This misleadingly named body of water is landlocked by Russia, Kazakhstan & 3 other nations the Caspian Sea |
| #7887, aired 2018-12-18 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: The Southern or Antarctic Ocean is narrowest at the 600-mile wide Drake Passage between these 2 continents Antarctica and South America |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | BODIES OF WATER $400: This river flows some 4,000 miles to its mouth in the Atlantic on the coast of Brazil the Amazon |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | BODIES OF WATER $800: The Cayman Trench, near Cuba, is the greatest depth of this sea the Caribbean Sea |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | BODIES OF WATER $1,000 (Daily Double): 2 giant rocks called the Pillars of Hercules mark the entrance to this strait Gibraltar |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: The Irrawaddy River flows into this bay the Bay of Bengal |
| #7863, aired 2018-11-14 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: The Strait of Dover is the narrowest part of this body of water that connects the Atlantic Ocean & the North Sea the English Channel |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE WEATHER $200: Expressed as a percentage, it's all "relative" this, the water vapor in the air at any given time & temp humidity |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE WEATHER $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a weather model on the monitor.) When frigid air moves under warm air, pushing it up & producing heavy rain or snow, it forms one of these 2-word zones a cold front |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE WEATHER $600: In April 2017 the governor of this large state declared an end to the drought emergency... for now California |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE WEATHER $800: Most weather occurs in this lowest "sphere" of the Earth's atmosphere that extends up to around 12 miles the troposphere |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE WEATHER $1000: It's the term for a warm layer above a cool one when going higher in the atmosphere; the reverse is what's normal an inversion layer |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Both sides of the Dardanelles Strait are in this country Turkey |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Lake Ontario is 326' below Lake Erie, so serious water will fall at some point in this river connecting the 2 lakes the Niagara River |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: In 1974 this Idaho river seemed to scream, "Leap over me in a rocket!"; then "Nice try!" the Snake River |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: "If you ever go across the sea to Ireland", check out this bay on the west coast, immortalized in song Galway Bay |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: The creation of this lake, AKA Lake Nubia, forced the removal of many Egyptian artifacts Lake Nasser |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | THE SHAPE OF WATER $200: This Great Lake is the greatest Superior |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | THE SHAPE OF WATER $400: This river's delta covers more than 8,000 square miles the Nile |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | THE SHAPE OF WATER $600: James Bay protrudes from the lower right of this larger body Hudson Bay |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | THE SHAPE OF WATER $800: The light blue patches are shallow water & salt ponds in this Middle Eastern body of water the Dead Sea |
| #7756, aired 2018-05-07 | THE SHAPE OF WATER $1000: Images from 1977 & 2010 show the effects of water diversion on this, once the world's fourth-largest lake the Aral Sea |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | DOWN BY THE WATER $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm on board the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, just yards from the spot where Captain "Sully" Sullenberger safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on this river the Hudson |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | DOWN BY THE WATER $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm on this southeast Asian river that flows through or borders half a dozen countries & has just as many names, including Song Chau Doc the Mekong |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | DOWN BY THE WATER $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm at Mystic Seaport, the nation's leading maritime museum, located on 19 acres in this New England state Connecticut |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | DOWN BY THE WATER $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm in this Oregon city, named for the fur merchant who established a trading post here around 1811 Astoria |
| #7755, aired 2018-05-04 | DOWN BY THE WATER $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm in this Virginia city that's named for an English county; the 887-foot battleship Wisconsin is a small part of its enormous naval & harbor complex Norfolk |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BODIES OF WATER WORDS $400: The M16 has fittings to attach this close-quarters weapon a bayonet |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BODIES OF WATER WORDS $800: Don't think too long about this word meaning "to think long" ponder |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BODIES OF WATER WORDS $1200: A winter crystal, or a derogatory word for someone easily offended a snowflake |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BODIES OF WATER WORDS $1600: A secret avenue of communication in diplomacy a backchannel |
| #7722, aired 2018-03-20 | BODIES OF WATER WORDS $2000: Meaning "prudish", this hyphenated word is the right way for putting on a bodice straitlaced |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | THE WEATHER $400: Advection (common in San Francisco) & upslope are 2 main types of this visibility reducer fog |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | THE WEATHER $800: If the UVI, standing for this, is above 10, it will take only 10 minutes to get a sunburn the ultraviolet index |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | THE WEATHER $1200: One millibar, a measurement of atmospheric pressure, equals .75 millimeters of this element, Hg mercury |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | THE WEATHER $1600: From the type of plant they resemble, these ice crystals are alliteratively called this type of frost fern frost |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | THE WEATHER $2000: Around 1806 this British commander drew up a "wind force scale and weather notation" Francis Beaufort |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | STATELY BODIES OF WATER $200: It forms the Arizona-California border before emptying into the Gulf of California in Mexico the Colorado River |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | STATELY BODIES OF WATER $600: Cities located on its banks include Fort Smith & Little Rock the Arkansas River |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | STATELY BODIES OF WATER $800: Prince William Sound is a large inlet of this even larger inlet of the Pacific the Gulf of Alaska |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | STATELY BODIES OF WATER $1,000 (Daily Double): The bay of Green Bay lies at its northwestern corner Lake Michigan |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | STATELY BODIES OF WATER $1000: This river is formed by the junction of the Des Plaines & Kankakee Rivers the Illinois River |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | WEATHER IDIOMS $200: Stated otherwise, this metaphor might be "pouring down Manx & Affenpinschers" raining cats and dogs |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | WEATHER IDIOMS $400: Standing in the relative peace of the beach, you'd experience this idiom of impending turmoil the calm before the storm |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | WEATHER IDIOMS $600: A pal who supports you only when it's easiest to do so a fair-weather friend |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | WEATHER IDIOMS $800: Involving the fourth & fifth months, it suggest that enduring travails can lead to joy April showers bring May flowers |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | WEATHER IDIOMS $1000: To take attention from another; it literally happened to a guy who came up with a stage audio effect to steal one's thunder |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | BODIES OF WATER $200: This strait narrows to 8 miles between Point Marroqui, Spain & Point Cires in Morocco the Strait of Gibraltar |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Even from space, it's possible to see the mass of blue-green algae poisoning this lake with the name of a Manitoba city Lake Winnipeg |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | BODIES OF WATER $600: Castel Sant'Angelo, originally Hadrian's mausoleum, sits on this river the Tiber |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | BODIES OF WATER $800: This bay's southern boundary extends from Dondra Head in Sri Lanka to the northern tip of Sumatra the Bay of Bengal |
| #7629, aired 2017-11-09 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: This "colorful" river forms Namibia's southern border with South Africa the Orange River |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | ASIAN BODIES OF WATER $400: According to Hindu myth, this river once flowed in the heavens but was ordered to go down to Earth the Ganges |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | ASIAN BODIES OF WATER $800: Arabs call this river Nahr Al-Urdun; the Hebrew name is Ha-Yarden the Jordan (River) |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | ASIAN BODIES OF WATER $1200: This Siberian lake contains around 20% of the fresh water on the world's surface Baikal |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | ASIAN BODIES OF WATER $1600: In 2010 China gained direct access to this sea for the first time in 100 years when it leased a pier in N. Korea's Rajin port the Sea of Japan |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | ASIAN BODIES OF WATER $2000: In the southeast corner of Iraq, this main port of the country is on a waterway called the Shatt Al-Arab Basra |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | HIGH WATER $400: After floods in 1966, UNESCO made efforts to save this Italian city & its treasures, like the Biblioteca Marciana Venice |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | HIGH WATER $800: The Zuiderzee flood of 1287 killed 50,000 but also connected this then-village to the sea, & the rest is Dutch history Amsterdam |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | HIGH WATER $1200: The Mississippi flood of 1927 helped spur the mass movement of African Americans north & west, the "Great" this migration |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | HIGH WATER $1600: A dam collapse in this state led to the deadly 1889 Johnstown flood Pennsylvania |
| #7588, aired 2017-09-13 | HIGH WATER $2000: 2010-11 floods in Australia were exacerbated by this Pacific Ocean weather phenomenon with a feminine name La Niña |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | BODIES OF WATER $400: At more than 300,000 square miles, this body of water is one of the largest named for a real person Hudson's Bay |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | BODIES OF WATER $800: It rises near Moscow & flows 2,300 miles south the Volga |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: The 100-mile-wide Yucatan Channel connects the Caribbean Sea to this body of water to the northwest the Gulf of Mexico |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: A spot on this river whose name is Spanish for "arms" is remembered as the birthplace of the Texas Republic Brazos |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | BODIES OF WATER $5,000 (Daily Double): This Turkish strait that separates Europe from Asia takes its name from the ancient Greek for "cattle passage" the Bosporous |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | WEATHER $400: This type of storm includes cold, 35+ mph winds & snow reducing visibility to 1/4 mile or less for at least 3 hours a blizzard |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | WEATHER $800: The circular wind motion during this event goes clockwise in the S. Hemisphere; the Indian Ocean sees tropical ones a cyclone |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | WEATHER $1200: Erratic weather has been tied to this speedy air current in the troposphere varying from its west-east path the jetstream |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | WEATHER $1600: A Category 4 hurricane hitting a wide & shallow continental shelf can produce a 20-foot this alliterative phrase a storm surge |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | WEATHER $2000: Brazil's highest peak is 9,800-foot Pico da Neblina, Neblina being this weather condition that surrounds the summit fog |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $400: One of the USA's 4 naval shipyards is named for this Washington sound Puget |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $800: Hawaii's Lake Waiau freeze in winter, as it's located on this, the state's highest peak Mauna Kea |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1200: Islands lying within this California bay include Treasure Island & Yerba Buena San Francisco Bay |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1600: This Florida lake lies within 5 counties, including Palm Beach & Glades Lake Okeechobee |
| #7540, aired 2017-05-26 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $2000: It's not one of the Great Lakes but is Minnesota's northernmost, shared with Ontario & Manitoba Lake of the Woods |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | WATER-LOVING MAMMALS $400: This semiaquatic little guy of the genus Neovison was once almost synonymous with women's fur coats a mink |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | WATER-LOVING MAMMALS $800: It's now believed that the nerve endings in the tusk of this "unicorn of the sea" are used to find food & mating females a narwhal |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | WATER-LOVING MAMMALS $1200: The paws of this Arctic carnivore are about 12 inches wide, & the pads have small depressions that help grip the ice a polar bear |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | WATER-LOVING MAMMALS $1600: Toothless whales are also called this type, for the filtering material in their mouths baleen |
