| #9088, aired 2024-04-24 | ENGINEERING MARVELS $800: Fearing a Japanese invasion, regiments of this military group built a 1,500-mile highway in Alaska & Canada in 8 months in 1942 the Army Corps of Engineers |
| #9080, aired 2024-04-12 | ANYTIME $1600: 85% of Alaska is underlain by this type of soil that remains frozen year-round permafrost |
| #9076, aired 2024-04-08 | WORKING HARD, HARDLY WORKING $200: A 2022 study said this state had the longest average work week, 41.4 hours; commercial fishing & drilling for oil ain't easy Alaska |
| #9070, aired 2024-03-29 | STATE FLAGS $600: Representations of the North Star & this other night sky feature appear on Alaska's flag the Big Dipper (Ursa Major) |
| #9066, aired 2024-03-25 | PANHANDLE STATES $2000: Watching humpback whales is a must in this Alaska panhandle national park, the state's southeasternmost Glacier Bay |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $1600: Alaska's state gem is this green one, a historically important crafting item to the Inupiaq jade |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | DOWN IN THE VALLEY $400: The "Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes" in this U.S. state was created by a gigantic volcanic eruption in 1912 Alaska |
| #9042, aired 2024-02-20 | THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE $200: Stronger than dogs but hard to train, these animals took time off from Santa to pull sleds of mail in Alaska in the early 1900s reindeer |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | IT'S GETTING COLD IN HERRE $800: In 2014 the average summer temperature--again, summer temperature--in Cold Bay in this state was 54.1 degrees Alaska |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | POLITICS AS UNUSUAL $1000: With saving salmon fishing as her big issue, in 2022 Mary Peltola beat this woman & became the first Alaska native in Congress Sarah Palin |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | "F" IN GEOGRAPHY $1,000 (Daily Double): This city in Alaska has hosted the Midnight Sun Festival for more than 40 years Fairbanks |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | GET TO THE POINT $1000: Head north to Alaska, then keep heading north & you'll hit this northernmost point in the state Point Barrow |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | JOHN GREEN $1000: (John Green presents the clue.) In my first novel, "Looking for Alaska", Miles "Pudge" Halter has an obsession with famous last words; my favorite are those of this Irish writer in 1900, something to the effect of, "Either this wallpaper goes, or I do" Wilde |
| #8993, aired 2023-12-13 | LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT'S... $200: This dazzling phenomenon, as seen from Alaska aurora borealis (the northern lights) |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | HYDROLOGY $1000: In the Americas this hydrological line stretches from Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska down to southern Patagonia the Great Divide (the Continental Divide) |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | TV DRAMAS IN A NUTSHELL $500: A young doctor gets acquainted with the quirky locals when he opens a practice in Cicely, Alaska Northern Exposure |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | OF REPRESENTATIVES $1200: The states with only one representative are Wyoming, Vermont, the Dakotas, Delaware & this state Alaska |
| #8952, aired 2023-10-17 | COUNTDOWN $1000: The states:
49. Alaska
48. Arizona
47. this New Mexico |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | "EZ" GEOGRAPHY $1500: An infamous Exxon oil tanker was named after this Alaskan city, the terminus of the Trans-Alaska pipeline Valdez |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | THREE DIGIT PRIME NUMBERS $1200: This largest U.S. state by area surprisingly has only one area code: 907 Alaska |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALASKA $300: Alaska has more of these birds than any other U.S. state --and that's not even counting the ones on the backs of quarters bald eagles |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALASKA $600: The 4 largest cities in the U.S. by area are all in Alaska: Sitka, Juneau, Wrangell, and this city, also the most populous Anchorage |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALASKA $900: Part of a 24-year quest to circle the globe on foot, Karl Bushby hiked and swam from Alaska to this country in 2006 Russia |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALASKA $1500: A 1988 New York Times review counted over 275 diverse characters in "Alaska", the "latest huge novel" by this author Michener |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | ALASKA $5,000 (Daily Double): Before its native name Denali was restored in 2015, America's tallest peak was named for this guy who never set foot in Alaska William McKinley |
| #8935, aired 2023-09-22 | ALL'S WHALE THAT ENDS WHALE $200: This state's official marine mammal is the bowhead whale, which inhabits Arctic waters Alaska |
| #8927, aired 2023-09-12 | THE U.S. IN 1964 $400: On March 27 a 9.2 quake rocked this state's Valdez, forcing the town itself to be moved to the delta of Mineral Creek Alaska |
| #8921, aired 2023-07-24 | STATES' HIGHEST POINTS $600: In Alaska, this mountain peak, of course Denali |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | WHERE'S MY FOOD? $1,500 (Daily Double): This dessert of sponge cake, ice cream & meringue that's finished in the oven was created to honor an 1867 land purchase a baked Alaska |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | WHO REIGNED IN ENGLAND WHEN... $400: Alaska was admitted to the Union Elizabeth II |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | GO, CANADA $400: This nearly 2,000-mile-long river leaves the territory of the same name & crosses the border near Eagle, Alaska the Yukon |
| #8879, aired 2023-05-25 | UP IN THE AIRLINE $400: A smiling Inuit man is meant to invoke the "spirit of the last frontier" on this airline's fleet Alaska Air |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | NOM NOM NOMINATIONS $200: Alaska's Copper River Fish Market got a 2023 Good Food Award nom for its locally sourced Copper River sockeye this salmon |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | HIT THE ROAD, JACK $7,000 (Daily Double): Some give this highway's length as 19,000 miles, with stops including Fairbanks, Alaska, Monterrey, Mexico & Lima, Peru the Pan-American Highway |
| #8863, aired 2023-05-03 | THERE'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS $400: In 2023 the EPA blocked a proposed copper & gold mine in the Bristol Bay region of this state Alaska |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | "R" NATURE $400: The northeast corner of Alaska is home to the Arctic National Wildlife this, a place where animals are left undisturbed Refuge |
| #8855, aired 2023-04-21 | A HARD BARGAIN $200: In 1867 the U.S. agreed to give the czar $7.2 million in gold; the cost to him? This territory Alaska |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $800: For young adults, "Looking for Alaska" (John) Green |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | WORLD FACTS $400: Alaska's Aleutian Islands separate this sea from the Pacific Ocean the Bering |
| #8848, aired 2023-04-12 | DOGGIE BAG $200: In 2010 this state made the Malamute its state dog Alaska |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | MOOSE-ELLANEOUS $400: Morty was the moose who strolled through the opening credits of this 1990s TV show set in Cicely, Alaska Northern Exposure |
| #8846, aired 2023-04-10 | MOOSE-ELLANEOUS $1000: The biggest moose subspecies, 1,500 pounds or more, is named for Alaska & this adjacent Canadian territory Yukon |
| #8837, aired 2023-03-28 | GEOMETRICAL GEOGRAPHY $1000: This northernmost spot of Alaska was named for Sir John, a proponent of Arctic exploration Point Barrow |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THAT'S COLD! $1000: The purchase of Alaska was derided as "Seward's Folly" & "Seward's" this kitchen appliance Icebox |
| #8831, aired 2023-03-20 | STATE OF THE AIRPORT $400: Ketchikan International, Wiley Post-Will Rogers Alaska |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER GEOGRAPHY $1600: This largest island in Alaska covers nearly 3,600 square miles & yes, I'll have some of its abundant salmon, please Kodiak |
| #8801, aired 2023-02-06 | YOU CAN CALL ME HOMER $1200: A gold mine promoter named Homer Pennock gave his first name to a city in this state Alaska |
| #8790, aired 2023-01-20 | THIS PIECE OF PAPER WILL TELL YOU WHAT TO DO $800: Part of this job was issuing ukases, like the one from 1821 claiming all fishing rights off what's now Alaska plus most of British Columbia czar |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | EMMY WINNERS $1600: This series about a New York doctor in Cicely, Alaska beat out "L.A. Law", among others, to win Best Drama Series at the 1992 Emmys Northern Exposure |
| #8778, aired 2023-01-04 | TRANSPORTATION $1200: 100 years ago in 1923, Warren Harding drove a spike to complete the railroad named for this state, today with majestic bridges Alaska |
| #8773, aired 2022-12-28 | OSCAR WINNERS ON TV $600: On "Alaska Daily", she plays a journalist who looks into the disappearance & murders of indigenous women (Hilary) Swank |
| #8765, aired 2022-12-16 | ALASKAN GEOGRAPHY $1000: Named for an early 20th century vice president, this city boasts 24 hours of sunlight for 70 days across May to July Fairbanks |
| #8761, aired 2022-12-12 | "Y-U" $1600: Its neighbors include Alaska to the west & British Columbia to the south the Yukon |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | FUN WITH FLAGS $600: Seen here on Alaska's flag is this star grouping, part of Ursa Major the Big Dipper |
| #8728, aired 2022-10-26 | PEAKS & VALLEYS $600: Numerous fumaroles in a volcanic region of Alaska gave it the name Valley of the Ten Thousand these Smokes |
| #8723, aired 2022-10-19 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1,000 (Daily Double): Alaska celebrates the last Monday in March as this onetime U.S. Secretary of State's day William Seward |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | A LITTLE HISTORY $2000: On August 20, 1741 this Dane sailed into the Gulf of Alaska (Vitus) Bering |
| #8687, aired 2022-07-19 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $1,000 (Daily Double): Its 1980 eruption was the first by a volcano in the continental U.S. outside Alaska since 1917 Mount St. Helens |
| #8681, aired 2022-07-11 | GLACIERS $800: This glacier in Alaska is named for naturalist John, who visited it in 1879; it has since receded & thinned Muir (Muir Glacier) |
| #8678, aired 2022-07-06 | THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM... $1000: This state:
Don Young, who passed away in 2022 after serving nearly 50 years in the House Alaska |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Named for a V.P. from Indiana, this Alaska city is home to the Goldpanners, who play an annual Midnight Sun Game at 10 P.M. Fairbanks |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | THE BRADY BUNCH $600: In the late 1890s its territorial gov. John Green Brady called for statehood; he died in Sitka before it happened Alaska |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: It's the only U.S. state that touches the Beaufort Sea Alaska |
| #8634, aired 2022-05-05 | AMERICAN GRAB BAG $1000: Ground that's frozen year round is called this; for research in Alaska, the Army Corps of Engineers built a tunnel in it permafrost |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | AIRLINES $400: Its roots go back to 1932 when a pilot started flying his 3-seat plane between Anchorage & Bristol Bay Alaska Airlines |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | SEISMIC ACTIVITY $800: In 1964 the Prince William Sound earthquake registered a scary 9.2 in magnitude in the southern part of this state Alaska |
| #8583, aired 2022-02-23 | ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 1905 5th GRADER? $800: Geography:
It's the largest state in the union by area Texas |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | DESSERT $4,000 (Daily Double): What the French call an omelette norvégienne is what Americans call this dessert a baked Alaska |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | THROWING SERIOUS SHADE $600: South of Alaska, there's a Sitka one of these trees in Oregon that's 144 feet tall with a 93-foot crown spread a spruce |
| #9, aired 2022-02-15 | NATIONAL PARKS $800: A 1,600 square mile national park in Montana & one three times bigger in Alaska both have this feature in their names glacier |
| #3, aired 2022-02-09 | WHO'S UP FOR SOME SEAFOOD? $600: Pacific cod & Alaska pollock are on the menu at this chain whose symbol is seen here Long John Silver's |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | THE MUSIC "MAN" $1200: This Grammy-winning indie pop band was formed in Alaska, not the Iberian country in its name Portugal. The Man |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | FROM BOOK TO TV $800: A Hulu miniseries was based on this John Green novel, with Miles Halter in search of the titular Ms. Young Looking for Alaska |
| #8562, aired 2022-01-25 | WOMEN IN POLITICS $800: After her father Frank became Alaska governor in 2002, he appointed her to fill his Senate seat, & she's been there ever since Murkowski |
| #8551, aired 2022-01-10 | NEXT IN LINE... $200: Getting smaller in area: Alaska,
Texas... California |
| #8550, aired 2022-01-07 | THAT'S BORDER LINE $800: Bordering Alaska & British Columbia, this territory has a population of 42,000, around 4,000 more than Fenway Park's capacity the Yukon Territory |
| #8519, aired 2021-11-25 | THE STATE THAT... $800: Has the Sitka spruce as its official state tree Alaska |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | FERRIES $1200: If you've just flown into Ketchikan Airport in this state, you'll have to cross the Tongass Narrows on a ferry Alaska |
| #8493, aired 2021-10-20 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $8,000 (Daily Double): For 647 miles, this westernmost of Canada's 3 territories shares a straight-line border with Alaska the Yukon |
| #8467, aired 2021-09-14 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200: The last Monday in March is celebrated as Seward's Day in this state Alaska |
| #8463, aired 2021-08-11 | HAVE A FEW LAUGHS $600: We'll have a side of Beef Tobin, a single dad in Alaska voiced by Nick Offerman in this Fox cartoon The Great North |
| #8451, aired 2021-07-26 | WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE $400: The tundra hare, seen here in its seasonal lights, is native to this state Alaska |
| #8439, aired 2021-07-08 | & I TOOK THAT PERSONALLY $400: Criticized for the purchase of this, William Seward said it would "take another generation to find out" how cool it was Alaska |
| #8436, aired 2021-07-05 | DOCTORED TELEVISION $1600: Joel Fleischman, a fish out of water in Alaska Northern Exposure |
| #8432, aired 2021-06-29 | AVIATION $400: This airline founded in 1932 in Anchorage was the first U.S. one to have online ticket sales Alaska Air |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | OFFICIAL STATE FOSSILS $800: Alaska's fossil is of the mammoth & Michigan's is of this related tusked beast of the Pleistocene the mastodon |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | 5 SCOOPS OF ICE CREAM $800: This "stately" ice cream dish was originally cooked in the oven, but now blowtorches are used Baked Alaska |
| #8420, aired 2021-06-11 | VOLCANO CITY USA $800: Erupting several times in 1992, Mount Spurr has dumped ash on & remains a threat to this largest Alaska city Anchorage |
| #8380, aired 2021-04-16 | HISTORY ON ICE $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1969 the Manhattan broke through ice between Baffin Bay & Point Barrow, Alaska to traverse this Arctic passage the Northwest Passage |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | VICE PRESIDENTS $200: Known as the "Indiana Icicle", Charles Fairbanks has one of the largest cities in this state named for him Alaska |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK $800: What's sometimes called Indian candy in Alaska is strips of this fish smoked until hard salmon |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | BODIES OF WATER FILED UNDER B $1200: The mighty MacKenzie flows into this sea that's north of Alaska & Canada & part of the Arctic Ocean the Beaufort |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | CAPTAIN $682 (Daily Double): Captain Joseph Hazelwood was in charge on March 24, 1989 when this oil tanker hit Bligh Reef, off Alaska's coast the Exxon Valdez |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | BORDERS $400: About a quarter of Canada's border with the U.S. is with this state Alaska |
| #8347, aired 2021-03-02 | MOUNTAINS $1000: In 1794 George Vancouver caught sight of this peak from Cook Inlet, an arm of the Gulf of Alaska Mount McKinley (Denali) |
| #8338, aired 2021-02-17 | U.S. CITIES $1000: This city north of Anchorage rivals Juneau as Alaska's second-most populous city Fairbanks |
| #8336, aired 2021-02-15 | MICHAEL WROTE $200: Michael Chabon's novel "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" has this country collapsing in 1948 & refugees moving to Sitka, Alaska Israel |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | POSSESSIVE HISTORY $400: The Alaska Purchase was known as this Secretary of State's "Folly", but the deal wasn't popular in Russia, either Seward |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | BOTANY $1600: Hopefully you remember this hardy perennial state flower of Alaska forget-me-not |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | AMERICAN ACCESSIONS $800: Secretary of State William Seward negotiated the purchase of this 600,000-square-mile region Alaska |
| #8294, aired 2020-12-03 | TRANSPORTATION $800: Most of the 1,400-mile highway named for this U.S. state runs through Canada Alaska (the Alaskan Highway) |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | A TOTAL SMOKE SHOW $2000: Haze was visible on the East Coast after the 1912 eruption of the volcanic Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in this now state Alaska |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | GEOGRAPHIC GATEWAYS $800: There are no roads or trails in Alaska's Gates of this region National Park Arctic |
| #8275, aired 2020-11-06 | U.S. HISTORY $2000: The 1970s oil crisis made this project inevitable; much of its construction was elevated out of worry for wildlife and permafrost the Alaska Pipeline |
| #8250, aired 2020-10-02 | WE'LL GIVE YOU SOME LATITUDE $1200: The Admiralty Islands are part of Papua New Guinea; Admiralty Island, at 57 degrees 44 minutes north, part of this state Alaska |
| #8211, aired 2020-04-27 | AROUND THE USA $200: Head to this state to visit the Mendenhall Glacier & the Mendenhall Ice Caves (but hurry--the ice is melting) Alaska |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | STATE FLAG SUBJECTS $400: These two heavenly sights appear on Alaska's state flag the Big Dipper and the North Star |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS $200: The Rocky Mountains stretch for more than 3,000 miles from New Mexico north to the Brooks Range in this state Alaska |
| #8177, aired 2020-03-10 | BRR! IT'S COLD OUT THERE $1200: This U.S. state's Prospect Creek hit -80 in January 1971 Alaska |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | HISTORY, BRIEFLY $1200: A 49-star U.S. flag was unveiled after this state got admitted in 1959 Alaska |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | VICE PRESIDENTS $1200: Pictured here is Theodore Roosevelt with this veep who gave his name to an Alaska city Charles Fairbanks |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | THERE'S A NATIONAL DAY FOR THAT $800: On February 1, I scream, you scream, we all scream for this fancy dessert named for the 49th state baked Alaska |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | AGRICULTURE $800: A 138-pound cabbage set a world record for Scott Robb, a farmer in this state, benefiting from the above-average amount of sunlight Alaska |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | GOVERNMENT ABCs $1000: Much of the acreage controlled by this agency is in Alaska & the western states: BLM the Bureau of Land Management |
