| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | AMERICAN BIRDS $400: Warily circling as hunters freeze & swear, the pintail type of this water bird is one of the most difficult to lure with a decoy a duck |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | AMERICAN BIRDS $1200: The Cooper's type of this bird of prey is soon to be the TBD type as American birds will no longer have people in their common names hawk |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | AMERICAN BIRDS $1600: The long-billed curlew is nicknamed this bird & its Bay Area habitat is said to have lent that name to a point & a ballpark candlestick |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | FOOD TALK $2000: It's the technique of butterflying a whole bird before cooking: faster roasting, crispier skin spatchcocking |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | THINGS PEOPLE SAY $800: Something that you can't get past is stuck here, a word for a part of bird anatomy your craw |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | BABY TALK $400: Small pink or red patches on a baby's face or neck are playfully called these, perhaps from the bird that delivered them stork's bites |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | SONG SIMILES $1000: This Top 10 title from 2001 precedes "I'll only fly away / I don't know where my soul is / I don't know where my home is" "I'm Like A Bird" |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | NATURE $800: Talk about going the distance! The Arctic type of this bird has the longest annual migration of any, a round trip of up to 60,000 miles the (Arctic) tern |
| #9043, aired 2024-02-21 | ART & ARTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Picasso liked to draw this bird, also his daughter's name translated from Spanish dove |
| #9040, aired 2024-02-16 | MYTHOLOGY $800: A bird called Aetos kaukasios ate his liver every day Prometheus |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ____ OF ____ $800: While native to South Africa, this flower is a common sight in Southern California bird-of-paradise |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | MILITARY SLANG $400: A "bird boat" is one of these, like the U.S.S. Yorktown during World War II an aircraft carrier |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $400: The F-16 has the alliterative name "Fighting" this speedy type of raptor Falcon |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $800: This Grumman & amphibious plane, essential to the defenders of Bataan, is not named for an amphibian, but for a water bird the Duck |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $1200: In a Shrike Commander, Bob Hoover perfected a routine of aerobatics, landing & taxiing all deadstick, i.e. this he had no engine power at all |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $1600: 70 years after Louis Blériot first did it, the human-powered Gossamer Albatross flew across this body of water in 1979 the English Channel |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! $4,000 (Daily Double): During World War II, one job of the Howard DGA-15 was as a Navy air ambulance with this bird name that's associated with nursing Nightingale |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | NONFICTION $200: Helen MacDonald's memoir of adopting a predatory bird is called "H Is for" this raptor hawk |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS $200: About the size of a billiard ball, the eye of this bird is the largest of any land animal an ostrich |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS $800: Many North American lakes are named for this bird; in 1892 Pres. Harrison stayed at one in the Adirondacks & heard the bird's mad laugh a loon |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS $1,800 (Daily Double): With a wingspan of about 7 feet, the largest eagle in the Amazon is this species named for foul bird-like women of Greek myth (the) harpy (eagle) |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | NATIONAL ANIMALS $1000: It's the national bird of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia & Ecuador a (Andean) condor |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | OF THRONES $1000: A fancy-looking bird is in the name of this golden throne that was built for the emperor Shah Jahan in the 17th century a Peacock (Throne) |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | HUNT & PECK $400: Some hold out hope that the ivory-billed species of this hole-making bird is not extinct a woodpecker |
| #9003, aired 2023-12-27 | VÁMONOS A MEXICO! $1000: To some experts, the chirping echo you hear when you clap next to a pyramid in Chichen Itza mirrors the sound of this "Q"ute bird a quetzal |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $200: Besides her cat, a witch ends up giving a ride to a dog, a bird & a frog in the rhymingly titled "Room on the..." Broom |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | A MUSE ME $400: Look! up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Urania, muse of this science! astronomy |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | A BIRD IN THE HAND $400: It's the bird in the hands here; Hans Christian Andersen wrote of an "Ugly" one a duckling |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | A BIRD IN THE HAND $800: That's not a chick in the hand but this bird with a longer name a chickadee |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | A BIRD IN THE HAND $1200: It's perhaps the most fitting bird to hold the symbol of peace in its beak a dove |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | A BIRD IN THE HAND $1600: On its leg, the bird is undergoing this zoological process, also called ringing banding |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | A BIRD IN THE HAND $3,000 (Daily Double): The type of hawk seen here is found in the name of this olden occupation of the guy holding it falconer |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | EVE 6 $800: In this 1978 film Eve Arden plays the principal who threatens a cocky T-Bird with "banging erasers after school" Grease |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED $200: In 2007 this bird was removed from the U.S. threatened & endangered species list; nice, with it being a natl. symbol & all bald eagle |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED $400: This porcupine-like mammal doesn't turn into a ball to roll quickly & gain video game points, but it does eat snakes & bird eggs a hedgehog |
| #8984, aired 2023-11-30 | WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED $1000: Melospiza melodia is the song type of this small common brown bird a (common) sparrow |
| #8982, aired 2023-11-28 | FOREIGN LANGUAGE $400: In French, l'oiseau is this; it sports les plumes a bird |
| #8981, aired 2023-11-27 | CULTURE CLUB $800: In 1877 the Bolshoi first danced this ballet about a prince who falls for a were-bird Swan Lake |
| #8978, aired 2023-11-22 | 18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $2000: John Bird made the first of these navigating instruments with an arc of 60 degrees, or one-sixth of a circle a sextant |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | I PITY DA FOOD! $1000: Gray & red-legged are 2 varieties of this game bird that can be roasted, broiled or braised; you, in the pear tree! Hide! a partridge |
| #8967, aired 2023-11-07 | MYTHOLOGICAL PAINTINGS $1200: A painting by Paul Cezanne shows "Leda and" this bird a swan |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | MONSTER MANUAL $1600: It had a woman's head & a bird's body & met up with the Argonauts; c'mon, get... harpies |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | ALWAYS SAY NEVER $1000: Shelley said of this, "Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert"; Wordsworth said they "soar, but never roam" skylark |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | DEMONYMS $200: It's a bird! It's a fruit! It's the nickname for a native New Zealander! a Kiwi |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | BLUNT BIOS OF BRAND MASCOTS $200: A bird, once plagued by anger management issues, who never stops quacking about insurance the AFLAC duck |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $400: Even before it was immortalized by Poe, this bird was a near-universal symbol of ill omen the raven |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SOUTH AFRICA $2000: South Africa's national bird is the blue variety of this avian; also warriors once wore its feathers into battle a (blue) crane |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | FURNITURE $1200: A little bird gave us this term for the space-saving furniture seen here nesting tables |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | TV $1000: Sandy Dvore designed the animated title sequence of a mother bird & 5 chicks for this 1970s series The Partridge Family |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | SONG BIRDS $600: "I'll raise you like a" this mythical bird, sang Fall Out Boy, who rhymed it with remix a phoenix |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | THE "LL" YOU SAY $1200: This large bird of Africa & Asia takes its name from its prominent beak, often topped by a hollow chamber called a casque the hornbill |
| #8916, aired 2023-07-17 | DOUBLE TALK $800: A type of goose, it's the state bird of Hawaii a nene |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | THE HIGH "C"s $800: The Andean type of this bird raises its young on ledges or in caves, sometimes at over 10,000 feet a condor |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | "I" BEFORE "EE" $600: This little bird is in the title of a W.C. Fields-Mae West pairing a chickadee |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | BIRD IDIOMS $200: If you keep late hours, you are one of these birds a night owl |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | BIRD IDIOMS $400: NBC strutted its stuff using this 4-word idiom as a slogan in the early 1980s proud as a peacock |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | BIRD IDIOMS $600: Cliff diving for your 75th birthday? Better act your age; you're no... this a spring chicken |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | BIRD IDIOMS $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1843 story has become a metaphor for one who is unpromising initially "The Ugly Duckling" |
| #8890, aired 2023-06-09 | CLASSIC TOYS & GAMES $1000: Time to play this Hasbro game: write down a river, a bird, a flower & a body part all starting with the letter R Scattergories |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: In this picture book by Janell Cannon, a fruit bat ends up in a bird's nest & is adopted by the mama bird Stellaluna |
| #8881, aired 2023-05-29 | POETIC SUBJECTS $400: "Maître corbeau, sur un arbre perché", begins a Jean de la Fontaine poem about this type of bird a crow (raven) |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | SCULPTORS $1600: A 1928 court case determined that this Romanian's "Bird in Space" was a work of art, not a manufactured object Brancusi |
| #8874, aired 2023-05-18 | FLAGS OF SPANISH-SPEAKING NATIONS $1600: On Guatemala's flag above crossed rifles & swords sits this, the country's national bird a quetzal |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | CITIES OF SOUTH AMERICA $200: The design of this capital city that began construction in the 1950s is said to resemble a bird or an airplane Brasília |
| #8870, aired 2023-05-12 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $600: A bird of prey that has been crowned king aboard Darwin's ship a regal Beagle eagle |
| #8869, aired 2023-05-11 | WATCHING MY STORIES $2000: A boy steals a painting of a bird after a museum bombing in this Donna Tartt novel & its film adaptation The Goldfinch |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | BETTER TOMES & GARDENS $1200: Alice finds a marvelous garden in Wonderland but has trouble managing this bird while playing croquet there a flamingo |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | SPOONERISM PAIRS $600: A cliche meaning a devastating punch & an embarrassed black bird a crushing blow & a blushing crow |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | SITTING IN WITH THE ORCHESTRA $2000: It's big fun for an oboist to play "Peter & the Wolf", where I get to be this bird a duck |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS $400: Dickens had a pet bird of this variety that he featured in "Barnaby Rudge" & that, in turn, may have inspired a Poe poem a raven |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | LIKE A BIRD $200: An advocate for peace a dove |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | LIKE A BIRD $400: To gloat or boast; try not to "eat" it crow |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | LIKE A BIRD $600: As a verb it means to peddle things for sale, especially by calling out hawk |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | LIKE A BIRD $800: Trying to see better? Do this to extend your neck crane |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | LIKE A BIRD $1000: In sports this bird refers to someone who comes in & steals a win or score from a teammate vulture |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | MARCH MADNESS $1000: In 1979, he conjured up a title for Michigan State over Larry Bird's Indiana State Magic Johnson |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $4,018 (Daily Double): As a verb, the name of this cute little bird, California's official one, means "to become fearful" a quail |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | SHORT, TINY & SMALL $1200: The sword-billed species of this tiny bird has the longest bill in relation to its body size of any bird in the world a hummingbird |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | SERVING T FOR 3 $200: The chirping noise of a bird, or the app where people do a lot of chirping Twitter |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | S-SS-ING THE SITUATION $1600: In singular form, for a change, this word comes before "tailed" in the name of Oklahoma's state bird scissor-tailed |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | JUICE BAR $200: Snapple says strawberry & this, "the fruit, not the bird!", make a "just-right juice that goes together" kiwi |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | GRIMM BROTHERS FAIRY TALES $200: Not a fairy godmother but a bird gives this character her dress & slippers for the big event Cinderella |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | WHAT AN ANIMAL! $1000: This flightless bird ranges in size from blue (smallest) to emperor (largest) a penguin |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $1600: When seen from the side, your tailbone somewhat resembles the beak of a cuckoo bird, hence this other name for it coccyx |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | NATURE $1000: Scientists once thought this Aussie animal that has certain bird features & lays eggs was a hoax a (duck-billed) platypus |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | A CATEGORY OF CHANCE $2000: An aging film star has a lover named Chance in this playwright's "Sweet Bird of Youth", set in a small southern town Tennessee Williams |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | RHYMING RESPONSES $200: A bird that can talk &
a unit of gold fineness a parrot & a carat |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | ATLANTIC ISLANDS $1600: Corvo Island of the Azores is a home to this diving bird that locals call corvo-marinho cormorant |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | SUPERLATIVES $800: A book of records came about after a Guinness executive wondered if among game birds, the one he had just missed shooting was this the fastest |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | BIRDS ARE REAL $200: Branta canadensis is the scientific name for this bird--honk!--that can be--honk!--loud &--honk! annoying a Canada goose |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | BIRDS ARE REAL $400: Lack of a fully developed syrinx keeps this long-necked bird mostly voiceless, perhaps not to wake the baby it's bringing a stork |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | BIRDS ARE REAL $600: Sharing its name with a pro baseball team, this orange & black bird with a 2-word name can also range down to South America a Baltimore Oriole |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | BIRDS ARE REAL $800: Boasting a nearly 5-foot wingspan, the red-tailed this bird of prey can reach speeds of 120 mph in a dive a hawk |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | LIGHTS, CAMERA, AUCTION! $600: Coo... coo... cool; the Belgian racing type of this bird is a bit more valuable than one in a city park, going for $1.9 million in 2020 a (homing) pigeon |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | ANIMALS $800: This flightless bird of New Zealand is the only bird with nostrils at the end of its beak a kiwi |
| #8755, aired 2022-12-02 | MICRO FISH $1600: The plumage of its caudal fin got the fish seen here, from Papua New Guinea, named after this male bird a peacock |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | HEGEL $1200: Hegel thought understanding comes at the end of a process: this bird "of Minerva spreads its wings only" at dusk the owl |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | A MUSICAL JOURNEY WITH QUESTLOVE $2000: (Questlove presents the clue.) Working backward in an amazing career--played with Fab 5 Freddy, performed civil rights-themed music & pioneered bop with Bird & Diz, every drummer owes a debt to this man Max Roach |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 100 CITIES, 5,000 IDEAS $1200: From the Sky Tower, you get a bird's-eye view of this New Zealand city that sounds like a nation for birds Auckland |
| #8732, aired 2022-11-01 | HE DIRECTED THAT? $1600: This actor who starred in "Bird" & "Lee Daniels' the Butler" took a breath & sat in the director's chair for "Waiting to Exhale" Forest Whitaker |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | PICK A "CARD" $1500: Known for its scarlet plumage & whistled songs, it's the official bird of seven U.S. states cardinal |
| #8729, aired 2022-10-27 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $600: Seen here it's not an ostrich but this Aussie bird an emu |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $200: There's a certain braveness to this black bird the raven (in braveness) |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $400: A little knowledge of this bird goes a long way an owl (in knowledge) |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | QUICK LIT $400: In a Coleridge poem, "at length did cross" this bird the albatross |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $800: While riding my scooter, I spotted this old bird a coot (in scooter) |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1600: Monkey-faced is another name for the bird better known by this name, for a place it might nest a barn owl |
| #8720, aired 2022-10-14 | "P"OTPOURRI $1200: In 1739 the Persians stole from the Mughal Empire a jewel-encrusted throne named for this bird a peacock |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $5,000 (Daily Double): 2022 brings the 150th b'day of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar & a bio calling him this creature that "sings" in his famous line the caged bird |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $400: Larry Bird, or currently, Jayson Tatum a Celtic |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | THE CALL OF THE WILD $2,000 (Daily Double): Named for its call, it's the tall North American bird heard here a whooping crane |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $200: You are welcome to know that the knobbed whelk is New Jersey's state one of these a sea shell |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | GONE EXTINCT $800: The great auk was a flightless & sadly fearless bird that lived on the Faroes & other islands in the northern part of this ocean the Atlantic Ocean |