| #7497, aired 2017-03-28 | WATER-LOVING MAMMALS $2000: The prominent snout of this largest seal doesn't begin developing until sexual maturity, around 3-5 years an elephant seal |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The Yucatan Channel connects the Gulf of Mexico & this sea the Caribbean |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | BODIES OF WATER $800: The river locally called Song Sai Gon runs mainly through the south of this country Vietnam |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: This river rises in the Alps & flows through France to the Mediterranean, the most important river to do so the Rhône |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: In 1992 North Korea & South Korea proposed that this sea off their east coasts be called the East Sea the Sea of Japan |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | BODIES OF WATER $3,000 (Daily Double): The "thumb" of Michigan's "mitten" juts north into this Great Lake Lake Huron |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | STORMY WEATHER $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a video on the monitor.) In the flash-bang method, after a lightning flash, count until you hear thunder, then divide that number by 5 to find how many miles away the storm is because it takes roughly 5 seconds for this to travel 1 mile sound |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | STORMY WEATHER $800: In 2015 a Delta plane's nose cone was damaged & windshields cracked by this type of precipitation hail |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | STORMY WEATHER $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a video on the monitor.) The warm waters near the Equator are breeding grounds for hurricanes, and as the warm air rises in the storm, this area of low pressure forms the eye |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | STORMY WEATHER $1600: The "Super Outbreak of 2011" is named for more than 300 of these that struck 15 states tornadoes |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | STORMY WEATHER $2000: Rapidly swirling air over a lake can make one of these: the Itsy-Bitsy Spider knows about the word in another sense a waterspout |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | BODIES OF WATER $400: A land bridge called al Lisan separates this "corpselike" body of water into a southern basin & a northern basin the Dead Sea |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: This second-longest African river takes its name from a kingdom that once existed near its mouth the Congo River |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | BODIES OF WATER $1,500 (Daily Double): This ocean's greatest depth, about 18,000 feet, lies at around 82 degrees north latitude the Arctic Ocean |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: The Gulf of Mannar between India & this island nation is noted for its pearl banks & the sacred chank, a gastropod mollusk Sri Lanka |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: The Strait of Tiquina connects the northern & southern parts of this lake in the Andes Lake Titicaca |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | WEATHER $400: One of these can travel at a third the speed of light & heat the air in its path to more than 50,000 degrees a lightning bolt |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | WEATHER $800: This state's Kona storms are characterized by strong southerly or southwesterly winds & heavy rains Hawaii |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | WEATHER $1200: In 1919 Norwegian meteorologist Jacob Bjerknes announced the discovery of these zones where air masses meet fronts |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | WEATHER $1,600 (Daily Double): On the Beaufort scale, this 4-letter wind is stronger than a breeze but not as violent as a storm a gale |
| #7390, aired 2016-10-28 | WEATHER $2000: Developed in the 1940s, cloud seeding produces rain by saturating clouds with dry ice & this compound, AgI silver iodide |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: If this is 100% an 85-degree day can feel like it's 108 degrees humidity |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $800: 5-letter name for raindrops that freeze into ice pellets before reaching the ground sleet |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1200: A stationary one of these boundaries between air masses can stay in the same region for days a front |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1600: As its name implies, the website blitzortung.org lets users track this atmospheric phenomenon around the world lightning |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $2000: (Hi. I'm Al Roker.) A sudden onset of winds increasing by at least 18 mph; it precedes "line" to describe a line of active thunderstorms squall |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | NARROW BODIES OF WATER $400: This strait prevents the sea it connects to from becoming a shrinking salt lake the Strait of Gibraltar |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | NARROW BODIES OF WATER $600: Washington state's Hood Canal is not manmade but a natural 60-mile inlet that empties into this sound Puget Sound |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | NARROW BODIES OF WATER $1,000 (Daily Double): Of these 11 long & narrow lakes in West-Central New York, Canadice is the smallest & highest in elevation the Finger Lakes |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | NARROW BODIES OF WATER $1000: The Irbe Strait separates this country's island of Saaremaa from nearby Latvia Estonia |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $400: Ones that fell in New Mexico really were the size of golf balls hail |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $800: The media dubbed Hurricane Sandy this 10-letter name, which sounds perfect for the Avengers superstorm |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $1200: (Hi, I'm ABC meteorologist Ginger Zee.) In 2013 I was chasing storms on I‑35 & I‑44, but was shocked by the devastation that I saw in the community of Moore in this state Oklahoma |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $1600: During the 1952 "Great Smog" in this metropolis, folks in the Isle of Dogs area couldn't see their own feet London |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $2000: A rapid shift of wind velocity or direction is called "wind" this, which pilots are always on the lookout for shear |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | BODIES OF WATER $800: It's the name of a county in southeastern Washington & of the state's mightiest river Columbia |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) About 2,900 miles long, it's one of the few major rivers to cross the equator, and actually does so twice before emptying into the Atlantic the Congo |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: In 1962 the 5-mile-long Gen. Rafael Urdaneta Bridge was completed spanning the outlet of this Venezuelan lake Lake Maracaibo |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: In 1989 this Alaskan sound was the site of a massive oil spill when the Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef Prince William Sound |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | BODIES OF WATER $200: Sharing a country's name, this largest Central American lake drains into the Caribbean via the Rio San Juan Lake Nicaragua |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Iran's Bandar-e Abbas is a port on this strategic strait Hormuz |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | BODIES OF WATER $600: This gulf that borders two countries is named for the capital of one the Gulf of Riga |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | BODIES OF WATER $800: This river that flows between the Great Slave Lake & the Arctic Ocean is called the Deh Cho, or "big river", by the Dene people the Mackenzie |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: When Syria built the Tabaqah Dam on this river in 1973, it created a reservoir called Lake Assad the Euphrates |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $400: This remnant of Lake Bonneville is the second-largest lake by surface area entirely within the United States the Great Salt Lake |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $600: Wind your way through Hells Canyon while rafting on this river the Snake River |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $800: In "Take Me Home, Country Roads", John Denver sings of "West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains", this river the Shenandoah River |
| #7155, aired 2015-10-23 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1000: The Suwannee River flows from this swamp in southern Georgia, across Florida, to the Gulf of Mexico the Okefenokee |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | WEATHER $400: It forms on blades of grass in the morning because of condensation dew |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | WEATHER $800: Cape Verde-type hurricanes develop as storms off this continent & then become hurricanes before reaching the Caribbean Africa |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | WEATHER $1200: You can build your own hygrometer using a human hair; the hair lengthens as this increases humidity |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | WEATHER $1600: In a bad storm, so many people resort to this more-than-breakfast restaurant, FEMA bases an index on its operations Waffle House |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | WEATHER $2000: Drizzle often falls from this lowest type of cloud, which looks like a smooth, even sheet stratus |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | DON'T DRINK THE WATER $400: Declared biologically dead in 1957, this London river won a restoration award in 2010 the Thames |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | DON'T DRINK THE WATER $800: In 2007 Hindu holy men protested the filth in this river; a scientist said it "had turned the color of Coca-Cola" the Ganges |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | DON'T DRINK THE WATER $1200: In 2015 a rock dam was removed from this type of site in Colorado, turning the Animas River yellow & metallic a (gold) mine |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | DON'T DRINK THE WATER $1600: This big Florida lake fed by the Kissimmee River has doubled its phosphorus content over the last 50 years Lake Okeechobee |
| #7141, aired 2015-10-05 | DON'T DRINK THE WATER $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1969 Time said, "Chocolate-brown, oily... it oozes rather than flows" after this Ohio river caught fire the Cuyahoga |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | WATER SCIENCE $400: Mineral water from natural springs usually has a high level of carbonate of this chemical element calcium |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | WATER SCIENCE $800: Less steep waterfalls are called these, like a Northwest U.S. mountain range cascades |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | WATER SCIENCE $1200: The water in most hot springs is heated by this 5-letter substance magma |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | WATER SCIENCE $1600: It would cost about $2,000 to supply a family of 4 for a year with this, aka purified seawater desalinated water |
| #7120, aired 2015-07-24 | WATER SCIENCE $2000: These natural pools whose water levels rise & fall exist in lava depressions in Hawaii tide pools |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | WOODROW WILSON'S FOURTEEN POINTS $400: No. 2:
"Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside" these "waters" territorial |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | WOODROW WILSON'S FOURTEEN POINTS $800: No. 14:
The creation of "a general association of" countries that became this body in 1920 the League of Nations |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | WOODROW WILSON'S FOURTEEN POINTS $1600: No. 8:
Because of the "wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871", this hyphenated region should be returned Alsace-Lorraine |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | WOODROW WILSON'S FOURTEEN POINTS $2,000 (Daily Double): No. 7:
This Low Country should be "evacuated and restored" to full sovereignty Belgium |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | WOODROW WILSON'S FOURTEEN POINTS $2000: No. 12:
All nations should be allowed "free passage" through this strait south of the Bosporus the Dardanelles |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | "ORM"Y WEATHER $200: The body's growth & development are controlled by these chemical substances hormones |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | "ORM"Y WEATHER $400: To afflict with great bodily or mental suffering torment |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | "ORM"Y WEATHER $600: This religion originated in the U.S. but a majority of its members live outside the country the Mormons |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | "ORM"Y WEATHER $800: Trademarked countertop covering Formica |
| #7112, aired 2015-07-14 | "ORM"Y WEATHER $1000: Ancient Babylonian writing cuneiform |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $200: Under the 6th October Bridge in Cairo the Nile |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $400: Beneath the Newport pell bridge in Rhode Island (a bay) Narragansett Bay |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $600: Beneath the Arpad Bridge in Budapest the Danube |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $800: Under Blackfriars Bridge the Thames |