| #8073, aired 2019-10-16 | GEOGRAPHICAL NICKNAMES $400: Norway & Alaska, where there's 24 hours of light during summer, share the nickname the "Land of" this Midnight Sun |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | EXPLORERS $400: A sea off Alaska is named for this Danish explorer (Vitus) Bering |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | 5 DAYS IN OCTOBER $400: October 18, this state's day, commemorates the 1867 transfer of territory from Russia to the United States Alaska |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | NOT THE CAPITAL $400: Of Alaska, though it has 9 times the capital's population Anchorage |
| #8066, aired 2019-10-07 | PLACES OF BUSINESS $1,000 (Daily Double): Despite the state found in the name of this airline, its home offices are in Seattle Alaska Airlines |
| #8033, aired 2019-07-10 | STATE MOTTOES $1000: "L'etoile du nord" ("star of the north") Minnesota |
| #8031, aired 2019-07-08 | VISIT A NATIONAL PARK $400: Denali Park & Preserve has 6 million acres of wild land & a 20,000' peak in this state Alaska |
| #8027, aired 2019-07-02 | CORRUPTION ALL AROUND $600: Thanks to Boss Tweed, an 1870s courthouse in this city cost almost twice as much as the U.S. spent to buy Alaska New York City |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | IN & AROUND THE STATE CAPITAL $200: Chill out by Taku Glacier, southeast of downtown Juneau (Alaska) |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | TRANSPORTATION $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1932 a 3-seat Stinson was the entire fleet flying between Bristol Bay & Anchorage for what would be this airline Alaska Airlines |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE $800: Alaska's Brooks Range is the northern part of this mountain system that extends south into New Mexico the Rockies |
| #8003, aired 2019-05-29 | I'M READING YOU $600: "Looking for Alaska" & "Paper Towns" John Green |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | FILL IN THE STATE $800: A tale of doomed love by John Green:
"Looking for ____" Alaska |
| #7971, aired 2019-04-15 | LET'S GO TO THE WILDLIFE REFUGE $400: Oregon's Finley Wildlife Refuge was created for these honking birds that come down from Alaska & Canada every fall Canada geese |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER, WHY? $1200: In the 2000s a bridge in Ketchikan in this state made people ask, "Why?" & was dubbed the "Bridge to Nowhere" Alaska |
| #7942, aired 2019-03-05 | WRITERS ON THE STORM $2000: The first novel by this "Burr" & "Lincoln" author is called "Williwaw", after a windstorm off Alaska (Gore) Vidal |
| #7935, aired 2019-02-22 | THE ARCTIC $100 (Daily Double): Going from Norway to Alaska, this Scandinavian completed the first trip through the Northwest Passage in 1906 Amundsen |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES $200: Term for the edge of western U.S. settlement; Alaska is called "the last" one frontier |
| #7919, aired 2019-01-31 | OFFICIAL STATE FOODS $800: Prized for food & sport, it "reigns" as the official state fish of Alaska king salmon |
| #7918, aired 2019-01-30 | VALLEYS $1600: Lotsa fuming fumaroles populate the Alaska region known as the Valley of Ten Thousand these smokes |
| #7917, aired 2019-01-29 | GOVERNMENT $200: Alaska has boroughs where most states have these local units counties |
| #7911, aired 2019-01-21 | THIS & THAT $400: 9 of the 16 highest peaks in the U.S. are in this state's Wrangell-St. Elias national park Alaska |
| #7898, aired 2019-01-02 | USA $1600: Beginning with 99801, its zip codes are the highest of any state capital's Juneau, Alaska |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | THE GULF BETWEEN THEM $1200: Juneau & Anchorage Gulf of Alaska |
| #7883, aired 2018-12-12 | HODGEPODGE $800: It's the largest U.S. state in area that borders the Pacific Ocean Alaska |
| #7873, aired 2018-11-28 | THE HILLS ARE ALIVE $400: Shh! The hoary marmot of Alaska does this, from Latin for "winter quarters", for up to 9 months each year hibernate |
| #7845, aired 2018-10-19 | STATE LINES $600: Sarah Palin: "It is from ____ that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia" Alaska |
| #7840, aired 2018-10-12 | MOUNTAINS $200: The USA's 10 highest mountain peaks are all found in this state Alaska |
| #7821, aired 2018-09-17 | SHOW BOATS $600: A reality show debuting in 2005:
A bunch of boats operating out of Dutch Harbor, Alaska the Deadliest Catch |
| #7809, aired 2018-07-19 | TRAIL MIX $1000: Take a hike on the John Muir Trail, which starts in Yosemite National Park & ends at this highest U.S. peak not in Alaska Mount Whitney |
| #7771, aired 2018-05-28 | THE STATE SHE GOVERNED $200: Sarah Palin Alaska |
| #7763, aired 2018-05-16 | FER SURE, IT'S THE VALLEY, DUDE $400: The 1912 eruption of Katmai's Mount Novarupta created the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in this state Alaska |
| #7754, aired 2018-05-03 | 10,000 MANIAC $800: Alaska has "The Valley of 10,000 Smokes" & this Southern state has "The 10,000 Islands", mostly mangrove islets Florida |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | U.S. FORESTS $600: Watch your step on the massive Mendenhall one of these in Alaska's Tongass National Forest a glacier |
| #7745, aired 2018-04-20 | EXPLORERS $1600: In 1741 this Dane sailed east from the Kamchatka Peninsula & on July 16 sighted Alaska's St. Elias mountains (Vitus) Bering |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | BUYING ALASKA $200: Of $7 million, $70 million or $700 million, the approximate amount the U.S. paid Russia for Alaska $7 million |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | BUYING ALASKA $400: The purchase was derisively called this man's "Folly", after the Secretary of State who led the effort to buy Alaska (William) Seward |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | BUYING ALASKA $600: One reason Russia sold was fear of not being able to access Alaska after this 1850s war reduced its sea power the Crimean War |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | BUYING ALASKA $800: U.S. canneries established after the sale led to the world's largest industry for this fish salmon |
| #7727, aired 2018-03-27 | BUYING ALASKA $1000: Until 1867, the Russians had controlled the region since this great guy sent Vitus Bering to explore the coast Peter the Great |
| #7692, aired 2018-02-06 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $800: Barbara Mikulski represented Maryland in the Senate; Lisa Murkowski represents this state Alaska |
| #7663, aired 2017-12-27 | TIME FOR SECONDS $1600: Larger than Alaska, the second-largest rainforest is this one, named for the river that runs through it the Congo |
| #7661, aired 2017-12-25 | MOUNTAINS NAMED FOR PEOPLE $200: He was just a candidate for president when William Dickey renamed an Alaska mountain for him McKinley |
| #7656, aired 2017-12-18 | STATE FLAGS $800: Seen here is the designer of what became this state's flag Alaska |
| #7655, aired 2017-12-15 | TREES $800: Alaska's state tree is this alliterative spruce that shares its name with an Alaskan city a Sitka spruce |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | STATELY BODIES OF WATER $800: Prince William Sound is a large inlet of this even larger inlet of the Pacific the Gulf of Alaska |
| #7639, aired 2017-11-23 | I LIKE TO BE IN NUMERICAL ORDER $600: Like these US. states that start with the same letter, Nos. 48 & 49 Arizona and Alaska |
| #7625, aired 2017-11-03 | THANK YOU, SENATOR $1600: We can thank him for being a fierce antislavery sen. from New York starting in 1849 & also, y'know, for getting us Alaska (William) Seward |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | DECADE, PLEASE $200: The 49th state joins the Union the '50s |
| #7596, aired 2017-09-25 | ONE STATE, UNDER CANADA $800: Of states sharing land and water boundaries with Canada, Alaska leads at 1,538 mi.; this contiguous one is next with 721 Michigan |
| #7589, aired 2017-09-14 | THEIR FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL $1200: "Looking for Alaska"
(2005) John Green |
| #7584, aired 2017-07-27 | STATE FLAGS $200: This star is on the flags of both Alaska & Maine the North Star |
| #7577, aired 2017-07-18 | CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRS $1200: Senator Lisa Murkowski of this state has a pipeline to the nation's energy needs & natural resources as well Alaska |
| #7554, aired 2017-06-15 | MINORITY REPORT $2000: Related to the Inuit, they speak a different language & live on an island chain off the Alaska peninsula the Aleuts |
| #7551, aired 2017-06-12 | DISTRICTS $200: This state has the largest Congressional district in area, 571,000 square miles Alaska |
| #7535, aired 2017-05-19 | YOU'RE SUCH A HOMER $400: Homer, Alaska calls itself the "capital of the world" for this fish that also starts with an "H" halibut |
| #7519, aired 2017-04-27 | ALMOST THERE TO THE STATE CAPITAL $5,000 (Daily Double): The 2 capitals with the complete names of months within their names Juneau, Alaska and Augusta, Maine |
| #7518, aired 2017-04-26 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1867 William Seward negotiated its purchase for about 2 cents an acre, totaling a cool $7.2 million Alaska |
| #7490, aired 2017-03-17 | COLUMBIA $2,000 (Daily Double): You can find the 32-mile-long Columbia glacier just west of Valdez in this state Alaska |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | NARROWS $200: There are many fish you can catch near Ketchikan in this state's Tongass Narrows Alaska |
| #7481, aired 2017-03-06 | STATE CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $800: Its self-named icefield, which can be enjoyed via helicopter tour Juneau |
| #7477, aired 2017-02-28 | 1980s BESTSELLERS $800: In this 1988 bestseller, James Michener told the story of the 49th state Alaska |
| #7467, aired 2017-02-14 | A HISTORY LESSON $800: Czar Alexander II signed the 1867 Treaty of Cession that gave this territory to the United States Alaska |
| #7429, aired 2016-12-22 | NICARAGUA $800: This highway system that has one end in Alaska passes through Nicaragua on its way to the tip of Tierra del Fuego the Pan-American Highway |
| #7427, aired 2016-12-20 | SERVING THE STATE $1000: This long-serving Alaska senator survived a 1978 plane crash that killed his wife, but a 2010 crash would prove fatal for him Ted Stevens |
| #7423, aired 2016-12-14 | REPRESENTIN' $800: This state has 1 representative in Congress; it has also sent a grand total of 4 men to fill that seat Alaska |
| #7419, aired 2016-12-08 | THAT'S COLD, MAN $800: It's slang for an isolation cell in prison; Alaska was "Seward's" icebox |
| #7407, aired 2016-11-22 | YOU DO THE GEOGRAPHIC MATH $2000: The number of U.S. states on the Pacific Ocean squared 25 |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | LOOKING FOR ALASKA $400: In 1880 gold was found near this city that would later become Alaska's capital Juneau |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | LOOKING FOR ALASKA $800: E.H. Harriman went on an expedition that discovered a new glacier & a new one of these Norwegian-style inlets a fjord |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | LOOKING FOR ALASKA $1200: The first people came to Alaska some 15,000 years ago across what's called a "land" this a land bridge |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | LOOKING FOR ALASKA $1600: Scientist William Dall charted the coastal features of this 1,100-mile island chain the Aleutians |
| #7400, aired 2016-11-11 | LOOKING FOR ALASKA $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1728 this Dane in Russia's navy made the first of 2 voyages to the North Pacific (Vitus) Bering |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | CITY BY THE SEA $400: Nome, Alaska the Bering Sea |
| #7389, aired 2016-10-27 | OF CAKE $400: This "stately" dessert is sponge cake topped by ice cream & meringue! That's hot! & cold! Baked Alaska |
| #7384, aired 2016-10-20 | SENATE COMMITTEES $2000: The Senate committee on these "Affairs" also includes natives from Hawaii & Alaska Indian Affairs |
| #7376, aired 2016-10-10 | U.S. RIVERS $1200: This river that runs east-west, bisecting Alaska, is known for the Chinook salmon that spawn in its creeks the Yukon River |
| #7364, aired 2016-09-22 | ACQUISITIVE PRESIDENTS $1600: Alaska Andrew Johnson |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | STATE OF THE TV SHOW $600: "Northern Exposure" & "Men in Trees" Alaska |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | AMERICANA $800: Mount Spurr & Mount Shishaldin are these, of which Alaska has more than any other state volcanoes |
| #7315, aired 2016-06-03 | STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES $2,500 (Daily Double): "The Gateway to Glacier Bay National Park" Juneau (Alaska) |
| #7305, aired 2016-05-20 | WOMEN IN CHARGE $400: As mayor, she was in charge of Wasilla, Alaska from 1996 to 2002 Sarah Palin |
| #7289, aired 2016-04-28 | PEOPLE ON THE MAP $1600: This daughter of an Alaska governor is named for the Connecticut city that's home to ESPN Bristol Palin |
| #7281, aired 2016-04-18 | U.S. GOVERNORS $200: This future governor led her high school basketball team to the 1982 Alaska state championship Sarah Palin |
| #7279, aired 2016-04-14 | FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS $2000: Official for just over a year, the flag seen here was adopted after the admission of this state Alaska |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | U.S. STATES $200: The coldest on average Alaska |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | U.S. STATES $400: The northernmost Alaska |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | U.S. STATES $600: The westernmost Alaska |
| #7275, aired 2016-04-08 | U.S. STATES $800: The one with the most coastline Alaska |
| #7269, aired 2016-03-31 | NATIONAL STATUARY HALL $400: John McLoughlin represents this state from which he managed the region between Spanish California & Russian Alaska Oregon |
| #7269, aired 2016-03-31 | HYDROLOGY $1000: In the Americas this hydrological line stretches from Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska down to Southern Patagonia the Continental Divide |
| #7234, aired 2016-02-11 | I'LL NEED A TRANSLATOR $400: This U.S. state's name is from an Aleut word meaning "mainland" Alaska |
| #7221, aired 2016-01-25 | LANGUAGES $400: Aleut is spoken in Alaska & also on this country's Bering Island Russia |
| #7205, aired 2016-01-01 | OFFBEAT MUSEUMS $200: Haines, Alaska's museum of this tool features exhibits on handle making & "5 ways to not hit your fingers" a hammer |
| #7200, aired 2015-12-25 | WHAT HAPPENED WHEN? $1600: This cowboy humorist & Wiley Post were killed on August 15, 1935 when Post's plane crashed in Alaska Will Rogers |
| #7191, aired 2015-12-14 | STATE FIRSTS $200: The first gold discovered in this state was found along the Russian River & Kenai Peninsula around 1849 Alaska |
| #7187, aired 2015-12-08 | TRUCKING $800: Episodes of this History Channel series have taken place on Alaska's Dalton Highway & the frozen lakes of Canada Ice Road Truckers |
| #7169, aired 2015-11-12 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $4,000 (Daily Double): While serving as Secretary of State 1861-69, he tried to annex the Dominican Republic & the Hawaiian Islands Seward |
| #7154, aired 2015-10-22 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: His "Icebox" & his "Folly" were nicknames for the purchase of Alaska (William) Seward |
| #7149, aired 2015-10-15 | SCIENCE & NATURE $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Alaska.) It's summer now, but during their winter sleep, bears don't eat, drink, or urinate; how their kidneys remove toxins from the blood is unknown, but if it could be replicated in humans, it would eliminate the need for this process for patients with kidney failure dialysis |
| #7146, aired 2015-10-12 | WINTER IS COMING $200: The coldest recorded winter temperature in the U.S. was the Jan. 1971 temp of -80 at Prospect Creek Camp in this state Alaska |
| #7145, aired 2015-10-09 | OF REPRESENTATIVES $1200: The states with only one representative are Wyoming, Vermont, the Dakotas, Montana, Delaware & this state Alaska |
| #7135, aired 2015-09-25 | FICTIONAL TV TOWNS $1600: Cicely, Alaska Northern Exposure |
| #7119, aired 2015-07-23 | STATE SEALS $200: The Northern Lights radiate over the top of majestic mountains on its seal Alaska |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | LET'S GO TO THE ISLANDS $800: When you said let's go to the islands, I didn't know you meant the Pribilof Islands in this state or I'd have brought a sweater Alaska |
| #7107, aired 2015-07-07 | A SPEECH TO CONGRESS $400: William Seward's first speech in Congress helped bring this "youthful queen of the Pacific" into the Union in 1850 California |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | MOUNTAINS $800: Because they can see Alaska from their dachas, the Russians call this peak Bolshaya Gora ("great mountain") Denali (or Mount McKinley) |
| #7095, aired 2015-06-19 | U.S. PLACE NAME CHANGES $1600: New Archangel, Alaska's name was "spruced" up in 1867 when it was changed to this Sitka |
| #7092, aired 2015-06-16 | PLANTS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew does some field work in Alaska.) The glistening fluid that gives the carnivorous plant, called the sundew, its name, is there to lure & trap these insects |
| #7088, aired 2015-06-10 | KANSAS $400: Before Alaska & Hawaii were states, this point was near Lebanon in north central Kansas the (geographic) center of the U.S. |
| #7037, aired 2015-03-31 | THE FAULT IN OUR STATES $400: The Denali Fault Alaska |
| #7024, aired 2015-03-12 | PHINEAS & FERBER $800: Edna Ferber's 1958 novel "Ice Palace" was so compelling that it helped this attain statehood the next year Alaska |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | OFFICIAL STATE SYMBOLS $1600: This Alaskan dog beat out the Siberian husky to be Alaska's top dog the Malamute |
| #6992, aired 2015-01-27 | RENTING $200: In Alaska, a failure to pay utility bills can be grounds for this process against a tenant within 5 days eviction |
| #6970, aired 2014-12-26 | THE LAND OF ... $200: "The Midnight Sun":
This state, parts of which get daylight 24/7 in summer Alaska |
| #6948, aired 2014-11-26 | THE LATE 19th CENTURY $2000: In 1898 gold was discovered on Anvil Creek near this future port on Alaska's Seward Peninsula Nome, Alaska |
| #6931, aired 2014-11-03 | THE PSILENT LETTER $1600: The state bird of Alaska, the willow this, has feathers on its feet a ptarmigan |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | ALASKAN PLANT LIFE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a boat in Alaska.) Bull kelp is named for its resemblance to a rope-like bullwhip, and its 120-foot stem or stipe was used by native peoples for any number of purposes, including attaching it to these whaling spears harpoon |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | ALASKAN PLANT LIFE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a riverbank in Alaska.) The most common tree in the forests of southern Alaska is the western hemlock, a tree of this type that's named for its seed-bearing structure & includes the world's tallest & one of the smallest trees coniferous |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | ALASKAN PLANT LIFE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a riverbank in Alaska.) At about 17 million acres, Tongass is the biggest in this system that began in 1891 in part to conserve timber National Forest system |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | ALASKAN PLANT LIFE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a tree in Alaska.) Indians ate its bark & made its roots into hats; today, it's used for lumber, guitars, & gliders; no wonder the state tree, the Sitka type of this, is called the most valuable tree species in Alaska Sitka spruce |
