#9083, aired 2024-04-17 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $2000: A woman of stately beauty is sometimes described by this 9-letter adjective, after the Roman queen of the gods Junoesque |
#9080, aired 2024-04-12 | DROP IN... $1600: From a word meaning penniless to get this word for a liquid in chemistry like an ester or ketone solvent |
#9080, aired 2024-04-12 | DROP IN... $2,000 (Daily Double): From a word involving respiration to get this word meaning healthy hale |
#9076, aired 2024-04-08 | CONSONANT-VOWEL x3 $2000: Related to the word lagoon is this one meaning a gap, as in historical records a lacuna |
#9072, aired 2024-04-02 | NAMED FOR A PLACE $3,000 (Daily Double): This word meaning to ramble comes from the name of a winding river in Turkey meander |
#9061, aired 2024-03-18 | 21st CENTURY WORDS $600: What used to be a "buddy movie" depicting an affectionate relationship between 2 guys is now this blended word a bromance |
#9058, aired 2024-03-13 | DIACRITICAL THINKING $2000: Umlaut is a German word; this, for the 2 dots as in Zoë to show a vowel is in a separate syllable, comes from Greek diaeresis |
#9056, aired 2024-03-11 | ON WHEELS $600: The Cozy Coupe is a classic from this company whose 2-word name refers to its young customers Little Tikes |
#9050, aired 2024-03-01 | GENDERED LANGUAGE $1200: Change the second syllable in the alter ego of Princess Adora to get this word for a powerful female a shero |
#9035, aired 2024-02-09 | LET'S HAVE A WORD $400: The New Testament is full of these stories told to convey a lesson, like the one of the lamp a parable |
#9035, aired 2024-02-09 | LET'S HAVE A WORD $1200: Natation is the act of doing this, & a natatorium is a place to do it swimming |
#26, aired 2024-01-23 | ALSO A GOOD STARTER WORD FOR WORDLE $900: Hey Maine-iacs! Should I boil my lobstah or do this to it in a basket, which I've heard gets the meat more tendah steam |
#9013, aired 2024-01-10 | WORD HISTORIES $1200: An adjective meaning gigantic, it came into English in the 1700s to describe huge elephant-like bones found in Siberia mammoth |
#9004, aired 2023-12-28 | TOUCH TYPE $1,800 (Daily Double): This word means a limited search of your person & the cop is supposed to be looking only for weapons a frisk |
#9003, aired 2023-12-27 | IN MY CEILINGS $200: In 2023 this was suspended at $31.4 trillion; it's a 2-word term for the cap that limits the money the govt. is allowed to borrow the debt ceiling |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MATH $2000: Calculated as the ratio of s to r, this measure of an angle is similar to the word that r stands for a radian |
#21, aired 2023-11-29 | FILMS TURNING THE BIG FOUR-OH $300: In "A Christmas Story", Ralphie says the "Queen Mother of dirty words" but this other "F" word is swapped in to keep it clean fudge |
#8965, aired 2023-11-03 | IT JUST SOUNDS QUESTIONABLE $400: This 4-letter word can mean "stop"; while pouring you a drink someone might ask you to "say" it when |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | SIGMUND FREUD $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "desire" or "lust", Freud used this word to refer to a person's sex drive libido |
#8956, aired 2023-10-23 | SMART ANSWERS $400: Both Cervantes & Ben Franklin wrote, "A word to" these people "is enough" the wise |
#17, aired 2023-10-18 | "I" CAN GO EITHER WAY $900: Take a southwestern Native American tribe, move its "I" from the back to the front, and you get this breakfast chain IHOP |
#8952, aired 2023-10-17 | SORT THROUGH THE WORD PROBLEM $200: If train A leaves Oamaru at 9 a.m. at 70 mph & train B leaves Timaru at 1 p.m. going 80, this will still be New Zealand's capital Wellington |
#16, aired 2023-10-11 | PEW! PEW! PEW! $3,000 (Daily Double): Derived from the French word for "flea", it's a dark shade of red similar to burnt sienna puce |
#8915, aired 2023-07-14 | AROUND THE HOUSE $2000: Also a word for mosaics, it refers to a distinctive flooring pattern of teeny squares or tiles tessellated (tesserae) |
#8914, aired 2023-07-13 | MEDICINE $1600: Beginning with 3 consonants, it's the word for a professional who is trained to draw blood a phlebotomist |
#8906, aired 2023-07-03 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $2000: A word for booze has this 4-letter silver salmon inside of it coho |
#8895, aired 2023-06-16 | THIS IS ALL A BIT MUCH $400: This word refers to the great flood endured by Noah, or torrential rain of non-biblical proportions diluvial (deluge) |
#8842, aired 2023-04-04 | GOODNESS & MERCY $600: To phrase a coin, we're giving this word that means to decide not to put an enemy to death a quarter |
#8838, aired 2023-03-29 | Ps OUT! $200: Get the double P out of a word meaning elated to get this fodder grass hay (from happy) |
#8838, aired 2023-03-29 | SYNONYMS $800: Homily is another word for one of these religious speeches delivered from the pulpit to a congregation sermon |
#8834, aired 2023-03-23 | SCIENCE $400: The mass of gas around a planet, this word is also used as the unit of air pressure equal to 14.7 psi at sea level 1 atmosphere |
#8831, aired 2023-03-20 | "ME" $1000: A body part is found in this word describing one who refuses to tell the truth in plain language mealymouthed |
#8831, aired 2023-03-20 | PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS $1200: FDR's 1st inaugural gave us this 10-word statement, a "firm belief" about "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror" "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" |
#8820, aired 2023-03-03 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: The word lycée for a French public school goes back to lyceum, which was the name of a school founded by this ancient philosopher Aristotle |
#8811, aired 2023-02-20 | RELIGION HAS ITS PLACE $3,000 (Daily Double): The Naval Academy one is pretty grand, though the word generally means "smaller than or subordinate to a church" a chapel |
#8810, aired 2023-02-17 | WORD & WORDPLUS $800: An object used by an actor during a performance & a verb meaning to grow "the species" by breeding prop & propagate |
#8789, aired 2023-01-19 | THE ROPES $1000: These strong ropes seen here give support to the mast; it's also an old word for another supporter--a corset stays |
#8786, aired 2023-01-16 | PURE BREAD $200: This word refers to both a type of bread & the starter used to make it, which is mostly flour & water sourdough |
#8766, aired 2022-12-19 | BIRDS ARE REAL $600: Sharing its name with a pro baseball team, this orange & black bird with a 2-word name can also range down to South America a Baltimore Oriole |
#8753, aired 2022-11-30 | THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS $800: Etymologically related to the word scrimmage is this type of small battle between 2 armies a scrum (a skirmish) |
#8745, aired 2022-11-18 | THE "ANTI" CATEGORY $800: We won't ask you to spell this 28-letter word ending in M that the OED says is "popularly cited as an example of a long word" antidisestablishmentarianism |
#5, aired 2022-10-23 | HOLLYWOOD REPORTER $800: In the classic "Citizen Kane", following Kane's death, a reporter is sent out to uncover the meaning of this, his final word Rosebud |
#8721, aired 2022-10-17 | SKIN CARE FROM A TO Z WITH MICHAEL STRAHAN $600: (Michael Strahan presents the clue.) Sebum protects your skin--"J" is for this oil from another plant that balances your complexion by mimicking sebum, adding & decreasing production as needed, & honestly, it's just a fun word to say jojoba |
#8721, aired 2022-10-17 | AN IMPRESSIVE VOCABULARY $600: "O" is for this unfriendly word; in ancient Greece, it was a way to vote you out of the community ostracize |
#4, aired 2022-10-16 | COLORFUL RESPONSES $400 (Daily Double): This 2-word fishy term refers to a piece of information that is a distraction from the main issue a red herring |
#8716, aired 2022-10-10 | NATIONALLY MONUMENTAL $1600: The site of a former Alabama Greyhound depot is part of a monument to the 1960s civil rights crusaders known by this 2-word name the Freedom Riders |
#8712, aired 2022-10-04 | IT'S A MYSTERY $1000: A musical instrument is found at the end of this word that describes a hard-to-solve problem conundrum |
#8703, aired 2022-09-21 | BELIEF SYSTEMS $2000: "Ru" is the Chinese word for the belief system central to Chinese culture for millennia; we use this word, from a sage's name Confucianism |
#8684, aired 2022-07-14 | THAT'S COLD! $600: This word is paired with an opposite in the name of a relieving cream to treat minor aches & pains of the muscles & joints icy |
#8676, aired 2022-07-04 | MEDICAL ADJECTIVES $2000: From a Latin word for "to cloak", it's the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing palliative |
#8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ONE-WORD NONFICTION TITLES $400: "Shape", about the hidden meaning of this branch of math, is dedicated in part to "AB"--presumably a person, not a line geometry |
#8669, aired 2022-06-23 | THAT USED TO BE A TRADEMARK $2,400 (Daily Double): Westinghouse first trademarked this word as the name of a washing machine; now it refers to an establishment laundromat |
#8668, aired 2022-06-22 | FACE/PALM $800: A boxer is said to have this "breakable" 2-word item when he's unable to take a punch to the kisser a glass jaw |
#8644, aired 2022-05-19 | IT'S A WORD! IT'S A NAME! $200: Baedeker became a generic word for this kind of book; publisher Karl was one of the first to use stars in his a (travel) guide |
#8637, aired 2022-05-10 | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY QUOTE $2000: "Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe" Richard III |
#8634, aired 2022-05-05 | NOW FOR THE SECRET WORD $800: "P" is for this word that refers to communication that's protected from compelled disclosure in a court of law privileged |
#8602, aired 2022-03-22 | A WORD TO THE WISE $800: It's the highest rating in military rifle marksmanship an expert |
#8601, aired 2022-03-21 | LET YOUR STAR GUIDE YOU $800: Originally a British tribunal, this 2-word term now refers to any group that adjudicates unfairly the star chamber |
#8595, aired 2022-03-11 | AB-WORK $1600: A narrow mountain edge gets "AB" at the front to become this word of literary shortening abridge |
#8593, aired 2022-03-09 | FURNITURE $600: In the 16th century, French gave us this word for an ornate, free-standing wardrobe, a great place to keep linens & towels an armoire |
#8592, aired 2022-03-08 | 14-LETTER WORDS $2000: I found a thousand bucks in this word that often follows "self" to mean the act of making oneself seem important aggrandizement |
#8582, aired 2022-02-22 | FREE STUFF $1000: In 2009, Todd Bol made a model full of books in tribute to his mother, a teacher; it became this 3-word concept with more than 100,000 worldwide a (the) Little Free Library |
#8, aired 2022-02-11 | TIME FOR LAW SCHOOL $2000: To take your case all the way to the Supreme Court, the main method is to ask the justices to grant a writ of this Latin word certiorari |
#8571, aired 2022-02-07 | THE WORD SERIES $200: A proverb says, "A nod is as good as" one of these "to a blind horse" a wink |
#8566, aired 2022-01-31 | SURNAMES $3,000 (Daily Double): The name Chevrolet goes back to a word for this animal, or perhaps one who kept them goats |
#8565, aired 2022-01-28 | WORD ORIGINS $800: The name of this popular pet comes from the Germans, who add "rad", meaning wheel, to describe a tedious routine a hamster |
#8562, aired 2022-01-25 | A QUICK & DIRTY CATEGORY $2000: Harry Truman said, "It is not the American way to" this fancy word "the character of the innocent" besmirch |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | WHAT DO YOU KNOW? $1000: To have knowledge in a particular field is to know these veggies, though some say the word is a reference to a lexicographer onions |
#8527, aired 2021-12-07 | IN THE CURRICULUM $800: From a 1933 play, "When I hear" this artsy word "I reach for my pistol" is often wrongly attributed to Hermann Goering culture |
#8509, aired 2021-11-11 | SERVING $1000: The number of people in a dining party is referred to using this 3-letter word, as in 6-this at table 15 top |
#8488, aired 2021-10-13 | PRO WRESTLING TERMINOLOGY $800: Perhaps a play on "jobber", this Italian-sounding word is a wrestler hired to lose often; the Rock uses it as a synonym for loser jabroni |
#8486, aired 2021-10-11 | IT DOESN'T MEAN WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE $400: Women fought for this, a word which is not derived from "pain", rather from the Latin for "to publicly show support" suffrage |
#8480, aired 2021-10-01 | SOME FUN & GAMES $400: You open an imaginary curtain to indicate the category is a play title in this game; first word...! Charades |
#8476, aired 2021-09-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $400: This word for pretending to be white is the title of a 1929 novel & the subject of the 2020 bestseller "The Vanishing Half" passing |
#8471, aired 2021-09-20 | LIZARDS $600: The name of this lizard known for its ability to climb vertical surfaces is from a Malay word imitating the sound it makes gecko |
#8463, aired 2021-08-11 | LOCK TALK $1000: The U-shaped part of a padlock that fits around an item to be locked is called this, also a word for a manacle or leg iron shackle |
#8461, aired 2021-08-09 | THE LETTER AFTER M $600: ...to make the word for a diatonic scale's third tone I |
#8460, aired 2021-08-06 | WHAT'S YOUR UNSAFE WORD? $800: It can refer to one who is fearful & lacking self-confidence, or a password that can be easily hacked insecure (or weak) |
#8441, aired 2021-07-12 | PHARMACEUTICALS $400: To unstuff my nasal passages, please get me this type of drug (a word that's right on the non-drowsy Sudafed box) a decongestant |
