Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (477 results returned)

#9067, aired 2024-03-26MUSEUMS SPREAD THEIR WINGS $2000: The Rasmuson Wing contains the art of the North Galleries in the museum named for this U.S. city a 2,200-mile drive from Seattle Anchorage
#9063, aired 2024-03-20VIOLENT ART $800: Sanguine, a blood-red chalk, is apt for the category; in the 1790s this Spaniard used it to sketch Saturn eating his son Goya
#9023, aired 2024-01-24ART & ARTISTS $1600: His painting of "Olympia" traveled to the U.S. for the first time for a 2023 exhibit on this French painter & his frenemy Degas Édouard Manet
#9010, aired 2024-01-05OUR WOMAN IN THE FIELD $400: The first woman to win this prize for criticism, Emily Genauer took it (& $1,000!) in 1974 for her writing on art a Pulitzer
#8971, aired 2023-11-13THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $400: He had a good year in 1928; construction began on the New York City Art Deco building named for him & he acquired Dodge Chrysler
#8965, aired 2023-11-03ART HEISTS $5,000 (Daily Double): In 2001 his "Study for 'Over Vitebsk"' wandered off after a cocktail reception at the Jewish Museum in New York Marc Chagall
#8954, aired 2023-10-19MUSIC TERMS $1600: German for "song", it's a German folk or art song a lied
#8913, aired 2023-07-12READING WITH JENNA BUSH HAGER $1000: (Jenna Bush Hager presents the clue.) I recommended a 2022 novel that's as Gothic & mysterious as you can get; it's named for & set at this branch of the Met that's dedicated to the art of the Middle Ages the Cloisters
#8908, aired 2023-07-05ART & ARTISTS $400: One of the few women mentioned by art biographer Vasari is Properzia de' Rossi, praised for a scene carved on this fruit item a peach pit
#8908, aired 2023-07-05ART & ARTISTS $800: Let's have a discussion about this term for a solid surface, such as wood, for an oil painting a panel
#8907, aired 2023-07-04ART"S" $400: Like Cézanne's "Apples on a Cloth", it's a painting of inanimate objects for their own sake, or for symbolic significance a still life
#20, aired 2023-05-243-NAMED PEOPLE $2000: Besides painting many portraits of George Washington, he founded a museum in Philadelphia as much for science as for art Charles Wilson Peale
#10, aired 2023-05-15FROM THE GREEK $400: From a Greek word for "moving", it's a type of energy as well as a type of art kinetic
#9, aired 2023-05-15CHESS, MASTERS $800: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) Famed for works like "Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2", in the 1920s this great Dadaist all but abandoned art for chess, becoming a master & going on to play for France in four Chess Olympiads Duchamp
#9, aired 2023-05-15ART & ARTISTS $1000: 19th century artists like Ingres & Renoir liked this subject, a French word for a woman who's part of a harem an odalisque
#8869, aired 2023-05-11MET-IEVAL ART $1600: A set of tapestries with some threads gilded depict a unicorn; its hunt & capture symbolized this, a word for a god-made flesh incarnation
#1, aired 2023-05-08ART TERMS $200: Artists like Joan Miró used drawing sticks called these, also a term for any soft shade of color pastels
#8856, aired 2023-04-24WHEREFORE ART, THOU $400: Pop went the art--for a big pop--when "Eight Elvises" by this artist went for $100 million in 2008 Warhol
#8799, aired 2023-02-02ART-POURRI $1000: For a sculpture called "La France", he used the features of Camille Claudel, a sculptor who was also his assistant & lover Rodin
#8777, aired 2023-01-03AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $800: In the 1930s this Iowa native designed a mural called "Breaking the Prairie Sod" for Iowa State University (Grant) Wood
#8771, aired 2022-12-26THE OFFICE $1000: Term for a group meeting to assess a completed project, or for an art exhibit covering a painter's whole career a retrospective
#8762, aired 2022-12-13SPANISH ART & ARTISTS $1600: It's an old Spanish word for a pretty young woman; Goya painted several, including some "on a Balcony" a maja
#8759, aired 2022-12-08PREPARING FOR THE ROLE $1600: Ed Harris built an art studio & learned to paint, or drip paint, for his role as this artist in a 2000 film Pollock
#8741, aired 2022-11-14FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: One of these entertainers, Japanese for "art person", worked in an ochaya, a tea house a geisha
#8671, aired 2022-06-27ART LOVERS $1600: Edmund Blair Leighton's painting evokes this doomed Celtic pair who were reunited by a love potion meant for another Tristan & Isolde
#8663, aired 2022-06-15MILWAUKEE: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Natalie Shepherd of the CBS58 news team presents the clue.) The Milwaukee Art Museum now has wings designed by geniuses from both ends of Europe; in 2001, a new pavilion with a removable sunscreen, designed by Spain's Santiago Calatrava, joined the original building by this modernist from Finland (Eero) Saarinen
#8638, aired 2022-05-11BEASTLY ART $800: A 1613 painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder, depicts animals preparing for entry into this conveyance Noah's Ark
#8634, aired 2022-05-05ART $1000: In the "Education of Achilles" by this Flemish master, a highly cultivated man, the lyre represents music education Rubens
#8621, aired 2022-04-18ART ON COMMISSION $400: Better known for her paintings of the Southwest, in the 1930s she was commissioned by Dole to paint a pineapple for its ads Georgia O'Keeffe
#8621, aired 2022-04-18ART ON COMMISSION $1600: After he snuck in an image of Lenin for a mural at Rockefeller Center, this Mexican artist's offending work was demolished Rivera
#8621, aired 2022-04-18ART ON COMMISSION $2000: There's quite a bit of red in the painting he did of Pope Paul III with his grandsons during a visit to Rome in the 1540s Titian
#8617, aired 2022-04-12ROCK ART $400: Andy Warhol's cover for The Velvet Underground's 1967 debut album featured one of these fruits with a peelable sticker a banana
#8617, aired 2022-04-12ROCK ART $800: For the cover of a 2019 album, this "Truth Hurts" singer posed nude against a simple black backdrop Lizzo
#8617, aired 2022-04-12ROCK ART $2,000 (Daily Double): A national monument in New Mexico is named for its many these, from Greek for "rock" & "carvings" petroglyphs
#7, aired 2022-02-11DOUBLE LETTERS WITHIN $2000: The art of training a horse in precise movements, perhaps to prepare for a competition dressage
#8551, aired 2022-01-10CELEBRITY HOBBIES $600: Though not noted for action movies, Forest Whitaker has a black belt in the kenpo type of this martial art karate
#8473, aired 2021-09-22ART & DESIGN $400: In the 1930s Isamu Noguchi designed an early one of these for parents; the receiver was called "radio nurse" a baby monitor
#8461, aired 2021-08-09"A" MOVIE $400: This 2009 movie won Oscars for art direction, cinematography & visual effects Avatar
#8407, aired 2021-05-25A PALACE IN HISTORY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria.) Bergl's wall art in the ground floor suite furnished for this Hapsburg queen in the 1770s was meant to merge with the real landscape outside Maria Theresa
#8400, aired 2021-05-14THE ART OF LEADERSHIP $400: A painting by this Russian leader sold for more than $1 million in a charity auction--no word on if he was shirtless when he painted it Putin
#8391, aired 2021-05-03A WORD FROM THE GREEK FOR... $1600: For "hidden" & "writing": the art & study of secure communication cryptology (or cryptography)
#8376, aired 2021-04-12ART & ARTISTS $600: The subject of a 2014 film, Margaret Keane was noted for her paintings of waifs with this distinction, the film's title big eyes
#8376, aired 2021-04-12BILL OF WRITES $2000: Known for art as well as poetry, this Londoner was apprenticed to the engraver James Basire for 50 guineas William Blake
#8346, aired 2021-03-01AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS $800: A bestseller ensued when Robert M. Pirsig used this transport for a 1968 journey with his son, doing his own maintenance a motorcycle
#8311, aired 2021-01-11NEW YORK SOCIETY $600: Head to the Hispanic Society of America for a dazzling art collection, like Martín Gómez's 16th century retablo, also known as this type of piece an altarpiece
#8289, aired 2020-11-26ART & ARTISTS $400: Some scholars suggest that Leonardo da Vinci disguised himself as a woman for this portrait aka "La Gioconda" Mona Lisa
#8284, aired 2020-11-19PATRIOTIC ART? $5,000 (Daily Double): Asked for a nativity scene, British artist Edward Burne-Jones produced an 8 x 12 foot watercolor "Star of" this city Bethlehem
#8282, aired 2020-11-17AROUND THE GARDEN $2000: The diamond-shaped red & green leaves of this plant, named for tiled art, made it a popular choice to float in your pond mosaic
#8271, aired 2020-11-02ART APPRECIATION $400: In 1877 2 Rembrandts were part of a 1 mil.-franc buy; in 2015 the Rijksmuseum & this French museum bought them for 160 million euros the Louvre
#8271, aired 2020-11-02ART APPRECIATION $1200: A New York couple paid $212,500 for 15 paintings by this Spaniard in 1956; in 2015 a single one of them sold for $179 million Picasso
#8271, aired 2020-11-02ART APPRECIATION $1600: A collector inherited this artist's Tahiti-set painting "When Will You Marry"; in 2015 he sold it for $300 million Gauguin
#8271, aired 2020-11-02ART APPRECIATION $2000: In 2014 a dealer paid $80 million for an abstract painting by this Russian American, then sold it for $189 million Mark Rothko
#8263, aired 2020-10-21ARCHITECTS & ARCHITECTURE $1200: Travertine stone reflecting the Los Angeles sunlight is a feature of this art "Center" named for an oil tycoon the Getty
#8262, aired 2020-10-20YOU GOTTA HAVE "ART" $2000: General term for a weapon like a missile launcher artillery
#8217, aired 2020-05-19"A" BEFORE "E" $400: The world federation for this Olympic martial art is headquartered in Seoul taekwondo
#8209, aired 2020-04-23DRAW ME $1600: Here's a portrait of this guy who was known for his "Art of War" Sun-tzu
#8184, aired 2020-03-19TERMS OF ART $600: Term for a 3-dimensional artwork hung from a stand or the ceiling & moved freely by air currents a mobile
#8161, aired 2020-02-17ART SUBJECTS $13,000 (Daily Double): Anna McNeill was arranged in grey & black for a work by this artist, her son Whistler
#8147, aired 2020-01-28RUSSIAN ART & CULTURE $1600: Russian for "self-boiler", these urns were traditionally used to heat water for tea & in 1989 were showcased on a series of stamps a samovar
#8136, aired 2020-01-13STARCHITECTS $800: Richard Rogers & Renzo Piano played with traditional notions of design with this Paris art "Centre" named for a French president the Pompidou Centre
#8124, aired 2019-12-26ART IN THE VATICAN $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Commissioned in 1711 as a gift to encourage the pope's support for the building of an observatory, a series of astronomical paintings show the then-known planets, including Mars, Saturn, and this giant, with its bands of color Jupiter
#8124, aired 2019-12-26ART IN THE VATICAN $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) A statue at the Chiaramonti Museum features the torso of an unknown tragic poet. The head--believed to be from a different source, because it's a little small for the body--is that of this Greek playwright who wrote "Medea" Euripides
#8112, aired 2019-12-10AWARDS & HONORS $2000: A French art prize is named for this "Nude Descending A Staircase" painter; nominees get to exhibit at the Pompidou Centre (Marcel) Duchamp
#8051, aired 2019-09-16ART & ARTISTS $200: This popular name for Rembrandt's 1642 portrait of a militia group is a result of its old darkened varnish, now cleaned off The Night Watch
#8051, aired 2019-09-16ART & ARTISTS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) For "The Judgment of Paris", a collaboration with the engraver Raimondi, Raphael depicted one reclining figure by reversing the posture of this title character in a famous work by Michelangelo Adam
#8042, aired 2019-07-23LIFE IN ANCIENT TIMES $800: The Roman valued this art of persuasive speech, a necessary skill for great oratory rhetoric
#8030, aired 2019-07-05GRAPHIC $2000: A golden age of poster art was in 1890s France, the era called this, French for "beautiful age" the Belle Epoque
#7924, aired 2019-02-07SORROW $400: George Clooney recorded a version of "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" for this Coen Bros. film, but his voice was replaced O Brother, Where Art Thou?
