| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $600: More agile than the nickname "Pudge" suggests, catcher Iván Rodriguez won 13 of these awards as the best fielder at his position a Gold Glove |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $800: National League pitchers' feeble swings became a thing of the past in 2022 as both leagues now have this position a designated hitter |
| #9078, aired 2024-04-10 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $1,600 (Daily Double): In the 1950s this NL team temporarily changed its name so as not to be associated with communism the (Cincinnati) Reds |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | DEALING WITH THINGS DIPLOMATICALLY $5,000 (Daily Double): The 6th century Peloponnesian League was a coalition of city-states led by this one big on the military Sparta |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | SPORTS PROFESSORS $600: For years a star on the Red Army team, in 1989 Igor "The Professor" Larionov became one of the first Soviets to play in this league the NHL |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | A LONG SESSION OF MONOPOLY $800: In the 1400s the Germans led the league in having a near monopoly in the Baltic's long-distance trade; this league, specifically the Hanseatic League |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | I'M JUST KEN $1200: Nicknamed "The Kid", this slugger hit a dinger in 44 different ballparks over his 22-year Major League career Ken Griffey Jr. |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS $200: Major League Baseball's Cardinals play their home games at this sudsy arena Busch Stadium |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | BATS ENTERTAINMENT $400: She was up for a Golden Glove... I mean, a Golden Globe... for playing catcher Dottie Hinson in "A League of Their Own" Geena Davis |
| #8996, aired 2023-12-18 | COLORFUL SPORTS $800: This cup awarded to the Canadian Football League champion was named for a governor general of Canada the Grey Cup |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | SPORTS STUFF $200: This league adopted a rule in 2020 that prevented teams from manipulating the game clock via dead-ball fouls the NFL |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | HIS 'DO $400: The clean-cut men's style known as the "Ivy League" is also called this, after a New Jersey school a Princeton |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | CARL SAGAN $400: From 1971 to 1996, Carl Sagan was a professor at this Ithaca, New York Ivy League school Cornell |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | THE "A" TEAM $1000: Sing a little song & tell us this nickname of Montreal's Canadian Football League team the Alouettes |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $1200: The first player in the National League to be MVP two years in a row, he's known as Mr. Cub Ernie Banks |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | PODCASTS $800: Evoking a home run stat belonging to one of its players, "755 is Real" is a podcast about this major league team the Atlanta Braves |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | BASEBALL MOVIE HAIKU $800: Jimmy once a pro/ Alas, war calls men away/ Nine gals beats no gals... A League of Their Own |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE $1000: In a real "Celebrity Jeopardy!" game, this "SNL" actress blew us away with her knowledge of the Hanseatic League Jane Curtin |
| #8936, aired 2023-09-25 | A PLACE IN HISTORY $1200: Pericles might have misappropriated some funds from the Delian League to pay for this Acropolis building, begun in 447 B.C. the Parthenon |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE SPORTING NEWS $600: Like Manchester, Newcastle in the north of England has a Premier League soccer club with this all-for-one name United |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | A TOUCH OF GREY $400: Won by the Toronto Argonauts in 2022, this championship trophy of the Canadian Football League was first awarded in 1909 the Grey Cup |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | U.S. FESTIVALS $500 (Daily Double): An ice sculpture contest is part of Winter Carnival at this northernmost Ivy League school Dartmouth |
| #8896, aired 2023-06-19 | TV $200: After her daytime talk show ended, she spent some time on "The View", & in 2022 she made a cameo on the reboot of "A League of Their Own" (Rosie) O'Donnell |
| #8873, aired 2023-05-17 | Y'KNOW, THE MOVIE WHERE... $200: A farmer plays baseball with a dead guy, time-travels & ends up owning a tourist trap Field of Dreams |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MY KID GOT INTO AN IVY LEAGUE MUSEUM $1000: At a Yale museum, they enjoyed an earl by this 18th century British portraitist & learned that the lad's name is now known--Marcus Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | THE I.V. LEAGUE $800: Latin term for the type of fertilization of an egg that takes place in a lab dish in vitro |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | THE I.V. LEAGUE $2000: This valve in a car engine opens to allow the fuel-air mixture to be drawn into the cylinder the intake valve |
| #8820, aired 2023-03-03 | A LOVELY ACCENT $400: In 2016 Adrián González challenged fellow Major League Baseball players to add the accent marks in their names to these their jerseys |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | THE CHAMPION'S LEAGUE $600: Lynn Swann,
1979 the NFL |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | WESTERN EUROPE $2000: The vibrantly painted buildings of Norway's Bryggen Wharf commemorate its days as a hub for this Baltic trading organization the Hanseatic League |
| #8797, aired 2023-01-31 | JASON CONCEPCION $800: (Jason Concepcion presents the clue.) A 2021 episode of "Takeline" examined Major League Baseball's decision to move its All-Star Game out of this state after it passed a law that reduced the number of ballot drop boxes in Fulton County and elsewhere Georgia |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAMS $200: This National League team shares its name with a mountain range the Rockies |
| #8786, aired 2023-01-16 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAMS $600: In 2022 this team gave 73-year-old Dusty Baker his 1st championship as a manager; he's the oldest skipper to win a World Series the Astros |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | SPORTS TROPHIES $1000: Named for a onetime Brisbane Lions coach, the Leigh Matthews Trophy goes to the MVP of the AFL, this the Australian Football League |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER $1000: Trainer Yancey Durham took this man from a Police Athletic League gym to the heavyweight title & gave him his "Smokin"' nickname Joe Frazier |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | THE NATIONAL PAST TIME $4,000 (Daily Double): After World War I, Iraq was controlled by Great Britain as a mandate of this international organization the League of Nations |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | THE SURPRISINGLY SUCCESSFUL LEAGUE OF NATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1925 the League headed off a Balkan war between Bulgaria & this neighbor to the south Greece |
| #8751, aired 2022-11-28 | THAT'S MAJOR $1200: Major League Soccer began playing in the U.S. in 1996 with 10 teams, including the N.Y./N.J. Metrostars & this team playing for Los Angeles the (L.A.) Galaxy |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | STREAKERS $200: He was MVP of the NBA Finals in 1991, 1992 & 1993 & again in 1996, 1997 & 1998 Michael Jordan |
| #8741, aired 2022-11-14 | STREAKERS $1000: Before he set the major-league record, he had a 61-game hitting streak in the minors DiMaggio |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | PITCH PERFECT $100: Talk about Go Blue!
Clayton Kershaw pitched well enough for this team in 2014 to win 21 games & the National League MVP award the Dodgers |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $100: The Prime Video series "A League of Their Own" recreates the 1940s AAGPBL, the All-American Girls Professional this League Baseball |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $200: "We got next" was the slogan of this league when it debuted in 1997 with stars like Lisa Leslie & Rebecca Lobo the WNBA |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $300: This league was created as part of the successful bid to bring the 1994 World Cup to the United States MLS (Major League Soccer) |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $400: It was founded in Daytona Beach in 1948 to organize races for "stock" or production line cars NASCAR |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $500: The Montreal Alouettes & the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are among the teams competing for the Grey Cup in this league the CFL (Canadian Football League) |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | LIONS, TIGERS & BEARS $400: This Ivy League university began using a tiger as its mascot in part because its school colors are orange & black Princeton |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $1200: Megalopolis was a member of the Achaean League, a defensive alliance of city-states on this peninsula Peloponnesian |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | A LETTER, THEN A WORD $1200: Fortnite & League of Legends are popular games in this; there are tournaments & spectators too esports |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | HODGEPODGE $1000: In 1983 the league of Red Cross Societies added this other shape to its name to reflect its work in Muslim countries a crescent |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | JUST TAKE THE L $200: Take the L out of a beer league sport (in an alley) & you get an act of showing respect bowing & bowling |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | JUST TAKE THE L $400: Take the L out of a beer league sport (on ice) & you get an act of healing a disease curling & curing |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | SAN DIEGO: NEWS CLUES $400: (Dagmar Midcap of NBC 7 in San Diego presents the clue.) On April 8, 2004, the Padres beat the Giants in the first Major League game at this ball park, a centerpiece of San Diego’s newly revitalized downtown Petco |
| #8683, aired 2022-07-13 | WORD "L" $800: A marine one of these equals 3 nautical miles a league |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | HEARING RED $1000: This country star, the son of a big league pitcher, hit the Top 40 in 2002 with "Red Rag Top" Tim McGraw |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | THE NATIONAL LEAGUE $1600: Rosa Luxemburg was a member of the Spartacus League, which in 1919 became the German branch of this political party Communist Party |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | THE NATIONAL LEAGUE $2000: The Lombard League was a medieval alliance of cities in the north of this present-day country Italy |
| #8656, aired 2022-06-06 | 1992 FILMS $400: Tom Hanks in this 1992 film: "Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball!" A League of Their Own |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | THE LEAGUE MVP's TEAM $200: Barry Sanders, who could really "motor" down a football field the Detroit Lions |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | THE LEAGUE MVP's TEAM $400: LeBron in 2009 & 2010, before taking a trip south the Cleveland Cavaliers |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | THE LEAGUE MVP's TEAM $800: 3-time winner Alex Ovechkin, a power player in a city full of 'em the Washington Capitals |
| #8628, aired 2022-04-27 | THE LEAGUE MVP's TEAM $1000: Cody Bellinger, a big hit on the coast in 2019 the Dodgers |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THE LEAGUE LEADER $800: The Ivy League includes this school that was chartered in 1865 & has a lovely view of a Finger Lake Cornell University |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | MULTI-SPORT ATHLETES $200: He led the NBA in scoring 7 straight times, won 5 MVPs (& hit .202 for a minor league team in 1994, but let's not dwell on that) Michael Jordan |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | FOOTBALL AND FOOTBALL $600: This Premier League system of sending the 3 bottom-finishers to a 2nd-tier league is like sending 3 MLB teams down to AAA relegation |
| #8602, aired 2022-03-22 | THOSE DARN ETRUSCANS $1600: The Etruscan League was a dodecapolis, consisting of this many main cities 12 |
| #8589, aired 2022-03-03 | DETROIT: NEWS CLUES $600: (I'm Devin Scillian.) On October 3, 1997, the International Hockey League's Detroit Vipers welcomed a new teammate playing in his sixth decade; this 69-year-old ex-Red Wing, Alex Trebek's hero, took a 46-second shift in his very last pro game Gordie Howe |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | MOVIE SUM-UP $1000: Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
To war, so girls--play ball!
