#9076, aired 2024-04-08 | NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS $2000: George Eliot's works named for title characters include "Adam Bede", "Silas Marner" & this alliterative one Daniel Deronda |
#9075, aired 2024-04-05 | IN THIS ECONOMY?! $13,400 (Daily Double): Adam Smith called this system of semi-free labor that ended about 500 years before his time "barbarous" feudalism |
#9070, aired 2024-03-29 | MR. OR MRS. SONG $1600: Avian name of the Adam Duritz band that in the '90s sang, "Mr. Jones & me tell each other fairy tales" Counting Crows |
#9064, aired 2024-03-21 | THE CINEMA IN 2023 $1000: Adam Driver stars as this title automaker who tries to save his company via the Mille Miglia, a 1,000-mile race across Italy Ferrari |
#9060, aired 2024-03-15 | THAT'S SO 18th CENTURY $800: On May 1, 1776, Adam Weishaupt founded the Perfectibilists, a branch of this "enlightened" secret society... oh dear, I may've said too much the Illuminati |
#9058, aired 2024-03-13 | 17th CENTURY WRITING $400: In his first speech in "Paradise Lost", he says let's not rebel against one prohibition--we have pruning to do! Adam |
#9022, aired 2024-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $1200: The entire poem by Strickland Gillilan titled "On the Antiquity of Microbes" consists of these 3 words Adam had 'em |
#26, aired 2024-01-23 | COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES $500: "The Wealth of Nations" & "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" are two texts assigned for a Duke seminar on this economist Adam Smith |
#9021, aired 2024-01-22 | THE JOB IS THE MOVIE TITLE $400: Shockingly, belting out "Love Stinks" at the reception doesn't go over so well for Adam Sandler in this film The Wedding Singer |
#24, aired 2024-01-09 | THERE'S AN "APP" FOR THAT $600: "Laryngeal prominence" is another name for this bump at the front of some people's throats an Adam's apple |
#23, aired 2024-01-02 | TINY DESK CONCERTS $300: Don't call them U2!--Larry Mullen Jr. & Adam Clayton were absent; the Edge did a Tiny Desk Concert with this singer in 2023 Bono |
#8995, aired 2023-12-15 | NOT REALLY MARRIED $600: This film legend asks this TV Batman to come up & see her sometime Mae West & Adam West |
#8984, aired 2023-11-30 | CHECK IT & SEE $400: MADAM, I'M ADAM is one palindrome |
#8981, aired 2023-11-27 | RIBS $200: In Genesis he wakes up to find himself minus one rib but plus one female Adam |
#8977, aired 2023-11-21 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $1000: John Donne:
"In best understandings, sin began, / angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then" him man |
#8971, aired 2023-11-13 | DESCRIBING THE ARTWORK $400: God, aided by cherubim, reaches out to this bored-looking guy; oh yeah, it's on a ceiling Adam |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | ABOVE, BELOW OR INTERSECTED BY THE EQUATOR $100: China above |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | MIXED GREENS $200: May's birthstone:
LAME RED emerald |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | OH, BROTHER! $200: Adam and Eve's first two sons; you may have heard they had a falling out Cain & Abel |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | ABOVE, BELOW OR INTERSECTED BY THE EQUATOR $300: Colombia intersected |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | ABOVE, BELOW OR INTERSECTED BY THE EQUATOR $400: India above |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | NAME DROPPERS $400: Partly to distance themselves from J.K. Rowling, athletes are now replacing this name for their sport with "quadball" quidditch |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | ABOVE, BELOW OR INTERSECTED BY THE EQUATOR $500: Kenya intersected by |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | PRIDE & POTUS $500: This POTUS joined the Republican Unity Coalition, a gay rights organization, roughly 25 years after leaving the White House Gerald Ford |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | FOODS NAMED AFTER PEOPLE $600: Less is "S'more"? This cracker was created by a preacher who hoped that eating it would promote abstinence a graham cracker |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | BY THE NUMBERS $800: As slang, it sounds a lot less serious than "shoplifting" -- though your arresting officer might not agree five-finger discount |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | SNEAKER BRANDS $1000: Sk8-Hi &
Old Skool Vans |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | FUNGUS AMONG US $1500: Scientists use this internet-inspired pun name for the vast network of fungi swapping nutrients beneath the forest floor the wood wide web |
#8923, aired 2023-07-26 | "DA" OR "BA" OR "DEE" $400: It's the last name of a film character played by both Gary Cooper & Adam Sandler Deeds |
#8906, aired 2023-07-03 | TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME $400: Doing some ceiling work around 1511, Michelangelo showed God reaching to give this man the divine breath of life with a touch Adam |
#8897, aired 2023-06-20 | THAT MUSICAL ACT IS UNREAL! $800: The Wonders broke into the big time in this 1996 film with the title song, written for real by the late, great Adam Schlesinger That Thing You Do! |
#8880, aired 2023-05-26 | QUOTES $800: This economist wrote that the self-seeking rich are "led by an invisible hand... to advance the interest of the society" Adam Smith |
#18, aired 2023-05-23 | FICTIONAL CASTLES $400: Prince Adam of Eternia transforms into He-Man by raising his power sword & proclaiming, "By the power of" this castle Grayskull |
#8875, aired 2023-05-19 | HIP-HOP NAMES $800: As a Beastie Boy, Adam Horovitz became him Ad-Rock |
#7, aired 2023-05-12 | HANG IN THERE $600: In Shakespearean English, this word for hanging tough has the stress on the 2nd syllable, like it's about the Adam Scott TV show perseverance |
#8868, aired 2023-05-10 | NEW NEW ORLEANS MUSIC $800: Proudly from New Orleans, PJ Morton released a 2020 gospel album; he is also known for playing in this band with Adam Levine Maroon 5 |
#8866, aired 2023-05-08 | YEET! $200: Genesis:
"Therefore the Lord God sent" him "forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground" Adam |
#8862, aired 2023-05-02 | TV & MOVIE COMEDIES $2000: Lawyers Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn are on opposite sides of a case in this classic comedy Adam's Rib |
#8839, aired 2023-03-30 | SPOUSAL SUPPORT $3,800 (Daily Double): Though Ring Lardner called this duo the prince & princess of their generation, their lives weren't exactly "This Side of Paradise" Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald |
#8823, aired 2023-03-08 | LIABLE IN THE BIBLE $200: His punishment for eating forbidden fruit: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground" Adam |
#8819, aired 2023-03-02 | COURSE DESCRIPTIONS $600: Business 600:
Devaluing your brand & still getting a $445 million payout--an examination of Adam Neumann & this office rental co. WeWork |
#8813, aired 2023-02-22 | WHO PLAYED 'EM? $400: The conflicted Ben Solo/Kylo Ren, 2015, 2017 & 2019 (Adam) Driver |
#8808, aired 2023-02-15 | I HAVE AN IDEA $2000: The institute named for this 18th c. Scot says his radical insight was that national wealth isn't gold but productive capacity Adam Smith |
#8793, aired 2023-01-25 | THE SNL ALUMNUS WHO... $400: Starred in "Hustle", "Grown Ups" & "Billy Madison" Adam Sandler |
#8793, aired 2023-01-25 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $800: The dashing Elmer Ellsworth, the 1st Union officer killed in the Civil War, is brought to life in Adam Goodheart's book about this year 1861 |
#8775, aired 2022-12-30 | ALLITERATION $800: Adam Sandler sang about her, "Put on my new plastic glove / Served some reheated Salisbury steak with a little slice of love" the lunch lady |
#8774, aired 2022-12-29 | TV TO SEE IN 2022 $2000: Adam Scott's work-life balance cuts 2 very distinctive ways as a Lumon employee on this Apple TV+ drama Severance |
#8754, aired 2022-12-01 | ROLE IN COMMON $400: Adam West &
among many others,
Ben Affleck Batman |
#8742, aired 2022-11-15 | TALKIN' ECON $4,000 (Daily Double): The birth of economics as its own discipline is often traced to a 1776 work by this man Adam Smith |
#8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE BIBLE $600: There was some serious sibling rivalry with these first 2 sons of Adam & Eve Cain & Abel |
#7, aired 2022-11-06 | BIG ____ $400: Christian Bale & Steve Carell were in this 2015 Adam McKay movie that detailed the craziness of the 2008 financial crisis The Big Short |
#8734, aired 2022-11-03 | FILM FIGHT MARQUEE $400: 1996:
Adam Sandler
vs.
Bob Barker Happy Gilmore |
#8718, aired 2022-10-12 | MOVIE STUFF $2000: In a 2019 film this actor bet big on basketball; in a 2022 film, he played a pro basketball scout; he likes basketball Adam Sandler |
#1, aired 2022-09-25 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $1200: Her memoir "The Bedwetter" was adapted into a stage musical with songs co-written by Adam Schlesinger Sarah Silverman |
#8705, aired 2022-09-23 | SO GALLANTLY STREAMING $600: On Netflix this actor known for his quick banter went back in time & gave himself a real talking-to in "The Adam Project" Ryan Reynolds |
#8701, aired 2022-09-19 | TAKE THE BROADWAY HOME $2000: Sally Hawkins & Adam Driver both made their debuts in a revival of this playwright's "Mrs. Warren's Profession" George Bernard Shaw |
#8687, aired 2022-07-19 | THE MOVIE'S DIRECTOR $1200: The all-American tale "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"--with Gary Cooper, not Adam Sandler Frank Capra |
#8686, aired 2022-07-18 | GIVING YOU THE BOOT $1200: Getting the supreme boot in Genesis, he was told, "a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be" Cain |
#8677, aired 2022-07-05 | ECONOMICS $1600: Book III of a 1776 economic work by this man is "of the Different Progress of Opulence in different Nations" Adam Smith |
#8671, aired 2022-06-27 | BOOKS & THEIR MOVIES $1600: This Ridley Scott film based on Eric Jager's true story of medieval France saw Matt Damon tilting against Adam Driver The Last Duel |
#8652, aired 2022-05-31 | SNL CAST MEMBERS ON FILM $800: As "The Wedding Singer" Adam Sandler |
#8641, aired 2022-05-16 | I'VE GOT A BIG BANK ROLE $2000: Steve Carell & Brad Pitt starred in this Adam McKay comedy that skewered the banking industry & its gambling ways The Big Short |
#8635, aired 2022-05-06 | MODERN ROYALTY $800: Prince Hans-Adam II is the official head of state of all 39,000 people of this principality Liechtenstein |
#8631, aired 2022-05-02 | A VOW OF NO VOWELS $1600: An impossibly perfect spot:
TP a utopia |
#8629, aired 2022-04-28 | BALLET & OPERA $2000: Early in Act 2 in an Adolphe Adam classic ballet, Hilarion mourns at the grave of this title woman Giselle |
#8624, aired 2022-04-21 | SIMPLY STELLAR $800: Discovered in a Sri Lankan mine in 2015, the Star of Adam, one of these blue gems, is worth an estimated $100 million a sapphire |
#8620, aired 2022-04-15 | TRIOS $800: Michael Diamond & Adam Horovitz wrote a 600-page bestselling chronicle of this trio the Beastie Boys |
#8618, aired 2022-04-13 | WHAT THE LETTER SAYS $1200: In 1964 he wrote from Mecca that he had prayed with white people whose belief in Allah had "removed the 'white' from their minds" Malcolm X |
#8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AROUND THE USA $1200: Incredible homes like Marble House, an imitation of Versailles, meant to be a temple of the arts, are in this Rhode Island city Newport |
#8618, aired 2022-04-13 | OH ME OF LITTLE FAITH $1600: In 1796 Samuel Miles, an elector for this political party, went "faithless" & voted against John Adams the Federalists |
#8618, aired 2022-04-13 | AROUND THE USA $1600: Seafood plus history mark this area, named for its location on Chesapeake Bay, birthplace of both Harriet Tubman & Frederick Douglass the Eastern Shore |
#8605, aired 2022-03-25 | A BIT OF BRIT LIT $400: In this work Satan disguises himself as a cherub to sneak past an archangel to get to earth to corrupt Adam Paradise Lost |
#8601, aired 2022-03-21 | PICTURE/BOOK $800: A landmark work of the 18th century The Wealth of Nations |
#8594, aired 2022-03-10 | WOMEN MAKE PASSES $800: On "Parks & Rec", this character's mom, played by Pamela Reed, makes a pass at Ben (Adam Scott) Leslie Knope |
#8577, aired 2022-02-15 | THE HUMAN BODY $800: Its central ridge is called the Adam's apple the larynx |
#8576, aired 2022-02-14 | BEHIND THE OLD TESTAMENT NAME $400: Appropriately, his name means "man" or "man of the red earth" Adam |
#8563, aired 2022-01-26 | OMG! $2000: The Egyptian god of chaos who killed his brother Osiris has this name, like the third son of Adam & Eve Seth |
#8540, aired 2021-12-24 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $2000: Call the "P.D."! This British "Queen of Crime" wrote 14 novels featuring Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh P.D. James |
#8521, aired 2021-11-29 | WE'VE GOT THAT BAND'S NUMBER $400: Megan Thee Stallion is featured on "Beautiful Mistakes" by this group; the video shows her & Adam Levine flying a car over Los Angeles Maroon 5 |
#8501, aired 2021-11-01 | FANTASTICAL CREATURES $2000: The Talmud recounts how Adam was first created by God as one of these magical humanoids a golem |
#8496, aired 2021-10-25 | WRITTEN IN THE DUST $400: In the Bible God tells this person "For dust thou art & unto dust shalt thou return" Adam |
#8487, aired 2021-10-12 | OUR LEAD SINGER $400: Before Maroon 5, his high school band called Kara's Flowers appeared in an episode of "Beverly Hills 90210" Adam Levine |
#8485, aired 2021-10-08 | ACTOR-MOGULS $800: Happy Madison, Adam Sandler's production company, combines these 2 Sandler movie titles Happy Gilmore & Billy Madison |
#8434, aired 2021-07-01 | NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): This author's first major book was 1742's "A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist" Edmond Hoyle |
#8426, aired 2021-06-21 | MOVIE TITLE MIDDLE WORD $1000: Adam Sandler takes out Drew Barrymore over & over
(2004) "First" |
#8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BIBLICAL BROADWAY $400: Alan Alda & Barbara Harris played this couple in the first part of "The Apple Tree" Adam & Eve |
#8398, aired 2021-05-12 | COMPOSERS ALL AROUND $2000: Adam Schlesinger of this "Stacy's Mom" band also composed 157 songs for TV's "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" Fountains of Wayne |
#8360, aired 2021-03-19 | GAME $2000: The ABC game show, "Don't", had this "Piranha 3D" star, asking the contestants to do ridiculous tasks Adam Scott |
#8338, aired 2021-02-17 | POP $400: "After Hours" is a 2020 album by this artist seen here who also had a cameo in the Adam Sandler film, "Uncut Gems" The Weeknd |
#8328, aired 2021-02-03 | "UN"-TERTAINMENT $1200: In this 2019 film Adam Sandler played NYC jeweler Howard Ratner, who came into possession of a rare opal Uncut Gems |
#8318, aired 2021-01-20 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1200: Appropriate first name of California settler Trask, dad to Aron & Cal in "East of Eden" Adam |
#8308, aired 2021-01-06 | ALL ABOUT ADAM & EVE $200: In Genesis, Eve is made from Adam's rib; God forms Adam out of this "of the ground" & tells him unto it "shalt thou return" the dust |
#8308, aired 2021-01-06 | ALL ABOUT ADAM & EVE $400: This synonym for the Garden of Eden or any ideal place is from an ancient Persian word meaning "enclosed park" paradise |
#8308, aired 2021-01-06 | ALL ABOUT ADAM & EVE $600: A snake is a snake, except for the one Eve meets called this in the King James version a serpent |
#8308, aired 2021-01-06 | ALL ABOUT ADAM & EVE $800: The forbidden fruit that Adam & Eve are not to eat grows on this tree the tree of the knowledge of good and evil |
#8308, aired 2021-01-06 | ALL ABOUT ADAM & EVE $1000: After God expelled Adam & Eve from the garden, he placed these second-highest angels to the east of Eden to guard it cherubim |
#8296, aired 2020-12-07 | OXFORD'S VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS $7,800 (Daily Double): "A Very Short Introduction to" him says that like Marx & Freud, this 18th c. economist's work "is more invoked than it is read" (Adam) Smith |
#8290, aired 2020-11-27 | PALINDROMES $600: A classic palindrome is this 3-word introduction Madam, I'm Adam |
#8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS $400: In 2011 & 2012 this Adam Levine band was honored as the Favorite Pop/Rock Group Maroon 5 |
#8274, aired 2020-11-05 | 3-NAMED MARYS $800: In 2019 this "Weeds" actress returned to Broadway in Adam Rapp's "The Sound Inside" Mary-Louise Parker |
#8243, aired 2020-09-23 | CELEBS COMING & GOING $400: In 2019 he left "The Voice" after 16 seasons Adam Levine |
#8233, aired 2020-06-10 | CIVIL WAR NICKNAMES $400: Adam "Stovepipe" Johnson got his alias when he disguised stovepipes as these weapons on the battlefield cannons |
#8230, aired 2020-06-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: The divorcing spouses in "Marriage Story" were played by Adam Driver & her (Scarlett) Johansson |
#8230, aired 2020-06-05 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $1000: Mary Ann Evans published her novels, including "Adam Bede", under this pen name (George) Eliot |
#8227, aired 2020-06-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Historic New York City sports arena where Adam & Eve lived in the Bible Madison Square Garden of Eden |
#8226, aired 2020-06-01 | GENERATIONS OF LITTLE WOMEN $800: Before George Cukor directed her in "Adam's Rib" & "The Philadelphia Story", he cast this actress as Jo for the 1933 film adaptation (Katharine) Hepburn |
#8217, aired 2020-05-19 | THE LORD DEALS WITH THEE, BIBLICALLY $400: "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon" him, "and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh" Adam |
#8212, aired 2020-04-28 | BARACK OBAMA'S READING LIST $1200: "The Wealth of Nations", written by this Scot in 1776, beat a lot of competition to make the reading list Adam Smith |
#8201, aired 2020-04-13 | ON THE BAND'S SET LIST $1200: Whether it's Freddie or Adam singing lead, this band gives you "Somebody To Love" Queen |
#8189, aired 2020-03-26 | POLICE SQUAD $600: The person in charge of public safety in Red River, New Mexico has this 7-letter title, just like in the Old West marshal |
#8189, aired 2020-03-26 | POLICE SQUAD $800: In New York City, this bureau is in charge of policing the subway the Transit Bureau |
