| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | HORROR MUSIC $800: "What ever happened to my Transylvania twist?" is a lyric from this novelty horror song the "Monster Mash" |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | BIOLOGY "A", "B", "C"s $6,400 (Daily Double): "C":
In myth, it's a fire-breathing hybrid monster, in genetics, it's an organism with 2 distinct sets of DNA chimera |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | HEAVY $200: Fully loaded, this ship launched in 1911 weighed, or displaced, more than 52,000 tons--no match for a monster iceberg the Titanic |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $800: A monster hit from 1818: "He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance" Frankenstein |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T $1600: Jane Fonda had no bolts in her neck as the title family relation in this 2005 flick, but J. Lo wanted to scream anyway Monster-in-Law |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | JOHN GREEN $400: (John Green presents the clue.) Two books that I often recommend & that inspired me to write for teens are "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson & one by Walter Dean Myers; Steve is on trial for murder, but is he really this, the title of the book? a monster |
| #9002, aired 2023-12-26 | BEST ACTRESS OSCAR WINNERS $1000: In 2002, Halle Berry made history taking the Best Actress award for her role as a grieving mother in this film Monster's Ball |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | FOLKLORE & LEGEND $400: Also called Bigfoot, it's the Salish word for a huge, hairy man-monster said to inhabit Pacific Northwest woods Sasquatch |
| #8987, aired 2023-12-05 | A PARANORMAL CATEGORY $600: In the 1930s the Daily Mail printed Robert Wilson's now-famous photo that purported to show its head & neck the Loch Ness Monster |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | MONSTER MANUAL $400: A wyvern is a smaller, 2-legged, 2-winged, usually non-fire-breathing type of this a dragon |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | MONSTER MANUAL $800: Monsterologists are in debate on how this ugly demon differs from the version with "hob" in front a goblin |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | MONSTER MANUAL $1600: It had a woman's head & a bird's body & met up with the Argonauts; c'mon, get... harpies |
| #8962, aired 2023-10-31 | MONSTER MANUAL $4,000 (Daily Double): In "The Once and Future King" this beast is described as "falco leonis serpentis" a griffin |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | SLANG $600: It's not just for brides! A man getting married can turn into this portmanteau monster a groomzilla |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | POP EYE $800: A Dungeons & Dragons computer RPG from 1991 is called "Eye of the" this, also the name of a monster watching you there Eye of the Beholder |
| #8899, aired 2023-06-22 | VAMPIRE-POURRI $2000: Benjamin Walker stepped into the presidential shoes for this 2012 metafiction monster mash-up of a movie Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | MYTHOLOGY $1600: She was chained to a rock, left to be devoured by a sea monster; Perseus swooped in & saved her Andromeda |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | HORRORS! $600: This novelty song from 1962 contains the lyric "It was a graveyard smash" "The Monster Mash" |
| #8815, aired 2023-02-24 | GET READY FOR THE "G-R-E"s $1000: John Gardner wrote a novel from the point of view of this monster from an Old English epic Grendel |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | THE LETTER AFTER C $400: ...in a goat-bodied, flame-spewing monster of Greek myth H |
| #13, aired 2023-02-02 | LAKES & RIVERS $600: Reports of a "monster" inhabiting this Scottish lake go back to at least the 6th century; so far, it has eluded sonar detection Loch Ness |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | MYTHOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): Typhon, a monster with 100 heads, was the father of these 2 monsters:
a 9-headed water snake & 3-headed hellhound the Hydra & Cerberus |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | TV MONSTERS $1200: In a Christmas special narrated by Burl Ives, this title animal meets an abominable snow monster Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Steve Martin is alarmed that his daughter has gotten very big hair & is betrothed to Boris Karloff as a monster Father of the Bride of Frankenstein |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | REPTILES $1000: Venomous lizards of North America include the Mexican beaded & this one seen here a Gila monster |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THEATRICAL HAPPENINGS $800: Puppets like Princeton & Trekkie Monster pull the strings in this Tony-winning play named for a street Avenue Q |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | BOOK 'EM $200: In 1897 this Bram Stoker horror novel was vastly outsold by another in the genre, "The Beetle", about a shape-shifting monster Dracula |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | SAYS ANN(E) $200: A lot of Fay Wray's lines as Ann Darrow in this 1933 monster movie are bloodcurdling screams King Kong |
| #8595, aired 2022-03-11 | BRIT LIT $800: 50 years after slaying a monster & its mother, the hero of this Old English poem must battle a dragon Beowulf |
| #8585, aired 2022-02-25 | LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT $1000: Stephano tells him, "O brave monster! Lead the way" Caliban |
| #8524, aired 2021-12-02 | FICTION $800: This novel about a canine says, "A monster came to the small town of Castle Rock" Cujo |
| #8520, aired 2021-11-26 | THE MOVIES $1600: Knock knock! Oh hi, it's this creepy title monster who inhabits Amelia in a 2014 Australian film The Babadook |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | RE-CHARTED $800: Of course this novelty hit by Bobby "Boris" Pickett was a hit for Halloween 1962, but why did it chart again in the summer of 1973? "Monster Mash" |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | WEBCAMS $200: Via a webcam in the north of Scotland, keep an eye out for this legendary creature in its watery abode the Loch Ness Monster |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | ADD AN S TO THE FRONT $800: A monster under a bridge changes into a leisurely walk troll & stroll |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | MYTHOLOGY $400: A bull & Pasiphae were the parents of this mythical monster of Crete the Minotaur |
| #8400, aired 2021-05-14 | CREATURE FROM $2000: Not all that hideous, this lizard is named for an Arizona river basin a Gila monster |
