#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $400: Legalization differs from this ac-"tion", by which a drug is still illegal but possession of a limited amount is not prosecuted decriminalization |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $800: Idealistic philosophy of Emerson & Thoreau transcendentalism |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $1200: Reduction of the body's ability to fight infection; it happens with HIV & can be done deliberately before a transplant immunosuppression |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Critic Roger Fry coined this term for the late 19th century art style of Seurat & Gauguin Postimpressionism |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $2000: Related to a word for that little voice telling you right & wrong, it's the quality of being thorough & scrupulous conscientiousness |
#8218, aired 2020-05-20 | HIGH-SCORING 4-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $800: Similar to a vixen, or attractive (17 points) foxy |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $400: 16 letters:
Adjective for a novel based on the author's life, like Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" autobiographical |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $800: 13 letters:
Adjective for a scream that will make the fluid in your veins coagulate bloodcurdling |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $1200: 14 letters:
This sauce, gluten free & made by Lea & Perrins since 1835 Worcestershire sauce |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $1600: 13 letters:
Means by which assassin Leon Czolgosz was killed electrocution |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | 13- TO 17-LETTER WORDS $2000: 15 letters:
One who doesn't eat meat but whose diet includes dairy products a lactovegetarian |
#7442, aired 2017-01-10 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: Peter Lely's 17-century portraits from the English court were noted for daring in this part of the ladies' costume décolletage |
#7251, aired 2016-03-07 | IN TROUBLE WITH THE FCC $800: On May 17, 1972 this comedian recorded his "7 Dirty Words" bit & the FCC started dealing with that a year later George Carlin |
#7011, aired 2015-02-23 | 17-LETTER WORDS $400: The development of modern factories & the means of production on a regional or national scale industrialization |
#7011, aired 2015-02-23 | 17-LETTER WORDS $800: It's having a business meeting in 2 or more locations at once, linked by "v"isual technology videoconferencing |
#7011, aired 2015-02-23 | 17-LETTER WORDS $1200: UC Berkeley students range across areas of learning with the major called ISF, this kind of "studies field" interdisciplinary |
#6561, aired 2013-03-11 | DOUBLE LETTER 8-LETTER WORDS $1000: In 1900 the LZ-1, the first airship of this type, topped out at about 17 miles per hour a zeppelin |
#6542, aired 2013-02-12 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $800: 17 letters:
The philosophy of Thoreau & Emerson Transcendentalism |
#6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 17-LETTER WORDS $400: The introduction of power-driven machinery in the early 1800s was a big factor in this process industrialization |
#6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 17-LETTER WORDS $800: Judicial review tests congressional legislation for this, conformity with a certain U.S. document constitutionality |
#6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 17-LETTER WORDS $1600: A cosmetic treatment that gently sands the skin microdermabrasion |
#6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 17-LETTER WORDS $2000: In politics, really, really traditional & right wing ultraconservative |
#6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 17-LETTER WORDS $4,800 (Daily Double): This adjective means "thwarting an intended goal", like living on credit while trying to save money counterproductive |
#6097, aired 2011-03-01 | TO THE LETTER $800: A big one of these letters appears next to the words "under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian" R |
#4035, aired 2002-03-01 | WORDS FROM OTHER LANGUAGES $2000: It follows "lumpen" in a 17-letter German Marxist term for a low class of beggars & the like proletariat |
#3575, aired 2000-03-03 | ODD WORDS $1000: Don't fear this 17-letter word, it simply means the fear of the number 13 Triskaidekaphobia |
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