| #7102, aired 2015-06-30 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $1000: Beneath the Quebec Bridge the Saint Lawrence |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | MOVIES ABOUT WEATHER? $400: The heroine of this Disney movie hangs out with guys named Dopey & Sneezy Snow White |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | MOVIES ABOUT WEATHER? $800: Dustin Hoffman played a savant with autism who watches "Jeopardy!" in this film Rain Man |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | MOVIES ABOUT WEATHER? $1200: This 2009 title sounds like a very odd forecast Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | MOVIES ABOUT WEATHER? $1600: In "Some Like It Hot", this female sex symbol strums the ukulele Marilyn Monroe |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | MOVIES ABOUT WEATHER? $2000: Denzel Washington played imprisoned boxer Rubin Carter in this film with a stormy title The Hurricane |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | WATER WORLD $400: It's the controlled application of water for agricultural purposes through manmade systems irrigation |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | WATER WORLD $800: This adjective for water safe to consume is from the Latin for "drink" potable |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | WATER WORLD $1200: Any smaller river or branch that's a feeder of a larger river or stream a tributary |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | WATER WORLD $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) Using pressure & a membrane to remove particulate from seawater is called "reverse osmosis", one method of this process desalinization |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | WATER WORLD $2000: Channels called these "ways" take water around a dam when the reservoir is full spillways |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | BOTTLES OF WATER $200: This French water claims it is "elegant, sparkling and refreshing, with just a hint of zaniness" Perrier |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Naturally, this river forms the Arizona-California border the Colorado |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | BOTTLES OF WATER $400: The Alpine source of this natural spring water is touted as "a geological miracle" Evian |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | BOTTLES OF WATER $600: The "Ice Spring Water" from this NYC real estate guy must be okay as he wouldn't put his name on just anything (Donald) Trump |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | BODIES OF WATER $800: This sea named for a country & a direction is one of the world's 10 largest bodies of water the South China Sea |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | BOTTLES OF WATER $800: This brand is sourced & bottled on Viti Levu, the largest of its islands Fiji |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | BOTTLES OF WATER $1000: I'm getting a wicked sense of having already told you about this "colorful" DPS Group purified water Dejà Blue |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: This mighty river that runs along the Oregon-Washington border was once known as the Oregon River the Columbia |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Churchill, Manitoba, population 921, is one of the largest communities on this vast bay the Hudson Bay |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | BODIES OF WATER $3,000 (Daily Double): This river forms the boundary between Laos & Myanmar & a large part of the boundary between Laos & Thailand the Mekong |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The Uruguay River forms the border between Uruguay & the province of Entre Rios in this neighbor to the south & west Argentina |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | BODIES OF WATER $800: The Lomonosov Ridge in this ocean runs from Ellesmere Island to the New Siberian Islands the Arctic Ocean |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: Ports on this reef-filled sea include Brisbane, Australia & Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea the Coral Sea |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | BODIES OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): To control floods, the Venetian Republic built dikes on this, the major river of the republic the Po |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $400: The Pecos River flows through New Mexico & Texas before emptying into this big river the Rio Grande |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1200: French traders gave this lake, a gem in the state of Idaho, a name meaning "heart of the awl" Coeur d'Alene |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1600: This large man-made lake on the Utah-Arizona border was named for a noted explorer & geologist Lake Powell |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $2000: Nashville's history goes back to Fort Nashborough, built on the banks of this river in 1780 the Cumberland |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $3,200 (Daily Double): This beautiful lake in the Cascade Mountains is nearly 2,000 feet deep Crater Lake |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $200: By Feb. 2014 this city closed the Thames Barrier a record number of times, protecting it from tidal flooding London |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows time-elapse satellite imagery of a storm on the monitor.) On October 22, 2012, it began as a tropical depression over the Caribbean, Jamaica got it as a hurricane two days later & by October 29th, this superstorm had a 1,000-mile-wide diameter as it reached the eastern United States Sandy |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $600: "It's as if God is trying to tell me something, but I don't know what that is", a man said after the 6th time this happened he was struck by lightning |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows time-elapse satellite imagery of a storm on the monitor.) On November 5, 2013, with 74-plus-mile-per-hour winds, the storm called Haiyan was classified as this; winds hit 195 miles per hour by the time it reached the Philippines a typhoon |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | DANGEROUS WEATHER $1000: In 2008 120-mph winds hit the Irrawaddy Delta in this country Myanmar (formerly Burma) |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $200: The capitals of Brazzaville & Kinshasa sit across from each other on this river the Congo |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $400: As Turkey's Lake Van is this kind of lake, only one kind of fish lives in it; surprisingly, it's quite edible a salt lake (salt water accepted) |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows water on the monitor.) Two distinct colors occur in the Alaskan waters when the sea water meets melting snows from glacial valleys, which are rich with this fine, 8-letter detritus sediment |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $1000: The Maelstrom ride was in this country's pavilion at EPCOT Norway |
| #6979, aired 2015-01-08 | WORLD OF WATER $2,400 (Daily Double): Arkansas' Hot Springs average 143 degrees; presumably these Oklahoma springs are 69 degrees hotter Boiling Springs |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | WEATHER $200: From 2006 to 2013, 261 people in the United States were killed by this weather phenomenon; only 8 were golfers lightning |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | WEATHER $400: From the Middle English for "fall of dew", it's a light rain in which the water droplets are less than .5 mm in diameter drizzle |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | WEATHER $600: If there are more than 21 named Atlantic storms in one season, nos. 22 & up are named from letters of this alphabet the Greek alphabet |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | WEATHER $800: In this index, 11+ means extreme exposure & you should avoid the sun between the hours of 10:00 A.M. & 4:00 P.M. the UV index |
| #6963, aired 2014-12-17 | WEATHER $1000: Spanish for "little girl", it brings wetter, cooler conditions to the Pacific Northwest & drier conditions to the South La Niña |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | U.K. BODIES OF WATER $5 (Daily Double): British history books include the story of King John losing the crown jewels in the Wash, a shallow bay on this sea the North Sea |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | U.K. BODIES OF WATER $400: Ports on this strait include Folkestone, England & Boulogne, France the Strait of Dover |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | U.K. BODIES OF WATER $800: A great way to see Liverpool is to hop aboard a ferry & take one of the cruises offrered on this river the Mersey River |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | U.K. BODIES OF WATER $1200: Covering about 150 square miles, Lough Neagh in this U.K. country is the largest lake in the British Isles Northern Ireland |
| #6950, aired 2014-11-28 | U.K. BODIES OF WATER $2000: A sweater may be needed in Aberystwyth, Wales, which lies on this large bay; it can be cool most of the year Cardigan |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $200: Northern islands surrounded by this ocean include Franz Josef Land & Severnaya Zemlya the Arctic Ocean |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $400 (Daily Double): In 1869 Africa became completely surrounded by water with the opening of this the Suez Canal |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $600: The Laguna Madre Estuary separates this 130-mile-long island named for a Spanish priest from the South Texas coast Padre Island |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $800: This peninsula that makes up over 15% of Greece's area is separated from the Greek mainland by a canal the Peloponnesus |
| #6918, aired 2014-10-15 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $1000: More than 30 islands make up this small Arab nation surrounded by the waters of the Persian Gulf Bahrain |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | ANAGRAMMED BODIES OF WATER $200: A big lake:
Prior use Superior |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | ANAGRAMMED BODIES OF WATER $400: A sea:
RABBI CANE the Caribbean |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | ANAGRAMMED BODIES OF WATER $600: An Italian River:
COIN RUB the Rubicon |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | ANAGRAMMED BODIES OF WATER $800: A big bay:
FAN FIB Baffin |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | ANAGRAMMED BODIES OF WATER $1000: A gulf:
SPIN EAR Persian |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | WEATHER REPORT $400: humanesociety.org has a page called "Fear of" this "and Other Loud Noises" thunder |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | WEATHER REPORT $800: Santa Anas are dry ones winds |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | WEATHER REPORT $1200: In 5 letters, "unpleasantly moist & humid" muggy |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | WEATHER REPORT $1600: Jesucristo, o un episodio calido El Niño |
| #6885, aired 2014-07-18 | WEATHER REPORT $2000: Remember "The Great" one of March 1888? blizzard |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | WEATHER $400: The Harmattan is a West African trade wind that blows from this desert south to the Gulf of Guinea the Sahara |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | WEATHER $800: The Grand Banks, where the Gulf Stream meets the Labrador Current, may lead the world in this visibility-reducing condition fog |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | WEATHER $1200: In November 2013 typhoon Haiyan swept through this Asian nation, killing thousands the Phillipines |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | WEATHER $1600: A radiosonde is an instrument package used by meteorologists, usually carried into the air by one of these a balloon |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | WEATHER $2000: For pilots C&V is this, the height of the lowest cloud layer, "& visibility" ceiling |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | WRIT IN WATER $200: You Otto know this German ship was sunk 600 miles off the French coast in 1941 the Bismarck |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | WRIT IN WATER $400: The Battle of the Coral Sea saw the sinking of this carrier that shares a name with Massachusetts & Kentucky cities Lexington |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | WRIT IN WATER $600: A wind called a gregale that plagues this sea caused waves that drowned 600 in Valletta in 1555 the Mediterranean Sea |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | WRIT IN WATER $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On September 2, 31 B.C., this man's fleet was fighting the Battle of Actium against Octavian's fleet; an opening in the lines allowed his girlfriend to slip away with her ships; he followed her, & all was lost Marc Anthony |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | DOES HOLD WATER $200: This container named from the Greek for "hot" was invented in 1892 thermos |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | DOES HOLD WATER $400: When followed by "up", it can mean to enclose, like traffic in a tunnel bottle |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | DOES HOLD WATER $600: Painter David Hockney often depicted these in L.A., as in "Peter Getting Out of Nick's" swimming pool |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | DOES HOLD WATER $800: From the Latin for "vase" comes this term that refers to something that carries water or carries people over water vessel |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | DOES HOLD WATER $1000: This line of hands-free water holders to get you over the "hump" started as an IV bag in a sock CamelBak |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $400: This "serpentine" river joins the Columbia River near Pasco, Washington Snake |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $800: Critical habitats for the rare North Pacific right whale have been designated in the Gulf of Alaska & this sea the Bering Sea |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1600: Despite its 730-square-mile area, this Florida lake has an average depth of only 9 feet Lake Okeechobee |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): Oregon's Wizard Island in this volcanic lake has a cinder cone rising 760 feet above the lake Crater Lake |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $2000: In 1968 Robert McCulloch bought London Bridge & reassembled it over a strait leading into this reservoir Lake Havasu |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | WEATHER VERBS $400: To fix prices or wages at a current level, or to immobilize, as with fear freeze |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | WEATHER VERBS $800: To yell to catch a taxi driver's attention hail |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | WEATHER VERBS $1200: To sing lead for a rock band front |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | WEATHER VERBS $1600: To pour in a fine stream, like syrup over pancakes drizzle |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | WEATHER VERBS $2000: To send too much fuel to the carburetor, causing an unsuccessful ignition flood |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | CANADIAN BODIES OF WATER $400: In Canada, this river passes through Whitehorse & Dawson before flowing into Alaska on its route to the Bering Sea the Yukon |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | CANADIAN BODIES OF WATER $800: Once the chief route of European explorers & fur traders, this river's been called the "Mother of Canada" the St. Lawrence |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | CANADIAN BODIES OF WATER $1200: In October 1869 the highest tide in history, 54 feet, occurred at Burncoat Head, Nova Scotia, in this bay the Bay of Fundy |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | CANADIAN BODIES OF WATER $1600: 2,500-square-mile Smallwood Reservoir is the largest body of water in this area paired with Newfoundland Labrador |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | CANADIAN BODIES OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): About 200 miles wide at its narrowest point, the Davis Strait separates this largest Canadian island & Greenland Baffin |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | WATER GATE $200: This 3-letter word can refer to a beaver's construction or the reservoir of water it creates dam |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | WATER GATE $400: Last name of Australian director Peter that's also a term for a water barrier Weir |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | WATER GATE $600: It's a 10-letter synonym for seawall breakwater |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | WATER GATE $800: Led Zeppelin sang, "if it keeps on rainin"' this is "goin' to break" levee |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | WATER GATE $1000: In cells, the inner mitochondrial is classified as this type of membrane that doesn't permit the passage of fluids impermeable |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | CARRY "WATER" $200: This phrase has been applied to sadistic dripping & to Houdini's escape act from a water tank water torture |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | CARRY "WATER" $400: Navy SEAL training includes 5 minutes of doing this--in diving gear & a weight belt, using no hands treading water |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | CARRY "WATER" $600: A Chopin etude is named after this natural feature; hear the arpeggios "cascade" up & down the piano a waterfall |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | CARRY "WATER" $800: If you start to cry, you "turn on" these the waterworks |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | CARRY "WATER" $1000: A land ridge dividing the areas drained by 2 different river systems a watershed |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $400: This sacred river flows about 1,500 miles from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal the Ganges |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $800: The Gulf of Finland is an arm of this sea the Baltic |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $1,000 (Daily Double): In 2011 about 20% of globally traded oil left the Persian Gulf region through this strait the Strait of Hormuz |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $1600: This inlet of the Tasman Sea was named for the abundance of plants found on its shores Botany Bay |
| #6702, aired 2013-11-05 | WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE $2000: This "silvery river" is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Parana & Uruguay rivers the Río de la Plata |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | "WATER" WORKS $200: Vertical interruption in a river waterfall |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | "WATER" WORKS $400: It's an archaic word for a sluice or channel, not just an infamous D.C. complex watergate |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | "WATER" WORKS $600: Gyrating column of mist & spray familiar to itsy bitsy spiders a water spout |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | "WATER" WORKS $800: This species of nasturtium with peppery-flavored leaves is a popular salad ingredient watercress |
| #6680, aired 2013-10-04 | "WATER" WORKS $1000: Manufacturer's distinguishing impression on a sheet of paper a watermark |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | WEATHER $400: On May 3, 1999 one of these with record 318-mph winds ripped through Moore, Oklahoma a tornado |
| #6661, aired 2013-07-29 | HAVE SOME WATER $400: This man-made waterway chopped nearly 8,000 miles off a ship's trip from New York to San Francisco the Panama Canal |
| #6661, aired 2013-07-29 | HAVE SOME WATER $600 (Daily Double): The greatest width of this ocean spans about 6,200 miles befween Africa & Australia the Indian Ocean |
| #6661, aired 2013-07-29 | HAVE SOME WATER $800: The Strait of Gibraltar connects this sea with the Atlantic the Mediterranean |
| #6661, aired 2013-07-29 | HAVE SOME WATER $1200: Called the Salt Sea in the Bible, this body of water lies in a deep fault called the Ghor the Dead Sea |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | VIETNAMESE WATER PUPPETS $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) "Mua roi nuoc", the Vietnamese name for the art form, means puppets that do this on the water; of course, the music helps dance |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | VIETNAMESE WATER PUPPETS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Vietnam.) Sacred to the Vietnamese people are the dragon, symbolizing power & nobility, & the tortoise, which symbolizes these two things created by God in the beginning the Earth & Heaven |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | VIETNAMESE WATER PUPPETS $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Vietnam.) A popular scene symbolizing love & fidelity features a male & female one of these mythical birds, known in Western myth to rise from ashes a phoenix |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | VIETNAMESE WATER PUPPETS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Vietnam.) Water puppetry in Vietnam began in the Red River Delta nearly 1,000 years ago when villagers would entertain each other in these flooded rice fields a paddy |
| #6653, aired 2013-07-17 | VIETNAMESE WATER PUPPETS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Vietnam.) Carved from wood, the puppets are then waterproofed with a coating of this shiny, protective resin from a tree of the same name lacquer |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $200: Like our "Indian" one, a spell of warm, pleasant weather in October in Greece is called this "of St. Dimitrios" Summer |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: It can be a dry spell in the weather or, for a batter, going a long time without a hit a drought |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $600: A 10 on the modern Beaufort scale for this means ocean waves will have dense white streaks wind |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $800: Also a cloud surrounding a deity, it's the type of cloud that brings rain nimbus |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1,000 (Daily Double): T.S. Eliot wrote, "under the brown" one of these "of a winter dawn, a crowd flowed over London Bridge" "fog" |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Look out below; they're the group seen here in a satellite photo the Great Lakes |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | BODIES OF WATER $800: To remember the names of the world's 3 longest rivers, just say "nay", for the Nile, Amazon & this one Yangtze |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: Until it made the news in 1961, most Americans were unfamiliar with this body of water the Bay of Pigs |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: The Cyclades Islands lie in this sea Aegean Sea |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: This serene-sounding river of western Canada is named for the site of a territorial settlement between Indians Peace River |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | WATER TRANSPORTATION $200: Monroe, Louisiana took its name to honor the arrival of one of these, named for the president, up the Ouachita river a steamboat |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | WATER TRANSPORTATION $400: In February 2009 a British nuclear-armed one of these collided in the Atlantic with a French one, but everything's fine submarines |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | WATER TRANSPORTATION $600: Alexander Graham Bell gave the first airboat its name; he said "we have named her" this "and hope she will turn out to be a swan" the Ugly Duckling |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | WATER TRANSPORTATION $800: It sounds like a word for a helicopter, but it refers to an air cushion vehicle a hovercraft |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | WATER TRANSPORTATION $1000: The name of this vessel is from the Cantonese word sam, or three; they were once a very basic boat, made from three boards a sampan |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $200: Alcatraz Island San Francisco Bay |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $400: Ile de la Cite the Seine (River) |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $600: South Padre Island the Gulf of Mexico |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $800: Venice--this sea the Adriatic |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $1000: Chechen Island--this salt lake the Caspian |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | THE WEATHER & GEOGRAPHY REPORT $200: It gets hot in El Azizia, near Tripoli, in this country--hot like 124 degrees one day in 1922 Libya |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | THE WEATHER & GEOGRAPHY REPORT $400: Want variety? Over two days in 1916 the temperature in Browning, in this state, went from 44 to -56 degrees Montana |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | THE WEATHER & GEOGRAPHY REPORT $600: Raindrops won't be fallin' on your head in Arica, in this South American country; it takes 30+ years to get one inch of rain Chile |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | THE WEATHER & GEOGRAPHY REPORT $800: On April 12, 1934 Mount Washington, in this state, got quite a blow--wind clocked at 231 mph New Hampshire |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | THE WEATHER & GEOGRAPHY REPORT $1000: Better bring an umbrella to Lloro, near this South American country's Pacific coast, said to average 40 feet of rain a year Colombia |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | WEATHER SONGS $400: "Riders On The Storm" was the last song this Doors vocalist ever recorded; he died in Paris a few months later Jim Morrison |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | WEATHER SONGS $800: "The answer, my friend", is this No. 2 Peter, Paul & Mary song written by Bob Dylan "Blowin' In The Wind" |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | WEATHER SONGS $1200: John Fogerty wrote this group's protest song "Who'll Stop The Rain" Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | WEATHER SONGS $1600: In this 1963 hit Martha & the Vandellas sang, "Whenever I'm with him something inside starts to burning" "Heat Wave" |
| #6529, aired 2013-01-24 | WEATHER SONGS $2000: In 1970 Anne Murray told it to "spread your tiny wings & fly away" "Snowbird" |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES $400: In a nature poem Whittier rhymed, "The winding water's sounding rush, the long note of" this bird a thrush |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES $800: When this biblical king spares an ant hill, the Queen of Sheba realizes she knows "the secret of thy worth and wisdom" Solomon |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES $1200: In "Snow-Bound" Whittier was "content to let" this "roar in baffled rage at pane and door" the (north) wind |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES $1600: Completes the line Whittier gave Barbara Frietchie: "Shoot, if you must this old grey head, but spare your country's..." flag |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES $2000: "Thou hast nerved the Afric's hand", wrote Whittier in a poem to this abolitionist who published The Liberator Garrison |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $400: Widely considered the most beautiful bridge in D.C., the Arlington Memorial Bridge spans this river the Potomac River |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $800: This winding tributary of the Columbia River rises in a corner of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming the Snake River |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1200: On August 5, 1864 it was "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" into this bay with Admiral Farragut's flagship in the lead Mobile Bay |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $2000: The old Mormon town of St. Thomas, Nev. lies beneath this lake, & when the water is low, remnants can still be seen Lake Mead |
| #6467, aired 2012-10-30 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $3,000 (Daily Double): Pamlico Sound, the largest lagoon on the East Coast, is located on the eastern shore of this state North Carolina |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | A CITY ON THE WATER $400: Daytona Beach,
Florida the Atlantic Ocean |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | A CITY ON THE WATER $800: Easton,
Maryland Chesapeake Bay |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | A CITY ON THE WATER $1200: Montreal,
Quebec the St. Lawrence River |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | A CITY ON THE WATER $1600: Pierre,
South Dakota the Missouri River |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | A CITY ON THE WATER $3,000 (Daily Double): Shelburne,