| #8679, aired 2022-07-07 | RHYME ZONE $800: It precedes "the coop" to describe a bird or person who has escaped & vanished flown |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | THE "D" TAILS $400: A joint used by carpenters is named for this bird's fan-shaped tail a dove |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | SONGS OF INNOCENCE & EXPERIENCE $800: Andrew Bird called a song "Near" this "Experience Experience" Death |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | SILENT W WORDS $200: The fairy type of this bird seen here can be found in Eastern Australia a wren |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | WAR GODS $1200: M-O-double R-I-G-A-N spells Morrigan, a Celtic war goddess who turned into this ominous black bird a raven (a crow) |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | SOUND UP! $400: The wingbeats of this bird are heard here; it's been clocked at 50 wingbeats per second a hummingbird |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: Speakers' Corner & the Hudson Bird Sanctuary are part of this 340-acre London park, a former royal hunting preserve Hyde Park |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BALLET & OPERA $800: Siegfried threatens at least 2 characters with a crossbow in this ballet... what a bird brain! Swan Lake |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL $1000: Don't confuse the macaw, a bird, with this largely Asian type of monkey, such as the Japanese species a macaque |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | PURPLE REIGN $1000: New Hampshire's state flower is the purple lilac & its state bird is the purple this a purple finch |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | SHE'S ONLY A BIRD $400: This bird can stop on a dime & hover while doing 4,000 wing beats per minute hummingbird |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | SHE'S ONLY A BIRD $800: The great blue this has a wingspan of 6 feet or more heron |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | SHE'S ONLY A BIRD $1200: Literally having this bird around your neck would be cumbersome, as the wandering type has an 11-foot wingspan albatross |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | SHE'S ONLY A BIRD $1600: This small bird lives up to its "fast" name--it can fly 70 mph & eats insects on the fly swift |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | SHE'S ONLY A BIRD $2000: Types of this game bird include ruffed, spruce & sage grouse |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | 3-LETTER MOVIE TITLES $200: To seek out the bird of his dreams, a domesticated avian travels to Brazil Rio |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | GENUS & SPECIES $2000: Musca is Latin for "fly", an insect that should fear Muscicapa, a genus of this bird a flycatcher |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | EPONYMS & TOPONYMS $1200: Mythical creatures that were half bird, half woman with a sweet song gave their name to this noisemaking device a siren |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | A FEW COLORFUL WORDS $200: In addition to a shade of red, it can refer to a holy man, a bird or a number cardinal |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | TWEETS $800: The name of this bird is a synonym for singer; the yellow one has a song that sounds like "sweet, sweet, sweet, I'm so sweet" a warbler |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | TWEETS $2000: This bird is named for its call, first & third syllables accented, which it may repeat 400 times without stopping a whip-poor-will |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | "C" THE ANIMALS $1000: This critically endangered bird with an alliterative name is the largest flying land bird of North America a California condor |
| #8581, aired 2022-02-21 | LAS VEGAS HOTEL NAMES $200: This pink bird always seems to have a leg up flamingo |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | JAZZ GREATS $400: This sax great's last public engagement was on March 5, 1955 at Birdland, a New York City club named for him Charlie ("Bird") Parker |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | OUR AVIAN FRIENDS $400: The claw of a bird of prey is known as one of these, from the Latin for "ankle bone" a talon |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | OUR AVIAN FRIENDS $800: The adjective "pinnate" means having the shape of one of these bird features a feather |
| #8578, aired 2022-02-16 | OUR AVIAN FRIENDS $2000: Like our hair & fingernails, a bird's beak is made out of this fibrous protein keratin |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | SPOT-IFY $800: Seen here, this bird is at the center of a battle between conservationists & the logging industry the (northern) spotted owl |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | FLOWER NAMES $400: Be at peace! The columbine gets its name from Latin for this bird a dove |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW $200: (Josh Clark reads the clue.) Sure, some birds can mimic speech, but Puck, this type of bird, like the one we're showing, knew more than 1,500 words, & that's a mouthful a parakeet |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING $1000: To complain, or a bird also known as the prairie chicken a grouse |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | THANKS VERMILION $1600: A bird name that seems redundant, the vermilion this is found in the drier northern parts of Venezuela & Colombia the vermilion cardinal |
| #8560, aired 2022-01-21 | BALDERDASH $200: In 1940 Congress said it's a crime to kill this bird a bald eagle |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | 4-LETTER BIRDS $400: On a chessboard, this European black bird would be worth about 5 pawns a rook |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | 4-LETTER BIRDS $800: The canyon species of this bird is small, brown & chubby & a sweet whistler wren |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | AMERICAN POETRY $600: In a Marianne Moore poem, "the lost battalion's gallant bird" is one of these title message carriers a carrier pigeon |
| #8545, aired 2021-12-31 | POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES $1200: A natural for the category, this John Singleton movie includes a cameo by Maya Angelou & features her work Poetic Justice |
| #8544, aired 2021-12-30 | PANTS $1000: This old-timey fashion choice ends with a word that can mean a type of bird pantaloons |
| #8536, aired 2021-12-20 | WE 5 "KING"s $600: As its name implies, this type of bird seen here dives into water to feed a kingfisher |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | POETIC OBJECTS $400: "A bird that stalks down his narrow" this "can seldom see through his bars of rage", wrote Maya Angelou cage |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | WORLD CITIES $2,000 (Daily Double): The name of this second-largest city in Wales starts with a big bird Swansea |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | 5 LETTERS, 4 VOWELS $400: A home on a high spot can be called this, just like the mountaintop nest of a bird of prey an aerie |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | IN A PREVIOUS LIFE $800: Around 1680 I was one of the last of this flightless bird; to add insult to injury, Dutch explorers called our meat repulsive a dodo |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | WORD ORIGINS $400: Malay gives us the name of this bird, known for its distinctive crest a cockatoo |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | SOME CREATURES GREAT & SMALL $1200: With feathers that look like quills sticking from its head, a predatory bird of Africa had this office worker name a secretarybird |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | RED $600: This longer name for the red crest on the head of the creature seen here mentions the type of bird it is a cockscomb |
| #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 |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | MYTHOLOGY $400: Hera honored her servant Argus by setting his eyes in the feathers of this, her sacred bird a peacock |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | BIRD BRAINS $400: On a "Nova" special, a bird easily beat 2 of these "French" dogs in a race to get food from a puzzle box poodles |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | BIRD BRAINS $600: Grackles have used pebbles to raise water levels & access floating food, passing a test named for one of this man's fables Aesop |
| #8491, aired 2021-10-18 | BIRD BRAINS $1,000 (Daily Double): Scientists think the corvids, including the American & carrion this, are the smartest of all birds a crow |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | "EYE" $400: This avian outlook refers to a viewpoint from a high angle a bird's-eye view |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | TALES OF HORROR $1000: Malorie takes her kids on a terrifying, blindfolded river trip in this Josh Malerman novel Bird Box |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | SOUTHERN LITERATURE $2000: Originally in a Savannah cemetery, a mysterious statue called "Bird Girl" appears on the cover of this John Berendt bestseller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
| #8477, aired 2021-09-28 | BOOKS FOR KIDS $200: This mouselike boy has an older brother named George & is friends with a bird named Margalo Stuart Little |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | A 9-LETTER "N"OUN $1200: Name shared by the first operational stealth aircraft & a nocturnal bird, their prey never sees either one coming Nighthawk |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | AMERICAN LAKES $800: In honor of a first lady with a famous nickname, Town Lake in Austin, Texas got this new 2-word name in 2007 Lady Bird |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING $200: A wading bird, or a machine with a hoisting arm at a construction site crane |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | NO EGRETS $400: This bird can beat its wings 70 times per second, but when it slows down, its body temperature can drop 50 degrees below its normal 104 a hummingbird |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | NO EGRETS $1000: The "P" is silent in the white-tailed this bird, but in courtship, a male's call is not; also, the red combs swell over its eyes ptarmigan |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | BOOKS FOR KIDS $600: A baby bird hatches alone & asks a dog, a hen & a kitten the title question of this classic book Are You My Mother? |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE $4,200 (Daily Double): The North Island brown is a variety of this flightless bird kiwi |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | MLB MASCOTS $600: Ace, a colorful bird whose genus name is Cyanocitta Toronto Blue Jays |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | BIRDING $1200: birdwatchingdaily.com listed this majestic endangered raptor as a North American bird birdwatchers most want to see a California condor |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | BIRDING $2000: For many birders, their pride & joy is this alliterative "list", a personal history of all bird species they've encountered a life list |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | WE NEED NEW YOGI BEARS $400: This very tall, talkative African gray bird is a tribute to a comic seen on "Everybody Loves Raymond" & "Single Parents" Brad Parrot |
| #8447, aired 2021-07-20 | WE NEED NEW YOGI BEARS $1000: Play with the first name of TV's Randall Pearson to get this new cartoon icon, a bird such as a mynah Starling K. Brown |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | TODAY I LEARNED $200: Thought to be extinct in 1912, an Australian nocturnal type of this bird was rediscovered in 2013; no word on if it wanted a cracker a parrot |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | RESISTING A REST $200: Just my luck--the North American yellow-bellied sapsucker is this kind of bird, & its noisy headbanging is keeping me up a woodpecker |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | ANIMALS $800: Sure, this Aussie mammal lays eggs like a bird, has a bill like a bird & dives under-water for 40 seconds, but flying? Nope! a platypus |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $800: Henry James told a tale of a dying heiress in "The Wings of" this bird the Dove |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | ROCK BANDS $600: The classic "Free Bird" by this southern rock group was a tribute to Duane Allman Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | FACE THE PERFORMER $800: Graham Greene got a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for playing Kicking Bird in this 1990 historical drama Dances with Wolves |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | LEMME PITCH THAT FOR YOU $400: For decades, Cocoa Puffs cereal has been repped by Sonny, this type of bird a cuckoo |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | CREATURE FROM $800: The bird seen here is called this city's warbler, great nickname for a country singer Nashville |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | BIRDS OF PRAY $1200: In the Koran a bird that could speak told this "wise" king & prophet it had come from Sheba with tidings Solomon |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | RECENT BOOKS $1200: 2020's "Malorie" is a sequel to this novel that was the basis for a Netflix movie starring a blindfolded Sandra Bullock Bird Box |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | THE BIRDS $600: This bird with up to 70 wingbeats per second camouflages its nest with lichens a hummingbird |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | ONE-SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES $1000: It can mean rapid, or a bird known for its rapid movement a swift |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: If you seem smug, you look like "the cat that ate" this bird a canary |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | WORD "OR"IGINS $2000: A branch of study, it first appeared in an 18th century work by a British bird lover ornithology |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | IN A TEACUP $1000: A house one of these birds enjoys some seeds & rest in a teacup bird feeder a finch |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES $1200: Don't be a birdbrain! Take wing with this fable by Richard Bach that has a bird in its title Jonathan Livingston Seagull |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | CHICKEN NUGGETS $2000: A domesticated fowl of Southeast Asia may be the ancestor of this official state bird of Rhode Island the red hen |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THROWING THE BOOK AT YOU $800: Father & daughter go out at night in a children's classic by Jane Yolen titled this bird "Moon" Owl Moon |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | FISHING FOR THE RIGHT WORD $200: A bird may stand on one--not the fish but something elevated like a branch a perch |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | BLUE'S CLUES $400: A stylized blue silhouette suggestive of a bird is the logo of this social media site Twitter |
| #8321, aired 2021-01-25 | TAEKWONDO $1000: (Zee James presents the clue.) Used for both offense & defense, the 1-legged stance, named for this wading bird, can be used to unleash a powerful side kick crane |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | WEATHER FORECAST INSIDE $1600: This bird is famous for its lovely song heard after dark a nightingale (a nightin-gale) |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | EARTH AT NIGHT IN COLOR $400: When the full moon gets too bright, an African owl named for this other mighty bird of prey, resorts to chasing its own prey on foot eagle |
| #8308, aired 2021-01-06 | 4,4 $400: This type of vessel offers some refreshment a bird bath |
| #8299, aired 2020-12-10 | LITERATURE TITLES BY LAST WORD $1200: A 1969 memoir: "Sings" I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | DOUBLE THE SAME VOWEL $1600: A word for the young of any bird begins the name of this bird a chickadee |
| #8291, aired 2020-11-30 | THE BIRDS & THE BEES $800: The peregrine species of this bird is known to dive at 200 miles per hour a falcon |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | COINS $400: It's slang for a $1 coin in Canada, a reference to the bird on the coin a loonie |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | JOHN BROWN $1200: John Brown had respect for & a close friendship with this orator seen in "The Good Lord Bird" & played by Daveed Diggs
"The conscience of the nation... must be roused." Frederick Douglass |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS $1200: A silhouette of this second-largest island kind of looks like a bird in flight New Guinea |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | ADD AN E $400: A word denoting vigor doubles its E to make the cry of a young bird pep & peep |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | AN(IMAL)AGRAMS $1600: Specific type of bird in a Stevie Nicks tune:
EVIDENT WHO WE DIG white-winged dove |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | HYBRIDS $2000: This mythic creature is a serpent with a bird's body; the real lizard of the same name can walk on water a basilisk |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | ANIMAL QUOTES $2000: Robert Frost rhymed, "The way" this bird / "Shook down on me / The dust of snow / From a hemlock tree" a crow |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | YES WE "CAN" $200: It's the bird seen here a canary |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: The name of this bird is from Maori for the shrill cry of the male bird kiwi |
| #8229, aired 2020-06-04 | WORLD FLAGS $2000: The endemic golden bosun bird adorns the flag of this Australian island territory named for the day of its discovery Christmas Island |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | IS IT BIGGER THAN A CHICKEN? $800: No--the bee variety of this is the world's smallest bird at only about 2 inches long a hummingbird |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | BIRDS OF PREY $400: Found in South America, the harpy is a crested variety of this bird of prey with a wingspan that can reach seven feet an eagle |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | POEMS $100 (Daily Double): Maya Angelou wrote that it "sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still" a caged bird |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | CONGRATULATIONS, GRADUATES! $400: We got you this bird as a pet! It's 300 lbs., has 2 toes per foot & runs 40 mph but relax! It can't fly & will love your studio apartment! an ostrich |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | SECOND... $1600: ...bird mentioned in "The 12 Days of Christmas" a turtledove |
| #8195, aired 2020-04-03 | HAVE YOU HEARD? $800: 99.7% of the energy from what this bird is doing here goes to its body & only 0.3% to its head a woodpecker |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | ANIMAL FACTS $400: The chicks of this tall wading bird are downy white & acquire pink plumage as they age a flamingo |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | GOLF $200: Bird word for 2 under par on a hole an eagle |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | BIRDIES $800: The Egyptian plover is also called this "bird", as it is known to clean food from the teeth of that reptile a crocodile bird |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | BIRDIES $1000: It's the flightless Aussie bird seen here a cassowary |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | RECENT EVENTS $200: In 2018 the skies got tougher for emotional support animals, like Dexter, this kind of bird rejected by United Airlines a peacock |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CONTINENTAL $1000: With a leg span of about 12 inches, the Goliath bird-eating spider is native to this continent South America |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | MONSTERS INK $400: In "the Hyperion Cantos", the shrike impales victims on a tree of thorns like the real-life shrike, this kind of creature a bird |
| #8169, aired 2020-02-27 | BEFORE SWINE $400: Rapid, or a rapid bird swift |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY $800: Sometimes depicted as a human head on a bird, the ba was this eternal part of a human a soul |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Australia's coat of arms has the kangaroo and this bird. Both symbolize the country's forward motion, as it's believed the animals don't like to move backwards an emu |
| #2, aired 2020-01-07 | TRIPLE RHYME TIME $800: A congenial game bird under glass as a gift a pleasant pheasant present |
| #8129, aired 2020-01-02 | "K"-9, -10 & -11 $1600: It's the insect-eating bird with a royal-sounding name, seen here a kingfisher |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | ANIMAL NAMES WITH LEWIS & CLARK $1200: Don't complain. Just name the sage type of this bird that Lewis & Clark called the heath cock a (greater) grouse |
| #8128, aired 2020-01-01 | ANIMAL NAMES WITH LEWIS & CLARK $2000: Lewis noted of the Lewis' type of this bird that the pointy tail helps it stay vertical against the tree trunk it's beaking a woodpecker |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | A CINDERELLA STORY $400: In the version compiled by these brothers in the 1800s, bird friends of Cinderella blind her 2 evil stepsisters Grimm |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | VOCABULARY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates using a long pole.) I'm holding a pole that's 7'9" to illustrate the distance between Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert's outstretched fingertips, also known by this bird term wingspan |