#8189, aired 2020-03-26 | THE PRESIDENTIAL SWEET $2,000 (Daily Double): Ronald Reagan started eating these as part of a successful effort to give up pipe smoking jelly beans |
#8189, aired 2020-03-26 | ANGELS $2000: As depicted here in a Gustave Doré engraving, this man has an encounter with an angel and gains a new name Jacob |
#8188, aired 2020-03-25 | A REAL SQUAB STORY $400: "Operation Columba" tells the story of how these pigeons were used by the resistance during World War II homing pigeons (carrier pigeons) |
#8188, aired 2020-03-25 | ALL-AMERICAN STAMPS $400: The "Great Lakes Lighthouses" stamps of 1995 included New York's Thirty Mile Point on this smallest Great Lake Lake Ontario |
#8188, aired 2020-03-25 | THAT'S GOTTA HURT! $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Usually the result of a fall, a Colles fracture, or what we commonly call a broken wrist, is a break in the distal end of this slightly shorter of the two forearm bones the radius |
#8188, aired 2020-03-25 | WEARABLE CAR PARTS? $1000: Term for the arc-shaped pieces that fit inside & press against brake drums when stopping shoes |
#8188, aired 2020-03-25 | DROPPING RHYMES $1,200 (Daily Double): A thrilling movie or arterial blockage could be described as this heart-stopping |
#8175, aired 2020-03-06 | WANNA BET? $1000: In 2018 this NBA commissioner said the league should get a cut of any legalized betting on it (Adam) Silver |
#8164, aired 2020-02-20 | KEROUAC $400: In Kerouac's novel "The Subterraneans", a version of this beat poet & friend appears as the character Adam Moorad Ginsberg |
#8163, aired 2020-02-19 | ANIMATED TV CHARACTERS $200: Homer Simpson says this man is "the richest guy I know"; he replies, "Ah yes, but I'd trade it all for a little more" Mr. Burns |
#8163, aired 2020-02-19 | OFFBEAT 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 |
#8146, aired 2020-01-27 | HIT MUSIC OF TODAY $400: In 2019 adult contemporary fans sure wanted to know "Girls Like You" from this Adam Levine band Maroon 5 |
#8138, aired 2020-01-15 | U.S. REPRESENTATIVES $1200: 1/53 of California's House Delegation is this Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff |
#7, aired 2020-01-14 | THE BACHELOR $1000: The invisible hand of Cupid did not strike this 18th c. Scot who lived with his mother Margaret for much of his life Adam Smith |
#1, aired 2020-01-07 | SCHOOL DAYS $400: Adam Sandler's song "Lunch Lady Land" says, "yesterday's meatloaf is today's" this sloppy joe |
#8126, aired 2019-12-30 | TV MOVIES $800: One of Roger Moore's final films was this 2017 TV remake, but Adam Rayner, not Roger, played Simon Templar The Saint |
#8124, aired 2019-12-26 | ART IN THE VATICAN $400: A famous scene on the Sistine Chapel ceiling shows "The Creation of" him Adam |
#8118, aired 2019-12-18 | BRIDE & PREJUDICE $1200: In this 1954 movie musical, Adam brings home his bride Milly, who thinks his 6 siblings are uncouth & tries to tame them Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
#8112, aired 2019-12-10 | SPEAK TO ME OF FRUITS & VEGETABLES $800: On the front of the larynx, the thyroid cartilage has a central ridge & elevation called this Adam's apple |
#8107, aired 2019-12-03 | ALL ABOUT EVE $400: In Genesis God puts Adam to sleep & removes this body part from which Eve is formed a rib |
#8095, aired 2019-11-15 | CLASSIC AMERICAN PLAYS $800: The role of Pale, in "Burn This" by Lanford Wilson, is a showcase for young actors--John Malkovich in 1987 & this man in 2019 (Adam) Driver |
#8087, aired 2019-11-05 | BEFORE & LAUGHTER $800: Biblical first man's donation to make his mate that ultimately turns into a term for a joke Adam's rib tickler (Adam's ribbing) |
#8086, aired 2019-11-04 | OPERA & BALLET $2000: This title girl from an Adolphe Adam ballet dies in the first act & must dance for a ghost queen in the second Giselle |
#8084, aired 2019-10-31 | NEW TESTAMENT QUOTES $400: "For as in" him "all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive" Adam |
#8077, aired 2019-10-22 | 21st CENTURY TELEVISION $400: Casey Webb has taken over for Adam Richman on this Travel Channel show that pits humanity against digestion Man v. Food |
#8074, aired 2019-10-17 | TV-POURRI $800: On TruTv he's just being truthful, but he "Ruins Everything" Adam |
#8073, aired 2019-10-16 | OLD SCHOOL MOVIES $800: In 1998 this actor was "The Waterboy" for South Central Louisiana State until he became a tackling machine on the gridiron Adam Sandler |
#8067, aired 2019-10-08 | "RA", "RA", "SIS", "BOOM", "BA" $600: Michelangelo painted "The Creation of Adam" on its ceiling the Sistine Chapel |
#8054, aired 2019-09-19 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $4,133 (Daily Double): This 1974 James Michener novel covers centuries, not just 1 significant year, in the history of Colorado Centennial |
#8054, aired 2019-09-19 | WE INTERRUPT THIS PROCESS $5,000 (Daily Double): Interruptions at work make you constantly do this, the more technical name for switching between computer windows toggle |
#8051, aired 2019-09-16 | ART & ARTISTS $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a painting on the monitor.) For "The Judgment of Paris", a collaboration with the engraver Raimondi, Raphael depicted one reclining figure by reversing the posture of this title character in a famous work by Michelangelo Adam |
#8022, aired 2019-06-25 | TEENS ON TV $400: Sean Giambrone goes back to a time before he was born--the '80s--as Adam, a member of this title sitcom family on ABC the Goldbergs |
#8011, aired 2019-06-10 | ENTERTAINMENT $200: Oh yes, Captain Kirk worked with Batman when he starred as "Alexander the Great", with Adam West as Cleander William Shatner |
#7996, aired 2019-05-20 | "O" THE PLACES YOU'LL GO $2000: Step on, up or down the Potemkin Steps in this city Odessa |
#7996, aired 2019-05-20 | ART SCHOOL OF FISH $2000: This Frenchman, who inspired the Impressionists, painted some controversial works, & his fish were unorthodox too Édouard Manet |
#7989, aired 2019-05-09 | FILM TEACHERS $400: Bridgette Wilson-Sampras attempts to teach third grade to this grown-up funnyman in "Billy Madison" Adam Sandler |
#7981, aired 2019-04-29 | ALLITERATIVE PHRASES $12,000 (Daily Double): Ships of yore masked their nationality with these, now a term for any covert act designed to make another entity look guilty a false flag |
#7979, aired 2019-04-25 | ROGUES GALLERY $1000: Rogue Adam Worth stole & got obsessed with a portrait of Georgiana, who held the alliterative title this "of Devonshire" Duchess |
#7972, aired 2019-04-16 | BOYS IN THE BAND $400: Adam Clayton,
Bono,
the Edge U2 |
#7971, aired 2019-04-15 | ON PINS & NEEDLES $1600: Adam Levine might know that 1204RL, with a 35mm diameter, is a common needle for this process tattooing |
#7970, aired 2019-04-12 | SCIENCE $2000: This structure in the respiratory tract forms the Adam's apple in males & is used in making sounds the larynx |
#7962, aired 2019-04-02 | BIBLE PASSAGES $400: In Genesis 3:23 he passes out of Eden, never to return Adam |
#7952, aired 2019-03-19 | TV's MIDDLE CHILD $800: Brother to Erica & Adam & occasionally trying to rap, Barry is the middle kid on this 1980s-set sitcom The Goldbergs |
#7951, aired 2019-03-18 | FIVE GUYS $600: One of the first openly gay U.S. Winter Olympians, in 2018 he captured a medal & also won "Dancing With the Stars" Adam Rippon |
#7947, aired 2019-03-12 | COLORFUL BANDS $600: Wait. . .wait. . . now name this Adam Levine band that had "Wait" on the charts in 2018 Maroon 5 |
#7938, aired 2019-02-27 | ART & ARTISTS $3,600 (Daily Double): In 1504 Durer tried to show perfect human forms in this pair, each holding a tree branch Adam and Eve |
#7912, aired 2019-01-22 | A FEW GOOD MEN $1200: Before he joined the First Order as Kylo Ren, this actor was one of the good guys, enlisting as a Marine (Adam) Driver |
#7882, aired 2018-12-11 | HEY, BIG BUY $1600: Adam Sandler & Burl Ives played characters known by this 2-word paternal name in 2 very different films Big Daddy |
#7869, aired 2018-11-22 | ON THE 2018 BILLBOARD CHARTS $200: This co-worker of Adam, Alicia & Kelly climbed the country chart with "I Lived It" Blake Shelton |
#7862, aired 2018-11-13 | GAMES OF THE VIDEO VARIETY $1000: Elias Toufexis voices genetically amped-up Adam Jensen in this series with a Latin name Deus Ex |
#7853, aired 2018-10-31 | GIVE THEM SOME CANDY $800: It's not booze, it's the liquid produced when cocoa beans are ground into paste, releasing the cocoa butter liquor |
#7842, aired 2018-10-16 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED LITERATURE $400: In Mark Twain's "Diaries of" this couple, she says he's really bad at naming creatures & wanted to call the dodo a wildcat Adam and Eve |
#7839, aired 2018-10-11 | THE 18th CENTURY $800: In this 1776 work Adam Smith advocated free trade & competition Wealth of Nations |
#7836, aired 2018-10-08 | FORT NIGHT $600: In 1756 only 23 of the 146 British soldiers survived the night in the "black hole" of Fort William in this Indian city Calcutta |
#7836, aired 2018-10-08 | FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS $1600: The first republic alphabetically, it also claims to have been the first country to adopt Christianity as its official religion Armenia |
#7835, aired 2018-10-05 | LET IT GO $200: Golf, so relaxing... until I got 7 on a par-3, or this score quadruple-bogey |
#7835, aired 2018-10-05 | THE TELEVISION ACADEMY HALL OF FAME $400: The first "Seinfeld" star to be inducted, she was part of the class of 2014 (Julia Louis-)Dreyfus |
#7835, aired 2018-10-05 | DISNEY SONGS $800: Pocahontas asks, "Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain? Can you paint with all" these? the colors of the wind |
#7828, aired 2018-09-26 | AROUND THE MANSION $800: Ah! The orchestra strikes up this type of dance by Adolphe Adam, calling us to the ballroom a waltz |
#7827, aired 2018-09-25 | QUEEN'S CONCERT $1200: Queen has been touring with this "American Idol" alumnus as front man, seen here with Brian May Adam Lambert |
#7813, aired 2018-07-25 | RELIGIOUS -ISMs $1200: Jansenism was a 17th c. movement within Catholicism that emphasized this condition of humankind--thanks a lot, Adam original sin |
#7804, aired 2018-07-12 | CHECK IN TO THE POP CULTURE HOTEL $800: In "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation", Dracula, voiced by this comic actor, takes his own vacation Adam Sandler |
#7796, aired 2018-07-02 | BOOK OF THE MONTH $600: "All My ____s: My Memories of 12 World Series When the Yankees Ruled Baseball" by Mickey Mantle Octobers |
#7796, aired 2018-07-02 | ON THE ISLAND $1200: The Mulini Villa, once home to Napoleon Elba |
#7796, aired 2018-07-02 | ON THE ISLAND $2000: Quezon City Luzon |
#7796, aired 2018-07-02 | MALE & FEMALE WORDS $2000: A college in London with alumni like John Keats, & a college in NYC with alumni like Jerry Seinfeld Queens College and Kings College |
#7784, aired 2018-06-14 | POLAR EXPLORATION $800: Britain's Natural History Museum houses an egg collected in Antarctica in 1911 from this "royal" bird the emperor penguin |
#7784, aired 2018-06-14 | PEOPLE OF THE WORLD $1000: The Pashtun mostly call these 2 countries home; you'll find over 30 million of them there Pakistan and Afghanistan |
#7784, aired 2018-06-14 | POLAR EXPLORATION $1200: Occasionally having to get off & push, Daniel Burton recently became the first to reach the South Pole via this, a "fat" type a fat bicycle |
#7784, aired 2018-06-14 | POLAR EXPLORATION $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows the South Pole on the monitor.) Here is Amundsen's route to and from the South Pole, & here is the 1911-1912 route from Cape Evans led by this man--on the return trip, he met his end just 11 miles from shelter (Robert Falcon) Scott |
#7768, aired 2018-05-23 | BAND MATH $400: Ali Campbell's "UB" minus Adam Clayton's "U" 38 |
#7760, aired 2018-05-11 | LET'S HAVE A GARAGE SALE $1000: Who wouldn't want a VHS copy of this Adam Sandler golf movie? Bob Barker kicks butt Happy Gilmore |
#7756, aired 2018-05-07 | SHORT ANSWER TEST $600: Rep. Adam Schiff's wife has this appropriate Biblical name Eve |
#7751, aired 2018-04-30 | THINKING ABOUT THE ENLIGHTENMENT $400: This Scot's "The Wealth of Nations" is a classic of laissez-faire capitalism Adam Smith |
#7732, aired 2018-04-03 | THAT'S SO CLICHE $200: This alliterative term refers to what God told Adam not to eat forbidden fruit |
#7706, aired 2018-02-26 | HAVE A GREAT ONE! $400: Around 1511 he created "The Creation of Adam" on the Sistine Chapel ceiling Michelangelo |
#7698, aired 2018-02-14 | MAN BOOKER $200: Bear Bryant tells this speedy Winston Groom title guy he'll be a "secret weapon" like an "Adam" bomb Forrest Gump |
#7691, aired 2018-02-05 | OLD TESTA-MEN $400: He "and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden" Adam |
#7655, aired 2017-12-15 | TV NICKNAMES $600: On "Bonanza", Ben Cartwright was father to Adam, Little Joe & this big fella Hoss |
#7652, aired 2017-12-12 | HOLIDAY SONGS $400: This Adam Sandler favorite made the Top 40 twice & Neil Diamond did a version "The Chanukah Song" |
#7626, aired 2017-11-06 | STARS' INITIAL SHOWS $2000: Adam Sandler & Denis Leary, late '80s:
"R.C." on MTV Remote Control |
#7625, aired 2017-11-03 | IDIOMS, ANNOTATED $2,000 (Daily Double): Saying they raised "customers", Adam Smith called the English "a nation of" this profession shopkeepers |
#7623, aired 2017-11-01 | A MARRIAGE MADE IN... $2000: Flora Farm in Los Cabos, Mexico:
Victoria's Secret model Behati Prinsloo & this "Voice" coach Adam Levine |
#7582, aired 2017-07-25 | PHILOSOPHERS $800: Best known as an economist, this Scot wrote a philosophical treatise in 1759 called "Theory of Moral Sentiments" Adam Smith |
#7578, aired 2017-07-19 | THEY'RE WITH THE BAND $200: Jesse Carmichael, Adam Levine Maroon 5 |
#7576, aired 2017-07-17 | SCHOOLS ON SCREENS $1000: Adam Sandler hit the gridiron for South Central Louisiana State after having this title job waterboy |
#7553, aired 2017-06-14 | BIBLICAL PAIRS $2,500 (Daily Double): They were told, "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return" Adam and Eve |
#7519, aired 2017-04-27 | SPORTS $400: (NBA Commissioner Adam Silver gives the clue.) In 2009 the NBA announced that the NBA Finals MVP Award would be named for this man who played on 11 NBA championship teams Bill Russell |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | THE SOUTHWEST $400: New Mexico boasts a museum dedicated to this outlaw aka William Bonney Billy the Kid |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | STRINGED INSTRUMENTS $400: In 1951 Leo Fender introduced the first popular electric one of these rhythm instruments called the Precision a bass |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | ANIMALS PLAYING DEAD $800: A male nursery web spider offers a female an insect wrapped in this; if snubbed, he deads up & gets dragged off with the gift silk |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | THE "OC" $1200: It's how the scarf seen here was made crocheted |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | STRINGED INSTRUMENTS $1600: Bluegrass virtuosos of this small lutelike instrument include Bill Monroe & Ricky Skaggs a mandolin |
#7496, aired 2017-03-27 | THE SOUTHWEST $2000: In 1542 this Spanish explorer heralded as the discoverer of California explored its coastline & southern islands Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo |
#7495, aired 2017-03-24 | ART & THE BIBLE $200: Here, Fra Angelico depicts this happening to Adam & Eve, like students who've misbehaved at school banishment (or being expelled from the garden) |
#7492, aired 2017-03-21 | FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $600: This 2-word Arabic salutation means "Peace be with you" assalamu alaikum |
#7492, aired 2017-03-21 | PRETTY COLORS $600: This Ivy League school began as a Baptist institution for men & later adopted the name of its benefactor Brown University |
#7492, aired 2017-03-21 | MOVIE STARS $1,400 (Daily Double): In 1999 co-stars Anne Bancroft, Jessica Lange & Tom Cruise helped him celebrate his AFI Life Achievement Award Dustin Hoffman |
#7492, aired 2017-03-21 | BAD INVESTMENTS $2000: Shy away from investments with Moody's rating D-PD; the "PD" stands for "probability of" this default |
#7491, aired 2017-03-20 | BARE-KNUCKLE FIGHTING $200: Adam Sandler says, "The price is wrong" after believing he's won a movie fight against this man-- Adam is mistaken Bob Barker |
#7485, aired 2017-03-10 | 2 TICKETS TO PARAGUAY $800: From the Latin for "mixed", this term is used for Paraguay's largest ethnic group mestizo |
#7485, aired 2017-03-10 | 12 LETTERS OR MORE $2,000 (Daily Double): William Faulkner, Medgar Evers or B.B. King, by birth state Mississippian |
#7474, aired 2017-02-23 | TV REALITY CHECK $800: These 2 coaches on "The Voice" have been there for all 12 seasons of the show Adam Levine & Blake Shelton |
#7470, aired 2017-02-17 | MTV MOVIE AWARD FOR BEST VILLAIN $600: He won for playing emo-villain Kylo Ren Adam Driver |
#7469, aired 2017-02-16 | ENGLISH LIT $800: Mary Ann Evans wrote the novels "Adam Bede" & "Middlemarch" under this pen name (George) Eliot |
#7467, aired 2017-02-14 | 10-LETTER WORDS $2,500 (Daily Double): "Madam, I'm Adam" is a famous one a palindrome |
#7462, aired 2017-02-07 | ON THE MOVIE'S SOUNDTRACK $1000: Adam Levine singing "Lost Stars", Keira Knightley doing "Tell Me If You Wanna Go Home" Begin Again |
#7420, aired 2016-12-09 | THE BIBLE $400: When confronted by God for misbehavior in Genesis 3, Adam blames Eve & Eve blames this creature the serpent |
#7413, aired 2016-11-30 | CURRENT POP CULTURE $1000: After 14 years, Jamie & Adam decided they had nothing left to disprove & this Discovery show signed off in 2016 MythBusters |
#7375, aired 2016-10-07 | RELIGION $800: Seen here is part of a depiction of this event the creation of Adam |
#7363, aired 2016-09-21 | RECENT BESTSELLING BOOKS $1600: "St. Patrick's Day is near", so Adam Wallace & Andy Elkerton tell the picture book tale of "How to Catch" one of these a Leprechaun |
#7360, aired 2016-09-16 | LITTLE RED CORVETTE $400: At the end of "Mr. Deeds", this actor buys a bunch of red Corvettes for his friends (Adam) Sandler |
#7350, aired 2016-07-22 | BEASTLY BACKING BANDS $800: Adam &
these little workers Ants |
#7337, aired 2016-07-05 | IT'S ALL "APPLE" SAUCE $200: More prominent in men, it's a thyroid cartilage projection of the larynx the Adam's apple |
