| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | ANCIENT TIMES $200: Ancient Greeks believed that wine was a gift from this god, the Greek equivalent of Bacchus Dionysus |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | GREEK GOD OUT, ROMAN GOD IN $800: Greeks were from Ares, Romans, from this deity, originally an ancient Italian god who watched over agriculture Mars |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $1200: The first people to use the term "atom" were the ancient Greeks & in their language, it refers to this quality indivisibility |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | ANCIENT WARFARE $400: At the Battle of Gaugamela, the Greeks let these wheeled Persian vehicles pass between the ranks, then wiped them out chariots |
| #8592, aired 2022-03-08 | ANCIENT WARFARE $2000: These two formations--one Greek & one Roman, met a few times; the masked Greeks won the early battles, & the more flexible Romans the latter the phalanx & the legion |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | ROCKS & MINERALS $800: This mineral was called krystallos by the ancient Greeks & is primarily silicon dioxide quartz |
| #8487, aired 2021-10-12 | & PLAYING TRIANGLE $1,400 (Daily Double): The ancient Greeks compared the constellation Triangulum to this capital letter of theirs delta |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | FAMOUS NAMES $1000: This ancient Greek wrote "Parallel Lives", paired biographies of famous Greeks & Romans Plutarch |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | YE OLDE SCIENCE $1200: The ancient Greeks believed all matter was composed of these 4 classical elements earth, air, fire & water |
| #8272, aired 2020-11-03 | WEIGHT, WHAT'S THAT? $400: An old system used to weigh precious stones & metals is called this, like an ancient city where the Greeks horsed around troy (weight) |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | THE ANCIENT GREEKS $200: The first event in history recorded by the ancient Greeks were these contests that took place in 776 B.C. the Olympics |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | THE ANCIENT GREEKS $400: To the Greeks the "navel of the world" was in this town where the oracle of Apollo spoke Delphi |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | THE ANCIENT GREEKS $600: Impiety toward the gods & corrupting the young were on this philosopher's final rap sheet Socrates |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | THE ANCIENT GREEKS $800: In 335 B.C. he brought many more than seven against Thebes when it foolishly rose against his leadership Alexander the Great |
| #7752, aired 2018-05-01 | THE ANCIENT GREEKS $1000: In his comedy "The Clouds", this playwright poked fun at intellectuals like the sophists Aristophanes |
| #7735, aired 2018-04-06 | ANCIENT STUFF $400: Demosthenes urged the Greeks to fight, lest they be enslaved by this 359 to 336 B.C. Macedonian king & famous dad Philip |
| #7605, aired 2017-10-06 | "UR" THE TOP! $400: To the ancient Greeks, he was really tops--he personified heaven Uranus |
| #7548, aired 2017-06-07 | OF SURPRISE $400: After a 10-year war, the ancient Greeks surprised their foes, using this object to conquer Ilium the Trojan horse |
| #7180, aired 2015-11-27 | BEAUTY $1200: Ancient Greeks were smitten by 1:1.6. the ratio called this "precious" mean the golden mean |
| #7101, aired 2015-06-29 | THE WAR OF 1912 $800: The Greeks captured Salonika under this future king who shared his name with the namesake of ancient Istanbul Constantine |
| #6989, aired 2015-01-22 | ANCIENT GREECE $1,000 (Daily Double): In the 350s B.C. Demosthenes started warning Greeks about aggression by this Macedonian dad Philip |
| #6828, aired 2014-04-30 | THE MIDDLE AGES $1200: Around 1169 Arab philosopher Ibn Rushd began writing his commentaries on the works of these 2 ancient Greeks Aristotle & Plato |
| #6725, aired 2013-12-06 | GREEK GOD OUT, ROMAN GOD IN $400: Greeks were from Ares, Romans from this deity, originally an ancient Italian god who watched over agriculture Mars |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | ANCIENT GREEKS $200: This blind Greek's epic poems furnished plots for tragic dramatists like Euripides Homer |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | ANCIENT GREEKS $400: Alexander the Great's tutelage under this Greek ended in 336 B.C. after the assassination of Alexander's dad Aristotle |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | ANCIENT GREEKS $600: This 200s B.C. man demonstrated 467 propositions of plane & solid geometry from axioms & postulates Euclid |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | ANCIENT GREEKS $1000: This "Oresteia" man was the first to use 2 actors in a tragedy to create dialogue, instead of having one just play to the chorus Aeschylus |
