#9052, aired 2024-03-05 | HAVE FAITH $2000: In a Hindu temple men perform ashtanga pranama, doing this to oneself, from the Latin for "lay flat" prostrating themselves |
#9051, aired 2024-03-04 | NUMERIC MOVIE TITLES $800: Loosely based on a classic legal film, this Nikita Mikhalkov drama pits a racist juror against a pensive foreman 12 |
#9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $200: In a job that does not seem short of perks, the king of this nation hands each Nobel laureate a diploma & a medal annually Sweden |
#9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $400: The I didn't even rule Egypt for a year & a half, but this pharaoh II of the 19th dynasty clocked in for 66, 1279-1213 B.C. Ramses |
#9043, aired 2024-02-21 | IT'S REIGNING MEN! $600: A 1920 sovereign ordinance of this nation had the future Rainier III receive his mother's family name of Grimaldi Monaco |
#9035, aired 2024-02-09 | LET'S HAVE A WORD $6,000 (Daily Double): An armored glove, or a double file of armed men you'd rather not have to "run" a gauntlet |
#9028, aired 2024-01-31 | OPERA $2000: The first in a trilogy of operas by Philip Glass about great men who changed the world was him "On the Beach" Einstein |
#9023, aired 2024-01-24 | LOVE STORY $1000: A lovesick nurseryman, a women's music fest & a retreat for rich men are in the 5th of his "Tales of the City" (Armistead) Maupin |
#26, aired 2024-01-23 | LISA, ANN OR WALTER? $200: '90s Texas governor Richards who once quipped, "I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any" Ann |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | U.S. STAMPS $600: A series dedicated to this art form shows men dressed in traje de charro playing the trumpet, guitarrón & other instruments mariachi |
#24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $100: He appeared in every episode of "M*A*S*H"; he also directed its last episode in 1983 Alan Alda |
#24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $200: Andre Agassi won the U.S. Open twice in the '90s; this tennis icon won it in 1968 and has a stadium there named after him Arthur Ashe |
#24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $300: These dancers are performing his work, "Revelations"; he's also the subject of the book, "Dancing Revelations" Alvin Ailey |
#24, aired 2024-01-09 | "J" LAW $400: Henry Fonda plays a man who sits on one in the 1957 film "12 Angry Men" a jury |
#24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $400: Referring to a type of aperture in large-format view cameras, group f/64 was cofounded in 1932 by this man Ansel Adams |
#24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $500: They're all A's on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: actor Alan Arkin, singer Antonio Aguilar and this "Black-ish" star Anthony Anderson |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | POP CULTURE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A certain ancient civilization that men obsess over in a TikTok trend time travels & becomes a Jay-Z song about NYC "The Roman Empire State Of Mind" |
#9000, aired 2023-12-22 | FOLLOW THE "MONEY" $1000: Many men have lightened their billfolds by carrying this; JFK's was gold with an image of St. Christopher a money clip |
#8999, aired 2023-12-21 | TRIPLY ALLITERATIVE $1,000 (Daily Double): 4 young men of Navarre face off against 4 ladies in a game of courtship in this Shakespeare comedy Love's Labour's Lost |
#8999, aired 2023-12-21 | A VERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE $1000: It's not the Magi--nor Selleck, Danson & Guttenberg--but a trio of brothers who find themselves caring for a tot in this 2022 film Three Wise Men and a Baby |
#8988, aired 2023-12-06 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $200: These small glass or plastic dishes used to culture microorganisms are named for a German bacteriologist Petri |
#8988, aired 2023-12-06 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $600: Galileo used a supernova in 1604 to disprove this ancient Greek's theory that the universe never changes Ptolemy (Aristotle) |
#8987, aired 2023-12-05 | ALSO A SUPERHERO $400: Some might say Polyphemus, one of these giants, was rude in eating Odysseus' men, so Odie blinded him Cyclops |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | HIS 'DO $400: The clean-cut men's style known as the "Ivy League" is also called this, after a New Jersey school a Princeton |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | FAIRY TALE ELEVATOR PITCHES $400: "A vain leader is swindled by con men who claim to make beautiful garments that are invisible to the unwise or incompetent" "The Emperor's New Clothes" |
#20, aired 2023-11-15 | SAD SONGS $600: At the 2020 Grammys, Alicia Keys & this trio sang "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday" in a tribute to Kobe Bryant Boyz II Men |
#8964, aired 2023-11-02 | GROWING PAINS $200: More common in women than men, these swollen & twisted veins can be a real pain in the leg varicose veins |
#8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $200: In 1925 this American anthropologist first visited Samoa; she wrote a book about it three years later Margaret Mead |
#8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $400: In the 1870s this French chemist demonstrated that anthrax was caused by a particular bacillus Louis Pasteur |
#8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $600: In 1667 the U.K.'s Margaret Cavendish was the first woman to attend a meeting at this science society the Royal Society |
#8960, aired 2023-10-27 | FABRICS $400: It sounds like hammerheads provide the material for this, but it's usually a worsted fabric for men's suits sharkskin |
#8958, aired 2023-10-25 | ON THE "ROAD" AGAIN $200: In 1804 a steam carriage was first put onto one of these; it could haul 70 men & 10 tons of iron for 10 miles railroad |
#8948, aired 2023-10-11 | BASEBALL MOVIE HAIKU $800: Jimmy once a pro/ Alas, war calls men away/ Nine gals beats no gals... A League of Their Own |
#8945, aired 2023-10-06 | TRY "TRI" AGAIN $2000: A group of 3 men collectively responsible for the administration of ancient Rome triumvirate |
#8941, aired 2023-10-02 | ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? $1000: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" As You Like It |
#8940, aired 2023-09-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $400: This poem about 600 men / Righteously stirred the denizens / A scene from a war / In 1854 / Is anyone up for some Tennyson? "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
#8940, aired 2023-09-29 | THAT'S A VEGAS CASINO $600: You'll find "fifteen men on the dead man's chest--yo-ho-ho, & a bottle of rum!" at the start of this novel Treasure Island |
#8935, aired 2023-09-22 | STARS & STRIPES IN ART $800: Frank Stella made a splash in 1959 with paintings of this kind of stripe, better known on men's suits pinstripes |
#8921, aired 2023-07-24 | SPACE MEN & WOMEN $200: In 1995 Eileen Collins became the first woman to pilot one of these & in 1999 the first to command a mission aboard one Space Shuttle |
#8921, aired 2023-07-24 | SPACE MEN & WOMEN $800: After a crewman was exposed to measles, backup Jack Swigert made it onto this 1970 Apollo mission & might have wished he hadn't Apollo 13 |
#8921, aired 2023-07-24 | SPACE MEN & WOMEN $1000: The first British citizen in space, Helen Sharman spent a week aboard this Soviet space station in 1991 Mir |
#8918, aired 2023-07-19 | FASHION OLD & NEW $800: A 2021 article title: "Why Do Men Wear" these knit caps "That Don't Cover Their Ears?" Beanies |
#8918, aired 2023-07-19 | MUSICAL MENAGERIE $1200: In a song mentioning the Hollywood Hills, the Red Hot Chili Peppers sang, "True men don't kill" these wild canids coyotes |
#8915, aired 2023-07-14 | FAMILIES IN U.S. HISTORY $400: The company founded by this publisher & politician still includes Men's Health, A&E & our own affiliate KSBW Monterey-Salinas Hearst |
#8907, aired 2023-07-04 | A BIBLICAL BURIAL $1000: This rebel son of David is killed by Joab & his men, cast into a pit in the woods & covered by a heap of stones Absalom |
#8906, aired 2023-07-03 | RIOTS IN HISTORY $200: In the Rebecca Riots of the 1840s, Welsh men dressed as women attacked the gates that levied these charges for using public roads a toll |
#8906, aired 2023-07-03 | A JOB IN TELEVISION $1000: On "Two and a Half Men", Charlie Harper was this specific type of ad writer a jingle writer |
#8898, aired 2023-06-21 | CELEBS $1600: In 2022 this legendary redhead ended his Olympic snowboarding career with a 4th place finish in men's halfpipe Shaun White |
#8887, aired 2023-06-06 | QUOTABLE NOTABLES $200: A P.M.:
"If the British Empire & its commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: 'This was their finest hour"' Churchill |
#8887, aired 2023-06-06 | YOU MUST BE 12 LETTERS LONG OR MORE TO ENTER $1200: A store specializing in men's clothing & accessories like ties & hats a haberdashery |
#8881, aired 2023-05-29 | POETIC SUBJECTS $200: Stephen Crane wrote, "Fast rode" one of these men, "ever waving an eager sword, 'to save my lady!"' a knight |
#12, aired 2023-05-16 | A NEW HOPE $600: Similar to the men's group, it's the "timely" nickname of Prudence Wright's inspiring all-female Revolutionary War militia Minutewomen |
#12, aired 2023-05-16 | NEW WORLD EXPLORATION $800: In 1673 these 2 men, one a missionary, sought the mouth of the Mississippi but turned back at Arkansas Marquette & Joliet |
#10, aired 2023-05-15 | GREAT SPORTS CALLS $1000: "The slipper still fits!" as this then-Cinderella Spokane school eked out a 1999 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament win Gonzaga |
#5, aired 2023-05-10 | A SHAKESPEARE PLAY IN A FEW WORDS $800: Magic,
monsoon,
misunderstanding,
men from Milan The Tempest |
#3, aired 2023-05-09 | TV $200: The last advertising idea conceived by Don Draper on "Mad Men" was for this bubbly product Coke |
#3, aired 2023-05-09 | BIBLICAL PLACES $400: Brothers Peter & Andrew were casting a net into this body of water when Jesus said, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men" the Sea of Galilee |
#8864, aired 2023-05-04 | A BIBLE THUMPIN' $800: The jawbone of an ass is an unusual choice for a weapon, but this guy "slew a thousand men" with one in Judges 15 Samson |
#8862, aired 2023-05-02 | JEOPAIR! BOARDING PROCESS $400: We're happy to greet passengers in this cabin, also a 2011 "X-Men" prequel with mutants like Riptide & Emma Frost first class |
#8860, aired 2023-04-28 | KUWAIT FOR ME! $800: A museum is named for these people who die for a greater cause--specifically young men who in 1991 fought Iraqi tanks the martyrs |
#8850, aired 2023-04-14 | "B"ANDS $800: "One Sweet Day" had 16 sweet weeks at No. 1 for Mariah & this vocal group from Philly, back again doin' a little "Jeopardy!" swing Boyz II Men |
#8845, aired 2023-04-07 | TWO SHOES $800: The men's brogues seen here can be described this way, also the title of a Carl Perkins classic blue suede shoes |
#8840, aired 2023-03-31 | POLITICS TALK $800: Type of post-election election that involved the two men here in December 2022 a runoff |
#8821, aired 2023-03-06 | QUOTABLE TV SHOWS $800: "Advertising is based on one thing:
Happiness. And do you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car" Mad Men |
#8817, aired 2023-02-28 | THEY WROTE 'EM $2000: "No Country for Old Men" (2005) &
"The Passenger" (2022) Cormac McCarthy |
#8810, aired 2023-02-17 | SOMETIMES A "LITTLE" IS ENOUGH $2000: Playing a mean quarterstaff, he was an original member of the Merry Men Little John |
#8809, aired 2023-02-16 | MILITARY MEN $400: A movie bio subject, this general seen here had to repeat his freshman year at West Point due to bad grades (George) Patton |
#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 |
#8801, aired 2023-02-06 | THE ILIAD & THE ODYSSEY $2000: This Cyclops traps Odysseus & his men in a cave to eat them, but is blinded when they make their escape Polyphemus |
#8798, aired 2023-02-01 | PARDON ME $1600: This pirate & his men received a pardon from James Madison after aiding in the Battle of New Orleans Lafitte |
#8789, aired 2023-01-19 | WHEN IN ANCIENT ROME $600: Guess you couldn't be a gladiator judge if you were one of the Roman men who cut this off to avoid military service a thumb |
#8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE DOOMSDAY BOOK $1600: In the opening of this P.D. James novel, "The last human being to be born on Earth was killed in a pub brawl" The Children of Men |
#9, aired 2023-01-05 | BOOZY PHRASES $1200: Servers brought 1950s businesspeople a trio of drinks over the course of this type of "lunch", which was of course deductible a three-martini lunch |
#8774, aired 2022-12-29 | CLASSIC FLUTE ROCK $200: Greg Ham rocked the flute as Men at Work topped the charts singing "I come from a land" here Down Under |
#8774, aired 2022-12-29 | YOU'RE WEARING YOUR FOOD $600: This snap-brimmed hat with a meaty name was popular for men in the 1930s & '40s pork pie |
#8773, aired 2022-12-28 | IT HAD TO BE HUGH $800: In 1953 he informed newsstands that "Stag Party--a brand new magazine for men--will be out this fall" Hugh Hefner |
#8769, aired 2022-12-22 | NICOLE KIDMAN SAYS $600: In a remake:
"All of the women are always busy & perfect & smiling, & all of the men are always happy" The Stepford Wives |
#8761, aired 2022-12-12 | TRUE GRIME $400: It can precede "of the earth", but a "Men in Black" tagline was "protecting the Earth from the" this "of the universe" scum |
#8749, aired 2022-11-24 | REVENGE LIT $200: In a Dumas novel, this hero plots his revenge on the men who put him in prison for a crime he did not commit The Count of Monte Cristo (Edmond Dantes) |
#8746, aired 2022-11-21 | FILMS BY TAGLINE $800: 1986:
"The first casualty of war is innocence" Platoon |
#8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $800: A secret U.S. Army unit uses paranormal powers in its missions The Men Who Stare at Goats |
#8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE BIBLE $400: Called "kings" in a Christmas carol, these visitors to the young Jesus brought a trio of gifts: gold, frankincense & myrrh the magi (or the wise men) |
#7, aired 2022-11-06 | SITCOMS $400: This actress, as Selina Meyer on "Veep": "I'm used to dealing with angry, aggressive, dysfunctional men. i.e., men" Julia Louis-Dreyfuss |
#8735, aired 2022-11-04 | HISTORY $11,600 (Daily Double): Post-WWII British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin said this Secretary of State threw "a lifeline to sinking men" Marshall |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | A MUSICAL JOURNEY WITH QUESTLOVE $800: (Questlove presents the clue.) Names like Boyz II Men, Teddy Pendergrass & my dad's band Lee Andrews & The Hearts, are a part of this city's heritage of vocal music & are found on its Music Alliances Walk of Fame Philadelphia |
#8724, aired 2022-10-20 | 4-LETTER FOOD & DRINK $1000: In "Treasure Island" Captain Smollett tells the men they'll have this rum drink "served out for you to drink our health and luck" grog |
#4, aired 2022-10-16 | SHAKESPEARE $400: In "As You Like It", Jaques says, "All the world's a" this, "& all the men & women merely players", so what say thee, players? a stage |
#1, aired 2022-09-25 | FASHION WITH BUZZY COHEN $900: (Buzzy Cohen delivers the clue.) Popular for both men & women, a closed shoe with a wide strap & a big buckle on the side is named for this religious job; since I'm twice as fashionable as most, I'm sporting the kind with a double strap a monk strap shoe |
#8703, aired 2022-09-21 | GREAT AMERICAN PAIRS $600: A bestseller of 1814 was the "History of the Expedition Under the Command of" these 2 men Lewis and Clark |
#8703, aired 2022-09-21 | MODERN WESTERNS $2000: In this neo-Western film, Anton Chigurh asks the killer query, "What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?" No Country for Old Men |
#8702, aired 2022-09-20 | THERE'S THE RUB $400: These 4 syllables begin the nursery rhyme about the trio seen here Rub a dub dub |
#8698, aired 2022-09-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1600: These 2 migrant workers dream of owning a farm with rabbits in Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men", but things don't go as planned George & Lennie |
#8696, aired 2022-09-12 | THAT'S SO SIR/REEL! $800: Gus in "Cats" & also giving a magnetic performance in "X-Men" Ian McKellen |
#8696, aired 2022-09-12 | THAT'S SO SIR/REEL! $1200: The maitre d' at L'Idiot in "L.A. Story" & also giving a thoughtful performance in "X-Men" Patrick Stewart |
#8690, aired 2022-07-22 | A MONTH OF HISTORY $200: Capone's guys dress like cops & kill Bugs Moran's men in a garage February |
#8673, aired 2022-06-29 | MUNICIPAL MUSIC $1200: A song by Enrique Iglesias & Pitbull says, "She gon' make you move to" this city both men know well Miami |
#8672, aired 2022-06-28 | DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $800: "The Shadow of Vesuvius" tells of these 2 men of antiquity, uncle & nephew known as the Elder & the Younger Pliny the Elder & Younger |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $3,000 (Daily Double): The title of this 2007 film adapted from a novel comes from a Yeats poem that says, "An aged man is but a paltry thing" No Country for Old Men |
#8669, aired 2022-06-23 | THE "D" TAILS $600: Its tail gave its name to a 1950s men's hairstyle a ducktail (a duck) |
#8664, aired 2022-06-16 | THE "O" MEN $400: Later a shipping magnate, this businessman whose middle name was Socrates made his first million by age 25 dealing tobacco Onassis |
#8664, aired 2022-06-16 | THE "O" MEN $600: Dining out as Ron Swanson on "Parks & Rec", he introduced the "turf & turf. It's a 16-ounce T-bone & a 24-ounce porterhouse" Nick Offerman |
#8664, aired 2022-06-16 | THE "O" MEN $800: More than just a mantra homophone, this German has a unit of electrical resistance named for him Ohm |
#8660, aired 2022-06-10 | THE SHIRT OFF OUR BACK $400: Seen here, this item is said to date back to the 1920s or '30s, when kimono fabric began to be used for men's shirts a Hawaiian shirt |
#8657, aired 2022-06-07 | DEER-POURRI $800: A men-only social gathering, or the way you "go" to a party if unaccompanied by a date stag |
#8654, aired 2022-06-02 | WHAT BREED OF MOVIE DOG? $400: Frank in "Men in Black" & "Men in Black II" a pug |
#8647, aired 2022-05-24 | Xs, THEN Os $200: "Black tie preferred" usually means this garment for men a tuxedo |
#8643, aired 2022-05-18 | TV COMEDIES BY SIBLINGS $800: Charlie & Alan Harper Two and a Half Men |
#8637, aired 2022-05-10 | COLLEGE SPORTS MASCOTS $400: Cal State Northridge's Matty is short for one of these men in the arena; he doesn't have a sword anymore Matador |
#8637, aired 2022-05-10 | COLLEGE SPORTS MASCOTS $800: UNLV's teams are the Rebels, but one of these sea creatures has been used as a mascot in honor of a former men's basketball coach a shark |
#8633, aired 2022-05-04 | HUNDREDS $800: In the ancient Roman army, this officer commanded a group that was to number 100 men, hence the name a centurion |
#8623, aired 2022-04-20 | EUROPEAN LITERATURE $800: This Camus novel was inspired by a run-in his friend had with 2 Arab men on a beach The Stranger |
#8615, aired 2022-04-08 | WRITING--IT'S A LIVING $800: It's the job of writing text for ads; on "Mad Men", Peggy Olson moved up to it from the secretarial world copywriting |
#8597, aired 2022-03-15 | FASHION $800: Men's Levi's jeans & recorded music were your only options when this store, now a chain, opened in San Francisco in 1969 the Gap |
#8592, aired 2022-03-08 | ANTHROPOLOGIST'S DICTIONARY $600: Couvade is sympathetic behavior by a man during this event; Central America's Garifuna men quit fishing childbirth |
#8587, aired 2022-03-01 | ESTEEMED MEN OF ITALY $1600: On his ship La Dauphine, he explored New York harbor & is honored with a structure spanning it Verrazzano |
#8584, aired 2022-02-24 | THE INNER "EAR" $200: In the 15th century B.C. Egyptian queen Hatshepsut was depicted wearing men's attire & a fake one of these a beard |
#18, aired 2022-02-22 | HISTORIC POTPOURRI $400: Seen here is a depiction of Clovis, King of the Franks, undergoing this initiation in Reims; hundreds of his men would follow suit baptism |
#17, aired 2022-02-22 | DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE $1000: A 14th century poem details "all the meat & mirth that men could devise", then Sir Gawain taking on this title party crasher the Green Knight |
#8581, aired 2022-02-21 | ARTISTS ON THE MOVE $200: After a trip to Egypt, French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme captured men being attentive inside one of these structures a mosque |
#8580, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC MEN $400: This "Junior" oil heir who gave the U.N. the money to buy land for its HQ will always be a center of attention in New York City Rockefeller |
#8580, aired 2022-02-18 | THE LANDING $600: The site where George Washington & 2,400 men landed early on December 26, 1776 is today a park in this state New Jersey |
