Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (872 results returned)

#9063, aired 2024-03-20MISSION: PLAUSIBLE $800: Solve the this TV host problem: 3 shut doors, new car-junk-junk. You pick A. He shows you B is junk. Do you switch to C? Monty Hall
#9043, aired 2024-02-21IT'S REIGNING MEN! $400: The I didn't even rule Egypt for a year & a half, but this pharaoh II of the 19th dynasty clocked in for 66, 1279-1213 B.C. Ramses
#9034, aired 2024-02-08THE MOURNING NEWS $400: A 10,000-talent funeral pyre--we can only assume that was expensive--burned in 324 B.C. for Hephaestion, a dear pal of this leader Alexander the Great
#9025, aired 2024-01-26HISTORIC BATTLES $800: 490 B.C.'s Battle of Marathon showed the Greeks for the first time that they could defeat a force of this mighty empire the Persian Empire
#9007, aired 2024-01-02HISTORIC LASTS $2000: Rome put Carthage on the mat for the final time with the third of these wars in a campaign that lasted from 149 to 146 B.C. the Punic Wars
#8990, aired 2023-12-08AS EASY AS A-B-C $200: Horse-riding style without a saddle bareback
#8990, aired 2023-12-08AS EASY AS A-B-C $400: It describes Shakespeare's pentameter iambic
#8990, aired 2023-12-08AS EASY AS A-B-C $600: It means to construct, or to fake, as in your excuse for being late fabricate
#8990, aired 2023-12-08AS EASY AS A-B-C $800: The title of a Lewis Carroll poem, it now means meaningless words or gibberish "Jabberwocky"
#8990, aired 2023-12-08AS EASY AS A-B-C $1000: This gem of a word can precede rattlesnake, terrapin & moth diamondback
#8983, aired 2023-11-29A, B OR C $200: Alphabetically, it's the first letter that does not begin a state name B
#8983, aired 2023-11-29A, B OR C $400: Not a blood type C
#8983, aired 2023-11-29A, B OR C $600: In the name of the outfit that first broadcast the U.S. House in 1979, this precedes "SPAN" C
#8983, aired 2023-11-29A, B OR C $800: A vitamin found in vegetables & dairy products, it's also called retinol vitamin A
#8983, aired 2023-11-29A, B OR C $1000: Used as an abbreviation for the standard unit of weight for gems C
#8982, aired 2023-11-28A CAPITAL IDEA? $600: Seen here, this breed originated around 800 B.C. a Lhasa Apso
#8976, aired 2023-11-20ETCHED IN STONE $1600: When the Nabateans ruled Jordan from about 400 B.C. to 106 A.D., their capital was this city, carved from stone Petra
#8975, aired 2023-11-17LIFE OF PI $400: Dating to circa 1650 B.C., the Rhind Papyrus, a scroll from this civilization, put the value of pi at about 3.16 the Egyptians
#8973, aired 2023-11-15LET'S TAKE A BATH $1000: The earliest known surviving bathtub dates back to 1700 B.C. & was used in the palace of Knossos on this island Crete
#8972, aired 2023-11-14ANCIENT TIMES $600: Horrified by the carnage of war, Asoka, a 3rd century B.C. ruler in India, embraced this peaceful religion Buddhism
#8960, aired 2023-10-27"A"UTHORS $800: According to legend, he was a Phrygian slave who may have lived from 620 to 560 B.C. Aesop
#8954, aired 2023-10-19PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL $10,000 (Daily Double): This man who died around 347 B.C. said we perceive examples of things, not their ideal forms Plato
#8936, aired 2023-09-25A PLACE IN HISTORY $1200: Pericles might have misappropriated some funds from the Delian League to pay for this Acropolis building, begun in 447 B.C. the Parthenon
#8927, aired 2023-09-12THAT'S T-B-D $1000: This inn is found in "The Canterbury Tales" & today in Washington, D.C., where it's a favorite brunch spot the Tabard Inn
#8919, aired 2023-07-20B.C.-ING YOU $400: Yerevan, the capital of this country, dates back to a settlement of the 700s B.C. Armenia
#8919, aired 2023-07-20B.C.-ING YOU $1600: This powerful dynasty that began ruling China in 202 B.C. ushered in a golden age of culture & prosperity the Han Dynasty
#8902, aired 2023-06-27BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $400: "B": an especially big payment that comes due at the end of a loan a balloon
#8902, aired 2023-06-27BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $800: "A": this type of interest that has accumulated but not yet been paid accrued
#8902, aired 2023-06-27BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $1200: "C.C.": the expenses incurred in finalizing the transfer of property ownership closing costs
#8902, aired 2023-06-27BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $2,000 (Daily Double): "A": this word meaning to pay off a debt in installments comes partly from Latin for "dead" amortize
#8902, aired 2023-06-27BANKING "A" "B" "C"s $2000: "B.B.": securities with no registered owner payable to whoever holds the certificate bearer bonds
#8897, aired 2023-06-20THERE WILL BE MATH $1600: It's the law that says a(b+c) = ab + ac the distributive law
#8896, aired 2023-06-19GETTING AN EYEFUL $200: A call for an act of retribution, it's No. 196 in the 18th century B.C. code of Hammurabi eye for an eye
#8892, aired 2023-06-134-LETTER WORLD CITIES $400: Tradition says this city was founded in 753 B.C., but it wasn't built in a day Rome
#8888, aired 2023-06-07FOLLIES $200: In 413 B.C. a failed Athenian campaign became a disaster when Nicias saw this astronomical event as a bad omen & put off leaving Sicily a lunar eclipse
#8888, aired 2023-06-07FOLLIES $600: If he could have found time to name a successor before dying in 323 B.C., it would have saved a lot of war & trouble Alexander the Great
#8885, aired 2023-06-02YOU HAVE SELECTED REGICIDE $200: 6th c. B.C. assassin Zhuan Zhu spent months learning to prepare & fillet these so he could hide a dagger in one & kill king Liao a fish
#8879, aired 2023-05-25EURO COINS $1200: The image of an owl on this nation's 1-euro coin was copied from a 4-drachma coin from the 5th century B.C. Greece
#8877, aired 2023-05-23ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $800: In this Greek comedic play from 405 B.C., the title characters form a chorus whose lines include "Brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax" The Frogs
#8871, aired 2023-05-15IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD $2000: Many an artist has lived in this neighborhood in Manhattan's East Village that runs through avenues A, B, C & D Alphabet City
#10, aired 2023-05-15ARCHAEOLOGY $400: The Hittite Empire may have collapsed around 1200 B.C. due to a severe drought as indicated in the width of these from juniper trees tree rings
#8869, aired 2023-05-11HISTORIC ERAS & AGES $200: In a totally metal move, this age took over for bronze in southeastern Europe around 1200 B.C. iron
#8865, aired 2023-05-05QUICK PLANETS $1000: It's surrounded by phenomena named A, B, C, D, E, F & G Saturn
#8858, aired 2023-04-26CONFIDENCE $600: Facing a trial in 399 B.C., this philosopher was confident he was a good man & could not be harmed (he could, & he certainly was) Socrates
#8853, aired 2023-04-19A EUROPEAN VACATION $2000: Take six pals & be seven against this Greek city where you can check out what's left of the circa 1400 B.C. Palace of Cadmus Thebes
#8851, aired 2023-04-17WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1200: The Attica region of Greece includes this plain, the site of a pivotal 490 B.C. battle the Plains of Marathon
#8846, aired 2023-04-10THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Known for ruling Egypt in the 30s B.C., she was of Macedonian descent but still staked a claim as the new Isis on Earth Cleopatra
#8846, aired 2023-04-10THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: This age began in Britain around 2500 B.C., led by the Beaker people named for vessels like the one here the Bronze Age
#8846, aired 2023-04-10THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: In the 1300s B.C. the empire of this Indo-European people established itself in Syria, making the Egyptians see them as a rival the Hittites
#8832, aired 2023-03-21I LOVE A MAN IN CUNEIFORM $400: This ruler's legal decisions were codified in cuneiform in the Old Babylonian language in the 18th century B.C. Hammurabi
#8814, aired 2023-02-23GREEK LIFE $200: Details are sketchy on him; was he a 9th century B.C. guy? 8th? From Ionia? Did he really create the 2 epic poems he's credited with? Homer
#8814, aired 2023-02-23GREEK LIFE $400: We have a theorem about this guy who was born in Ionia around 570 B.C.: a2 + b2 = c2 Pythagoras
#8814, aired 2023-02-23GREEK LIFE $1000: This 400s B.C. physician had a school at Cos where he taught for fees; no word on if he had a loan program Hippocrates
#8804, aired 2023-02-09EPONYMS $400: A teaching method using questions & answers & provoking discussion bears the name of this 5th century B.C. philosopher Socrates
#13, aired 2023-02-02GOING UNDERGROUND $600: Analysis shows that a 700s B.C. altar excavated in Israel has traces of this psychoactive 3-letter compound found in cannabis THC
#8790, aired 2023-01-20STREET SMARTS $800: The 1960 Olympic marathon was run along this "Way", a road begun in 312 B.C. the Appian Way
#8789, aired 2023-01-19WHEN IN ANCIENT ROME $200: As a patrician, you could not do this with a plebeian until 445 B.C.'s Lex Canuleia marry
#11, aired 2023-01-19LANDMARKS $1,000 (Daily Double): Now that's a construction project! 13,000 miles long & found in part in Gansu province, this dates to the 600s B.C. the Great Wall of China
#9, aired 2023-01-05SEEMS LIKE ANCIENT TIMES $1000: By 2500 B.C. the Chinese were breeding a special "worm" in order to make thread & garments from this material silk
#8771, aired 2022-12-26WORD PUZZLES $800: New drivers may find it challenging G N I K C A B backing up
#8756, aired 2022-12-05HISTORY ON THE DOUBLE $2,000 (Daily Double): Prophetically, around 30 B.C., these 2 lovers founded a club called Those Who Will Die Together Antony & Cleopatra
#8752, aired 2022-11-29GERMAN CITIES $1600: The site of a Roman fortress in the 1st century B.C., this city was the seat of federal government for 50 years until 1999 Bonn
#8723, aired 2022-10-19A PLACE IN HISTORY $800: Excavations showed that this English site begun around 3000 B.C. was connected to the Avon River by a paved avenue Stonehenge
#8722, aired 2022-10-18NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TREASURES OF EGYPT $1200: Looking ready to begin, a statue of a scribe from about 2400 B.C. holds a representation of a scroll of this material in his lap papyrus
#8722, aired 2022-10-18NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TREASURES OF EGYPT $1600: A pendant from the tomb of Princess Mereret from around 1800 B.C. features two of these, a fierce hybrid of a raptor & lion a griffin
#3, aired 2022-10-09ANCIENT ROME $1000: In the 70s B.C. this gladiator led a slave revolt; Kirk Douglas played him on film Spartacus
#8706, aired 2022-09-26ROMANS $600: From Latin for "of a noble father", it was the exclusive ruling class until the third century B.C. the patricians
#8694, aired 2022-07-28GO IVth & RULE $1200: 2nd century B.C. efforts by Syrian King Antiochus IV to suppress Judaism led to a revolt by this family, including Judah the Maccabees
#8693, aired 2022-07-27"B.C." $800: In 1921 at age 16 Clara Bow won one of these, winning a part in a Hollywood movie a beauty contest
#8693, aired 2022-07-27"B.C." $1200: It's one of the few animals commonly called by its genus and species names a Boa constrictor
#8693, aired 2022-07-27"B.C." $2000: Jenny Lind was a master of this operatic singing technique bel canto
#8659, aired 2022-06-09ANCIENT HISTORY $200: Sparking a revolt, the Roman slave & gladiator Spartacus & many others escaped in 73 B.C. & first took refuge on this volcano (Mount) Vesuvius
#8659, aired 2022-06-09ANCIENT HISTORY $600: This festival commemorates a Jewish victory over Seleucid forces around 165 B.C. & the rededication of the temple Hanukkah
#8659, aired 2022-06-09ANCIENT HISTORY $800: A noted military use of these animals was by Pyrrhus at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 B.C.; they freaked out the Roman horses elephants
#8607, aired 2022-03-29IT HAPPENED IN EGYPT $400: In the 330s B.C. a Macedonian tough guy took over in Egypt & founded this city that's named for him Alexandria
#8599, aired 2022-03-17CHEMICAL PEOPLE $800: Around 600 B.C. Thales of Miletus devised a system in which this one of the 4 classical elements was the basis of all things water
#8593, aired 2022-03-09DYNASTIES OF CHINA $2000: This 3-letter dynasty ruled from around 200 B.C. to 200 A.D. & saw the invention of paper & the introduction of Buddhism the Han dynasty
#8587, aired 2022-03-01EDUCATORS $400: I'd like to thank this school founded in the 380s B.C. that employed Aristotle, who left after not getting a big promotion the Academy
#8584, aired 2022-02-24THE INNER "EAR" $200: In the 15th century B.C. Egyptian queen Hatshepsut was depicted wearing men's attire & a fake one of these a beard
#18, aired 2022-02-22HISTORIC POTPOURRI $1000: Commemorating the lifting of a siege on this city, a bronze colossus was built in the harbor in the 3rd century B.C. Rhodes
#15, aired 2022-02-18A LOFTY CATEGORY $1000: Around 2500 B.C. Menkaure, a king of the fourth dynasty, began building a 215-foot-tall one of these a pyramid
#8574, aired 2022-02-10WAR $200: In 49 B.C., this Roman led his forces from Gaul into Italy, starting a civil war Julius Caesar
#8555, aired 2022-01-14WORLD HISTORY $2000: Scholars struggle to decipher the language of the IVC, the civilization of this river valley, a power in south Asia in the 2000s B.C. the Indus River
#8554, aired 2022-01-13ANCIENT FAITH $1600: A famous ziggurat dedicated to the moon god Nanna was built in this 2-letter city around 2000 B.C. Ur
#8550, aired 2022-01-07MOVE IT! $1000: The Ara Pacis, an altar built to honor this Roman emperor c. 9 B.C., was long forgotten, rescued in the 1930s & moved to a new home Augustus
#8507, aired 2021-11-09THE BEGINNING $1,200 (Daily Double): Around 650 B.C.Greek colonists founded a city on the Bosporus that they called this; it would later be the capital of empires Byzantium
#8487, aired 2021-10-12& PLAYING TRIANGLE $800: This 6th century B.C. man's theorem about the lengths of the sides of a right triangle is actually far older than even he is Pythagoras
#8479, aired 2021-09-30THAT ANIMAL HAD A NAME $1000: Bucephalus carried this man on many of his 4th century B.C. conquests Alexander the Great
#8464, aired 2021-08-12TIME FOR SECONDS $800: Around 19 B.C. King Herod expanded the second of these & built a retaining wall that still stands today temple
#8449, aired 2021-07-22MARK YOUR CALENDARS $800: Using a biblical chronology, Archbishop James Ussher determined that this event occurred on Oct. 22, 4004 B.C. the creation of the Earth
#8449, aired 2021-07-22ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: The philosopher Anaximander was credited with making an early world map & one of these time-telling devices around 560 B.C. a sundial
#8439, aired 2021-07-08A MOMENT OF SCIENCE $200: The c. 300 B.C. "De Historia Plantarum" helped establish Plato's student Theophrastus as the founder of this 6-letter science botany
#8439, aired 2021-07-0821st CENTURY MONARCHIES $400: The monarchy of this Asian nation of 125 million has a legendary history dating back to the 7th century B.C. Japan
#8438, aired 2021-07-07THE "DR" IS IN $1200: The original value of this Greek coin in the mid-6th century B.C. was equivalent to that of a handful of arrows drachma
#8425, aired 2021-06-18CINEMAPOURRI $400: C.B. DeMille made 21 huge Sphinxes for a 1923 version of this Bible epic & now they're being dug from the dunes where they were left The Ten Commandments
#8415, aired 2021-06-04ANCIENT HISTORY $2000: Seen here is a depiction of this great guy, the ruler of the Persian Empire who defeated the Babylonians in 539 B.C. Cyrus (II the Great)
#8400, aired 2021-05-14HISTORICAL FICTION $1200: Mary Renault's "The Persian Boy" tells the story of a courtesan in love with this 4th century B.C. warrior king Alexander the Great
#8398, aired 2021-05-12I'LL REPEAT MYSELF AGAIN, TOO $1200: We'll string you along & say you can "walk the dog" with this item that dates back to the 400s B.C. a yo-yo
#8396, aired 2021-05-10HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $1000: In the 600s B.C. Cypselus of Corinth seized power with this title related to a dino name, but was so popular he had no bodyguard tyrant
#8391, aired 2021-05-03HISTORY $200: Around 1530 B.C. Queen Ahhotep rallied this kingdom's troops to victory against a Hyksos invasion Egypt
#8380, aired 2021-04-16LATIN PHRASEBOOK $1600: Famously spoken in 49 B.C. at the crossing of a river, "iacta alea est" means this "is cast" the die
#8379, aired 2021-04-15HISTORIC WEAPONS $400: The 1275 B.C. Battle of Kadesh saw 5,000 of these battle vehicles rolling around in a melee chariots
#8348, aired 2021-03-03B.C.-ING YOU $600: Shortly after he attained enlightenment, he gave a sermon in which he presented the 4 noble truths Buddha
#8348, aired 2021-03-03B.C.-ING YOU $800: The Peace of Nicias in 421 B.C. brought a temporary end to the fighting in this Greek war Peloponnesian
#8344, aired 2021-02-25HISTORY $1200: This writing system arose in Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium B.C. & disappeared early in the 1st millennium A.D. cuneiform
#8343, aired 2021-02-24SOLDIERING ON $1200: A man who crossed a stream, he was taken by pirates in the 70s B.C., ransomed, then raised a naval force & crucified the pirates Julius Caesar
#8339, aired 2021-02-18TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $1000: Meaning not proceeding from event A to event B to event C, this "non" word applies to "Tristram Shandy" & "House of Leaves" nonlinear
#8326, aired 2021-02-01ARCHAEOLOGY $1200: Found in 1982, a ship that sank off Turkey c. 1300 B.C. carried 1 ton of tin & 10 tons of copper, the perfect mixture to make this alloy bronze
#8320, aired 2021-01-229-LETTER WORDS $200: B or C, but not A or E a consonant
#8312, aired 2021-01-12SCIENCE CENTER $800: These distinctive carnivores roamed North America for millions of years until about 10,000 B.C. a saber-tooth tiger
#8309, aired 2021-01-07QUEENS $400: In 30 B.C. her decades of rule were ended, probably via the bite of a cobra Cleopatra
#8291, aired 2020-11-30A ROYAL PAIN $1600: In 336 B.C. Pausanias, a young Macedonian, killed this king; no trial--the assassin got killed on the spot Philip (II)
#8289, aired 2020-11-26ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5th CENTURY RAIDER? $2000: Attila raided his way deep into the Balkans & was only stopped at this pass where the Persians were stopped in the 400s B.C. Thermopylae
#8280, aired 2020-11-13FROM B TO C $1600: Religious territorial jurisdiction aka a diocese a bishopric
#8280, aired 2020-11-13FROM B TO C $2000: A legal opinion by all the judges of an appeals court, not just a smaller panel, is given "en" this, French for "bench" en banc