#7333, aired 2016-06-29 | "LOST" & "FOUND" $200: The main characters in this 1667 epic poem are god, Lucifer, Adam & eve Paradise Lost |
#7332, aired 2016-06-28 | 'BYE, RACHEL! COUPLES $800: The Rachel Bilson/Adam Brody romance & this Calif.-set evening soap they acted in were canceled in rapid succession The O.C. |
#7330, aired 2016-06-24 | CONNECT 4 $800: Adam Clayton,
David Evans,
Paul Hewson,
Larry Mullen Jr. U2 |
#7318, aired 2016-06-08 | GREAT SCOTS $1200: Economist Adam Smith wrote the book fully titled "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of" this the Wealth of Nations |
#7315, aired 2016-06-03 | MISSING MOVIE NAMES $1000: A comedic marriage of Adam Sandler & Kevin James:
"I Now Pronounce You ____ & ____" Chuck & Larry |
#7308, aired 2016-05-25 | AT HOME WITH ADAM & EVE $1200: Today a synonym for something used to conceal an embarrassment, it was the height of fashion in Genesis 3 a fig leaf |
#7308, aired 2016-05-25 | AT HOME WITH ADAM & EVE $1600: Meaning "leave this guy alone", it's the 3-word name for what God placed upon one of Adam's sons the mark of Cain |
#7308, aired 2016-05-25 | AT HOME WITH ADAM & EVE $2000: At God's urging, Adam performs this task in Genesis 2, then takes a long nap the naming of the animals |
#7288, aired 2016-04-27 | SLEUTHS & THEIR CREATORS $800: Adam Dalgliesh P.D. James |
#7288, aired 2016-04-27 | THUS SAYETH THE LORD $1200: To Adam:
"Who told thee that thou wast ____?" naked |
#7284, aired 2016-04-21 | REALITY TV JUDGES $400: Maroon 5's debut album, "Songs About Jane", was influenced by this lead singer's breakup with a girlfriend Adam Levine |
#7264, aired 2016-03-24 | PHYSIOLOGY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) To do a neck check, look in the mirror & take a sip of water; a bulge below the Adam's apple but above the collarbone could mean this gland is swollen and not functioning normally the thyroid |
#7262, aired 2016-03-22 | ADJECTIVES OF THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS $600: (Justin Hartley and Christian LeBlanc give the clue as Adam and Michael from The Young and the Restless.) "I can represent myself, Michael; I'm going to tell the whole truth on the witness stand no matter what"
"Listen, Adam, I've been on both sides of those prison bars; if you want to avoid years in jail, you'll be this adjective used in the name of a less vocal swan" mute |
#7254, aired 2016-03-10 | I SING $1600: This British band found somebody to love as a new singer: "American Idol" contestant Adam Lambert Queen |
#7252, aired 2016-03-08 | TV IS REALLY COOKING $1000: Adam Richman hit New Orleans to eat 180 oysters in under an hour in a challenge on this Travel Channel show Man v. Food |
#7251, aired 2016-03-07 | IN TROUBLE WITH THE FCC $600: The FCC rebuked NBC for a 1937 radio skit about Adam & Eve by this suggestive "I'm No Angel" blonde Mae West |
#7227, aired 2016-02-02 | ENGLISH LIT $400: This epic poem by Milton is the story of Adam & Eve's fall from grace Paradise Lost |
#7226, aired 2016-02-01 | SHEER WILL $600: This 3-named man won the Democratic nomination for president when he was only 36 William Jennings Bryan |
#7226, aired 2016-02-01 | POP-POURRI $800: Melissa Benoist plays the charming title caped hero on this CBS series Supergirl |
#7226, aired 2016-02-01 | SEEING STARS $1200: A star in this "big dog" is one of the biggest we know of, about 1,500 times the size of the sun Canis Major |
#7226, aired 2016-02-01 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: Of the 3 instruments in a standard string quartet, it's intermediate in size a viola |
#7226, aired 2016-02-01 | REQUIRED READING $2,000 (Daily Double): For "Women and War" at the Univ. of Virginia: This Aristophanes play about women who refuse to take things lying down Lysistrata |
#7222, aired 2016-01-26 | TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS $1600: Police detective Lennie Briscoe,
D.A. Adam Schiff Law & Order |
#7212, aired 2016-01-12 | THAT'S THE SPIRIT $600: Wild Turkey &
Maker's Mark bourbon |
#7211, aired 2016-01-11 | LOUIS XIV $800: From 1672 to 1678 Louis waged war against this small country on the North Sea then controlled by the Hapsburgs the Netherlands |
#7211, aired 2016-01-11 | NOTORIOUS $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1962 film made convicted murderer-turned-ornithologist Robert Stroud a household name Birdman of Alcatraz |
#7210, aired 2016-01-08 | WHAT AN "AGE" $400: Position of an actor towards the front of the performing area downstage |
#7195, aired 2015-12-18 | MOVIE CAMEOS $200: (Dan Patrick reads the clue.) My good friend Adam Sandler has cast me in 9 of his films, including "Grown Ups 2" in which I played a gym teacher dressed as this 1980s Celtics legend Larry Bird |
#7187, aired 2015-12-08 | COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND $2000: "In Adam's fall, we sinned all" was a couplet used in the textbook called "The New England" this Primer |
#7134, aired 2015-09-24 | PERSECUTED PEOPLE $400: ISIS persecutes members of the Mideast's Yazidi sect, who say they are descended only from this man, not his mate Adam |
#7130, aired 2015-09-18 | POP $400: This singer & judge on TV's "The Voice" was People Magazine's 2013 "Sexiest Man Alive" Adam Levine |
#7122, aired 2015-07-28 | YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS $800: In Genesis, this man says, "I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth" Cain |
#7098, aired 2015-06-24 | A HOST OF TV HOSTS $1000: "Loveline" featured Adam Carolla, Diane Farr & this Doctor who also helped on "Celebrity Rehab" Dr. Drew |
#7088, aired 2015-06-10 | NUMERICAL TV $2000: It was Reed & Malloy on patrol in L.A. on this classic cop show Adam-12 |
#7076, aired 2015-05-25 | MOVIE PUNS $1600: In "Mr. Deeds" Adam Sandler asks how this job is going; the response is "It has its ups and downs" an elevator operator |
#7057, aired 2015-04-28 | TRIOS $200: Sadly, Adam Yauch, aka MCA of this trio, died in 2012 The Beastie Boys |
#7047, aired 2015-04-14 | THE "HEART" OF ROCK & ROLL $600: Adam Levine & Gym Class Heroes duetted on this 2011 No. 1; they must've sung into separate microphones "Stereo Hearts" |
#7042, aired 2015-04-07 | FILM SCHOOL $400: As "The Waterboy", this actor is a tackling machine who leads his college team to the Bourbon Bowl Adam Sandler |
#7024, aired 2015-03-12 | BRITISH AUTHORS $1000: Sharing the nickname "The Queen of Crime" are Agatha Christie & this author of the Adam Dalgliesh mysteries P.D. James |
#7005, aired 2015-02-13 | U.S. MILITARY BRANCH BY RANK $1600: The 2 that have ensign the Navy & the Coast Guard |
#7005, aired 2015-02-13 | SCIENCE-Y STUFF $2000: 2 parts gold to one part bismuth yields a substance with this 17-letter quality of very low electrical resistance superconductivity |
#7004, aired 2015-02-12 | A TEXTBOOK CATEGORY $200: Chapter 3 of "Barron's AP U.S. Government and Politics" is devoted to this document the Constitution |
#7004, aired 2015-02-12 | A HISTORY LESSON $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1703 John Sheffield, Duke of this, built a palatial estate on the former site of London's Arlington House Buckingham |
#7001, aired 2015-02-09 | HORSEY VOCABULARY $400: To maintain firm control is to keep a tight this a rein |
#7001, aired 2015-02-09 | BUDS $400: By 1902 this bank-robbing duo had left the U.S. & owned a ranch in Chubut Province, Argentina Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid |
#7001, aired 2015-02-09 | LEAVES $600: This Stevenson "sea-cook" had not "gone empty-handed"; he took a sack of coins to "help him on his... wanderings" Long John Silver |
#7001, aired 2015-02-09 | THE NEW $100 BILL $800: The quill pen & inkwell are a bit ironic given that the person shown on the bill was in this business from age 12 printing |
#7001, aired 2015-02-09 | THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR $1,200 (Daily Double): Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon married Albert in 1923, 13 years before he got this new name King George VI |
#7000, aired 2015-02-06 | 8-LETTER WORDS $400: It indicates an omission, as in "The Case of Lady M*" an asterisk |
#7000, aired 2015-02-06 | FROM BOOK TO FILM $400: This film with Warren Beatty as a gangster was adapted from "We Only Kill Each Other" Bugsy |
#7000, aired 2015-02-06 | FROM BOOK TO FILM $1000: William Peter Blatty's novel "Legion" provided the basis for the third film in this diabolical movie series The Exorcist |
#7000, aired 2015-02-06 | REPTILES $1600: The only species of this toothy beast besides the American is the Chinese, which lives along the Yangtze an alligator |
#6997, aired 2015-02-03 | TV: A NICE PLACE TO START $400: "Big Daddy" & "Little Nicky" were both in the future when he was playing Theo's friend Smitty on "The Cosby Show" Adam Sandler |
#6994, aired 2015-01-29 | TV SHOWS BY FAMILY $1200: Set back in the '80s:
Murray,
Beverly,
Adam,
Barry &
Erica The Goldbergs |
#6994, aired 2015-01-29 | TV SHOWS BY FAMILY $1600: A bunch of Bravermans, including Adam, Sarah & Crosby Parenthood |
#6993, aired 2015-01-28 | THOUGHTS FROM THE COMMISSIONER $800: (NBA Commissioner Adam Silver delivers the clue.) The NBA championship trophy is named after this former NBA commissioner Larry O'Brien |
#6979, aired 2015-01-08 | THAT'S MY WIFE $1000: Adam Brody of "The O.C.":
This "Gossip Girl" girl Leighton Meester |
#6973, aired 2014-12-31 | NAME YOUR POISON $1,400 (Daily Double): Angry Orchard,
Adam's Revenge (hard apple) cider |
#6971, aired 2014-12-29 | THE BRIT ON THE BANKNOTE $800: Money mattered to this 18th century economist featured on the 20-pound note starting in 2007 Adam Smith |
#6961, aired 2014-12-15 | THE ART OF RELIGION $200: One of the center frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel shows "The Creation of" this man Adam |
#6961, aired 2014-12-15 | THE END OF THE BOOK $1000: Lying sick in bed, Adam gives his son Caleb his blessing by saying the Hebrew word "timshel" East of Eden |
#6961, aired 2014-12-15 | POP CULTURE RELATIVES? $2000: "Yeezus" & "Batman" Kanye West & Adam West |
#6952, aired 2014-12-02 | DICED VEGETABLES $200: Stock up on this flavoring vegetable celery |
#6952, aired 2014-12-02 | BRING IT $400: on a picnic:
This sweet gourd fruit that comes in Desert King & Dixie Queen varieties a watermelon |
#6952, aired 2014-12-02 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $400: In 2013 President Obama proclaimed a national week for this meal served in schools, boasting of better nutrition lunch |
#6952, aired 2014-12-02 | ALL "EARS" $800: They help prevent drying of the cornea tears |
#6952, aired 2014-12-02 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $1600: In 45 states this official is the second highest-ranking in the state, following only the governor lieutenant governor |
#6945, aired 2014-11-21 | YOU DO KNOW HIM FROM ADAM $200: In Genesis 2 Adam gives names to the animals; in Genesis 6, this man rounds 'em up Noah |
#6945, aired 2014-11-21 | YOU DO KNOW HIM FROM ADAM $400: 1 Corinthians says, "for as in Adam all die, even so in" him "shall all be made alive" Christ |
#6945, aired 2014-11-21 | YOU DO KNOW HIM FROM ADAM $600: In Genesis 3 God makes Adam a coat of skins; in Genesis 37 Jacob makes this son a coat of many colors Joseph |
#6945, aired 2014-11-21 | YOU DO KNOW HIM FROM ADAM $1,000 (Daily Double): In Genesis 3:19 God tells Adam he'll return to dust; in Exodus 8:17, this brother's rod turns dust to lice Aaron |
#6945, aired 2014-11-21 | YOU DO KNOW HIM FROM ADAM $1000: Seth is Adam's son; Solomon is this king's son David |
#6924, aired 2014-10-23 | WHAT THE?! $200: Milton begins this work with Satan in hell, plotting against Adam & Eve Paradise Lost |
#6917, aired 2014-10-14 | BLOOMIN' NON-ONIONS $1000: When Adam & Eve left the garden, all the plants shrank away--except a tiny blue flower that said these 3 words forget me not |
#6908, aired 2014-10-01 | PAINTERS $400: For the Ghent Altarpiece, Jan Van Eyck painted 2 monumental nudes on the wings: this biblical couple Adam & Eve |
#6902, aired 2014-09-23 | BIG ROADIES $400: In 1993 bass tech Stuart Morgan played a gig for this Irish band when Adam Clayton couldn't make it U2 |
#6895, aired 2014-08-01 | INTERNET JARGON $1000: Writer Adam Gopnik was among parents who made their kids snicker by thinking "LOL" meant this, not "laugh out loud" lots of love |
#6886, aired 2014-07-21 | WOMEN & CHILDREN $200: Genesis says "Adam called his wife's name" this "because she was the mother of all living" Eve |
#6867, aired 2014-06-24 | ECON 101 $500 (Daily Double): In 1778, after detailing the "invisible hand" guiding commerce, he became a commissioner of customs Adam Smith |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | BALLET & OPERA $2000: In a classic ballet by Adolphe Adam, she's the title peasant girl with a weak heart & a passion for dancing Giselle |
#6823, aired 2014-04-23 | LITERARY TITLE FIRST NAMES $800: Mr. Bede Adam |
#6806, aired 2014-03-31 | BIG-SCREEN GENDER BENDERS $1200: Jill Sadelstein in "Jack and Jill" (Adam) Sandler |
#6754, aired 2014-01-16 | "IN"CEPTION $1200: It described Adam Smith's hand (his literary one, not his literal one) invisible |
#6741, aired 2013-12-30 | "HAPPY" HOUR $400: Adam Sandler comedy about a hockey player turned golf pro Happy Gilmore |
#6712, aired 2013-11-19 | SCIENCE SURVEY $400: "Adam's Ancestors" is a 1934 book by him, an alliterative anthropologist Louis Leakey |
#6704, aired 2013-11-07 | O-E-O-E $800: It's a foot-pound per-second unit of power; let's see what you've got under the hood horsepower |
#6704, aired 2013-11-07 | HODGEPODGE $800: Responding to criticism by calling the critic an illiterate moron is this kind of attack with a 2-word Latin name ad hominem |
#6704, aired 2013-11-07 | LITERARY BUNNIES $1000: Richard Adams conceived of this story about Hazel, Fiver & others while on a long car journey with his 2 daughters Watership Down |
#6704, aired 2013-11-07 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $2000: Alternated with Gladstone from 1868 to 1880 Benjamin Disraeli |
#6704, aired 2013-11-07 | BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS $6,000 (Daily Double): The longest serving Labor prime minister ever Tony Blair |
#6690, aired 2013-10-18 | AMERICAN IDOL ALUMNI $800: In 2010 this flamboyant favorite headlined the Glam Nation tour Adam Lambert |
#6679, aired 2013-10-03 | INFLUENTIAL WRITING $200: (CNBC's David Faber delivers the clue.) "Of the Division of Labour" & "Of the Origin and Use of Money" are chapters in this man's "Wealth of Nations" Adam Smith |
#6671, aired 2013-09-23 | I LOVE YOU, "MAN" $1600: Utterly unyielding in opinion, or (in 2 words) the guy who sang "Goody Two Shoes" adamant (Adam Ant) |
#6664, aired 2013-08-01 | CELEBRITIES $800: He's the funnyman who starred in "Grown Ups", "Jack and Jill" & "Bedtime Stories" Adam Sandler |
#6663, aired 2013-07-31 | LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU $1200: Jamie, Adam & their team separate truth from urban legend on this Discovery Channel show MythBusters |
#6652, aired 2013-07-16 | WHO'S YOUR CADDIE? $600: Tiger Woods' ex-caddie Steve Williams helped this Australian win the 2013 Masters Adam Scott |
#6647, aired 2013-07-09 | LET'S TALK TURKISH $200: An adam is one of these; in Genesis, he's the first one man |
#6647, aired 2013-07-09 | IN LIVING COLOR $600: "Kara's Flowers" didn't work, so the band with Adam Levine decided on this name instead Maroon 5 |
#6637, aired 2013-06-25 | KICKING AROUND FOR A WHILE $400: Adam Vinatieri, who turned 40 in 2012, has 1 Super Bowl ring with the Colts & 3 with this other AFC team the New England Patriots |
#6636, aired 2013-06-24 | A FIRST NAME BASIS $200: "I didn't know him from" this name (except for you, of course, Mr. Sandler) Adam |
#6628, aired 2013-06-12 | WHAT A "FUN" TIME $1600: George Clinton's specialty, or Adam Wagnalls' partner Funk |
#6623, aired 2013-06-05 | SNL CAST MEMBERS ON FILM $400: "The Waterboy" Adam Sandler |
#6585, aired 2013-04-12 | BLANKING ON THE BIBLE $600: Exodus:
"The Lord said unto ____, see, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh" Moses |
#6585, aired 2013-04-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $800: On April 27, 1813 American forces captured York, the capital of upper Canada; today York is known by this name Toronto |
#6585, aired 2013-04-12 | THE RICH MAN'S... $1000: Car is a 1968 GT40 from this U.S. automaker; one used by Steve McQueen fetched $11 million at auction Ford |
#6585, aired 2013-04-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $2000: In Article X of this treaty, both the U.S. & Britain agreed to "use their best endeavours" to abolish slavery the Treaty of Ghent |
#6585, aired 2013-04-12 | THE WAR OF 1812 $3,000 (Daily Double): This Washington attorney was held prisoner aboard a British ship in mid-September 1814 Francis Scott Key |
#6584, aired 2013-04-11 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS BY ROLE $200: 2003: a mild-mannered businessman who is ordered to attend counseling for rage Anger Management |
#6584, aired 2013-04-11 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS BY ROLE $400: 2012: Dracula, who runs a lavish 5-stake resort Hotel Transylvania |
#6584, aired 2013-04-11 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS BY ROLE $600: 1999: a reluctant foster father who learns the joys of parenting Big Daddy |
#6584, aired 2013-04-11 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS BY ROLE $800: 1996: a washed-up hockey player who uses his skills on the golf course Happy Gilmore |
#6584, aired 2013-04-11 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS BY ROLE $1000: 2008:
An Israeli special forces soldier-turned-New York hair stylist You Don't Mess with the Zohan |
#6584, aired 2013-04-11 | BELA $1200: Bela Pratt designed the early 20th century quarter eagle gold coin, worth this much $2.50 |
#6583, aired 2013-04-10 | PROVERBIAL 4-LETTER WORDS $800: This "is as good as a mile" miss |
#6583, aired 2013-04-10 | GROUP ON $800: GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade, was replaced by this international group in 1995 the World Trade Organization |
#6583, aired 2013-04-10 | MOVIE GUNS $1200: This company released a 50th anniversary edition of its Model 29 .44 Magnum, used by Dirty Harry Smith & Wesson |
#6583, aired 2013-04-10 | PROVERBIAL 4-LETTER WORDS $2000: In rhyme, "he that has" this, "has strife" wife |
#6583, aired 2013-04-10 | MOVIE GUNS $2000: That's not a guitar in Antonio Banderas' guitar case in this 1995 sequel to "El Mariachi" Desperado |