#8580, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC MEN $800: It was no minor feat that in 1990, he emerged victorious in a 3-person race to succeed Margaret Thatcher as prime minister John Major |
#8580, aired 2022-02-18 | NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: His 1947 play "All My Sons" is about a businessman whose substandard airplane parts cost young men their lives (Arthur) Miller |
#8580, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC MEN $1200: In the 1970s this future Secretary of State was a spokesman for Vietnam Veterans Against the War (John) Kerry |
#8580, aired 2022-02-18 | HISTORIC MEN $1600: Multitasking in 1794, he negotiated a treaty with Britain while also serving as the first Chief Justice of the United States (John) Jay |
#15, aired 2022-02-18 | ESPN $600: (Mina Kimes delivers the clue.) I graduated from Yale, a school that has produced NFL stars like Gary Fencik & two men who had this job running the major leagues, Fay Vincent & Bart Giamatti Commissioners of Baseball |
#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" |
#6, aired 2022-02-10 | MEDIEVAL LIFE $800: A major part of medieval Japanese art was portraits of these men, hung in temples--the portraits were--& venerated Buddhist monks |
#8573, aired 2022-02-09 | THE BUSINESS OF TELEVISION $400: Think back, & remember a time when Don Draper made a beautiful & poignant pitch about Kodak's Carousel on this drama Mad Men |
#2, aired 2022-02-08 | SHAKESPEARE $400: In a metaphor close to Will's heart, "All the world's" this, "and all the men and women merely players" a stage |
#8561, aired 2022-01-24 | '90s R&B & HIP-HOP $400: Making their Top 40 debut in 1991, this vocal group told us, "Motownphilly's back again, doin' a little East Coast swing" Boyz II Men |
#8561, aired 2022-01-24 | THE YEAR OF BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Fateful year for the Titanic & a movie in which Henry Fonda plays a juror 1912 Angry Men |
#8559, aired 2022-01-20 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $2000: This newspaperman & author of "The Devil's Dictionary" met a mysterious fate after going to Mexico in 1913 Ambrose Bierce |
#8553, aired 2022-01-12 | REPTILIAN WORDS & PHRASES $1200: A 14th century book that said certain beasts "slay men & they eat them weeping" gave rise to this expression crocodile tears |
#8549, aired 2022-01-06 | THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE $1600: Many anti-Missouri men had been active in this faded party & were accused by opponents of using the issue to make a comeback the Federalists |
#8548, aired 2022-01-05 | LIT IN THE FUTURE TENSE $1600: Set in 2021, this P.D. James novel centers on an outbreak of mass infertility in a world descending into chaos Children of Men |
#8540, aired 2021-12-24 | IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER $6,000 (Daily Double): In December 1577 he set sail from England with 5 ships & a crew of more than 150 men on a voyage around the world (Sir Francis) Drake |
#8538, aired 2021-12-22 | SHORT POEMS $1200: Gwendolyn Brooks wrote a heartbreaking 32 words called "We Real Cool" about young men in this kind of "hall" pool |
#8533, aired 2021-12-15 | PREQUELS & SEQUELS $400: Gregory Maguire's "Son of a Witch" & "A Lion Among Men" are sequels to this book that inspired a musical Wicked |
#8531, aired 2021-12-13 | PROFESSIONS $1000: There's a word for a quick race in the middle of this purveyor of men's furnishings a haberdasher |
#8522, aired 2021-11-30 | ENDS IN "EX" $400: It describes clothes or a fragrance designed to be worn by both men & women unisex |
#8522, aired 2021-11-30 | THE CIVIL WAR $1600: A poem about this prison said, "There's a graveyard near at hand... 12,000 Union men beneath the Georgia sand" Andersonville |
#8520, aired 2021-11-26 | STORY TIME $800: This rabbit-loving character calls a woman "purty"; that relationship ends in an extremely awful way, as does his life Lennie |
#8517, aired 2021-11-23 | LEFT MOTION $200: Men, start this double- or triple-talk dance with a step to the left; a pre-fame Bruce Lee was a champion at it in Hong Kong the cha-cha |
#8514, aired 2021-11-18 | DANCE IN HISTORY $600: The hornpipe was associated with this British force & helped its men maintain fitness in a confined space the Navy |
#8509, aired 2021-11-11 | TREYS $1000: A prince among men, this man III ruled Monaco for 56 years, until his death in 2005 Rainier (III) |
#8506, aired 2021-11-08 | MOVIE STARS $2000: A cat named Orion wears a collar that contains a miniature galaxy in this 1997 comedy blockbuster Men in Black |
#8497, aired 2021-10-26 | TV SHOW OPENING CREDITS $200: A silhouetted businessman free falls past giant ads & lands in a chair, cigarette in hand Mad Men |
#8497, aired 2021-10-26 | THE U.K. SINCE 1945 $600: Ending a 77-year drought for a U.K. male, in 2013 this tennis player won the Wimbledon Men's Singles Andy Murray |
#8496, aired 2021-10-25 | MEN OF LA MANCHA $400: A large, arid plateau in Central Spain, La Mancha was made famous in a 17th century novel by this man Cervantes |
#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 |
#8476, aired 2021-09-27 | SO YOU JUST BOWLED A STRIKE $800: As with meeting the queen of England, men may bow & women may do this to their bowling league teammates curtsy |
#8468, aired 2021-09-15 | THE 2020 OLYMPICS IN 2021 $800: Not in a driveway but in an arena, a shot by Karlis "Batman" Lasmanis gave Latvia the 1st men's gold in this form of basketball 3 versus 3 (3 on 3) |
#8464, aired 2021-08-12 | RIDDLE ME THIS $800: To pay up for a riddle solved, this biblical strongman murders 30 men who had nothing to do with it and steals their stuff Samson |
#8459, aired 2021-08-05 | NAME THE MOVIE KING $1200: Patrick Stewart in "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" King Richard the Lion-Hearted |
#8459, aired 2021-08-05 | A POET LAUREATE $2000: In 1986 this 3-named man who also wrote novels like "All The King's Men" became the first poet laureate consultant in poetry (Robert Penn) Warren |
#8458, aired 2021-08-04 | THE CHOSEN FEW $1200: Latin for "with a key" gives us this select group of holy men responsible for picking a new pope conclave |
#8457, aired 2021-08-03 | RELIGION $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Great Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary.) The largest in Europe, the Great Synagogue of Budapest can seat 3,000 people; traditionally, the men sit downstairs while the women are in the balcony, a universal practice in this branch of Judaism Orthodox |
#8444, aired 2021-07-15 | IT'S LIGHT OUT $1,500 (Daily Double): Hypnos was the Greek god of sleep; he was Hypnos' son who brought men their dreams, & maybe a way out of the Matrix as well Morpheus |
#8440, aired 2021-07-09 | JULY $400: On July 8, 2014 in a semifinal game at the men's World Cup, Germany eliminated this host country, 7-1 Brazil |
#8434, aired 2021-07-01 | BOSTON: NEWS CLUES $600: (Hi, I'm Liam Martin.) On January 17, 1950, a group of armed masked men pulled off the crime of the century, stealing more than $2.7 million from this company's armored car depot in Boston; only a small amount of the money was ever recovered Brink's |
#8434, aired 2021-07-01 | 'TIS SHAKESPEARE $1600: In a bit of payback for all the female roles taken by men, in 1899, this French actress played Hamlet Sarah Bernhardt |
#8432, aired 2021-06-29 | PAST LIVES $400: Benedict Arnold co-led this militia from Vermont that had less than a hundred men when it took Fort Ticonderoga in 1775 the Green Mountain Boys |
#8430, aired 2021-06-25 | WORLD LITERATURE $1200: Russian characters can be confusing & Gogol didn't help with a story about a quarrel by 2 men who both had this common first name Ivan |
#8430, aired 2021-06-25 | AMERICAN FACTORY $2000: In the 19th century, these 2 men started a Rochester, New York factory to make eyeglass lenses; contact lenses came later Bausch and Lomb |
#8426, aired 2021-06-21 | AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS $2000: Set in 18th century Italy, Anne Rice's "Cry to Heaven" is about 2 of these male sopranos, adored as singers, yet shunned as men castrati |
#8421, aired 2021-06-14 | MOBITUARIES WITH MO ROCCA $1000: (Mo Rocca presents the clue.) This English dandy with an alliterative name, was an influencer of men's fashion in the 1800s, counting Lord Byron among his fans; today his name is an old-fashioned term for a fashion plate Beau Brummell |
#8417, aired 2021-06-08 | A LITERATURE SAMPLER $800: In a classic tale about this title guy, "John, Lord Greystoke... vanished from the eyes and from the knowledge of men" Tarzan |
#8416, aired 2021-06-07 | CONSCIOUSNESS OF STREAM WRITING $2000: 4 men on a canoe trip in this James Dickey novel fight to survive the wild Cahulawassee River & scary locals Deliverance |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER $1000: "'For the rabbits', (he) shouted... George raised the gun and steadied it... the crash of the shot rolled up the hills" Lennie |
#8413, aired 2021-06-02 | POTPOURRI $1200: (Brad Keselowski presents from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.) I'm Brad Keselowski; the pit crew guy hauling a 20-pound piece of equipment to help change my four tires is called this, also the last name of an X-Men actor a jackman |
#8409, aired 2021-05-27 | THE COLONIAL WORLD $1000: Robert Clive led this company that had a quarter million men army; so, the Clive Museum benefitted with lots of Mughal artifacts the East India Company |
#8395, aired 2021-05-07 | MONKS $1200: The monk Theophanes is among holy men to get this title, meaning he spoke out about his faith, not that he listened to others' sins a confessor |
#8379, aired 2021-04-15 | DOING MOVIES & TV $800: This actor has been seen in a "Jeopardy!" audience at least twice--in "White Men Can't Jump" & watching Cliff on "Cheers" (Woody) Harrelson |
#8376, aired 2021-04-12 | BILL OF WRITES $400: A sonnet of his ends, "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee" Shakespeare |
#8376, aired 2021-04-12 | COUNTING ON TELEVISION $2000: This Nevada-set "Cops" parody features inept deputies & police uniform short shorts for men Reno 911! |
#8355, aired 2021-03-12 | OF POP CULTURE MICE & MEN $200: In 1934 this icon made his debut as a giant balloon in what was then called Macy's Santa Claus Parade Mickey Mouse |
#8355, aired 2021-03-12 | OF POP CULTURE MICE & MEN $400: This "Simpsons" duo starred in "Candle in the Wound" & "It's a Wonderful Knife" Itchy & Scratchy |
#8355, aired 2021-03-12 | OF POP CULTURE MICE & MEN $600: Geena Davis & Hugh Laurie were the adoptive parents of a mouse-like kid in this 1999 film Stuart Little |
#8353, aired 2021-03-10 | SONG TITLE ADJECTIVES $1200: In a 1994 No. 1 Boyz II Men were "On" this "Knee" Bended |
#8350, aired 2021-03-05 | BAD MEN & ROBBIN' $1600: Probably the most famous bank robber in U.S. history, he was public enemy number one when he was killed outside a Chicago theater (John) Dillinger |
#8350, aired 2021-03-05 | BAD MEN & ROBBIN' $2000: A bootlegger & bank robber with the real name George K. Barnes earned this moniker for the weapon he carried Machine Gun Kelly |
#8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $200: As Charles Xavier, James McAvoy reads to his students from "The Once & Future King" in the "Apocalypse" film in this franchise the X-Men franchise |
#8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $600: In this film that's near & dear to us, Rosie Perez reads the World Almanac to study for "Jeopardy!" White Men Can't Jump |
#8327, aired 2021-02-02 | "A" IS FOR ASTRONOMICAL $400: 2 impact craters in the Sea of Tranquility are named for these 2 men Aldrin & Armstrong |
#8321, aired 2021-01-25 | LETTER PERFECT CINEMA $400: At the end of "Logan", Laura turns the cross on Wolverine's grave to make it into one of these letters an "X" |
#8318, aired 2021-01-20 | MEN OF MYTH $400: This supreme musician was the son of a muse, & I'm no lyre Orpheus |
#8318, aired 2021-01-20 | MEN OF MYTH $800: The villainous Procrustes stretched or dismembered victims to make them fit onto his iron this a bed |
#8315, aired 2021-01-15 | IT'S A LONG STORY $200: In this trilogy Frodo Baggins forms a fellowship with 3 other hobbits, an elf, a dwarf, a wizard & 2 men Lord of the Rings |
#8310, aired 2021-01-08 | WEARABLE TECH $600: It's just a blue T to me, but the men's UA Tech 2.0 vibe print short sleeve by this sports brand somehow has "anti-odor technology" Under Armour |
#8309, aired 2021-01-07 | MYTHOLOGY $400: After Polyphemus, one of these 1-eyed giants, ate some of Odysseus' men, the survivors blinded him a Cyclops |
#8304, aired 2020-12-17 | AUTHORS & THEIR PETS $1,000 (Daily Double): Of this author's dogs, Charley was a good boy, & Toby, who ate the first draft for "Of Mice & Men", was definitely a bad boy John Steinbeck |
#8292, aired 2020-12-01 | SKIPPER $1200: In 1813 Capt. James Lawrence implored his men on the frigate Chesapeake, "Don't" do this, later a rally cry for the war give up the ship |
#8277, aired 2020-11-10 | A SAINT IN HISTORY $1600: Thomas More wrote that "pilgrimage: bad" is one of these punishable beliefs for which he had 6 men burned heresy |
#8265, aired 2020-10-23 | A CATHOLIC EDUCATION $1000: The 3 formal vows taken by men & women of the church are chastity, obedience & this poverty |
#8263, aired 2020-10-21 | A "DIAMOND" $1200: "Men grow cold as girls grow old, and we all lose our charms in the end", Marilyn sang in this jewel of a song "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" |
#8260, aired 2020-10-16 | ELVI $2000: Elvis Stojko won his first Olympic medal, a silver in men's figure skating, at the 1994 Winter Games in this Norwegian city Lillehammer |
#8257, aired 2020-10-13 | TV THEME SONG LYRICS $1200: "Men men men men, manly men men men!" Two and a Half Men |
#8252, aired 2020-10-06 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS MOUNTAIN G.O.A.T.s $200: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) One of the first two men to summit Everest and a part of my personal Mount Rushmore of all-time climbers, he also tractored to the South Pole five years later in 1958 Edmund Hillary |
#8252, aired 2020-10-06 | WORDS AT THEIR FINAL RESTING PLACES $1000: This British leader of men in Antarctica: "I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize" (Ernest) Shackleton |
#8249, aired 2020-10-01 | BESTSELLERS $1000: In the '90s this newsman had a nonfiction bestseller with "The Greatest Generation" about the men & women of WWII Tom Brokaw |
#8247, aired 2020-09-29 | NONFICTION $4,000 (Daily Double): Later a major motion picture, it was Sebastian Junger's "True Story of Men Against the Sea" The Perfect Storm |
#8245, aired 2020-09-25 | PLAYS $400: In "Twelve Angry Men", the men make up this group a jury |
#8245, aired 2020-09-25 | HEARD ON A TV DRAMA $400: "What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons" Mad Men |
#8230, aired 2020-06-05 | WORDS COINED IN THE 1920s $800: We got this word from a 1920 play by Karel Capek about mechanical men & women robot |
#8224, aired 2020-05-28 | MYTHOLOGY $1000: In art from the 400s B.C., Odysseus is offered a drink by this sorceress who had already turned his men into swine Circe |
#8223, aired 2020-05-27 | YO HO HO $200: From "Treasure Island" comes the refrain "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest, yo-ho-ho" & one of these a bottle of rum |
#8218, aired 2020-05-20 | HATS ALL, FOLKS $600: In "The Roman Hat Mystery", which introduced Ellery Queen, a missing one of these tall formal men's hats holds the key to a murder a top hat |
#8218, aired 2020-05-20 | GERMAN ANIMAL NAMES $1000: From the way they stand up, these African mongoose relatives are called "little earth men" in German a meerkat |
#8217, aired 2020-05-19 | THE LORD DEALS WITH THEE, BIBLICALLY $2000: "The Lord spake unto" him, "saying, take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man...out of the midst of Jordan" Joshua |
#8209, aired 2020-04-23 | LITERATURE $800: Patricia Highsmith gained fame with her first novel, about 2 men who meet as "Strangers" here on a train |
#8207, aired 2020-04-21 | 3-LETTER WORDS $800: 18th century men often wore a gooseberry--a large, frizzled one of these a wig |
#8192, aired 2020-03-31 | POSSESSIVE PHRASES $1000: This 1974 account of political chicanery in 1972 became a 1976 quadruple Oscar winner All the President's Men |
#8188, aired 2020-03-25 | FEMALE SUPERHEROES $600: A member of the X-Men, Ororo Munroe is this weather-controlling mutant Storm |
#8182, aired 2020-03-17 | MEDICINE MEN $400: Charles Richard Drew organized the first of these alliterative plasma storage programs a blood bank |
#8182, aired 2020-03-17 | MEDICINE MEN $1200: Barry Marshall won a 2005 Nobel Prize for proving that peptic these are an infectious bacterial disease ulcers |
#8182, aired 2020-03-17 | MEDICINE MEN $1600: A medical milestone came when Dr. John Snow traced an outbreak of this disease in Victorian London to a single water pump cholera |
#8182, aired 2020-03-17 | MEDICINE MEN $4,200 (Daily Double): A 2019 surgery on a 60-year-old woman revealed a nearly 50-year-old mitral valve that this South African man had implanted Dr. Christiaan Barnard |
#8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HERE'S OUR MEN, YOU $600: When I attended, my alma mater the University of Ottawa was also this type of institution preparing young men for the priesthood a seminary |
#8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HERE'S OUR MEN, YOU $800: With striped vests, straw hats & great harmonies, the Dapper Dans roam Disneyland as this type of foursome a barbershop quartet |
#8171, aired 2020-03-02 | RUBRIC CUES $1000: On men's pants these generally give a dressier look, but tuxedo pants are hemmed instead cuffs |
#8156, aired 2020-02-10 | BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES $2000: George Clooney & Will Smith team up & hunt Nazi art thieves & alien bugs The Monuments Men in Black |
#8154, aired 2020-02-06 | PUTTING A "B" IN YOUR BONNET $1000: This men's hat of the Napoleonic era has a name meaning "two-horned" a bicorne |
#8148, aired 2020-01-29 | LETTER MEN $400: A: in Genesis 20:2, he says his wife is his sister Abraham |
#8148, aired 2020-01-29 | LETTER MEN $1600: D: this German died in 1900, a quarter century before his firm merged with that of Karl Benz Daimler |
#8148, aired 2020-01-29 | LETTER MEN $2000: E: his "Elements" says, "a line is a length without breadth" Euclid |
#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 $1000: 1940s Mexican-American men helped popularize this rhyming ensemble associated with jitterbug dancing a zoot suit |
#8142, aired 2020-01-21 | I MISSED THE START OF THAT NURSERY RHYME $400: "...three men in a tub" "Rub-a-dub-dub" |
#8135, aired 2020-01-10 | # $600: #HeforShe went viral after a U.N. speech about men & boys working for gender equality given by this "Harry Potter" actress Emma Watson |
#5, aired 2020-01-09 | I'M NOT WEARING ANY PANTS $600: Basically a belt plus a front flap, it was a simple garment for men in Ancient Egypt; Tarzan makes one from deerskin a loincloth |
#5, aired 2020-01-09 | I'M NOT WEARING ANY PANTS $800: Worn by men & women, the chiton was a long tunic dating back to this ancient Greek period, also a word for "outmoded" archaic |
#8133, aired 2020-01-08 | 1995 $600: This gathering with a numerical and alliterative name drew hundreds of thousands of black men to Washington, D.C. the Million Man March |
#2, aired 2020-01-07 | POTPOURRI $1200: In the 1920s several elderly men who had worked digging the Big Bend railroad tunnel remembered this hero as a real person John Henry |
#8122, aired 2019-12-24 | THE SPHERE OF SCIENCE $2000: On Aug. 15, 1934 this craft with "sphere" in its name took 2 men 3,028 feet underwater, a record that stood for 15 years a Bathysphere |
#8121, aired 2019-12-23 | LITERATURE $200: In this Steinbeck work, George kills his friend Lennie to spare him from a lynch mob Of Mice and Men |
#8120, aired 2019-12-20 | STUFF $800: The powder for these, worn by 18th c. men, was made of ground starch & scented with lavender; a 1795 tax ended the style a wig |
#8118, aired 2019-12-18 | GOOD WHEEL TOWARD MEN $200: The helpful Wesley Snipes: "You ever play" this game? "Let me give you a word of advice--always bet on black" roulette |
#8118, aired 2019-12-18 | GOOD WHEEL TOWARD MEN $400: This numerical term for someone or something superfluous comes from an additional tire once part of carriages a fifth wheel |
#8118, aired 2019-12-18 | GOOD WHEEL TOWARD MEN $920 (Daily Double): "An America in which all seniors live nourished lives with indep. & dignity" is the vision of this charity with a rhyming name Meals on Wheels |
#8118, aired 2019-12-18 | GOOD WHEEL TOWARD MEN $1000: Made in 100-pound wheels, this Swiss cheese from Fribourg has a golden-brown rind & a firm, pale yellow interior Gruyère |
#8101, aired 2019-11-25 | THE 1960s $200: A 1964 report from the surgeon general said this was "causally related to lung cancer in men" smoking |
#8100, aired 2019-11-22 | GOOD TELEVISION $1200: This "Mad Men" actress robs a supermarket on "Good Girls" Christina Hendricks |
