| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | FREE FOR ALL $600: R.E.M. titled a 1981 song for this broadcasting service that aimed to inform people under the grasp of the Soviets Radio Free Europe |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | BOOKS BY REPORTERS $400: In 1923 E.B. White was fired by the Seattle Times; he'd later find success with this 1945 tale about a mouselike boy Stuart Little |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $600: Jaundice can be a symptom of this liver inflammation that has 5 main viruses labeled A-E hepatitis |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | DIACRITICAL THINKING $1600: I'm getting a sense of déjà vu; I feel like I've said it's l'accent grave over the A & l'accent this over the E, like, a second ago aigu |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SUFFIXES $400: It's the British spelling of the suffix that makes a verb out of "industrial" I-S-E |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | HAPPY HOUR $200: A bit embarrassed by its success, Michael Stipe of this band called "Shiny Happy People" "a really fruity, kind of bubblegum song" R.E.M. |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | FRENCH HISTORY $400: A 2023 movie led to lively debate, e.g. historians: She died when Napoleon was on Elba, not on his way back; Ridley Scott: Shut up Josephine |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | A LITTLE HISTOR"E" $200: The U.S. sent 10,000 troops to Lebanon in 1958 as part of the anti-Soviet doctrine named for him Eisenhower |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | A LITTLE HISTOR"E" $400: In French this 17th & 18th century "Age" is the Siècle des Lumières Enlightenment |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | A LITTLE HISTOR"E" $600: This armed "rising" began April 24, 1916 in Dublin the Easter Rising |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | A LITTLE HISTOR"E" $800: This 1807 act restricted U.S. trade with Britain & France the Embargo Act |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | SHALL WE DANCE? $800: Spelled with an I you have a delicious dessert, but with an E, it's this 3-syllable dance that began in the Dominican Republic merengue |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | A LITTLE HISTOR"E" $1000: This ancient people inhabited an area between the Arno & Tiber rivers & west & south of the Apennines the Etruscans |
| #9032, aired 2024-02-06 | 2 BOOKS IN 1 $600: "A Room to India" A Room with a View & A Passage to India |
| #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 |
| #9029, aired 2024-02-01 | FROM THE FRENCH $1000: The U & the E at the end of this adjective meaning indecent or off-color combine to make an "A" sound risqué |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | EXISTENTIALISM $2000: A common maxim is "existence precedes" this other "E" term; the main thing is we're here, free to create meaning in our lives essence |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | SPELLING BIZ $500: In 1972, this brand debuted Red Zinger and Sleepy Time; you can't spell it without spelling...
_ _ _ _ _ T _ _ _
_ E A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Celestial Seasonings |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600: Opened in 1865, this N.E. college was started by a scientist for an increasingly industrialized America MIT |
| #9013, aired 2024-01-10 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: This author of "Charlotte's Web" also wrote a monthly column for Harper's called "One Man's Meat" (E.B.) White |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | A RECIPE FOR... $400: The 2 main ingredients for the pasta dish cacio e pepe are cheese & this, pepe nero in Italian black pepper |
| #9009, aired 2024-01-04 | I SENSE SOME NEGATIVITY $1000: Add an "E" to the end of a word for reluctant & you get this word meaning to despise loathe |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | PERSONAL FINANCE $1200: It's the "H-E" in "HELOC", a line of credit that can pay for your kitchen reno, your wedding... even your divorce home equity |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | TRIPLE INITIAL WRITERS $800: A.E.W. Mason's Gabriel Hanaud, "cleverest of the French detectives", inspired this character who debuted in 1920 Poirot |
| #9004, aired 2023-12-28 | TRIPLE INITIAL WRITERS $2000: The "A" that's the 3rd initial of this German writer was originally W--for Wilhelm--but he changed it to honor Mozart's Amadeus E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | JUST "E"AT IT $400: This member of the nightshade family is technically a fruit the eggplant |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | JUST "E"AT IT $600: This type of milk has had its water content reduced by 60%, giving a creamy taste when used in desserts evaporated milk |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | JUST "E"AT IT $1000: These can be purple to black in color, sour right off the tree, but good in a jam or pie elderberries |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | A LOOK BACK $3,000 (Daily Double): 6 days before Robert E. Lee's surrender, the Confederate government fled this city, & Confederate troops burned much of it down Richmond |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | CORNERSTONES $800: In the cornerstone for the Thompson Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church in Auburn, N.Y., she placed a coin with a profile of John Brown Harriet Tubman |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | ANATOM"E" $1200: This hard layer that covers the crown of a tooth is not living & contains no nerves the enamel |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | A PARANORMAL CATEGORY $800: Also called an O.B.E., it's the sensation that one's self is in a different location from one's physical form an out-of-body experience |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MASSAGE IN A BOTTLE $400: Your massage oil may contain this vitamin, aka alpha-tocopherol; it's thought to promote wound healing vitamin E |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | WHAT THE "EFF"?! $600: Idiomatically speaking, it's the "grade" you get for trying hard--even if you sucked E for effort (or A for effort) |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | "SESAME STREET" SONG PARODIES $800: Surrounded by a gaggle of emotional Muppets, R.E.M. performs "Furry Happy Monsters", a parody of this upbeat tune "Shiny Happy People" |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | O-E-O-E $400: Depressed or sad because of a lack of friends or companionship; are you this tonight? lonesome |
| #8964, aired 2023-11-02 | O-E-O-E $800: It's a foot-pound per-second unit of power; let's see what you've got under the hood horsepower |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | "E"ASY DOES IT $200: These are found at the duller end of a pencil erasers |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | "E"ASY DOES IT $1000: As a verb it means to consider valuable or regard with admiration; as a noun, it often follows "high" in a positive sense esteem |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | OLD POP MUSIC HAD SOME VOWELS: E-I-E-I-O $300: Christina Aguilera sings, "You gotta rub me the right way in this 1999 No. 1 hit
_ E _ I E / I _ / _ / _ O _ _ _ _ "Genie In A Bottle" |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | OLD POP MUSIC HAD SOME VOWELS: E-I-E-I-O $600: It's the former boy band of Harry Styles
_ _ E / _ I _ E _ _ I O _ One Direction |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | OLD POP MUSIC HAD SOME VOWELS: E-I-E-I-O $1200: Her 80s hits include "Only in My Dreams" & "Electric Youth"
_ E _ _ I E / _ I _ _ O _ Debbie Gibson |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | OLD POP MUSIC HAD SOME VOWELS: E-I-E-I-O $1500: It's a greatest hits album released by Madonna in 1990
_ _ E / I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ E / _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I O _ The Immaculate Collection |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS $400: President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992, she used the nickname Cory Corazon Aquino |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS $800: In February 2019, this New Jersey Democratic senator announced for president & hoped to "channel our common pain back into our common purpose" Cory Booker |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS $1200: Cory Doctorow's somewhat Orwellian look at the near future isn't called "Big" this but "Little" this Brother |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS $1600: Corey Hawkins played Dr. Dre in this hip-hop biopic Straight Outta Compton |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS $2000: Edwin Arlington Robinson wrote a poem about this rich, enviable gentleman who yet kills himself Richard Cory |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $200: Go to the famous Globe one to see a play by Shakespeare T-H-E-A-T-R-E |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | BRITISH SPELLING BEE $800: With no pence on hand, you might ask the curry restaurant, "Will you take" a personal one of these? C-H-E-Q-U-E |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $100: A company called "London" this "tours" provides "a whirlwind tour of the history of the British public toilet" loo |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $200: Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion in "The Wizard of Oz", was fittingly born under this zodiac sign symbolized by a lion a Leo |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $300: Led Zeppelin warned that this type of wall is "going to break", while Don McLean lamented that it was dry a levee |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | ALL YOU NEED IS "L-O-V-E" $400: This Swedish automaker's museum features a full-sized XC90 SUV made from Legos Volvo |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | DEAD SCIENTISTS SOCIETY $1000: E.I. du Pont de Nemours, founder of the DuPont company, was a student of this French founder of modern chemistry Lavoisier |
| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | LOONEY TUNES $1200: An anvil, rocket skates & a do-it-yourself tornado kit are items Wile E. Coyote has bought from this corporation Acme |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | HEY, LAD-"E" $400: In 1892 this founder of Christian Science moved to a house called Pleasant View in Concord, New Hampshire (Mary Baker) Eddy |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | HEY, LAD-"E" $800: In 1588 she is said to have donned a full suit of armor to rally English troops & sailors who were battling the Spanish Queen Elizabeth I |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | WORDS THAT END WITH "E" $200: It's zero in tennis, the last name of a Beach Boy & all you need love |
| #8940, aired 2023-09-29 | WORDS THAT END WITH "E" $1000: An early appearance of this 2-word term describing a macho perspective was in a 1975 essay about film by Laura Mulvey the male gaze |
| #8939, aired 2023-09-28 | INVEST $2000: To determine a company's performance before you invest, check out its P/E ratio, this price-to-earnings |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | ALSO A STATE POSTAL ABBREVIATION $2000: A coroner can be a layperson; this counterpart is an M.D., often board-certified in a specialty M.E. |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | STATE THE 19th CENTURY SENATOR $1600: John C. Calhoun & John E. Colhoun, but what's in a name, Y'all? South Carolina |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | ADD AN E AT THE END $200: A baby bear &
a solid square cub & cube |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | ADD AN E AT THE END $400: A small rounded lump of something soft & a model of the Earth glob & globe |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | ADD AN E AT THE END $800: A fable's lesson & the emotional outlook of a group, such as employees moral & morale |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $400: The company founded by this publisher & politician still includes Men's Health, A&E & our own affiliate KSBW Monterey-Salinas Hearst |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | "R" SONG $400: An Ariana Grande song has this 3-letter title, an abbreviation for a phase of sleep "R.E.M." |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FLOWERY POETRY & PROSE $1200: Completes A.E. Housman's "Lent Lily" rhyme: "Find the windflower playing with every wind at will, but not the" this the daffodil |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | TAKE IT "E-Z" $200: Oui, oui! The "Z" is silent in this type of liaison a rendezvous |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Her novel "Kindred" tells of Dana, a young Black woman who is transported from the 1970s back in time to the pre-Civil War South (Octavia E.) Butler |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | POTPOURRI $400: Nolan Bushnell covered a lot of ground, founding both Atari & this kids' pizza place chain with a rodent mascot Chuck E. Cheese |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | MY MISSED CAREER, SUBSTITUTE TEACHER $600: In P.E. I'll make you multi-sport stars like this decathlete who won a 1960 duel of UCLA Bruins to take Olympic gold Rafer Johnson |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | ABBREV. $1000: Remember your cell biology? E.R. is this membrane system with a name that's fun to say endoplasmic reticulum |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | PEOPLE $400: Holy K.I.T.T.! The ex-wife of this '80s TV star wound up marrying a man named Michael (E.) Knight Hasselhoff |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | A LITTLE READING MATERIAL $200: Harvey Kurtzman saw a postcard that had the caption "Me worry", which inspired this magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman |
| #8865, aired 2023-05-05 | QUICK PLANETS $1000: It's surrounded by phenomena named
A, B, C, D, E, F & G Saturn |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | TOP TO BOTTOM $600: A New Yorker parody detailed the product liability lawsuit against this "top" company by "Mr. Wile E. Coyote, a resident of Arizona" Acme |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | GLOBETROTTING $1200: Though not an E.U. member, Andorra uses the euro, with a chamois or goaty-looking animal named for these mountains on its coins the Pyrenees |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ENDS IN SILENT "E" $200: Over 2 nights, the first Democratic one in June 2019 had 20 candidates a debate |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ENDS IN SILENT "E" $400: Edna from "The Incredibles" is known to advise against wearing one a cape |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ENDS IN SILENT "E" $600: Seen here is a type of this, used for blood pressure a gauge |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ENDS IN SILENT "E" $800: This other name for the jack in a deck of cards fits the bill a knave |
| #8851, aired 2023-04-17 | ENDS IN SILENT "E" $1000: An entourage or group of retainers; it also starts with "ret" a retinue |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | LETTER PERFECT $800: Nuts, seeds & plant oils are good sources of this fat-soluble vitamin, with a recommended daily amount of 15 mg vitamin E |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | TRADEMARKED SOUNDS $1000: This fast food chain trademarked a "bong" that is E below middle C Taco Bell |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | BAD BOYS IN BOOKS $600: In this S.E. Hinton novel, it's the Socs vs. the Greasers, & Dally is a bit of a thug The Outsiders |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | "SELF-E"s $400: The owner of a business is this self-employed |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | "SELF-E"s $800: breastcancer.org advises women to perform one of these every month a self-examination |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | GOOD "E" $200: Meaning concerned with moral principles, this word is used to describe a type of veganism ethical |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | GOOD "E" $600: Seen here is Bernini's sculpture called this of "Saint Teresa", capturing a rapturous moment Ecstasy |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | AMERICANA $600: A few things about this iconic item; its strike note is E-flat, it weighs a ton & Pennsylvania is missing the second "N" on it the Liberty Bell |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | GOOD "E" $800: This word from Greek can refer to a perfect model of how to act or be, or to a summary of a literary work epitome |
| #8845, aired 2023-04-07 | GOOD "E" $1000: Also a type of apartment, it's the competent quality by which you carry out your job an efficiency |
| #8829, aired 2023-03-16 | LETTER PERFECT $2000: In math it's an irrational constant beginning 2.71828, getting its letter from a man named Leonhard e |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | A LOVELY ACCENT $1200: This Québécoise singer has an accent on her first "E" on some French-language albums, but not on English ones like "One Heart" Celine Dion |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | A LOVELY ACCENT $2000: There's an accent over the final "E" in the name of this man who scored a hat trick for France in the 2022 World Cup Final Kylian Mbappé |
| #8819, aired 2023-03-02 | U.S. HISTORY $5,018 (Daily Double): Civil War generals issued a lot of general orders; this man's No. 9 of April 1865 sent the Army of Northern Virginia home Robert E. Lee |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | THEY WROTE 'EM $1200: "A Passage to India" (1924) E.M. Forster |
| #8817, aired 2023-02-28 | STAY CLASSY, CLASSICAL MUSIC $1600: Truly a man for all seasons, this Italian composed the serenata called "La Gloria e Imeneo" for King Louis XV's wedding Vivaldi |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | GET READY FOR THE "G-R-E"s $1000: John Gardner wrote a novel from the point of view of this monster from an Old English epic Grendel |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | FROM "E" TO "Y" $400: A sad poem; Thomas Gray's was "Written in a Country Churchyard" an elegy |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | FROM "E" TO "Y" $800: This "Row" in Washington, D.C. generally refers to a stretch of Massachusetts Ave. where many foreign diplomats work Embassy Row |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $400: ...in a goat-bodied, flame-spewing monster of Greek myth H |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | LOVE $1200: It's "To" him "with Love" in E.R. Braithwaite's title about a dedicated teacher in a tough London school To Sir |
| #8807, aired 2023-02-14 | YE OLDE BRITISH MONEY $1200: You'll find R-E-I-G-N in this word for a gold one-pound coin depicting one who reigned a sovereign |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | I BEFORE E $400: Count it--it's equal to about 4.2 joules a calorie |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THAT'S DEDICATION $800: in 1935 this poet dedicated a self-published work to the 14 publishers who rejected it & called it "no thanks" E. E. Cummings |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | I BEFORE E $1600: This word for a feudal superior often preceded "lord" & means loyal liege |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | I BEFORE E $2000: This old word for a psychiatrist comes from French for "insanity" alienists |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | TV TIME $200: The Duffer brothers couldn't resist a bike chase in season 1 of this TV series, derivative of "E.T." though it was Stranger Things |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR $1200: At the Battle of Chancellorsville, he broke a basic military rule by splitting his forces but won anyway, for a while (Robert E.) Lee |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | FRIENDS 'TIL THE ENDS $1200: French for "good friend", this 2-word phrase can refer to a buddy or to a girlfriend bon ami(e) |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | GEOGRAPHY THAT MADE HISTORY $1,600 (Daily Double): N.E. of Bilbao, this town was the site of tragedy on April 26, 1937, when 1/3 of its people were killed or wounded in a German attack Guernica |
