#16, aired 2023-10-11 | YOU'RE A HOMOPHONE, DIANE $1,000 (Daily Double): In her 1983 book's acknowledgements, primatologist Dian Fossey thanks mostly humans but also these animals mountain gorillas |
#8932, aired 2023-09-19 | YOU BETTER BELIZE IT $600: Belizeans call this animal a red tiger; we call it a mountain lion & everyone can agree it's also a German sneaker company puma |
#8823, aired 2023-03-08 | MOUNTAIN HIGH, VALLEY LOW $1000: Once home to Kamehameha the Great, the Waipio Valley is also called this, just like a place in Egypt Valley of the Kings |
#8682, aired 2022-07-12 | LAKES & RIVERS & A MOUNTAIN $1200: Here is Gasherbrum I, also known as K5, in this Asian mountain range Karakoram |
#8, aired 2022-02-11 | OR TAKE THE "M" CATS $400: The puma of north & South America is also known as the cougar, the panther, & this 2-word name a mountain lion |
#8390, aired 2021-04-30 | 7-LETTER ANIMALS $400: You can find this wild cat, also called a puma, from Canada to Argentina panther |
#8252, aired 2020-10-06 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS MOUNTAIN G.O.A.T.s $200: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) One of the first two men to summit Everest and a part of my personal Mount Rushmore of all-time climbers, he also tractored to the South Pole five years later in 1958 Edmund Hillary |
#7792, aired 2018-06-26 | UNREAL ESTATE $1200: Orodruin, a volcanic mountain in Mordor, is also known as Mount this Mount Doom |
#6557, aired 2013-03-05 | STEPHEN KING $600: This nickname for death row at Cold Mountain penitentiary is also the title of a serial novel by King The Green Mile |
#5908, aired 2010-04-28 | THE COUGAR $800: The cougar is also called the mountain lion, the panther, the catamount & this, like a track shoe the puma |
#5840, aired 2010-01-22 | IT'S GEOGRAPHIC $1200: Darien is both a mountain range & a province of this country; it's also the former name of the whole isthmus Panama |
#5777, aired 2009-10-27 | ONE IN A MILLION $800: The puma is also called the mountain this lion |
#5410, aired 2008-02-29 | SOUTH AMERICAN ANIMALS $400: Also called tigre americano, it's unique among big cats in using its canine teeth to pierce the skull of prey the jaguar |
#5327, aired 2007-11-06 | WOMEN AUTHORS $2000: She won a Pulitzer for "The Shipping News" & also wrote the short story "Brokeback Mountain" Annie Proulx |
#5152, aired 2007-01-23 | ALSO A MOUNTAIN $400: Grace Kelly's prince of a hubby Rainier |
#5152, aired 2007-01-23 | ALSO A MOUNTAIN $800: First biblical mate plus what the sleepy need Everest |
#5152, aired 2007-01-23 | ALSO A MOUNTAIN $1,000 (Daily Double): This crossbreed of Red Delicious & Ralls Janet apples was bred at a Japanese research station Fuji |
#5152, aired 2007-01-23 | ALSO A MOUNTAIN $1200: He was president on Dec. 31, 1899 McKinley |
#5152, aired 2007-01-23 | ALSO A MOUNTAIN $2000: This maker of Stylus cameras started out 87 years ago as a microscope manufacturer Olympus |
#4814, aired 2005-07-07 | ANIMAL AKA $400: 2-word name for the critter also known as a puma, a cougar & a catamount a mountain lion |
#4590, aired 2004-07-16 | NOT NO. 1 $800: K2, the world's second-highest mountain, is also called this, after a geographer Mount Godwin-Austen |
#4230, aired 2003-01-10 | FUN IN THE SNOW $800: I'm standing in this mountain range. It's also the name of a Major League Baseball team the Rockies |
#3221, aired 1998-09-14 | IT'S A BREEZE $400: Also called the snow eater, this strong Rocky Mountain wind shares its name with a type of salmon Chinook |
#2555, aired 1995-10-13 | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $300: His younger brother Ira was also a Green Mountain Boy Ethan Allen |
#523, aired 1986-12-10 | MOUNTAINS $600 (Daily Double): Spanish for "a saw", it also means a jagged mountain range sierra |
#500, aired 1986-11-07 | CITIZEN KANE $400: Name of the estate Kane built on a Florida mountain, which he also built Xanadu |
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