#8090, aired 2019-11-08 | NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $200: Portmanteau word for a close friendship between men; the movie "I Love You, Man" portrayed one a bromance |
#8074, aired 2019-10-17 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents using a map of Mexico.) On April 22, 1519, he landed in Veracruz with 500 men and would reach Tenochtitlan later that year in his conquest of Mexico Cortés |
#8073, aired 2019-10-16 | HER STORY $600: She wrote, "Why is this book called 'Bossypants'? One, because the name 'Two and a Half Men' was already taken" (Tina) Fey |
#8060, aired 2019-09-27 | "B" MOVIE STARS $1600: This Spaniard had no idea how crazy he was as a hitman in "No Country for Old Men" Javier Bardem |
#8050, aired 2019-09-13 | LIVE ENTERTAINMENT $400: The Bruise Brothers are a Chicago-based men's team in this contact sport on wheels roller derby |
#8044, aired 2019-07-25 | JULIANNE MOORE DOESN'T SEE THE END OF THE FILM $2000: Ms. Moore's car ride came to a very sudden end in this film set in 2027 about a world ravaged by infertility Children of Men |
#8040, aired 2019-07-19 | THE APOLLO MISSIONS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian.) On its way to the Moon & back in 1969, Apollo 11 carried a piece of wood from a craft employed by these two men for another famous flight 66 years earlier the Wright brothers |
#8039, aired 2019-07-18 | NEW GROUP NAMES OF MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES $800: A Bojack of these horse/men who tried to kidnap Lapith women after getting drunk at a wedding centaurs |
#8038, aired 2019-07-17 | WORDS, WORDS, WORDS $600: This rhyming term for an important person comes from the high hairpieces men of distinction once wore a bigwig |
#8038, aired 2019-07-17 | FASHION DON'TS $1000: It's the redundant pair of accessories that men are advised not to wear together--don't tell "Office Space"'s Bill Lumbergh suspenders and a belt |
#8035, aired 2019-07-12 | MEN IN BLACK $400: 19th century artist Hokusai is credited with the first image of these stealthy warriors wearing black a ninja |
#8035, aired 2019-07-12 | MEN IN BLACK $600: Josh Brolin played a younger version of this actor in "Men in Black 3" Tommy Lee Jones |
#8030, aired 2019-07-05 | THE FIFA MEN'S WORLD CUP $200: In 2006 Zinedine Zidane famously incurred a red card infraction: this foul that even got a Paris statue named for it the headbutt |
#8030, aired 2019-07-05 | THE FIFA MEN'S WORLD CUP $1000: England won its only Cup in 1966 in a 4-2 extra-time victory on its home pitch--this London stadium Wembley |
#8029, aired 2019-07-04 | B.C. VIPs $5,200 (Daily Double): In 399 B.C. he told a jury, "I am not grieved, men of Athens, at this vote of condemnation" Socrates |
#8027, aired 2019-07-02 | LITERATURE FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE $2000: "Foe" by J.M. Coetzee depicts the final days of these 2 men as seen by a woman shipwrecked with the pair (Robinson) Crusoe and Friday |
#8020, aired 2019-06-21 | ONLY HALF SHOWED UP $2000: Half the jurors bailed on our production of a Reginald Rose play; guess we'll retitle it this Six Angry Men |
#8015, aired 2019-06-14 | MEERKAT MANNERS $600: A meerkat scans for predators in this posture, a term for a guard against surprise attack, and also a type of big robot "X-Men" foe sentinel |
#8015, aired 2019-06-14 | N.Y. TV $1200: Think back... back to a simpler time, a time spent with family, watching this actor play NYC ad exec Don Draper Jon Hamm |
#8007, aired 2019-06-04 | LITERARY GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES $6,000 (Daily Double): In this novel by Cormac McCarthy, a man finds $2 million in cash No Country for Old Men |
#7999, aired 2019-05-23 | NUMERIC PHRASES $400: "12 good men & true" is an idiom describing one of these a jury |
#7997, aired 2019-05-21 | ADAMS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Adams National Historical Park.) The birthplace & former home of 2 U.S. presidents, Adams National Historical Park is in this Massachusetts town that shares a name with the younger of the two men Quincy |
#7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A PRINCE AMONG MEN $400: This name of Romanian prince Vlad, who impaled his enemies, comes from the Latin word for "dragon" Dracula |
#7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A PRINCE AMONG MEN $800: In the Sutras he gave up being a prince on his journey towards enlightenment Buddha |
#7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A PRINCE AMONG MEN $1200: You could call Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, by this title, also the name of a popular video game series prince of Persia |
#7996, aired 2019-05-20 | A PRINCE AMONG MEN $2000: Charlemagne had a son with this name who found he had "Magic To Do" in Italy Pepin |
#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 |
#7987, aired 2019-05-07 | THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD $800: Every 30 seconds 2 guys laid down a 500- to 700-lb. rail; then came men with sledgehammers driving these, 10 to each rail a spike |
#7979, aired 2019-04-25 | MOVIES IN THE DIRECTV GUIDE $1200: 2 men, "on a mission from God, bomb around Chicago in an old police car, reuniting their hot band" The Blues Brothers |
#7979, aired 2019-04-25 | MOVIES IN THE DIRECTV GUIDE $2000: "Two hit men, a boxer, a crime boss & others meet their fates over the course of two days" Pulp Fiction |
#7972, aired 2019-04-16 | A THURBER CARNIVAL OF QUOTATIONS $800: "Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy" this desperation |
#7969, aired 2019-04-11 | 25 TCM $400: (Ben Mankiewicz gives the clue.) Tonight, for the opening o the 10th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival, Meg Ryan & Billy Crystal will reunite with director Rob Reiner for a screening of this romantic comedy that wondered if men & women would really be friends When Harry Met Sally... |
#7961, aired 2019-04-01 | CLOTHING $400: A tip for men trying on this Scottish garment: make sure the front of it falls between your legs when you sit a kilt |
#7957, aired 2019-03-26 | TO BE ELF-EVIDENT $400: The ghosts of men are no biggie for this Tolkien elf, but a Balrog?! The ancient fire monster freaks him out Legolas |
#7954, aired 2019-03-21 | SUIT UP $800: This London suit is so identified with fine men's tailoring that the Japanese word for a business suit is sabiro Savile Row |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | HATS INCREDIBLE $800: This hat here was a huge hit with men in Turkey until the 1920s a fez |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | HATS INCREDIBLE $1000: "Pig" out & name this men's hat, flat on top with a crease around the crown's edge a porkpie hat |
#7951, aired 2019-03-18 | MISSOURI HISTORY $600: These 2 men joined together as full partners in a Missouri brewery in 1873 Anheuser and Busch |
#7930, aired 2019-02-15 | YOU HAD TO BE THERE $800: In 1973, the last year this happened, 646 men were inducted to serve a draft |
#7926, aired 2019-02-11 | YOU SAY YOU WANT A FRENCH REVOLUTION $2000: The Declaration of these proclaimed, "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights" rights of man |
#7921, aired 2019-02-04 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The title of a 1936 book, this 3-word nickname for the U.S. Supreme Court ceased to apply in 1981 nine old men |
#7918, aired 2019-01-30 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $1200: Before adapting "A Few Good Men", Aaron Sorkin said not only had he never written one of these, he'd never read one a screenplay |
#7912, aired 2019-01-22 | A FEW GOOD MEN $400: Glen Bell was a WWII Marine cook in Guadalcanal before he started this Mexican fast food chain Taco Bell |
#7912, aired 2019-01-22 | A FEW GOOD MEN $800: Comedian Rob Riggle was still an active reservist when he was a correspondent on this Comedy Central news satire show The Daily Show |
#7912, aired 2019-01-22 | A FEW GOOD MEN $1200: Before he joined the First Order as Kylo Ren, this actor was one of the good guys, enlisting as a Marine (Adam) Driver |
#7912, aired 2019-01-22 | A FEW GOOD MEN $1600: Before he was a go-to guy for Scorsese, this actor earned a medal for his service in Lebanon in the 1950s Harvey Keitel |
#7912, aired 2019-01-22 | A FEW GOOD MEN $2000: This "Boombastic" reggae singer served a tour in the corps in the first Gulf War Shaggy |
#7910, aired 2019-01-18 | COMIC "ON" $800: An X-Men foe shares this name with a big bad guy from "The Lord of the Rings" Sauron |
#7901, aired 2019-01-07 | WORDS FROM THE MALAY $1200: This draped, skirtlike garment is worn by men & women, not just Dorothy Lamour a sarong |
#7898, aired 2019-01-02 | YOUR BLESSINGS $1000: In this faith men of the Melchizedek priesthood, which was restored to Earth in 1829, bless a new baby Mormon |
#7892, aired 2018-12-25 | BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS $400: A novel about a bestseller on UFOs, or a Will Smith movie about policing extraterrestrials Men in Black |
#7891, aired 2018-12-24 | LET'S PUT ON A SHOW $600 (Daily Double): No. 5 in this play says, "I'd like to change my vote to not guilty"; the foreman replies, "Are you sure?" 12 Angry Men |
#7889, aired 2018-12-20 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $200: (I'm Jim Gardner from 6ABC.) The Franklin Institute has the only intact Model B made by these 2 men; it was the first plane to carry air freight, live bombs & a U.S. president Orville and Wilbur Wright |
#7883, aired 2018-12-12 | READ IT $600: Woodward & Bernstein changed America with this book, nonfiction that read like a spy thriller All the President's Men |
#7869, aired 2018-11-22 | ALL ENCOMPASSING WORDS $1200: A mine raider would have to contend with these little folklore men standing guard gnomes |
#7854, aired 2018-11-01 | THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS FOR WOMEN $1000: The declaration asserted that as women accused of crimes were tried only by men, they never got a jury of these their peers |
#7852, aired 2018-10-30 | EPONYMOUSE $600: Robert Burns' "best laid schemes" of this pair led to a Steinbeck title of mice and men |
#7852, aired 2018-10-30 | A BIT OLD FASHION $800: From around 1825 short pants called breeches were no longer worn by fashionable British men, only by these, such as footmen servants |
#7845, aired 2018-10-19 | HANGING WITH FAMOUS PEOPLE $400: I really doubt a fight could break out between these two men the Dalai Lama and Mr. Rogers |
#7845, aired 2018-10-19 | HANGING WITH FAMOUS PEOPLE $1000: These two men, an actor-director & a writer, have a nice chat, perhaps about their last names being homophones Orson Welles and H.G. Wells |
#7842, aired 2018-10-16 | IF 1800s AMERICA HAD TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY $1200: From Louisa May Alcott's blog in 1871: "This aptly titled 1st sequel--done! Jo runs a school for boys! Now...party time!" Little Men |
#7838, aired 2018-10-10 | MOVIE BY MacGUFFIN $2000: A 2007 Coen brothers film:
$2 million from a drug deal gone bad in west Texas No Country for Old Men |
#7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE TELEVISION ACADEMY HALL OF FAME $2000: The Hall inducted this co-creator of "Big Bang Theory" & "Two and a Half Men" (Chuck) Lorre |
#7823, aired 2018-09-19 | THIS & THAT $200: A classic of men's formal wear, this dinner jacket was named for a New York country club that opened in 1886 a tuxedo |
#7817, aired 2018-09-11 | NUMERICAL CINEMA $400: A trio of bachelors cares for a foundling left on their doorstep Three Men and a Baby |
#7816, aired 2018-09-10 | FAMOUS THREESOMES $400: In a Mother Goose rhyme, "Rub-a-dub-dub", they're the "three men in a tub" the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker |
#7816, aired 2018-09-10 | US OPEN 50 YEARS $800: The 1990 Open heralded a new all-time great when, at 19, he beat Agassi to become the youngest men's singles champ (Pete) Sampras |
#7811, aired 2018-07-23 | THE VIEW FROM THE TOP $1000: In ballet versions of this Ravel piece, the ballerina dances high atop a large table surrounded by men Bolero |
#7803, aired 2018-07-11 | CLASSIC MOVIE: THE VIDEO GAME $200: A kid's life is in your hands as you play as any one of a dozen jurors; the action is all in one room; sway opinions as No. 8 12 Angry Men |
#7798, aired 2018-07-04 | SWITCH TO A COMPETING BRAND $1000: "There is a Purex in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" Tide |
#7795, aired 2018-06-29 | DEATH OF A SALESMAN $1200: This actor, who played the lead in a "Salesman" revival, said he saw it reduce many suit-wearing grown-up men to tears Brian Dennehy |
#7791, aired 2018-06-25 | ADVERBS $1600: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women ____ players" merely |
#7777, aired 2018-06-05 | I DON'T WANNA CRAMP $600: Men's Fitness' "5 Nutrient-Rich Dishes" providing this cramp-fighting element included avocado, salmon & papaya potassium |
#7777, aired 2018-06-05 | YOUR STYLE $1000: In Paris it's a men's shirt; in New York it's a type of dress, loose-cut & short a chemise |
#7770, aired 2018-05-25 | INDY 500 $600: After a scary 2017 crash, both men walked away, thanks in part to the HANS device; the acronym HANS refers to these two body parts head and neck |
#7763, aired 2018-05-16 | SOCIOLOGY $1600: Back in 1868 N.Y.'s gov. made note of homelessness among these men; now there's a whole Cabinet dept. to help them veterans |
#7762, aired 2018-05-15 | MEN ON THE MOON $200: Setting one of these up on a tripod, Alan Bean inadvertently pointed it at the Sun & wrecked it a camera |
#7762, aired 2018-05-15 | MEN ON THE MOON $400: John Young raced the LRV, this vehicle, through a "Grand Prix" test a lunar rover vehicle |
#7762, aired 2018-05-15 | IT'S ONLY AN ALLUSION $400: A revelatory realization, it's applied to the presentation of the infant Jesus to the 3 wise men epiphany |
#7762, aired 2018-05-15 | MEN ON THE MOON $1000: Alan Shepard got in a little practice in this sport golf |
#7761, aired 2018-05-14 | LEAN ON ME $600: Lean In is an organization that empowers women; men assist by being these helpers, a word that starts with "men" mentors |
#7741, aired 2018-04-16 | LETTER MEN $400: In his later years, this author of "The Catcher in the Rye" was a recluse (J.D.) Salinger |
#7741, aired 2018-04-16 | "MAG"NA CUM LAUDE $1200: It can be a small dynamo used to generate high voltage or a mutant villain in the X-Men movies Magneto |
#7741, aired 2018-04-16 | LETTER MEN $1200: He wrote his most famous stories for his son Christopher Robin (A.A.) Milne |
#7741, aired 2018-04-16 | LETTER MEN $2000: This author of Indian descent released "Half a Life" in 2001, the year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature V.S. Naipaul |
#7726, aired 2018-03-26 | HIDE AWAY IN A BOOK $200: In this Steinbeck work, Lennie remembers what to do if anything goes wrong: "Hide in the brush an' wait for George" Of Mice and Men |
#7720, aired 2018-03-16 | IN A STORM $2000: The film "The Finest Hours" tells of a Coast Guard rescue of 32 men in one of these directional storms off Cape Cod a nor'easter |
#7716, aired 2018-03-12 | THIS IS NOT A DRILL (OR IS IT?) $800: The Lafayette Escadrille in World War I was made up of men who operated these airplanes |
#7713, aired 2018-03-07 | LITERARY EPONYMS $800: This classic men's hat was named for a 19th century play whose title character was actually a woman fedora |
#7710, aired 2018-03-02 | MY TV DADS $800: In "Two and a Half Men", he was just Duckie playing Alan Harper, dad to the half-man (Jon) Cryer |
#7695, aired 2018-02-09 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $1200: "____ Men and a Baby" times "____ Degrees of Separation" 18 |
#7691, aired 2018-02-05 | LOVE ACTUARILY $800: A U. of Miami study found married men survived the longest with this most common male gland cancer prostate cancer |
#7691, aired 2018-02-05 | LOVE ACTUARILY $2000: The death rate in healthy men was found to double if they'd experienced this sad event from Old English reafian, "to steal" a bereavement |
#7690, aired 2018-02-02 | 4 TOP MEN $400: You know it would be true, you know I wouldn't be a liar, to say this band turned down $50K from Buick to use "Light My Fire" The Doors |
#7690, aired 2018-02-02 | 4 TOP MEN $1200: For a track on "Quadrophenia", this band had to bribe a train driver to blow his whistle departing Waterloo station The Who |
#7688, aired 2018-01-31 | GANGSTERS $400: Dion O'Banion ran his gang empire out of a Chicago flower shop...until 3 of this rival's men came by for "flowers" in 1924 (Al) Capone |
#7676, aired 2018-01-15 | MEN IN BOOKS BY WOMEN $400: In "Sons", a sequel by this woman, Wang Lung's sons deal with their father's legacy & wealth (Pearl) Buck |
#7675, aired 2018-01-12 | IT'S RAINING "MEN" $400: A regulated course of action, like that of a diet a regimen |
#7675, aired 2018-01-12 | IT'S RAINING "MEN" $600: A medical sample taken for study; it has a special "bottle" a specimen |
#7675, aired 2018-01-12 | IT'S RAINING "MEN" $800: A mob informant who gets found out is said to wear this non-buoyant footwear cement shoes |
#7675, aired 2018-01-12 | JANUARY $800: Every year on this date U.S. Christians celebrate Epiphany, a holy day commemorating the arrival of the 3 wise men January 6 |
#7675, aired 2018-01-12 | IT'S RAINING "MEN" $1000: This synonym for persuadable gets an "A" for effort amenable |
#7675, aired 2018-01-12 | TITLES FROM POETRY $2000: "Humpty-Dumpty" gave this Robert Penn Warren novel about a Southern politician its title All the King's Men |
#7675, aired 2018-01-12 | TITLES FROM POETRY $3,000 (Daily Double): The best-laid plans of these 2 authors gave us 1785's "To a Mouse" & the 1937 title inspired by it, "Of Mice and Men" Robert Burns and John Steinbeck |
#7673, aired 2018-01-10 | REAL NAMES ON THE MARQUEE $400: Tom Mapother IV &
Demetria Guynes in
"A Few Good Men" Tom Cruise & Demi Moore |
#7670, aired 2018-01-05 | AM I BLUE? $800: Played by Karen Gillan & Michael Rooker, respectively, Nebula & Yondu in this Marvel series have a bluish tinge Guardians of the Galaxy |
#7668, aired 2018-01-03 | 2-DIGIT NUMBERS $2000: Any self-respecting buccaneer knows there are this many "men on the dead man's chest--yo-ho-ho, & a bottle of rum!" 15 |
#7667, aired 2018-01-02 | THE '80s: WHO SAID IT? $400: A feminist:
"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry" Gloria Steinem |
#7666, aired 2018-01-01 | SIKH $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 17th century Gobind, the 10th leader, asked all Sikh men to add this word meaning "lion" to their names Singh |
#7665, aired 2017-12-29 | BEGINS WITH A SILENT LETTER $400: These breeches named for a body part were all the rage in late 18th-century men's fashion knee breeches |
#7663, aired 2017-12-27 | RHYME TIME FASHION $800: A wrapped headdress for Muslim men, designed to be worn in the city an urban turban |
#7657, aired 2017-12-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: In old New England a regular use of the village green was training this body of men mentioned in the Second Amendment the militia |
#7657, aired 2017-12-19 | DEAD MEN TELL SOME TALES $1,000 (Daily Double): The Stage Manager says, "Doc Gibbs died in 1930", but a minute later the doc is chatting away in this play Our Town |
#7657, aired 2017-12-19 | DEAD MEN TELL SOME TALES $1200: The spirits of Heisenberg & this Danish mentor remember the A-bomb in the play "Copenhagen" Niels Bohr |
#7654, aired 2017-12-14 | STEINBECK WORKS BY CHARACTERS $400: George, a farm laborer & Curley, son of a ranch owner Of Mice and Men |
#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 |
#7642, aired 2017-11-28 | EMMY-WINNING WOMEN $800: Kathy Bates won Best Guest Actress in a Comedy when she took over Charlie Sheen's role in an episode of this series Two and a Half Men |
#7638, aired 2017-11-22 | UNTOLD TV STORIES $200: (Sarah shows the letter shin on the monitor.) Leonard Nimoy explained that the Vulcan salute was inspired by a time in his past when the men at his temple made a similar sign in the shape of the letter shin in this alphabet Hebrew |
#7637, aired 2017-11-21 | MILLENNIALS $1600: Fearing a coup, in 1002 A.D. this "unready" English king ordered that all men from Denmark be slain Ethelred |
#7633, aired 2017-11-15 | FROM A TO Y $1000: A women's group working with a men's club or fraternal order is a "ladies" one auxiliary |
#7630, aired 2017-11-10 | SCIENCE FICTION $2000: The cover of this Isaac Asimov novel claimed, "Four men and one woman journey into the living body of a man" Fantastic Voyage |
#7627, aired 2017-11-07 | "B" A SPORT $800: 2-man men, 4-man men & 2-man women (!) are events in this winter Olympic sport bobsled |
#7624, aired 2017-11-02 | CHAIR FORCE $1200: This leather armchair bears the name of the type of the men's organizations that used them a club chair |
#7619, aired 2017-10-26 | THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON $800: While fighting aliens as part of this Marvel mutant group, Kitty Pryde finds a dragon she names Lockheed the X-Men |
#7613, aired 2017-10-18 | BOOK-POURRI $800 (Daily Double): The subtitle of this numerical book by Eliot Asinof is "The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series" Eight Men Out |
