| #9084, aired 2024-04-18 | BOOKS IN HISTORY $800: Alfred Thayer Mahan changed military thinking with his 1890 work on this type of power that he said had made Britain dominant sea power (the Navy) |
| #9053, aired 2024-03-06 | OLYMPIC HISTORY $600: In 1912 Martin Klein pinned Alfred Asikainen after an epic 11-hour, 40-minute bout in this hyphenated wrestling style Greco-Roman wrestling |
| #9049, aired 2024-02-29 | DETECTIVE FICTION $600: Ganache is a mix of chocolate & cream; this is a detective in Quebec created by Louise Penny & played on TV by Alfred Molina Gamache |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | FROM PAGE TO SCREAM $1600: Daphne du Maurier penned this tale of gulls gone wild that later became an Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | CLASSIC TOYS & GAMES $1000: Alfred Butts invented this board game in 1931; he called it Criss-Cross Words Scrabble |
| #9021, aired 2024-01-22 | WORD ORIGINS $1000: An Old English word for "sea" gave us this word for the creatures whose singing J. Alfred Prufrock has heard mermaids |
| #8991, aired 2023-12-11 | THE 7 DEADLY SIN-ONYMS $1600: For lust:
A perfume from Alfred Dunhill Desire |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: Alfred Hitchcock, "The Master of" this tense feeling, defined it as when the audience knows more than the characters suspense |
| #8959, aired 2023-10-26 | THE CAMERA MAN $200: Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped a sailor kissing a nurse on the August 1945 day known as this V-J Day |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | 21st CENTURY BARTLETT'S QUOTATIONS $600: In the screenplay to this film, Christopher Nolan co-wrote the line "Some men just want to watch the world burn" The Dark Knight |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | BUILDING, AMERICA $400: In September 1930 former governor Alfred E. Smith laid the cornerstone for this building that would top off at 103 stories the Empire State Building |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | SCIENCE CLASS $800: Alfred Nobel invented dynamite by mixing kieselguhr, a type of chalky earth, with this liquid explosive nitroglycerin |
| #8920, aired 2023-07-21 | OLD HOLLYWOOD SCRIBES $400: Dorothy Parker contributed to the script for "Saboteur", a 1942 thriller by this director Alfred Hitchcock |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | A LITTLE READING MATERIAL $200: Harvey Kurtzman saw a postcard that had the caption "Me worry", which inspired this magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | ACTORS PLAYING PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: In a 1997 film Stephen Fry played this Irish poet & dramatist, while Jude Law played Lord Alfred Douglas Oscar Wilde |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | LOVE $2000: "Do I dare to eat a peach?" muses the middle-aged man in this T.S. Eliot poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | POETS' RHYME TIME $2000: Lord Alfred's blessings Tennyson's benisons |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARS $2000: "Tears, Idle Tears" is an 1847 poem by this long-lived lord & poet laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | YOU CAN QUOTE "ME" $400: Relax & quote this 3-word catchphrase of Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman What, me worry? |
| #8738, aired 2022-11-09 | 3-NAMED PEOPLE $2000: This 3-named naturalist came up with the natural selection theory around the same time as Darwin, spurring Darwin to go public Alfred Russel Wallace |
| #8706, aired 2022-09-26 | COUNTRY MEN & WOMEN $200: Astrid Lindgren &
Alfred Nobel Sweden |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | NOT A FEATURE $200: Not Donald but he is tormented by an all-powerful animator in the classic short "Duck Amuck" Daffy Duck |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS $600: Centro Cultural Kirchner; Monumento a Eva Peron Buenos Aires |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | DOUBLE TALK $1000: Something fancy & frilly, or the name of a character in "The Aristocats" froufrou |
| #8688, aired 2022-07-20 | HEY, NICE "AB"s! $1600: Irritating & grating, or a substance used to grate away by friction an abrasive |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | PARTNERS IN RHYME $1600: Ezra Pound helped publish this T.S. Eliot poem that rhymes, "In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #8648, aired 2022-05-25 | MOVIE SUPERVILLAINS $400: Really, this Alfred Molina character only had 4 tentacles, but having "Quadro-" as part of his name wouldn't work Doctor Octopus |
| #8646, aired 2022-05-23 | RELATIVELY SUCCESSFUL COMPOSERS $1200: Alfred of the Newman composing dynasty wrote the drum & horn fanfare that goes with the searchlight for this movie studio (20th Century) Fox |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | POSSESSIVE THINGS $1000: 9th c. English King Alfred the Great collected this saint's "Pence" for the pope; you can donate to a fund of the same name Peter's Pence |
| #8605, aired 2022-03-25 | THE ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES $800: (Jimmy presents the clue from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.) An exhibit on backdrop showcases the monumental one of Mount Rushmore that Alfred Hitchcock used after he was denied permission to shoot scenes on the real one to make this thriller North by Northwest |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE $2000: Georgia O'Keeffe wrote often to this photographer whom she called "Dearest Duck" Alfred Stieglitz |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | POETRY $400: "Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets", says "The Love Song of" him J. Alfred Prufrock |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | POETIC OBJECTS $2000: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" contains the sad line "I have measured out my life with" these utensils coffee spoons |
| #8503, aired 2021-11-03 | COFFEE IS LIFE $400: Opened in 1971, this Seattle coffee chain used the roasting techniques of competitor Alfred Peet Starbucks |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | THE VIKINGS $2000: This "Great" Anglo-Saxon king defeated an army of invading Danish Vikings at the Battle of Edington in 878 Alfred the Great |
| #8488, aired 2021-10-13 | HODGEPODGE $200: Alfred Vail, this guy's assistant & partner, improved on his code for telegraphy Morse |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | PARDON MY FRENCHMAN $400: President Émile Loubet pardoned this wrongly accused Jewish military officer in September 1899 (Alfred) Dreyfus |
| #8469, aired 2021-09-16 | THE FIRST NAME THEIR MOM CHOSE $400: Al Sharpton,
& also
Alf Landon Alfred |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | FAMOUS FAMILIES $800: Last name of siblings Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles & John, who in 1884 started the "World's Greatest Shows" circus Ringling |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | A POET LAUREATE $800: Dear lord! His "In Memoriam" was memorable enough to help him become Britain's laureate in 1850 (Alfred, Lord) Tennyson |
| #8428, aired 2021-06-23 | CATCH $2,000 (Daily Double): Alfred Glassell set a record catching a "black" one of these in 1953; footage of the catch was later used in "The Old Man and the Sea" a marlin |
| #8354, aired 2021-03-11 | LINE, ITEM $800: T.S. Eliot asked, "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat" this fruit? a peach |
| #8329, aired 2021-02-04 | POETRY $1600: The 1827 volume "Poems By Two Brothers" had poems by 3 brothers in this family: Charles, Frederick & oh, Lord, Alfred Tennyson |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES $800: Alfred Nobel made the dynamite discovery that this volatile liquid can be made safer if mixed with a certain type of dirt nitroglycerin |
| #8283, aired 2020-11-18 | WORRY LINES $800: "What, me worry?" is the motto of this Mad Magazine cover boy Alfred E. Neuman |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | AMERICAN NAMES $1000: Passions were inflamed in the 1940s when this researcher published his findings on Americans' sex lives (Alfred) Kinsey |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In a novel by Jonathan Franzen, Alfred Lambert & his son Chip face their failures to make these, the title of the book corrections |
| #8240, aired 2020-09-18 | BO, JACK $400: Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog" was inspired by this notorious Whitechapel prowler Jack the Ripper |
| #8210, aired 2020-04-24 | 20th CENTURY AUTHORS $1200: Chronicler of Broadway life Alfred Runyon went by this middle name; it has more of a ring to it Damon |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | UNIQUE COLLEGE COURSES $200: Sweet! Alfred University in New York offered a course on this pancake topper maple syrup |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | POETRY $5,000 (Daily Double): In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", he wrote, "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" (T.S.) Eliot |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | A BROADWAY CAST OF CHARACTERS $1600: In a musical: Henry Higgins, Alfred P. Doolittle My Fair Lady |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | GOATS (GREATEST OF ALL TIME) $400: In this year, Alfred Eisenstaedt captured what became one of the most iconic photos of all time 1945 |
| #8053, aired 2019-09-18 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Alfred Uhry based the character of Hoke in this play on the black chauffeur of his childhood Driving Miss Daisy |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | AN EXPLOSIVE CATEGORY $400: Alfred Nobel added an inert substance to very unstable nitroglycerin to make this more easily handled explosive dynamite |
| #8014, aired 2019-06-13 | 5 NOBEL TRUTHS $1200: Alfred Nobel wrote that one of the prizes should reward discovery "in the domain of" this "or medicine" physiology |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | WAR IN LITERATURE $400: Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" recounted events from this 19th century war the Crimean War |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | THINGS THAT HAPPENED $1600: Alfred Nobel wrote that it was "the irony of fate" to be prescribed this for his angina late in life nitroglycerin |
| #7975, aired 2019-04-19 | AUTO-BIOGRAPHIES $800: "Billy (Durant), Alfred (P. Sloan) &" this Big 3 car company is a very specific biography General Motors |
| #7953, aired 2019-03-20 | ARTISTS ON FILM $400: Alfred Molina played him in "Frida" Diego Rivera |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden):
At the Nobel Museum shop, you can pick up our own chocolate medal with Alfred Nobel on the front or admire a replica of the literature one on which a young writer listens to one of these mythic inspirations singing. a muse |
| #7922, aired 2019-02-05 | SUCCESSION $400: In 1896 the perhaps less skilled Alfred Austin succeeded Tennyson in this literary post poet laureate |
| #7897, aired 2019-01-01 | WORLD HISTORY $1,000 (Daily Double): Paris' Museum of Jewish Art & History has the stripes that were unjustly pulled off the uniform of this capt. in 1895 Alfred Dreyfus |
| #7856, aired 2018-11-05 | BRITISH HISTORY $7,400 (Daily Double): King of Wessex, this great monarch prevented England from completely falling to the Danes in the 800s Alfred the Great |
| #7855, aired 2018-11-02 | CAST IRONS $400: In 2017's "Justice League", Jeremy Irons played this Batman butler Alfred |
| #7838, aired 2018-10-10 | MOVIE BY MacGUFFIN $400: Alfred Hitchcock defined the MacGuffin as the item everyone is after, like the microfilm in this Cary Grant film North by Northwest |
| #7836, aired 2018-10-08 | TRAVEL BOOKS $1000: Alfred Lansing wrote "Endurance", about this man's 1915 escape from Antarctica Shackleton |
| #7826, aired 2018-09-24 | PAINTED LADIES $1200: Seen here, John William Waterhouse's "The Lady of Shalott" was inspired by this Brit's narrative poem Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #7824, aired 2018-09-20 | TOYS & GAMES $400: Alfred Butts glued gridded blueprints onto checkerboards & hand-lettered wood tiles to create this game Scrabble |
| #7813, aired 2018-07-25 | "RED" $400: Pennyworth or E. Neuman Alfred |
| #7779, aired 2018-06-07 | PHOTOGRAPHY $800: Alfred Eisenstaedt & Margaret Bourke-White were among the first photographers for this weekly picture magazine Life magazine |
| #7762, aired 2018-05-15 | THE KING'S ENGLISH $2,000 (Daily Double): The third English king of this name was the first born in England; the first 2 were born in Lower Saxony George |