Vermont Lake Champlain |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | WEATHER HISTORY $400: In 1869 Cleveland Abbe began predicting storms & became the first to offer daily these forecasts |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | WEATHER HISTORY $800: In the late 18th century, Antoine Lavoisier determined that air is mostly this element nitrogen |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | WEATHER HISTORY $1200: With these instruments, Blaise Pascal proved that air pressure is reduced with altitude a barometer |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | WEATHER HISTORY $2000: It was proposed in 1902 that radio waves bounce back to Earth from an electrified layer of the atmosphere later termed this the ionosphere |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | WEATHER HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1944 bombers at high altitude were speedily propelled forward--what's now called this 2-word phenomenon a jet stream |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | EXTREME WEATHER $200: In 2012 Spicewood became the first Texas community to truck in water during the most recent one of these dry spells a drought |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | EXTREME WEATHER $400: In Montreal in 1998 this was 2 inches thick on some branches, damaging 94% of trees in the Ville Emard district ice |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | EXTREME WEATHER $600: In May 2011 a 200-mph tornado devastated Joplin in this state Missouri |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | EXTREME WEATHER $800: In 1889 one of these near Johnstown, Pennsylvania burst during heavy rains; the flood killed 2,000 a dam |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | EXTREME WEATHER $1000: On Aug. 24, 1992 hurricane Andrew made landfall near Homestead in this state, causing $26 billion in damage Florida |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: To have a casual conversation is to "shoot" this the breeze |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $800: To survive a difficult situation is to "weather" this the storm |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1200: When you show somebody up or get attention that is due others, you "steal" their this their thunder |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $2000: When you're down & out, you're said to be "in" this belt of calm, light winds near the equator the doldrums |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $5,600 (Daily Double): It's the 5-word phrase associated with the logo seen here "When it rains, it pours" |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | BODIES OF WATER $200: This 315-mile-long river passes through Troy & Albany before hitting the bright lights of New York City the Hudson |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | BOTTLES OF WATER $400: This company with green bottles of mineral water asked us to "Decouvrez l'histoire de la main la plus sexy" Perrier |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | BODIES OF WATER $400: At its northern end, this "colorful" sea branches into the Gulf of Suez on the west & the Gulf of Aqaba on the east the Red |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | BODIES OF WATER $600: Originating in the Tanggula Mountains, this is known to many Chinese as "long river" ('cause it's 3,900 miles) the Yangtze |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | BOTTLES OF WATER $800: This 5-letter brand from the French Alps also offers a facial spray boasting "unique mineral balance and neutral pH" Evian |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Bonn, Germany & Strasbourg, France are cities on this river the Rhine |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: The Aleutian Islands & the Commander Islands mark this sea's southern border the Bering Sea |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | BOTTLES OF WATER $1200: Calistoga Water calls itself the original mineral water of this California valley better known for wine Napa |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | BOTTLES OF WATER $1600: In 1988 "S." this was the first Italian mineral water to be exported to France Pellegrino |
| #6265, aired 2011-12-09 | BOTTLES OF WATER $2000: Introduced in Wichita in '94 & as a national brand 3 years later, this brand from Pepsi believes its water fine Aquafina |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | DON'T GO IN THE WATER $400: On New Guinea, the pacu, seen here, which is in the same family as this South American fish, may have given up vegetarianism to be a river monster a piranha |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | DON'T GO IN THE WATER $800: It's no surprise that this fish, a relative of the puffer, is named for a prickly rodent a porcupinefish |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | DON'T GO IN THE WATER $1200: Giant isopods, which feed on the deep ocean floor, are members of this subphylum that also includes shrimp & crabs crustaceans |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | DON'T GO IN THE WATER $1600: The scary guy seen here gets this holy 8-letter name from the cowled appearance of its head a monkfish |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | DON'T GO IN THE WATER $2000: Like the type of snake it's named for, which includes moccasins, this fish has serious fangs a viperfish |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | WEATHER $400: In June 2003 a record one of these, 18.75 in. around, dropped in on Aurora, Nebraska a hailstone |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | WEATHER $800: The most destructive part of a hurricane is the "wall" surrounding this central area of the storm the eye |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | WEATHER $1600: Still a scientific mystery, the ball type of this appears as a glowing sphere & has sometimes been seen in houses lightning |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | WEATHER $2000: Invented by French scientist Lucien Vidie in 1843, this type of barometer uses a metal capsule instead of mercury an aneroid barometer |
| #6258, aired 2011-11-30 | WEATHER $7,800 (Daily Double): Meteorologist Vilhelm Bjerknes popularized this 5-letter term for the place where warm & cold air masses meet front |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | TOUGH BODIES OF WATER $400: Maori rock carvings on the cliffs of Mine Bay in this country's Lake Taupo are accessible only by boat New Zealand |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | TOUGH BODIES OF WATER $800: Half a mile long, in the 1840s it inspired an American literary classic Walden Pond |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | TOUGH BODIES OF WATER $1200: This river, Africa's third longest, rises in the Highlands of southern Guinea near its border with Sierra Leone Niger |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | TOUGH BODIES OF WATER $1600: The Amana Colonies were settled on this "stately" river in the 1850s Iowa |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | TOUGH BODIES OF WATER $2000: Finland's Aland Islands lie at the southern edge of this gulf the Gulf of Bothnia |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | WEATHER GEAR $200: In winter these are often connected by a string that runs through the sleeves of a child's coat mittens |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | WEATHER GEAR $400: This hooded, fur-lined Inuit garment can also be called an anorak a parka |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | WEATHER GEAR $600: This raincoat with a glossy name can be made of oilskin, plastic or rubber a slicker |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | WEATHER GEAR $800: Its parts include ribs, stretchers & a crook handle an umbrella |
| #6230, aired 2011-10-21 | WEATHER GEAR $1000: These sunglasses were introduced in 1929; the "Who's that behind those..." ads began in the 1960s Foster Grants |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | WATER CARRIERS $400: One of these channels, built to bring goods by water to Madras, India, took 76 years to finish an canal |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | WATER CARRIERS $1200: Martin Luther King hoped for righteousness to roll down "like a mighty" this, not quite a river a mighty stream |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | WATER CARRIERS $1600: In 1590 Sir Francis Drake built the 17-mile River Leat, one of these channels, bringing water to Plymouth, England an aqueduct |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | WATER CARRIERS $2000: In the 1950s this project opened up a 2,300-mile system of waterways the Saint Lawrence Seaway project |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | WATER CARRIERS $8,200 (Daily Double): The 62-mile Kings River flume in California wasn't built for a theme park but to float these logs |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | WEATHER, MAN $400: Despite its northern latitude, Great Britain boasts a mild climate due to this warm ocean current the Gulf Stream |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | WEATHER, MAN $800: Bring a jacket--this highest continent is also the windiest Antarctica |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | WEATHER, MAN $1200: An area of high pressure, often with good weather below, has this topographical name a ridge |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | WEATHER, MAN $2000: Ultraviolet radiation is mainly absorbed by the ozone layer in this larger layer of the Earth's atmosphere the stratosphere |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | WEATHER, MAN $3,000 (Daily Double): These sultry days of July & August take their name from their association with the rising of the star Sirius the dog days (of summer) |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The shallowest of the Great Lakes, it was the site of a U.S. naval victory in 1813 Lake Erie |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Rising on the Langres Plateau & heading for the capital, it's the second-longest river in France the Seine |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram comparing sea level & various depths on the monitor.) Starting at sea level, here is the Empire State Building & the world's tallest building, compared to the full depth of this oceanic trench the Marianas Trench |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Once the name of a country, this is still the name of a lake in East Central Africa with a depth of over 4,700 feet Tanganyika |
| #6153, aired 2011-05-18 | BODIES OF WATER $3,000 (Daily Double): The name of this South American estuary means "silver river" Río de la Plata |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $200: Under the Hernando De Soto Bridge in Memphis:
this river the Mississippi |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $400: Beneath the Bay Bridge in Maryland:
this bay the Chesapeake |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $800: Beneath the Rialto Bridge in Venice:
this busy waterway the Grand Canal |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $1,000 (Daily Double): Under the Petofi Bridge in Budapest:
this river the Danube |
| #6100, aired 2011-03-04 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $1000: Beneath the Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon:
this river the Tagus |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | THE WEATHER $400: It's the 5-letter term for the advancing edge of an air mass a front |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | THE WEATHER $800: Gulf of Mexico moisture meets dry wind from the rockies to form twisters in this dangerous U.S. "Alley" Tornado Alley |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | THE WEATHER $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains a weather map.) On a weather map, an isobar is a line that connects areas with the same barometric pressure. A line that connects areas with the same temperature is called this an isotherm |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | THE WEATHER $1600: In this temperature condition, a layer of warm air surmounts cooler air & traps pollutants near the ground an inversion |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | THE WEATHER $2000: These "equine" regions straddle the equator & are characterized by high pressure & relative calm the horse latitudes |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $200: Give yourself a hand if you know that this group of New York lakes includes Otisco, Owasco & Cayuga the Finger Lakes |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $400: The French name of this chief river of Nebraska refers to its shallowness the Platte |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $600: The Willamette river of Oregon flows northward for about 190 miles before emptying into this river the Columbia |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1000: Named for the Southern poet, Lake Sidney Lanier is a popular manmade lake in this state Georgia |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): This southern bay on the Atlantic coast is part of the largest marine park in the national park system Biscayne Bay |
| #5933, aired 2010-06-02 | WOODROW WILSON'S WAR $400: In May 1917 Wilson signed an act requiring U.S. males between the ages of 21 & 31 to do this on June 5 register with Selective Service (for the draft) |
| #5933, aired 2010-06-02 | WOODROW WILSON'S WAR $800: In one of the first major U.S. actions, this military branch's 5th & 6th regiments drove the Germans out of Belleau Wood the Marines |
| #5933, aired 2010-06-02 | WOODROW WILSON'S WAR $1200: Take a number! In 1918 Wilson proclaimed his "Four Ends", "Four Principles", "Five Particulars" & 14 of these Points |
| #5933, aired 2010-06-02 | WOODROW WILSON'S WAR $2000: Ironically, Wilson narrowly won re-election in 1916 using this 6-word campaign slogan "He kept us out of war" |
| #5933, aired 2010-06-02 | WOODROW WILSON'S WAR $3,000 (Daily Double): In March 1917 Wilson ordered the arming of U.S. merchant ships to defend them from these "wolves of the sea" U-boats |
| #5889, aired 2010-04-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WATER $400: When ailing, Hindus bathe in this, India's most sacred river; and once dead, their ashes
are scattered therein the Ganges |
| #5889, aired 2010-04-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WATER $800: Because the Jordan is at a tenth of its normal flow, the briny waters of this sea have dropped 130 feet since 1980 the Dead Sea |
| #5889, aired 2010-04-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WATER $1200: Low snowpacks & multiyear drought have reduced Lake Shasta, in this California range, to a remnant of its former self the Sierra Nevada |
| #5889, aired 2010-04-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WATER $1600: The weight of the water held in this country's Three Gorges dam tilts the earth's axis nearly an inch China |
| #5889, aired 2010-04-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WATER $2000: Thought to lead
to the underworld,
sinkholes like the one
on this peninsula
were the site