You're Dottie if you want to play catcher A League of Their Own |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | COMMENCEMENT $1000: On April 14, 1910 he became the first president to throw out the first pitch at the start of a Major League Baseball game Taft |
| #5, aired 2022-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: "Great Bear" constellation with teams like the L.A. Galaxy in it Ursa Major League Soccer |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | SONGS ON MY PLAY LIST $800: "This Used To Be My Playground", the theme to "A League of Their Own", is by this singer who had a part in that film Madonna |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | MOVIE TAGLINES $600: 1992:
"...a woman's place is at home... first, second & third" A League of Their Own |
| #8530, aired 2021-12-10 | BIG MOVIE ON CAMPUS $1200: Set at a fictional Ivy League university, "Dear White People" was filmed at this school's Twin Cities campus the University of Minnesota |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | MYTHICAL MISSES $800: This league of Native Americans celebrated Sky-Woman, whom they considered a mother goddess the Iroquois League |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | NON-MEDICAL FEVERS $800: The Indiana Fever is a 21-year-old professional sports franchise in this league the WNBA |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | SO YOU JUST BOWLED A STRIKE $800: As with meeting the queen of England, men may bow & women may do this to their bowling league teammates curtsy |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | RIGHT HERE IN RIVER CITY $400: Known for its canals, this "meaty" German city on the Elbe River was a prominent member of the Hanseatic League Hamburg |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | FOWL BALLS $600: Vince Coleman of this Midwest National League team fell victim to a mechanical tarp & was out of the 1985 playoffs Cardinals |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | 3's COMPANY $400: Big3 is a league that puts a twist on this sport, like scoring with 4-pointers basketball |
| #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 |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | AUTHORS WHEN YOUNG $400: Langston Hughes attended this New York City Ivy League school & discovered Harlem, where he would help lead a renaissance Columbia (University) |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | FINISH THE POETRY LINE $200: "Half a" this,
"Half a" this,
"Half a" this "onward", about an 1854 battle a league |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | TIGER $200: Late Secretary of State George Shultz was said to have a tiger tattoo on his rear, a legacy of his days at this Ivy League university Princeton |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | RADIO ON THE TV $2000: This man of 1,000 voices played "Brockmire", who in Season 3 made it back to a Major League broadcast booth Hank Azaria |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | COMING BACK TO WIN THE GAME $1000: In the 2004-05 Champions League Final, this English club, the Reds, overcame a colossal 3-goal deficit Liverpool |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | THE IVY LEAGUE $400: Begun in 1909, the Whiffenpoofs are a celebrated collegiate singing group at this university Yale |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | THE IVY LEAGUE $800: Chartered as Rhode Island College in 1764, it changed its name to this in 1804 to honor a major benefactor Brown |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE NEBULA AWARDS $200: The Dramatic Presentation Award is named for this Martian chronicler who joined the L.A. Science Fiction League in 1937 Bradbury |
| #8356, aired 2021-03-15 | A COLLEGE CONFERENCE CALL $2000: Patriot League football: this Jesuit university in the Bronx became fully co-ed in 1974 Fordham |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | GLOBETROTTING $1600: Popular throughout Oceania, this sport with league & union variations is played at a high level in Samoa Rugby |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $1200: From the 13th to the 15th centuries, Lubeck, a port city on this sea, was "The Queen of the Hanseatic League" the Baltic Sea |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | 3-LETTER WORDS $600: This shortened word precedes "league" or "team" when it's a local sports league for fun rather than money rec |
| #8281, aired 2020-11-16 | IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS $600: Dartmouth's Geisel Medical School is named for this writer & his wife; though he was a "Dr.", he was not an M.D. Dr. Seuss |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS $400: In 2019 a team from River Ridge, Louisiana won this sport's championship in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania the Little League Championship |
| #8249, aired 2020-10-01 | YANKEE STADIUM $600: It wasn't just baseball at the old stadium; this Frank Gifford team moved there in 1956 & promptly won a championship the New York Giants |
| #8248, aired 2020-09-30 | YESTERDAY $800: This German trade organization that helped the growth of Riga & Tallinn was in a "League" of its own the Hanseatic League |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY $2,400 (Daily Double): In April 1946 this international org. formally gave up the ghost, though it did give a lot of its stuff to its replacement the League of Nations |
| #8225, aired 2020-05-29 | COOL NEWS $600: In 2020 this sports league & its players association reached a deal that will pay top centers & point guards in excess of $500,000 a year the WNBA |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE $200: This team moved from the National League to the American League in 2013 & won a now-controversial title in 2017 the Houston Astros |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE $400: The Boston Patriots were among the teams that moved out of this defunct league in a 1970 merger the AFL (American Football League) |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE $800: This team moved from the NBL to the BAA in 1948, to the NBA in 1949 & to L.A. in 1960 the Lakers |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE $1000: The NHL got a "great" deal when this team & 18-year-old Wayne Gretzky moved over from the WHA in 1979 the Edmonton Oilers |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | UNIQUE COLLEGE COURSES $1000: One of the topics covered in a Major League Baseball course at Arizona State is this player who broke the color barrier in 1947 Jackie Robinson |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $1000: (I'm Jerry Anderson
from WTOL 11. [He presents from Fifth Third Field in Toledo, Ohio.]) Since 1987 the Toledo Mud Hens have been a farm team of this American League team located about 60 miles to the northeast of Toledo the (Detroit) Tigers |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | WANNA BET? $400: In 2016 a few happy bettors cashed in 5,000-1 tickets after Leicester City won the title in England's top league in this sport soccer |
| #8175, aired 2020-03-06 | WANNA BET? $1000: In 2018 this NBA commissioner said the league should get a cut of any legalized betting on it (Adam) Silver |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | MAKE A SELECTION $800: The Ontario Hockey League's Soo Greyhounds made a "great" pick at No. 3 in 1977; this teen scored 182 points the next season Gretzky |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $1000: These units of distance are in the title of un voyage extraordinaire by Jules Verne a league |
| #8133, aired 2020-01-08 | 1995 $400: In 1995 he broke Lou Gehrig's record for the most consecutive games played by a Major League ballplayer Cal Ripken, Jr. |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: If they used a well-known brand of kosher hot dogs instead of bats, the Dodgers & Phillies would be in this baseball group the Hebrew National League |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | AFTER WINNING THE HEISMAN $200: 10 years after bagging a trophy, this ex-Florida QB hit .231 with 5 home runs for a Mets Minor League team in 2017 (Tim) Tebow |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | HARDPODGE $400: During the Middle Ages, Bergen became a trading center of this merchant league that held its last Congress in 1669 the Hanseatic League |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | GIVING AWAY THE MOVIE'S ENDING $800: During WWII 2 sisters join the first professional baseball league for women Own |
| #8064, aired 2019-10-03 | BASEBALL MANAGERS $800: One of the smallest Major League players ever, Miller Huggins managed this 1927 team, perhaps the greatest of all time the New York Yankees |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NEXT $600: World Series winners since 2016:
the Cubs,
the Astros,
this A.L. team the Red Sox |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | A WAR BY ANY OTHER NAME $800: The Beaver Wars in Canada were also known as the French & this Native American league wars the Iroquois wars |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | "POP" QUIZ $1200: This college coach lent his name to a youth football league Pop Warner |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | 2018 ESPY WINNERS $400: Best Player in this league was a layup for Maya Moore of the Minnesota Lynx the WNBA |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | TURNING AROUND THE INSULT $200: A Major League Baseball team bears this name, once a derogatory term for Northerners Yankees |
| #8007, aired 2019-06-04 | TURNING AROUND THE INSULT $400: A National Hockey League team bears this name, once a derogatory term for Canadians Canucks |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | WORLD OF SPORT $600: In August 2018 a Hawaiian squad beat the team of youngsters from South Korea to take this championship the Little League championship |
| #7961, aired 2019-04-01 | AN APRIL TO REMEMBER $600: Major League Baseball's first of these postponed the opening of the 1972 season to April 15 a strike |
| #7960, aired 2019-03-29 | FOLLOWING SPORTS RELIGIOUSLY $600: Rickey Henderson broke the commandment, "Thou shalt not" do this, a league-leading 108 times in 1983 steal |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | IN PERPETUITY $600: Instead of merging with the NBA, owners of the St. Louis team in this league got a cut of NBA TV money in perpetuity--hello, $300 mil.! the ABA (or American Basketball Association) |
| #7926, aired 2019-02-11 | 5 DIAMONDS $1000: A scaled-down version of the one in Chicago, L.A.'s Wrigley Field was the first home of this American League team the Angels |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | OXYMORONS $400: Jacksonville's minor league baseball team is named this, a classic shellfish oxymoron the Jumbo Shrimp |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | BETTER 1, BETTER 2? $1200: The first earl of this was friends with Queen Anne; the second one got his name on a New Hampshire Ivy League school Dartmouth |
| #7909, aired 2019-01-17 | GENERATION "Y" $400: Insert an "I" into an Ivy League school to get this nickname for one of its grads a Yalie |
| #7905, aired 2019-01-11 | A SIMPLE FLICK OF THE WRIST $400: Joe Sakic's wrist shot helped him score 625 goals in this league National Hockey League |
| #7904, aired 2019-01-10 | "RU" READY? $200: Union & league are the 2 main types of this rough-&-tumble sport that began in England rugby |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | A FISTFUL OF HEROES $200: Of course this hero returns from the dead in "Justice League"; he even has a race with the Flash at the end Superman |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | THE MINOR LEAGUES $400: The Manchester, N.H. Monarchs are a minor league affiliate of these NHL monarchs on the opposite coast the (Los Angeles) Kings |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | THE MINOR LEAGUES $600: The Lehigh Valley Ironpigs & the Tacoma Rainiers play at this top level of U.S. minor league baseball Triple A |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | COLLEGES EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI FROM K TO Q $5,000 (Daily Double): It's about a 50-mile drive from Penn to this other Ivy League school that fits the category Princeton |
| #7783, aired 2018-06-13 | U.S. LIBRARIES $200: AKA "The Rock", the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library is one of the main libraries of this R.I. Ivy League school Brown |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | FLAGS $400: This term for a tapering or triangular flag is also used to mean a baseball league championship a pennant |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | THE HOOPS DU JOUR $1000: "Loose Balls", a book about this league, details the 1976 slam dunk contest won by Dr. J, who got $1,000 & a stereo system the ABA (American Basketball Association) |
| #7711, aired 2018-03-05 | A MAN FOR 2 SEASONS $1000: This '50s & '60s TV "Rifleman" played 2 seasons of pro basketball & 2 seasons of major league baseball Chuck Connors |
| #7680, aired 2018-01-19 | THE BOSTON TANGLER $600: In the 1987 Eastern Conference finals, this Celtic legend & 3-time league MVP had a piston-punchin' good time with Bill Laimbeer Larry Bird |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | IN THEIR LEAGUE $800: The Stanford Cardinal (in this case, a conference) the Pac-12 |
| #7641, aired 2017-11-27 | RANKING THE NEW MILITARY MAN $400: A 96-mph-throwing Cleveland Indian had to work on his control "before he kills somebody" in this 1989 movie Major League |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | SHAKESPEAREAN IN THE PARK $600: Forsooth! in 1937 Bill Veeck put forth a noble idea he'd seen in 2 minor league venues; add this to thy field's walls, Mr. Wrigley! ivy |
