| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: A film about St. Francis is "Fratello sole, sorella luna"; Fratello & Sorella are brother & sister, sole & luna are these sun & moon |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Meaning "my soulmate", "mi media naranja" is literally my half this fruit for which many parts of Spain are famous oranges |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: Gyaku-Gire, the anger of one who's in the wrong, is also a Panda trading card in this world that sometimes outsells Pokémon Yu-Gi-Oh! |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Sometimes delicate, sometimes decadent, art of the period before & even after 1900 is called Fin de siècle, or end of this the century |
| #9293, aired 2025-03-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: "Not for all the butter in Småland" is the Swedish equivalent of this English phrase involving an Asian country not for all the tea in China |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | NEWISH WORDS & PHRASES $400: Pink outfits are central to this "-core" that got some pop culture heat from a 2023 flick with some real dolls Barbiecore |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | NEWISH WORDS & PHRASES $800: Involving a paper container, this phrase refers to what someone is after not selling that bad investment, now even worse a bag holder |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | NEWISH WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Meaning perfectly acceptable, this word from "Simpsons" fame made it into Merriam-Webster in 2023 cromulent |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | NEWISH WORDS & PHRASES $2000: E.H.E. is short for this type of steamy meteorological happening, all too common now with climate change an extreme heat event |
| #9264, aired 2025-02-06 | NEWISH WORDS & PHRASES $3,600 (Daily Double): This online activity of anxiously poring over the sad state of affairs was in full swing in 2024 doomscrolling |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $200: This 4-letter word that ends with 3 vowels can mean "see you later" ciao |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Also a style of pasta with sautéed vegetables, this word means "spring" in Italian primavera |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $600: Italian for "20 miles", it's the name of a town in Italy & of actor Milo, of Italian heritage ventimiglia |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Denominazione means "designation" & is the D in this 3-letter designation on good bottles of Nebbiolo DOC |
| #9263, aired 2025-02-05 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: The middle of this word for a song played between the acts of an opera sports a pair of Z's an intermezzo |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | RELIGIOUS WORDS & PHRASES $400: This word precedes many exclamations, some indecent, but also "terror" to refer to a wild child holy |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | RELIGIOUS WORDS & PHRASES $800: This Jewish dietary word is used in other contexts, like "Father O'Leary says miniskirts at mass are not..." kosher |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | RELIGIOUS WORDS & PHRASES $1200: First name of the man seen here & of his character on "The Office" Creed |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | RELIGIOUS WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Louis XIV was christened "Dieudonné", meaning this, so he really thought he was this alliterative phrase God's gift |
| #9258, aired 2025-01-29 | RELIGIOUS WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The 11th, 12th & 13th holes at Augusta National, or an area of a church for parishioners giving often fervent responses Amen Corner |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: I wanna wish you a merry Christmas--in Spanish, so I'm saying this 2-word phrase Feliz Navidad |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: This Hebrew toast means "to life!" l'chaim |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: It's a German way to say, "thank you very much" even though the second word actually means "beautiful" Danke schön |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Headed to New Orleans for Mardi Gras? Use this Cajun French phrase that means "Let the good times roll" Laissez les bons temps rouler |
| #9257, aired 2025-01-28 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: It's how an ancient Roman would tell you "Beware of dog" Cave canem |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In Chinese slang, xue ba is a studious bookworm but with more respectful overtones than this English equivalent out of Dr. Seuss nerd |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: In Yiddish a shande is this, also a TV show created by a Shonda, & a shande far di goyim is one in front of the whole world a scandal |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: At an office in the Netherlands, be prepared for the pleasant custom of vrijmibo, or group drinks at this point in the week Friday (afternoon) |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: In cycling, être en chasse-patate, "to hunt a potato", is to be lost after getting ahead of this group meaning "small ball" peloton |
| #9205, aired 2024-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: In the early 1700s the fate of Spain was decided by what its people call this word "de Sucesión Española" Guerra |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $400: French for "in the manner of", it can precede neige, Suisse or king à la |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $800: No no, my friend, quite the opposite--or in 2 French words, this au contraire |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Another term for megalomania is the French "folie de" this grandeur |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $1600: A big party thrown by the Vanderbilts at their home known as the Petit this inspired a storyline on "The Gilded Age" Chateau |
| #9187, aired 2024-10-22 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The French now use visage for "face"; an older, shorter form gave us this alternative to "regarding the matter of" vis-à-vis |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Norwegian for "sloping track", it's the sloping track seen here slalom |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This Italian diminutive word applies to works like 1890's "Robin Hood", featuring the tune "Brown October Ale" operetta |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: From the Yiddish, it can mean chicken fat or excessive sentimentality schmaltz |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: A member of the Communist power structure in Russia, it's come to mean the loyal subordinate of a political leader an apparatchik |
| #9125, aired 2024-06-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $3,000 (Daily Double): "Health" in Spanish; you're wishing someone good health when you toast them saying this word salud |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In 1967 Shigeichi Negishi was teased about his singing & wished for a backing track; soon he was among this machine's originators karaoke |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: On "M*A*S*H" Colonel Potter sometimes addressed Father Mulcahy as this, Spanish for "priest" Padre |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: It's German for "lord", not just "mister"; in an 18th century cantata, the chorus sings, "Jesu, mein..." Herr |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Several phrases use this French word for "ribbon"; before sanitaire, it means a line to prevent an epidemic from spreading cordon |
| #9124, aired 2024-06-13 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: In the KFPU ("Kung Fu Panda" Universe), Dustin Hoffman voices this role, Mandarin for "master" Shifu |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: L'ultima parola is the last word; l'ultima spiaggia is the last resort; l'ultima cena is this, found in Matthew 26 the Last Supper |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This masculine plural form of the word for "all" means all the instruments playing together tutti |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: The mafia was sometimes called this, Italian for "our thing"; for the Jewish mob, replace the first word with "kosher" Cosa Nostra |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: For hair color, it can describe Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner, or it can be an iconic series of Ferrari models a Testarossa |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: It comes before voce to mean "quietly" & before "il sole della Toscana" to mean the book "Under the Tuscan Sun" Sotto |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | RAP WORDS & PHRASES $200: An early citation for this term for jewelry goes back to a song featuring Lil Wayne bling |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | RAP WORDS & PHRASES $400: There is no need to have a dental item for doing this, a word meaning showing off; Dr. Dre rhymed it with Slauson flossin' |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | RAP WORDS & PHRASES $600: Used as an interjection in trap music, this vowelless word conveys the sound of tires screeching skrt |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | RAP WORDS & PHRASES $800: On "Otis", Jay-Z claimed to have "invented" this 4-letter term defined as bold assurance or great self-confidence swag |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | RAP WORDS & PHRASES $1,800 (Daily Double): Thug Passion, a cocktail that's one part Alizé & one part Cristal, is referenced on this rapper's 1996 album "All Eyez On Me" Tupac Shakur |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: Well, it makes sense that this directional term would refer to a right-handed person a northpaw |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $800: To take a very small amount, as of psychedelics, perhaps to boost one's mood, rather than to get high microdosing |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Similar to LOL, IJBOL is short for "I just" did this burst out laughing |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1600: The Galaxy Note, with its giant screen, was so large that it was called this blended word phablet |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This portmanteau word means a trio of romantic partners, not an open relationship a throuple |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: I sound so much more refined when I use this 8-letter French synonym for "tushy" derrière |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: If you take yoga in the U.S., many a teacher will end class with this, a respectful Sanskrit term & gesture namaste |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Swahili gives us this phrase that means "no worries" hakuna matata |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: This Arabic word is a salutation meaning "peace" salaam |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: It's Spanish for "everybody", but it literally translates to "all the world" todo el mundo |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: A marketplace or square, Rome's Navona one is famous a piazza |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: With or without "Asti", use this word to order sparkling wine spumante |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Also a holiday album by Il Volo, it's how to wish someone merry Christmas in Italian Buon Natale |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1,500 (Daily Double): It means "at a slow tempo"; Samuel Barber composed one "for Strings" adagio |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: It's the English equivalent of "a caval donato non si guarda in bocca", you ungrateful thing! don't look a gift horse in the mouth |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | NUMERICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's the basic form most taxpayers use to report income & file their return a 1040 |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | NUMERICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: This term for a tricky no-win situation comes from the title of a 1961 novel catch-22 |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | NUMERICAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: During the disco era in New York City, for the short time it was open from 1977 to 1980, this was the place to be Studio 54 |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | NUMERICAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: On "Get Smart", Don Adams was Agent this; it also means to get rid of someone or something 86 |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | NUMERICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: In Buddhism nirvana is said to be attained by following the noble this path the Eightfold Path |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: Originally a jar, this idiom referring to complicating issues is named for the wife of Epimetheus Pandora's box |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Athena appears to Telemachus in the guise of this man, whose name later came to refer to any advisor Mentor |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: If you constantly predict doom & gloom, you may be labeled with this name of a daughter of Priam Cassandra |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: The Oracle of Delphi alluded to rocks when she told a treasure seeker to be diligent with this 4-word phrase still heard today leave no stone unturned |
| #14, aired 2023-05-17 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: One can be between a rock & a hard place or similarly, between this pair of foes faced by Odysseus Charybdis & Scylla |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: If you please, it's German for "please" bitte |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: In English slang this German word is added after a skill or a topic to indicate someone with expertise Meister |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This German goodbye was part of the kiss-off to departing contestants on "Project Runway" Auf Wiedersehen |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Literally "world pain", it means weariness caused by the state of the world Weltschmerz |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: It's German for "pleasant & cozy", like the atmosphere in a good beer hall gemütlich |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Meaning "before the war", it commonly refers to the period before the American Civil War Antebellum |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $800: It's used when something is repeated "to the point of sickness" ad nauseam |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Legally, someone who is this phrase meaning "not of sound mind" may not be responsible for his or her actions non compos mentis |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Meaning "course of one's life", it's more extensive than a resumé & emphasizes academic achievements a curriculum vitae |
| #8844, aired 2023-04-06 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: While he popularized the concept, John Locke didn't actually use this term for the idea that the mind is a blank slate at birth tabula rasa |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: When Don Quixote says, "He owes you nothing", he uses this as the last word nada |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Coup de foudre, literally "stroke of lightning", is the French equivalent of this 4-word phrase for instantaneous romance love at first sight |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Italian for what you say when squeezing past someone in a theater, it rhymes with "juicy" scusi |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: It comes before "Ukraini" to mean "glory to Ukraine"; it's also a common nickname Slava |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $4,000 (Daily Double): An Architectural Digest headline said this term "dictated the layout of" a "light-filled residence in Beijing" feng shui |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: In Spanish this is properly dinero, but is also called plata, pasta & many other things money |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Sacré Dieu!, "holy God!", evolved into this more familiar & colorful expression sacrebleu |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: Oddly, in Italian you can wish someone luck with "in bocca al lupo", "in the mouth of" this fierce animal a wolf |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: A reporter from the U.S. encounters the crime syndicate known by this Japanese name in TV's "Tokyo Vice" yakuza |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This word for a coup is used of the unsuccessful Kapp & Beer Hall ones in 1920s Germany a putsch |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: One of these entertainers, Japanese for "art person", worked in an ochaya, a tea house a geisha |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This Swedish word that means "bread & butter table" can include sliced meats & cheeses smörgåsbord |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This name of a sauce brand is Italian for "you're welcome" Prego |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The name of this prayer stool is French for "pray God" a prie-dieu |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $6,000 (Daily Double): A criminal who is caught red-handed is caught this way, "while the crime is blazing" in flagrante delicto |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $200: To speak plainly, not mince words, is no tener pelos en la lengua, literally to not have hair here on your tongue |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $400: The boss, the head guy; it's what a Kansas City Chief player becomes in Spanish media jefe |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $600: The title of a 2020 bilingual Black Eyed Peas song, it means an attractive woman, whether she's a mother or not "Mamacita" |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $800: This versatile & filling food is as common in El Salvador as the taco is elsewhere pupusas |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Mexican women have held marches against this Hispanic culture of masculinity machismo |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | WORDS & PHRASES: IMMEDIATELY! $200: Military-speak for getting somewhere extra fast, "on the" this sounds like a pace twice as fast as normal for civilians the double |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | WORDS & PHRASES: IMMEDIATELY! $400: This French phrase that translates to "immediately" sounds like a noise you'd make in a fancy hotel room tout de suite |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | WORDS & PHRASES: IMMEDIATELY! $600: It's this phrase that says if something isn't done immediately, it won't ever happen; in related news, "my love won't wait" It's now or never |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | WORDS & PHRASES: IMMEDIATELY! $800: Give us this double-talk term quickly, as it means quickly & in this case, not to cut using 2 blows chop-chop |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | WORDS & PHRASES: IMMEDIATELY! $1000: As an adverb, it means without hesitation, as in "I'll get it to you" this way; as a noun, it's a long part of a closed racecourse straightaway |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $200: At a restaurant you may want the steak but not the side dishes, so you order this 3-word way a la carte |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $400: The "R" in RSVP stands for "repondez", while the last 3 letters stand for this, French for "if you please" s'il vous plait |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $600: Sorry if you're lactose intolerant, but a dairy product is repeated in this French phrase meaning "best of the best" crème de la crème |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $800: You definitely do not want to commit one of these, an error whose name means "false step" faux pas |