of Mayan sacrifices the Yucatan |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The Azores are found in this ocean Atlantic |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | BODIES OF WATER $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1964, activity in this arm of the South China Sea led to increased U.S. troops in Vietnam the Gulf of Tonkin |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: This strategically important channel connects the Persian Gulf & the Gulf of Oman Strait of Hormuz |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | BODIES OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): The Gulf of California is also known as the Sea of this man who reached that gulf in 1535 Cortez |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: The Loire flows into this bay that is also called the Gulf of Gascony the Bay of Biscay |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | EUROPEAN BODIES OF WATER $400: In 1826 the speed of sound in water was first calculated in this largest Alpine lake Geneva |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | EUROPEAN BODIES OF WATER $800: This river springs from 2 small streams in the Black Forest, the Breg & the Brigach Danube |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | EUROPEAN BODIES OF WATER $1200: The bonnie, bonnie banks of this largest lake in Great Britain lie just 14 miles from Glasgow Loch Lomond |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | EUROPEAN BODIES OF WATER $1,500 (Daily Double): This longest Italian river is fed by 141 tributaries the Po |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | EUROPEAN BODIES OF WATER $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Connecting the western Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean is this narrow passage of water the Straits of Gibraltar |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | LET'S TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $400: This calm circular region at the center of a hurricane can range from a few miles in diameter to more than 100 the eye |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | LET'S TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $800: This is defined as the amount of water vapor in the air the humidity |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | LET'S TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1200: The flag seen here warns boaters of this type of moderately strong wind of about 34 to 54 miles per hour gales |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | LET'S TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated weather map on the monitor.) A common weather pattern, bringing an abundance of warm, tropical moisture direct from Hawaii to the Pacific coast is popularly called this, like a 2008 comedy film the Pineapple Express |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | LET'S TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $4,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an animated weather map on the monitor.) Named for the direction from which they come, much of our weather is carried across the United States & Canada by these dominant winds, between 30 & 60 degrees latitude westerlies |
| #5767, aired 2009-10-13 | WATER TASTE-OFF $200: I appreciate the shimmer & clarity of the water called this geyser Crystal Geyser |
| #5767, aired 2009-10-13 | WATER TASTE-OFF $400: Note the clean bouquet of this brand of Artesian water from a South Pacific archipelago Fiji |
| #5767, aired 2009-10-13 | WATER TASTE-OFF $600: Pure, yet piquant--it must be this, from a spa town on Lake Geneva Evian |
| #5767, aired 2009-10-13 | WATER TASTE-OFF $800: We think you'll notice the crispness, like a cool autumn day, of this, introduced by Coca-Cola in 1999 Dasani |
| #5767, aired 2009-10-13 | WATER TASTE-OFF $1000: Nothing else has the roundness & finish of this PepsiCo product Aquafina |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | BODIES OF WATER $200: Its greatest known depth, 36,201 feet in the Mariana Trench, is the greatest depth found in any ocean the Pacific |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | BODIES IN WATER $400: This swimmer's 8 medals (6 gold) at the 2004 Olympics aren't as well remembered as the 8 he won at the 2008 games Michael Phelps |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Saginaw Bay, on the eastern coast of Michigan, is an inlet of this Great Lake Lake Huron |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | BODIES OF WATER $600: General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge, one of the world's longest, spans this Venezuelan lake Maracaibo |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | BODIES IN WATER $800: This swimmer did okay at the 1968 Olympics, winning 2 gold medals; he did better in 1972, winning 7, all record setters Mark Spitz |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | BODIES OF WATER $1,000 (Daily Double): This strait connects the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea the Hellespont (or the Dardanelles) |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: This strait connects the Sea of Marmara with the Black Sea the Bosporus |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | BODIES IN WATER $1600: This Olympian is seen here getting ready to do his thing Greg Louganis |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | BODIES IN WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): She's the first American woman to win 4 Olympic gold medals in swimming, winning 3 in 1988 & 1 in 1992 Janet Evans |
| #5711, aired 2009-06-08 | BODIES IN WATER $2000: This Olympic gold medalist traded in her swim goggles for hosting duties on "Figure It Out" & "NBA Inside Stuff" Summer Sanders |
| #5688, aired 2009-05-06 | BODIES OF WATER $400: It's the world's second-largest ocean the Atlantic |
| #5688, aired 2009-05-06 | BODIES OF WATER $800: This most sacred river of India was named for a Hindu goddess the Ganges |
| #5688, aired 2009-05-06 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a map on the monitor.) The Straits of Mackinac separate the Upper & Lower Peninsulas & connect these two Great Lakes Huron & Michigan |
| #5688, aired 2009-05-06 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Golden Sands is a resort on Bulgaria's east coast along this sea the Black Sea |
| #5688, aired 2009-05-06 | BODIES OF WATER $3,000 (Daily Double): This river carries more water than the Mississippi, Yangtze & Nile combined the Amazon |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | WEATHER $200: In Death Valley it's the heat, not this, as this averages less than 5% humidity |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | WEATHER $400: North Central China has a climate like Kansas & also gets these choking "storms" in spring dust storms |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | WEATHER $600: In the upslope type of this visibility killer, air rises enough to cool to its dew point, causing condensation fog |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | WEATHER $800 (Daily Double): Legend says after pitcher Denton Young warmed up against a fence, someone said the fence looked like this had hit it a cyclone |
| #5597, aired 2008-12-30 | WEATHER $800: The photo seen here captures a devastating 2007 one of these, also the title of a 1997 film ice storm |
| #5573, aired 2008-11-26 | THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE $200: (Kelly and Sarah of the Clue Crew hold a deflated weather balloon; Kelly reads the clue.) Weather balloons are released twice a day at the National Weather Service; they can rise up to 100,000 feet, where a decrease in this will make the 6-foot balloon expand to 20 feet in diameter air pressure |
| #5573, aired 2008-11-26 | THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE $400: (Sarah indicates a weather map on a monitor.) Colors on the screen reflect different echo intensities; steps are taken so this precipitation, balls of ice more than 1/5 inch in diameter, don't skew rain estimates hail |
| #5573, aired 2008-11-26 | THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE $600: (Sarah holds a weather balloon transmitter.) Pre-transmitters, scientists went up in weather balloons themselves; the AMS, this society, gives the Meisinger Award in memory of one killed by lightning the American Meteorological Society |
| #5573, aired 2008-11-26 | THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE $800: (Sarah indicates another monitor.) Watching Doppler the National Weather Service is fascinating--the expanding ring of blue is millions of these mammals that emerge in Texas only to tangle with a huge storm bats |
| #5573, aired 2008-11-26 | THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE $1000: (Kelly reads the clue.) Many tornadoes develop from a special kind of thunderstorm called this, with a deep rotating updraft a supercell |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | BODIES OF WATER $200: The Gulf of Taranto lies between the "heel" & the rest of the "foot" of this country Italy |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | BODIES OF WATER $400: This river's source lies in the Plateau of Langres about 18 miles northwest of Dijon the Seine |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | BODIES OF WATER $600: The Thames & Rhine are among the many rivers emptying into this sea the North Sea |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | BODIES OF WATER $800: This Asian "sea" is actually a lake that's more than 4 1/2 times larger than Lake Superior the Caspian Sea |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: Seaports on this bay include Chittagong, Bangladesh & Trincomalee, Sri Lanka the Bay of Bengal |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | BODIES OF WATER $200: Fur trader James Bridger was the first non-native to visit this saline lake the Great Salt Lake |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The Shatt Al Arab is formed by the confluence of these 2 rivers the Tigris & the Euphrates |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | BODIES OF WATER $600: A New Deal agency created in 1933 sought to provide electricity for residents of this river's valley the Tennessee |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | BODIES OF WATER $800: This triangular bay of the Atlantic is bounded on the east by France & on the south by Spain the Bay of Biscay |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: The island of Olkhon is in the center of this deep Siberian lake Lake Baikal |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | LET'S HAVE A DRINK... OF WATER $200: This independent agency of the U.S. government is concerned with providing clean drinking water to all Americans the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | LET'S HAVE A DRINK... OF WATER $400: This element provides about 89% of the weight of a water molecule oxygen |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | LET'S HAVE A DRINK... OF WATER $600: This company's bottled water comes from a spring in the Gard district in Vergeze, France Perrier |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | LET'S HAVE A DRINK... OF WATER $1000: An underground layer of rock or soil that holds groundwater; the Ogallala one lies under almost all of Nebraska an aquifer |
| #5551, aired 2008-10-27 | LET'S HAVE A DRINK... OF WATER $1,500 (Daily Double): The American Dental Association is all for this process, practiced by cities since 1945 fluoridation |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | THEY BLEW US OUT OF THE WATER $400: Marcus Agrippa's triremes proved too much for this couple's naval forces at Actium in 31 B.C. Antony & Cleopatra |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | THEY BLEW US OUT OF THE WATER $800: In 413 B.C. a Corinth/Syracuse fleet defeated this city's navy, & so left all the Greeks vulnerable Athens |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | THEY BLEW US OUT OF THE WATER $1200: At the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, a European alliance crushed this empire's navy under Ali Pasha the Ottoman Empire |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | THEY BLEW US OUT OF THE WATER $1600: In the Battle of Lissa in 1866, it was the Austrians vs. the Italians in the largest ever battle of these metallic rammers ironclads |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | THEY BLEW US OUT OF THE WATER $2000: Admiral Horatio Nelson ensured his heroic status by defeating Napoleon's navy in the 1798 Battle of this river the Nile |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | TOUGH BODIES OF WATER $400: Turkey forms the southern border of this sea the Black Sea |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | TOUGH BODIES OF WATER $800: Outlaw Rob Roy used to hang out on the bonny bonny banks of this largest Scottish lake Loch Lomond |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | TOUGH BODIES OF WATER $1200: Ethiopia's Lake Tana serves as the main source of this "colorful" river the Blue Nile |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | TOUGH BODIES OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): Major gulfs extending from this sea include the Mosquito Gulf & the Gulf of Darien the Caribbean Sea |
| #5519, aired 2008-09-11 | TOUGH BODIES OF WATER $2000: This Canadian province's largest lake is Bras d'Or, a saltwater lake lying on Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | BODIES OF WATER $400: It's the sea just southeast of the Gulf of Mexico the Caribbean Sea |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | BODIES OF WATER $800: It's the only Great Lake entirely within the U.S. Lake Michigan |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: India, Bangladesh & Burma border this bay of the Indian Ocean the Bay of Bengal |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: Most of the Greek Isles are in this sea, an arm of the Mediterranean the Aegean Sea |
| #5449, aired 2008-04-24 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: This Eurasian "sea" is actually the world's largest lake the Caspian Sea |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | WATER WORKS $200: A waterfall provides only temporary safety from the Hurons for Alice & Cora in this Fenimore Cooper novel Last of the Mohicans |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | WATER WORKS $400: An old man recalls his time with the Benzini Brothers Circus in "Water for" these large beasts Elephants |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | WATER WORKS $600: Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" was inspired by his voyage up this African river the Congo |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | WATER WORKS $800: This final Joyce novel's ending leads back to its beginning, "Riverrun, past Eve and Adam's" Finnegans Wake |