#7917, aired 2019-01-29ART & ARTISTS $1600: Partly done with spray paint, a skull by this late graffiti artist of Haitian descent sold for over $100 million in 2017 (Jean-Michel) Basquiat
#7911, aired 2019-01-21POET IDENTIFICATION, PLEASE $400 (Daily Double): "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so" (John) Donne
#7893, aired 2018-12-26AROUND THE WORLD AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.) A building, its setting, and its furnishings were inextricably related for this architect, who designed the prairie-style room and all of its furniture, which is placed exactly as he intended it Frank Lloyd Wright
#7893, aired 2018-12-26FAMILY TIES $800: In "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" George Clooney insists he's this, a Latin word for the father of a family paterfamilias
#7891, aired 2018-12-24"POT"POURRI $1200: A cheap book written for profit, not art potboiler
#7879, aired 2018-12-06AROUND LOS ANGELES $1000: The L.A. area has the Getty Center & the Getty this, a 5-letter word for a fancy residence & home to ancient Greek & Roman art the Getty Villa
#7852, aired 2018-10-30ART FOR ART'S SAKE $400: Rembrandt's "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" shows a procedure taking place in this world capital Amsterdam
#7852, aired 2018-10-30ART FOR ART'S SAKE $800: A high school's painting from his "Willie Gillis" WWII series became a $1.9 million windfall for students in 2014 (Norman) Rockwell
#7852, aired 2018-10-30ART FOR ART'S SAKE $1200: This giant of Flemish art was a mentor to Anthony Van Dyck, who did a 1621 portrait of the older master's wife Peter Paul Rubens
#7852, aired 2018-10-30ART FOR ART'S SAKE $2,000 (Daily Double): Max Klinger (a German Symbolist, not a "M*A*S*H" character) is among painters of this 5-letter theme of a grieving Mary the pietà
#7767, aired 2018-05-22ART & ARTISTS $400: This word for an artwork made of 3 panels comes from the Greek for "three tablets" a triptych
#7767, aired 2018-05-22ART & ARTISTS $800: Whistler gave musical titles to his paintings; twilight & night scenes were called this, from the French for "night" a Nocturne
#7742, aired 2018-04-17ART $400: This Rodin sculpture was originally meant to be a seated portrait of Dante for the top of "The Gates of Hell" The Thinker
#7720, aired 2018-03-16IN A STORM $1200: Quemado, N.M., known for electrical storms, is home to the art piece of 400 steel poles called this weather event field a lightning field
#7710, aired 2018-03-02CHARITABLE FOLKS $1000: L.A. has a contemporary art museum & a playhouse named for this music & movie mogul David Geffen
#7651, aired 2017-12-1120th CENTURY ART $800: A statement against war, this giant painting was commissioned for the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair Guernica
#7650, aired 2017-12-0814-LETTER WORDS $800: You can win an Oscar for this specialty, the art & science of filming a motion picture cinematography
#7632, aired 2017-11-14HIDDEN FIGURES $1200: Pluperfect is one a tense
#7632, aired 2017-11-14ART $1600: He coined the term ready-made for everyday objects he designated as art, like the one he titled "Fountain" (actually a urinal) (Marcel) Duchamp
#7622, aired 2017-10-31ART $3,200 (Daily Double): In 2013 one of his black-&-white paintings of a Coca-Cola bottle sold at auction for over $57 million Andy Warhol
#7620, aired 2017-10-27LA LA LAND $1000: (Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti presents the clue.) In downtown LA & named for philanthropists Edythe & Eli this $140 million art museum uses a "veil-&-vault" concept; the fiber-reinforced concrete facade is the veil, with the vault within the Broad Museum
#7577, aired 2017-07-18"G", WE LOVE ART $1600: A school of art is named for the Flemish cities of Bruges & this Ghent
#7565, aired 2017-06-30CANADA 150 $3,500 (Daily Double): (Alex presents from the Canadian embassy in Washington, D.C.) The embassy's art collection includes a reminder of the warm relations between Canada & this country; during World War II, Canada helped provide refuge for its royal family, including the young Princess Beatrix, & later, Canada helped liberate this country from Nazi rule the Netherlands
#7554, aired 2017-06-15U.S. MUSEUMS $1600: A contemporary art museum in Pittsburgh is housed in & named for this type of factory owned by Stearns & Foster a mattress
#7515, aired 2017-04-21ALMA 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
#7502, aired 2017-04-04TURKISH DELIGHTS $600: Turkey is noted for this art of fine handwriting; a practitioner is called a hatta calligraphy
#7489, aired 2017-03-16"A" FOR THE WIN $800: A storage place for weapons, it precedes "show" regarding a famous 1913 art exhibition armory
#7460, aired 2017-02-0320th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $1600: Magritte said, "To be" this type of artist means "being always on the lookout for what has never been" a surrealist
#7455, aired 2017-01-27"A" FOR ART $400: This genre of art does not attempt to represent external reality, but communicates instead using shapes & colors abstract
#7455, aired 2017-01-27"A" FOR ART $800: The Tuscan town of Volterra is a center of carving this fine-grained gypsum that is often white alabaster
#7455, aired 2017-01-27"A" FOR ART $1200: These served as a backdrop for the elevation of the Eucharist during Mass; the one at Ghent's cathedral is by Van Eyck an altarpiece
#7455, aired 2017-01-27"A" FOR ART $1,500 (Daily Double): Botticelli was among those who painted a version of this, showing a trio paying homage to the baby Jesus adoration (of the Magi)
#7455, aired 2017-01-27"A" FOR ART $2000: The group of painters known as "The Eight" established this "sooty" school of art the Ashcan School
#7450, aired 2017-01-20THE ART OF LEARNING AT RISD $400: (Sarah gives the clue from the Rhode Island School of Design.) Beading is the term for applying a tool to the work piece to create rounded designs, using this machine a lathe
#7424, aired 2016-12-15WHAT'S THE BIG RUSH? $800: Mining cos. are rushing to MOMA--not an art museum but a Mozambique mine for this silvery metal used in planes titanium
#7393, aired 2016-11-02WHAT A BUNCH OF BOLOGNA $800: Hometown painter Vitale da Bologna created art for the city, like this saint slaying a dragon (Saint) George
#7369, aired 2016-09-29CITY HALL $600: Completed in 1928, Asheville, North Carolina's City Hall is a masterpiece of this style, named for a Parisian expo held in 1925 Art Deco
#7346, aired 2016-07-18A MOUSE IN THE HOUSE $2000: In 1992 he won a special Pulitzer for "Maus", his graphic novel about the Holocaust Art Spiegelman
#7328, aired 2016-06-22ART TERMS $200: The west side of the Berlin Wall was a fine place for this type of art that gets its name from the Latin for "wall" a mural
#7328, aired 2016-06-22ART TERMS $400: A pair of paintings on 2 panels, often hinged together, is called this, from the Greek for "double folded" a diptych
#7317, aired 2016-06-07FROM NOAH WEBSTER'S 1828 DICTIONARY $1600: "A species of aquatic worm, which is used in the medical art for topical bleeding" leeches
#7303, aired 2016-05-18ART $1200: In 1987 his "Irises" sold at auction for a then-record $53.9 million Vincent van Gogh
#7300, aired 2016-05-13ART & ARTISTS $400: Born in 1577 & named for two saints, he's the Flemish master seen here in a self-portrait Peter Paul Rubens
#7275, aired 2016-04-08"GET" GOING $1600: The L.A. art center named for this tycoon opened in 1997 (Paul) Getty
#7261, aired 2016-03-21ART FOR ART'S SAKE $400: From the Latin for "shape", it's a statuette under 11 inches high & exactly 8 letters long a figurine
#7261, aired 2016-03-21ART FOR ART'S SAKE $800: It means to embed decorative material into a surface for ornamental effect, or the resulting design an inlay
#7261, aired 2016-03-21ART FOR ART'S SAKE $1200: Popular for museum displays, it's an illuminated 3-dimensional scene often with a painted background a diorama
#7261, aired 2016-03-21ART FOR ART'S SAKE $1600: This term for a carving like on the front of a coin means it's raised only slightly from its background a bas-relief
#7250, aired 2016-03-04ART CLASS $400: From the French for "to glue", it's the form of art in which pieces of paper or other materials are glued to a canvas collage
#7230, aired 2016-02-05WORLD ART $1600: Pedro Peres' "Elevation of the Cross in Porto Seguro, Bahia" shows a historic moment for this S. Amer. country Brazil
#7212, aired 2016-01-12HORSE HEALTH $4,400 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Center for Equine Health at UC Davis.) It's an old art, but by studying a horse's teeth--the shape, surface, the angle of the incisors--you can fairly estimate this its age
#7206, aired 2016-01-04EMMY: THE WOMEN $800: Emmy Bridgewater was a leading British exponent of this art style that (ironically) derives from French for "super real" surrealism
#7193, aired 2015-12-16FABRICS & TEXTILES $1200: Cotton is a traditional fabric for this activity of making blankets into colorful art quilting
#7189, aired 2015-12-10TERM OF ART $800: This chilly-sounding term is used for horizontal sections of sculpture on a wall a frieze
#7189, aired 2015-12-10TERM OF ART $2000: French term for paintings executed outdoors, rather than in a studio en plein air
#7171, aired 2015-11-16THE METROPOLITAN OPERA $600: Wotan strips Brunnhilde of her divinity & puts her into a magic sleep on the Met's state-of-the-art set for "Die Walkure", part of this composer's Ring Cycle Wagner
#7163, aired 2015-11-04BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS $800: In 2015, this museum, named for the former Gertrude Vanderbilt, moved to a new building with a cantilevered entrance the Whitney Museum of American Art
#7159, aired 2015-10-29ART $1,000 (Daily Double): It's the Italian term for a mural technique using water-based paint on lime plaster; the Sistine Chapel has examples fresco
#7143, aired 2015-10-07THE ART OF DANCE $400: Coconut Creek, Florida boasts the Goldcoast this space for the dancing of the same name, with a 60' x 40' oak floor Ballroom
#7143, aired 2015-10-07THE ART OF DANCE $800: The Dance of the 4 Swans may be the best-known dance for 4, or in French, this type of dance pas de quatre
#7143, aired 2015-10-07THE ART OF DANCE $1000: Partly from the Latin for "between", it's a style of dance that depicts an emotion interpretive
#7097, aired 2015-06-23A WORLD OF ART $400: In the 1970s Australian artist John Olsen painted "Salute to Five Bells", a mural for this Sydney landmark the Sydney Opera House
#7097, aired 2015-06-23A WORLD OF ART $1200: The Rockefellers destroyed this Mexican's "Man at the Crossroads" mural for the RCA Building because it featured Lenin Diego Rivera
