#9067, aired 2024-03-26 | FLAT EARTH $200: Once home to numerous antelope, Springbok Flats is in this country's Limpopo province South Africa |
#9065, aired 2024-03-22 | TIME FOR DESERT $2000: The brown hyena & the bat-eared fox both make their home in this largest desert of southern Africa the Kalahari |
#9063, aired 2024-03-20 | IT'S A BIG COUNTRY $2000: With a population of more than 100 million, it covers about 900,000 square miles in the heart of Africa DRC |
#9062, aired 2024-03-19 | DIRECTORS ACTING $1600: This director of "Out of Africa" went in front of the screen for Stanley Kubrick in "Eyes Wide Shut" (Sydney) Pollack |
#9060, aired 2024-03-15 | MAKING A PASS $14,000 (Daily Double): The first major U.S.-German battle of World War II took place in February 1943 at Kasserine Pass on this continent Africa |
#9056, aired 2024-03-11 | NATURE $2000: Also called a scaly anteater, this exotic animal of Africa & Asia is sadly among the most trafficked mammals in the world a pangolin |
#9055, aired 2024-03-08 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $400: Durban, South Africa was once named Port Natal; Natal is Portuguese for this holiday Christmas |
#9047, aired 2024-02-27 | A WORLD OF DEPRESSIONS $1600: The Afar Depression in the Horn of Africa is part of this "Great" fault system the Great Rift Valley |
#9046, aired 2024-02-26 | DOUBLE THE SAME VOWEL $2000: Related to the hyena, this striped mammal of southern Africa feeds mainly on insects & termite larvae the aardwolf |
#9045, aired 2024-02-23 | CONDIMENTS $1000: UNESCO added this Tunisian chili paste, sort of North Africa's ketchup, to its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage harissa |
#9042, aired 2024-02-20 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: This deepest lake in Africa has a name that may come from Swahili words for "Sail" & "wilderness" Lake Tanganyika |
#9036, aired 2024-02-12 | SOME VERY MOVING WORDS $600: In South Africa, to travel by ox wagon; in space, to travel by enterprise to trek |
#9036, aired 2024-02-12 | OCEANOGRAPHY $1200: The current named for these Spanish islands off northwest Africa helps lessen the heating effect of the Sahara the Canary Islands |
#9035, aired 2024-02-09 | ____ OF ____ $800: While native to South Africa, this flower is a common sight in Southern California bird-of-paradise |
#9025, aired 2024-01-26 | 2-3 ZONE $1000: When what's now this country was South West Africa, its southern 2/3 was a "police zone" set aside for white settlers Namibia |
#9024, aired 2024-01-25 | WHIRLED CAPITALS $1600: It's on a horn:
BAA BAD SAID Addis Ababa |
#9023, aired 2024-01-24 | ISLAND COUNTRIES $400: This island country off the coast of Africa is roughly the size of Texas Madagascar |
#26, aired 2024-01-23 | BEST TIME TO VISIT $1000: Dry season months like November are ideal for hiking "the Roof of Africa" at Simien National Park in this country on Africa's horn Ethiopia |
#9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE WRITER'S STRIKE $6,000 (Daily Double): Ken Kesey's "Sometimes a Great Notion" concerns a timber strike in Wakonda--not in Africa but in this state, Kesey's home Oregon |
#9018, aired 2024-01-17 | AROUND THE GLOBE $800: They're the 2 U.N. member countries in Africa with a cardinal direction in their names South Sudan & South Africa |
#9016, aired 2024-01-15 | AFRICAN CITIES $800: South Africa has 3 capitals; Pretoria (executive), Bloemfontein (judicial) & this one (legislative) Cape Town |
#2, aired 2024-01-12 | JUST DESERTS $800: The Namib Desert of West Africa is home to a mountain variety of this member of the horse family the zebra |
#9010, aired 2024-01-05 | COUNTRY OVERLAPS $1200: Kabul's country safaris to East Africa to meet Dar es Salaam's Afghanistanzania |
#23, aired 2024-01-02 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1000: Seen here is the flag of this country where Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took office as Africa's first elected female head of state in 2006 Liberia |
#9006, aired 2024-01-01 | MISHEARD LYRICS $800: Many have sung along to the radio, "I left my brains down in" here Africa |
#9004, aired 2023-12-28 | HUNT & PECK $200: The "black" type of this, Africa's biggest venomous snake, hunts birds & rodents & can raise its head over a yard to strike mamba |
#9000, aired 2023-12-22 | WEATHER IN THE BOOKSTORE $1000: Saul Bellow's Henderson gets this appellation in Africa the Rain King |
#8997, aired 2023-12-19 | COUNTRIES INSIDE OTHER COUNTRY NAMES $1600: Inside the name of the most populous nation in Africa, you'll find this uranium-rich desert nation Niger (in Nigeria) |
#8978, aired 2023-11-22 | SORRY ABOUT THAT $2000: After taking power in South Africa, this party apologized for the faulty timing of some bombs as it battled apartheid the ANC (African National Congress) |
#8962, aired 2023-10-31 | THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN $600: The largest island through which the Tropic of Capricorn passes is this one off Africa's eastern coast Madagascar |
#8961, aired 2023-10-30 | BRING OUT YOUR FRED $2000: In 1989, he became president of South Africa; a few years later, he was deputy president Frederik Willem de Klerk |
#8959, aired 2023-10-26 | MAP HAPPY $200: It's name says where it's at South Africa |
#18, aired 2023-10-25 | FAILING HISTORY $200: Comic Trevor Noah's biracial background proved that this system designed to keep races separate in South Africa just didn't work apartheid |
#17, aired 2023-10-18 | MIDDLE "MAN" $3,000 (Daily Double): Ernest Hemingway wrote about "The Snows of" this highest peak in Africa Kilimanjaro |
#8952, aired 2023-10-17 | THE MOUNTAIN WEST $800: Shira is the westernmost of the 3 volcanic cones that make up this highest peak in Africa Kilimanjaro |
#8948, aired 2023-10-11 | AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $1600: Mary, in 1936, I wanna make you wife number 2! I'm gonna unearth the world for you in East Africa! Louis Leakey |
#8944, aired 2023-10-05 | I DON'T GIVE A... $200: Starchy tuber from Africa a yam |
#8944, aired 2023-10-05 | WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE $1000: We have good hope you can tell us this alternate name for the African buffalo (it lives in Africa, by the way) a Cape buffalo |
#8942, aired 2023-10-03 | THIS IS MY COUNTRY $600: 1999-2008--Thabo Mbeki South Africa |
#8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SOUTH AFRICA $400: The urban complex of Soweto adjoins this metropolis of about 6 million, the nation's leading industrial & commercial city Johannesburg |
#8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SOUTH AFRICA $800: Of South Africa's 12 official languages, this 4-letter African one is the most spoken in the country Zulu |
#8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SOUTH AFRICA $1200: Parts of this coastal city & its suburbs wind up towards & around Table Mountain Cape Town |
#8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SOUTH AFRICA $2,000 (Daily Double): The majestic Victorian City Hall in East London, South Africa held the first hearing of the post-apartheid TRC, this commission Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
#8941, aired 2023-10-02 | SOUTH AFRICA $2000: South Africa's national bird is the blue variety of this avian; also warriors once wore its feathers into battle a (blue) crane |
#8940, aired 2023-09-29 | THAT'S A VEGAS CASINO $400: Lesser in name only, millions of these pink wading birds gather to breed on large lakes in East Africa flamingos |
#8940, aired 2023-09-29 | COW COUNTRY $2000: Cattle breeds from this Horn of Africa country include the Ogaden Zebu & the Nilotic Sanga Ethiopia |
#8938, aired 2023-09-27 | RIVERS OF AFRICA $400: The Nile has 3 main sections: the Atbara & the ones known by these 2 colors Blue & White |
#8938, aired 2023-09-27 | RIVERS OF AFRICA $800: The Congo River was renamed this from 1971 to 1997; the Democratic Republic also had that name Zaire |
#8938, aired 2023-09-27 | RIVERS OF AFRICA $1600: The Draa River in Morocco is also called this 4-letter Arabic word for an intermittent stream Wadi |
#8938, aired 2023-09-27 | RIVERS OF AFRICA $2000: Rivers called the Black, Red & White this flow through Burkina Faso, which used to be called Upper this Volta |
#8938, aired 2023-09-27 | RIVERS OF AFRICA $3,800 (Daily Double): The mighty Okavango River stretches from Angola to this desert in Botswana, where it becomes a swamp the Kalahari Desert |
#14, aired 2023-09-27 | AIRPORT STORES $1200: African Origins and MadeInSA are two craft stores in O.R. Tambo airport, a hub located in this city Johannesburg |
#8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WORLD SOCCER $600: In 2010, this plastic horn infamously made its presence known among World Cup crowds in South Africa the vuvuzela |
#8932, aired 2023-09-19 | WHAT COULD IT "B"? $1600: These trees of Africa & Madagascar are often called upside-down trees baobab trees |
#8925, aired 2023-07-28 | "CC" ME $1200: It begins as a hot dry desert wind over northern Africa before picking up moisture as it crosses the Mediterranean a sirocco |
#8918, aired 2023-07-19 | THE "LL" YOU SAY $1200: This large bird of Africa & Asia takes its name from its prominent beak, often topped by a hollow chamber called a casque the hornbill |
#8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AFRICAN FILMS $800: Called the first major film of South Africa after apartheid, "Cry, the Beloved Country" stars this American actor seen here James Earl Jones |
#8917, aired 2023-07-18 | AFRICAN FILMS $1200: This 2009 sci-fi film features aliens nicknamed "Prawns" living in an area of South Africa District 9 |
#8910, aired 2023-07-07 | HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE $600: The first outbreaks of this deadly hemorrhagic disease occurred in Africa in 1976, killing more than 400 people Ebola |
#8910, aired 2023-07-07 | A BRIDGE TOO FAR $2000: Connecting South Africa & Namibia, the Ernest Oppenheimer Bridge spans this colorful river the Orange |
#8902, aired 2023-06-27 | STARTS WITH "Z" $400: At roughly 10 million, it's the largest ethnic group in South Africa Zulu |
#8900, aired 2023-06-23 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER GEOGRAPHY $800: Portuguese is the official language of this resource-rich nation of southwest Africa Angola |
#8895, aired 2023-06-16 | CONTINENTAL GEOGRAPHY $400: Africa's 54 nations are more than any other continent has, with this country the newest South Sudan |
#8891, aired 2023-06-12 | TROPIC OF CAPRICORN NATIONS $400: This coastal nation of southeast Africa gained independence from Portugal in 1975 Mozambique |
#8891, aired 2023-06-12 | COLOR MY WORLD $1600: The Orange Free State is a historic region that became a province of this country in 1910 South Africa |
#8890, aired 2023-06-09 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: This largest lake in Africa is home to more than 200 species of fish, including tilapia (Lake) Victoria |
#8886, aired 2023-06-05 | MOVIE CONTINENTS $1200: Africa:
Not James VI but Idi Amin is the subject The Last King of Scotland |
#8883, aired 2023-05-31 | COUNTRIES IN SHORT $200: Malawi is "The warm heart of" this landmass Africa |
#8878, aired 2023-05-24 | AFRICA $200: Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia & Somalia are known collectively as the this of Africa the Horn |
#8878, aired 2023-05-24 | AFRICA $400: Because much of Chad lies in this vast arid region, its population density is among the lowest in the world the Sahara Desert |
#8878, aired 2023-05-24 | AFRICA $600: Once thought extinct, the coelacanth can be found off shore of this largest African island Madagascar |
#8878, aired 2023-05-24 | AFRICA $1000: People from this city, the largest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are known as Kinois Kinshasa |
#8878, aired 2023-05-24 | AFRICA $1,200 (Daily Double): When the British held Ghana as a colony, it was known as this due to the vast riches the region held the Gold Coast |
#18, aired 2023-05-23 | THE UNIVERSE WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON $4,400 (Daily Double): (Neil deGrasse Tyson presents the clue.) At age 14, I traveled to Africa to observe a total solar eclipse, an impressive event in which the Moon blots out the Sun, revealing only this outermost solar atmosphere the corona |
#12, aired 2023-05-16 | INTERNATIONAL LIT $1200: For her stand against apartheid, many of her novels, including "Burger's Daughter", were banned in her native South Africa Gordimer |
#9, aired 2023-05-15 | LET'S GO ON A SAFARI $1200: A balloon ride over this desert stretching 1,000 miles on Africa's SW coast is a dream: red dunes & a diverse ecosystem the Namib |
#9, aired 2023-05-15 | WE'VE GOT HISTORY $2000: This historic kingdom of West Africa employed the Agojie, a force of female warriors Dahomey |
#8, aired 2023-05-12 | WORLD FACTS $1200: It's the only country in Africa that's completely surrounded by another country Lesotho |
#8869, aired 2023-05-11 | LIONS & TIGERS & BEERS $200: Punning on a word for a group of lions, South Africa's Lion Lager called itself the this "of beers" pride |
#8860, aired 2023-04-28 | THE 3-DIGIT YEARS $400: After this prophet's death in 632, armies spreading his word conquered large parts of the Middle East & North Africa Mohammed |
#8860, aired 2023-04-28 | LITERARY LIONS $1200: "We had many great adventures with lions", Isak Dinesen remembered in this book Out of Africa |
#8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $800: This nearly 20,000-foot peak is the highest point in Africa Kilimanjaro |
#8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $1000: 3 of South Africa's 9 provinces, making up more than half the country's area, are called Eastern, Western & Northern this Cape |
#8847, aired 2023-04-11 | QUEEN VICTORIA GEOGRAPHY $400: Africa's Lake Victoria is home to a plethora of wildlife, including these "water horses" a hippopotamus |
#8815, aired 2023-02-24 | BLACK HISTORY $2000: The Boston Women's Memorial includes a bronze of this 18th century poet who wrote "On Being Brought from Africa to America" Phillis Wheatley |
#8815, aired 2023-02-24 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $3,800 (Daily Double): This desert that's rich in wildlife covers parts of Botswana, Namibia & South Africa the Kalahari |
#8811, aired 2023-02-20 | NATIONAL ANTHEMS $1200: This country's anthem contains lyrics in its 5 most widely spoken languages, including Xhosa, Zulu & English South Africa |
#8808, aired 2023-02-15 | CONQUERS $1200: He styled himself "Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular" Idi Amin |
#8806, aired 2023-02-13 | AIRPORTS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $1200: If Jomo Kenyatta Airport is your destination, you're headed for this major city of East Africa that it serves Nairobi |
#8804, aired 2023-02-09 | YOU'RE ON THE WORLD MONEY $1600: South Africa's banknotes have Nelson Mandela on the front & are in this currency rand |
#8804, aired 2023-02-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $2000: The autobiography of this missionary, doctor & organist notes the jungle of equatorial Africa has no native trees with edible fruits Albert Schweitzer |
#8801, aired 2023-02-06 | MONTHS THAT START WITH FEB $400: February 1990:
In South Africa, the 30-year ban on this political party is lifted by president F.W. de Klerk the ANC |
#8801, aired 2023-02-06 | DOCTOR WHO $600: In Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti led a WHO initiative to bring antiretroviral therapy to people living with this virus HIV |
#13, aired 2023-02-02 | GOING UNDERGROUND $200: The shepherd's tree of southern Africa doesn't look like much above ground, but these can go 230 feet down its roots |
#13, aired 2023-02-02 | LAKES & RIVERS $300: An old video game is called Cleopatra, Queen of this, & yes, it is just a river in Africa the Nile |
#13, aired 2023-02-02 | IT'S ALSO A GREEK LETTER $600: This letter got some bad publicity when it became a COVID variant first detected in South Africa in 2021 omicron |
#8794, aired 2023-01-26 | VENOMOUS CREATURES $2000: Deriving its name from a country in Western Africa, this viper can weigh about 20 pounds & has the longest fangs of any snake a Gaboon viper |
#12, aired 2023-01-26 | "G"EOGRAPHY $400: In separating Spain from Morocco, the strait of this also separates Europe from Africa Gibraltar |
#8793, aired 2023-01-25 | YOU WEAR ME OUT $800: Seen here is this beautiful garment of the Middle East & North Africa kaftan |
#8788, aired 2023-01-18 | SONGS OF THE 2010s $400: Covering a Toto hit, Weezer blessed "the rains down in" this place Africa |
#8785, aired 2023-01-13 | HISTORICAL MOVEMENTS $5,000 (Daily Double): The first of several of these movements took 38 Black individuals from the U.S. to Sierra Leone in 1815 the back-to-Africa movement |
#8784, aired 2023-01-12 | SAVE ROOM FOR DESERT $400: The Tuareg people of North & West Africa call this desert home the Sahara |
#10, aired 2023-01-12 | PENINSULAS $300: The Red Sea separates this large peninsula from Africa Arabia |
#8781, aired 2023-01-09 | WHITES & COLORS $800: Seen here is the flag of this country, the largest in Africa; green is the color of Islam & the white symbolizes purity Algeria |
#8773, aired 2022-12-28 | WORLD CAPITALS $3,000 (Daily Double): Of South Africa's 3 capitals, this judicial one is alphabetically first Bloemfontein |
#8771, aired 2022-12-26 | AFRICA $400: Firestone has long been an economic anchor of Liberia, running a 120,000-acre plantation for this product rubber |
#8771, aired 2022-12-26 | AFRICA $800: Head to Tunisia to visit the ruins of this city whose name means "new town", founded around 800 B.C. Carthage |
#8771, aired 2022-12-26 | AFRICA $1600: These non-Muslims make up the second-largest religious group in Egypt the Copts |
#8771, aired 2022-12-26 | AFRICA $2000: The name of a whole country was countrified from the name of this coastal desert of southwest Africa the Namib |
#8771, aired 2022-12-26 | AFRICA $3,000 (Daily Double): Battlefields of this war include Spioenkop in the Kwazulu-Natal province the Boer War |
#8767, aired 2022-12-20 | "OO", SORRY $400: The Chacma species of this monkey lives in southern Africa baboon |
#8760, aired 2022-12-09 | PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE $600: It didn't work out for this king with the American Revolution, but they named a town & nearby peak for him in South Africa George III |
#8759, aired 2022-12-08 | COUNTRIES FROM WORDPLAY CATEGORIES $3,000 (Daily Double): Add 2 vowels:
2 Neighbors in West Africa Niger & Nigeria |
#8757, aired 2022-12-06 | ANIMALS $400: The name antbear is sometimes used for the giant anteater & for this anteater of Africa the aardvark |
#8757, aired 2022-12-06 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $2000: 18 miles wide at its narrowest, the Bab-el Mandeb Strait separates these two nations, one in Africa & one in Arabia Djibouti & Yemen |
#8755, aired 2022-12-02 | AFRICAN LAKES & RIVERS $1000: This "colorful" river forms the southwestern boundary of South Africa's Free State province the Orange |
#8754, aired 2022-12-01 | WORLD MUSEUMS $1200: Oslo's Kon-Tiki Museum also has a later boat, made of papyrus & named for this Egyptian god; it went from Africa to the Americas Ra |
#8753, aired 2022-11-30 | A GIANT CATEGORY $800: Giant's Castle is a peak in the Drakensberg Mountains of this country's KwaZulu-Natal province South Africa |
#8752, aired 2022-11-29 | CAST UPON THE WATERS $1200: The subtitle of her book about making "The African Queen" is "How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall & Huston & Almost Lost My Mind" Katharine Hepburn |
#8747, aired 2022-11-22 | SOCCER'S WORLD CUP IN THE 21st CENTURY $800: 2010 saw South Africa become the first host from its continent & the world's introduction to this ubiquitous noisemaker the vuvuzela |
#8740, aired 2022-11-11 | CARATS $2000: Part of the British regalia, the Great Star of Africa was once part of this diamond named for Sir Thomas Cullinan |
#8739, aired 2022-11-10 | THE LORE OF THE LAND $2000: A spider & a trickster god whose origins are in West Africa lives as Mr. Nancy in "Anansi Boys" by this writer Neil Gaiman |
#7, aired 2022-11-06 | LOST IN EXPLORATION $800: "I presume" you know the name of this Doctor who went missing exploring in Africa; a search party found him in 1871 Dr. Livingstone |
#8730, aired 2022-10-28 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Years before "The Color Purple", she published a volume of poetry called "Once", about her time in Africa & her 1960s activism (Alice) Walker |
#8721, aired 2022-10-17 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $200: It contains the opposite of its title in "I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills" Out of Africa |
#4, aired 2022-10-16 | BUT WE REPEAT OURSELVES $900: It's the delicious semolina dish of North Africa seen here couscous |
#8711, aired 2022-10-03 | GEOGRAPHY $4,800 (Daily Double): Of the 3 longest rivers in Africa, the 2 that begin with the same 2 letters the Nile & the Niger |
#8706, aired 2022-09-26 | COUNTRY MEN & WOMEN $800: Elon Musk &
Miriam Makeba South Africa |
#1, aired 2022-09-25 | BOOKS BY FUNNY PEOPLE $300: He wrote about growing up in South Africa in "Born a Crime" Trevor Noah |