#8440, aired 2021-07-09 | HAIR'S THE THING $2000: This 5-letter French word describes a coloring technique where the hair is typically darker on top & lighter towards the ends ombre |
#8432, aired 2021-06-29 | MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Great Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary.) Here in Budapest is a memorial to the more than half million Hungarian Jews who perished in the Holocaust; appropriately, the tree with the names of victims inscribed on its leaves is of this 2-word mournful variety a weeping willow |
#8424, aired 2021-06-17 | THE LANGUAGE OF FOOD $1000: You "eat" this 2-word non-treat when forced to apologize; a literal version is the viscera & other deer parts humble pie |
#8423, aired 2021-06-16 | COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS $4,000 (Daily Double): In Central America, thought to be from the name of a local leader & the Spanish word for water Nicaragua |
#8422, aired 2021-06-15 | I HAVE TO GIVE YOU CREDIT $800: That 3-digit number on the back of a credit card is the CVV, the "card" this 12-letter word "value" verification |
#8394, aired 2021-05-06 | ON SPEAKING $4,400 (Daily Double): Father to a Supreme Court justice, this poet wrote, "Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall" Oliver Wendell Holmes |
#8389, aired 2021-04-29 | TO YOUR HEALTH $800: The cancer-fighting glucosinolates in these 2-word veggies the size & shape of a golf ball is sure to get kids to eat them a Brussels sprout |
#8389, aired 2021-04-29 | ORDER IN THE COURT $2000: This type of 3-word order commands a business or person to stop what they're doing, stat cease and desist |
#8383, aired 2021-04-21 | SNOOZE CLUES $1600: In a poem by Robert Frost, the 6 words that follow "But I have promises to keep and..." miles to go before I sleep |
#8382, aired 2021-04-20 | 17-LETTER WORDS $2000: Related to a word for that little voice telling you right & wrong, it's the quality of being thorough & scrupulous conscientiousness |
#8378, aired 2021-04-14 | HODGEPODGE $1000: This 5-letter word is a type of black tea; when preceded by orange, it's a reference to the leaves, not the flavor pekoe |
#8375, aired 2021-04-09 | FLAG-POURRI $800: When flown by a ship, a country's flag is often referred to by this 6-letter word, also an officer in the U.S. Navy an ensign |
#8366, aired 2021-03-29 | WORD "OR"IGINS $1600: This verb meaning to induct someone into the ministry debuted in a medieval biography of Thomas Becket ordain |
#8349, aired 2021-03-04 | IN LATIN, PLEASE $3,000 (Daily Double): "Desire" or "lust", a word popularized by Freud libido |
#8348, aired 2021-03-03 | SCIENCE $4,000 (Daily Double): Working according to the same principles as a laser, a maser gets the "M" in its name from this word microwave |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | "D_M" $600: To the Aussies, a game that's been played honestly is "fair" this 6-letter slang word dinkum |
#8318, aired 2021-01-20 | WORD ORIGINS $1200: Although this footwear's name is French, it goes back to a Spanish fiber used to make the soles as well as rope espadrilles |
#8314, aired 2021-01-14 | Y IS THE ONLY VOWEL $2000: From Greek for "to carve", it's a picture or symbol that can represent a word in ancient writing systems glyph |
#8310, aired 2021-01-08 | "BING" POT $800: At the beach this word refers to a tide that is going out ebbing |
#8308, aired 2021-01-06 | YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK $2,800 (Daily Double): In 2020 Charles Q. Brown got this 3-word title for the Air Force & is the 1st African-American general to lead a military branch chief of staff |
#8307, aired 2021-01-05 | ADVERBS $400: Referring to a time in the past, this non-ly adverb is the first word of a 1965 Beatles classic yesterday |
#8307, aired 2021-01-05 | ADVERBS $1000: This 4-letter word is an adverb when found before a number to mean "about", as in "we had to drive ____ 50 miles to get there" some (like) |
#8283, aired 2020-11-18 | ANIMAL ETYMOLOGY $2000: Though wide awake now, this critter is thought to get the first part of its name from a word for "sleep" a dormouse |
#8279, aired 2020-11-12 | DOUBLE O, DOUBLE E $800: 2-word name for the flat pan used to bake up some snickerdoodles a cookie sheet |
#8251, aired 2020-10-05 | ENDS WITH "A" $400: This word for an inability to eat is from the Greek for "without" & "appetite" anorexia |
#8251, aired 2020-10-05 | WORD DERIVATIONS $400: Today meaning a fruit juice mix, its name is from the Hindi for "five", referring to a quintet of ingredients punch |
#8242, aired 2020-09-22 | COUNTRY CLUBS? $2000: This 11-letter word is the "D" in IDA, a 173-member association that grants loans to foster growth in poor countries development |
#8238, aired 2020-09-16 | NUMBER, PLEASE $1000: The word myriad can refer to any large number of things, or specifically to this big number 10,000 |
#8230, aired 2020-06-05 | PUBLISHERS $3,400 (Daily Double): The name of this publisher known for its book fairs is a word meaning "related to education" Scholastic |
#8208, aired 2020-04-22 | YOU KNOW THE DRILL $2000: This word for a type of simple hand drill is a homonym of a word meaning to foretell auger |
#8206, aired 2020-04-20 | FLEE CIRCUS $1200: P.T. Barnum marked exits with "This way to" this fancy "E" word; folks left & had to buy a ticket to reenter egress |
#8195, aired 2020-04-03 | THE WORD IS LOVE $200: In slang, if you're suffering from unrequited love, you're said to be carrying this bright object a torch |
#8195, aired 2020-04-03 | THE WORD IS LOVE $600: This French word meaning "love" can also refer to a secret love affair amour |
#8195, aired 2020-04-03 | THE WORD IS LOVE $800: Otis Redding urged listeners to "Try a little" of it tenderness |
#8194, aired 2020-04-02 | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS $1600: North Dakota law says a witness must be asked, "Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth...", but this word may replace "swear" affirm |
#8189, aired 2020-03-26 | PARDON THE INTERJECTION $400: This rhyming 2-word way of calling out to attract attention is also a brand of chocolate drink yoo hoo |
#8184, aired 2020-03-19 | TERMS OF ART $800: This two-word term describes the place on the horizon where parallel lines appear to meet the vanishing point |
#8171, aired 2020-03-02 | THE TOOLSHED $1600: Time to go nuts by removing nuts using one of these 2-word tools, what the Brits call an adjustable spanner a monkey wrench |
#8141, aired 2020-01-20 | "STEP" BY STEP $800: This 5-word idiom meaning "to take responsibility" comes from what a baseball batter does before seeing a pitch step up to the plate |
#6, aired 2020-01-09 | AN "OK" CATEGORY $400: A 2019 New York Times article says this 2-word phrase "marks the end of friendly generational relations" "OK boomer" |
#5, aired 2020-01-09 | I'M NOT WEARING ANY PANTS $200: The name of this ancient garment from a single piece of cloth is related to the Latin word for "to cover" a toga |
#8131, aired 2020-01-06 | SHUT UP $800: Dumbfounded is a synonym for this other "dumb" word that means you've been surprised to the point of speechlessness dumbstruck |
#8127, aired 2019-12-31 | THE ALGONQUIAN WORD TABLE $800: This 5-letter word for a very large deer comes from words meaning "he strips off" (bark to eat, that is) moose |
#8125, aired 2019-12-27 | GHOST-TED $1200: You put up a portable canvas shelter yesterday, then took down the -ted to leave this cardinal number ten |
#8115, aired 2019-12-13 | WORD WAR Z $400: Zywiec, a town in this Central European nation, is home to the Komorowski Castle Poland |
#8091, aired 2019-11-11 | EXPRESSIONS & IDIOMS $2000: This 2-word cooler-sounding way to say "second job" is the title of a book subtitled "From Idea to Income in 27 Days" Side Hustle |
#8085, aired 2019-11-01 | A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $200: This word for a rope used to tie up a horse is also the name of a sleeveless top that has straps around the neck that leave the back bare halter |
#8070, aired 2019-10-11 | WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE $1000: Spider monkeys lack the grasping adaptation known by this 2-word term; it would get in the way as they hook fingers over branches an opposable thumb (a prehensile thumb) |
#8068, aired 2019-10-09 | A NUMBER BETWEEN 1 & 100 $1000: In Judaism the word chai represents "life" & is synonymous with this number used to signify good luck & a long life 18 |
#8056, aired 2019-09-23 | WORD + WORD = NEW WORD $1000: A car essential + a synonym for domicile = this, a batter's preferred area to hit the ball, right in his... wheelhouse |
#8054, aired 2019-09-19 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: This book by Malcolm Gladwell subtitled "The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" is a real eye-opener Blink |
#8054, aired 2019-09-19 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $4,133 (Daily Double): This 1974 James Michener novel covers centuries, not just 1 significant year, in the history of Colorado Centennial |
#8042, aired 2019-07-23 | STARTS WITH A SILENT "K" $1000: Often following the word "death", it's a special tolling of a bell to signal a funeral knell |
#8026, aired 2019-07-01 | HOMELAND $200: South Africa is home to the Afrikaners, descendants of these people, from a Dutch word for "farmer" a Boer |
#8003, aired 2019-05-29 | ONE BIG SWAMP $2000: The name of this big swamp on the Florida-Georgia border is thought to come from a Seminole word for "trembling earth" Okefenokee |
#7984, aired 2019-05-02 | OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS $800: This word refers to a currency used today in Israel, or a weight of less than an ounce in the Bible a shekel |
#7976, aired 2019-04-22 | HAPPY EARTH DAY TO YOU! $1000: An ad that debuted on Earth Day 1971 showed a crying Indian & the slogan "People start" this word; "people can stop it" pollution |
#7972, aired 2019-04-16 | A THURBER CARNIVAL OF QUOTATIONS $200: Humorist James Thurber ended a fable with the moral "A word to" these "is not sufficient if it doesn't make any sense" the wise |
#7964, aired 2019-04-04 | ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR $2000: This author revealed Yoknapatawpha, a place in his books, is a Chickasaw word meaning "water runs slow through flat land" (William) Faulkner |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | VOCABULARY $800: As the name indicates, this word for the tiling behind the stove is to protect the wall from liquids a backsplash |
#7934, aired 2019-02-21 | BRITISH LITERATURE $800: Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in" this 2-word place is thought to be that of St. Giles', where the poet is now buried a country churchyard |
#7934, aired 2019-02-21 | PHYSICS $1200: This "O" word refers to 1 complete cycle of a pendulum; the time it takes is called the period oscillation |
#7928, aired 2019-02-13 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $1600: In 1915 the British military deceptively called a prototype a "water carrier", leading to this name tank |
#7923, aired 2019-02-06 | FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE $1000: Change the first 3 letters in "jumbled" to get this word for a message that's so jumbled its meaning is lost garbled |
#7921, aired 2019-02-04 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The title of a 1936 book, this 3-word nickname for the U.S. Supreme Court ceased to apply in 1981 nine old men |
#7910, aired 2019-01-18 | FROM THE FRENCH $1200: From an Old French word that meant a wine taster, to us it's a connoisseur of fine food & drink gourmet |
#7904, aired 2019-01-10 | WORDS ABOUT WORDS $2000: Put a letter before "once" to get this type of word invented on the spot nonce |
#7901, aired 2019-01-07 | WORDS FROM THE MALAY $3,000 (Daily Double): A word from the melee as well as the Malay, to "run" this way is to be wild & frenzied amok |
#7898, aired 2019-01-02 | BUILDING AN IDIOM $200: This 3-word phrase means to take care of things while someone else is away mind the store |
#7898, aired 2019-01-02 | ONE-WORD MOVIE TITLES $200: James Cromwell has made about 50 movies; we believe this is the only one in which he sings to a pig Babe |
#7895, aired 2018-12-28 | GET "IN" $1000: The Declaration of Independence used "un-", but this word meaning "not transferable to another" is a synonym inalienable |
#7894, aired 2018-12-27 | NEWER WORDS $1600: This word used to describe the "seismic" influx of young British voters was Oxford Dictionaries' 2017 word of the year youthquake |
#7882, aired 2018-12-11 | WORD ORIGINS $600: This term for a fool or jokester is from the Italian for "to puff" a buffoon |
#7882, aired 2018-12-11 | DE-CAP-ITATE 'EM! $1600: Cut "C-A-P" off a word meaning having the skill to do something & get this shorter word meaning the same thing ability (or able) |
#7880, aired 2018-12-07 | A CHOICE 4-LETTER WORD $2000: Proverbially, to remove select creatures from a group is to do this to "the herd" to thin (or cull) |
#7866, aired 2018-11-19 | SOLVE THE MYSTERY $400: Someone the police want to talk to is a person of interest; someone accused of the crime is this word a suspect |
#7860, aired 2018-11-09 | WORD ORIGINS $400: It may be Greek to you, but this type of organization for female college students gets is name from the Latin for "sister" a sorority |
#7856, aired 2018-11-05 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: This word is for the Greek for "molded" & was first used in reference to a synthetic product in 1909 plastic |
#7850, aired 2018-10-26 | NOT TO BE CONFUSED $800: Bessemer is a steel-making process; this is a sheer fabric related to the word "goose" gossamer |
#7847, aired 2018-10-23 | CONTRONYMS $1600: The site seen here is this type of vast view; as a verb, the word can mean to fail to see something an overlook |
#7846, aired 2018-10-22 | SOMETHING TO READ $800: After a Kansas family of 4 is murdered this 3-word title way, investigators track down the killers in cold blood |