| #8762, aired 2022-12-13 | SOUNDS $800: It's the title of a novel by E.B. White & the sound heard here The Trumpet of the Swan |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | A COLORFUL SONG TITLE $1600: This song not really about a soft drink is on the R.E.M. album "Green" "Orange Crush" |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | SITCOMS $400: This actress, as Selina Meyer on "Veep": "I'm used to dealing with angry, aggressive, dysfunctional men. i.e., men" Julia Louis-Dreyfuss |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | CLASSIC KIDS' BOOKS $500: Also a noted essayist, he gave us the books "Charlotte's Web" & "Stuart Little" E.B. White |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | SKIN CARE FROM A TO Z WITH MICHAEL STRAHAN $200: (Michael Strahan presents the clue.) Made from an Asian root vegetable, a contact sponge is helpful in this cleansing process of removing dead cells from skin surface--gimme an "E"! exfoliation |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | IT ALL STARTS WITH "U" $200: So you saw an E.T.? Then it must have been piloting this, also called a flying saucer a UFO |
| #8711, aired 2022-10-03 | A COMMON CATEGORY $1600: In pre-E.U. 1986, Portugal & Spain joined the European Economic Community, commonly known by this 2-word name the Common Market |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: E.B. White wrote that this character "had ...a mouse's tail, a mouse's whiskers" Stuart Little |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | BUSINESS ABBREV. $400: The way sales of a product change in relation to its price is its P.E.D., or price elasticity of this demand |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | BUSINESS ABBREV. $1000: A company's profits divided by its outstanding units of stock are its E.P.S., this earnings per share |
| #8686, aired 2022-07-18 | THE WOUK MOB $400: In Wouk's "Aurora Dawn" from 1947, a young man works in this broadcast medium; Wouk lived to write a book partly in e-mails radio |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | "A" BEFORE "E" $400: A "Best of Bob Marley" album calls him "The King of" this Reggae |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | "A" BEFORE "E" $800: The name of this field of science means "ancient study" archaeology |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | "A" BEFORE "E" $1200: A distinguished musical conductor is often referred to by this title, if you please maestro |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | "A" BEFORE "E" $1600: This spiky piece of equipment is used to perforate your lawn to allow better penetration of water & nutrients an aerator |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | "A" BEFORE "E" $2000: Legend says this ancient dramatist died when a tortoise fell on his head Aeschylus |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | FEELING SCIENCE-"E" $200: Around week 7 of pregnancy, it's called this; after, it's a fetus an embryo |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | DOUBLE DOUBLE E $400: Of a certain pair of "Through the Looking Glass" characters, this one fits the category Tweedledee |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | DOUBLE DOUBLE E $800: Ironically, if you "put" something in this frigid 2-word place, it's kind of on the back burner a deep freezer |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | DOUBLE DOUBLE E $1200: Rubber-edged implement used to wipe water from all your car windows a squeegee |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | IT'S ALL RELATIVITY $1200: Einstein first stated the concept now summed up in this formula, just 5 symbols, in a short paper often called an afterthought E=MC2 |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | 3 LETTERS, E IN THE MIDDLE $400: To request alms of a stranger beg |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | 3 LETTERS, E IN THE MIDDLE $800: A floral necklace a lei |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | 3 LETTERS, E IN THE MIDDLE $1200: It means cool; a 1990s & 2000s hip-hop music label was "So So" this Def |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | 3 LETTERS, E IN THE MIDDLE $1600: To cut something down with a broadsword, or build something up with tough effort hew |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | 3 LETTERS, E IN THE MIDDLE $2000: It's used in photography & filmmaking to adjust color a gel |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | SCIENCE STUFF $200: A gram stain checks for these microbes; gram-positive ones include MRSA & strep while gram-negative ones include E. coli & salmonella bacteria |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | DON'T GET CONFUSED $200: Change an "A" to an "E" to go from immobile to this write stuff stationery |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | YE OLD "E" CATEGORY $400: Now we know it as a magazine title, but back in the day it was a young man who attended a knight esquire |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | YE OLD "E" CATEGORY $3,000 (Daily Double): Gladiatorial combat may have originated as a funeral custom among these Roman precursors the Etruscans |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | SCIENCE $1200: A study of these notorious bacteria, genus Escherichia, showed they swarm to fight antibiotics & even dead ones participate E. coli |
| #8645, aired 2022-05-20 | THE FARMER $1000: In feudalism a villein (with an "E") was a type of these tenant farmers tied to a hereditary plot of land a serf |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ONE E, DOUBLE E $400: It ain't Christmas Eve without a certain 8 of these animals providing their power reindeer |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ONE E, DOUBLE E $800: A purebred dog's genealogical history pedigree |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ONE E, DOUBLE E $1200: Without worries, or a sugarless gum that Milli Vanilli once did an ad for carefree |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ONE E, DOUBLE E $1600: A woman's flimsy, sheer nightgown a negligee |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | ONE E, DOUBLE E $2000: The wildebeest, or gnu, is related to this one-E-double-E beest also called the kongoni a hartebeest |
| #8616, aired 2022-04-11 | SYMPHON"E"s $400: Inspired by his uprooted family, Alan Hovhaness' 1st symphony is titled this, a period of forced absence from one's homeland Exile |
| #8614, aired 2022-04-07 | QUOTE-POURRI $2000: "Only Connect" is from this E.M. Forster novel about a country house Howards End |
| #8613, aired 2022-04-06 | WOMEN IN MUSIC $1600: A chip off the old block, this daughter of Pete Escovedo has led her own "Glamorous Life" as a world famous percussionist Sheila E. |
| #8609, aired 2022-03-31 | WHERE THE STREETS HAVE A NAME $1200: The name of Springsteen's backing band honors this real thoroughfare in Belmar, New Jersey E Street |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | HISTORY'S MISTER "E"s $1200: A successful capitalist by day, he gave his pal Marx a yearly stipend of 350 pounds Engels |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | MIDDLE E $400: A wild mammal's cave lair... or your dad's den |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | MIDDLE E $800: To challenge the credibility of a witness in court or formally accuse misconduct by a public official impeach |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | MIDDLE E $1200: An evil, bewitching spell a hex |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | MIDDLE E $2000: From the Old English for "kill", it means to suppress a riot or rebellion quell |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | SAYS ANN(E) $200: A lot of Fay Wray's lines as Ann Darrow in this 1933 monster movie are bloodcurdling screams King Kong |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | SAYS ANN(E) $800: "But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne spelled with an E", says the title character in this novel, the first of a series Anne of Green Gables |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | SAYS ANN(E) $1000: At the DNC in 1988, Texan Ann Richards said of this man, "He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth" George Herbert Walker Bush |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | LITERARY CHARACTER SPOILERS $200: We'd say this title arachnid in a 1952 E.B. White tale went off to live on a farm, buuut... Charlotte |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | WHAT'S MY NAME? $1000: In the Marine Corps, it's also called an E-3:
____ corporal a lance corporal |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | CHILD ACTORS $800: A working actor to this day, Henry Thomas was 10 when he filmed this Spielberg classic E.T. |
| #8580, aired 2022-02-18 | THE LANDING $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2019 China's Chang'e 4 probe made the first landing here, a place not even glimpsed by humanity until 1959 the dark (far) side of the Moon |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | RECENT NEWS $1000: The 2020 "Accords" named for this biblical patriarch were to normalize relations between Bahrain, the U.A.E. & Israel Abraham |
| #8577, aired 2022-02-15 | IT'S THE ONLY VOWEL $2000: ...in the 2 title words of a Shakespeare comedy where we meet Sir Andrew Aguecheek (2 different vowels) E, I |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | COOKING WITH DAVID CHANG $200: (David Chang delivers the clue.) Like probably a lot of you, in college, I sustained myself on the instant type of these noodles, but you can actually do a lot with them, including making one of my favorite pasta dishes, cacio e pepe ramen |
| #8574, aired 2022-02-10 | E.R. $800: Prior to World War II, this German "Desert Fox" wrote a textbook called "Infantry Attacks" Erwin Rommel |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS $1000: In "From the Mixed Up Files of" this woman, a girl named Claudia & her brother run away from home & hide out at the Met Museum Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
| #8571, aired 2022-02-07 | CANNES $1600: A winner at Cannes was the 1998 film called "La vita è bella", directed by this Italian, who also starred (Roberto) Benigni |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | A LITTLE 5-NOTE MELODY $800: E-flat: this shape, with its size fixed & its shape determined, is an oval, but not every oval is this shape an ellipse |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | E BEFORE I $400: The massive Madrid maersk, is one of these, a ship used to carry cargo in bulk a freighter |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | E BEFORE I $1600: It can be a type of cell division or a figure of speech meiosis |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | E BEFORE I $2000: In many states the death penalty may be imposed if a murder was especially this, "atrocious or cruel" heinous |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | 6-LETTER WORDS $1200: To light a fire one can enjoy while using the same-named e-reader kindle |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | MISS, MR. OR MRS. SONG $1000: E.L.O.:
"A celebration," he's "up there waitin"' "Mr. Blue Sky" |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS IN 2021 $800: This R&B w.o.m.a.n. was far from the "Back of My Mind" & close to the top of the chart H.E.R. |
| #8546, aired 2022-01-03 | BE VERY QUIET $1600: When Venice was a republic, its nickname said it was the most this, a 6-letter calm synonym with all "E"s serene |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | ANIMALS IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1600: In an E.B. White novel, Louis, who "came into the world, lacking a voice" a trumpeter swan |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $800: A quantum field theory describing the interactions of charged particles has this 3-letter abbrev. that also means "proved it!" Q.E.D. |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $400: The first U.S. case study of a Black urban community was made in this city by W.E.B. Du Bois working for Penn in the 1890s Philadelphia |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | ANIMAL MASCOTS $200: Chuck E. Cheese a mouse |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | SHORTZ $2000: "5 little items of an everyday sort; you'll find us all in a tennis court", wrote Will for the Riddler, aka this in "Batman Forever" Edward Nygma (E. Nygma) |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | INTO THE J*E*T STREAM $200: To use a syringe to put a drug into a person's body inject |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | INTO THE J*E*T STREAM $400: A member of the Society of Jesus the Jesuits |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | INTO THE J*E*T STREAM $800: The suspension of a court proceeding adjournment |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | RE-CHARTED $1600: Seen here, this man had a hit twice with "Stand By Me", his signature song Ben E. King |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | THE GIFT OF GRAB $600: This birthday party place "Where a kid can be a kid" gives guests a chance to grab toys out of the crane claw machine Chuck E. Cheese |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | "E"-MALE $200: A towering figure in 19th century engineering, this Frenchman was known as the "Magician of Iron" Eiffel |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | "E"-MALE $600: A crater on Mars is named for this 11th century Norse explorer of North America Erikson |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | "E"-MALE $800: A World War II vet, this slain NAACP field secretary in Mississippi was buried with full military honors at Arlington Medgar Evers |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | DIËRESIS & ÜMLAUT WÖRDS $800: This word for the feast of Christmas can have a dieresis over the E Noël |
| #8486, aired 2021-10-11 | MED. ABBREV. $2000: P.E. is this type of blood clot in the lungs a pulmonary embolism |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | ARITHMETALK $600: The fundamental theorem of arithmetic says all composite numbers can be expressed as a product of these,
e.g. 65 = 5 x 13 prime numbers |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $800: One of the letters in a BSEE degree Science |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $1200: It can be a type of small apartment or a measure of results versus costs efficiency |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $1600: Term for someone like J.P. Morgan who invests in businesses on a large scale a financier |
| #8482, aired 2021-10-05 | I BEFORE E AFTER C $2000: Drop the last letter from a biological term to get this word meaning "coined money" specie |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | IF AT "FIRST" $600: 2-word term describing an E.M.T. who goes to a crisis area to provide immediate assistance a first responder |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | GETTING SPORT "E" $200: A 3 on the par 5 6th hole at Pebble Beach eagle |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | GETTING SPORT "E" $400: A double, triple or homer is this type of hit extra base |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | GETTING SPORT "E" $800: This NHL tough guy will drop the gloves at the drop of a hat an enforcer |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | GETTING SPORT "E" $1000: In the NFL, a defender who makes contact with an opponent before the ball is snapped is guilty of this infraction encroachment |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $1200: He was the first African American to receive a Harvard Ph.D. & his book of essays "The Souls of Black Folk" was published in 1903 (W.E.B.) Du Bois |
| #8475, aired 2021-09-24 | CHANNEL $600: Also a fan of using an exclamation point like we do, this network started keeping up with "The Bradshaw Bunch" in 2020 E! |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | MED. ABBREV. $400: According to the initials, an E.N.T. is a doctor who specializes in treating these body parts ear, nose & throat |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | S.E.C.! S.E.C.! $5,300 (Daily Double): The University of Tennessee is one of 2 S.E.C. schools from the state; this one founded by a shipping magnate in 1873 is the other Vanderbilt |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | WHILE "E" $400: Chocolate is a classic type of this delight seen here an éclair |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | WHILE "E" $600: It's the act of a minor legally freeing themselves from their parents emancipation |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | WHILE "E" $800: Long ago, it had a curved shape, but now it's basically a big oboe the English horn |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | MUSIC, IN THE CLASSICAL SENSE $2000: Really putting the "O" in orchestra, E.L.O. did a live performance of "In The Hall Of The Mountain King" by this composer Grieg |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | "E" BOOKS $400: There's a direction & a paradise in this double-"E" Steinbeck title East of Eden |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | "E" BOOKS $600: Gail Carson Levine reimagined "Cinderella" with the heroine under a curse of obedience in this double-"E" title Ella Enchanted |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | "E" BOOKS $800: A pistol-wielding panda adorns the cover of this bestseller about the importance of proper punctuation Eats, Shoots & Leaves |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | "E" BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): The title heroine of this 1816 novel wrongly believes herself to be a gifted matchmaker Emma |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | N.E. PORT $1200: George H.W. Bush had a summer home at this Maine city whose name ends with "port" Kennebunkport |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | N.E. PORT $1600: The band Phish was formed in this Vermont city, a port on Lake Champlain Burlington |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | "A" BEFORE "E" $400: Fog & mist are considered types of this, though they don't come out of a can an aerosol |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | "A" BEFORE "E" $800: Tree sloths are tinged green not with envy but with a type of this that grows in their fur algae |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | "A" BEFORE "E" $1200: Before some of them fuse together, your spine consists of 33 of these bones vertebrae |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | "A" BEFORE "E" $1600: Originating in Valencia, Spain, it's the tasty dish seen here paella |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | "A" BEFORE "E" $2000: They're those tiny little bumps on the surface of your tongue papillae |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | DRAMA SERIES WRITING EMMYS $1200: This man was nominated for "Twin Peaks" in 1990 but lost out to David E. Kelley for an episode of "L.A. Law" (David) Lynch |
| #8422, aired 2021-06-15 | FACE THE PERFORMER $200: Ming-Na Wen was marvelous as Melinda May, a one-woman cavalry on this ABC series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $400: Let's get to the truth: To "de" this, meaning to expose something as false, comes from a 1923 novel by W.E. Woodward debunk |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $800: E.M. Forster admired Walt Whitman & quoted a poem in "Leaves of Grass" for the title of this 1924 subcontinental novel A Passage to India |
| #8414, aired 2021-06-03 | "E" SPORTS $600: In 2020 Major League Baseball started putting a runner on second base to start each of these, which start with the tenth extra innings |