| #7607, aired 2017-10-10 | 19th CENTURY SPORTS $1200: On June 6, 1892 he became the first president to attend a major league baseball game while in office Benjamin Harrison |
| #7598, aired 2017-09-27 | AN IVY LEAGUE EDUCATION $600: If an "Intro to Theoretical Neuroscience" is needed, this U. on 116th St. would be happy to arrange a meeting Columbia |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | PENNANTS $400: After a Bobby Thomson home run on Oct. 3, 1951, Russ Hodges screamed, they "win the pennant!" 4 times the Giants |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | BAWLERS $400: A bawling player in "A League of Their Own" causes Tom Hanks to say these 5 oft-quoted words about America's pastime there's no crying in baseball |
| #7571, aired 2017-07-10 | THE PRESIDENTIAL VERSE OF RICHARD ARMOUR $400: This president "from things unplanned on, was left without a league to stand on" Wilson |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | LET'S GO DODGERS! $1000: Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016, this slugging catcher was 1993 National League Rookie of the Year as a Dodger Mike Piazza |
| #7534, aired 2017-05-18 | SOME OF YOUR BUSINESS $600: Despite $10 billion in annual revenue, this sports league was technically a nonprofit & its office tax-exempt until 2015 the NFL |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | CLUES ACROSS OHIO $800: (Hi, I'm Jerry Henderson from WTOL 11.) One of minor league baseball's best-known teams, the Mud Hens of this Ohio city, got their unusual nickname in 1896 from the duck-like birds in a nearby marsh Toledo |
| #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 |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | FENCING $800: Minimum distance in feet from home plate to the center field fence at a major league baseball park 400 feet |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | PRETTY COLORS $600: This Ivy League school began as a Baptist institution for men & later adopted the name of its benefactor Brown University |
| #7492, aired 2017-03-21 | POETS & POETRY $1200: This Tennyson poem begins, "Half a league, half a league, half a league onward" "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | A SONG OF "YOU" $1000: The lady's response to this title query in a 1982 Human League hit? No, pretty much "Don't You Want Me" |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | POTPOURRI $800: This hairstyle got its name from its popularity among rowers, especially in the Ivy League a crew cut |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | MUST "C" TV $200: The Windy City has a Major League Soccer team & a Dick Wolf series both called this Chicago Fire |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $400: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, plus 5 other schools the Ivy League |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $800: From 1942 to 1967 it had only 6 teams including the Blackhawks, Red Wings & Maple Leafs the NHL |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $1200: The ADL for short, it fights anti-Semitism & other forms of bigotry & protects civil rights for all the Anti-Defamation League |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $1600: This group of Indian tribes was also known as the Five Nations & the Six Nations the Iroquois Confederacy |
| #7450, aired 2017-01-20 | A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $2000: Women active in the Junior League include this justice, a past president of the Phoenix chapter Sandra Day O'Connor |
| #7435, aired 2016-12-30 | THE MIDDLE AGES $1200: With its excellent port facilities, Riga, Latvia was an important center of this league of merchant cities the Hanseatic League |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | KNOWLEDGE ABOUT COLLEGE $400: You'll have a heck of a Hanover at this Ivy League school founded in 1769 Dartmouth |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | JUNIOR LEAGUE $400: He skipped 9th & 12th grades & at age 15, entered Morehouse College, where he decided to become a minister Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | THE "IV" LEAGUE $200: The OED calls this type of bar a "disreputable place of resort" a dive |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | THE "IV" LEAGUE $800: As a verb, it means to live together closely, like bees to hive |
| #7374, aired 2016-10-06 | GREEK HISTORY $2000: In the 5th century B.C., Sparta led a league of city-states on this peninsula to combat Athens' Delian League the Peloponnesian Peninsula |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | MAJOR LEAGUE BALLPARK FOOD $200: A little sweet, a little salty, it's the sweet potato waffle chicken sandwich at the Houston ballpark of this team the Astros |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | MAJOR LEAGUE BALLPARK FOOD $600: Enjoy some mini-donuts & toppings in a souvenir helmet at this St. Louis ballpark Busch Stadium |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | MAJOR LEAGUE BALLPARK FOOD $800: Specialties of this ballpark include a crab & melted cheese pretzel & Chesapeake waffle fries topped with crab dip Camden (Yards) |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | MAJOR LEAGUE BALLPARK FOOD $1000: The buffalo cauliflower poutine is a vegetarian option at this team's Rogers Centre the (Toronto) Blue Jays |
| #7351, aired 2016-07-25 | ANATOMICALLY TITLED LIT $400: A London bank job is at the heart of "The Red-Headed League", the second short story with this detective Sherlock Holmes |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | IVY LEAGUE $600: L.A. restaurant The Ivy is a favorite of celebrities, hence also of these celeb-focused photographers the paparazzi |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | IVY LEAGUE $1000: The colorful ivy seen here is called the Virginia this, which sounds like a sneaky person creeper |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | EPONYMS $1600: A Major League lefty,
a major type of arm surgery Tommy John |
| #7312, aired 2016-05-31 | GO HAMILTON FISH! $2,000 (Daily Double): A park & library on Houston Street are named for Ham, who graduated from this Ivy League school Columbia |
| #7308, aired 2016-05-25 | GOVERNMENTAL BEFORE & AFTER $400: John Roberts' job that's a team of comic book superheroes Chief Justice League |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR $200: The Walter Payton Man of the Year Award goes to a player in this league who excels off the field the NFL |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | CALIFORNIA PRO SPORTS TEAMS $600: David Beckham retired from Major League Soccer after helping this team win 2 MLS Cups the L.A. Galaxy |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS $400: The charter of the League of Nations was attached as a covenant to this 1919 treaty the Treaty of Versailles |
| #7244, aired 2016-02-25 | THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS $1600: Between WWI & WWII, this Polish port was a Free State supervised by a commissioner from the League Danzig |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | MEASURED WORDS $600: This word found before "of women Voters" is also a distance of about 3 miles league |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | IVY LEAGUE ALUMNI $200: This Bronx-born Supreme Court justice got her B.A. from Princeton Sotomayor |
| #7163, aired 2015-11-04 | IVY LEAGUE ALUMNI $1000: She was still a senior at Yale when her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial won a nationwide competition Maya Lin |
| #7126, aired 2015-09-14 | 7-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the name of an Ivy League college newspaper as well as a color crimson |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | WOODROW WILSON'S FOURTEEN POINTS $800: No. 14:
The creation of "a general association of" countries that became this body in 1920 the League of Nations |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $1200: Take a swing:
"Shoeless Joe From Hannibal, Mo" &
"The American League" Damn Yankees |
| #7091, aired 2015-06-15 | LUCKY 13 $600: When England, New Zealand or Fiji fields a team in the league version of this sport, it has 13 players rugby |
| #7069, aired 2015-05-14 | THE BOOK OF MERMEN $1600: DC Comics has a merman--this guy in the Justice League, who married the undersea queen Mera Aquaman |
| #7057, aired 2015-04-28 | IMPERIALIST $2000: 7-letter term for a territory given by the League of Nations to another country to administer mandate |
| #7050, aired 2015-04-17 | SPORTS MOVIES $1000: Paul Newman coaches the Chiefs, a losing minor league hockey team, in this favorite Slap Shot |
| #7035, aired 2015-03-27 | "-EY" MAN $400: A servile follower, or major league pitcher John a lackey |
| #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" |
| #7005, aired 2015-02-13 | 3 LETTERS, ONE OF WHICH IS Y $1000: This climbing vine is in a league of its own ivy |
| #6994, aired 2015-01-29 | FILM SONGS $800: "This Used To Be My Playground" A League of Their Own |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | WHAT IT'S NOT $800: It's not what you think, sweetie! This leader of Myanmar's National League for Democracy is just a friend! Aung San Suu Kyi |
| #6968, aired 2014-12-24 | AWARDS & HONORS $800: This award honoring the best pitchers in Major League Baseball was the idea of Commissioner Ford Frick the Cy Young Award |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | THE WALLABY $1200: The Qantas Wallabies are a team that plays in the Australian league of this sport rugby |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | BRING IT $600: to a Little League game:
A Nokona Alpha Select one of these, made with buffalo leather a glove |
| #6928, aired 2014-10-29 | THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW SCHOOL $200: Maybe this oldest Ivy League law school can teach you to beat a ticket if you illegally pahk ya cah in its yahd Harvard |
| #6920, aired 2014-10-17 | THE TEAM, THE TEAM, THE TEAM $1000: This "hot" Midwestern Major League Soccer team shares its name with a current NBC drama the Chicago Fire |
| #6915, aired 2014-10-10 | A WHOLE NEW BALLGAME $600: The American League adopted this new rule & new role in 1973; the National League declined a designated hitter |
| #6867, aired 2014-06-24 | COLORFUL SPORTS $800: This cup awarded to the Canadian Football League champion was named for a governor general of Canada the Grey Cup |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | AMERICAN CITIES $400: The Bisons are a Triple-A minor league baseball team from this New York city Buffalo |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | NICE "RUG" $400: It's played with 15 players on a team in "Union" play & 13 players on a team in "League" play rugby |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a monitor.) Carl Stotz was inspired to found Little League in 1939 after he stumbled into a bush
while playing backyard baseball with his nephews in this town that, despite its name, is more than 100 miles inland Williamsport |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL $1000: "A--pint--sized--Hercules--wielding--a--mighty--club" was perhaps heard in his broadcast debut, for a 1953 Little League game Howard Cosell |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | IMPRESSIVE SPORTS RECORDS $800: To match his major league pitching wins, you'd have to win 25 games a year for 20 years... & you'd still be 11 short Cy Young |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | A LEAGUE $400: This youngest school in the Ivy League was founded in New York state in 1865 Cornell |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | A LEAGUE $800: The members of this graphic novel & movie "league" included the adventurer Allan Quartermain The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | A LEAGUE $1200: Founded in 478 B.C., the Delian League united several city-states in the fight against Persia & was led by this city Athens |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | A LEAGUE $1600: The story of the red-headed league involves a plot to rob a bank, thwarted by this man Sherlock Holmes |
| #6811, aired 2014-04-07 | A LEAGUE $2000: It was formed in March 1945; original members include Egypt, Lebanon & Iraq the Arab League |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | BASEBALL TEAMS $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1869 a club based in this, now a National League city, became the first all-professional baseball team Cincinnati |
| #6762, aired 2014-01-28 | THE PALACE OF NATIONS $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew comes to us from behind a lectern at the Palace of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.) The first session of this former global organization was held in November, 1920, here in Geneva; in 1936 the Palace of Nations was built to house it, but it was already becoming irrelevant the League of Nations |
| #6756, aired 2014-01-20 | CHIPPING IN $200: Many donate to the United Way thanks to Nnamdi Asomugha, a player in this league the NFL |
| #6745, aired 2014-01-03 | BASEBALL: THE 1950s $1600: In 1958 this man, "Mr. Cub", hit 47 home runs, still the National League record for a shortstop Ernie Banks |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS $200: Its main campus lies along the Charles River Harvard |
| #6663, aired 2013-07-31 | YOU DO THE MATH $800: Your class forms a leapfrog league with teams made up of 4 players each; with 28 kids in your class, there are this many teams 7 |
| #6662, aired 2013-07-30 | GIVE UP THE "SHIP"! $200: A competition for the top prize in a sports league a championship |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | BASEBALL BITS $200: When this city's MLB team wins a game, the Jolly Roger is raised the Pittsburgh Pirates |