| #8109, aired 2019-12-05 | 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: In crossword puzzles, this state bird is often called a "Hawaiian goose" a nene |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | ENDS IN "SS" $1600: A poem says, "At length did cross" this bird, "Thorough the fog it came" an albatross |
| #8104, aired 2019-11-28 | PAMPAS $1000: This flightless South American bird, a relative to the ostrich, lives on the Pampas the rhea |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | WEIRD LEGAL NEWS $600: The BBC said in 2012 after a Sea World trip, Welsh tourists woke up hungover & "with (this type of) flightless bird in their apartment" a penguin |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | YOU'RE CREEPING ME OUT $200: An expectant mother probably wouldn't want the baby brought by the shoebill type of this bird a stork |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $800: Laugh maniacally as you realize the common one of these is Minnesota's state bird a loon |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | POETS & POETRY $200: In an ode, John Keats called this bird, renowned for its song, light-winged Dryad of the trees a nightingale |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | IDIOMS DELIGHT $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) On the interstate, it's 475 miles from Phoenix to Albuquerque. But it's only 330 miles via this bird idiom as the crow flies |
| #8080, aired 2019-10-25 | ANIMAL COMMUNITY $2000: Mud baths remove bugs from the Cape buffalo, & if that doesn't get them all, the cattle type of this white wading bird helps the egret |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | "T" BIRDS $400: It's the tropical bird seen here a toucan |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | "T" BIRDS $800: In 1784 Ben Franklin panned the bald eagle as a U.S. national symbol, preferring this bird instead the turkey |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | THIS SIDE OF PARODIES $1200: We follow not a baby bird but a young woman in "Are You My Boyfriend?", a twist on this 1960 kids' book Are You My Mother? |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | 6-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES $1200: Mimic mindlessly like a certain bird parrot |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $1200: Makemake is the chief god of a divine race of bird beings in the Rapa Nui mythology of this island Easter Island |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | I GRANT YOU 5 FISHES $400: Sharing a name with a colorful bird, this fish can change its sex during its life, but talking?--not so much parrot |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | KING JAMES BIBLE BIRDWATCHING $800: Psalms 84 says this bird built "a nest for herself" near the temple altar, not Capistrano a swallow |
| #8039, aired 2019-07-18 | NEW GROUP NAMES OF MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES $1600: A string of these foul-smelling bird/women monsters who meet Jason & the Argonauts harpies |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | FICTION $400: Near the end of this Ray Bradbury novel, a character talks about the phoenix, a mythical bird reborn from the ashes of fire Fahrenheit 451 |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | ART & ARTISTS $2000: Seen here is one in a series with this 3-word avian title by abstract sculptor Constantin Brancusi Bird in Space |
| #8035, aired 2019-07-12 | VOWEL FLOP $800: Hawaii's state bird swaps its vowels for A's & turns into this relative nana |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | A BIT OF LIT $2,000 (Daily Double): In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", the mariner shoots this bird with his crossbow the albatross |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | A BIT OF LIT $2000: Wallace Stevens titled a poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at" this bird a blackbird |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | PLANTS & FLOWERS $800: Crane flower is another name for this avian flower popular in Hawaii, California & Florida a bird-of-paradise |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | SNAKE, BIRD OR MONKEY $200: The adder a snake |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | SNAKE, BIRD OR MONKEY $400: The stilt a bird |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | SNAKE, BIRD OR MONKEY $600: The hognose a snake |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | SNAKE, BIRD OR MONKEY $800: The tamarin a monkey |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | SNAKE, BIRD OR MONKEY $1000: The killdeer a bird |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | BEHIND THE SCENES $600: The cry of the red-tailed hawk, heard here, is often dubbed in by movie sound designers for that of this majestic bird a bald eagle |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | LIGHT $200: Mitch in "A Streetcar Named Desire" knows his classic similes, telling Blanche she's "light as" this bird part a feather |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | "Q" $600: The California valley type of this is California's state bird a quail |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | FOR THE BIRDS $1600: A native Brazilian word is the source of the name of this tropical bird that has a large, brightly colored beak a toucan |
| #7959, aired 2019-03-28 | FOR THE BIRDS $4,000 (Daily Double): Sailors have long been superstitious about killing this bird, as reflected in a 1798 poem an albatross |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS $800: The bird in Twitter's logo has this 5-letter name, just like a Celtics legend Larry |
| #7954, aired 2019-03-21 | COIN STAR $200: This type of bird swims in a lake under a star-filled sky on a Canadian commemorative coin that glows in the dark a loon |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | THE DRY TORTUGAS $400: About a century after this naturalist visited Bird Key in 1832, a storm washed it off the map Audubon |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | AROUND THE PACIFIC $400: Also called the sea parrot, this diving bird lives in large colonies in the north Pacific a puffin |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | POETRY FILL-IN $2000: Carroll:
"Beware the jubjub bird, and shun the frumious ____!" bandersnatch |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS GREAT COMPOSERS $400: (Hershey Felder presents from the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.) Perhaps music's most famous motif is often said to represent fate knocking, but others attribute the opening of this work to the deaf Beethoven feeling the vibrations of a little bird tapping on a tree Beethoven's 5th |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | BRANDIMALS $800: Since 1989 this elegant bird has been the logo of Swarovski crystal a swan |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | ANIMAL FAKERS $600: Despite its name, this bird of prey is not follicly challenged; its head is covered by white feathers, as is its tail a bald eagle |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | BUGS BUNNY CARTOONS $600: Usually chasing a fast-moving bird, this character pursues Bugs in "To Hare is Human" Wile E. Coyote |
| #7924, aired 2019-02-07 | EASY LISTENING $600: This Five for Fighting song that says, "I'm more than a bird, I'm more than a plane" is subtitled "It's Not Easy" "Superman" |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | BRAND MASCOTS $800: This bird with a long, colorful bill: Froot Loops Toucan Sam |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | A BIRD $400: In "The Third Man", Orson Welles says Switzerland's 500 years of peace & democracy only produced this timepiece the cuckoo clock |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | A BIRD $1200: In the song "The 12 Days Of Christmas", it's the largest group of birds given on a single day, the seventh swans (a-swimming) |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | A BIRD $1600: This PBS bird has a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame Big Bird |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | A BIRD $2000: This man's 414 B.C. comedy "The Birds" features a chorus of them that directly addresses the audience Aristophanes |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | WORDS FROM THE MALAY $2000: This flightless bird of Asia can sprint up to 30 miles an hour a cassowary |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | A BIRD $3,000 (Daily Double): Lewis Carroll included himself in Wonderland as this bird--a childhood nickname he got for stuttering his real last name a dodo |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | GOING TO SEE AMMAN $1600: I'll visit a bird garden to see the national bird, a rosefinch named for its habitat on this Biblical peak Mount Sinai |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | UNUSUAL-LOOKING ANIMALS $1200: The griffon species of this bird has a featherless head, perhaps to keep blood from matting while eating a carcass a vulture |
| #7877, aired 2018-12-04 | IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS $400: It's not a partridge in a pear tree, but rather this 5-letter bird in a cherry tree a quail |
| #7865, aired 2018-11-16 | CHECK ONE TWO $200: Proverbially, "a bird in the hand is worth 2 in" here the bush |
| #7852, aired 2018-10-30 | ETYMOLOGY $800: The "pied" in "pied piper" meant he dressed in multicolored clothing, like this bird, "pie" for short a magpie |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | YOU GO NORWAY $1200: 3' tall Nills Olav does his duty as hon. brigadier of the Norwegian king's guard from a zoo, as he's this bird a penguin |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | SEEN ON MY WALK TODAY $600: Could it be? It is! The house species of this bird, & so early in the season a sparrow |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | ROOST-ERS $200: This bird found a roosting spot that fits the bill it's famous for a pelican |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | ROOST-ERS $400: Africa's quelea, whose swarms break branches roosting, is AKA this "bird", after a pestilential grasshopper locust |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | ROOST-ERS $1000: The chimney type of this swallow-like bird both nests & roosts in chimneys a swift |
| #7841, aired 2018-10-15 | THE 5 Ws IN THE BOOKSTORE $1200: "When the Game was Ours" is a co-memoir of pro basketball by this Laker & this Celtic who battled in the 1980s Larry Bird and Magic Johnson |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: A type of bird is in this phrase for an exaggerated expression made for a selfie a duck face |
| #7833, aired 2018-10-03 | FROM THE DUTCH $800: This word for an artificial bird used as a lure by a hunter is from the Dutch for "cage" a decoy |
| #7832, aired 2018-10-02 | AT THE ZOO $200: The zoo in Wellington, New Zealand works to preserve this national bird & other endangered native animals a kiwi |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | GALAPAGOS: PLANTS & ANIMALS $1,200 (Daily Double): (Alex presents from the Galapagos Islands.) "Darwin's finches writ large" is how Carl Safina describes this soaring bird; the waved type here in the Galapagos is the only truly tropical type, & it has evolved distinct markings that help provide its name the albatross |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | QROSSWORD QLUES "Q" $200: Little game bird
(5) a quail |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | PSA MASCOTS $800: From one of this owl's songs:
"Never be a dirty bird; in the city or in the woods, help keep America looking good" Woodsy Owl |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY THAT I WROTE $800: The title of this memoir by Maya Angleou comes from a poem that says, "When he beats his bars and he would be free" I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| #7799, aired 2018-07-05 | "L"AKES $400: Lakes all over the U.S. are named for this bird with an eerie call; E.L. Doctorow wrote a novel set at one in the Adirondacks a loon |
| #7796, aired 2018-07-02 | SHAKESPEAREAN MENAGERIE $2000: In a Shakespeare poem, this bird of fable is paired with a turtle(dove) the phoenix |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS $1600: It may be a myth that the bull type of this bird was named for its thick neck, but that's the guess the finch |
| #7784, aired 2018-06-14 | POLAR EXPLORATION $800: Britain's Natural History Museum houses an egg collected in Antarctica in 1911 from this "royal" bird the emperor penguin |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $800: This speedy southwestern bird of Warner Bros. fame enjoys a good dust bath the roadrunner |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | MIND YOUR "P"s & "Q"s $400: A large bird feather used as a writing implement in centuries past a quill or pen |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | GIVE US THE BIRD $1600: You're out of luck if you're looking for the Bahia rufous-vented ground-this to tell you what time it is a cuckoo |
| #7767, aired 2018-05-22 | GARDENING $1600: This flower with an avian name is a colorful addition to any garden a bird-of-paradise |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | VIRUSES $600: The St. Louis encephalitis virus is transmitted in a cycle of bird to this insect to bird mosquito |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | FLAPPERS $400: With males growing to over 5 feet, the world's tallest flying bird is the sarus species of this a crane |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | FLAPPERS $600: When it dives, this species of falcon goes faster than any other bird a peregrine falcon |
| #7757, aired 2018-05-08 | FLAPPERS $800: Found in the northern U.S. during winter, it's the bird seen here making a touchdown the snowy owl |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | NATURE $800: The Queen Alexandra's birdwing of Papua New Guinea isn't a bird at all but the world's largest one of these a butterfly |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | DOUBLE "L" WORDS $2000: This bird is often hard to spot, but its song is easy to recognize a whippoorwill |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | SPITTING $600: This Chinese dish is made from the hardened spittle of a cave-dwelling swiftlet bird's nest soup |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | MYTH-POURRI $800: Named for a mythical bird, Garuda is appropriately the Indonesian national this enterprise an airline |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS $400: Named Best Musical or Comedy film in 2018, it stars Saoirse Ronan as a willful teenager, & don't call it "Christine"! Lady Bird |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | SAN CITY, CALIFORNIA $800: This type of bird famously returns to city of San Juan Capistrano each year in March a swallow |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD ME... $400: This canary puts up with a "bad ol' puddy tat"--Sylvester Tweety Bird |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD ME... $1,500 (Daily Double): In Rossini's opera "La Gazza Ladra", a maid is accused of stealing silver, but the real thief turns out to be this title bird a magpie |
| #7725, aired 2018-03-23 | CHARACTERS WHO DON'T TALK MUCH $400: "Overconfidentii vulgaris" was a cartoon coyote's scientific name; this bird was "Disappearialis quickius" Roadrunner |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | FULL SENTENCE LITERARY TITLES $1200: It's the avian title of Maya Angelou's first in a series of autobiographical works I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | PERFECT RESPONSES FOR JEOPARDY! $800: It's the title question of P.D. Eastman's classic kids' book featuring a just-hatched baby bird Are You My Mother? |
| #7710, aired 2018-03-02 | SCULPTURE $2000: His "Bird in Space" was the subject of a court case after U.S. customs officials deemed it an industrial part & not a sculpture Constantin Brancusi |
| #7687, aired 2018-01-30 | EVERY YEAR $2000: On its 50,000-mile annual migration, the Arctic variety of this bird travels between the North & South Poles a tern |
| #7680, aired 2018-01-19 | THE BOSTON TANGLER $600: In the 1987 Eastern Conference finals, this Celtic legend & 3-time league MVP had a piston-punchin' good time with Bill Laimbeer Larry Bird |
| #7679, aired 2018-01-18 | MOVIE SPOILERS $400: The "bird" sought by Kasper Gutman & others in this Bogart film turns out to be a fake The Maltese Falcon |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | STATE SEALS $400: This bird feeds its young on Louisiana's seal a pelican |
| #7659, aired 2017-12-21 | MONGOLIAN $800: Daisy Ridley narrated the feel-good Mongolia movie of 2016, about a girl learning to hunt using this bird golden eagle |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | ANIMALS IN COMPETITION $200: Bawck! At the 2016 Natl. Bird Show, this made up Division 12! Bawck! At the 2016 Natl. Bird Show, this made up Division 12! a parrot |
| #7646, aired 2017-12-04 | LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $800: (Hi, I'm Mark Allan from WDTN.) In his poem "Sympathy", Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote "I know why the caged bird sings"... giving this other African-American poet the title of her 1969 memoir (Maya) Angelou |
| #7642, aired 2017-11-28 | KNOTTY BY NATURE $1200: (Sarah shows a bird on the monitor.) A type of sandpiper, the red knot, makes its nest in the Arctic tundra, migrating 9,300 miles from its winter home at the southern tip of Argentina in this fiery province Tierra del Fuego |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | LINE CRAFT $1,100 (Daily Double): Picasso made many line drawings of this bird whose Spanish name Paloma he gave to one of his daughters a dove |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | FAIRY TALES $2,000 (Daily Double): An ailing Chinese emperor tells this bird, you have "banished death from my heart, with your sweet song" a nightingale |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | THE PLAY'S THE THING $1600: Look! Up in the sky! It's not a bird or a plane, but it is this 1905 George Bernard Shaw play about humanity & God! Man and Superman |
| #7616, aired 2017-10-23 | BIRDS OF A FEATHER $400: The state bird for 7 states, it shares its name with a senior position in the Catholic church a cardinal |
| #7615, aired 2017-10-20 | "HAL" $1600: Found before "days", this word meaning "peaceful" also refers to a mythical bird halcyon |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | INVENTION & DISCOVERY $1200: A 2010 discovery about the protein ovocleidin-17 may hold the key to this age-old question (it's the bird) Who came first, the chicken or the egg? |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | NAUGHTY BY NATURE $400: Don't curse the yellow-bellied sapsucker, a type of this bird; he isn't trying to make your headache worse woodpecker |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | IT'S A BIRD $200: This 4-letter word for a common seabird is an old synonym for deceive or cheat gull |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | IT'S A BIRD $400: The duck hawk, or peregrine type of this bird, is used in a game-hunting sport the falcon |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | IT'S A BIRD $600: Leach's & Wilson's are among the "storm" types of this bird a petrel |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | IT'S A BIRD $800: These tropical eagles are named for a woman-bird hybrid of Greek mythology a harpy |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | IT'S A BIRD $1000: The North American species of this huge bird has a great scientific name: Gymnogyps californiaus the California condor |
| #7595, aired 2017-09-22 | KIDDY LIT $400: He hatches the egg of Mayzie, a lazy, good-for-nothing bird who flies off to Palm Beach Horton |
| #7586, aired 2017-09-11 | NICKNAMES $2000: Alexander Pope's nicknames include "The Bard of Twickenham" & "The Sweet" this bird "of Thames" The Sweet Swan of Thames |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | TAILS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC $400: A bird called the megapode is distinctive in doing this to eggs not with body heat but using solar or geothermal energy keeping them warm (or hatching or incubating them) |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | "G", WE LOVE ART $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) In Christian art, a basket of fruit represents the circle of life, death & resurrection, while this yellow bird symbolizes the Passion of Christ because it fed on thorns & thistles a goldfinch |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | AVIAN POETRY $400: "A wonderful bird is" this, "his bill will hold more than his belican" a pelican |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | AVIAN POETRY $600: When first seen, this title bird was "perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door" the raven |
