| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | INVENTORS & INVENTIONS $200: In 1953 David Mullany invented this erratic toy with 8 holes that's often sold with its own bat a Wiffle ball |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | CHEMISTRY TEST $1000: This unit with an animal name is used to measure extremely large numbers of atoms & other tiny particles a mole |
| #26, aired 2024-01-23 | ORGANIC CHEMISTRY $400: In chemistry, it's the unit of measure equal to 6.02 times 1023 of anything -- atoms, molecules... even mammals that burrow in your lawn a mole |
| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | OVER CASTE $1600: The naked type of this hyphenated rodent lives in a colony that uses a caste system with one breeding female a mole-rat |
| #8928, aired 2023-09-13 | MAMMALS $1000: According to Britannica, though called "naked", these rodents actually "have about 100 fine hairs on their skin" a (naked) mole rat |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | ANIMAL CHANGE A LETTER $600: Change the first letter of a burrowing insectivore & you get a mouselike rodent mole & vole |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | ANIMALS $1600: The name "star-nosed" this mammal sounds lovely; describing that nose as 22 fleshy pink tentacles in a star-like pattern... less a mole |
| #8813, aired 2023-02-22 | SCIENCE CRITTERS $200: It's the animal in the name of the unit equivalent to 33,000 foot-pounds of work per minute a horse |
| #8806, aired 2023-02-13 | ALSO A MEASUREMENT $2000: Chemistry:
An insectivorous mammal mole |
| #8772, aired 2022-12-27 | ESPIONAGE GLOSSARY $1,800 (Daily Double): John le Carré popularized this word; in a 1974 novel, he defined it as "an agent so called because he burrows deep" a mole |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | MAGIC $800: It's the term for a witch's aide; it might take the form of a cat or a toad & was said to feed from a witch's mole or wart a familiar |
| #8702, aired 2022-09-20 | HETERONYMS $1000: A burrowing insectivore
&
a Mexican cooking sauce a mole [mōl] & mole [MOH-lay] |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | GAME PLAN $1000: Using a small mallet, tap out the blocks one by one until someone topples the standing animal Don't Break the Ice |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | CALLING FOR A MEASUREMENT $1200: It's a unit of measure for small things like atoms; it's also a small mammal a mole |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL $400: While a mole is an insectivore, a vole belongs to this order Rodentia |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | SCIENCE FACT $1600: Chemistry news: this unit is no longer related to the No. of atoms in 12 grams of carbon-12, but directly to Avogadro's constant a mole |
| #8437, aired 2021-07-06 | AMERICANA $600: Santa Monica's Pacific Park has a taco stand punningly named "Whac-a-" this 2-syllable Mexican sauce mole |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | CREATURE FROM $1600: Named for a southern African region, the Damaraland one of these is furrier than its naked cousin a mole-rat |
| #8399, aired 2021-05-13 | THE TUNNEL $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1920, work began on a NYC-NJ tunnel named for him; it was said he could make you think of a tunnel as a mole thinks of a burrow Clifford Holland |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | BRITS IN BOATS $2000: A boating area on the the Thames gave Kenneth Grahame childhood memories he used in this book about Rat & Mole The Wind in the Willows |
| #8357, aired 2021-03-16 | SMALL MAMMALS $200: Named for another creature, this bitter, complaining type of mole is the world's smallest, at less than 1/2 an ounce the shrew mole |
| #8196, aired 2020-04-06 | MAMMALS $1000: A desman is a type of this insectivore, but it hunts in water rather than by burrowing a mole |
| #8111, aired 2019-12-09 | ODD-ISH $1000: The National Zoo in Washington has a lion cam, a naked mole-rat cam & of course this, showing Tian Tian & Mei Xiang a panda cam |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | THE BOOK OF LAKE (& POND & RIVER) $2000: "I've never been in a boat before", says Mole to the Rat as the 2 head down a river in this Kenneth Grahame novel The Wind in the Willows |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | 1- & 2-SYLLABLE HETERONYMS $800: 1 syllable: a beauty mark; 2 syllables: spicy Mexican sauce mole and mole |
| #7849, aired 2018-10-25 | DOC TREBEK'S DIAGNOSIS $600: Don't worry, it's just an ephelis, one of these--a buildup of melanin common in fair-skinned folks a freckle |
| #7828, aired 2018-09-26 | NAME THE NOVEL $800: "'He must be a very nice animal,' observed the Mole, as he got into the boat and took the sculls" The Wind in the Willows |
| #7820, aired 2018-09-14 | DOUBLE ANIMAL NAMES $1600: The mole rat belongs to this order of gnawing mammals a rodent |
| #7736, aired 2018-04-09 | TRY THIS ON FOR SCIENCE $1600: There are 602 sextillion, 200 quintillion atoms in one of these standard international base units a mole |