#7836, aired 2018-10-08 | THE SHUSH DOCTRINE $400: There's a bivalve mollusk in this 2-word idiom meaning to become silent clam up |
#7834, aired 2018-10-04 | ON THE ROOF $800: This 7-letter compound word is a spot on the roof to land your chopper helipad |
#7819, aired 2018-09-13 | CONTRACTIONS $4,000 (Daily Double): A 2015 book says that for over 200 years, this word "has been knocking at the door of standard English" but is still shunned ain't |
#7818, aired 2018-09-12 | SIMILAR WORDS $1000: Related to the word "respect" is this word for a delay that brings relief respite |
#7793, aired 2018-06-27 | ALLITERATION $2000: French trouver, "to find", is related to the second word in this phrase for a fabulous find or store of wealth a treasure trove |
#7785, aired 2018-06-15 | GEOGRAPHY $800: A vast grassland from central Europe to Manchuria is called by this 1-syllable word from the Russian a steppe |
#7784, aired 2018-06-14 | IT'S ABOUT TIME $800: The moving shadow of a gnomon on this is what led to the use of the word clockwise a sundial |
#7774, aired 2018-05-31 | YOU SHALL NOT PASS! $2,000 (Daily Double): Oops, you crammed for the multistate bar exam but this state with laws deriving from the Napoleonic code doesn't use it Louisiana |
#7770, aired 2018-05-25 | SIGNS & GESTURES $400: A mudra is a Buddhist gesture; the Anjali mudra, hands together, goes with this word meaning "I bow to you" namaste |
#7758, aired 2018-05-09 | DIFFERS BY A VOWEL $2000: Often confused, one word means to cause a change in & the other is the result effect and affect |
#7755, aired 2018-05-04 | BORROWED WORDS $800: This word from the French for "one who knows" is applied to those with good taste a connoisseur |
#7754, aired 2018-05-03 | PUT A "LID" ON IT $1600: On a buddy to get this synonym for "wan" pallid |
#7744, aired 2018-04-19 | STRAIGHT "A"s IN SCIENCE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a wave on the monitor.) The distance between two peaks of a wave is the wavelength; the distance from the peak to the wave's midpoint is this 9-letter word amplitude |
#7740, aired 2018-04-13 | INTERNAL RHYME TIME $2,400 (Daily Double): A boater in trouble needs to know this word to say over the radio mayday |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | ALL THE WAY FROM A TO B $2000: "Have" is this 2-word part of speech in the phrase "we have spoken" an auxiliary verb |
#7688, aired 2018-01-31 | 2-WORD SONG TITLES $400: In a 2016 No. 1 Justin Bieber told an ex to go & do this "Love Yourself" |
#7687, aired 2018-01-30 | THROWING SHADE $400: This compound word refers to a day when most of the sky is occluded, perhaps a shady respite from the sun overcast |
#7675, aired 2018-01-12 | TITLES FROM POETRY $1600: F. Scott Fitzgerald's last complete novel; its 4-word title is taken from "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats Tender is the Night |
#7672, aired 2018-01-09 | A BOUNTY OF BAHNEN $800: Wuppertal's Schwebebahn is from the word "schweben", meaning to do this in the air, like a balloon, perhaps float (or hover) |
#7666, aired 2018-01-01 | SIKH $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 17th century Gobind, the 10th leader, asked all Sikh men to add this word meaning "lion" to their names Singh |
#7665, aired 2017-12-29 | BEGINS WITH A SILENT LETTER $2,000 (Daily Double): A male servant; the word has been used to mean a rascal since around 1200 a knave |
#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 |
#7635, aired 2017-11-17 | TYPES OF MOVIES $2000: The 1961 documentary "Chronicle of a Summer" is said to have originated this 2-word French-named style cinéma vérité |
#7622, aired 2017-10-31 | WORD TO THE Y_Ys $2000: This word is in the title of Garson Kanin's play about Billie Dawn, the seemingly dumb blonde mistress of a junk tycoon yesterday |
#7621, aired 2017-10-30 | A CONSTITUTIONAL VOCABULARY $1200: This word for a periodical is used in reference to the storage of weapons a magazine |
#7614, aired 2017-10-19 | WASHINGTON, D.C. $1,000 (Daily Double): This 3-word motto is on D.C. license plates to protest its lack of voting rights; a 2016 proposal is start the motto "end" "Taxation Without Representation" |
#7606, aired 2017-10-09 | ENDS IN "ING" $1600: An example of the coulomb force is this 2-word phenomenon, as when garments gather a charge & stick to each other static cling |
#7605, aired 2017-10-06 | WORDPLAY $1600: A rebus is a word puzzle & this answer to the one seen here means you get it
STAND
I I understand |
#7567, aired 2017-07-04 | NEW WORDS IN THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY $2000: This 16-letter word refers to a person who is 110 years old or older a supercentenarian |
#7520, aired 2017-04-28 | ANNUAL EVENTS $2,000 (Daily Double): Each year on Easter, Manhattan's Fifth Avenue is host to a festival honoring these head coverings bonnets |
#7507, aired 2017-04-11 | WAIT"ER" $400: 2-word term for what you're in when waiting in the sky past arrival time until your plane is allowed to land a holding pattern |
#7499, aired 2017-03-30 | A VISIT TO THE CIA $400: (Alex reports from the Central Intelligence Agency in Langley, VA.) A perfect metaphor for the CIA, its headquarters, & its mission is "Kryptos", containing four encrypted messages; kryptos is a Greek word meaning this hidden |
#7490, aired 2017-03-17 | YOUR IDIOM IS FOREIGN TO ME $800: Vai a fava, Portuguese for "go to the fava bean", is like our slang "get" this 4-letter word, meaning "go away" get lost |
#7486, aired 2017-03-13 | WORD ORIGINS $3,000 (Daily Double): Used to describe a wealthy or powerful person, it was originally a title applied by foreigners to the shogun of Japan tycoon |
#7480, aired 2017-03-03 | SOMETHING TO WEAR $1000: For Muslim women, a burqa covers the face; a niqab leaves the eyes uncovered; this five-letter word is a headscarf hijab |
#7475, aired 2017-02-24 | WORD ORIGINS $3,800 (Daily Double): For sore muscles use a whirlpool bath to get some relief through this, from the Greek for "water" & "healing" hydrotherapy |
#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 | RUNNING A HOTEL $200: It's the Spanish word we use for a small room next to a pool or beach a cabana |
#7439, aired 2017-01-05 | THE SHAPE OF THINGS $400: This word for a long, narrow loaf of French bread is also used for a rectangular shape given to diamonds a baguette |
#7418, aired 2016-12-07 | JOIN THE CONJUNCTION $400: This conjunction used to show the first of 2 options is a homophone of a word for atmospheric conditions whether |
#7413, aired 2016-11-30 | STATE FLAGS $2,400 (Daily Double): This state's flag is the only one of the 50 to bear the word "republic" California |
#7410, aired 2016-11-25 | GRAND THEFT "OO" $800: What "the game is", meaning "in progress", shrinks down to a boating word afoot & aft |
#7396, aired 2016-11-07 | A CHANGE IS COMING $800: Change the "O" in a symbol of Christianity to an "A" & you get a word that lacks refinement cross & crass |
#7396, aired 2016-11-07 | A CHANGE IS COMING $2000: Change the "U" in a slang word for an infantryman to an "A" & you get a word of bestowal grunt & grant |
#7393, aired 2016-11-02 | NEW ORDER $200: PARTIES:
For costume ones, grab your eye patches & dress as these pirates |
#7392, aired 2016-11-01 | CAN I HAVE A WORD? $400: To rubricate is to highlight with this color, such as Jesus' words in the New Testament red |
#7392, aired 2016-11-01 | CAN I HAVE A WORD? $800: Skirl is a shrill wailing sound; as a verb, it means to play this Highland instrument the bagpipes |
#7383, aired 2016-10-19 | "ILE" BE BACK $800: This "shapely" 2-word term is a facetious way to refer to a wastebasket the circular file |
#7377, aired 2016-10-11 | ONE-WORD FILM TITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Ice Cube gave rise to a catchphrase with the dismissive "Bye, Felicia" in this 1995 comedy Friday |
#7372, aired 2016-10-04 | THEATER TALK $1000: This 2-word Latin term is used to denote the cast of characters in a play dramatis personae |
#7351, aired 2016-07-25 | ADD "S" TO THE START OF THE WORD $1600: A European viper, front-loaded with an "S", gets a little more depressed as this word sadder |
#7322, aired 2016-06-14 | HEROES $2,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "battlefield" comes this word for a fighter or dog who has beaten all challengers a champion |
#7320, aired 2016-06-10 | WORD ORIGINS $1000: In Dutch it meant "household effects"; its meaning as goods taken by force during a war dates to the 1640s plunder |
#7320, aired 2016-06-10 | BASKET WEAVING $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents.) In basket weaving, the weft is a moving horizontal fiber; & this other 4-letter word refers to a vertical stationary fiber warp |
#7294, aired 2016-05-05 | A VICE PRESIDENT'S SURNAME $2,000 (Daily Double): To collect, hoard or gather (perhaps votes) Garner |
#7269, aired 2016-03-31 | I LOVE A SYMPHONY $2,000 (Daily Double): Fitting 4-word subtitle of the Dvorak symphony Neil Armstrong listened to on his trip to the moon "From the New World" |
#7268, aired 2016-03-30 | WORD ORIGINS $600: The Latin for "footprint" is related to this word in the name of a federal bureau investigation |
#7198, aired 2015-12-23 | EDIBLE EXPRESSIONS $800: A condiment is included in this 3-word phrase meaning "to meet or succeed the standard" to cut the mustard |
#7198, aired 2015-12-23 | AN EMOTIONAL CATEGORY $1200: In vaudeville, future "I Love Lucy" co-star William Frawley helped popularize the song about this sad "baby" "My Melancholy Baby" |
#7190, aired 2015-12-11 | PUNS $400: A chicken crossing the road, a duck flying, or a turkey swimming, is this 3-word phrase poultry in motion |
#7190, aired 2015-12-11 | A 3-D CATEGORY $1600: A book parody of the Crawley family & their estate uses this word meaning "trampled upon" before "Abbey" in its title downtrodden |
#7166, aired 2015-11-09 | MINIONS $800: In a preface to "The Hobbit", Tolkien says this 3-letter word is usually translated as goblin Orc |
#7162, aired 2015-11-03 | QUITE CONTRARY $800: This long word is found before "opposed" to refer to contrary opinions, or the 2 geometric points seen here diametrically |
#7161, aired 2015-11-02 | MAIL CALL $400: 7-word phrase made famous in an editor's reply to a child's 1897 letter to the New York Sun Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus |
#7154, aired 2015-10-22 | HERBS & SPICES $600: Thyme's name is from a word meaning "to burn" & the ancients used it as this, burning it to get rid of pests a fumigant |
#7101, aired 2015-06-29 | STAMPS $200: A 2015 stamp is a heart formed by the letters of this word, also used by the USPS to mean the lasting value of a stamp forever |
#7099, aired 2015-06-25 | ETYMOLOGY $800 (Daily Double): Something that produces a rainbow of colors is said to be this adjective, after the Greek word for rainbow iridescent |
#7092, aired 2015-06-16 | A LITTLE DAD'LL DO YA $600: A dialect survey of the U.S. found that a sweetened carbonated drink is "soda" to about 1/2 of us, this word to about 1/4 pop |
#7088, aired 2015-06-10 | KING ARTHUR $2000: A chair at the Round Table reserved for the Grail finder but deadly to anyone else is called the "Siege" this word Perilous |
#7080, aired 2015-05-29 | PULL UP A CHAIR $400: French for "long chair", it's a seat long enough to support its user's legs chaise longue |
#7058, aired 2015-04-29 | OCCUPATIONS $1600: Applying gel to pregnant ladies' tummies is part of the job of the technician with this 1-word job a sonographer |
#7057, aired 2015-04-28 | IMPERIALIST $2000: 7-letter term for a territory given by the League of Nations to another country to administer mandate |
#7051, aired 2015-04-20 | ANATOMICAL QUOTES $2000: According to the 119th Psalm, "Thy word is a lamp unto" these, & "a light unto my path" feet |
#7046, aired 2015-04-13 | ON THE WALL $600: The name for this light holder is etymologically related to the word abscond a sconce |
#7006, aired 2015-02-16 | DROPPING AN "ESS" BOMB $800: 2-word term for the place where military folks go to eat a mess hall |
#6988, aired 2015-01-21 | THE INTERNET $400: William Gibson coined this portmanteau word that refers to the Internet as a whole cyberspace |
#6950, aired 2014-11-28 | SLEEP $1600: Adjective for a drug that helps you sleep or a book or movie so boring it puts you to sleep soporific |
#6912, aired 2014-10-07 | MAKE ROOM $2,000 (Daily Double): This French room completes the title of a book by the Marquis de Sade, "La Philopsophie dans le..." boudoir |
#6905, aired 2014-09-26 | CLASSICAL LITERATURE $1600: This Roman satirist whose name sounds like a word meaning "childish" asked, "But who is to guard the guards?" Juvenal |
#6897, aired 2014-09-16 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: Partly from the Greek for "all", it once meant a complete set of arms & armor but now refers to a striking array panoply |
#6892, aired 2014-07-29 | AT THE GEORGIA AQUARIUM $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Georgia Aquarium.) Sea otters have up to a million hairs of fur per square inch, important, as they don't rely on this as an insulator, unlike a sperm whale blubber |
#6889, aired 2014-07-24 | USE YOUR "HEAD" $2000: In a classic American tale, he chases Ichabod Crane the Headless Horseman |
#6875, aired 2014-07-04 | ON THE "LEFT" $1000: This 4-word phrase meaning to be abandoned to face a problem alone is used in the game of cribbage left in a lurch |
#6864, aired 2014-06-19 | A SOFT TOUCH $400: Woolite has a version "specially formulated to take care of" this type of garment delicate |
#6863, aired 2014-06-18 | HISTORY, ON THE MOVE $2000: The isthmus that once allowed humans to migrate on foot from Asia to North America is called the "Bering" this 2-word term a land bridge |
