| #9045, aired 2024-02-23 | 1960s FICTION $600: A young woman struggles with mental illness in Joanne Greenberg's fictional autobio "I Never Promised You" this place a Rose Garden |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | SIMPLE SPANISH $200: There is a rose in Spanish & it's this word, not much different rosa |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | BUSINESS & FINANCE HISTORY $2000: In 1720 the value of this trading company's stock rose from 128 1/2 to 1,000, creating a disastrous "bubble" the South Sea Company |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED $1600: Salmonella is bacteria; Salamanca is one of the cities where this saint of Ávila founded a convent St. Teresa |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | MAY WE QUOTE YOU? $800: It was in her poem "Sacred Emily" that she wrote, "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" Gertrude Stein |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | ORNAMENTS OF YORE $1600: Seen here is this distinguishing feature of many Gothic churches, so named because it radiates out like a certain flower a rose window |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | CHICAGO TV $800: In the HBO version of this novel, Rose Leslie is Art Institute student Clare, involved with a chronologically nonlinear guy The Time Traveler's Wife |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | RED ALL OVER $1000: This word for red wine, now especially Bordeaux wine, can also mean a reddish color claret |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSES $1600: Seen here, this daughter of a movie swashbuckler is an actor in her own right Lily-Rose Depp |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | CROSS THAT BRIDGE $800: In 1952, a quick-thinking bus driver saved 20 passengers by accelerating & jumping the gap when this drawbridge rose unexpectedly Tower Bridge |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | SINKER $800: In a fitting end to "Titanic", a much older Rose drops a blue diamond called this overboard the Heart of the Ocean |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: "The Rose that Grew from Concrete" is a book of poems by this man better known as a rapper Tupac Shakur |
| #8505, aired 2021-11-05 | FLORIST'S READING LIST $2000: One of William Faulkner's most popular stories is "A Rose for" her Emily |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: The southernmost point that's U.S. territory is Rose Atoll, a part of this "American" Pacific possession American Samoa |
| #8403, aired 2021-05-19 | LITERARY ANTAGONISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): The blind monk Jorge of Buroos is the antagonist in this novel set in a Benedictine monastery The Name of the Rose |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | THEY LIVED TO 100 $4,000 (Daily Double): The mother of a president; her maiden name was Fitzgerald Rose Kennedy |
| #8358, aired 2021-03-17 | TERRIFIC TV $800: We won't say the name of the sitcom, but we can tell you this woman won a Best Lead Actress Emmy in 2020 for playing Moira Rose Catherine O'Hara |
| #8351, aired 2021-03-08 | THE CAKE IS A LIE $400: Cakebread Cellars doesn't bake cakes but makes these, like a vin de porche rose wine |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | PETS $400: If you're keeping this creature as a pet, a docile Chilean rose type is a good idea a tarantula |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | BE STILL MY ART $400: "Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness", said this Rose Period painter Picasso |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | ON THE MOVIE'S SOUNDTRACK $2000: 2018: "La Vie En Rose" & "I'll Never Love Again" A Star is Born |
| #8113, aired 2019-12-11 | ITALIAN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): Chapter one of this Umberto Eco novel begins as a sphere "swayed back and forth with isochronal majesty" Foucault's Pendulum |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | STADIUM STUFF $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands outside the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA.) For the 1932 Olympics, the Rose Bowl hosted the cycling events; it's expected to be a soccer venue at the Los Angeles games in this year 2028 |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | MAY THE SCHWARTZ BE WITH YOU $1200: Melvin Schwartz shared a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with this 8-letter chargeless subatomic particle neutrino |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | ART $1200: A masterpiece of this type of painting is Francisco de Zurbaran's "With Lemons, Oranges and a Rose" a still life |