| #2, aired 2022-10-02 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This 4-letter word comes before "d'etat" in a governmental overthrow, or before "de grace" in a finishing blow coup |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | TOOL WORDS & PHRASES $400: You have one "to grind" when saying something for an ulterior reason an ax |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | TOOL WORDS & PHRASES $800: Familiar with the procedure? Then you know this power tool that makes holes a drill |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | TOOL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: It can mean both to sculpt & to swindle someone chisel |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | TOOL WORDS & PHRASES $1600: To twist, or slang for a prison guard a screw |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | TOOL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Alliterative phrase meaning to drive a fact into someone's consciousness to hammer home |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: Fiat lux translates to "let there be" this light |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: German for "highway", it actually does have an advisory limit of 81 mph autobahn |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: As in the song, despacito is Spanish for this adverb slowly |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Literally "good word", it's a witty remark; en français, S'il vous plait! bon mot |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This word that starts & ends with "U" means freedom in Swahili; it's one letter off from a classic TV character's name uhuru |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | PITHY WORDS & PHRASES $400: Whether good or bad, the acronym TFW stands for this, an emotional time for sure that feeling when |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | PITHY WORDS & PHRASES $800: This rhyming phrase that means going too quickly can lead to mistakes & loss haste makes waste |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | PITHY WORDS & PHRASES $1200: If fashion is your "bag", use this 5-letter designer name when you want to say something is "great" or "going well" Gucci |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | PITHY WORDS & PHRASES $1600: In the King James Version, Matthew 6:24 says, "Ye cannot serve God and" this, a term for money mammon |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | PITHY WORDS & PHRASES $2000: If something is meh, you might say this French phrase, literally "like this, like that" comme ci, comme ça |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's the term for the number written below the line in a fraction; you may have heard of the "lowest common" one denominator |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORDS & PHRASES $400: Manga refers to Japanese graphic novels; this other 5-letter word is for artistic works like "Princess Mononoke" anime |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORDS & PHRASES $800: This type of drug has a psychological effect, not directly physiological, & a name from Latin meaning "I shall please" placebo |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This expression, inspired by an event in the Book of Daniel, illustrated here, means "an effort is doomed to fail" the writing is on the wall |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORDS & PHRASES $2,000 (Daily Double): Something that is exactly what you would expect is this 4-word golfing phrase; it's actually 72 at Augusta national par for the course |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | REPTILIAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Putting together this pair from a fable is a way of saying it's better to go slow & steady the tortoise & the hare |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | REPTILIAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Term for rolling a 2 in craps snake eyes |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | REPTILIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: A 14th century book that said certain beasts "slay men & they eat them weeping" gave rise to this expression crocodile tears |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | REPTILIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: This icky creature in a type of bar is a would-be ladies' man a lounge lizard |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | REPTILIAN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Jesus calls the scribes "ye serpents, ye generation of" these venomous serpents vipers |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WORDS & PHRASES $400: 3 goals by the same scorer a hat trick |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WORDS & PHRASES $800: This biblical construction seen here had come to mean "a hubbub" the Tower of Babel |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WORDS & PHRASES $1200: 3 parts of a gun are in this phrase meaning "the whole shebang" lock, stock and barrel |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WORDS & PHRASES $1600: A 150th anniversary sesquicentennial |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Severe scolding named for a Macedonian king a philippic |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: This German exclamation means "health" gesundheit |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: I have found it, it being this Greek word that means "I have found it!" eureka |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: French for "good journey", it's what you wish someone before they set off on a trip bon voyage |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This Spanish phrase literally means "until the view" & is used to mean "see you later" hasta la vista |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Let's give thanks in Japanese, this word arigato |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | NAUTICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: A ship getting a "clean bill of" this on leaving a port meant it was deemed free of infectious diseases health |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | NAUTICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: "All" these body parts means the entire crew & if it's a meeting, everyone is expected to come hands |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | NAUTICAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: The right of "hot" this allows a nation to chase a boat from its own waters into the high seas pursuit |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | NAUTICAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: This term for a leader without power comes from a part of a ship a figurehead |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | NAUTICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This 3-word phrase for a quick exit implies you sliced off your anchor rope to get away cut and run |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | SKILLFUL WORDS & PHRASES $400: The NAGC is the National Association for these children, which means they're smart, not that they got a lot of Christmas presents gifted |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | SKILLFUL WORDS & PHRASES $800: This word for a skillful veteran can also mean well-flavored with paprika or cumin seasoned |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | SKILLFUL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: There are 2 consecutive "V"s in the middle of this word that describes your shrewdness savvy |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | SKILLFUL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Latin for "easy" gives us this 6-letter adjective for a display of smooth skill facile |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | SKILLFUL WORDS & PHRASES $5,000 (Daily Double): From the French for "right", you're skillful in mind or body if you're deemed it adroit |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $400: Let's get to the truth: To "de" this, meaning to expose something as false, comes from a 1923 novel by W.E. Woodward debunk |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $800: William Gibson coined this term that now refers to the Internet in his short story "Burning Chrome" cyberspace |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $1200: O. Henry called the fictional Central American country of Anchuria this 2-word entity, referring to an export a banana republic |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $1600: The first use of "ingenue" in English described this not-quite-ingenue in Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" Becky Sharp |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $2000: In "Stranger in a Strange Land", this author came up with "grok", meaning to understand someone thoroughly Robert Heinlein |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | WORDS & PHRASES $200: This Franglish phrase refers to something with 2 meanings, one of which is usually naughty a double entendre |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | WORDS & PHRASES $400: A synonym for sympathy is this fluid "of human kindness" milk |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | WORDS & PHRASES $600: Want to stimulate economic growth? Do this "to the pump" prime |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | WORDS & PHRASES $800: You find fault with everything you see when viewing with this eye that sounds yellowed jaundiced |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This adjective for a secluded existence comes from the covered walks in a monastery cloistered |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: The keffiyeh is worn by Arabs on this body part; it's believed the red-&-white check ones began as a Marxist symbol the head |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: A song of farewell to Italy's capital is titled this word, "Roma" Arrivederci |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: This Turkish word is a synonym for destiny or fate kismet |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Ballet & French give us this phrase that means "step of two" pas de deux |
| #8384, aired 2021-04-22 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Add an A to a similar English word to get this Greek word for the type of small restaurant advertised here taverna |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: If you're "throwing" this, you're not giving someone protection from the Sun--you're dissing them shade |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $800: A slang term for sharing gossip is to "spill" this beverage--perhaps oolong? tea |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This 4-letter verb that means show off a muscle is now used to show off anything you're proud of flex |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: If you seem smug, you look like "the cat that ate" this bird a canary |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: To make a big deal out of something minor is to make a mountain out of this a molehill |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Exhibiting fake sorrow is this reptilian phrase crocodile tears |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $2,000 (Daily Double): It's an umbrella-shaped mushroom a toadstool |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This object that the Israelites worshipped at Mount Sinai now signifies crass materialism the Golden Calf |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | WORDS & PHRASES $400: Back in 1937 a magazine complained about the cliche "Working hard or..." this phrase hardly working |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | WORDS & PHRASES $800: Before it meant a type of research institution, this 2-word phrase was slang for the brain think tank |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | WORDS & PHRASES $1200: The book "The Cheaper the Crook, the Gaudier the Patter" says "That's all she wrote" refers to these breakup letters Dear John letters |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Originally an adjective for a plant that blooms early, now it more often describes a child who matures early precocious |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This word for the female branch of the family originally referred to the rod that flax was wound around distaff |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: A Latin word for "grace" or "favor", it means free of charge gratis |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: An Italian grandmother gives this command when it's time to eat mangia |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Excessive sentimentality or chicken fat--this Yiddish word means both schmaltz |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Instead of calm or nonchalance, try this French phrase that means cold blood sang froid |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $8,000 (Daily Double): Borrowed from German, this 5-letter word means an intense but nonspecific anxiety angst |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | WORDS & PHRASES $800: The Semitic word abaq, meaning "sand", gave us this word for a device that did arithmetic much faster than a sand table an abacus |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | WORDS & PHRASES $1200: A delphinestrian is someone who rides this sea creature a dolphin |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The sensation of being creeped out by robots that look close to, but not exactly human, is called the "uncanny" this valley |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | WORDS & PHRASES $2,500 (Daily Double): Originally a sci-fi term for a trainee astronaut, this 2-word term now describes someone not in touch with reality a space cadet |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | WORDS & PHRASES $200: To invent a new word or phrase is to do this--makes cents to coin |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | WORDS & PHRASES $400: Meaning "false step" in French, it's a socially embarrassing act or remark a faux pas |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | WORDS & PHRASES $600: Term for the technical jargon of attorneys & their documents legalese |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | WORDS & PHRASES $1000: From the Latin for "announce", this means to pronounce clearly & correctly to enunciate |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | WORDS & PHRASES $1,600 (Daily Double): "He who pays the piper holds the reins" is an example of this, incorrectly fusing 2 symbolic comparisons a mixed metaphor |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | FOOD & DRINK WORDS & PHRASES $200: Something ill-suited is "not my" this 3-word phrase; I prefer English breakfast cup of tea |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | FOOD & DRINK WORDS & PHRASES $400: Tread carefully if doing this phrase for being careful not to anger someone (it can use the whole food item or just the shells) walking on eggshells |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | FOOD & DRINK WORDS & PHRASES $600: It's a circular representation of relative percentages making up a whole a pie chart |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | FOOD & DRINK WORDS & PHRASES $800: To lament a misfortune that can't be changed or corrected cry over spilled milk |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | FOOD & DRINK WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This expression means "earn a living"; in an old commercial, it was followed by "fry it up in a pan" bring home the bacon |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In 2012 the French govt. ended official use of this word for an unmarried woman, deemed sexist since there's no male equivalent mademoiselle |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: To sing "Happy Birthday", use this phrase "a ti" in Mexico, but reverse the phrase in Chile feliz cumpleaños |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: If God wills, you know this Arabic expression for "if God wills"; T.E. Lawrence was an early adopter inshallah |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: This Latin phrase for an essential item is literally "without which not" sine qua non |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: From words for "self" & "publishing", it was writing circulated in secret in the Soviet Union samizdat |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $200: Portmanteau word for a close friendship between men; the movie "I Love You, Man" portrayed one a bromance |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: This phrase comes from the color used on TV maps to show the areas Al Gore won in the 2000 presidential election blue states |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $600: Having a dish of zoodles? That's strips of this, cut to resemble pasta zucchini |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $800: This phrase refers to a statement cautioning students that class material may be disturbing or upsetting a trigger warning |
| #8090, aired 2019-11-08 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This phrase refers to the tendency to seek out information that supports your existing beliefs while avoiding facts that contradict them confirmation bias |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: In the original Italian, this coffee drink with steamed milk has "caffé" before it latte |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: The name of this craft is Japanese for "folding paper" origami |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: Oy, you're so clumsy--in fact, you're this Yiddish word for a clumsy person, from a word meaning "wooden beam" a klutz |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: The name of this mythical sea monster was released from the Norwegian language the Kraken |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: A pair of Mandarin ducks in your home are great for love luck in this harmonious Chinese living space practice feng shui |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $200: 2-word term meaning to make an unresponsive program set you free; on a Mac it's command-option-escape force quit |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: Meaning overhyped, this word suggests a grilled meat sandwich without anything inside it a nothingburger |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $600: It's a less-than-chiseled paternal physique a dad bod |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $800: Double-talk way of saying something or someone is insane or beyond understanding cray-cray |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1000: A 2018 conference on computational linguistics included 4 papers on detection of this untrue stuff you read & hear fake news |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: The parody this language "With Dick and Jane" explains words like plotz, shnorrer & ibbledick Yiddish |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: In German if it's Dienstag, it must be this Tuesday |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: 2-word French term for a young person who comes from abroad to help out a family with childcare in return for room & board an au pair |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Hygge, from this language, refers to a cozy, soothing lifestyle Danish |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: In Latin if something is happening "januis clausis", it's happening here behind closed doors |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $400: "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" is traditionally sung in this break the seventh-inning stretch |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $800: This very final 3-word phrase may come from a law requiring that bodies be buried deep so animals can't get to them six feet under |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Simultaneous entertainment under the big top gave us this expression for something full of tumult a three-ring circus |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $1600: To cheat on your spouse; it can also mean to double-cross someone two-time |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The title of a 1936 book, this 3-word nickname for the U.S. Supreme Court ceased to apply in 1981 nine old men |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | LITERARY WORDS & PHRASES $200: A paradoxical figure of speech, like "large minority" or "crash landing" an oxymoron |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | LITERARY WORDS & PHRASES $400: The reader goes gently down this free flow of narrative impressions, a phrase popularized by William James stream of consciousness |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | LITERARY WORDS & PHRASES $600: In English, the sonnet is often in this pattern, 5 metrical feet with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one iambic pentameter |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | LITERARY WORDS & PHRASES $800: Gods suspended above the stage in ancient drama gave rise to this Latin phrase for something that saves the day deus ex machina |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | LITERARY WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Often building suspense, it's the device of hinting at coming events, as when a doomed character's plant dies foreshadowing |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: Latin:
"To a sickening degree" ad nauseam |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: French:
"Pen name" nom de plume |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: German:
"Lightning war" Blitzkrieg |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Italian:
"In the style of a chapel" a capella |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Russian:
"Grandmother" babushka |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: A burden can be this simian "on your back" a monkey |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: Here's a plate of these for your next party pigs in a blanket |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: A type of bird is in this phrase for an exaggerated expression made for a selfie a duck face |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1600: (Sarah shows two yoga poses on the monitor.) To do the yoga pose upward-facing dog, the entire body is lifted up the floor & the arms are straight; the thighs stay on the floor & the arms are bent in this similar pose, named for a snake cobra |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Naturally, this '60s dance featured prancing leg movements the pony |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | MEDICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: Little Johnny, let me feel your forehead; yes, a touch of pyrexia, better known as this a fever |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | MEDICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: The Latin for "touch" gives us this adjective meaning your condition can be passed on to others contagious |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | MEDICAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: Lyssa, a goddess of madness, is another word for this disease that makes animals irrationally vicious rabies |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | MEDICAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: Trismus, or jaw stiffness, is an early sign of this other 7-letter "T" condition tetanus |
| #7782, aired 2018-06-12 | MEDICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: In this kind of immunity, enough people are immune to a disease to prevent its spread to those left vulnerable herd immunity |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Sakura is Japanese for this tree, celebrated for its blossoms in spring the cherry tree |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Literally "growing" in Italian, this music term is a gradual increase in loudness crescendo |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Hebrew for "to life" or "to your health", it's used as a toast L'chaim |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: This German word for a ghostly double of a living person is also used to mean someone who looks just like you Doppelganger |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: A criminal caught red-handed is said to be caught "in" this Latin phrase, "while the crime is blazing" in flagrante delicto |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $800: Cesar Chavez heard Latino leaders say "No se puede" & immediately his United Farm Workers had this slogan Sí, se puede |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Order camarones in a restaurant & you'll get this seafood shrimp |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $1600: It means "market" & precedes bursatil to mean "stock market" mercado |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $2000: "¿Cómo estás?" is casual; "¿cómo está" this pronoun, more formal usted |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: Mayors have declared Chicago & S.F. to be these, which won't help the feds enforce immigration law sanctuary cities |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $800: Singing this folk & summer camp tune has become a sarcastic phrase for a veneer of brotherhood & co-operation "Kumbaya" |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1200: In 2007 Nathan Rabin coined this phrase, MPDG for short, to describe Kirsten Dunst in "Elizabethtown" manic pixie dream girl |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Coined in 1970 but big in the 20-teens, "micro" this refers to casual remarks that make minority folks feel bad microaggressions |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $2000: 2 body parts are joined in this expression & gesture meaning "oh no!" facepalming |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In Norwegian this holiday greeting is god jul Merry Christmas |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Your girlfriend will be ecstatic if you send her a billet-doux or "sweet note", this alliterative item a love letter |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: If you don't take something too literally, you take it "cum grano salis", or this with a grain of salt |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Brahms' 4th symphony begins in this lively tempo "non troppo", Italian for "don't go overboard" allegro non troppo |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Once the title of the Japanese emperor, it means "honorable gate" mikado |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: NSFW for short, it's found on emails you'd maybe prefer people not send you not suitable for work |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $800: As Andy Grammer mavens know, this phrase used to only mean you were OK; now it can mean "No thanks" "I'm good" |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1200: It began in 2001 as "Nous sommes tous Americains"; now these 3 English words precede the name of any hard-hit group "we are all" |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1600: The direct opposite of transgender is this prefix "gender" cis |
| #7494, aired 2017-03-23 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This acronym precedes "Blog" in the name of Tom Goldstein's blog on the work of Breyer, Alito & their pals SCOTUS |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: The name of this strong coffee means "pressed" espresso |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: This Hebrew phrase literally means "good luck" & is often used for "congratulations" mazel tov |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: This 2-word Arabic salutation means "Peace be with you" assalamu alaikum |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: If you're learning karate or judo, you go to this type of Japanese-named school a dojo |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Similar to a parka, this jacket gets its name from Eskimos an anorak |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: This 11-letter word for a nightclub for dancing is French for "library of music records" a discotheque |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: The name of this type of collective farm is Hebrew for "gathering" or "collective" a kibbutz |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: The 2-word title of this Wayne Newton song is the German equivalent of "thank you very much" "Danke Schoen" |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: The Spanish name of these appetizers means "cover" because they were originally put on top of glasses as "lids" tapas |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Au revoir, in Russian do svidaniya |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $400: When it comes to paying, you this animal "up"; when it comes to hair, it's quite a "tail" pony |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $800: The Beastie Boys could tell you "brass" this animal refers to weather that's really cold brass monkey |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Colorful term for a misleading clue, which I hope the clue I'm reading is not a red herring |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) If a college ref makes the signal here, this equine type of illegal tackle has been called, costing the defense 15 yards & an automatic first down a horse-collar tackle |
| #7444, aired 2017-01-12 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Shakespeare gave us the line "Cry 'havoc', and let slip" these beasts the dogs of war |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $400: Hyphenated term for a contest that's really no contest one-sided |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $800: Alliterative term for a married person having an affair a two-timer |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $1600: A rare, lucky specimen of genus Trifolium a four-leaf clover |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $2000: A certain quintet gives us this slang phrase for shoplifting a five-finger discount |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $3,000 (Daily Double): The Lakers won championships in 1987 & '88, so before the next season, Pat Riley trademarked this a three-peat |
| #7410, aired 2016-11-25 | FRUITY WORDS & PHRASES $400: This type of crane has a bucketlike attachment at the top for carrying a worker a cherry picker |
| #7410, aired 2016-11-25 | FRUITY WORDS & PHRASES $800: The spot for the center of attention, or a Charlie Chaplin film the limelight |
| #7410, aired 2016-11-25 | FRUITY WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This postseason football game was first played in 1935 to attract winter tourists to Florida the Orange Bowl |
| #7410, aired 2016-11-25 | FRUITY WORDS & PHRASES $1600: The fittingly yellow vessel seen here, or the brand of sunscreen you might wear aboard a banana boat |
| #7410, aired 2016-11-25 | FRUITY WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This cluster of small iron balls packed in a canvas tube was once used as a charge for a cannon grapeshot |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $200: The most direct route is straight as this bird flies the crow |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $400: You might be "happy as" this bird whose name also means a merry, carefree adventure a lark |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $600: Something that serves as a warning to others is this bird "in a coal mine" a canary |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $800: It's the avian name for the type of compartment seen here pigeonholes |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $1000: In carpentry, it's a type of joint, leading to its other meaning of "fit together harmoniously" dovetail |
| #7256, aired 2016-03-14 | MUSICAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: This alliterative popcorn treat is also a term for something trivial fiddle faddle |
| #7256, aired 2016-03-14 | MUSICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Meaning dull, this word is composed of a vocal intonation & musical instrument humdrum |
| #7256, aired 2016-03-14 | MUSICAL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The principal story of a large building or palace is called this instrument "nobile" the piano |
| #7256, aired 2016-03-14 | MUSICAL WORDS & PHRASES $4,000 (Daily Double): We can't attest to the musical quality of this instrument, a synonym for the cornucopia the horn of plenty |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | BUGGY WORDS & PHRASES $400: This adjective means timeworn as well as destroyed by certain lepidopterans moth-eaten |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | BUGGY WORDS & PHRASES $800: This high hairstyle created a "buzz" in the 1960s a beehive |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | BUGGY WORDS & PHRASES $1200: The ball is handed off, tossed back to the quarterback, then thrown downfield in this football play the flea flicker |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | BUGGY WORDS & PHRASES $1600: A nice housewarming gift, it grows easily in baskets a spider plant |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | BUGGY WORDS & PHRASES $4,000 (Daily Double): This phrase for a flaw that spoils something good has its origin in Ecclesiastes 10:1 a fly in the ointment |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $200: Another's good fortune might make you this color "with envy" green |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Not exactly legal, not exactly illegal is this color "area" gray area |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $600: A detailed outline of a course of action; it's not just for architects a blueprint |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $800: If you're greatly pleased, you're said to be this phrase, even if no one has made you laugh by touching you tickled pink |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: If you're "born to" this color, you're of royal lineage purple |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In Yiddish a shvitz is a sauna or steam bath; to shvitz is this, what you do in those sweat |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: German for "fear", it's used as a psychological term for anxiety mixed with uncertainty Angst |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: To avoid being overheard, you speak this way in soft tones, Italian for "under voice" sotto voce |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2,000 (Daily Double): From the French for "loosening", it was a loosening of tensions between the U.S. & Soviet Union in the 1970s detente |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: It's Latin for "from the chair", referring to the seat of authority from which the pope issues infallible decrees ex cathedra |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | WORDS & PHRASES $400: Now synonymous with taking a brief break from a long period of sitting, it may date back to an 1882 baseball game the seventh-inning stretch |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | WORDS & PHRASES $800: This 3-word phrase at the end of Warner Bros. cartoons was first uttered in 1930 "That's all, folks" |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | WORDS & PHRASES $1200: A vessel holding water or feed for animals, it now also means a source of illicit income, like for politicians a trough |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | WORDS & PHRASES $1600: An exact duplicate, not a deceased Quasimodo, it was a horse switched for another to defraud bookies a dead ringer |
| #7188, aired 2015-12-09 | WORDS & PHRASES $3,000 (Daily Double): The Mead Johnson Co. introduced this bland baby cereal, now a term for trite or childish ideas pablum |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's believed that Shakespeare introduced this phrase meaning a hopeless quest a wild-goose chase |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $400: It's the field of vision from a high altitude, allowing you to see a wide area a bird's-eye view |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $600: To boast or exult over your own good fortune or the misfortune of another to crow |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $800: An absurd tale passed off as being true, it combines a bird & a bovine a cock-and-bull story |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $1000: It can be slang for a woman singer, a sweet white wine or a stool pigeon a canary |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Literally German for "lightning war", it's a sudden & overwhelming military attack Blitzkrieg |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: While some people are livin' la vida loca, others are livin' the sweet life, this in Italian la dolce vita |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: In Judaism Kaddish is a mourner's prayer; this similar-sounding prayer is recited over wine kiddush |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Literally meaning "wind" & "water", it's the Chinese system of positioning objects to create harmony feng shui |
| #7041, aired 2015-04-06 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: French for "stroke of mercy", it's a death blow, or any finishing or decisive stroke a coup de grâce |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | CATTY WORDS & PHRASES $200: This narrow elevated pathway can be on the side of a bridge or above a theater stage a catwalk |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | CATTY WORDS & PHRASES $400: A sullen person both has & is this, literally a "tart face" a sourpuss |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | CATTY WORDS & PHRASES $600: It's a pool of money to which several have contributed for a specific purpose a kitty |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | CATTY WORDS & PHRASES $800: Seen here is a double-feline image, catkins on this small tree a pussywillow |
| #7015, aired 2015-02-27 | CATTY WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Though he was a dynamo in addition to designing one, Thomas Edison was famous for taking these during the day catnaps |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Often used as a toast, it's Spanish for "health" salud |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This Latin phrase literally means "something for something" quid pro quo |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: French for "one who lives well", it's one who probably enjoys good food & drink bon vivant |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This 2-word Greek phrase means the common people, but it has been improperly used to mean the upper crust of society hoi polloi |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $5,000 (Daily Double): It's the Italian word for "You're welcome", not "You're with child" prego |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $400: In an image found in the Book of Proverbs, a persuasive talker is said to have this colorful organ a silver tongue |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $800: Kipling wrote, "He wrapped himself in quotations--as a beggar would enfold himself in" this color "of emperors" purple |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This No. 1 country hit by Gretchen Wilson begins, "Well, I ain't never been the Barbie doll type" "Redneck Woman" |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $1600: In "She Stoops To Conquer", Oliver Goldsmith wrote of this color "Of Perfection" pink |
| #6865, aired 2014-06-20 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This eatery in Central Park was home to the park's sheep & their shepherd until the 1930s Tavern on the Green |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: One who comes back strong after adversity is said to rise from these, referring to the fabled phoenix ashes |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: From the goddess of flowers we get this term for the plants of a particular country or region flora |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: Ponsonby! My old mate from the regiment! By this 4-letter alternate name of Jupiter, it's good to see you Jove |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: The name of this handsome youth loved by Aphrodite is now a synonym for any handsome young man Adonis |