#7612, aired 2017-10-17 | IT'S A BATTLE $1,500 (Daily Double): On Sept. 17, 1862 in Maryland, over 3,000 men were killed & 17,000 wounded in this blood battle Antietam |
#7602, aired 2017-10-03 | "OLD" MOVIES $800: Javier Bardem won an Oscar playing a hit man in this Coen brothers film No Country for Old Men |
#7601, aired 2017-10-02 | IT'S AN HONOR TO BE NOMINATED $1000: At her death she had just completed the costumes for "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid"; they did not earn her a 36th nomination Edith Head |
#7600, aired 2017-09-29 | SCIENCE FICTION $200: Published in 1950, these Ray Bradbury "Chronicles" begin in 1999, when men leave Earth to colonize a nearby planet The Martian Chronicles |
#7599, aired 2017-09-28 | CLASSIC MOVIE LINES $800: "You want answers?! ...You want answers?! ...You can't handle the truth!" A Few Good Men |
#7592, aired 2017-09-19 | MEN IN HATS $200: People spent a lot of time on his couch Freud |
#7574, aired 2017-07-13 | 3 DIMENSIONAL $200: In the nursery rhyme, the one of the 3 men in a tub who doesn't work in a food-related job the candlestick maker |
#7564, aired 2017-06-29 | SPORTS $800: This "A-Rod" of tennis was 2003 U.S. Men's Open champ Andy Roddick |
#7559, aired 2017-06-22 | HIGH TEX. $800: During his 9 years in the NBA, this Shanghai-born athlete was among the tallest men in Texas Yao Ming |
#7559, aired 2017-06-22 | DISEASES NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $2000: This inflammatory digestive disease was named after one of the 3 men who published a paper on it in the 1930s Crohn's disease |
#7558, aired 2017-06-21 | NOT IN THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME $800: Morrissey & the rest of these charming men have been eligible since 2008, but what difference does it make? The Smiths |
#7553, aired 2017-06-14 | BIBLICAL PAIRS $1200: In 2 Kings a chariot of fire appears to these 2 men whose names both start with the same 3 letters Elijah and Elisha |
#7550, aired 2017-06-09 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $800: The Apsaras on a temple were beings who did this to entertain gods and men; apsara is a traditional type of the art in Cambodia dance |
#7547, aired 2017-06-06 | AWARDS & HONORS $200: "Dwight's Pot" is a nickname for this cup awarded to the Men's International Tennis Federation championship team the Davis Cup |
#7542, aired 2017-05-30 | OCCUPATIONS IN NEWS $1000: A 2014 award from the GTC, the Guild of Television these "men", went to a BBC newsman for dramatic footage of Syrian children cameramen |
#7538, aired 2017-05-24 | COME TOGETHER $800: Based on a character in the "Li'l Abner" comic strip, a Sadie Hawkins dance has this main feature the women ask the men |
#7536, aired 2017-05-22 | THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: (Heather Tom and Thorsten Kaye give the clue as Katie and Ridge from The Bold and the Beautiful.) "Ridge, why are you still concealing the truth?" "Because, Katie, it is our secret to reveal, no one else's. & I'll stand behind that like Leonidas & his 300 men at this famous mountain pass in the 5th century B.C." Thermopylae |
#7530, aired 2017-05-12 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: More famous for a Montana battle, he & his men kept Jeb Stuart from attacking the Union rear at Gettysburg Custer |
#7517, aired 2017-04-25 | SPEAKING OF TONGUES $600: This Kiss bass player once published a men's lifestyle magazine called Tongue Gene Simmons |
#7510, aired 2017-04-14 | HIDDEN GENIUS $800: A great many men delved into the mysteries of genetics before this pea brain did Mendel (in men delved) |
#7506, aired 2017-04-10 | THE GILDED AGE $2000: On the same day in 1876, these 2 men both filed papers for a patent for the telephone Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray |
#7494, aired 2017-03-23 | "Z" MEN $400: On the roof of a New York theater in July 1907, this impresario staged the first of his spectacular "Follies" Ziegfeld |
#7494, aired 2017-03-23 | "Z" MEN $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a picture on the monitor.) On May 27, 1943, his plane went down in the Pacific, & after surviving a 2,000 mile trip on a raft & weighing less than 100 pounds, this bombardier was captured by Japanese forces on July 13th Louis Zamperini |
#7494, aired 2017-03-23 | "Z" MEN $1600: This Mexican revolutionary was a champion of agrarianism Zapata |
#7493, aired 2017-03-22 | JACKET REQUIRED $200: 6-letter word for a men's jacket or Damian Lillard, who plays point guard in Portland a blazer |
#7493, aired 2017-03-22 | BOLD GOERS $2000: In 57 days in 1930, 3 men crossed this "Quarter" in the Arabian desert; a TV ad shows a Range Rover doing it in 10 hours the "Empty Quarter" (or the Rub' al Khali) |
#7492, aired 2017-03-21 | PRETTY COLORS $600: This Ivy League school began as a Baptist institution for men & later adopted the name of its benefactor Brown University |
#7489, aired 2017-03-16 | IN BALTIMORE $800: In 1893 a $500,000 endowment was raised to help admit women on the same terms as men to this School of Medicine Johns Hopkins |
#7487, aired 2017-03-14 | WOMEN ON TELEVISION $400: (I'm Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner.) A few good things happened in the '90s: I was a "Jeopardy!" champ in 1992 & in '97 I got to write for "The Naked Truth" with this woman, now "Madam Secretary" Téa Leoni |
#7482, aired 2017-03-07 | TELEVISION $800: It ended its run with Don Draper meditating on a clifftop Mad Men |
#7476, aired 2017-02-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE $400: (Alex gives the clue from the Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C.) Guests at the opening ceremony for the museum included these men who trained in Alabama as part of this World War II group of aviators who escorted over 200 bombing missions with the loss of just a handful of bombers the Tuskegee Airmen |
#7472, aired 2017-02-21 | THEY NAMED A SCHOOL FOR ME $400: It's the school in Lexington, Virginia named for the two men seen here Washington and Lee |
#7465, aired 2017-02-10 | KHAN MEN $800: A 131-foot statue of this conqueror looms over the steppe east of Ulan Bator Genghis Khan |
#7465, aired 2017-02-10 | KHAN MEN $2000: In 1911 Bogd Gegeen Khan declared this country's independence from China, though it wasn't achieved for a decade Mongolia |
#7461, aired 2017-02-06 | NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) Thomas Jefferson wrote that "all men are created equal", yet, as seen from the names on the bricks, he was a major slaveholder, owning hundreds at this home & plantation in Virginia Monticello |
#7459, aired 2017-02-02 | 19th CENTURY LITERARY MARRIAGES $1200: In this author's "The Portrait of a Lady", Isabel has her pick of men & marries Gilbert; things go... poorly Henry James |
#7449, aired 2017-01-19 | IT DOESN'T GROW ON TREES $600: For men this track & field object weighs about the same as a bowling ball but is half the size a shot put |
#7447, aired 2017-01-17 | A TRIPLE FEATURE $400: It only took 2 years for "Trois hommes et un couffin", or "Three Men and a Cradle", to be remade as this in 1987 Three Men and a Baby |
#7441, aired 2017-01-09 | THRILLER & SUSPENSE NOVELS $600: The original Swedish title of this book, the first of a trilogy, was "Men Who Hate Women" The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo |
#7440, aired 2017-01-06 | U.S. MILITARY MEN $200: A statue of this "Green Mountain boy" in the U.S. Capitol represents the state of Vermont Ethan Allen |
#7440, aired 2017-01-06 | U.S. MILITARY MEN $800: More than a million people attended his 1885 funeral in NYC & in 1897 a million attended the dedication of his tomb Ulysses S. Grant |
#7430, aired 2016-12-23 | TOWARD "MEN" $1600: Unit used to measure an amount of light a lumen |
#7423, aired 2016-12-14 | REPRESENTIN' $800: This state has 1 representative in Congress; it has also sent a grand total of 4 men to fill that seat Alaska |
#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 |
#7404, aired 2016-11-17 | MOVIE VILLAINS $600: This "X-Men" character turned 2 D.C. landmarks into 1 when he dropped a stadium around the White House Magneto |
#7400, aired 2016-11-11 | PAPER TOWNS $1200: Part of Middle-earth, Dale was a prosperous town until this dragon killed many men & scared off the rest Smaug |
#7384, aired 2016-10-20 | BOOKS BY MEN $1200: The idea of this Joyce novel is that history is cyclic; the book begins with a sentence that is unfinished on the last page Finnegans Wake |
#7384, aired 2016-10-20 | BOOKS BY MEN $2000: In a novel title, F. Scott Fitzgerald paired them with the "Damned" The Beautiful |
#7383, aired 2016-10-19 | AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES $1200: America's first major naval victory occurred when he & his men captured the Drake in British waters in April 1778 (John Paul) Jones |
#7377, aired 2016-10-11 | THEY COME IN THREES $1000: The 3 wise men, or magi, who followed a star to Bethlehem were Melchior, Gaspar & him Balthazar |
#7372, aired 2016-10-04 | WHAT A TV CHARACTER! $600: (I'm Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner.) I said this character I created "likes winning strangers over. He likes seducing strangers, and that's what advertising is" Don Draper |
#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 |
#7368, aired 2016-09-28 | A REAL BUSY BODY $200: Men's Fitness says 4 sets of 25 reps of reverse crunches, with 2 minutes rest, will help you get some "ripped" these muscles, bro abdominal muscles |
#7365, aired 2016-09-23 | REMEMBERING WORLD WAR I $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Nat'l WWI Museum & Memorial in Kansas City, MO.) The Liberty Memorial at the National World War I Museum was built as a monument to the men and women who served in the war; in 1926, in front of a crowd of 150,000, this president broke his notorious silence to dedicate the memorial Calvin Coolidge |
#7348, aired 2016-07-20 | MEN OF NOTE $600: In 1953 he had the right stuff when he set a world record by flying 1,650 mph in an X-1A rocket plane Chuck Yeager |
#7346, aired 2016-07-18 | FASHION $600: This 1980s TV cop show started a men's fashion trend for pastel colors & suit jackets over T-shirts Miami Vice |
#7346, aired 2016-07-18 | A MOUSE IN THE HOUSE $1600: "Uh-uh. Jus' a dead mouse, George... Honest! I found it. I found it dead" is in this novel Of Mice and Men |
#7343, aired 2016-07-13 | PETER THE NOT GREAT $400: You know, Peter, I like the X-Men, too, but keeping this animal as a house pet? It goes after bears, man a wolverine |
#7342, aired 2016-07-12 | MILITARY MEN? $1200: This, the G.A.O., is the auditing agency that assists Congress the General Accounting Office |
#7342, aired 2016-07-12 | MILITARY MEN? $2000: We give a salute to this job, the chief steward of a great household majordomo |
#7342, aired 2016-07-12 | MILITARY MEN? $5,000 (Daily Double): Looks like many brave officers are here! This Kipling tale is subtitled "A Story of the Grand Banks" Captains Courageous |
#7340, aired 2016-07-08 | CATCH THESE MEN $200: Ted Kaczynski, who carried on a lethal 17-year campaign under this name, was caught following a tip from his brother the Unabomber |
#7340, aired 2016-07-08 | CATCH THESE MEN $1000: Soon after the fall of Baghdad in 2003, Saddam Hussein was found hiding in a hole near this city, his hometown Tikrit |
#7340, aired 2016-07-08 | CATCH THESE MEN $2,000 (Daily Double): 12 days after his heinous act, he was discovered in a barn with David Herold & surrounded in rural Virginia John Wilkes Booth |
#7338, aired 2016-07-06 | LITERARY GROUPS & MOVEMENTS $800: A group of mid-20th century British writers were these "Young Men"--it's not "Jolly" Angry |
#7337, aired 2016-07-05 | IT'S ALL "APPLE" SAUCE $200: More prominent in men, it's a thyroid cartilage projection of the larynx the Adam's apple |
#7324, aired 2016-06-16 | WHOSE WHAT? $400: In 1894 a throng of unemployed men known as "Coxey's Army" marched to this city to demand jobs & public spending Washington, D.C. |
#7306, aired 2016-05-23 | ARE YOU FEELING LUCKY? $600: Shakespeare began a sonnet, "When in disgrace with" this synonym for luck "and men's eyes" fortune |
#7305, aired 2016-05-20 | MAD MEN $400: In "Alice in Wonderland " this character asks, "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?" Mad Hatter |
#7305, aired 2016-05-20 | MAD MEN $1200: The subtitle of a biography of this Russian mystic asks, "Holy Man or Mad Monk?" Rasputin |
#7302, aired 2016-05-17 | MEN OF STEEL $400: A 20th century Soviet leader adopted this name that means "man of steel" Stalin |
#7300, aired 2016-05-13 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $800: In 1998 author Gloria Naylor revisited this title "Place", this time giving "The Men" a chance to be heard from Brewster Place |
#7295, aired 2016-05-06 | FINISH THE LITERARY LINE $800: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women..." merely players |
#7288, aired 2016-04-27 | THUS SAYETH THE LORD $1600: To Joshua:
"Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every ____ a man" tribe |
#7269, aired 2016-03-31 | NATIONAL STATUARY HALL $800: One a priest & one a monarch, they're the 2 men whose statues represent Hawaii in the Hall Father Damien and King Kamehameha |
#7267, aired 2016-03-29 | I RUN A LITTLE $400: Men from this country own the 100-meter sprint with times like 9.58, 9.63 & 9.69 Jamaica |
#7267, aired 2016-03-29 | CLOTHES $400: A cutaway was a part of men's dress for this time of day, which is why it's also called that time of day's coat morning |
#7258, aired 2016-03-16 | A GRIP ON IT $600: As key grip on this AMC series from 2007 to 2015, Pat O'Mara helped light up 1960s Manhattan Mad Men |
#7252, aired 2016-03-08 | ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES $1000: A long braid or pigtail historically worn by men a queue |
#7251, aired 2016-03-07 | LET'S HIT THE "BAR" $800: Boyz II Men would be an appropriate choice to play at a party after this synagogue ceremony a bar mitzvah |
#7247, aired 2016-03-01 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $400: Undergraduate education was an option, but this Baltimore school started mostly as a graduate school for men in 1876 Johns Hopkins |
#7238, aired 2016-02-17 | BOSTON'S FREEDOM TRAIL $800: 5 men listed on a headstone at Granary Burying Ground were victims of this tragic March 5, 1770 event the Boston Massacre |
#7223, aired 2016-01-27 | "CON" MEN $400: British landscape painter John, or a British police officer Constable |
#7223, aired 2016-01-27 | "CON" MEN $600: First name of Mr. Nast, who in 1909 began a publishing empire that today includes W, GQ, Vanity Fair & more Condé |
#7223, aired 2016-01-27 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) 62,000 men in parallel corps columns covered up to 15 miles a day on their way to Savannah in this general's march to the sea Sherman |
#7223, aired 2016-01-27 | "CON" MEN $800: Unlike Edward the Martyr, English king Edward may have been called this to mean he died naturally & had time to see a priest Edward the Confessor |
#7223, aired 2016-01-27 | "CON" MEN $1000: Iimbermen.com touts "men's flexibility at its best" & is a website for these guys contortionists |
#7217, aired 2016-01-19 | THE ANNALS OF FASHION $400: A fob pocket near the waistband of men's pants was originally designed to hold this item a watch |
#7204, aired 2015-12-31 | 1940s FICTION $2000: Jack Burden, a newspaperman & aide to politician Willie Stark, narrates this 1946 novel All the King's Men |
#7189, aired 2015-12-10 | LATIN AMERICAN HODGEPODGE $400: Mexico City has a memorial to the San Patricios, men mostly from this European island who fought the U.S. in the 1840s Ireland |
#7183, aired 2015-12-02 | WORKING BOOK TITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): John Steinbeck changed "Something That Happened" to this title, a reference to a Robert Burns poem Of Mice and Men |
#7179, aired 2015-11-26 | MEASURING WHAT? $1000: If you buy a 15-34 men's dress shirt, the numbers are the sizes of these the neck & sleeve |
#7169, aired 2015-11-12 | BOOKS ABOUT POLITICS $800: Lawrence Wright chronicled the "13 Days in September" 1978, when Pres. Carter got these 2 men to sign a peace treaty Sadat & Begin |
#7167, aired 2015-11-10 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $800: This org. that changes 1 letter in the month's name urges sporting a mustache in November for men's health awareness Movember |
#7162, aired 2015-11-03 | SHORT STORIES $2000: This creepy W.W. Jacobs object had "a spell on it so that three separate men could each have three wishes from it" the monkey's paw |
#7153, aired 2015-10-21 | HISTORIC NAMES $2000: This Athenian who introduced a more humane law code was considered one of the "7 Wise Men of Greece" Solon |
#7147, aired 2015-10-13 | FLOWERS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a flower in Tahiti.) Traditionally, Tahitian men and women wear the Tiare Tahiti, a type of this shrub flower, behind the left ear if they're happily in love, the right ear if they're still looking for that someone special the gardenia |
#7141, aired 2015-10-05 | DON'T DRINK THE WATER $800: In 2007 Hindu holy men protested the filth in this river; a scientist said it "had turned the color of Coca-Cola" the Ganges |
#7138, aired 2015-09-30 | A FEW GOOD "MEN" $200: Term for first-year high school or college students freshmen |
#7138, aired 2015-09-30 | A FEW GOOD "MEN" $400: A prophetic sign or warning an omen |
#7138, aired 2015-09-30 | A FEW GOOD "MEN" $600: The Vikings of Europe were also known by this name Norsemen |
#7138, aired 2015-09-30 | A FEW GOOD "MEN" $800: Seen here, it's the part of a flower that produces pollen the stamen |
#7138, aired 2015-09-30 | A FEW GOOD "MEN" $1000: From a Latin word for "sharpness", it means keen insight acumen |
#7122, aired 2015-07-28 | LIT BLITZ $400: In 2015 Elisabeth Moss of "Mad Men" starred as Heidi Holland in a Broadway revival of this Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles |
#7120, aired 2015-07-24 | "A"+ IN HISTORY $800: When he heard the North Pole had been reached, he changed his destination to the South Pole without telling his men Amundsen |
#7114, aired 2015-07-16 | WE 3 $200: In a nursery rhyme, "rub-a-dub-dub" we're the 3 men in a tub the butcher, the baker & the candlestick maker |
#7114, aired 2015-07-16 | "V" 3 $800: In men's track & field, this measures at least 8 feet 5 inches long a javelin |
#7112, aired 2015-07-14 | TV DADS $400: Played by Jon Cryer, this single father muddles through on "Two and a Half Men" Alan Harper |
#7111, aired 2015-07-13 | THE BEGINNING OF THE PLAY $1600: In one stage adaptation, it's set in "the jury room of a New York court of law"--the time is 1954 Twelve Angry Men |
#7110, aired 2015-07-10 | LEONARD NIMOY $800: Leonard directed this 1987 comedy about bachelors looking after an abandoned infant Three Men and a Baby |
#7107, aired 2015-07-07 | A SPEECH TO CONGRESS $1000: In 1951 he said, "I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting" General Douglas MacArthur |
#7106, aired 2015-07-06 | COUNTRY MEN $800: North & South America were named for a man with this last name Vespucci |
#7106, aired 2015-07-06 | COUNTRY MEN $1600: The sons of a man who died in 1953 still rule this Mideast country he founded Saudi Arabia |
#7104, aired 2015-07-02 | SOLE MEN $200: A German army medic named Klaus was the "Doc" behind this boot brand Doc Martens |
#7104, aired 2015-07-02 | USS COD $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands topside on the USS Cod in Cleveland, OH.) On her last patrol, the Cod rescued the men of a Dutch submarine stranded on a mid-ocean reef; to keep the Dutch boat out of enemy hands, the crew used torpedoes & on-deck guns to do this, meaning to intentionally sink a friendly ship to scuttle |
#7104, aired 2015-07-02 | SOLE MEN $800: On Forbes' 2015 billionaires list, he's No. 35 with a Swoosh Phil Knight |
#7104, aired 2015-07-02 | SOLE MEN $1,000 (Daily Double): His Basketball HOF bio says in 1921 he "hobbled into a Converse Chicago sales office complaining of sore feet" Chuck Taylor |
#7087, aired 2015-06-09 | SPORTS AWARDS $600: The Naismith Trophy is given to the men's & women's college players of the year in this sport basketball |
#7080, aired 2015-05-29 | TV MOVIES $1200: In 1997 Jack Lemmon & George C. Scott led a stellar cast in a remake of this jury drama 12 Angry Men |
#7078, aired 2015-05-27 | THERE'S THE "RUB" $200: In a nursery rhyme, it precedes "three men in a tub" rub-a-dub-dub |
#7075, aired 2015-05-22 | WORLD WAR I $800: One of these on the front lines was typically 6 to 8 feet deep & wide enough for 2 men to pass a trench |
#7073, aired 2015-05-20 | BACK THEN NO ONE KNEW $600: ...this word for a certain men's hairstyle; an early use was in a 1994 Beastie Boys tune mullet |
#7068, aired 2015-05-13 | MOROCCAN HISTORY $800: Starting in the 1500s, Morocco was ruled by men with this title, like the one who "don't like it" in a Clash song sharif |