| #7893, aired 2018-12-26 | MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS $800: This song by Seal was the big hit from the "Batman Forever" soundtrack "Kiss From A Rose" |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | A STREETCAR $800: In 2001 this City of Roses got the USA's first new streetcar line since WWII & it'll take you to the Rose Quarter Portland |
| #7802, aired 2018-07-10 | LITERARY TYPES $400: Umberto Eco said this flower "is a symbolic figure so rich in meanings that now it hardly has any meaning left" the rose |
| #7742, aired 2018-04-17 | SEEING RED $200: A cheerful view without a valid basis is seeing life through these glasses rose-colored glasses |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | VINTAGE CARS WITH PEDIGREES $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from the Nethercutt Collection.) The Nethercutt's 1928 Pierce Arrow was bedecked with flowers to carry the grand marshal of the 2010 Rose Parade, this heroic airline pilot who fit the parade's theme, "A Cut Above the Rest" (Sully) Sullenberger |
| #7710, aired 2018-03-02 | SCULPTURE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a sculpture on the monitor.) Leaning against another famous figure, the sculpture here is a personification of this river, with 16 children climbing about alluding to the 16 cubits it ideally rose during flooding to ensure a fertile year the Nile |
| #7703, aired 2018-02-21 | "C" THE FLOWERS $600: The rose seen here is nicknamed this for its resemblance to a head of one cabbage |
| #7690, aired 2018-02-02 | BUD $400: The official flower of the District of Columbia is the American Beauty type of this a rose |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | THE OSCAR-WINNING ROLE $400: Winning for her role as Rose Maxson, she called "Fences" a movie about "life & forgiveness & grace" Viola Davis |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | MOVIE TITLE PAIRS $600: A voodoo spell is put on the title characters of this Disney film, voiced by Anika Noni Rose & Bruno Campos The Princess and the Frog |
| #7433, aired 2016-12-28 | THEY SAID IT WITH FLOWERS $200: Gertrude Stein:
"____ is a ____ is a ____" a rose is a rose is a rose |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | IN THE RED $400: A poem by Robert Burns says that his love is like this red flower "that's newly sprung in June" a rose |
| #7392, aired 2016-11-01 | THAT'S AWFUL GRIMM $600: When 2 girls get too rough playing with a bear, the bear says, this girl & "Rose-Red, will you beat your wooer dead?" Snow White |
| #7375, aired 2016-10-07 | COLOR $1000: The carnation is from this family whose name is also a color the pinks |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | A SWEDISH KING NAMED GUS $1600: An amateur botanist, Gustav VI Adolf was an expert on this flower whose name is Greek for "rose tree" the Rhododendron |
| #7172, aired 2015-11-17 | TOUGH BALLET $800: (I'm Sarah Lane.) Requiring great balance & strength, one of the most challenging moments for a ballerina dancing Aurora is the extended sequence en pointe from the "Rose Adagio" in this Tchaikovsky ballet based on a fairy tale The Sleeping Beauty |
| #7138, aired 2015-09-30 | PAINTED LADIES $1200: In 1906 during Picasso's "rose is a rose is a rose" period, he finished a portrait of this author Gertrude Stein |
| #7130, aired 2015-09-18 | DYSTOPIAN LIT $800: This 2008 novel is set in Panem, "the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America" Hunger Games |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | THE NAME OF THE ROSE $400: A new variety, Anna's Promise, is the first in a series of roses inspired by this British TV series Downton Abbey |
| #7123, aired 2015-07-29 | THE NAME OF THE ROSE $600: Introduced in 2010, the English rose seen here is named this, after Robin Hood's gal pal the Maid Marion rose |
| #7086, aired 2015-06-08 | AMERICAN QUOTATIONS $1200: Her "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" first appeared in her poem "Sacred Emily" (Gertrude) Stein |
| #6793, aired 2014-03-12 | SO SAD $400: In a 1988 hit, Poison lamented that "Every Rose Has" one of these thorn |
