| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $300: A story goes that asked by his father if he'd chopped down a cherry tree, this boy admitted it, saying, "I cannot tell a lie" George Washington |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $600 (Daily Double): This giant lumberjack & hero of logging camps had a giant blue ox named Babe as a companion Paul Bunyan |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $600: It's the legendary hairy humanlike creature of the Pacific Northwest also known as sasquatch Bigfoot |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $1200: William the this ruled England; High John the this is a figure of liberation in African-American folklore Conqueror |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE & LEGENDS $1500: This mythic animal of the West is usually depicted as a rabbit with antelope horns a jackalope |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | SOMETHING THAT IS... $1600: Blue:
A crow was said to take a whole day to fly from one horn to the other of this American folklore creature Babe the Blue Ox |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $200: He used 2 hammers to bore a 14-foot hole in rock & defeat a drill; however, he died doing it John Henry |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $400: Some teach that the ghost of this pirate who died in 1718 glows under the waters off North Carolina, searching for his own head Blackbeard |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $600: He was big, he was blue & one story said his footprints filled with water & became Minnesota's 10,000 lakes, so to repeat... he was big Babe (the Blue Ox) |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $800: "Stand in front of the bathroom mirror with a... candle & say" this witch's name "3 times"; if it works, you'll need that drink, too Bloody Mary |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $1000: Were you raised by coyotes?! Well, this cowboy was, after being lost by his parents near a certain Texas river Pecos Bill |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN FOLKLORE $400: Febold Feboldson sells sand from this sweltering California location to freezing gold prospectors Death Valley |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN FOLKLORE $800: Babe the Blue Ox roams the American timberlands accompanied by this giant companion Paul Bunyan |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN FOLKLORE $1200: Old Stormalong is an American sailor whose ship is so big, it scraped through the English Channel, creating this pale landmark the White Cliffs of Dover |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN FOLKLORE $2000: Tommyknockers are these underground guys who help miners; ex-mining engineer Herbert Hoover said so & had a statue of one gnomes |
| #8218, aired 2020-05-20 | CHARACTERS FROM AMERICAN FOLKLORE $4,600 (Daily Double): This Texan cowboy hero tamed a mountain lion & rode it like a horse, using a rattlesnake as a lasso Pecos Bill |
| #7484, aired 2017-03-09 | PATCHES $1200: In American folklore, a rabbit tricks a fox into throwing him into this patch where Bunny was born & bred the briar patch |
| #6634, aired 2013-06-20 | THE WALT DISNEY FAMILY MUSEUM $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Lyndon Johnson presented Walt with this highest U.S. civilian honor, saying, "in the course of entertaining an age, he has created an American folklore" the Medal of Freedom |
| #6051, aired 2010-12-27 | THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew stands under a sculpture.) The raven steals the Sun & escapes through a sooty smokehole to get his characteristic color; those shenanigans are typical of this crafty folklore archetype a trickster |
| #5809, aired 2009-12-10 | HAMMER TIME $200: This African-American folklore laborer: "Before I let that steam drill beat me down I'll die with my hammer in my hand" John Henry |
| #5702, aired 2009-05-26 | U.S. STAMPS $600: An American Folklore stamp in 1974 honored this tale & featured the Headless Horseman & Ichabod Crane "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| #5618, aired 2009-01-28 | FOLKLORE $10,000 (Daily Double): In Native American culture, these mythical birds flashed lightning from their eyes & caused storms with their wings thunderbirds |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $400: The fame of this frontier fruit tree planter flowered after an 1871 article in Harper's Magazine Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $800: Among this lumberjack's impressive achievements was digging Puget Sound Paul Bunyan |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $1200: With his 20-pound hammers, he won a hole drillin' contest against a man with a steam-powered drill John Henry |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $1600: This "King of the Keelboatmen" had a daughter named Sal who once fought a duel with a thunderbolt Mike Fink |
| #4284, aired 2003-03-27 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $2000: According to an 1858 poem, this Pilgrim proposed to Priscilla Mullens on behalf of his friend Miles Standish John Alden |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $200: Traveling on foot, he planted apple orchards all over the Middle West Johnny Appleseed |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $400: Febold Feboldson was a giant who performed amazing feats on the plains of Nebraska & this "Sunflower State" Kansas |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $600: This lumberjack's tales appeared in a 1914 booklet published by the Red River Lumber Company of Minneapolis Paul Bunyan |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $800: Folk tales of this legendary keelboatman began appearing shortly after his 1823 death Mike Fink |
| #3912, aired 2001-09-11 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $1000: This Texas cowboy who used a Bowie knife as a teething ring was created by journalist Edward O'Reilly in 1923 Pecos Bill |
| #3535, aired 2000-01-07 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $100: This "King of the Wild Frontier" "Kilt him a b'ar when he was only three" Davy Crockett |
| #3535, aired 2000-01-07 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $200: This steel drivin' man used 2 20-pound hammers in his contest with a steam drill John Henry |
| #3535, aired 2000-01-07 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $300: Immortalized in song, this engineer of the Cannonball Express died in a 1900 crash, saving everyone aboard Casey Jones |
| #3535, aired 2000-01-07 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $400: This New Hampshire orator is said to have outsmarted the Devil himself Daniel Webster |
| #3535, aired 2000-01-07 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $600 (Daily Double): This cowpoke taught broncos how to buck, & rode a cyclone without a saddle Pecos Bill |
| #3274, aired 1998-11-26 | FOLKLORE $400: A small spirit that torments pilots, or a small car once made by American Motors Gremlin |
| #3067, aired 1997-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN FOLKLORE $200: From the Ojibwa word "ototeman", it's the animal or plant a family group associates with its ancestry Totem |
| #3067, aired 1997-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN FOLKLORE $400: Accoridng to the Hopi, this wild canine related to the wolf was around before there were people Coyote |
| #3067, aired 1997-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN FOLKLORE $600: By simply displaying this item, also called a calumet, one could call a truce between some tribes Peace pipe |
| #3067, aired 1997-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN FOLKLORE $800: This title of an Algonquian medicine man now refers to popular tribal gatherings Pow-wow |
| #3067, aired 1997-12-23 | NATIVE AMERICAN FOLKLORE $1000: These giant mythical birds were frequently at war with water monsters Thunderbirds |
| #1839, aired 1992-09-10 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $100: John Henry died with one of these tools in his hand a hammer |
| #1839, aired 1992-09-10 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $200: This "Coonskin Congressman" wasn't above making up a few tales about himself Davy Crockett |
| #1839, aired 1992-09-10 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $300: His stories of a 20-year sleeper & a ghost rider were inspired by German folktales Washington Irving |
| #1839, aired 1992-09-10 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $400: New Hampshirites turned this speechwriter into a folk hero, calling him "Dan'l" Daniel Webster |
| #1839, aired 1992-09-10 | AMERICAN FOLKLORE $500: Old Stormalong soaped his ships to squeeze through the English Channel; the soap scraped off on these cliffs (white) cliffs of Dover |
| #1170, aired 1989-10-06 | LEGENDS $800: In American folklore, this cowboy hero was raised by coyotes Pecos Bill |
