| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | SPORTS AROUND THE WORLD $400: This racket sport named for what the soft rubber balls do when hit against a wall is popular in Bermuda squash |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | "G" AS IN GLOBAL $400: In these German brothers' "The Frog Prince", it's the princess flinging the frog against a wall that turns him into a prince Grimm |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | 2011: 10 YEARS AGO $10,000 (Daily Double): Zuccotti Park in New York City's Financial District was the birthplace of this movement against economic inequality Occupy Wall Street |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | CHINESE HISTORY $400: World Book says this "protected China from minor attacks but provided little defense against a major invasion" the Great Wall |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | MODERN HEALTH $800: (Travis Stork presents the clue.) Chronic bending of the spine to look at a phone can cause the painful syndrome known as "text" this; to help treat & prevent it, stand up with your back flat against a wall & perform the "snow angel" exercise text neck |
| #7618, aired 2017-10-25 | FAIRY TALES $200: In the Grimms' version, this creature becomes a prince not from a kiss but when he's thrown against the wall frog |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | FURNITURE $2000: By itself, it's a TV cabinet, but it's also a type of table meant to sit against a wall the console table |
| #6677, aired 2013-10-01 | CASTLING $1200: This low wall at the top of the ramparts kept soldiers from falling off & protected against enemy fire parapets |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | YAY, PHYSICS! $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew holds a book against the wall.) Abbreviated "N", it's the ordinary term for the perpendicular force I'm exerting on the book to keep it in contact with the wall normal |
| #6291, aired 2012-01-16 | ____ THE ____ $400: This expression meaning opposite one's basic temperament refers to the direction of fibers in wood against the grain |
| #6103, aired 2011-03-09 | YAD VASHEM $1200: (Alex walks in front of the Wall of Remembrance in Yad Vashem, Israel.) Both the valiant uprising against the Nazis & the final deportation are depicted here in the Wall of Remembrance to this city's ghetto, which at one time held more than 400,000 people in just 1.3 square miles Warsaw |
| #6017, aired 2010-11-09 | THAT'S A RAP $400: "I'm stayin' up all night hopin', hittin' my head against the wall", this "Animal" gal raps on "Your Love Is My Drug" Ke$ha |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | NEW ORLEANS & KATRINA $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from New Orleans, LA.) The largest design build civil works project in the history of the Army Corps of Engineers, a giant flood wall is technically called this type of barrier, as it protects against hurricane-driven water levels a surge barrier (a storm surge barrier accepted) |
| #4915, aired 2006-01-13 | SPORTS PAGE CLICHÉS $1200: The phrase about your back being here has been used in sports & by Earl Haig in a more serious situation in WWI against the wall |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | AGAINST THE "WALL" $400: After 28 years, it came down on November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | AGAINST THE "WALL" $800: It can be a plant with fragrant colorful flowers or a shy person unnoticed at a social event a wallflower |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | AGAINST THE "WALL" $1200: Based in Budapest, this Swedish diplomat worked to protect Hungarian Jews during World War II Raoul Wallenberg |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | AGAINST THE "WALL" $1600: In the 1980s this band was on "Mexican Radio" Wall of Voodoo |
| #4068, aired 2002-04-17 | AGAINST THE "WALL" $2000: He wrote & performed the jazz classic "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Fats) Waller |
| #3768, aired 2001-01-10 | WORD PUZZLES $300: Where some firing squads take place:
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---------WALL Up against the wall |
| #3388, aired 1999-05-05 | FUTILE PHRASES $400: If your dream is truly impossible, you're just beating this against the wall Your head |
| #3285, aired 1998-12-11 | YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY... $800: You might be just "banging your head against the wall" when you "flog a dead" one of these Horse |
| #2708, aired 1996-05-15 | RAIDS $100: Shih Huang-ti is credited with building this structure for protection against nomadic raiders the Great Wall of China |
| #1678, aired 1991-12-11 | GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES $100: A beautiful princess breaks the spell that turned a handsome prince into one of these amphibians a frog |
| #926, aired 1988-09-19 | POLITICAL NICKNAMES $1000: When this Hoosier ran against FDR, he was dubbed "the barefoot boy from Wall Street" Wendell Willkie |
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