| #7733, aired 2018-04-04 | ENTREPRENEURS $2000: A descendant of a Mayflower passenger, Alfred Fuller made a name for himself selling these brushes |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | ALFRED NOBEL, THIS IS YOUR LIFE $400: Alfred's will lays out his prizes, specifying that one is for holding these congresses & reducing standing armies Peace Prize (or peace congresses) |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | ALFRED NOBEL, THIS IS YOUR LIFE $800: In 1863 Nobel patented this innovative "cap", a detonator for triggering explosives a blasting cap |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | ALFRED NOBEL, THIS IS YOUR LIFE $1200: A turning point was when this type of newspaper article was published in error & Alfred was shocked by how he'd be remembered an obituary |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | ALFRED NOBEL, THIS IS YOUR LIFE $1600: Early in his career, a factory Alfred had built to produce this liquid explosive blew up, killing his brother Emil nitroglycerin |
| #7728, aired 2018-03-28 | ALFRED NOBEL, THIS IS YOUR LIFE $2000: An ailing Alfred died in this Italian city then known for "San"atoria & now for a music festival Sanremo |
| #7724, aired 2018-03-22 | MIDDLE INITIAL E. $600: We're mad for this cover boy seen here Alfred E. Neuman |
| #7720, aired 2018-03-16 | A SECOND SCREEN EXPERIENCE $1000: Alfred Molina was transformed into this heavily armed villain in "Spider-Man 2" Doctor Octopus |
| #7718, aired 2018-03-14 | EARTH SCIENCE $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed this theory of geological movement that was an important precursor to the concept of plate tectonics continental drift |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | WRITERS & WRITING $400: This author of the letter "J'accuse", which sparked the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus, died of carbon monoxide poisoning (Émile) Zola |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK RESENTS $800: Hitchcock hated eggs & said this liquid was "jolly" compared with runny yolk blood |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK RESENTS $1200: After Vera Miles' pregnancy, Hitch lost interest in her; Kim Novak got the lead in this film instead Vertigo |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK RESENTS $1600: Hitch planned every detail in advance; asked what work there was for this professional, he said, "None" the editor |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK RESENTS $2000: Michael Caine angered Hitch by refusing a killer role in "Frenzy" but slashed away in this director's "Dressed to Kill" Brian De Palma |
| #7645, aired 2017-12-01 | MEDIEVAL FOLKS WHO COULD WRITE $2000: Around 880 Edred, archbishop of Canterbury, wrote to the pope to tell on this "Great" English king who was harassing him Alfred (the Great) |
| #7636, aired 2017-11-20 | PRISONS $400: Alfred Dreyfus spent a hellish 4 years & change in captivity on this island Devil's Island |
| #7632, aired 2017-11-14 | POETS & POETRY $400: "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?" asks T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of" him J. Alfred Prufrock |
| #7619, aired 2017-10-26 | OLD POETS' NICKNAMES $2000: "The Lady of Christ's College" (maybe for his fair complexion) & "The British Homer" Milton |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | EIGHTYSOMETHING $2000: This British Nobel Prize-winning author of The Golden Notebook was 88 when she published Alfred and Emily Doris Lessing |
| #7523, aired 2017-05-03 | SUPERHERO TV SUPPORTING CHARACTERS $800: Alfred Pennyworth & Oswald Cobblepot (AKA the Penguin) Gotham |
| #7502, aired 2017-04-04 | QUOTATIONS $800: This director told Francois Truffaut, "What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #7479, aired 2017-03-02 | THE POET WRITES $400: "'Charge for the guns!' he said, into the valley of death rode the six hundred" Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #7466, aired 2017-02-13 | SEMILITERATE BEFORE & AFTER $2000: 9th century English king who lived in West Egg, New York in a 1920s novel Alfred the Great Gatsby |
| #7411, aired 2016-11-28 | SKY LINES $400: This T.S. Eliot "Love" poem begins, "Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky" "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #7396, aired 2016-11-07 | ART & ARTISTS $400: In 1945's "Spellbound", Alfred Hitchcock filmed a trippy dream sequence designed by this Surrealist (Salvador) Dalí |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | A POETIC CATEGORY $1600: A poem by this British poet laureate ends, "I hope to see my pilot face to face when I have crossed the bar" Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #7373, aired 2016-10-05 | TECH TOOLS $2000: This name of a fictional butler is also an app to Mac-simize your productivity Alfred |
| #7369, aired 2016-09-29 | HONORS & AWARDS $400: The award in these sciences is technically not a Nobel Prize but the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Memory of Alfred Nobel economics |
| #7368, aired 2016-09-28 | CITY BOOKS $2000: City preceding "Alexanderplatz" in the title of an Alfred Doblin novel Berlin |
| #7362, aired 2016-09-20 | FRIENDS $2000: In 1961 this "J. Alfred Prufrock" poet became pen pals with Groucho; the 2 finally met just before the poet's 1965 death T.S. Eliot |
| #7333, aired 2016-06-29 | THE GOLD BURGLARS $400: In the role of Satipo, he's the gold-thieving actor seen here, trying to relieve Indiana Jones of his booty Alfred Molina |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | DOUBLE "R" $200: It completes the motto of Mad magazine's zany icon Alfred E. Neuman: "What--me..." worry? |
| #7249, aired 2016-03-03 | YOU GET 95 YEARS $1000: 1895:
J'accuse the French army of stripping this man of his rank in a public ceremony Alfred Dreyfus |
| #7223, aired 2016-01-27 | INFLUENTIAL NONFICTION $2000: His research study "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" was a sensation in 1953 (Alfred) Kinsey |
| #7209, aired 2016-01-07 | FLOWERY PROSE $1200: This 1987 play about the friendship between a widow & her chauffeur won Alfred Uhry a Pulitzer Prize Driving Miss Daisy |
| #7195, aired 2015-12-18 | MOVIE CAMEOS $1000: From "Rebecca" on, this director appeared in all of his films; he sat next to Cary Grant on a bus in "To Catch a Thief" (Alfred) Hitchcock |
| #7161, aired 2015-11-02 | THE BRITISH MONARCH WHO... $2000: defeated the Danes at the Battle of Edington in 878 Alfred the Great |
| #7139, aired 2015-10-01 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: On May 24, 1844 he sent the historic message "What hath God wrought" to his partner Alfred Vail Morse |
| #7121, aired 2015-07-27 | STATE OF THE ESTATE $800: Built by Alfred I. DuPont, Nemours Mansion Delaware |
| #7100, aired 2015-06-26 | SERIOUS NONFICTION $800: In 1948 Dr. Alfred Kinsey caused a sensation when he reported on this type of "Behavior in the Human Male" sexual |
| #7085, aired 2015-06-05 | AMERICAN POETRY $800: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" rhymes, "In the room the women come and go talking of" this Italian artist Michelangelo |
| #7078, aired 2015-05-27 | THE LATE 19th CENTURY $800: In the 1860s he combined nitroglycerin with a chalky substance called Kieselguhr to make a safe explosive (Alfred) Nobel |
| #7047, aired 2015-04-14 | TREATIES $2000: In 886 this "Great" king of Wessex negotiated a treaty with the Danes giving him the southern part of Great Britain Alfred the Great |
| #7023, aired 2015-03-11 | THE EMERALD AISLE $2000: The firm formed when he married Estelle Arpels created a 150-carat engraved emerald for the Shah's wife (Alfred) Van Cleef |
| #7000, aired 2015-02-06 | BAD POETRY ABOUT POETS $1,600 (Daily Double): My big number is 600 / Somehow I rhymed it with "blunder'd" / As a rhyme, not very cool / But they teach my stuff in school! Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | SPECIAL ED $1200: I admit it all! Descended from Alfred the Great, this Anglo-Saxon was crowned king in 1042! Edward the Confessor |
| #6937, aired 2014-11-11 | OPERA MAN $1200: In "Die Fledermaus" Frosch the jailer comically has problems keeping Alfred from doing this in his cell singing |
| #6933, aired 2014-11-05 | FILMS OF THE 1950s $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Mount Rushmore, South Dakota.) Alfred Hitchcock always wanted to do a chase scene across the faces of Mount Rushmore; that chase scene became the climax of this 1959 thriller North by Northwest |
| #6932, aired 2014-11-04 | POETRY & THEE $400: He penned, "Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred" (Alfred, Lord) Tennyson |
| #6909, aired 2014-10-02 | AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES $200 (Daily Double): Unemployed when the revolution began, he was hired to outfit the frigate Alfred John Paul Jones |
| #6877, aired 2014-07-08 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $1000: In 1935 as Petruchio in "Taming of the Shrew", Alfred Lunt tamed this wife who played Katharina Lynn Fontanne |
| #6852, aired 2014-06-03 | HOSPITALS $800: In the 1940s GM executives Alfred Sloan & this man joined forces to found a cancer institute in Manhattan (Charles) Kettering |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | MEMOIRS $800: "De Profundis" tells the story of his affair with Alfred Douglas & its aftermath Oscar Wilde |
| #6850, aired 2014-05-30 | POETIC LINES $2000: "Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #6836, aired 2014-05-12 | WE GET LETTERS $2000: He wrote to his muse Georgia O'Keeffe, "How I wanted to photograph you--the hands--the mouth--& eyes" (Alfred) Stieglitz |
| #6818, aired 2014-04-16 | THE STAFF OF LIFE $2,000 (Daily Double): Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed the Cuban fishing village that inspired this 1952 novel first published in "Life" The Old Man and the Sea |
| #6803, aired 2014-03-26 | MANAGEMENT $2000: Books for managers include Alfred Sloan's "My Years with" this company, for many years the world's largest General Motors |
| #6799, aired 2014-03-20 | SAY MY NAME $800: This prince, Rainier's son, has competed in the Olympics 5 times on Monaco's bobsleigh team Prince Albert |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK SAID $200: "Television has brought" this crime "back into the home, where it belongs" murder |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK SAID $400: Women with this color hair "make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the footprints" blonde |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK SAID $600: "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of" this part of the human anatomy the bladder |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK SAID $800: Hitchcock never said these people "are cattle"; what he said was these people "should be treated like cattle" actors |
| #6791, aired 2014-03-10 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK SAID $1000: Audience members might not agree with Hitch's assessment of this film of his as "a big comedy" Psycho |
| #6788, aired 2014-03-05 | LOGOS $400: This slender Russian dog is the logo of publisher Alfred A. Knopf a borzoi |
| #6741, aired 2013-12-30 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $1200: A British film director: "The Dark Side of Genius" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #6735, aired 2013-12-20 | CHRISTMAS $2000: Alfred Anderson was the last survivor of the Christmas truce of this year, when front line troops exchanged gifts 1914 |
| #6733, aired 2013-12-18 | SCIENTISTS $1600: This sex-crazed--or at least interested--Indiana University professor got the big-screen bio treatment in 2004 (Alfred) Kinsey |
| #6699, aired 2013-10-31 | BUTLER $1200: "Some men just want to watch the world burn", says this butler in a 2008 film Alfred |
| #6694, aired 2013-10-24 | OSCAR MIRE $400: He had 5 nominations for Best Director, including in consecutive years for "Lifeboat" & "Spellbound" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #6688, aired 2013-10-16 | AUTHORS' NAMES $2000: All things were bright & beautiful for veterinarian Alfred Wight when he wrote under this name James Herriot |
| #6682, aired 2013-10-08 | THE NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME $1000: "In 1865, (his) company built the first factory for producing nitroglycerin" Alfred Nobel |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | PRINCE ALBERT $4,000 (Daily Double): Though Albert was only a prince, Alfred, Lord Tennyson dedicated this epic poetic work to him in the 1862 edition Idylls of the King |
| #6637, aired 2013-06-25 | CAPE TOWN LADIES $400: Cape Town's V&A waterfront is named for HRH Prince Alfred & this mother of his Queen Victoria |
| #6629, aired 2013-06-13 | LOCK $400: At London's 1851 Great Exhibition, Alfred Hobbs wowed crowds by doing this to 2 supposedly impregnable locks pick |
| #6622, aired 2013-06-04 | IN THEIR 20s $1200: T.S. Eliot was 26 when this "Love Song" of his was published in Poetry magazine The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
| #6597, aired 2013-04-30 | THEY WERE RIGHT $200: In 1912 Alfred Wegener got it right when he proposed what's now called the Theory of Continental this Drift |
| #6588, aired 2013-04-17 | POP CULTURE $200: Good evening... in a 2012 film Anthony Hopkins portrayed this rotund director at the height of his scary powers Alfred Hitchcock |