| #8387, aired 2021-04-27 | CHILDREN OF ZEUS $800: Legends say Perseus, mortal son of Zeus, saved Andromeda from a sea monster, killing it this way, with the help of a severed head turning it to stone with Medusa's head |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | MOON $8,000 (Daily Double): Discovered in 2013 & named for a sea monster, Hippocamp is a tiny moon of this planet Neptune |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | ABOUT THAT SONG $400: This Halloween novelty song was written to capitalize on a dance craze & at one point had "Potato" in its title the "Monster Mash" |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | "USA"! "USA"! $800: The free-swimming stage in a jellyfish's life, it sounds like a mythological monster medusa |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | LITERARY VIDEO GAMES $800: With flowing white hair, Geralt of Rivia is a monster slayer in this video game series based on the stories of Andrzej Sapkowski The Witcher |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | POETIC CHARACTERS $2,000 (Daily Double): In an epic poem this king of the Geats drinks mead & fights a monster Beowulf |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | A TOTAL SMOKE SHOW $1200: The smoke monster on this 2000s ABC drama was really the Man in Black Lost |
| #8265, aired 2020-10-23 | HYBRIDS $400: This hybrid monster is a riddle itself: a human head on a lion's body the Sphinx |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | FANGS A LOT! $1600: This fanged monster whose name is Spanish for "goat-sucker" was first "sighted" in 1995 (though after a scary movie) a chupacabra |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES $600: You can start a cover band & perform songs of this artist like "Party Monster" & "Call Out My Name" The Weeknd |
| #8200, aired 2020-04-10 | CATS $600: Hairless cat breeds include the Peterbald & this one whose name sounds like the mythic monster that posed a riddle a Sphynx |
| #8186, aired 2020-03-23 | ANAGRAMMED REPTILES $1000: A venomous southwesterner: INTRO GLEAMS (2 words) the Gila monster |
| #8137, aired 2020-01-14 | MYTHOLOGY $600: Opposite the cave of the sea monster Scylla, you'd find this monstrous personification of a whirlpool Charybdis |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | HORROR MOVIES $400: This 1931 film had the tagline "A monster science created but could not destroy!" Frankenstein |
| #8038, aired 2019-07-17 | HOW ARE YOU GETTING AROUND? $1000: On a Ducati Monster 821 a motorcycle |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | A BIT OF LIT $800: In an epic poem, he not only kills the monster Grendel, but also Grendel's mother Beowulf |
| #8001, aired 2019-05-27 | ACTRESSES $800: This South African-born beauty won an Oscar for playing a "Monster", serial killer Aileen Wuornos Charlize Theron |
| #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 |
| #7925, aired 2019-02-08 | AVENGERS DISASSEMBLE! $400: 2014 saw Elizabeth Olsen in a film with this title monster & occasional Tokyo destroyer Godzilla |
| #7903, aired 2019-01-09 | FOREIGN FILM AWARDS $800: In 2016 this monster finally got his due when a film featuring him won the Japanese Academy Award Godzilla |
| #7885, aired 2018-12-14 | MYTHICAL TAXONOMY $200: Nessiteras rhombopteryx has been suggested as a scientific name for this Scottish creature the Loch Ness monster |
| #7874, aired 2018-11-29 | GLOBAL MONSTERS $600: Indonesia's pontianak monster, a ghost of a woman who died in this condition, will try to eat your guts pregnancy |
| #7853, aired 2018-10-31 | HALLOWEEN WITH GENE SIMMONS $1600: (Gene Simmons presents the clue.) What would Halloween be without this novelty song from Bobby "Boris" Pickett; "it was a graveyard smash" "Monster Mash" |
| #7848, aired 2018-10-24 | STATE FOSSILS $2000: The Field Museum contains this state's fossil, the Tully Monster; the illustration shows what it looked like Illinois |
| #7846, aired 2018-10-22 | VENOM $500 (Daily Double): Heloderma suspectum is this "horrific" venomous reptile of the U.S. Southwest a Gila monster |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | THIS IS "EZ" $800: From the name of a movie monster, it's a woman who is obsessive about wedding planning a bridezilla |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | OUT IN LEFT FIELD $600: A 37-foot wall with this nickname looms over left field in Fenway Park the Green Monster |
| #7795, aired 2018-06-29 | ON THE PLAYGROUND $800: In "Young Frankenstein", the monster inadvertently turns this into a catapult, sending the girl flying a seesaw |
| #7789, aired 2018-06-21 | FOUR LEGS GOOD $2000: This venomous lizard named for a body of water can be found in Saguaro National Park a gila monster |
| #7781, aired 2018-06-11 | SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY BOOKS $800: "Hunting Monsters" takes a scientific look at the myths behind creatures like Bigfoot, dragons & this "plesiosaur" the Loch Ness Monster |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | 21st CENTURY OPERAS $1000: In a 2008 opera based on myth, Theseus is a baritone & this title monster of the maze is a bass the Minotaur |
| #7737, aired 2018-04-10 | WORD HISTORY $400: This word for a bad dream once also meant a monster that makes you feel suffocated while you sleep a nightmare |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | RHYMING PHRASES $800: A full-length monster movie a creature feature |
| #7654, aired 2017-12-14 | EXILED! $5,000 (Daily Double): While in exile in Paris, Thomas Hobbes completed this work named for a Biblical sea monster Leviathan |
| #7647, aired 2017-12-05 | "G" STRING $2000: There are about 20 different varieties of this large, Australian monitor goanna |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | MONSTER MASH $400: Luis Suarez, who bit a player in the 2014 World Cup, inspired one of these undead in a kids' book a vampire |
| #7635, aired 2017-11-17 | MONSTER MASH $800: Ralph Waldo Emerson called "a foolish consistency" this monster "of little minds" a hobgoblin |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | POETS & POETRY $600: This poem about a prince & a monster is preserved in a single manuscript from about 1000 A.D. Beowulf |
| #7612, aired 2017-10-17 | THE MIDWEST $600: Bigfoot, the original 4x4 one of these, lives in Pacific, Missouri a monster truck |
| #7604, aired 2017-10-05 | SPORTS STUFF $2,000 (Daily Double): The PGA says that this sports term dates to a 19th c. song about a monster who cackled, "Catch me if you can" a bogey |
| #7575, aired 2017-07-14 | KID LIT $600: At the beginning of "The Lightning Thief", this kid thinks his pre-algebra teacher turns into a monster Percy Jackson |
| #7565, aired 2017-06-30 | "IT'S" A MOVIE $800: 1974:
A newborn monster isn't dead It's Alive |
| #7529, aired 2017-05-11 | THIS IS "US" $1000: After rescuing Andromeda from a sea monster, he marries her Perseus |
| #7472, aired 2017-02-21 | THE ELDER SCROLLS $2,000 (Daily Double): The feasting hall is happy for a while after this title Geat rips the arm off a monster; then the monster's mom shows up Beowulf |