| #6761, aired 2014-01-27 | THE NAME OF THE ROSE $2000: The name of this fragrant rose is the shortened version of a Syrian city's name damask |
| #6754, aired 2014-01-16 | THROWN OF GAMES $800: 354 wins did not overcome the controversy as this ex-Red Sox pitcher didn't make the Hall of Fame cut in 2013 Roger Clemens |
| #6692, aired 2013-10-22 | A CLASH OF SYMBOLS $600: In an 1874 cartoon Thomas Nast drew this creature scaring other animals, including an elephant a donkey |
| #6691, aired 2013-10-21 | 1990s HITMAKERS $800: This 1995 Seal hit appeared on the "Batman Forever" soundtrack & won 3 Grammy Awards "Kiss From A Rose" |
| #6687, aired 2013-10-15 | HIT PARADES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1893 this popular parade adopted a "never on Sunday" policy, so the 2012 one was held on January 2 the Rose Parade |
| #6638, aired 2013-06-26 | RED ALERT $400: Burns wrote, "O, my luve's like a red, red rose that's newly sprung in" this month June |
| #6603, aired 2013-05-08 | THE BOOK BOOK $2000: A hidden book by this ancient Greek is at the heart of the Umberto Eco thriller "The Name of the Rose" Aristotle |
| #6542, aired 2013-02-12 | AMERICAN LIT $18,000 (Daily Double): In Reginald Rose's play "Twelve Angry Men", the men are all members of one of these a jury |
| #6538, aired 2013-02-06 | ART & ARTISTS $400: "Acrobat on a Ball" is from this Spaniard's Rose Period Picasso |
| #6517, aired 2013-01-08 | EDITOR $2000: Editor George Davis' NYC house was also home to W.H. Auden, Gypsy Rose Lee & this "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" author (Carson) McCullers |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | COMPOSERS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) A silver rose is central to the action in "Der Rosenkavalier" by this composer Richard Strauss |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | PUP-PARAZZI $1600: In 1954, Stormy said, "thank you for being a friend" to this actress, who later played Rose on "The Golden Girls" Betty White |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | SCENTSATIONAL! $600: Smelling of rose, jasmine, musk & apple, Light Blue is a fragrance from this design house, D&G for short Dolce & Gabbana |
| #6382, aired 2012-05-22 | IN PERE-LACHAISE CEMETERY $400: A grave is a grave is a grave for this writer born in Pennsylvania Gertrude Stein |
| #6374, aired 2012-05-10 | A GRAY AREA $800: In the 1890s the U.S. Navy painted its war vessels gray--presumably this shade, also a term for the USS Iowa battleship grey |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | HISTORY SINCE YOU WERE BORN $800: In 2005 this mayor of Tehran won the presidency of Iran in a landslide over Hashemi Rafsanjani Ahmadinejad |
| #6370, aired 2012-05-04 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $0: Although he doesn't actually appear in "1984", his presence is everywhere--on posters, coins & telescreens Big Brother |
| #6365, aired 2012-04-27 | PLANT IT! $1200: The rose seen here is named for this Bohemian couples' dance a polka |
| #6348, aired 2012-04-04 | MAPMAKING $800: The "compass" type of this flower is used on maps to indicate the cardinal directions a rose |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | PLANT-HERS $1000: Siberian, Yellow Flag & Dwarf Bearded are varieties of this popular 4-letter garden flower an Iris |
| #6266, aired 2011-12-12 | NOT ACTUALLY A STATE CAPITAL $800: Home of the Cascade Falls, this city in Michigan (not Mississippi) is also called "The Rose City" Jackson |
| #6221, aired 2011-10-10 | TENNESSEE WILLIAMS $4,000 (Daily Double): In this 1950 play, a dressmaker's deceased husband & her new boyfriend both sport the title art on their chests The Rose Tattoo |
| #6195, aired 2011-07-15 | THE SUBJECT IS ROSES $2000: It's the anatomical name for a rose's soft, sometimes edible floral cup a hip |
| #6162, aired 2011-05-31 | SUMMER SCHOOL AT YALE $1000: "Modern American Literature, 1900-1950" looked at Cather, Eliot & this "Rose is a rose is a rose" writer, among others (Gertrude) Stein |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | LEARN SOME GERMAN $3,000 (Daily Double): It's grown in a garden:
Die Sonnenblume the sunflower |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | THE GREATEST IN SPORTS WITH MIKE & MIKE $800: (Mike and Mike in the ESPN studio deliver the clue.)