| #6586, aired 2013-04-15 | JACKIE ROBINSON $800: En route to the 1949 NL MVP award, Jackie, a daring baserunner, led the league with a .342 average & 37 of these steals |
| #6570, aired 2013-03-22 | IVY LEAGUE ALMA MATERS $600: Arlen Specter, for his B.A., & Donald Trump, for business school University of Pennsylvania |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | TAKE ME OUT TO THE BASEBALL MOVIE $200: This 1992 film told the story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League A League of Their Own |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | TAKE ME OUT TO THE BASEBALL MOVIE $600: The ace pitcher on a boys' Little League team is a girl (Tatum O'Neal) in this comedy from 1976 The Bad News Bears |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | TAKE ME OUT TO THE BASEBALL MOVIE $1000: Tim Robbins was a minor league pitcher, "Nuke" LaLoosh, in this movie Bull Durham |
| #6560, aired 2013-03-08 | PRO SPORTS TEAMS $400: This English Premier League team whose name means a stockpile of weapons has a cannon in its logo Arsenal |
| #6539, aired 2013-02-07 | MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS CITIES $1000: The Fire Chicago |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | A STUDENT OF HISTORY $800: George W. Bush graduated from this Ivy League university with a B.A. in history Yale |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | NEW JERSEY $400: In 2011 a Florida Major League Baseball team unveiled a New Jersey & this new alliterative name the Miami Marlins |
| #6498, aired 2012-12-12 | EARLY U.S. CAPITALS $400: In 1783 Nassau Hall on this Ivy League school's campus received the first foreign minister to the U.S., a delegate from Holland Princeton |
| #6491, aired 2012-12-03 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: It can refer to a group of "Extraordinary Gentlemen" or be a measurement of distance a league |
| #6487, aired 2012-11-27 | LIONS & TIGERS & BEARS, OH MY! $1600: In 2011 this Tiger was the first starting pitcher to be a league MVP since 1986 (Justin) Verlander |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | A HANSEATIC LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $400: The Hanseatic League fostered safe navigation by training pilots & building many of these structures along the coasts lighthouses |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | A HANSEATIC LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $1,000 (Daily Double): The decline of the Hanseatic League was in part due to this devastating war that lasted from 1618 to 1648 the Thirty Years' War |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | A HANSEATIC LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $1200: The league had no governing body but had assemblies called these; the Holy Roman Empire held one in Worms a diet |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | A HANSEATIC LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN $1600: This fish was big business for the league; I enjoy the matjes type, myself herring |
| #6482, aired 2012-11-20 | THE WAR OF ...12 $400: In the War of the Holy League, a big deal in 1512, the man in this post assembled an alliance against France the pope |
| #6479, aired 2012-11-15 | THE JUNIOR VARSITY $400: The son of a veteran outfielder, he hit 630 Major League home runs Ken Griffey Jr. |
| #6468, aired 2012-10-31 | BASEBALL TIMELINE $400: On April 14, 1910 he became the first president to throw the ceremonial first pitch to open a major league season William Howard Taft |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | A "HA"! $2000: From the 13th to the 15th centuries, commercial activity in northern Europe was dominated by this league the Hanseatic League |
| #6455, aired 2012-10-12 | A POSITION OF IMPORTANCE $1000: In major league baseball, when the ball is put in play only this player may be in foul territory the catcher |
| #6424, aired 2012-07-19 | PUT ME IN, MOVIE COACH! $200: In this film a manager screams at one of his female players, "there's no crying in baseball!" A League of Their Own |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | PLAY THEM OFF $1200: Thanks to Bobby Thomson's home run, this team won the pennant, downing the Dodgers in a 1951 playoff the Giants |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS $1200: In a rare success, the League decided in 1921 that the Aland Islands belonged to this country, not Sweden Finland |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | THE WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL $400: Held annually in NYC, the WSF was co-founded by Brian Greene, a physics prof. at this nearby Ivy League school Columbia |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | CITY SEALS (& SEA LIONS) $800: Silent Knight is a sea lion in this California city that used to have a minor league baseball team called the Seals San Francisco |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | THE "A" TEAM $1600: This North London soccer team in England's Premier League is nicknamed "The Gunners" Arsenal |
| #6363, aired 2012-04-25 | THE "A" TEAM $2000: Sing a little song & tell us this nickname of Montreal's Canadian football league team the Alouettes |
| #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 |
| #6349, aired 2012-04-05 | THE "IV" LEAGUE $600: Term for a horse, based on its diet herbivore |
| #6349, aired 2012-04-05 | THE "IV" LEAGUE $800: A type of surgery, or a college course not in your major elective |
| #6349, aired 2012-04-05 | THE "IV" LEAGUE $1000: From the Latin for "from a stream", it's the historical origin of a word derivation |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS $800: It grew out of a single log hut in the New Hampshire wilderness Dartmouth |
| #6324, aired 2012-03-01 | CALL THE "I-T" DEPARTMENT $1200: A Greek island & a New York Ivy League town share this name Ithaca |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $1000: As in a poem, if we go this distance "onward", that's a mile & a half half a league |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | LAST IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE $400: Casey Stengel led this "Amazin'" 1962 team to a 40-120 record, 60.5 games back, but they were first in errors the Amazin' Mets |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | LAST IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE $800: They were "inaugurated" as a team in 2005 & have finished last 5 seasons out of 7 the (Washington) Nationals |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | LAST IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE $1200: A last-place 2006 N.L. Central finish insured a 98th straight year without a World Series title for this team the Chicago Cubs |
| #6297, aired 2012-01-24 | LET'S TAKE A "TRIP" $200: Since 1900, only 12 baseball players have won this by leading a major league in batting average, home runs & RBIs a triple crown |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | COUNTRY GROUPS $1200: In 1945 Iraq became a founding member of this regional association of sovereign states the Arab League |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | IT'S A GROUP THING $800: It's a group of bowling teams that compete against each other, or a former association of nations a league |
| #6257, aired 2011-11-29 | STADIUM FOOD $600: While Boston has the Fenway Frank, L.A.'s National League baseball team has this alliterative equivalent a Dodger Dog |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | A "LITTLE" LEARNING $400: In 1939 this kids' sporting organization was founded in Williamsport, Pennsylvania Little League |
| #6235, aired 2011-10-28 | CASEY AT THE BAT $400: He made the Hall of Fame as a Yankees manager, but he also batted .284 in 14 big-league seasons Casey Stengel |
| #6235, aired 2011-10-28 | CASEY AT THE BAT $800: Casey Candaele played 9 seasons in the majors; his mom Helen played ball too, & helped inspire this 1992 film A League of Their Own |
| #6235, aired 2011-10-28 | LIBRARIES $3,500 (Daily Double): Robert Frost & Daniel Webster collections are housed at a special collections library at this Ivy League school Dartmouth |
| #6226, aired 2011-10-17 | THE Is HAVE IT $600: Pizza magnate Michael Ilitch owns a National Hockey League team & this American League baseball team the Tigers (of Detroit) |
| #6226, aired 2011-10-17 | THE Is HAVE IT $800: Floor-wax heiress Imogene Powers Johnson has a center for birds named for her at this Ithaca, N.Y. Ivy League school Cornell |
| #6222, aired 2011-10-11 | THE PATRIOT LEAGUE $400: Commanding J.P. Morgan's converted yacht, Richard Wainwright was a hero of the Battle of Santiago in this 1898 war the Spanish-American War |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL LOGOS $200: A red letter "A" with a halo the (Los Angeles) Angels (of Anaheim) |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL LOGOS $400: A black & orange bird perched on the dot of an "I" in the team's name the (Baltimore) Orioles |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL LOGOS $800: The team's name in red, outlined in blue, above a red tomahawk the Atlanta Braves |
| #6212, aired 2011-09-27 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL LOGOS $1000: A baseball flying past snow-capped mountains the (Colorado) Rockies |
| #6203, aired 2011-07-27 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $3,000 (Daily Double): This New England institution is the only one of the Ivy League schools officially called a college Dartmouth College |
| #6179, aired 2011-06-23 | GONE "D" $1600: From 1881 to 1888 this Midwest city had a baseball team in the National League known as the Wolverines Detroit |
| #6178, aired 2011-06-22 | MOTOR SPORTS $1200: (I'm Danica Patrick.) In 2008, on a circuit owned by Honda in this country, I became the first woman to win a major-league open-wheel race Japan |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | FOR THE HOME TEAM $400: Go to camdenchat.com if you're a loyal fan of this major league baseball team the (Baltimore) Orioles |
| #6098, aired 2011-03-02 | VS. $800: If you're watching Harvard vs. Yale, you're watching a competition in this 8-school group the Ivy League |
| #6010, aired 2010-10-29 | COUNTRY CLUBS $800: Most everybody was invited to join this post-WWI club founded in 1919, but the U.S. turned down a membership the League of Nations |
| #5961, aired 2010-07-12 | ABBREV. $400: If you've got a cape, you could be a member of this fictional D.C. comics group, JLA the Justice League of America |
| #5955, aired 2010-07-02 | LITTLE SEIZERS $2000: 3 inches long with a 2 1/2-inch fluffy tail, the African pygmy this feeds on seeds--nuts are out of its league a squirrel |
| #5943, aired 2010-06-16 | ARE YOU WELL RED? $1200: In this novel Sherlock Holmes investigates a murder at Lauriston Gardens A Study in Scarlet |
| #5931, aired 2010-05-31 | SILENT-LETTERED WORDS $1000: Hanseatic or Little a league |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE $1200: It's what the "AD" stands for in the ADL, a league that's been fighting bigotry since 1913 the Anti-Defamation League |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | "CEL"EBRITY WORDS $400: The basement, or last place in the standings of a sports league the cellar |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | SPORTS TALK $200: In baseball's American league, it's a player whose only job in the game is to bat for the pitcher as many times as needed the designated hitter |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | BORN IN EAST LA. $2000: Baton Rouge, La.-born Brandon Hamilton starred as a cornerback for the Edmonton Eskimos in this sports league Canadian football |
| #5874, aired 2010-03-11 | THE NFL $400: In 1984, his second year in the league, this Dolphin QB became the first to throw for 5,000 yards in a single season (Dan) Marino |
| #5851, aired 2010-02-08 | ON HIS BASEBALL HALL OF FAME PLAQUE $400: "Detroit - Philadelphia, A.L. - 1905-1926... retired with 4191 major league hits" (Ty) Cobb |
| #5849, aired 2010-02-04 | OFF TO GRAD SCHOOL $2,200 (Daily Double): His will provided $2 million to an Ivy League univ. to establish a graduate school of journalism; quite the prize (Joseph) Pulitzer |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | POLITICAL TALK $5,000 (Daily Double): According to the League of Women Voters, an "empty chair" one of these should be canceled debates |
| #5782, aired 2009-11-03 | YOUNG MR. PRESIDENT $2,000 (Daily Double): As a boy in Kansas, he said his dream was to be a Major League Baseball player; he went into the Army instead Eisenhower |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | OTHER SPORTS LEGENDS $800: As a rookie in 1975, this Chicago Bear led the league in kickoff returns; he went on to a "sweet" career as a running back Walter Payton |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN $800: After World War I, France was given a League of Nations mandate over this country Lebanon |
| #5625, aired 2009-02-06 | IT'S A LOCK $800: The type of lock now standard on U.S. residences was patented in 1865 by a guy with this Ivy League-sounding name a Yale lock |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2,600 (Daily Double): This major league was a political & commercial confederacy of European towns from the 13th to the 17th century the Hanseatic League |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $200: On Nov. 1, 2007, after a 12-year run in the Bronx, this Yankees manager became the manager of the Dodgers (Joe) Torre |
| #5516, aired 2008-09-08 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $400: In the 1960s only 3 men exceeded 50 home runs in a season: Maris & Mantle in 1961 & this S.F. Giant in 1965 (Willie) Mays |