| #6545, aired 2013-02-15 | AN IMPORTANT QUESTION $400: A poem by him says, "When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made!" (Alfred Lord) Tennyson |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | CARY GRANT FILMS $400: This "Master of Suspense" directed Cary Grant in 4 films beginning with 1941's "Suspicion" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #6526, aired 2013-01-21 | CAPE TOWN $2000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Cape Town, South Africa.) What's now Cape Town's vibrant Victoria & Alfred Waterfront began as a single jetty built for this Dutch company, whose name tells you it used South Africa as a stopover en route to Asia the Dutch East India Company |
| #6516, aired 2013-01-07 | DAYS OF YORE $2000: 9th century English King Alfred the Great is said to have used calibrated candles to measure this time |
| #6502, aired 2012-12-18 | LOVE $400: In an 1850 poem he wrote, "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | LITERARY RELATIONS $200: Alfred Doolittle has this teenage daughter Eliza Doolittle |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | STAR BOARDS $600: It's Pepsi CEO Alfred Steele & this actress; the plane will surely not be housed in a wire "hangar" Joan Crawford |
| #6428, aired 2012-07-25 | BIOGRAPHIES $1,200 (Daily Double): Hertha Pauli's 1942 biography of this man was subtitled "Dynamite King, Architect of Peace" (Alfred) Nobel |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | ALFRED $200: He directed his first film in 1925--we'll end the suspense, it was called "The Pleasure Garden" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON $400: "Idylls of the King" was dedicated to Prince Albert; the 1872 edition's epilogue was to her, Albert's widow Queen Victoria |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | ALFRED $400: What, him worry? Alfred E. Neuman is the goofy mascot & coverboy of this publication Mad magazine |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | ALFRED $600: Alfred was the real first name of this man whose first of several stints managing the Yankees began in 1975 (Billy) Martin |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON $800: Prime minister Robert Peel helped Tennyson with a pension & in 1850, the poet received this salaried title Poet Laureate |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | ALFRED $800: Early in this actor's career, he tried to double-cross Indy in the opening scene of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" Alfred Molina |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | ALFRED $1000: Impressionist painter Alfred Sisley was famed for his depiction of this, as in "Early" this "at Louveciennes" Snow |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON $1200: In 1830 Tennyson & members of a group called the Apostles went to this country to try to overthrow Ferdinand VII Spain |
| #6388, aired 2012-05-30 | ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON $1600: In 1886 Tennyson published a new volume containing a poem that revisited this hall "Sixty Years After" Locksley Hall |
| #6373, aired 2012-05-09 | THE SILENT MOVIE ERA $2,000 (Daily Double): Later famous for thrillers like "Psycho", this man directed the silent murder mystery "The Lodger" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #6347, aired 2012-04-03 | NEW YORK MUSEUMS $400: Alfred Barr Jr., the founding director of this museum, intended it to help people enjoy the visual arts of our time MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art) |
| #6342, aired 2012-03-27 | ADLER-TIZING $600: Psychiatrist Alfred Adler developed the idea of this "complex" of feeling less than others inferiority |
| #6322, aired 2012-02-28 | "D" IS FOR... $2000: This Latin title of Oscar Wilde's really long letter from prison to Lord Alfred Douglas De Profundis |
| #6311, aired 2012-02-13 | HISTORY IS STRANGE $1200: He endowed some big prizes after reading his own mistakenly printed & harshly critical obituary in 1888 Alfred Nobel |
| #6283, aired 2012-01-04 | SCRIPT DOCTORS $400: 2004:
Alfred Molina as this heavily armed enemy of Spider-Man Doctor Octopus |
| #6280, aired 2011-12-30 | THINK OF THE CHILDREN! $400: Victoria & Albert:
Alice, Alfred, Arthur, Beatrice, Helena, Louise, Leopold, Victoria Adelaide & this king Edward |
| #6269, aired 2011-12-15 | TIMES PAST $2000: By 878 the Vikings had conquered all of England except for this southern kingdom controlled by Alfred the Great Wessex |
| #6254, aired 2011-11-24 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: Don't keep us in suspense; name this director whose profile is seen here Alfred Hitchcock |
| #6216, aired 2011-10-03 | ARTISTS ON FILM $400: Alfred Molina was this painter & husband of the title character in "Frida" Diego Rivera |
| #6206, aired 2011-09-19 | 28 IS GREAT $1000: This great king succeeded his brother Ethelred in 871 & reigned in Wessex for 28 years Alfred the Great |
| #6191, aired 2011-07-11 | BORN & DIED $2,000 (Daily Double): Born in Sweden in 1823, he went out without a bang in San Remo, Italy in 1896 (Alfred) Nobel |
| #6169, aired 2011-06-09 | NAME THE AUTHOR $1000: "Reel'd from the sabre-stroke shatter'd and sunder'd. Then they rode back, but not, not the six hundred" (Alfred Lord) Tennyson |
| #6161, aired 2011-05-30 | ON SUCH A WINTER'S DAY $1200: He & Alfred Vail demonstrated their telegraph publicly for the first time on Jan. 6, 1838 in Morristown (Samuel) Morse |
| #6124, aired 2011-04-07 | "AZ" I WAS SAYING $800: The title of this 1969 Alfred Hitchcock film comes from the code name of a French spy ring Topaz |
| #6123, aired 2011-04-06 | ONE MAN, ONE BOAT $200: Alfred Johnson sailed alone in his aptly named dory "Centennial" from Massachusetts to Britain in this year 1876 |
| #6121, aired 2011-04-04 | POETIC QUESTIONS $1200: His "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" asks, "Do I dare disturb the universe?" Eliot |
| #6114, aired 2011-03-24 | THE MANSION FAMILY $400: Alfred, a scion of this munitions & chemicals family, built Nemours Mansion in Wilmington, Del. for his new bride DuPont |
| #6111, aired 2011-03-21 | COMPLETES THE PULITZER-WINNING PLAY TITLE $400: Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss ____" Daisy |
| #6110, aired 2011-03-18 | CLASSIC MOVIE TRAILERS $200: In the trailer for this 1960 film Alfred Hitchcock says, "Here we have a quiet little motel tucked way off the main highway" Psycho |
| #6079, aired 2011-02-03 | "M.C." 5 $200: He's worth every penny as Alfred Pennyworth in "The Dark Knight" Michael Caine |
| #6073, aired 2011-01-26 | THE CAMERA MAN $200: Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped a sailor kissing a nurse on the August 1945 day known as this V-J Day |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | ANAGRAMMED NOTABLES $1600: A dynamite inventor:
FABLED LONER Alfred Nobel |
| #6037, aired 2010-12-07 | MEDICINE $800: In 1905 German scientist Alfred Einhorn created this first injectable local anesthetic used in dentistry novocaine |
| #6025, aired 2010-11-19 | FRENCH NOVELISTS $2000: Before her time with Chopin, she had an affair with Alfred de Musset, a basis for "Elle et Lui" George Sand |
| #6013, aired 2010-11-03 | ART MUSEUM EXHIBITS $1200: Husband to Georgia O'Keeffe, this 291 Gallery founder had a show in gallery 321 of the St. Louis Art Museum Alfred Stieglitz |
| #6002, aired 2010-10-19 | POETRY $800: Ezra Pound called this "love" poem by T.S. Eliot "the best poem I have yet had or seen from an American" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #5983, aired 2010-09-22 | POPULAR POETS $2000: This poet laureate's "Enoch Arden" sold 17,000 copies on its publication day in 1864 Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #5954, aired 2010-07-01 | BATMAN $400: His butler & confidante Alfred |
| #5937, aired 2010-06-08 | ART HEISTS $6,000 (Daily Double): In 1976 she sued for the return of 3 paintings, claiming they'd been stolen from Alfred Stieglitz' gallery in 1946 Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #5924, aired 2010-05-20 | ON BROADWAY 2010 $2000: "Red" stars Alfred Molina as this abstract expressionist who painted rectangles of color, a suicide in 1970 (Mark) Rothko |
| #5913, aired 2010-05-05 | STATE THE STATE $200: State that's home to the Alfred P. Sloan Museum, featuring the Buick Automotive Gallery Michigan |
| #5893, aired 2010-04-07 | MAD MAGAZINE $400: He's "Mad"'s mascot, seen here behind the magazine's longtime publisher Bill Gaines Alfred E. Neuman |
| #5874, aired 2010-03-11 | PLAY TIME $400: Plays about driving include Paula Vogel's "How I Learned to Drive" & this Alfred Uhry work Driving Miss Daisy |
| #5868, aired 2010-03-03 | THE '70s $400: This "Great" king ran the Danes out of his country in 878, beginning a period of peace in Wessex Alfred the Great |
| #5844, aired 2010-01-28 | EMINENT VICTORIANS $1600: Some have said that this Victorian poet's career may be divided into 2 parts: before & after "In Memoriam" Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #5841, aired 2010-01-25 | OSCAR-WINNING SONG LYRICS $1600: "When I was just a little girl I asked my mother what will I be" The Man Who Knew Too Much |
| #5839, aired 2010-01-21 | PSYCHO 101 $200: As it would have been too gory in color, this director opted to shoot "Psycho" in black & white Alfred Hitchcock |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | FOR GOOD MEASURE $2000: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons", he wrote in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" T.S. Eliot |
| #5829, aired 2010-01-07 | PHILOSOPHERS $400: Alfred Whitehead said that Europe's philosophical tradition "consists of a series of footnotes to" this Greek Plato |
| #5816, aired 2009-12-21 | THEY WERE CONTEMPORARIES $200: There was good kinging in the 800s--Leo the Wise ruled the Byzantine Empire while England had Alfred the this the Great |
| #5814, aired 2009-12-17 | THEATRE $600: This Alfred Uhry play was based on the story of his Jewish grandmother & her black chauffeur Driving Miss Daisy |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | T.S. ELIOT $1600: This "Love" poem by T.S. Eliot says, "Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky" The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
| #5802, aired 2009-12-01 | T.S. ELIOT $2,600 (Daily Double): Appropriately, this verse drama was first produced at the 1935 Canterbury Festival Murder in the Cathedral |
| #5793, aired 2009-11-18 | GET SOME HELP $600: Alfred Pennyworth is this superhero's butler & confidante Batman |
| #5761, aired 2009-10-05 | DIRECTORS' LAST FEATURE FILMS $800: "Family Plot"
(1976) Alfred Hitchcock |
| #5735, aired 2009-07-10 | SUNDAY NIGHT TV $1200: Choices from 1955 included "You Asked for It", "G.E. Theater" & this movie director "Presents" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #5724, aired 2009-06-25 | THE 9th CENTURY $800: This English king known as "the Great" succeeded his brother Ethelred in 871 & ruled for 28 years Alfred |
| #5695, aired 2009-05-15 | SCINTILLATING SYLLABUS $800: Alfred U. offered a course on this sweet tree product, noting the process hasn't changed much in centuries maple syrup |
| #5672, aired 2009-04-14 | "GREAT" LEADERS $2000: Wessex, 871-899 Alfred the Great |
| #5670, aired 2009-04-10 | SCIENTISTS $2000: Darwin's younger contemporary, this 3-named scientist evolved a similar 1850s theory of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace |
| #5661, aired 2009-03-30 | IF THEY'D TAUGHT AEROBICS INSTEAD $2,000 (Daily Double): All right, everybody got their workout clothes off? No pain, no gain here at my Indiana Univ. institute Alfred Kinsey |
| #5642, aired 2009-03-03 | LETTERS $1200: He was upset to get a letter from Alfred Wallace about evolution theory, as he'd neglected to publish his own Darwin |
| #5641, aired 2009-03-02 | GENESIS $1000: In 1862 he began to manufacture nitroglycerin in Sweden (Alfred) Nobel |
| #5636, aired 2009-02-23 | LIVIN' LIBIDO LOCA $1200: This writer's relationship with Alfred Douglas was fine with him, but it drove Al's dad, Marquess of Queensberry, nuts Oscar Wilde |
| #5631, aired 2009-02-16 | 1909: 100 YEARS AGO $400: On June 2 Alfred Deakin became prime minister of this Commonwealth country for the third time Australia |
| #5627, aired 2009-02-10 | THEREFORE, "IAM" $1600: Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "In" this was an elegy to friend Arthur Hallam, the fiance of Tennyson's sister "In Memoriam" |
| #5626, aired 2009-02-09 | THE FIRST MILLENNIUM A.D. $1000: This king called "the Great" beat the Danes in 886 to keep all of England from being conquered Alfred |
| #5612, aired 2009-01-20 | WEAPONS OF MASS INSTRUCTION $1000: In 1948, after setting up his Indiana institute, he published "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" (Alfred) Kinsey |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | HELLO, DALI $600: This director admired Dali's work & used him for the dream sequences in the 1945 film "Spellbound" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | A SHOT AT LOVE $1600: There was a certain glow in the air when Maria Sklodowska caught the eye of this French physicist in 1894 Pierre Curie |