| #6924, aired 2014-10-23 | ALASKAN PLANT LIFE $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a tree in Alaska.) Alders are the only commercial tree west of the Rockies that take part in the fixation of this gas, turning it into nutrients, so where alders grow, other species of plants can often follow nitrogen |
| #6911, aired 2014-10-06 | ARCTIC ANIMALS $2000: The Eskimos of Alaska's North Slope call this beast an oomingmak, or "animal with skin like a beard" the musk ox |
| #6908, aired 2014-10-01 | STATES' HIGH & LOW POINTS $200: High:
20,320 feet in Denali Borough Alaska |
| #6893, aired 2014-07-30 | VACATION! $400: If you want to pitch your tent in a national park, Yosemite has 13 of these areas; Alaska's Gates of the Arctic, 0 campgrounds |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | LET'S GO TO ALASKA $400: With around 300,000 people, it's the state's most populous city Anchorage |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | LET'S GO TO ALASKA $800: Alaska's longest river, it rises in Canada & then winds 1,200 miles cross the state, emptying into Norton Sound the Yukon River |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | LET'S GO TO ALASKA $1200: This "Little" island lies in the Bering Strait less than a mile east of the International Date Line Little Diomede Island |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | LET'S GO TO ALASKA $1,800 (Daily Double): This western peninsula is home to the world's largest maar, or volcanic crater lake the Seward peninsula |
| #6882, aired 2014-07-15 | LET'S GO TO ALASKA $2000: The 1964 earthquake raised parts of this largest Alaskan island by 30 feet Kodiak (Island) |
| #6860, aired 2014-06-13 | BOROUGH IN! $400: This state's North Slope borough covers nearly as much territory as the entire United Kingdom Alaska |
| #6856, aired 2014-06-09 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: Alaska fishing TV show that tries to create popular expressions like "it's not rocket science" Deadliest Catch Phrase |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | ALASKA'S GLACIERS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew comes to us from a boat near Margerie Glacier in Alaska.) The shorelines were completely covered by ice just 200 years ago; today's glaciers in Glacier Bay are remnants of the "LIA", or Little this, which started in the early 14th century the Little Ice Age |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | ALASKA'S GLACIERS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew talks to us from a boat in Glacier Bay, Alaska.) This famous Baltimore medical school sponsored early expeditions to Glacier Bay, which is why there's a glacier and an inlet that share their name with the philanthropist the University is named for. Johns Hopkins |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | ALASKA'S GLACIERS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew comes to us from a boat near Margerie Glacier in Alaska.) Ice fields in glaciers affect climate in various ways; white snow's high albedo means the snow is particularly good at doing this to solar radiation, causing the globe to cool. reflecting |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | ALASKA'S GLACIERS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us some seals from the Margerie Glacier in Alaska.) Wildlife flocks to the Glacier Bay inlet named for this Scottish-born naturalist, founder of the Sierra Club John Muir |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | ALASKA'S GLACIERS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us the ice at Margerie Glacier in Alaska.) Today, glaciers cover 11% of the world's surface; 2.6 million years ago during this epoch, they covered 30%. the Pleistocene |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | I WON THAT STATE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION $800: Alaska in 1996:
This Republican Dole |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | THE MAN OF THE HOUSE $800: This state's only representative in the House is Don Young, who hails from Fort Yukon Alaska |
| #6822, aired 2014-04-22 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $800: Critical habitats for the rare North Pacific right whale have been designated in the Gulf of Alaska & this sea the Bering Sea |
| #6796, aired 2014-03-17 | A BIRD IN THE HAND $2,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Alaska.) The feet of the Harlan's red-tailed hawk are protected from struggling prey because their talons are bone encased in a sheath of this hard protein keratin |
| #6795, aired 2014-03-14 | CLOSE QUARTERS $200: There's a "1959" above the sashimi-loving grizzly on this state's quarter Alaska |
| #6765, aired 2014-01-31 | CANADIAN BODIES OF WATER $400: In Canada, this river passes through Whitehorse & Dawson before flowing into Alaska on its route to the Bering Sea the Yukon |
| #6750, aired 2014-01-10 | THE MOOSE OUT FRONT $600: The largest moose are found in Alaska & the Eastern part of this huge Russian region & next-door neighbor Siberia |
| #6748, aired 2014-01-08 | LOOK! UP IN THE SKY! IT'S... $200: It's this dazzling phenomenon as seen from Alaska the Northern Lights |
| #6744, aired 2014-01-02 | JANUARY HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: January 3 is admission day in this state that celebrates being No. 49 Alaska |
| #6743, aired 2014-01-01 | BOTANY $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Alaska.) Parts of Southeast Alaska receive about 70 inches of precipitation a year, creating a lush, temperate type of this forest that you might expect to find much further south rainforest |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | ENRAPTURED WITH RAPTORS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sitka Raptor Center in Alaska.) The great gray owl has acute hearing due in part to its enormous facial disk that acts like one of these receivers, trapping & concentrating sounds, allowing it to hear prey that's a foot beneath the snow antenna (a satellite accepted) |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | ENRAPTURED WITH RAPTORS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sitka Raptor Center in Alaska.) The bald eagle has made a remarkable recovery from the ravages of this now-banned pesticide, which caused affected birds to lay thin-shelled eggs, producing fewer young DDT |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | SOUND GEOGRAPHY $2000: This 1,980-mile-long river flows across Alaska & enters the Bering Sea via Norton Sound the Yukon |
| #6718, aired 2013-11-27 | ENRAPTURED WITH RAPTORS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sitka Raptor Center in Alaska.) Peregrine falcons are not only fast, they also have great eyesight, which might be why the ancient Egyptians depicted this sky god as having the eye of a peregrine falcon, used as a motif to represent the all-seeing eye Horus |
| #6709, aired 2013-11-14 | CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY $400: The Klondike gold rush of the late 1890s took place in this territory that borders Alaska the Yukon |
| #6705, aired 2013-11-08 | CARTOGRAPHIC ABBREVIATIONS $800: AVO stands for the Alaska Observatory for these vents in the Earth's crust volcanoes |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | AROUND THE USA $1,000 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) As the U.S. expanded its territory westward,
this point moved from the east coast in 1776 to South Dakota in 1959 with the addition of Alaska & Hawaii geographic center |
| #6692, aired 2013-10-22 | TV THROUGH THE YEARS $1000: That's Morty the moose, not star Rob Morrow, in the opening credits of this Alaska-set '90s show Northern Exposure |
| #6686, aired 2013-10-14 | CURRENT EVENTS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Alaska.) Flotsam ranging from small toys
to a 200-foot squid trawler began washing up on Alaska's shores
months after this March 2011 event the Japanese earthquake (or tsunami) |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | THE BEAR ESSENTIALS $1,000 (Daily Double): 3,500 of this subspecies of brown bear live on the Alaska archipelago of the same name the Kodiak |
| #6675, aired 2013-09-27 | THE BEAR ESSENTIALS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Alaska.) Black bears prefer to fish for food while remaining as dry as possible, unlike the brown bear that develops superb fishing skills for this migrating fish, a staple in their diet the salmon |
| #6664, aired 2013-08-01 | THIS & THAT $400: On June 21 Fairbanks in this state celebrates the start of summer with a midnight sun baseball game Alaska |
| #6657, aired 2013-07-23 | THE AMERICAS $200: Mount Fairweather, the tallest in this Canadian province, is also partly in Alaska British Columbia |
| #6656, aired 2013-07-22 | AROUND THE U.S.A. $1200: This town in Alaska says it's "where the spirit of Christmas lives year 'round" North Pole |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | UNOFFICIAL STATE NICKNAMES $800: "The Land of Gold"& "The Eureka State" California |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | WASHINGTON MATH $600: U.S. representatives for Delaware
times U.S. representatives for Alaska one (1 times 1) |
| #6626, aired 2013-06-10 | STATE OF the ONION $400: "Herds of elk and grizzly are permitted to wantonly trample across the commodity-rich landscape" Alaska |
| #6623, aired 2013-06-05 | WORDS IN STATES $400: If you're curious in Kodiak, just do this ask (in Alaska) |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | ALASKAN AQUATIC LIFE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a stream in Alaska.) As pink salmon near their spawning grounds, males develop hooked jaws & dorsal lumps that make them look more imposing to other males, which accounts for this whale-like nickname humpbacks |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | ALASKAN AQUATIC LIFE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a sea star while scuba diving in Alaska.) Pacific sea stars lack developed eyes, but at the tip of each arm are eyespots that help distinguish light from dark with the help of these light-focusing structures found in human eyes lenses |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | ALASKAN AQUATIC LIFE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew scuba dives with an octopus in Alaska.) The giant Pacific octopus has a 24-foot armspan & two horn-like papillae above each eye, which some say give it this satanic fish nickname devilfish |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | ALASKAN AQUATIC LIFE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us anemone shrimp underwater in Alaska.) Stinging tentacles don't bother the anemone shrimp because the shrimp has spent hours letting his host get accustomed to him so they can have the mutualistic this type of relationship, from the Greek for life symbiotic |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | ALASKAN AQUATIC LIFE $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows us a jellyfish swimming in Alaska.) Arctic Lion's Mane Jellyfish can be 120 feet long, impressive due to the fact they only live for about a year, most of its time in the fully developed stage named for this serpent headed Greek woman Medusa |
| #6606, aired 2013-05-13 | TALES OF HIGH ADVENTURE $600: "Kavik" is the story of an animal in the wilds of Alaska that is half dog, half this wolf |
| #6602, aired 2013-05-07 | U.S. VOLCANOES $800: Mount Makushin on Unalaska Island in this chain is one of Alaska's most active volcanoes the Aleutian Islands |
| #6602, aired 2013-05-07 | U.S. VOLCANOES $2000: As in 2009, Alaska's Mount Redoubt is capable of disrupting ANC, this transport facility 100 miles away the Anchorage airport |
| #6590, aired 2013-04-19 | TED TALKS $800: This late U.S. senator from Alaska often talked about his love of flying Ted Stevens |
| #6580, aired 2013-04-05 | THE "WILD" & "CRAZY" $1600: "Long Nights" is an Eddie Vedder song in this Sean Penn film about a young man trying to find himself in Alaska Into the Wild |
| #6574, aired 2013-03-28 | STATES THAT BORDER CANADA $200: At 1,538 miles, it has the longest border with Canada of any U.S. state Alaska |
| #6567, aired 2013-03-19 | AROUND THE ARCTIC CIRCLE $1600: Arctic territory under the red, white & blue includes this northernmost "Point" of Alaska & the United States Point Barrow |
| #6562, aired 2013-03-12 | ON THE GEOGRAPHIC MENU $400: A heated yet frozen dessert bearing the name of a big 1867 land purchase by the United States Baked Alaska |
| #6560, aired 2013-03-08 | WORDS WITH A DOUBLE L $800: A geographical feature, such as the one "of Ten Thousand Smokes" in a volcanic area of Alaska valley |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | ALASKAN WILDLIFE $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew observes a bear at Pavlof Harbor in Alaska.) Despite their name, brown bears can have black or brown fur, & the brown bear here has a conspicuous shoulder hump & silver-tinted fur, which gives it this name, meaning "gray," not "gruesome" grizzly |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | ALASKAN WILDLIFE $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a crab at Lake Eva in Alaska.) In Alaska, only male Dungeness crabs are legal to catch; you know a male because of the triangular shape of this, the third major part of a crab's body, along with head & thorax the abdomen |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | ALASKAN WILDLIFE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Glacier Bay in Alaska.) The straw-colored plumes that curve backwards from behind the eyes are part of the breeding ornamentation of the tufted variety of this auk family member a puffin |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | ALASKAN WILDLIFE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Glacier Bay in Alaska.) With dense populations in coastal habitats, the murre is vulnerable to oil spoils; an estimated 185,000 murres were lost when this tanker spilled off Alaska in 1989 the Exxon Valdez |
| #6558, aired 2013-03-06 | ALASKAN WILDLIFE $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew goes whale watching at Wachusett Cove in Alaska.) Humpbacks uniquely hunt using what's called a bubble net; the whales release a circle of bubbles under a school of fish, & as the air rises, a net forms, trapping the fish; the whales then swim up the net with open mouths, filtering food through these jawlike plates baleen |
| #6557, aired 2013-03-05 | NEEDFUL THINGS $400: On June 27, 1915 residents of this state needed sunscreen when it saw 100° temps; July usually tops out at 59°, inland Alaska |
| #6546, aired 2013-02-18 | MICRO $400: Ironically, the FBI's smallest field office, located in this state, covers the most territory of any office in the bureau Alaska |
| #6543, aired 2013-02-13 | PRESIDENTIAL ACQUISITIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): The Alaska Purchase Andrew Johnson |
| #6537, aired 2013-02-05 | BEFORE FINALS $400: It was the next-to-last state to join the Union Alaska |
| #6530, aired 2013-01-25 | small state capitals $800: Though small in population, it has an area of 3,248 square miles, part covered by an ice cap Juneau (Alaska) |
| #6509, aired 2012-12-27 | ANAGRAMMED AMERICA $200: The city of Arcane Hog, Alaska Anchorage |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | STATE THE NATIONAL PARK $400: Denali Alaska |
| #6474, aired 2012-11-08 | WHERE'S THAT? $800: Mount McKinley:
The national park Denali |
| #6473, aired 2012-11-07 | "NEA" $1600: This state capital is on the Gastineau Channel Juneau (Alaska) |
| #6468, aired 2012-10-31 | COMPLETES THE LICENSE PLATE $600: Alaska: "The Last ___" Frontier |
| #6435, aired 2012-08-03 | THE 21st CENTURY $800: In 2006 she became Alaska's first female governor Sarah Palin |
| #6432, aired 2012-07-31 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In March 1964 this largest Alaska city was struck by a 9.2 magnitude earthquake Anchorage |
| #6418, aired 2012-07-11 | THE 50 STATES $400: It became the 49th state January 3, 1959 Alaska |
| #6403, aired 2012-06-20 | UNOFFICIAL STATE NICKNAMES $400: "The Highest State" Colorado |
| #6402, aired 2012-06-19 | AMERICAN YEARBOOK $500 (Daily Double): In 1867 it cost the U.S. about 2 cents an acre to buy this Alaska |
| #6398, aired 2012-06-13 | THE NEXT STATE CAPITAL ALPHABETICALLY $1000: After
Jefferson City Juneau, Alaska |
| #6386, aired 2012-05-28 | TALK LIKE A SAILOR $1200: A city in Alaska, or a location where a ship can be moored anchorage |
| #6380, aired 2012-05-18 | COLD, HILLY & EMPTY $1200: On Feb. 3, 1947 a village in this territory bordering Alaska recorded -81.4 F., an all-time low for Canada the Yukon Territory |
| #6337, aired 2012-03-20 | THE 50 STATES $400: Appropriately, it has a huge state marine mammal: the bowhead whale Alaska |
| #6335, aired 2012-03-16 | IN THE STATE CAPITAL $400: The Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center Juneau (Alaska) |
| #6315, aired 2012-02-17 | I BEFORE E, AFTER C $400: It precedes "Bay" in a national park in Alaska & "National Park" in a national park in Montana Glacier |
| #6308, aired 2012-02-08 | THE 21st CENTURY $800: In 2010 Alaska's Lisa Murkowski became the first candidate since 1954 to win a Senate seat this way through a write-in campaign |
| #6296, aired 2012-01-23 | THE ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a ship's bridge.) Norway has continuous daylight from mid-May to July, giving it this 5-word nickname it shares with Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun |
| #6274, aired 2011-12-22 | TRY STATE AREA $400: 663,267 total square miles, a little bigger than Iran Alaska |
| #6268, aired 2011-12-14 | "C" IN SCIENCE $400: The sandhill type of this tall wading bird breeds from Alaska to Hudson Bay crane |
| #6252, aired 2011-11-22 | WHERE YA FROM? $200: Though she became governor of Alaska, she was actually born in Sandpoint, Idaho Sarah Palin |
| #6226, aired 2011-10-17 | YOU'VE GOT THE WRITE STUFF, JAMES $400: You wrote the novels "Hawaii" & "Alaska"; too bad you never got around to "Rhode Island" (James) Michener |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | NORTH TO ALASKA $400: Fairbanks hosts one of the world's biggest competitions in sculpting this material ice |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | NORTH TO ALASKA $800: Like Tallahassee, Florida, Alaska's capital of Juneau is located in a strip of land called this a panhandle |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | NORTH TO ALASKA $1200: This city on an island now better known for a type of grizzly bear was the capital of Russian Alaska Kodiak |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | NORTH TO ALASKA $1600: "Alaska" means "mainland" in the language of these natives who gave their name to a long Alaskan island chain the Aleuts (the Aleutians accepted) |
| #6218, aired 2011-10-05 | NORTH TO ALASKA $2000: Alaska's major river system, it flows in from that big Canadian territory next door the Yukon |
| #6204, aired 2011-07-28 | FLAMING FOODS $800: This dessert, cake & ice cream browned in the oven, can be flambeed for a dramatic presentation Baked Alaska |
| #6185, aired 2011-07-01 | EXPLORERS $1600: Strait up, this Danish explorer is credited with discovering Alaska in 1741 Bering |
| #6173, aired 2011-06-15 | EXPLORATION $2000: Vitus Bering made the European discovery of St. Lawrence Island & these islands, one "Big" & one "Little" Diomede |
| #6170, aired 2011-06-10 | A THOUSAND $1200: A volcanic region within Alaska's Katmai National Park is designated "The Valley of Ten Thousand" these Smokes |
| #6163, aired 2011-06-01 | STATE SLOGANS $200: "Land of the Midnight Sun" Alaska |