| #6719, aired 2013-11-28 | ANCIENT GREEKS $3,000 (Daily Double): "Life of" this Greek, by the Roman physician Soranus, was published around 100 A.D. Hippocrates |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | LITTLE-KNOWN ANCIENT GREEKS $400: Because of his loyal slave, a Greek known for introducing performers was known as the master of him Ceremonies |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | LITTLE-KNOWN ANCIENT GREEKS $800: Boy, how he used to talk about these mountains on the edge of Iberia; not like he ever went there Pyrenees |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | LITTLE-KNOWN ANCIENT GREEKS $1200: He got this name because of what he was known for "taking" by expressing rude intimacy with a stranger Liberties |
| #6232, aired 2011-10-25 | LITTLE-KNOWN ANCIENT GREEKS $1600: Instead of showing up once a week for 13 weeks, he'd appear 3 or 4 nights in a row, & it was always very dramatic Miniseries |
| #6117, aired 2011-03-29 | ANCIENT NAMES FOR MODERN PLACES $600: Greeks & Romans wrote about this island, Hibernia, though they never settled on it Ireland |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | ANCIENT GREEKS $400: Sophocles ended the story of this king "at Colonus", a village where Sophocles himself lived Oedipus |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | ANCIENT GREEKS $800: Born on Samos, he's the philosopher & mathematician in the illustration seen here Pythagoras |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | ANCIENT GREEKS $1200: Leonidas' wins at this place got him the title "triple crowned" & brought him worship back home on Rhodes Olympia |
| #5994, aired 2010-10-07 | ANCIENT GREEKS $1,600 (Daily Double): Epaminondas the Theban defeated this militaristic power in 371 B.C., sending it into decline Sparta |
| #5856, aired 2010-02-15 | URANUS $400: The planet Uranus was named for the sky god of this ancient civilization the Greeks |
| #5471, aired 2008-05-26 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $800: To the Ancient Greeks, 4 of these made a palm fingers |
| #5382, aired 2008-01-22 | WORLD CITIES $1,800 (Daily Double): The ancient Greeks founded this Italian city around 600 B.C. & gave it a name meaning "New City" Naples |
| #5305, aired 2007-10-05 | BLACK IS BACK $400: The ancient Greeks called this geographical feature Pontos Axeinos, Axeinos meaning "inhospitable" the Black Sea |
| #4985, aired 2006-04-21 | ANCIENT TIMES $400: Ancient Greeks believed that wine was a gift from this god, the Greek equivalent of Bacchus Dionysus |
| #4979, aired 2006-04-13 | MELANCHOLY SITES OF FORMER GRANDEUR $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.) With more than 60 known tombs, the Valley of the Kings was part of this ancient city the Greeks called Diaspolis Thebes |
| #4785, aired 2005-05-27 | A VISIT TO ANCIENT EGYPT $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from in front of the Sphinx.) Created as a royal image, the Sphinx was was associated by the Greeks with a monster who riddles this tragic king Oedipus |
| #4611, aired 2004-09-27 | PRECIOUS STONES $800: The ancient Greeks raised a toast to this purple gem, believed to protect them from drunkenness amethyst |
| #4539, aired 2004-05-06 | RHYMES WITH RHYME $1000: This variety of performer dates back to the Ancient Greeks a mime |
| #4047, aired 2002-03-19 | HONEY $800: The ancient Greeks used this alcoholic honey drink as an offering to the gods & the spirits of the dead mead |
| #4004, aired 2002-01-17 | I'D LIKE TO BUY AN OWL $400: The ancient Greeks believed that the owl was sacred to this goddess of wisdom (Pallas) Athena |
| #3989, aired 2001-12-27 | MUSHY STUFF $400: Now a symbol of love, the ancient Greeks thought it was the center of your intelligence heart |
| #3945, aired 2001-10-26 | SOFTWARE THAT BYTES $700 (Daily Double): A type of virus is named after this surreptitious instrument of war used by ancient Greeks Trojan Horse |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | FAMOUS ANCIENT GREEKS $200: This Greek came bearing fables with morals like "The gods help those who help themselves" Aesop |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | FAMOUS ANCIENT GREEKS $400 (Daily Double): He didn't have a screw loose, he defined the principle of the lever, among other things Archimedes |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | FAMOUS ANCIENT GREEKS $400: This doctor suggested an intrauterine device for women hoping to prevent pregnancy Hippocrates |
| #3920, aired 2001-09-21 | FAMOUS ANCIENT GREEKS $600: In 423 B.C. Cratinus took the festival prize with the play "The Bottle", beating this author of "The Clouds" Aristophanes |