| #6854, aired 2014-06-05 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: The arch of a woman's upper lip is sometimes called Cupid's this bow |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: Popularized by a 1991 film, it's an educated but purposeless young person usually working in a dead-end job a slacker |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $800: 1-word term for a conservation-minded vacation to places having unspoiled natural resources ecotourism |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1200: People weary of appeals to give money to the needy suffer from the "compassion" or "donor" type of this fatigue |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This phrase covers edibles from carts & such, more on the sidewalk, really; there was a World Congress of it in 2013 street food |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $3,000 (Daily Double): Get in touch with this, defined by Random House as "the juvenile aspect of a person's psyche" the inner child |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $400: San Antonio mayor Julian Castro delivered this at the 2012 Democratic Convention the keynote address |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $800: A thingamajig; its usage dates back 100 years a doohickey |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This detachable men's shirt front started to become popular in the 19th century a dickey |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $1600: A tough way to get off a drug cold turkey |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $2000: If a person purchases a business that is fully equipped & ready to open, it is said to be this turnkey |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: A wee bit of drink intended to cure a hangover is called this hair of the dog |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: If you get this predator's "share" of food, you're getting the biggest portion lion's share |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: If you mess with this formal papal document, you get the horns bull |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1600: In this type of "march", your arms are pinioned behind your back frog march |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: It makes a difference "whose" this animal "is being gored' ox |
| #6749, aired 2014-01-09 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: Gracias is Spanish for "thank you" & this phrase means "thank you very much" muchas gracias |
| #6749, aired 2014-01-09 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In Japanese tani is valley; yama is this mountain |
| #6749, aired 2014-01-09 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: In Portuguese these 2 antonyms are cedo & tarde early & late |
| #6749, aired 2014-01-09 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Afrikaaners can tell you this is Dutch for "farmer" boer |
| #6749, aired 2014-01-09 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: The ability to say or do the right thing with grace, it's French for "to know how to do" savoir-faire |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $200: In Latin, John 8:32 reads, "veritas liberabit vos", or in the King James version, this "shall make you free" the truth |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Meaning "bountiful mother", it's been used for centuries to refer to the school someone attended alma mater |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $600: Postmortem means after death; postbellum is after this war |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $800: A 1988 body-switching movie comedy, or a 2-word Latin term meaning "conversely" vice versa |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Caveat emptor is "let the buyer beware" & caveat lector is this let the reader beware |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $200: Slang for a dice throw of double ones snake eyes |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | BEATLE-Y WORDS & PHRASES $400: "I don't care too much for money, money can't" do this buy me love |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $400: This alliterative 2-word term means a haughty attitude; to become less arrogant, you've got to get off it high horse |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $600: Dipole antennas, also called these, were mostly made obsolete when TV stations began broadcasting in digital rabbit ears |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | BEATLE-Y WORDS & PHRASES $800: This "road that leads to your door will never disappear" the long and winding road |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $800: George Orwell called it, used by certain armies in military parades, "one of the most horrible sights in the world" goose-stepping |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows some clouds on the monitor.) Long, wispy cirrus clouds are sometimes referred to by this name from their resemblance to a certain equine body part mares' tails |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | BEATLE-Y WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This song includes the line "a thousand pages give or take a few, I'll be writing more in a week or two" "Paperback Writer" |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | BEATLE-Y WORDS & PHRASES $1600: "Now somewhere in the Black Mountain hills of Dakota there lived a young boy named" this Rocky Raccoon |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | BEATLE-Y WORDS & PHRASES $2000: About her, Lennon & McCartney wrote, "nothing can come between us, when it gets dark I tow your heart away" Lovely Rita |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Sayonara means this in Tokyo; hey, we just got here goodbye |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: People in Paris mainly use this word to say yes, yes, yes all the way home oui |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: If you like your potato chips salzig in Salzburg, you like them this way salty |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: "Buenas tardes" said our tour guide in Madrid; he meant this good afternoon |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Beethoven put this Italian word for a brisk tempo on 3 of the 4 movements of his Fifth Symphony allegro |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $400: You're too old for the single-piece type of underwear that Gerber trademarked under this name a onesie |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $800: "Loony" game similar to Uno in which you try to get rid of all your cards on the discard pile Crazy Eights |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Hyphenated word that describes the 2-level buses of London double-decker |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $1600: In the Old West, a gun that held half a dozen bullets went by this alliterative term a six-shooter |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Ancient Rome was once led by one of these trios whose name comes from the Latin for "three" a triumvirate |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: This Jewish drinking toast means "to life" l'chaim |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This Latin motto of the U.S. Marine Corps means "always faithful" semper fidelis |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: ABBA can thank the Italians for this phrase used to express surprise, sorrow, happiness, you name it Mamma Mia |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: In Japanese konbanwa means "good evening"; this means "good afternoon" konnichiwa |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: German word for a political union, like the one that joined Germany & Austria in 1938 Anschluss |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $200: To be embarrassed is to have this "on one's face" egg |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $400: This meat is a synonym for a performer who overacts ham |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $600: Something perfectly neat is in this dessert "order" apple pie |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $800: It means to worry or fuss; to suffer consequences of one's own actions is to do it "in one's own juices" stew |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $1000: By itself it's a southern bread; following "corn", it's also an adjective referring to folksy humor pone |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: Placed on top of a pillar, a herm is a bust of this god for whom it's named Hermes |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: An ocean sponge known for its lattice-like skeleton
is called this love goddess'
flower basket Venus |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: A Phrygian king is the source for this 2-word phrase for the talent for making wealth out of any business endeavor the Midas touch |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: A source of unforeseen troubles, it's derived from a container that held all the world's evils Pandora's box |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: A project that is, by design, never finished is called the web of this woman, Ulysses' wife Penelope |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Aha! I have found it, this Greek word that's the state motto of California Eureka |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This 2-word French term for an incorrigible child sounds a lot worse than it is enfant terrible |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Russian for "openness", it was Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of open discussion glasnost |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Come closer--if you don't want to be overheard, speak softly, this way, Italian for "in a low voice" sotto voce |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Japanese for "way of the warrior", it was the chivalric code of the samurai bushido |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $200: It means a vacation that is spent at or near home a staycation |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $400: Change 1 letter in "blog" to get this if the blog includes footage a vlog |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $600: "Pulley attached to cable" doesn't capture the sensation like this term that includes a synonym for "zero" a zip line |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $800: 10-letter word for a person who has an abnormal fear of bacterial or viral infection a germophobe |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $1000: A group of people emailed or texted to show up at a particular spot for a group performance a flash mob |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | SHAPELY WORDS & PHRASES $400: It's said that more than 50 ships & 20 planes have disappeared in this eerie region of the North Atlantic the Bermuda Triangle |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | SHAPELY WORDS & PHRASES $800: The USDA retired it in 2011 in favor of an icon called "MyPlate" to help people adopt healthy eating habits the food pyramid |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | SHAPELY WORDS & PHRASES $1200: That's Jesus Castanon aboard the victorious Shackleford in this spot at Pimlico the Winner's Circle |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | SHAPELY WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Civilizations in the Middle East & the Mediterranean basin began in the agricultural region with this 2-word nickname the Fertile Crescent |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | SHAPELY WORDS & PHRASES $6,000 (Daily Double): You get to be "mayor" if you "check in" at a certain location more than anyone else using this mobile platform Foursquare |
| #6307, aired 2012-02-07 | ANATOMICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: In Disney's "Cinderella", a dog is transformed into this liveried servant who attends the carriage a footman |
| #6307, aired 2012-02-07 | ANATOMICAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: The TSA specifically bans this item from carry on luggage; I wonder why! brass knuckles |
| #6307, aired 2012-02-07 | ANATOMICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Cannellini is an Italian white type of this legume kidney bean |
| #6307, aired 2012-02-07 | ANATOMICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1600: This painful condition of the front of the lower leg can be the result of running on a non-resilient surface shin splints |
| #6307, aired 2012-02-07 | ANATOMICAL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: There are 2 body parts in the name of this steak from between the short loin & the chuck a ribeye |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | 20th CENTURY WORDS & PHRASES $200: A scientist came up with this blended word after reading a paper on "'fog and smoke" smog |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | 20th CENTURY WORDS & PHRASES $400: This 2-word term for the idea that a computer could think like a human was coined in the 1950s artificial intelligence |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | 20th CENTURY WORDS & PHRASES $600: This word for a large self-service store that sells household goods as well as groceries hit the shelves in 1933 a supermarket |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | 20th CENTURY WORDS & PHRASES $800: This 9-letter word popped up for a place where you could enjoy a beverage or a light meal while using your computer a cybercafe |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | 20th CENTURY WORDS & PHRASES $1000: It follows "sex" to mean a certain urge; once the computer age hit, it also followed "hard" drive |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: Said before a toast & after a sneeze, it means health in German Gesundheit |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Someone who takes the opposite side of an argument for argument's sake is "advocatus diaboli", or this Devil's advocate |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: While nom de plume is a pen name, this phrase, "war name", is simply any pseudonym nom de guerre |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Italian for "the sweet life", it was popularized by a 1960 Fellini film la dolce vita |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This Greek word is also used in English & means a cleansing of the emotions, especially pity & fear catharsis |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $200: The name of this search engine launched in 1998 has become a verb meaning "to search on the Internet" Google |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | NUDE WORDS & PHRASES $400: A 1997 film about guys who take it all off popularized this phrase, its title the full monty |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $400: This hyphenated term refers to the arrangement of remaining hairs to cover a bald spot & the method of doing so comb-over |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $600: Merriam-Webster gives 1988 as the date this masculine word evolved from "bimbo", 1 letter different himbo |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | NUDE WORDS & PHRASES $800: This 5-letter synonym for bare or plain is often found before "naked" to mean totally nude stark |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $800: There's a questioning sound to this collective term for people born in the 1980s & '90s Generation Y |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Breathe easier with this 4-letter acronym for a filter that removes even the tiniest airborne particles HEPA |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | NUDE WORDS & PHRASES $1200: If you went swimming "in the" this word, it doesn't mean in undyed leather, as it might imply buff |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | NUDE WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Those naughty French gave us dishabille, meaning only partly clothed, & "au" this, meaning unclothed naturel |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | NUDE WORDS & PHRASES $2000: A naked person is undressed; a naked statue is this, starting with the same 4 letters as "undressed" undraped |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: This Latin phrase means "unborn" or "within the womb" in utero |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: The name of this heavy blade is Spanish, probably from a word meaning "a large hammer" a machete |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This serene physical & mental discipline is Sanskrit for "union" yoga |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: This brass wind instrument comes in part from the German for "wing" flugelhorn |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This 2-word term was first used for a French & Italian pidgin developed by crusaders & traders lingua franca |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: This, a collective settlement, usually agricultural, is from the modern Hebrew for "gathering" kibbutz |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: This 5-letter Latin word meaning "about" or "around" is used of approximate dates circa |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: Arabic gives us the names of both a plant & this bath sponge made from that plant a loofah |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This Italian term describes music that has no instrumental accompaniment a cappella |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: German for "shape" gives us this name of a school of psychology Gestalt |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | CANINE WORDS & PHRASES $400: You can follow the fairway or hit over the rough on this type of golf hole that has an angle in it a dogleg |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | CANINE WORDS & PHRASES $800: They're seen here dog tags |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | CANINE WORDS & PHRASES $1200: On "Cheers" Norm once said it's this type of "world and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear" a dog-eat-dog |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | CANINE WORDS & PHRASES $1600: This canine cliche means you should avoid disturbing a calm situation Let sleeping dogs lie |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | CANINE WORDS & PHRASES $2000: In 2011, Orrin Hatch used a picture to indicate he felt a Senate hearing had become this a dog and pony show |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $200: To savor the taste of, like a certain hot dog topping relish |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $400: To thwart someone's plans is "to cook" this web-footed bird his goose |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $600: This food staple is paired with circuses to mean extravagant entertainment to appease the masses bread |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $800: Joyce's "Ulysses" includes a version of this "sweet" proverb about using something up & still having it to enjoy "You can't have your cake and eat it, too" |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of recent earthquakes around the San Andreas Fault on the monitor.) A Japanese seismologist saw a possible circular earthquake pattern that could build up to one very large quake, in the hole in what's called the Mogi this, like a bakery treat a doughnut |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | WORDS & PHRASES $400: The word language comes from "lingua", Latin for this body part tongue |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | WORDS & PHRASES $800: It pairs with "odds" in a 3-word term for miscellaneous items ends |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Today representing a family or country, it's the 3-word name for the emblem painted on a medieval knight's shield a coat of arms |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Heard here, this musical style that combines Caribbean & Creole influences may take its name from the French word for "beans" zydeco |
