#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 |
#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 |
#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 | RHYMING SYNONYMS $1200: Gizmo of "Gremlins" fame frightfully screamed these 2 words after seeing a camera flash bright light |
#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 |
#9029, aired 2024-02-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: Though it's in the Bovidae family, the musk variety of this is grouped with goats & sheep, not cattle the ox |
#9029, aired 2024-02-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: An aid to meditation, when spoken as 3 sounds, it can be symbolic of the 3 major Hindu gods om |
#9029, aired 2024-02-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1200: An exclamation, or an actress who has played a doctor & an MI6 agent on TV Oh |
#9029, aired 2024-02-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's Latin for "bone" os |
#9029, aired 2024-02-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: A major river of the Siberian lowlands, it flows more than 2,200 miles from the Altai Mountains to the Arctic Ocean the Ob |
#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 |
#9008, aired 2024-01-03 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: Flammable, but with 2 more letters, & if you even think of saying inflammable, I'm coming over there combustible |
#9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $200: 2-word title of "A Celebration of the Sesame Street Theme Song" Sunny Day |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#8966, aired 2023-11-06 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $400: To make the pressure between 2 forces the same
(26 points) equalize |
#8956, aired 2023-10-23 | SMART ANSWERS $1200: In a Jay McInerney book title, these 2 words precede "Big City" Bright Lights |
#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) |
#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 |
#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 | 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) |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#8916, aired 2023-07-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: In the title of a John le Carré novel, these 2 occupations precede "Soldier, Spy" Tinker & Tailor |
#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 |
#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 |
#8902, aired 2023-06-27 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: 2 Greek words give us this 10-letter word meaning fear of blood hemophobia |
#8901, aired 2023-06-26 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: This delicate word is stretched out to 3 syllables by Darren McGavin in "A Christmas Story" fragile |
#8888, aired 2023-06-07 | PASSION $1000: These 2 passionate words make up the title of a 1965 film about Michelangelo agony & ecstasy |
#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 |
#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 $400: Stoves & stomachs are made of this 2-word alloy formed in a mold cast iron |
#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 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 |
#9, aired 2023-05-15 | SUBTITLED LITERATURE $1600: These 2 words finish the subtitle of "Frankenstein" Modern Prometheus |
#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 |
#8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $200: It follows Ice & Stone Age |
#8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $400: Perhaps you learned to type with the phrase "Now is the time for all good men to come to the" this "of the party" aid |
#8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $600: In the early 2000s the Israeli army phased out use of this submachine gun the uzi |
#8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $800: Wrath or fury packed into 3 letters ire |
#8861, aired 2023-05-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $1000: This symbol of Australia ranks as the world's second-tallest bird the emu |
#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" |
#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 |
#8855, aired 2023-04-21 | "F"IVE LETTER WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): In its simplest form it's a sheet of paper folded in half to make 2 leaves or 4 pages; Shakespeare's had a lot more a folio |
#8843, aired 2023-04-05 | 3-LETTER WORDS $200: The big one consists of 2 phalanges a toe |
#8843, aired 2023-04-05 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Just one letter different, these 2 rhyming words both mean to soak up spilled liquid sop & mop |
#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 |
#8833, aired 2023-03-22 | 4-LETTER SPORTS TERMS $600: The second half of a golf course is called this, 2 4-letter words the back nine |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#8818, aired 2023-03-01 | ONOMATOPOEIA $800: These 2 words that differ by one vowel combine to mean a change of heart flip & flop |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#8783, aired 2023-01-11 | SCIENCE WORDS $800: These 2 5-letter words are often paired as terms for the plants & animals of a particular region flora & fauna |
#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 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: There are 2 Vs in this word meaning extreme enthusiasm or spirit verve |
#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) |
#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 |
#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 |
#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) |
#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 |
#8751, aired 2022-11-28 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: Yes, Dan, there are 2 "P"s in the middle of this word for the snazzily attired dapper |
#8749, aired 2022-11-24 | DOUBLE-T WORDS $800: The second of the 2 things mentioned earlier in a sentence the latter |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#8696, aired 2022-09-12 | 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: The original line of this separating 2 territories was the one dividing the New World between Spain & Portugal demarcation |
#8693, aired 2022-07-27 | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $200: Big bovine ox |
#8693, aired 2022-07-27 | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $400: An aboveground railway el |
#8693, aired 2022-07-27 | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $600: George Takei's 2-word catchphrase oh my |
#8693, aired 2022-07-27 | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $800: "Special" is one type of this short form ed |
#8693, aired 2022-07-27 | ACCEPTABLE 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1000: COVID variant names skipped nu & this 14th Greek letter xi |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 $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 |
#8648, aired 2022-05-25 | 5-LETTER "W"s $1000: Roger, I heard your radio message & I'll use this combination of 2 words to indicate I'll do what you asked wilco |
#8641, aired 2022-05-16 | TFW... $800: You're these 2 mellow words that precede "collected" in a proverbial phrase calm & cool |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BOSH $800: We hear a lot about these 2 14-letter words that differ by a letter; one is inadvertent untruths & the other, deliberate ones disinformation & misinformation |
#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 |
#8583, aired 2022-02-23 | COUNTRY NICKNAMES $1200: Canada's nickname has these 2 words before "North" Great White |
#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 |
#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 | 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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#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 |
#8559, aired 2022-01-20 | THE ENERGY BIZ $800: The name of this "always prepared" battery company was once 2 words Eveready |
#8553, aired 2022-01-12 | REPTILIAN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Term for rolling a 2 in craps snake eyes |
#8550, aired 2022-01-07 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS $1200: An ejection or an eviction an ouster |
#8550, aired 2022-01-07 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS $1600: This Japanese martial art aims to turn an attacker's strength & momentum against him aikido |
#8550, aired 2022-01-07 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS $2000: The joker was invented for this card game & the 2 words may be related Euchre |
#8549, aired 2022-01-06 | PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS $800: Submissive & pugnacious are synonyms for the 2 words in this type of behavior; fine. Whatever passive-aggressive |
#8543, aired 2021-12-29 | SPEAK LIKE A FRENCH CANADIAN $2000: "Je suis tired" is an example of this, a portmanteau of the French words for Canada's 2 official languages Franglais |
#8541, aired 2021-12-27 | YOU STUBBED YOUR TOE ON LIVE TV $800: 2 words that completed Red Skelton's signoff, "Good night and..." God bless |
#8538, aired 2021-12-22 | 'TIS THE SEASON, ERA OR EPOCH $800: In 1817 the Boston Columbian Centinel described the nifty mood with a new man in the White House as the era of these 2 words Good Feelings |
#8522, aired 2021-11-30 | ENDS IN "EX" $3,000 (Daily Double): In math, these 2 words are often used interchangeably for the top point of a figure, like a cone the apex & the vertex |
#8509, aired 2021-11-11 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: "Us" is the objective case of this pronoun we |
#8509, aired 2021-11-11 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: A snippet of it: ...288419716... pi |
#8509, aired 2021-11-11 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the third note in the major scale of the sol-fa set of singing syllables mi |
#8509, aired 2021-11-11 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the garment being worn here a gi |
#8509, aired 2021-11-11 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: A moon in our solar system named for a maiden of myth Io |
#8501, aired 2021-11-01 | 2 WORDS, 2 SYLLABLES EACH $400: In a hopeful sense, a cloud is said to have one of these metallic features a silver lining |
#8501, aired 2021-11-01 | 2 WORDS, 2 SYLLABLES EACH $800: Brits use this "familial" name for the guy who brings presents every December Father Christmas |
#8501, aired 2021-11-01 | 2 WORDS, 2 SYLLABLES EACH $1600: High levels of hGC & estrogen might be the cause of this malady that can actually strike pregnant women at any time of day morning sickness |
#8501, aired 2021-11-01 | 2 WORDS, 2 SYLLABLES EACH $2000: Home to wits like Dorothy Parker, the Algonquin Round Table had this other shapely name the Vicious Circle |
#8501, aired 2021-11-01 | 2 WORDS, 2 SYLLABLES EACH $5,000 (Daily Double): Meaning you're good at talking with others, this alliterative phrase begins with a plural word & ends with its singular form a people person |
#8496, aired 2021-10-25 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $600: This 2-word phrase for a farewell performance is derived from the belief that a certain bird makes music as it dies a swan song |
#8490, aired 2021-10-15 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $1600: They're the Russian words for Mikhail Gorbachev's 2 policies of openness & restructuring perestroika & glasnost |
#8474, aired 2021-09-23 | MONEY IDIOMS $800: Makes cents! These 2 words begin the idiom that ends "pound foolish" penny wise |
#8461, aired 2021-08-09 | GRAB BAG $400: Found in a 1927 Girl Scout handbook, the first official recipe for this marshmallow campfire treat had it as 2 words s'mores |
#8448, aired 2021-07-21 | EXODUS TELLS US... $1000: "Thou shalt not bear" these 2 words "against thy neighbour" false witness |
#8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: Vamoose! go |
#8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: Hamlet's first choice be |
#8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: Evil King clown tale It |
#8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: 22/7,
approximately pi |
#8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: The farming equivalent of Big Pharma is not Big Farm but big this Ag |
#8441, aired 2021-07-12 | COLD WORDS $400: It's the geographic area above the circle of latitude at 66 1/2 degrees north the Arctic Circle |
#8420, aired 2021-06-11 | SKILLFUL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: There are 2 consecutive "V"s in the middle of this word that describes your shrewdness savvy |
#8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $1200: O. Henry called the fictional Central American country of Anchuria this 2-word entity, referring to an export a banana republic |
#8418, aired 2021-06-09 | SILENT-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the "h" in the math formula 1/2 b h height |
#8413, aired 2021-06-02 | THE BIBLE $800: The shortest verse in the King James Bible is John 11:35, these 2 words Jesus wept |
#8411, aired 2021-05-31 | THE SHAPE OF YOU $600: These 2 words that both start with the same 3 letters mean curving inward & curving outward convex & concave |
#8409, aired 2021-05-27 | LAW SLAW $3,000 (Daily Double): The first play by lord, novelist, politician & inmate Jeffrey Archer had a legalistic title, "Beyond" these 2 words Beyond Reasonable Doubt |
#8408, aired 2021-05-26 | IN THE DICTIONARY $1000: Geometry has cool words like rhombus & this one for a quadrilateral with only 2 parallel sides a trapezoid |
#8404, aired 2021-05-20 | 5-LETTER 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: Quotient is a synonym for this, a proportional relationship between 2 quantities ratio |
#8392, aired 2021-05-04 | READING MATERIAL $3,800 (Daily Double): Combine 2 words in the New York Times' slogan & get the name of this light, pulpy paper it comes on newsprint |
#8387, aired 2021-04-27 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS $400: It's a conjunction used to introduce a choice between 2 alternatives either |
#8387, aired 2021-04-27 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS $800: An oily preparation rubbed on the skin for medical or soothing purposes ointment |
#8387, aired 2021-04-27 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS $1200: A region of the Earth's outer atmosphere containing a high concentration of free electrons the ionosphere |
#8387, aired 2021-04-27 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS $1600: Do you question this? One's power to make decisions & tell people what to do? authority |
#8387, aired 2021-04-27 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS $2000: The science & practice of traveling through the air in a plane or other vehicle aeronautics |
#8385, aired 2021-04-23 | WORDS & PHRASES $200: This Franglish phrase refers to something with 2 meanings, one of which is usually naughty a double entendre |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | LEADING FEMALE TV $800: These 2 words describe "Xena" in the full title of the show that starred Lucy Lawless Warrior Princess |
#8363, aired 2021-03-24 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 CONSECUTIVE LETTERS $400: Something taking a lot of work can require a "herculean" this effort |
#8363, aired 2021-03-24 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 CONSECUTIVE LETTERS $800: This adjective refers to the ability to soak up water or heat absorbent |
#8363, aired 2021-03-24 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 CONSECUTIVE LETTERS $1200: The Ilium is the upper part of this big bone the hip bone |
#8363, aired 2021-03-24 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 CONSECUTIVE LETTERS $1600: From a Sanskrit word for "to sprinkle", it's a clarified butter used in south Asian cooking ghee |
#8363, aired 2021-03-24 | WORDS THAT START WITH 2 CONSECUTIVE LETTERS $2000: It's information regarding the characteristics of a particular advertising target audience like age, sex, income, etc. demographics |
#8351, aired 2021-03-08 | TV SHOWS IN 2 WORDS $200: Mirrorball Trophy Dancing with the Stars |
#8351, aired 2021-03-08 | TV SHOWS IN 2 WORDS $400: "Outplay",
"Outlast" Survivor |
#8351, aired 2021-03-08 | TV SHOWS IN 2 WORDS $600: Brainiacs,
Bazinga! The Big Bang Theory |
#8351, aired 2021-03-08 | TV SHOWS IN 2 WORDS $800: Piper,
prison Orange Is the New Black |
#8351, aired 2021-03-08 | TV SHOWS IN 2 WORDS $1000: Sweathogs,
school Welcome Back, Kotter |
#8341, aired 2021-02-22 | ANIMALS WITHIN WORDS $2000: A set of bejeweled ceramic sheep may include these 2 animals, a female & a male a ewe & a ram (in bejeweled & ceramic) |
#8335, aired 2021-02-12 | GAME THEORY $200: If your stack is short & you need to double up to stay in a game of hold 'em, it might be time to "go" these 2 words all-in |
#8324, aired 2021-01-28 | WORDS & PHRASES $800: Before it meant a type of research institution, this 2-word phrase was slang for the brain think tank |
#8324, aired 2021-01-28 | THE COMICS $1200: In the title of the comic strip, not the musical, these 2 words come before "Annie" Little Orphan |
#8304, aired 2020-12-17 | FIRST WORDS $800: The presidential oath of office begins, "I do" these 2 words solemnly swear |