#7048, aired 2015-04-15 | DIE FLEDERMAUS $800: The part of Prince Orlofsky is usually played by a woman in men's garb singing in this "middle" range mezzo-soprano |
#7046, aired 2015-04-13 | EASTER ISLAND $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Easter Island.) The stone village of Orongo was the site of a yearly trial where young men scaled down a cliff and swam through shark-infested waters to retrieve the egg of a sooty one of these birds a tern |
#7044, aired 2015-04-09 | WHAT A COOL GADGET $800: Its Aquabeat 2 MP3 player for swimmers has a stopwatch, too; making amends for those skimpy men's swim bottoms? Speedo |
#7041, aired 2015-04-06 | WHAT MEN WANT $400: It was a woman who wrote that "A single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of" this a wife |
#7041, aired 2015-04-06 | WHAT MEN WANT $2000: In a letter to Jane Porter, this character wrote, "I want you. I am yours. You are mine" Tarzan |
#7035, aired 2015-03-27 | "-EY" MAN $800: An "old" one of these men is conservative & dull by nature a fogey |
#7026, aired 2015-03-16 | THE LONDON STAGE $1200: In 2013 "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." Robert Vaughn played Juror No. 9 in a new version of this courtroom drama Twelve Angry Men |
#7022, aired 2015-03-10 | ALL PRESIDENT NIXON'S MEN $800: He wasn't a friendly ghost, but Nixon's head of Health, Education & Welfare & also Reagan's Sec. of Defense Caspar Weinberger |
#7022, aired 2015-03-10 | ALL PRESIDENT NIXON'S MEN $1200: Robert Abplanalp, a buddy who lent Nixon the money for the "Western White House", made a fortune with this type of spray can aerosol |
#7022, aired 2015-03-10 | ALL PRESIDENT NIXON'S MEN $2000: This man was a Secretary of the Treasury & also of Labor for Nixon; he later was Secretary of State for Reagan George Shultz |
#7017, aired 2015-03-03 | ICE DANCING $200: (Meryl Davis and Charlie White deliver the clue.) Ice dancing was once a social sport in which top-hatted men parade on the ice with ladies in long dresses;
the skaters incorporated elements of ballroom dancing, like this elegant dance from Vienna the waltz |
#7015, aired 2015-02-27 | ALL ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT $1600: (Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor gives the clue.) The justices' private dining room has portraits of these 2 early 19th century men, a reminder of the case that gave the Supreme Court authority to declare a law unconstitutional Marbury & Madison |
#7011, aired 2015-02-23 | A "LITTLE" LITERATURE $400: In this 1871 sequel Jo March & her husband run a school for boys in their home Little Men |
#7010, aired 2015-02-20 | NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): Sebastian Junger told "a true story of men against the sea" in this bestseller The Perfect Storm |
#7006, aired 2015-02-16 | HIT MEN $400: "Cry Me A River" &
"Suit & Tie" Justin Timberlake |
#7006, aired 2015-02-16 | HIT MEN $800: A country singer:
"I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)" & "Mud On the Tires" Brad Paisley |
#7000, aired 2015-02-06 | NON-BLONDES HAVE MORE FUN $400: eonline's list of "Hottest Ginger Men" noted this royal was "basically a walking fairy tale" Prince Harry |
#6997, aired 2015-02-03 | TV: A NICE PLACE TO START $600: This future "Men in Black" agent spent much of the '70s emoting as Dr. Mark Toland on "One Life to Live" Tommy Lee Jones |
#6977, aired 2015-01-06 | A LONG TIME AGO $400: Lycurgus, lawgiver of this militaristic city-state, thought having more than one garment made men effeminate Sparta |
#6974, aired 2015-01-01 | ROBIN HOOD $600: Here's this actor who played Robin Hood making merry with one of his men during a break in filming Errol Flynn |
#6958, aired 2014-12-10 | 11-LETTER WORDS $1600: It's an old-fashioned name for a dealer in men's clothing; Harry Truman was one haberdasher |
#6956, aired 2014-12-08 | "DANCE" MUSIC $800: A 2010 episode of "Glee" featured Artie's fantasy of a song & dance number at the mall to this Men Without Hats hit "The Safety Dance" |
#6939, aired 2014-11-13 | 1964 -- 50 YEARS AGO $600: In March this school completed a 30-0 season & won its first NCAA title in men's basketball UCLA |
#6936, aired 2014-11-10 | THEY TURNED MY BOOK INTO A MOVIE $800: "All the President's Men" Woodward & Bernstein |
#6930, aired 2014-10-31 | A DOLL'S HOUSE $3,000 (Daily Double): In doll collecting, M.I.B. isn't "Men In Black" but this desirable condition mint in box |
#6921, aired 2014-10-20 | TIME FOR A FLAT CIRCLE $600: Men throw a flat circular object while staying within a flat circle 8.2' in diameter in this Olympic sport discus |
#6915, aired 2014-10-10 | SPEAKING IN CODE $400: In 1942 the Marines recruited 29 men from this Native American tribe to develop a code, one the Japanese never broke Navajo |
#6912, aired 2014-10-07 | MEN OF FEW WORDS $800: In a sci-fi film these 2 men (well, a man & a 1/2 man) combine to say "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" Kirk and Spock |
#6904, aired 2014-09-25 | TV SHOW PLOT POINTS $200: Charlie took Alan & Jake into his Malibu home & dated a ballet teacher (&, apparently, much of Malibu) Two and a Half Men |
#6892, aired 2014-07-29 | GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATIONS $400: A comic arc subtitled "God Loves, Man Kills" was the partial basis for this supergroup's "United" movie the X-Men |
#6890, aired 2014-07-25 | SUMMER OLYMPIC SPORTS $800: The 4 x 400 meters is the longest track race of this type for both men & women a relay |
#6887, aired 2014-07-22 | YOU'RE ON THE LIST $400: There are 9 of them, 6 men & 3 women; there have been 112 in U.S. history Supreme Court justices |
#6884, aired 2014-07-17 | A KILLEE'S HEELS $1000: At the morgue in this 1997 film, we see the murdered Arquillian's heels as well as his cat Orion; agents Jay & Kay investigate Men in Black |
#6881, aired 2014-07-14 | THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO $800: Judges 15: he "said, with the jaw-bone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men" Samson |
#6877, aired 2014-07-08 | 2 TERMS MAKE A NEW BAND NAME $400: An economic downturn that can turn into a depression plus the lowest-valued chess men Recession Pawn |
#6864, aired 2014-06-19 | SPACED OUT $400: In 1964, to one-up this new U.S. program, the USSR, crammed 3 men into Voskhod 1 with no room even to wear space suits Gemini |
#6861, aired 2014-06-16 | NOOSE MEN $1600: His May 31, 1962 execution in Ramleh, Israel is the only time that Israel has carried out a death sentence Adolf Eichmann |
#6861, aired 2014-06-16 | BENS & JERRYS $2000: This editor was a character in "All the President's Men" Ben Bradlee |
#6853, aired 2014-06-04 | I'M A CHANGED MAN! $200: Some men can be real pigs, especially after Circe gets done with them in this epic poem The Odyssey |
#6853, aired 2014-06-04 | THE THEATRE $400: When these theatre awards were first presented in 1947, the winners got a scroll plus a compact (women) or money clip (men) a Tony Award |
#6850, aired 2014-05-30 | THE RODIN MUSEUM $800: (Alex delivers the clue from the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia.) In 1347 the English king Edward III agreed to lift an almost year-long siege of a French port city if 6 townsmen would sacrifice themselves; in this sculpture, Rodin shows the emotion of each of the men as they trudge to their death The Burghers of Calais |
#6844, aired 2014-05-22 | THE PART OF SPEECH IN THE BOOK TITLE $1,500 (Daily Double): A 1937 short novel by Steinbeck:
Preposition Of |
#6843, aired 2014-05-21 | THE HAIR APPARENT $400: Joan on "Mad Men" sported this 'do that sounds like insects live on your head a beehive |
#6843, aired 2014-05-21 | "KEY" WORDS & PHRASES $1200: This detachable men's shirt front started to become popular in the 19th century a dickey |
#6833, aired 2014-05-07 | FOLKLORE $200: Blind men examining different parts of this big animal thought it was a pillar, fan, broom, spear... an elephant |
#6821, aired 2014-04-21 | LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY $1600: In 38 A.D. this "little boot" emperor executed the Praetorian Guard prefect to whose support he owed his accession Caligula |
#6821, aired 2014-04-21 | LESS-THAN-GENTEEL MEN OF HISTORY $2000: What a barbarian! In 450 he demanded the Roman emperor's sister as his wife & 1/2 of the Western Empire as dowry Attila the Hun |
#6820, aired 2014-04-18 | WOMEN ON TV $1000: For more than 10 years, Conchata Ferrell has played the housekeeper Berta on this sitcom Two and a Half Men |
#6819, aired 2014-04-17 | MADDEN COVER MEN $400: In 2009 some got this quarterback in a Jets uniform, others in Packers gear (Brett) Favre |
#6819, aired 2014-04-17 | MADDEN COVER MEN $800: In 2004 it was this Falcon QB who would later take a break from the game Michael Vick |
#6818, aired 2014-04-16 | THE STAFF OF LIFE $400: Hank Walker captured these two men sharing a reflective moment in a Los Angeles hotel suite in 1960 RFK & JFK |
#6803, aired 2014-03-26 | ARTS $600: He attended UCLA on a tennis scholarship & in 1965 won the U.S. collegiate men's singles title Arthur Ashe |
#6802, aired 2014-03-25 | CON MEN $800: Oh, so close--the ball was under the middle this, a "game" that was a specialty of Old West con man Soapy Smith the shell |
#6802, aired 2014-03-25 | CON MEN $1200: Working in France after WWI, Victor Lustig was known as "the man who sold" this landmark to a scrap metal dealer the Eiffel Tower |
#6802, aired 2014-03-25 | CON MEN $2000: Often preying on seniors, this type of phone-sales scam operation shares its name with part of a ship a boilerroom scam |
#6795, aired 2014-03-14 | CELEBS CELEBRATING $200: On a Beverly Hills roof in 2011, he feted his firing from "Two And A Half Men" holding a machete & saying, "Free at last!" Charlie Sheen |
#6785, aired 2014-02-28 | CELEBRITY VETERANS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, AZ.) Among the men who flew in the Avenger torpedo bomber in World War II was this Cool Hand Luke; color blindness in his famous blue eyes kept him from becoming a pilot, but not from flying in the Pacific as a tail gunner Paul Newman |
#6776, aired 2014-02-17 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) Honored with a monument, the 500 black soldiers at Valley Forge included the U.S. military's first African-American unit of free men, the regiment known as the First of this Ocean State Rhode Island |
#6768, aired 2014-02-05 | "F"IVE-LETTER WORDS $600: It can be a woman's dress or an old-fashioned coat for men a frock |
#6763, aired 2014-01-29 | SITCOM ROLES $1600: Alan Harper, a complete man Jon Cryer |
#6757, aired 2014-01-21 | ENTERTAINMENT BY THE NUMBERS $800: Before the movie, this 1950s jury drama was a TV production that won Franklin Schaffner the 1st directing Emmy 12 Angry Men |
#6755, aired 2014-01-17 | NONFICTION $200: Annie Glenn, Rene Carpenter & Trudy Cooper are 3 of a title group: the "club" of these men's wives astronauts' wives |
#6751, aired 2014-01-13 | VALLEY FORGE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Valley Forge Nat'l Historical Park in Pennsylvania.) At Valley Forge, both Washington & his men were indebted to this French marquis who used his own money to clothe soldiers & help defeat a plot to remove Washington from command Lafayette |
#6744, aired 2014-01-02 | JOINING THE TV CAST LATER $400: Zou bisou bisou... latecomer Jessica Pare eventually married a Don on this drama Mad Men |
#6739, aired 2013-12-26 | BOXING DAY $400: With a 1-minute break between them, men's professional boxing rounds last this long unless stopped 3 minutes |
#6737, aired 2013-12-24 | CHRISTMASTIME AROUND THE WORLD $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) Each December 5th near Lucerne, hundreds of Swiss men don huge, candlelit, cardboard mitres, reminding us that St. Nicholas was one of these Catholic officials a bishop |
#6734, aired 2013-12-19 | THAT MOVIE DID A NUMBER ON ME $800: Selleck, Guttenberg, Danson, kid, this 1987 film Three Men and a Baby |
#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 |
#6718, aired 2013-11-27 | I'M HOLDING A PAIR $200: These 2 men clash in 1 Samuel 17 in a game of rock, sword, spear; rock beats sword & spear David & Goliath |
#6718, aired 2013-11-27 | I'M HOLDING A PAIR $600: Though linked today, the 2 men behind A&F, this clothing company, were working partners only from 1900 to 1907 Abercrombie & Fitch |
#6718, aired 2013-11-27 | I'M HOLDING A PAIR $800: In "Through the Looking-Glass", these "fat little men only looked at each other and grinned", not good for much else Tweedledee & Tweedledum |
#6714, aired 2013-11-21 | CHARTER SCHOOL $800: The Atlantic Charter, issued by these 2 men in 1941, expressed hope for a more cooperative postwar world Churchill & FDR |
#6713, aired 2013-11-20 | SPEAK UP! $1000: In Homer's works Mentor is a trusted advisor & this guy has a voice as strong as 50 men Stentor |
#6701, aired 2013-11-04 | NUMERICAL GROUPS $1000: A 1936 book gave the Supreme Court this nickname; the justices' average age was 71 the "Nine Old Men" |
#6699, aired 2013-10-31 | BUTLER $1200: "Some men just want to watch the world burn", says this butler in a 2008 film Alfred |
#6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $1200: (A.O. Scott presents the clue.) This film about a "Southern fried demagogue and his lurid downfall" featured several miscast actors including Sean Penn "stepping into one of Broderick Crawford's blowhard roles" All the King's Men |
#6697, aired 2013-10-29 | PLANT THE FLAG $1600: The flag of this Central American country shows a mahogany tree & 2 men; the Union Jack was removed Belize |
#6696, aired 2013-10-28 | MIDDLE AGE MEN $3,200 (Daily Double): Al-Razi gave the first description of acquired immunitv in a discussion of this disease that disfigured & killed smallpox |
#6692, aired 2013-10-22 | A CLASH OF SYMBOLS $800: The shield of Mars & the mirror of Venus are symbols for these, often known to clash men and women |
#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 |
#6688, aired 2013-10-16 | FIELD OF DREAMS $1000: Elias Howe said a dream of men holding spears with holes in the points was a key to his invention of this device a sewing machine |
#6683, aired 2013-10-09 | TAKE IN (ALPHABETICAL) ORDER $800: A loose, colorfully patterned pullover African garment for men a dashiki |
#6681, aired 2013-10-07 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $400: This Robert Ludlum mystery man first appears floating in the Mediterranean & suffering from amnesia (Jason) Bourne |
#6681, aired 2013-10-07 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $800: In "The House Without a Key" readers said aloha to Charlie Chan, a detective on this island city's police force Honolulu |
#6681, aired 2013-10-07 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $1600: Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot is a refugee from Germany's World War I invasion of this country Belgium |
#6681, aired 2013-10-07 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $2000: In "From Russia with Love", Bond & babe board a famous westbound train in this Eastern city Istanbul |
#6680, aired 2013-10-04 | WORLDS & PHRASES $1200: Shakespeare wrote, "All the world's" this place he knew well, "and all the men and women merely players" a stage |
#6666, aired 2013-09-16 | "GRAND" SLAM $1000: As part of their education, young men of fortune used to visit Europe's major sights on a trip known as this the grand tour |
#6663, aired 2013-07-31 | LET'S PLAY A GAME $1000: This game in which little men are lined up on rods in rows is also called table soccer foosball |
#6658, aired 2013-07-24 | COINS OF OUR REALM $1200: From 1913 to 1938 it featured a composite picture, possibly of men named Iron Tail, Two Moons & John Big Tree the buffalo or Indian head nickel |
#6656, aired 2013-07-22 | AGE AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A NUMBER $200: This ex-brat packer who plays Chris Traeger on "Parks & Rec" is 49 but literally looks better than men half his age Rob Lowe |
#6649, aired 2013-07-11 | SET SAIL FOR THE MOVIES $800: This Spielberg film recounts how in 1839 captive men on a slave ship freed themselves & killed most of the crew Amistad |
#6641, aired 2013-07-01 | OF SPRINGS $1000: In Greek myth Cadmus sowed the teeth of this creature, & they sprang up as armed men a dragon |
#6632, aired 2013-06-18 | CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN $400: Prior to being shot by a sniper, Union general John Sedgwick said, "They couldn't hit" this pachyderm "at this distance" an elephant |
#6632, aired 2013-06-18 | CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN $800: "I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union", wrote this Virginian Robert E. Lee |
#6632, aired 2013-06-18 | CIVIL WAR MILITARY MEN $2000: Perhaps appropriately, the HQ of this general was called a "combination barroom and brothel" Joe Hooker |
#6628, aired 2013-06-12 | A BUNCH OF BOOKS $200: John Steinbeck, 1937:
"Of ___ and ___" Of Mice and Men |
#6623, aired 2013-06-05 | OF CALAIS $600: The burghers of Calais were 6 men who offered themselves as hostages to get the English to lift this in 1347 the Siege of Calais |
#6612, aired 2013-05-21 | MEN AT WORK $200: He's been a Vietnam infantryman & a Republican senator & on Jan. 7, 2013 Pres. Obama nominated him as defense secretary (Chuck) Hagel |
#6612, aired 2013-05-21 | "MEN" AT WORK $400: Something that threatens to cause evil, perhaps a "Phantom" one a menace |
#6612, aired 2013-05-21 | "MEN" AT WORK $800: A 9-branch Hanukkah candelabrum a menorah |
#6612, aired 2013-05-21 | "MEN" AT WORK $1200: Technically, this French phrase means "household of 3"... technically ménàge a trois |
#6612, aired 2013-05-21 | "MEN" AT WORK $1600: A high-IQ group, or the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church Mensa |
#6603, aired 2013-05-08 | THE BOOK BOOK $400: In a Margaret Truman novel, a lost diary of one of Columbus' men is linked to a "Murder at" this D.C. library the Library of Congress |
#6596, aired 2013-04-29 | GOVERNMENT AGENCIES $2000: We live in a world that has walls, & those walls have to be guarded by men with guns, like CBP, short for Customs & this Border Protection |
#6584, aired 2013-04-11 | THE BALL $800: On Sept. 24, 2012 the Packers lost on a ruling that the Seahawks had the ball; 3 days later, these men were back at work NFL referees |
#6583, aired 2013-04-10 | MOVIE GUNS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a large prop gun.) Sure to inspire fear, the big blue light gun was deftly wielded by Agent J in the 2002 sequel to this sci-fi flick Men in Black |
#6578, aired 2013-04-03 | 1993: 20 YEARS AGO IN FILM $400: Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau were a pair of disagreeable codgers in this comedy Grumpy Old Men |
#6578, aired 2013-04-03 | APRIL $600: These 2 men were born a few days apart in April 1889; one satirized the other in "The Great Dictator" Chaplin & Hitler |
#6569, aired 2013-03-21 | THE CIVIL WAR $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) On May 2, 1863 Stonewall Jackson led his men on a 12-mile march to get into position for an attack on the unsuspecting federal troops. Lee remained behind for a frontal assault. This battle is considered Lee's greatest victory Battle of Chancellorsville |
#6558, aired 2013-03-06 | QUOTES FILLED WITH BOOZE $800: Boswell quotes him: "claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy" (Samuel) Johnson |
#6558, aired 2013-03-06 | "CROSS" WORD CLUES $1000: In 1843 Benedict J. Fenwick founded it as a men's college in Massachusetts Holy Cross |
#6556, aired 2013-03-04 | CELEBRITIES LOVE TV $200: (I'm CNN correspondent Lizzie O'Leary.) Just like a lot of people, I'm watching this AMC show created by Matthew Weiner, who writes great characters like Betty Draper & Roger Sterling Mad Men |
#6553, aired 2013-02-27 | COLONIAL AMERICA $400: The tricorn, a 3-cornered one of these for men, was introduced around 1690 & soon all Colonial dandies had one hat |
#6548, aired 2013-02-20 | WE'VE HIT BOTTOM $400: We're going out! Put on your top hat & these, the divided bottom parts of a men's formal jacket tails |
#6544, aired 2013-02-14 | AISLE OF MAN $600: Esquire says Kyoku for Men's sake-infused this is "like the old-fashioned stuff you'd spread on with a brush" shaving cream |
#6542, aired 2013-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $18,000 (Daily Double): In Reginald Rose's play "Twelve Angry Men", the men are all members of one of these a jury |
#6532, aired 2013-01-29 | RECENT BOOKS $1000: In addition to "A Feast of Crows", this novelist penned the short story collection "Songs the Dead Men Sing" George R.R. Martin |
#6526, aired 2013-01-21 | TV THEME SONGS $800: The catchy lyrics for this sitcom include, "men men men men, manly men men men" Two and a Half Men |
#6520, aired 2013-01-11 | ENDINGS ON TV $1200: Transport that ended the life of Charlie Harper of "Two and a Half Men" a subway train |
#6515, aired 2013-01-04 | MEN'S HAIRSTYLES $600: In a painting by Matthias Stom, this biblical figure is in the process of becoming dis-tressed Samson |
#6510, aired 2012-12-28 | SELF-HELP BOOKS $600: Q: Why is that guy so slow to ask me out?
