| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $400: Pesade describes this animal rearing up on its hind legs with its front legs in the air--perhaps in a statue a horse |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $800: If you're a quidnunc, Latin for "what now?", you have this quality of excess curiosity, from a body part nosy |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $1200: In South Asia, you might give your dhoti, seen here, to a dhoby, a person with this job laundry (washing clothes) |
| #9085, aired 2024-04-19 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $4,200 (Daily Double): Below the line on ancient coins, the exergue is the space with the alliteratively named this mark, here for the city of Siscia mint mark |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $400: It's any long, eventful journey, but it doesn't have to last 10 years an odyssey |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $800: You are getting very sleepy... your eyelids are getting heavy... I am using this to put you in a trance hypnosis |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $1200: This word for a sudden fear that comes over you is from the name of a Greek god who could cause it panic |
| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $6,000 (Daily Double): This shield or breastplate of the gods now means the protection of any powerful entity the aegis |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | SOME TIMELY WORDS $400: From Latin, it means "occurring before noon" antemeridian |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | SOME TIMELY WORDS $800: You've probably seen this adjective meaning delayed past the proper time on a birthday card or 2 belated |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | SOME TIMELY WORDS $1600: This alliterative adjective applied to instant decisions came from stopwatches that had 2 separate fast-moving hands split-second |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | SOME TIMELY WORDS $2000: In 2004 Colin Powell called Fidel Castro one of these, a person or thing incongruously out of place in time an anachronism |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORDS THAT GO UP TO 11 $200: In this type of triangle, all the sides are of the same length equilateral |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORDS THAT GO UP TO 11 $400: A 2012 documentary named for this pitch follows Tim Wakefield & R.A. Dickey the knuckleball |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORDS THAT GO UP TO 11 $600: Popular in the 1800s, these meaty-named side whiskers were rocked by folks who didn't wanna grow a full beard muttonchops |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORDS THAT GO UP TO 11 $800: Admiration for England & the way they do things there Anglophilia |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | WORDS THAT GO UP TO 11 $1000: Change the first 3 letters in a fancy word for "blessing" to get this, a curse malediction |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $600: The name of these neck veins goes back to Latin words for throat & yoke jugular |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | "J-I-T" WORDS $200: Its magnetic field is 20 times stronger than Earth's Jupiter |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | "J-I-T" WORDS $400: The Rio Grande Valley is the birthplace of this dish of meat, onions & peppers sizzled & tortilla-ed fajitas |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | "J-I-T" WORDS $600: From the Latin for "close by", it's the placement of different elements side by side juxtaposition |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | "J-I-T" WORDS $800: Once the site of a state prison, this city near Chicago has an economy today based on tourism & casinos Joliet |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | "J-I-T" WORDS $1000: One of 3 core design languages, this programming mainstay is often used to add interactive features to webpages JavaScript |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | LONG WORDS $400: 14 letters:
Christian doctrine laid out by Paul in Romans 8:29-30, so god doesn't just know all but foreknows all predestination |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | LONG WORDS $800: 14 letters:
Newish nonmedical umbrella term for people whose brains work or develop differently neurodivergent |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | LONG WORDS $1200: 13 letters:
An adjective meaning outside of the power of a court of law extrajudicial |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | LONG WORDS $1600: 13 letters:
Toothed dino bird of the Jurassic period whose fossil is seen here Archaeopteryx |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | LONG WORDS $2000: 14 letters:
A sequence of fantastic & weird images, as seen perhaps in a dream or while hallucinating phantasmagoria |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | STATE FLAGS $400: In 1992 this state replaced the words "The Sunshine State" on its flag with the words "The Mount Rushmore State" South Dakota |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | STATE FLAGS $1000: This state's flag bears the words "Battle Born", referring to it becoming a state during the Civil War Nevada |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $2,000 (Daily Double): In "The Lives of the Twelve Caesars", it's said that his last words were "What an artist dies with me!" Nero |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | 2-WORD POP CULTURE $200: In the preface to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" we learn that these calming words are on the front of the reference book don't panic |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | EQUINE WORDS $400: The high version of this hairstyle was worn by Barbara Eden in "I Dream of Jeannie" & has been seen on Ariana Grande a high ponytail |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | EQUINE WORDS $600: This equine term refers to an old veteran such as a politician or soldier who's served a long time & has a lot of experience a war horse |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | EQUINE WORDS $800: These vertical pieces of wood, usually 2x4s, form the framework of an interior wall a stud |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | EQUINE WORDS $1000: Asked by Herod what she wanted, the daughter of Herodias replied, "Give me here John Baptist's head in" one of these platters a charger |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | WORDS READ BACKWARDS $200: A ruminant races backwards & becomes this last name of actor Oliver & musician Lou Reed (from deer) |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | WORDS READ BACKWARDS $400: Read backwards, a Japanese word for dried seaweed becomes this metal iron (from nori) |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | WORDS READ BACKWARDS $600: A word preceding "chart" for a step-by-step guide becomes this big canine wolf (from flow) |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | WORDS READ BACKWARDS $800: A set of enzymes from a cow's stomach lining becomes this, slang for what might buy you a plate of fish & chips tenner (from rennet) |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | WORDS READ BACKWARDS $1000: A runner who sets the tempo of a race rewinds & becomes this shortened word for a TV opening that might begin "previously on" a recap (from pacer) |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | WORDS IN INVITATIONAL $200: It can mean of utmost importance or essential to life vital |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | WORDS IN INVITATIONAL $400: It's an adjective meaning of or related to one's birth natal |
| #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 | WORDS IN INVITATIONAL $600: Anne-Sophie Mutter is an acclaimed player of this the violin |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | WORDS IN INVITATIONAL $800: French inventor & engineer Louis Bleriot was a pioneer in this field aviation |
| #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 | WORDS IN INVITATIONAL $1000: The seeds of this tropical tree yield a yellowish-red dye that's used as a food coloring, especially for cheese & margarine annatto |
| #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 |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $1200: Alexander Pope said "To err is human", then these 3 words to forgive divine |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | 21st CENTURY WORDS $200: To post a message originally posted by someone else on the service now known as X retweet |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | INTRODUCTORY WORDS $400: A state of decay can be described as "rack &" this ruin |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | 21st CENTURY WORDS $400: This word for a now-ubiquitous form of entertainment program comes in part from an Apple product a podcast |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | 21st CENTURY WORDS $600: What used to be a "buddy movie" depicting an affectionate relationship between 2 guys is now this blended word a bromance |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | INTRODUCTORY WORDS $800: With 58.33% of the letters in "introductory", it's a pipe to carry wiring or a person to carry information between 2 others conduit |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | 21st CENTURY WORDS $800: You hit this annoying thing when a website demands a fee to read content kept "behind" it a paywall |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | 21st CENTURY WORDS $1000: From the French, it's the sport of running, jumping & climbing around & over urban obstacles parkour |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | INTRODUCTORY WORDS $1200: According to an old joke, it's what you call the person who graduates last in their medical school class Doctor |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | INTRODUCTORY WORDS $1600: It refers to the first note of a scale, bringing harmony to a piece of music tonic |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | INTRODUCTORY WORDS $2000: It can mean a legal right in English or right in French droit |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TYPES OF POEMS $1000: For this grave work, Yeats chose words he had already written: "Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman, pass by" his epitaph |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | UNUSUAL WORDS $800: Don't be stingy with the Cabernet at one of these parties of mass revelry named for everyone's favorite wine god a bacchanal |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | UNUSUAL WORDS $1200: You'll need 3 "F"s to spell this word for a disorderly confusion given to us by the Scots a kerfuffle |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | UNUSUAL WORDS $1600: Giant monsters like Rodan or Mechagodzilla are these creatures in Japanese kaiju |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | UNUSUAL WORDS $2000: Something that moves counterclockwise or off course is said to have gone this manner that ends with some leg parts widdershins |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $200: It's said there are "three sides to every story: yours, mine" & this the truth |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $400: The spinal column, or firmness of character backbone |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $600: You don't want plaque building up in these of your arteries walls |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $800: Great material comfort, or anything you enjoy but don't need a luxury |
| #9052, aired 2024-03-05 | WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $1000: Hideous, or the style of art seen here grotesque |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: One who has a compulsive impulse to steal items they don't really need a kleptomaniac |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: In order to be one of these people who study the origin of words, you might want a degree in linguistics an etymologist |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | LANGUAGES $800: Quinine & quinoa are words derived from this South American language Quechua |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: If you're using metaphors & similes to make a point, you're speaking this way figuratively |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: Frances Willard, founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, was one a prohibitionist |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: From the Latin for "beauty", it's an adjective meaning having great beauty pulchritudinous |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES $1000: This port city at the southeast tip of the Korean Peninsula comes from words for "cauldron" & "mountain" Pusan |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | THAT'S A LONG STORY $3,200 (Daily Double): "Yes I said yes I will yes" are the last of this 1922 story's many, many words Ulysses |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COMPOUND WORDS $400: Today, fewer cars have this installed from the factory; you'll pay extra to have one put in to stash your gum wrappers an ashtray |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | AN ONOMATOPOEIA ROMANCE $400: Ah, yes, my dearest, I can't wait to say words of love to you as we "bill &" do this, like pigeons coo |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: A giant city edifice stretching toward the heavens, usually with more than 40 or 50 stories a skyscraper |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COMPOUND WORDS $1200: This condiment can be white if bottled in vinegar or red if bottled in beet juice horseradish |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COMPOUND WORDS $1600: Grade No. 10 is the most porous type of this fabric used to strain liquids cheesecloth |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | COMPOUND WORDS $2000: This phosphorescent glow is produced by certain fungi found on decaying wood fox fire |
| #9047, aired 2024-02-27 | "B"EGINNINGS $7,000 (Daily Double): A Norse god begins this word that means a nonsensical jumble of words balderdash |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: This deepest lake in Africa has a name that may come from Swahili words for "Sail" & "wilderness" Lake Tanganyika |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | THOSE WORDS PACKED SOMETHING TO EAT $400: Containing a veggie, it completes the saying "Hell hath no fury like a woman..." scorned |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | THOSE WORDS PACKED SOMETHING TO EAT $800: There's a fruit inside this word meaning "marked with small patches" such as "of sunlight" dappled |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | THOSE WORDS PACKED SOMETHING TO EAT $1200: There's lunch meat nestled in this cloth used for polishing a chamois |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | THOSE WORDS PACKED SOMETHING TO EAT $1600: The English word for unagi is inside this old pirate torture where you got dragged by ropes under the ship keelhauling |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | THOSE WORDS PACKED SOMETHING TO EAT $2000: Help yourself to a piece of dessert within this word meaning lack of reverence impiety |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 5 FOR THE ROAD $600: Ray Charles started off a song with these 4 words; now it means scram! Hit the road, Jack |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | 1970s MOVIES $5,000 (Daily Double): This 1976 drama ends with the typed out words "Gerald Ford to become 38th president at noon today" All the President's Men |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | WISTFUL THINKING $400: John Greenleaf Whittier noted, "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these" 4 words it might have been |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | SOME VERY MOVING WORDS $200: Stylishly showy, or in song, what is done "through the snow" dashing |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | RHYMING SYNONYMS $400: 3 & 4 letters long, these 2 words refer to the foremost part of a ship the bow or the prow |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | SOME VERY MOVING WORDS $400: To go forward, perhaps to the next playoff series; a kid may plead to get one on their allowance an advance |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | SOME VERY MOVING WORDS $600: In South Africa, to travel by ox wagon; in space, to travel by enterprise to trek |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | SOME VERY MOVING WORDS $800: Check my this as I lyrically not satirically lay it out empirically; it pairs with ebb to denote regular change flow |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | SOME VERY MOVING WORDS $1000: Let's hurry around the city to find this same-named part of an old-fashioned skirt a bustle |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | RHYMING SYNONYMS $1200: Gizmo of "Gremlins" fame frightfully screamed these 2 words after seeing a camera flash bright light |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ENDS IN "X" $800: The little hat worn by French words like hôtel & hôpital is called this a circumflex |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | CLASSIC TOYS & GAMES $1000: Alfred Butts invented this board game in 1931; he called it Criss-Cross Words Scrabble |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TOOLS $200: Dewalt's 20v Max XR lithium-ion cordless compact 1/2-inch is a lot of words but bottom line, it's a power type of this a drill |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | SOME LAZY WORDS $400: There's a shell-less mollusk at the start of this word meaning slow & lazy sluggish |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | SOME LAZY WORDS $800: The mid-1800s gave us this hyphenated word for an employee who keeps a close eye on the hour & minute hands a clockwatcher |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | SOME LAZY WORDS $1200: Oscitant is an adjective that means doing this--& don't start, because I will too yawning |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | SOME LAZY WORDS $1,800 (Daily Double): A prefix meaning "bad" begins this word for feigning illness in order to avoid work malingering |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | SOME LAZY WORDS $2000: Meaning inert or drowsy, it comes from Greek for "forget", like the name of a mythological river lethargic |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET CODE WORDS $200: The official formal one for a U.S. Marine is known as "dress blues" uniform |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET CODE WORDS $400: It's a Peruvian city, old bean Lima |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET CODE WORDS $600: Check in, check out; H is this hotel |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET CODE WORDS $800: F is this dance done in 4/4 time in a slow-quick-quick rhythm foxtrot |
| #3, aired 2024-02-02 | NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET CODE WORDS $1000: Take a swing at it--G is this golf |
| #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 | BRAINY QUOTES $800: This character is "a bear of very little brain, and long words bother" him Winnie-the-Pooh |
| #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 |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | SILENT-CONSONANT WORDS $400: This verb is used for working on dough, clay or muscles knead |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | SILENT-CONSONANT WORDS $800: As a verb it means "to become angry"; as a noun, it's a hair on a brush or a pig bristle |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | SILENT-CONSONANT WORDS $1200: In ancient Greek theater, Aeschylus reduced the number of the performers in this from 50 to 12 a chorus |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | SILENT-CONSONANT WORDS $2000: This word meaning poise ends with its silent B aplomb |
| #9025, aired 2024-01-26 | SILENT-CONSONANT WORDS $7,000 (Daily Double): Relevant or suitable, it comes from a French phrase meaning "to the purpose" àpropos |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $1200: The entire poem by Strickland Gillilan titled "On the Antiquity of Microbes" consists of these 3 words Adam had 'em |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ____ & ____ $300: This pair of words refers to rules, and the enforcement of those rules, in an organized society... dun dun law & order |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ____ & ____ $900: These words meaning "junk" refer to floating debris from a ship--some thrown overboard on purpose, some there by accident flotsam & jetsam |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ____ & ____ $1500: They're "F" words, but not the bad kind; they refer to a region's native plant & animal life flora & fauna |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ____ & ____ $3,000 (Daily Double): Used together, these words are synonymous with intrigue & secrecy, and they sound much cooler than "poncho & knife" cloak & dagger |