| #7574, aired 2017-07-13 | AVIAN POETRY $1000: John Keats called this bird immortal; "Thou wast not born for death" a nightingale |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | CENTRAL AMERICA $1600: A reserve was set aside for this national bird of Guatemala; right on "Q"! quetzal |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | ALLITERATION $600: Idiom meaning no longer existing, like that extinct bird from Mauritius dead as a dodo |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | AN AVIAN CATEGORY $400: This brand of beauty bar has a bird in flight imprinted on it Dove |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | AN AVIAN CATEGORY $2000: The constellation Pavo represents this showy bird a peacock |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | SUPERSTITION $400: Whoever eats this "silly" bird "on Michaelmas Day, shall never lack money his debts to pay" a goose |
| #7553, aired 2017-06-14 | SIMILES $800: Under questioning, the suspect "sang like" this cage bird, perhaps the Hartz Mountain type a canary |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | DIFFERING BY ONE LETTER $400: To deaden sound & to disturb a bird's feathers muffle and ruffle |
| #7545, aired 2017-06-02 | SPEAKING "FRENCH" $1000: Larry Bird called himself a "hick from" this Indiana town French Lick |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1805 Lewis & Clark named a Mussellshell River tributary "Bird Woman's River" in her honor Sacagawea |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | MASTERS OF DISGUISE $800: This bird (really Zeus) seduced Leda, leading to the birth of Helen a swan |
| #7500, aired 2017-03-31 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: A little bird told me that this Kristin Hannah novel is the story of 2 French sisters living through World War II The Nightingale |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | SUMMING UP OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE $800: The title character hangs out with Kicking Bird & Stands with a Fist Dances with Wolves |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | SOUTH AMERICA $1200: Gauchos fear the charge of this flightless bird that's been called the South American ostrich a rhea |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: Name shared by the decorative device & the bird seen here a nutcracker |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | RENTING A CAR $1000: Bird lovers will love this car rental company whose name is also the Latin for "bird" Avis |
| #7461, aired 2017-02-06 | HARD "G" $1200: There's a ruffed type of this game bird a grouse |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | VIRGINIA FLORA & FAUNA $800: One of the state's rarest, the red-cockaded type of this bird is making a comeback from the endangered list woodpecker |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | AUSTRALIANA $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) Equal in size & volume to about 10 chicken eggs & dark green in color which helps camouflage it in a nest of grass & leaves, one of the largest bird eggs belongs to this big bird of Australia an emu |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | IN THE DICTIONARY $1,000 (Daily Double): Its definition as a burden is derived from a Coleridge poem the albatross |
| #7424, aired 2016-12-15 | TAILS $800: The size of a large turkey, this extinct bird from Mauritius had a tuftlike tail with curly feathers the dodo |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | 1-CONSONANT WORDS $800: A bird of prey's nest an aerie |
| #7408, aired 2016-11-23 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $800: Found in "Macbeth", "at one" this refers to the action of a bird of prey at one fell swoop |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | THE RHYMES OF LIFE & LOVE $400: This bird is an emblem of peace a dove |
| #7403, aired 2016-11-16 | ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES $800: A noisy bird a jay |
| #7401, aired 2016-11-14 | ON MY REEDING LIST $400: "The Seasons" by Haydn, in which the oboe imitates the crowing of this barnyard bird a rooster |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | NOTABLE TEENS $2000: As a teen, this "Birds of America" artist conducted the first bird-banding on the continent by using thread Audubon |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | EMPTY NEST $400: The nest of this long-legged bird is seen here, & looks big enough to store a few babies for delivery a stork |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | STATE BIRDS $400: This orange & black state bird of Maryland is also called a Firebird or golden robin the Baltimore oriole |
| #7378, aired 2016-10-12 | IN CONCLUSION $1000: On Sept. 1, 1914 Martha, the last known living bird of this species, died at the Cincinnati Zoo a passenger pigeon |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | WORLD AIRPORTS $800: Resembling a bird about to take off, the terminal at Bilbao airport is nicknamed "La Paloma", Spanish for this a dove |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | LUCK OF THE DRAW $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates by drawing a bird.) To draw in this liberated style means without support or the guidance of instruments freehand |
| #7343, aired 2016-07-13 | BEFORE THEY WERE FIRST LADIES $800: In 1942 she invested in a small Austin, Texas radio station, which she turned into a communications empire Lady Bird Johnson |
| #7340, aired 2016-07-08 | SAY IT IN SWEDISH $2000: Fågel means this type of creature a bird |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | SHOW YOUR COLLEGE COLORS $400: This nickname for Stanford refers to one of the school's official colors (not a bird) & is therefore singular Cardinal |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | DIRTY BIRDS $1000: Yeah, baby! This "C" bird that produces guano, valued as fertilizer, is also called a shag the cormorant |
| #7311, aired 2016-05-30 | NFL TEAM NAMES $400: They weren't named for a beautiful bird but for used reddish jerseys purchased from a college the Cardinals |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | A HARRY POTTER BESTIARY $1000: A sort of combination bird & horse, Buckbeak is one of these magical creatures a hippogriff |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $2,000 (Daily Double): During their trip around S. America, Magellan's crew saw new creatures including this bird they called a black goose a penguin |
| #7287, aired 2016-04-26 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2000: This Alaskan island group named for a Russian trader has more than 200 bird species in addition to its famous fur seals the Pribilof Islands |
| #7286, aired 2016-04-25 | MUSIC CITIES, USA $1200: Stevie Ray Vaughan was one of this city's music legends, & a statue of him stands on the shores of its Lady Bird Lake Austin |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | EXTINCT CREATURES $200: This flightless 50-pound bird from Mauritius laid its sole egg on the ground, so extinction? Not much of a surprise the dodo |
| #7282, aired 2016-04-19 | EXTINCT CREATURES $600: This alliterative bird seen here could no longer be seen alive after the early 20th century a passenger pigeon |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $800: This first memoir of Maya Angelou became a bestseller I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $400: You might be "happy as" this bird whose name also means a merry, carefree adventure a lark |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $600: Something that serves as a warning to others is this bird "in a coal mine" a canary |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $1000: In carpentry, it's a type of joint, leading to its other meaning of "fit together harmoniously" dovetail |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | SENSORY LIT $1600: The fates of an aging film actress & a young hustler take flight in this playwright's "Sweet Bird of Youth" (Tennessee) Williams |
| #7262, aired 2016-03-22 | DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE! $400: It's the alliterative bird doing its thing here diving duck |
| #7242, aired 2016-02-23 | MYTHOLOGICAL BEASTS $400: Cygnus, king of Liguria, dove into a river & was transformed into this bird a swan |
| #7237, aired 2016-02-16 | FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $2000: This large bird of New Guinea has a casque, or helmet, made of a spongelike material covered with keratin a cassowary |
| #7233, aired 2016-02-10 | LIKE A SIMILE $600: That plan is "as dead as" this flightless bird that went extinct around 1680 a dodo |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | STAMPS $1600: The Coastal Birds postcard stamp set includes this wading bird that's named for a prominent facial feature the spoonbill |
| #7230, aired 2016-02-05 | FLORIDA & FAUNA $1600: You will always remember this as the day that you almost caught the Cape Sable seaside this bird a sparrow |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | IT'S A "WR"AP $400: South Carolina's state bird is the Carolina variety of this small flyer a wren |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | LONG-LIVED CREATURES $3,000 (Daily Double): Defying a Coleridge poem, this type of bird was 64 when she laid an egg in 2015 an albatross |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | DOUBLE ANIMAL NAMES $400: A canine trained to retrieve fallen avian creatures, or a person who steals another person's date a bird dog |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | THE SQUIRREL FAMILY $1000: This creature mentioned in one of North Dakota's nicknames is a ground squirrel, not a bird flickertail |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | MOVIE CAMEOS $200: (Dan Patrick reads the clue.) My good friend Adam Sandler has cast me in 9 of his films, including "Grown Ups 2" in which I played a gym teacher dressed as this 1980s Celtics legend Larry Bird |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE ROMANTIC POETS $800: Keats was inspired to write an ode to this bird by the song of one that nested in Charles Brown's garden a nightingale |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | POST GAME $200: A long look, or the male bird you're taking a long look at a gander |
| #7185, aired 2015-12-04 | GARDENS $2,000 (Daily Double): Befitting the name, Pennsylvania's Chanticleer Gardens feature design motifs of this bird a rooster |
| #7180, aired 2015-11-27 | AS THE CROW FLIES $400: Crows belong to the genus Corvus, as does this larger, thicker-billed bird, C. corax a raven |
| #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 | WITHIN THE FICTIONAL PLANET $2000: A flightless bird in the Coneheads' planet emu (in Remulak) |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | ADD AN "E" $2000: This shoelace sheath becomes a young bird when an "E" is placed at the front aglet |
| #7173, aired 2015-11-18 | NATIONAL PHRASES $400: "And when I awoke I was alone; this bird had flown / So I lit a fire, isn't it good" this title "Norwegian Wood" |
| #7153, aired 2015-10-21 | NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS $600: You can adopt a bird to support the conservation society named for this ornithologist & painter of birds Audubon |
| #7152, aired 2015-10-20 | EVERY OTHER LETTER IS O $2000: The high-pitched voice of this ape may sound like a bird's the bonobo |
| #7139, aired 2015-10-01 | BLUE BIRDS $400: The smallest species of this bird, the fairy or little blue, nests in burrows, not in the ice & snow a penguin |
| #7139, aired 2015-10-01 | BLUE BIRDS $800: As well as the great blue, there is a little blue type of this long-legged wading bird a heron |
| #7139, aired 2015-10-01 | BLUE BIRDS $1000: The blue bird seen here is Steller's this, noted for its beautiful plumage & harsh call a jay |
| #7132, aired 2015-09-22 | LOGOS $1200: This NFL team's logo features a purple bird's head with a gold letter "B" on it the Baltimore Ravens |
| #7132, aired 2015-09-22 | LOGOS $2000: The logo of Papyrus cards & stationery stores includes this type of bird a hummingbird |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | STARTS WITH AN ANIMAL $400: No relation to the sea bird, it describes a person who is easily deceived or duped gullible |
| #7113, aired 2015-07-15 | SHOW YOUR METAL IN POP CULTURE $400: Brad Bird directed a 1999 animated film about this giant the Iron Giant |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | LEND ME YOUR EARS $400: Two very different types of this bird are heard here a woodpecker |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's believed that Shakespeare introduced this phrase meaning a hopeless quest a wild-goose chase |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $400: It's the field of vision from a high altitude, allowing you to see a wide area a bird's-eye view |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $800: An absurd tale passed off as being true, it combines a bird & a bovine a cock-and-bull story |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | BIRD WORDS & PHRASES $1000: It can be slang for a woman singer, a sweet white wine or a stool pigeon a canary |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | NBA ALL-STARS $800: 12 times from 1980 to 1992:
This "Hick" of a Celtic Larry Bird |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | RHYME TIME $2000: The bird Alauda arvensis singing in urban green space a park lark |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES $1200: This Montana tribe that shares its name with a black bird calls itself Apsaalooke, or "children of the large-beaked bird" Crow |
| #7074, aired 2015-05-21 | PLACE NAMES $2000: This largest New Zealand city is named for a First Lord of the Admiralty, not a diving bird Auckland |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | AMERICA'S GOT TALONS $200: We'll give you no quarter if you can't figure out this bird's identity a bald eagle |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | AMERICA'S GOT TALONS $400: Talons are one of the things necessary to be a bird of prey, aka this, from the Latin for "to carry off" a raptor |
| #7064, aired 2015-05-07 | AMERICA'S GOT TALONS $600: The red-tailed type of this bird is seen here; if the cameraman is a mouse, he's in trouble a hawk |
| #7063, aired 2015-05-06 | 9-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's a young bird that has recently acquired its flight feathers fledgling |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | ACTORS PLAYING ACTORS $1200: Look, up on the screen! it's a bird! it's a plane! it's "Argo" man, this actor, as George Reeves in "hollywoodland" Ben Affleck |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN MY DICTIONARY $1000: The bird seen here, or a chatterbox a magpie |
| #7052, aired 2015-04-21 | THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN MY DICTIONARY $1,400 (Daily Double): This bird whose name also means "of prime importance" can precede "virtue" cardinal |
| #7046, aired 2015-04-13 | BOOK SYNOPSES $1200: 13-year-old Theo Decker steals a painting of a yellow bird from a museum The Goldfinch |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | MONSTER MANUAL $1600: It had a woman's head & a bird's body & met up with the Argonauts; c'mon get... a harpy |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | ALL THINGS GOLDEN $200: In a fable, a farmer discovers that this bird lays golden eggs a hen (or a goose) |
| #7010, aired 2015-02-20 | SMALL STUFF $600: The smallest bird egg comes, of course, from the Vervain one of these a hummingbird |
| #7007, aired 2015-02-17 | NFL TEAM MASCOTS $600: A big bird named Big Red the Arizona Cardinals |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | NON-FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE $400: Poe-etically, this type of bird carries messages to & fro on "Game of Thrones" a raven |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $400: In Europe this bird may sit beside a babbling brook rook (in brook) |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $800: I saw this bird in my backyard in Andover dove (in Andover) |
| #6998, aired 2015-02-04 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $1000: The Percheron is a large horse; this is a large bird heron (in Percheron) |
| #6987, aired 2015-01-20 | DEAD POETS $1200: "A bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage" Maya Angelou |
| #6981, aired 2015-01-12 | PROCESS OF "L-M-N"ATION $400: Think pink & name this web-footed bird up to 5 feet tall a flamingo |
| #6978, aired 2015-01-07 | BIOLOGY $1200: A bird's crop is an expanded area of this muscular tube that serves as a temporary storage area for food the esophagus |
| #6977, aired 2015-01-06 | WATCH THE BIRDIE $400: This third president, an early bird-watcher, kept a bird that he would let fly around his office Jefferson |
| #6977, aired 2015-01-06 | WATCH THE BIRDIE $1000: Gracie Lantz provided this bird's voice, but Mel Blanc originated the "Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" laugh Woody Woodpecker |
| #6971, aired 2014-12-29 | NOVELS BY CHAPTER $600: Set in the 15th century, but written in the 19th:
"A Bird's Eye View of Paris" The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | PARKS $800: The New Orleans park named for this artist & naturalist has a rookery on Bird Island Audubon |
| #6956, aired 2014-12-08 | ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER $200: A wild canine & a type of domesticated bird it might enjoy wolf & fowl |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | WORLD LITERATURE $2000: The 7 voyages of this sailor bring him many perils, like being carried by a giant bird, the ROC Sinbad |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | AMERICANA $200: The America the Beautiful quarter that honors this Florida national park shows a bird with outstretched wings the Everglades |
| #6940, aired 2014-11-14 | FURNITURE $1200: A little bird gave us this term for the space-saving furniture seen here nesting tables |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | THE PSILENT LETTER $1600: The state bird of Alaska, the willow this, has feathers on its feet a ptarmigan |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | LEGO ART $1600: A prominent skateboarder commissioned this bird hawk |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | FROM THE SPANISH $600: The Chilean type of this bird has a pink band on each of its long legs a flamingo |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ANCIENT COINS $1600: A tetradrachm from 5th century B.C. Athens depicts Athena wearing a helmet on one side & this bird on the other the owl |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | ANIMALS OF THE AMAZON $800: This colorful bird's large bill, which may reach 8 inches in length, helps regulate its body temperature a toucan |
| #6899, aired 2014-09-18 | SCIENCE OF THE SKIES $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) The ballistics impact lab fires a simulated bird made of gelatin at high speed to study & mitigate events like Captain Sullenberger's 2009 river landing, where a flock of these knocked out both engines Canada geese |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | THE HUNT IS ON! $1600: Haliaeetus leucocephalus, this big American bird, is known to bully osprey off their catches the bald eagle |
| #6891, aired 2014-07-28 | FOOD, FAST & SLOW $600: This "pudgy" turkey company's website says a stuffed 25-pound bird can take more than 6 hours to cook Butterball |
| #6888, aired 2014-07-23 | TAKING A VIDEO GAME BREAK $400: In February 2014 this addictive game about a little winged creature was taken down by its developer Flappy Bird |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | IT'S A BIRD $200: Bellicose 19th century southerners like Henry Clay were called war these hawks |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | IT'S A BIRD $400: Aka the pilomotor reflex, it's skin's response to cold or emotional stress goosebumps |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | IT'S A BIRD $600: This term meaning to rigidly categorize comes from small desk compartments pigeonhole |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | IT'S A BIRD $800: It's a number like 2 or 7, as opposed to 2nd or 7th cardinal |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | IT'S A BIRD $1000: Before it was a Marx Brothers film title, it meant something easy to do duck soup |