| #8398, aired 2021-05-12 | 'CAUSE WE SPELL GOOD $600: Here's a colonel of truth--"colonel" ain't spelled right in that phrase; please spell out this homophone, the gist of an idea K-E-R-N-E-L |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | SHEEP $600: This past tense verb with 3 E's can mean took wool from a sheep or stole money fleeced |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | READING MATERIAL $400: The high-end Oasis in this brand of e-readers has a glass rather than a plastic screen a Kindle |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | "E"! $200: It's from the French for one "who owns & manages a business", taking the financial risk an entrepreneur |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | "E"! $800: It's a sovereign decree, like that "of Nantes" edict |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | STRINGED INSTRUMENTS $400: A violin & this both have 4 strings, but a violin is just a tad smaller, with E as the high string, as opposed to A a viola |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME $600: In 2020 Robert E. Lee High School in Springfield, Virginia was renamed for this late congressman & civil rights icon John Lewis |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | POTPOUR"E" $400: A zero-zero test of this airplane seat is done on the ground an ejector seat |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | POTPOUR"E" $1200: It's a highly potent brand of grain alcohol from Luxco Everclear |
| #8382, aired 2021-04-20 | POTPOUR"E" $1600: It's a 4-letter name for a pitcher with a handle ewer |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | AT THE MOVIES $2000: This 1988 movie that was, let's say, reminiscent of "E.T." found a second life as Paul Rudd's go-to clip on "Conan" Mac and Me |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | MOGUL "E" $1000: Tim Wentworth, pres. of drug deliverer these "Scripts", established a scholarship at his community college alma mater Express Scripts |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | INITIALLY YOURS $2000: She said what she likes most about her novel "The Outsiders" is "how it has taught a lot of kids to enjoy reading" (S.E.) Hinton |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "E" $1200: Putting black schmutz on this part of a telescope or binoculars is a classic practical joke the eyehole (eyepiece) |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | ALPHABET DOGS $1000: E: It has a speckled coat unlike its solid mahogany Irish cousin English Setter |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | GUITAR TALK $600: A guitar's strings are set to E-A-D-G-B-E in "standard" this tuning |
| #8340, aired 2021-02-19 | "KON"FUSION $1200: This title of albums by R.E.M. & the Grateful Dead means a settling of accounts Reckoning |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | GIRL $400: Farm girl Fern Arable wants to save the life of a pig in this E.B. White tale Charlotte's Web |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | ENGINEERING $400: (Erica Joy Baker presents the clue.) Early streetlights tended to hiss & flicker until the problem was solved by Hertha Marks Ayrton, a pioneer in this branch of engineering abbreviated E.E. electrical engineering |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | 2 LETTERS, ENDS IN "E" $600: The "royal" one is used formally by a monarch to refer to him or herself we |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | 2 LETTERS, ENDS IN "E" $1000: Plural of thou, when talking to a group ye |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | THE GRAMM"E"S $600: He's a 6-time winner of the Best Rap Album Grammy Eminem |
| #8323, aired 2021-01-27 | THE GRAMM"E"S $800: Last name of the jazz bandleader who received a Lifetime Achievement award in 1966 (Duke) Ellington |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 9-LETTER WORDS $200: B or C, but not A or E a consonant |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 5 "E" $1200: In sociology this term describes the basic character of a culture ethos |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | 5 "E" $1600: To insert a graphic or video clip into an email embed |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | THE FICTIONAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK $800: In a 1945 E.B. White kids' book, Eleanor is the mom of this tiny title character who can crawl inside a piano to fix keys Stuart Little |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Ordinal synonym for E.S.P. that's also a healthy ability to appreciate a joke sixth sense of humor |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $2000: An eponym is a word derived from a person's name; this is a word for a person from a particular place, like Muscovite demonym |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | ON A HIGH NOTE $1200: She hit a high E flat singing "Let It Go" & then hit it again with "Into The Unknown" from "Frozen 2" Idina Menzel |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | "U" BEFORE "E" $400: Alexander Pushkin was mortally wounded in one of these a duel |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | "U" BEFORE "E" $800: It's French for what the dancer seen here is doing a pirouette |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | "U" BEFORE "E" $1200: To do this to a jury means to hold it away from outside news, media & the public to sequester |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | "U" BEFORE "E" $1600: It's where 2 or more rivers flow together to become one a confluence |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | IN THE PRESIDENT'S CABINETS $800: Abraham Ribicoff at H.E.W.; the Attorney General, a guy the president knew from childhood JFK |
| #8289, aired 2020-11-26 | BESTSELLING NONFICTION $400: Duane Chapman, aka this, the title of an A&E show, was a No. 1 bestselling author in 2007 with "You Can Run But You Can't Hide" Dog the Bounty Hunter |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | A PLACE TO PARK YOUR YACHT $800: Yas Marina is full of yachts in Abu Dhabi, one of these "E"s in the U.A.E. the Emirates |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: E.E. Ward Moving & Storage is the oldest Black-owned co. in the U.S., dating to the 1840s when a Ward was a conductor on this the Underground Railroad |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | STARTS WITH "E" $800: Being "burnt in" this 6-letter manner is not usually a good sign effigy |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | STARTS WITH "E" $1,500 (Daily Double): A Christian holiday, or any sudden insight Epiphany |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $1,600 (Daily Double): E.M. Forster saw his first major success in 1910 with this novel named for a country estate Howards End |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | DOUBLE O, DOUBLE E $400: A visual examination of something; let's have a... a look-see |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | DOUBLE O, DOUBLE E $800: 2-word name for the flat pan used to bake up some snickerdoodles a cookie sheet |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | DOUBLE O, DOUBLE E $1000: To excessively pamper someone with a utensil, metaphorically to spoon-feed them |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | ADD AN E $200: A word meaning great delight is happy to add an E to be a young 'roo joy & joey |
| #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 | ADD AN E $600: A word meaning angry takes on an E to enjoy a honey & water alcoholic concoction mad & mead |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | ADD AN E $800: To experience again in your mind becomes a word meaning to ease pain relive & relieve |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | ADD AN E $1000: A unit of fluid capacity takes on an E to become a 16th century sailing vessel gallon & galleon |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | COMPOSERS $800: The aria "La donna e mobile" is a highlight of "Rigoletto", composed by this Italian Verdi |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | "WAT"s IN A NAME $400: William E. Miller was this Republican's 1964 running mate Barry Goldwater |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | ALLITERATIVE BUSINESS $1200: This kids' restaurant & play place with a rodent mascot has offered a Sensory Sensitive Sunday once a month Chuck E. Cheese |
| #8252, aired 2020-10-06 | ADD A VOWEL $400: E: to cut (perhaps diplomatic ties) becomes extremely harsh sever & severe |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | E 1-2-3-4-5 $400: A mistake, like throwing the ball into left field an error |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | E 1-2-3-4-5 $1200: It describes the indentation on a chin cleft |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | E 1-2-3-4-5 $1600: A small flock of quail covey |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | E 1-2-3-4-5 $2000: Canadians enjoy wearing this type of heavy stocking cap a toque (tuque) |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | GUYS NAMED DOUG $400: This "Original Human Beatbox" opened Doug E.'s, a chicken & waffle restaurant Doug E. Fresh |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | DOUBLE "E" FOR THEE $400: To suddenly swerve in a different direction veer (careen) |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | DOUBLE "E" FOR THEE $1200: Vladimir Putin enjoys a cocktail made with horseradish & this veggie beloved in Russia beets |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | "A" IS FOR AUTUMN $400: Each fall Alabama & this S.E.C. football archrival meet in "The Iron Bowl" Auburn |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | NEW TECHNOLOGY $2000: Instead of contaminating a burger, this bacterium can now make indigo in a process invented by a biotech company E. coli |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "E" $800: It often means a lavish country residence, but in Britain can also mean a housing development an estate |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "E" $1200: Synonym for a posse--a rapper's or an actor's, not a sheriff's an entourage |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "E" $1600: This word for a perfect example doesn't rhyme with "home" epitome |
| #8239, aired 2020-09-17 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "E" $2000: This 9-letter word is a less common synonym for "former" erstwhile |
| #8238, aired 2020-09-16 | TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS BY WOMEN $800: 3 young E.T.s appear as humans & attend a New Mexico high school in books by Melinda Metz, the basis for this TV show Roswell |
| #8234, aired 2020-06-11 | BREAKOUT MOVIE ROLES $400: This actress who captured our hearts as little Gertie in "E.T." Drew Barrymore |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | BOULDER DASH $400: He's been known to try & kill a certain roadrunner with boulders, but the big rocks usually end up coming his way Wile E. Coyote |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | AMERICAN HEALTH CARE $400: It's the "E" in EMTALA, a 1986 federal law that says a hospital must treat patients with serious conditions who can't pay emergency |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | FORM "E" $200: A triangle with sides A, B & C all equal in length is in this form equilateral |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | FORM "E" $400: The parts of a roof that stick out over the edge of a building form these eaves |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | FORM "E" $600: Take a look from above & you'll see why an area just south of the White House has this geometric name the Ellipse |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | FORM "E" $800: It's the protective housing of a crustacean an exoskeleton |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | A WRITER'S LIFE $800: Born in 1903 with the initials E.A.B., took his pen name from an English river in 1933, passed away in 1950, 34 years early George Orwell |
| #8219, aired 2020-05-21 | BOSS HOG $1200: Noting this swine's efforts, E.B. White wrote, "It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people" Wilbur |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | "A" BEFORE "E" $400: The world federation for this Olympic martial art is headquartered in Seoul taekwondo |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | "A" BEFORE "E" $800: In 2001, they walked this way as new inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Aerosmith |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | "A" BEFORE "E" $1200: It's another name for the Irish language Gaelic |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | "A" BEFORE "E" $1600: Modeled after the "Iliad" & the "Odyssey", it's the national epic of ancient Rome the Aeneid |
| #8217, aired 2020-05-19 | "A" BEFORE "E" $2000: Several evergreen trees go by this name, Latin for "tree of life" arborvitae |
| #8216, aired 2020-05-18 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: M is for Methodist in this U.S. church that in 1820 launched a mission into West Africa the A.M.E. Church (African Methodist Episcopal) |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | FLEE CIRCUS $1200: P.T. Barnum marked exits with "This way to" this fancy "E" word; folks left & had to buy a ticket to reenter egress |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | POETRY $1200: This poet with a bias for lowercase letters did use capital E's for the initials of his first & middle names cummings |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | E-COLLEGE-Y $200: N.C. State created a program to compost these food boxes, which usually aren't recyclable, especially if they contain crusts pizza boxes |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | E-COLLEGE-Y $600: UC Davis converts 50 tons of organic waste into energy daily with a system called an A.D., this non-oxygen type of "digester" anaerobic |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | C BEFORE E, AFTER I $800: A 200th anniversary a bicentennial |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | C BEFORE E, AFTER I $1200: Pain-controlling care facility for the terminally ill a hospice |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | C BEFORE E, AFTER I $1600: It's a narrow opening in a cliff a crevice |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | C BEFORE E, AFTER I $2000: Decorative molding along the top of a wall or building a cornice |
| #8189, aired 2020-03-26 | POLICE SQUAD $400: Founded in 1983, it's a police officer-led program in the U.S. & 50+ other countries to keep kids off drugs D.A.R.E. |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | MALE WRITERS $400: 25 years after writing memorably about a talking mouse-y boy, he penned a tale about a mute trumpeter swan E.B. White |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | SPELL IT LIKE THE BRITS $200: Hermione, our tickets to a play the West End have arrived! Tonight we're off to the... T-H-E-A-T-R-E |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | TV VILLAINS $800: Kasius, Graviton & a Kree were bad guys on this Marvel series on ABC Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| #8159, aired 2020-02-13 | THE CIVIL WAR $600: The first amputee of the war, J.E. Hanger invented a prosthetic this that ones made today are still based upon a leg |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | FRED(E)RIC(K)S OF HOLLYWOOD $800: This former child actor is now a busy TV director & even directed brother Ben in "Boy Meets World" Fred Savage |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | FRED(E)RIC(K)S OF HOLLYWOOD $1200: With the help of makeup artist Wally Westmore, Fredric March won an Oscar in this dual role from a literary classic Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | FRED(E)RIC(K)S OF HOLLYWOOD $1600: This funnyman improvised his way to greatness in films like "Waiting for Guffman" and "A Mighty Wind" Fred Willard |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | FRED(E)RIC(K)S OF HOLLYWOOD $2000: This actor who played a killer in "Double Indemnity" was a sweet dad to "My Three Sons" on TV Fred MacMurray |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | LETTER MEN $2000: E: his "Elements" says, "a line is a length without breadth" Euclid |
| #8147, aired 2020-01-28 | JUST A SAMPLE $2000: Oh darlin', darlin'--Sean Kingston's "Beautiful Girls" sampled some of this Ben E. King classic "Stand By Me" |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | A, E, I, O--NO U $400: To question formally, like a cop does to a suspect interrogate |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | A, E, I, O--NO U $800: This instrument records earthquake vibrations a seismograph |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | A, E, I, O--NO U $1200: This type of pressure is also called atmospheric pressure barometric |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | A, E, I, O--NO U $1600: These "waters" are traditionally within 3 miles of a nation's shores territorial |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | A, E, I, O--NO U $2000: 11-letter word meaning to give something in return, perhaps your feelings reciprocate |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | POND $200: A real pond in this urban park is where E.B. White's Stuart Little is victorious racing his sailboat Central Park |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | EDIBLE POP CULTURE $400: In a 1982 film a trail of Reese's Pieces draws this marooned title character out from hiding E.T. |
| #8118, aired 2019-12-18 | LITERATURE $1600: A 2014 biographical novel about this author opens with his "Passage to India" aboard the SS City of Birmingham E.M. Forster |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | EARLY ROLES $1200: In 1984 he played Ace on "E/R" 10 years before getting even more devilishly handsome on a very different "ER" George Clooney |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | TAKING A VOWEL OF SILENCE $800: E: In this chance occurrence, which your hole-in-one was, you lucky so-&-so a fluke |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | LINGUISTICS $2000: "Schleicher's Fable" was written by a linguist in 1868 in P.I.E. or Proto-this, the ancestor of tongues from Hindi to English Indo-European |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | E BEFORE I $600: A prized family memento passed down from one generation to another an heirloom |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION $1000: Amybeth McNulty stars in the series "Anne with an E", a grittier take on this 1908 Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | ENABLING COOKIES $400: A little elf told me that this brand makes E.L. Fudge, but obviously, that elf was slacking & should get back to work Keebler |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | THE "NIGHT" WATCH $800: A group of dropouts are trying to get their G.E.D.s in this film starring Tiffany Haddish & Kevin Hart Night School |
| #8067, aired 2019-10-08 | MUNICIPAL BEFORE & AFTER $800: E.B. White mouselike boy in a southern state capital Stuart Little Rock |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | PLACES OF BUSINESS $600: This family-friendly pizza chain with a mouse mascot has more than 600 locations Chuck E. Cheese |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | BIOGRAPHERS $400: W.E.B. Du Bois wrote a 1909 biography defending this abolitionist who was hanged 50 years earlier (John) Brown |
| #8060, aired 2019-09-27 | WHISKEY BUSINESS $400: Most scotch is distilled twice; this type of whiskey, like Bushmills & Tullamore D.E.W., 3 times Irish whiskey |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NUMERIC LIT $400: E.L. James self-published this first book in an erotic series that started as fan fiction loosely based on "Twilight" Fifty Shades of Grey |