| #7677, aired 2018-01-16 | DOC TALK $400: A nevus is one of these you've probably had on your skin your whole life a mole (or a birthmark) |
| #7665, aired 2017-12-29 | HERE'S THE NAKED TRUTH $1200: This almost hairless rodent is also called the naked blesmol a naked mole rat |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | CHEMISTRY $800: In biology, an insectivore; in chemistry, a measuring unit of very small things a mole |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | ADD A LETTER $1,000 (Daily Double): Add a letter to a Spanish cheer & you'll be cheering for a spicy, chocolatey Mexican sauce olé and mole |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | SPY vs. SPY $800: In the 1940s & '50s top British agent Harold Philby, nicknamed this after a Kipling title boy, was really a KGB mole Kim |
| #6883, aired 2014-07-16 | A CHEMISTRY SET $3,000 (Daily Double): In zoology, it's an insectivore; in chemistry it's a unit related to atomic weights a mole |
| #6871, aired 2014-06-30 | WILDLIFE $800: Badger & Toad could hang with the star-nosed this seen here a mole |
| #6635, aired 2013-06-21 | THAT ANIMAL IS SOMETHING ELSE $400: A small spot on the skin, or a spy a mole |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | BAD JOB INTERVIEW RESPONSES $1000: "What do you bring to the company?" My pet, a naked this... I have him with me today a mole rat |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | INSECT EATERS $2000: The star-nosed species of this takes about 1/4 of a second to determine if prey is edible & eat it! Now that's fast food! a mole |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | LANDMARKS $1,400 (Daily Double): This national memorial includes a 16-inch mole & a mustache that is 20 feet wide Mount Rushmore |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | LITTLE-USED WORDS $800: A congenital mark on the skin may be called a nevus as well as this animal term a mole |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | THE RAT PACK $1600: With eyes hidden beneath its fur, the burrowing Zokor of Asia is known as this rat, after another "blind" animal a mole |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | LET'S HIT IT $600: Aaron Fechter invented this carnival game where you hit a mammal with a mallet Whack-A-Mole |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | SPY VS. SPY $800: Portrayed on film in 2007's "Breach", Robert Hanssen was a mole within this organization the FBI |
| #5854, aired 2010-02-11 | WE'VE GOT CHEMISTRY $2000: The fundamental unit of substance used in chemistry, it's 6.02 x 1023 atoms, not a garden pest mole |
| #5701, aired 2009-05-25 | THE HUMAN ANIMAL $800: On behalf of Western intelligence, Col. Oleg Penkovsky was one of these inside the USSR a mole |
| #5673, aired 2009-04-15 | "M"ENAGERIE $400: The tiny eyes of this insectivore are hidden in its fur a mole |
| #5491, aired 2008-06-23 | RATS $1000: Exposed underground variety of rat seen here a naked mole rat |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | A MOLE $200: Famous for her mole, this supermodel was once married to Richard Gere Cindy Crawford |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | A MOLE $400: The cult movie "El Topo", or "The Mole", got distribution based on this "Imagine" Beatle's recommendation John Lennon |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | A MOLE $600: The mole variety of this insect has forelegs adapated for shoveling: the males can chirp a mean tune, too a cricket |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | A MOLE $800: In "Austin Powers in Goldmember", the mole was played by this former child star of "The Wonder Years" Fred Savage |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | A MOLE $1000: Instead of counting atoms, chemists simplify with the unit called a mole or this scientist's number (Amedeo) Avogadro |
| #5280, aired 2007-07-20 | SCIENCE $2,021 (Daily Double): We went underground to learn that this unit is equal to about 6.022 x 1023 molecules of a given substance a mole |
| #5226, aired 2007-05-07 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: The stories that Kenneth Grahame told his son about a mole & a toad became this 1908 classic The Wind in the Willows |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | I JUST LIKE SAYING THESE WORDS $800: Alfred E. Neuman could tell you that a fernticle is another name for one of these on the surface of the skin a freckle |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | "SH"!! $800: Mole relative that might need taming a shrew |
| #4888, aired 2005-12-07 | DO YOU MEASURE UP? $400: An amount of a substance equal to its molecular weight, it's also Cindy Crawford's distinctive characteristic a mole |
| #4825, aired 2005-07-22 | LITERARY BUNNIES $400: In Chapter 1 of this book, Mole says, "Onion-sauce! Onion-sauce!" to a group of rabbits who have no satisfactory reply The Wind in the Willows |
| #4752, aired 2005-04-12 | ANIMALS $800: A type of cricket that mainly lives underground is named for this tiny-eyed mammal a mole |
| #4716, aired 2005-02-21 | MAMMALS $1200: In 1991 Princeton University Press published a 518-page text on this "naked" underground mammal the naked mole rat |