#8301, aired 2020-12-14 | BLENDED WORDS $1000: When referring to England's 2 oldest universities, use this blended word Oxbridge |
#8296, aired 2020-12-07 | EMPTY WORDS $1000: In Genesis 1:2 "the earth was without form, and" this void |
#8294, aired 2020-12-03 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1600: The condition of 2 people so different by nature that they are not able to work or live together harmoniously incompatibility |
#8291, aired 2020-11-30 | YIDDISH $800: The opening to "Laverne & Shirley" used these 2 Yiddish words, one meaning an oaf, the other, an unlucky person schlemiel & schlimazel |
#8279, aired 2020-11-12 | DOUBLE O, DOUBLE E $600: "Be of" these 2 words denoting happy spirits good cheer |
#8270, aired 2020-10-30 | BE HOME NOW $1600: If you want your package delivered when someone is home, these 2 words follow "adult" in a FedEx option signature required |
#8265, aired 2020-10-23 | HELPFUL HINTS $2000: In the mnemonic "God's Excellent Love Never Dies", the first 2 words stand for these 2 Bible books Genesis & Exodus |
#8262, aired 2020-10-20 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: For 2, 5 & 11, it is 6 average |
#8261, aired 2020-10-19 | POE "M" $600: In the title of a Poe story, "in the Rue" is in between these 2 words Murders & Morgue |
#8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: This abbreviated word is sometimes found before art & after photo op |
#8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: According to the Chinese calendar, 2021 will be the year of this animal the ox |
#8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: It's the name of the game being played here Go |
#8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: In the title of a Eugene O'Neill play, it precedes "Wilderness!" Ah |
#8260, aired 2020-10-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: Scrabble players know this 2-letter word is a type of 3-toed sloth found in Brazil the ai |
#8240, aired 2020-09-18 | WORDS & PHRASES $2,500 (Daily Double): Originally a sci-fi term for a trainee astronaut, this 2-word term now describes someone not in touch with reality a space cadet |
#8235, aired 2020-06-12 | WORDS & PHRASES $1,600 (Daily Double): "He who pays the piper holds the reins" is an example of this, incorrectly fusing 2 symbolic comparisons a mixed metaphor |
#8221, aired 2020-05-25 | USE YOUR WORDS $1200: These 2 adjectives are antonyms of each other & are derived from 2 of the divisions in taxonomy general & specific |
#8218, aired 2020-05-20 | PEACE TALK $400: In Jerusalem, the "City of Peace", you might hear these 2 related Hebrew & Arabic words for peace used as a greeting shalom & salaam |
#8217, aired 2020-05-19 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $1000: The low point between 2 wave crests & time off for a soldier trough & furlough |
#8205, aired 2020-04-17 | POP CULTURE $1600: Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run is one of the attractions at the Disneyland area called Star Wars: these 2 words Galaxy's Edge |
#8196, aired 2020-04-06 | I'M YOUR NEW PERSONAL TRAINER! $1600: An intense circuit-style workout, metcon is short for these 2 words, & we're gonna hit it hard today! metabolic conditioning |
#8186, aired 2020-03-23 | ANAGRAMMED REPTILES $1000: A venomous southwesterner: INTRO GLEAMS (2 words) the Gila monster |
#8179, aired 2020-03-12 | FOOD & DRINK IN THE BIBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): In the King James version, these 2 words complete Luke 11:3, "Give us day by day our..." daily bread |
#8175, aired 2020-03-06 | POSTAL ABBREVIATION WORDS $2000: 2 states on the West Coast bookend North Dakota to form this 6-letter word for frankness candor (California, North Dakota & Oregon) |
#8157, aired 2020-02-11 | CRAYOLA COLORS IN OTHER FORMS $800: This type of light has a wavelength shorter than 400 nanometers (but the crayon splits it into 2 words) ultraviolet |
#8147, aired 2020-01-28 | NEWER NECCO CANDY HEARTS $600: In 1999 this pair of 2-letter words, a "Clueless" movie quote, was kind of a mean choice "As If" |
#8138, aired 2020-01-15 | BACKRONYMS $2000: Named for a child kidnapped in 1996, an Amber Alert is short for "America's Missing: Broadcast" these 2 words Emergency Response |
#2, aired 2020-01-07 | PHILOSOPHERS $800: In the 18th C., Hume opined on morality, "'tis impossible that the distinction betwixt" these 2 4-letter words "can be made by reason" good & evil |
#8128, aired 2020-01-01 | UNCOMMON $600: "Monty Python's Flying Circus" often encouraged us with "And now for something..." these 2 words completely different |
#8113, aired 2019-12-11 | COMING OUT OF YOUR SHELL $1200: These 2 words precede "Shell" in the name of the European parent company of Shell Oil Royal Dutch |
#8111, aired 2019-12-09 | QUOTES OF NOTE $800: These 2 words fill in the quote by jurist William Blackstone: "It is better that 10 ___ persons escape, than that 1 ___ suffer" guilty and innocent |
#8104, aired 2019-11-28 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: The skin of this aquatic mammal is about 2 inches thick & secretes a pinkish fluid that acts as a sunblock a hippopotamus |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: 2 basic types of college courses are the seminar & this, basically the professor speaking to a large group lecture |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: A type of poker game where A-2-3-4-6 is a winning hand, or to underestimate on purpose lowball |
#8078, aired 2019-10-23 | ODD WORDS $400: A tittle is that little dot you place over these 2 lowercase letters I & J |
#8072, aired 2019-10-15 | I'VE GOT 2 WORDS FOR YOU $200: Tarana Burke actually coined this phrase more than a decade ago as a way to help survivors of sexual abuse me too |
#8072, aired 2019-10-15 | I'VE GOT 2 WORDS FOR YOU $400: In 2015 Illinois mandated that polling places pass out stickers with these 2 words on Election Day I voted |
#8072, aired 2019-10-15 | I'VE GOT 2 WORDS FOR YOU $600: Got milk? Maybe you shouldn't if you're this & have trouble digesting the sugar that's found in it lactose intolerant |
#8069, aired 2019-10-10 | DOUBLE "Z" WORDS $400: It can be a low story or balcony between 2 other floors in a building or theater mezzanine |
#8069, aired 2019-10-10 | DOUBLE "Z" WORDS $800: You've got 2 sets of double Z's in this 7-letter word! The exciting quality of an energetic personality pizzazz |
#8065, aired 2019-10-04 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): These were 2 types of columns in Ancient Greece Doric & Ionic |
#8065, aired 2019-10-04 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $6,000 (Daily Double): 2-word term for a common language for speakers of different tongues; it was once an actual language quoted by Moliere lingua franca |
#8041, aired 2019-07-22 | POETIC WORDS $800: A "heroic" one of these is 2 rhyming lines of iambic pentameter couplet |
#8038, aired 2019-07-17 | FASHION DON'TS $600: Never, ever wear jorts, a combo of these 2 words jeans and shorts |
#8035, aired 2019-07-12 | ACRONYMS & ABBREVS. $1600: Seen on pay stubs, FICA is short for these 2 words "Contributions Act" federal insurance |
#8034, aired 2019-07-11 | ON SECOND THOUGHT $1000: These 2 similar words have similar meanings; the one starting "A" can mean to make any change; the "E" is to change the text amend and emend |
#8031, aired 2019-07-08 | A PAST-ICHE $800: For extra quaintness, a London pub opened in 1667 isn't just called Cheshire Cheese but these 2 words "Cheshire Cheese" ye olde |
#8025, aired 2019-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $200: 2-word term meaning to make an unresponsive program set you free; on a Mac it's command-option-escape force quit |
#8018, aired 2019-06-19 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: The word embellishment, as of a story, has 2 L's; this synonym has 2 G's exaggeration |
#8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: This biblical word is often found before "& behold" lo |
#8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: The 2013 meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association included a paper on "The Social Meaning of" this word eh |
#8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: "Clumsy" in language, castrated in fact, it's a type of draft animal ox |
#8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: As an adjective, it denotes huge self-interest, like in describing an entire decade me |
#8015, aired 2019-06-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: Dutch for "yes" ja |
#7998, aired 2019-05-22 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): This term for a cure-all bears the name of a daughter of Asclepius panacea |
#7994, aired 2019-05-16 | TEXT $200: Sent in December 1992, the first text message was just these 2 seasonally appropriate words merry Christmas |
#7988, aired 2019-05-08 | WORDS IN TEACHER $1000: Jasper & agate are 2 of the many minerals classified as this form of quartz chert |
#7986, aired 2019-05-06 | OCCUPATIONS $600: These 2 words come before "cook" to describe one in a diner making simple, quick meals short order |
#7956, aired 2019-03-25 | SINGLE-CONSONANT WORDS $1600: 2 Freudian parts of the mind the id and the ego |
#7941, aired 2019-03-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: 2-word French term for a young person who comes from abroad to help out a family with childcare in return for room & board an au pair |
#7932, aired 2019-02-19 | OSCAR RECORDS $1,400 (Daily Double): Winning for "The Miracle Worker", Patty Duke is tied for the shortest Oscar speech:
These 2 words thank you |
#7916, aired 2019-01-28 | AWARD ETYMOLOGY $800: The "OB" in the Obie Theater Awards is short for these 2 words off Broadway |
#7905, aired 2019-01-11 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PROVERB $200: "Once bitten..." twice shy |
#7905, aired 2019-01-11 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PROVERB $400: "A chain is no stronger than its..." weakest link |
#7905, aired 2019-01-11 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PROVERB $600: "A watched pot..." never boils |
#7905, aired 2019-01-11 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PROVERB $800: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a..." single step |
#7905, aired 2019-01-11 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PROVERB $1000: "Familiarity..." breeds contempt |
#7895, aired 2018-12-28 | ABORIGINAL WORDS $400: It's a curved piece of wood usually 2 to 3 feet long boomerang |
#7887, aired 2018-12-18 | LIKES & RAVERS $1000: Online, "h/t" is short for these 2 words, a way to express gratitude with your homburg or fedora hat tip |
#7879, aired 2018-12-06 | WORD & PHRASE HISTORIES $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1738 Jonathan Swift first wrote down a familiar phrase as "the sight of you is good for" these 2 words sore eyes |
#7866, aired 2018-11-19 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $800: These 2 5-letter words are used to refer to the plant & animal life of a particular region flora and fauna |
#7865, aired 2018-11-16 | INTERJECTIONS $600: Often used mockingly, it's 2 rhyming words synonymous with turning on the tears boo hoo |
#7862, aired 2018-11-13 | YOU'VE GOT CLASS $2000: Let's muscle in some biology with this muscle in the upper arm; its name comes from Latin words for "2" & "head" a bicep |
#7826, aired 2018-09-24 | WORDS FROM THE COMICS $600: This 2-word name for a rich benefactor comes from a "Little Orphan Annie" character Daddy Warbucks |
#7826, aired 2018-09-24 | RIVER WORDS $800: A tributary is a river that flows into another river; this 2,540-mile one joins the Mississippi River near St. Louis the Missouri |
#7825, aired 2018-09-21 | HELP ME WITH THE TITLE $600: These 2 title words describe Sarah, who travels to the prairie to be a farmer's wife plain and tall |
#7818, aired 2018-09-12 | SIMILAR WORDS $200: With one T, it's the roof of the mouth; with 2, it's a board for mixing paints a palate/palette |
#7810, aired 2018-07-20 | GET ME REWRITE! $200: Thanks to Eisenhower's urging, these 2 words were added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 under God |
#7808, aired 2018-07-18 | THE OED's RECENT WORDS $400: Financial assistance from your parents is facetiously called a loan from "the bank of" these 2 Mom & Dad |
#7805, aired 2018-07-13 | PARTING WORDS $400: In bowling, a 3-10 or 2-7 is called a baby this a split |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | I CAN NAME THAT PERSON IN 2 WORDS $200: Bachelor president James Buchanan |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | I CAN NAME THAT PERSON IN 2 WORDS $400: Tibetan Nobelist the Dalai Lama |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | I CAN NAME THAT PERSON IN 2 WORDS $600: Escapology king Harry Houdini |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | I CAN NAME THAT PERSON IN 2 WORDS $800: Bavarian pope Pope Benedict XVI |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | I CAN NAME THAT PERSON IN 2 WORDS $1000: Centenarian senator Strom Thurmond |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | LEXICON VALLEY $2000: This 8-letter name of an L.A. suburb & a Phoenix suburb is made of 2 different words for "valley" Glendale |
#7793, aired 2018-06-27 | MATH WORDS $1200: A:
2 angles that share a vertex & a side are this, like neighboring lots adjacent |
#7793, aired 2018-06-27 | MATH WORDS $2000: O.P.:
2 numbers whose position is important, so (X,Y) is different than (Y,X) an ordered pair |
#7788, aired 2018-06-20 | 3 P's, PPPLEASE $1200: 2-word grammar term for words like fallen or sung past participle |
#7786, aired 2018-06-18 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1200: 2 vowels front this verb meaning "to remove from power" oust |
#7780, aired 2018-06-08 | PSYCHOLOGY $2,400 (Daily Double): It's genetics or upbringing in this classic debate of 2 words with the same second syllable nature versus nurture |
#7778, aired 2018-06-06 | KING JAMES BIBLE COMMON WORDS $400: This conjunction begins many a sentence, including verses 2 through 26 of Genesis 1 and |
#7769, aired 2018-05-24 | IN SO MANY WORDS $1600: 2 words:
Beneath the Lincoln memorial on the back of a U.S. currency note five dollars |
#7768, aired 2018-05-23 | IN GENERAL $600: These 2 words, respectively, are the "M" in SMU & the "C" in TCU, Texas school that we follow religiously Methodist and Christian |
#7768, aired 2018-05-23 | PLANET OF THE CAPES $1200: Found near Calais, Cap Gris-Nez translates as "Cape" these 2 words, for the color of its rocks gray nose |
#7762, aired 2018-05-15 | MEN ON THE MOON $800: Last man on the moon Eugene Cernan echoed MacArthur, saying "we" these 2 words shall return |
#7759, aired 2018-05-10 | RHETORICAL DEVICES $400: Metaphors & similes both make comparisons, but similes specifically use either of these 2 words to do so like or as |
#7758, aired 2018-05-09 | DON'T GIVE UP THE RELATIONSHIP $400: On their 25th anniv. Michelle told Barack "You're still my" these 2 words (without "forever") best friend |
#7739, aired 2018-04-12 | TALES FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS $1600: These 2 words reveal the entrance to a hidden cave full of riches in "Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves" open sesame |
#7732, aired 2018-04-03 | OPPOSITES $1200: Starting with the same 3 letters, these 2 words describe lenses that curve inward or outward concave and convex |
#7723, aired 2018-03-21 | 5-LETTER WORDS $600: 2-syllable adjective for a comment that sums things up in a few words pithy |
#7714, aired 2018-03-08 | WEIRD WORDS $400: From Old Norse, a gowpen is the hollow that's formed when you put the 2 of these together to form a bowl your hands |
#7704, aired 2018-02-22 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: Getting along; in music, there are 2-part & 3-part types harmony |
#7696, aired 2018-02-12 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: "Annual" term for a horse just shy of 2 yearling |
#7686, aired 2018-01-29 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: As a preposition it can express location or time; as a symbol it helps define your email address at |
#7686, aired 2018-01-29 | THE WORDS OF H.G. WELLS $600: Wells preached & definitely practiced this 2-word phrase for ignoring the conventional constraints of marriage free love (or an open marriage) |
#7686, aired 2018-01-29 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: This interjection can follow "westward" or "land" ho |
#7686, aired 2018-01-29 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1200: The unconscious mind, according to Freud the id |
#7686, aired 2018-01-29 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: Ancient city where Abraham lived Ur |
#7686, aired 2018-01-29 | 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: This satellite, seen here on the left, is the most volcanically active body in our solar system Io |
#7673, aired 2018-01-10 | JOBFUSCATION $1600: Your I.T. guy has to figure out if the problem is with the chips or the salsa--these 2 words that end in the same 4 letters the hardware or the software |
#7670, aired 2018-01-05 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $1200: The Labradoodle was originally a cross between these 2 canines a Labrador and a poodle |
