| #9082, aired 2024-04-16 | JUST FOR FUN "Z"s $200: At the Fremont St. Experience, take a thrill ride on one of these, 7 stories high & 2 blocks long; the zoom one is even bigger a zip line |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): This eastern Alabama city was named for a line in an Oliver Goldsmith poem about the "loveliest village of the plain" Auburn |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $200: Frankie Valli, of course, is a character in this musical about the Four Seasons Jersey Boys |
| #9073, aired 2024-04-03 | MATH TALK $1600: See if you can pick off this term for the point at which a line or curve crosses an axis the intercept |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | THE THEATER $400: Inspired by the drama of "The Winner Takes It All", this musical premiered in London in 1999 & played its 9,000th show there in 2022 Mamma Mia! |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | IAMB A POET $400: Bill Shakespeare here! Prithee complete my line, "Shall I compare thee to" this? a summer's day |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | IAMB A POET $1600: I, William Wordsworth, wrote this iambic line that precedes "that floats on high o'er vales and hills" I wandered lonely as a cloud |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TURNING 60 IN 2024 $600: A perfect line from this satiric film: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room" Dr. Strangelove |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | TRANSPORTATION $800: In 2002, Porsche spiced up its line of vehicles with the introduction of this model, its first SUV a Cayenne |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | HORRORS! $15,200 (Daily Double): The title of this 1962 Ray Bradbury novel is a Shakespeare line that rhymes with "by the pricking of my thumbs" Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | TYPES OF POEMS $1,000 (Daily Double): A villanelle is a 19-line poem consisting of 5 tercets & a concluding (do the math) one of these a quatrain |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | STARTS WITH "P" $1600: It's a line of steep bluffs like the cliffs along part of the western shore of the Hudson River a palisade |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS $2000: This line on the hull of a ship that indicates the depth to which it can be loaded is named for a 19th century British merchant the Plimsoll |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | FOOD, FAST $800: Bottom line--it's a burrito that's been deep fried a chimichanga |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | HANSEL CULTURE $1000: A line from this musical says, "Herr Hansel Schmidt becomes Mrs. Hedwig Robinson" Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | 4, 4 $2,000 (Daily Double): "Pray for us sinners" is a line from it Hail Mary |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THE QUESTION? $400: After a horse walks into a bar in a classic joke, it's the inevitable question asked of it by the bartender Why the long face? |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | POTENT QUOTABLES $1000: It's the line in "Treasure Island" that precedes & follows "drink and the devil had done for the rest" yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | POETRY $600: In a famous line from Maya Angelou, "You may kill me with your hatefullness, but still, like air, I'll" do this rise |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | POETRY $800: "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread" is a line from his 1711 "Essay on Criticism" Alexander Pope |
| #9031, aired 2024-02-05 | TOOLS $200: Dewalt's 20v Max XR lithium-ion cordless compact 1/2-inch is a lot of words but bottom line, it's a power type of this a drill |
| #9030, aired 2024-02-02 | BILLBOARD'S 500 BEST POP SONGS $1600: No. 3 was this Temptations classic about a lover, "immediately recognizable from the opening bass line" "My Girl" |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | STARTS WITH SOFT "G" $400: Book 1 of the ancient work "Elements" deals with basic concepts in this field like "a line is a length without breadth" geometry |
| #9026, aired 2024-01-29 | 19th CENTURY AUTHORS $1000: Everyone "walked in his own individual way the road to dusty death" is a typical cheery line from him in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" Hardy |
| #9024, aired 2024-01-25 | START TALKING, SHAKESPEARE CHARACTER $200: Her first line in "Othello" is "My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty" Desdemona |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | WACKY FAD OBITUARIES $600: Funeral services for this line dance will be held on the nearest cruise ship, featuring a special performance by Los del Rio the "Macarena" |
| #25, aired 2024-01-16 | "LOL" $100: An oldie but goodie, this 1958 Chordettes hit features the line, "sweeter than candy on a stick" "Lollipop" |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | STOP! $800: In the 1960s the French military stopped using this fortified line of defense named for a war minister Maginot Line |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $600: Safety glass,
blue line,
face-off circle a hockey arena or ice rink |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1600: A Lil Wayne line that caused some linguistic controversy said, "Real Gs move in silence like" this pasta dish lasagna |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A LETTER $600: Nickname for Philadelphia's Market-Frankford Line, above the city's streets for much of its route El |
| #9010, aired 2024-01-05 | LINES IN CLASSIC NOVELS $1,600 (Daily Double): The very long opening line of this novel includes the phrase "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair" A Tale of Two Cities |
| #23, aired 2024-01-02 | PERSONAL FINANCE $1200: It's the "H-E" in "HELOC", a line of credit that can pay for your kitchen reno, your wedding... even your divorce home equity |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | WORDS ON THE MAP $1200: A contour is a line on a map that connects points that have equal this altitude |
| #9001, aired 2023-12-25 | BATS ENTERTAINMENT $1000: This 1993 film about kids who play ball in a certain vacant area includes the classic line "You're killing me, Smalls!" The Sandlot |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | LEGEND DAIRY $600: P.T. Anderson said the line in "There Will Be Blood" about drinking this was inspired by testimony in the Teapot Dome scandal milkshake |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | MOVIE VIEWING $600: The line in the script for this 1942 classic was "Here's good luck to you, kid", but Bogie made a slight adjustment Casablanca |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | FAMOUS LAST WORDS $200: It's the station at the end of a transport line, like Grand Central terminal |
| #8997, aired 2023-12-19 | ALWAYS IN FASHION $1000: This French couture designer's New Look included A-line skirts & dresses in his 1955 spring collection Christian Dior |
| #8994, aired 2023-12-14 | LITERATURE $800: "A drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk" is a line from his "Ode to a Nightingale" Keats |
| #8992, aired 2023-12-12 | YES, I'VE ETON $800: As a student at Eton, he did not have his own laptop computer, despite being second in line to the British throne Prince William |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | CAR"EER" OPPORTUNITIES $800: You need a good line of patter to do this job, heard in action here auctioneer |
| #8985, aired 2023-12-01 | FUN WITH GEOMETRY $800: The line along which a bishop in chess moves, it cuts a square into 2 triangles a diagonal |
| #8980, aired 2023-11-24 | SIGN O' THE TIMES $1000: Add a vertical line to the bottom half of a Mercedes logo & you'll have this familiar symbol the peace sign |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | ____ OF ____ $400: In football, it's the boundary between the teams prior to the snap of the ball the line of scrimmage |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | ALL ABOUT ACTING $1000: Any follow-up interview or audition for a role you've already tried out for is called this a callback |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | "N-I-A-L" AIN'T A RIVER IN EGYPT $1000: It's the 2000 comedy with the Sandra Bullock line, "I'm in a dress, I have gel in my hair... & I'm armed. Don't mess with me" Miss Congeniality |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | SONGS IN MUSICALS $1000: "The Music And The Mirror" &
"One" A Chorus Line |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $2000: In "My Favorite Year" he wails, "I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!" Peter O'Toole |
| #8971, aired 2023-11-13 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $5,000 (Daily Double): "A boy's best friend is his mother" Anthony Perkins |
| #8970, aired 2023-11-10 | DESIGNERS $1000: Before "Project Runway" & his own fashion line, he was a child actor, born Karl Anderson Jr. Michael Kors |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | HMMM, I WONDER $600: A reader of these checks out the line of Mars & mount of Venus palms |
| #8957, aired 2023-10-24 | NOVEL IDEAS $1,200 (Daily Double): "Cleanliness is next to Fordliness" is a line from this 1932 novel Brave New World |
| #8956, aired 2023-10-23 | ALWAYS SAY NEVER $400: Line that precedes "they simply fade away" in a British army song old soldiers never die |
| #8954, aired 2023-10-19 | PRESIDENTIAL ACTORS? $800: He spoke the line "Hokey religions & ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side" (Harrison) Ford |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | A DAY AT THE RACES $800: The quarter pole is 2 furlongs before this the finish line |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | RESPOND LIKE A PIRATE $100: In 2022, this fast food chain launched a line of dog toys shaped like roast beef sandwiches and curly fries Arby's |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | DENZEL WASHINGTON $1000: In a 2021 film adaptation of "Macbeth", Washington delivers the famous line "Out, out, brief" this candle |
| #8947, aired 2023-10-10 | I WROTE THAT LINE $800: "Why didn't you tell me that that infernal harpooneer was a cannibal?" Melville |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | PICK A NUMBER BETWEEN 5 & 477 $400: The second line in a haiku typically has this many syllables 7 |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $2000: In heraldry, this word follows "bend" to denote a diagonal line ending in the lower left a bend sinister |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | RANDOM U.S. STATE FACTS $1000: One of this state's claims to fame is being first with a moving assembly line for manufacturing an entire car Michigan |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | WELCOME TO MIAMI $400: Miami has the USA's largest cruise terminal, serving this cruise line named for a nearby sea Royal Caribbean |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $600: "Bowman could bear no more. He jerked out the last unit, & Hal was silent forever" is a line from this sci-fi work 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #8922, aired 2023-07-25 | THE IDIOMS GO THATAWAY $1600: There's a member of genus Corvus in this phrase that means "in a straight line" as the crow flies |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | WALKING & TALKING $800: This Bible book gives us the line "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil" Psalms |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | BEHIND THE BOND $1200: The title of this James Bond novel was inspired by a De Beers advertising tag line Diamonds are Forever |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | 10-LETTER ADJECTIVES $2,500 (Daily Double): Only superficially relevant, or related to a line making contact with a curve at a single point tangential |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THERE WILL BE MATH $400: It's a story's line of development, or a portion of a circle's circumference arc |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | CHAPTER & VERSE $2000: Most of the stanzas in this Coleridge poem have 4 lines; a single 9-line stanza mentions a steersman The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A CHORUS LINE $200: "It's fun to stay at the YMCA... you can hang out with all the boys" the Village People |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A CHORUS LINE $400: "So it's not just gonna happen like that, 'cause I ain't no hollaback girl" Gwen Stefani |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A CHORUS LINE $600: "Oh let me be your sledgehammer, this will be my testimony" Peter Gabriel |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A CHORUS LINE $800: "You're hot then you're cold, you're yes then you're no, you're in then you're out" Katy Perry |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A CHORUS LINE $1000: "However far away I will always love you / However long I stay I will always love you / Whatever words I say..." The Cure |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | IMPOSTORS $400: Dressed as a line judge, Barry Bremen snuck onto the field at this sporting event in Jan. 1981; his 1982 effort as a chicken failed the Super Bowl |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | THE PRESIDENTIAL LINE OF SUCCESSION, TODAY $2000: You can bank on giving a high 5 to this ex-Fed chair Janet Yellen |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1,000 (Daily Double): A line in this book says, "Take my apples, boy, and sell them in the city. Then you will have money and you will be happy" The Giving Tree |
| #15, aired 2023-05-22 | PURE POETRY $1200: (Ada Limón reads.) From French for "step over", this technique in which a thought runs on from one line to the next imports a free-flowing feel, as in Eliot's "April is the cruellest month, breeding
/ Lilacs out of the dead land" enjambment |
| #8868, aired 2023-05-10 | NEW NEW ORLEANS MUSIC $1600: This New Orleans-set HBO series opened with the Rebirth Brass Band playing "Feel Like Funkin' It Up" during a second line Treme |
| #8867, aired 2023-05-09 | 21st CENTURY QUOTES $200: The line "Move fast & break things" was called a core principle of his company by this freckled tech tycoon Zuckerberg |
| #4, aired 2023-05-09 | RHYMINGLY NAMED CELEBS $400: In 1997 he was up for a Grammy, made a cameo in "Good Burger" & ended the season shooting 48% from the free throw line Shaquille O'Neal (Shaq accepted) |
| #1, aired 2023-05-08 | JASON ALEXANDER: MASTER OF MY DOMAIN $800: (Jason Alexander gives the clue.) On "Taxi" as Reverend Jim, this actor gave a master class in line delivery simply by asking, "What does a yellow light mean?" YouTube it; you won't be disappointed Christopher Lloyd |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | RIHANNA $600: Rihanna's last name, it's on the beauty line that helped make her a billionaire Fenty |
| #8858, aired 2023-04-26 | A NATION OF VODKA BRANDS $1000: Referring to a line of latitude that runs through it,
42 Below New Zealand |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | CUTTING IN LINE AT THE MOVIES $1200: From a '90s animated film: "You were born a street rat, you'll die a street rat & only your fleas will mourn you!" Aladdin |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | CUTTING IN LINE AT THE MOVIES $1600: Jamie Lee Curtis to Kevin Kline: "To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people" A Fish Called Wanda |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | CUTTING IN LINE AT THE MOVIES $2000: Not a fan of Olivia Colman's makeup, Rachel Weisz says, "You look like a badger" The Favourite |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MOVIE COMEDIES $400: A famous line from this classic: "We are the knights who say 'ni!"' Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | ONE-WORD PLAY TITLES $400: "Double, double toil and trouble" is a famous line from this tragedy Macbeth |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | DOUBLE MEANINGS $2000: To adhere firmly & closely, or to split something along a line to cleave |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | SHALL FOLLOW ME $200: All the kids in the line must do what the one in front does in this children's game with a 3-word name follow the leader |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | SHALL FOLLOW ME $400: In 2021 the Journal of Fluid Mechanics reported on how these youngsters save their energy by swimming in a line behind their mother ducklings |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | A REAL LONG SHOT $800: In a 1973 game against Buffalo, this Boston Bruin scored on a length-of-the-ice shot from behind his own goal line Orr |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | BRITISH TO AMERICAN LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR $600: In Britain, a caravan behind your car isn't a line of vehicles, but just this one, & some pensioners choose to live in one a trailer |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | WALK, THE LINE $400: Walk the Moon recounts a night at the disco: "I said, 'you're holding back', she said" this title "Shut Up And Dance" with me |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | WALK, THE LINE $1200: Vanessa Carlton was nominated for 3 Grammys for her song that said, "You know I'd walk" this far to "just see you tonight" a thousand miles |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | WALK, THE LINE $2000: Oddly, the official video for this '80s Katrina & The Waves hit showed the band strolling through a misty London in heavy coats "Walking On Sunshine" |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | SHORT STORY, SHORTER $2000: A Bierce last line--"Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body... swung gently... beneath the timbers of" this title structure Owl Creek Bridge |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | WORLD TRAVEL $1200: A cruise line that sails to French Polynesia is named for this painter who sailed there too Gauguin |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | LORD OF THE DINGS $2000: In "It's a Wonderful Life", little Zuzu Bailey says, "Every time a bell rings", this happens an angel gets his wings |
| #8824, aired 2023-03-09 | THE LONG-AGO 20th CENTURY $1000: Ford's 1913 adoption of this continuous workflow process reduced the time to build a car from 12-plus hours to 1 1/2 the assembly line |
| #8816, aired 2023-02-27 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Peter Pan's enemy is the way you were fooled into completely believing a story Captain Hook, line & sinker |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | A CRASH COURSE IN JOHN GREEN $200: (John Green presents the clue.) "The Fault in Our Stars" was largely inspired by a young friend, Esther Earl, who died of cancer at 16; & the title was inspired by a line in this Shakespeare play--"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves" Julius Caesar |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | MILITARY MEN $2000: In a 1934 work, de Gaulle preferred a mobile army to this static defensive barrier set up vs. a German attack; Chuck was right the Maginot Line |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | THE "C" SHORE $600: Steep cliffs line the shores of both the N. & S. Islands of New Zealand separated by this strait named for a British captain (the) Cook (Strait) |
| #8803, aired 2023-02-08 | SQUIRRELS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN $1000: In 1994 trading on this first electronic stock exchange ceased for 34 minutes after a squirrel chewed through a power line NASDAQ |
| #8795, aired 2023-01-27 | A DASH OF FASHION $200: In fashion as boots, loafers or slippers, this big-soled style shares its name with a line of soups Chunky |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | A LINE IN THE SAND $400: This title man of a 1719 novel finds a "print of man's foot on the sand"; "fear of danger is... more terrifying than danger itself" Robinson Crusoe |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | A LINE IN THE SAND $800: In this 1954 novel, a tale of survival, the "littluns" build sandcastles; Roger & Maurice revel in "kicking them over" the Lord of the Flies |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | A LINE IN THE SAND $1200: In this "Rime", Coleridge rhymed "skinny hand" with "ribbed sea-sand" The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | A LINE IN THE SAND $1600: A passage in this novel relays, "Gurney saw Fremen spread out across the sand there in the path of the worm" Dune |
| #8794, aired 2023-01-26 | A LINE IN THE SAND $2000: Shelley dubbed a statue of this king a "colossal wreck" around which "the lone and level sands stretch far away" Ozymandias |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | ALL THINGS IRISH $300 (Daily Double): It's a county bordered by the river Shannon as well as a comical 5-line poem Limerick |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | FAMOUS AMERICAN QUOTES $400: A line from the screenplay for the Oliver Stone film "Wall Street" says that this "is good!" greed |
| #12, aired 2023-01-26 | BESTSELLERS $800: The title of this heartbreaking young adult novel by John Green about Augustus & Hazel is based on a line from Shakespeare The Fault in Our Stars |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES $100: A line from this dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury: "The books leapt & danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze" Fahrenheit 451 |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | "NN"YTIME $500: "Astrophel and Stella" is a 16th century sequence of more than 100 of these 14-line poems sonnets |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | DURING THE LIZ TRUSS WEEKS $200: A N.Y. Times headline on Sept. 6, the day Truss became PM, read this nation's "nuclear plant... off line after shelling kindles blaze" Ukraine |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | A LINEAR CATEGORY $400: This invisible line marks the boundary between opposing football teams at the start of a play the line of scrimmage |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | A LINEAR CATEGORY $800: Named for a 19th century British diplomat, the 1,640-mile Durand Line is today the border between these two nations Afghanistan & Pakistan |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | A LINEAR CATEGORY $1200: Clive Anderson hosted the U.K. version of this comedy improv TV series Whose Line is it Anyway? |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | A LINEAR CATEGORY $1600: With this kind of authority, a chief executive can nullify parts of legislation without rejecting a whole bill a line-item veto |