| #4707, aired 2005-02-08 | NATURE $400: This animal seen here spends most of its time underground digging for earthworms a mole |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | THE INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM $1200: (Sofia of the Clue Crew narrates from the Int'l Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.) Here is the actual mailbox used by this C.I.A. mole with an alliterative name to signal his Russian handlers Aldrich Ames |
| #4576, aired 2004-06-28 | WHAT AM I HAVING? $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Mexico.) Voy a comer pollo con mole--I'm having this in a classic Mexican sauce chicken |
| #4552, aired 2004-05-25 | SHORT STORIES $400: He wrote a story about a giant mole as well as one about a man changed into a giant insect Kafka |
| #4431, aired 2003-12-08 | BODY OF EVIDENCE $400: Also a type of small mammal, it's a raised area of brown pigment in the skin a mole |
| #4427, aired 2003-12-02 | FAMOUS VALEDICTORIANS $400: A mole told us she was a model Valedictorian for Dekalb High in 1984 Cindy Crawford |
| #4421, aired 2003-11-24 | YOU'RE A BEAST! $1000: The hairy-nosed variety of this burrowing marsupial of south Australia can reach 4 feet in length wombat |
| #4345, aired 2003-06-20 | WONDER YEARS ALUMNI $400: In "Austin Powers in Goldmember", he was Number 3 & I seem to remember he sported a mole Fred Savage |
| #4322, aired 2003-05-20 | THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH $800: This cricket that bears the name of a burrowing mammal can be a serious agricultural pest mole cricket |
| #4177, aired 2002-10-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: Novel in which Rhett Butler tells Toad, Rat & Mole, "My dear, I don't give a damn" Gone With the Wind in the Willows |
| #4023, aired 2002-02-13 | RHYMES WITH GOAL $1600: Insect lover seen here a mole |
| #3928, aired 2001-10-03 | SAUCEY! $300: This chicken topper whose name is from the Aztec for "chili sauce" has a bit of chocolate in it mole |
| #3895, aired 2001-07-06 | BEASTLY RHYME TIME $400: A dramatic part for a burrowing mammal mole role |
| #3829, aired 2001-04-05 | ALL GOD'S CREATURES $400: This "pocket" rodent's name is from French for "honeycomb", alluding to its underground labyrinths gopher |
| #3723, aired 2000-11-08 | CIVIL ENGINEERING $400: Name shared by a tunnel-digging machine & a mammal with poor eyesight Mole |
| #3628, aired 2000-05-17 | ANIMALS $400: Similar to a wattle, it's the throat flap of Zebu cattle or the mole anole lizard Dewlap |
| #3610, aired 2000-04-21 | ZOOLOGY $100: When the European mole wants lunch, it goes after this annelid that comes out after the rain an earthworm |
| #3475, aired 1999-10-15 | SKIN STUFF $100: The average adult has 25 of these; a change in one's color may signify a malignant melanoma Mole |
| #3414, aired 1999-06-10 | BITS OF YOU $500: Cindy Crawford's mole, or anybody's is a collection of cells with a high concentration of this pigment Melanin |
| #3217, aired 1998-09-08 | INTELLIGENCE $200: John Le Carre popularized the name of this burrowing mammal to mean a spy in enemy ranks Mole |
| #2928, aired 1997-04-30 | COLORS $800: The Latin word talpa, meaning "mole", gave us this word for a shade of brownish gray taupe |
| #2890, aired 1997-03-07 | FOOD $400: From a Nahuatl word meaning "chili sauce", it contains chocolate & is often served over chicken Mole |
| #2688, aired 1996-04-17 | NATURE $400: Change one letter in mole & you'll have the name of this mouselike rodent that's about the same size a vole |
| #2057, aired 1993-07-13 | RODENTS $300: It's name comes from the French for "honeycomb" & it honeycombs the ground with its burrows a gopher |
| #2016, aired 1993-05-17 | SUPERSTITIONS $500: One superstition says a mole on the back of the neck is a sign that the person will die in this manner by hanging |
| #1789, aired 1992-05-14 | LEFTOVERS $200: The ock, mole & windrush are just a few of this English river's many tributaries the Thames |
| #1667, aired 1991-11-26 | THE HUMAN BODY $500: A mole is a group of cells containing an unusually high concentration of this pigment melanin |
| #1607, aired 1991-09-03 | COLORS $200: A small burrowing mammal with rudimentary eyes, or a dark shade of gray mole |
| #1480, aired 1991-01-25 | MEDICAL SPECIALTIES $800: Type of doctor who's an expert in treating acne or removing a mole Dermatologist |
| #1152, aired 1989-09-12 | ZOOLOGY $100: The naked mole-rat found in northern Kenya is a burrowing rodent that lacks this sense sight |
| #866, aired 1988-05-16 | SPIES & SPYING $200: Some credit Francis Bacon with coining this term for an agent who burrows into a rival spy agency mole |
| #790, aired 1988-01-29 | COLORS $500: This French word for a shade of brownish gray literally means "mole" taupe |
| #724, aired 1987-10-29 | BIOLOGY $400: Male mole crickets shape the entrances of these to amplify their songs, which can be heard a mile away burrows |
| #284, aired 1985-10-10 | SCIENCE $800: Avogadro's number is the total of these atom groups in a mole of any substance molecules |