| #5501, aired 2008-07-07 | HILLARY $800: In 1973 Ms. Rodham earned a degree from this Ivy League school, where she met a fella named Bill Yale |
| #5499, aired 2008-07-03 | PLAY BALL! $400: 2-word "seasonal" term for the part of the Major League Baseball year when every team's a contender spring training |
| #5497, aired 2008-07-01 | BASEBALL HISTORY $1000: Agricultural term for the system, created by Branch Rickey, of minor league teams controlled by a big league team farm system |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL $400: (Jimmy lays another clue down from Williamsport, PA.) Unlike Major League Baseball, Little League batters may use non-wood bats; most are made of this metal that has a distinctive sound when it meets the ball aluminum |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL $600: (Jimmy reports from a distance from Williamsport, PA.) The distance between the bases in Little League is this many feet, two-thirds that of Major League Baseball 60 feet |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL $800: (Jimmy gives us another clue from Williamsport, PA.) Little League games are shorter than big league ones, so as a dramatic moment, as Kyle comes to bat in the last regulation inning, the bottom of this the sixth inning |
| #5485, aired 2008-06-13 | LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL $1000: (Jimmy preserves another one for us from Williamsport, PA.) I'm caught between the bases, and I've gotten myself into one of these; it's also called a pickle, because that's what I'm in a rundown |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | ROPE $1600: It's the 6-foot unit of length used to measure water depth or ropes & cables a fathom |
| #5448, aired 2008-04-23 | L.A. GEOGRAPHY IN POP CULTURE $1000: Ivy League Ph.D.er Stu Bailey & the law-degreed Jeff Spencer, both judo experts, had an office at "77" this title place Sunset Strip |
| #5436, aired 2008-04-07 | SPORTS STUFF $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Little League headquarters in Williamsport, PA.) A baseball is made of leather, several yards of yarn & two layers of rubber covering a grape-sized sphere made with this lightweight wood cork |
| #5434, aired 2008-04-03 | QUESTIONS FROM A 1927 QUIZ BOOK $400: Article 10 of this international organization's covenant implies that an attack on one is an attack on all the League of Nations |
| #5407, aired 2008-02-26 | CALIFORNIA ROLE $600: A beer-swilling pool cleaner coaches a misfit Little League team in sunny So. Cal. in this 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | ARE YOU READY FOR SOME SOCCER? $400: It's the length in minutes of a standard half of a Major League soccer game 45 |
| #5387, aired 2008-01-29 | LITTLE LEAGUE $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the LIttle League Museum in Williamsport, PA.) The original Little League logo had an eagle. The current one features a baseball diamond inside this architectural shape that represents Pennsylvania, where Little League was founded keystone |
| #5387, aired 2008-01-29 | LITTLE LEAGUE $1600: Kids as young as 5 participate in this version of baseball where you swing at a ball that isn't pitched tee-ball |
| #5332, aired 2007-11-13 | A SLICE OF LETTISH $800: Newly independent at the time, Latvia joined this world body on Sept. 22, 1921 the League of Nations |
| #5300, aired 2007-09-28 | WORLD HISTORY $1200: Now in Poland, in 1361 this shipbuilding city became a member of the Hanseatic League Gdansk |
| #5282, aired 2007-07-24 | SPORTS LEGENDS $800: In 1904 he became the first pitcher in the American League to throw a perfect game; now an award is named for him Cy Young |
| #5279, aired 2007-07-19 | LANGUAGE LAB $2000: Douglas Hyde, aka An Craoibhin Aoibhinn, fought to preserve this language & founded a league of the same name Gaelic |
| #5262, aired 2007-06-26 | PEOPLE WITH MUPPET NAMES $1200: The first player in the National League to be MVP 2 years in a row, he's known as "Mr. Cub" Ernie Banks |
| #5261, aired 2007-06-25 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $400: (Hi, I'm Curt Schilling.) On August 30, 2006, I got my 3,000th one of these, only the 14th pitcher in Major League history to reach that milestone a strikeout |
| #5253, aired 2007-06-13 | LEAGUES $200: Original members of this 4-word group included the Flash, Green Lantern & Wonder Woman Justice League of America |
| #5253, aired 2007-06-13 | LEAGUES $400: In March 1920 the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which would have made the U.S. a member of this the League of Nations |
| #5250, aired 2007-06-08 | TOM HANKS MOVIE ROLES $400: Women's baseball coach Jimmy Dugan A League of Their Own |
| #5246, aired 2007-06-04 | BASEBALL: THE 1960s $1200: In 1967 Carl Yastrzemski led this team to the American League pennant the Boston Red Sox |
| #5240, aired 2007-05-25 | BASEBALL MOVIE SCORECARD $400: In "For Love of the Game", Kevin Costner is an A.L. pitcher, so a player with this position bats for him designated hitter |
| #5240, aired 2007-05-25 | BASEBALL MOVIE SCORECARD $2000: Wild Thing, Charlie Sheen's character in "Major League", becomes a popular RP, short for this relief pitcher |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | ALSO A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM $200: Them commies! the Reds |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | ALSO A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM $400: Grades that should guarantee you 4.0 the A's |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | ALSO A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM $600: Mr. Molson & Mr. Coors, collectively the Brewers |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | ALSO A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM $800: People who illegally copy software or DVDs the Pirates |
| #5235, aired 2007-05-18 | ALSO A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM $1000: Sailors, whether ancient or not the Mariners |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | PUT IT ON DONALD TRUMP'S BILL $800: In 1985 Trump signed Doug Flutie to a 5-year, $7 million deal to play for the N.J. Generals of this league USFL (the United States Football League) |
| #5216, aired 2007-04-23 | THE "IV" LEAGUE $200: Type of war between different factions within the same country a civil war |
| #5216, aired 2007-04-23 | THE "IV" LEAGUE $600: To excuse someone from payment of a debt forgive |
| #5216, aired 2007-04-23 | THE "IV" LEAGUE $800: A competitor for the same object or goal a rival |
| #5213, aired 2007-04-18 | ROUTE 66 REVISITED $800: (Hi, I'm Neil Patrick Harris.) If you get your kicks on Route 66, come visit this city, my hometown & also home to a minor league baseball team, the Isotopes Albuquerque |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | FASHION & BEAUTY $1600: The classic Ivy League suit has this slit only in the back; a more British style calls for side ones--a bit more comfy vents |
| #5200, aired 2007-03-30 | CARL SAGAN $400: From 1971 to 1996, Carl Sagan was a professor at this Ithaca, New York Ivy League school Cornell |
| #5192, aired 2007-03-20 | FROM FILM TO TV $400: He was a "Major League" "Wild Thing" before hanging out with 1 & 1/2 other guys Charlie Sheen |
| #5187, aired 2007-03-13 | COUPONS FOLKS MIGHT WANT $800: Buy this 26-time world champion MLB team, get a minor league team free? Call me "Big Stein", Jr.! the New York Yankees |
| #5177, aired 2007-02-27 | PRIME MADONNA $400: In 1992 Madonna's Mae Mordabito took the field with Geena Davis in this film A League of Their Own |
| #5159, aired 2007-02-01 | NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY & CONNECTICUT $400: (Sarah reports from the Plasma Physics Lab in New Jersey)
A record level of fusion power was produced at the Plasma Physics Lab of this New Jersey Ivy League university Princeton |
| #5145, aired 2007-01-12 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NICKNAMES $2000: "The Bird"--seen here--he was a national sensation in 1976 Mark Fidrych |
| #5143, aired 2007-01-10 | SPORTS BARRIERS $200: In 1920 he became the first Major-League player to exceed 30, 40 & 50 home runs in a season Babe Ruth |
| #5139, aired 2007-01-04 | "L.L." $600: "League" founded in 1956 by a group of mothers to promote breastfeeding La Leche League |
| #5110, aired 2006-11-24 | BASEBALL MOVIE HAIKU $800: Jimmy once a pro/ Alas, war calls men away/ Nine gals beats no gals... A League of Their Own |
| #5093, aired 2006-11-01 | A VISIT WITH SHERLOCK HOLMES $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates the use of a magnifying glass at the Sherlock Holmes Museum in London.) Sherlock Holmes uses a magnifying glass in tales including "The Red-Headed League" & this 1887 one, whose title includes a shade of red A Study in Scarlet |
| #5043, aired 2006-07-12 | MOVIE CATCH PHRASES $200: 1992:
"There's no crying in baseball!" A League of Their Own |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | HOME RUN SLUGGERS $1200: This Cub was the only man to hit more than 60 home runs in a season & not win a league title; it happened 3 times (Sammy) Sosa |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | JEPOETRY $600: Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
"Half a Jeopardy!, half a Jeopardy!, half a Jeopardy! onward" league |
| #5025, aired 2006-06-16 | 2001: A SPORTS ODYSSEY $200: Number of home runs Barry Bonds hit in 2001, setting a Major League record 73 |
| #5014, aired 2006-06-01 | NGO $2,000 (Daily Double): Based in Illinois, this league with a Spanish name is trying to get mothers to put down that bottle La Leche |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | SHORT CLUES ABOUT LONG WORDS $800: For a Major League baseball it's 9 to 9 1/4 inches circumference |
| #5005, aired 2006-05-19 | THE DA VINCI CODE $800: Robert Langdon is a professor of religious symbology at this Ivy League university Harvard |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE $2000: This legendary Boston defenseman is seen here scoring a championship-winning goal Bobby Orr |
| #4960, aired 2006-03-17 | SI's SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE $400: A Little League team in Kentucky is sponsored by this "delightfully tacky yet unrefined" restaurant Hooters |
| #4947, aired 2006-02-28 | 19th CENTURY EUROPE $400: In 1845 seven Catholic cantons in this country formed a league known as the Sonderbund Switzerland |
| #4923, aired 2006-01-25 | WE'RE TALKING BASEBALL $2000: Commissioner Bud Selig is a former owner of this Midwestern Major League Baseball team the Brewers |
| #4917, aired 2006-01-17 | TAKE THIS CATEGORY LAST!! $2000: Correct responses in "HERO & VILLAIN" can be seen in this 2003 film, from a graphic novel by Alan Moore The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen |
| #4913, aired 2006-01-11 | "BUSH"-ISMS $600: Curt Schilling called A-Rod's ball-punching move in the 2004 A.L. playoffs this type of play bush league |
| #4869, aired 2005-11-10 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue accompanied by a puppet at the Golden Theatre in New York: "I'm on the Broadway set of Avenue Q.") This troubled character in "Avenue Q" has the same name as an Ivy League university in New Jersey--you do look preppy
"Why thank you!" Princeton |
| #4842, aired 2005-10-04 | TOP O' THE CHARTS $800: Madonna's "This Used To Be My Playground" was sung over the closing credits of this 1992 film A League of Their Own |
| #4826, aired 2005-09-12 | A BALTIC CRUISE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from Visby, Sweden.) In more prosperous days, the town of Visby was the headquarters of this commercial league the Hanseatic League |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | DONALD TRUMP $400: Trump owned the N.J. Generals, a team that featured Doug Flutie & Herschel Walker, in this league the USFL |
| #4773, aired 2005-05-11 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $1200: The first WNBA player to reach 4,000 points, in 2004 this L.A. Sparks center was named the league's MVP (Lisa) Leslie |
| #4767, aired 2005-05-03 | POLITICKING $600: Authority from the people to govern a certain way, or from the League of Nations to administer an area a mandate |
| #4762, aired 2005-04-26 | EXPERTISE OF AREAS $3,000 (Daily Double): It's the area of a Major League Baseball infield (the part enclosed by the baselines) 8,100 square feet |
| #4746, aired 2005-04-04 | THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $800: "A League of Their Own",
"Renaissance Man",
"Riding in Cars with Boys" Penny Marshall |
| #4740, aired 2005-03-25 | A MANN CALLED HORACE $400: Mann depended on an itinerant teacher to learn Latin, required for entry to this Rhode Island Ivy League school Brown University |
| #4658, aired 2004-12-01 | FOREVER 39 $400: In 2003 this team won its 39th pennant, a major league baseball record the New York Yankees |
| #4652, aired 2004-11-23 | COLLEGE HODGEPODGE $1000: (Hi. I'm Keith Olberman.) I started when I was 16 and I graduated at 20 with a B.S. in communications at this Ivy League school in Ithaca Cornell |
| #4641, aired 2004-11-08 | SHALL WE GDANSK? $800: The organization that administered Gdansk as a free city following World War I the League of Nations |
| #4628, aired 2004-10-20 | CREATURE CULTURE $800: Word for the animal seen here, a National League ballplayer, or a young scout cub |
| #4616, aired 2004-10-04 | THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL RACE $1,700 (Daily Double): In a July 23 speech to this league, the President asked if the Democrats take black voters for granted the National Urban League |
| #4604, aired 2004-09-16 | SPORTS STARS $1000: In 1947 a team from Wiliamsport, Pa. won the very first edition of this youth sports championship the Little League World Series |