#8703, aired 2022-09-21 | PEOPLE & PLACES $2000: King Goodwill Zwelithini, who passed away in 2021, led this Bantu-speaking people of South Africa for 50 years the Zulu |
#8698, aired 2022-09-14 | AFRICA $400: The semiarid Sahel Region is on the southern edge of this straight-up arid desert of more than 3 million square miles the Sahara Desert |
#8698, aired 2022-09-14 | AFRICA $1200: Get out of the Land Rover in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park, called the birthplace of the "walking" this tour safari |
#8698, aired 2022-09-14 | AFRICA $1600: Adopted in 1960, the national anthem of this country of western Africa is "L'Abidjanaise" the Ivory Coast |
#8698, aired 2022-09-14 | AFRICA $2000: Next to the ruins of Luxor & Thebes, this ancient temple complex is found on the east bank of the Nile River in upper Egypt Karnak |
#8698, aired 2022-09-14 | AFRICA $6,000 (Daily Double): One of the most impressive sections of this wet landmark lies between Livingstone & Cataract Islands Victoria Falls |
#8693, aired 2022-07-27 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $400: Most species of this color-changing lizard are native to Africa, like Botswana's flap-necked variety chameleons |
#8687, aired 2022-07-19 | INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL PARKS $2000: This country's parks include Bontebok, a reserve for the rare bontebok antelope, as well as Kruger & Agulhas South Africa |
#8685, aired 2022-07-15 | LET'S TALK ABOUT BITE CLUB $1000: This "black" snake of Africa is actually gray or brown & one bite can kill you in 20 minutes a black mamba |
#8680, aired 2022-07-08 | GONE EXTINCT $400: The largest avian ever, the elephant bird of this island nation off the east coast of Africa could reach 10 feet high & 1,000 pounds Madagascar |
#8680, aired 2022-07-08 | HISTORIC STRUCTURES $800: The luxurious Alhambra of Spain was built by these conquerors whose name is derived from a region of Africa the Moors |
#8674, aired 2022-06-30 | SCIENCE WORDS $800: Created between two parallel faults, seen here is an example of this type of 4-letter valley in Africa rift |
#8669, aired 2022-06-23 | MOUNTAINS $2000: Africa's second-highest peak, it bears the name of the country it's found in Mount Kenya |
#8664, aired 2022-06-16 | FROM "B" TO "I" $1600: Native to Africa, this hound dog is also known to be barkless a Basenji |
#8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ON THE MAP OF AFRICA $400: This African country is home to Tobruk, Tripoli & the oasis town of Tazirbu Libya |
#8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ON THE MAP OF AFRICA $800: To make the national government more accessible to all Nigerians, in 1991, Abuja replaced this city as Nigeria's capital Lagos |
#8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ON THE MAP OF AFRICA $1200: The Limpopo River between South Africa & Botswana is also known as this river, after a large predator (the) Crocodile (River) |
#8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ON THE MAP OF AFRICA $1600: Massawa & Assab are important port cities of Eritrea on the shores of this long body of water the Red Sea |
#8663, aired 2022-06-15 | ON THE MAP OF AFRICA $2000: The Blue Nile & the White Nile join together just north of this capital city Khartoum |
#8662, aired 2022-06-14 | MAMMALS $1600: Here are these burrowing mammals of Africa on high alert, watching for predators meerkats |
#8659, aired 2022-06-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1,400 (Daily Double): In the 2nd millennium B.C., these seafarers had cities or colonies from the Eastern Mediterranean to North Africa the Phoenicians |
#8658, aired 2022-06-08 | AROUND THE WORLD $400: You don't have to go to Antarctica; Boulders Beach in South Africa has the African type of this flightless bird, with pink "eyebrows" penguins |
#8651, aired 2022-05-30 | POTPOURRI $800: Until 2011 this country in northeastern Africa was the continent's biggest in area Sudan |
#8649, aired 2022-05-26 | BIG ANIMALS $400: African these have big ears shaped like the continent of Africa; Asian ones have smaller, rounder ears an elephant |
#8641, aired 2022-05-16 | THAT'S OUR ISLAND $400: Robben Island,
Duiker Island South Africa |
#8639, aired 2022-05-12 | ALL APOLOGIES $2000: This Bishop of Hippo in North Africa published an apology in 388 titled "On the Holiness of the Catholic Church" Augustine |
#8636, aired 2022-05-09 | AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MOVIES $800: Young Eleanor Bergstein would win Catskills mambo contests, inspiring her script for this 1980s film Dirty Dancing |
#8633, aired 2022-05-04 | AFRICA $400: The island of Roda in the Nile is connected to this suburb with a population of about 3 million & Great Pyramids nearby Giza |
#8633, aired 2022-05-04 | AFRICA $800: Though it's nearly 17,000 feet high, Mawenzi, one of the summits of this mountain, is often snow-free Kilimanjaro |
#8633, aired 2022-05-04 | AFRICA $1200: Go due south from Lisbon & this is the first African country you'll reach Morocco |
#8633, aired 2022-05-04 | AFRICA $1600: What's gnu? Over 1 million in this 5,700-square-mile national park, a huge tourist attraction that "shall not die" Serengeti National Park |
#8633, aired 2022-05-04 | AFRICA $2000: Livingstone, I do more than presume, is an island between this nation & Zimbabwe Zambia |
#8632, aired 2022-05-03 | STATES' OTHER COMMON LANGUAGES $2000: An estimated 75,000 in Minnesota speak this language from the Horn of Africa Somali |
#8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: Oliver Tambo was instrumental in the fight against apartheid as president of South Africa's ANC, short for this African National Congress |
#8629, aired 2022-04-28 | IRON $400: Fittingly, the iron type of these objects, like the 60-ton Hoba one in Africa seen here, is made up mostly of iron a meteorite |
#8626, aired 2022-04-25 | TO THE "N"s OF THE EARTH $2000: Oktoberfest is a big event in this country of southern Africa, which had German overlords from 1884 to 1915 Namibia |
#8611, aired 2022-04-04 | PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY $1200: Veld is the Afrikaans name for this tropical & subtropical grassland of Africa savanna |
#8610, aired 2022-04-01 | STATELY OVERLAPS $1200: A trip to see animals in Africa that includes a side visit to Tucson safarizona |
#8596, aired 2022-03-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $400: In 1976 James Baldwin reviewed this book that "begins in Gambia West Africa in 1750 with the birth of... Kunta Kinte" Roots |
#8596, aired 2022-03-14 | I LOVE YOU 3,000 $800: Beginning where the Lualaba & Luvua meet, this river flows almost 3,000 miles through West Central Africa to the Atlantic the Congo |
#8595, aired 2022-03-11 | ARTISTS $600: A collage by Romare Bearden imagines this wanderer coming home not to Ithaca but to West Africa Odysseus |
#8594, aired 2022-03-10 | POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): One of the 2 nations known as "perforated states", as they completely surround another country (1 of) South Africa or Italy |
#8590, aired 2022-03-04 | HISTORY $400: In 1867 young Erasmus Jacobs found the "Eureka" this "upon which the future success of South Africa will be built" diamond |
#8583, aired 2022-02-23 | ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 1905 5th GRADER? $1600: World Powers:
This empire stretches from North Africa to southeastern Europe & well into the Middle East the Ottoman Empire |
#11, aired 2022-02-16 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Juba is the capital of this newest nation of Africa that seceded from its northern neighbor in 2011 South Sudan |
#11, aired 2022-02-16 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: Partly in Namibia, partly in South Africa, Namaqualand is divided by this "colorful" river the Orange River |
#11, aired 2022-02-16 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: Dominated by 12,198-foot Pico del Teide, Tenerife is the largest of these islands off Africa's northwest coast the Canary Islands |
#8577, aired 2022-02-15 | FROM THE OLD TOOL SHED $1600: This 3-letter hole-poking tool can be used on hides or leather; Africa's Blombos Cave has Stone Age ones an awl |
#8575, aired 2022-02-11 | A PLACE IN THE SUN $2000: It looks like a different planet, but one of the hottest places on Earth is Dallol, in this largest Horn of Africa country Ethiopia |
#7, aired 2022-02-11 | ALL SORTS OF BOOKS $600: A tale of immigrants from Africa is Imbolo Mbue's "Behold" these people, also a term for DACA recipients Dreamers |
#7, aired 2022-02-11 | ON THE MAP $2000: Meaning "west" in Arabic, this term is used for the region that includes most of Africa North of the Sahara the Maghreb |
#2, aired 2022-02-08 | PIER 5 $200: Seen here, South Africa's Umhlanga Pier has an archway named for this animal's bones a whale |
#8568, aired 2022-02-02 | ALLITERATIVE GEOGRAPHY $800: It's a capital city on the Horn of Africa Addis Ababa |
#8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOVIES & GEOGRAPHY $1200: As the "Stanley", Henry Stanley, in part of a 1939 movie title, Spencer Tracy explores Sub-Saharan Africa seeking this doctor David Livingstone |
#8564, aired 2022-01-27 | MOVIES & GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): In a 1942 film, a map shows a refugee path from Paris to Marseilles to Oran, then to this title place in North Africa Casablanca |
#8558, aired 2022-01-19 | SHORT NOVELS $800: Set in Africa, this novella was published in Spanish as "El corazon de las tinieblas" the "Heart of Darkness" |
#8553, aired 2022-01-12 | HOW PROVINCIAL $400: Later split into 3 provinces, South Africa's Cape Province was also known officially as the Cape of this Good Hope |
#8543, aired 2021-12-29 | COUNTRIES BY DIVISIONS $1200: Limpopo,
Eastern Cape South Africa |
#8541, aired 2021-12-27 | GEOGRAPHY $800: Though others recognize the nation of Western Sahara, this kingdom of North Africa considers it part of its territory Morocco |
#8535, aired 2021-12-17 | REFUGEES $1200: Many refugees from Africa dwell in Kara Tepe II, a refugee camp on this Greek island also known for its poetic heritage Lesbos |
#8534, aired 2021-12-16 | PROTEST SONGS $1200: He was the man behind 1985's "Sun City", about artists refusing to play at that resort in apartheid-era South Africa Little Steven (Steven Van Zandt) |
#8532, aired 2021-12-14 | SUCCULENTS $1000: Belying their name, these succulents often used as ground cover are native to Africa ice plants |
#8521, aired 2021-11-29 | THE ANIMAL KINGDOM $1600: With ridged horns, the kob of Africa is a species of these swift ruminants antelopes |
#8519, aired 2021-11-25 | WORLD HISTORY $4,000 (Daily Double): In 1893 he went to South Africa to do some legal work; he stayed for 21 years to work for Indian rights Gandhi |
#8518, aired 2021-11-24 | WEATHER $2000: Flooding in Venice has been aggravated by these Italian-named winds that originate in northern Africa scirocco |
#8514, aired 2021-11-18 | IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES $800: These islands off Africa were the wrong place for travelers in 2021 as a volcanic eruption closed La Palma's airport the Canary Islands |
#8508, aired 2021-11-10 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1200: The saltwater one of these reptiles grows up to about 20 feet long; the dwarf one of Africa, up to about 6 feet a crocodile |
#8507, aired 2021-11-09 | SOME CREATURES GREAT & SMALL $1200: With feathers that look like quills sticking from its head, a predatory bird of Africa had this office worker name a secretarybird |
#8503, aired 2021-11-03 | HISTORIC ILLINOIS $1600: Mormon leader Joseph Smith & his brother Hyrum were killed by a mob in 1844 in this Illinois city named for an ancient city of Africa Carthage |
#8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COLOR, MY WORLD $2,000 (Daily Double): It's a city in New South Wales, a river in Southern Africa & a county in Southern California Orange |
#8496, aired 2021-10-25 | WHAT HAPPENED WHEN $800: Africa's largest country in area, it gained independence from France in 1962 after an 8-year-long revolution Algeria |
#8492, aired 2021-10-19 | ANNUS HORRIBILIS $200: In 1348 this "colorful" pandemic killed half the population of Florence, Italy & spread through North Africa the Black Death |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | FICTIONAL AFRICA $400: In a 1938 tale the fictional cities of Thobos & Ashair are at war & this "ape man" is caught in the middle Tarzan |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | FICTIONAL AFRICA $1200: This character had just 2 hours to deal with a coup in Sangala in the TV movie
"24: Redemption" Jack Bauer |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | FICTIONAL AFRICA $1600: Aaron Sorkin used Equatorial Kundu on this TV series & then again on "The Newsroom" The West Wing |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | FICTIONAL AFRICA $2,000 (Daily Double): Also known as the Golden City, Birnin Zana is the capital of this futuristic African nation Wakanda |
#8491, aired 2021-10-18 | FICTIONAL AFRICA $2000: In the first movie allowed to shoot inside the U.N., Nicole Kidman had this title job, playing a character from Matobo The Interpreter |
#8489, aired 2021-10-14 | GEO TRIOS $2000: Of South Africa's 3 capital cities, this administrative one is part of the municipality of Tshwane Pretoria |
#8488, aired 2021-10-13 | DOUBLE-LETTER GEOGRAPHY $1600: Randburg & Midrand are suburbs of this chief commercial city of South Africa Johannesburg |
#8484, aired 2021-10-07 | "EZ" GEOGRAPHY $1000: This river flows for more than 1,700 miles east across Africa, emptying into the Mozambique Channel Zambezi |
#8484, aired 2021-10-07 | SEEN HERE $1000: You can see why this country was known as South West Africa until 1968 Namibia |
#8478, aired 2021-09-29 | MONKEY $200: Unknown to science until 2007, the Lesula monkey was discovered in this Democratic Republic of Central Africa DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo) |
#8470, aired 2021-09-17 | THE PEOPLE $200: The Khoekhoe people of southern Africa speak this type of language named for a sound made by swiftly lowering the tip of the tongue click |
#8462, aired 2021-08-10 | NATIONS $2000: France has a major overseas naval base in this small Horn of Africa country that was a French territory until 1977 Djibouti |
#8451, aired 2021-07-26 | ARABIA $400: Arabia is separated from Africa by this body of water along its west the Red Sea |
#8449, aired 2021-07-22 | SOMETHING BIG IS COMING! $2000: 2/3 of a mile long, the world's longest passenger train, the Ghan, travels 1,850 miles coast to coast across this continent Australia |
#8447, aired 2021-07-20 | GEOGRAPHY $400: By area the second-largest country in Africa is the Democratic Republic of this the Congo |
#8446, aired 2021-07-19 | A TIME OF WAR $1200: The Battle of Adwa in 1896 was fought between Italy & this Horn of Africa country Ethiopia |
#8445, aired 2021-07-16 | 6-LETTER THE BETTER $800: To sell off all shareholdings from your portfolio, as people did to protest apartheid in South Africa divest |
#8442, aired 2021-07-13 | LET'S GO TO THE BEACH $2000: Between Fish Hoek & Cape Point, Boulders Beach gets all kinds of tourists in this country South Africa |
#8440, aired 2021-07-09 | JULY $400: On July 8, 2014 in a semifinal game at the men's World Cup, Germany eliminated this host country, 7-1 Brazil |
#8435, aired 2021-07-02 | WHAT A FUNGI $1200: A type of rust that infects this beverage crop was discovered in Africa around 1870 & kept out of Brazil for a century coffee |
#8432, aired 2021-06-29 | MEDITERRANEAN GEOGRAPHY $2,000 (Daily Double): 8 miles wide at its narrowest, this strait separates Europe & Africa the Strait of Gibraltar |
#8428, aired 2021-06-23 | COUNTRY FACTS $1600: In Central Africa, it's been led since 1986 by Yoweri Museveni, elected to a sixth term in 2021 Uganda |
#8423, aired 2021-06-16 | ODD STATE FACTS $400: The only state with a one-syllable name, it's also the closest to Africa Maine |
#8421, aired 2021-06-14 | BODIES OF WATER $200: This largest lake in Africa is named for a British queen Victoria |
#8419, aired 2021-06-10 | RAILWAY & SUBWAY STATIONS $1200: The domes & minarets at Kuala Lumpur Railway Station are in this architectural style named for a people of North Africa Moorish |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | MAGNA CARTOGRAPHY $600: North America has a group named this, the map here shows Africa's Lake Kivu & Tanganyika the Great Lakes |
#8415, aired 2021-06-04 | MAGNA CARTOGRAPHY $800: Found in this country's Western Cape Province, the plateau basin known as Great Karoo may be listed as Groot Karoo on a local map South Africa |
#8413, aired 2021-06-02 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $800: In this 1937 memoir Isak Dinesen told of her life in Kenya, where she managed a coffee plantation Out of Africa |
#8409, aired 2021-05-27 | STRAITS $400: A wind called a levanter blows through this strait that lies between Spain & Africa the Strait of Gibraltar |
#8409, aired 2021-05-27 | HISTORY $1600: In the late 4th century, St. Augustine became bishop of this city of North Africa Hippo |
#8403, aired 2021-05-19 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $1000: This fault running down East Africa divides in Zambia, the western arm becoming the Luangwa Valley the Great Rift |
#8400, aired 2021-05-14 | CREATURE FROM $1200: This big black buffalo is named for a bit of land in way southern Africa Cape buffalo |
#8392, aired 2021-05-04 | BRITS IN BOATS $1600: In 2010 Philip Beale sailed around Africa in a replica of a vessel used by this renowned ancient seafaring people the Phoenicians |
#8390, aired 2021-04-30 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $400: Of the 54 internationally recognized countries of Africa Algeria |
#8389, aired 2021-04-29 | LANGUAGES $800: This country's 11 official languages include Setswana & isiXhosa South Africa |
#8388, aired 2021-04-28 | AUTHORS NOT GOING PLACES $800: This creator of Tarzan never set foot in Africa (Edgar Rice) Burroughs |
#8369, aired 2021-04-01 | CURRENCIES $800: The currency of this nation of 59 million features wildlife commonly found there South Africa |
#8367, aired 2021-03-30 | HISTORY $800: This people who formed an empire in 19th century southern Africa bears the name of a ruler, the son of Malandela Zulu |
#8365, aired 2021-03-26 | HISTORY $1000: Europe sent goods to Africa; slaves went to the Americas on this agonizing leg of the triangle; & raw materials went back to Europe the Middle Passage |
#8365, aired 2021-03-26 | MULTIPLE-CAPITAL COUNTRIES $2000: This one of South Africa's 3 capital cities has a name meaning "fountain of flowers" Bloemfontein |
#8359, aired 2021-03-18 | MOUNTAIN $1600: This 1,500-mile-long mountain range stretches along Africa's Maghrib, the western arm of the Arab world the Atlas |
#8353, aired 2021-03-10 | COLORFUL RIVERS $1200: On its way to the Atlantic Ocean, the Orange River crosses the vast veld region of this country South Africa |
#8352, aired 2021-03-09 | CONSTELLATION DERIVATIONS $1600: An organization for the brilliant, or a constellation named for South Africa's Table Mountain Mensa |
#8348, aired 2021-03-03 | GEOGRAPHY $1000: In 1871 Henry Stanley finally tracked down Dr. David Livingstone along the shores of this 2nd-largest lake in Africa Tanganyika |
#8346, aired 2021-03-01 | F IS FOR FAMILY $400: The Fatimid Dynasty of North Africa in the 900s A.D. claimed descent from Fatimah, daughter of this prophet Muhammad |
#8341, aired 2021-02-22 | ANIMALS WITHIN WORDS $1600: About a half-million years ago, this predator ranged across North America as well as Africa lion (in million) |
#8341, aired 2021-02-22 | ANIMALS WITHIN WORDS $10,000 (Daily Double): After sighting one of these horned animals in Africa, we busted out a magnum of champagne gnu (in magnum) |
#8340, aired 2021-02-19 | BALTIMORE: NEWS CLUES $1000: (Megan Gilliland of FOX45 in Baltimore presents the clue.) Every 4th of July there are fireworks over this ship, Baltimore's answer to the USS Constitution; her illustrious history includes the capture of three slave ships off the coast of Africa the USS Constellation |
#8340, aired 2021-02-19 | HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY $1200: Used in World War II to train Germany's Africa Corps, the Bledowska Desert in this country, is one of the few deserts in Europe Poland |
#8339, aired 2021-02-18 | FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES $2000: With more than 200 million people, it's the most populous country in Africa & by 2050, its population is expected to double Nigeria |
#8328, aired 2021-02-03 | ATLAS ALLITERATION $1200: In 2011, 6 years after a comprehensive peace agreement, this African country came to be South Sudan |
#8328, aired 2021-02-03 | 1961, WHAT A YEAR! $1600: March: with other nations disapproving of apartheid, South Africa withdraws from this body rooted in the British Empire the British Commonwealth |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | A CATEGORY OF 2 CITIES $400 (Daily Double): It's about 800 miles from South Africa's executive capital of Pretoria to this legislative capital on the southwest coast Cape Town |