#8274, aired 2020-11-05HISTORICAL FACTS $3,000 (Daily Double): During the Gladiator or Third Servile War in the 70s B.C., this rebel & his forces gained control over most of southern Italy Spartacus
#8263, aired 2020-10-21THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $200: pga.com says a good one of these assistants "can be worth several strokes a round" a caddy
#8263, aired 2020-10-21THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $400: 3-letter aka for a hole in one ace
#8263, aired 2020-10-21THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates a golf grip.) All ten fingers are placed on the club in this type of grip, named for another sport baseball
#8263, aired 2020-10-21THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $800: It's the amount of sideways curve or bend to a putt break
#8263, aired 2020-10-21THE "A", "B", "C"s OF GOLF $1000: Often traveling 100 yards plus, it's a shot hit to get up close to the green on a longer hole an approach
#8253, aired 2020-10-07HISTORY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Tradition says here's the roughly 25-mile route Pheidippides ran in 490 B.C., bringing news of victory to Athens from this plain whose name is known beyond ancient history Marathon
#8251, aired 2020-10-05HEADS UP! & OFF! $2,600 (Daily Double): After his death in 43 B.C., this Roman orator made a final appearance on the speakers' platform at the Forum--well, his head & hands did Cicero
#8237, aired 2020-09-15KEN JENNINGS ON WINNING STREAKS $1000: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) The Persian Empire fell to him in the 330s B.C., then Western Asia Minor, the Mediterranean coast, Egypt, on into India; not bad for a guy barely over 30 Alexander the Great
#8231, aired 2020-06-08FONTS OF WISDOM $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) California’s 3rd and Texas 3th district make the A; Ohio’s 12th and 7th districts make the B, and Connecticut’s 1st district is the C in a new font called Ugly Gerry in which “Gerry” stands for this partisan process gerrymandering
#8228, aired 2020-06-03IS IT BIGGER THAN A CHICKEN? $200: Yes, it's this Acropolis temple completed in 438 B.C.; the foundation seems good, but it could probably use a little roof work the Parthenon
#8224, aired 2020-05-28MYTHOLOGY $1000: In art from the 400s B.C., Odysseus is offered a drink by this sorceress who had already turned his men into swine Circe
#8223, aired 2020-05-27FORM "E" $200: A triangle with sides A, B & C all equal in length is in this form equilateral
#8215, aired 2020-05-01HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Back in the day, those on the island of Tyre felt pretty safe off the mainland, but when this great conqueror showed up in 332 B.C., he built a causeway and ended a siege by marching across the newly created path Alexander
#8202, aired 2020-04-14HISTORY 101 $1600: A pedestal honoring Agrippa, victor in the 31 B.C. naval Battle of Actium, is on this Athenian hilltop the Acropolis
#8198, aired 2020-04-08ARCHITECTURE $400: Around 2650 B.C. in Saqqara, an early one of these, rising in a series of 6 big steps, was made for King Zoser a pyramid
#8198, aired 2020-04-08OLD HISTORY $1200: Built in the 3rd century B.C. on an island in the harbor, the Pharos of Alexandria was one of these structures a lighthouse
#8190, aired 2020-03-27LATIN PHRASES $1600: Julius Caesar summed up his victory in a 47 B.C. campaign with these 3 Latin words "Veni, vidi, vici"
#8186, aired 2020-03-23BRUSHING UP ON YOUR SPANISH HISTORY $2000: In 206 B.C., in the second of these wars, a Roman victory near Seville evicted Carthage from Spain for good the Punic Wars
#8163, aired 2020-02-19OFFBEAT HISTORY $400: The Medians & Lydians who were on the battlefield in 585 B.C. saw one of these in the sky & laid down their arms an eclipse
#8144, aired 2020-01-23GET YOUR "B.A." DEGREE $1600: This prehistoric period began around the 4th Millenium B.C. Bronze Age
#8141, aired 2020-01-20THE AMERICAS BEFORE COLUMBUS $3,500 (Daily Double): In 1500 B.C. people in Central America were processing rubber in a way similar to this process discovered by Goodyearl" vulcanization
#8134, aired 2020-01-09MEDICAL MATTERS $400: A risk factor for liver cancer is a chronic infection with the B- or C-type of this virus hepatitis
#8130, aired 2020-01-03I'M SO THERE FOR IT! $200: It's 399 B.C. & I'm ready for my trial; 500 Greek jurors are sure to give this harmless elderly philosopher a fair shake Socrates
#8121, aired 2019-12-23BIG WORDS $3,000 (Daily Double): Of the 7 Ancient Wonders, the name of this one from the 200s B.C. reflected its huge size the Colossus of Rhodes
#8109, aired 2019-12-05"B" SIEGE $800: After a siege by Nebuchadnezzar, Jerusalem fell to this empire around 586 B.C. the Babylonian Empire
#8104, aired 2019-11-28STATUESQUE AUTHORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Much of her 6th century B.C. poetry is lost, but her reputation as a female writing pioneer remains Sappho
#8101, aired 2019-11-25HISTORIC MERCENARIES $1200: In the 400s B.C., Athenian soldier & historian Xenophon fought in a rebellion in this empire against its ruler Artaxerxes II the Persian Empire
#8091, aired 2019-11-11MATH GUYS $400: You get an "A" if you know this mathematician of the 200s B.C. wrote a treatise on centers of gravity Archimedes
#8088, aired 2019-11-06SCIENCE & EXPLORATION $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) According to "National Geographic", since 1995, there have been major collapses of sections A and B of the ice shelf named for this Norwegian explorer; an iceberg about the size of Delaware broke off section C in 2017 Carl Anton Larsen
#8085, aired 2019-11-01"B.C." $200: It's a less appealing 2-word name for tofu bean curd
#8085, aired 2019-11-01"B.C." $1000: This desert plant is named for its cylindrical shape a barrel cactus
#8085, aired 2019-11-01B.C. $2000: The 6th century B.C. Temple of Artemis was a mainstay of this city whose residents St. Paul would later pen a letter to Ephesus
#8074, aired 2019-10-17HISTORIC NAMES $800: The Tribune (not a newspaper but a guy named Clodius) got this orator exiled from Rome in 58 B.C. Cicero
#8043, aired 2019-07-24HISTORY BOOKS $2,000 (Daily Double): A look at great historic clashes, Philip Sabin's "Lost Battles" includes this 490 B.C. battle the Persians lost to the Greeks Marathon
#8043, aired 2019-07-24LETTER IMPERFECT $2000: It was one of the 3 original blood groups discovered in 1900 but got changed to O C
#8033, aired 2019-07-10ANCIENT EGYPT $400: In the 12th century B.C., hungry necropolis workers staged one of the earliest ones of these, demanding back pay a strike
#8029, aired 2019-07-04B.C. VIPs $1600: Farmer/soldier Cincinnatus saved ancient Rome, then refused to stay on as a dictator, preserving this Roman form of govt. the republic
#8029, aired 2019-07-04B.C. VIPs $5,200 (Daily Double): In 399 B.C. he told a jury, "I am not grieved, men of Athens, at this vote of condemnation" Socrates
#8024, aired 2019-06-27WOMEN SOLDIERS $800: Telesilla led an army defending Argos from a 490s B.C. attack by this warlike city-state Sparta
#7993, aired 2019-05-15MATH, TEACHERS $800: The equation A(B + C) = AB + AC shows that multiplication is this with respect to addition distributive
#7993, aired 2019-05-15ANCIENT BATTLES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of a battle on the monitor.) At the decisive 331 B.C. Battle of Gaugamela, Alexander the Great's phalanxes opened ranks to let these wheeled Persian weapons pass through, then wipe them out chariots
#7978, aired 2019-04-24ROMAN NAMES $1200: The name of this rebel who died in 71 B.C honors a Greek city Spartacus
#7974, aired 2019-04-18GREEK & ROMAN LIT $800: Concerning a war & its aftermath, these 2 great epics were written around the 8th century B.C. the Odyssey and the Iliad
#7967, aired 2019-04-09BEER $1000: The 1st brewers may have been this Mesopotamian people c. 6000 B.C.; they even had a goddess of beer, Ninkasi the Sumerians
#7940, aired 2019-03-01"E"PONYMOUS $7,400 (Daily Double): The plane truth is that this 2-word branch of math is named for a Greek who lived around 300 B.C. Euclidean geometry
#7938, aired 2019-02-27ART & ARTISTS $400: A first century B.C. writer said of sculptor Praxiteles that he imbued this material with the passions of the soul marble
#7938, aired 2019-02-27A LONG, LONG TIME AGO $1200: Don't call Ayla in "The Clan of the Cave Bear" a Neanderthal--she's this kind of human that emerged later, around 40,000 B.C. a Cro Magnon
#7931, aired 2019-02-18ANTEBELLUM $1600: When Rome booted a Carthaginian garrison on Sicily in the 200s B.C., the first of these conflicts was soon afoot the Punic Wars
#7922, aired 2019-02-05FROM B TO C $400: Also a simple programming language, it means unoriginal or mainstream in modern slang basic
#7922, aired 2019-02-05FROM B TO C $600: It's a cockroach's least favorite acid boric acid
#7918, aired 2019-01-30SPELLEMENTS $400: C C-A-R-B-O-N
#7916, aired 2019-01-28THE TV BIZ $2000: A leading mag of the biz, founded in 1931 as Broadcasting, became Broadcasting & this in the '90s & now goes by B&C Broadcasting & Cable
#7901, aired 2019-01-07A BIRD $2000: This man's 414 B.C. comedy "The Birds" features a chorus of them that directly addresses the audience Aristophanes
#7846, aired 2018-10-22HERSTORY $200: Around 50 B.C. this queen was forced to flee Egypt to Syria, but she came back with an army a few years later Cleopatra
#7835, aired 2018-10-05POTPOURRI $1200: Ancient Olympians were nude, including in this sport introduced in 708 B.C. that has a move called the flying mare wrestling
#7822, aired 2018-09-18TOMB RAIDER $2000: In the 1100s B.C. robbing of royal tombs in this ancient Upper Egyptian capital was already a problem Thebes
#7818, aired 2018-09-12OR BUST $1200: A bronze head of this man who became Rome's sole ruler in 27 B.C. was found in 1910 Augustus
#7801, aired 2018-07-09ANCIENT ROME $400: Around 509 B.C. the Romans formed this kingless type of government mentioned in the U.S. pledge of allegiance a republic
#7787, aired 2018-06-19WORLD HISTORY $200: Around 200 B.C. an anonymous Chinese innovator froze rice, milk & spices in a paste, creating a type of this dessert ice cream
#7780, aired 2018-06-08ITALY BEFORE THE ROMANS $1,000 (Daily Double): Around 600 B.C. the Insubres, a tribe in northern Italy, founded Mediolanum, today this city Milan
#7778, aired 2018-06-06WORLD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 400s B.C. Greek cities like Thebes & Megara had not a monarchy but this form of rule by a small group an oligarchy
#7737, aired 2018-04-10B.C.-ING YOU $1,200 (Daily Double): Called the "Father of History", he wrote a long account of the Greco-Persian Wars Herodotus
#7714, aired 2018-03-08CHINESE EMPERORS $400: In the 200s B.C. Emperor Zheng connected a number of fortresses into what became this single system the Great Wall of China
#7696, aired 2018-02-12DUMB CRIMINALS $600: At a hockey game, a Fargo man with a .314 B.A.C. crashed into the boards driving this, yelling for AC/DC to perform a Zamboni
#7688, aired 2018-01-31THE PHARAOHS $400: At 9 he was the youngest pharaoh in history & his sarcophagus from the 1300s B.C. is a classic symbol of Ancient Egypt King Tut
#7677, aired 2018-01-16ANCIENT TIMES $400: Still in use, China's "Grand" one of these man-made waterways may date back to the 300s B.C. a canal
#7677, aired 2018-01-16ANCIENT TIMES $800: This Egyptian port was founded around 332 B.C. by--well, let's just say by a pretty great guy Alexandria
#7677, aired 2018-01-16ANCIENT TIMES $1200: Though we have no writings of his, this Greek who died in 399 B.C. invented a little thing called moral philosophy Socrates
#7673, aired 2018-01-10PUTTING UP A SMOKE SCREEN $1600: Dating back to the 1600s B.C., this long fortification used smoke mounds to send military communications the Great Wall of China
#7650, aired 2017-12-08FROM B TO C $200: Hollywood slang for a movie that tells the story of a real person's life a biopic
#7650, aired 2017-12-08FROM B TO C $400: Quarterback Jameis Winston, or any other member of the NFL's Tampa Bay team Buc
#7650, aired 2017-12-08FROM B TO C $600: In the name of a rodeo riding event, it follows saddle bronc
#7650, aired 2017-12-08FROM B TO C $1000: This temporary military encampment is often set up without shelter or protection from enemy fire a bivouac
#7645, aired 2017-12-01MEDIEVAL FOLKS WHO COULD WRITE $800: Scholars have identified monks with this job who wrote out the Book of Kells, but only know them as Hands A, B & C scribes
#7639, aired 2017-11-23REBEL WITHOUT A PULSE $400: I'm this man from Thrace who led a 90,000-man slave rebellion vs. Rome until his death in 71 B.C.--No! I'm this man! Spartacus
#7636, aired 2017-11-20THE PERSIAN PAST $2000: Around 550 B.C. this great king founded the Persian empire by overthrowing Astyages, king of the Medes Cyrus the Great
#7631, aired 2017-11-13QUEEN-SIZED $600: As queen of Egypt in the 1300s B.C., she played a prominent role in the cult of the sun god Aton Nefertiti
#7626, aired 2017-11-06B.C. PLACES $2000: Hattusa, a vast fortress city, served as the capital of this empire that covered most of ancient Anatolia the Hittite Empire
#7612, aired 2017-10-17ANCIENT WISDOM $1600: In the 4th century B.C., Aristotle said that "man is by nature" this type of "animal" a political animal
#7595, aired 2017-09-22TIME FOR A DRINK $400: I'm gonna party like it's 44 "B.C."! Mix me one of these, a Bloody Mary with clamato rather than tomato juice a Bloody Caesar
#7594, aired 2017-09-21ONE-NAMED AUTHORS $1200: This Roman poet's "Art of Love" from around 1 B.C. is a hedonistic seduction manual still useful today Ovid
#7582, aired 2017-07-25THE EMPIRE STRIKES OUT $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Seen at its height around 500 B.C., this empire once led by Darius I ended in 330 B.C. at the hands of Alexander the Great Persia
#7580, aired 2017-07-21ANCIENT COINS $400: A tiny silver denarius coin from around 32 B.C. depicts both Mark Antony & her Cleopatra
#7580, aired 2017-07-21ANCIENT COINS $1200: Around 43 B.C this assassin issued a coin with his image on one side & 2 daggers & "Ides of March" on the other Brutus
#7578, aired 2017-07-19LITERARY THREESOMES $2000: In his Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Three Tall Women", the women are not known by names but by the letters A, B & C Edward Albee
#7559, aired 2017-06-22THE YOUNG POPE $1600: In 27 B.C. a Roman of this name became Emperor Augustus; in 955 a Roman of this name became the teen Pope John XII Octavian
#7555, aired 2017-06-16A LONG TIME AGO IN AMERICA $1600: By about 9,000 B.C., many large animals in North America were extinct, including this "breast tooth" species a mastodon
#7536, aired 2017-05-22THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $200: (Alley Mills and Dick Christie give the clue as Pamela and Charlie from The Bold and the Beautiful.) "You go ahead, Charlie, I'll be home in a few hours." "Pammy, do I need to steal you away like this beautiful Grecian woman abducted by Paris around 1100 B.C." Helen of Troy
#7536, aired 2017-05-22THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: (Heather Tom and Thorsten Kaye give the clue as Katie and Ridge from The Bold and the Beautiful.) "Ridge, why are you still concealing the truth?" "Because, Katie, it is our secret to reveal, no one else's. & I'll stand behind that like Leonidas & his 300 men at this famous mountain pass in the 5th century B.C." Thermopylae
#7519, aired 2017-04-27ROMAN BRITAIN $800: This leader liked raiding Britain so much in 55 B.C., he tried again a year later Julius Caesar
#7509, aired 2017-04-13ANCIENT HISTORY $800: In the 1200s B.C., warring Egyptians & Hittites produced the document seen here, said to be the first of these in history a peace treaty
#7498, aired 2017-03-29IT'S EPIC $1,400 (Daily Double): This Roman poet wrote his own epic around 19 B.C. & in 1321 A.D. appeared as a character in one Virgil
#7497, aired 2017-03-28PLAY TIME $400: This mythic woman launched some ships & a play by Euripides in 412 B.C. Helen of Troy
#7477, aired 2017-02-28ANCIENT BATTLES $1200: 7,000 Thebans at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 B.C. broke the power this Greek city had enjoyed for a generation Sparta
#7466, aired 2017-02-13IN OLDEN TIMES $600: 5th century B.C.: Athenians carry out an ambitious building program on this hill with a name meaning "upper city" Acropolis
#7455, aired 2017-01-27PUTTIN' OUT THE WELCOME MUTT $400: A likeness of this "fast as a bus" breed was found on an Egyptian tomb dating from about 3000 B.C. a greyhound
#7444, aired 2017-01-12YAS QUEEN $800: The name of this Egyptian queen of the 1300s B.C. translates as "a beautiful woman has come" Nefertiti
#7432, aired 2016-12-27SCULPTURE $800: Myron's most famous bronze was made around 425 B.C. & depicts an Olympic athlete throwing this object a discus
#7422, aired 2016-12-13THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION $800: It arose from the teachings of a man who lived in northeastern India sometime between the 6th & 4th centuries B.C. Buddhism
#7422, aired 2016-12-13THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION $1200: In the 1st century B.C., this epistle apostle called for God to curse competing preachers (St.) Paul
#7411, aired 2016-11-28A SPELLING BEE $800: It's the sea that surrounds Jamaica & Cuba C-A-R-I-B-B-E-A-N
#7398, aired 2016-11-09MONEY, MONEY, MONEY $1,200 (Daily Double): A silver tetradrachm from the 300s B.C. features a "Great" portrait of him Alexander the Great
#7374, aired 2016-10-06GREEK HISTORY $1600: In 480 B.C. this son of Darius invaded Greece but the Greek navy defeated him at the Bay of Salamis & he returned to Persia Xerxes
#7374, aired 2016-10-06GREEK HISTORY $2000: In the 5th century B.C., Sparta led a league of city-states on this peninsula to combat Athens' Delian League the Peloponnesian Peninsula
#7371, aired 2016-10-03THE ____ OF ____ $600 (Daily Double): This one of the Ancient Wonders was toppled by an earthquake around 225 B.C. the Colossus of Rhodes
#7368, aired 2016-09-28THAT'S T-B-D $1000: This inn is found in "The Canterbury Tales" & today in Washington, D.C., where it's a favorite brunch spot the Tabard Inn
#7358, aired 2016-09-14ERAS OF HISTORY $1000: Instead of B.C. some prefer the less religious B.C.E., for "before" this "Era" the Common Era
#7352, aired 2016-07-26POTPOURRI $2000: The 421 B.C. Peace of Nicias was a break in this decades-long war the Peloponnesian War
#7324, aired 2016-06-16INDOORS $1000: Mausolus' widow raised a splendid indoor tomb at this Turkish site in the 300s B.C. & it was quite a wonder the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