"When it comes to controversy, not much can top the Black Sox scandal of 1919"
"Not much true--but for me, nothing is as bad as in 1989 when this record-breaking player was banned from baseball for gambling on games while still a manager" Pete Rose |
| #5980, aired 2010-09-17 | 19th CENTURY QUOTATIONS $2000: (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from Jordan.) The color of the sandstone in this ancient city in Jordan explains why, in the 19th century, John William Burgon called it "a rose-red city half as old as time" Petra |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | BLOOM COUNTY $400: Here in L.A. County this flower is always in bloom in Pasadena around Jan. 1; there's even a big parade in its honor a rose |
| #5860, aired 2010-02-19 | FLORAL QUOTES $400: This redundant line by Gertrude Stein first appeared in the 1913 poem "Sacred Emily" Rose is a rose is a rose (is a rose.) |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | IN MEMORIAM 2009 $400: This founder of the Special Olympics & member of a political dynasty passed away in Hyannis at 88 Eunice Kennedy Shriver |
| #5797, aired 2009-11-24 | THE NEWSEUM $400: (Alex reports from the Newseum in Washington, D.C.) This is the microphone used for World War II English-language broadcasts by this woman, broadcasts that earned her a treason conviction; many years later, President Ford pardoned her Tokyo Rose |
| #5731, aired 2009-07-06 | THE MATERIAL WORLD $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a pink rock sample at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum.) Because of its softness, rhodochrosite is not used in jewelry, but it's highly valued for its color; the name means this, also glasses used by optimists rose-colored |
| #5722, aired 2009-06-23 | EVERYTHING'S COMING UP "ROSE"S $1000: This country music classic written by Bob Wills about a lost Texas love begins, "Deep within my heart lies a melody" "San Antonio Rose" |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | WHAT THE '90s MOVIE TITLE MEANS $800: Who can forget Mena Suvari on a bed of petals in this film? (The title is a type of rose) American Beauty |
| #5656, aired 2009-03-23 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Gertrude Stein, in a famous line, said this "is a" this "is a" this "is a" this a rose |
| #5596, aired 2008-12-29 | BOTANY $1200: Harison's Yellow is a hybrid of the Persian Yellow & Scotch Briar varieties of this flower a rose |
| #5579, aired 2008-12-04 | THE "GLASS" MENAGERIE $400: The 12th & 13th c. Notre Dame de la Belle Verriere in the Chartres Cathedral is a fine example of this stained glass |
| #5575, aired 2008-11-28 | REELIN' IN THE YEARS $800: The battles of Saratoga & Bennington were in this year, not the title of a musical 1777 |
| #5544, aired 2008-10-16 | FLOWERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Though it means "lily", the fleur-de-lis is a variety of this flower an iris |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | IS IT "TEA" TIME YET? $2000: In 1975 the Perfumer's Workshop introduced a fragrance named for this flower a tea rose |
| #5426, aired 2008-03-24 | OSCAR-WINNING MOVIE SYNOPSES $400: Brock is looking for diamonds but instead finds a picture of Rose, who is 102 years old; then--a flashback Titanic |
| #5400, aired 2008-02-15 | VWLLSS FLWRS $1000: RS
(2 responses, please) rose & iris |
| #5273, aired 2007-07-11 | KNOCK U OUT $800: Remove the "U" from a verb meaning "to awaken" & a flower blooms rouse & rose |
| #5244, aired 2007-05-31 | GIVE ME AN "A" $800: This strict Mennonite sect that rose out of the Anabaptists is found mostly in Pennsylvania & Ohio the Amish |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | AMERICAN AUTHORS $1000: William Rose Benet won a Pulitzer for "The Dust Which Is God", & this brother won for "John Brown's Body" Stephen Vincent Benet |
| #5221, aired 2007-04-30 | HISTORICAL FICTION $1600: Brother William, the hero of this Umberto Eco novel, is a buddy of William of Occam Name of the Rose |
| #5137, aired 2007-01-02 | A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME $800: Born from a "Queen Mum", she became the pink rose seen here after her accession to the throne in 1952 Queen Elizabeth II |
| #5090, aired 2006-10-27 | THE POETRY OF LOVE $600: "My luve is like a red, red rose, that's newly sprung in June", once swooned this poetic Scot (Rabbie) Burns |