#8320, aired 2021-01-22 | EXTREME LAKES $800: There is so much of this natural gas dissolved in Africa's Lake Kivu, it occasionally explodes methane |
#8317, aired 2021-01-19 | HISTORICALLY SHAMELESS $800: (Shanola Hampton presents the clue.) In the early 1200s, he established an Asian empire the size of Africa, & doesn't seem to have many regrets since he's quoted as saying, "The greatest joy is to conquer your enemies and savor their despair" (Genghis) Khan |
#8312, aired 2021-01-12 | A CATEGORY FOR FREE $1000: The port of Freetown is the largest city & capital of this nation of western Africa Sierra Leone |
#8307, aired 2021-01-05 | HISTORIC HAPPENINGS $1000: Usman Dan Fodio, founder of Africa's Sokoto caliphate, made an 1804 trip from Gobir to Gudu called this, like Muhammad's journey hegira |
#8305, aired 2020-12-18 | DONATING THEIR WINNINGS $1000: After winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952, this German missionary built new huts for leprosy patients in Africa (Albert) Schweitzer |
#8293, aired 2020-12-02 | COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD $1600: In Africa to the northwest of Guinea is Guinea-this Guinea-Bissau |
#8292, aired 2020-12-01 | AROUND THE WORLD $2000: This 12,000-square-mile plain of East-Central Africa is home to an annual migration of more than a million wildebeest the Serengeti |
#8287, aired 2020-11-24 | WE'LL GIVE YOU PAWS $400: Here's one of these hanging out in a tree in South Africa's Kruger National Park a leopard |
#8287, aired 2020-11-24 | A WINDY CATEGORY $1600: Ironically, this hot "s"andy wind of Africa is called "chili" in Tunisia the sirocco |
#8284, aired 2020-11-19 | PATRIOTIC ART? $600: Abstract artist Sean Scully has been painting stripes for decades, inspired by the traditional djellaba of this continent Africa |
#8284, aired 2020-11-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1919, as part of his Back to Africa plan, Marcus Garvey founded this, contrasting with the name of a British ship line the Black Star Line |
#8283, aired 2020-11-18 | '90s NEWSMAKERS $400: In 1994, 4 years after his release from prison, he became president of South Africa Mandela |
#8276, aired 2020-11-09 | AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS $6,000 (Daily Double): It's the only one of the 10 that's part of Africa Madagascar |
#8275, aired 2020-11-06 | GO WEST $1,000 (Daily Double): Drive west from Maseru, capital of this country, & you arrive in South Africa--heck, drive east & you'll end up there as well Lesotho |
#8275, aired 2020-11-06 | FOXES $1000: Only about 15 inches long, the fennec is the world's smallest fox & lives in this largest desert of Africa the Sahara |
#8272, aired 2020-11-03 | RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH $1000: The world's deepest river, exceeding 700 feet at its max, it's also Africa's 2nd-longest river at 2,900 miles the Congo River |
#8261, aired 2020-10-19 | PRIMATES $400: This semi-arboreal ape of equatorial Africa is our closest living genetic relative chimpanzee |
#8250, aired 2020-10-02 | WE'LL GIVE YOU SOME LATITUDE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) In Africa, the line of 10 degrees north latitude passes through 14 countries from Guinea to this sovereign nation Somalia |
#8249, aired 2020-10-01 | GNAT GEO $1600: You might encounter the fungus gnat on safari in this country's Kwazulu-Natal province South Africa |
#8248, aired 2020-09-30 | SEEMED SO FAR AWAY $600: With more than 14 million people, this Nigerian city is one of Africa's most populous Lagos |
#8247, aired 2020-09-29 | ISLAND NATIONS $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Lush ecosystems off Africa's east coast have been fortified, partly thanks to one of the world's most resourceful environmental organizations, the Nature Conservancy, and its plan to restructure the debt of this nation the Seychelles |
#8241, aired 2020-09-21 | TUNNELS $400: South Africa's over 50-mile-long Orange-Fish Tunnel gets its name from 2 of these that it connects rivers |
#8231, aired 2020-06-08 | THIS IS LEOPARDY! $2000: A leopard conservation success story, Akagera National Park is a 2 1/2-hour drive from Kigali in this country Rwanda |
#8227, aired 2020-06-02 | BIRDS OF PREY $800: One of the only terrestrial birds of prey is this species whose name seems more suited for an office than its home in Africa the secretary bird |
#8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: This Danish writer acquired her title by marrying her cousin Bror von Blixen-Finecke, a Swedish baron Isak Dinesen |
#8223, aired 2020-05-27 | GEOGRAPHY $1000: The Sahara covers most of North Africa, including these two neighboring countries that both start with the letter "M" Mauritania and Mali |
#8219, aired 2020-05-21 | GEOGRAPHY $400: This monarchy of North Africa lies directly across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain Morocco |
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: M is for Methodist in this U.S. church that in 1820 launched a mission into West Africa the A.M.E. Church (African Methodist Episcopal) |
#8211, aired 2020-04-27 | THE ZULUS $400: Zulu is a subgroup of this 5-letter language group of South & Central Africa Bantu |
#8207, aired 2020-04-21 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1600: Maputo is the capital & largest city of this country on Africa's southeast coast Mozambique |
#8205, aired 2020-04-17 | POSITIVE HISTORY $2000: A fundamental shift in government policy starting in 1990 led to the end of this policy of discrimination in South Africa apartheid |
#8195, aired 2020-04-03 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) When Marco Polo told stories about Africa, he most likely confused two different places. In describing the city of Mogadishu, he referred to it by the similar-sounding name of this island, 1,000 miles away Madagascar |
#8195, aired 2020-04-03 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $700 (Daily Double): The British South Africa Company's Fort Salisbury later became Harare, capital of this present country Zimbabwe |
#8192, aired 2020-03-31 | ANIMAL FACTS $600: Hippos that escaped this drug lord's zoo have given Colombia the largest hippo population outside of Africa (Pablo) Escobar |
#8185, aired 2020-03-20 | HISTORIC NAMES $2000: In 1488, not da Gama or Magellan, but this Portuguese man led the first European voyage to round the tip of South Africa Bartolomeu Dias |
#8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HOW ABOUT DESERT? $1000: This desert of southern Africa has a name from Tswana meaning "great thirst" the Kalahari |
#8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CONTINENTAL $600: With more than 50, this continent has the most countries Africa |
#8170, aired 2020-02-28 | EXPLORERS $800: Sent to Africa in 1841 as a missionary, this Scotsman eventually started exploring the place, presumably (David) Livingstone |
#8168, aired 2020-02-26 | ISLANDS OF AFRICA $200: Found off the east coast, it's the world's fourth-largest island Madagascar |
#8168, aired 2020-02-26 | THE EARTH $200: This type of tropical grassland plain found in South America & Africa sounds like a city in Georgia savanna |
#8168, aired 2020-02-26 | ISLANDS OF AFRICA $400: Sites on Elephantine Island in this river across from the city of Aswan include the ancient temple of Khnum the Nile |
#8168, aired 2020-02-26 | ISLANDS OF AFRICA $600: Africa's westernmost nation is this island group whose name means "green cape" Cape Verde |
#8168, aired 2020-02-26 | ISLANDS OF AFRICA $800: Named for a nephew of George Washington, Bushrod Island is home to the main port of this West African nation Liberia |
#8168, aired 2020-02-26 | ISLANDS OF AFRICA $1000: A historic spiritual center, Uganda's Ssese Islands are an archipelago of 84 islands in this lake Lake Victoria |
#8168, aired 2020-02-26 | INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES $2000: By 1924 Imperial, the ancestor of this current airline, had routes to Australia, India & South Africa British Airways |
#8161, aired 2020-02-17 | JACKAL $1000: Jackals in Africa can transmit this disease AKA lyssa to dogs & other animals rabies |
#8159, aired 2020-02-13 | THE HORN OF AFRICA $200: National Geographic called the Danakil this, home to the Horn's Afar people, "the cruelest place on earth" Desert |
#8159, aired 2020-02-13 | THE HORN OF AFRICA $400: Animals of the Horn include the hamadrayas, among the smallest of these big monkeys a baboon |
#8159, aired 2020-02-13 | THE HORN OF AFRICA $600: The point of the Horn is the peninsula of this country that's earned a reputation as a haven for pirates Somalia |
#8159, aired 2020-02-13 | THE HORN OF AFRICA $800: In 1993, this country broke away from Ethiopia to become the Horn's newest independent nation Eritrea |
#8159, aired 2020-02-13 | THE HORN OF AFRICA $1000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The Horn of Africa is bordered by the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean & this body of water that gets its name from a seaport on the coast of Yemen the Gulf of Aden |
#8150, aired 2020-01-31 | WORLD TRANSPORTATION $2000: In 31 hours South Africa's blue train travels in luxury between these 2 cities, the administrative & legislative capitals Cape Town & Pretoria |
#8144, aired 2020-01-23 | NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS $2000: The coat of arms of this nation of islands off Africa's east coast has only one shell down by the seashore, & it's a turtle the Seychelles |
#8140, aired 2020-01-17 | NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST $1200: Celebrated April 27, Freedom Day, this country's national holiday, commemorates an event of 1994 South Africa |
#8126, aired 2019-12-30 | 17th CENTURY HISTORY $800: A 1609 law in this country banned Moriscos (Muslims baptized as Christians) & shipped 300,000 of them to north Africa Spain |
#8124, aired 2019-12-26 | THE "BAR" EXAM $3,000 (Daily Double): This primate, seen here, lives in coastal countries of North Africa A Barbary ape |
#8122, aired 2019-12-24 | IT'S NOT GOOD TO BE THE KING $1600: This Zulu leader was slain by his half brothers in Southern Africa in 1828 Shaka Zulu |
#8119, aired 2019-12-19 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: Bordering Angola & Botswana, what is now Namibia was administered by this South African country until 1990 South Africa |
#8108, aired 2019-12-04 | LET'S SCIENCE THE HECK OUT OF THIS $1200: A study of the macaques in this European territory shows that they were descended from imports from Africa Gibraltar |
#8105, aired 2019-11-29 | THE OLD WEST $1200: The Umayyads had one of these entities that stretched to the western shores of Africa; in 2014 ISIS also claimed one a caliphate |
#8105, aired 2019-11-29 | THE OLD WEST $1600: "The Chronicle of the Discovery & Conquest of Guinea" recounts this Portuguese prince's subdual of the West Coast of Africa Prince Henry the Navigator |
#8102, aired 2019-11-26 | BIG BODIES OF WATER $400: More than 950,000 square miles: this sea that touches Africa & Asia, among others the Mediterranean |
#8102, aired 2019-11-26 | FUN WITH G20 COUNTRIES $1600: The 2 members with the initials S.A. South Africa & Saudi Arabia |
#8101, aired 2019-11-25 | THE 1960s $800: Popular in surfer culture, this energetic dance style shares its name with an ethnic group of East-Central Africa the Watusi |
#8099, aired 2019-11-21 | KLAUS ENCOUNTERS $2000: As Bror Blixen, Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer was married to Meryl Streep in this film Out of Africa |
#8093, aired 2019-11-13 | U.N. INTERNATIONAL YEARS $1000: 1982 was the Year of Sanctions against this country that was suspended from the General Assembly in 1974 & readmitted in 1994 South Africa |
#8092, aired 2019-11-12 | MAMMALS $800: At 6 feet tall & weighing up to 2,000 pounds, the eland of Africa is the largest of these graceful mammals an antelope |
#8086, aired 2019-11-04 | ALLITERATION ON THE MAP $4,000 (Daily Double): Before 1910 the area that's home to the southern tip of Africa bore this name Cape Colony |
#8085, aired 2019-11-01 | NAMED FOR A PRESIDENT $600: Founded in Africa in 1822, it's the only world capital (besides Washington, D.C.) that's named for a U.S. president Monrovia |
#8079, aired 2019-10-24 | WHERE DO YOU STAN? $1600: Tajikistan's abundant wildlife includes bears and an Asiatic species of these wild canines also found in Africa a jackal |
#8078, aired 2019-10-23 | DOWN IN AFRICA $200: This capital of Kenya lies at an elevation of 5,500 feet, making it a natural sister city to Denver Nairobi |
#8078, aired 2019-10-23 | DOWN IN AFRICA $400: Species that need protection include this animal--Africa has fewer of them than their shorter pal the elephant the giraffe |
#8078, aired 2019-10-23 | DOWN IN AFRICA $600: This north African country belonged to France for about 130 years, until 1962 Algeria |
#8078, aired 2019-10-23 | I BLESS THE RAINS $600: In 2018 this Rivers Cuomo band had Toto recall with a hit cover, singing, "I bless the rains down in Africa" Weezer |
#8078, aired 2019-10-23 | DOWN IN AFRICA $800: "C" starts the name of this nation, highlighted here on the Gulf of Guinea Cameroon |
#8078, aired 2019-10-23 | DOWN IN AFRICA $1000: The San, formerly called Bushmen, mainly in this desert, are the oldest population group of southern Africa the Kalahari |
#8076, aired 2019-10-21 | & NATIVE LAND $1000: Nobel Peace Prize winner F.W. de Klerk South Africa |
#8057, aired 2019-09-24 | THE LAND DOWN UNDER $600: Down under Botswana South Africa |
#8047, aired 2019-09-10 | RAINFORESTS $1200: The only close relative of the giraffe is this rainforest-dweller of central Africa the okapi |
#8040, aired 2019-07-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: In the "African Immortals" series by Tananarive Due, vampire-like beings from this Horn of Africa country prey on the living Ethiopia |
#8038, aired 2019-07-17 | FAKE GNUS $1600: Chevy didn't name one of its cars after a gnu but after this swift creature, one of the most common ruminants in Africa an impala |
#8038, aired 2019-07-17 | "LIM"ITED LIABILITY $2000: For much of its 1,100-mile length, it forms South Africa's border with Botswana & Zimbabwe the Limpopo |
#8036, aired 2019-07-15 | 3-WORD LITERARY TITLES $800: Isak Dinesen mentions that the Masai are her neighbors in this memoir Out of Africa |
#8035, aired 2019-07-12 | ALIEN INVASION! $2000: Apis mellifera scutellata is best known by this scary name & came from Africa to Brazil to the United States killer bees |
#8033, aired 2019-07-10 | HISTORY, OVER ON THE LEFT $600: In April 1965 this international pot stirrer left Cuba to try to bring revolution to Africa Che Guevara |
#8026, aired 2019-07-01 | HOMELAND $200: South Africa is home to the Afrikaners, descendants of these people, from a Dutch word for "farmer" a Boer |
#8025, aired 2019-06-28 | INTERNATIONAL SPORTS $2000: A tournament in this sport named after a school is held yearly among Argentina, South Africa, Australia & New Zealand rugby |
#8024, aired 2019-06-27 | THE 1600s $1000: European settlement in South Africa began with the wreck of a Dutch ship rounding this cape in 1647 the Cape of Good Hope |
#8023, aired 2019-06-26 | THE SAHARA DESERT $200: Sahara means "desert" in this language of north Africa & the Middle East Arabic |
#8023, aired 2019-06-26 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $800: "I Am Africa" & "Joseph Smith American Moses" The Book of Mormon |
#8008, aired 2019-06-05 | TIMBERLAND $600: The rainforests of the basin of this 2,900 mile river have made Cameroon Africa's leading timber exporter the Congo |
#8006, aired 2019-06-03 | SCIENCE $1200: New solar & wind farms could bring this to the north of Africa, just like the song from Toto says rain |
#8003, aired 2019-05-29 | ONE BIG SWAMP $400: Africa's giant Al-Sudd Swamp is drained by the headwaters of this river the Nile |
#8000, aired 2019-05-24 | "GREEN" BOOK $1000: It's Hemingway's chronicle of big game hunting in what's now Tanzania the Green Hills of Africa |
#7998, aired 2019-05-22 | GEOGRAPHY $400: It's loosely defined as the area from North Africa to Arabia; George Mitchell was a U.S. special envoy to try to make peace there the Middle East |
#7994, aired 2019-05-16 | TEXT $1000: In 2008 a surgeon in Africa with Medecins Sans Frontieres, this organization, saved a life using instructions texted from Britain Doctors Without Borders |
#7990, aired 2019-05-10 | IT'S NOT RHESUS $600: One baboon species lives in the lands above this sea between Africa & Arabia the Red Sea |
#7989, aired 2019-05-09 | FROM AN "A" TO AN "F" $1000: This striped hyena relative of Africa feeds chiefly on insects an aardwolf |
#7989, aired 2019-05-09 | COUNTRIES' MUSIC $3,000 (Daily Double): Jaiva, or township jive, is native to this country South Africa |
#7986, aired 2019-05-06 | GEOGRAPHY $1000: Within a former province of South Africa, you'll find the name of this river on its southern edge the Vaal |
#7985, aired 2019-05-03 | THINGS THAT HAPPENED $400: In the mid-19th century, the U.S. Army imported these creatures from Africa as pack animals--it didn't last camels |
#7978, aired 2019-04-24 | WHERE AM I? $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm outside South Africa's oldest building, the Castle of Good Hope in this city, named for its location on a peninsula Cape Town |
#7977, aired 2019-04-23 | WORLD NEWSPAPERS $2000: Al-Ahram (a daily in north Africa) Egypt |
#7976, aired 2019-04-22 | NEW COUNTRY $800: A 24-year armed conflict led to the independence of this nation from South Africa in 1990 Namibia |
#7969, aired 2019-04-11 | AROUND THE INDIAN OCEAN $9,800 (Daily Double): In 1497, this man sailed around Africa & with the help of a pilot crossed the Indian Ocean & reached India Vasco da Gama |
#7967, aired 2019-04-09 | INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN $25,000 (Daily Double): In Andalusia Arabic calligraphy represents this style named for medieval visitors from Africa Moorish |
#7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BODIES OF WATER $600: Seen here is a marker at Cape Agulhas at the tip of this continent Africa |
#7961, aired 2019-04-01 | MOROCCO $2000: Per Title 1, Article 1 of the constitution, Morocco is governed as this, the only one in north Africa a monarchy |
#7961, aired 2019-04-01 | CLOTHING $4,000 (Daily Double): Among the Ndebele of South Africa, a jocolo is an apron worn starting with this occasion marriage |
#7960, aired 2019-03-29 | CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST $1000: Yogurt with honey at Wilde Eend Bistro in Windhoek Africa |
#7958, aired 2019-03-27 | DOCTOR $1600: This 1952 Nobel Peace Prize winner gained fame for building a hospital in Africa Albert Schweitzer |
#7951, aired 2019-03-18 | COUNTRY SHORTCUTS $400: Lesotho & eSwatini (formerly Swaziland) South Africa |
#7948, aired 2019-03-13 | WORLD LEADERS 1919 $1600: In August Jan Smuts said, "a wave of the deepest emotion has passed over" this country at the news of PM Botha's death South Africa |
#7947, aired 2019-03-12 | CIA WORLD FACTBOOK NO. 1s $1000: South Africa: 7.2 million people living with this communicable affliction AIDS |
#7940, aired 2019-03-01 | TRAVEL $1600: Named for a statesman, this largest national park in South Africa offers the chance to see amazing wildlife up close Kruger |
#7938, aired 2019-02-27 | INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES $1200: The Abyssinia crisis of 1935-36 was a conflict between these 2 nations, one in Africa & one in Europe Italy and Ethiopia |
#7931, aired 2019-02-18 | LANGUAGES $200: The west of this continent has about 50 million Hausa speakers Africa |
#7929, aired 2019-02-14 | HISTORIC SUPREME COURT CASES $1200: John Quincy Adams won the freedom of members of Africa's Mendi people when he argued their case in U.S. v. this Spanish slave ship Amistad |
#7927, aired 2019-02-12 | CLASSIC ADVENTURE NOVELS $400: In 1887's "She" by H. Rider Haggard, a lost civilization is discovered in the jungles of this continent Africa |
#7922, aired 2019-02-05 | SUNNY "D" $2000: The "cold" season in this country on the horn of Africa has lows in the 70s Djibouti |
#7921, aired 2019-02-04 | ROAM $400: After traipsing through Africa seeking Livingstone, he won the name Bula Matari, "Breaker of Rocks" (Henry Morton) Stanley |
#7911, aired 2019-01-21 | FOREIGN MONEY $1600: Wildlife including rhinos & elephants appear on different denominations of this monetary unit of South Africa the rand |
#7910, aired 2019-01-18 | IN THE NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET $600: An Nguni person of South Africa Zulu |
#7909, aired 2019-01-17 | THE WORLD THROUGH LITERATURE $800: Nadine Gordimer's final novel, 2012's "No Time Like the Present", is the story of an interracial couple in this country South Africa |
#7897, aired 2019-01-01 | WORLD HISTORY $400: In 1869 the discovery of diamonds near what became the town of Kimberley in this nation led to quite a rush South Africa |
#7895, aired 2018-12-28 | THE BEER HUNTER $800: If you're hunting Elephant lager, your destination might be Carlsberg headquarters in this country Denmark |
#7894, aired 2018-12-27 | AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $400: His "Green Hills of Africa" is an account of big game hunting in Tanganyika in the 1930s Hemingway |
