| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | MARINE LIFE $2000: This name for a common sea snail is also that of a blue-violet flower periwinkle |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | SCIENCE $400: The mass of gas around a planet, this word is also used as the unit of air pressure equal to 14.7 psi at sea level 1 atmosphere |
| #8710, aired 2022-09-30 | BODIES OF WATER $2000: This sea of the Arctic Ocean is named for a British rear admiral who also devised a scale for measuring wind force Beaufort |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | MARINE BIOLOGY $2000: This smallest North American marine mammal is a key species in kelp forests, keeping consumers of the kelp in check the sea otter |
| #8599, aired 2022-03-17 | IRISH NAME DERIVATIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): Also a type of foldaway bed, it derives from Gaelic for "sea warrior" Murphy |
| #12, aired 2022-02-16 | PICK A MAJOR $800: Also known as the Hourglass Sea & the Atlantic Canale, Syrtis Major is a big dark spot on the surface of this planet Mars |
| #8573, aired 2022-02-09 | ISLE "B" $1000: Drop an "A" from a colorful plant to get this Frenchman who also gave his name to an island in the Solomon Sea Louis-Antoine de Bougainville |
| #8502, aired 2021-11-02 | GEOGRAPHIC IDIOMS $200: If you're between a rock & a hard place, you might also be between the devil & this salty expanse the deep blue sea |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | GEOGRAPHIC AKAs $2000: Named for a Russian navigator, this Alaskan island group in the Bering Sea is also known as the Fur Seal Islands Pribilof |
| #8425, aired 2021-06-18 | SCAVENGERS ASSEMBLE! $600: Animals that eat from the sea floor, like lobsters, are known as this hyphenated term, also an amoral opportunist a bottom-feeder |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | GEOGRA-SEA, & ALSO LAKES $600: The St. Clair River is a conduit by which the waters of Lake Huron eventually flow south into this other Great Lake Erie |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | GEOGRA-SEA, & ALSO LAKES $1,600 (Daily Double): Named for an 1830s explorer & linked to salt flats, this ancient lake hit a 5,000' in elevation & covered much of what is now Utah Lake Bonneville |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | A WRITER'S LIFE FOR ME $1000: This tough guy detective writer also wrote a novel for children called "The Day the Sea Rolled Back" Mickey Spillane |
| #8024, aired 2019-06-27 | A BIT OF LIT $400: Among his great works of fiction are "The Sun Also Rises" & "The Old Man and the Sea" Hemingway |
| #7943, aired 2019-03-06 | AROUND THE PACIFIC $400: Also called the sea parrot, this diving bird lives in large colonies in the north Pacific a puffin |
| #7829, aired 2018-09-27 | 7-LETTER WORDS $1200: It's also called a seismic sea wave a tsunami |
| #7790, aired 2018-06-22 | THE REAL GAME OF THRONES $1600: "The Narrow Sea", next to Essos, is also a name for this real body of water as in the history work "Hold the Narrow Sea" the English Channel |
| #7675, aired 2018-01-12 | PUBLIC ANEMONE $1200: Sea anemones can split in 2, a form of reproduction called longitudinal this, also a physics term fission |
| #7648, aired 2017-12-06 | "L" ON THE MAP $1600: This gulf was the site of a naval action also called the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea Leyte Gulf |
| #7439, aired 2017-01-05 | ALSO A BASKETBALL TERM $800: Matthew 13:45 says, "The kingdom of heaven is like unto" this, "that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind" a net |
| #7355, aired 2016-07-29 | SCARY-SOUNDING ANIMALS $1200: Hey, you old bag of bones--this type of shrimp, also known as the praying mantis of the sea, hangs out with us in SoCal skeleton shrimp |
| #6851, aired 2014-06-02 | YOU'RE A 3-LETTER ANIMAL $2000: Also known as an alcid, this sea bird looks & behaves like a penguin but can fly an auk |
| #6824, aired 2014-04-24 | SINGAPORE $2000: A busy sea channel is called these of Singapore, also before "Times" in the name of a venerable local newspaper straits |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | ALSO A SEA $200: In sports names, it precedes Auerbach & Grange Red |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | ALSO A SEA $400: Victorious side in the U.S. Civil War the North |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | ALSO A SEA $600: Precedes "Queen" in the title of a No. 1 hit by Billy Ocean Caribbean |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | ALSO A SEA $800: The emir Abd el-Kader wrote about the history of this horse breed Arabian |