#7082, aired 2015-06-02SHAKESPEARE IN ART $600: The future Lady Hamilton posed as Miranda from this play for a series of studies by George Romney The Tempest
#7037, aired 2015-03-31INSTRUMENTAL IN SCIENCE $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew, at Harvard University's Historical Scientific Instruments, shows a machine.) Harvard lost most of its scientific equipment in a 1764 fire; state-of-the-art replacements, like an electricity-generating machine, were bought by this man in London on business for the colony of Pennsylvania Benjamin Franklin
#7035, aired 2015-03-27FONTS $1000: It was designed by a member of this German movement for "art & technology, a new unity" Bauhaus
#6983, aired 2015-01-14JOBS IN ART $400: Edward Hopper's wife was his model for this worker at a filing cabinet in "Office at Night" a secretary
#6983, aired 2015-01-14JOBS IN ART $800: Luke Fildes used the sickbed of his little son as inspiration for an 1891 work depicting this professional a doctor
#6978, aired 2015-01-07OF THE NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS $600: Designs by 2014 Lifetime Achievement winners Ivan Chermayeff & Tom Geismar include one for this L.A. museum MOCA (the Museum of Contemporary Art)
#6976, aired 2015-01-05"DE"FRIEND $1600: This Frenchman painted a portrait of Chopin, who was a good friend, but didn't care for his art Delacroix
#6961, aired 2014-12-15THE ART OF RELIGION $600: (Alex reads from the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, PA.) In his composition two right hands, Rodin noticed a similarity to a Gothic arch, & so he named the piece for this type of grand Catholic church a cathedral
#6951, aired 2014-12-01ART $1200: For this Spanish Cubist's 1912 work "Still Life with Chair Caning", he used a real rope as a picture frame Picasso
#6951, aired 2014-12-01ART $2000: From the French for "small shovel", it's the round board with a thumb hole on which you mix paints a palette
#6927, aired 2014-10-28JUST SIT RIGHT BACK $2000: An 18th century chair with Cabriole legs & a curved back is named for this "Rake's Progress" painter who used the form in his art William Hogarth
#6875, aired 2014-07-04OPERA TUNES $2000: "Vissi d'arte" (I lived for art") from this composer's "Tosca" is a test of a soprano's own artistry Puccini
#6869, aired 2014-06-26HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $1600: For example, "I turn Christmas into a whole new art / Put paper on presents like Martha Stewart" wrap rap
#6862, aired 2014-06-17MOVIE TERMS $2000: Named for an early film technician, it's the art of matching sound effects to a scene's action; coconuts may help Foley
#6851, aired 2014-06-02HISTORIC PEOPLE IN ART $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) The so-called Pelican Portrait was named for the bird on the brooch, a symbol of motherhood, as it was believed it fed its young with its own blood, just as this woman sacrificed for her country Elizabeth I
#6837, aired 2014-05-13"DEC"-ADES $800: A period of decline in morals or art, or just a typical weekend for me decadence
#6828, aired 2014-04-30THE ART OF NORMAN ROCKWELL $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.) In the work here, painted over 11 years, Rockwell takes you for a Christmas Eve stroll along this primary thoroughfare in Stockbridge -- every small town has one Main Street
#6828, aired 2014-04-30THE ART OF NORMAN ROCKWELL $1,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.) For "The Recruit" in 1966, Rockwell borrowed the pose of the football player from a sculpture of Giuliano de' Medici by this Florentine master Michelangelo
#6801, aired 2014-03-24AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $800: In 2009 his 1962 painting "200 One Dollar Bills" sold for a lot more than that; it fetched $43.8 million Andy Warhol
#6797, aired 2014-03-18THE FRENCH $1000: In 2009, 2 art historians wrote it was this Paris-born painter who mutilated van Gogh's ear, with a sword, no less Gauguin
#6787, aired 2014-03-04ART & ARTISTS $400: It's about a 30-minute walk from the Rembrandt House Museum to the Amsterdam museum named for this artist van Gogh
#6782, aired 2014-02-25HISTORIC CARS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a smooth car at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.) Containing no sharp edges, the aesthetic & technical achievements of the 1947 Cisitalia 202 GT were enough for this progressive New York City museum to consider it a work of art & put it on display MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art
#6763, aired 2014-01-29ART TERMS $800: This 3-part panel was a common form for altarpieces in medieval art a triptych
#6763, aired 2014-01-29ART TERMS $1200: In old Japan cherry trees were felled to make the blocks on which designs were carved for this 7-letter type of print a woodcut
#6705, aired 2013-11-08GLASS & GLASSMAKING $800: The Sabatini art gallery in Topeka is ready for Kansas winds--it has a collection of glass these for desktops paperweights
#6666, aired 2013-09-16MASTERPIECES FROM THE NORTON SIMON MUSEUM $400: (Alex gives the clue from the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CA.) For many years, art historians believed that this famous Dutch painter had painted an engaging portrait of his son, Titus; not so; the identity of the boy is a mystery Rembrandt
#6625, aired 2013-06-07CARNY ART $800: In between cancans, he painted an advertisement for a Mardi Gras confetti-maker. Toulouse-Lautrec
#6625, aired 2013-06-07CARNY ART $2000: The weirdness of carnivals was a natural subject for painters following this -ism, like Rouault & Beckmann expressionism
#6621, aired 2013-06-03MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD $2,500 (Daily Double): This London art museum opened in 1897, with much of the gallery being a gift from the industrialist for whom it's named the Tate
#6616, aired 2013-05-27"ART", FOR ART'S SAKE $2000: In Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, this figure encloses characters that represent the name of a sovereign a cartouche
#6565, aired 2013-03-15MIAMI NICE $1000: This 2-word 1920s style of architecture has a district named for it in South Beach art deco
#6527, aired 2013-01-22ART & ARTIST $1,000 (Daily Double): In a 1972 documentary he said, "Brigid's been doing my paintings for the last 3 years" Andy Warhol
#6523, aired 2013-01-16A LOTTA MOTTO $200: "Ars Gratia Artis" (art for art's sake) is the motto of this film company usually known by 3 letters MGM
#6506, aired 2012-12-24ADD A LETTER $200: Add a letter to a unit for measuring the fineness of gold to get this martial art karate (karat)
#6488, aired 2012-11-28ITALIAN ART $800: Tintoretto's "Miracle of St. Mark" was done for the Scuola di San Marco in this city protected by that saint Venice
#6488, aired 2012-11-28ITALIAN ART $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) Caravaggio's "Deposition from the Cross" illustrates this technique that uses light & shadow to create 3-D effects; its name is from the Italian for "clear and dark" chiaroscuro
#6475, aired 2012-11-09THE CULTURE OF VIETNAM $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from a public space in Vietnam.) Practiced here in Hanoi, & the world over, this martial art for all ages can lower blood pressure & reduce anxiety tai chi
#6456, aired 2012-10-15ART TERMS $1600: Duchamp is the father of this style of art that elevates idea over execution; the term contains a synonym for "idea" conceptual art
#6437, aired 2012-09-18MUSIC TERMS $1600: German for "song", it's a German folk or art song Lied
#6434, aired 2012-08-02ART CLASS $1,500 (Daily Double): This term for a painting depicting outdoor scenery was first used in English in the early 17th century landscape
#6427, aired 2012-07-24ALBUM COVER ART $400: Andy Warhol's cover for this group's 1971 album "Sticky Fingers" had a zipper attached to it The Rolling Stones
#6427, aired 2012-07-24ALBUM COVER ART $1200: A talented artist in his own right, this bassist provided the cover art for "The Who by Numbers" John Entwistle
#6413, aired 2012-07-04ISN'T IT AN -"ISM"? $1600: Holland Carter won a 2009 Pulitzer in this category "for his wide ranging reviews of art" criticism
#6389, aired 2012-05-31"MIS"QUOTES $1000: Emerson wrote, "Art is a jealous" this, "and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry... he makes a bad husband" mistress
#6378, aired 2012-05-16THE NEW YORK TIMES THE ARTS $400: A review of a 2012 show at this place, the Met for short, informed us that Degas looked like Jerry Seinfeld the Metropolitan Museum of Art
#6358, aired 2012-04-18CULTURES OF SOUTH AFRICA $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Lesedi Cultural Village in South Africa.) A Ndebele village features striking art mainly done by women; the most celebrated is Esther Mahlangu, who was invited to create an art car for this German company BMW
#6329, aired 2012-03-08GREAT ART $1200: As a young man, this Dutch painter signed his works "Rh"; he later added an "L" for Leiden, his place of birth Rembrandt
#6284, aired 2012-01-05BIBLICAL ART $400: For royal visits, a replica of this Michelangelo nudie at the Victoria & Albert Museum was formerly adorned with a fig leaf David
#6282, aired 2012-01-03LAND O' LAKERS $1000: Simon Rodia built the folk art towers named for this South L.A. community between 1921 & 1954 Watts
#6261, aired 2011-12-05REMEMBER LAST DECEMBER? $1200: A volume of his bird art sold at auction for more than $10 million, a record for a printed book Audubon
#6245, aired 2011-11-11TERMS OF ART $1200: It's the "disappearing" 2-word term for the place in a painting where receding parallel lines seem to meet the vanishing point
#6221, aired 2011-10-10TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $4,000 (Daily Double): In this 1950 play, a dressmaker's deceased husband & her new boyfriend both sport the title art on their chests The Rose Tattoo
#6172, aired 2011-06-14ART $800: A rich auburn is named for this Venetian artist, who favored that hair color in his paintings Titian
#6147, aired 2011-05-10O POURI $400: Oprah flew an entire audience to this city for a tour, including a run up the "rocky" steps of the Museum of Art Philadelphia
#6129, aired 2011-04-14ART & ARTISTS $400: In 1501 he was commissioned to make a statue of David for the cathedral of Florence Michelangelo
#6114, aired 2011-03-24THE GENTLE ART OF RUGBY $400: With 16 players fighting for possession, this way of re-starting play is a synonym for a disorderly struggle a scrum
#6101, aired 2011-03-07FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $800: Known for his Tahitian paintings, he served as a laborer in Panama in 1887 while France attempted to build a canal Gauguin
