| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | ON THE MAP $1600: On a peninsula of the same name, this town in southern Italy is known for limoncello & its great views of the Bay of Naples Sorrento |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | ON THE MAP $1200: This country's Zambezi River border with Zambia is only a few football fields long Botswana |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | ON THE MAP $2000: Lying between Italy's "heel" & "toe", the Gulf of Taranto is an inlet of this sea named for a nymph of Greek mythology the Ionian Sea |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | WORDS ON THE MAP $400: It's a circle of the Earth that passes through both poles; the one through Greenwich is considered "prime" a meridian |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | WORDS ON THE MAP $800: On a National Weather Service map, T.S. indicates this possible precursor to a hurricane a tropical storm |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | WORDS ON THE MAP $1200: A contour is a line on a map that connects points that have equal this altitude |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | WORDS ON THE MAP $1600: The Mercator is one variety of this method in which the curved surface of the earth is portrayed on a flat surface a projection |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | WORDS ON THE MAP $2000: According to the "Rand McNally 2024 Large Scale Road Atlas" map of Arizona, one this equals about 20 these an inch & a mile |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | LITERARY TOURISM $800: Writer Peter Mayle put the French village of Ménerbes on the map with his witty memoir chronicling "A Year in" this wine region Provence |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | SLOVENIA, BABY, SLOVENIA! $1500: Can't find Slovenia on a map? Look for the shape of this animal, which it's widely said to resemble a chicken |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | ON THE OLD MAP $800: Here is a map of this former country in 1945; now the region today Czechoslovakia |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | POPULAR BABY NAMES OF THE 2010s $500: #10 for girls: you'll see this name on a map of Wisconsin Madison |
| #8911, aired 2023-07-10 | LAKES & RIVERS $400: To map the deep & choppy Congo River, scientists employed people on this kind of palindromic watercraft to brave the currents a kayak |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | CITIES & TOWNS $800: Highlighted on the map, it's been a major religious center for more than 1,000 years Canterbury |
| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | A EUROPEAN VACATION $400: Let's break out the map of Romania, if we head east out of Arad, we can hit Sinaia & Sulina on our way to this sea the Black Sea |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | "Y" ON THE MAP $200: This site of a 1781 siege & surrender is part of the Colonial National Historical Park in Virginia Yorktown |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | "Y" ON THE MAP $800: If you ride a white horse to Whitehorse in Canada, you'll be in this territory the Yukon Territory |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | "Y" ON THE MAP $1,600 (Daily Double): Site of a historic 1945 conference, this city on the Crimean Peninsula is known for its many health resorts Yalta |
| #8744, aired 2022-11-17 | FAR OUT $1200: The red dot represents the Milky Way on a cosmic map that depicts Laniakea, a group of galaxies known as a super this cluster |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | WOMEN ON THE MAP $200: A state in Australia & an African waterfall both bear her name (Queen) Victoria |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | WOMEN ON THE MAP $400: Honoring Ms. Peron, Ciudad Evita is a small town in this country Argentina |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | FAMOUS NAMES ON THE MAP $400: The names of this pair of explorers are on a Montana county, an Oregon river & a 4,900-mile trail Lewis & Clark |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | FAMOUS NAMES ON THE MAP $800: An 18th century British captain gave his name to these South Pacific islands, now a popular tourist destination the Cook Islands |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | FAMOUS NAMES ON THE MAP $1,000 (Daily Double): This alliterative Colorado "Peak" is named for a man who tried & failed to climb it in 1806; guess that was an "or bust" Pikes Peak |
| #4, aired 2022-10-16 | FAMOUS NAMES ON THE MAP $1000: This strait between Asia & North America is named for a Danish explorer the Bering Strait |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | THE MAP OF INDIA $800: "City of Dreams" is a nickname for this port on the Arabian Sea that's home to 20 million people Mumbai |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $1200: Once a mighty kingdom, it was abolished by the Allies after WWII during the reorganization of Germany Prussia |
| #8666, aired 2022-06-20 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $1600: At one time the capital of Upper Canada, this city was once named York, in honor of a duke of York Toronto |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ON THE MAP OF AFRICA $1200: The Limpopo River between South Africa & Botswana is also known as this river, after a large predator (the) Crocodile (River) |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | CHANGES ON THE U.S. MAP $800: As part of a radio show promotion in 1950, the city of Hot Springs in this state renamed itself Truth or Consequences New Mexico |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | CHANGES ON THE U.S. MAP $1000: To honor a society of Revolutionary War vets & a Roman citizen-soldier, Losantiville, Ohio was given this new name in 1790 Cincinnati |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | ON THE MAP $1200: It's the name of the capital of Alberta, Canada & also of a northern suburb of London Edmonton |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | "BLACK" ON THE MAP $800: Waterloo, Iowa is the seat of this county named for a military leader of the Sauk people Black Hawk |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | WHEN BAY IS ON THE MAP $1200: Hey, tiger, with a maximum depth of more than 15,000 feet, it's the bay seen here Bengal |
| #8415, aired 2021-06-04 | MAGNA CARTOGRAPHY $800: Found in this country's Western Cape Province, the plateau basin known as Great Karoo may be listed as Groot Karoo on a local map South Africa |
| #8327, aired 2021-02-02 | "A" IS FOR ASTRONOMICAL $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows map imagery of the Moon on the monitor.) Possibly caused by magnetized lava under the Moon's surface, lunar swirls are easy to spot because of a high one of these reflective ratios of light relative to the surrounding surface albedo |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | SOVIET BLOC BUSTERS $1200: Tito, leader of this country that's no longer on the map, chafed against Stalin & pursued a policy of "nonalignment" Yugoslavia |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $1200: This author based the novel "The Magic Mountain" on a trip to Davos, Switzerland to treat his wife's bronchitis Thomas Mann |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $1600: Centennial, a suburb of Denver, is named for the title town in this man's 1974 novel "Centennial" (James) Michener |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $2,000 (Daily Double): What was once the protectorate of Bechuanaland is now this African country that also starts with "B" Botswana |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $2000: In 1759 Samuel Johnson wrote a tale about a "Prince of" this place, the old name for Ethiopia Abyssinia |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | DISPUTED TERRITORIES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The ownership of Hans Island, located between Ellesmere Island & Greenland, is disputed; Canada stakes its claim by raising its flag there & leaving bottles of rye, while this other country puts up its flag & leaves bottles of aquavit Denmark |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | SANTA ON THE MAP $400: Home to a lively nightlife & popular with artists, Santa Cecilia is a district in this most populous Brazilian city Sao Paulo |
| #8122, aired 2019-12-24 | SANTA ON THE MAP $1000: Santa Cruz is a port & the chief city on the island of Tenerife in these Atlantic islands the Canary Islands |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | GEOGRAPHICA $800: On a 3D topographic map, contour lines are used to identify points that have the same this altitude (elevation) |
| #8086, aired 2019-11-04 | ALLITERATION ON THE MAP $1600: This nickname for Dong Ap Bia mountain in Vietnam was inspired by a brutal battle that took place there in 1969 Hamburger Hill |
| #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 |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | SAINTS ON THE MAP $1200: An island country in the Lesser Antilles is a package deal: this saint & the Grenadines Saint Vincent |
| #8065, aired 2019-10-04 | SAINTS ON THE MAP $2000: A church in this suburb of Paris has the tombs of 12 centuries of French kings Saint-Denis |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | "M" PORTS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of the Mediterranean on the monitor.) Carthaginians, Romans, Goths, Byzantines & Arabs have all occupied this ancient Sicilian port city that gives its name to an important Mediterranean strait Messina |
| #8036, aired 2019-07-15 | ENCLAVES $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The tiny village of Büsingen on the Rhine is politically part of Germany, but is separate geographically & uses this currency for the country surrounding it the Swiss franc |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | PHYSICS $5,800 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows two waves on the monitor.) In transverse waves, each particle moves perpendicular to the wave's direction; in this 12-letter type, reminiscent of lines on a map, each particle moves parallel to the wave longitudinal |
| #8025, aired 2019-06-28 | "P"LACES ON THE MAP $1,000 (Daily Double): Lieutenant Joseph Ives gave this name to a brilliantly colored Arizona desert, now partly within Petrified Forest National Park the Painted Desert |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Of the 12 independent countries in South America, Brazil, which occupies nearly half the continent, borders 9 of them--all except for Chile & this country Ecuador |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | METEOROLOGY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows storms on a map.) In the north Atlantic & northeast Pacific, "hurricane" is the regional term; in the northwest Pacific, it's "typhoon", but in the south Pacific & Indian Ocean, this word is used, from Greek for "circle" a cyclone |
| #7990, aired 2019-05-10 | THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of the Ohio River on the monitor.) The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 banned slavery north of the Ohio River, eventually making this major Ohio city a key first stop for many escaping slavery; it's now the home to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Cincinnati |
| #7875, aired 2018-11-30 | ELECTORAL COLLEGE CUDGELINGS $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents an Electoral College map on the monitor.) 1912 was the last time a third party finished ahead of a major party; Democrat Wilson took 40 states, Republican incumbent Taft only got Utah & Vermont & this Progressive Party candidate took 6 states Teddy Roosevelt |
| #7859, aired 2018-11-08 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On a map, New Zealand, Hawaii & Easter Island form the three corners of this roughly triangular region of Oceania that's noted for its many islands Polynesia |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents a map on the monitor.) Brazil is the only country in the world through which the Equator passes as well as this imaginary line 23.5 degrees south of the Equator the Tropic of Capricorn |
| #7843, aired 2018-10-17 | BALI, HI! $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) It's just a mile across the Bali Strait from Bali to this most politically and economically important island of Indonesia Java |
| #7793, aired 2018-06-27 | THE HERO'S JOURNEY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Here is a map approximating the 3 years, 2 months, 14 days & 16 hours of running this title man does in a 1994 Oscar-winning film Forrest Gump |
| #7765, aired 2018-05-18 | ISLANDS $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah shows a map on the monitor.) Between Cuba and Puerto Rico, you'll find this politically divided island that was named by Columbus, who landed there in 1492 Hispaniola |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: (Jimmy of Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Not to be confused with the gap of the same name, America's first national highway--and for many years, the main route west--was this road that extended from Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois Cumberland |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $1600: Rooster Cogburn is a deputy marshal in Fort Smith, Arkansas in this Charles Portis novel True Grit |
| #7747, aired 2018-04-24 | LITERATURE ON THE MAP $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of Chicago on the monitor.) In Chicago, there's a big economic difference between the mansion where Bigger Thomas worked & his family's apartment just a few blocks away in this novel Native Son |
| #7734, aired 2018-04-05 | THE OLD COUNTRY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Put "A-S" in front of the name of a current country to get this ancient kingdom of Mesopotamia Assyria |
| #7732, aired 2018-04-03 | "H" ON THE MAP $800: The Minch is a channel separating Scotland's NW Highlands from this "Outer" island group the Hebrides |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | ISLANDS $1200: First included on a map in 1351, this Atlantic ocean group has 9 main islands the Azores |
| #7721, aired 2018-03-19 | MUST SEA TV $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A 2002 National Geographic special recounted the finding of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in this sea with the name of a Biblical king the Sea of Solomon (or the Solomon Sea) |
| #7717, aired 2018-03-13 | STRAIT AWAY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Mediterranean spans 2,500 miles from the Gulf of Iskenderun on the southern coast of Turkey to this historically vital channel between Spain & Africa Gibraltar |
| #7712, aired 2018-03-06 | SLOVENIA & SLOVAKIA $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The only countries to border both Slovenia & Slovakia are Austria & this neighbor Hungary |
| #7705, aired 2018-02-23 | ROUGH WATERS $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of San Francisco Bay on the monitor.) San Francisco Bay, with its strong currents & frigid water, was probably too much for three inmates who escaped this prison in June 1962 in a homemade raft Alcatraz |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | PORT-MAP-TEAU $800: Midway between 2 of the largest cities in Washington state, it contains a big airport SeaTac |
| #7684, aired 2018-01-25 | FOUND MY PLACE IN THE BOOK $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A Patricia Highsmith novel takes us all around Rome--here's where Freddie Miles is killed, & here, at the Europa hotel, is where this "Talented" title character hides out as Dickie Greenleaf the talented Mr. Ripley |