#7302, aired 2016-05-17PEOPLE IN HISTORY $2000: A golden age of culture, the Age of him in Greece lasted from about 460 B.C. to 430 B.C. Pericles
#7289, aired 2016-04-28ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA $2000: Aeschylus won victory in a drama tournament in 458 B.C. with this trilogy that includes "Agamemnon" the Oresteia trilogy
#7275, aired 2016-04-08WORLD LANDMARKS $800: Around 1400 B.C. Thutmose IV ordered a team to dig out the buried front paws of this landmark the Sphinx
#7238, aired 2016-02-17SPEARS $2000: Around 350 B.C. this father of Alexander the Great introduced the sarissa, a spear up to 21 feet long Philip (of Macedon)
#7216, aired 2016-01-18"A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $200: A: Present plural of "to be" are
#7216, aired 2016-01-18"A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $400: B: A towering building project in Genesis 11:4-9 Babel
#7216, aired 2016-01-18"A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $600: C: A hood like Batman wears a cowl
#7216, aired 2016-01-18"A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $800: D: Adjective meaning "sweet", like a pleasant tone dulcet
#7216, aired 2016-01-18"A", "B", "C", "D", "E" $1000: E: Latin plural for mistakes in a text errata
#7209, aired 2016-01-07WORLD HISTORY $1200: Devised in 46 B.C. & named for a Roman leader, it marked time for more than 1,500 years before being replaced Julian calendar
#7186, aired 2015-12-07BROOKFIELD ZOO $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.) The giraffe got its species name, camelopardalis, because ancient Romans who saw one imported by this caesar in 46 B.C. thought it had the body of a camel & the spots of a leopard Julius Caesar
#7178, aired 2015-11-25NOTABLE NAMES $400: In 73 B.C. this former gladiator led a slave revolt that threatened Rome Spartacus
#7173, aired 2015-11-18WHAT'S THE WORD? $2000: For unusually severe laws like those promulgated by a 600s B.C. Athenian statesman draconian laws
#7149, aired 2015-10-15ANCIENT ROMAN LITERATURE $1200: Better known name of Titus Livius, author of a history of Rome from its founding to 9 B.C. Livy
#7120, aired 2015-07-24"A"+ IN HISTORY $3,000 (Daily Double): Flourishing between 3000 & 1100 B.C., Cycladic & Minoan were 2 of the cultures named for this sea the Aegean
#7117, aired 2015-07-21SOPHOCLES, EURIPIDES & AESCHYLUS $400: Aeschylus fought against these people who invaded Greece around 490 B.C., & also wrote a play about them the Persians
#7114, aired 2015-07-16WE 3 $400: Octavian, Marcus Lepidus & Mark Antony, formed the second one of these in 43 B.C. a triumvirate
#7082, aired 2015-06-02ZIGGURATS $2000: Around 550 B.C., King Nabonidus of Babylon remodeled the ziggurat of this city with a 2-letter name Ur
#7048, aired 2015-04-15WOMEN ON A PEDESTAL $800: D.C. is the suffragette city to see Stanton, Mott & this woman, carved from an 8-ton block of marble (Susan B.) Anthony
#7032, aired 2015-03-24HANNIBAL LECTURE $400: Born in 247 B.C., Hannibal became the greatest general of this North African city Carthage
#7011, aired 2015-02-23THE STATE OF WASHINGTON $400: From 5000 B.C. to the 1800s A.D., Native American tribes lived in the foothills of this mountain they called "Takhoma" Mount Rainier
#6999, aired 2015-02-05THE MATH & NOTHING BUT THE MATH $1000: We're handing out this multiplication property that says a(b + c) = ab + ac the distributive property
#6998, aired 2015-02-04THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY $400: Bollywood wasn't even a gleam in Ashoka's eye when he ruled this island city in the 3rd century B.C. Mumbai
#6998, aired 2015-02-04THAT'S ANCIENT CITY HISTORY $1200: This Biblical city's first walls, dating to 8000 B.C., were some 13 feet high & supported by a 28-foot watchtower Jericho
#6994, aired 2015-01-29ABOUT TIME $400: The oldest surviving examples of these time-telling devices date from about 1500 B.C. in Egypt a sundial
#6989, aired 2015-01-22ANCIENT GREECE $400: In 399 B.C. this philosopher was convicted by a jury vote of 280-221 of corrupting the youth Socrates
#6989, aired 2015-01-22ANCIENT GREECE $1600: The thirty tyrants was a Sparta-imposed oligarchy that ruled Athens for a year after this war ended in 404 B.C. Peloponnesian War
#6987, aired 2015-01-20A BRIEF HISTORY OF MIME $800: Circa 45 B.C., Decimus Laberius & Publilius Syrus engaged in a mime contest at this man's command; Publilius won Caesar
#6976, aired 2015-01-05KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $200: The official language of Syria Arabic
#6976, aired 2015-01-05KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $400: To illegally seize & take away abduct
#6976, aired 2015-01-05KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $600: If you're "taken" this, you're disconcerted aback
#6976, aired 2015-01-05KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $800: The mood or atmosphere of a place such as a restaurant ambience
#6976, aired 2015-01-05KNOW YOUR A‑B‑C's $1000: A deviation from the normal type, way or course aberrance
#6968, aired 2014-12-24ALEXANDER THE GREAT $600: A pair of decrees Alexander made in 324 B.C. said that exiles could return home & that he was now this a god
#6960, aired 2014-12-12LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! $400: Early images show this Roman god as a handsome man; by the mid-300s B.C. he was a chubby, naked infant toting a weapon cupid
#6951, aired 2014-12-01ANCIENT HISTORY $200: The Olympic Games began in 776 B.C., took a long break & reappeared in 1896 in this country Greece
#6934, aired 2014-11-06TRANSPORTATION $800: In 1294 B.C. Egyptians & Hittites waged a battle involving the use of thousands of these 2-wheeled vehicles chariots
#6930, aired 2014-10-31IT'S ALL IN THE PAST $2000: Ancient Greek for "hot gates", this mountain pass was the site of a famous battle in 480 B.C. Thermopylae
#6926, aired 2014-10-27ANCIENT COINS $800: A coin from around 500 B.C. features this mythological monster on one side, the Labyrinth on the other the Minotaur
#6926, aired 2014-10-27ANCIENT COINS $1600: A tetradrachm from 5th century B.C. Athens depicts Athena wearing a helmet on one side & this bird on the other the owl
#6920, aired 2014-10-17ARCHAEOLOGY $2000: The beginning of this metallic age varied geographically, with China being a latecomer in around 600 B.C. the Iron Age
#6900, aired 2014-09-19DATE NUT $1000: On the plain of Marathon in September 490 B.C., an Athenian army defeated a much larger force from this empire Persian
#6872, aired 2014-07-01ANCIENT SCIENCE $400: Chinese general Huang-ti used a lodestone as one of these around 300 B.C., perhaps by floating it in a bowl a compass
#6859, aired 2014-06-12ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Shihuangdi unified the Chinese empire but was paranoid & held a burning of these items in 213 B.C. books
#6853, aired 2014-06-04THAT'S ALL IN THE PAST $800: Once called Lacedaemon, it was a city-state that eventually came under Rome's control in 146 B.C.; this is...! Sparta
#6846, aired 2014-05-26EMPIRE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue on a monitor.) The map here shows the growth of this empire, from 275 B.C. to 133 B.C. to 14 A.D. & to 117 A.D. the Roman Empire
#6845, aired 2014-05-23EUROPEAN HISTORY $400: According to tradition, in 490 B.C., Pheidippides ran 25 miles to announce a Greek victory in this battle Marathon
#6841, aired 2014-05-19COME AT THE KING $400: This king who lends his name to a costly type of victory was killed in a 272 B.C. battle to capture Argos Pyrrhus
#6841, aired 2014-05-19COME AT THE KING $2,600 (Daily Double): In 336 B.C. a young Macedonian noble named Pausanias killed this king but was killed on the spot himself King Philip
#6840, aired 2014-05-16B.C.-ING YOU $1200: The festival of Hanukkah commemorates this Jewish hero's restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem Judah Maccabee
#6830, aired 2014-05-02WRIT IN WATER $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) On September 2, 31 B.C., this man's fleet was fighting the Battle of Actium against Octavian's fleet; an opening in the lines allowed his girlfriend to slip away with her ships; he followed her, & all was lost Marc Anthony
#6811, aired 2014-04-07A LEAGUE $1200: Founded in 478 B.C., the Delian League united several city-states in the fight against Persia & was led by this city Athens
#6793, aired 2014-03-12MEDICAL PROBLEMS $800: This viral disease that causes inflammation of the liver has A, B, C, D & E types hepatitis
#6766, aired 2014-02-03PRE-'80s HISTORY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) By law, Roman generals couldn't lead forces out of their assigned province; Caesar's 49 B.C. crossing of this stream separating Cisalpine Gaul from Italy acted as a war declaration the Rubicon
#6744, aired 2014-01-02TUNNELS $400: Around 2180 B.C. a brick-lined walkway was built in Babylonia under this river to connect a palace & temple The Euphrates
#6736, aired 2013-12-23ANCIENT CHINESE EMPERORS $200: Ruling from about 1600 B.C., it was this man whose name sounds like a breakfast drink Tang
#6736, aired 2013-12-23ANCIENT CHINESE EMPERORS $600: From 180 to 157 B.C. it was this man whose name sounds like the female symbol of a burger chain Wen Di
#6736, aired 2013-12-23STREET SMARTS $1000: Manhattan's Alphabet City gets its name from these, lettered A, B, C & D (no Q) Avenues
#6700, aired 2013-11-01IT'S ABOUT TIME $1000: Used instead of B.C. as a secular date reference, B.C.E stands for this Before Common Era
#6685, aired 2013-10-11SAILING THE 3 C's $800: This college degree is total B.S. a Bachelor of Sciences
#6652, aired 2013-07-16MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS $400: Around 226 B.C. a "colossal" earthquake destroyed the statue of Helios on this island Rhodes
#6649, aired 2013-07-11WORLD HISTORY $2000: The legendary wealth of this king in what's now Turkey didn't help in 546 B.C. when the Persians defeated him Croesus
#6643, aired 2013-07-03TV LOGOS $200: B.C. or A.D., this is one of my favorite spots on the dial the History channel
#6640, aired 2013-06-28WORLD HISTORY $1600: In 597 B.C., this Babylonian king captured Jerusalem & took 18-year-old King Jehoaichin back to Babylon as a captive Nebuchadnezzar
#6610, aired 2013-05-17BIBLICAL GEOGRAPHY $3,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) When conquered in 586 B.C., the Jewish people were resettled along the Kebar River, hundreds of miles from their home; hence the verse, "By the rivers of" this place, "we wept when we remembered Zion" Babylon
#6608, aired 2013-05-15POCKET CHANGE $400: A silver denarius from 44 B.C. depicts this Roman & calls him "dictator for life"; his life ended soon after Julius Caesar
#6607, aired 2013-05-146-LETTER WORDS $800: A classic syllogism concludes "Socrates is" this absolute, proved true in 399 B.C. mortal
#6584, aired 2013-04-11ON THE GREEK DEITY'S RESUMÉ $5,000 (Daily Double): Awards & Honors: •400s B.C.-- The Parthenon dedicated to me, wisely Athena
#6583, aired 2013-04-10PINTEREST $800: In his Nobel Prize lecture, Pinter said he always started a play with 3 characters called these--must have sped up the typing A, B & C
#6540, aired 2013-02-08LET'S VISIT A MUSEUM $1200: A god rose from the sea... or a 460 B.C. statue of one did, & it's at this capital's Natl. Archaeological Museum Athens
#6530, aired 2013-01-25A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $400: A Murphy one comes out of the wall a bed
#6530, aired 2013-01-25A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $800: A taxi, or to travel in one cab
#6530, aired 2013-01-25A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $1200: To recede, like the tide; it's often paired with "flow" ebb
#6530, aired 2013-01-25A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $1600: To yield territory cede
#6530, aired 2013-01-25A, B, C, D, E & THAT'S ALL $2000: A work of classical Icelandic poetry an edda
#6527, aired 2013-01-22ANCIENT HISTORY $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us a map of ancient Italy.) Around 300 B.C. Rome controlled the area seen here; within about 25 years it had conquered most of the Italian peninsula, including the Umbrians & these people occupying what is now Tuscany the Etruscans
#6510, aired 2012-12-28LETTERS, WE GET LETTERS $400: The 11th letter, it's rarely used in languages that developed from Latin K
#6501, aired 2012-12-17MATH FUN $1,600 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) The Venn diagram here contains three sets: A, B & C, but, there's another set that includes all possible things that's called this the universal set
#6461, aired 2012-10-22A LONG TIME AGO $200: Around 1600 B.C. the Shang became the first recorded ruling dynasty of this country China
#6461, aired 2012-10-22A LONG TIME AGO $800: By the waters of the Euphrates, this city became a Mesopotamian capital in the early 2nd millennium B.C. Babylon
#6461, aired 2012-10-22A LONG TIME AGO $1000: Athens & Sparta squared off in this war that lasted from 431 to 404 B.C. the Peloponnesian War
#6459, aired 2012-10-18EARLY AMERICAN CONSTRUCTION $1200: Built between 200 B.C. & 500 A.D., the earthworks called the Hopewell Mounds are in this Great Lakes state Ohio
#6449, aired 2012-10-04LIKE A VESTAL VIRGIN $1,600 (Daily Double): The Vestal virgins received the wills of dignitaries, like this man who died in 30 B.C. & requested to be buried in Egypt Mark Antony
#6441, aired 2012-09-24IT'S A MYTH $1200: This resident of the labyrinth is seen here in a Greek artwork from the 500s B.C the Minotaur
#6416, aired 2012-07-09LIFE OF PI $400: Dating to c. 1650 B.C., the Rhind Papyrus, a scroll from this civilization, put the value of pi at about 3.16 Egypt
#6412, aired 2012-07-03THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOZE ON $1,500 (Daily Double): He died in Babylon in 323 B.C., a few days after a drinking bout & a few months after declaring himself a god Alexander the Great
#6408, aired 2012-06-27MY BIG FAT GREEK LIT CATEGORY $1200: Known for her 600s B.C. lyric poetry, she was married & had a daughter named Cleis Sappho
#6398, aired 2012-06-13LEFTOVERS $600: In 63 B.C. Tiro invented a system of this to record Cicero's speeches shorthand
#6386, aired 2012-05-28"A"UTHORS $800: By tradition, he was a Phrygian slave who probably lived from 620 to 560 B.C. Aesop
#6371, aired 2012-05-07B.C.-ING YOU $400: She was still a teen when she became queen of Egypt in 51 B.C. Cleopatra
#6371, aired 2012-05-07B.C.-ING YOU $800: Originally featuring only 1 sport--a foot race--the Olympics added this 5-event competition in 708 B.C. the pentathlon
#6371, aired 2012-05-07B.C.-ING YOU $2,400 (Daily Double): A popular TV & movie subject, this gladiator led a slave revolt that ended with his death in battle in 71 B.C. Spartacus
#6370, aired 2012-05-04ALL WE NEED IS A TITLE $2000: Alan Paton's "C, the B C" Cry, the Beloved Country
#6343, aired 2012-03-28ALL ABOUT D $1200: Around 800 B.C. the Greeks made their letter D in the form of this shape & called it delta a triangle
#6335, aired 2012-03-16WE ALL MAKE CHOICES IN LIFE $200: The math section of the S.A.T. a) is 70 minutes long; b) covers algebra; c) is mainly multiple choice; d) all of the above d) all of the above
#6319, aired 2012-02-23ENGINEERING $1600: The first section of this waterway was dug around 400 B.C.; Kublai Khan added a link to Beijing in the 1200s the Grand Canal
#6308, aired 2012-02-08THE 21st CENTURY $400: In 2009 C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger became a national hero after demonstrating his prowess at this job flying airplanes
#6289, aired 2012-01-12HISTORY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Before his death in 323 B.C., he expanded his empire until it stretched from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Indus River Alexander the Great
#6270, aired 2011-12-16A STONY CATEGORY $2000: From about 1,200 to 400 B.C., these people carved stone heads, like the one seen here, & lived along the Gulf of Mexico Olmec
#6264, aired 2011-12-08"PRE"-CISELY $600: The Ebers Papyrus of 1550 B.C. contains many of these, including one for asthma calling for herb fumes a prescription
#6254, aired 2011-11-24HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER $1600: By Jove, kids, it was around 41 B.C. when your mother sailed up the Cydnus in a barge, dressed as Venus Mark Antony
#6249, aired 2011-11-17THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $200: Around 447 B.C. this group led by the "Scourge of God" devastated the Balkans & drove south into Greece the Huns
#6249, aired 2011-11-17THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $600: This king who died in 1750 B.C. left a code dealing with family laws, loans, debts & even witchcraft Hammurabi
#6249, aired 2011-11-17LETTER PERFECT $1600: The first letter alphabetically to appear alone as a periodic table element symbol B (for boron)
#6248, aired 2011-11-16LET'S TAKE A BATH $1000: The earliest known surviving bathtub dates back to 1700 B.C. & was used in the Palace of Knossos on this island Crete
#6246, aired 2011-11-14PETRA $600: (Alex presents the clue from Petra, Jordan.) The approach to Petra is through a narrow cleft which in 312 B.C. helped it withstand a siege by the army of Antigonus of these people; he was an heir to Alexander the Great the Macedonians
#6230, aired 2011-10-21CATCHING A BREAK $200: To signal that you are about to start transmitting a message on one of these, start by saying, "Breaker" a C.B. radio
#6207, aired 2011-09-20A CELTIC CATEGORY $400: Celtic independence on the European continent came to an end with this leader's 58 to 51 B.C. conquest of Gaul Julius Caesar
#6204, aired 2011-07-28JULIUS CAESAR SALAD $2000: In 45 B.C. Caesar was given permission to wear this, which he appreciated as it covered his baldness a laurel wreath
#6201, aired 2011-07-25ALSO A BLOOD TYPE $2000: The sixth tone in the scale of C minor A
#6188, aired 2011-07-06SPELL IT! $400: Spell this Christian group that's often found before "Oats" Q-U-A-K-E-R
#6183, aired 2011-06-29TURIN! TURIN! TURIN! $1000: In 218 B.C. this Carthaginian general captured & heavily damaged Turin; he loved it when a plan came together Hannibal
#6183, aired 2011-06-29ATHENS IN THE 5th CENTURY B.C. $1200: In a tragedy of the time, a guy named Rhesus monkeys around in this war on the side of the Greeks' foes the Trojan War
#6176, aired 2011-06-2027 IS HEAVEN $800: This Roman emperor began his 40-year reign in 27 B.C. Caesar Augustus
#6166, aired 2011-06-06THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY $1000: Who needs Megan Fox or Eva Mendes? We remember Raquel Welch busting out in this prehistoric potboiler One Million Years B.C.