| #8785, aired 2023-01-13 | A LINEAR CATEGORY $2000: A ship's course touching all meridians at the same angle is this line that sounds like sailors' favorite liquor a rhumb line |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | THE BOTTOM LINE $200: He ended a poem, "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference" Frost |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | THE BOTTOM LINE $600: Sandburg finished a poem titled for this city, "player with railroads and freight handler to the nation" Chicago |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | THE BOTTOM LINE $800: In "Harlem" he asked of a "Dream Deferred", "Does it explode?" Langston Hughes |
| #8782, aired 2023-01-10 | THE BOTTOM LINE $1000: The events of Homer's "Iliad" conclude with a funeral for this hero, "tamer of horses" Hector |
| #8781, aired 2023-01-09 | LAUNDRY DAY $1000: On a label, the bucket with one line under it means this alliterative setting for clothes that don't need ironing permanent press |
| #8780, aired 2023-01-06 | WE'RE ON THE CASE $400: Småstad/uppföra is a line of bookcases from this retailer IKEA |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | WE MEAN BUSINESS $1500: In 2015 he announced the launch of a cruise line called Virgin Voyages but only after making some space(ship) in his life (Richard) Branson |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | ROMANTIC MOVIE LINES $800: "I wish I knew how to quit you" is a line from this 21st century film Brokeback Mountain |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE $1200: Named for a war minister, this 1930s "Line" of forts & small concrete bunkers, built to stop the Germans, didn't the Maginot Line |
| #8775, aired 2022-12-30 | A MEMORABLE NEW YEAR'S EVE $2000: (Ryan Seacrest presents the clue.) On December 31, 1959, Paul Westerberg entered the world in Minneapolis as the singer of this band; he'd comment on his birth date with the line, "Income tax deduction, one hell of a function" The Replacements |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | THE OFFICE $800: Labor Day 2022 was a dividing line for several big companies when WFH became RTO, short for this return to office |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | CHANGE THE VOWEL $800: "A rub dub, just relaxing in the tub" is a line from this Bobby Darin hit song "Splish Splash" |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LINE OF FIRE $400: A resident of Amherst, Massachusetts, she wrote, "Ashes denote that fire was; respect the grayest pile" Dickinson |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LINE OF FIRE $800: In "The Hobbit", this dragon appeared "as a spark of fire rushing towards them and growing ever huger and more bright" Smaug |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LINE OF FIRE $1600: In 1667 he penned, "Incens'd with indignation Satan stood, unterrify'd, and like a comet burned" Milton |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | LINE OF FIRE $2000: In the "Rubaiyat", he wrote that hell was "the shadow of a soul on fire" Omar Khayyam |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | 1982: A YEAR IN FILM $1200: What's best in life, this Arnold guy? "Crush your enemies, see them driven before you & hear the lamentation of their women" Conan the Barbarian |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | SOME OF THAT JAZZ $1200: This signature tune of the Duke Ellington Orchestra advises listeners to "take" a particular subway line "Take The 'A' Train" |
| #8747, aired 2022-11-22 | VOCABULARY WORDS $1200: Bravery in the line of duty; you can get a medal for it valor |
| #8746, aired 2022-11-21 | LET'S DO THE MATH $1200: A line that divides a curve into two mirror images is called its axis of this symmetry |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | COMPOUND WORDS $5,000 (Daily Double): A point of reference from which measurements are made, it was once an actual notch or line made on a permanent object a benchmark |
| #8740, aired 2022-11-11 | ELEGIES $16,800 (Daily Double): 1855's "Haworth Churchyard" was Matthew Arnold's tribute to these literary sisters, written soon after the last one passed the Brontë sisters |
| #8735, aired 2022-11-04 | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $400: Last name of Italian fashion designer Miuccia, who works for her family's fashion house & founded its sister line Miu Miu Prada |
| #8726, aired 2022-10-24 | MATH CLASS $400: One of these is a straight one-dimensional figure that extends infinitely in both directions a line |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $200: On making history:
"It has taken 232 years & 115 prior appointments for a black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court" Ketanji Jackson |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | OF COURSE I'M NOT BREAKING UP WITH YOU $300: Of course not, honey, think of it as this feature at a play, when you have 15 minutes to beat the line at the bar or bathroom intermission |
| #5, aired 2022-10-23 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $400: Declared a saint in 2016; her motto:
"Let us do something beautiful for God" Mother Teresa |
| #8725, aired 2022-10-21 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Police booking photo that becomes a historic moment as in Ralph Waldo Emerson's line a mug shot heard around the world |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | MEDICAL DRAMA $800: After 17 seasons on "Law & Order", S. Epatha Merkerson got into a new line of work, running Gaffney Medical on this NBC show Chicago Med |
| #8722, aired 2022-10-18 | FRENCH LITERATURE $3,000 (Daily Double): A line from this play says, "He carries a nose!--ah, good my lords, what a nose is his!" Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | JOHNNY GILBERT SPEAKS THE MOVIE LINE $300: "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans & a nice Chianti" The Silence of the Lambs |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | JOHNNY GILBERT SPEAKS THE MOVIE LINE $600: "Knock it off, Napoleon, make yourself a dang quesadilla" Napoleon Dynamite |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | JOHNNY GILBERT SPEAKS THE MOVIE LINE $900: "I'm also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her" Notting Hill |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | JOHNNY GILBERT SPEAKS THE MOVIE LINE $1500: "I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it" On the Waterfront |
| #8718, aired 2022-10-12 | HAIR $400: What's with hair & fairy tale girls? "Let down your hair" is a line from the story about this fairy tale girl Rapunzel |
| #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 |
| #8715, aired 2022-10-07 | RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $5,000 (Daily Double): 2022 brings the 150th b'day of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar & a bio calling him this creature that "sings" in his famous line the caged bird |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BORROW $1200: That bathroom hasn't been updated since 1932! Let's take out a HELOC, short for this, & bring things into the 21st century a home equity line of credit |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | CLIFF NOTES $2,000 (Daily Double): Alice Duer Miller's "The White Cliffs", a prose poem about WWI & WWII, mentions this town in its third line Dover |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | THE MAP OF INDIA $200: Named for a British lawyer, the Radcliffe Line dividing India from this nation was established in 1947 Pakistan |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | WRITING IMPLEMENTS $2,000 (Daily Double): A line of fountain pens from this French brand was inspired by the glacier on its namesake mountain Montblanc |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | JEOPARDY! & THE 10 RINGS $200: "Five golden rings" is a line from this holiday song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | APOLOGIES $600: "Sorry, Dave... when the crew are dead or incapacitated, the onboard computer must assume control" is a line in this sci-fi novel 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #8695, aired 2022-07-29 | LET'S GO FISHING $800: This word for a small float on a fishing line describes its up-&-down motion in the water a bob (a bobber) |
| #8692, aired 2022-07-26 | FILL IN THE PLAY TITLE $800: From a line in Shakespeare:
____ & ____ are Dead" Rosencrantz and Guildenstern |
| #8691, aired 2022-07-25 | LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES $400: Some of the earliest known examples of these 14-line poems are by Giacomo da Lentini, who wrote in the 1200s a sonnet |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ONE-WORD NONFICTION TITLES $400: "Shape", about the hidden meaning of this branch of math, is dedicated in part to "AB"--presumably a person, not a line geometry |
| #8672, aired 2022-06-28 | OTHELLO, MACBETH OR HAMLET SAYETH... $600: Macbeth's line "Or art thou but" this sharp object "of the mind" gave a "Star Trek" episode its title dagger |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $400: The first line of Winston Groom's novel about this guy mentions a box of chocolates; the Tom Hanks film mentioned them too Forrest Gump |
| #8671, aired 2022-06-27 | MORE THAN ONE MEANING $400: A ship's rigging, or to subdue a foe at the 40-yard line tackle |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE $200: I need some Shakespeare & get her line "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" Juliet |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | GETTING "W-R-M" $800: A memorable line from "Dr. Strangelove": "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the ____ ____" the war room |
| #8657, aired 2022-06-07 | DEER-POURRI $400: Disney employees warned each other that Walt was in the office by saying, "Man is in the forest", a riff on a line from this film Bambi |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | "M" PATHS $3,000 (Daily Double): This almost 200-mile trail named for a famous line runs through Pennsylvania, Maryland & Delaware the Mason-Dixon |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | THEATER $800: Spoken by Stanley, the first line in this play is "Hey, there! Stella, baby!" A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #8654, aired 2022-06-02 | THEATER $1200: A line from this Beckett play sums it up: "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes" Waiting for Godot |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | VERB + "ER" = NOUN $800: A store's cashier--if there is a big line, there can be a call for a "second" one a checker |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | PHYSICS $2000: The amplitude of a wave in physics is the distance from the center line to either of these two points also found on an ocean wave crest & trough |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | GEOMETRY CLASS $400: Used in a different sense in music, this term is used for the line highlighted here chord |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | PADDING THE SHOW $800: As a verb, it means stepping up to the plate to hit; as a noun, it's layers of raw cotton used to line quilts batting |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | THE LANGUAGE OF SPORT $600: This part of an arm is also the point on a basketball court where the free throw line & the lane line meet at a 90 degree angle elbow |
| #8629, aired 2022-04-28 | LANDMARKS $400: A national trail in England stretches 84 miles from Newcastle to the Solway Firth along the line of this great fortification Hadrian's Wall |
| #8627, aired 2022-04-26 | ____, ____ & ____ $1200: Meaning "completely", it's a trio of angling essentials hook, line & sinker |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | PILLOW TALK $800: Pillow Pals was a line of toys introduced in the 1990s by this 2-letter company that also gave us Beanie Babies Ty |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | THESE SONGS REALLY MOVE $2000: The 1993 Breeders song about one of these projectiles makes a "crash" & a "splash" "Cannonball" |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AT THE MOVIES $400: "May the odds be ever in your favor" is a line from this 2012 post-apocalyptic film The Hunger Games |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | THE ACTOR'S MOVIE LINE $400: In a movie sequel:
"Yo, Adrian, I did it!" Sylvester Stallone |
| #8617, aired 2022-04-12 | THE ACTOR'S MOVIE LINE $2000: Her in a 1950 classic:
"I am big, it's the pictures that got small" Gloria Swanson |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HOOD ORNAMENTS $1200: This GM line with the name of a Native American chief had appropriate hood ornaments as here on a model called the Chieftain Pontiac |
| #8610, aired 2022-04-01 | HOOD ORNAMENTS $1600: This word preceded 88 in a line of early muscle cars from Oldsmobile, & here's one on the hood a rocket |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | GOOD LINE, FAMOUS NAME! $600: In 1971 this female Asian prime minister observed, "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist" Indira Gandhi |
| #8608, aired 2022-03-30 | GOOD LINE, FAMOUS NAME! $800: George Bernard Shaw defined this negative thinker as "a man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it" a pessimist |
| #8607, aired 2022-03-29 | IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS $2000: From a 2013 Supreme Court argument--Justice: You want us to create a gray area; Professor: The opposite, I'm asking you to draw this draw a bright line |
| #8606, aired 2022-03-28 | A SONG & A DANCE $1200: In 1992 country music fans hit the floor for a line dance accompanying this Billy Ray Cyrus hit "Achy Breaky Heart" |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | THE ANCIENTS SPEAK $1200: Shame on Hipponax' line "There are two days when a woman is a pleasure: the day one marries her and the day one" does this rhyming finish buries her |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | PLAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): Its last line is from Oscar: "And watch your cigarettes, will you? This is my house, not a pig sty" The Odd Couple |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | FASHION $600: Perfect as casual wear, this "letter-perfect" dress fits at the hips & flares out further down A-line |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | THAT'S JUST SCIENCE, MAN $3,500 (Daily Double): Before moving to Gemini & Taurus, the summer solstice used to be in this constellation, hence the name of a geographic line Cancer |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT $200: Act II of this play ends, "My Regan counsels well; come out o' the storm" King Lear |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT $600: Act I of this play concludes with, "The motion's good indeed and be it so, Petruchio, I shall be your Ben Venuto" The Taming of the Shrew |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT $800: Fortinbras ends act V & this play with "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" Hamlet |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT $1000: Stephano tells him, "O brave monster! Lead the way" Caliban |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT $2,500 (Daily Double): This title character declares, "He shall have every day a several greeting, or I'll unpeople Egypt" Cleopatra |
| #8582, aired 2022-02-22 | MARK'S "-ISM" $400: Accidentally stealing a line from Oliver Wendell Holmes for "Innocents Abroad", Twain felt guilty of "Unconscious" this Plagiarism |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | FOOD COMBOS $1000: In L.A., foodies & locals like to dine at "Roscoe's House of" these paired foods Chicken & Waffles |
| #15, aired 2022-02-18 | A LOFTY CATEGORY $800: In line with the theme of Seattle's World's Fair, its legs were painted Astronaut White & its core Orbital Olive the Space Needle |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | DESSERT $600: A line from "The Godfather": "Leave the gun, take" this dessert a cannoli |
| #13, aired 2022-02-17 | TENNIS LESSON $600: The player here has ended up well behind this line, so you might try a drop shot on him a baseline |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | LITERATURE: "GOOD" OR "GREAT" $800: "Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight" is a line from this Dylan Thomas poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | WE'VE GOT THE RECEIPTS $800: When this car first went on sale in 1908, it cost $850; thanks to the assembly line, by 1925 you could get one for under $300 a Model T |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | MARX $600: Marx' grave bears a line from "The Communist Manifesto": "Workers of all lands", do this unite |
| #2, aired 2022-02-08 | SHAKESPEARE $2,000 (Daily Double): The first scene of this late play ends with the line "The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death" The Tempest |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | POETS & POETRY $1600: The line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" comes from his poem "Endymion" John Keats |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | LINE $400: "O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die" Romeo and Juliet |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | LINE $800: "Now all she does is fool with those pieces of glass and play those worn-out records. What kind of a life is that for a girl to lead?" The Glass Menagerie |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | LINE $1600: "Who knows Sidney Poitier so we could just call him up & ask him?" Six Degrees of Separation |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | TRANSPORTATION $200: Chicago to Minneapolis & Las Vegas to L.A. are top routes on this bus line that advises "Leave the driving to us" Greyhound |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | ALWAYS BROADWAY $800: In 1990 this musical about a musical closed after 6,137 shows; God, I hope you get it! I hope you get it! A Chorus Line |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | THANKS VERMILION $1200: A Vermilion line called sindoor in the part of a Hindu woman's hair signifies this it means she's married |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP HEROES $800: (James Brown presents the clue.) With time running out in an AFC title game in 1987, the Denver Broncos were trailing the Browns & pinned on their own 2-yard line when this quarterback led them 98 yards for a touchdown on a series of plays known simply as "The Drive" Elway |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | BOOKS WITH HORSEPOWER $2000: "One particular horse, called Nugget, he embraces... they stand in the dark for an hour" is a line from this play Equus |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | "C" LIFE $2000: Born in Halifax, 1787; found a "line" of work sending ships across the Atlantic; made the same journey & died in London, 1865 Cunard |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $2000: This word is used to mean any tool that helps draw a nice, neat line a straight edge |
| #8558, aired 2022-01-19 | SHORT NOVELS $1200: "A River Runs Through It" begins, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and" this 2-word activity fly fishing |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | YOU PLAYED YOURSELF $600: Bottom line, "JCVD" was the role he was born to play but in the film, he loses a part to Steven Seagal Jean-Claude Van Damme |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1600: Named for a god, this line of cars from Ford got cooler when James Dean drove one in "Rebel Without a Cause' a Mercury |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORDS & PHRASES $200: It's the term for the number written below the line in a fraction; you may have heard of the "lowest common" one denominator |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | PARTS OF A POEM $2000: Hail! This word for a pause in the middle of a line of poetry caesura |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | THAT'S BORDER LINE $800: Bordering Alaska & British Columbia, this territory has a population of 42,000, around 4,000 more than Fenway Park's capacity the Yukon Territory |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | THAT'S BORDER LINE $1600: A hundreds-of-miles-long eastern border with Vietnam is part of what makes this nation landlocked Laos |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | THAT'S BORDER LINE $2000: You have a couple of choices if you're heading directly across the eastern border of Wyoming--these 2 states South Dakota & Nebraska |
| #8549, aired 2022-01-06 | THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE $1200: The 1820 compromise allowed slavery only south of a line of this; it still forms state boundaries & there's a marker on it in Enid, Oklahoma latitude |
| #8547, aired 2022-01-04 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $2000: The King James version gives us a line heard at weddings: "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man" do this put asunder |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | TOOLS $1000: It can be the weight used to determine that a line is vertical, or the quality of being vertical itself plumb |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN $2000: Drawn to the sea before seeing it by a line of poetry, she became a marine biologist & 1941's "Under the Sea-Wind" was her first book (Rachel) Carson |