| #6492, aired 2012-12-04 | ALSO A SEA $1000: This language is also called Gaelic or erse Irish |
| #6485, aired 2012-11-23 | DISTINCTIVE CREATURES $2000: The nudibranch is also called the sea type of this, basically, a shell-less snail a slug |
| #6215, aired 2011-09-30 | BLUE RAYS $1600: A type of bioluminescence, the blue glow of sea creatures like plankton is called this, also ending in -escence phosphorescence |
| #6131, aired 2011-04-18 | RE: GUN $1600: "The Gun" is a tale of the Napoleonic Wars by C.S. Forester, creator of this sea captain who also fights Napoleon Horatio Hornblower |
| #6028, aired 2010-11-24 | "S"MORGASBORD $800: Sometimes confused with a sea creature, they're also called green onions scallions |
| #6011, aired 2010-11-01 | FRONTWORDS & BACKWORDS $400: Bosses do this, to writers' dismay; also, what happens at sea twice a day edit/tide |
| #5895, aired 2010-04-09 | A SEAFOOD GUIDE $400: Fishing for the slimehead, better known as the orange this, also catches & kills threatened species of deep sea sharks roughy |
| #5763, aired 2009-10-07 | REDS $1000: The Red Sea was formed about 20 million years ago when this peninsula broke away from Africa the Arabian Peninsula |
| #5737, aired 2009-07-14 | AT THE MOVIES $1,000 (Daily Double): Jim Carrey narrates a 3D documentary about ocean life called this, also a song from "The Little Mermaid" Under the Sea |
| #5584, aired 2008-12-11 | MARINE LIFE $2000: This name for a common sea snail is also that of a blue-violet flower periwinkle |
| #5511, aired 2008-07-21 | THE NAVY SEALS $5,000 (Daily Double): (Jimmy of the Clue Crew indicates the SEAL emblem at the Navy Amphibious Base in Coronado, CA.) On the Navy SEAL emblem, the anchor, eagle & pistol stand for sea, air & land, & this weapon represents all 3, & is also the name fo the emblem itself a trident |
| #5336, aired 2007-11-19 | "MARI" ME $1000: This 8-letter term meaning "related to the sea" is also a type of law maritime |
| #5238, aired 2007-05-23 | IT'S A PLANE! $800: The French know that this optical phenomenon can be seen not only in the desert but also at sea a mirage |
| #5151, aired 2007-01-22 | IT'S CAPITALIZED $1000: In standard style, number of capitalized words in the title of Hemingway's tale about a fisherman battling a marlin four |
| #5138, aired 2007-01-03 | LIVIN' LA VIDA LOBSTER $400: A variety lacking enlarged pincers, this 5-letter "prickly" type of lobster is also known as a sea crayfish a spiny lobster |
| #5042, aired 2006-07-11 | A ROUND OF GULF $1600: The Gulf of California is also known as the Sea of this conqueror Cortéz |
| #4938, aired 2006-02-15 | I'M DOWN WITH HOMEWORK $1200: Geography: It's called a sea, but it's also the world's biggest lake. 143,000 square miles, that's hella big the Caspian Sea |
| #4842, aired 2005-10-04 | ALSO A VEGAS CASINO $400: A 3.5-million-square-mile land area between the Atlantic Ocean & the Red Sea the Sahara |
| #4691, aired 2005-01-17 | BULGARIA $1600: Tourists flock to this sea that, unfortunately, also has a lot of pollution from industry the Black Sea |
| #4645, aired 2004-11-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $1,400 (Daily Double): Hemingway's epigraph to this novel includes a Biblical passage that begins, "One generation passeth away..." The Sun Also Rises |
| #4365, aired 2003-07-18 | TRANSPORTATION $600: In the 1940s Robert Edison Fulton Jr. designed the Airphibian, a car that was also one of these plane |
| #4361, aired 2003-07-14 | AT A LOW POINT $1200: The smallest Scandinavian country, it's also the only one that dips below sea level at Lammefjord Denmark |
| #3794, aired 2001-02-15 | HEY, "MAN"! $800: A relative of the dugong, it's also known as a sea cow Manatee |
| #2196, aired 1994-03-07 | ZOOLOGY $100: The spiny type of this large crustacean is also called a sea crayfish a lobster |
| #1866, aired 1992-10-19 | THE RIVER JORDAN $800: This sea through which the river passes is also called the Sea of Tiberias, for a city on its shore the Sea of Galilee |
| #1482, aired 1991-01-29 | ANIMALS $500: Steller's sea cow is now extinct but not this mammal also known as a sea cow the manatee |
| #1390, aired 1990-09-21 | 4-LETTER BIRDS $800: Often found in crossword puzzles, this sea eagle can also be a 3-letter bird when its final E is dropped an erne |
| #909, aired 1988-07-14 | SUSHI $400: Of Kawasaki, Yamaha, or Suzuki, the one that is also a type of sushi Suzuki |
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