#6139, aired 2011-04-28WAR! $2,400 (Daily Double): The 431 to 421 B.C. Archidamian war, named for a Spartan king, was the first of 3 parts of this war the Peloponnesian War
#6138, aired 2011-04-273-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: In 392 B.C. Isocrates founded a school to teach this skill of using language effectively & persuasively rhetoric
#6137, aired 2011-04-26BATTLE STARS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.) At the 216 B.C. Battle of Cannae, the Romans charged the center as this Carthaginian general executed a double envelopment maneuver, surrounding & destroying the Romans Hannibal
#6133, aired 2011-04-20LET ME MAKE A PREDICTION $1600: These Greek female prophets made their predictions from the 500s B.C. until suppressed in 393 A.D. the Oracles
#6131, aired 2011-04-18"A" IS FOR AUTHOR $400: ...of "Metaphysics" in the 300s B.C. Aristotle
#6130, aired 2011-04-15ANCIENT HISTORY $200: In 331 B.C. this Macedonian traveled to the Siwa Oasis where the oracle pronounced him a god Alexander the Great
#6130, aired 2011-04-15ANCIENT HISTORY $400: This Thracian gladiator organized a revolt of gladiators & slaves & defeated 2 Roman armies in 72 B.C. Spartacus
#6127, aired 2011-04-12A CAPITAL IDEA? $400: Seen here, this breed originated around 800 B.C. a Lhasa Apso
#6127, aired 2011-04-12"E"-BOOKS $1200: Around 418 B.C. Euripides wrote a play named for this "complex" woman of myth Electra
#6126, aired 2011-04-11ANCIENT EGYPT $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of Egypt on the monitor.) Egypt originally hugged the Nile River, but over the next 1,200 years, it gradually grew to cover an area reaching as far north as this river by the 1400s B.C. the Euphrates
#6111, aired 2011-03-21AN ANCIENT GREEK NEWSCAST $200: It's 404 B.C. & here is our top story: Athens has been forced to accept a humiliating peace treaty with this city-state Sparta
#6105, aired 2011-03-11GOD SPELL $400: "To Anacreon In Heaven" mentions this rollicking Roman god's vine (7 letters) B-A-C-C-H-U-S
#6099, aired 2011-03-03WHAT A NICE PAIR! $600: According to legend, Rome was founded in 753 B.C. by these twins; one died & the other named the city for himself Romulus & Remus
#6075, aired 2011-01-28ENGINEERING $200: Built at a cost of more than $200 million, it stretches from Victoria, B.C. to St. John's, Newfoundland the Trans-Canada Highway
#6072, aired 2011-01-25DEATH BY... $2000: Possible dropping of a tortoise on his head by an eagle, in 456 B.C. Aeschylus
#6056, aired 2011-01-03TECHNOLOGY OF THE PAST $600: Originating in Asia around 200 B.C., this saddle attachment increased the military value of horses a stirrup
#6056, aired 2011-01-03TECHNOLOGY OF THE PAST $1000: A Sumerian pictograph shows one in 3500 B.C.: the oldest are wooden disks with 3 carved planks clamped by struts a wheel
#6035, aired 2010-12-03HOLE $800: Dating from 3000 B.C., the Aubrey holes are a series of burial pits found near this English megalithic site Stonehenge
#6022, aired 2010-11-16INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE $200: The ides of March 44 B.C.: He is murdered as he enters a Senate meeting Julius Caesar
#6014, aired 2010-11-04TIME FOR A HAIRCUT $800: This haircut named for a guy who died in 44 B.C. is a short cut for a man, with longer bangs a Caesar
#6008, aired 2010-10-27THE NUMBER OF YEARS FROM... $400: New Year's Day 5 B.C. to New Year's Day 5 A.D. 9
#6005, aired 2010-10-22A-B-C $400: This adjective describes the fear of small places or being closed in claustrophobic
#6005, aired 2010-10-22A-B-C $800 (Daily Double): Any of a group of chemical substances such as doxycycline or streptomycin an antibiotic
#6005, aired 2010-10-22A-B-C $800: The names Alex, Lucretia, Ulrich & Zedidiah are listed in this order alphabetical
#6005, aired 2010-10-22A-B-C $1200: Here's looking at you, kid, if you can tell me this name of Morocco's chief seaport and largest city Casablanca
#6005, aired 2010-10-22A-B-C $1600: It's the state of being away; your heart may grow fonder because of it absence
#6003, aired 2010-10-20SEEMS LIKE LONG AGO $400: In Egypt in the 2nd millennium B.C., a typical daily laborer's wage included 1 or 2 jugs of this beer
#5987, aired 2010-09-28SHOWTIME AT THE ACROPOLIS $200: In a 480 B.C. invasion, the Persians demolished many buildings on the Acropolis in this city Athens
#5982, aired 2010-09-21I KNOW UR $2000: Founded in the 4th millennium B.C., Ur was a capital city of this oldest Mesopotamian civilization Sumeria
#5982, aired 2010-09-21I KNOW UR $4,000 (Daily Double): Ur is dominated by one of these stepped, pyramidal temple towers dating from the 3rd millennium B.C. a ziggurat
#5974, aired 2010-07-29COMMANDERS AT WAR $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.) At the Battle of Issus in 333 B.C., the Macedonian cavalry attacked the Persian left flank, then wheeled around to complete a smashing triumph for this great general Alexander the Great
#5968, aired 2010-07-21HISTORICAL YEARBOOK ENTRIES? $600: Rome H.S. football rules! Voted most popular, most likely to cross the Rubicon in 49 B.C. & to have a month named for him Julius Caesar
#5962, aired 2010-07-13B.C. $800: This man born in Lumbini, India founded a religion the Buddha
#5962, aired 2010-07-13COMIC STRIPS $1200: The prehistoric-set B.C. included this blonde character whose name sounds like that of a cartoon coyote Wiley
#5960, aired 2010-07-09THOUGHT FOR FOOD $1200: A good source of vitamin C & some B vitamins, it's German for "sour cabbage" sauerkraut
#5950, aired 2010-06-25KEEP ON TRUCKIN' $1000: Truckers know these have a range of about 25 miles in motor vehicles & federally limited power of 4 watts C.B. radios
#5931, aired 2010-05-31A PARIS CHRONOLOGY $200: Paris was founded around 250 B.C. by the Celtic Parisii tribe, who built a settlement on an island in this river the Seine
#5931, aired 2010-05-31A PARIS CHRONOLOGY $400: After its forces put down a revolt led by Vercingetorix, the area came under this empire's control in 52 B.C. Rome
#5911, aired 2010-05-03HE DIED A DEADLY DEATH $2000: After the second battle of Philippi in 42 B.C., this Roman general could have said, "Et tu, me?" as he killed himself Brutus
#5908, aired 2010-04-28WHERE THERE'S A WILL SHAKESPEARE $1,000 (Daily Double): Right on, Willy! The phrase "right on" appears in Act III of this Shakespeare play that takes place in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar
#5860, aired 2010-02-19ROOTS $800: To this day, a list is kept of the descendants of this Chinese thinker of the 500s B.C.--it now numbers 2 million Confucius
#5859, aired 2010-02-18LIFE'S A (MILITARY) CAMPAIGN $200: The 49 B.C. campaign of Ilerda led to victory by this Roman over Pompey's forces Julius Caesar
#5856, aired 2010-02-15CLEO $400: In 31 B.C. a huge Roman fleet led by Augustus & Agrippa defeated the fleets of Cleopatra & this man at Actium Mark Antony
#5851, aired 2010-02-08THE KILLERS $1000: Pausanius, a young Macedonian noble, killed this man, Alexander's dad, in 336 B.C. Philip
#5835, aired 2010-01-15WE GO WAY BACK $400: Between 770 & 476 B.C., a time of struggle is called the Spring & Autumn Period in this Asian country's history China
#5825, aired 2010-01-01B.C. & AFTER $1600: Sophoclean tragedy about the killing of a father & his friend, the actor who portrayed Henry Higgins on film Oedipus Rex Harrison
#5825, aired 2010-01-01B.C. & AFTER $2000: Homo erectus archaeological find on Jakarta's island by an expatriate U.S. photographer Java Man Ray
#5815, aired 2009-12-18PREY LATER $600: 3-letter name for the Egyptian snake that played a deadly role in world affairs back in 30 B.C. the asp
#5815, aired 2009-12-18THE 7 ANCIENT WONDERS $1000: Located at Halicarnassus, this monumental marble tomb was built for a king who died in 353 B.C. the Mausoleum
#5800, aired 2009-11-27A, B, C, D THEN F $200: This branch of mathematics uses letters to symbolize numbers in equations algebra
#5800, aired 2009-11-27A, B, C, D THEN F $400: To shake or wave a weapon menacingly brandish
#5800, aired 2009-11-27A, B, C, D THEN F $600: From the Latin for "to come round", it's what you do when you want to avoid something circumvent
#5800, aired 2009-11-27A, B, C, D THEN F $800: If you're on the "horns" of one of these situations with unpleasant options, good luck with your choice dilemma
#5800, aired 2009-11-27A, B, C, D THEN F $1000: A European car maker, or an authoritative decree fiat
#5799, aired 2009-11-26IT'S THE 26th $1600: Little is known about this 26th century B.C. ruler, but his fame was assured by the tomb he built, the Great Pyramid Cheops (or Khufu)
#5790, aired 2009-11-13EXPEDITION WEEK $2000: (National Geographic archaeologist Byron McCane delivers the clue.) The Gabriel Revelation tablet, sometimes called a Dead Sea Scroll in stone, allegedly tells of a Jewish revolt against Rome in 4 B.C. & mentions a king of evil countenance, this emperor Augustus (Caesar)
#5786, aired 2009-11-09"B.C." $600: A type of stock that is highly valued because the company is substantial & established blue chip
#5784, aired 2009-11-05ARCHAEOLOGY $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a stone sculpture on the monitor.) At Saqqra, Egypt, & probably from around 2500 B.C., the seated this worker was found; he still has his papyrus roll, but someone took his brush a scribe
#5748, aired 2009-09-16AS EASY AS A-B-C $200: It describes Shakespeare's pentameter iambic
#5748, aired 2009-09-16AS EASY AS A-B-C $400: It is term for each word in clue; ape man good at speak this way monosyllabic
#5748, aired 2009-09-16AS EASY AS A-B-C $600: It means to construct, or to fake, as in your excuse for being late fabricate
#5748, aired 2009-09-16AS EASY AS A-B-C $800: Lewis Carroll coined this term for meaningless words or gibberish jabberwocky
#5748, aired 2009-09-16AS EASY AS A-B-C $1000: This gem of a word can precede rattlesnake, terrapin & moth diamondback
#5744, aired 2009-07-23KILLED BY DEATH $200: Around 207 B.C. the Greek Stoic philosopher Chrysippus died this way while watching a drunk donkey eat figs laughing
#5739, aired 2009-07-16KIDS RULE! $400: This "boy king" was about 9 years old when he became a pharaoh around 1333 B.C. Tutankhamen
#5729, aired 2009-07-02MARK ANTONY $400: It was good to be Antony around 40 B.C., when he went to Athens & had himself declared this, as the "New Dionysus" a god
#5729, aired 2009-07-02MARK ANTONY $1,500 (Daily Double): Defeated in his quest to rule Rome, Mark Antony committed suicide in this country in 30 B.C. Egypt
#5725, aired 2009-06-26HISTORICAL HOME SHOPPING $1000: Now up, a 4-ton bluestone dating from 2100 B.C. from this English structure! FYI, you pay your own shipping! Stonehenge
#5725, aired 2009-06-26LIKE A SURGEON $1200: Sushruta pioneered this reconstructive process around 600 B.C.; he'd make more money in 90210 today plastic surgery
#5712, aired 2009-06-09I KILLED A GUY ONCE $200: On March 15, 44 B.C. Gaius Cassius Longinus (& 20 or so other guys) took a stab at this man Julius Caesar
#5711, aired 2009-06-08THAT'S HISTORIC $400: Following a military victory in 34 B.C., she dressed up as Isis & he dressed up as Dionysus Mark Antony & Cleopatra
#5704, aired 2009-05-28FOUNDERS $800: Tradition says this "great" rival of Julius Caesar founded a colony in Pamplona in 75 B.C.; the city's name honors him Pompey (the Great)
#5702, aired 2009-05-26LET'S GET I.T. ON $800: This programming language isn't a little worse than "B minus"; it's a 1980s improvement of a language called "Combined" C++
#5701, aired 2009-05-25FROM B TO C $400: Pertaining to an inflamed swelling of a lymph node, all too common in the 14th century bubonic
#5701, aired 2009-05-25FROM B TO C $800: A group of nations acting together, like the old Soviet one bloc
#5700, aired 2009-05-22THE DOLPHINS $2000: In the 400s B.C. this Greek historian told the story of the rescue of the poet Arion by a dolphin Herodotus
#5691, aired 2009-05-11HODGEPODGE $400: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.) If side a equals 3 & side B equals 4, it's the length of side C 5
#5689, aired 2009-05-07PEAKS & VALLEYS $400: In 1901 C.A. Yont & W.B. Felker became the first to drive a car to the top of this Colorado peak Pike's Peak
#5689, aired 2009-05-07THEY RULED! $1600: Roman around (27 B.C. to 14 A.D.) Augustus (Caesar)
#5679, aired 2009-04-23AS A YOUNG MAN $1200: …in the 1300s B.C. he made Thebes Egypt's capital & changed his name to honor Amon Tutankhamon
#5662, aired 2009-03-31MAYBE WE'LL INVADE BRITAIN! $600: A Brit named Cassivellaunus opposed this Roman's invasion in the 50s B.C. Julius Caesar
#5645, aired 2009-03-06SELDOM IS HEARD $600: "He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another" is a moral from this Greek B.C. guy Aesop
#5625, aired 2009-02-06"MULTI" TASKING $200: Get your daily dose of A, B & C with a One-A-Day one of these a multivitamin
#5606, aired 2009-01-12THE LOUVRE $1000: This statue was probably an offering by the people of Rhodes in commemoration of a naval triumph in the 100s B.C. the Winged Victory of Samothrace
#5602, aired 2009-01-06HOPE YOU STAYED AWAKE IN MATH $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a right triangle on the monitor.) It's the sum of angles B & C 90 degrees
#5569, aired 2008-11-20TIME FLIES $4,000 (Daily Double): A child born in 1995 turns 15 in 2010; a child born in 5 B.C. turned 15 in this year 11
#5567, aired 2008-11-18YOU'RE HISTORY! $400: Around 1325 B.C. this boy king was buried in a gold mask inside 4 coffins, one of which was made of gold King Tut
#5562, aired 2008-11-11ANCIENT HISTORY $800: The son of Suddhodana, a wealthy ruler, he was born in what's now Nepal around 563 B.C. Buddha
#5543, aired 2008-10-15THEY BLEW US OUT OF THE WATER $800: In 413 B.C. a Corinth/Syracuse fleet defeated this city's navy, & so left all the Greeks vulnerable Athens
#5530, aired 2008-09-26B FOLLOWS A $1000: These 1st & 2nd century B.C. Jewish patriots were active in liberating Judea from Syrian rule the Maccabees
#5522, aired 2008-09-16GEOMETRY $5,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a triangle with two angles labeled on the monitor.) In this triangle, if angle A is 42 degrees & angle B is 60 degrees, then angle C has to equal this 78 degrees
#5518, aired 2008-09-10MIDDLE "C" $400: It's the "B" in a BLT bacon
#5504, aired 2008-07-10I'M LIBYAN $400: Around 950 B.C., a Libyan military officer seized this neighboring kingdom & ruled it as Pharaoh Sheshonk I Egypt
#5488, aired 2008-06-18THEY ARE "US" $2000: Persian prophet of the 6th century B.C. Zarathustra
#5481, aired 2008-06-09WORLD HISTORY $400: Thessaly, the land from which this Argonaut leader set out, also had a 4th century B.C. ruler of that name Jason
#5481, aired 2008-06-09MATH $1600: It's any system of geometry not based on the system in "Elements", a book from around 300 B.C. non-Euclidean
#5459, aired 2008-05-08GET YOUR "B.A." $3,600 (Daily Double): The introduction of ironworking around 1100 B.C. brought it to an end the Bronze Age
#5451, aired 2008-04-28WORLD HISTORY $400: In 73 B.C. this Thracian gladiator began a 2-year slave revolt against Roman rule Spartacus