| #6089, aired 2011-02-17 | WORDS & PHRASES $5,000 (Daily Double): Meaning to be skeptical, to take something "with" this comes from an old Roman recipe for a poison antidote a grain of salt |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $400: Idiomatically, the stick is the coercion while this vegetable is the reward the carrot |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $800: 2 basic foods are joined together in this adjective for a type of pickle or for a basic need bread & butter |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $1200: A person who wears tight jeans that cause flab to spill out over the waistband is said to have this a muffin top |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This 1928 Republican campaign slogan originated with a hope that Henry IV had for French peasants "A chicken in every pot" |
| #6066, aired 2011-01-17 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $3,000 (Daily Double): California car buyers are protected by the Tanner Consumer Protection Act, known by this alliterative name the Lemon Law |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Primo can mean this, the opposite of tardi early |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: You might take due aspirina if you have un mal di capo, one of these a headache |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This neutral color is grigio gray |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Mi dispiace is this apologetic phrase "I'm sorry" |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: In Italian, this holiday is Pasqua Easter |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | TOOL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Ma'am, yes ma'am! In 2009 Teresa King became the first woman to command the army's school for these training taskmasters drill sergeants |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | TOOL WORDS & PHRASES $800: On modern looms, this measurement of cloth is 100 yards long & 45 or 60 inches wide a bolt |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | TOOL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Single word meaning to disembark from an aircraft deplane |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | TOOL WORDS & PHRASES $1600: The members of an organization aside from its leaders are this 3-word term rank and file |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | TOOL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Pacific Research Labs, aka orthopedic model maker Sawbones.) This foot shows normal anatomy; if tight shoes bend the little piggies, the result can be this condition, whose symptoms include corns, calluses & pain hammer toe |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | RUSSIAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In the U.S. we have astronauts: in Russia they're called this cosmonauts |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | RUSSIAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: If you're using a balalaika, you're trying to make beautiful this music |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | RUSSIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This 3-letter word means "peace" or "village" in Russian; the space station named for it fell to Earth in 2001 Mir |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | RUSSIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: If I consider you a tovarich, I think of you as one of these, so come closer a friend |
| #5788, aired 2009-11-11 | RUSSIAN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: It's the Soviet-era system of forced labor camps gulags |
| #5736, aired 2009-07-13 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: Someone who pretends to be your friend is this "in the grass" a snake |
| #5736, aired 2009-07-13 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Bart Simpson would try to calm people by telling them, "don't have" one of these animals a cow |
| #5736, aired 2009-07-13 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: Going back to the Bible, a minor problem that ruins something bigger is this insect "in the ointment" a fly |
| #5736, aired 2009-07-13 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: A little-known political candidate or Oscar nominee is called a "dark" this horse |
| #5736, aired 2009-07-13 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: If you meet the "loan" variety of this fish, watch your wallet a shark |
| #5720, aired 2009-06-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In Dutch this holiday greeting is "Vrolijk Kerstfeest" Merry Christmas |
| #5720, aired 2009-06-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: A clever saying or witticism, it literally means "good word" in French bon mot |
| #5720, aired 2009-06-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Italian for "the sweet life", it served as the title for a 1960 Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita |
| #5720, aired 2009-06-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: "Auto-da-fe" is associated with the Spanish Inquisition, but the phrase, which means this, is Portuguese act of faith |
| #5720, aired 2009-06-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2,500 (Daily Double): "Negus, from the Amharic for "king", was once used as a title for the emperors of this African nation Ethiopia |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $200: One dictionary defines it as "a fit of violent anger by the driver of an automobile" road rage |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: This name evokes your average blue-collar worker, toting a half-dozen beers Joe Sixpack |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $600: The HS in HSN, it's the browsing & buying of goods from cable TV or the Internet home shopping |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $800: Hey, man! Grab the tweezers! You've got one of these growing straight across your forehead unibrow |
| #5648, aired 2009-03-11 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This hyphenated term describes an athletic shoe designed for various activities like aerobics & muscle building cross-trainer |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | BRAZILIAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Unlike some, I like my women to be "cranio", this quality we also admire on "Jeopardy!" intelligence |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | BRAZILIAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Forget about him, he met someone down at Ipanema Beach & now he's "apaixonado", this condition in love |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | BRAZILIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Cousin Fred said he was Napoleon last night; I'm afraid he might be "maluco", this crazy |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | BRAZILIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: If you want another drink, hand over some "grana", this; I'm not covering for you anymore after last night money |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | BRAZILIAN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: That very blond guy you met at carnival is called an "alemao", literally a man from this country Germany |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $200: Someone who drops, say, candy bars a lot might get this 13-letter moniker butterfingers |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $400: Old-fashioned or trite, like jokes from your "pop" corny |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $600: Bing can help you with this process whereby you select the best or most desirable items for yourself cherrypicking |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $800: A baked tuber, or a situation that's risky to deal with a hot potato |
| #5617, aired 2009-01-27 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Someone fawning over or flattering another is this type of person who makes a fruit shiny polishing the apple |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: A noisy spirit, its name is from the German for "to make noise" & "ghost" a poltergeist |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This Chinese art of creating harmonious surroundings means "wind water" in Chinese feng shui |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This word for a spectacular failure comes from the Italian for "flask" a fiasco |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: These super-cool "girls" made famous by Gwen Stefani get their name from a Tokyo district Harajuku girls |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Italian for "touched", it's an elaborate keyboard piece designed to demonstrate the player's skill a toccata |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: This interjection used after someone sneezes means "health" in German Gesundheit |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: It's how you say "good morning" in German guten Morgen |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Also a literary style, this 3-word German phrase can mean "turmoil" Sturm und Drang |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: German term for a novel about the education & coming of age of a young protagonist Bildungsroman |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: In German, what's mine is mein & what's yours is this rhyming word dein |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In Latin, "uva" is a bunch of these, whether green or purple, seeded or seedless grapes |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Dobre utra means "good morning" in this language spoken in Omsk & Tomsk Russian |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Yiddish for a "gossipy woman", it's derived from a woman's name a yenta |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: It may be fate that you know it's the Turkish word for "fate" kismet |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Jacques Delille:
"Le sort fait les parents, le choix fait les amis"--
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose these our friends |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: If a Frenchwoman receives a billet-doux, she's gotten one of these a love note or letter |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This rhyming Chinese word for acting in a servile manner literally means "knock one's head" kowtow |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Meaning "double point", the German doppelpunkt refers to this mark of punctuation the colon |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: This other name for the Lord's Prayer comes from the Latin for "Our Father" Pater Noster |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: In English, a recorder can make a racket; in French, "recorder" means to do this to a racquet restring |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Junoesque, meaning having imposing beauty, refers to Juno, the beautiful wife of this Roman God Jupiter |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: This constricting snake's name comes from the serpent killed by Apollo a python |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This plant named for the goddess of love "eats" insects for the nitrogen that's lacking in the soil where it grows a Venus flytrap |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1600: This Roman goddess of grain lent her name to the word "cereal" Ceres |
| #5461, aired 2008-05-12 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $2,000 (Daily Double): The counselor of Odysseus' son Telemachus, his name is now used to mean an older adviser Mentor |
| #5381, aired 2008-01-21 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: A very handsome young man is sometimes called this, after the handsome youth loved by Aphrodite Adonis |
| #5381, aired 2008-01-21 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: You may have this small but crucial weakness even if you weren't dipped in the River Styx by your mother an Achilles' heel |
| #5381, aired 2008-01-21 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: A shrewish woman, or a predatory mythological creature who is part woman, part bird a harpy |
| #5381, aired 2008-01-21 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $2,000 (Daily Double): This adjective meaning volatile or quick-witted comes from the name of a swift messenger god mercurial |
| #5381, aired 2008-01-21 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The delightful Champs-Elysee in Paris is named for this delightful resting place of the dead in Greek mythology the Elysian Fields |
| #5379, aired 2008-01-17 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Popular term for a baggage porter at a railway station redcap |
| #5379, aired 2008-01-17 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $800: In 1982 these 2 organizations merged to become America's largest single provider of managed health-care coverage Blue Cross Blue Shield |
| #5379, aired 2008-01-17 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: A real-life mutiny aboard a soviet frigate inspired this 1984 Tom Clancy bestseller The Hunt for Red October |
| #5379, aired 2008-01-17 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Porphyrogenitus, a royal epithet given to Byzantine emperors, translates to this phrase Born to the purple |
| #5379, aired 2008-01-17 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $4,000 (Daily Double): In "Othello", Iago warns, "O! Beware, my lord, of jealousy", it is this creature a green-eyed monster |
| #5371, aired 2008-01-07 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $400: Breakfast dish that can also mean "to flatten" pancake |
| #5371, aired 2008-01-07 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $800: In 1966 the U.S. government banned M-80s & these round, red firecrackers cherry bombs |
| #5371, aired 2008-01-07 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $1200: The Boeing P-26 fighter of the 1930s & '40s was nicknamed this, like a classroom weapon a peashooter |
| #5371, aired 2008-01-07 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew ties one on.) It's the 2-word spicy name for this type of knot that lets you join a rope to something else, like a rail or a post a clove hitch |
| #5371, aired 2008-01-07 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Reference to this container suggests the homespun style & philosophy of rural folk cracker barrel |
| #5338, aired 2007-11-21 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: The name of this type of poem is from the Japanese for "stanza" a haiku |
| #5338, aired 2007-11-21 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Undercover cop Arnold Schwarzenegger taught it in a 1990 film kindergarten |
| #5338, aired 2007-11-21 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: A medical aphorism, "primum non nocere" is translated as "first of all, do no" this harm |
| #5338, aired 2007-11-21 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: This Arabic salutation, often followed by "aleikum", means "peace" salaam |
| #5338, aired 2007-11-21 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Literally "blow of mercy", this French phrase is used for any decisive stroke coup de grace |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $400: This condiment's name once meant the genuine article, so to cut it meant to be good enough the mustard |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $800: It's something added, originally spread on a bakery treat, to make a good thing even better frosting |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew cups a baseball in the top end of his mitt.) When a baseball player barely makes a catch, the look of the ball & glove is known as this sweet treat an ice cream cone |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The lady seen here is wearing the fashionable style of sleeves called "leg-of-" this leg-of-mutton |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $3,400 (Daily Double): Someone suddenly saying flattering things to you may just be doing this, like on toast buttering you up |
| #5280, aired 2007-07-20 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: Before a trip, it's proper to wish someone "bon" this, whether they're traveling by ship or not voyage |
| #5280, aired 2007-07-20 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In many places of business, "no zapatos, no service", "zapatos" being Spanish for these shoes |
| #5280, aired 2007-07-20 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: Italian for "to the tooth", it's how to order your pasta if you want it a little firm al dente |
| #5280, aired 2007-07-20 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Germany's superhighway, it's the equivalent of our expressways the Autobahn |
| #5280, aired 2007-07-20 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: "Seize the day", I tell you, but do it with this Latin phrase carpe diem |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: German bibliophiles know that a Buchhandlung is this type of retail store a bookstore |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: To a Dutchman this clothing accessory is a zakdoek, & is something to sneeze at handkerchief |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: In Greek this 2-word phrase means "the many"; it refers to the common people hoi polloi |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives an etymology lesson on the monitor.) According to Grimm's Law, the ancient "D" became our "T" sound & the German sound "Ts", so Latin "duo" became "two" in English & this word in German zwei |
| #4978, aired 2006-04-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1,200 (Daily Double): "Margaritas ante porcos" means this in Latin, not "Your aunt has had too many margaritas" pearls before swine |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Numerically, it's the next word in the sequence ein, zwei... drei |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: In Maori 101, you might learn this word for the type of carved images seen here tikis |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Japanese for "teacher" or "master", this one will teach you karate, not social studies sensei |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: French for "little vine", it's a short literary sketch or a short scene a vignette |
| #4875, aired 2005-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: In music this Italian term tells you to pluck the strings instead of bowing pizzicato |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: Beware of the wolf wearing this sheep's clothing |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: If someone isn't really as sorry as he seems, he may shed these crocodile tears |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: Slang term for an indoor television antenna with 2 adjustable aerials rabbit ears |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: It's a regular & reliable source of income, just as dependable as a certain source of milk a cash cow |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: The name of this mischievous black bird may be used for a chatterbox or a hoarder the magpie |
| #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 |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | WEATHER WORDS & PHRASES $800: In 2001 a S.F. Chronicle writer defended Pres. Bush's vacation by pointing out that W. has this type of job high pressure |
| #4758, aired 2005-04-20 | WEATHER WORDS & PHRASES $1000: To have another city as one's birthplace or residence to hail (from) |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: If you're really hungry, pig out on one of these, the Swedish equivalent of a buffet a smorgasbord |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: We commonly use this 4-word French phrase to mean "the best of the best" creme de la creme |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: It's what the Norwegians call a long, narrow inlet of the sea between steep cliffs fjord |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: After some fierce flamencoing, you might hear cries of this, Spanish for "water" agua |
| #4649, aired 2004-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: If you're eager, enthusiastic, rarin' & read to go, you're this, from the Chinese meaning "work together" gung-ho |