| #7676, aired 2018-01-15 | ARRIBA ARUBA! $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) For much of the 20th century, one of the mainstays of Aruba's economy was the refining of oil from this big neighbor to the south Venezuela |
| #7674, aired 2018-01-11 | EUROPEA"N" GEOGRAPHY $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Lake Ladoga is connected with the Gulf of Finland and the rest of the Baltic Sea by this commercially important river that flows through St. Petersburg the Neva |
| #7668, aired 2018-01-03 | THE MEDITERRANEAN $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) From the Italian port of Pescara to Dubrovnik in Croatia, it's about 200 miles across this arm of the Mediterranean the Adriatic |
| #7664, aired 2017-12-28 | BOATY McBOATFACE $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Boaty measured Antarctic currents near the southern island group that shares its name with an archipelago off northern Scotland called this the Orkney Islands |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | AROUND THE PACIFIC $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The belt stretching 25,000 miles from New Zealand through Japan and the Aleutian islands to South America is actually horseshoe-shaped, but best-known by this three-word description the Ring of Fire |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | "L" ON THE MAP $1600: This gulf was the site of a naval action also called the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea Leyte Gulf |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | "L" ON THE MAP $2000: It's Italy's most populous region & a center of both agriculture and industry Lombardy |
| #7631, aired 2017-11-13 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $400: Places on the map named for her include a land in Antarctica & a state in Australia Victoria |
| #7623, aired 2017-11-01 | TAKE A HIKE! $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) For those who like a challenge, it takes about six months to hike the nearly 2,200 miles from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mt. Katahdin in Maine to complete this trail in its entirety the Appalachian Trail |
| #7617, aired 2017-10-24 | COME SAIL AWAY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) To show how ancient America's people could colonize Polynesia, in 1947 Thor Heyerdahl sailed 4300 miles in 101 days, on this raft, named for an Incan god Kon-Tiki |
| #7582, aired 2017-07-25 | THE EMPIRE STRIKES OUT $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Seen at its height around 500 B.C., this empire once led by Darius I ended in 330 B.C. at the hands of Alexander the Great Persia |
| #7576, aired 2017-07-17 | JOURNALING JOURNEYERS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Leaving Sag Harbor on September 23, 1960, heading west across the U.S., and reaching Mississippi by December was this author with his dog; when he got back to New York, he got lost and had to ask for directions (John) Steinbeck |
| #7567, aired 2017-07-04 | LOOK AT THOSE CURVES $1,200 (Daily Double): Most latitude & longitude lines curve on the gnomonic type of this, a way to map the round Earth on a flat surface projection |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | EAST ON THE MAP $200: This nation was once a province known as East Pakistan & before that, East Bengal Bangladesh |
| #7555, aired 2017-06-16 | EAST ON THE MAP $800: The area seen here; a Cal State campus in Hayward is named for it the East Bay |
| #7541, aired 2017-05-29 | THE NEW "BLACK" $1000: A new 18th century fad of sea bathing to cure disease helped put this resort town of northwest England on the map Blackpool |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | THE ANCIENT WORLD $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After the death of Alexander the Great, his generals divided his empire into four kingdoms; Ptolemy I took over this one & founded its Ptolemaic Dynasty Egypt |
| #7515, aired 2017-04-21 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $1600: This island known for its great wineries is just a short hop by plane from Adelaide, Australia Kangaroo Island |
| #7514, aired 2017-04-20 | EUROPE $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Czechoslovakia once consisted of four historical regions; in 1945, Ruthenia was given to the Soviet Union, leaving Slovakia, Moravia & this region Bohemia |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | 1930s AMERICA $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a picture and a map on the monitor.) In July 1938, the aviator seen here was supposed to fly west from New York to California, but somehow ended up landing in Dublin, earning him this famous nickname "Wrong Way" Corrigan |
| #7511, aired 2017-04-17 | BORDER FRENZY $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Bearing the name of a 14th century ruler of the Golden Horde, this "stan" only borders other countries that end in "stan" Uzbekistan |
| #7488, aired 2017-03-15 | THE 1940s $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1948, Harry Truman began his 30,000-mile whistle-stop tour on a train called the "Ferdinand Magellan" and was aboard in St. Louis when the famous photo of the president holding up a paper saying this man "Defeats Truman" was snapped (Thomas) Dewey |
| #7483, aired 2017-03-08 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In late 1620 an Atlantic storm altered the course of history because this ship ended up in Cape Cod & not in Virginia as intended the Mayflower |
| #7480, aired 2017-03-03 | SPY vs. SPY $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a hotel and a map on the monitor.) During World War II, the Princess Hotel was home to British censors who exposed Nazi spy rings by secretly opening, reading & resealing transatlantic mail routed through this island Bermuda |
| #7462, aired 2017-02-07 | NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY $1,800 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In the 1700s, stretching from Labrador through Montreal and all the way down into what's now Louisiana, was the territory known as New this country New France |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | LINES ON THE MAP $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) China claims as its territorial waters everything within the Nine-Dash line; it used to have eleven dashes, but when Communist Vietnam was a closer ally, two in this gulf were dropped the Gulf of Tonkin |
| #7459, aired 2017-02-02 | LINES ON THE MAP $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The way cities around the world line up on lines of latitude can be surprising; for instance, Los Angeles, California lies only about two minutes north of this 3-letter Moroccan city Fez |
| #7448, aired 2017-01-18 | IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HISTORY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Starting at the Boston Common and making its way past the Boston Massacre site, the Old North church, over the Charles to Old Ironsides and ending at the Bunker Hill Monument is this two-word path the Freedom Trail |
| #7445, aired 2017-01-13 | THE 1860s $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a ship and a map on the monitor.) In 1869, the end of the glamorous tea clipper era was at hand; steamships could economically bring tea from China because they needed less coal with the opening of this waterway the Suez Canal |
| #7442, aired 2017-01-10 | THE CIVIL WAR $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) General Winfield Scott wanted to blockade the South in a siege-like fashion, control the Mississippi River & strangle the Rebels in his plan named for this South American serpent the Anaconda Plan |
| #7435, aired 2016-12-30 | COAST $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Starting in Southern California, south of San Juan Capistrano, & ending in Mendocino County, Highway 1, or the PCH, short for this, provides some gorgeous scenery as it lives up to its name the Pacific Coast Highway |
| #7431, aired 2016-12-26 | MORE THAN AN ATHLETE $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Here's the 1980 Marathon of Hope run by this one-legged Canadian hero, who covered 3,339 miles in 143 days to support cancer research Terry Fox |
| #7418, aired 2016-12-07 | THE GREAT LOOP $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Great Loop, the circumnavigation of eastern North America via lakes, rivers & intracoastal waterways, was popularized by a couple who made the trip after departing from this Florida spring break Mecca in a 40-foot trawler in 1994 Fort Lauderdale |
| #7410, aired 2016-11-25 | THE MAP OF SCIENCE $2000: Elie Metchnikoff got on a Soviet stamp for discovering these white blood cells that "eat" bacteria phagocytes |
| #7388, aired 2016-10-26 | MILITARY MEMORIES $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a battle map on the monitor.) On July 21, 1861, with Manassas Junction to the south, General McDowell's Union forces sent a decoy force & a flanking force toward Confederates at this waterway, which gave its name to the battle the Battle of Bull Run |
| #7380, aired 2016-10-14 | THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1818, the U.S. & Britain signed a treaty, making this line the border between the U.S. & Canada from Minnesota to the Rockies; it was later extended to the Pacific the 49th parallel |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS $200: In the bathroom it's a sink; on the map it's an area drained by a single river a basin |
| #7367, aired 2016-09-27 | ARCHIPELAGOS $400: On a map of the Caribbean, you can see why these groups are called Greater & Lesser the Antilles |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Starting south of San Antonio & ending in Abilene, Kansas, from 1867 to 1871, 1.5 million head of cattle headed north on this trail the Chisholm Trail |
| #7329, aired 2016-06-23 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A former Soviet republic, this landlocked country bounded by Romania & Ukraine is the least-visited country in Europe Moldova |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | TV MAPS $400: Map reading is a valuable skill on this CBS show; you can learn it in a book of the same title with an intro by Mark Burnett Survivor |
| #7314, aired 2016-06-02 | TV MAPS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Allies lost the war, and a buffer zone splits North America, with the Japanese in the west & the Nazis in the east on this Amazon show based on a story by Philip K. Dick The Man in the High Castle |
| #7276, aired 2016-04-11 | JUDEAN HISTORY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Biblical Palestine was divided into two kingdoms--Israel in the north & Judea in the south, with this city that's still the main community of the Negev region as its southernmost town Beersheba |
| #7273, aired 2016-04-06 | THE WAR OF 1812 $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map-like diagram on the monitor.) Using barricades of earthworks & cotton bales, he set a defensive line on Rodriguez Canal to defend New Orleans; in a half-hour of fighting on January 8, 1815, British causalities were over 2,000; Americans?--fewer than 100 (Andrew) Jackson |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | ON THE OLD MAP OF EUROPE $1600: In 1946 this federal state took up a big slab of the Balkans with 6 republics; in 2003, not so much Yugoslavia |
| #7270, aired 2016-04-01 | ON THE OLD MAP OF EUROPE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A big player in Medieval & Renaissance times, by 1861, the entity known as these "States" shrank to a dot on the map the Papal States |
| #7254, aired 2016-03-10 | 2-WORD COUNTRIES $1600: Don't blink or you'll miss this republic on the map San Marino |
| #7253, aired 2016-03-09 | POLISH HISTORY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1569, a jointly elected sovereign was a feature of the Union of Lublin, which merged Poland with this country, whose modern borders are seen here Lithuania |
| #7247, aired 2016-03-01 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1526, control of Bohemia, the Archduchy of Austria & the Kingdom of Hungary belonged to the house of this family the Habsburgs |
| #7241, aired 2016-02-22 | THIRD $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) His third voyage went around the Cape of Good Hope, past Australia & New Zealand, up to Vancouver island, then the Bering Sea, & the final stop for this captain was in Hawaii in 1779 Cook |
| #7237, aired 2016-02-16 | HISTORY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A stop at Dr. Samuel Mudd's home, landing mistakenly in Maryland, & dying a few days later near Bowling Green were part of his ill-fated 1865 escape route John Wilkes Booth |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | DOCTORS WITHIN BORDERS $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a picture of a plane and a map of Australia on the monitor.) In Australia's remote areas, the Royal Flying Doctor Service has dozens of bases providing airborne care; the Alice Springs base serves nearly half a million square miles of this territory the Northern Territory |
| #7225, aired 2016-01-29 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has officially said that bad weather & poor navigation were to blame for any loss of transports in the area between Miami, Puerto Rico & this island Bermuda |
| #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 |
| #7219, aired 2016-01-21 | CHINA TOWNS $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Tianjin, the leading port of northern China, lies on the Bohai Sea, an arm of this sea the Yellow Sea |
| #7214, aired 2016-01-14 | BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Scholars believe the Exodus didn't go across the Red Sea, but somewhere on land between two bodies of water--this sea & this gulf the Gulf of Suez & the Mediterranean Sea |
| #7204, aired 2015-12-31 | THE EMPIRE HAS FALLEN $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After 527 A.D., when Justinian became emperor, the borders of this empire expanded during his reign further into North Africa & even Spain the Byzantine Empire |
| #7194, aired 2015-12-17 | THAT DARN LITTLE ICE AGE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Some scientists think the little ice age in Europe was because of a change in the jet stream, which was caused by the NAO, the North Atlantic this oscillation |
| #7193, aired 2015-12-16 | ON THE GLOBE $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) From Nunavut to North Dakota, the 100th meridian runs through this Canadian province on its way to Texas Manitoba |
| #7191, aired 2015-12-14 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Billions of federal research & development funding goes to what is known as the research triangle, formed by these three universities all located within about 20 minutes of each other Duke, North Carolina State, and the University of North Carolina |
| #7189, aired 2015-12-10 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On April 18, 1775, this man left Charlestown around 11:00 P.M. but was captured by the British after hitting Lexington, but before he got to Concord (Paul) Revere |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | NORTH & SOUTH $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) If you fly due south from Belize, you'll pass over these two countries on your way to El Salvador Honduras & Guatemala |
| #7179, aired 2015-11-26 | NORTH & SOUTH $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Head due north from Lida, Belarus & you'll pass through these three countries on your way to the Gulf of Finland Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia |
| #7177, aired 2015-11-24 | MIAMI $2000: Called a bay on the map, this large estuary separates Miami from Miami Beach Biscayne Bay |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | BODIES OF WATER $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) About 2,900 miles long, it's one of the few major rivers to cross the equator, and actually does so twice before emptying into the Atlantic the Congo |
| #7165, aired 2015-11-06 | ONE DIRECTION $800: Direction on a map from Iran to Iraq, or proverbial direction to find the indie stations on the radio dial left |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Here's the Electoral College victory of this man; the only state he lost was Minnesota, by the slim margin of 49.72% to 49.54% (Ronald) Reagan |
| #7164, aired 2015-11-05 | THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Here is the schooling this Democrat gave Alf Landon in the Electoral College FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) |
| #7157, aired 2015-10-27 | MOVERS & SHAKERS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) From Baffin Bay, here is the 1908-1909 North Pole route, on which this man led a fellow American & four Inuit (Robert) Peary |
| #7156, aired 2015-10-26 | SEAS $800: George Takei said that Gene Roddenberry came up with his "Star Trek" character's name by seeing this sea on a map the Sulu Sea |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | LINES ON THE MAP $400: During a solstice, the sun is directly over one of these lines of latitude whose names suggest easy days & fruity drinks tropic |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | LINES ON THE MAP $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) These lines on a map connect points of equal elevation & allow mountains & other features to be depicted in 2 dimensions contour lines |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | EUROPE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A highway called "Route Napoleon" lies along a route he once took between Grenoble & this Riviera resort city near Nice Cannes |
| #7142, aired 2015-10-06 | I AM HISTORY! $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Rhine, Danube & Volga Rivers provided the approximate empire borders of this ruthless warrior king in the 400s A.D. Attila the Hun |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a world map on a monitor.) The continent of Africa, as well as its surrounding oceanic crusts, are part of the African one of these rigid pieces that make up the Earth's surface continental plate |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | HISTORY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After World War I, this country gained new provinces, doubling its size; after World War II, it lost chunks in the northeast & southeast Romania |
| #7127, aired 2015-09-15 | GETTING OFF THE GROUND $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Here's the route she took trying to fly around the world; in July 1937, she began the longest leg of the journey, 2,600 miles over open water to Howland Island; she never made it Amelia Earhart |
| #7125, aired 2015-07-31 | ON THE ISLAND $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The 9.1 earthquake that caused the devastating 2004 tsunami moved part of this Indonesian island that was closest to the epicenter 100 feet to the southwest Sumatra |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | LET'S GO TO THE ISLANDS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Coral reefs grow best in warm water, so they're found mostly in tropical locales; one exception is this island, at 32 degrees north latitude, warmed by the Gulf Stream Bermuda |
| #7111, aired 2015-07-13 | A GLOBAL CATEGORY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In central London, the British National Gallery of Art, St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Charing Cross, &, of course, a famous column are found on this square Trafalgar Square |
| #7106, aired 2015-07-06 | SUPERATHLETES $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map and a photo on the monitor.) Here is the 52-hour, 54-minute swim journey of nearly 111 miles taken by this 64-year-old woman in September 2013 (Diana) Nyad |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a battle map on the monitor.) A June 25, 1876, battle map shows Sitting Bull's camp next to Major Reno's skirmish line, with the Indian encampment separated from Last Stand Hill to the north by this river Little Big Horn |
| #7093, aired 2015-06-17 | GOVERNMENT AGENCIES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Leaving Wall St. & heading to Washington D.C., a lawyer never has to go outside, as D.C.'s Union Station connects directly to this regulatory commission on F Street the SEC |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM $3,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an illustration and a map on the monitor.) In the 1800s, the giant bison herds that roamed North America were hunted almost to extinction; fortunately, in 1902, the U.S. Army brought 21 buffalo to this national park where they now number in the thousands Yellowstone National Park |
| #7081, aired 2015-06-01 | "BREAK"-ING $800: An escape, or a type of success that suddenly puts an artist on the map a breakout |
| #7080, aired 2015-05-29 | NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) When established in 1851, the reservation for this Native American tribe covered much of present-day South Dakota; it shrank in 1868, & then again in 1889, the year of both Dakotas' statehood the Sioux |
| #7065, aired 2015-05-08 | STEPPE BY STEPPE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Great Steppe of Eurasia, which for millennia gave horsemen from the East a highway to Europe, is grassland, stretching 4,000 miles from China to the mouth of this river on the Black Sea the Danube |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | THINGS TO DO ON A RAINY DAY $200: Put together one of these; the 4,000-piece world map should take you a while a jigsaw puzzle |
| #7059, aired 2015-04-30 | PRESENTED IN 2D $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a globe and map on the monitor.) The curved surface of the Earth, represented on a flat sheet of paper, is called this; the Mercator one here is from the 19th century a projection |
| #7056, aired 2015-04-27 | THE VIETNAM WAR $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The 1968 assault shown here is called this, after its namesake holiday; attacks ranged from Khe Sanh down to Saigon & Vinh Loi the Tet Offensive |
| #7053, aired 2015-04-22 | SOJOURNER $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1271, this man left Venice with his dad and uncle & hit what is now Israel & Iran on his way to Shangdu, China, & the summer palace of Kublai Khan Marco Polo |
| #7048, aired 2015-04-15 | "IN" BUSINESS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an animated map on the monitor.) A big U.S. company merges with a smaller foreign company then relocates its headquarters to that country in order to avoid some U.S. taxes in this controversial practice inversion |
| #7043, aired 2015-04-08 | WORLD HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On October 21, 1805, a combined fleet of 33 French & Spanish ships was defeated by the British in a famous naval battle off this sandy cape on Spain's southern coast Trafalgar |
| #7038, aired 2015-04-01 | METEOROLOGY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated weather map on the monitor.) It's the 2-word term for a transition zone between an advancing mass of higher temperature air & a retreating cooler one a warm front |
| #7029, aired 2015-03-19 | GEOLOGY $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The continents were built around these large stable areas of very old crystalline rocks; the Laurentian, or Canadian one, extends for 3 million square miles across northern North America the Shield |
| #6993, aired 2015-01-28 | YES, VIRGINIA $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) When West Virginia split off in 1863, Virginia no longer shared borders with these two states Ohio & Pennsylvania |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | ALL THINGS CONSIDERED $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 2011, an Arabic-speaking country lost part of its territory, & this nation, with Dinka as a dominant language, was born South Sudan |
| #6986, aired 2015-01-19 | FRENCH CITIES & TOWNS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After France surrendered to the Nazis in June 1940, the country was divided into a German-occupied area & an unoccupied zone with an administrative center in this spa town, by whose name the region would be known Vichy |
| #6985, aired 2015-01-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $400: What was Rhodesia on a 1975 map is called this now Zimbabwe |
| #6983, aired 2015-01-14 | THE 19th CENTURY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) An 1823 treaty assured the return of runaway slaves, & a move south to a 4-million-acre reservation by this Native American tribe the Seminoles |
| #6981, aired 2015-01-12 | HIT THE ROAD $6,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Used by more than 50,000 people between 1841 & 1860, & winding 2,000 miles, this route crossed the Continental Divide & included Fort Hall & Fort Vancouver the Oregon Trail |
| #6975, aired 2015-01-02 | SORRY THE PLACE IS A MESS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows ruins and a map on the monitor.) 13th-century Whitby Abbey has been left a ruin by storms, neglect, the suppression of the monasteries &, of course, the German navy's shelling of this historic British county in 1914 Yorkshire |
| #6967, aired 2014-12-23 | EARTH SCIENCE $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) It wasn't until after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake that scientists discovered that this fault ran 800 miles from Northern California all the way to the Salton Sea the San Andreas Fault |
| #6960, aired 2014-12-12 | MASTERS OF SAX $1600: Raphael Ravenscroft's bluesy solo helped put this street on the map as a No. 2 hit for Gerry Rafferty Baker Street |
| #6955, aired 2014-12-05 | STATES' LONGEST BORDERS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The longest border between two states is the 715-mile border between these two states Texas & Oklahoma |
| #6952, aired 2014-12-02 | GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) With an area of 471,000 square miles & a population of 3 million, this autonomous region was incorporated by China in 1951 amid controversy Tibet |
| #6951, aired 2014-12-01 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Covering 120,000 square miles from Mexico into Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador & the Honduras, this civilization peaked from 250 to 900 A.D. the Mayans |
| #6945, aired 2014-11-21 | PEAKS & VALLEYS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Great Rift Valley reaches its northeasternmost extension, between the Lebanon & Anti-Lebanon mountains in this valley the Bekaa Valley |
| #6942, aired 2014-11-18 | BATTLE CREEK $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a video & map on the monitor.) 600 taxis rushed troops to the front in the opening weeks of World War I to turn back a German drive on Paris, an event that came to be known as the Miracle of this battleground river the Marne |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | MEET YOUR ANCESTORS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Though it leads in relatively few counties, most in the Northeast, this European ancestry, shown in green, is the USA's second-most common at about 11% Irish |
| #6930, aired 2014-10-31 | MEET YOUR ANCESTORS $1,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Census Bureau map codes U.S. counties by the residents' most reported ancestry; most counties in Nebraska are coded as this, the most common U.S. ancestry from central Europe German |
| #6926, aired 2014-10-27 | THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA $1,900 (Daily Double): The Congress redrew the map of Europe: Prussia gained much of this area centered on a river, including Bonn the Rhineland |
| #6916, aired 2014-10-13 | A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows notes and a map on the monitor.) Union soldiers found Robert E. Lee's handwritten plans wrapped around three cigars & lying in a field east of Sharpsburg, Maryland, four days before this bloody 1862 battle Antietam |
| #6915, aired 2014-10-10 | HISTORIC SHIPS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on a monitor.) Separated by a storm near the Azores, two ships that were part of a famous trio both made it back to Spain in March, 1493 but without this flag ship that was wrecked on a wreath near Hispañola the Santa Maria |
| #6913, aired 2014-10-08 | SPANISH HISTORY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) When the Armada was defeated in 1588, the Spanish Empire covered large areas of the New World; by 1825, only these two island possessions remained Cuba & Puerto Rico |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | DRAWING THE "LINE" $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) For much of its length, the 180th meridian of longitude is tracked by this line that varies where it diverges to avoid land the International Date Line |
| #6905, aired 2014-09-26 | & THE CATEGORY OF GEOGRAPHY $2000: This Alaskan peninsula's name is a homophone for what you may need to spot it on a map Kenai |
| #6895, aired 2014-08-01 | 1950-2000 $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On the morning of June 25th, 1950, forces in the north stormed across the 38th parallel, beginning this 3-year-long conflict the Korean War |
| #6879, aired 2014-07-10 | GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In order to gain military advantage, the ancient Romans were the first to build roads like the Via Claudia Augusta across this mountain system between central Europe & Italy the Alps |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | THE WEST $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1863, the Central Pacific Railroad broke ground in Sacramento, & the Union Pacific Railroad did the same in Omaha. The 1869 joining of the two in Promontory, Utah, was symbolized by this 2-word item the Golden Spike |
| #6876, aired 2014-07-07 | CHINESE HISTORY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a portrait and a map on the monitor.) Huangdi won a great battle that consolidated his power among the tribes of the Huang He River, so it's fitting that he is referred to in English as the this emperor the Yellow Emperor |
| #6872, aired 2014-07-01 | THAT'S SPOOKY $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 2013, a declassified CIA document showed a map with the name of this land parcel in the Mojave desert for the first time publicly; it was once used to test the U-2 spy plane (& who knows what else) Area 51 |
| #6858, aired 2014-06-11 | CZECHS MIX $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In September 1938, this land in Czechoslovakia, then containing a large population of German descent, was handed over to Germany to appease Hitler the Sudetenland |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | THE ROARING '20s $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a map on the monitor.) In 1927 it took Charles Lindbergh 33-1/2 hours to fly from Long Island to this metropolis; today, it takes around 8 hours, & people don't mob you for getting there successfully Paris |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | ON THE OLD MAP $1,200 (Daily Double): In the 1939 Britannica Book of the Year, this entry says the king is Ananda Mahidol & a chief town is Bangkok Siam |
| #6846, aired 2014-05-26 | EMPIRE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a monitor.) The map here shows the growth
of this empire, from 275 B.C. to 133 B.C.