#5408, aired 2008-02-27A BILLION REASONS $800: The only event the Time Almanac has listed under 4.5 billion B.C. is this "formed" Earth
#5398, aired 2008-02-13A, B, C, D THEN F $200: Queen Victoria married this man in an elaborate ceremony in 1840 Prince Albert
#5398, aired 2008-02-13A, B, C, D THEN F $400: The object of this dice game is to move all 15 stones from the triangles & take them off the board backgammon
#5398, aired 2008-02-13A, B, C, D THEN F $600: A mountain range in the Northwestern United States, or some big waterfalls the Cascades
#5398, aired 2008-02-13A, B, C, D THEN F $800: In Shakespeare's "Richard III" the title character opens the play by saying, "Now is the winter of our" this discontent
#5398, aired 2008-02-13A, B, C, D THEN F $1000: A superficial appearance or the front of a building the facade
#5383, aired 2008-01-23STATUE OF LIMITATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): A WNBA-worthy 6-foot-8, this Greek statue was created around 130 B.C. but would have a hard time shooting the ball the Venus de Milo
#5382, aired 2008-01-22WORLD CITIES $1,800 (Daily Double): The ancient Greeks founded this Italian city around 600 B.C. & gave it a name meaning "New City" Naples
#5363, aired 2007-12-26WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT $400: Around 46 B.C, Julius Caesar offended his countrymen by dedicating a statue to her Cleopatra
#5363, aired 2007-12-26GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $1000: From before 3000 B.C., the game Senet of these people used a board & pieces to depict an afterlife journey the Egyptians
#5358, aired 2007-12-19BIBLICAL WARRIORS $800: Joab was this Israelite king's successful commander when he conquered Jerusalem around 1000 B.C. David
#5333, aired 2007-11-14ANCIENT HISTORY $800: From 3000 to 1200 B.C., many cultures flourished in the Aegean, including this one, named for a king, on Crete the Minoan civilization
#5331, aired 2007-11-122007 NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WORDS $1200: It's an Italian appetizer of toasted bread, garlic & olive oil, often topped with chopped tomatoes B-R-U-S-C-H-E-T-T-A
#5322, aired 2007-10-30LIKE, IT'S TOTALLY THE VALLEY $1000: Thutmose III was eternally maxin' & relaxin' in this narrow gorge used as a cemetery between 1550 & 1100 B.C. the Valley of the Kings
#5304, aired 2007-10-04DOG TAGS $400: Born 356 B.C., Pella, Macedonia; pooch: Peritas, who had a city named in his honor Alexander the Great
#5301, aired 2007-10-01BIRTH & DEATH $400: A cuneiform tablet dating to 2000 B.C. is the first known reference to this type of birth associated with a Roman leader a Caesarian section
#5297, aired 2007-09-25THE MEDITERRANEAN ISLE WHERE... $400: A colossal ancient wonder collapsed following an earthquake in the 3rd century B.C. Rhodes
#5281, aired 2007-07-23MYTHS & LEGENDS $400: Around 400 B.C. the Greek Ctesias described it as having a white body with a straight cubit-long horn a unicorn
#5276, aired 2007-07-16WHEN THEY WERE IN HIGH SCHOOL $800: As a teen in B.C., she said her goal was "to be a California beach bum"--she got her wish on "Baywatch" Pamela Anderson
#5265, aired 2007-06-29"U"2 $1600: Type of structure named for a 353 B.C. monument built by Queen Artemisia to honor her dead husband a mausoleum
#5259, aired 2007-06-21"RU" SURE? $200: A famous crossing of this river took place in 49 B.C. the Rubicon
#5255, aired 2007-06-15GEOLOGY $600: In the 5th century B.C., Empedocles argued that everything that exists can be reduced to these 4 elements earth, air, water & fire
#5237, aired 2007-05-22EASY AS "A-B-C" $200: The state of being away; you might take a "leave of" one absence
#5237, aired 2007-05-22EASY AS "A-B-C" $400: Oxygenated endurance exercises that promote cardiovascular fitness aerobic
#5237, aired 2007-05-22EASY AS "A-B-C" $600: Tasty tuna type albacore
#5237, aired 2007-05-22EASY AS "A-B-C" $800: A plentiful or overflowing quantity or supply abundance
#5237, aired 2007-05-22EASY AS "A-B-C" $1000: Another word for a kidnapping, perhaps from a seraglio abduction
#5228, aired 2007-05-09FIGHT ON! $800: 300 Spartans led by Leonidas held off Persian troops for 3 days, until a traitor betrayed them, in this 480 B.C. battle Thermopylae
#5217, aired 2007-04-24THE NEW YORK TIMES SCIENCE TIMES $3,000 (Daily Double): Scholars can't read a 10-word column found in Guatemala but know it means these people had writing in 2300 B.C. the Mayans
#5191, aired 2007-03-19A ROYAL SUM-UP $800: King of Judah from 873 to 849 B.C.; succeeded by son Jehoram; name now generally found after "jumpin'" Jehoshaphat
#5191, aired 2007-03-19A ROYAL SUM-UP $1,000 (Daily Double): King from about 1347 to 1339 B.C.; got famous (again) in 1922; got a CAT scan in 2005 (to see how he died) King Tut
#5184, aired 2007-03-08OH, "MAN"! $1600: Leonardo's "Proportions of Man" is also called this, after a 1st century B.C. architect Vitruvian Man
#5178, aired 2007-02-28BURN $1,000 (Daily Double): One of these famously burned in Alexandria in 47 B.C. & also in Los Angeles in 1986 a library
#5170, aired 2007-02-16ANCIENT TIMES $400: The Shan-Yang one of these waterways was built in China as early as the 300s B.C. a canal
#5148, aired 2007-01-17MUTILATED ART $800: A marble hand holding an apple was found on Melos near this statue that dates to 150 B.C. the Venus de Milo
#5140, aired 2007-01-05GREECE $1,400 (Daily Double): The site of a famous 480 B.C. battle against Persia, this mountain pass' name means "hot gates" in Greek Thermopylae
#5125, aired 2006-12-15OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE $1600: The 31 B.C. naval Battle of Actium pitted Octavian vs. this man, whose suicide with his lover a year later became legendary Antony
#5124, aired 2006-12-14EPIC POEMS AS COUNTRY SONGS $800: 800s B.C., maybe: "I might be a long-lost husband, but that don't mean you get my wife" the Odyssey
#5124, aired 2006-12-14EPIC POEMS AS COUNTRY SONGS $1600: Around 20 B.C.: "I left Troy behind me 'cause I had to be a Roman" the Aeneid
#5117, aired 2006-12-05OLD "HAT" $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Luxor, Egypt.) This 15th century B.C. woman began as a regent but made herself queen & started warring, trading & obelisk building Hatshepsut
#5104, aired 2006-11-16SCIENCE $400: Jaundice can be a symptom of this liver disease, type A, B or C hepatitis
#5098, aired 2006-11-08STRAIT GUY $2000: The Juan de Fuca Strait separates Washington State from this Canadian Island that shares its name with a B.C. city Vancouver
#5092, aired 2006-10-31MEN OF TRINITY COLLEGE $400: Biblical research by Bishop Ussher, a 17th century Trinity prof, dated this event to Oct. 23, 4004 B.C. the creation of the world
#5092, aired 2006-10-31RELAX, IT'S MY TREATY $400: A 40 B.C. treaty called for Mark Antony to marry the sister of this Roman, the future Emperor Augustus Octavius
#5082, aired 2006-10-17YOU'VE GOT TO FIGHT $1000: The 421 B.C. Peace of Nicias provided a 6-year break for Athens & Sparta in this war, which then lasted another 11 years the Peloponnesian War
#5078, aired 2006-10-11EGYPTIAN HISTORY $800: After the death of this Egyptian queen in 30 B.C., Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire Cleopatra
#5072, aired 2006-10-03YOUNG PEOPLE WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE $800: In 338 B.C. at age 18, he commanded the cavalry in his father's army in the Battle of Chaeronea in Macedonia Alexander the Great
#5070, aired 2006-09-29ANCIENT HISTORY $400: The first one of these tombs was built about 2650 B.C. by Imhotep for King Zoser & rose about 200 feet using steps a pyramid (the pyramids accepted)
#5056, aired 2006-09-1123 $600: Legend says in 490 B.C., Pheidippides ran about 23 miles from this plain to Athens to announce a victory Marathon
#5054, aired 2006-07-27GREAT PEOPLE OF HISTORY $800: A prolific fighter & builder, he ruled Egypt from about 1290 to 1223 B.C. Ramses the Great
#5048, aired 2006-07-19GEOGRAPHIC PHRASES $400: A 49 B.C. crossing of this river gave rise to a cliche the Rubicon
#5038, aired 2006-07-05PIECES OF CHINA $1200: The 2nd century B.C. Chinese leader Wu Ti was called the Warrior this (a higher rank than Xena) Emperor
#5030, aired 2006-06-23A, B OR C $200: Not a blood type C
#5030, aired 2006-06-23A, B OR C $400: Originally, it was a cheap movie shown in addition to the main feature B
#5030, aired 2006-06-23A, B OR C $600: In the name of the outfit that first broadcast the U.S. House in 1979, this precedes "SPAN" C
#5030, aired 2006-06-23TUNNELS $800: Also a style of staircase, it's the type of tunnel built in B.C.'s Yoho National Park to solve the problem of a steep grade spiral
#5030, aired 2006-06-23A, B OR C $800: A vitamin found in vegetables & dairy products, it's also called retinol A
#5030, aired 2006-06-23A, B OR C $1000: Symbol of the unit used to measure the wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation A (more correctly, Å)
#5029, aired 2006-06-22NAMES OF THE 12 APOSTLES $800: Shared with a 4th century B.C. king of Macedonia Philip
#5022, aired 2006-06-13TAIPEI PERSONALITY $800: A large, popular temple in Taipei is dedicated to this Chinese philosopher of the 5th century B.C. Confucius
#5003, aired 2006-05-17THE EARLY EARTH $1600: Lasting from about 2,011,000 to 11,000 B.C., this epoch featured glaciation cycles & a farewell to the mammoth the Pleistocene
#5001, aired 2006-05-15CHANGE THE WORLD $200: Seen here is a gold coin depicting this Macedonian ruler who died in 323 B.C. Alexander the Great
#4985, aired 2006-04-21ANCIENT TIMES $800: Horrified by the carnage of war, Asoka, a 3rd century B.C. ruler in India, embraced this peaceful religion Buddhism
#4945, aired 2006-02-24T3: RISE OF THE CONSONANTS $1000: A powerful empire in Asia Minor & Syria around 1500 B.C. the Hittites
#4942, aired 2006-02-21EARLY MAN $1,200 (Daily Double): Homo erectus reached this island between 1 & 2 million B.C.; Homo Dutch traderensis, in 1596 A.D. Java
#4922, aired 2006-01-24DEADWOOD $1200: Used to build the temple of Jerusalem around 1000 B.C., these trees are also a symbol of Lebanon cedar
#4920, aired 2006-01-20ADDICTED TO ADJECTIVES $1600: It means dramatic, like a famous Greek choral poet & actor of the 6th century B.C. thespian
#4920, aired 2006-01-20"O" MAN! $2000: Born in 43 B.C., this Roman poet wrote a book about love & a book to help people get over being rejected Ovid
#4903, aired 2005-12-28GET YOUR GROUP TOGETHER $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 500s B.C. the 3 main groups in Rome were the Sabines, the Etruscans & these, who left us a language the Latins
#4900, aired 2005-12-23BE B.C. $1,800 (Daily Double): This "great" guy got a gig as governor of Galilee in 47 B.C.; a few years later, he was king of Judea Herod the Great
#4877, aired 2005-11-22SCULPTORS $2000: This Greek's "Aphrodite of Cnidus" from 350 B.C. was the first classical portrayal of a nude goddess Praxiteles
#4868, aired 2005-11-09NAME THAT ROMAN EMPEROR $1000: 27 B.C.-14 A.D.: His sister married Mark Antony & he defeated Mark Antony Augustus
#4848, aired 2005-10-12THE PRE-PSAT $200: Billy loves the Red Sox no matter what; he loves 'em A) eerily B) unconditionally C) ceremoniously D) haphazardly unconditionally
#4848, aired 2005-10-12THE PRE-PSAT $600: Paintbrush: artist as A) writer: pen B) lawsuit: duck C) saw: carpenter D) stethoscope: supermodel saw: carpenter
#4848, aired 2005-10-12THE PRE-PSAT $800: Ounce: gallon as A) water: wine B) light: dark C) book: chapter D) inch: yard inch: yard
#4816, aired 2005-07-11SILENT "P" $1600: A general in Alexander's army, he became king of Egypt in 305 B.C. Ptolemy
#4809, aired 2005-06-30IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? $2000: This reputed "Nature of Man" author was born on the Greek island of Cos around 460 B.C. Hippocrates
#4794, aired 2005-06-09"DEAD" RECKONING $600: The most famous of these may have formed the library of a Jewish community that lived from about 150 B.C. to 70 A.D. the Dead Sea Scrolls
#4785, aired 2005-05-27A VISIT TO ANCIENT EGYPT $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Luxor, Egypt.) Around 1500 B.C., after expelling Hyksos invaders, proud Egyptian rulers began the vast tomb area that we now call this the Valley of the Kings
#4781, aired 2005-05-23IT CHANGED THE WORLD $400: His empire collapsed after he died of a fever in 323 B.C.; guess he forgot to feed a cold Alexander the Great
#4780, aired 2005-05-20PRE-DATERS $400: The year immediately preceding 1 A.D. on the Gregorian calendar 1 B.C.
#4780, aired 2005-05-20TIME FOR A "CON"TEST $600: Around 500 B.C. he said, "With coarse rice to eat... and my bended arm for a pillow... I still have joy" Confucius
#4770, aired 2005-05-06UNGULATES $1200: This beast of burden was domesticated by the Inca about 1,000 B.C.; the Spaniards called it a Peruvian sheep the llama
#4765, aired 2005-04-29RELIGION $800: It can be any person who's reached Nirvana, or a specific one of the 6th century B.C. buddha
#4745, aired 2005-04-01-ISMs $600: Said to Fan Chi around 500 B.C., "Love men" is a basic tenet of this philosophy Confucianism
#4733, aired 2005-03-16HISTORIC NAMES $800: Name of the woman who became a widow on the Ides of March, 44 B.C. Calpurnia
#4730, aired 2005-03-11ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE $1200: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, Greece.) When this man introduced his play "Medea" in a contest held here at the Theater of Dionysus in 431 B.C., he came in last Euripides
#4726, aired 2005-03-07A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10 $800: Number of lost tribes of Israel after the defeat by the Assyrians in 721 B.C. 10
#4697, aired 2005-01-25AUNTIE $2000: Around 68 B.C. Julius Caesar eulogized this relative, also found before "and the Scriptwriter" in a novel title Aunt Julia
#4666, aired 2004-12-13I CAN SEE YOUR HOUSE FROM HERE! $800: From Grouse Mountain, you'll B.C.-ing a panorama of this big city on a peninsula Vancouver
#4663, aired 2004-12-08A, B, C $400: Next to Bob Lanier & Gilbert Perreault, sports reference books list C for this position center
#4663, aired 2004-12-08A, B, C $800: In phrases like "a man" or "a door", a is this part of speech an article
#4663, aired 2004-12-08A, B, C $1200: It's the symbol for the letter A in braille a dot
#4663, aired 2004-12-08A, B, C $1600: In the Stock Market abbreviation B&A, A is Asked & B is this Bid
#4663, aired 2004-12-08A, B, C $2000: If you're in "A&R" for a record company, you know it stands for these "and Repertoire" Artists
#4662, aired 2004-12-07PUT OUT THE CHINA $1200: In 87 B.C. the Chinese recorded an astronomical phenomenon that scientists think was this, also seen in 1607 A.D. Halley's Comet
#4655, aired 2004-11-26ART HISTORY $400: 6th century B.C. Greece must have been a happy place, as this facial expression is characteristic of its sculpture a smile