| #7468, aired 2017-02-15 | SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS $400: In a collaboration with Eminem, she sings of a monster that's under her bed & voices inside her head Rihanna |
| #7451, aired 2017-01-23 | NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD $800: This giant monitor lizard is a must-see on a visit to the Indonesian park located on 3 of the Lesser Sunda Islands the Komodo dragon |
| #7398, aired 2016-11-09 | WE'RE GOING TO THE MOVIES $1200: The ticket guy knows me, so I'm front row center for this 2016 monster movie sequel with an address for a title 10 Cloverfield Lane |
| #7386, aired 2016-10-24 | THE GIG ECONOMY $1000: Here's the "deal"--NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN Z, one of these, has 12 gigs of memory & is billed as a "gaming monster" a graphics card |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | ON THE COVER OF ROLLING STONE $1000: She was on the cover as a "Manic Diva" & inside she discussed her verse on Kanye's "Monster" Nicki Minaj |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | ZODIAC GLYPHS $800: This sign's representation has to do with the time Aphrodite & Eros jumped into a river to escape a monster Pisces |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | MYTHOLOGY $1600: This Greek monster of myth had the head of a lion, body of a goat & tail of a serpent & terrorized the kingdom of Lycia a Chimera |
| #7330, aired 2016-06-24 | LATER IN THE SHAKESPEARE SPEECH $1000: Jealousy is a b--no, no, a monster, got it-- "That cuckold lives in bliss who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger" Othello |
| #7294, aired 2016-05-05 | THE COMMON "CORE" $2000: Robertson Davies wrote about this mythical monster with the head of a man & body of a lion the manticore |
| #7257, aired 2016-03-15 | POETRY $800: In a Tennyson poem, this legendary monster sleeps "far, far beneath in the abysmal sea" the Kraken |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | PLANTS $1200: A parasitic plant called the monster flower is also known as this flower, for its horrible stink the corpse flower |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | BEOWULF $2000: This evil monster who's terrorized King Hrothgar's land for 12 years is a demon descended from Cain Grendel |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | MONSTER MANUAL $400: A wyvern is a smaller 2-legged, 2-winged, usually non-fire-breathing type of this a dragon |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | MONSTER MANUAL $800: Monsterologists are in debate how this ugly demon differs from the version with "hob" in front a goblin |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | MONSTER MANUAL $1600: It had a woman's head & a bird's body & met up with the Argonauts; c'mon get... a harpy |
| #7019, aired 2015-03-05 | MONSTER MANUAL $3,000 (Daily Double): In "The Once and Future King" this beast is described as "Falco Leonis Serpentis" the griffin |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | SPELL IT OUT FOR ME $600: This title monster who squares off with the MUTOs in a 2014 film G-O-D-Z-I-L-L-A |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | BRING IT $800: on a hike:
An Odwalla "Monster" drink with 20 grams of this muscle-building amino acid-based stuff protein |
| #6938, aired 2014-11-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: A woman who gets married in the sixth month to a 1935 movie monster a June bride of Frankenstein |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | "A" MONSTER $200: In "Tintin in Tibet" the hero's search for his friend Chang is made harder by the presence of this beast the abominable snowman |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | "A" MONSTER $400: In Homeric poems Hermes is called the slayer of this giant with 100 eyes Argus |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | "A" MONSTER $600: The '80s show "Little Muppet Monsters" featured this feral drummer for Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem Animal |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | "A" MONSTER $800: The title character in Anne Rice's "Queen of the Damned", she's a really old vampire Akasha |
| #6936, aired 2014-11-10 | "A" MONSTER $1000: Pete Seeger's picture book about this giant was inspired by a South African folktale Abiyoyo |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | ANCIENT COINS $800: A coin from around 500 B.C. features this mythological monster on one side, the Labyrinth on the other the Minotaur |
| #6898, aired 2014-09-17 | CRITTERS $1200: The reptile family Helodermatidae has 2 members: the beaded lizard & this "monster" a Gila monster |
| #6896, aired 2014-09-15 | NO. 1 SONGS $400: In 2013 & 2014 this rapper had a monster hit with "The Monster", featuring Rihanna Eminem |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | ATTACK OF THE MOVIE MONSTERS $400: You can see this monster from Egypt's past in a film from back in 1932 or at Universal Studios the Mummy |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | HISTORIC TV $200: This '70s miniseries scored a monster 71% of viewers for its finale & boosted interest in genealogy Roots |
| #6853, aired 2014-06-04 | I'M A CHANGED MAN! $400: In this Villeneuve tale, a monster/prince tells his female guest, "do not trust too much to your eyes" Beauty and the Beast |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | COHEN-CIDENTALLY $600: Producer Herman Cohen filled '50s drive-ins with movies like "I Was a Teenage" this monster a werewolf |
| #6798, aired 2014-03-19 | LEGEND $400: G.K. Chesterton said, "Many a man has been hanged on less evidence than there is for" this Scottish legend the Loch Ness monster |
| #6779, aired 2014-02-20 | COLD-BLOODED KILLERS $400: This big constricting reptile gets its name from a mythical monster python |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | CURRENT EVENTS $400: A carcass that washed ashore in New Zealand in 2013 resembling some prehistoric sea monster was this, aka a killer whale an orca |
| #6661, aired 2013-07-29 | MONSTER LIT $400: "Tyrannosaurus Reg" is spooked by big, scary these, which is weird, because he's one himself a dinosaur |
| #6661, aired 2013-07-29 | MONSTER LIT $800: It's not "Goodnight Moon" but "Goodnight" this monster that rhymes with moon in a Michael Rex parody Goon |
| #6661, aired 2013-07-29 | MONSTER LIT $1600: In this book, young Max dresses up in a wolf suit, is punished & goes to his room, where he visits a world full of monsters Where the Wild Things Are |
| #6615, aired 2013-05-24 | "O" 75 $1200: A type of fairy tale monster for whom eating 75 children is just an appetizer ogre |
| #6600, aired 2013-05-03 | COLORFUL SONGS $2000: On "Sesame Street" Elvis Costello redid this song as "A Monster Went & Ate My Red 2" "The Angels Want To Wear My Red Shoes" |
| #6593, aired 2013-04-24 | EUROPEAN LAKES $400: This resident of a lake in the Scottish Highlands is purportedly seen here the Loch Ness monster |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | LESSER-KNOWN FAITHS $400: The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster practices this religion, one letter off from the name of a Jamaican sect pastafarian |