#6098, aired 2011-03-02ART -ISMS $400: U.S. Regionalism produced the work seen here; this title object in the center was also a subject for Monet a haystack
#6076, aired 2011-01-31TREBEKS IN ART HISTORY $400: Uncle Al's head got a little swelled around 1508 after doing a test for this artist Michelangelo
#6076, aired 2011-01-31TREBEKS IN ART HISTORY $600: Around 1600, distant cousin Aristotle sat in for a cardinal for this Spanish artist El Greco
#6076, aired 2011-01-31TREBEKS IN ART HISTORY $800: There's good old Adelberg Trebek, but this Dutchman just used al as a model for 1654's "Jan Six" Rembrandt
#6059, aired 2011-01-06ART "T" $1600: Still life painter William Harnett was a practitioner of this type of illusionism, French for "deceive the eye" trompe l'oeil
#6049, aired 2010-12-23GILT BY ASSOCIATION $600: The Metropolitan Museum of Art is re-creating a lost 3,000-lb. gilt frame for this Emanuel Leutze river scene Washington Crossing the Delaware
#6021, aired 2010-11-15ART 101 $800: French for "gluing", it's a picture made by gluing photos, news cuttings, ticket stubs, etc, to a surface a collage
#5978, aired 2010-09-15ART SCHOOL $400: The School of Fontainebleau is named for one of these built by Francis I in the 1530s a palace
#5952, aired 2010-06-29ARCHITECTS $400: The art of this center named for an oilman is housed in a Los Angeles hilltop complex designed by Richard Meier (the) Getty (Center)
#5937, aired 2010-06-08ART HEISTS $1200: In 1978 2 of his studies in bronze for his "Burghers of Calais" were stolen from a St. Louis museum Rodin
#5916, aired 2010-05-104 SCORE & 7 $200: Shakespeare's 87th one of these begins, "Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing" a sonnet
#5903, aired 2010-04-21THE AUTO MAN EMPIRE $200: He had a good year in 1928; construction began on the NYC art deco building named for him & he acquired Dodge Walter Chrysler
#5880, aired 2010-03-19CHARACTER ASSASSINATION $2000: He titled his book "Le Morte d'Arthur" for a reason; Art takes a sword to the "brain pan" (Sir Thomas) Malory
#5879, aired 2010-03-18ART & ARTISTS $1600: In art class, "A" is for this style of art that doesn't represent objects abstract
#5879, aired 2010-03-18ART & ARTISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): The world's largest collection of this post-impressionist's work is at the Amsterdam museum named for him Vincent van Gogh
#5879, aired 2010-03-18ART & ARTISTS $2000: For this revolutionary image, Archibald Willard originally showed the 3 musicians in a July 4th parade The Spirit of '76
#5775, aired 2009-10-23ART BOOKS $800: Hayden Herrera's biography of this Mexican woman was the basis for a movie Frida Kahlo
#5755, aired 2009-09-25"CENTER" FIELD $1000: Named for a millionaire, this art deco area covers 11 acres in the middle of Manhattan the Rockefeller Center
#5716, aired 2009-06-15A NEW LINE OF BARBIES? $200: Barbie kicks butt as a master of the martial art whose name is Chinese for "skill", watch out for... Kung Fu Barbie
#5714, aired 2009-06-11THAT TITLE IS TAKEN $2000: This Cormac McCarthy title comes from a Yeats poem about a senior citizen's hope to transmute himself into art No Country for Old Men
#5708, aired 2009-06-03MIRO, MIRO ON THE WALL $600: The huge mural that Miro painted for a hotel in this southwest Ohio city in 1947 is now owned by the city's art museum Cincinnati
#5699, aired 2009-05-21ART HEISTS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2001 his "Study for 'Over Vitebsk'" wandered off during a cocktail reception at the Jewish Museum in New York Chagall
#5684, aired 2009-04-30MUSEUMS $1600: In 1937 the State Museum of Fine Art in Moscow was named for this man, though he was a poet, not a painter (Alexander) Pushkin
#5668, aired 2009-04-08THE NEW YORK TIMES: TRAVEL $2,600 (Daily Double): For a weekend getaway, the Frugal Traveler recommends this city of "O'Keefe, folk art & Frito pies" Santa Fe
#5664, aired 2009-04-02AMERICAN NO MORE $2000: In 2008 the Abu Dhabi Investment Council paid $800 million for a 75% share of this NYC art deco skyscraper the Chrysler Building
#5660, aired 2009-03-27"P.D." QUEUE $800: Term for land owned by the government, or a work of art not under copyright public domain
#5651, aired 2009-03-16GOING INTO O____T $1000: 2-word French term for a small item of aesthetic interest objet d'art
#5645, aired 2009-03-06THE ART OF WORK $2000: For the song "Gretchen at" this device, Schubert wrote a piano part to imitate its whirring a spinning wheel
#5604, aired 2009-01-08ABSTRACT ART $400: A Stuart Davis series is named for this handheld utensil used to prepare omelets an eggbeater
#5601, aired 2009-01-05ART MONK $1600: Raise a glass of liqueur to friar Giovanni da Fiesole, known for devout frescoes & nicknamed this Fra Angelico
#5595, aired 2008-12-26"MO" BETTER $600: This word was suggested by Marcel Duchamp for art in a 1932 exhibit that included Alexander Calder mobiles
#5564, aired 2008-11-13ART $1200: This British artist, known for a famous "Boy", gave us the girl seen here Gainsborough
#5548, aired 2008-10-22HIGHER CELEBRITY EDUCATION $400: It all adds up; he paired with Paul Simon for a while & also got a masters in math from Columbia Art Garfunkel
#5530, aired 2008-09-26EXPIRATION DATES $200: April 8, 1973: A blue period for the art world with his demise Picasso
#5523, aired 2008-09-17POETS & POETRY $600: A poem says, "Death, be not" this "though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so" proud
#5503, aired 2008-07-09ART FOR ART'S SAKE $200: Salvador Dali once planned to build a table made entirely of these hard-boiled items "so that it could be eaten" eggs
#5503, aired 2008-07-09ART FOR ART'S SAKE $400: A Sarasota, Florida company specializes in giant sculptures in this medium; it's not just for castles anymore sand
#5503, aired 2008-07-09ART FOR ART'S SAKE $600: Chef Alain Roby set a Guinness record in 2006 by sculpting a 20-foot 8-inch skyscraper from this sweet chocolate
#5503, aired 2008-07-09ART FOR ART'S SAKE $1000: Jim Victor made parmesan ships with pizza dough sails & spaghetti rigging for a 2005 parade honoring this holiday Columbus Day
#5425, aired 2008-03-21TERMES D'ART $1200: French term for the technique of placing paper over a relief surface & rubbing with crayon or pencil frottage
#5425, aired 2008-03-21TERMES D'ART $2,000 (Daily Double): The name of this odd movement, French for "hobby-horse", was appropriately chosen at random from a dictionary Dada
#5413, aired 2008-03-05ART FOR ART'S SAKE $200: "Mt. Rushmoo", a depiction of 4 imposing bovines, was sculpted by Jim Victor from this dairy product butter
#5413, aired 2008-03-05ART FOR ART'S SAKE $400: A roomful of silver balloons that move with the air currents is a highlight of this pop artist's Pittsburgh museum Andy Warhol
#5413, aired 2008-03-05ART FOR ART'S SAKE $600: If you donate $135 to his sanctuary, you can own a painting like the one seen here, signed by this "Tarzan" costar Cheeta (the chimp)
#5385, aired 2008-01-25BAWDY BABES IN BOOKS $400: In an 1850 novel, John Wilson & Arthur Dimmesdale plead with her to name her lover (a knotty situation for ol' Art) Hester Prynne
#5375, aired 2008-01-11A TRIP TO RIO DE JANEIRO $800: (Jimmy stands in front of a large Christ sculpture.) Christ the Redeemer of Corcovado Sanctuary is the world's largest sculpture in this style, named for a 1925 Paris exposition art deco style
#5374, aired 2008-01-10AN ART "C" CATEGORY $400: Thomas Rowlandson, whose work in seen here, was a master of this form, from Italian for "to load" caricature
#5374, aired 2008-01-10AN ART "C" CATEGORY $2000: Here we see mastery of this technique from the Italian for "bright and dark", used to create a 3-D effect chiaroscuro
#5371, aired 2008-01-07LOTS OF STUFF $2000: Jesus was a teenager when this Roman was banished for a poem on the art of making love Ovid
#5364, aired 2007-12-27ART ON EXHIBIT $1600: This late photographer seen here in a clothed self-portrait is also famous for expressive nudes (Robert) Mapplethorpe
#5361, aired 2007-12-24MYTHOLOGY & ART $400: A statue of this Roman sea god is a perfect choice for a fountain; there's one at Peterhof in Russia Neptune
#5356, aired 2007-12-17ART & ARTISTS $400: His sculpture of Victor Hugo got a "miserable" reaction; later it was placed on the avenue named for Hugo Rodin
#5332, aired 2007-11-13JAPANESE THEATRE $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew observes a female kabuki performer at a kabuki theatre in Tokyo, Japan.) In the word "kabuki", the middle syllable, "bu", stands for this art form, a major part of kabuki dance
#5331, aired 2007-11-12ART GAL-ERY $400: It follows "Cecilia" in the name of a noted female artist & precedes "Arts" in the French phrase for fine arts Beaux
#5327, aired 2007-11-06COLLECTIBLES $1200: In 1907, the Fenton Art Glass Company introduced this type of glass, named for a fair where pieces were given as prizes carnival glass
#5282, aired 2007-07-24WORDS $400: This name for a work of art that you may carve in art class comes from the Latin for "to carve" sculpture
#5277, aired 2007-07-17HISTORIC LONDON $1600: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of this, was known as a soldier but had an eye for art, as you can see at Apsley House Wellington
#5269, aired 2007-07-05ART-FULLY STOLEN $200: In 1998 a diplomat was indicted for smuggling Moche cultural art from this country with a Quechua Indian name Peru
#5269, aired 2007-07-05ART-FULLY STOLEN $1,000 (Daily Double): A note said "Thanks for the poor security" after this painting was stolen during the Lillehammer Olympics in 1994 The Scream
#5214, aired 2007-04-19AT THE ART OPENING $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads next to a painting.) This piece would go nicely over my couch. Too bad for me, it has a red dot next to it, signifying this. it has been sold
#5214, aired 2007-04-19AT THE ART OPENING $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from an art gallery.) The piece here entitled "The Studio" is one of these works created for a particular site, from the Latin for "in place" installation
#5186, aired 2007-03-12ART & MUSIC $400: The last name of this 20th century Swiss artist is pronounced like a material for pottery (Paul) Klee
#5147, aired 2007-01-16MILES & MILES & MILES OF ART $1000: Though not a grade grubber, Hester Prynne got an "A" for her affair with this novel character Arthur Dimmesdale
#5134, aired 2006-12-28THE COEN BROTHERS $400: The Coens were nominated for a 2000 screenwriting Oscar for this film that starred George Clooney O Brother, Where Art Thou?