| #8529, aired 2021-12-09 | ALL ON YOUR HEAD NOW $1000: Let's go one this hat seen here over the line, & chef up something delicious a toque |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | SAILING THE BLACK SEA $2000: This mountain range, a dividing line between Asia & Europe, runs from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea the Caucasus |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | PLAY CHARACTERS $600: In a classic American play, his first line is bellowing, "Hey, there! Stella, baby!" Stanley (Kowalski) |
| #8521, aired 2021-11-29 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $1600: You can head west in a straight line from Belmopan in Belize into this neighboring country Guatemala |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | 5 LETTERS, 4 VOWELS $1000: A braid of hair that hangs from behind, or a place to line up behind others & wait a queue |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BROADWAY IS BACK $800: Kristin Chenoweth welcomed the audience at the reopening of "Wicked" with these 5 words, a line from "The Wizard of Oz" There's no place like home |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | LEFT MOTION $800: Bugs Bunny's line about wishing he'd toined left at this city may be based on a real turn there that would keep you on Route 66 Albuquerque |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | NOVEL QUOTES $400: "'Toad Hall,' said the Toad proudly, 'is an eligible self-contained gentleman's residence"' is a line in this novel The Wind in the Willows |
| #8510, aired 2021-11-12 | "A" IN SCIENCE $1600: In physics it's the distance from the center line of a wave to the top of the crest amplitude |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | SCIENCE $2000: An isobar connects areas of equal barometric pressure on a weather map; a line that connects areas of equal temperature is this an isotherm |
| #8498, aired 2021-10-27 | THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY $600 (Daily Double): She was born in 2015 as fourth in line to the throne & stayed in that spot even after she had a baby brother Princess Charlotte |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | FLAGGING INTEREST $800: Nauru's flag is a symbolic map; the star represents Nauru, & the yellow line represents this, less than one degree north the equator |
| #8496, aired 2021-10-25 | WRITTEN IN THE DUST $2000: A line from Eliot's "The Waste Land" gave this British novelist the title "A Handful of Dust" Evelyn Waugh |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | FAMILIAR SOUNDING TRIOS $400: Peter Pan's foe, a facial wrinkle & a pitch that results in ground balls Hook, line & sinker |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $8,000 (Daily Double): For 647 miles, this westernmost of Canada's 3 territories shares a straight-line border with Alaska the Yukon |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | FINISH THE LINE $200: Clark Gable in "Gone with the Wind": "Frankly, my dear..." I don't give a damn |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | FINISH THE LINE $400: Dr. Seuss' Sam-I-Am: "Would you like them in a house? Would you like them..." with a mouse |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | FINISH THE LINE $800: In T.S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men": "This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a" this whimper |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | SHAKESPEARE'S INSULTS $2000: A line in this play: "If Troy be not taken till" Ajax & Achilles "undermine it, the walls will stand till they fall of themselves" Troilus and Cressida |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | & PLAYING TRIANGLE $200: "The sum of any 2 sides of a triangle is equal to or greater than the 3rd side" means this is the short route between 2 points a straight line |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | ALLITERATION $400: This kids' game, this kids' game, send a response right over by knowing it's a team line-breaking game Red Rover |
| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | AIR TRAVEL $800: In 2019, the biggest new terminal opening in the U.S. in a decade was celebrated at this city's airport with a second line parade New Orleans |
| #8466, aired 2021-09-13 | TASTY BUSINESS $600: Makes sense: BR Standard is a fashion line from this store Banana Republic |
| #8455, aired 2021-07-30 | "TENDER" $600: One must "demonstrate a practical use of the taut-line hitch" to achieve this scouting rank Tenderfoot |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | ARABIA $2,000 (Daily Double): This emirate, a 100-mile-long peninsula on the east coast, has taken a more independent line than its neighbors in recent years Qatar |
| #8450, aired 2021-07-23 | THE OED, FROM DVANDVA TO FOLLIS $400: "A succession of rulers of the same line or family" dynasty |
| #8449, aired 2021-07-22 | LIT BITS $400: A 12-line poem from 1913 ends with "but only God can make a" this a tree |
| #8445, aired 2021-07-16 | WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE $800: U.S. troops marched into Germany through the dragon's teeth of this defensive line named for a legendary German hero the Siegfried Line |
| #8440, aired 2021-07-09 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY OPENING NUMBERS $1200: "I Hope I Get It" A Chorus Line |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | CHANNEL ISLANDS $1600: A 1981 made-for-TV movie saw this basketball team pitted against robots, with the fate of "Gilligan's Island" on the line the Harlem Globetrotters |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | AROUND THE GARDEN? $800: In a Simon & Garfunkel song, this quartet is in the line after "Are you going to Scarborough Fair?" parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme |
| #8426, aired 2021-06-21 | THE OLYMPIC FLAME $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1956 on a flight from Singapore to Jakarta, the Olympic torch crossed this for the first time the equator |
| #8407, aired 2021-05-25 | BESTSELLERS $400: In a novel by Matt Haig, infinite books line the shelves of "The Midnight" this title place; most offer another story of reality a library |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | SHE SANG IT IN A MOVIE $1200: 2005: "Wildwood Flower" & "Jackson" (with an assist from Joaquin Phoenix) Reese Witherspoon |
| #8401, aired 2021-05-17 | FOWL LANGUAGE $600: "'Quack, quack,' said the mother" is a line from this Hans Christian Andersen tale "The Ugly Duckling" |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | "LIGHT" AT THE END $800: A line of players moves & stops on command in this game Red Light, Green Light |
| #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 |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | FINISH THE POETRY LINE $600: Langston Hughes asked, "What happens to a dream" this adjective deferred |
| #8383, aired 2021-04-21 | D PLUS $800: Slang for an in-line skater adds the letter D to become a fluid-storing organ blader & bladder |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $1000: "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing" A River Runs Through It |
| #8374, aired 2021-04-08 | WIPE OUT $1200: A word meaning excellent loses its initial "out", becoming this action performed by many waiting in line standing (from outstanding) |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | HETERONYMIC PAIRS $400: A noisy quarrel in a line of audience seats a row row |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | BORDER TOWNS $800: Derby Line, Vermont & Stanstead in this province form a single municipality bisected by the U.S.-Canada border Quebec |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | LINE, ITEM $800: T.S. Eliot asked, "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat" this fruit? a peach |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | LINE, ITEM $1600: In a Maya Angelou poem, "the dark" one of these old-time lamps "of world sadness has cast its shadow upon the land" a lantern |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | LINE, ITEM $2000: Edward Lear's owl & pussy-cat "dined on mince, and slices of quince, which they ate with a runcible" this a spoon |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | POETS & POETRY $800: Haibun is a Japanese literary style that combines prose & this 3-line poetic form haiku |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | "CRACK"LE $400: 3-word metaphor for what a boss needs to do to get unruly, disobedient workers in line crack the whip |
| #8333, aired 2021-02-10 | PUBLIC SCULPTURE $800: Pope Clement IX commissioned the 10 of these that line Rome's Ponte Sant'Angelo (for a total of 20 wings) angels |
| #8326, aired 2021-02-01 | A CATEGORY OF 2 CITIES $400: East of Topeka, I-70 runs across a state line through two contiguous cities with this name Kansas City |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | RESPONSES IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION $1200: The next line Culture Club sang after this title was "Do you really want to make me cry?" "Do you really wanna hurt me?" |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | YOU CROSSED THE LINE $200: ...leaving Priozersk, off Russia's Lake Ladoga, for a trip west to this country Finland |
| #8322, aired 2021-01-26 | YOU CROSSED THE LINE $400: ...motoring south from Nicaragua into this country with active volcanoes & a rich coast Costa Rica |
| #8306, aired 2021-01-04 | THE MOVIES $400: This Hitchcock movie has the line "A boy's best friend is his mother" Psycho |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS THE G.O.A.T. (GREATEST OF ALL TIME) $600: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) This writer once said his first book wasn’t an important novel, but it ranks among the great ones, & its line, “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me” is among the most haunting of the 20th century Ralph Ellison |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | HISTORY: A LOOK BACK $200: Frederick Muhlenberg was first to hold this congressional job & join the line of presidential succession (spoiler, Fred was never prez) Speaker of the House |
| #8292, aired 2020-12-01 | "HOP" $1200: "All ball we all play ball" is a line from this Dr. Seuss book Hop on Pop |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | WHERE'S THIS TRAIN HEADED? $1000: The Amtrak line named for this mountain range gives passengers a great view of Mount St. Helens the Cascades |
| #8286, aired 2020-11-23 | BEHIND THE MUSIC $400: Songwriter Hoyt Axton changed the opening line of "Joy To The World" from "Jeremiah was a prophet" to this a bullfrog |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | 19th CENTURY PLAYS $800: Guy ends his family line by picking this non-reproducing profession in "Guy Domville", a painful flop for playwright Henry James a priest |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1919, as part of his Back to Africa plan, Marcus Garvey founded this, contrasting with the name of a British ship line the Black Star Line |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | THE PHRASE THAT PAYS $800: The essential point of a matter, or the very last part of a financial report showing profit or loss the bottom line |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | I GOT THEM HISTORICAL BLUES $1000: Hundreds of miles of this barrier / Got to stop any German assault / Got a design but no Belgian line / Think that may be a fault Maginot |
| #8282, aired 2020-11-17 | HATS AMORE! $1000: Samuel L. Jackson has his own line of this brand of caps that is an abbreviation of "knitted angora wool" a Kangol |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | WEIGHT, WHAT'S THAT? $200: In this job, a highway weigh station is called a "chicken coop" as you sit in a line hoping you don't exceed 80,000 pounds truck driving |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | ALL THAT JAZZ LINGO $800: This 4-letter nonsense singing comes from a line that continues "...da-doo" scat |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | NATIONAL PARKS $1,500 (Daily Double): This drainage line runs northwest-southeast through Rocky Mountain National Park the Continental Divide |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | A "DIAMOND" $1600: This colorful maker of smokehouse almonds also puts out a line of Nut-Thins nut & rice cracker snacks Blue Diamond |
| #8259, aired 2020-10-15 | A PAIR OF PENCE $800: Opened in 1900 between Shepherd's Bush & Bank, the Central Line was the first in this system with a flat fare, twopence the Underground |
| #8251, aired 2020-10-05 | TV ANIMALS $600: This Insult Comic Dog, to guys waiting in line for a "Star Wars" pic: "How do you explain this to your imaginary girlfriend?" Triumph |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | WE'LL GIVE YOU SOME LATITUDE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) In Africa, the line of 10 degrees north latitude passes through 14 countries from Guinea to this sovereign nation Somalia |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | CLUES FROM A 1965 JEOPARDY! HOME GAME $1000: NUMBERS: "Unlucky way to light cigarettes" third on a match (three on a match) |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | LAST WORDS $2,500 (Daily Double): This term for "the end of the line" was once a god celebrated at the end of the Roman year terminus |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: Perry, Maine has a marker for this latitudinal line signifying the halfway point between the equator & North Pole the 45th parallel |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | 1 WORD, 2 MEANINGS $800: A geometric figure, or go fish with a hook & line angle |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | GONE FISHING $400: Spincast is a type of this on your rod that spools in your line a reel |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | ADVERBIALLY $2000: From the Greek for "angle to angle", it means in the direction of a slanting straight line diagonally |
| #8226, aired 2020-06-01 | POP MUSIC $1600: This "Use Somebody" group sounds like a long line of Spanish royalty, but it actually formed in Nashville Kings of Leon |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | ALL AROUND NEW YORK $1600: To visit the Statue of Liberty, hop on a ferry at this site named for the line of cannons that once defended it Battery Park |
| #8209, aired 2020-04-23 | GIVE US A DATE $200: 1929: Dressed like cops, Capone gang members line up Bugs Moran's guys against a wall & take them out in a "Massacre" February 14th |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | SPORTS TALK $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crews presents by a display monitor.) Tennis players shouldn't linger in this area between the service line and the baseline where returns are hard to hit; it shares its name with an area between trenches that World War I soldiers also wanted to avoid no man's land |
| #8204, aired 2020-04-16 | POETRY FOR PHYSICISTS $800: An atomic bomb test in 1945 made Oppenheimer think of a line from the "Bhagavadgita", a sacred poem in this religion Hinduism |
| #8201, aired 2020-04-13 | GET A JOB! $400: Maybe you'd like to work on one of these, like for Carnival or Cunard; recent job listings include event crew & galley supervisor a cruise line (ship) |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | LITERARY GENRES $1600: Penguin has a line of regency romance novels that are set during the regency of the soon-to-be George IV, in this century the 19th century |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | THE ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS $600: At the 2017 awards these guys, a '90s boy band, joined Florida Georgia Line to perform "God, Your Mama And Me" the Backstreet Boys |
| #8192, aired 2020-03-31 | BASEBALL LINGO $400: The hot corner, a nickname for this position, was coined after a player fielded 7 line drives in an 1889 game third base |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | CAR "MA" $1000: This last name of Mercedes designer Wilhelm follows Mercedes in the name of a very upscale line of cars Maybach |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THAT'S A RED LINE $400: Robert Burns exulted, "O my luve's like a red, red" this a rose |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THAT'S A RED LINE $800: Tennyson wrote of "nature, red in tooth and" this claw |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THAT'S A RED LINE $1200: Jenny Joseph's "Warning" begins, "When I am an old woman I shall wear" this color, "with a red hat which... doesn't suit me" purple |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THAT'S A RED LINE $1600: In "David Copperfield", Dickens wrote, "Skewered through & through with office pens, & bound hand & foot with" this red tape |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | THAT'S A RED LINE $2000: Stephen Crane wrote, "At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way...he wished that he, too, had a wound, a" this a red badge of courage |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | RADIO ACTIVE $1000: Mishearing "Life In The Fast Lane" as "flies in the vasoline" led to a line of a hit in 1994 for these "aviators" the Stone Temple Pilots |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | IMPOSTOR! $1200: "'Marge, you must understand that I don't love you', Tom said into the mirror in Dicky's voice" is a line from this Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley |
| #8170, aired 2020-02-28 | JUST FOR ONE DAY $1000: In a nursery rhyme, Solomon Grundy "died on" this day (but still had yet to be buried in the next line) Saturday |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | & FINALLY... $600: This musical about an audition for Broadway ended its initial 15-year run at the Shubert in 1990; now, 5-6-7-8...respond! A Chorus Line |
| #8160, aired 2020-02-14 | DEFENSE MECHANISM $400: In World War I a line of these defensive fortifications ranged from Belgium to Switzerland trenches |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | A FINE LINE $400: In a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, "Maud went to college./ Sadie stayed at home./ Sadie scraped life/ with a fine-tooth" this a comb |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | A FINE LINE $800: Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" says this grim spot is "a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace" grave |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | WALKING $800: Johnny Cash wrote that Carl Perkins convinced him to change a song title from "Because You're Mine" to this "I Walk The Line" |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | A FINE LINE $1200: From this ancient fable author's "The Jay and the Peacock": "It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds" Aesop |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | A FINE LINE $1600: In 1917 D.H. Lawrence wrote, "A fine" this "is blowing the new direction of time" wind |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | LETTER MEN $2000: E: his "Elements" says, "a line is a length without breadth" Euclid |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | HOLLYWOOD & LINE $200: A classic line from this 1972 film is "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse" The Godfather |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | IKEA NAMES $200: Spoka, meaning "to haunt", is a line of these to illuminate kids' rooms night lights |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | HOLLYWOOD & LINE $400: Movie that gave us "Dynaguy, snagged on takeoff! Splashdown, sucked into a vortex... no capes!" The Incredibles |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | HOLLYWOOD & LINE $1000: Jennifer Lawrence to Bradley Cooper in this film: "Calm down, crazy" Silver Linings Playbook |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | THE COUNTY LINE $200: Take a county seat! Specifically for Seminole county in this state, that'd be Sanford Florida |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | THE COUNTY LINE $800: Known for a very big bang, this county in New Mexico was organized from parts of Sante Fe & Sandoval counties in 1949 Los Alamos |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | THE COUNTY LINE $1000: At least 1,300 men would prefer not to be in this Kansas county; they're in the same-named medium security penitentiary Leavenworth |
| #8143, aired 2020-01-22 | OOTD $200: This slightly flared skirt of the 1960s is named for the letter it resembles in silhouette A-line |
| #8141, aired 2020-01-20 | SLOWLY I TURNED $200: The earth rotates on this imaginary line only once every 24 hours--kinda slow its axis |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | POEMS' SECOND LINES $800: In a poem by William Blake, these 4 words precede the second line, "In the forests of the night" Tyger! Tyger! burning bright |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | POEMS' SECOND LINES $4,000 (Daily Double): Its second line is "Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore" "The Raven" |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | KNIGHT LINE $200: "A verray parfit gentil knight" describes one of a cast of characters created by this poet Chaucer |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | KNIGHT LINE $1000: The Red Cross Knight is "pricking on the plaine" in Book 1 of this long, long 1590 poem ("pricking" meant spurring a horse) The Faerie Queene |
| #8134, aired 2020-01-09 | WEIRD FACTS $600: In an annual competition, you toss a fish west over the state line from Florida to this state Alabama |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | AUDIBLE $2000: Colin Firth reads the line that gives a novel by this British author its title
But that wasn't what Sarah had said, and sitting there beside Henry in the Victoria Gardens, watching the day die, I remembered the end of the whole "affair" Graham Greene |
| #8131, aired 2020-01-06 | POTPOURRI $400: This line begins the nursery rhyme that also says, "Wasn't that a dainty dish to set before a king?" Sing a song of sixpence |