| #5077, aired 2006-10-10 | I AM CURIOUS: YELLOW $800: A Confederate marching song, this colorful 1850s ditty was a hit for Mitch Miller in the 1950s "The Yellow Rose of Texas" |
| #5026, aired 2006-06-19 | HARLEM SHUFFLE $200: "There is a rose in East Harlem"--nah. "There is a rose in" this other name for this area Spanish Harlem |
| #5004, aired 2006-05-18 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Edith Piaf tune that's at home in the White House flower beds, admiring a Hieronymous Bosch painting "La Vie En Rose Garden Of Earthly Delights" |
| #4966, aired 2006-03-27 | "TA" TA $800: The Chilean Rose is a commonly imported type of this arachnid named for an Italian town a tarantula |
| #4945, aired 2006-02-24 | ATTENTION, SPACE CADETS $1000: Don't miss the Cosmic Pathway, a stroll through 13 billion years of cosmic evolution, when visiting this NYC planetarium the Hayden Planetarium |
| #4831, aired 2005-09-19 | A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE $200: This World War II radio propagandist was born on the Fourth of July, 1916 Tokyo Rose |
| #4831, aired 2005-09-19 | A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE $400: Alliterative woman described in song here by Nat King Cole
"Wild and wind-blown /
That's how you've grown" "Ramblin' Rose" |
| #4831, aired 2005-09-19 | A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE $600: In 1956 Aussie Murray Rose became the 1st male swimmer to win 2 solo Olympic golds since this man in 1924 (Johnny) Weissmuller |
| #4831, aired 2005-09-19 | A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE $800: In this Umberto Eco novel, William of Baskerville solves a murder like a medieval Sherlock Holmes The Name of the Rose |
| #4831, aired 2005-09-19 | A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE $1000: The 2 British royal houses of the Wars of the Roses York & Lancaster |
| #4817, aired 2005-07-12 | I PROMISED YOU THE ROSE GARDEN $400: If the prospective "pardonee" one of these can't fulfill his duties at an annual Rose Garden event, an alternate is ready a turkey |
| #4722, aired 2005-03-01 | ALSO AN APPLE VARIETY $800: British royal house symbolized by a white rose York |
| #4719, aired 2005-02-24 | WOODY ALLEN'S MANHATTAN $400: The Carnegie Deli is the location where several comics remember this dismal failure of a manager in a 1984 movie Broadway Danny Rose |
| #4717, aired 2005-02-22 | IT'S ALL A PLANT $800: The strawberry is not a member of the berry family but is in fact a member of this garden flower family the rose |
| #4677, aired 2004-12-28 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $400: From the Latin for "root", this vegetable is commonly cut into a rose shape for hors d'oeuvres a radish |
| #4677, aired 2004-12-28 | ONWARD CHRISTIAN SLATER $600: 1986: Christian & Sean Connery solve a mysterious murder at a medieval monastery The Name of the Rose |
| #4582, aired 2004-07-06 | "DIAMOND"s IN THE ROUGH $2000: This lavish-living turn-of-the-century financier rose from a job as a bellhop Diamond Jim Brady |
| #4504, aired 2004-03-18 | NBA RULES $200: (Hi, I'm Malik Rose.) Rule 4, Section 14 says that while an opponent's doing this, I can't run past him, wave my arms or talk trash to him shooting a free throw |
| #4461, aired 2004-01-19 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Seal's hit song about smooching with a president's mom "Kiss From A Rose Kennedy" |
| #4445, aired 2003-12-26 | ROCK & ROLL BOOKSTORE $2000: "The Rose that Grew from Concrete" is the title of a book of this slain rapper's poetry Tupac Shakur |
| #4434, aired 2003-12-11 | READING PEOPLE'S MAIL $1200: West from Home" is a collection of her letters while visiting her daughter Rose Wilder Lane in San Francisco Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | WHAT'S THE STORY $800: His shocking story "A Rose for Emily" is about the life & death of a southern woman William Faulkner |
| #4398, aired 2003-10-22 | BASEBALL HISTORY $2000: During his 22-year career he walked a then-record 2,056 times Babe Ruth |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | COMING UP ROSES $800: The name on this hybrid tea rose is also on a great pair of records -- "9 to 5" & "Two Doors Down" Dolly Parton |
| #4223, aired 2003-01-01 | DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART $400: On a 2002 TV series, "The Bachelor" rejected women by not offering them one of these rose |