#7670, aired 2018-01-05 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $2000: Want to swap yuan for yen? You're in the forex market, forex from these 2 words foreign exchange |
#7666, aired 2018-01-01 | YOU SHALL FIND $400: These 2 words precede "and Where to Find Them" in the title of a 2016 movie Fantastic Beasts |
#7662, aired 2017-12-26 | "MORE" THAN A CATEGORY $200: In chapter 2 of a Dickens work, a hungry Oliver Twist says these 6 words "Please, sir, I want some more" |
#7637, aired 2017-11-21 | WORDS FROM THE GREEK $600: A synonym for predicament, it's made up of 2 words that together mean "two propositions" dilemma |
#7632, aired 2017-11-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $600: Adverb meaning once every 2 weeks fortnightly |
#7626, aired 2017-11-06 | "X"CELLENT 9-LETTER WORDS $1000: Put 2 letters before a word for nasty fumes to get this word for nasty behavior obnoxious |
#7624, aired 2017-11-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $800: An acronym for a confusing situation, its first 2 letters stand for "situation normal" snafu |
#7622, aired 2017-10-31 | AFTER WORDS $800: This 2-word Latin phrase translates as "after this" but is generally used to mean "done with hindsight" post hoc |
#7620, aired 2017-10-27 | MODERN LINGO $1000: The portmanteau word stan, like the obsessed guy in the Eminem song, is derived from these 2 other words stalker and fan |
#7585, aired 2017-07-28 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $600: Formerly Upper Volta, still 2 words Burkina Faso |
#7585, aired 2017-07-28 | WORDS OF WISDOM $2000: In math this adjective describes a number expressible as a quotient of 2 integers rational |
#7581, aired 2017-07-24 | DOUBLE "P" WORDS $1000: Meaning the reestablishment of cordial relations between 2 nations, it's from the French for "bring together" rapprochement |
#7565, aired 2017-06-30 | ANAGRAM OF A STATE $2000: In 2 words it's what the Supreme Court said about the presidential race Dec. 12, 2000 no Gore (anagram of Oregon) |
#7563, aired 2017-06-28 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $2000: 2 body parts are joined in this expression & gesture meaning "oh no!" facepalming |
#7560, aired 2017-06-23 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: "Come live with me and be my love" is an example of this 2-syllable foot an iamb |
#7532, aired 2017-05-16 | -ISMS & -OLOGIES $5,600 (Daily Double): The 2 similar-sounding words for the study of insects & the study of word origins entomology and etymology |
#7522, aired 2017-05-02 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $400: Slice into a pluot & you'll find it's made up of these 2 words plum and apricot |
#7522, aired 2017-05-02 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $2000: It's a composite of 2 old, posh British universities Oxbridge |
#7510, aired 2017-04-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: The objective case of I me |
#7510, aired 2017-04-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: It's Down Under slang for Australia itself Oz |
#7510, aired 2017-04-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: A wise movie character told us this, or this not; there is no try do |
#7510, aired 2017-04-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: 2-piece martial arts garment a gi |
#7510, aired 2017-04-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: A woman loved by Zeus turned into a heifer Io |
#7501, aired 2017-04-03 | NEW WAYS TO SAY CORRECT $600: I'll put together 2 4-letter words & add the English accent for this Austin Powers catchphrase "Yeah, baby" |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | THE BUSY BUSINESSMAN $200: I just say telco--no time for these 2 words that can refer to Vonage or T-Mobile telecommunications company |
#7492, aired 2017-03-21 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: This 2-word Arabic salutation means "Peace be with you" assalamu alaikum |
#7488, aired 2017-03-15 | WALK, THIS WAY $800: These 2 walking words rhyme; the first also means to talk aimlessly & the second, to stroll or saunter ramble and amble |
#7487, aired 2017-03-14 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PHRASE $200: "A leopard cannot change..." its spots |
#7487, aired 2017-03-14 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PHRASE $400: "You can catch more flies with honey than..." with vinegar |
#7487, aired 2017-03-14 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PHRASE $600: Long a slogan of the United Negro College Fund or UNCF: "A mind is a terrible thing..." to waste |
#7487, aired 2017-03-14 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PHRASE $800: "The road to hell is paved with..." good intentions |
#7487, aired 2017-03-14 | 2 WORDS TO COMPLETE THE PHRASE $1000: "Revenge is a dish best..." served cold |
#7470, aired 2017-02-17 | COLLEGE MAJORS IN OTHER WORDS $200: Mutual attraction or rapport between 2 people chemistry |
#7470, aired 2017-02-17 | SOCIOLOGY $1600: Sociologists now consider America more of a "salad bowl" than these 2 words for many cultures becoming one a melting pot |
#7469, aired 2017-02-16 | FREE SPEECH $800: Combine 2 rhyming words to get this term for a freebie computer program shareware |
#7452, aired 2017-01-24 | THE MIND $400: As 2 words, it's what a light bulb will finally do; as one word, it's extreme stress & emotional fatigue burnout |
#7448, aired 2017-01-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: The 2-word title of this Wayne Newton song is the German equivalent of "thank you very much" "Danke Schoen" |
#7448, aired 2017-01-18 | Y_O_Y $1200: To tell a friend that something is really his bag, say "it's right up" these 2 words your alley |
#7440, aired 2017-01-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: It introduces a conditional clause if |
#7440, aired 2017-01-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: In math it's a synonym for "times" by |
#7440, aired 2017-01-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: When I say, "We'll be right back", it's the next thing viewers see an ad |
#7440, aired 2017-01-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: The archaic plural form of thou ye |
#7440, aired 2017-01-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: It's the game seen here Go |
#7433, aired 2016-12-28 | BLENDED WORDS $200: A close buddyship between 2 guys a bromance |
#7433, aired 2016-12-28 | BLENDED WORDS $600: The names of these 2 baseball pitches combined to make "slurve" a slider and a curveball |
#7423, aired 2016-12-14 | HISTORIC AGREEMENT WORDS $2000: Concord is agreement; add 2 letters to get this agreement by a state & a pope concordat |
#7409, aired 2016-11-24 | 1-CONSONANT WORDS $1000: Add 2 vowels to your 1 consonant to get this word, to strive in competition with another vie |
#7401, aired 2016-11-14 | VOCABULARY $1,000 (Daily Double): Don’t confuse these 2 words--one’s a substance that counteracts a poison & the other, a short amusing story antidote & anecdote |
#7391, aired 2016-10-31 | BRIT BITS $2000: These 2 words follow "New" in the name of Oliver Cromwell's force that defeated the Royalists in the English Civil War Model Army |
#7387, aired 2016-10-25 | SOUNDS LIKE A FLOWER $1000: 2 words:
A foppish king of the beasts a dandy lion |
#7362, aired 2016-09-20 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $800: A paved backyard area & a quantitative relation between 2 amounts patio and ratio |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH ONLY 2 VOWELS $200: In cards you can't have a blackjack without it ace |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH ONLY 2 VOWELS $400: It's what you need to row, row, row your boat oar |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH ONLY 2 VOWELS $600: It's a synonym for color, or a shade of color hue |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH ONLY 2 VOWELS $800: This is what it sounds like when doves cry softly coo |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH ONLY 2 VOWELS $1000: In sushi speak, it's unagi eel |
#7319, aired 2016-06-09 | BRITISH HISTORY $2000: Signaling change, Tony Blair ended his first speech as party leader with these 2 words, followed by "New Britain" New Labour |
#7315, aired 2016-06-03 | 3 VOWELS IN A ROW $5,000 (Daily Double): These 2 words that fit the category precede "amber waves of grain" in song beautiful & spacious |
#7306, aired 2016-05-23 | WHOOPS $800: 2 words:
A Confederate battle cry Rebel Yell |
#7298, aired 2016-05-11 | LATIN CLASS $400: 2 Latin words usually abbreviated in 3 total letters; they mean "and others" et cetera |
#7298, aired 2016-05-11 | LATIN CLASS $800: If you get paid "by the day", it's these 2 words in Latin per diem |
#7295, aired 2016-05-06 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED $400: Careful with these 2 words: one means " unethical"; the other, with a "T", "living forever" immoral & immortal |
#7286, aired 2016-04-25 | I'M INNOCENT $200: If you're on trial, you want to hear these 2 words follow "We the jury find the defendant..." not guilty |
#7267, aired 2016-03-29 | MASTER OF NONE $5,000 (Daily Double): The frequent pairing of these 2 4-letter words to mean "without legal force" is redundant null and void |
#7260, aired 2016-03-18 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $600: In a Patricia MacLachlan title, these 2 words describe Sarah, an American mail order bride of the 19th century plain & tall |
#7259, aired 2016-03-17 | ONE-VOWEL WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Sir Toby Belch is a character in this Shakespeare comedy with a 2-word, 2-vowel title Twelfth Night |
#7258, aired 2016-03-16 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1600: From the Greek for "2 sounds", it's the name of the transition sound like that made by the "O-I" in "boil" diphthong |
#7252, aired 2016-03-08 | OF "THY" I SING $400: In the words of Benjamin Franklin, "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man" these 2 things "and wise" healthy and wealthy |
#7223, aired 2016-01-27 | "Z" WORDS $400: This 2-word term for the start time of a military operation zero hour |
#7215, aired 2016-01-15 | 2 WORDS, 7 LETTERS $400: Beef, for example; or, fiery words to galvanize a politician's base red meat |
#7215, aired 2016-01-15 | 2 WORDS, 7 LETTERS $800: A 15-year-old guy on centre court in the Wimbledon final a ball boy |
#7215, aired 2016-01-15 | 2 WORDS, 7 LETTERS $1200: American Airlines says that for Caribbean travel, the fall is this cheaper travel season off peak |
#7215, aired 2016-01-15 | 2 WORDS, 7 LETTERS $1600: Some who graduate high school in 2016 will start college in 2017 & take this time off school in between a gap year |
#7215, aired 2016-01-15 | 2 WORDS, 7 LETTERS $2000: Meaning "you are very correct!", it's the title of songs by Marvin Gaye & The Roots "Right On" |
#7214, aired 2016-01-14 | DOUBLE ANIMAL NAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): Emerging from eggs the size of footballs, newly hatched young of this largest living fish are 2 feet long the whale shark |
#7198, aired 2015-12-23 | TECH COMPANY NAMES $200: Groupon cofounder Andrew Mason explained, "It's short for" these 2 words group & coupon |
#7178, aired 2015-11-25 | 2 WORDS $400: 2-word equivalent of the German word danke thank you |
#7178, aired 2015-11-25 | "TOO" WORDS $400: Originally this 2-word bird term meant a decoy; it came to mean an informer, ya lousy mug stool pigeon |
#7178, aired 2015-11-25 | 2 WORDS $800: Per the OED this 2-word term for websites & apps that allow users to network dates back only to 2004 social media |
#7178, aired 2015-11-25 | 2 WORDS $1200: The 2012 celebration of Queen Elizabeth's 60 years as queen diamond jubilee |
#7178, aired 2015-11-25 | 2 WORDS $1600: It sounds like a quick jog without breaking a sweat, but it means a practice exercise dry run |
#7178, aired 2015-11-25 | 2 WORDS $2000: The dexterous capuchin monkey is traditionally used to collect money for this type of street musician organ grinder |
#7148, aired 2015-10-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS THAT BEGIN WITH "A" $200: This symbol:
@ at |
#7148, aired 2015-10-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS THAT BEGIN WITH "A" $400: A TV commercial ad |
#7148, aired 2015-10-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS THAT BEGIN WITH "A" $600: One of your 6-pack if you're in shape like me ab |
#7148, aired 2015-10-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS THAT BEGIN WITH "A" $800: French term meaning "with the" au |
#7148, aired 2015-10-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS THAT BEGIN WITH "A" $1000: Slow-moving Brazilian animal ai |
#7140, aired 2015-10-02 | "HIP" WORDS $800: A 2-person cutting tool, or to cause rapid & confusing back-&-forth changes a whipsaw |
#7137, aired 2015-09-29 | "MM" BOP $2000: In the original Dr. Spock title, these 2 words preceded "Book of Baby and Child Care" Common Sense |
#7115, aired 2015-07-17 | IT'S A PALINDROME $1600: In 2 words, the place where I work out my gym |
#7110, aired 2015-07-10 | 2- OR 12-LETTER WORDS $400: A shtnd. frm. of a wd. used to rep. the wle. abbreviation |
#7110, aired 2015-07-10 | 2- OR 12-LETTER WORDS $800: Cue Julie Andrews: it's the syllable for the sixth tone of the diatonic scale la |
#7110, aired 2015-07-10 | 2- OR 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: In the book "Explorers", it precedes "Gama" da |
#7110, aired 2015-07-10 | 2- OR 12-LETTER WORDS $1600: Verily, it's the archaic British term that's used nominatively as the plural of thou ye |
#7110, aired 2015-07-10 | 2- OR 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: Bats use this process of emitting high-pitched sounds to navigate echolocation |
#7100, aired 2015-06-26 | WORDS CONTAINING Q $400: The court of this wicket good lawn game has a 1 1/2-inch diameter wooden stake in the center croquet |
#7085, aired 2015-06-05 | ABBREV. $400: When referring to ships, the "H" in H.M.S. can be either of these 2 words his & her |
#7084, aired 2015-06-04 | IN SO MANY WORDS $1600: 2 words:
"Silent Cal" Coolidge's reply to a woman who'd bet she could get him to say at least 3 words "You lose" |
#7068, aired 2015-05-13 | QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE $2000: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" contains the line "The course of" these 2 words "never did run smooth" true love |
#7063, aired 2015-05-06 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: A practice session between 2 units of the same sports team scrimmage |
#7047, aired 2015-04-14 | 2-SYLLABLE, 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Exclamation of approval for bullfighters olé |
#7047, aired 2015-04-14 | 2-SYLLABLE, 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Containing many frozen water crystals icy |
#7047, aired 2015-04-14 | 2-SYLLABLE, 3-LETTER WORDS $600: My Chemical Romance & Panic! at the Disco are this type of touchy-feely pop band emo |
#7047, aired 2015-04-14 | 2-SYLLABLE, 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Yes, Maria, it means "farewell" in Latin ave |
#7047, aired 2015-04-14 | 2-SYLLABLE, 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Edible sea urchin gonads uni |
#7033, aired 2015-03-25 | THERE'S NO STOPPING THEM $400: These 2 words precede "machine" in a hypothetical device that can continuously produce work with no energy input perpetual motion |
#7028, aired 2015-03-18 | WORDS TO "DI" FOR $2000: It's the division into 2 mutually exclusive or contradictory ideas a dichotomy |
#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 |
#7003, aired 2015-02-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This 2-word Greek phrase means the common people, but it has been improperly used to mean the upper crust of society hoi polloi |
#6999, aired 2015-02-05 | OTHER BIBLE BOOKS $600: In titles these 2 words precede "The Bible" as well as "The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" Zen and |
#6997, aired 2015-02-03 | THAT'S A REALLY GOOD QUESTION $400: In Mark 15:34 Jesus cries, "My God, my God, why hast thou" these 2 words forsaken me |
#6991, aired 2015-01-26 | CNN WORLD LANGUAGES $2000: (Jim Bittermann delivers the clue.) Here in Paris this simple phrase, 2 rhyming 2-letter words, is very useful for saying "How's it going?", "I'm good", "Does that work for you?" & more ça va |
#6962, aired 2014-12-16 | GETTING LUCKY WORDS $2000: It's one syllable when meaning divinely favored, 2 when meaning sanctified blessed |
#6960, aired 2014-12-12 | QUOTES FROM THE WIZARD OF OZ $800: These 2 words follow "Lions and tigers and bears..." Oh, my |
#6960, aired 2014-12-12 | STATE MOTTOES $1200: 2 states have the words "liberty" & "independence" in their mottoes: Pennsylvania & this "First State" Delaware |
#6931, aired 2014-11-03 | WHAT A WONDERFUL "WORLD" $1000: The 2 words that follow "BBC" in the name of a global radio network World Service |
#6927, aired 2014-10-28 | ANTISOCIAL SCIENCE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1939 Edwin Sutherland put these 2 words before "crime" to describe bad things done by high-status people white collar |
#6912, aired 2014-10-07 | MEN OF FEW WORDS $800: In a sci-fi film these 2 men (well, a man & a 1/2 man) combine to say "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" Kirk and Spock |