| #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 |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | INCONVENIENT WORDS $200: This carbonated water is flavored with quinine tonic |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | INCONVENIENT WORDS $400: It's a time-stamped document that outlines a buyer's obligation to a seller--a bill, if you will an invoice |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | INCONVENIENT WORDS $600: In 2023 this type of filing affecting housing was 50% higher than the pre-pandemic average in some cities eviction |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | INCONVENIENT WORDS $800: The Patent Office wants to make sure that this is "new, useful & non-obvious" invention |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | INCONVENIENT WORDS $1000: A column on chesscafe.com designed to help a beginning player improve is alliteratively called this "nook" the Novice Nook |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HATS IN OTHER WORDS $200: A vaquero is a type of one a cowboy hat |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HATS IN OTHER WORDS $400: Boil an egg this way if you want a solid inside hard boiled |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HATS IN OTHER WORDS $600: A type of quark or kind of toy tops |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HATS IN OTHER WORDS $800: The country with Volcán Barú as its highest point Panama |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | HATS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: A tin or container for tablets or lozenges a pill box |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WORDS THAT MAKE DOGS GO NUTS $200: It goes hand in hand with "trick" on All Hallows' Eve treat |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WORDS THAT MAKE DOGS GO NUTS $400: A large, lavish party with dancing; once upon a time Cinderella attended one ball |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WORDS THAT MAKE DOGS GO NUTS $600: It's the "P" in the automotive acronym PRNDL park |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WORDS THAT MAKE DOGS GO NUTS $800: In the "Ice Age" films, the acorn-obsessed Scrat is a fictional saber-toothed species of this rodent a squirrel |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | WORDS THAT MAKE DOGS GO NUTS $1000: In "Mean Girls", Gretchen Wieners tries to make this word happen to no avail fetch |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | OPERA, LIKE IT OR NOT $2000: The full title of this Wagner opera includes the words "and the Singer's Contest on the Wartburg" Tannhäuser |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $400: Although it sounds like it has to do with a Southern peanut, it really pertains to the job held by Newsom & DeSantis gubernatorial |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | OVER CASTE $800: Taking their name from words meaning "oak" & "wizard", they were the priestly upper caste of the ancient Celts the Druids |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $800: Though it sounds like a laughing beer, it's really a hubbub, maybe in a pub, bub brouhaha |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $1200: Meaning to throw out of a window, this term gained fame after a 1618 incident in Prague where 2 officials were so thrown defenestration |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $1600: Meaning a silly or flighty person, this word with 2 sets of double "B"s was mentioned in "King Lear" as a demon's name flibbertigibbet |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $5,400 (Daily Double): Sigmund knows that this is from the German for "damage" & "joy" & I'm getting a certain amount of it right now schadenfreude |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: It's the less-than-enthusiastic sound delivered here a raspberry |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: Half the world (divided by the equator) or half the brain hemisphere |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: They say this, the spirit & manners of knighthood, "is not dead", so it's okay to be courteous chivalry |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: It describes raccoons & bats & comes from the Latin for "of the night" nocturnal |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: A term for a medieval philosopher like Thomas Aquinas, or a large children's book publisher scholastic |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WATERLOGGED WORDS $400: These "drenched" fats are usually solid at room temperature & a diet high in them can raise cholesterol saturated |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WATERLOGGED WORDS $1200: With information it means "to shorten"; in science, it's what happens when vapor turns into water condense |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WATERLOGGED WORDS $1600: This verb can be defined as extinguishing a flame or dipping someone in water douse |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | WATERLOGGED WORDS $2000: This word for totally submerged has a huge body of water in the middle of it engulfed |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | JOHN GREEN $1000: (John Green presents the clue.) In my first novel, "Looking for Alaska", Miles "Pudge" Halter has an obsession with famous last words; my favorite are those of this Irish writer in 1900, something to the effect of, "Either this wallpaper goes, or I do" Wilde |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | OATHS $200: Though not in the Constitution, these four words are typically spoken at the end of the presidential oath of office so help me God |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | SOJOURNER TRUTH $1500: Though evidence suggests she never uttered the words, Truth's famous 1851 speech is known by the title "Ain't I a..." this Woman |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | WORDS ON THE MAP $400: It's a circle of the Earth that passes through both poles; the one through Greenwich is considered "prime" a meridian |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | WORDS ON THE MAP $800: On a National Weather Service map, T.S. indicates this possible precursor to a hurricane a tropical storm |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | TV WRITERS $1000: Ben Edlund & Susan Hurwitz Arneson put words into the mouth of this title blue superhero, as well as his sidekick Arthur The Tick |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | WORDS ON THE MAP $1200: A contour is a line on a map that connects points that have equal this altitude |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | WORDS ON THE MAP $1600: The Mercator is one variety of this method in which the curved surface of the earth is portrayed on a flat surface a projection |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | WORDS ON THE MAP $2000: According to the "Rand McNally 2024 Large Scale Road Atlas" map of Arizona, one this equals about 20 these an inch & a mile |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $200: 2-word title of "A Celebration of the Sesame Street Theme Song" Sunny Day |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | CAROLS $800: The words to this song first appeared in a church magazine in 1849 "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | WORDS & THEIR CHANGING MEANINGS $400: Once used to mean lust, it's now a 2-syllable synonym for indigestion heartburn |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | WORDS & THEIR CHANGING MEANINGS $800: Now meaning able to use both hands equally, it once denoted deceit ambidextrous |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | WORDS & THEIR CHANGING MEANINGS $1200: An Italian word for "baby boy", it meant a man, especially one who was inept or dumb, before it meant an attractive but dumb woman bimbo |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | WORDS & THEIR CHANGING MEANINGS $2000: This adjective that means moody or readily evaporating comes from Latin for "to fly"; it once meant a flying creature volatile |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | WORDS & THEIR CHANGING MEANINGS $2,500 (Daily Double): Before it meant any chain of islands, Archipelago was another name for this arm of the Mediterranean Sea the Aegean Sea |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | GOING TO THE DOG BREED WORDS $400: A pugilist a boxer |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | GOING TO THE DOG BREED WORDS $800: Human job of the guard of ewes shepherd |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | GOING TO THE DOG BREED WORDS $1200: Gotta think small... Juarez is in this Mexican state Chihuahua |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | GOING TO THE DOG BREED WORDS $1600: A short piece of advice on how to do something, or a long stick used to note an item a pointer |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | GOING TO THE DOG BREED WORDS $7,300 (Daily Double): Nationality of one from Valletta Maltese |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $200: It's the station at the end of a transport line, like Grand Central terminal |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $400: Revelation contains the line "I am Alpha &" this, "the beginning & the end" Omega |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $600: Grammatically, this 2-word phrase refers to a period; California drivers are asked to come to one before a crosswalk a full stop |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $800: "Blow of mercy" in French, it's a finishing blow at the end of combat a coup de grâce |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $1000: On televisions it refers to clarity of visual detail; legally, it's a verdict or final decision a resolution |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FROM THE FRENCH $1200: Words meaning "one-eyed" led to this word from French for a single eyeglass a monocle |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | DOUBLE Y-ed $400: From Greek words for "true" & "study", it's the study of the origin & development of words etymology |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | FICTIONAL LANGUAGES $800: You can be like Daenerys & actually learn about 4,000 words of this language of Khal Drogo Dothraki |
| #8995, aired 2023-12-15 | FICTIONAL LANGUAGES $2000: This language in "Avatar" was created by linguist Paul Frommer & consists of several thousand words Na'vi |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | A PROVERBIAL MESS $400: Words louder than actions speak actions speak louder than words |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | AD-JECTIVES $400: In other words this common pair of advertising adjectives could be "novel as well as ameliorated" new & improved |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | WORDS OF PEACE $400: This peaceful word is also a lack of wind, making sailors feel unpeaceful calm |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | WORDS OF PEACE $800: Be this peaceful word, also the name of a famous lake in Essex County, New York placid |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | WORDS OF PEACE $1200: Although they meant it in another sense, Three Dog Night sang of "an old fashioned love song comin' down in three-part" this harmony |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | WORDS OF PEACE $1600: The spaceship on "Firefly", or a state of peace Serenity |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WORDS FROM ARABIC $400: Derived from the Arabic sawahil, meaning "of the coast", it's a language on the African continent Swahili |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | AS EASY AS A-B-C $800: The title of a Lewis Carroll poem, it now means meaningless words or gibberish "Jabberwocky" |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WORDS FROM ARABIC $800: The fragrant name of this "Aladdin" princess comes from an Arabic word Jasmine |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WORDS FROM ARABIC $1200: Originally a set of tables recording astronomical movements, today it can be an annual reference book of articles & events an almanac |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WORDS FROM ARABIC $1600: If you don't know that this popular beverage comes from the Arabic qahwah, you get 2 lumps, not one coffee |
| #8988, aired 2023-12-06 | HOUSE PARTY $800: From words for "house study", it's the study of the relations of organisms to one another & to their environment ecology |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | ALSO A TAYLOR SWIFT SONG $1000: While crossing the George Washington Bridge from N.J., drivers are greeted by a sign with these 4 words (it's been waiting for you) Welcome to New York |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: A publisher bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 or fewer words; the result was "Green Eggs and Ham" Dr. Seuss |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $400: This crime is in Nevada's capital arson (in Carson City) |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $800: This wind in Maine's a gust (in Augusta) |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $1600: This tree in Tennessee's ash (in Nashville) |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $1,800 (Daily Double): This noodle in California's ramen (in Sacramento) |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS $2000: This Roman poet in Rhode Island's Ovid (from Providence) |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | QUOTABLE QUOTES $400: The first words he spoke on the telephone were "Mr. Watson, come here; I want to see you" Alexander Graham Bell |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | WE SELL FUN $800: Farmville & Words with Friends are social games from this end-of-the-alphabet company Zynga |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | Y_O_Y $1200: To tell a friend that something is really his bag, say "it's right up" these 2 words your alley |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $300: In "A Christmas Story", Ralphie says the "Queen Mother of dirty words" but this other "F" word is swapped in to keep it clean fudge |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $400: "O Captain! My Captain!", its words full of grief / Whitman's lament to this commander in chief Lincoln |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $200: The formal, concise statement of the meaning of a word; I worked out for weeks to get it for my muscles definition |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $400: It's a French word for a trite phrase, & the French have their own, like "J'ai dormi comme une souche", "I slept like a stump" a cliché |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $600: From the French for "kind", it's a distinctive category of literature like comedy or horror genre |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $800: The use of only a few words to convey meaning, it's said to be "the soul of wit" brevity |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | WRITERS' WORDS $1000: "Pathetic" or not, it's a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning a fallacy |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | THE 23rd PSALM $200: They're the first 5 words of the Psalm The Lord is my shepherd |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | GREENS $200: Joe Raposo wrote the words & music, but this character first sang, "It's Not Easy Being Green" Kermit the Frog |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | BANDS IN OTHER WORDS $200: Walloping gourds Smashing Pumpkins |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | BANDS IN OTHER WORDS $400: American bomber planes introduced in the 1950s the B-52s |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | BANDS IN OTHER WORDS $600: Unused young goats for sale at an auction New Kids on the Block |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | BANDS IN OTHER WORDS $800: .75 foot tacks Nine Inch Nails |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | BANDS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: Communal foe Public Enemy |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $200: AKA a pancake or hotcake
(26 points) a flapjack |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $400: To make the pressure between 2 forces the same
(26 points) equalize |
| #8966, aired 2023-11-06 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $600: Rusted, from a chemical point of view
(26 points) oxidized |
| #8965, aired 2023-11-03 | ONLY PARTLY TRUE $600: The Lone Ranger got his name after suffering from this, from Greek words for "fear" & "stranger" xenophobia |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: The name of this type of doctor comes from the Latin for "beast of burden" a veterinarian |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: In this type of complex, one has a persistent sense of inadequacy or a tendency to self-diminishment inferiority |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: Common in cases of ADHD & autism, "sensory" this is basically too much input overstimulation |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: Both Betsy Ross & Dolley Madison were disowned by the Quakers for marrying men from this denomination an Episcopalian |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Title for Sir Francis Drake, due to a specific feat he accomplished in 1580 a circumnavigator |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | WORDS IN HALLOWEEN $400: You might spin one "of fortune" a wheel |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | WORDS IN HALLOWEEN $800: It may be short-eared or great horned an owl |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | WORDS IN HALLOWEEN $1200: Temporary financial aid a loan |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | WORDS IN HALLOWEEN $1600: Saintly nimbus a halo |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | WORDS IN HALLOWEEN $2000: Rodin sculpted the "Gates of" this Hell |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | NON-NAUGHTY WORDS $200: Singer Faith or actor Jonah; what the...? Hill |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | NON-NAUGHTY WORDS $400: Oh, this! Rising 770 feet on the Feather River, Oroville is the highest one in the United States dam |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | NON-NAUGHTY WORDS $800: 1-word energy industry technique that's the subject of the film "Gasland" fracking |
| #8961, aired 2023-10-30 | NON-NAUGHTY WORDS $1000: That's a load of this, a short "riding" whip crop |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | ALWAYS SAY NEVER $600: "He that fights and runs away may" these 5 words "but he that is in battle slain will never rise to fight again" live to fight another day |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | SMART ANSWERS $1200: In a Jay McInerney book title, these 2 words precede "Big City" Bright Lights |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | 3 LITTLE WORDS $400: In prayer this phrase traditionally follows "Hail Mary" full of grace |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | "SMOKE" $400: In song, the 5 words that precede "all covered with snow" On top of Old Smokey |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | 3 LITTLE WORDS $800: I'm on your side; I'll always do this, the same as "step up to home plate", for you go to bat |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | 3 LITTLE WORDS $1200: In a 1988 political speech, they came before "no new taxes" read my lips |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | 3 LITTLE WORDS $1600: Proverbially, it "is better than none" half a loaf |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | 3 LITTLE WORDS $2000: This phrase for a non-working appliance contains a diminutive of "Friedrich" on the fritz |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $200: In a simpler time, this phrase meant "hang out & watch a movie"; it's evolved to mean "hang out, watch a movie &... you know" Netflix & chill |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | CAR MODELS IN OTHER WORDS $300: Honda plan for peaceful relations following conflict Accord |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $400: Austin Powers may be pop culture's greatest champion of this randy British verb; it even made the title of his sequel shag |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | CAR MODELS IN OTHER WORDS $600: Chevy somewhat formal or casual jacket, perhaps with metal buttons Blazer |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $600: For absurd innuendo, nothing beats "nudge, nudge" or this other matching word pair, from a classic Monty Python sketch wink, wink |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $800: There might be no dopier word for "have sex with" than this 1-syllable verb ending in "K", likely meant to evoke bouncing boink (or bonk) |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | CAR MODELS IN OTHER WORDS $900: Toyota Arctic plain void of trees Tundra |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | OTHER WORDS FOR DOIN' IT $1000: We can thank "Jersey Shore" for the popularity of this hookup verb--which certainly evokes compression, if not romance smush |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | CAR MODELS IN OTHER WORDS $1200: Dodge boxer who wants a shot at beating the champ Challenger |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | CAR MODELS IN OTHER WORDS $1500: Hyundai southwestern capital city with a Spanish name Santa Fe |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $200: Jennifer Aniston won one in September 2002; her then-husband Brad was nominated, but didn't win Emmy (M-E) |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $400: I can name this Native American dwelling in 2 letters a tepee (T-P) |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $600: In 1978 Jackson Browne was "Running On" these 2 letters Empty (M-T) |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $800: These 2 letters can often be seen growing on the sides of college buildings ivy (I-V) |
| #8949, aired 2023-10-12 | WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $1000: These 2 letters give you an adjective meaning squalid & unkempt seedy (C-D) |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $400: I'm antireligious, but I prayed when this blew out at 90 miles per hour a tire (in antireligious) |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $800: The evangelical Protestant claimed to have seen a cherub, a type of this an angel (in evangelical) |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $1200: If the Low Countries were cut off from other anesthetics, this could be used in the Netherlands ether (in Netherlands) |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $1600: The employees commiserated about the avariciousness of the boss--he really is a this a miser (in commiserated) |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $2000: The physician felt a rush of adrenaline when he barely avoided nicking this artery entering the kidney renal (in adrenaline) |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $200: While "pandemic" was the word for 2020, 2021 was more optimistic with this entry, thanks to Pfizer, Moderna, and others vaccine |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $400: In 2015, the word was the suffix "-ism" and 2 years later it was this "-ism" associated with Betty Friedan feminism |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $600: The lady seen here is a representation of this selection for 2018 justice |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S WORDS OF THE YEAR $1000: In 2003, the first Merriam-Webster "Word of the Year" was this form of government by the people democracy |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | 2 WORDS IN ONE $200: Cleopatra's cobra plus a command to stop gives us this road surface asphalt (asp + halt) |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SECEDE... $400: "We seceded where others failed" is the motto of the Conch Republic, formed for 1 minute by these Florida islands the Keys |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | 2 WORDS IN ONE $400: To ask for spare change plus one ninth of a baseball game gives us this starting place beginning (beg + inning) |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | 2 WORDS IN ONE $600: One piece of butter plus public group violence gives us this nation lover patriot (pat + riot) |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | 2 WORDS IN ONE $800: A Catholic religious service plus a standard unit of area gives us this wanton slaughter a massacre (mass + acre) |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | 2 WORDS IN ONE $1000: A shark appendage plus a type of beer gives us this musical conclusion finale (fin + ale) |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | SWORDS $1200: With the same name as the raised part at the front of a saddle, it's the round knob at the end of a sword's hilt pommel |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | MIRROR WORDS $200: The kind of chatter some have "the gift of" & a sack that might hold a gift gab & bag |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | MIRROR WORDS $400: A navigator's charts & unwanted inbox messages spam & maps |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | MIRROR WORDS $600: Your best buddies & an open hand smack to the face pals & slap |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | MIRROR WORDS $800: Ceramic vessels & a save made by a goalie pots & stop |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | MIRROR WORDS $1000: Money for the return of something lost & a compartment in a cabinet to keep it in reward & drawer |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | PROVERB VS. PROVERB $1200: If this is "mightier than the sword", then why the heck do "actions speak louder than words"? the pen |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | WORDS THAT END WITH "E" $200: It's zero in tennis, the last name of a Beach Boy & all you need love |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | WORDS THAT END WITH "E" $400: The phrase "stay in your" this is bad advice if you're being told not to try new things but good advice if you're driving lane |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | WORDS THAT END WITH "E" $600: The United Nation's IPCC stands for the Intergovernmental Panel on this phrase Climate Change |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | WORDS THAT END WITH "E" $800: This type of corporal is the third enlisted rank in the United States Marine Corps lance corporal |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $800: If you really think about it / It isn't so ridiculous / Knowing these are the first 5 words / In "A Visit from St. Nicholas" 'Twas the night before Christmas |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | WORDS THAT END WITH "E" $1000: An early appearance of this 2-word term describing a macho perspective was in a 1975 essay about film by Laura Mulvey the male gaze |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $200: What sayest thee? Dost thou mean this thing whereon beads are slid for counting? an abacus |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $400: The striped & brindled coat of yon cat now hath its own name, this tabby |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $600: Good news! No longer need we say "shedding its leaves at the end of its growing season"--herewith a word for that deciduous |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $800: From the zesty Italian tongue cometh this word for a large, plush residence; someday methinks it will have its own pants palazzo |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | NEW WORDS IN THE 1600s $1000: My anatomist doth dub it the "hipbone basin" but I must inform him that it is now known by this word of 6 letters the pelvis |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BIG-SCREEN BASKETBALL $200: 1997.