| #6155, aired 2011-05-20 | THE STATE SHE GOVERNED $200: Sarah Palin, 2006 to 2009 Alaska |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: Nome, Alaska lies on this peninsula named for a 19th century Secretary of State the Seward peninsula |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1000: Seward's Day, the last Monday in March, is one of this state's holidays Alaska |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: Instead of counties, this state has boroughs (or is it brrr-oughs?) Alaska |
| #6116, aired 2011-03-28 | THE U.S. BOARD ON GEOGRAPHIC NAMES $800: The USBGN has been in the middle as Alaska's lawmakers have fought with Ohio's over the name of this mountain (Mt.) McKinley |
| #6112, aired 2011-03-22 | COUNTDOWN $1000: The states:
49. Alaska
48. Arizona
47. This New Mexico |
| #6104, aired 2011-03-10 | DESSERT ITEMS $400: Baked Alaska is sponge cake topped with a slab of ice cream, all of which is blanketed by this froth & then browned meringue |
| #6101, aired 2011-03-07 | STATELY FLOWERS $1200: I'm having a hard time remembering this state flower of Alaska seen here--are you? a forget-me-not |
| #6091, aired 2011-02-21 | STATES' FIRST NEWSPAPERS $1,000 (Daily Double): Sitka Times
(1868) Alaska |
| #6078, aired 2011-02-02 | FORBES STATES' RICHEST COMPANIES $400: Alaska's richest company, Arctic Slope Regional, trades in this, also the name of a U.S. Cabinet department energy |
| #6074, aired 2011-01-27 | FICTIONAL TV CITIES $200: Cicely, Alaska Northern Exposure |
| #6067, aired 2011-01-18 | THE BEAR FACTS $2000: The black bear comes in many colors, including one with a bluish tint that lives in this state's St. Elias
Range Alaska |
| #6059, aired 2011-01-06 | STATE QUARTERS $600: A grizzly bear emerging from the water with a salmon in its jaws & the motto "The Great Land" Alaska |
| #6049, aired 2010-12-23 | U.S. BAYS $2,000 (Daily Double): Alaska's Resurrection Bay was named by Alexander Baranof, who first sailed into it on this holiday Easter |
| #6042, aired 2010-12-14 | LANGUAGES $200: Yupik is a native language spoken by about 15,000 in Siberia & the western part of this state Alaska |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | AFTER ALASKA... $200: The largest state in area Texas |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | AFTER ALASKA... $400: The next state, alphabetically Arizona |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | AFTER ALASKA... $600: 1 of 3 states with a smaller population Wyoming (or Vermont or North Dakota) |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | AFTER ALASKA... $1,000 (Daily Double): The state with the highest mountain California |
| #6033, aired 2010-12-01 | AFTER ALASKA... $1000: The state with the longest coastline Florida |
| #6018, aired 2010-11-10 | FAR OUT FACTS $200: Barrow is the northernmost city in this state & thus the United States Alaska |
| #5999, aired 2010-10-14 | OHIOANS $3,000 (Daily Double): This Ohioan was Teddy Roosevelt's veep & lent his name to a city in Alaska Fairbanks |
| #5991, aired 2010-10-04 | MOUNTAINS IN RANGE $400: The Brooks range in Alaska is sometimes included as part of this range the Rockies |
| #5975, aired 2010-07-30 | STATE MOTTOES $1000: Alaska has this 4-word motto "North to the Future" |
| #5968, aired 2010-07-21 | GET SOME CULTURE $800: The Thule culture, the immediate antecedent to this contemporary culture, spread from Alaska to Greenland Inuit (or Eskimo) |
| #5962, aired 2010-07-13 | BLOOM COUNTY $3,000 (Daily Double): Whether in Nome or Bethel, you'll always remember this hyphenated plant as Alaska's state flower the forget-me-not |
| #5956, aired 2010-07-05 | U.S. STATES $400: America's largest national park, Wrangell-St. Elias, covers more than 8 million acres in this large state Alaska |
| #5940, aired 2010-06-11 | "LAST" CHANCE $1000: It's Alaska's nickname "The Last Frontier" |
| #5926, aired 2010-05-24 | GAP $600: Alaska's Little Diomede Island is a scant 2 1/2 miles away from this country Russia |
| #5912, aired 2010-05-04 | POTPOURRI $800: In the 1960s flight attendants from this U.S. airline wore Gay '90s & Russian Cossack costumes Alaska Airlines |
| #5904, aired 2010-04-22 | BEFORE & AFTER $2000: A nickname for Alaska & Sweden about perpetual daylight becomes the father of modern China the Land of the Midnight Sun Yat-sen |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | THE 1920s $200: Sled-dog teams that delivered serum during a 1925 diphtheria epidemic saved the town of Nome in this state Alaska |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | ENGINEERING $1600: Fearing Japanese invasion, in 1942 the Army Corps of Engineers built a 1,600-mile highway in this territory in 6 months Alaska |
| #5891, aired 2010-04-05 | ENGINEERING $2000: In 1865 the world's first oil pipeline was constructed in this state & ran a straight course of about 5 miles Pennsylvania |
| #5890, aired 2010-04-02 | STAMP IT OUT $400: A 2009 stamp honoring the 50th anniversary of its statehood featured a dogsledder Alaska |
| #5875, aired 2010-03-12 | CALIFORNIA $2000: This 10,400-foot peak in Shasta County is one of the few active volcanoes in the U.S. outside of Alaska Lassen Peak |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | U.S. STATES' LARGEST ISLANDS $600: Kodiak Island Alaska |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | ALASKA $200: About half of Alaska's 600,000 residents live within this city's metropolitan area Anchorage |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | SEWARD'S FOLLIES $200: In 1867 William Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska from this nation for $7.2 million Russia |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | ALASKA $400: They're the Canadian province & the Canadian territory that border Alaska British Columbia & the Yukon Territory |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | ALASKA $600: This archipelago of more than 300 islands stretches 1,200 miles from Alaska towards the Kamchatka Peninsula the Aleutians |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | ALASKA $800: More than half of all fish consumed in the U.S. are caught in this sea between Siberia & Alaska the Bering Sea |
| #5857, aired 2010-02-16 | ALASKA $1000: Northeast Alaska is dominated by ANWR, short for the Arctic this, which covers 19 million acres the National Wildlife Refuge |
| #5846, aired 2010-02-01 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: On Oct. 18, 1867 General Lovell Rousseau formally received this territory purchased 7 months earlier the Alaska Territory |
| #5840, aired 2010-01-22 | THE WORLD ALMANAC AND BOOK OF FACTS $1600: This state is big, it's fiercely independent & it has the highest percentage of people without health insurance Texas |
| #5829, aired 2010-01-07 | THE STATE OF THE STATE $400: Confused--in Nov. 2008 this state was unsure who got elected as its new senator, Mark Begich or Ted Stevens Alaska |
| #5794, aired 2009-11-19 | STATE CAPITAL SIGHTSEEING $400: The Macaulay Salmon Hatchery & the Alaska State Museum Juneau |
| #5790, aired 2009-11-13 | ON THE U.S. MAP $200: This state's Near Islands are the westernmost of the Aleutians Alaska |
| #5785, aired 2009-11-06 | GET MOVING $1200: The Tesoro Irondog Race in Alaska uses this type of vehicle a snowmobile |
| #5784, aired 2009-11-05 | STATES WITHOUT CONSONANTS $800: AAAA Alabama |
| #5770, aired 2009-10-16 | OFFICIAL STATE THINGS $800: It's the state animal of Maine & the state land mammal of Alaska moose |
| #5764, aired 2009-10-08 | WHAT'S THE POINT? $3,600 (Daily Double): The USA's northernmost point, it was named for the founder of the Royal Geographic Society Point Barrow (Alaska) |
| #5747, aired 2009-09-15 | MOOSE ON THE LOOSE $400: Weighing up to 1,500 pounds, the largest species of moose is native to this U.S. state Alaska |
| #5742, aired 2009-07-21 | A ROUND OF GULF $1,600 (Daily Double): In 1989 over 11 million gallons of oil spilled into this sound in the Gulf of Alaska Prince William Sound |
| #5736, aired 2009-07-13 | THE STATE IT'S IN $800: The Koyukuk Valley,
Gates of the Arctic National Park Alaska |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | ZIP IT! $400: To 99501, to send it to this largest Alaska city Anchorage |
| #5732, aired 2009-07-07 | CHICKEN SOUP $1200: There are no water or electric utilities in the town of Chicken in this state, but mail comes by plane twice a week Alaska |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | NEW CONGRESSMEN & GOVERNORS $400: New senator Mark Begich of this state replaced Ted Stevens Alaska |
| #5724, aired 2009-06-25 | HEAD SOUTH FROM $400: ...some parts of this country, & you'll be in Canada the United States |
| #5718, aired 2009-06-17 | THE RAVEN $400: One study in this "Last Frontier" state showed that ravens have more than 30 distinct vocalizations Alaska |
| #5708, aired 2009-06-03 | ON BOARD GAME BOARDS $400: Areas called
Greenland,
Western Europe,
Alaska Risk |
| #5703, aired 2009-05-27 | STATES' GEOGRAPHIC CENTERS $400: Approximately 60 miles northwest of Mount McKinley Alaska |
| #5698, aired 2009-05-20 | ROAD TEST $400: Traverse the Seward Highway in this state & you'll find some of the best fishing in America Alaska |
| #5693, aired 2009-05-13 | WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $1200: At 42, she became Alaska's youngest governor; recently, at 44, she became a grandmother Sarah Palin |
| #5691, aired 2009-05-11 | HODGEPODGE $1000: More than 1,000 islands make up the Alexander Archipelago in this U.S. state Alaska |
| #5667, aired 2009-04-07 | NUMBER PLEASE $200: Number of representatives from Alaska in the U.S. house one |
| #5644, aired 2009-03-05 | I'M IN SUCH A STATE! $200: I'm darn proud knowin' no other part of North America is closer to Asia than this state, you betcha! Alaska |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | POISONING $600: When this randy U.S. president died suddenly in Frisco after a trip to Alaska, rumors swirled his wife had poisoned him Warren G. Harding |
| #5635, aired 2009-02-20 | ENGINEERING $1200: On August 1, 1977 the Arco Juneau became the first tanker to carry crude delivered by this 48-inch diameter system the Alaska Pipeline |
| #5616, aired 2009-01-26 | HISTORIC AMERICA $400: A fine collection of Haida & Tlingit totem poles was toted to Sitka National Historic Park in this state Alaska |
| #5610, aired 2009-01-16 | DEATH BY... $400: By plane crash,
near Point Barrow, Alaska,
August 15, 1935 Wiley Post (or Will Rogers) |
| #5603, aired 2009-01-07 | WHO LIVES WHERE $800: Calling residents of Nome, Alaska Nomers is a misnomer; this is the correct word Nomeites |
| #5600, aired 2009-01-02 | NAME THE MOVIE SPORT $1600: "Mystery, Alaska" hockey |
| #5589, aired 2008-12-18 | "IN" THE MOVIES $1200: Emile Hirsch plays a college grad who journeys to Alaska (with dire consequences) in this 2007 film Into the Wild |
| #5583, aired 2008-12-10 | OTHER FAULT LINES $800: Alaska & this state have more earthquakes than any other state California |
| #5581, aired 2008-12-08 | RED STATES $800: If you're visiting Glacier National Park in this state, be sure to check out Red Mountain & Red Eagle Mountain Montana |
| #5570, aired 2008-11-21 | U.S. BUILDINGS $400: The Alaska Building was the first modern skyscraper in this city in Washington, not Alaska Seattle |
| #5562, aired 2008-11-11 | STATE THE LANDMARK $400: The Mendenhall Glacier,
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Alaska |
| #5547, aired 2008-10-21 | "M": A NATION $1600: It's slightly larger than Alaska; Siberia borders it to the north Mongolia |
| #5535, aired 2008-10-03 | YOU JUST HAVE TO "ASK" $800: The 2 U.S. states that fit the category Alaska & Nebraska |
| #5521, aired 2008-09-15 | AMERICAN LIT $800: Edna Ferber set most of her novel "Giant" in this giant state Texas |
| #5518, aired 2008-09-10 | WHALES $600: In the U.S., whaling is legal only for the native population in 9 coastal villages in this state Alaska |
| #5513, aired 2008-07-23 | EXCEPT AFTER SEA $400: This sea named for an explorer is the northern part of the Pacific between Siberia & Alaska the Bering Sea |
| #5508, aired 2008-07-16 | A "FAIR" DEAL $400: City of 30,000 on Alaska's Chena River Fairbanks |
| #5507, aired 2008-07-15 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $6,000 (Daily Double): Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones & Javier Bardem go to Alaska to get love advice from Anne Heche in this movie-TV hybrid No Country for Old Men in Trees |
| #5506, aired 2008-07-14 | HAVE YOU DRIVEN A FJORD LATELY? $600: Kenai Fjords, which became a national park in 1980, lies in the south-central part of this U.S. state Alaska |
| #5503, aired 2008-07-09 | BOOKS FOR THE TRAVELER $1,000 (Daily Double): If you've just bought the book "Discovering Denali", you must be planning a trip to this state Alaska |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | ALASKA $400: One of the 2 astronomical images found on Alaska's official license plate the Big Dipper (or the North Star) |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | ALASKA $800: An extreme snowboarding competition held at Valdez, Alaska, or a Fox show featuring Hank & Bobby King of the Hill |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | ALASKA $1200: The U.S. used a 48-star flag for 47 years until Alaska gained statehood in this year 1959 |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | ALASKA $1600: The only 2 "national" regions of this type in Alaska are Chugach & Tongass forests |
| #5481, aired 2008-06-09 | ALASKA $2000: The largest oil reserves in the U.S. were found in 1968 near this bay on the Arctic coast Prudhoe Bay |
| #5472, aired 2008-05-27 | GEOLOGY $1600: Alaska's Malaspina is an example of the piedmont type of this, where ice spreads out over a large terrain a glacier |
| #5468, aired 2008-05-21 | CITY LITTER $3,000 (Daily Double): After participating in the Alaska gold rush, he returned to San Francisco & wrote "The Son of the Wolf" in 1900 Jack London |
| #5462, aired 2008-05-13 | PENINSULAS $200: The Cleveland Peninsula is about 40 miles northwest of Ketchikan in this state Alaska |
| #5447, aired 2008-04-22 | BACK IN '68 $1600: In 1968 work began on this project that stretched from the North Slope by Prudhoe Bay to the Port of Valdez the Alaska Pipeline |
| #5442, aired 2008-04-15 | ICE CREAM $1000: This meringue-covered dish is put in the oven briefly to brown the meringue Baked Alaska |
| #5439, aired 2008-04-10 | MOVIE "NIGHT" $800: Vampires appear when the sun sets for a month in Alaska in this 2007 film based on a graphic novel 30 Days of Night |
| #5432, aired 2008-04-01 | COLD $600: The coldest annual mean temp over 30 years in the U.S. was 9.3° F. in this state's town of Barrow Alaska |
| #5431, aired 2008-03-31 | TOUGH BODIES OF WATER $800: Bristol Bay is an arm of this sea off Alaska the Bering |
| #5412, aired 2008-03-04 | JACK LONDON $1600: In "The Call of the Wild", a dog with this name is stolen & forced to be a working dog in Alaska Buck |
| #5408, aired 2008-02-27 | ARCTIC ANIMALS $1600: Alaska pipelines were constructed so as to allow this arctic deer unimpeded passage to feeding grounds caribou |
| #5405, aired 2008-02-22 | SOUTH PARK $400: National parks in the south of this state include Sitka and Glacier Bay Alaska |
| #5393, aired 2008-02-06 | LET'S SEE WHAT'S OVER THERE $400: While commanding an expedition in this territory, William Dall learned that Russia had sold it to the U.S. Alaska |
| #5390, aired 2008-02-01 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $1200: The bowhead type of this takes a bow as Alaska's state marine mammal a whale |
| #5376, aired 2008-01-14 | SPECIAL "K"s $800: This Muppet-named son of Teddy Roosevelt is buried in Alaska, where he was posted during WWII Kermit |
| #5369, aired 2008-01-03 | NATURE STUDY $800: The northern fur species of this migrates from its breeding grounds in Alaska's Pribilof Islands to California a seal |
| #5367, aired 2008-01-01 | LET'S GO CRUISING $1200: 19 tours to Alaska are offered by this cruise line named for a body of water much farther south Royal Caribbean |
| #5345, aired 2007-11-30 | STATES OF THE UNION $200: Part of this big state crosses the 180th meridian of longitude Alaska |
| #5337, aired 2007-11-20 | GREEN $600: This international environmental group was formed in 1971 to oppose the U.S. testing nuclear devices in Alaska Greenpeace |
| #5324, aired 2007-11-01 | STATE YOUR NAME $1,200 (Daily Double): A chef at Delmonico's in New York named this dessert in honor of a big purchase the U.S. made from Russia Baked Alaska |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | UNOFFICIAL STATE NICKNAMES $200: "Seward's ice box" Alaska |
| #5306, aired 2007-10-08 | YOU JUST MADE THE "A" LIST $200: You are so cool, pristine & full of energy, you're like this biggest U.S. state Alaska |
| #5301, aired 2007-10-01 | MAY THE FOREST BE WITH YOU $400: At almost 17 million acres, the Tongass National Forest in this state is the largest in the U.S. Alaska |
| #5299, aired 2007-09-27 | ARCHIPELAGOS $200: Sitka is the largest city in this state's Alexander Archipelago Alaska |
| #5291, aired 2007-09-17 | THE ARCTIC OCEAN $400: The shortest way to sail to the Arctic Ocean from Nome, Alaska is to go north through this strait the Bering Strait |
| #5276, aired 2007-07-16 | AIN'T THAT AMERICA $1200: This state's Little Diomede is about 2 1/2 miles from Russia's Big Diomede Island Alaska |
| #5275, aired 2007-07-13 | CHECK YOUR OIL $1600: The largest known oil field in the U.S. is at Prudhoe Bay in this state Alaska |
| #5268, aired 2007-07-04 | TV CHARACTERS $200: (Hi. I'm Rob Morrow.) As Joel Fleischman, I found myself the only doctor among the weirdos of Cicely, Alaska on this series Northern Exposure |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC DISTINCTIONS $800: Despite Minnesota's claim as the Land of 10,000 Lakes, this U.S. state has the most, with more than 3 million Alaska |
| #5267, aired 2007-07-03 | U.S. GEOGRAPHIC DISTINCTIONS $1600: The heart of an ancient volcano, Crater Lake in this West Coast state is the USA's deepest at about 1,932 feet Oregon |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | STATE SUPERLATIVES $400: With 6,640 miles of coast, this state has the longest shoreline Alaska |
| #5243, aired 2007-05-30 | STATE SUPERLATIVES $600: It pumps more than one million barrels of oil a day, more than any other state Texas |
| #5227, aired 2007-05-08 | HISTORICAL OUTGOING MESSAGES $1600: Hello, if you're calling to say Alaska's my "Folly", I'm still getting Russia to sell it, so leave a message (William) Seward |
| #5220, aired 2007-04-27 | IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STATE $4,000 (Daily Double): "Ask" me about these 2 states (I love them) Alaska and Nebraska |
| #5216, aired 2007-04-23 | THE ROARING '20s $1000: In 1925 Americans held their breath as sled dog teams raced 674 miles to this Alaskan city to deliver diphtheria serum Nome |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | AMERICAN WORLD CAPITALS $800: Fresh or canned, Ketchikan, Alaska is known as this "capital of the world" salmon |
| #5204, aired 2007-04-05 | MIGRATION $200: The longest migration by this marine animal is the gray type's journey between Alaska & Mexico whale |
| #5201, aired 2007-04-02 | THE NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES $600: August 17, 1935:
"Will Rogers" & this aviator "Die in Airplane Crash in Alaska; Nation Shocked by Tragedy" (Wiley) Post |
| #5193, aired 2007-03-21 | AIRLINES $600: It's the airline whose familiar logo is seen here Alaska Airlines |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | ALASKA $200: Juneau is the capital & this city is the most populous Anchorage |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | ALASKA $600: Of Canada's 13 provinces & territories, one of the 2 that border Alaska the Yukon |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | ALASKA $800 (Daily Double): Alaska's state motto is "North to" this the Future |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | ALASKA $800: Alaska's Malaspina one of these ice formations, covers an area larger than Rhode Island a glacier |