#6851, aired 2014-06-02 | WORD ORIGINS $800: This word once used for the effigy of a man who tried to blow up Parliament is now a man, a dude, a fellow "guy" |
#6845, aired 2014-05-23 | BODACIOUS CANTATAS $400: A sonata is to be played; the word "cantata" means a work to be performed this way sung |
#6843, aired 2014-05-21 | SKYDIVING $400: The auxiliary parachute is also called this, a word found on bottles of fine wine reserve |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | A WORD TO THE "I"s $800: Tajik is a variety of this language Farsi |
#6789, aired 2014-03-06 | IN THE DICTIONARY $2000: Often seen in crosswords, this 4-letter word for a small decorative case to hold needles is from the Old French etui |
#6766, aired 2014-02-03 | ON THE "M"ENU $800: This 2-word term means chemistry & physics have come to the kitchen; liquid nitrogen & lasers might be involved molecular gastronomy (or molecular cooking) |
#6762, aired 2014-01-28 | THE PALACE OF NATIONS $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a sculpture of a chair with one leg broken near the Palace of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.) The broken chair near the Palace of Nations is a monument to the victims of this two-word weapon; their eradication was Princess Diana's goal land mines |
#6725, aired 2013-12-06 | PARTS OF THE CITY $2,000 (Daily Double): This Spanish word for "neighborhood" refers to a Latino enclave in a U.S. city barrio |
#6704, aired 2013-11-07 | HODGEPODGE $800: Responding to criticism by calling the critic an illiterate moron is this kind of attack with a 2-word Latin name ad hominem |
#6698, aired 2013-10-30 | THE LAW $3,000 (Daily Double): It's on you to give me this word preceding "probandi" in a legal phrase meaning "burden of proof" onus |
#6696, aired 2013-10-28 | THINGS TO DO TODAY $800: Whip up a 7-course meal, including this expensive, boneless, 2-word cut of beef from the small end of the tenderloin filet mignon |
#6678, aired 2013-10-02 | PICK UP THE PACE $1200: To leave a restaurant without paying is alliteratively called "dine &" this 4-letter word dash |
#6678, aired 2013-10-02 | PICK UP THE PACE $1600: Listed as a synonym & a rhyme for "hurry", this word brings animals to mind scurry |
#6675, aired 2013-09-27 | THE UGLY $400: This word for an aerial battle is the title of a movie about another contest, to find the ugliest date dogfight |
#6669, aired 2013-09-19 | TRY A SEPARATION $1200: Drop 1 letter from a word meaning "harsh" to get this word meaning to cut off a part from the whole sever |
#6658, aired 2013-07-24 | MAKE IT A DOUBLE-LETTER WORD $1600: A word meaning top-rate or excellent takes on another letter to become a meal of the day super & supper |
#6636, aired 2013-06-24 | D.I.Y. $200: This word for a way to save energy & money also refers to sealing up the seams of a ship caulking |
#6628, aired 2013-06-12 | AN UNFINISHED CATEG $800: Whether using it to mean not total (as in credit on a test) or biased, the word you're looking for is... partial |
#6620, aired 2013-05-31 | LEGAL MATTERS $400: To knowingly assist someone in the commission of a crime is to "aid and " this 4-letter word abet |
#6600, aired 2013-05-03 | THE BIG "BOARD" $400: This name for a side of the boat is related to the word "steer"; Teutonic ships were steered on that side starboard |
#6596, aired 2013-04-29 | SCIENCE IS A 7-LETTER WORD $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew steps on a carpet and taps a metal table.) We all know what it feels like to get shocked... & though the tension of the spark contains several thousand volts... it's harmless due to its small amount of this 7-letter word current (amperes accepted) |
#6596, aired 2013-04-29 | SCIENCE IS A 7-LETTER WORD $1200: The most common drug used to treat bipolar disorder is a compound of this light metal lithium |
#6592, aired 2013-04-23 | I'D LIKE TO SOLVE THE PUZZLE... FAST! $2000: As the morning & evening star, this Mesoamerican deity was the symbol of death & resurrection
Q _ _ _ Z _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Quetzalcoatl |
#6591, aired 2013-04-22 | BREAKING BAD $600: "Black's Law Dictionary" says breach of promise is "the violation of one's word... especially a promise to" do this marry |
#6582, aired 2013-04-09 | CONFUSING WORD PAIRS $1200: Vain, v-a-i-n, refers to vanity; the one spelled v-a-n-e is short for this device a weathervane |
#6581, aired 2013-04-08 | MISNAMED ANIMALS $1200: This two-word "canine" seen here is actually a burrowing rodent that belongs to the squirrel family a prairie dog |
#6553, aired 2013-02-27 | OH, A WISE GUY! $600: This late gonzo journalist said, "a word to the wise is infuriating" (Hunter S.) Thompson |
#6547, aired 2013-02-19 | THE FUTURE $600: (Al Gore gives the clue.) The global economy is being transformed into Earth Inc. by the mechanization of human jobs & this practice of moving jobs from industrial to developing economies outsourcing |
#6528, aired 2013-01-23 | MATH IS A 7- OR 8-LETTER WORD $800: The integral type of this math branch can be used to find the end result of known continuous change calculus |
#6528, aired 2013-01-23 | MATH IS A 7- OR 8-LETTER WORD $1200: It's a number placed as a superscript after an expression to indicate the power to which it is raised an exponent |
#6528, aired 2013-01-23 | MATH IS A 7- OR 8-LETTER WORD $2000: In rectangular Cartesian coordinates, the first this is the area to the right of the y-axis & above the x-axis a quadrant |
#6514, aired 2013-01-03 | CAMBODIAN HISTORY & CULTURE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Cambodia.) Not to be confused with karma, krama is a popular accessory sold in cambodia; the word means "scarf" in this national language of Cambodia Khmer |
#6500, aired 2012-12-14 | STARTS WITH "M" $600: (Jimmy demonstrates the clue on a display):
A word or phrase that qualifies the sense of another is referred to by this grammatical term: "scary", one for "books". a modifier |
#6492, aired 2012-12-04 | DOUBLE "L" WORDS $200: To plunder, or the loot that was plundered pillage |
#6480, aired 2012-11-16 | 17th CENTURY WORDS $800: In Newton's day this word was first used to mean the band of colors produced when light passes through a prism a spectrum |
#6477, aired 2012-11-13 | A 4 "O" AVERAGE $2000: A word whose sound is imitative of the sound it refers to, like hoot onomatopoeia |
#6471, aired 2012-11-05 | "A"DJECTIVES $4,000 (Daily Double): This 10-letter word means "greedy" & goes back to one of the 7 deadly sins avaricious |
#6452, aired 2012-10-09 | THE SECRET OF "NYM" $2000: Acoustic guitar is this type of term, coined to modify an older stand-alone word like "guitar" a retronym |
#6441, aired 2012-09-24 | YOU NEED TO CLEAR THAT UP $800: "Big" is found within this big word that means "open to interpretation" ambiguous |
#6436, aired 2012-09-17 | LATIN PHRASES $200: Lapsus linguae, a sudden, unfortunate utterance, translates to this 4-word phrase slip of the tongue |
#6420, aired 2012-07-13 | GUMBO $600: Proverbially, to deal with the essential facts of a matter is to "get down to" these 2-word metallic fasteners brass tacks |
#6392, aired 2012-06-05 | ADD A LETTER $200: Add a letter to a word for a man engaged to be married to get this word for the field of money matters finance |
#6383, aired 2012-05-23 | A TOUCH OF ROBERT FROST IN THE AIR $1600: "My little horse must think it queer to stop without a farmhouse near", says the frosty poem with this 7-word title "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
#6367, aired 2012-05-01 | WORD ORIGINS $1000: The general agreement is that this word meaning a majority of opinion is from the Latin for "to feel together" a consensus |
#6350, aired 2012-04-06 | WORD UP $1000: Oh, give me a this 11-letter term, the tendency of a physiological system to maintain internal stability homeostasis |
#6345, aired 2012-03-30 | SOLVE FOR "EX" $1000: If the murderer had blood type A, finding that a suspect has type O is this kind of evidence exculpatory (exclusionary also accepted) |
#6322, aired 2012-02-28 | THE SHORT FORM $200: When a Brit tells you to hold on "arf a mo", "mo" is short for this word a moment |
#6318, aired 2012-02-22 | GREEK IS THE WORD $800: Plethein, "to be full", gave us this word for an abundance that starts with "pleth" a plethora |
#6318, aired 2012-02-22 | GREEK IS THE WORD $1600: On "American Idol", certain celebrity guests act as these, from the name of a trusted adviser to Odysseus a mentor |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | VOCABULARY $1600: The OED dates a version of this blended word for one who is both a pal & a foe back to the 1950s a frenemy |
#6301, aired 2012-01-30 | OCCASION $6,000 (Daily Double): September 21, 1897:
It seems 3 months early, but the N.Y. Sun publishes an editorial famous for this 7-word phrase "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" |
#6297, aired 2012-01-24 | MUSIC ALPHABET $1000: "P" is for pizzicato, which informs the string players to do this, also a "P" word pluck |
#6296, aired 2012-01-23 | THE ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) In Svalbard as well as Norway, you'll find many of these spectacular inlets; the Norwegian term for them is derived from a word meaning "to pass through" fjords |
#6295, aired 2012-01-20 | PHYSICS $2000: The idea that in a closed system matter is neither created nor destroyed is referred to by this 3-word phrase conservation of matter |
#6268, aired 2011-12-14 | UNDERGARMENTS $200: An uplift brassiere is more commonly known as this, moving the "up" to the end of the word a push-up bra |
#6261, aired 2011-12-05 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: This term for a type of airship is from the Latin for "to direct" a dirigible |
#6261, aired 2011-12-05 | WORD ORIGINS $3,000 (Daily Double): From the Italian for "of a cave", this adjective today refers to anything strange or ugly grotesque |
#6255, aired 2011-11-25 | PORTMANTEAU WORDS $200: This 9-letter word for a procession of cars is often used to refer to that of the U.S. president a motorcade |
#6235, aired 2011-10-28 | IN THE DICTIONARY $800: This 2-word term can refer to a spicy sausage or a piece of highlighted text on a web page a hot link |
#6227, aired 2011-10-18 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $1000: As a verb, it means to oppose & defeat a plan or effort; as a noun, it's a seat across a boat on which a rower may sit thwart |
#6227, aired 2011-10-18 | RANK-LY SPEAKING $2000: In the South, this 7-letter word is a title of respect prefixed to the name of distinguished elderly men colonel |
#6222, aired 2011-10-11 | GIVING BLOOD $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew preps to donate blood at an American Red Cross blood donation center in Washington, D.C.) Technically, the person who draws your blood is called this, from the Greek word for vein a phlebotomist |
#6186, aired 2011-07-04 | GEOGRAPHIC TERMS $1000: From a French word meaning "mound", it's a steep-sided, flat-topped hill like the one seen here in Wyoming a butte |
#6183, aired 2011-06-29 | TO EVERYTHING $200: I say! A flank steak tenderized by marinating, this 2-word term is also used for thick cuts including sirloin London Broil |
#6170, aired 2011-06-10 | NYSE $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from inside the New York Stock Exchange.) If the Dow Jones Industrial Average declines more than 10% in a day, trading is halted to prevent a market slide; it's a safety feature called this 2-word term, also a device that protects homes from electrical overloads circuit breaker |
#6160, aired 2011-05-27 | PINEAPPLES $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a pineapple plantation.) The pineapple shoots that grow from the mother plants after the main harvest are called the ratoon crop, also the Hawaiian term for a baby born to late-in-life parents; the word is thought to be from the Latin for this season autumn |
#6138, aired 2011-04-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES IN THE 21st CENTURY $1600: Around this event in the fall of 2010, nytimes.com ran a "word train" to gauge readers' moods--no. 1 was "disgusted" the mid-term election |
#6104, aired 2011-03-10 | THE SHAPE OF "THING"s TO COME $400: 3-word term for increasing a bet so that you'll either owe twice as much money or zero double or nothing |
#6100, aired 2011-03-04 | A REPORTER'S BASIC QUESTIONS $400: This word found on most lightbulbs is the unit of power equivalent to one joule per second a watt |
#6078, aired 2011-02-02 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: The French for "to throw" gives us this word for a pier a jetty |
#6075, aired 2011-01-28 | WE ALL SPEAK HINDI $2000: This is the Hindi word for a loin band; you'll see them if you go to a black-tie event cummerbund |
#6065, aired 2011-01-14 | SILENT "L" $2000: This 5-letter word for a soothing medicinal ointment comes from the Sanskrit for "melted butter" salve |
#6057, aired 2011-01-04 | WHAT'S THE USE $800: An epipen delivers a dose of epinephrine to treat this type of severe allergic reaction, partly from the Greek word for "watching" anaphylactic |
#6050, aired 2010-12-24 | LET'S GET READY TO ROOMBA! $200: The Roomba is on the hunt for this 2-word "animal", a loose, tangled ball of hair or debris found under the couch a dust bunny |
#6038, aired 2010-12-08 | THIS CATEGORY IS A SHOE-IN $200: The word for this shoe with a wooden sole can also mean "to obstruct" clog |
#6037, aired 2010-12-07 | LET'S HIT IT $400: This word seen on doors is what a right-handed batter does when he hits the ball to left field pull |
#6003, aired 2010-10-20 | WE'RE CUCKOO $1000: Dating from the 13th century, this word is derived from "cuckoo" & refers to a man with an unfaithful wife a cuckold |