| #6532, aired 2013-01-29 | NATURE $800: Growing up to two feet long, this desert dweller is the largest lizard native to the United States a gila monster |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | A "HA"! $1200: A shrewish woman is sometimes called this, after a mythical monster that was part woman & part vulture a harpy |
| #6447, aired 2012-10-02 | BE A LIZARD WIZARD $800: Having special glands in their lower jaws, the Gila monster & the Mexican beaded lizard are both this, so beware poisonous |
| #6441, aired 2012-09-24 | IT'S A MYTH $400: The sea monster Charybdis was the daughter of Gaea & this Greek sea god Poseidon |
| #6423, aired 2012-07-18 | "C" MONSTERS $1600: This "tempestuous" Shakespearean monster is described as "a savage and deformed slave" Caliban |
| #6419, aired 2012-07-12 | I'M JUST SWAMPED! $800: Honey Island Swamp in this state's St. Tammany Parish is said to be home to a 7-foot-tall swamp monster Louisiana |
| #6362, aired 2012-04-24 | LONGFELLOW $1200: Hiawatha caught a monster sturgeon named Mishe-Nahma while canoeing on a lake that Longfellow called this Gitche Gumee |
| #6353, aired 2012-04-11 | TALE SHIPS $800: In a Jules Verne novel, the Abraham Lincoln hunts down a sea monster but discovers it's really this boat the Nautilus |
| #6333, aired 2012-03-14 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $1200: Charlize Theron wowed the critics by playing against type as a serial killer in this 2003 film directed by Patty Jenkins Monster |
| #6328, aired 2012-03-07 | MOVIE TAGLINES $1,800 (Daily Double): 1935: "The monster demands a mate!" The Bride of Frankenstein |
| #6278, aired 2011-12-28 | MONSTERS OF ROCK $200: In a 1977 hit, Blue Oyster Cult sang, "Oh, no! There goes Tokyo! Go, go" this monster Godzilla |
| #6277, aired 2011-12-27 | TIPS ON NETWORKING $1000: Wonder if the "Hoarders" & "Monster In-Laws" are for real A&E |
| #6263, aired 2011-12-07 | DON'T GO IN THE WATER $400: On New Guinea, the pacu, seen here, which is in the same family as this South American fish, may have given up vegetarianism to be a river monster a piranha |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | THE QUOTABLE CHURCHILL $400: It's whom Churchill called "a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder" Hitler |
| #6099, aired 2011-03-03 | WHAT A NICE PAIR! $800: "Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons" is a collection of comics with this boy & tiger combo Calvin & Hobbes |
| #6097, aired 2011-03-01 | TALKIN' TOLKIEN $1000: Tolkien used this Old English word for "monster" as a synonym for "goblin" orc |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | YOU'RE SUCH AN ANIMAL! $600: North America's 2 venomous lizards are the Mexican beaded lizard & this scary denizen of the Southwest a Gila monster |
| #6014, aired 2010-11-04 | PROSE $1200: "I beheld the wretch--the miserable monster whom I had created" is a line in this classic Frankenstein |
| #6007, aired 2010-10-26 | THE UNICORN $200: In "Through the Looking-Glass", she meets a unicorn who is stunned to discover she's not a monster Alice |
| #5992, aired 2010-10-05 | HERE COME THE MONSTERS! $400: In a 1998 movie the spawn of this reimagined monster hatched in Madison Square Garden Godzilla |
| #5959, aired 2010-07-08 | ANIMAL RECORDS $1000: Growing more than 10 feet long & weighing more than 350 pounds, this Asiatic monster is the world's largest lizard a komodo dragon |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | THE BIG UNIT $800: Monster car audio components from MTX are named for this concrete-breaking (& eardrum-hurting) device a jackhammer |
| #5898, aired 2010-04-14 | ONLY ONE VOWEL $800: A monster, or a way to fish by dragging a line behind a boat troll |
| #5855, aired 2010-02-12 | MYTHOLOGY $1200: After slaying this monster, Theseus traced his way out of the labyrinth by following a thread the Minotaur |
| #5792, aired 2009-11-17 | 40 YEARS OF SESAME STREET $400: (Alex appears with a red Muppet in a clip from show #4972.) This character was called Little Monster when he debuted in 1979; muppeteer Kevin Clash gave him his trademark giggle Elmo |
| #5755, aired 2009-09-25 | MYTHOLOGICAL SIBLINGS $400: Euryale & Stheno were immortal; Medusa was the only mortal one of these monster sisters the Gorgons |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | SUPERHERO CINEMA $600: Talk about poor coping skills! In this 2008 action film Edward Norton turns into a monster when he's stressed The Incredible Hulk |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | HYBRIDS $1200: This monster with a woman's body, like Medusa, has claws & serpents for hair, making a day at the salon a real trial a Gorgon |
| #5590, aired 2008-12-19 | REPTILES $200: Careful--don't get bit by this venomous guy of the American Southwest a Gila monster |
| #5586, aired 2008-12-15 | MOVING PICTURES $1000: A J.J. Abrams monster flick Cloverfield |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | RECENT MOVIES $400: A mad scientist's hunchbacked assistant longs to create his own monster in this 2008 animated comedy Igor |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | IT WASN'T RATED R $200: In 2008 Brendan Fraser took a third stab at this title monster in "Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" the Mummy |
| #5555, aired 2008-10-31 | QUESTS $1000: Beowulf sailed to Denmark on a quest to kill this monster Grendel |
| #5543, aired 2008-10-15 | AT THE MOVIES $800: The "Legend of the Deep" in this 2007 film is a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish myth The Water Horse |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | U.S. RIVERS $400: This river of the American Southwest shares its name with a "monster" that inhabits the area the Gila |
| #5520, aired 2008-09-12 | THE SECOND FILM IN THE SERIES $600: The doctor methodically manufactures a mate for his monster in this 1935 follow-up Bride of Frankenstein |
| #5483, aired 2008-06-11 | ANIMALS $1200: This "monster" is the largest lizard native to the U.S. a Gila monster |
| #5460, aired 2008-05-09 | MOTHER'S DAY $1000: This 19th century woman was mom to Clara, William & Percy--&, metaphorically, to a monster Mary (Wollstonecraft) Shelley |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | MUSICALS $400: "It's alive!" This Mel Brooks film, a "monster" hit in 1974, has been galvanized into a musical Young Frankenstein |
| #5407, aired 2008-02-26 | 4 LEGS GOOD, 2 LEGS BAD $1600: Bully for Theseus who killed this bad, bad 2-legged monster that ate sacrifices in a Cretan maze the Minotaur |
| #5380, aired 2008-01-18 | SEEK $2,000 (Daily Double): In 2003 the BBC did an extensive sonar search for this creature, first reported in 565 A.D. the Loch Ness Monster |