Five words: state championship clinched by dog Air Bud |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BIG-SCREEN BASKETBALL $300: The title of 2020 documentary "The Last Dance" comes from words emblazoned on the front of this team's 1997-98 playbook the Chicago Bulls |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | COMPOUND ADJECTIVES $1200: In other words, myopic, medically speaking nearsighted |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | BOOK TITLES IN OTHER WORDS $200: 1957:
"A Feline Sporting a Bowler"; it's cute either way The Cat in the Hat |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | BOOK TITLES IN OTHER WORDS $400: 1850:
"Magician Whose 2019 Net Worth was Pegged at $875 Million" David Copperfield |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | BOOK TITLES IN OTHER WORDS $600: 1967:
"A Century of Chillin' Solo" One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | BOOK TITLES IN OTHER WORDS $800: 1973:
"A Wheaties Slogan" Breakfast of Champions |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | WORD"LE" $800: In other words, your collarbone clavicle |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | BOOK TITLES IN OTHER WORDS $1000: 1992:
"Actor Jeff or Beau Living in Huntsville, Alabama" The Bridges of Madison County |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | WORKING WORDS $200: Sounds gruesome, but it's actually a person who recruits candidates for top-level jobs a headhunter |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | WORKING WORDS $800: It's the controversial cost-saving practice of subcontracting services once done in-house to a third party outsourcing |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | WORKING WORDS $1000: It's the 2-word Latin phrase meaning a particular way of doing something, work-wise or criminally related modus operandi |
| #8925, aired 2023-07-28 | WORKING WORDS $2,400 (Daily Double): Referring to writers & others who are self-employed & work job to job, it was first used of mercenary knights freelance |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | PHYSICS $800: Of these 2 opposite everyday words, one has a limit because you can't take away more energy than is there; the other is in theory infinite cold & heat |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | COFFEE, NOW $1,800 (Daily Double): These 2 words on a bag of coffee mean its supply chain has been independently certified as meeting sustainability & labor standards fair trade |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | PREFIXES & SUFFIXES $1000: From the Latin for "around", this prefix hangs around "-flex" as a mark used in French words circum |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | SLANG $800: Also the title of a song by DJ Mustard, Ty Dolla $ign & Ashanti, these 2 words may sound rude but just mean "I understand" say less |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | QUOTABLE BOOKS $400: In "Gone with the Wind", these 4 words finish the line "Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all..." tomorrow is another day |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | EDIBLE ETYMOLOGY $600: The name of this garnishing herb comes from words meaning "rock" & "celery" parsley |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | OPPOSITES $1000: Regarding blood pressure, these 2 words that end with the same 6 letters refer to how the heart muscles relax & contract systolic & diastolic |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WORDS THAT END WITH DOUBLE LETTERS $200: "Mister" in Munich Herr |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WORDS THAT END WITH DOUBLE LETTERS $400: To not buy something as a protest, or the mass action of shunning the product boycott |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WORDS THAT END WITH DOUBLE LETTERS $600: A slight smell or odor of something a whiff |
| #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 | A BIBLICAL BURIAL $800: In the King James Bible, when a man said he'd follow Jesus but first had to bury his dad, Jesus said these 6 words let the dead bury their dead |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WORDS THAT END WITH DOUBLE LETTERS $800: Note what the guys are carrying to identify this game, that dates back well over a century broomball |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WORDS THAT END WITH DOUBLE LETTERS $1000: It describes the smile of a baby younger than about 6 months, or an ineffective law toothless |
| #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 |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $400: A small flowing body of water contains this, 500 sheets of paper a ream |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $800: A number above a trillion is pierced by this, a product you can get from DeWalt a drill |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $1200: Inside a domesticated fowl is this word of disgust; it's paired with "the" in Gen Z slang for a dating turnoff the ick |
| #8906, aired 2023-07-03 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $1600: A word for an underground cemetery hides this Mexican food offering a taco |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | COMPOUND WORDS $200: Emily Post wrote that when meeting others, this should not feel viselike, nor like a wet rag a handshake |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | COMPOUND WORDS $400: Palermo, Sicily was home to the 2022 world championships in this sport that requires a board you stand on with a sail attached windsurfing |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | COMPOUND WORDS $600: "The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered" by Ada Louise Huxtable calls this type of structure "where art & the city meet" a skyscraper |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: Headlines on the Internet such as "You won't believe what Mayim said about Charo" are this, to get you to go to the site clickbait |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | COMPOUND WORDS $1000: As a verb it means to try to persuade someone; as a noun, it's simply the mandible jawbone |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | THE LAW $2,000 (Daily Double): The 1970 law that ties different crimes into a pattern that can be prosecuted ties 4 words into this acronym RICO |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WORDS $200: A magistrate, perhaps of the peace justice |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WORDS $400: Raised areas of seating for spectators stands |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WORDS $600: A principle of public international law regarding trade relations involves the most-favored this nation |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WORDS $800: Title of a famous Plato work Republic |
| #8903, aired 2023-06-28 | PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WORDS $1000: Prime numbers are this, except by the number 1 & themselves indivisible |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $400: Gore Vidal said he loathed this "In Cold Blood" writer "the way you might loathe... a filthy animal" Capote |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $800: Not the Pickwick but the Garrick Club was the site of conversations that caused a falling out between Thackeray & this author Dickens |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $1200: Years before "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu", he fought a duel with a critic who had angered him; both shots missed Proust |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $1600: Poet Wallace Stevens' feud with this novelist erupted into punches in a Key West street Hemingway |
| #8901, aired 2023-06-26 | WAR OF THE WORDS $2000: In 1976, Mario Vargas Llosa gave this other 3-named South American Nobelist a literal black eye Gabriel García Márquez |
| #8898, aired 2023-06-21 | -OLOGIES $1000: The history of words & the study of them, its own goes back to Greek for "true meanings" etymology |
| #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 |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | FACT: NONFICTION $2000: These 3 words complete the title of Stephen R. Covey's "The 7 Habits of..."; be one of them now highly effective people |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A CHORUS LINE $1000: "However far away I will always love you / However long I stay I will always love you / Whatever words I say..." The Cure |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | SILENT K WORDS $400: It's a type of backpack a knapsack |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | SILENT K WORDS $800: In a Chumbawamba song, this happens, "but I get up again" (I get) knocked down |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | SILENT K WORDS $1200: In an epic takedown in "King Lear", Oswald is called a this, "a rascal... filthy, worsted-stocking" this (again) knave |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | SILENT K WORDS $1600: This aptly named brand calls itself a "wedding marketplace that connects couples with local wedding professionals" the Knot |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | SILENT K WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Sir Francis Bacon wrote, "ipsa scientia potestas est", often translated to this phrase knowledge is power |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | PASSION $1000: These 2 passionate words make up the title of a 1965 film about Michelangelo agony & ecstasy |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | THE SCIENCE OF POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): In a 1920s limerick, "There was a young lady named Bright/ Whose speed was far" these 3 words; she gets back home before she left faster than light |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WORDS ENDING IN "Y" $400: Hopefully, your golf ball ends up here after your tee shot the fairway |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WORDS ENDING IN "Y" $800: It sounds like a place where chimps & gorillas are kept, but as you can see, it's not an apiary |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WORDS ENDING IN "Y" $1600: If something sounds false, it's said to strain this quality, from the Latin for "believe" credulity |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WORDS ENDING IN "Y" $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the branch of a government that oversees the application of laws the judiciary |
| #8885, aired 2023-06-02 | WORDS ENDING IN "Y" $2000: The life story of a saint, it has come to mean an admiring or idealized chronicle of anyone hagiography |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $400: Ancistroid means shaped like these items used to catch fish or hang shower curtains hooks |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $800: Make a designer finish for a wall by pressing small stones into this material & you've got depreter stucco (plaster) |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $1200: In this system of equalizing the burden horses carry to make a race fair, an impost is an added weight handicapping |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): In "A Wrinkle in Time", Meg's scientist dad likes to extend "Meg" into this nickname equal to 3.26 million light years a megaparsec |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $2000: From the Greek for "interpreter", this plural word is the branch of theology dealing with the interpretation of biblical texts hermeneutics |
| #8882, aired 2023-05-30 | MOUNTAINS $400: This Alp between Switzerland & Italy has a name from German words meaning "meadow" & "peak" Matterhorn |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | PLAY "FREE" WORDS $400: In 1993 Gerald Perry became the first NFL player to sign with a new team as one of these under a new unrestricted system a free agent |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | PLAY "FREE" WORDS $800: Also in the title of a classic Miles Davis track, it's a person who likes to mooch complimentary food & drink a freeloader |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | PLAY "FREE" WORDS $1200: This cable channel was once known as ABC Family Freeform |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | PLAY "FREE" WORDS $1600: C.S. Lewis wrote that this ability is "the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having" free will |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | PLAY "FREE" WORDS $2000: A kind of shoe is in this name for a pirate a freebooter |
| #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 |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | STATE OF THE UNION $200: In Pennsylvania you can visit the natl. cemetery in this town & see where Lincoln said a few memorable words on Nov. 19, 1863 Gettysburg |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | SCIENCE $2000: This mammalian group that includes seals, sea lions & walruses has a name from Latin words meaning "fin" & "foot" pinniped |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | THE 1960s $600: On June 16, 1966 activist Stokely Carmichael rallied a crowd with "we want" these 2 words Black power |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | SOME HARD WORDS $200: The task is this, meaning extraordinarily difficult? must be a job for a mythical Greek hero! Herculean |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-"SY"LLABLE WORDS $400: In ancient Athens, it was a class of informers; today, it's a total suck-up sycophant |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | SOME HARD WORDS $400: Stoves & stomachs are made of this 2-word alloy formed in a mold cast iron |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | SOME HARD WORDS $600: This synonym for indifferent is a homonym of a word for hardened skin callous |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-"SY"LLABLE WORDS $800: It's the S in S.L.E., the most common type of lupus, an autoimmune disease systemic |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | SOME HARD WORDS $800: Thoroughly heated via immersion, or the type of fiction mastered by James M. Cain hard-boiled |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | SOME HARD WORDS $1000: Old French for "diamond", it can mean a diamond or other object of unyielding firmness adamant |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | COMPOSERS $1000: "Hella good fugues, Nicky", or words to that effect, was Tchaikovsky's response when this young composer sent him some works Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-"SY"LLABLE WORDS $1200: The seat of Onondaga County, it's on the south end of Onondaga lake Syracuse |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-"SY"LLABLE WORDS $1600: Voluptuary & sensualist are synonyms for this word for someone devoted to luxury a sybarite |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | 3-"SY"LLABLE WORDS $7,200 (Daily Double): A lack of blood flow to the brain & a drop in blood pressure cause this, the medical term for fainting syncope |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | "G"-RATED WORDS $200: Rain water & bad bowling attempts end up in this the gutter |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | "G"-RATED WORDS $400: From the French for "wine taster", it's a term for a connoisseur of fine food & drink a gourmet |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | "G"-RATED WORDS $600: This gloomy architecture style is known for using flying buttresses Gothic |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | "G"-RATED WORDS $800: Derived from Spanish but sounding a bit French, it's a wire used to strangle someone, or the act itself garrote |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | "G"-RATED WORDS $1000: Smaller than gorillas, these arboreal apes move by brachiating, swinging from their arms gibbons |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: Last 4 words of our national anthem, as sung by an animated kitchen appliance & his german-style Pillsbury product home of the brave little toaster strudel |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | SCULPTORS $1200: Weird, it's abstract but it's also a chicken--it's this, from words for "Life" & "shape", maybe by Jean Arp or Anish Kapoor biomorphic sculpture |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | A LOSS FOR WORDS $400: You are "in" this color if you're insolvent; try & fix that, will you? the red |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | A LOSS FOR WORDS $800: When it means squandering time or money, this donut is usually followed by "away" frittered |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | A LOSS FOR WORDS $1200: Not jettisoned overboard on purpose, this term refers to any wreckage on the water's surface lost from a boat flotsam |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | A LOSS FOR WORDS $2000: On film, Tom Hanks was on the "Road" to it, meaning spiritual loss or ruin Perdition |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE 2 SAME-SPELLED WORDS $200: Garbage &
to deny refuse (REH-fuse) & refuse (re-FUZE) |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE REST IS HISTORY $400: These 3 words, a cliché about our first president, are really on a plaque about what he did at a Georgia inn on May 16, 1791 Washington slept here |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE 2 SAME-SPELLED WORDS $400: To rip &
a drop of saline fluid tear (TARE) & tear (TIER) |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE 2 SAME-SPELLED WORDS $600: A type of fish &
instrument mastered by Jaco Pastorius bass (BASS) & bass (BASE) |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE 2 SAME-SPELLED WORDS $800: To exhibit or create something &
agricultural edibles produce (proh-DOOS) & produce (PROH-doos or PRAH-doos) |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | THE 2 SAME-SPELLED WORDS $1000: To propel a boat &
to have a quarrel row (ROE) & row (rOW) |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | SOME OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS $600: These 4 words come 2 verses before "Thou shalt not steal" Thou shalt not kill |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | REPEATS ITSELF $400: In a Grimm Brothers' tale, an evil queen looks at her wall & says these 2 words, asking, "Who in this land is fairest of all?" Mirror, mirror |
| #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 |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | MUSICAL THEATER $200: In the "Guns and Ships" number in this musical, Daveed Diggs as Marquis de Lafayette hit an amazing 6.3 words per second Hamilton |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $400: Anointing with oil; it used to be in the name of an "extreme" Catholic sacrament unction |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | SUBTITLED LITERATURE $1600: These 2 words finish the subtitle of "Frankenstein" Modern Prometheus |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $1600: Want to walk on ice? Try these, a set of spikes similar to cleats that you attach to your boots crampons |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | NOT YOUR EVERYDAY WORDS $2000: It's the French name for the shelving seen here an étagère |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | QUADRISYLLABIC WORDS $400: License & this piece of paper proving it's your vehicle, please registration |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | QUADRISYLLABIC WORDS $800: In mortgage lending, it's the "A" in ARM adjustable |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | QUADRISYLLABIC WORDS $1200: This word meaning self-government is from the Greek for "independence" autonomy |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | QUADRISYLLABIC WORDS $1600: In statistics it's the tendency for 2 values to change in sync; as often said, it's "not causation" correlation |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | QUADRISYLLABIC WORDS $2000: It's the forgiveness of sin granted by the sacrament of penance absolution |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Born in 1896, this author was named for his distant cousin who penned the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | WORLD OF WORDS & IDIOMS $400: In Mexico to laze around is "echar la hueva", literally to toss this food item egg |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | WORLD OF WORDS & IDIOMS $800: In the Netherlands "So it's like that!" is "O, op die fiets", "On that" this transport the Dutch love bicycle |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | WORLD OF WORDS & IDIOMS $1200: This language of the Aztecs has added many food words to modern English, including avocado, chili & tomato Nahuatl |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | WORLD OF WORDS & IDIOMS $1600: In parts of the Middle East & Asia a payment that can be construed as a tip or bribery is known by this word from the Persian baksheesh |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | WORLD OF WORDS & IDIOMS $2000: Ronald Reagan adapted the Russian saying "Doveryai, no proveryai" into this 3-word maxim about nuclear weapons deals trust but verify |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY IN A FEW WORDS $200: Witches,
Dunsinane,
ghost,
blood?
Womb,
doom Macbeth |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY IN A FEW WORDS $400: Shipwreck,
Viola...
Cesario...
same?!
Romance Twelfth Night |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY IN A FEW WORDS $800: Magic,
monsoon,
misunderstanding,
men from Milan The Tempest |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY IN A FEW WORDS $1000: Navarre,
celibacy!
Rosaline?