| #4610, aired 2004-09-24 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's the Turkish word for fate or destiny kismet |
| #4610, aired 2004-09-24 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew eats a slice of pizza on Arthur Avenue in New York.) A motto on Arthur Avenue is "mangia bene, vivi bene", which translates to this eat well, live well |
| #4610, aired 2004-09-24 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: A statement that has nothing to do with the argument at hand, this Latin term literally means "it does not follow" non-sequitur |
| #4610, aired 2004-09-24 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This 2-word French phrase is used of a monomaniacal obsession idée fixe |
| #4610, aired 2004-09-24 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Literally Welsh for "session", it's an annual get-together of Welsh bards & musicians eisteddfod |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | COINED WORDS & PHRASES $400: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright created this wall-less shed used to shelter an automobile in the 1930s a carport |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | COINED WORDS & PHRASES $800: Spam is unsolicited commercial e-mail; this is unsolicited commercial messages sent via an instant messaging system spim |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | COINED WORDS & PHRASES $1600: In 1958 columnist Herb Caen coined this word; Maynard G. Krebs on "Dobie Gillis" was one a beatnik |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | COINED WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Scientists call planets that are neither too hot nor too cold to support life this, after a fairy tale girl Goldilocks |
| #4575, aired 2004-06-25 | COINED WORDS & PHRASES $11,200 (Daily Double): A late arrival to manned space flight, this country's space pilots are called taikonauts China |
| #4554, aired 2004-05-27 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's said that you can lead this animal to water, but you cannot make it drink a horse |
| #4554, aired 2004-05-27 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: If you're doing very well, you're living high off this creature the hog |
| #4554, aired 2004-05-27 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: Simian container that's a standard for hilarity a barrel of monkeys |
| #4554, aired 2004-05-27 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: Something very, very rare is "as scarce as" these chicken parts hen's teeth |
| #4554, aired 2004-05-27 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Release a Russian blue or reveal a secret letting the cat out of the bag |
| #4540, aired 2004-05-07 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: Frau & fraulein are terms for women in this language German |
| #4540, aired 2004-05-07 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Literally meaning "to God", it's how you say good-bye in Spanish adiós |
| #4540, aired 2004-05-07 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: If you're in a store in Spain & you see a sign over a door saying "Salida", it means this exit |
| #4524, aired 2004-04-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: This Hebrew phrase meaning "good luck" is popularly used to express congratulations mazel tov |
| #4524, aired 2004-04-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Italian for "first lady", it can refer to an opera singer or someone who's just spoiled prima donna |
| #4524, aired 2004-04-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: In Japanese umi is sea or ocean & yama is this mountain |
| #4524, aired 2004-04-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: An artist or writer's greatest work is often referred to by this 2-word Latin phrase magnum opus |
| #4524, aired 2004-04-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2,000 (Daily Double): Germans call a pear birne; a strawberry, erdbeere; & this fruit weintraube grape |
| #4509, aired 2004-03-25 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $200: If your command of the German language is poor, it wouldn't hurt to ask, "Sprechen sie Englisch?", which means this Do you speak English? |
| #4509, aired 2004-03-25 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Literally meaning "little woman", it once meant "Miss", but many modern German women now find it offensive fraulein |
| #4509, aired 2004-03-25 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $600: Germans call this holiday Neujahrstag New Year's Day |
| #4509, aired 2004-03-25 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: If you order schwarzen kaffee mit sahne in a restaurant, you'll get coffee with this cream |
| #4509, aired 2004-03-25 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: You'd better not drive the wrong direction down an einbahnstrasse, which is this a one-way street |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: This 2-word Latin phrase means "by the fact itself" ipso facto |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: When a roulette croupier says "faites vous jeux", he's asking players to do this place your bets |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: It's not bubble gum, it's a Greek stringed instrument that's like a lute a bouzouki |
| #4471, aired 2004-02-02 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Term for the mrs. of a maharajah maharani |
| #4400, aired 2003-10-24 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $200: Term for a late-night flight, or a phenomenon seen in flash photography red-eye |
| #4400, aired 2003-10-24 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $400: It's the document that allows a foreign national to live & work in the U.S., legally a green card |
| #4400, aired 2003-10-24 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $600: Not to spout off but you'll find about half of the world's geothermal features in this national park Yellowstone |
| #4400, aired 2003-10-24 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $800: Joan Didion titled her 1979 collection of essays this, like a Beatles record The White Album |
| #4400, aired 2003-10-24 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: People of royal birth are said to be "born to" or "in" this color purple |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $400: To look smug & self-satisfied is to "look like the cat that swallowed" this the canary |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $800: To "make" this for an object means to move in a straight path like an Apis mellifera beeline |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Someone acting overly concerned is "as fussy as" one of these "with one chick" hen |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $1600: After this canine expression, George Borrow wrote, "And mine has been a fine one" every dog has his day |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Phrase meaning sneaky or clever; it was the title of a Jack Warden TV show Crazy Like A Fox |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Often said after a sneeze, it's also used as a toast, since it means "health" gesundheit |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: AKA club soda, it's named for a German town known for its natural effervescent spring water seltzer |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $10,000 (Daily Double): Literally "land behind" in English, this German word refers to a remote or less developed part of a country hinterland |
| #4290, aired 2003-04-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in front of St. Paul's Cathedral in London) St. Paul's miraculously survived the Nazi bombing called this, from German for "lightning war" blitzkrieg |
| #4290, aired 2003-04-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This term for dishes like pot stickers, shrimp balls & fried dumplings is Cantonese for "heart's delight" dim sum |
| #4290, aired 2003-04-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: An example of this poetic form is "Three locked in battle / victory not yet for sure / outside winter blows" haiku |
| #4290, aired 2003-04-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1600: California's motto "Eureka" is usually translated as this 4-word exclamation of discovery I have found it |
| #4290, aired 2003-04-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Paris) This is Place Charles de Gaulle, known as "L'Etoile", which means this the star |
| #4224, aired 2003-01-02 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $400: Food term for the items being worn here sandwich boards |
| #4224, aired 2003-01-02 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $800: The name of this fast-growing fungus can also mean to grow or develop rapidly mushroom |
| #4224, aired 2003-01-02 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $1200: It's information stored on your computer to record your activities when visiting a website cookie |
| #4224, aired 2003-01-02 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $1600: It's what would carry the item seen here, or proverbially "bring a rural fellow to town" turnip truck |
| #4224, aired 2003-01-02 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $2000: To suffer the consequences of your own actions is to "stew" here in your own juices |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's a notice of dismissal from a job pink slip |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $400: "Love Story" author Erich Segal helped with the script for this Beatles film Yellow Submarine |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $600: Members of the U.S. Army special forces are also called this, from part of their uniform Green Berets |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $800: To go out & celebrate boisterously, particularly by hitting bars & other nightspots to paint the town red |
| #4214, aired 2002-12-19 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Originally, it was a tribute paid by English & Scottish farmers to freebooters for protection from harassment blackmail |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: It's the subject in an experiment, whether or not he's this South American rodent guinea pig |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: To pretend to be dead or unaware of something is to "play" this animal, seen here possum |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: They're the 2 mammals used to describe a declining or rising stock market bear & bull |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Northerners who sympathized with the South during the Civil War were referred to as these poisonous snakes Copperheads |
| #4190, aired 2002-11-15 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This term for a cheap, dirty hotel sounds like a pouch for a parasitic insect fleabag |
| #4189, aired 2002-11-14 | FAMILIAR PHRASES IN OTHER WORDS $200: Entomb a tomahawk bury the hatchet |
| #4189, aired 2002-11-14 | FAMILIAR PHRASES IN OTHER WORDS $400: One Panthera pardus will never be able to modify the markings he has a leopard can't change his spots |
| #4189, aired 2002-11-14 | FAMILIAR PHRASES IN OTHER WORDS $600: To flip within one's crypt to turn over in one's grave (to roll over in one's own grave) |
| #4189, aired 2002-11-14 | FAMILIAR PHRASES IN OTHER WORDS $800: Cinch up thy mid-body drawstring tighten your belt (tighten the belt) |
| #4189, aired 2002-11-14 | FAMILIAR PHRASES IN OTHER WORDS $1000: Refrain from enumerating poultry until each is postnatal don't count your chickens before they're hatched |
| #4130, aired 2002-07-12 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $200: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure you know they're the two words that complete the phrase "Been there..." "...done that" |
| #4130, aired 2002-07-12 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: To be politically correct, don't call someone short, say he's vertically this challenged |
| #4130, aired 2002-07-12 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $600: It's the 3-character acronym computer users and non-users alike used for the year 2000 Y2K |
| #4130, aired 2002-07-12 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $800: It actually sounds like a rodent but it's actually slang for a teen who hangs out at shopping centers mall rat |
| #4130, aired 2002-07-12 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1000: A combination of 2 other words, it describes a place or product for kids that's both informative & fun edutainment |
| #4091, aired 2002-05-20 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: The Latin "inter canem et lupum" literally "between dog &" this animal, refers to twilight wolf |
| #4091, aired 2002-05-20 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: Kids are thrilled to find these tight-collared sweaters named for a shelled animal under the Christmas Tree turtleneck |
| #4091, aired 2002-05-20 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Take a look: 4-word phrase illustrated here for a treacherous person or a hidden danger snake in the grass |
| #4091, aired 2002-05-20 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1600: Told that his room isn't big enough to do this, a Dickens character says, "I don't want to...I never do" swing a cat |
| #4091, aired 2002-05-20 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The British call sausages baked in batter this creature "in the hole" toad |
| #3934, aired 2001-10-11 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $200: (Sarah, with the rest of the Clue Crew, reports while driving a bumper car) It's a 2-word alliterative term for the aggressive behavior displayed by angry drivers road rage |
| #3934, aired 2001-10-11 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $400: Often applied to Howard Stern, this rhyming term describes a DJ who's often offensive & controversial shock jock |
| #3934, aired 2001-10-11 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $600: 7-letter synonym listed by the American Heritage Dictionary for African American vernacular English ebonics |
| #3934, aired 2001-10-11 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $800: This verb meaning to die was further popularized by a 1990 Julia Roberts-Kiefer Sutherland film flatline |
| #3934, aired 2001-10-11 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1000: From the Latin for "hear" & the Greek for "loving", it's a CD & stereo equipment buff audiophile |
| #3905, aired 2001-07-20 | 4 "N" WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's any native or resident of the Keystone State Pennsylvanian |
| #3905, aired 2001-07-20 | 4 "N" WORDS & PHRASES $400: It's the point in a baseball game when fans traditionally stand & sing "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" the seventh inning stretch |
| #3905, aired 2001-07-20 | 4 "N" WORDS & PHRASES $600: Tolstoy was partly inspired to write this novel after a neighbor threw herself under a train Anna Karenina |
| #3905, aired 2001-07-20 | 4 "N" WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Raymond Massey played the 16th president as a young man in this 1940 film Abe Lincoln in Illinois |
| #3905, aired 2001-07-20 | 4 "N" WORDS & PHRASES $2,000 (Daily Double): For its work on behalf of prisoners of conscience, this organization won the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize Amnesty International |
| #3852, aired 2001-05-08 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $100: Traditionally, it's the section of telephone directories that lists businesses alphabetically by type the Yellow Pages |
| #3852, aired 2001-05-08 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $200: This area of closely-cropped grass surrounds each hole in golf the green |
| #3852, aired 2001-05-08 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $300: These movie & TV awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Golden Globes |
| #3852, aired 2001-05-08 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Term for the illegal buying or selling of goods in violation of rationing or price controls black market |
| #3852, aired 2001-05-08 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $500: It's the alternate title of "Hans Brinker", the Mary Mapes Dodge tale of an impoverished Dutch boy "The Silver Skates" |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: The name of this ceremonial form of Japanese suicide means to "cut your belly" hara-kiri (seppuku) |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: Yiddish for "a gossipy woman", it's derived from a woman's name Yenta |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: A Chinese form of self-defense, its name means "work man" kung fu |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Spanish for "little war", it's a member of a small band of irregular soldiers who harass the enemy by surprise raids guerrilla |
| #3839, aired 2001-04-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $500: This French phrase for a death blow given to put one out of his misery literally means "stroke of mercy" coup de grace |
| #3824, aired 2001-03-29 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: This term for a male horse at stud also refers to a virile man Stallion |
| #3824, aired 2001-03-29 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Freed slaves were told they'd get "40 acres and" one of these, so the phrase now signifies an empty promise A mule |
| #3824, aired 2001-03-29 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: Shakespeare's character named Pistol says the world is his this, "Which I with sword will open" Oyster |
| #3824, aired 2001-03-29 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: Philosophically speaking, "All" of these "are gray in the dark" Cats |
| #3824, aired 2001-03-29 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: A type of fish, or a short-on-top, long-in-back hairstyle that was big in the '80s Mullet |
| #3790, aired 2001-02-09 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: A Spanish-speaking host may say, "Mi casa es su casa", "My" this "is your" this house |
| #3790, aired 2001-02-09 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's the English meaning of the title of Wayne Newton's hit song "Danke Schoen" thank you |
| #3790, aired 2001-02-09 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: From Yiddish, it can mean liquid chicken fat or a sappy, sentimental story schmaltz |
| #3790, aired 2001-02-09 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Dobre utra means "Good morning" in this language spoken in Omsk & Tomsk Russia |
| #3790, aired 2001-02-09 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $500: If you meet a fine Finn in a bar, ask for this by saying, "Mika on puhelin numeronne" "May I have your phone number?" |
| #3778, aired 2001-01-24 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: On a Tijuana taxi, this belt is la correa del ventilador the fan belt |
| #3778, aired 2001-01-24 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In Latin, uva is a bunch of these, whether green or purple, seeded or seedless grapes |
| #3778, aired 2001-01-24 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: In Moscow Roy Rogers might have sung, "Happy Trails to You..." & this, meaning "until we meet again" Dasvidanya |
| #3778, aired 2001-01-24 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: The Finnish greeting "hyvaa paivaa" is literally "good" this, which is 2 months long in northern Finland in summer good day |
| #3778, aired 2001-01-24 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Italian indication for violin players to pluck rather than bow pizzicato |
| #3723, aired 2000-11-08 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $200: A variation of couch potato, a mouse potato is someone who spends a lot of time with this Computer |
| #3723, aired 2000-11-08 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $400 (Daily Double): From the title of a 1990 Martin Scorsese film, it's a popular term for mobsters Goodfellas |
| #3723, aired 2000-11-08 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $400: Like Carson Daly of MTV, a TV host who plays musical clips or images is known by this "initial" term VJ |