#5114, aired 2006-11-30MUSEUMS $1600: The Turner Prize, named for British painter J.M.W., was founded by a group trying to buy art for this London gallery Tate
#5087, aired 2006-10-24ART & ARTISTS $400: Franz Post, the first European to paint landscapes in the New World, did the view seen here of a mill for this crop in Brazil sugar
#5051, aired 2006-07-24THROW IT HERE $800: From the Latin for "to speak from the belly", it's the art of throwing one's voice ventriloquism (to ventriloquize accepted)
#5042, aired 2006-07-11"PAR" FOR THE COURSE $2000: This 16th century Swiss alchemist opined that "medicine is not only a science; it is also an art" Paracelsus
#5035, aired 2006-06-30OSCAR NIGHT 2006 $1000: This film that begins in Japan in the 1920s earned Oscars for cinematography, costuming & art direction Memoirs of a Geisha
#5034, aired 2006-06-29LITERARY STYLES $1200: The Parnassians of 19th c. France used strict technique & advocated this, later used as a motto by MGM ars gratia artis (art for art's sake)
#5019, aired 2006-06-08MANHATTAN'S MUSEUM MILE $1000: A Latino art museum goes by the name El Museo del this, a Spanish word for the inner city Barrio
#5018, aired 2006-06-07NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS RECIPIENTS $800: As Brancusi's assistant, Isamu Noguchi mastered this art form on display at a Queens museum named for him sculpture
#5016, aired 2006-06-05LOST ART $800: One of Holbein's most ambitious depictions of this king was lost in a 1698 Whitehall Palace fire Henry VIII
#4969, aired 2006-03-30ART $1200: Noun for a work in which ideas are personified, like the book "Pilgrim's Progress" or de Troy's "Time Unveiling Truth" allegory
#4958, aired 2006-03-15CITIES BY THE "TON" $1200: Home to the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Latin American Art, remember this Texas city! San Antonio
#4952, aired 2006-03-07MUSEUMS $200: Out here we're proud of this, LACMA for short-- it's not the Met, but it has a Rembrandt, okay? the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
#4943, aired 2006-02-22ART & ARTISTS $1600: A reddish-brown color is named for this Venetian artist who used the color frequently in his paintings Titian
#4899, aired 2005-12-22REGIONALISMS $400: To mean a veranda, Gulf staters use this word for a place to view art gallery
#4862, aired 2005-11-01ART TERMS $400: Originally a term for a full-size sketch ready for transfer to a canvas or wall, it now refers to any humorous drawing a cartoon
#4862, aired 2005-11-01PUT IT ON PAPER $1600: Poet Filippo Marinetti wrote a series of these declarations of principles for the Futurist art movement manifestos
#4862, aired 2005-11-01ART TERMS $2000: Borrowed from the German, it's a term for art exhibiting sentimental bad taste kitsch
#4860, aired 2005-10-28BUILDING TYPES $1000: As well as the art of public speaking, this word can mean a place for prayer, like Montreal's St. Joseph's one an oratory
#4854, aired 2005-10-20THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE PAINTINGS $200: In 1987 this van Gogh work sold for $53.9 million, then a record price for a work of art Irises
#4849, aired 2005-10-13OCCUPATIONS $1200: If you say you want to be this, you could mean making art for museum walls or keeping those walls white a painter
#4846, aired 2005-10-10WHERE WE WENT ON SUMMER VACATION $1000: …to New York City where we visited the Museum of Modern Art & saw this man's famous painting, "Starry Night" Vincent van Gogh
#4831, aired 2005-09-19ART TECHNIQUE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew fiddles with some classical whiskers.) This term for deliberately blurring an area, as Titian did here, sounds like a combination of "scramble" & "jumble" scumble
#4819, aired 2005-07-14EUROPEAN ART & ARTISTS $1200: Picasso depicted this bird on his posters promoting world peace, & his daughter Paloma is named for it a dove
#4809, aired 2005-06-30MUSICMAKERS $200: In 2003 he & Art Garfunkel broke their "Sounds of Silence", reuniting for the Grammys & a new tour Paul Simon
#4799, aired 2005-06-16ART LECTURE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue in front of a projected slide of a painting.) Dutch still lifes often remind us of this Latin word for pride & mortality; the skull is a rather stern reminder vanitas
#4779, aired 2005-05-19EUROPEAN ARCHITECTS $1200: The last name of Eliel, the Finn who wrote "The Search for Form in Art & Architecture"; his son was a famous architect, too Saarinen
#4752, aired 2005-04-12ART BIENNIALS $800: This Vanderbilt-funded museum in NYC has held a renowned biennial since 1973 the Whitney
#4724, aired 2005-03-03ART AT THE BARNES $1200: (Alex reports from the Barnes Foundation.) Dr. Barnes asked this French artist to create a mural for the main hall; he said it was like the rose window of a cathedral Matisse
#4679, aired 2004-12-30"R" MAN $1200: There's a circus collection in the Sarasota Museum of Art named for this man (John) Ringling
#4674, aired 2004-12-23THE BARNES COLLECTION $1600: (Alex walks a hall of the Barnes Collection.) There are treasures everywhere here at the Barnes, even in a stairwell: "Joy of Life", a Matisse masterpiece, was said to be the inspiration for this wild art movement Fauvism
#4634, aired 2004-10-28ART FOR ART'S SAKE $2000: This poet & painter whose work is seen here had the same first name as a poet born in 1265 Dante Rossetti
#4620, aired 2004-10-08THE ART WORLD $400: In 1966 this Russian painted a pair of large murals for the opening of NYC's Metropolitan Opera House Marc Chagall
#4618, aired 2004-10-06A YEN FOR JAPAN $400: Gichin Funakoshi, an Okinawan master, popularized this martial art in Japan early in the 20th century karate
#4618, aired 2004-10-06ART APPRECIATION $2000: In 1917 this man sent a telegram to the German minister in Mexico, with a means for Mexico to reclaim lost Texas lands (Arthur) Zimmerman
#4586, aired 2004-07-12BUSY HANDS $400: Michael Moschen has a ball, often several at once, turning this activity into an art form juggling
#4530, aired 2004-04-23ROYAL WOMEN $600: An avid art collector, she founded the Hermitage Museum as a private gallery for her art collection Catherine the Great
#4492, aired 2004-03-02NATIVE AMERICAN ART $400: 2-word term for the type of artwork being created here sand painting
#4492, aired 2004-03-02NATIVE AMERICAN ART $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Sitka Cultural Center in Alaska) The white man is depicted here on a totem pole commissioned for this 1976 event the Bicentennial
#4457, aired 2004-01-13THE ART WORLD $1200: 17th century artist born in Delft known for his paintings that have a cool, silvery light Jan Vermeer
#4457, aired 2004-01-13THE ART WORLD $2000: The Philadelphia Museum of Art has works by this famed local artist, like the one seen here, & a parking lot named for him Thomas Eakins
#4442, aired 2003-12-23DYE ANOTHER DAY $1000: Term for a dye that holds its hue in fabric, or what you tell a preschooler when art time's almost over color fast
#4418, aired 2003-11-19ART & ARTISTS $400: 26-year-old Michelangelo used a nearly 40-year-old marble block for his sculpture of this Biblical man David
#4410, aired 2003-11-07WHERE FOR ART? $400: To get a hand on the art seen here, you'll have to travel to this world-famous museum [The Venus de Milo.] the Louvre
#4410, aired 2003-11-07WHERE FOR ART? $1200: A museum of the artist whose work is seen here opened in 1997 in this state, that inspired much of her work [Georgia O'Keeffe] New Mexico
#4400, aired 2003-10-24ITALIAN ART $1600: In 1330 this Italian city's Church of Santa Croce made room for Bernardo Daddi, who frescoed a chapel Florence
#4361, aired 2003-07-14ART $400: Joseph Stella is known for a series of paintings of this amusement park at the southern end of Long Island Coney Island
#4361, aired 2003-07-14ART $800: 19th century sculptor William Rush is famous for this pair of figures he did for a theater in Philadelphia Comedy & Tragedy
#4360, aired 2003-07-11ART & ARTISTS $2000: French Fauvist famous for his 1905 "Woman with a Hat" & a mural in a Pennsylvania museum Henri Matisse
#4279, aired 2003-03-20ART & ARTISTS $1600: In 2002 this Flemish painter's "Massacre of the Innocents" sold for over $76 million, a record for an Old Master Rubens
#4272, aired 2003-03-11COUNTRY MUSIC $3,000 (Daily Double): In 2002 this movie soundtrack won ACM awards for Album of the Year & Vocal Event for "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" O Brother, Where Art Thou?