#4652, aired 2004-11-23GREECE $1600: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew stands in the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, Greece.) In 401 B.C. here at the Theater of Dionysus, this man won a posthumous first prize for his play "Oedipus at Colonus" Sophocles
#4649, aired 2004-11-18ART HISTORY CLASS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew points to an image of a cave painting on a screen.) Temperature & moisture within the Lascaux cave preserved even the pigments from 15,000 B.C. in this age the Stone Age
#4646, aired 2004-11-15WHAT'S THAT WORD...? $200: …that means of secondary importance: A. ancillary B. fiduciary C. habilimentary D. pecuniary ancillary
#4646, aired 2004-11-15WHAT'S THAT WORD...? $400: …that means to perplex: A. acrimonious B. congruous C. nonplus D. tremulous nonplus
#4646, aired 2004-11-15WHAT'S THAT WORD...? $600: …that means face up: A. prostrate B. prone C. supine D. incline supine
#4646, aired 2004-11-15WHAT'S THAT WORD...? $800: …that means verbal abuse: A. abrogation B. cogitation C. sinistration D. vituperation vituperation
#4646, aired 2004-11-15WHAT'S THAT WORD...? $1000: …that means not sincere: A. dissentious B. disputatious C. disingenuous D. discommodious disingenuous
#4640, aired 2004-11-06LAND O' LAKES $800: Trasimeno, a large lake in this European country, was the site of a big Hannibal victory in 217 B.C. Italy
#4625, aired 2004-10-15STOP IT, YOU'RE KILLING ME! $400: March 15, 44 B.C.: Cassius & about 20 other guys take a stab Julius Caesar
#4611, aired 2004-09-27PRECIOUS STONES $400: A David Caruso film, or a valuable stone found in Chinese carvings from 1400 B.C. jade
#4607, aired 2004-09-21A WORLD OF POTPOURRI $400: Even the Duchess of Windsor is included on Royalty Row at the Royal London Wax Museum in this B.C. capital Victoria
#4576, aired 2004-06-28"A"NCIENT GREEKS $400: A fabulist: 620-560 B.C. Aesop
#4576, aired 2004-06-28"A"NCIENT GREEKS $800: A philosopher & student of Plato: 384-322 B.C. Aristotle
#4576, aired 2004-06-28"A"NCIENT GREEKS $1200: A comedic dramatist: 445-385 B.C. Aristophanes
#4576, aired 2004-06-28"A"NCIENT GREEKS $1600: A mathematician: 287-212 B.C. Archimedes
#4576, aired 2004-06-28"A"NCIENT GREEKS $2000: The "Oresteia" tragedian: 525-456 B.C. Aeschylus
#4539, aired 2004-05-06"A" IN HISTORY $800: In 336 B.C., at age 20, he became king of the Macedonians Alexander the Great
#4534, aired 2004-04-29ASSASSINS $1200: At a wedding in 336 B.C., a young nobleman named Pausanias killed this father of Alexander the Great Philip (II of Macedon)
#4528, aired 2004-04-21B.C.'n YOU $1200: About 600 B.C. this poet of Lesbos put on quite a show; while reciting her poetry she'd strum a lyre Sappho
#4511, aired 2004-03-29ANCIENT HISTORY $800: In 621 B.C. this Greek lawmaker introduced a code of law so harsh it was said to be written in blood Draco
#4510, aired 2004-03-26TUNE IN TUNISIA $2,000 (Daily Double): The ancient ruins of this city destroyed in 146 B.C. are just outside the capital city of Tunis Carthage
#4505, aired 2004-03-19SPELL THAT GOVERNOR $1600: Of Arkansas, from the same hometown as Bill Clinton, Mike... H-U-C-K-A-B-E-E
#4505, aired 2004-03-19SPELL THAT GOVERNOR $2000: Of Maine, a distant relative of bestselling thriller author David, he's John... B-A-L-D-A-C-C-I
#4502, aired 2004-03-16ANCIENT ROMANS $200: A party of this leader's so-called friends conspired to kill him, & did, in March 44 B.C. Julius Caesar
#4497, aired 2004-03-09FILE UNDER "C" $1600: He's given us a lot to fill a "B.S." category: "Bitter Sweet", "Blithe Spirit"... (Noel) Coward
#4476, aired 2004-02-09CROSSWORD CLUES "V" $1,000 (Daily Double): A, B, C, D, K (8) vitamins
#4466, aired 2004-01-26PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAME SPELLING $2000: Rutherford Hayes B-I-R-C-H-A-R-D
#4452, aired 2004-01-06THE WAR YEARS $1000: A series of wars in north Africa & around the Mediterranean: 264-146 B.C. the Punic Wars
#4448, aired 2003-12-31ANCIENT TIMES $2000: This ancient wonder was built around 353 B.C. as a tomb for a provincial ruler of the Persian Empire the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
#4433, aired 2003-12-10HISTORY HAPPENED HERE $400: His March, 44 B.C. assassination took place in a temporary Senate House on the Campus Martius Julius Caesar
#4429, aired 2003-12-04"A" IN GEOGRAPHY $1,200 (Daily Double): A city on the Potomac founded in 1749 is named this, like a city on the Mediterranean founded in 331 B.C. Alexandria
#4427, aired 2003-12-02PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL $1600: This man who died around 347 B.C. said we perceive examples of things, not their ideal forms Plato
#4401, aired 2003-10-27EUROPEAN HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): After this 490 B.C. battle, a messenger ran 25 miles to Athens to announce the Athenian victory (the Battle of) Marathon
#4398, aired 2003-10-22THE ROYALS $400 (Daily Double): Charles Edward Stuart could have worn a T.Y.P. necklace for "The Young Pretender" or a B.P.C. one for this nickname Bonnie Prince Charlie
#4379, aired 2003-09-25C D "B" $1000: This weather forecaster can help save you a lot of trouble a barometer
#4375, aired 2003-09-19MUSIC $2000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew plays a C♯, E♭, F♯, A♭, B♭ on a piano.) This type of scale gets its name from having 5 notes to the octave pentatonic
#4363, aired 2003-07-16"P"SCIENCE & MEDICINE $1,600 (Daily Double): In the 2nd century B.C., this Egyptian astronomer thought that stars were fixed points of light in a rotating sphere Ptolemy
#4362, aired 2003-07-15INVENTIVE MINDS $400: In the 1930s inventive minds at Warner's introduced the A, B, C & D cup sizes for these bras
#4343, aired 2003-06-18PLACES TO VISIT $1,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Belize) Xunantunich was a ceremonial center of this civilization that flourished from about 300 B.C. to 900 A.D. Mayans
#4330, aired 2003-05-30SCIENCE OF THE TIMES $800: 4th century B.C.: Aristotle writes, "It is agreed that there are...only two solids, the pyramid and" this geometric one cube
#4327, aired 2003-05-27ASTRONOMY'S GREATEST HITS $600: Around 240 B.C. Chinese astronomers observed this, later named for a British astronomer Halley's Comet
#4314, aired 2003-05-08FERTILE "I"s $200: Composed around 700 B.C., it recounts a war fought over the abduction of a famous beauty "The Iliad"
#4314, aired 2003-05-08THIS PLACE IS A ZOO! $400: When Arabs are first mentioned, in an Assyrian inscription of the 800s B.C., they are associated with these animals camels
#4300, aired 2003-04-18SOMEWHERE, B.C. $400: A World's Fair opened in this British Columbia city in May 1986 to great fanfare & a fainting spell by Princess Diana Vancouver
#4300, aired 2003-04-18SOMEWHERE, B.C. $800: The Okanagan Valley is a big producer of these, also the major fruit crop of Washington state, due south apples
#4300, aired 2003-04-18SOMETIME, B.C. $800: He died violently around 3,000 B.C. & lay in a glacier until he was found in 1991 the Iceman
#4300, aired 2003-04-18SOMEWHERE, B.C. $1200: Yoho National Park, named for a Cree word for "awe", is in eastern B.C., in these mountains Rockies
#4296, aired 2003-04-14OF BABYLON $1,000 (Daily Double): Following the capture of King Nabonidus in 539 B.C., this empire completed its conquest of Babylon the Persian Empire
#4279, aired 2003-03-20EDUCATION $2000: In 335 B.C. Aristotle founded this school in a grove along the Ilissus River outside the walls of Athens the Lyceum
#4271, aired 2003-03-10ANCIENT ROME $600: In the Forum in 44 B.C., he gave a rousing speech that may have begun, "Friends, Romans, countrymen..." Mark Antony
#4265, aired 2003-02-28NAMES FROM THE PAST $400: Slaves & women were also allowed into the Garden, a school Epicurus founded in this city around 306 B.C. Athens
#4259, aired 2003-02-20ANCIENT GREEK SALAD $400: When Anaximander drew this around 550 B.C. he represented it as a flat disk; 100 years later people were still doing it the Earth
#4251, aired 2003-02-10ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: In 332 B.C. this Macedonian conquered the Phoenician seaport of Tyre after a 7-month siege Alexander the Great
#4230, aired 2003-01-10CONQUERORS $2000: In 218 B.C. he crossed the Alps with an army of 40,000 men in just 15 days, braving the elements & hostile tribes Hannibal
#4228, aired 2003-01-08THAT'S A LOAD OF GARBAGE $1200: The first known law against throwing your garbage in the street was issued around 500 B.C. in this Greek city Athens
#4227, aired 2003-01-07HISTORY OLDER THAN YOU $800: Around 1200 B.C. this Biblical man led his people to Canaan after their escape from slavery Moses
#4208, aired 2002-12-11NEBUCHADNEZZAR $400: In 601 B.C. Nebuchadnezzar failed to conquer this country when his army & that of Pharaoh Neco fought to a draw Egypt
#4193, aired 2002-11-20BIOLOGY TEST $200: The viceroy butterfly looking like the monarch is: (A) mimicry (B) puppetry (C) chicory (D) rabbitry mimicry
#4193, aired 2002-11-20BIOLOGY TEST $400: The only hormone that can lower blood sugar is: (A) epinephrine (B) glucagon (C) thyroxine (D) insulin insulin
#4193, aired 2002-11-20BIOLOGY TEST $600: A Venus's Flytrap is considered: (A) aluminous (B) bigamous (C) carnivorous (D) decamerous carnivorous
#4193, aired 2002-11-20BIOLOGY TEST $800: Gills are not a feature on: (A) manatees (B) sharks (C) mushrooms (D) sand dollars manatees
#4193, aired 2002-11-20BIOLOGY TEST $1000: Experiencing piloerection you have: (A) hemorrhoids (B) razor stubble (C) goose bumps (D) bed hair goose bumps
#4173, aired 2002-10-23A WORLD OF PIRATES $200: Later dictator, this Roman was kidnapped by pirates while on a journey to Rhodes around 75 B.C. Julius Caesar
#4154, aired 2002-09-26MULTIPLE CHOICE $400: An 1845 Wagner opera is titled A. "Blechtrommel" B. "Tannhauser" C. "Doppelganger" D. "Schweinhund" B. Tannhauser
#4154, aired 2002-09-26MULTIPLE CHOICE $800: This word isn't in the Constitution's First Amendment: A. press B. redress C. compress D. establishment C. compress
#4154, aired 2002-09-26MULTIPLE CHOICE $1200: 6' 7" NFL linebacker Ted Hendricks was known as A. "The Mad Crow" B. "The Mad Heron" C. "The Mad Stork" D. "The Mad Cow" C. "The Mad Stork"
#4154, aired 2002-09-26MULTIPLE CHOICE $1600: The element with atomic number 34 is A. Solarium B. Sphagnum C. Substratum D. Selenium D. Selenium
#4154, aired 2002-09-26MULTIPLE CHOICE $2000: Paris' Pompidou Center was designed by A. Angelo Viola B. Renzo Piano C. Tonio Piccolo D. Gianni Tuba B. Renzo Piano
#4138, aired 2002-09-04ENDS IN "O" $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows some letters on a chalkboard.) In this language introduced in 1887, the alphabet begins "a b c ĉ d" Esperanto
#4135, aired 2002-07-19SO LONG $400: Egypt's Old Kingdom, which lasted from about 2680 to 2180 B.C., is also called the "Age" of this type of structure a pyramid
#4113, aired 2002-06-19GIMME SOME MONEY $1600: Flipping coins "heads or tails" dates back to a coin featuring the "head" of this 1st century B.C. Roman dictator Julius Caesar
#4110, aired 2002-06-14SCUBA DOOBY DOO $1000: Known as a b.c., an important piece of scuba equipment is a "compensator" for this buoyancy
#4100, aired 2002-05-31JERUSALEM $1200: In 168 B.C. Syrian Antiochus IV destroyed much of the city, causing a revolt under this man's leadership Judah the Maccabee
#4081, aired 2002-05-06EUROPEAN HISTORY $1600: In 59 B.C. Julius Caesar established a colony on the Arno River which later became this Italian city Florence
#4074, aired 2002-04-25IT'S A BOY! $200: This "boy king" who reigned from 1333 to 1323 B.C. was in the news again in 1922 King Tut
#4073, aired 2002-04-24JUST A THOUGHT $1600: All this Chinese philosopher born in 551 B.C. wanted was to bring back a golden age & for people to be respectful Confucius
#4066, aired 2002-04-15AS EASY AS A,B,C $200: Of assault, battery & collusion, the Manhattan park Battery
#4066, aired 2002-04-15AS EASY AS A,B,C $400: Of angel, brave & cardinal, in baseball, the one mentioned in the anthem sung before each game brave
#4066, aired 2002-04-15AS EASY AS A,B,C $600: Of apple, banana & cherry, the Baldwin apple
#4066, aired 2002-04-15AS EASY AS A,B,C $800: Of adagio, bellagio & collegio, what UNLV would be to an Italian collegio
#4066, aired 2002-04-15AS EASY AS A,B,C $1000: Of aster, buttercup & camellia, the genus from whose plants tea is most often made camellia
#4063, aired 2002-04-10B.C. $2000: Carved out near Aswan around 1250 B.C., the temples at this Egyptian site were moved in the 1960s A.D. Abu Simbel
#4047, aired 2002-03-19CHAIN LETTERS $1200: The Chin is a 3rd century B.C. Chinese dynasty; this dynasty appeared in the 3rd Century A.D. the Han
#4043, aired 2002-03-13IT'S A TOUGH WORLD $5,000 (Daily Double): The first nation of this name existed c. 650 B.C.; the latest declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 Macedonia
#4033, aired 2002-02-27HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF $400: According to tradition, around 750 B.C. this city was founded by twins raised by a wolf Rome
#4031, aired 2002-02-25FIREFIGHTING $400: In 24 B.C. this Caesar instituted the "Vigiles", a group of firefighting watchmen Augustus (Caesar)
#4023, aired 2002-02-13REJECTED S.A.T. QUESTIONS $600: Flighty is to capricious as flimsy is to: A. indefatigable B. insubstantial C. interfascicular B (insubstantial)
#4023, aired 2002-02-13REJECTED S.A.T. QUESTIONS $800: Asia's 1900 Boxer Uprising was a movement to: A) win Olympic gold; B) unionize; C) get rid of foreigners get rid of foreigners
#4023, aired 2002-02-13REJECTED S.A.T. QUESTIONS $1000: Of A) codicil; B) uracil; C) Clearasil, it's a base contained in RNA uracil
#4014, aired 2002-01-31THE LAW $1,200 (Daily Double): In 621 B.C. this Greek introduced Athens' first written code of law; most crimes were punishable by death Draco
#4004, aired 2002-01-17TIME FOR A BEVERAGE $400: For "corrupting the youth of Athens" Socrates was compelled to drink this in 399 B.C. hemlock
#3970, aired 2001-11-30PHILOSOPHERS $1200: Parmenides, Mr. One Unchanging Reality, was a major thinker pre-this man born around 470 B.C. Socrates
#3955, aired 2001-11-09DIAGNOSIS MURDER $200: Drew a chalk outline near the Roman Senate for this man in 44 B.C.; perps used knives Julius Caesar
#3938, aired 2001-10-17AUNTIQUITY $200: Eurynoe, a Macedonian princess of the 300s B.C., had this great nephew -- not great-nephew, great nephew Alexander the Great
#3922, aired 2001-09-25PEOPLE IN HISTORY $600: Winning a military victory in 47 B.C., this Roman general said, "I came, I saw, I conquered" (Julius) Caesar
#3916, aired 2001-09-17"B" MOVIES $200: A dimwitted shut-in becomes the toast of Washington, D.C. society in this comedy starring Peter Sellers Being There
#3915, aired 2001-09-14WHERE THE "BOY"s ARE? $600: It's the title of the 1941 hit song heard here "He was a top man at his craft / But then his number came up / And he was gone with the draft / He's in the Army now / A-blowin’ reveille..." "The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (of Company B)"
#3904, aired 2001-07-19MOVIES OF THE "YEAR" $200: 6 words: Raquel Welch in a fur bikini One Million Years B.C.