| #8124, aired 2019-12-26 | THESE WOMEN MAKE THE CLOTHES $600: In addition to a clothing line, this designer offers a ToryTrack hybrid smartwatch Tory Burch |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | THE SPHERE OF SCIENCE $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. On a sphere, the shortest route is described as this, a term preceding "dome" in a Buckminster Fuller structure geodesic |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | DESIGNER INITIALS $400: In 2016 he launched a new line in collaboration with model Gigi Hadid: T.H. Tommy Hilfiger |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | YOU CAN TAKE THAT TO THE BANK! $1000: Redoing the kitchen is gonna be pricey, so we'll take out a HELOC, short for home equity this a home equity line of credit |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | MILITARY JARGON & SLANG $600: Onboard a U.S. Navy ship, "pollywogs" turn into "shellbacks" when they've crossed this geographic line the equator |
| #8106, aired 2019-12-02 | LITERARY WORKS OF THE 1820s $4,000 (Daily Double): Jane Webb Loudon wrote the 1st novel about one of these creatures, including the line "'Weak, feeble worm!' exclaimed Cheops" a mummy |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | 20th CENTURY HISTORY $400: The people seen here are forming this painful reminder of the 1930s a bread line |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | PUTTING OUT THE WELCOME MATH $400: Sometimes you see the sines; others, you go off on 1 of these, a straight line that touches a curve without cutting through it a tangent |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | THE MOVIES $800: I always tear up at the line "A toast to my big brother, George. The richest man in town!" in this Jimmy Stewart film It's a Wonderful Life |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | THE MOVIES $1200: A line from this Tarantino film: "We ain't in the prisoner-takin' business; we in the killin' Nazi business" Inglourious Basterds |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | MATH GUYS $800: Among Ptolemy's pursuits was drawing up a table of these--not in a musical score but as line segments in a circle chords |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS $800: It can be a line of mountain ridges or a grazing land for animals a range |
| #8083, aired 2019-10-30 | A HISTORICAL RHETORICAL $1000: Yo, France... between 1930 & '40, will it be worth it to spend billions of francs on this "Line" of defense? (it will not) the Maginot Line |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | TONS OF FUN $600: Buoys may be anchored in place with these that weigh 9 tons, a bit heavier than the same-named weight on a fishing line a sinker |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | A POETIC GEOGRAPHY LESSON $1200: Longfellow's line "On the shores of Gitche Gumee" from "The Song of Hiawatha" refers to this Great Lake Lake Superior |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | POTPOURRI $2000: This little metal piece at the front of a gun barrel acts as a sight; marksmen "draw" it when they line up a target a bead |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | MAGIC & ILLUSION $800: On "The Big Bang Theory", this notably silent magician played Amy's dad & actually had a line--"Thank you!" Teller |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | SHIP OF THE LINE $400: "The clangor of that blacksmiths' fray" is a line by Herman Melville about this ironclad ship's battle with the Merrimack the Monitor |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | SHIP OF THE LINE $800: "They say I got away in a boat / and humbled me at the inquiry", begins Derek Mahon's "After" this, about a haunted survivor the Titanic |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | SHIP OF THE LINE $1200: "The ship went down like lead" in this Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem about a man haunted by a guilty act The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | SHIP OF THE LINE $1600: This ship "is unsinkable / that was Hitler's cry", ran a WWII-era Royal Navy poem titled "The Sinking of" it the Bismarck |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | SHIP OF THE LINE $2000: "Long time ago, from Amsterdam a vessel sailed away", begins John Boyle O'Reilly's poem about this spooky title ship the Flying Dutchman |
| #8070, aired 2019-10-11 | IT TAKES A VILLAIN $400: He says the movie line "You don't know the power of the dark side" Darth Vader |
| #8069, aired 2019-10-10 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $600: A line from this novel: "Name's Joad, Tom Joad" The Grapes of Wrath |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON $800: "In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf" is the first line of this classic children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | HUNTING & FISHING $800: This style of fishing means to tow a baited line, not a net, behind a slow-moving boat trolling |
| #8045, aired 2019-07-26 | SHARK WEEK $800: The subcutaneous lateral line on this tiger shark senses these quivering motions in the water, perhaps from a struggling fish vibrations |
| #8044, aired 2019-07-25 | KANGAROO WORDS $1200: You "indolent" lazybones! Stop being so this idle |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | WHAT'D THE CAPTAIN SAY? $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a bit on the monitor.) A bit is a sturdy post in a deck for fastening cables & ropes, so when the captain says, "Hold on to" this, it means to grab the last part of a line, not to hang on until no hope remains the bitter end |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | A FUNERAL ORATION $2,000 (Daily Double): General Henry Lee's funeral oration for George Washington contains the line "First in war, first in peace, & first" here "first in the hearts of his countrymen" |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | POETIC WORDS $2000: This pause in the middle of a line of poetry is from caedere, Latin for "to cut" caesura |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | POETIC WORDS $5,000 (Daily Double): Don't hold back, name this repeated line in a poem, also a verb meaning to hold back refrain |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows Earth on a monitor.) A computer algorithm concluded the longest distance you can walk in a straight line on land is nearly 7,000 miles, from Fujin in China to a point near Sagres in this country Portugal |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | ON SECOND THOUGHT $400: In a verb meaning to edit or censor, this writing tool follows both "blue" & "red" pencil |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | NEW TV $1200: "Are you hiring actors to play wrestler, or are we the wrestlers?" is a line from this Netflix show GLOW |
| #8021, aired 2019-06-24 | SHAKESPEARE'S CONTEMPORARIES $1200: Michael Drayton's "Since There's No Help, Come Let Us Kiss and Part" is a pretty good one of these 14-line poems a sonnet |
| #8020, aired 2019-06-21 | A S.T.E.A.M. CATEGORY $1600: In math the vertical "rise" of a line is divided by the horizontal "run" to calculate this measure slope |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | ACCENT MARKS & SPECIAL LETTERS $400: Without this wavy line on top of the "N", uña, "fingernail", becomes una, a form of "one" in Spanish a tilde |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | ACCENT MARKS & SPECIAL LETTERS $800: A straight line over a vowel is called this, like France's president a macron |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | VANS $200: He launched a line of electric guitars called the EVH Wolfgang Eddie Van Halen |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | BOOK TITLES $800: The title of this '70s Stephen King novel was inspired by a line in the chorus of John Lennon's "Instant Karma" The Shining |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | LET'S MAKE A TREE $1200: The "D" drops from the front of a short race, leaving this tree at the finish line ash |
| #7997, aired 2019-05-21 | ACRONYMS & INITIALISMS $4,800 (Daily Double): In 2018 this dividing strip of land was the site of a historic meeting between Kim Jong Un & South Korea's president the DMZ |
| #7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A PRINCE AMONG MEN $9,812 (Daily Double): In the mid-19th century, Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg helped restore this Austrian line to prominence Habsburg |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | GET "SET" $2000: A defeat, or the distance of a structure from a property line a setback |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | NON-POLITICAL PRESIDENTS $400: In 2019 Randi Weingarten, pres. of this union, AFT for short, joined L.A. educators on the picket line the American Federation of Teachers |
| #7992, aired 2019-05-14 | LET'S PUT ON A MUSICAL $800: Okay, so Val, who sings "Dance: Ten; Looks: Three" in this musical, should definitely be a hoofer A Chorus Line |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | INITIALLY YOURS $1000: Via the White Star Line, the Titanic was owned by this U.S. banking tycoon, who had a private suite he never got to use J.P. Morgan |
| #7981, aired 2019-04-29 | ALLITERATIVE PHRASES $1200: This phrase can refer to whatever means necessary, or the 2 possibilities for a ball hit down the line in baseball fair or foul |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | MONTY PYTHON PHRASES $2000: 5-word line that follows "I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition" "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition" |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | PHRASE ORIGINS $600: It's a close contest, coming "down to" this, what used to be across the finish line of a horse race the wire |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | CLASSIC FILM $400: A line from this 1972 classic:
"It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes" The Godfather |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "More obscene than anything is inertia" is a line from this Henry Miller book some consider obscene Tropic of Cancer |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | GET YOUR KICKS $400: In 2015 the NFL moved the spot for this kind of kick back to the 15-yard line extra point following a touchdown |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BOOK TITLE NAMES $2000: "I spit on your happiness!" is a line from this Jean Anouilh tragedy about a daughter of Oedipus Antigone |
| #7956, aired 2019-03-25 | WINE $400: This filmmaker has a line of wines called Director's Cut (Francis Ford) Coppola |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | PARK-ITECTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Vegetation in Richmond Park in England, home to red & fallow types of these, has a 5' high "browse line" they nibble below deer |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | THE BEST "OF" TV $1200: A line from "Henry V" gave this 2001 HBO miniseries about a WWII army unit its title Band of Brothers |
| #7945, aired 2019-03-08 | THE HUMANITIES $400: Changing English poetry forever, Thomas Wyatt & Henry Howard introduced this 14-line poem style from Italy a sonnet |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | IN THE "MI"DDLE $800: It can be the end point on a transportation line, or the city in which it's located a terminus |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | LET'S "C" SOME DANCING $800: This dance calls for a line, as seen here the conga |
| #7934, aired 2019-02-21 | PHYSICS $800: 2 basic types of motion are moving along a line & this type of movement around an axis rotational movement |
| #7932, aired 2019-02-19 | THAT'S A CLOWN CATEGORY $800: A line from this novel: "I...am Mr. Bob Gray, also known as Pennywise the Dancing Clown" It |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | HISTORIC SUPREME COURT CASES $1600: In 1998's Clinton v. City of New York, the Court nixed this kind of veto because it gave the president too much power a line-item veto |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | EXPRESS YOURSELF $1600: To signal to action, or to cue an actor from offstage with a forgotten line prompt |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | BIO PICKED $800: This movie bio of the singer shown has a 3-word title & was nominated for 5 Oscars Walk the Line |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | FLYING CARS? $800: The U.S. Air Force show squadron rolled off the assembly line in 1953; the popular Fords, a year later the Thunderbird |
| #7915, aired 2019-01-25 | POETRY IN MOTION $1000: His "Mending Wall" says, "And on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again" (Robert) Frost |
| #7906, aired 2019-01-14 | THEY GOT THE MEMO $1200: In a January 1940 memo, this French colonel argued France needed tanks, not the Maginot Line; he was right de Gaulle |
| #7901, aired 2019-01-07 | 2 CAN PLAY THAT GAME $2,000 (Daily Double): It's time to start this ancient Asian game played with 361 pieces on a 19-by-19-line board go |
| #7896, aired 2018-12-31 | A FISTFUL OF HEROES $400: The cowled killer Ezio Auditore da Firenze was a force in this line of video games Assassin's Creed |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | CONFUSING LYRICS $1000: This "boozy" Oasis tune has the line "slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball" "Champagne Supernova" |
| #7894, aired 2018-12-27 | ALMOST PRESIDENT $3,800 (Daily Double): Because he held this job in 1973, Carl Albert would have been Pres. had Nixon resigned before a new veep was confirmed Speaker of the House |
| #7891, aired 2018-12-24 | STICKER SHOCK $1200: A popular bumper sticker is the ichthys symbol, a line drawing of this creature as a symbol of Christianity a fish |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | TV MOVES $600: This actor found infinite variations on putting on his sunglasses before delivering a line over a corpse David Caruso |
| #7890, aired 2018-12-21 | DREAMY LITERATURE $800: This 17th century John Bunyan allegory ends with the line "so I awoke, and behold it was a dream" Pilgrim's Progress |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | ETERNAL $400: In November 1963 an Army engineer rigged a luau lamp with a propane line to make this for President Kennedy's grave eternal flame |
| #7881, aired 2018-12-10 | HOPE $800: "All hope abandon, ye who enter here" is a line from this 14th century poem The Divine Comedy |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | A FILM OF A DIFFERENT COLOR $1200: 1988:
"The Thin Blue ____";
1998:
"The Thin Red ____" line |
| #7876, aired 2018-12-03 | A LITTLE $1200: If the first line of your sonnet ends with "pigeon", this word for a bit is one of your few rhyming options smidgen |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | ON THE MOVE $200: This word for an airport building or train station tells you you've reached the end of the line a terminal |
| #7869, aired 2018-11-22 | GIVE A LITTLE WHISTLE $600: Her 1944 film debut included the line "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together & blow" Lauren Bacall |
| #7858, aired 2018-11-07 | TEEN MATH $800: A problem at the 2017 Intl. Math Olympiad for teens involved one of these lines touching a circle at a single point a tangent line |
| #7854, aired 2018-11-01 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A vodka cocktail with Russia's capital in its name hits the road to be a wagon line led by a beast of burden a Moscow Mule train |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | 1984 AT THE MOVIES WITH LEONARD MALTIN $600: (Leonard Maltin presents the clue.) Manipulative, but a real audience pleaser, this film about a teenager beset by bullies gave us the famous line "Wax on, wax off" Karate Kid |
| #7850, aired 2018-10-26 | PEOPLE $1600: In 2017 this Brit announced he was launching Virgin Voyages, a cruise line for adults only Branson |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | SPEAKING WORDS OF WISDOM $400: This playwright penned the line "A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory" (Arthur) Miller |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents a map on the monitor.) Brazil is the only country in the world through which the Equator passes as well as this imaginary line 23.5 degrees south of the Equator the Tropic of Capricorn |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | THE GOAL OF THE GAME $1000: Form a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line of a quartet of your own colored discs Connect Four (or Drop Four) |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE "BEST" WORDS $1200: Completes the line from a show tune:
"A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, but diamonds are..." a girl's best friend |
| #7816, aired 2018-09-10 | BACK TO BASICS $1200: The timeless line "when in doubt, go basic" this appeared in a 2017 Vogue feature black |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | LANGUAGE $2000: In Turkish a "G" under a little curvy line is basically silent, as in this last name of Recep, Turkey's leader since 2003 Erdoğan |
| #7806, aired 2018-07-16 | DESIGN ACROSS AMERICA $1600: (I'm Ryan Field from New York's ABC-7.) A collaboration involving architecture; engineer & landscape, garden & lighting design, this is Manhattan's newest park the High Line |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | A STREETCAR $800: In 2001 this City of Roses got the USA's first new streetcar line since WWII & it'll take you to the Rose Quarter Portland |
| #7804, aired 2018-07-12 | "TEN"TERTAINMENT $2000: An ode to surgical enhancement in "A Chorus Line" is titled this, "Looks: Three" "Dance: Ten" |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | "F" STOP $800: It's a smaller line that finishes off a stroke of a letter; some fonts are "sans" it serif |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | UH OH, TALKIN' MORE FOOTBALL $200: This word for the snapper should tell you he lines up in the middle of the offensive line a center |
| #7787, aired 2018-06-19 | HOOK, LINE & SINKER $1200: Orel Hershiser's sinker helped bring him the 1988 N.L. Cy Young Award & this team a World Series title the Dodgers |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | TV QUOTES $800: This AMC spin-off featured the line "Slippin' Jimmy with a law degree is like a chimp with a machine gun" Better Call Saul |
| #7778, aired 2018-06-06 | A JOURNEY OF YOUR PIERS $800: You can zip-line down Scheveningen Pier on beaches just outside this city, the seat of the Dutch government The Hague |
| #7777, aired 2018-06-05 | PULITZER PRIZE MUSICALS $800: 5 people, including Marvin Hamlisch, shared the 1976 Drama award for this musical A Chorus Line |
| #7776, aired 2018-06-04 | THE OLD 3, 4 $1200: It divides a hockey rink in half the red line |
| #7766, aired 2018-05-21 | JEFF BRIDGES $400: The Abiders, Jeff's backing band on a recent album, take their name from a line in this Coen Brothers film The Big Lebowski |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | CROSSWORD CLUES "A" $600: Catching fish using hook, line & sinker
(7) angling |
| #7764, aired 2018-05-17 | POP CULTURE TEACHERS $1600: You can win our money knowing he played a teacher in 1986 with the immortal line "Bueller...Bueller...Bueller" (Ben) Stein |
| #7760, aired 2018-05-11 | MY DEER $600: In a "Sound of Music" song, it's the line that follows "Doe, a deer, a female deer" ray, a drop of golden sun |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | POLITICAL TERMS $400: To "toe" this is to outwardly agree with all the positions of a political organization the line |
| #7744, aired 2018-04-19 | WORLD PLAYS $400: "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!" is a line from this play by Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot |
| #7743, aired 2018-04-18 | DOUBLE LETTERS IN THE MIDDLE $200: A 14-line poem in iambic pentameter a sonnet |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | NEW TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY $800: This baseball word for a ball hit directly to the pitcher a comebacker |
| #7723, aired 2018-03-21 | I'VE SEEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT ON BROADWAY $400: Based on the lives of Broadway dancers, this musical passed its first audition for 15 years before closing in 1990 A Chorus Line |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | MUST SEA TV $4,800 (Daily Double): An episode of the BBC's "Oceans" explored the San Andreas fault line in this sea named for a conquistador Sea of Cortez |
| #7713, aired 2018-03-07 | SOUND $1200: This verb meaning to change the play at the line of scrimmage can also mean to improvise in a non-football situation to audible |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | "HORSE" TALK $800: In Shakespeare, Richard III's last line is "A horse! A horse!" These 5 words! my kingdom for a horse |
| #7708, aired 2018-02-28 | ODD-NUMBERED PHRASES $3,000 (Daily Double): A line from this kids' book: "Horrid little beasts... I shall like you so much better when you're skins instead of pups" 101 Dalmatians |
| #7706, aired 2018-02-26 | "SMALL" TALK $2000: A line from an old hymn gave veterinarian James Herriot this title for a beloved 1972 memoir All Creatures Great and Small |
| #7702, aired 2018-02-20 | A WRINKLE IN TIME $1200: (Mindy Kaling gives the clue.) I play Mrs. Who, a well-read character who speaks mainly in quotes, including this question that's also the first line in "Macbeth" "When shall we three meet again?" |
| #7689, aired 2018-02-01 | TALKIN' FOOTBALL $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.) As Minneapolis' U.S. Bank Stadium prepares to host Super Bowl LII, I'm looking at the Ring of Honor, with names from this defensive line that took the Vikings to four Super Bowls the Purple People Eaters |
| #7685, aired 2018-01-26 | CREDITORS & PREY $800: This type of "inflatable" mortgage is cheap at first, but has a harder-to-meet payment down the line a balloon |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | THE QUOTABLE WILL ROGERS $600: A frequent opening line, "All I know is" this "All I know is what I read in the papers" |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | ETYMOLOGY $1600: A ghost