Re-plan! Love's Labour's Lost |
| #5, aired 2023-05-10 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY IN A FEW WORDS $2,800 (Daily Double): Octavia,
Octavius,
battle,
snake,
figs,
finis Antony and Cleopatra |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | NEED! COFFEE! NOW! $1000: Company legend says Teddy Roosevelt praised Maxwell House coffee with these 5 words, a slogan they still use today good to the last drop |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | WOMEN WRITERS $1600: This magazine contributor, short-story author & poet once said, "I can't write five words but that I change seven" Dorothy Parker |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | MAGAZINES IN OTHER WORDS $200: "Humans":
Very famous humans, including the annual Most Arousing Male Human Still Breathing People |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | MAGAZINES IN OTHER WORDS $400: "She":
Always in fashion, & en Français, s'il vous plaît! Elle |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | MAGAZINES IN OTHER WORDS $600: "Adequate Home Maintenance":
Will you give your approval to its seal? Good Housekeeping |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | MAGAZINES IN OTHER WORDS $800: "Sophisticated":
Take our quiz on its famous quizzes! Cosmopolitan |
| #8864, aired 2023-05-04 | MAGAZINES IN OTHER WORDS $1000: "An Ocean":
Dive into politics, pop culture, tech & other stuff The Atlantic |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | MIND YOUR GRAMMAR $600: A Big Red "S.F." on a term paper stands for this, a sequence of words lacking subject, verb or both a sentence fragment |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | WORLD OF WORDS $400: Until 1917, it was a Russian emperor; today, this title is used informally to mean someone in charge czar |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | WORLD OF WORDS $800: In German, it's Dienstag; in Latin, it's Dies Martis; in English, it's this Tuesday |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | WORLD OF WORDS $1200: From Hebrew, this word that can follow bar or bat refers to a good deed mitzvah |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | WORLD OF WORDS $1,400 (Daily Double): French for "work", this vowel-heavy word is often used for all of the works by an artist or composer oeuvre |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | WORLD OF WORDS $2000: From an Italian word for "boat", it was the type of song originally sung by Venetian boatmen a barcarolle |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: This type of wedding often involves traveling to a fun location like Hawaii or Mexico a destination |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: Everybody into the pool, this type with a vanishing edge an infinity pool |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | RIHANNA $1000: Rihanna's girl songs include "Selfish Girl", "A Girl Like Me", & signaling a new edgy image, "Good Girl..." these 2 words "Gone Bad" |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: Once meaning to "pull up by the roots", today it means to get rid of something completely, like to wipe out a disease to eradicate |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: Used in science, a substance that can't be dissolved in a liquid is termed this insoluble |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): In Zen Buddhism satori is attainment of this, also an intellectual awakening of the 18th century enlightenment |
| #8857, aired 2023-04-25 | SEPARATION $800: The phrase "separate the sheep from" these other bleating animals is derived from Jesus' words in Matthew 25:32 goats |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $600: About the size of France, this ex-French colony is seen here living up to 2 of the 3 words in its name the Central African Republic |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | Y IS THE ONLY VOWEL $1600: The Maya were known to carve these symbols that represent sounds & words into blocks of rock glyphs |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | CUTTING IN LINE AT THE MOVIES $400: Cary Elwes to Chris Sarandon: "I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog-faced buffoon" The Princess Bride |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ARCHITECTURALLY SPEAKING $600: In other words, "when one won't tolerate temperature, remove oneself from food-making facilities" if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | ANIMALISTIC WORDS $400: Meaning sly or crafty, vulpine also means resembling one of these animals a fox |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | AMERICANA $400: A 1952 song inserted "the" into this character's name, but the Forest Service insists it's just two words Smokey Bear |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | ANIMALISTIC WORDS $800: Simian, meaning resembling one of these primates, comes from Simia, a name for an obsolete genus a monkey (ape) |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | ANIMALISTIC WORDS $1200: This word for a covering suspended over a bed comes from Greek konops, or mosquito, which it was meant to keep out canopy |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | ANIMALISTIC WORDS $1600: Now applied mostly to noses, this adjective means curved like the beak of an eagle aquiline |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | ANIMALISTIC WORDS $2000: Used to describe giraffes & big snakes, it means having net-like markings reticulated |
| #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 |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | SONGS FROM '60s MUSICALS $1,000 (Daily Double): With a 10-word title, "Comedy Tonight" & "The House Of Marcus Lycus" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
| #8839, aired 2023-03-30 | STATE MOTTO TRANSLATIONS $800: Fatti maschii parole femine is literally "manly deeds, womanly" these but Maryland now prefers "strong deeds, gentle" these words |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | SCIENCE INITIALS & ACRONYMS $1600: Of the 3 words that combine to make LORAN, it's last, admiral navigation |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORDS FROM GREEK & LATIN $400: Latin for "to sew" gives us this medical word for a stitch suture |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | TOUGH TOUGH-GUY TV $800: Too tough for a first name, Western hero Paladin had a business card that said these 2 words, "will travel" Have gun |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORDS FROM GREEK & LATIN $800: A fancy word for movies is related to this Greek-derived word for "exhibiting motion" kinetic |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORDS FROM GREEK & LATIN $1600: The opposite of an iamb, this word for a pattern of stressed-unstressed as in the word "rabbit" is from Greek for "run" a trochee |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | WORDS FROM GREEK & LATIN $2000: From Greek for "sound", it's the term for the smallest meaningful unit of spoken sound; English has just over 40 a phoneme |
| #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 |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | & EYE $1000: Referring to the device used, these 2 words are the "L-A" in LASIK eye surgery laser-assisted |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | MYSELF $1000: If we may get existential for a moment... in 1963 this thinker published "Les Mots", or "The Words" of his life Sartre |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LOVE, IN SO MANY WORDS $200: "Whatever our souls are made of, (Heathcliff's) and mine are the same" in this novel; with Linton, not so much Wuthering Heights |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LOVE, IN SO MANY WORDS $400: Pip notes, "When I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible" in this classic Great Expectations |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LOVE, IN SO MANY WORDS $600: "That" she "should receive an offer of marriage from Mr. Darcy! That (Darcy) should have been in love with her for so many months!" Elizabeth Bennet |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LOVE, IN SO MANY WORDS $1000: You can detect this novelist wrote, "Nora said: 'I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice and know such fascinating people"' Dashiell Hammett |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LOVE, IN SO MANY WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): In a play, this character says, "Ah, credulity of love! Roxane will think each word inspired by herself!" Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #8826, aired 2023-03-13 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $500 (Daily Double): These are Richard III's "beastly" last 5 words my kingdom for a horse |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | TV SHOWS IN OTHER WORDS $200: "Felonious Intellects" Criminal Minds |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | HODGEPODGE $400: With no combustion engine, electric cars may have a frunk, a combo of these 2 words a front trunk |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | TV SHOWS IN OTHER WORDS $400: "Cephalopod Contest" Squid Game |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | TV SHOWS IN OTHER WORDS $600: "Legendshatterers" MythBusters |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | TV SHOWS IN OTHER WORDS $800: "Dread All Ambulatory Inanimate" Fear the Walking Dead |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | TV SHOWS IN OTHER WORDS $1000: "Zany Former Sweetheart" Crazy Ex-Girlfriend |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | FIRST WORDS $800: Inception is a synonym for this, also an event at the end of a college career commencement |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | LET'S GET DIRTY $800: "The Seven Dirty Words You Can Never Say on Television" was a routine by this late, great humorist George Carlin |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | FIRST WORDS $1200: It's the first of a product before copies are made; KFC used it to describe their "first" recipe original |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | FIRST WORDS $1600: To begin the bidding in a card game or at an auction open |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | FIRST WORDS $2000: Seen here are the skin cells described by this fundamental adjective basal |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HISTORY $1,400 (Daily Double): Between 1776 & 1783, Thomas Paine wrote "Crisis" papers, each signed with these 2 words from a familiar early pamphlet Common Sense |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ODD WORDS $400: To egosurf is to search the Internet for mentions of this yourself |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | -POL, -POLI, -POLIS CITIES $800: This Italian name of a big city on a bay is from words meaning "new city" Napoli |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ODD WORDS $800: This symbol found on your keyboard gets its name from "and per se and" an ampersand |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ODD WORDS $1600: From the French, this word referring to a commotion or uproar sounds like there's laughing at the end of it a brouhaha |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | ODD WORDS $2000: Head toward the end of the alphabet for this word meaning an extreme fear of foreigners xenophobia |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | ONOMATOPOEIA $800: These 2 words that differ by one vowel combine to mean a change of heart flip & flop |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | WORD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Reviewing a murder mystery in 1930, Donald Gordon coined this inquisitive 3-words-in-one word for a detective story a whodunnit |
| #8804, aired 2023-02-09 | "WORLD" $1,000 (Daily Double): These 5 words complete the Robert Browning "God's in his heaven--" all's right with the world |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WORDS WITH DIPHTHONGS $400: A diphthong is a sound made by combining 2 vowels, like the "AI" in tail or in this word for the head of a committee chair |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WORDS WITH DIPHTHONGS $800: "Rosebud is the sled?!" You just blew the surprise of a major plot point with one of these revealing statements a spoiler |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WHOA, "O"! $800: Words that imitate natural sounds like bonk, clank & clunk are examples of this onomatopoeia |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WORDS WITH DIPHTHONGS $1200: Take a diphthong into this word for a sullen expression, which "you better not" do, "I'm telling you why" in a Christmas song pout |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WORDS WITH DIPHTHONGS $1600: One who gives advice; it's also a term of address used by judges to lawyers counsel (counselor) |
| #8802, aired 2023-02-07 | WORDS WITH DIPHTHONGS $2000: It means a farm laborer & follows "Piers" in the name of a 14th century poem with a double-diphthong title Ploughman |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | NOW, WE DUEL $400: Seen here, film director Willy Rozier fought a duel over the negative words of François Chalais, who was this type of writer a movie critic |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | BIG RIVER $2000: The name of this great river comes from words meaning "place to paddle" in the language of the Warao of Venezuela the Orinoco |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $400: An unbroken series of wins & a T-bone to dine on streak & steak |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $800: An injury & a division of a boxing match wound & round |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1200: A female rabbit & an oxford a doe & a shoe |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1600: Proverbial coal mine avian & wheat storehouse a canary & a granary |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $2000: The boundary between 2 air masses & a typeface used in printing like Korinna Bold a front & font |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | ALL THINGS IRISH $400: The name of these mischievous little people of folklore may have come from Old Irish words for "small" & "body" leprechaun |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | PACINO PLAYED 'EM $1000: Homicide detective Will Dormer, whose name is close to Euro-words meaning "sleep", in this film Insomnia |
| #8792, aired 2023-01-24 | SAY IT WITH ADVERTISING $800: In a famous slogan these 4 words precede "State Farm is there" like a good neighbor |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | WORDS OF PEACE $400: Used as a Jewish greeting, it's the Hebrew word for "peace" shalom |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | WORDS OF PEACE $800: A grape variety shares its name with this word meaning in peace & harmony concord |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | WORDS OF PEACE $1600: San Marino is known as the most this republic, a word meaning "calm" or "peaceful" serene |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | WORDS OF PEACE $2000: It's Latin for the period of tranquility that lasted from the reigns of Augustus to Marcus Aurelius the Pax Romana |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | WORDS OF PEACE $5,000 (Daily Double): From a Latin word meaning "to come to a stop", it's an agreement to stop fighting & was in the original name of Veterans Day armistice |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | 2 WORDS, 3 LETTERS EACH $300: A scoundrel who wins his victims' trust & then swindles them a con man |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | 2 WORDS, 3 LETTERS EACH $600: Like Fifth & Madison Avenues in New York City, since 1966 one way |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | 2 WORDS, 3 LETTERS EACH $900: Someone who cares a lot about their body & spends a lot of time at 24 Hour Fitness is this rodent a gym rat |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | 2 WORDS, 3 LETTERS EACH $1500: When the pope makes someone a cardinal, he's said to give them this item to wear a red hat |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | 2 WORDS, 3 LETTERS EACH $3,000 (Daily Double): It doesn't sound super-medical, but Queen Elizabeth II's death certificate lists the cause as this, at 96 old age |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $1200: The name of this organ that produces digestive juices comes from words meaning "all flesh" the pancreas |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | SCIENCE WORDS $1200: This word for a plain of lower elevation on our moon means "sea" in Latin mare |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | SCIENCE WORDS $1600: These treelike fibers usually carry nerve impulses to a neuron's cell body dendrites |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | SCORE TO SETTLE $2000: From the Latin for measuring "a foot & a half long", it refers to using long words sesquipedalian |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | SCIENCE WORDS $2000: Perijove means the point in orbit closest to this planet Jupiter |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | CLICHES $1600: Lake Superior State U.'s 2022 overused "banished words" include this phrase that follows an embarrassing query really about oneself asking for a friend |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | BLENDED WORDS $200: Mimosas all around for this late morning meal, especially on Sundays brunch |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | BLENDED WORDS $400: Your pal & your rival, wrapped into one a frenemy |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | BLENDED WORDS $600: Uh-oh, we have a potentially dangerous situation, judging by this type of suit worn here hazmat |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | BLENDED WORDS $800: Term for the United Kingdom formally withdrawing from the European Union on January 31, 2020 Brexit |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | BLENDED WORDS $1000: FYI, this product injected to minimize facial wrinkles is made from the same substance that causes a serious food poisoning botox |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | BOOZY PHRASES $1,500 (Daily Double): This phrase became a meme as the words spoken just before doing a reckless stunt hold my beer and watch this |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | THE SILENT TYPE $1600: This adjective describing one who uses a bare minimum of words derives from the region where ancient Sparta was laconic |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | ROMANTIC MOVIE LINES $1000: In "Moonstruck", after Nicolas Cage says, "I'm in love with you", Cher slaps him twice & says these 4 words Snap out of it |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | 3-NAMED WRITERS $600: "I do not worry about dying" were the prophetic words of Federico García Lorca, who was put to death in 1936 during this conflict the Spanish Civil War |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | LITERARY CHARACTER NAMES $1600: He's a sensitive member of J.D. Salinger's Glass family; at one point, it's spelled as 2 words like "perceive extra" see more (Seymour Glass) |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES $400: "IOW" is Internet shorthand for this, a different way to say something in other words |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES $600: When singing "America The Beautiful", you end with these 5 words from sea to shining sea |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | WORDS WITH GREEK LETTERS $400: It's an artistic representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over Jesus' body & is made up of 2 Greek letters pieta (pi & eta) |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | WORDS WITH GREEK LETTERS $800: 3M, B-52 & 401(k) all have this quality, which begins with 2 Greek letters alphanumeric (alpha & nu) |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | WORDS WITH GREEK LETTERS $1200: To mock or insult someone, especially after beating them in a game taunt (tau) |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | WORDS WITH GREEK LETTERS $1600: In addition to alcohol consumption, this liver disease can be caused by obesity & viral infection cirrhosis (rho) |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | WORDS WITH GREEK LETTERS $2000: This "ism" is the philosophical belief that the self is the only thing that really exists solipsism (psi) |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | INVASIONS $1200: On May 1, 2003, 6 weeks after the invasion of Iraq, George W. Bush stood under a banner bearing these 2 words Mission accomplished |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | CAPITAL CITY RIVERS $800: This capital lies astride the Molonglo River, whose name is from Aboriginal words meaning "the sound of thunder" Canberra |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: What we did to the words in the video & the most exciting part of a trip or event highlight |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: During violent winter storms, penguins gather for protection in a tightly packed group called this, just like in football a huddle |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: In biology, it's a thin outer layer of a cell; osmosis is the passage of a fluid through a semipermeable one a membrane |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: This wedge-shaped piece is at the summit of an arch & holds the rest of the pieces in place a keystone |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: An electromagnetic emanation around living things; a red one means you are energetic an aura |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | YOU GET LETTERS $1600: Many Brits put an "intrusive" one between words that end with a vowel sound & words that start with one an "R" |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOST FOR WORDS $200: If you're neglected, you may fall through these; in 2020 President Obama said our health systems allow it to happen to the poor the cracks |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOST FOR WORDS $400: Buccaneers abandoned people on islands this way that begins with a color marooned |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOST FOR WORDS $600: This piscine phrase describes someone lost in a new environment a fish out of water |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOST FOR WORDS $800: This Latin word follows "in" to describe someone not in attendance absentia |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | LOST FOR WORDS $1000: During World War I you didn't want to get lost in this area between opposing trenches no man's land |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | BEN FRANKLIN $1000: When a friend asked if the Constitution set up a republic or a monarchy, Ben replied, "A republic" followed by these 5 words if you can keep it |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS $400: A wizard's magic rod Washington & North Dakota |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS $800: Firstborn of Genesis 4:1 California & Indiana |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS $1200: A mark left on the skin after a wound has healed South Carolina & Arkansas |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS $1600: Molten rock that reaches the surface Louisiana & Virginia |