| #5379, aired 2008-01-17 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $4,000 (Daily Double): In "Othello", Iago warns, "O! Beware, my lord, of jealousy", it is this creature a green-eyed monster |
| #5373, aired 2008-01-09 | A CHARLIE IN THE BOX $1600: The IMDb lists "Charlie" as a nickname for this Oscar-winning "Monster" actress Charlize Theron |
| #5362, aired 2007-12-25 | THE FEMININE MISTAKE $600: This lady of myth boasted of her beauty to Athena, who was a teensy bit jealous & gave her a monster makeover Medusa |
| #5345, aired 2007-11-30 | MYTHICAL MENAGERIE $2000: She was a beautiful nymph before she was turned into a sea monster, doomed to live in a cave opposite Charybdis Scylla |
| #5323, aired 2007-10-31 | MONSTER MASH $200: In Haiti & parts of West Africa, it's a corpse brought back to life a zombie |
| #5323, aired 2007-10-31 | MONSTER MASH $400: Also known as a lycanthrope, this beastly monster can be killed by a silver bullet or other silver weapon a werewolf |
| #5323, aired 2007-10-31 | MONSTER MASH $600: In Egypt, it had the body of a lion & head of a man; in Greece it had the head of a woman & wings the Sphinx |
| #5323, aired 2007-10-31 | MONSTER MASH $1000: This other word for a vampire may come from the Greek word "nosophoros", or plague-carrier Nosferatu |
| #5310, aired 2007-10-12 | MYTHOLOGY $1,200 (Daily Double): The subject of a huge statue, this monster on the road to Thebes ate people who could not answer its riddle the Sphinx |
| #5290, aired 2007-09-14 | ELECTRONICA $800: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.) Brando won the Oscar, the Dodgers won the World Series, Bill Haley & The Comets had a monster hit, and Sony introduced the first transistor radio, all in this year 1955 |
| #5188, aired 2007-03-14 | MYTHOLOGY $1000: As a constellation, this mythological princess is chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster Andromeda |
| #5183, aired 2007-03-07 | BREAKFAST CEREAL $1000: In 1987 Bela Lugosi appeared on boxes of this cereal, the first in General Mills' "Monster Cereals" Count Chocula |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | MONSTER MASH $200: In the sequel to this film, a sea monster known as a kraken is dispatched by Davy Jones Pirates of the Caribbean |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | MONSTER MASH $400: Due to concerns about obesity, a "Sesame Street" monster's song was changed to This "Is A Sometimes Food" Cookie |
| #5167, aired 2007-02-13 | MONSTER MASH $1000: Jack Black brings this monster back to 1933 New York City in a 2005 Peter Jackson film King Kong |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | ROLE-PLAYING GAMES $200: Created by Gary Gygax in 1974, this granddaddy of RPGs uses a 20-sided die & a monster manual Dungeons & Dragons |
| #5162, aired 2007-02-06 | '90s NEWS $2000: The leader of this S. Amer. country's Shining Path movement was captured, & Pres. Fujimori called him a "monster" Peru |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | TV ATTACK ADS $200: (This ad ran on Nickelodeon:)
An obese bird, a disheveled dumpster diver, a monster who thrives on trans-fat cookies. Is this really what you want your children to watch? Sesame Street |
| #5144, aired 2007-01-11 | "BLACK" & "WHITE" MOVIES $1600: This classic 1954 horror film about a humanoid amphibian monster practically saved Universal from bankruptcy Creature from the Black Lagoon |
| #5132, aired 2006-12-26 | JAMES BOND $800: A Bond girl in "Die Another Day", she won an Oscar for "Monster's Ball" (Halle) Berry |
| #5106, aired 2006-11-20 | MUSIC $1,000 (Daily Double): (Before the clue is given, Mary Faber and her friend Kate Monster perform "There's A Fine, Fine Line" from the Tony-award winning smash hit Avenue Q.)
"There's a fine, fine line between a lover and a friend /
There's a fine, fine line between reality and pretend /
And you never know 'til you reach the top if it was worth the uphill climb /
There's a fine, fine line between love /
And a waste of time"
In one scene in "Avenue Q", Kate Monster sings atop this skyscraper on 5th Ave. at 34th St. the Empire State Building |
| #5083, aired 2006-10-18 | WEBSITES $800: This online job search website has a section to meet its characters, including Swoop & 'Cruiter Monster (or monster.com) |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | HERALDIC BEASTS $1600: Wearing a gold collar & chain in the U.K.'s coat of arms, this mythical beast represents Scotland the unicorn |
| #4971, aired 2006-04-03 | DESERT LIFE $2000: The Gila monster is as tough as it sounds; each scale has an osteoderm, a tiny one of these for armoring bone |
| #4870, aired 2005-11-11 | WEBSITES $400: The creature seen here is a symbol of this employment website Monster.com |
| #4849, aired 2005-10-13 | KIDS' DICTIONARY $400: Shrek is this type of monster described in dictionaries as a "hideous giant" (how rude!) an ogre |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | MOVIE & TV MONSTERS $2000: A blast of radiation created this big-screen monster seen here the Incredible Hulk |
| #4799, aired 2005-06-16 | SOCIAL TYPES $200: A fictional mutant monster gave us this term for a woman who's unbearable while planning her wedding Bridezilla |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | A VISIT TO ANCIENT EGYPT $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from in front of the Sphinx.) Created as a royal image, the Sphinx was was associated by the Greeks with a monster who riddles this tragic king Oedipus |
| #4729, aired 2005-03-10 | ALSO A BAR DRINK $400: With so much brainpower on stage today, this "Living Dead" movie monster wouldn't know where to start a zombie |
| #4726, aired 2005-03-07 | A SNAKE IN THE CATEGORY $1000: This fire-breathing monster had the head of a lion, the body of a she-goat & the hindquarters of a snake the Chimera |
| #4714, aired 2005-02-17 | THE VILLAGE $800: This blue cheese is named for a village that's now a suburb of Milan, not a snake-haired monster Gorgonzola |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | YOU'RE A BIG SCREEN MONSTER! $200: 1931:
Boris Karloff as his monster Dr. Frankenstein |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | YOU'RE A BIG SCREEN MONSTER! $400: 1986:
Jeff Goldblum the Fly |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | YOU'RE A BIG SCREEN MONSTER! $600: 1933:
Claude Raines The Invisible Man |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | YOU'RE A BIG SCREEN MONSTER! $800: 1979:
Frank Langella Dracula |
| #4696, aired 2005-01-24 | YOU'RE A BIG SCREEN MONSTER! $1000: 1951:
James Arness the Thing from Another World |
| #4676, aired 2004-12-27 | TITLE CHARACTERS $400: A nameless monster is often erroneously called this, the last name of his creator Victor Frankenstein |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | HERE BE MONSTERS $800: In "Monsters, Inc." he provided the voice for Mike, a one-eyed green monster Billy Crystal |
| #4606, aired 2004-09-20 | IMAGINARY RACES $200: We're not sure what race this monster & his mom were, but they both sure gave Beowulf a run for his money Grendel |