#4240, aired 2003-01-24BRITISH ART $800: Thomas Sully left England for America as a child but returned in the 1830s to paint this queen Victoria
#4173, aired 2002-10-23WORD ORIGINS $1,000 (Daily Double): Perhaps from the Italian for "imperfect pearl", it can be a style of music, art or architecture Baroque
#4136, aired 2002-09-02WORLD ART $2000: This Swiss sculptor known for lonely, elongated figures designed a set for "Waiting For Godot" Giacometti
#4084, aired 2002-05-09MASTERS $9,000 (Daily Double): Van Gogh & Kandinsky were in this modern art "show" named for the NYC military building where it was held in 1913 the Armory Show
#4071, aired 2002-04-22HOT ENOUGH FOR YOU? $1000: In this art the gaffer dips his pipe in the mix that's heated to over 900 degrees to get a gather glass blowing
#4041, aired 2002-03-11OBJETS D'ART $400: 4-letter term for the type of work seen here--whether successful or not a bust
#4041, aired 2002-03-11OBJETS D'ART $1600: The Bayeux Tapestry is an example of this, a general term for needlework that decorates fabric with thread embroidery
#4032, aired 2002-02-26NEW YORK SCHOOLS $1600: Now named for a benefactor, it opened in 1905 as the Institute of Musical Art Juilliard
#4017, aired 2002-02-05AROUND THE U.S.A. $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from New Orleans.) New Orleans is world-famous for decorative art made from this metal, as you can see here at the Fataba Apartments (cast) iron
#4006, aired 2002-01-21A GOOD "ST"ART $800: (Sofia gives the clue.) In punishments of yore, the pillory had a hole for the head; these just held the feet and sometimes hands stocks
#4006, aired 2002-01-21A GOOD "ST"ART $1200: Some western stagecoaches had a spot under the driver's seat for this "box" of valuables a strongbox
#4006, aired 2002-01-21A GOOD "ST"ART $1,430 (Daily Double): Meaning "containing tin", it precedes "fluoride" in the name of a useful compound stannous
#3946, aired 2001-10-29ART-PODGE $200: Damien Hirst is known for his dead-animals-in-tanks artworks, notably a tiger one of these fish in formaldehyde tiger shark
#3933, aired 2001-10-10THE ART OF WAR $100: Far from Trenton, Emanuel Leutze probably used the Rhine as a model for his painting of "Washington Crossing" this the Delaware
#3912, aired 2001-09-11ART & ARTISTS $200: In 1766 George Stubbs, a noted painter of these animals, published a book on their anatomy horses
#3902, aired 2001-07-17ART FOR ART'S SAKE! $600: As evidenced here, this artist's Neoclassic style made him a favorite of French rulers David
#3897, aired 2001-07-10ART SUPPLIES $400: A pad of paper for quick drawings, it appears in a Washington Irving title along with Geoffrey Crayon a sketch book
#3897, aired 2001-07-10ART SUPPLIES $1000: This term for Plaster of Paris mixed with glue to prepare a surface comes from the Latin "gypsum" gesso
#3872, aired 2001-06-05ARTISTS & THEIR WORKS $2,100 (Daily Double): This artist famed for his mobiles created a miniature circus that's in the Whitney Museum of American Art Alexander Calder
#3869, aired 2001-05-31FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $200: In the 1860s this Frenchman, truly a deep "thinker", briefly studied for the religious life Rodin
#3842, aired 2001-04-24A WORLD OF ART $200: Australian artist John Olsen painted a mural for this opera house in the early '70s Sydney Opera House
#3831, aired 2001-04-09ART 101 $800: French word for a category of art, like landscape, or for a painting of scenes of everyday life Genre
#3776, aired 2001-01-22FAMOUS ARTS $200: In 1992 this columnist won a lawsuit which held that his idea was the basis for the movie "Coming to America" Art Buchwald
#3774, aired 2001-01-18WHERE FOR ART $1000: His urban estate at 900 East Ave. in Rochester, N.Y. is a museum of photography & film George Eastman
#3744, aired 2000-12-07TOOTHPASTE TALK $500: Sounds like just the brand to use in a Los Angeles art museum named for the CEO of Occidental Petroleum Arm & Hammer (for Armand Hammer)
#3711, aired 2000-10-23ART FOR ART'S SAKE $400: Edouard Manet painted his portrait of this American author seen here from a daguerreotype Edgar Allan Poe
#3711, aired 2000-10-23ART FOR ART'S SAKE $800: He's the masterful German composer seen here in a 1746 portrait by Haussmann J.S. Bach
#3711, aired 2000-10-23ART FOR ART'S SAKE $1000: The clouds tell you why this work by Giorgione shares its name with a Shakespeare play The Tempest
#3620, aired 2000-05-05THE ART OF MOZART $400: Mozart planned to write one of these for his marriage, but only finished the "Kyrie" & "Gloria" portions a mass
#3537, aired 2000-01-11FRENCH ART & ARTISTS $400: Andre Derain was a prominent painter in this style whose name is from the French for "wild beasts" Fauvism
#3535, aired 2000-01-07A LITTLE TASTE OF LIECHTENSTEIN $1000: This Liechtenstein capital is known for its postal museum & state art collection Vaduz
#3520, aired 1999-12-17HOLIDAY SONGS $300: (Hi, I'm Art Alexakis of the rock group Everclear.) In a 1998 holiday ad for The Gap, my band did a rendition of this song about an alienated animal "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
#3508, aired 1999-12-01ART FOR ART'S SAKE! $200: A favorite subject of this painter is seen here: (ballet dancer) Edgar Degas
#3508, aired 1999-12-01ART FOR ART'S SAKE! $800: Seen here is a favorite pre-Raphaelite subject by this painter: ("La Ghirlandata") Dante Gabriel Rossetti
#3504, aired 1999-11-25ART & ARTISTS $600: In the 1740s this "Blue Boy" painter worked as a restorer of paintings for art dealers Thomas Gainsborough
#3503, aired 1999-11-24FAMOUS ARTS $400: Famed for playing a sewer worker on TV, he originated the role of Felix Unger on Broadway Art Carney
#3488, aired 1999-11-03THE CIRCUS $400: Funambulism is a fancy word for the art of "walking" this Tightrope
#3483, aired 1999-10-27GREEK ART $500: The Parthenon was a major source for the marble works this lord brought back to England Lord Elgin
#3467, aired 1999-10-05ART & ARTISTS $200: This term for a painting of inanimate objects is from the Dutch "stilleven" still life
#3467, aired 1999-10-05ART & ARTISTS $400: A Canaletto view of this square shows the Doge's palace & the Loggia of Sansovino Saint Mark's Square
#3451, aired 1999-09-1320th CENTURY CLIP ART $400: Term for a person who okays projects with no discussion, or the object illiustrated here: Rubber stamp
#3393, aired 1999-05-12BUT IS IT ART? $500: Tattooed showman The Enigma had tiny versions of these embedded in his skull, perhaps for a Satanic look Horns
#3383, aired 1999-04-28THE NUDE IN ART $200: Like another famous painter, William-Adolphe Bouguereau shows her nude on a shell for her "birth" Venus
#3333, aired 1999-02-17U.S.A. $500: The Fifth Avenue art museum named for this man opened a Soho branch in 1992 Solomon R. Guggenheim
#3321, aired 1999-02-0142nd STREET $600: Park Ave. & 42nd Street has a branch of this 75th Street art museum known for its biennial Whitney
#3295, aired 1998-12-25PERFORMANCE ART $200: This melted sweet from the cacao is a well-known stage prop for Karen Finley Chocolate
#3295, aired 1998-12-25PERFORMANCE ART $800: "What's" this? It's a term for a performance art event coined by Allan Kaprow in 1959 Happening
#3203, aired 1998-07-01ART & ARTISTS $800: Diego Rivera created a mural called "Creation" for the National Preparatory School in this capital city Mexico City
#3103, aired 1998-02-11"P.S." $400: He recently collaborated on his first musical, "The Capeman"; maybe there's a part for Art Paul Simon
#3093, aired 1998-01-28ART COLLECTORS $200: This businessman who organized a Pasadena, Calif. museum named for him was married to actress Jennifer Jones Norton Simon
#3054, aired 1997-12-04ART & ARTISTS $600: "The Oxbow" is one of the most famous paintings produced by this Landscape "school" named for a river Hudson River School
#3020, aired 1997-10-17ART SUPPLIES $100: A mop, one of these made from camel hair, is used for watercolors Brush
#3013, aired 1997-10-08ISMs $600: Critic Roger Fry coined this term for art like Cezanne's, which developed from a previous French style post-impressionism
#2984, aired 1997-07-17ART & ARTISTS $200: For one of his works, Marcel Duchamp added a beard & mustache to a print of this da Vinci lady Mona Lisa
#2975, aired 1997-07-04GUINNESS RECORDS $100: The Metropolitan Museum of Art paid a record $143,352 for the oldest hand-painted complete deck of these Playing cards
#2936, aired 1997-05-12ART $400: It's the 4-syllable term for a satirical portrait that exaggerates or distorts a person's features Caricature
#2936, aired 1997-05-12ART $1,000 (Daily Double): Gouache is a type of this painting technique; its name comes from guazzo, Italian for "puddle" Watercolor
#2926, aired 1997-04-28ART $200: The part of the Sistine Chapel on which Michelangelo painted Adam's fall ceiling
#2913, aired 1997-04-09ART & ARTISTS $600: Famous for his mobiles, he painted a DC-8 in 1973 & a 727 in 1975 Alexander Calder
#2895, aired 1997-03-14ART & ARTISTS $400: In 1881 Manet painted the garden of a villa he rented in this French city noted for its palace Versailles
#2888, aired 1997-03-05ART CLASS $1,000 (Daily Double): Artist material seen here in a form that's been made for over 2,000 years ink
#2888, aired 1997-03-05ART CLASS $1000: Italian term for a type of flooring with bits of crushed marble or granite set in concrete terrazzo
#2874, aired 1997-02-13THEATRE TALK $500: Derived from the Greek words for "dance" & "write", it's the art of creating dances, perhaps for a play choreography
#2861, aired 1997-01-27U.S. MUSEUMS $800 (Daily Double): Wesley Peters, Frank Lloyd Wright's son-in-law, designed a 4-story annex to this NYC art museum the Guggenheim
#2811, aired 1996-11-18ART & ARTISTS $1,200 (Daily Double): After a nervous breakdown in 1908, he became more positive & painted lovely murals for the Univ. of Oslo (Edvard) Munch
#2806, aired 1996-11-11THE "A" LIST $500: Term for one who studies & collects state-of-the-art stereo equipment an audiophile
#2788, aired 1996-10-16ART & ARTISTS $600: A painting by this telegraph inventor was sold in 1982 for $3.25 million, then a record for a U.S. work of art Samuel Morse
#2750, aired 1996-07-12JAPAN $200: It's the term for one who has mastered the martial art called ninjutsu a ninja
#2734, aired 1996-06-20ARTISTS $800: Victor Vasarely was a leading figure in this modern art movement named for its effect on viewers' eyes Optical (Op) art
#2684, aired 1996-04-11INVENTORS $400: Though expelled from Harvard, this geodesic dome inventor later held more than 2,000 patents R. Buckminster Fuller
#2677, aired 1996-04-02ART $1000: She was commissioned to paint a mural for the woman's building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition Mary Cassatt
#2672, aired 1996-03-26PAINTING & SCULPTURE $800: A Madison Ave. art museum is named for this woman who sculpted the Titanic Memorial in Washington, D.C. Gertrude Whitney
#2650, aired 1996-02-23ART & ARTISTS $200: Riemenschneider sculpted this first biblical couple for a chapel in Wurzburg, Germany Adam & Eve
#2632, aired 1996-01-30ART $200: Emanuel Leutze used the Rhine as a model for his painting of "Washington Crossing" this river the Delaware
#2632, aired 1996-01-30ART $400: A pieta now in the cathedral of Florence was originally meant for this artist's tomb Michelangelo
#2609, aired 1995-12-28ART $800: In this painting technique, egg yolk is used as a binder for a pigment-water mixture tempera
#2593, aired 1995-12-06THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART $1000: Picasso's "Family of Saltimbanques" shows people who work for one of these spectacles a circus