| #8760, aired 2022-12-09 | STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS $2000: A sheet of glass set into a window or door Pennsylvania & Nebraska |
| #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 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS $800: Etymologically related to the word scrimmage is this type of small battle between 2 armies a scrum (a skirmish) |
| #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 |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS $1200: The Latin for "vengeance" gives us this feud-al word vendetta |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | A GIANT CATEGORY $1200: 3 words that fill in the King James Bible quote from Genesis--"There were giants... in those days" in the earth |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS $1600: Being "at" this, also the name of a type of turtle, means you're fighting with someone loggerheads |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS $2000: A centuries-old fair held in a Dublin suburb gave its name to this type of melee donnybrook |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | YOU CAN QUOTE "ME" $4,000 (Daily Double): After hearing an orator speak in a foreign language, a Shakespeare character admits, "It was" these 3 words Greek to me |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | "GIVE" OR "TAKE" $400: In other words, to remove freedoms; it actually means to be impertinent or go beyond what's allowed take liberties |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | SLANG $800: A blend of 2 words & first used in the '90s, it means to calm down, take it easy chillax |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | DOUBLE-T WORDS $400: In basketball FGA can be short for field goal these, made or not--good try, James Harden! attempt |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | DOUBLE-T WORDS $800: The second of the 2 things mentioned earlier in a sentence the latter |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | DOUBLE-T WORDS $1200: In the movie "White Nights", Mikhail Baryshnikov does a 3,960-degree turn, 11 of these spins in a row a pirouette |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | DOUBLE-T WORDS $1600: The double T is exactly in the middle of this adjective meaning nervous & easily frightened word skittish |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | DOUBLE-T WORDS $2000: In "Jane Eyre", Mr. Rochester is "not fond of the" this "of children", a synonym for "chatter" that also has a double T prattling |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | RHYMING PHRASES $200: The first 2 words repeat in this 4-word cry of victory that involves poultry winner, winner, chicken dinner |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | VOCABULARY WORDS $400: It can mean to restrain, or it can be found along a street curb |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | VOCABULARY WORDS $800: To alter in form; results may do this vary |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | VOCABULARY WORDS $1200: Bravery in the line of duty; you can get a medal for it valor |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | VOCABULARY WORDS $1600: Don't be modest or coquettish--say this synonym with confidence coy |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | VOCABULARY WORDS $2000: Related to the guinea pig, the rock this is found in South America the rock cavy |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: Money existing only digitally; in 2022 $275 billion was lost in its global market in a single day cryptocurrency |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: Indigenous Australians can also be acceptably referred to by this adjective Aboriginal |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: This word describes each correct response in the category pentasyllabic |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: This adjective is used to indicate a novel has been written in the form of letters epistolary |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: Relating to that city in southern Italy famous for pizza Neapolitan |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COMPOUND WORDS $400: This trademarked name for in-line skates is in the dictionary Rollerblade |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: Get fired up for this type of home, seen here, popular in New Orleans a shotgun shack |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COMPOUND WORDS $1200: Inhalation of &/or massage with fragrant essential oils is part of this practice meant to enhance well-being aromatherapy |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COMPOUND WORDS $1600: Popular in chowder, this East Coast variety of clam has the name of a fruit pit cherrystone |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COMPOUND WORDS $5,000 (Daily Double): A point of reference from which measurements are made, it was once an actual notch or line made on a permanent object a benchmark |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | CHAMPION WORDS $400: Cheeta, co-star of several Tarzan films, was a famous one a chimp |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | CHAMPION WORDS $800: These seeds can make a healthy pudding & grow a "pet" chia (seeds) |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | CHAMPION WORDS $1200: We're serving poke with this as the main protein ahi |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | CHAMPION WORDS $1600: This adjective means relating to speech sounds phonic |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | CHAMPION WORDS $2000: This symbol of Judaism is Hebrew for "life" chai |
| #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 |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | SOMETHING THAT IS... $800: Red:
The storm system known by these 3 words is more than 10,000 miles wide the Great Red Spot |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | SHAKESPEARE JUST KILLS ME $400: The last words this king hears are from Hamlet: "Is thy union here? Follow my mother" Claudius |
| #8737, aired 2022-11-08 | POTPOURRI $1600: The name of this London airport goes back to Anglo-Saxon words meaning "goat farm" Gatwick |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | DOG-GONE WORDS $600: Elvis had a No. 1 hit about this kind of dog, "cryin' all the time" a hound dog |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | DOG-GONE WORDS $1200: Certain small dogs are classified as this group, sounding perfect for play & the right size for laps toy |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | DOG-GONE WORDS $1500: This command means the dog should be on the owner's left side, no more than about 6 inches away heel |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | DOG-GONE WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): As an adjective, it means "like a dog"; as a noun, it's a type of tooth canine |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | GIVE US SOME DIRECTION $1000: These 3 words precede "Terrier" in the name of the super cute Scottish breed seen here West Highland White |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $1000: This fashion magazine originally focused on movie stars & its title included the words "of Hollywood" Glamour |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | ADVERBS $1000: 2 rhyming words:
One is how "We Roll Along" in a musical title; the other is old-timey for truly & certainly merrily verily |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | THIS CATEGORY IS CONFUSING $1600: Meteorological words for befuddlement include hazy, cloudy & this superlative that often comes before "notion" foggiest |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PATRIOT ACT $200: Montrealer Robert Stanley Weir wrote this national anthem with its stirring final words, "we stand on guard for thee" "O Canada" |
| #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 |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $200: There's a certain braveness to this black bird the raven (in braveness) |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $400: A little knowledge of this bird goes a long way an owl (in knowledge) |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $600: It lives in Europe & Asia, but not in Brooklyn a rook (in Brooklyn) |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $800: While riding my scooter, I spotted this old bird a coot (in scooter) |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $1000: We're amazed by this sea eagle's cleverness erne (in cleverness) |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1000: In a Mo Willems tale, the first words little Trixie says are the name of this stuffed rabbit she lost & found Knuffle Bunny |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $4,700 (Daily Double): Before taking the road to the White House, he hit the "Santa Fe Trail" in the movie role of George Armstrong Custer Ronald Reagan |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | STRONG WORDS $200: Powerfully built, or a powerful breed of Siberian dog husky |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | STRONG WORDS $400: Add "ate" to this word meaning strong to get a strong person or ruler potentate |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | STRONG WORDS $800: Often contrasted with "brains", this word meaning muscular strength once meant the rounded muscles of the arm & thigh brawn |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | STRONG WORDS $1000: A poem by Thom Gunn rhymes this word for strong & vigorously healthy with "dust" robust |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | PHRASES OF HELLO & GOODBYE $1200: These 2 words go with a chest thump or 2 & making a "V" with index & middle finger peace out |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | AN IMPRESSIVE VOCABULARY $800: Latin loqui, "to speak", gives us the words loquacious, meaning talkative, & this adjective, meaning well spoken eloquent |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | "IF" AT FIRST... $2000: In a rousing 1765 Patrick Henry speech criticizing Britain, these 4 words preceded "make the most of it" if this be treason |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $200: A fictional book-length narrative & a digging tool novel & shovel |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: One definition of this misconduct in the military is the refusal to obey someone of a higher rank insubordination |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $400: Half a quart & a hard mineral used to produce a spark pint & flint |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $600: Something used in a closet & something likely to cause harm hanger & danger |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: In 1520 Martin Luther refused to retract 41 of his 95 Theses; he was later hit with this ecclesiastical censure excommunication |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $800: Pendleton for the Marines & a wetland for the frogs & cypress trees camp & swamp |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1000: A country that supports another one & to waste time by lingering an ally & to dally |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: Carl Sagan was a prominent one of these "star life" scientists an astrobiologist |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: A synonym for "reasonable" begins this psychological term, an attempt to justify a failure or other loss rationalization |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | 6-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: In 1840 critic & author Margaret Fuller became the first editor of the Dial, a journal of this philosophical movement transcendentalism |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | OLD WORDS $400: This adjective meaning loathsome dates to the 1300s, though it wasn't applied to snowmen until the 20th century abominable |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | OLD WORDS $800: This word for a time of extreme hunger & starvation dates at least as far back as the 1360s poem "Piers Plowman" famine |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | OLD WORDS $1200: This word for a broad, heavy knife made its way from Latin America into English in the late 1500s machete |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | OLD WORDS $1600: Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" used this word for part of a roof centuries before a Hawthorne novel title did gable |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | OLD WORDS $11,600 (Daily Double): Meaning to consecrate or make holy, it was around for nearly a millennium before it appeared in the Gettysburg Address hallow |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | ONLY ONE CONSONANT WORDS $400: Even more uncommon rarer |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | ONLY ONE CONSONANT WORDS $800: To droop or dangle; a body part such as your tongue may do it to loll |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | ONLY ONE CONSONANT WORDS $1200: Arabic for "leader" gives us this prayer leader of a mosque an imam |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | ONLY ONE CONSONANT WORDS $1600: Let's say hi to this tree of life that stores water & gives fruit in arid lands the baobab |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | WORDS OF LOVE $300: Won't you be my this, the name of the patron saint of lovers? Valentine |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | FOOD & DRINK $600: This word for a Swedish-style buffet comes from words meaning "butter" & "table" smorgasbord |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | WORDS OF LOVE $900: An old song goes, "Oh my" this, "oh my" this, "oh my" this "Clementine" darling |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | WORDS OF LOVE $1200: A traditional wedding vow says, "For richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to" do this cherish |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | WORDS OF LOVE $1500: To carry one of these flaming things means to be in love, perhaps with an ex a torch |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | WORDS FROM GERMAN $400: This crumbly cake topping is from German for "sprinkle" streusel |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | WORDS FROM GERMAN $800: In 1820 the Edinburgh Magazine expressed horror that Scotch women were being seized by the waist for this dance the waltz |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | WORDS FROM GERMAN $1,000 (Daily Double): This word for a recurring musical theme in an opera or symphony comes partly from German for "lead" leitmotif |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | WORDS FROM GERMAN $1200: Translated literally, it means "double-goer" doppelgänger |
| #8713, aired 2022-10-05 | WORDS FROM GERMAN $2000: Seen here, this German name for a subterranean cavern comes partly from a word for a town hall, not for a kind of rodent a rathskeller |
| #8712, aired 2022-10-04 | WAIT JUST A MINERAL! $3,000 (Daily Double): Mais oui, calcium sulfate hemihydrate is a mouthful, so a fast-setting-after-drying gypsum product goes by these 3 words plaster of Paris |
| #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 |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | HYPHENATED WORDS $200: An amusement park ride in which horsies & tigers revolve about a fixed point in the center a merry-go-round |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | "S" WORDS $400: The musical score that accompanies a film the soundtrack |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | HYPHENATED WORDS $400: You go through this process at an airport counter or a hotel front desk check-in |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | HYPHENATED WORDS $600: In New York City, it's illegal for passenger vehicles to do this; delivery trucks may, but without blocking a bicycle lane double-park |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | "S" WORDS $800: Another word for a frying pan skillet |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | HYPHENATED WORDS $800: It describes a fever from roughly 99 to 100.5 degrees Fahrenheit low-grade |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | HYPHENATED WORDS $1000: Legal when done by the government, illegal when done by competitors, it's the artificial setting of an amount charged for goods price-fixing |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | "S" WORDS $1200: To extract metal from ore with heat smelt |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | "S" WORDS $1600: The name of this wrinkly dog is Chinese for "sand fur" Shar Pei |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | "S" WORDS $2000: A one-masted sailboat a sloop |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | TAKE ME TO THE PILOT $200: Among her last confirmed words on July 2, 1937 were "We are on the line 157-337" (Amelia) Earhart |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | BEYONCÉ SONGS $2000: In "Sorry" "he better call" the woman known by these 5 words Becky with the good hair |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | CAPITAL CITY ETYMOLOGIES $1600: Tashkent, the capital of this "Stan", comes from words meaning "stone village" Uzbekistan |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | WORDS BEFORE WORDS $200: Bean,
market,
widow black |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | WORDS BEFORE WORDS $400: Carpet,
saucer,
colors flying |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | WORDS BEFORE WORDS $600: Climbing,
salt,
star rock |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | WORDS BEFORE WORDS $800: Clip,
towel,
money paper |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | WORDS BEFORE WORDS $1000: Winter,
family,
option nuclear |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | GO GET "EM" $400: In other words, to hug to embrace |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | HISTORIC WORDS $200: Abraham Lincoln:
"A ____ divided against itself cannot stand" house |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | HISTORIC WORDS $400: Julius Caesar:
"The ____ is cast" die |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | MUSIC $600: "In the beginning" are the first words of this Haydn oratorio about this act by God; here's a later tune The Creation |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | HISTORIC WORDS $600: Attributed to Emiliano Zapata:
"Better to die on your feet than live on your ____" knees |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | HISTORIC WORDS $800: Gandhi:
"You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of ____" non-violence |
| #8698, aired 2022-09-14 | HISTORIC WORDS $1000: Joseph Welch to Senator McCarthy:
"Have you no sense of ____" decency |
| #8694, aired 2022-07-28 | AUTHORS $2000: This author of visionary sci-fi tales like "The Minority Report" could turn out 120 words a minute on a manual typewriter Philip K. Dick |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | WORDS WITH DOUBLE LETTERS $200: From Spanish, it's a small donkey used as a pack animal burro |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | WORDS WITH DOUBLE LETTERS $400: Got milk? A cow does, in this baglike mammary organ udder |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | WORDS WITH DOUBLE LETTERS $600: A set of religious principles or beliefs; the Apostles' is one creed |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | WORDS WITH DOUBLE LETTERS $800: To mend shoes to cobble |
| #8690, aired 2022-07-22 | WORDS WITH DOUBLE LETTERS $1000: In feudalism, it was someone given a "fief", land & workers, in return for services to a lord vassals |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | COMPOUND WORDS $400: It's a group of women with a common interest & maybe some traveling pants a sisterhood |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: As seen here, it's a fun way to work out kickboxing |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | COMPOUND WORDS $1200: The name of this illegally distilled liquor goes back to when it was made under the cover of darkness moonshine |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | CLOSING STATEMENTS $1600: "'Darling,' replied Valentine, 'Has not the Count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words?--'Wait and hope"' The Count of Monte Cristo |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | COMPOUND WORDS $1600: Originally referring to a type of barrier, it's another name for some of the toll roads on the East Coast a turnpike |
| #8689, aired 2022-07-21 | COMPOUND WORDS $2000: Derived from German, it's a strong passion for traveling & seeing the world wanderlust |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | POSSESSIVE LIT $800: In this novel, the intelligent horses called Houyhnhnms have no words for evil Gulliver's Travels |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | "THE" END $600: To fancy up an argument with big words, or to array with garments to clothe |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | WORLD OF OPERA $800: Philip Glass' "Akhnaten" begins in Thebes with the passing of Amenhotep III & words sung from this tome Book of the Dead |