| #8047, aired 2019-09-10 | PIG LATIN $1000: Pig Latin cheered up the Depression--in 1933 a popular song debuted with a Pig Latin segment, "e'reway inay the" this "oneymay" |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | GRAB A SEAT $1000: It's "E"asy to name this chair that's molded to fit the body's shape & named for the married couple who designed it an Eames chair |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | ON SECOND THOUGHT $1000: These 2 similar words have similar meanings; the one starting "A" can mean to make any change; the "E" is to change the text amend and emend |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | ACTION MOVIE STARS $1200: This actor returns as Peter Parker in "Spider-Man: Far From Home", trying to enjoy a vacation while battling new foes in Europe Tom Holland |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2,000 (Daily Double): Term for a feudal Anglo-Saxon or Scottish lord; Macbeth was one "of Cawdor" thane |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | VILE QUOTES $2000: In "A Passage to India" by him, Adela thought "Tears vile, a degradation more subtle than anything endured in the Marabar" E.M. Forster |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | DROP A LETTER $400: Drop an "E" from a lavish meal to get this verb meaning to abstain from food fast |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | A S.T.E.A.M. CATEGORY $400: Textile engineering includes developing new types of these to protect wounds bandages |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | A S.T.E.A.M. CATEGORY $800: Scientifically, the one that's part of your hand is the metacarpus; the tree is Nypa fruticans palm |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | A S.T.E.A.M. CATEGORY $1200: How far apart your eyes are is one metric of FRS, short for this tech system used by social media & law enforcement facial recognition system |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | A S.T.E.A.M. CATEGORY $1600: In math the vertical "rise" of a line is divided by the horizontal "run" to calculate this measure slope |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | A S.T.E.A.M. CATEGORY $2000: This American artist said his painting "Hotel Window" was "lonelier than I'd planned it" Edward Hopper |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | E BEFORE I $200: A pale brown color beige |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | E BEFORE I $400: From the Arabic for "old man", it's a tribal or village leader in parts of the Middle East a sheik |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | E BEFORE I $600: A organic compound composed of one or more chains of amino acids a protein |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST JACKET $400: Someone's dead & there's a party & that's all we can say about the plot of this long James Joyce novel Finnegan's Wake |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST JACKET $800: In a Steinbeck tale Jody Tiflin kills a buzzard that's come to feast on his "Red" one of these that just died pony |
| #8015, aired 2019-06-14 | "O" IS FOR OPERA $800: Richard Strauss' "Elektra" has a big recognition scene between the title character & him Orestes |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | PRONOUN LOSS $400: Take "me" away from an old honeyed liquor & you get this, found in the pages of a magazine ad |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | "SINGLE" SERVINGS $800: A 1610 legal text is titled "The Duello, or," this, which means going mano-a-mano single combat |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | COLLEGE TOWNS $800: Let's raise a glass of bubbly to these 2 adjoining cities, home to the University of Illinois Champaign and Urbana |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | COLLEGE TOWNS $1,000 (Daily Double): Have a ball at Ball State University, located in this city northeast of Indianapolis Muncie |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | ACCENT MARKS & SPECIAL LETTERS $1600: The field of digging up human artifacts is occasionally spelled with an ash in the middle--these 2 letters mushed together an A and an E |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | SPELL IT OR SAY IT? $1200: You say "est" when referring to a 1970s self-help movement, but E.S.T. is "Eastern" this Standard Time |
| #8009, aired 2019-06-06 | A BIT OF LIT $1200: The epigraph to this E.L. Doctorow novel is a quote by Scott Joplin Ragtime |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | NEW ON TV IN THE YEAR 2000 $2000: This David E. Kelley series focused on the lives of teachers & students at a Beantown high school Boston Public |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | EPISTOLARY NOVELS $800: "The Boy Next Door", a 21st century novel by Meg Cabot, uses this newer form of correspondence e-mail |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | GETTING ALL SCIENCE "E" $800: This branch of zoology that focuses on insects emerged as a distinct field of study in the early 19th century entomology |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | GETTING ALL SCIENCE "E" $1600: It's the one-word name for a red blood cell erythrocyte |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | GETTING ALL SCIENCE "E" $2000: Hello...hello...hello...it's an ultrasound image of the heart used to diagnose congenital heart disease a echocardiogram |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | GETTING ALL SCIENCE "E" $11,381 (Daily Double): Proprioception is a synonym for this sense of balance equilibrium |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | TORY SPELLING $7,000 (Daily Double): This 19th century Tory was nicknamed Dizzy D-I-S-R-A-E-L-I |
| #7982, aired 2019-04-30 | THAT'S A NOVEL PLACE $600: E.M. Forster novel set against the backdrop of the British Raj A Passage to India |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | OUT-OF-OFFICE E-MAILS $400: From him in 1797:
"Out of office as a third term wasn't for me. Also have several dental appointments" Washington |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | I'D LIKE TO SELL A VOWEL $1000: I'll sell you 2 vowels--this network with shows like "Born This Way" & "Intervention" A&E |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BOOK TITLE NAMES $800: The title character of this E.B. White book is born 2 inches long, with a tail & whiskers Stuart Little |
| #7949, aired 2019-03-14 | ALL BETS ARE OFF $400: This Greek letter gave us part of the word for all the letters that make up a language alpha |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $1600: It's worth 23, it's from Yiddish meaning "dirt" or "filth" & you'e got a little on your shoe schmutz |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | "E"PONYMOUS $800: A British monarch is the source of this adjective for the first decade of the 20th century Edwardian |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | "E"PONYMOUS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew swirls some liquids in a flask.) Liquids can be swirled & mixed without danger of spillage in this tapered laboratory flask, named for a 19th-century German chemist the Erlenmeyer flask |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | HISTORY WITH LESSER-KNOWN PAINTERS $2000: Adolph Menzel painted a concert with this great Prussian king on Flute & C.P.E. Bach at the keyboard Frederick the Great |
| #7940, aired 2019-03-01 | "E"PONYMOUS $7,400 (Daily Double): The plane truth is that this 2-word branch of math is named for a Greek who lived around 300 B.C. Euclidean geometry |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | 4,3,4 $400: McCrory's was this kind of store named for the coins spent there; John McCrorey dropped his "E" for cheaper signage a five and dime |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1600: In this novel by E.M. Forster, Lucy Honeychurch & her cousin visit Florence, Italy A Room with a View |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS MONTH? $800: Victoria Day (in Canada),
V-E Day May |
| #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 |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | FILL "E" $400: It's a formal letter, like the one Paul wrote to the Galatians epistle |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | FILL "E" $600: Full of health benefits, these green soybeans have been called a "wonder veggie" edamame |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | FILL "E" $800: Dig up a dead body to exhume |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | FILL "E" $1000: From the French for "study", it's a musical piece designed for students to improve their technique etude |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $200: One doing this hotel desk job might procure guests some show tickets a concierge |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $600: The Quakers are one "of Friends" a society |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $1000: Spanish word for a farming estate; some are now luxury destinations a hacienda |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | GEOGRAPH"E" $1200: Found on the North Saskatchewan River, this petroleum & meatpacking city was established as a fort in 1795 Edmonton |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | GEOGRAPH"E" $4,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a coastal body of water on the monitor.) Seen here is an example of this, a partly enclosed coastal body of water where river water mixes with sea water an estuary |
| #7913, aired 2019-01-23 | THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O'DONNELL $600: (Lawrence O'Donnell presents the clue): "Some Like It Hot" has one of the great last lines in film: when Jack Lemmon reveals he's a man, Joe E. Brown replies, "Well, nobody's" this perfect |
| #7907, aired 2019-01-15 | SEND ME A LETTER $800: A 6-string guitar's low & high strings are typically tuned to this note E |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | 21st CENTURY FILMS $200: A waste-collecting robot helps save Earth in this Pixar film Wall-E |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | WHAT A COUNTR"E" $400: It fought a 1990s border war with Peru Ecuador |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | WHAT A COUNTR"E" $800: A 1974 military coup deposed the last of this Africa nation's emperors Ethiopia |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | WHAT A COUNTR"E" $1200: Popular unrest ousted its president in February 2011, just in time for spring Egypt |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | WHAT A COUNTR"E" $2,000 (Daily Double): The last Russian troops left it in 1994 Estonia |
| #7880, aired 2018-12-07 | WHAT A COUNTR"E" $2000: This African country is about 1 degree north of where its name suggests Equatorial Guinea |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | I GOT NOTHING $400: Ships & planes continue to disappear into this polygon off the S.E. USA, including a plane reportedly missing in Dec. 2008 the Bermuda Triangle |
| #7872, aired 2018-11-27 | THE WRITER SPEAKS $800: On writing up to children, "I handed them...a mouse-boy and they accepted it...I gave them a literate spider, and they took that" E.B. White |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $2,000 (Daily Double): E.B. White referred to this 1952 book of his as a "hymn to the barn" Charlotte's Web |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | ALPHABET CITY $800: E:
This Mexican city south of San Diego is a regular port-of-call for short cruises out of Long Beach, Ca. Ensenada |
| #7851, aired 2018-10-29 | BURGER TIME $2000: This A&E reality series focuses on the burger joint run by Paul, brother of Dorchester's own Mark & Donnie Wahlburgers |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | THRE"E"-LETTER WORDS $800: A football position or a sudden demise an end |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | THRE"E"-LETTER WORDS $2000: A unit of work or energy an erg |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL $600: By E.M. Forster, "Una Habitación con Vistas" A Room with a View |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | C & C ALLITERATION FACTORY $600: When you CC a coworker on an e-mail, "CC" is short for this, representing bygone technology carbon copy |
| #7839, aired 2018-10-11 | STOCK SYMBOLS $400: HD, DVD, A/V, L.E.D., HDMI... it's all here at this store--BBY Best Buy |
| #7822, aired 2018-09-18 | PSA MASCOTS $600: Daren the Lion, D.A.R.E.'s mascot, wants you to say no to these drugs |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | 3 "E"s $400: A keyboard command to bring up the Task Manager is control-alt-this delete |
| #7818, aired 2018-09-12 | FANTASY & PARANORMAL LIT $1600: In books by Julie Kagawa, Meghan discovers that she's half-this & also that the word can be spelled with a middle "E" fae (or faerie) |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | CLASSIC SONGS' FIRST LINES $1000: "You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips" "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" |
| #7807, aired 2018-07-17 | A LIGHT CATEGORY $800: L.E.D.s, light-emitting these, were invented in 1962 but it took decades for them to come into wide use diodes |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | GERMAN WRITERS $3,200 (Daily Double): E.T.A. Hoffmann's tale entitled this device "and the Mouse King" evolved into a popular ballet the nutcracker |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | THE SOCIAL NETWORK $400: Ship captains rely on this group; for Mardi Gras, it's spelled with a "K" at the start & an extra "E" at the end a crew/krewe |
| #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 |
| #7794, aired 2018-06-28 | KITCHEN CONFUSION $200: If this spicy powder ends with an "E", it's likely pure; with an "I", it's a blend chile, or chili, powder |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | MATH WORDS $800: E:
It's a closed, oval-shaped curve an ellipse |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | LET'S TAKE A CLASS AT HARVARD $800: Phillis Wheatley & W.E.B. Du Bois are part of African-American lit "From the Beginnings to" this area's "Renaissance" Harlem |
| #7788, aired 2018-06-20 | THEY TURNED MY BOOK INTO A MOVIE $400: "Fifty Shades Darker" E.L. James |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | THE SCIENCE OF MECHANICS $1200: It's abbreviated K.E.; Lionel Messi is good at giving it to a soccer ball kinetic energy |
| #7770, aired 2018-05-25 | NOT MADE $600: Atari's not making any more games based on this 1982 Spielberg movie; they ended up burying thousands in a landfill E.T. |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | LET'S GET SCIENC"E" $400: An occultation is a type of this astronomical event eclipse |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | LET'S GET SCIENC"E" $800: In science talk, it's a gamete an egg |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | LET'S GET SCIENC"E" $4,200 (Daily Double): In physics, it's the ability of a deformed body to return to its original size & shape elasticity |
| #7761, aired 2018-05-14 | DEAD POETS' SOCIETY $800: A.E. Housman wrote "To" one of these "Dying Young" an athlete |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | SCIENCE FRICTION $2,800 (Daily Double): In a 19th c. spat in this field, O.C. Marsh won a round when it turned out E.D. Cope had put an elasmosaurus skull on the tail paleontology |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | HIPSTERY $1600: This 3-initial thinker sported a hip beard as a civil rights activist and NAACP co-founder W.E.B. Du Bois |
| #7751, aired 2018-04-30 | HIPSTERY $2000: When this 3-initial writer of "Tales" lived in Bamberg, Germany around 1815, he could have enjoyed many craft breweries E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | SAN CITY, CALIFORNIA $1000: Once home to the estate of railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington, this city shares its name with a tiny European republic San Marino |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | HIDE AWAY IN A BOOK $400: Claudia & her brother run away from home & hide in this NYC museum in "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| #7726, aired 2018-03-26 | GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING BEE $400: The name of this large sea comes from words for "middle of the land" M-E-D-I-T-E-R-R-A-N-E-A-N |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | MIDDLE INITIAL E. $200: He's the mascot for the pizza and play place where a kid can be a kid Chuck E. Cheese |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | MIDDLE INITIAL E. $400: In 1915 bond dealer Charles E. Merrill took on a business partner with this last name Lynch |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | BOOKS TO BROADWAY $2000: Turning this man's "Ragtime" into a musical won Terrence McNally the Tony for Best Book (E.L.) Doctorow |
| #7707, aired 2018-02-27 | LITERARY HOMES $1200: The title of this E.M. Forster novel refers to a country house, & there's no apostrophe Howards End |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | NEW WORDS IN 1988 $800: Hyphenated term for a work by Camus or Clancy, but on the computer an e-book |
| #7701, aired 2018-02-19 | MILITARY GAME PLANS $1200: This conqueror loves to blitz--he'll invade N.E. China in 1211 & take down Beijing in the backfield in 4 years Genghis Khan |
| #7701, aired 2018-02-19 | IT'S ALL A MIRAGE $1600: His "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" mentions watching a mirage as "the heat of Arabia came out like a drawn sword" Lawrence of Arabia, or T.E. Lawrence |
| #7701, aired 2018-02-19 | TAYLOR MADE $2000: Richard E. Taylor's work confirming the existence of these subatomic particles upped his Q rating & won a 1990 Nobel quarks |
| #7700, aired 2018-02-16 | TAKE A LETTER $200: It = mc2 E |
| #7696, aired 2018-02-12 | A SHEEPISH CATEGORY $2000: A.E. Housman wrote of a "Lad" from this English county, home to a hornless, dark-faced sheep of the same name Shropshire |
| #7693, aired 2018-02-07 | THE WASHINGTON POST $800: Joseph E. Ralph worked as a plate cleaner for the BEP, this bureau, before becoming its director in 1908 Bureau of Engraving and Printing |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | BLACK HISTORY NOTABLES $1600: He was a longtime assistant to Robert E. Peary, and a co-discoverer of the North Pole Matthew Henson |
| #7682, aired 2018-01-23 | CHARACTERS' FULL NAMES $400: Formally, the first 2 names of this mascot of a kids' restaurant chain are "Charles Entertainment" Chuck E. Cheese |
| #7681, aired 2018-01-22 | SOUP $400: Pasta e fagioli is a hearty Italian soup of pasta & these beans |
| #7667, aired 2018-01-02 | "LIGHT" MUSIC $1000: Turn on this Neil Diamond song inspired by the movie "E.T." "Turn On Your Heartlight" |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | TV MOVIES $800: This actor, an ex-TV P.I., was the specific general in A&E's "Ike: Countdown to D-Day" Tom Selleck |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | REBEL WITHOUT A PULSE $600: In 1884, 14 years after Robert E. Lee died, this city put up his statue; to Mayor Landrieu's approval, it was removed in 2017 New Orleans |
| #7634, aired 2017-11-16 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $400: In a memoir called "Wildflower", she thanks Steven Spielberg, calling the making of "E.T." magical (Drew) Barrymore |
| #7630, aired 2017-11-10 | UNSCRIPTED TV $400: This guy "the Bounty Hunter" hunted for fugitives on A&E & CMT Dog |
| #7627, aired 2017-11-07 | MOVIE & TV DEATHS $800: On this show, Dr. Robert "Rocket" Romano lost an arm to a helicopter, then one crashed, smooshing him E.R. |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | "R"OCK BANDS $400: In 1980 Peter Buck & Michael Stipe considered Twisted Kites as a name for their new band, but you know the group as this R.E.M. |
| #7613, aired 2017-10-18 | THE ELECTRIC COMPANY $400: Tom Lehrer wrote songs for the show, like one about this letter that likes to "turn a can into a cane" a silent "E" |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | A SUFFIX WILL SUFFICE $800: Cut out this suffix & you could be left with "append" or "tonsill" -ectomy |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | AT THE OPERA $1600: (I am Placido Domingo.) The Duke of Mantua sings one of the most famous arias of all time in this opera named for a hunchbacked court jester
"La donna è mobile / Qual piuma al vento / Muta d'accento..." Rigoletto |
| #7606, aired 2017-10-09 | LAW SLAW $1000: To get a legal verb meaning "stop someone from bringing certain claims", put this letter before "stop" E |
| #7601, aired 2017-10-02 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $2000: The song "My Dog Has Fleas" is often used to tune its 4 strings, G-C-E-A a ukulele |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1600: No yolk, 1928's winning word was this white part of an egg A-L-B-U-M-E-N |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $2000: In 1994 it was this 12-letter word meaning before the Biblical flood A-N-T-E-D-I-L-U-V-I-A-N |