| #3723, aired 2000-11-08 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $600: Also a term in census taking, it's borrowing an old piece of music & using it in a new song; try it! Sampling |
| #3723, aired 2000-11-08 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $1000: For politicians this medical-sounding spokesperson makes the bad news all better Spin doctor |
| #3661, aired 2000-07-03 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $100: When you have something more important to do, you have "other" these "to fry" fish |
| #3661, aired 2000-07-03 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's the "canine" term for a simple form of swimming dogpaddle |
| #3661, aired 2000-07-03 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $300: Someone who's quite timid can't "say boo to" this silly bird a goose |
| #3661, aired 2000-07-03 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $400: Proverbially, this crafty animal may grow gray, but never good a fox |
| #3661, aired 2000-07-03 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $500: To confront someone defiantly, perhaps on his home turf, is to "beard" this animal "in his den" a lion |
| #3614, aired 2000-04-27 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $100: From their uniforms, British soldiers during the Revolutionary War were called these Redcoats |
| #3614, aired 2000-04-27 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $200: Forks, knives & spoons, collectively Silverware |
| #3614, aired 2000-04-27 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $300: Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's a common term for typewriter correction fluid White out |
| #3614, aired 2000-04-27 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Dating from colonial times, they prohibit such activities as dancing or buying liquor on Sundays Blue laws |
| #3614, aired 2000-04-27 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $500: It's the NFL team that plays its home games at Lambeau Field Green Bay Packers |
| #3613, aired 2000-04-26 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: Traditionally, this container that held all the world's evil was a jar or vase Pandora's Box |
| #3613, aired 2000-04-26 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: This verb meaning to tease is from Tantalus, who was forced to stand in water that receded when he tried to drink Tantalize |
| #3613, aired 2000-04-26 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: This Titan, whose name refers to a type of book, supported the sky on his shoulders, not the Earth Atlas |
| #3613, aired 2000-04-26 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: Worshiped by farmers & the average Roman, this goddess of agriculture lent her name to the word cereal Ceres |
| #3613, aired 2000-04-26 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1,800 (Daily Double): Derived from the name of the god of wine, it's a drunken or riotous celebration Bacchanalia |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $100: Looking at the Eiffel Tower, you may be standing "a bouche ouverte", with this open Mouth |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $200: What the French abbreviate ap. J.-C., meaning apres Jesus-Christ is abbreviated this way in Latin A.D. (Anno Domini) |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $300: In English, a recorder can make a racket; in French "recorder" means to do this to a racquet Restring |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $400: It's what's taken over during a piraterie aerienne Airplane (hijacking) |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $500: While the coup d'essai is the first attempt, this is a "stroke of mercy" or finishing stroke Coup de grace |
| #3581, aired 2000-03-13 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: Italian for "quick", it often precedes "change-o" in a magician's vocabulary presto |
| #3581, aired 2000-03-13 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Meaning "double point", the German doppelpunkt refers to this mark of punctuation the colon |
| #3581, aired 2000-03-13 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This other name for the Lord's Prayer comes from the Latin for "Our Father" Pater Noster |
| #3581, aired 2000-03-13 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This rhyming Chinese word for acting in a servile manner literally mean's "knock one's head" kòu tóu |
| #3581, aired 2000-03-13 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2,000 (Daily Double): Meaning "10,000 years", this Japanese cry of triumph was often used in battle "Banzai!" |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: If a Frenchwoman receives a billet-doux, she's gotten one of these Love letter |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: C-H-O-W is food; pronounced the same but spelled this way, it's Italian for "goodbye" C-I-A-O |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: An off-the-cuff speech is made this way, from a 2-word Latin phrase that literally means "out of the time" extemporaneously |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: It's the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew shalom Salaam |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Verboten Forbidden |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: Mano a mano Hand-to-hand |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: La dolce vita The good life |
| #3496, aired 1999-11-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Requiescat in pace (on a tombstone) Rest in peace |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $100: Many a slugabed has been reminded that "The early bird catches" this The worm |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $200: Originally a place in which fowl fought, it now often refers to the pilot's compartment in an airplane Cockpit |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $300: When forced to admit a mistake, you have to "eat" this bird (which is far from appetizing) Crow |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $400: If you're completely undressed, you're as "naked as" this bird that's noisy & often bright blue a jaybird |
| #3438, aired 1999-07-14 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $500: It's a "homicidal" phrase for achieving 2 goals with a single effort Killing two birds with one stone |
| #3389, aired 1999-05-06 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: Literally "head to head", this French phrase means a private face-to-face meeting tête à tête |
| #3389, aired 1999-05-06 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Basketball star Olajuwon sure must be smart; this, his first name, is Arabic for "wise one" Hakeem |
| #3389, aired 1999-05-06 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: The ancient Gaelic battle cry "Erin Go Bragh" means this "Ireland Forever" |
| #3389, aired 1999-05-06 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Greek for "purge", it's used in English to mean the purging of pent-up emotions Catharsis |
| #3389, aired 1999-05-06 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1,100 (Daily Double): From the Norwegian for "sloping", this word is used to describe zigzag skiing Slalom |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $100: Be grateful for what you have, because "A bird in the hand is worth" this Two in the bush |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $200: A person who deliberately avoids facing facts is said to hide his head in the sand like this bird Ostrich |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $300: The name of this yellow bird may also refer to a shade of yellow or a yellow diamond Canary |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $400: Combine a bird & a bovine to get this kind of absurd, improbable tale often used as an excuse Cock & bull story |
| #3351, aired 1999-03-15 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $500: Australian slang for a lookout who warns criminals about police, or the kind of bird Baretta had Cockatoo |
| #3345, aired 1999-03-05 | "CHAR"MED WORDS & PHRASES $200: Sticks of this used by artists for sketching are often made from willow wood charcoal |
| #3345, aired 1999-03-05 | "CHAR"MED WORDS & PHRASES $400: Second century playwright Terence wrote the Latin equivalent of the phrase this "begins at home" charity |
| #3345, aired 1999-03-05 | "CHAR"MED WORDS & PHRASES $600: It's said this term for a cramp of an arm or leg muscle originated in baseball in the 1880s charley horse |
| #3345, aired 1999-03-05 | "CHAR"MED WORDS & PHRASES $800: This largest city in the 2 Carolinas is one of the nation's leading textile production centers Charlotte |
| #3345, aired 1999-03-05 | "CHAR"MED WORDS & PHRASES $1000: It's a clear light green color with a yellowish tinge Chartreuse |
| #3341, aired 1999-03-01 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $200: This speed demon of the dog world was originally used to hunt gazelles in Egypt more than 5,000 years ago the greyhound |
| #3341, aired 1999-03-01 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $400: The name of this color is from the Latin for "sea water" aquamarine |
| #3341, aired 1999-03-01 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $600: A "fishy", misleading clue in a mystery story a red herring |
| #3341, aired 1999-03-01 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $800: In "Othello" jealousy is described as this, "which doth mock the meat it feeds on" a green-eyed monster |
| #3341, aired 1999-03-01 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Pearl Jam won a Grammy in 1996 for Best Hard Rock Performance with their hit "Spin" this "The Black Circle" |
| #3306, aired 1999-01-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: Now hear this! Das ohr is German for this body part Ear |
| #3306, aired 1999-01-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: French for "In the fashion", it's a fashionable way to serve pie A la mode |
| #3306, aired 1999-01-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: This Yiddish word can mean to lug a load, or to drag oneself Schlep |
| #3306, aired 1999-01-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Practitioners of karate & judo refer to their training school by this 4-letter Japanese name Dojo |
| #3306, aired 1999-01-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $500: Meaning clandestine, the Spanish phrase "capa y espada" translates to this common English phrase Cloak and dagger |
| #3245, aired 1998-10-16 | RUSSIAN WORDS & PHRASES $100: Babushka means this relative, or the scarf she might tie under her chin grandmother |
| #3245, aired 1998-10-16 | RUSSIAN WORDS & PHRASES $200: An apparatchik was a bureaucrat in this organization that once numbered 15 million the Communist Party |
| #3245, aired 1998-10-16 | RUSSIAN WORDS & PHRASES $300: It's the drink most commonly tossed back with "na zdorovie", "to your health" vodka |
| #3245, aired 1998-10-16 | RUSSIAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Soviet shoppers often spent hours in one of these, an "ochered" a line (or a queue) |
| #3245, aired 1998-10-16 | RUSSIAN WORDS & PHRASES $500: Meaning "union", it's the name of the spacecraft that docked with Apollo in 1975 Soyuz |
| #3243, aired 1998-10-14 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $100: Proverbially speaking, "birds of a feather" do this flock together |
| #3243, aired 1998-10-14 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $200: In a famous 1962 film, Gregory Peck says it's "a sin to" do this kill a mockingbird |
| #3243, aired 1998-10-14 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $300: Something very rare is "as scarce as" these poultry features (that don't exist) hen's teeth |
| #3243, aired 1998-10-14 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $400: It's the kind of broad view that reminds us of frozen food guy Clarence a bird's-eye view |
| #3077, aired 1998-01-06 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $200: This 2-word phrase means you're taking your lunch to work Brown bagging |
| #3077, aired 1998-01-06 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Along with the keg, this is sometimes "rolled out" at weddings Red carpet |
| #3077, aired 1998-01-06 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $600: This colorful Jimi Hendrix classic "experienced" Top 40 status only in the U.K. "Purple Haze" |
| #2976, aired 1997-07-07 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's the German equivalent of a motor expressway Autobahn |
| #2976, aired 1997-07-07 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Used to mean "To your health", it's most often said after someone sneezes Gesundheit |
| #2976, aired 1997-07-07 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $600: In a 1963 address, John F. Kennedy took pride in uttering this 4-word phrase Ich Bin Ein Berliner |
| #2976, aired 1997-07-07 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: The name of this psychology movement is German for "form" or "shape" Gestalt |
| #2976, aired 1997-07-07 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: It's the ghostly double of a living person, or a literary device used to reflect good & evil Doppelganger |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: Romanians call this day Joi, while Swedes know it as Torsdag Thursday |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: When sightsseing in France, you should know that entree libre means this Free admission |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: In Portuguese these 2 antonyms are cedo & tarde Early & late |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In Spain you might go shopping for una chaqueta -- a jacket -- made of cuero, this Leather |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $500: In the Netherlands this popular winter sport is called schaatsenrijden Ice skating |
| #2915, aired 1997-04-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: This 2-word French phrase is commonly used to wish someone a healthy, hearty meal Bon Appetit |
| #2915, aired 1997-04-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: The name of these noted Russian cavalrymen is from a Turkic word for "adventurer" Cossacks |
| #2915, aired 1997-04-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: They're the German equivalents of Mr. & Mrs. Herr und Frau |
| #2915, aired 1997-04-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: It's how you say "Thank You" in Japanese Arigato |
| #2915, aired 1997-04-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This Dutch word can refer to a violent situation, or to a whirlpool Maelstrom |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $100: Relatively speaking, they're mere & pere mother & father |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's the French way of saying "Oh well, that's life!" c'est la vie |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $300: Term for an alcoholic beverage taken before a meal to stimulate the appetite an apéritif |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $400: They're eyeglasses that clip on the nose pince-nez |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $500: This 2-word phrase refers to the "high" art of fine cooking haute cuisine |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $100: A console on a piano or typewriter Keyboard |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $200: Where partyers like to "pin the tail" On the donkey |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $300: Mentioned in Pennsylvania's state nickname, it's the central topmost support of an arch Keystone |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $400: It describes a schoolchild left unattended at home while the parents are working Latchkey |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $500: Thingamajig doohickey |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | '80s WORDS & PHRASES $100: Japanese for "empty orchestra", this device allows you to sing along with Mitch-san karaoke |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | '80s WORDS & PHRASES $200: This term for selling goods by phone dates to the 1980s telemarketing |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | '80s WORDS & PHRASES $300: Political aides who put a positive slant on an event or the group who sang "Two Princes" Spin Doctors |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | '80s WORDS & PHRASES $500: In 1986 Americans learned 2 Russian words: glasnost, meaning "openness", & this, meaning "restructuring" perestroika |
| #2864, aired 1997-01-30 | '80s WORDS & PHRASES $700 (Daily Double): It's the 2-word "clear barrier" keeping women from promotion into upper management glass ceiling |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $100: Maggio is the Italian name for this month May |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $200: Italians call this metal argento Silver |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $300: Italian weather terms include la pioggia -- rain -- & il vento -- this Wind |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Eye drops are delle gocce per gliocchi & these drops are delle gocce per le orecchie Ear Drops |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $500: The laundromat is la lavanderia automatica & this kind of establishment is la lavanderia a secco Dry Cleaners |
| #2838, aired 1996-12-25 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $100: Meaning "of the day", it frequently follows "soup" on a menu Du Jour |
| #2838, aired 1996-12-25 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $300: This phrase meaning ahead of one's time is often used to describe modern artists Avant-Garde |
| #2838, aired 1996-12-25 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $400: This term often referring to a first-class cook literally means "Blue Ribbon" Cordon Bleu |
| #2838, aired 1996-12-25 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $500: 2-word phrase for a young foreigner who performs housework in exchange for room & board Au Pair |
| #2824, aired 1996-12-05 | "MAN"LY WORDS & PHRASES $100: In the nursery rhyme, this line precedes "Bake me a cake as fast as you can" "Patty Cake, Patty Cake, Baker's Man" |
| #2824, aired 1996-12-05 | "MAN"LY WORDS & PHRASES $200: It follows "That's one small step for a man,..." "One Giant Leap for Mankind" |
| #2824, aired 1996-12-05 | "MAN"LY WORDS & PHRASES $300: Term for an electorate's wishes that its representatives carry out a certain program Mandate |
| #2824, aired 1996-12-05 | "MAN"LY WORDS & PHRASES $400: Tube pasta filled with meat & cheese & served with tomato sauce Manicotti |
| #2824, aired 1996-12-05 | "MAN"LY WORDS & PHRASES $500: This dog named for its breeder originated in Apolda, Germany in the 1890s Doberman Pinscher |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | GEOGRAPHICAL WORDS & PHRASES $100: A shade of grayish blue is named for this Danish capital Copenhagen |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | GEOGRAPHICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: This nationality precedes onyx, hairless, and jumping bean Mexican |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | GEOGRAPHICAL WORDS & PHRASES $300: This nationality precedes uncle, treat, & elm disease Dutch |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | GEOGRAPHICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: This tuber with a city in its name is also called a sunchoke Jerusalem Artichoke |
| #2819, aired 1996-11-28 | GEOGRAPHICAL WORDS & PHRASES $500: This high quality black tea is named for a district in West Bengal Darjeeling |
| #2774, aired 1996-09-26 | SWAHILI WORDS & PHRASES $200: In Kenya you might want to order your chai—tea—with sukari—this sugar |
| #2774, aired 1996-09-26 | SWAHILI WORDS & PHRASES $400: This bird is kuku—don't tell the Colonel chicken |
| #2774, aired 1996-09-26 | SWAHILI WORDS & PHRASES $600: Swahili speakers call this nutritious beverage maziwa milk |
| #2774, aired 1996-09-26 | SWAHILI WORDS & PHRASES $800: It's the Swahili word for lion, which you may know if you've seen "The Lion King" Simba |
| #2774, aired 1996-09-26 | SWAHILI WORDS & PHRASES $1000: When shopping. you'll probably want to ask, "Pesa ngapi?", which means this How much is this? |