| #4597, aired 2004-09-07 | "I" CATCHING $1200: Astrud Gilberto had a monster hit song about "The Girl From" this place Ipanema |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | MYTHOLOGICAL WOMEN $600: This 6-headed sea monster who ate sailors lived in a cave opposite the whirlpool Charybdis Scylla |
| #4569, aired 2004-06-17 | THE 76th ACADEMY AWARDS $600: She had a "Monster" night, taking home Best Actress Honors Charlize Theron |
| #4558, aired 2004-06-02 | QUOTABLE RECENT MOVIES $1000: 2002:
"There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?" Signs |
| #4519, aired 2004-04-08 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Elusive Scottish lake critter that doubles as a large 4-wheeled car-crushing pickup the Loch Ness Monster truck |
| #4497, aired 2004-03-09 | DRAGONS $1000: This Scandinavian prince rid the Danes of the monster Grendel; 50 years later he was killed by a dragon Beowulf |
| #4489, aired 2004-02-26 | CLASSIC SCI-FI & HORROR FILMS $2000: Intent on demolishing Tokyo, Gamera was a giant monster one of these reptiles that breathed fire & could fly turtle |
| #4483, aired 2004-02-18 | DINOSAURS $400: Some speculate that this "monster" of Scotland may be an aquatic dinosaur known as a Plesiosaur the Loch Ness monster |
| #4469, aired 2004-01-29 | COMPLETES THE FILM TITLE $800: 1958:
"I Married a Monster from..." Outer Space |
| #4455, aired 2004-01-09 | AH, SWEDE MYSTERY $800: There are reports of a prehistoric monster living in Storsjon, one of these bodies of water lake |
| #4449, aired 2004-01-01 | "J" PARDY $200: In a Robert Louis Stevenson novel, a drug turns this man into a monster Dr. Jekyll |
| #4433, aired 2003-12-10 | CHURCHILL SPEAKS! $200: In 1941 Churchill called him "a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood" Hitler |
| #4390, aired 2003-10-10 | HEY, VERNE! $800: A giant sea monster turns out to be a submarine in this 1870 Verne tale Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| #4375, aired 2003-09-19 | I WANNA ROCK! $800: It's the "monster" of a smash hit heard here "Frankenstein" |
| #4323, aired 2003-05-21 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY $2000: Perseus rescued this beautiful maiden, who was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a monster Andromeda |
| #4310, aired 2003-05-02 | TOP "GOD"s $800: This giant movie monster first attacked Tokyo in a 1956 film Godzilla |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | OLD MOVIES $800: This lepidopteran monster inadvertently destroys much of Tokyo in a 1962 film Mothra |
| #4224, aired 2003-01-02 | REPTILES $800: This venomous lizard is named for a river basin in the American Southwest where it's found Gila monster |
| #4191, aired 2002-11-18 | TRANSPORTATION $200: Reptoid, seen here, is this type of vehicle; the fangs might be a clue monster truck |
| #4148, aired 2002-09-18 | SPORTS MASCOTS $1200: Howler, mascot of this hockey team, is a legendary gigantic hairy monster of the Rockies the (Colorado) Avalanche |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | MONSTERS INC. $400: The first known report of this Scottish lake dweller dates from 565 A.D. the Loch Ness Monster |
| #4079, aired 2002-05-02 | MONSTERS INC. $800: The Book of Job asks if this sea monster can be drawn out with a hook, or his tongue with a cord the Leviathan |
| #4062, aired 2002-04-09 | ON OFF $400: Without "on", a fire-breathing mythical monster becomes this force exerted on airplanes drag (from dragon) |
| #4039, aired 2002-03-07 | CLOWNING AROUND $400: In "It", he wrote about a monster disguised as a demonic clown named Pennywise Stephen King |
| #4005, aired 2002-01-18 | SIN "D" $2000: T.S. Eliot created "Macavity...a fiend in feline shape, a monster of" depravity |
| #4004, aired 2002-01-17 | MYTHELLANY $1600: Yikes! If you cut off one of the many heads of this Lake Lerna monster, 2 would grow in its place Hydra |
| #4001, aired 2002-01-14 | GO WITH THE FLOW $1,400 (Daily Double): This monster of a river flows from Catron County, New Mexico to the Colorado River in Arizona Gila River |
| #3941, aired 2001-10-22 | VOCABULARY $400: This synonym for an imaginary thing came from a mythical monster with a lion's head, goat's body & dragon's tail chimera |
| #3916, aired 2001-09-17 | "B" MOVIES $100: A marriage-minded monster awaits this title creation in a 1935 horror classic starring Elsa Lanchester The Bride of Frankenstein |
| #3883, aired 2001-06-20 | SURVIVOR 12: THE MUPPETS $200: Before the show even ends, this Muppet gets a contract to endorse the letter "C" & Oreos Cookie Monster |
| #3876, aired 2001-06-11 | LITERATURE, JERRY SPRINGER-STYLE $100: On "You Made Me a Bloodsucking Monster!", vampires Lestat & Louis confront their creator, this author Anne Rice |
| #3852, aired 2001-05-08 | DUNGEONEERING $200: The monster emerging from a dungeon here was seen in this 1931 movie Frankenstein |
| #3792, aired 2001-02-13 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $600: In an Old English poem, this hero who killed the monster Grendel dies after tangling with a dragon Beowulf |
| #3780, aired 2001-01-26 | MARRY MARY $1,000 (Daily Double): His wife Mary "gave birth" to a monster, Frankenstein's Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| #3726, aired 2000-11-13 | SHAKESPEARE $200: Many historians disagree with Shakespeare's portrayal of this king as a hunchbacked, villainous monster Richard III |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | YOUR BASIC MONSTER $100: Count yourself lucky to know that one of these monsters drinks your blood & can turn into a bat vampire |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | YOUR BASIC MONSTER $200: A full moon gets this type of monster in a hairy situation werewolf |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | YOUR BASIC MONSTER $300: In a Mary Shelley work, he's the doctor who used electricity to charge his constructed monster to life Dr. Frankenstein |
| #3698, aired 2000-10-04 | YOUR BASIC MONSTER $500: This monster is a giant, one-eyed creature from Greek mythology cyclops |
| #3697, aired 2000-10-03 | THE SPOOKY & THE MYSTERIOUS $1000: This large dinosaur-like creature possibly lives in a large Scottish lake near Inverness the Loch Ness Monster |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | HEY "J"! $300: Othello could tell you that envy is a synonym for this green-eyed monster jealousy |
| #3665, aired 2000-07-07 | SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS $800: In "The Tempest", this beastlike character is described as a "born devil" & "a monster" Caliban |
| #3647, aired 2000-06-13 | COUPLES THERAPY $400: Gordon Clanton calls it a reaction to a perceived threat to a relationship; it's also a green-eyed monster Jealousy |
| #3601, aired 2000-04-10 | MULTIPLE MEANINGS $200: A foot soldier,
a Frankenstein's monster sound,
a bony fish Grunt |