| #5433, aired 2008-04-02 | WATER WORKS $1000: This author's "The Open Boat" is based on his experience surviving an 1897 shipwreck Stephen Crane |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | TOUGH BODIES OF WATER $400: St. George's Channel separates Wales from this country Ireland |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | TOUGH BODIES OF WATER $800: Bristol Bay is an arm of this sea off Alaska the Bering |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | TOUGH BODIES OF WATER $1200: Rivers that flow into this sea include the Dnieper, Dniester & Danube the Black Sea |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | TOUGH BODIES OF WATER $1600: The Uruguay River forms the border between Uruguay & Argentina & most of the border between Argentina & this country Brazil |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | TOUGH BODIES OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): This Venezuelan lake is the only one of the world's 25 largest lakes whose elevation is sea level Lake Maracaibo |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | HOW'S THE WEATHER? $400: Sept. 4, 2007 was the first time that 2 of these, Henriette & Felix, made landfall on the same day hurricanes |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | HOW'S THE WEATHER? $800: Mountain passes speed up hot, dry air, giving this U.S. state its Santa Ana winds California |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | HOW'S THE WEATHER? $1200: The forecast is cloudy with a 30% chance of these, characterized by the sudden start & stop of light rainfall showers |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | HOW'S THE WEATHER? $1600: High clouds may bring this type of damaging precipitation, especially to the "alley" for it in the Rockies hail |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | HOW'S THE WEATHER? $2000: Longer autumn nights let the ground cool, producing condensation & the "ground" type of this fog |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | BODIES OF WATER $200: Iowa's lowest point is a the junction of the Des Moines River & this river that forms Iowa's Eastern border the Mississippi River |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The Orinoco begins in Venezuela's state that's named for this other river the Amazon |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | BODIES OF WATER $600: This large African lake has several large gulfs, including Speke & Emin Pasha Lake Victoria |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Seattle, Tacoma & Olympia all stand on the banks of this body of water Puget Sound |
| #5401, aired 2008-02-18 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: This 1,450-mile-long river is joined in Utah by the Green & San Juan Rivers the Colorado River |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $200: Beneath the Tower Bridge in London:
this river the Thames |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $400: Beneath Patna's Mahatma Gandhi Bridge:
this river the Ganges |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $600: Under the Brooklyn Bridge:
this river the East River |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $800: Beneath the Tacoma Narrows Bridge:
this inlet Puget Sound |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE $1000: Under the Sunshine Skyway Bridge:
this bay Tampa Bay |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows satellite video of storm movement on two monitors at the Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA.) A tropical storm in the North Atlantic that reaches 74 miles per hour is called a hurricane; if it's here in the Northwest Pacific, it's classified as this a typhoon |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew gives us a a high level take on the weather at the Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA.) The Weather Channel uses this type of colorful satellite image to show the relative warmth of objects: colder ones are brighter while warmer objects are darker infrared |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a 3-D view of rugged terrain on the monitor at the Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA.) In 2006, the Weather Channel program "Beyond the Forecast" detailed the search for 3 climbers & how weather hindered rescue efforts on this Oregon mountain Mt. Hood |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $2,000 (Daily Double): (Cheryl of the Clue Crew rains supreme at the Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA.) Showing the density & motion of clouds, this type of radar named for an Austrian scientist can predict the formation of a tornado Doppler |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew is back on the map at the Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA.) Fronts are boundaries where different air masses meet; alternating red & blue lines depict this type of front with little or no movement a stationary front |
| #5306, aired 2007-10-08 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Although it was discovered in 1610, this Canadian bay's west coast wasn't mapped until about 210 years later Hudson Bay |
| #5306, aired 2007-10-08 | BODIES OF WATER $800: This British river that flows through London is also known as the Isis as it flows through Oxford the Thames |
| #5306, aired 2007-10-08 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: Tidal ranges in this ocean vary from 38 feet to 2 feet just south of Perth, Western Australia the Indian Ocean |
| #5306, aired 2007-10-08 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: This river flows about 1,150 miles from Lake Hazar in Turkey through Baghdad, on its way to the Persian Gulf the Tigris |
| #5306, aired 2007-10-08 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: This largest lake in the Swiss Alps is actually a wide spot in the Rhone River Lake Geneva |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | STORMY WEATHER $400: In March 1888 one of these blinding snowstorms struck the East Coast, creating 40-to-50-foot snowdrifts blizzard |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | STORMY WEATHER $800: On March 18, 1925 the most violent single one of these in U.S. history swept through Mo., Ill., & Ind., killing 695 tornado |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | STORMY WEATHER $1200: These, which may be described as softball-sized, begin in clouds as "embryos" to which frozen droplets adhere hailstones |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | STORMY WEATHER $1600: A single updraft or downdraft in a cloud; a severe thunderstorm may be multi- or super-it cell |
| #5304, aired 2007-10-04 | STORMY WEATHER $2000: In a 24-hour period, July 26-27, 2005, just over 37 inches of rain fell on this megacity on India's west coast Bombay/Mumbai |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $400: Admiralty Inlet & the Hood Canal are the 2 main branches of this irregular inlet in the NW corner of Washington State Puget Sound |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $800: Although only about 1.5 square miles in area, Lake Conneaut, south of Erie, is this state's largest natural lake Pennsylvania |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $1200: The Gila River joins this river near Yuma, Arizona the Colorado |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): One of the world's longest multiple-arch dams helped form this state's Grand Lake o' the Cherokees Oklahoma |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $2000: This river, which connects Lake St. Clair & Lake Erie, provides part of the border between Michigan & Ontario the Detroit River |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | BODIES OF WATER $200: Lake Nasser was formed in 1968 when the waters of this river were blocked by the Aswan High Dam the Nile River |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Banks of pearl-producing mollusks are found around Bahrain, on the Arabian shore of this gulf the Persian Gulf |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | BODIES OF WATER $600: Toyama, Wakasa & Ishikari bays are arms of this sea the Sea of Japan |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | BODIES OF WATER $800: 3 important cities on this sea include Stockholm, Gdansk & Klaipeda, Lithuania the Baltic Sea |
| #5283, aired 2007-07-25 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: This large Siberian lake is more than a mile deep at its deepest point Lake Baikal |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | I'LL BE YOUR WAITER $400: He may've won at Waterloo if he'd attacked earlier in the day, but heavy rain the night before had him wait until noon Napoleon |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | I'LL BE YOUR WAITER $800: In literature, Penelope waits on this man for 20 years, as does his dog, Argos, who keels over as he gets back Odysseus |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | I'LL BE YOUR WAITER $1200: Waiting to sail home from England, this Native American woman died in March of 1617 Pocahontas |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | I'LL BE YOUR WAITER $1,500 (Daily Double): On Nov. 4, 1605 this Brit was lying in wait to use more than 20 barrels of gunpowder on Parliament; never got the chance Guy Fawkes |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | I'LL BE YOUR WAITER $1600: In a 1952 play, 2 tramps await this title guy, who (spoiler alert!) never does show up Godot |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | SOUNDS LIKE WEATHER $200: Louis XIV's lasted 72 years a reign |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | SOUNDS LIKE WEATHER $400: In the 1880s this country promised to build a railroad for Bolivia, whose coastline it took away Chile |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | SOUNDS LIKE WEATHER $600: James Caan's character's name in "The Godfather" was Santino, but everyone called him this Sonny |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | SOUNDS LIKE WEATHER $1000: A container designed for cigars a humidor |
| #5237, aired 2007-05-22 | SOUNDS LIKE WEATHER $2,500 (Daily Double): It's the architectural term for what the guy here is looking at a frieze |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | WORLD OF WATER $400: Tugela, a set of these in South Africa, totals over 5 Washington Monuments high waterfalls |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | WORLD OF WATER $800: Power plant runoff is responsible for the water in Iceland's "Blue" one of these, seen here Blue Lagoon |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | WORLD OF WATER $1200: This type of "plain" is covered by water when a river overflows; the Ganges & Yangtze have big ones a floodplain |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | WORLD OF WATER $1600: In 1998 the water supply was threatened by mercury in Russia's huge Bratsk "holding" one of these a reservoir |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | WORLD OF WATER $2000: Sounds odd, but this type of treatment plant opened in 1992 on the Colorado to give Mexico drinkable water a desalination plant |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | BODIES OF WATER $400: About 2/3 of the water in the Nile comes from this river, not the White Nile the Blue Nile |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | BODIES OF WATER $800: At the 2 cities named Kansas City, this "stately" river meets the Kansas River Missouri |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: The Atlantic Ocean began to form during this period of the Mesozoic Era when dinosaurs roamed the Jurassic Period (the Jurassic Era accepted) |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Besh-ba-gowah Pueblo in Phoenix, AZ.) The people who built these structures in Arizona are known to us as Salado, the Spanish word for this nearby river Salt |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: The Red Sea, you see, is considered an arm of this sea the Arabian Sea |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | THE WEATHER REPORT $200: In a marine push, when ocean air replaces the existing air mass, this happens to the temperature it goes down (or gets colder) |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | THE WEATHER REPORT $400 (Daily Double): The first documented successful forecast of this was by 2 Air Force officers in 1948 in Oklahoma a tornado |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | THE WEATHER REPORT $600: It's officially called dense when it reduces visibility to 1/8 mile fog |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | THE WEATHER REPORT $800: This post-shower delight is always in the opposite side of the sky from the sun a rainbow |
| #5166, aired 2007-02-12 | BODIES OF WATER $200: Sigsbee Deep, the deepest point in this gulf, lies about 200 miles southeast of Brownsville, Texas Gulf of Mexico |
| #5166, aired 2007-02-12 | BODIES OF WATER $400: This ocean is connected to the Atlantic through the Norwegian Sea the Arctic Ocean |
| #5166, aired 2007-02-12 | BODIES OF WATER $600: The Hula Valley is not in Hawaii but occupies the course of the river north of the Sea of Galilee the Jordan River |
| #5166, aired 2007-02-12 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Quebec's Ungava Peninsula provides the eastern shore of this large bay Hudson Bay |
| #5166, aired 2007-02-12 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: The Crimean Peninsula is bordered by 2 seas: the Sea of Azov & this much bigger one the Black Sea |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | ALSO A WEATHER TERM $200: To welcome, or to order a cab hail |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | ALSO A WEATHER TERM $400: Usual noun for what appears on a TV with bad reception snow |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | ALSO A WEATHER TERM $600: Trumpets, trombones & flutes are grouped as this type of instrument winds |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | ALSO A WEATHER TERM $800: If you're "on" one, you're in high spirits; if you're "under" one, you're in disgrace a cloud |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | ALSO A WEATHER TERM $1000: If you "steal someone's" this, you've ruined the effect of a remark by anticipating it thunder |
| #5147, aired 2007-01-16 | BODIES OF WATER $400: In 1875, Sir Henry Morton Stanley circumnavigated this largest African lake Lake Victoria |
| #5147, aired 2007-01-16 | BODIES OF WATER $800: This arm of the Mediterranean separates Italy from Croatia & Albania Adriatic Sea |
| #5147, aired 2007-01-16 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: The Gulf of Finland & the Gulf of Bothnia both extend from this sea Baltic Sea |
| #5147, aired 2007-01-16 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: This Arctic sea is named for the British naval officer who devised a wind scale Beaufort Sea |
| #5147, aired 2007-01-16 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: It sounds servile, but this 11,000-square-mile Canadian lake is actually named for a tribe of Native Americans Great Slave Lake |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | BRITISH BODIES OF WATER $200: In 1875 British swimmer Matthew Webb made the first crossing of this, in 21 hours, 45 minutes the English Channel |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | BRITISH BODIES OF WATER $400: Several rivers in England are named this, including one that flows by the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Avon |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | BRITISH BODIES OF WATER $600: The ferry service across this river linking Birkenhead & Liverpool dates back to 1330 the Mersey |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | BRITISH BODIES OF WATER $800: This estuary of Scotland's Forth River extends 48 miles inland from the North Sea the Firth of Forth |