| #4589, aired 2004-07-15 | A FORD IN YOUR FUTURE $800: This Yankee is the only Ford in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Whitey Ford |
| #4478, aired 2004-02-11 | PROFESSIONAL SPORTS $200: In 2003 this San Francisco Giants slugger won his record 6th National League MVP award & his third in a row Barry Bonds |
| #4464, aired 2004-01-22 | SPORTS NUMBERS $800: A period of regulation play in the National Hockey League lasts this many minutes 20 |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | THE ARABS $800: The first Gulf War caused a rift in this organization of which Iraq was 1 of 7 founding members in 1945 the Arab League |
| #4434, aired 2003-12-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: The U.S., though not a member, still sent delegates to this organization's disarmament conference in 1932 the League of Nations |
| #4415, aired 2003-11-14 | THE "IV" LEAGUE $200: Home sweet home for bees a hive |
| #4415, aired 2003-11-14 | THE "IV" LEAGUE $600: In grammar, it's a part of speech that modifies a noun an adjective |
| #4415, aired 2003-11-14 | THE "IV" LEAGUE $800: General term for an animal that eats other animals a carnivore |
| #4415, aired 2003-11-14 | THE "IV" LEAGUE $1000: It can mean a temperamental woman or an operatic prima donna a diva |
| #4415, aired 2003-11-14 | THE IVY LEAGUE $1200: Persian Ivy is this type of plant, like many conifers, that holds its foliage from season to season evergreen |
| #4415, aired 2003-11-14 | THE IVY LEAGUE $2000: The name of this southern state precedes "creeper" in a type of ivy Virginia |
| #4395, aired 2003-10-17 | "A" MEN $200: Until his death in 1998, this singing cowboy was vice president of baseball's American League Gene Autry |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS $2000: From 1919 to 1939 this Polish port was a free city under the supervision of the League of Nations Gdansk (Danzig) |
| #4369, aired 2003-09-11 | ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES $1200: Tatum O'Neal is a girl pitching ace on a boys' Little League team in this 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears |
| #4368, aired 2003-09-10 | "BIG" & "LITTLE" $600: Your kids might enjoy a visit to S. Williamsport, PA. where there's a museum devoted to this sports program Little League |
| #4364, aired 2003-07-17 | THE AMERICAN LEAGUE $200: For 1957, Hank Aaron was the MVP of the National League & this Yankee was MVP for the American Mickey Mantle |
| #4349, aired 2003-06-26 | LAWYERS, GUNS & MONEY $400: It's a malt liquor, a gun or a former Houston Major League Baseball team Colt .45 |
| #4348, aired 2003-06-25 | PRO BASKETBALL $1600: This pro league founded by Dennis Murphy in 1967 used a red, white & blue basketball the ABA (American Basketball Association) |
| #4340, aired 2003-06-13 | ACTORS ON BROADWAY $400: This "Independence Day" co-star was in a league of his own as a real animal lover in Edward Albee's play "The Goat" Bill Pullman |
| #4336, aired 2003-06-09 | "JUNIOR" COLLAGE $800: It was founded in 1901 in New York City by a debutante wanting to help the less fortunate the Junior League |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | CUTE, FURRY & DEADLY $800: It's the mascot for a Major League Baseball team, Louisiana State University & a breakfast cereal tiger |
| #4256, aired 2003-02-17 | PROFESSIONAL SPORTS $600: In 1968 this team's Carl Yastrzemski led the A.L. with a .301 avg., the lowest average to win a league title in MLB history Boston Red Sox |
| #4245, aired 2003-01-31 | '80s ROCK $1000: A No. 1 hit by this group began, "You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met you" The Human League |
| #4230, aired 2003-01-10 | FUN IN THE SNOW $800: I'm standing in this mountain range. It's also the name of a Major League Baseball team the Rockies |
| #4226, aired 2003-01-06 | PRO SPORTS TEAMS $2000: This San Diego team's Qualcomm Stadium has a seating capacity of nearly 67,000, the most in Major League Baseball San Diego Padres |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | A BROAD-BASED MOVEMENT $1000: They sponsor debates:
the LWV League of Women Voters |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | ODDS & ENDS $600: Now we're cooking! This term for a fantasy sports league comes from the name of a NYC restaurant rotisserie |
| #4170, aired 2002-10-18 | QUESTIONABLE DATES OF BIRTH $600: In 2001 a Bronx team was stripped of its third-place finish in this event for using an overage pitcher Little League World Series |
| #4167, aired 2002-10-15 | STUPID ANSWERS AT THE MOVIES $200: This feel-good film starred Dennis Quaid as Jim Morris, a major league rookie at age 35 The Rookie |
| #4162, aired 2002-10-08 | LEAP DAY BABIES $800: This actor & jeans model seen here really is in the "junior league"; he's only had 7 birthdays Antonio Sabato Jr. |
| #4156, aired 2002-09-30 | THE "RING" CYCLE $1600: This humorist's "You Know Me Al" is written as a series of letters from a bush league ballplayer Ring Lardner |
| #4123, aired 2002-07-03 | NOT REALLY MARRIED $800: This actress is in "A League of her Own" with this president of the CSA Geena & Jefferson Davis |
| #4119, aired 2002-06-27 | A FEW GOOD MEN $400: (Cheryl gives the clue from the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum.) In 1927 Babe Ruth & this fellow Yankee accounted for 107 home runs, one-quarter of the American League total Lou Gehrig |
| #4111, aired 2002-06-17 | SPORTS NUMBERS $800: In Major League Baseball, the minimum number of pitches to reach a "full count" 5 |
| #4105, aired 2002-06-07 | BASEBALL HISTORY $1200: Agricultural term for the system, created by Branch Rickey, of minor league teams controlled by a big league team a farm system |
| #4099, aired 2002-05-30 | INDIAN RESERVATIONS $2000: Salamanca, N.Y., the only U.S. city that's part of a reservation, belongs to the Seneca tribe of this league Iroquois |
| #4098, aired 2002-05-29 | PEACETIME HISTORY $1000: In 1967 Canada celebrated the centennial of this, from the Latin for "to unite in a league" confederation |
| #4095, aired 2002-05-24 | FRANK, DEAN OR SAMMY $400: He set a Major League Baseball record in June of 1998 by slamming 20 home runs in one month Sammy Sosa |
| #4091, aired 2002-05-20 | GO THE DISTANCE $1600: Shake hands with a 3-mile-long line of women voters or bowling teams & you've gone the distance called this league |
| #4087, aired 2002-05-14 | TOP O' THE CHARTS $600: In 1992 Madonna topped the charts with "This Used To Be My Playground", a track from this Penny Marshall film A League of Their Own |
| #4086, aired 2002-05-13 | BIG NAMES IN SPORTS $1600: In 1986, with the Springfield Fame, she became the first woman to play in a men's pro basketball league Nancy Lieberman |
| #4074, aired 2002-04-25 | MADE IN TAIWAN $400: Played in Williamsport, PA., this series was won by a Taiwanese team for the first time in 1969 Little League World Series |
| #4056, aired 2002-04-01 | OFF TO A GOOD START $800: This 1854 poem commences with "Half a league, half a league, half a league onward" The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| #4046, aired 2002-03-18 | THE GODFATHER $200: A deal was cut with the Italian-American Civil Rights League that this term would not be spoken in the film Mafia |
| #4044, aired 2002-03-14 | ATHLETES $800: A 7-time batting champion in Japan, he took the American League by storm with Seattle in 2001 Ichiro (Suzuki) |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $400: On April 4, 2001 this Japanese-born pitcher tossed a no-hitter, the earliest in a season in baseball history Hideo Nomo |
| #4036, aired 2002-03-04 | NOT QUITE 20,000 LEAGUES $1200: In 2001 this DC Comics group got a new series on the Cartoon Network the Justice League |
| #4035, aired 2002-03-01 | WORDS FROM OTHER LANGUAGES $400: Spanish for "father", it's a military chaplain or a San Diego Major League ballplayer Padre |
| #4033, aired 2002-02-27 | IS THERE SOMETHING I SHOULD KNOW? $400: With the push of a button by FDR, May 24, 1935 saw this historic first at Crosley Field in Cincinnati lights at a baseball game (first Major League night game) |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | YOU MAKE ME CRY $800: In "A League of Their Own", he's the actor who delivers the line "There's no crying in baseball!" Tom Hanks |
| #3979, aired 2001-12-13 | AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $2000: In 1935 he wrote "Waiting for Lefty" for a new Theatre League one-act play contest Clifford Odets |
| #3972, aired 2001-12-04 | GO FISH $200: You can see this large game fish on the logo of a Miami-based Major League Baseball team marlin |
| #3968, aired 2001-11-28 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A judge like Stephen Breyer or David Souter fights crime in this group with Superman & Wonder Woman the Supreme Court Justice League of America |
| #3963, aired 2001-11-21 | DAMN YANKEES $300: Where have you gone, this Yankee slugger? At age 18, it was to the midst of a 61-game Pacific Coast League hit streak Joe DiMaggio |
| #3962, aired 2001-11-20 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: A Canadian Major League Baseball player who currently hosts "The Tonight Show" Blue Jay Leno |
| #3877, aired 2001-06-12 | TWO OF A KIND $400: When the Washington Senators Major League Baseball team relocated in 1961, they became this team Minnesota Twins |
| #3874, aired 2001-06-07 | HITMEN $100: In 1993 this Dodgers catcher, now with the Mets, was named National League Rookie of the Year Mike Piazza |
| #3861, aired 2001-05-21 | SCHOOL DAYS $200: This Ivy League school gave Bill Bradley his B.A. Princeton |
| #3859, aired 2001-05-17 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $100: In 1987 this A's first baseman was named the AL's Rookie of the Year; since then he's hit over 500 home runs Mark McGwire |
| #3854, aired 2001-05-10 | SPORTS MOVIES $200: This singer played center fielder Mae Mordabito in "A League of Their Own" Madonna |
| #3818, aired 2001-03-21 | ACTRESS-DIRECTORS $300: Films like "Big" & "The Preacher's Wife" have put her in a league of her own Penny Marshall |
| #3808, aired 2001-03-07 | I LOVE CANDY $400: This late actor was a part owner of the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts John Candy |
| #3793, aired 2001-02-14 | ON VALENTINE'S DAY $500: Valentine's Day events in this U.S. city include a 1929 massacre & the 1920 founding of the League of Women Voters Chicago |
| #3787, aired 2001-02-06 | HEY, SPORT! $600: In 1998 this Cardinal first baseman had a National League record 162 walks to go along with his 70 home runs Mark McGwire |
| #3773, aired 2001-01-17 | WALTER MATTHAU $200: Walter Matthau coached a ragtag Little League team with a girl pitcher in this 1976 film The Bad News Bears |
| #3738, aired 2000-11-29 | "TRIPLE" JEOPARDY! $300: In 2000 Randy Velarde pulled off only the 10th unassisted one of these in regular season major league history Triple play |
| #3736, aired 2000-11-27 | BASEBALL'S GREATEST HITTERS $300: In 1998 this Cub was named the National League's MVP with a .308 average & 66 home runs Sammy Sosa |
| #3733, aired 2000-11-22 | MOVIE QUOTES $200: 1992:
"There's no crying in baseball!" A League of Their Own |
| #3726, aired 2000-11-13 | GO TEAM! $400: 2 of the 3 Major League Baseball teams named for a bird Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Cardinals &/or Toronto Blue Jays |
| #3726, aired 2000-11-13 | GO TEAM! $1000: This actress is in a league of her own -- she nearly made the 2000 U.S. Olympic Women's Archery Team Geena Davis |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | AUDIO LITERATURE $500: Made into a movie starring Leo DiCaprio, the "Diaries" heard here are read by this man who wrote them
"Today was my first City League game and my first day in any organized basketball league..." Jim Carroll (The Basketball Diaries) |
| #3665, aired 2000-07-07 | "Y"s GUYS $1000: During his 20-year career with the Brewers, he had 3,142 hits & a major league record 123 sacrifice flies Robin Yount |
| #3654, aired 2000-06-22 | NORWAY BACK WHEN $800: In the 1300s Bergen, a fish trade center, became affiliated with this German commercial league Hanseatic League |
| #3643, aired 2000-06-07 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $200: On Feb. 28, 2000 this Yankee received a one-year suspension for violating MLB's drug policy Darryl Strawberry |
| #3623, aired 2000-05-10 | TOUGH STUFF $200: This west coast Major League Baseball team is the only one with both its city name & team name in a foreign language San Diego Padres |
| #3622, aired 2000-05-09 | BEFORE & AFTER $200: This rash-causing 3-leafed shrub is part of a collegiate group with Dartmouth & Harvard Poison Ivy League |
| #3620, aired 2000-05-05 | THE ALLITERACY RATE $200: This baseball organization founded in 1939 includes a tee ball program for kids aged 5-7 Little League |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | 'ROUND THE WORLD $100: The Sam McGuire Football Cup is awarded to a league champion in this island country Ireland |
| #3603, aired 2000-04-12 | THEIR FIRST FEATURE FILMS $400: This "Lethal Weapon" lady was a model before "Major League" made her a major league film star Rene Russo |
| #3579, aired 2000-03-09 | SUDBURY, MY HOMETOWN $200: A team called the Sudbury Wolves plays in the regional league of this sport Ice hockey |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | ANCIENT GREEK SALAD $600 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Steve Smith, proud to have been a Michigan State Spartan) It's the name of a league the ancient Spartans founded, & of a war they fought against Athens Peloponnesian |
| #3540, aired 2000-01-14 | ...OR BUST $100: Mae, played by Madonna, considered flashing a ballpark crowd in this 1992 film A League of Their Own |
| #3535, aired 2000-01-07 | STUCK ON "U" $400: The first in a "league" of popes to bear this name began his reign in 222 Urban |