#5998, aired 2010-10-13 | "F" IN GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of Clue Crew shows a map of the Middle East.) In 1914, historian James Breasted coined this 2-word term to describe the agricultural area that extends from the Nile Valley to the Persian Gulf the Fertile Crescent |
#5971, aired 2010-07-26 | ENDS WITH THE SAME 2 VOWELS $200: In the OED this word is also listed as a verb meaning "to bleat" baa |
#5969, aired 2010-07-22 | PASTRY $1200: The 2-word name of this pastry that can be filled with custard is also used to mean "a timid person" a cream puff |
#5963, aired 2010-07-14 | NUMBER WORD PLAY $400: Carl Sagan knew that this number is the first to contain a "B" when spelled out billion |
#5961, aired 2010-07-12 | ADD A TREE $2000: Add a tree to an "S" & you get this wet word soak (slime accepted) |
#5954, aired 2010-07-01 | "OY" TO THE WORLD $800: This fabric may take its name from the Old French for "cloth of the king" corduroy |
#5950, aired 2010-06-25 | GO BALLISTIC! $1200: This 2-word term that includes part of the gun refers to a bullet's speed as it leaves; 2,000 F.P.S. is not uncommon muzzle velocity |
#5918, aired 2010-05-12 | ENDS WITH 3 VOWELS $800: This farewell word first appeared in an English text in Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" ciao |
#5912, aired 2010-05-04 | FROM THE YIDDI"SCH" $1600: Mazel is luck; this word sometimes paired with "schlemiel" refers to a luckless failure a schlamazel |
#5906, aired 2010-04-26 | HUSKY $2,000 (Daily Double): From the Latin for "oaken" & "strong", this word is used to describe a rich, strong cup of coffee robust |
#5897, aired 2010-04-13 | PLAY FASTER! $2000: This very fast tempo is also a word used by magicians to command the amazing to happen presto |
#5889, aired 2010-04-01 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $600: This word for a long-noosed rope used to catch cattle & horses is from the Spanish la reata, "the rope" a lariat |
#5889, aired 2010-04-01 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $800: A 15th century sailor is said to have given this snake its name, from a Portuguese phrase meaning "hooded snake" the cobra |
#5876, aired 2010-03-15 | FROM THE DUTCH $2000: This term for a leave of absence granted to a member of the military is from a Dutch word for "permission" furlough |
#5865, aired 2010-02-26 | STUCK $2,000 (Daily Double): A frustrated driver stuck in snow does this 3-word phrase; it means to expend effort with no result spinning your wheels |
#5851, aired 2010-02-08 | INSTRUMENT ETYMOLOGY $2000: The name of this instrument has nothing to do with the religion, but is more likely a corruption of the word "jaw" Jew's harp |
#5836, aired 2010-01-18 | JUST SAY THE WORD $1600: From the Latin for "former", this word meaning pure & untouched is often used to describe a mountain or lake pristine |
#5812, aired 2009-12-15 | STATE FACTS $600: The honeybee, its state insect, is a reference to deseret, a Book of Mormon word meaning "honeybee" Utah |
#5797, aired 2009-11-24 | RUN, RUN, RUN $800: This 2-word hoops term is an offensive rush to beat the defense to the hoop a fast break |
#5793, aired 2009-11-18 | GET SOME HELP $600: Alfred Pennyworth is this superhero's butler & confidante Batman |
#5749, aired 2009-09-17 | WHAT A DECADE IN THE U.S. $1600: The 1850s saw a bad one of this 5-letter word that refers to an economic crash & the fear-driven rush to sell a panic |
#5721, aired 2009-06-22 | FROM THE GERMAN $1200: This 6-letter word refers to a replacement or substitute that is inferior ersatz |
#5713, aired 2009-06-10 | THE READER $1200: In contrast to tough-guy novels, sentimental stories are said to be this hyphenated word, like a 3-minute egg soft-boiled |
#5705, aired 2009-05-29 | EATING PLACES $1600: This French word means a small, European-style restaurant, or a small nightclub similar to a cabaret a bistro |
#5698, aired 2009-05-20 | "ROAD" TEST $800: When a Broadway show is touring, it's said to be this 3-word phrase, also a 1957 novel on the road |
#5678, aired 2009-04-22 | IN BRUGES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from Bruges.) The sounds may give you a clue to this 1-word name of the central tower in Bruges' Market Square; it's 366 steps to the top, so I'll listen from down here the belfry |
#5655, aired 2009-03-20 | WORDS WITH ALL 5 VOWELS $1000: FEMA says to keep a full tank of gas in your car if this order seems likely evacuation |
#5651, aired 2009-03-16 | POLYSYLLABIC VOCABULARY $400: This 4-syllable word can refer to any one of the 4 authors of the Gospels or to a type of minister evangelist |
#5645, aired 2009-03-06 | A DISCOURAGING WORD $800: If you're an outcast, you may be in this discouraged state that can also refer to a glance at the ground downcast |
#5645, aired 2009-03-06 | A DISCOURAGING WORD $1,600 (Daily Double): Built on the Latin for "peer", this word means to belittle or bring reproach upon disparage |
#5640, aired 2009-02-27 | SHAKESPEARE-POURRI $1600: Lysander uses the word "bedroom" while trying to convince Hermia to sleep close to him in this comic play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
#5627, aired 2009-02-10 | FROM A TO Y $200: The name of a brand of chocolate chip cookies includes this nautical word ahoy |
#5627, aired 2009-02-10 | BALLET BASICS $1600: This 4-letter word refers to the configuration of the body resting or in motion; a good one is partly natural physique line |
#5615, aired 2009-01-23 | 2 ANIMALS, 1 WORD $1000: To know this other name for a binturong, try asking around the University of Cincinnati a bearcat |
#5607, aired 2009-01-13 | WORLD PLACE NAMES $800: The name of this Indonesian island is believed to come from a word for barley, not coffee Java |
#5585, aired 2008-12-12 | GREECE IS THE WORD $800: This Greek island, once home to a 105-foot statue of Helios, lies 12 miles off the coast of Turkey Rhodes |
#5580, aired 2008-12-05 | WOOD & WIND $2000: This Frost poem ends with "And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep" "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" |
#5558, aired 2008-11-05 | A WORD ODDITY $1600: The 2-syllable "rugged" is made into one syllable when you add these 2 letters to the front; try using an "atlas" S-H |
#5558, aired 2008-11-05 | A WORD ODDITY $6,000 (Daily Double): This Asian city is the only world capital whose name in English has 3 dotted letters in succession Beijing |
#5531, aired 2008-09-29 | SMART ANSWERS $400: Both Cervantes & Ben Franklin wrote, "A word to" these people "is enough" the wise |
#5526, aired 2008-09-22 | GIN & JUICE $400 (Daily Double): A writer into "Self-Reliance" goes for this one-word drink with maraschino liqueur, vermouth, gin & lemon juice Emerson |
#5517, aired 2008-09-09 | U.S. COINS $800: It should be easy to "home" in on this longest of the 10 words on the back of a current nickel Monticello |
#5470, aired 2008-05-23 | ROPE $3,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crue ties a knot.) An animal term precedes the word "shank" in the name of this knot used to shorten rope a sheepshank |
#5458, aired 2008-05-07 | I LIKE TO DECORATE $800: Originally, sequins were worn to show off one's wealth; the word "sequin" comes from the Arabic for this object a coin |
#5457, aired 2008-05-06 | & THE AWARD GOES TO... $400: A peace prize has the Gujarati word for "peace" inscribed on it & is named for this man who died in 1948 Gandhi |
#5447, aired 2008-04-22 | FROM THE GREEK $1200: Not to judge, but this word for one who judges comes from a word meaning "skilled in judging" critic |
#5446, aired 2008-04-21 | BUSINESS TALK $1200: It's the 3-word scam in which a customer is pressured to buy more expensive items than the ones advertised bait and switch |
#5443, aired 2008-04-16 | 4-LETTER WORDS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew blows out a match and sticks it in a bottle.) The moisture in the air combines with particles of dust from the smoke to form this; Los Angeles is known for it smog |
#5439, aired 2008-04-10 | ON THE CUTTING EDGE $600: The name of this large kitchen knife resembling a hatchet is from a word meaning "to split" a cleaver |
#5436, aired 2008-04-07 | FROM "RAG"s $400: One who dawdles or falls behind a straggler |
#5433, aired 2008-04-02 | "B" & "O" $1000: In Hebrew, this type of sacrifice to God is olah, related to the word "ascending" a burnt offering |
#5412, aired 2008-03-04 | LANDMARKS THE SPOT $800: No StairMaster needed to get your exercise at this Mexican location with a 2-word name Chichen Itza |
#5403, aired 2008-02-20 | NO, I'M GOING TO THE ZOO $1200: Seen here is the desert variety of this, a word referring only to land-dwelling animals a tortoise |
#5401, aired 2008-02-18 | THAT'S SO CLICHE! $1000: This 3-word phrase meaning what is due or owed goes back to Shylock's demand in "The Merchant of Venice" a pound of flesh |
#5388, aired 2008-01-30 | SOUL FEUD $1000: From the Greek for "image breaking", it was opposition to the use of Christian religious images in churches iconoclasm |
#5379, aired 2008-01-17 | "ODE" TO JOY $400: 7-letter word meaning to wear or eat away by the action of a chemical corrode |
#5378, aired 2008-01-16 | BIRD IS THE WORD $1000: As a verb it means to denounce something loudly; as a noun, it's a short-winged marsh bird a rail |
#5375, aired 2008-01-11 | A TRIP TO RIO DE JANEIRO $1000: (Jimmy delivers the last clue behind a serving counter of a cafe.) I'm at the famous Café Confeitaria Colombo, where this word doesn't just mean a person who lives here in Rio, but a coffee drink with added hot water carioca |
#5364, aired 2007-12-27 | NO PROMISES, NO DEMANDS $1000: No promises:
If a house is sold on this 2-short-word basis, the seller still has to disclose problems, but not fix them as is |
#5355, aired 2007-12-14 | LET'S LEARN HEBREW $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives us a Hebrew lesson.) Hebrew letters can also indicate numbers; the word for 14 is yod-dalet, or 10 + 4; but 15 is 9 + 6 to avoid writing one of the many of these sacred names the names of God |
#5341, aired 2007-11-26 | O CANADA $800: Its name is the French form of the Algonquin word for "where the river narrows", a reference to the St. Lawrence Quebec |
#5334, aired 2007-11-15 | AFRICAN LANGUAGE LAB $1200: The word "okra" is West African; in the language of Angola, okra was called this, which to us is a soup or stew gumbo |
#5330, aired 2007-11-09 | PHONETICS $2000: A letter like P or D, where some part of the mouth is blocked off to make the sound, is called this simple word of cessation a stop |
#5304, aired 2007-10-04 | AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a poem line on the monitor: "Come live / with me / and be / my love".) In poetry, it's a foot or metrical unit consisting of an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable iamb |
#5294, aired 2007-09-20 | RELATED WORDS $2000: To do this to something is to make it "holy", a word from the same root hallow |
#5268, aired 2007-07-04 | GIVE ME A SIGN $400: This gesture can mean "cut power to the microphone" or, in scuba diving, "I'm out of air" putting your hand across your (throat) |
#5260, aired 2007-06-22 | AMUSEMENTS $1000: This word for one who takes up an activity for amusement in a superficial way is from the Latin for "to delight" a dilettante |
#5253, aired 2007-06-13 | LEAGUES $200: Original members of this 4-word group included the Flash, Green Lantern & Wonder Woman Justice League of America |
#5253, aired 2007-06-13 | JAMES JOYCE'S DUBLIN $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Dublin, Ireland.) We're at the Jameson Distillery raising a glass to James Joyce on June 16, a date that now has this one-word name Bloomsday |
#5252, aired 2007-06-12 | LEFTOVERS $2000: Referring to the way English is spoken on a certain continent, "Strine" is an alteration of this word Australian |
#5229, aired 2007-05-10 | GIVE ME SOME ROOM $2000: In a monastery and in some colleges, the dining room is often referred to by this 9-letter word refectory |
#5227, aired 2007-05-08 | ABBREV. $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew demonstrates with a CPR mannequin.) Rescue breathing, which is mouth to mouth, or mouth to nose for infants, puts the "P" in CPR. The "P" stands for this word pulmonary |
#5205, aired 2007-04-06 | THE W.C. $1000: This phase of the moon is known by a 2-word term: one word means "growing", and the other is from the Latin for "to grow" a waxing crescent |
#5199, aired 2007-03-29 | THE TUDORS $1200: Henry's gift to the French king helped inspire this nursery rhyme whose first word is "Sing" "Sing a Song of Sixpence" |
#5172, aired 2007-02-20 | THE BIRD IS THE WORD $800: The name of this game bird is also a verb that means "to shrink with fear" quail |
#5132, aired 2006-12-26 | WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $2000: This plant's name is derived from the Greek for "dolphin" because a part of it resembles a dolphin delphinium |
#5107, aired 2006-11-21 | KING OF THE "HILL" $800: Informally, if something is worth virtually nothing at all, it "doesn't amount to" this 3-word food term a hill of beans |
#5088, aired 2006-10-25 | "OCK"-TOBER $200: An enclosure for the temporary housing of cattle a paddock (stockyard or stockade also acceptable) |
#5076, aired 2006-10-09 | THE GLOBE THEATRE $1,000 (Daily Double): Dubbed the "inventor of tragedy", this Greek poet lends his name to a word for actors Thespis |
#5049, aired 2006-07-20 | LET'S START A CLUB $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew lets off some steam in the foundry at Ping Hdqtrs in Phoenix, AZ.) One of the final steps is pouring this 2-word, rust-resistant alloy at about 2,975 degrees Fahrenheit to cast it as the club head stainless steel |
#5042, aired 2006-07-11 | A VISIT TO THE "E.R." $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew waxes poetic.) Because it only looks like it works, the verse here...