| #5109, aired 2006-11-23 | BRITISH BODIES OF WATER $1000: The Minch is a channel separating northwest Scotland & this "Outer" island group Hebrides |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | WEATHER $400: In 1983 Vostok Station on this continent had the lowest temp. ever recorded on Earth, -128.6 degrees F. Antarctica |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | BODIES OF WATER $400: From Germany, this river flows into the Netherlands, where it divides into 3 branches: the Waal, the Lek & the Ijssel the Rhine |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | WEATHER $800: The National Weather Service says some Gulf Coast areas get a second peak tornado period, in this season autumn |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Both the Neman & Vistula Rivers flow into this European sea the Baltic |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | WEATHER $1200: Barometric pressure is measured in these units abbreviated mb millibars |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | WEATHER $1600: Lightning results from movement of charged particles, usually within this 12-letter type of cloud also called a thundercloud a cumulonimbus |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: This bay off Pitcairn Island is named for the ship that was burned & sunk in its waters on January 23, 1790 Bounty Bay |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | WEATHER $2000: The Earth’s rotation causes this “effect” in which winds gradually shift direction the Coriolis effect |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: 2 straits off Newfoundland lead into this gulf: the Strait of Belle Isle & Cabot Strait the Gulf of St. Lawrence |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | BODIES OF WATER $3,000 (Daily Double): The largest lake in this South American country is a reservoir, W.J. Van Blommestein Lake Suriname |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | ASIAN BODIES OF WATER $400: Although called a sea, it's actually a large salty lake between Israel & Jordan the Dead Sea |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | ASIAN BODIES OF WATER $800: This holy river of India was named for the daughter of the Mountain God Himalaya the Ganges |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | ASIAN BODIES OF WATER $1200: The Sea of Japan splashes against this peninsula that's politically divided into North & South Korea |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | ASIAN BODIES OF WATER $1600: Leading ports on this gulf include Abadan in Iran & Al Basrah in Iraq the Persian Gulf |
| #5075, aired 2006-10-06 | ASIAN BODIES OF WATER $2000: One of the world's longest rivers, it forms the border between China's Sichuan Province & Tibet the Yangtze River |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | WEATHER WORDS $200: Traditionally, a dense one of these is compared to "pea soup" fog |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | WEATHER WORDS $400: This 6-letter word for a tornado's shape is also a kitchen utensil a funnel |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | WEATHER WORDS $600: In the loose sense, it's any weather vane, but specifically it's one with a rooster on it a weathercock |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | WEATHER WORDS $800: (Jeff Probst reports from Palau.) Luckily, Palau is outside the zone of these storms, whose name comes from a Chinese word that means "great wind" typhoon |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | WEATHER WORDS $1000: The name of this job comes from the Greek for "discussion of celestial phenomena" (stay tuned) meteorologist |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | BODIES OF WATER $400: This large lake straddles France & Switzerland; Switzerland has the largest part Lake Geneva |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | BODIES OF WATER $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Oregon.) On October 16, 1805, Lewis & Clark reached this river--the final water link to take them to the Pacific the Columbia |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | BODIES OF WATER $1,000 (Daily Double): The south arm of this sea, named for the Englishman who explored it in 1841, is an ice shelf the Ross Sea |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: This country's Lake Taal sits in the crater of an old volcano on the island of Luzon the Philippines |
| #5054, aired 2006-07-27 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: The Green River is its largest tributary; they meet up in southeastern Utah the Colorado River |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | EUROPEAN BODIES OF WATER $400: In this country, to get from Harlingen to Oost Vlieland, you've to cross the Waddenzee Holland (or the Netherlands) |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | EUROPEAN BODIES OF WATER $800: This strait off Sicily links the Tyrrhenian & Ionian Seas the Strait of Messina |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | EUROPEAN BODIES OF WATER $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the water's edge in a city in Latvia.) A Baltic cruise takes you into this gulf to visit the largest & most cosmopolitan city in the 3 Baltic states the Gulf of Riga |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | EUROPEAN BODIES OF WATER $2000: The major cities on this 1,200-mile-long Russian river are Voronezh & Rostov-on-it the Don |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | EUROPEAN BODIES OF WATER $4,000 (Daily Double): The Gironde, an estuary formed by a river confluence near Bordeaux, extends to this bay the Bay of Biscay |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | BODIES OF WATER $200: After Lake Superior, this African lake is the largest body of fresh water in the world Lake Victoria |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The Persian Gulf is an arm of the Arabian Sea, which is part of this ocean the Indian Ocean |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | BODIES OF WATER $600: In the 1770s James Cook explored this sea between Australia & New Zealand the Tasman Sea |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | BODIES OF WATER $800: This longest river in Ireland nearly divides the country in two the Shannon |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Tervasaari.) Tervasaari, just off Helsinki, sits in this arm of the Baltic Sea the Gulf of Finland |
| #4946, aired 2006-02-27 | WAITER! $200: To get us started, a serving of this dish named for an oilman: oysters topped with spinach & then baked Oysters Rockefeller |
| #4946, aired 2006-02-27 | WAITER! $400: Waiter, we'd like 2 services of this chilled cream-potato-leek soup vichyssoise |
| #4946, aired 2006-02-27 | WAITER! $600: To heat up my chilly bones, bring out a large bottle of this warmed & fermented rice drink from Japan sake |
| #4946, aired 2006-02-27 | WAITER! $800: I'm in the mood for a little Italian: how 'bout an order of anitra all'aranci, this fowl cooked in orange sauce duck |
| #4946, aired 2006-02-27 | WAITER! $1000: For dessert, bring me some of this apple-filled rolled pastry whose name is from the German for "whirlpool" strudel |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Near the equator this ocean stretches about 12,000 miles from Colombia to the Malay Peninsula the Pacific |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | BODIES OF WATER $800: The Strait of Dover is the narrowest part of this body of water the English Channel |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: The Yukon River flows northwest into Alaska before emptying into this sea the Bering Sea |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | BODIES OF WATER $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the fourth-largest of the Great Lakes & the one reaching farthest south Lake Erie |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Rising in the Valdai Hills of Russia, this is Europe's longest river the Volga |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The lake James Fenimore Cooper called Horicon is now called this, after the second British king of that name Lake George |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | BODIES OF WATER $800: Created by the Aswan High Dam, the artificial reservoir Lake Nasser is shared by these 2 countries Egypt & Sudan |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew strolls a scenic walkway by a riverbank at Gorky Park.) Famous as the setting of a book & a movie, Gorky Park lies on the right bank of this river the Moscow River |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: This lake lies behind the Parker Dam on the border of Arizona & California Lake Havasu |
| #4916, aired 2006-01-16 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a marina in Greece.) The island of Aegina is in what the Greeks call Saronikos Kolpos, or what we call the Saronic this the Saronic Gulf |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | WEATHER $200: The highest low temperature of any U.S. state is the 12 degrees F. recorded in this state on May 17, 1979 Hawaii |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | WEATHER $400: On a weather map, 3 horizontal & parallel lines indicate this weather condition fog |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | WEATHER $600: The Fujita scale that ranks the intensity of these goes from F-0 on up; an F-5 has wind speeds exceeding 261 mph a tornado |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | WEATHER $800: Sadly, in 2005 many learned this alliterative 2-word term for a rise in sea level accompanying fierce winds storm surge |
| #4914, aired 2006-01-12 | WEATHER $1000: This type of weather radar calculates the speed & direction of a weather system Doppler |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | A WHITE WATER GLOSSARY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew paddles his raft down the Snake River in Wyoming.) A Class 3 river like this part of the Snake is for intermediate rafters; the scale goes up to this number, but those I'll skip 6 |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | A WHITE WATER GLOSSARY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew paddles a raft of her own.) It's the simple 3-letter noun for a stretch of river that can be boated or a verb for trying it--here goes run |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | A WHITE WATER GLOSSARY $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew is in the raft this time.) A river's flow is measured in CFS, short for this; on the Snake, dangerous high water begins around 30,000 cubic feet per second |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | A WHITE WATER GLOSSARY $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew walks along the Snake River.) Also found on a shoe, it's the V-shaped point of entry to the rapids where the fast current of the deep waters has cleared rocks away the tongue |
| #4910, aired 2006-01-06 | A WHITE WATER GLOSSARY $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands by the Snake River.) Just like it sounds, it can be a prison guard, or a meeting of currents that may trap your craft a keeper |
| #4895, aired 2005-12-16 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Marseille & Sete are major ports of the Gulf of Lion, an arm of this sea the Mediterranean |
| #4895, aired 2005-12-16 | BODIES OF WATER $1,000 (Daily Double): Ocean tides occur in this river at Limerick, about 70 miles from its mouth at the Atlantic the Shannon |
| #4895, aired 2005-12-16 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: The General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge spans the northern outlet of this lake at the Gulf of Venezuela (Lake) Maracaibo |
| #4895, aired 2005-12-16 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: The name of this waterfall on the Brazil-Argentina border is derived from a Guarani word meaning "great water" Iguassú |
| #4895, aired 2005-12-16 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: The Kerch Strait connects this sea with a large bay to the north called the Sea of Azov the Black Sea |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | WATER WORKS $200: On July 17, 1717 Handel's "Water Music" made its fitting debut on a barge on a river in this country England |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | WATER WORKS $400: Leonard Bernstein composed the soundtrack for this 1954 Marlon Brando film that won 8 Oscars On the Waterfront |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | WATER WORKS $600: In 1961 Ferde Grofé conducted the Buffalo Phil. in the premiere performance of his suite about this waterfall Niagara Falls |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | WATER WORKS $800: Strauss composed this watery waltz around 1867 in Vienna "The Blue Danube" |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | WATER WORKS $1000: The title heroine of Anton Dvorak's 1901 opera "Rusalka" is one of these mythological water creatures a nymph |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | BODIES OF WATER $200: A cruise on this sea might include stops in St. Thomas, Puerto Rico & Martinique the Caribbean |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | BODIES OF WATER $400: The Bay of Bengal is an arm of this ocean the Indian Ocean |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | BODIES OF WATER $600: In April 1859, at Port Said, digging began on this artificial waterway the Suez Canal |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | BODIES OF WATER $800: (Sarah of the Clue crew reports from a lakefront in Chicago, IL.) Lake Michigan is larger than you think. Scientists say it's actually part of this Great Lake that it joins via the Straits of Mackinaw Lake Huron |
| #4804, aired 2005-06-23 | BODIES OF WATER $2,200 (Daily Double): The names of these two important rivers that rise in the Swiss Alps differ by just a vowel the Rhine & the Rhône |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | WEATHER WORDS & PHRASES $200: Covering 2% of the Earth's surface, they're disappearing at the rate of several acres a minute rainforests |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | WEATHER WORDS & PHRASES $400: They sound soothing to some wind chimes |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | WEATHER WORDS & PHRASES $600: Onesies are a standard gift at this type of event a baby shower |
