#8987, aired 2023-12-05 | PURPLE PROSE & POETRY $200: This song mentions "purple mountain majesties" "America The Beautiful" |
#8770, aired 2022-12-23 | PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES $600: When singing "America The Beautiful", you end with these 5 words from sea to shining sea |
#8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $400: You can sleep in one of the pods overlooking Peru's Sacred Valley of this historic people, not far from Cusco the Inca |
#8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $800: Paradoxically, this cataract in Venezuela drops 3,200 feet from a plateau called Devils Mountain Angel Falls |
#8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $1200: Light & water conditions cause amazing effects on Colombia's Caño Cristales River, called the "liquid" this 7-letter word rainbow |
#8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $1600: A volcano rising nearly 20,000 feet & with a nearly symmetrical cone, Cotopaxi is just outside this capital of Ecuador Quito |
#8767, aired 2022-12-20 | SOUTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $2000: Check out the gorgeous Bernardo O'Higgins National Park, the largest park in this nation & home to nearly 50 glaciers Chile |
#8569, aired 2022-02-03 | IT WAS ALL PURPLE $200: Katharine Lee Bates wrote of "purple mountain majesties" in what became this song "America The Beautiful" |
#8437, aired 2021-07-06 | WOMEN WHO WRITE $400: Katharine Lee Bates was inspired to write the words to this patriotic anthem after climbing Pikes Peak "America The Beautiful" |
#8336, aired 2021-02-15 | ALTERNATE ANTHEMS $800: When this song written by an alumna is sung at Wellesley, it goes "and crown thy good with sisterhood" "America The Beautiful" |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $200: There's quite a scene in New York Harbor as a reproduction of this Pilgrim ship arrives after a voyage across the Atlantic the Mayflower |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $400: The American Falls are the second largest of the three that make up this natural wonder located in America's oldest state park Niagara Falls |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $600: Workers had to climb 700 stairs to the top & then be lowered by cables to work on this massive monument Mount Rushmore |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $800: An estimated 11,000 elk share their winter habitat with a group of bison at the National Elk Refuge near Jackson in this state Wyoming |
#8326, aired 2021-02-01 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: Fittingly, Cueva Ventana in Puerto Rico, with a spectacular view of the valley below, literally means "cave" this window |
#8272, aired 2020-11-03 | RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH $2,700 (Daily Double): The opening words to "America The Beautiful" were inspired by the view from this peak in the Rockies Pikes Peak |
#8177, aired 2020-03-10 | POET-POURRI $2,400 (Daily Double): Katharine Lee Bates' book containing this patriotic song used similar language about Mont Blanc: "O beautiful beyond all dream" "America The Beautiful" |
#8090, aired 2019-11-08 | STAMPS $400: 5 phrases from this song are represented on a set of stamps; one shows a double rainbow over Kansas for "spacious skies" "America the Beautiful" |
#7713, aired 2018-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $1200: The cruise line whose ships include the Rotterdam manages to sail to "purple mountain majesties" Holland "America The Beautiful" |
#7523, aired 2017-05-03 | WOMEN AUTHORS $400: Poet Katharine Lee Bates used her amber waves of brain to pen the lyrics to this patriotic song "America The Beautiful" |
#7402, aired 2016-11-15 | QUARTER BACKS $2000: An America the Beautiful quarter depicts General Burgoyne surrendering his sword in this 1777 battle Saratoga |
#7174, aired 2015-11-19 | "NORTH" & "SOUTH" AMERICA $800: This Florida playground for the rich & beautiful is aka "SoBe" South Beach |
#7117, aired 2015-07-21 | AMERICANA $1000: The view from the summit of this mountain inspired the song "America The Beautiful" Pikes Peak |
#6948, aired 2014-11-26 | AMERICANA $200: The America the Beautiful quarter that honors this Florida national park shows a bird with outstretched wings the Everglades |
#6881, aired 2014-07-14 | THE MONUMENTS WOMEN $400: O, a beautiful Falmouth, Mass. statue of Katharine Lee Bates shows her imagining the lines of this song "America The Beautiful" |
#6727, aired 2013-12-10 | CONTROL $400: This patriotic song says, "Confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in law" "America The Beautiful" |
#6684, aired 2013-10-10 | ONE LETTER ONLY $1600: A major blood group, or an interjection used at the beginning of "America the Beautiful" O |