to 14 A.D. & to 117 A.D. the Roman Empire |
| #6845, aired 2014-05-23 | THE MIDWEST $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Northwest Ordinance set Illinois' northern border here; when statehood was requested in 1817, an Illinois delegate had Congress move it 60 miles to the north to include a Lake Michigan port that would become this city Chicago |
| #6836, aired 2014-05-12 | OCEAN COMMOTION $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Atlantic Ocean's deepest point, at about 27,500 feet, is located in the trench bearing the name of this island Puerto Rico |
| #6833, aired 2014-05-07 | THE SOUTH $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1824, Tallahassee was chosen as the territorial capital of Florida because it was halfway between the two principal towns at the time, St. Augustine & this seaport city, the future cradle of naval aviation Pensacola |
| #6832, aired 2014-05-06 | ON THE MAP $400: In a valley 3,000 feet above sea level sits this capital city Caracas |
| #6830, aired 2014-05-02 | WRIT IN WATER $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On September 2, 31 B.C., this man's fleet was fighting the Battle of Actium against Octavian's fleet; an opening in the lines allowed his girlfriend to slip away with her ships; he followed her, & all was lost Marc Anthony |
| #6829, aired 2014-05-01 | POINTY ON THE MAP $400: This peninsula has a pointy northeastern tip on the Strait of Hormuz the Arabian Peninsula |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | GEOGRAPHER'S DICTIONARY $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew displays a map on the monitor.) A small British military possession in Cyprus, Akrotiri, is an example of this--an area belonging to one nation inside another, from the French for "to enclose" an enclave |
| #6775, aired 2014-02-14 | U.S. CITIES $200: With a population of 104,000, this city indicated on the map is the smallest to boast an NFL franchise. Green Bay |
| #6773, aired 2014-02-12 | HAIL TO THE CHIEF $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew displays a map of the U.S. on the monitor.) In 1952, the term "Solid South" referred to an area controlled by Democrats, even in this man's landslide win--the political map was very different back then Eisenhower |
| #6766, aired 2014-02-03 | PRE-'80s HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) By law, Roman generals couldn't lead forces out of their assigned province; Caesar's 49 B.C. crossing of this stream separating Cisalpine Gaul from Italy acted as a war declaration the Rubicon |
| #6760, aired 2014-01-24 | ANCIENT ROME $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) An emperor's visit to Britain in 122 A.D. led to the building of this defensive barrier that remained effective for almost 300 years Hadrian's Wall |
| #6756, aired 2014-01-20 | LET'S PLAY SOME GULF $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1906, Roald Amundsen entered the Beaufort Sea via the gulf now named for him as he became the first to sail all the way through this famous sea route the Northwest Passage |
| #6734, aired 2013-12-19 | MAP QUEST $200: Incorporated as a city in 1853, it's on the shores of Lake Winnebago b'gosh Oshkosh |
| #6726, aired 2013-12-09 | THE ____ OF ____ $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Most Americans had never even heard of this body of water in August 1964, but that was all about to change the Gulf of Tonkin |
| #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 |
| #6720, aired 2013-11-29 | ON THE MAP $400: A carillon in this city plays pieces specially composed by its native son Mozart Salzburg |
| #6713, aired 2013-11-20 | WORLD HISTORY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In the fifth and sixth century, southern Britain was invaded & conquered by Germanic tribes from this historic region, whose name still exists in the names of three German states Saxony |
| #6708, aired 2013-11-13 | "A" IN GEOGRAPHY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) 2,000 years ago, under Tigran the Great, this country's empire stretched from the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea; today, it's one of the smallest countries on the Asian mainland Armenia |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | AROUND THE USA $1,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) As the U.S. expanded its territory westward,
this point moved from the east coast in 1776 to South Dakota in 1959 with the addition of Alaska & Hawaii geographic center |
| #6696, aired 2013-10-28 | POTPOURRI $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The 4 great rivers of Africa are the Niger, the Nile, the Zambezi & this one that lends its name to 2 countries in its basin the Congo |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD WITH MAGELLAN'S CREW $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Magellan left Spain on September 20, 1519; just 1 week later, he received a letter telling him of a mutinous plot while getting provisions in these islands the Canary Islands |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD WITH MAGELLAN'S CREW $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After reaching South American waters, Magellan spent the winter of 1520 in Puerto San Julian, today in this southern region Patagonia |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD WITH MAGELLAN'S CREW $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The waterway that took the fleet into the Pacific is now named for Magellan, but because he was there on November 1, 1520, Magellan called it Todos los Santos, meaning this strait the Strait of All Saints |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD WITH MAGELLAN'S CREW $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Though Magellan gets the credit for the first around-the-world journey, he was killed midway through the voyage on the island of Mactan in what is now this republic the Philippines |
| #6690, aired 2013-10-18 | AROUND THE WORLD WITH MAGELLAN'S CREW $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1522, after three years & 42,000 perilous miles, only one of the original ships and 18 of the more than 250 original crew made it back to this Spanish region Andalusia |
| #6687, aired 2013-10-15 | OCEANIA $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of part of the South Pacific.) Port Moresby, on the Coral Sea, is the capital of this three-named country Papua New Guinea |
| #6684, aired 2013-10-10 | ON A MISSION $1200: In 1831 this ship left Plymouth, England on a 5-year mission in part to map South America & to study wildlife the Beagle |
| #6673, aired 2013-09-25 | WE PROTEST! $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A 1930 march against Britain's salt tax spanning 240 miles from an ashram at Sabarmati to the town of Dandi on the Arabian Sea was a nonviolent protest led by this man Gandhi |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $400: South Africa renamed a province in 1995, dropping this color that once preceded "Free State" Orange |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $800: From 1925 to 1961 Volgograd had this name, after a dictator Stalingrad |
| #6655, aired 2013-07-19 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $1200: Because it was the end of a railroad line, Atlanta had this original name, Latin for "end" Terminus |
| #6615, aired 2013-05-24 | HISTORY'S ODDS & ENDS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In Wyoming on July 18, as many turned right to the familiar route west, this 20-wagon party went left toward Fort Bridger & Hastings Cutoff; that did not end well the Donner party |
| #6613, aired 2013-05-22 | AFRICA $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Departing Zanzibar in March to find Dr. Livingstone, & in November finally making contact in Ujiji, was the 1871 journey that helped make this man famous (Sir Henry) Stanley |
| #6610, aired 2013-05-17 | BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $3,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) When conquered in 586 B.C., the Jewish people were resettled along the Kebar River, hundreds of miles from their home; hence the verse, "By the rivers of" this place, "we wept when we remembered Zion" Babylon |
| #6589, aired 2013-04-18 | MINNE-CODA $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Minnesota once stretched as far west as the Missouri River; when it became a state in 1858, its land area was pulled back to this river, that forms its entire border with North Dakota The Red River of the North |
| #6581, aired 2013-04-08 | EUROPE $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) 2,000 years ago, because the peninsula was believed to be a large island with reefs & sandbanks, writers like Pliny the Elder called the region by this name, meaning "dangerous island" Scandinavia |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | PONCE DE LEON & FLORIDA $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us an image of Ponce de Leon and a map of part of Florida.) Ponce de Leon is remembered on April 2, 2013, celebrated as the sighting of Florida's historic coast; he was between Cape Canaveral & this city, Florida's oldest, which wasn't founded until 52 years later St. Augustine |
| #6548, aired 2013-02-20 | ON THE MAP $800: It travels a bit over 1,000 miles, eh?, from the Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean the Mackenzie River |
| #6545, aired 2013-02-15 | LAKES $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) A narrow passage called the Rigolets connects this Louisiana lake to Lake Borgne & the Gulf of Mexico Pontchartrain |
| #6544, aired 2013-02-14 | U.S. POLITICS $2,600 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a U.S. map on the monitor.) 1968 was the last time a third-party candidate captured a state; Nixon won 32 red states, Humphrey took 13 blues, & this independent won a block of five Southern states George Wallace |
| #6522, aired 2013-01-15 | WOMEN IN SPORTS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of parts of England and France.) The crossing of the English Channel would have been 21 miles straight, but because of bad weather on August 6, 1926, a 35-mile route was swum by this Olympic gold medalist Gertrude Ederle |
| #6464, aired 2012-10-25 | ONE MAN, ONE BOAT $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Panama Canal hadn't been built in 1895, so Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail solo around the world, took the long way, passing through this strait on his three-year voyage the Strait of Magellan |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of the U.S. on the monitor.) In 1976, America was split straight down the middle; Jimmy Carter dominated the blue East, but the red West was solid for this man Ford |
| #6463, aired 2012-10-24 | THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of the U.S. on the monitor.) The North & South were clearly divided in 1888, when Republican Benjamin Harrison lost the popular vote but edged out this incumbent in the Electoral College Grover Cleveland |
| #6450, aired 2012-10-05 | A RIVER RUNS TO IT $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on a monitor.) The Indus River rises in Tibet & flows 1800 miles through South Asia before emptying into this sea that shares its name with an adjacent peninsula the Arabian Sea |
| #6405, aired 2012-06-22 | PHOENICIA PHUN $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew explains a region on a map.) Generally speaking, Phoenicia was bounded on the north by the Eleutherus River, & on the south by this mountain in present-day Haifa in Israel Mount Carmel |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | THE CRUSADES $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew displays a map on the monitor.) The nearest port to Jerusalem was this city, now joined with Tel Aviv; in the 1100s, the Crusaders captured it, lost it, captured it, then lost it for good Jaffa (Joppa accepted) |
| #6393, aired 2012-06-06 | INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC $1,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew displays a map on the monitor.) Once claimed in its entirety by Nicaragua, this coastal region named for its indigenous people was split in 1960 by the International Court of Justice, with the northern area going to Honduras the Mosquito Coast |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of a generic coastline.) As defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, these coastal belts are considered sovereign & can extend outward for up to 12 miles territorial waters |
| #6381, aired 2012-05-21 | S'MOORS $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Soon after most of the Iberian Peninsula was conquered by the Moors in the 8th century, the Spanish began regaining lost territory until around 1300 only this Moorish kingdom remained Granada |
| #6352, aired 2012-04-10 | 1850s AMERICA $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of the Southwest U.S. and northern Mexico on the monitor.) The U.S. wanted to build a railroad across the Southwest, but the land was too mountainous, so in 1853 flatter land for the railroad was purchased from Mexico by this U.S. minister Gadsden |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | MAPMAKING $4,800 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Greenland is much smaller than South America, but scale is distorted on this type of map named for a 16th century Fleming, so the farther away from the equator you get, the larger the distortion Mercator |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | GEOGRAPHIC NAME DERIVATIONS $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew points to a map on the monitor.) Of New York City's 5 boroughs, these two are named for real people; one a Swede, the other a royal the Bronx & Queens |
| #6323, aired 2012-02-29 | THE MIDDLE EAST $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The cities of Ramadi & Fallujah have given nightmares to U.S. troops engaged in this Sunni-majority province, Iraq's biggest in area Al Anbar |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | THE TRUTH LIES THEREIN $400: Old school GPS on a shopping mall map: "You are" this here |
| #6300, aired 2012-01-27 | FIRST IN WAR $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on a monitor.) Christian & Muslim lands are represented here on the eve of this series of wars--the first of which went from 1096 to 1099 the Crusades |
| #6290, aired 2012-01-13 | WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME $400: A direction on a map & what proverbially is wasted on the young south & youth |