| #5492, aired 2008-06-24 | DOUBLE SAINT NAMES $400: Ships he captained included the Alfred, the Ranger & the Bonhomme Richard John Paul Jones |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK MOVIES $400: Voyeur information, this actor spied on his neighbors in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" Jimmy Stewart |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK MOVIES $800: In "Psycho", it's the inn where Norman does his evil--or was it his mother? the Bates Motel |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK MOVIES $1200: In a 1944 Hitchcock film, several survivors of a torpedoed ship find themselves in this title object a lifeboat |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK MOVIES $1600: On the BFI's top 100 British films, this classic Hitchcock mystery from 1935 ranked no. 4, not "39" The 39 Steps |
| #5470, aired 2008-05-23 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK MOVIES $2000: Hitchcock's 1940 classic "Rebecca" was based on a book by this female novelist (Daphne) du Maurier |
| #5454, aired 2008-05-01 | 19th CENTURY INVENTORS $2,000 (Daily Double): In 1863 this Swede developed a detonator for nitroglycerin that used shock rather than heat (Alfred) Nobel |
| #5447, aired 2008-04-22 | PSYCHOLOGY $2000: A psychologist at Stanford University devised a new intelligence test based on the work of this Frenchman (Alfred) Binet |
| #5435, aired 2008-04-04 | NOBEL $400: Alfred Nobel was raised in this Russian city, then the capital, & also went to college there St. Petersburg |
| #5434, aired 2008-04-03 | WHAT I REALLY WANT TO DO IS DIRECT $400: He designed titles for silent films before he made us scream over birds & psychos Alfred Hitchcock |
| #5434, aired 2008-04-03 | QUESTIONS FROM A 1927 QUIZ BOOK $800: Alfred E. Smith & William Gibbs McAdoo were 2 of the candidates for this party's presidential nomination in 1924 the Democratic Party |
| #5419, aired 2008-03-13 | MAKING PIANOS AT STEINWAY $1200: (Sarah delivers the clue from Steinway & Sons' showroom.) Steinway models include a baby grand, a parlor grand, & this one, just in case you're Alfred Brendel concert grand |
| #5414, aired 2008-03-06 | THE HOBOKEN FIVE $1000: In 1924 Georgia O'Keeffe married this Hoboken-born photographer 23 years her senior Alfred Stieglitz |
| #5374, aired 2008-01-10 | BOARD GAME HISTORY $400: While out of work, Alfred Butts created this word game by mixing anagrams with crossword puzzles Scrabble |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | POETS $1200: His "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" says, "In the room the women come and go/ talking of Michelangelo" T.S. Eliot |
| #5322, aired 2007-10-30 | BORN & DIED $600: A profile of this film director says he was born in Britain in 1899 & died in Los Angeles in 1980 Alfred Hitchcock |
| #5312, aired 2007-10-16 | NOT NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE $800: In 1954 this Jimmy Stewart & Grace Kelly starrer from Alfred Hitchcock didn't get a second glance Rear Window |
| #5286, aired 2007-09-10 | HOW SWEDE IT IS! $800: This prominent Swedish chemist established the prizes bearing his family name after reading his own obituary in 1888 (Alfred) Nobel |
| #5272, aired 2007-07-10 | CONTINENTAL DRIFTING $1600: (Jon of the Clue Crew shows a globe of the geologically ancient world on the monitor.) Meaning "all earth", it's the term Alfred Wegener gave to an historic, theoretical supercontinent Pangaea |
| #5260, aired 2007-06-22 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $1600: This partner of Lynn Fontanne got to star in "Idiot's Delight" after suggesting the idea for it to Robert Sherwood Alfred Lunt |
| #5257, aired 2007-06-19 | MODERN SCIENTISTS $400: Using a blender & radioactive "tags", Alfred Hershey found that this, not protein, was the genetic material of life DNA |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | MOMS' MONOGRAMS $200: Royal mom of Alice, Alfred, Arthur & 6 others: QV Queen Victoria |
| #5224, aired 2007-05-03 | LANDMARKS $2000: Austrian architect Alfred Preis designed the memorial over this WWII battleship the Arizona |
| #5211, aired 2007-04-16 | ALPHABETICALLY LAST $1600: ...of Alfred Hitchcock movies starring Jimmy Stewart Vertigo |
| #5210, aired 2007-04-13 | ARTY FACTS $1600: In 2002
on the big screen, Alfred Molina played this artist opposite Salma Hayek Diego Rivera |
| #5199, aired 2007-03-29 | THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION $400: The opening of his anthology series showed the silhouette of this director filling a line drawing of his profile Alfred Hitchcock |
| #5188, aired 2007-03-14 | BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE! $800: In 1867 this Swedish inventor found kieselguhr, a type of chalky earth, absorbed a lot of nitroglycerine (Alfred) Nobel |
| #5185, aired 2007-03-09 | JERSEY BOYS & GIRLS $600: He was an expert on wasps before becoming an expert on sexual behavior & issuing his famous "Report" (Alfred) Kinsey |
| #5181, aired 2007-03-05 | STATUE-ESQUE $1600: A statue in Hampshire of this "Great" king honors his 9th c. rule when he defended against a Viking invasion Alfred (the Great) |
| #5176, aired 2007-02-26 | BEST PICTURES IN OTHER WORDS $2000: 1937:
"A Biography Concerning Alfred Dreyfus' Defender" The Life of Emile Zola |
| #5171, aired 2007-02-19 | FUN WITH BALLET $400: Every "Psycho" knows that Matthew Bourne's ballet "Deadly Serious" is an homage to this film director Alfred Hitchcock |
| #5152, aired 2007-01-23 | POETS & POETRY $1000: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons," wrote T.S. Eliot in "The Love Song of" this man J. Alfred Prufrock |
| #5146, aired 2007-01-15 | I JUST LIKE SAYING THESE WORDS $800: Alfred E. Neuman could tell you that a fernticle is another name for one of these on the surface of the skin a freckle |
| #5142, aired 2007-01-09 | LETTERS $1200: His "J'accuse" letter in 1898 helped secure a new trial for Alfred Dreyfus (Emile) Zola |
| #5136, aired 2007-01-01 | MOVIE PEOPLE $2000: Alfred Uhry is the only person to win an Oscar for an adaptation of his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play--this one Driving Miss Daisy |
| #5124, aired 2006-12-14 | 20th CENTURY PEOPLE $400: He followed up "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" with "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" in 1953 Alfred Kinsey |
| #5120, aired 2006-12-08 | LANDMARK CINEMA VILLAINS $400: Famous for its murder scenes, this 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film featured a mild-mannered mama's boy killer Psycho |
| #5101, aired 2006-11-13 | MAGAZINES $400: Alfred E. Neuman is the worry-free, gap-toothed cover boy of this humor magazine Mad |
| #5097, aired 2006-11-07 | JEOP-POURRI $600: This artist moved to New Mexico after the 1946 death of her husband Alfred Stieglitz Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #5088, aired 2006-10-25 | MY NAME IS ALFRED $400: The title of this director's movie "Rope" is also the murder weapon used in it Alfred Hitchcock |
| #5088, aired 2006-10-25 | MY NAME IS ALFRED $800: Alfred Drake was the first male lead in "Kismet" & "Kiss Me, Kate" as well as in this show, as Curly Oklahoma! |
| #5088, aired 2006-10-25 | MY NAME IS ALFRED $1200: As Dr. Octopus in "Spider-Man 2", this actor was armed & dangerous Alfred Molina |
| #5088, aired 2006-10-25 | MY NAME IS ALFRED $1600: What, me worry about Alfred Newman, who won music Oscars for "With A Song In My Heart" & "The Song Of" her Bernadette |
| #5088, aired 2006-10-25 | MY NAME IS ALFRED $2000: In 1915, with his wife Blanche W., he founded the firm that published Thomas Mann, John Updike, et al. Alfred Knopf |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | PHOTOGRAPHY $200: Alfred Eisenstaedt's best-known image is a V-J day photo of a sailor kissing a girl at this NYC locale Times Square |
| #5041, aired 2006-07-10 | BOBBLEHEAD REVISITED $400: The smiling guy seen here is the mascot of this popular magazine MAD |
| #5031, aired 2006-06-26 | MEET T.S. ELIOT $2000: Before he turned 23, Eliot created this poetic figure who asks, "Do I dare disturb the universe?" J. Alfred Prufrock |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | THOSE FUNNY BRITS $400: Born Alfred Hawthorn Hill, he earned legions of fans with his TV show featuring skits, songs & hot babes Benny Hill |
| #5030, aired 2006-06-23 | JEPOETRY $600: Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
"Half a Jeopardy!, half a Jeopardy!, half a Jeopardy! onward" league |
| #5021, aired 2006-06-12 | DRAMATISTS $400: "De Profundis" was a letter he wrote while in Reading Gaol to Lord Alfred Douglas, with whom he'd had an affair Oscar Wilde |
| #5001, aired 2006-05-15 | CAMEO CAMERA $400: He got himself into "Lifeboat" as the before & after in newspaper ads for Reduco the Obesity Slayer Alfred Hitchcock |
| #4984, aired 2006-04-20 | CLASSIC CINEMA OF THE '40s $400: Alfred Hitchcock's first American film was this 1940 classic based on a Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca |
| #4982, aired 2006-04-18 | "ZO" FAR SO GOOD $800: In 1902 Alfred Dreyfus attended this author's funeral Zola |
| #4957, aired 2006-03-14 | CAPITAL CITY BIRTHPLACES $600: Alfred Nobel Stockholm |
| #4955, aired 2006-03-10 | 23 SKIDOO $600: Alfred P. Sloan Jr. became the CEO of this giant auto company in 1923 & brought it back from the brink of collapse General Motors |
| #4946, aired 2006-02-27 | HEIR $800: Charlene, sole heir of the late Alfred of this Dutch brewing giant, is worth $4.9 billion Heineken |
| #4940, aired 2006-02-17 | BORN FIRST $2000: English kings:
James I,
Alfred the Great,
George III Alfred the Great |
| #4899, aired 2005-12-22 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): About one of his most famous poems, he said, "I began it upon leaving Tintern, after crossing the Wye" William Wordsworth |
| #4895, aired 2005-12-16 | THIS MEANS TROUBLE $1200: Shirley MacLaine debuted in the 1955 film "The Trouble with Harry", directed by this man Alfred Hitchcock |
| #4884, aired 2005-12-01 | NAME THAT POEM $2,000 (Daily Double): T.S. Eliot:
"Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | "D"-RIGEUR $2000: This lord known for a relationship with Oscar Wilde declared, "I am the love that dare not speak its name" Lord Alfred Douglas |
| #4871, aired 2005-11-14 | POETS & POETRY $800: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" asks, "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat" this fruit a peach |
| #4843, aired 2005-10-05 | FAMOUS PAINTERS $1600: Alfred Stieglitz discovered her drawings & exhibited them in 1916 while she was teaching art in the south Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #4839, aired 2005-09-29 | KINSEY $200: Dr. Alfred Kinsey was born in this New Jersey city in 1894, as was Frank Sinatra 21 years later Hoboken |
| #4838, aired 2005-09-28 | ROADSIDE AMERICA $1000: The center named for this man in Huntington, Ind. contains the vice pres. museum that may leave you spellbound (Dan) Quayle |
| #4834, aired 2005-09-22 | POW-ER $400: Alfred Nobel named this explosive after the Greek word for power dynamite |
| #4832, aired 2005-09-20 | HISTORIC "D" TOUR $1200: In 1895 French army captain Alfred Dreyfus was sent there Devil's Island |
| #4813, aired 2005-07-06 | PAYING TRIBUTE $600: Before repelling these invaders in 896, Alfred the Great of England tried to buy them off the Vikings (or the Danes) |
| #4784, aired 2005-05-26 | BRITISH AUTHORS $400: Byron was Lord Byron from age 10; this poet had to wait until his 70s, in 1884 Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #4784, aired 2005-05-26 | HE'S A JAMAICAN, MON $1600: Alfred Valentine is a famous Jamaican bowler in this sport, taking over 100 wickets in 36 matches cricket |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | SHEER GENIUS! $200: Among his 355 patents is an 1887 one for ballistite, or smokeless powder (Alfred) Nobel |
| #4777, aired 2005-05-17 | WORLD HISTORY $800: This "Great" Brit was the youngest son of King Ethelwulf Alfred |
| #4769, aired 2005-05-05 | 1 FOR THE PRICE OF 2 $1000: Alfred & Helen Free developed a "dip & read" test so diabetics could check the level of this sugar in their blood glucose |
| #4741, aired 2005-03-28 | IT'S GENETIC $1200: The origin of the Human Genome Project lies in Alfred Sturtevant's 1913 map of the genes on one of these a chromosome |
| #4737, aired 2005-03-22 | 5-LETTER WORDS $2000: It's the watery last word of "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" drown |
| #4709, aired 2005-02-10 | BROADWAY TRADITIONS $600: Talk about "Tradition": In 2004 Alfred Molina starred in the fourth Broadway revival of this musical Fiddler on the Roof |
| #4689, aired 2005-01-13 | 19th CENTURY NOTABLES $400: In 1867 he patented dynamite (Alfred) Nobel |