#6551, aired 2013-02-25 | 3 LAST WORDS $800: "America the Beautiful" to shining sea |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | NORTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $200: Here's the view from the 7,200-foot Harney Peak in the Black Hills of this state South Dakota |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | NORTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $400: Cabo wabo! This port-of-call is where the Sea of Cortez meets the Pacific Cabo San Lucas |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | NORTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $600: If you're enjoying Rascal Flats at the landmark seen here, you're in this city y'all Nashville |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | NORTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $800: Check out Yellowtail Dam, part of Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area in this state Montana |
#6311, aired 2012-02-13 | NORTH AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: Quebec's Chateau Frontenac Hotel overlooks this 800-mile river the St. Lawrence |
#6300, aired 2012-01-27 | STUPID ANSWERS $800: The second verse of this classic American song begins, "O beautiful for pilgrim feet" "America The Beautiful" |
#6272, aired 2011-12-20 | COLORS $800: This secondary color is in the third line of "America The Beautiful" purple |
#6212, aired 2011-09-27 | AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: A view from Pikes Peak inspired Katharine Lee Bates to write the words to this patriotic song "America The Beautiful" |
#6138, aired 2011-04-27 | FAMOUS LAST WORD $1600: In "America the Beautiful" sea |
#6049, aired 2010-12-23 | THE 1880s $1000: This author of "America the Beautiful" introduced Mrs. Claus in an 1889 tale Katharine Lee Bates |
#5847, aired 2010-02-02 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A pageant first held in 1921 "for amber waves of grain" Miss America the Beautiful |
#5762, aired 2009-10-06 | WHAT THE BLEEP? $200: A song:
"O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of bleep..." grain |
#5728, aired 2009-07-01 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $200: "America! America! God shed his Grace on thee/ And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to" this shining sea |
#5728, aired 2009-07-01 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $400: "O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain/ For purple mountain majesties, above" these 3 words the fruited plain |
#5728, aired 2009-07-01 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $600: "O beautiful for patriot dream, that sees beyond the years/ Thine alabaster cities gleam, undimmed by human" these tears |
#5728, aired 2009-07-01 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $800: "America! America! God mend thine every flaw/ Confirm thy soul in self-control, thy liberty in" this law |
#5728, aired 2009-07-01 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: "America! America! May God thy gold refine/ till all success be nobleness, and every gain" this godly word divine |
#5684, aired 2009-04-30 | PURPLE PROSE & POETRY $200: This song mentions "purple mountain majesties" "America the Beautiful" |
#5637, aired 2009-02-24 | COLORFUL TERMS $200: It describes the "waves of grain" in "America The Beautiful" amber |
#5631, aired 2009-02-16 | AMERICANA $400: The song "America, the Beautiful" says, "crown thy good with" this "from sea to shining sea" brotherhood |
#5201, aired 2007-04-02 | I'LL BE YOUR HOST $400: (Hi, I'm James Denton.) In January of 2006 I was surrounded by lots of beautiful women when I hosted this pageant, held outside of Atlantic City for the first time Miss America |
#5127, aired 2006-12-19 | GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN $600: This 14,110-foot Colorado mountain peak discovered in 1806 inspired the song "America The Beautiful" Pikes Peak |
#4984, aired 2006-04-20 | THE AMERICAN DREAM $500 (Daily Double): Martin Luther King dreamed of "the table of" this, a crowning quality in "America, The Beautiful" brotherhood |
#4962, aired 2006-03-21 | WORLD WAR II: THE HOME FRONT $800: As the 1943 winner of this national title, beautiful Jean Bartel sold 2 1/2 million dollars worth of war bonds Miss America |
#4910, aired 2006-01-06 | PATRIOTIC SONGS' OTHER LYRICS $400: "O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife" "America The Beautiful" |
#4885, aired 2005-12-02 | BIG WORDS $1200: It describes the "skies" in "America The Beautiful" spacious |
#4696, aired 2005-01-24 | U.S. LAKES & RIVERS $400: 1,645 feet deep, this beautiful blue lake on the California-Nevada border is one of North America's deepest Lake Tahoe |
#4578, aired 2004-06-30 | PURPLE HAZE $200: In 1893 Katharine Lee Bates wrote of "purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain" in this song "America The Beautiful" |
#4541, aired 2004-05-10 | POTPOURRI $400: Some think this Irving Berlin song should replace "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem -- it's easier to sing "God Bless America" |
#4408, aired 2003-11-05 | HEY, "BEAUTIFUL" $200: The last line of this classic song is "And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!" "America The Beautiful" |
#4380, aired 2003-09-26 | PATRIOTIC SONG TITLES $1200: "O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain..." "America The Beautiful" |
#4278, aired 2003-03-19 | "A" PLUS $2000: It's the color mentioned in the second line of "America the Beautiful" amber |
