| #1, aired 2024-01-12 | HEAR ME ROAR $1200: Written in 1792, this French song asks, "Do you hear in the countryside the roar of those savage soldiers?" "La Marseillaise" |
| #8917, aired 2023-07-18 | STARS ON THE NATION'S FLAG $1000: China's flag's 4 small stars stood for peasants, the petty bourgeoisie, patriotic capitalists & this manual labor class the proletariat |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | THEY WROTE YOUR TEXTBOOKS $1200: Thomas Cormen, who wrote "Introduction to" these, taught his last computer science class at Dartmouth in 2019 after 27 years Algorithms |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | 15-LETTER WORDS $400: Adjective for school activities held outside of class & after regular hours extracurricular |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | THE SECOND MILLENNIUM $600: Mao said, "Never forget" this Marxist "struggle"; 2 years after he died, China kind of got amnesia & moved toward capitalism the class struggle |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | CLASS OF 1918 $400: After graduating from the Hunan Normal School in 1918, this future leader took a great leap forward to Beijing Mao |
| #7758, aired 2018-05-09 | CLASS OF 1918 $1200: Witchcraft came after graduation from St. Louis' Central High for Agnes Moorehead, Endora on this sitcom Bewitched |
| #7738, aired 2018-04-11 | TIME FOR CLASS $400: Poli sci:
In presidential succession, this Cabinet job comes right after the pres. pro tempore of the Senate Secretary of State |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | WHAT A HIGH-CLASS MISTAKE! $200: Tres bummer! You arrived at this French city on the gulf of Napoule the day after its film fest ended! Cannes |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | WHAT A HIGH-CLASS MISTAKE! $600: That horse you bought for millions after it won this N.Y. leg of the Triple Crown to get a $75,000 stud fee? Sterile the Belmont |
| #7288, aired 2016-04-27 | AMERICAN ARCHITECTS $400: After the crash of 1929, he began designing his "Usonian" homes, affordable housing for the middle class Frank Lloyd Wright |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | SCI-, NO FI $600: In scientific classification, it's next in line after class & order family |
| #6769, aired 2014-02-06 | GRANDSON OF WOOD $400: (Alex Trebek presents the clue from the deck of the USS Iowa.) The upper decks of World War II Iowa class battleships were covered in this hard Asian wood, some of it still in place after 70 years; it's the kind of wood you find on expensive yachts teak |
| #6707, aired 2013-11-12 | THAT'S TOTALLY HISTORICAL! $600: In the 20s B.C., after Octavian took this imperial name, he established the Praetorian Guard to guard his body Caesar Augustus |
| #6434, aired 2012-08-02 | ART CLASS $400: After you've finished painting, wash these & store them bristles up paintbrushes |
| #6310, aired 2012-02-10 | COLLEGE BEFORE & AFTER $1600: The pirates of a Catholic school in New Jersey may need one to get to the bathroom during class hours Seton Hall pass |
| #6070, aired 2011-01-21 | JOB HUNTING $2000: Memories of Ms. Klausner include cups of tea cherished by her friends after class teacher (in tea cherished) |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | I LEARNED IT IN BALLET CLASS $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.) A fouetté is a pirouette that lets the dancer regain momentum after each spin; the Black Swan does 32 in a row in a ballet by this composer Tchaikovsky |
| #6026, aired 2010-11-22 | I LEARNED IT IN BALLET CLASS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Dance Theatre of Harlem.) The final pas de deux is one of the famous dances from this ballet; maybe it's fitting that its choreographer Lev Ivanov died on Christmas Eve when it's set The Nutcracker |
| #5403, aired 2008-02-20 | "AFTER" CLASS $200: A small earthquake or tremor that occurs following a major one an aftershock |
| #5403, aired 2008-02-20 | "AFTER" CLASS $400: In the familiar spelling rule, "I" comes before "E" except in this case after "C" |
| #5403, aired 2008-02-20 | "AFTER" CLASS $600: To increase a jet plane's thrust, turn on these that feed fuel into the hot exhaust gases afterburners |
| #5403, aired 2008-02-20 | "AFTER" CLASS $800: An epilogue an afterword |
| #5403, aired 2008-02-20 | "AFTER" CLASS $1000: Reconsideration upon an act's completion, or something added that wasn't in the original plan an afterthought |
| #5259, aired 2007-06-21 | YOU NEED HELP $200: From the Latin for "guardian", it's a private instructor who helps you with your studies after class a tutor |
| #5232, aired 2007-05-15 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: 2 MTV cartoon teens join Howard Heh-Heh-Hesseman's honors program on '80's TV Beavis & Butthead of the Class |
| #5048, aired 2006-07-19 | MIDDLE ENGLISH CLASS $600: This word from the Middle English means "nothing" to me & is often found after "come to" naught |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | THE MEDAL OF FREEDOM, CLASS OF '05 $800 (Daily Double): She got the medal a week after singing her soul out at Rosa Parks' funeral Aretha Franklin |
| #4963, aired 2006-03-22 | THE MEDAL OF FREEDOM, CLASS OF '05 $1000: He got the medal shortly after stepping down as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers |
| #4771, aired 2005-05-09 | EDUCATION $600: It's the "watery" term for integrating a student with special needs into a regular class mainstreaming (or immersion) |
| #4702, aired 2005-02-01 | ZOOLOGY $800: In the scientific classification of animals, it's next in line after kingdom, phylum, class... order |
| #4634, aired 2004-10-28 | FIRST CLASS $600: 5 years after Thomas Clemson died, 446 men started studying in the school named for him in this state South Carolina |
| #4554, aired 2004-05-27 | LATIN CLASS $400: Ante means before, as in ante partum, the period before childbirth; this word means after post |
| #4006, aired 2002-01-21 | SCIENCE CLASS $1600: Named after a planet, its atomic number is 92 Uranium |
| #3676, aired 2000-09-04 | JIM CLASS $100: 20 years after his death, this singer was portrayed by Val Kilmer on the silver screen Jim Morrison |
| #3676, aired 2000-09-04 | JIM CLASS $400: A popular big band became this man's alone after his brother walked offstage during a 1935 performance Jimmy Dorsey |
| #3483, aired 1999-10-27 | COLLEGE FOLK $100: Rhode Island College was renamed this in 1804 after a colorful grad of the Class of 1786 Brown University |
| #3369, aired 1999-04-08 | BLUE & THE GRAY $300: Less than a month after graduating last in his class from West Point, he made his first stand at Bull Run George Custer |
| #3224, aired 1998-09-17 | SCIENCE CLASS $400: This stage of complete metamorphosis occurs immediately after the larval stage Pupal stage |
| #2888, aired 1997-03-05 | ART CLASS $200: After cleaning these, they should be stored bristles up paintbrushes |
| #2304, aired 1994-09-15 | JAPAN $300: This elite warrior class was dissolved between 1873 & 1876, after the Meiji Restoration samurai |
| #1097, aired 1989-05-16 | AUTHORS $500: Elected class poet at Harvard after 6 others declined, he later became 19th c.'s leading transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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