#6582, aired 2013-04-09 | BALLET $2000: In this Stravinsky ballet, the puppets are controlled by an evil magician known as Charlatan Petrushka |
#6569, aired 2013-03-21 | WITH DINAH $1000: The last chapter of this George Eliot novel says, "Adam and Dinah were married" Adam Bede |
#6566, aired 2013-03-18 | "WEDDING" MOVIES $400: 1998:
Adam Sandler,
Drew Barrymore The Wedding Singer |
#6564, aired 2013-03-14 | EX-PATRIOTS $400: Adam Vinatieri used his right one as time expired on Feb. 3, 2002 to give the Patriots their first Super Bowl victory foot |
#6553, aired 2013-02-27 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1600: This Steinbeck novel features the gentle Adam Trask & his twin sons Caleb & Aron East of Eden |
#6539, aired 2013-02-07 | THE VOICE... $1200: Of this singer is heard here Adam Levine |
#6537, aired 2013-02-05 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $1600: On Nov. 6, 2012 voters in Maine & Maryland said yes, Adam & Steve can do this marry |
#6515, aired 2013-01-04 | MUSICAL NUMBERS $400: Adam Ant:
"Goody ____ Shoes" Two |
#6489, aired 2012-11-29 | CHAPTER 13 $2000: "Anyone who did not want to settle in the Salinas Valley was crazy. Adam did not rush at his purchase" East of Eden |
#6485, aired 2012-11-23 | KNOWEST THOU THE OLD TESTAMENT? $400: In the King James version, the Lord tells Adam, this "thou art and unto" this "shalt thou return" dust |
#6472, aired 2012-11-06 | MOVIES: WHO PLAYED 'EM? $800: Billy Madison Adam Sandler |
#6421, aired 2012-07-16 | THE QUOTABLE NIETZSCHE $800: & "God created" them, "and boredom did indeed cease from that moment" women |
#6406, aired 2012-06-25 | ROLE CALL $800: In a 2011 comedy, we got a double dose of this funny man Adam Sandler |
#6386, aired 2012-05-28 | OLD TESTAMENT NAME'S THE SAME $200: Smith, Sandler, Clayton Powell Jr. Adam |
#6379, aired 2012-05-17 | THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD $400: Look out, Adam Sandler! Senator Orrin Hatch's many songs include "Eight Days Of" this Hanukkah |
#6363, aired 2012-04-25 | DUNN THAT $600: Ironically, Adam Dunn, who mainly played this position for the White Sox, finished 2011 with a .159 average designated hitter |
#6338, aired 2012-03-21 | GOD DID IT! $800: In Genesis 2:21, God helped himself to one of these from Adam the rib |
#6331, aired 2012-03-12 | "O.S." WE DO $800: Because Adam & Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, this was inherited by all their descendants original sin |
#6328, aired 2012-03-07 | PEOPLE $600: At Comic-Con 2011, Adam West, Burt Ward & Julie Newmar reunited for a panel on this TV series Batman |
#6327, aired 2012-03-06 | JUST LIKE HEAVEN $800: The name of this abode of Adam & Eve is Hebrew for "pleasure" or "delight" Eden |
#6327, aired 2012-03-06 | SWEET LI'L FILMS $2000: "The Hammer" is a knockout film with this ex-"Loveline" & "Man Show" host Adam Carolla |
#6324, aired 2012-03-01 | GETTING ANIMATED $1600: Adam West is the mayor of Quahog, Rhode Island on this Fox show Family Guy |
#6314, aired 2012-02-16 | GETTING AN EDUCATION $1200: Economics: This "wealth of nations" man called laissez-faire capitalism the system of perfect liberty Adam Smith |
#6285, aired 2012-01-06 | RIBS $200: In Genesis he wakes up to find himself minus one rib but plus one female Adam |
#6280, aired 2011-12-30 | "A"NATOMY $200: It's not an actual fruit but a bulge formed by the thyroid cartilage of the larynx the Adam's apple |
#6275, aired 2011-12-23 | THE DREIDEL WILL ROCK $400: Adam Sandler sang that this Van Halen frontman "lights the menorah" David Lee Roth |
#6260, aired 2011-12-02 | ROCK'S FRONTMEN & WOMEN $1600: Adam Levine Maroon 5 |
#6256, aired 2011-11-28 | MADAM, I'M ADAM SMITH $400: Folks never seem to remember, but my masterwork is actually titled "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of" this The Wealth of Nations |
#6256, aired 2011-11-28 | MADAM, I'M ADAM SMITH $800: I spent most of the final years of my life in this Scottish capital, where I died & am buried Edinburgh |
#6256, aired 2011-11-28 | MADAM, I'M ADAM SMITH $1200: At 40, I quit my professor gig to act as this private teacher, from Latin for "watcher", for a young duke (I got a big raise) a tutor |
#6256, aired 2011-11-28 | MADAM, I'M ADAM SMITH $2000: The 20 pound note shows me & my great idea of the stages of work getting split among specialists; it's this 3-word concept division of labor |
#6256, aired 2011-11-28 | MADAM, I'M ADAM SMITH $5,000 (Daily Double): I once wrote that without seeing it, men are led to "advance the interest of the society" by this anatomical agent an invisible hand |
#6241, aired 2011-11-07 | HOMOPHONIC PAIRS $400: Adam & Eve's competent son able Abel |
#6220, aired 2011-10-07 | HOW IS THAT PREPARED? $200: Eggs over easy fried |
#6220, aired 2011-10-07 | HISTORY $200: Disappointment with the Livonian War & suspected treasons in 1582 may have led this czar to order his 1st executions Ivan the Terrible |
#6220, aired 2011-10-07 | HOW IS THAT PREPARED? $1000: Chicago hot dog, for purists steamed |
#6220, aired 2011-10-07 | LATINOS IN HOLLYWOOD $2000: Born Margarita Carmen Cansino, this bombshell was a trained dancer & sometimes partnered Fred Astaire Rita Hayworth |
#6219, aired 2011-10-06 | LUCY $400: Drew Barrymore played the memory-impaired Lucy Whitmore in this romantic comedy with Adam Sandler 50 First Dates |
#6218, aired 2011-10-05 | BALLET $2000: Adolphe Adam's masterpiece is the music for this 1841 ballet in which the title girl emerges from her grave to dance Giselle |
#6205, aired 2011-07-29 | THE OLD TESTAMENT--BEFORE THE DELUGE $600: After God expelled Adam & Eve from the Garden of Eden, cherubim & this flaming weapon were put at its entrance a sword |
#6205, aired 2011-07-29 | THE OLD TESTAMENT--BEFORE THE DELUGE $1000: After Cain slew Abel, "Adam knew his wife again, and she bare a son, and called his name" this Seth |
#6183, aired 2011-06-29 | VIDEOPOURRI $400: He's the oldest man in the distinguished group of ex-presidents seen here (Ronald) Reagan |
#6183, aired 2011-06-29 | BUMMER WORDS, MAN $800: Am I this primary color between green & violet in the visible spectrum? Why, yes; yes I am blue |
#6183, aired 2011-06-29 | ATHENS 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 |
#6183, aired 2011-06-29 | ATHENS IN THE 5th CENTURY B.C. $1600: Themistocles led the Athenians defending against this "great" Persian's invasion in 480 B.C. Xerxes |
#6182, aired 2011-06-28 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): The teensy "JF" at the base of Washington's neck on the obverse of this belongs to John Flanagan, its sculptor the quarter |
#6182, aired 2011-06-28 | 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIT $2000: In 1876 Mark Twain collaborated on a play, "Ah Sin", with this author of "The Luck of Roaring Camp" Bret Harte |
#6182, aired 2011-06-28 | LAKES & RIVERS $2000: This German river rises in the Czech Republic, where it's known as the Labe the Elbe |
#6181, aired 2011-06-27 | PICKUP ARTISTS $400: This 3-letter auto brand's Sierra pickup has some people saying "hello Denali" GMC |
#6181, aired 2011-06-27 | HINDSIGHT IS 1920 $800: This country, once scheduled to host the canceled 1916 Olympics, was not invited to the 1920 Games; too bad Germany |
#6181, aired 2011-06-27 | WORD ORIGINS $3,000 (Daily Double): Peevish or unreasonably irritable, it's from the Latin petere, meaning "to assail" petulant |
#6155, aired 2011-05-20 | WORLD OF SOUP $800: Stracciatella is the Italian equivalent of this Chinese soup egg drop soup |
#6155, aired 2011-05-20 | BIBLICAL FORGIVENESS $2000: Matthew 6 says you should pray, "Forgive us our" these "as we forgive our" these-ors debts |
#6155, aired 2011-05-20 | BIBLICAL FORGIVENESS $3,000 (Daily Double): Jesus says there's forgiveness for this, from the Greek for "evil speech", but not if it's against the Holy Ghost blasphemy |
#6127, aired 2011-04-12 | THE SISTINE CHAPEL $600: The ceiling depicts the creation, Adam & Eve & 3 scenes concerning this sailor Noah |
#6120, aired 2011-04-01 | BIBLICAL WHO SAID IT? $400: "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh" Adam |
#6117, aired 2011-03-29 | QUITE THE CAST OF TV CHARACTERS $800: Supporting roles on this show include Glenn Quagmire & Death, the latter voiced by Adam Carolla Family Guy |
#6116, aired 2011-03-28 | 20th CENTURY NOVELS $800: "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's" is the opening passage, & about the most comprehensible part, of this Joyce novel Finnegans Wake |
#6106, aired 2011-03-14 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: She was 38 when her first works of fiction were published; "Adam Bede" came out 2 years later George Eliot |
#6095, aired 2011-02-25 | PALINDROMES $800: You probably know "Madam, I'm Adam"; what about "Sir, I'm" her? Iris |
#6074, aired 2011-01-27 | KID IN PLAY $1200: Wednesday has Mondays off in this 2010 Broadway show, along with Pugsley, played by Adam Riegler The Addams Family |
#6067, aired 2011-01-18 | THE CINEMA $600: For "The Wedding Singer", this star wrote 2 songs that he sang in the film, "Grow Old With You" & "Somebody Kill Me" Adam Sandler |
#6066, aired 2011-01-17 | NOW WE ARE SIX $400: Of the 6 prophets of Islam, Muhammad was the last & this early biblical guy was the first Adam |
#6063, aired 2011-01-12 | CANDIED CAMERA $2000: Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi & Adam Sandler were these title guys in a 1994 movie, just like a colorful candy Airheads |
#6061, aired 2011-01-10 | ITALIAN ART & ARTISTS $400: Michelangelo's scenes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling include this pair's "temptation and expulsion" Adam & Eve |
#6039, aired 2010-12-09 | MIDDLE NAMES $2000: A 4-star general & Secretary of State: Meigs Alexander Haig |
#6039, aired 2010-12-09 | MIDDLE NAMES $2,400 (Daily Double): A U.S. president: Birchard Rutherford B. Hayes |
#6038, aired 2010-12-08 | PRESIDENTIAL MAKEOVERS $200: V.P. for just 83 days before getting the top job, this chief exec goes for the ZZ Top--what a sharp dressed man Harry Truman |
#6038, aired 2010-12-08 | NBA MVPs PDQ, OK? $600: This Suns guard went back-to-back in 2005 & '06 Steve Nash |
#6038, aired 2010-12-08 | EGYPTIAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: Home to an ancient wonder, it's Egypt's third-most populous city Giza |
#6022, aired 2010-11-16 | TEACHING ASSISTANCE $1000: Your econ prof thanks you for photocopying key passages of this 1776 Adam Smith work for everyone Wealth of Nations |
#6015, aired 2010-11-05 | I WANT MY MTV $2000: Adam Sandler & Denis Leary were in the cast of this '80s game show set in host Ken Ober's basement Remote Control |
#6006, aired 2010-10-25 | LITERARY OBITUARY $2000: This Louisiana governor & "boss" rose to ruthless demagogue, assassinated, by Adam Stanton Willie Stark |
#5990, aired 2010-10-01 | A WINE-WINE SITUATION $100 (Daily Double): As the name implies, chambre refers to wines served this way room temperature |
#5990, aired 2010-10-01 | TABLE OF CONTINENTS $400: The continental one off Newfoundland extends about 200 miles; the one off California, only 2 or 3 miles shelf |
#5990, aired 2010-10-01 | NFL RECORDS $1000: This Cowboy has the most career rushing attempts with 4,409; he's not a bad dancer, either Emmitt Smith |
#5990, aired 2010-10-01 | GLENN CLOSE $1200: (Glenn Close delivers the clue.) Michelle Pfeiffer & I tangled in this 1988 film whose tagline was "Lust, seduction, revenge, the game as you've never seen it played before" Dangerous Liaisons |
#5990, aired 2010-10-01 | ART STYLES $2,000 (Daily Double): This art style that includes an artist's name was a "Brotherhood" in mid-19th century London Pre-Raphaelites |
#5990, aired 2010-10-01 | SEARCH: ENGINES $2000: The German Messerschmitt ME110 used this engine configuration twin |
#5930, aired 2010-05-28 | MOVIE TAG LINES $600: "Lather. Rinse. Save the world" advertised this Adam Sandler comedy You Don't Mess with the Zohan |
#5920, aired 2010-05-14 | TAKE A WELK ON THE WILD SIDE $2000: Adam West's co-star, this actor a-wrote "Boy Wunner: My Life In Tights", a tell-all memoir Burt Ward |
#5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE BIBLICAL SENSE $600: In Genesis he tells God, "I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked" Adam |
#5890, aired 2010-04-02 | TV NUMBERS $200: "Adam ____" 12 |
#5884, aired 2010-03-25 | NAME THE POET $400: "Fleas": "Adam had 'em" (Ogden) Nash |
#5880, aired 2010-03-19 | FINISH THE PALINDROME $200: "Dammit! I'm" this mad |
#5877, aired 2010-03-16 | FILM TITLES IN FOREIGN LANDS $600: This Adam Sandler football film was "Crazy Match in Prison" in Hong Kong; in Sweden, "Bonesquashing Mob -- Crush 'Em" The Longest Yard |
#5877, aired 2010-03-16 | FILM TITLES IN FOREIGN LANDS $800: Switzerland messed with this Adam Sandler title, calling it "For Your Hair Only"; Spain had a "License to Comb" You Don't Mess with the Zohan |
#5830, aired 2010-01-08 | ANGELS & DEMONS $800: In Jewish mythology, this demon & child-killer was the first wife of Adam; then came Eve Lilith |
#5816, aired 2009-12-21 | LET'S PLAY SOME GOLF $400: Adam Sandler faces off on the links against Shooter McGavin & Bob Barker in this golf comedy Happy Gilmore |
#5782, aired 2009-11-03 | BODY BASICS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical diagram on the monitor.) The Adam's apple, which is larger in men than in women, is a protuberance of the thyroid cartilage that supports this passageway, sometimes called the voice box the larynx |
#5777, aired 2009-10-27 | ECONOMISTS $800: This Scot's 1776 work contained 5 books, including "Of Systems of Political Economy" Adam Smith |
#5775, aired 2009-10-23 | "F" TROOP $200: Adam & Eve's modest wardrobe of Genesis 3:7 fig leaves |
#5771, aired 2009-10-19 | STARS BY MOVIE ROLES $800: Longfellow Deeds,
Dink the Clown,
Zohan Dvir Adam Sandler |
#5743, aired 2009-07-22 | CLASSIC LIT $400: "Paradise Lost" calls him "The goodliest man of men since born his sons" Adam |
#5695, aired 2009-05-15 | TAKE ME TO THE BALLET! $400: I'm hoping that the serpent will show up in the ballet "After Eden", but I'm afraid we'll just see this duo Adam & Eve |
#5689, aired 2009-05-07 | MAD PROPS $2000: Don't mess with the hair-cutting scissors Adam Sandler used as this title Israeli spy-turned-hair stylist Zohan |
#5665, aired 2009-04-03 | GENESIS $800: Genesis 2:25 says Adam & Eve were both this "and were not ashamed"--& this was before Bally's or Jenny Craig! naked |
#5662, aired 2009-03-31 | FISHY SPORTSMEN $400: After leaving Oakland in 1975, this pitcher signed a $3.75 million contract with the Yankees, the richest in MLB Jim "Catfish" Hunter |
#5662, aired 2009-03-31 | GEMS & JEWELRY $1000: Sunlight may change the color of this traditional November birthstone that's often a sunny shade of yellow topaz |
#5662, aired 2009-03-31 | THAT'S CRICKET $1200: Cricket's World Cup is contested every 4 years; crikey! This country has now won 3 straight Australia |
#5641, aired 2009-03-02 | ADAM $200: In 1789 architect Robert Adam designed the University of this Scottish city Edinburgh |
#5641, aired 2009-03-02 | ADAM $400: He said to found a great empire only for customers seems to be a project "for a nation of shopkeepers" Adam Smith |
#5641, aired 2009-03-02 | ADAM $600: Though born in Zurich, Hans Adam II is the head of state of this tiny European principality Liechtenstein |
#5641, aired 2009-03-02 | ADAM $800: In 1945 this African American was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat from Harlem Adam Clayton Powell |
#5641, aired 2009-03-02 | ADAM $1000: Some words from Wordsworth serve as the epigraph to this novel by George Eliot Adam Bede |
#5609, aired 2009-01-15 | DANCE! $2000: This '60s TV Batman started a national craze dancing the Batusi Adam West |
#5592, aired 2008-12-23 | BEDTIME STORIES $400: (Adam Sandler, whose latest movie is the holiday release Bedtime Stories, reads the clue.) In an 1887 version of the bedtime story about the 3 these, it's an old woman who eats their porridge, & after she leaves the house she's arrested as a vagrant bears |
#5592, aired 2008-12-23 | BEDTIME STORIES $1200: (Adam Sandler delivers the clue again.) This classic about a bunny at bedtime begins, "In the great green room, there was a telephone and a red balloon" "Goodnight Moon" |
#5592, aired 2008-12-23 | BEDTIME STORIES $2000: (Adam Sandler shills for his Christmas release.) To show kids the world of Ancient Rome the way I do in my new movie "Bedtime Stories", try the children's version of this author's "Parallel Lives" Plutarch |
#5575, aired 2008-11-28 | REELIN' IN THE YEARS $1,500 (Daily Double): It's the year of the quote "Not since Adam has any human known such solitude as Mike Collins" 1969 |
#5565, aired 2008-11-14 | URBAN DICTIONARY LINGO $200: "Christmas Adam" is the day before this Christmas Eve |
#5560, aired 2008-11-07 | SCOTSMEN $800: His "Wealth of Nations" is widely considered the first great work in political economy Adam Smith |
#5560, aired 2008-11-07 | NAME THE BOOK $800: "Adam Trask was born on a farm on the outskirts of a little town which was not far from a big town in Connecticut" East of Eden |
#5553, aired 2008-10-29 | 3-LETTER WORDS $1200: St. Paul wrote, "by one man" this "entered into the world",--that'd be yours, Adam sin |
#5536, aired 2008-10-06 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $400: The NFL's
Pacman (Adam) Jones |
#5532, aired 2008-09-30 | FACE BOOK $2000: "Cover Her Face" is an Adam Dalgliesh mystery by this British woman P.D. James |
#5529, aired 2008-09-25 | CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR WORDS $400: Also the name of an Adam Sandler movie, this military term is slang for 1 kilometer a click |
#5516, aired 2008-09-08 | EXPRESS YOURSELF $2000: Adam Smith wrote of one of these hard-to-see body parts when describing laissez-faire an invisible hand |
#5495, aired 2008-06-27 | OF EDEN $1600: In this John Milton work, the angel Michael leads Adam & Eve out of the Garden of Eden Paradise Lost |
#5490, aired 2008-06-20 | THE BIBLE $6,000 (Daily Double): I Corinthians states, "As in" this man "all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive" Adam |
#5488, aired 2008-06-18 | MAKES SENSE $400: Given cause of death of Adam Sandler's dad in "The Waterboy" dehydration |
#5471, aired 2008-05-26 | QUASI-PRESIDENTIAL CINEMA $2000: Adam Sandler gives "sophomoric" a new meaning when he has 24 weeks to pass 12 years of school in this 1995 comedy Billy Madison |