| #6875, aired 2014-07-04 | NATIONAL ANIMALS $3,600 (Daily Double): There are no photographs, only illustrations of this symbol of Mauritius a dodo (bird) |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | BEASTLY VOCABULARY $400: A protective spine of a porcupine, or a stiff tail feather of a bird used as a pen a quill |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | WINGED THINGS $1200: The name of the Aztec war god Huitzilopochtli may derive from a word for this tiny bird of the Americas hummingbird |
| #6866, aired 2014-06-23 | WINGED THINGS $2000: In Egyptian mythology, the god Horus has the head of a falcon; the god Thoth has the head of this wading bird the ibis |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | BIRD ORIGINS $800: You're in bad shape if you look up & see this type of vulture with a name from the Old French for "lesser hawk" buzzard |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | BIRD ORIGINS $2000: The name of this crested parrot may come from a Malay word meaning "older brother" cockatoo |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | HISTORIC PEOPLE IN ART $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) The so-called Pelican Portrait was named for the bird on the brooch, a symbol of motherhood, as it was believed it fed its young with its own blood, just as this woman sacrificed for her country Elizabeth I |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | YOU'RE A 3-LETTER ANIMAL $1600: This flightless Australian bird can be more than 5 feet tall an emu |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | YOU'RE A 3-LETTER ANIMAL $2000: Also known as an alcid, this sea bird looks & behaves like a penguin but can fly an auk |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | THE ANIMAL IN THE LOGO $200: Twitter a bird |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | POETIC LINES $1600: "Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!... the voice I hear this passing night was heard in ancient days" "Ode to a Nightingale" |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | ASIAN HISTORY $1000: Built for the emperor Shah Jahan, this throne named for a bird was stolen in 1739 by the Persians, who then lost it the Peacock Throne |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | ALL GONE $400: We give a hoot that the whekau, or laughing this bird of New Zealand, laughs no more an owl |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | WINGS $200: An official state bird, the Rhode Island Red is one of these a chicken |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | WINGS $400: Yes, Atticus, the delicately handled bird here is one of these a finch |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS $600: Though the emu is taller, this relative is the heaviest bird in Australia a cassowary |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | THE SOUTH $600: In 78 years Pat Peacock is the only woman to win the Arkansas contest for calling this other bird a duck |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | MULTIPLE MEANINGS $2,000 (Daily Double): A long-billed game bird, or to shoot at something from a hidden position snipe |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | IT WAS AN ACCIDENT $200: What may be the first air disaster came in 1785 when a fire ensued after one of these hit a chimney in Tullamore, Ireland hot air balloon |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | TWEETING $200: You might think we're crazy to play the song of this bird a cuckoo |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | TWEETING $600: The wing noise tells you it's this bird a hummingbird |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | TWEETING $800: The somewhat disturbing call of this bird is heard here a loon |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | POULTRY IN MOTION $400: A real trumpet is used by E.B. White's title fowl in the story called "The Trumpet of" this bird the swan |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | A BIRD IN THE HAND $400: It's the bird
in the hands here; Hans Christian Andersen wrote of an ugly one a duckling |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | A BIRD IN THE HAND $800: That's not
a chick in the hand, but this bird with a longer name a chickadee |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | A BIRD IN THE HAND $1200: On its leg, the bird is undergoing this zoological process, also called ringing banding |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | A BIRD IN THE HAND $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Alaska.) The feet of the Harlan's red-tailed hawk are protected from struggling prey because their talons are bone encased in a sheath of this hard protein keratin |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | A BIRD IN THE HAND $2000: The bird in the hand here is the sun type of this small parrot a parakeet |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | NATURE $2,800 (Daily Double): A type of warship, or a soaring bird with a nearly 8-foot wingspan that might follow it a frigate |
| #6784, aired 2014-02-27 | STATE BIRDS $1200: Texas adopted this mimic as its state bird in 1927; Tennessee mimicked the pick in 1933 a mockingbird |
| #6763, aired 2014-01-29 | OFFICIAL STATE THINGS $1200: John James Audubon declared the ruffed type of this, Pennsylvania's state bird, delicious a grouse |
| #6761, aired 2014-01-27 | THINGS THAT ARE YELLOW $600: Varieties of this yellow cage bird include Norwich & Dutch frill a canary |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | MASCOTS $400: The operating system Linux has this type of bird as its mascot, appropriately named Tux a penguin |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES $1600: At the end of its life cycle, this mythical bird builds a nest of aromatic twigs that it then ignites phoenix |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | DESERT LIFE $800: The California fuchsia, a trumpet-shaped flower found in the desert, is often pollinated by this tiny bird a hummingbird |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | HAVE A DRINK $800: Ads for this Kentucky bourbon say, "Give 'em the Bird" Wild Turkey |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | ALSO A BOWLING TERM $1000: Beltsville Small White, White Holland & Bourbon Red are varieties of this largest North American game bird a turkey |
| #6721, aired 2013-12-02 | A CHRISTMAS STORY $600: In a Christmas story by Berkeley Breathed, Opus, this type of bird, makes "a wish for wings that work" a penguin |
| #6721, aired 2013-12-02 | ANIMAL IMPOSTORS $1200: Don't feed cheese to a titmouse, silly! a titmouse is one of these a bird |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | ENRAPTURED WITH RAPTORS $800: A toy on a string was named after this bird of prey because it hovers in the air in the same way a kite |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | ALL YOU NEED IS "OVE" $200: Bird of the Columbidae family a dove |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | MEDICAL TALK $2000: A little bird told us smoking or dentures can cause this most common fungal infection of the mouth & throat thrush |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | A PASSAGE TO INDIANA $800: Larry Bird ought to know that this Indiana town got its name from its early settlers & salty mineral deposits French Lick |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | ANIMAL VERBS $400: As a noun, it's a chickenlike game bird; as a verb, it means to complain or grumble grouse |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED $200: In 2007 this bird was removed from the U.S. threatened & endangered species list; nice, with it being a natl. symbol & all a bald eagle |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | WELL, I'M WARM-BLOODED $1000: Melospiza melodia is the song type of this small, common brown bird a sparrow |
| #6684, aired 2013-10-10 | AMERICAN ISLANDS $1200: A wide variety of species inhabit Rhode Island's bird sanctuaries like Prudence Island's in this bay Narragansett Bay |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | BRITISH ROYAL RESIDENCES $600 (Daily Double): In 1886 a loft for this type of bird was built at Sandringham House; birds from the loft later saw service in WWII a carrier pigeon |
| #6671, aired 2013-09-23 | DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the collarlike projection of feathers around the neck of a bird a ruff (a ruffle accepted) |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | IF ONLY I COULD TELL THEM $400: Hey, sailors who saw this 50-pound flightless bird around 1500-take it back to Europe & breed it or it'll be extinct by 1700 a dodo |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | ANIMALS IN POETRY $2000: Coleridge, not Poe, wrote a poem with the question "Where then did" this bird "go?" a raven |
| #6652, aired 2013-07-16 | ANIMAL IDENTITY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a photo of a Cardinal bird with unusual markings.) The Cardinal seen here with its colors split down the middle is a genetic anomaly known as a gynandromorph, meaning it exhibits the qualities of both these male and female (both genders) |
| #6648, aired 2013-07-10 | IT'S EXTINCT! $2000: The last of this bird in the wild was said to have been shot in Ohio on March 24, 1900; one in captivity made it to 1914 a passenger pigeon |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | A QUICK CATEGORY $3,000 (Daily Double): This synonym for quick is also the name of a fast-flying bird that resembles the swallow swift |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | GOT A LITTLE CATEGORY HERE $800: Native to Cuba & barely over 2 inches in length, the "bee" variety of this is the world's smallest bird hummingbird |
| #6635, aired 2013-06-21 | THAT ANIMAL IS SOMETHING ELSE $2000: This bird becomes a verb when used to mean to gloat; you don't want to "eat it," though crow |
| #6633, aired 2013-06-19 | WHERE ARE YOU FROM? $800: This term for someone from the "Wolverine State" ends with the name of a male bird a Michigander |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | OH SEE, CAN YOU SAY? $600: The name of the bird seen here compares its tail to this harplike instrument a lyre |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | SHAKESPEAREAN BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A "Bird" who habitually stays up late watching the story of Viola & Orsino A Twelfth Night Owl |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | CLIPS $600: Graceful bird seen here once hunted by sailors albatross |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | LIGHT VERSE $2000: "Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, singing hymns unbidden", said Shelley in his ode to this bird a skylark |
| #6616, aired 2013-05-27 | QUOTATIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In a 1784 letter Ben Franklin called this national symbol "a bird of bad moral character" the bald eagle |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL $600: "Beastly" type of desk lamp with a long, flexible shaft, helpful in studying without waking a roommate gooseneck lamp |
| #6598, aired 2013-05-01 | "C" BIRDS $800: The northern species of this North American bird is known for red plumage, a crest & whistling year-round a cardinal |
| #6598, aired 2013-05-01 | "C" BIRDS $2000: The catbird has a meow-like song; this bird hangs around cattle to feed on insects they stir up a cowbird |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | VLAD THE IMPALA $1600: The martial type of this bird, bigger than hawks, preys on impala fawns, so if Vlad ever comes across its eggs... an eagle |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | MISNAMED ANIMALS $2000: Not a rodent as it might seem, the tufted this is a bird that feeds mainly on insects a titmouse |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | LITERARY ANIMALS $1200: In a trilogy Katniss Everdeen wears a gold pin of this genetically altered bird a mockingjay |
| #6569, aired 2013-03-21 | POETIC PUNISHMENT $200: In this 1798 poem a man must do penance for killing a bird by wandering the earth & telling his story Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #6564, aired 2013-03-14 | FLAGS OF THE WORLD $800: The name of these Portuguese islands comes from a word for the goshawk, & that bird is on the islands' flag the Azores |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | OYSTER STEW $800: As its name indicates, this bird is a natural enemy of the oyster oystercatcher |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $1600: The name of this Eurasian bird of the crow family also means to cheat or swindle a rook |
| #6550, aired 2013-02-22 | COATS OF ARMS $800: On Chile's coat of arms, that's a guemul, a rare Andean deer, facing this bird a condor |
| #6547, aired 2013-02-19 | HOUSEHOLD HINTS $600: To keep these little plantlike protists out of a bird bath, plunk in a pre-1982 penny; copper stops their growth algae |
| #6545, aired 2013-02-15 | PORTU-GALS & GUYS $400: Though born in Canada, this "I'm Like A Bird" singer is of Portuguese descent & holds Portuguese citizenship Nelly Furtado |
| #6545, aired 2013-02-15 | NATURAL SYMBOLS $1200: Ancient Egyptians thought it was bird royalty, & Horus took its shape a falcon |
| #6545, aired 2013-02-15 | NATURAL SYMBOLS $1600: This bird is regarded as a symbol of jealousy, as it lays its eggs in the nests of other birds the cuckoo |
| #6526, aired 2013-01-21 | CAPE TOWN $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Greenmarket Square in Cape Town, South Africa.) Once the site of slave trading, greenmarket square is now a bustling market where you can buy souvenirs from all over Africa; a popular one is the painted eggs of this big African bird an ostrich |
| #6525, aired 2013-01-18 | THE AMAZING SPIDER $1000: With a leg span of up to 12 inches, T. blondi, the goliath this-eating spider, can capture & eat small avian prey bird |
| #6523, aired 2013-01-16 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $600: You'll find this old bird scooting along a marsh a coot (in scooting) |
| #6523, aired 2013-01-16 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $800: This ill bird had to be treated intravenously a raven (in intravenously) |
| #6523, aired 2013-01-16 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $1000: This afternoon, I saw this sea bird a tern (in afternoon) |
| #6519, aired 2013-01-10 | AMERICANA $1000: A little bird told us this Tennessee city that's home to Dollywood got its name from a river & an ironworks Pigeon Forge |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | CONSERVATION $2000: In 2001, scientists wore suits to look like this bird & flew an aircraft to show captive-borns how to migrate a whooping crane |
| #6507, aired 2012-12-25 | IT'S THE COCKATIEL HOUR $200: Cockatiels are members of this large & raucous bird order a parrot |
| #6504, aired 2012-12-20 | BEASTLY ART $2000: The paper cutout of a bird from the 1940s is by this Frenchman who was once part of a beastly group Henri Matisse |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | 18th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY $2000: John Bird made the first of these navigating instruments with an arc of 60 degrees, or 1/6 of a circle sextant |
| #6498, aired 2012-12-12 | ADVENTUROUS FOLKS $800: Isabella Bird's 19th c. journeys in this land, now Iran, included having to pull a gun on angry tribespeople Persia |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | THE LANE! THE LANE! $400: Look! Down on the ground! It's not a bird! It's not a plane! It's this Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane |
| #6488, aired 2012-11-28 | WITH MAORI $400: Maori ceremonial cloaks called korowai are made with the feathers of a rare albino variety of this flightless bird a kiwi |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | DISTINCTIVE CREATURES $400: I'm a cackapo--cackapo! I'm this type of bird even though I can't talk or even fly a parrot |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | ODD WORDS $800: Something resembling this proud bird's tail in color, design or iridescence is said to be pavonine a peacock |
| #6481, aired 2012-11-19 | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER LINES $400: In a nature poem Whittier rhymed, "The winding water's sounding rush, the long note of" this bird a thrush |
| #6468, aired 2012-10-31 | OUTSIDE $2000: The Australian species of this bird has a pouched beak up to 18.5 inches long, the longest beak of any bird a pelican |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | STATE SYMBOLS OF HAWAII $800: Hawaii's state bird, the nene, is also known as the Hawaiian variety of this bird a goose |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | CLICHES $1200: If you're in your birthday suit, you're "naked as" this bird a jaybird |
| #6457, aired 2012-10-16 | "OCK"-TOBERFEST $200: Sheep herd
or bird bunch a flock |
| #6455, aired 2012-10-12 | ODD NAMINGS $800: The head of this second-largest North American bird of prey is covered with white feathers, not just skin a bald eagle |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $1600: A Maya Angelou poem says this creature "sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still" the caged bird |
| #6437, aired 2012-09-18 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $400: Argus-eyed, meaning extremely observant, refers to a 100-eyed giant whose eyes were transferred to this bird's tail the peacock |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | CREATURES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Costa Rica.) The chestnut mandible type of this tropical bird has what looks like a disproportionately large bill, but it's actually lightweight & mostly hollow a toucan |
| #6426, aired 2012-07-23 | CRAZY TALK $800: A synonym for crazy, this bird isn't crazy--it lays eggs in the nests of other birds who then raise its young cuckoo |
| #6426, aired 2012-07-23 | CLASSIC CARTOONS $800: Walter Lantz' wife voiced this cartoon character that was inspired by a real bird Woody Woodpecker |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | ANGRY BIRDS $800: Yes, I can fly! But as a Chaparral Cock, aka this bird, I prefer the ground! & no, I won't say "beep beep" for you! a roadrunner |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | ANGRY BIRDS $1600: As a northern type of this bird, I've been known to imitate songs of 32 different birds in 10 mins., but I do not do requests! a mockingbird |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | ANGRY BIRDS $2000: I'm just goin' out with my covey, Ma! As Montezumas, I know we're a small variety of this bird, but I'll be ok! Gosh! a quail |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | ALSO A BIRD $200: To take liquid down the throat swallow |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | ALSO A BIRD $400: An antiwar politician a dove |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | ALSO A BIRD $600: Stretch your neck out to get a better view crane |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | ALSO A BIRD $800: Moving briskly a swift |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | ALSO A BIRD $1000: In bowling, 3 strikes in a row a turkey |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE AIR $600: The giant type of this bird species known for its wing speed is about 8 inches long & weighs about 0.7 ounces a hummingbird |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | SQUAWK ON THE STREET $600: It's a bird, it's a crane, & it's named for its call a whooping (crane) |
| #6374, aired 2012-05-10 | IN THE DICTIONARY $400: It's the more common word for a bird's furcula, a v-shaped bone that may bring a person good luck a wishbone |
| #6374, aired 2012-05-10 | A GRAY AREA $400: Benjamin Moore bird-related gray paints include one named for this "bird of peace" a dove |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | OPERA PEOPLE & PLACES $400: A soprano plays the title bird in "The Nightingale", based on a tale by this Danish author Hans Christian Andersen |
| #6367, aired 2012-05-01 | THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM $1600: You can see the great blue type of this bird feeding & flying overhead in the Quinebaug & Shetucket river valley a heron |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | BIG (& NOT-SO-BIG) BIRD $200: Adult gobblers of this bird type can have a wingspan of 4 feet & weigh 50 lbs.; some say they're tryptophan-tastic a turkey |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | BIG (& NOT-SO-BIG) BIRD $400: This 3- to 5-foot-tall pink bird uses hair-like combs along the edges of its bill to strain food from mud & sand a flamingo |
| #6361, aired 2012-04-23 | BIG (& NOT-SO-BIG) BIRD $800: It's not crazy, it's not nuts, but the common one, about 30 inches long, is the state bird of Minnesota a loon |
| #6356, aired 2012-04-16 | EXTREME ANIMALS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Norway's Svalbard Islands.) Traveling distances as great as 25,000 miles gives the Arctic type of this the record for the longest migration of any bird a tern |