| #4168, aired 2002-10-16 | THE ROSES $1000: In this film, Woody Allen is a manager to blind xylophonists, piano-playing birds & has-been crooners Broadway Danny Rose |
| #4139, aired 2002-09-05 | CHILDREN'S LIT $800: In 1939 she published "The World Is Round" about a child named Rose... is a rose... is a rose... Gertrude Stein |
| #4135, aired 2002-07-19 | COLOR MY WORLD $1000: In a 15th century English war, a rose of this color represented the House of York white |
| #4128, aired 2002-07-10 | PERIOD $1600: Picasso's "Two Acrobats with a Dog" represents this 1904-1906 period of his career (Hint: it's not "Blue") Rose (Period) |
| #4095, aired 2002-05-24 | GRIMM FAIRY TALES $1200: In one story, this title girl & her sister Rose-Red encounter a wicked dwarf who has bewitched the king's son Snow White |
| #4012, aired 2002-01-29 | ROSES $800: Also the name of a Kevin Spacey film this rose is the official flower of Washington, D.C. American Beauty |
| #3957, aired 2001-11-13 | YOU SEE L.A. $1000: This venue, home to the first Super Bowl, was also the site of the 1932 & 1984 Olympic games the Coliseum |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | POETS & POETRY $200: Robert Burns wrote, "O, my love is like a red, red" one of these "that's newly sprung in June" rose |
| #3766, aired 2001-01-08 | FLOWERS $100: Encarta calls it the world's most popular & widely cultivated garden flower Rose |
| #3749, aired 2000-12-14 | R&B $400: The title cut from Aretha Franklin's "A Rose Is Still A Rose" album was written & produced by this Fugees phenom Lauryn Hill |
| #3668, aired 2000-07-12 | ROSE $500 (Daily Double): You can make a decorative wreath out of the roses named for this actress whose family tree is a Gumm Judy Garland |
| #3668, aired 2000-07-12 | ROSE $600: This hybrid tea rose shares its name with a top French cooking school Cordon Bleu |
| #3664, aired 2000-07-06 | L.A. AREA MUSEUMS $600: The Norton Simon Museum in this city a-rose anew & is parading its redesigned look Pasadena |
| #3636, aired 2000-05-29 | EVERYTHING'S COMING UP "ROSE"S $500: Robert Louis Stevenson wrote that marriage "is a field of battle, and not" this a bed of roses |
| #3546, aired 2000-01-24 | BRITISH AUTHORS $300: In a Robert Browning title, "The Book" is paired with this object -- but not the one Robert gave Elizabeth Ring (but not the ring he gave her) |
| #3534, aired 2000-01-06 | "NEVER" AT THE MOVIES $600: This 1977 movie about a schizophrenic girl was adapted from Joanne Greenberg's book of the same name I Never Promised You a Rose Garden |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | ROSE IS A ROSE $200: As a rule, rose stems should be cut above a group of 5 of these leaves |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | ROSE IS A ROSE $400: A verb meaning to remove withered roses, or a noun meaning a fan of a Jerry Garcia band Deadhead |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | ROSE IS A ROSE $600: On a rose, it's not the side of the pelvis but the berrylike fruit hips |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | ROSE IS A ROSE $800: One rose is named for this Louisiana "port", the headquarters of the American Rose Society Shreveport |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | ROSE IS A ROSE $1000: From a word meaning "perfumed", it's a liquid obtained by distilling rose petals attar |
| #3525, aired 1999-12-24 | DECEMBER 24 $800: On Christmas Eve in 1988 this group found itself with a No. 1 hit, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" Poison |
| #3419, aired 1999-06-17 | FOR WHAT ITS WORDSWORTH $200: "The rainbow comes and goes, and lovely is" this flower the rose |
| #3374, aired 1999-04-15 | FLOWERS $1000: This agave whose name echoes its cylindrical shape
is not a rose
is not a rose
is not a rose Tuberose |
| #3301, aired 1999-01-04 | SAYS YOU $400: The most famous line from this author's "Sacred Emily" is "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" Gertrude Stein |
| #3299, aired 1998-12-31 | POUR ME SOME CHAMPAGNE! $200: A little red wine is usually added to make this popular color of champagne rosé (or pink) |
| #3275, aired 1998-11-27 | "KISS"ING MUSIC $600: This song by Seal is from the movie "Batman Forever" "Kiss From A Rose" |
| #3153, aired 1998-04-22 | GEE, YOUR HOUSE SMELLS NICE $800: From French for "little bag", rose petals may fill this in your lingerie drawer Sachet |