#7887, aired 2018-12-18 | BODIES OF WATER $200: This term for a quintet of bodies of water in North America is also used for a group in Africa the Great Lakes |
#7884, aired 2018-12-13 | THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS SHOPPING LIST $1000: A couple of these birds that winter in central Africa? Oh, my true love, you shouldn't have! Really. I mean that turtle doves |
#7883, aired 2018-12-12 | THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER $400: Medical miracles march on: guinea worm, which in 1985 had 3 million cases on this continent, is on the verge of eradication Africa |
#7880, aired 2018-12-07 | WHAT A COUNTR"E" $800: A 1974 military coup deposed the last of this Africa nation's emperors Ethiopia |
#7874, aired 2018-11-29 | GLOBAL MONSTERS $800: South Africa's grootslang is a horrific cave beast that's part serpent, part this giant trumpeter an elephant |
#7869, aired 2018-11-22 | ON THE 2018 BILLBOARD CHARTS $800: Weezer remade a No. 1 song by Toto that says, "I bless the rains down in" this place Africa |
#7866, aired 2018-11-19 | FLAGS $400: After the end of apartheid, this country introduced a new flag in 1994 South Africa |
#7852, aired 2018-10-30 | JOURNALISM $400: A sextet of N.Y. Times reporters won Polk Awards for coverage of this epidemic in west Africa in 2014 Ebola |
#7852, aired 2018-10-30 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $1600: The splendors of Victoria Falls are found on the border of these 2 "Z" countries of Africa Zambia and Zimbabwe |
#7849, aired 2018-10-25 | WHERE YOU GOING? $600: Maybe braving this desert referred to as Dorsland or "Thirstland" by the Boers who trekked through it Kalahari |
#7841, aired 2018-10-15 | ROOST-ERS $400: Africa's quelea, whose swarms break branches roosting, is AKA this "bird", after a pestilential grasshopper locust |
#7837, aired 2018-10-09 | PEOPLE IN SCIENCE $1200: In 1948 in Africa she made her first big discovery--the partial skull of an ancestor of both apes & early humans Mary Leakey |
#7834, aired 2018-10-04 | AUTHORS BORN & DIED $600: Born in Denmark in 1885, she went into Africa in 1914 & out of this world Sept. 7, 1962 (Isak) Dinesen |
#7834, aired 2018-10-04 | WORLD LAKES $800: Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile, is in this Horn of Africa nation Ethiopia |
#7828, aired 2018-09-26 | GETTING COORDINATED $800: 0 degrees latitude & longitude is near the Gulf of Guinea, just west of this continent Africa |
#7827, aired 2018-09-25 | QUEEN'S CONCERT $2000: Named for the prisoner number of this man, the 46664 campaign started with a Queen concert in South Africa Mandela |
#7823, aired 2018-09-19 | WORLD HISTORY $200: Meaning "separateness", it was the official policy of racial segregation in South Africa until the '90s apartheid |
#7817, aired 2018-09-11 | NUMERICAL CINEMA $800: A derelict alien spaceship is stalled out over South Africa District 9 |
#7814, aired 2018-07-26 | SAINTS ON EARTH $200: From 1815 to 1821 Napoleon had a lot of time to sit right there & think about what he'd done on this island 1,200 mi. off Africa Saint Helena |
#7802, aired 2018-07-10 | FROM Z TO A $400: Scientists in South Africa are trying to bring back the quagga, a species of this that became extinct in the 19th century a zebra |
#7801, aired 2018-07-09 | PLACES $1000: Travel co. founder Sven-Olof Lindblad was also a photographer in Africa & published a book on this national park Serengeti National Park |
#7800, aired 2018-07-06 | IMMIGRANTS $400: In fiscal 2016 more refugees came to the U.S. from this "Democratic Republic" in Africa than from any other country Democratic Republic of Congo |
#7794, aired 2018-06-28 | BRUSH UP ON YOUR... $400: Zulu South Africa |
#7788, aired 2018-06-20 | 25 YEARS AGO: 1993 $1000: The 1993 secession of Eritrea left this largest horn of Africa country landlocked Ethiopia |
#7780, aired 2018-06-08 | ITALY BEFORE THE ROMANS $800: According to legend, refugees of this 1200 B.C. conflict first fled to Thrace, then north Africa & finally Italy the Trojan War |
#7779, aired 2018-06-07 | I LAKE IT LIKE THAT $800: In 1858 this largest lake in Africa was given its royal name by the first European explorer to reach it Lake Victoria |
#7768, aired 2018-05-23 | PLANET OF THE CAPES $2000: Cap-Vert, the westernmost point in mainland Africa, is the site of this Senegalese capital city Dakar |
#7760, aired 2018-05-11 | SHE DID IT! $600: She studied mountain gorillas in Africa & wrote "Gorillas in the Mist" Dian Fossey |
#7750, aired 2018-04-27 | LANDMARKS OF AFRICA $400: This great structure in Touba, Senegal, has room for more than 7,000 worshippers a mosque |
#7750, aired 2018-04-27 | LANDMARKS OF AFRICA $800: This capital's mummy-rich antiquities museum dates back to 1902 Cairo |
#7750, aired 2018-04-27 | LANDMARKS OF AFRICA $1200: One of the highest on the continent, the Maletsunyane Falls tumble 630 feet in this nation surrounded by South Africa Lesotho |
#7750, aired 2018-04-27 | LANDMARKS OF AFRICA $1600: Site of a former slave trading post, an isle in the Gambia River today bears this "Roots" character's name Kunta Kinte |
#7750, aired 2018-04-27 | LONGTIME RULERS $2000: Sobhuza II of this kingdom of southern Africa ruled for 82 years transitioning to independence from the U.K. in 1968 Swaziland |
#7750, aired 2018-04-27 | LANDMARKS OF AFRICA $2000: This successor organization to the Organization of African Unity has its headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia the African Union |
#7749, aired 2018-04-26 | WE LOVE THE '80s $600: A safari-wear craze was inspired in part by this movie starring Meryl Streep & Robert Redford Out of Africa |
#7744, aired 2018-04-19 | GETTING HISTORICAL $400: South Africa's first president elected post-apartheid, he was sworn in on May 10, 1994 Mandela |
#7736, aired 2018-04-09 | DUAL CITIZENS $1600: This "Atomic Blonde" actress is a citizen of the USA & the Republic of South Africa (Charlize) Theron |
#7734, aired 2018-04-05 | THE OLD COUNTRY $400: In 1904 Dahomey became part of the new territory called French West this, which lasted until 1958 French West Africa |
#7727, aired 2018-03-27 | ISLANDS $2000: Portuguese is widely spoken in Praia, the capital city of this island nation off the west coast of Africa Cape Verde |
#7726, aired 2018-03-26 | MY COUNTRY (OF BIRTH) $200: Charlize Theron South Africa |
#7725, aired 2018-03-23 | TIME MAGAZINE'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $1600: 2014:
Health care workers fighting this deadly virus in west Africa Ebola |
#7717, aired 2018-03-13 | STRAIT AWAY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Mediterranean spans 2,500 miles from the Gulf of Iskenderun on the southern coast of Turkey to this historically vital channel between Spain & Africa Gibraltar |
#7710, aired 2018-03-02 | U.N. MILESTONES $1200: November 4, 1977:
The Security Council condemns this country's racist regime & initiates an arms embargo South Africa |
#7708, aired 2018-02-28 | SOME SERIOUS FOREIGN COIN $1000: This one-ounce gold coin of South Africa was introduced in 1967 the krugerrand |
#7704, aired 2018-02-22 | AFRICA SINCE 1750 $400: From 1951 to 1960, he was the heavyweight boxing champion of Uganda; from 1971 to 1979, he was president Idi Amin |
#7704, aired 2018-02-22 | AFRICA SINCE 1750 $800: Similar to Liberia, this "lion mountains" nation began as a colony for freed slaves in 1787 Sierra Leone |
#7704, aired 2018-02-22 | AFRICA SINCE 1750 $1,000 (Daily Double): A series of anti-apartheid protests in this South African township in 1976 led to a larger uprising Soweto |
#7704, aired 2018-02-22 | AFRICA SINCE 1750 $1200: Long a threat to water buffalo, giraffes & mainly these livestock, the viral disease rinderpest was eradicated in 2011 cattle |
#7704, aired 2018-02-22 | AFRICA SINCE 1750 $1600: At 1896's Battle of Adwa, Menelik II, emperor of this nation, defeated an Italian army & kept the country independent Ethiopia |
#7703, aired 2018-02-21 | BESTSELLERS $800: "Circling the Sun" fictionalizes the love triangle of Beryl Markham, Denys Finch Hatton & this author of "Out of Africa" Karen Blixen |
#7701, aired 2018-02-19 | "LADY" $800: A vocal group got its name by adding "Black Mambazo" to this native town in South Africa Ladysmith |
#7691, aired 2018-02-05 | MEMOIRS ON AUDIBLE $800: (Now listen to him--he handles with humor how politics shaped his life.) I grew up in South Africa during apartheid, which was awkward because I was raised in a mixed family, well, with me being the mixed one in the family Trevor Noah |
#7690, aired 2018-02-02 | IMPEACHED, REMOVED OR JUST QUIT $800: Having lost support from this, his own party, Thabo Mbeki quit as president of South Africa in 2008 the African National Congress (or the ANC) |
#7683, aired 2018-01-24 | ONLY GEOGRAPHY $400: The only continent without glaciers Australia |
#7683, aired 2018-01-24 | THE NOT-SO-BIG CATS $800: Smaller than a house cat, the black-footed cat is native to the Kalahari on this continent Africa |
#7681, aired 2018-01-22 | COUNTRY NICKNAMES $600: Used by Desmond Tutu:
"Rainbow Nation" South Africa |
#7671, aired 2018-01-08 | NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS $400: South Africa's coat of arms has a club called a knobkierie & this pointed weapon, shown peacefully lying down a spear |
#7670, aired 2018-01-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORITIES $2000: For openly dealing with apartheid, some of this woman's novels were banned in her native South Africa Nadine Gordimer |
#7667, aired 2018-01-02 | AFRICAN ISLANDS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of Africa.) The protected southwest remains mostly arid from January to March, when monsoons typically hit the east and northeast of this nation Madagascar |
#7667, aired 2018-01-02 | AFRICAN ISLANDS $1600: Tunisia's Djerba Island has mosques, a cathedral & the El Ghriba this house of worship, said to be Africa's oldest a synagogue |
#7655, aired 2017-12-15 | MAIN STREAM MEDIA $200: Hercule Poirot is on vacation in Africa in this mystery mainstay Death on the Nile |
#7655, aired 2017-12-15 | ONLY "U" $2000: Unkulunkulu is the creator god of this people of South Africa the Zulu |
#7654, aired 2017-12-14 | CAMP DAVID $400: We presume you know this man was born in Blantyre, Scotland in 1813 & died in Chitambo, Africa in 1873 David Livingstone |
#7654, aired 2017-12-14 | EXILED! $1600: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, president of this country, was ousted after a 2004 rebellion & spent years in South Africa Haiti |
#7648, aired 2017-12-06 | AUTHORS AT WAR $1200: At the age of 40, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle volunteered as a military doctor during this war in Africa the Boer War |
#7646, aired 2017-12-04 | COUNTRIES BY FIRST LETTER $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of north Africa.) From west to east across the top of north Africa, the first letters of the four highlighted countries spell out this word male |
#7640, aired 2017-11-24 | THE 300+ $1600: AL 333, AKA "the first family", is a group of hominid fossils found in Hadar in this Horn of Africa nation Ethiopia |
#7639, aired 2017-11-23 | AFRICAN LITERATURE $400: Alan Paton's novel "Cry, the Beloved Country" focused on the fight for freedom & justice in this country South Africa |
#7638, aired 2017-11-22 | NOW YOU'RE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE $1,000 (Daily Double): Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta's first name means "freedom" in this language of Africa Swahili |
#7630, aired 2017-11-10 | REPUBLIC "-AN"s $600: Its separation from another republic in Africa was finalized in 2011 South Sudan |
#7629, aired 2017-11-09 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: This "colorful" river forms Namibia's southern border with South Africa the Orange River |
#7629, aired 2017-11-09 | THE SILVER SCREEN $1200: Neill Blomkamp directed this 2009 sci-fi film in which aliens live in South Africa District 9 |
#7621, aired 2017-10-30 | WORLD LEADERS $800: Before becoming president of this country in 2009, Jacob Zuma did exile time in Swaziland & Mozambique South Africa |
#7621, aired 2017-10-30 | CAP $1000: In 2009 the Maersk Alabama, captained by him, ran afoul of pirates near the Horn of Africa Captain Phillips |
#7619, aired 2017-10-26 | WORLD OF TELESCOPES $400: The largest single optical telescope in the Southern Hemisphere is found in this country's Northern Cape Province South Africa |
#7615, aired 2017-10-20 | DOING BUSINESS IN THE 1800s $2,000 (Daily Double): In Britain a pound equaled 20 shillings; this gold coin named for a region of Africa equaled 21 shillings a guinea |
#7613, aired 2017-10-18 | GREAT PLACES TO PROPOSE $200: At a spot near this spectacular site in Africa Victoria Falls |
#7613, aired 2017-10-18 | WATERWORKS $800: Some kids in Africa use playpumps, these hyphenated items AKA roundabouts that pump clean water for extra fun merry-go-rounds |
#7612, aired 2017-10-17 | ANCIENT WISDOM $800: In his "Natural History", Pliny the Elder wrote that "there's always something new out of" this continent Africa |
#7611, aired 2017-10-16 | NON -IA COUNTRIES $2000: Once known as Portuguese East Africa, it was settled by the Bantu almost 2,000 years ago Mozambique |
#7604, aired 2017-10-05 | MAPS "R" US $1600: Avenue Mohammed V connects the old & new sections of this capital in north Africa Rabat |
#7599, aired 2017-09-28 | DEEP UNDERGROUND $600: Some of the deepest mines like the Savuka & Driefontein are used to look for gold in this country South Africa |
#7598, aired 2017-09-27 | I AM BIG! $2000: What's gnu? I dunno, I'd say the blue this animal living in southern Africa & weighing 600 lbs.; what's gnu with you? a wildebeest |
#7589, aired 2017-09-14 | LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $400: The Nubian languages are spoken primarily along the banks of this river the Nile |
#7589, aired 2017-09-14 | LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $800: Tsonga isn't spoken in Tonga but is one of 11 official languages in this country, as are Tswana & Zulu South Africa |
#7589, aired 2017-09-14 | LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $1200: The world's Austronesian languages include Tagalog, Javanese & Malagasy, spoken mainly on this island nation Madagascar |
#7589, aired 2017-09-14 | LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the official language in 5 African countries, including Mozambique & Cape Verde Portuguese |
#7589, aired 2017-09-14 | LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $2000: This official language of Morocco & Algeria is named for a nomadic people of north Africa Berber |
#7583, aired 2017-07-26 | BRITANNICA BYLINES $2000: Who better than this holy man to write the entry on South Africa's 1995 Truth and Reconciliation Commission? Desmond Tutu |
#7579, aired 2017-07-20 | OUR ANCIENT RELATIVES $1200: Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa has evidence of human use of this 1 million years ago, perhaps the earliest use found fire |
#7579, aired 2017-07-20 | OUR ANCIENT RELATIVES $1600: The oldest Homo sapiens fossils date from 195,000 years ago & were found in this Horn of Africa nation Ethiopia |
#7575, aired 2017-07-14 | NATION STATE $200: Majority ANC party plagued by infighting; military deployed to keep Zimbabweans from coming over the border South Africa |
#7573, aired 2017-07-12 | WHERE AM I? $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents.) I'm at the building housing the president's office in this administrative, not legislative or judicial, capital of South Africa Pretoria |
#7572, aired 2017-07-11 | SHAKA $800: Shaka's elimination of local tribes helped the great trek of these Euro-Africans pass easily through South Africa the Boers |
#7570, aired 2017-07-07 | MO-POURRI $400: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation gives a prize to leaders who aid democracy on this continent, like Pres. Pohamba of Namibia Africa |
#7561, aired 2017-06-26 | PLACES IN CONTINENTS $3,000 (Daily Double): It's in Africa, where it's the nearest country to continental Europe Morocco |
#7560, aired 2017-06-23 | ORANGE $1000: One of the longest on the continent, the Orange River forms a border between Namibia & this nation South Africa |
#7545, aired 2017-06-02 | I USED TO RUN THE PLACE $600: From 1989 to 1994, F.W. de Klerk South Africa |
#7541, aired 2017-05-29 | A ROCKY CATEGORY $200: In South Africa most of these are mined from a rock called kimberlite diamonds |
#7534, aired 2017-05-18 | A ROUND OF GULF $1200: The Speke Gulf is at the southeastern corner of this lake, Africa's largest Lake Victoria |
#7529, aired 2017-05-11 | CASTRO'S CUBA: 1959-2016 $400: Fidel's efforts to export revolution to this continent cost the lives of more than 4,000 Cubans, half in Angola Africa |
#7526, aired 2017-05-08 | THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE $800: Malebo Pool is a 200-square-mile lake-like expansion of this river near Kinshasa the Congo River |
#7525, aired 2017-05-05 | STREAM $2000: It's Africa's second-longest river, after the Nile the Congo |
#7524, aired 2017-05-04 | HOMELAND $800: "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah South Africa |
#7523, aired 2017-05-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the 1950s, this well-traveled Danish author was a contender for a Nobel Prize Isak Dinesen |
#7521, aired 2017-05-01 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1200: We presume you know the name of this Scottish explorer who first set sail for Africa in 1840 (David) Livingstone |
#7517, aired 2017-04-25 | DOG BREED NAMES $600: Some say the name of this dog from Africa is the plural of mosenji, Lingala for "native" basenji |
#7512, aired 2017-04-18 | DUG OUT $800: At Kimberley, South Africa, you can visit "The Big Hole", dug for the purpose of finding these diamonds |
#7502, aired 2017-04-04 | OF THE REPUBLIC $1600: Its highest point is Njesuthi at an elevation of 11,181 feet near its border with Lesotho South Africa |
#7495, aired 2017-03-24 | GREETINGS $1,200 (Daily Double): British restraint doesn't get much more restrained than this 4-word greeting used in Africa in 1871 "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" |
#7486, aired 2017-03-13 | THE MARCH OF HISTORY $800: This country once known as South West Africa gained full independence in March 1990 Namibia |
#7471, aired 2017-02-20 | TAKE A PEAK $2000: Margherita Peak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is Africa's 3rd-highest point, exceeded only by these 2 Mount "K"s Kilimanjaro & Kenya |
#7467, aired 2017-02-14 | A HISTORY LESSON $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1910 Louis Botha became this country's first prime minister, a post he held until 1919 South Africa |
#7465, aired 2017-02-10 | GLOBETROTTING $400: Africa Serendipity offers a tour called "Panorama Migration" this trip & sends you from Arusha to Nairobi safari |
#7464, aired 2017-02-09 | COUNTRIES' NEWSPAPERS $800: The Cape Argus South Africa |
#7460, aired 2017-02-03 | THE TITLE OF THE MOVIE ESCAPES ME $1200: The 2008 sequel to this 2005 animated feature about Central Park Zoo animals is subtitled "Escape 2 Africa" Madagascar |
#7458, aired 2017-02-01 | CAPE FEAR $1200: The name of Africa's Cape Agulhas, dominated by sharp rocks that have wrecked many a ship, means these sewing tools needles |
#7458, aired 2017-02-01 | GOOD FELLERS $2000: In "The Green Hills of Africa" from 1935, he engages in tree removal while on safari with second wife Pauline Pfeiffer Ernest Hemingway |
#7456, aired 2017-01-30 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $2000: More than 9 million people, mostly in South Africa, speak this Bantu language Zulu |
#7443, aired 2017-01-11 | HUMANITARIANS $2000: In the 1950s this German missionary used his Nobel Peace Prize winnings to found a leprosarium in Africa Dr. Schweitzer |
#7431, aired 2016-12-26 | MORE THAN AN ATHLETE $600: Seen here, he was one of the first U.S. athletes to speak out against South Africa's apartheid laws Arthur Ashe |
#7431, aired 2016-12-26 | GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES $1600: For Africa's lowest point, Lake Assal, this measurement is about 35% salinity |
#7430, aired 2016-12-23 | ON EARTH $2000: In 1870 this 4-letter lake in north central Africa covered some 10,800 square miles; today, only around 580 Lake Chad |
#7429, aired 2016-12-22 | OUT OF TOWN GUESTS $1,000 (Daily Double): We acknowledge uncle Abe, in from Botswana, & cousin Janet from the Nuweveld Range in this nation just below South Africa |
#7417, aired 2016-12-06 | OUT OF AFRICA $400: An African bird with 2 toes on each foot, or someone who refuses to face unpleasant truths an ostrich |
#7417, aired 2016-12-06 | OUT OF AFRICA $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew lays on her front, propped up on her elbows.) A stress-reliever that strengthens the spine & even stretches the lungs, this yoga pose gets its name from a "Great" Egyptian landmark the Sphinx |
#7417, aired 2016-12-06 | OUT OF AFRICA $1200: The name of this Mali city on the Sahara's southern edge is used to mean any place very distant Timbuktu |
#7417, aired 2016-12-06 | OUT OF AFRICA $1600: In the 1970s reggae music became identified with this pan-African movement inspired by Haile Selassie Rastafarianism |