#2587, aired 1995-11-28ART $2,000 (Daily Double): This art movement begun in Zurich in 1916 was named for a French word meaning "hobbyhorse" dada (dadaism)
#2542, aired 1995-09-26ART & ARTISTS $600: In April 1891 he set sail for Tahiti, where he lived with Tehura, a native girl Gauguin
#2536, aired 1995-09-18ART $400: The title of his "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" refers to a Spanish street known for its brothels Picasso
#2526, aired 1995-09-04LONDON LANDMARKS $400: Opened in 1897, this gallery of modern British art was named for a sugar merchant Tate Gallery
#2518, aired 1995-07-12MUSEUMS $400: Noted for its modern art, the Stedelijk Museum in this city is a short walk from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
#2499, aired 1995-06-15ART & ARCHITECTURE STYLES $200: This English art style that fell between Gothic & Renaissance is named for a Tudor queen Elizabethan
#2488, aired 1995-05-31U.S.A. $800: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in this city is famous for its circus galleries Sarasota, Florida
#2483, aired 1995-05-24ART $800: At a 1994 auction, his drip painting "No. 22" sold for $1.76 million (Jackson) Pollock
#2469, aired 1995-05-04MUSEUMS $600: This NYC museum publishes MoMA, a magazine for its members Museum of Modern Art
#2469, aired 1995-05-04MUSEUMS $800: Founded by a billionaire, this Malibu, Calif. museum is a major repository for Greek & Roman art Getty Museum
#2464, aired 1995-04-27THE AMERICAN WEST $300: If you have a "grain" of sense, you'll know the Navajo are noted for this art also known as dry painting sand painting
#2423, aired 1995-03-01ART & ARTISTS $200: In 1950 Giacomo Manzu won a commission to create bronze doors for this Roman basilica St. Peter's
#2416, aired 1995-02-20ART $200: In 1950 Spanish painter Joan Miro created a mural for this Cambridge, Mass. university Harvard
#2364, aired 1994-12-08MODERN ART & ARTISTS $1000: This Swiss painter's description of his work can be translated as "taking a line for a walk" Paul Klee
#2300, aired 1994-09-09BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Thor Heyerdahl wrote a 1975 book about "The Art of" this island known for its monolithic statues Easter Island
#2285, aired 1994-07-08ART & ARTISTS $400: This "Blue Boy" painter worked for a few years under engraver Hubert Gravelot Gainsborough
#2253, aired 1994-05-25ART $200: In 1992 this "Phantom" composer bought a view of London by Canaletto for $17.8 million (Andrew Lloyd) Webber
#2248, aired 1994-05-18THE OLD TESTAMENT $200: Saul said to David, "Thou art not able to go against" this giant "for thou art but a youth" Goliath
#2180, aired 1994-02-11MUSIC $800: A special high-pitched type of trumpet is named for this composer of "The Art of Fugue" (Johann Sebastian) Bach
#2174, aired 1994-02-03ART $800: In a May 1993 auction, this French artist's "Still Life with Apples" sold for $28.6 million Cezanne
#2174, aired 1994-02-03ART $1000: French for "source", it's the complete record of ownership of a piece of art provenance
#2166, aired 1994-01-24ANNUAL EVENTS $500: A midieval fair is held each March in Sarasota, Florida to raise funds for this art museum the Ringling Museum of Art
#2155, aired 1994-01-07IT HAD TO BE "U" $400: In 1993 a car bomb was responsible for damaging over 20 paintings at this art gallery in Florence the Uffizi
#2112, aired 1993-11-09ART $200: He returned to Florence in 1501 as a big name; his Pieta for St. Peter's had made him famous Michelangelo
#2100, aired 1993-10-22ART $600: For his sculpture of "David", he reused a large block of marble left unfinished some 40 years before Michelangelo
#2081, aired 1993-09-27ART $1000: The Impressionists took their name from this French painter's "Impression: Sunrise" Monet
#2028, aired 1993-06-02ART $200: Antonio Canova carved a monument to Pope Clement XIII for this basilica St. Peter's
#2028, aired 1993-06-02ART $600: This substance is melted & used as a binder for encaustic painting, which was popular in ancient Greece wax
#1984, aired 1993-04-01ART $400: At a 1989 auction, this pop artist's "Shot Red Marilyn" sold for $4.07 million Andy Warhol
#1956, aired 1993-02-22ART $400: Paul Cezanne was noted for this type of painting which often depicts a bowl or basket of fruit still life
#1950, aired 1993-02-12ARTISTS $200: In 1987 his "Irises" sold for $53,900,000, a record price for a work of art to that time Van Gogh
#1906, aired 1992-12-14HANDWRITING $600: This 10-letter word for the art of attractive writing has the name of a writing implement in it penmanship
#1873, aired 1992-10-28ART $1000: You have to have a big wall for his circa 1480 work "The Birth of Venus"; it's over 5' X 9' (Sandro) Botticelli
#1843, aired 1992-09-16GIRL SCOUT BADGES $400: Scouts going for the Art in the Round badge have a chance to learn this Japanese art of paper folding origami
#1771, aired 1992-04-20ART $200: It's the two-word term for a painting of small, inanimate objects such as flowers or fruit a still life
#1771, aired 1992-04-20ART $1,000 (Daily Double): Italian for "light & dark", it's the use of light & shadow in a sketch or painting chiaroscuro
#1731, aired 1992-02-24WORD ORIGINS $400: A work of art applied to a wall, it comes from Latin for "wall" a mural
#1723, aired 1992-02-12ART $400: This Flemish painter for whom a pointed goatee is named was knighted by Charles I in 1632 van Dyck
#1629, aired 1991-10-03PHOTOGRAPHY $400: In October 1990, a Cincinnati art museum was cleared of obscenity charges for exhibiting his work (Robert) Mapplethorpe
#1602, aired 1991-07-16TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: Leningrad Museum built by Catherine the Great as a gallery for her art collection the Hermitage
#1597, aired 1991-07-09ART $400: This Frenchman's "Olympia" was so vehemently attacked he had to leave France for a while Édouard Manet
#1589, aired 1991-06-27ARCHITECTURE $300: A turret used for ventilation on the roof of a medieval building, or an art museum in Paris the Louvre
#1532, aired 1991-04-09ART $800: This American Impressionist formed a close friendship with Degas & posed for his “At the Milliner’s” Mary Cassatt
#1513, aired 1991-03-13AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: Greed & lust for power release vicious passions in a Southern family in her play "The Little Foxes" Lillian Hellman
#1499, aired 1991-02-21RELIGION $400: In Christian art, it's shown as square for living people & circular for saints a halo
#1457, aired 1990-12-25ART $800: He painted portraits of women to show Henry VIII, who was looking for a wife (Hans) Holbein (the Younger)
#1441, aired 1990-12-03ART $1,400 (Daily Double): Named a commissar for art after the revolution, this artist left the USSR in '22 & later settled in Paris Chagall
#1406, aired 1990-10-15BIBLICAL QUOTES $300: "And Saul said to" him, "thou art not able to go against this Philistine, for thou art but a youth" David
#13, aired 1990-09-08ART WORLD BLOCKBUSTERS $600 (Daily Double): A tiger, not a horse, fetched $35,200 in 1986, the highest price ever for a piece from 1 of these a carousel (or a merry-go-round)
#13, aired 1990-09-08ART WORLD BLOCKBUSTERS $600: Dutch-born U.S. abstract expressionist, his "Interchange" sold for $20.7 mil., a living artist's record Willem de Kooning
#1380, aired 1990-09-07WORD ORIGINS $100: From the Turkish word for towel, "makrama", it's the art of tying cords in a pattern macramé
#1300, aired 1990-04-06ART & DESIGN $1000: Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe & Philip Johnson designed this NYC skyscraper named for a liquor company Seagram's Building/Tower
#1282, aired 1990-03-13AMERICAN ART $600: For a fresco, you have to put this on the wall before you apply the paint plaster
#1271, aired 1990-02-26ART $800: Flemish painter known for his "Venus & Adonis"; he negotiated a 1630 peace treaty between England & Spain Peter Paul Rubens
#1271, aired 1990-02-26ART $1000: This nihilistic movement in the arts is named for a French word for hobby horse Dada/Dadaism
#1238, aired 1990-01-10ART $800: Painter known for his portrayal of a polio victim named Christina Olson Andrew Wyeth
#1218, aired 1989-12-13ART $200: Since this legislation was passed in 1986, gifts of artwork to museums have fallen off sharply tax reform
#1218, aired 1989-12-13ART $400: A native of 's Hertogenbosch, this Flemish painter is known for "The Garden of Earthly Delights" Hieronymus Bosch
#1195, aired 1989-11-10ART $600: On May 9, 1989 a self-portrait by this artist went for a whopping $47.85 million Pablo Picasso
#1181, aired 1989-10-23ART $1000: Sir John Tenniel drew cartoons for "Punch" but is best known for illustrating this author's books Lewis Carroll
#1116, aired 1989-06-12POTLUCK $500: The highest price paid for any Chinese ceramic work of art was for a 15th c. vase from this dynasty Ming
#1038, aired 1989-02-22SCULPTURE $200: That giant of pop art, Claes Oldenburg, designed a huge tube of this cosmetic for Yale University lipstick
#1029, aired 1989-02-09ART $500: His grandmother was a pioneer for women's rights in Peru, & he painted the women of Tahiti Gauguin
#932, aired 1988-09-27ART TRIVIA $500: This desert artist was a nude model for Alfred Stieglitz's photographs before she married him Georgia O'Keeffe
#929, aired 1988-09-22ART $800: Term collectors use for the total number of prints made from one plate during one printing an edition
#906, aired 1988-07-11AUCTIONS $1000: Highest auction price for any Art Nouveau piece was $360,000 in 1980 for a lamp by this craftsman Tiffany
#886, aired 1988-06-13ART $2,000 (Daily Double): Thomas Cole lived in Catskill, N.Y. & was a founder of the school of art named for this body of water the Hudson River
#846, aired 1988-04-18ART $1000: 1-word term for style in which Braque indicated full solidity of a structure on a painting's surface Cubism
#844, aired 1988-04-14WORD ORIGINS $600: From a Latin word for these objects, "campanology" is the art of casting & using them bells
#841, aired 1988-04-11BODIES OF WATER $200: Of Argentina, Venezuela, or Bolivia, the 1 thru which the Amazon system does not flow Argentina
#841, aired 1988-04-11ART $400: This Russian-born artist did murals for the new Met & stained glass for a Jerusalem synagogue Marc Chagall
#836, aired 1988-04-04ART $100: Term for any painting, except a fresco, applied directly to a wall, from the Latin for wall a mural
#794, aired 1988-02-04ART $500: It was the rallying cry of a group of 19th C. artists who believed art needed no purpose "Art for art's sake"
#780, aired 1988-01-15WORD ORIGINS $1000: This slang term for "ridiculous" may derive from a word for the art of making decals, decalcomania cockamamie
#753, aired 1987-12-09ART $800: A storehouse for munitions, one became a showcase for avant-garde artists in a 1913 NYC show armory
#750, aired 1987-12-04ART $200: In the 1960s, Peter Hurd became well known for a portrait rejected by this president Lyndon Johnson
#738, aired 1987-11-18ART $800: Vincent Van Gogh's brother Theo did this for a living worked in an art gallery (or sold art)
#724, aired 1987-10-29AUTHORS $800: This Washington satirist won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for Outstanding Commentary (Art) Buchwald
#676, aired 1987-07-13ART $800: This 450 lb. pet of Jamie Wyeth ate 17 tubes of paint while posing for a life size portrait pig
#638, aired 1987-05-20ART $800: "Reading Le Figaro", by this late American brought highest price for a work by a female artist Mary Cassatt