| #3122, aired 1998-03-10 | BOTANY $1000: During Elizabethan times this flower, known as the clove pink, was used to spice wine Carnation |
| #3106, aired 1998-02-16 | GERTRUDE STEIN SAYS... $100: A this "is a" this
"is a" this
"is a" this rose |
| #2997, aired 1997-09-16 | WRITERS NAMED WILLIAM $400: "A Rose For Emily" is a well-known short story by this author of "The Sound And The Fury" William Faulkner |
| #2904, aired 1997-03-27 | DECORATIVE ARTS $800: Punto alla rosa, or rose point, is a flowery type of this delicate openwork fabric Lace |
| #2842, aired 1996-12-31 | SWEET SONGS $300: In a Tony Orlando & Dawn song, "She's got rings on her fingers and bells on her toes" "Sweet Gypsy Rose" |
| #2759, aired 1996-09-05 | PEN NAMES $1000: Rose Blight is a pseudonym of this feminist who wrote "The Female Eunuch" Germaine Greer |
| #2730, aired 1996-06-14 | SPORTS $100: With a capacity of 100,184, this Pasadena football stadium is the largest west of the Mississippi the Rose Bowl |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | GEMS $100: Morganite is a pink or rose-colored gem named for this American financier J.P. Morgan |
| #2691, aired 1996-04-22 | GARDENING $100: The true "York and Lancaster" is a Damask type of this thorny flowering plant a rose |
| #2681, aired 1996-04-08 | SAINTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Rose Philippine Duchesne worked as a missionary among the Potawatomi Indians in what's now this state Kansas |
| #2607, aired 1995-12-26 | GARDENING $300: This flower of love is the one Japanese beetles love best a rose |
| #2571, aired 1995-11-06 | POTPOURRI $200: The "peace", introduced in 1945, is one of the most famous hybrid tea varieties of this flower a rose |
| #2539, aired 1995-09-21 | QUOTATIONS $200: She said, "Too few is as many as too many" as well as "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" Gertrude Stein |
| #2535, aired 1995-09-15 | FLOWERS $200: The Mister Lincoln is one of the finest red varieties of this thorned flower rose |
| #2396, aired 1995-01-23 | SONG LYRICS $500: In this Amanda McBroom song, Bette Midler sang, "I say love it is a flower and you its only seed" "The Rose" |
| #2352, aired 1994-11-22 | EUROPEAN CAPITALS $100: The Volksgarden, a beautiful park in this Austrian capital, is famous for its rose trees Vienna |
| #2340, aired 1994-11-04 | DRAMA $800: In a 1922 Anne Nichols play, he marries an Irish girl named Rose Mary Murphy, starting a family feud Abie |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | SONGS OF THE '60s $800: The colossal, colorful commercial character in the title of a 1965 Kingsmen hit the Jolly Green Giant |
| #2269, aired 1994-06-16 | THE BIBLE $600: "In the first year of Belshazzar King of Babylon" this prophet "had a dream and visions" Daniel |
| #2261, aired 1994-06-06 | WORLD LITERATURE $1000: "Travels In Hyperreality" is a collection of essays by this author of "The Name of the Rose" Umberto Eco |
| #2228, aired 1994-04-20 | WINE $100: The Grenache type of this "pink" wine is made from black grapes a blush wine (a rosé) |
| #2117, aired 1993-11-16 | PLAYS $400: This play about a jury is based on a classic "Studio One" teleplay by Reginald Rose 12 Angry Men |
| #2104, aired 1993-10-28 | MISC. $300: Keyboardist Dizzy Reed, who joined this Axl Rose group in 1990, is a big "Jeopardy!" fan Guns N' Roses |
| #2010, aired 1993-05-07 | EAT YOUR VEGETABLES $400: The white rose type of this is similar to the russet but has a thinner skin potato |
| #1999, aired 1993-04-22 | CELEBRITY WOMEN $200: A salmon pink rose has been named for this entertainer, the original flower girl in "My Fair Lady" Julie Andrews |
| #1950, aired 1993-02-12 | PLANTS & TREES $200: The highest price paid for this flower in the U.S. was $4,500 for a cymbidium an orchid |
| #1933, aired 1993-01-20 | FILE UNDER "R" $300: This root vegetable is often made into a rose- shaped hors d'oeuvre a radish |
| #1865, aired 1992-10-16 | BROADWAY $200: When "Gypsy" begins, Louise is just a stripling; by the play's end, she's this famous stripper Gypsy Rose Lee |
| #1859, aired 1992-10-08 | "ROSE"s $200: A cheerful or optimistic person is said to be viewing the world through these rose-colored glasses |
| #1859, aired 1992-10-08 | "ROSE"s $400: Robert Louis Stevenson said that "Marriage is a field of battle" & not this a bed of roses |
| #1832, aired 1992-07-14 | MOVIE SONGS $400: Title line preceding "It's the April rose that only grows in the early spring" love is a many-splendored thing |