| #7593, aired 2017-09-20 | BRITISH PLAYWRIGHTS $400: From a 1585 will, the only extant copy of the handwriting of this playwright shows he spelled his name M-A-R-L-E-Y Christopher Marlowe |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | IT'S A WIRED WORLD $400: In 2017 Brazil removed the tax on these hyphenated items, so bibliophiles from Rio to Recife can Kindle away an e-book |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | MEDICAL "E"s $400: Severe otitis media can lead to a perforation of this membrane the eardrum |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | MEDICAL "E"s $1600: A runner's high is produced by the release of these hormones, nature's opiates endorphins |
| #7585, aired 2017-07-28 | MEDICAL "E"s $2000: It's the word for a pregnancy that occurs outside the uterus ectopic |
| #7580, aired 2017-07-21 | WEST VIRGINIA $1000: Charleston has a memorial to this black educator whose family moved to nearby Malden in 1865 Booker T. Washington |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | LETTER PERFECT $800: "Gadsby" was a 50,000-word work of fiction with no using of this non-consonant (Ha! Did it! But it was hard to do!) an E |
| #7566, aired 2017-07-03 | WE "LOVE" TO READ $1600: Teaching in London's East End inspired E.R. Braithwaite to write this 1959 book, later a Sidney Poitier film To Sir, with Love |
| #7563, aired 2017-06-28 | AFRICAN AMERICANS $1600: (I'm Melissa Harris-Perry.) My book "Barbershops, Bibles & BET" won a 2005 National Conference of Black Political Scientist Award named for this sociologist who helped create the NAACP in 1909 (W.E.B.) Du Bois |
| #7558, aired 2017-06-21 | WE'VE GOT MOMMY ISSUES $800: For Mother's Day 2016 E.W. chose "20 TV Moms We Love", including Lynette Scavo, a resident of Wisteria Lane on this series Desperate Housewives |
| #7557, aired 2017-06-20 | AUTHORS' INITIALS $200: Wove a web about "some pig":
EBW E.B. White |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | "NME"s LIST $800: It's the "E" in a government agency established in 1970 environmental |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | YOU'RE SUCH A HOMER $1000: In 1892 he bought a first-class ticket on the E. Louisiana Railroad; later, he found himself in front of Judge John Ferguson Homer Plessy |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | "E"VALUATION $200: Jared sells a silver ring with this kind of lab-created gemstone for 40 bucks an emerald |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | "E"VALUATION $400: This gasoline additive cost about $2.00 a gallon in early 2017 ethanol |
| #7531, aired 2017-05-15 | "E"VALUATION $800: The U.S. Mint offers a 1-ounce "American" this gold bullion coin for about $1,600 an eagle |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: Ponyboy gets acquitted of manslaughter, but Dally gets shot by the police after a robbery in this S.E. Hinton book The Outsiders |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | ABBREV-"E"-ATIONS $200: ENT stands for a doctor who specializes in these 3 body parts ear, nose and throat |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | ABBREV-"E"-ATIONS $800: EMP stands for this type of pulse, the result of a nuclear explosion electromagnetic |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | ABBREV-"E"-ATIONS $1000: During WWII the U.S. Army put on quite a show at the ETO, this so-called theater the European (Theater of Operations) |
| #7517, aired 2017-04-25 | SHE'S GOT CONTRACTIONS $1200: An army-entering event or a baby-exiting one, this delivery process might involve prostaglandin E induction |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | ALMA MATERS $200: (I'm political commentator S.E. Cupp.) I wasn't a politics or history major but graduated from this upstate New York Ivy League school with a degree in art history & wrote art reviews for the Sun Cornell |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | COMMA SYMPATHIZERS $400: E.L. Doctorow said he "liked commas" but "detested" these punctuation marks, a word he hyphenated a semicolon |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | "E"ASY DOES IT $400: It's the process by which a compound converts from a liquid state to a gaseous one evaporation |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | COMMA SYMPATHIZERS $1600: E.B. White said this magazine he worked for used commas "with the precision of knives in a circus act" The New Yorker |
| #7504, aired 2017-04-06 | "E"ASY DOES IT $2000: Anything that exists or is used for a short time; to historians, it means documents like ads & pamphlets ephemera |
| #7502, aired 2017-04-04 | SHAKESPEAREAN OPERA $400: Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e I Montecchi" tells the same story as this play Romeo and Juliet |
| #7495, aired 2017-03-24 | OH, THE HORROR! $800: "What's Wrong With Norman" was an episode of this drama on A&E Bates Motel |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | OPEN THE PODCAST DOORS, HAL $1200: The World Wide Web can be wacky, & this 2-word show whose title can be a dangerous click when e-mailing fills in details Reply All |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $200: During a train trip E.B. White dreamed up this "small character who had the features of a mouse" Stuart Little |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $400: This Packer started an NFL QB record 253 straight regular season games F-A-V-R-E |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $600: Flip 2 letters in a lumberjack's falling-tree yell & get this quality of the sound of a voice T-I-M-B-R-E |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | THE DREADED SPELLING CATEGORY $800: Medical condition characterized by involuntary sleeping N-A-R-C-O-L-E-P-S-Y |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | I'M A FOOD "E" $200: This purple-skinned edible is the star ingredient of baba ghanoush eggplant |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | I'M A FOOD "E" $400: Petit-gris is a smaller French variety of these creatures with shells escargot |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | I'M A FOOD "E" $600: They're the Spanish-named meat pies seen here empanadas |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | I'M A FOOD "E" $800: The hole truth is it's another name for Swiss cheese Emmentaler |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | I'M A FOOD "E" $1000: For an appetizer, steam these green soybeans & top them with salt edamame |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | MY "BA-E" $200: The name of this operatic voice is from the Greek for "deep-sounding" baritone |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | MY "BA-E" $600: It's a massive bombardment of missiles, as seen here, or of criticism barrage |
| #7474, aired 2017-02-23 | MY "BA-E" $800: It's the longer, fancier name for a bachelor's degree a baccalaureate |
| #7471, aired 2017-02-20 | MATH 4U $800: AKA Napier's constant, this lowercase vowel is used to represent the base of a natural logarithm e |
| #7469, aired 2017-02-16 | ENGLISH LIT $2000: E.M. Forster dedicated this 1924 novel to his friend Syed Ross Masood, one of the inspirations for Dr. Aziz A Passage to India |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $1600: "I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand" Helen Keller |
| #7457, aired 2017-01-31 | THE DRUMMER SINGS $2000: A Prince protege, she led "The Glamorous Life" to a Top 10 position in 1984, but without love, it ain't much Sheila E. |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | SHORT & SWEET $1600: Add an "E" to the end of this sweet stuff & you get a word meaning cloyingly sweet saccharin |
| #7443, aired 2017-01-11 | HBO, GO! $400: (I'm political commentator S.E. Cupp.) In addition to appearing on many real TV journalism shows, I was a consultant on this Aaron Sorkin HBO drama Newsroom |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | DON "E" $200: On cold days, don a pair of these connected coverings worn on the sides of the head earmuffs |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | DON "E" $400: A short black jacket bears the name of this English boarding school Eton |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | DON "E" $600: Please don this French-named sandal with a fabric upper half & a rope sole an espadrille |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | DON "E" $800: Imperial name for the dress style seen here, with a change in design beginning immediately below the bust empire waist |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | DON "E" $1000: This last name of Perry, who died in 1986, is still on a line of menswear Ellis |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | A PEEK AT THE PARANORMAL $800: Also called an O.B.E., it's the sensation that one's self is in a different location from one's physical form an out-of-body experience |
| #7416, aired 2016-12-05 | MOTTOES $400: A motto of the U.S., this Latin phrase translates to "Out of many, one" E pluribus unum |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | 1960s COMPUTING $800: E.A. Johnson came up with this tactile idea in a 1965 article subtitled "A Novel Input/Output Device" a touchscreen |
| #7412, aired 2016-11-29 | LEANING CONSERVATIVE $4,000 (Daily Double): (I'm political commentator S.E. Cupp.) Though I'm politically conservative, I support same-sex marriage as part of a group of Republicans dating from 1977 & named for this structure the Log Cabin Republicans |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | A SPELLING BEE $200: Adjective for lines that are the same distance apart at every point along their whole length P-A-R-A-L-L-E-L |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | A SPELLING BEE $400: You get one of these as a record for paying a bill; don't forget the silent letter R-E-C-E-I-P-T |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | A SPELLING BEE $600: A chest of drawers, or a government agency within a cabinet department B-U-R-E-A-U |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | A SPELLING BEE $800: It's the sea that surrounds Jamaica & Cuba C-A-R-I-B-B-E-A-N |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | A SPELLING BEE $1000: Tagalog is a principal language of this country made up of more than 7,000 islands P-H-I-L-I-P-P-I-N-E-S |
| #7405, aired 2016-11-18 | I GET AROUND $1200: Elliott & E.T. make a memorable ride on one of these against a backdrop of the moon a bicycle |
| #7402, aired 2016-11-15 | ONLINE LEARNING $2,000 (Daily Double): Michael Hart started e-books & Project Gutenberg when he typed this famous document into a computer on July 4, 1971 the Declaration of Independence |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "E" $200: It means to free a slave from bondage emancipate |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | LOOKING FOR ALASKA $800: E.H. Harriman went on an expedition that discovered a new glacier & a new one of these Norwegian-style inlets a fjord |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "E" $800: When the moonlight doesn't hit your eye like a big pizza pie, that's this scientific phenomenon an eclipse |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | A CHANGE IS COMING $1600: Replace the "E" in what the Brits watch their BBC on & you get a counting word telly & tally |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | E BEFORE I, BUT NO C DO I SPY $200: Anyone who lives near you a neighbor |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | E BEFORE I, BUT NO C DO I SPY $400: A big steal from a big bank a heist |
| #7391, aired 2016-10-31 | HALLOWEEN ENTERTAINMENT $1200: Because it's Halloween, Elliott dresses up E.T. like one of these so he won't be recognized a ghost |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | THE COUNTY LINE $200: Oklahoma is rich in double-E counties like Cherokee, Pawnee & this one from a Merle Haggard title Muskogee |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | BRITISH SPELLING TEST $800: Airplane A-E-R-O-P-L-A-N-E |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | GEOGRAPH"E" $200: It has a 440-mile border with Colombia Ecuador |
| #7358, aired 2016-09-14 | ERAS OF HISTORY $1000: Instead of B.C. some prefer the less religious B.C.E., for "before" this "Era" the Common Era |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | SPELL THE FIRST NAME $1200: Donald Trump's current wife M-E-L-A-N-I-A |
| #7354, aired 2016-07-28 | ONOMATOPOETIC WORDS $800: 4-letter spelling of the word the OED says is imitative of "the sound made in clearing the throat" A-H-E-M |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | SONG OF SOLOMON $2000: Solomon Burke was part of a supergroup with this "Stand By Me" singer & fellow artist on Atlantic Records in 1968 Ben E. King |
| #7339, aired 2016-07-07 | THE WRITE STUFF $800: A poem by him begins, "All in green went my love riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn" E.E. Cummings |
| #7331, aired 2016-06-27 | WAR OF THE WORDS $1600: 3 E's are the only vowels you need to spell this French word for a fight a melee |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | AS EASY AS C-D-E $400: Known as a poison, it's also used to extract gold cyanide |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | TAKE ME OUT OF THE BALL GAME $600: After winning a Super Bowl with N.Y. in 2008, this D.E. hung it up; he soon began co-hosting a morning show Strahan |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | AS EASY AS C-D-E $800: It describes a witness worthy of belief; that's...! credible |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | AS EASY AS C-D-E $1600: It can be a small waterfall, an outpouring of objects or events, or the simple juggling pattern seen here a cascade |
| #7327, aired 2016-06-21 | AS EASY AS C-D-E $2000: The rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds cadence |
| #7320, aired 2016-06-10 | VICTORIAN VERSE $2000: A.E. Housman hadn't visited Shropshire when he used it in the title of this 1896 collection A Shropshire Lad |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | ROBOT CHECK-IN $400: Spielberg's next 2-letter film after "E.T.", it featured Jude Law as a handsome mecha called Gigolo Joe A.I. |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | TURN UP THE A_C $1600: 3-D,
4-H,
1-A
(e.g.) alphanumeric |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | BALLET $1200: A 1972 ballet was based on (& named for) the "Tales of" this German author E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| #7301, aired 2016-05-16 | MEET THE PREZ $1600: He was the only president who had served as a 5-star general Eisenhower |
| #7286, aired 2016-04-25 | I'M INNOCENT $400: The word "legit" has lost these 5 letters I-M-A-T-E |
| #7285, aired 2016-04-22 | 1816 $1600: In Philadelphia Richard Allen & others organized this first independent black U.S. church, the A.M.E. the African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | WOMEN, IMMORTALIZED $200: A plaque at her bronze statue in Manhattan calls her a "delegate to the United Nations" & "the First Lady of the World" Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #7284, aired 2016-04-21 | LITERARY NEW YORK CITY $800: E.L. Doctorow's "The Waterworks" is a Gothic thriller set during this man's corrupt 19th century rule of the city Boss Tweed |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | WHO'S THERE? $3,400 (Daily Double): This dashing young soldier, who married Mary Anna Custis at Arlington House in Virginia on June 30, 1831 Robert E. Lee |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | "E-T-C" $200: A flower arrangement or other display placed at the middle of a table a centerpiece |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | "E-T-C" $400: The process of making a wild animal tame domestication |
| #7278, aired 2016-04-13 | "E-T-C" $1000: A type of drywall or plasterboard made of gypsum layered between heavy paper Sheetrock |
| #7277, aired 2016-04-12 | POET-TREE $1600: "Loveliest of trees", this fruit tree "now is hung with bloom along the bough", wrote A.E. Housman the cherry tree |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS $400: President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992, she used the nickname Cory Corazon Aquino |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS $800: In 1953 Robert Corey & Linus Pauling said its structure was 3 strands twisted around each other like a rope (wrong) DNA |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS $1200: Corey Hawkins played Dr. Dre in this hip-hop biopic Straight Outta Compton |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS $1600: He's the first African American from New Jersey to serve in the U.S. Senate Cory Booker |
| #7265, aired 2016-03-25 | A CATEGORY FULL OF COR(E)YS $2000: Edwin Arlington Robinson wrote a poem about this rich, enviable gentleman who yet kills himself Richard Cory |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | E BEFORE I $400: Santa's speedy vehicle a sleigh |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | E BEFORE I $600: To lose a sports contest by not having a full team ready to play forfeit |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | E BEFORE I $800: A deceptive action designed to divert attention away from one's real point of attack a feint |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | E BEFORE I $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) When vinegar is added to hot milk, it sours & separates, leaving behind curds of this, the main protein in cow's milk, which is used to make a type of plastic casein |
| #7261, aired 2016-03-21 | AMERICAN POETS $3,000 (Daily Double): This poet once claimed that English is the only language in which the pronoun "I" was written as a capital letter (e.e). cummings |
| #7255, aired 2016-03-11 | THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS? $800: To try & catch the road runner, Wile E. Coyote buys rocket skates & a few other things from this company Acme |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | CLEVER LOGOS $800: In this logo seen on trucks & planes, the white space between the "E" & the "X" forms a right-facing arrow FedEx |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | TIME OFF $1,000 (Daily Double): It's a peaceful & happy interlude &, perhaps fittingly, a homophone of a word for "lazy" idyll |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | THE MISSPELLED WORD $400: The atheist believed his existence would conclude with his final excursion to the cemetary cemetery |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | THE MISSPELLED WORD $800: "Intelligence is indispensable; overcoming ignorence requires perseverance", said the sergeant ignorance |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | THE MISSPELLED WORD $1000: The medieval memento was miniature but as a man of leisure, I was priveliged to have it in my possession privileged |
| #7226, aired 2016-02-01 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This institute founder was the first African American featured on a U.S. postage stamp Booker T. Washington |
| #7222, aired 2016-01-26 | "E-S-P-N" $200: A state of intense irritation exasperation |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | SPELLING BEE WORDS $400: This table has the days of the month & year C-A-L-E-N-D-A-R |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | SPELLING BEE WORDS $1200: The "boogie woogie flu" has been known to accompany the "rockin'" type of this ailment P-N-E-U-M-O-N-I-A |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | SPELLING BEE WORDS $1600: A scary New Testament quartet is known as the Four Horsemen of it A-P-O-C-A-L-Y-P-S-E |
| #7218, aired 2016-01-20 | BETWEEN 5 FERNS $200: A young girl named Fern saves a pig from certain death in this E.B. White novel Charlotte's Web |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $200: A:
Present plural of "to be" are |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $400: B:
A towering building project in Genesis 11:4-9 Babel |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $600: C:
A hood like Batman wears a cowl |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $800: D:
Adjective meaning "sweet", like a pleasant tone dulcet |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | "A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $1000: E:
Latin plural for mistakes in a text errata |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $600: Lucy Honeychurch, on vacation in Italy, wants this, the title of the E.M. Forster novel, from her hotel A Room with a View |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | NURSE $400: When assessing the abdomen, nurses are taught to auscultate, i.e. do this, perhaps with a stethoscope listen |
| #7201, aired 2015-12-28 | KITTY LIT $400: In a book by E.B. White, Snowbell the cat does not have this title mouselike boy's best interests at heart Stuart Little |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | NUT-TRITION $600: A key ingredient in pesto, these nuts are an excellent source of vitamin E pine nuts |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD $800: (Will Shortz delivers the clue.) On Thursday we rolled the D-I-C-E, as in these, "racy books named after a Victorian garment" bodice ripper |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | E BEFORE I $400: A nonbeliever an atheist |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | E BEFORE I $600: Close observation, especially of a suspected criminal or spy surveillance |
| #7186, aired 2015-12-07 | E BEFORE I $1000: It's the breed pictured here a Holstein |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | A FETA COMPLI $200: In 2005 the E.U. granted this country protected designation of origin status for its feta; see? those 2 can get along! Greece |
| #7183, aired 2015-12-02 | A FETA COMPLI $400: E.U.-approved feta must be made primarily from the milk of this animal, though goat's milk may be used a sheep |
| #7180, aired 2015-11-27 | FEMALE NOVELISTS $400: In a 2015 bestseller, she retold "Fifty Shades of Grey" from Christian's viewpoint E.L. James |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | A LITTLE READING $200: First & last name of E.B. White's adventurous mouse-like boy from a 1945 story Stuart Little |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | ADD AN "E" $800: Insert "E" in this Tolkien race & you get a preteen number Elven |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | ADD AN "E" $1200: Put an "E" into this golf score & you get a type of fruit par |
| #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 |
| #7175, aired 2015-11-20 | BODIES OF WATER $400: Iran's Bandar-e Abbas is a port on this strategic strait Hormuz |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | "E" COMMERCE $1200: With an August 16, 1996 IPO, this online brokerage company swapped its private status for a public one E-Trade |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | "E" COMMERCE $4,500 (Daily Double): This company named for a local hero began making early American furniture in Beecher Falls, Vermont in 1936 Ethan Allen |
| #7160, aired 2015-10-30 | ALSO A MILITARY RANK $200: E-4 in the Army; an adjective referring to physical punishment corporal |
| #7137, aired 2015-09-29 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $400: A steamy E.L. James book becomes Canadian football's biggest team prize Fifty Shades of Grey Cup |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | "E"-READERS $1200: Thomas Gray said, "The paths of glory lead but to the grave" in this sad poem "Written in a Country Churchyard" Elegy |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | Y BEFORE E $200: Take a look at this term describing a flight taking off at 1 in the morning the red-eye |
| #7124, aired 2015-07-30 | Y BEFORE E $1000: Hot type of pepper named after a region of French Guiana cayenne |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | GERMAN LIT $2000: 1815 is the estimated time of arrival of "The Devil's Elixer" by this author E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | TO LIFE! $800: These 3 letters from "life" front "-de-France" in a French region I-L-E |
| #7094, aired 2015-06-18 | BEASTLY LIT $800: This Richard Bach seagull lives on in an e-book version & in a tattoo on Justin Bieber Jonathan Livingston |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | A GAME OF H‑O‑R‑S‑E $200: Asking for this vehicle that conveys the dead turns the category into a game of... hearse |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | A GAME OF H‑O‑R‑S‑E $400: Six-letter term describing the figure seen here oblong |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | A GAME OF H‑O‑R‑S‑E $600: To steal livestock, or to cause soft sounds rustle |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | A GAME OF H‑O‑R‑S‑E $800: It's the study of the patterns by which sentences & phrases are formed syntax |
| #7089, aired 2015-06-11 | A GAME OF H‑O‑R‑S‑E $1000: It means occurring in an abnormal position or place & describes a serious pregnancy complication ectopic |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | ONLY THE LONELY $1200: A member of an S.E. Hinton title group, or anyone not in a desired society the outsiders |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | GEOGRAPH-"E" $800: A meridian is a line of this longitude |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | GEOGRAPH-"E" $1600: Don't slip into this glacial fissure a crevasse |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | GEOGRAPH-"E" $2000: A deep ravine or gulch, like the one mentioned in the name of a water impeder in Washington State a coulee |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | FACTS & FIGURES $2000: 20 million illnesses a year, the most of any foodborne pathogen, are caused by this "-virus" & many are on cruise ships norovirus |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | EX-MEMBERS OF THE BAND $400: In 1997 this Michael Stipe band said drummer Bill Berry was retiring to his farm (& replaced him with a drum machine) R.E.M. |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | COWS $400: Until a cow gives birth to a calf, she is known by this term that scoffs at the "I before E except after C" rule a heifer |
| #7057, aired 2015-04-28 | ON THE BACK OF THE BILL $600: $1 bill:
A scroll in the eagle's mouth with this Latin motto E pluribus unum |
| #7054, aired 2015-04-23 | THE LAST TIME THE CUBS WON THE WORLD SERIES $2000: His "A Room with a View" was brand new E.M. Forster |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | A ONE-E & A 2-E $200: Sushi made with this marine alga goes down easy seaweed |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | A ONE-E & A 2-E $400: Alabama city known for its university (formerly "Institute") Tuskegee |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | A ONE-E & A 2-E $600: Sanguinary name for a section of seats high up in a stadium nosebleed |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | A ONE-E & A 2-E $800: Apogee opposite perigee |
| #7051, aired 2015-04-20 | A ONE-E & A 2-E $1000: A thin superficial covering, or one of the layers in plywood veneer |
| #7045, aired 2015-04-10 | DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE $8,600 (Daily Double): "E" is for this hard outer body of an animal, like a mollusk's shell exoskeleton |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | ENDS WITH DOUBLE "E" $800: This window-washing tool goes back to one used by sailors to swab decks a squeegee |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | ENDS WITH DOUBLE "E" $1200: In this dice game, a large straight will get you 40 points Yahtzee |
| #7036, aired 2015-03-30 | ENDS WITH DOUBLE "E" $1600: It's a spicy Cajun stew made with crawfish & vegetables & served over rice étouffée |
| #7034, aired 2015-03-26 | WARBIRDS $400: Britain's WWI S.E.5 fighter carried 2 of these, a Vickers fixed in the nose & a movable Lewis attached to the upper wing machine guns |
| #7026, aired 2015-03-16 | THE LONDON STAGE $1200: In 2013 "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." Robert Vaughn played Juror No. 9 in a new version of this courtroom drama Twelve Angry Men |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | LYRICISTS $2000: This nickname of "Over the Rainbow" lyricist E.Y. Harburg was a shortening of Young People's Socialist League "Yip" |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | TENNIS "E" $400: In tennis lingo, it's a bad shot; there are "forced" & "unforced" types errors |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | TENNIS "E" $2000: A world No. 1 & winner of 6 Grand Slam singles titles in the '80s & '90s, this Swede was inducted into the ITHoF in 2004 Stefan Edberg |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | LAMB-POURRI $1600: In 2012, he stepped down as C.E.O. of C-SPAN but continues to host the "Q&A" series Brian Lamb |
| #7003, aired 2015-02-11 | ON A LAST NAME BASIS $800: This last name is in the title of an E! series that was first foisted on an unsuspecting public back in 2007 Kardashian |
| #6991, aired 2015-01-26 | THAT WOMAN CAN SING! $200: In 2010 this Detroit legend said she'd prefer Halle Berry to play her in a film bio; R-E-S-P-E-C-T her wishes! Aretha Franklin |
| #6990, aired 2015-01-23 | 3 "E"s $400: Your accountant would be quite familiar with one of these a spreadsheet |
| #6990, aired 2015-01-23 | 3 "E"s $600: The American Kennel Club offers certified ones listing a dog's ancestry for 4 or 5 generations a pedigree |
| #6990, aired 2015-01-23 | 3 "E"s $800: Considered a delicacy, it's the more pleasant-sounding name for the thymus or pancreas of an animal a sweetbread |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | FRUITY MUSIC $1000: Also the name of a soda, this R.E.M. song says, "Follow me, don't follow me, I've got my spine" "Orange Crush" |
| #6972, aired 2014-12-30 | TELEVISION FOR SHORT $800: The "H" in "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." stands for this, also in the name of a Cabinet department Homeland |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | BEST PICTURE INITIALS $1200: 1996:
"T.E.P.", a Fiennes film The English Patient |
| #6969, aired 2014-12-25 | BEST PICTURE INITIALS $2000: 1953:
"F.H.T.E.", with a big sandy love scene From Here to Eternity |
| #6964, aired 2014-12-18 | A LITTLE T & A $800: The E-flat bass type of this instrument has a fourth valve so you can get extra low a tuba |
| #6962, aired 2014-12-16 | ELEMENT SYMBOL FUN? $400: Not alphabetically but by atomic number, the first element whose symbol is a pronoun helium |
| #6962, aired 2014-12-16 | ELEMENT SYMBOL FUN? $1200: The symbol of this noble gas is the postal abbreviation of a Midwest state neon |
| #6960, aired 2014-12-12 | CHEMISTRY $1600: Herbert Evans & Katherine bishop discovered this vitamin, or alpha tocopherol, while studying the diets of rats vitamin E |
| #6959, aired 2014-12-11 | TO LIFE $400: For nearly a quarter century, this company used the advertising slogan "We bring good things to life" G.E. |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | E.T.'s ON TV $400: He's an observer from Ork who travels in a pod & meets up with Mindy Mork |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | E.T.'s ON TV $800: Long-running show about a Time Lord from Gallifrey Doctor Who |
| #6957, aired 2014-12-09 | U.S. CITIES $1200: This city, part of a metro area with Dallas & Fort Worth, was named for the Virginia home of Robert E. Lee Arlington |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $400: The current vice president's last name B-I-D-E-N |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $800: This Olympic sport that consists of 10 track & field events D-E-C-A-T-H-L-O-N |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | FROM "E" TO "U" $400: It's just water in French eau |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | FROM "E" TO "U" $1200: This Biblical name can mean someone who prefers a current advantage to long-term rights or interests Esau |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | ENTERTAINMENT $400: On Sept. 19, 2014 E! dedicated a day of programming, including a "Fashion Police" marathon, to this late funny lady Joan Rivers |
| #6939, aired 2014-11-13 | OBSOLETE WORDS $600: The office or jurisdiction of a bishop see |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | H _ _ E $200: To improve a skill or sharpen a knife hone |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | H _ _ E $600: To require someone to do silly or often dangerous things in order to join a group haze |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | H _ _ E $800: A type of lagomorph hare |
| #6919, aired 2014-10-16 | H _ _ E $1000: A costume combo mentioned in Shakespeare was "doublet &" this hose |
| #6916, aired 2014-10-13 | A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows notes and a map on the monitor.) Union soldiers found Robert E. Lee's handwritten plans wrapped around three cigars & lying in a field east of Sharpsburg, Maryland, four days before this bloody 1862 battle Antietam |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | "B" + 3 $1000: A Scottish hillside brae |
| #6897, aired 2014-09-16 | BETTER KNOWN BY ONE NAME $1200: This young Kiwi singer put an "E" at the end of her stage name to make it more feminine Lorde |
| #6881, aired 2014-07-14 | ADD A LETTER $2000: Add an "E" to a word meaning "reasonable" to get this underlying reason for doing something rationale |
| #6874, aired 2014-07-03 | THE "E" STREET BAND $1000: An arm of the sea at the lower end of a river estuary |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | TV DRAMA SERIES $400: Freddie Highmore is Norman & Vera Farmiga is his mother on this A&E show Bates Motel |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | SUFFIXES $1200: To make a node smaller, drop the E & add this suffix -ule |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABRATORY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratory in New Mexico.) At the heart of the Neutron Science Center is a powerful linear accelerator that accelerates protons to 84% of this, the "c" in E = mc2 the speed of light |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | MISTER "E" CATEGORY $1200: In 2000, while he was a senator from North Carolina, People magazine named him sexiest politician alive John Edwards |
| #6844, aired 2014-05-22 | "I-O" $1200: A relationship between 2 values; Wall Streeters talk about the "P/E" one ratio |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | "E" FOLLOWS "D" $400: Wine is often poured from the bottle into this decorative container a decanter |
| #6843, aired 2014-05-21 | "E" FOLLOWS "D" $800: This term refers to a student at a military school such as West Point who is training to become an officer cadet |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $400: 1984:
A French-named sled with its own Olympic events L-U-G-E |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $1200: 1993:
A World War II suicide pilot K-A-M-I-K-A-Z-E |
| #6827, aired 2014-04-29 | ARMY BRATS $1000: Robert E. Lee was the son of this soldier, seen here with one of the beasts that gave him his nickname "Lighthorse" Harry Lee |
| #6820, aired 2014-04-18 | THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON $2,000 (Daily Double): This contemporary nickname was a tribute to Wellington's toughness; Punch put "wrought" in front of it the Iron Duke |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | A FARSI LEXICON $400: If it's "jom'e" it's this day of the week & people are headed to the mosque Friday |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | "SELF-E"s $800: Adjective for an autodidact self-educated |
| #6808, aired 2014-04-02 | "SELF-E"s $1000: This adjective is a synonym for "modest"; literally, it would mean erasing one's own person self-effacing |
| #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 |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | ABBREV-"E"-ATIONS $400: It's the "E" in BET, a cable network Entertainment |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | ABBREV-"E"-ATIONS $800: In a classified ad, "EOE" stands for this type of employer Equal Opportunity |
| #6800, aired 2014-03-21 | ABBREV-"E"-ATIONS $1000: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from Ramstein Air Base in Germany.) Ramstein Air Base is home to a squadron that coordinates bringing wounded warriors home; from counting oxygen tanks to configuring the aircraft for non-ambulatory patients, it's the 86th AES, which is short for "aeromedical" this kind of "squadron" evacuation |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | I AM THE DANGER $200: The E.U. specifically prohibits from airplane cabins this weapon made of a forked stick & a rubber band a slingshot |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | LABOR UNIONS $2000: The N.E.A. is the USA's largest labor union; No. 2 is the S.E.I.U., short for this "International Union" Service Employees |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | INVESTING $1200: (I'm Kevin O'Leary.) Like a shark stalking prey, you need patience for the kind of investing I practice, this 5-letter type that focuses on established companies with low P/E ratios value investing |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | THE TWO-THOUSAND YEAR OLD MAN $800: (Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks present the clue.)
"What was your most annoying job?"
"Well, I was a scrivener for this poet who couldn't spell. The first line of his prologue, he spells 'April' like this-A-P-R-I-L-L-E. That's--that's how he spelled 'April'" Chaucer |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | CONTEMPORARIES $800: In 1916 Carl Sandburg published his "Chicago Poems" & this Brit became a liaison officer to Faisal's army T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | MEDICAL PROBLEMS $800: This viral disease that causes inflammation of the liver has A, B, C, D & E types hepatitis |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | INSPIRED CHARACTERS $1000: Mrs. Honeychurch in his "A Room with a View" was based on his grandmother (E.M.) Forster |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | PHILOSOPHY $2000: Philosophers distinguish between 2 kinds of knowledge: a priori, by thinking, & this, from experience empirical or a posteriori |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | CARSON, DAILY $1000: In his last monologue, Johnny said this huge corp. "named me employee of the month...that was a dream come true" G.E. |
| #6785, aired 2014-02-28 | WHO SANG IT FIRST? $800: This song was a hit for Ben E. King in 1961, for John Lennon in 1975 & for Ben again in 1986 "Stand By Me" |
| #6780, aired 2014-02-21 | MONEY TALKS $200: On a penny since 1909:
"E ____ ____" pluribus unum |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | RECENTLY BANNED OR CHALLENGED BOOKS $400: A Florida county pulled this 2011 E.L. James book from libraries, but it came back "in response to public demand" Fifty Shades of Grey |
| #6776, aired 2014-02-17 | STUDENT HEALTH CENTER $1000: Have you had a menactra vaccine? it helps protect against this illness that also begins with M-E-N meningitis |
| #6772, aired 2014-02-11 | RECENT TV $200: Despite the inconvenience of being killed in a movie, Phil Coulson made it to the small screen as an "Agent of" this S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | CIVIL WAR GENERALS $400: As a lieutenant of engineers in the late 1830s, he supervised the engineering work for the harbor in St. Louis Robert E. Lee |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN SPELLING BEE $200: Romeo's family name M-O-N-T-A-G-U-E |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | SHAKESPEAREAN SPELLING BEE $1,000 (Daily Double): Lear's virtuous daughter C-O-R-D-E-L-I-A |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | REALITY TV $400: (I'm Chuck Todd of NBC News.) I'm obsessed with the A&E reality series in which Barry & Dave bid on repossessed goods found in lockers or units that's called these "Wars" Storage Wars |
| #6752, aired 2014-01-14 | DOUBLE "T" WORDS $800: Washed 2 dishes, answered 1 e-mail, watered a plant, basically I just did this around the house all morning frittered (or puttered) |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | MOVIE PEOPLE $2000: Samuel L. Jackson has played this agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES $1200: E.M. Forster: "Except for the Marabar Caves... the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary" A Passage to India |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | "E-Z-A" $400: French term meaning government should mind its own business laissez-faire |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | "E-Z-A" $800: It's a plastic shield over a salad bar the sneeze guard |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | "E-Z-A" $1200: A scroll in a case on the doorpost of a Jewish home a mezuzah |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | "E-Z-A" $1600: A lavish or spectacular show an extravaganza |