| #6289, aired 2012-01-12 | HISTORY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Before his death in 323 B.C., he expanded his empire until it stretched from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Indus River Alexander the Great |
| #6275, aired 2011-12-23 | GOING THE DISTANCE $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a globe on the monitor.) On a two-dimensional map, a straight line appears to be the shortest distance between L.A. & London; on the globe, the actual shortest distance between them would be part of one of these big, 2-word geometric units great circles |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | FRENCH HISTORY $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In June 1940, France was split into German-occupied France & Vichy France; 2 1/2 years later, Germany gained control of a large part of continental France; Italy gained most of the area east of this river the Rhone |
| #6249, aired 2011-11-17 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were spread out over three continents: 2 were in Africa, 3 in Asia, & the 2 in Europe were the Colossus of Rhodes & this other statue the Statue of Zeus (at Olympia) |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | PUTTING CELEBRITIES ON THE MAP $400: Putting a letter before the first name of a "Grease" actress fills the seats in La Paz Bolivia Newton-John |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | PUTTING CELEBRITIES ON THE MAP $800: Adding a letter to a "There's Something About Mary" star's name makes her more bankable in Yaounde Cameroon Diaz |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | PUTTING CELEBRITIES ON THE MAP $1200: A famed lyricist, not brother George, is the big draw in Tehran Iran Gershwin |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | PUTTING CELEBRITIES ON THE MAP $1600: A boxer from Louisville has a big pay day in Bamako when you add a letter to his name Muhammad Mali |
| #6245, aired 2011-11-11 | PUTTING CELEBRITIES ON THE MAP $2000: After inserting a letter into a late actress' name, "Hud" is sold out for weeks in Kathmandu Patricia Nepal |
| #6244, aired 2011-11-10 | EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Beginning northwest of Moscow & flowing 2,300 miles to the Caspian Sea, this river is the longest in Europe the Volga |
| #6227, aired 2011-10-18 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of Africa on the monitor.) Extending farther north than any other country in Africa, Tunisia is only about a hundred miles from this European island Sicily |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | MOVIES ON THE MAP $1200: Steve Buscemi is part of a botched kidnapping; you might say it had a chipper ending Fargo |
| #6224, aired 2011-10-13 | MOVIES ON THE MAP $1600: Roxie & Velma (Renee & Catherine) make a path from death row to stardom Chicago |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | THE MOTION OF THE OCEAN $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) During the winter, the Somali current flows south & west; in the summer, it changes course & flows in the opposite direction due to the winds of this Indian Ocean storm season the monsoon season |
| #6219, aired 2011-10-06 | THE MOTION OF THE OCEAN $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Warm water currents cool & sink in the North Atlantic, then are carried into the Indian & Pacific oceans along the system known as the global this 2-word term, like something you might find on an assembly line a conveyor belt |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | LANGUAGES $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of Africa on the monitor.) With around 180 million speakers worldwide, it's the official language of eight countries, including the five former European colonies highlighted here Portuguese |
| #6209, aired 2011-09-22 | STRAIT AHEAD $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a map on the monitor.) At its narrowest, this strait separates Europe & Asia by less than 800 yards the Bosphorus |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1271, the Polos left Venice for China; when they couldn't find seaworthy ships in this town, that shared its name with a nearby strait, they continued their journey by land Hormuz |
| #6192, aired 2011-07-12 | THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Marco Polo was asked by Kublai Khan to make diplomatic trips to the far reaches of Khan's empire, perhaps making it as far as what is now this country Myanmar |
| #6188, aired 2011-07-06 | MAPS $800: This term refers to the box on a map that explains what the symbols and colors represent the key (or legend) |
| #6186, aired 2011-07-04 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on a monitor.) After noticing the area where the Nile River drains into the Mediterranean resembles a Greek letter, Herodotus was the first to use this term for the deposit of mud & sand at the mouth of a river a delta |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | KEEP 'EM SEPARATED $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on a monitor.) Forming a spine that runs through Russia from Kazakstan to the Kara Sea, this mountain range is traditionally considered the border that separates Europe from Asia the Urals |
| #6177, aired 2011-06-21 | SOUTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1860 the United Provinces of La Plata changed its name to Argentina; 21 years later, it expanded its territory by adding this region whose name comes from the Spanish for "big foot" Patagonia |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | TV SHOWS ON THE MAP $1200: The title of this Robert Urich show ended with a dollar sign Vega$ |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | TV SHOWS ON THE MAP $1600: After "Ally McBeal", David E. Kelley stayed local with this show about a troubled school Boston Public |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | TV SHOWS ON THE MAP $2000: Melina Kanakaredes starred in this TV show whose title doubles as a New England capital Providence |
| #6165, aired 2011-06-03 | TV SHOWS ON THE MAP $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1985 the theme to this hip cop drama was tops on the Billboard charts Miami Vice |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Stretching from the Taurus Mountains in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south, with its heart between the Tigris & Euphrates rivers, is this ancient region, home to the world's first cities Mesopotamia |
| #6147, aired 2011-05-10 | HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Germany's 1939 invasion of Poland was due largely to friction over a strip of land called the Polish Corridor; it was taken from Germany & awarded to Poland by the Versailles Treaty, giving Poland direct access to this sea the Baltic Sea |
| #6146, aired 2011-05-09 | EXPLORERS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1728, sailing from the Kamchatka Peninsula up along the Siberian coast & through the passage here, he proved that Asia & North America were separate continents (Vitus) Bering |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | ISLANDS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.)
The Florida Keys curve southwest for about 200 miles from Elliott Key to Loggerhead Key in this "dry" national park Dry Tortugas National Park |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The northwest angle belongs to the U.S., although it doesn't look that way; it's the only part of the lower 48 that extends miles north of this parallel of latitude the 49th parallel |
| #6142, aired 2011-05-03 | FLAGS OF THE WORLD $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows flags on the monitor.) Briefly using a flag with a map, this country opted for a solid red disk, signifying bloodshed after gaining independence in 1971 Bangladesh |
| #6133, aired 2011-04-20 | AT THE "END" $1000: From the Latin for "things to be read", it's a table explaining symbols on a map or chart a legend |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | FOOD WORDS & PHRASES $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of recent earthquakes around the San Andreas Fault on the monitor.) A Japanese seismologist saw a possible circular earthquake pattern that could build up to one very large quake, in the hole in what's called the Mogi this, like a bakery treat a doughnut |
| #6130, aired 2011-04-15 | NATION STATION $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a picture and a map on the monitor.) Helping to overthrow Ethiopian dictator Mengistu in 1991 sparked a drive for independence here, & in 1993 it became Africa's newest independent republic Eritrea |
| #6127, aired 2011-04-12 | THE AUTOBAHN SOCIETY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) If you drive on A3 in Germany's extreme southeast, from Passau to Wurzburg, you've been in this geographically largest state the whole 3 hours Bavaria |
| #6126, aired 2011-04-11 | ANCIENT EGYPT $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of Egypt on the monitor.) Egypt originally hugged the Nile River, but over the next 1,200 years, it gradually grew to cover an area reaching as far north as this river by the 1400s B.C. the Euphrates |
| #6106, aired 2011-03-14 | FROM HERE TO THERE $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of Great Britain on the monitor.) Proverbially, to walk Great Britain end to end, go from John o' Groats in Scotland to Land's End in this county Cornwall |
| #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 |
| #6090, aired 2011-02-18 | 4-LETTER COUNTRIES $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Landlocked & mostly made up of arid desert land, it's no wonder this country has been referred to as the Dead Heart of Africa Chad |
| #6083, aired 2011-02-09 | FRENCH HISTORY $2,600 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) At one point in the Hundred Years War, England & its allies possessed about half of France; by war's end in 1453, however, the French had pushed England off the mainland, except for this port the port of Calais |
| #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 |
| #6076, aired 2011-01-31 | ON THE AFRICAN MAP $2000: If you want to go from "A" to "Z" you can travel from this "A" country to Zambia next door Angola |
| #6074, aired 2011-01-27 | ORDINAL PHRASES $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Though the 1954 Geneva Accords boundary included the Ben Hai River, it was named for this northern parallel of latitude the 17th |
| #6071, aired 2011-01-24 | ANCIENT "P"LACES $1200: The Bible calls Canaan this "land", a name you won't find on any map the Promised Land |
| #6047, aired 2010-12-21 | SORRY IT DIDN'T WORK OUT $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In the 1930s, along its border with Germany, France built this defensive barrier, named for the French Minister of War; it failed because the Germans simply invaded through Belgium the Maginot Line |
| #6045, aired 2010-12-17 | THE WEATHER $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew explains a weather map.) On a weather map, an isobar is a line that connects areas with the same barometric pressure. A line that connects areas with the same temperature is called this an isotherm |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | LANGUAGES $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Of France's many languages, Breton, introduced by the Celts, & Gallo, developed from Latin, serve this coastal region Brittany |
| #6008, aired 2010-10-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a map.) The Oregon Trail started at Independence, Missouri & crossed the Great Plains by following this river the North Platte River |
| #6001, aired 2010-10-18 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of New England on the monitor.) In May 1643, to discourage attacks by the Dutch & others, the United Colonies of New England was formed by 4 Puritan colonies: Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, New Haven & this one Plymouth |
| #5993, aired 2010-10-06 | WE GET LETTERS $200: On a treasure map, it "marks the spot" X |
| #5989, aired 2010-09-30 | ADD A LETTER $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Add a letter to a country in Asia & you get this former African capital Lagos |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | EXPLORERS OF THE NEW WORLD $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1792, when George Vancouver sailed up the west coast of North America & surveyed & named the Puget Sound for a shipmate, he named this mountain on the mainland for a rear admiral friend Mt. Rainier |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | WOMEN ON THE MAP $800: The city of Enid in this state is believed to be named for a character in "Idylls of the King" Oklahoma |
| #5982, aired 2010-09-21 | WOMEN ON THE MAP $1000: Named for a Danish queen, it's the capital of the U. S. Virgin Islands Charlotte Amalie |
| #5978, aired 2010-09-15 | ATOLLS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the screen.) In the 1930s, transoceanic air routes starting from Midway Island used tiny Wake Atoll as a perfect fuel base to complete the 2,800-mile trip to this U.S. island territory Guam |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | SAINTS ON THE MAP $400: Once Scotland's ecclesiastical capital, this city is also a golfing mecca St. Andrews |
| #5973, aired 2010-07-28 | SAINTS ON THE MAP $1,000 (Daily Double): At the 2009 Tour de France, Alberto Contador won a stage including the Alpine passes named for this St.; he also won a dog St. Bernard |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | IRAQ'S PROVINCES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of Iraq on the monitor.) Though Iraq already had 18 perfectly good provinces, Saddam wanted a 19th, & on August 28, 1990, declared this was it, leading to war Kuwait |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | IRAQ'S PROVINCES $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of Iraq on the monitor.) Sulaymaniyah Province, dominated by this ethnic group, is friendly ground for Americans--just don't get too close to Iran, as three hikers did in 2009 the Kurds |
| #5949, aired 2010-06-24 | IRAQ'S PROVINCES $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of Iraq on the monitor.) Hilla Province was renamed as part of a program urging Iraqis to take pride in their ancient past; it became this, after the city of Nebuchadnezzar, whose ruins stand there Babylon |
| #5947, aired 2010-06-22 | CHINESE HISTORY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In October 1934, the Red Army retreated from Jiangxi; a year later, after crossing 18 mountain ranges, they arrived in Shaanxi, in a journey that's been called this the Long March |