#600, aired 1987-03-27ART $400: Term for water colors made with egg yolks, it sounds like a Japanese fried shrimp tempera
#593, aired 1987-03-1820th CENTURY ART $1000: Known for "accidentally" dripping paint on canvas, he died in a car accident at age 44 Jackson Pollock
#530, aired 1986-12-19ART $200: Term for a painting of inanimate objects like the ever-popular bowl of fruit a still life
#513, aired 1986-11-26ART $500: Term for the art created before 16th century A.D. in Mesoamerican civilizations pre-Columbian art
#480, aired 1986-10-10ODD SPORTS $600: Klutz Press started in 1977 with a how to book complete with 3 bean bags for you to learn this art juggling
#449, aired 1986-05-2920th CENTURY ART $400: Famous for his Olympic & sports action paintings, he's appeared in 2 "Rocky" movies LeRoy Neiman
#374, aired 1986-02-13ART $600: During Napoleonic Wars, French soldiers used this Da Vinci fresco for target practice The Last Supper
#358, aired 1986-01-22CLASSICAL MUSIC $800: From German for "song", they're German art songs lieder
#350, aired 1986-01-10FAMOUS QUOTES $500: In 1818, Victor Cousin remarked "we need religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake", & this art for art's sake
#341, aired 1985-12-30ART $200: French for "paste-up", it's a cut & paste montage a collage
#306, aired 1985-11-11ART $800: Highest price for painting by a female was $1.1 mil. for “Reading Le Figaro” by this U.S. artist Mary Cassatt
#285, aired 1985-10-11ART $400: Marcel Duchamp is famous for jokes like exhibiting a urinal & putting this on the Mona Lisa a mustache
#146, aired 1985-04-01ART $400: Though he preferred doing landscapes, Gainsborough is best known for this type of painting a portrait
#146, aired 1985-04-01ART $600: From Italian for "pity", it's a painting or statue of Mary mourning over the body of Jesus a pieta
#142, aired 1985-03-26ART $200: $148,500 was paid at a 1983 Sotheby’s auction for a Warhol silkscreen of this late singer Elvis Presley
#111, aired 1985-02-11ART $600: A detail from his "The Creation of Adam" was recreated for an "E.T." film ad Michelangelo
#104, aired 1985-01-31AMERICAN ART $1000: Pop artist famous for beer can sculptures & American flag paintings Jasper Johns
#24, aired 1984-10-11ART $1000: Highest price ever for a painting, over $10,000,000, was paid for his “Seascape: Folk Stone” J. M. W. Turner

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#8828, aired 2023-03-15ART EXHIBITIONS: In 1898 what's been called the first blockbuster art show was devoted to him & put on for Queen Wilhelmina's coronation Rembrandt
#8807, aired 2023-02-14ART & SCIENCE: A craft that visited it was named for Giotto, based on the story that 680 years earlier, the painter depicted it as the Star of Bethlehem Halley's Comet
#8784, aired 2023-01-12HISTORIC ART: The artwork once known in France as "la tapisserie de la reine Mathilde" is better known as this the Bayeux Tapestry
#8686, aired 2022-07-18ART & THEATRE: Asked to design a new set for a restaging of this 1952 play, Alberto Giacometti came up with one scraggly plaster tree Waiting for Godot
#8588, aired 2022-03-02ART MUSEUMS: Before its 1959 opening, 21 artists protested its design, saying it would make paintings look tilted & askew the Guggenheim
#8564, aired 2022-01-2718th CENTURY NAMES: In 1793 he left Dublin for the United States, saying, "I expect to make a fortune" off George Washington, & he did Gilbert Stuart
#7909, aired 2019-01-17CONTEMPORARY ART: After it was auctioned in 2018, a work by this artist was renamed "Love is in the Bin" Banksy
#7656, aired 2017-12-18ART: Perhaps bought from a Sears catalog, a window for an 1880s farmhouse inspired the name of this 1930 painting American Gothic
#7085, aired 2015-06-05MOTTOES: Though the 2 men were very different, this 4-word motto came to represent both Oscar Wilde & Louis B. Mayer "Art for art's sake"
#6450, aired 2012-10-05POETRY: Her most famous poem was written for a December 1883 art & literary auction to benefit the Pedestal Fund Emma Lazarus
#6353, aired 2012-04-11ART STYLES: Printmaker Richard Hamilton is credited with coining the name of this style, calling it "designed for a mass audience" Pop Art
#5435, aired 2008-04-04SHOW BUSINESS: The wings on this, created in 1948, represent the "muse of art"; the atom represents the "electron of science" the Emmy Award
#4535, aired 2004-04-3018th CENTURY BRITISH NOVELS: This title person asks a pile of money, "What art thou good for?... one of those knives is worth all this heap" Robinson Crusoe
#3737, aired 2000-11-28ARCHITECTS: This woman designed NYC's Museum for African Art, as well as a famous memorial in Washington, D.C. Maya Ying Lin
#3304, aired 1999-01-07AMERICAN BUILDINGS: Once an art gallery, since 1961 it's been a shrine to the musical style said to have originated nearby Preservation Hall (in New Orleans)
#1714, aired 1992-01-30ART: Rodin originally conceived "The Thinker" as a seated portrait of this author for "The Gates of Hell" Dante
#627, aired 1987-05-05ART NEWS: In December 1986, a computer analyst claimed that the model for the "Mona Lisa" was this person Leonardo da Vinci
#419, aired 1986-04-17ART: Term for the work a craftsman presented to the guild to qualify for a raise to the top rank masterpiece

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Jen McFann, a Peace Corps recruiter from Astoria, New York Season 26 1-time champion: $19,410 + $2,000. Jen McFann Astoria, New...
Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
Suchita Shah, a senior from the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Holmen, WI...
Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer 2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
Jim Davis, a college music and humanities instructor from Freeport, Illinois Season 25 2-time champion: $62,802 + $2,000. Not be to confused...
James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University 2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
Alison Jenik, a junior at the University of Maryland from New York, New York 2005 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
Mark Petterson, a senior from the University of Kansas 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Prairie Village,...
Dan D'Addario, a senior from Columbia University 2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Farmington, Connecticut. Daniel D'Addario...
Ryan Stoffers, a sophomore from UCLA 2010-A College Championship 1st runner-up: $50,000. Hometown: Saratoga, California. Ryan Stoffers...
Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C. Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY "As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Roger Craig, a computer scientist from Newark, Delaware 2019 All-Star Games member of wildcard-match 2nd-place Team Austin: a share...
Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives "She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
Tom Bergeron, an Emmy Award-winning host from Dancing with the Stars 2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "He's...
Jerome Vered, a writer from Los Angeles, California "The 1-day record of $34,000 he set in 1992 stood for...
Kate Wilson, a high school AP English teacher from Montgomery, Alabama "She is a top-10 AP English language teacher at Alabama's number-one...
Diane Siegel, an educational consultant and writer from Northridge, California "A full-time mom when she won five games in 1993, now...
Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California \"A 5-show winner from 1988, he has been a minister with...
Samira Missaghi, a junior from the University of Minnesota 2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Eden Prarie, Minnesota. Samira...
Emma Couture, a twelve-year-old from St. Petersburg, Florida "Here's a portrait of a smart young girl who sees her...
Dan Crosby, a middle school history teacher from Santa Monica, California "He teaches at a school named for a renowned scholar, doctor,...
Kevin Keach, an operations manager from St. Ann, Missouri 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
Robin Cheney, a middle school teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, California "All the students at her school go on a camping trip...
Steven Popper, an economist from Topanga, California "A winner of 5 shows in 1988, he has since founded...
Nithya Kubendran, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Quartz Hill, California "When asked about her future plans, she said, 'World domination sounds...
Doug Lach, a marketing manager from Columbus, Ohio 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida "And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
Bob Harris, a writer from Los Angeles, California "This 5-time champ was a finalist in the 1998 Tournament of...
Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York "He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
Emma Miller, from San Mateo, California "She loves the idea of creating art that people can live...
Elizabeth Connor, an art director from Brooklyn, New York Season 34 player (2018-01-31). Elizabeth wore a necklace that said "UGH"...
Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
Justin Bernbach, a lobbyist from Brooklyn, New York 2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 7-time champion: $155,001...
Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
Vito Cortese, a software engineer and Italian translator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Season 27 3-time champion: $68,485 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
Blake Hernandez, a senior from Burke, Virginia 2002 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. Blake was 16 at the time...
Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
Burns Cameron, a realtor from Standish, Maine 1990 Super Jeopardy! quarterfinalist: $5,000. Burns appeared on the original version...
Elliot Shteir, an attorney from Somerville, New Jersey 1995-A Seniors Tournament 1st runner-up: $10,000. Dr. Elliot Shteir won $8,230...
Christopher Meloni, an Emmy-nominated actor from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit "He's played challenging roles on both sides of the law, including...
Thomas Zamora, a junior at the University of Southern California from Cypress, California 2001 College Championship 2nd runner-up: $14,100. Thomas was 20 at the...
Marques Redd, a sophomore at Harvard University from Macon, Georgia 2001 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Marques was 18 at the time...
Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
Russ Porter, a water systems engineer from Seattle, Washington Season 27 1-time champion: $20,001 + $2,000.
Maggie Brown, a junior at the University of West Florida from Pensacola, Florida \"A sophomore from Pensacola, Florida in the 2018 Teen Tournament, she\'s...
Lindsey Bartlett, a junior from Winter Haven, Florida 2002 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. Lindsey was 16 at the time...
Mary Ellen LaRubbio, a legal secretary originally from Brooklyn, New York Season 8 player (1992-06-12): a collection of Armitron All-Sport water-resistant sport...
Teresa O'Neill, a contract administrator from Santa Clara, California Season 2 1-time champion: $16,799. A political candidate profile of Teresa...
Jeff Goldstein, a law student originally from Baltimore, Maryland Season 2 player (1986-03-26). Jeff fainted during the Final Jeopardy! Round...
Mary LoSardo, a retired executive, now web site designer from Bayonne, New Jersey Season 22 1-time champion: $20,800 + $1,000. Mary won $60 +...



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