| #3754, aired 2000-12-21 | AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE $200: The ancient Greeks believed that the soul left the body after death in the form of this insect a butterfly |
| #3686, aired 2000-09-18 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $400: To the ancient Greeks 4 of these made a palm Fingers |
| #3644, aired 2000-06-08 | HISTORY $200: These ancient people referred to themselves as Hellenes Greeks |
| #3567, aired 2000-02-22 | WE KNEAD THE DOUGH $1000: The first to learn leavening, these ancient people were once called the "Bread Eaters" by the ancient Greeks Egyptians |
| #3564, aired 2000-02-17 | ANCIENT GREEK SALAD $1000: "Anabasis" chronicles the Greeks' 1500-mile retreat after fighting for Prince Cyrus of this empire Persian Empire |
| #3421, aired 1999-06-21 | IT'S A GROUP THING $1000: To the ancient Greeks: Lachesis, Clotho & Atropos Fates |
| #3258, aired 1998-11-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $100: The Greeks were using rods as money until they appropriated the idea of these from the Lydians coins |
| #3255, aired 1998-10-30 | CREATION STORIES $1000: To the ancient Greeks, it was a void from which Nyx & Erebus emerged; in English it's a disordered mess chaos |
| #3248, aired 1998-10-21 | THE BODY HUMAN $400: The ancient Greeks believed the arteries transported this, not blood Air |
| #3214, aired 1998-07-16 | 5-LETTER CAPITALS $400: The ancient Greeks called this Jordanian capital Philadelphia Amman |
| #3196, aired 1998-06-22 | MY HEAVENS! $800: To the ancient Greeks, these fields were the home of the blessed dead Elysian Fields |
| #3140, aired 1998-04-03 | ANCIENT TRAVEL GUIDE $200: Visit here & enjoy Mediterranean cuisine, beautiful women & a huge wooden horse donated by the Greeks Troy |
| #3003, aired 1997-09-24 | IRAQNOPHOBIA $300: The ancient Greeks gave the area between the Tigris & Euphrates this name, which means "between rivers" Mesopotamia |
| #2964, aired 1997-06-19 | FATS & OILS $400: Ancient Greeks used this pressed oil from the fruit of the Olea Europaea for skin lotion & anointings olive oil |
| #2860, aired 1997-01-24 | ART $400: Encaustic painting, practiced by the ancient Greeks, uses this melted insect substance as a binder Wax |
| #2841, aired 1996-12-30 | ANCIENT GREEKS $200: Plato's "Phaedo" describes this philosopher's execution by hemlock Socrates |
| #2841, aired 1996-12-30 | ANCIENT GREEKS $400: He was seated with a sword dangling above his head at a feast hosted by Dionysius Damocles |
| #2841, aired 1996-12-30 | ANCIENT GREEKS $800: This actor of the 6th century B.C. is credited with introducing the use of masks on stage Thespis |
| #2841, aired 1996-12-30 | ANCIENT GREEKS $1,000 (Daily Double): This Greek who taught in Alexandria has been called "The Father of Geometry" Euclid |
| #2836, aired 1996-12-23 | ANCIENT HISTORY $800: Ephialtes, a Thessalian, betrayed the Greeks holding these "hot gates" against the Persian invasion Thermopylae |
| #2686, aired 1996-04-15 | BIRDS $800: The ancient Greeks used these birds to carry news of the Olympic Games pigeons |
| #2625, aired 1996-01-19 | HODGEPODGE $100: Ancient Greeks dated events from the first of these, held in 776 B.C. The Olympic Games |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | ANCIENT GREEKS $200: Polybius believed that in order to understand the present, you must study this past |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | ANCIENT GREEKS $400: Aristotle stayed at the Academy for 20 years, leaving only after this man died Plato |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | ANCIENT GREEKS $600: He said, "As to diseases make a habit of two things—to help or at least to do no harm" Hippocrates |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | ANCIENT GREEKS $800: This legendary warrior may have been stronger than dirt, but he was second in strength to Achilles Ajax |
| #1951, aired 1993-02-15 | ANCIENT GREEKS $1000: He is associated with the lever, the water screw & displacement Archimedes |
| #1870, aired 1992-10-23 | ROCKS & MINERALS $600: The ancient Greeks built the Parthenon in Athens using this stone from Mount Pentelicus marble |
| #1868, aired 1992-10-21 | COLORS $500: Used by the ancient Greeks & Romans, Tyrian dye was this color purple |
| #1839, aired 1992-09-10 | ANCIENT TIMES $400: The Greeks added a set of this to the Phoenician alphabet & it didn't cost them $250 each to do it vowels |
| #1706, aired 1992-01-20 | OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS $200: Besides using these to make things appear bigger, the ancient Greeks used them to start fires magnifying glasses |
| #1691, aired 1991-12-30 | DOGS $400: Known to ancient Egyptians, Greeks & Romans, this white toy breed is named for a Mediterranean island the Maltese |