| #6714, aired 2013-11-21 | "E-Z-A" $2000: Lebanese political group aka the "Party of God" Hezbollah |
| #6711, aired 2013-11-18 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $1000: An E.M.P. or electromagnetic this was first noticed in the U.S. when electronics quit working after nuclear tests a pulse |
| #6710, aired 2013-11-15 | TEACHERS' LOUNGE CUISINE $400: P.E. coach Kear chugs a G series thirst quencher bottle of this brand Gatorade |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | O-E-O-E $400: Depressed or sad because of a lack of friends or companionship; are you this tonight? lonesome |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | O-E-O-E $800: It's a foot-pound per-second unit of power; let's see what you've got under the hood horsepower |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | O-E-O-E $2000: In Marxist theory, this class is primarily concerned with property values the bourgeoisie |
| #6700, aired 2013-11-01 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $1000: Used instead of B.C. as a secular date reference, B.C.E stands for this Before Common Era |
| #6699, aired 2013-10-31 | ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES $800: You can be a troll, an elf, or whatever suits your fantasy when playing this popular game from Sony, abbreviated "E.Q." EverQuest |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | INSIDE EDITION 25th ANNIVERSARY $400: "I.E." won a 2008 media award from this "maternal" organization for a "Prom Parties" report on underage drinking Mothers Against Drunk Driving (M.A.D.D.) |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | INSIDE EDITION 25th ANNIVERSARY $600: Defeated after a run for mayor of NYC, he became an "I.E." contributor in 1990; 4 years later, he got the mayor gig Giuliani |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $800: It was at a victory that this CSA Gen. reportedly said, "It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it" (Robert E.) Lee |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | "V-E" DAY $1200: Early type of bicycle known as a "bone-shaker" velocipede |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | "V-E" DAY $2000: It's a mathematical quantity with both direction & magnitude vector |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | HEY, LAD-"E" $800: In 1892 this founder of Christian Science moved to a house called Pleasant View in Concord, New Hampshire Mary Baker Eddy |
| #6676, aired 2013-09-30 | ROCKET MUSIC $800: A movie bio of Andy Kaufman got its title from this R.E.M. song "Man on the Moon" |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | THE TALES OF HASSELHOFF, MAN $1000: In a 1998 TV movie, the Hoff played "Nick Fury: Agent of" this organization that got its own TV show in 2013 S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| #6669, aired 2013-09-19 | TRY A SEPARATION $1200: Drop 1 letter from a word meaning "harsh" to get this word meaning to cut off a part from the whole sever |
| #6665, aired 2013-08-02 | WHO WROTE THAT BOOK? $400: "The House At Pooh Corner" A.A. Milne |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | U.S. STAMPS $400: The "send a hello" stamps feature heroes from Pixar films, including this title robot Wall-E |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | NO BIG "E" $200: When referring to our planet, this word takes a capital E; when referring to soil & dirt, not Earth |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | NO BIG "E" $400: When this word is in a Wilde play title, it's upper case; not when it's just a word meaning "sincere" Earnest |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | NO BIG "E" $800: As a member of a "benevolent & protective order", big E; as an antlered ruminant, little e Elk |
| #6651, aired 2013-07-15 | FROM A TO E $400: Unit of land area about 9/10 the size of a football field an acre |
| #6651, aired 2013-07-15 | FROM A TO E $800: It's the only canned tuna that can be sold in the U.S. & called "White" albacore |
| #6651, aired 2013-07-15 | FROM A TO E $1200: One's home or place of residence an abode |
| #6651, aired 2013-07-15 | FROM A TO E $2000: As it consists of 2 or more minerals that can be separated, granite is considered this type of rock aggregate |
| #6651, aired 2013-07-15 | FROM A TO E $3,000 (Daily Double): It means to make a food or drug impure by adding inferior ingredients adulterate |
| #6646, aired 2013-07-08 | ROCK & ROLL CALL $2000: Drummer Bun E. Carlos wants you to want this band, who had a career-making night "at Budokan" Cheap Trick |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | WHAT'S ON YOUR iPOD? $1000: (Harry Shearer delivers the clue.) This British band with a 3-letter name has my "senses working overtime"--my iPod would be incomplete without "Skylarking" XTC |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | 3 "E"s $200: Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a Ph.D. in the civil branch of this engineering |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | 3 "E"s $400: We use this French word for a relaxing of tension between nations detente |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | 3 "E"s $800: Not to be confused with a pie topping, it's a popular Latin American ballroom dance characterized by a limping step the merengue |
| #6642, aired 2013-07-02 | 3 "E"s $1000: It's a coordinated outfit, or a group of musicians, singers or actors who perform together an ensemble |
| #6632, aired 2013-06-18 | CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN $800: "I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union", wrote this Virginian Robert E. Lee |
| #6631, aired 2013-06-17 | ABBREV-"E"-ATIONS $200: In a business letter, encl. is an abbreviation for this enclosed (or enclosure) |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | THE NFL $1000: The winning entry to name this S.E. team said, "it never drops its prey... and has a great sporting tradition" the (Atlanta) Falcons |
| #6627, aired 2013-06-11 | FILE $1000: Last name of Mrs. Basil E., whose "Mixed-Up Files" were the subject of a Newbery Medal-winning children's book Frankweiler |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | ADD AN E $400: A North Atlantic food fish ingests an E to become a system used for secrecy of communication cod & code |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | ADD AN E $1200: To converse in an informal manner, with an E, will violate rules in a game chat & cheat |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | ADD AN E $1600: A synonym for fear adds an E to become cargo transported for pay fright & freight |
| #6620, aired 2013-05-31 | ADD AN E $2000: A proposal formally made to a deliberative assembly takes on an E to get in touch with 1 of its many types of feelings motion & emotion |
| #6613, aired 2013-05-22 | MOVIE COUPLES $400: The title robot of this animated film falls in love with EVE, a sleek recon robot WALL-E |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $200: It's a surprise to his parents when this E.B. White character is born with a tail & whiskers Stuart Little |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL $400: You get a precious 9 extra minutes with this feature introduced on a G.E. alarm clock in 1956 the snooze |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | BRITISH LIT $1200: This military man lost the "Seven Pillars Of Wisdom" manuscript in a train station T.E. Lawrence |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | -E-I-E-I OH! $400: A prison for serious offenders a penitentiary |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE BOOKS $800: (Hi, I'm Jane Curtin.) I loved "World's Fair", a 1985 autobiographical novel by this author whose initials stand for Edgar Lawrence (E.L.) Doctorow |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | -E-I-E-I OH! $1200: A movie that plays shamelessly on your emotions has this maudlin quality sentimentalism |
| #6584, aired 2013-04-11 | GENERAL SCIENCE $2000: Most sponge skeletons consist of either calcium carbonate or this glasslike mineral silica |
| #6583, aired 2013-04-10 | LIVING SOCIAL $600: It sounds like a country of E.T.s but it's really the feeling of being estranged from society alienation |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | CONFUSING WORD PAIRS $800: Starting with "a", it means to change; with "e", it's a result affect/effect |
| #6582, aired 2013-04-09 | CONFUSING WORD PAIRS $1200: Vain, v-a-i-n, refers to vanity; the one spelled v-a-n-e is short for this device a weathervane |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | GATES $600: A W.E.B. Du Bois professor of the humanities at Harvard, he made national headlines in July 2009 (Henry) Louis Gates |
| #6579, aired 2013-04-04 | SOWING "OTE"s $1,600 (Daily Double): Theodore Roosevelt said this "is like a rifle: its usefulness depends on the character of the user" vote |
| #6578, aired 2013-04-03 | ENDS WITH DOUBLE E $200: A classification of the seriousness of a burn the degree |
| #6578, aired 2013-04-03 | ENDS WITH DOUBLE E $400: A very enthusiastic follower of a religious leader a devotee |
| #6578, aired 2013-04-03 | ENDS WITH DOUBLE E $600: French word for a cooked vegetable that's been put through a blender purée |
| #6578, aired 2013-04-03 | ENDS WITH DOUBLE E $1000: A small or medium-sized sofa a settee |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | COLORFUL QUOTES $2000: e.e. cummings:
"All in ____ went my love riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn" green |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | THE E.U. COUNTRY THAT... $400: Is described by World Book as "a small country where western civilization started about 2,500 years ago" Greece |
| #6555, aired 2013-03-01 | THE E.U. COUNTRY THAT... $2,500 (Daily Double): Has a territory just off Canada, even though it's 1,300 miles away Denmark |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | C BEFORE I, AFTER E $400: To repeat a piece of poetry before an audience recite |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | C BEFORE I, AFTER E $1200: A car starts to do this--lower in value due to wear & tear--the second it leaves the lot depreciate |
| #6541, aired 2013-02-11 | C BEFORE I, AFTER E $1600: To make a return as for something given, like a favor reciprocate |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | CROSSWORD CLUES "E" $800: A crude representation made for hanging (6) an effigy |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | BIOLOGY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew takes a sponge out of a microwave oven.) Your microwave can be a weapon in the fight against germs; zapping a wet sponge in the microwave for 2 minutes should remove 99% of these organisms, like E. coli bacteria |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | ANATOM"E" $1200: This hard tissue that covers the crown of a tooth is not living & contains no nerves enamel |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | "E"-OGRAPHY $400: A country in South America Ecuador |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $400: A Murphy one comes out of the wall a bed |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $800: A taxi, or to travel in one cab |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $1200: To recede, like the tide; it's often paired with "flow" ebb |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $1600: To yield territory cede |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $2000: A work of classical Icelandic poetry an edda |
| #6527, aired 2013-01-22 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $800: Vitamins A, D & E are measured in IUs, short for these International Units |
| #6524, aired 2013-01-17 | DVD SPECIAL FEATURES $800: The DVD for this 1986 drama includes interviews with Rob Reiner & Stephen King, & a music video by Ben E. King Stand By Me |
| #6518, aired 2013-01-09 | COMPUTING $200: In 2004 a U.S. law named in part for this type of unwelcome e-mail took effect to prohibit deceptive subject lines spam |
| #6514, aired 2013-01-03 | RHYME TIME $400: In a 1982 film, E.T. loved this candy Reese's Pieces |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | KINDLY CORRECT NIGEL'S SPELLING $400: That adolescent's behaviour is utterly reprehensible B-E-H-A-V-I-O-R |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | KINDLY CORRECT NIGEL'S SPELLING $600: I can't conceive why you believed you had licence to dissemble in such a fashion L-I-C-E-N-S-E |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | KINDLY CORRECT NIGEL'S SPELLING $800: Your manoeuvre showed expertise & precision far in excess of what I'd expected M-A-N-E-U-V-E-R |
| #6506, aired 2012-12-24 | THE "B"-GINNING & END OF THE COUNTRY $200: A Central American country:
Ends with E Belize |
| #6503, aired 2012-12-19 | LEGAL TERMS $600: This 4-letter word means a civil wrong; add an "E" to the end & it becomes a rich cake a tort |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | GERMAN "E" $800: In German, it's 5 plus 6, not just a pointy-eared "Lord of the Rings" creature elf |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | GERMAN "E" $1200: This Alpine flower, this Alpine flower, has a name meaning "noble white" edelweiss |
| #6493, aired 2012-12-05 | GREENBACKS $1000: Every day this bureau, the B.E.P., produces millions of paper bills, with a face value over $400 million the Bureau of Engraving and Printing |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | USING YOUR JEOP-PS $1000: (Sarah's voice reads the clue in a monotone fashion.) You have arrived at 89 E. 42nd St., this NYC landmark viewed by 150,000 at its 1913 opening; why are you here? You have a car! the Grand Central Terminal |
| #6480, aired 2012-11-16 | REALITY TV $600: Since its premiere in 2005, over 200 addicts have been confronted by family & friends & offered help on this A&E series Intervention |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | 5 SHADES OF GR(E/A)Y $200: L. Patrick Gray III became interim FBI director after the 1972 death of this man but was forced to resign a year later J. Edgar Hoover |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | 5 SHADES OF GR(E/A)Y $400: John Gray wrote the book "Truly" these 2 planets Mars & Venus |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | 5 SHADES OF GR(E/A)Y $600: In 1909 the University of Toronto won the first Grey Cup in this sport Canadian football |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | 5 SHADES OF GR(E/A)Y $800: In 1833 Parliament abolished slavery in the British Empire under this prime minister who suits us to a tea Earl Grey |
| #6478, aired 2012-11-14 | 5 SHADES OF GR(E/A)Y $1000: In 1915 this prolific writer of Westerns penned "The Lone Star Ranger" Zane Grey |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | NETWORK INITIALS $200: A&E Arts & Entertainment |
| #6475, aired 2012-11-09 | TAKING A "TEN" DANCE $800: W.E.B. Du Bois wanted to develop the youth he called "the talented" this tenth |
| #6472, aired 2012-11-06 | A YEAR IN THE LIFE $200: 1861:
He resigns from the U.S. Army after 36 years of service for "the defense of my native state" Robert E. Lee |
| #6466, aired 2012-10-29 | CIVIL WAR NAMES $2000: This cavalryman twice led his troops in a ride around McClellan, boosting southern morale J.E.B. Stuart |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): The title of this E. M. Forster novel refers to a country house, not to someone's death Howards End |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | IN A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a chart on the monitor.) In the Hubble classification system, elliptical galaxies are denoted with the letter "E"; galaxies in other branches like the Andromeda Galaxy are labeled with the letter "S" standing for this shape a spiral |
| #6460, aired 2012-10-19 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $600: Inspired by "Twilight", E.L. James turned her fan fiction into a steamy trilogy that begins with this novel Fifty Shades of Grey |
| #6456, aired 2012-10-15 | DR. SEUSS TITLES BY INITIALS $200: "G.E.A.H." Green Eggs and Ham |
| #6454, aired 2012-10-11 | 1920s BESTSELLERS $2,000 (Daily Double): "Revolt in the Desert", about his exploits in Arabia, was a nonfiction bestseller in 1927 T.E. Lawrence |
| #6449, aired 2012-10-04 | A VOWEL OF SILENCE $400: Silent E:
The bright, blinding reflection of sun shining on ice glare |
| #6440, aired 2012-09-21 | NOW A FEW WORDS $400: The use of these 2 letters joined together, as in alternate spellings of words like encyclopedia, is called an ash A & E |
| #6438, aired 2012-09-19 | TALK SHOW-POURRI $400: Are you there, America? It's this female comedian & bestselling author with a late-night talk show on E! Chelsea Handler |
| #6438, aired 2012-09-19 | THEIR DEBUT NOVELS $800: "The Outsiders"
(1967) S.E. Hinton |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | BIRTHDAY PARTY LOCATIONS $400: This party place "where a kid can be a kid" used to have "pizza" in its name, now all that's left is the "cheese" Chuck E. Cheese's |
| #6431, aired 2012-07-30 | IT'S MOVIE TIME $400: Elliott befriends a homesick alien who loves candy in this classic E.T. |
| #6429, aired 2012-07-26 | GIVE 'EM HEALTH! $1200: Make sure to wash produce--romaine lettuce was the culprit in a 2011 outbreak of this, first name Escherichia E. coli |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | MONEY TALKS $1000: (Jimmy of the clue crew gives the clue) One judge of a company's worth is this ratio--its current cost per share divided by its profits per share over a 1-year period the P/E ratio (price to earnings ratio) |
| #6422, aired 2012-07-17 | HISTOR"E" $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of Europe in World War II.) In June, 1941, Hitler attacked the USSR, opening up this theater of war, where Germany suffered 90% of its WWII combat deaths the Eastern front |
| #6422, aired 2012-07-17 | HISTOR"E" $600: Drop "J." from a 2011 DiCaprio film title & you have a biopic of this powerful English king who died in 975 Edgar |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | E BAY $200: Eddrachillis Bay is at the mouth of Loch a Chairn Bhain on this country's northwest coast Scotland |
| #6415, aired 2012-07-06 | E BAY $800: The East Bay that produced punk musician East Bay Ray is the eastern shore of this California bay San Francisco Bay |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | DOUBLE DOUBLE E $200: It's an implement edged with rubber used to remove excess water a squeegee |
| #6412, aired 2012-07-03 | DOUBLE DOUBLE E $800: It's the job of someone charged with the maintenance of a golf course greenskeeper |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | "M.E." $400: This first lady liked a man in uniform Mamie Eisenhower |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | "M.E." $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew makes a simple toy vehicle out of a pencil, rubber band, and rubber stopper.) Using a pencil to twist the rubber band provides potential energy, then releasing the spool turns that into kinetic energy, demonstrating the two forms of this mechanical energy |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | "M.E." $1,600 (Daily Double): It differs from other slithery sea dwellers in that it usually lacks pectoral fins a moray eel |
| #6397, aired 2012-06-12 | GOING POSTAL $1000: Even a dim bulb can remember that ZIP code 12345 in Schenectady, N.Y. serves this huge maker of light bulbs & more G(eneral) E(lectric) |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | PHYSICS $400: In 1935 he argued in the "EPR Paper" (he was the "E") that quantum mechanics wasn't a complete theory Einstein |
| #6386, aired 2012-05-28 | TV TITLE REFERENCES $800: Ms. Peyton (Edie Falco), an E.R. health care provider with a pill problem Nurse Jackie |
| #6377, aired 2012-05-15 | NAME THE MOVIE $2000: In a 1982 charmer: "I'll be right here" E.T. |
| #6376, aired 2012-05-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES "E" $200: "At ____, soldier!"