| #5945, aired 2010-06-18 | LAKES & RIVERS $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Of the five Great Lakes, Superior is the farthest north; this one is the farthest south Lake Erie |
| #5944, aired 2010-06-17 | ISLANDS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Planes & ships have mysteriously disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle, an area roughly from Miami to Bermuda to this island commonwealth Puerto Rico |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | ON THE MAP $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden & the Indian Ocean form the eastern coast of the region seen here, known by this 3-word term the Horn of Africa |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | ON THE MAP $2,000 (Daily Double): The name of this South American capital is believed to come from Magellan's exclamation:
"I see a hill!" Montevideo |
| #5938, aired 2010-06-09 | THE VIKINGS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In three waves, the Vikings expanded their territory; the Norwegians sailed south & west, the Swedes marched eastward, & these people raided mainland Europe as far south as the Strait of Gibraltar the Danes |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | SURVIVAL AT SEA $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Richard Van Pham, who originally set sail from Long Beach, heading for Catalina got blown just a bit off course, & after four months, ended up near this country Costa Rica |
| #5935, aired 2010-06-04 | SURVIVAL AT SEA $2,500 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Better at navigating than handling subordinates, he was put adrift in a 20-foot boat in 1789 & sailed 3,600 miles from near Tonga to Timor Captain Bligh |
| #5928, aired 2010-05-26 | -ISMs $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of Africa on the monitor.) The map of Africa in 1914 included Belgian, German, British & French territories--the result of imperialism & this 11-letter sister -ism colonialism |
| #5927, aired 2010-05-25 | THE MIDDLE OF SOMEWHERE $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) It's about equally far from the eastern as the western border & from the northern border as the southern coast to this second-largest Burmese city Mandalay |
| #5917, aired 2010-05-11 | SOMETIMES A GREAT OCEAN $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) During the Mesozoic, the Tethys Sea separated the northern supercontinent of Laurasia from this continent that contained what are now Africa & South America Gondwana |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | COUNTRY ADD A LETTER $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew points to a map on the monitor.) Add a letter to the country shown here & you get this painful wrenching of the ligaments around a joint a sprain (for Spain) |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | COUNTRY ADD A LETTER $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a map on the monitor.) Add a letter to the country highlighted here & you'll get this acronym for a device usable offshore scuba (for Cuba) |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | COUNTRY ADD A LETTER $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a map on the monitor.) Add a letter to the country shown here & you get this word describing a fully equipped business opportunity a turnkey (for Turkey) |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | COUNTRY ADD A LETTER $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew points to a map on the monitor.) Add a letter to the country in red & you get this word for a female a woman (for Oman) |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | COUNTRY ADD A LETTER $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew points to a map on the monitor.) Add a letter to the country that's highlighted & you get this word meaning "harmless" benign (for Benin) |
| #5903, aired 2010-04-21 | THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Ottoman Empire reached its greatest extent by 1683, with one of its last acquisitions being this island conquered in 1669 after a 21-year siege Crete |
| #5892, aired 2010-04-06 | TIME ZONING $400: On a map of time zones, you might find "+1 day" to the left of this & "-1 day" to the right of it the international date line |
| #5882, aired 2010-03-23 | BODIES OF WATER $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In 1964, activity in this arm of the South China Sea led to increased U.S. troops in Vietnam the Gulf of Tonkin |
| #5881, aired 2010-03-22 | EARTH SCIENCE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) South America & Africa fit together like puzzle pieces; this theory says they were connected 200 million years ago & have been moving away from each other up to 4 inches a year plate tectonics |
| #5878, aired 2010-03-17 | INTERNATIONAL SEAFOOD $800: Caldillo de congrio is a chowder from this South American country, that on the map is practically all seacoast Chile |
| #5877, aired 2010-03-16 | OUR GEOMETRIC WORLD $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In a 1986 confrontation, Libyan leader Khaddafi said no U.S. ships would be allowed past the mouth of the Gulf of Sidra, drawing what he called this 3-word phrase the Line of Death |
| #5847, aired 2010-02-02 | EUROPEAN BODIES OF WATER $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Connecting the western Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean is this narrow passage of water the Straits of Gibraltar |
| #5836, aired 2010-01-18 | "G"EOGRAPHY $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Alex Haley traced his roots back to Kunta Kinte, an ancestor from this tiny African country here on the coast Gambia |
| #5835, aired 2010-01-15 | MAGAZINES ON THE WEB $1600: Let's map a way to this magazine's website where you can utilize its "Atlas Explorer" National Geographic |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | COLORS ON THE MAP $800: In a Wyoming national park:
____stone Lake Yellow |
| #5832, aired 2010-01-12 | COLORS ON THE MAP $1600: A suburb of D.C.:
____ Spring, Maryland Silver |
| #5825, aired 2010-01-01 | THE NEW TESTAMENT $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On his fourth & final missionary journey, Saint Paul sailed from Caesarea to Crete & was then shipwrecked on this island the Bible calls Melita Malta |
| #5807, aired 2009-12-08 | ISLANDS $3,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Because they surround Delos, the sacred birthplace of Apollo & Artemis, this island group derives its name from the Greek word for "circle" the Cyclades |
| #5790, aired 2009-11-13 | ON THE U.S. MAP $400: This "Silver State" has a state reptile, the desert tortoise Nevada |
| #5790, aired 2009-11-13 | ON THE U.S. MAP $1000: Go figure--this state's name is derived from a Native American word meaning "father of the waters" Mississippi |
| #5773, aired 2009-10-21 | ____ OF ____ $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) About 5 million years ago, the rise of this strip of land restricted the flow of water between the Atlantic & the Pacific, greatly intensifying the gulf stream the Isthmus of Panama |
| #5771, aired 2009-10-19 | LET'S TALK ABOUT THE WEATHER $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated weather map on the monitor.) A common weather pattern, bringing an abundance of warm, tropical moisture direct from Hawaii to the Pacific coast is popularly called this, like a 2008 comedy film the Pineapple Express |
| #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 |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE NEW WORLD $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) 34 days into crossing the Atlantic, Columbus quelled a small mutiny on October 10th; just 2 days later on October 12th, he changed history forever by coming ashore on the island he gave this holy name San Salvador |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE NEW WORLD $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) 12 weeks after discovering the New World, the Santa Maria was wrecked on a reef off the north coast of this large island on Christmas Day Hispanola |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE NEW WORLD $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On the return journey, after becoming separated from the Pinta by a storm, the Nina made landfall back in the Old World in these islands on February 15, 1493 the Azores |
| #5768, aired 2009-10-14 | COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE NEW WORLD $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) In April 1493 & amidst great pomp, Columbus announced the discovery of the New World to his patron, Queen Isabella, in this city Barcelona |
| #5738, aired 2009-07-15 | THE GREAT STATE OF... $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of the Northeast on the monitor.) The combined area of all the other New England states would fit inside this largest New England state Maine |
| #5719, aired 2009-06-18 | GETTING YOUR BERING $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map of the North Pacific on the monitor.) In 1740, Bering set out from Okhotsk, Russia, sailing eastward to America; on his return, he sighted many of these Alaskan islands the Aleutians |
| #5709, aired 2009-06-04 | THE CIVIL WAR $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After capturing & burning Atlanta, General Sherman led his devastating march to the sea, ending at this port city; he offered it to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift in 1864 Savannah |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | RUSSIAN TO THE BORDER $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) For more than 100 years, this northern neighbor was a grand duchy ruled by Russia Finland |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | RUSSIAN TO THE BORDER $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) This country contains a strategic peninsula whose ownership is disputed between it & Russia Ukraine |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | RUSSIAN TO THE BORDER $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The small Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, home to one of Russia's ice-free European ports, borders this Baltic state to the east Lithuania |
| #5700, aired 2009-05-22 | THE GIANTS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew points to a map on the monitor.) Completely landlocked & fed by rivers like the Zhem, the Ural & the Volga, this large sea is actually a lake the Caspian |
| #5698, aired 2009-05-20 | ROAD TEST $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of Asia on the monitor.) Much more than fabric traveled on this caravan route that started in Chang'an, China, & ended in modern-day Lebanon The Silk Road |
| #5688, aired 2009-05-06 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a map on the monitor.) The Straits of Mackinac separate the Upper & Lower Peninsulas & connect these two Great Lakes Huron & Michigan |
| #5652, aired 2009-03-17 | THE JOHN C. FREMONT EXPERIENCE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a map on the monitor.) The Great Salt Lake, the Humboldt River & Death Valley are all part of a desert region of internal drainage Fremont called the Great this the Great Basin |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | WE'RE MAP-HAPPY $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew points to a little lake in a little country on a map on the monitor.) Lake Assal, the lowest point in Africa at 509 feet below sea level, is in this country Djibouti |
| #5593, aired 2008-12-24 | WE'RE MAP-HAPPY $2000: (A red shape zooms out of the sea on the map on the monitor as Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) Located in the Caribbean, this tiny island's shape inspired its unusual name, which is Latin for "eel" Anguilla |
| #5592, aired 2008-12-23 | THE LONDON STAGE $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map of London on the monitor.) Getting its name from its position in relation to the older area called "the City", on a map this theatre district is actually in the middle of London the West End |
| #5573, aired 2008-11-26 | THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE $400: (Sarah indicates a weather map on a monitor.) Colors on the screen reflect different echo intensities; steps are taken so this precipitation, balls of ice more than 1/5 inch in diameter, don't skew rain estimates hail |
| #5561, aired 2008-11-10 | AMERICA IN THE 1800s $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a map of the American Northwest on the monitor.) From the hoped-for northern boundary of the Oregon territory, which was later set at the 49th parallel, came the rallying cry of Democrats in 1844: this "or fight!" Fifty-Four Forty |
| #5549, aired 2008-10-23 | FIREFIGHTING $600: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a firefighting map diagram on the monitor.) Firefighters make a perimeter around a wildfire--much of it by digging; when you hear a fire is 80% this, it doesn't mean it's 80% put out, but 80% of the perimeter is in place contained |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew points to a map of Southeast Asia on the monitor.) Malaysia consists of two regions--West Malaysia, on the Malay Peninsula, & East Malaysia, which occupies the northern part of this large island Borneo |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | IT'S A BIT CHILE TODAY $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew points out Chile on a map.) Outside of its main land area, Chile also owns several islands, including this one way out in the South Pacific about 2300 miles away Easter Island |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | FORMER NAMES ON THE MAP $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Most of the territory of the republic of New Granada became this modern-day country from which an isthmus became independent in 1903 Colombia |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | FORMER NAMES ON THE MAP $1000: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) What were formerly Northern & Southern Rhodesia are today these two countries Zimbabwe & Zambia |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | FORMER NAMES ON THE MAP $1,200 (Daily Double): Europeans once referred to China as this, still seen in the name of an airline Cathay |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | "I" ON THE WORLD $1000: (Jon of the Clue Crew points to a Southeast Asian region on a map on the monitor.) Once referring to a region controlled by France, today it's simply the name of this peninsula that includes Thailand, Cambodia & Vietnam Indochina |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew points out an area on a map.) It's North America's largest Pacific Coast island; the major city of the same name is not on it, but separated from it by straits Vancouver |