#3957, aired 2001-11-13 | PATRIOTIC SONGS $100: Colorful images in this patriotic classic include "purple mountain majesties" & "amber waves of grain" "America The Beautiful" |
#3849, aired 2001-05-03 | HISTORIC DATES $100: On this date in separate years "America" was first sung publicly and "America the Beautiful" was first published July 4th |
#3550, aired 2000-01-28 | LETTER PERFECT $200: It's the first word of "America the Beautiful" O |
#3498, aired 1999-11-17 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: It's Keep America Beautiful month, & the month in which you'd find Earth Day April |
#3360, aired 1999-03-26 | GRAB BAG $400: It's the first color mentioned in the song "America the Beautiful" amber |
#3261, aired 1998-11-09 | MOUNTAINS $300: The view from the top of this Colorado peak inspired the words to "America The Beautiful" Pikes Peak |
#3122, aired 1998-03-10 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $200: The Klamath River rises in this state then empties into the Pacific Ocean in California Oregon |
#3122, aired 1998-03-10 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $400: Both Dakotas have areas of eroded terrain called this; South Dakota's has a national park named for it Badlands |
#3122, aired 1998-03-10 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $600: The 288-year-old town of Easton, Maryland sits on the eastern shore of this bay Chesapeake Bay |
#3122, aired 1998-03-10 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $800: The last time both major party conventions were held in the same place was 1972 in this southern "beach" city Miami |
#3122, aired 1998-03-10 | AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL $1000: The "files" on this large Illinois city include its historic leadership in screw production Rockford |
#2600, aired 1995-12-15 | WOMEN $1000: Katharine Lee Bates, who wrote this patriotic poem in 1893, was a professor at Wellesley America the Beautiful |
#2277, aired 1994-06-28 | BAPTISTS $200: Samuel Francis Smith, a Baptist clergyman, wrote new words to "God Save the King", creating this song "America" ("My Country, 'Tis Of Thee") |
#1680, aired 1991-12-13 | ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES $400: In "America the Beautiful" it's described as "shining" sea |
#1666, aired 1991-11-25 | "WITH" $300: In "America the Beautiful", this lyric follows "and crown thy good..." with brotherhood |
#1641, aired 1991-10-21 | PIKES PEAK $2,000 (Daily Double): Katharine Lee Bates wrote the lyrics to this patriotic song after seeing the view from atop the peak "America The Beautiful" |
#1499, aired 1991-02-21 | COLORS $400: The color of the "mountain majesties" in "America The Beautiful" purple |
#1438, aired 1990-11-28 | HODGEPODGE $100: The waves of grain in "America the Beautiful" are this color amber |
#1256, aired 1990-02-05 | 19th CENTURY AMERICA $600: These for "The Star-Spangled Banner" & "America the Beautiful" were taken from other sources musical notes |
#1150, aired 1989-09-08 | LEFTOVERS $200: Its last line is "And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!" "America The Beautiful" |
#1124, aired 1989-06-22 | 19TH CENTURY AMERICA $1000: This poem by Katherine Lee Bates was 1st published on July 4, 1895; the music came later "America the Beautiful" |
#1096, aired 1989-05-15 | PATRIOTIC SONGS $300: Katherine Lee Bates wrote the words "O beautiful for spacious skies" after a trip to this Colo. peak Pikes Peak |
#1072, aired 1989-04-11 | COLORS $400: The 1st color mentioned in "America the Beautiful" amber |
#1021, aired 1989-01-30 | ROCKS & MINERALS $4,000 (Daily Double): In "America the Beautiful", type of white gypsum used to describe the gleam of the cities alabaster |
#805, aired 1988-02-19 | AMERICAN MUSIC $1000: While an English professor at Wellesley, Katherine L. Bates wrote the words for this patriotic song "America the Beautiful" |
#782, aired 1988-01-19 | "BEAUTIFUL" MUSIC $100: The 1st line of "America the Beautiful" O beautiful for spacious skies |
#713, aired 1987-10-14 | "HOUSE"s $500: The only 1 of America's top 10 magazines in circulation to fit this category Good Housekeeping |
#691, aired 1987-09-14 | FIRST LINES $100: "My country, 'tis of thee..." "America" |
#691, aired 1987-09-14 | FIRST LINES $200: "O beautiful for spacious skies..." "America The Beautiful" |
#665, aired 1987-06-26 | AMERICAN MUSIC $400: When 1st presented, July 4th, 1831, the song "America" went by this title, its 1st liine "My Country, Tis of Thee" |
#472, aired 1986-09-30 | PATRIOTIC SONGS $500: It's said the view from Pike's Peak inspired Katharine Lee Bates to write this "America The Beautiful" |
#466, aired 1986-09-22 | RADIO $500 (Daily Double): The 2 songs played starting at 10:15 am on over 6000 U.S. radio stations, March 28, 1986 "We Are The World" & "Hands Across America" |
#385, aired 1986-02-28 | POTPOURRI $500: First color mentioned in "America The Beautiful" amber |
#135, aired 1985-03-15 | POETRY $200: Title of Katharine Lee Bates poem which begins "O beautiful, for spacious skies" "America The Beautiful" |
#2, aired 1984-01-01 | U.S. LANDMARKS $250: The view from this Colorado summit inspired the song "America the Beautiful" Pike's Peak |