#5469, aired 2008-05-22 | POTPOURRI AROUND THE WORLD $2000: Many of this country's postage stamps reproduce paintings in Prince Hans-Adam's art collection Liechtenstein |
#5468, aired 2008-05-21 | AROUND THE BIBLE $400: The first word in I Chronicles is this man first mentioned in Genesis 2:19 Adam |
#5465, aired 2008-05-16 | HAPPY MADISON $400: (Adam Sandler delivers the clue.) The name of my production company, Happy Madison, comes from the titles of these 2 movies I starred in Happy Gilmore & Billy Madison |
#5465, aired 2008-05-16 | HAPPY MADISON $800: (Adam delivers the clue again.) Drew Barrymore has problems remembering the name of this 2004 movie we starred in that's set in Hawaii 50 First Dates |
#5465, aired 2008-05-16 | HAPPY MADISON $1200: (Adam Sandler delivers the clue.) In my new movie "You Don't Mess With The Zohan", I play an intelligence agent from this country founded in 1948 who fakes his death to be a hairdresser Israel |
#5465, aired 2008-05-16 | HAPPY MADISON $1600: (Adam Sandler delivers the clue.) We produced this 2006 baseball bully revenge movie that starred my friends Rob Schneider, David Spade & Jon Heder The Benchwarmers |
#5465, aired 2008-05-16 | HAPPY MADISON $2000: (Adam Sandler delivers the clue.) Happy Madison's first feature film was this 1999 comedy that saw Rob Schneider go out on a date with a narcoleptic girl Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo |
#5443, aired 2008-04-16 | ROCK & ROLL FRONTMEN $1000: Adam Levine Maroon 5 |
#5439, aired 2008-04-10 | '60s TV $1200: In 1965 Pernell Roberts left this series & his part as eldest son Adam, saying he'd grown tired of the role Bonanza |
#5433, aired 2008-04-02 | WATER WORKS $800: This final Joyce novel's ending leads back to its beginning, "Riverrun, past Eve and Adam's" Finnegans Wake |
#5364, aired 2007-12-27 | ROLE IN COMMON $400: Adam West &
Michael Keaton Batman |
#5360, aired 2007-12-21 | LAST NAME'S THE SAME $600: "Father of the Constitution" & Adam Sandler flick where he goes back to school James & Billy Madison |
#5346, aired 2007-12-03 | RELIGION $800: To some Muslims, this cubical structure in Mecca was built by Adam & refurbished by Abraham the Kaaba |
#5344, aired 2007-11-29 | "CON" GAME $400: Groovy, baby, a pair of these are heard here conga drums |
#5344, aired 2007-11-29 | DA PLANE! DA PLANE! $400: Of 14, 18 or 24 hours, the scheduled length of the world's longest nonstop flight, from Singapore to NYC 18 |
#5344, aired 2007-11-29 | SCIENCE FACTION $1200: The "S" in UNESCO is for "scientific"; this is what the "E" is for & remember, it's an adjective, not a noun educational |
#5344, aired 2007-11-29 | WHERE AM I? $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew also reads from a European riverbank.) Prazsky Hrad, a castle that shares its name with the city it's in, is the seat of the president of this country the Czech Republic |
#5326, aired 2007-11-05 | CINEMA CAFE $600: A food critic names Adam Sandler "the best chef in the country" in this multicultural film Spanglish |
#5296, aired 2007-09-24 | POP CULTURE $400: Kevin James "weds" this former "SNL" star at the Niagara Falls in the 2007 film "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry" Adam Sandler |
#5294, aired 2007-09-20 | OFFICIAL STATE THINGS $600: When Virginia got a state one of these animals, the gov.'s office released a poem that mentioned Adam West bat |
#5293, aired 2007-09-19 | AT THE DRUGSTORE $600: Ooo...shouldn't have had that fourth bowl of chili...now I need this antacid that "spells relief" Rolaids |
#5293, aired 2007-09-19 | THE SOLAR SYSTEM $600: On Oct. 10, 1846, 17 days after the discovery of this planet, its largest moon, Triton, was discovered Neptune |
#5281, aired 2007-07-23 | ISLANDS $1200: A chain of shoals known as Adam's Bridge stretches between India & this island nation Sri Lanka |
#5272, aired 2007-07-10 | THEIR FIRST NOVELS $2000: "Adam Bede"
(1859) George Eliot |
#5231, aired 2007-05-14 | A DREW BARRYMORE FILM FESTIVAL $400: (Drew delivers the clue.) In my new movie "Music and Lyrics", Hugh Grant plays my love interest; in "50 First Dates" & "The Wedding Singer", I was paired up with this funny actor Adam Sandler |
#5227, aired 2007-05-08 | THE THIRD CATEGORY $800: In the Bible, he's the third son born to Adam & Eve Seth |
#5218, aired 2007-04-25 | THE FOOL $800: In the Battle of Germantown in this war, drunk U.S. General Adam Stephen had his men fire on Anthony Wayne's the Revolutionary War |
#5213, aired 2007-04-18 | THE WIT & WISDOM OF PUDD'NHEAD WILSON $200: This man "did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden" Adam |
#5194, aired 2007-03-22 | THE BIBLE $1000: Nonagenarians live to 90; we're not sure what to call Seth & this father of his, who both reached 900 Adam |
#5176, aired 2007-02-26 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $1200: 1950:
"Everything Concerning Adam's Wife" All About Eve |
#5159, aired 2007-02-01 | POP GOES THE MUSICAL $400: You may feel like getting married again after seeing this musical based on an Adam Sandler film about a vocalist The Wedding Singer |
#5120, aired 2006-12-08 | QUID PRO QUO-POURRI $400: Give me this name of Paris Hilton's sister & I'll tell you that it was also a "diminutive" Adam Sandler role Nicky |
#5119, aired 2006-12-07 | THOMAS JEFFERSON'S READING LIST $2,500 (Daily Double): In 1771 this man hadn't turned to economics yet, but his "Theory of Moral Sentiments" is recommended Adam Smith |
#5103, aired 2006-11-15 | SMITH $2000: Economist Adam Smith is best known for "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of" this the Wealth of Nations |
#5093, aired 2006-11-01 | THE ECONOMY $400: In a 1776 work he wrote, "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production" Adam Smith |
#5089, aired 2006-10-26 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $2000: In books by George Eliot, Adam Bede is a carpenter & this other title figure is a weaver Silas Marner |
#5082, aired 2006-10-17 | CORPORATE LOGOS $3,000 (Daily Double): The bite taken out of the right side of its corporate logo refers to the story of Adam & Eve & the tree of knowledge Apple (Computer) |
#5081, aired 2006-10-16 | THOU ART DA MAN! $800: In Exodus 3:14 "God said unto" this man, "I am that I am" Moses |
#5077, aired 2006-10-10 | ONE-WORD MOVIE TITLES $400: 2006:
Adam Sandler has a magic remote control Click |
#5038, aired 2006-07-05 | GREAT BRITONS $800 (Daily Double): This philosopher of the Enlightenment helped shape the U.S. Constitution with his "Two Treatises" John Locke |
#5035, aired 2006-06-30 | FABLE $400: She may be a vampire or the first wife of Adam Lilith |
#5030, aired 2006-06-23 | ADAM SANDLER $200: In the new movie "Click" I have a slight disagreement with this actor who gained fame as a lifeguard on the TV David Hasselhoff |
#5030, aired 2006-06-23 | ADAM SANDLER $400: In "Happy Gilmore", I had enough & decked this long-time CBS game show host--you up for the sequel, Alex? Bob Barker |
#5030, aired 2006-06-23 | ADAM SANDLER $600: In the new movie "Click", this "Deer Hunter" actor plays Morty; he also was The Continental on "SNL" many times Christopher Walken |
#5030, aired 2006-06-23 | ADAM SANDLER $800: I had a recurring role as Theo's friend Smitty in this 1980s No. 1-rated sitcom
"What was it?" The Cosby Show |
#5030, aired 2006-06-23 | ADAM SANDLER $1000: I played tackling machine & H2O enthusiast in this 1998 film The Waterboy |
#5017, aired 2006-06-06 | POLISH HISTORY $800: In 1957 Polish foreign minister Adam Rapacki proposed a European "zone" free of these nuclear weapons |
#5015, aired 2006-06-02 | POTPOURRI $200: In what could be the first-ever eviction, they got the heave-ho for taking an unauthorized meal break in Genesis 3 Adam & Eve |
#5006, aired 2006-05-22 | THE GOOD BOOK $600: In the book of Genesis, he is the third son of Adam & Eve Seth |
#4998, aired 2006-05-10 | TV NUMBERS $2000: The name in this series' title referred to Malloy & Reed's patrol car; the number referred to their beat Adam-12 |
#4995, aired 2006-05-05 | IT HAPPENED IN MAY $1000: 1776:
Adam Weishaupt forms this "enlightened" Bavarian secret society the Illuminati |
#4987, aired 2006-04-25 | THE BODY WOMAN $400: Women have this piece of thyroid cartilage, too; it's just smaller than a man's & may be under more fat an Adam's apple |
#4986, aired 2006-04-24 | MOVIE TITLE TRANSLATIONS $1000: Bulgaria changed this Adam Sandler film to "Psycho Therapy" Anger Management |
#4977, aired 2006-04-11 | MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON $800: Washington's 9th District is represented by this man, who has the same name as a certain economist Adam Smith |
#4958, aired 2006-03-15 | ASSUME THE POSITION $600: Adam Vinatieri,
Morten Andersen,
Jan Stenerud kickers |
#4958, aired 2006-03-15 | BLENDED WORDS $800: Blending 2 languages, it was also the title of a 2004 Adam Sandler flick Spanglish (from Spanish & English) |
#4957, aired 2006-03-14 | LET'S GET ECONOMICAL $1200: Born in Scotland in 1723, this economist concluded that people always act in their own best interests Adam Smith |
#4945, aired 2006-02-24 | ALIAS SMITH & JONES $1200: Though not a sci-fi author, he wrote about an "invisible hand" in the marketplace in 1776 Adam Smith |
#4940, aired 2006-02-17 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS $200: Adam trained with ex-NFL quarterback Sean Salisbury to prepare for this 2005 comedy The Longest Yard |
#4940, aired 2006-02-17 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS $400: There must be 50 ways to name this 2004 comedy with Adam & Drew Barrymore, said to be "Memento-meets-Groundhog Day" 50 First Dates |
#4940, aired 2006-02-17 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS $600: Adam crooned his way into Drew Barrymore's heart in this "matrimonial" 1998 film The Wedding Singer |
#4940, aired 2006-02-17 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS $800: The price was very, very wrong when Bob Barker pummeled Adam on a golf course in this 1996 film Happy Gilmore |
#4940, aired 2006-02-17 | ADAM SANDLER FILMS $1000: Adam was kickin' it old school--elementary school--as this 1995 title character Billy Madison |
#4912, aired 2006-01-10 | "GOOD" & "BAD" SONGS $800: 1982 hit heard here
"You don't drink, don't smoke /
What do you do? /
You don't drink, don't smoke /
What do you do? /
Subtle innuendos follow /
There must be something inside" "Goody Two Shoes" |
#4901, aired 2005-12-26 | DREAD MAN WALKING $1000: Dreadlocked Adam Duritz fronts this band, Oscar-nominated for "Accidentally In Love" from "Shrek 2" Counting Crows |
#4886, aired 2005-12-05 | LIBRARIES $1000: For aural thrills go to the Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State & hear a recording of this 23rd U.S. president Benjamin Harrison |
#4886, aired 2005-12-05 | THE PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS $5,000 (Daily Double): "The faults of" this city "will be laid quite bare" must refer to the failure of the League of Nations--mustn't it? Geneva |
#4885, aired 2005-12-02 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $400: In French, this instrument is called a petite flute a piccolo |
#4885, aired 2005-12-02 | NEW HERE? $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Parris Island, SC.) Parris Island arrivals stand in their first formation on the yellow footprints & are told to refer to themselves as this word recruit |
#4885, aired 2005-12-02 | HENRY IV, PART 2 $800: By the end of the play, Prince Henry, then known as Hal, has become this title character of another play Henry V |
#4885, aired 2005-12-02 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1200: About the size of a violin, a crwth is an ancient bowed stringed instrument of this country Wales |
#4885, aired 2005-12-02 | SPORTS NICKNAMES $1600: Many soccer players have had great feet, but Hungary's Sandor Kocsis was nicknamed "Golden" this "Head" |
#4884, aired 2005-12-01 | THE BILL OF RIGHTS $400: In this year FDR proclaimed December 15 as Bill of Rights Day; it was the 150th birthday of the document 1941 |
#4884, aired 2005-12-01 | NAME THAT POEM $2,000 (Daily Double): T.S. Eliot:
"Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
#4878, aired 2005-11-23 | A BROADWAY MUSICAL QUIZ $600: "The Light in the Piazza" features a Tony-winning score by Adam Guettel, grandson of this "Carousel" composer Richard Rodgers |
#4875, aired 2005-11-18 | RHYME TIME $400: A manly tortilla chip smothered with melted cheese a macho nacho |
#4875, aired 2005-11-18 | I NEED MORE COWBELL $1600: The cowbell on "Little Sister" is one of the "Lullabies to Paralyze" by this paleolithic group Queens of the Stone Age |
#4875, aired 2005-11-18 | GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE $2000: A lazy loafer, or someone who makes bullion a gold bricker |
#4874, aired 2005-11-17 | LOST IN AUSTRIA $400: As in a neighbor nation, Austria's head of govt., Wolfgang Scheussel, holds this official position & title chancellor |
#4874, aired 2005-11-17 | MONEY FROM HOME $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a park bench.) Take the first three letters of the country's name to identify this currency used in Riga lat |
#4874, aired 2005-11-17 | EFFECTS $3,000 (Daily Double): This 19th century Frenchman gave his name to an effect by which oxygen inhibits fermentation Pasteur |
#4873, aired 2005-11-16 | TRAIN-ING DAY $400: Catch an express train to the Algarve from the Barreiro Station in this Iberian capital Lisbon |
#4873, aired 2005-11-16 | STATE OBJECTS & SYMBOLS $400: This ditty about a pony-riding gentleman is Connecticut's state song "Yankee Doodle" |
#4873, aired 2005-11-16 | PEOPLE $600: The website of this tennis "goddess" told us that she's 6'2", loves to write poetry & wants to go to Croatia Venus Williams |
#4873, aired 2005-11-16 | STATE OBJECTS & SYMBOLS $2000: This state gem of Washington was once a tree, or at least a piece of it petrified wood |
#4873, aired 2005-11-16 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2,800 (Daily Double): Term for the fear or hatred of Gallic culture francophobia |
#4869, aired 2005-11-10 | TOUGH STUFF $400: When beekeepers open an active hive, they blow this into it first smoke |
#4869, aired 2005-11-10 | WE'VE GOT MORE PEOPLE THAN YOU! $400: Iraq,
Iran,
Israel Iran |
#4869, aired 2005-11-10 | SUPREME COURT REJECTS $800: When John Jay quit, John Rutledge failed to win confirmation as Chief Justice for this president George Washington |
#4869, aired 2005-11-10 | THE DA VINCI CODE $800: Italy has issued euro coins with this Da Vinci "Man" on the reverse Vitruvian Man |
#4869, aired 2005-11-10 | CHARACTERS IN MUSICALS $1600: Yes, "Sir": Robert Goulet played him in "Camelot" & Hank Azaria played him in "Spamalot" Sir Lancelot |
#4868, aired 2005-11-09 | PODCAST INCORPORATED $1000: No joke, this satellite radio company signed former MTV-VJ Adam Curry as its exclusive PJ Sirius |
#4863, aired 2005-11-02 | 18th CENTURY BRITAIN $400: In 1776 this economist noted the value of the potato in "The Wealth of Nations" (Adam) Smith |
#4848, aired 2005-10-12 | OLD TESTAMENT HEROES $200: This man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman" Adam |
#4844, aired 2005-10-06 | BOYS IN THE BAND $400: Larry Mullen, Jr.,
Adam Clayton,
The Edge,
Bono U2 |
#4833, aired 2005-09-21 | THE NAKED TRUTH $1200: When Adam & Eve realized they were naked, they sewed these together to make aprons fig leaves |
#4814, aired 2005-07-07 | RHYME TIME $600: A story with a moral about Adam & Eve's second son an Abel fable |
#4814, aired 2005-07-07 | '60s TV ACTORS $600: Adam West was Bruce Wayne; this man played Dick Grayson (Burt) Ward |
#4772, aired 2005-05-10 | QUASI-RELATED PAIRS $400: Mr. Bede &
the night before Adam & Eve |
#4754, aired 2005-04-14 | HORTON HEARS THE WHO $800: In 1990 The Who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Adam Clayton & this Irish group U2 |
#4701, aired 2005-01-31 | 3-LETTER ANATOMY $400: God took this body part from Adam to make woman a rib |
#4690, aired 2005-01-14 | TV ROLES ON FILM $200: Hey old chum, Val Kilmer played this man, but to me, no one could ever replace Mr. Adam West Batman |
#4666, aired 2004-12-13 | 18th CENTURY QUOTES $1200: In this work Adam Smith wrote, "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production" The Wealth of Nations |
#4659, aired 2004-12-02 | ECONOMICS $400: Adam Smith thought these were conspiracies against the consumer, but don't tell that to Parker Brothers monopolies |
#4652, aired 2004-11-23 | MOVIE TITLE TRANSLATIONS $200: In France, this unforgettable Adam Sandler film became "Love & Amnesia" 50 First Dates |
#4638, aired 2004-11-04 | BIBLICAL NAME'S THE SAME $400: West,
Smith,
Sandler Adam |
#4635, aired 2004-10-29 | GENESIS $200: God breathed life into some of this to create Adam & told Adam he'd return to it dust |
#4635, aired 2004-10-29 | GENESIS $400: God made Eve while Adam was doing this sleeping |
#4633, aired 2004-10-27 | RUSSIAN CULTURE $400: Ivan Kramskoi painted him in 1873 with the author at the height of his powers (Leon) Tolstoy |
#4628, aired 2004-10-20 | THE YOU-NIVERSE $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the top secret Jeopardy! Science Lab wearing his official Clue Crew lab coat.) Both men & women have this cartilage in the throat that has a biblical name the Adam's apple |
#4600, aired 2004-09-10 | DETECTIVE FICTION $1000: “A Taste for Death” is one of P.D. James’ novels about this Scotland Yard detective and published poet Adam Dalgliesh |
#4598, aired 2004-09-08 | SHORTWAVE $1000: To catch the BBC at 1700 UTC, or Universal Time Coordinated, tune in at this morning hour Pacific Standard time 9:00 AM |
#4596, aired 2004-09-06 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: Some say the screech owl in the King James Bible is Lilith, the name given his legendary first wife Adam |
#4590, aired 2004-07-16 | THE LOVERS $400: Because of short-term memory loss, girl meets boy over & over in this Adam Sandler-Drew Barrymore comedy 50 First Dates |
#4574, aired 2004-06-24 | 3-LETTER PALINDROMES $800: Adam could tell you this word meaning the night before eve |
#4572, aired 2004-06-22 | NOVEL WEDDINGS $4,200 (Daily Double): In this Steinbeck novel, the evil Cathy drugs Adam Trask on their wedding night & seduces his brother East of Eden |
#4559, aired 2004-06-03 | THE FIRST WIVES CLUB $800: In Jewish folklore, before Eve, Adam was married to this she-demon Lilith |