| #5172, aired 2007-02-20 | ALASKA $1000: This spot on the Arctic Ocean is the northernmost "point" of Alaska Point Barrow |
| #5165, aired 2007-02-09 | STATES OF THE UNION $3,300 (Daily Double): 13-year-old Benny Benson's winning design for this state's flag included the Big Dipper Alaska |
| #5163, aired 2007-02-07 | ISLANDS $800: Kiska & Unalaska are islands in this chain that stretches 1,200 miles from Alaska almost to Russia the Aleutians |
| #5154, aired 2007-01-25 | OFFICIAL STATE SEALS $1,000 (Daily Double): Many states include animals on their seals, but this is the only one depicting a real seal Alaska |
| #5149, aired 2007-01-18 | STATE SONG LYRICS $400: "The 'Bear'--The 'Dipper'--and, shining high, the Great North Star with its steady light" Alaska |
| #5129, aired 2006-12-21 | U.S. CITY HISTORY $800: During WWII, this city was the headquarters of the Alaska Defense Command Anchorage |
| #5128, aired 2006-12-20 | THE CONGRESSIONAL FAMILY NAME $1600: Alaska's Sen. Lisa took over for her dad, Frank Murkowski |
| #5127, aired 2006-12-19 | GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN $200: This major mountain range of the United States also runs through Canada between Montana & Alaska the Rockies |
| #5113, aired 2006-11-29 | AIRPORT CODES $1,000 (Daily Double): It's named for Sen. Ted Stevens:
ANC Anchorage |
| #5104, aired 2006-11-16 | WHAT A STATE I'M IN $400: I feel so cool in this state that contains the northernmost point, on the Arctic Ocean Alaska |
| #5099, aired 2006-11-09 | NOVELS $1600: In this Jack London novel, a dog named Buck is stolen from the Miller family & reduced to mush dog in Alaska The Call of the Wild |
| #5096, aired 2006-11-06 | THE U.S. SENATE: AFTER HOURS $600: Seen here at the 11th Annual Kenai River Classic, Lisa Murkowski of this state shows off her 63-pound king salmon catch Alaska |
| #5094, aired 2006-11-02 | I'VE TRAVELED EACH & EVERY HIGHWAY $1600: The 42 bridges of the Overseas Highway link many of this state's islands to the mainland Florida |
| #5071, aired 2006-10-02 | NUMBER, PLEASE $600: Of 80, 800 or 1800, the approximate length in miles of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline 800 |
| #5061, aired 2006-09-18 | OFFICIAL STATE STUFF $200: Its official state sport is dog mushing Alaska |
| #5056, aired 2006-09-11 | STATE INSECTS $800: Alaska's state insect is the "four spot skimmer" this, so keep it away from St. George a dragonfly |
| #5051, aired 2006-07-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Americans began to occupy this even before we could send Russia the $7.2 million we paid for it Alaska |
| #5047, aired 2006-07-18 | EARTHQUAKES $5,000 (Daily Double): The USA's most powerful quake occurred in 1964 in Alaska on this Christian holiday also associated with a quake Good Friday |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NOME $400: Read all about it! The Nome Nugget, founded in 1900, is Nome's & Alaska's oldest one of these a newspaper |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NOME $800: "The Golden Beaches of Nome" is a chapter title in the novel "Alaska" by this author James Michener |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | AMERICAN TOWNS & CITIES $1,000 (Daily Double): This state capital lies on a narrow strip of land between the Gastineau Channel & the slopes of 2 mountains Juneau, Alaska |
| #5039, aired 2006-07-06 | THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE NOME $1,200 (Daily Double): Nome is situated on the south shore of a wide peninsula bearing the name of this cabinet member Seward |
| #5015, aired 2006-06-02 | FILL IN THE BLANK $400: Half _____ Alaska baked |
| #5013, aired 2006-05-31 | THE SEA OTTER $600: There are about 2,500 Southern sea otters off the California coast & 50,000 Northern sea otters off this state Alaska |
| #4993, aired 2006-05-03 | AMERICAN PLACES $800: The Golden North Salmon Derby is one of the annual events celebrated in this state capital Juneau (Alaska) |
| #4989, aired 2006-04-27 | YOU MOVE, TO FAST $400: Move to Yakutat Bay in this state if you want to fast before hunting, like the Lingit Indians once did Alaska |
| #4986, aired 2006-04-24 | BIG FISH $800: Just for the heck of it, identify this flatfish, one of which weighed in at 459 lbs. off Alaska in 1996 a halibut |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | STATE OF DISASTER $800: This U.S. mainland state has more active volcanoes than all other states combined; it's also the most earthquake prone Alaska |
| #4967, aired 2006-03-28 | RELIGION IN CORPORATIONS $600: This Seattle-based airline puts prayer cards on the food trays Alaska Airlines |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | BODIES OF WATER $1600: The Yukon River flows northwest into Alaska before emptying into this sea the Bering Sea |
| #4937, aired 2006-02-14 | AROUND THE USA $800: The Ten Thousand Islands are off Florida; the Valley of the Ten Thousand Smokes is in this state Alaska |
| #4932, aired 2006-02-07 | HISTORY $800: In 1989 the Exxon Valdez tanker spilled 260,000 barrels of crude off this state; oops Alaska |
| #4900, aired 2005-12-23 | YOU GET AN "F" $800: Hopefully you'll remember that this plant of the genus Myosotis is Alaska's state flower a forget-me-not |
| #4880, aired 2005-11-25 | FOUR! $1000: The 4 U.S. states that begin with the letter "A" Alaska, Alabama, Arizona, & Arkansas |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | NATIVE AMERICA $800: With close to 650,000, this state leads the U.S. in number of Native Americans, followed by Okla. & Arizona California |
| #4873, aired 2005-11-16 | TRAIN-ING DAY $800: President Harding drove the golden spike at Nenana for this state's RR & died on the way home Alaska |
| #4866, aired 2005-11-07 | I GOT 3 As, MOM! $800: The 2 U.S. states that fit the category (sorry, Alabama has 4) Arkansas & Alaska |
| #4848, aired 2005-10-12 | GOING GLOBAL $2000: It's only about 50 miles from Alaska to Russia when you cross this strait the Bering Strait |
| #4847, aired 2005-10-11 | GOIN' MOBILE $400: S. Dak., Alaska, Wyo. &, obviously, Hawaii are the only 4 states not on this natl. train co.'s passenger route map Amtrak |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | "OX" MARKS THE SPOT $1200: Seward's, it was said, was Alaska an icebox |
| #4836, aired 2005-09-26 | THE ENVIRONMENT $2000: In 1980 the U.S. Congress set aside 17 million acres of land in this state as a permanent wilderness Alaska |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | FOOD A LAFONTAINE $1000: Sponge cake, ice cream, meringue, baked hot for 5 minutes... at your next party, this "stately" dessert will be on fire! Baked Alaska |
| #4819, aired 2005-07-14 | POSTAL ABBREVIATIONS $1200: Add a "47" to this state & you have a Russian assault rifle Alaska |
| #4811, aired 2005-07-04 | YOU'VE GOT MAIL $800: At Christmastime a small town near Fairbanks, Alaska mails out letters from Santa postmarked this the North Pole |
| #4806, aired 2005-06-27 | OFFICIAL STATE SEALS $400: Symbols on its seal include the North Star, a moose & a pine tree Maine |
| #4798, aired 2005-06-15 | VACATION POSSIBILITIES $400: You could take a family car trip & play the game of spotting these; Alaska's Gold Rush one would be a big score license plates |
| #4797, aired 2005-06-14 | THE 50 STATES $800: Major Native American tribes in this state include the Athabaskan, Tlingit & Haida Alaska |
| #4784, aired 2005-05-26 | AROUND THE USA $800: Alaska's Katmai National Park contains the Valley of Ten Thousand these (cough cough) Smokes |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1200: This place of pirates & Lost Boys adds Alaska's nickname & is home to the leader of jazz' Solar Arkestra the Never Never Land of the Midnight Sun Ra |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | OFFICIAL ALASKAN STATE STUFF $200: Knowing that this is Alaska's state mineral gives me a rush gold |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | OFFICIAL ALASKAN STATE STUFF $400: Alaska's state land mammal is this antlered critter that can reach 7 feet tall & 2,000 pounds the moose |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | OFFICIAL ALASKAN STATE STUFF $1000: Alaska's state bird is the willow variety of this grouse relative the ptarmigan |
| #4764, aired 2005-04-28 | OFFICIAL ALASKAN STATE STUFF $2,600 (Daily Double): It was a "crowning" achievement in 1963 when this was named Alaska's state fish the king salmon |
| #4763, aired 2005-04-27 | NATIONAL PARKS $400: The USA's largest national park in area is Wrangell-St. Elias in this state Alaska |
| #4761, aired 2005-04-25 | U.S. GOVERNMENT $800: Sen. Ted Stevens of this state chairs the Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee Alaska |
| #4751, aired 2005-04-11 | SIGNS & SYMBOLS $200: The first seal designed for what is now this U.S. state depicted icebergs, igloos & the Northern Lights Alaska |
| #4748, aired 2005-04-06 | ALL'S WHALE THAT ENDS WHALE $400: This state's official marine mammal is the bowhead whale, which inhabits Arctic waters Alaska |
| #4721, aired 2005-02-28 | THE JIMMY CARTER EXPERIENCE $400: No "Purple Haze" here; in 1980 President Carter signed legislation to protect over 100 million acres in this state Alaska |
| #4718, aired 2005-02-23 | AMERICANA $800: Following 1912, it was the next year a star was added to the U.S. flag 1959 |
| #4712, aired 2005-02-15 | THE STONES $400: Alaska's state gem (since 1968) or Mick Jagger's gem of a daughter (since 1971) Jade |
| #4707, aired 2005-02-08 | PENINSULAS $800: The Seward Peninsula is on the western part of this state Alaska |
| #4699, aired 2005-01-27 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: When the Russians owned Alaska, they referred to this tall peak as Bolshaya Gora Mt. McKinley |
| #4695, aired 2005-01-21 | YOUR NUMBER'S UP $2000: Total number of U.S. states that begin and end with the same letter; (hint: they all start with vowels) four (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, & Ohio) |
| #4673, aired 2004-12-22 | NATIONAL FORESTS $800: Trees in this state's Tongass National Forest include western hemlock, cedar, & sitka spruce Alaska |
| #4667, aired 2004-12-14 | THOSE CRAZY GUGGENHEIMS $1200: For Daniel, it was all mine, mine, mine; tin in Bolivia & this in Alaska gold |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | SAY HELLO TO OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS $400: The snowy owl makes its summer home in this state Alaska |
| #4661, aired 2004-12-06 | SEA ME $800: It's bounded on the east by Alaska & on the west by Siberia & the Kamchatka Peninsula the Bering Sea |
| #4646, aired 2004-11-15 | THE LONE REPRESENTATIVE $400: Don Young from this state with 27 boroughs, including Sitka & North Slope Alaska |
| #4637, aired 2004-11-03 | BEFORE I WAS ELECTED $800: Congressman Don Young of this state can list "Fort Yukon Riverboat Captain" on his resume Alaska |
| #4622, aired 2004-10-12 | LIFETIME $800: Born in Oklahoma in 1879, had a lot of laughs, died near Point Barrow, Alaska in 1935 Will Rogers |
| #4621, aired 2004-10-11 | FOOD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Delmonico's in New York City is credited with inventing this dish in honor of an 1867 U.S. purchase Baked Alaska |
| #4619, aired 2004-10-07 | TRACK & FIELD $600: The Trans-Alaska Pipeline runs 800 miles from the oil fields near Prudhoe Bay to this now-famous port city Valdez |
| #4613, aired 2004-09-29 | THE WOMEN OF CONGRESS $1,200 (Daily Double): In 2003 Republican Lisa Murkowski took the oath of office as this state's sixth U.S. Senator since statehood Alaska |
| #4612, aired 2004-09-28 | THE VEEP $1,000 (Daily Double): This senator from Indiana who became Vice President has a city named for him--in Alaska, of all places (Charles) Fairbanks |
| #4610, aired 2004-09-24 | U.S. LAKES $800: The 2nd-largest freshwater lake totally within the U.S., this state's Lake Iliamna is the spawning ground for red salmon Alaska |
| #4596, aired 2004-09-06 | YOU GET AN "A"! $400: This U.S. state's name comes from an Aleut word meaning "Great Land" Alaska |
| #4581, aired 2004-07-05 | ON THE "M"AP $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew flies over a glacier in Alaska.) This glacier, 13 miles from downtown Juneau, was called Auk Glacier by naturalist John Muir; the name was changed in 1892 the Mendenhall Glacier |
| #4579, aired 2004-07-01 | MAKING A LIST $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Raptor Center in Alaska.) In 1999, President Clinton announced plans to remove the bald eagle from this list the Endangered Species list |
| #4577, aired 2004-06-29 | GREETINGS FROM AMERICA STAMPS $2000: Details on this state's stamp include Denali Alaska |
| #4572, aired 2004-06-22 | CANADA, EH $600: Sharing a border with Alaska, it's the Canadian territory that had a record low of -81 F. in 1947 the Yukon |
| #4562, aired 2004-06-08 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1600: (Sarah admires art at the Bishop's House in Sitka, Alaska.) St. Innocent of Irkutsk is represented here in this type of image, traditional in the Eastern Church an icon |
| #4560, aired 2004-06-04 | MY DEER $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Alaska.) In spring & summer, an elk's antlers are covered with material called this, like a "crushed" fabric velvet |
| #4552, aired 2004-05-25 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew feeds a four-legged friend in Alaska.) In June 1900, this man compared himself to the animal beside me Theodore Roosevelt |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | WHO WAS THE VICE PRESIDENT WHEN... $400: ...Alaska & Hawaii were admitted to the Union Richard Nixon |
| #4547, aired 2004-05-18 | STATE CAPITALS $1,000 (Daily Double): This capital founded by gold miners has over 100 days a year of below freezing temperatures Juneau(, Alaska) |
| #4536, aired 2004-05-03 | THE SMALLEST IN AREA $1600: Alaska,
Florida,
California Florida |
| #4529, aired 2004-04-22 | HOLY PLACE NAMES $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Alaska) Michael, pictured in The Bishop's House, holds this title, which was also what the Russians called Sitka Archangel |
| #4526, aired 2004-04-19 | WORD ORIGINS $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Alaska) From the Old French for "crack", this V-shaped crack in a glacier may be up to 150 feet deep crevasse |
| #4513, aired 2004-03-31 | FISHY BUSINESS $800: Bumble Bee sells 14.75-ounce cans of this pink fish from Alaska salmon |
| #4495, aired 2004-03-05 | WHERE AM I? $600: (Sarah) I'm taking off from this state capital that shares its name with a 1,500-square-mile ice field Juneau, Alaska |
| #4494, aired 2004-03-04 | SCIENCE & NATURE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Alaska) This bovine name is given to the process whereby huge chunks of ice break off glaciers, giving birth to icebergs calving |
| #4492, aired 2004-03-02 | NATIVE AMERICAN ART $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at the Sitka Cultural Center in Alaska) The white man is depicted here on a totem pole commissioned for this 1976 event the Bicentennial |
| #4490, aired 2004-02-27 | WHAT A TOOL $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Alaska) Use an axe to fell a tree, but to carve a totem pole, you need this tool that also starts with "A" adze |
| #4490, aired 2004-02-27 | GEOLOGY $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew) The glaciers here in Alaska are remnants of the last Ice Age, which ended about 11,500 years ago during this epoch the Pleistocene |
| #4486, aired 2004-02-23 | 1953 $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Alaska.) Overfishing has such bad effects that in 1953 Ike declared Alaska this, like in the aftermath of a flood or quake a (federal) disaster area |
| #4482, aired 2004-02-17 | ANIMALS $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Alaska.) This sense is said to be keener in raptors, such as hawks, than in any other creature eyesight |
| #4480, aired 2004-02-13 | SEA CREATURES $1200: The world's largest herd of the fur type of these makes its home on Alaska's Pribilof Islands seals |
| #4479, aired 2004-02-12 | BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE $400: Get those wings de-iced when taking off from the airport at Wainwright, Alaska, on this ocean the Arctic Ocean |
| #4462, aired 2004-01-20 | QUESTIONS IN THE FORM OF A PHRASE $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Alaska) Often a bear, the base of the pole is the strongest position, so this English expression is inaccurate low man on the totem pole |
| #4456, aired 2004-01-12 | MOVIE LOCATIONS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Alaska) Featuring an Antarctic alien, this 1982 remake of a sci-fi classic was partly shot on a glacier near Juneau The Thing |
| #4455, aired 2004-01-09 | GOING TO THE DOGS $200: The "Siberian" type of this dog crossed the Bering Strait to Alaska around 1910 husky |
| #4453, aired 2004-01-07 | ANIMALS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Alaska) The name of this raptor comes from a word meaning "to grasp" hawk |
| #4452, aired 2004-01-06 | THE LAST $800: Alaska is home to the USA's last flagstop one of these, which passengers flag down as it approaches the train |
| #4452, aired 2004-01-06 | HISTORIC NOVELS $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Alaska) This famed western writer turned way northwest to write his historical novel "Sitka" Louis L'Amour |
| #4447, aired 2003-12-30 | '90s TELEVISION $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Alaska.) A moose wandered the streets in the credits of this 1990s TV show, set in Alaska Northern Exposure |
| #4431, aired 2003-12-08 | THE TOTEM POLE VAULT $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Alaska.) The Katlian totem pole pays tribute to the bravery of quixotic Tlingit Indian against this invading Slavic group the Russians |
| #4430, aired 2003-12-05 | STATE YOUR CASE $400: In area it's the largest U.S. state that begins & ends with the same letter Alaska |
| #4429, aired 2003-12-04 | MAMMALS $800: The largest animals of this species, which is also the largest species of deer, are found in Alaska & Siberia elk (or moose) |
| #4428, aired 2003-12-03 | 12-LETTER WORDS $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Alaska.) Some scientists think we're in this 12-letter type of period between ice ages, & even fear global warming interglacial |
| #4426, aired 2003-12-01 | 19th CENTURY PEOPLE $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Alaska) In 1805, their journals, the first detailed report of the Grizzly, called it a tremendous and terrible animal Lewis & Clark |
| #4425, aired 2003-11-28 | "S"CIENCE $800: (Video of Sarah in Alaska.) Glacier ice appears blue because its dense structure absorbs all of this except blue the spectrum |
| #4418, aired 2003-11-19 | ARCHIPELAGOS $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents from Alaska.) From Sitka on Baranoff Island, you can see other islands in the archipelago named for this czar who sold Alaska Alexander |
| #4409, aired 2003-11-06 | BAR HOPPING $200: This mill byproduct lies around on the floor of The Red Dog Saloon in Juneau, Alaska sawdust |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | ALASKA $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Alaska.) Alaska's state motto is this "to the future" North |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | ALASKA $800: Before it was Alaska's capital, Juneau developed around the discovery of this resource Gold |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | ALASKA $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Alaska.) Alaska was once jeeringly called this Secretary of State's "icebox" Seward |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | ALASKA $1600: Made a national park in 1980, it encompasses over 3 million acres of icy wonder in southeastern Alaska Glacier Bay |