| #3596, aired 2000-04-03 | "G" WHIZ $800: "Our Town" setting for a "Sesame Street" monster Grover's Corners |
| #3536, aired 2000-01-10 | LIFE $400: Named for a many-headed monster of myth, this genus of invertebrates can regenerate injured parts hydra |
| #3535, aired 2000-01-07 | GODS & MONSTERS $800: Some Jewish legends portray this monster, whose name means "unformed", as a defender of the Jews Golem |
| #3522, aired 1999-12-21 | A "CY" OF RELIEF $200: If this monster of Greek mythology had an eye on you, that was all the eyes he had Cyclops |
| #3485, aired 1999-10-29 | MONSTER MASH $200: On June 17, 1998 at 5:00 A.M. it was sighted by 4 men in Scotland who reported a "large object with long tail" Loch Ness Monster |
| #3485, aired 1999-10-29 | MONSTER MASH $300: Name shared by a green-skinned Marvel Comics monster & a wrestler also nicknamed "Hollywood" Hulk |
| #3485, aired 1999-10-29 | MONSTER MASH $400: (Hi, I'm Jeff Probst, host of Rock & Roll Jeopardy!) He had a howling good time as the announcer on the late-night rock music show "The Midnight Special" Wolfman Jack |
| #3485, aired 1999-10-29 | MONSTER MASH $500: This creature that terrorized Tokyo began life as a giant caterpillar Mothra |
| #3481, aired 1999-10-25 | GREEK MYTHOLOGY $400: For daring to compare herself to Athena, this Gorgon maiden was changed into a monster Medusa |
| #3412, aired 1999-06-08 | CROSSWORD CLUES "G" $1000: A "monster" of a Southwestern river
(4) Gila |
| #3380, aired 1999-04-23 | LET'S EAT ITALIAN! $300: This blue-veined cheese is named for a suburb of Milan, not a snake-haired monster Gorgonzola |
| #3356, aired 1999-03-22 | TRUCK STOP $500: Appropriately, Bigfoot is a famous one of these "scary" trucks whose tires are 5 1/2 feet across monster trucks |
| #3347, aired 1999-03-09 | IN A STORM MOVIE $400: During an electrical storm in this 1931 horror film, a monster comes "alive" Frankenstein |
| #3341, aired 1999-03-01 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $800: In "Othello" jealousy is described as this, "which doth mock the meat it feeds on" a green-eyed monster |
| #3335, aired 1999-02-19 | GREEK ISLANDS $800: Fittingly, this crowded island shares its name with a many-headed monster, slain by Hercules Hydra |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | EERIE TV ANTHOLOGIES $600: This movie monster man hosted a self-titled anthology series in 1949 & "Thriller" in 1960 Boris Karloff |
| #3267, aired 1998-11-17 | WOOD WORDS $600: Cutting trees down, or a word that describes the Frankenstein monster's walk Lumbering |
| #3261, aired 1998-11-09 | BODY TALK $400: A nit-picker might "split" them & a monster might make them "stand on end" hairs |
| #3245, aired 1998-10-16 | HORRORS! $100: It's the horrific "monster" seen here a Gila monster |
| #3235, aired 1998-10-02 | STEPHEN KING $100: No petting allowed! A rabid bat turns a lovable mutt into a monster in this King shaggy dog tale Cujo |
| #3158, aired 1998-04-29 | SO FUNNY IT'S SCARY $200: In a 1955 film set in Egypt, this monster chases Abbott & Costello after Lou eats its medallion the mummy |
| #3158, aired 1998-04-29 | SO FUNNY IT'S SCARY $1000: The scientists in this 1935 sequel play with tiny people before they make the monster a mate The Bride of Frankenstein |
| #3155, aired 1998-04-24 | FROM BEOWULF TO VIRGINIA WOOLF $200: To avenge this monster's death, his mother slays a soldier but is later killed by Beowulf Grendel |
| #3135, aired 1998-03-27 | UNSOLVED MYSTERIES $300: Some investigators believe that this coy lassie might be a plesiosaur the Loch Ness Monster |
| #3063, aired 1997-12-17 | OLD MAN HOMER HAD A FARM $200: This one-eyed monster had some sheep, E-I-E-I-O, but he preferred to dine on Odysseus' men Cyclops (Polyphemus) |
| #3030, aired 1997-10-31 | UNIVERSAL MONSTERS $300: (Here's the Frankenstein Monster.) In a 1935 film Elsa Lanchester played my bride & in the prologue, this author Mary Shelley |
| #3020, aired 1997-10-17 | THEY ALMOST STARRED IN... $100: He was such a hit in "Dracula" that he was offered the role of Frankenstein's monster before Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi |
| #3013, aired 1997-10-08 | 1940S TV $1000: This former Frankenstein monster hosted & acted in a mystery anthology series Boris Karloff |
| #3009, aired 1997-10-02 | HISTORY'S MYSTERIES $100: In 1961 a phenomena investigation bureau was set up to find proof of this Scottish lake's "monster" Loch Ness |
| #3001, aired 1997-09-22 | ANIMALS $200: This lizard of the Southwest is the USA's largest poisonous lizard a Gila monster |
| #2993, aired 1997-09-10 | NAME THAT MUPPET $500: "Sesame Street" denizen who has appeared on a "got milk?" billboard Cookie Monster |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | BODIES OF WATER $200: Reports of this Scottish lake being inhabited by a monster date back to the 6th century Loch Ness |
| #2750, aired 1996-07-12 | MONSTERS $200: A drug turns this man into the monster Hyde Jekyll |
| #2750, aired 1996-07-12 | MONSTERS $400: Among the Chinese this reptilian monster is a symbol of good fortune a dragon |
| #2750, aired 1996-07-12 | MONSTERS $600: This poem tells of a Scandinavian prince who rids the Danes of the monster Grendel "Beowulf" |
| #2733, aired 1996-06-19 | ALICE IN WONDERLAND $500: This fabulous monster with an eagle's head & a lion's body takes Alice to see the Mock Turtle the Gryphon |
| #2684, aired 1996-04-11 | ABBOTT & COSTELLO $400: Glenn Strange's third film appearance as this monster was in a 1948 Abbott & Costello Universal film Frankenstein's monster |
| #2670, aired 1996-03-22 | WOMEN IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY $600: This daughter of King Nisus shared her name with a monster who lived near Charybdis Scylla |
| #2613, aired 1996-01-03 | MYTHOLOGY $100: Athena caught Poseidon & this gorgon in her temple & turned her into a monster Medusa |
| #2572, aired 1995-11-07 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $100: This narrow lake, part of Scotland's Caledonian Canal, is home to a famous monster Loch Ness |
| #2566, aired 1995-10-30 | AMUSEMENT PARKS $500: These fish parks in Florida, Texas & Ohio have added a monster marsh complete with dinosaurs SeaWorld |
| #2533, aired 1995-09-13 | VENOMOUS ANIMALS $500: This U.S. lizard's venom is a neurotoxin a gila monster |
| #2402, aired 1995-01-31 | ASTROLOGY $200: This sign is connected with the myth of Aphrodite & Eros, who turned into fish to escape a monster Pisces |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | THE "BLUE"s & THE "GRAY"s $1000: He's famous for his monologues "Swimming To Cambodia" & "Monster in a Box" Spalding Gray |
| #2316, aired 1994-10-03 | EUROPEAN FOLKLORE $400: A kraken, which is this kind of monster, has tentacles so long & powerful it can capture ships octopus (sea monster) |
| #2242, aired 1994-05-10 | ANIMALS $300: A popular in Mexico, it's the largest lizard in the new world an iguana |