| #5530, aired 2008-09-26 | NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $1,600 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew points out a region on a map.) This region, whose name means it's at the foot of a mountain, is a plateau between the higher Appalachians & the lower Atlantic Coastal Plain Piedmont |
| #5459, aired 2008-05-08 | LET'S VISIT THE MIDEAST $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew indicates a map of the Middle East on the monitor.) In 1958 the spell of President Nasser's Pan-Arab Movement persuaded this country to join Egypt in the United Arab Republic Syria |
| #5456, aired 2008-05-05 | AROUND THE WORLD $1,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew indicates a map on the monitor.) The waterway that separates South America from Antarctica is known as this passage, for an explorer who may have navigated it in 1578 the Drake Passage |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | FUN ON THE MAP $200: Just one look at this island southeast of Sumatra makes me want a cup of coffee Java |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | FUN ON THE MAP $400: Say ahhhhhhhh! The Dalton Iceberg Tongue on this continent actually looks like a tongue Antarctica |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | FUN ON THE MAP $600: This world capital has the same name as a character in "Romeo and Juliet" Paris |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | FUN ON THE MAP $800: The Greater Antilles are big islands, like Cuba; the smaller ones may get a complex with this "diminuitive" name the Lesser Antilles |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | FUN ON THE MAP $1000: A digitally enhanced map of these bodies of water in New York State shows you how they got this name the Finger Lakes |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew indicates a map of the Western Mediterranean on the monitor.) From Vatican City, the world's smallest independent country, travel about 280 miles northwest & you'll reach this second-smallest country at less than 1 square mile in size Monaco |
| #5420, aired 2008-03-14 | AFRICA $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows a map on a screen) Cabinda Province is an exclave belonging neither to the Congo nor the Democratic Republic of the Congo which surround it, but to this large country just to the south Angola |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | ON THE U.S. MAP $400: Land o' Goshen! There's a city called Goshen in Elkhart County in this state Indiana |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | ON THE U.S. MAP $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) These two states on either side of the 36'30 line of latitude look a bit like mirror images of each other Virginia & North Carolina |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | AROUND THE WORLD $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew points out a region on a map.) Violence in this region of Western Sudan has spilled over into Chad & has led to worldwide humanitarian appeals Darfur |
| #5371, aired 2008-01-07 | "K" ON THE MAP $7,000 (Daily Double): It became a Caribbean capital in 1872 Kingston (Jamaica) |
| #5358, aired 2007-12-19 | ISLANDS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew points out a South Atlantic island on a map on the monitor.) Tristan da Cunha is often called the most remote inhabited island--the nearest major city is this one, 1500 miles away Cape Town |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | THE WEATHER CHANNEL $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew is back on the map at the Weather Channel in Atlanta, GA.) Fronts are boundaries where different air masses meet; alternating red & blue lines depict this type of front with little or no movement a stationary front |
| #5298, aired 2007-09-26 | FROM THE LATIN $200: This type of sphere with a map of the Earth depicted on it has a name from the Latin for "sphere" globe |
| #5275, aired 2007-07-13 | PLEISTOCENE STEALER $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) During the Pleistocene Epoch, the ocean receded & Beringia emerged, an example of this 2-word type of isthmus, allowing humans to come from Asia to America a land bridge |
| #5268, aired 2007-07-04 | PENINSULATION $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Jutting into the Black Sea, this region of Ukraine includes Yalta & Sevastapol, the site of a famous 1855 siege the Crimean Peninsula |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | LET'S CONSULT THE MAP $200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew displays a map on the monitor.) On this map, a star inside a circle represents these (national) capitals |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | LET'S CONSULT THE MAP $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew points out a map on the monitor.) On this map of Northwest Wyoming, dashed-line enclosures are used to designate national parks & these set-aside lands Indian reservations |
| #5252, aired 2007-06-12 | LET'S CONSULT THE MAP $1000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows a rectangular world map on the monitor.) Because areas far from the equator are enlarged, Greenland is bigger than South America in the 16th century system of projection named for this man Mercator |
| #5187, aired 2007-03-13 | "P"LACES ON THE MAP $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew overlooks a well-known cityscape.) In 1843 William Overton had to borrow 25 cents to file a land claim for what would become this largest Oregon city Portland |
| #5187, aired 2007-03-13 | "P"LACES ON THE MAP $600: Limpio, ah yes, a town you can clean up in, is a suburb of Asuncion in this country Paraguay |
| #5187, aired 2007-03-13 | ____ OF ____ $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows a map of the Pacific on the monitor.) 80% of energy released in earthquakes comes from the belt circling the Pacific called this for its volcanic activity the Ring of Fire |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | ON THE "TELE" $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew draws on a weather map on a screen.) One of the few Individual Engineering Emmy Awards went to Leonard Reiffel who invented this technology in the 1960s a telestrator |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | EXPLORATION $800: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Leaving Portugal in July 1497, going around Africa & with the help of a pilot from Malindi, this explorer made it to India in 1498 Vasco da Gama |
| #5164, aired 2007-02-08 | EXPLORATION $1600: (Kelly shows a map on the monitor.) In 1845, Ludwig Leichhardt completed a 3,000-mile journey, finding a route to the north coast & fertile pastures, exciting the people of this land Australia |
| #5103, aired 2006-11-15 | FUHGETTABOUDIT $400: Trying to locate this country just to the east of the old Berlin Wall on a map? Fuhgettaboudit! It's gone East Germany |
| #5068, aired 2006-09-27 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $1000: A large part of what is now this country was once Tripolitania Libya |
| #5027, aired 2006-06-20 | AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew points to a map of Southern California on the monitor that zooms in on a central region.) This world-famous area within Los Angeles is also an adjective meaning flashy or glamorous Hollywood |
| #4999, aired 2006-05-11 | AUTHORS IN THEIR YOUTH $400: As a child, Joseph Conrad pointed to the center of this continent on a map & said, "I shall go there" Africa |
| #4998, aired 2006-05-10 | IT'S ON THE MAP $400: The Spanish vanquished a native empire in this country in 1532 Peru |
| #4924, aired 2006-01-26 | WALK INTO A "BAR" $800: A line drawn on a weather map that connects points at which the barometric pressure is the same an isobar |
| #4864, aired 2005-11-03 | REALLY TOUGH WHEEL OF FORTUNE PUZZLES $600: ON THE MAP: This country whose capital is Astana became a republic of the USSR in 1936 Kazakhstan |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | ON THE MAP $400: Due to use of the magnetic type of this device in the Middle Ages, mapmakers started putting north at the top of maps a compass |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | ON THE MAP $800: Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator is said to have invented this word for a map collection an atlas |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | ON THE MAP $1200: A U.S. county's equivalent of a capital, it's often shown on maps as a dot inside a circle the county seat |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | ON THE MAP $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew traces lines on a globe.) Two of these meet around the poles to form what's called a great circle around the Earth the meridians |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | ON THE BATTLEFIELD $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map on a screen.) At Hastings, the Normans literally had an uphill battle to reach & defeat this king who held the high ground King Harold |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | ON THE BATTLEFIELD $2000: (Jon shows a map on a monitor.) In 1879 at Isandlwana, a maneuver called "Horns of the Beast" allowed this African group to get close enough to overrun the British the Zulu |
| #4844, aired 2005-10-06 | ON THE BATTLEFIELD $3,500 (Daily Double): (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map on a monitor.) A landing by Australian & New Zealand forces was driven back by future Turkish leader Ataturk in this WWI battle Gallipoli |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | OFFICIAL STATE SEALS $200: Its seal shows a map of the state with "Georgia" on one side & "Mississippi" on the other Alabama |
| #4774, aired 2005-05-12 | ON THE MAP $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers from a blackboard.) When shown near Yulin & Hanzhong, the symbol seen here indicates this world landmark the Great Wall of China |
| #4774, aired 2005-05-12 | ON THE MAP $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers from behind a globe.) From the Greek for "beside each other", it's the geographic term for the line seen here a parallel (of latitude) |
| #4774, aired 2005-05-12 | ON THE MAP $1600: On a map of the U.S., 1 of the 2 states that each border 8 other states Missouri (or Tennessee) |
| #4774, aired 2005-05-12 | ON THE MAP $3,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers from a blackboard.) On a map of the Pacific, the symbol seen here indicates this feature that shares its name with nearby islands the Marianas Trench |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | IT'S GENETIC $1200: The origin of the Human Genome Project lies in Alfred Sturtevant's 1913 map of the genes on one of these a chromosome |
| #4665, aired 2004-12-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $800: Life story of a black rights activist & religious leader who shows where treasure is buried on a map The Autobiography of Malcolm X Marks the Spot |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | I PUT YOU ON THE MAP $400: Rufus Putnam, named Marietta, Ohio in honor of this Frenchwoman, a pal of the U.S. during the Revolutionary War Marie Antoinette |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | I PUT YOU ON THE MAP $800: Dahomey on this continent got its name when a king built his palace on the grave of his defeated enemy named Dan Africa |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | I PUT YOU ON THE MAP $1200: Czar Peter the Great named this city for his wife, Yekaterina; later the last czar was executed there Yekaterinburg |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | I PUT YOU ON THE MAP $1600: Originally named for an obscure VP, this county where Seattle sits later declared itself named for a civil rights leader King County |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | I PUT YOU ON THE MAP $2000: Thessalonica was a sister of this conqueror, but it was her husband who named a city after her Alexander the Great |
| #4626, aired 2004-10-18 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $400: On a map of a country, a star inside a circle indicates this the national capital |
| #4584, aired 2004-07-08 | "CHA" $1000: On a map of Africa, this country is "dangling" off the right side of Niger Chad |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | SPRINGS ON THE MAP $400: This Australian town was named for a waterhole that was named for telegraph advocate Charles Todd's wife Alice Springs |
| #4491, aired 2004-03-01 | SPRINGS ON THE MAP $600: This Georgia town is home to the Roosevelt Institute, a comprehensive rehabilitation facility Warm Springs |
| #4431, aired 2003-12-08 | EAST ON THE MAP $400: Cheech Marin played a movie character born in this title area East L.A. |
| #4431, aired 2003-12-08 | EAST ON THE MAP $800: This city with a 2-word name grew around Michigan State University East Lansing |
| #4431, aired 2003-12-08 | EAST ON THE MAP $1000: As a geopolitical term it was coined in 1902 by U.S. Naval Officer Alfred Mahan to describe an Asian-African area the Middle East |
| #4376, aired 2003-09-22 | "R" MOVIES $1000: In this 2000 film Tulio & Miguel, 2 swindlers, get their hands on a map to a fabled city of gold The Road to El Dorado |
| #4328, aired 2003-05-28 | WHAT THE "L"? $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew) You can pinpoint any location on a map by following these imaginary lines that criscross latitude & longitude |
| #4290, aired 2003-04-04 | ON A MAP, SOMEWHERE $200: Dunoon, a burgh on the coast of this country, has a famous statue of "Highland Mary" Scotland |
| #4290, aired 2003-04-04 | ON A MAP, SOMEWHERE $400: The Furka Pass gets you between the cantons of Uri & Valais in this country Switzerland |
| #4290, aired 2003-04-04 | ON A MAP, SOMEWHERE $1000: Put on your thinking cap & tell us this is the country in which you'll find the village of Balaklava Ukraine |
| #4174, aired 2002-10-24 | THE FRENCH HAVE A(N ENGLISH) WORD FOR IT $200: To a Frenchman, it's a sphere on which a map of the Earth is depicted globe |
| #4140, aired 2002-09-06 | SAINTS ON THE MAP $400: It's home to over a dozen golden arches of McDonald's & a 630-foot high single stainless steel arch St. Louis |