| #4406, aired 2003-11-03 | ALASKA $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Alaska.) When Russia held Alaska, this house was the center of a diocese of this church, stretching to Siberia the Russian Orthodox Church |
| #4395, aired 2003-10-17 | SALMON FISHING $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Sitka, Alaska) The main value of chum salmon is not in their flesh, but in these items they produce eggs |
| #4395, aired 2003-10-17 | SALMON FISHING $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Sitka, Alaska) The three main types of Alaskan salmon fishing boats are trollers, gillnetters & these, which use a gigantic net seiners |
| #4393, aired 2003-10-15 | 100 $1000: This state gave us senators 99 & 100 Hawaii |
| #4384, aired 2003-10-02 | AMERICAN FOOD $400: Dried, smoked or even roasted, this fish is "king" in Alaska salmon |
| #4383, aired 2003-10-01 | ONE-CONGRESSMAN STATES $200: It's larger than France, Spain & Poland combined Alaska |
| #4378, aired 2003-09-24 | VOWELS $1600: The capital city of Alaska ends with these 3 vowels eau |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | 1867 $600: On October 18 ownership of this territory was transferred from Russia to the United States Alaska |
| #4354, aired 2003-07-03 | STATE STUFF $200: It contains both the highest point & the lowest point in the contiguous 48 states California |
| #4348, aired 2003-06-25 | THE GRIZZLIES $400: With an estimated 32,000, this state has the largest population of grizzly bears Alaska |
| #4345, aired 2003-06-20 | NATIONAL PARKS $600: This state's Wrangell-St. Elias National Monument was upgraded to park in 1980 & is the USA's largest park system Alaska |
| #4338, aired 2003-06-11 | GUINNESS RECORDS $1000: If you want to hit the longest drivable road, Jack, that would be this highway which runs from Alaska to Chile Pan-American Highway |
| #4333, aired 2003-06-04 | COMMITTEES $2,000 (Daily Double): The Don't Make a Wave Committee, opposed to weapons tests in Alaska, grew into this broader organization Greenpeace |
| #4312, aired 2003-05-06 | TOUGH GEOGRAPHY $1000: This area that was created in 1960 & has oil companies licking their chops is dominated by the Brooks Range ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) |
| #4301, aired 2003-04-21 | BIRDS $400: The willow ptarmigan, an Arctic grouse, is its state bird Alaska |
| #4281, aired 2003-03-24 | LET'S BUILD A CASINO! $200: Don't "blubber" when you lose all your money at the igloo-shaped casino named for this U.S. state Alaska |
| #4270, aired 2003-03-07 | WHEW! IT'S HOT! $200: 100 degrees on June 27, 1915 in Fort Yukon Alaska |
| #4257, aired 2003-02-18 | NATIONAL THINGS $400: Over half of the national preserves in the U.S. lie in this state Alaska |
| #4249, aired 2003-02-06 | ANDREW JOHNSON $1000: Johnson's secretary of state, he negotiated the purchase of Alaska for a cool $7.2 million William Seward |
| #4241, aired 2003-01-27 | "C" CREATURES $1600: The barren ground type of this deer is native to the tundra regions of Alaska & Canada caribou |
| #4229, aired 2003-01-09 | NATIONAL PARK PLACE $800: The largest national park outside Alaska, Death Valley National Park in this state is over 3 million acres California |
| #4213, aired 2002-12-18 | STATES OF THE UNION $400: Its near islands are farthest from its mainland; Kodiak is closer Alaska |
| #4210, aired 2002-12-13 | A CZAR IS BORN $1000: Born 1818, died 1881, freed the serfs & sold Alaska Alexander II |
| #4206, aired 2002-12-09 | GOOD BUY $1000: One of the organizers of the Republican Party, William Seward, negotiated this purchase as U.S. secretary of state Alaska |
| #4205, aired 2002-12-06 | MILLENNIUM MOMENTS $1,500 (Daily Double): In 1764 Catherine II of Russia ordered further exploration of this future U.S. state Alaska |
| #4204, aired 2002-12-05 | CITIES & TOWNS $400: Joseph Juneau helped found Juneau, Alaska & Solomon Juneau founded this Wisconsin city known for beer Milwaukee |
| #4197, aired 2002-11-26 | THE BIG DAY $400: With nearly 590,000 square miles of land, this state is about 487 times larger than Rhode Island Alaska |
| #4180, aired 2002-11-01 | THE 1960s $800: In 1968 work began on this project that stretched from the North Slope by Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez the Trans-Alaska Pipeline (the Alaskan Pipeline accepted) |
| #4173, aired 2002-10-23 | WORD ORIGINS $1600: The name of this large island in the Gulf of Alaska is derived from an Inuit word for "island" Kodiak |
| #4166, aired 2002-10-14 | THE ROCKIES $400: The Rockies' northernmost point is in Alaska; their southernmost point, in this state New Mexico |
| #4166, aired 2002-10-14 | MARINERS $1,200 (Daily Double): In July 1741 this Dane sighted the North American continent near Mount St. Elias, Alaska Vitus Bering |
| #4163, aired 2002-10-09 | THE WEST COAST $1600: It's the largest city in its state; when it was incorporated in 1914 it dropped the "knik" from its name Anchorage, Alaska |
| #4152, aired 2002-09-24 | THE U.S. $200: The highest & northernmost points in the U.S. are in this state Alaska |
| #4137, aired 2002-09-03 | STATE OF THE UNION $800: In 1896 a gold rush took place in what is now this state Alaska |
| #4127, aired 2002-07-09 | CAPES $600: Alaska's Cape Prince of Wales & Russia's Cape Dezhnyov are separated by this body of water the Bering Strait |
| #4122, aired 2002-07-02 | WELL DOCUMENTED $2000: Baron Eduard De Stoeckl for Russia & this man for the U.S. worked out the 1867 Alaska Purchase Treaty Seward |
| #4120, aired 2002-06-28 | "J"EOGRAPHY $400: No roads lead into this U.S. state capital; it can only be reached by aircraft or boat Juneau |
| #4115, aired 2002-06-21 | STATE MOTTOES $800: On our northern border:
"L'Étoile du Nord" ("The Star of the North") Minnesota |
| #4112, aired 2002-06-18 | GOVERNORS $1200: Once a roughneck in the Cook Inlet oil fields, Tony Knowles was elected governor of this state in 1994 Alaska |
| #4101, aired 2002-06-03 | STATES OF THE UNION $800: Of the 7 states with only 3 electoral votes, the one that's largest in area Alaska |
| #4097, aired 2002-05-28 | STATE GATEWAYS $1000: Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport Alaska |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | ABBREVIATED STATES $800: When abbreviated before the number 47, this state becomes an assault weapon Alaska |
| #4078, aired 2002-05-01 | LET THEM EAT CAKE $600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew puts in an evening as a dessert chef.) This dessert is a layer of cake & ice cream that's topped with meringue & then browned in the oven Baked Alaska |
| #4048, aired 2002-03-20 | PENINSULAS $400: The tip of Schoodic Peninsula is the only mainland part of this state's Acadia National Park Maine |
| #4043, aired 2002-03-13 | IT'S A TOUGH WORLD $1200: Excluding the Great Lakes, one of the 3 largest lakes in area that are entirely within the U.S. (1 of) the Great Salt Lake or Lake Okeechobee & Lake Iliamna in Alaska |
| #4040, aired 2002-03-08 | STATES' HIGHEST POINTS $200: Mount McKinley in Denali Borough Alaska |
| #4019, aired 2002-02-07 | FLAGS $800: In 1927 13-year-old Benny Benson designed this U.S. state's flag, the North Star & Big Dipper on a blue background Alaska |
| #4016, aired 2002-02-04 | STATES OF THE UNION $200: The federal government owns over 67% of the land in this "Last Frontier" state Alaska |
| #4013, aired 2002-01-30 | 3 LETTERS IN 2 STATE NAMES $800: The 2 states with "ask" Alaska & Nebraska |
| #4005, aired 2002-01-18 | U.S. STATES $600: Containing over 75 percent of the U.S. land over 10,000 feet, this is the state with the highest mean elevation Colorado |
| #3992, aired 2002-01-01 | HEAD NORTH $1000: The 3-word title of a 1960 hit, it's where country singer Johnny Horton was headed "North To Alaska" |
| #3975, aired 2001-12-07 | STATE TREES $1,000 (Daily Double): Its state tree is the Sitka spruce Alaska |
| #3973, aired 2001-12-05 | LEGENDS $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew is in Central Park.) In 1925, Balto braved the blizzard to deliver medicine for a diphtheria epidemic in what is now this U.S. state Alaska |
| #3954, aired 2001-11-08 | UCLA ALUMNI $500 (Daily Double): UCLA grad Ted Stevens helped get this state into the Union & has been its senator for over 30 years Alaska |
| #3949, aired 2001-11-01 | THE BIG WHIGS $800: He was the first Whig governor of New York & as Johnson's Secretary of State purchased Alaska for the U.S. Seward |
| #3887, aired 2001-06-26 | U.S. ISLANDS $100: This state consists of 132 islands, but 124 of them have a combined area of only 3 square miles Hawaii |
| #3885, aired 2001-06-22 | “WH”AT IS IT? $600 (Daily Double): You'll find this capital of the Yukon Territory on the Alaska Highway; so giddyup now! Whitehorse |
| #3876, aired 2001-06-11 | "F" IN GEOGRAPHY $800 (Daily Double): This Alaska town was founded by prospectors in 1902 & named for a U.S. vice president (Charles) Fairbanks |
| #3866, aired 2001-05-28 | FORMER CAPITALS $400: Sitka
(1867-1900) Alaska |
| #3863, aired 2001-05-23 | THE ROMANOVS $400 (Daily Double): Alexander II added $7,200,000 to Russia's coffers by selling off what's now known as this Alaska |
| #3853, aired 2001-05-09 | AMERICA SINCE 1865 $200: On August 26, 1958 it voted by a 5-1 margin for statehood Alaska |
| #3850, aired 2001-05-04 | QUAKES $400: A 1964 quake in this state caused tsunamis as far away as Siberia, & Hawaii & California Alaska |
| #3836, aired 2001-04-16 | THE LAW $200: Alaska & Kansas are 2 of the few states that allow incompatibility as grounds for this Divorce |
| #3821, aired 2001-03-26 | AT THE MOVIES $1000: [Hi, I'm Michael McKean] In 1999 I played Mr. Walsh in this film about a small Alaska town whose hockey team faces off against the New York Rangers Mystery, Alaska |
| #3819, aired 2001-03-22 | "C" IN GEOGRAPHY $100: On a 1923 trip, Warren G. Harding made the 1st presidential visit to the Alaska Territory & to this nation Canada |
| #3806, aired 2001-03-05 | AMERICA-PODGE $100: All roads lead to Rome, but no roads lead to this rhyming Alaska city Nome |
| #3798, aired 2001-02-21 | IT'S UP TO "U" $3,000 (Daily Double): The largest state capital in area, this city is bustin' out all over Juneau, Alaska |
| #3782, aired 2001-01-30 | ARCHIPELAGOS $200: It's the only archipelago that's a U.S. state Hawaii |
| #3782, aired 2001-01-30 | ARCHIPELAGOS $400: The Kodiak Archipelago in this gulf was the site of the first Russian colony in North America Gulf of Alaska |
| #3775, aired 2001-01-19 | TEMPERATURE $500: In 1971 Prospect Creek in this state reached a record low temperature in the U.S. of -80 degrees F. Alaska |
| #3758, aired 2000-12-27 | IT'S A BIG WORLD $100: The USA's highest mountain is found in this state, the USA's largest Alaska (Mt. McKinley/Denali) |
| #3752, aired 2000-12-19 | AMERICAN EXPLORERS $400: In the 1860s William Dall explored Alaska for a U.S. company planning on linking the U.S. & Russia with this Telegraph line |
| #3741, aired 2000-12-04 | NATIONAL PARKS $1000: Although Glacier Bay National Park is in Alaska, Glacier National Park is in this state Montana |
| #3738, aired 2000-11-29 | OFFICIAL STATE THINGS $200: State sport:
mushing Alaska |
| #3737, aired 2000-11-28 | STATE SEALS $100: Symbols on its seal include icebergs & the Northern Lights Alaska |
| #3726, aired 2000-11-13 | AROUND THE USA $200: TV fans like to visit Roslyn, Washington, which was transformed into the town of Cicely, Alaska for this '90s series Northern Exposure |
| #3725, aired 2000-11-10 | BORE & GUSH $500 (Daily Double): This company now better known for motor oil takes its name from the state where petroleum was found in 1859 Pennzoil (Pennsylvania) |
| #3709, aired 2000-10-19 | AMERICA $600: Of the U.S. states with active volcanoes, this state is the largest in area Alaska |
| #3695, aired 2000-09-29 | AT LAST COUNT $400: The 3 largest U.S. national parks, totaling about 20 million acres, are in this state Alaska |
| #3689, aired 2000-09-21 | STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES $600: Alaska:
Pop. 226,000 Anchorage |
| #3685, aired 2000-09-15 | MERE CASH $400: They're scheduled to be the last 2 states to get their own quarters, in 2008 Alaska & Hawaii |
| #3680, aired 2000-09-08 | OFFICIAL STATE THINGS $400: Oh, deer!
This is Alaska's state land mammal Moose |
| #3673, aired 2000-07-19 | ALASKA $200: 4 different species of bears live in Alaska: Kodiak, grizzly, black & this Polar bears |
| #3673, aired 2000-07-19 | ALASKA $400: Tony Knowles is pulling in $81,648 per annum in this job Governor |
| #3673, aired 2000-07-19 | ALASKA $600: This second-largest Alaskan city wasn't named for an actor Fairbanks |
| #3673, aired 2000-07-19 | ALASKA $800 (Daily Double): One of the 3 mottos that have been featured on regular Alaskan license plates "The Last Frontier", "The Great Land", or "North to the Future" |
| #3673, aired 2000-07-19 | ALASKA $1000: The mainland peninsula closest to Russia is named for this man William Seward |
| #3660, aired 2000-06-30 | BODIES OF WATER $200 (Daily Double): Indenting the coastline of Alaska, Norton Sound & Kuskokwim Bay are inlets of this sea Bering Sea |
| #3655, aired 2000-06-23 | FUN FACTS ABOUT STATES & CAPITALS $200: The only state capital whose name ends in 3 vowels, it's also the northernmost Juneau, Alaska |
| #3651, aired 2000-06-19 | THE 1860s $100: In March of 1867 Secretary of State Seward arranged to buy this "icebox" for a total of $7.2 million Alaska |
| #3641, aired 2000-06-05 | ALL-AMERICAN FOOD $300: Some credit a Delmonico's chef with cooking up this dessert of ice cream covered in meringue & browned Baked Alaska |
| #3638, aired 2000-05-31 | FUN WITH ZIP CODES $200: ZIP codes starting with 999 are in this state, in places like Ketchikan & Metlakatla Alaska |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | U.S. HIGHS & LOWS $200: This state has the highest point in the U.S., 20,320 feet Alaska (Mount McKinley) |
| #3591, aired 2000-03-27 | TERMITE TRIVIA $100: Termites are found in every state except this one Alaska |
| #3589, aired 2000-03-23 | STRAIT-EN UP $100: Between Alaska & Russia Bering Strait |
| #3589, aired 2000-03-23 | SMALL-TOWN CINEMA $1000: In this 1999 movie, the "Rocky" of hockey, an Alaska town's amateur hockey team takes on the New York Rangers Mystery, Alaska |
| #3577, aired 2000-03-07 | U.S.A. $200: The title of Alaska's official one is "Alaska's Flag" (& don't say state flag) State song |
| #3574, aired 2000-03-02 | HITHER & YON $800: Small numbers of reindeer imported to Alaska from this Russian region eventually increased to more than 500,000 Siberia |
| #3547, aired 2000-01-25 | GOLD RUSH $200: In 1880 Joseph Juneau & Richard T. Harris found gold in the Gastineau Channel of this U.S. territory Alaska |
| #3530, aired 1999-12-31 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $200: In the deal of the century, the U.S. made this $15 million purchase & doubled the size of the U.S. Louisiana Purchase |
| #3527, aired 1999-12-28 | FLAGS $200: This star & those of the Big Dipper are featured on Alaska's state flag North Star (Polaris) |
| #3521, aired 1999-12-20 | AREAS $100: A frigid state capital:
3,248 square miles Juneau, Alaska |
| #3516, aired 1999-12-13 | U.S. HISTORY $1000: 50 years after buying Alaska from Russia, the U.S. bought the Virgin Islands from this country Denmark |
| #3512, aired 1999-12-07 | STATE FACTS $300: (Hi, I"m Joshua Morrow from The Young and the Restless.) "North to the Future" is the official motto of this state, my birthplace Alaska |
| #3509, aired 1999-12-02 | BREAK OUT THE ATLAS $200: About 1/3 of Alaska is north of this feature at 66 degrees 30' north latitude Arctic Circle |
| #3505, aired 1999-11-26 | THE BIG VALLEY $1000: Only a few of the fumaroles in this state's Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes discovered in 1916 are still fuming Alaska |
| #3502, aired 1999-11-23 | U.S. STATES $400: Its license plates bear a flag depicting the Big Dipper & the North Star Alaska |
| #3501, aired 1999-11-22 | IT COMES WITH THE TERRITORY $400: The price paid for these Caribbean islands in 1917 was $25 million, over 3 times what Alaska cost Virgin Islands |
| #3486, aired 1999-11-01 | STATE FACTS $500: This state has 8 national parks totalling over 50 million acres Alaska |
| #3466, aired 1999-10-04 | STATE NICKNAMES $300: "The Last Frontier" Alaska |
| #3463, aired 1999-09-29 | THE WINTER'S TALE $100: The record winter snowfall for a 24-hour period was 78 inches at "Mile 47 Camp" in 1963 in this U.S. state Alaska |
| #3457, aired 1999-09-21 | FAMOUS FACES $600: This man was half of the duo that went down in a plane August 15, 1935 near Point Barrow, Alaska Wiley Post |
| #3454, aired 1999-09-16 | SCENIC ROUTES $300: If you like to gaze at glaciers, you'll enjoy driving the Seward Highway in this state Alaska |
| #3447, aired 1999-09-07 | BIRDS! BIRDS! BIRDS! $200: Seen here, the great horned type of this bird is found from Alaska to South America Owl |
| #3440, aired 1999-07-16 | CONTINENTS BY VOLCANO $500: Redoubt North America (in Alaska) |
| #3433, aired 1999-07-07 | COASTING ALONG $400: The USA's coast ranges include the Klamath Mountains of Oregon & the Kenai Mountains of this state Alaska |
| #3420, aired 1999-06-18 | STATE OBJECTS $200: If things pan out, you'l discover this is the state mineral of Alaska gold |
| #3412, aired 1999-06-08 | MOUNTAIN $300: In Alaska's Denali National Park:
20,320 feet Mount McKinley (Denali) |
| #3404, aired 1999-05-27 | TO ALASKA $200: This 2,000-mile river was the principal transportation route during the early mining days of Alaska Yukon River |
| #3404, aired 1999-05-27 | TO ALASKA $400: In 1942 this nation's forces occupied Attu & Kiska in the Aleutian Islands Japan |
| #3404, aired 1999-05-27 | TO ALASKA $800: At only 2 1/2 miles away, Little Diomede Island in this strait is the closest part of North America to Asia the Bering Strait |
| #3404, aired 1999-05-27 | TO ALASKA $1,000 (Daily Double): Number of Congressmen representing Alaska in the U.S. House 1 |
| #3404, aired 1999-05-27 | TO ALASKA $1000: This Secretary of State bought Alaska from Russia in 1867 at about 2 cents an acre, a bargain price William Seward |
| #3398, aired 1999-05-19 | WHICH CAME FIRST? $600: Arizona statehood,
Ohio statehood,
Alaska statehood Ohio statehood |
| #3395, aired 1999-05-14 | OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB $400: The title of this Bret Lott book, a 1999 selection, refers to a mom from Mississippi, not to a singer from Alaska "Jewel" |
| #3373, aired 1999-04-14 | "SI" THE WORLD $800: When the U.S. bought Alaska in 1867, the transfer ceremony was held in this "si"ty Sitka |
| #3363, aired 1999-03-31 | TOP O' THE STATE $200: Mount McKinley Alaska |
| #3343, aired 1999-03-03 | THE 50 STATES $100: Cape Prince of Wales on the Seward Peninsula is this state's westernmost mainland point Alaska |
| #3336, aired 1999-02-22 | WOLVES $400 (Daily Double): This U.S. state has more wolves than any other Alaska |
| #3318, aired 1999-01-27 | GIVE ME A SEA $2,000 (Daily Double): It's the sea bounded by Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, Siberia & the Kamchatka Peninsula Bering Sea |
| #3311, aired 1999-01-18 | STATE NAMES $200: Home to no Fortune 500 companies, its name is Aleut for "mainland" Alaska |
| #3305, aired 1999-01-08 | DON'T MISS THE BOAT $100: Board the Spirit of Adventure in Glacier Bay, Alaska to watch the humpback species of this mammal Whale |
| #3293, aired 1998-12-23 | STATE BIRDS $500: The willow ptype of this ptundra dweller is Alaska's state bird the ptarmigan |
| #3282, aired 1998-12-08 | FOODSTUFF $400: France's omelette surprise resembles this sponge cake, ice cream & browned meringue dessert that's popular in the U.S. Baked Alaska |
| #3277, aired 1998-12-01 | STATE TREES $100: The fact that its state tree is the Sitka Spruce should be firmly planted in your mind Alaska |