| #8684, aired 2022-07-14 | ROMANCE LANGUAGES $800: In 2008 this European country's parliament passed an act officially adopting Brazilian spellings of hundreds of words Portugal |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $200: Johnny Mercer wrote the lyric "I'm gonna love you like nobody's loved you, come" these 2 opposites rain & shine |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $400: Starbucks sells a tea drink called London this Fog |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $800: A book about the underworld says Al Capone's rival Joe Aiello died in this type of storm "of lead" a hail |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): A Joyce story ends with this falling "upon all the living and the dead" the snow |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $1000: The EPA says keep this below 60% to prevent mold humidity |
| #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 |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | SILENT CONSONANT WORDS $200: A prominent rounded hill, or a rounded control switch or dial knob |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | SILENT CONSONANT WORDS $400: Her unrequited love for Narcissus reverberates through mythology Echo |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | SILENT CONSONANT WORDS $600: Jesus had 12 of these special disciples, from the Greek for "messenger" apostles |
| #8676, aired 2022-07-04 | SILENT CONSONANT WORDS $800: To bite or chew persistently, like an animal with a bone gnaw |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | SCIENCE WORDS $400: Merry-go-round riders are subject to this force meaning "center seeking"--not centrifugal, which isn't really a force centripetal |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | SCIENCE WORDS $1200: The corona of the Sun consists of hot ionized gas called this plasma |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | SCIENCE WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): A very low-carb, high-fat diet gets you into this state, when your body starts using fats to create energy ketogenic |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | WORDS DERIVED FROM BODY PARTS $200: The brave can sleep well knowing that the word courage comes from this body part the heart |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | WORDS DERIVED FROM BODY PARTS $400: Supercilious is derived from these facial features; a contemptuous comment might raise them (eye)brows |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | WORDS DERIVED FROM BODY PARTS $1000: This word for one who always worries that they're sick is derived from a word for the abdomen hypochondriac |
| #8673, aired 2022-06-29 | WORDS DERIVED FROM BODY PARTS $1,200 (Daily Double): A list of terms with definitions, it comes from the Greek for tongue a glossary |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | WORDS IN COMPARISON $200: About 25 species of this arachnid with a segmented & curved tail have venom that can kill humans scorpion |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: A loss in value due to age, wear or market conditions depreciation |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | WORDS IN COMPARISON $400: A decoration utilizing small, colored inlaid glass & stone pieces a mosaic |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | WORDS IN COMPARISON $600: A shade of red, or to leave someone stuck on an island maroon |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: New York City's Hayden, for one planetarium |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | WORDS IN COMPARISON $800: A shade of red associated with embarrassment crimson |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | WORDS IN COMPARISON $1000: Specially made 2-word area in a house to retreat to in times of great fear a panic room |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: It's the process of verifying yourself in order to use a computer system; some might require "2 factor" authentication |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: Seen here, it regulates body temperature & other autonomic activities the hypothalamus |
| #8670, aired 2022-06-24 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: A thing to be hated & cursed, like a graven image & its gold per Deuteronomy 7:25 an abomination |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | STATELY RIVERS $400: Its name derived from words for "truth" & "head", Lake Itasca is the head or starting point for this river the Mississippi |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | WORDPLAY-POURRI $600: 5-syllable words:
A person aged 100 years or older a centenarian |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | TEXTING, TEXTING $400: Although it's been said many times, many ways, in Dec. 1992 a 22-year-old software engineer sent these 2 words in the very 1st text Merry Christmas |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | SILENT W WORDS $200: The fairy type of this bird seen here can be found in Eastern Australia a wren |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | SILENT W WORDS $400: Idiomatically, a sensual dance of Argentina requires this many two |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | SILENT W WORDS $600: A determination of this type of death based on negligence can lead to a lawsuit wrongful |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | WORDS OF COMFORT $800: It usually means unattractive, but can also mean comfortable, like one's place of residence homely |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | SILENT W WORDS $800: Where the lower part of the radius ends the wrist |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | WORDS OF COMFORT $1200: According to a 1697 play, it's what music can do to a savage breast soothe |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | WORDS OF COMFORT $1600: Meaning both holy & venerated & bringing pleasure & contentment, it begins many a beatitude blessed |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | WORDS OF COMFORT $2000: Theories on the origin of this word meaning A-OK include African-American slang & Italian cappo sotto copacetic |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | WRITTEN IN CYRILLIC $1600: Belarussian took words like "pan", meaning "sir" or "mister" from this language spoken due west of Belarus Polish |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | WORDS WITH FIENDS $800: On film, Steve Martin was a "Dirty Rotten" one of these a scoundrel |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | WORDS WITH FIENDS $1200: A nasty creature of folklore, or one who makes offensive posts online a troll |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | WORDS WITH FIENDS $1600: A mischievous person, or a type of mobility scooter a rascal |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | WORDS WITH FIENDS $2000: This hyphenated 3-word synonym for a fiend has an apostrophe for the "V" in the first word a ne'er-do-well |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $400: Similar to smog, smaze comes from these 2 words smoke & haze |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $800: Here's a typical departure from this type of facility in Lower Manhattan a heliport |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $1200: Part of the name of this incendiary mixture comes from the acidic salt palmitate napalm |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $1600: An enhanced bionic human can also be called a cyborg, short for this pair of words cybernetic organism |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | STICK TO THE SCRIPTURE $1600: "And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, thus saith the Lord God of Israel", these 4 words Let my people go |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $2000: To retcon is to go back & fill in a fictional character's history & comes from these 2 words of 4 & 5 syllables retroactive continuity |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | WORDS FROM GEOGRAPHY $200: Hot water springs called geysers take their name from a specific one in this country Iceland |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | WORDS FROM GEOGRAPHY $600: Now looka, I say, looka here! This breed of chicken is named for Livorno, Italy a Leghorn |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | WORDS FROM GEOGRAPHY $800: Meaning to break up into smaller units, this term comes from a geographic region that was divided in the 19th & 20th centuries to Balkanize |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | WORDS FROM GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): Now a rundown area of any city, it comes from a type of road along which logs were hauled skid row |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | WORDS FROM GEOGRAPHY $1000: Ready to hit the spa? Then let's head to the town it's named for in the Ardennes in this European country Belgium |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | HERE COMES A BRONTE THESAURUS $800: Instead of "cuss words", Charlotte Bronte describes some rude watermen as using these, also heard in courtrooms oaths |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | FUN WITH U.S. CITY FLAGS $1000: The unofficial flag of this very south Florida city bears the words "Conch Republic", a nation/state of mind set up in the area in 1982 Key West |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | TFW... $800: You're these 2 mellow words that precede "collected" in a proverbial phrase calm & cool |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: Tories is a nickname for this U.K. political party Conservative |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: It's the range of authority that law enforcement holds over a specific area jurisdiction |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: This period in English history refers to the return of Charles II to the throne Restoration |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: The name of this genus of bacteria honors a veterinarian with a fishy last name Salmonella |
| #8639, aired 2022-05-12 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: This science studies the universe as a whole, bringing together astronomy & physics cosmology |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): These 4 words of advice from newspaper editor Horace Greeley were followed by "and grow up with the country" Go West, young man |
| #8637, aired 2022-05-10 | "G" WHIZ $1600: 2 similar words: one means excessively greedy when it comes to food, & the other, sticky or gummy gluttonous & glutenous |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | AMERICAN GRAB BAG $2,000 (Daily Double): This icon that strikes an E flat has words on it like "Pensylvania", which was an accepted spelling at the time the Liberty Bell |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THESE WORDS MEAN NO OFFENSE $400: Dictionaries tell us that as a noun, it's a simpleton; as a hip-hop adjective, it's great or impressive dope |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THESE WORDS MEAN NO OFFENSE $800: We're talking soil, so this word means a lump of earth, not someone who doesn't get it a clod |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THESE WORDS MEAN NO OFFENSE $1600: This word for a small elevator used to move food may cause ire if your food server hears it out of context a dumbwaiter |
| #8633, aired 2022-05-04 | THESE WORDS MEAN NO OFFENSE $2000: The name of this sleeveless jacket, popular in 16th century fashion, starts off offensively, but worry not a jerkin |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | CONGRESS IN THE 19th CENTURY $2000: Latin for "force of the county", these 2 words titled an 1878 act that prevented the use of the army to enforce law in the South posse comitatus |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | AN ANATOMY OF WORDS $400: The forward end of an aircraft or submarine the nose |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | AN ANATOMY OF WORDS $800: A spoken language tongue |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | AN ANATOMY OF WORDS $1200: In tune with the latest fashion & music hip |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | AN ANATOMY OF WORDS $2000: To climb a rope or pole using one's hands & legs the shin |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | AN ANATOMY OF WORDS $8,000 (Daily Double): To gently tease another person rib |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $400: For movies, it's not just a first showing but a successful Mac-based editing program introduced by Adobe in 1991 premiere |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $800: "Naiveness" is in the dictionary but the more common noun is this French form naïveté |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $1200: A donnée is literally French for this, an assumed fact a given |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $1600: Today's kids must wonder how to tear the online editions of newspapers into strips for this craft papier-mâché |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | FRENCH WORDS IN ENGLISH $2000: It meant a plume of feathers worn on a hat, then came to signify style or swagger panache |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $200: It's a book of maps an atlas |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | BIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS $200: In the Common English Bible, the first 3 words of the first verse of this book are "When God began" Genesis |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | NUMBER WORDS $400: This numerical term means open every hour every day 24/7 |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $400: You can thank the Roman goddess of agriculture for this breakfast staple cereal |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $600: This day of the week gets its name from the Norse god of thunder Thursday |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | NUMBER WORDS $800: A 1931 newspaper article: "My Fingers Dialed" this number." 'Information, can you tell me where there is a breadline?"' 411 |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $800: Thick & sweet & prepared from fruit puree like mango or guava, it's a drink fit for the gods nectar |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $1000: Taken from Roman mythology, it's another name for a drunken orgy bacchanalia |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | NUMBER WORDS $1600: This slang number for a certain crop is thought to date to a San Rafael, California high school in the early 1970s 420 |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | NUMBER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): A book title gave us this shorthand for totalitarianism 1984 |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | NUMBER WORDS $2000: The last entry in the online Oxford English Dictionary is this U.K. equivalent of 911 999 |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | IN MOM'S FREE TIME $1000: In 2016 Wisconsin mom Kristin Garvey made the first yard sign with these 5 words preceding various affirmations in this house we believe |
| #8615, aired 2022-04-08 | WRITING--IT'S A LIVING $2000: Help write a memoir & your name may follow these 3 words, as in "Third Base is My Home" by Brooks Robinson ____ ____ ____ Jack Tobin as told to |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $200: A Carmelite sister, for example a nun |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $400: To get an apple from the tub with your teeth bob |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $600: Slang adjective for someone you think is not what they seem, especially if they might be the impostor in the game "Among Us" sus |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $800: New year in Hanoi Tet |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $1000: It's the raised structure at the back of a sailing ship the poop |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | TOMBSTONES $600: This outlaw was buried under the words "Murdered by a traitor and coward whose name is not worthy to appear here" Jesse James |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $400: A wine bottle topper & the curse of the drinking classes, according to Wilde cork & work |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $800: A pier where ships are tied & a muffler wharf & scarf |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1200: Early '70s B-B-B-Bowie hit & a 1,560-mile river of Asia "Changes" & Ganges |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1600: An uncultivated, wild tract of land & an inhalation heath & breath |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | CHANGES ON THE U.S. MAP $2,000 (Daily Double): The coastal town of Manchester, Massachusetts had these 3 words added to its name in 1989 by-the-Sea |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $2000: The last trace of something & a high level of importance for a person vestige & prestige |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | BIRTH MONTH FLOWERS $400: Greek words for "gold" & "flower" give us the name of this flower for November that's also associated with Japan's royal family a chrysanthemum |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | THE NAME IN THE MIDDLE $1000: Off the
____
my words mark |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | FAST FACT $200: These are the first 3 words in the first book of the King James Bible In the beginning |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | TRIPLE THE DOUBLE LETTERS $1600: In 2 words, it grinds the beans to make your morning joe a coffee mill |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | THE BODY POLITIC $2000: This name of Iceland's parliament comes from words meaning "whole assembly" the Althing |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | ONLINE & TEXTING ABBREV. $2000: eli5 is shorthand for this expression, so use small words to clarify explain it to me like I'm 5 |
| #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 |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | WORDS WITH ONLY ONE CONSONANT $200: A set cost for a service provided a fee |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | WORDS WITH ONLY ONE CONSONANT $400: A bitter brew often with higher alcohol content an ale |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | WORDS WITH ONLY ONE CONSONANT $600: A signal to an actor a cue |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | WORDS WITH ONLY ONE CONSONANT $800: Great sorrow woe |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | WORDS WITH ONLY ONE CONSONANT $1000: Home for an osprey an aerie |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | FROM THE STATE SONG $1600: "Here they heard the words, 'This is the place!"' Utah |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | UNUSUAL WORDS $400: Tolkien coined the term eucatastrophe, referring to one of these 2-word results, which he said made a complete fairy-story a happy ending |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | UNUSUAL WORDS $800: As the name implies, xylotherapy uses certain kinds of these for medical purposes woods |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | UNUSUAL WORDS $1200: Anguilliform means resembling these slippery creatures eels |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | UNUSUAL WORDS $1600: Be careful around a bergschrund, one of these you may encounter on a mountainous glacier a crevasse |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: Any type of apple such as McIntosh, or a Hollywood weekly magazine about all sorts of entertainment variety |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: Kenesaw Mountain Landis was the first one in Major League Baseball commissioner |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: Exactly as far away, or exactly as close equidistant |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: This verb often used before "last rites" ends with a type of holy man administer |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: The Brits use this word to refer to a layoff; elsewhere, it's needless repetition of words redundancy |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | "WISE" WORDS $200: Proverbially, it can be a tough way to "get a word in" edgewise |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | "WISE" WORDS $400: Familiar with life in an urban environment, especially along its avenues & boulevards streetwise |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | "WISE" WORDS $600: A gangster, or a 1980s TV show about agent gone deep undercover Vinnie Terranova wiseguy |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | "WISE" WORDS $800: To do a thing in the same manner as someone else is to do this likewise |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | "WISE" WORDS $1000: 3-word phrase meaning no smarter or unaware, as in "I borrowed his astrolabe when he wasn't looking & he's" this none the wiser |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $200: In addition to a shade of red, it can refer to a holy man, a bird or a number cardinal |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $600: Aubergine means eggplant or something of this color purple |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $1000: In heraldry, this word means "silver" or simply "white" & is the color of the unicorn here argent |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | THE INNER "EAR" $800: These, such as sweet words or caresses, express affection endearments |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | PUTTING THE CARBS $600: It's not surprising there are plenty of carbs in the Post cereal called "Honey" these 3 words Bunches of Oats |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | COUNTRY NICKNAMES $1200: Canada's nickname has these 2 words before "North" Great White |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | DOUBLE TALK WORDS $400: Omnicheer sells these accessories for all your sideline fun pompoms |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | DOUBLE TALK WORDS $800: In this Pixar film young Miguel idolizes movie star/singer Ernesto de la Cruz Coco |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | DOUBLE TALK WORDS $1200: A North African dish of semolina couscous |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | DOUBLE TALK WORDS $1600: This abnormal heart sound is caused by turbulent blood flow within the heart a murmur |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | DOUBLE TALK WORDS $2000: This type of fly seen here can cause a potentially fatal sleeping sickness tsetse |