| #2239, aired 1994-05-05 | MONSTERS $500: This monster that lived under a fig tree across from Scylla swallowed & threw up the sea waters 3 times a day Charybdis |
| #2234, aired 1994-04-28 | MOVIE MONSTERS $200: Resembling a 400-foot-tall Tyrannosaurus, this monster attacked Tokyo after an H-bomb test revived him Godzilla |
| #2180, aired 1994-02-11 | MOVIE MONSTERS $400: This monster was born Imhotep, the high priest of the Temple of the Sun a Mummy |
| #2044, aired 1993-06-24 | LAKES $200: After a road was built along this Scottish lake in the 1930s, monster sightings increased Loch Ness |
| #2010, aired 1993-05-07 | MYTHOLOGY $400: This monster of the labyrinth was the offspring of King Monos' wife & a white bull Minotaur |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $400: A person who asks enigmatic questions can be compared to this monster; there's a statue of one near the Pyramids the Sphinx |
| #1959, aired 1993-02-25 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $600: "Argus-Eyed", meaning vigilant, refers to a monster whose many eyes were added to this bird's tail peacock |
| #1875, aired 1992-10-30 | OPERA $200: A "monster" opera based on this Mary Shelley novel premiered in 1990 Frankenstein |
| #1740, aired 1992-03-06 | ANIMATED FILMS $100: Pretty Belle falls for a prince who's been transformed into a monster in this 1991 film Beauty and the Beast |
| #1735, aired 1992-02-28 | ASTROLOGY $1000: This sign is connected to the myth of Eros & Aphrodite, who turned into fish to escape a monster Pisces |
| #1606, aired 1991-09-02 | TRANSPORTATION $400: This company apologized after it found out the cars stomped by a monster truck in its TV ad were altered Volvo |
| #1594, aired 1991-07-04 | MYTHOLOGY $200: Slaying a cattle thief named Cacus & rescuing Hesione from a monster were among his lesser labors Hercules |
| #1582, aired 1991-06-18 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $500: Sycorax was a foul witch who was the mother of this monster in "The Tempest" Caliban |
| #1577, aired 1991-06-11 | 1940s TV $400: The title of a 1949 mystery anthology series was starring this movie monster player Boris Karloff |
| #1575, aired 1991-06-07 | MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES $1000: A shrewish person or a predatory mythological monster with a bird's body & a maiden's face a harpy |
| #1566, aired 1991-05-27 | LEGENDARY CREATURES $1000: Though this multi-headed monster could grow 2 new heads for each 1 cut off, Hercules slew it a Hydra |
| #1529, aired 1991-04-04 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: This Scottish lake was first reported to be inhabited by a monster in the 5th century A.D. Loch Ness |
| #1498, aired 1991-02-20 | DEM BUGS $500: These large bugs named for a monster are probably the fastest flying insects dragonflies |
| #1491, aired 1991-02-11 | STEPHEN KING $600: The monster "It" was disguised as Pennywise, one of these a clown |
| #1470, aired 1991-01-11 | TELEVISION $400: In "It's a Good Life" on "The Twilight Zone", he played the monster who wished people into a cornfield Billy Mumy |
| #1449, aired 1990-12-13 | PLAYING THE "HARP" $400: Eagle named for the mythical flying monster it resembles a harpy |
| #1405, aired 1990-10-12 | COLORFUL PHRASES $800: It's how Shakespeare described jealousy in "Othello" a green-eyed monster |
| #2, aired 1990-06-23 | MYTHOLOGICAL WOMEN $2000: This 6-headed sea monster that ate sailors lived in a cave opposite the whirlpool Charybdis Scylla |
| #1352, aired 1990-06-19 | THINGS THAT GO BUMP... $100: Kids imagine them in the closet or under the bed, & Dr. Frankenstein built one in the lab a monster |
| #1247, aired 1990-01-23 | NOVEL PLOTS $200: 3 men are captured by a "sea monster" which turns out to be a strange underwater ship, the Nautilus 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
| #1242, aired 1990-01-16 | SHAKESPEARE $400: The play in which Emilia says jealousy is "a monster begot upon itself, born on itself" Othello |
| #1232, aired 1990-01-02 | WORLD HISTORY $800: In '60 his Israeli captors sent a coded cablegram to Ben-Gurion that read, "The monster is in chains" (Adolf) Eichmann |
| #1220, aired 1989-12-15 | SONGS OF THE '60s $400: This dance was "a graveyard smash" & "caught on in a flash" in 1962 & again in 1973 "Monster Mash" |
| #1205, aired 1989-11-24 | MYTHICAL CHARACTERS $600: The gollem, a creature in this religion's folklore, has been likened to Frankenstein's monster the Jewish religion |
| #1170, aired 1989-10-06 | SHAKESPEARE $400: In "Othello", Shakespeare describes jealousy as a "monster" with this facial feature green eyes |
| #1087, aired 1989-05-02 | ARIZONA $400: It's a monstrous orange & black lizard named for a river that crosses Arizona Gila monster |
| #903, aired 1988-07-06 | AMERICAN INDIAN NAMES $600: Indian tribe that shares its name with a southwestern river & a venomous "monster" the Gila |
| #860, aired 1988-05-06 | WEREWOLVES $400: 1 of 2 men who, in the 1940s, played not only a wolf man but Frankenstein's Monster & Dracula too Lon Chaney, Jr. (or Bela Lugosi) |
| #825, aired 1988-03-18 | FRENCH LITERATURE $1000: Known for his violent tragedies, this 17th century playwright's "Phedre" includes suicide & a sea monster Jean Racine |
| #818, aired 1988-03-09 | EUROPE $400: This creature could be 1,422 years old, since it was 1st sighted in Scotland in 565 A.D. the Loch Ness Monster |
| #798, aired 1988-02-10 | SESAME STREET $200: He was known as the Beautiful Day Monster until he chose a cookie over a trip on a game show Cookie Monster |
| #793, aired 1988-02-03 | TOUGH TV TRIVIA $600: 1 of the 2 TV shows that featured a monster whose human form had the name Janos Skorzeny Werewolf or The Night Stalker |
| #716, aired 1987-10-19 | REPTILES $400: This "monster" was named after a river in Arizona gila monster |
| #671, aired 1987-07-06 | N. AMERICAN ANIMALS $100: Very small for a monster, the Gila monster is actually a venomous species of this a lizard |
| #554, aired 1987-01-22 | PEOPLE $800: Roger Vadim called this ex-wife "a monster of efficiency who often made me think of a robot" Jane Fonda |
| #515, aired 1986-11-28 | JR. & SR. $200: Little monster Creighton changed his name to this to match his "Dad of a thousand faces" Lon Chaney, Jr. |
| #428, aired 1986-04-30 | MYTHOLOGICAL MONSTERS $400: This monster needed more than a steak on his eye after Odysseus drove a stake into his eye a cyclops (Polyphemus) |
| #402, aired 1986-03-25 | MYTHOLOGY $200: Theseus became a Greek hero when he killed the Minotaur, a monster ½ man & ½ this bull |
| #348, aired 1986-01-08 | LIGHTNING $200: In the 1931 film, he used lightning to bring his monster to life Dr. Frankenstein |
| #158, aired 1985-04-17 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $200: Controversy has raged since 6th century over this unknown creature in a Scottish "lake" the Loch Ness Monster |
| #144, aired 1985-03-28 | SHAKESPEARE $600: In "Othello", Shakespeare calls this "a green-eyed monster" jealousy |