#7417, aired 2016-12-06 | OUT OF AFRICA $2000: A surf fashion brand made in Africa by Africans is named for this language group that includes Swahili & Zulu Bantu |
#7408, aired 2016-11-23 | CONTINENTS OF NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS $200: For Peace,
Mohamed El Baradei Africa |
#7404, aired 2016-11-17 | EXTREME GEOGRAPHY $600: Africa's highest mountain is this one whose "snows" were made famous in a short story Kilimanjaro |
#7404, aired 2016-11-17 | EXTREME GEOGRAPHY $800: Africa's Kariba Dam created the largest by volume of these man-made water-storing lakes, capacity 180 billion cubic meters a reservoir |
#7403, aired 2016-11-16 | LET'S GO TO TOGO $200: We're going to the western part of this continent Africa |
#7400, aired 2016-11-11 | WHICH CONTINENT? $1000: Is the second-largest in area & population Africa |
#7393, aired 2016-11-02 | FOX(X) NEWS $800: The bold surprise attacks in North Africa by Nazi general Erwin Rommel earned the man this nickname "Desert Fox" |
#7388, aired 2016-10-26 | "C"ITIES $400: In North Africa, it's Arabic for "the victorious" Cairo |
#7386, aired 2016-10-24 | CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $600: The man in this identifying piece of headwear brings Curious George over from Africa the yellow hat |
#7381, aired 2016-10-17 | THE TROPIC OF CANCER $1200: In Africa, the line falls across the Sahara Desert & this largest Egyptian lake Lake Nasser |
#7360, aired 2016-09-16 | THERE IT IS $400: The Ubangi River:
this continent Africa |
#7358, aired 2016-09-14 | LANGUAGES $800: (I'm Lara Logan of CBS News.) As a reporter I find it helpful to know many languages, so I speak English, French, Portuguese & this Germanic language of my homeland, South Africa Afrikaans |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | OUT OF AFRICA $200: Easy on the eyes, like a maiden fair |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | INTO AFRICA $400: Today, 83 million live in this ancient nation Egypt |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | OUT OF AFRICA $400: Presidential spokesman Fleischer or NPR voice Shapiro Ari |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | OUT OF AFRICA $600: Leon Panetta was its director from 2009 to 2011 the CIA |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | INTO AFRICA $800: The Basotho people are the majority in this country of 2 million Lesotho |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | OUT OF AFRICA $800: The path of a fired arrow from bow to ground an arc |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | OUT OF AFRICA $1000: An example of this pine family member is seen here a fir |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | INTO AFRICA $1200: Once controlled by Germany, today this country bears the name of a desert found there Namibia |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | INTO AFRICA $1600: The third-longest river in Africa lends its name to these 2 countries Niger and Nigeria |
#7345, aired 2016-07-15 | INTO AFRICA $3,000 (Daily Double): This coastal republic of 23 million is separated from Madagascar by the channel of the same name Mozambique |
#7342, aired 2016-07-12 | THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE $3,400 (Daily Double): The 1984 Nobel Peace Prize went to this man, "Africa's peace bishop" (Desmond) Tutu |
#7332, aired 2016-06-28 | HIDING PLACES $1200: There was much ado about the fact that it's the largest of Africa's 16 landlocked countries Chad (in much ado) |
#7331, aired 2016-06-27 | OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB CLASSICS $1600: As a tie-in with her selection of this Alan Paton work about apartheid, Oprah sent 3 viewers on a trip to South Africa Cry, the Beloved Country |
#7327, aired 2016-06-21 | COUNTRIES WITH SHORT COASTLINES $1600: One of the largest countries in Africa at 905,000 sq. mi., this democratic republic has only a 23-mile coastline along the Atlantic the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
#7326, aired 2016-06-20 | ISTHMUS BE YOUR LUCKY DAY $1200: Cutting the isthmus between Africa & Asia, this canal shortened the distance between England & India by about 5,000 miles the Suez |
#7320, aired 2016-06-10 | HERE'S TO 50 GREAT YEARS $200: 1650:
The 787-carat Great Mogul Diamond is found in a mine in this country India |
#7319, aired 2016-06-09 | PUNNY LITERARY TITLES $200: A small round pastry causes a blackout in deepest Africa in this Joseph Conrad narrative Tart of Darkness |
#7318, aired 2016-06-08 | LAKES & RIVERS $400: At 155 feet below sea level, Lake Assal in central Djibouti is this continent's lowest point Africa |
#7311, aired 2016-05-30 | AFRICAN COUNTRIES $1200: There was once a place called Italian East Africa; now most of it is this Ethiopia |
#7308, aired 2016-05-25 | IT BELONGS TO THE BRITISH $800: At its southernmost tip, Europa Point, there are great views of Apes' Den as well as North Africa Gibraltar |
#7303, aired 2016-05-18 | MUSICAL THEATER $800: A Liberian warlord known as General Butt Naked inspired an antagonist in this recent musical about missionaries in Africa The Book of Mormon |
#7303, aired 2016-05-18 | I HEART CAPES $1600: This cape with a cheerful name at the bottom of Africa was first sighted by Europeans in 1488 the Cape of Good Hope |
#7294, aired 2016-05-05 | ALL ABOUT ANIMALS $1200: It's not George W.'s offspring, but this tree-dwelling primate of Africa a bush baby |
#7291, aired 2016-05-02 | AFRICANA $400: Its many large bodies of water give this region of Africa the same name as part of the USA's Upper Midwest the Great Lakes region |
#7290, aired 2016-04-29 | "C" THE WORLD $400: It's the legislative capital of South Africa Cape Town |
#7289, aired 2016-04-28 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $2000: This Oscar winner directed "The Firm", "Out of Africa" & "Tootsie", in which he also acted Sydney Pollack |
#7267, aired 2016-03-29 | I'M RETIRED $200: In 2004, 10 years after becoming president of South Africa, he officially retired from public life Mandela |
#7267, aired 2016-03-29 | LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $400: Cairene Arabic is perhaps the most widely understood form of Arabic due to this country's films & TV shows Egypt |
#7267, aired 2016-03-29 | LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $800: This language's many dialects include kiMvita spoken in Mombasa Swahili |
#7267, aired 2016-03-29 | LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $1200: The Khoisan languages are rare in that they employ these sounds as consonants clicks |
#7267, aired 2016-03-29 | LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $1600: To ask, "How are you?" in this language, say "Hoe gaan dit met jou?" Afrikaans |
#7267, aired 2016-03-29 | LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $4,000 (Daily Double): Countries using this as their official language include Mozambique & Guinea-Bissau Portuguese |
#7255, aired 2016-03-11 | THE MIDDLE $800: About the size of Africa, Aphrodite Terra is a plateau region stretching across the middle of this planet Venus |
#7253, aired 2016-03-09 | MAMMALS $2000: Grant's this, Equus quagga boehmi of Africa, doesn't neigh, it barks a zebra |
#7249, aired 2016-03-03 | WORLD RELIGION $2000: Rastafarianism traces its origins to this Jamaican who said to look to Africa, where a black king shall be crowned (Marcus) Garvey |
#7239, aired 2016-02-18 | MOROCCO $400: This largest city is home to Africa's largest mall, which features an aquarium & an ice rink Casablanca |
#7226, aired 2016-02-01 | COUNTRIES' PROVINCES $200: KwaZulu-Natal &
Western Cape South Africa |
#7224, aired 2016-01-28 | "O" IN LITERATURE $600: In this memoir Isak Dinesen wrote that her farm was "at the foot of the Ngong Hills" Out of Africa |
#7222, aired 2016-01-26 | RECENT AFRICAN HISTORY $800: From 1960 to 1990 this political party was banned & was forced to operate underground & outside South Africa's borders the African National Congress |
#7221, aired 2016-01-25 | ON THIS CONTINENT $200: The former country Abyssinia Africa |
#7216, aired 2016-01-18 | LAKES & RIVERS $200: This largest lake in Africa is also the main reservoir of the Nile River Lake Victoria |
#7214, aired 2016-01-14 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME $600: The Vandals conquered parts of Italy, Spain & Africa but their first home may have been this Danish peninsula Jutland |
#7214, aired 2016-01-14 | I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD $1000: Africa's last absolute monarch, King Mswati III of this country has 15 wives but only 13 royal palaces Swaziland |
#7212, aired 2016-01-12 | "H" 2"O" $2000: It's a hot, violent dust or sand storm that blows in the deserts of North Africa & Arabia a haboob |
#7208, aired 2016-01-06 | OPEC NATIONS $3,000 (Daily Double): This country that had violent regime change in 2011 has the largest oil reserves in Africa Libya |
#7204, aired 2015-12-31 | THE EMPIRE HAS FALLEN $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) After 527 A.D., when Justinian became emperor, the borders of this empire expanded during his reign further into North Africa & even Spain the Byzantine Empire |
#7202, aired 2015-12-29 | ZIMBABWE $400: This neighbor is Zimbabwe's leading trade partner, accounting for more than 30% of exports & 40% of imports South Africa |
#7202, aired 2015-12-29 | "M"USIC $400: A popular folk instrument in Latin America, this variety of xylophone originated in Africa the marimba |
#7200, aired 2015-12-25 | THE LARGEST COUNTRY... $1600: In Africa, by population Nigeria |
#7194, aired 2015-12-17 | LITERARY DIRECTIONS $800: 1884's "Star of the South" was an Africa-set novel in this French sci-fi pioneer's "Extraordinary Voyages" series (Jules) Verne |
#7190, aired 2015-12-11 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $1600: On Africa's west coast, it's alphabetically the first southern hemisphere country Angola |
#7189, aired 2015-12-10 | FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES $1200: Fleur de Sel is a French restaurant in this "Democratic Republic", the second-largest country in Africa the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
#7172, aired 2015-11-17 | YOU'RE "DA" BOMB! $800: Originating in Africa, it's the colorful garment seen here dashiki |
#7164, aired 2015-11-05 | THE URGE TO MERGE $400: In 1910 the Orange River Colony joined with Natal, Cape Colony & the Transvaal to form this country South Africa |
#7164, aired 2015-11-05 | GOTHIC LITERATURE $1200: "The Supper at Elsinore" is one of "Seven Gothic Tales" by this author also known for her tales of Africa (Isak) Dinesen (Karen Blixen) |
#7158, aired 2015-10-28 | "OO" RAH $1600: French & English are the official languages of this country on Africa's west coast Cameroon |
#7153, aired 2015-10-21 | HEMINGWAY $2000: Harry is dying of gangrene while on safari in Africa in this short story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" |
#7152, aired 2015-10-20 | GEOLOGY $3,000 (Daily Double): The Canary Current flows north to south along the edge of this continent Africa |
#7150, aired 2015-10-16 | SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS $1200: Fossil finds in Africa by this husband & wife established Homo habilis as an ancestor of modern man the Leakeys |
#7142, aired 2015-10-06 | WEATHER $800: Cape Verde-type hurricanes develop as storms off this continent & then become hurricanes before reaching the Caribbean Africa |
#7141, aired 2015-10-05 | WHERE AM I? $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports.) I'm in this largest township in Johannesburg, South Africa; once notorious for repression, now setting trends in fashion & art Soweto |
#7137, aired 2015-09-29 | COUNTRIES IN SPANISH $400: Corea del Sur South Korea |
#7132, aired 2015-09-22 | RAISE THE WHITE IN THE FLAG $2000: This country's 1994 flag includes the black, green & yellow of liberation organizations, & red, white & blue of settler flags South Africa |
#7130, aired 2015-09-18 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a world map on a monitor.) The continent of Africa, as well as its surrounding oceanic crusts, are part of the African one of these rigid pieces that make up the Earth's surface continental plate |
#7123, aired 2015-07-29 | WHICH AFRICAN COUNTRY? $800: Next to South Africa on the Indian Ocean Mozambique |
#7121, aired 2015-07-27 | GEOGRAPHER'S "D"ICTIONARY $2000: Natural process by which arid lands become even less fertile; it happens a lot in Africa desertification |
#7116, aired 2015-07-20 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $1,500 (Daily Double): Geographic adjective for the part of Africa shown here Sub-Saharan |
#7112, aired 2015-07-14 | AT LAST, SUN $600: Now it's OK to play Sun City, a resort in this country, including a Gary Player championship golf course South Africa |
#7104, aired 2015-07-02 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $800: Of countries in Africa Algeria |
#7103, aired 2015-07-01 | THE WRITE STUFF $400: Isak Dinesen's memoir has the Danish title "Den afrikanske farm" & this English title Out of Africa |
#7101, aired 2015-06-29 | LET'S VISIT SAO TOME & PRINCIPE $200: Mainly 2 small islands, Sao Tome & Principe is one of this continent's smallest nations Africa |
#7099, aired 2015-06-25 | AFRICAN COUNTRY BY AIRPORT $600: Kruger Mpumalanga International South Africa |
#7088, aired 2015-06-10 | DISCOVERIES $400: A shiny pebble discovered in South Africa in 1867 turned out to be this type of gem, kicking off a major industry diamond |
#7088, aired 2015-06-10 | DISCOVERIES $1,500 (Daily Double): This dangerous virus transmitted by a mosquito was first discovered in Africa in 1937 the West Nile virus |
#7075, aired 2015-05-22 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Maseru is the capital of this kingdom that's completely surrounded by South Africa Lesotho |
#7075, aired 2015-05-22 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: 2 of Africa's deepest lakes, Tanganyika & Nyasa, lie in this 4,500-mile-long valley system the (Great) Rift Valley |
#7075, aired 2015-05-22 | GREEN BOOKS $1200: In 1935 this novelist delved into nonfiction, writing about a safari he took in "Green Hills of Africa" Hemingway |
#7072, aired 2015-05-19 | ETERNAL DAN NATION $5,400 (Daily Double): Dan Jacobson, author of 1959's "The Zulu and the Zeide" South Africa |
#7067, aired 2015-05-12 | "N" DEAVOUR $1600: The South West Africa People's Organization led this country to independence Namibia |
#7062, aired 2015-05-05 | WORLD CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): Found in North Africa, it gets its name from an ancient district that included 3 cities Tripoli |
#7059, aired 2015-04-30 | COUNTRIES BY HOTEL $400: The Victoria Falls Hotel, just south of the falls Zimbabwe |
#7057, aired 2015-04-28 | IMPERIALIST $400: There was no native African representation at a 1884 conference convened in this German capital to carve up Africa Berlin |
#7057, aired 2015-04-28 | IMPERIALIST $1200: Before their defeat in 1879, this ethnic group from Natal resisted both the Boers & the British in southern Africa the Zulu |
#7053, aired 2015-04-22 | SOJOURNER $600: Pedro Paez' 20-year trek through East Africa in the 17th c. included seeing the source of its Blue branch the Nile |
#7052, aired 2015-04-21 | COUNTRIES' HIGHEST POINTS $200: Mount Kilimanjaro Tanzania |
#7051, aired 2015-04-20 | OH, B-CITY IN AFRICA $400: Cecil Rhodes is buried near Bulawayo in this country formerly named for him Zimbabwe |
#7051, aired 2015-04-20 | OH, B-CITY IN AFRICA $800: The city of Bo is a metropolis of 150,000 in this West African nation with a name from Portuguese Sierra Leone |
#7051, aired 2015-04-20 | OH, B-CITY IN AFRICA $1200: The Republic of the Congo is sometimes called Congo-this, after its capital Brazzaville |
#7051, aired 2015-04-20 | OH, B-CITY IN AFRICA $1600: Bimbo in this country is not far from the capital, Bangui the Central African Republic |
#7051, aired 2015-04-20 | OH, B-CITY IN AFRICA $12,600 (Daily Double): The name of this South African judicial capital means "fountain of flowers" Bloemfontein |
#7044, aired 2015-04-09 | JUST A FEW LITTLE BUGS $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) African termite mounds, which can be as high as 40 feet, contain intricate systems of ventilation shafts to regulate this, no matter what the weather outside temperature |
#7043, aired 2015-04-08 | WORLD HISTORY $400: Before he was the "Father of India", he led a nonviolent protest against an Asiatic registration law in South Africa (Mahatma) Gandhi |
#7041, aired 2015-04-06 | AROUND THE WORLD $600: This northern city is the most populous capital in Africa Cairo |
#7039, aired 2015-04-02 | IT BORDERS BOTH COUNTRIES $800: Namibia &
Mozambique South Africa |
#7034, aired 2015-03-26 | THE STRAIT SCOOP $400: At the narrowest part of this strait, Europe & Africa are only 8 miles apart the Strait of Gibraltar |
#7033, aired 2015-03-25 | YOU ARE HERE $800: Thank goodness, leaving Africa's Namib Desert--oh bleep, it merges right into this larger one the Kalahari |
#7031, aired 2015-03-23 | YOU CAN'T SPELL GEOGRAPHY WITHOUT "M" $600: Only Greenland, New Guinea & Borneo are larger islands than this one off the coast of Africa Madagascar |
#7020, aired 2015-03-06 | WHERE AM I? $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) I'm on this island near Cape Town, known as both South Africa's Alcatraz & the Island of Tears Robben Island |
#7018, aired 2015-03-04 | HORN $2000: It's home to the Ethiopian Plateau & the Ogaden Desert the Horn of Africa |
#7010, aired 2015-02-20 | LOS ANGELES' SISTER CITIES $1600: L.A. has 2 sister cities in Africa: Lusaka, Zambia & this pyramid city on the Nile Giza |
#7001, aired 2015-02-09 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $800: This large island off Africa was a base for Captain Kidd &, later, a talking lion, hippo, giraffe & zebra Madagascar |
#6995, aired 2015-01-30 | 1977 $400: This epic miniseries that begins in Africa drew a TV audience of 130 million Roots |
#6995, aired 2015-01-30 | 1977 $800: Activist Steve Biko died in police custody in this country, prompting international protests South Africa |
#6986, aired 2015-01-19 | LITTLE WEASELS $600: Also known as the striped weasel, the zorilla of this continent feeds at night on insects & small rodents Africa |
#6984, aired 2015-01-15 | BOUNDARIES OF SPAIN $1200: In North Africa, this country borders the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta & Melilla Morocco |
#6982, aired 2015-01-13 | BRR, BABY, BRR $800: This continent's record low, -23 Celsius, was recorded in the Snowy Mountains on June 29, 1994 Australia |
#6977, aired 2015-01-06 | NO. 1 BESTSELLERS IN THE ZERO YEARS $2000: 1980: His newest epic was "The Covenant", spanning the settlement of South Africa James Michener |
#6973, aired 2014-12-31 | CELEBRITIES' FAVORITE MOVIES $200: (I'm New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.) My favorite movie is this 1985 Meryl Streep film set in Nairobi that won 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture Out of Africa |
#6965, aired 2014-12-19 | THE SAKHAROV PRIZE $400: The European Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize for Human Rights; still in prison in South Africa, this man won in 1988 Mandela |
#6948, aired 2014-11-26 | COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY $2000: This river & its chief tributary, the Vaal, form a drainage basin of around 330,000 square miles in southern Africa the Orange River |
#6947, aired 2014-11-25 | FROM "E" TO "U" $800: Africa has the ostrich; Australia has this the emu |
#6946, aired 2014-11-24 | CONTINENTAL $600: Home to more countries than any other continent Africa |
#6941, aired 2014-11-17 | BORDERING THE RED SEA $400: Until 2011, when the south part split away, it was the biggest country in Africa in total area Sudan |
#6941, aired 2014-11-17 | THE 19th CENTURY $800: In the 1820s this monarch founded a Zulu empire, one of the largest in Africa Shaka |
#6941, aired 2014-11-17 | IN MEMORIAM 2014 $1000: Called "South Africa's grande dame of literature", she passed away at 90 Nadine Gordimer |
#6935, aired 2014-11-07 | GEOGRAPHY BY THE BOOK $200: Set on a coffee plantation:
"Out of ____" Africa |
#6934, aired 2014-11-06 | AT THE MOVIES 10 YEARS AGO $800: Cady moves from the jungles of Africa to those of high school & gets in with an A-list clique in this film Mean Girls |
#6931, aired 2014-11-03 | AROUND AFRICA $400: In French, this nation is Afrique du Sud South Africa |
#6931, aired 2014-11-03 | AROUND AFRICA $800: While this empire controlled Libya, it was part of the region known as Africa Nova the Roman Empire |
#6931, aired 2014-11-03 | AROUND AFRICA $1600: It's the second-largest desert in Africa the Kalahari |
#6931, aired 2014-11-03 | AROUND AFRICA $2,000 (Daily Double): Gazing from space at Victoria Falls, we're looking at the border of these two nations that start with the same letter Zambia & Zimbabwe |
#6931, aired 2014-11-03 | AROUND AFRICA $2000: Governing for the Ottoman sultan, the khedive was the title of the ruler of this North African nation until 1914 Egypt |
#6928, aired 2014-10-29 | HOME DESPOT $1000: In Africa:
Omar al-Bashir the Sudan |
#6924, aired 2014-10-23 | WINSTON CHURCHILL $400: As a young man, Churchill wrote news stories from South Africa during this war & was captured The Boer War |
#6921, aired 2014-10-20 | JUST DESERTS $800: The Namib Desert of West Africa is home to a mountain variety of this member of the horse family the zebra |
#6918, aired 2014-10-15 | SURROUNDED BY WATER $400 (Daily Double): In 1869 Africa became completely surrounded by water with the opening of this the Suez Canal |
#6916, aired 2014-10-13 | OFFICIAL LANGUAGES $800: Xhosa South Africa (or Zimbabwe) |
#6913, aired 2014-10-08 | FRUIT & NUTS $1000: In parts of Africa, sharing these nuts with anti-fatigue properties is the equivalent of the North American peace pipe kola nuts |
#6905, aired 2014-09-26 | & THE CATEGORY OF GEOGRAPHY $1600: Over 9,400 feet, Maromokotro is the highest point on this island 250 miles east of Africa's mainland Madagascar |
#6897, aired 2014-09-16 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): This capital of South Africa's Northern Cape was founded after an 1871 diamond find; today it's a name for baby girls Kimberley |
#6886, aired 2014-07-21 | IN THE AFRICAN COUNTRY $600: Soweto Township, where a struggle for freedom was born South Africa |
#6886, aired 2014-07-21 | THEY WON'T ACTUALLY RHYME $2000: A large carnivorous feline of Asia &
a landlocked desert nation of West Africa tiger & Niger |
#6884, aired 2014-07-17 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $2000: From north Africa, St. Augustine made this animal a symbol of the humble Christian bearing burdens without complaint camel |
#6880, aired 2014-07-11 | "L" ON EARTH $400: Small kingdom of southern Africa Lesotho |
#6879, aired 2014-07-10 | AN "S"-ORTMENT OF THINGS $1600: The Star of Africa diamond is set in this staff as part of the British crown jewels scepter |
#6869, aired 2014-06-26 | CAIRO $400: Daily, an estimated 3 million Cairo commuters use the Metro, Africa's first one of these transportation systems a subway |
#6864, aired 2014-06-19 | AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL $1600: Mary, in 1936, I wanna make you wife number 2! I'm gonna unearth the world for you in East Africa! (Louis) Leakey |
#6858, aired 2014-06-11 | A POTPOURRI OF HISTORY $800: After the British slave trade ended, this mammal product became the most important export from West Central Africa ivory |
#6855, aired 2014-06-06 | WHAT'S THE ATTRACTION? $800: Consisting of 3 extinct volcanoes, it contains Africa's highest point Mount Kilimanjaro |
#6853, aired 2014-06-04 | INTERNATIONAL ROAD VEHICLE STICKERS $800: In Southern Africa Lesotho |
#6852, aired 2014-06-03 | HOSPITALS $2000: Groote Schuur hospital in this country was the site of the first human heart transplant South Africa |
#6846, aired 2014-05-26 | EMPIRE $800: Founded by Cyrus the Great, this empire conquered parts of Asia, Africa & Europe the Persian Empire |
#6846, aired 2014-05-26 | ADJECTIVES $1600: Pronounced differently, this adjective meaning "pertaining to birth" is a former province of South Africa natal |
#6843, aired 2014-05-21 | THE HAIR APPARENT $800: In this braided look from Africa, narrow strips of hair are plaited tightly against the scalp cornrows |
#6832, aired 2014-05-06 | ON THE MAP $1000: This South African cape, not the Cape of Good Hope, is the southernmost point in Africa Cape Agulhas |
#6831, aired 2014-05-05 | AFRICAN CAPITALS $800: With an elevation of over 5,400 feet, Windhoek is the mile-high capital of this neighbor to South Africa Namibia |
#6822, aired 2014-04-22 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew sits in an open vehicle in the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Though they rest 20 hours a day, the lion is the top of the African food chain; in Swahili, the word for lion is this simba |
#6822, aired 2014-04-22 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us the landscape and wildlife at the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) The wildebeest grazing maintains the grassland & helps keep woods from growing, making the animal a keystone species in this environment around us the savanna |
#6822, aired 2014-04-22 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a termite mound in Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Termite mounds are built by the worker termites, using a combination of soil, cellulose & excrement all glued together with secretions from these glands salivary |
#6822, aired 2014-04-22 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a group of animals running through the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Though it looks less elegant than other antelopes, one of the fastest & most tireless runners is the red type of this ruminant whose name includes an Afrikaans & English word for deer the hartebeest |
#6822, aired 2014-04-22 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds up a chameleon in the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Gaudy male chameleons pass on their genes more effectively than dull-looking ones--that's an example of what Darwin called the sexual type of this, favoring animals that are better at finding mates natural selection |
#6816, aired 2014-04-14 | FOR YOUR REFERENCE $800: Henry Louis Gates Jr. co-edited a biographical dictionary of this continent, a 2013 ALA Outstanding Reference Source Africa |
#6812, aired 2014-04-08 | THE CULLINAN DIAMOND MINE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us blue diamonds from a showroom at the Cullinan Mine in South Africa.) The Cullinan Mine is one of the main sources for prize blue diamonds. They result from the presence of boron, which absorbs light of this color. red |
#6812, aired 2014-04-08 | THE CULLINAN DIAMOND MINE $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew comes to us from inside the Cullinan Mine in South Africa.) Fewer than 200 workers are present at any time in the more than 300 miles of mine tunnels, where humane conditions even include ponds with these fish in them, to promote relaxation. koi |
#6812, aired 2014-04-08 | THE CULLINAN DIAMOND MINE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew comes to us from inside the Cullinan Mine in South Africa.) By 2019, planned expansion and state-of-the-art methods used here at the Cullinan Mine will increase output to 2.4 million of these diamond units a year. a carat |
#6810, aired 2014-04-04 | AFRICAN SETTINGS $800: "Cry, the Beloved Country" South Africa |
#6805, aired 2014-03-28 | 5-LETTER MAMMALS $1000: Hmm, what's that musky smell? Why, it's this catlike mammal found in Africa & Asia a civet |
#6803, aired 2014-03-26 | WORLD LEADERS IN 1914 $1200: Prime Minister Louis Botha South Africa |
#6794, aired 2014-03-13 | ELEPHANT HODGEPODGE $400: On South Africa's coat of arms, these paired elephant parts symbolize wisdom & strength tusks |
#6794, aired 2014-03-13 | FRENCH LIT $1,500 (Daily Double): French author Albert Camus set several works in this country of his birth Algeria |
#6793, aired 2014-03-12 | ON THE "M"AP $1200: This island is separated from the coast of Africa by the Mozambique Channel Madagascar |
#6792, aired 2014-03-11 | BESTSELLING NONFICTION $800: In 1995 Richard Preston had a No. 1 bestseller with "The Hot Zone", about a scary outbreak of this virus from Africa Ebola |
#6789, aired 2014-03-06 | ISLANDS IN THE STREAM $2,000 (Daily Double): Elephantine Island &
Kitchener's Island the Nile |
#6787, aired 2014-03-04 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Yaounde, capital of this former French territory in Africa, was founded by Germans involved in the ivory trade Cameroon |
#6783, aired 2014-02-26 | A BUG'S LIFE $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Most spiders are solitary; communal homes like this one show that a few species are this other "S" word, like ants, termites, & some wasps social |
#6781, aired 2014-02-24 | GROUP NAMES OF ANIMALS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) A herd of zebras is called this 6-letter word, perhaps because of the blinding effect of all those stripes on your eyes a dazzle |
#6773, aired 2014-02-12 | KENYA WEST $2000: She was talking about West Kenya when she began a book, "I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills" Isak Dinesen |
#6770, aired 2014-02-07 | NO LONGER AROUND $1600: This province made up the northeastern paart of South Africa until 1994 Transvaal |
#6753, aired 2014-01-15 | LANDLOCKED COUNTRY FUN $1200: Found in Africa, it's the southernmost landlocked country Lesotho |
#6751, aired 2014-01-13 | "B" ABBREVIATIONS $800: .bw
(an Internet country code in Africa) Botswana |
#6749, aired 2014-01-09 | AFRICAN RIVERS $700 (Daily Double): The Vanderkloof Dam on this "colorful" river helped to create productive farmland in South Africa Orange River |
#6748, aired 2014-01-08 | ADJECTIVAL COUNTRY NAMES $400: In 1961 this nation withdrew from the British Commonwealth over member criticism of its apartheid policies South Africa |
#6747, aired 2014-01-07 | BREAKAWAY NATIONS $2000: In 1990 South Africa reluctantly gave independence to this nation that had once been a German colony Namibia |
#6747, aired 2014-01-07 | AFRODISNEYAC $2000: Kevin Bacon went to Africa hoping to recruit a tall tribesman to play basketball in this 1994 movie The Air Up There |
#6744, aired 2014-01-02 | TUNNELS $800: The Ahmed Hamdi tunnel, the first underwater tunnel to link Africa & Asia, runs from near Suez, Egypt to this peninsula Sinai |
#6743, aired 2014-01-01 | GEOGRAPHIC NAME CHANGES $2000: The city of Durban in this country was once known as Port Natal South Africa |
#6740, aired 2013-12-27 | LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $400: The Nubian language group is spoken in the valley of this river in Sudan the Nile |
#6740, aired 2013-12-27 | LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $800: This European language is an official language of Chad & Burkina Faso, among other countries French |
#6740, aired 2013-12-27 | LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $1,200 (Daily Double): With 50 million speakers, this Bantu language is the most widely spoken native language on the continent Swahili |
#6740, aired 2013-12-27 | LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $1200: (Sara gives the clue from Pretoria, South Africa)
In 1908, in Pretoria, South Africa, the Union Buildings
were designed to represent the unity of a once-divided people, with the two identical wings symbolizing these two then-official languages. English and Afrikaans |
#6740, aired 2013-12-27 | LANGUAGES OF AFRICA $2000: The most-spoken Khoe language is Nama in Namibia; the other Khoe languages are mainly heard in this desert in Botswana Kalahari |
#6739, aired 2013-12-26 | THE PAUPER $400: This TV legend once wore potato sacks to school in Mississippi; in 2007 she opened a $40 million school for girls in Africa Oprah Winfrey |
#6722, aired 2013-12-03 | AFRICAN LEADERS $1200: The first woman elected head of state in Africa is Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of this country founded in the 1800s Liberia |
#6719, aired 2013-11-28 | NATIONAL ATHLETES $400: Golf's Ernie Els South Africa |
#6719, aired 2013-11-28 | THAT AUTHOR'S MIXED UP! $1600: A bit of Danish in Africa:
I SNEAKED SIN Isak Dinesen |
#6716, aired 2013-11-25 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Soweto, South Africa.) Nelson Mandela wrote, after his years of confinement,
"That night, I returned with her to number 8115 here in Soweto. I knew in my heart that I had left prison" Winnie Mandela |
#6713, aired 2013-11-20 | WORLD HISTORY $800: In 1840 the London Missionary Society sent this Scot to Africa, where he established a base in Bechuanaland (David) Livingstone |
#6705, aired 2013-11-08 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Warthogs are good fighters--butting heads & then using their tusks, which are actually these teeth also called cuspids in humans canines (the eye teeth accepted) |
#6705, aired 2013-11-08 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Giraffes are well adapted for tearing leaves & young shoots from trees, including a 20-inch grasping tongue that is classified as this, from the Latin for "to seize" prehensile |
#6705, aired 2013-11-08 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) The shaggy-maned wildebeest got its name from its wild appearance, but it's also known by this shorter name imitative of the sound it makes a gnu |
#6705, aired 2013-11-08 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) The hide on a Cape buffalo's neck can reach two inches in thickness, which help males against other aggressive bulls trying to assert this, a type of hierarchy dominance |
#6705, aired 2013-11-08 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) The name "impala" comes from the language of these people, the single-largest ethnic group of South Africa the Zulu |
#6696, aired 2013-10-28 | POTPOURRI $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The 4 great rivers of Africa are the Niger, the Nile, the Zambezi & this one that lends its name to 2 countries in its basin the Congo |
#6689, aired 2013-10-17 | "V-E" DAY $800: Local term for the open pasture land of South Africa veldt |
#6679, aired 2013-10-03 | INDEPENDENCE DAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) Portugal's 1974 change in government led to the end of an over 500-year colonial involvement in Africa & the independence of several former colonies, including these two Mozambique and Angola |
#6678, aired 2013-10-02 | ON THE WESTERNMOST BORDER OF... $1200: Lesotho South Africa |
#6668, aired 2013-09-18 | WHAT'S IT 2 U? $800: An Nguni people of South Africa the Zulu |
#6666, aired 2013-09-16 | LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD $400: Hausa, one of the Chadic languages, is spoken by some 50 million people on this continent Africa |
#6662, aired 2013-07-30 | WORLD FACTS $600: It's a one-word term for a tropical rainforest, especially one in Africa, loud with monkeys & parrots a jungle |
#6661, aired 2013-07-29 | HAVE SOME WATER $600 (Daily Double): The greatest width of this ocean spans about 6,200 miles befween Africa & Australia the Indian Ocean |
#6655, aired 2013-07-19 | OLD NAMES ON THE MAP $400: South Africa renamed a province in 1995, dropping this color that once preceded "Free State" Orange |
#6654, aired 2013-07-18 | AROUND THE WORLD $1000: This city on the Indian Ocean is "D" chief seaport of South Africa Durban |
#6650, aired 2013-07-12 | ANIMAL CARE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.) Rhino horns are sometimes humanely removed by activists to deter poachers who wish to create these potions named for a Greek love goddess aphrodisiacs |
#6649, aired 2013-07-11 | MORE THAN AN ATHLETE $1600: Pres. Obama says this 7-footer from Kinshasa attacks poverty in Africa with the same ferocity he used to block shots Dikembe Mutombo |
#6647, aired 2013-07-09 | LITERARY BAD GUYS $1600: This "Heart of Darkness" villain lived in the jungles of Africa, where he controlled the ivory trade Mister Kurtz |
#6642, aired 2013-07-02 | ANIMALS ON THE MAP $6,100 (Daily Double): In 1982 this archipelago off Africa's northwest coast became an autonomous region of Spain the Canary Islands |
#6641, aired 2013-07-01 | OF SPRINGS $600: South Africa's national Rugby team is named for this antelope that springs about a springbok |
#6637, aired 2013-06-25 | CAPE TOWN LADIES $800: This Oscar-winning actress from South Africa has made commercials for the Cape Town rape crisis center Charlize Theron |
#6637, aired 2013-06-25 | CAPE TOWN LADIES $1200: U. of Cape Town Chancellor Graca Machel is Mrs. Nelson Mandela & was first lady of this nation just up Africa's E. coast Mozambique |
#6637, aired 2013-06-25 | CAPE TOWN LADIES $2000: Yvonne Bryceland, founder of South Africa's 1st non-racial theater, was a great interpreter of this "Master Harold" scribe Athol Fugard |
#6627, aired 2013-06-11 | END OF THE ALPHABET $800: Jacob Zuma has been president of this country
since 2009 South Africa |
#6613, aired 2013-05-22 | AFRICA $400: Built around 1855, the first railroad in Africa linked Alexandria to this capital 100 miles away Cairo |
#6613, aired 2013-05-22 | AFRICA $800: Lake Turkana is home to what may be Africa's largest population of the Nile species of these reptiles crocodiles |
#6613, aired 2013-05-22 | AFRICA $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Departing Zanzibar in March to find Dr. Livingstone, & in November finally making contact in Ujiji, was the 1871 journey that helped make this man famous (Sir Henry) Stanley |
#6613, aired 2013-05-22 | AFRICA $1600: Glaciers are found just a few miles from the equator on this "national" mount, the second-highest peak in Africa Mount Kenya |
#6613, aired 2013-05-22 | AFRICA $2000: Gaborone is the capital of this African country formerly known as Bechuanaland Botswana |
#6608, aired 2013-05-15 | SOWETO $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Soweto, South Africa.) The epicenter of South Africa's long struggle for equality, Soweto takes its name from the first two letters of these three words--its location & designation within Johannesburg South West Township |
#6608, aired 2013-05-15 | SOWETO $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Johannesburg, South Africa.) The four-room matchbox houses that make up much of Soweto were originally built to house black workers cheaply during the years of this official policy of ethnic segregation apartheid |
#6608, aired 2013-05-15 | SOWETO $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Soweto, South Africa.) Bringing Soweto to the world's attention, a march beginning here at Naledi High School was one of the dramatic moments in the 1976 protests against the forced teaching of this language Afrikaans |
#6608, aired 2013-05-15 | SOWETO $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Soweto, South Africa.) With marks of government gunfire to show for it, this house of worship was a center for anti-apartheid gatherings; it's called Regina Mundi, or this "of the World" & Soweto in particular Queen |
#6608, aired 2013-05-15 | SOWETO $1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Soweto, South Africa.) This house on Vilakazi Street belongs to this South African--the first black dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg is just one of his distinctions (Desmond) Tutu |
#6595, aired 2013-04-26 | SINGLE NAMED SINGERS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Robben Island in South Africa.) Nelson Mandela's prisoner number Here on Robben Island--46664--became the name of an HIV/AIDS charity & also the title of a fundraising song co-written by this U2 superstar Bono |
#6583, aired 2013-04-10 | VLAD THE IMPALA $400: Vlad considers impalas the most graceful of these ruminating ungulates of Africa antelopes |
#6579, aired 2013-04-04 | ENGLAND SWINGS $1200: After Brit Henry Cooper dropped him with a hook in 1963, this future champ said his "ancestors in Africa" had felt it Muhammad Ali |
#6565, aired 2013-03-15 | THEY CO-STARRED WITH LEO DiCAPRIO $2000: Djimon Hounsou, in Africa Blood Diamond |
#6562, aired 2013-03-12 | MEDALS & DECORATIONS $400: This country awards the Order of the Elephant & the Order of Dannebrog Denmark |
#6554, aired 2013-02-28 | ON WHAT CONTINENT? $200: The Serengeti plain Africa |
#6554, aired 2013-02-28 | ON WHAT CONTINENT? $1000: Mount Ararat Asia |
#6551, aired 2013-02-25 | NELSON MANDELA $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Lesedi Cultural Village, South Africa.) In a Xhosa village like this one, the man we know as Nelson Mandela was first called Madiba, referring to this extended family group a clan |
#6551, aired 2013-02-25 | NELSON MANDELA $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Cape Town, South Africa.) When Mandela walked out of prison, he set off a celebration here in Cape Town & all of South Africa, but he asked the international community to keep pressure on South Africa's regime by not abandoning these punitive economic measures sanctions |
#6551, aired 2013-02-25 | NELSON MANDELA $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Pretoria, South Africa.) Here at the union buildings at his inauguration on May 10, 1994, Mandela graciously called this man, his predecessor & the president who freed him, "one of the greatest reformers, one of the greatest sons of" South Africa Frederik Willem de Klerk |
#6548, aired 2013-02-20 | ON THE MAP $200: Get this country on the Horn of Africa Ethiopia |
#6548, aired 2013-02-20 | INSECT EATERS $800: The best place to see tenrecs is on this large island off Africa's east coast Madagascar |
#6545, aired 2013-02-15 | PORTU-GALS & GUYS $1000: Teresa Heinz Kerry was born to Portuguese parents in this then-Portuguese colony on Africa's east coast Mozambique |
#6539, aired 2013-02-07 | COUNTRY FACTS $800: Go as far east as you can in South Africa & you'll wade into this ocean Indian Ocean |
#6534, aired 2013-01-31 | SPORTS TALK $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a soccer field in Johannesburg, South Africa.) Leaping almost upside-down to volley the ball overhead makes this reverse kick one of soccer's most exciting plays bicycle kick |