| #2752, aired 1996-07-16 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $100: The phrase "fugit ireparabile tempus" has been shortened to just "tempus fugit" - this "flies" Time |
| #2752, aired 1996-07-16 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $200: Latin title of the Christmas hymn "O Come All Ye Faithful" "Adeste Fideles" |
| #2752, aired 1996-07-16 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $300: It literally means "in glass" & is where some fertilizations occur In Vitro |
| #2752, aired 1996-07-16 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $400: It's the opposite of "malafide" Bonafide |
| #2752, aired 1996-07-16 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $500: The period before this event is called ante-partum childbirth |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $100: A vain, arrogant person is said to strut like this proud bird a peacock |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $200: This ragtime dance that features a springy walk has a Thanksgiving bird in its name a turkey trot |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $300: Someone with piercing sight or keen powers of observation has this kind of "eye" an eagle eye |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $400: The name of this yellow bird is a slang term for a female singer, especially one with a dance band a canary |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $500: This bird flies higher in fine weather, so saying it "honks high" or "hangs high" means all's well a goose |
| #2693, aired 1996-04-24 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $100: The animals of a particular region are called this, after the wife of Faunus fauna |
| #2693, aired 1996-04-24 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: The plants of a particular region are called this, after the Roman goddess of flowers flora |
| #2693, aired 1996-04-24 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $300: This word meaning gigantic can refer to the children of Uranus & Gaea or a doomed luxury liner Titanic |
| #2693, aired 1996-04-24 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: This day of the week is named for the Norse god of thunder Thursday |
| #2693, aired 1996-04-24 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $500: An artist's inspiration may be called his this, in honor of the 9 goddesses of arts & learning the muses (his muse) |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | BIBLICAL WORDS & PHRASES $100: "Can the leopard change" these? means "it's impossible" Its Spots |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | BIBLICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: To "pass over" this river means to reach the promised land Jordan River |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | BIBLICAL WORDS & PHRASES $300: Unworthy or sinful people are known as a "generation of" these poisonous creatures Vipers |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | BIBLICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Robert Heinlein used this phrase from Exodus 2:22 as the title of one of his novels "Stranger In A Strange Land" |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | BIBLICAL WORDS & PHRASES $500: "Pale Horse" is a metaphor for the approach of this Death |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $100: Someone who asks you, "Parlez-vous Francais?", wants to know this if you speak French |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $200: "Le silence est d'or" is the French version of this proverb silence is golden |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $300: It means "pen name" or pseudonym, & is used as such nom de plume |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $400: Le cerveau is the brain & this organ is le foie liver |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $500: It's the French word for kitchen; we use it to mean a manner of preparing food or the food prepared cuisine |
| #2614, aired 1996-01-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: In German these 2 relatives are der bruder & die schwester your brother & your sister |
| #2614, aired 1996-01-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: On a Dutch beach a sign reading "verboden te zwemmen" would indicate this swimming is forbidden |
| #2614, aired 1996-01-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: French for "in fashion", it's the phrase used when ordering ice cream on top of pie a la mode |
| #2614, aired 1996-01-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In Greece a doctor would refer to your liver as sikoti & this organ as nefro your kidney |
| #2614, aired 1996-01-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $500: Japanese for "exalted gate", it was the title formerly used for the emperor of Japan mikado |
| #2591, aired 1995-12-04 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $100: If someone makes a fatal mistake, this "is cooked" his goose |
| #2591, aired 1995-12-04 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's the bird term for a theatrical flop that doesn't "gobble" up enough business a turkey |
| #2591, aired 1995-12-04 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $300: When you have the advantage, you're sitting in this seat -- meow! the catbird seat |
| #2591, aired 1995-12-04 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $400: Something rare is "as scarce as" these nonexistent bird parts hen's teeth |
| #2591, aired 1995-12-04 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $500: It means to peddle one's wares by calling out, perhaps like a bird of prey hawking |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $200: Virgil said, "omnia vincit amor" - this conquers all love |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $400: "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres" means all Gaul is this divided in three parts |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $600: It's the English translation of "caveat emptor" - good advice for shoppers buyer beware |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Horace's quote "carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero" means do this, "put no trust in the morrow" seize the day |
| #2590, aired 1995-12-01 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: The motto "Ad astra per aspera" means "to" these "through hardships" to the stars |
| #2550, aired 1995-10-06 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: Wild celebrations are called Bacchanal after the festivals that honored this wine god Bacchus |
| #2550, aired 1995-10-06 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: A sponge found in Asian waters is known as this Roman love goddess' "flower basket" Venus |
| #2550, aired 1995-10-06 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: Inspiration may be called the Pierian Spring after a place sacred to these 9 goddesses of arts & learning the Muses |
| #2550, aired 1995-10-06 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $800: Predatory or shrewish people may be compared to these monsters with women's heads & birds' bodies Harpies |
| #2550, aired 1995-10-06 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: It was the formless abyss that existed before the world was created; now it's a synonym for total anarchy chaos |
| #2546, aired 1995-10-02 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $200: Vater is this person, relatively speaking your father |
| #2546, aired 1995-10-02 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: This item used in playing billiards is der billardstock the cue |
| #2546, aired 1995-10-02 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $600: If you don't know what a worterbuch is, you might look it up in das worterbuch a dictionary |
| #2546, aired 1995-10-02 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: If you're strapped for cash, ask, "Nehmen sie kreditkarten?" which means this Do you take credit cards? |
| #2546, aired 1995-10-02 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: Die bademutze is this type of cap bathing |
| #2543, aired 1995-09-27 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: The Spanish term for these scrambled items is huevos revueltos eggs |
| #2543, aired 1995-09-27 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: When shopping in Lisbon, you may want to ask, "Quanto custa?", which means this "How much does it cost?" |
| #2543, aired 1995-09-27 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: In Dutch, apricots are abrikozen, figs are vijgen & this fruit is kokosnoot coconut |
| #2543, aired 1995-09-27 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: The French refer to this season of the year as l'hiver winter |
| #2543, aired 1995-09-27 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $500: Italians call this country La Svezia Sweden |
| #2494, aired 1995-06-08 | "MAN"LY WORDS & PHRASES $100: The wrongful unplanned killing of another person, it can be voluntary or involuntary manslaughter |
| #2494, aired 1995-06-08 | "MAN"LY WORDS & PHRASES $200: According to a nursery rhyme, he lives in Drury Lane the Muffin Man |
| #2494, aired 1995-06-08 | "MAN"LY WORDS & PHRASES $300: Myanmar's second-largest city, it served as the country's capital from 1860 to 1885 Mandalay |
| #2494, aired 1995-06-08 | "MAN"LY WORDS & PHRASES $400: He can "take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew, cover it in choc'late and a miracle or two" the Candy Man |
| #2494, aired 1995-06-08 | "MAN"LY WORDS & PHRASES $500: This 1967 play based on the "Peanuts" comic strip starred Gary Burghoff in the title role You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown |
| #2438, aired 1995-03-22 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: If you want something made of this material while shopping in Germany, ask for das Leder leather |
| #2438, aired 1995-03-22 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: In French a million is un million, while this larger number is un milliard a billion |
| #2438, aired 1995-03-22 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: When in Spain, it's the kind of food you'd expect to buy at la pescaderia fish |
| #2438, aired 1995-03-22 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: The Portuguese call this color amarelo yellow |
| #2438, aired 1995-03-22 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $500: An Esperanto speaker would call this day of the week Lundo Monday |
| #2434, aired 1995-03-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: "Buon Natale!" is the Italian equivalent of this English greeting usually heard in December Merry Christmas |
| #2434, aired 1995-03-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: The Esperanto term for this relative is filo son |
| #2434, aired 1995-03-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: Polite people should know this phrase, French for "thank you very much" merci beaucoup |
| #2434, aired 1995-03-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: The Dutch call this country Verenigde Staten the United States |
| #2434, aired 1995-03-16 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $500: In Spain this sport played on a court is el baloncesto basketball |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: It's the Russian equivalent of an astronaut a cosmonaut |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: Spanish for "health", it's often used as a toast salud |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: This French term for railroad is also the name of a card game chemin de fer |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $500 (Daily Double): An Afrikaner could tell you that this is the Dutch word for "farmer" Boer |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $500: On a German road sign, Einbahnstrasse indicates this one way |
| #2424, aired 1995-03-02 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $100: Neujahrstag is this holiday New Year's Day |
| #2424, aired 1995-03-02 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $200: If you want to go to this type of store, ask for the antiquitatenladen an antique shop |
| #2424, aired 1995-03-02 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $300: If you lose one of these, say, "Ich habe eine meiner, kontaktlinsen verloren" my contact lens |
| #2424, aired 1995-03-02 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: This battery-powered device is eine taschenlampe a flashlight |
| #2424, aired 1995-03-02 | GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES $500: This time of day is der sonnenaufgang dawn (sunrise) |
| #2405, aired 1995-02-03 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: The Dutch know this day of the week as Zondag Sunday |
| #2405, aired 1995-02-03 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: A Swedish seamstress might use one of these, a fingerborg a thimble |
| #2405, aired 1995-02-03 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: In Finnish this relative is a tati; in Norwegian, she's a tante an aunt |
| #2405, aired 1995-02-03 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: The Italian term for this sport is il ciclismo bicycling |
| #2405, aired 1995-02-03 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $500: Castanuelas is the Spanish word for these, which just may "click" with you castanets |
| #2320, aired 1994-10-07 | PORTUGUESE WORDS & PHRASES $100: Portuguese banks are closed on o dia de ano novo, which is this holiday New Year's Day |
| #2320, aired 1994-10-07 | PORTUGUESE WORDS & PHRASES $200: Adeus means goodbye & boa noite means this good night |
| #2320, aired 1994-10-07 | PORTUGUESE WORDS & PHRASES $300: Bote salva-vidas is the Portuguese name for this vessel -- women & children first! lifeboat |
| #2320, aired 1994-10-07 | PORTUGUESE WORDS & PHRASES $400: Boil these & you'll have batatas cozidas; fry them & they're batatas fritas potatoes |
| #2320, aired 1994-10-07 | PORTUGUESE WORDS & PHRASES $500: In a Portuguese casa-- house-- this room is o quarto de dormir bedroom |
| #2303, aired 1994-09-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: The French call this faraway country La Nouvelle-Zelande New Zealand |
| #2303, aired 1994-09-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: In German these 3 colors are rot, weiss und blau red, white and blue |
| #2303, aired 1994-09-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: To an Esperanto speaker, this beverage is lakto Milk |
| #2303, aired 1994-09-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In Swedish it's a kackerlacka; in Spanish, it's a cucaracha a cockroach |
| #2303, aired 1994-09-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $500: The Dutch version of this holiday greeting is Vrolijk Kerstfeest Merry Christmas |
| #2274, aired 1994-06-23 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $100: Polite people know that por favor is Spanish for this please |
| #2274, aired 1994-06-23 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $200: This color is called naranja, & so is the fruit an orange |
| #2274, aired 1994-06-23 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $300: Spaniards call this African country Argelia, an anagram of its English name Algeria |
| #2274, aired 1994-06-23 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $400: Dolor de cabeza is the Spanish term for this kind of ache a headache |
| #2274, aired 1994-06-23 | SPANISH WORDS & PHRASES $500: No tengo nada que declarar, a phrase often heard at the customs office, means this I have nothing to declare |
| #2267, aired 1994-06-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: To the French this century is Le vingtieme siecle the 20th |
| #2267, aired 1994-06-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: In German mussels are muscheln & these shellfish are austern oysters |
| #2267, aired 1994-06-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: In Norway this is called flyplass; a more formal word is lufthavn an airport |
| #2267, aired 1994-06-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: A Mexican road sign that says, "Encienda Las Luces" means you should do this to your headlights to put on headlights |
| #2267, aired 1994-06-14 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $500: The Portuguese word for this tool is martelo a hammer |
| #2234, aired 1994-04-28 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: In Dutch these 2 antonyms are ja & nee yes & no |
| #2234, aired 1994-04-28 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: The Germans call this dessert Pfirsich Melba Peach Melba |
| #2234, aired 1994-04-28 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: In Spain pasta de dientes isn't a plate of pasta, it's this hygiene product toothpaste |
| #2234, aired 1994-04-28 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: Cavalo is the Portuguese word for this animal a horse |
| #2234, aired 1994-04-28 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $700 (Daily Double): In Italy this weather phenomenon is il lampo Lightning |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: This Italian word for "black" may remind you of a fiddling emperor Nero |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: In Greek this Steve Martin phrase would be me sinhorite Excuse me! |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: When seen on a German sign, this word for "attention" means "caution" achtung |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In French plums are called prunes & grapes are called these raisin |
| #2227, aired 1994-04-19 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $500: In Chinese geographical names, kiang refers to one of these a river |
| #2191, aired 1994-02-28 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $200: We don't think this Roman love goddess ate insects, but a plant named for her does Venus |
| #2191, aired 1994-02-28 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Fiercely loyal, pitiless people are called Myrmidons after Achilles' brutal followers during this war the Trojan War |
| #2191, aired 1994-02-28 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: A free-swimming jellyfish, or the Gorgon whose "hair" its tentacles resemble a Medusa |
| #2191, aired 1994-02-28 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1,000 (Daily Double): This word for a soft, gentle breeze comes from the name of the god of the west wind a zephyr |
| #2191, aired 1994-02-28 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: A type of mirror bears the name of this maiden who was beloved by Cupid Psyche |
| #2133, aired 1993-12-08 | EDIBLE WORDS & PHRASES $100: No matter how you slice it, something incredibly easy is called "a piece of" this cake |
| #2133, aired 1993-12-08 | EDIBLE WORDS & PHRASES $200: You don't have to be sweet to be described as a "tough" or "smart" one of these sweet snacks a cookie |
| #2133, aired 1993-12-08 | EDIBLE WORDS & PHRASES $300: A joke that's so old & stale you might want to roast it over an open fire a chestnut |
| #2133, aired 1993-12-08 | EDIBLE WORDS & PHRASES $400: Matters of little importance are described as these; so are little Russet Burbanks small potatoes |
| #2133, aired 1993-12-08 | EDIBLE WORDS & PHRASES $500: An eminent executive, or an enormous Edam a big cheese |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $100: "Sono scozzese" means "I'm Scottish" while "sono canadese" means this I'm Canadian |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $200: You probably think of otto as a man's name, but in Italian it's the word for this number 8 |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $300: Alitalia's frequent fliers know these 2 airport antonyms are "arrivo" & "partenza" arriving & departing (or arrival & departure) |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $400: A hairbrush is una spazzola per capelli & this is uno spazzolino da denti a toothbrush |
| #2131, aired 1993-12-06 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $500: A sign that says "non toccare" means this; you might see one in a Venetian glass shop do not touch |
| #2118, aired 1993-11-17 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: Romanians call this musical instrument a flaut Flute |