#6909, aired 2014-10-02 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: Our 5-day this, a prediction of the future? You'll be sad for 5 days if you don't ring in now forecast |
#6909, aired 2014-10-02 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $800: Eye see it's another term for student pupil |
#6909, aired 2014-10-02 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: The Constitution says treason means giving our enemies "aid and" this comfort |
#6909, aired 2014-10-02 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $1600: Visible exhalations like steam, or an olden medically imprecise depressed condition vapors |
#6909, aired 2014-10-02 | 2-SYLLABLE WORDS $2000: They're "nuts" in China--
& in the U.S.,
where we grow the Brewster variety lychees |
#6898, aired 2014-09-17 | "NINE" LETTER WORDS $400: Each adult jaw has 2 of these canine teeth |
#6898, aired 2014-09-17 | "NINE" LETTER WORDS $800: Proverbially, you're on this 2-word place if you're perfectly happy cloud nine |
#6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $200: It's a singing twosome duo |
#6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $400: A mineral deposit from which metal can be extracted ore |
#6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $600: Hold your horses & give me this synonym for sadness woe |
#6895, aired 2014-08-01 | INTERNET JARGON $600: Someone who types "sup" to you is contracting these 2 words what's up |
#6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $800: In a fairy tale, a princess can feel it through 20 mattresses pea |
#6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS $1000: The last class of the day seems to last this long, the longest division of geologic time an eon |
#6884, aired 2014-07-17 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $800: It's a close platonic friendship between 2 dudes. as seen in the movie "I Love You, Man" bromance |
#6871, aired 2014-06-30 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: A curve joining 2 points in geometry, or anything bow-shaped an arc |
#6868, aired 2014-06-25 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: As you have 2 feet, you're one of these a biped |
#6866, aired 2014-06-23 | YOUR IDIOMS CONFUSE ME $2000: If you catch a criminal in the act, you have him "dead..." these 2 words to rights |
#6862, aired 2014-06-17 | AS SEEN ON TV $600: Add 2 words to the title "Once Upon a Time" & you get this show, its spin-off in Wonderland |
#6845, aired 2014-05-23 | 9-LETTER WORDS $400: This mark of punctuation combines 2 other punctuation marks semicolon |
#6826, aired 2014-04-28 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $200: Take your time; with no vowels, it's a sound made when thinking hm |
#6826, aired 2014-04-28 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $400: Yiddish expression of dismay oy |
#6826, aired 2014-04-28 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $600: It's slang for a cheesy Italian pie za |
#6826, aired 2014-04-28 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $800: Japanese board game go |
#6826, aired 2014-04-28 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1000: This "choice" word is also the color gold in heraldry or |
#6824, aired 2014-04-24 | LEGAL MATTERS $1600: 2 French words make up this procedure in which prospective jurors are questioned by the judge & lawyers voir dire |
#6817, aired 2014-04-15 | ORGANIZATIONS $1600: Oxfam, a group that aims to relieve poverty & suffering, gets its name from these 2 words Oxford and famine |
#6800, aired 2014-03-21 | "WORD" WORDS $1600: If I said "insane", & you replied "spouse", we'd be doing this 2-"word" test, & your marriage might be in trouble word association |
#6785, aired 2014-02-28 | SAME VOWEL WORDS $400: 2 U's:
A mentor or teacher; Mike Myers played "The Love" one a guru |
#6775, aired 2014-02-14 | "GR"AD SCHOOL $800: Differing by a letter, the 2 words that mean a mixture of small stones & pebbles, & to cower or act in a servile manner gravel and grovel |
#6769, aired 2014-02-06 | IN THE COURTROOM $400: Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow dealt with an atheist's objection to these 2 Pledge of Allegiance words under God |
#6752, aired 2014-01-14 | DOUBLE "T" WORDS $800: Washed 2 dishes, answered 1 e-mail, watered a plant, basically I just did this around the house all morning frittered (or puttered) |
#6749, aired 2014-01-09 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: In Portuguese these 2 antonyms are cedo & tarde early & late |
#6741, aired 2013-12-30 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $400: To make the pressure between 2 forces the same (26 points) equalize |
#6736, aired 2013-12-23 | LATIN WORDS & PHRASES $800: A 1988 body-switching movie comedy, or a 2-word Latin term meaning "conversely" vice versa |
#6733, aired 2013-12-18 | 12-LETTER WORDS $1200: For the 2 pieces of equipment used, it's another name for windsurfing sailboarding |
#6718, aired 2013-11-27 | I'M HOLDING A PAIR $1000: In 1877 these 2 moons of Mars got their names from words denoting fear & terror Phobos & Deimos |
#6717, aired 2013-11-26 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: The games or series of games that get 4 competitors down to the last 2 semifinals |
#6717, aired 2013-11-26 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1200: Term coined in the early '60s for a 2-piece bathing suit with the top piece missing monokini |
#6703, aired 2013-11-06 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $400: This alliterative 2-word term means a haughty attitude; to become less arrogant, you've got to get off it high horse |
#6699, aired 2013-10-31 | PARTING WORDS $2000: In geometry, it's any line that cuts an angle into 2 equal parts bisector |
#6695, aired 2013-10-25 | CEREMONIES $400: As 2 words, it's an important religious ceremony for Plains Indians; as 1 word, it's Robert Redford's Utah film festival sun dance (Sundance) |
#6674, aired 2013-09-26 | YOU SPEAK FOREIGN? $1600: Italian:
in the open air (2 words) al fresco |
#6671, aired 2013-09-23 | I LOVE YOU, "MAN" $1600: Utterly unyielding in opinion, or (in 2 words) the guy who sang "Goody Two Shoes" adamant (Adam Ant) |
#6664, aired 2013-08-01 | ANIMATION APPRECIATION $2000: These 2 title words preceded "Action", "World Tour" & of course "Island" in an animated "Survivor" spoof Total Drama |
#6662, aired 2013-07-30 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $1200: Hyphenated word that describes the 2-level buses of London double-decker |
#6654, aired 2013-07-18 | 2 WORDS, 12 TOTAL LETTERS $400: Any prince whose succession to the crown appears certain heir apparent |
#6654, aired 2013-07-18 | 2 WORDS, 12 TOTAL LETTERS $800: A hospital volunteer job, with accompanying uniform, for teenagers candy striper |
#6654, aired 2013-07-18 | 2 WORDS, 12 TOTAL LETTERS $1200: A region officially determined to be eligible, under law, for emergency governmental relief (your kid's room, perhaps?) disaster area |
#6654, aired 2013-07-18 | 2 WORDS, 12 TOTAL LETTERS $1600: A squadron of airplanes operating together, whether they're into Monty Python or not flying circus |
#6654, aired 2013-07-18 | 2 WORDS, 12 TOTAL LETTERS $2000: The first trip of a boat after its acceptance by the owners from the builders maiden voyage |
#6649, aired 2013-07-11 | POKER WORDS $800: 2-word term for why Joseph & Mary were refused lodging full house |
#6646, aired 2013-07-08 | RANDOM HOUSE DEFINES IT AS... $1000: (2 words) "a deep...color" or "woolen cloth of this color, used esp. for U.S. Army uniforms" olive drab |
#6646, aired 2013-07-08 | RANDOM HOUSE DEFINES IT AS... $2,000 (Daily Double): (2 words)
"Goal achieved at too great a cost" Pyrrhic victory |
#6642, aired 2013-07-02 | "Z" END $400: In the Alka-Seltzer jingle, these 2 words follow "plop plop" "fizz fizz" |
#6630, aired 2013-06-14 | WEIRD HISTORY $200: A 1954 act of Congress added these 2 words to the Pledge of Allegiance under God |
#6629, aired 2013-06-13 | WAR OF WORDS $400: This 4-letter word is a weapon in 2 senses: a club with a spiked head & a nonlethal spray mace |
#6617, aired 2013-05-28 | YOU PAID FOR THIS AD $400: The 2 words that conclude the U.S. Department of Transportation slogan "Friends don't let friends..." drive drunk |
#6607, aired 2013-05-14 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: An outer decorative edge, or the official dividing line between 2 countries a border |
#6607, aired 2013-05-14 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: A collision between 2 objects; an athlete who helps his team is called that type of "player" impact |
#6606, aired 2013-05-13 | SAME VOWEL WORDS $200: (2 U's) The pivot around which a lever moves the fulcrum |
#6592, aired 2013-04-23 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: This interjection dates from the 15th century & is used as a greeting in place of "hello" hi |
#6592, aired 2013-04-23 | STUPID ANSWERS $600: A top 10 hit by Wang Chung says, "Everybody have fun tonight, everybody" these 2 words "tonight" wang chung |
#6592, aired 2013-04-23 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: Title of the Peter Gabriel album with the hits "Big Time" & "Sledgehammer" So |
#6592, aired 2013-04-23 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1200: Familial word before "Bell" in an alternate name for AT&T Ma |
#6592, aired 2013-04-23 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: Superman was born into this family on the planet Krypton El |
#6592, aired 2013-04-23 | 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: This style of art dates from the mid-1960s & uses geometric shapes & brilliant colors Op |
#6566, aired 2013-03-18 | COMPOUND WORDS $200: The clavichord & the harpsichord are 2 early examples of this type of musical instrument a keyboard |
#6561, aired 2013-03-11 | & FINALLY $400: The C&D in a C&D order stand for these 2 words, though either one would make the point cease & desist |
#6559, aired 2013-03-07 | LETTERS & WORDS $400: At 10 points apiece, these 2 letters have the highest value in Scrabble Q and Z |
#6559, aired 2013-03-07 | LETTERS & WORDS $800: The 2 lowercase letters of the English alphabet that have a tittle I & J |
#6558, aired 2013-03-06 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: The one for the movie "Burlesque" features 8 songs by Christina Aguilera & 2 by Cher a soundtrack |
#6548, aired 2013-02-20 | WORDS IN THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS $1200: Lincoln joins 2 synonyms in the phrase "fitting and" this proper |
#6542, aired 2013-02-12 | TEEN-LETTER WORDS $1600: 13 letters:
Swiss & Portuguese are 2 of these nationalities |
#6538, aired 2013-02-06 | VOCABULARY $400: The term "smog" is a blending of these 2 words smoke & fog |
#6532, aired 2013-01-29 | RECENT BOOKS $800: In 2012 these 2 words preceded "Darker" & "Freed" on The New York Times bestseller list Fifty Shades |
#6517, aired 2013-01-08 | THE 6 NEW ENGLAND STATES $1,000 (Daily Double): The 2 whose names come from Native American words Massachusetts and Connecticut |
#6515, aired 2013-01-04 | AFRICAN CITIES $400 (Daily Double): The name of this largest Moroccan city combines 2 Spanish words Casablanca |
#6515, aired 2013-01-04 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: This "botanical" interchange is where 2 highways meet a cloverleaf |
#6505, aired 2012-12-21 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $1600: An irrational number can't be expressed as one of these between 2 integers ratio |
#6492, aired 2012-12-04 | "FOUR" LETTER WORDS $800: 2-word theater term for the imaginary item that separates the actors from the audience the fourth wall |
#6488, aired 2012-11-28 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: A Phrygian king is the source for this 2-word phrase for the talent for making wealth out of any business endeavor the Midas touch |
#6480, aired 2012-11-16 | REALITY TV $200: On "Celebrity Apprentice", stars leave the boardroom for good after hearing these 2 dreaded words "you're fired" |
#6474, aired 2012-11-08 | TOUGH 2-LETTER WORDS $400: In this language Pe is the first letter of Pesach, meaning Passover Hebrew |
#6474, aired 2012-11-08 | TOUGH 2-LETTER WORDS $800: Os is a technical name for one of these in the body a bone |
#6474, aired 2012-11-08 | TOUGH 2-LETTER WORDS $1200: French for "from" de |
#6474, aired 2012-11-08 | TOUGH 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: Spanish for "I" yo |
#6474, aired 2012-11-08 | TOUGH 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: Ut is a version of the musical note also known by the word do & by this letter C |
#6466, aired 2012-10-29 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This 2-word French term for an incorrigible child sounds a lot worse than it is enfant terrible |
#6464, aired 2012-10-25 | EURO COINS $1200: This 3-word motto of the French Republic is on France's 1- & 2-euro coins liberté, égalité & fraternité |
#6461, aired 2012-10-22 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $1000: It's a riddle involving a play on words, like "What's black & white & read all over?" a conundrum |
#6460, aired 2012-10-19 | GONE BABY GONE $1000: In August of 1590 2 words carved on trees--Croatoan & Cro--were the last traces of the 100 colonists on this island Roanoke |
#6457, aired 2012-10-16 | STUBBORN WORDS $1600: Stubborn "O" words include obdurate & this, with the same first 2 & last 2 letters obstinate |
#6457, aired 2012-10-16 | YOU CAN FIND ME ONLINE $2000: The first 2 English words you see at dalailama.com are this honorific His Holiness |
#6440, aired 2012-09-21 | NOW A FEW WORDS $400: The use of these 2 letters joined together, as in alternate spellings of words like encyclopedia, is called an ash A & E |
#6440, aired 2012-09-21 | NOW A FEW WORDS $600: According to Merriam-Webster, "take" followed by either of these 2 numbers means to take a break five & ten |
#6428, aired 2012-07-25 | WORDS FROM ARABIC $800: If you don't know that this popular beverage comes from the Arabic qahwah, you get 2 lumps, not one coffee |
#6375, aired 2012-05-11 | ALSO A MUSICAL TERM $400: These 2 words denote the bigger & smaller of the 2 Ursa constellations minor & major |
#6352, aired 2012-04-10 | SHAPELY WORDS & PHRASES $2000: Civilizations in the Middle East & the Mediterranean basin began in the agricultural region with this 2-word nickname the Fertile Crescent |
#6328, aired 2012-03-07 | POET-TREE $1200: "Paradise Lost" begins, "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that..." these 2 words forbidden tree |
#6324, aired 2012-03-01 | SIMILAR-SOUNDING WORDS $1000: Meaning an indirect mention & something that deceives, these 2 words are only 1 letter different allusion & illusion |
#6307, aired 2012-02-07 | ANATOMICAL WORDS & PHRASES $2000: There are 2 body parts in the name of this steak from between the short loin & the chuck a ribeye |
#6298, aired 2012-01-25 | 20th CENTURY WORDS & PHRASES $400: This 2-word term for the idea that a computer could think like a human was coined in the 1950s artificial intelligence |
#6298, aired 2012-01-25 | PLANT SCIENCE $2000: This term refers to plants that have flowers; it comes from 2 Greek words for "receptacle" & "seed" angiosperm |
#6296, aired 2012-01-23 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: This mystical word used in mantras contains 3 sounds, but in English it's 2 letters om |
#6296, aired 2012-01-23 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: It often follows "in" to mean "concerning" re |
#6296, aired 2012-01-23 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: Supernatural elements appear in kiri, a play in this Japanese form no |
#6296, aired 2012-01-23 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: It's Latin for "and" , Y'al. et |
#6296, aired 2012-01-23 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: "To say or utter" is one of the American Heritage Dictionary's many definitions for this word--ask any teen go |
#6274, aired 2011-12-22 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: To be fired from a job is "to get" this bladed tool the ax |
#6274, aired 2011-12-22 | "CUS" WORDS $600: You're "on" this if your birthday separates 2 signs of the zodiac the cusp |
#6274, aired 2011-12-22 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: In a game of tag, this player attempts to catch other players it |
#6274, aired 2011-12-22 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1200: Slang for the featured product at Papa John's & Domino's za |
#6274, aired 2011-12-22 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: Archaic second-person pronoun found before "gods" in a mild expletive ye |
#6274, aired 2011-12-22 | 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: The second-largest city in Sierra Leone, or an Indian fig tree under which Buddha once sat bo |
#6253, aired 2011-11-23 | SCIENCE-Y 3-LETTER WORDS $2000: These 2 similarly spelled words mean a span of time longer than an era & an electrically charged atom an eon & an ion |
#6250, aired 2011-11-18 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $2000: This 2-word term was first used for a French & Italian pidgin developed by crusaders & traders lingua franca |
#6247, aired 2011-11-15 | 17-LETTER WORDS $4,800 (Daily Double): This adjective means "thwarting an intended goal", like living on credit while trying to save money counterproductive |