A: This title of a Greg Behrendt-Liz Tuccillo book He's Just Not That Into You |
#6508, aired 2012-12-26 | NOTORIOUS WOMEN $2000: This third wife of Emperor Claudius "mess"ed around with a lot of men & tried to get one on the throne, but it didn't work Messalina |
#6497, aired 2012-12-11 | ON THE JOB IN BRITAIN $400: Hey, Don! Even mad men know a clerk who sold clothing & dry goods did this 6-letter job a draper |
#6495, aired 2012-12-07 | JUMP AROUND! JUMP AROUND! $400: This track & field event has a fully equipped bar-- it's set at around 7'6" for the top men the high jump |
#6490, aired 2012-11-30 | AT THE MOVIES $400: In Men In Black III, now on BluRay, Will Smith's partner, a young Agent K, is played by this actor Josh Brolin |
#6485, aired 2012-11-23 | MAGAZINES $600: The name of this men's magazine is a synonym for "adage" Maxim |
#6476, aired 2012-11-12 | WEAK END $3,000 (Daily Double): Slate called the last scene of this 2007 Oscar winner based on Cormac McCarthy's novel "a tacked on chunk of meaning" No Country for Old Men |
#6470, aired 2012-11-02 | TRIOS $400: In a nursery rhyme, the "three men in a tub" are the butcher, the baker & him the candlestick maker |
#6468, aired 2012-10-31 | THE AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY PAGE 1004 $600: It's the 2-word name for this informal men's outfit a leisure suit |
#6467, aired 2012-10-30 | BEST NEW ARTIST GRAMMY $600: 1982:
A Down Under band Men at Work |
#6464, aired 2012-10-25 | SMELL $800: The Paris Hilton men collection includes this type of scent named for a German city cologne |
#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 |
#6459, aired 2012-10-18 | WORN UNDERNEATH $400: This company famous for brief men's briefs was founded by a retired minister, not a horse rider Jockey |
#6456, aired 2012-10-15 | TV CHARACTERS $400: Charlie Harper--uh, make that Walden Schmidt--accounts for 40% of this show's title total Two and a Half Men |
#6454, aired 2012-10-11 | I THEE WED $400: Traditionally the groom throws this, often made of blue satin, at single men; catch it & you're next at the altar! a garter |
#6453, aired 2012-10-10 | GREAT MEN & WOMEN OF MEDICINE $400: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Frederick Banting, an orthopedic surgeon, went into research & won a Nobel Prize for his work extracting insulin from the pancreas, the first effective treatment for this disorder diabetes |
#6453, aired 2012-10-10 | GREAT MEN & WOMEN OF MEDICINE $800: Working for NYC's Health Dept., Dr. Sara Josephine Baker helped track down Mary Mallon, a carrier of this infectious disease typhoid |
#6453, aired 2012-10-10 | GREAT MEN & WOMEN OF MEDICINE $1200: (Dr. Oz presents the clue.) Dr. Dorothy Andersen named this disease, CF for short, & also helped create a test to diagnose it cystic fibrosis |
#6453, aired 2012-10-10 | GREAT MEN & WOMEN OF MEDICINE $2,000 (Daily Double): Her work as an obstetrical nurse for poor women made her an advocate of birth control, a term she coined Margaret Sanger |
#6449, aired 2012-10-04 | SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES $1600: "The Adventure of" these men seen in a cipher from the story "the Dancing Men" |
#6442, aired 2012-09-25 | "M"ISCELLANY $1600: The term for a single one of the wise men who visited Jesus, it's also the title of a John Fowles novel Magus |
#6441, aired 2012-09-24 | IT'S A MYTH $4,200 (Daily Double): One of the epithets that followed her name was Epistrophia, "she who turns men to love" Aphrodite |
#6439, aired 2012-09-20 | DUAL BIOGRAPHIES $800: "The Two American Presidents" is a dual biography of these 2 men who served at the same time in the 1860s Davis & Lincoln |
#6435, aired 2012-08-03 | BOYS IN BALLET $2000: After a performance, ballerinas curtsy; men perform a small one of these equivalent gestures a bow |
#6431, aired 2012-07-30 | PERFORMING KIDS $2000: Perhaps this CBS sitcom needs re-titling, as Angus T. Jones, who was 9 when it debuted, turns 19 in 2012 Two and a Half Men |
#6429, aired 2012-07-26 | THE CIVIL WAR BY THE NUMBERS $800: 12,000 men were involved in this ill-fated July 1863 "Charge" named for a general who sold insurance after the war Pickett's Charge |
#6425, aired 2012-07-20 | McWRITERS $800: The film "No Country For Old Men" was based on a novel by him (Cormac) McCarthy |
#6424, aired 2012-07-19 | EARLY AMERICA $200: Seeing a lack of these deterring French men from settling in Louisiana, the government tried to ship some in women |
#6419, aired 2012-07-12 | 30 ROCK $600: This star of "TGS" had a novelty song, "Werewolf Bar Mitzvah": "Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves" Tracy Morgan (or Tracy Jordan) |
#6410, aired 2012-06-29 | LUNAR FICTION $1200: In 1901 this Brit, a sci-fi pioneer, had his "First Men in the Moon" encounter insect-men called Selenites H.G. Wells |
#6406, aired 2012-06-25 | SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $800: Helping to spread Hinduism in the U.S., Paramahansa Yogananda penned an "Autobiography of" one of these holy men a Yogi |
#6398, aired 2012-06-13 | LEFTOVERS $200: "Bartlett's" has the Albanian proverb "it takes more than a hood and sad eyes to make" one of these religious men a monk |
#6390, aired 2012-06-01 | THE "RONG" STUFF $1200: Both men & women wear this Pacific islands garment seen here a sarong |
#6388, aired 2012-05-30 | SCENTSATIONAL! $1000: This classic men's cologne from Geoffrey Beene comes in a pouch of the same-named material Grey Flannel |
#6386, aired 2012-05-28 | LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Ft. Abraham Lincoln in Mandan, ND.) The expedition spent their first winter with the Mandan Tribe here in North Dakota, where they met this Shoshone guide; "A woman with a party of men is a token of peace", Clark would later write Sacagawea |
#6382, aired 2012-05-22 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $400: A 1997 movie with Tommy Lee Jones policing aliens puts on a tutu to jete into a Natalie Portman film Men in Black Swan |
#6378, aired 2012-05-16 | THE NEW YORK TIMES THE ARTS $800: Arts Beat reported on the craze for "Zou Bisou Bisou", a song featured in this TV show about advertising Mad Men |
#6376, aired 2012-05-14 | ACT LIKE A JOURNALIST $800: He was Carl Bernstein in "All the President's Men" Dustin Hoffman |
#6368, aired 2012-05-02 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $2000: Vasco da Gama once lost about 100 out of 160 men to this disease caused by a lack of vitamin C scurvy |
#6366, aired 2012-04-30 | SWEET STUFF $600: A heavily ornamented style of architecture is named for this, often used to make "men" & "houses" gingerbread |
#6364, aired 2012-04-26 | MEN $400: "The Cowboy Philosopher on Prohibition" is a book by this humorist Will Rogers |
#6364, aired 2012-04-26 | MEN $800: "A Passion for Nature" is a 2008 biography of this man, shown here on the left, out-bearded by John Burroughs John Muir |
#6362, aired 2012-04-24 | MAGAZINES $400: It's said that the devil is in these, also the name of a men's magazine from Conde Nast Details |
#6361, aired 2012-04-23 | "HOW TO" ENTERTAIN $1200: Marilyn Monroe & Betty Grable set out to find rich men interested in matrimony in this 1953 classic How to Marry a Millionaire |
#6352, aired 2012-04-10 | 1850s AMERICA $2000: In 1850 Ralph Waldo Emerson told a Concord audience that "No man can obey" this act forcing men back to bondage the Fugitive Slave Law (or Act) |
#6349, aired 2012-04-05 | A SHOWER OF APRIL $1000: On April 12, 1862 Union spy James Andrews led a group of men in seizing this locomotive in Georgia The General |
#6331, aired 2012-03-12 | ZOOLOGY $2000: The 2-inch-long golden poison dart one of these has enough venom to kill 10 men a frog |
#6322, aired 2012-02-28 | TV SHOW CHARACTERS $200: Alan & Jake Harper,
Berta Two and a Half Men |
#6322, aired 2012-02-28 | POETIC LAST LINES $400: T .S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" ends by telling us the world "ends not with a bang but" with this a whimper |
#6312, aired 2012-02-14 | 2 FOR THE SHOW $400: "Nice to Meet You, Walden Schmidt" was the "Two and a Half Men" episode that introduced him as Walden Ashton Kutcher |
#6301, aired 2012-01-30 | TIE ONE ON $200: If an invitation specifies this tie, it means it's a semiformal occasion & a tuxedo is required for men a black tie |
#6301, aired 2012-01-30 | TIE ONE ON $400: If an invitation specifies this tie, it means it's a formal occasion & tails are required for men a white tie |
#6300, aired 2012-01-27 | 1940s AMERICAN LIT $5,400 (Daily Double): This 1946 novel about a Southern politician takes its title from the "Humpty Dumpty" nursery rhyme All the King's Men |
#6295, aired 2012-01-20 | AIRBORNE $800: One of the President's own men is a terrorist when the title plane gets hijacked in this 1997 actioner Air Force One |
#6289, aired 2012-01-12 | HISTORY $1200: In 1281 a sudden typhoon saved Japan from this Mongol's invasion force of 150,000 men Kublai Khan |
#6288, aired 2012-01-11 | CATHOLIC PRIESTS $1000: This spiritual "director" doesn't arrange your holiday, he helps young men pursue their calling to the priesthood a vocation director |
#6284, aired 2012-01-05 | EMMY-WINNING TV $800: "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Pilot)" (Writing for a Drama Series, 2008) Mad Men |
#6282, aired 2012-01-03 | MEDICINE MEN $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1895 he began replacing hypnosis as a form of therapy with free association Sigmund Freud |
#6282, aired 2012-01-03 | MEDICINE MEN $1600: "Penicillin Man" is a book about this bacteriologist & his discovery (Alexander) Fleming |
#6282, aired 2012-01-03 | MEDICINE MEN $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a diagram of the human circulatory system on the monitor.) The theory that blood circulates from the heart through the body's arteries & back to the heart through the veins was first explained by this Englishman in 1616 (William) Harvey |
#6271, aired 2011-12-19 | CHRISTMASTIME IN NEW YORK $5,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from New York City.) Gingerbread men & handmade ornaments are but a few of the items offered at the holiday market at this famous circle named for an Italian explorer Columbus Circle |
#6262, aired 2011-12-06 | "HAB" A CLUE $1200: Generic term for a seller of men's clothes haberdasher |
#6256, aired 2011-11-28 | NEW MATH $2000: "Men on the dead man's chest" in "Treasure Island" divided by books in the Pentateuch 3 |
#6252, aired 2011-11-22 | A "LITTLE" LEARNING $1200: It was thought the first pulsar discovered might be a signal from E.T.s, so it was called LGM-1, short for these little green men |
#6247, aired 2011-11-15 | ANCIENT WISDOM $1000: This playwright observed in "Clouds" that "Old men are children for a second time" Aristophanes |
#6246, aired 2011-11-14 | SITCOMS BY MOM $600: Evelyn Harper (Holland Taylor) Two and a Half Men |
#6245, aired 2011-11-11 | THE QUOTABLE CHURCHILL $600: In a 1940 speech in the House of Commons, "Men will still say: 'This was their ____ hour'" finest |
#6242, aired 2011-11-08 | INSIDE THE COUNTRY $400: You've got "men" in Armenia & a "gent" in this nation Argentina |
#6238, aired 2011-11-02 | MEN OF SCIENCE $400: On a scale of 1 to 10, his "Earthquakes" article for the 15th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica was a 10 Richter |
#6238, aired 2011-11-02 | MEN OF SCIENCE $1600: In the 1700s this Italian discovered that electricity could make a dead frog's muscles contract Luigi Galvani |
#6227, aired 2011-10-18 | RANK-LY SPEAKING $2000: In the South, this 7-letter word is a title of respect prefixed to the name of distinguished elderly men colonel |
#6225, aired 2011-10-14 | THE GREATEST IN SPORTS WITH MIKE & MIKE $2000: (Mike & Mike deliver the clue.) One of the greatest coaches ever has got to be Phil Jackson; he's won 11 titles, something even Red Auerbach couldn't do
Yeah, Phil's a legend, no doubt about it, but I'll pick this college basketball wizard who won 10 men's NCAA titles from 1964 to 1975 (John) Wooden |
#6219, aired 2011-10-06 | THE MOTION OF THE OCEAN $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animation on the monitor.) When waves hit a beach at an angle, part of their energy is directed parallel to the land, generating a current called this; the "men" of the same name are dockworkers longshore currents |
#6201, aired 2011-07-25 | PULITZER-WINNING NOVELS $1000: In this novel a southern politician's life is described in stark detail, with exquisite Penn-manship All the King's Men |
#6199, aired 2011-07-21 | NOVEL QUOTES $1200: "George gonna say I done a bad thing. He ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits" Of Mice and Men |
#6182, aired 2011-06-28 | ON MY DOG'S iPOD $1000: My dog loves the upbeat chorus of this Grammy-winning song by the Baha Men "Who Let The Dogs Out" |
#6175, aired 2011-06-17 | 3 $600: This secretary in Ronald Reagan's cabinet shares his name with one of the 3 men in a tub (James) Baker |
#6169, aired 2011-06-09 | AN ERNEST CATEGORY $2000: After abandoning ship during a transantarctic expedition in 1915, he & his men spent months drifting on ice floes Sir Ernest Shackleton |
#6164, aired 2011-06-02 | HAIR LINES $2000: "Babies haven't any hair; old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lies a haircut and" this a shave |
#6160, aired 2011-05-27 | MOVIE TITLE MATH $1600: It's what 2(x+y) equals if x is the number of "Angry Men" in a 1957 film & y is the "Kings" in a George Clooney movie 30 |
#6159, aired 2011-05-26 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $1,500 (Daily Double): A monument dedicated to the men who lost their lives on the USS Maine stands in this capital's Parque del Maine Havana |
#6158, aired 2011-05-25 | WHERE AM I? $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stand on a naval dock.) I'm here on San Diego Bay at the Naval Amphibious Base that bears the name of this Spanish explorer, whose men discovered the Grand Canyon (Francisco Vasquez de) Coronado |
#6148, aired 2011-05-11 | THE NON-WASHINGTON CAPITALS $800: One night in this Asian city makes a hard man humble, & with 38,850 people per sq. mile in its Sam Peng district, that's a lot of men Bangkok |
#6147, aired 2011-05-10 | PRINCIPALS $800: Tom Cruise,
Jack Nicholson A Few Good Men |
#6132, aired 2011-04-19 | ON THE BRITISH MONARCHY'S WEBSITE $400: Traditional forms of greeting the Queen: "For men... a neck bow (from the head only) whilst women do a small" one of these bows curtsy |
#6131, aired 2011-04-18 | "A" IS FOR AUTHOR $200: ...of "Little Men" (Louisa May) Alcott |
#6127, aired 2011-04-12 | MEN IN PINK $400: Bret "The Hitman" Hart was known for "competing" as this in a pink leotard a professional wrestler |
#6127, aired 2011-04-12 | MEN IN PINK $800: The title of the 1905 artwork seen here is this type of fop, a word also found after "fine and" dandy |
#6127, aired 2011-04-12 | MEN IN PINK $1200: To see men in pink tights, check out Trockadero, a troupe performing parodies of these ballet |
#6127, aired 2011-04-12 | MEN IN PINK $2000: In the play "Bent", which takes place in Nazi Germany, pink these become a compulsory accessory triangles |
#6119, aired 2011-03-31 | WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS $2000: Of the men's Chess Olympiad, 18 out of 20 times from 1952 to 1990--why did we break up a good thing? Soviet Union |
#6118, aired 2011-03-30 | GET SMART $800: A study of 3,500 Japanese men's brains found those who did this in moderation aged better than those who didn't drank alcohol |
#6114, aired 2011-03-24 | I'M GONNA "SIT" $400: "Cheers" or "Two and a Half Men" a sitcom |
#6109, aired 2011-03-17 | DESCRIBING THE ARTWORK $800: Painting in which 2 men & a woman sit up late in a diner with a sign advertising Phillies cigars Nighthawks |
#6107, aired 2011-03-15 | "B" WEAR $600: Formal functions are sometimes called these 2-word affairs, referring to a piece of men's clothing black tie |
#6105, aired 2011-03-11 | THE KING & "I" $200: In a 1961 Elvis smash, this 8-word refrain follows, "wise men say only fools rush in, but" I can't help falling in love with you |
#6104, aired 2011-03-10 | THE NOVELS OF H.G. WELLS $200: In a 1901 sci fi romance, Wells told a tale of "the first men in" this heavenly body, where they meet the Selenites the Moon |
#6098, aired 2011-03-02 | WHO WROTE IT? $800: A Revolutionary pamphleteer:
"These are the times that try men's souls" Thomas Paine |
#6095, aired 2011-02-25 | TV $400: Not a big stretch--he plays Charlie on "Two and a Half Men" Charlie Sheen |
#6094, aired 2011-02-24 | U.S. HISTORY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Returning from their 1804 through 1805 expedition, these two men split up: one sought a shortcut from the mountains to the Missouri; the other explored the Yellowstone River Lewis & Clark |
#6081, aired 2011-02-07 | THE 16th CENTURY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Of the 27,000 men who left La Coruna in July 1588, more than half perished in voyage in battles of this 2-word military group the Spanish Armada |
#6078, aired 2011-02-02 | OSCAR WINNER BEFORE & AFTER $400: The outdoorsy home of British Merry Men becomes the new pad for a "Last King of Scotland" winner Sherwood Forest Whitaker |
#6068, aired 2011-01-19 | LET''S HAVE A TICKER-TAPE PARADE! $3,000 (Daily Double): August 13, 1969:
For these 3 men following a quarantine Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins |
#6065, aired 2011-01-14 | RESCUE ME $400: An uplifting story of 2002 was the rescue of nine men trapped for three days in one of these in Pennsylvania a coal mine |
#6064, aired 2011-01-13 | BELOW THE BELT $600: These men's shoes that share their name with a British university are also known as Balmorals Oxfords |
#6060, aired 2011-01-07 | NECKWEAR $2000: In the 19th century, it was not considered proper for men to wear this, a false shirt front with attached collar a dickey |
#6053, aired 2010-12-29 | FLY ME WITH BALLOONS $800: In 1978, 3 men set a record flight duration of 137 hours in The Double Eagle II balloon, which used this gas helium |
#6052, aired 2010-12-28 | APOCRYPHA NOW $1600: The "Song of the Three Young Men" finds the trio tossed into a fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar, king of this land Babylon |
#6051, aired 2010-12-27 | A BIT CONSERVATIVE $200: In most Orthodox synagogues these are separated; in Conservative synagogues they are not men and women |
#6051, aired 2010-12-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands near a sculpture.) Washington holds a wampum belt in this work honoring the Oneida who traveled 400 miles in the winter of 1777-78 to bring food to the starving men at this site Valley Forge |
#6041, aired 2010-12-13 | "1", "2", "3" $800: The butcher, the baker & the candlestick maker, collectively Three Men in a Tub |
#6040, aired 2010-12-10 | LITERARY ISLAND HOPPING $1600: Alistair MacLean wrote of this German-controlled Greek island & the men sent to destroy a gun battery there Navarone |
#6032, aired 2010-11-30 | THE 1800s $800: In the 1800s men too achieved that hourglass shape by wearing this girdle-like undergarment a corset |
#6025, aired 2010-11-19 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $400: These small glass or plastic dishes used to culture microorganisms are named for a German bacteriologist a Petri dish |
#6025, aired 2010-11-19 | REAL MEN OF SCIENCE $1200: Galileo used a supernova in 1604 to disprove this ancient Greek's theory that the universe never changes Aristotle |
#6017, aired 2010-11-09 | THE MUSES $1,200 (Daily Double): Clio is the muse of this & is often depicted with a scroll, perhaps to record the deeds of men through the ages history |
#6015, aired 2010-11-05 | LET'S EAT HEALTHY $1200: In 2004, 2 West Virginia men traded gunfire over how to cook a nice healthy skinless this chicken |
#6008, aired 2010-10-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: By 1942 FDR had appointed 7 new men to this body: it took a while, but he got the packing he had wanted the Supreme Court |
#6005, aired 2010-10-22 | "G" MEN $400: In a Gallup poll of the most admired people of the 20th century, this evangelist ranked seventh (Billy) Graham |
#6005, aired 2010-10-22 | "G" MEN $800: In the 1970s this future veep was a reporter for the Tennessean newspaper (Al) Gore |
#6004, aired 2010-10-21 | WELCOME TO INDIA $2,000 (Daily Double): A group of vigilante women who beat up corrupt & abusive men calls itself the pink this garment gang sari |
#6002, aired 2010-10-19 | THIS... WAS... JEOPARDY! $800 (Daily Double): On July 3, 1863 3 brigades of his division, 4,300 men, led a Gettysburg "charge", with disastrous results George Pickett |
#6000, aired 2010-10-15 | 6,000 $400: In Julius Caesar's time, this standard Roman military unit comprised about 6,000 men a legion |
#5998, aired 2010-10-13 | METAPHORS BE WITH YOU $400: In a Shakespeare quote, the 5-word metaphor that precedes "and all the men and women merely players" "All the world's a stage" |
#5998, aired 2010-10-13 | JOHN GRISHAM BOOKS $600: A black man murders the 2 white men who raped his daughter in this novel, Grisham's first A Time to Kill |
#5985, aired 2010-09-24 | LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS $200: Benozzo Gozzoli made a unique landscape the backdrop for the biblical journey of this trio the three wise men (or the three magi) |
#5977, aired 2010-09-14 | SUIT UP! $400: A suit of executive cut is for men who are a little more, how shall I say... well, you tell me heavy |
#5972, aired 2010-07-27 | SPORTS QUOTES $1000: This golfer told a men's magazine he doesn't go to the gym because "they won't let me smoke in there" John Daly |
#5965, aired 2010-07-16 | SITCOMS BY EPISODE $1600: "Alan Harper, Frontier Chiropractor" Two and a Half Men |
#5964, aired 2010-07-15 | JONAH'S DRUTHERS $200: Aboard ship in a storm, the men "cast" these items of chance; Jonah's came up, but he'd rather it didn't lots |
#5959, aired 2010-07-08 | I WANNA WATCH TV! $800: A Nickelodeon cartoon series isn't "Mystique and..." or "Rogue and..." but him "and the X-Men" Wolverine and the X-Men |