| #4686, aired 2005-01-10 | ART $1600: Aptly, Georgia O'Keeffe's first one-woman show was at this man's 291 Gallery Alfred Stieglitz |
| #4674, aired 2004-12-23 | DESERTS $400: This continent's Gibson Desert was named for Alfred Gibson, who was lost searching for water in the 1800s Australia |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $2000: There is just the value of this clue, no prize, for knowing this man for whom element 102 was named (Alfred) Nobel |
| #4664, aired 2004-12-09 | "FRE"-DOM $400: Lord Tennyson, or Batman's Butler Alfred |
| #4635, aired 2004-10-29 | DATE & PLACE $800: June 25, 1876, the Montana Territory:
This lt. col., under Gen. Alfred Terry, & his 200-man unit Custer |
| #4623, aired 2004-10-13 | THE TOOTH OF THE MATTER $200: What? Him worry? Alfred E. Neuman |
| #4610, aired 2004-09-24 | VICTORY IS OURS $1200: In 878 this great king of Wessex defeated the invading Danes at the Battle of Edington Alfred the Great |
| #4583, aired 2004-07-07 | 5 IN A "ROW" $2000: A descendant of Alfred the Great, she ends up marrying Ivanhoe (the Lady) Rowena |
| #4574, aired 2004-06-24 | 3-LETTER PALINDROMES $2000: He's the gross & stupid king or "Roi" in an 1896 avant-garde work by Alfred Jarry Ubu |
| #4548, aired 2004-05-19 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $2000: This poet laureate's "In Memoriam" was an elegy to his friend Arthur Henry Hallam Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #4511, aired 2004-03-29 | SCIENTISTS $400: Born June 23, 1894 were Edward VIII, who gave up a throne for love, & this biologist who gave his career to sex Alfred Kinsey |
| #4472, aired 2004-02-03 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $400: His first appearance on the cover of Mad was in 1956 as a write-in candidate for president Alfred E. Neuman |
| #4466, aired 2004-01-26 | HODGEPOURRI $2000: Dentist Alfred Southwick developed this device used in 1890 on a convict named William Kemmler the electric chair |
| #4453, aired 2004-01-07 | "UNT"IL THE END $600: Married to Lynn Fontanne (Alfred) Lunt |
| #4446, aired 2003-12-29 | AIRLINE CARRY-ON NO-NOs $600: Meat cleavers--no,
hammers--no,
this invention of Alfred Nobel--really no! dynamite |
| #4431, aired 2003-12-08 | EAST ON THE MAP $1000: As a geopolitical term it was coined in 1902 by U.S. Naval Officer Alfred Mahan to describe an Asian-African area the Middle East |
| #4423, aired 2003-11-26 | "I" GUESS $1600: Alfred Adler invented the term for this "complex" (we wonder if he felt Freud could have coined a better one) inferiority |
| #4403, aired 2003-10-29 | NATIONAL MEMORIALS $2000: (Cheryl of the clue Crew presents from Oklahoma City, OK) The National Memorial here in Oklahoma City stands on the spot once occupied by this building, named for an Oklahoma judge the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building |
| #4401, aired 2003-10-27 | EUROPEAN HISTORY $800: This 9th century king of Wessex is the only English king called "the Great" Alfred the Great |
| #4385, aired 2003-10-03 | THE 7 DEADLY SIN-ONYMS $1600: For lust: a perfume from Alfred Dunhill desire |
| #4366, aired 2003-09-08 | PHOTOGRAPHERS $800: Julia Margaret Cameron's photos illustrated this poet's "Idylls of the King", & her photo of him is seen here Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #4360, aired 2003-07-11 | AT THE MOVIES $400: This person appeared in more than 35 Alfred Hitchcock movies Alfred Hitchcock |
| #4327, aired 2003-05-27 | TYPE "A" $1600: Pennyworth is the last name of this loyal servant of Batman Alfred |
| #4322, aired 2003-05-20 | AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES $1200: In December 1775 he became first lieutenant on the Alfred, the first ship purchased by Congress for the Continental Navy John Paul Jones |
| #4283, aired 2003-03-26 | LEGAL IDENTITIES $800: Alfred Caplin came up a little short going by this name on his Li'l Abner strip Al Capp |
| #4281, aired 2003-03-24 | 20th CENTURY WOMEN $1200: For some 40 years after her husband Alfred Stieglitz' death, she lived at her ghost ranch in New Mexico Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #4266, aired 2003-03-03 | FAMOUS PAIRS $800: This acting couple who wed in 1922 starred in 1925's "Arms and the Man" & 1935's "Taming of the Shrew" Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne |
| #4257, aired 2003-02-18 | KISSES $800: He took the famous photo of a sailor kissing a girl in Times Square on VJ Day Alfred Eisenstaedt |
| #4179, aired 2002-10-31 | DESIGN $400: His work at Alfred A. Knopf made Chip Kidd a superstar in designing these book covers/jackets |
| #4175, aired 2002-10-25 | MAD $2000: His name is on the masthead as "Founder" William M. Gaines |
| #4169, aired 2002-10-17 | THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $400: "The Lodger",
"Strangers on a Train",
"The Birds" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #4115, aired 2002-06-21 | 20th CENTURY SCIENTISTS $400: Like Alfred Nobel, 1982 Nobel laureate Sune Bergstrom was born in this capital city Stockholm |
| #4080, aired 2002-05-03 | AUTHORS & THEIR CHARACTERS $1600: A wild romance with Alfred de Musset inspired this Frenchwoman with a masculine name to write "Elle et lui" George Sand |
| #4052, aired 2002-03-26 | COMEDIANS $1000: Born Leonard Alfred Schneider, this controversial comedian overdosed in Los Angeles in 1966 Lenny Bruce |
| #4051, aired 2002-03-25 | TRANSLATORS $3,000 (Daily Double): Lord Alfred Rouglas translated this Irish author's "Salome" from French to English Oscar Wilde |
| #4035, aired 2002-03-01 | ARTS OF THE PEER $400: He finished his "Idylls of the King" the year after he was made a baron Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #4028, aired 2002-02-20 | WHAT CENTURY ARE YOU LIVING IN? $400: Alfred Sisley, whose art is seen here 19th |
| #4018, aired 2002-02-06 | THE MIDDLE EAST $200: As coined by Naval historian Alfred Thayer Mahan, the "Middle East" is bounded on its west by this sea the Mediterranean Sea |
| #4005, aired 2002-01-18 | JAN. $1600: In Jan. 1898 he wrote "J'accuse" & helped win Alfred Dreyfus a new trial (Émile) Zola |
| #3993, aired 2002-01-02 | INVENTORS $1,200 (Daily Double): In 1863 this Swede developed a detonator for nitroglycerin that used shock rather than heat (Alfred) Nobel |
| #3985, aired 2001-12-21 | THE FIRST MILLENNIUM A.D. $1000: In the 9th c. this "Great" king of Wessex invited foreign scholars to England to teach & translate great literature Alfred the Great |
| #3970, aired 2001-11-30 | 1890s AVIATION $1600: In 1897 3 Swedes (partly funded by Alfred Nobel) tried to reach this point on Earth by balloon -- they died the North Pole |
| #3965, aired 2001-11-23 | REWRITTEN TOMBSTONES $500: 1809-1892:
"A poet laureate who wouldn't lord it over you" Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #3926, aired 2001-10-01 | HOUSE & GARDEN $800: In December 1956 this film director might have saved readers by showing how to carve a Christmas turkey Alfred Hitchcock |
| #3910, aired 2001-09-07 | PARTNERS $400: In nifty gifts:
Alfred Hammacher &... (William) Schlemmer |
| #3869, aired 2001-05-31 | POETS & POETRY $800: In T.S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "The women come and go talking of" him Michelangelo |
| #3834, aired 2001-04-12 | THE BUTLER DID IT $200: He must have a great benefit plan; Alfred began his service to this crime fighter way back in 1943 Batman |
| #3829, aired 2001-04-05 | NAME THE POET $1000: "Into the valley of death rode the six hundred" Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #3784, aired 2001-02-01 | QUOTATIONS $800 (Daily Double): This innovative American director said, "Everybody denies I am a genius--but nobody ever called me one!" Orson Welles |
| #3779, aired 2001-01-25 | THE 1860s $400: This Swede came up with a dynamite invention & patented it in 1867 Alfred Nobel |
| #3773, aired 2001-01-17 | GRUMPY OLD MEN $400: This director denied that he said, "Actors are cattle"; "What I said was actors should be treated like cattle" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #3736, aired 2000-11-27 | FAMOUS FRENCHMEN $500 (Daily Double): Here's an IQ test: He was responsible for the first French psychology journal Alfred Binet |
| #3732, aired 2000-11-21 | THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS $400: An Alfred University study found that 80% of college athletes experienced this sometimes brutal type of initiation Hazing |
| #3728, aired 2000-11-15 | ART HISTORY $700 (Daily Double): She vacationed in New Mexico & settled there after her husband Alfred Stieglitz died in 1946 Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #3715, aired 2000-10-27 | HOSPITALS $200: A major NYC cancer center was endowed by 2 GM executives, Alfred Sloan & him Charles F. Kettering |
| #3704, aired 2000-10-12 | THE MAJORS $3,000 (Daily Double): In 1906 he was restored to the French army with the rank of major Alfred Dreyfus |
| #3689, aired 2000-09-21 | FIRST NAME'S THE SAME $500: Dunhill,
Eisenstaedt,
Tennyson Alfred |
| #3681, aired 2000-09-11 | MEN OF SCIENCE $300: Alfred Lovell's Jodrell Bank radio telescope was finished in 1957 just in time to track this 1st artificial satellite Sputnik |
| #3680, aired 2000-09-08 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $800: His NYC art gallery, 291, was the first in the U.S. to exhibit such European artists as Matisse & Picasso Alfred Stieglitz |
| #3633, aired 2000-05-24 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $1000: Katharine Hepburn played Beatrice to Alfred Drake's Benedick in a 1957 staging of this "ado"rable comedy Much Ado About Nothing |
| #3615, aired 2000-04-28 | SUM-MERS $400: He worked 8 years with Alfred North Whitehead to produce the monumental work "Principia Mathematica" Bertrand Russell |
| #3606, aired 2000-04-17 | POETS & POETRY $200: "The Coming of Arthur" & "Gareth and Lynette" are parts of his "Idylls of the King" Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #3604, aired 2000-04-13 | ALMA MATTERS $200: Alma Reville, this director's wife, co-scripted his films "The 39 Steps" & "The Lady Vanishes" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #3603, aired 2000-04-12 | ACADEMIA NUTS $500: Biologist Alfred Russel Wallace said that this skull bump study "Will prove to be the true science of the mind" Phrenology |
| #3602, aired 2000-04-11 | LATE-NIGHT TV $100: This Saturday night "TV" show is inspired by the magazine that gave us Alfred E. Neuman MADtv |
| #3601, aired 2000-04-10 | LITERATURE $300: "For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever", this "Lord" of poetry babbled in "The Brook" Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #3599, aired 2000-04-06 | WAYNES WORLD $100: This fictional millionaire's butler is Alfred Pennyworth Bruce Wayne |
| #3588, aired 2000-03-22 | ACTRESSES $800: (Hi, I'm Melody Thomas Scott from "The Young and the Restless") In my film debut at age 8, I stole the show playing this Alfred Hitchcock thief as a young girl Marnie |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | A.T. $400: Oh lord, he was made poet laureate of England in 1850 Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #3553, aired 2000-02-02 | AT THE MOVIES $800: This 1948 film inspired by a real murder was Alfred Hitchcock's first movie in color Rope |
| #3547, aired 2000-01-25 | PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS $200: Maybe Alfred Adler didn't think he was good enough when he identified & named this complex Inferiority complex |
| #3539, aired 2000-01-13 | THIS SPACE $400: Alfred Eisenstaedt is famous for a photo of a sailor kissing a girl titled "VJ Day" here Times Square |
| #3501, aired 1999-11-22 | A BUNCH OF "GREAT" LEADERS $400 (Daily Double): This 9th century king of Wessex repeatedly repelled the Danes with great success Alfred the Great |
| #3483, aired 1999-10-27 | MEN OF LETTERS $400: Alfred Edward... A.E. Housman |
| #3468, aired 1999-10-06 | WHICH CAME FIRST? $400: Philip the Fair,
Alfred the Great,
Ivan the Terrible Alfred the Great |
| #3458, aired 1999-09-22 | CONNERY...SEAN CONNERY $1000: This 1964 film was the only time Sean worked with Alfred Hitchcock Marnie |
| #3457, aired 1999-09-21 | THE DIRECTOR'S CHAIR $200: "Suspicion",
"The Wrong Man",
"North by Northwest" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #3454, aired 1999-09-16 | U.S. FIRSTS $1000: In 1964 this legendary couple of the stage became the first husband & wife awarded the Medal of Freedom Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne |
| #3442, aired 1999-07-20 | HODGEPODGE $100: He's considered the mascot of Mad Magazine Alfred E. Neuman |
| #3437, aired 1999-07-13 | FICTIONAL SERVANTS $500: He's Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred Pennyworth |
| #3410, aired 1999-06-04 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $500: Alfred Venison was a pseudonym of this "Cantos" poet (is that 16 ounces of Venison?) Ezra Pound |