| #3502, aired 1999-11-23 | THE 1939 WORLD'S FAIR $800: Pavilions included French, Japanese & one for this international organization that first met in 1920 League of Nations |
| #3487, aired 1999-11-02 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $600 (Daily Double): This Ivy League college in upstate New York was founded by a man who built telegraph systems Cornell |
| #3460, aired 1999-09-24 | ROUND NUMBER, PLEASE $100: It's the Major League record for home runs in a season 70 |
| #3434, aired 1999-07-08 | BE MY "PAL" $200: Under a League of Nations mandate, the British oversaw the affairs of this region from 1920 to 1948 Palestine |
| #3427, aired 1999-06-29 | EUROPEAN MUSEUMS $300: This Swiss city's Palais des Nations houses a stamp museum & the League of Nations Museum Geneva |
| #3417, aired 1999-06-15 | MOVIE BLURBS $400: 1992:
Women play pro baseball during World War II A League of Their Own |
| #3411, aired 1999-06-07 | THE NATIONAL PASTIME $400: Since 1924 this Red Sox player has had the highest major league batting average for a season, .406 Ted Williams |
| #3391, aired 1999-05-10 | THE IVY LEAGUE $100: Perhaps to match rival Harvard, this school has a Gutenberg Bible too, at the Beinecke Rare Book Library Yale |
| #3366, aired 1999-04-05 | MR. MIKE $500: A 3 time league MVP, this former Phillie hit a career total 548 home runs Mike Schmidt |
| #3356, aired 1999-03-22 | SPORTS STATS $200: In June 1998 he set a major league record by slugging 20 home runs in a month Sammy Sosa |
| #3342, aired 1999-03-02 | YOU DO THE MATH $500: In MLB, the number of bases (including home plate) times the number of innings in a standard game 36 (4 X 9) |
| #3272, aired 1998-11-24 | MOVIE CO-STARS $200: Actress seen here with her good friend Madonna in a 1992 film Rosie O'Donnell (A League of Their Own) |
| #3265, aired 1998-11-13 | OH, HENRYs! $100: He hammered a career total of 755 major league home runs Henry "Hank" Aaron |
| #3260, aired 1998-11-06 | SPORTS ON FILM $600: In "A League of Their Own", this talk show host played third baseman Doris Murphy Rosie O'Donnell |
| #3236, aired 1998-10-05 | MOVIE PEOPLE $400: 3 decades after appearing on the "Amateur Hour" as a dancer, she directed "A League of Their Own" Penny Marshall |
| #3231, aired 1998-09-28 | PLAY "BALL" $1000: Willie Mays was famous for playing this in the streets even as a Major League Baseball player Stickball |
| #3214, aired 1998-07-16 | SPORTS $500: National Hockey League team whose logo is seen here: the Buffalo Sabres |
| #3192, aired 1998-06-16 | GIRL GROUPS $200: The Columbus Quest & the Seattle Reign are teams of the ABL, a new women's league in this sport Basketball |
| #3179, aired 1998-05-28 | 5 GUYS NAMED MOE $600: Major league catcher Moe Berg was also a WWII spy for this agency, precursor of the CIA OSS (Office of Strategic Services) |
| #3172, aired 1998-05-19 | MEN IN RED $1000: Red Schoendienst wore red for 3 decades as a player & manager with this National League team St. Louis Cardinals |
| #1, aired 1998-05-03 | JOE MONTANA $100: (San Francisco 49ers defensive lineman Bryant Young delivers the clue in person.) Joe Montana & I both joined the 49ers from this college Notre Dame |
| #3146, aired 1998-04-13 | BASEBALL $3,500 (Daily Double): (Hi, I'm Mike Piazza) On Sept. 1, 1992 I made my major league debut at this Chicago Cubs stadium with a 3-for-3 day at the plate Wrigley Field |
| #3095, aired 1998-01-30 | WHO'S ON FIRST? $200: Known as "Mr. Cub", he made the National League All-Star squad both as a shortstop & a first baseman Ernie Banks |
| #3065, aired 1997-12-19 | THEY'RE ALL GEMS $1000: This screenwriter claimed that his initials, I.A.L., stood for Interscholastic Algebra League I.A.L. Diamond |
| #3054, aired 1997-12-04 | WORLD HISTORY $500: In 1920 the League of Nations gave this country a mandate to administer the territory of Namibia South Africa |
| #3033, aired 1997-11-05 | STUFF $800: 9-year-old Jamie Lynn Bence is famous for doing this in about 20 Major League ball parks Singing the National Anthem |
| #3017, aired 1997-10-14 | ATHLETES $300: The last Major League Baseball player to hit .400 in a season, he was John Glenn's wingman in the Korean War Ted Williams |
| #3016, aired 1997-10-13 | BILL PULLMAN FILMS $500 (Daily Double): Pullman returns home to his wife, a first-rate athlete, in the film seen here: A League of Their Own |
| #3000, aired 1997-09-19 | ACTORS & ROLES $300: Once Nell Carter's neighbor on "Gimme A Break", she's in a league of her own as a talk show host Rosie O'Donnell |
| #2963, aired 1997-06-18 | PROHIBITION $500: Bishop James Cannon was a prominent leader of this organization, the ASL Anti-Saloon League |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | POTPOURRI $300: Handsome Dan, this Ivy League university's first bulldog mascot, now resides in a glass case, stuffed Yale |
| #2956, aired 1997-06-09 | BASEBALL MOVIES $400: Geena Davis played Dottie Hinson, catcher for the Rockford Peaches, in this 1992 film "A League Of Their Own" |
| #2952, aired 1997-06-03 | HISTORY $800: Amsterdam was chartered as a city in 1300 & joined this confederation of cities 69 years later the Hanseatic League |
| #2937, aired 1997-05-13 | IVY LEAGUE COLLEGES $200: Benjamin Franklin was one of the founders of this school, the first in America designated a university University of Pennsylvania |
| #2937, aired 1997-05-13 | IVY LEAGUE COLLEGES $500: In a famous court case, Daniel Webster defended this college against government intervention Dartmouth |
| #2922, aired 1997-04-22 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: Referring to its oldest building, Nassau Hall, Old Nassau is a nickname for this Ivy League school Princeton |
| #2917, aired 1997-04-15 | SPORTS $400: The Los Angeles Blades are part of a league that plays this sport roller hockey |
| #2907, aired 1997-04-01 | LOSE A TURN $300: Only twice between 1949 & 1964 did this team fail to win the American League pennant the New York Yankees |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $500: Nickname of the Durham, North Carolina minor league team in a 1988 movie & in real life Bulls |
| #2903, aired 1997-03-26 | YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS $600: A team from Williamsport, PA. won this athletic organization's first World Series in 1947 Little League |
| #2881, aired 1997-02-24 | MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER $500: This "Melrose Place" actor won a spot on the L.A. Galaxy team Andrew Shue |
| #2845, aired 1997-01-03 | PRESIDENTIAL QUOTES $200: In 1964 he told a National Urban League conference, "We must open the doors of opportunity" Lyndon Johnson |
| #2844, aired 1997-01-02 | THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS $200: After Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935, this emperor made a vain plea for the league's help Haile Selassie |
| #2844, aired 1997-01-02 | THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS $400: Like the U.N., the league's administrative branch was headed by a person with this title Secretary-General |
| #2844, aired 1997-01-02 | THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS $500: On September 5, 1929 Aristide Briand presented a plan to create a "United States Of" this Europe |
| #2841, aired 1996-12-30 | FILMOGRAPHIES $1000: "Sleepless In Seattle",
"A League of Their Own",
"Exit to Eden" Rosie O'Donnell |
| #2837, aired 1996-12-24 | MAY DAYS $500: On May 5, 1904 he became the 1st Major League player of the modern era to pitch a perfect game Cy Young |
| #2817, aired 1996-11-26 | HOME RUN SLUGGERS $500: This former Phillies 3rd baseman led the National League in home runs a record 8 times Mike Schmidt |
| #2810, aired 1996-11-15 | PEOPLE $400: In July 1993 this Seattle outfielder tied a Major League record by hitting home runs in 8 straight games Ken Griffey, Jr. |
| #2778, aired 1996-10-02 | TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME $300: In 1941 this outfielder had a 56-game hitting streak, a Major League record Joe DiMaggio |
| #2769, aired 1996-09-19 | POP CULTURE $500: This Susan Sarandon baseball film was directed by Ron Shelton, a former minor league player Bull Durham |
| #2764, aired 1996-09-12 | BASEBALL $100: Pale Hose is a nickname for this American League team the (Chicago) White Sox |
| #2755, aired 1996-07-19 | FAMOUS MICHAELS $200: In 1994 this retired Chicago Bull made news when he signed a minor league contract with the White Sox Michael Jordan |
| #2731, aired 1996-06-17 | SPORTS LEGENDS $500: A 1951 playoff series homer by Bobby Thomson won the National League pennant for this team New York Giants |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: If you're playing in a big one of these, remember it's equal to 3 statute miles league |
| #2724, aired 1996-06-06 | BY HALVES $500: Increments by which the Light Brigade charged into the Valley of Death half a league (onward) |
| #2715, aired 1996-05-24 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $1000: In 1945, 7 Mideast countries signed a charter forming this organization headquartered in Cairo the Arab League |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | HODGEPODGE $300: The former palace of the League of Nations in this Swiss city houses a philatelic museum Geneva |
| #2670, aired 1996-03-22 | U.S.A. $500: This Ithaca, N.Y. school is the only Ivy League university established after the American Revolution Cornell |
| #2661, aired 1996-03-11 | POT LUCK $1000: The Anti-Defamation League is a commission of this Jewish organization B'nai B'rith |
| #2636, aired 1996-02-05 | SPORTS $800: In the 1950s this Brooklyn Dodgers catcher was named the National League's Most Valuable Player 3 times Roy Campanella |
| #2618, aired 1996-01-10 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $400: The last of his Fourteen Points called for the creation of a League of Nations (Woodrow) Wilson |
| #2598, aired 1995-12-13 | HISTORIC NAMES $100: U.S. president who was a founder of the League of Nations Woodrow Wilson |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | SPORTS $400: With a capacity of 63,000, this San Francisco ballpark is the National League's largest Candlestick Park |
| #2579, aired 1995-11-16 | BASEBALL $100: Pitcher Nolan Ryan set a major league record in 1973 by recording 383 of these Strikeouts |
| #2579, aired 1995-11-16 | BASEBALL $200: In 1978 this Cincinnati Red set a modern-day National League record with a 44-game hitting streak Pete Rose |
| #2574, aired 1995-11-09 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $400: A narrow scarlet sash is the emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League in this George Orwell novel 1984 |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | FAMOUS WOMEN $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1993 this estranged wife of a world leader was elected president of the ANC's Women's League Winnie Mandela |
| #2567, aired 1995-10-31 | COSTUMES $200: 1992 film in which the Peaches wore the uniform seen here A League of Their Own |
| #2564, aired 1995-10-26 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: This Rhode Island Ivy League school was named for a donor who contributed $5,000 in 1804 Brown |
| #2549, aired 1995-10-05 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: The Uris Library with its 173-foot tower is a landmark of this Ivy League school in Ithaca Cornell |
| #2514, aired 1995-07-06 | SPORTS $300: With a capacity of just 38,756, this Chicago Cubs stadium is the smallest in the National League Wrigley Field |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 1920 the League of Nations gave this neighboring country a mandate over the territory of Namibia South Africa |
| #2475, aired 1995-05-12 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: A major port for centuries, this Latvian capital was once part of the Hanseatic League Riga |
| #2427, aired 1995-03-07 | THE MOVIES $100: In this 1992 film, Tom Hanks played a drunken ex-baseball player who managed a team of women A League of Their Own |
| #2404, aired 1995-02-02 | BASEBALL HISTORY $300: In 1973 American League teams began using this player who bats for the pitcher but doesn't play a position the designated hitter |
| #2377, aired 1994-12-27 | HISTORY $600: After WWI this Polish port became a free city supervised by the League of Nations Danzig |
| #2350, aired 1994-11-18 | THE 1920s $100: The Belgians received Rwanda-Urundi as a mandate from this international organization in 1923 League of Nations |
| #2280, aired 1994-07-01 | BASEBALL $100: This Braves outfielder hit 40 or more home runs in a season 8 times--a National League record Hank Aaron |
| #2251, aired 1994-05-23 | SPORTS $400: The insignia of this National League baseball team features a mountain peak the (Colorado) Rockies |
| #2250, aired 1994-05-20 | SPORTS $400: In 1993 pitcher Anthony Young of this team set a new major league record, losing 27 straight games the Mets |
| #2235, aired 1994-04-29 | SPORTS LOGOS $400: National Hockey League team whose logo features a crown the Los Angeles Kings |
| #2212, aired 1994-03-29 | FAMOUS WOMEN $400: She played Oscar's secretary Myrna on "The Odd Couple" before she became a "Big" "League" director Penny Marshall |
| #2188, aired 1994-02-23 | IN THE BALLPARK $600: He organized the White Sox, helped plan the American League & a Chicago stadium is named for him (Charles) Comiskey |
| #2181, aired 1994-02-14 | ODDS & ENDS $400: In league play, this can weigh up to 16 pounds & have a maximum circumference of 27 inches a bowling ball |
| #2155, aired 1994-01-07 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $3,000 (Daily Double): This New England school is the only one in the Ivy League called a college, not a university Dartmouth |