| #6354, aired 2012-04-12 | MERE CASH $1200: The 1869 $10 note is called the "jackass note" because this bird looks like a donkey when the bill is upside down the American eagle |
| #6351, aired 2012-04-09 | BEGINS & ENDS WITH A VOWEL $1200: This Australian bird can run (not fly) nearly 30 mph an emu |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | MILITARY NICKNAMES & SLANG $800: A full colonel is sometimes called a bird colonel because he has these insignias eagles |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | EVERY BIT A "LADY" $400: She outlived her presidential husband by nearly 35 years, passing away in 2007 at 94 Lady Bird Johnson |
| #6328, aired 2012-03-07 | LYRICS OF THE ARTIST $1000: "I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away / I don't know where my soul is, I don't know where my home is" Nelly Furtado |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | DINOSAURS $400: Evidence that lots of prehistoric creatures had wishbones means Archaeopteryx may lose its status as the first of these a bird |
| #6314, aired 2012-02-16 | KEEP YOUR "EDGE" $1000: Hyphenated term that describes a bird with complete plumage, or anything matured full-fledged |
| #6305, aired 2012-02-03 | BIRD SOUNDS $200: This soft, murmuring sound of a dove rhymes with a bovine sound coo |
| #6305, aired 2012-02-03 | BIRD SOUNDS $400: The cry of an owl; it's also an extremely funny person like moi a hoot |
| #6305, aired 2012-02-03 | BIRD SOUNDS $600: Despite its name, the mute swan, when angry, makes this noise, like a snake a hiss |
| #6305, aired 2012-02-03 | BIRD SOUNDS $800: It's the harsh, 3-letter call of a crow or raven a caw |
| #6305, aired 2012-02-03 | BIRD SOUNDS $1000: A shrill laugh, or the shrill cry of a hen, especially after she lays an egg a cackle |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | FIRST IN "P"s $400: The African gray is this type of bird; the male can precisely echo human speech a parrot |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | BIRD BOOKS $200: This book says, "I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra" To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | BIRD BOOKS $400: Larry McMurtry won a Pulitzer for this Western Lonesome Dove |
| #6298, aired 2012-01-25 | BIRD BOOKS $2,400 (Daily Double): A 1993 raid in Mogadishu that left 18 American soldiers dead is chronicled in this book by journalist Mark Bowden Black Hawk Down |
| #6294, aired 2012-01-19 | FOREIGN $400: In French, l'oiseau is this; it sports les plumes a bird |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $600: "Mad as a wet" this bird a hen |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $800: "A" this "of a different color" a horse |
| #6276, aired 2011-12-26 | "WAR" & "PEACE" $400: To sing like a bird warble |
| #6274, aired 2011-12-22 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $400: The fuzz-free baby type of this fruit named for a New Zealand bird is eaten whole, as one would eat a grape a kiwi |
| #6270, aired 2011-12-16 | ANATOMICAL ETYMOLOGY $1200: This scientific name for the tailbone comes from its resemblance to a cuckoo bird's beak coccyx |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | REMEMBER LAST DECEMBER? $1200: A volume of his bird art sold at auction for more than $10 million, a record for a printed book Audubon |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | YOU'RE AN ANIMAL! $2000: Don't complain about this forest-dwelling bird seen here a grouse |
| #6259, aired 2011-12-01 | FIRST OF THE MONTH $2000: Official birthday of Point Given & Mine That Bird January |
| #6255, aired 2011-11-25 | RAILROADING 101 $800: (Alex delivers the clue from atop a water tank.) Because water is crucial to a steam locomotive, the train would have to stop about every 100 miles or so to take on water from a tank through this device, which has the same name as a bird a crane |
| #6251, aired 2011-11-21 | NICKNAMES $2000: Diminutive chanteuse Edith Piaf was known as "the Little" this bird a sparrow |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | EXTRAVAGANZA ELEGANZA $800: Go ahead & splurge on a private island; Bird Cay is just $14 million & 30 minutes from Nassau in these islands the Bahamas |
| #6248, aired 2011-11-16 | ON THE COAST $800: New Zealand's West Coast region features the little blue type of this bird, the smallest of our flippered friends a penguin |
| #6247, aired 2011-11-15 | GOOD MIGRATIONS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of North and South America.) Separated by up to 1,500 miles at the start of their annual migration, flocks of the scarlet type of this bird come closer together as they move down to South America tanager |
| #6241, aired 2011-11-07 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $1000: A mixture of 2 languages spoken by a plentiful city bird pigeon pidgin |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | AUSTRALISMS $2000: If you stick your nose in other people's business, you're a "sticky" this bird part beak |
| #6228, aired 2011-10-19 | TV PRIVATE EYES $800: This late actor drove a T-Bird as Dan Tanna Robert Urich |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | THE NO-FLY LIST $400: A. australis is one species of this flightless bird of New Zealand kiwi |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | THE NO-FLY LIST $800: The neck accounts for almost half the height of this largest living bird, a flightless species the ostrich |
| #6225, aired 2011-10-14 | THE NO-FLY LIST $1600: The name of this large extinct flightless bird of New Zealand may come from a Polynesian word for "fowl" the moa |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | THE "N-H-L" $400: Keats' ode to this bird begins, "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense" nightingale |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL LOGOS $400: A black & orange bird perched on the dot of an "I" in the team's name the (Baltimore) Orioles |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | THE WORLD TRADE CENTER & GROUND ZERO $600: The design for the new Port Authority Transportation Hub was inspired by the gesture of a child releasing this bird into the air a dove |
| #6208, aired 2011-09-21 | OUR NEW COMPUTER OVERLORDS $200: In 2008 an IBM supercomputer named for this speedy state bird broke the 1 petaflop barrier--that's really fast a roadrunner |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | BOOKS & MOVIES $1200: The Painted
___
on a Wire Bird |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | TWEETS $200: You may recognize this bird as a cartoon... here's one of the 175 species in real life a woodpecker |
| #6174, aired 2011-06-16 | DOUBLE THE W $400: When this bird comes back to Capistrano, you'll see that it's a cliff one a swallow |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | BIRTH OF A FIRST LADY $600: December 22, 1912 in Karnack, Texas Lady Bird Johnson |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | THAT'S LIFE SCIENCE $5,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a bird on the monitor.) A bird's wing is composed of bones similar to our arm; & like us, birds have two bones between their elbow & wrist with these names the ulna & the radius |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | FOR THE BIRDS $400: The colorful keel-billed type of this bird really fits the bill a toucan |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | FOR THE BIRDS $600: A South Carolina museum is devoted to this "wild" bird, one of the few breeds of poultry native to the Americas a turkey |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | FOR THE BIRDS $1000: The gooney bird is another name for this bird made famous in a 1798 poem an albatross |
| #6162, aired 2011-05-31 | ANIMAL ANAGRAMS $600: Unlike the raptor, this pet bird isn't predatory a parrot |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | 5 IN A "ROW" $800: When you're wrong & you admit it, you "eat" this bird; now wipe your mouth! crow |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | FLIGHT SIMULATION $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew sits in a flight simulator.) The simulator's primary flight display indicates the aircraft's trajectory; place the bird here on this line that defines the boundary between earth & sky & you'll get level flight the horizon |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | STARTS WITH A SILENT "W" $800: A small bird with house, cactus & rock types wren |
| #6148, aired 2011-05-11 | TAILS FROM SHAKESPEARE $1600: In "Henry VI, Part I" , Joan of Arc says, "Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while and like" this bird "sweep along his tail" the peacock |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | O POURI $1000: (Oprah sits in her usual chair.) This autobiography by Maya Angelou was the first book I ever read that made me feel my life as a colored girl growing up in Mississippi deserved validation I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| #6143, aired 2011-05-04 | REED-ING $400: The reed warbler is this type of creature a bird |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | THE MALE CARES FOR THE YOUNG $1,000 (Daily Double): Several females will lay up to 50 eggs in the nest of a male of this large flightless S. Amer. bird & he'll incubate them a rhea |
| #6139, aired 2011-04-28 | STATE FLAGS $600: Iowa's flag features this bird holding a scroll in its beak an eagle |
| #6136, aired 2011-04-25 | PUMP UP THE JAM $400: This jam fruit named for a New Zealand bird is rich in vitamin C kiwi |
| #6136, aired 2011-04-25 | THE OPENING VERSE $1200: ...of Yeats' "Leda and" this bird mentions "her nape caught in his bill" a swan |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | GRADE AVIS $1200: The St. Andreasburg type of this bird is noted for its singing; be the "cat who swallowed" one & earn a "C" a canary |
| #6129, aired 2011-04-14 | PSILENT "P" $2000: You may grouse about this Arctic bird seen here a ptarmigan |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR VOCABULARY $200: It covers a baby bird, or it's in your quilt down |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | HANDHELD $200: Used by bird watchers, these items are simply a connected pair of handheld telescopes binoculars |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | POETIC QUESTIONS $2000: Keats' ode to this bird ends, "Was it a vision, or a waking dream? Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?" the nightingale |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | "BIRD" IS THE WORD $200: You might be as "naked as" one of these, Garrulus glandarius a jaybird |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | "BIRD" IS THE WORD $400: A convict a jailbird |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | "BIRD" IS THE WORD $600: "Cerebral" word for a foolish or flighty person a birdbrain |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | "BIRD" IS THE WORD $1000: A horse racing enthusiast, so called for his trackside perch a railbird |
| #6103, aired 2011-03-09 | LET'S HAVE CHINESE $600: The marquee ingredient in this soup comes from a type of swallow bird's nest soup |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | BIRDIE $800: Share a laugh with this Aussie bird heard here the kookaburra |
| #6079, aired 2011-02-03 | ANAGRAM ZOO $1200: A fish-catching bird:
MORTAR CON cormorant |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | WORD ORIGINS $800: The verb "to pounce" comes from a noun meaning this part of a bird of prey talons (or claws) |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | CHILI PEPPERS $600: Often used in cajun recipes, this chili pepper is also known as a bird pepper, ginnie pepper or finger chili cayenne |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | PENGUINS $500 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Antarctica.) This 7-letter term for a breeding place for penguins comes from the name of a colony of another black bird a rookery |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | BIRD-OLOGY $600: (Jimmy of the clue crew gives the clue) The colored spot on a peacock's feather is called an ocelus from the Latin oculus meaning this an eye |
| #6054, aired 2010-12-30 | BIRD-OLOGY $1,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the clue crew gives the clue) When fishing a heron spears at the water to grab its prey while this bird sweeps for food using its uniquely shaped beak the spoonbill |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | "STOP" & "GO" $600: In captivity this bird is fed a diet containing carotenoid pigments to maintain the color of its plumage a flamingo |
| #6048, aired 2010-12-22 | LITERARY CANINES & FELINES $400: In a poem by Edward Lear, the pussy-cat proposes to this bird the owl |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | LOOK AT THAT IDIOM $200: Hold on to this idiom; don't take a chance on finding a better one a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush |
| #6044, aired 2010-12-16 | THE BIRDS & THE BEES $1200: The "giant" type of this bird is an imposing 8 inches long & weighs a colossal 2/3 of an ounce a hummingbird |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | I'M DRIVING $400: In a Beach Boys song, a female driver will have "fun, fun, fun" until her daddy takes this away a T-Bird |
| #6038, aired 2010-12-08 | NBA MVPs PDQ, OK? $800: Before a 3-point contest, this Celtic & 1986 MVP asked, "Which one of you guys is finishing 2nd?"; he backed it up & won Larry Bird |
| #6034, aired 2010-12-02 | OH "PH" $1200: In days gone by this game bird was popularly served "under glass" a pheasant |
| #6030, aired 2010-11-26 | "ULA" LA! $600: At almost a foot in leg span, the largest variety of this arachnid is the Goliath bird-eater
of South America a tarantula |
| #6029, aired 2010-11-25 | LITERARY LETTER DROP $2000: Look out! A Thomas Hardy title loses a letter & you'll want to keep your distance from a frenzied black bird Far from the Madding Crow |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | THEM CROOKED VULTURES $1,000 (Daily Double): This word for the type of bird vultures are is from an old word meaning a toll collector scavenger |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | ROOMMATES $1000: At Juilliard in the '40s, this "Bird" of a sax player roomed with trumpeter Miles Davis (Charlie) Parker |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY $2000: One summer evening the song of this bird inspired Shelley to write his ode titled "to" it a skylark |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | IT'S A BIRD! $400: Meep! Meep! The greater this (Geococcyx californianus, not Mondo speedious) runs at 15 mph the roadrunner |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | IT'S A BIRD! $800: This flightless forest dweller seen here went the way of itself around 1680 the dodo |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | IT'S A BIRD! $1200: Its egg is not only the largest bird's egg, but also the smallest in relation to the size of the bird the ostrich |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | IT'S A BIRD! $1600: Found in Kenya, Ruppell's griffons, these birds, can devour an antelope within 20 minutes vultures |
| #5985, aired 2010-09-24 | IT'S A BIRD! $2000: Also known as mimic-thrushes, these birds are thought to be closely related to wrens (& thrushes, obviously) a mockingbird |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | BUT WHAT AM I? $800: I'm this colorful bird formally known as Cyanocitta cristata, not a Canadian baseball player blue jay |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | CREATURES OF NATURE $400: The peregrine type of this bird can reach speeds of 200 mph in a dive a falcon |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | FARMVILLE $200: On a farm who needs an alarm clock when you have this bird's cock-a-doodle-doo to wake you? a rooster |
| #5959, aired 2010-07-08 | WALK WITH ME $200: A move you might have learned in preschool is called this squatting "walk", after a bird a duckwalk |
| #5955, aired 2010-07-02 | LITTLE SEIZERS $800: There's a 1/2-ounce African dwarf species of this colorful bird that dives into rivers to seize lunch a kingfisher |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | POSSESSIVE ACTORS' POSSESSIONS $800: Bird belonging to a movie "Gladiator" Russell's crow |
| #5942, aired 2010-06-15 | AESOP'S FABLES $1000: This bird asked Juno for a voice like a nightingale, but had to be content with a beautiful train of feathers a peacock |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | COUSTEAU $1000: Cousteau is seen here in a moment of happiness on Isla Isabela, a bird haven off this country's state of Nayarit Mexico |
| #5938, aired 2010-06-09 | VIRAL VIDEO $3,000 (Daily Double): "Fatal Contact" is a 2006 TV movie about this fowl disease bird flu (avian flu) |
| #5936, aired 2010-06-07 | FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $800: A rail found on Inaccessible Island near Tristan da Cunha in this ocean is the smallest living flightless bird the Atlantic Ocean |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | SURVIVAL AT SEA $1600: This "ancient mariner" bird is the title of Deborah Scaling Kiley's "True Story Of A Woman's Survival At Sea" an albatross |
| #5933, aired 2010-06-02 | 5-LETTER WORDS $400: The top of a hill, or the ornamental tuft appearing on the top of the head of a bird crest |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | GETTING TICKED ON $800: The chipping type of this common seed-eating little bird is a popular host for ticks a sparrow |
| #5930, aired 2010-05-28 | INTERNATIONAL RHYME TIME $800: A tiny New Zealander, or a tiny New Zealand bird a peewee Kiwi |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | POPULAR SCIENCE $1200: (Sarah demonstrates a happy drinking bird.) An internal pressure imbalance forces liquid up to the duck's head, making it tip over for another drink; it's caused by this process that cools the wet head but not the dry tail evaporation |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | BIRD "R"s $400: This state bird of Wisconsin has beautiful blue eggs a robin |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | BIRD "R"s $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows three different kinds of bird feet on the monitor.) There's a diversity of form & function in bird feet; whether for perching, for grasping or for defense, like the talons on these--a term for birds of prey a raptor |
| #5907, aired 2010-04-27 | BIRD "R"s $2000: It's the species of bird seen here, as well as the name for the collar of feathers ruff |
| #5901, aired 2010-04-19 | CLASSICAL SOUND EFFECTS $800: In a 1924 work Respighi called for an actual recording of a bird, this famed singer a nightingale |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | POLITICAL LINGO $400: Calling someone who favors talk over military action this bird dates from the Cuban Missile Crisis a dove |
| #5888, aired 2010-03-31 | SWEET WORD OF YOUTH $1000: Fledgling can mean a young or inexperienced person or, in the animal world, one of these a bird |
| #5887, aired 2010-03-30 | ALSO A CAR RENTAL COMPANY $1,200 (Daily Double): Latin for "bird" Avis |
| #5885, aired 2010-03-26 | LAST OF A DYING BREED $200: "Last sightings" of this flightless bird were reported in 1662, 1674 & 1681 the dodo |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | BLACK BIRD $400: One of the world's largest birds, this California avian can glide as far as 10 miles without beating its wings a condor |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | BLACK BIRD $1200: Really more of a scavenger, this beautiful bird was turned into a thief by Rossini the magpie |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | BLACK BIRD $1600: The razorbill, seen here, is a member of this flightless family of which the great one went extinct around 1844 the auk |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | BLACK BIRD $2000: You crazy old guy, it's the American variety of this 4-letter waterfowl a coot |
| #5864, aired 2010-02-25 | THE BEATLES $2000: "This Bird Has Flown" was the original title of this tune, the first pop song to feature a sitar "Norwegian Wood" |
| #5852, aired 2010-02-09 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT $2000: The Times obit on Harold Bell said he drew the original sketches of this "Give a hoot, don't pollute" bird Woodsy Owl |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | FROM THE GREEK FOR... $400: "Mythical bird", whether you're in Arizona or not a Phoenix |
| #5843, aired 2010-01-27 | IT'S NO WHITE $400: Often used to describe a black & shiny hair color, it's also the name of a black bird a raven |
| #5831, aired 2010-01-11 | "YN" $800: A bird of the family Sturnidae, capable of mimicking human speech a mynah |
| #5823, aired 2009-12-30 | SCIENCE IS A BREEZE $800: When a migrating bird has this helping it along, it'll fly higher, where the effect is strongest a tailwind |