| #3400, aired 1999-05-21 | HIRSCHFELD $100: Al Hirschfeld depicted this director with one of the stars of his 1963 film Alfred Hitchcock |
| #3383, aired 1999-04-28 | MIDDLE INITIAL S. $400: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons", this poet wrote in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" T.S. Eliot |
| #3363, aired 1999-03-31 | REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PROUST $800: In the 1890s Proust helped organize petitions on behalf of this Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus |
| #3362, aired 1999-03-30 | QUEEN VICTORIA $600: Victoria found this poet laureate's "In Memoriam" a great comfort in her widowhood Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #3324, aired 1999-02-04 | DIRECTORS $200: Mel Brooks' film "High Anxiety" spoofed this director's films, including, of course, "Vertigo" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #3324, aired 1999-02-04 | LITERATURE $800: In a poem dedicated to this lord, Longfellow wrote, "Poet! I come to touch thy lance with mine" Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #3317, aired 1999-01-26 | EERIE TV ANTHOLOGIES $200: Colorized clips of this director from his old '50s & '60s series were used to "present" new stories on a new series in 1985 Alfred Hitchcock |
| #3315, aired 1999-01-22 | PEN NAMES $600: Comic strip creator whose original name was Alfred Gerald Caplin Al Capp |
| #3313, aired 1999-01-20 | MIDDLE AGE MEN $600: England's throne went from Ethelwulf to Ethelbald to Ethelbert to Ethelred to this "great" man Alfred |
| #3302, aired 1999-01-05 | THEATRE $800: "Last Night of Ballyhoo" is Alfred Uhry's first new play since this one about a woman & her chauffeur Driving Miss Daisy |
| #3296, aired 1998-12-28 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK $200: In Hitchcock's third movie, "The Lodger", a landlady suspects that her tenant is this London killer Jack the Ripper |
| #3296, aired 1998-12-28 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK $600: This Swede who starred in 3 of Hitchcock's films called him "A gentleman farmer who raised goose flesh" Ingrid Bergman |
| #3296, aired 1998-12-28 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK $800: Hitchcock's daughter was in this 1951 film in which Robert Walker wanted to swap murders with Farley Granger Strangers on a Train |
| #3296, aired 1998-12-28 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK $1000: Hitchcock's name for a plot device; he said it "is actually nothing at all" McGuffin |
| #3296, aired 1998-12-28 | ALFRED HITCHCOCK $1,400 (Daily Double): Hitch's movie that contains the line "No one ever comes here unless they've gotten off the main highway" Psycho |
| #3291, aired 1998-12-21 | NOEL $800: Noel, Alfred Lunt & this actress formed a menage a trois in Noel's controversial comedy "Design for Living" Lynn Fontanne |
| #3276, aired 1998-11-30 | BASEBALL $500: When this Brooklyn field opened in 1913, borough pres. Alfred Steers tossed out the first ball Ebbets Field |
| #3271, aired 1998-11-23 | MANY LOVES $1000: The phrase "The love that dare not" do this was coined by Oscar Wilde's friend Alfred Douglas Speak its name |
| #3223, aired 1998-09-16 | DIRECTORS $1,500 (Daily Double): The first American film Alfred Hitchcock directed was this 1940 classic, seen here:
"You thought you could be Mrs. DeWinter, live in her house, walk in her steps, take the things that were hers, but she's too strong for you, you can't fight her..." Rebecca |
| #3190, aired 1998-06-12 | CREATIONS $400: In 1843 Samuel Morse & Alfred Vail received $30,000 to build this between Baltimore & Washington, D.C. a telegraph line |
| #3182, aired 1998-06-02 | AMERICAN ARTISTS $1000: In 1916 Alfred Stieglitz exhibited her paintings at 291, his NYC gallery; 8 years later he married her Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #3169, aired 1998-05-14 | PEACHES $1000: In this poem, T.S. Eliot asked, "Do I dare to eat a peach?" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #3168, aired 1998-05-13 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $600: This lord was England's poet laureate when he wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" in 1854 Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #3161, aired 1998-05-04 | PUT 'EM IN ORDER $1000: Richard the Lion-Hearted,
Alfred the Great,
Henry VIII Alfred, Richard, Henry |
| #3136, aired 1998-03-30 | VALLEYS $200: This poet called a valley outside Balaklava "The Valley of Death" Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #3112, aired 1998-02-24 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $800: To avoid Boss Tweed's graft, Alfred Beach secretly built one of these under Broadway in 1869-70 a subway |
| #3111, aired 1998-02-23 | DANGEROUS SCIENCE $400: He looked for a safe way to handle nitroglycerin after an 1864 explosion killed his brother Alfred Nobel |
| #3109, aired 1998-02-19 | HISTORIC WORLD LEADERS $300: He was the only king of England to have "The Great" tacked on to his name Alfred |
| #3103, aired 1998-02-11 | PRAISE THE "LORD" $200: Hardly idle, this poet wrote over 10,000 lines of "Idylls of the King" Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #3100, aired 1998-02-06 | DIRECTORS $200: Biographer Donald Spoto says that as a schoolboy, this "Vertigo" director was nicknamed "Cocky" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #3099, aired 1998-02-05 | THE ART OF PEACE $600: He took the famous photograph of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day Alfred Eisenstaedt |
| #3096, aired 1998-02-02 | WELCOME TO THE 1950s $400: We're just cooling down from his "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" & now he's writing one on women Alfred Kinsey |
| #3069, aired 1997-12-25 | LORDS A-LEAPING $400: In 1935 John Buchan became Lord Tweedsmuir & his novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps" was filmed by this director Alfred Hitchcock |
| #3057, aired 1997-12-09 | EMINENT VICTORIANS $800: In 1854 this poet laureate wrote, "Into the valley of death rode the six hundred" Lord Alfred Tennyson ("Charge of the Light Brigade") |
| #3028, aired 1997-10-29 | INVENTORS $300: In 1864 this Swede founded the Nitroglycerin Corporation Alfred Nobel |
| #3021, aired 1997-10-20 | WHAT'S THE QUESTION? $200: Alfred E. Neuman's standard rhetorical query "What, me worry?" |
| #3005, aired 1997-09-26 | WORLD WAR I $500: Nicknamed for the granddaughter of arms maker Alfred Krupp, this howitzer weighed 43 tons "Big Bertha" |
| #3005, aired 1997-09-26 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $2,300 (Daily Double): Director seen here: Alfred Hitchcock |
| #2977, aired 1997-07-08 | FAMOUS NAMES $800: From 1942 to 1956 he headed the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University Alfred Kinsey |
| #2976, aired 1997-07-07 | MOVIE OBJECTS $300: This director called objects that drive the plot "MacGuffins", like the engine plans in "The 39 Steps" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #2968, aired 1997-06-25 | GAMES $500: In 1931 architect Alfred M. Butts developed this board-&-tile game, calling it Crisscrosswords Scrabble |
| #2962, aired 1997-06-17 | PSYCH 101 $500: In 1905 he & Theodore Simon devised an intelligence test for French school children Alfred Binet |
| #2958, aired 1997-06-11 | GREAT RULERS $500: By 896 A.D. this West Saxon king had captured the city of London Alfred the Great |
| #2942, aired 1997-05-20 | OBSCURE OPERA & BALLET $1000: Not to "J'Accuse" Alfred Bruneau, but he got opera stories like "Le Reve" from this author friend Emile Zola |
| #2940, aired 1997-05-16 | LITERATURE $100: This English lord dedicated an 1880 volume of poetry to his grandson, who was also named Alfred Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #2911, aired 1997-04-07 | PHOTOGRAPHY $1000: The Nat'l Gallery of Art has a print of every negative printed & kept by this husband of Georgia O'Keeffe Alfred Stieglitz |
| #2906, aired 1997-03-31 | POETIC POTPOURRI $100: "Poems by 2 Brothers" features poems by 3 Tennyson brothers: Charles, Frederick & him Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #2902, aired 1997-03-25 | HOLLYWOOD FAMILIES $200: This director's daughter Patricia played one of Janet Leigh's co-workers in his classic film "Psycho" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #2898, aired 1997-03-19 | ENDINGS $3,600 (Daily Double): Ending being celebrated in the Alfred Eisenstaedt photograph seen here:
[video clue] End of the Second World War |
| #2870, aired 1997-02-07 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $600: Alfred de Vigny's historical novel "Cinq-Mars" concerns a 17th century plot against this French cardinal Cardinal Richelieu |
| #2863, aired 1997-01-29 | FAMOUS AMERICANS $400: This Naval hero helped outfit the Alfred, the first ship bought by the Continental Congress John Paul Jones |
| #2852, aired 1997-01-14 | NAME THE POET $600: "'Charge' was the captain's cry; theirs not to reason why, theirs not to make reply" Alfred Lord Tennyson ("Charge of the Light Brigade") |
| #2849, aired 1997-01-09 | THEY ALMOST STARRED IN... $100: Alfred Hitchcock wanted her to make a comeback in "Marnie" but the people of Monaco disapproved (Princess) Grace Kelly |
| #2827, aired 1996-12-10 | 19TH CENTURY SCIENCE $400: He considered the nitroglycerin made by his family unsafe, so he invented dynamite Alfred Nobel |
| #2825, aired 1996-12-06 | POETS $400: Between 1842 & 1885, he repeatedly revised his "Idylls of the King" Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #2802, aired 1996-11-05 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $1000: Perhaps it was fate that won Alfred Drake the role of Hajj in this 1953 musical Kismet |
| #2783, aired 1996-10-09 | THE 19th CENTURY $1000: Emile Zola's letter "J'accuse" helped win a new trial for this Frenchman who'd been convicted of spying (Alfred) Dreyfus |
| #2749, aired 1996-07-11 | THE 9th CENTURY $1000: In 886 this English king retook London from the Danes Alfred the Great |
| #2741, aired 1996-07-01 | SALESMEN $100: It's the product most often associated with Alfred Carl Fuller brushes |
| #2736, aired 1996-06-24 | GEOLOGISTS $500: It's Alfred Wegener's name for the single supercontinent that broke up into Laurasia & Gondwanaland Pangaea |
| #2734, aired 1996-06-20 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $200: Bertha von Suttner helped inspire this man to create a peace prize & became the first woman to win it Alfred Nobel |
| #2724, aired 1996-06-06 | BIOGRAPHIES $400: A 1942 biography of this man was subtitled "Dynamite King, Architect of Peace" (Alfred) Nobel |
| #2692, aired 1996-04-23 | RULERS $600: This "Great" king of the West Saxons had a love of learning & promoted literacy among his people Alfred (the Great) |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | ARTISTS $800: In 1916 she met her future husband, Alfred Stieglitz Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #2679, aired 1996-04-04 | BRITISH POETS & POETRY $400: Prince Albert sent his copy of "Idylls Of The King" to this poet & asked him to autograph it Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #2647, aired 1996-02-20 | 1995 $100: In April the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in this city was bombed Oklahoma City |
| #2646, aired 1996-02-19 | POLITICAL TERMS $800: William Safire traces "New World Order" back to this lord's "The Passing of Arthur" Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #2634, aired 1996-02-01 | LETTER $400: This novelist was sentenced to a year in jail for the letter he wrote supporting Alfred Dreyfus Émile Zola |
| #2620, aired 1996-01-12 | U.S. HISTORY $800: Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt & Alfred E. Smith all held this political post Governor of New York |
| #2615, aired 1996-01-05 | POETRY $800: This Eliot poem begins, "Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #2601, aired 1995-12-18 | NOTABLE NAMES $500: Alfred Eisenstaedt, one of the most noted names in this profession, passed away in 1995 at age 96 photography |
| #2592, aired 1995-12-05 | DISGUISE $500: Legend says in 878 this "Great" English king dressed up like a minstrel to spy on the Viking camp Alfred (the Great) |
| #2580, aired 1995-11-17 | POETS & POETRY $300: This lord's 1879 poem "The Defence of Lucknow" concerns the Sepoy Rebellion Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #2564, aired 1995-10-26 | THE MIDDLE AGES $1000: This "Great" Saxon king's son Edward was acknowledged lord of Scotland c. 920 Alfred the Great |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | THEATRE $200: The only characters in this Alfred Uhry play are Daisy Werthan, her chauffeur & her son Driving Miss Daisy |
| #2530, aired 1995-09-08 | CRIME TIME $400: In 1972 Alfred Bremer was sentenced to 53 years for shooting this Alabama governor & 3 others Wallace |
| #2523, aired 1995-07-19 | ISLANDS $1000: In 1895 Alfred Dreyfus was sent here Devil's Island |
| #2517, aired 1995-07-11 | '50s FILM FACTS $600: Grace Kelly acted in 11 feature films in the 1950s; 3 were directed by this man Alfred Hitchcock |