sighting was originally what made people this, 1 letter different from the first line of the clue aghast |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $1600: This "wish"ful line from "Brokeback Mountain" is Annie Proulx' entry in Bartlett's "I wish I knew how to quit you" |
| #7657, aired 2017-12-19 | SECURITY! $1000: The intruder wouldn't stop & now we have a breach of this, also a geometry term for a boundary line perimeter |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | MAN MAKES THE CLOTHES $600: Known for his A-line silhouette, this Frenchman also had a sense of smell, with a 1964 fragrance simply called "Y" Yves Saint Laurent |
| #7652, aired 2017-12-12 | ROBERT SIEGEL SIGNS OFF $800: (Robert Siegel reads the clue.) I've done interviews about the craft of acting with giants from George Clooney to Stacy Keach; I fed Stacy the line "The queen, my lord, is dead" & he recited a speech from this tragedy Macbeth |
| #7649, aired 2017-12-07 | "I" LOVE OPERA $800: Here are the leads in the original 1865 production of a Wagner opera; I believe the line is, "Me, Tristan, you" her Isolde |
| #7643, aired 2017-11-29 | THE SHOE MUST GO ON $1000: Comfortech is a line from this family-named men's shoe brand that began in Chicago in 1892 Florsheim |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | LINE CRAFT $800: Parallel lines in a painting converge in a single vanishing point in the system known as linear this perspective |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | LINE CRAFT $1,100 (Daily Double): Picasso made many line drawings of this bird whose Spanish name Paloma he gave to one of his daughters a dove |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | LINE CRAFT $2000: This man from Bern said, "Drawing is like taking a line for a walk", and here's one of his strolls Paul Klee |
| #7633, aired 2017-11-15 | A TRIANGLE SCHEME $600: The reciprocal of cosine, it's the ratio of line AC to line AB in the triangle here secant |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | MUSICALS' OPENING NUMBERS $800: "I Hope I Get It" A Chorus Line |
| #7621, aired 2017-10-30 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1600: Clint Eastwood in "In the Line of Fire" laments the underuse of this 10-letter word for a ludicrous scheme or idea cockamamie |
| #7614, aired 2017-10-19 | THE CHANDLER $1600: A typical hard-boiled line: these guys "never say goodbye. They're always hoping to see you again in the line-up" the cops |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | LITERA-CHURCH $200: A line in this novel refers to "a great scandal" in "godly Master Dimmesdale's church" The Scarlet Letter |
| #7602, aired 2017-10-03 | OCCUPATIONS $400: You need a good line of patter to do this job, heard in action here auctioneer |
| #7600, aired 2017-09-29 | THE RENAISSANCE $2,000 (Daily Double): After 1516 this royal family had 2 branches: a Spanish line & an Austrian line the Habsburgs |
| #7599, aired 2017-09-28 | ABSURDIST LIT $2000: A line in this French author's "Myth of Sisyphus", saying human life is absurd, gave the movement its name Camus |
| #7597, aired 2017-09-26 | LET'S SET SOME BOUNDARIES $1200: George H.W. Bush metaphorically drew one of these boundaries in 1990 prior to the first Gulf War conflict a line in the sand |
| #7594, aired 2017-09-21 | WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KELVIN $1200: Kelvin was the driving force in the laying of the transatlantic one of these in 1866 telegraph cable |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | SONNETS $400: The first part of a sonnet can pose a problem in an 8-line stanza called this, also a musical term an octet (or octave) |
| #7592, aired 2017-09-19 | IT'S A WIRED WORLD $1200: Your smartphone isn't literally attached to you, unlike this type of "smart" product such as Samsung's Gear line a smartwatch |
| #7583, aired 2017-07-26 | LYRICS FROM BROADWAY $1600: "Kiss today goodbye, the sweetness & the sorrow" A Chorus Line |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | WHO WROTE THE LINE? $200: "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas just like the ones I used to know" Irving Berlin |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | WHO WROTE THE LINE? $400: "The prince must be a fox... to recognize the traps and a lion to frighten the wolves" Machiavelli |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | WHO WROTE THE LINE? $1,000 (Daily Double): "She lives in a world of her own--a world of--little glass ornaments" Tennessee Williams |
| #7579, aired 2017-07-20 | HISTORICAL CHESS PIECES $600: Don Juan Enguera, bishop of Vich, was a "grand" this, holding the line against heresy in Spain a Grand Inquisitor |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | THE ORIENT EXPRESSION $800: In a Kipling poem this line precedes" and never the twain shall meet" East is East and West is West |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | ODDS & ENDS $400: Pro sports oddsmakers provide this type of opening line on a game, like "Dolphins by 4" the point spread |
| #7561, aired 2017-06-26 | ODDS & ENDS $1000: As the end of a railroad line, Atlanta originally had this fitting name Terminus |
| #7558, aired 2017-06-21 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $200: A poem in which the first letters of each line spell out a word or phrase an acrostic |
| #7556, aired 2017-06-19 | HOUSE FULL OF LIT $600: "Good night--you princes of Maine!" is a line from this John Irving work that takes place in part in an orphanage The Cider House Rules |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | NONFICTION $400: "Reason, even science, was what Billy Beane was intent on bringing to baseball" is a line from this book Moneyball |
| #7549, aired 2017-06-08 | WHAT'S "NU"? $400: In a fraction, it goes above the line the numerator |
| #7546, aired 2017-06-05 | NOVELS $1,000 (Daily Double): "The fathers of Chingachgook have not lied!" is a line in this historical novel The Last of the Mohicans |
| #7543, aired 2017-05-31 | SOME FASHION CENTS $1200: Oh, Domenico & Stefano, heads of this brand, your $3,495 cherry-motif striped A-line dress is just to die for! Dolce & Gabbana |
| #7538, aired 2017-05-24 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $400: The title of this Aldous Huxley novel comes from a line of Miranda's in "The Tempest" Brave New World |
| #7533, aired 2017-05-17 | A 5-STAR SCHOOL LUNCH $200: Always a popular lunch line item, the Iranian beluga type of this food can cost $10,000 for a pound caviar |
| #7524, aired 2017-05-04 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $800: "Let the wild rumpus start!" is a line from this favorite Where the Wild Things Are |
| #7521, aired 2017-05-01 | SOME "ME" TIME $1600: It's a straight line from a vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side a median |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | CELEBRITY FRAGRANCES $200: She has a whole line of fragrances including JLove & Glow Jennifer Lopez |
| #7520, aired 2017-04-28 | I AM A CATEGORY $400: "I am he as you are he as you are me" is the first line of this Beatles song "I Am The Walrus" |
| #7516, aired 2017-04-24 | "O"POURRI $1600: This 7-letter synonym for "indirect" is what you call a line that is neither parallel nor perpendicular oblique |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | ON "LINE" $400: It's a chronology of activities or events a timeline |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | ON "LINE" $800: With a pH greater than 7, my water sample is this alkaline |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | ON "LINE" $1200: Retronym for a 20th century-style telephone connection a landline |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | SOCIETY $200: It's a society led by women in which descent is traced through the female line a matriarchy |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | HISTORY AT SEA $1600: This legendary British steamship line that included the Queen Mary & the Queen Elizabeth is named for a British baronet Cunard |
| #7510, aired 2017-04-14 | FENCING $1600: "Stairway To Heaven" mentions one of these fences formed by a dense line of trees or shrubs a hedgerow |
| #7507, aired 2017-04-11 | LIVE TV $1600: In 1999 this "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" host fittingly served up some improv for a live performance of his sitcom Drew Carey |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | WARNER BROS $2000: In a line of succession, husband-wise, this Virginia politician followed Richard Burton & Richard Burton John Warner |
| #7486, aired 2017-03-13 | FULL OF QUESTIONS $3,000 (Daily Double): "Where's my serpent of old Nile?" is a line from this Shakespeare play Antony and Cleopatra |
| #7485, aired 2017-03-10 | DEATH SENTENCES $2000: A famous line from this play says, "To die will be an awfully big adventure" Peter Pan |
| #7475, aired 2017-02-24 | SNAP CHAT $1200: On a football team the person in this position, abbreviated L.S., does a lot of hiking a long snapper |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $800: In 1986: "If you lead a country like Britain... you have to have a touch of iron about you" (Margaret) Thatcher |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? $1600: "I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand" Helen Keller |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2000: Background music for a movie, or a line drawn beneath a word underscore |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | BOOTS $2000: This 1992 Brooks & Dunn No. 1 country hit launched a line dance craze "Boot Scootin' Boogie" |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | LINES ON THE MAP $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) China claims as its territorial waters everything within the Nine-Dash line; it used to have eleven dashes, but when Communist Vietnam was a closer ally, two in this gulf were dropped the Gulf of Tonkin |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | LINES ON THE MAP $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The way cities around the world line up on lines of latitude can be surprising; for instance, Los Angeles, California lies only about two minutes north of this 3-letter Moroccan city Fez |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | RAINFORESTS $2000: You can visit a butterfly farm or zip line through the rainforests of Puntarenas in this Central American country Costa Rica |
| #7455, aired 2017-01-27 | AN INVENTIVE CATEGORY $800: In 1853 David Smith patented one of these to keep your undies hanging on a line by using a spring clamp & 2 wooden levers a clothespin |
| #7454, aired 2017-01-26 | QUOTATIONS $2000: "A River Runs Through It" begins, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and" this type of "fishing" fly fishing |
| #7438, aired 2017-01-04 | DON "E" $1000: This last name of Perry, who died in 1986, is still on a line of menswear Ellis |
| #7434, aired 2016-12-29 | "L"ITERATURE $1200: The first line of this D.H. Lawrence novel is "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically" Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | U.S. HISTORY $400: In 2003 in Ohio, an overgrown tree touched a power line, causing this event that affected 50 million North Americans a blackout |
| #7430, aired 2016-12-23 | POWER AWARDS $200: (I'm Lara Logan of CBS News.) I earned an Edward R. Murrow Award for "Ramadi: On the Front Line"; a report on troops under fire in this country Iraq |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | A TIME FOR "US" $800: The line "thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" first appears in this Biblical book Leviticus |
| #7420, aired 2016-12-09 | PALMISTRY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a palm on the monitor.) Palm readers say that each of the breaks that are found in this alliterative line may represent a serious experience that has either happened or could happen in the future the life line |
| #7410, aired 2016-11-25 | FEEL THE ROBERT BURNS! $4,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 1937 novel about migrant laborers comes from a line in Robbie's poem "To a Mouse" Of Mice and Men |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $200: It's an angle at 180 degrees straight |
| #7409, aired 2016-11-24 | GLORIA, GLORIA $400: We wonder if there was a conga line when this singer received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015 (Gloria) Estefan |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | WEAR $600: This Argentine-born soccer star has a line named for him at Adidas (Lionel) Messi |
| #7406, aired 2016-11-21 | HOBBIES & PASTIMES $400: Now synonymous with in-line skating, this brand has been turning on a single row of wheels since 1980 Rollerblade |
| #7404, aired 2016-11-17 | IT'S AMERICAN LIT $3,000 (Daily Double): Ernest Hemingway took the title of this novel set during the Spanish Civil War from a line by John Donne For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | GEO-GLOSSARY $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an image on the monitor.) The edge of plateau where multiple streams drop to a plain below is called this 4-letter line, for the cataracts that form there a fall line |
| #7397, aired 2016-11-08 | GONE FISHING $1200: This object attached to a fishing line floats on the surface to keep the bait at a specific depth a bobber |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | THAT'S OXYMORONIC $1000: Merrell has a line of running shoes oxymoronically called this; actually running that way is said to be better for you barefoot |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | COMMUNICATION IS KEY $600: The first primitive form of this device that sends print over a telephone line was made in 1843 by a Scottish inventor a fax machine |
| #7394, aired 2016-11-03 | COMMUNICATION IS KEY $800: This company was founded in 1851 to build a telegraph line from Buffalo to St. Louis Western Union |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | ADVERTISING $400: A ad paying tribute to Prince showed one of these under the line "Baby, that was much too fast" a (little) red Corvette |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | THE QUOTABLE BROWNINGS $1200: The 43rd of these from Elizabeth contains the line "I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life" a sonnet |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | THE COUNTY LINE $200: Oklahoma is rich in double-E counties like Cherokee, Pawnee & this one from a Merle Haggard title Muskogee |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | THE COUNTY LINE $400: In North Central Kentucky, you'll find this county whose name a corn whiskey has made famous Bourbon |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | THE COUNTY LINE $600: Montana's counties include Big Horn & this one named for a 19th century general who died in Montana Custer |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1818, the U.S. & Britain signed a treaty, making this line the border between the U.S. & Canada from Minnesota to the Rockies; it was later extended to the Pacific the 49th parallel |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | IT'S SCOTCH TO ME $1000: This term can be applied legally only to scotch distilled north of a line stretching from Greenock to Dundee Highland |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | DEAD LINES $400: "Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail" is a line from this story A Christmas Carol |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | DEAD LINES $800: Completes the line from "Treasure Island", "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest--yo-ho-ho, and..." a bottle of rum |
| #7371, aired 2016-10-03 | THE "TIMES" OF YOUR LIFE $800: J.J. , Thelma & Michael were the kids on this dy-no-mite sitcom Good Times |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | THIS & THAT $2000: In the first recording for his phonograph, Thomas Edison read a line from this nursery rhyme "Mary Had A Little Lamb" |
| #7360, aired 2016-09-16 | SIGN O' THE TIMES $800: Add a vertical line to the bottom half of a Mercedes logo & you'll have this familiar symbol a peace sign |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | TAKE ME TO COURT $2000: FICA is a line on your pay stub; this law set up a special court to approve national security warrants FISA |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | COMPLETE THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS LINE $800: "Hokey religions & ancient weapons are no match for a good ____ at your side" blaster |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | COMPLETE THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS LINE $1600: "That's no moon, it's a ____ ____" space station |
| #7356, aired 2016-09-12 | COMPLETE THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS LINE $2000: "Aren't you a little short for a ____" stormtrooper |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | THE BUCKET LIST $200: Alliterative name for a line of people who pass pails of water to help put out a fire bucket brigade |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | DRAW YOUR "GUN" $600: A line of hereditary military dictators of Japan, they ruled until the 1860s the shoguns |
| #7348, aired 2016-07-20 | TV WHO SAID IT? $800: On "Parks & Recreation":
"Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have" Swanson |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | I KINGS $400: This Norman who died in 1087 founded a line of succession to the British throne William the Conqueror |
| #7347, aired 2016-07-19 | ADAPTATIONS 5 $600: A memorable line in this 2013 movie adapted from a nonfiction book: "I'm the captain now" Captain Phillips |
| #7336, aired 2016-07-04 | TITLE PAIRS $1200: "I'll teach your grandmother to suck eggs" is a line in their "Happy Happy Joy Joy" song Ren & Stimpy |
| #7317, aired 2016-06-07 | THE PHONE $1600: In "Pillow Talk" Doris Day & Rock Hudson share this kind of multi-user line & romantic confusion ensues a party line |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | 3 VOWELS IN A ROW $1600: We're "in line"; Londoners are in one of these, which actually has 4 vowels in a row a queue |
| #7313, aired 2016-06-01 | WORLD OF POETRY $800: Written by a Persian poet, "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" is a collection of rubai, these 4-line verses quatrains |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | PODCASTS $600: Karina Longworth talks old Hollywood on "You Must Remember This", a line from this classic movie song "As Time Goes By" |
| #7310, aired 2016-05-27 | NICE RED UNIFORMS! $2000: An 1854 stand by Highlanders against a cavalry charge led to this 3-word nickname for the British infantry the "Thin Red Line" |
| #7307, aired 2016-05-24 | NYC TV $400: A line from this Big Apple show is "There ain't no party like a Liz Lemon party 'cause a Liz Lemon party is mandatory" 30 Rock |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $3,000 (Daily Double): A line from Ecclesiastes inspired the title of this Hemingway novel about expatriates in France & Spain The Sun Also Rises |
| #7298, aired 2016-05-11 | TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $2000: (Hi. I'm Al Roker.) A sudden onset of winds increasing by at least 18 mph; it precedes "line" to describe a line of active thunderstorms squall |
| #7297, aired 2016-05-10 | "ON" THE MIDDLE $800: Type of "reading" that alternates a line by a pastor & by the congregation responsive |
| #7295, aired 2016-05-06 | FINISH THE LITERARY LINE $800: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women..." merely players |
| #7293, aired 2016-05-04 | TOYS $400: This line of toy cars named for a small container started in 1953 with a roller, a dump truck & a cement mixer Matchbox |
| #7291, aired 2016-05-02 | SHOES A TO Z $600: Z:
This dance-fitness workout offers its own line of shoes Zumba |
| #7290, aired 2016-04-29 | OUT OF THEIR HEADS! $400: A newspaper banner item becomes one of these, like "So, do you come here often?" a line |
| #7280, aired 2016-04-15 | RUSSIAN CITIES $800: With a population of about 300,000, the port city of Murmansk is the world's largest city north of this geographic line the Arctic Circle |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE BEST NEW THING IN THE WORLD $400: (Rachel Maddow delivers the clue.) Around 1455 the best new thing in the world was movable type, used in a 42-line Bible produced by this German printer Gutenberg |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE WAR OF 1812 $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map-like diagram on the monitor.) Using barricades of earthworks & cotton bales, he set a defensive line on Rodriguez Canal to defend New Orleans; in a half-hour of fighting on January 8, 1815, British causalities were over 2,000; Americans?--fewer than 100 (Andrew) Jackson |
| #7271, aired 2016-04-04 | POETRY, NON-POETICALLY $600: When you write of an 18th c. hero like Longfellow did & end line 1 with "hear", it's a given this guy's name is coming up in line 2 Paul Revere |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | CLOTHES $800: Christian Dior introduced the H-line, the Y-line & in 1955 this flared silhouette the A-line |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | POETRY $600: This phrase concludes Keats' line "A thing of beauty is..." a joy forever |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | WORD PUZZLES $600: With this phrase, there's not a lot of progress being made one step forward, two steps back |
| #7251, aired 2016-03-07 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $800: Here's one of these Depression-era lines as depicted in bronze at the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C. a bread line |
| #7250, aired 2016-03-04 | CELEBRITY ENTREPRENEURS $400: These twins' billion-dollar business empire includes a high-end fashion line called The Row the Olsens |
| #7246, aired 2016-02-29 | LONG 1-SYLLABLE WORDS $400: 7 letters: A preposition that can precede "out" or "line" through |