#6238, aired 2011-11-02 | 2011 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $400: Round 2 included this French-derived word for the supporting frame of a car the chassis |
#6206, aired 2011-09-19 | FROM "B" TO "Y" $1000: A tongue twister mentions rubber bumpers on this 2-word conveyance (both words fit the category) baby buggy |
#6173, aired 2011-06-15 | LITTLE-USED WORDS $1600: An amtrac isn't a train, but a troop-landing vehicle that combines these 2 words amphibious & tractor |
#6133, aired 2011-04-20 | YOU COULD "WIN" $1200: As 1 word, it means charming in a childlike way; as 2 words, it's part of a saying meaning life has ups & downs winsome |
#6109, aired 2011-03-17 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $1600: The plants & animals of a given region are known by these 2 5-letter words flora & fauna |
#6108, aired 2011-03-16 | C3 $1600: It describes a person showing marked ability; as 2 words, it's a favored snack at a baseball game crackerjack |
#6066, aired 2011-01-17 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $800: 2 basic foods are joined together in this adjective for a type of pickle or for a basic need bread & butter |
#6044, aired 2010-12-16 | CURSE WORDS $1600: It sounds like Mr. Peckinpah's little mountain, but this 2-word phrase is actually a euphemism for hell sam hill |
#6031, aired 2010-11-29 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the science lab.) Pyrolytic graphite repels either pole of a magnet, so when you suspend a magnet between 2 plates of the graphite, the magnet does what a magician would call this 10-letter trick levitation |
#6024, aired 2010-11-18 | MATH SYMBOLS $800: The symbol here says "A" is this with respect to "B"; more than 2 words less than or equal to |
#6020, aired 2010-11-12 | 2- OR 11-LETTER WORDS $400: It's both a math term & the 16th Greek letter pi |
#6020, aired 2010-11-12 | 2- OR 11-LETTER WORDS $800: Growing on land; not aquatic terrestrial |
#6020, aired 2010-11-12 | 2- OR 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: Used chiefly in law, it means "in the matter of"; it's seen a lot in e-mails, too re |
#6020, aired 2010-11-12 | 2- OR 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: The plant also called woody nightshade, or an oxymoron for the taste of some chocolate bittersweet |
#6020, aired 2010-11-12 | 2- OR 11-LETTER WORDS $2000: Every 3 years; make it an adverb to fit the category triennially |
#6014, aired 2010-11-04 | SAY THE MAGIC WORDS $1000: The first part of this 2-word term used to make something transform comes from Italian for "soon" presto chango |
#6014, aired 2010-11-04 | SAY THE MAGIC WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): This 2-word term originated in an old tale as a way to get into a locked cave open sesame |
#5985, aired 2010-09-24 | "L"EGALESE $400: These 2 4-letter words often precede "and testament" in the name of a legal document last will |
#5982, aired 2010-09-21 | WORDS WITH DIACRITICAL MARKS $2000: This 2-word Native American tribe lived in the Pacific Northwest the Nez Percé |
#5969, aired 2010-07-22 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS! $400: From the Old High German for "contention", it's a protracted hostility between 2 families over time a feud |
#5969, aired 2010-07-22 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS! $1000: This 2-word term sounds like a fight between kings, but it's really a large, usually intense conflict a battle royal |
#5933, aired 2010-06-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: 2 words combine to make this old term used in radio communications to indicate agreement or compliance wilco |
#5929, aired 2010-05-27 | 2 WORDS IN ONE $200: Cleopatra's cobra plus a command to stop gives us this road surface asphalt (asp + halt) |
#5929, aired 2010-05-27 | 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) |
#5929, aired 2010-05-27 | 2 WORDS IN ONE $600: One piece of butter plus public group violence gives us this nation lover patriot (pat + riot) |
#5929, aired 2010-05-27 | 2 WORDS IN ONE $800: A Catholic religious service plus a standard unit of area gives us this wanton slaughter massacre (mass + acre) |
#5929, aired 2010-05-27 | 2 WORDS IN ONE $1000: A shark appendage plus a type of beer gives us this musical conclusion finale (fin + ale) |
#5891, aired 2010-04-05 | OTHER 4-LETTER WORDS $400: In 2010 American Humane celebrates "Be" this "to Animals Week" from May 2 to 8 Kind |
#5887, aired 2010-03-30 | WE NEED AN ANSWER $400: 2-word reply by Calvin Coolidge to a woman who said she'd made a bet she could get more that 2 words out of him "You lose." |
#5887, aired 2010-03-30 | ARE YOU HAVING A LAUGH? $2000: This laugh, a combination of 2 words, was coined by Lewis Carroll in "Through the Looking Glass" chortle |
#5881, aired 2010-03-22 | CHARACTERS WHO BECAME WORDS $800: Someone exhibiting attributes of these 2 related characters from an 1886 mystery might have a split personality Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde |
#5877, aired 2010-03-16 | BROKE-DOWN WORDS $200: My 1-2-3 letter is the stone of a fruit & my 4-5-6-7 is a season pitfall |
#5877, aired 2010-03-16 | BROKE-DOWN WORDS $400: My 1-2-3 is a basenji or borzoi and my 4-5-6-7-8-9-10 was Mike Piazza's position dogcatcher |
#5877, aired 2010-03-16 | BROKE-DOWN WORDS $600: My 1-2-3-4-5 was British host David & my 6-7-8-9 means "to wound with the teeth" frostbite |
#5877, aired 2010-03-16 | BROKE-DOWN WORDS $800: My 1-2-3-4 is what a bad golfer yells & my 5-6-7-8-9-10 follows him on a sunny day foreshadow |
#5877, aired 2010-03-16 | BROKE-DOWN WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): My 1-2-3 is active hostility between nations & my 4-5-6-7 is a gated chamber in a canal or dam warlock |
#5863, aired 2010-02-24 | "L.L.", SEE $1000: The 2 "L"s in the corporate abbreviation LLC stand for these 2 words limited & liability |
#5861, aired 2010-02-22 | INSTRUMENTAL WORDS $600: 2-word term for one who gives a kidney or lung an organ donor |
#5855, aired 2010-02-12 | MICROBIOLOGY MILESTONES $400: The government's "Centers for" these 2 words "& Prevention" dates back to 1946 Disease Control |
#5843, aired 2010-01-27 | LET'S PUNCTUATE $600: Sesquipedalian words on 2 lines of text are divided by this a hyphen |
#5840, aired 2010-01-22 | OVERLAPPING WORDS $800: Balloon-filling element No. 2 rain protector a heliumbrella |
#5811, aired 2009-12-14 | LONG ONE-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: (8 letters)
2-3-4-5-6 (different suits) in poker straight |
#5791, aired 2009-11-16 | ECCLESIASTES $400: The Book of Ecclesiastes was written in this language but included 2 words from Persian Hebrew |
#5790, aired 2009-11-13 | DOUBLE "E" WORDS $800: In the 1990s the U.S. Army began adding about 2,000 pounds of armor to this, its most commonly deployed tactical vehicle the Humvee |
#5785, aired 2009-11-06 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS! $200: A beverage of more than 2 fruit juices, or Judy's puppet partner punch |
#5785, aired 2009-11-06 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $400: It's first on the diatonic scale Do |
#5785, aired 2009-11-06 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $800: Third person singular of "be" is |
#5785, aired 2009-11-06 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): Colloquially, a muscle in the torso ab |
#5785, aired 2009-11-06 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1600: Za is a slang word for this treat pizza |
#5785, aired 2009-11-06 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $2000: For men in France, it means "born with the name of" né |
#5749, aired 2009-09-17 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: Twisted Sister sang, "We're not gonna take" this it |
#5749, aired 2009-09-17 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: To spell this animal, just use a hug & a kiss from the bottom of a letter ox |
#5749, aired 2009-09-17 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: For Freud it was an unconscious, instinctual force the id |
#5749, aired 2009-09-17 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: Meaning "to" in Latin, it can precede "hoc" or "infinitum" ad |
#5749, aired 2009-09-17 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: It preceded "MTV Raps" in the title of a TV show Yo! |
#5738, aired 2009-07-15 | YOU GOT 2 As & 1B $600 (Daily Double): The stock of words used by a particular people; let's see how extensive yours is vocabulary |
#5701, aired 2009-05-25 | TIME'S TOP 10 EVERYTHING OF 2008 $400: No. 2 in "Jerry Stiller's Top 10 Words":
This before "gevalt!" (Bonus--No. 3 was "colonoscopy") Oy |
#5694, aired 2009-05-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: It can mean vitality, as when it's paired with "get up &..." go |
#5694, aired 2009-05-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: In a proverb this word precedes "fool like an old fool" no |
#5694, aired 2009-05-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the name of the long-awaited new White House dog Bo |
#5694, aired 2009-05-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: Third syllable intoned by the giant who smells the blood of an Englishman fo |
#5694, aired 2009-05-14 | 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: The book of Genesis says this ancient city "of the Chaldees" was the home of Abraham Ur |
#5692, aired 2009-05-12 | WORLD COINS $600: A 2008 Cook Islands 5-dollar coin issued in this shape depicts Cupid, 2 roses & the words "my everlasting love" heart |
#5675, aired 2009-04-17 | JOE THE PLUMBER $800: Joe knows how to "assemble" 2 words into this 1-word toilet part by combining comedienne Lucille & a male chicken a ballcock |
#5659, aired 2009-03-26 | STARTS WITH "SCH" $600: 2 words: "fool" & "unlucky person" (as mentioned in the "Laverne & Shirley" intro) schlemiel and schlimazel |
#5659, aired 2009-03-26 | WHAT SIGN ARE YOU? $600: You're a white X (or "crossbuck"); your arms say these 2 words railroad crossing |
#5659, aired 2009-03-26 | WHAT SIGN ARE YOU? $800: You're a horizontal black rectangle containing a white arrow; all you have to say is these 2 words one way |
#5647, aired 2009-03-10 | BEER $1000: The 2 words that precede "Less Filling" in slogans for Miller lite "Tastes Great" ("Great Taste" accepted) |
#5619, aired 2009-01-29 | EXODUS $1000: Chapter 20 has the 10 Commandments; these 2 are each 4 words long in the King James Version "Thou shalt not kill" & "Thou shalt not steal" |
#5611, aired 2009-01-19 | 2-, 3- & 4-LETTER WORDS $400: This 2-letter exclamation can mean "look!" & is often paired with "and behold" lo |
#5611, aired 2009-01-19 | 2-, 3- & 4-LETTER WORDS $600 (Daily Double): This 2-letter word can precede "blood" &, "incident"ally, "bow" ox |
#5611, aired 2009-01-19 | 2-, 3- & 4-LETTER WORDS $800: When it's in the wrist, this type of enlargement is called a ganglion a cyst |
#5611, aired 2009-01-19 | 2-, 3- & 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: This axlike tool is a 3- or a 4-letter word, depending on whether you spell it with that final "E" adz(e) |
#5611, aired 2009-01-19 | 2-, 3- & 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: Former "SNL" co-star Julia Sweeney's memoir of family tragedy & cancer is called "God Said," this Ha |
#5594, aired 2008-12-25 | 10-LETTER WORDS $600: Adjective for one who speaks English & 2 others trilingual |
#5585, aired 2008-12-12 | 2008 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $800: In round 2 a boy got axed after he misspelled the name of this native American people, AKA the Dakota S-I-O-U-X |
#5582, aired 2008-12-09 | NEW WORDS IN THE OED $600: It's the sarcastic, 2-syllable version of a common polite word of request puh-leeze |
#5577, aired 2008-12-02 | 9-LETTER WORDS $800: A branch of science, or a sympathetic rapport between 2 people chemistry |
#5547, aired 2008-10-21 | HITCHCOCK FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $2000: Chemically, it's
Al2SiO4(F,OH)2 & it looks like yellow quartz Topaz |
#5531, aired 2008-09-29 | SMART ANSWERS $1200: In a Jay McInerney book title, these 2 words precede "Big City" Bright Lights |
#5522, aired 2008-09-16 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED $1200: If you're really smart you won't confuse these 2 words, meaning a really smart guy & a classification above species genius & genus |
#5512, aired 2008-07-22 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $1200: Coined in the '70s, the term "Ebonics" comes from these 2 words ebony & phonics |
#5494, aired 2008-06-26 | ON WORDS $400: Not as popular as brunch, "lupper" comes from these 2 words lunch & supper |
#5485, aired 2008-06-13 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: The 2 months that fit the category March & April |
#5476, aired 2008-06-02 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: Before the grand jury, Bill Clinton said, "It depends on... your definition of" this word "is" |
#5476, aired 2008-06-02 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: An Italian river, or the red Teletubby Po |
#5476, aired 2008-06-02 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800 (Daily Double): "Ut" used to be used for the first or key note of the musical scale; this has replaced it do |
#5476, aired 2008-06-02 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: Don't have a cow, man, it's just the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet mu |
#5476, aired 2008-06-02 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: In British slang this word alone means thank you; 2 together means good-bye ta |
#5476, aired 2008-06-02 | COMPUTER TERMS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the acronym BIOS, these 2 words come between "basic" & "system" input & output |
#5456, aired 2008-05-05 | 2- OR 3-LETTER WORDS $200: Exist/
unwanted "bonnet" intruder be/bee |
#5456, aired 2008-05-05 | 2- OR 3-LETTER WORDS $400: Nominative plural of "I"/
"Willie Winkie" preceder we/wee |
#5456, aired 2008-05-05 | 2- OR 3-LETTER WORDS $600: Conjunction/
mineral or/ore |
#5456, aired 2008-05-05 | 2- OR 3-LETTER WORDS $800: Gardening tool/
interjection following "Westward" or "Land" hoe/ho |
#5456, aired 2008-05-05 | 2- OR 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: Next to/
automatic advance to second round without having to play by/bye |
#5434, aired 2008-04-03 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Elizabeth II's was held at Westminster Abbey,
June 2, 1953 a coronation |
#5433, aired 2008-04-02 | WORDS WITH 5 VOWELS $800: A mathematical expression like
4 + 2 = 6 an equation |
#5431, aired 2008-03-31 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $800: 2 names that follow Gerald, who speaks in weird sounds instead of words in a Dr. Seuss story McBoing-Boing |
#5428, aired 2008-03-26 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $800: "Muppet" comes from these 2 handy words marionette & puppet |
#5410, aired 2008-02-29 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1200: It was a geek tragedy when you were 2 hours late to the festival of this Japanese type of animation anime (manga accepted) |
#5408, aired 2008-02-27 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: Chinese for "Buddha" (it's not fe, fi or fum) fo |
#5408, aired 2008-02-27 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a bird!
It's a plane!
It's Superego & his sidekick, Ego, suppressing this Id |
#5408, aired 2008-02-27 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: A prefix meaning "out of", or informally, your former spouse ex |
#5408, aired 2008-02-27 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet, which is very old nu |
#5408, aired 2008-02-27 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: This Italian river begins near Mount Viso Po |
#5393, aired 2008-02-06 | CLASSIC ROCK OPENING LINES $400: Pink Floyd (Part 2):
"We don't need no education..."
(5 words) "Another Brick In The Wall" |
#5380, aired 2008-01-18 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew plop, plops 2 tablets in a glass; they fizz, fizz.) When you drop Alka-Seltzer in water, a series of reactions, including the release of carbon dioxide, creates this bubbly effect, from the Latin for "begin to boil" effervescence |
#5379, aired 2008-01-17 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $800: In 1982 these 2 organizations merged to become America's largest single provider of managed health-care coverage Blue Cross Blue Shield |
#5371, aired 2008-01-07 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew ties one on.) It's the 2-word spicy name for this type of knot that lets you join a rope to something else, like a rail or a post a clove hitch |
#5345, aired 2007-11-30 | HOSPITALS $400: Of U.S. News & Word Report's 5 top U.S. hospitals in pediatrics, 4 include these 2 words in their names Children's Hospital |
#5309, aired 2007-10-11 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: The name of this type of aircraft is from 2 Greek words meaning "spiral wing" a helicopter |
#5241, aired 2007-05-28 | WORDS INTRODUCED IN THE 20th CENTURY $400: 1947: A 2-word transport for aliens a flying saucer |
#5238, aired 2007-05-23 | AMERICAN POLITICAL IDOL $1200: That March 4, 1841 inaugural address in cold drizzle took about 2 hours; mark my words, it'll be the death of him William Henry Harrison |
#5224, aired 2007-05-03 | DICT. ABBREV. $2000: conj.