| #2501, aired 1995-06-19 | EXPLOSIVES $400: Besides inventing dynamite, he perfected a detonator for it Alfred Nobel |
| #2493, aired 1995-06-07 | INVENTORS $300: This liquid was not a safe explosive until inventor Alfred Nobel used it in making dynamite nitroglycerin |
| #2487, aired 1995-05-30 | THEATRE $200: In 1928 she & her husband Alfred Lunt appeared simultaneously in plays by Eugene O'Neill Lynn Fontanne |
| #2482, aired 1995-05-23 | BIRTHPLACES $400: Dorothea Lange, Alfred Kinsey, Alfred Stieglitz & Frank Sinatra are 4 famous natives of this New Jersey city Hoboken |
| #2479, aired 1995-05-18 | GARDENING $600: Both the trumpet & petals of the King Alfred variety of this Narcissus are clear yellow a daffodil |
| #2477, aired 1995-05-16 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: This British poet published his poetic drama "Becket" in 1884, the same year he was elevated to the peerage Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #2471, aired 1995-05-08 | ART $1000: Several photographs of this artist by her husband Alfred Stieglitz are in U.S. art museums Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #2459, aired 1995-04-20 | POTPOURRI $800: In the 1850s this Swedish chemist worked under John Ericsson, builder of the ironclad the Monitor (Alfred) Nobel |
| #2390, aired 1995-01-13 | WOMEN ARTISTS $400: She married Alfred Stieglitz in 1924; he was 23 years her senior Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #2380, aired 1994-12-30 | GOVERNORS $200: In 1886 Robert Love Taylor defeated his brother Alfred to become governor of this "Volunteer State" Tennessee |
| #2373, aired 1994-12-21 | ODDS & ENDS $100: Alfred Hitchcock probably knew that NxNW is an abbreviation of this direction north by northwest |
| #2370, aired 1994-12-16 | INVENTORS $700 (Daily Double): Reportedly first isolated in 1957 in Stockholm, Sweden, chemical element 102 is named for this inventor Alfred Nobel |
| #2353, aired 1994-11-23 | 20th CENTURY AMERICA $300: In 1948 the results of his studies of sexual behavior in the human male were published Alfred Kinsey |
| #2346, aired 1994-11-14 | MOVIE THRILLERS $400: The finale of Alfred Hitchcock's "Saboteur" takes place on this national landmark Statue of Liberty |
| #2319, aired 1994-10-06 | THE VIKINGS $1000: This great king of Wessex stopped the Vikings' advance in England but ceded the north to them Alfred the Great |
| #2281, aired 1994-07-04 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: "The Elder Statesman" was the last play written by this poet who created J. Alfred Prufrock T.S. Eliot |
| #2273, aired 1994-06-22 | 1913 $600: Robert Bridges succeeded Alfred Austin in this British literary post poet laureate |
| #2263, aired 1994-06-08 | THE MOVIES $200: "Bates Motel", a 1987 TV movie, was based on this 1960 Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho |
| #2254, aired 1994-05-26 | FAMOUS FRENCHMEN $800: In 1906 this army officer was cleared of all treason charges & decorated with the Legion of Honor Alfred Dreyfus |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | NOTABLE WOMEN $1000: In 1993 a picture of this artist's hands taken by husband Alfred Stieglitz was auctioned for $398,500 Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #2246, aired 1994-05-16 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $1000: Alfred P. Sloan was president of this company 1923-1937 & chairman of the board 1937-1956 General Motors |
| #2218, aired 1994-04-06 | RULERS $1000: This great Saxon king's daughter Aethelflaed raised armies to keep Danish invaders out of England Alfred (the Great) |
| #2180, aired 1994-02-11 | MUSIC $600: "Rule," this place! Comes from T.A. Arne's 1740 masque "Alfred" Britannia |
| #2177, aired 1994-02-08 | JOHN STEINBECK $600: Steinbeck wrote the story on which this Master of Suspense's 1944 movie "Lifeboat" was based Alfred Hitchcock |
| #2169, aired 1994-01-27 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $300: He appeared in "The Birds" as a man in front of a pet shop with white terriers Alfred Hitchcock |
| #2138, aired 1993-12-15 | VICTORIAN LITERATURE $500 (Daily Double): 1 of the 4 men who served as England's Poet Laureate during Victoria's reign (1 of) Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Southey, Wordsworth or Alfred Austin |
| #2130, aired 1993-12-03 | SCIENCE $500: He discovered that if nitroglycerin was absorbed by an inert substance it wouldn't explode from shock Alfred Nobel |
| #2119, aired 1993-11-18 | BRITISH POETS $3,500 (Daily Double): In 1883 Queen Victoria gave this poet laureate the title "Baron of Aldworth & Freshwater" Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #2082, aired 1993-09-28 | MIDDLE NAMES $400: Poet Alfred Kilmer used this middle name as his first Joyce |
| #2068, aired 1993-09-08 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $200: Alfred Drake was Rodgers & Hammerstein's 1st choice to play the ruler of Siam in this musical The King and I |
| #2062, aired 1993-07-20 | ART $800: She had a one-woman show at MoMA in 1946, the year her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, passed away Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #2059, aired 1993-07-15 | WRITERS $400: Hume Cronyn co-wrote scripts for 2 of this director's films, "Under Suspicion" & "Rope" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #2049, aired 1993-07-01 | NOTABLE NAMES $400: This director produced many of his own films, including "Strangers on a Train" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #2048, aired 1993-06-30 | CELEBRITY RELATIVES $1,500 (Daily Double): She's Don Johnson's famous mother-in-law; a little "bird" told us Tippi Hedren |
| #2044, aired 1993-06-24 | SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $200: At the same meeting in 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace & this man had papers presented on natural selection Darwin |
| #1978, aired 1993-03-24 | GREAT RULERS $1000: This "Great" king of Wessex kept England from falling to the Danes in the 9th century Alfred |
| #1966, aired 1993-03-08 | ARTISTS $400: She died in 1986 in New Mexico, where she had lived since the passing of her husband, Alfred Stieglitz Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #1945, aired 1993-02-05 | POETRY $600: T.S. Eliot asked "Do I dare to eat a peach" in this title character's "Love Song" J. Alfred Prufrock |
| #1945, aired 1993-02-05 | THE 19th CENTURY $1000: On Jan. 5, 1895, in front of French troops, he was stripped of his buttons & badges & had his sword broken Alfred Dreyfus |
| #1936, aired 1993-01-25 | OSCAR WILDE $800: Mad at his son Alfred Douglas' relationship with Wilde, this marquess wanted to box Wilde's ears the Marquess of Queensberry |
| #1931, aired 1993-01-18 | RULERS $300: This "Confessor" was the last descendant of Alfred the Great to serve as king of England Edward the Confessor |
| #1902, aired 1992-12-08 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: Once Chopin's lover, she fictionalized her disastrous affair with Alfred de Musset in "Elle et Lui" George Sand |
| #1891, aired 1992-11-23 | POETS & POETRY $500: This lord's 1850 elegy "In Memoriam" was about his close friend Arthur Henry Hallam (Alfred Lord) Tennyson |
| #1886, aired 1992-11-16 | BALLET $1000: Frederick Ashton's ballet "The Lady of Shalott" is based on this man's poem of the same name Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #1880, aired 1992-11-06 | ISLANDS $600: At the time of Alfred Dreyfus' imprisonment on this island off French Guiana, it was virtually uninhabited Devil's Island |
| #1873, aired 1992-10-28 | ART $1,000 (Daily Double): She modeled for husband-to-be Alfred Stieglitz's photos, and he sold her paintings Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #1852, aired 1992-09-29 | PULITZER PRIZE PLAYS $400: The 1988 prize went to this Alfred Uhry play about a feisty old woman & her chauffeur Driving Miss Daisy |
| #1841, aired 1992-09-14 | CARY GRANT FILMS $500: 2 of the 4 films Cary Grant made with director Alfred Hitchcock (2 of) Notorious & North by Northwest (or Suspicion & To Catch a Thief) |
| #1837, aired 1992-09-08 | PEOPLE $600: With Theodore Simon, this French psychologist developed a series of intelligence tests (Alfred) Binet |
| #1832, aired 1992-07-14 | CELEBRITY COUPLES $600: Alfred Steele was Pepsi-Cola's chairman of the board & this actress' husband Joan Crawford |
| #1830, aired 1992-07-10 | ACTORS & HISTORIC ROLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Christopher Plummer & Jane Alexander starred in a '91 PBS drama about Alfred Stieglitz & this artist, his wife Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #1815, aired 1992-06-19 | LESSER-KNOWN NAMES $400: German meteorologist Alfred Wegener was 1st to catch their drift when he saw the jigsaw pattern the continents |
| #1793, aired 1992-05-20 | PHILOSOPHY $600: Alfred North Whitehead said European philosophy is "a series of footnotes to" this Greek Plato |
| #1790, aired 1992-05-15 | HODGEPODGE $600: You'll often find Alfred E. Neuman on the cover of this magazine Mad magazine |
| #1790, aired 1992-05-15 | POETRY $1,000 (Daily Double): In this poem, T.S. Eliot wrote, "I should have been a pair of ragged claws" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #1731, aired 1992-02-24 | POETRY $1000: He began his 1st major poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", with a quote from Dante's "Inferno" (T.S.) Eliot |
| #1723, aired 1992-02-12 | SCIENTISTS $600: After his factory blew up in 1864, the Swedish government wouldn't let him rebuild it Alfred Nobel |
| #1714, aired 1992-01-30 | FRUITS & VEGETABLES $1000: In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" Eliot asks "Do I dare to eat" this fruit a peach |
| #1713, aired 1992-01-29 | THE MOVIES $300: He directed the classic 1946 espionage romance "Notorious" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #1701, aired 1992-01-13 | A.K.A. $400: You probably know British TV comic Alfred Hawthorn Hill better by this name Benny Hill |
| #1694, aired 1992-01-02 | MUSEUMS $200: Displays on transportation can be found at the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Museum in Flint in this state Michigan |
| #1691, aired 1991-12-30 | ARTISTS $400: She married photographer Alfred Stieglitz in 1924 & settled in northern N.M. after his death in 1946 Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #1677, aired 1991-12-10 | FAMOUS NAMES $400: Alfred Lewis Vail was this man's assistant, so he received the famous message "What hath God wrought!" Samuel Morse |
| #1670, aired 1991-11-29 | HISTORIC NAMES $800: He was the only English king honored with the title "The Great" Alfred |
| #1660, aired 1991-11-15 | THE VIKINGS $1000: In the late 800s, this king of Wessex prevented the Vikings from conquering all of England Alfred the Great |
| #1649, aired 1991-10-31 | THE MOVIES $500 (Daily Double): This Englishman directed Shirley MacLaine in her 1st film, "The Trouble with Harry" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #1623, aired 1991-09-25 | THEATRE $400: She starred in a 1928 production of "Strange Interlude" without her husband Alfred Lunt Lynn Fontanne |
| #1612, aired 1991-09-10 | A.K.A. $500: This late comedian was born Leonard Alfred Schneider, as Dustin Hoffman could tell you Lenny Bruce |
| #1607, aired 1991-09-03 | FAMOUS NAMES $200: Alfred Gerald Caplin shortened his name a "Li'l" to this Al Capp |
| #1598, aired 1991-07-10 | STATE CAPITALS $500: You'll find the Governor Alfred E. Smith State Office Building in this capital Albany |
| #1572, aired 1991-06-04 | LESS FAMOUS NAMES $800: German meteorologist Alfred Wegener was the 1st to catch their drift when he saw the jigsaw pattern continents |
| #1536, aired 1991-04-15 | HISTORY $200: Unjustly condemned for treason, Alfred Dreyfus was sent to this penal colony in 1895 Devil's Island |
| #1509, aired 1991-03-07 | WORLD HISTORY $500: This "great" king of Wessex defeated the invading Danes at the Battle of Eddington in 878 Alfred the Great |
| #1500, aired 1991-02-22 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $4,000 (Daily Double): Thomas Arne's 1740 masque "Alfred" included this song often played today: "Rule, Britannia" |
| #1488, aired 1991-02-06 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: Early in his career this "Master of Suspense" directed a musical about Johann Strauss Alfred Hitchcock |
| #1460, aired 1990-12-28 | SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $300: Alfred Lunt tamed this actress in a 1935 production of "The Taming of the Shrew" Lynn Fontanne |
| #1459, aired 1990-12-27 | MAGAZINES $100: Mad magazine mascot who has said, "The world is a place that's gone from being flat to round to crooked" Alfred E. Neuman |
| #1439, aired 1990-11-29 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: Veterinarian James Alfred White wrote "All Creatures Great & Small" under this pen name (James) Herriot |