#6531, aired 2013-01-28 | NON-BRITISH ROYALS $2000: King Mswati III of this southern Africa land has ruled as an absolute monarch since 1986 Swaziland |
#6530, aired 2013-01-25 | GEOGRAPHIC BANDS $1000: A-listers who sang "We Are The World":
USA for ____ Africa |
#6526, aired 2013-01-21 | CAPE TOWN $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Greenmarket Square in Cape Town, South Africa.) Once the site of slave trading, greenmarket square is now a bustling market where you can buy souvenirs from all over Africa; a popular one is the painted eggs of this big African bird an ostrich |
#6526, aired 2013-01-21 | CAPE TOWN $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa.) St. George's is known in Cape Town as the people's cathedral; in the 1980s, the weekly sermons of this archbishop made it a center of resistance to apartheid Desmond Tutu |
#6526, aired 2013-01-21 | CAPE TOWN $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from St. George's Cathedral, in Cape Town, South Africa.) In Cape Town's celebrated west window of St. George's cathedral, one panel depicts this man of peace, who first espoused the doctrine of nonviolence while living in South Africa Gandhi |
#6526, aired 2013-01-21 | CAPE TOWN $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Cape Town, South Africa.) Released after 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela gave his first public speech from Cape Town's city hall; he began by leading the crowd in the chant "amandla ngawethu"--"power is ours"--the rallying cry of this party the ANC (African National Congress) |
#6526, aired 2013-01-21 | CAPE TOWN $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Cape Town, South Africa.) What's now Cape Town's vibrant Victoria & Alfred Waterfront began as a single jetty built for this Dutch company, whose name tells you it used South Africa as a stopover en route to Asia the Dutch East India Company |
#6526, aired 2013-01-21 | MOST POPULOUS COUNTRIES $4,000 (Daily Double): It represents Africa in the top 10 Nigeria |
#6522, aired 2013-01-15 | RELIGIOUS LEADERS $200: The Fatimids, who ruled North Africa from 909 to 1171, were named for Fatima, this prophet's daughter Muhammad |
#6515, aired 2013-01-04 | AFRICAN CITIES $400: This port is the southernmost of South Africa's 3 capitals Cape Town |
#6512, aired 2013-01-01 | CONSERVATION $1200: A 1989 ivory ban followed a decade in which Africa's population of these creatures went from 1.3 million to 600,000 elephants |
#6511, aired 2012-12-31 | 1990s HISTORY $800: In 1997 he became the U.N.'s first secretary-general from sub-Saharan Africa; in 2012 he tried to make peace in Syria Kofi Annan |
#6511, aired 2012-12-31 | WRITERS ON FILM $1200: It's the better-known pen name of Karen Blixen, who's portrayed in "Out of Africa" Isak Dinesen |
#6509, aired 2012-12-27 | & MICE $1,000 (Daily Double): Perhaps the smallest mouse is this one of sub-Saharan Africa, also a term for small peoples in the region pygmies |
#6507, aired 2012-12-25 | IT'S THE COCKATIEL HOUR $400: Discovered there around 1770, cockatiels are native to this continent Australia |
#6505, aired 2012-12-21 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $400: Grandma in Johannesburg sent my birthday check in this currency the rand |
#6504, aired 2012-12-20 | STARTS WITH "J" $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Pretoria, South Africa) Pretoria is known as the city of these trees, which are not native to South Africa, but were imported from South America around 1880 jacaranda |
#6503, aired 2012-12-19 | A LITTLE LIT $400: This saga by Alex Haley begins with a birth in West Africa in 1750 Roots |
#6503, aired 2012-12-19 | CHRISTMAS POP SONGS $400: "And there won't be snow in Africa this Christmastime", says this charitable tune "Do They Know It's Christmas?" |
#6503, aired 2012-12-19 | ALL OVER THE WORLD $1000: This country named for its latitude is the 43rd largest in Africa but in the continent's top 10 in oil production Equatorial Guinea |
#6498, aired 2012-12-12 | ADVENTUROUS FOLKS $2,000 (Daily Double): (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Robben Island in South Africa.) Fearful of cannibals on the mainland, this Portuguese explorer sought food & refuge on South Africa's Robben Island during his India voyage in the 1490s (Vasco) da Gama |
#6496, aired 2012-12-10 | MEAN JOE $2000: This leader of Africa's Lord's Resistance Army is wanted for crimes against humanity (Joseph) Kony |
#6492, aired 2012-12-04 | SOCCER $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew describes what's happening at a soccer field in Johannesburg, South Africa.) Soccer players' ability to bend the ball is shown in two types of this, named for where on the field it takes place--inswinging & outswinging a corner kick |
#6492, aired 2012-12-04 | SOCCER $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew describes what's happening at a soccer field in Johannesburg, South Africa.) It's awarded after a foul by defenders, & stopping it at over 60 mph is one of sport's great challenges; the ball will generally go the way the shooter's plant foot is pointed a penalty kick |
#6492, aired 2012-12-04 | SOCCER $600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew describes what's happening at a soccer field in Johannesburg, South Africa.) Graze the bottom of the ball on one side to make the ball curve around defenders, with a kick named for this fruit a banana |
#6484, aired 2012-11-22 | ON THE BOOKSHELF $200: This story published in 1902, based on Joseph Conrad's experiences in Africa, is not "light" reading Heart of Darkness |
#6479, aired 2012-11-15 | KNOW YOUR BOUNDARIES $1600: If you cross any of Lesotho's borders, you can only end up in this other country South Africa |
#6471, aired 2012-11-05 | AFRICA $400: For most of the 5th century, what is today this country was controlled by the Vandals Tunisia |
#6471, aired 2012-11-05 | WHAT'S CHASING YOU?! $800: "The Ghost and the Darkness" lions |
#6471, aired 2012-11-05 | AFRICA $800: Most of the literature of this Horn of Africa country is written in either classical Ge'ez or modern Amharic Ethiopia |
#6471, aired 2012-11-05 | AFRICA $1200: What's now this country was united from many smaller chieftains by King Moshoeshoe I in the 1830s Lesotho |
#6471, aired 2012-11-05 | AFRICA $1600: Mauritania is home to large herds of these cattle, also called brahmins, which you'll find near the end of the alphabet zebu |
#6471, aired 2012-11-05 | AFRICA $2000: This capital of Angola once had "Sao Paulo de" before its name Luanda |
#6463, aired 2012-10-24 | THE 2012 OLYMPICS $400: Oscar "Blade Runner" Pistorius of this country is the first double-amputee Olympian South Africa |
#6459, aired 2012-10-18 | THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN $600: The largest island through which the Tropic of Capricorn passes is this one off Africa's eastern coast Madagascar |
#6452, aired 2012-10-09 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1200: A plume of magma rising from the earth's mantle can split a continental plate in 2 & form this type of valley rift valley |
#6448, aired 2012-10-03 | ARCHIPELAGOS $2000: With a population of about 90,000, this island nation northeast of Madagascar is Africa's smallest country the Seychelles |
#6445, aired 2012-09-28 | GARDENS $800: Kirstenbosch, the first of this African country's 9 national botanical gardens, was founded in 1913 South Africa |
#6444, aired 2012-09-27 | WORLD OF DANCE $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew joins some dancers in Lesedi Cultural Village in South Africa.) The dance they're doing is a tribute & prayer to Modadji, the queen of this; legend says she lives in a lush green area in the midst of arid desert the rain |
#6441, aired 2012-09-24 | IT'S A MYTH $800: After being turned to stone by Perseus, this titan became the mountains of the same name in Africa Atlas |
#6432, aired 2012-07-31 | NAME THAT CONTINENT $600: Mount Kilimanjaro Africa |
#6430, aired 2012-07-27 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HISTORIC HEADLINES $1000: A medical milestone December 4, 1967: "Heart transplant keeps man alive in" this country South Africa |
#6420, aired 2012-07-13 | COUNTRY BY NEWSPAPERS $400: Pretoria News,
Cape Times South Africa |
#6416, aired 2012-07-09 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1600: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Lesedi Cultural Village in South Africa.) This word that's now associated with Latin American music comes from Africa, where it describes many types of xylophones like these a marimba |
#6393, aired 2012-06-06 | PEACE $2000: It's been the capital of German East Africa & Tanganyika, & its name means "abode of peace" in Arabic Dar es Salaam |
#6383, aired 2012-05-23 | I DON'T GIVE A... $200: Starchy tuber from Africa yam |
#6379, aired 2012-05-17 | HAUL $2000: "I presume" Chuma & Susi were the bearers who hauled this missionary around Africa, both alive & dead Dr. Livingstone |
#6372, aired 2012-05-08 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Africa's largest island, it's home to more than 70 varieties of lemur Madagascar |
#6372, aired 2012-05-08 | AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY $1200: Panari Sky Centre in this Kenyan capital houses Africa's largest ice rink Nairobi |
#6368, aired 2012-05-02 | BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY $1,000 (Daily Double): On March 20, 1952 this country's supreme court declared voter segregation unconstitutional, but it continued South Africa |
#6368, aired 2012-05-02 | BOOK LEARNIN' $2000: Want to know how it was for a European woman running an African coffee plantation in the 1920s? Read this 1937 book Out of Africa |
#6358, aired 2012-04-18 | CULTURES OF SOUTH AFRICA $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Lesedi Cultural Village in South Africa.) The Xhosa hymn "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" evolved into the South African national anthem; "Nkosi" is God, so the title means this God Bless Africa |
#6358, aired 2012-04-18 | CULTURES OF SOUTH AFRICA $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Lesedi Cultural Village in South Africa.) The Khoisan family of languages gave its click sound to some of this southern African group of over 500 languages, including Xhosa Bantu |
#6358, aired 2012-04-18 | CULTURES OF SOUTH AFRICA $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Lesedi Cultural Village in South Africa.) The gumboot dance originated among workers who would communicate & express themselves with the boots they wore in these dank, damp workplaces mines |
#6358, aired 2012-04-18 | CULTURES OF SOUTH AFRICA $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Lesedi Cultural Village in South Africa.) A Ndebele village features striking art mainly done by women; the most celebrated is Esther Mahlangu, who was invited to create an art car for this German company BMW |
#6358, aired 2012-04-18 | CULTURES OF SOUTH AFRICA $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Lesedi Cultural Village in South Africa.) The short stabbing spear replacing the long throwing spear was an innovation of this Zulu chief who died in 1828; he also taught how to hook away an enemy's shield, exposing his ribs Shaka |
#6352, aired 2012-04-10 | LOOK AT ME $1000: Though he went off to Africa instead of attending university, he's known for his scholarship Cecil Rhodes |
#6338, aired 2012-03-21 | HEY HEY HEY, IT'S PHAT ALBERT! $400: In 2011 Prince Albert of this principality wed ex-Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock of South Africa Monaco |
#6336, aired 2012-03-19 | JANE GOODALL $200: Within weeks of arriving in Africa in 1957, I met this paleontologist who soon hired me as an assisstant (Louis) Leakey |
#6329, aired 2012-03-08 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Madiwke Game Reserve in South Africa.) African elephants deal with more heat than their Asian relatives, so their ears are bigger; when they're flapped, thousands of these smallest vessels in the ear bring cool blood to the body capillaries |
#6329, aired 2012-03-08 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Madiwke Game Reserve in South Africa.) Among lions that roam southern Africa, the females do most of the hunting, & they generally outnumber males in these groups that average about 15 lions prides |
#6329, aired 2012-03-08 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Madiwke Game Reserve in South Africa.) If a giraffe didn't have adaptations like thick-walled arteries & extra valves to counteract gravity, lowering its head to drink would cause an aneurysm, & then raising its head would cause it to faint, because this vital measure is naturally so high its blood pressure |
#6329, aired 2012-03-08 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $1,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Madiwke Game Reserve in South Africa.) Zebras spend a lot of time standing around on grassy plains, which would make them seem like easy prey, but to lions, they blend in with tall stalks of grass, because lions have weak color vision due to a shortage of these retinal cells cones |
#6329, aired 2012-03-08 | SOUTH AFRICAN WILDLIFE $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Madiwke Game Reserve in South Africa.) To communicate over distance or in dense brush, rhinos use infrasound, too low for human hearing to detect, because it's below 20 of these frequency units hertz |
#6328, aired 2012-03-07 | POET-TREE $400: Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen wrote, "Spicy grove, cinnamon tree, what is" this continent "to me?" Africa |
#6325, aired 2012-03-02 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1200: Sao Tome, this island & several tiny islands form a nation in Africa's Gulf of Guinea Principe |
#6318, aired 2012-02-22 | FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH $1600: Feb. 1948 riots in Accra sparked a movement that led to this country's becoming one of Africa's first to boot the colonists Ghana |
#6318, aired 2012-02-22 | FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH $2,400 (Daily Double): A vessel called this historic ship "of Liberia" left the U.S. in February 1820 carrying free blacks back to Africa the Mayflower |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | COUNTRY CONFUSION $400: Togo is in Africa; Tobago is just off the coast of this continent South America |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | COUNTRY CONFUSION $1200: Mauritania is in northwest Africa; this island nation lies 500 miles east of Madagascar Mauritius |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | COUNTRY CONFUSION $1600: In Africa, there is Guinea & Guinea-this, a neighbor of Guinea Bissau |
#6296, aired 2012-01-23 | COUNTRY GROUPS $1600: MENA is a somewhat vague acronym for the countries of the "Middle East &" here North Africa |
#6280, aired 2011-12-30 | NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD $800: South Africa's Richtersveld National Park is partially located within a loop of this "colorful" river the Orange River |
#6264, aired 2011-12-08 | EBONY & IVORY $600: Most commercial ivory still comes from this continent Africa |
#6260, aired 2011-12-02 | SHADES OF GRAY $1000: A Gray Lady is said to haunt this African country's castle of Goede Hoop South Africa |
#6255, aired 2011-11-25 | THE LONELY ISLAND $400: This island--some 1,200 miles from the west coast of Africa--was used for Napoleon's final exile because of its remoteness St. Helena |
#6249, aired 2011-11-17 | THAT'S ANCIENT HISTORY! $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were spread out over three continents: 2 were in Africa, 3 in Asia, & the 2 in Europe were the Colossus of Rhodes & this other statue the Statue of Zeus (at Olympia) |
#6248, aired 2011-11-16 | HERBAL MEDICINE $1600: Hoodia, sold as an appetite suppressant, is used to reduce hunger by the native San of this S. Africa desert the Kalahari |
#6248, aired 2011-11-16 | ON THE COAST $2000: A 19th c. "Committee of Vigilance" fought the crime that gave part of San Francisco this North Africa-inspired nickname the Barbary Coast |
#6247, aired 2011-11-15 | TOUGH BODIES OF WATER $1200: This river, Africa's third longest, rises in the Highlands of southern Guinea near its border with Sierra Leone Niger |
#6247, aired 2011-11-15 | GOOD MIGRATIONS $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us a map of southeast Africa, with Tanzania and the Indian Ocean labeled.) In Africa, the only place where vast animal migrations occur is in this large Tanzanian national park, where herds move in a circular route to find water & grazeable land Serengeti |
#6246, aired 2011-11-14 | LANGUAGES $1200: The language group named for these nomadic tribesmen of North Africa is also called Tamazight Berber |
#6245, aired 2011-11-11 | REAL LANDS $1000: This country off Africa's coast is made up of the Barlavento island group & the Sotavento island group Cape Verde |
#6243, aired 2011-11-09 | & JUSTICE FOR ALL $600: This "Watch" started ticking in 1988, when advocacy orgs. in Europe, Africa, Asia & the Americas adopted the name Human Rights Watch |
#6241, aired 2011-11-07 | NOTABLE WOMEN $800: Her grave marker in Africa says, "No one loved gorillas more" (Dian) Fossey |
#6235, aired 2011-10-28 | THE 1600s $400: Dutchman Willem Schouten, who rounded this dangerous tip of South America in 1616, named it for his birthplace Cape Horn |
#6232, aired 2011-10-25 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: Al-Jaza'ir isn't a TV network but the Arabic name for this capital city in north Africa Algiers |
#6229, aired 2011-10-20 | THE HIGH LAND $800: Africa tops out in this country Tanzania |
#6227, aired 2011-10-18 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map of Africa on the monitor.) Extending farther north than any other country in Africa, Tunisia is only about a hundred miles from this European island Sicily |
#6226, aired 2011-10-17 | COUNTRIES OF AFRIC"A" $1600: In books Precious Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is this country's only female gumshoe Botswana |
#6222, aired 2011-10-11 | THE MOUNTAIN WEST $800: Shira is the westernmost of the 3 extinct volcanoes that make up this highest peak in Africa Kilimanjaro |
#6218, aired 2011-10-05 | LANGUAGES $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map of Africa on the monitor.) With around 180 million speakers worldwide, it's the official language of eight countries, including the five former European colonies highlighted here Portuguese |
#6216, aired 2011-10-03 | 20th CENTURY LIT $2000: A short story by Ernest Hemingway tells of "The Short Happy Life of" this American on safari in Africa Francis Macomber |
#6207, aired 2011-09-20 | ONE VOWEL ONLY $800: A country in Central Africa Chad |
#6206, aired 2011-09-19 | 28 IS GREAT $200: In September 1984 "Jeopardy!" began its run & P.W. Botha began a more modest 6 years as pres. of this country South Africa |
#6205, aired 2011-07-29 | THE CALL OF THE WILD $800: Hyenas laugh; the call of this wild dog of Africa was once called a pheal a jackal |
#6201, aired 2011-07-25 | HOW CONTINENTAL! $400: This continent covers only about 5% of the earth's land area; deserts cover about 1/3 of the continent Australia |
#6201, aired 2011-07-25 | HOW CONTINENTAL! $600: This continent has the longest freshwater lake, 420 miles, in the world Africa |
#6196, aired 2011-07-18 | COUNTRIES' CURRENCIES $1000: This country's Rand was named for a gold mining region South Africa |
#6195, aired 2011-07-15 | THE LION $400: Most lions live in Africa, but several hundred Asiatic lions also live in this country's Gir National Park India |
#6189, aired 2011-07-07 | GOOD OLD PLANET EARTH $200: This desert extends more than 3,500 miles across northern Africa from the Atlantic to the Red Sea the Sahara |
#6189, aired 2011-07-07 | PREHISTORIC TIMES $1200: Anthropologists say this was the first of the genus Homo to leave Africa, sometime after 1.8 million years ago Homo erectus |
#6187, aired 2011-07-05 | THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE $2000: If you're marching to the Voortrekker monument outside of Pretoria, you're in this country South Africa |
#6185, aired 2011-07-01 | EXPLORERS $2,800 (Daily Double): After studying medicine in the 1830s, this explorer & missionary hoped to be sent to China but ended up in Africa instead Dr. (David) Livingstone |
#6184, aired 2011-06-30 | MAMMALS $1000: It's not a feline, it's not a reptile, it's the fossa, the largest carnivore of this island off Africa Madagascar |
#6182, aired 2011-06-28 | LAKES & RIVERS $800: Africa's Lake Victoria lies in 3 countries: Tanzania, Kenya & this one Uganda |
#6180, aired 2011-06-24 | "Y" IS THE ONLY VOWEL $1000: In the "Iliad" this dwarven race from Africa fought against cranes who destroyed their fields pygmy |
#6179, aired 2011-06-23 | SNOUT OF AFRICA $400: The nose of this tallest ruminant is not as moist as those of other ruminants a giraffe |
#6179, aired 2011-06-23 | SNOUT OF AFRICA $800: The newborn South African croc seen here is showing us this tooth, named for what it's just broken out of an eggtooth |
#6179, aired 2011-06-23 | SNOUT OF AFRICA $1200: The proboscis of the elephant is unique to its order, which includes these 2 types of extinct behemoths mammoths & mastodons |