#3879, aired 2001-06-14WEIRD SCIENCE $600: Georg Brandt isolated the metal that miners called Kobold, after an Earth spirit, & re-spelled it this way C-O-B-A-L-T
#3856, aired 2001-05-14OLD TRAVEL BOOKS $1000: In the 5th century B.C. he added a great description of the land of Egypt to his great history work Herodotus
#3817, aired 2001-03-20THEY'RE GREAT! $300: In about 326 B.C. his horse Bucephalus died in India; he built a city to honor his trusty steed Alexander the Great
#3755, aired 2000-12-22SPELL IT: -ABLE OR -IBLE? $400: A peace officer having minor judicial functions, usually in a small town C-O-N-S-T-A-B-L-E
#3724, aired 2000-11-09B.C. PEOPLE $400: Before he went into politics, Cicero used his oratorical skills in this profession Lawyer
#3724, aired 2000-11-09B.C. PEOPLE $1000: Ashurbanipal turned this capital city of Assyria into a cultural mecca Nineveh
#3709, aired 2000-10-19FIRST THINGS FIRST $200: Coroebus of Elis was the first winner in the first of these games; he won the only event, a sprint, in 776 B.C. the Olympics
#3699, aired 2000-10-05THEY'RE HOT! $100: To distinguish between its Mels, this singing group labeled them B. & C. the Spice Girls
#3682, aired 2000-09-12ANCIENT COINS $600: Around 334 B.C. this Macedonian's stater became a world currency Alexander the Great
#3682, aired 2000-09-12ANCIENT COINS $1,000 (Daily Double): A Knossos coin of the 4th century B.C. had this creature on the front & a labyrinth on the reverse Minotaur
#3682, aired 2000-09-12ANCIENT COINS $1000: Smyrna, which claimed to be the birthplace of this poet, put him on a 2nd century B.C. coin Homer
#3669, aired 2000-07-13MOVIE L.A. $400: In 1913, at Selma & Vine, this director known for epics shot the first feature made in Hollywood, "The Squaw Man" Cecil B. DeMille
#3646, aired 2000-06-12NOTABLE NAMES $200: In 323 B.C. this "great" man, who had conquered much of the known world, died at age 33 of a nasty fever Alexander the Great
#3637, aired 2000-05-30TRANSPORTATION $300: This wheeled war vehicle was introduced to the Egyptians around 1600 B.C. by an invading people called the Hyksos a chariot
#3636, aired 2000-05-29FIRE $400: Tragically in 47 B.C. a fire that destroyed the Egyptian fleet spread through this library Library of Alexandria
#3597, aired 2000-04-04B.C. $600 (Daily Double): Ancient Hindus learned to recite the Gayatri, one of these sacred series of syllables Mantra
#3575, aired 2000-03-03A LOSING BATTLE $100: At Dyrrhachium in 48 B.C., Pompey handed this Roman one of his few defeats Julius Caesar
#3565, aired 2000-02-18REALLY OLD NEWS $600: As a boy in 238 B.C, this general accompanied his father Hamilcar on an expedition to conquer Spain Hannibal
#3554, aired 2000-02-03TRAVEL & TOURISM $300: Chinese New Year is greeted with dancing dragon parades & firecrackers in this largest B.C. city Vancouver
#3549, aired 2000-01-27HISTORIC WEBSITES $400: At www.theacademy.edu in the 380s B.C., you could have a virtual dialogue with this founder Plato
#3521, aired 1999-12-20B.C. $200: It was built before 2400 B.C. & rose to a height of 481 feet Great Pyramid of Cheops
#3501, aired 1999-11-22A BUNCH OF "GREAT" LEADERS $100: His forces defeated the Persian Army under Darius III in 333 B.C. Alexander the Great
#3486, aired 1999-11-01WORLD HISTORY $300: In 71 B.C. Spartacus led a slave revolt against this empire Roman Empire
#3478, aired 1999-10-20QUICK BIOS $400: Born c. 470 B.C.; taught a bit, tried & died c. 399 B.C.; met Bill & Ted in 1989 Socrates
#3474, aired 1999-10-14ANCIENT GREECE $800: In 594 B.C. this Athenian statesman drew up a code of law Solon
#3456, aired 1999-09-20ANCIENT ROME $500: In 20 B.C. the Curatores Viarum was a board set up to manage these highways (or roads)
#3422, aired 1999-06-22HAIL THE ROMAN EMPEROR! $400: The first: 27 B.C.-14 A.D. Caesar Augustus
#3408, aired 1999-06-02ACCOUNTING EXAM $100: Bankruptcy types are: A. volumes B. chapters C. verses Chapters
#3408, aired 1999-06-02ACCOUNTING EXAM $200: Poison pills thwart: A. double takes B. takeovers C. undertakers Takeovers
#3408, aired 1999-06-02ACCOUNTING EXAM $300: The process of a firm selling parts of itself is: A. divestiture B. expenditure C. not really sure Divestiture
#3408, aired 1999-06-02ACCOUNTING EXAM $400: Assets like land & machines are: A. fixed B. repaired C. mended Fixed
#3408, aired 1999-06-02ACCOUNTING EXAM $500: Junk bonds feature: A. low ceilings B. high interest C. Chinese boats High interest
#3402, aired 1999-05-25HISSSTORY $200: Tradition says that in August 30 B.C., she committed suicide with the bite of an asp, a symbol of divine royalty Cleopatra
#3384, aired 1999-04-29"C" IN HISTORY $400: In 47 B.C. she gave birth to a son known as Caesarion, or "Little Caesar" Cleopatra
#3373, aired 1999-04-14APRIL $500 (Daily Double): In 46 B.C. this man ordered the addition of a 30th day to April Julius Caesar
#3352, aired 1999-03-16TROUBLE $500: In 1797 3 French agents later known by these 3 letters asked U.S. trade representatives for a bribe "X", "Y" & "Z"
#3347, aired 1999-03-09B.C. TIMES $200: Ancient miners using one of these to filter out gold may have inspired the object of Jason's quest a fleece
#3347, aired 1999-03-09B.C. TIMES $400: The condemned Socrates had a choice of going into exile or drinking this; he chose the latter Hemlock
#3347, aired 1999-03-09B.C. TIMES $600: With his temple finished around 950 B.C., he built palaces for himself & his wife, the daughter of a pharaoh Solomon
#3303, aired 1999-01-06THE "A" "B" "C"s $200: In a 1976 Playboy interview, Jimmy Carter said he'd committed this in his heart many times adultery
#3303, aired 1999-01-06THE "A" "B" "C"s $400: Ring in & tell me this correct name for a young swan cygnet
#3303, aired 1999-01-06THE "A" "B" "C"s $600: They're the 2 words describing lenses that curve outward or inward concave & convex
#3303, aired 1999-01-06THE "A" "B" "C"s $800: From 1672 to 1858 this city was the headquarters of the British East India Company Bombay
#3303, aired 1999-01-06THE "A" "B" "C"s $1000: The name of this German publisher has become synonymous with a guidebook Karl Baedeker
#3302, aired 1999-01-05ROAMIN' WITH THE ROMANS $400: By 240 B.C. a roamin' Roman could ease on down this road all the "way" to Brindisi The Appian Way
#3296, aired 1998-12-28BLASTS FROM THE PAST $200: A product of about 20,000 B.C., you'll find the art seen here in this country (cave drawings) France
#3296, aired 1998-12-28NOTORIOUS $400: In 44 B.C. he was made a praetor of Rome & joined Cassius in a little plot Brutus
#3287, aired 1998-12-15HAPPY HANUKKAH $500: According to tradition, a minute quantity of this oil miraculously burned for 8 days in 165 B.C. Sacred/olive oil
#3284, aired 1998-12-10MATH CLASS $500: It's any system of geometry not based on the system in "Elements", a book from around 300 B.C. non-Euclidean
#3270, aired 1998-11-20BEFORE COLUMBUS $200: Around 9000 B.C., herds of these large wild cattle dramatically increased & became a major food source buffalo (or bison)
#3221, aired 1998-09-14ANCIENT HISTORY $800: These people who settled India c. 1500 B.C. were taken for a superior race in Nazi pseudoscience Aryans
#3169, aired 1998-05-14A LONG TIME AGO $200: A major reason for his invasion of Persia in 334 B.C. was to cover the debt left by his father, Philip II Alexander the Great
#3169, aired 1998-05-14A LONG TIME AGO $600: This Cretan civilization dominated the Aegean world until about 1450 B.C. Minoan
#3133, aired 1998-03-25A "B" CITY $400: Its first name was F‑E‑L‑S‑I‑N‑A, not O‑S‑C‑A‑R Bologna
#3097, aired 1998-02-03DOUBLE "B"s $400: A "rouser" may rouse this low class of people Rabble
#3084, aired 1998-01-15"B.C." $600: It makes a stick of dynamite go boom! Blasting cap
#3084, aired 1998-01-15"B.C." $800: Women enrolled in this institution receive degrees from Columbia University Barnard College
#3084, aired 1998-01-15"B.C." $1000: They don't travel as fast as dromedaries; perhaps the second hump slows them down Bactrian camel
#3075, aired 1998-01-02ANCIENT HISTORY $200: Around 2600 B.C. Pharaoh Djoser was entombed in a step one, the first large stone structure Pyramid
#3075, aired 1998-01-02ANCIENT HISTORY $400: Tien, a version of this divine abode, became part of Chinese religion around 1000 B.C. heaven
#3075, aired 1998-01-02ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: In the Bible Uriah was a member of these people who conquered Babylon around 1595 B.C. Hittites
#3067, aired 1997-12-23'60s FLICKS $800: One book abbreviated this 1969 film "B&C&T&A" Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
#3060, aired 1997-12-12HAMMERS $400: A 1st century B.C. maxim of Publilius Syrus says it's when you should hammer your iron When it's hot
#3031, aired 1997-11-037 $200: Tradition says this city was founded in 753 B.C. on one of a group of 7 hills Rome
#3025, aired 1997-10-24FROGS & TOADS $500: "Brekekekex co-ax, co-ax" is a line from his 405 B.C. hit play "The Frogs" Aristophanes
#2966, aired 1997-06-23WHERE'S THE FIRE? $200: When buying one of these, look for one that puts out A, B & C classes of fire a fire extinguisher
#2958, aired 1997-06-11GREAT RULERS $400: This king of Judea from 37-4 B.C. was a friend of Mark Anthony Herod (the Great)
#2940, aired 1997-05-16WORLD HISTORY $1000: In 490 B.C. this Persian king sent an army into Greece but it was defeated at the Battle of Marathon Darius
#2936, aired 1997-05-12TAKE A LETTER $500: It's the seventh tone in a C-major scale B
#2909, aired 1997-04-03TRAVEL CANADA $300: Victoria, B.C. boasts a replica of the famous thatched cottage of this woman, Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway
#2906, aired 1997-03-31ANCIENT GREECE $200: In 399 B.C. this philosopher was convicted by a jury of 500 men on a vote of 280 to 220 Socrates
#2903, aired 1997-03-26WORLD TRAVEL $300: Gastown, a popular area of this B.C. city, is named for saloonkeeper "Gassy" Jack Deighton Vancouver
#2899, aired 1997-03-20ANCIENT LIFE $300: The first of these contests, held in 776 B.C., consisted only of a 200-yard foot race Olympic games
#2867, aired 1997-02-04FRUITS & VEGETABLES $400: The rutabaga is related to this root vegetable; it's sometimes called a "yellow" one Turnip
#2867, aired 1997-02-04FRUITS & VEGETABLES $500: This tropical fruit is sometimes called a pawpaw though the true pawpaw is an entirely different fruit Papaya
#2867, aired 1997-02-04ANCIENT HISTORY $600: This 2-wheeled military vehicle was introduced to Egypt from Asia in the 2nd millennium B.C. Chariot
#2867, aired 1997-02-04ANCIENT HISTORY $1,500 (Daily Double): Knossos on this island was the center of a highly developed civilization in the 2nd millennium B.C. Crete
#2852, aired 1997-01-14GUINNESS FOOD & DRINK RECORDS $500: The world's oldest cake, made around 2200 B.C., is in a food museum in Vevey in this Alpine country Switzerland
#2781, aired 1996-10-07THE ROMAN EMPIRE $200: He was assassinated in 44 B.C. by a group known as the liberators Julius Caesar
#2764, aired 1996-09-12OLD PLACES $200: Lu, an old state in China, could have had a sign, "You are entering Lu, birthplace of this philosopher c. 550 B.C." Confucius
#2745, aired 1996-07-05THE LIVER $400: There are 5 main viral types of this inflammation of the liver—A,B,C,D,& E hepatitis
#2692, aired 1996-04-23EPIC POETS & POETRY $2,000 (Daily Double): Tradition holds that this poet lived in the 12th century B.C. in Chios or Smyrna Homer
#2687, aired 1996-04-16TRANSPORTATION $400: By the 5th century B.C. this horse-drawn, 2-wheeled carriage had been introduced into Britain a chariot
#2685, aired 1996-04-12WORLD RELIGIONS $600: His enlightenment has been dated to around 528 B.C. after a 7-week stay under the bodhi tree Buddha
#2639, aired 1996-02-08ANCIENT TIMES $1000: In 422 B.C. Athenians were all "abuzz" over this Aristophanes comedy that features a chorus of insects The Wasps
#2614, aired 1996-01-04INVENTIONS $100: If, as some say, Gen. Han Hsin invented this c. 200 B.C., he was the 1st to tell someone to go fly one a kite
#2592, aired 1995-12-05POLITICAL QUOTATIONS $1,500 (Daily Double): In his 4th century B.C. "Politics", he wrote, "Man is by nature a political animal" Aristotle
#2591, aired 1995-12-04HISTORY $800: In 394 B.C. Admiral Conon of this city-state defeated a Spartan fleet at Cnidus Athens
#2576, aired 1995-11-13PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: The women in his play "Three Tall Women" are known by the letters "A", "B" & "C", not by names Edward Albee
#2536, aired 1995-09-18"A" IN HISTORY $200: The initial section of this road, begun in 312 B.C., ran 132 miles from Rome to Capua the Appian Way
#2536, aired 1995-09-18"A" IN HISTORY $300: While passing through Phrygia in 333 B.C., he's said to have cut the Gordian Knot Alexander the Great
#2512, aired 1995-07-04HISTORY $1000: In 404 B.C. a starving Athens was forced to give up its long fight in this war the Peloponnesian War
#2471, aired 1995-05-08MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $200: This instrument also known as a mouth organ can be traced back to the Chinese sheng of 1100 B.C. the harmonica
#2427, aired 1995-03-07ANCIENT TIMES $1,500 (Daily Double): Artaxerxes III, who ruled this empire, was murdered by a eunuch named Bagoas in 338 B.C. the Persian Empire
#2406, aired 1995-02-06HISTORIC NAMES $100: This pharaoh was only about 18 when he died circa 1339 B.C.; the cause of his death is still a mystery King Tut
#2378, aired 1994-12-28THE FUNNIES $100: The pun police are a running gag in this prehistoric strip "B.C."
#2361, aired 1994-12-05THE ANCIENTS $200: This dictator of Rome, assassinated in 44 B.C., always wore a laurel wreath to cover his baldness Julius Caesar
#2357, aired 1994-11-29ANCIENT HISTORY $200: This Macedonian visited Siwa Oasis in 331 B.C. & was hailed as a son of Amon by the oracle Alexander the Great
#2357, aired 1994-11-29ANCIENT HISTORY $800: A few years after the death of Antipater in 43 B.C., Rome made this "Great" ruler King of Judea Herod
#2354, aired 1994-11-24WORLD HISTORY $600: In 241 B.C. the first of these wars ended soon after Rome defeated Carthage in a naval battle off Sicily Punic Wars
#2323, aired 1994-10-12FAMOUS NAMES $600: After he became a magistrate of Carthage in 196 B.C., he went into exile to avoid being turned over to the Romans Hannibal
#2304, aired 1994-09-15BATTLES $1,000 (Daily Double): In this battle of 490 B.C., an Athenian army overran a Persian force nearly twice its size The Battle of Marathon
#2291, aired 1994-07-18FIRE $400: One in Los Angeles burned in 1986; one in Alexandria in 47 B.C. a library
#2283, aired 1994-07-06ANCIENT TIMES $1000: Ashurbanipal, who assembled a great ancient library at Nineveh, ruled this kingdom 668-627 B.C. Assyria
#2282, aired 1994-07-05HISTORIC NAMES $300: The idea for his 1543 heliocentric theory came from a 3rd cent. B.C. Greek philosopher Nicolaus Copernicus
#2260, aired 1994-06-03MEDICINE $600: "Ancient Medicine" is a treatise attributed to this 5th century B.C. Greek physician Hippocrates
#2245, aired 1994-05-13HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $200: Around 621 B.C. Draco, a chief magistrate, first codified the laws for this Greek city-state's people Athens
#2243, aired 1994-05-11ALEXANDER THE GREAT $200: In 332 B.C. Alexander founded a city called Alexandria on the delta of this river the Nile
#2220, aired 1994-04-08IN THE DICTIONARY $200: A.C., for ante christum, is equivalent to this other abbreviation B.C.
#2208, aired 1994-03-23ARTISTS & THEIR SUBJECTS $400: Myron sculpted a famous statue of an athlete hurling one of these in the 5th century B.C. a discus
#2192, aired 1994-03-01ANCIENT EGYPT $400: Soon after the death of Cleopatra in 30 B.C., Egypt became a province of this empire Rome
#2180, aired 1994-02-11COOKING "A", "B", "C"s $100: The most popular type of this fruity dessert is Apple Brown a Betty
#2180, aired 1994-02-11COOKING "A", "B", "C"s $200: Cookbooks advise sticking 3 or 4 of these spice buds in an onion to flavor meat dishes clove
#2180, aired 1994-02-11COOKING "A", "B", "C"s $300: The tomato type of this gelatin salad can be made with canned tomato juice aspic
#2180, aired 1994-02-11COOKING "A", "B", "C"s $400: This fish paste is often combined with butter & seasonings & spread over broiled steak anchovy paste
#2180, aired 1994-02-11COOKING "A", "B", "C"s $500: These fruits, often mistaken for huckleberries, make wonderful jams, pies & muffins blueberries
#2162, aired 1994-01-18RULERS $600: Around 500 B.C. Vijaya, a prince from India, invaded this nearby island & set up the Sinhalese Dynasty Sri Lanka
#2161, aired 1994-01-17WORLD HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): Around 1400 B.C. a fire on Crete destroyed this Minoan city & its great palace Knossos
#2151, aired 1994-01-03VOLCANOES $600: Aeschylus & Pindar described a 475 B.C. eruption of this Sicilian volcano Mount Etna
#2151, aired 1994-01-03EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: In the 100s B.C., this once-powerful kingdom under Alexander the Great, became a Roman province Macedonia
#2117, aired 1993-11-16THE FUNNIES $100: Of B.A., B.B., B.C. or B.D., the one in "Doonesbury" B.D.
#2117, aired 1993-11-16ANCIENT WISDOM $400: Publilius Cyrus said this about a rolling stone way back in the 1st century B.C. It gathers no moss
#2092, aired 1993-10-12BEAUTY QUEENS $400: Once a La Jolla beauty queen, she's looked great since "One Million Years B.C." Raquel Welch
#2063, aired 1993-07-21GREEK TRAGEDY & COMEDY $400: Around 420 B.C. Euripides wrote a play about one of these one-eyed giants cyclops
#2047, aired 1993-06-29HISTORY $200: In 1991 B.C. Amenemhet, a former vizier, founded this country's 12th dynasty Egypt
#2029, aired 1993-06-03ANCIENT TIMES $200: Around 500 B.C. Greek kids were playing with this toy popularized in the U.S. by Donald Duncan in the 1920s a yo-yo
#2024, aired 1993-05-27NAVAL BATTLES $200: A 400-ship Roman fleet led by Octavian & Agrippa defeated the fleets of these 2 lovers at Actium in 31 B.C. Antony & Cleopatra
#2022, aired 1993-05-25ASSASSINATIONS $200: He was stabbed to death March 15, 44 B.C., just days before he was to begin a new military campaign Julius Caesar
#2007, aired 1993-05-04CHINESE HISTORY $400: The Chou was China's longest-reigning one of these, lasting from 1122-256 B.C. a dynasty
#2005, aired 1993-04-30WEATHER $300: The word meteorology traces its origin to a 4th cent. B.C. work by this student of Plato Aristotle
#1977, aired 1993-03-23WATER $800: This Greek invented a water-raising screw circa 250 B.C. Archimedes
#1959, aired 1993-02-25"A" "B" "C"s $100: After a day of sunbathing, your mother might tell you you're as "red as" this vegetable a beet
#1959, aired 1993-02-25"A" "B" "C"s $200: This Oriental pain-relieving method will have you on pins & needles, so to speak acupuncture
#1959, aired 1993-02-25"A" "B" "C"s $300: The letters of this magic word were once worn on an amulet to ward off trouble abracadabra
#1959, aired 1993-02-25"A" "B" "C"s $400: It's probably the only element to have a whole branch of chemistry devoted to it: organic chemistry carbon
#1959, aired 1993-02-25"A" "B" "C"s $500: It's a synonym for beginning, or another term for a graduation ceremony commencement
#1955, aired 1993-02-19EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: His 41-year reign, from 27 B.C. to 14 A.D., was the longest of any emperor who ruled from Rome Augustus
#1943, aired 1993-02-03LANGUAGES $100: The golden age of literature in this language lasted from the first century B.C. to about 14 A.D. Latin
#1940, aired 1993-01-29KIDNAPPED $1000: About 75 B.C. this future Roman ruler was captured by pirates on a journey to Rhodes Julius Caesar
#1917, aired 1992-12-29JERUSALEM $800: The temple started by this king c. 19 B.C. was burned by the Romans in 70 A.D. King Herod
#1887, aired 1992-11-17EDUCATION $600: In 5th century B.C. India, only the people of this caste were able to get a complete education Brahmins
#1883, aired 1992-11-11AFRICAN HISTORY $300: The ruins of this city destroyed by Rome in 146 B.C. are a 20-minute drive from Tunis, Tunisia Carthage
#1875, aired 1992-10-30WORLD CAPITALS $200: It was founded by the Gauls as a fishing settlement in the Seine River in the 3rd century B.C. Paris
#1775, aired 1992-04-24ANCIENT ROME $200: The center of Rome since the 8th century B.C., Caesar added the law court to it the Forum
#1766, aired 1992-04-13THEATRE HISTORY $300: Pisistratus established a tragedy contest as part of this city's Great Dionysia Festival around 534 B.C. Athens
#1736, aired 1992-03-02CLICHES $800: In 447 B.C. Polycrates found a treasure after the Delphi oracle told him to "leave no stone" this unturned
#1732, aired 1992-02-25ANCIENT HISTORY $800: In 201 B.C. he was the ruler of Carthage but Rome wanted him as a prisoner Hannibal
#1703, aired 1992-01-15"O" BOY $1000: This sister of Augustus married Mark Antony in 40 B.C., which led to a truce between the 2 men Octavia
#1698, aired 1992-01-08ALEXANDER THE GREAT $1000: In 323 B.C., Alexander died in a palace in this Mesopotamian city, his intended capital Babylon
#1678, aired 1991-12-11PIRATES $200: In 67 B.C., Pompey the Great led a fleet that temporarily cleared this sea of pirates the Mediterranean
#1670, aired 1991-11-29LETTER PERFECT $500: It's the seventh note in a scale of C Major B
#1666, aired 1991-11-25MUSEUMS $800: The Temple of Dendur, a shrine to Isis built circa 15 B.C., is now housed in this Manhattan museum the Metropolitan Museum of Art
#1645, aired 1991-10-25THE OLYMPICS $200: In the 264 B.C. games Belistiche, a woman of Macedonia, owned the winning team in these races chariots
#1643, aired 1991-10-23HISTORIC FIGURES $200: Liu Pang, a man of humble birth, founded this country's Han Dynasty circa 202 B.C. China
#1640, aired 1991-10-18ANCIENT HISTORY $200: To announce the Persian defeat in 490 B.C., a man ran from this plain over 20 miles to Athens Marathon
#1627, aired 1991-10-01ANCIENT TIMES $1,500 (Daily Double): In 331 B.C. his troops plundered Persepolis & burned the palace of Xerxes Alexander the Great
#1580, aired 1991-06-14GEOGRAPHICAL SPELLING $200: Juan Valdez advertises coffee from this country C-O-L-O-M-B-I-A
#1557, aired 1991-05-14ANCIENT HISTORY $200: This country's "Martial Emperor", Han Wu-Ti founded a colony in North Korea in 108 B.C. China
#1556, aired 1991-05-13LEFTOVERS $1000: On the street sign for "Sesame Street", the 3 letters in the little space on top CTW (Children's Television Workshop)
#1530, aired 1991-04-05MILITARY LEADERS $1000: In about 196 B.C., he became a chief magistrate of Carthage Hannibal
#1494, aired 1991-02-14MATHEMATICS $600: In a triangle, if angle C is a right angle, angles A & B will add up to this many degrees 90
#1493, aired 1991-02-13SPELLING $1,400 (Daily Double): Traditionally, every seventh year a teacher is entitled to this leave of absence S-A-B-B-A-T-I-C-A-L
#1492, aired 1991-02-12ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Born around 563 B.C. in southern Nepal, his father was Suddhodana, a ruler of the Sakya tribe Buddha
#1488, aired 1991-02-06MATH $200: If angle A is less than angle B & angle B is less than angle C, A has this relationship to C less than
#1411, aired 1990-10-22SWITZERLAND $400: In 58 B.C., his armies conquered the Helvetians, a Celtic people living in what is now Switzerland Julius Caesar
#1394, aired 1990-09-27ANCIENT HISTORY $400: In 712 B.C. a Nubian king conquered this civilization & established its 25th dynasty Egypt
#1392, aired 1990-09-25MORTAL MATTERS $200: Carthaginian general who took a fatal dose of poison circa 183 B.C. Hannibal
#1382, aired 1990-09-11CLASSICAL LITERATURE $200: Herodotus said this fabulist lived as a slave on Samos in the 6th century B.C. Aesop
#1379, aired 1990-09-06KIDDIE LIT $300: In an E.B. White tale Frederick C. Little's second son looked & acted like one of these a mouse
#1363, aired 1990-07-04ANCIENT GREECE $800: Found around 900 B.C., it became a military state some 300 years later Sparta
#1338, aired 1990-05-30POT LUCK $1000: Thucydides not only fought in this 5th century B.C. war, he wrote a history of it Peloponnesian War
#1332, aired 1990-05-22ANCIENT ROME $400: In 73 B.C. he escaped from a school for gladiators & gathered an army of 70,000 rebels Spartacus
#1329, aired 1990-05-17ANCIENT WORLD $600: He died in 323 B.C. at age 32 when he took ill after a long party with heavy drinking Alexander the Great
#1310, aired 1990-04-20APRIL $400: Tradition says this city was founded in April 753 B.C. by a guy who'd been raised by a wolf Rome
#1291, aired 1990-03-26LITERARY QUOTES $200: Terence, a Roman poet-playwright who lived in the second century B.C., said, "Charity begins" here At Home
#1256, aired 1990-02-05RELIGION $800: He was born to a noble family circa 563 B.C. in the region of the Indian-Nepalese border the Buddha
#1250, aired 1990-01-26MEDICAL HISTORY $200: It was used as a medicine from 600 B.C. until 2nd century A.D., when people began to wash with it soap
#1232, aired 1990-01-02TIME $300: The year before 1 A.D. 1 B.C.
