| #8853, aired 2023-04-19 | MOVIE COMEDIES $800: (I'm John Michael Higgins, and) being a part of an a cappella group in college called the Zumbyes helped me in my role as a singing competition announcer in the three films (so far) with this alliterative title Pitch Perfect |
| #8224, aired 2020-05-28 | TEACHING THE SPORT $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates a baseball pitch.) Grip the ball with your index and middle fingers along the narrow part of the seams to throw this sinking, two-seam variety of this basic baseball pitch a fastball |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | AND THE PITCH $200: In 2006 the Tigers' Joel Zumaya threw this pitch 104.8 mph, so it lived up to its name a fastball |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | AND THE PITCH $400: Aka the drooler, this pitch was banned in 1920 except for 17 hurlers who got to use it until they retired a spitball |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | AND THE PITCH $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) A left-handed pitcher's curveball breaks downward and to the catcher's left. In the 1930's Carl Hubbell was a master of this kooky pitch that did the opposite, breaking right a screwball |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | AND THE PITCH $800: Few hitters feast on this breaking pitch like the burger of the same name; Ted Williams said it was "the greatest pitch in baseball" the slider |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | AND THE PITCH $1000: Check out the grip and you can see why the circle type of this off-speed pitch got its name the change-up |
| #7337, aired 2016-07-05 | TALKING BASEBALL $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) Make an "Okay", then center the ball between your three other fingers, and use the same mechanics as a fastball, to toss the circle, this type of off-speed pitch change-up |
| #7258, aired 2016-03-16 | THE WRIGHT BROTHERS $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Wright Brothers Nat'l Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, NC.) A device called an elevator was placed on the front of the Wrights' plane for more efficiency & to protect the pilot in case of a crash; operated by a lever, it adjusted this upward and downward motion of the plane's nose pitch |
| #6647, aired 2013-07-09 | LITERARY BAD GUYS $1200: He vows to turn Desdemona's "virtue into pitch, and out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all" Iago |
| #3475, aired 1999-10-15 | "ITCH"Y $500: Out-of-stock sales items are the hallmark of this deceptive sales tactic Bait-and-switch |
| #2622, aired 1996-01-16 | WHAT'S THE PITCH? $300: "Nothin' says lovin' like somethin' from the oven" Pillsbury |
| #1486, aired 1991-02-04 | MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS $1000: The pitch of one of the two standard orchestra clarinets B Flat and A |
| #1337, aired 1990-05-29 | CATTLE $2,500 (Daily Double): A cow cannot give milk unless she has first done this given birth |
| #1019, aired 1989-01-26 | SOFTBALL $200: The 2 official types of softball slow pitch & fast pitch |
| #405, aired 1986-03-28 | BASEBALL $900 (Daily Double): 3 of 5 ways a player can reach first base without having hit the ball hit by pitch, walk, dropped third strike, catcher's interference, as a pinch runner |
| #310, aired 1985-11-15 | CLASSICAL MUSIC $100 (Daily Double): In 1818, Heinrich Stolzel took out a patent on this horn improvement allowing changes of pitch Stolzel valve |
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