| #7239, aired 2016-02-18 | ARCHIE: 75 YEARS $200: In 2013 Mac cosmetics introduced Archie's Girls, a line named for these 2 rivals for Archie's attention Betty & Veronica |
| #7235, aired 2016-02-12 | FAQ $7,400 (Daily Double): When asked in 1779 about being ready to surrender, John Paul Jones replied with this line "I have not yet begun to fight." |
| #7229, aired 2016-02-04 | WALL-TO-WALL $3,600 (Daily Double): A national trail in England follows the line of this historic wall from Wallsend to Bowness-on-Solway Hadrian's Wall |
| #7227, aired 2016-02-02 | MATH TEST $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) Divide the change in a line's vertical "y" component by the change in its horizontal "x" component to get this measure of its inclination slope |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | GEOGRAPHICAL MUSIC GROUPS $2000: "Dirt"
(a 2-state country group) Florida Georgia Line |
| #7220, aired 2016-01-22 | ROARING '20s READER $3,000 (Daily Double): "Connie, this is the new game-keeper" is a line from this scandalous 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| #7219, aired 2016-01-21 | "DE" MIDDLE $200: To set in from the margin, as the first line of a paragraph indent |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | CREATION STORIES $200: The original natives of this U.S. state have the Kumulipo, a 2,000-line poem of the creation Hawaii |
| #7216, aired 2016-01-18 | OH SAY CAN YOU SEE? $800: In 2015 this Utah man was third in line in presidential succession Orrin Hatch |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | ALEXANDER POPE $400: Pope's line "A little" this "is a dangerous thing" is sometimes misquoted as "A little knowledge" learning |
| #7210, aired 2016-01-08 | WHAT A DOLL! $600: This line of dolls includes Addy Walker, who escaped slavery in 1864 American Girl |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | THE PULITZER PRIZE AT 100 $400: (I'm Josh Haner.) I won the Pulitzer for Feature Photography for "Beyond the Finish Line", a photo essay on the recovery of Jeff Bauman, a survivor of the tragedy at this event on April 15, 2013 the Boston Marathon bombing |
| #7206, aired 2016-01-04 | COLORULLY ALLITERATIVE $800: This tropical fruit-infused potable from Three-D spirits sounds like a line from Danny in "The Shining" Red Rum |
| #7203, aired 2015-12-30 | FAILED CHILDREN'S BOOK ANIMALS $2000: Terry Termite learns to read when he follows the line made by a pen whose ink mimics these chemicals pheromones |
| #7197, aired 2015-12-22 | ARTS & CULTURE $2,000 (Daily Double): Because it has 6 units called iambs, the poetic line "Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight" is in iambic this hexameter |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | OUR ELVES $600: Azari is a fire elf & Naida a water elf in this Danish company's toy line & accompanying media franchise Lego |
| #7196, aired 2015-12-21 | COLORFUL U.S. CITIES $4,000 (Daily Double): This Alabama college town's name was inspired by a line from Oliver Goldsmith's poem "The Deserted Village" Auburn |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | MARKS & ANGLES $600: A mark called a vinculum is a horizontal line placed over a decimal to show that the decimal does this repeat |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | PRAISE THE LLOYD $600: It took her all of 16 minutes to get a hat trick in the 2015 women's World Cup final; the goal from the halfway line? Wow! Carli Lloyd |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | THE NEW YORK TIMES: OBITUARIES $800: Memorializing this comedian in 2014, the Times quoted her line "A Peeping Tom looked in my window & pulled down the shade" Joan Rivers |
| #7184, aired 2015-12-03 | POTPOURRI $1000: Collective name for several Philadelphia suburbs, for their former position along the Pennsylvania RR Main Line |
| #7180, aired 2015-11-27 | BEAUTY $2000: This double curve, known by a 4-letter name, has been called "the line of beauty" an ogee |
| #7174, aired 2015-11-19 | AUTOLOGICAL WORDS $1600: It's a divided word, but without that little line or dash used to connect unhyphenated |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | BEAR NAYS $1000: Grumpy Bear, a member of this toy line and later animated group, says no to a lot; he's grumpy, after all the Care Bears |
| #7168, aired 2015-11-11 | FASHION $600: Madonna & daughter Lourdes launched a clothing line called this, the name of a 1985 hit by Madonna Material Girl |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | JUST PASSING THROUGH $200: In geometry it's a straight line passing through a circle's center & meeting the circumference at each end diameter |
| #7167, aired 2015-11-10 | NICKNAMES FOR FEMINISTS $1200: A biography of this 19th century woman includes the line "news of Vicky's candidacy traveled across the country" Victoria Woodhull |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | THE FIRST 10 BIBLE BOOKS $400: Referring to a line of charismatic leaders of Israel, it's the only book title in the first 10 that's an occupation Judges |
| #7158, aired 2015-10-28 | FILMS OF THE '90s $200: The tag line of this film was "A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins" The Fugitive |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | LINES ON THE MAP $400: During a solstice, the sun is directly over one of these lines of latitude whose names suggest easy days & fruity drinks tropic |
| #7151, aired 2015-10-19 | THAT'S SHOE BIZ! $400: Heidi Klum created a limited edition line of these German sandals & clogs, once a favorite of hippies Birkenstocks |
| #7150, aired 2015-10-16 | SYMBOLS $600: From the Latin for "title", it's the little line over certain N's in Spanish to indicate a nasalized pronunciation a tilde |
| #7148, aired 2015-10-14 | DC-3 $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta, GA.) Ship 41 rolled off the assembly line on December 23, 1940, so each carries a copy of that date's issue of this picture magazine; stories included the bombing of Coventry & the discovery of Lana Turner in a malt shop Life |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | ON "FIRE" $200: A museum in Phoenix honors these heroes & has a database of 9,000 who have died in the line of duty since 1800 firefighters |
| #7140, aired 2015-10-02 | MEMOIRS $800: "The truth is, Mitch... once you learn how to die, you learn how to live" is a line from this bestselling memoir Tuesdays with Morrie |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | WHAT A CLICHÉ! $400: You must be from the poorer part of town, born here relative to the train line the wrong side of the tracks |
| #7131, aired 2015-09-21 | WHAT A CLICHÉ! $1200: My snacks are missing from my dressing room again; time to "round up" this group, a line from "Casablanca" the usual suspects |
| #7129, aired 2015-09-17 | NOOK $800: This movie includes the line "Nobody puts Baby in a corner" Dirty Dancing |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | COMPARING $200: A math axiom says a line is this superlative distance between 2 points on a flat surface shortest |
| #7108, aired 2015-07-08 | NAME-DROPPING SONG LYRICS $1200: "Liston beats Patterson" is a line from his hit "We Didn't Start The Fire" Billy Joel |
| #7107, aired 2015-07-07 | CROCODILE $200: A John Keats poem about this river contains the line "Chief of the Pyramid and Crocodile" the Nile |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | THE KIDS ARE SINGING IT $2000: This title command by Hozier precedes the line "I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies" "Take Me To Church" |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a battle map on the monitor.) A June 25, 1876, battle map shows Sitting Bull's camp next to Major Reno's skirmish line, with the Indian encampment separated from Last Stand Hill to the north by this river Little Big Horn |
| #7096, aired 2015-06-22 | TAKE A PHOTO $600: In 1935 Kodak introduced this product line, the first commercially successful amateur color film Kodachrome |
| #7087, aired 2015-06-09 | GONE FISHING $1000: Specialized equipment used in this type of fishing can include pronged arrows attached to a line spearfishing (or bowfishing) |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | AMERICAN QUOTATIONS $800: A line credited to this humorist is "I don't make jokes--I just watch the government and report the facts" Will Rogers |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | THE MOST DOWNLOADED ROCK SONGS $1000: The title of this song from "Rocky III" came from a line of dialogue in the movie "Eye Of The Tiger" |
| #7084, aired 2015-06-04 | GEOGRAPH-"E" $800: A meridian is a line of this longitude |
| #7083, aired 2015-06-03 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $1000: The economic line "There ain't no such thing as" one of these is also known by the acronym TANSTAAFL a free lunch |
| #7082, aired 2015-06-02 | HALL OF RECORDS $200: A line in this holiday favorite is "Troll the ancient Yuletide carol" "Deck The Halls" |
| #7072, aired 2015-05-19 | IT'S A "CUR"IOUS THING $2000: Its last car, a Grand Marquis, rolled off the assembly line in 2011 Mercury |
| #7070, aired 2015-05-15 | "BULL" ____ $1000: The Progressive Party of 1912 was popularly known by this name, from a line uttered by Theodore Roosevelt the Bull Moose Party |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | ON THE GO $1600: The Pride of America sails for this cruise line with a Scandinavian name Norwegian |
| #7068, aired 2015-05-13 | QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE $2000: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" contains the line "The course of" these 2 words "never did run smooth" true love |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | LONG-RUNNING MUSICALS IN SHORT $800: Marvin Hamlisch composed the music for it:
"A.C.L." A Chorus Line |
| #7055, aired 2015-04-24 | ALPHABETICALLY LAST $400: ...word in the first spoken line in the first motion picture talkie you |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | IRISH SONGS $400: "'Tis like the morn in spring" is a line from this song "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" |
| #7049, aired 2015-04-16 | CELEBRITY ARTISTS $1600: Life's a beach for this actress, who creates paintings like the one here, and also has her own "Open Hearts" jewelry line Jane Seymour |
| #7045, aired 2015-04-10 | PUT ON YOUR DISCO SHOES $1000: Don't "Freak Out", but Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" has a bass line similar to "Good Times" by this "stylish" band Chic |
| #7040, aired 2015-04-03 | IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS $400: This small but heavy device adds weight to help your fishing line drop a sinker |
| #7033, aired 2015-03-25 | DON'T L ME $600: It's a call an umpire can make regarding a ball hit down the line fair |
| #7032, aired 2015-03-24 | LETTER-WORD $1600: This term for the shape of the skirt seen here dates from the '50s A-line |
| #7031, aired 2015-03-23 | WEARING BLACK $200: This designer has a Black Label line in addition to his Polo brand Ralph Lauren |
| #7017, aired 2015-03-03 | DRUNK HISTORY $1200: Many a patriot hoisted a mug at the Warren Tavern, today a nice break from the red line of this Boston urban trail the Freedom Trail |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | THE END OF THE LINE $400: Scars were no longer a concern for this gangster after Jan. 25, 1947 Al Capone |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | THE END OF THE LINE $600: O say, can you see he became D.A. of D.C. in 1833 but was D.O.A. on Jan. 11, 1843 Francis Scott Key |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | THE END OF THE LINE $800: "A specter is haunting Europe--the specter of" this political theory communism |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | THE END OF THE LINE $1200: Sonnet 18: "shall I compare thee to" this? Compare! Compare! a summer's day |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | THE END OF THE LINE $2,000 (Daily Double): "The very first requirement in a hospital (is) that it should do the sick ____" no harm |
| #7013, aired 2015-02-25 | THE END OF THE LINE $2000: A Beckett work ends, "you must go on, I can't go on," then these 3 words I'll go on |
| #7011, aired 2015-02-23 | THE SHAPE OF THINGS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents.) Consisting of 2 perpendicular line segments & a semicircle, a geometric tool for angle trisection is called this, like a Native American handaxe tomahawk |
| #7009, aired 2015-02-19 | LAMB-POURRI $800: The L.A.M.B. shoe line, created by this "Hollaback Girl" singer, is an acronym for Love Angel Music Baby (Gwen) Stefani |
| #7006, aired 2015-02-16 | NICE SHOES! $400: After playing a shoe-loving character, she started her own shoe line, SJP Sarah Jessica Parker |
| #7001, aired 2015-02-09 | PARTS OF A PLANT $400: You may see an assembly line or this type of line, also the amount of stuff a factory can make a production line |
| #6999, aired 2015-02-05 | THE MATH & NOTHING BUT THE MATH $600: It's a line segment that connects the 2 endpoints of an arc a chord |
| #6997, aired 2015-02-03 | TIME FOR RE-"CESS" $400: A line of people or vehicles moving in a slow & formal way procession (or processional) |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | WHAT'S MY LINE? $200: In 1881 Robert Louis Stevenson wrote that marriage is "a field of battle, and not a bed of" these roses |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | WHAT'S MY LINE? $400: Longfellow called this Italian city a "white phantom city whose untrodden streets are rivers" Venice |
| #6988, aired 2015-01-21 | WHAT'S MY LINE? $600: This Spaniard wrote, "a knight without a lady is like a tree without leaves" Cervantes |
| #6984, aired 2015-01-15 | HERALDRY $800: The white at the top of a Canadian territorial coat of arms represents the polar regions; the wavy blue line, this trade route The Northwest Passage |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | DESIGNERS $1600: Before "Project Runway" & his own fashion line, he was a child actor born Karl Anderson Jr. (Michael) Kors |
| #6982, aired 2015-01-13 | A REAL MYSTERY $200: "The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line" is an original mystery novel starring this detective played by Kristen Bell Veronica Mars |
| #6973, aired 2014-12-31 | POETIC LAST LINES $800: This poem's title has 7 words, like its last line "and miles to go before I sleep" "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
| #6965, aired 2014-12-19 | @midnight $400: Don't forget! Traditionally sung at midnight, this song includes the line "We'll take a cup of kindness yet" "Auld Lang Syne" |
| #6961, aired 2014-12-15 | NEW YORK IN THE MOVIES $800: "Greed, for a lack of a better word, is good" is a line from this 1987 film Wall Street |
| #6954, aired 2014-12-04 | CELEBS $400: In "Breaking Dawn Part 2" this actress says the line "My time as a human was over" Kristen Stewart |
| #6947, aired 2014-11-25 | PUERTO RICO $800: Sail over the rainforest on "The Beast", one of the world's highest of these at 853 feet a zip line |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | I'M JUST A SAYING $1600: Proverbally, the 4-word line a wise man gave to a king who wanted a saying true in good & bad times this too shall pass |
| #6943, aired 2014-11-19 | 12 LETTERS & STARTS WITH A VOWEL $1200: Visually not the same on both sides of a central line asymmetrical |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | NEXT IN LINE $600: A Top 20 recording of "How Sweet It Is":
Marvin Gaye, Jr. Walker & the All Stars... James Taylor |
| #6941, aired 2014-11-17 | IN BLACK & WHITE $2000: Aerosmith got the song title "Walk This Way" from a line in this movie Young Frankenstein |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | CAUSE OF DEBT $800: Be careful with getting a HELOC, this type of "line of credit"; your house could go bye-bye home equity |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | THE BIG RED WON $1600: In February 1940 a Soviet barrage finally broke the Mannerheim Line of this plucky northeastern neighbor Finland |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | WHAT A WONDERFUL "WORLD" $200: Line that begins Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man" speech from "As You Like It" All the world's a stage |
| #6927, aired 2014-10-28 | A FATEFUL "TRIP" $1200: 8-letter cord or line stretched over a footpath to set off explosives a trip wire |
| #6921, aired 2014-10-20 | A "B" IN AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: America's first passenger line, this railroad began steaming along in 1830 the B&O (Baltimore and Ohio) |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | DRAWING THE "LINE" $200: In 1913 the Ford Motor Company used a moving one of these to mass produce the Model T an assembly line |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | DRAWING THE "LINE" $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) For much of its length, the 180th meridian of longitude is tracked by this line that varies where it diverges to avoid land the International Date Line |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | DRAWING THE "LINE" $800: On a classic Monopoly board, it's between Pennsylvania Ave. & Chance the Short Line (Railroad) |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | LET'S GO TO ALASKA $1200: This "Little" island lies in the Bering Strait less than a mile east of the International Date Line Little Diomede Island |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $1200: The line about eating this & having it too was recorded in a 1546 book by John Heywood cake |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | 2 TERMS MAKE A NEW BAND NAME $600: Any offense such as burglary, greater than a misdemeanor plus the line forming the earth/sky boundary Felony Horizon |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | FINISH THE SEUSS LINE $400: "I'll just have to save him, because, after all, a person's a person, no matter..." how small |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | FINISH THE SEUSS LINE $800: "Say! That makes a story that no one can beat, when I say that I saw it on..." Mulberry Street |
| #6870, aired 2014-06-27 | FINISH THE SEUSS LINE $1000: "'Yes... that's what I'd do,' said young Gerald McGrew. 'I'd make a few changes if..." I ran the zoo |
| #6869, aired 2014-06-26 | THE BALD & THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: This Democratic strategist with a Southern drawl & gleaming skull is credited with the line "It's the economy, stupid" James Carville |
| #6868, aired 2014-06-25 | POLITICAL PARTIES $200: His 1996 election-day party aboard Air Force One included champagne, mango ice cream & a Macarena line Clinton |
| #6861, aired 2014-06-16 | BEAUTIFUL QUOTATIONS $400: As the last line of "Casablanca", Humphrey Bogart says, "Louis, I think this is the beginning of" one of these "a beautiful friendship" |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | MY DINNER WITH ANDRE $1200: We drew the "line" at a dinner with this French minister of war whose ideas didn't fly in WWII vs. Germany (Andre) Maginot |
| #6859, aired 2014-06-12 | POLITICIAN AUTHORS $200: Books by this president include "Where's the Rest of Me?", a title from a line in the movie "King's Row" Ronald Reagan |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | THE HULK, SHAKESPEARE SCHOLAR $4,000 (Daily Double): Hulk relate to trust issues of this title guy, but calling his wife "a strumpet" over line for Hulk! Wife is angel figure! Othello |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | SPORTS TALK $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a racetrack diagram on a monitor.) At the start of a NASCAR race, the top cars line up according to their qualifying times; best time gets this 2-word spot, a term said to have originated in horse racing pole position |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Pro-free market movement that emerged in 2009 as a hit with the line "The Jay-Z song was on" Tea Party in the USA |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | HATE SONGS $400: This Chrissie Hynde band covered The Persuaders' "A Thin Line Between Love & Hate" The Pretenders |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | ACTRESSES $200: This "Modern Family" co-star has a line of apparel & home products at Kmart (Sofía) Vergara |
| #6837, aired 2014-05-13 | RECENT NOVELS $400: "I am a lawyer, and I am in prison. It's a long story" is the opening line of "The Racketeer" by this novelist (John) Grisham |
| #6826, aired 2014-04-28 | TENNIS TIPS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows diagrams on the monitor.) Because the net is lower in the center & there's an extra 4 1/2 feet of court to work with, this type of diagonal shot is typically smarter than hitting it down the line a cross-court |
| #6825, aired 2014-04-25 | PICK A NUMBER BETWEEN 5 & 477 $400: The second line in a haiku typically has this many syllables 7 |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | DOES HOLD WATER $1000: This line of hands-free water holders to get you over the "hump" started as an IV bag in a sock CamelBak |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | FOOD-TITLED BOOKS $400: "Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there" is a line from this Steinbeck classic The Grapes of Wrath |
| #6817, aired 2014-04-15 | SONG OF THE SOUTH $2000: In "Boondocks" Little Big Town sings, "You get a line, I'll get a pole, we'll go fishin' in" this type of hole in the crawfish hole |
| #6816, aired 2014-04-14 | & FUZZY $1000: Sally hansen has a "Fuzzy Coat" line of these; colors include Wool Lite & All Yarned Up nail polish |
| #6806, aired 2014-03-31 | ELEVEN $1600: EleVen is a clothing line from this female athlete/designer Venus Williams |
| #6802, aired 2014-03-25 | "SNOW" JOB $400: This line follows "Mary had a little lamb" its fleece was white as snow |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | THE TWO-THOUSAND YEAR OLD MAN $800: (Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks present the clue.)
"What was your most annoying job?"