(2 words: a part of speech & the inflection of a verb) conjunction & conjugation |
#5206, aired 2007-04-09 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: The gorilla is a member of the ape superfamily & is this genus & species--2 words Gorilla gorilla |
#5189, aired 2007-03-15 | BIRTHSTONES $400: The name of this March birthstone is made up of 2 water-related words aquamarine |
#5188, aired 2007-03-14 | EL "CID" $1200: You happened to study "cid" words like this, defined as 2 events occuring at once by chance; that's a funny... a coincidence |
#5183, aired 2007-03-07 | STATES FREAK $2000: The name of this Rocky Mountain state comes from 2 Indian words meaning "at the big plains" Wyoming |
#5175, aired 2007-02-23 | IT'S COMPLICATED $2000: These 2 words, one "R" different, may be confused; 1 means twisting or complicated, 1 means causing pain tortuous & torturous |
#5155, aired 2007-01-26 | POTPOURRI $800: These 2 words preceded "England Inne" in the name of a romantic getaway in Stowe, Vermont Ye Olde |
#5155, aired 2007-01-26 | POTPOURRI $1200: First 2 words of Variety's headline about rural audiences rejecting rural movies, preceding "Hick Pix" Sticks Nix |
#5153, aired 2007-01-24 | PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING DRAMAS $800: David Mamet won in 1984 for this salesman drama whose title includes 2 4-letter words Glengarry Glen Ross |
#5151, aired 2007-01-22 | IT'S CAPITALIZED $400: These 2 paired words when they're used as part of a name, like before artist Moses & musician Jones grandma and grandpa |
#5133, aired 2006-12-27 | MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S NEW WORDS FOR 2006 $400: New in medical terms is this 2-word surgical procedure sometimes called stomach stapling a gastric bypass |
#5122, aired 2006-12-12 | WORDS IN SCIENCE $1200: Hydrogen molecules are formed by this type of bond in which 2 atoms share a pair of electrons covalent |
#5097, aired 2006-11-07 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: On the condition that if |
#5097, aired 2006-11-07 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: You'd write this in capital letters to express great surprise, or to send a letter to Youngstown OH |
#5097, aired 2006-11-07 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1200: Against, as the wind up |
#5097, aired 2006-11-07 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: This hesitation word Americans spell U-H is spelled this way in Britain E-R |
#5097, aired 2006-11-07 | 2-LETTER WORDS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1969 Thor Heyerdahl sailed the Atlantic in this reed boat Ra |
#5093, aired 2006-11-01 | "SUPER" WORDS $800: A character written above & immediately to the side of another; the "2" in x2, for example a superscript |
#5083, aired 2006-10-18 | 2 WORDS IN ONE $200: "Smog" is produced from these 2 words smoke & fog |
#5083, aired 2006-10-18 | 2 WORDS IN ONE $400: "Chunnel", formed from these 2 words, was originally dug up in the 1920s channel & tunnel |
#5083, aired 2006-10-18 | 2 WORDS IN ONE $600: Parts of these 2 words can be seen in "camcorder" camera & recorder |
#5083, aired 2006-10-18 | 2 WORDS IN ONE $800: "Avionics" flies from these words aviation & electronics |
#5083, aired 2006-10-18 | 2 WORDS IN ONE $1000: A cross between a Labrador retriever & another breed, the non-allergenic dog seen here is called this a Labradoodle |
#5082, aired 2006-10-17 | SIGMUND FREUD $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew is in the library of the Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria.) I'm holding a first edition of Freud's 1923 classic work, "Das Ich und das Es", translated in 1927 as these 2 words id & ego |
#5070, aired 2006-09-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the molded shell on which lugers ride; riding double, you are nestled like 2 peas in it a pod |
#5049, aired 2006-07-20 | ABBREVIATED U.S. STATES $1,200 (Daily Double): The 2 states whose abbreviations are informal words for father & mother Pennsylvania, PA & Massachusetts, MA |
#5043, aired 2006-07-12 | I’LL SEE YOU IN COURT! $2000: A 1969 case said the phrase "with all" these 2 words from Brown v. Board of Education wasn’t being followed deliberate speed |
#5038, aired 2006-07-05 | LOOKING FOR A LATIN LOVER $200: Meaning "nourishing mother", these 2 Latin words are used when referring to your college alma mater |
#5035, aired 2006-06-30 | PALINDROMIC WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): An important article of religious faith a tenet |
#5014, aired 2006-06-01 | A VARIETY OF WORDS $800: A short metal fastener often used to join 2 sheets of metal together rivet |
#4993, aired 2006-05-03 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: This & behold: it means "see" & is frequently used in Biblical expressions lo |
#4993, aired 2006-05-03 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: You can call your pop this, used in Italian personal names, originally to indicate place of origin da |
#4993, aired 2006-05-03 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's the first-person singular present indicative of be am |
#4993, aired 2006-05-03 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: The 16th letter of the Greek alphabet, it's also a math term pi |
#4993, aired 2006-05-03 | 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: A small hawk, or a moon of Jupiter Io |
#4991, aired 2006-05-01 | CALENDAR LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): The title of this anti-war memoir refers to author Ron Kovic's birthday Born on the Fourth of July |
#4978, aired 2006-04-12 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: In Greek this 2-word phrase means "the many"; it refers to the common people hoi polloi |
#4974, aired 2006-04-06 | IN THE DICTIONARY $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew measures what looks to be a small pipe or shell in the Jeopardy! science lab.) These 2 words, 1 derived from the other, refer to the instrument I'm using & the measurement I'm taking calipers & caliber (calipers & calibration accepted) |
#4969, aired 2006-03-30 | 15-LETTER WORDS $2000: The process of making 2 or more things work together in unison synchronization |
#4962, aired 2006-03-21 | MOVIE "&" TV $1200: They're the 2 words directly separated by an ampersand in the title of the feature-length "South Park" film Longer & Uncut |
#4958, aired 2006-03-15 | BLENDED WORDS $800: Blending 2 languages, it was also the title of a 2004 Adam Sandler flick Spanglish (from Spanish & English) |
#4958, aired 2006-03-15 | BLENDED WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1960 Manfred Clynes combined these 2 words to create cyborg cybernetic & organism |
#4928, aired 2006-02-01 | IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME $800: This elevated Athens area appropriately comes from 2 Greek words meaning "highest city" the Acropolis |
#4924, aired 2006-01-26 | 5-SYLLABLE WORDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Having many sides, like diplomatic talks among more than 2 parties multilateral |
#4885, aired 2005-12-02 | BIG WORDS $800: In 1985 it was found in 2 sections about 400 miles SE of Newfoundland, at a depth of about 12,500 feet the Titanic |
#4861, aired 2005-10-31 | FUN WITH WORDS $1200: This 2-word term for a rundown area of town originally referred to a logging road paved with logs skid row |
#4850, aired 2005-10-14 | VOCABULARY TEST $1,600 (Daily Double): The name of this branch of math comes from 2 Greek words meaning "earth measure" geometry |
#4806, aired 2005-06-27 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: Slang term for an indoor television antenna with 2 adjustable aerials rabbit ears |
#4787, aired 2005-05-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN WORDS $1600: This word in "Henry VI Part 2" meant blase & world-weary, not having to do with nephrite jaded |
#4777, aired 2005-05-17 | IN THE "GN"OW $800: The 2 related words that mean to grind your teeth or to chew with them gnash & gnaw |
#4758, aired 2005-04-20 | WEATHER WORDS & PHRASES $200: Covering 2% of the Earth's surface, they're disappearing at the rate of several acres a minute rainforests |
#4741, aired 2005-03-28 | ADJECTIVES $3,000 (Daily Double): They're the 2 common English words ending in ‑gry; despite what you may see online, there is no third one angry & hungry |
#4739, aired 2005-03-24 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $1000: "A well-boiled icicle" & "a scoop of boy trouts" are 2 of these transpositions spoonerisms |
#4728, aired 2005-03-09 | 4-LETTER WORDS $200: In titles of 2 Springsteen hits, it precedes "To Run" & "In The U.S.A." "Born" |
#4703, aired 2005-02-02 | VOCABULARY $800: Differing by a letter, the 2 words meaning an electrically charged atom & a very long time eon & ion |
#4700, aired 2005-01-28 | THE 50 STATES $1,000 (Daily Double): The name of this state comes from 2 Choctaw words that mean "red" & "people" Oklahoma |
#4698, aired 2005-01-26 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $800: "Mum's the word" dates back to his "Henry IV, Part 2": "Seal up your lips and give no words, but--mum" Shakespeare |
#4695, aired 2005-01-21 | 2-PART WORDS $400: If you win the lottery, expect long-lost friends & relatives to "come out of" this the woodwork |
#4695, aired 2005-01-21 | 2-PART WORDS $800: It's the name of the small hole in the sink, often just below the faucet, or what it may prevent the overflow |
#4695, aired 2005-01-21 | 2-PART WORDS $1600: The movie "JFK" includes talk about catching someone in a triangulated one a crossfire |
#4695, aired 2005-01-21 | 2-PART WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): One example of a "daffynition" is defining this synonym for a beggar as "a fry cook" a panhandler |
#4695, aired 2005-01-21 | 2-PART WORDS $2000: Like the title "Angel" in a Jimmy Stewart film, it means faded or soiled, as by prolonged store exposure shopworn |
#4692, aired 2005-01-18 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: This watery term turns up in the names of 2 NFL teams Bay |
#4661, aired 2004-12-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: It's a key linking word in many similes as |
#4661, aired 2004-12-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: According to lyrics in "West Side Story", it's whom "There's a place for" us |
#4661, aired 2004-12-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1200: When it's a noun, it can mean a party, or the new haircut you get for it do |
#4661, aired 2004-12-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's used to attract attention to something sighted on a ship, like land or a sail ho |
#4661, aired 2004-12-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: A special connection; you may have one with a powerful person in |
#4637, aired 2004-11-03 | 8-LETTER WORDS $2000: The military term for weapons & ammunition, it can also describe the tools used to make them ordnance |
#4636, aired 2004-11-01 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1000: This phrase meaning “a witty remark” is made up of 2 3-letter French words bon mot |
#4635, aired 2004-10-29 | "PH"UN WORDS $1200: Named for a god, it can simply be any touring car, or a light, 4-wheeled open carriage drawn by 2 horses a phaeton |
#4610, aired 2004-09-24 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: This 2-word French phrase is used of a monomaniacal obsession idée fixe |
#4608, aired 2004-09-22 | 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 |
#4608, aired 2004-09-22 | WIDE WORLD OF WEIRD WORDS $1600: Meaning a silly or flighty person, this word with 2 sets of double "B"s was a demon's name & mentioned in "King Lear" flibbertigibbet |
#4605, aired 2004-09-17 | SPAM $400: Created in 1937, Spam is a combination of these 2 words spiced ham |
#4601, aired 2004-09-13 | ON THE "PHONE" $800: 2 words that sound alike but are spelled differently homophones |
#4600, aired 2004-09-10 | RADIO $2000: The 2 words that followed “Lux” in a program beginning in 1936 that re-created plays & movies Radio Theater |
#4599, aired 2004-09-09 | CHARADES $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew.) 1980s TV show, 2 words: Dance Fever |
#4598, aired 2004-09-08 | MICRONESIA $600: The name Micronesia comes from 2 Greek words, micro & nesos, which mean this small island |
#4575, aired 2004-06-25 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: Sandra Brown titled a recent bestseller this, also the first 2 words of "The Sounds Of Silence" Hello, Darkness |
#4567, aired 2004-06-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: These 2
3-letter words form the name of a synonym for rap music hip hop |
#4562, aired 2004-06-08 | 4-LETTER WORDS $8,500 (Daily Double): From the Latin words for "no one" & "empty" come these 2 words that cancel a contract null & void |
#4543, aired 2004-05-12 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: A person, like Brigham Young, with 2 or more wives at the same time a polygamist |
#4537, aired 2004-05-04 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: It's what you do when you put 2 + 2 together, or 1 + 1 for that matter add |
#4524, aired 2004-04-15 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $1000: An artist or writer's greatest work is often referred to by this 2-word Latin phrase magnum opus |
#4523, aired 2004-04-14 | 2-DRINK MINIMUM $1600: Rhyming words for German dark beer & German white wine bock & Hach |
#4482, aired 2004-02-17 | 4-LETTER X-RATED WORDS $400: Get in a yellow one in New York City & it'll cost you $2 not including tip a taxi |
#4471, aired 2004-02-02 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: This 2-word Latin phrase means "by the fact itself" ipso facto |
#4469, aired 2004-01-29 | A DICTIONARY OF FOREIGN WORDS $2000: A group of citizens assembled to aid law enforcement, this 2-word term means "force of the county" in Latin posse comitatus |
#4422, aired 2003-11-25 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: In the children's game of tag, what the pursuer is It |
#4422, aired 2003-11-25 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: Follow the yellow brick road & give us this 2-letter nickname for Australia Oz |
#4422, aired 2003-11-25 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1200: Eye-opening art movement of the 1960s op |
#4422, aired 2003-11-25 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1600: In the title of a classic beginner book by PD Eastman, it comes before & after "Dog" Go |
#4422, aired 2003-11-25 | 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: The home of Abraham, this Sumerian city was rediscovered in the 1850s Ur |
#4412, aired 2003-11-11 | THE MATRIX $800: These 2 words, Keanu Reeves' character & the powerful figure he's supposed to be, are anagrams Neo & One |
#4339, aired 2003-06-12 | FOREIGN 2-LETTER WORDS $400: A Spanish senorita's lips may say, "No No No", but her eyes say this this this Si Si Si |
#4339, aired 2003-06-12 | FOREIGN 2-LETTER WORDS $800: The Latin word for "and", it often precedes al., short for "alia" et |
#4339, aired 2003-06-12 | FOREIGN 2-LETTER WORDS $1200: In German it's the informal "you" used for friends, family & all children du |
#4339, aired 2003-06-12 | FOREIGN 2-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's Provencal for garlic; in the name of a sauce, it's combined with oli, "oil" ai (as in aioli) |
#4339, aired 2003-06-12 | FOREIGN 2-LETTER WORDS $2,400 (Daily Double): The titles of 2 Verdi operas of 1853 begin with these 2 Italian forms of the word "the" il & la |
#4333, aired 2003-06-04 | ANTONYMS $200: In Article 11 of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights, the 2 words on either side of "until proved" innocent & guilty |
#4333, aired 2003-06-04 | ANTONYMS $400: In "Night of the Hunter" Robert Mitchum has these 2 words on his hands love & hate |
#4333, aired 2003-06-04 | ANTONYMS $600: Instead of just "Yes" & "No", "Star Trek" personnel usually use these 2 longer words affirmative & negative |
#4327, aired 2003-05-27 | STUFF FROM HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH $400: A simile is defined as a comparison usually containing either of these 2 words as or like |
#4305, aired 2003-04-25 | YOU O ME $1600: An extra O differentiates these 2 words, both pictured here dragon & dragoon |
#4305, aired 2003-04-25 | YOU O ME $2000: These 2 words, one O different, combine to form the name of a plant disease root & rot (rootrot) |
#4290, aired 2003-04-04 | YOU EITHER KNOW IT OR YOU DON'T $600: 2 words that commonly follow "knit one" purl two |
#4283, aired 2003-03-26 | VOCABULARY $2000: A clergyman who is also a landowner is a "squarson", a combination of these 2 words squire & parson |
#4282, aired 2003-03-25 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: A person who has a selfish reason for doing something has this tool "to grind" ax |
#4282, aired 2003-03-25 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: Oh, deer! It's the first tone of the diatonic musical scale do |