Oh, Montague, I long to PROVE
How strong and stalwart is my LOVE
...has what's called this two-word term an eye rhyme |
#5042, aired 2006-07-11 | OLD AMERICAN HISTORY $6,000 (Daily Double): Daniel Shays in 1787, like John Brown in 1859, tried to capture one of these storage places an arsenal |
#5033, aired 2006-06-28 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $800: The area to the side of a stage gives us this 2-word phrase for performing without preparation wing it |
#5031, aired 2006-06-26 | VOCABULARY $2,500 (Daily Double): Depending where you place the emphasis, this word can mean to comfort, or an instrument panel console |
#4997, aired 2006-05-09 | AMERICANISMS $1200: You might take the footpath to get to this word, paired with "Surfin'" in a Jan & Dean skateboarding hit sidewalk |
#4982, aired 2006-04-18 | WEBSTER'S 2005 TOP WORD SEARCHES $2000: The most looked-up word was this, which means "firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values" integrity |
#4976, aired 2006-04-10 | LITERARY TERMS $5,800 (Daily Double): Edmund Spenser coined the term prothalamion for a poem that celebrates the impending one of these events a wedding |
#4971, aired 2006-04-03 | THE COURAGE TO "B" $1600: This name for a type of small house comes from the name of a region in Southern Asia bungalow |
#4949, aired 2006-03-02 | THE U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEST POINT $1000: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from in front of a military exercise.) A shortage of blue cloth led to uniforms of a different color & to this 3-word term for the corps of cadets the long grey line |
#4948, aired 2006-03-01 | RUNNING IN CIRCLES $1200: This 2-letter word is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter pi |
#4942, aired 2006-02-21 | IN THE DICTIONARY $800: This 5-letter word refers to a joyous or triumphant song & is derived from Paia, a title for Apollo a paean |
#4938, aired 2006-02-15 | 2-WORD CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): This Asian capital was built between 1912 & '29 & designed by the British architect Lutyens New Delhi |
#4934, aired 2006-02-09 | AROUND THE BODY $1,000 (Daily Double): Some 2 million nephrons in this pair of organs filter about 180 liters of blood each day kidneys |
#4923, aired 2006-01-25 | "FOO" FINDERS $800: From the Italian for "clowning", it's a 7-letter word for a person given to clowning & joking buffoon |
#4921, aired 2006-01-23 | THE SHORT FORM $800: To sum up, "recap" is a short form of this word recapitulate |
#4903, aired 2005-12-28 | ARCHITECTURE $800: The house seen here
is by Adolf Loos, who hated this, a word related to adorn, & wrote an essay against it ornament |
#4894, aired 2005-12-15 | COMPUTER TERMS $800: 2-word term for something nice to wear in winter, or for restarting a computer without turning off the power warm boot |
#4882, aired 2005-11-29 | "AR" MATEY! $2000: Derived from a Serbian word for "highwayman", it refers to a 15th century horseman of the Hungarian light infantry Hussar |
#4880, aired 2005-11-25 | DOWN TO EARTH $9,000 (Daily Double): "Cast" in the role of the fourth most abundant element in the Earth's crust, its atomic number is 26 iron |
#4866, aired 2005-11-07 | TO PHRASE A COIN $2,000 (Daily Double): Of the 12 words that appear on every currently circulated U.S. quarter, this Latin word is the shortest E |
#4850, aired 2005-10-14 | VOCABULARY TEST $600: It's the 4-letter word for the president's power to reject a bill passed by Congress veto |
#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 |
#4826, aired 2005-09-12 | UNIVERSITY LATIN CLASS $4,200 (Daily Double): Truthfully, it's Harvard's 1-word Latin motto "Veritas" |
#4815, aired 2005-07-08 | THE FIRST WORD $600: In Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" Marley |
#4791, aired 2005-06-06 | BLOWIN' IN THE WIND $1000: This term for a sudden gust of wind & precipitation is related to a Swedish word for rushing water a squall |
#4787, aired 2005-05-31 | THE NAACP $2,400 (Daily Double): (Kweisi Mfume reads the clue.) This award, the NAACP's highest honor, was first bestowed in 1915 & named for a past chairman of the NAACP the Spingarn Medal |
#4780, aired 2005-05-20 | TIME FOR A "CON"TEST $1000: Though it possibly dates from the 16th century, the origin of this word for a punny riddle is a mystery in itself conundrum |
#4770, aired 2005-05-06 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: From Old French for "catch" or "entangle", it's to accuse a serving government official with an offense impeach |
#4767, aired 2005-05-03 | POLITICKING $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew points to a butterfly ballot in a voting booth at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA.) Florida voting machines introduced this 4-letter word to many people's vocabularies in 2000 chad |
#4766, aired 2005-05-02 | SPELLINGE WYTH GEOFFREY CHAUCER $1,300 (Daily Double): In the first line of "The Canterbury Tales" this calendar word is spelled to end with a double L April |
#4759, aired 2005-04-21 | THE RURAL SCENE $800: This English word for a young, non-laying female chicken is related to the French for "chicken" pullet |
#4750, aired 2005-04-08 | FASHION, HEAD TO FOOT $400: It can be an Empire-period dress, a more shapeless flapper dress, or just the French word for shirt chemise |
#4727, aired 2005-03-08 | CAMERA WORK $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) To be precise, a pan moves a camera horizontally, while this is four-letter word for a vertical move a tilt |
#4725, aired 2005-03-04 | "F"OOD WORD ORIGINS $400: This type of peach is so named because its flesh does not cling to the pit a freestone peach |
#4719, aired 2005-02-24 | CSI $800: A microspectrophotometer is used by a CSI team in analyzing these, a word from the Latin for "filament" fibers |
#4713, aired 2005-02-16 | ACTUAL MLB ANNOUNCER QUOTES $600: "The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's" this 2-word term, "low & outside" ball one |
#4693, aired 2005-01-19 | ODD, OLD & OBSCURE VOCABULARY $600: Related to the word "glacier", verglas is a thin coating of this on a rock ice |
#4686, aired 2005-01-10 | THE BIRD IS THE WORD $600: It's a glossy black bird, or to toot your own horn a crow |
#4655, aired 2004-11-26 | MUSICAL IDIOMS $2000: This 2-word part of the piano is also a verb meaning to downplay something harsh or upsetting soft-pedal |
#4624, aired 2004-10-14 | MATH $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew points to a diagram on the chalkboard.) In the ratio of s to r, this measure of an angle is similar to the word that the r stands for radian |
#4619, aired 2004-10-07 | THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO $1600: University of Chicago's Adler & Hutchins used this 2-word phrase for a program of classic works on which to base a curriculum Great Books |
#4615, aired 2004-10-01 | WORD ORIGINS $1,200 (Daily Double): This large, triangular sail used on some racing yachts is said to derive its name from a yacht called the Sphinx a spinnaker |
#4596, aired 2004-09-06 | TRANSPORTATION $1200: This word can refer to the vessel seen here, the type of missile it carries or a much more low-tech weapon Trident |
#4595, aired 2004-07-23 | THE FRENCH CONNECTION $1600: A homophone for the French word for "wheel", you need a good one to make gumbo a roux |
#4588, aired 2004-07-14 | WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTION $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew kicks around with Sofia.) Change the end of the word "football" to get this official name of the activity we're practicing footbag |
#4586, aired 2004-07-12 | BUSY HANDS $200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew sits at a laptop while looking at a paper sheet labeled "Exercise No. 1".) It's the alliterative 2-word term for the skill I'm trying to master touch typing |
#4577, aired 2004-06-29 | ACCOUNTING $2000: That shipment of tissue paper left out in the rain has to be removed from the assets account, this 2-word procedure written-off |
#4542, aired 2004-05-11 | WASHINGTON POST CARDS $800: Dear Mary,
Today I found out you can't do this to "All of the people all [of] the time"
-Abe fool |
#4541, aired 2004-05-10 | BIG, REALLY BIG! $400: The 120-foot big bat being transported here is now at the Kentucky museum named for this 2-word brand Louisville Slugger |
#4492, aired 2004-03-02 | NATIVE AMERICAN ART $400: 2-word term for the type of artwork being created here sand painting |
#4453, aired 2004-01-07 | ANIMALS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Alaska) The name of this raptor comes from a word meaning "to grasp" hawk |
#4428, aired 2003-12-03 | GRAB BAG $1600: The word "textile" is derived from a Latin word that means to do this weave |
#4425, aired 2003-11-28 | PRIME MIME $800: 3-word phrase that follows "running" in a Bob Seger lyric & "walking" in a famous mime routine against the wind |
#4423, aired 2003-11-26 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $2000: In heraldry, this word follows "bend" to denote a diagonal line ending in the lower left sinister |
#4391, aired 2003-10-13 | COMPLETES THE PROVERB $400: "A word to the wise is..." sufficient |
#4375, aired 2003-09-19 | THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER $2000: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Constitution Center.) The name of one of the 3 dissenters to the U.S. Constitution has given us this word that signifies unorthodox political boundary realignment gerrymandering |
#4347, aired 2003-06-24 | WORD PUZZLES $800: Time of day when I rise on my day off
----------------------------------
NOON IN THE in the afternoon |
#4331, aired 2003-06-02 | HAVE YOU HEARD THE WORD? $6,000 (Daily Double): Now meaning a confused & turbulent situation, it's a notorious ocean whirlpool off northern Norway maelstrom |
#4323, aired 2003-05-21 | MINERALS $4,200 (Daily Double): German geologist Abraham Werner gave this mineral its name, derived from a Greek word for "to write" graphite |
#4297, aired 2003-04-15 | MARKS $1000: The mark seen here tells you to say this word in the clue again
" again |
#4248, aired 2003-02-05 | LONG WORDS $1200: From the Greek for "time word", a list of events arranged in order from earliest to latest is arranged this way chronologically |
#4247, aired 2003-02-04 | WORD ORIGINS $1,000 (Daily Double): From the Greek for "small sound", it's a device used to intensify the voice microphone |
#4199, aired 2002-11-28 | 15-LETTER WORDS $1200: (Sofia is taking a walk through the woods.) A goal of the Boy Scouts is to foster this 15-letter word through activities like fishing, hiking & canoeing outdoorsmanship |
#4192, aired 2002-11-19 | WORD ORIGINS $1200: Used to foretell the future, this game's name is derived from the French & German words for "yes" Ouija |
#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 |
#4173, aired 2002-10-23 | WORD ORIGINS $2000: From the Latin for "to raise", it refers to the altitude of a city or mountain above sea level elevation |
#4171, aired 2002-10-21 | 10-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's a 10-letter word that can be used to describe the fractions 3/9 & 9/27 equivalent |
#4158, aired 2002-10-02 | THEY WILL "COME" $400: It's the 3-word command that follows the calling of your name to be a contestant on "The Price Is Right" "Come On Down" |
#4148, aired 2002-09-18 | WHAT'S UP, DOC? $2000: A weak form of a disease agent used to protect against the disease, it comes from the Latin word for "cow" vaccine |
#4118, aired 2002-06-26 | BE VEWY, VEWY QUIET $800: "It is better to remain silent and be thought of as" this 4-letter word "than to speak and prove the same" a fool |
#4108, aired 2002-06-12 | I'M GAME $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew) The word checkmate comes from "shah mat", a term meaning "the king is dead" in this language also known as Persian Farsi |
#4069, aired 2002-04-18 | CLICHES IN OTHER WORDS $600: Far from a well-worn path [*]off the beaten trail [**]off the beaten track |
#4069, aired 2002-04-18 | MYTH & MAGIC $800: A word in the category title is often spelled this longer way to distinguish it from mere illusionism m-a-g-i-c-k |
#4058, aired 2002-04-03 | EQUATIONS $800: (Now Sarah is rockin' the chalk.) This word, meaning "relating to a square," describes equations of the form seen here quadratic |
#4054, aired 2002-03-28 | TAKING A POSITION $1000: 5-letter word for the place at which something is about to start, or the upper edge of a steep cliff the brink |
#4041, aired 2002-03-11 | OBJETS D'ART $5,000 (Daily Double): The item held by Oscar winners is usually referred to as this diminutive word a statuette |
#4029, aired 2002-02-21 | SAY THE MAGIC "WORD" $2000: If I say it's a test where you're given a verbal stimulus to which a verbal response is needed, you say it's this word association |
#3994, aired 2002-01-03 | ACTION $800: (Jimmy whips up the clue.) It's the five-letter word meaning "to agitate milk or cream to get butter", or the vessel in which this is done churn |
#3988, aired 2001-12-26 | UNDER THE "C" $800: From a French word meaning "to disguise", this type of military fabric is used to blend in with surroundings camouflage |
#3981, aired 2001-12-17 | EVE $400: Eve's name, given to her because she was the mother of all living, is a play on this language's word for "life" Hebrew |
#3960, aired 2001-11-16 | OLDEN INSULTS $1000: "Rascal" evolved into this longer word that sounds like one who strikes green onions rapscallion |
#3955, aired 2001-11-09 | IN THE DICTIONARY $300: This day of the week is the only day with an anagram that's a real English word (it's "dynamo") Monday |
#3948, aired 2001-10-31 | HISTORICAL TRICK OR TREAT $400: (Ding dong! Sir Jimmy of the Clue Crew is at the door.) I'm sworn to uphold this code whose name is an alteration of a word meaning "horseman" chivalry |
#3947, aired 2001-10-30 | BREAD $400: It's the German word for rusk, bread that is baked twice to make it crisp zwieback |
#3903, aired 2001-07-18 | JUST PLANE GEOMETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): The word geometry means to "measure" this the world, the earth (the land) |
#3894, aired 2001-07-05 | WILDLIFE $300: The Australian water-holding frog comes out during rain to eat & do this, a word associated with Australia mate |
#3830, aired 2001-04-06 | CIRCUS TALK $1000: This word for the attention-getting talk used to lure customers inside became a synonym for exaggerated publicity Ballyhoo |