| #1414, aired 1990-10-25 | TOYS & GAMES $500: Alfred M. Butts called his game "Criss Cross", but it was redesigned in 1948 & sold under this name Scrabble |
| #1380, aired 1990-09-07 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: Alfred Hitchcock directed "The 39 Steps" & "The Lady Vanishes" in this, his native country England |
| #1344, aired 1990-06-07 | THE MOVIES $200: Ingrid Bergman called this director "a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #1315, aired 1990-04-27 | BARONS & BARONESSES $1000: This poet who wrote "Idylls of the King" wasn't a king, but he was a baron (Alfred, Lord) Tennyson |
| #1304, aired 1990-04-12 | POLITICS & GOVERNMENT $400: In 1928 he became the first Roman Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party Alfred E. Smith |
| #1290, aired 1990-03-23 | HISTORIC QUOTES $400: Alfred E. Smith said, "All the ills of democracy can be cured by more" of this Democracy |
| #1259, aired 1990-02-08 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): He also wrote "The Charge of the Heavy Brigade" Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #1239, aired 1990-01-11 | SCANDINAVIANS $2,700 (Daily Double): He was forbidden to rebuild his Heleneburg, Sweden factory after it exploded in 1864 Alfred Nobel |
| #1199, aired 1989-11-16 | WISCONSINITES $200: Milwaukee native who met his British-born wife, Lynn Fontanne, in 1917 on Broadway Alfred Lunt |
| #1197, aired 1989-11-14 | RULERS $200: England's Alfred was the Great; Scotland's Robert I was this the Bruce |
| #1191, aired 1989-11-06 | POLITICAL LEADERS $2,500 (Daily Double): 4-time governor who used the following song in his 1928 presidential campaign: Alfred E. Smith |
| #1183, aired 1989-10-25 | ENGLISH LITERATURE $600: It's reported John F. Kennedy's favorite poem was "Ulysses" by this British poet laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #1179, aired 1989-10-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: In "North by Northwest", this director made a cameo appearance as a man who misses a bus Alfred Hitchcock |
| #1173, aired 1989-10-11 | HISTORIC NAMES $100: Before people referred to him as Lord Tennyson, they called him by this first name Alfred |
| #1170, aired 1989-10-06 | LEGENDS $1,000 (Daily Double): This king & his queen, Igrayne, were the parents of King Arthur Uther Pendragon |
| #1147, aired 1989-09-05 | FILMS OF THE '70s $300: Mel Brooks' "High Anxiety" poked fun at the films of this director who made his last film in 1976 Sir Alfred Hitchcock |
| #1138, aired 1989-07-12 | GUINNESS RECORDS $400 (Daily Double): Good "Lord", he was Poet Laaureate of England for almost 42 years, longer than anyone else (Alfred Lord) Tennyson |
| #1126, aired 1989-06-26 | GEMS & JEWELRY $1000: In 1900 the world's most famous jewelry store was this Parisian one founded by Alfred & Louis Cartier |
| #1104, aired 1989-05-25 | STARTS WITH "V" $200: In this 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film, James Stewart played a former police detective afraid of heights Vertigo |
| #1073, aired 1989-04-12 | THE VIKINGS $1000: In 886 this great Saxon king freed London from the Danish Vikings Alfred the Great |
| #1060, aired 1989-03-24 | "LING" O $200: Circus siblings Albert, Otto, Alfred, Charles & John the Ringling Brothers |
| #1052, aired 1989-03-14 | TV TRIVIA $400: His TV theme song was based on "The Funeral March Of A Marionette" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #1008, aired 1989-01-11 | BUSINESS BIGGIES $200: Kidnapped & held for a $10 million ransom in 1983, Alfred Heineken heads a company famous for this beer |
| #997, aired 1988-12-27 | POETS $600: Alfred was his first name; his middle name was Joyce (Alfred Joyce) Kilmer |
| #994, aired 1988-12-22 | IN THE NEWS $600: A new statue in the Paris Tuileries is of this Jewish soldier tried for treason & later exonerated (Alfred) Dreyfus |
| #970, aired 1988-11-18 | WORLD WAR I $1000: A secret message from this German foreign secretary advocating a German-Mexican alliance angered the U.S. Arthur (or Alfred) Zimmerman |
| #964, aired 1988-11-10 | FIRST NAMES $200: The dynamite first name of the founder of the Nobel prizes Alfred |
| #956, aired 1988-10-31 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $500: Restaurateur Adolphe Alfred Rempp developed this powdered product in the late 1930s Adolph's Meat Tenderizer |
| #932, aired 1988-09-27 | ART TRIVIA $500: This desert artist was a nude model for Alfred Stieglitz's photographs before she married him Georgia O'Keeffe |
| #924, aired 1988-09-15 | 20th CENTURY PERSONALITIES $800: 1 of 2 men who, at the request of the French gov't. created the 1st modern intelligence test in 1905 (1 of) (Alfred) Binet (or Theodore Simon) |
| #920, aired 1988-09-09 | THEATER $400: When "Elizabeth the Queen" premiered in 1930, Lynn Fontanne was the Queen & he played Lord Essex (Alfred) Lunt |
| #895, aired 1988-06-24 | WORLD HISTORY $800: Despite the famous Zola letter, he was still found guilty of treason at his retrial (Alfred) Dreyfus |
| #881, aired 1988-06-06 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: He was a part-time composer & full-time consort of Queen Victoria Prince Albert |
| #877, aired 1988-05-31 | WRITERS $400: Queen Victoria made this "Lord"ly poet the Baron of Aldworth and Farringford Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #867, aired 1988-05-17 | THE WIFE MARRIED $400: Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Franchot Tone & Philip Terry, & Pepsi Cola tycoon Alfred Steele Joan Crawford |
| #859, aired 1988-05-05 | MOVIE CLASSICS $400: The only Alfred Hitchcock film to win an Oscar as Best Picture, it was partially set in Monte Carlo Rebecca |
| #854, aired 1988-04-28 | IT'S A "LOCK" $1000: "In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love" in this poetic "Hall" (Alfred Lord Tennyson's) "Locksley Hall" |
| #827, aired 1988-03-22 | ALPHABETICALLY FIRST $600: This Great guy was alphabetically the 1st of all the kings of England Alfred |
| #818, aired 1988-03-09 | SCIENCE $400: In 1858, Alfred Wallace & Charles Darwin each proposed theories of evolution based on this natural selection |
| #782, aired 1988-01-19 | PHOTOGRAPHY $600: Alfred Eisenstaedt is especially renowned for the photos he's taken since 1936 for this magainze Life |
| #767, aired 1987-12-29 | POETRY $600: "Do I dare to eat a peach?" asked T.S. Eliot in this "Love Song" "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| #751, aired 1987-12-07 | BRITISH LITERATURE $300: Daughter of dustman Alfred Doolittle Eliza |
| #744, aired 1987-11-26 | GILBERT & SULLIVAN $800: "Princess Ida" was based on a poem by this lord famous for his heavy verse & Light Brigade Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #728, aired 1987-11-04 | MOVIE MAKERS $200: It's said "North by Northwest" convinced Ian Fleming this man would be the best director for Bond films Alfred Hitchcock |
| #720, aired 1987-10-23 | TV TRIVIA $100: On "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", Hitchcock bricked up this "jolly old elf in a fireplace Santa Claus |
| #673, aired 1987-07-08 | REMAKES $400: Only film Alfred Hitchcock remade, with J. Stewart & D. Day in 1956 instead of 1934's L. Banks & E. Best The Man Who Knew Too Much |
| #670, aired 1987-07-03 | TESTS $800: In 1905, Frenchmen Alfred Binet & Theodore Simon developed the 1st scales for measuring this intelligence quotient, I.Q. |
| #666, aired 1987-06-29 | PEN NAMES $400: Alfred Gerald Caplin signed his popular comic strip with this name Al Capp |
| #654, aired 1987-06-11 | DIRECTORS $400: This prankster once gave Tippi Hedren's daughter a doll made to look like her mother in a toy coffin Alfred Hitchcock |
| #653, aired 1987-06-10 | CUSTER'S LAST STAND $1000: It's said this general, under whom Custer fought, underestimated the size of the Indian force General Alfred H. Terry |
| #652, aired 1987-06-09 | BRITISH LITERATURE $1000: Author of "Idylls of the King", he was a favorite of Queen Victoria Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #631, aired 1987-05-11 | LITERATURE $200: F. Tennyson & C. Tennyson Turner wrote "Poems by 2 Brothers" with this more famous brother Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #581, aired 1987-03-02 | DIRECTORS $600: He was knighted at Universal Studios shortly before his death in 1980 Alfred Hitchcock |
| #561, aired 1987-02-02 | HOLLYWOOD HISTORY $800: Director who said "If I made Cinderella, the audience would be looking for the body in the coach" (Alfred) Hitchcock |
| #556, aired 1987-01-26 | THE DEVIL $600: In 1895, Alfred Dreyfus became the 1st prisoner ever sent there Devil's Island |
| #553, aired 1987-01-21 | LITERATURE $1000: Poet laureate who wrote, "I hope to see my pilot face to face when I have crost the bar" Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| #544, aired 1987-01-08 | THE 20TH CENTURY $500: Unjustly convicted of treason, in July 1906 this French officer was retried & found innocent (Alfred) Dreyfus |
| #542, aired 1987-01-06 | INVENTIONS $400: Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero discovered this compound which blew up Alfred's brother Emil Nobel nitroglycerine |
| #530, aired 1986-12-19 | MAGAZINE COVERS $100: While you gotta search for the rabbit head on a Playboy, you can easily find his happy face on Mad Alfred E. Neuman |
| #495, aired 1986-10-31 | 1890's $400: In 1896, the director of the Sorbonne's psychology lab, Alfred Binet, devised this test I.Q. test |
| #481, aired 1986-10-13 | ENGLISH POETRY $600: He also wrote "The Charge of the Heavy Brigade" Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| #470, aired 1986-09-26 | '50'S TV $600: This anthology series finished 6th in the '56-'57 season & 49th in '85-'86 Alfred Hitchcock Presents |
| #450, aired 1986-05-30 | THE '85 TV SEASON $200: Though dead 5 years, he's introducing segments of "his" show--in color this time Alfred Hitchcock |
| #440, aired 1986-05-16 | MEASUREMENTS $800: According to T.S. Eliot's "love song", he "measured out" his life with coffee spoons J. Alfred Prufrock |
| #426, aired 1986-04-28 | BATMAN $500: He has been hailed by Batman as "the greatest gentleman's gentleman in the world" Alfred (Pennyworth) |
| #422, aired 1986-04-22 | PSYCHOLOGY $500: Founder of “individual psychology”, he broke with Freud in 1911 Alfred Adler |
| #420, aired 1986-04-18 | 1890's $900 (Daily Double): 3 of original 5 prize categories established by Alfred Nobel's will after he died in 1896 (3 of) physics, physiology or medicine, chemistry, literature, & peace |
| #389, aired 1986-03-06 | FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT $600: In 1966 Truffaut conducted a book-length interview with this English-born "master of suspense" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #367, aired 1986-02-04 | JEWELRY $400: A gem carved in relief, or the kind of appearance Alfred Hitchcock made in his movies a cameo |
| #360, aired 1986-01-24 | "COCK" A DOODLE DO $200: He sat in a chair marked "Mrs. Bates" during the filming of "Psycho" Alfred Hitchcock |
| #356, aired 1986-01-20 | BRITISH HISTORY $1000: Egbert's grandson, he was the only English king to be acclaimed "the Great" Alfred the Great |
| #334, aired 1985-12-19 | TOYS & GAMES $500: "Alfred's Other Game" is a sort of solitary version of this, his world famous crossword game Scrabble |
| #333, aired 1985-12-18 | THE '50s $600 (Daily Double): Series introduced by this Gounod piece:
[Instrument music plays.] Alfred Hitchcock Presents |
| #286, aired 1985-10-14 | BUSINESS & INDUSTRY $600: Company founded in 1906 by door-to-door salesman Alfred C. Fuller, now owned by Sara Lee Corp. the Fuller Brush Company |
| #178, aired 1985-05-15 | EAR, NOSE & THROAT $500: Mad's Alfred E. Neuman might be a good candidate for otoplasty, which is this reducing your ears |
| #176, aired 1985-05-13 | OUTLAWS $800: Alfred Noyes wrote a famous poem about this kind of robber a highwayman |
| #162, aired 1985-04-23 | MOVIE COMPOSERS $500: His uncle Alfred won an Oscar for "Alexander's Ragtime Band" while he was nominated for "Ragtime" Randy Newman |
| #146, aired 1985-04-01 | MOVIES $800: This "grave" movie was Alfred Hitchcock's last Family Plot |
| #113, aired 1985-02-13 | MOVIES $800: Where Alfred Hitchcock made his cameo appearance in "Lifeboat" in a photograph in a newspaper |
| #90, aired 1985-01-11 | TELEVISION $500 (Daily Double): View of the producer we saw during this theme a side view (or shadow, profile, sketch, or silhouette) |
| #82, aired 1985-01-01 | MOVIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Two Alfred Hitchcock films which begin with the letters "Sab-" Sabotage & Saboteur |
| #80, aired 1984-12-28 | INVENTORS $800: Albert Einhorn was the "Albert Einstein" who created this local anesthetic Novocain |
| #24, aired 1984-10-11 | INVENTORS $200: Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prizes out of remorse for having invented this dynamite |
| #2, aired 1984-01-01 | TELEVISION $200: The greeting which opened each episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" "Good evening" |