#4550, aired 2004-05-21 | LUNCH COUNTER LINGO $600: This beverage is Adam's ale water |
#4550, aired 2004-05-21 | "ANT" INFESTATION $3,000 (Daily Double): Unyielding in your opinion that the singer of "Goody Two Shoes" is the greatest singer ever adamant |
#4545, aired 2004-05-14 | IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID! $1000: The full title of Adam Smith's monumental 1776 work is "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of" this the Wealth of Nations |
#4530, aired 2004-04-23 | FEELINGS $1200: Bobby Knight & John McEnroe had cameos in the Adam Sandler film about managing this anger |
#4529, aired 2004-04-22 | TREBEK, SAJAK OR OZZY OSBOURNE $800: Played himself in the Adam Sandler movie "Little Nicky" Ozzy Osbourne |
#4528, aired 2004-04-21 | FILING CHAPTER 11 $2000: "Charles had more respect for Adam after he knew about the prison", begins this Steinbeck work's Chapter 11 East of Eden |
#4504, aired 2004-03-18 | MBAs RULE! $800: He's an MBA, a certified hypnotist & the creator of the character seen here (Scott) Adams |
#4486, aired 2004-02-23 | NONFICTION $400: It's the eating implement on the cover of Adam Bellow's "In Praise of Nepotism" a silver spoon |
#4453, aired 2004-01-07 | LEANN RHYMES? $1600: "By the power of Grayskull!" Prince Adam becomes this hero He-Man |
#4422, aired 2003-11-25 | THE BOYS IN THE BAND $400: Adam Clayton,
Bono,
Larry Mullen, Jr.,
The Edge U2 |
#4408, aired 2003-11-05 | AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS $800: Adam Sisman won a National Book Critics Circle Award for his biography of this biographer of Dr. Johnson Boswell |
#4405, aired 2003-10-31 | TV TRANSPORTATION $600: The 2 men seen here spent a lot of time driving L.A.'s streets on this show Adam-12 |
#4395, aired 2003-10-17 | MTV MOVIE AWARDS: BEST KISS $800: 1998's winners were Adam Sandler & Drew Barrymore for this film The Wedding Singer |
#4373, aired 2003-09-17 | MOVIE COMEDIES $200: Jack Nicholson teamed up with Adam Sandler for this 2003 film Anger Management |
#4329, aired 2003-05-29 | "POW"! $1000: He was Harlem's congressman from 1945 to 1971 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. |
#4321, aired 2003-05-19 | SKI YOU AT THE MOVIES $1600: In a 1969 film, Dean Martin's daughter Claudia & this star of "Adam-12" got "Ski Fever" Martin Milner |
#4301, aired 2003-04-21 | SONY $800: This title Sony movie role played by Adam Sandler in 2002 was originated by Gary Cooper 66 years earlier Mr. Deeds (Wellington Deeds) |
#4297, aired 2003-04-15 | RECENT FILMS $600: This comic voiced 3 characters in the animated Hanukkah movie "Eight Crazy Nights" Adam Sandler |
#4293, aired 2003-04-09 | RECENT MOVIE REVIEWS $800: A review of this 2002 "love" story by P.T. Anderson marveled, "Adam Sandler! In an art film!" Punch-Drunk Love |
#4277, aired 2003-03-18 | WE'VE GOT ISSUES $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1776 Adam Smith defended makers of these against charges of excessive profit, charges still made today pharmaceuticals (or drug companies) |
#4265, aired 2003-02-28 | ROCK & ROLL JEOPARDY! $1000: Acclaimed playwright Israel Horovitz is the father of Adam Horovitz, AKA this group's King Ad-Rock The Beastie Boys |
#4263, aired 2003-02-26 | THE "BIG" PICTURE $400: 1999:
Adam Sandler takes on fatherhood Big Daddy |
#4253, aired 2003-02-12 | BIBLICAL CLOTHES RACK $800: In Genesis 3, God himself makes tunics out of animal skin for this man to wear Adam |
#4245, aired 2003-01-31 | WORLD MYTHS & LEGENDS $600: Jewish legend says his first wife was Lilith, who created the need for a good divorce lawyer Adam |
#4230, aired 2003-01-10 | OLD TESTAMENT NAMES $400: Chapter 2 of Genesis says God formed him "of the dust of the ground" Adam |
#4197, aired 2002-11-26 | BRIT LIT $1600: George Eliot's first full-length novel told the tale of this carpenter Adam Bede |
#4196, aired 2002-11-25 | GRAB BAG $1200: Chapter 3 of this Steinbeck novel begins, "Adam Trask was born on a farm on the outskirts of a little town..." "East of Eden" |
#4192, aired 2002-11-19 | EVERYONE'S A COMEDIAN $800: He's the big daddy seen here Adam Sandler |
#4186, aired 2002-11-11 | NURSERY RHYME RAP $600: This trio I don't know from Adam can't see the lady with a knife comin' at 'em Three Blind Mice |
#4186, aired 2002-11-11 | FESTIVALS $5,000 (Daily Double): In January in Michigan people set up shanties on Houghton Lake for a festival devoted to this sport ice fishing |
#4179, aired 2002-10-31 | SCULPTURE $400: Both Rodin & Brancusi (who once worked for Rodin) did sculptures of an embracing couple titled this "The Kiss" |
#4167, aired 2002-10-15 | ART $800: In Masaccio's "Expulsion from Paradise", an archangel with a sword hovers over this pair Adam & Eve |
#4160, aired 2002-10-04 | & GO TO "BED" $600: Kidded & teased (like Adam did to Eve, perhaps?) ribbed |
#4137, aired 2002-09-03 | VOYAGER $2000: Last name of the father & son who took the bathyscaphe Trieste to a record depth off Italy in 1953 (Auguste) Piccard |
#4116, aired 2002-06-24 | GIVE 'EM A HAND $1000: In this book Adam Smith created the economic principle of the invisible hand The Wealth of Nations |
#4106, aired 2002-06-10 | AROUND THE BIBLE $200: The first word in I Chronicles is this man first mentioned in Genesis 2:19 Adam |
#4091, aired 2002-05-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: In this novel southern governor Willie Stark is gunned down at the capitol by Adam Stanton All the King's Men |
#4086, aired 2002-05-13 | BIG NAMES IN SPORTS $1200: His last-minute field goal won Super Bowl XXXVI for the Patriots Adam Vinatieri |
#4083, aired 2002-05-08 | STRAIN THY BRAIN $200: Per Genesis 1, God created Adam on this day of creation the sixth |
#4057, aired 2002-04-02 | BIBLICAL RULERS $600: Leviticus 21:20--Flat-nosed people & those with "a blemish in" this sense organ cannot become priests the eye |
#4057, aired 2002-04-02 | JUST RELAXING $800: Settle down by the pool with a planter's punch, made with fruit juice, grenadine & this liquor rum |
#4057, aired 2002-04-02 | THE SPORTING LIFE $2000: In 1952 the great Willie Hoppe retired from this sport--we hope he had a cushion to fall back on pool (billiards) |
#4049, aired 2002-03-21 | COME BLOW YOUR HORN $400: The great Gerry Mulligan is heard here on this type of saxophone the baritone |
#4049, aired 2002-03-21 | LOST IN YONKERS $400: The city's website claims the USA's first game of this took place at Yonkers' St. Andrew's Club golf |
#4049, aired 2002-03-21 | OSCAR $600: Michael Douglas won for producing this 1975 film that swept all 5 major Oscar categories One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
#4049, aired 2002-03-21 | OSCAR $800: At the age of 80 she won her first Oscar--for Best Actress in "Driving Miss Daisy" Jessica Tandy |
#4049, aired 2002-03-21 | THE "ODD" COUPLE $800: To treat indulgently to coddle |
#4049, aired 2002-03-21 | FELIX $1000: Felix Hoffmann synthesized this wonder drug in 1897 aspirin |
#4014, aired 2002-01-31 | THE GOOD BOOK $200: Until their eyes were opened, this Biblical duo didn't know they were naked & didn't care a fig about it Adam & Eve |
#4010, aired 2002-01-25 | '90s MOVIES $1600: Bob Barker beats the heck out of Adam Sandler in this golf comedy favorite from 1996 Happy Gilmore |
#3984, aired 2001-12-20 | CHRISTMAS POTPOURRI $200: This decoration's origins may go back to Medieval Europe, where it was the main prop in a play about Adam & Eve a Christmas tree |
#3981, aired 2001-12-17 | EVE $1600: Adam & Eve's 3 sons mentioned by name Cain, Abel & Seth |
#3981, aired 2001-12-17 | EVE $2000: Eve, & the Adam, ate fruit from the tree called this, which God specifically said not to do the Tree of Knowledge (of Good and Evil) |
#3979, aired 2001-12-13 | THE BIBLE $200: Created from the earth, this man's name in Hebrew means "red earth" Adam |
#3974, aired 2001-12-06 | THE MOVIES $400: He went from waterboy to football star in 1998's "The Waterboy" Adam Sandler |
#3969, aired 2001-11-29 | & SOMETIMES Y $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew helps us out.) The term for a worker in the area seen here is also a 1980 Jodie Foster film Carny |
#3969, aired 2001-11-29 | I'M JUST A BILL $1000: (Here's Sofia having some fun at the San Diego Zoo.) This playful bird is not to be confused with the spoonbill, playbill or T-bill hornbill |
#3969, aired 2001-11-29 | 5-LETTER WORDS $1600: The Temptations said it's a "ball of confusion"; Wittgenstein said it's "everything that is the case" the world |
#3969, aired 2001-11-29 | WB CARTOON STARS $1600: 1962:
"The Slick Chick" Foghorn Leghorn |
#3969, aired 2001-11-29 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: The harsh aftertaste of this soft drink helped make it a synonym for feistiness or spunk Moxie |
#3969, aired 2001-11-29 | CANADIAN HISTORY $2000: William Lyon Mackenzie led a failed 1837 revolt; this grandson of his was Canada's longest-serving prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King |
#3954, aired 2001-11-08 | "FOR"-LETTER WORDS $100: We don't know if it was an apple, a kumquat or a banana, but we do know the fruit eve gave Adam was labeled this forbidden |
#3951, aired 2001-11-05 | THAT WAS NO LADY $100: Life was a drag for Adam Sandler & this "Just Shoot Me" actor as "Gap Girls" on "SNL" David Spade |
#3951, aired 2001-11-05 | ECONOMICS $500: Mercantilism was shot down by this economist in his "Wealth of Nations" Adam Smith |
#3947, aired 2001-10-30 | CIRCUSES $200: In the 1880s, circus owner Adam Forepaugh tried to compete with P.T. Barnum, who had this elephant as an attraction Jumbo |
#3930, aired 2001-10-05 | WACKY MATH $800: Joe Namath's Jet uniform No. divided by the title number of a TV police car driven by Martin Milner 1 (12/Adam-12) |
#3920, aired 2001-09-21 | MUSICAL FLYERS $800: The dreadlocked Adam Duritz fronts this band whose debut album was "August and Everything After" the Counting Crows |
#3909, aired 2001-09-06 | AS QUOTED IN NEWSWEEK $500: After being on "Millionaire", this TV "Batman" said "There's a lot of pressure trying to be smarter than... Valerie Bertinelli" Adam West |
#3889, aired 2001-06-28 | "B" IN ROCK $400: Adam Yauch & Michael Diamond are 2 of the 3 "Boys" in this group The Beastie Boys |
#3876, aired 2001-06-11 | LITERATURE, JERRY SPRINGER-STYLE $300: Adam & Eve confront the big man himself & discuss this 1667 Milton poem on "I Can't Believe You Evicted Me!" Paradise Lost |
#3872, aired 2001-06-05 | GREASY SPOON PHRASE BOOK $600: Order "Adam & Eve on a Raft" & you'll get poached eggs on this Toast |
#3851, aired 2001-05-07 | PROPS $500: Beefy, a prop bulldog, includes its rubber spiked collar from this Adam Sandler film Little Nicky |
#3849, aired 2001-05-03 | BALLET $200: "After Eden" dramatizes what happened to this couple after they left the garden Adam & Eve |
#3828, aired 2001-04-04 | WORD SMITHS $500: In a 1776 work, he inquired into laissez-faire economics Adam Smith |
#3821, aired 2001-03-26 | BOYS $100: In 2000 he played "Little Nicky", Satan's son Adam Sandler |
#3802, aired 2001-02-27 | THE JAMES GANG $800: "Cover Her Face" was the first of her mysteries to feature her detective Adam Dalgliesh, a Scotland Yard man P.D. James |
#3798, aired 2001-02-21 | MEN ON FILM $500: "Billy Madison"
(1995) Adam Sandler |
#3790, aired 2001-02-09 | THAT '70s SHOW $1000: Martin Milner & Kent McCord were on the beat as a couple of cops on this series Adam-12 |
#3773, aired 2001-01-17 | GAMES PEOPLE PLAY $500: Tweezers,
funny bone,
wish bone,
Adam's apple Operation |
#3767, aired 2001-01-09 | CLASSIC KIDDY LIT $100: Character who finally discovered breaking & entering suspect Goldilocks Baby Bear |
#3767, aired 2001-01-09 | LEGAL BEFORE & AFTER $200: Supreme Court case in which Snoopy's owner sues to desegregate public schools in Kansas Charlie Brown v. Board of Education |
#3767, aired 2001-01-09 | AVIATION $1000: The name of this maker of the $40 million G-V corporate jet sounds more like it sells boats Gulfstream |
#3767, aired 2001-01-09 | IN MY CABINET $1,400 (Daily Double): Joseph Califano Jr.,
Griffin Bell,
Cyrus Vance Jimmy Carter |
#3765, aired 2001-01-05 | THE BODY HUMAN $200: Also called the voice box, it's larger in men than in women Larynx |
#3765, aired 2001-01-05 | A ROYAL PAIN $400: When assassinated in 1908, Carlos I of this Iberian country was in a virtual state of war with his subjects Portugal |
#3759, aired 2000-12-28 | THE HUMAN BODY $200: Men & women both have this "fruity" lump in the front of the throat; it's just more noticeable in men Adam's apple |
#3758, aired 2000-12-27 | IT'S A BIG WORLD $100: The USA's highest mountain is found in this state, the USA's largest Alaska (Mt. McKinley/Denali) |
#3758, aired 2000-12-27 | I KNOW THAT NAME $300: Over 2 million blocks went into building Khufu's Great one of these, & we're not talking Lego! Pyramid |
#3758, aired 2000-12-27 | MEDICAL CHECKUP $1,000 (Daily Double): When measuring this, the doctor uses his fingers, not his thumb, because the thumb has its own pulse rate |
#3757, aired 2000-12-26 | FAMOUS PAINTINGS $200: You can see this Biblical couple in Masaccio's "The Expulsion from Paradise" Adam & Eve |
#3744, aired 2000-12-07 | A.A. $400: He's the wonderful singer heard here:
("Wonderful") Adam Ant |
#3723, aired 2000-11-08 | HIS STORY $100: This man's story begins in Genesis 1:26 Adam |
#3721, aired 2000-11-06 | THE ADAM SANDLER STORY $100: After Dennis Miller caught Adam's act at the Improv in L.A., he was invited to join this show in NYC Saturday Night Live |
#3721, aired 2000-11-06 | THE ADAM SANDLER STORY $200: In 1998 Adam Sandler was Bobby Boucher, this title "boy" at a Louisiana university The Waterboy |
#3721, aired 2000-11-06 | THE ADAM SANDLER STORY $300: Rob Schneider cavorted as a male gigolo in this 1999 release executive produced by Adam Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo |
#3721, aired 2000-11-06 | THE ADAM SANDLER STORY $400: In a 1998 comedy, Adam finds love with Drew Barrymore as this title ceremonial crooner The Wedding Singer |
#3721, aired 2000-11-06 | THE ADAM SANDLER STORY $500: Adam played Stick Pin Quinn & the Stud Boy on this hip, happening MTV game show Remote Control |
#3712, aired 2000-10-24 | 4-LETTER WORD"SS" $100: On September 18, 1999 Heather French got to put this before "America" on her resume Miss |
#3712, aired 2000-10-24 | FOREIGN FILM TITLES $400: 1998's "Central do Brasil" Central Station |
#3712, aired 2000-10-24 | "B.B."s $800: An expression meaning "Just like that!", or a bar where TV's "The Sopranos" conduct business Bada Bing |
#3712, aired 2000-10-24 | EDIBLE-SOUNDING NAMES $800: This recently retired "hot" Yankees DH was born in Kingston, Jamaica Chili Davis |
#3712, aired 2000-10-24 | EDIBLE-SOUNDING NAMES $1,000 (Daily Double): Once a Secretary of the Treasury, he donated $15 million to the U.S. government to build the National Gallery of Art Andrew Mellon |
#3699, aired 2000-10-05 | THEY'RE HOT! $200: He played the Big Daddy in "Big Daddy" Adam Sandler |
#3682, aired 2000-09-12 | BIBLICAL PAIRS $100: Created by God to rule the Earth in Genesis Adam & Eve |
#3677, aired 2000-09-05 | GRAMMY 2000 $200: Sheryl Crow's winning "Sweet Child O' Mine" was from the soundtrack of this Adam Sandler film Big Daddy |
#3673, aired 2000-07-19 | GETTING POSSESSIVE $300: While one creation slept, God took this to make Eve Adam's rib |
#3666, aired 2000-07-10 | CALVINISM $200: Calvinists use this word, also a name for a season, to describe Adam & Eve's disobedience the Fall |
#3654, aired 2000-06-22 | TV MOMS $100: Tabitha & Adam Samantha Stevens/Elizabeth Montgomery |
#3652, aired 2000-06-20 | IN THE PAST MILLENNIUM $100: Adam Smith published "The Wealth of Nations" in this year, the same one in which we declared independence 1776 |
#3641, aired 2000-06-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: She created Adam Bede, Silas Marner & Daniel Deronda George Eliot |
#3635, aired 2000-05-26 | I WRITE THE SONGS $300: This group's Adam Duritz co-wrote 1993's "Mr. Jones" & 1999's "Hanginaround" Counting Crows |
#3627, aired 2000-05-16 | INTELLIGENT FILMS $800: Adam Hann-Byrd plays the young title intellectual & Jodie Foster his mother in this 1991 film Little Man Tate |
#3620, aired 2000-05-05 | THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY $200: In Islamic belief, this man born on Friday was not only the first man but the first prophet Adam |
#3596, aired 2000-04-03 | SNL ALUMNI $400: Man oh man, his characters included Operaman & Cajunman Adam Sandler |
#3565, aired 2000-02-18 | SNAKES ALIVE! $200: Capable of speeds of 12 MPH, this aggressive "black" snake of tropical Africa is the world's fastest Black mamba |
#3565, aired 2000-02-18 | REALLY OLD NEWS $400: Spanish navigator Vincente Yanez Pinzon captained this vessel on a famous 1492 voyage Nina |
#3565, aired 2000-02-18 | WORLD CAPITALS $500: In this capital on the Danube you can stroll the Nagy Korut (Great Boulevard) or the Kis Korut (Small Boulevard) Budapest |
#3564, aired 2000-02-17 | 20th CENTURY MEDICINE $200: In 1961 U.S. physicians began using his oral polio vaccine Dr. Albert Sabin |
#3564, aired 2000-02-17 | SILLY SIMILES $400: You might be busy as a bee, a beaver or a one-armed one of these a paper hanger |
#3564, aired 2000-02-17 | HITS OF THE '90s $400: Toni Braxton asked her lover to do this to "my heart, say you'll love me again" un-break |
#3563, aired 2000-02-16 | RADIO WAVES $200: This romantic advice show hosted by Adam & Dr. Drew began on California's KROQ over 15 years ago Loveline |
#3537, aired 2000-01-11 | 1800 $1000: His "The Wealth of Nations" was one of the first books bought to stock the new Library of Congress Adam Smith |
#3520, aired 1999-12-17 | HOLIDAY SONGS $400: "Put on your yarmulke, it's time for Chanukah" is a line from his "Chanukah Song" Adam Sandler |
#3519, aired 1999-12-16 | BIBLICAL SPEAKERS $200: "The woman who thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree and I did eat" Adam |
#3511, aired 1999-12-06 | FAMILY FILMS $200: Single guy Adam Sandler tries to raise a kid in this 1999 comedy Big Daddy |
#3487, aired 1999-11-02 | U.S. CITIES $100: Stanford students know the name of this California city means "tall tree", referring to redwoods Palo Alto |
#3487, aired 1999-11-02 | BOTANY $400: Species of this plant include the jumping cholla, barrel & organ pipe cactus |
#3487, aired 1999-11-02 | VOICES $500: Heard as Ruth P. McDougal on "Hey Arnold!", she's seen as Claudia Salinger on "Party of Five" Lacey Chabert |