#1196, aired 1989-11-13MATH $300: His theorem is often expressed a² + b² = c² Pythagoras
#1194, aired 1989-11-09BORN & DIED $200: Harper's Bible Dictionary says he was born in 5 or 6 B.C. in Judea & died in 28 or 29 A.D.in Jerusalem Jesus
#1178, aired 1989-10-18RELIGION $800: Stoicism, which taught a form of naturalistic monotheism, originated in this country about 300 B.C. Greece
#1128, aired 1989-06-28SPELL THAT NAME $500: Orville the popcorn king spells his last name this way R-E-D-E-N-B-A-C-H-E-R
#1093, aired 1989-05-10SPELLING $200: A 200th anniversary B-I-C-E-N-T-E-N-N-I-A-L
#1088, aired 1989-05-03MUSICAL NUMBERS $1000: Number of different letters of the alphabet we use to denote notes 7
#1080, aired 1989-04-21FASHION HISTORY $200: The pa'o style robe, worn in China from the 3rd century B.C., inspired this robe worn by Japanese women a kimono
#1074, aired 1989-04-13ANCIENT HISTORY $600: After Cleopatra's death in 30 B.C., Egypt became a province of this ruling nation Rome
#1061, aired 1989-03-27ZOOS $200: The "Garden of Intelligence" was a zoo built by this country's emperor about 1000 B.C. China
#1057, aired 1989-03-21ANCIENT EGYPT $1,000 (Daily Double): In 332 B.C. he took possession of Egypt without a struggle Alexander (the Great)
#1039, aired 1989-02-23MATHEMATICS $300: According to the rules of logic, if all A is B & all B is C, then this conclusion is true all A is C
#1035, aired 1989-02-17WORD ORIGINS $200: A large tomb is called this because of the majestic one built for King Mausolus in the 4th cent. B.C. a mausoleum
#968, aired 1988-11-16FOOD $500: Government graded AA, A, B, or C, the best is composed of at least 80% fat and has 12-16% water butter
#892, aired 1988-06-21THE ROMAN EMPIRE $600: In 73 B.C., Spartacus assembled a force on this site that would explode with force in 79 A.D. Mount Vesuvius
#890, aired 1988-06-17PHYSICS $400: In the 2nd cent. B.C., he found the weight of a floating body equals that of the water it displaces Archimedes
#877, aired 1988-05-31SELF-DEFENSE $300: In India circa 400 B.C., monks of this religion used a form of karate Buddhism
#843, aired 1988-04-13MATHEMATICS $500: About 300 B.C., he postulated "a straight line can be drawn from any point to any other point" Euclid
#795, aired 1988-02-05ROMAN EMPIRE $600: Term for the order maintained by the Roman Empire in its part of the world from 27 B.C. to 180 A.D. Pax Romana
#789, aired 1988-01-28DRUG STORE $400: It's said a Sumerian clay tablet from 2000 B.C., calling for plant materials, is the oldest one known prescription
#788, aired 1988-01-27THE STARS $400: Theories say it was a bright nova in 4 B.C., a comet in 4 or 5 B.C., the planet Venus or a miracle the Christmas star
#788, aired 1988-01-27ANCIENT ROME $400: This gladiator school dropout led a slave revolt in 73 B.C. Spartacus
#771, aired 1988-01-04MORTAL MATTERS $600: About 30 B.C., these 2 lovers founded a club prophetically called "The Soc. of Those Who Die Together" Antony & Cleopatra
#766, aired 1987-12-28ALL FALL DOWN $300: Popular comic strip with a character known as Clumsy Carp B.C.
#757, aired 1987-12-15SCIENTIFIC SPELLING $1000: The opposite of the type of exercise featured at Fonda's, it means "in the absence of oxygen" A-N-A-E-R-O-B-I-C
#753, aired 1987-12-09BOWLING $200: Bowling has been traced back to 5200 B.C. to equipment found in a child's tomb in this country Egypt
#742, aired 1987-11-24FASHION HISTORY $500: Though shoes go back to circa 4000 B.C., shoes designed individually for these weren't common until 19th c. your left & right foot
#738, aired 1987-11-18GEOGRAPHIC SPELLING $200: Panama adjoins South America at this country's border C-O-L-O-M-B-I-A
#728, aired 1987-11-04MUSIC $500 (Daily Double): The only letters of the alphabet used to name notes in current Western musical notation a,b,c,d, e, f & g
#713, aired 1987-10-14ANCIENT TIMES $800: Modern-day country in which the Olmecs, or "rubber people", flourished from 1200 to 100 B.C. Mexico
#700, aired 1987-09-25AFRICA $100: About 4,000 B.C., this began turning into a desert the Sahara
#695, aired 1987-09-18"C" IN SPELLING $200: The last car on a freight train C-A-B-O-O-S-E
#669, aired 1987-07-02WEATHER $600: Theophrastus wrote about 300 B.C. that a halo around the sun or moon is a portent of this storm (rain)
#668, aired 1987-07-01BEGINNINGS $400: Older than chess, a form of this common board game was played by Egyptians in 2nd millennium B.C. checkers
#622, aired 1987-04-28SCIENCE $600: In 1834, Christian Thomsen divided early human history into these 3 ages Stone, Bronze, and Iron
#609, aired 1987-04-09SPELLING $200: From Greek for "air" & "life", these exercises can start your day off with a jump A-E-R-O-B-I-C-S
#599, aired 1987-03-26TAKE A GUESS $200: Letter of the alphabet with which 5 of the Double Jeopardy! categories in this game will begin B
#578, aired 1987-02-25CENTURIES $800: Numerical designation of the century that immediately preceded the 1st century A.D. 1st century B.C.
#575, aired 1987-02-20ANCIENT TIMES $600: Three years after the Gauls attacked in 390 B.C., this city began building a wall around its 7 hills Rome
#560, aired 1987-01-30SPORTS QUOTES $100: Prior to a 1980 fight, he said "If Holmes don't C-sharp, he'll B-flat" Muhammad Ali
#522, aired 1986-12-09MEDICAL HISTORY $400: Examinations of one of these from 1000 B.C. shows that tuberculosis existed among Egyptians a mummy
#516, aired 1986-12-01JULY $100: It's a good thing he was born on "July12", 100 B.C., since the month was named for him Julius Caesar
#501, aired 1986-11-101986 B.C. $800: Historian Wm. Langer says the Sumerians were in a period of this, like Italy in 15th cent. A.D. renaissance
#493, aired 1986-10-29BREAD $100: A papyrus from 1200 B.C. lists 30 kinds of bread in this country Egypt
#463, aired 1986-09-17SCULPTURE $500: Highest price ever for a sculpture, $3,900,000 for a 4th century B.C. bronze, was paid by this Malibu, Calif. museum The Getty Museum
#442, aired 1986-05-20DRUGS $400: A Sumerian clay tablet from 2000 B.C. calling for plant materials is the oldest one known prescription
#438, aired 1986-05-14DRAMA $800 (Daily Double): In the 4th century B.C., this type of play was forbidden in Greece as demoralizing in time of war satire (comedy)
#435, aired 1986-05-09"C.B." $600: A powerful globular red firecracker a cherry bomb
#435, aired 1986-05-09"C.B." $1,500 (Daily Double): Kind of retriever developed in Maryland by crossing Newfoundlands with native retrievers a Chesapeake Bay Retriever
#422, aired 1986-04-22THE FUNNIES $1000: Creator of “Beetle Bailey”, whose name was defined in “B.C.” as “a dead nightcrawler” Mort Walker
#401, aired 1986-03-24CLOCKS $300: Around 1400 B.C., Egyptians used this kind of clock that was supposed to leak a water clock
#398, aired 1986-03-19MOVIES $200: Film featuring Raquel Welch in a prehistoric bikini 1,000,000 Years B.C.
#365, aired 1986-01-31ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: About 600 B.C., it became the most sacred shrine in Greece temple at Delphi
#358, aired 1986-01-22AGRICULTURE $200: Domesticated since 2000 B.C., its ancestors only laid about 12 eggs a year the hen (the chicken)
#280, aired 1985-10-04SCIENCE $200: A 5th C. B.C. Greek philosopher was 1st to theorize that all matter is made of these atoms
#279, aired 1985-10-03ENGINEERING $200: Begun by Appius Claudius as a public work in 312 B.C., it's one of the roads that lead to Rome the Appian Way
#268, aired 1985-09-18FIRSTS $100: The Sumerians, not Fred Flintstone, got this rolling around 3.500 B.C. a wheel
#267, aired 1985-09-17TECHNOLOGY $800: In a Greek temple in 200 B.C., one dispensed holy water; today they give candy & cigarettes vending machines
#176, aired 1985-05-13TESTS $100: Type of test in which you might be asked to select A,B,C, or none of the above a multiple choice test
#139, aired 1985-03-21THE '60s $400: The film role which made her a star in 1966 took place 1,001,985 years ago Raquel Welch
#113, aired 1985-02-13SCIENCE $100: A prototype of this taxi part was devised by a Greek around 1 B.C. a meter
#67, aired 1984-12-11ALPHABET SOUP $1000: In music, the seventh tone in the diatonic scale of C B (or ti)

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (25 results returned)

#9054, aired 2024-03-07ANCIENT DRAMA: From the 470s B.C., Aeschylus' earliest surviving work has this title; he'd fought them repeatedly in the preceding years The Persians
#9004, aired 2023-12-28THOSE ZANY ANCIENT ROMANS: In the 20s B.C. the emperor's sister Octavia had a sitcom-worthy home including the boy & girl twin children of this man & woman Antony & Cleopatra
#8855, aired 2023-04-21HISTORIC GROUPS: Originally a term for security escorts for commanders, in 27 B.C. this group was designated an official imperial force the Praetorian Guard
#8683, aired 2022-07-13STATE MOTTOS: This motto is the name of a city in that state & is a famous quote by an ancient Greek from the 3rd century B.C. Eureka
#8680, aired 2022-07-08SCIENCE & THE BIBLE: A 2021 study suggested that an asteroid that struck the Jordan Valley c. 1650 B.C. gave rise to the story of this city in Genesis 19 Sodom
#8335, aired 2021-02-12ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHERS: Asked to describe this 4th century B.C. member of the Cynics, Plato called him "a Socrates gone mad" Diogenes
#8266, aired 2020-10-26ANCIENT TEXTS: Developed in the 18th century B.C. & named for a ruler, it aimed to "settle all disputes & heal all injuries" the Code of Hammurabi
#8086, aired 2019-11-04ANCIENT HISTORY: According to Herodotus, a messenger was sent 150 miles from Athens to Sparta, just before this 490 B.C. battle the Battle of Marathon
#8032, aired 2019-07-09ANCIENT TIMES: In 1955 King Paul of Greece unveiled a statue of this hero near the cliffs where he died in the 5th century B.C. Leonidas
#7781, aired 2018-06-11BRASS INSTRUMENTS: In playing this instrument whose early version was called a sackbut, it's about 6" from A to B, about 7" from C to D a trombone
#7722, aired 2018-03-20ROMAN HISTORY: Of this battle in 31 B.C., Virgil wrote, "Neptune's fields grow red with fresh slaughter" the Battle of Actium
#7143, aired 2015-10-07MOVIE CHARACTERS: Charlton Heston's wardrobe in 1954's "Secret of the Incas" inspired the clothes worn by this adventurous character 27 years later Indiana Jones
#7046, aired 2015-04-13GEOGRAPHY: The Caucasian Isthmus lies between these 2 large inland bodies of water the Caspian Sea & the Black Sea
#6326, aired 2012-03-05CIVILIZATIONS: Starting in the 300s B.C., Hellenistic civilization was spread from this land where a new country was declared in 1991 Macedonia
#6204, aired 2011-07-28WORLD HISTORY: Surus was the last known one of these to survive a mountain crossing in the 3rd century B.C. an elephant
#5689, aired 2009-05-07B.C. THINKERS: The name we know him by was actually a nickname given him for his wide, disc-like shoulders Plato
#5382, aired 2008-01-22ADJECTIVES: This word meaning "gruesome" was inspired by the deaths of the leaders of a Jewish revolt in the 100s B.C. macabre
#4609, aired 2004-09-2320th CENTURY SHIPS: This British ship was named for a Roman province established in the area of Portugal in 27 B.C. the Lusitania
#4049, aired 2002-03-21ASIAN CITIES: The name of this Afghan city is a local variation of the name of the man who conquered the region in 329 B.C. Kandahar
#3561, aired 2000-02-14HISTORIC QUOTATIONS: According to Suetonius it was inscribed on a parade wagon after the 5-day Pontic campaign of 47 B.C. "Veni, Vidi, Vici" ("I came, I saw, I conquered")
#3508, aired 1999-12-01WORLD CITIES: Around 59 B.C. the Romans settled what is now this city, & gave it a Latin name that means "blossoming" Florence
#2868, aired 1997-02-05RULERS: In 44 B.C. he was made dictator for life, a post abolished after he died the same year Julius Caesar
#2015, aired 1993-05-14ANCIENT ROME: General Publius Scipio won the surname "Africanus" for beating this man at the 202 B.C. Battle of Zama Hannibal
#1868, aired 1992-10-21CHRONOLOGY: Dionysius Exiguus, a monk in Rome, is credited with inspiring the use of these 2 abbreviations B.C. & A.D.
#1282, aired 1990-03-13THE CALENDAR: In 8 B.C., when this month was renamed, a day from Feb. was added so it equaled the month before it August

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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times "He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
Lindsay Eanet, a senior from the University of Missouri 2010-A College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Deerfield, Illinois. Last name pronounced...
Larissa Charnsangavej, a senior from Rice University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 21 and from Houston, Texas at...
Anthony Dedousis, a sophomore from Harvard University 2009 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. 19 and from Manhasset, New York...
Catherine Muldoon, a graduate student from Somerville, Massachusetts Season 25 player (2008-11-03).
Pam Mueller, an entering law student originally from Chicago, Illinois \"Representing Loyola University, she won the College Championship in November, 2000....
Ken Basin, a junior at the University of Southern California from Huntington Beach, California 2003 College Championship semifinalist: $5,000. Blog at kbasin.blogspot.org. Appearing as a...
Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts 2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
Pam Mueller, a college student from Wilmette, Illinois 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
Kelly Scurry, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Lauderhill, Florida "It's very convenient that Washington, D.C. is his favorite city, because...
Ross Gardiner, an 11-year-old sixth grader from La Plata, Maryland "And this self-proclaimed sports fanatic likes all the teams in the...
Francois Dominic Laramée, a writer and TV personality from Verdun, Quebec, Canada Season 25 2-time champion: $46,300 + $1,000. Francois's name was printed...
Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
Dave Belote, the base commander from Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas 2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 5-time champion:...
Andy Davis, a Chyron operator from South Boston, Massachusetts Season 25 2-time champion: $49,799 + $1,000. Andy Davis - A...
Pam Mueller, a junior at Loyola University, Chicago from Wilmette, Illinois 2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2019 All-Star Games member of...
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