#4282, aired 2003-03-25 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: In hyphenated terms, it comes before -go, -show & -brainer no |
#4282, aired 2003-03-25 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: It can mean awake, cheerful, or at bat up |
#4282, aired 2003-03-25 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: In an expression from Matthew 6:30, it's the word that immediately precedes "of little faith" Ye |
#4274, aired 2003-03-13 | AFRICAN MAMMALS $5,600 (Daily Double): (Alex in Africa) The name of the animal behind me (rhinoceros) comes from 2 Greek words which mean these 2 body parts nose & horn |
#4244, aired 2003-01-30 | THAT '70s SONG $1000: This 1971 hit from Bread would fit in a 2-letter words category "If" |
#4235, aired 2003-01-17 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $2000: These 2 words meaning "a line of objects" & "an argument", are homographs, spelled alike but said differently row & row |
#4230, aired 2003-01-10 | DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's a combination of 2 metals; brass is one, combining copper & zinc alloy |
#4230, aired 2003-01-10 | DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Middle name of American architect Frank Wright, born in 1867 Lloyd |
#4228, aired 2003-01-08 | THAT'S A LOAD OF GARBAGE $800: The 2 words that complete the modern saying "garbage in..." "garbage out" |
#4221, aired 2002-12-30 | WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $200: Jennifer Aniston won one in September 2002; her husband Brad was nominated, but didn't win M-E/Emmy |
#4221, aired 2002-12-30 | WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $400: I can name this Native American dwelling in 2 letters T-P/tepee |
#4221, aired 2002-12-30 | WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $600: In 1978 Jackson Browne was "Running on" these 2 letters M-T/empty |
#4221, aired 2002-12-30 | WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $800: These 2 letters can often be seen growing on the sides of college buildings I-V/ivy |
#4221, aired 2002-12-30 | WORDS FROM 2 LETTERS $1000: These 2 letters give you an adjective meaning sordid & unkempt C-D/seedy |
#4218, aired 2002-12-25 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: 2 bucks to win on Dances-A-Lot in the 7th, for example bet |
#4216, aired 2002-12-23 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $5,800 (Daily Double): 2 things they love in Europe are the flugelhorn & this winter sport luge (f(luge)lhorn) |
#4190, aired 2002-11-15 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: They're the 2 mammals used to describe a declining or rising stock market bear & bull |
#4184, aired 2002-11-07 | EARLY MAN $2000: In a common scientific classification of Neanderthal man, Neanderthalensis follows these 2 words Homo sapiens |
#4178, aired 2002-10-30 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $400: Alice is delighted to find a bottle that is not marked "Poison" but instead is labeled with these 2 words "Drink Me" |
#4177, aired 2002-10-29 | EDUCATION JARGON $2000: These 2 words, denoting socioeconomically challenged, followed "A Nation" in a 1983 report's title At Risk |
#4175, aired 2002-10-25 | "BI" WORDS $400: A premolar, from the Latin for "2 points" bicuspid |
#4162, aired 2002-10-08 | FULL SERVICE $400: They're the first 2 words in the Book of Common Prayer (1549 ed.) wedding service Dearly beloved |
#4155, aired 2002-09-27 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $200: It's used to express dismay or pain, especially in Yiddish oy |
#4155, aired 2002-09-27 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $400: Sacred syllable uttered as a mantra during meditation om |
#4155, aired 2002-09-27 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $600: A part of the psyche id |
#4155, aired 2002-09-27 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $800: Someone's sweetheart (or the first name of the tomboyish heroine of "Little Women") Jo |
#4155, aired 2002-09-27 | 2-LETTER SCRABBLE WORDS $1000: Even without playing it on a special square, this Greek letter will get you 9 points xi |
#4143, aired 2002-09-11 | "U" SEND ME $400 (Daily Double): Differing by only a letter, the 2 words meaning to make waves & any hoofed mammal Undulate & ungulate |
#4137, aired 2002-09-03 | WHAT A CLICHE $800: Careful craftsmen know these 2 words precede "Cut once" "Measure twice" |
#4130, aired 2002-07-12 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $1000: A combination of 2 other words, it describes a place or product for kids that's both informative & fun edutainment |
#4125, aired 2002-07-05 | WORDS IN COMBINATION $400: The phenomenon seen here is a combination of these 2 words smoke & fog |
#4125, aired 2002-07-05 | WORDS IN COMBINATION $800: An extended type of spot seen on late-night TV, as for Tae-Bo, combines these 2 words information commercial |
#4125, aired 2002-07-05 | WORDS IN COMBINATION $1200: "Chortle", a distinctive laugh, comes from these 2 words chuckle & snort |
#4125, aired 2002-07-05 | WORDS IN COMBINATION $1,800 (Daily Double): From 2 beasts it resembled, this African animal was once known as the cameleopard the giraffe |
#4125, aired 2002-07-05 | WORDS IN COMBINATION $2000: "Glitz" is believed to come from these 2 words, one a Paris hotel glamour & Ritz |
#4124, aired 2002-07-04 | CHICKEN À LA KING SHOPPING LIST $200: You may want chicken described with these 2 words, meaning the bird lived relatively unconfined free range |
#4118, aired 2002-06-26 | Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum $400: The National Air and Space Museum was originally called this which is 2 words shorter than its current name The National Air Museum |
#4109, aired 2002-06-13 | THE COLD WAR YEARS $600: These 2 words were added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 by an act of Congress under God |
#4107, aired 2002-06-11 | SORTA SOUNDS LIKE OPRAH? $1200: In an Irish battle cry, these 2 words follow "Erin" "Go Bragh" |
#4103, aired 2002-06-05 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: "Ut" used to be used for the first or keynote of the musical scale; this has replaced it Do |
#4103, aired 2002-06-05 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: In TV show titles this name has stood alone & followed "Mister" Ed |
#4103, aired 2002-06-05 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew plays a board game with Sarah.) I'm trouncing Sarah in this classic Japanese game Go |
#4103, aired 2002-06-05 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: The Random House Dictionary gives one definition of it as "at bat" up |
#4103, aired 2002-06-05 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: Creature of the bovine ilk that the Chinese use to symbolize a year an ox |
#4098, aired 2002-05-29 | LOUSY SCRABBLE WORDS $600: While it may be 2,000 pounds, it's only 3 letters, 3 points ton |
#4068, aired 2002-04-17 | -OLOGIES $1,000 (Daily Double): These 2 similar words are for the study of insects & the study of words entomology & etymology |
#4063, aired 2002-04-10 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: It's a tie score in tennis, or a playing card with 2 spots a deuce |
#4051, aired 2002-03-25 | COMBINATION PLATE $1,200 (Daily Double): These 2 words combine to form a positron positive & electron |
#4034, aired 2002-02-28 | COMPUTER SPEAK $1200: In the acronym BIOS, these 2 words come between "basic" & "system" input & output |
#4015, aired 2002-02-01 | BRIEFLY $800: To a doctor a heart attack is an M.I., which stands for these 2 10-letter words myocardial infarction |
#3985, aired 2001-12-21 | A FAREWELL $2000: Col. Kurtz' last words in "Apocalypse Now" are these 2 words, repeated the horror |
#3974, aired 2001-12-06 | "PARK"ER $400: A news database search got 609 hits over 2 years with the words "hurricane" & this type of camp that provides utilities trailer park |
#3966, aired 2001-11-26 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $400: Lewis Carroll coined the term "portmanteau word", explaining how "slithy" combines these 2 words "slimy" & "lithe" |
#3949, aired 2001-11-01 | FEMINISM $100: The 1848 feminist "Declaration of Sentiments" adds these 2 words to 1776's "All men are created equal" "and women" |
#3945, aired 2001-10-26 | "BEL"LISSIMO! $300: As 1 word, it's a poisonous plant also called deadly nightshade; as 2 words, it's a Stevie Nicks album belladonna/"Bella Donna" |
#3943, aired 2001-10-24 | 2-LETTER WORDS $100: In song it's "A name I call myself" mi |
#3943, aired 2001-10-24 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: It precedes -hold, -keep & -heaval up |
#3943, aired 2001-10-24 | 2-LETTER WORDS $300: Julia Sweeney's experiences with cancer inspired her one-woman show, "God Said" this! Ha! |
#3943, aired 2001-10-24 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: An Italian river, or the red Teletubby Po |
#3934, aired 2001-10-11 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $200: (Sarah, with the rest of the Clue Crew, reports while driving a bumper car) It's a 2-word alliterative term for the aggressive behavior displayed by angry drivers road rage |
#3932, aired 2001-10-09 | SOME CHOICE 4-LETTER WORDS $100: Last name of 2 presidents, or a small cluster of shrubs appearing as a single plant Bush |
#3904, aired 2001-07-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS $500: Besides the rook, the 2 other chess pieces that fit the category the king & the pawn |
#3875, aired 2001-06-08 | PHONETICS $1000: In the words "fricative" & "spirant", the 2 fricative or spirant letters F & S |
#3874, aired 2001-06-07 | THE FIRST PERSON $300: Bob Dole became known for the quirk of using these 2 words instead of saying "I" Bob Dole |
#3861, aired 2001-05-21 | 2-LETTER WORDS $100: Yes, for a senor or senorita sí |
#3861, aired 2001-05-21 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: In the name of the children's card game, it precedes "fish" Go |
#3861, aired 2001-05-21 | 2-LETTER WORDS $300: Bunyan's Babe was a blue one Ox |
#3861, aired 2001-05-21 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: It's what you "get" when you lose your job or your head Ax |
#3861, aired 2001-05-21 | 2-LETTER WORDS $500: Don't have a cow, man, it's just the twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet Mu |
#3860, aired 2001-05-18 | KIDS $500: These 2 Latin words following "in" mean someone acting "in place of parents", not "crazy parents" In loco parentis |
#3811, aired 2001-03-12 | 1980s MUSIC $800: These 3 words, 2 English & 1 Russian, were the theme of an anti-drug concert in Moscow Just Say Nyet |
#3791, aired 2001-02-12 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: Consisting of 2 4-letter words, this French phrase on a menu means there is a set cost for a meal Prix fixe |
#3778, aired 2001-01-24 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: The Finnish greeting "hyvaa paivaa" is literally "good" this, which is 2 months long in northern Finland in summer good day |
#3757, aired 2000-12-26 | 14-LETTER WORDS $200: It's how the letters in the sequence "E, F, G, H, I, J" are arranged alphabetically |
#3746, aired 2000-12-11 | KNOT $400: As 2 words, it's part of a ram's or ewe's leg; as 1 word, it's a knot for shortening rope Sheepshank |
#3714, aired 2000-10-26 | 2-LETTER WORDS $100: Before the grand jury, Bill Clinton said, "It depends on... your definition of" this word is |
#3714, aired 2000-10-26 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: In the "Little House" books, it's what Laura Ingalls calls her father Pa |
#3714, aired 2000-10-26 | 2-LETTER WORDS $300: In tennis it's "In" when the server has game point, "Out" when the receiver does Ad |
#3714, aired 2000-10-26 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: This Yiddishism means "So?" or "Well?" nu |
#3714, aired 2000-10-26 | 2-LETTER WORDS $500: 20th century style of art represented here Op art |
#3709, aired 2000-10-19 | IN 2 WORDS -- FAMILY $100: The relatives come from all over the country to celebrate this ceremony of a Jewish boy becoming a man a bar mitzvah |
#3709, aired 2000-10-19 | IN 2 WORDS -- FAMILY $200: It's the common name for a generational chart of ancestry a family tree |
#3709, aired 2000-10-19 | IN 2 WORDS -- FAMILY $300: In modern times a woman may keep using hers, or link it with a man's by a hyphen her maiden name |
#3709, aired 2000-10-19 | IN 2 WORDS -- FAMILY $400: It's the term for the payments made after a divorce for the upkeep of the kids child support |
#3709, aired 2000-10-19 | IN 2 WORDS -- FAMILY $500: A domicile in which parents raise kids not their own; Stephen's was an old Kentucky one a foster home |
#3697, aired 2000-10-03 | QUOTATIONS $1,100 (Daily Double): In 1944 she wrote in her diary, "In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart" Anne Frank |
#3696, aired 2000-10-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $100: This unit of measure is equal to 2 pints quart |
#3677, aired 2000-09-05 | I WANNA "NO" $200: 2 words that precede "No Glory" in a popular saying "No Guts" |
#3674, aired 2000-07-20 | 3-LETTER WORDS $400: I can't tell either of these 2 3-letter words; I only tell the truth fib & lie |
#3670, aired 2000-07-14 | FOREIGN WORDS $200: This French word for "goodbye" comes from 2 words literally meaning "to God" adieu |
#3666, aired 2000-07-10 | CALVIN-ISM $400: It's said that when told of a bet to get more than 2 words out of him, he said, "You Lose" Calvin Coolidge |
#3657, aired 2000-06-27 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: In Freud's way of thinking, it's the only part of the personality that exists at birth Id |
#3657, aired 2000-06-27 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: This 1986 Stephen King bestseller features a demonic clown named Pennywise It |
#3657, aired 2000-06-27 | 2-LETTER WORDS $600: It's approximately equal to 3.14 pi |
#3657, aired 2000-06-27 | 2-LETTER WORDS $800: Yes, it's the oldest form of Japanese drama still performed No |
#3657, aired 2000-06-27 | 2-LETTER WORDS $1000: Holy Cow! Zeus turned her into a heifer Io |
#3651, aired 2000-06-19 | "EX" WORDS $800: "Extrude" means to thrust out; drop 2 letters & you get this similar word meaning to ooze forth Exude |
#3646, aired 2000-06-12 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: MTV's 1997 award for Best New Artist in a Video went to this "Sleep to Dream" singer with 2 5-letter names Fiona Apple |
#3646, aired 2000-06-12 | 5-LETTER WORDS $300: The 2 5-letter words for the appliance being repaired here: range & stove |
#3645, aired 2000-06-09 | 3-LETTER WORDS $100: The 2 of journalism's 5 Ws that fit the category Who & Why |
#3626, aired 2000-05-15 | YOU-PHEMISMS $100: 2-letter word that means "you" in Julius Caesar's dying words Tu |
#3610, aired 2000-04-21 | THE U.S. MINT $300: Perhaps the young woman seen here is looking to these 2 expedition leaders for their next words to translate: Lewis & Clark |
#3574, aired 2000-03-02 | IN 2 WORDS $100: Meaning of the sign seen here:
["P" with line drawn through it] no parking |
#3574, aired 2000-03-02 | IN 2 WORDS $200: IV, meaning 4, for example a Roman numeral |
#3574, aired 2000-03-02 | IN 2 WORDS $300: Uh-oh! The sentence "I don't have no money." features one a double negative |
#3574, aired 2000-03-02 | IN 2 WORDS $400: If you're given full discretionary power, you've been given this, French for "blank document" carte blanche |
#3574, aired 2000-03-02 | IN 2 WORDS $500: Abbreviated C.O., it's a person who refuses to bear arms due to moral or religious principles a conscientious objector |
#3552, aired 2000-02-01 | 20th CENTURY WORDS $800: In a 1991 article Al Gore used this 2-word phrase for a new "driving" force, high-speed fiber-optic networks "Information Superhighway" |
#3538, aired 2000-01-12 | BIG WORDS $1000: From the same Latin root as "immeasurable", it's a 2-syllable equivalent Immense |
#3537, aired 2000-01-11 | CANADIAN CAPITALS $400: This Manitoba capital's name is derived from 2 Cree Indian words meaning "murky water" Winnipeg |
#3527, aired 1999-12-28 | HIPPOS $500: The word hippopotamus comes from 2 Greek words meaning this river horse |
#3505, aired 1999-11-26 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: An off-the-cuff speech is made this way, from a 2-word Latin phrase that literally means "out of the time" extemporaneously |
#3489, aired 1999-11-04 | PARTS OF SPEECH $200: 2 of these kinds of words often combine to form a compound one, like "teapot" or "farmyard" Nouns |
#3477, aired 1999-10-19 | SPAM THE WONDER MEAT $400: It is believed Spam is an acronym of "Shoulder of pork and ham" or a contraction of these 2 words Spice & ham |
#3465, aired 1999-10-01 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: In Major League Baseball, you're out if you do this with 2 strikes & the ball goes foul Bunt |
