#5366, aired 2007-12-31 | UNDER THE "C" $400: The modern Hebrew & Arabic alphabets consist only of these types of letters consonants |
#5116, aired 2006-12-04 | OTHER ALPHABETS' LETTERS $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew stands next to a monitor with letters on it.) The Armenian alphabet is based on the Greek alphabet, & za, the Armenian sixth letter, is the equivalent of this sixth letter of the Greek alphabet zeta |
#5116, aired 2006-12-04 | OTHER ALPHABETS' LETTERS $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Prague, Czech Republic's Jewish Town Hall.) Prague's Jewish Town Hall clock goes counterclockwise; 1:00 & 2:00 are represented by these first two Hebrew letters alef & bet |
#5116, aired 2006-12-04 | OTHER ALPHABETS' LETTERS $1200: The combination of consonants and vowels make syllabic letters as in "ka, kya" and "kyo" in Hangul, the writing of this peninsular language Korean |
#5116, aired 2006-12-04 | OTHER ALPHABETS' LETTERS $1600: These 2 Greek letters begin the name "Christ" in Greek & are used to represent him chi and rho |
#5116, aired 2006-12-04 | OTHER ALPHABETS' LETTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): Seen here are the first & last letters of this alphabet, created by Rama the Strong in the 13th century the Thai or Siamese alphabet |
#3725, aired 2000-11-10 | WATCH YOUR TONGUE $800: In 1928 this president of Turkey outlawed Ottoman Turkish & switched alphabets from Arabic to Roman Kemal Ataturk |
#2749, aired 1996-07-11 | THE 9th CENTURY $200: New ones invented in the 9th century included Hiragana & Cyrillic alphabets |
#2007, aired 1993-05-04 | ALPHABETS $200: The sign language symbol for this letter looks just like it: index & middle fingers up & apart V |
#2007, aired 1993-05-04 | ALPHABETS $400: Its letters include nun, sin & gimel the Hebrew alphabet |
#2007, aired 1993-05-04 | ALPHABETS $500 (Daily Double): This alphabet, an example of which is seen here, was derived from the Greek alphabet the Cyrillic alphabet |
#2007, aired 1993-05-04 | ALPHABETS $600: The French add a cedilla to this letter, which gives it an "S" sound a C |
#2007, aired 1993-05-04 | ALPHABETS $800: This Viking alphabet is called Futhark after its first 6 letters the runic alphabet |
#1780, aired 1992-05-01 | LANGUAGES $2,000 (Daily Double): Serbo-Croatian is written in 2 alphabets: the Croats use the Roman & the Serbs this one Cyrillic |
#739, aired 1987-11-19 | ODD ALPHABETS $200: In alphabet radio code, "B" is Bravo and "F" shares its name with this dance the foxtrot |
#739, aired 1987-11-19 | ODD ALPHABETS $400: Edible letters produced by Post Alpha-Bits |
#739, aired 1987-11-19 | ODD ALPHABETS $600: In ASCII, this kind of computer code, A is 01000001 binary code |
#739, aired 1987-11-19 | ODD ALPHABETS $1000: Representing the sound of the "A" in "about", a small "E" turned upside down is called this a schwa |
#739, aired 1987-11-19 | ODD ALPHABETS $2,000 (Daily Double): In the sign-language alphabet, it's the first letter whose sign resembles it C |
#365, aired 1986-01-31 | ODD ALPHABETS $200: In sign language, this letter can hold Winston Churchill's cigar V |
#365, aired 1986-01-31 | ODD ALPHABETS $400: It was assigned one dot in Morse code because of its common use E |
#365, aired 1986-01-31 | ODD ALPHABETS $600 (Daily Double): Of the English letters in the word "gnome", the 1 not to have a Greek letter look-alike the G |
#365, aired 1986-01-31 | ODD ALPHABETS $600: One dot in Braille symbolizes this letter meaning "one" A |
#365, aired 1986-01-31 | ODD ALPHABETS $1000: If a football ref held flags while signaling a 6 point score, it could semaphore this apt letter T |