#6179, aired 2011-06-23 | SNOUT OF AFRICA $2000: Camels can squeeze their nostrils shut during a haboob, one of these a sandstorm |
#6176, aired 2011-06-20 | A FANCY DRESS BAWL $400: On winning her Oscar, a Gucci-clad Charlize Theron tearfully thanked "everybody in " this country, her homeland South Africa |
#6160, aired 2011-05-27 | PINEAPPLES $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a pineapple plantation.) Whether grown in Africa or here in Hawaii, pineapples have eight spirals in one direction & 13 in the other--one example where nature shows the number sequence named for this Italian mathematician Fibonacci |
#6153, aired 2011-05-18 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: Once the name of a country, this is still the name of a lake in East Central Africa with a depth of over 4,700 feet Tanganyika |
#6149, aired 2011-05-12 | ARRIVALS $600: With age, John Paul II modified this custom; on arriving in South Africa in 1994, he was handed a basket of earth kissing the ground |
#6147, aired 2011-05-10 | O POURI $800: Calling it "her proudest day", in 2007 Oprah opened a school for impoverished girls in this country South Africa |
#6145, aired 2011-05-06 | ISLANDS $800: Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the capital of these Spanish Atlantic islands only 67 miles off the coast of Africa the Canary Islands |
#6136, aired 2011-04-25 | 1, 2, 3, 4 $1200: By area:
1. Asia
2. Africa
3. North America
4. this continent South America |
#6134, aired 2011-04-21 | GEOGRAPHY $400: Hippo, in the north of this continent, was the diocesan seat of St. Augustine Africa |
#6130, aired 2011-04-15 | NATION STATION $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a picture and a map on the monitor.) Helping to overthrow Ethiopian dictator Mengistu in 1991 sparked a drive for independence here, & in 1993 it became Africa's newest independent republic Eritrea |
#6128, aired 2011-04-13 | "C" SERPENTS $200: The ringhals of southern Africa is also known as the spitting this a cobra |
#6124, aired 2011-04-07 | WATERFALLS $1000: At 3,110 feet, Tugela Falls in this country's Kwazulu-Natal province is the world's second highest South Africa |
#6119, aired 2011-03-31 | WHO CARES? $1000: An advocacy group looking to eradicate poverty; it's called DATA, short for Debt, AIDS, Trade, this place Africa |
#6112, aired 2011-03-22 | WORLD AUTHORS $1600: "A Sport of Nature" is the story of a black activist's white wife in this, author Nadine Gordimer's homeland South Africa |
#6090, aired 2011-02-18 | 4-LETTER COUNTRIES $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Landlocked & mostly made up of arid desert land, it's no wonder this country has been referred to as the Dead Heart of Africa Chad |
#6079, aired 2011-02-03 | OUR WATERY WORLD $1600: The only major river that flows both north & south across the equator is this second-longest river in Africa the Congo |
#6076, aired 2011-01-31 | ON THE AFRICAN MAP $800: Ras Ben Sakka in this country is the northernmost point in Africa Tunisia |
#6076, aired 2011-01-31 | ON THE AFRICAN MAP $1200: Africa is connected to Asia via this isthmus the Suez |
#6075, aired 2011-01-28 | WE ALL SPEAK HINDI $800: Though this animal is now mostly found in Africa, its name comes from Hindi a cheetah |
#6073, aired 2011-01-26 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $2000: Of South Africa's 3 national capitals Bloemfontein |
#6069, aired 2011-01-20 | MARK TWAIN SHALL MEET $1600: ...this British-born journalist in the 1860s, a few years before a journey in Africa made him famous (Henry Morton) Stanley |
#6067, aired 2011-01-18 | THE CINEMA $1000: This 1985 sequel to "Romancing the Stone" was set in North Africa Jewel of the Nile |
#6066, aired 2011-01-17 | WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE $1000: We have good hope you can tell us this alternate name for the African buffalo (it lives in Africa, by the way) the Cape buffalo |
#6055, aired 2010-12-31 | A YEAR ENDING IN 0 $2,000 (Daily Double): Lord Roberts commands British troops in Africa during the Boer War 1900 |
#6052, aired 2010-12-28 | THE PRODUCE AISLE $400: Sweet potatoes are often called these, but true ones are actually starchy roots grown in Africa & Asia yams |
#6033, aired 2010-12-01 | 18th CENTURY HISTORY IN ART $2000: The battle here is off South Africa in 1757 during this conflict that's been called the "real first world war" the Seven Years' War |
#6022, aired 2010-11-16 | EXPLORING AFRICA $400: From 1869 to 1874 Gustav Nachtigal explored this desert, becoming the first to cross from Lake Chad to the White Nile Sahara |
#6022, aired 2010-11-16 | EXPLORING AFRICA $800: Around 2750 B.C. Hannu, an Egyptian, sailed down this sea, reaching what is now Ethiopia & Somalia the Red Sea |
#6022, aired 2010-11-16 | EXPLORING AFRICA $1200: In the late 1770s Robert Gordon explored this present-day country from the High Veldt to the Orange River South Africa |
#6022, aired 2010-11-16 | EXPLORING AFRICA $1600: In 1503, on his second voyage to India, he established Portuguese trading posts at Sofala & Mozambigue da Gama |
#6022, aired 2010-11-16 | EXPLORING AFRICA $2000: John Hanning Speke & this fellow Brit had a long-running feud as to the real source of the Nile Sir Richard Burton |
#6020, aired 2010-11-12 | CONTINENTAL SETTINGS $1600: "The Plague" by Camus Africa |
#6018, aired 2010-11-10 | FAR OUT FACTS $1000: About halfway between S. Africa & South America is the isolated Tristan da Cunha, this 11-letter type of island group an archipelago |
#6013, aired 2010-11-03 | THE HALL OF HUMAN ORIGIN $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands near a trail of footprints.) 3.6 million years ago, in Africa, an early human left a trail of fossil footprints with a stride much shorter than ours; Mary Leakey found the prints, which were likely made by this type of human, whose name means "southern ape" Australopithecus |
#6000, aired 2010-10-15 | AFRO-DITTY $800: Yes, Dorothy, this band had a No. 1 hit in 1983 singing "I bless the rains down in Africa" Toto |
#6000, aired 2010-10-15 | PROVINCES $1000: Limpopo & Northern Cape South Africa |
#5997, aired 2010-10-12 | VWLLSS NTNS $600: Off the coast of Africa:
CP VRD Cape Verde |
#5997, aired 2010-10-12 | VWLLSS NTNS $800: In Africa:
THP Ethiopia |
#5994, aired 2010-10-07 | THEY DRIVE ON THE LEFT $1000: If you want to drive from Klerksdorp to Roodepoort in this country, head east & hang a left at Sasolburg South Africa |
#5990, aired 2010-10-01 | TABLE OF CONTINENTS $600: It's the continent with the second-largest population Africa |
#5972, aired 2010-07-27 | WORLD WAR II $400: In March 1942 Hitler approved Operation Aida, an offensive by Rommel to cross North Africa to this river Nile |
#5969, aired 2010-07-22 | I COULDA HAD A G8 $800: Pages 11-17 of the 2009 online G8 agenda deal with the development & peace support of this continent Africa |
#5966, aired 2010-07-19 | HERE'S ANDERSON COOPER $800: (Anderson Cooper reads the clue.) For CNN's "Planet in Peril" series, I reported from Africa on the spread of viruses that could be the next of these, a word literally meaning a disease affecting everyone a pandemic |
#5958, aired 2010-07-07 | CONTINENT BY COUNTRIES $800: Sierra Leone,
Senegal Africa |
#5958, aired 2010-07-07 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS $1600: The lion seen here is from this desert in southern Africa, where they, very sensibly, do most of their hunting at night the Kalahari |
#5953, aired 2010-06-30 | THE FASTING & THE FURIOUS $400: In 2009 a Johannesburg TV producer staged a 30-day fast to protest cutbacks in this nation's broadcasting South Africa |
#5953, aired 2010-06-30 | PEOPLES MAGAZINE $1200: Hot romance of Southern Africa; as Khoisan speakers, when the 2 started talking, sonically, really did this clicked |
#5947, aired 2010-06-22 | WE GOTTA GO NOW $2,000 (Daily Double): The lion population is dwindling; get to this nation's Kruger National Park to see them South Africa |
#5940, aired 2010-06-11 | ON THE MAP $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden & the Indian Ocean form the eastern coast of the region seen here, known by this 3-word term the Horn of Africa |
#5936, aired 2010-06-07 | FLIGHTLESS BIRDS $400: This flightless bird of Africa uses its wings as rudders to help it change direction while running the ostrich |
#5934, aired 2010-06-03 | COLONIAL NAMES FOR COUNTRIES $1200: German Southwest Africa Namibia |
#5934, aired 2010-06-03 | COLONIAL NAMES FOR COUNTRIES $1600: Portuguese West Africa Angola |
#5934, aired 2010-06-03 | COLONIAL NAMES FOR COUNTRIES $2000: Portuguese East Africa Mozambique |
#5929, aired 2010-05-27 | TOMBSTONE $1600: Conservationist Michael Grzimek's grave in this park says, "He gave all he possessed for the wildlife of Africa" the Serengeti |
#5928, aired 2010-05-26 | -ISMs $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of Africa on the monitor.) The map of Africa in 1914 included Belgian, German, British & French territories--the result of imperialism & this 11-letter sister -ism colonialism |
#5922, aired 2010-05-18 | ALL ROADS LEAD TO CECIL RHODES $400: When not in Africa, Rhodes intermittently attended this British university where Rhodes scholars go today Oxford |
#5922, aired 2010-05-18 | ALL ROADS LEAD TO CECIL RHODES $2000: In 1890 Rhodes became prime minister and virtual dictator of this South Africa "Colony" the Cape Colony |
#5922, aired 2010-05-18 | ALL ROADS LEAD TO CECIL RHODES $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1888 Rhodes secured a near monopoly on South Africa diamond mining & formed this company De Beers |
#5917, aired 2010-05-11 | SOMETIMES A GREAT OCEAN $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) During the Mesozoic, the Tethys Sea separated the northern supercontinent of Laurasia from this continent that contained what are now Africa & South America Gondwana |
#5915, aired 2010-05-07 | THE SPIRIT OF 1976 $2000: On July 2 North & South this reunited to form a republic Vietnam |
#5904, aired 2010-04-22 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: '50s sitcom dad to Ricky & David who became president of South Africa in 1994 Ozzie Nelson Mandela |
#5901, aired 2010-04-19 | BOGEY MEN $200: 1942:
Bogart as bitter Rick Blaine runs a bar in north Africa, sweetheart Casablanca |
#5895, aired 2010-04-09 | LOOK OUT BELOW! $1600: How fortunate that we're about to make landfall on this peninsula at the southwest tip of Africa the Cape of Good Hope |
#5894, aired 2010-04-08 | GREAT MEN OF MEDICINE $1200: He once said, "On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday I was world renowned" Christiaan Barnard |
#5892, aired 2010-04-06 | TIME ZONING $1000: The Navy & civil aviation use this "time" named for the largest ethnic group in South Africa Zulu |
#5889, aired 2010-04-01 | MERYL STREEP MOVIE ROLES $800: Danish baroness Karen Blixen Out of Africa |
#5884, aired 2010-03-25 | THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS $600: When established, the League had only 2 nations from Africa: South Africa & this one founded in 1847 Liberia |
#5881, aired 2010-03-22 | EARTH SCIENCE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) South America & Africa fit together like puzzle pieces; this theory says they were connected 200 million years ago & have been moving away from each other up to 4 inches a year plate tectonics |
#5879, aired 2010-03-18 | THE CONTINENT WHERE YOU'LL FIND... $600: The Atlas Mountains Africa |
#5877, aired 2010-03-16 | WHERE THE WILD THINGS WERE $600: Though specimens still exist in zoos, the Barbary lion, native to the north of this continent, is extinct in the wild Africa |
#5874, aired 2010-03-11 | 19th CENTURY AFRICA $400: Muhammad Ali, an officer in this empire's army, drove the French out of Egypt in 1801 & became the country's ruler the Ottoman Empire |
#5874, aired 2010-03-11 | 19th CENTURY AFRICA $800: In 1887 Ethiopia's Menelik II founded this city in the Entoto Mountains Addis Ababa |
#5874, aired 2010-03-11 | 19th CENTURY AFRICA $1200: In 1859 Spain attacked this country over possession of Ceuta, a city on the Strait of Gibraltar Morocco |
#5874, aired 2010-03-11 | 19th CENTURY AFRICA $1600: In August 1826 Gordon Laing became the first European to set foot in this Mali trading post Timbuktu |
#5874, aired 2010-03-11 | 19th CENTURY AFRICA $2000: In 1888 this son of a British clergyman founded the De Beers mining company (Cecil) Rhodes |
#5873, aired 2010-03-10 | GLOBE TREKKIN' $200: If Recife, in this S. Am. country, had been around 200 million years ago, you could have walked from it to what's now Africa Brazil |
#5864, aired 2010-02-25 | A DAY IN THE LIFE $500 (Daily Double): Nov. 4, 1954:
Gives his speech as the 1952 Nobel Prize winner; in 1952, he was busy with his humanitarian work in Africa (Albert) Schweitzer |
#5855, aired 2010-02-12 | AFRICAN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): A kingdom of West Central Africa founded around 1390 is called this, like 2 current countries, but spelled with a K Kongo |
#5853, aired 2010-02-10 | NAME THAT CONTINENT $1000: The Limpopo River Africa |
#5852, aired 2010-02-09 | SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR $400: This country's Christchurch is the world's southernmost city with more than 250,000 people New Zealand |
#5834, aired 2010-01-14 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $800: Under British rule, this small country that's surrounded by South Africa was known as Basutoland Lesotho |
#5832, aired 2010-01-12 | THE WORLD OF POLITICS $400: After being jailed for 28 years, he was elected president of South Africa in 1994 Nelson Mandela |
#5820, aired 2009-12-25 | LITERARY SEVENS $1,500 (Daily Double): After returning to Denmark, she finished the "Seven Gothic tales" she had been working on in Africa Karen Blixen (or Isak Dinesen) |
#5811, aired 2009-12-14 | ____ OF ____ BOOKS $600: In this memoir, Isak Dinesen wrote, "Denys Finch-Hatton... lived in my house between his safaris" Out of Africa |
#5811, aired 2009-12-14 | MOUNTAIN DO $1000: You'll be surrounded by South Africa if you climb the part of the Maluti Mountains in this country Lesotho |
#5798, aired 2009-11-25 | AFRICAN LAKES $800: This country's Hendrik Verwoerd Reservoir, aka the Gariep, was created by the damming of the Orange River South Africa |
#5796, aired 2009-11-23 | CURRENT BLACK PRESIDENTS $200: Africa's oldest democracy, this nation headed by Pres. Ian Khama is mainly made up of the Tswana people Botswana |
#5792, aired 2009-11-17 | THE INTESTATE $1000: This explorer & medical missionary died intestate in Africa in 1873, but left a helpful list of his bank accounts Dr. Livingstone |
#5791, aired 2009-11-16 | GIVING BLOOD $600: Per a rule in place since 1996, you can't donate if you've lived since 1977 in certain countries on this continent Africa |
#5791, aired 2009-11-16 | PROVINCES $1600: This former province at the southern tip of Africa took up half the area of South Africa Cape Province |
#5789, aired 2009-11-12 | THE EXCHANGE STUDENT $2,000 (Daily Double): Johan from South Africa speaks English, but on the phone with his mom, he uses this laanguaage related to Dutch Afrikaans |
#5786, aired 2009-11-09 | WHAT'S THAT SOUND? $1000: This nocturnal dog-like animal of Africa is heard here a hyena |
#5786, aired 2009-11-09 | ANAGRAMS $1600: Big beast of Africa:
THE PLANE elephant |
#5780, aired 2009-10-30 | TUNE "IN" $800: The name of this type of cat seen here suggests that it originated in Africa an Abyssinian |
#5779, aired 2009-10-29 | SEMITIC LANGUAGES $800: Tigrinya is mainly spoken in these 2 "E" countries of East Africa Ethiopia & Eritrea |
#5778, aired 2009-10-28 | THE "H" IT IS $2000: It was the Dutch settlers' name for the Khoikhoi people of southern Africa the Hottentots |
#5773, aired 2009-10-21 | 21st CENTURY WORLD LEADERS $200: "Big Love" meets "The West Wing"? Pres. Jacob Zuma, who presides over this country from Pretoria, has 3 wives South Africa |
#5769, aired 2009-10-15 | BIG BOTTOM $400: Seabed samples suggest that this 970,000-square-mile sea between Europe & Africa was once largely dry the Mediterranean Sea |
#5765, aired 2009-10-09 | COUNTRIES' LARGEST ISLANDS $1000: Zanzibar Tanzania |
#5763, aired 2009-10-07 | REDS $1000: The Red Sea was formed about 20 million years ago when this peninsula broke away from Africa the Arabian Peninsula |
#5760, aired 2009-10-02 | THE SUPREMES $2,000 (Daily Double): At almost 1 million square miles, this nation is the largest in Africa Sudan |
#5752, aired 2009-09-22 | ONE-NAMED PERSONALITIES $400: In 2002 this singer & other activists founded DATA, which stands for Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa Bono |
#5743, aired 2009-07-22 | ALPHABETICA $2000: Despite its name, it's also used in a wide region of Asia & Africa Arabic |
#5741, aired 2009-07-20 | HABITAT FOR YOU, MANATEE $1200: This continent, for the species Trichechus senegalensis Africa |
#5740, aired 2009-07-17 | YOU'RE IN THIS FOREIGN COUNTRY IF... $200: you're jogging in Johannesburg South Africa |
#5738, aired 2009-07-15 | JUST DESERTS $200: This desert in North Africa is the largest in the world the Sahara |
#5718, aired 2009-06-17 | INTO AFRICA $200: These 2 oceans meet at South Africa's Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point in Africa the Atlantic & the Indian |
#5718, aired 2009-06-17 | INTO AFRICA $400: Stop at the Falls Bridge or the Boiling Pot when you visit this magnificent African waterfall Victoria Falls |
#5718, aired 2009-06-17 | INTO AFRICA $600: It's the North African capital considered the center of Coptic Christianity Cairo |
#5718, aired 2009-06-17 | INTO AFRICA $800: Dakar, the capital of this country, is the westernmost city in continental Africa Senegal |
#5718, aired 2009-06-17 | INTO AFRICA $1000: Aside from the Republic of the Congo, one of the 3 countries once known together as French Equatorial Africa (1 of) Chad, Gabon & the Central African Republic |
#5710, aired 2009-06-05 | WOMEN IN SCIENCE $1600: In the 1950s she studied Tanzanian rock paintings that formed the basis of her later book "Africa's Vanishing Art" Mary Leakey |
#5705, aired 2009-05-29 | THE "GREAT" $800: In the 1990s, though apartheid was ending, South Africa made this feared marine predator a protected species the great white shark |
#5703, aired 2009-05-27 | FIRST FEMALE LEADERS $800: President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
(2006)
(also first elected female leader in Africa) Liberia |
#5697, aired 2009-05-19 | MARCUS $600: He promoted the Back-to-Africa movement in the 1920s Marcus Garvey |
#5696, aired 2009-05-18 | COLONIALISM IN AFRICA $200: One of the only 2 African countries that were independent at the start of World War I Ethiopia (or Liberia) |
#5696, aired 2009-05-18 | COLONIALISM IN AFRICA $400: His 1860s expedition to locate the source of the Nile lost touch with the outside world for 6 years Dr. Livingstone |
#5696, aired 2009-05-18 | COLONIALISM IN AFRICA $600: France tenaciously tried to hold onto this African possession despite a bloody war that ended in 1962 Algeria |
#5696, aired 2009-05-18 | COLONIALISM IN AFRICA $800: Millions died from exploitation & overwork in this large Belgian colony The Congo |
#5696, aired 2009-05-18 | COLONIALISM IN AFRICA $1000: In this 1902 novel Joseph Conrad exposed many of the horrors of colonialism in Africa Heart of Darkness |
#5688, aired 2009-05-06 | WOULD YOU LIKE FLIES WITH THAT? $600: These winged wood-eaters, aka white ants, are fried as a snack in Africa termites |
#5687, aired 2009-05-05 | GEOGRAPHY $2000: Bloemfontein is the judicial capital of this nation South Africa |
#5681, aired 2009-04-27 | THE 19th CENTURY $800 (Daily Double): Unable to attend university, he went to Africa in 1870 & made his fortune Cecil Rhodes |
#5680, aired 2009-04-24 | LANDS DOWN UNDER $1600: Botswana shares the Kalahari desert with this country directly to its south South Africa |
#5674, aired 2009-04-16 | POPCORN COLONELS $1000: Nick Nolte plays a colonel based on heroic Canadian Romeo Dallaire in this Africa-set 2004 film Hotel Rwanda |
#5671, aired 2009-04-13 | AFRICAN ANIMALS $2000: Certain birds of Africa are called these for the way they intertwine materials to make nests like the one seen here weaverbirds |
#5660, aired 2009-03-27 | MOUNTAINS $1,000 (Daily Double): At 13,665 feet, Mount Toubkal is the highest peak in this range in Africa the Atlas Mountains |
#5657, aired 2009-03-24 | TOUGH CAPITAL CITIES $1600: In western Africa:
Yamoussoukro Cote d'Ivoire (The Ivory Coast) |
#5655, aired 2009-03-20 | FOREIGN EXCHANGE $2000: In 1999 Denmark honored this author of "Out of Africa" by featuring her on the 50-kroner bill (Isak) Dinesen |
#5654, aired 2009-03-19 | HARD STUFF $2000: Africa's closest national capitals are Brazzaville & Kinshasa, separated by this river the Congo |
#5653, aired 2009-03-18 | SOUTH AFRICA $400: In place from 1948 until the 1990s, it was the South African government's official policy of segregation apartheid |
#5653, aired 2009-03-18 | SOUTH AFRICA $800: In 1967 this South African surgeon performed the world's first human heart transplant Christiaan Barnard |
#5653, aired 2009-03-18 | SOUTH AFRICA $1200: South Africa completely surrounds this country once known as Basutoland Lesotho |