"Well, I was a scrivener for this poet who couldn't spell. The first line of his prologue, he spells 'April' like this-A-P-R-I-L-L-E. That's--that's how he spelled 'April'" Chaucer |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | WHAT GREAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE! $600: Only about half the tooth sticks out above the gum line in the 2-foot canines of this largest amphibious mammal a hippopotamus |
| #6792, aired 2014-03-11 | GUINNESS RECORDS 2014 $1200: Crossing the finish line in 14.531 sec., Germany's Julia Plecher set a record for running 100 meters wearing these high heels |
| #6787, aired 2014-03-04 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $200: "One" &
"What I Did For Love" A Chorus Line |
| #6784, aired 2014-02-27 | CNN RELIGION $10,000 (Daily Double): A 2013 CNN special on him, "A Man of Many Firsts", included his newsmaking line "Who am I to judge?" Pope Francis |
| #6783, aired 2014-02-26 | TOY STORY $1000: A group of ninjas fight using a style of martial art called Spinjitzu in this line from Lego Ninjago |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | SORORITY SISTERS $800: FSU Tri Delt Sara Blakely became a billionaire by inventing this tight-fitting undergarment line Spanx |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | NO DISRESPECT TO BEN AFFLECK $800: A tag line for this Affleck film was "The movie was fake. The mission was real" Argo |
| #6768, aired 2014-02-05 | LIKE HENRY JAMES? $200: I like that "It was raining" is the first line of a story about "Life" in this city where Henry mainly lived from 1876 on London |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | THIS IS THE END $800: A certain cyborg, or the dividing line between the illuminated & unilluminated part of the Moon the terminator |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | THIS IS THE END $1000: It comes between "you" & "me" in a Tom Cruise movie line complete |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | BOOK COVERS $1000: An iconic cover for an iconic novel:
The title in yellow & a line drawing of a carousel horse dominating a slice of New York City The Catcher in the Rye |
| #6759, aired 2014-01-23 | GEOMETRY $2000: Also the name of a trigonometric function, this straight line intersects an arc at 2 places secant |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | RHYME LINE $400: Fork prong a tine |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | RHYME LINE $600: A sort of secondary wife; in the Bible Saul had one named Rizpah a concubine |
| #6757, aired 2014-01-21 | RHYME LINE $1000: Conifer of Norfolk Island a pine |
| #6753, aired 2014-01-15 | 30 YEARS $800: Having failed to protect JFK, Clint Eastwood tries to thwart a new assassin 30 years later in this 1993 film In the Line of Fire |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | FASHION DESIGNERS $800: This Frenchman who founded a clothing line in 1933 featuring a famous logo had also gained fame
in an earlier field (René) Lacoste |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | A SLAYING SONG TONIGHT $800: He wrote & sang the song that includes the line "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die" Johnny Cash |
| #6739, aired 2013-12-26 | MARK TWAIN $200: Twain took "a journey around the world" in his fifth & last travel book, "Following" this imaginary line equator |
| #6729, aired 2013-12-12 | "DARK" MOVIES $1200: Movie in which Meryl Streep as Lindy Chamberlain had the memorable line "The dingo's got my baby!" A Cry in the Dark |
| #6728, aired 2013-12-11 | THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY $1600: In 1957 Buddy topped the charts with a hit with this title, a line repeatedly spoken by John Wayne in "The Searchers" "That'll Be The Day" |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | A TIP O' THE "HUN" $1200: Thick or stout, like a certain line of soups chunky |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | "SIX" PACK $800: A straight six & a V-6 both refer to this type of car engine a six-cylinder |
| #6724, aired 2013-12-05 | GETTING FROM HERE TO THERE $1600: In 1839 this British businessman established a steamship line to carry the Royal Mail to America (Samuel) Cunard |
| #6723, aired 2013-12-04 | ALL "GON" $2000: A line in the Song of Solomon requests, "stay me with" these drinking vessels a flagon |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | LINE $200: This 1951 movie includes the line "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" A Streetcar Named Desire |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | STATE SHAPES $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of the U.S. Central Atlantic states on the monitor.) These 2 men are famous for surveying Maryland's northern border, which became a symbolic dividing line, but they also laid out the state's eastern border with Delaware Mason & Dixon |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | LINE $400: In a Hitchcock film, this character delivers the line "A boy's best friend is his mother" Norman Bates |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | LINE $1000: 1931 film with the line "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make" Dracula |
| #6722, aired 2013-12-03 | STATE SHAPES $1600: The 42nd parallel, which 5 states border from Utah to Oregon, was a dividing line in an 1819 U.S. treaty with this country Spain |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | PIGGYBACKING $600: Princeton Delivery Systems manufactures the Piggyback line of these trucks that raise loads with a pair of tongs forklifts |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | "me"TUNES $800: "Cover me with kisses, baby, cover me with love" is a line in this Blondie song "Call Me" |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | PIGGYBACKING $1000: In the piggyback type of this hospital setup, a secondary line adds intermittent doses of a new medication an IV line |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | MAKING A BEE LINE $400: This kid lit bear said, "When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is not to let the bees know you're coming" Winnie the Pooh |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | MAKING A BEE LINE $800: He once said, "Float like a butterfly & sting like a bee, George can't hit what his hands can't see" Muhammad Ali |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | MAKING A BEE LINE $1200: Sue Monk Kidd said in this book that women make the best beekeepers because they can "love creatures that sting" The Secret Life of Bees |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | MAKING A BEE LINE $1600: In "Henry V" Shakespeare mentions "the lazy yawning" this bee that dies after mating drone |
| #6712, aired 2013-11-19 | MAKING A BEE LINE $2000: He wrote, "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree... and live alone in the bee-loud glade" William Butler Yeats |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | MYSTERY FOLKS $400: We don't know the name of the man who on June 5, 1989 confronted a line of tanks in this area & even crawled atop one Tiananmen Square |
| #6703, aired 2013-11-06 | BEATLE-Y WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This song includes the line "a thousand pages give or take a few, I'll be writing more in a week or two" "Paperback Writer" |
| #6697, aired 2013-10-29 | RIDING ON THE METRO $2,000 (Daily Double): Duke Ellington knew this NYC metro line that runs from Manhattan to Far Rockaway the "A" train |
| #6693, aired 2013-10-23 | GAMBLING $1000: It's an automatic pass line loser if I get a 2, 3 or this total on my come out roll 12 |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | M IN THE MIDDLE $400: Basketball's 3-point line is known as this, the distance around a 2-dimensional shape a perimeter |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | FASHIONABLE COMMON BONDS $800: A-line,
tent,
sheath skirts (or dresses) |
| #6689, aired 2013-10-17 | COMIC BOOK WOMEN $1200: A descendent of an ancient line of sorceresses, she can control the weather & has led the X-Men on occasion Storm |
| #6678, aired 2013-10-02 | FRENCH DRESSING $1200: The 1958 Trapeze Line from this 3-named male designer was hailed as a coup of couture Yves Saint Laurent |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | MOVIE ENDING LINE OF THE DECADE $400: 1940s:
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" Casablanca |
| #6672, aired 2013-09-24 | TYPES OF FISHING $1200: Grouper are often caught using this method of slowly pulling a lure on a line behind a boat trolling |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | ANIMAL GROUPS $800: Joe Walsh said these birds' goal after trashing hotel rooms was to cross the state line before a maid opened the door The Eagles |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $1200: Because it was the end of a railroad line, Atlanta had this original name, Latin for "end" Terminus |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | CROSSING THE PARTY LINE $200: In 2013 this Republican didn't get a lot of Republican love in the Senate but was confirmed as defense secretary Chuck Hagel |
| #6639, aired 2013-06-27 | AMERICAN LIVES $1200: Taking a line from a Supremes hit, James Haskins' "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" is about this Motown star Diana Ross |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | 5-LETTER WORDS WITH 4 VOWELS $400: A line of people in London a queue |
| #6624, aired 2013-06-06 | BODY QUOTES $1,200 (Daily Double): This 1897 work includes the line "a great nose indicates a great man" Cyrano de Bergerac |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | POP--THE QUESTION $800: Before "The Price Is Right", Drew Carey hosted this improv show based on a British series Whose Line Is It Anyway? |
| #6618, aired 2013-05-29 | POETRY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a poem on the monitor.) In an envelope stanza, the first line is considered "A" & rhymes with the last line of the quatrain; the middle two rhyme with each other, giving the entire rhyme this four-letter scheme A-B-B-A |
| #6612, aired 2013-05-21 | THE DAYS OF THE STAGECOACH $800: One stagecoach line posted a rule permitting the use of this, but you had to "spit with the wind, not against it" chewing tobacco |
| #6607, aired 2013-05-14 | 6-LETTER WORDS $400: An outer decorative edge, or the official dividing line between 2 countries a border |
| #6599, aired 2013-05-02 | THINGS MOTHER GAVE US $1000: A key that returns the cursor to the beginning of the line you're on Home |
| #6594, aired 2013-04-25 | OUT ON A "LIM" $400: There once was this 5-line type of poem, by humor & meter you'll know 'em limerick |
| #6592, aired 2013-04-23 | BASEBALL BITS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a diagram of a baseball diamond.) On a scorecard, if a batter hits a double, we mark the lines from home plate to second base & write 2B; if we mark the first line & write HBP, it indicates the player reached first base in this way hit by a pitch |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | SYNONYMS $400: This trademarked brand name has become a synonym for in-line skating rollerblade |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | THE WRITE OF SPRING $2,000 (Daily Double): "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair" is from the famous opening line of this novel A Tale of Two Cities |
| #6573, aired 2013-03-27 | "I"-PODGE $400: A 3-foot rod & nonfreezing monofilament line will help you "tackle" this outdoor sport ice fishing |
| #6568, aired 2013-03-20 | "BOTTOM" $200: On a financial statement, it shows the net income or loss the bottom line |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | MASON, DIXON, & THEIR LINE $800: M & D used an instrument called a zenith sector for determining degrees of this north of the equator latitude |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | MASON, DIXON, & THEIR LINE $1200: Jeremiah Dixon was a surveyor & Charles Mason was employed by the Royal Society in Greenwich in this capacity an astronomer |
| #6565, aired 2013-03-15 | MASON, DIXON, & THEIR LINE $1600: As a border between free & slave states, "Mason-Dixon line" was first used in debates over this 1820 compromise the Missouri Compromise |
| #6561, aired 2013-03-11 | TONY WINNERS FOR BEST MUSICAL $200: 1976:
It's about Broadway itself & its hopefuls A Chorus Line |
| #6556, aired 2013-03-04 | SHOPPING ABBREV. $600: It has a line called pink: VS Victoria's Secret |
| #6553, aired 2013-02-27 | OH, A WISE GUY! $400: Wisdom from this man includes Linus' line "I love mankind... it's people I can't stand!!" Charles Schulz |
| #6551, aired 2013-02-25 | END "SHIP" $600: The main vessel of a line, or the best or most important of a group a flagship |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | MOVIES: THE LINE OF THE END $2000: "Herr Janning, it came to that the first time you sentenced a man to death you knew to be innocent" Judgment at Nuremberg |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | CANARIES $1000: This singer has a fragrance line called Harajuku Lovers (Gwen) Stefani |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $1200: "Devon is sometimes considered the most beautiful school in New England" is a line from this John Knowles novel A Separate Peace |
| #6540, aired 2013-02-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): John Green riffed on a line from "Julius Caesar" for the title of this novel about 2 teens with cancer who fall in love The Fault In Our Stars |
| #6534, aired 2013-01-31 | SPORTS TALK $600: Try a jumper from beyond the 3-point line & you're shooting the basketball from this part of a city downtown |
| #6521, aired 2013-01-14 | SCIENCE 101 $2000: In 1986 the 101-key IBM keyboard, which became the PC standard, moved these keys from the left to a line across the top function keys |
| #6520, aired 2013-01-11 | INTO THE SHARK TANK $1200: (Here's Mark Cuban.) You're a go-getter from Utah who's transmitted a 60-line image of a dollar sign--I like your style! I think this television thing might have a future...Partner! Philo Farnsworth |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | HOW DO YOU? $400: Cover the "Free" space on your card, listen to the host call letters & numbers, yell the winning word if you complete a line play bingo |
| #6511, aired 2012-12-31 | WORLD WAR II $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a naval animation on the monitor.) At the 1942 Battle of Cape Esperance, a line of Japanese ships received deadly raking fire from American Admiral Scott's fleet in a classic naval maneuver called "crossing" this the T |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | LOVE $200: This character speaks the line "Be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet" Juliet |
| #6501, aired 2012-12-17 | "MAIN" $2000: Merion & Villanova are 2 of the towns in this Philadelphia area named for a route of the Pennsylvania railroad the Main Line |
| #6500, aired 2012-12-14 | COLORFUL MOVIES $1000: A documentary about the murder of a police officer:
"The Thin ____ Line" Blue |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | END OF THE LINE $400: Benjamin Franklin in his "Advice to a Young Tradesman":
"Remember that time is ____" money |
| #6490, aired 2012-11-30 | END OF THE LINE $1200: Joni Mitchell:
"They paved paradise and put up a ____ ____" parking lot |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | THE "GOLDEN" HOUR $400: "Wanna dance, or would you rather just suck face?" was a line from this movie On Golden Pond |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | POETRY TERMS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew displays some poetry on the monitor.) By marking the stressed & unstressed syllables in a line, we're engaging in scansion, the analysis of this rhythmic element in a poem the meter |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | POETRY TERMS $1000: This line of 12 syllables is likely named for a "great" Macedonian an alexandrine |
| #6483, aired 2012-11-21 | PLANETARY MATTERS? $1600: A line from this song by Train says, "Tell me, did you sail across the Sun, did you make it to the Milky Way?" "Drops Of Jupiter" |
| #6471, aired 2012-11-05 | CLOSE TO YOU $1000: The Mariana Trench,
Hudson Bay,
the International Date Line Hudson Bay |
| #6465, aired 2012-10-26 | THANKS FOR THE TITLE, SHAKESPEARE $1200: This collection of Hawthorne "Tales" probably got its title from a line in "King John": "Life is as tedious as" these Twice-Told Tales |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | LINE FROM THE TV SHOW $800: Roger Sterling: "I did everything they told me. Drank the cream, ate the butter. Then I get hit with a coronary" Mad Men |
| #6461, aired 2012-10-22 | LINE FROM THE TV SHOW $2000: Lorelai: "Cheeseburger, onion rings and a list of people who killed their parents and got away with it" Gilmore Girls |
| #6459, aired 2012-10-18 | CLICHES $2000: "Lay on" this man, a line from Shakespeare, means "do your damnedest" Macduff |
| #6458, aired 2012-10-17 | ASTRONOMY $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) Also a term for a part of speech, it's when the Earth, a heavenly body like Venus, & the Sun are all nearly in a straight line conjunction |
| #6454, aired 2012-10-11 | SUMMER ENTERTAINMENT 2012 $400: A great line in "The Avengers": this patriotic character saying, "Hulk--smash" Captain America |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | POLITICAL TERMS $600: A legislator who abandons the party line & votes for the other party's bill is said to be "crossing" this the aisle |
| #6444, aired 2012-09-27 | AMERICAN POETS & POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): Title vessel referred to in the line, "Oh, better that her shattered hulk should sink beneath the wave" the U.S.S. Constitution ("Old Ironsides") |
| #6442, aired 2012-09-25 | SUCH A LITERARY CHARACTER! $800: "Peter flung my arm... to a crocodile" is a line from this captain in "Peter Pan" Captain Hook |
| #6437, aired 2012-09-18 | "EXTRA" $600: A YouTube clip from the 1940s shows a newsboy saying this 6-word line before "Millionaire Playboy in Trouble Again!" "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!" |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | GIVING A PUP TALK $400: Margaret Hamilton spoke the immortal movie line "I'll get you, my pretty, and" these 4 words "your little dog, too!" |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | "A" IN LITERATURE $400: When Moby Dick is harpooned, this man becomes fouled in the line & is taken under the sea to his death Ahab |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | GIVING A PUP TALK $600 (Daily Double): This Shakespeare play includes the line "Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war" Julius Caesar |
| #6436, aired 2012-09-17 | MATH WORDS $1600: The letter m indicates this steepness of a line a slope |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | IN CASE YOU'RE THIRSTY $1000: This brand known for its vegetable juices has a line of V-Fusion juices V8 |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | POTPOURRI $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) An orphan is the first line of a paragraph on its own at the bottom of a page; this term is used for the last line of a paragraph alone at the top of a page a widow |
| #6421, aired 2012-07-16 | GEOMETRY $400: You can call me this, a half-line that extends in one direction indefinitely & has only one endpoint a ray |
| #6417, aired 2012-07-10 | FAMOUS AFRICAN AMERICANS $400: He worked on a Ford assembly line & as a prizefighter before founding Motown records Berry Gordy |
| #6414, aired 2012-07-05 | SPARE ME! $200: There are 2 of these on a baseball diamond but only one on a bowling lane; don't step over it the foul line |
| #6410, aired 2012-06-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: The mall store with the very sexy seduction line of bras is also a spy Victoria's Secret agent |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | FASHION $200: This retailer has a line for kids called Crewcuts J. Crew |
| #6408, aired 2012-06-27 | BOY SCOUT TIES $400: Happy campers know that with a taut-line hitch, you can tighten or loosen the guyline of one of these a tent |
| #6404, aired 2012-06-21 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $200: The symbol seen here
means a garment is
to be dried this way on a line |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | THE METER IS RUNNING $600: It's the line that divides a circle into 2 equal parts the diameter |
| #6389, aired 2012-05-31 | WHERE'D YA GET THAT TITLE? $2,000 (Daily Double): Lorraine Hansberry's title "A Raisin in the Sun" comes from a line in the poem "Harlem" by this man Langston Hughes |
| #6385, aired 2012-05-25 | NEW WORDS & PHRASES $600: "Pulley attached to cable" doesn't capture the sensation like this term that includes a synonym for "zero" a zip line |
| #6383, aired 2012-05-23 | IT'S OPENING NIGHT ON BROADWAY! $400: This show was one singular sensation after its July 25, 1975 opening night at the Shubert A Chorus Line |
| #6375, aired 2012-05-11 | ALSO A MUSICAL TERM $2000: Geometrically, it's a line segment that joins 2 points on a curve a chord |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | HOW SYMBOLIC $400: 2 dots & a horizontal line make an obelus, which we use to signify this basic math operation division |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | CARS IN AMERICA $400: (Vice President Joe Biden delivers the clue.) The Model T was one of the first major industrial products made on this arrangement of workers doing repetitive work, giving productivity a huge boost the assembly line |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | WHO WROTE THE LINE? $400: "Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world" J.K. Rowling |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | WHO WROTE THE LINE? $1600: "I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me" A.A. Milne |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | WHO WROTE THE LINE? $2000: "He cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath--'The horror! The horror!"' Joseph Conrad |
| #6372, aired 2012-05-08 | WHO WROTE THE LINE? $3,000 (Daily Double): "Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago" (Miguel de) Cervantes |
| #6371, aired 2012-05-07 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1200: Canada has a sort of equivalent song to "This Land Is Your Land"; its chorus begins, "From" this British Columbia island Vancouver Island |
| #6369, aired 2012-05-03 | OH SO VERY LITERARY $400: The main story line of a literary work, or the spot where you could be buried plot |
| #6368, aired 2012-05-02 | IT'S NOT A MESS, IT'S A COLLECTION $600: Fishing enthusiasts collect these devices that let out the line on the rod, & may take them out for a spin reels |
| #6359, aired 2012-04-19 | GAME SHOWS $1600: "Is it bigger than a breadbox?" became a popular catchphrase on this classic game show What's My Line? |
| #6357, aired 2012-04-17 | PACK YOUR BAGS $1200: Last name of Ivanka, who has a line of satchels & purses; we understand dad's in NYC real estate Trump |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | I'M READY TO PLAY, TODAY $600: In a line of plastic dolls, her name precedes "Pocket" Polly |
| #6349, aired 2012-04-05 | DREAM-Y SONGS $800: This hit by The Mamas & the Papas includes the line "I'd be safe and warm if I was in L.A." "California Dreamin'" |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | MAPMAKING $400: On a weather map this type of front is usually indicated by a blue line with blue triangles a cold front |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | I GOT TO FIRST BASE $800: I wish I could say I hit a line drive, but it was a popup; the fielder dropped it & was charged with this an error |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | GRAPHIC DESIGN $600: To show there is good reason for something, or to make the left or right edges of a paragraph form a straight line justify |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | QUOTATIONS $600: After a scandal, this line entered baseball lore, though Mr. Jackson said he never heard those words "Say it ain't so" |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | DOUBLE M $800: Not identical on both sides of a central line asymmetrical |
| #6340, aired 2012-03-23 | HYPHENATED TERMS $200: Broadband has largely replaced this type of internet connection using a phone line dial-up |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | HELLO, GORGEOUS! $400: Wine not is a shade in Revlon's lipstick line named for this finish that's not glossy but this opposite, also a finish for photos matte |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | EVERY BIT A "LADY" $1600: She speaks the line "Tell me, daughter Juliet, how stands your disposition to be married?" Lady Capulet |