| #3269, aired 1998-11-19 | POLITICIANS $2,500 (Daily Double): Alaska's second most populous city is named for this man who was vice president under Teddy Roosevelt Charles Fairbanks |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | ANNUAL EVENTS $200: Secretary of State William H. Seward is honored on the last Monday in March in this state Alaska |
| #3254, aired 1998-10-29 | ENGINEERING $300: Able to carry over 2 million barrels of crude a day, it runs from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez the Alaska Pipeline |
| #3253, aired 1998-10-28 | THIS IS OUR COUNTRY $900 (Daily Double): About 1/3 of this state's visitors arrive by cruise ship, many from Vancouver, British Columbia Alaska |
| #3250, aired 1998-10-23 | MINES, ALL MINES $800: Though it also produces lead, it's basically this metal "or zwim" for Alaska's Red Dog Mine zinc |
| #3241, aired 1998-10-12 | FOR COLUMBUS $200: Named for Columbus, one of these ice masses stretches for 40 miles near Valdez, Alaska Glacier |
| #3238, aired 1998-10-07 | HISTORIC CLASSIFIEDS $100: "FSBO." this "vast region including Aleutian Islands. $7.2 million OBO" Alaska |
| #3229, aired 1998-09-24 | ISOLATED ISLES $400: Alaska's Cape Wrangell in this island chain is the USA's westernmost point Aleutians |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS $400: Founded in 1971 to protest U.S. nuclear weapon testing in Alaska, it broadened its scope to the world Greenpeace |
| #3202, aired 1998-06-30 | AMERICAN HODGEPODGE $200: Eek! The Eek River in this state might be named for the Eskimo word for "unknown" Alaska |
| #3200, aired 1998-06-26 | STATES OF THE UNION $100: The 2 states that share no land border with other states Alaska & Hawaii |
| #3193, aired 1998-06-17 | MAMMALS $100: These range in size from the 3-foot-long sun to the over 9-foot long Alaska brown bears |
| #3191, aired 1998-06-15 | AMERICAN HISTORY $800: On Mar. 27, 1964 this largest Alaska city was hit by an 8.4 earthquake Anchorage |
| #3187, aired 1998-06-09 | 1990s TELEVISION $300: Roslyn, Washington represented Cicely, Alaska, the setting of this Rob Morrow series Northern Exposure |
| #3169, aired 1998-05-14 | REALLY BIG $100: While everything is really big in Texas, this state still beats it in total area Alaska |
| #3164, aired 1998-05-07 | "N" THE DICTIONARY $300: A province of ancient Egypt, or a city in modern Alaska Nome |
| #3159, aired 1998-04-30 | STATES OF THE UNION $500: This state sits on the east side of the Bering Strait Alaska |
| #3149, aired 1998-04-16 | STATE FLAGS $200: [flag] Alaska |
| #3148, aired 1998-04-15 | WHERE ARE WE? $400: The Red Dog Saloon,
Sealaska Cultural Arts Park,
The Alaska State Museum Juneau |
| #3131, aired 1998-03-23 | REAL U.S. CITIES $600: You can eke out a living in "Eek" in this final frontier state Alaska |
| #3106, aired 1998-02-16 | STATE NICKNAMES $400: "The Land Of The Midnight Sun" Alaska |
| #3101, aired 1998-02-09 | FLYBOYS $500: In 1935 Will Rogers & this pilot were killed in a plane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska Wiley Post |
| #3086, aired 1998-01-19 | THE NORTH PACIFIC $600: Sail strait south through the Bering Strait, & you'll hit this state's St. Lawrence Island Alaska |
| #3065, aired 1997-12-19 | U.S. STATES $1000: It has only 9 places with 5,000 or more people, including Kenai, Ketchikan & Sitka Alaska |
| #3049, aired 1997-11-27 | U.S. CITIES $1000: Alaska's largest city, it's also the state's commerce & transportation center Anchorage |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | HALLS OF FAME $500: The Dog Mushers Hall of Fame in Knik, Alaska is in a building used as the 1967 HQ for this sled dog race the Iditarod |
| #3026, aired 1997-10-27 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $600: The Trans-Alaska Pipeline runs from this bay to the city of Valdez Prudhoe Bay |
| #2999, aired 1997-09-18 | AMERICAN HODGEPODGE $100: Not far from the Arctic Circle, Kotzebue is the second-largest Eskimo village in this state Alaska |
| #2993, aired 1997-09-10 | BAY WATCHING $500 (Daily Double): (Hello, I'm Donna D'Errico.) A glacier named for this American naturalist who sighted it in 1879 flows into Glacier Bay, Alaska John Muir |
| #2982, aired 1997-07-15 | NAME THE DECADE $100: "American Bandstand" debuts,
Federal troops sent to Little Rock,
Alaska becomes a state the 1950s |
| #2970, aired 1997-06-27 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In October 1867 Gen. Rousseau took formal possession of this territory that the U.S. had bought in March Alaska |
| #2969, aired 1997-06-26 | U.S. CITIES $500: Alaska's second-largest city, it was founded shortly after gold was discovered there Fairbanks |
| #2964, aired 1997-06-19 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): William H. Seward negotiated the Alaska Purchase during this president's administration Andrew Johnson |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | LAKES & RIVERS $300: This river's tributaries include the Koyukuk River in Alaska & the Klondike in Canada Yukon |
| #2943, aired 1997-05-21 | U.S. STATES $100: The international date line bends around this state Alaska |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | STATE CAPITALS $100: Every spring the Alaska Folk Festival attracts lots of folks to this state capital Juneau |
| #2926, aired 1997-04-28 | POLITICS $800: Don Young, the congressman from this state, once operated a tugboat on the Yukon River Alaska |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | STATE CAPITALS $500 (Daily Double): This capital's 1970 merger with the town of Douglas made it the nation's largest state capital in area Juneau, Alaska |
| #2922, aired 1997-04-22 | STATE FLAGS $300: Alaska's flag features the North Star as well as this stellar configuration Big Dipper |
| #2915, aired 1997-04-11 | CROSSWORD CLUES "A" $300: "Baked" state
(6) Alaska |
| #2897, aired 1997-03-18 | AMERICANA $900 (Daily Double): From late Oct.-Dec. thousands of bald eagles gather at the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve in this state Alaska |
| #2869, aired 1997-02-06 | NATIONAL PARKS $600: Denali, also known as this, is the highest peak in Alaska's Denali National Park Mount McKinley |
| #2862, aired 1997-01-28 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $400: Senate approval of the treaty to buy this area in 1867 may have been accomplished by Russian bribery Alaska |
| #2860, aired 1997-01-24 | SCIENCE & NATURE $100: The Columbia, one of these between Valdez & Anchorage, Alaska can move about 65 feet per day Glacier |
| #2854, aired 1997-01-16 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: About a third of this state lies north of the Arctic Circle Alaska |
| #2853, aired 1997-01-15 | U.S. MOUNTAINS $500 (Daily Double): Mount St. Elias is the second-highest mountain in this state & in the U.S. Alaska |
| #2838, aired 1996-12-25 | THE 50 STATES $200: The name of this state is from an Aleut word meaning "Great Land" Alaska |
| #2827, aired 1996-12-10 | U.S. STATES $100: Its state sport is dog mushing Alaska |
| #2824, aired 1996-12-05 | U.S.A. $200: The World Eskimo Indian Olympics held in this state includes a rather competitive ear pull Alaska |
| #2812, aired 1996-11-19 | WORLD EXPLORATION $200: In 1728 this Dane discovered St. Lawrence Island, now part of Alaska (Vitus) Bering |
| #2800, aired 1996-11-01 | ISLANDS $200: About 180 indigenous people inhabit Alaska's Little Diomede Island in this strait Bering Strait |
| #2785, aired 1996-10-11 | TRANSPORTATION $500: This highway system extends from Alaska to the southern part of South America the Pan-American HIghway |
| #2784, aired 1996-10-10 | GEOGRAPHY $400: Alaska's Cape Prince of Wales, the state's westernmost mainland point, juts into this strait Bering Strait |
| #2780, aired 1996-10-04 | THE 1820s $200: This country signed treaties with the U.S. & Britain accepting 54° 40' as its southern border for Alaska Russia |
| #2769, aired 1996-09-19 | STATE CAPITALS $200: This capital of Alaska is located in the panhandle region of the state Juneau |
| #2765, aired 1996-09-13 | AROUND THE WORLD $100: Some visitors to Kotzebue in this U.S. state dine on reindeer stew, a local specialty Alaska |
| #2763, aired 1996-09-11 | VOLCANOES $100: The Universal Almanac lists over 40 active volcanoes in this U.S. state Alaska |
| #2763, aired 1996-09-11 | FLOWERS $200: You should "remember" it's Alaska's state flower the forget-me-not |
| #2762, aired 1996-09-10 | STATE CAPITALS $200: Mendenhall Glacier & Glacier Bay National Park lie near this capital city Juneau, Alaska |
| #2743, aired 1996-07-03 | OOPS $300: Trying this mode of transport in Alaska, Dr. Joyce Brothers fell & broke her nose a dog sled |
| #2742, aired 1996-07-02 | U.S. LAKES $1000: Iliamna, Becharof & Ugashik are among this state's larger lakes Alaska |
| #2732, aired 1996-06-18 | EXPLORERS & EXPLORATION $400: A glacier in Alaska & a redwood forest in California are named for this explorer & naturalist John Muir |
| #2731, aired 1996-06-17 | GOVERNMENT & POLITICS $3,000 (Daily Double): 2 of 7 states with only 1 member in the House of Representatives Wyoming & Vermont |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | RUSSIAN HISTORY $400: In 1799 Alexsandr Baranov, first governor of this territory, founded Sitka Alaska |
| #2726, aired 1996-06-10 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $200: The Institute of Arctic Biology is connected with this state university Alaska |
| #2716, aired 1996-05-27 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: In May 1926 Roald Amundsen flew over the North Pole, from Spitsbergen in this country to Teller, Alaska Norway |
| #2704, aired 1996-05-09 | AMERICANA $400: A middle school in this state capital was named for Marie Drake, who wrote the lyrics to Alaska's state song Juneau |
| #2702, aired 1996-05-07 | U.S. STATES $100: Alaska's state fossil is this mammoth; hey, it's cold there the woolly mammoth |
| #2692, aired 1996-04-23 | ANNUAL EVENTS $300: For years "Cry of the Wild Ram", a play about Russian control of this state, has been presented in Kodiak Alaska |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | THE 1880s $700 (Daily Double): The Organic Act of 1884 applied the laws of Oregon to this area purchased by the U.S. in 1867 Alaska |
| #2678, aired 1996-04-03 | U.S.A. $500 (Daily Double): This state has coastlines on 2 different oceans Alaska |
| #2656, aired 1996-03-04 | THE U.S. $1,500 (Daily Double): In area, this state follows only Alaska, Texas & California Montana |
| #2652, aired 1996-02-27 | 1959 $400: In August William F. Quinn was sworn in as its first governor Hawaii |
| #2636, aired 1996-02-05 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1878 the first salmon canneries were built in this new American possession Alaska |
| #2628, aired 1996-01-24 | AMERICAN HISTORY $2,500 (Daily Double): In 1912 Alaska became an organized U.S. territory & these 2 states joined the Union Arizona & New Mexico |
| #2623, aired 1996-01-17 | 1964 $200: March 27, 1964 wasn't a good Good Friday in Anchorage, Alaska: one of these struck Earthquake |
| #2622, aired 1996-01-16 | 19th CENTURY POLITICIANS $400: After retiring in 1869, this Secretary of State traveled the world, including a stop in Alaska William Seward |
| #2618, aired 1996-01-10 | "A" IN GEOGRAPHY $200: This U.S. state has thousands of lakes, including Minchumina, Naknek & Teshekpuk Alaska |
| #2605, aired 1995-12-22 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $100: Alaska's Pribilof Islands in this sea are noted as a breeding ground for fur seals the Bering Sea |
| #2601, aired 1995-12-18 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $200: Tok, the "Dog Capital of" this state, is noted for its annual sled dog race Alaska |
| #2592, aired 1995-12-05 | STATE FLAGS $200: The flag of this 49th state was designed in 1927 by a 13-year-old schoolboy Alaska |
| #2591, aired 1995-12-04 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: The 10 highest mountains in the U.S. are in this state Alaska |
| #2585, aired 1995-11-24 | STATE CAPITALS $400: You can visit the Last Chance Mining Museum in this capital of "The Last Frontier" Juneau, Alaska |
| #2583, aired 1995-11-22 | NATIONAL MONUMENTS $200: The USA's largest national monument, this state's Misty Fjords, consists of glaciers & long, deep fjords Alaska |
| #2568, aired 1995-11-01 | NATIONAL PARKS $500: With 8, this state has the most national parks Alaska |
| #2567, aired 1995-10-31 | BODIES OF WATER $200: A rich source of salmon, Alaska's Bristol Bay is an arm of this the Bering Sea |
| #2559, aired 1995-10-19 | 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $400: He failed to get Congress to annex Hawaii & purchase some Caribbean islands, but did get them to buy Alaska Seward |
| #2551, aired 1995-10-09 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $200: The Brooks Range in Alaska is the northern extension of this 3,000-mile-long mountain range the Rockies |
| #2545, aired 1995-09-29 | SEAFOOD $200: The Dungeness type of this is found in waters from Alaska to Mexico crab |
| #2531, aired 1995-09-11 | TRAVEL & TOURISM $200: A Juneau, Alaska fish hatchery, which has guided tours, hatches about 150 million of this fish's eggs each year salmon |
| #2529, aired 1995-09-07 | THE 1930s $200: A plane crash in Alaska killed this cowboy humorist on August 15, 1935 Will Rogers |
| #2529, aired 1995-09-07 | HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): The first Russian settlement in Alaska was established on this island in 1784 Kodiak Island |
| #2520, aired 1995-07-14 | STATE EMBLEMS $200: Its state motto is "North to the Future"; its tree, the Sitka spruce Alaska |
| #2517, aired 1995-07-11 | MAMMALS $500: This brown bear of Alaska rivals the polar bear as the largest carnivore a Kodiak |
| #2513, aired 1995-07-05 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200: The last Monday in March is Seward's Day in this state Alaska |
| #2510, aired 1995-06-30 | U.S. BODIES OF WATER $500: The Trans-Alaska pipeline runs between the Port of Valdez & this bay Prudhoe Bay |
| #2509, aired 1995-06-29 | ABBREV. $100: Alas, Alas. is an abbreviation for this state Alaska |
| #2507, aired 1995-06-27 | WHAT'S THE "POINT"? $500: Located in Alaska, it's the northernmost point of the U.S. Point Barrow |
| #2503, aired 1995-06-21 | SOUNDS $1,000 (Daily Double): Valdez, Alaska is connected to this sound by an inlet called Valdez Arm Prince William Sound |
| #2501, aired 1995-06-19 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600 (Daily Double): On a 1923 trip to Alaska, this president was presented with a moose-hide collar for his dog Laddie Boy Harding |
| #2485, aired 1995-05-26 | JUST DESSERTS $800: This dessert is ice cream set upon sponge cake, covered with meringue & browned in the oven baked Alaska |
| #2479, aired 1995-05-18 | THE ENVIRONMENT $200: While in what's now this state, naturalist John Muir discovered the glacier named for him Alaska |
| #2476, aired 1995-05-15 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $100: On October 18 this state remembers its transfer from Russia to the U.S. Alaska |
| #2472, aired 1995-05-09 | BODIES OF WATER $200: The narrowest part of this strait is between Cape Dezhnyov in Russia & Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska the Bering Strait |
| #2465, aired 1995-04-28 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $300: Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park is partly in Alaska & partly in this state Washington |
| #2460, aired 1995-04-21 | BIRDS $100: Between 1917 & 1954, Bounty hunters in Alaska killed more than 100,000 of these national birds bald eagles |
| #2448, aired 1995-04-05 | LANGUAGES $600: Of 20 native languages that once flourished in this U.S. state, only 2 forms of Yupik survive Alaska |
| #2431, aired 1995-03-13 | MAMMALS $200: The blue bear, whose fur appears bluish, lives in this U.S. state—maybe it's cold Alaska |
| #2431, aired 1995-03-13 | AMERICANA $400: Airports in Barrow, Alaska & Renton, Washington are named for this pair who died in a 1935 plane crash Will Rogers & Wiley Post |
| #2416, aired 1995-02-20 | NATIONAL PARKS $1000: The USA's largest Alaska cedar is found in this largest national park in Washington Olympic |
| #2410, aired 1995-02-10 | STATE CAPITALS $400 (Daily Double): The visitor information center for this capital city is located on Seward Street Juneau (Alaska) |
| #2378, aired 1994-12-28 | PARKS $200: This state's Kenai Fjords National Park is the site of the Harding icefield, one of the USA's major icefields Alaska |
| #2373, aired 1994-12-21 | U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS $1,400 (Daily Double): This state's population density is 1 person per square mile Alaska |
| #2368, aired 1994-12-14 | NATIONAL PARKS $100: Glacier National Park is located in Montana & Glacier Bay National Park is part of this state Alaska |
| #2355, aired 1994-11-25 | STATE CAPITALS $500: This city covers 3,108 square miles, making it the largest state capital in area in the U.S. Juneau, Alaska |
| #2348, aired 1994-11-16 | STATE SYMBOLS $500: This often-carved mineral is Alaska's state gem Jade |
| #2343, aired 1994-11-09 | THE 1950s $200: These 2 states were admitted to the Union in the 1950s Alaska & Hawaii |
| #2342, aired 1994-11-08 | U.S. STATES $400: It's the only U.S. state that's larger than Texas Alaska |
| #2340, aired 1994-11-04 | STATE CAPITALS $500: The Gastineau Salmon Hatchery is an attraction in this city that lies along the Gastineau Channel Juneau, Alaska |
| #2338, aired 1994-11-02 | U.S. PRESIDENTS $800: This U.S. president died in San Francisco on August 2, 1923 after an exhausting tour of Alaska Harding |
| #2335, aired 1994-10-28 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: In 1844 U.S. expansionists used this slogan urging that Oregon should reach the So. border of Alaska "fifty-four forty or fight" |
| #2331, aired 1994-10-24 | RUSSIAN HISTORY $200: Russia's first permanent settlement in this territory was founded in 1784 on Kodiak Island Alaska |
| #2330, aired 1994-10-21 | U.S. EXTREMES $500: 1 of 2 states whose lowest point is over 3,000 feet above sea level Colorado (or Wyoming) |
| #2329, aired 1994-10-20 | AMERICANA $100: This state is sometimes called "Icebergia" Alaska |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | GEOGRAPHY $1000: This river that begins in Canada & ends in Alaska is one of North America's 5 longest the Yukon |
| #2320, aired 1994-10-07 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $200: In 1838 this man who later bought Alaska was elected governor of New York William A. Seward |
| #2314, aired 1994-09-29 | MARINE DISASTERS $400: This ship ran aground on Bligh Reef in the Gulf of Alaska March 24, 1989 the Exxon Valdez |
| #2309, aired 1994-09-22 | GEOGRAPHY $1,900 (Daily Double): Alaska's westernmost mainland point is Cape Prince of Wales on this peninsula named for a politician the Seward Peninsula |
| #2304, aired 1994-09-15 | NEWSPAPERS $200: First published in 1900, the Nome Nugget is this state's oldest newspaper Alaska |
| #2300, aired 1994-09-09 | THE 50 STATES $400: Lava & ash from Novarupta Volcano created this state's Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes Alaska |
| #2298, aired 1994-09-07 | WEATHER $200: The lowest recorded temperature in the U.S. was -79.8 degrees F. on Jan. 23, 1971, in this state Alaska |
| #2292, aired 1994-07-19 | ANNUAL EVENTS $800: International Falls in this state is the site of the annual Ice Box Days Winter Festival in January Minnesota |
| #2286, aired 1994-07-11 | STATE FLAGS & SYMBOLS $200: This heavenly symbol is on more than 15 of the 50 flags, including those of Alaska & Tennessee stars |
| #2272, aired 1994-06-21 | NATIONAL MONUMENTS $200: 4,000-year-old Eskimo archaeological sites can be found at Cape Krusenstern Nat'l Monument in this state Alaska |
| #2237, aired 1994-05-03 | FLAGS $100: Alaska's flag shows the North Star & this constellation the Big Dipper |
| #2228, aired 1994-04-20 | MAGAZINES & NEWSPAPERS $1000: The first public newspaper in Alaska was established in 1868 in this Russian settlement Sitka |