| #1755, aired 1992-03-27 | GARDENING $200: A tea type of this flower is named for singer Dolly Parton rose |
| #1715, aired 1992-01-31 | WOMEN $600: One book called her costume "lipstick, rouge, slippers; two fluffy fans... and a dim lavender light" Sally Rand |
| #1711, aired 1992-01-27 | FLOWERS $300: The Tiffany, which has pink-blend flowers, is a hybrid tea one of these a rose |
| #1646, aired 1991-10-28 | COLORFUL WORDS & PHRASES $500: A broad, flat cap often worn by Scottish soldiers, or the state flower of Texas the bluebonnet |
| #1599, aired 1991-07-11 | MONTHS $1000: Burns wrote, "O, my luve is like a red, red, rose, that's newly sprung in" this month June |
| #1, aired 1990-06-16 | FIRST LADIES $800: "Murder in the Rose Garden" is the 7th in a series of mystery novels featuring her as a sleuth Eleanor Roosevelt |
| #1275, aired 1990-03-02 | SONGS OF THE '60s $100: In 1961 Ben E. King sang, "There is a rose in" this area of New York City Spanish Harlem |
| #1207, aired 1989-11-28 | FLORAL QUOTES $200: "Rose is a rose is a rose" is this writer's most famous redundancy Gertrude Stein |
| #1199, aired 1989-11-16 | THE WARS OF THE ROSES $100: Contrary to legend, a rose of this color may not have been a symbol of the house of Lancaster Red |
| #1176, aired 1989-10-16 | 20th CENTURY WRITERS $200: 1 of 2 plays for which Tennessee Williams won a Pulitzer Prize 1 of ("A Streetcar Named Desire" or "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof") |
| #1127, aired 1989-06-27 | HODGEPODGE $400: During its testing, this 1989 Rose Parade "float" broke free from its tethers & went up, up & away Superman float (balloon) |
| #991, aired 1988-12-19 | POETRY $400: Wordsworth's poem on these flowers begins, "I wandered lonely as a cloud" daffodils |
| #976, aired 1988-11-28 | POTPOURRI $300: This rose was named for the capital city of Syria the Damask rose |
| #962, aired 1988-11-08 | CARDS & DICE $900 (Daily Double): Found in every complete deck of cards, it's the name of the group heard here:
"Love... is a many splendored thing /
It's the April rose that only grows in the early spring..." The Four Aces |
| #953, aired 1988-10-26 | PLANTS & TREES $800: The climbing President Hoover is a variety of this flower rose |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | NEW YORKERS $500 (Daily Double): New Yorker who topped pop charts in 1955 with the following song about a Texan:
"There's a yellow rose in Texas that I am gonna see / Nobody else could miss her..." Mitch Miller |
| #819, aired 1988-03-10 | ROSES $1000: A rose is the state flower for these 2 states, the Empire State, & the Empire State of the South New York & Georgia |
| #754, aired 1987-12-10 | SWEETS $200: A member of the rose family, this "nut" is used in marzipan an almond |
| #711, aired 1987-10-12 | GRIMM FAIRY TALES $100: Sometimes called "Briar Rose", this tale is better known by a drowsy title Sleeping Beauty |
| #703, aired 1987-09-30 | MILITARY MOVIES $800 (Daily Double): 1 of 3 John Wayne movies from 1948-50 that were known as John Ford's U.S. Cavalry trilogy (1 of) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Fort Apache, or Rio Grande |
| #622, aired 1987-04-28 | HIPS $300: The fleshy seed receptacle of this flower is called a hip a rose |
| #619, aired 1987-04-23 | HOLIDAYS $200: Flower most associated with Memorial Day poppies |
| #582, aired 1987-03-03 | IMELDA MARCOS $400: Type of competition in which Imelda won the titles "Rose of Tacloban" & "Muse of Manila" beauty contests |
| #468, aired 1986-09-24 | U.S. HISTORY $400: This Confederate Civil War song became a hit single for Mitch Miller in 1955 The Yellow Rose of Texas |
| #443, aired 1986-05-21 | WHO CARES? $500: Nationality of composer Edward MacDowell American |
| #418, aired 1986-04-16 | THEMES & TRADEMARKS $100: In the Hallmark card logo, it's the symbol above the script a crown |
| #309, aired 1985-11-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $800: In Latin, rosa, rosae, rosam, for example declension |
| #266, aired 1985-09-16 | U.S.A. $100: It took its first vacation from New York in 100 years to appear in the '85 Rose Parade the Statue of Liberty's torch |
| #52, aired 1984-11-20 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $600: It can also be said "Emerge odorous as an American beauty" Come out smelling like a rose |