#3487, aired 1999-11-02 | BOTANY $1000: The stigma is the sticky area at the top of this female part of a flower the pistil |
#3485, aired 1999-10-29 | PALINDROMES $200: Classic 3-word palindrome that could have been the world's first introduction "Madam, I'm Adam" |
#3476, aired 1999-10-18 | TV 3 OF A KIND $300: The first names of the 3 sons on "Bonanza" Adam, Hoss & Little Joe |
#3474, aired 1999-10-14 | THE BIBLE $1000: After Adam & Eve were expelled from Eden, this type of angel, not seraphim, made sure they stayed out Cherubim |
#3469, aired 1999-10-07 | TV's COMIC BOOK HEROES $100: Adam West Batman |
#3447, aired 1999-09-07 | WHOSE IS IT? $400: This "apple" is at the front of men's throats Adam's apple |
#3446, aired 1999-09-06 | BIBLE HEROES $100: He had 3 sons:
Seth, Abel & Cain Adam |
#3432, aired 1999-07-06 | THREE OF A KIND $400: Adam,
Hoss,
Little Joe Sons on Bonanza |
#3426, aired 1999-06-28 | BODY PARTS $100: Most people are born with 12 pairs of these; some have more & Adam wound up one short ribs |
#3424, aired 1999-06-24 | BIBLICAL DATING GAME $400: "There was not found an help meet" for him until God played Jim Lange & provided one Adam |
#3399, aired 1999-05-20 | KATHARINE HEPBURN FILMS $400: In "Adam's Rib" Hepburn & this actor are married lawyers on opposite sides of a case Spencer Tracy |
#3394, aired 1999-05-13 | NAME THE PARENTS $200: Seth, in Genesis Adam & Eve |
#3389, aired 1999-05-06 | GENESIS $100: This man said, "She gave me of the tree, and I did eat" Adam |
#3386, aired 1999-05-03 | CALL ME SMITTY $1000: This 18th C. Scottish political philosopher laid the foundations of free-market economic theory Adam Smith |
#3383, aired 1999-04-28 | LONG-RUNNING TV SHOWS $200: Steven Hill's D.A. Adam Schiff was the only original still on this drama in 1999, in its ninth season Law & Order |
#3383, aired 1999-04-28 | THE NUDE IN ART $600: When Durer painted this pair in 1507, he had them hold tree branches whose leaves blocked out certain parts Adam & Eve |
#3382, aired 1999-04-27 | PUNCH LINES $800: A sexually confused Punch quote tells us "Our best men are dead!... Tennyson," & this "Adam Bede" author George Eliot |
#3350, aired 1999-03-12 | BANDS BY THE NUMBER $1000: The band Seven Mary Three got its name from motorcycle cop Jon Baker's call number on this '70s TV series CHiPs |
#3348, aired 1999-03-10 | TV BY THE NUMBERS $400: Adam Rich & Willie Aames were 2 of the kids on this show set in Sacramento Eight Is Enough |
#3344, aired 1999-03-04 | 1998 MOVIES $100: Adam Sandler quenched America's thirst for comedy with this 1998 sports movie The Waterboy |
#3321, aired 1999-02-01 | 1776 $1,500 (Daily Double): This Scottish economist theorized that labor, not land, is the main source of wealth Adam Smith |
#3318, aired 1999-01-27 | BIBLICAL FAMILIES $200: Comparing grammars of ancient Phoenician & Hebrew shows he may have been born before Adam & Eve left Eden Cain |
#3314, aired 1999-01-21 | JERRY SPRINGER'S BIBLE SHOW $400: These 2 were rather circumspect when Seth's letter got them on "Fig Leaf Makeovers" Adam & Eve |
#3289, aired 1998-12-17 | BY GEORGE! $800: A "manly" 19th century realist, she penned works like "Adam Bede", "Felix Holt" & "Daniel Deronda" George Eliot |
#3268, aired 1998-11-18 | REMEMBER THE '80s? $600: This singer was on his best behavior with the song heard here Adam Ant |
#3258, aired 1998-11-04 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $600: In 1992 Adam Arkin of "Chicago Hope" took over the role of Nathan Detroit in this musical revival Guys and Dolls |
#3251, aired 1998-10-26 | MUSICALS $400: This 1977 film was the basis for a 1998 London musical starring Adam Garcia as Tony Manero "Saturday Night Fever" |
#3251, aired 1998-10-26 | HORTON HEARS THE WHO $500: In 1990 The Who were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by this group's Adam Clayton U2 |
#3215, aired 1998-07-17 | GREAT BRITS $1000: He wrote a review of Samuel Johnson's dictionary before inquiring into the "Wealth of Nations" Adam Smith |
#3201, aired 1998-06-29 | THIS MUST BE POLAND $200: Polish universities are named for poet Adam Mickiewicz & for this 16th century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus |
#3176, aired 1998-05-25 | MEAT & POTATOES $400: In Genesis, God told this man "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you" Noah |
#3168, aired 1998-05-13 | ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $200: As this film's title character, Adam Sandler serenades a pair of newlyweds with the song "Love Stinks" The Wedding Singer |
#3148, aired 1998-04-15 | NAME THAT ARTIST $100: The following is a detail of perhaps his greatest painting: Michelangelo |
#3115, aired 1998-02-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: This John Steinbeck novel centers on Adam Trask & his twin sons Aron & Caleb East of Eden |
#3110, aired 1998-02-20 | OLD TESTAMENT NUDITY $100: Hopefully when they sewed fig leaves together to cover their nakedness, it wasn't in a sweatshop Adam & Eve |
#3105, aired 1998-02-13 | HE SAID $600: In Eden the Lord told Adam he would return to this & told the serpent he would eat it dirt (or dust or earth or soil) |
#3099, aired 1998-02-05 | MEN IN TIGHTS $800: His autobiography is appropriately titled "Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights" Burt Ward |
#3076, aired 1998-01-05 | DEATH SENTENCES $100: It was in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy that he wrote nothing is "Certain except death & taxes" Benjamin Franklin |
#3076, aired 1998-01-05 | A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND $500: Where you might find a diamond pendant on a woman, or the tendency of diamonds to split among lines cleavage |
#3076, aired 1998-01-05 | THE WAR OF 1812 $1000: Negotiators for the U.S. in Ghent included John Quincy Adams & this Speaker of the House from Kentucky Henry Clay |
#3076, aired 1998-01-05 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $1000: Harvey Birch runs sneaky errands for George Washington in this James Fenimore Cooper novel The Spy |
#3076, aired 1998-01-05 | PROVERBS $1,400 (Daily Double): This proverb about taking a spill is attributed to heavyweight boxer Robert Fitzsimmons "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" |
#3068, aired 1997-12-24 | ORGANIZATIONS $400: In 1996 Adam Werbach, at 23, became the youngest pres. of this S.F.-based conservation group Sierra Club |
#3053, aired 1997-12-03 | GENESIS $300: He was Adam & Eve's third-born child Seth |
#3017, aired 1997-10-14 | FICTIONAL DETECTIVES $800: In 1962 she introduced Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh in her first novel, "Cover Her Face" P.D. James |
#3012, aired 1997-10-07 | ENTERTAINERS $800: This "Saturday Night Live" "Opera Man" has since starred on film in "Billy Madison" & "Happy Gilmore" Adam Sandler |
#3003, aired 1997-09-24 | TELEVISION $500: "Dragnet"'s Jack Webb also developed this police series starring Martin Milner & Kent McCord Adam-12 |
#2988, aired 1997-09-03 | BIBLICAL FASHION $200: After realizing they were naked, Adam & Eve sewed these leaves together & made aprons Fig Leaves |
#2974, aired 1997-07-03 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $300: Adam Arkin, who plays Dr. Aaron Shutt on this TV series, is the son of actor Alan Arkin Chicago Hope |
#2955, aired 1997-06-06 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $600: It's to whom God said, "The end of all flesh is come before me" Noah |
#2948, aired 1997-05-28 | BUG NAMES $400: In 1982 he had a hit single, "Goody Two Shoes", & a hit album, "Friend or Foe" Adam Ant |
#2926, aired 1997-04-28 | ART $200: The part of the Sistine Chapel on which Michelangelo painted Adam's fall ceiling |
#2924, aired 1997-04-24 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $100: God told Adam, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of" this one Tree of the knowledge of good & evil |
#2896, aired 1997-03-17 | BATMEN & ROBINS $100: Born William Anderson in Walla Walla, Washington, this TV Batman faced 3 different Catwomen Adam West |
#2873, aired 1997-02-12 | POP-ROCK $400: "Mr. Jones" could tell you "Recovering The Satellites" is the second album by this Adam Duritz group Counting Crows |
#2831, aired 1996-12-16 | BIRD TV $500: It's the bird name of the Emmy-winning actor who plays twins Adam & Stuart Chandler on "All My Children" David Canary |
#2817, aired 1996-11-26 | HISTORIC NAMES $400: It took him 9 years to write "An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" Adam Smith |
#2810, aired 1996-11-15 | 3-LETTER ANATOMY $400: It went from Adam to make a madam rib |
#2783, aired 1996-10-09 | ENGLISH LIT $1000: This baroness whose first name is Phyllis is famous for mystery novels about detective Adam Dalgliesh P.D. James |
#2769, aired 1996-09-19 | ____ THE ____ $500: A 1964 Arthur Miller play or, as Adam & Eve learned the hard way, when winter comes After the Fall |
#2748, aired 1996-07-10 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $800: Jewish legend calls this female demon the first wife of Adam, before Eve Lilith |
#2744, aired 1996-07-04 | THE BIBLE $200: This son of Adam & Eve "said unto the Lord, my punishment is greater than I can bear" Cain |
#2725, aired 1996-06-07 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: This longest-lived person in the Bible was the 8th member of the Sethite line from Adam to Noah Methuselah |
#2719, aired 1996-05-30 | THE BIBLE $600: One of his rare mentions outside Genesis is in 1 Chronicles 1:1, where he begins a family tree Adam |
#2718, aired 1996-05-29 | TV FAMILIES $400: Ben, Adam, Hoss, Little Joe the Cartwrights |
#2701, aired 1996-05-06 | ISLANDS $1000: A string of small islands known as Adam's Bridge stretches from India to this nearby island nation Sri Lanka |
#2689, aired 1996-04-18 | THE BIBLE $100: In Genesis 3:19 God told him that he would have to earn his living by the sweat of his brow Adam |
#2650, aired 1996-02-23 | ART & ARTISTS $200: Riemenschneider sculpted this first biblical couple for a chapel in Wurzburg, Germany Adam & Eve |
#2636, aired 1996-02-05 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $200: "And whatsover" he "called every living creature, that was the name thereof" Adam |
#2632, aired 1996-01-30 | TOUGH TV TRIVIA 2 $200: In the 1966-67 season, this Adam West superhero series aired 2 nights a week Batman |
#2618, aired 1996-01-10 | FAMOUS PAINTINGS $400: The 3 central panels on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel tell this pair's story Adam & Eve |
#2615, aired 1996-01-05 | THE BIBLE $500: This third son of Adam lived 912 years Seth |
#2606, aired 1995-12-25 | THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART $200: Benjamin West's 1791 painting of "The Expulsion of" this pair "from Paradise" is in the gallery Adam and Eve |
#2605, aired 1995-12-22 | MONEY MATTERS $500: This Scot coined the term "invisible hand" for the market mechanism that coordinates independent acts Adam Smith |
#2596, aired 1995-12-11 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $400: Dating back to the 13th century, the Adam and Eve is the oldest of these in Norwich, England a pub |
#2584, aired 1995-11-23 | THE BODY HUMAN $100: There are 9 cartilages in the larynx, & the largest of them forms this bulge the Adam's apple |
#2582, aired 1995-11-21 | GREAT SCOTS $800: In 1787 this philosopher & economist was named lord rector of the University of Glasgow Adam Smith |
#2580, aired 1995-11-17 | BLACK AMERICANS $500 (Daily Double): The "Voice of Harlem"; he served in the House of Representatives from 1945-67 & 1969-1970 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. |
#2571, aired 1995-11-06 | THE BIBLE $100: Man's first job was as a gardener, as God told him to dress & keep the garden of Eden Adam |
#2554, aired 1995-10-12 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $600: This third son of Adam & Eve was an ancestor of Noah Seth |
#2548, aired 1995-10-04 | PROFESSORS $300: This author of "The Wealth of Nations" was a professor of logic, & later, of moral philosophy Adam Smith |
#2547, aired 1995-10-03 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $100: Until their eyes "were opened" they were not ashamed of being naked Adam & Eve |
#2528, aired 1995-09-06 | PHILOSOPHY $600: This Scottish economist wrote "The Theory of Moral Sentiments", a philosophical treatise, in 1759 Adam Smith |
#2520, aired 1995-07-14 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $600: In 1923 this M.P. wrote, "The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman" Lady Astor |
#2498, aired 1995-06-14 | THE BIBLE $200: God told him not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil Adam |
#2460, aired 1995-04-21 | THE SMITHS $200: In 1777 this economist was appointed Commissioner of Customs & of salt duties for Scotland Adam Smith |
#2453, aired 1995-04-12 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: This British author modeled Adam Bede on her own father George Eliot |
#2429, aired 1995-03-09 | WOMEN $200: An anonymous wit called this biblical figure "Madam Adam" Eve |
#2405, aired 1995-02-03 | 1776 $600: He published "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" Adam Smith |
#2398, aired 1995-01-25 | HANS ACROSS THE SEA $600 (Daily Double): Since the 1989 death of Franz Josef II, Prince Hans Adam has reigned over this small principality Liechtenstein |
#2390, aired 1995-01-13 | BIOLOGY $200: Your coccyx is a rudimentary one of these which reaches its maximum length in the 6th week of development tail |
#2390, aired 1995-01-13 | HODGEPODGE $300: 1 of the 2 things you can change on your own passport; any other alterations are forbidden your address or your next of kin (to be notified in case of a problem) |
#2390, aired 1995-01-13 | ANIMALS $400: The dark brown pelt of this Siberian animal, a type of marten, is one of the most valuable furs a sable |
#2390, aired 1995-01-13 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $400: In 1994 American Publishing Co. agreed to buy this 2nd-largest Chicago paper for $180 million the Chicago Sun-Times |
#2390, aired 1995-01-13 | ANIMALS $500 (Daily Double): This aquatic rodent is named for the odor that it emits a muskrat |
#2390, aired 1995-01-13 | ANIMALS $500: Snails are gastropods which belong to this phylum of the animal kingdom mollusks |
#2390, aired 1995-01-13 | NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES $600: De Telegraaf & de Volkskrant are 2 of this country's biggest papers the Netherlands |
#2389, aired 1995-01-12 | WORLD CITIES $200: This, the former capital of New France, is Canada's only walled city Quebec (City) |
#2389, aired 1995-01-12 | WORLD CITIES $400: Mentioned in the Bible, "The Street Which Is Called Straight" still exists in this Syrian capital Damascus |
#2389, aired 1995-01-12 | ART & ARTISTS $600: The earliest known surviving works of Andrea Pisano are the first bronze doors of this city's baptistery Florence |
#2370, aired 1994-12-16 | GENESIS $100: He gave Adam & Eve their first grandchild Cain |
#2370, aired 1994-12-16 | GENESIS $300: Before banishing Adam & Eve from Eden, God improved their wardrobe from these to coats of skins fig leaves |
#2365, aired 1994-12-09 | THE BIBLE $300: He lived 800 years after he begat Seth Adam |
#2361, aired 1994-12-05 | ACTORS & ACTRESSES $400: He made his film debut in 1947 in "Life with Father"; "Route 66" & "Adam-12" came later Marty Milner |
#2341, aired 1994-11-07 | ENGLISH LIT. $200: Last name shared by "Murder in the Cathedral" author T .S. & "Adam Bede" author George Eliot |
#2338, aired 1994-11-02 | THE BIBLE $200: The name of this second son of Adam & Eve means "breath" or "vapor" in Hebrew Abel |
#2337, aired 1994-11-01 | QUOTABLE WOMEN $1000: In "Adam Bede" she wrote, "I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God almighty made 'em to match the men" George Eliot |
#2305, aired 1994-09-16 | EUROPEAN ROYALTY $600: This country's ruler, Prince Hans Adam, lives in a castle on a cliff that overlooks the city of Vaduz Liechtenstein |
#2272, aired 1994-06-21 | THE BIBLE $200: In Genesis 3:7 they sewed fig leaves together & made aprons for themselves Adam & Eve |
#2258, aired 1994-06-01 | THE BIBLE $500 (Daily Double): In the Old Testament, the first of the 2 books to bear this name lists genealogies from Adam to Saul Chronicles |
#2252, aired 1994-05-24 | EXPLORERS $200: Adam Johann von Krusenstern was the first Russian to sail this far; it took him 3 years, 1803-06 around the world |
#2229, aired 1994-04-21 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $500: This third son of Adam & Eve was the ancestor of Methuselah Seth |
#2224, aired 1994-04-14 | COMMON BONDS $100: Spare,
Prime,
Adam's ribs |
#2201, aired 1994-03-14 | QUOTES $2,000 (Daily Double): "We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves", she wrote in "Adam Bede" George Eliot |
#2188, aired 1994-02-23 | THE HUMAN BODY $600: This projection that's seen at the front of the throat is also called the laryngeal prominence the Adam's apple |
#2182, aired 1994-02-15 | SOAP OPERAS $300: On this soap Michael E. Knight plays Tad & Ted & David Canary plays Adam & Stuart All My Children |
#2177, aired 1994-02-08 | JOHN STEINBECK $400: This novel centers on Adam Trask & his 2 sons Cal & Aron East of Eden |
#2166, aired 1994-01-24 | THE BIBLE $100: "The Lord set about a mark upon" this son of Adam "lest any finding him should kill him" Cain |
#2146, aired 1993-12-27 | MONEY MATTERS $1000: His law states that bad money forces good money out of circulation Thomas Gresham |
#2140, aired 1993-12-17 | THE BIBLE $200: 1 John 3:12 calls this son of Adam & Eve a child "of that wicked one" Cain |
#2139, aired 1993-12-16 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $800: Surgeon Adam Kelno brings an author to trial in this 1970 Leon Uris novel QB VII |
#2133, aired 1993-12-08 | THE BODY HUMAN $400: Of the 9 cartilages in this upper part of the respiratory passage, the Adam's apple is the largest the larynx |
#2133, aired 1993-12-08 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $500: The Stowe House in this Ohio "Queen City of the West" often has exhibits on Black history Cincinnati |
#2133, aired 1993-12-08 | SAINTS $600: A railroad terminal in this European capital bears the name of martyr St. Pancras London |
#2132, aired 1993-12-07 | NEWSPAPERS $200 (Daily Double): Atlantis, a New York daily published from 1894 to 1972, catered to immigrants from this country Greece |
#2131, aired 1993-12-06 | POT LUCK $600: The only 2 factors of a prime number are itself & this 1 |