| #5820, aired 2009-12-25 | "SWEET" CHARITY $400: I always listen to this rock anthem after "Free Bird" "Sweet Home Alabama" |
| #5815, aired 2009-12-18 | PREY LATER $400: Found on all continents except Antarctica, this "structural" bird helps to control rodent populations a barn owl |
| #5813, aired 2009-12-16 | BIRDS WITHIN WORDS $200: So this crazy bird wandered into a saloon... a loon |
| #5812, aired 2009-12-15 | DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS $1600: Unlike a close relative, the blue-winged variety of this Aussie bird doesn't "laugh" but cackles kookaburra |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | ALWAYS SAY NEVER $1000: Shelley said of this, "Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert!"; Wordsworth said they "soar but never roam" a skylark |
| #5799, aired 2009-11-26 | BREAKFAST CEREALS $1000: The mascot of Cocoa Puffs is Sonny, this type of bird a cuckoo |
| #5798, aired 2009-11-25 | FOR THE BIRDS $1600: The common fowl seen here is this state bird a Rhode Island Red |
| #5795, aired 2009-11-20 | COOKING EQUIPMENT FOOD $2000: Bobby Flay's recipe for this includes as special equipment a rod to skewer the bird with rotisserie chicken |
| #5790, aired 2009-11-13 | THIS FALL IN ENTERTAINMENT $600: Wile E. is the first name & middle initial of this cartoon character who plummets off cliffs pursuing a bird Wile E. Coyote |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | "C" CREATURES $1200: This bird, often kept as a pet, gets its name from a group of Spanish islands a canary |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | ALSO A CHESS PIECE $1600: A black bird a rook |
| #5781, aired 2009-11-02 | "C" CREATURES $2000: The name of this sea bird comes from the Latin Corvus marinus, "sea raven" a cormorant |
| #5778, aired 2009-10-28 | THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE $800: It's a common error if you confused the call of the glaucous-winged type of this sea bird with the herring type gulls |
| #5776, aired 2009-10-26 | "EEN" $1200: To dress or groom with elaborate care, like a bird does to its feathers preen |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | ANIMAL SUBTRACTION $2,000 (Daily Double): Subract a letter from this noisy bird & you get a list of players on a team a rooster |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | MADISON AVE. MENAGERIE $1000: Boy, ah say, boy, this big Warner Bros. bird hawked for the Colonel & KFC; now go away, boy, ya bothah me! Foghorn Leghorn |
| #5762, aired 2009-10-06 | MARTIN $800: Of a bird, a lizard or a fish, it's what a sand martin is a bird |
| #5753, aired 2009-09-23 | BYE BYE BIRDIE $2000: Sorry, Clarice, I won't be serving any Norfolk Island this bird, as it went extinct in 1923; care for some liver? a starling |
| #5752, aired 2009-09-22 | BEASTLY EXPRESSIONS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the deck of the USS John C. Stennis.) An observation area for the flight deck is grimly called this bird's row; crashes are less common now than when it got the name a vulture |
| #5752, aired 2009-09-22 | "RUSH"IA $1600: This bird is known for its singing a thrush |
| #5745, aired 2009-07-24 | "GUN" SMOKE $400: A bird dog may lose its job if it's this, afraid of loud noises gun-shy |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | NAMED FOR THEIR LOOKS $800: A spoonbill is a long-legged one of these with a spoon-shaped bill a bird |
| #5731, aired 2009-07-06 | POET-TREE $4,000 (Daily Double): In a famous ode Keats called this bird "light-winged Dryad of the trees" a nightingale |
| #5730, aired 2009-07-03 | JUNGLE FEVER $400: The jungle babbler isn't someone who's gone mad in the forest, it's a type of this a bird |
| #5723, aired 2009-06-24 | LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! $1000: One species of this bird is the American kestrel; pop culture ones include Atlanta & Maltese a falcon |
| #5720, aired 2009-06-19 | NAME CALLING $200: I hate to call you a dumb this, like the extinct bird from Mauritius, but what were you thinking? a dodo |
| #5709, aired 2009-06-04 | ALSO A BIRD $400: To repeat mindlessly parrot |
| #5709, aired 2009-06-04 | ALSO A BIRD $800: Generic name for a boom for hoisting a TV or movie camera crane |
| #5709, aired 2009-06-04 | ALSO A BIRD $1200: English architect Sir Christopher Wren |
| #5709, aired 2009-06-04 | ALSO A BIRD $1600: To sell or peddle wares hawk |
| #5709, aired 2009-06-04 | ALSO A BIRD $2,000 (Daily Double): A carefree adventure or escapade lark |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | SCRAMBLED EGGS $800: This bird's eggs are so pretty a color is named for them:
IN BRO robin |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | OUT IN THE STREET $2000: The crossing sign here is for this South American bird, not the actress who played Carla on "Cheers" a rhea |
| #5695, aired 2009-05-15 | TAKE ME TO THE BALLET! $2000: Ouch! A golden bird pecks a king to death in "Le Coq d'or" by this hyphenated Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
| #5685, aired 2009-05-01 | BROWN $400: On Louisiana's flag, an Eastern brown this bird is feeding its young a pelican |
| #5674, aired 2009-04-16 | A COUNTRY OF CENTRAL AMERICA $800: Its national bird is the quetzal & so is its currency Guatemala |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | "M"ENAGERIE $1000: This ferretlike carnivore that has a bird in its name subsists on snakes & rodents a mongoose |
| #5665, aired 2009-04-03 | "POP" GOES THE CATEGORY $2000: There's a bird in this word for a person given to vain, pretentious displays & empty chatter a popinjay |
| #5664, aired 2009-04-02 | ZOOLOGY $400: During courtship & fast maneuvers, this bird can beat its wings more than 200 times per second a hummingbird |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | PERSONAL FOWLS $200: It follows "whip" in the sound that gives a little brown bird its name -poor-will |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | PERSONAL FOWLS $1000: The Greek goddess Hera was associated with (& probably proud as) this showy bird, Pavo muticus a peacock |
| #5657, aired 2009-03-24 | MEET THE BEADLES $800: In hunting season, Beadle County, South Dakota is a bad place to be a ring-necked one of these, the state bird a pheasant |
| #5655, aired 2009-03-20 | BRAND LOGOS $800: A perched mother bird is feeding her young in the logo of this Swiss conglomerate Nestlé |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | PAINTINGS $800: This creature toys with a bird in William Holman Hunt's painting of seduction "The Awakening Conscience" a cat |
| #5654, aired 2009-03-19 | WORDS IN TOURNAMENT $1000: A water bird related to seagulls; we hope you don't take one "for the worse" tern |
| #5653, aired 2009-03-18 | ALSO A VEGAS CASINO $400: The scientific name of one type of this bird is Phoenicopterus ruber roseus the flamingo |
| #5650, aired 2009-03-13 | GETTING MEDIEVAL WITH ENGLISH LIT $2000: A popular Middle English lyric begins, "Sumer is icumen in / Lhude sing" this bird the cuckoo |
| #5638, aired 2009-02-25 | THE USED "-AR" SALESMAN $2000: This Aussie bird with a 10-letter name is the most popular caged parakeet, so it doesn't have a lot of miles on it a budgerigar |
| #5632, aired 2009-02-17 | COATS OF ARMS $400: Due to a strong Viking element in its history, the Isle of Man has this black bird on its shield along with a falcon a raven |
| #5630, aired 2009-02-13 | TURKISH LITERATURE $1600: Peter Ustinov directed & starred in the film version of the Yasar Kemal novel "Memed, My" this predatory bird Hawk |
| #5629, aired 2009-02-12 | HAPPY 200th, LINCOLN & DARWIN $800: The first chapter of "On the Origin of Species" features this bird, which Darwin bred in a dovecote he built a pigeon |
| #5619, aired 2009-01-29 | THIS MEANS "WAR" $400: An example of the wavering cry of this type of bird is heard here a warbler |
| #5606, aired 2009-01-12 | "SP"EAK UP! $400: Passer domesticus is the house type of this small bird a sparrow |
| #5595, aired 2008-12-26 | GERMANIA $6,400 (Daily Double): It's a bird! It's a plane! It's this German equivalent of a Superman an Ubermensch |
| #5594, aired 2008-12-25 | "C" CREATURES $1,000 (Daily Double): This large flightless bird has a blue head & long, daggerlike nails on its toes a cassowary |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | FISH, BIRD OR MAMMAL $200: The cormorant a bird |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | FISH, BIRD OR MAMMAL $400: The macaque a mammal |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | FISH, BIRD OR MAMMAL $600: The stickleback a fish |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | FISH, BIRD OR MAMMAL $800: The pangolin a mammal |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | FISH, BIRD OR MAMMAL $1000: The wahoo a fish |
| #5582, aired 2008-12-09 | I'M AN ANIMAL $400: I'm this bird, whose "baby bringing" legends may arise from how lovingly it takes care of its young a stork |
| #5580, aired 2008-12-05 | ALL ASHORE FOR BIRD LORE $800: It's the color in the name of New Hampshire's state bird, a finch, & a state flower, a lilac purple |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | FRENCH $800: Une cigogne is French for this wading bird that really delivers a stork |
| #5558, aired 2008-11-05 | OFFICIAL STATE THINGS $400: It sounds a bit redundant, but Delaware's state bird is the blue hen this chicken |
| #5554, aired 2008-10-30 | THE INTERIOR OF THE SECRETARY $1200: The scientific name Sagittarius serpentarius tells you that inside the secretary bird you may find this, its main food a snake |
| #5540, aired 2008-10-10 | DON'T THINK TOO FAST $1600: A fruit called the Chinese gooseberry was later renamed for the national bird of this country New Zealand |
| #5531, aired 2008-09-29 | BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE 2008 OLYMPICS $400: This nickname for one of the main venues evokes a Chinese soup the Bird's Nest |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE $2,000 (Daily Double): Australia has the only all-black species of this bird, Cygnus atratus a swan |
| #5520, aired 2008-09-12 | THE GATHERING OF NATIONS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Gathering of Nations in Albuquerque, NM.) Tribal war bonnets are highly revered at the Gathering; the feathers come from the golden type of this bird, & each one represents a great deed an eagle |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | ON "Q" $400: The northern bobwhite is a common variety of this small bird a quail |
| #5509, aired 2008-07-17 | POETIC BIRDS $800: Keats' "Ode to ___":
"Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!" a nightingale |
| #5493, aired 2008-06-25 | I KNOW THAT SONG $2000: Five For Fighting flew high with this song that says, "I'm more than a bird, I'm more than a plane" "Superman" |
| #5492, aired 2008-06-24 | ON YOUR INDONESIA $2000: Indonesia's a home to this almost 6-foot flightless bird related to the emu the cassowary |
| #5488, aired 2008-06-18 | MAKES SENSE $1,000 (Daily Double): In Spanish, this bird is un pajaro carpintero a woodpecker |
| #5487, aired 2008-06-17 | "TWO""THOUSAND" & "EIGHT" $200: Be grateful for what you have, because "a bird in the hand is worth" this two in the bush |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | OFFICIAL STATE THINGS $1000: This state bird is depicted on Louisiana's state seal in a nest with her 3 young the pelican |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | CAPTURE THE FLAG $1200: A tapering flag that ends in 2 points is named for its resemblance to this bird's "tail" a swallow |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | THE BIRDS $400: This bird that isn't really losing its hair is a national symbol of the U.S. the bald eagle |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | THE BIRDS $800: Herring & laughing are 2 species of this "sea" bird a gull |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | THE BIRDS $1200: If you're a C. corax, this bird, you may be given to gloomy pronouncements like the one in Poe a raven |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | THE BIRDS $1600: It's the thick-walled muscular pouch that grinds food in a bird's lower stomach a gizzard |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | THE BIRDS $2000: The colorful lovebird, with a curved beak & short tail, is a member of this bird family a parrot |
| #5465, aired 2008-05-16 | BIBLE STORIES $200: In Mark 1, the Holy Spirit came to Jesus like this bird a dove |
| #5464, aired 2008-05-15 | VARMINTS $1200: This varmint is wrecking my fence posts, but oh, the little wussy is protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act a woodpecker |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: In a children's song, this bird "sits in the old gum tree" kookaburra |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | BIRD-BRAINED TELEVISION $400: A little bird told me that Susan Dey played Laurie on this '70s series The Partridge Family |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | "LING"O $1000: An inexperienced person, or a young bird that just got its flying feathers a fledgling |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | I'M AN ANIMAL $1000: Boeing has named a military aircraft after this bird that's showing off its flight capabilities an osprey |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | BIRD-BRAINED TELEVISION $1200: Gina Lollobrigida showed up as Jane Wyman's half-sister on this series about a winery Falcon Crest |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | BIRD-BRAINED TELEVISION $1600: Edward Everett Horton played a medicine man named Roaring Chicken on this goofy cavalry sitcom F-Troop |
| #5445, aired 2008-04-18 | BIRD-BRAINED TELEVISION $2000: Morgan Fairchild was tickled "pink" to star in this '80s TV series based on a Joan Crawford film Flamingo Road |
| #5429, aired 2008-03-27 | NOMS DE PLUME $400: This peaceful bird is une colombe a dove |
| #5429, aired 2008-03-27 | NOMS DE PLUME $600: Ask your "mother"-- this "silly" bird is une oie a goose |
| #5429, aired 2008-03-27 | NOMS DE PLUME $1000: This small game bird is une caille a quail |
| #5422, aired 2008-03-18 | GRAB BAG $800: This 2-word phrase comes from a Greek belief that a bird sacred to Apollo broke its silence before dying swan song |
| #5422, aired 2008-03-18 | THE LOVELY BONES $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew points to a model of a human skeleton.) The spinal column ends with this bone, named because it's said to resemble a certain bird's beak the coccyx |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | CURSES $1600: Said the ancient mariner, "With my crossbow I shot" this bird, bringing a curse upon his ship the albatross |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | "C" BIRDS $400: The ani is a species of this "crazy" bird a cuckoo |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | "C" BIRDS $600: Because this black bird eats a wide range of agricultural crops, it isn't popular with farmers a crow |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | "C" BIRDS $800: With a 9-1/2 foot wingspan, this largest land bird in North America can be seen soaring over the Grand Canyon a condor |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | "C" BIRDS $1000: The sandhill, seen here, is the most abundant species of this bird a crane |
| #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 | ARCTIC ANIMALS $1200: The snowy species of this nocturnal bird of prey makes its nest on the ground, lining it with moss & feathers a snowy owl |
| #5403, aired 2008-02-20 | THE STAMP ACT $800: The Pollination stamps show a butterfly, a bat, bees & this small nectar-sipping bird a hummingbird |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | GIVING YOU THE BIRD $400: Aka a redbird & protected by law, this bird may have up to 4 broods from April to August each year a cardinal |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | GIVING YOU THE BIRD $800: The ruby-throated one of these can migrate 500 miles while burning off only slightly more than one gram of fat a hummingbird |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | GIVING YOU THE BIRD $1600: There are about 60 species of this wading bird; Asia has a purple one & America, a great blue a heron |
| #5394, aired 2008-02-07 | GIVING YOU THE BIRD $2000: The gray type of this bird was introduced to North America in 1889; come on, get happy! the partridge |
| #5392, aired 2008-02-05 | CHICKENS FOR FREE $1600: Da, comrade-- a fork pierces the bird, launching a jet of fragrant melted butter in chicken this chicken Kiev |
| #5384, aired 2008-01-24 | THE GOD SQUAD $800: Eostre, a Saxon goddess, turned a bird into one of these; it could still lay eggs a hare (or rabbit) |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1000: The name of a bird probably was shortened to this 4-letter term for an eccentric person a kook |
| #5383, aired 2008-01-23 | ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL $2000: A bird: paloma a dove |
| #5381, aired 2008-01-21 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1200: A shrewish woman, or a predatory mythological creature who is part woman, part bird a harpy |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | BIRD IS THE WORD $200: The crested caracara, a type of falcon, is this country's national bird but is also found in Texas Mexico |
| #5378, aired 2008-01-16 | BIRD IS THE WORD $1000: As a verb it means to denounce something loudly; as a noun, it's a short-winged marsh bird a rail |
| #5372, aired 2008-01-08 | YOU'RE AN ANIMAL $400: A condor is a type of this bird; it's related to the turkey type & also enjoys eating carrion a vulture |
| #5367, aired 2008-01-01 | A STAR IS REBORN? $1000: He kicked around as the author of "The Power and the Glory" before he was Kicking Bird in "Dances with Wolves" Graham Greene |
| #5365, aired 2007-12-28 | MULTIPLE CHOICE $400: Of a bird, a nerd or an herb, it's what a larkspur is an herb |
| #5364, aired 2007-12-27 | WE ARE YOUNG $1000: He was a teenage cabin boy in the 1790s but soon realized that "bird artist" had more prestige than "cabin boy" Audubon |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | GREEK & ROMAN POTPOURRI $400: This form of ancient transport is mentioned in the Beach Boys' hit "Fun, Fun, Fun" chariot |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | FOR THE BIRDS $400: This bird's distinctive feature is seen here full of fish a pelican |
| #5360, aired 2007-12-21 | FOR THE BIRDS $1600: Name in common to the bird & plant seen here a bird of paradise |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | ANIMALS $800: In classification, this type of bird seen here often overlaps with doves a pigeon |
| #5356, aired 2007-12-17 | SEASON'S EATINGS $400: In "A Christmas Carol", the Cratchit family has this bird, stuffed, for Christmas dinner a goose |
| #5352, aired 2007-12-11 | BIRDS $500 (Daily Double): The long legs of the bird seen here give it this name, from a prop used by circus performers a stilt |
| #5347, aired 2007-12-04 | NAME THE POET $400: "The caged bird sings / With a fearful trill / Of things unknown / But longed for still" Maya Angelou |
| #5344, aired 2007-11-29 | HARD RHYME TIME $1200: A cordovan bird plume a leather feather |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | NASAL PASSAGES $400: "And there in the wood a piggy-wig stood with a ring at the end of his nose" in the poem about this bird-&-feline couple The Owl and the Pussycat |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | THE NEW MEXICO DESERT $400: Also called the chaparral cock, this bird has 2 front & 2 back toes for extra ground speed a roadrunner |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | ALSO A FISH $400: To sit on a twig like a bird perch |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | THANKS FOR THE MEMORABILIA $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a black bird statuette.) I'm holding a copy of the title prop from this famous 1941 movie; the original prop sold in 1994 for more than $398,000 The Maltese Falcon |
| #5321, aired 2007-10-29 | BIBLICAL ABOMINATIONS $400: Leviticus 11:13 declares that this bird of prey, later a symbol of Roman legions, is an abomination an eagle |
| #5319, aired 2007-10-25 | FOOD STUFF $800: This gut of a turkey may be considered the bird's teeth as it grinds up its food; who wants it? a gizzard |
| #5313, aired 2007-10-17 | ALSO A BIRD $400: 2 below par on a hole of golf an eagle |
| #5313, aired 2007-10-17 | ALSO A BIRD $800: To boast over something crow |
| #5313, aired 2007-10-17 | ALSO A BIRD $1200: Numbers like 2 & 3, as opposed to second & third cardinal |
| #5313, aired 2007-10-17 | ALSO A BIRD $1600: To grumble or complain grouse |