#3804, aired 2001-03-01 | WORD TO THE CHEF $200: To make small squares of food is to dice; to make them a little larger is to do this, the shape of dice cube |
#3804, aired 2001-03-01 | WORD TO THE CHEF $300: This French term refers to food that has been strained & blended to a smooth consistency purée |
#3804, aired 2001-03-01 | SKYWATCH $300: Known to farmers as "white plague", they travel to Earth at up to 100 miles per hour, damaging crops hail (or hailstones) |
#3789, aired 2001-02-08 | "V" WORDS $100: It's the 6-letter "V" word for what Lance's bird, seen here, is about to do vanish |
#3716, aired 2000-10-30 | GO GO GAUGUIN $400: Quoth this, the 1-word title of the painting seen here, a reference to Poe; notice the black bird in the corner Nevermore |
#3703, aired 2000-10-11 | FLYING MANEUVERS $1000: Pitch is when the plane's nose moves up or down, & this 3-letter word refers to a left or right motion Yaw |
#3625, aired 2000-05-12 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $400: The 90-word title of her 1999 album is a poem that she wrote in response to an unflattering magazine article about her Fiona Apple |
#3584, aired 2000-03-16 | EUPHEMISMS $800: This 2-word term often heard in the Balkans means a majority is trying to wipe out a minority Ethnic cleansing |
#3560, aired 2000-02-11 | U.S. STATE NAMES $600: This state's name is derived from an Indian word for "flat water", a reference to the Platte River Nebraska |
#3536, aired 2000-01-10 | WHAT'S IN A DOG'S NAME? $1,000 (Daily Double): The name terrier goes back to the Latin word for this earth (terra) |
#3420, aired 1999-06-18 | ON WORDS $1000: Alone it means "silence"; add "ble" & it means to talk indistinctly mum |
#3416, aired 1999-06-14 | FROM A TO Y $400: This word for a payment to a former spouse is from the Latin for "sustenance" or "nourishment" alimony |
#3310, aired 1999-01-15 | TV NOSTALGIA $200: On this classic game show, a toy duck dropped down when a guest said the secret word You Bet Your Life |
#3309, aired 1999-01-14 | VERY CROSS WORD CLUES $400: According to the King James Bible, "A soft answer turneth" it "away" Wrath |
#3309, aired 1999-01-14 | THE OLD WEST $400: This word meaning "to saunter along" is said to be a corruption of the Spanish vamos mosey |
#3297, aired 1998-12-29 | BELLS $500: Traditionally you hit the bell & yell this 5-letter word to get a bellhop hopping Front! |
#3279, aired 1998-12-03 | MEDICINE $200: This symbol on a prescription is thought to represent the Latin word "recipe" Rx |
#3274, aired 1998-11-26 | GIVING THANKS $800: If you're genuinely thankful to a Frenchman, "The quality" of this word "is not strained" merci |
#3271, aired 1998-11-23 | THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR $3,000 (Daily Double): This future admiral's fleet was in Hong Kong when he got word to move it to the Philippines George Dewey |
#3257, aired 1998-11-03 | WEATHER $200: The name of this storm with winds over 74 mph comes from the West Indies Taino word for "evil spirit" a hurricane |
#3219, aired 1998-09-10 | ARCHITECT TALK $1000: This word for a projecting feature atop a wall is from the Italian for "crow", which might perch there cornice |
#3166, aired 1998-05-11 | WORD ORIGINS $1000: This noun from the Italian for "skilled" is often applied to top musicians Virtuoso |
#3147, aired 1998-04-14 | STARTS WITH "GU" $1000: The name of this thick soup is akin to the Tshiluba word for "okra" gumbo |
#3068, aired 1997-12-24 | RAISE YOUR GLASSES $1000: The book "Toasts" advises that this 2-word one is inappropriate at a boat race "Bottoms up!" |
#3028, aired 1997-10-29 | "C" THE WORLD $500: The name of this African country comes from camaroes, a Portuguese word for shrimp Cameroon |
#2925, aired 1997-04-25 | CINCO DE MAYO $400: Founded in the 13th century by the Kirghiz, it adopted its constitution May 5, 1993 Kyrgyzstan |
#2915, aired 1997-04-11 | ODDS & ENDS $300: This 7-letter word can mean a transparent coating on a wood surface, or to apply the coating Varnish |
#2901, aired 1997-03-24 | POT LUCK $600: The name of this Russian monetary unit equal to 100 kopecks is from a word meaning a cut piece Ruble |
#2855, aired 1997-01-17 | IN THE DICTIONARY $600: LASER & MASER are examples of this type of word formed from the first letters of a series of words Acronym |
#2849, aired 1997-01-09 | THE 1970s $600: To avoid default, the House of Representatives reset this to a temporary $830 billion on April 2, 1979 The Ceiling on the National Debt |
#2791, aired 1996-10-21 | PROVERBS $400: Meaning intelligent people can take a hint, this proverb ends, "...is sufficient" a word to the wise |
#2707, aired 1996-05-14 | PROVERBS $200: A word to" them "is enough" the wise |
#2681, aired 1996-04-08 | WORD ORIGINS $300: The name of this black & white bearlike mammal is believed to be a native Nepalese word panda |
#2622, aired 1996-01-16 | POLYNESIA $600: The word Polynesia means this "many islands" |
#2573, aired 1995-11-08 | TAKE FIVE $300: "HOMES" is a word used to remember these, the five Great Lakes Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie & Superior |
#2551, aired 1995-10-09 | WORD ORIGINS $2,000 (Daily Double): The origins of alcalde, a Spanish word for a judicial official, go back to this language Arabic |
#2536, aired 1995-09-18 | COLORS $400: This name for a color & a fruit goes back to the Sanskrit word naranga orange |
#2505, aired 1995-06-23 | BASED ON A TRUE STORY $100: In a 1994 TV biopic, Terumi Matthews played this Material girl Madonna |
#2479, aired 1995-05-18 | WORD ORIGINS $300: This term for a copy or reproduction is from the Latin meaning "to make similar" facsimile |
#2425, aired 1995-03-03 | LIBRARIES $800: This is the French word for library; librairie refers to a bookstore bibliothèque |
#2344, aired 1994-11-10 | 5-LETTER WORDS $200: It's the sharp sound of a whip or thunder crack |
#2295, aired 1994-07-22 | WORD ORIGINS $400: A type of Asian temple, its name goes back to the Sanskrit bhagavat a pagoda |
#2278, aired 1994-06-29 | WORD ORIGINS $1000: This adjective often describing a charming old village or inn ultimately comes from the Latin for "to know" quaint |
#2183, aired 1994-02-16 | LOST TIME $1000: The Proust title that literally translates to "In Search of Lost Time" is known as this in English Remembrance of Things Past |
#2176, aired 1994-02-07 | GRAMMAR $400: A modifier located too far from the word it's modifying is called this misplaced |
#2087, aired 1993-10-05 | 2-WORD LEGAL PHRASES $400: Term for an attorney assigned to you by the court if you can't afford one a public defender |
#2045, aired 1993-06-25 | WORD ORIGINS $100: This device mounted on the stern of a ship to direct it is named from rother, meaning "steering oar" a rudder |
#2023, aired 1993-05-26 | RELIGION $200: This sect was so named because George Fox told a judge to "tremble at the word of the Lord" the Quakers |
#1985, aired 1993-04-02 | WORD ORIGINS $100: This term for a copy or reproduction is from the Latin meaning "to make similar" facsimile |
#1962, aired 1993-03-02 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $400: This word which describes a soft shade of color is also Spanish for pie or pastry pastel |
#1947, aired 1993-02-09 | "4"! $500: Roger Bannister called this sports record "an Everest—a challenge to the human spirit" the 4-minute mile |
#1936, aired 1993-01-25 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $500: This 3-word French phrase is used to mean the ultimate, or the featured dish of a meal the pièce de résistance |
#1922, aired 1993-01-05 | ARCHAEOLOGY $2,000 (Daily Double): The citadel of this well-preserved Inca city NW of Cuzco was once surrounded by terraced gardens Machu Picchu |
#1915, aired 1992-12-25 | WORD ORIGINS $1000: This synonym for bell tower comes from the Italian word for "bell" campanile |
#1907, aired 1992-12-15 | U.S. CITIES $400: Over twice as many people live in this most populous Missouri city as in the city that shares its name in another state Kansas City, Missouri |
#1871, aired 1992-10-26 | ITALIAN FOOD $300: The Italian word for "spring", it describes pasta dishes made with fresh vegetables primavera |
#1857, aired 1992-10-06 | FLOWERS $200: Mum's the word if you want to call this flower by its shortened name chrysanthemum |
#1834, aired 1992-07-16 | METALS $800: The name of this metal widely used to plate other metals is from a Greek word meaning "color" chromium |
#1789, aired 1992-05-14 | THE CARIBBEAN $400: The last word you'll probably hear on Bonaire is "ayo", which is Papiamento for this goodbye |
#1784, aired 1992-05-07 | GRAMMAR $800: This simple or base-form of a verb is often preceded by the word "to" infinitive |
#1702, aired 1992-01-14 | NOVELS $1000: The first line of this Betty Smith novel is "Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York" A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
#1697, aired 1992-01-07 | METALS $400: Hg, the symbol for this metal, is derived from the Greek word "hydrargyrum". meaning "water silver" mercury |
#1688, aired 1991-12-25 | WORD ORIGINS $100: A variety show, from the French meaning "song of vau de vire", a region in France Vaudeville |
#1686, aired 1991-12-23 | IN THE DICTIONARY $300: This Spanish word for a nap or the time people like to take one is from the Latin for "sixth hour" siesta |
#1636, aired 1991-10-14 | CATS $800: Anyone devoted to the breeding & advancement of cats belongs collectively to this group a cat fancier |
#1631, aired 1991-10-07 | WORD ORIGINS $1000: Type of government whose name is derived from the Latin for "bundle" fascist |
#1584, aired 1991-06-20 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): The name of this volcano is said to be derived from an Ainu word for fire Mt. Fuji |
#1567, aired 1991-05-28 | PSYCH 101 $200: The libido is seated in this part of the psyche that's found in the word "libido" the id |
#1555, aired 1991-05-10 | IN OTHER WORDS... $500: One brief talk with a smart person will be adequate A word to the wise is enough |
#1551, aired 1991-05-06 | IN THE DICTIONARY $400: Meaning "to bounce a basketball lightly", this word is a variant of drip dribble |
#1530, aired 1991-04-05 | BIBLICAL PHRASES $400: As indicated in Daniel 9:3, they're what a penitent person is said to be wearing sackcloth and ashes |
#1524, aired 1991-03-28 | ANIMALS $500 (Daily Double): This rodent's name is derived from the Latin for "sleep" dormouse |
#1487, aired 1991-02-05 | FROM THE FRENCH $400: This word for a diplomatic agent is from the French for "to send" an envoy |
#1420, aired 1990-11-02 | TRADE NAMES $300: F. Walton lost the rights to this name for a hard floor covering when it became a household word linoleum |
#1404, aired 1990-10-11 | QUOTES $600: According to the psalm, "thy word is a lamp unto" these, "and a light unto my path" feet |
#1392, aired 1990-09-25 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $3,000 (Daily Double): The word for this distance is from the Latin for "a thousand paces" a mile |
#1363, aired 1990-07-04 | NAMES $500: To the Scots it's both a girl's name & an adjective, but its origin is a Latin & French word for "good" Bonnie |
#1242, aired 1990-01-16 | MYTHOLOGY $400: In Hindu mythology the 3 main deities are Brahma, Vishnu & this one, called "The Destroyer" Shiva |
#1174, aired 1989-10-12 | FURNITURE $400: The French word for a large, movable wardrobe originally used to store arms armoire |
#1106, aired 1989-05-29 | LEGAL LINGO $600: From the Latin for "crime", evidence indicating you committed the crime is considered this incriminating |
#1105, aired 1989-05-26 | U.S. HISTORY $500: The verdict in the 1982 trial of John Hinckley Jr. for attempting to murder the president not guilty by reason of insanity |
#1081, aired 1989-04-24 | GAMES $100: In chess, this word is a warning to the king check |
#1076, aired 1989-04-17 | VOCABULARY $400: If you know Latin, you'll know pomology is the study of growing this fruits |
#1021, aired 1989-01-30 | WORD ORIGINS $600: One dying for his faith, like a Christian thrown to lions, is called this from the Greek for "witness" martyr |
#1012, aired 1989-01-17 | WORDS $400: Testatrix is the feminine form of this word testator |
#991, aired 1988-12-19 | POETRY $200: Last word in the poem that begins " 'Twas the Night, Before Christmas" night |
#919, aired 1988-09-08 | POTPOURRI $1000: An etymon is the earliest known form of one of these a word |
#905, aired 1988-07-08 | TREES $1000: This 16-letter word is the study of tree rings to determine a tree's age pattern of growth dendrochronology |
#904, aired 1988-07-07 | FOREIGN WORDS $200: Italian for "broad", it's a musical direction meaning to play slowly largo |
#898, aired 1988-06-29 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: Adjective form of the word that describes a word that reads the same forwards & backwards palindromic |
#889, aired 1988-06-16 | GAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): In "Going on a Trip", what you might say if the player before you is "taking an apple & a book" apple, book & C word |
#867, aired 1988-05-17 | BIOLOGY $1000: The 1-word term for the technique of pressing the venom of a snake into a collection vessel milking (extraction) |
#820, aired 1988-03-11 | MEATS $200: "Chit'lins", referring to the small intestines of swine, is a contraction of this word chitterlings |
#816, aired 1988-03-07 | NURSERY RHYMES $500: Last word in the rhyme which begins "There was a little girl..." horrid |
#808, aired 1988-02-24 | 4-WORD PHRASES $800: Last male survivor of a family, or conductor's call to let you know this is the last stop end of the line |
#806, aired 1988-02-22 | WORD ORIGINS $200: From the French for "to begin", it's a young lady I making her formal entrance into society a debutante |
#806, aired 1988-02-22 | THE MIDDLE AGES $800: From a Celtic word for "servant", it was the name for one who had vowed homage to a feudal lord a vassal |
#766, aired 1987-12-28 | PLACE NAMES $1000: Tho it seems to mean dry area, this state's name is actually from a Papago Indian word meaning "little spring" Arizona |
#755, aired 1987-12-11 | THE CLERGY $800: It's said this Harlem "father" taught his followers never to say "hello" because if began w/a swear word Father Devine |
#711, aired 1987-10-12 | HYPNOTISM $200: The word "hypnosis" is from the Greek "hypnos", meaning this type of rest sleep |
#695, aired 1987-09-18 | "D" IN SCIENCE $1000: This word describes a molecule made up of just 2 atoms diatomic |