(4) ease |
| #6376, aired 2012-05-14 | HARDBALL $1000: In 1968 this St. Louis Cardinal had an E.R.A. of 1.12, the lowest since 1914 Bob Gibson |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | WE MAKE THAT! $600: Madden NFL 13 E(lectronic) A(rts) |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | ACTION & INACTION MOVIES $1200: This animated title robot goes about collecting trash in the year 2700 & is a sucker for musicals WALL-E |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | ADVERTISING MASCOTS & ICONS $1000: Comedian Pete Holmes provides the voice of a stock-trading baby in ads for this company E-Trade |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | "E"ASY SCIENCE? $400: A wave signal reflected back to its point of origin from a distance echo |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | "E"ASY SCIENCE? $600: Fred Mertz could tell you it's a radical organic compound containing C2H5 ethyl |
| #6355, aired 2012-04-13 | "E"ASY SCIENCE? $800: A waterproof layer called the cuticle sometimes covers this outermost cellular layer of animals & plants epidermis |
| #6349, aired 2012-04-05 | THE "IV" LEAGUE $200: Also known as an E-1, it's the lowest rank in the U.S. Army a private |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | E FOLLOWS F $200: Kola nuts from a West African tree have been a source of this stimulant used in American soft drinks caffeine |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | E FOLLOWS F $400: Middle age, or a crisis of doubt & anxiety experienced by some during that period midlife |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | E FOLLOWS F $600: A public declaration of principles & policies; Marx issued one in 1848 a manifesto |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | E FOLLOWS F $800: This small, thin disk of unleavened bread is used in the Eucharist a wafer |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | E FOLLOWS F $1000: It's the term for fidelity owed by a vassal to his feudal lord fealty |
| #6345, aired 2012-03-30 | MICHAEL AT THE MIKE $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2011 this singer said of his band's breakup, "We have to thank all the people who helped us... for these 31 years" Michael Stipe |
| #6343, aired 2012-03-28 | BIG WORDS $2000: In a John Cheever title, this adjective precedes "Radio"; E.E. Cummings used it before "Room" enormous |
| #6336, aired 2012-03-19 | LOGO SECRETS $200: Next time you get a FedEx package, notice a right-pointing one of these between the second "E" & the "X" an arrow |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | E BEFORE I $200: A temperature scale scorned by foreigners but good enough for us here in the U.S. of A. Fahrenheit |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | GROUP "E"s $400: In October 2010 this group's Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh & Timothy B. Schmit hit the road for a fall tour the Eagles |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | E BEFORE I $400: You "take" it to become a nun the veil |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | E BEFORE I $1000: A complicated bank or museum robbery a heist |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | GROUP "E"s $1200: In the '90s this girl group had a string of hits including "Hold On" & "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" En Vogue |
| #6332, aired 2012-03-13 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Every Colonial home had to have "The Compleat Housewife", an early collection of "receipts", i.e. this type of book a cookbook |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | I GOT 3 LETTERS! $400: This 3-letter credential equal to a high school diploma, dating back to the 1940s G.E.D. |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | SIMILAR-SOUNDING WORDS $200: Affect means to produce a change in; with this new first letter, you get a result E (effect accepted) |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $400: It precedes "Bay" in a national park in Alaska & "National Park" in a national park in Montana Glacier |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $800: "The origin of" this word meaning a distinct sort or kind? The Latin for "form" species |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | NAME THE NETWORK $1000: "Storage Wars" A&E |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | POETIC CHARACTERS $400: e.e. cummings began a poem this Western bison hunter & showman is "defunct" Buffalo Bill |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | YAY, PHYSICS! $400: Physics has been defined as "the science of matter, motion, and" this, the "E" in a 1905 equation energy |
| #6292, aired 2012-01-17 | I PLAYED A DOCTOR & SOME OTHER GUY ON TV $1600: Quincy, M.E. &
Oscar Madison Jack Klugman |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | SPELL IT: -ABLE OR -IBLE? $200: This adjective can describe a bachelor worthy of marriage or an NFL receiver who's allowed to catch a forward pass E-L-I-G-I-B-L-E |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | SPELL IT: -ABLE OR -IBLE? $400: From the Latin for "bend", it means capable of being bent repeatedly without damage P-L-I-A-B-L-E |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | SPELL IT: -ABLE OR -IBLE? $600: Easily carried, such as a small TV or software that can run on multiple computers with the same operating system P-O-R-T-A-B-L-E |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | SPELL IT: -ABLE OR -IBLE? $1000: Unbearable, such as the "Acts" passed by the British parliament in 1774 I-N-T-O-L-E-R-A-B-L-E |
| #6287, aired 2012-01-10 | SOUNDS LIKE A CAPITAL CITY $400: To cause to undergo combustion burn |
| #6277, aired 2011-12-27 | TIPS ON NETWORKING $1000: Wonder if the "Hoarders" & "Monster In-Laws" are for real A&E |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | NOT ACTUALLY A STATE CAPITAL $200: Witch hunting was more fashionable in this city 16 miles N.E. of Boston than in its West Coast counterpart Salem |
| #6264, aired 2011-12-08 | ONCE THERE WERE NO COMPUTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): A "nonexistent domain" error on a failed e-mail is kind of the new version of this 1962 Elvis song "Return To Sender" |
| #6262, aired 2011-12-06 | THE STORY OF O $600: Inspiring the title of a Cirque du Soleil show, O is a homophone of the French word for this water |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | E-I-O $200: The supervisor of a department of a newspaper the editor |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | E-I-O $400: We proclaim this word means the act of freeing a slave from bondage emancipation |
| #6260, aired 2011-12-02 | E-I-O $1000: This synonym for spying was the name of a 1917 wartime Act of Congress espionage |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | ENDS IN DOUBLE E $200: A 25th anniversary is a "silver" this jubilee |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | ENDS IN DOUBLE E $400: This word for a man's wig comes from the French for "tuft" a toupee |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | ENDS IN DOUBLE E $800: Let me rock you, Kubla Khan, with this type of authoritative & formal order a decree |
| #6253, aired 2011-11-23 | ENDS IN DOUBLE E $1000: French term for an evening party, perhaps a musical one a soirée |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | A "LITTLE" LEARNING $1200: It was thought the first pulsar discovered might be a signal from E.T.s, so it was called LGM-1, short for these little green men |
| #6251, aired 2011-11-21 | THE THEAT-"R" $1200: This Terrence McNally musical is based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow Ragtime |
| #6237, aired 2011-11-01 | A LOT OF HAPPY TALK $1000: One of the "Last Poems" by this "Shropshire lad" guy says, "Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings all desired and timely things" (A.E.) Housman |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | TV PERSONALITIES $600: She helms "Fashion Police" on E! & has a reality show with her daughter Melissa Joan Rivers |
| #6236, aired 2011-10-31 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $3,000 (Daily Double): E.M. Forster dedicated this 1924 novel to Syed Ross Mahood, who showed him "new horizons and a new civilization" A Passage to India |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | REMEMBER 2008? $200: Drydock called for this "queenly" vessel, the longest-serving ship in Cunard's history the Q.E. 2 |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | RIGHT "E" $200: A person fond of booze is known to "bend" this body part their elbow |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | RIGHT "E" $400: Tripod for a painter an easel |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | RIGHT "E" $800: To unceremoniously expel from a baseball game or an airplane eject |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | RIGHT "E" $1000: A broadcasting chamber with resonating walls that make hollow sound effects an echo chamber |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | DESCRIBING THE OSCAR-WINNING FILM $400: Oh, for the days street gangs fought it out... in dance; we met a girl named Maria; J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets! West Side Story |
| #6210, aired 2011-09-23 | PAINT IN OILS $800: Get hold of "Marine Painting in Oil" by E. John Robinson to learn how to paint this 8-letter type of work a seascape |
| #6208, aired 2011-09-21 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $400: A book by him begins, "'The signora had no business to do it... she promised us south rooms with a view"' (E.M.) Forster |
| #6202, aired 2011-07-26 | LETTERMAN $2000: In 1895 he became the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard W.E.B. DuBois |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | LETTER PERFECT $800: In baseball scoring it refers to a fielder's boo-boo E (for error) |
| #6200, aired 2011-07-22 | STORY WITHIN A STORY $2000: Whitman:
This E.M. Forster novel! "Cooling airs from Caucasus far, soothing cradle of man, the River Euphrates" A Passage to India |
| #6198, aired 2011-07-20 | CELEBS WE'D LIKE TO SEE ON REALITY SHOWS $600: Duane Chapman's new sidekick chasing down bad guys on this A&E show? 3 words: Dame. Judi. Dench Dog the Bounty Hunter |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | "A" BEFORE "E" $200: A radio antenna an aerial |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | "A" BEFORE "E" $400: "I'm glad I met ya", this company providing medical insurance to more than 19 million Americans Aetna |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | "A" BEFORE "E" $600: For its 75th anniversary, it is offering flights between Dublin & Boston for as low as 199 euros Aer Lingus |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | "A" BEFORE "E" $800: Per Virgil, he "was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores" Aeneas |
| #6197, aired 2011-07-19 | "A" BEFORE "E" $1000: It's the 7-letter name for this traffic beater; too bad it never really got off the ground with the public the aerocar |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | SPELL IT! $400: Spell this Christian group that's often found before "Oats" Q-U-A-K-E-R |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | VOWELS $400: A book called "Send" is "The Essential Guide" to this type of "mail" e-mail |
| #6180, aired 2011-06-24 | WHATCHAMACALLIT $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on a monitor.) In the pronunciation of the word "circus", the "U" is an unstressed vowel & is marked with what looks like an inverted "e", called this a schwa |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | FOOD "E" $200: Beginning sushi eaters often start out with unagi, this fish that's been cooked & basted with a sweetish sauce eel |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | FOOD "E" $600: A recipe for the world's largest one of these calls for 750 lbs. of ground corn for the tortilla & 175 lbs. of cheese an enchilada |
| #6171, aired 2011-06-13 | E BEFORE I $1600: It's a sultanate on the coast of Borneo, formerly under British protection Brunei |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | NONFICTION $200: In a book subtitled "A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation", the equation is this E = mc2 |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | THE HERO WITH... $400: A tank; in an effort to escape his notoriety, this hero joined the Royal Tank Corps in 1923 as T.E. Shaw Lawrence (of Arabia) |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | STRINGED INSTRUMENTS $400: Compared to the violin, it has a low C string instead of a high E string a viola |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | FUN WITH STATE NAMES $600: The one vowel that does not begin a state name (& don't say "Y"; we don't need the viewer mail) E |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | TV SHOWS ON THE MAP $1600: After "Ally McBeal", David E. Kelley stayed local with this show about a troubled school Boston Public |
| #6158, aired 2011-05-25 | WHERE AM I? $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew walks through a parklike area with numerous white headstones.) I'm at this 600-acre site that was home to Robert E. Lee until the start of the Civil War Arlington (National Cemetery) |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | SPELL IT RIGHT $400: A new star? I-N-G-E-N-U-E |
| #6156, aired 2011-05-23 | SPELL IT RIGHT $1000: A French connection R-E-N-D-E-Z-V-O-U-S |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | DOUBLE E, DOUBLE O $200: A revealing woman's blouse, or a game to play with Baby peekaboo |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | DOUBLE E, DOUBLE O $400: A pony, a feather & macaroni are featured in the first verse of this song "Yankee Doodle" |
| #6151, aired 2011-05-16 | DOUBLE E, DOUBLE O $600: 2-word anatomical term for a craving for candy a sweet tooth |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | SPELLING BEES $400: This honeybee can lay a thousand or more eggs a day Q-U-E-E-N |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | SPELLING BEES $2,800 (Daily Double): 11-letter "continental," adjective that describes the honeybee hybrid A-F-R-I-C-A-N-I-Z-E-D |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | FROM D TO E $200: In a deck of cards, it's another name for a 2 a deuce |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | FROM D TO E $800: Adjective used to describe an easily managed or readily trained animal, perhaps a horse docile |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | FROM D TO E $1000: It's the rodent seen here &, surprisingly, it's awake a dormouse |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | GOLDEN GLOBE WINNERS $200: This "E.T." director, a Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient Steven Spielberg |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | GRADE AVIS $400: The wingspan of the California this can be nearly 10 feet; instead of giving it an E for endangered, it gets a gentleman's "C" a condor |
| #6128, aired 2011-04-13 | PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR VOCABULARY $400: A gap through a mountain range, e.g. Donner pass |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | "E"-BOOKS $400: This novel by Sinclair Lewis is a satiric indictment of fundamentalist religion Elmer Gantry |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | "E"-BOOKS $1200: Around 418 B.C. Euripides wrote a play named for this "complex" woman of myth Electra |
| #6122, aired 2011-04-05 | NOVEL "T"s $400: In the title of a favorite by S.E. Hinton, these 3 words precede "This Is Now" That Was Then |
| #6120, aired 2011-04-01 | MOLECULAR GASTRONOMY $600: (Sarah gives the clue from the Moto Restaurant in Chicago, IL.) Food is cooked to precise temperatures & uniform doneness in a water bath without the water coming into direct contact with it; the food is sealed without air so the technique is called "sous vide", "vide" meaning this vacuum |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | "E" DAY $1600: Fittingly, schools were not closed on April 5, 2009, which was this "and sharing day, U.S.A." Education |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | "E" DAY $5,500 (Daily Double): The U.S. Department of Energy has a website urging us to "Make every day" this April event Earth Day |
| #6115, aired 2011-03-25 | RECENT ALBUMS $800: For "Working On A Dream", he was once again backed by the E Street Band Bruce Springsteen |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | GOD SPELL $800: Vulcan is the Roman equivalent of this Greek fire god (10 letters) H-E-P-H-A-E-S-T-U-S |
| #6105, aired 2011-03-11 | GOD SPELL $1000: This Hindu god of wisdom & good fortune has the head of an elephant (7 letters) G-A-N-E-S-H-A |
| #6099, aired 2011-03-03 | ALPHABET ROCKERS $600: Their hit song "Man On The Moon" is a musical tribute to comedian Andy Kaufman R.E.M. |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | TO THE LETTER $1200: The cardinal points on a compass are designated by these 4 letters N, E, W & S |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | A SHORT SPELL $400: A section of ice, flatter than a berg, that breaks off from a pack
(4 letters) F-L-O-E |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | A SHORT SPELL $600: Dreadful; it comes before "consequences", & also means "to say" in French
(4 letters) D-I-R-E |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | THE ENVIRONMENT $600: In 2009, Band-e-Amir became war-weary Afghanistan's first national this a park |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | A SHORT SPELL $800: Before, in olden days, it meant before
(3 letters) E-R-E |
| #6096, aired 2011-02-28 | A SHORT SPELL $1000: You turn wood to shape it on this machine
(5 letters) L-A-T-H-E |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | LEGAL "E"s $400: In English law, it's a title above a gentleman & below a knight; in the U.S., it's usually added to the name of an attorney esquire |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | LEGAL "E"s $800: One definition of this is entering a private place with the intent of listening secretly to private conversations eavesdropping |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | LEGAL "E"s $1200: This person is appointed by a testator to carry out the directions & requests in his will executor |
| #6088, aired 2011-02-16 | LEGAL "E"s $2000: This clause in a union contract says that wages will rise or fall depending on a standard such as cost of living escalator |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | "STAN" IN THE PLACE WHERE YOU LIVE $800: Mazar-e Sharif, Ghazni & Kandahar are cities in this country Afghanistan |
| #6075, aired 2011-01-28 | I OWE YOU AN "OLOGY" $1000: This -ology, part of sociology, uses the theory of differential association (i.e., hanging around with a bad crowd) criminology |
| #6069, aired 2011-01-20 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800 (Daily Double): Opened in 1865, this N.E. college was started by a scientist for an increasingly industrialized America MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| #6065, aired 2011-01-14 | THEY'RE ON CABLE TV $1000: If you're "Obsessed" & need an "Intervention", you can see those 2 shows on this letter perfect channel A&E |
| #6052, aired 2010-12-28 | LOONEY TUNES $1200: An anvil, rocket skates & a do-it-yourself tornado kit are items Wile E. Coyote has bought from this corporation Acme |
| #6050, aired 2010-12-24 | NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE $800: Nathaniel added this letter to his last name when he went pro as a writer W |
| #6039, aired 2010-12-09 | 2 Es, THEN ONE E $2000: This type of hunting cap is associated with Sherlock Holmes a deerstalker |
| #6024, aired 2010-11-18 | MATH SYMBOLS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains an equation on the monitor.) The big "E" is actually the Greek letter sigma; in math, it means to do this to a series of terms--here, from 1 to 3 sum them (or add them) |
| #6020, aired 2010-11-12 | 2- OR 11-LETTER WORDS $1200: Used chiefly in law, it means "in the matter of"; it's seen a lot in e-mails, too re |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | SPACING OUT $1,200 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a film of the Space Shuttle in flight.) The speed needed for a rocket to break free of Earth's gravity--6.96 miles per second--is called this, E.V. for short escape velocity |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | ON THE "L-I-E" $400: A sergeant may be promoted to one lieutenant |
| #6012, aired 2010-11-02 | ON THE "L-I-E" $800: Put to use in a practical context, like a branch of physics applied |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | ECO-FRIENDLY VAMPIRES $1600: E.V.s suck up this 4-letter renewable energy source; its worldwide kinetic energy is said to be 11 quadrillion kW-hours per year wind |
| #6004, aired 2010-10-21 | FROM THE FRENCH $2000: Spelled with an E after the L, it means "to complete"; with an I, "to praise"; both are from the French complement or compliment |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | CLASSIC TOYS $600: Ronald Howes Sr. invented this toy after a salesman wondered if Kenner could make a toy version of a chestnut roaster the E-Z Bake Oven |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | FIREFIGHTING $600: Federal Signal is a leading maker of these; its E-Q2B model features the yelp & air horn options a siren |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | A HAPPY TUNE $600: Kate Pierson of the B-52s contributed backing vocals to this 1991 Top 10 hit by R.E.M. "Shiny Happy People" |
| #5998, aired 2010-10-13 | ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY $800: In 1990, the very first "E.W." cover didn't feature a movie or TV star, but this alternative country singer k.d. lang |
| #5993, aired 2010-10-06 | THE SHORES OF TRIPLE "E" $1600: En garde! It's a weapon used in fencing an épée |
| #5993, aired 2010-10-06 | THE SHORES OF TRIPLE "E" $2000: Adjective for a journalist who accompanies soldiers in battle embedded |
| #5986, aired 2010-09-27 | DAFFYNITIONS $1600: An instance of the Moon passing in front of the Sun, or what a Cockney barber does for a living eclipse/'e clips |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | REALITY SHOWS A LA SHAKESPEARE $1000: Rogues! Fugitives! Hear me! The Chapmans will track & capture thee from Hawaii to Colorado! This is our (A&E) quest! Dog the Bounty Hunter |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | METALS $1600: In 1906 G.E. produced its first light bulb using this metal as a filament; it's still used today tungsten |
| #5960, aired 2010-07-09 | E BEFORE I $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.)
Blood vessels called arteries are connected by means of capillaries to this other type of blood vessel veins |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $600: The second month of the year F-E-B-R-U-A-R-Y |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $800: The written note from a doctor to a pharmacist telling what medicine you need P-R-E-S-C-R-I-P-T-I-O-N |
| #5958, aired 2010-07-07 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $1000: It sounds exactly like the name of a great lake, but it means weird or uncanny E-E-R-I-E |
| #5957, aired 2010-07-06 | GEOGRAPHY "E" $600: This island in the South Pacific is named for the day of its discovery, a religious holiday Easter Island |
| #5950, aired 2010-06-25 | SUPER $2000: A scene at the end of "Iron Man" finds Samuel L. Jackson as this one-eyed S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury |
| #5942, aired 2010-06-15 | A "LITTLE" READING $400: Snowbell the cat is not a fan of the title character in this E.B. White book Stuart Little |
| #5934, aired 2010-06-03 | CABLE NETWORKING $2000: "Gene Simmons Family Jewels" &
"Dog the Bounty Hunter" A&E |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | U.S. BIZ $200: The 747 reasons to buy from this company include the E-6 Tacamo & a little thing called Air Force One Boeing |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | BOOK SMART $800: His "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" is subtitled "A Triumph" T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) |