| #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 $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 |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | END YOUR RESPONSE WITH A PREPOSITION $800: Saying you look "like death..." these 2 words is not a compliment to your appearance warmed over |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | RELIGION $1200: In the King James version of the Lord's Prayer, they're the 4 words that follow "Our father which art in heaven" hallowed be thy name |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | 4 WORDS $400: Since 1957 the Truman Library has displayed the desk sign with this 4-word phrase the buck stops here |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | 4 WORDS $1200: In Genesis 1:3, "and God said" these 4 words, & there was Let there be light |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | 4 WORDS $1600: Maya Angelou found inspiration in the Paul Laurence Dunbar poem that concludes, "I know why" these 4 words the caged bird sings |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | 4 WORDS $2000: The Constitution begins, "We the people of the United States, in order to form" this a more perfect Union |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | 4 WORDS $2,500 (Daily Double): This 4-word phrase occurs 8 times in a landmark 1963 speech I have a dream |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $400: A list of team members &
something you might hang on your dorm wall roster & poster |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $800: A military food allowance for one day &
a bus depot ration & station |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1200: Glossy &
a Roman statesman, the elder Pliny & shiny |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1600: A lunar feature &
a liquid crater & water |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $2000: To journey to another land &
an umbilicus travel & navel |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: A business, or people who come over to visit company |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: Time & width are examples of these measurements dimensions |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: Title partner of "Pomp" in a walking song at graduation Circumstance |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: This is happening when prices are high but the value of cash is lessened inflation |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: From Greek for "a general view", it's a brief summary of a book in a few paragraphs synopsis |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | POTPOURRI $2000: 2 words that don't go well together, imperfectly embalmed, applied to this Lord Protector of England in 1658 (Oliver) Cromwell |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | EDIBLE ETYMOLOGY $800: Denoting its traditional preparation, gravlax is from Swedish words meaning "trench" & this fish salmon |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | IT'S THE ONLY VOWEL $2000: ...in the 2 title words of a Shakespeare comedy where we meet Sir Andrew Aguecheek (2 different vowels) E, I |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | GAME TIME $2000: Named for the CEO's dog, it's the company behind such games as Farmville & words with friends Zynga |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | SMELL YOU LATER $200: Horatio is told that "Something is" this "in the state of Denmark"; in other words, something stinks rotten |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | SCIENCE $1600: From words meaning "container" & "to mold", it's the semifluid region within a living cell excluding the nucleus cytoplasm |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | BOATS & SHIPS $600: Tamil words for tie & wood give us the name of this type of twin-hulled boat a catamaran |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PHRASE $200: "When life gives you lemons..." make lemonade |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PHRASE $400: "I came, I saw, ..." I conquered |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PHRASE $600: A legal principle:
"Ignorance of the law is..." no excuse |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PHRASE $800: Among AFI's 100 Greatest Movie Quotes of All Time:
"E.T. ..." phone home |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PHRASE $1000: A principle often attributed to Hippocrates & followed by doctors:
"First do..." no harm |
| #4, aired 2022-02-09 | ASSIGNED READING MATH $1600: 2 hours for this work where Jonathan Swift satirically suggests cooking Irish babies; it's "a modest" 3,400 words, 1,700 an hour A Modest Proposal |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | ENCYCLOPEDIA WORDS $200: A type of this implement is used for filling in sparse eyebrows pencil |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | A FEW FINAL WORDS $400: Condition of an animal species when it has no more living members, like the golden toad since 1989 extinct |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | ENCYCLOPEDIA WORDS $400: From the Latin for "fall off", it's the process by which radioactive radium emits radiation decay |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | ENCYCLOPEDIA WORDS $600: To hide something conceal |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | A FEW FINAL WORDS $800: When "pen-" comes before this word it means next to last; without it, it's last ultimate |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | ENCYCLOPEDIA WORDS $800: Norway's Austfonna one is not doing great, contributing to rising sea levels icecap |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | ENCYCLOPEDIA WORDS $1000: A huppah is one at a Jewish wedding ceremony canopy |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | A FEW FINAL WORDS $1600: Often found before "of hostilities", this word has a double "S" within it cessation |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | A FEW FINAL WORDS $2000: Nothing to do with a military takeover, this 3-word French phrase is a final blow coup de grâce |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $200: That place where the Flintstones live, or the layer of stone underneath surface soil Bedrock |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: This type of canoe was originally made of sealskin stretched over a wood frame kayak |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: The shoes seen here are named for this feature on the toe wingtip |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: This word for a relish that accompanies Indian food comes from the Hindi language chutney |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare used this word before "thee to a summer's day" compare |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | WHAT ACUTE ACCENT $1200: These 2 words with acute accents towards the end describe an engaged woman & a no-longer-married woman fiancée & divorcée |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW $200: (Josh Clark reads the clue.) Sure, some birds can mimic speech, but Puck, this type of bird, like the one we're showing, knew more than 1,500 words, & that's a mouthful a parakeet |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | THESE WORDS ARE YOUNGER THAN YOU ARE $200: This type of camping for the pampered dates to 2005 glamping |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | "KN"OWLEDGE $400: In other words, a bunch of tchotchkes knickknacks |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | THESE WORDS ARE YOUNGER THAN YOU ARE $400: The act of ending a relationship by abruptly cutting off all communication has had this name since 2012 ghosting |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | THESE WORDS ARE YOUNGER THAN YOU ARE $600: 2012 gave us this alliterative term for the device that lets you take a turnaround photo from a better angle a selfie stick |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | THESE WORDS ARE YOUNGER THAN YOU ARE $800: This gendered word for condescendingly expounding has only been around since 2008 mansplaining |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | THESE WORDS ARE YOUNGER THAN YOU ARE $1000: Folks have been making these catalogs of things to do before they die since 2006 bucket lists |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | WORDS WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $400: Ponderous or heavy weighty |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | WORDS WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $1200: They're the delicious little cakes seen here petit fours |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | WORDS WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $1600: As an adjective, it means "former"; as a sports verb, it's to shoot when a pass reaches you without pausing one-time |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES $1600: The name of this Russian airline comes from words meaning "air fleet" Aeroflot |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | WORDS WITH NUMBERS IN THEM $2000: Derived from seeds of the Nux vomica tree, this poison is often used in rodent control strychnine |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | IN MY WORDS $200: In Amanda Yates Garcia's book "Initiated: Memoir of" one of these, she weaves a spell, telling of her magical life a Witch |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | IN MY WORDS $400: In "Unbound", activist Tarana Burke tells of the birth of this movement & the power of saying those 2 small words Me Too |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | IN MY WORDS $600: Ray Nagin, former mayor of this city, released a memoir titled "Katrina's Secrets" New Orleans |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | IN MY WORDS $800: Her "Going There" has stories of her rise in journalism & colleagues like Matt Lauer & Ann Curry Katie Couric |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | IN MY WORDS $1000: "Fun Home" & "Are You My Mother?" are graphic memoirs written & illustrated by this woman Alison Bechdel |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | "TOO" WORDS $200: A small porch, or to bend down stoop |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | "TOO" WORDS $400: In French, it's un mal de dent a toothache |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | "TOO" WORDS $600: You can get one removed via dermabrasion a tattoo |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | "TOO" WORDS $800: Seaplanes float on them pontoons |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | "TOO" WORDS $1000: Seen here are these flower chains curving as intended festoons |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | COMPOUND WORDS $200: The monarch & the viceroy are both species of this arthropod butterfly |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | COMPOUND WORDS $400: 16 of these measures equal a cup a tablespoon |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | COMPOUND WORDS $600: Second by second, it precedes a rocket launch a countdown |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | COMPOUND WORDS $800: Get some extra sun in your home with this, perhaps manufactured by Sun-Tek a skylight |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | COMPOUND WORDS $1000: Slang for a diploma; important documents were once written on it a sheepskin |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | WORDS FROM RUSSIAN $400: Sevruga is a type of this fish, prized for its roe a sturgeon |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | NONSENSE $600: Beloved nonsense words include this creature that Pooh & Piglet track through the snow--or is it a Wizzle? Woozles |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | WORDS FROM RUSSIAN $800: Taiga, perhaps meaning "land of little sticks", is used for what's also called the boreal this environment the forest |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | WORDS FROM RUSSIAN $1200: By 1936 more than a million people in the Soviet Union were held in this system of forced labor camps a gulag |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | WORDS FROM RUSSIAN $1600: Job title of Vladimir Komarov, who was very, very high up on Oct. 12 & 13, 1964 cosmonaut |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | WORDS FROM RUSSIAN $2000: This type of summer dwelling is seen here a dacha |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | THE ENERGY BIZ $800: The name of this "always prepared" battery company was once 2 words Eveready |
| #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 $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 | 3 SHORT WORDS $200: Literally, to offer a body part in assistance; it's a motto of scouting lend a hand |
| #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 | 3 SHORT WORDS $400: It's a classic sandwich you might get at a deli, though not a kosher deli ham on rye |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | 3 SHORT WORDS $600: The advice to let an unhappy baby do this, hard for many parents to follow, dates back to 1894 cry it out |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | REPTILIAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Term for rolling a 2 in craps snake eyes |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | 3 SHORT WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Bremerton, Washington claims to be where an excited Democrat first yelled to Pres. Truman the phrase do this, Harry Give 'em hell |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | 3 SHORT WORDS $1000: Samuel Butler's 19th century translation of the "Iliad" includes this phrase for "to die" more associated with the Old West bite the dust |
| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS: Churchill gave a word a new meaning when he called for a "talk with Soviet Russia upon the highest level... a parley at" this the summit |
| #9068, aired 2024-03-27 | OLD WORDS: First appearing in an English dictionary in 1623, mesonoxian means pertaining to this word midnight |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | CANADIAN MEDICINE: Nova Scotian William Knapp Buckley devised a widely used antitussive, meaning a drug used against this cough(ing) |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | THE 1500s: In the early 1500s he produced a codex in words & pictures on the flight of birds, one of many subjects that interested him Leonardo da Vinci |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS: Both of the names of these 2 lovers in a Shakespeare play come from Latin words for "blessed" Beatrice & Benedick |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | NEW WORDS IN THE 18th CENTURY: Describing these, Captain Cook wrote, "The manner in which" they're done "must certainly cause intollerable pain" tattoos |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | MODERN WORDS: Neal Stephenson coined this word in his 1992 novel "Snow Crash"; it was later shortened by a company to become its new name metaverse |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | INVASIONS: Backed by 14,000 troops, he invaded England to restore, in his words, its "religion, laws, and liberties" William of Orange |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | WORDS FROM WORLD WAR I: "Cistern" & "reservoir" were suggested names for a secret invention, but the British preferred this less clumsy monosyllable a tank |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | NAME'S THE SAME: Name shared by a Victorian novelist & an 1805 flagship captain whose name is heard in a famous phrase (Thomas) Hardy |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | 20th CENTURY POEM ENDINGS: These 5 words that end a poem are also a proverb; one citation across the centuries includes a reminder not to make the wall too high Good fences make good neighbors |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: Delivered on January 8, 1790, the first of these was also the shortest, at 1,089 words the State of Union Address |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | POETS' CORNER AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY: At his 1892 burial, fit for a baron, the organist put music to his words, "I hope to see my Pilot face to face, when I have crost the bar" Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | GEOGRAPHY WORDS: From Greek for "chief" & "sea", this word originally referred to the Aegean, known for its many island groups archipelago |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | FAMOUS SPEECHES: In a draft of FDR's speech of December 8, 1941, the words "world history" were changed to this one word infamy |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | MOVIE STARS: Matthew McConaughey said, "'Dazed & Confused', the first words I ever said on film were" these "Alright, alright, alright" |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY: A 1525 textbook on anatomy says this, being "so different of colours", could also be called "rain bowys" iris |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | WORDS IN AMERICAN HISTORY: The 1890 Census reported that "the unsettled area has been so broken into... that there can hardly be said to be a" this frontier |
| #8554, aired 2022-01-13 | THE WORDS OF VICTOR HUGO: This object "is the ultimate expression of law, & its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral" the guillotine |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | THE EARLY UNITED STATES: The final piece in this series points out "the analogy of the proposed government to your own state constitution" The Federalist Papers |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | MOVIE QUOTES: This 3-word phrase was the protagonist's second line of dialogue in a 1962 movie, the first in a 25-film series "Bond, James Bond" |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | GEOGRAPHY WORDS: From the Latin for "key", this word for a type of isolated country applies to Vatican City, which has keys on its flag an enclave |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | COUNTRIES' NATIONAL ANTHEMS: With words written by a Bishop of Urgell, its anthem praises Charlemagne & says it "was born a princess... between two nations" Andorra |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | LOGOS: After 9/11, designer Milton Glaser modified this iconic logo of his, adding a bruise & the words "More Than Ever" I Heart New York (I Love New York) |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | SCIENCE WORDS: This word used to denote an irreversible dispersion of energy was coined in the 1860s to sound a bit like "energy" entropy |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | RELIGIOUS WORDS: This sacred syllable is sometimes said to be composed of sounds representing Vishnu, Shiva & Brahma om |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | SECRETARIES OF STATE: Dirk Stikker, Dutch foreign minister 1948-1952, wrote, "Churchill's words won the war"; this American's "words won the peace" (George) Marshall |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | HISTORY OF MEDICINE: 2020 marks the 55th birthday of the first piece of equipment dedicated to this process, now used for regular screenings mammogram |
| #8274, aired 2020-11-05 | FOREIGN WORDS IN ENGLISH: The first use of this Spanish term in English was by Wellington referring to partisans in the Peninsular Wars guerrillas |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | AUTHORS: On this woman's passing in 2019, Oprah Winfrey called her "a magician with language, who understood the power of words" Toni Morrison |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | RELIGIOUS WORDS: This word for a concept in Eastern religions comes from Latin roots for "made in flesh" & "again" reincarnation |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | WORDS IN THE NEWS: On September 25, 2019, searches on merriam-webster.com for the definition of this 3-word Latin term increased by 5,500% quid pro quo |
| #8178, aired 2020-03-11 | BOOK WORDS: A 1964 essay coined this 2-word term for "artistically serious" comic books & endorsed it over "illustories" & "picto-fiction" graphic novels |
| #8168, aired 2020-02-26 | SCIENCE WORDS: In 1611 Kepler used this word from the Latin for "attendant" to describe the discoveries of Galileo satellite |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | INTERNATIONAL AWARD TROPHIES: La Maison Chopard crafts this annual award’s crystal base & 118-gram, 18-carat frond Palme d'Or |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | THE RACE TO SPACE: In the 1960s this Mideast country had a space program & one of its rocket launches, the Cedar IV, is commemorated on a stamp Lebanon |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | FAMOUS FIRST LINES: These 7 words precede, "The rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals" "It was a dark and stormy night" |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | 1950s PEOPLE: In a New Yorker profile, he said, "Where I like it is out west in Wyoming, Montana, & Idaho, & I like Cuba & Paris" Ernest Hemingway |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | BRITISH AUTHORS: In 2016 the OED celebrated his 100th birthday by adding words connected to his writings, including scrumdiddlyumptious Roald Dahl |
| #8112, aired 2019-12-10 | OSCAR-WINNING FILMS: The first words spoken in this 1970 Best Picture Oscar winner are "Ten-hut!" "Be seated" Patton |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | FAMOUS PHRASES: In the title of a groundbreaking 1890 expose of poverty in New York City slums, these 3 words follow "How the" Other Half Lives |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | LAST WORDS: In 1876 in the Dakotas this American said, "The old duffer broke me on the last hand" Bill Hickok |
| #8049, aired 2019-09-12 | AMERICAN MUSEUMS: President Johnson signed a law that added 2 words to the name of this museum established in 1946, D.C.'s most popular the Air & Space Museum |
| #8010, aired 2019-06-07 | CANADIAN CITIES: City Hall in this Western provincial capital is on Victoria Avenue near the corner of Albert Street Regina |