#690, aired 1987-09-11 | PALINDROMES $600: Of the verbs to have, to do, or to be, the one whose past tense is a palindrome to do |
#681, aired 1987-07-20 | HOUSE PLANTS $200: This plant, "Saintpaulia ionantha", produces pink & white flowers, too, despite its purple name an African violet |
#681, aired 1987-07-20 | WORD ORIGINS $1,300 (Daily Double): "Rise to vote, sir" is one of these, named from the Greek "to run back again" palindrome |
#666, aired 1987-06-29 | STERN LOOKING $200: A sternutation; a proper response to one is the German word for "good health" a sneeze |
#644, aired 1987-05-28 | COWBOY TALK $200: This 4-letter word can refer to a chunk of tobacco or a broken-down horse a plug |
#630, aired 1987-05-08 | -OLOGIES $1000: This is the correct word for the study of the correct words used in a particular trade or field terminology |
#569, aired 1987-02-12 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $500: This state name is Indian word meaning "great western river", by which they probably meant the Columbia Oregon |
#535, aired 1986-12-26 | SOUND OFF $300: In "Mother Goose & Grimm" comic, a crossword for frogs used this 6-letter word for all the answers ribbit |
#533, aired 1986-12-24 | WORD ORIGINS $1000: The Latin word meaning "curl of hair" is descriptive name of this high, wispy type of cloud cirrus |
#525, aired 1986-12-12 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1000: Character in "David Copperfield" who epitomizes the word "unctuous" Uriah Heep |
#519, aired 1986-12-04 | WORD ORIGINS $1,000 (Daily Double): It's about time we told you this word's from Old English "waeccan", to "stay awake or keep vigil" watch |
#508, aired 1986-11-19 | EGYPT $200: Nefertari & Nefertiti were 2 of them queens of Egypt |
#477, aired 1986-10-07 | LITERATURE $800: 2-word title description of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure |
#467, aired 1986-09-23 | SPELLING $200 (Daily Double): This word is also spelled out in the song that includes the following:
"What you want..." R-E-S-P-E-C-T |
#444, aired 1986-05-22 | FICTION $500: British author who served up Mr. Chips as well as Shangri-la James Hilton |
#436, aired 1986-05-12 | "LAST"ING MUSIC $800: Edward Bear's final note on the subject in 1973 "Last Song" |
#417, aired 1986-04-15 | SPELLING $300: From the Irish "smidirin", something exploded into fragments has been blown to this S-M-I-T-H-E-R-E-E-N-S |
#416, aired 1986-04-14 | RATED "EX" $100: From Latin for "banishment", which is just what it means exile (expelled) |
#394, aired 1986-03-13 | 1984 $400: He explained "It's hard to write a song where your main objective is to use the word Ghostbusters" Ray Parker Jr. |
#381, aired 1986-02-24 | HODGEPODGE $600: Appropriately, Sigmund Freud's youngest child, Anna, made her career in this field child psychology |
#371, aired 1986-02-10 | WORD ORIGINS $1,000 (Daily Double): Weapon said to have been the size of a pomegranate & filled with "seeds" of gunpowder a hand grenade |
#362, aired 1986-01-28 | TRIVIA $100: Every Hawaiian word ends with one a vowel |
#350, aired 1986-01-10 | WORD ORIGINS $200: The word "bus", referring to the passenger vehicle, is a shortened form of this word omnibus |
#343, aired 1986-01-01 | FIRST LINES $800: MC who opened his '50s show with, "Would you like to be queen for for a day?" Jack Bailey |
#316, aired 1985-11-25 | WORD ORIGINS $500: French for "little park" it came to mean a special section of courtroom floor reserved for judges parquet |
#299, aired 1985-10-31 | "HOG" WILD $300: The Larousse Encyclopedia of Animal Life says everything about this African animal is ugly a warthog |
#290, aired 1985-10-18 | CARTOONS $400: Elmer Fudd's 2-word alliterative description of his buck-toothed prey wascally wabbit |
#273, aired 1985-09-25 | SPORTS $100: To do this, you fly to a drop zone & fall free skydiving |
#263, aired 1985-09-11 | 6-LETTER WORDS $500 (Daily Double): 6-letter word in the title of the following:
"Every single day /
Every word you say /
Every game you play /
Every night you stay /
I'll be watching you /
Oh, can't you see /
You belong to me?..." breath |
#187, aired 1985-05-28 | INCREDIBLE EDIBLES $200: The word "chow" applies in more than 1 way to this breed of dog once bred by Chinese for food the chow-chow |
#172, aired 1985-05-07 | STARTS WITH "V" $500: Repeated word for word verbatim |
#143, aired 1985-03-27 | WORD PLAY $600: The shortest known to do this with common words is "Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud." go through the entire alphabet (a sentence with all 26 letters) |
#100, aired 1985-01-25 | GAME SHOWS $200: The show which added the word "zonk" to our vocabulary Let's Make a Deal |
#98, aired 1985-01-23 | GRAMMAR $200: Italics are indicated in a manuscript by doing this to the word underlining |
#66, aired 1984-12-10 | LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): Vowel missing from entire 50,000 word text of Ernest Wright's "Gadsby"
"Gatsby was walking back from a visit down to Branton Hill's manufacturing district on a Saturday night. A busy day's traffic had had its noisy run; and with not many folks in sight, His Honor got along without having to stop to grasp a hand, or talk; for a mayor out of City Hall is a shining mark for any politician." the letter E |
#44, aired 1984-11-08 | NOTORIOUS $200: He was such a sadist, they coined the word for him the Marquis de Sade |
#37, aired 1984-10-30 | BUSINESS $100 (Daily Double): Word said to be derived from the practice of trimming coins held in trust with a bezel embezzlement |
#6, aired 1984-09-17 | WORD ORIGINS $400: This Australian animal's name literally means "I don't know" kangaroo |
#6, aired 1984-09-17 | WORD ORIGINS $500: Olympic participant, it means one who is naked while exercising gymnast |
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Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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"He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
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James Grant, a junior from Georgetown University
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2008 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Manhattan Beach,...
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Steven Milton, a legal case assistant from San Diego, California
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Season 26 2-time champion: $30,299 + $1,000. Steve Milton San Diego,...
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Katie Singh, a sophomore from Northwestern University from Austin, Texas
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Danny Vopava, a sophomore from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: New Brighton, Minnesota. [No contestant...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Marty Scott, an assistant district attorney from Forney, Texas
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Season 26 3-time champion: $64,002 + $2,000. Marty won $250,000 on...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Zach Safford, a senior from Williams College
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"His early interest in cryptozoology has been replaced by a history...
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Andrew Ceppos, a senior from Tufts University
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2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Verona, New...
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Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...
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Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University
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2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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Gail Flemmons, a history teacher from Clinton, Mississippi
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,399 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Melanie Leon, an Army wife from Peachtree City, Georgia
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Season 20 player (2004-01-07). Melanie forgot to complete the word "Ironman"...
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Brandon Hensley, a sophomore from Caltech
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Huntington, WV at...
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Aaron Wicks, a planning and evaluation manager from Rochester, New York
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Season 26 1-time champion: $18,001 + 1,000. Aaron Wicks Rochester, NY...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Robert Knecht Schmidt, a patent agent from Cleveland, Ohio
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Season 26 1-time champion: $12,799 + $1,000. Middle name pronounced like...
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Mark Dawson, a business manager from Chamblee, Georgia
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"In 2003, he became the first to win a quarter of...
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Dara Lind, a junior from Yale University
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2008 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 20 and from Cincinnati, OH at...
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Greg Lichtenstein, a freshman from Vassar College
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 18 and from Plainview, New York...
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Kimberly Jantz, an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,200 + $2,000. Kimberly Jantz - an...
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Andrew Chung, a sophomore from Harvey Mudd College
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2008 College Championship 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $25,000. 20 and...
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Judy Mermelstein, a Census field representative from Queens, New York
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Season 25 1-time champion: $38,401 + $1,000. Judy also appeared on...
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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CCH Pounder, an actress from Avatar and Brothers
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"She earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Claudette Wyms...
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John Genova, a teacher from Granada Hills, California
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"From 1984, he was the earliest 5-time champion in the tournament....
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Erik Larsen, a librarian and a licensed amateur boxing official from Jacksonville, Florida
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"A 5-time champion from 1990, he's a librarian and a licensed...
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Andrew Garen, an associate director of consumer marketing from Austin, Texas
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"He was a project manager when he won his 5 shows...
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Kathy Cassity, a closed captioner from Honolulu, Hawaii
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2003 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 18 4-time champion: $59,200....
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Pete Troyan, a senior from the University of Michigan
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2007 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
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Ingrid Nelson, a judicial assistant from Lake Mills, Wisconsin
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Season 25 2-time champion: $27,802 + $2,000. Ingrid Nelson - A...
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Alyssa McRae, a gift card production designer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 3-time champion: $50,402 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Dmitry Spivak, a junior from Northwestern University
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"The 11-year-old wasn't really kidding when he said he wanted to...
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Emily Jusino, a Ph.D. candidate in Greek literature originally from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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Season 27 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000.
Last name pronouned like "hoo-SEE-no".
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Cliff Galiher, a student from Half Moon Bay, California
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2007 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000 +...
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Emma Miller, from San Mateo, California
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"She loves the idea of creating art that people can live...
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Whitney Collins, a third grade teacher from New York, New York
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"She teaches at an all-boys school where every student learns chess...
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James Hill III, a freshman from Santa Clara University
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2010-A College championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: San Jose, California. [No contestant...
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Brandon Welch, a senior from Grayson, Georgia
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2011 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $10,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Suzie Lisky, a 12-year-old from Mendham, New Jersey
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"She's not sure what she wants to be when she grows...
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Josh Charnin-Aker, a twelve-year-old from Lighthouse Point, Florida
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"And, whether in neonatology or as a Navy SEAL, he plans...
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Christian Ie, a senior from Renton, Washington
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2011 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000.
Last name pronounced like "EE".
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