| #1672, aired 1991-12-03 | ANCIENT GREECE $100: The Greeks first used black & white pebbles to make these floor designs; tile came later mosaics |
| #1596, aired 1991-07-08 | ANCIENT HISTORY $600: Borrowing symbols from this alphabet, the Greeks developed their own by about 800 B.C. Phoenician |
| #1525, aired 1991-03-29 | ANCIENT GREECE $1,200 (Daily Double): The Greeks defended this pass, whose name means "hot gates", against the Celts as well as the Persians Thermopylae |
| #1472, aired 1991-01-15 | FLOWERS $100: The ancient Greeks named it the delphinium because they thought it resembled these sea mammals dolphin |
| #1464, aired 1991-01-03 | CAVES $1000: The ancient Greeks gave this name to cave-dwelling people troglodytes |
| #1422, aired 1990-11-06 | MOUNTAINS $400: Ancient Greeks believed this mountain to be the center of the Earth Mount Olympus |
| #1413, aired 1990-10-24 | ANCIENT WORLD $200: Trying to get the people in his empire together, he had 10.000 Greeks & Macedonians wed Asian women Alexander the Great |
| #1363, aired 1990-07-04 | ANCIENT GREECE $1000: The Greeks didn't call themselves Greeks but these Hellenes |
| #1338, aired 1990-05-30 | WORLD HISTORY $100: The ancient Greeks often referred to all of Africa by this name of Qadafi's country Libya |
| #1255, aired 1990-02-02 | ANCIENT GREECE $300: The Greeks considered this site of the oracles the "Omphalus" or navel of the world Delphi |
| #1189, aired 1989-11-02 | GREECE $200: Ancient Greeks believed this mountain, Greece's highest point, was the home of the gods Olympus |
| #1162, aired 1989-09-26 | ARCHITECTURE $300: Ancient British monument that's an example of post-and-lintel construction later used by the Greeks Stonehenge |
| #1152, aired 1989-09-12 | TIME $200: This ancient timepiece was called a gnomon by the Greeks meaning "one who knows" a sundial |
| #1045, aired 1989-03-03 | HERBS & SPICES $600: The ancient Greeks used its leaves to crown winning athletes; today we use it to flavor meats & stews laurel |
| #999, aired 1988-12-29 | MYTHOLOGY $100: Post held by Neith for the ancient Egyptians, Minerva for the Romans & Athena for the Greeks goddess of wisdom |
| #946, aired 1988-10-17 | FORTUNE TELLING $600: Ancient Greeks believed the gods spoke through prophets called these sibyls* (oracles) |
| #798, aired 1988-02-10 | MYTHOLOGY $400: The ancient Romans worshipped many of the same gods as these people, but changed many of the names Greeks |
| #746, aired 1987-11-30 | WEEDS $200: Ancient Greeks made a brew out of this poisonous parsley relative & offered it up to criminals hemlock |
| #708, aired 1987-10-07 | BIRDS $200: Tho many birds are smarter, ancient Greeks associated these "wise" birds with their goddess of wisdom the owl |
| #670, aired 1987-07-03 | PROVERBS $200: It was said among the ancient Greeks, there is many a slip 'twixt the cup & this the lip |
| #663, aired 1987-06-24 | EUROPE $400: To the ancient Greeks, this "solid" landmark on the Spanish coast was 1 of the Pillars of Hercules the Rock of Gibraltar |
| #621, aired 1987-04-27 | YE GODS $500: Ancient Greeks might have asked if you heard the one about Thalia, the muse of this comedy |
| #568, aired 1987-02-11 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: Seafaring people who passed their alphabet on to the Greeks &, eventually, to us the Phoenicians |
| #533, aired 1986-12-24 | WORD ORIGINS $400: Ancient Greeks named these animals "arktos" though they never saw the white ones in the Arctic bears |
| #521, aired 1986-12-08 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1000: This ancient biographer linked various great Greeks & Romans into 23 pairs in his "Parallel Lives" Plutarch |
| #510, aired 1986-11-21 | UNREAL ESTATE $500: Though ancient Greeks thought it gloomy, this underworld wasn't for punishment like Dante's hell Hades |
| #480, aired 1986-10-10 | ANCIENT WORLDS $600: "Running" battle where ancient Greeks defeated Darius I of Persia Battle of Marathon |
| #460, aired 1986-09-12 | STONES $500: Looking at these 3 ugly sisters got the ancient Greeks stoned the Gorgons |
| #431, aired 1986-05-05 | THEATER $200: Ancient Mediterranean civilization where most theater performers were slaves Rome |
| #371, aired 1986-02-10 | ANCIENT HISTORY $400: A runner ran 25 miles & died after announcing Greeks had defeated them in the Battle of Marathon the Persians |
| #185, aired 1985-05-24 | ANCIENT HISTORY $200: When the Greeks destroyed this city in Asia Minor around 1200 B.C., they weren't horsing around Troy |
| #151, aired 1985-04-08 | ANCIENT LEGENDS $600: As Venus was to the Romans, she was to the Greeks Aphrodite |
| #58, aired 1984-11-28 | ANCIENT GREECE $200: The Greeks' word for world or Sagan's word for universe cosmos |
