#6819, aired 2014-04-17 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $400: Elongated spines help these creatures reach their incredible speeds cheetahs |
#6819, aired 2014-04-17 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $800: These predators of the tropics can mass in huge numbers and turn much larger animals into their prey army ants |
#6819, aired 2014-04-17 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $1200: A 2013 study finds the mouth cooties of this carrion eater aren't lethal, as was thought Komodo dragon |
#6819, aired 2014-04-17 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $1600: Its long arms allow it to move with great agility through the treetops gibbon |
#6463, aired 2012-10-24 | BEASTLY COLLECTIVES $1000: A group of owls is known as this, like the Canadian legislature a parliament |
#6346, aired 2012-04-02 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $200: 1856 saw the first import of these desert animals for use by the U.S. Army in the American Southwest camels |
#6346, aired 2012-04-02 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $400: Sericulture, the use of these "worms" in fiber manufacture, goes back more than 4,000 years silkworms |
#6346, aired 2012-04-02 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $600: Orso is the Italian word for this carnivore a bear |
#6346, aired 2012-04-02 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $800: An Alpine variety of this amphibian can stay pregnant for 3 years & 2 months a salamander |
#4877, aired 2005-11-22 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $200: In a sensational 1980s police case in Australia, Lindy Chamberlain claimed one of these "took my baby!" a dingo |
#4877, aired 2005-11-22 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $400: The Semites called an early version of the letter Q "qoph", their word for this tailed animal the monkey |
#4877, aired 2005-11-22 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $600: Starting in the 1950s, one of these animals emerged from the NYC subway in TV ads for Dreyfus mutual funds the lion |
#4877, aired 2005-11-22 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $800: Kumis, a national specialty of Kazakhstan, is the fermented milk of this animal the horse |
#4877, aired 2005-11-22 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $1000: (Jeff Probst reads from Guatemala.) Many Mayan temples and works of art were devoted to this cat, Panthera onca, revered as a god of the underworld the jaguar |
#4504, aired 2004-03-18 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $200: This car that launched the 1960s "pony car" craze was the first to win the Tiffany Award for excellence in American design the Mustang |
#4504, aired 2004-03-18 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $400: Nearly synonymous with the term "light plane", this Piper aircraft model first flew in 1937 the Piper Cub |
#4339, aired 2003-06-12 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $200: If you feel a chill you might get these kind of "bumps" named after an animal goosebumps |
#4339, aired 2003-06-12 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $400: Once used to determine whether a woman was pregnant, the Friedman Test is also known as this test rabbit test |
#4339, aired 2003-06-12 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $600: It's the World War I desert-dwelling biplane seen here Sopwith Camel |
#4339, aired 2003-06-12 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $800: It's the "insect" newspaper published in California's state capital The Sacramento Bee |
#4339, aired 2003-06-12 | A BEASTLY CATEGORY $1000: Seen here is the Todd McFarlane figurine of this Kurt Russell movie character "Snake" Plissken |
#3661, aired 2000-07-03 | BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES $500: To confront someone defiantly, perhaps on his home turf, is to "beard" this animal "in his den" a lion |