#5957, aired 2010-07-06 | IN THE DICTIONARY $400: It's the 4-letter name of the pleated skirt worn by men in Scotland a kilt |
#5951, aired 2010-06-28 | IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE BOOK? $600: "The Island of" this doctor by H.G. Wells concerns a man trying to turn animals into men Dr. Moreau |
#5945, aired 2010-06-18 | WHO'S YOUR DADDY? $200: "Two and a Half Men" star Charlie Martin Sheen |
#5944, aired 2010-06-17 | MEASURE MEN $1200: For a French physicist, this unit of radioactivity:
Ci curie |
#5944, aired 2010-06-17 | MEASURE MEN $1600: For a British physicist, this unit of energy:
J joule |
#5944, aired 2010-06-17 | MEASURE MEN $2000: For a French mathematician, this unit of pressure:
Pa pascal |
#5944, aired 2010-06-17 | MEASURE MEN $4,000 (Daily Double): For a German physicist, this unit of electric resistance whose symbol is seen here ohm |
#5939, aired 2010-06-10 | CLASSIC GAME COMING ATTRACTIONS $600: They came to explore a new land--one of lollipop woods & gingerbread men. This fall they'll curse their visit to... Candyland |
#5938, aired 2010-06-09 | 2001: A SPORTS ODYSSEY $2000: This Aussie lliving llegend became the youngest year-end No. 1 in men's tennis history Lleyton Hewitt |
#5928, aired 2010-05-26 | AS TIME GOES BY $1000: In a 19th century bestseller of men & the sea, Richard Henry Dana Jr. told of living this many "Years Before the Mast" Two |
#5918, aired 2010-05-12 | THE NEW YORK TIMES CONTRIBUTORS $1000: (I'm New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.) The title of my book "Are Men Necessary?", exploring the implications of feminism, puts a twist on "Is Sex Necessary?", by E.B. White & this humorist James Thurber |
#5916, aired 2010-05-10 | LET'S GET DRESSED IN THE 1920s $1600: After a referendum in Reedy, West Virginia, women were allowed to wear these golf pants worn by men only knickers |
#5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIES $400: A.O. Scott says he's not entirely joking calling this 2010 John Cusack comedy a "poignant story of 3 men, adrift in their 40s" Hot Tub Time Machine |
#5914, aired 2010-05-06 | DESCRIBING THE NO. 1 SONG $2000: J. Geils, 1982:
Horrors! The singer must deal with his "angel" being cute enough to be featured in a men's magazine "Centerfold" |
#5912, aired 2010-05-04 | GET A WHIFF OF THIS $800: Do you want to smell like this brand, maker of men's & women's fragrances as well as that pocket knife? Swiss Army |
#5911, aired 2010-05-03 | HOMOPHONES $2000: Sterile, like some women, or a member of the lowest grade of nobility, like some men barren/baron |
#5901, aired 2010-04-19 | BOGEY MEN $200: 1942:
Bogart as bitter Rick Blaine runs a bar in north Africa, sweetheart Casablanca |
#5901, aired 2010-04-19 | BOGEY MEN $400: This lefty finished second in the 2009 U.S. Open after a bogey on the 17th hole Phil Mickelson |
#5901, aired 2010-04-19 | BOGEY MEN $400: 1941:
Private dick Sam Spade seeks a priceless statuette The Maltese Falcon |
#5901, aired 2010-04-19 | BOGEY MEN $800: Though he got a bogey on the first hole, this "Golden Bear" proved his mettle by winning his fifth Masters in 1975 Nicklaus |
#5901, aired 2010-04-19 | BOGEY MEN $1200: A bogey on the final hole cost this 59-year-old the 2009 British Open (Tom) Watson |
#5901, aired 2010-04-19 | BOGEY MEN $1600: He had 15 bogeys in the 2009 Shell Houston Open, but proved he's still the Shark by sinking a 63-foot putt for birdie (Greg) Norman |
#5901, aired 2010-04-19 | BOGEY MEN $2000: In Hindi, his first name means "victory", but he started off the 2009 season with a double bogey at Kapalua Vijay Singh |
#5894, aired 2010-04-08 | GREAT MEN OF MEDICINE $800: Before his rivalry with Jonas Salk, he developed a vaccine for dengue fever while in the army during WWII (Albert) Sabin |
#5894, aired 2010-04-08 | GREAT MEN OF MEDICINE $1200: He once said, "On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday I was world renowned" Christiaan Barnard |
#5893, aired 2010-04-07 | POLITICAL LINGO $800: An 1868 definition of this term: "men traveling with little luggage and less character" to profit from the situation a carpetbagger |
#5892, aired 2010-04-06 | FASHION DESIGNERS $400: Alexis Mabille uses this essential part of men's formal wear as a trademark, putting it on models' chests & ankles a bow-tie |
#5871, aired 2010-03-08 | A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS $800: Yakov Springer, a weightlifting coach, was one of 10 men murdered on September 6, 1972 in this city Munich |
#5859, aired 2010-02-18 | AD MEN $400: In Nov. 2009 Eagles tight end Brent Celek celebrated a TD by striking the pose of this rum ad man; the NFL was not amused Captain Morgan |
#5859, aired 2010-02-18 | AD MEN $1200: In a 2004 ad, Stephen Colbert was looking for Mr. This, GM's fictitious mechanic Mr. Goodwrench |
#5859, aired 2010-02-18 | AD MEN $1600: A maitre d' named Frank Brown posed for the portrait seen on boxes of this rice Uncle Ben |
#5859, aired 2010-02-18 | AD MEN $2000: The namesake of this brand of canned pasta was an Italian immigrant who got a job cooking at NYC's Plaza hotel Chef Boyardee |
#5857, aired 2010-02-16 | MEN OF SCIENCE $1200: Rocket pioneer Robert Goddard discovered the best liquid fuel was a combination of gasoline and this, aka LOx liquid oxygen |
#5857, aired 2010-02-16 | DIRECT TV $1200: Pamela Fryman directed "A Lungful of Alan", an episode of this sitcom that co-stars Jon Cryer Two and a Half Men |
#5857, aired 2010-02-16 | MEN OF SCIENCE $1600: The flask that this British scientist invented in the 1890s was a predecessor of the Thermos James Dewar |
#5857, aired 2010-02-16 | MEN OF SCIENCE $2000: The first mention of this scientist's theoretical cat was in 1935's "The Present Situation in Quantum Physics" Schrödinger |
#5855, aired 2010-02-12 | AFRICAN HISTORY $800: (I'm author and journalist Helene Cooper.) In 1847 a government based on that of the U.S. was established by free black men & former slaves in the West African nation they called this Liberia |
#5851, aired 2010-02-08 | THE BIG 10 $1000: (Alex stands in front of an exhibit at the Newseum.) The exhibit "G-men and Journalists" contains the very first ledger in which this list was kept; it began when a reporter asked the FBI, "Who are the toughest guys you're looking for?" the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list |
#5850, aired 2010-02-05 | NEW TESTAMENT PLACES $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Israel.) Here in the garden of Gethsemane, this disciple, accompanied by a group of armed men, approached Jesus & said, "Hail, master", then kissed him Judas |
#5850, aired 2010-02-05 | CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES $800: In February 1960 4 young black men staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter at a N.C. branch of this 5 & dime Woolworth's |
#5836, aired 2010-01-18 | NAME DROPPING AT THE MALL $400: Italian clothes for men & women:
A/X ____ Exchange Armani |
#5825, aired 2010-01-01 | 20th CENTURY ARTISTS $1200: This Belgian's "Mysteries Of The Horizon" shows 3 men in bowler hats; a sliver of moon hangs above each of them Magritte |
#5818, aired 2009-12-23 | MOVIES BY QUOTE $1000: Jack:
"I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4,000 Cubans who are trained to kill me" A Few Good Men |
#5815, aired 2009-12-18 | COMIC BOOK VILLAINS $1000: This "attractive" mutant & X-Men enemy spent his early teen years in a Nazi death camp Magneto |
#5815, aired 2009-12-18 | LITERARY "EL" MEN $1600: This comical constable in "Measure for Measure" shares a name with a body part Elbow |
#5812, aired 2009-12-15 | BIBLE "R"OSTER $2000: One of the 7 archangels, he's not a painter, but rather presides over the spirits of men in the afterlife Raphael |
#5794, aired 2009-11-19 | PEOPLE STAR TRACKS $1000: "Mr. Smooth" was in L.A. on July 20, 2009 "as his alter ego, 1960s ad exec Don Draper, on the set of 'Mad Men'" Jon Hamm |
#5792, aired 2009-11-17 | PATRON $800: Ludovico Sforza, a patron of men like Leonardo, gave this northern Italian city Europe's grandest court Milan |
#5782, aired 2009-11-03 | BODY BASICS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.) The Adam's apple, which is larger in men than in women, is a protuberance of the thyroid cartilage that supports this passageway, sometimes called the voice box the larynx |
#5772, aired 2009-10-20 | NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $2,000 (Daily Double): When the 1973 peace prize was awarded to 2 men, Le Duc Tho declined but this man accepted Henry Kissinger |
#5769, aired 2009-10-15 | TV SOLE DADS $1200: The movie "Tin Men" said this classic TV Western was about "a 50-year-old father with three 47-year-old sons" Bonanza |
#5768, aired 2009-10-14 | COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE NEW WORLD $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Leaving Spain in August 1492, Columbus & his 90 men briefly stopped in these islands that had only recently become a Spanish possession the Canary Islands |
#5762, aired 2009-10-06 | FILL IN THE STEINBECK TITLE $800: "O.M.A.M." Of Mice and Men |
#5749, aired 2009-09-17 | THE SITUATION COMEDY ROOM $600: Every room of Charlie's Malibu bachelor pad has been invaded by his brother Alan & Alan's son Jake on this sitcom Two and a Half Men |
#5749, aired 2009-09-17 | WHAT A DECADE IN THE U.S. $1200: 2 of the 4 men who were president in the 1920s; they each must have said "vo dee oh do" at least once (2 of) Coolidge, Hoover, Wilson & Harding |
#5739, aired 2009-07-16 | BIBLE BASICS $1200: Jesus gave his apostle Simon this name, from the Greek for "rock", & made him a "fisher of men" Peter |
#5717, aired 2009-06-16 | LACE $500 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Bruges Lace Center in Belgium.) Handmade lace was dealt a near deathblow by these 2 revolutions--one a bloody revolt ending the fashion of lace for men, & one that led to machine-made lace the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution |
#5714, aired 2009-06-11 | THAT TITLE IS TAKEN $2000: This Cormac McCarthy title comes from a Yeats poem about a senior citizen's hope to transmute himself into art No Country for Old Men |
#5708, aired 2009-06-03 | OLD HAT $1200: At Colonial Williamsburg, men wear this type of cocked hat whose name tells you it's tacked up on 3 sides three-cornered hat (tricorne) |
#5703, aired 2009-05-27 | JAPANESE CULTURE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows off a geisha in Kyoto, Japan.) Geisha & maiko used kimonos to accentuate what was the most desirable area for Japanese men--the unaji, or back of the neck, known as this in English the nape |
#5702, aired 2009-05-26 | WHAT A KNOCKOUT! $400: Her 2008 marriage to Jay-Z made millions of single men sad (like you guys really had a chance!) Beyoncé |
#5701, aired 2009-05-25 | THE HUMAN ANIMAL $600: Slang for a woman on the prowl for younger men a cougar |
#5685, aired 2009-05-01 | TRA-LA! IT'S MAY! $400: For centuries, May Day merriments have featured this outlaw who led a band of merry men Robin Hood |
#5685, aired 2009-05-01 | DEMONS $1200: (I'm Vincent Kartheiser of Mad Men.) The ruthless leader Commodus believed he was this god, the son of Zeus, & showed off his physical strength by fighting & dressing as a gladiator Hercules |
#5683, aired 2009-04-29 | SMELLS TERRIFIC $400: A sailing ship is featured in the logo for this men's aftershave Old Spice |
#5682, aired 2009-04-28 | FICTIONAL MUNCHIES $400: Cram is a biscuit-like food made by the men of Esgaroth in this author's fantasy world Tolkien |
#5675, aired 2009-04-17 | BORROWED BOOK TITLES $800: The title of this Robert Penn Warren novel comes from a nursery rhyme All the King's Men |
#5672, aired 2009-04-14 | SCANDALOUS NURSERY RHYMES $1000: Rub-a-dub-dub, these 3 men are in a tub; aw, make up your own joke a butcher, a baker & a candlestick maker |
#5668, aired 2009-04-08 | WORDS FROM PLACES $200: This type of formal clothing for men is named for a town in New York a tuxedo |
#5668, aired 2009-04-08 | "MEN" AT WORK $1600: This physician saw the benefit of a group practice after visiting the Mayo Clinic; he later started a clinic in Kansas Menninger |
#5668, aired 2009-04-08 | "MEN" AT WORK $2000: Yee-haw! He's the musician seen here, fiddlin' around Sir Yehudi Menuhin |
#5666, aired 2009-04-06 | GOOD O'MEN $1000: A work titled "The Bush" helped make Bernard O'Dowd a major poet of this country Australia |
#5662, aired 2009-03-31 | HEALTH & MEDICINE $800: A 2008 Toronto study found that doctors are more likely to recommend replacing this joint in men the knee |
#5656, aired 2009-03-23 | GOING ALPHANUMERIC $600: In a sequel title, it precedes "X-Men United" X2 |
#5654, aired 2009-03-19 | PAINTINGS $400: Raphael must have used up a lot of red paint for his portrait of Pope Leo X with 2 of these men cardinals |
#5651, aired 2009-03-16 | "MEN" OF THE WORLD $1200: In a children's tale, this city of Germany is known for its band of animal musicians Bremen |
#5651, aired 2009-03-16 | "MEN" OF THE WORLD $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.) Memorial Union Terrace at University of Wisconsin-Madison is right on this lake, whose name comes from a Siouan word Mendota |
#5648, aired 2009-03-11 | THE JOURNEY OF LIFE $1200: 3-letter term for a young man, or the British culture of hard-partying young men a lad |
#5641, aired 2009-03-02 | CAN YOU AD? $800: (I'm Elisabeth Moss. I play copywriter Peggy Olson on Mad Men.) This woman was a copywriter for an ad agency before being named editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine Helen Gurley Brown |
#5636, aired 2009-02-23 | IN THE PARK $200: In Massachusetts a national park honors these "men" who famously fought on April 19, 1775 minutemen |
#5635, aired 2009-02-20 | ENGINEERING $2000: From the French for "large box", it's a watertight structure allowing men to work underwater a caisson |
#5608, aired 2009-01-14 | WHATCHA DUNE? $800: In 1991 the house of this French designer began marketing Dune, a women's perfume; a men's cologne followed in 1997 Christian Dior |
#5607, aired 2009-01-13 | ALSO A SUPERHERO $400: Some might say Polyphemus of this race was rude in eating Odysseus' men, so Odie blinded him Cyclops |
#5605, aired 2009-01-09 | COURTROOM DRAMAS $400: Initially, Henry Fonda is the only juror who holds out against a guilty verdict in this 1957 film 12 Angry Men |
#5599, aired 2009-01-01 | OCCUPATIONAL WEAR $800: A type of bulky knit sweater originated in Ireland with men in this line of work fishermen |
#5599, aired 2009-01-01 | HAPPY NEW YEAR $1200: One of the 4 of all the president's men convicted by a federal court Jan. 1, 1975 (1 of) John Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, or Robert Mardian |
#5595, aired 2008-12-26 | NUMERICAL PHRASES $400: Numerical term for a burglar who specializes in breaking into buildings through upstairs windows second-story men |
#5593, aired 2008-12-24 | THE SPORTS BAR $1600: For men, the bar has a minimum length of 8 feet, 6.25 inches & weight of 1.75 pounds in this field event the javelin |
#5585, aired 2008-12-12 | NEWS OF THE WEIRD $1000: 2 men were busted in Traverse City in this state; they'd told a gas station worker 2 hours earlier that they'd soon rob him Michigan |
#5581, aired 2008-12-08 | A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10 $1000: In the 1930s Harlan F. Stone & Owen J. Roberts were 2 of the group called this many "old men" 9 |
#5574, aired 2008-11-27 | PASS THE TURKEY $600: Banned by Ataturk for political reasons, this hat with a 3-letter name was once the national hat of Turkish men a fez |
#5570, aired 2008-11-21 | POETS & POETRY $1600: Poet who wrote, "I think we are in Rats' Alley where the dead men lost their bones" (sure sounds like a "Waste Land") (T.S.) Eliot |
#5567, aired 2008-11-18 | THE WORLD OF SPORTS $400: The Canadian version of this sport has 12 men on a side, & the field is 110 yards long football |
#5557, aired 2008-11-04 | THE "B" LIST $1600: It's a hooded cloak worn by Arab & Berber men a burnous |
#5551, aired 2008-10-27 | MOVIES ON MY TiVo DVR $800: Josh Brolin took the money / Wait, this is the end? Where'd Josh Brolin go? No Country for Old Men |
#5545, aired 2008-10-17 | ADVERTISING WITH MAD MEN $400: (I'm Jon Hamm.) One of Don Draper's best pitches came when he said this company's slide projector is a time machine for our lives' sweet moments Kodak |
#5545, aired 2008-10-17 | ADVERTISING WITH MAD MEN $800: (I'm Christina Hendricks.) On the Season 2 premiere, office manager Joan had a new boyfriend & the office had this new machine that revolutionized clerical work in the 1960s a Xerox machine |
#5545, aired 2008-10-17 | ADVERTISING WITH MAD MEN $1600: (I'm Elisabeth Moss.) In the Season 1 finale, Peggy Olson gave birth to a son & became a copywriter with this acne treatment as her first account Clearasil |
#5545, aired 2008-10-17 | ADVERTISING WITH MAD MEN $2000: (Jon Hamm reads the last clue.) In the 1st episode of "Mad Men", Don Draper won over the clients with a campaign about the "toasted" goodness of this product (Lucky Strike) cigarettes |
#5539, aired 2008-10-09 | CRUISE LINES $400: In this film Lt. Kaffee (Cruise) says, "I want the truth!" & Col. Jessep (Nicholson) replies, "you can't handle the truth!" A Few Good Men |
#5538, aired 2008-10-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES ELECTION COVERAGE $400: The report on the 1992 returns included a "jubilant bear hug" between these 2 men Clinton & Gore |
#5534, aired 2008-10-02 | FRIENDS $1000: A book says these 2 men, one said to be a drunk & the other thought insane, had "the friendship that won the Civil War" Grant & Sherman |
#5532, aired 2008-09-30 | COLORADO $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1870 this man helped young men go west by sponsoring a Colorado farming colony Horace Greeley |
#5527, aired 2008-09-23 | GRAMMAR $800: As necessary to complete the idea, the last 3 words of "I like men who bake bread" form a restrictive type of this clause |
#5516, aired 2008-09-08 | MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL $400: In the 1960s only 3 men exceeded 50 home runs in a season: Maris & Mantle in 1961 & this S.F. Giant in 1965 (Willie) Mays |
#5508, aired 2008-07-16 | PUN-ISHMENT $400: Punning on a Men at Work song, it's what the computer geek called a local area network he built in Melbourne the LAN Down Under |
#5495, aired 2008-06-27 | OF MICE & MEN $400: In "Anchors Aweigh", not Tom but Gene Kelly was the man who cut a rug with this animated mouse Jerry |
#5495, aired 2008-06-27 | OF MICE & MEN $1200: Mr. Jingles, a pet mouse living on death row, is resurrected by John Coffey after being killed by a guard in this film The Green Mile |
#5495, aired 2008-06-27 | OF MICE & MEN $2000: Nathan Lane & Lee Evans are 2 men who inherit a house plagued by a crafty rodent in this 1997 film MouseHunt |
#5491, aired 2008-06-23 | MINDBENDING MISCELLANY $1600: Referring to these 2 Disneyland rides, one designer said, "I went from sweet little children to dirty old men" It's A Small World & Pirates of the Caribbean |
#5490, aired 2008-06-20 | SUMO $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands between two large men holding diapers.) Quite a lot of this rich fabric goes into a "mawashi", which wraps several times around the sumo wrestler silk |
#5489, aired 2008-06-19 | MEN IN HISTORY $400: In 1889 this "colossal" man's British South African Company received a charter to develop Malawi (Cecil) Rhodes |
#5489, aired 2008-06-19 | MEN IN HISTORY $1,500 (Daily Double): During the Russo-Japanese War, Jack London worked as a reporter for this man's newspaper chain (William Randolph) Hearst |
#5485, aired 2008-06-13 | WEAR IT WELL $1,500 (Daily Double): In the late '60s, this long cover-up with a Turkish name became popular not only for women but for men too a caftan |
#5481, aired 2008-06-09 | HEY, JUDE LAW! $5,000 (Daily Double): Jude was Sean Penn's beast of (Jack) Burden in this 2006 film based on a Robert Penn Warren novel All the King's Men |
#5467, aired 2008-05-20 | GET YOUR MOVIE FACTS STRAIGHT $1600: "North Country" starred Charlize Theron; "No Country for Old Men" featured this Spaniard as a relentless killer Javier Bardem |
#5459, aired 2008-05-08 | MADISON MEN $600: John Jay, Madison & Hamilton wrote these "papers", which stressed the need for a strong central government the Federalist Papers |
#5454, aired 2008-05-01 | CHICAGO FUN & SUNDRY FACTS $1000: Jesse James had a vendetta out for this Chicago detective whose men had killed his 8-year-old half-brother (Allan) Pinkerton |
#5454, aired 2008-05-01 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $1600: Julius Caesar observes that this man "has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous" Cassius |
#5438, aired 2008-04-09 | LEADING MEN $400: In 1938 this prime minister returned to Britain from a meeting with Hitler saying, "I believe it is peace in our time" Chamberlain |
#5431, aired 2008-03-31 | GENERAL INFORMATION $3,800 (Daily Double): More than 540,000 men & women served under this general's command of the U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf War of 1991 (Norman) Schwarzkopf |
#5429, aired 2008-03-27 | MY, YOU'VE AGED $800: Men do it in order to look older; Abe Lincoln did it in 1860 grow a beard |
#5418, aired 2008-03-12 | WE'RE NO. 1! $800: In 1983 we chowed down on a Vegemite sandwich with this "Down Under" group Men at Work |
#5412, aired 2008-03-04 | MUSICAL BEFORE & AFTER $600: Michael Jackson song from "Dangerous" becomes a basketball film in which Rosie Perez is on "Jeopardy!" "Black Or White Men Can't Jump" |
#5411, aired 2008-03-03 | BUTTONS $1600: This type of flower with a round head has a name that sounds like it's only for single men a bachelor's button |
#5410, aired 2008-02-29 | HEDY LAMARR-VELOUS $1200: A fervent anti-Nazi Hedy sold war bonds during WWII & entertained U.S. enlisted men at this "Canteen" the Hollywood Canteen |