#2131, aired 1993-12-06 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: The 1901 Platt Amendment gave the U.S. the right to intervene in this country's affairs Cuba |
#2123, aired 1993-11-24 | ECONOMICS $1000: He's considered the first of the classical economists Adam Smith |
#2119, aired 1993-11-18 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $300: The plantain member of this fruit family, Musaceae, is also called Adam's fig banana |
#2115, aired 1993-11-12 | THE "OSCAR"s $800: This actor-pianist played himself in "Rhapsody in Blue" & Adam Cook in "An American in Paris" Oscar Levant |
#2107, aired 1993-11-02 | NORSE MYTHOLOGY $200: In the Edda, the Norse equivalents of this biblical couple are Askr & Embla Adam & Eve |
#2096, aired 1993-10-18 | WOMEN IN MUSIC $800: Jazz pianist Hazel Scott married this flamboyant Harlem congressman in 1945 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. |
#2074, aired 1993-09-16 | PAINTING $500 (Daily Double): 1508-1512 project that included the following: the Sistine Chapel |
#2051, aired 1993-07-05 | THE BIBLE $200: In Genesis 3:7 they sew themselves aprons of fig leaves Adam & Eve |
#2021, aired 1993-05-24 | LITERARY POTPOURRI $1,500 (Daily Double): "Romola" was this "Adam Bede" author's only historical novel George Eliot |
#2019, aired 1993-05-20 | U.S. HISTORY $200: In 1885 the Post Office began this service that sent mail more quickly for an extra fee special delivery |
#2019, aired 1993-05-20 | TV WESTERNS $300: This TV western was set on the Barkley Ranch in the 1870s The Big Valley |
#2019, aired 1993-05-20 | MEN OF LETTER $400: For directing the Watergate burglary, he got a sentence of 2 1/2 to 8 years but served only 32 months E. Howard Hunt |
#2019, aired 1993-05-20 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: Common dating techniques are carbon-14, counting tree rings & analyzing grains of this pollen |
#2019, aired 1993-05-20 | U.S. HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): 2 of the 4 men upon whom the new rank of 5-star general was conferred in 1944 (2 of) MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshall, Hap Arnold |
#2019, aired 1993-05-20 | MEN OF LETTER $3,000 (Daily Double): His rescue of 2 EDS employees from a prison in Iran was the subject of Ken Follett's "On Wings of Eagles" H. Ross Perot |
#2018, aired 1993-05-19 | POTPOURRI $100: "Oh, I went down south for to see my Sal" singing this "all the day" Polly Wolly Doodle |
#2018, aired 1993-05-19 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $100: Rhone-Poulenc is this country's largest chemical company France |
#2018, aired 1993-05-19 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: Created by 2 volcanoes, it's Hawaii's "Valley Island" Maui |
#2018, aired 1993-05-19 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $600: This Cabinet member is the official custodian of the Great Seal of the U.S. the Secretary of State |
#2018, aired 1993-05-19 | OPERA $800: First name shared by a servant in "La Traviata" & the composer of "La Traviata" Giuseppe |
#2018, aired 1993-05-19 | POTENT POTABLES $1000: This Scandinavian liquor is made by redistilling alcohol made from grain or potatoes aquavit |
#2018, aired 1993-05-19 | LIFE SCIENCE $1000: It's the major division of organisms between class & family order |
#2014, aired 1993-05-13 | ROCK GROUPS $400: Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr., the Edge, Bono U2 |
#1986, aired 1993-04-05 | WILL SHAKESPEARE $400: Legend says Will acted in his own plays, as Adam in "As You Like It" & the ghost in this tragedy Hamlet |
#1964, aired 1993-03-04 | ECONOMISTS $800: Adam Smith's 1776 book was "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of" this The Wealth of Nations |
#1939, aired 1993-01-28 | POTENT POTABLES $100: Appropriately, the cocktail named for this biblical couple is made with a liqueur called forbidden fruit Adam & Eve |
#1930, aired 1993-01-15 | ENGLISH POETRY $400: The angel Michael leads Adam & Eve out of the Garden of Eden in this John Milton epic Paradise Lost |
#1864, aired 1992-10-15 | MONEY MATTERS $1000: The writings of this 18th century Glasgow University professor formed the basis of modern economics Adam Smith |
#1842, aired 1992-09-15 | ECONOMICS $800: This Scottish economist began writing "The Wealth of Nations" while working as a tutor in France Adam Smith |
#1838, aired 1992-09-09 | LITERATURE $800: Cathy Ames abandons Adam Trask & their twin sons in this Steinbeck work East of Eden |
#1837, aired 1992-09-08 | TV NOSTALGIA $100: On "Bonanza", it was the last name of Ben, Hoss, Little Joe & Adam Cartwright |
#1829, aired 1992-07-09 | BIBLICAL SENIORS $500: Adam lived 800 years after he begat this third son, who lived 912 years Seth |
#1779, aired 1992-04-30 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $100: In Genesis 3:23 God "sent him forth from... Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken" Adam |
#1740, aired 1992-03-06 | THE BIBLE $100: Adam & Eve sewed leaves of this tree "together, and made themselves aprons" the fig tree |
#1713, aired 1992-01-29 | THE BIBLE $200: In Genesis 3:8 they play hide & seek with God amongst the trees Adam & Eve |
#1663, aired 1991-11-20 | ISLANDS $600: A chain of tiny islands called Adam's Bridge runs between India & this island known for it tea Sri Lanka |
#1642, aired 1991-10-22 | ANATOMY $100: It's the bulging front part of the larynx & is bigger in men than in women the Adam's apple |
#1636, aired 1991-10-14 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $1000: In "All the King's Men", this gov. is killed in the capitol by Adam Stanton, the son of a former governor Willie Stark |
#1635, aired 1991-10-11 | OLD TESTAMENT $5,000 (Daily Double): Although he's often called Adam's third son, Genesis 5:3 implies he was first Seth |
#1634, aired 1991-10-10 | THE HUMAN BODY $600 (Daily Double): This butterfly-shaped gland straddles the windpipe just behind the Adam's apple the thyroid |
#1633, aired 1991-10-09 | THE BIBLE $100: According to Genesis, God formed him of the dust of the ground Adam |
#1631, aired 1991-10-07 | NEW ENGLAND $800: Published by Benjamin Harris around 1690, it began "A--In Adam's fall, We sinned all" the Little Bible of New England |
#1602, aired 1991-07-16 | ARTISTS $200: To see his "The Creation of Adam", look up at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel Michelangelo |
#1597, aired 1991-07-09 | ART $200: Albrecht Durer is known for his 1504 engraving of this pair with strategically placed leaves Adam & Eve |
#1584, aired 1991-06-20 | SMITHS $400: On public TV's "Money World" host George J.W. Goodman uses this pseudonym Adam Smith |
#1572, aired 1991-06-04 | WORLD CITIES $400: Some believe the Black Stone in the wall of this city's Kaaba was given to Adam on his fall from paradise Mecca |
#1560, aired 1991-05-17 | TWINS $800: David Canary has won 3 Emmys for his portrayal of twins Adam & Stuart Chandler on this soap All My Children |
#1557, aired 1991-05-14 | RELIGION $200: In Jewish folklore, Lilith was the first wife of Adam before God created her Eve |
#1550, aired 1991-05-03 | THE BIBLE $400: According to Genesis 2:21, God took one of these from Adam while he slept a rib |
#1531, aired 1991-04-08 | 1791 $600: He published the first part of “The Rights of Man” in England & was later charged with treason Thomas Paine |
#1514, aired 1991-03-14 | THE HUMAN BODY $400: Both men & women have a thyroid cartilage better known by this Biblical name the Adam's apple |
#1494, aired 1991-02-14 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: He championed free trade in "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" Adam Smith |
#1484, aired 1991-01-31 | 1776 $200: Adam Smith published "The Wealth of Nations", establishing this as a separate science economics |
#1481, aired 1991-01-28 | THE MIDDLE AGES $400: "Venerable" historian who completed a translation of the Gospel of St. John hours before his death Bede |
#1477, aired 1991-01-22 | THE BIBLE $400: This son of Adam built a city in the land of Nod & named it for his son Enoch Cain |
#1444, aired 1990-12-06 | AKA $400: William West Anderson who was TV's caped crusader Adam West |
#1442, aired 1990-12-04 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Dinah Morris, a Methodist preacher, agrees to marry Adam Bede at the end of this author's novel George Eliot |
#1404, aired 1990-10-11 | BY "GEORGE" $500: "Adam Bede" was the first full-length novel Mary Ann Evans wrote under this pen name George Eliot |
#1327, aired 1990-05-15 | ADAM & EVE $100: When called on the carpet, Adam blamed Eve, & Eve blamed him The Serpent |
#1327, aired 1990-05-15 | ADAM & EVE $200: God reminded Adam that this "Thou art, unto" it "shalt thou return" Dust |
#1327, aired 1990-05-15 | ADAM & EVE $400: According to Genesis, Adam gave these to the animals & later gave one to his wife Names |
#1327, aired 1990-05-15 | ADAM & EVE $500 (Daily Double): They could eat of the Tree of Life, but the Tree of the Knowledge of this was off limits Good and evil |
#1327, aired 1990-05-15 | ADAM & EVE $500: Adam was a young 130 when he begat him, his third son Seth |
#1305, aired 1990-04-13 | LITERARY QUOTES $800: In the 3-word poem "On the Antiquity of Microbes", it's the line that follows "Adam" had 'em |
#1290, aired 1990-03-23 | THE BIBLE $100: Some Biblical scholars believe it was an orange or a quince--or possibly an apricot the forbidden fruit |
#1290, aired 1990-03-23 | HISTORIC QUOTES $1000: When Napoleon said "England is a nation of shopkeepers", he was quoting this economist Adam Smith |
#1287, aired 1990-03-20 | BIBLICAL QUOTES $100: God told him, "Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return" Adam |
#1203, aired 1989-11-22 | "A" IN LITERATURE $1,000 (Daily Double): In "East of Eden" he was the father of Caleb & Aron Trask Adam |
#1186, aired 1989-10-30 | THE BIBLE $100: God placed cherubium & a flaming sword east of this place from which Adam & Eve were banned Eden |
#1174, aired 1989-10-12 | NAME'S THE SAME $800: The founder of modern economics, or the pen name of George Goodman, author of "The Money Game" Adam Smith |
#1146, aired 1989-09-04 | FASHION DESIGNERS $100: Pierre Cardin's 1st boutique for women was called "Eve" & his men's store was named this Adam |
#1137, aired 1989-07-11 | SEXY SENIORS $100: They had a son named Seth more than a century after they raised Cain Adam & Eve |
#1090, aired 1989-05-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Her 1st novel was "Adam Bede" George Eliot |
#1089, aired 1989-05-04 | ECONOMICS $1000: A 1776 work by this man has been called "The Handbook of the Industrial Revolution" Adam Smith |
#1084, aired 1989-04-27 | MISSING LINKS $400: Adam, Little Joe Hoss |
#1080, aired 1989-04-21 | FASHION HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Not counting Adam & Eve's fig leaves, the earliest known garments were made of this material animal skins (leather) |
#1077, aired 1989-04-18 | GENESIS $400: In Genesis 2:19, Adam did this to every beast of the field named it |
#1068, aired 1989-04-05 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $300: Only fruit specifically mentioned by name in the biblical account of Adam & Eve figs |
#1066, aired 1989-04-03 | HYPNOTISM $300: Genesis 2:21-22 sounds a lot like God put Adam in a trance in order to do this remove his rib |
#1046, aired 1989-03-06 | OLD TESTAMENT $300: What we know about this 3rd son of Adam & Eve is that he lived 912 years, & fathered many kids Seth |
#1044, aired 1989-03-02 | BIBLICAL 1st LINES $600: "We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but..." Eve |
#1039, aired 1989-02-23 | ODDS & ENDS $300: Eve to Adam, or Gilligan to the Skipper first mate |
#960, aired 1988-11-04 | QUOTES $400: Mark Twain said, "Adam...did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was" this forbidden fruit |
#956, aired 1988-10-31 | TV TRIVIA $300: Toody & Muldoon tooled around in Car 54 while Reed & Malloy used this car Adam-12 |
#951, aired 1988-10-24 | ANATOMY $1000: Largest of the 9 cartilages in the larynx, it's technically called a thyroid cartilage Adam's apple |
#897, aired 1988-06-28 | FAMOUS QUOTES $400: Expression attributed to Henry VIII to which Adam Clayton Powell added the word "baby" Keep the faith |
#868, aired 1988-05-18 | NOAH $300: According to Genesis 5, Noah is 10th in descent from this man Adam |
#848, aired 1988-04-20 | WOMEN $300: According to Hebrew legend, Lilith was actually his 1st wife, but they didn't get along Adam |
#846, aired 1988-04-18 | BIMINI $500: An annual wahoo tournament is held in memory of this controversial congressman from Harlem Adam Clayton Powell |
#845, aired 1988-04-15 | REFERENCE BOOKS $600: Their first names are Isaac & Adam; you can "look it up" in their reference book Funk & Wagnalls |
#840, aired 1988-04-08 | TRANSPORTATION $300: 4 members of the Seattle police department's freewheeling Adam squad now patrol the city on these bicycles |
#835, aired 1988-04-01 | FINE ARTS $600: Adam's creation is in the Bible, but "The Creation of Adam" is here the Sistine Chapel |
#797, aired 1988-02-09 | GENESIS $1,000 (Daily Double): Their names can be translated as "man" & "living one" Adam & Eve |
#787, aired 1988-01-26 | ECONOMICS $800: 18th C. Scottish economist, or pen name, under which George Goodman wrote "The Money Game" Adam Smith |
#787, aired 1988-01-26 | OLD TESTAMENT $5,000 (Daily Double): The Biblical pair mentioned in the following song: Adam & Eve |
#766, aired 1987-12-28 | 20th C. AMERICA $500: Sam Adam's words "This meeting can do nothing more to save the country" kicked off this famous protest Boston Tea Party |
#748, aired 1987-12-02 | TV WESTERNS $200: Relationship of Hoss, Adam, & Little Joe Cartwright to each other half-brothers |
#748, aired 1987-12-02 | THE '60s $1000: After Congress barred him in 1967, his Harlem constituents re-elected him to fill his vacant House seat Adam Clayton Powell |
#731, aired 1987-11-09 | NATURE $300: On giraffes, this prehensile muscle can be 20 inches long the tongue |
#708, aired 1987-10-07 | BIBLICAL TRIOS $1000: The only children of Adam & Eve known by name are these 3 sons Cain, Abel & Seth |
#691, aired 1987-09-14 | BLUE JEANS $300: A huge billboard in Italy parodied this artist's work with God offering a naked Adam a pair of jeans Michelangelo |
#665, aired 1987-06-26 | N.E.W.S. $100: Of North, East, West, or South, one who played "Batman" on TV Adam West |
#642, aired 1987-05-26 | BALD IS BEAUTIFUL $300: He wore a toupee while playing "Adam" on "Bonanza" Pernell Roberts |
#638, aired 1987-05-20 | ART $200: In Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam", Adam is stretching forth this hand to God left |
#637, aired 1987-05-19 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $800: Among this author's title characters are "Adam Bede" & "Silas Marner" George Eliot |
#629, aired 1987-05-07 | QUOTES $800: Economist Napoleon was quoting when he called England "a nation of shopkeepers" Adam Smith |
#581, aired 1987-03-02 | THE BIBLE $200: God let him name all the animals, so if you don't think "cow" is a good name, blame him Adam |
#580, aired 1987-02-27 | PALINDROMES $200: Christmas, New Year's or Adam's Eve |
#572, aired 1987-02-17 | TV ALIENS $500: His alter ego is Prince Adam of Eternia He-Man |
#536, aired 1986-12-29 | ECONOMICS $800: This famous book published in 1776 made author Adam Smith synonymous with laissez-faire economics Wealth of Nations |
#502, aired 1986-11-11 | LUNCH COUNTER LINGO $300: In the early days, a glass of this was "Adam's ale" or "Potomac phosphate" water |
#481, aired 1986-10-13 | MYTHOLOGY $1000: In Scandinavian mythology they are called "Ask & Embla" Adam & Eve |
#461, aired 1986-09-15 | POP MUSIC $300: He said he changed his name because "Stuart & the Ants" didn't sound right Adam Ant |
#426, aired 1986-04-28 | BATMAN $300: While Batman came from Detective Comics, this actor who played him came from TV's "The Detectives" Adam West |
#425, aired 1986-04-25 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $1000: Under this masculine pen name Mary Ann Evans wrote "Adam Bede" George Eliot |
#365, aired 1986-01-31 | ART TRIVIA $300: Direction you have to look to view the famous "The Creation of Adam" up |
#361, aired 1986-01-27 | 4-LETTER WORDS $100: "Man of red earth" in Hebrew, since it's said God used red clay for the 1st man Adam |
#347, aired 1986-01-07 | NAMES $100: From Hebrew for "life", Adam's wife Eve |
#337, aired 1985-12-24 | FRUITS $400: According to legend, this tree's leaves clothed Adam & Eve after they ate their fateful fruit fig |
#331, aired 1985-12-16 | THE BIBLE $100: According to the Bible, he gave "Eve" her name Adam |
#330, aired 1985-12-13 | "GARDENS" $100: Adam & Eve naturally hung out there the Garden of Eden |
#316, aired 1985-11-25 | THE BIBLE $800: The Lord gave this son to Adam & to Eve to take the place of Abel Seth |
#308, aired 1985-11-13 | TREES $400: Of the Tree of Life, Tree of Knowledge, or the Tree of Righteousness, the 1 forbidden to Adam Knowledge |
#281, aired 1985-10-07 | PEOPLE $100: Minister who called city of New York "the largest slum landlord in New York City" Jesse Jackson |
#270, aired 1985-09-20 | NUMBERS IN SONG $400: According to Gene McDaniels, the 1st woman wasn't made of Adam's rib, but of this a hundred pounds of clay |
#178, aired 1985-05-15 | PALINDROMES $300: It was to her he said, "Madam, I'm Adam" Eve |
#168, aired 1985-05-01 | ECONOMICS $800: Scottish economist famed for "The Wealth of Nations" & laissez-faire viewpoint Adam Smith |
#158, aired 1985-04-17 | MYTHS & LEGENDS $800: According to Hebrew legend, dark & mysterious Lilith was his 1st wife Adam |
#142, aired 1985-03-26 | POLITICAL QUOTES $1000: A record album issued by this former congressman was called “Keep the Faith, Baby” Adam Clayton Powell |
#126, aired 1985-03-04 | WORD ORIGINS $200: "Biblical" term for the thyroid cartilage that bulges in the throat Adam's apple |
#111, aired 1985-02-11 | ART $600: A detail from his "The Creation of Adam" was recreated for an "E.T." film ad Michelangelo |
#77, aired 1984-12-25 | U.S. HISTORY $800: A major street in New York's Harlem was renamed for this former Congressman Adam Clayton Powell |
#59, aired 1984-11-29 | '60s TRIVIA $400: In 1967 he was kicked out of the House of Representatives for reprehensible behavior Adam Clayton Powell |
#17, aired 1984-10-02 | PALINDROMES $1,000 (Daily Double): 3-word greeting in the Garden of Eden "Madam, I'm Adam" |