| #7988, aired 2019-05-08 | WORDS FROM THE COMICS: Used to describe secrecy during WWII, this 2-word term had its psychological meaning popularized by Charles Schulz security blanket |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | WORDS OF THE 2000s: In 2008 Time magazine described this new practice as "one part social networking and one part capital accumulation" crowdfunding |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: This 1883 classic ends with the words "A well-behaved little boy!" Pinocchio |
| #7958, aired 2019-03-27 | WORLD WAR II: In 1943 millions of matchbooks were distributed in the Philippines with this 3-word quote to boost morale "I shall return" |
| #7830, aired 2018-09-28 | CLASSIC FILMS: In this '70s Oscar-winning film, the title character's 1st words are "Why did you go to the police? Why didn't you come to me first?" The Godfather |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | SCHOOL SUPPLY WORDS: Adding "P" to a word for a chronic back condition gets you this synonym for graphite or pencil lead plumbago |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | THE LATIN VULGATE BIBLE: In Latin Jesus says, I am "via et veritas et vita"--in English, these 3 words way, truth, life |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | POTENT & NONPOTENT POTABLES: Reverse the 2 words in the name of this Canadian whisky brand & you get the name of a cola Crown Royal or Royal Crown |
| #7581, aired 2017-07-24 | COLLEGES: When this school opened in 1845, the curriculum for the class of 50 had math & navigation, chemistry & gunnery & steam the U.S. Naval Academy |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES: Often used to describe artists ahead of their time, it was also the name of a youth militia in WWII Vichy France avant-garde |
| #7426, aired 2016-12-19 | WORDS WITH MULTIPLE MEANINGS: Found in a 1970 Tom Wolfe book title, it's a chemistry term, a math quantity & a drastic word in politics radical |
| #7410, aired 2016-11-25 | ENTERTAINERS: He won a Tony & later an Oscar for the same role & decades later, published a memoir called "Master of Ceremonies" Joel Grey |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS' LAST WORDS: In a British novel this young character's last words are, "Which is better--to have rules & agree, or to hunt & kill?" Piggy |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | THE ECONOMY: "Systemically important financial institution" is an official status known more informally by these 4 words too big to fail |
| #7342, aired 2016-07-12 | POLITICAL WORDS: Hamilton began & ended the Federalist Papers warning of this type of person, Greek for "people's leader" a demagogue |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | 19th CENTURY DOCUMENTS: Its preamble substituted the words "a permanent federal government" for "a more perfect union" the Confederate Constitution |
| #7254, aired 2016-03-10 | WORDS & THEIR USE: Originally an electronics word for an output signal returning as input, today it means "criticism" or "evaluation" feedback |
| #7236, aired 2016-02-15 | FAMOUS PHRASES: In one version of a 19th century quote, "There is room and health... away from the crowds" so you're urged to do these 2 words Go West |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | BRITISH CITIES: The name of this Southern city famous in literature is from words meaning "Kent people's stronghold" Canterbury |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | THE GREEK ALPHABET: When spelled out as words in English, 2 of the 3 longest Greek letters (2 of) epsilon, upsilon & omicron |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | LAST WORDS: In 1170 he said, "I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace" St. Thomas Becket |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | FOREIGN WORDS: The Holy Roman Empire from 800 to 1806 was the first; the German empire from 1871 to 1918 was the second reich |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | GREAT MOMENTS IN 19th CENTURY SCIENCE: Matthias Schleiden found plants are made up of these; at dinner he told Theodor Schwann who said, hey, so are animals cells |
| #6889, aired 2014-07-24 | NOVEL WORDS: This word for a person without certain abilities has made it from the realm of fantasy to the OED a muggle |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | LITERARY TITLE WORDS: It was Giovanni Boccaccio who added this adjective to another Italian author's work divine |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | SCIENCE WORDS: Appropriately, this word from Latin for "unfold" isn't in the first edition of "Origin of Species", but does appear in later editions evolution |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | TITLE MOVIE ROLES: In 1984, in the first of the films featuring this character, he only has 21 lines, for a total of 133 words the Terminator |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | SOCIAL MEDIA: The most retweeted tweet of all time happened on November 6, 2012 & started with "four" & ended with these 2 words more years |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | SCIENCE WORDS: This biological term for cell division was borrowed in 1939 to describe a form of energy release fission |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | SPEECHWRITERS: To the question "Did you write the best-known line in JFK's inaugural?", Ted Sorensen would smile & say these 2 words Ask not |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | FAMILIAR PHRASES: OED's earliest citation of this 5-word phrase is "Now, Monsieur Poirot, you would without doubt like to visit" this place the scene of the crime |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | FICTIONAL WOMEN: After dying, she's described as having "too much of water", & her brother says, "therefore I forbid my tears" Ophelia |
| #6275, aired 2011-12-23 | POLITICAL WORDS: 16th century British farmers notching their livestock for identification led to this term for an item set aside for a specific purpose earmark |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: The first words he ever spoke to his assistant were "How are you?... You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive" Sherlock Holmes |
| #6084, aired 2011-02-10 | THE LAW: Asked in 1966 to write a concise statement for arresting officers to recite, California D.A. Harold Berliner started with these 7 words You have the right to remain silent |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | WORDS IN 20th CENTURY NOVELS: Words found in this 1945 fable include brood, baying, bleating, comrade, tyranny & rebellion Animal Farm |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | SPORTS VENUES: In 2000 the Centre Court Arena in Melbourne, Australia was renamed for him Rod Laver |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | BIBLICAL BEASTS: It's the total number of legs on the 2 non-human animals whose words are quoted in the Old Testament 4 |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | METEOROLOGY: Low- & high-pressure systems & tropical moisture set the stage for a 1991 nor'easter nicknamed these 2 words "Perfect Storm" |
| #5905, aired 2010-04-23 | WORDS FROM THE FRENCH: The first known use of this word in the U.S. was in an obituary for wealthy banker Pierre Lorillard in 1843 millionaire |
| #5872, aired 2010-03-09 | THE INTERNET: Words regularly censored out of Chinese blogs include minzhu, which means this, from the Greek word for "people" democracy |
| #5858, aired 2010-02-17 | RELIGIOUS WORDS: Surprisingly, this word appears only twice in the New Testament, once in Acts & once in the First Epistle of Peter Christian |
| #5823, aired 2009-12-30 | THE CONSTITUTION: Just 37 words, it's in the article on the executive branch & is the only part of the Constitution that is in quote marks the Presidential Oath of Office |
| #5790, aired 2009-11-13 | HISTORIC SPEECHES: He said, "We look forward to a world founded upon" freedom of speech, of worship, from want & from fear Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | MUSIC WORDS: Before it acquired its musical meaning in the early 20th century, it was baseball slang for "pep" or "energy" jazz |
| #5720, aired 2009-06-19 | WORDS IN PHYSICS: Also found before "pack" & "team", it's defined as increase in volume resulting from increase in temperature expansion |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | WORDS OF INSPIRATION: A professor's 2007 address at Carnegie Mellon on "really achieving your childhood dreams" inspired millions under this title The Last Lecture |
| #5659, aired 2009-03-26 | 16th CENTURY THINKERS: In 1517 he wrote, "The treasures of indulgences are nets with which they now fish for the wealth of men" Martin Luther |
| #5615, aired 2009-01-23 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES: This prized object was the coat of the winged ram that flew Phrixus to safety the Golden Fleece |
| #5571, aired 2008-11-24 | SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN: The last words spoken by this character are "What's done cannot be undone: to bed, to bed, to bed" Lady Macbeth |
| #5501, aired 2008-07-07 | THE QUOTE OF THE MONTH CLUB: In a poem, these 5 words precede "breeding Lilacs out of the dead land... stirring Dull roots with spring rain" April is the cruellest month |
| #5427, aired 2008-03-25 | ANCIENT NAMES: Appropriately, the name of this dramatist comes from Greek words meaning "wise" & "famous" Sophocles |
| #5325, aired 2007-11-02 | POETS: One of her poems says, "I was ten when they buried you. At twenty I tried to die and get back, back, back to you" Sylvia Plath |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | THE 5 W's: The names of the president & premier of the world's most populous nation are homophones of these 2 words who & when |
| #5149, aired 2007-01-18 | ANIMATED CHARACTERS: The middle initial of this cartoon critter introduced in 1949 stands for Ethelbert Wile E. Coyote |
| #5115, aired 2006-12-01 | BROADCASTING FIRSTS: In 2005, at New Mexico State, Cuyler Frank made history by being the first to call a football game in this language Navajo |
| #5082, aired 2006-10-17 | MATH WORDS: In Latin the name of this math field meant a pebble used in counting, & the word also has the medical meaning "stone" calculus |
| #5079, aired 2006-10-12 | WORLD CAPITALS: Started in 1988 for this city's 75th anniversary, a Springtime Flower Festival in September shows off its Commonwealth Park Canberra, Australia |
| #5064, aired 2006-09-21 | WORD ORIGINS: Appropriately, this word comes from Greek words meaning "sharp" & "dull" oxymoron |
| #5055, aired 2006-07-28 | AMERICANA: A monument at this Nebraska site bears the words "He ain't heavy, Father... he's m' brother" Boys Town |
| #5016, aired 2006-06-05 | WORDS IN THE NEWS: This word for one who hangs around the corridors of power refers back to the corridors themselves lobbyist |
| #4980, aired 2006-04-14 | POETS: She wrote, "From her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command the air-bridged harbor" Emma Lazarus |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS: In a classic book, this title phrase precedes the words "which had swept through Georgia" Gone with the Wind |
| #4908, aired 2006-01-04 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES: The Academie Francaise has officially translated it as "toile d'araignee mondiale" world wide web |
| #4887, aired 2005-12-06 | NAMES OF THE 1930s: A famous 1936 speech by this man began, "At long last, I am able to say a few words of my own" King Edward VIII |
| #4864, aired 2005-11-03 | CELEBRITIES: Calling him a Revolutionary, in 2000 Fidel Castro dedicated a statue of this man on the 20th anniversary of his murder John Lennon |
| #4849, aired 2005-10-13 | HOBBIES: This word comes from the Greek words for "light" & "writing" photography |
| #4845, aired 2005-10-07 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE: A Gospel & a book of the Old Testament each start with these same 3 words In the beginning |
| #4823, aired 2005-07-20 | CLASSICAL MUSIC: It's the roughly 70-minute work that includes the sung words "Alle menschen werden bruder" Beethoven's 9th Symphony |
| #4822, aired 2005-07-19 | WORDS IN LITERATURE: In Webster's, it means either a soldier using a certain muzzle-loading weapon, or a boon companion musketeer |
| #4797, aired 2005-06-14 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS: In an August 1989 protest, a 2-million-person human chain stretched from Tallinn to Riga to this city Vilnius |
| #4784, aired 2005-05-26 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS: Its name is from the Greek for "to bind", which in turn may come from the Egyptian shesep-ankh, "living image" the sphinx |
| #4778, aired 2005-05-18 | WORDS FROM LATIN: Some of the periods of time called this occurred in 304 A.D. (4 years), 1314 (2 years), 1958 (19 days), 1963 & 2005 interregnum |
| #4767, aired 2005-05-03 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY: It refers to a mythical bird that calmed waves, or to past happy "days"; spelled differently, it's a sleeping pill halcyon |
| #4756, aired 2005-04-18 | INVENTED WORDS: In works by Lewis Carroll, this word means "four in the afternoon; the time when you begin broiling things for dinner" brillig |
| #4750, aired 2005-04-08 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Dr. Seuss wrote this book to win a bet that he couldn't write a book using only 50 different words Green Eggs and Ham |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES: It's the more commonly used term for the practice of Chinese geomancy feng shui |
| #4699, aired 2005-01-27 | MOUNTAINS: To trek through its Khumbu Icefall, Lhotse Face & South Col, your team needs a $70,000 permit from Nepal's government Mount Everest |
| #4654, aired 2004-11-25 | POLITICAL WORDS & PHRASES: Teddy Roosevelt used this boxing phrase to announce his 1912 candidacy & said, "The fight is on & I'm stripped to the buff" (my) hat is in the ring |
| #4622, aired 2004-10-12 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE GEOGRAPHY: The 2nd-smallest independent country in area in the Western Hemisphere; in the '80s it was invaded by the 2nd largest Grenada |
| #4604, aired 2004-09-16 | AMERICAN AUTHORS: Ford Madox Ford, in the ‘20s, hadn’t “read more than six words” by this man before vowing to “publish everything he sent me” Ernest Hemingway |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | CLASSIC LITERATURE: "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man..." is the epigraph to this 1818 novel Frankenstein |
| #4561, aired 2004-06-07 | WORDS & PHRASES: Once slang for brain, this 2-word phrase now means the Heritage Foundation or the Brookings Institution a think tank |
| #4427, aired 2003-12-02 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS: These 2 words are anagrams of each other & for our location now one is about 34, the other about 74 latitude & altitude |
| #4424, aired 2003-11-27 | LONG-RUNNING TV SHOWS: The final words uttered on this TV show after 11 seasons on the air were "Sorry, we're closed" Cheers |
| #4293, aired 2003-04-09 | 20th CENTURY WORDS: Walter Cronkite said it was first used in 1952 for "Not exactly a reporter, not exactly a commentator" anchorman |
| #4287, aired 2003-04-01 | WORDS: It's the common English word that is pronounced differently when it becomes the name of a language polish/Polish |
| #4256, aired 2003-02-17 | FILMS OF THE '70s: This '71 film opens on the words "To the police officers of San Francisco who gave their lives in the line of duty" Dirty Harry |
| #4234, aired 2003-01-16 | ELEGANT WORDS: It may come from a ship travel acronym for port windows on the outward journey & starboard coming home posh (portside out, starboard home) |
| #4206, aired 2002-12-09 | WORDS: This common expression of distress comes from an English representation of the French for "help me" Mayday |
| #4171, aired 2002-10-21 | PEOPLE: A British airport recently named for him features a logo with the words "Above Us Only Sky" John Lennon |
| #4109, aired 2002-06-13 | MEDICAL WORDS: After ether's first use in surgery, O.W. Holmes coined this word from the Greek for the condition it produced anesthesia |
| #4108, aired 2002-06-12 | FANTASY FILMS: This 1990 Tim Burton film was advertised with the line "His story will touch you, even though he can't" Edward Scissorhands |
| #3950, aired 2001-11-02 | U.S. PRESIDENTS: Washington was the one who added these 4 words to the presidential oath; they're not in the Constitution "So Help Me God" |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | FAMOUS PHRASES: This expression comes from a 1956 novel about Frank Skeffington's final run for mayor "the last hurrah" |
| #3858, aired 2001-05-16 | OLD WARNINGS: Archaeologists have discovered a home entrance in ancient Pompeii with the words "cave canem", meaning this beware of dog |
| #3699, aired 2000-10-05 | INVENTIONS: In the 1860s an early version of this was called the velocipede, from Latin words meaning "quick" & "feet" bicycle |
| #3647, aired 2000-06-13 | FAMOUS SCIENTISTS: At his death in 1727, he left over one million words he had written on alchemy & the occult Sir Isaac Newton |
| #3608, aired 2000-04-19 | ENGLISH: Group of 4 letters that sounds different within words for done, exhaustive, hack, idea, branch & coarse "O-U-G-H" |
| #3593, aired 2000-03-29 | AMERICAN LITERATURE: The title of this novella that won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize consists of 6 words, each of which is 3 letters long "The Old Man and the Sea" |
| #3572, aired 2000-02-29 | THE 13 COLONIES: 1 of the 2 original colonies whose names came from American Indian words (1 of) Connecticut or Massachusetts |
| #3506, aired 1999-11-29 | U.S. STATES: It's the only state whose name & capital city both consist of 2 words New Mexico (Santa Fe) |
| #3247, aired 1998-10-20 | WORDS FROM PHYSICS: It means "relating to the motion of projectiles", or "very angry" ballistic |
| #3240, aired 1998-10-09 | WORDS: Once luring men to danger, now one warns of it a siren |
| #3227, aired 1998-09-22 | 20th CENTURY WORDS: In 1973, TIME Magazine blended 2 words to coin this term they gave to Rex Humbard as a job title televangelist |
| #3169, aired 1998-05-14 | WORDS FROM THE BIBLE: A 17th C. sermon on the book of Judges led to this group's name being applied to uneducated townspeople Philistines |
| #3160, aired 1998-05-01 | WORDS: Merrythought is an old, chiefly British term for this part of a chicken Wishbone |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | EPITAPHS: They're the 3 words found at the top of Mel Blanc's gravestone "That's All Folks" |
| #3121, aired 1998-03-09 | WORD ORIGINS: These 2 words, for a political plan of attack & a drink used to celebrate a win, come from the same root Campaign & champagne |
| #2909, aired 1997-04-03 | INTERNATIONAL SONGS: Bush poet A.B. Paterson, who died in 1941, wrote the words to this internationally famous song "Waltzing Matilda" |
| #2882, aired 1997-02-25 | FAMOUS AUTHORS: Queen Victoria called his death "a very great loss. He had... the strongest sympathy with the poorer classes" Charles Dickens |
| #2653, aired 1996-02-28 | AIRLINES: In 1962 this airline used the ad line "My son, the pilot" El Al |
| #2617, aired 1996-01-09 | ENGLISH POETS: "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind" precedes a famous line from his works (John) Donne |
| #2504, aired 1995-06-22 | 1994 FILMS: This 1994 film is based on Mark Handley's play "Idioglossia" Nell |
| #2503, aired 1995-06-21 | ODD WORDS: The word lapidate refers to this ancient form of punishment stoning |
| #2431, aired 1995-03-13 | WORLD CURRENCY: On an alphabetical list of the world's basic monetary units, this one is last the złoty |
| #2421, aired 1995-02-27 | THE OLD TESTAMENT: The words "Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin" appear in this book the Book of Daniel |
| #2052, aired 1993-07-06 | PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS: He used more words in his one inaugural address than FDR used in all four of his William Henry Harrison |
| #1916, aired 1992-12-28 | LANGUAGES: Swahili contains many words borrowed from this language, including the word "Swahili" Arabic |
| #1689, aired 1991-12-26 | FAMOUS ADDRESSES: His home address is the Admiral's House, 34th Street & Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, DC the Vice President of the U.S. (Dan Quayle) |
| #1609, aired 1991-09-05 | ACTRESSES: She was the special guest at the Empire State Building's 60th anniversary celebration on May 1, 1991 Fay Wray |
| #1591, aired 1991-07-01 | THE PRESIDENCY: By custom, presidents add these 4 words to the constitutionally dictated oath of office so help me God |
| #1495, aired 1991-02-15 | LANDMARKS: The inscription on this U.S. monument ends with the words "known but to God" the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (the Tomb of the Unknown) |
| #1478, aired 1991-01-23 | MYTHOLOGY: The Oracle at Delphi was believed to be speaking the words of this god Apollo |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | THE BIBLE: This Old Testament book opens "The words of the preacher, the son of David, King in Jerusalem" Ecclesiastes |
| #1384, aired 1990-09-13 | POETRY: The last words spoken by this title character were "I 'ope you liked your drink" Gunga Din |
| #1236, aired 1990-01-08 | ANAGRAMS: 2 words having to do with parenthood that are anagrams of "parental" paternal & prenatal |
| #1225, aired 1989-12-22 | MOUNTAINS: The names of the tallest peak in the Alps & the tallest peak in Hawaii both mean this in English white mountain |
| #1054, aired 1989-03-16 | FOOD & DRINK: The letters in "made" can be made into these 2 different words, one a food & one a drink Edam & mead |
| #799, aired 1988-02-11 | QUOTES: President Nixon's words "This has been the greatest week... since the creation" referred to this event the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969 |
| #520, aired 1986-12-05 | WOOD: Percussion instrument whose name combines Greek words for "wood" & "sound" xylophone |
| #486, aired 1986-10-20 | LITERATURE: Title of this 1940 novel is taken from the words of John Donne, which begin "No man is an island" For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| #430, aired 1986-05-02 | WORLD EVENTS: Muzak has b'cast words twice, for simulcast of "We Are The World" & announcement of this 1/20/81 event the release of the Iran hostages |
| #311, aired 1985-11-18 | THE 50 STATES: Aside from the Dakotas & Carolinas, # of states with 2 words in their names as commonly used 6 |
| #2, aired 1984-09-11 | THE CALENDAR: Calendar date with which the 20th century began January 1, 1901 |