| #2222, aired 1994-04-12 | BORDERS $500: Alaska borders British Columbia & this Canadian territory the Yukon |
| #2221, aired 1994-04-11 | U.S.A. $400: The extreme western part of Alaska's Aleutian Islands is in the same time zone as this other state Hawaii |
| #2220, aired 1994-04-08 | TRAVEL U.S.A. $300: The Seward Silver Salmon Derby is an annual summer event in this state Alaska |
| #2216, aired 1994-04-04 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $200: On July 7, 1958 President Eisenhower signed a bill making it the 49th state Alaska |
| #2207, aired 1994-03-22 | ALASKA $100: This capital city has an area of over 3,000 square miles & a population of under 30,000 Juneau |
| #2207, aired 1994-03-22 | ALASKA $200: This chain of islands is partly in the Eastern and partly in the Western Hemisphere the Aleutians |
| #2207, aired 1994-03-22 | ALASKA $300: Of 6%, 16% or 60%, the approximate percentage of Alaska's land owned by the federal govt. 60% |
| #2207, aired 1994-03-22 | ALASKA $400: This Dane credited with discovering Alaska died during his 1741 expedition to the area (Vitus) Bering |
| #2207, aired 1994-03-22 | ALASKA $500: Alaska's principal oil field is on the Arctic Coastal Plain around this bay Prudhoe (Bay) |
| #2200, aired 1994-03-11 | MOUNTAINS $400: In Alaska, 17,400-foot Mount Foraker is considered the sister peak of this mountain McKinley |
| #2192, aired 1994-03-01 | MOUNTAINS $200: This California mountain is the USA's 17th highest; it was No. 1 until 1959 Mount Whitney |
| #2184, aired 1994-02-17 | ISLANDS $400: Unimak is the closest island to Alaska in this chain the Aleutians |
| #2179, aired 1994-02-10 | MUSEUMS $200: Tlingit totem poles are on exhibit at the Sheldon Jackson Museum in Sitka in this state Alaska |
| #2170, aired 1994-01-28 | U.S.A. $200: The Bering Sea Ice Classic is a golf tournament played on ice in this U.S. state Alaska |
| #2162, aired 1994-01-18 | SILENT MOVIES $400: In 1942 Charlie Chaplin added his spoken narration to this 1925 film set in Alaska The Gold Rush |
| #2146, aired 1993-12-27 | GUINNESS RECORDS $200: The barrow ground squirrel of Alaska does this for 9 months of the year hibernates |
| #2143, aired 1993-12-22 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $100: This state's Seward peninsula includes the westernmost point on the North American mainland Alaska |
| #2138, aired 1993-12-15 | THE 1960s $200: The most powerful earthquake recorded in North America hit this state March 27, 1964 Alaska |
| #2137, aired 1993-12-14 | ANIMALS $100: More of these birds, symbols of the U.S., gather along Alaska's Chilkat River than anywhere else bald eagles |
| #2124, aired 1993-11-25 | 1954 $200: On April 1, the Senate voted to grant simultaneous statehood to these two territories Alaska & Hawaii |
| #2121, aired 1993-11-22 | VICE PRESIDENTS $800: Alaska's second most populous city is named for this man who was vice president from 1905-1909 Charles Fairbanks |
| #2110, aired 1993-11-05 | STATE SEALS $200: A grizzly bear stands next to the goddess Minerva on this state's seal California |
| #2108, aired 1993-11-03 | LAND OF ____ $600: Norway & Alaska are each known as the "Land of" this the Midnight Sun |
| #2101, aired 1993-10-25 | 1867 $200: Of about 2¢, 20¢ or $2, the amount per acre the U.S. paid Russia for Alaska 2¢ |
| #2101, aired 1993-10-25 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: Cape Alava in this state is the westernmost point in the contiguous 48 states Washington |
| #2100, aired 1993-10-22 | POLITICIANS $400: Don Young, a former mayor of Fort Yukon, became the sole House representative from this state in 1973 Alaska |
| #2096, aired 1993-10-18 | 1950 $200: After passing the House, bills to extend statehood to these 2 territories were shelved by the Senate Alaska & Hawaii |
| #2095, aired 1993-10-15 | MOUNTAINS $600: When Russia owned Alaska, this mountain was called Bolshaya, meaning "large" or "great" Denali (Mount McKinley) |
| #2092, aired 1993-10-12 | U.S. STATES $200: Aniakchak National Monument in this state is the 2500'-deep caldera of a volcano Alaska |
| #2086, aired 1993-10-04 | NATIONAL PARKS $100: Glacier National Park is in Montana & Glacier Bay National Park is in this state Alaska |
| #2083, aired 1993-09-29 | POLITICIANS $800: The only 2 Independent governors are Lowell Weicker of Connecticut & Walter Hickel of this state Alaska |
| #2081, aired 1993-09-27 | JEOPARDY! STATE NICKNAMES $400: Maine's nickname is the "Pine Tree State", so this might be called the "Sitka Spruce State" Alaska |
| #2077, aired 1993-09-21 | PACIFIC CITIES $400: This city's name came from ships stopping offshore to bring materials for the Alaska Railroad Anchorage |
| #2074, aired 1993-09-16 | ETHNIC GROUPS $400: This group related to the Eskimos lives on the islands between Siberia & Alaska the Aleuts |
| #2070, aired 1993-09-10 | MODERN HISTORY $600: 117 lives were lost during an 8.4 earthquake near this largest Alaska city in 1964 Anchorage |
| #2069, aired 1993-09-09 | CATS $1000: This state's coon cat is America's oldest breed Maine |
| #2068, aired 1993-09-08 | DEER $300: The largest kind of this largest member of the deer family lives in Alaska a moose |
| #2061, aired 1993-07-19 | DIPLOMACY $400: In 1867 Baron de Stoeckl & this Secretary of State drew the treaty that ceded Alaska to the U.S. Seward |
| #2050, aired 1993-07-02 | THE 50 STATES $200: Only Wyoming has fewer people than this largest state in area Alaska |
| #2025, aired 1993-05-28 | "RED", "WHITE" & "BLUE" $500: This city on the Alaska Highway is the Yukon headquarters for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Whitehorse |
| #2020, aired 1993-05-21 | U.S. STATES $600: In 1992 most of this state's permanent residents got $915.84 from its oil revenues Alaska |
| #2011, aired 1993-05-10 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $100: This state's Malaspina Glacier covers an area about the size of Rhode Island Alaska |
| #2001, aired 1993-04-26 | U.S. HISTORY $400: People thought his Alaska purchase silly, so he reminded them that it was cheap Seward |
| #1999, aired 1993-04-22 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $500: This state's Northwest Angle on Lake of the Woods is the northernmost point in the USA except for Alaska Minnesota |
| #1994, aired 1993-04-15 | SLOGANS & MOTTOES $500: This state adopted "North to the Future" in 1967 after it was suggested by a local newspaperman Alaska |
| #1993, aired 1993-04-14 | POTENT POTABLES $200: You need gin & yellow chartreuse to make this cocktail named for a state; you might sip it in Sitka an Alaska |
| #1992, aired 1993-04-13 | WORDS WITHIN WORDS $300: If you want to know something about Alaska, just do this ask (in Alaska) |
| #1990, aired 1993-04-09 | DEMOCRATS $600: This state's entire Cong. delegation is Democratic, including Rep. Patsy T. Mink & Sen. Daniel Akaka Hawaii |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | ARCHAEOLOGY $200: Similar artifacts found in Siberia & off Alaska indicate that a land bridge once existed across this strait the Bering Strait |
| #1984, aired 1993-04-01 | STATE MOTTOES $700 (Daily Double): "The Star of the North" is not Alaska's motto but the motto of this northernmost of the lower 48 states Minnesota |
| #1973, aired 1993-03-17 | U.S. STATES $300: California had a gold rush beginning in 1848 & what's now this state had one beginning in 1896 Alaska |
| #1972, aired 1993-03-16 | AMERICAN HISTORY $200: In 1784 Grigori Shelikhov founded the first Russian settlement in what is now this state Alaska |
| #1963, aired 1993-03-03 | CANADIAN CAPITALS $1000: Whitehorse is the capital of this Canadian territory that borders Alaska Yukon |
| #1956, aired 1993-02-22 | U.S. HISTORY $200: Organized as a territory in 1912, it became a state January 3, 1959 Alaska |
| #1949, aired 1993-02-11 | LITERATURE $400: Edna Ferber's last novel, "Ice Palace", has seen credited with helping this territory become a state Alaska |
| #1931, aired 1993-01-18 | ALASKA $200: On January 3, 1959 he signed the proclamation making Alaska a state Eisenhower |
| #1931, aired 1993-01-18 | ALASKA $400: Mainland Alaska has about 5,500 miles of Pacific coastline & about 1,000 miles on this ocean the Arctic Ocean |
| #1931, aired 1993-01-18 | ALASKA $600: Alaskans voted to move the capital from this city to Willow but rejected plans to pay for it Juneau |
| #1931, aired 1993-01-18 | ALASKA $800: The main campus of the University of Alaska is in this city, not Anchorage Fairbanks |
| #1931, aired 1993-01-18 | ALASKA $1000: In 1968 large deposits of oil were discovered at this bay on the state's North Slope Prudhoe Bay |
| #1919, aired 1992-12-31 | 1923 $1000: In July he became the first U.S. president to visit Alaska while in office Harding |
| #1907, aired 1992-12-15 | SURVEY SAYS $500: The National Automobile Dealers Assoc. says this state has the fewest new-car dealerships Alaska |
| #1905, aired 1992-12-11 | STRAITS $100: The Diomede Islands, one belonging to Russia, the other to Alaska, lie in this strait the Bering Strait |
| #1889, aired 1992-11-19 | MOUNTAINS $400: Not only does Alaska have this, the highest U.S. peak, it has the next 15 tallest, too Mt. McKinley |
| #1888, aired 1992-11-18 | BODIES OF WATER $1000: An inlet of the Beaufort Sea, this bay is the starting point of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Prudhoe Bay |
| #1879, aired 1992-11-05 | FORESTS $300: At 16.7 million acres, Tongass National Forest in this state is the USA's largest Alaska |
| #1876, aired 1992-11-02 | THE 50 STATES $100: This state's first railroad was the White Pass & Yukon Railway, which began running in 1898 Alaska |
| #1866, aired 1992-10-19 | JUST DESSERTS $500: The layer of this that tops Baked Alaska insulates the ice cream & helps keep it from melting meringue |
| #1859, aired 1992-10-08 | 1980 $400: Planning on sharing its oil profits with its residents, this U.S. state dropped its income tax Alaska |
| #1857, aired 1992-10-06 | RUSSIAN HISTORY $200: In 1867 Russia sold this territory to the U.S. for $7,200,000 Alaska |
| #1839, aired 1992-09-10 | THE 50 STATES $1,200 (Daily Double): Its coastline is longer than any other state's except Alaska Florida |
| #1838, aired 1992-09-09 | TRANSPORTATION $200: This pipeline opened in 1977 at an estimated cost of $7.7 billion the Alaska Pipeline |
| #1837, aired 1992-09-08 | STATE SYMBOLS $200: In 1972 this state declared dog mushing the state sport Alaska |
| #1791, aired 1992-05-18 | GEOGRAPHY $400: In 1886 Congress "closed" this sea off Alaska due to indiscriminate fur-sealing practices of other nations the Bering Sea |
| #1765, aired 1992-04-10 | REPUBLICANS $400: The first Whig governor of N.Y., he later turned Republican & purchased Alaska as Sec'y of State Seward |
| #1756, aired 1992-03-30 | THE 1980s $400: In 1989 this ruptured tanker released 11 mil. gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound Exxon Valdez |
| #1755, aired 1992-03-27 | U.S. STATES $600 (Daily Double): 1 of 2 states whose state fish is the Chinook salmon (1 of) Alaska or Oregon |
| #1750, aired 1992-03-20 | ISLANDS $200: The Alexander Archipelago, discovered by Bering & Chirikov, is now a part of this U.S. state Alaska |
| #1746, aired 1992-03-16 | HISTORY $800: This Dane in the service of Peter the Great established Russia's claim to Alaska in 1741 (Vitus) Bering |
| #1744, aired 1992-03-12 | MOOSE POTPOURRI $300: This state's Kenai Municipal Airport has ordered new security gates to keep moose out Alaska |
| #1740, aired 1992-03-06 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $400: The westernmost and northernmost points in the U.S. are both located in this state Alaska |
| #1737, aired 1992-03-03 | U.S. CITIES $500: Sometimes called the "Gateway to Alaska", it's the largest metropolis in the Pacific Northwest Seattle |
| #1731, aired 1992-02-24 | STATE NICKNAMES $400: "The Last Frontier" Alaska |
| #1714, aired 1992-01-30 | U.S.A. $400: It's the only state that touches the Chukchi Sea Alaska |
| #1707, aired 1992-01-21 | HISTORIC SITES $100: This territory was formally transferred to the U.S. at Castle Hill in Sitka Alaska |
| #1703, aired 1992-01-15 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $200: Alaska Airlines is headquartered in this Washington city, not in Alaska Seattle |
| #1698, aired 1992-01-08 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $600: The Matanuska Valley produces about 3/4 of this 49th state's agricultural products Alaska |
| #1697, aired 1992-01-07 | FOOD $100: This egg white concoction tops Baked Alaska & certain lemon pies meringue |
| #1696, aired 1992-01-06 | U.S. CITIES $1,200 (Daily Double): After Juneau, Alaska, this northern Florida city is the largest in area in the U.S. Jacksonville |
| #1692, aired 1991-12-31 | AMERICAN HISTORY $600: The 1844 slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight" referred to the southern boundary of this Russian territory Alaska |
| #1689, aired 1991-12-26 | U.S. STATES $200: In 1912 this future state became a territory Alaska |
| #1681, aired 1991-12-16 | CONTEMPORARY NOVELS $800: Chapter IX of this James Michener novel is titled "The Golden Beaches of Nome" Alaska |
| #1666, aired 1991-11-25 | FAMOUS NAMES $300: Walter Hickel, interior sec'y under this president, was elected Gov. of Alaska in 1990 Richard Nixon |
| #1657, aired 1991-11-12 | SHELLFISH $100: Popular varieties on the West Coast include the Dungeness & Alaska king crab |
| #1653, aired 1991-11-06 | MOUNTAINS $400: Until Alaska became a state, this mountain was the U.S.A.'s tallest Mount Whitney |
| #1649, aired 1991-10-31 | EXPLORERS $600: On his return trip from Alaska in 1741, this Dane died of scurvy on an island off Siberia Vitus Bering |
| #1647, aired 1991-10-29 | AREA CODES $200: In area it's the largest state that has just 1 area code: 907 Alaska |
| #1646, aired 1991-10-28 | NATIONAL PARKS $1000: Denali National Park in Alaska was formerly known by this name Mount McKinley |
| #1640, aired 1991-10-18 | U.S.A. $200: To an Aleutian this state's name means mainland Alaska |
| #1637, aired 1991-10-15 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $400: Secretary of State who bought Alaska from Russia Seward |
| #1630, aired 1991-10-04 | U.S. CITIES $100: Alaska's most populous city; it was founded in 1914 as a construction base for the Alaska Railroad Anchorage |
| #1618, aired 1991-09-18 | TV DOCTORS $200: In "Northern Exposure" Rob Morrow plays a New York doctor working in this state Alaska |
| #1605, aired 1991-07-19 | EDUCATION $400: The 1st schools in Alaska were established in the 1820s by this country Russia |
| #1603, aired 1991-07-17 | VICE PRESIDENTS $400: Alaska's 2nd largest city is named for this man, Teddy Roosevelt's vice president (Charles) Fairbanks |
| #1596, aired 1991-07-08 | U.S. STATES $100: Not surprisingly, this state's official sport is mushing Alaska |
| #1587, aired 1991-06-25 | U.S. GOVERNORS $800: New Alaska governor, who as Secretary of the Interior, insisted oil companies pay for their spills Walter Hickel |
| #1580, aired 1991-06-14 | STATE QUOTES $400: Pres. Eisenhower said this state constituted "a bridge to the continent of Asia and all its peoples" Alaska |
| #1569, aired 1991-05-30 | FOOD & DRINK $600: The French call this hot cake, ice cream & meringue dessert "Omelette norvegienne" baked Alaska |
| #1567, aired 1991-05-28 | ANNUAL EVENTS $400: Alaska's annual world-classic Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race runs from Anchorage to this city Nome |
| #1550, aired 1991-05-03 | U.S.A. $1,700 (Daily Double): Port at the end of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline that was explored & named by Spaniards Valdez |
| #1519, aired 1991-03-21 | U.S. STATES $300: This state's first governor, William A. Egan, was reelected in 1970 Alaska |
| #1489, aired 1991-02-07 | STATE SEALS $200: It's seal shows 2 seals, a mother & its pup, & symbols of icebergs, native people & Northern Lights Alaska |
| #1482, aired 1991-01-29 | LAKES & RIVERS $500: The 2nd largest freshwater lake entirely within the U.S. is Lake Iliamna in this state Alaska |
| #1477, aired 1991-01-22 | ALASKA $100: In 1974, Alaskans voted to replace this city as the capital, but changed their minds in 1982 Juneau |
| #1477, aired 1991-01-22 | ALASKA $200: It comprises most of the state's commercial fishing catch salmon |
| #1477, aired 1991-01-22 | ALASKA $300: A National Historical park in Skagway preserves buildings associated with this 1890s event the gold rush |
| #1477, aired 1991-01-22 | ALASKA $400: Alaska's official motto is "North to" this the future |
| #1477, aired 1991-01-22 | ALASKA $500: The oil field at this Arctic Bay is the largest in North America Prudhoe Bay |
| #1470, aired 1991-01-11 | SEAS $600: 1 of 2 seas that begin with B's off the coast of Alaska Bering (or Beaufort) |
| #1464, aired 1991-01-03 | AMERICAN HISTORY $100: Ironically, Horace Greeley disapproved of this 1867 purchase Alaska |
| #1462, aired 1991-01-01 | WORLD GEOGRAPHY $400: The northernmost spot in the United States is this point in Alaska Point Barrow |
| #1444, aired 1990-12-06 | U.S. GEOGRAPHY $200: Every US summit over 15,000 feet above sea level is in this state Alaska |
| #1441, aired 1990-12-03 | NATIONAL PARKS $1000: 1 of 2 national parks named for a lake (1 of) Crater Lake (or Lake Clark) |
| #1427, aired 1990-11-13 | BIRDS $200: The willow ptarmigan, which makes its home in Arctic areas, is this state's official bird Alaska |
| #1410, aired 1990-10-19 | PUBLISHING $300: The first public newspaper in this state was the Sitka Times, published in 1868 Alaska |
| #1394, aired 1990-09-27 | U.S. STATES $200: The name of this state is often found in desserts made with ice cream Alaska |
| #1390, aired 1990-09-21 | U.S. CITIES $400: In 1970 this state capital merged with Douglas, Alaska to form the largest U.S. in area Juneau |
| #1387, aired 1990-09-18 | U.S.A. $200: Most of the world's northern fur seals go to the Pribilof Islands in this state during breeding season Alaska |
| #1380, aired 1990-09-07 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $200: On the last Monday in March this state celebrates Seward's Day to commemorate its purchase Alaska |
| #8, aired 1990-08-04 | POTPOURRI $600: Our largest national park outside Alaska Yellowstone |
| #8, aired 1990-08-04 | THE NEW WORLD $2000: This Russian capital of Alaska was originally called New Archangel Sitka |
| #1375, aired 1990-07-20 | WEATHER $200: The highest known barometer reading in the U.S., 31.85, was recorded in this state during a 1989 cold wave Alaska |
| #1370, aired 1990-07-13 | IN THE NEWS $500: In late 1989 & early 1990 Redoubt Volcano in this state came back to life after 25 dormant years Alaska |
| #2, aired 1990-06-23 | U.S. STATES $1500: While Washington has no official state fish, these 2 states have chosen a salmon Oregon and Alaska |
| #1, aired 1990-06-16 | "B" IN GEOGRAPHY $200: Strait separating Alaska & the Soviet Union the Bering Strait |
| #1346, aired 1990-06-11 | AVIATION FIRSTS $800: In 1933 he became the first man to fly solo around the world; 2 years later he died in a crash in Alaska Wiley Post |
| #1345, aired 1990-06-08 | AMERICAN HISTORY $400: Mass. Senator Charles Sumner gave this area its name, based on the Aleut word meaning "the great land" Alaska |
| #1344, aired 1990-06-07 | MONTANA $800: Number of U.S. states larger than Montana 3 |
| #1341, aired 1990-06-04 | STATE NICKNAMES $200: "Seward's Icebox" Alaska |
| #1332, aired 1990-05-22 | "NORTH" $400 (Daily Double): This 1960 hit song served as the title tune to a 20th Century Fox film: "North To Alaska" (by Johnny Horton) |
| #1329, aired 1990-05-17 | ISLANDS $200: The Pacific Ocean islands of Kanaga, Adak & Unimak are part of this state Alaska |
| #1312, aired 1990-04-24 | DESSERTS $100: Because of its cold ice cream interior & hot meringue covering, it was once called "Alaska-Florida" Baked Alaska |
| #1311, aired 1990-04-23 | AMERICAN ISLANDS $300: This island, known for its huge bears, was the site of Alaska's first school in 1784 Kodiak |