| #2152, aired 1994-01-04 | WOMEN '93 $400: Sherry Davis became Major League Baseball's 1st full-time female p.a. announcer, for this S.F. team the Giants |
| #2151, aired 1994-01-03 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $600: This nautical unit of depth measures 1.83 meters a fathom |
| #2149, aired 1993-12-30 | SPORTS $500: With a capacity of over 75,000, this National League team's Mile High Stadium is the largest in Major League Baseball the Colorado Rockies |
| #2144, aired 1993-12-23 | SPORTS $400: This L.A. Kings center has led the National Hockey League in scoring a record 9 times Wayne Gretzky |
| #2130, aired 1993-12-03 | SPORTS $400: In 1993 this Seattle center fielder tied a Major League record by hitting home runs in 8 straight games Ken Griffey Jr. |
| #2113, aired 1993-11-10 | OSCAR NIGHT FASHIONS $500: In 1993 she was in "A League of Her Own" in a daringly low-cut black velvet gown designed by Bill Hargate Geena Davis |
| #2094, aired 1993-10-14 | BASEBALL TEAMS $100: The Louisville Redbirds are a minor league team affiliated with this St. Louis team the Cardinals |
| #2094, aired 1993-10-14 | BASEBALL TEAMS $200: This American League team's insignia has a Maple Leaf on it The Blue Jays |
| #2086, aired 1993-10-04 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: After a defeat at Leuctra, Spartan power declined & this military league ceased to exist Peloponnesian League |
| #2008, aired 1993-05-05 | JOKERS $500: This hostess of VH1's "Stand-Up Spotlight" played third base in "A League of Their Own" Rosie O'Donnell |
| #1994, aired 1993-04-15 | POETRY $200: "Half a league, half a league, half a league onward, all in the valley of Death" they rode the six hundred |
| #1947, aired 1993-02-09 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: This league was founded in 1910 to improve living conditions & job opportunities in cities (National) Urban League |
| #1942, aired 1993-02-02 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: "Teammates" is a children's book about this man who became the 1st Black Major League Baseball player Jackie Robinson |
| #1921, aired 1993-01-04 | ORGANIZATIONS $500: A league named for this 17th c. author of "The Compleat Angler" sponsors many environmental projects Izaak Walton |
| #1914, aired 1992-12-24 | 4-LETTER WORDS $500: German for "league", it was a pro-Nazi German- American league of the 1930s a Bund |
| #1900, aired 1992-12-04 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $800: In ancient Rome 5 feet equaled 1 pace & 1,000 paces was equivalent to this a mile |
| #1828, aired 1992-07-08 | HISTORY $400: In 1989 this country rejoined the Arab League after a 10-year suspension for signing a peace treaty with Israel Egypt |
| #1732, aired 1992-02-25 | BLACK AMERICA $1000: W.E.B. Du Bois, founder of the Niagara Movement, was the 1st black to receive a Ph.D. from this Ivy League university Harvard |
| #1691, aired 1991-12-30 | RHODE ISLAND $400: The arm on the Arm & Hammer label is that of a former wrestling coach at this Ivy League school Brown |
| #1683, aired 1991-12-18 | BASEBALL $400: A short fly ball that falls between the infielders & outfielders is named for this minor league the Texas League |
| #1648, aired 1991-10-30 | BASEBALL GREATS $300: Shortstop who stole 104 bases in 1962—a major league record at the time & still the Dodger record Maury Wills |
| #1631, aired 1991-10-07 | THE 1920s $2,500 (Daily Double): On March 19, 1920 the Senate voted 49-35 to join it, but a 2/3 majority was required the League of Nations |
| #1626, aired 1991-09-30 | BASEBALL $100: In 1921 this Yankee slugger scored 177 runs—a modern Major League record that still stands Babe Ruth |
| #1568, aired 1991-05-29 | ECONOMICS $400: An authorized outlet that's a link in a business chain like a McDonald's or major league ball club a franchise |
| #1566, aired 1991-05-27 | SPORTS $500: The number of innings in a regulation Little League baseball game 6 |
| #1556, aired 1991-05-13 | & IN OTHER NEWS... $500: A new Major League stadium for this city is being built in Babe Ruth's childhood neighborhood Baltimore (Maryland) |
| #1555, aired 1991-05-10 | MATHEMATICS $600: A league is 3 miles; if you go ½ a league, ½ a league, ½ a league on, you've gone this many miles 4 and a half |
| #1490, aired 1991-02-08 | BASEBALL $500: Imaginary Winter Baseball League based on cartoons showing fans huddled around an old Franklin the Hot Stove League |
| #1477, aired 1991-01-22 | BASEBALL $500: Since 1959, center field fences in new Major League ballparks must be at least this far from home plate 400 |
| #1453, aired 1990-12-19 | NAME'S THE SAME $500: 1 of the 6 nations in the Iroquois league, or a Roman statesman who advised Nero Seneca |
| #1433, aired 1990-11-21 | SPORTS AWARDS $500: In this league, Eastern & Western Division champions play for the Grey Cup the Canadian Football League |
| #1431, aired 1990-11-19 | BASEBALL $100: Joe DiMaggio could tell you the Columbus Clippers are a minor league farm team of this American League club the Yankees |
| #1363, aired 1990-07-04 | SPORTS $300: This Oakland A's outfielder set a Major League record by stealing 130 bases in 1982 Rickey Henderson |
| #1358, aired 1990-06-27 | BASEBALL $100: 1 of 3 Major League teams named for a state rather than a city (1 of) Minnesota Twins (or Texas Rangers & California Angels) |
| #1304, aired 1990-04-12 | POLITICS & GOVERNMENT $300: Its opponents called this post-WWI organization "The unholy thing with a holy name" the League of Nations |
| #1282, aired 1990-03-13 | SPORTS $100: The 1st collegiate athletic contest was a crew race between these 2 Ivy League schools in 1852 Harvard & Yale |
| #1263, aired 1990-02-14 | 6-LETTER WORDS $300: 3 miles, or a group of bowling teams league |
| #1262, aired 1990-02-13 | NAME'S THE SAME $1,000 (Daily Double): The current president of baseball's American League, or the singer heard here: Bobby Brown |
| #1261, aired 1990-02-12 | SPORTS $500: 1 of 2 Major League Baseball teams whose home stadium has a retractable roof Montreal Expos or Toronto Blue Jays |
| #1257, aired 1990-02-06 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $500: 3 of the schools known as the 7 Sisters, a group considered the feminine version of the Ivy League (3 of) Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar & Wellesley |
| #1199, aired 1989-11-16 | WISCONSINITES $800: A native of Ripon, suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt founded this org. in 1920 League of Women Voters |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | MILK $800 (Daily Double): In 1956 a group of mothers founded this organization to promote breastfeeding La Leche League |
| #1186, aired 1989-10-30 | BASEBALL MANAGERS $300: From 1968-82 Earl Weaver led this team to 4 American League pennants & a world championship the Baltimore Orioles |
| #1184, aired 1989-10-26 | SPORTS $500: Although T. Williams batted a league record .406 in 1941, this Yankee centerfielder was voted AL MVP Joe DiMaggio |
| #1179, aired 1989-10-19 | INDIANS $300: It was a Mohawk leader named Hiawatha who put together this 5-nation league Iroquois League |
| #1175, aired 1989-10-13 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: Abbreviated lea., it's a distance equal to about 3 statute miles league |
| #1100, aired 1989-05-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: It can precede baby, league or whacker bush |
| #1069, aired 1989-04-06 | SPORTS IN FILMS $400: Walter Matthau took on a coaching job with this pathetic Little League team the Bad News Bears |
| #1045, aired 1989-03-03 | MOVIES $200: An '88 film about a North Carolina minor league baseball team & a brand of cut tobacco share this name Bull Durham |
| #1004, aired 1989-01-05 | SPORTS TRIVIA $400: Nearby Carnegie-Mellon University is now a part owner of this Major League Baseball team (Pittsburgh) Pirates |
| #986, aired 1988-12-12 | BASEBALL $500: As a Major League manager, he won more games than any other but he lost even more than he won Connie Mack |
| #979, aired 1988-12-01 | DID YOU NOTICE? $500 (Daily Double): 1 of 3 American League teams with a mascot but no letters on its caps (1 of) the Cleveland Indians, Toronto Blue Jays or Baltimore Orioles |
| #959, aired 1988-11-03 | SPORTS GREATS $200: On average he hit a home run every 12 times he went to the plate, a Major League record Babe Ruth |
| #925, aired 1988-09-16 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $600: It's the only measure of distance mentioned in the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" a league |
| #923, aired 1988-09-14 | FAMOUS QUAKERS $200: A N.Y. Ivy League university is named for this Quaker who helped develop the U.S. telegraph system (Ezra) Cornell |
| #877, aired 1988-05-31 | SPORTS $500: This Yankee 1st baseman set a Major League record in '87 hitting 6 grand slam home runs Don Mattingly |
| #841, aired 1988-04-11 | BASEBALL $500: 1 of 3 top ranked, or Triple A, U.S. minor leagues (1 of) The Pacific Coast League (the International League or the American Association) |
| #835, aired 1988-04-01 | MARYLAND $200: The state's official bird or a player on the state's Major-
League Baseball team an oriole |
| #810, aired 1988-02-26 | THE MISSISSIPPI $300: Only Major League baseball team named for a state that lies on both sides of the Mississippi Minnesota Twins |
| #796, aired 1988-02-08 | BASEBALL $100: A club' s farm system isn't its food supply, but this its minor league teams |
| #782, aired 1988-01-19 | THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR $300: Born in Connecticut, Nathan Hale was a graduate of this Ivy League university Yale |
| #737, aired 1987-11-17 | BASEBALL $400: His batting average was .320 or higher for 23 major league seasons in a row Ty Cobb |
| #691, aired 1987-09-14 | FIRST LINES $400: "Half a league, half a league, half a league onward, all in the Valley of Death rode the six hundred...“ "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| #665, aired 1987-06-26 | SPORTS TRIVIA $1000: In '86 A.B. Giamatti replaced Chub Feeney, a former "Jeopardy!" contestant, in this post president of the National League |
| #632, aired 1987-05-12 | HARD WOOD $600: Only National Hockey League with a type of tree mentioned in their name (Toronto) Maple Leafs |
| #612, aired 1987-04-14 | FIRSTS $400: 1986 was 1st year a man was selected to head this nonpartisan organization concerned with voter education League of Women Voters |
| #611, aired 1987-04-13 | FAMOUS NAPOLEONS $100: Though he set it in 1901, Napoleon Lajoie still holds a Major League record in this sport baseball |
| #589, aired 1987-03-12 | SPORTS RECORDS $600: They've gone longer than any major league club without winning a World Series -- almost 80 years Chicago Cubs |
| #540, aired 1987-01-02 | SPORTS $1000: In 1953, they became 1st major league ball club in ½ a century to move; in 1966, they moved again the Braves |
| #539, aired 1987-01-01 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $100: 1st woman to play in a men's pro league, Nancy Lieberman is with the Springfield Fame in this sport basketball |
| #535, aired 1986-12-26 | COLLEGES $100: Aaron Burr's father was a founder & 2nd president of this New Jersey Ivy League school Princeton |
| #534, aired 1986-12-25 | BASEBALL $1000: For a single season, it's the 56 hit by Hack Wilson in 1930 the National League record for home runs |
| #465, aired 1986-09-19 | ENDS IN "OO" $300: David Letterman called Major League pitcher Terry Forster a fat tub of this goo |
| #444, aired 1986-05-22 | 1974 $400: He became 1st Black to manage a major league team when the Indians made him chief Frank Robinson |
| #436, aired 1986-05-12 | SPORTS $400: In 1985, 1st time in the 39 year history, a team from this country wasn't in Little League World Series the United States |
| #423, aired 1986-04-23 | BASEBALL $600 (Daily Double): 2 of the 6 current major league teams that have never won a league pennant (2 of) the Montreal Expos, the Seattle Mariners, the California Angels, the Texas Rangers, the Toronto Blue Jays, & the Houston Astros |
| #412, aired 1986-04-08 | BASEBALL RECORDS $200: A Major League pitcher who was 6'9" holds this record the tallest player to play Major League ball |
| #392, aired 1986-03-11 | ANIMAL NICKNAMES $400 (Daily Double): Major League Baseball's past & present "Goose" Goslin & Gossage |
| #383, aired 1986-02-26 | NUMBER PLEASE $1000: Approximate # of miles covered when taking a giant step in 7 league boots 21 |
| #354, aired 1986-01-16 | SPORTS TRIVIA $400: Ann Meyers was the 1st woman to sign a contract with this pro league the National Basketball Association |
| #327, aired 1985-12-10 | SPORTS $200: In a typical major league game of this sport, there is less than 10 minutes of action baseball |
| #304, aired 1985-11-07 | SPORTS TRIVIA $300: In 1956, Eddie A. Rommel became the 1st Major League umpire to wear these glasses |
| #292, aired 1985-10-22 | ABBREVIATIONS $400: Some 2 million youngsters participate in these P.A.L. programs across the country the Police Athletic League |
| #167, aired 1985-04-30 | SPORTS STADIUMS $1000: 1959 Yankee/Dodger game drew 93,103, largest crowd in Major League history to this stadium the (L.A.) Coliseum |
| #150, aired 1985-04-05 | SPORTS $100: Major league which uses a "designated hitter" to bat for the pitcher the American League |
| #142, aired 1985-03-26 | SPORTS $600: Denny McLain was last Major League pitcher to win 30 games in a season, in ’68 for this team Detroit |
| #106, aired 1985-02-04 | SPORTS $500: Distance between them on a big league baseball diamond is 60'6" the pitcher's mound and home plate |
| #95, aired 1985-01-18 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $200: 3 survey miles or a group of bowling teams a league |
| #6, aired 1984-09-17 | SPORTS TRIVIA $400: Joey Jay was the first Major Leaguer who played in it as a child Little League |
