| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | "AX" MARKS THE SPOT $1200: It transmits a signal from one neuron to another axon |
| #8891, aired 2023-06-12 | "AX" MARKS THE SPOT $2000: This salamander of Mexico takes its name from the Nahuatl for "water monster" an axolotl |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | TOOL WORDS & PHRASES $400: You have one "to grind" when saying something for an ulterior reason an ax |
| #8623, aired 2022-04-20 | THEATRICAL HAPPENINGS $2,400 (Daily Double): The sound of an ax tearing into a grove can be heard near the end of this 1904 Russian play The Cherry Orchard |
| #18, aired 2022-02-22 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $400: In 2021 Yo-Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax released an album of Beethoven's complete works for piano & this instrument cello |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | WEAPON TYPES $200: Tomahawk,
hatchet an ax |
| #8127, aired 2019-12-31 | THE ALGONQUIAN WORD TABLE $200: This word for an ax comes from Algonquian, though it's associated with the Florida State Seminoles a tomahawk |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | WORD-POURRI $400: Quebracho, one of the hardest woods, is from Spanish for "breaker" of this tool an ax |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | INFAMOUS WOMEN $400: In 1893, after a 2-week trial & just over an hour of deliberation, a jury found her not guilty of giving her dad & stepmom the ax (Lizzie) Borden |
| #7889, aired 2018-12-20 | CLUES ACROSS AMERICA $600: (Hi, I'm Paula Ebben from WBZ.) The home here in Fall River, Massachusetts once belonged to Lizzie Borden's family & it was here that, according to a rhyme, Lizzie "took an ax & gave her mother 40 whacks; when she saw what she had done, she gave her father" this many 41 |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | AN "AX" $400: This curved reed instrument was invented by a Belgian in the 1840s a saxophone |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | AN "AX" $800: These can be spiral, elliptical or barred spiral, like NGC 1300 a galaxy |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | AN "AX" $1200: The point in a plot with the greatest emotional intensity the climax |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | AN "AX" $1600: This all-natural substance secreted by insects can be used when making your own rolled candles & they burn longer beeswax |
| #7860, aired 2018-11-09 | AN "AX" $2000: This infectious animal disease can be transmitted to humans by contaminated wool anthrax |
| #7808, aired 2018-07-18 | PUN-ISHING CLUES $800: "What a chicken does to an egg", or a small ax hatch it/hatchet |
| #7324, aired 2016-06-16 | TOOL KIT $800: The "felling" type of this tool has 2 main parts, head & handle an ax |
| #7289, aired 2016-04-28 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $600: An ax head coming loose during use is said to have inspired this phrase about the loss of self-control flying off the handle (going off the handle accepted) |
| #7267, aired 2016-03-29 | LITERARY DEMISES $800: In this Russian novel, Raskolnikov calls a pawnbroker a "louse" & then brutally kills her with an ax Crime and Punishment |
| #7238, aired 2016-02-17 | SPEARS $1200: The halberd was a weapon used in the late Middle Ages that combined a spear with this for cleaving helmets an ax |
| #6789, aired 2014-03-06 | ODDS & END"Z" $1000: Ax-like tool with a chisel-like steel head an adz |
| #6605, aired 2013-05-10 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $600 (Daily Double): The pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna & her sister Lizaveta are murdered with an ax in this novel Crime and Punishment |
| #6422, aired 2012-07-17 | HOMOPHONES $2000: A gradation of a color, or to strike with an ax hue/hew |
| #6237, aired 2011-11-01 | CHEERS $2,000 (Daily Double): Yalies once cheered, "Brek-ek-ek-ex, ko-ax, ko-ax", the chorus of these creatures in an Aristophanes play frogs |
| #5133, aired 2006-12-27 | ARCHAEOLOGY $600: The Acheulian (Bless me!) tradition of Paleolithic times had as its main tool a "hand" one of these an ax |
| #5115, aired 2006-12-01 | NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS $600: This country's coat of arms dates back to the 13th century, when an ax & the crown of St. Olaf were added to a lion Norway |
| #4151, aired 2002-09-23 | CONTEMPORARY THEATRE $400: In 1998, more than a century after that incident with an ax, this accused murderess got her own musical Lizzie Borden |
| #3914, aired 2001-09-13 | MYTHING IN ACTION $600: In some accounts Zeus' head had to be split with an ax to facilitate her birth in full armor Athena |
| #3680, aired 2000-09-08 | GIVE ME THE "AX" $600: Slang for a rock guitarist or a jazz saxophonist Axman |
| #3656, aired 2000-06-26 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $1000: Of the 6 simple machines, an ax blade is an example of this one wedge |
| #3142, aired 1998-04-07 | NOTORIOUS $800: Bang! Bang! An assassin's deadly ax came down on his head, August 20, 1940 in Mexico Leon Trotsky |
| #2244, aired 1994-05-12 | THE 20th CENTURY $800: This woman who allegedly murdered her parents with an ax in 1892 died in 1927 (Lizzie) Borden |
| #2235, aired 1994-04-29 | MIDDLE NAMES $300: This woman who "took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks" had the middle name of Andrew Lizzie Borden |
| #1025, aired 1989-02-03 | ASSASSINATIONS $400: Tho some say the murder weapon was an ax, & others an icepick, all agree he was killed in exile in 1940 Trotsky |
| #933, aired 1988-09-28 | NUMBER, PLEASE $1000: In the old rhyme, Lizzie Borden took an ax & gave her mom & dad a combined total of this many whacks 81 |
| #724, aired 1987-10-29 | WEAPONS $200: Both the pole & battle variety of this can be spelled without an "e" an ax |
| #673, aired 1987-07-08 | STARTS WITH "F" $200: According to the famous rhyme, number of whacks with an ax Lizzie Borden gave her father forty-one |
| #555, aired 1987-01-23 | 2-LETTER WORDS $200: It's "ground" to express a grievance or swung to split wood an ax |
| #276, aired 1985-09-30 | ANCIENT TIMES $1000: Mussolini's party name came from this bundle of rods bound to an ax, a symbol of ancient Rome fasces |