| #5313, aired 2007-10-17 | ALSO A BIRD $2000: To shoot from a hidden position to snipe |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | FISH, BIRD OR MAMMAL $200: The skate a fish |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | FISH, BIRD OR MAMMAL $400: The tarsier a mammal |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | FISH, BIRD OR MAMMAL $600: The honeycreeper a bird |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | FISH, BIRD OR MAMMAL $800: The bongo a mammal |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | FISH, BIRD OR MAMMAL $1000: The cichlid a fish |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | BIRDS $400: This bird's head endures an impact of up to 1200 gs as it hammers away at trees a woodpecker |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | PIC-POURRI $600: This high-flying DC comic superhero might not mind being called a bird-brain Hawkman |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | WORLD FLAGS $200: Like many countries, Albania has this bird as a symbol, & its flag shows a 2-headed one an eagle |
| #5288, aired 2007-09-12 | LEAVE 'EM LAUGHING $1600: Named for its call, this Australian bird is also known as a laughing jackass a kookaburra |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | "GOO"GLE $400: This web-footed swimming bird has a longer neck & longer legs than a duck a goose |
| #5259, aired 2007-06-21 | TOUGH LIT $2000: Ornithological title name of a prison in a John Cheever novel Falconer |
| #5257, aired 2007-06-19 | "HO" POURRI $200: This goodhearted pachyderm did a favor for a bird by sitting on her egg in a nest in a tree for 51 days Horton |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | STATE BIRDS $600: Darwin made a famous study of these birds, but not the purple species, New Hampshire's state bird a finch |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | STATE BIRDS $800: In 1933 the Tennessee Ornithological Society conducted a vote to select a state bird; this mimic barely won a mockingbird |
| #5256, aired 2007-06-18 | STATE BIRDS $1000: Until mating season, this California state bird lives in coveys of up to 200 birds a quail |
| #5255, aired 2007-06-15 | FILM & TV SPACESHIPS $600: In "Star Trek III" Christopher Lloyd as a villain from this race commanded a spaceship called the Bird of Prey the Klingons |
| #5253, aired 2007-06-13 | JAMES JOYCE'S DUBLIN $800: A vast Dublin park shares its name with this mythical bird, so in Joyce's work the park is associated with resurrection phoenix |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | IT'S A BIRD! $200: On New Zealand's Stewart Island you'll find tuis, pipits, kakas & shags, but it's "the home of" this national bird a kiwi |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | IT'S A BIRD! $400: For the blue-backed manakin, this ritual begins with a duet sung by 2 birds--a dominant male & his wingman a mating ritual |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | IT'S A BIRD! $600: If you see the rock species of this urban bird on a ledge, don't try to talk it down; it may just be building a nest a pigeon |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | IT'S A BIRD! $800: Like a type of shark, the bird seen here is named for its resemblance to this tool a hammer |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | IT'S A BIRD! $1000: The tawny species of this bird can see prey by the light of one candle 500 yards away the owl |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $400: I'd pay to see a hare race this tall South American bird the rhea (for hare) |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $800: This arctic bird should rent a waterfront home tern (for rent) |
| #5236, aired 2007-05-21 | ANAGRAMMED BIRDS $1200: I'd like to greet this wading bird with a friendly hello egret (from greet) |
| #5234, aired 2007-05-17 | POLITICAL LINGO ORIGINS $600: This bird phrase came from 18th c. Britain, where it described a businessman who became bankrupt &, thus, powerless lame duck |
| #5226, aired 2007-05-07 | WHAT A WAY TO GO $400: Tradition holds that Aeschylus died when a bird dropped this reptile on his bald head to crack its shell a turtle |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | READ YOUR BIBLE $200: Proverbs 30 speaks of 4 things difficult to understand, including the flight of this bird of prey eagle |
| #5222, aired 2007-05-01 | ANIMALS $800: A traditional sign of spring in England is a letter to the Times saying, I heard this "crazy" bird's call a cuckoo |
| #5209, aired 2007-04-12 | I FEEL "ILL" $800: A decorative ring of feathers around the neck of a bird frill |
| #5188, aired 2007-03-14 | FISH, BIRD OR MAMMAL $400: The kestrel a bird |
| #5188, aired 2007-03-14 | FISH, BIRD OR MAMMAL $800: The serval a mammal |
| #5188, aired 2007-03-14 | FISH, BIRD OR MAMMAL $1200: The rail a bird |
| #5188, aired 2007-03-14 | FISH, BIRD OR MAMMAL $1600: The mudskipper a fish |
| #5188, aired 2007-03-14 | FISH, BIRD OR MAMMAL $2000: The wanderoo a mammal |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | RHYMING ANIMAL PAIRS $2,000 (Daily Double): A creature of the order cetacea & a small game bird whale & quail |
| #5186, aired 2007-03-12 | RHYMING ANIMAL PAIRS $2000: An aquatic mammal & a bird whose name is also a shade of blue seal & teal |
| #5180, aired 2007-03-02 | TAKE A WOK ON THE WILD SIDE $400: The feet are a prized delicacy from this bird that in China symbolizes the mythical phoenix the chicken |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | HERE'S WALDO $600: On the quirky TV series "Twin Peaks", a pet bird named Waldo of this talkative species ends up mysteriously dead a myna bird |
| #5175, aired 2007-02-23 | YOU'RE A BEAST! $1000: 3-letter name of the mythical bird of Arabian legend that was so huge it could carry off an elephant the roc |
| #5173, aired 2007-02-21 | STATE BIRDS $600: West Virginia:
This crested bird the cardinal |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | THE BIRD IS THE WORD $200: A Beatles tune talks about this bird seen here singin' in the dead of night blackbird |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | THE BIRD IS THE WORD $600: The name of this bird seen here can also mean an unscrupulous person who preys greedily a vulture |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | THE BIRD IS THE WORD $800: The name of this game bird is also a verb that means "to shrink with fear" quail |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | FUN WITH BALLET $1000: Dizzy Gillespie's music is also featured in it, but the ballet "For 'Bird' - With Love" is a tribute to him Charlie Parker |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | THE BIRDS & THE BEES $1600: A nuthatch isn't an asylum, it's a bird that loves these nuts also called filberts hazelnuts |
| #5169, aired 2007-02-15 | THE BIRDS & THE BEES $2000: It's a small, chunky brown bird with a short bill & a silent initial W wren |
| #5153, aired 2007-01-24 | FOR THE BIRDS $400: The canvasback is a wild North American variety of this bird a duck |
| #5153, aired 2007-01-24 | FOR THE BIRDS $800: The genus for this American bird is Turdus; ah, to see the first Turdus of spring a robin |
| #5153, aired 2007-01-24 | FOR THE BIRDS $1200: One of the 2 U.S. states with a bird in its official state nickname (One of) Iowa or Louisiana |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NICKNAMES $2000: "The Bird"--seen here--he was a national sensation in 1976 Mark Fidrych |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | TV ATTACK ADS $200: (This ad ran on Nickelodeon:)
An obese bird, a disheveled dumpster diver, a monster who thrives on trans-fat cookies. Is this really what you want your children to watch? Sesame Street |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | BYE BYE BIRDIE $400: Incredibly, this variety of pigeon that went extinct in 1914 was once the most abundant bird species in America a passenger pigeon |
| #5140, aired 2007-01-05 | BYE BYE BIRDIE $2000: This bird was not "great" at defending itself, & the last specimen was killed in Iceland in 1844 a (great) auk |
| #5137, aired 2007-01-02 | WHAT A CHARACTER! $800: Sam Spade was a real bird brain when introduced to the world in this 1930 classic The Maltese Falcon |
| #5131, aired 2006-12-25 | DINOSAURS $1000: Also a type of modern bird, this word follows "ovi" & "Utah" in dinosaur names raptor |
| #5128, aired 2006-12-20 | FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $1000: This large flightless bird of New Guinea is identifiable by a huge bony helmet, or casque, on its head the cassowary |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | ANIMALS $200: This bird's whooping call is said to carry 2 miles, & its courtship displays include a leaping dance whooping crane |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | ANIMALS $600: We'd like to see David Blaine vs. this flightless bird in a breath-holding contest (some can go 22 min. underwater) penguin |
| #5123, aired 2006-12-13 | PLAYS WITHIN PLAYS $1200: After a bad performance of the play within a play in this 1896 Chekhov work, Trepilov kills a bird The Seagull |
| #5121, aired 2006-12-11 | BIRD $800: Congratulations! It's a healthy bouncing baby clue delivered by this bird seen here a stork |
| #5121, aired 2006-12-11 | BIRD $1200: During a rough incident in Milan, Katie Couric said, "some days you're" this bird, "some days you're the statue" a pigeon |
| #5121, aired 2006-12-11 | BIRD $1600: Haha-hahaha! A flicker, this type of bird, feeds mainly on the ground & is especially fond of ants a woodpecker |
| #5121, aired 2006-12-11 | BIRD $2000: It's W.C. Fields' avian of choice seen here a chickadee |
| #5119, aired 2006-12-07 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $800: It's a writer or musician's last work, or the chant of a certain water bird swan song |
| #5108, aired 2006-11-22 | URBAN DICTIONARY $1000: Though it sounds like a wading bird, this is an e-mail saying that you won't be able to attend Johnny's birthday party an e-gret |
| #5098, aired 2006-11-08 | EUROPE'S GOT TALENT TOO $400 (Daily Double): Alberto Hidalgo & his happy feet can tap 734 times a minute while performing this Spanish dance the flamenco |
| #5084, aired 2006-10-19 | "NIGHT" $400: Thrush to judgment & name this type of bird seen here a nightingale |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | OH "MY" $1200: It's the golden variety of the famous copycat seen here a mynah bird |
| #5082, aired 2006-10-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1,500 (Daily Double): Completes Paul Laurence Dunbar's 1899 lines "A plea, that upward to heaven he flings / I know why..." the caged bird sings |
| #5080, aired 2006-10-13 | CRAGS LIST $3,000 (Daily Double): La Cruz del this bird is a high point in Colca Canyon in the Peruvian Andes the condor |
| #5074, aired 2006-10-05 | PHYS ED $200: In badminton, it's the less-formal name for a shuttlecock a bird (a birdie accepted) |
| #5070, aired 2006-09-29 | "U"-ENDING CREATURES $2000: This category could run from the akiapolaau, a Hawaiian bird, to this member of the cattle familhy in India a zebu |
| #5067, aired 2006-09-26 | PLAY BOY $400: "Sweet Bird of Youth"
&
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (Tennessee) Williams |
| #5066, aired 2006-09-25 | REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS $1000: Instead of eating the Egyptian variety of this bird, a crocodile lets it into its mouth to clean the croc's teeth plover |
| #5063, aired 2006-09-20 | OVER THE "RAIN" BOW $400: The cerebrum of a kookaburra or just a nutty guy birdbrain |
| #5035, aired 2006-06-30 | FIRST LADIES' FATHERS $200: Thomas Jefferson Taylor, a Karnack, Texas rancher Lady Bird Johnson (Claudia Alta Taylor) |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | HUMMINGBIRDS $1000: This species, which shares its name with a steam organ, is North America's smallest bird at around 2 3/4" in length the Calliope hummingbird |
| #5020, aired 2006-06-09 | CRITTERS OF THE AMAZON $800: The bird spider, a member of this family of hairy spiders, usually eats beetles, but it does eat small birds on occasion tarantula |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | WATCH THE BIRDIE! $800: This common bird of North America is featured on a Canadian coin a loon |
| #5009, aired 2006-05-25 | WATCH THE BIRDIE! $1200: There are more than 100 species of this popular game bird a quail |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | "T" BIRDS $800: Toco, the largest species of this colorful bird of the American tropics, may have a 7-inch bill a toucan |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | "T" BIRDS $1200: One species of this bird breeds in the Arctic tundra & "vacations" at the other end of the globe a tern |
| #4992, aired 2006-05-02 | LARGE EQUIPMENT $200: A hoisting machine, or a somewhat similar-looking wading bird a crane |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | MICRO $200: The smallest bird in the world is the bee type of this from Cuba a hummingbird |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | OPERA $400: Tenor Leo Slezak covered a staging mistake in "Lohengrin" by ad-libbing, "What time is the next" this graceful bird swan |
| #4968, aired 2006-03-29 | THAT'S WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE SOUTH $800: The name of a popular Southern liquor brand, it's also the state game bird of Alabama Wild Turkey |
| #4966, aired 2006-03-27 | ONOMATOPOEIA $800: You don't need to be crazy to know that this bird, Cuculus canorus, has an odd call a cuckoo |
| #4965, aired 2006-03-24 | WORD ORIGINS $1,200 (Daily Double): It's no Greek myth: this big South American bird was probably named for the wife of Cronus the rhea |
| #4957, aired 2006-03-14 | DEATH SENTENCES $3,000 (Daily Double): Keats' "Ode to" this includes the line, "Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!" a nightingale |
| #4952, aired 2006-03-07 | MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS $400: It's the type of bird being complained about
"It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late--" a parrot |
| #4946, aired 2006-02-27 | LEWIS & CLARK $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Columbia Gorge Discovery Center in Oregon.) Here in Columbia Gorge, Clark sketched this bird, & Lewis wrote, "I believe this to be the largest bird in North America" a California condor |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | VERTEBRATES $400: Known as a whooper, it's the tallest North American bird, reaching a height of nearly 5 feet a whooping crane |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | BALLET IS FOR THE BIRDS! $800: Sancho Panza gets chased after stealing a bird in a ballet based on this novel Don Quixote |
| #4926, aired 2006-01-30 | STATE BIRDS $200: This red-feathered friend is the state bird of a record 7 states the cardinal |
| #4926, aired 2006-01-30 | STATE BIRDS $600: 1 of 2 states that have a breed of chicken as the state bird Rhode Island (or Delaware) |
| #4926, aired 2006-01-30 | STATE BIRDS $800: Hawaii's state bird, the nene, is a close relative of this "Canadian" bird the (Canada) goose |
| #4926, aired 2006-01-30 | STATE BIRDS $1000: A state bird since 1947, its black & orange colors resemble those on the Calvert coat of arms the Baltimore oriole |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | GEOGRAPHY $800: This second-largest island has an area of about 306,000 square miles & is shaped like a huge bird New Guinea |
| #4900, aired 2005-12-23 | KEEPING UP APPEARANCES $2000: At Santa Fe's Ten Thousand Waves Spa, have a geisha-style facial, featuring the droppings of this "nocturnal" bird a nightingale |
| #4898, aired 2005-12-21 | REJECTED SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOWS $400: Rosewood School wanted to play this game where if you're tagged as a female swimming bird, you're it duck, duck, goose |
| #4896, aired 2005-12-19 | IT'S AUSTRALIA, MATE $200: The loud Australian bird known as a kookaburra is also known as this "laughing" equine jackass |
| #4896, aired 2005-12-19 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: Thea Kronborg is a preacher's daughter who becomes a singer in Willa Cather's novel "The Song of" this bird the lark |
| #4894, aired 2005-12-15 | A FOXY CATEGORY $1600: In an Aesop fable, Fox makes this bird drop its food by asking it to speak Crow |
| #4891, aired 2005-12-12 | FOR THE BIRDS $1600: This "ruffed" state bird of Penn. is famous for the drumming sound its wings make when proclaiming its territory a grouse |
| #4882, aired 2005-11-29 | BEASTLY QUOTES $1000: Robert Frost:
"The way" this bird "shook down on me the dust of snow from a hemlock tree..." the crow |
| #4881, aired 2005-11-28 | A PROVERBIAL MESS $600: In worth the bird hand in is a bush the two A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush |
| #4863, aired 2005-11-02 | "ROSS" $200: In a Monty Python sketch, a man wanted to buy a Good Humor ice cream, but the salesman only sold this sea bird an albatross |
| #4862, aired 2005-11-01 | PUPPETRY ON BROADWAY $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, accompanied by a large puppet bird and its puppeteer.) Julie Taymor & Michael Curry designed puppets like Zazu for this 1998 Tony-award-winning musical
Zazu: "Say it!" The Lion King |
| #4860, aired 2005-10-28 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: England honors this bird, not the clock, in April; its arrival announces the return of spring a cuckoo |
| #4857, aired 2005-10-25 | FURRED, FEATHERED, FINNED $400: The brown type of this pouched bird plunges from the air to fish; the white one scoops up fish as it swims a pelican |
| #4850, aired 2005-10-14 | WHAT'S ON TV, KIDS? $600: Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's this WB series about a young Superman Smallville |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | SHAKE YOUR TAIL FEATHER $400: Seen here is the trumpeter variety of this bird, whose name comes from an old word for "singer" a swan |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | SHAKE YOUR TAIL FEATHER $600: This bird is probably popular in Vatican City & St. Louis a cardinal |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | SHAKE YOUR TAIL FEATHER $1000: Send the bill to this bird of Brazil that also endorses Froot Loops a toucan |
| #4838, aired 2005-09-28 | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE $2000: He's the Belgian playwright who gave us the bird--"The Blue Bird" Maurice Maeterlinck |
| #4836, aired 2005-09-26 | "WAR" $1200: A small American bird of the family Parulidae known for its singing & bright colors a warbler |
| #4834, aired 2005-09-22 | LITERARY LANDMARKS $1600: Hyde Park's W.H. Hudson Memorial boasts a statue of this bird girl, heroine of Hudson's novel "Green Mansions" Rima |
| #4828, aired 2005-09-14 | BEASTLY RHYME TIME $600: Hard-to-wash-out mark that a large wading bird left on your clothing a crane stain |
| #4827, aired 2005-09-13 | FRUIT $200: This fruit that's named for a bird looks like a brown egg that's covered with fuzz a kiwi |
| #4819, aired 2005-07-14 | EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $1200: Picasso depicted this bird on his posters promoting world peace, & his daughter Paloma is named for it a dove |
| #4817, aired 2005-07-12 | WILDLIFE $2000: It's the males of this flightless, largest South American bird that incubate the eggs & raise the young a rhea |
| #4808, aired 2005-06-29 | STARTS WITH A PRONOUN $600: One who interlaces cloth, or an African bird that interlaces grass to make its elaborate nest a weaver |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | ANIMAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: The name of this mischievous black bird may be used for a chatterbox or a hoarder the magpie |
| #4805, aired 2005-06-24 | COMING TO AMERICA $1200: A little bird told us this artist, born in Santo Domingo in 1785, came to America when he was 18 Audubon |
| #4800, aired 2005-06-17 | MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES $400: This Greek bird who rose from the ashes was probably inspired by a sacred Egyptian bird, the bennu the phoenix |
| #4795, aired 2005-06-10 | PREY PURVIEW $2000: Fish, fish & more fish is on the menu for this bird of prey with long wings & a white head, also known as a fish hawk the osprey |
| #4793, aired 2005-06-08 | "BI"OLOGY $1200: When you identify a bird as Cinclus mexicanus, you're using this system of nomenclature that Linnaeus helped developed binomial (nomenclature) |
| #4792, aired 2005-06-07 | ANIMAL SIMILES $1000: "Happy as" this Old World oscine bird of the family Alaudidae a lark |
| #4789, aired 2005-06-02 | BIRD UP! $1600: A bird of prey, the harpy species of this bird is even known to attack monkeys for food the eagle |
| #4783, aired 2005-05-25 | DINOSAURS $600: The name Psittacosaurus means this type of lizard; it had a strong beak like that on this present-day bird a parrot |
| #4780, aired 2005-05-20 | PREDATORS $600: Like its prey the chameleon, the boomslang, this type of animal, is noted for camouflage snake |