| #6329, aired 2012-03-08 | I'M FEELING DIS-ORIENTED $1600: I quite enjoyed my 38-day jaunt from Singapore to L.A. aboard this cruise line's ship MS Amsterdam Holland America |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | TECHNOLOGY MATTERS $400: This Amazon line has a new multimedia tablet aptly dubbed "Fire" Kindle |
| #6320, aired 2012-02-24 | TECHNOLOGY MATTERS $1600: Sony's micro vault line of these lets you carry photos, data or state secrets in a 1.6-inch package flash drives |
| #6319, aired 2012-02-23 | TOYS & GAMES $1000: A line of wooden puzzles & toys is made by the company called Melissa & him Doug |
| #6318, aired 2012-02-22 | THIS IS... A JEOPARDY! CATEGORY $1200: & now Johnny presents a memorable line from this 2006 film
"This is... Sparta!" 300 |
| #6309, aired 2012-02-09 | THEATER $2000: A play starring Samuel L. Jackson takes its title from a line in Martin Luther King's last speech, "I've been to" this summit the mountaintop |
| #6305, aired 2012-02-03 | EASY "A" $800: Peyton Manning is a master of these plays called at the line of scrimmage audibles |
| #6291, aired 2012-01-16 | TAKE IT "SLOW" $600: In "The Streets of Laredo", this line that became a book & movie title precedes "& play the fife lowly" bang the drum slowly |
| #6277, aired 2011-12-27 | RED BOOK $2000: Made into a 1998 film, this James Jones novel fictionalizes the "narrow"ly won battle for Guadalcanal The Thin Red Line |
| #6275, aired 2011-12-23 | GOING THE DISTANCE $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a globe on the monitor.) On a two-dimensional map, a straight line appears to be the shortest distance between L.A. & London; on the globe, the actual shortest distance between them would be part of one of these big, 2-word geometric units great circles |
| #6269, aired 2011-12-15 | BURNS, BABY, BURNS $800: Finish the burns line: "Give me a spark O' nature's fire! / that's a' the learning I..." "desire" |
| #6262, aired 2011-12-06 | HONORING WHAT? $1200: The Bulwer-Lytton contest:
the worst this for a novel first line |
| #6261, aired 2011-12-05 | MONOGRAMS IN FASHION $1,200 (Daily Double): In 2010 she launched a children's line, yeah, yeah, yeah:
SM Stella McCartney |
| #6259, aired 2011-12-01 | DANCE! $200: Time to form this dancing line! Put your hands on the shoulders of the person in front of you, & 1, 2, 3, kick! 1, 2, 3, kick! a conga line |
| #6259, aired 2011-12-01 | "MAJOR" CONCERNS $1600: It's the line that passes through the 2 foci of an ellipse a major axis |
| #6255, aired 2011-11-25 | RAILROADING 101 $1200: (Alex delivers the clue in front of a train engine.) If you don't have a rail loop line, the best way to get the engine to reverse direction is on one of these; fortunately, Frostburg has one a turntable |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | TYPES OF POEMS $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a poem on the monitor.) The first letter of each line spells out a word or name; here, it's the name "Alice" that Lewis Carroll puts into this type of poem, from the Greek for "tip of the line" acrostic |
| #6250, aired 2011-11-18 | ANYTHING BUT OPERA $1600: God I hope you get it, I hope you get it that this Broadway musical won a 1976 Pulitzer & 9 Tonys A Chorus Line |
| #6248, aired 2011-11-16 | I'M GONNA MOON YOU! $2000: "I'll be back" to say it's the dividing line between the illuminated & unilluminated parts of the Moon a terminator |
| #6246, aired 2011-11-14 | 20 FOR DUMMIES $800: Chapter 1 of "Beekeeping for Dummies" has this question for a title, playing on a line from Shakespeare "To bee or not to bee?" |
| #6246, aired 2011-11-14 | 4 STRAIGHT VOWELS $1200: A line of waiting people, or a sequence of stored computer data awaiting processing a queue |
| #6242, aired 2011-11-08 | MAKE YOUR OWN SPY NOVEL TITLES $1200: The +
an island prison in San Francisco Bay +
a straight line that touches a circle at only one point The Alcatraz Tangent |
| #6229, aired 2011-10-20 | AUSTRALISMS $1600: If you get a busy signal in Brisbane, the line is said to be this premarital term engaged |
| #6228, aired 2011-10-19 | "RIGHT" OR "LEFT" $1600: Completes the Robert Browning line "God's in his heaven--all's..." right with the world |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | THE MOTION OF THE OCEAN $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Warm water currents cool & sink in the North Atlantic, then are carried into the Indian & Pacific oceans along the system known as the global this 2-word term, like something you might find on an assembly line a conveyor belt |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED $2000: You eat tortillas; 1494's treaty of this set a line of demarcation between Spain & Portugal's overseas empires Tordesillas |
| #6216, aired 2011-10-03 | 20th CENTURY LIT $400: A line from this Orwell tale says, "As for the pigs, they could already read and write perfectly" Animal Farm |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | LITERATURE $400: A line from this 1894 Kipling book says, "Rikki-Tikki had a right to be proud of himself; but he did not grow too proud" The Jungle Book |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | HELLO, DOLLY! $400: For the 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, Hasbro introduced a special line of this military action figure G.I. Joe |
| #6213, aired 2011-09-28 | HELLO, DOLLY! $1600: Turning 25 in 2011 is this line of dolls that includes Josefina Montoya, a youngster growing up in 1824 American Girl |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | FIRST NAME PHRASES $600: In a Christmas song, this line about dressing up rhymes with "troll the ancient yuletide carol" "Don we now our gay apparel" |
| #6208, aired 2011-09-21 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1,500 (Daily Double): A line in this 1954 novel reads, "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart" Lord of the Flies |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | JULIUS CAESAR SALAD $2,300 (Daily Double): This 5-word line spoken by the soothsayer is a quote from Shakespeare's "Julius Caeser" "Beware the ides of March" |
| #6196, aired 2011-07-18 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "H" $2000: "Love is not a victory march" is a line in this oft-covered Leonard Cohen tune "Hallelujah" |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | EMPIRE FALLS $400: At its height, it was known as the empire "on which the sun never sets", a reference to a line by John Wilson the British Empire |
| #6194, aired 2011-07-14 | VERY NON-BREAKING NEWS $2000: In February 1940 the Soviets became a Mannerheim line steamroller & invaded this northern country Finland |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | LIKE SOME COFFEE? $400: Delonghi's Perfecta is a line of $1,000-plus machines for making cappuccino & this espresso |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | THE OBJECT OF THE HASBRO GAME $1000: What a fun game--buy insurance; pay taxes; get in a ski accident; get fired; bottom line--get the highest dollar amount Life |
| #6190, aired 2011-07-08 | 3-LETTER VERBS $1600: Transmit a copy of a document over a telephone line fax |
| #6184, aired 2011-06-30 | I'M BORED! $1200: Try writing one of these funny 5-line poems; here, I'll start it for you--"There was a man from Tibet... a limerick |
| #6182, aired 2011-06-28 | INCLUDES A PAPAL NAME $400: This frozen citrus mall favorite was first served in 1928 & now has a line of premium fruit smoothies Orange Julius |
| #6175, aired 2011-06-17 | ROMAN NUMERAL LETTERS $400: In geometry, a straight line passing through the center of a circle is signified by this letter D |
| #6168, aired 2011-06-08 | THE '90s $400: In a jingle, this line follows "in fourteen hundred and ninety-two" "Columbus sailed the ocean blue" |
| #6167, aired 2011-06-07 | OF PISA $800: During this war, Pisa suffered severe damage as a part of the Axis' Pesaro-Rimini defensive line World War II |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | AT THE DRUGSTORE $1000: This skin care brand that's "#1 dermatologist recommended" has a line of Norwegian Formula moisturizers Neutrogena |
| #6164, aired 2011-06-02 | A BUNCH OF EDVARD MUNCH $1600: Munch was one of the pioneers of this art movement, using color & line in a highly personal style to convey emotion expressionism |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $600: This weepy 1970 bestseller begins with the line "What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?" Love Story |
| #6155, aired 2011-05-20 | MUSICALS' OPENING NUMBERS $800: "I Hope I Get It" A Chorus Line |
| #6154, aired 2011-05-19 | TATTOOED LADIES $800: On one shoulder, this "Transformers" star has a paraphrase of a "King Lear" line about butterflies Megan Fox |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | FLIGHT SIMULATION $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew sits in a flight simulator.) The simulator's primary flight display indicates the aircraft's trajectory; place the bird here on this line that defines the boundary between earth & sky & you'll get level flight the horizon |
| #6152, aired 2011-05-17 | STUFF $1600: This young actress gave her clothing line a rhyming name: her last name & the word "Stuff" Hilary Duff |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | SPORTS WEIGHTS & MEASURES $1200: It's 2 inches wide & 15 feet from the backboard the free-throw line |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | SPORTS WEIGHTS & MEASURES $8,000 (Daily Double): It stretches 62 feet, 10 3/16 inches from foul line to the pit a bowling lane |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | MATH, TEACHERS! $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a graph on the monitor.) When graphing the equation y=2x+1, the line intersects the y-axis at 1; in general, the point where the line crosses is called the y-this the y-intercept |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | LET ME MAKE A PREDICTION $1200: The 16th century French prophet Nostradamus wrote his predictions in this 4-line stanza form a quatrain |
| #6129, aired 2011-04-14 | ANIMAL COMPANIES $400: Fittingly, these patriotic "outfitters" have a line of clothing called "Aerie" American Eagle |
| #6122, aired 2011-04-05 | SUFFIXES $1600: By itself, it's a geographic line; as a suffix, it means turning toward something -tropic |
| #6122, aired 2011-04-05 | NOVEL "T"s $2000: Chinua Achebe's first novel, about the leader of an Igbo community, is called these "Fall Apart", a line from Yeats Things |
| #6113, aired 2011-03-23 | SONGS IN MUSICALS $1000: "The Music And The Mirror" &
"One" A Chorus Line |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | FLAGS OF THE WORLD $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a flag on a monitor.) On the flag of Kiribati, the blue & white waves stand for the Pacific Ocean; the rising sun represents this, which straddles the nation the Equator |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | BATTLES $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew explains an illustration on a monitor.) There's the Duke of Wellington's Line, & happily for Napoleon, here come Marshall Von Blucher's 61,000 troops to this 1815 battle Waterloo |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | SHAKESPEARE, FOR STARTERS $9,000 (Daily Double): Philo's first speech in this play includes the line "The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool" Antony and Cleopatra |
| #6108, aired 2011-03-16 | THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID $600: "I had crossed the line. I was free... and they should be free. I would make a home in the north and bring them there" Harriet Tubman |
| #6106, aired 2011-03-14 | DUMB CRIMINALS $200: In 2009 a bank in this Buckeye State got tipped off to a robbery when a man in a ski mask waited patiently in line Ohio |
| #6103, aired 2011-03-09 | ALPHABET HOMOPHONES $800: This insect is mentioned in Muhammad Ali's line about his boxing style a bee |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | GEOMETRY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.) In a circle, the diameter is here, the radius here; a straight line joining two points on the circumference is this musical term a chord |
| #6095, aired 2011-02-25 | GEOMETRY $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.) On the cube here, these two lines aren't parallel, & they don't intersect, so they're said to be this type of line skew |
| #6080, aired 2011-02-04 | NOVA: MAKING STUFF $2000: So light & strong, 1 pound could stretch around the Earth, the silk spiders spin to hang from is called this kind of line a dragline |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | WORD ORIGINS $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a line of poetry on the monitor.) A natural break or pause in a line of poetry is called a "caesura"; the "caes" part comes from the Latin for this verb, as in "excise" cut |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | THE PRODUCER $1000: This superpremium ice cream brand produces a line called Five--with only (you guessed it) 5 ingredients Häagen-Dazs |
| #6072, aired 2011-01-25 | MIDDLE "C" $200: Define-A-Lash from Maybelline is a line of this mascara |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | MARXISMS $200: Marx & Engels gave us the line "A specter is haunting Europe -- the specter of" this -ism communism |
| #6057, aired 2011-01-04 | ALWAYS IN FASHION $1000: Originally known for his menswear, this Italian created the A/X line that features leisure & active sportswear (Giorgio) Armani |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | NOVEL IDEAS $400: The opening line of this 1605 novel mentions a lance, a shield & a skinny nag Don Quixote |
| #6056, aired 2011-01-03 | NOVEL IDEAS $600: "Cleanliness is next to Fordliness" is a line from this 1932 novel Brave New World |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | CIVIL WAR DIARY $600: June 28, 1863: Heard Meade is the latest in a long line of heads of the army of this river. I'd love some mead... the army of the Potomac |
| #6049, aired 2010-12-23 | I'M GAME $600: In this card game, the object is to cross the finish line by scoring 121 points, moving pegs on a wooden board cribbage |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | SORRY IT DIDN'T WORK OUT $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In the 1930s, along its border with Germany, France built this defensive barrier, named for the French Minister of War; it failed because the Germans simply invaded through Belgium the Maginot Line |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | I TRIED TO WARN YOU $600: In 1954 the U.S. & this nation began the DEW, or Distant Early Warning, line to warn of a polar air attack Canada |
| #6046, aired 2010-12-20 | LIT BITS $600: The "Rubaiyat" in Omar Khayyam's title is the plural of rubai, this 4-line stanza a quatrain |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | THE WEATHER $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains a weather map.) On a weather map, an isobar is a line that connects areas with the same barometric pressure. A line that connects areas with the same temperature is called this an isotherm |
| #6043, aired 2010-12-15 | "D" BRIEFING $1000: Directional term meaning along the flight line away from a missile launching site downrange |
| #6034, aired 2010-12-02 | ASSORTED FLOWERS $1000: You'll find this flower before "pickle bottom" in a line of handbags & bedding the petunia |
| #6034, aired 2010-12-02 | FASHION TRENDS $1000: Jibbitz makes a line of decorations to dress up these colorful clog-like shoes crocs |
| #6032, aired 2010-11-30 | NEWS FROM THE EQUATOR $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the bridge of a ship.) Here in the Galapagos, I'm at about 90 degrees west longitude, halfway between the Prime Meridian & International Date Line, & at this many degrees latitude 0 |
| #6030, aired 2010-11-26 | PALINDROMIC NAMES $400: A man's name, or a float on a fishing line Bob |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE $200: The ides of March 44 B.C.:
He is murdered as he enters a Senate meeting Julius Caesar |
| #6022, aired 2010-11-16 | INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE $2,400 (Daily Double): November 10, 1871:
These 2 have a historic meeting in the Central African village of Ujiji Stanley & Livingstone |
| #6021, aired 2010-11-15 | MONEY, NOT FROM THE MINT $1000: An agreement with a bank that it'll loan you a certain amount whenever you ask is called a line of this a line of credit |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | TOP SELLER IN THE U.S. $200: Baby food:
This brand that has a NatureSelect 2nd Foods line Gerber |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | PROSE $1200: "I beheld the wretch--the miserable monster whom I had created" is a line in this classic Frankenstein |
| #6005, aired 2010-10-22 | ALWAYS BE CLOSING $1200: Literally, this orders soldiers to remove gaps in a fighting line; figuratively, it means a show of unity closing rank |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | HELLO, I'M JOHNNY CASH $200: I kept a close watch on this hit of mine as it climbed into the Top 20 in 1956 "I Walk The Line" |
| #5992, aired 2010-10-05 | FLEA $800: As part of its "Flea Killer Plus" line, Raid sells this 6-letter apparatus for spreading bug-killing mist or spray a fogger |
| #5991, aired 2010-10-04 | RIDING THE RAILS $1200: With a route over 5,700 miles, the world's longest railway line is this Russian one Trans-Siberian Railway |
| #5987, aired 2010-09-28 | EASY ON THE EYES $1000: I didn't watch this show for its weird story line, but to see Jennifer Garner as a double agent Alias |
| #5984, aired 2010-09-23 | 2-WORD SCIENCE TERMS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows parallel lines on the monitor.) These two lines are identical in length, but when opposing arrowheads are added, the bottom line appears to be longer in a classic example of this type of eye trick an optical illusion |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | POPULAR POETS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2002, this company came out with a product line featuring 2-line Maya Angelou poems Hallmark Cards |
| #5974, aired 2010-07-29 | YOU CAN CALL ME "AL" $200: A dead end lane, or a line of thought that leads nowhere, is called a blind this an alley |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | PARENTING $400: As the first line of defense against germs, make sure your kids do this frequently, & not just before a meal wash their hands |
| #5967, aired 2010-07-20 | FROM THE GREEK $1600: (Alex reports from a Ford Motor Company plant in Dearborn, MI.) To make jobs easier & safer, trucks on the assembly line are raised or lowered on these accordion lifts, which are called skillets; it's an example of this science of practical human engineering; it comes from the Greek word which means "work" ergonomics |
| #5957, aired 2010-07-06 | RHYMES WITH SMART $600: It can be a separating line in your hair or a role in a play a part |
| #5941, aired 2010-06-14 | ART & ARTISTS $800: Frank Stella used ordinary house paint & named a series after this line of paints founded by a man named Benjamin Moore |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | I LOVE A SHOW TUNE $800: A song from this show says, "Won't forget, can't regret, what I did for love" A Chorus Line |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $2000: Balk line spot, center pocket a pool table |
| #5932, aired 2010-06-01 | THE NOVEL'S LAST LINE $400: "And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us, every one!" A Christmas Carol |
| #5914, aired 2010-05-06 | DANGER IN WONDERLAND $600: She tried to whack Alice with that "off with her head" line; wait 'til she gets a load of you the Queen of Hearts |
| #5911, aired 2010-05-03 | PEOPLE $800: A 2000 issue had Caroline Kennedy on the cover with the line "Profile in" this Courage |
| #5910, aired 2010-04-30 | PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION 2010 $1600: A one-time U.S. Attorney for D.C., he's now 7th in line Eric Holder |
| #5909, aired 2010-04-29 | "CIRCUM"-NAVIGATING $1200: To draw a line around a geometric figure circumscribe |
| #5900, aired 2010-04-16 | CURTAINS $300 (Daily Double): The Thermaweave, which blocks light, is from a line of curtains named for this astronomical event an eclipse |
| #5898, aired 2010-04-14 | ECONOMIC TERMS $200: In 2007 a family of 4 with income less than $21,203 lived below this 2-word economic term poverty level (or poverty line) |
| #5898, aired 2010-04-14 | ONLY ONE VOWEL $800: A monster, or a way to fish by dragging a line behind a boat troll |
| #5896, aired 2010-04-12 | BAD BREAK-UP LINES $600: Our timing was all wrong, just like my '69 Camaro from this car line; you know a good mechanic? Chevrolet |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | CELEBRITY MEMOIRS $400: In chapter one of "On The Line", she says, "I saw a picture once of Venus pushing me in a stroller on the tennis court..." Serena Williams |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | TIME ZONING $400: On a map of time zones, you might find "+1 day" to the left of this & "-1 day" to the right of it the international date line |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | COMPLETES THE POETIC LINE $400: "Poems are made by fools like me, but only god can make a ____" tree |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | COMPLETES THE POETIC LINE $2000: "As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, so deep in luve am I; and I will luve thee still, my dear, till a' the seas gang ____" dry |
| #5886, aired 2010-03-29 | BEVERAGE BRANDS $600: Brisk is a line of iced teas from this brand Lipton |
| #5879, aired 2010-03-18 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $400: Ironically, Donna McKechnie didn't have to audition to star in this long-running musical about hopeful dancers A Chorus Line |
| #5878, aired 2010-03-17 | SOFTWARE $800: Symantec has a popular line of anti-virus software named for this man, first name Peter Norton |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | OUR GEOMETRIC WORLD $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In a 1986 confrontation, Libyan leader Khaddafi said no U.S. ships would be allowed past the mouth of the Gulf of Sidra, drawing what he called this 3-word phrase the Line of Death |
| #5873, aired 2010-03-10 | THE OTHER 2 LITTLE PIGS REBUILD $1000: Pig 2 likes having all the rooms open one into the next in a line from front to back & builds this "weaponized" type of "shack" a shotgun shack |
| #5873, aired 2010-03-10 | DOUBLE DOUBLE LETTERS $3,700 (Daily Double): A writer of 14-line poems a sonneteer |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | THE LURE OF FISHING $800: Often made of cork, it's a float attached to your line to suspend it at a set depth a bobber |
| #5866, aired 2010-03-01 | COMPLETES THE POETRY LINE $800: Masefield:
"All I ask is a tall ship / And" this "to steer her by" a star |
| #5863, aired 2010-02-24 | THE KISSING BOOTH $400: A line from this movie song says, "You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss" "As Time Goes By" |
| #5861, aired 2010-02-22 | WRITTEN COMMUNICATION $800: Medium of classic communications like Robert Benchley's from Venice: "STREETS FULL OF WATER PLEASE ADVISE" a telegram |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | FLORAL QUOTES $400: This redundant line by Gertrude Stein first appeared in the 1913 poem "Sacred Emily" Rose is a rose is a rose (is a rose.) |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | ASSEMBLY LINE $200: (Alex looks over the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI.) I know it looks like a scene from a sci-fi film, but these robots are doing this important but hazardous job that helps keep some of the metal parts together welding |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | ASSEMBLY LINE $800: (Alex leans against a partly completed car at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI.) Here's something you definitely want to have in your home workshop--it's a power assist arm to do the heavy lifting; today it's being used to install over 100 pound instrument clusters; it also helps prevent job-related injuries like RSS, which is this kind of stress syndrome repetitive |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | ASSEMBLY LINE $1000: (Alex reports from the line at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI.) To increase manufacturing efficiency, the engine will fit not only the truck here, but a whole variety of others, which makes it this kind of interchangeable part, from the Latin for "unit of measurement" modular |
