#14, aired 2023-09-27 | AIRPORT STORES $1200: African Origins and MadeInSA are two craft stores in O.R. Tambo airport, a hub located in this city Johannesburg |
#8935, aired 2023-09-22 | COMPOUND ADJECTIVES $2000: Mean & unfeeling, like "Hannah, the vamp of Savannah" Hard Hearted |
#8510, aired 2021-11-12 | MOVIES BY OSCAR-WINNING SONGS $2000: "Thanks For The Memory", from "The Big" this "of 1938" Broadcast |
#6938, aired 2014-11-12 | THE REAL FIRST NAME $2000: of Mother Teresa Agnes |
#6320, aired 2012-02-24 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: Saginaw Bay on the east coast of Michigan's Lower Peninsula is an inlet of this Great Lake Lake Huron |
#5841, aired 2010-01-25 | OSCAR-WINNING SONG LYRICS $1600: "When I was just a little girl I asked my mother what will I be" The Man Who Knew Too Much |
#5421, aired 2008-03-17 | SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE $600: Conan Doyle wrote a tribute in 1915 on the death of W.G. Grace, a superstar in this sport cricket |
#5390, aired 2008-02-01 | "CAN"NED WORDS $2000: The text of this type of nonmetrical hymn is taken from Biblical text other than the Book Of Psalms a canticle |
#5321, aired 2007-10-29 | THEY COME IN THREES $1000: Aradus, Sidon & Tyre were 3 principal cities of this ancient civilization Phoenicia |
#4775, aired 2005-05-13 | UNIVERSITIES BY ALUMNI $1200: Warren Buffett,
John J. Pershing (law degree) University of Nebraska |
#4770, aired 2005-05-06 | PAINTERS' COLORS $1600: Van Gogh's 1888 this color "Peach Tree" pink |
#4694, aired 2005-01-20 | AWARDS $2,000 (Daily Double): John Sayles, Susan Sontag & Thomas Pynchon are among the fellows who got this award that is paid over 5 years the MacArthur Fellowship Award |
#4301, aired 2003-04-21 | POETS BEFORE & AFTER $2000: Transcendentalist poet-turned-British rock trio who sang "From the Beginning" Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lake & Palmer |
#3566, aired 2000-02-21 | "A" TOUGHIE $200: Under the main heading of astrology, subheadings include these 2 "A" signs Aquarius & Aries |
#3566, aired 2000-02-21 | "A" TOUGHIE $400: He was spared by a lion he had de-thorned Androcles |
#3566, aired 2000-02-21 | "A" TOUGHIE $600: Process for determining the amount & type of metals present in ores Assaying |
#3566, aired 2000-02-21 | "A" TOUGHIE $800: Abbreviated Sb, it may be what a divorced chemist has to pay to his ex-wife Antimony |
#3566, aired 2000-02-21 | "A" TOUGHIE $1000: A popular WWI song told of a mademoiselle from this city, hinky dinky parlay voo Armentieres |
#3264, aired 1998-11-12 | ANIMAL ANAGRAMS $1000: We suspect this creature wouldn't eat carob; it prefers frogs & mice cobra (carob) |
#2877, aired 1997-02-18 | WORLD FACTS $500 (Daily Double): Though popular, Noninke & Wolof are also spoken there, this is the official language of Mauritania Arabic |
#1579, aired 1991-06-13 | HEMINGWAY $3,000 (Daily Double): Both Hemingway & his hero in "A Farewell to Arms" served in this capacity in WWI ambulance driver (an ambulance attendant) |
#1558, aired 1991-05-15 | ANATOMICAL QUOTES $1000: Whittier's "Barefoot Boy" had this "of tan" cheek |
#533, aired 1986-12-24 | NATIONAL AIRLINES $500: SABENA Belgium |
#295, aired 1985-10-25 | FARAWAY PLACES $500: This term is used for not one but several invisible surface points in Antarctica South Pole |
#109, aired 1985-02-07 | WORD ORIGINS $600: From German town, Nieder Selters, which had an effervescent spring seltzer |
#6748, aired 2014-01-08 | 2013 OBITUARIES: She was called a "savior", a "heartless tyrant", a "trailblazer", "intimidating" & a "real toughie" Margaret Thatcher |
#5292, aired 2007-09-18 | MUSICAL HISTORY: It's the nursery rhyme that inspired the title of a famous musical based on a 1913 G.B. Shaw work London Bridge |
#4926, aired 2006-01-30 | WORLD MONEY 2005: This U.S. sports figure (born 1940) became the only living person ever on a Scottish note besides the Queen & her mum Jack Nicklaus |
#4726, aired 2005-03-07 | SPORTS PHRASE ORIGINS: In 1939 an Illinois sports official wrote "A little" of this alliterative phrase may "contribute to sanity" March Madness |
#2645, aired 1996-02-16 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES: This actor's first name is Hawaiian for "cool breeze over the mountains" Keanu Reeves |
#1892, aired 1992-11-24 | HISTORIC PAIRS: They were the maternal grandparents of England's Queen Mary I Ferdinand & Isabella |
#1429, aired 1990-11-15 | SPACE EXPLORATION: Next pair in the sequence:
Gumdrop, Spider;
Charlie Brown, Snoopy;... the Columbia & the Eagle |
#423, aired 1986-04-23 | THE OSCARS: This Best Picture had the shortest title, using only 2 different letters Gigi |
#285, aired 1985-10-11 | TELEVISION: For 2 years, NBC didn’t call it “Saturday Night Live” because of 18 wk. ABC “SNL” series starring him Howard Cosell |