#3464, aired 1999-09-30 | 13-LETTER WORDS $1000: 1 of the 2 13-letter words for a plain figure with 4 sides & 4 angles quadrilateral (or parallelogram) |
#3438, aired 1999-07-14 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $500: It's a "homicidal" phrase for achieving 2 goals with a single effort Killing two birds with one stone |
#3429, aired 1999-07-01 | 4-LETTER SPORTS TERMS $600: This basketball ploy, when a player sets a screen & then receives a pass, includes 2 4-letter words pick & roll |
#3403, aired 1999-05-26 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $1000: 2 Greek words for "long life" give us this word which refers to a diet or lifestyle said to prolong life macrobiotic |
#3396, aired 1999-05-17 | LOOK OUT "BELL"OW $1000: As one word, it's a plant also called deadly nightshade; as 2 words, a Stevie Nicks album belladonna/"Bella Donna" |
#3385, aired 1999-04-30 | COMMUNISM $500: Shortened from 2 Russian words, it was the supreme policy-making body in the USSR Politburo |
#3345, aired 1999-03-05 | "CHAR"MED WORDS & PHRASES $800: This largest city in the 2 Carolinas is one of the nation's leading textile production centers Charlotte |
#3335, aired 1999-02-19 | AUTHOR'S DICTIONARY $200: It's defined as the combination of 2 seemingly contradictory words, like "deafening silence" oxymoron |
#3330, aired 1999-02-12 | WORDS FOR TWO $100: It's a musical composition for 2 voices or 2 instruments Duet |
#3330, aired 1999-02-12 | WORDS FOR TWO $200: Word for 2 cards of the same value in a poker game Pair |
#3330, aired 1999-02-12 | WORDS FOR TWO $400: In other words, "Similar as 2 legume fruits in a seed holder" "Like two peas in a pod" |
#3330, aired 1999-02-12 | WORDS FOR TWO $500: On a riverboat, it's how you would "Mark" water that's 2 fathoms deep Twain |
#3303, aired 1999-01-06 | THE "A" "B" "C"s $600: They're the 2 words describing lenses that curve outward or inward concave & convex |
#3279, aired 1998-12-03 | MEDICINE $1,000 (Daily Double): The 2-word name of this disorder comes from Greek & Latin words meaning "without appetite" & "nervous" Anorexia Nervosa |
#3244, aired 1998-10-15 | "ERE"Y WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): French physicist who first showed that current in 2 parallel wires causes magnetic forces between the wires Andre-Marie Ampere |
#3237, aired 1998-10-06 | ODD WORDS $1000: A dupion is a double one of these created by 2 silkworms working together Cocoon |
#3224, aired 1998-09-17 | SCIENCE CLASS $200: The name of this science comes from 2 Greek words meaning "Earth discussion" Geology |
#3224, aired 1998-09-17 | WORD ORIGINS $400: This "attractive" word is from 2 Greek words for "stone of magnesia" a magnet |
#3197, aired 1998-06-23 | WORD WORDS $400: These terms are, you know, the 2 examples of embololalia in this clue that, like, stall for time You know & like |
#3192, aired 1998-06-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $100: People with a hidden agenda often have this "to grind" Ax |
#3192, aired 1998-06-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: "Collect $200" if you can name this Japanese game played with black & white counters on a checkered board Go |
#3192, aired 1998-06-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $300: As a prefix, it can mean "not including"; by itself, it means "former", like a former spouse Ex |
#3192, aired 1998-06-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: Yes, it's Russian for yes Da |
#3192, aired 1998-06-16 | 2-LETTER WORDS $500: It's used to mean very, or what's your point? So |
#3175, aired 1998-05-22 | DRUNK ON WORDS $200: This 2-word expression is often followed by "like a Christmas tree" lit up |
#3139, aired 1998-04-02 | "ICK"Y WORDS $400: Many of these human-powered 2-wheeled carts once widely used in Asia were built in the U.S. rickshaws |
#3077, aired 1998-01-06 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $200: This 2-word phrase means you're taking your lunch to work Brown bagging |
#3048, aired 1997-11-26 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1000: It describes a 2-House legislature Bicameral |
#3025, aired 1997-10-24 | WORDS OF THE '60s $100: These 2 birds represented conciliatory & aggressive attitudes toward war Doves & hawks |
#3020, aired 1997-10-17 | OXYMORONS $200: The word "oxymoron" comes from 2 Greek words meaning "sharp" & this Dull |
#3009, aired 1997-10-02 | STUPID ANSWERS $300: The first 2 words of the French version of the Canadian national anthem "O, Canada" |
#2990, aired 1997-09-05 | THE QUOTABLE COOLIDGE $800: His reply to a woman who said she'd made a bet she could get more than 2 words out of him You lose. |
#2972, aired 1997-07-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $100: It's a nickname for Australia, or a land somewhere over the rainbow Oz |
#2972, aired 1997-07-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: It precedes hill, roar, state & -to-date Up |
#2972, aired 1997-07-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $300: It's what Chicagoans call their above-the-street railroad El |
#2972, aired 1997-07-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the first word of the Golden Rule Do |
#2972, aired 1997-07-01 | 2-LETTER WORDS $500: It's Jupiter's third-largest moon Io |
#2968, aired 1997-06-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $300: In Portuguese these 2 antonyms are cedo & tarde Early & late |
#2959, aired 1997-06-12 | ENDS IN "LL" $500: The 2 words that fit the category for the slow, solemn ring of a bell knell & toll |
#2915, aired 1997-04-11 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $200: This 2-word French phrase is commonly used to wish someone a healthy, hearty meal Bon Appetit |
#2914, aired 1997-04-10 | "C" YOU AT THE MOVIES $100: In titles of films, these 2 words precede "Madam", "Mister" & "Bwana" "Call Me" |
#2901, aired 1997-03-24 | AVIATION $200: The name of this craft comes from 2 Greek words meaning "spiral" & "wing" the helicopter |
#2898, aired 1997-03-19 | SONGS $400: 2 words following "Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky..." stormy weather |
#2888, aired 1997-03-05 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $500: This 2-word phrase refers to the "high" art of fine cooking haute cuisine |
#2878, aired 1997-02-19 | WORDS $300: Add 2 letters to megapolis to get this word that means the same thing megalopolis |
#2869, aired 1997-02-06 | ETYMOLOGY $400: "Blackboard" & "loudspeaker" are examples of this type of word formed by combining 2 words Compound word |
#2864, aired 1997-01-30 | '80s WORDS & PHRASES $500: In 1986 Americans learned 2 Russian words: glasnost, meaning "openness", & this, meaning "restructuring" perestroika |
#2864, aired 1997-01-30 | '80s WORDS & PHRASES $700 (Daily Double): It's the 2-word "clear barrier" keeping women from promotion into upper management glass ceiling |
#2838, aired 1996-12-25 | FRENCH WORDS & PHRASES $500: 2-word phrase for a young foreigner who performs housework in exchange for room & board Au Pair |
#2802, aired 1996-11-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: 2 of 3 U.S. states that fit the category (2 of) Ohio & Utah (Iowa) |
#2802, aired 1996-11-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $500: This flightless bird of South America has 3 toes on its feet; an ostrich has 2 a rhea |
#2775, aired 1996-09-27 | 10-LETTER WORDS $400: Using this delaying tactic, Sen. Wayne Morse spoke for 22 1/2 hours against the Tidelands Bill in 1953 filibuster |
#2775, aired 1996-09-27 | 10-LETTER WORDS $500: In this ancient board game, each player has 2 dice, a dice cup & 15 counters backgammon |
#2750, aired 1996-07-12 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $300: Alphabetically, it's the first of the 2-letter words for notes of the scale do |
#2679, aired 1996-04-04 | BIBLICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: Robert Heinlein used this phrase from Exodus 2:22 as the title of one of his novels "Stranger In A Strange Land" |
#2658, aired 1996-03-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $100: Pass this in Monopoly & collect $200 GO |
#2658, aired 1996-03-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: According to Freud, this part of the mind is motivated by the pleasure principle the id |
#2658, aired 1996-03-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $300: It can refer to a bovine draft animal or to a dumb, clumsy fellow an ox |
#2658, aired 1996-03-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: It's often approximated as 22/7 pi |
#2658, aired 1996-03-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $500: This Sanskrit syllable intoned as part of a mantra means "yes, so be it" om |
#2648, aired 1996-02-21 | ANIMALS $200: Part of the scientific name for this marsupial is from 2 Greek words for "pouch" & "bear" koala bear |
#2645, aired 1996-02-16 | VOCABULARY $400: Easily accessible to drivers, "motel" derives its name from these 2 words motor & hotel |
#2639, aired 1996-02-08 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: In "Through the Looking Glass", Alice meets these 2 little fat men whose words seem nonsensical Tweedledee & Tweedledum |
#2614, aired 1996-01-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: In German these 2 relatives are der bruder & die schwester your brother & your sister |
#2559, aired 1995-10-19 | 2-LETTER WORDS $100: 1 of the 2 options for a light switch on |
#2559, aired 1995-10-19 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: Spanish equivalent of the German ja sí |
#2559, aired 1995-10-19 | 2-LETTER WORDS $300: It commonly follows "land" & "heave" ho |
#2559, aired 1995-10-19 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the second 2-letter word in the U.S. Constitution's preamble; "We" is first of |
#2559, aired 1995-10-19 | 2-LETTER WORDS $500: Pronounced one way, it's a musical tone; pronounced another way, it means to accomplish do |
#2479, aired 1995-05-18 | WORD ORIGINS $500 (Daily Double): It's the profession derived from 2 Greek words meaning "star sailor" an astronaut |
#2419, aired 1995-02-23 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $200: This abolitionist's last words on Dec. 2, 1859 were "I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting." John Brown |
#2414, aired 1995-02-16 | MAMMALS $200: The name of this huge mammal is from 2 Greek words meaning "nose-horned" a rhinoceros |
#2408, aired 1995-02-08 | ENGLISH GRAMMAR $500: In & on are 2 of the most common of these words used at the beginnings of phrases prepositions |
#2394, aired 1995-01-19 | VOCABULARY $600: Together or alone, these 2 words refer to a car that carries passengers for a fare a taxi cab |
#2362, aired 1994-12-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $100: To call attention to your product or service, you might want to place one of these in the newspaper an ad |
#2362, aired 1994-12-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: This pronoun is the objective case of "I" me |
#2362, aired 1994-12-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $300: This conjunction is used to indicate an alternative or |
#2362, aired 1994-12-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: This interjection can follow "westward" or "land" ho |
#2362, aired 1994-12-06 | 2-LETTER WORDS $500: It follows mu in the Greek alphabet nu |
#2319, aired 1994-10-06 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $600: In the King James Bible, the Beatitudes in Matthew 5:3-11 all begin with these 2 words Blessed are |
#2280, aired 1994-07-01 | THE FLAG $200: These 2 words were added to the Pledge of Allegiance in the 1950s under God |
#2240, aired 1994-05-06 | DOUBLE Z WORDS $500: An instrumental piece in the middle of an opera, or a brief entertainment between 2 acts of a play an intermezzo |
#2236, aired 1994-05-02 | VOCABULARY $500: Cyborg, describing something that's part human & part robot, is a combination of these 2 words cybernetic & organism |
#2234, aired 1994-04-28 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $100: In Dutch these 2 antonyms are ja & nee yes & no |
#2205, aired 1994-03-18 | 2-LETTER WORDS $100: This pronoun is an archaic form of you ye |
#2205, aired 1994-03-18 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: This word can mean "not later than", "according to" or "next to" by |
#2205, aired 1994-03-18 | 2-LETTER WORDS $300: This 405-mile-long river empties into the Adriatic Sea the Po |
#2205, aired 1994-03-18 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: The board for this game is ruled with 19 horizontal & 19 vertical lines Go |
#2205, aired 1994-03-18 | 2-LETTER WORDS $500: This, the innermost of Jupiter's Galilean moons, always keeps the same face toward the planet Io |
#2182, aired 1994-02-15 | CRAFTS $800: The name of this craft comes from 2 Japanese words meaning "to fold paper" origami |
#2157, aired 1994-01-11 | 9-LETTER WORDS $600: It describes a person who is able to speak 2 languages fluently bilingual |
#2143, aired 1993-12-22 | QUOTATIONS $600: These 2 words complete the Charles Colton line "When you have nothing to say...." "Say nothing" |
#2131, aired 1993-12-06 | ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES $300: Alitalia's frequent fliers know these 2 airport antonyms are "arrivo" & "partenza" arriving & departing (or arrival & departure) |
#2123, aired 1993-11-24 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $500: In chapter 22 of Revelation, Jesus spoke a little Greek, mentioning these 2 words Alpha & Omega |
#2096, aired 1993-10-18 | VOCABULARY $500: These 2 words which differ by 1 letter refer to places where birds & bees are kept aviary & apiary |
#2077, aired 1993-09-21 | COMPOUND WORDS $500: As a compound word, it describes a previously-owned garment; as 2 words, it's part of your watch secondhand |
#2076, aired 1993-09-20 | WORDS $100: In the title of a Eugene O'Neill play, this 2-letter word precedes "Wilderness" Ah |
#2058, aired 1993-07-14 | TRANSPORTATION $400: Meaning a bicycle with a small engine, the name moped was coined by combining these 2 words motor and pedal |
#2036, aired 1993-06-14 | THE TEN COMMANDMENTS $300: In the King James Version, 1 of 2 commandments consisting of just 4 words Thou shalt not kill (or Thou shalt not steal) |
#2026, aired 1993-05-31 | BLUE $300: A blue point, 2 words, is a cat; a bluepoint, 1 word, is one of these an oyster |
#1986, aired 1993-04-05 | "BI" WORDS $200: Benjamin Franklin developed these by mounting 2 different eyeglass lenses in one frame bifocals |
#1986, aired 1993-04-05 | "BI" WORDS $300: Except for Nebraska, all U.S. states have this form of legislature made up of 2 houses bicameral |
#1986, aired 1993-04-05 | "BI" WORDS $500: In math, it's an expression consisting of 2 terms connected by a plus or minus sign a binomial |
#1956, aired 1993-02-22 | AQUATIC ANIMALS $100: The name of this animal is from 2 Greek words meaning "eight feet" octopus |
#1907, aired 1992-12-15 | 3-LETTER WORDS $500: The metal mouthpiece on a bridle, or 12 1/2 cents a bit |
#1895, aired 1992-11-27 | "FOR" WORDS $200: It's a period equal to 2 weeks a fortnight |
#1878, aired 1992-11-04 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: In an 1862 speech, Bismarck spoke of "Eisen und Blut", which are these 2 things blood & iron |
#1856, aired 1992-10-05 | 2-LETTER WORDS $100: In Monopoly, a player collects $200 on passing this Go |
#1856, aired 1992-10-05 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: A letter of the alphabet, or one's former spouse ex |
#1856, aired 1992-10-05 | 2-LETTER WORDS $300: Freud described it as the instinctive part of the personality id |
#1856, aired 1992-10-05 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: In Egyptian mythology, he was the sun god Ra |
#1856, aired 1992-10-05 | 2-LETTER WORDS $500: It's the title of a hit song by Bread, or a poem by Rudyard Kipling "If" |
#1843, aired 1992-09-16 | VOCABULARY $800: The name of this muse of dancing comes from 2 Greek words for "delight" & "dance" Terpsichore |
#1835, aired 1992-07-17 | MOVIE SEQUELS $400: The sequels to "The Paleface" & "King Kong" share these 2 words in their titles Son of |
#1806, aired 1992-06-08 | MAMMALS $200: The name of this large mammal comes from 2 Greek words meaning "nose-horned" rhinoceros |
#1781, aired 1992-05-04 | 2-LETTER WORDS $100: This word can precede "fly a kite", "for broke" & "to pieces" go |
#1781, aired 1992-05-04 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: The manufacturing cities of Turin, Milan & Brescia lie in this Italian river's valley Po |
#1781, aired 1992-05-04 | 2-LETTER WORDS $300: This interjection is used as an expression of surprise when it precedes "and behold" lo |
#1781, aired 1992-05-04 | 2-LETTER WORDS $400: In 1970 Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Atlantic in a papyrus boat named for this Egyptian sun god Ra |
#1781, aired 1992-05-04 | 2-LETTER WORDS $500: 3 of the 4 Greek letters that are 2-letter words (3 of) xi, nu & pi (or mu) |