#5409, aired 2008-02-28 | MEDICINE MEN & WOMEN $400: In 1968 a federal court found this author & pediatrician guilty of violating the Selective Service Act Dr. Spock |
#5409, aired 2008-02-28 | MEDICINE MEN & WOMEN $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1796 he inoculated 8-year-old James Phipps with material from a cowpox pustule from Sarah Nelmes Jenner |
#5409, aired 2008-02-28 | MEDICINE MEN & WOMEN $1200: This German bacteriologist developed a test for syphilis & an inoculation for tetanus Wasserman |
#5409, aired 2008-02-28 | MEDICINE MEN & WOMEN $2000: In 1889 Susan la Flesche Picotte, a member of this Nebraska tribe, became the first Native American female doctor Omaha |
#5380, aired 2008-01-18 | PHOTOGRAPHY $400: "Men at Work" is a 1932 book containing Lewis Hines' 1930 photos chronicling the construction of this skyscraper the Empire State Building |
#5377, aired 2008-01-15 | THE 1790s $1000: This king's warriors said "Aloha" to a rival chief's men by driving them off a cliff in Oahu in 1795 Kamehameha |
#5375, aired 2008-01-11 | HOT CROSS PUNS $800: It's why it's tough to locate clarinetist Benny or Roseanne's co-star John A Goodman [good man] is hard to find |
#5359, aired 2007-12-20 | THE BUCKET LIST $200: (Rob Reiner starts us off.) My movie "The Bucket List" stars Morgan Freeman & this acting legend whom I also directed when he played Col. Jessup in "A Few Good Men" Jack Nicholson |
#5358, aired 2007-12-19 | WHACK $1000: Thomas a Becket was killed by 4 of this king's men after excommunicating some bishops & barons Henry II |
#5349, aired 2007-12-06 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Revolutionary Thomas Paine pamphlet about men & marriage in a Jane Austen work Common Sense and Sensibility |
#5340, aired 2007-11-23 | LITERATURE A LA SEUSS $400: George said, "No, Lennie, No! / I won't get you a guppy! / You think I've forgotten / what you did to that puppy?" Of Mice And Men |
#5338, aired 2007-11-21 | TV POP QUIZ $600: Chiropractor Alan Harper Two and a Half Men |
#5336, aired 2007-11-19 | "R" WORLD $400: A dishonest or unprincipled man, or one of the X-Men a rogue |
#5333, aired 2007-11-14 | ASTRO QUIZ $2,000 (Daily Double): Last names of the 2 men who in 1995 discovered a moving object near a globular cluster in Sagittarius Hale & Bopp |
#5316, aired 2007-10-22 | CLASSIC NOVEL SPOILERS $200: Itinerant workers George & Lennie dream of owning a ranch; Lennie accidentally kills a girl; George kills Lennie Of Mice and Men |
#5313, aired 2007-10-17 | SITCOM-EDY TONIGHT $200: Elvis Costello & Sean Penn guested on the "Back Off, Mary Poppins" episode of this Charlie Sheen show Two and a Half Men |
#5312, aired 2007-10-16 | THE 1930s $2000: 1 of the 2 men, a Southern pol & a soldier, whom FDR said were the 2 most dangerous in the country Huey Long (or Douglas MacArthur) |
#5297, aired 2007-09-25 | WIMPY $600: In this 1961 war novel, you'll find a captain who doesn't want to fly & a major who hides from his men Catch-22 |
#5289, aired 2007-09-13 | A SIDE OF BACON $400: Kevin could handle the truth as Capt. Jack Ross in this 1992 legal drama written by Aaron Sorkin A Few Good Men |
#5285, aired 2007-07-27 | A STRONG CONSTITUTION $400: As the Vietnam War raged & men were drafted who couldn't vote, the 26th amendment made the voting age this 18 |
#5269, aired 2007-07-05 | MEN OF LETTERS $400: In a letter to the Ephesians, he wrote that there is "one Lord, one faith, one baptism" (St.) Paul |
#5269, aired 2007-07-05 | MEN OF LETTERS $800: In Richardson's epistolary novel, "Pamela" is a girl with this job resisting the advances of her mistress' son a serving maid |
#5269, aired 2007-07-05 | MEN OF LETTERS $2000: (I'm Hill Harper of CSI: NY.) My motivational book "Letters to a Young Brother" was inspired by this book written 100 years ago by Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet |
#5269, aired 2007-07-05 | MEN OF LETTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): His last published story, from 1965, takes the form of a letter written by 7-year-old Seymour Glass at summer camp J.D. Salinger |
#5261, aired 2007-06-25 | MEN O' WAR $400: After much skirmishing with Saladin, this English king made a truce with him in 1192 Richard I |
#5261, aired 2007-06-25 | MEN O' WAR $800: (Alex refers to a monochrome depiction of a naval engagement.) You may see a resemblance to little brother Matthew in this 1813 naval hero pictured here Oliver Hazard Perry |
#5261, aired 2007-06-25 | MEN O' WAR $1200: This military man elected president in 1840 wrote a "Discourse on the Aborigines of the Valley of the Ohio" William Henry Harrison |
#5261, aired 2007-06-25 | MEN O' WAR $1600: Last name of Arthur, seen here, Spanish American War general & father of a general MacArthur |
#5261, aired 2007-06-25 | MEN O' WAR $2000: A suite at Cairo's Mena House Hotel is named for this British general in WWII Africa Montgomery (of Alamein) |
#5245, aired 2007-06-01 | WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY $200: Men who hate asking for directions need a product by Garmin or Magellan using GPS, this type of "system" a global positioning system |
#5245, aired 2007-06-01 | SIX MILLION-DOLLAR MEN $200: In 1939 he & Bill Hewlett started a business in his garage with $538 (David) Packard |
#5245, aired 2007-06-01 | SIX MILLION-DOLLAR MEN $600: He moved into Las Vegas' Desert Inn in 1966 & bought the whole hotel a short time later Howard Hughes |
#5245, aired 2007-06-01 | SIX MILLION-DOLLAR MEN $800: Kemmons Wilson had already made a pile with his jukebox franchise when he founded this "festive" family hotel chain Holiday Inn |
#5243, aired 2007-05-30 | TAKE A PILL $1200: Estramustine is a chemotherapy agent for this glandular cancer in men prostate cancer |
#5242, aired 2007-05-29 | BUTTER BATTLE BOOKS $400: David Zinczenko, editor of Men's Health Magazine, wrote a diet book named for these not always washboard muscles abs |
#5240, aired 2007-05-25 | THIS MAY SURPRISE YOU $200: On June 25, 1876 this leader & his 650 men expected to find a few Indian warriors; surprise! There were over 2,000 (George) Custer |
#5239, aired 2007-05-24 | JACKSON 5 $1000: During this Virginia battle, Stonewall Jackson was fired upon by his own men; he died a few days later Chancellorsville |
#5234, aired 2007-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE PAIRS $800: A 1987 remake of a French Film: "Three Men and ____" a Baby |
#5226, aired 2007-05-07 | WHAT A WAY TO GO $800: In an automated factory in 1979, Robert Williams became one of the first men killed by one of these (shades of Asimov) a robot |
#5225, aired 2007-05-04 | BIG MEN ON CAMPUS $400: Strom Thurmond has a wellness & fitness center named for him at this school, the other USC the University of South Carolina |
#5225, aired 2007-05-04 | BIG MEN ON CAMPUS $800: As a midshipman, Ross Perot was elected president--not of the U.S., but of his class at this school the Naval Academy |
#5225, aired 2007-05-04 | BIG MEN ON CAMPUS $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from a college campus.) Luckily, spelling the name of this school's Coach Krzyzewski isn't a requirement for admission Duke |
#5225, aired 2007-05-04 | BIG MEN ON CAMPUS $1600: A 7-foot statue of this colonial statesman overlooks the campus of GMU, the university named for him George Mason University |
#5221, aired 2007-04-30 | HISTORICAL FICTION $400: In James Michener's "Journey", it's 1897 & 5 men are in a rush to find this in the Klondike gold |
#5218, aired 2007-04-25 | TV ROLES $200: On "Two and a Half Men" he plays bachelor & ladies' man Charlie Harper Charlie Sheen |
#5218, aired 2007-04-25 | WHEEL OF FORTUNE $2000: Robert Penn Warren knows they helped with Humpty
A _ _
_ H _
K _ N _ ' _
_ _ N All The King's Men |
#5202, aired 2007-04-03 | CARLS IN CHARGE $400: Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, a marshal under this emperor, reinvented himself as Swedish King Carl Johan Napoleon |
#5201, aired 2007-04-02 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $800 (Daily Double): October 7, 1981:
This world leader "Assassinated at Army Parade as Men Amid Ranks Fire into Stands" Anwar Sadat |
#5187, aired 2007-03-13 | CARTOON FEMALES $1000: Many men wouldn't have minded at all if this 1970s cartoon female took a bite out of them Vampirella |
#5187, aired 2007-03-13 | REAL MEN OF GENIUS $1000: Senor Spanish Baroque "Infanta Margarita in a Pink Dress" painter Diego Velázquez |
#5186, aired 2007-03-12 | SPEAK OF THE DICKENS! $400: Some of the men in this novel assume the Alias "Jacques"; Monsieur DeFarge calls himself Jacques Four A Tale of Two Cities |
#5186, aired 2007-03-12 | IT'LL BE A COLD DAY IN HELENA $3,400 (Daily Double): Helena is the seat of a county named for these 2 men who passed through the area in 1805 Lewis & Clark |
#5179, aired 2007-03-01 | ENGLAND, SCOTLAND OR WALES $600: The Glengarry is a popular men's hat from there Scotland |
#5174, aired 2007-02-22 | SOME MEN (& WOMEN) ARE ISLANDS $800: Queen Elizabeth II's third son, or a Canadian island Edward |
#5174, aired 2007-02-22 | SOME MEN (& WOMEN) ARE ISLANDS $1200: In May 2005 a loss to Winky Wright by unanimous decision sent this middleweight into retirement Felix Trinidad |
#5171, aired 2007-02-19 | LETTER MEN $600: In 1930 he directed his first talkie, "Abraham Lincoln", starring Walter Huston D.W. Griffith |
#5171, aired 2007-02-19 | LETTER MEN $1000: A visit to the Marabar Caves is a turning point in his novel "A Passage to India" E.M. Forster |
#5168, aired 2007-02-14 | THEME PARK FUN $800: Zap aliens with a laser on the Men in Black Alien Attack ride at this movie-themed park in Florida Universal Studios |
#5166, aired 2007-02-12 | ANCIENT HISTORY: THE 1980s $800: In early 1981 assassination attempts were made on these 2 men, a U.S. president & a religious leader Ronald Reagan & Pope John Paul II |
#5166, aired 2007-02-12 | SCREEN TEENS $1000: Angus T. Jones is the fractional character in the title of this CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men |
#5151, aired 2007-01-22 | A FEW GOOD MEN $200: In May 1883 this showman put on his first "Wild West Show" Buffalo Bill Cody |
#5151, aired 2007-01-22 | A FEW GOOD MEN $400: He became the oldest man ever to fly in space when he returned there in October 1998 at the age of 77 John Glenn |
#5151, aired 2007-01-22 | A FEW GOOD MEN $600: In 2004 this Fijian set a record for pro golf winnings in one year, $10,905,166 (Vijay) Singh |
#5151, aired 2007-01-22 | A FEW GOOD MEN $800: This man who partnered with Charlie McCarthy was the first president of the TV Academy (Edgar) Bergen |
#5151, aired 2007-01-22 | A FEW GOOD MEN $1000: Many of Geoffrey Chaucer's works were first printed around 1477 by this man, England's first printer William Caxton |
#5145, aired 2007-01-12 | "O"PERA $800: George finds out Lennie has a dead mouse in his pocket in this Carlisle Floyd opera based on a 1937 novel Of Mice And Men |
#5144, aired 2007-01-11 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" MOVIES $800: Wesley Snipes has this piece of sports wisdom for Woody Harrelson, the title of a 1992 film White Men Can't Jump |
#5142, aired 2007-01-09 | A GREAT PAIR $800: In Greek mythology Odysseus lost 6 men sailing between these 2 hideous female monsters Scylla & Charybdis |
#5141, aired 2007-01-08 | AIRPORTS $200: A general aviation airport 12 miles south of Dayton, Ohio is named for these 2 men the Wright Brothers |
#5141, aired 2007-01-08 | TV NUMBERS $400: The title of this sitcom refers to characters played by Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer & Angus T. Jones Two and a Half Men |
#5129, aired 2006-12-21 | U.S. CITY HISTORY $2000: This city on the Columbia River traces its origins to a fur-trading post established by a certain John Jacob's men Astoria |
#5128, aired 2006-12-20 | RENAISSANCE MEN $500 (Daily Double): Benedetto Dei, a merchant of this city, bragged in a letter that it "is more beautiful and 540 years older" than Venice Florence |
#5128, aired 2006-12-20 | RENAISSANCE MEN $1200: The Elizabethans were already creating a word for "devious" out of this Italian's name Machiavelli |
#5120, aired 2006-12-08 | IOWA $1200: (Jimmy stands in front of a wrestling match.) The men's wrestling team, with the 20 NCAA Division I titles since 1975, is part of a great tradition for the University of Iowa athletes known by this nickname the Hawkeyes |
#5118, aired 2006-12-06 | MILITARY MEN $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Pentagon pool.) A gym & pool were built at the Pentagon after World War II, at the suggestion of this man, then Army Chief of Staff Eisenhower |
#5112, aired 2006-11-28 | THEY TOOK DEBATE $1000: "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" was a quip from the famous 1988 debate between these two men Quayle & Bentsen |
#5110, aired 2006-11-24 | BASEBALL MOVIE HAIKU $800: Jimmy once a pro/ Alas, war calls men away/ Nine gals beats no gals... A League of Their Own |
#5108, aired 2006-11-22 | "B" IN FASHION $600: Often navy blue with metal buttons, this sports jacket is worn by both men & women a blazer |
#5101, aired 2006-11-13 | GRAND CENTRAL STATION $600: An entire alien civilization lives in a locker at Grand Central in the sequel to this Will Smith-Tommy Lee Jones film Men In Black |
#5100, aired 2006-11-10 | MAN HATTIN' $600: The name of this high-crowned, very wide-brimmed men's hat from Mexico comes from the Spanish word for "shade" a sombrero |
#5098, aired 2006-11-08 | STRAIGHT MEN $600: "My Friend Irma" was his 1949 film debut; he may have heard Jerry Lewis say, "Hey laaaaaaady!" a lot Dean Martin |
#5097, aired 2006-11-07 | A FEW GOOD MEN $400: Crispin of Viterbo, "The Ass of the Capuchins", was the first of hundreds made these by John Paul II saints |
#5097, aired 2006-11-07 | A FEW GOOD MEN $800: Democracy activist Kim Dae-jung, this nation's 8th pres., was the 1st to take power in transition from the ruling party South Korea |
#5097, aired 2006-11-07 | A FEW GOOD MEN $1200: Dr. Paul Farmer is a Harvard prof & medical director of Clinique Bon Sauveur in this Carribbean nation Haiti |
#5097, aired 2006-11-07 | A FEW GOOD MEN $2000: In 1940, this king, whose name is a religion, refused to implement laws making Danish Jews wear the hated yellow star King Christian |
#5097, aired 2006-11-07 | A FEW GOOD MEN $3,000 (Daily Double): He began doing hospital work in French Africa in 1913 &, as a German, was interned by the French during WWI Albert Schweitzer |
#5092, aired 2006-10-31 | MEN OF TRINITY COLLEGE $400: Biblical research by Bishop Ussher, a 17th century Trinity prof, dated this event to Oct. 23, 4004 B.C. the creation of the world |
#5089, aired 2006-10-26 | THUNDER & LIGHTNING $400: Rip Van Winkle saw a group of odd-looking men playing this; the rolling of the balls sounded like thunder ninepins (bowling) |
#5088, aired 2006-10-25 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $1,000 (Daily Double): In Luke 9, even after "about" this number of "men... did eat and were all filled", there were 12 baskets of food left over 5,000 |
#5086, aired 2006-10-23 | HISTORICAL MEN & WOMEN $800: Around 325 this Christian emperor began a basilica in Rome on the spot where St. Peter's stands today Constantine (the Great) |
#5083, aired 2006-10-18 | OCTOBERFEST $800: Accompanied by 21 men, he seized a federal arsenal in a famous raid in October 1859 John Brown |
#5076, aired 2006-10-09 | SHEIK'S PEER $1600: Made up of 7 independent states, a country bordering Oman & Saudi Arabia is named for & run by men titled this emir |
#5075, aired 2006-10-06 | BIBLE HEROES $1000: In Judges he said, "With the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men" Samson |
#5074, aired 2006-10-05 | KID'S TOUGH $600: Anna Paquin seeks treatment for a mutant gene in her body in the latest installment of this film series X-Men |
#5069, aired 2006-09-28 | PRAGUE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew leans out of a famous portal.) 2 men were tossed out this window in the incident called the Defenestration of Prague, leading to this numerical war the Thirty Years' War |
#5068, aired 2006-09-27 | CIVIL WAR TIMES $200: On May 24, 1856 this abolitionist led a raid that killed 5 pro-slavery men in Pottawatomie John Brown |
#5066, aired 2006-09-25 | ALL THE KING'S MEN $800: A little birdie told me in 1669 Charles II gave him the important architectural job of Surveyor of the King's Works Christopher Wren |
#5066, aired 2006-09-25 | ALL THE KING'S MEN $1200: This nephew of a king took on the Green Knight but in some tales was killed by Mordred Sir Gawain |
#5066, aired 2006-09-25 | ALL THE KING'S MEN $2000: You should know to a "tea" that he was Prime Minister of England from 1830 to 1834 Earl Grey |
#5042, aired 2006-07-11 | THE ROLES OF TOM CRUISE $800: Navy lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee A Few Good Men |
#5034, aired 2006-06-29 | FICTIONAL MEN OF WAR $800: In this epic tale of men & war, Martin Sheen played Captain Benjamin Willard, a soldier sent on a assassination Apocalypse Now |
#5034, aired 2006-06-29 | FICTIONAL MEN OF WAR $1000: On "M*A*S*H" this fictional military doctor's nickname was "Ferret Face" Frank Burns |
#5033, aired 2006-06-28 | 50-50 $600: Up to 50 yards of cloth may be used in one of these headdresses worn by Sikhs & Muslim men a turban |
#5029, aired 2006-06-22 | COLLEGE HOOPS $800: This UCLA coach of the '60s & '70s is 1 of only 3 men inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player & a coach John Wooden |
#5025, aired 2006-06-16 | THE SHIP $3,000 (Daily Double): Josiah Gibbs got help translating for the accused men of this ship from James Covey, an African sailor, once a slave the Amistad |
#5024, aired 2006-06-15 | "MEN" AT LAST $400: Good or bad, it's a sign of things to come an omen |
#5024, aired 2006-06-15 | "MEN" AT LAST $800: "Breadbasket" is a slang term for this part of the body the abdomen |
#5024, aired 2006-06-15 | "MEN" AT LAST $1200: From the Latin for "rule", my daily one includes getting up early, exercising & watching what I eat a regimen |
#5024, aired 2006-06-15 | "MEN" AT LAST $2000: Consisting of a filament & an anther, it's the male pollen-producing part of a flower a stamen |
#5014, aired 2006-06-01 | "BOOK"S $400: "English As She Is Spoke" is an 1855 self-described one of these, written by 2 Portuguese men who knew no English a phrase book |
#5011, aired 2006-05-29 | MEN'S WEAR $400: It can also be called a waistcoat, but usually not if it's the down type a vest |
#5011, aired 2006-05-29 | MEN'S WEAR $800: Tradition says a cummerbund's pleats face up to hold theater tickets, or falling these at a banquet crumbs |
#5011, aired 2006-05-29 | MEN'S WEAR $1600: First popular in the 1920s, Oxford bags are a type of these pants |
#5011, aired 2006-05-29 | MEN'S WEAR $2000: The full name of a pattern includes "Urquhart", but it's usually just called this "plaid", a Scottish word for a valley glen plaid |
#5011, aired 2006-05-29 | MEN'S WEAR $2,200 (Daily Double): Though it had the name of a woman from an 1882 play, this hat with a front-to-back crease became popular for men a fedora |
#5010, aired 2006-05-26 | "D" MEN $1600: In 1931 this famed lawyer narrated "The Mystery of Life", a movie about evolution Clarence Darrow |
#4997, aired 2006-05-09 | IN NEED OF A DATE $800: Year in which Custer & his force of more than 200 men were killed 1876 |
#4996, aired 2006-05-08 | THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS $800: Not typically thought of as a contact sport, it's "athletic ballet... a brutal sport played by large and powerful men" basketball |
#4992, aired 2006-05-02 | INSPIRED TITLES $800: The "best laid schemes" of Steinbeck borrowed a line by Robert Burns to title this short novel Of Mice and Men |
#4991, aired 2006-05-01 | EARLY AMERICA $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew reads from Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, NH.) The shipping of goods such as flour & wine, vital to cities like Portsmouth, depended on the skill of the men with this job of making barrels a cooper |
#4990, aired 2006-04-28 | GROWING PAINS $200: More common in women than men, these swollen & twisted veins can be a real pain in the leg varicose veins (spider veins accepted) |
#4987, aired 2006-04-25 | 18th CENTURY AMERICA $200: His wife Abigail wrote to him in a 1776 letter, "Remember the ladies... all men would be tyrants if they could" John Adams |
#4977, aired 2006-04-11 | ROCKET MAN $800: Apollo 8 astronauts Borman, Lovell & Anders were the first men to make this circuit & they made 10 of them a lunar orbit |
#4965, aired 2006-03-24 | MEN OF THE "C" $2000: On July 18, 1938 he was questioned by police after a 28-hour, 13-minute airplane flight "Wrong Way" Corrigan |
#4964, aired 2006-03-23 | LET'S PLAY SOME BASKETBALL $1000: He coached the University of North Carolina men's college basketball team in 4 different decades Dean Smith |
#4961, aired 2006-03-20 | HAIL OF BULLETS $800: In 1911, these two men highlighted here reportedly died in a hail of bullets in Bolivia Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid |
#4957, aired 2006-03-14 | CHINESE HISTORY $1200: In the 840s Wu-Tsung, a fanatical Taoist, suppressed Buddhism & laicized thousands of these men monks |
#4950, aired 2006-03-03 | RATING SCALES $2,000 (Daily Double): Zero is "exclusively heterosexual" on a scale for men that's named for this scientist Kinsey |
#4947, aired 2006-02-28 | BIO HAZARD $1000: A co-biography of these two men tells of "The Battle of Waterloo and the Great Commanders Who Fought It" Napoleon & the Duke of Wellington |
#4946, aired 2006-02-27 | LEWIS & CLARK $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands next to a covered pile of crates in the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, Oregon.) A 5,000-sq.-ft. exhibit at the Columbia Gorge Museum shows the 30 tons of cargo Lewis & Clark took when setting out from this city in 1804 St. Louis |
#4931, aired 2006-02-06 | U.S. WINTER OLYMPIANS $1200: Life has its ups & downs for Travis Mayer, a 2002 medalist in the event named for these little hills on the slopes moguls |