| #4140, aired 2002-09-06 | SAINTS ON THE MAP $14,000 (Daily Double): Jesse James was terminated in this city, once home to a terminus of the Pony Express St. Joseph |
| #4089, aired 2002-05-16 | NAMES ON THE MAP $400: It's the only U.S. state named for a president Washington |
| #4089, aired 2002-05-16 | NAMES ON THE MAP $1600: You'd be wise to remember that Guadalcanal is part of this island chain named for a biblical person Solomon Islands |
| #4089, aired 2002-05-16 | NAMES ON THE MAP $2000: This explorer gave his name to a sea & a huge Antarctic ice shelf Ross |
| #3857, aired 2001-05-15 | THE 50 STATES $600: A map of this state appears on its seal along with the names of its neighbors Florida, Georgia, Mississippi & Tenn. Alabama |
| #3647, aired 2000-06-13 | SAINTS ON THE MAP $400: Careful, this dragon-slaying capital of Grenada is a possessive St. George's |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | STARS ON THE MAP $200: According to tradition, tossing a coin into this city's Trevi Fountain ensures a return visit Rome |
| #3519, aired 1999-12-16 | WEATHER CHANNEL $200: On a weather map a line with little triangles is this type of front a cold front |
| #3471, aired 1999-10-11 | ON THE MAP $600: Mainland Europe's only active volcano, it buried several Italian cities in 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius |
| #3260, aired 1998-11-06 | THE MAP OF EUROPE $200: Of Norway, Sweden & Denmark, this one is the largest in area Sweden |
| #3159, aired 1998-04-30 | PINPOINTS ON THE MAP $400: The Colorado Belle in this Nevada town is a riverboat-shaped casino on the banks of the Colorado River Laughlin |
| #3159, aired 1998-04-30 | PINPOINTS ON THE MAP $600: Once a whaling center, Edgartown is now a resort area on this Massachusetts island Martha's Vineyard |
| #3159, aired 1998-04-30 | PINPOINTS ON THE MAP $800: Utica in this state chose its name in 1798 by drawing it out of a hat New York |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $200: This North Carolina beach village with a 4-letter name really is all it's "quacked" up to be Duck |
| #3137, aired 1998-03-31 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $300: A 4,083-foot-high Vermont mountain is named for this camel feature a hump |
| #3111, aired 1998-02-23 | IT'LL END IN "TEER"s $1000: It's like a dictionary, only the entries are the names found on a map a gazetteer |
| #3068, aired 1997-12-24 | STARS ON THE MAP $400: This Libyan capital shares its name with a Lebanese city & both were founded by the Phoenicians Tripoli |
| #3068, aired 1997-12-24 | STARS ON THE MAP $600: This city "sprouted" from Gallic-Roman settlements in the Senne valley prior to the 7th century A.D. Brussels |
| #3056, aired 1997-12-08 | THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH $400: On a road map the M in M1 or M2 stands for this Motorway |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | ON THE MAP $200: The name of this Belgian resort once visited by royalty is now a generic term for mineral bath Spa |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | ON THE MAP $400: The Ross Sea, which reaches far into this continent, is the southernmost bay of the Pacific Antarctica |
| #3023, aired 1997-10-22 | ON THE MAP $1,000 (Daily Double): Nova Scotia's Lake Bras D'Or is a corruption of this name that now refers to a large part of Newfoundland Labrador |
| #2995, aired 1997-09-12 | WOMEN ON THE MAP $400: Formerly known as St. Thomas, this capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands had a sex change Charlotte Amalie |
| #2733, aired 1996-06-19 | "M" ON THE MAP $100: With a population of over 365,000, it's Minnesota's largest city Minneapolis |
| #2733, aired 1996-06-19 | "M" ON THE MAP $300: A certain points, this principality stretches less than one-quarter mile inland from the Mediterranean Monaco |
| #2733, aired 1996-06-19 | "M" ON THE MAP $400: In June 1942 the U.S. won a decisive victory over the Japanese in this air & sea battle Midway |
| #2729, aired 1996-06-13 | SAINTS ON THE MAP $500: A new nation came into being October 27, 1979: this island & the Grenadines St. Vincent |
| #2663, aired 1996-03-13 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $300: On a map crossed pickaxes are used to indicate the location of one of these a mine |
| #2633, aired 1996-01-31 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $400: It's the Canadian partner of the American falls Horseshoe Falls |
| #2610, aired 1995-12-29 | "A" ON THE MAP $100: The afghani is this country's basic unit of currency Afghanistan |
| #2610, aired 1995-12-29 | "A" ON THE MAP $200: Continent on which you'd find the Filchner Ice Shelf Antarctica |
| #2610, aired 1995-12-29 | "A" ON THE MAP $300: In area this north African country is the continent's second largest Algeria |
| #2610, aired 1995-12-29 | "A" ON THE MAP $400: 16th century guild houses line the Groote Markt in this Belgian port city Antwerp |
| #2610, aired 1995-12-29 | "A" ON THE MAP $500: Oranjestad, the capital of this Caribbean island, is known for its Dutch charm Aruba |
| #2569, aired 1995-11-02 | "Q" ON THE MAP $200: A railroad opened in 1908 links this South American capital city with the Pacific Ocean Quito |
| #2512, aired 1995-07-04 | "L"s ON THE MAP $200: There's a monument to the great racehorse Man O' War in this city, Kentucky's second largest Lexington |
| #2502, aired 1995-06-20 | ANAGRAMS $100: Pam peruses this before she goes on a trip the map (from Pam) |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | "L"s ON THE MAP $600: Livonian is a Uralic language spoken in the Livonia district of this country Latvia |
| #2429, aired 1995-03-09 | "L"s ON THE MAP $800: Much of what is now this country was once the kingdom of Lan Xang, or "Land of a Million Elephants" Laos |
| #2315, aired 1994-09-30 | ART $400: In Edward Savage's "The Washington Family", Martha is pointing out this street on a map Pennsylvania Avenue |
| #2212, aired 1994-03-29 | SCIENCE & NATURE $800: These lines on a weather map connect points having the same temperature isotherms |
| #2090, aired 1993-10-08 | ENDS WITH "END" $800: The list of symbols on a map or chart a legend |
| #2065, aired 1993-07-23 | "SPRINGS" ON THE MAP $300: A residence in this western Georgia resort was known for a time as "The Little White House" Warm Springs |
| #2060, aired 1993-07-16 | "H" ON THE MAP $100: The Unsinkable Molly Brown lived in this Missouri city, where she met a famous resident, Mark Twain Hannibal |
| #2060, aired 1993-07-16 | "H" ON THE MAP $400: The Hagenbeck Zoo is a major attraction in this German port city Hamburg |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | "S" ON THE MAP $200: Gstaad, which lies on the northwest side of the Bernese Alps, is a ski resort in this country Switzerland |
| #2038, aired 1993-06-16 | "S" ON THE MAP $800: Officially, this European country is a most serene Republic, La Serenissima Repubblica San Marino |
| #1955, aired 1993-02-19 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $200: A star inside a circle on a map indicates this the capital (city) |
| #1938, aired 1993-01-27 | WEATHER $300: Triangular flags on a weather map show the direction of this the wind |
| #1839, aired 1992-09-10 | "K" ON THE MAP $300: One of the world's largest man-made lakes, it shares its name with a state (Lake) Kentucky |
| #1839, aired 1992-09-10 | "K" ON THE MAP $400: At 6,880 square miles, this Arab country is a little smaller than New Jersey Kuwait |
| #1721, aired 1992-02-10 | "T" ON THE MAP $1000: This Mexican town known for its silver contains a museum named for its first silversmith, William Spratling Taxco |
| #1679, aired 1991-12-12 | AUSTRALIA $1000: If you put a map of Australia on a dart board this town would be in the bull's-eye Alice Springs |
| #1484, aired 1991-01-31 | NOT IN THE U.N. $400: You won't find it between Algeria & Angola in the UN, only between France & Spain on a map Andorra |
| #1473, aired 1991-01-16 | "M"s ON THE MAP $500: This Swiss resort city on Lake Geneva hosts a famous international jazz festival Montreux |
| #1415, aired 1990-10-26 | MAPS $200: A map of the Earth mounted on a sphere a globe |
| #1415, aired 1990-10-26 | MAPS $800: It's the caption on a map that explains what each symbol means a legend |
| #1328, aired 1990-05-16 | MOUNTAINS $400: If you search your atlas for the Atlas Mountains, you'll find them on a map of this continent Africa |
| #1318, aired 1990-05-02 | WEST ON THE MAP $200: A Bremen Town Musician works in this country West Germany |
| #1318, aired 1990-05-02 | WEST ON THE MAP $600: Since 1967 Israel has occupied a controversial area on the West Bank of this river the Jordan |
| #1316, aired 1990-04-30 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $500: On a map, a circle with a star inside usually indicates this the capital |
| #1273, aired 1990-02-28 | "H" ON THE MAP $100: This section of San Francisco was a hotbed of the hippie movement in the late 1960s Haight-Ashbury |
| #1235, aired 1990-01-05 | "S" ON THE MAP $300: A province in Spain, it was also the last name of a famous Spanish classical guitarist Segovia |
| #1235, aired 1990-01-05 | "S" ON THE MAP $400: Lake Assad is a large reservoir created by a dam on the Euphrates River in this country Syria |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | NORTH ON THE MAP $300: North Head is a promontory on the entrance to Port Jackson, this Australian city's harbor Sydney |
| #1230, aired 1989-12-29 | NORTH ON THE MAP $400: If a man in London went up to the district of Down, he'd be in this country Northern Ireland |
| #1051, aired 1989-03-13 | THE U.N. $200: The U.N. flag consists of a map of the world & 2 olive branches on a background of this color blue |
| #1037, aired 1989-02-21 | EUROPE $800: On a map, it's the sea you see just south of the Norwegian Sea the North Sea |
| #961, aired 1988-11-07 | "NEW" ON THE MAP $200: A Canadian province, or the New Jersey home of Rutgers University New Brunswick |
| #961, aired 1988-11-07 | "NEW" ON THE MAP $600 (Daily Double): This country, far from Holland, is named for a Dutch province New Zealand |
| #904, aired 1988-07-07 | MAPS $400: As the lines of latitude on a map are called parallels, the lines of longitude are called these meridians |
| #902, aired 1988-07-05 | MUSIC ON THE MAP $300: "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" & "Old Folks At Home" both misspell the name of this river the Suwannee |
| #859, aired 1988-05-05 | "T" ON THE MAP $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1888, these 2 "T" islands in the West Indies merged into a single British colony Trinidad & Tobago |
| #859, aired 1988-05-05 | "T" ON THE MAP $1000: This island country in the South Pacific is the only country in Polynesia still ruled by a king Tonga |
| #839, aired 1988-04-07 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $200: An asterisk on a weather map doesn't refer you to the bottom, but indicates this condition snowfall |
| #825, aired 1988-03-18 | MUSIC ON THE MAP $5 (Daily Double): You can buy a record w/"The Hawaiian Wedding Song" on 1 side & this Andy Williams hit on the other:
"Once I was alone /
So lonely /
And then /
You came..." "Canadian Sunset" |
| #825, aired 1988-03-18 | MUSIC ON THE MAP $300: It's "down the way where the nights are gay & the sun shines daily on the mountaintop" Jamaica |
| #825, aired 1988-03-18 | MUSIC ON THE MAP $500: It's where you'd find a red rose "growing in the street right up through the concrete" "Spanish Harlem" |
| #821, aired 1988-03-14 | "NORTH" ON THE MAP $200: For 364 days a year, it's where the "you are here" arrow points on Santa Claus' map North Pole |
| #821, aired 1988-03-14 | "NORTH" ON THE MAP $800 (Daily Double): It has a mean depth of 90 meters & surrounds the Frisian Islands North Sea |
| #805, aired 1988-02-19 | "NEW" ON THE MAP $800: This Illinois village where Abraham Lincoln lived has been rebuilt & is now a state park New Salem |
| #702, aired 1987-09-29 | MUSIC ON THE MAP $100: "There is a house in" this city "& it's called the rising sun" New Orleans |
| #702, aired 1987-09-29 | MUSIC ON THE MAP $300: In a fight over a Cajun queen, Big John sent a fellow from this state "to the Promised Land" Louisiana |
| #641, aired 1987-05-25 | WOOD ON THE MAP $100: Just ask Reggie Jackson, & he'll tell you the A's are from this city Oakland |
| #596, aired 1987-03-23 | SOVIET LEADERS $200: Robin Williams called the red spot on this man's head a map of Albania Gorbachev |
| #534, aired 1986-12-25 | MOVIES ON THE MAP $400: Memorably, down-at-the-heels screenwriter Joe Gillis met a silent siren at her home, 10086 on this street Sunset Boulevard |
| #494, aired 1986-10-30 | EUROPE $300: You'd find the cities of Grunberg, Gdynia, & Gdansk, on a map of this country Poland |
| #490, aired 1986-10-24 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $100: Writing in the now-defunct New York Sun,
Francis Church told this girl, "Yes, there is a Santa Claus" Virginia |
| #490, aired 1986-10-24 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $200: A year after being stranded in a city whose name he shared, he came to fame with "The Call of the Wild" Jack London |
| #490, aired 1986-10-24 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $600 (Daily Double): She learned songwriting in a class taught by Paul Simon in New York, not New Hampshire:
"I ain't tellin' tales, anybody else / Could repeat the things that I've heard / She's been talkin' sweet and it's on the street / How the girl's been spreadin' the word / Ahh, you should hurry, / You should let her know how you feel" Melissa Manchester |
| #427, aired 1986-04-29 | WEATHER $200: On a weather map of the Sahara, an "S" would stand for this in the air sand |
| #373, aired 1986-02-12 | MUSIC ON THE MAP $600: "The kids in" this Pennsylvania town "are sharp as a pistol when they do" this "Stomp" "The Bristol Stomp" |
| #373, aired 1986-02-12 | MUSIC ON THE MAP $800: Married "in a fever", N. Sinatra & L. Hazlewood were ready to go there "ever since the fire went out" Jackson |
| #316, aired 1985-11-25 | MUSIC ON THE MAP $300: "There's a pawnshop on a corner" in this city Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| #176, aired 1985-05-13 | NORTH AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): Direction you'd be traveling when going through the Panama Canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic side northwesterly |
| #83, aired 1985-01-02 | MUSIC ON THE MAP $600: Where Linda Ronstadt is "glad to be livin'" the U.S.A. |
| #83, aired 1985-01-02 | MUSIC ON THE MAP $1000: Roy Acuff's Indiana express the Wabash Cannonball |
